The upcoming transportation bill is reported to cost $1.75 Trillion but estimates coming in are talking about the possibly costs being higher than $3 Trillion. Sean has the latest.... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
| Time | Text |
|---|---|
| This is an iHeart podcast. | |
| When news broke earlier this year that baby KJ, a newborn in Philadelphia, had successfully received the world's first personalized gene editing treatment. | |
| It represented a milestone for both researchers and patients. | |
| But there's a gripping tale of discovery behind this accomplishment and its creators. | |
| I'm Evan Ratliff, and together with biographer Walter Isaacson, we're delving into the story of Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna, the woman who's helped change the trajectory of humanity. | |
| Listen to Aunt CRISPR, the story of Jennifer Doudna with Walter Isaacson on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. | |
| You want smart political talk without the meltdowns? | |
| We got you. | |
| I'm Carol Markowitz, and I'm Mary Catherine Hamm. | |
| We've been around the block in media and we're doing things differently. | |
| Normally is about real conversations. | |
| Thoughtful, try to be funny, grounded, and no panic. | |
| We'll keep you informed and entertained without ruining your day. | |
| Join us every Tuesday and Thursday, normally, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. | |
| I'm Ben Ferguson, and I'm Ted Cruz. | |
| Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz. | |
| Nationwide, we have millions of listeners. | |
| Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court. | |
| And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else. | |
| We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family. | |
| So down with Verdict with Ted Cruz now, wherever you get your podcasts. | |
| I day 109. | |
| Can you believe it? | |
| The media, they've moved on. | |
| They don't seem to care a lick about the fact that we abandon Americans, green card holders, military families, our Afghan allies. | |
| They just don't care. | |
| And they don't report on it. | |
| If it was Donald Trump, they would. | |
| But of course, that's not going to happen because that's just not the way they roll, is it? | |
| We've got a lot to cover today. | |
| We have some numbers out. | |
| Biden's polling numbers underwater in every single battleground state. | |
| Morning Consult polling calculated Biden's approval rating with registered voters in every U.S. state. | |
| The finding Biden is currently underwater in 32 states, while he has a positive net approval rating in just 18 states. | |
| Let me guess, California, New York. | |
| When you zoom in on the battleground states, things look even worse for the White House. | |
| In the 11 states that Fortune considered battleground states in 2020, Biden's approval rating is underwater in every single one of them. | |
| Iowa, minus 11. | |
| Ohio, minus 10. | |
| Arizona, minus 9. | |
| Those battleground states, followed by Wisconsin, minus 7. | |
| Pennsylvania, minus 5. | |
| Florida, minus 5. | |
| North Carolina, minus 5. | |
| Michigan, minus 4. | |
| Nevada, minus 3. | |
| Georgia, minus 3. | |
| New Hampshire, minus 2. | |
| If, in fact, that held for three years, he'd lose in a 316 to 222 electoral landslide. | |
| Majority of likely voters also, if you look at the Trafalgar poll that just came out, that's Robert Cahaley, our friend. | |
| Majority of voters, in fact, blame Biden for the divisions among the American people. | |
| Anyway, to what extent do you believe Biden is responsible for the divisions of the American people? | |
| Yep, 54.2% of likely voters believe Biden was responsible for these divisions. | |
| By the way, he did not get a particularly warm reception when he went to Minnesota yesterday. | |
| You know, let's go, Brandon and F. Joe Biden signed pretty much everywhere. | |
| Younger Americans, a key part of the Democratic Party socialist base, have soured on Joe. | |
| Polling now, despite winning roughly three in five voters under the age of 30, Biden's approval rating now slipping below 50% among the youngest segment of the electorate, according to a new Harvard youth poll released earlier today. | |
| I mean, there's nothing good here. | |
| There's no good, nothing good happening. | |
| By the way, this guy, Nye, who's famous for being the science guy in a children's educational program back in the 90s, appeared on a TikTok video to promote the multi-trillion dollar Build Back Better New Green Deal Socialism bill. | |
| And during the 82-second video, he's joined by Biden, who he referred to as Amtrak Joe. | |
| Infrastructure is cool, he declared. | |
| Video provided, that's almost as bad as Kamala Harris hiring child actors, firing a communications director, just like Joe did. | |
| And then also, you know, it's the dumbest video I think I've ever seen any politician do. | |
| You know, Biden again is out there lying, claiming sending your kids to preschool will cost zero under Build Back Better. | |
| It will cost maybe zero for parents, but it's going to cost the rest of, you know, this whole Marxism to each according to their need, from each according to their ability. | |
| That's not going to work. | |
| Let them buy cars. | |
| Buddha Judge, by the way, has been blasted for urging Americans to get electric cars to save on fuel costs. | |
| Why don't we go back to the energy independence policies? | |
| That's the thing about Afghanistan. | |
| We can go rescue. | |
| We can make a deal with the Taliban. | |
| Either you let our Americans out or we're going to bomb you into smithereens. | |
| We'll destroy you. | |
| We could do that. | |
| We can control the border, just bring back the Trump policies, stay in Mexico policy, build the Walmart, you know, end catch and release or process and release. | |
| You can do that too. | |
| You want energy independence? | |
| You want lower energy prices? | |
| You want to pay $1.50 less a gallon? | |
| You want to save $1,000 heating your home this winter? | |
| Well, just go back to being a net exporter of energy. | |
| We'll get rich, high-paying career jobs in the energy sector. | |
| Let's get it back. | |
| Maybe we can then stop Vladimir Putin's waiver, and we should be providing our Western European allies with all the energy that they need. | |
| Of course, we're not going to do any of this. | |
| They can't admit that. | |
| Where do you think most of the inflation is coming from? | |
| High cost. | |
| They're all associated with energy. | |
| It's the single best thing he'd ever do for the economy. | |
| We have information out that is pretty fabulous, actually, because we've been telling you about all of these accounting tricks that are being used by the Democrats in their Build Back Better New Green Deal socialism. | |
| Now, the gold standard is, according to the Democrats, that would be the Congressional Budget Office. | |
| They're the ones that concluded, no, $367 billion in cost and debt that we're going to put on our children and grandchildren. | |
| That's on the $1.75 trillion. | |
| Anyway, Penn Wharton, hardly an institution of right-wing radicalism, they put together a budget model, and this is on the Committee on the Budget in the Senate. | |
| And anyway, they issued a statement after the CBO committed to providing an extended 10-year analysis of the provisions in the reckless New Green Deal Socialism Bill. | |
| I'm pleased that, let's see, the CBO will be scoring Build Back Better. | |
| Well, we already know the answer. | |
| But anyway, when the analysis was applied by the Penn Wharton, now we're talking about Wharton Business School, UPenn, talking about, you know, an Ivy League education here. | |
| These people are a lot of things. | |
| They're not stupid. | |
| Anyway, and the Committee for Responsible Federal Budget. | |
| Independently, both these groups concluded that a 10-year score in terms of the actual cost of the bill are not what Joe and Kamala and Jen Saki have been telling us. | |
| That it doesn't, it costs zero, $1.75 trillion. | |
| That's all it is. | |
| No, what they're saying is if you don't allow for sunsetting, in other words, using the accounting trick, oh, well, the bill lasts for 10 years, but we're only going to include one, two, or three years in factoring in what the cost of it is. | |
| When you actually put in the real cost and stop playing accounting games, it's over $4.5 trillion rather than the $1.75 trillion or the zero that Democrats have been claiming. | |
| And these two separate groups, again, Penn Wharton, their budget model, and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, their budget model, and the CBO's initial $367 billion estimate if the spending programs, you know, up to $3 trillion, by the way, they concluded $3 trillion if the spending programs are not sunset. | |
| So anywhere between $3 and $4.5 trillion. | |
| That's not zero, Joe, Kamala, Jen. | |
| It's not zero. | |
| You're lying. | |
| Just like you're lying when you say, oh, what do you mean $450,000 to illegal immigrant? | |
| That's never good. | |
| That's a garbage question. | |
| You need to stop talking about it. | |
| And they start finding out, oh, that is our policy. | |
| Who knows what's worse? | |
| Just like, oh, we don't need to test illegal immigrants either for COVID. | |
| They're not going to be here very long. | |
| How many more of these lies are we going to take? | |
| In the dark of the night, dispersing people with preferential treatment that are illegal immigrants that didn't respect our laws and sovereignty. | |
| The idea that we would pay them money if, in fact, they had family separation issues, that would be their problem for coming here illegally. | |
| They caused that. | |
| But we're going to give them $450,000 that we can't afford. | |
| And then you can add, you know, all of this together is a disaster for the country. | |
| Anyway, the bill is written. | |
| If in fact you get away, if you take out the accounting gimmicks, you know, $1.75 trillion becomes $4.5 trillion and increases the deficit $3 trillion. | |
| Oh, I guess that's going to cost us zero, right, Joe? | |
| It's just a big, fat lie on every level. | |
| And this is your new modern liberal Democratic party. | |
| Now, one political issue involving this, and I had mixed reports on this today, and that is, you know, the Washington Post reported that Mitch Mitch McConnell is open to a debt ceiling deal. | |
| And remember, when was it September? | |
| He had been saying, the Republicans said for four months we will not assist the Democrats in raising the debt ceiling. | |
| You know, then we're getting up on the final hour, and Mitch McConnell caved. | |
| If Mitch McConnell caves this time, Mitch McConnell needs to not be the Senate minority leader. | |
| We need some leader that will actually keep their word. | |
| Now, there is a conflicting report, to be fair, because the Washington Post said one option to avoid the debt default scheduled for Friday, but Janet Yellen says it's the 15th of December, is to work out a deal with McConnell in which Republicans refrain from filibustering and increase in the ceiling that Democrats would pass on their own outside the reconciliation process, even if Republicans won't vote for it. | |
| Now, you'd think McConnell wouldn't let that happen because he has the procedural parliamentary maneuvers that could prevent it. | |
| But when Punch Bowl News asked McConnell about it, he seemed oddly conciliatory, saying he's discussing it with Chuck Schumer. | |
| All this is doing is buying Democrats more time to get their new Green Deal radical socialism through. | |
| The very opposite of what we ought to be doing for the country, the economy, a 31-year high with inflation, high energy costs, high heating costs, and everything else costing more because of Joe's not only economic policies, but his energy policies. | |
| Now, on the other hand, publicly, Mitch is saying something else. | |
| And this was on Fox Business. | |
| He says, since Democrats decided to go it alone, they will not get Senate Republicans' help with raising the debt limit. | |
| I've explained this clearly and consistently for over two months. | |
| But, you know, this now goes back to him making the same promise before. | |
| I've explained it. | |
| You know, we do not have divided government. | |
| Democrats don't need our help. | |
| They have every tool to address the debt limit on their own. | |
| McConnell's comments up the ante between the two parties. | |
| And in the end, last time, McConnell caved. | |
| The Freedom Caucus has written McConnell and said today the House of Representatives will pass over our objection, a continuing resolution to fund the government without ending any of Biden's very damaging, un-American, and in worst cases, unlawful vaccine mandates. | |
| As you know, the current government funding mechanism expires Friday night. | |
| Thus, the Senate Republican Conference enjoys the important leverage against those mandates. | |
| We therefore write to request that you use all procedural tools at your disposal to deny timely passage of the CR continuing resolution that it prohibits funding in all respects for vaccine mandates and enforcement thereof. | |
| I think they're on to something. | |
| That's actually called fighting. | |
| Now, my guess is, and by the way, Donald Trump is urging McConnell not to cave again. | |
| He rebuked McConnell for having given the Democrats a pass the last time. | |
| Mitch and Republican senators had them beaten, didn't know it. | |
| We ended up with an unfrastructure bill, which is only 11% infrastructure. | |
| And worse, he allowed a splitting of the bills with 19 votes, including himself, which makes the Democrats' path for even a worse bill much easier. | |
| Use the debt ceiling, Mitch. | |
| Show strength and courage. | |
| Our country's being destroyed. | |
| President's right. | |
| We'll see what happens. | |
| Stay tuned. | |
| I don't have a lot of faith in Mitch McConnell. | |
| And this is the last draw for me. | |
| Mitch McConnell caves on this again or doesn't procedurally stop it. | |
| It's the same thing. | |
| 800-941-SHAWN. | |
| You want to be a part of the program. | |
| Keep along, Sean Hannity Show. | |
| Fed Chair Jerome Powell yesterday. | |
| It was actually happening while we were on the air. | |
| Retiring the word transitory and describing inflation. | |
| What's the White House's reaction? | |
| They use the word transitory and temporary. | |
| You can't even make this up. | |
| Joe Biden is using every weapon in his arsenal to fight inflation. | |
| No, he's not. | |
| Jensaki, no, he's not. | |
| Begging OPEC and Russia to increase oil production when all you have to do is ask Texas and other states. | |
| That would do more to reduce the 31-year high in inflation than any other single thing you can do. | |
| By the way, home price is now an annual increase of 19.1% in September. | |
| Pelosi and Schumer blasting Trump for high gas prices. | |
| How could you blast Trump for high gas prices? | |
| Anyway, we found some tweets. | |
| This one in May of 2018 from Chucky Schumer. | |
| Are you creeping along on fumes because hashtag gas prices are so high? | |
| I'll join Senator Cantwell, Senator Menendez, Senator Markey, and Push POTUS, meaning Donald Trump, to start fighting for lower gas prices for hardworking Americans live in a few minutes. | |
| Then we have Nancy Pelosi, June 30th, 2018. | |
| Prescription drug prices are skyrocketing. | |
| Gas prices continue to rise. | |
| Healthcare costs and premiums are through the roof. | |
| Wages are stagnant. | |
| What is the solution with Trump and Republicans in Washington? | |
| Propose more tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy. | |
| You can't make this stuff up. | |
| We're paying on average $1.50 more a gallon and paying more to heat and cool our homes and paying a fortune for every single thing we buy. | |
| And now you can take those words, those tweets, and you can eat them. | |
| Anyway, we'll continue. | |
| When news broke earlier this year that baby KJ, a newborn in Philadelphia, had successfully received the world's first personalized gene editing treatment. | |
| It represented a milestone for both researchers and patients. | |
| But there's a gripping tale of discovery behind this accomplishment and its creators. | |
| I'm Evan Ratliff, and together with biographer Walter Isaacson, we're delving into the story of Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna, the woman who's helped change the trajectory of humanity. | |
| Listen to Aunt CRISPR, the story of Jennifer Doudna with Walter Isaacson on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. | |
| Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hammond and I'm Carol Markowitz. | |
| We've been in political media for a long time. | |
| Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane. | |
| That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity. | |
| We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor. | |
| We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously. | |
| So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass. | |
| You're our kind of people. | |
| Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen. | |
| I'm Ben Ferguson, and I'm Ted Cruz. | |
| Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz. | |
| Nationwide, we have millions of listeners. | |
| Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court. | |
| And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else. | |
| We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family. | |
| So down with Verdick with Ted Cruz now, wherever you get your podcasts. | |
| Hi, 25 now to the top of the hour. | |
| I didn't see the interview. | |
| We were just talking about it in the break. | |
| Apparently, Alec Baldwin gave an interview. | |
| I assume Stephanopoulos, right? | |
| He's the usual left-wing suck up on ABC News. | |
| Can always count on Georgie. | |
| Little Georgie, you know. | |
| All right, so he gave his interview and he claims he didn't fire a weapon in this movie. | |
| It's really this audio is so strange. | |
| Let's play it. | |
| It wasn't in the script for the trigger we pulled. | |
| Well, the trigger wasn't pulled. | |
| I didn't pull the trigger. | |
| So you never pulled the trigger. | |
| No, no, no. | |
| I would never point a gun that had been going to pull a trigger at them. | |
| Never. | |
| What did you think happened? | |
| How did a real bullet get out of that set? | |
| I have no idea. | |
| Someone put a live bullet in a gun. | |
| A bullet that wasn't even supposed to be on the property. | |
| I didn't pull the trigger. | |
| I would never aim a gun at anyone. | |
| Well, then how the hell did this happen? | |
| Because every report up to this, correct me if I'm wrong, Linda, was that, you know, he thought it was a safe gun, was told it was a safe gun, and now he's saying he never even pulled the trigger. | |
| Yeah. | |
| He'd never ever point a gun at anybody. | |
| This feels very, very odd. | |
| And there's also multiple witnesses who said that they saw him point the gun. | |
| So I'm just like, are they now going to be all recanting? | |
| I mean, I just, something's really off here. | |
| I didn't pull the trigger on the firearm that killed one person, wounded another. | |
| I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them. | |
| Never. | |
| And his first upcoming interview with Georgie Stephanopoulos. | |
| All right, that is weird, and that is bizarre. | |
| I mean, that's really bizarre. | |
| But, you know, I will say this. | |
| We have a history with Alec Baldwin. | |
| He doesn't like us. | |
| I don't know, you know, and I'm not sure why. | |
| We used to have these epic Twitter fights when I used to go on Twitter. | |
| I don't go on Twitter anymore. | |
| You know, I will say this, you know, the few times that Sweet Baby James will print it out, and Twitter's not the same. | |
| Every conservative, we used to have like 80, 90% of people on Twitter would like what we put up. | |
| Now it's like 90% hate. | |
| And I think the reason is conservatives have abandoned it in droves. | |
| They've just said they've had enough. | |
| And it's now with this new CEO being a content censorer, even worse than at Jack. | |
| It just makes no point. | |
| Look, I don't know whose parlor looked like it had a lot of promise and it kind of didn't work out. | |
| There are other efforts of other people to put together a competitor to Twitter. | |
| I don't think the answer is government regulation. | |
| The problem is, you know, when you have freedom of speech and you want to really have a free speech forum, okay, what do you do when people post something that's so obviously bigoted, hateful, and racist? | |
| What do you do then? | |
| What do you do? | |
| Do you just say that's part of it? | |
| Now they're saying on Twitter that, like, let's say you're at, you know, one of the 535 riots that won't be investigated by Liz Cheney because she only cares about one, where we lost dozens of Americans, thousands of cops injured, billions of dollars of property damage, arson, and looting, etc. | |
| We're not going to investigate those. | |
| And you have the predetermined outcome of the January 6th committee. | |
| It's predetermined. | |
| As soon as they kicked off Jim Jordan and Jim Banks, it was over and put on what did they put on? | |
| Kinzinger and Liz Cheney. | |
| You know, Liz Cheney's sole motivation seems to be in life is to purge the Republican Party of Donald Trump. | |
| And if that means aligning and partnering with Nancy Pelosi and every Democrat that wanted to put her father and scooter Libby in jail for the rest of their lives, the very people that called her father a war criminal and a murderer, the very people that called her father a crook, you know, I guess that shows where they stand. | |
| They seem to care so much about foreign policy. | |
| Where's the criticism of Joe Biden's not standing up for Taiwan? | |
| And Joe Biden's, you know, now that we learn from Miranda Devine's book, sitting in meetings doing business deals with the communist Chinese. | |
| Or, of course, you're not getting the billion until you fire the prosecutor investigating my son being paid millions with no experience. | |
| Not interested. | |
| Russia is now putting more troops on the border with Ukraine. | |
| Clearly, it looks like another Crimea in the making. | |
| That's another bad situation. | |
| Where's Liz Cheney on that? | |
| You live in Pennsylvania, Linda. | |
| So I do. | |
| Did you happen to catch Dr. Oz last night on the TV show? | |
| Yeah, he was great. | |
| I mean, you know, I think one of the interesting parts, you know, about Dr. Oz and him running for Senate, and quite frankly, I'm all for any private, you know, practice business person, truck driver, you know, average Joe, I'm not a politician running for office because I think they're going to be a lot more in touch with their constituents than any politician that is running around, you know, in office and they're just in there for perpetuity. | |
| They don't care anymore. | |
| You know, somebody like a Dr. Oz, you know, that was the wild card of Trump. | |
| So I had a kind of similar experience, a little bit different than when Donald Trump was thinking about running. | |
| And, you know, I'd known him for, you know, however many years, 20 years maybe at the time, I don't remember. | |
| And anyway, and he was thinking about running. | |
| And we had these, you know, never-ending conversations. | |
| At one point, they became almost like nightly. | |
| And this was him and him and I just talking about issues. | |
| And there were things that he actually, you know, convinced me of were good ideas. | |
| For example, if we're going to fight in Iraq, then we ought to take their oil, for example. | |
| I'm like, yeah, we ought to give it to the families of those that have fallen, aiding in assisting in Iraq getting their country back. | |
| Yeah, I agree with that. | |
| They should have to pay us, just like China should have to pay the whole world for this virus that they unleashed on everybody. | |
| And Fauci, frankly, his knowledge, he just keeps lying. | |
| I think Ted Cruz and Rand Paul have been phenomenal on it. | |
| There's some one thing that really stood out, and he said this to me many times in the course of the discussions because I said, listen, Dr. Oz, and I got to know him during the early days of COVID because we'd always, you know, me, I don't sleep, so it's 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning. | |
| And he would always be making calls to European countries early, late night Eastern time, early morning their time, and asking questions about anecdotally, what do you see working? | |
| Because we had nothing to work with at the time. | |
| I think it was April in 2020 when Dr. Daniel Wallace, who works at Cedar Sinai, who had the largest lupus and rheumatoid arthritis practice in the country and was the premier expert on hydroxychloroquine, said that the risk of taking it is nil. | |
| Now, there was no evidence at that time except anecdotally that it might help. | |
| Turns out now there are multiple studies, starting with the Henry Ford Hospital study and then many other studies. | |
| 84% effectiveness in mitigating symptoms. | |
| I personally believe that monoclonal antibodies are by far the best and most underutilized weapon for people vaccinated and unvaccinated. | |
| They get COVID. | |
| But anyway, so I got to know him then. | |
| And then at some point, he started thinking about this political career and we just started talking about politics. | |
| And I don't know, Linda, I think you probably remember, it wasn't that long ago, many people that I told people in 2015 and 16 that Donald Trump, if he was elected, would govern as a conservative. | |
| Remember I said that? | |
| Yes, you did. | |
| I really should name names because you know who they are. | |
| I mean, people that said they were my friend or people that I'd helped in their career in some way or, you know, had a good relationship with, they were like eating me up and spitting me out. | |
| Yeah, it was repulsive. | |
| Well, and but the difference was, and I, and in a lot of ways, you know, my job is to be honest with my audience. | |
| And I knew the conversations I had, and some of them were harsh. | |
| There was a back and forth on issues. | |
| And I wanted to know for sure if he was really, if he really believed in lower taxes. | |
| I wanted to know for sure how he really felt about the bureaucracy and health care and energy. | |
| I mean, we had so many discussions about energy. | |
| And remember, we did bill, you know, drill here, drill now, save, pay less, right, with Newt Gingrich. | |
| We've done this. | |
| How many years ago did we do? | |
| We did get America back to work. | |
| I mean, that was a huge project that we did, the job fairs. | |
| We did that in 2010 to 2012. | |
| Then we did the conservative Freedom Caucus and Conservative Solutions Caucus. | |
| We wrote that up in 2014. | |
| I mean, it's been nonstop. | |
| And I've been consistent. | |
| I'm like, so I would say that, and then he governed more conservatively than any president by far in the modern era. | |
| And that means the wall, and that means energy independence, and that means better, freer, fairer trade deals. | |
| I think foreign enemies, adversarial countries, hostile regimes, I think they had a genuine fear of him. | |
| He beats the caliphate, takes out Salimani in an incredible display of our military might. | |
| Baghdadi and associates, the al-Qaeda leader in Yemen. | |
| I mean, incredible accomplishments. | |
| The economy pre-COVID was, what, record after record, low unemployment rate for every demographic in the country because conservatism works. | |
| So when I put my conservative credentials on the line, I don't do it lightly. | |
| Now, I have made mistakes. | |
| You know, Ben Sass the ass is probably one of them. | |
| I mean, he convinced all of us. | |
| But there's something about Dr. Oz that really impresses me. | |
| His knowledge level, I mean, I've talked to a lot of people that want to run from office, run for office that have never been in politics, a lot of them. | |
| And everything that he said on the border last night, everything he said on COVID, about COVID last night, everything he said about the economy last night, everything he said about judges last night, everything he said about energy independence last night, I agree with. | |
| And conservatism is not that complicated. | |
| And the policies work. | |
| I keep saying Joe could fix all of these problems and that all these problems we're now facing, crises, if you will, were all preventable. | |
| But they're also something we can fix. | |
| You know, as a conservative, if you haven't heard my one-minute spiel, it's I believe in liberty and freedom and capitalism, our constitution. | |
| I believe in low taxes, limited government, less bureaucracy, instead of putting a stranglehold on business. | |
| I believe in choice and education. | |
| Let the parents decide. | |
| I believe in free market solutions to health care, medical savings accounts, healthcare cooperatives. | |
| Of course, we're going to take care of the poor and people that can't afford it and those with pre-existing conditions. | |
| We're a compassionate country. | |
| I believe that, you know, we need conservatives on the bench, constitutionalists that respect the role of the other co-equal branches of government. | |
| I believe in free and fair trade, peace through strength. | |
| I think parents should have a role in our education. | |
| You know, I believe in putting my hand over my heart and standing for the Pledge of Allegiance and proudly saying we're, you know, one nation under God, hopefully, prayerfully, indivisible. | |
| We can resolve our differences. | |
| Liberty and justice for all. | |
| That we are guaranteed life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, not equal results. | |
| I want our borders controlled. | |
| This is not complicated stuff. | |
| And the thing is, is every time we use conservatism and a conservative philosophy, now, is he like a Sean Hannity? | |
| No, he comes at it from a very different perspective. | |
| And anybody that's willing to give up the millions and millions and millions of dollars that he can make in syndicated television, syndicated television is usually like the highest paying jobs in TV because he wants to serve the country. | |
| And he went into this long explanation about why he feels compelled and called to run and what this country has done for him and how broken the system is and how he basically sees the problems the same way that any conservative would. | |
| I mean, what did you take out of it? | |
| I think one of the most important things that I took from what he said, and I respect him. | |
| I mean, he was terrific on the show all through COVID and came on every day, no matter how little sleep he had gotten or how much work he had done. | |
| But I think the part where he said he wanted to give back to a country that had given him so much and that, yeah, he doesn't have to do this. | |
| And yeah, it isn't because, you know, he really does feel a calling, you know, and that to me was very reminiscent of Trump. | |
| The first thing I said to him, I said, why would you want to put yourself through that hell? | |
| Yeah, because everybody, they're just going to trash him every day. | |
| I said, oh, you're going to get the crap kicked out of you every day. | |
| You know what his answer was. | |
| He goes to me, well, you get the crap kicked out of you every day. | |
| And I said, yeah, but I'm missing that ship that gives a damn. | |
| But you also, you signed up for this. | |
| Like, you love the media. | |
| That's what you sign up for. | |
| And obviously he does too. | |
| He is clearly a very successful, you know, multimedia enterprise, you know, doing what he does. | |
| But he said one more thing. | |
| He said, I want to serve. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And that struck me because all these politicians, they don't view themselves as servants, public servants. | |
| They don't. | |
| Oh, God, no. | |
| They could care less. | |
| When news broke earlier this year that baby KJ, a newborn in Philadelphia, had successfully received the world's first personalized gene editing treatment. | |
| It represented a milestone for both researchers and patients. | |
| But there's a gripping tale of discovery behind this accomplishment and its creators. | |
| I'm Evan Ratliff, and together with biographer Walter Isaacson, we're delving into the story of Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna, the woman who's helped change the trajectory of humanity. | |
| Listen to Aunt CRISPR, the story of Jennifer Doudna with Walter Isaacson on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. | |
| You want smart political talk without the meltdowns? | |
| We got you. | |
| I'm Carol Markowitz. | |
| And I'm Mary Catherine Hamm. | |
| We've been around the block in media and we're doing things differently. | |
| Normally is about real conversations. | |
| Thoughtful, try to be funny, grounded, and no panic. | |
| We'll keep you informed and entertained without ruining your day. | |
| Join us every Tuesday and Thursday, normally, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. | |
| I'm Ben Ferguson. | |
| And I'm Ted Cruz. | |
| Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz. | |
| Nationwide, we have millions of listeners. | |
| Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, We break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court. | |
| And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else. | |
| We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family. | |
| So download Verdict with Ted Cruz Now, wherever you get your podcasts. |