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July 16, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
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Dennis Prager, Ted Cruz, Michael Knowles: Senate Repubs Don't Understand the Threat of the Left
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And let me just say this.
This is not by way of, well, I guess it is, but it's not a biographical piece of data.
And sir, everybody listening knows I don't say things about anybody if I don't believe it.
You are truly the fighter in U.S. politics at this time.
For liberty, I mean, you're not the only, but I think you're the most prominent fighter at this time.
And I want to ask you why.
Because that's an ultimate issue.
The other person here I'm a big fan of as well, Michael Knowles.
Michael Knowles does not sleep.
This is my theory.
No, no, no.
It's my theory.
He does not sleep because of the number of things that he does does not allow for sleep.
For example, I mean, you fill in what I'm missing.
You certainly do the book show.
What is it called again?
I do the book club at PragerU.
At PragerU, which you will be doing with Senator Cruz about Brave New World, you just told me.
I was your first guest with Man's Search for Meaning.
That's right.
You are with The Daily Wire.
That's right.
Where you have your own show as well.
I do.
You have, I'm reading here, this I didn't even know, you and the senator co-host a podcast called Verdict?
We do.
We started that podcast during impeachment.
Talk about sleeplessness.
This began, we've been talking about doing it for about a year or so, and then during impeachment, the senator calls, fly out to D.C. The senator would be in the impeachment trial all day long, and then about...
Midnight, maybe, one o'clock, he'd come over straight from the Capitol to the studio.
We would stay up all night recording the show, giving people a bit of an inside look into impeachment, talking about the ultimate issues that undergird it.
And then I would get to go sleep, and he would go basically straight back to work the next day and be in the impeachment trial.
So you both don't sleep.
That's right.
How often is Verdict podcasted?
So we do Verdict.
Whenever we like.
It's about one episode a week, but we try to let the medium work for a conservative message.
So if there is something that we want to talk about, some news that has hit, something important in the Senate that maybe the mainstream media aren't talking about, we will just set one up.
We can get one going within a few hours, immediately upload it.
And I have to brag a little bit for the senator here.
He jumped.
Look, I always had high expectations of the senator.
I admire him just as much as you do.
I did not expect that he would jump to become the number one podcaster in the country, which he did within the first two weeks of that show.
Well, look, I think it's the same reason that millions of people listen to your show, which is they're hungry to understand truth, to understand facts, to understand what actually is happening.
And we live in such a polarized world, such a politicized world, that just about every outlet is a partisan spigot.
And as a consumer who actually wants to understand what's going on, it's hard to find anything resembling objective facts.
And so we launched it, as Michael said, on the first day of impeachment.
Every night we'd go from the trial and record it.
And it's about a half hour long, so you could download it.
It's a podcast you can subscribe to on your phone, or you can watch it on YouTube.
And we would try to get into, in impeachment, we'd try to get into the facts.
Okay, you know, I mean, what's Ukraine?
What's Burisma?
Joe?
Hunter Biden?
Who's Hunter Biden?
What does that have to do?
What are the legal issues?
What's the constitutional standard?
And we try, you know, it was designed not, and it is designed, not to be just a dry academic lecture, but actually, okay, here's what's really going on in the cloakroom.
Here are the Senate votes that are wobbly, that are on the fence.
Here are the questions.
Here's the strategy.
Here's what's going on.
People began subscribing, and then at the end of impeachment, I mean, the plan was to keep it going.
Every show's about a half hour, and we have, at different times, we have various guests.
We just had Bill Barr on for a half hour.
Now, Bill, the Attorney General, people are used to seeing Bill in a media interview with a hostile interview where he gives sort of short, controlled, soundbite answers.
You know, Bill and I have been friends for 25 years.
And so we just had a conversation where I'm not trying to play a gotcha game with him.
But it was interesting seeing the comments.
So you'll appreciate it.
This is something you do every day, but it's gratifying to be a part of it.
The most frequent comment we get on the Verdict podcast is, I learned something.
And like with Barr, a lot of people were commenting.
What I think they found most interesting is his personality.
Some people said, wow, I didn't know.
Bill was funny, and he's got a wickedly dry, sardonic sense of humor.
I believe that.
Probably keeps him normal.
Right.
I'm serious.
So I want to ask some big questions, and obviously, Michael, you know, you chime in at any time, obviously.
But, Senator, the thing that troubles me about the Republican Party is my sense, and...
I just want to tell you in advance, I tell every guest, it is perfectly fine to disagree with me.
Okay?
It's a non-issue.
Okay.
I don't think most of your colleagues understand the threat that the Democratic Party and the left pose to America.
Is that an unfair statement or a fair statement?
I think it's an entirely fair statement.
And this is, it's a frustrating time.
Because we're seeing a fundamental assault on our country.
We're seeing a fundamental assault on the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
We're seeing an assault on the principles that built this nation.
And I think an awful lot of folks, I'm certainly one of them, are infuriated that there are so few people stepping up to defend the nation, to engage in...
The attack that is coming.
So let's take one issue, and there are lots of issues, but let's take, for example, the tearing down of statues.
That has become one issue that arose out of the mob violence that we saw.
So it started off with a debate about Confederate statutes, and I actually think Confederate statutes, reasonable people can disagree.
I mean, the history of Civil War, some Confederates were...
Dishonorable people.
Others were not.
Like any other group of human beings, there is a variety.
You can have a reasonable discussion.
But, number one, if you disagree with a particular statue, there's a way to make that argument, which is to engage in the democratic process and say we ought to be honoring...
Hold it there.
This is really important.
Don't forget, we're at statues.
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