Nancy Pelosi, Chief Mask Officer
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Premiere Networks
4.6 • 43.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
We do not like green eggs and ham, and we certainly do not like absolute power. First, the CDC flip-flops on mask rules. Then, Pelosi says she’s going to throw maskless staffers in jail. Following a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week for liberty, science, and common sense, Senator Ted Cruz joins Michael Knowles to break down the CDC’s big credibility problem and take us inside the Senate to understand what the heck is going on in real time. Plus—shocker!—the multi-trillion dollar infrastructure bill isn’t actually about infrastructure. So what’s actually in it?
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever wondered what the media and Big Tech is hiding from you? |
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| 0:31.0 | Mr. President in 1887, Lord Acton wrote a series of letters to Bishop Creighton. |
| 0:39.0 | Letters that would echo down across the centuries. |
| 0:45.0 | Lord Acton wrote, |
| 0:47.0 | I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men |
| 0:55.0 | with a favorable presumption that they did no wrong. |
| 1:00.0 | If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power, |
| 1:07.0 | increasing as the power increases. |
| 1:11.0 | Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. |
| 1:19.0 | Power tends to corrupt, |
| 1:23.0 | and absolute power corrupts absolutely. |
| 1:28.0 | Great men are almost exclusively bad men, |
| 1:33.0 | even where they exercise influence and not authority. |
| 1:40.0 | Still more when you super add the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. |
| 1:49.0 | Mr. President, those words were true in 1887, and they're true today. |
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