Verdict with Ted Cruz - 100 Days...Are You Tired of Winning Yet？

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00:00:05.580 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:09.460 And Senator, it is a big day at the White House because it is the 100th day of the Trump administration.

00:00:15.580 And they were celebrating some very big successes at the White House today.

00:00:20.380 Well, we are 100 days in and I can say with no hesitation,

00:00:24.680 there has never been a first 100 days of a president in the history of the United States of America

00:00:31.320 like the first 100 days of Donald J. Trump.

00:00:34.060 He has hit the ground running. It has been extraordinary.

00:00:37.360 I still have great fun turning to my Democrat colleagues and just deadpanning to them.

00:00:42.040 Well, three years, nine months to go.

00:00:46.340 And they just start twitching.

00:00:48.260 They like genuinely, they can't handle it.

00:00:52.520 He had a great rally in Michigan today.

00:00:54.680 Going through the victories that we have seen.

00:00:57.860 And listen, just the energy, the vigor.

00:01:00.660 They are moving on every front simultaneously.

00:01:03.620 They are flooding the zone.

00:01:05.340 I don't know all of the metaphors to use, but it is shock and awe all at once.

00:01:12.980 And it's beautiful.

00:01:14.320 I literally wake up every day.

00:01:16.700 I grab my phone and I'm like, what did they do today?

00:01:20.200 It's fantastic.

00:01:21.620 I want to say before we dive into that, though, I do want to recognize that it is also a sad day.

00:01:27.680 It's a sad day that the news just broke a few hours ago that David Horowitz passed away.

00:01:33.820 David Horowitz was an extraordinary conservative leader.

00:01:37.280 He's someone I got to know early in my career.

00:01:39.360 David had been a Marxist.

00:01:41.180 He was a leftist.

00:01:42.120 He was an open and radical Marxist.

00:01:44.780 And he saw the light.

00:01:46.680 And he understood the evil of the radical left.

00:01:52.060 David was unapologetic to call out.

00:01:55.660 And to call out the evil, the mendacity, the duplicity, and to speak the truth.

00:02:02.500 And he lived till 86.

00:02:03.860 He died after a long battle with cancer.

00:02:07.620 And David is someone who had an early impact in terms of my journey as a conservative.

00:02:13.740 And so I just want to say thank you to David Horowitz for the life and legacy he left.

00:02:21.280 May he rest in peace.

00:02:23.580 He made a really positive difference in our country.

00:02:26.260 He really did.

00:02:27.400 And he was so kind.

00:02:28.540 I don't know if people understand how much he tried to inspire college kids and high school kids to get involved in the process.

00:02:36.480 And he also warned about the indoctrination, even wrote books about it, about the indoctrination at the college level.

00:02:43.760 He sounded that alarm, gosh, probably 20 years ago in one of his books.

00:02:47.400 And I wish more people would have realized just how close he was to what reality has become now.

00:02:53.080 Yeah, look, and he was doing this long before Turning Point, long before the Trump movement, long before everything.

00:03:00.160 He organized, in fact, a right-wing gathering, which I went to a couple of times, that was designed to be a counter to Renaissance Weekend.

00:03:15.460 Renaissance Weekend was this lefty weekend where Democrats would go to it and big rich lefties would go to it.

00:03:22.120 The media would go to it.

00:03:23.440 And they would – it was sort of a predecessor of Davos.

00:03:26.940 And David Horowitz organized a counter, and, like, the lefties were going to have Renaissance Weekend. 0.97

00:03:32.620 He's like, screw you.

00:03:33.560 He organized Dark Ages Weekend and said, we're just going to revel in it. 0.98

00:03:37.960 And so I went several times to Dark Ages Weekend, and it was a lot of young conservatives and libertarians.

00:03:43.700 And the relationships there, I went in my 20s to that and made friendships and got to know him.

00:03:49.500 And I admired just his fearless truth-telling, something you don't see a lot of.

00:03:56.940 I'm waiting for – what would you name your weekend, by the way, if you were going to have one?

00:04:00.720 Like, I feel like this is something we need to know from you.

00:04:03.040 What would you name if it was a Ted Cruz Weekend?

00:04:06.740 I don't know.

00:04:07.680 I might – right now I might name it the Houston Rockets win the Finals Weekend.

00:04:11.740 But I'm afraid that weekend is not a 2025 weekend.

00:04:17.120 It's not on the bingo card this year.

00:04:18.900 Well played, though, sir.

00:04:19.980 Well played.

00:04:20.360 You know what?

00:04:20.980 We can win three in a row.

00:04:22.000 We've done it before.

00:04:23.300 See?

00:04:23.660 That's all I got to do.

00:04:24.360 I just got to get you a little feisty on there. 1.00

00:04:25.780 By the way, 95, we came down in a hole.

00:04:29.320 It's where Houston got the nickname Clutch City because we were down three games and we came back.

00:04:34.320 Now I'm not sure Akeem Olajuwon is playing for the Rockets right now, so it may be a later year.

00:04:39.940 Exactly.

00:04:40.540 Well, we'll see.

00:04:41.200 Like you said, anything's possible in sports.

00:04:43.460 And I got to say, to his family, to Horace's family, just God bless you guys.

00:04:49.580 You want to talk about a legacy.

00:04:51.700 I look at people now when they pass, I'm like, what an incredible legacy.

00:04:55.180 Like the legacy, the people that he touched, the people that he influenced, you know, the fact that you and so many other elected officials now were in and around him.

00:05:05.560 His books taught so many people's lives.

00:05:07.800 I just think what an amazing legacy.

00:05:09.860 Job well done.

00:05:10.520 Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.

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00:07:09.720 So in every presidency, Senator, the 100-day mark is obviously a big moment.

00:07:14.820 If things are going well, you celebrate it.

00:07:17.480 If things aren't going well, the media likes to remind everybody how terrible it actually is going, and it's a disaster.

00:07:22.800 This president's got a lot of things in the column that are major victories.

00:07:27.900 And at the top of that list, I still think, is clearly the border and just how quickly he was able to secure the border.

00:07:33.760 The numbers are staggering.

00:07:35.060 That's got to be something that every voter can be proud of that they voted for that.

00:07:39.340 Yeah, it's extraordinary.

00:07:40.880 And I've got to say, number one, the volume of the crisis was massive.

00:07:44.720 Under Joe Biden, we had the worst illegal immigration in our nation's history.

00:07:48.880 We had over 12 million illegal immigrants coming into this country.

00:07:52.220 You remember my speech at the Republican National Convention this past year. 0.99

00:07:56.860 The theme of the speech was every damn day because every damn day another American was being murdered. 1.00

00:08:02.740 Another woman was being raped. 1.00

00:08:04.280 Another child was being assaulted by a criminal illegal alien released by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and the Democrats. 0.93

00:08:09.860 And over and over again, whether you're talking about Jocelyn Nungary or Lakin Riley or Rachel Marin, over and over again, the victims kept piling up.

00:08:20.380 And the Democrats insisted there was nothing they could do to stop it.

00:08:23.860 But it was, of course, a deliberate political decision by them to allow this invasion because they looked at every one of those illegals as a future Democrat voter.

00:08:32.960 And Donald Trump came in.

00:08:34.920 And to be clear, on this podcast, I predicted last year, I said, listen, it's not going to take President Trump a year.

00:08:42.080 It's not going to take him six months to secure the border.

00:08:44.700 It is going to happen in a matter of weeks or even days because what matters is a president who is willing to enforce the law.

00:08:52.080 And the most important determinant of whether you secure the border is what happens when you apprehend someone illegally, who's here illegally.

00:08:59.180 And if the answer is you put them on a plane and you fly them home, well, just about everyone who comes has a cell phone.

00:09:04.760 They call home.

00:09:05.340 They say, don't come.

00:09:06.120 They're sending you back.

00:09:07.260 If the answer is you let them go, again, they have a cell phone.

00:09:12.400 They call home and they say, come on up here.

00:09:14.740 You get to stay.

00:09:16.480 Trump came in and the numbers have dropped over ninety nine point nine percent.

00:09:22.140 That is a staggering victory.

00:09:24.120 And it's a victory that there was a clear mandate for in this election.

00:09:27.740 So let's talk about that moving forward.

00:09:29.940 You have a lot of goals when you're when you're the president in the first hundred days.

00:09:33.840 And then you have the longer term things.

00:09:35.780 It's pretty clear that some of these things are going to take longer than 100 days.

00:09:39.240 What he did at the border is just incredible, as you as you mentioned, the level of the problem is so massive.

00:09:47.060 And look, that's still going to be a major issue moving forward.

00:09:49.840 We've got a lot of people to deport.

00:09:51.640 A lot of criminals are still out there that we're rounding up.

00:09:53.940 We saw some amazing numbers over the weekend around the country with big operations to grab criminals.

00:09:59.380 A lot of them MS-13 gang members, et cetera.

00:10:01.620 But then you also look at the other issues and that includes the economy.

00:10:05.700 That includes tariffs.

00:10:07.060 I mean, there's still a lot to get done.

00:10:09.240 Yeah, but let's not put words in President Trump's mouth.

00:10:12.520 Let's listen to a montage from the rally that he held in Michigan tonight celebrating the first hundred days.

00:10:19.820 Here, give a listen.

00:10:20.620 We're here tonight in the heartland of our nation to celebrate the most successful first 100 days of any administration in the history of our country.

00:10:31.600 And week by week, we're ending illegal immigration.

00:10:34.780 We're taking back our jobs of protecting our great American autoworkers and all of our workers, frankly.

00:10:43.600 We're ending the inflation nightmare, the worst that we've had probably in the history of our country,

00:10:48.840 We're getting woke lunacy and transgender insanity the hell out of our government. 1.00

00:10:58.060 We're stopping the indoctrination of our children, slashing billions and billions of dollars of waste, fraud and abuse.

00:11:05.760 And above all, we're saving the American dream.

00:11:09.100 We're making America great again.

00:11:10.760 And it's happening fast, too.

00:11:12.480 What the world has witnessed in the past 14 weeks is a revolution of common sense.

00:11:18.300 That's all it is, really.

00:11:19.340 We're conservative.

00:11:21.220 You're conservative.

00:11:22.660 You're liberal. 0.94

00:11:23.300 Whatever the hell. 0.69

00:11:23.920 You know what it's all about?

00:11:24.860 It's about common sense.

00:11:25.940 When you think about it, we're for common sense.

00:11:28.280 We've set all time records for the lowest number of illegal border crossings ever recorded.

00:11:33.500 Think of that.

00:11:34.260 Ever recorded.

00:11:35.400 I'm proud to be the president for the workers and not the outsourcers.

00:11:40.380 The president who stands up for Main Street, not Wall Street.

00:11:43.820 Our golden age has only just begun.

00:11:46.860 We are one people, one family and one glorious nation under God.

00:11:51.480 We will never give in.

00:11:52.720 We will never give up.

00:11:53.700 We will never back down.

00:11:55.280 We will never, ever surrender.

00:11:58.300 We will fight, fight, fight, and we will win, win, win.

00:12:03.620 I mean, I got to say, he is in his element when he does these types of events.

00:12:08.160 This is what got him to the presidency twice.

00:12:10.320 And by the way, there has never been a phenomenon like Donald Trump at a rally in the history of politics.

00:12:16.460 And there never will be again.

00:12:18.000 Maybe the closest we've seen would be Huey Long.

00:12:20.720 Huey Long was before you and me, but Huey Long could move a crowd in a way that was extraordinary at a different era.

00:12:28.840 But we're not going to see any politicians in the future turning out 20,000, 30,000 people to rallies.

00:12:37.280 We're not going to see.

00:12:38.240 Donald Trump is one of a kind.

00:12:40.080 And there was one clip in particular that I really liked where he underlined the stakes of this election.

00:12:50.640 And listen, I don't know about you, Ben, but I really do feel like this election, that the fate of the country was hanging in the balance.

00:12:57.760 It's that if we had lost, we had a real risk of not just losing an election, yes, that's bad, but of losing the country, of being in a place where you can never come back.

00:13:09.160 And that was frightening.

00:13:12.680 Here's how President Trump put it about the stakes if the radical left had won in 2024.

00:13:20.480 Give a listen.

00:13:20.860 The radical left Democrats would right now be importing the next 10 million invaders and giving amnesty to 30 or 40 million illegals, many of them criminals, many of them, frankly, murderers. 0.55

00:13:44.100 And people of crime at the absolute highest level, real, real, real bad people.

00:13:51.680 It would only be a matter of years or months until America itself became a failed third world nation. 0.92

00:13:58.580 This is why he won.

00:14:00.060 This is exactly why he won and why some of you said we can't take another four years of Joe Biden in the Democratic Party.

00:14:07.680 So look, there was not a word of hyperbole to that.

00:14:11.400 And in fact, if anything, he understated it.

00:14:14.620 So he said if the radical left Democrats had won, they would right now be importing the next 10 million invaders.

00:14:21.640 To be honest, it would be more than 10 million.

00:14:23.860 We saw 12 million in four years under Joe Biden.

00:14:27.140 If Kamala Harris had been there, it would be even more. 0.65

00:14:30.260 And giving amnesty to 30 or 40 million illegals.

00:14:33.720 That's their objective.

00:14:34.780 It's why, I mean, people ask me all the time.

00:14:37.400 You know, I love in that montage where he says this is common sense.

00:14:42.320 You know, there were times, you and I are both conservatives.

00:14:44.660 We're proud to be conservatives.

00:14:45.880 But you don't actually have to be a conservative to reject the agenda of the radical left.

00:14:52.000 Like crazy open borders.

00:14:53.860 Let's say it let in 12 million illegals. 0.92

00:14:56.620 Let's let in gang members. 1.00

00:14:57.780 Let's let in murderers. 1.00

00:14:58.700 Let's let in rapists. 1.00

00:14:59.540 Let's let in child molesters. 1.00

00:15:00.660 That is an extreme agenda.

00:15:04.960 You know, the idea that let's attack American energy and drive up energy costs.

00:15:09.720 That's an extreme agenda.

00:15:11.260 The idea that let's defund the police and put in place George Soros prosecutors who let murderers and rapists go.

00:15:17.960 That is an extreme agenda.

00:15:19.780 The idea that you go into schools and you indoctrinate kids with radical transgender agenda, including sterilization and sex change surgeries for young children. 0.85

00:15:32.220 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris embraced sex change surgeries, castrating little boys, sterilizing little girls.

00:15:42.380 That's an extreme agenda.

00:15:44.140 You know, if you embrace boys competing against girls in sport, men competing against women in sports, two guys in the Olympics beating the hell out of women in so-called women's boxing, all of that is extreme.

00:15:57.500 And it's set up for really a return to common sense.

00:16:03.280 And people ask me, well, why would the Democrats embrace this this open border agenda?

00:16:09.040 And it was about political power that, OK, so we have to let in a bunch of gang members. 0.53

00:16:15.020 You know, they, I guess, assume it's not going to be me that's murdered. 0.88

00:16:19.120 It's not going to be me that is raped or abused or violently assaulted.

00:16:23.360 And so if people have to die, Democrats, they don't say the names of the victims. 0.53

00:16:28.000 They don't say the names of the murder victims, the rape victims.

00:16:30.400 They don't say the names of the children violently assaulted.

00:16:33.900 And and they just that they wanted votes.

00:16:37.360 And here's something else that that President Trump said at the rally where where he actually reprised my favorite line from his State of the Union address this year, where he talked about how Joe Biden had said just one year earlier that that he the only way to secure the border is if Congress passed new legislation.

00:16:56.440 Give a listen to what President Trump said.

00:16:58.480 For years, Joe Biden and the media told us that stopping the flood of illegal immigration was absolutely impossible.

00:17:07.220 He said it was impossible.

00:17:09.080 He didn't know what the hell anybody was talking about.

00:17:11.220 He said it was impossible that the president had no power to stop what was needed in the form of legislation.

00:17:21.260 He needed legislation.

00:17:23.080 He had no power to get it.

00:17:24.440 But it turned out that all we needed was a new president.

00:17:29.900 He's right.

00:17:30.740 All we need was a new president.

00:17:32.140 They said that wouldn't even get it done.

00:17:33.720 Well, guess what?

00:17:34.400 Not only did he get it done, but even the mainstream media now center is forced to report on just how big of a victory this is for Trump at the border.

00:17:43.960 ABC News.

00:17:45.540 They put it this way in their own interview with the president.

00:17:49.140 Here in the Oval Office, it's special.

00:17:52.380 A hundred days into your second term.

00:17:54.720 So what's the one thing, just one thing, that you think is the most significant thing you've done so far in these hundred days?

00:18:04.000 Well, I think maybe the border is the most significant because our country was really going bad.

00:18:09.800 They were allowing people to come in from prisons, as you know, and you've heard me say it, but you've heard a lot of people say it.

00:18:15.780 Prisons, mental institutions, gang members, murderers.

00:18:19.940 We had many murderers, 11,888.

00:18:23.000 They think some murdered more than one person.

00:18:26.420 So you had murderers coming in.

00:18:28.220 You had everybody coming in and not just South America from all over the world.

00:18:32.020 They were emptying their prisons into our country. 0.96

00:18:34.580 And now it's totally closed down.

00:18:36.700 And you've seen just yesterday, they announced 99.9 percent.

00:18:41.480 Nobody thought that could happen.

00:18:43.060 And it happened quickly, very quickly.

00:18:45.260 And I think that's very significant.

00:18:46.520 But we're doing other things that are very significant.

00:18:49.460 And the results will take a little bit longer because it's one of those, you know, it's complicated.

00:18:54.960 It's many years of trading abuse.

00:18:57.680 We've been abused by other countries for years and years.

00:19:01.200 They laughed at us. 1.00

00:19:02.400 They thought we were stupid people. 1.00

00:19:03.900 And we're fixing it. 0.99

00:19:05.520 And I think that's going to be very, very important.

00:19:08.340 But I have a lot of ground to cover.

00:19:10.100 Yeah, I would really say that the border is so important.

00:19:13.320 And we'll get there.

00:19:15.000 Immigration is huge.

00:19:16.320 And we're going to get there.

00:19:16.900 But I want to start.

00:19:17.680 But you hear him say the southern border is totally closed down 99.9 percent.

00:19:23.660 I'll be honest with you.

00:19:24.520 I don't even think Americans that voted for Donald Trump that believed in him thought he could get this done this quick with those types of numbers.

00:19:31.940 The numbers are staggering.

00:19:33.200 He said nobody believed we could get there.

00:19:34.980 I actually think that's wrong.

00:19:36.220 I think Donald Trump believed he could get there.

00:19:37.960 He knew he could get there.

00:19:38.980 And I'll tell you, you and I, we both predicted it, that we would see the numbers absolutely plummet.

00:19:44.260 Although it's a fair point.

00:19:46.020 We said absolutely plummet.

00:19:47.220 I don't think I said 99.9 percent.

00:19:49.960 I might have thought it'd be 90 percent or 95 percent.

00:19:52.740 But 99.9 is, to be honest, Trump might even be surprised it's that high.

00:20:00.100 It's staggering.

00:20:00.940 And it's an example of a commander-in-chief who's actually following law.

00:20:05.900 You know, I've got to say that ABC interview was really striking.

00:20:09.360 There's a great exchange where the ABC reporter comes after him and Trump just body slams him.

00:20:19.140 Here, give a listen.

00:20:19.940 Do you think the reputation of the United States has gone down under your presidency?

00:20:25.560 No, I think it's gone way up.

00:20:27.180 And I think we're a respected country.

00:20:28.840 Again, we were left at all over the world.

00:20:31.520 We had a president that couldn't walk up a flight of stairs, couldn't walk down a flight of stairs, couldn't walk across the stage without falling. 0.96

00:20:39.180 We had a president that was grossly incompetent. 0.97

00:20:41.660 You knew it. 0.96

00:20:42.200 I knew it.

00:20:42.820 And everybody knew it.

00:20:43.860 But you guys didn't want to write it because you're fake news.

00:20:46.340 All right.

00:20:47.540 Thank you.

00:20:47.960 And by the way, ABC is one of the worst.

00:20:49.900 I have to be honest with you.

00:20:51.060 Thank you.

00:20:52.620 I'm sorry.

00:20:53.360 That's just amazing.

00:20:54.440 He's looking at the main guy. 0.95

00:20:55.880 He's like roasting them to their faces.

00:20:57.520 He's like, by the way, ABC. 0.99

00:20:59.220 Yeah, you guys, by the way, are one of the worst.

00:21:00.960 He's like, thank you. 0.80

00:21:01.620 We're going to wrap now.

00:21:02.600 He's like, thank you.

00:21:03.640 Thank you.

00:21:04.200 And you actually have to watch it.

00:21:05.640 Watching the video.

00:21:06.420 And I will say, one of the things Trump doesn't get nearly enough credit for is how damn funny 0.96

00:21:11.940 he is, where he's like, look, it's one thing if he could just say, look, Joe Biden was incompetent. 0.59

00:21:17.320 But he's like, he couldn't walk up the stairs.

00:21:19.160 He couldn't walk down the stairs.

00:21:20.540 He fell like he couldn't walk in the room.

00:21:22.420 Like, it's just it is funny, but it's true.

00:21:26.260 And he's right.

00:21:26.860 He's like, you knew it.

00:21:27.740 I knew it.

00:21:28.280 Everyone knew it.

00:21:29.360 And yet you were lying about it.

00:21:31.160 And nobody in the media.

00:21:33.540 Have you seen a single mea culpa from anyone in the media saying, we knew Joe Biden was mentally

00:21:39.700 incompetent and we deliberately lied to the American people about it.

00:21:43.440 Nobody's done that.

00:21:44.800 No, no one has it all.

00:21:46.920 One other thing I do have to say about all of this 100 days is the speed at which this

00:21:53.780 administration is working and how well this team is working in the White House is really

00:21:58.960 impressive.

00:21:59.600 You and I have been over there with Doge when we were interviewing Elon Musk.

00:22:02.420 I've been back last week as well to the White House.

00:22:05.100 Because this team around him is just incredible compared to what he had in 2016.

00:22:11.600 And I think that's part of the reason why he's getting so much done.

00:22:14.140 Would you agree with that?

00:22:15.040 Fully agree.

00:22:15.580 I think the cabinet is much stronger than the 2016 or the 2017 cabinet.

00:22:20.960 I think in the first term, he made some appointments that frankly did not serve him well.

00:22:26.140 He put people in place who disagreed with him, who undermined him.

00:22:29.820 And I think this second term, I think he learned.

00:22:33.060 I think he learned during the four years of his first term as president.

00:22:36.940 I think he learned during the four years he was out of office.

00:22:39.480 I think he had a lot of time to think about if and when he came back, what he would do.

00:22:44.520 And I think he put in place change agents.

00:22:47.980 And there's another exchange in that ABC News interview that I really like, where ABC News

00:22:54.260 is defending illegal immigration and the open borders under the Democrats.

00:22:59.540 And he just utterly calls them out here.

00:23:02.260 Give a listen to that.

00:23:03.000 You're talking about, you know, you're making this person sound.

00:23:05.920 This is a MS-13 gang member, a tough cookie, been in lots of skirmishes, beat the hell out

00:23:12.860 of his wife.

00:23:13.660 And the wife was petrified to even talk about him.

00:23:16.300 OK, this is not an innocent, wonderful gentleman from Maryland.

00:23:20.260 I'm not saying he's a good guy.

00:23:21.380 It's about the rule of law.

00:23:22.500 The order from the Supreme Court stands, sir.

00:23:24.860 You came into our country illegally. 1.00

00:23:26.500 You could.

00:23:27.100 I mean, I love it.

00:23:28.280 He's not going to back down.

00:23:29.360 He's not afraid of the guys in the press at all.

00:23:32.240 And the Democrats, you want to talk about stepping into their trap.

00:23:35.960 The Democrats have happily embraced.

00:23:39.820 We, the Democrat Party, are the party of illegal immigrants. 0.86

00:23:43.960 We are the party of gang members.

00:23:46.000 We are, you know, our pod two days ago, if you didn't listen to it, really is astonishing.

00:23:50.200 There are two different Democrat judges in jail right now for obstructing justice, for

00:23:57.700 blocking federal law enforcement, for arresting illegal immigrants.

00:24:01.640 And one of the two, a judge from New Mexico, is charged with sheltering a Trender-Aragua 1.00

00:24:08.900 Venezuelan gang member in his home and destroying evidence.

00:24:14.380 It's really shocking.

00:24:15.440 So this gang member had a cell phone and this Democrat judge took the cell phone, smashed

00:24:20.820 it with a hammer, went and threw the cell phone away in a dumpster, all in an effort

00:24:24.900 to cover up the evidence of this gang member's criminality.

00:24:28.760 And one of the astonishing things that the Department of Justice has told us is that cell phone that

00:24:34.980 the Democrat judge destroyed had pictures of two people who had been decapitated, two

00:24:41.660 victims, presumably of gang violence, who had their heads cut off.

00:24:45.760 And Ben, like, what does it say that today's Democrat Party, what they're about, is there

00:24:52.140 for Venezuelan gang members who cut people's heads off?

00:24:54.840 Literally, I don't know how you could be in a more radical position than where they are

00:24:59.600 right now.

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00:25:31.680 I want to move on to another story that I hope everyone listening is going to help go viral

00:25:36.400 because it's a really important one and it's not one the media is covering at all.

00:25:41.420 You actually called out a Princeton professor for some pro-Iran allegiances and saying,

00:25:50.300 I'm not backing down, which is awesome.

00:25:52.600 You urge Princeton to take action.

00:25:54.640 Explain this story for people that may not know it.

00:25:57.380 So Princeton has on its faculty a senior official from the radical, viciously anti-American, viciously 0.90

00:26:06.360 anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, homicidal, murderous regime of Iran.

00:26:11.500 And Princeton happily ensconced him with the prestige of being a Princeton academic. 0.78

00:26:19.980 And so I've called on Princeton, which, by the way, is where I went to college.

00:26:23.700 I was Princeton class of 92.

00:26:25.240 I loved my time at Princeton.

00:26:26.800 It's an extraordinary school that sadly has gone on the wrong track.

00:26:31.260 I called upon Princeton to fire this guy, to dismiss him from the faculty.

00:26:36.180 Look, there are Jewish students at Princeton who legitimately feel afraid. 0.53

00:26:42.480 They feel afraid that you have a vicious bigot who has openly embraced the murderous Iranian regime. 0.56

00:26:52.080 Let me give some of the specifics because you might think, okay, that can't be true.

00:26:56.080 That sounds like hyperbole.

00:26:57.560 So let's give the specifics.

00:26:59.180 Sayed Hossein Moussavian, who was an official of Iran, and he's right now, he's named a Middle

00:27:08.240 East security and nuclear policy specialist at Princeton University.

00:27:14.780 What I pointed out, I said, quote, Moussavian is closely linked to the Iranian regime and

00:27:20.020 to the regime's campaigns of terrorism and murder.

00:27:22.660 His presence at Princeton makes students feel justifiably afraid for their safety.

00:27:27.340 Princeton's decision to keep employing him shows that they care less about their students

00:27:32.140 and more about providing a platform for pro-regime and anti-American propaganda.

00:27:39.100 That kind of reckless institutional ideological bias is exactly why the Trump administration

00:27:46.340 is reassessing federal funding at Princeton.

00:27:49.180 And if you look at Moussavian's record, so he's expressed support for Hamas, he's expressed support for Hezbollah.

00:27:58.820 They are both designated terrorist organizations, and he paid tribute to Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in 2020.

00:28:10.200 He attended the funeral of Soleimani.

00:28:11.700 Now, Soleimani was the leading state funder of terrorism.

00:28:17.200 Soleimani is directly responsible for the murder of over 600 American military personnel in the Middle East.

00:28:25.560 And he was planning terrorist attacks all over the world, and President Trump rightfully took Soleimani out.

00:28:30.600 By the way, I introduced a resolution in the Senate that passed the Senate with bipartisan support

00:28:34.740 commending President Trump for taking General Soleimani out.

00:28:37.900 Well, Moussavian went to his funeral, and not only that, but Moussavian has also declined to renounce his support for Hamas,

00:28:49.620 declined to renounce his support for Hezbollah, and declined to renounce his support for Iran's fatwa,

00:28:55.640 which is a religious decree to assassinate the British-American writer Salman Rushdie.

00:29:01.200 So this is someone who's on the Princeton faculty who is there.

00:29:06.460 By the way, you know, when you had all of the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel protests on college campuses at Princeton,

00:29:13.460 they had a Hezbollah flag waving on the Princeton campus.

00:29:17.280 It made me very sad for my alma mater.

00:29:18.980 And to be clear, Hezbollah, in addition to waging war against Israel and killing countless civilians there,

00:29:25.940 in 1983, Hezbollah did a bombing, murdered 241 U.S. military members in Beirut.

00:29:32.200 I will say, a current Princeton student, Maximilian Mayer, who I don't know,

00:29:37.480 but he is the president of the Princeton Tigers for Israel, and he's an undergraduate right now,

00:29:42.560 he said, quote, I commend Senator Cruz for raising urgent concerns about Princeton's employment of Mousavian,

00:29:50.000 whose career has been defined by shilling for the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism.

00:29:55.460 Credible reports linking Mousavian to the oversight of Iranian dissident assassinations in Europe,

00:30:01.860 along with his endorsement of the fatwa on Salman Rushdie, are deeply alarming.

00:30:07.300 And you know what? This is a professor at an Ivy League university.

00:30:09.960 Yeah, urging Princeton to take action and do the right thing here is so important,

00:30:14.380 especially since some of these universities refuse to protect students,

00:30:17.580 and especially those that are Jewish.

00:30:19.480 Yeah, and Mousavian responded to me on Twitter today.

00:30:23.580 He put out a long tweet. I'm not going to read all of it, but he said,

00:30:27.100 Dear Senator Ted Cruz, yesterday, April 28th, in your interview with Fox News,

00:30:30.620 you called for my dismissal from Princeton University and made baseless accusations.

00:30:35.060 I invite you to a public debate so that while hearing responses to these claims,

00:30:38.560 we can leave to the judgment of the American people.

00:30:41.100 The time and place of the public debate will be entirely up to you.

00:30:43.980 If you do not accept this offer, I ask you to read some of the books and articles I've written

00:30:47.400 over my 15 years of academic work at Princeton University.

00:30:50.460 I will tell you I responded to that, and I declined his offer.

00:30:56.800 I said, I try not to be in the room with people linked to Iranian terrorists

00:31:01.400 who have murdered dozens of dissidents.

00:31:03.760 Your books are unreadable, and the only debate you should be having is with DHS agents

00:31:09.980 at the end of which you should be deported.

00:31:12.600 As my mother-in-law would say, Senator, you're making good choices with that rule

00:31:17.320 of not being in the room with people like that.

00:31:18.920 Well done, sir. Well done.

00:31:20.280 Don't forget to share this podcast, especially this story, so other people will hear about it.

00:31:24.840 It'll put pressure, I'm sure, on Princeton to maybe do the right thing here.

00:31:28.240 So wherever you are on social media, share it.

00:31:30.080 Don't forget we do this show Monday, Wednesday, Friday.

00:31:31.960 You can also grab my show on those in-between days.

00:31:34.700 The Ben Ferguson Podcast, wherever you get your podcasts,

00:31:37.820 I'll keep you up to date on the latest breaking news.

00:31:39.580 And then Senator and I will see you back here on Friday morning.

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