Verdict with Ted Cruz - Another American Hostage Home plus USAID Sending Millions to Hamas & Trump and Elon Detail More Outrageous Spending

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00:00:05.520 It is so fun to start verdict with good news and welcome.

00:00:10.420 It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:13.260 And Senator, we have got incredible news that a hostage coming out of Russia has been released.

00:00:20.140 This is incredible.

00:00:21.520 Yet another American hostage has come home.

00:00:23.740 Mark Fogel, who has been in Russian jail since 2021, returned home to the United States this week.

00:00:32.800 Thursday night, late Thursday night, he was in the Oval Office with President Trump.

00:00:38.200 This is a big victory bringing American hostages home.

00:00:43.140 It's a continuation of the Venezuelan hostages that were brought home the first week President Trump was back in office.

00:00:51.100 And the Hamas hostages, both Americans and Israelis, that have been released since President Trump has been in office.

00:00:57.980 Yet another hostage release.

00:01:00.060 This is the consequence of a strong commander-in-chief who our enemies are afraid of.

00:01:06.580 That's a big victory for everyone.

00:01:09.100 On top of that, we also have yet more breaking news of USAID funding millions and millions of dollars

00:01:17.320 that is going to terrorists, that funded Hamas, that funded terrorists, that did enormous damage to U.S. national security interests

00:01:27.380 and put money in the pockets of those who were attempting to murder and succeeded in murdering Israelis and Americans.

00:01:36.760 And finally, today, Elon Musk and Donald Trump were in the Oval Office together.

00:01:41.640 The president this week signed an executive order implementing Doge's recommendations,

00:01:47.580 and they detailed yet more incredible examples of abusive waste, fraud, and abuse,

00:01:55.300 including, astonishingly enough, people receiving Social Security benefits who are allegedly 150 years old.

00:02:02.940 Spoiler alert, they ain't 150.

00:02:05.580 All of that on today's show.

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00:03:36.340 Senator, let's get back to this incredible story about this hostage.

00:03:41.440 Mark Fogel, it was an American detained in Russia.

00:03:44.640 from august of 2021 until uh february the 11th of 2025 donald trump becomes president and he gets

00:03:58.380 him out well he was arrested in russia at a russian airport for the possession of drugs

00:04:02.880 which which his family said was medically prescribed marijuana and and fogel was a history

00:04:08.800 teacher uh who who was working at the anglo-american school in moscow and and he was

00:04:14.980 arrested and and uh he he came home and when he came home it's snowing in washington dc there's a

00:04:22.340 bunch of snow on the ground and he came out of the snow to come into the oval office to be with

00:04:27.080 president trump and i gotta say it was powerful it was amazing the scene of the two of them in the

00:04:32.320 oval office here give a listen there's a very happy guy tonight so it's uh it's just a real honor

00:04:38.540 an honor to have you at the way i feel like the luckiest man on earth right now and uh

00:04:45.620 i want you to know that i am not a hero in this at all and president trump is a hero

00:04:56.880 these men that came from the diplomatic service are heroes

00:05:03.600 the senators and representatives of past legislation in my honor to get me home are the heroes

00:05:15.500 uh i am in awe of what they all did uh my family has been a force

00:05:24.520 i think my 95 year old mother is probably the most dynamic 95 year old on earth right now 1.00

00:05:34.220 and uh i am so indebted to so many people i i think i remember a a churchill quote that he said

00:05:44.840 when the raf was fighting the liftoff and he said that uh never have so many

00:05:53.620 owed so much to so few and i put myself fortunately and unfortunately into that category and i said

00:06:02.660 never has one owed so much to so many that this super organism of people that came to my support

00:06:12.360 and the love that i was given sustained sustained sustained me for three and a half years

00:06:21.960 in a prison that had me in hospitals for more than 100 days i was given more than 400 injections

00:06:32.280 in that time and knowing i had the support of my fellow pennsylvanians my family my friends

00:06:44.520 uh it was so overwhelming that uh

00:06:51.320 uh it brought me to my knees and it brought me to tears but it was uh it was my energy

00:07:02.200 it was my being that that kept me going that whole time and i will forever be indebted

00:07:13.480 president trump

00:07:16.840 to steve over there what a dynamic man this guy is that's true

00:07:21.480 when i met him the energy the can-do attitude just exudes from his body and when he smiled at me and

00:07:37.080 introduced me and i got the feel for what has happened you know it's not just me it's everybody and and

00:07:44.520 secretary rubio who met my son a while back uh i i i'm i'm a middle class school teacher who's now

00:07:55.000 in a dream world we're going to show you the lincoln bedroom it's a very special special place

00:08:08.520 appropriate for tonight very appropriate and uh

00:08:12.760 uh thank you all and i love our country and i'm so happy to be back here and

00:08:28.200 i wish i could articulate it better you've done beautifully and uh he's got a great mother

00:08:34.120 and when i saw the mother at a rally she said would you if you win will you get my son out and i promise

00:08:40.760 she's 95 years old and i said we'll get him out and we got him out pretty quickly she told me

00:08:47.240 that that exact exact words she made quite an impression and you also did and uh i'm in awe of what

00:08:57.640 you've done and your team it's great to have you back oh and have a great life wow that that that's

00:09:04.200 just amazingly powerful and and you think about mark fogel's life has been transformed and and it's

00:09:12.200 been transformed because donald trump is a strong commander-in-chief and putin is afraid of him

00:09:19.720 venezuela is afraid of him hamas is afraid of him and and and that that that pattern is significant

00:09:26.920 look hostage negotiations are always complicated and difficult and and that's the difference we have

00:09:32.680 you think about in three weeks to see so many american hostages released that's a big deal

00:09:39.400 which brings me to the question and it's frustrating i'm one of those i want to be very clear center i'm

00:09:44.200 frustrated this makes me angry that you look at a guy like mark you you look at how sincere his love

00:09:50.680 is for this country how thankful he is uh to to see the light of day again in america to be out of hell

00:09:57.960 in russia and the way that we know they treat people in russia he talked in that in that clip about

00:10:02.920 how many days he spent in the hospital how many injections he received and the reality is many

00:10:08.520 people don't make it out alive once you go into the prison system in russia and there's an anger i

00:10:15.000 think by not just me but i think probably many people listening they're saying how is it that biden harris

00:10:20.840 didn't get these people out it's not just him it's the others you just mentioned but it's like

00:10:25.880 did they just not fight hard enough do they just not give a damn because donald trump just did it and 0.78

00:10:30.840 i i think this is something that that outrages me and many others you know i i don't think it's fair

00:10:36.440 to say that that biden didn't give a damn uh you know i will say during his presidency that that there 0.74

00:10:42.120 were some hostages who returned home mark swadan who was a texan who was wrongfully imprisoned in in

00:10:47.880 in china for over 10 years i was very very active pressing uh for swadan's return look look when

00:10:54.280 you're dealing with hostages it is always complicated it is always difficult i've been involved

00:10:59.880 in in in seeking and and helping get the return of multiple hostages over the past decade what i would

00:11:07.560 say is is is the reason that that mark fogel wasn't returned and then that these hostages were not

00:11:13.400 released under biden is is that our enemies viewed biden as a weak commander in chief and and that

00:11:20.440 they were weak they that they were not uh they were not afraid of him uh putin was not afraid of biden

00:11:27.400 hamas was not afraid of biden venezuela maduro was not afraid of biden and and and all right let's take

00:11:33.800 an example let's take an example this week where hamas is is delaying some of the israeli hostages and and

00:11:41.160 give a listen to trump uh explaining what will happen if they don't release the hostages by

00:11:47.480 saturday at noon give a listen well i would say this and i'm going to let that because that's israel's

00:11:52.520 decision but uh as far as i'm concerned if all of the hostages aren't returned by

00:11:58.920 saturday at 12 o'clock i think it's an appropriate time i would say cancel it and all bets are off and

00:12:06.440 uh let hell break out i'd say they ought to be returned by 12 o'clock on saturday and if they're

00:12:12.520 not returned all of them not in drips and drabs not two and one and three and four and two

00:12:19.720 uh saturday at 12 o'clock and after that i would say uh all hell is going to break out

00:12:30.120 there's something interesting he said there he said this is my opinion and then he basically said that

00:12:35.160 gave some room there for israel to pivot we now know there is uh no pivot needed netanyahu has

00:12:41.480 come out saying the same exact thing uh it's it's clear that the our strongest ally we are

00:12:47.320 getting their back and we are one again on this on this front that is good for both countries well

00:12:53.320 and and look both prime minister netanyahu and president trump are very focused on bringing the

00:12:57.880 hostages home as you know i spent two hours with bb on thursday night and then i had dinner with

00:13:03.400 trump on friday night so i've seen both of them within the last few days and and i will say bb echoed

00:13:09.080 exactly that message that came from trump which which is if the hostages are not not released by

00:13:14.920 noon on saturday all of the hostages and the ceasefire is over and israel will return to eliminating the

00:13:21.480 hamas terrorist and and and i i think that is the way you get hostages released from a position of

00:13:28.280 strength and we're seeing strength from the commander in chief final question on this and that is uh when

00:13:33.480 you look forward there are still other americans i know that are around the country around the world

00:13:37.720 today being held is this a trend you expect to continue because of the difference in leadership

00:13:44.040 yes look a strong commander in chief when when our enemies are afraid of the president americans are

00:13:51.080 safer uh americans are at less risk because the bad guys the terrorists those who who want to take

00:13:58.520 hostages don't have less confidence they can succeed and that is a good thing canadian women are looking 1.00

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00:14:32.600 you listen to your podcasts i want to move to to usa id uh and and some of the the big issues that

00:14:41.080 are now coming out of that and it deals also with the issue of terrorism we got some shocking news

00:14:47.880 that has come out it's something by the way that i think it's we need to point out very clearly you

00:14:52.600 had been talking about this now for several years in in congress and on this show yeah and thank goodness

00:14:59.880 now at least all of it seems to be being exposed because of the digging with doge and the trump

00:15:05.560 administration back in office well there was a lengthy tweet that i sent this week that that said the

00:15:10.440 following the full story of usa id funding hamas is vast and much of it was done in secret before and

00:15:18.360 after october 7th the usa id flowed unaccountable hundreds of millions of dollars towards hamas

00:15:24.680 that enabled it to launch the attack and keep battling israel afterwards they lied about the nature

00:15:30.760 of that aid in public databases refused to disclose what groups were getting the money and gave tens of

00:15:37.880 millions of millions in american cash to be distributed without american supervision they internally admitted

00:15:45.240 the aid would benefit hamas and even exempted themselves from anti-terrorism laws but in public

00:15:52.840 issued denial for all four years of the biden administration i prevented them from confirming a

00:15:59.640 middle east administrator because they wouldn't acknowledge what they were doing because continuing their secret

00:16:06.520 pro-hammas programs was more important to them and and i'll tell you there was a a major article in

00:16:14.120 the washington free beacon uh that i tweeted out as well and it's an article my team and i provided a

00:16:20.360 significant amount of the information to the washington free beacon but it's but it's entitled

00:16:25.080 at usa id funding for terror tide groups and internal hostility towards israel goes back years one former state

00:16:34.920 department official described a lack of embarrassment among some usa id staffers about being associated with

00:16:43.800 terrorist organization and i'm going to read from the beginning of this article because it's an important

00:16:48.280 article and the facts in it are very disturbing as the trump administration works to shutter the u.s

00:16:53.880 united states agency for international development usa id current and former u.s officials who work

00:16:59.720 closely with the embattled aid group say they watched for years as it funneled millions of dollars to

00:17:06.120 anti-israel advocacy groups and entities linked to terrorism that funding caused internal friction

00:17:12.600 across multiple administrations according to those who spoke with the washington free beacon in some cases

00:17:19.160 usa id fought to conceal how taxpayer funds were spent and when it came to israel officials recalled

00:17:25.560 battling usa id over funding for groups that worked to undermine the jewish state or maintain ties to

00:17:32.680 terror organizations quote for those who believe in a strong u.s israel relationship elements of usa id had

00:17:39.800 been problematic for years said one former state department official who worked with usa id during the

00:17:46.120 biden administration quote there was even a lack of embarrassment among some usa id staffers about being

00:17:53.240 associated with terrorist organizations some of the terror tide funding initiatives are publicly known

00:17:59.160 in november 2022 for instance usa id awarded a hundred thousand dollars to a palestinian activist group

00:18:06.920 whose leaders hailed the popular front for the liberation of palestine a designated terror group just

00:18:15.720 six days before hamas's october 7th assault on israel usa id handed nine hundred thousand dollars

00:18:25.000 to a terror charity charity in gaza involved with the son of hamas leader ismail hanayye usa id's

00:18:34.760 hostilities towards the jewish state however ran deeper than the agency's grant making under samantha power

00:18:41.640 former president joe biden's pick to run usa id agency officials fought pro-israel policy making

00:18:49.080 at the state department often urging their colleagues at foggy bottom to pare down statements that praise the

00:18:55.400 jewish state former official said in 2021 during a period of conflict with hamas power herself refused to

00:19:03.880 meet with israel's ambassador unless israel reached a ceasefire with the iran-backed terror group

00:19:11.240 the decision put power at odds with the white house national security council which signed off on the

00:19:17.640 meeting emails obtained by the free beacon show it is shocking to hear you read that and yet it's it's so

00:19:25.000 well documented it's something that you've been sounding the alarm on for a while now because of a new

00:19:30.120 administration we're actually getting some movement on this but but how angry should americans be that their

00:19:37.080 tax dollars have been going to terrorist organizations through these funnel through these charities and

00:19:44.440 other groups and there were warnings meaning that the government biden harris and their team they knew

00:19:51.000 the money was ending up with these people this wasn't a one-off this wasn't an accident this was deliberate

00:19:56.760 well they knew it and they actively hit it let me read a little bore from this free beacon article a

00:20:01.560 january memo from inspector general paul martin noted that the agency quote does not maintain a

00:20:08.200 comprehensive internal database of sub-awardees in other words the foreign entities that work with a primary

00:20:16.040 grantee on a usaid project often go unreported impeding the ability of the agency investigators to

00:20:24.040 vet fraud allegations according to the memo such allegations often include the diversion of taxpayer

00:20:31.480 taxpayer-funded aid to terrorist organizations in a november report for example martin quote

00:20:38.440 identified deliberate interference and efforts to divert humanitarian assistance by foreign terrorist

00:20:45.240 organizations including systemic coercion of aid workers by fto's foreign terrorist organizations and

00:20:53.560 fto influence over beneficiary selection these diversion efforts are particularly

00:21:01.160 pronounced in hamas-controlled gaza a february report from the middle east forum think tank

00:21:07.800 found that the usaid had awarded millions of dollars to organizations directly in gaza controlled

00:21:17.080 by hamas let me read that again a february report from the middle east forum think tank found that

00:21:24.280 usaaid had awarded millions of federal dollars to organizations directly in gaza controlled by hamas and it continues

00:21:35.160 in one bideneric case usaid funded an educational and community center in gaza quote controlled by

00:21:45.000 a local group called the unlimited friends association the association openly collaborated with hamas inviting the

00:21:53.800 terror group's officials to the terror group officials to its office and boasting of u.s funded projects in hamas

00:21:59.880 controlled newspapers in 2021 its director called for jerusalem to be cleansed quote from the impurity

00:22:10.440 of the jews this is who joe biden and the democrats were sending millions of dollars to and this is who they were covering it up 0.58

00:22:19.800 not only were they covering it up but this has a usaid has a long history that's now well documented

00:22:27.000 of them helping radicals and one of the things you and i talked about before the show was another just totally insane

00:22:35.880 aspect of this and that included paying for terrorist college funds well that that is exactly right and it is a stunning

00:22:44.200 story so so this is something that's been reported in fox news and and and the new york post here's what

00:22:49.320 the new york post said usaid reportedly bankrolled al-qaeda terrorist college tuition unearthed records showed

00:22:57.400 um usaid american board jihadist anwar al-ilaki received full funding to attend colorado state university in 1990

00:23:10.200 usaid documents obtained by fox news showed now now who is anwar al-ilaki he is a notorious terrorist so

00:23:18.600 notorious that president barack obama ordered him killed in a u.s airstrike in yemen 20 years later

00:23:26.760 the documents revealed that al al-ilaki who was born in las cruces new mexico lied on his application and

00:23:33.960 claimed that he was born in yemen apparently so he would be eligible for the federal tuition funding

00:23:40.760 worth more than twenty seven thousand dollars at the time that was 1990 tuition and fees for an

00:23:46.520 international student uh at at the university today would be nearly 10 times that using the education

00:23:54.280 usaid provided him he earned a bachelor's in civil engineering in 1994 al-ilaki would go on to teach

00:24:01.560 islam at mosques across the country from denver to san diego and virginia where u.s officials believe he

00:24:08.360 used his platform to radicalize and recruit terrorists and understand al-ilaki is directly 0.50

00:24:15.240 implicated uh in number one at the san diego mosque he met the 9-11 hijackers nawaf al-hasmi and khalid al-midhar

00:24:24.840 two of the men who flew flight 77 into the pentagon uh in on 9-11 and he was arrested in 2006 for his

00:24:35.720 terrorist ties in yemen and three years later on while al-ilaki communicated with nadal hassan who

00:24:43.320 murdered 14 innocent souls at at fort hood anwar al-ilaki was also tied to the underwear bomber

00:24:50.600 umar farouk abd-matullab who tried to blow up a detroit bound northwest airlines flight on christmas

00:24:59.400 day 2009 with bombs hidden in his shorts this is who usaaid said you know what we're gonna pay for

00:25:08.360 you to get a college degree what in the hell are these people doing so the question that i got to

00:25:13.720 ask finally on this to to wrap it up and people that are listening are going to say number one

00:25:19.560 how did this a happen but even more so how are people not going to jail for knowingly giving american

00:25:28.520 taxpayer dollars to terrorists i mean if you are working in our government even if it's under the

00:25:34.760 direction of the biden harris regime at the time and you're sending out money that you know is going

00:25:39.880 to terrorists around the world is that not like breaking some law senator well look that's a

00:25:45.880 question that i think is going to have to be investigated and examined you know i will say

00:25:50.040 u.s anti-terrorism laws prohibit sending money that goes to terrorism and in fact the biden administration

00:25:56.600 made a formal assessment and they concluded that sending the money to gaza uh that that it was very

00:26:02.440 likely that money would be used by hamas for terrorism now ordinarily when you make that

00:26:07.320 determination under american anti-terrorism law you don't send the money you can't send the money once

00:26:13.000 you determine that it's likely it'll go to terrorism however the way the law is written

00:26:17.960 the president has the authority to waive that provision and that's exactly what they did because

00:26:23.000 they made a determination that their radical politics were more important than stopping terrorists

00:26:30.760 from murdering american citizens and murdering israeli citizens and tragically the entire world 1.00

00:26:36.280 saw the consequences of that radicalism on october 7th do you think there will be any accountability

00:26:42.680 for this or is this going to be another one of those where hey we were in charge so we get to we

00:26:47.000 got away with it look i certainly hope there will be accountability but at a minimum we're seeing

00:26:51.400 accountability in president trump and elon musk shutting down these programs at usa id i think that is very

00:26:58.840 good and my hope and expectations is that congress will come along and we will pass legislation

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00:28:59.160 president's doing to clean it up let let's move to another aspect of just an incredible three weeks

00:29:06.600 where elon musk and donald trump are doing exactly what they said they were going to do and they are i

00:29:13.400 i think using the media the bully pulpit the the microphone that they've been given

00:29:20.200 in the oval office to inform the american people those that voted for him and others that maybe didn't

00:29:27.720 that hey we're finding some of the most ridiculous egregious waste of your tax dollars and one of the

00:29:35.560 stories i talked about was people that are still getting social security checks when they're

00:29:39.320 quote 150 years old yeah it was really powerful so president trump and elon musk did did a press

00:29:45.680 conference from the oval office on thursday earlier this week president trump signed an executive order

00:29:51.280 instructing doge to coordinate with federal agencies and and to execute massive cuts in in federal

00:29:57.380 government staffing numbers and and the order instructs federal agencies and doge to significantly

00:30:02.680 shrink the size of the federal government and to limit the hiring of new employees and and i gotta say

00:30:08.200 elon musk laid out several of the the the egregious examples of of abuse listen to listen to this

00:30:15.460 first one you know there's crazy things like just cursory examination of social security and we've got

00:30:21.860 people in there that are 150 years old now do you know anyone is 150 i don't okay um they should be 1.00

00:30:29.480 on the guinness book of world records they're missing out um so you know that's the case where like i think

00:30:35.720 they're probably dead it's my guess uh or or they should be very famous one of the two i mean i want

00:30:41.280 to meet him elon wants to meet him the president wants to meet him you want to meet him right if

00:30:44.740 you're 150 and you're still cashing that check ben ben i gotta say you don't look a day over 140

00:30:50.240 okay i mean and this is the stuff that you you just can't even make it up of course they would be

00:30:56.080 sending a check to somebody that we assume is just is committing fraud here right like this check's

00:31:01.680 never stopped and i go just keep cashing them of course it's fraud of course it's fraud and and the

00:31:07.760 biden administration had no interest in in uncovering that fraud and and take a listen to

00:31:12.600 what president trump said about the magnitude of the waste fraud and abuse that they're finding

00:31:16.840 billions and billions of dollars in waste fraud and abuse and uh i think it's very important and

00:31:24.460 that's one of the reasons i got elected i say we're going to do that nobody had any idea it was

00:31:29.160 that bad that sick and that corrupt and it seems hard to believe that judges want to try and stop

00:31:35.020 us from looking for corruption especially when we found hundreds of millions of dollars worth much

00:31:41.020 more than that in just a short period of time we want to weed out the corruption and it seems hard

00:31:46.900 to believe that a judge could say uh we don't want you to do that well so maybe we have to look at

00:31:53.040 the judges because that's very serious i think it's a very serious violation he mentions the judges

00:31:58.460 there by the way there's a lot of activist judges that were put in by liberals who are like all

00:32:03.840 right we're the last defense here so let's try to you know stop him at all costs to to you know

00:32:09.560 because he's too successful at giving the american people transparency and their money back look barack

00:32:16.020 obama and joe biden put a lot of radicals on the federal bench and and right now you've got democrat

00:32:21.240 attorneys general uh going and seeking out these radicals to file lawsuits you've also got left-wing 0.89

00:32:26.660 special interest groups seeking out these radical judges we're going to see a lot of lawsuits we're

00:32:32.140 going to see a lot of lawfare over the next four years but you know i gotta say watching democrats

00:32:37.220 in the media melt down number one they've always melted down over trump they have trump derangement

00:32:41.440 syndrome but they also have elon derangement syndrome and they they scream well elon musk was

00:32:46.440 not elected to anything well yeah that's true but but donald trump was elected to something he was

00:32:53.120 elected to president of the united states and he was elected on a mandate and and this is actually

00:32:57.720 a point that that elon made made quite effectively in the oval give a listen the people voted for

00:33:04.940 major government reform there should be no doubt about that that was on the campaign the president

00:33:11.080 spoke about that at every rally the people voted for for major government reform and that's what

00:33:16.300 people are going to get they're going to get what they voted for and a lot of times that you know

00:33:20.480 people that don't get what they voted for but in this presidency they are going to get what they

00:33:25.300 voted for and that's what democracy is all about i gotta say i love listening to elon you spent a lot

00:33:31.280 of time with him i think this is a perfect example of just how genuine his heart is on this he truly is

00:33:38.660 a believer in this country and giving the american people what they voted for and he is an agent to go

00:33:44.840 find the waste fraud and abuse and he's and he's and he's incredibly focused on it he is he is

00:33:50.300 incredibly focused and he's right this is democracy and yet it is causing the radical left to lose their

00:33:56.580 minds i you know i gotta say i i i want to play this this this segment from cnn because it really does

00:34:02.720 show how the media the the their minds are melting down you you had former new hampshire governor chris

00:34:08.700 sununu uh who's on and he's on with anderson cooper and anderson cooper loses it and you've also got

00:34:14.280 jeffrey tobin uh another left-wing cnn contributor you know you're old buddies these are all the folks

00:34:19.440 you piled around with them um seven years in hell seven years in hell do you have cnn tattooed somewhere 0.81

00:34:26.500 on your body i i do not i i do not i'm sure yeah just checking so so all right give a listen to

00:34:33.020 chris sununu and and and and look how he how he causes the cnn folks to lose their minds

00:34:38.240 it was surreal but i gotta tell you i know what you're not showing here musk gave seven specific

00:34:44.100 examples off the top of his head of where the corruption and fraud were i know you don't you

00:34:48.220 didn't play the clips he was talking about a contractor that had a three-month contract

00:34:51.420 he was paid for 20 years he was talking about welfare benefits that were being paid to someone

00:34:55.300 that was technically 150 years old he was talking about line items in the treasury that had no

00:34:59.860 justification there's no any actual like he doesn't present any actual evidence well he's

00:35:02.900 standing there in in the oval office do you expect him to come in with 10 000 pages and and i have to be

00:35:07.580 clear to complain about this administration about transparency when this president takes open

00:35:12.360 questions on a daily basis yet joe biden didn't show up for a press conference in six months

00:35:16.600 is insane these guys are being extremely transparent they don't have to sit there and take the questions

00:35:21.500 but they do that's all on the website it's all out there it's not transparency to say things that

00:35:27.900 have no factual background i mean to say we're cutting you know we've found a billion dollars or a

00:35:33.160 trillion dollars in waste with no specifics that's just talk that's not transparency it's 23 days in

00:35:39.500 here guys 23 days you're you're you're talking about 2.3 billion that was saved last year these

00:35:44.340 guys are saving 2.3 billion a day but you know well you know it's incredible that's what they're

00:35:48.580 saying but where's the proof you're waiting you're not going to be satisfied till he shows up with

00:35:53.740 10 000 pages i know he's giving very specific things he's giving but he's not actually giving any

00:36:00.440 evidence of that it's all going to come because what they also said was if we have to go to congress

00:36:04.920 we'll go to congress right but we'll show where some of the details that have come out like the

00:36:09.000 you know 59 million dollars spent on luxury hotels it's actually not the talking about the fema money 0.79

00:36:15.700 that was abused for migrants that was yeah fema money for migrants that's okay now no i'm not saying

00:36:20.700 it's okay i'm not saying it's okay don't put words so would you stop that would you stop that process 0.62

00:36:25.260 don't be a dick the portray i'm what i'm saying is the portrayal by him is i i just gotta say i 0.97

00:36:32.000 this is from my my seven years in hell at cnn when the hosts start cursing at you don lemon 0.98

00:36:39.040 lost it on me one night screaming that that is bs that is bs but saying the full thing when you see

00:36:44.740 anderson cooper get rattled like this this is when you know they're losing america and they feel it 1.00

00:36:50.720 and they're witnessing it because they're part of this cover-up center and now they realize how stupid 0.99

00:36:56.520 their argument is that well we didn't see a piece of paper with it on there what do you think 0.99

00:37:00.440 elon musk is sitting there making this up in the oval office like what's wrong with you guys and by

00:37:04.200 the way you guys never question anything that that was shady with the biden administration when you

00:37:09.080 knew it was shady yeah look number one you see jeffrey toobin jumping in screaming that's not

00:37:14.040 transparency trump is literally doing a press conference every day they're putting all of this

00:37:18.200 out for everyone to see they're giving chapter and verse and specifics and and and and you see

00:37:23.700 anderson cooper at the end where he just curses and and and melts down and and insults uh a former

00:37:31.140 governor by the way yeah yeah i mean wow to be clear that that that is the reason anderson cooper

00:37:38.160 does that is he realizes he's in a completely indefensible position he's defending the prior

00:37:44.060 administration diverting funds from fema by the way funds that fema are supposed to use to deal with a

00:37:49.620 natural disaster whether wildfires in california or a hurricane or tornadoes or other natural disaster

00:37:55.280 and and and the prior administration took those disaster funds and instead use them to pay for

00:38:00.900 hotel rooms for illegal aliens and and anderson cooper realized wait a second i'm defending something

00:38:05.560 that is so absurd that that even the four viewers who are watching cnn are going to know it's absurd

00:38:11.780 and that's why he melts down and and i gotta say the fact that president trump is standing up

00:38:18.980 and delivering real cuts that are is taking on this waste fraud and abuse the fact that the fact

00:38:25.900 that anderson cooper is melting down that shows president trump is winning that shows elon musk is

00:38:31.480 winning and that shows the american people are winning amen to that don't forget we do this show

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