So Help Me God
The Ben Ferguson Podcast
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🗓️ 28 October 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Judge Amy Coney Barrett is now Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and Senator Ted Cruz was on the front lines of all of it. Following Justice Barrett's swearing in, the Senator joins Michael Knowles to break down how it all unfolded and what the Democratic Party will do in response. Also, what’s next in Senator Cruz’s campaign to hold Big Tech accountable?
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| 0:00.0 | Judge Amy Coney-Barritt has become justice, Amy Coney-Barrant after a confirmation vote in the Senate, |
| 0:08.1 | and a wonderful ceremony, it seemed like just minutes later, over at the White House. |
| 0:13.3 | How is this going to affect the bench for the next 10, 20, 30? |
| 0:18.3 | Who knows how many years we will find out? |
| 0:20.5 | And almost of equal importance, how will this |
| 0:24.2 | affect the vote in less than two weeks? This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. |
| 0:34.5 | Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Knowles. I wish that I were in Washington right now, |
| 0:40.9 | because it sounds like it has been a whirlwind past two days. Senator, I know that you voted on Justice Barrett earlier yesterday. |
| 0:50.3 | Then it seemed to went straight to the White House for her confirmation ceremony with Justice Thomas and the president within what, half an hour or an hour after that. |
| 1:00.4 | Could you just take us through? We know that she's on the bench now. Could you take us through how it all unfolded? |
| 1:05.4 | So, sure. So yesterday was a big deal. It was historic. The confirmation vote itself was about 8 o'clock at night, |
| 1:14.8 | Monday night. It was teed up, so we voted at 1 p.m. on Sunday on what's called cloture, |
| 1:22.4 | which is the vote to end debate on a nomination. And so we invoked cloture Sunday at 1 p.m. And then there's a 30-hour |
| 1:31.2 | rule that the nomination is 30 hours after that vote. So we voted 1 p.m. on Sunday, so then |
| 1:37.4 | Monday night was supposed to be about 7 p.m. ended up being about 8 p.m. So we all gather |
| 1:43.0 | on the Senate floor. The Republicans are all |
| 1:49.7 | there, and the only Democrat on the floor is Chuck Schumer. And Schumer is, when I come and sit and sit in my desk, |
| 1:58.4 | Schumer is pontificating about how he intends to burn the country down, |
| 2:03.1 | and you will rue the day. I don't know if he actually said you will rue the day, |
| 2:07.2 | but that was kind of his whole theme, is you will rue the day. And we're going to be even |
| 2:12.9 | worse. But it was an odd thing because all the Democrats were missing. So it's the Republicans listening to Schumer lecture us. |
| 2:20.8 | So we sat there for, I don't know, 10, 15 minutes listening to him go on and on. |
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