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Ken Paxton: “The Speaker, Dave Phelan, is controlled by the Democrats.”

Featuring: Ken Paxton, Republican | Attorney General of Texas

Tucker Carlson Interviews Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

Published September 20, 2023 | Video Starts at 02:47

The Senate is great. They're very conservative. They've done great things for Texas, but they get blocked a lot of times. And a lot of my stuff gets blocked in The Speaker, Dave Phelan, is controlled by the Democrats. You really believe that? Absolutely. I was in the House. I saw it at work. I was pushed towards that. (02:47–02:54)

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Asserts that the Speaker of the Texas House is controlled by Democrats.

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“Two of the four House investigating lawyers worked at the Department of Justice in Washington.”
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“The effort to remove me from office was instigated by the Biden administration.”
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“I was immediately suspended and lost my office.”
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“The comptroller, Glenn Hager, for some reason decided, you know what? I'm not going to pay you.”
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“We had a gag order put in place on both parties somewhere, I think, in June.”
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“The House didn't follow the gag order. They leaked everything to the Austin American Statesman or the Houston Chronicle or Dallas Morning…”
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“I was not afforded legal representation by the state while I was out.”
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“They didn't identify elements of a crime.”
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“There's a group called Texans for Lawsuit Reform. They spent a lot of money to bring in another candidate, Eva Guzman.”
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“We have emails where they've written articles and they send them to Karl Rove, and then Karl Rove gets them published in the Wall Street…”
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“His candidates typically lose. I mean, he's backed my opponents in every AG race that I've been in.”
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“We have text messages with him communicating with them as well.”
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“I got 68%. George P. Got 32.”
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“I've seen lots of alcohol on the floor. I've seen lots of people drunk.”
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“I asked them to look into him. Like, why don't you see if he's drinking on the floor?”
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“It's affecting, obviously, our border communities are devastated. You have towns that have 36,000 people. You got more than that, more…”
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“John Cornyn has been basically vacant on this issue. He's not. He's not. Why, look, he. To me, he's been in Washington too long.”
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“Cornyn did it judicially, I think, completely illegally and turned our schools into very mediocre prospects.”
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“We now can't prosecute voter fraud in Texas because the court of criminal appeals in Texas struck down a statute from 1951.”
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“We were prosecuted. I only had one lawyer. When I started to prosecute this, I got the legislature giving more. We were fully busy…”
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