WHEN THEY GET THERE.
THAT’S MY RIFF TONIGHT.
SO WITH GRIT PLEASURE JOINING ME
NOW BRING IN SENATOR TED CRUZ AS
ALWAYS.
SENATOR CRUZ, WONDERFUL TO SEE
YOU AGAIN.
SORRY I DIDN’T GIVE YOU A BETTER
STOCK MARKET TODAY BUT THAT
COULD TAKE A COUPLE YEARS
HEAVENS KNOWS.
>> YEAH.
LARRY: I WANT TO ASK YOU THIS
QUESTION.
YOU’RE GOOD ECONOMIC THINKER AS
WELL AS OTHER AREAS.
>> THANK YOU.
LARRY: WITH RESPECT TO THE
NOVEMBER ELECTIONS, SIR, IN YOUR
JUDGMENT, WHAT IS GOING TO BE
MORE IMPORTANT, INFLATION AND A
SLUMPING ECONOMY, OR
ROE V. WADE?
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
>> WELL, IF YOU LOOK AT POLLING
RIGHT NOW INFLATION IS
DOMINATING THE NUMBER ONE
CONCERN OF VOTERS.
RIGHT BEHIND THAT IS CRIME.
RIGHT BEHIND THAT IS ILLEGAL
IMMIGRATION.
THOSE RIGHT NOW ARE WHAT VOTERS
ARE TELLING US ARE THEIR TOP
THREE CONCERNS.
LOOK ROE V. WADE, THERE ARE A
LOT OF DEMOCRATS AND A LOT OF
FOLKS IN THE CORPORATE MEDIA ARE
HOPING IF THE SUPREME COURT
OVERTURNS ROE V. WADE THAT IT
WILL MAGICALLY PREVENT THE RED
TIDAL WAVE THAT IS HAPPENING IN
NOVEMBER.
I DON’T THINK THAT IS GOING TO
HAPPEN.
I THINK THEY’RE GETTING THE
POLITICS ENTIRELY WRONG.
ONE OF THE THINGS TO UNDERSTAND
IF THE COURT DOES IN FACT
OVERTURN ROE V. WADE THAT
DOESN’T MEAN ABORTION IS
IMMEDIATELY ILLEGAL ALL OVER THE
COUNTRY.
WHAT IT MEANS THE DECISION
MAKING ON ABORTION RETURNS TO
THE ELECTED LEGISLATURES,
PRIMARILY IN THE STATES THAT
MEANS IN BRIGHT BLUE STATES LIKE
NEW YORK OR CALIFORNIA, AT LEAST
IN THE SHORT-TERM, IT IS CERTAIN
THAT ABORTION WILL REMAIN
UNIVERSALLY AVAILABLE ON DEMAND.
AND SO FOR MANY OF THE FURTHEST
LEFT VOTERS IN STATES LIKE THAT
THEY WILL FIND LITTLE TO NOTHING
CHANGE IN THEIR DAY-TO-DAY
LIVES.
FOR PEOPLE IN REDDER STATES,
STATES LIKE MY HOME STATE OF
TEXAS, WE WILL SEE MEANINGFUL
RESTRICTIONS ON ABORTION AND
THOSE WILL VARY STATE BY STATE,
VALUES AND MORES OF THE STATE.
THEY HAVE DIFFERENT RESOLUTIONS,
BECAUSE PEOPLE OF TEXAS WANT
SOMETHING DIFFERENT OF PEOPLE OF
CALIFORNIA.
I WILL SAY, LARRY, IT IS IRONIC,
DEMOCRATS ARE ENGAGING IN
HISTRIONICS ABOUT THE PROSPECT
OF ROE BEING OVERTURNED.
MY FAVORITE TALKING POINT THEY
USE THAT IT IS ASSAULT ON
DEMOCRACY.
THAT IS RICHLY IRONIC.
IT IS PRECISELY IRONIC.
IT IS A VICTORY FOR DEMOCRACY.
WHAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE SAYING
THEY DON’T WANT VOTERS TO SET
THE RULES ON ABORTION.
THEY WANT NINE UNELECTED LAWYERS
WEARING ROBES TO DECREE THE
ANSWERS FOR THE ENTIRE COUNTRY
AND THE REASON DEMOCRATS ARE SO
UPSET IS THEY RECOGNIZE AN AWFUL
LOT OF VOTERS IN AMERICA
DISAGREE WITH THEIR RADICAL AND
EXTREME VIEWS ON ABORTION AND
GIVEN THE CHOICE WILL VOTE IN
DIFFERENT LAWS.
LARRY: GO BACK TO THE INFLATION
ECONOMIC SLUMP.
WHAT DID FOLKS SAY?
YOU ARE FROM TEXAS.
TEXAS IS ONE OF THE BRING --
GROWTH STATES IN THE UNION.
CENTER OF OIL AND GAS BUSINESS
WHICH IS FABULOUS.
WHAT ARE YOU HEARING BACK HOME?
A DAY IN THE STOCK MARKET IS
ROUGH STUFF.
>> YES.
LARRY: MY CONCERN, BE HONEST
WITH YOU, SENATOR, I’M NOT
ALWAYS RIGHT ABOUT THIS STUFF
BUT I THINK WE HAVE A LONG TOUGH
ROAD AHEAD OF US BECAUSE OF
MISTAKES MADE IN THE PAST
YEAR-AND-A-HALF BY THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT AS WELL AS BY THE
FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD.
I DON’T THINK THE MARKET HAS
BOTTOMED.
I DON’T THINK MARKET INTEREST
RATES HAVE PEAKED TO BE CANDID
WITH YOU.
I THINK IT IS GOING TO BE HARD
TO GET INFLATION BACK DOWN.
WHAT ARE YOU HEARING AND WHAT
ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT AS SENIOR
MEMBER OF THE SENATE?
>> LOOK, THAT IS VERY OF WHAT
I’M HEARING ON THE GROUND IN
TEXAS AND ALL ACROSS THE
COUNTRY.
INFLATION IS SOMETHING THAT
PEOPLE SEE EVERY DAY, THEY’RE
CONFRONTED WITH EVERY DAY.
THE PEOPLE THAT GET HURT THE
MOST ARE THOSE ON FIXED INCOMES,
THOSE WITH LIMITED INCOME,
PARTICULARLY SENIORS GET
HAMMERED WITH INFLATION.
BECAUSE IF YOUR INCOME EACH
MONTH STAYS THE SAME, YET THE
COSTS OF EVERYTHING GOES UP, THE
COST OF FOOD GOES UP, THE COST
OF RENT GOES UP.
THE COST OF ELECTRICITY GOES UP.
THE COST OF LUMBER GOES UP.
THE COST OF BUYING A HOME GOES
UP AND MOST VISIBLY THE COST OF
GASOLINE SKYROCKETS, LISTEN
RIGHT NOW IN TEXAS THERE IS A
MOM COMING HOME WHO IS SPENDING
100 BUCKS TO FILL HER MINIVAN.
RIGHT NOW IN NEBRASKA THERE’S A
FARMER DRIVING HOME WHO IS
SPENDING 150 BUCKS TO FILL HIS
TRUCK AND THAT HITS RIGHT AT
HOME.
IT HITS, THERE IS A REASON WHY,
IF YOU LOOK AT BIDEN’S POLL
NUMBERS AND DEMOCRAT POLL
NUMBERS THAT VIRTUALLY EVERY
DEMOGRAPHIC YOU CAN THINK OF IS
GALLOPING TOWARDS REPUBLICANS.
YOUNG PEOPLE ARE GALLOPING
TOWARDS REPUBLICANS.
HISPANICS ARE GALLOPING TOWARDS
REPUBLICANS.
WE’RE SEEING AFRICAN-AMERICANS
MOVING TOWARD REPUBLICANS.
BLUE-COLLAR FOLKS ARE MOVING
TOWARD REPUBLICANS AND SUBURBAN
WOMEN ARE MOVING TOWARDS
REPUBLICAN PASS.
IT IS SIMPLE.
PEOPLE ARE FEELING PAIN AND
DISASTER OF BIDEN-HARRIS
DEMOCRATS FAILING SOCIAL
POLICIES AND YOU AND I TALKED
ABOUT THIS BEFORE.
I THINK BIDEN IN MANY WAYS JIMMY
CARTER 2.0 WITH THE SAME
FAILURES WE SAW IN THE ’70s.
THAT OBVIOUSLY LED TO
STAGFLATION.
WE HAVE HALF THE STAGFLATION
RIGHT NOW WITH THE INFLATION AND
I HAIR THE STAGNATION IS RIGHT
BEHIND IT.
THAT IMPOSED A ENORMOUS AMOUNT
OF PAIN ON AMERICANS FOR SEVERAL
YEARS BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS, IT
ALSO USHERED IN THE REAGAN
REVOLUTION.
IT TOOK JIMMY CARTER TO GIVE US
REAGAN.
I THINK JOE BIDEN, WE MAY AS
WELL NAME JOE BIDEN THE
REPUBLICAN OF THE YEAR.
WHEN ALL SAID AND DONE BIDEN
WILL ELECT MORE REPUBLICANS
MAYBE MORE THAN ANY PERSON
WHOEVER LIVED.
LARRY: I SHOULDN’T BRING HIM
BEFORE THE MISINFORMATION
GOVERNMENT BOARD?
BECAUSE HE IS GOING TO BE THE
REPUBLICAN GUY OF THE YEAR?
[LAUGHTER]
LET ME ASK YOU SOMETHING,
SENATOR, SERIOUS SOMETHING
THOUGH, INFLATION ISSUE,
PREDOMINANTLY TOO MUCH MONEY
PRINTING, AS YOU WELL KNOW, TOO
MUCH GOVERNMENT SPENDING AND
BORROWING.
>> YEAH.
LARRY: SO I JUST HAVE THIS
DREAM.
MY DREAM GOES LIKE THIS.
THERE IS A 350 BILLION-DOLLAR
CORPORATE PORK SUBSIDIES,
INDUSTRIAL POLICY HANDOUTS WITH
A LOT OF GREEN NEW DEAL.
IT IS CALLED THE CHINA COMPETE
OR SOME BLOODY THING.
>> YEP.
LARRY: $350 BILLION, AND 18
REPUBLICAN SENATORS VOTED FOR IT
DURING THE FIRST GO ROUND.
IS IT POSSIBLE, CAN WE ASK THE
REPUBLICANS TO NOT VOTE FOR THIS
AS A BLOW AGAINST INFLATION, AS
WELL AS TERRIBLE INDUSTRIAL
CORPORATE WELFARE, INDUSTRIAL
POLICY?
I MEAN WE DON’T WANT TO OUT
CHINA CHINA HERE BUT WE DON’T
WANT TO OUT INFLATION ALSO?
>> THAT IS EXACTLY RIGHT.
I WAS ONE OF THE SENATORS WHO
VOTED NO, ENTHUSIASTICALLY VOTED
NO, BECAUSE THE LAST THING WE
NEED WITH INFLATION GALLOPING
LIKE IT IS TO SPEND HUNDREDS OF
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS MORE AND BY
THE WAY WE’RE NOT GOING TO
COMPETE WITH CHINA BY HAVING
MORE AND MORE GOVERNMENT
SPENDING AND MORE AND MORE DEBT
AND MORE AND MORE INFLATION AND
HAMMERING OUR ECONOMY.
WE’RE GOING TO COMPETE WITH
CHINA BY UNLEASHING FREE
ENTERPRISE, BY CUTTING TAXES, BY
PULLING BACK JOB-KILLING
REGULATIONS.
LETTING THE FREE MARKET, LETTING
FREE ENTERPRISE BEAT THE
COMMUNIST ECONOMY.
THAT IS HOW WE WON THE COLD WAR.
THAT IS ALSO HOW WE’LL BEAT
CHINA.
LISTEN IF YOU LOOK AT THE VOLUME
OF SPENDING, I WAS JUST TALKING
WITH A WOMAN IN THE AIRPORT THE
OTHER WEEK WHO WAS TALKING
ABOUT, A SINGLE MOM FROM
NEW JERSEY, FLYING ON A PLANE,
SAYING INFLATION IS JUST
HAMMERING ME.
DO YOU THINK CONGRESS WILL DO
ANYTHING TO FIX IT? I TOLD HER,
LISTEN, THIS CONGRESS ISN’T.
AS LONG AS CHUCK SCHUMER AND
NANCY PELOSI ARE IN OFFICE.
THEY WANT TO SPEND MORE, THEY
WANT TO TAX MORE, THEY WANT TO
BORROW MORE AND THEY WANT TO
PRINT MORE MONEY.
IT IS INTERESTING, THIS WOMAN
SAID WHAT IS CAUSING INFLATION?
AT THE END OF THE DAY IT IS NOT
COMPLICATED.
YOU AND YOUR VIEWERS UNDERSTAND.
LISTEN PRICES ARE JUST A
RELATIVE MEANS OF COMPARING THE
VALUE OF ONE GOOD VERSUS THE
OTHER.
WE STARTED OUT IN A BARTER
ECONOMY.
IF I HAD APPLES AND YOU HAD
BANANAS AND WE KNEW THE EXCHANGE
RATE WAS TWO AMPLES FOR ONE
BANANA, I BRING YOU TWO APPLES
WE HAVE MORE FRUIT.
THAT GOT COMPLICATED CARRYING
BANANAS AND APPLES WHEREVER YOU
WENT.
KNOWING EXCHANGE RATE, MONEY
STEPS IN UNIFORM COMPARISON, YOU
KNOW APPLE IS A DOLLAR, BANANA
IS TWO DOLLARS, SETS THE
RELATIVE OF VALUE OF EVERYTHING.
USE THE SIMPLE EXAMPLE, IF YOU
DOUBLE NUMBER OF DOLLARS ON
PLANET EARTH, THEN ROUGHLY
SPEAKING AN APPLE WILL BE TWO
DOLLARS AND A BANANA WILL BE
FOUR DOLLARS.
THAT IS WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE
IS THE GOVERNMENT IS MASSIVELY
INCREASING THE MONEY SUPPLY,
THAT DRIVES PRICES OF EVERYTHING
UP.
LARRY: BOTH SPENDING AND FEDERAL
RESERVE MONEY CREATION.
>> YEP.
LARRY: WHY I’M SORT OF BEGGING
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, REGARDING
THIS BILL AND OTHER DOMESTIC
SPENDING LET’S NOT CREATE
ANYMORE BANANAS.
A LOT OF BANANAS WILL ADD UP TO
A BIG TURKEY.
IF THE CALVARY IS GOING TO COME,
TED, SENATOR, IF THE CALVARY IS
COMING WHICH IS GREAT I JUST
WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE KNOW
AND THE VIEWERS KNOW AND THE
VOTERS KNOW THAT THE CALVARY
WILL BE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
YOU FOLLOW ME?
I MEAN WE GOT A SIGNAL HERE AND
SO FAR THE SIGNALS ARE A LITTLE
WATERED DOWN, I THINK YOU WOULD
AGREE?
>> I DO FOLLOW BUT I SURE HOPE
THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH DOESN’T
HAVE A METAPHOR POLICE BECAUSE
AFTER THE BANANAS, THE TURKEY,
THE CALVARY I THINK WE WOULD
BOTH BE IN TROUBLE THERE.
LARRY: THE BENEFITS ARE WHATEVER
OF A PRINCETON EDUCATION FOR
BOTH OF US.
LET ME MOVE ON.
YOU MADE A GREAT STATEMENT.
SENATOR CRUZ BLAMES SUPREME
COURT LEAK ON ONE LITTLE WOKE
LEFT-WING TWIT.
THAT IS FABULOUS, REALLY GOOD.
BUT I DO WANT TO ASK YOU A
SERIOUS QUESTION.
THE OTHER HEADLINE I’M SEEING IN
THE PAPERS, WHITE HOUSE REFUSES
TO CONDEMN THE BETRAYAL AT THE
SUPREME COURT.
THEY SEEM, FROM MADAM PSAKI BUT
ALSO OTHERS COMPLETELY
UNENCUMBERED BY THE CORRUPTION
OF THE LEAK OF JUSTICE ALITO’S
REPORT, MEMO, OPINION.
>> YEAH.
LARRY: THAT’S, I DON’T
UNDERSTAND THAT.
I WANTED TO GET YOUR TAKE ON
THIS.
ISN’T THE LEAK ITSELF IMPORTANT?
I KNOW THE POLICY IS BUT WHAT
ABOUT THE LEAK?
>> LOOK, THIS IS YET ANOTHER
CONSEQUENCE OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY BEING RADICALIZED AND
TAKEN OVER BY THE EXTREME
REVOLUTIONARY, SOCIALIST LEFT
AND THEY’RE WILLING TO DESTROY
INSTITUTIONS.
YOU’RE SEEING SENATE DEMOCRATS
TRYING TO BLOW UP THE
FILIBUSTER, TO DESTROY THE
FILIBUSTER IN PURSUIT OF THEIR
SOCIALIST AGENDA.
THIS IS THE SAME AGENDA APPLIED
TO THE COURT.
I’VE GOT TO SAY THE FACT THAT A
DRAFT OPINION WAS LEAKED BEFORE
THE COURT DECIDED THE CASE IS
THE GRAVEST VIOLATION OF THE
OATH AND OBLIGATION THAT LAW
CLERKS HAVE TO THE COURT IN THE
HISTORY OF THE SUPREME COURT AND
THE HISTORY OF OUR NATION.
AS YOU KNOW I STARTED MY CAREER
AS A LAW EVERYBODY CLERK AT THE
SUPREME COURT, CLERKING FOR
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE WILLIAM
REHNQUIST.
SECRET OF DELIBERATIONS IS AT
THE HEART OF THE COURT BEING
ABLE TO DO HIS JOB.
IT NEVER HAPPENED IN TWO
CENTURIES, NO ONE COULD EVEN
IMAGINE IT.
WHEN THE NEWS BROKE I STARED AT
MY PHONE IN DISBELIEF STUNNED
BECAUSE SOME WOKE, LEFTY TWIT
DECIDED, TO HELL WITH MY
OBLIGATIONS TO MY JUSTICE, TO
HELL TO MY OBLIGATIONS TO THE
SUPREME COURT OR THE RULE OF LAW
AND DECIDED INSTEAD TO TRY TO
USE POLITICAL PRESSURE TO
POLITICIZE THE COURT AND THIS IS
THE RESULT OF THE DEMOCRATS
MULTIYEAR CAMPAIGN TO POLITICIZE
THE COURT, TO ATTACK THE COURT.
THAT INCLUDED CHUCK SCHUMER
STANDINGS ON THE STEPS OF THE
COURT THREATENING JUSTICES BY
NAME SAYING THEY HAVE UNLEASHED
THE WHIRLWIND AND JUST WAIT TO
SEE WHAT IS GOING TO HIT THEM.
TO SEE JEN PSAKI SAY, WELL WE
DON’T HAVE AN OPINION ON THE
LEAK.
MY GOD, YOU GOT A
RESPONSIBILITY.
YOU KNOW WHAT?
JOE BIDEN USED TO BE THE
CHAIRMAN OF THE JUDICIARY
COMMITTEE.
SOMEWHERE TO THE EXTENT HIS
BRAIN IS AWARE OF WHAT’S GOING
ON HE KNOWS HOW SHAMEFUL IT IS
THAT HIS WHITE HOUSE IS STANDING
UP THERE SAYING, WE HAVE NO
OPINION ON LAW CLERKS LEAKING
DRAFT SUPREME COURT OPINIONS.
THAT UNDERMINES THE RULE OF LAW.
IT IS HORRIFIC AND JOE BIDEN
SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF HIMSELF AND
WALK OUT AND SAY, DAMN STRAIGHT,
WE HAVE AN OPINION.
THIS IS WRONG AND WE’RE NOT
INTERESTED IN BURNING THE
SUPREME COURT TO THE GROUND BUT
HE IS TOO AFRAID TO DO THAT
BECAUSE HE DOESN’T WANT TO TICK
OFF THE RADICALS AND LEFTISTS IN
HIS PARTY.
LARRY: HE LIKES TO THROW FEAR
OUT THERE.
FEAR OF THINGS ARE GOING TO
HAPPEN, AS YOU SAID EARLIER WILL
NOT HAPPEN IF ALITO’S OPINION
GOES THROUGH.
OF COURSE, AS YOU KNOW, BIDEN
WAS PRO-LIFE AND WAS AGAINST
ROE V. WADE FOR THE FIRST COUPLE
DECADES OF HIS CAREER.