Behind the Gates with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows
Verdict with Ted Cruz
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4.6 • 43.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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EXCLUSIVE: Senator Ted Cruz and Michael Knowles sit down with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows for his first public interview since his appointment to the position. In this extended conversation, Mr. Meadows pulls back the curtain and gives listeners a glimpse into the inner workings of the West Wing in the age of Trump. He breaks down what the administration is doing to combat leakers, enforce the rule of law, defeat social media censorship, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | The White House Chief of Staff has traditionally been known as the Gatekeeper. |
| 0:05.0 | Well, we have gone behind the gates with Mark Meadows live from the White House. |
| 0:10.7 | This is verdict with Ted Cruz. |
| 0:17.9 | Welcome back to verdict with Ted Cruz. |
| 0:19.4 | I'm Michael Knowles, little change of scenery today joined as always by the Senator and Mark |
| 0:24.6 | Meadows. |
| 0:25.6 | Right to be with you. |
| 0:26.6 | Mr. Meadows, I'm noticing now it is seven o'clock here. |
| 0:29.3 | This is probably the earliest you have gotten off work since you've taken on this job. |
| 0:33.9 | As soon as we get off work, I'll let you know whether that's the case or not. |
| 0:38.1 | It's fair enough. |
| 0:39.1 | Obviously it's a 24 seven kind of kind of job, but our nation is in a critical time where |
| 0:47.0 | we've got to actually make sure that people like Ted and I work together on behalf of all |
| 0:52.6 | the freedom loving, forgotten men and women in this country. |
| 0:57.8 | And really the impact is well beyond this is Ted and I have articulated a number of times. |
| 1:04.5 | Well, because I know Senator, you and Mr. Meadows go back a lot farther than just you taking |
| 1:09.7 | this job as the White House Chief of Staff. |
| 1:11.8 | Yeah, he actually would talk to me before I actually was the Chief of Staff, you know, |
| 1:16.3 | so I could count them on one hand. |
| 1:19.6 | But, well, Mark and I go back a long time. |
| 1:21.9 | We were actually both elected to Congress in the same day. |
| 1:24.5 | November 2012. |
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