Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, also weighs in on the Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court confirmation hearings on 'Fox & Friends.'
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Steve, thank you very much.
Meanwhile, while were in
Washington, lets bring in Texas
Republican, Senator TED Cruz
hes been on tv. The Haas couple
days and hes got a great new
book out.
It is called one vote away how
a sting single Supreme Court can
change history
very apropos
good morning, Senator
good morning good to be with
you
Steve, so the Biden Camp says a
meeting with that guy, not on his
official calendar, but then
again, why would you ever put it
on the official calendar
really disputing the basic
facts?
They wont say whether or not
Joe ever met this guy and
yesterday would have been a
great time to have asked the
former vice president some of
these questions,
but the campaign called a lid at
941, so nobody could talk to
him
yeah.
Well, look if this wasnt true
itd be very easy to get rid of
it.
They could just do a press
conference with Joe and Hunter
Biden. Both there
hunters around,
he can answer questions.
Is this his computer? Are these
his e mails? Is this real
its amazing, though how much
the press wants nothing to do
with this?
They dont want to know if the
vice president of the United
States was selling favors from
the White House,
I mean thats. What the
allegation is is that for
money for millions of dollars
to his family, that he was
selling official policy
official aid of the United
States of America to foreign
countries,
if thats, true, that is serious,
serious wrongdoing
and its stunning, that much of
the media wants to ignore it
and, as you know, not only that
or Facebook and Twitter decided
to do more than ignore it, to
censor it and silence it to
prevent people from even finding
out the facts of the press
story:
Ainsley yeah. We want to ask
you about that, because look at
the front cover of the post
today,
Kayleigh Mcenany, put on her
personal e mail or twitter
account. She posted this story,
yesterdays story about Ukraine,
and then they wrote. These were
their words twitters words
with
she violated the twitter
rules. Therefore they took
down or they blocked her from
being able to use her account
Jack Dorsey. Then later in the
door said, our communications was
not great. Locking the url
sharing with zero context as to
why were blocking is
unacceptable
finish. But what do you I mean?
Will the mainstream media report
the latest, which is theyre
reporting that he basically did
the same thing in China with his
business partners, theyre
reporting that Hunter Biden
introduced his dad, as vice
president, at the time to his
business partners in China. They
flew over to China together on
air force, two in December of
two thousand and thirteen according to these reports.
What do you think about the
censorship three weeks from the
election?
I think the mainstream
medias entirely in bed with Joe
Biden.
I think their only priority is
trying to elect Biden
and big tech. Look. Big tech has
been getting worse and worse and
worse, but they really crossed a
line heres that is very
dangerous.
For years, ive been focusing on
big tech. Censorship of
conservatives, of conservative
ideas of shadow banning
ive chaired multiple hearings
on it,
but the line they crossed here
is the New York Post has the
fourth highest circulation in
America.
They did two things on this
number one: they blocked all of
their users.
If you wanted to share this
story from the New York Post,
you clicked on the link and you
went up to a page that said
blocked. This information is
dangerous.
Well, maybe its dangerous for
bidens political fortunes, but
thats, not really twitter and
facebooks call to make
and then secondly, the New York
Post itself was sending out on
Facebook and Twitter their own
story and they blocked the
post.
They blocked the post from
sending it.
I dont know of any precedent of
a major news outlet being
blocked by twitter and Facebook
of them. Deciding the following
news: outlets are not allowed to
report major evidence of
corruption from one of the two
presidential candidates a couple
weeks before the election.
It is stunning
and for everyone in the media
who says well its unverified.
You know that didnt stop the
New York Times from going on
and on and on with what they say
are the prime ministers tax
return, the presidents tax
returns and it stop the Steele
document.
Now that is unverified
in this case I dont know if the
New York Post story is right or
not, but thats actually what
people should be debating and
Joe Biden ought to be answering
those question right now,
Brian, and they said there was
some personal information,
personal e mails and contacts
out there.
I think Americas gotten great
at redaction.
We react everything of
substance.
I think we could have adjusted
that
not everybody gets the New York
Post
and theres a lot of people out
there who arent watching us
and the networks dont cover it.
The other channels dont cover
it its not brought up by the
Biden campaign. So it is
working.
You guys do an investigation in
November or December fireworks
its a story. It is working
so thats why its a frustrating
situation.
If George Stephanopoulos is
worth anything as an anchor, he
will bring this up tonight with
a follow up correct.
He certainly should
I will say im not holding my
breath.
You know. Savannah Guthrie of
today show ought to be losing
their mind because if this is
through Joe Biden, looked her in
the eyes and flat out lied to
her.
If you watch the video she
ought to be really ticked off.
A journalist has a right to be
upset if a politician,
particularly a nominee to the
President of the United States,
just flat out, lies
if they arent pursuing it.
Shame on them
Steve. The last couple days,
weve watched you on tv during
the Senate, confirmation hearings
for Amy, Coney Barrett,
and so you know were going to
have a little flashback to
something that was said
yesterday,
its your colleague across the
aisle Chris Coons, the Democrat
from Delaware,
and essentially he was asking
her. Would she be an Antonin
Scalia clone when it came to
deciding issues and heres the
back and forth?
Watch this,
if Justice Scalia had had his
way wed, be a very different
country with regards to
genderrer discrimination
and one of justice, Ginsburgs
most celebrated decisions in
one thousand nine hundred and ninety six in the case involving
Virginia Military Institute
im just getting at how closely
you would ally yourself with
justice, Scalias Jurisprudence.
I do share the originalist,
but in the litany of cases
youve just identified, I hope
you arent, suggesting that I
dont have my own mind that I
couldnt think independently or
I would just decide. Well, let
me see what Justice Scalia has
said about this in the past.
I assure you I have my own
mind
is
Steve: what was Senator coons
trying to do and what did she
do?
Well? Look they fried to
throw tried to throw some
rocks at Judge Barrett.
The big news out of yesterday is
that the Democrats surrendered
that theyve, given up
by mud day. They were all gone
midday, they were all gone
and I think they recognize that
on the merits, her credentials
are impeccable,
shes going to be confirmed-
and you know its interesting-
that exchange where Chris Coons
he talks generally about equal
rights, but he doesnt get into
any specifics.
Yesterday, when I was questioning
Judge Barrett, I walked through
all of the cases at the court
that are hanging in the balance.
5 4.
As you know, these are all the
cases that I talk about in my
new book. One vote away going
through free speech, our rights
to create size, our politicians
and talk about public issues,
hanging in the balance, 5 4,
religious liberty, our rights to
worship, according to our faith,
according to our conscience,
5 4,
the second amendment the right
to keep and bear arms the
radicals the left wants to put
on the court. They have four
votes for essentially erasing
the second amendment from the
bill of rights
and ill. Tell you. It is very
revealing that not a single one
of the Democrats wants to debate
the for thes or substance of
that the merits.
They know that their radical
agenda for the court is really
unpopular,
and so so instead they want to
talk about different topics.
They dont want to talk about
packing. The court, which I also
believe is part of their agenda
if they win increasing the
number of justices from nine to
eleven or thirteen to try to
immediately politicize the
court
thats a wildly unpopular idea,
but I think its where Joe Biden
and Kamala Harris are right now
Ainsley. The polls show that
Biden is ahead.
If Biden and Harris one in nineteen
days, then what happens with
court packing after that
is that the next fight
yeah
Ainsley youre warning America
about that?
That is exactly right.
You know it was interesting.
This week we saw the Democrats
trying to redefine what court
packing means.
It was a very concerted effort.
Their talking points, theyve
got a lot of message: discipline,
theyre, trying to say well, you
know, Republicans have been
packing the court for four
years,
no thats, not actually what
court pack means
court packing does not mean
nominating a justice to fill a
vacancy
thats. What all presidents do
thats? What happens
court packing is very different.
It is expanding the number of
justices,
FDR trued it in nineteen, thirty, seven trued it
in nineteen, thirty, seven at the heart of his
power.
He wanted to increase from nine
justices to fifteen
his own party, the Democratic
Party said no and resisted him
because they said it would
destroy the independence of the
court. It would politicize the
court.
Fdr was wrong. Then the
Democrats were right. Then
you know Joe Biden in nineteen. Eighty three said
court. Packing was a boneheaded
idea
and now that boneheaded idea, I
think, is their agenda number
one. If they win on election day
brian- and they wont tell you
which shows they know its, not
popular but theyre going to do
it.
Senator Shouper says
everything. Senator Schumer
says everythings on the table
and number three Bernie Sanders
might have lost the nomination,
but hes going to be head of the
budget committee. If you guys
lose majority in the Senate,
hes going to have more power
in many cases than the
President of the United States,
people should understand.
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