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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The deep state is going into full attack mode.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
In the day's left for them to be in charge.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
They are now demanding radical judges the left be confirmed
in a lame duck session of Congress. Chuck Schumer making
senators work late, late, and late each and every day,
forcing Biden judicial picks to the Senate floor.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Take a listen this.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Chuck Schumer this morning, pledging to confirm as many Biden
judges as possible.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Members should be prepared for another late night on Wednesday
to vote on the nominations I filed last night. Voting
on the president's judicial nominees is a core function of
the Senate. It's one of our basic responsibilities, and we're
going to carry out that responsibility as long as this
majority continues.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Well, here's what incoming Senate Majority leader John Thun had
to say about that. If Schumer thought Senate Republicans would
just roll over and allow him to quickly confirm multiple
Biden appointed judges to lifetime jobs in the final weeks
of the Democrat majority, he thought wrong.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, he thought wrong.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Now all that is happening, I'm gonna get back to
the judges in a moment.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
But then there's another story.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
And it's not just judges that the deep state is
trying to pull off and the liberals are trying to
pull off, you know, switches on the American people. Dick
Durbin and Roger Marshall are now having a scheme to
slip credit card bill into the defense spending bill. I
think most of us can agree that credit card legislation
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should not be in the defense spending bill. Why are
they doing it Because it's the only way they can
get it through while they still have the majority in
the Senate and get Joe Biden to sign it before
Donald Trump becomes president. Senator Roger Marshall, who is a
Republican from Kansas, and Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois,
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got together and decided, Yeah, let's just screw the American people.
Let's slip our credit card legislation into this defense bill
during the lame duck session. Durbin, the Senate majority whip
set on Monday that he wants to offer his credit
card bill, the Credit Card Competition Act, as an amendment
to the National Defense Authorization Act, a must pass defense bill.
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This would not be the first time that Durbin has
attempted this maneuver. Last year, he attempted to slip his
handout to big retailers. This is what happens when you
have corruption in Congress, where you're not working for the
people but working for the lobbyists. They give you a
bunch of money and then you hook them up. He
wanted to put this hand out to big retailers in
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the NDAA. It, like many of his, many of his
and marshalls well tries, has failed.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Maybe not this time.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Durbin and Marshall continue to push the credit card bill,
which they hope will inject more competition, they claim, into
the payment processing by requiring banks to work with at
least one alternative payment network besides Visa and MasterCard, the
dominant players in the industry. Critics of the bill contend
that it would, in addition to severely compromising the security
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to the story. The Illinois Democrat shared a Senate Judiciary
Committee here on the legislation on Tuesday, which featured executives
from Visa MasterCard, among others. The lame duck session push
also comes as Durbin is considering retiring.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
The Democrats are set to be in the minority next year,
so why is he doing this now? This is how
you get your paydays, folks. Durbin's mood moved to include
the credit card bill in the NDAA follows as incoming
Senate Majority leader John Thune called for the Swiss passage
of the Defense Bill. Durbin's moved to put a non
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germane credit card bill into the Defense Authorization Act is
called well, a lot of fuss among many in the
Senate here are like, what are we doing?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Well, now you know exactly what they're trying to do.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
They lost and now they're doing every port barrel thing
they can do to cover themselves. This is not what
the American people are asking for yet, this is what
they are doing now.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
One of the other things that is interesting right now
is that.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Democrats are trying to figure out how do we deal
with some of the nominees, some of the nominees that
Donald Trump is put forward.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
How are we going to fight them?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
What are we.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Gonna do well?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Democrats are trying to figure out which ones to let
go through and which ones do we fight till the death?
Which ones do we say, Okay, you can have them.
Joe Scarborough, who's under a lot of heat for going
to meet with Donald Trump at Marlago with Mika after
they called him Hitler and then they're like, Okay, never mind,
he's not really Hitler anymore. That didn't make his audience
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happy at all. They're like, wait, you've been telling us
for years he's Hitler. Now you're meeting with Hitler and
trying to find common ground with Hitler. It didn't work well.
He said this on Morning Joe about the nominees, and well,
some of them.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
We even need to learn how to pronounce their names.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
The people that actually he has spoken to, he's the people.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
There's no way for it.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
Like in the world, none of these.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Four would get through, none of them.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
None of them.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
We're getting close to getting through.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
And I'm talking about.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
RFK Toldsey Gabbart, do od I really need to learn
to pronounce hexit hexith and then Matt Gates and any
other world they would never get through. I will say,
we're talking a lot about Matt Gates because that's what
the Republican senators are talking about mainly.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
But man, I would find it.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
All of it's deeply deserving, these picks.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
But I cannot imagine four Republican senators turning over D
and I to somebody.
Speaker 8 (08:41):
Who has apologized for a sod as regularly as she has,
and who's just continually parented Krimlin talking points.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
I just again, I just don't see four Republican senators
doing that any more than I see them getting Matt Gates.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Now, the hit there is on Tolsi Gabbert, who by
the way, is a former Democrat.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Now they're saying she's the worst person in the world.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
They're now saying that she is gives the talking points
of a side and in Siria she's they're saying she's
a plant or a stooge, as it was the accusation
last week that she's been compromised by the Russians.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
So they're really going after Tulsi.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I actually think this is more about her leaving the
Democratic Party and so they're like, you left our plantation.
Watch what happens when you try to become a Republican
on the other side and think that you can be successful.
You will not be successful. We're going to destroy you.
We're going to make sure that you never see the
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light of day, and we're going to do everything we
can to stop you. Now there's also this and and
I kind of laugh because if you see it, everything
I just describe for you right now is panic. It's
all panic there, all panicking and going all right, well,
who do we stop, how do we stop? Which one
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do we stop? What do we say about them? Who
do we attack? And and and they're coming out. It's
the same playbook they used against Trump. Right, So Tolsy gabber, Oh,
she's a Russian asset. No she's not, but and she
serves her country and they don't like that. And she
used to be a Democrat. They don't like that. RFK Junior,
Oh he's he's you you know what crazy? Well, he
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was a Democrat, right, they're angry he left and he
didn't get in line or stay in line with him.
He figured out, Wow, you guys are actually crazy. You
don't listen to other ideas, and you put us to
the back of the room and tell us to shut up.
Barack Obama considered him for EPA when he was becoming
putting his cabinet together and became president and said.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
He was a brilliant mind.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
The Democratic Party loved RFK Junior, They absolutely loved him.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
They thought he was amazing. But he left the plantation.
Now what do they do.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
They hate him, They want to destroy him, and they
cannot believe that they're even having to deal with him.
This is chaos and they know it. But Democrats love
these moments. You look at the fights that they're having
right now. They're actually fighting over transgendered staff for women's
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bathrooms in the Capitol. They didn't learn anything from the election,
all right, Like they learned nothing at all. Mike Johnson
to block transgender staff from women's bathroom in the Capitol,
backing Nancy Mace, a congresswoman who pushed this forward, as
it should have been pushed forward.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
The speaker asked about.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
This, and again, Democrats are trying to figure out some
way to, you know, nail Republicans after a major election victory.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
This is their strategy. Apparently, Freshman elect Sarah mcfride.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Odn or a woman.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
Look, I'm not going to get into this. We welcome
all new members with open arms who or duly elected
representatives of the people. I believe it's a it's a
command that we treat all persons with dignity and respect,
and we will and I'm not going to engage in
silly debates about this. There's a concern about the uses
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of restroom facilities and locker rooms and all that. This
is an issue that Congress has never had to address before,
and we're going to do that in deliberate fashion with
a member consensus on it, and we will accommodate the
needs of every single person. That's all I'm going to
say about that.
Speaker 10 (12:29):
Do you plan on bringing Nancy Basis Transgender Bill and
putting that into the rules package?
Speaker 5 (12:35):
We're not.
Speaker 9 (12:35):
I'm not going to address the plans on any of that.
I just told you what I'm going to say about
the issue. I'm not going to engage in this. We
don't look down upon anyone. We treat everybody with dignity respect.
That's a principle that I pursued my whole life, and
we will take care of this. You know, issue of
first impression for Congress, as we will any other thing. Well,
we'll provide appropriate accommodation for every member of Congress.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
This is their objective, try to control and derail the
causes of the conservative movement who were elected to go
in to fight for the American people by trying to
just turn these absurd moments into like normal talk, like
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is it a man or a woman? Like, look, we
whoever the people elect, We're gonna let them serve and
do it with dignity. What a great idea. But how
is that controversy? They don't like the answer. They don't
like that he didn't take the bait. They don't like
that he didn't get into a shouting match of course,
like we believe that this chick is really a dude
and that's his DNA and that's how he was born,
and we're not gonna get it. But you notice, I
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think Speaker Johnson handled that perfectly. What are Republicans focus on?
Special Forces? Vet Evan Hayfer was on Joe Rogan's show
and they were talking about Donald Trump declaring war on
the cartels, because this is what this election was actually about.
Wasn't about bathrooms in Congress they're trying to do. It
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wasn't about them attacking and saying everybody they don't like,
who's going to be in the cabinet as a Russian asset.
It's about what the American people wanted, which was safety
at the border. They don't want the number of people
coming across the border, or legal immigrants that are killing
Americans each and every day, the horrific murdering of women
and raping of women at the hands of illegal immigrants
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who are taking these flights from New York to Georgia,
for example, when they were able to murder a college
student in Athens. The American people care about the drugs
coming across the border.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
That's what this election was about.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Take a listen to what the Special Forces veteran Evan
Hafer said on Joe Rogan's show about what's about to
happen because Donald Trump is elected and will be sworn in.
Speaker 10 (14:49):
I was thinking about this from a thought exercise where
I'm I because I you know, I know these units.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I'm intimately familiar with them.
Speaker 11 (14:56):
Uh huh, bro.
Speaker 10 (15:00):
If we declare war on the cartel like these these
dudes are not gonna understand what the is going on.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
No, of course they are. They are going to be
because God.
Speaker 11 (15:12):
You'll stop the district guys, that's gonna be.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (15:15):
They are in for a world of like ultra violence
they've never actually felt before, because you know, obviously this
is a very capable, it's a violent organization. They have
no clue if we organize these Tier one units against them.
This is going to be what I would be doing
if I was down there, like I know all those
shoe boxes in my you know, my walls that I'm
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gonna have to collect up, I'd be getting ready to
retire right now. That's what I would be doing, because
if Delta Force is hunting me bro, I would be
so terrified.
Speaker 11 (15:45):
Is that a real thing that they they've proposed doing, Yes.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
That is a real thing, you propose that.
Speaker 10 (15:52):
I'm almost positive either JD or Trump had said something
with the new guy from Ice like we're gonna mobilize
Tier one units against the cartel. The only thing I
thought was like retire if you guys, you guys got
some money, man, I would like put that away, you know,
like maybe move Jamaica, go somewhere, yeah, buy a restaurant,
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like try to go legit, because dude, if those guys
are hunting you, by the way, like you're done, and.
Speaker 11 (16:22):
It's a weird thing that that's going on right on
our border. It's a graird thing because it's so close
to us, and it's so ultra violent and dangerous, and
it's just completely shaped the way the entire economy of
the country works.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
You know.
Speaker 11 (16:36):
There they have so much power and control, and it's
a criminal organization that is entirely almost entirely at least
funded by us, by our desired Trump declares war on cartels.
President lex said notorious crime syndicates and drug kingpins will
never sleep soundly again once he launches his plants and
tackle the issue.
Speaker 10 (16:55):
I thought about this for a long time where I'm like,
if they earn loose Delta Force and Seal Team six
on cartels and pedophiles, we could just kind of like
erase the problem. In about it two years to be gone.
Speaker 11 (17:11):
He wants to send troops to Mexico. He said, we
make appropriates of Special Forces cyber war for another overt
and covert actions to inflict macnimum damage on cartel leadership,
infrastructure and operations. Oh jesus, here it is going to
get wild.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Old twentieth.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
You listen to what he said there. He said, these
dudes are not going to understand what's going on. He said,
I thought about this long and hard. They have they are,
They're not going to there.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
They're going to go to war.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
By the way, I want them to go to war
with the cartels. They are a terrorist organization. I'm going
to read the transcript because I want to read it
for you because it's just so wild.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I thought about this long, for a long, hard time,
where I'm like, if they if they turn loose Delta
Force and steal Team six on cartels and pedophiles, we
could just kind of like erase the problem. In about
two years, it'd be gone. Joe Rogan he wants to
send troops to Mexico, Hey forre Yeah yeah, Rogan. He
said he'd make appropriate. He'd make it. He'd make it appropriate.
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Oh yeah, Hayfers says Rogan. Use a Special Forces, cyber
warfare and other overt and covert actions to inflict maximum
damage on cartel leadership, infrastructure and operations. Oh blank, Rogan says.
Hayfer says, bro It's going to get wild. It's going
to get wild. Rogan says hey for on January the twentieth,
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This is why you designate them a terrorist organization. These cartels,
they've got enough firepower to stand up, no doubt about it,
to corrupt governments in Mexico. Like, there's no doubt that
they have the firepower to stand up and to make
people's lives a living hell.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
And they have been able to terrorize people down there
for decades. Mexico and their government, including their president and
virtually every elected official down there that's in a major
position of power. They're corrupt as hell, and they're owned
and financed by the cartels. You think that Mexico's ever
gonna stop this.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
They're not. They're never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever ever
ever ever gonna stop this. They're just not gonna do it.
They're not. They will not stop it.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
So what Donald Trump has said is something I think
is very clear. We're gonna go to war with them.
You guys can't do your own job. We're gonna take
them out. They're killing American citizens, they're smuggling people in
and out of this country. They're allowing for terrorists to
come in. The list goes on and on and on.
You guys want to screw with us, Okay, let's go
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to war. I'm going to declare you a terrorist organization,
which they are. I cannot imagine what still Team six
and these other Special operators will be able to do
if Donald Trump allows them to do their job. And
what we're hearing right now is that there is a
very good chance that Donald Trump is going to allow.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Them to do their job.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
So there are two very different parties right now, Okay,
very very very different parties. One of these parties is
over there fighting over you know, trying to push you know,
judicial nominees through in lame duck sessions of Congress. They're
trying to fight over women's bathrooms, for goodness sakes. And
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then the other side of it is something completely different
than that, where Republicans are actually fighting over issues the
American people said they wanted them to fight over. You notice,
like the Credit Card Authorization Act. I mentioned earlier that
they're trying to put a defense bill. They don't even
care about defending this country. They care about how they're
going to make their money, and the corrupt the Democratic Party,
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how they're going to make their money over putting together
a credit card bill.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
That they want.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
It's going to get one of their friends rich. If
Tick Durbin leaves the Senate. By the way, you don't
think he's going to go and lobby in this sector.
Like it's so transparent, it's so obvious.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
It's just laughable.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
It really, I mean it is, It is absolutely laughable.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Coming up next, Senator Ted Cruz is going to join us.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
We're going to talk about all of this going on,
as well as his trip with Elon Musk and the
trip to go watch SpaceX and what Donald Trump had
to say on the plane on that ride from Florida
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because Center Ted Cruz was asked to fly to Texas
with Donald Trump and it was a long fight there
and back and they got spent about ten hours with
Elon Musk and the launch at SpaceX. It was incredible
and I want you to hear how that day went down.
We did this in our podcast Vertict with Ted Cruz,
and I wanted to play part of this for you.
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Take a listen, all right, Center, We're gonna do rapid
fire here because there's a million people that are thinking
what I'm thinking, and that is how does it work?
You go down to Florida, you meet at the tarmac,
and then you get on Trump Force one.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
What is the process of that?
Speaker 12 (23:54):
Even like, hey, well we landed in Texas. So we
landed in Brownsville. Brownsville, as you know, is the southern
tip of Texas, and it's where SpaceX at Boca Chica
has built their launch site and has built a factory.
And the factory is where they build starships, which are
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massive that they are the largest rockets in the world.
They're absolutely massive. They build them there and it's where
the launch was and the size of it just the
rocket booster has thirty three Raptor engines in it.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Wow.
Speaker 12 (24:30):
And each of those Raptor engines produces twice as much
thrust as all four engines on a seven forty seven. So,
I mean, it is incredible the power that comes out
of the engines. And by the way, SpaceX makes those engines,
they make the boosters, they.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
Make the starship.
Speaker 12 (24:49):
And so we were gathered at the observation deck to
watch the launch, and the observation deck is a couple
of miles away from the launch because you can't be
too close the noise is too great. And and so
we you know, saw the launch control room and and
then stood there with it with Elon, and he was
telling us about all the challenges and listen, they're still
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in the in the testing mode. I mean, this is
this is a starship that that that Elon hopes and
intends to take to Mars. And so they are testing
that that they're improving, for example, the the the ceramic
heat shield tiles that are on the starship. They're improving
their thrusters that and they're experimenting and learning what works,
and and so we you know, look, Elon was was
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very honest. He said, look at a test like this,
we don't know what happens. And sometimes when you're testing rockets,
you know, rockets can blow up.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
It's why you test them to make.
Speaker 12 (25:42):
Sure that that that that if they do have a problem,
that they have a problem before you have a man's
crew on it. And there was no man crew on
this launch. But you're testing different different technology to see
how it operates. And so we stood there and watched
the launch and people all around the world watch the launch.
The launch was successful. It was amazing to watch. We
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saw it. What was really striking is you see it
and then then it takes several seconds for the sound
to travel that distance, so it's already and I mean
you're literally even at a several miles away, like like
the ground is shaking from the force of the rocket launch.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
And and and Elon is someone whom I know.
Speaker 12 (26:23):
Well, I've spent a lot of time with Elon, but
every time I'm with him, the guy is just so
friggin smart. I mean, it's look, Ben, I've been blessed
to get to know a lot of really scary smart people,
and I got to say, Elon is just in a
class all by himself. I mean, it's the guy just
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thinks it's not even outside the box. He doesn't know
there's a box. He just you look at something like
rocket ships. Everyone fired rockets in the air and then
the boosters fell and you just discarded them and you
did it again. And so every rocket was a single
use rocket and and Elon revolutionized So well, wait a second,
why do we have to have single use rockets?
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Why not fire rocket in the air.
Speaker 12 (27:05):
And then have it come down and why not catch
it out of the air with giant robot arms which
he calls chopsticks. And everyone's, Okay, that's absurd, that's insane.
Nobody can do that. That doesn't make any sense. And
of course that's exactly what Elon built, and it's it
has so changed it was kind of funny. Elon referred
several times, uh to the to this as alien technology.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
And and and you know it, I.
Speaker 12 (27:27):
Don't think that's too much of an exaggeration watching it,
so we all watched an amazement, uh as.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
As as we were watching or I was watching on TV,
and many others were. I do have to say one
of the most fun parts for me of watching you know,
Trump and you and everybody there is just the boy
boyhood excitement is and I say that in the in
the in the the most sincere and authentic way ever
on the faces of everyone that was able to watch us.
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I don't care who you are, just getting to watch it,
and to see Elon's face in your face, in present
Trunk's face, and others that were around you, guys. I
saw Haggarty there for example. It was just the moment
of like, this is unbelievable.
Speaker 12 (28:13):
Well, and it was traveling, so the starship itself traveled
halfway around the world.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
The booster separated.
Speaker 12 (28:21):
We saw the booster separate, and initially the plan was
that it was going to go down and be caught
by the robot arms where it had been launched, and
in fact it separates. So the booster was attached to
the starship for a minute and a half and then
it separated, and we initially got the call catches a go,
which we were excited about because they only try to
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catch it if all the conditions are right, and so
they were going to catch the booster, and then they
ended up altering the plan and not doing the catch,
but having it instead landed the Gulf of Mexico, and
so the conditions were slightly off and so they had
it land.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
In the gulf.
Speaker 12 (28:57):
But Elon was really happy because it landed in the gulf.
But it but it did not explode. And last time
when it landed the golf, it did explode. And so look,
they're testing different things to see what happens.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Uh. And it was interesting.
Speaker 12 (29:09):
It floats in the water and I was asking him
on why does it float? He says, well, look, once
once the liquid methane and liquid oxygen is out.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
He said. It has the density essentially of an empty
beer can.
Speaker 12 (29:20):
And and so just like you throw an empty beer
can on the water and it floats, that's that's the
same thing as the booster. And and so they're going
and salvaging the booster and discovering, Okay, what happened, what's
going on there? So that landed pretty quickly. The starship
traveled for about an hour and it landed.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I think about go inside after how long were you outside?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
And then where did you get to watch the second part?
Speaker 5 (29:47):
So we were outside.
Speaker 12 (29:50):
We arrived probably an hour before the launch, and so
we were talking with Elon and we were in the
control room and just having conversations, and we watched lunch,
and we watched the booster separate, and then we watched
the booster come down. Although we couldn't see the booster
landed far enough out in the gulf that we couldn't
see with our naked eye the booster landing in the water,
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but we had the video on.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
A big screen, so we were watching it there.
Speaker 12 (30:15):
And then what we did, because you had about an
hour while the starship was traveling in space, and it
was going about twenty six thousand kilometers an hour. It
was about one hundred and sixty kilometers above planet Earth.
One of the things Elon said is that the Starship
was traveling about ten times the speed of a bullet
out of an assault rifle, which there's an analogy you
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can understand, Ben and as final out, Junior was laughing, going,
all right, that makes sense to me too, But that's fast.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
So you got to watch all of this take place.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
How important is this just this technology and the fact
that it's being done in Texas, because that is the
reason why you were on that plane. That's why they
asked you to go down there, because this is in Texas.
I don't think people realize what this is doing for
the Texas economy as well.
Speaker 12 (31:06):
So it is incredible. And while the Starship was flying
halfway around the world, we left the launch observation site.
We went to the factory, which is right at the
launch site now the factory. So five years ago this
was essentially an empty beach, like just sand and nothing
was on it. And in five years Elon has built
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this incredible and I've been to it before, I've toured
it before, but it is it takes your breath away.
They are manufacturing about one rocket ship a month, and
then these things are massive. So you go into the
factory and there, I think it was twenty two stories high.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
As how tall the booster is. I mean, it just
goes up and up and up and up, and it's huge.
Speaker 12 (31:53):
And you know, we went in and saw and they
are manufacturing them to a level of precision down to
the tenth of a millimeter. I mean, you think about this,
It's not like it's not like SpaceX is making just widgets.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
I mean, if a screw is wrong, the damn think
can blow up.
Speaker 12 (32:10):
Look like, there's so many ways for something to go wrong,
and they have a level of precision that is just astonishing.
And so we went in and saw and toured, and
one of the things Elon said is is, look, they're
doing launch after launch after launch and everyone they're improving
the technology and they're trying different things.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
So one of the things they did on.
Speaker 12 (32:32):
This one is they're testing different angles of re entry
to see, Okay, if you angle the starship at a
slightly different angle, is there more heat, is there less heat?
What happens? You know, what's the optimum angle? So they're
trying all sorts of different things. So we toured those facilities.
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By the way, they like basically built a whole town.
They built housing for the employees. One of the things
Elon said that that, you know, is a challenge when
you're recruiting the best engineers and rocket scientists and they're
literally rocket scientists, is he said, you've got to find
a place that that there significant others want to live.
And so they basically built the whole community with like
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houses all around there. And like, I didn't go this time,
but I've been previously. They have like a little tiki
bar that's sort of a club that that that the
employees can go and hang out. And then, you know,
he said, look, you gotta you have to create an
environment that that that that that both your your incredibly
skilled employees and and their significant others want to be in.
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And and one thing you know, but not every every
Verdict listener may know, Look, Brownsville has historically been faced
very significant economic challenges and and so to have this
incredible high tech billions and billions of dollars invested in
Brownsville and in in deep South Texas in the Rial
(33:57):
Rand Valley was really significant. By the way, when we
took the motorcade from where Trump Force one landed to
the launch site, the entire road side of driving along
there were thousands of people waving signs, waving American flags, cheering.
And one of the most significant aspects of this election
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in Texas is that both Donald Trump and I, both
of us won Hispanics in the state of Texas. I
won Hispanics by six point statewide. That's unprecedented. And the
Rio Grande Valley, South Texas has been bright blue for
one hundred years. It has been just an absolute bastion
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of the Democrat Party. And this election, South Texas flipped red.
I mean, the Star County had a fifty point move.
It's the most Hispanic county in America and it had
a massive move.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
Trump won it.
Speaker 12 (34:57):
The move in South Texas, I think is generational and transformational.
And you could just see it as people were cheering
and thrilled the President was there that that was a
very cool aspect of it as well.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
All right, final question on this trip.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
So you get done with all this excitement and then
this is still kind of awesome. You get back on
Trump Force one and you fly back to Florida.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
What was the conversation like on the way home.
Speaker 5 (35:25):
Again, It was relaxed. We're having fun, We're talking.
Speaker 12 (35:29):
You know, we had had Fox on and so we're
watching Jesse Waters, lor Ingram and Hannity. We're talking about
all that and just sort of riffing back and forth.
Speaker 8 (35:38):
You know.
Speaker 12 (35:38):
As we were landing, Trump began playing music. And so
when he stand at mar A Lago, Trump likes to
basically be the DJ, and he has an iPad there
that he controls the music at mar Lago and they'll
sit there at the table and just play the songs
he wants to listen to. And so as we were
landing in Palm Beach, he put on guns N' Roses
(35:59):
and video that he loves from guns N' Roses, and
then he put on another music video from Pavroti, which
you want to talk about some breadth in music taste.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
That's what we.
Speaker 12 (36:10):
Were listening to as we went wheels down back in Florida.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Now, did you eat any McDonald's, Because there's a lot
of pictures that get taken on Trump for one eating McDonald's.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
We did not.
Speaker 12 (36:21):
Our dinner instead was Waburger because we were in Texas, damit.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
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