'Null & Void' Experts Question the Autopen, Harrowing story of Survival in the Texas Flood plus When Woke Satire Stops Being Funny Week In Review
Verdict with Ted Cruz
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🗓️ 19 July 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
📰 1. Biden and the Autopen Controversy
- The discussion opens with a deep dive into a legal and political controversy involving President Joe Biden’s use of an autopen to sign off on mass pardons.
- The Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) had previously ruled that autopen use is valid only if the president personally makes the decision.
- The New York Times reported that Biden did not individually approve each pardon, raising questions about the validity of those pardons.
- The hosts argue that this could lead to legal challenges and potentially invalidate some pardons, especially if there’s no paper trail of Biden’s direct involvement.
🌊 2. Personal Story: Guadalupe River Flood Tragedy
- A first-person narrative recounts a devastating flood along the Guadalupe River in Texas.
- The story, written by Aaron Parsley, describes a family’s harrowing experience as their river house was swept away.
- The emotional account includes the death of a young child (Clay) and the survival of his sister (Rosemary) and other family members.
- It’s a powerful, emotional interlude that highlights the human cost of natural disasters and the resilience of survivors.
📺 3. Stephen Colbert and the Fall of Late Night Comedy
- The hosts discuss the cancellation of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”, framing it as a cultural shift.
- Colbert is criticized for being partisan, elitist, and out of touch with much of America.
- The commentary contrasts Colbert with other late-night hosts like Jimmy Fallon, who is portrayed more favorably.
- There’s also a mocking segment about Colbert’s pro-vaccine musical skits, which the hosts deride as sanctimonious and unfunny.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.2 | Welcome, it is Verdict with Ted Cruz Weekend Review. |
| 0:08.6 | Ben Ferguson with you, and these are the stories you may have missed that we talked about this week. |
| 0:13.3 | First up, Biden's Autopin dilemma and the New York Times now exposing exactly what may have been |
| 0:20.0 | done without the president's knowledge. |
| 0:22.6 | And there's an official investigation. We'll dive into that. |
| 0:26.3 | Also, firsthand account of the tragedy and an update of what's happening with the Texas floods. |
| 0:32.2 | And finally, Stephen Colbert, not only did he alienate half the country, but he destroyed a show that had been around for decades. |
| 0:41.5 | Stephen Colbert has been canceled. |
| 0:44.1 | It's the weekend review, and it starts right now. |
| 0:47.3 | Finally, Senator, I want to move to another issue, and it is really exploded over the last 24 hours, |
| 0:53.8 | and that is new information that we now have on Biden's use of the auto pen. |
| 1:00.9 | It is a scandal that I don't think people understand just how big it is. |
| 1:06.6 | And what has now been admitted to when it comes the auto pen usage and Joe Biden maybe not knowing |
| 1:13.0 | it was being used at all? Well, so the New York Times on July 13th wrote a major story that |
| 1:19.3 | Biden says he made the clemency decisions that were recorded with autopen. And you and I talked |
| 1:25.6 | about it in an earlier podcast that the Department of Justice |
| 1:28.3 | has an opinion that it issued a number of years ago, the Office of Legal Counsel, |
| 1:33.0 | about whether you can use an auto pen for presidential signatures, whether that's a presidential |
| 1:38.3 | signature on an executive order, a presidential signature on a law that is being signed in a law, or a presidential |
| 1:46.9 | signature on a pardon. And what the Department of Justice has concluded is that you can use an |
| 1:52.8 | auto pen for any of those. But the test is the authority is the presidents and the presidents alone. |
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