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the coolest things ever. I played in Poker after Dark, so I will say I was like Doyle and Phil I was giddy about. I was like, this was a bucket list thing. I told my daughters we were fourteen and eleven, and they're like, yeah, yeah, whatever, okay, some poker players, What's what's the big deal? I told them mister Beast is going to be there, and my girls lost their minds, like mister be Like, so both girls flew to Vegas to meet mister Beast. I mean, I mean,

it was. Look being in the Senate, it's hard to do anything that seems remotely cool to a fourteen year old or an eleven year old, especially a fourteen year old, but for them to meet mister Beast, they thought it was the coolest thing ever. And so I played poker. They put out the first episode, so the game we played for a couple hours. They chopped it into three episodes, so part one has come out already, but there'll be

two more parts. And it was it was pretty awesome. Well, I am glad that you could be a cool guy now for your daughters. That's always it's always something you strive for as a parent. You want to seem like a cool guy. I do have this question on poker, though, which is I know you love poker. There have been another a number of other politicians and statesmen who have famously loved poker. Is there something is there something about poker that just speaks to a political kind of spirit?

What is it about poker that draws you to it? Because you're not You're not the first guy I've I've known who who is so into it. So poker is people um, and it's it's it's interesting you know you look at so you play poker, Poker is math. It's knowing what the odds are. It's knowing what cards you have and what are the odds and how many outs

you have, And the math is important. But what I like about poker is it's reading people and it's trying to understand the person sitting across the table from you. What do they have? Are they telling you the truth or lying? Are they bluffing? Um? And it's so I've got a number of really close friends who enjoy playing poker, and we played poker for years, and and one of my closest friends, the guy who was a grown him my wedding, is a semi professional poker player and he's

played multiple times in the World Series. He's actually made a final table at the World Series, not in the main event, but I think the two thousand Texas hold him event. And he and I have played a gazillion times, and we both He's beaten me a bunch of times, I've beaten him a bunch of times. We've spent a lot of hours around the poker table. What's interesting is that he is, in terms of the math, clearly a

better poker player. Than I am. I can do the math, but I don't study it to the level of know it to the precision that he does. I spend much more time reading the players, and so we'll have hands where I'll beat him and it'll be like, what the hell were you doing? That made no sense? Why would you call me there? And I answer it because you didn't want me to. It may not have it may not have made sense. If you'd had the cards, it would have been a terrible call. But I knew you

didn't want me to. You wanted me to lay down my cards, which is why I called you, which is why I took your damn money. So hand me your chips and look. Sometimes you get the read wrong, sometimes you don't. You know, you think you know what's and obviously that's part of what makes poker fun, is projecting weakness, projecting you know you're trying to fool the other players. But it's I grew up, Actually I learned to play poker's a little kid. My grandmother, my mother's mother, Irish

Italian grandmother, great card player. She played bridge every week for probably seventy years. But she would would baby sit me when I was a little kid. When I was eight ten years old, my parents would drop me off at my grandparents for them to babysit me. And my grandmother would sit down and taught me to play poker. And she had a medal ten of buttons, and we would play with buttons as chips, and some of the buttons were costume jewelry and it was like fake diamonds.

So I'd like take the fake diamond and say one million dollars, and I just you know, make up whatever it was, you know, if they looked fancy and we're glittery, and I always would win. As a little kid, I would win and I would win and I would win, and I felt pretty good about myself. And when I was I don't know, about ten years old, I came

and said, hey, granny, let's play for real money. And she said, okay, sure, And I had five dollars, which five dollars at the time, my allowance was fifty cents a week, so that was ten weeks allowance that I had. And I sat down and played with her, and she took every penny from me. She wiped me out. My mom came to pick me up, and I was crying. As a ten year old. I was in tears, and

my grandmother's just cracking up laughing. You know what Irish Italian grandmother said, gone home, Sonny, Well, welcome to the big leagues. Two and a half months pay that that's pretty tought. It got your attention that well, Okay, that actually makes sense to me because I have heard people describe this to me that poker it's not really about the cards. It's not really as you say, about the numbers.

It's it can be about money, can be about how people relate to money and risk and threat, and it's really it's really about people. It's about people reading other people. So this actually leads us perfectly into what I really want to talk about today, which is the Democrats who are in power seem to be completely misreading the situation.

You've got three huge they've You've got a lot of blunders, but as I can see it, three really really big, prominent blunders they're making right now on the economic front. Not only have they made a lot of poor economic decisions that have hurt the country and certainly their political position, but they're not backing away from them. They're they're doubling down. When it comes to energy, they're doubling down when it

comes to so many aspects of the economy. On the cultural social issues, they're defending drag queens, jiggling for kids, actual little tiny children in bars twenty one plus bars in Texas of all places, they're defending it. And then they're they're coming on crime. They're they're still so weak on crime. The das the mayors that you're seeing real significant challenges from the right in San Francisco. You've got

a recall of the district attorney. In Los Angeles, now you've got a big fight for the mayor and a sort of kind of Republican is posing a big challenge. What the hell are the Democrats thinking? You know, Michael, it reminds me of do you remember those videos that would come out every Spring break, Girls Gone Wild, and it would have lots of college women in bikinis or not bikinis. It reminds me of much the same thing.

This is liberals gone wild, This is the craze left that this is AOC and Elizabeth Warren, thank god, not in bikinis, but embracing their socialist nuttiness. I mean, it's literally like someone sat down at a bar and said, how much crazy crap can we do? Like, how far can we go to drive away not just the conservatives that's a given, not even just the moderate, it's not even just the independence, but what can we do to drive away good old fashioned liberals who are not nuts?

I do want to clarify Senator just on the girls going wild point, I only ever watched that for the articles. You know, I was just stalling, obviously, but I totally see. I think the analogy is very good that they've gone to extremes and followed their own wildest impulses. So what what is going to happen to them in these these elections that are really coming up right before us? Now you're looking Los Angeles, you're looking at the recall in

San Francisco. It's not Republicans recalling these guys. It's not Republicans who are who are going to be voting primarily in the LA elections. So what are the elected Democrats gonna do? Are they gonna moderate or they're gonna get wiped out? So I don't know what they're gonna do this week, but I know what they're going to do in November. They're gonna get obliterated. November. It is going to be an historic election. It's every issue is so extreme. Look,

there are people Bill Maher. Bill Maher is an old school liberal who they are driving away Elon Musk. Elon Musk has been a Democrat his whole life. They are driving him away where he said, Okay, I'm voting Republican now. Because these guys are nuts, and you think about it, all right, let's take the drag queen thing. Like, listen, this is not about homosexuality. It's not even about transgenderism.

If you want to if consenting a doll want to do it, consenting adults want to do fine, knock yourself out, but leave the kids alone. I mean, this is not rocket science. Listen. If if you had straight women who were strippers and you had five year olds tucking dollars in their g strings, you and I would be appalled because kids have no business being sexualized. And it's where Look, this is the radical extreme left that they want to

sexualize little kids. So they're in this gay bar. They've got transgender drag queens where they're tucking dollars in their g strings and these are little kids, like what it's it's the whole you know the misname don't say gay law in Florida? What is it with the radical left wanting to teach kindergarteners about sex? Gay sex, straight sex? How about just no se x for five year olds? That ought to be a really simple rule that only the crazy left doesn't get. Well. You make a really

interesting point here too on strip clubs. If if instead of the gay bar with the drag queens wearing skimpy clothing and have kids putting dollars in their various uh, scantily attire, you know, scanty attire, if instead of that you had kids walking into a plain, old, regular strip club with real women there jiggling around, you would have people calling child protective services in the blink of an eye as well they should, so, I guess in a in a certain way, it does have a tie in

with the LGBT movement inasmuch as there's a complete double standard here, and when it's drag queens doing it, it's

celebrated in the parents are taking the kids themselves. I think how crazy this is that this is parents taking their kids to this look like look, we've discussed how our culture has just become twisted like protecting the innocence of kids ought to be something everyone can agree with, and it's it's where you're saying, or you know, I mean, let's look at the fact that the DA in San Francisco is facing a recall chessa bodine or chisard. I'm not sure how you pronounce it, never know how to

pronounce it. Yeah, but he's the son of two radical weather underground terrorists who were convicted of terrorist bombing, like like literally the DA was raised by convicted terrorists, and he's one of the many George Soros das that got elected and decided I've got a great idea, let's not prosecute criminals. Let's let violent criminals go. Isn't this a wonderful idea? If we let violent criminals go, will be so enlightened. And even the people of San Francisco are saying,

what the hell are you doing? Like we're liberals, we're all four ninety percent tax rates or whatever it is that they're for, but could you not let murderers like wander the streets? Well, Democrats see that there's that issue, right, So it's not you know, it's not just the Republicans. It's not just the moderates Democrats are waking up to this. But I do wonder if it's if it's not just that the liberals have gone totally crazy. I mean, maybe

they already work crazy. But you saw many decades ago you would see liberal leftist radical theorists writing about all these things, how in order to have true revolutionary change in America, we need to abolish the police, we need to radically redesign the prison systems. They would talk about how we need to sexualize children in order to get rid of all of their old, stodgy traditional prejudices about sex. For goodness sakes, Bernie Sanders wrote essays about this in

the nineteen sixties. Even on the economy, you've had not just the radical theory, but Barack Obama, even members of the Obama administration saying, we need to increase prices for fossil fuels. We need to create actually some economic hardship, because that's the only thing that's going to motivate people to go in and finally revolutionize the economy. You've seen them talking about this stuff in a way that shows their long term political goals, which is, to quote Barack

Obama to fundamentally transform America. And I guess I wonder if what you're seeing right now is that those long term goals are just Democrats getting out a little ahead of their skis here, and there's so much short term pain and confusion that maybe that their own constituents are going to say no. So, Michael, I'm sorry. I'm still traumatized because about halfway through what you said there, you invoked Bernie Sanders and sex. And that's just an image

I don't need to see. I've got to walk off the Senate floor and see him with his white hair sticking straight up in the air, and I just don't need to That's an image I could have avoid. Look, it is all right, let's take gas prices. It is truly amazing watching the corporate press try to bend over backwards to say, none of this is Biden's fault, It's Putin's fault, it's global markets. Is this it is that?

It's the other Biden literally campaign saying I'm going to shut down oil and gas drilling in the United States. I'm gonna shut it down on federal lands, I'm gonna shut it down, I'm shore the Green New Deal, I'm going to embrace. Biden has implemented literally dozens of policies designed to attack, to hurt, to shut down domestic energy production in the United States. He's done it over and over and over and over again. So he promised he would do it. He's followed through on that promise, and

the predicted effect of that is prices have doubled. And by the way, the socialists want prices to double, because what they're saying is, you, Joe sixpack, make the decision. We don't like you drive a pickup truck. Mom. Maybe you drive a suburban, maybe you drive a minivan. And

here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna make your life so miserable that you have to spend one hundred bucks or one hundred and fifty bucks to fill up your car a truck that you're going to get rid of it and buy a Prius, which is what we want you to do. And so we're going to keep hurting you until you make the enlightened decision that we your betters do. By the way, this past week, I don't know if you saw, the EU is putting taxes on fuel, on jet fuel, but they exempted private jets because of

course they did. This is called the John Kerry exception. These guys are mister Burns. They are wealthy, out of touch, living in opulent riches. But then when they do what they promised they would do, implement policies to hurt domestic energy production, to drive gas prices up, suddenly they discover weight people don't like spending one hundred and fifty bucks to fill up their truck, right, And then they just

try to blatant lead light to you. I'm really hoping that you know now the people are kind of people of all parties actually are pulling the radicals back from the brink. But I wonder if the radicals and the people who have been in charge have secured those kind of longer term victories. I look this past week at Joe Biden invoking the Defense Production Act because there is this energy crisis. Energy costs have gone through the roof. Gas has doubled since the man's been president. And so

what does he do. Does he invoke that provision of the law or some other provision to open up oil drilling, No, to I don't know, create a new nuclear powers. No, what is he doing? It's it's to produce solar panels. It's to give the left what they've wanted for a long time that I don't see any way will actually bring down an energy costs, certainly not anytime soon. One, how does he do that? The White House hasn't explained what emergency he's responding to that requires solar panels. But two,

are they getting what they want? Are they? Are they as we've heard from from which I forget the name of the Emmanuel brother there's Ari, and there's Zeke, and there's the one that I'm talking about. Gosh, I can't believe his name escapes me. But you know, one of the one of the worst Democrats you know in modern politics. You know, never to let a crisis go to a rom There we go. I can't believe I forgot the

most famous of the Emmanuel brothers names. I remember the Hollywood one and the doctor one, but not rom saying never let a crisis go to waste? Are they even as they're losing support even among their own guys right now? Are they? Are they scoring those long term political wins? So I actually think there are some voices among Democrats, and it wouldn't surprise me if Emmanuel is one of them that is wondering, what in the hell are you

people doing? They're people like James Carville, who listen. James Carville is smart as all get out. He's one of the most effective Democrats. You know Mary Madelin, his wife, Mary as a friend. She's been a supporter of mine. So I've been to Mary and James's home, and he's he is an effective adversary. He's a Democrat, but he actually gets he's not nuts, and he's looking at his own party and it's like, Okay, you people are are

you trying to lose every congressional race in America? I mean, that's not a quote, but but there are definitely Listen. Bill Maher is an interesting example, and we've talked about at some point. I hope we have Bill on this show. I've never met Bill Maher, but more and more I'm watching his diatribes and I'm retweeting them. Not because he and I agree. He is an old school liberal, but he does believe in free speech, which the left is abandoned.

You know, he recently had a monologue where he was talking about like sexuality and the explosion of people that are identifying as other genders, and identifying as gay. And he went, you know, through like like in history, this was not the case, and we've suddenly had this dramatic shift which we're not even supposed to talk about it. He raised an interesting point. He said, well, they're big regional differences in say, California, the number of people who

identify as forty seven genders versus in Youngstown, Ohio. Yeah, and he said, either there's a lot of peer pressure and social pressure in California or there's a lot of suppression in Ohio. But we had to talk about that. There's apparently a fundamental transformational shift of humanity that we're not talking about. And I got to say that, frankly, sounded like something Michael Knowles would say. Yeah, you gotta wonder is there anyone left in the Democratic Party who

can actually talk to a steel worker. Yeah. Look like they have become this angry fringe, wealthy urban radical elite that is appealing to a smaller and smaller It's like the Yale faculty, Yeah, is their constituency. And I gotta say, thankfully, the country is not the Yale faculty. And it seems that today's Democrats don't get that, you know, This is actually making me feel a bit better, because we tend

to spend a lot of time online. And it is true that the boundaries of what is acceptable in society have been basically blown to smithereens. I mean, even five years ago, the thought of a little kid going into a drag bar and putting a dollar, I mean that that would be unthinkable. So because we've seen the limits get blown to smith reens, it's very easy to fall down this pit of despair and say, oh gosh, the country is gone. We might as well give up the fight.

But to your point, Senator, they may not be doing this kind of stuff out of confidence, out of the feeling that they've got the wind at their sales. Actually, you might be seeing the kind of defiance you're getting from the administration on the economy, the radicalism on sex and the drag shows, even the defiance on crime and

criminal justice. You might be seeing that more out of desperation from Democrats now who know that perhaps their time in office is going to be dwindling, because there's a very large movement not just of Republicans but of moderates and some Democrats too, who are ready to throw them out and ready to shift that pendulum back. But I guess we won't. There's a little optimism to leave on. There's a little hope to leave on. But I suppose

we won't know until those elections take place. By the time this pod comes out, the world will know whether Chessabudin's been recalled or not. I don't know whether it will be or not. It's it's but in some ways, whether he is or not, the point is the same, because the fact that it is real and close and significant is powerful, even if he ekes out surviving or I hope is recalled. You know, Los Angeles there's a

vigorous primary for mayor. A few months ago it was assumed that Karen Bass, the extremely liberal Democrat congresswoman, was a shoe in. And you know now there is at least a vigorously contested primary with a billionaire developer who has been a Republican much of his life. He's running in a Democrat primary. Just to tip the hat to it. Yeah, but I gotta say, if you're in LA, look you fled LA. I mean the crime issue. I remember a couple of years ago, I was visiting with a cop

in California. Used to be an LA cop, and he showed me on his own a picture of a tree in downtown LA that was just covered with hypodermic needles, thousands of needles, where the junkies just threw the needles in the trees. And at some point people say, wait, this is nuts. You look at the beaches where you've got homeless people just allowed to take them over engage in violence. Listen, you you fled La, So yeah, why did you? Why am I telling you about the place

you fled? Why did you flee? Well, for all of those reasons, obviously, Plus there were the economic reasons, you know, the owner's regulation, all of the constant you know, tax hikes, and I think the California Franchise Tax Board is basically worse than the mafia at this point. But then there is this basic safety issue. And I will tell you friends of mine who have fled lay. Not all of my friends in LA were conservative. I mean, if if that were the case, I'd have very few friends in

LA because there just aren't that many conservatives. And there were a lot of liberal friends who were making the same comments about crime, and so people really are getting sick of that stuff. You can see blue places turn on these kinds of issues. You saw it happen in New York and the nineties, you might be seeing that in Los Angeles right now. The very fact that these keep cropping up, these hotly contested elections with lots of momentum behind the center or center right candidate, that shows

you that something is in the air right now. And so I'm not surprised that the Democrats are throwing everything they've got. They're throwing the kitchen sink right now. And I know one way they're trying to distract is they're trying to distract with the January sixth Partisan Committee in the House. And I also know that our friend Liz Wheeler will be discussing this with you, and specifically the arrest of former Trump aid Peter Navarro on the cloak room.

Isn't that right, Liz, Hi Michael Eyes Hunter. First of all, before we even get into that topic, I want to thank you both for that disturbing image of Bernie Sanders has now burned into my mind for all eternity. I listen to this, I'd lose to this whole episode sit to write with you, and this is what I get in return is this image of Bernie Sanders. Just for the record, Liz, that was Michael. That was not me. I was a victim in that imagery as well. You're welcome,

all right. So we are going to talk about Peter Navarro on Cloakroom. This is a very interesting conversation because it's not just about the January sixth Committee. That's obviously partisan. It's obviously a showboat trial if you will. I mean they hired an ABC News executive to produce it, to make it a primetime a primetime event here. But the arrest of Peter Navarro itself is a constitutional question because what he claimed was executive privilege that he couldn't testify

because this was not his information to give that. It was actually President Trump's information to either divulge or claim executive privilege. And there's a very interesting constitutional question about whether it's even legal for Congress to have indicted him without the court intervening. And we are going to dive into the details of that today. You can join us. Of course, we invite you too. We hope you will over on Verdict with Ted Cruz dot com slash plus

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