Cancun Senator,
Ted Cruz defended a parent who
carried out a Nazi salute during
a school board meeting.
Now, he did this
during a Senate Judiciary Committee
hearing where the DOJ was involved.
We've Merrick Garland there,
the attorney general.
And I just thought that this
was a fascinating exchange.
So let's watch.
>> I did a quick count just sitting
here, during this hearing I counted
20 incidents cited.
Of the 20,
15 on their face are non violent.
They involve things like insults,
they involve a Nazi salute.
That's one of the examples.
My God, a parent did a Nazi salute
at school a board because he
thought that the policies were
oppressive.
General Garland is doing a Nazi
salute, an elected official is that
protected by the First Amendment?
>> Yes it is.
>> Okay.
>> I would argue a lot better for
Ted Cruz to be that fired up when
the people of Texas were dying as
a result of their privatized
deregulated energy grid, but
he decided to take
a little trip to Cancun.
230 Texans died as
a result of that.
But apparently the only thing that
fires him up is defending
Nazi salutes during school board
meetings.
So, Cruz accused Merrick Garland of
directing the FBI to go investigate
parents as domestic terrorists.
The memo contains no mention
of domestic terrorists at all.
It asked law enforcement to
look into threats and intimidation
against school officials in
response to the National School
Boards Association's letter to
the President last month.
Asking for federal assistance to
address the growing number of
threats and violence.
And we've shown you examples
of those threats and that violence.
And we also covered how there's
right wing money funding those
efforts during those school board
meetings in an effort to get
school board members to resign, so
they can take control.
So, who knows how many
of those organizations and
right wing millionaires and
building billionaires are funding
Ted Cruz to just openly and
brazenly defend Nazi salutes?
But it is what it is.
That's who Ted Cruz is.
>> So look, you can get past that
sort of thing.
He's saying, hey,
they're protesting tyranny and
they're against the Nazis and they
think the school boards are Nazis.
Yes, our school boards across
America well known fascist.
So that's what the right
wing is telling their voters,
their audiences and
they're egging them on,
go fight the local school board.
My God,
they're going to make you wear
masks to protect a fellow kids.
They're trying to protect
the lives of kids.
They're Nazis,
and they really believe it.
They're 100% sold in on it, etc.
But put that aside for a second.
So Cruz and
Cotton made a giant display.
Tom Cotton was a Republican senator
from Arkansas, about, my God,
you're so mad, you're trying to get
the crackdown on innocent parents
who are just verbally
objecting based on policy and
you're going to put him in jail?
Okay, show us one instance where
the Justice Department did that.
>> Just one.
>> Just one, just one,
where the Justice Department under
Merrick Garland took a parent who
complained verbally about.
And just did nothing at all
physical, did no threats, but
vociferous complained, right?
>> Right.
>> Which they have every right to.
>> And he did the Nazi salute.
>> Okay, and the Nazi salute.
>> Yeah, >> So is that guy in jail?
>> No.
>> No he's not in jail or
any of those parents in jail,
no, they're not in jail.
>> Is he being investigated?
No. >> No, so, it's a fiction,
it's not arguable, it's not he said
she said, >> Manufactured.
>> It's totally manufactured,
it's for outraged, and so
that's the theatrics that they do.
And Ted Cruz went to Harvard and
Princeton or
whatever he went to, right?
He knows, he's just a bad actor,
he wanted to be in Hollywood.
And so, there's a lot of Republican
politicians who are genuinely Louie
Gohmert, among many others, okay?
Who were like, I don't know,
school boards are Nazis now, okay,
I got the Nazis.
The Nazis tried to protect
kids, right?
No, they didn't,
they did quite the opposite, right?
But Cruz knows.
So he does this fake actor and
he's like, well,
I will tell you something, shut up.
Okay, but
now the last part of this is this.
So the Justice Department's saying
if you physically threaten or
assault school board members,
we're going to hold you to account
because you're breaking the law.
So my question back to Ted Cruz and
Tom Cotton would be,
do you not want us to do that?
You think that if somebody attacks
a school board member,
we should just let them go.
>> I want to know what
Rand Paul thinks.
I know Rand Paul has some strong
feelings in regard to physical
assault.
>> That's right, no,
because they're saying,
we don't want the Just Department
looking into assaults at all of
school board members, >> Right.
>> Or physical threats, Rand Paul
got his ass handed to him by his
neighbor, which I don't think
neighbors should have done that.
I think it's terrible, okay?
So, but is the new law according to
Republicans, just everybody fights
and the government can't do
anything about it?
There's no arrest,
there's no rule of law.
But Democrats are weak.
So Mary Carlos sat there and
took all this abuse.
And then he's told by Biden and
the others never ever,
fight back against Republicans just
bow your head and
just sit there and get yelled at.
And so what's the image that
Americans are left with?
It seems like the Republicans
are justifiably outraged and
the Democrats never fight back.
So I guess the Democrats are wrong
and the Republicans are right.
>> You're so right about that.
But I also want to just go back to
how infuriated Republicans were,
conservatives were, when someone
who doesn't like Tucker Carlson so
much quietly approached him.
And I think some sort of fishing
store or something, and
told him that he doesn't like him.
>> Yeah, he said he was
full of crap, I think in Montana.
>> Yeah, he said that he was full
of crap, didn't threaten him.
>> Dan Bailey.
>> Yeah, Dan Bailey told him he's
a bad guy and the right wing was
like, this is unacceptable,
how dare he, right?
Or American citizens approaching
lawmakers who are engaging in bad
behavior and letting
them know how their feel about it.
My God, they're approaching them
while they're enjoying their
dinner, how dare they?
But school board members getting
threatened?
That's okay.
Because, school boards,
they're full of terrible people who
want to actually educate your
kids about things that make them
uncomfortable.
>> So, by the way,
do we have evidence on our site?
You can go back and
watch our videos.
There's at least half a dozen
cases where they very
specifically threatened violence
against these poor people.
And that is a violation of the law,
that is threatening violence is
also assault.
So if right wing says,
now we don't want laws,
we hate laws.
We just want to be able to threaten
and assault anyone we like.
Okay, that's a fascinating twist in
American history, but
that is where they're headed.
But look, so
I want to be constructive, okay?
And by the way, I will tell you
a funny quick story first.
We have this great shirt
called the anti anti-vaxxer club,
I shop tyt.com.
And that's my favorite shirt,
I wear it around.
Here in LA, it's easy people love
the shirt generally, but
I ran into a Republican,
he didn't like the shirt.
And he's given me a dirty
look about the anti
anti-vaxxer club, right?
And I'm like, dude,
you guys are in favor of, your
whole thing is freedom of speech.
I don't like your shirt,
[LAUGH] shut up about it.
I don't care.
It's called freedom of speech.
Look into it.
>> He really told you you didn't
like your shirt?
>> No, he gave me a stinker,
I'm exaggerating.
[LAUGH] but
he gave me a significant stinker.
Okay, so we'll keep it real here.
So, now what's constructive
critique, what should
Merrick Garland have done?
Senator Cruz, you keep asking me
about things that we're not doing.
So, I want to ask you what
we actually did do was
say that if anyone commits a crime
that they should be investigated.
So, I want to ask you, is it your
position that people who commit
crimes should not be investigated?
It's so easy.
>> It's so easy, and he won't do
it because he's a Democrat.
>> Democrats are a little worse.