Opinion of Trump, Lockdowns, & Exposing How Dems Abused FISA | Rand Paul Interview

The Rubin Report

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🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Rand Paul (U.S. Senator for Kentucky) about FISA courts, Trump and lockdowns. Rand Paul discusses the recent revelations regarding FISA abuse by the Democrats in the Obama administration to spy on Michael Flynn or as Donald Trump calls it "obamagate". He also discusses the documents released by Ric Grenell that implicate Joe Biden in the unmasking of General Michael Flynn. Rand also discusses his proposed amendment that would protect American citizens from FISA abuses. Rand gives his honest thoughts on Donald Trump’s strengths and weaknesses from a libertarian perspective. Rand also shares his thoughts on states rights during the coronavirus lockdown and how it has shown that while federalism works, governors and state leaders can abuse their power as well. He discusses how he thinks we can find a balance between liberty and public health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Dave Rubin and this is the Rubin Report.
0:06.0	Quick reminder everybody to subscribe to our channel and click that little bell so you
0:09.7	get delivered our videos.
0:11.7	And more importantly joining me today is the junior senator from Kentucky and the fiercest
0:16.4	defender of liberty that we have in the United States government.
0:20.8	Senator Rampall, I'm thrilled you're finally joining us.
0:23.8	I'm glad today, glad to be on your show.
0:26.6	All right.
0:27.6	So let's dive in.
0:28.8	I think we're just going to split this interview.
0:30.3	I know you've got about a half hour.
0:31.6	We're going to just split it into two parts.
0:33.6	Let's spend the first half talking about this FISA amendment that you just proposed.
0:39.9	Can you just talk a little bit about why you did it?
0:42.4	What's going on with surveillance?
0:43.6	I sense people are seriously confused about the whole flin case.
0:48.0	What the Obama administration may or may not have known.
0:51.0	So if you could just kind of do a 101 to clean up some of that, that would be great.
0:55.7	Well, the FISA court is the foreign intelligence surveillance court.
0:58.8	And it was set up in the 70s basically to investigate, spy on, survey all foreigners and possible
1:06.5	terrorists.
1:07.5	It was never intended really to be used against political candidate candidates or to investigate
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