Latest / The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson / College Sports, Radical Democrats & the Broken Ivy League
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Welcome.
- 0:00Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Senator, let's just
- 0:03Speaker 2: start off by saying you have a huge IQ advantage today.
- 0:06Speaker 2: I am on one hour sleep, hoarse voice. That means
- 0:09Speaker 2: Ole Miss Rebels won the greatest day of my life.
- 0:12Speaker 2: It was incredible. But you are going to be superior
- 0:15Speaker 2: for the next whatever minutes we do this show.
- 0:18Speaker 1: And I feel good about that. I just wanted to
- 0:20Speaker 1: start with that.
- 0:21Speaker 3: So, Ben, were there any college football games this weekend?
- 0:23Speaker 3: Did anything happen?
- 0:25Speaker 1: There was only one that mattered. There was no other games.
- 0:29Speaker 3: So walk us through. You were there.
- 0:31Speaker 1: So I was there.
- 0:33Speaker 3: You got to warmly welcome Lane Kiffin back to Mississippi
- 0:37Speaker 3: with gentle embrace.
- 0:40Speaker 1: Yes, with gentle embrace.
- 0:41Speaker 2: If you watch game day, you know how gentle that
- 0:43Speaker 2: embrace was from the students at Ole Miss. It was incredible.
- 0:47Speaker 2: And there's something that it's fun. So if you go
- 0:50Speaker 2: to Ole Miss, if you've ever seen it, they do
- 0:52Speaker 2: the Walk of Champions at the beginning of the game. Now,
- 0:54Speaker 2: I've never in my whole life done the Walk of Champions.
- 0:57Speaker 2: I've watched it a ton, but it's where the players
- 0:59Speaker 2: come through, the coaches come through, and you walk all
- 1:02Speaker 2: the way from the student union, all the way through
- 1:04Speaker 2: the Grove, all the way to the stadium. And so
- 1:07Speaker 2: a buddy of mine, Mike Wallace, was getting inducted to
- 1:09Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame at Ole Miss. He played in
- 1:10Speaker 2: the league for 10, 11 years in the NFL.
- 1:14Speaker 1: And he said, Ferguson, I'm going to get inducted. You
- 1:16Speaker 1: got to go. It's like, I'm in. I'll go.
- 1:17Speaker 2: So I get there and they're like, we're getting there
- 1:19Speaker 2: and he's going to do the Walk of Champions with
- 1:21Speaker 2: the team because he's the big alum. They look at
- 1:23Speaker 2: me and one of the guys, he's like, Ferguson, you
- 1:24Speaker 2: want to do it too? I was like, I absolutely
- 1:26Speaker 2: will do the Walk of Champions. So I got to
- 1:28Speaker 2: do the Walk of Champions as well. So I have
- 1:30Speaker 2: video and I'm like, I mean, I'm seeing the kids.
- 1:33Speaker 2: It was amazing. Then we got in the stadium before
- 1:35Speaker 2: anyone else and we got to play football on the field.
- 1:38Speaker 2: So I'm rowing with Mike and we're getting to play
- 1:43Speaker 2: on the field. And he was like, see if you
- 1:44Speaker 2: can catch me. And that video makes me look very, very,
- 1:47Speaker 2: very slow. Uh, and then all these other, uh, famous, uh,
- 1:51Speaker 2: Ole Miss players are there. They're throwing the ball. So
- 1:53Speaker 2: it's like our most Dex McCluster. I mean, it was
- 1:56Speaker 2: all these famous guys that played there and it was
- 1:58Speaker 2: just one of those. It was probably the coolest day
- 2:00Speaker 2: of my, when you love a team that is like
- 2:02Speaker 2: the best day ever.
- 2:03Speaker 1: And then I got to stand the sideline the entire game.
- 2:05Speaker 3: Oh, you were on the sideline for the game. I
- 2:07Speaker 3: didn't know that.
- 2:07Speaker 1: The whole game. So the entire game.
- 2:10Speaker 2: And he got out there at half, you know, one
- 2:13Speaker 2: of the stops in the game and they play the
- 2:14Speaker 2: highlight video and everything. And so we were there the
- 2:17Speaker 2: entire time on the sideline. I got to be on
- 2:20Speaker 2: the field when we won. And then when we got
- 2:22Speaker 2: the touchdown, our end zone, I was like four feet
- 2:24Speaker 2: from the ball. So my phone blows up because people
- 2:26Speaker 2: that are watching on ABC, they see me like losing
- 2:29Speaker 2: by the end zone.
- 2:30Speaker 1: So it was like, it was like the best day.
- 2:31Speaker 2: Everybody was like, man, like you're all over TV right now,
- 2:35Speaker 2: which was like, it's so funny.
- 2:36Speaker 1: You and I do TV and that's like normal. No
- 2:37Speaker 1: one really texts, you know, when you're on Fox.
- 2:40Speaker 2: But if you're on the end zone in the corner
- 2:42Speaker 2: at the LSU Ole Miss game, your phone lights up.
- 2:44Speaker 2: So it was the best day ever. And it was
- 2:47Speaker 2: fireworks and everything. And Elaine Kiffin, when LSU came out,
- 2:52Speaker 2: I have never heard a more extreme scream of booing
- 2:56Speaker 2: in my entire life. And I enjoyed every, I was like,
- 2:59Speaker 2: insert this directly in my veins. And I can't, I have,
- 3:01Speaker 2: as you can hear my voice. Last night, I didn't
- 3:04Speaker 2: get home last night. There was so many people there.
- 3:08Speaker 2: It took me an hour to get off campus. It
- 3:10Speaker 2: took me another two hours to get home. So I
- 3:12Speaker 2: got to my parents' house at 3.20 in the morning.
- 3:14Speaker 2: My flight had to be there at 5 a.m. So
- 3:16Speaker 2: I took a 45-minute nap.
- 3:18Speaker 3: Well, and I will say, you very kindly invited me
- 3:21Speaker 3: to come to the game.
- 3:22Speaker 1: You would have been on the field.
- 3:24Speaker 3: And I didn't go. And my reason frustrated you. I said,
- 3:27Speaker 3: I really don't care. I don't care who wins. Like,
- 3:30Speaker 3: I don't dislike either team, Ole Miss, LSU. They're both fine.
- 3:35Speaker 3: Neither one's Texas. Like, they're good teams. It's great. But
- 3:39Speaker 3: I will say, the Lane Kiffin drama, the intensity– that
- 3:45Speaker 3: you care about it. Yes, yes. So I guess on average,
- 3:49Speaker 3: if I'm neutral and you care with every molecule in
- 3:53Speaker 3: your body, on average, this show is pretty far on
- 3:57Speaker 3: the Mississippi side of that.
- 3:59Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, for sure.
- 4:02Speaker 3: And I will say, I know you saw the ad
- 4:06Speaker 3: that Morgan Freeman cut going after... going after Lane Kiffin,
- 4:12Speaker 3: and it is obscene, so we're not going to play it,
- 4:14Speaker 3: because I'm also not going to give LSU grief. But
- 4:16Speaker 3: I did text it to you, and I think it
- 4:20Speaker 3: made your century.
- 4:23Speaker 1: Oh, it did.
- 4:23Speaker 2: I sent it immediately, because I had not seen it yet,
- 4:25Speaker 2: and I sent it to everybody in the blank Lane
- 4:29Speaker 2: Kiffin text group. I had seven text groups going. All
- 4:32Speaker 2: of them were not G-rated group chats, which made it
- 4:35Speaker 2: even more fun. And the best part was, All the
- 4:39Speaker 2: former players that came in that made it to the NFL,
- 4:42Speaker 2: they were screaming on the sidelines. They were losing their mind.
- 4:46Speaker 2: They were saying this is the best game of college
- 4:47Speaker 2: football they've ever been to, period. And they played in
- 4:50Speaker 2: SEC championship games. It just had a different feel to it.
- 4:55Speaker 2: And when the loudest pop of noise in my entire
- 4:57Speaker 2: life was the end zone interception at the very end
- 5:00Speaker 2: of the game, I've never heard... Human voices do that
- 5:03Speaker 2: at that level. And it was almost like you were
- 5:05Speaker 2: shocked when it happened because it got so loud in there.
- 5:07Speaker 1: It was incredible.
- 5:09Speaker 3: Look, and I'll say that's what makes college sports so
- 5:11Speaker 3: amazing is the emotions, in this case, the revenge, the drama.
- 5:19Speaker 3: I mean, it's drama that really makes a difference. I
- 5:23Speaker 3: will say this coming week, the Senate is going to
- 5:26Speaker 3: pass the Protect College Sports Act. And they're not one
- 5:29Speaker 3: but two provisions that your good friend Coach Kiffin is
- 5:33Speaker 3: directly responsible for. There's one that we actually call the
- 5:36Speaker 3: Lane Kiffin provision that will make it prohibited for any
- 5:41Speaker 3: program to recruit a coach from an opposing team during
- 5:45Speaker 3: the season or during the playoffs. That's the NFL's rule,
- 5:48Speaker 3: that you can only do that during the offseason, not
- 5:51Speaker 3: during the season, because it wasn't fair to the Ole
- 5:53Speaker 3: Miss players to have their coach leave. while they're still playing.
- 5:57Speaker 3: That's just not right. And so that's going to be
- 5:59Speaker 3: the rule now, that yes, you can go recruit coaches,
- 6:04Speaker 3: but you can only do it during the offseason so
- 6:06Speaker 3: that the players can stay with their coach during the
- 6:08Speaker 3: season and the playoffs. And then secondly, there's an explicit
- 6:12Speaker 3: prohibition on professional players playing in the league. And obviously,
- 6:16Speaker 3: LSU tested that to right to the edge. And I
- 6:20Speaker 3: think LSU was on the verge of being voted out
- 6:23Speaker 3: of the SEC for it and then finally backed down.
- 6:26Speaker 3: But both of those provisions, I mean, it was, everything
- 6:30Speaker 3: I was hearing is that the votes were there. And look,
- 6:33Speaker 3: I wouldn't want to see LSU out of the SEC
- 6:35Speaker 3: because they're a good team and I like the SEC
- 6:37Speaker 3: to be strong and have great rivalries. But boy, their
- 6:40Speaker 3: competitors were ticked off.
- 6:42Speaker 2: And by the way, Senator, I don't know if this
- 6:44Speaker 2: happens to you when you're out and about, but it
- 6:46Speaker 2: makes me laugh. So I think people and I love
- 6:48Speaker 2: the listeners of the show. So as I'm walking on
- 6:51Speaker 2: the on the on the you know, I'm filming. and
- 6:54Speaker 2: I'm walking the Walk of Champions, there are people that
- 6:57Speaker 2: yell at me. They're like, Ferguson, where's Ted?
- 7:00Speaker 1: Where's Cruz?
- 7:01Speaker 2: And I'm like, I think they think you and I
- 7:03Speaker 2: just spend 24 hours a day together. But even at
- 7:06Speaker 2: the game, as I'm on the sideline, like people in
- 7:09Speaker 2: the admin at the university, others are walking up. There's
- 7:11Speaker 2: some sports casters guys. And then the guys from Ole Miss,
- 7:15Speaker 2: they're like, man, we saw your boy last week in Texas.
- 7:19Speaker 1: I was like, I know. I heard about that.
- 7:21Speaker 2: And they laughed and they were like, but it's funny
- 7:23Speaker 2: because I think people think that you and I just
- 7:25Speaker 2: hang out 24 seven, which is really funny. So to
- 7:27Speaker 2: all the listeners out there that in Oxford for the
- 7:30Speaker 2: game that we're yelling, I may not have seen you directly,
- 7:33Speaker 2: but I like, you know, laughed and waved. And it was,
- 7:35Speaker 2: it was really, really cool to see that as well.
- 7:37Speaker 1: It was fun.
- 7:38Speaker 3: Well, I was cheering for your joy in absentia. And
- 7:41Speaker 3: I will say, by the way, this, this weekend also
- 7:44Speaker 3: was released a brand new ad for the protect college
- 7:47Speaker 3: sports act. We played on an earlier pod yesterday. The
- 7:49Speaker 3: Deion Sanders ad, which was fantastic and ran a week ago.
- 7:53Speaker 3: The latest one has Matthew McConaughey, which I asked if
- 7:56Speaker 3: he would cut that ad and he agreed to do it.
- 7:59Speaker 3: And so that aired across the country on college games
- 8:01Speaker 3: this weekend.
- 8:03Speaker 1: Yeah, it was awesome.
- 8:03Speaker 2: We're going to play that for you in just a moment.
- 8:05Speaker 2: Before we talk about that, though, I got to tell you,
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- 8:17Speaker 1: And somewhere along.
- 8:18Speaker 2: The way, we got the idea that a serious education
- 8:20Speaker 2: and a strong Christian faith have to live in two
- 8:23Speaker 2: different worlds.
- 8:24Speaker 1: Well, they don't.
- 8:25Speaker 2: At Regent University, faith isn't an afterthought.
- 8:28Speaker 1: It's at the heart of the education.
- 8:31Speaker 2: Students are challenged to think deeply, pursue excellence, and see
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- 9:19Speaker 2: So learn more at regent.edu. That's regent.edu. Regent University, Christian
- 9:26Speaker 2: leadership to change the world. All right, let's play this
- 9:30Speaker 2: awesome commercial that came out. Matthew McConaughey, iconic voice. As
- 9:34Speaker 2: soon as you hear his voice, it always makes me smile.
- 9:36Speaker 2: And this is the new ad that played during college
- 9:38Speaker 2: football games this weekend.
- 9:40Speaker 4: It's the game day spirit. The rivalries pass down. The
- 9:44Speaker 4: traditions that bring us all together. College sports is uniquely American.
- 9:49Speaker 4: And that's why every major conference, the NCAA, Team USA,
- 9:53Speaker 4: and universities across the country support the bipartisan Protect College
- 9:58Speaker 4: Sports Act. It's one set of rules. real benefits for
- 10:01Speaker 4: our student athletes and no team gets left behind. America,
- 10:06Speaker 4: we created magic. Now it's up to us to preserve it.
- 10:11Speaker 2: Senator, this really does seem to be getting a lot
- 10:14Speaker 2: of momentum. It's a lot of people are talking about it.
- 10:16Speaker 2: I mean, granted, I was in a college football game,
- 10:17Speaker 2: but if I had one conversation about this yesterday, I
- 10:21Speaker 2: had 150 conversations about it.
- 10:23Speaker 1: And it wasn't even just the bill. It's just NIL.
- 10:25Speaker 2: It's Lane Kiffin. When he left, it was all of
- 10:27Speaker 2: these things. So there's a lot of people, I think,
- 10:29Speaker 2: paying attention now. Where is this bill now?
- 10:32Speaker 1: And what do you expect this week in Washington, D.C.
- 10:35Speaker 3: Well, right before we left, we got 78 votes for it.
- 10:38Speaker 3: We only need 60, but I said from the beginning,
- 10:40Speaker 3: my goal was to get a lot more than 60
- 10:42Speaker 3: to really run up the score with a big bipartisan vote.
- 10:45Speaker 3: We're up to 78. There will be a couple more
- 10:48Speaker 3: votes this week, but we'll be finished with the bill
- 10:51Speaker 3: this week in the Senate. We'll get it voted off
- 10:53Speaker 3: the floor. It's going to be a big, big bipartisan vote.
- 10:57Speaker 3: And then the next question, once we get it off
- 10:59Speaker 3: the floor of the Senate, is if the House will
- 11:01Speaker 3: come back and pass it. What I believe should happen
- 11:05Speaker 3: The House has recessed until Election Day. All the House
- 11:07Speaker 3: members are out campaigning. Once the Senate passes it this week,
- 11:11Speaker 3: what I would like to see is the Speaker call
- 11:13Speaker 3: the House back to pass this bill and put it
- 11:16Speaker 3: on the President's desk. So the President is eager to
- 11:19Speaker 3: sign it. President Trump wants to sign it. I've urged
- 11:23Speaker 3: the President to sign it on the set of College
- 11:26Speaker 3: Game Day. Do it at a big game and do
- 11:29Speaker 3: it going into the election. So that's my hope is
- 11:32Speaker 3: that the House will come back and do it before
- 11:33Speaker 3: the election. But once we get done with it in
- 11:36Speaker 3: the Senate, that's the next step is for the House
- 11:37Speaker 3: to come back.
- 11:39Speaker 1: That's interesting.
- 11:40Speaker 2: And by the way, for people that don't know, you
- 11:41Speaker 2: mentioned something that they're in recess with the election.
- 11:44Speaker 1: Is that a traditional timeline or is it a little
- 11:45Speaker 1: different this time?
- 11:47Speaker 3: That actually is traditional that you're out during October. They're
- 11:51Speaker 3: out a little bit earlier in the House than they
- 11:53Speaker 3: usually are. It's a very small majority. And so they're
- 11:55Speaker 3: having a hard time keeping the majority together. But it
- 11:59Speaker 3: is typical. And the word recess... a lot of times
- 12:03Speaker 3: people have a, you know, they think of playtime at school. Look,
- 12:06Speaker 3: for every House member, this is the sprint, the final
- 12:09Speaker 3: month to Election Day, so they're working harder than they
- 12:12Speaker 3: do in session because they're out campaigning and on the
- 12:14Speaker 3: campaign trail. And so recess just means you're not in
- 12:18Speaker 3: session in D.C., but in the sprint in the House,
- 12:21Speaker 3: every one of the 435 members is on the ballot,
- 12:24Speaker 3: so they're all presumably campaigning, although not all of them
- 12:27Speaker 3: have competitive races, so some of them may not be...
- 12:30Speaker 3: burning the midnight oil. In the Senate, a third of
- 12:33Speaker 3: us are on the ballot. Every two years, a third
- 12:35Speaker 3: of the senators are on the ballot. So I'm not
- 12:37Speaker 3: on the ballot this time, but the Senate will be
- 12:40Speaker 3: out the month of October, and I'll spend a good
- 12:42Speaker 3: chunk of the month of October. I'll basically be raising
- 12:45Speaker 3: money and or campaigning for my colleagues for the month
- 12:48Speaker 3: of October because I very much am going to do
- 12:50Speaker 3: everything possible to try and help us keep the Senate
- 12:53Speaker 3: and keep the House.
- 12:55Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 12:55Speaker 2: By the way, it's very interesting to see now where
- 12:58Speaker 2: the politics are going on one specific race that everyone's
- 13:01Speaker 2: talking about.
- 13:02Speaker 1: And that is the El-Sayed race.
- 13:05Speaker 2: Hassan Piker connected to him does seem to be doing damage.
- 13:09Speaker 2: And just some of the most extreme radical things that
- 13:11Speaker 2: we've ever seen from a Democratic surrogate that they backed
- 13:14Speaker 2: and protected for months on end.
- 13:16Speaker 1: And now what we're witnessing is the.
- 13:18Speaker 2: Leadership in the Democratic Party out of D.C., they seem
- 13:23Speaker 2: to be wanting to distance themselves not from just Piker,
- 13:26Speaker 2: but actually from El-Said. Is there a chance now that
- 13:29Speaker 2: this is a political strategy where they say, all right,
- 13:33Speaker 2: maybe we just take our hand off this one Senate
- 13:35Speaker 2: race because we could do so much damage to other
- 13:38Speaker 2: races around the country. If we lose this one, maybe
- 13:41Speaker 2: we save more of the other ones because I have
- 13:43Speaker 2: not seen this big of a flip from leadership in
- 13:46Speaker 2: a long time.
- 13:47Speaker 3: You know, my short answer on that is no. I
- 13:50Speaker 3: don't think I'm intrigued. I don't think the Democrats are
- 13:53Speaker 3: going to abandon El-Said. I don't think they care. I
- 13:56Speaker 3: don't think he can be too extreme for them. Chuck
- 13:58Speaker 3: Schumer doesn't care. They don't care. They're just pouring hundreds
- 14:02Speaker 3: of millions of dollars into the race. He's embracing El-Said.
- 14:05Speaker 3: He doesn't seem to care at all that El-Said is
- 14:08Speaker 3: embracing Hassan Piker. I think you will see individual Democrats
- 14:13Speaker 3: try to CYA, try to cover their own rear end. So,
- 14:16Speaker 3: for example, give a listen right now to Cory Booker.
- 14:21Speaker 3: this weekend trying to run away. But let me be clear,
- 14:24Speaker 3: Corey's running away on his own behalf, not on behalf
- 14:27Speaker 3: of his party.
- 14:27Speaker 5: But Senator, you see there in our poll, socialism is
- 14:31Speaker 5: viewed even more negatively, as I said, than the MAGA movement.
- 14:35Speaker 5: President Trump is trying to paint progressives and frankly, all
- 14:39Speaker 5: Democrats as socialists. And we're seeing one of the big
- 14:43Speaker 5: battles play out for progressivism in Michigan right now with
- 14:48Speaker 5: Abdul Al-Sayed, the candidate there, who did tell me he
- 14:51Speaker 5: was a capitalist, by the way. But do you think
- 14:54Speaker 5: Democrats are drawing a firm enough line between themselves and socialism?
- 15:00Speaker 6: Again, this is really what the Republicans want to do,
- 15:03Speaker 6: focus on a few fringe people.
- 15:05Speaker 7: I serve in the United States Senate, and I can
- 15:08Speaker 7: go through my colleagues left and right.
- 15:10Speaker 2: With I love that little pivot there, Senator, where he's like, well,
- 15:14Speaker 2: you know, I serve in the da-da-da. But this goes
- 15:17Speaker 2: back to that core issue of socialism, which she did
- 15:20Speaker 2: bring up by name on Meet the Press.
- 15:23Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I don't think Democrat leadership is running away
- 15:27Speaker 3: from Al-Sayed. They want him to win. They're putting money
- 15:30Speaker 3: behind him. I think that's entirely Booker. Cory Booker is
- 15:33Speaker 3: running for president. So he was trying to create a
- 15:35Speaker 3: little space. But of course, you know, Kristen Welker didn't
- 15:39Speaker 3: press back on that. So wait a second, Senator. You're
- 15:43Speaker 3: saying Abdul Al-Sayed is fringe. Well, why is Chuck Schumer
- 15:47Speaker 3: and the Democrat Senatorial Committee supporting him and spending tens
- 15:50Speaker 3: of millions of dollars? She didn't ask that. She didn't
- 15:53Speaker 3: ask the obvious follow-up. Is Comrade Mondami fringe? He's the
- 15:57Speaker 3: mayor of the largest city in the country and right
- 15:59Speaker 3: now I think the most powerful Democrat in the country.
- 16:02Speaker 3: Is AOC fringe? She is one of the top three
- 16:05Speaker 3: polling presidential contenders right now in the Democrat Party. By
- 16:09Speaker 3: the way, she's polling a lot better than you are,
- 16:11Speaker 3: Senator Booker. She didn't ask him that. What about Ilhan Omar?
- 16:14Speaker 3: Is she fringe? What about the three explicit socialists who
- 16:18Speaker 3: beat Democrats in primaries in Manhattan? What about the explicit
- 16:23Speaker 3: socialists that is the Democrat nominee in Florida for Senate?
- 16:27Speaker 3: What about the explicit socialists that is the Democrat nominee
- 16:30Speaker 3: in in Oklahoma for Senate? What about the explicit socialist
- 16:34Speaker 3: who won the Democrat primary in Colorado? That actually, and
- 16:39Speaker 3: by the way, that's the kind of reception Republicans get
- 16:41Speaker 3: when we go on those Sunday shows. I guarantee you
- 16:44Speaker 3: they would have gone down that list if it were
- 16:46Speaker 3: the case on the other side. But instead, what does
- 16:50Speaker 3: she say? Oh, well, El-Said told me he's a capitalist.
- 16:54Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 16:54Speaker 3: Like she just repeats the Democrat talking point and lets
- 17:00Speaker 3: Booker pretend there's some daylight. Let's be clear. The only
- 17:05Speaker 3: candidate we've seen the Democrats run away from was Graham Plattner.
- 17:09Speaker 3: And they didn't run away when he said he was
- 17:11Speaker 3: a communist. They didn't run away when he was repeatedly
- 17:14Speaker 3: caught saying racist things. They didn't run away when he
- 17:17Speaker 3: was repeatedly caught saying misogynist things. They didn't run away
- 17:20Speaker 3: when he had a Nazi tattoo on his chest, a Totenkopf,
- 17:23Speaker 3: which is the symbol of the SS and the death camps.
- 17:26Speaker 3: Cory Booker didn't run away from him. He was happy
- 17:28Speaker 3: to embrace the Nazi. The only instance in which they
- 17:32Speaker 3: ran away from him is when he started losing. And
- 17:35Speaker 3: once he started losing, once he was down in the polls, boom,
- 17:39Speaker 3: they ran like crazy. They took him out, left him
- 17:41Speaker 3: in a back alley and found another communist to drop
- 17:44Speaker 3: in there who's every bit as radical, but didn't happen
- 17:47Speaker 3: to get the tattoo. That's, look, if El-Said was suddenly
- 17:52Speaker 3: losing by a large margin.
- 17:54Speaker 1: They'd get rid of him.
- 17:56Speaker 3: Well, they actually don't have time to get rid of
- 17:57Speaker 3: him anymore, so they couldn't, but they would if they could.
- 18:00Speaker 3: And interestingly enough, you don't see Booker running away from
- 18:04Speaker 3: James Tallarico, who's every bit as radical as El-Said, and
- 18:08Speaker 3: who is caught on tape saying he wants to, quote,
- 18:11Speaker 3: dismantle capitalism. Remember when I did Caitlin Collins, she argued
- 18:16Speaker 3: with me. No, no, no, he told me he's all
- 18:17Speaker 3: for capitalism. Really, Caitlin, what do you think is accurate?
- 18:21Speaker 3: The lie that he tells the voter a month before
- 18:23Speaker 3: the election or what he actually tells the activists for
- 18:26Speaker 3: years that he wants to do? And there's a reason.
- 18:31Speaker 3: In my speech to the convention, I went through Abdul Al-Sayed.
- 18:36Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 18:37Speaker 3: I went through Mondami. I went through Tallarico. And I
- 18:40Speaker 3: went through Hassan Piker. And I said, when Hassan Piker says,
- 18:47Speaker 3: America deserved 9-11... He means it. When Mondami says he
- 18:53Speaker 3: wants to seize the means of production, word for word
- 18:56Speaker 3: quoting from the Communist Manifesto, he means it. James Tallarico
- 19:01Speaker 3: says he wants to dismantle capitalism. He means it. And
- 19:06Speaker 3: when Abdul Al-Sayed says he has a, quote, obligation to
- 19:10Speaker 3: follow Sharia law, he means it. And the press is
- 19:13Speaker 3: desperately trying to cover him up. And by the way,
- 19:16Speaker 3: to show you, give a listen here to J.B. Pritzker,
- 19:18Speaker 3: who is not running away from Al-Sayed because he wants
- 19:21Speaker 3: to run for president too. And as a billionaire, I
- 19:23Speaker 3: think he intends to write his own check. But give
- 19:25Speaker 3: a listen to what he has said when asked about
- 19:27Speaker 3: these same radicals.
- 19:29Speaker 6: Yeah.
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- 20:32Speaker 2: All right, take a listen.
- 20:33Speaker 1: J.D. Pritzker, as you mentioned, on ABC This Week.
- 20:37Speaker 7: I also want to ask you about this guy, Hassan Piker,
- 20:40Speaker 7: who's gotten so much attention. He's out with more interviews
- 20:42Speaker 7: this week. He's saying, suggesting that it would be better
- 20:45Speaker 7: if Iran had a nuclear weapon. If I have that correct,
- 20:48Speaker 7: that America's bigger terrorist force than Al Qaeda. Is it
- 20:53Speaker 7: time for Democrats just to say point blank, this guy,
- 20:56Speaker 7: you know, we don't we have nothing to do with
- 20:57Speaker 7: this guy. We denounce this guy and don't want his support.
- 21:01Speaker 6: You know, I'm not focused on the streamers and what
- 21:03Speaker 6: they're saying. There's a whole lot of them and they
- 21:05Speaker 6: got a whole lot of views.
- 21:06Speaker 7: He's got a pretty big following.
- 21:07Speaker 6: I understand that. I'm just saying that what I think
- 21:10Speaker 6: we should be talking about and focused on is how
- 21:13Speaker 6: do we stop Donald Trump in his tracks? How do
- 21:16Speaker 6: we make sure that we're putting forward an agenda that
- 21:18Speaker 6: really fights for the people who need it, which are
- 21:20Speaker 6: the most vulnerable, the workers, you know, in the middle
- 21:23Speaker 6: class who really need someone to stand up for them?
- 21:25Speaker 6: That's why I'm a Democrat. that's why the democratic party exists.
- 21:28Speaker 6: That's what we should be focused on.
- 21:30Speaker 7: I mean, I don't think he's going to endorse you,
- 21:31Speaker 7: but would you accept his support?
- 21:33Speaker 1: You know, again, I'm not focused.
- 21:34Speaker 6: I don't even want to talk about it. Sean Piker
- 21:37Speaker 6: doesn't mean anything to me or in my election.
- 21:40Speaker 1: Doesn't mean anything to my election.
- 21:42Speaker 2: That's one heck of a way of describing it and
- 21:44Speaker 2: throwing someone under the bus there, right?
- 21:47Speaker 3: Well, look, he, he spoke accurately when he says he
- 21:51Speaker 3: doesn't want to talk about him. He really doesn't want
- 21:53Speaker 3: to talk about him, but, but, You know, Jonathan Karl
- 21:56Speaker 3: doesn't press him at all. I mean, these powderpuff interviews,
- 21:59Speaker 3: I can't imagine what it's like to be a Democrat
- 22:02Speaker 3: and just have all of these reporters basically acting like
- 22:07Speaker 3: your press secretary. You know, he doesn't press him. Well,
- 22:09Speaker 3: I get that you don't want to talk about him,
- 22:11Speaker 3: but are you troubled that your party's nominee in Michigan
- 22:15Speaker 3: is campaigning alongside him, welcomes him? Look, without Hassan Pike
- 22:19Speaker 3: or Abdul Al-Sayed probably doesn't win the nomination. And Al-Sayed
- 22:24Speaker 3: repeatedly refuses to distance himself. And by the way, Al-Sayed
- 22:27Speaker 3: said many of the same things. Do you support him?
- 22:29Speaker 3: Are you troubled that Chuck Schumer is supporting him? Those
- 22:32Speaker 3: would be the questions that would be asked of a
- 22:34Speaker 3: Republican if the tables were turned. But, you know, from
- 22:38Speaker 3: Pritzker's perspective, and this is true of every Democrat, they
- 22:42Speaker 3: welcome these America-hating radicals, or at least they lack the
- 22:47Speaker 3: courage to stand up to them. Because you notice there
- 22:49Speaker 3: was not one word of, I disagree with him, he's wrong.
- 22:55Speaker 3: saying America deserves 9-11. That's wrong. Pritzker didn't say any
- 22:58Speaker 3: of that. He's like, I don't know. I don't want
- 22:59Speaker 3: to talk about that. Please don't ask me about that.
- 23:01Speaker 3: I just want to say Trump. Orange man bad. Orange
- 23:03Speaker 3: man bad. That's all I have to say. And by
- 23:07Speaker 3: the way, listen to Pritzker continuing a little more on
- 23:10Speaker 3: how the only thing he wants to talk about is
- 23:12Speaker 3: his hatred for Trump.
- 23:14Speaker 7: I mean, a lot of the energy in the Democratic
- 23:16Speaker 7: Party right now is clearly on the left, far left.
- 23:19Speaker 7: I mean, Democratic Socialists of America, DSA, you've had a
- 23:22Speaker 7: number of their candidates winning in these Democratic primaries. Are
- 23:26Speaker 7: you concerned about that? That that's like a message that
- 23:28Speaker 7: may work in primaries in very blue places, but could
- 23:32Speaker 7: hurt the party in a general election?
- 23:34Speaker 6: Look, there haven't been very many of those, at least
- 23:37Speaker 6: DSA candidates who are winning. It's true that there are
- 23:39Speaker 6: progressives that are winning.
- 23:40Speaker 7: Around the country. We're going to have trouble in the House.
- 23:42Speaker 7: A few.
- 23:42Speaker 6: I think those get highlighted too much. I will say that, look,
- 23:46Speaker 6: what Democrats share in common is that we have a
- 23:49Speaker 6: common message. The first thing that we're fighting for is
- 23:52Speaker 6: against Donald Trump and the Republicans, the MAGAs, who are
- 23:56Speaker 6: raising costs for people.
- 23:57Speaker 1: I mean, It's all MAGA. Trump bad.
- 24:00Speaker 2: Everything's bad. The economy's bad. Forget the fact that we
- 24:03Speaker 2: talked about this, Senator, last week. You have the highest
- 24:06Speaker 2: medium income in the history of this country and the
- 24:09Speaker 2: lowest poverty rate we've ever had in history in this country.
- 24:12Speaker 1: But everything's bad.
- 24:14Speaker 3: Look, that questioning could be could be shortened to your
- 24:18Speaker 3: party is controlled and dominated by lunatics who hate America.
- 24:21Speaker 3: Answer Trump bad, Trump bad, Trump bad. That's all I
- 24:24Speaker 3: have to say is Trump bad. That, sadly, is the
- 24:26Speaker 3: current state of the Democrat Party.
- 24:29Speaker 2: We've been talking about this for a long time. Democrats
- 24:32Speaker 2: were smart. They played the long game. They said if
- 24:35Speaker 2: we can take over education at every level, we can
- 24:37Speaker 2: control and change this country literally in a generation. We
- 24:41Speaker 2: are now witnessing the fruits of their labor. And now
- 24:44Speaker 2: we understand just how careful parents need to be before
- 24:48Speaker 2: they send their kids to colleges and You need to
- 24:50Speaker 2: look at who they are, what they believe in, what
- 24:52Speaker 2: they're trying to indoctrinate your kids in, uh, and what
- 24:55Speaker 2: they may come out looking like or being like. And
- 24:58Speaker 2: a great example of this happened in a story that
- 25:00Speaker 2: should shock every American to their core.
- 25:03Speaker 3: Well, a story came out this week about my alma mater,
- 25:06Speaker 3: Princeton university. Uh, there are roughly 950 full-time faculty members
- 25:11Speaker 3: at Princeton, uh, of those 950, what percent do you
- 25:16Speaker 3: think in the years 2023 and 2024 contributed to even
- 25:21Speaker 3: one single Republican?
- 25:22Speaker 6: All right.
- 25:23Speaker 1: I'm going to, I would have, I'm going to give
- 25:24Speaker 1: the number before I read the article.
- 25:26Speaker 2: I would have said at least eight to 10% of
- 25:30Speaker 2: the faculty would have given to a Republican and I'm
- 25:32Speaker 2: pretty pessimistic.
- 25:33Speaker 1: So that was my number in my head before I
- 25:35Speaker 1: read it.
- 25:36Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 25:36Speaker 3: Look, uh, you, you were within eight to 10% of
- 25:38Speaker 3: the answer. Uh, The answer is zero. Goose eggs.
- 25:45Speaker 1: Not one.
- 25:45Speaker 3: Not a single member of the Princeton faculty. And by
- 25:49Speaker 3: the way, if you want to understand why the Democrat
- 25:51Speaker 3: Party has gone crazy, why we're seeing a Marxist and
- 25:55Speaker 3: Islamist take over of the Democrat Party, in one sentence,
- 25:59Speaker 3: the answer to that is that the center of gravity
- 26:03Speaker 3: in the Democrat Party has moved from the Union Hall...
- 26:07Speaker 3: to the university faculty lounge. It used to be the
- 26:10Speaker 3: Democrat was a blue-collar party. It was union bosses were
- 26:15Speaker 3: at the core. The Democrats have abandoned blue-collar workers. Blue-collar
- 26:18Speaker 3: workers now are voting Republican, and today's Democrat party are
- 26:24Speaker 3: these woke, blue-haired, transgender witches. And that's who they're listening to,
- 26:29Speaker 3: that the kind of people who think Hassan Piker is
- 26:33Speaker 3: just awesome. And so this article was an article that
- 26:37Speaker 3: was written by Jonathan Turley, and I want to read
- 26:39Speaker 3: a little bit of it because he really laid into Princeton.
- 26:42Speaker 3: It's entitled, The Purge. Princeton faculty reach perfect zero in
- 26:47Speaker 3: support for Republicans. We recently discussed how Yale faculty reached
- 26:52Speaker 3: academic nirvana. After years of purging departments of conservatives and Republicans,
- 26:58Speaker 3: the university finally showed zero political donations to Republicans. So
- 27:02Speaker 3: Yale got there first, but Princeton, you know, Princeton was
- 27:06Speaker 3: happy to catch up. Now Princeton can claim it has
- 27:09Speaker 3: succeeded in a similar cleansing, according to a new study
- 27:13Speaker 3: by Princetonians for free speech. The study shows that 98%
- 27:17Speaker 3: of political donations went to Democrats or Democrat-affiliated groups, and 0%
- 27:22Speaker 3: went to Republicans or affiliated groups. Political contributions are one measure,
- 27:28Speaker 3: and the study does not mean that we can assume
- 27:32Speaker 3: that the number of academics with conservative or libertarian values
- 27:35Speaker 3: is zero. There are obvious outliers, such as Robbie George.
- 27:39Speaker 3: Robbie was my thesis advisor in college, is a great friend,
- 27:42Speaker 3: is a great conservative. And he is the one outspoken
- 27:46Speaker 3: conservative on the Princeton faculty. But look, Robbie was teaching
- 27:49Speaker 3: when I was there. He's not getting any younger. And
- 27:52Speaker 3: when Robbie does retire, it's not clear to me there'll
- 27:56Speaker 3: be even one who's willing to speak out in support
- 28:00Speaker 3: of conservative values. And, you know, I will tell you, Ben,
- 28:03Speaker 3: by the way. All right, so there are 100 senators.
- 28:06Speaker 3: How many senators do you think have their undergraduate degree
- 28:08Speaker 3: from Princeton?
- 28:10Speaker 1: I'm going to guess 23.
- 28:13Speaker 3: Much like your other prediction, you were off just a little.
- 28:17Speaker 3: You're off by 22. There is one. I am the
- 28:21Speaker 3: only Princeton undergraduate who is in the Senate. I think
- 28:28Speaker 3: one or two have a graduate degree, but none have
- 28:31Speaker 3: an undergrad degree. And the simple reality is my alma
- 28:37Speaker 3: mater is embarrassed of me. They cannot stand that a
- 28:41Speaker 3: conservative somehow escaped there. That's a simple reality. It was
- 28:48Speaker 3: actually very funny a few years back, the Princeton Alumni Weekly,
- 28:53Speaker 3: which they're really good at sending to all their graduates
- 28:56Speaker 3: because they're really effective in chasing down donations. And I've said,
- 29:00Speaker 3: I actually am safe from ever being stranded on a
- 29:03Speaker 3: desert island because the Princeton alumni folks seeking donations will
- 29:08Speaker 3: track you down just to send you the Princeton Alumni Weekly.
- 29:11Speaker 3: But they did a listing, this is several years ago,
- 29:15Speaker 3: of the 25 most influential Princeton grads. And they had
- 29:19Speaker 3: a bunch of left-wing whack jobs on it. They did
- 29:23Speaker 3: not include me on the list, which was fine. But
- 29:25Speaker 3: what was very funny is in the article, they had
- 29:29Speaker 3: a couple of paragraphs explaining, you may have noticed that
- 29:33Speaker 3: we left Ted Cruz off the list. And they said, well,
- 29:37Speaker 3: he could have made this list. if he had the
- 29:41Speaker 3: courage to stand up and attack Donald Trump. But because
- 29:45Speaker 3: he agrees with President Trump, he does not merit this list. Instead,
- 29:50Speaker 3: we come up with these communists and, by the way,
- 29:53Speaker 3: of the 25 most influential, half of them I'd never
- 29:56Speaker 3: heard of. So, I mean, it really was a It
- 29:58Speaker 3: was a self parroting list. Yeah. And I sort of
- 30:01Speaker 3: laughed that if like you're making a list and have
- 30:04Speaker 3: to explain why you left someone off.
- 30:06Speaker 1: It's probably not a good list.
- 30:08Speaker 3: That, that, that does. I know, but I don't think
- 30:10Speaker 3: I've ever said a word about it until now. It
- 30:12Speaker 3: just made me laugh. Like when I read the article,
- 30:14Speaker 3: I just, just started laughing.
- 30:15Speaker 2: That's almost a bigger badge of honor than making the list.
- 30:17Speaker 2: In my opinion, I'd rather have it the way you
- 30:20Speaker 2: had it than the other way around.
- 30:21Speaker 1: It's, it's incredible.
- 30:22Speaker 2: It's, it, this is what's happening on college campuses today.
- 30:25Speaker 2: When I go out and speak now and they ask, like, advice, kids,
- 30:28Speaker 2: you do this all the time, and you'll get questions
- 30:31Speaker 2: from the audience.
- 30:31Speaker 1: I'm like, look at where you're going, what they're.
- 30:35Speaker 2: Going to be teaching you, and ask yourself, do I
- 30:38Speaker 2: need to pay them to indoctrinate me?
- 30:41Speaker 3: And let me read a little more of what Turley
- 30:43Speaker 3: wrote because it's important. Turley wrote, professors often express shock
- 30:47Speaker 3: at the thought that there would be any political or
- 30:49Speaker 3: ideological litmus test for hiring. I have also opposed such measures. However,
- 30:55Speaker 3: the hypocrisy is crushing. Today's faculty are responsible for a
- 31:00Speaker 3: near-complete ideological purging of their ranks. They have created a
- 31:05Speaker 3: hostile environment for anyone with conservative or libertarian viewpoints, including
- 31:10Speaker 3: students who rarely have the opportunity to hear from a
- 31:13Speaker 3: professor from a center-right perspective at most schools. Most recently, 40%, 4-0,
- 31:22Speaker 3: of college faculty admitted they would vote against any Trump
- 31:27Speaker 3: supporter seeking an academic position regardless of their scholarship or
- 31:32Speaker 3: teaching ability. Keep in mind that this is only the
- 31:36Speaker 3: professors willing to admit such bias. Turley continues, recently I
- 31:43Speaker 3: discussed the example of Fordham University School of Law professor
- 31:47Speaker 3: John Pafaf, who called for repercussions, quote unquote, repercussions for
- 31:54Speaker 3: professors who do not, quote, recant their view that the
- 32:00Speaker 3: 14th Amendment does not protect birthright citizenship. So he's explicitly calling,
- 32:09Speaker 3: we will punish, and by punish I assume he means
- 32:11Speaker 3: throw off the faculty, anyone who dares disagree with our
- 32:17Speaker 3: left-wing ideology, that it is Turley continues, not long ago,
- 32:24Speaker 3: I debated Professor Randall Kennedy at Harvard Law School about
- 32:27Speaker 3: the school's lack of ideological diversity. I respect Kennedy and
- 32:31Speaker 3: I do not view him as anti-free speech or intolerant.
- 32:34Speaker 3: Yet when I noted the statistics on the vanishing number
- 32:37Speaker 3: of conservative students and faculty in comparison to the nation,
- 32:41Speaker 3: Kennedy responded that Harvard, quote, is an elite institution, sorry,
- 32:46Speaker 3: is an elite university, quote, and does not have to, quote,
- 32:51Speaker 3: look like America. Wow. Now, by the way, these are
- 32:55Speaker 3: the same leftists who want to discriminate based on race
- 32:58Speaker 3: because they say it must look like America and in
- 33:00Speaker 3: fact be overrepresented. But when it comes to ideology, you know,
- 33:05Speaker 3: if you must exclude anyone who disagrees from your views,
- 33:10Speaker 3: what you're telling everyone is that your views are weak,
- 33:13Speaker 3: that they cannot withstand challenge, they cannot withstand contest. Look,
- 33:18Speaker 3: I will tell you, I was an open conservative in college.
- 33:20Speaker 3: I was an open conservative in law school. In both places,
- 33:24Speaker 3: I was in the very distinct minority, but it does
- 33:26Speaker 3: make you tougher. It makes you better. You know, my
- 33:30Speaker 3: dad joked that I went to Princeton and Harvard and
- 33:32Speaker 3: learned to speak liberal. But when you're constantly being attacked,
- 33:36Speaker 3: I had, particularly at law school, multiple of my classmates,
- 33:39Speaker 3: lots of my professors were open communists. So I have,
- 33:43Speaker 3: you know, when we're seeing the communists taking over the
- 33:47Speaker 3: Democrat Party. This is not the first time I've seen
- 33:49Speaker 3: it because they took over the faculty lounges first. And
- 33:53Speaker 3: that is having massive consequences for the Democrat Party and
- 33:59Speaker 3: sadly for the country.
- 34:00Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt. We'll keep covering it.
- 34:02Speaker 2: We'll keep exposing it, especially when we get great information
- 34:05Speaker 2: like this. It truly is another example of just how
- 34:08Speaker 2: the long games being played by the radical left, and
- 34:11Speaker 2: they're doing it really, really, really, really well. Don't forget,
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- 34:23Speaker 2: Wednesday morning.