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🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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0:00.0 | Chuck Schumer is doing everything in his power to abolish the filibuster, which presently |
0:05.3 | is preventing him from passing Joe Biden's most radical policy proposals, which includes |
0:10.7 | a federal takeover of the election process. But the filibuster is a long standing and |
0:15.9 | distinguishing feature of the United States Senate that's defenders consider to be essential |
0:21.9 | to the functioning and integrity of our Democratic Republic. So yesterday, Republican Senator Tom |
0:27.6 | Cotton took to the floor of the Senate to make the case for keeping the filibuster. |
0:58.6 | The bottom line is very simple. The ideologues in the Senate want to turn the founding fathers, |
1:06.3 | what the founding fathers called the cooling saucer of democracy into a rubber stamp of dictatorship. |
1:15.0 | They will make this country into a banana republic. It will be a doomsday for democracy if we do. |
1:22.2 | Those are powerful words, but they're not mine. Every word of my speech today was originally spoken |
1:33.2 | by our esteemed colleague, the senior senator from New York. Chuck Schumer. |
1:42.0 | Very awkward if you are the Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Yikes, really great |
1:49.5 | troll from Tom Cotton. This is what happens when you stick around national politics for decades. |
1:55.6 | As have Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden, Joe Biden who made similarly impassioned defenses of the |
2:01.6 | filibuster during the Bush years. Sometimes your old, impassioned, sanctimonious pleas contradict |
2:09.6 | your new, impassioned, sanctimonious pleas and you are revealed to be nothing more. Mr. Schumer, |
2:15.6 | than a power, hungry, carnival barker. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show. |
2:28.0 | Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Sir Soplow, who says that |
2:33.7 | FBI official Jill Sandborn, the one who was testifying and got grilled by Ted Cruz over January 6th, |
2:40.5 | Jill Sandborn probably told her parents, I cannot answer that when they asked if she ate the cookies |
2:47.4 | while holding the cookie jar. Jill, Jill, did you, did you have any cookies? No, I cannot answer that. |
2:55.6 | It would be a violation of norms if I answered that. It would be completely not, Jill, your hand is |
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