As America marks its 250th anniversary, we re looking back at two and a half centuries of rebellion and liberty through the eyes of the heroes who defended it. On today s show, we hear from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on the importance of standing with Israel and the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
00:02:22.160Senator, we've got a lot to talk about today on the show.
00:02:24.840including some very interesting moves by ActBlue.
00:02:29.160We've got to remind people exactly who they are.
00:02:31.780Well, ActBlue is the principal online funding arm for the Democrats nationally.
00:02:37.700It is the website that left-wing donors go to to give money to Democrats.
00:02:42.320It raises hundreds of millions of dollars for Democrats.
00:02:45.940It funnels in, in the aggregate, billions of dollars for Democrats.
00:02:50.440And there have long been serious allegations that ActBlue was essentially laundering foreign contributions, that foreign nationals, in particular Chinese nationals, were making illegal campaign contributions through ActBlue to fund Democrats running for office.
00:03:09.500And this week, the CEO of ActBlue testified before Congress, and Congress, the House, is examining whether ActBlue was deliberately covered up the illegal foreign contributions that they were receiving, whether ActBlue lied to Congress over it.
00:03:26.780And the ActBlue CEO, over and over and over again, pleaded the fifth.
00:03:31.800Her answer to just about every question was, I can't answer because that may incriminate me in criminal conduct.
00:03:38.360It was stunning. We're going to break it down and give you all the facts on that.
00:04:57.700All right, so let's get back into this AgBlue.
00:04:59.860So there are many people that they've heard the name.
00:05:03.720You described this perfectly, Senator.
00:05:05.840This is the arm and the power, the muscle of the Democratic Party pushing agenda, ideology, campaigns, ad campaigns, advocacy campaigns for radical left things.
00:05:19.480But when they were asked about their funding and this is why it matters, they wouldn't answer the question of, hey, is this money coming in that you guys are raising from outside the United States of America?
00:05:31.840That would be a huge deal, because if I remember correctly, Democrats were obsessed with foreign interference in our elections.
00:05:38.400They were obsessed with if Russia was involved in Donald Trump's campaign.
00:05:42.420Remember that that was like something they wanted to impeach him over.
00:05:45.200And now, like you asked him a question like, hey, where's your guys funding coming from?
00:05:49.480they're literally not saying a word. Yeah, it's not just that they wanted to impeach him over it.
00:05:55.320They did impeach him over it. They impeached him. The House voted to impeach him when the
00:06:00.000Democrats had control. And then the Senate acquitted President Trump. But look, the facts
00:06:07.200here are really concerning on their face. Here's what the New York Post reported.
00:06:13.440ActBlue CEO pleads the fifth as House probes illegal foreign donations to Dems.
00:06:17.940The CEO of the largest Democratic fundraising platform pleaded the Fifth Amendment Wednesday
00:06:22.680rather than testify before Congress about allegations that her firm
00:06:26.700illegally funneled foreign donations to federal campaigns.
00:06:31.760On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer this question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.
00:06:37.780ActBlue boss Regina Wallace-Jones said in response to the first question posed during the House hearing.
00:06:44.680House Administration Committee Chairman Brian Stile from Wisconsin said in his opening remarks that there was, quote,
00:06:51.580significant concern that ActBlue may have allowed foreign donations on their platform, lied to Congress, and withheld responsive documents from a congressional subpoena.
00:07:01.960All three of those actions are illegal.
00:07:06.420The panel issued a subpoena compelling Wallace's Jones testimony after ActBlue lawyers indicated
00:07:12.080she wouldn't answer questions on a voluntary basis.
00:07:15.440Stile and other Republican committee chairmen looking into ActBlue have claimed that Wallace
00:07:19.600Jones also misled Congress about the strength of fraud safeguards on its platform.
00:07:25.980Representative Joe Morrell, the top Democrat on the administration committee, dismissed
00:07:30.240the hearing is a partisan exercise and accused his GOP colleagues of refusing to investigate
00:07:36.040possible illegal foreign donations on their party's biggest platform, WinRed. Well, the
00:07:41.580difference is WinRed does not have multiple serious credible allegations of foreign donors,
00:07:47.160in particular Chinese donors, funneling vast amounts of cash into campaigns. And I want you
00:07:54.240to listen to this exchange. This is an exchange with the ActBlue CEO and the House Committee.
00:08:00.100On the advice of my counsel, I respectfully decline to answer this question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.
00:08:11.260On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.
00:08:20.360I respectfully decline to answer the question pursuant to the attorney-client privilege and my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.
00:08:29.500On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth
00:08:34.920Amendment rights under the Constitution.
00:08:37.160On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer the question pursuant to
00:08:42.700my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.
00:08:45.160On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth
00:08:51.280Amendment rights under the Constitution.
00:08:53.940Senator, that goes on for another like two minutes.
00:14:42.380Do you have an opinion on this tattoo?
00:14:45.900I'm not an expert on tattoos. No, I don't.
00:14:48.200Okay. I can give you a little bit of background. This is a tattoo on main Democrat Senate candidate Grand Plattner's chest. That's the Nazi SS death head tattoo. Do you have any opinions on that?
00:15:06.240If it's what you say, if it's a Nazi symbol, we oppose Nazis.
00:15:43.100Nazis normally get Nazi tattoos on their chest? Again, I, I assume they don't. You assume they
00:15:50.700don't? I, I would assume so too. I don't know anybody who's not a Nazi. I don't know anybody
00:15:56.900who has a Nazi tattoo on their chest, but is not a Nazi. Do you? Do you think that somebody who has
00:16:04.980a Nazi tattoo on their chest should serve in the United States Senate? I wouldn't vote for that
00:16:09.900person. I certainly wouldn't either. Do you think that this should disqualify him politically from
00:16:18.520serving in the Senate? Again, I'm not sure where the line of questions is going. The SPLC, if
00:16:26.780you're asking me, I'm sorry. Go ahead. If you're asking me if the SPLC opposes Nazis and Nazi
00:16:33.160symbols the answer is yes the SPLC is referred to this same tattoo as a racist uh skinhead
00:16:42.680symbol and tattoo you can see the resemblance there you wouldn't want somebody with a tattoo
00:16:48.540like that in the senate no no I wouldn't I wouldn't either um I appreciate your candor there
00:16:57.400um i i love that that's how hard it is to get the southern poverty law center to denounce a guy with
00:17:07.120a nazi tattoo that you have to spoon feed it to them center and then these are the same people
00:17:12.060that were actually funding and and approving expense reports for cross-burning of people
00:17:17.920they were paying a salary to in the kkk that is the part you can't make up and nazis to be clear
00:17:24.040It wasn't just the Klan. They were also funding Nazis. But look, the head of the Southern Poverty Law Center is a hardcore left-wing Democrat partisan. The SPLC is entirely in the tank for the Democrat Party. They hate Republicans.0.57
00:17:38.880it is fairly striking that the CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center was forced to say about Graham
00:17:46.180Plattner, the commie Nazi oyster farmer in Maine, quote, I wouldn't vote for him.0.54
00:17:54.740And to follow up, should the guy with the Nazi tattoo be in the Senate? No. That tells you just0.78
00:18:02.460how indefensible it is when even their most extreme partisans are forced to say, of course0.99
00:18:07.900not if you got a frigging Nazi tattoo on you. You're a Nazi, and we should not be electing1.00
00:18:14.180Nazis to the Senate. This shouldn't be hard, and yet every single Democrat senator except0.97
00:18:18.760John Fetterman is unwilling to say what the CEO just said there.
00:18:37.900and instant withdrawals, download the BetVictor app.
00:19:58.540Senator, I want to move into another story that we highlighted here months ago.
00:20:03.140It's an important story about the children that were lost by the prior administration.
00:20:10.780There were kids that were let into this country.
00:20:13.120They were not vetted, but with the adults that were with them, they were then given
00:20:17.640out to different people to, quote, take care of them in this country, and they disappeared.
00:20:22.320These children, many of them have been abused.
00:20:25.140Many of them have been abused sexually.
00:20:26.720Many of them have been abused even in work conditions, and they were lost by the prior
00:20:31.680administration. And now, luckily, many of them are being found because of what Donald Trump and
00:20:36.960the administration are doing. So perhaps the biggest lie about Joe Biden and the Democrats'
00:20:44.160immigration policies is the lie that they embrace open borders because of compassion.
00:20:51.040The reality is it is precisely the opposite. The Democrats had zero compassion for the Americans
00:20:57.500who were murdered by the violent criminal illegal aliens they released. They had zero compassion
00:21:02.120for the women who were raped by the violent criminal illegal aliens they released. They had1.00
00:21:07.560zero compassion for the kids who were brutalized and sexually assaulted by the violent criminal0.99
00:21:13.960illegal aliens they released. Another aspect of this tragedy is specifically the kids. During
00:21:20.640four years of Joe Biden's administration, the Biden administration lost over 300,000 children.
00:21:31.740Yeah. Verdict has covered this at length. This is a topic we talked about throughout the Biden
00:21:37.400years, but it was staggering. These are kids, often kids that come across the border unaccompanied.
00:21:43.560We had over 12 million illegal immigrants come into this country during the Biden years.
00:21:47.800And in many instances, you'd get a little boy, you'd get a little girl, they'd be in government
00:21:51.360custody. And what the Biden administration would do is they would hand it over to adults that came
00:21:57.100to pick them up, but they wouldn't check to see if those adults were family members. They wouldn't
00:22:01.680do DNA tests to see if they're related. They'd hand them over to adults and then they simply
00:22:06.580lost them. And they would end up with random adults that have kids. And the Biden administration
00:22:12.060said, we don't know where they are. We have no contact for them. And a significant number,
00:22:18.540we don't know how many, but a significant number of those kids were put into forced child labor.
00:22:24.640A significant number of those kids were put into sex slavery, were sexually abused. And no one in
00:22:32.400the Biden administration gave a damn. When Alejandro Mayorkas, who ran the Department of Homeland
00:22:37.860Security would testify before the Senate. I would question him about it. He was defiant.
00:22:43.280Well, thankfully, one of the very top priorities the Trump administration came in with is we're
00:22:49.100going to find those kids. And they've already found over 146,000 of them. They're still looking.
00:22:56.060I want you to listen to current DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen at a press conference this week.
00:23:02.100Give a listen. We're going to enforce our nation's laws, and we're going to right the wrongs that the
00:23:07.620Biden administration turned a blind eye to is because of President Trump's leadership. It's
00:23:12.900horrific to what's happening right in our own country because of four years of a blind eye
00:23:20.920that allowed unvetted sponsors to come pick up 450,000 kids on our borders, knowing their reports
00:23:31.420While the Biden administration was in office, their own reports was reporting that over a third of the females, regardless of age, was sexually assaulted before they made it to their border.
00:23:46.480They knew it was human traffickers that were trafficking these young kids to the border, and then they were unvetting or refusing to vet the so-called sponsors, and there was zero wellness checks.
00:24:02.020And they want to claim that Republicans, because we're enforcing the laws, is inhumane somehow?
00:24:07.680What's inhumane about taking care of our kids?
00:24:09.760As a father of six with three young girls, I will do whatever I have to do.
00:24:14.960I will move heaven and hell to go find these kids.
00:24:19.220You know, I love the commitment there.
00:24:21.080And I want to remind people of the vote center that have taken place, the Democrats.
00:24:25.380You had 145 Democrats that vote against mandating deportation for illegal aliens who commit sex crimes.
00:24:34.400You have 160 Democrats vote against mandating deportation for illegal aliens with DUIs.
00:24:41.480You have 186 Democrats who voted against mandating deportations for illegal aliens who commit welfare fraud.
00:24:51.300And you have 190 Democrats who voted against mandating deportation for illegal aliens who harm police animals.
00:25:01.060I think it's clear. Democrats have literally never met an illegal alien.
00:25:04.880They're not willing to feed, protect, defend, and allow to then take children and unvet them.0.55
00:25:10.360there's nothing they won't do to have an open border policy.0.69
00:25:48.200And it's, look, I want you to listen to Secretary Mullen talking about the kids they found so far and what they continue looking for.
00:25:58.980You know, I tell people that I haven't quit smiling since I've been Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
00:26:04.320But I have to take that back because when we start digging into these cases and you start hearing the absolute horrific things that took place underneath the Biden administration under true neglect at best and criminal at worst to allow 450,000 kids to go missing throughout this country, President Trump has made it a point to go find these kids.
00:26:32.760And because of our partnership with HHS and DOJ, Department of Homeland Security, truly using the best of the best, which the Democrats sometimes want to demonize, because a lot of times this is ICE, this is HSI, this is CBP.
00:26:49.720These individuals that the Democrats seem to want to defund, but because of President Trump, we finally funded them for three years, were able to push and go find these kids.
00:27:01.540We found 146,000 kids so far, 146,000 kids.
00:27:21.020If you don't have kids, I don't care if you're a liberal, you're independent, you're a Democrat, you're Republican.
00:27:24.840If you can't stand for law enforcement to go find these kids, who are you?
00:27:31.540Who are you? Every leader should understand what's going on.
00:27:35.940And do you know where we're finding the most of them? Sanctuary cities, because they know they're safe.
00:27:40.320If you think about sex trafficking, a child center, you would go to a sanctuary city.
00:27:45.720That is the safest place for you to operate. You and I have talked about this bluntly.0.69
00:27:50.880Well, and it's worth explaining why, because in a sanctuary city, you have Democrat elected officials.
00:27:56.620You have Democrat district attorneys who won't prosecute the human traffickers, who won't prosecute the sex traffickers, who have decided as a political matter that their party, the Democrat party, is for open borders.
00:28:10.600You know, you remember Chris Murphy when he said on TV, the very liberal Democrat from Connecticut, he said, the people we care about most, illegal immigrants.
00:28:20.720That was his phrase, the people we care about most.0.91
00:28:23.600And by the way, that's a lie also.0.99
00:28:26.620He doesn't care about the little girls and little boys being raped and turned into sex slaves.1.00
00:28:32.200He doesn't care about them at all.0.98
00:28:33.660What he cares about is letting in as many illegal immigrants as possible who will then vote Democrat and keep the party in power.0.55
00:28:40.800I want you to listen to Secretary Mullen making this point, that as there were multiple reports of kids being trapped in sex slavery, no Democrat gave a damn.
00:28:50.260It was being reported at the time it was happening, and there was no outrage, and no one tried to hold these people accountable.
00:28:55.860and kids now have been paying for it. They've been getting raped over and over and over again0.75
00:29:01.300because this previous administration chose not to enforce our nation's laws and protect the
00:29:07.980most vulnerable. That is shameful. Six to 700 times. That is a number that I do believe should
00:29:15.200haunt everyone listening. Yeah. Yeah. Look, I want you to remember when Alejandro Mayorkas
00:29:20.740testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. And I showed him the plastic bracelets,
00:29:27.520the colored bracelets that traffickers would put on every illegal they brought into this country,
00:29:32.780and they were color-coded for how many thousands of dollars they owed them. And it was literally,
00:29:36.720they were treating human beings like cattle. And when you stand on the border down by the Rio
00:29:42.140Grand River, you see hundreds of these in the grass. And I asked him what the colored wristbands
00:29:47.220were. And his answer was, I have no idea. I've never seen them before, which I get a bit made
00:29:52.900me really angry because it means he hadn't bothered to go to the border at all. He did not
00:29:58.760care about the children being trafficked. And I view those colored wristbands as modern day0.95
00:30:04.940leg irons. This is slavery today in America. And the Democrats were responsible for it. And one of0.54
00:30:11.360the most important things the Trump administration is doing is stopping this horrific abuse of
00:30:17.200kids that the Democrats allowed to have happen. All right, Senator, I want to get into another
00:30:21.540story that is getting like no news at all. It's the reason why we love doing this show together.
00:30:26.520We get to talk about issues like that. The Green New Deal, which is the Green New Scam,0.99
00:30:32.300has been exposed yet again for exactly what it is. And we've got some very interesting1.00
00:30:38.920data and ties to different green scam deals that your tax dollars were involved with.
00:30:45.260Well, this week, the Department of the Interior announced that they were cutting off
00:30:50.380millions of dollars that were flowing to radical left-wing groups that were using that money to
00:30:56.860actively fight against the Trump administration, to undermine the policies they were supposed to
00:31:03.040be implementing. And here's how Fox News reported it. Trump administration acts as ties to dozens
00:31:09.480of progressive groups in, quote, direct opposition to mission, decisive action. The Department of
00:31:16.580the Interior is cutting 43 partnerships with outside groups, it says, no longer align with
00:31:21.440the Trump administration's priorities, eliminating more than $4 million in planned funding for
00:31:27.280programs tied to DEI, environmental justice, and support services for illegal immigrants.
00:31:33.960Led by Secretary Doug Burgum, the department determined that the agreements were operating,
00:31:38.220quote, in direct opposition to its mission, according to a press release obtained by Fox
00:31:43.960News. Under Secretary Burgum, the Department of the Interior is ending partnerships with groups
00:31:49.520that no longer represent the priorities of the American people, the department said.
00:31:55.320In response, DOI said it is terminating all agreements with the identifying groups and
00:32:00.640removing references to them from its websites. The terminated agreement supported internship
00:32:05.580programs, conservation initiatives, research projects, and cooperative partnerships.
00:32:10.920A department-wide review launched in March uncovered nearly 3,000 active agreements
00:32:18.040with about 2,000 outside groups, ranging from NGOs and non-profits to private entities and
00:32:24.400educational institutions. The review later found multiple groups, quote, did not appear to provide
00:32:29.780a clear benefit or, quote, did not align with the department's mission, according to the department.
00:32:34.400Among the groups targeted were the Hispanic Access Foundation, which offers scholarships for illegal immigrant Latino students, and Latino Outdoors, which the department said provided instructions on avoiding detention by ICE.
00:32:50.800Latino Outdoors has advocated against oil and gas development, while Hispanic Access Foundation has worked with the National Park Service to conduct a variety of educational and cultural support activities, according to the department.
00:33:04.400The department cited the American Alliance of Museums, which it said had a contract with the National Park Services to build DEI programs across national parks as a part of the agency's community engagement initiative.
00:33:17.460The department pointed to the group's previous Facing Change initiative, which promoted DEI efforts at museums.
00:33:24.980Conservation International, an environmental group, the department said, advocates a total phase-out of fossil fuels.
00:33:33.240The department noted the organization's statement describing fossil fuels as the
00:33:37.220quote, leading culprit of planet warming carbon emissions and its support for environmental
00:33:42.040justice and equity focused climate policies. Another group on the department's list was the
00:33:48.420Cultural Landscape Foundation, which it said has a master cooperative agreement with the National
00:33:54.520Park Service to conduct a variety of educational and cultural support activities. The organization
00:34:01.180has opposed several administration initiatives, including suing over changes at the Kennedy
00:34:05.740Center, criticizing plans for the White House ballroom, and highlighting cultural landscapes
00:34:11.100and historic sites it said are threatened by administration action through its Landside
00:34:17.0002026 Erasing American History initiative. And look, understand, these are left-wing activist
00:34:24.420groups. They're entitled to have their political views. They're entitled to disagree with the
00:34:28.440Trump administration. We are a free country and they have a free speech right to say they think
00:34:33.540everything that the Trump administration does is wrong. What they don't have is an entitlement to
00:34:39.320get taxpayer dollars to do it, to pay them to fight the Trump administration. This is a pattern
00:34:46.160that the Democrats do a lot, which is when they take over government, they begin funneling
00:34:52.680millions and sometimes billions of dollars to their left-wing supposedly non-profit allies who
00:35:01.660then use that money to support their agenda and by the way to hire all of them and funnel the cash
00:35:07.140off it it is just naked corruption yeah you are making a ton of money off the money being donated
00:35:13.960let's be clear no no it is a very lucrative business when when you can turn on the spigot
00:35:20.060and have, as the EPA put it at the end of the Biden administration,
00:35:26.280basically throwing gold bars out the window.
00:35:51.640They just are typically blissfully ignorant.0.99
00:35:55.360I'm very glad the Trump administration is going after and cutting off this cash cow.0.99
00:36:01.220Senator, you're talking about the cash cow, and that's obviously part of it.
00:36:04.600We saw how many lefties and friends of Obama, for example, got massive amounts of cash before they filed for bankruptcy with things like—
00:36:14.260Stacey Abrams, with her left-wing nonprofit, got $2 billion, with a B.0.95
00:37:10.580You may remember during the Biden administration, when I went to visit an attention facility on the border, and this was at a time when the Biden administration was locking out all reporters, would not let any reporters see the kids in cages, and the cages, this was during COVID, the cages were packed.
00:37:28.180And I went in, and by the way, the ludicrous explanation that the Biden administration had
00:37:34.320at the time is they said, well, if ABC's reporter or Fox News's cameraman came in,
00:37:39.900they might spread COVID to the thousands of illegal immigrants housed in these cages.
00:37:44.100Well, I went in with my cell phone and filmed it and took a picture.1.00
00:37:47.340And if you may remember, there's this young left-wing woman who gets in my face and begins0.89
00:37:52.080yelling at me and saying to stop filming him.0.88
00:37:54.980She was someone who had come straight from a left-wing, open-border NGO
00:37:59.700and had come into the Biden administration to implement their open-border policies.
00:38:04.740That's what happens over and over and over again.
00:38:08.120And so cutting off their money is key to stopping this constant lawfare and this constant attack.