The Prosecution Rests
Verdict with Ted Cruz
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🗓️ 12 February 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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After much sound and fury, the Democrats have rested their case in the second impeachment "trial" of Donald Trump. Michael Knowles quizzes Senator Ted Cruz on what the heck is going on. Plus, the podcasting pals zoom out to cover cancel culture more broadly. Is the same nasty double standard the Left is using to cancel Trump responsible for the ouster of Gina Carano?
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| 0:00.0 | The Democrat House impeachment managers have concluded their case against former president Trump. |
| 0:06.8 | The second impeachment trial in one year of Donald Trump seems to be heading for a conclusion, |
| 0:13.3 | and we are going to speak with a man who is watching it all, is going to be a juror on the case |
| 0:19.2 | and has spent most of today speaking with the Trump legal team. This is verdict with Ted Cruz. |
| 0:30.3 | Welcome back to verdict with Ted Cruz. I am Michael Knowles. It's funny that we're in the midst of |
| 0:36.4 | this impeachment trial of the former president and the bigger news of the day would seem to be Disney |
| 0:41.7 | firing one of their big TV stars, Gina Carano, other news, cancel culture, not just affecting |
| 0:47.2 | the former president, but affecting conservative journalists as well. We will get to all of that, |
| 0:52.3 | but I do have to ask you, Senator, what is going on today? I know that the Democrats concluded |
| 0:59.2 | their case, but unlike last year, it seems like there's just not a lot being reported. It seems |
| 1:05.8 | like kind of an opaque process. We don't even know how long this thing is going to go. So could |
| 1:10.0 | you just briefly tell us about how that case concluded and then what the Trump legal team is thinking? |
| 1:15.6 | Well, sure. I think the kind of quick bottom line is that the Democrats failed to get the |
| 1:20.6 | job done and they've run out of steam. So they were given 16 hours. They were given eight hours |
| 1:25.6 | both days. They ended up finishing four or five hours early today. So they quit early. |
| 1:32.0 | And I think it was because they had been number one unbelievably repetitive, making the same |
| 1:37.5 | points over and over again. In fact, I had fun today. Claire McCaskell, remember the former Democratic |
| 1:42.0 | Senator from Missouri tweeted out that that she thought the House managers case was getting really |
| 1:48.5 | repetitive and redundant and kept repeating itself. She didn't quite do that, but I thought you |
| 1:54.3 | would appreciate that. And I saw that and just hit retweet like with no commentary whatsoever. |
| 2:02.0 | I'm just I'm sure Claire loved that I was retweeting her, but she was right on that. You know, |
| 2:06.4 | I mean, even a stop. She's right. She's right. So they ran out of steam and the bottom line is |
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