Verdict with Ted Cruz - June 21, 2024


ANOTHER Horrific Murder by an Illegal, this time a 12yr old Girl in TX plus Biden Nominates Long-Time Communist Volunteer as a Federal Judge


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Ted Cruz and Ben Fergusons discuss the growing problem of children being raped and murdered by illegal immigrants across the U.S. border, and the Democratic Party's continued support for radical judges and judicial nominees who advocate for a workers' revolution.

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00:00:05.400 Welcome.
00:00:06.140 It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:09.360 And Senator, there are two major issues that we're going to be dealing with on the pod.
00:00:13.540 And one of them deals with the tragic consequences of a wide open border that is now costing
00:00:19.200 young people their lives with illegal immigrants that are killing them. 1.00
00:00:24.160 And one of the tragic attacks happened in your hometown, my town of Houston.
00:00:31.800 Every day, another one of these happens.
00:00:35.400 Day after day after day, Americans are being murdered. 0.99
00:00:39.080 Children are being raped. 0.97
00:00:40.720 What is happening is horrific. 0.97
00:00:42.760 And Joe Biden and the Democrats are allowing, they are causing the criminal invasion of the
00:00:49.820 United States of America.
00:00:50.920 We just had breaking news from my hometown.
00:00:53.460 Look, I love the city of Houston.
00:00:55.140 I've grown up in the city of Houston.
00:00:57.400 A 12-year-old girl was murdered by two Venezuelan migrants.
00:01:05.280 This comes on the heels of a 13-year-old girl raped in New York.
00:01:10.480 This comes on the heels of Rachel Marin, raped and murdered in Maryland.
00:01:16.580 This comes on the heels of Lakin Riley.
00:01:19.060 This comes on the heels of Jeremy Casares.
00:01:21.260 Every week, it seems, another case, another case, another case.
00:01:26.780 This has got to end.
00:01:28.840 Additionally, on Capitol Hill today, Joe Biden and the Democrats continue to nominate radicals
00:01:34.880 to the federal bench.
00:01:36.640 They don't care about stopping this invasion at our southern border.
00:01:39.840 They don't care about keeping our families safe.
00:01:41.860 Instead, Biden nominates radicals who, number one, refuse to punish violent criminals, give
00:01:48.440 them incredibly light sentences, and let them go.
00:01:51.300 But number two, today we had a hearing with a judicial nominee who has spent years volunteering
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00:02:03.860 It's truly astonishing.
00:02:05.440 The radicals they're trying to put on the federal bench, that's what we're facing right now.
00:02:10.820 Yeah, it is.
00:02:11.600 And it's an important conversation.
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00:04:13.960 Senator, you mentioned this story, and it has trickled out with more information.
00:04:22.120 That we now know that, yet again, is another illegal immigrant, is a suspect in this Texas 0.83
00:04:27.920 Girls murder that were recently caught by Border Patrol and then released into the U.S.
00:04:34.260 This is all being done by design by the Biden administration to flood this country with illegal
00:04:38.120 immigrants, and they know that people are dying. 0.95
00:04:40.620 They know that children are being murdered and being raped, and they don't seem to care 0.97
00:04:45.580 at all, even when these stories keep hitting.
00:04:48.700 Well, look, this is Thursday night that we're recording this.
00:04:51.180 The story just broke this evening.
00:04:53.800 I got to say the facts.
00:04:55.380 These cases are all horrific.
00:04:56.880 But I don't know that there's one that makes me more angry than this.
00:05:01.540 This is a beautiful little girl.
00:05:04.680 Let me read you from the coverage of the New York Post tonight.
00:05:07.800 Here's the headline.
00:05:08.880 Migrant charged with murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungari was released into the U.S. just weeks ago.
00:05:19.380 Now listen to the reporting.
00:05:20.320 Police in Houston have arrested two migrants from Venezuela for the murder of 12-year-old
00:05:27.520 Jocelyn Nungari, who was lured away from home, then strangled and dumped in a bayou.
00:05:35.640 One of the suspects crossed the border illegally less than a month before the shocking murder
00:05:42.080 and was released into the U.S. after claiming he feared for his life if he was sent back to
00:05:47.420 his home country, sources told the Post.
00:05:49.180 First, Johan Jose Rangel Martinez, 21, and Franklin Jose Peña Ramos, 26, were charged Thursday
00:05:59.300 with capital murder.
00:06:03.820 Department of Homeland Security sources said Peña Ramos crossed into El Paso, Texas on May
00:06:11.180 28th, less than a month ago.
00:06:14.120 He was released soon after his interaction with border agents.
00:06:19.180 He told authorities that he planned to live with his cousin in Houston until his court
00:06:23.220 appearance in July, sources said.
00:06:26.060 Agents put a GPS tracker on Peña Ramos, which was only set to monitor his location for 21 days.
00:06:34.780 It was unclear whether he was wearing the tracker when Jocelyn was murdered.
00:06:39.420 Investigators identified the suspects from surveillance footage after they were seen following Jocelyn as she walked into a local convenience store.
00:06:50.080 Her body was found in a swampy creek on Monday by a Houston resident who happened to be driving by.
00:06:58.960 She told KTRKTV she thought the girl was a floating mannequin at first.
00:07:04.560 I did a U-turn and I stopped on the bridge, put my flashers on, looked down, and I realized it was someone.
00:07:14.720 I parked right here and called 911 immediately, she said.
00:07:19.400 The two migrants were arrested at a local apartment complex where they had been living as roommates, cops said.
00:07:27.100 Homeland Security has opened an investigation into the suspect's immigration history.
00:07:33.580 The victim's mother, Alexis Nungari, said her daughter sneaked out of their apartment late Sunday.
00:07:41.660 She told local outlet KHOU that she was taken advantage of by her killers.
00:07:48.020 She turned into a beautiful, beautiful young lady, Alexis said.
00:08:10.660 I was really looking forward to seeing how she was going to be and they took every opportunity away from me and my family.
00:08:18.680 Houston Mayor John Whitmer, Democrat, said Thursday that Jocelyn's murder affected him personally.
00:08:25.280 As a grandfather and a father, it doesn't get any worse.
00:08:30.060 If there is any circumstance where you deny bail, this is it. 0.65
00:08:35.080 Ben, this is friggin' horrific.
00:08:41.300 The part that is so frustrating to me is the fact that the police officials describe these two individuals. 0.72
00:08:47.740 And let's talk about who's coming across the border.
00:08:50.520 You've got Martinez, who's 21.
00:08:53.300 You've got Ramos, who's 26.
00:08:56.240 They've been arrested.
00:08:57.140 They've been charged now with capital murder by Houston police, as you mentioned, in connection with the strangulation death of this 12-year-old girl.
00:09:05.960 They apparently either followed her or walked with her to the 7-Eleven.
00:09:10.900 And you look at this and you realize that not only did they know what they were doing, but these two people are now being accused of strangling her to death, raping her, and then leaving her body in this creek at the bridge.
00:09:28.640 The mother said she jumped in her car and pinged her daughter's cell phone, which led her to the creek.
00:09:36.660 When she arrived, police officers were canvassing the scene.
00:09:39.760 The mother was told about an hour later that police had found her body in that creek.
00:09:43.460 These are two military-age men coming into this country, killing a 12-year-old.
00:09:51.700 We don't know who these people are.
00:09:53.740 We don't know their background.
00:09:55.640 We don't know what crimes they may have committed before this in Venezuela.
00:09:59.760 And yet the Biden administration says, no, no, no, you're good.
00:10:03.400 We're going to track you for 12 days.
00:10:05.120 We don't even know if the tracker was on.
00:10:07.020 And the question I would ask is, if the tracker was off, for example, is there any mechanism in place to then really start looking for the individuals before they go out and kill one of our kids?
00:10:18.080 Every week this is happening over and over and over again.
00:10:21.100 No, the Biden administration doesn't care.
00:10:23.620 No Democrat in Congress cares.
00:10:25.240 And you may think that's harsh, but if they cared, they would do something about it.
00:10:29.580 Every time we force a vote to stop this, every single Democrat, all of them, votes no.
00:10:36.400 And they do it over and over again.
00:10:37.760 Look, I got to tell you, if you look at the picture of this 12-year-old girl, I'm sorry, but this really upsets me.
00:10:45.540 As you know, I have teenage daughters.
00:10:48.000 Yeah.
00:10:48.720 She's 12.
00:10:50.420 Yeah.
00:10:50.700 She has braces.
00:10:52.200 She has braces. 0.93
00:10:53.260 I'm looking at her thinking that these animals, these monsters murdered this child.
00:11:00.460 And I got to say, this case reminds me of the most significant case that I litigated when I was Solicitor General of Texas.
00:11:10.860 It was a case that dealt with a criminal, a murderer named Jose Ernesto Medellin.
00:11:17.360 Now, Medellin, like these two, was an illegal immigrant.
00:11:21.160 He was an illegal immigrant from Mexico. 0.82
00:11:23.260 And Jose Ernesto Medellin, in 1993, he was part of a gang that raped and murdered two teenage girls in Houston.
00:11:32.620 They were 14 and 16 years old, Elizabeth Pena and Jennifer Ertman.
00:11:38.120 It was a case that was horrific. 0.93
00:11:41.080 Just like this case, they strangled the girls, and in that case, they violently raped them. 0.84
00:11:49.440 We don't know.
00:11:50.260 I pray that did not happen here.
00:11:51.880 We don't know right now if that happened or not.
00:11:54.980 But in the case of Medellin, he wrote a handwritten confession.
00:12:02.160 It's four pages handwritten.
00:12:03.500 I've read it.
00:12:03.980 I've held those pages, which is sickening.
00:12:07.140 He bragged about what he did.
00:12:08.980 He was proud of what he did. 0.99
00:12:10.720 He bragged about how one of the little girls had a Mickey Mouse watch that he kept as a trophy of the night because he was so proud of raping and murdering these teenage girls. 1.00
00:12:22.700 This is sick. 1.00
00:12:23.800 There is evil in this world.
00:12:25.520 And I argued this case twice in the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:12:28.340 I prevailed twice, and ultimately Medellin was executed.
00:12:31.700 He was executed for those horrific murders.
00:12:34.100 But I've got to tell you, I visited with their parents, and I've got to tell you, look, you're a dad, Ben.
00:12:41.440 How as a dad, how as a mom do you live with knowing what your child's last minutes on earth were and knowing how horrific they were?
00:12:52.340 I mean, I stood on the Supreme Court steps with the parents of those girls, and look, I've got to admit, I feel for the dads because I understand them.
00:13:04.300 I feel for the moms, obviously, too, but as a dad, there's something, there's a feeling of helplessness and rage and, like, how did they take my baby and what is wrong and what can I do about it?
00:13:15.180 And that's what just happened again in Houston from another illegal alien committing another horrific crime. 0.98
00:13:24.400 I also want to go back to something you said, because I think people need to understand what you're saying is very accurate when you're saying this is happening every day.
00:13:33.400 Let's move cities. 0.95
00:13:34.940 Let's go to New York City.
00:13:36.420 New York City is not a border town.
00:13:37.940 It's not a border city.
00:13:38.820 It's not a border state.
00:13:39.780 It's very far away from the border.
00:13:42.340 An illegal immigrant from Ecuador who was arrested in connection with a sexual assault of a 13-year-old New York City girl admitted that he filmed the attack as he became more comfortable during the attack.
00:13:55.860 This was on the front page as well of the New York Post.
00:13:58.800 And this story broke just in the last couple of days.
00:14:02.840 A 13-year-old girl in New York being raped in a park, 25-year-old illegal immigrant, Christian Giovanni Inga Landi, was arrested on Tuesday.
00:14:17.080 Tuesday of this week, just a couple of days ago.
00:14:19.540 He reportedly entered the United States in 2021.
00:14:22.400 Last week, the 13-year-old girl and the 13-year-old boy were both held at knife point by Inga Landi with a machete-style blade.
00:14:32.320 He tied the girl up, and a group of good Samaritans located him, called him out as a rapist before smacking him around and tying him up with a belt.
00:14:47.000 And God bless those New Yorkers.
00:14:48.980 Like, there is a beautiful thing, this monster, they found him, they tied him up, and he was captured.
00:14:56.080 According to multiple reports, Inga Landi confessed to the cops that he recorded the attack.
00:15:01.980 And let me read the quote from the Post.
00:15:04.820 Quote,
00:15:05.140 The chilling admission by Christian Giovanni Inga Landi, 25, broke the silence in an otherwise hushed court hearing in which he was arraigned on charges of rape, predatory sexual assault, kidnapping, and raft about other felonies from the shocking June 13th attack in Kisena Park.
00:15:22.360 Quote,
00:15:24.360 I was nervous at first, then got comfortable, and recorded it, Inga Landi admitted.
00:15:31.460 In a videotaped statement, prosecutors said, in Queens Criminal Court, drawing sighs from the audience.
00:15:39.080 Inga Landi claimed that he saw the two 13-year-olds having sexual relations when he approached them.
00:15:43.480 He used the knife to cut off her clothes, and after he committed the sexual assault, he stole both of the teens' phones and fled.
00:15:52.780 Quote,
00:15:53.580 I went to buy drugs afterwards, he reportedly said.
00:15:56.940 This is happening.
00:15:59.600 That was Tuesday.
00:16:01.600 This is Thursday.
00:16:03.540 Every day, every other day, every other week, this is happening.
00:16:07.800 People are being murdered. 0.97
00:16:09.100 Children are being raped.
00:16:11.400 And not a sin. 0.95
00:16:12.260 What is Joe Biden doing?
00:16:14.000 He's promising amnesty for a million illegal aliens.
00:16:17.100 He's not mentioning this.
00:16:18.540 Let me ask you, why isn't Joe Biden talking about this?
00:16:21.920 Yeah, he's doubled down, in fact.
00:16:23.340 I mean, he's just saying, this is part of the carnage of my plan to remake America.
00:16:27.200 This is the Democratic Party's carnage.
00:16:30.000 They're saying this is acceptable.
00:16:31.880 And it's not just this.
00:16:33.500 We keep talking about this, but I think we have to keep talking about it, Senator.
00:16:37.340 You hit pause on these stories, because we have a couple more that I want to bring up.
00:16:41.520 But we also have warnings now coming from the FBI, and people in the FBI who are letting us know,
00:16:48.680 in Border Patrol, letting us know, we are at a major risk of a terrorist attack by the same military-age men
00:16:55.960 that are coming across the southern border, that the same age of these murderers and rapists,
00:17:00.880 of these children, who are coming into this country.
00:17:04.020 We just arrested some of them directly connected to ISIS-K, the same people that had the horrific massacre in Russia.
00:17:10.300 Yeah, eight of them.
00:17:11.080 And yet, they are just saying, this is part of the ugly truth of remaking a country.
00:17:17.620 You're going to get some bad in here when we're letting in some of the others that we need. 1.00
00:17:22.820 Look, I'm going to say something that's going to sound extreme and hyperbolic.
00:17:26.400 If you elect Democrats, Americans will die.
00:17:32.220 That's not an exaggeration.
00:17:33.820 It's what's happening.
00:17:34.440 It's accurate.
00:17:34.960 It is this 12-year-old girl in Houston would be alive if Joe Biden and the Democrats hadn't kept letting illegal immigrants go. 0.91
00:17:44.600 This 13-year-old girl in New York would not have been raped if Joe Biden and the Democrats hadn't kept letting illegal immigrants go. 0.94
00:17:52.360 Rachel Morin in suburban Maryland would be alive, a mother of five, raped and murdered by an illegal immigrant Joe Biden and the Democrats released. 0.76
00:18:00.280 Lakin Riley, 22, nursing student, would be alive if not for the illegal immigrant that Joe Biden and the Democrats released.
00:18:08.700 The 15-year-old girl in Boston, Massachusetts, with severe mental disabilities, raped by an illegal immigrant Joe Biden and the Democrats released.
00:18:18.780 Jeremy Caceres, two-year-old boy in Prince George's County, Maryland, murdered by an illegal immigrant Joe Biden and the Democrats released.
00:18:27.240 Over and over and over again.
00:18:29.180 Let me ask you something.
00:18:30.780 Why don't Democrats talk about this?
00:18:32.320 Have you ever heard once Joe Biden talk about this?
00:18:34.660 Have you heard Kamala Harris talk about this?
00:18:36.480 Have you heard a single Democrat senator talk about this?
00:18:38.940 Have you heard a single Democrat House member talk about this?
00:18:42.540 Yeah, the answer is no.
00:18:43.780 And you brought up Rachel Morin's name a moment ago.
00:18:47.360 The illegal immigrant suspected in her murder, we now have learned from the New York Post, went on a months-long terror spree.
00:18:59.160 This is another person that should have never been here and was committing heinous crimes.
00:19:05.840 He assaulted in Los Angeles a mother and her nine-year-old daughter.
00:19:11.960 He broke into their home and assaulted them.
00:19:14.340 This is a pattern over and over again.
00:19:17.040 And I want to play a clip.
00:19:19.920 So this is Joy Reid, the crazy left-wing host on MSNBC and squad member left-wing representative Jayapal.
00:19:28.940 And I want you to listen to them laughing about the rape of the 13-year-old girl in New York.
00:19:35.360 Play the clip.
00:19:36.660 Great.
00:19:37.080 Citizens.
00:19:37.340 But there's a lot of fear-mongering.
00:19:38.820 There's a lot of fear-mongering.
00:19:39.920 Absolutely.
00:19:40.120 You know, and I think it's kind of remarkable that the polls I look at, the national polls, actually Americans still support immigrants.
00:19:48.140 They support immigration.
00:19:49.500 It's just that they would like to see a system that actually works and that can keep them safe and secure.
00:19:56.040 And all of us want that.
00:19:57.180 And, you know, I've been working on this issue for 20 years since before I came to Congress in the streets as an activist.
00:20:02.260 Let me show you the, this is one of the reasons that people have these sort of thinking, this sort of thinking.
00:20:07.060 Here's the three cable networks reporting of this.
00:20:10.560 Our banner said, soon Biden announces legal protections for undocumented spouses.
00:20:15.600 The citizen CNN's banner said, Biden announces new protections for some undocumented spouses. 0.89
00:20:20.240 Here was Fox's banner.
00:20:21.520 Migrant arrested for raping 13-year-old New York people. 0.98
00:20:23.940 Yes. 0.98
00:20:24.560 And so I think that's part of the problem, right?
00:20:26.080 Exactly.
00:20:26.200 Is that you have a lot of fear-mongering.
00:20:27.500 Exactly.
00:20:28.160 And we know that when people have economic insecurity.
00:20:33.180 I mean, you hear them there and they laugh at Fox News's banner telling the truth about what is happening in this country.
00:20:41.960 And they mock the fact that a 13-year-old has been raped and killed. 0.96
00:20:46.260 That laughter is sick. 0.97
00:20:47.540 That is two elite Democrat media personalities and a member of Congress laughing at a 13-year-old girl who was violently raped by an illegal alien with a machete. 0.97
00:21:00.380 And they laugh at it.
00:21:01.380 And by the way, they're mocking why?
00:21:04.120 Because Fox reported on it.
00:21:05.620 They don't feel any guilty.
00:21:06.720 CNN didn't report on it.
00:21:08.080 MSNBC didn't report on it.
00:21:09.900 The corporate media, they don't even tell you this.
00:21:13.060 They don't want you to know.
00:21:14.640 Why are they laughing? 0.99
00:21:15.940 What kind of sick person laughs at the rape of a child? 0.99
00:21:22.140 I'm sorry. 0.98
00:21:22.680 Look, we try to keep this pod light.
00:21:26.600 I've got to tell you, before I was in the Senate, I spent a lot of years working in law enforcement.
00:21:31.540 I spent five and a half years as Solicitor General of Texas.
00:21:34.280 I handled a lot of cases, a lot of criminal cases.
00:21:36.960 I argued a lot of appeals in the Supreme Court, in the Fifth Circuit, in the Texas Supreme Court. 0.99
00:21:41.560 The ones that make me the angriest, that just fill me with rage, are when evil bastards hurt children. 0.98
00:21:49.560 I just, I think there is a special circle of hell that I just, I do not think there is anything worse than hurting children. 0.99
00:21:57.360 And to listen to someone laughing at a 13-year-old being raped and mocking, they say, that's the fear-mongering.
00:22:05.900 You're reporting what's happening.
00:22:07.680 No, actually reporting the news is not fear-mongering. 0.82
00:22:11.140 What you are doing is covering up the news because your political agenda matters more than the little girls who are being murdered and being raped.
00:22:19.820 And meanwhile, just to put it in perspective, if you want to know what the law enforcement agencies around the country are really focused on,
00:22:28.800 it's going after people that, for example, have done donuts and charged them with hate crimes on gay pride paintings or sidewalks in the middle of the street. 0.99
00:22:38.680 Just to put it in perspective, they say that those people that have done that, some of them kids being idiots and juvenile, 0.96
00:22:45.520 doing burnouts on the rainbow crossings in the middle of the street, are now, they should be labeled for the rest of their lives as people that are hate crimes that should not be trusted in society. 0.99
00:22:59.080 But these people who are actually out there raping children and murdering them, and mothers of five,
00:23:05.480 the media will completely overlook that story and move right on down the path.
00:23:09.440 And they'll allow for people, like you mentioned a moment ago, on MSNBC to actually mock and laugh the killing of a child.
00:23:19.260 I don't know how they live with themselves, but I think they understand this, Senator.
00:23:23.920 They can't talk about this and be honest about it right before this election.
00:23:28.080 It's too big of a liability.
00:23:29.900 Well, look, don't forget what Merrick Garland, Joe Biden's attorney general, describes as the single greatest commitment of manpower in the history of the Department of Justice.
00:23:37.780 And that is trying to track down every little old lady who was on the mall singing God Bless America on January 6th. 1.00
00:23:44.900 And Merrick Garland said there's never been a greater commitment of resources at DOJ than going after every one of those peaceful protesters.
00:23:52.160 I got to say, he means more than 9-11, more than tracking down Al-Qaeda, more than tracking down ISIS,
00:23:58.180 more than tracking down the radical terrorists that the Joe Biden administration is releasing into this country,
00:24:03.620 the Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists, the ISIS-K terrorists, the Al-Shabaab terrorists that are coming into this country 0.98
00:24:10.320 and that are going to murder Americans. 0.69
00:24:11.940 It is a matter of time with the open red carpet invitation from Joe Biden and the Democrats.
00:24:17.860 We are going to see, tragically, I do not want this to happen, but it is becoming inevitable that we're going to see a major terrorist attack.
00:24:25.360 They're not devoting the resources to that.
00:24:27.240 They're not devoting the resources to there's no one at the Department of Justice saying, you know what? 0.51
00:24:32.040 Day after day after day, we have children being raped. 0.78
00:24:34.640 We have children being murdered from illegal aliens we're releasing. 1.00
00:24:37.420 Let's go track them down and catch them.
00:24:38.900 Nope, they're not doing that.
00:24:40.360 They're saying, dadgummit, granny was singing on the mall.
00:24:45.520 Let's go find her. 0.99
00:24:46.720 Yeah, great point.
00:24:48.440 And we've got some new breaking news that has come in about the illegal alien charged with the rape and murder of Rachel Moran.
00:24:56.040 And how many times we let him go.
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00:26:41.720 There's some breaking news I mentioned a moment ago, Senator.
00:26:44.320 And in a statement to Fox News, ICE has now confirmed that the illegal alien charged with rape and murder of Rachel Moran entered the U.S.
00:26:54.240 as a, quote, got away on around February the 13th of 2023.
00:26:59.520 And that's where the beginning of his interaction with border agents and this country began.
00:27:06.260 There's a lot more to that.
00:27:07.600 Yeah, no, that's exactly right.
00:27:09.460 This case illustrates the revolving door of the Joe Biden open borders.
00:27:13.980 Prior to that, this murderer was caught by the Border Patrol not once, not two times, but three separate times in a matter of days.
00:27:24.340 And he was expelled each time to Mexico via Title 42.
00:27:28.340 So, once on January 19th, 2023, when he tried to cross near Santa Teresa, New Mexico, he was apprehended.
00:27:35.680 They sent him to Mexico.
00:27:37.240 A second time on January 31st, so just 12 days later, near El Paso, Texas.
00:27:43.480 He crossed, they apprehended him, they sent him back to Mexico.
00:27:47.040 And a third time on February 6th, 2023, near Santa Teresa, Mexico.
00:27:53.000 So, six days later, seven days later.
00:27:55.940 And then his fourth try, about a week later, he was able to slip into the U.S. near El Paso without apprehension.
00:28:03.260 So, understand, this guy's from El Salvador.
00:28:06.680 Did they send him back to El Salvador?
00:28:08.340 Nope, not once.
00:28:09.640 Basically, what they kept doing is they'd catch him, and they'd just drop him off right south of the border.
00:28:14.360 And you know what?
00:28:14.740 He'd come back again.
00:28:15.500 They'd drop him off south of the border.
00:28:16.560 He'd come back again.
00:28:17.520 And it's like a game.
00:28:18.960 They're just playing a game.
00:28:20.720 And if they had sent this guy back all the way to El Salvador, Rachel Marin would be alive.
00:28:27.160 Four times in a matter of weeks, he crosses illegally.
00:28:30.880 Three times he gets caught, and they let him go just south of the border.
00:28:34.260 The fourth time, he's a gotaway, and he comes and rapes and murders her.
00:28:39.940 When you see that record, the question that I have for you now is we are about a week away from the first presidential debate.
00:28:48.100 How does Donald Trump handle this issue?
00:28:51.300 I mean, one of the things that I would love for him to say to the president, and I don't think this is really an I got you.
00:28:58.280 I think it could be a real moment for the president is just say, hey, Joe, can you name any of the victims who've died recently at the hands of illegal immigrants? 1.00
00:29:07.300 Do you know any of their names?
00:29:08.500 Because I know them, and I've called them.
00:29:11.160 I think this president's so out of touch with reality.
00:29:13.860 I'm not sure he knows the stories we're talking about.
00:29:16.200 Now, I don't think he does.
00:29:17.940 You remember in the State of the Union, he did not plan to say anything about this, and he got heckled from the crowd from a Republican House member who said, Lakin Riley, say her name.
00:29:28.420 And remember, Biden responded by saying Lincoln Riley.
00:29:31.240 He got her name wrong.
00:29:32.080 Lincoln Riley, of course, is a football coach, not the 22-year-old woman murdered by an illegal alien Joe Biden had released. 0.99
00:29:37.960 So he called her Lincoln Riley instead of Lakin, and his defense, he said, yeah, she was killed by an illegal, and then his defense was, you know what, legals kill people too, which is the most asinine thing. 0.97
00:29:50.160 Because we have murderers in the United States, you shouldn't be mad that I keep letting in more and more and more murderers. 0.93
00:29:55.300 Just, you know, I mean, what harm could more murderers do in this country? 1.00
00:29:59.260 It is asinine. 0.99
00:30:00.140 I think that's a very good point. 0.95
00:30:01.300 Listen, I hope Trump next week of the debate is prepared to prosecute this and prepared to prosecute it systematically.
00:30:09.760 What I hope is Trump doesn't go over the top.
00:30:12.440 Now, I'm worried he might, but I hope he very calmly lays out the facts and makes Joe Biden defend them, because he can't.
00:30:21.860 You're right, Biden can't.
00:30:22.900 He probably doesn't know anything about these cases.
00:30:24.780 He doesn't care.
00:30:25.940 It doesn't matter.
00:30:27.120 And there is power, you know, there's an old line in a court of law, which is, if you have the facts, bang the facts.
00:30:36.260 If you have the law, bang the law.
00:30:38.460 If you have neither, bang the table.
00:30:41.780 In this instance, the facts are so compelling.
00:30:45.580 What I would encourage Trump to do is not get worked up at all, but just calmly explain them one after the other.
00:30:55.160 And ask him, I'd say, Mr. President, Joe, what do you say to the parents of Lake and Riley?
00:31:04.640 What do you say to the parents of Rachel Morin?
00:31:07.620 What do you say to the parents of the 13-year-old girl raped in New York?
00:31:12.460 What do you say to the parents of the 12-year-old girl murdered in Houston?
00:31:15.900 What do you say to the parents of Jeremy Casares, the two-year-old boy murdered in Maryland?
00:31:20.460 Joe Biden does not have a response to that.
00:31:24.680 And actually, the facts are so terrible that it has more force if Trump is calm laying it out.
00:31:32.680 I hope he does that.
00:31:33.420 One other thing that I just have to get your thoughts on is Mayorkas was on TV, and he denied culpability in the rape and the murder of Rachel, for example.
00:31:45.800 And not only that, but they referred to this murderer as a newcomer.
00:31:52.420 Newcomer.
00:31:52.900 How much more callous can you be when you refer to a person that just killed a mother of five as a, being PC, as a newcomer?
00:32:03.340 Look, Mayorkas does not care.
00:32:07.480 No Democrat member of Congress cares.
00:32:10.100 That sounds harsh.
00:32:11.160 I mean, reasonable people want to give those who disagree with us the benefit of the doubt.
00:32:16.720 That's a natural instinct.
00:32:17.860 And they'll say, no, no, I care, I care.
00:32:21.260 If they cared, they would stop the conduct that causes it to happen again.
00:32:28.000 If you cared about Lake and Riley, you would have acted in time to save Rachel Morin.
00:32:33.540 If you cared about Jeremy Casares, you would have acted in time to save the 12-year-old girl murdered in Houston, or the 13-year-old girl raped in New York, or the 15-year-old girl raped in Boston.
00:32:45.920 They are not changing, and by the way, they're not changing it today.
00:32:49.880 All of these together have not convinced one single Democrat to say, enough is enough, we're not going to release him anymore.
00:32:58.220 All of them have circled the wagons around Joe Biden, and they're doing it again today.
00:33:03.720 Today, they release someone who's going to commit a crime in America.
00:33:08.360 Tomorrow, they're going to release someone who's going to commit a crime in America.
00:33:12.300 The next day, they're going to release someone who's going to commit a crime in America. 1.00
00:33:16.660 And they're not willing to look in the eyes of the moms and dads who are crying because their babies are dead, because they're the ones that released the bastards that killed them. 0.93
00:33:26.620 Yeah, it's a great point, and it's going to, like you said, if you're Donald Trump, you have to be careful how you talk about this, the American people, so you get a real conversation. 0.96
00:33:38.060 They can see just how callous the president is, and I think Mayorkas should be fair game for Joe Biden at this debate.
00:33:44.620 I think he should have to answer for putting this man in charge.
00:33:48.000 Do you agree? 0.83
00:33:48.480 Yes, but look, Mayorkas is a henchman.
00:33:53.480 It is Joe Biden.
00:33:54.820 It's Kamala Harris, and it's every Democrat in Congress. 0.99
00:33:57.960 Mayorkas is following orders.
00:33:59.480 He should be impeached.
00:34:00.500 He should be ashamed. 0.54
00:34:01.460 He should be embarrassed.
00:34:02.460 He is complicit. 0.99
00:34:03.540 But see, he's a henchman.
00:34:04.660 He's not a decision maker.
00:34:05.880 He just salutes and says, oh, okay, you want to have a criminal invasion of America?
00:34:10.320 I'm glad to make that happen.
00:34:11.480 He's following orders.
00:34:12.520 It is the Democrats who are his puppet masters, and they right now, not a one of them admits it.
00:34:19.700 Not a one of them is willing to confront the horrors and the people who are suffering and dying because of their policies.
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00:34:57.260 I want to move to something else, and we get to cover this on this podcast, and I think it's so important, and that is your interaction specifically with Biden judicial nominees.
00:35:07.220 Biden has nominated a judge with ties to communists.
00:35:13.260 You had a chance to have a conversation with this nominee, Carla Campbell, for literally she worked openly with a Marxist organization. 0.58
00:35:24.220 Read us into this insanity.
00:35:26.340 Yeah, look, we had this morning a judicial confirmation hearing with actually two Court of Appeals nominees,
00:35:32.040 one to the First Circuit Court of Appeals, one to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
00:35:35.160 They're both terrible nominees.
00:35:36.820 The one to the First Circuit Court of Appeals is a judge in Maine who repeatedly has given incredibly soft and lenient sentences to vicious criminals. 0.51
00:35:46.540 There was one guy who was a child molester who molested two little girls, one five years old, one nine years old.
00:35:53.920 This judge sentenced him to just six years and described from the bench, she said,
00:35:57.800 I can see so much good in you, you're such a good person.
00:36:00.800 This is to the child molester repeatedly molesting a five-year-old, nine-year-old girl.
00:36:05.560 There was another woman, a mom, whose one-year-old baby died of fentanyl poisoning.
00:36:11.760 Now, she was a drug dealer. 1.00
00:36:13.360 She had drug dealing all throughout her apartment. 1.00
00:36:16.080 This one-year-old child massively overdosed of fentanyl.
00:36:19.800 When he was found, his pajamas were coated in fentanyl.
00:36:24.600 The sheets that he was lying on were coated in fentanyl.
00:36:27.480 They had fentanyl everywhere.
00:36:29.140 He had enough fentanyl in his system to kill four adults, one year old.
00:36:35.200 She could have sentenced this mother to 30 years in jail for murdering her child with fentanyl. 1.00
00:36:41.640 She sentenced the child to four years.
00:36:44.460 This is a terrible nominee.
00:36:45.860 But you know what?
00:36:48.240 Most of the hearing, she got very few questions.
00:36:50.440 You know why?
00:36:51.240 Because the other nominee was even worse.
00:36:53.640 The other nominee has been actively supporting radicals and literally communists.
00:37:00.840 She has been a volunteer supporting a communist group that is openly calling for a workers' revolution to overthrow capitalism.
00:37:09.640 She's done that for years. 0.62
00:37:10.860 She also supported a radical left-wing candidate for Congress.
00:37:16.320 Just give a listen, because I questioned her vigorously, and she would not answer a damn thing about her own record.
00:37:25.300 Ms. Campbell, I will say I have seen some astonishing nominees from this administration, but I have to admit your record takes the cake.
00:37:33.480 A judge should not be a political activist.
00:37:35.960 Your record demonstrates to me a long history of being a political activist, but not just an activist, an activist who affiliates with extreme and radical organizations.
00:37:48.240 Now, when Senator Grassley asked you about the Workers' Dignity Organization, you gave, I think, a deliberately misleading answer.
00:37:58.980 You said you did not represent them, and that convinced Senator Grassley not to continue on that line of questioning.
00:38:05.240 You have been a legal advisor to that organization since 2013.
00:38:09.800 That is what you have publicly printed on your AVO biography.
00:38:16.420 It is what has been described in the Tennessee Bar Association when you were nominated.
00:38:21.780 It explicitly says she served as a legal advisor for local workers' rights, nonprofit workers' dignity.
00:38:27.020 Now, why is it you're distancing yourself from them?
00:38:29.680 The reason is because they are utterly radical.
00:38:32.220 If you look at this group that you've served as the legal advisor for, for over a decade, this is an openly Marxist organization.
00:38:41.680 This is a communist organization.
00:38:44.180 Now, those words are not said lightly.
00:38:46.660 According to their own characterization of their views, this group says there's no election outcome that improves conditions for workers.
00:38:54.520 The laws of this country have never worked for our people.
00:38:56.700 And now that the system is crumbling, we will continue to stand in community and solidarity with each other.
00:39:01.620 The only way we win in a world we deserve is by building a multiracial, working-class revolution that can push out white nationalism, violent state racism, and the capitalist class that is desperately clutching to hold control and profits as the people rise up.
00:39:18.560 Why have you spent a decade as a legal advisor to an openly communist and Marxist organization?
00:39:23.380 If I could briefly clarify, more than a decade ago, probably for the course of two or three years, I served on an advisory board that helped this, at the time, was supposed to be a nonprofit workers' rights organization, get set up and get started.
00:39:42.340 Did you know they were a communist organization?
00:39:44.120 Senator, at that time, they did not express these kinds of views.
00:39:49.020 It was an organization.
00:39:50.380 So this is new.
00:39:51.100 This wasn't the case then.
00:39:52.340 Yes, and I have not been affiliated with them in more than a decade.
00:39:56.900 You're aware that your current profile that you have up, your legal bio, says you are right now an advisor to them.
00:40:02.260 I apologize for any confusion about that.
00:40:05.360 So your testimony under oath, and that's all right, the facts will come out, but your testimony under oath, I want to make it explicit.
00:40:10.840 Your testimony under oath is that you have done absolutely nothing and had zero contact with them for how long?
00:40:16.660 I have not served on their advisory board for...
00:40:19.340 You've done absolutely nothing and had zero contact with them for how long?
00:40:23.160 Please answer the question.
00:40:24.180 Many, many years.
00:40:25.140 How many?
00:40:25.880 I don't know.
00:40:26.760 Sitting here today, it's been many years.
00:40:28.420 Okay, if you look at other statements from this organization, because they are radicals.
00:40:32.380 They are radicals.
00:40:33.460 If you look also, this is the same group in 2020.
00:40:37.060 They called for abolishing ICE, abolishing prisons and detention centers and abolishing the police.
00:40:42.780 Why did you volunteer for a communist organization that calls for abolishing ICE and abolishing the police?
00:40:49.420 Senator, I have never seen these comments before.
00:40:52.460 You didn't know who you were volunteering for?
00:40:53.900 I was not a volunteer for them at that time.
00:40:55.540 You were a legal advisor.
00:40:56.660 Were you paid?
00:40:57.380 No, I wasn't.
00:40:57.920 Then you were a volunteer.
00:40:59.240 If you volunteered to be a legal advisor, you were a volunteer.
00:41:02.220 Why did you volunteer?
00:41:03.720 Do you support abolishing ICE?
00:41:05.360 Senator, at this time, I had...
00:41:07.000 Do you support abolishing ICE?
00:41:08.000 I do not, Senator.
00:41:08.880 Well, it's amazing, because a minute ago, you also told Senator Graham that the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition that has a manifesto calling for abolishing ICE, you said you had nothing to do with it, which is fairly astonishing, because on page three of their manifesto, they thank you by name for what they say.
00:41:29.400 We would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for their thoughtful feedback and input.
00:41:33.980 This platform would not have been possible without their expertise.
00:41:37.560 Are they lying?
00:41:39.000 Senator, I'm not familiar with that manifesto.
00:41:42.060 Are they lying?
00:41:43.940 Did you provide any assistance?
00:41:45.780 Did you give feedback and input, which is what they say on the cover page?
00:41:51.060 Senator, I didn't even know that existed, and so, no, I did not provide input on it.
00:41:55.540 And why, you know, when Senator Graham asked why you gave money to this radical candidate who has said 52 senators are Jim Crow senators and said multiple of us are siding with the devil, you laughed and thought that was funny. 0.57
00:42:10.860 But Senator Graham asked you a question.
00:42:12.320 Look, that candidate was as radical as I've ever seen.
00:42:16.260 And when Senator Graham asked why you gave money to that candidate, you just smiled and didn't answer.
00:42:20.840 So why did you give money to a radical candidate who believes multiple members of the Senate are siding with the devil?
00:42:27.560 Senator, actually, Senator Whitehouse, you weren't here before.
00:42:31.180 There was an exchange with the chairman where Senator Kennedy asked for longer periods because you have two circuit justices.
00:42:36.840 And the chairman said he was going to give additional time.
00:42:39.040 So the comment they want to be gaveled as part of the show is not accurate.
00:42:43.140 And Senator Welch said he was going to give additional time.
00:42:45.740 In fact, he said at the beginning he was going to give six minutes.
00:42:47.860 So my question, you did not answer, Senator Graham.
00:42:51.080 Mr. Chairman, how much time has expired?
00:42:52.980 How much time has expired?
00:42:54.020 I just want to clarify.
00:42:54.720 I just walked in.
00:42:55.300 Why did you give money?
00:42:56.260 Six minutes?
00:42:56.820 Because it seems like more than six has passed.
00:43:00.080 Why did you give money to this radical?
00:43:03.000 Put up the devil one, too.
00:43:04.360 Why did you give money to this radical candidate?
00:43:07.120 $1,500, a lot of money.
00:43:09.560 That's a question.
00:43:10.580 Senator, again, I'm not familiar with these comments.
00:43:13.160 Why did you give money to this radical candidate?
00:43:16.880 Could you let her answer the question, please?
00:43:19.680 I'm not familiar with these comments.
00:43:21.680 Why did you give money to her? 1.00
00:43:24.140 That's the question.
00:43:25.840 You're not going to answer?
00:43:27.020 You're refusing to answer why you gave money to her.
00:43:29.300 Senator, I'm not familiar with these comments.
00:43:31.360 That's not an answer.
00:43:32.440 My answer is why did you?
00:43:33.960 What is the affirmative reason you gave $1,500?
00:43:36.960 There was something you saw in her that you said, this needs $1,500.
00:43:41.040 Why?
00:43:41.460 Please answer that question.
00:43:42.980 Your time is expired.
00:43:44.020 Would you please ask the witness to answer the question?
00:43:46.640 She's refusing to answer it.
00:43:48.520 It's indefensible, but answer.
00:43:50.180 Was there any reason?
00:43:51.340 Or you just give $1,500 to anyone?
00:43:53.200 Senator, your time is expired.
00:43:55.560 I would like her to answer the question.
00:43:57.080 And you said she could answer the question.
00:43:58.900 She has refused to do so multiple times.
00:44:00.700 Please answer the question, Ms. Campbell.
00:44:02.080 She answered the question.
00:44:02.780 No, she did not.
00:44:03.480 She said she didn't know those comments.
00:44:04.860 That's not why she gave the money.
00:44:06.840 Senator.
00:44:07.520 Can I ask you why she gave the money?
00:44:09.440 No.
00:44:09.680 You don't know because she hasn't answered.
00:44:11.840 Are you going to answer, Ms. Campbell, or does this committee not deserve to know why you
00:44:15.360 gave money to a radical who says we are aligned?
00:44:18.200 Mr. Chairman, I have a lot of other senators have busy days.
00:44:21.400 Can we get on with the next person?
00:44:22.560 So you don't want an answer to the question either, Senator Booker?
00:44:25.520 I just want to say for the record.
00:44:27.000 Are you able to answer the question, Ms. Campbell, or do you believe this committee doesn't deserve
00:44:29.380 an answer to that question?
00:44:30.260 Mr. Chairman, who has the question?
00:44:32.260 They're just refusing to answer.
00:44:34.720 Who's next?
00:44:35.720 Senator's time has expired.
00:44:37.140 If the senator doesn't like the answer, he can take it.
00:44:39.620 It's not an answer.
00:44:40.460 She sat there silently and has not spoken.
00:44:42.560 That is by definition not an answer.
00:44:45.260 It's amazing, by the way, they said she answered the question.
00:44:47.640 They'll just flat out lie, won't they?
00:44:50.040 They will.
00:44:50.700 Well, and it was really striking.
00:44:51.980 I've never seen, so this particular judicial nominee, she presents as a sort of very mousy, 1.00
00:44:58.320 shy woman, which is really weird because she volunteers for communists. 0.65
00:45:04.020 Like, I've never seen that.
00:45:05.740 And she had, so Chuck Grassley asked her, hey, you volunteered for this communist group?
00:45:13.940 And she said, I've never represented them.
00:45:15.320 And he was like, oh, well, okay, I guess my staff got that wrong.
00:45:18.640 Sorry.
00:45:18.880 So that happened first.
00:45:21.280 And then Lindsey Graham asked, and he asked her, why'd you give money to this?
00:45:24.440 I mean, this was a radical candidate who literally said all 52 Republicans who voted against Ketanji Brown-Jackson,
00:45:33.540 or all 52 Republicans, not who voted against Ketanji Brown-Jackson,
00:45:36.420 but 52 Republicans were Jim Crow Republicans, including, by the way, Tim Scott.
00:45:44.120 She called Tim Scott a white supremacist.
00:45:46.920 He's African-American, but she called Tim Scott a white supremacist.
00:45:50.580 This was this judicial candidate's single largest donation.
00:45:54.520 She gave $1,500 more than she'd ever given to any political candidate.
00:45:57.400 And Lindsey asked her, said, why did you give the money?
00:46:00.840 And she just stared at him silently.
00:46:04.360 And Lindsey moved on. 0.78
00:46:05.560 So I went and asked her, why'd you give the money?
00:46:07.840 And she tried that.
00:46:08.880 She had the weirdest, I've never seen a candidate do this, 1.00
00:46:11.460 where you have a question, and she just looks at you silently.
00:46:15.720 And then what happened is a bunch of Democrat senators rush in.
00:46:18.660 So Peter Welch was chairing the hearing.
00:46:20.480 He's trying to gavel down, saying, no, no, no, no, I don't want to answer this question.
00:46:23.920 Then Cory Booker came in.
00:46:25.480 So Sheldon Whitehouse chimed in.
00:46:27.320 None of them were there for most of the hearing.
00:46:29.520 And Sheldon Whitehouse came in and said, oh, just gavel them down.
00:46:31.640 They want that.
00:46:32.260 So he was trying to do that.
00:46:33.400 And then Cory Booker was just trying to stop the bleeding.
00:46:36.620 But you know what?
00:46:37.180 It's amazing.
00:46:38.440 Do you know how many Democrat senators on Judiciary Committee asked her,
00:46:42.200 hey, why'd you represent a communist organization?
00:46:45.280 I'm going to go with probably zero.
00:46:47.880 That would be zero.
00:46:48.640 None of them care.
00:46:50.420 Do you know, none of them, it is a bizarre thing.
00:46:55.020 There is no independent free thinking among the Democrats.
00:46:58.520 There's none.
00:46:59.400 Listen, when Donald Trump was president, he nominated some terrific judges.
00:47:03.840 We confirmed the vast majority of his judges.
00:47:05.780 He had some judicial nominees that were mistakes, that were bad nominees.
00:47:08.960 And you know what we did as Republicans?
00:47:10.520 We rejected them.
00:47:11.540 We said, nope, take this one back.
00:47:13.300 This one's not there.
00:47:14.060 That's actually, under the Constitution, the job of the Senate.
00:47:17.380 It's called advise and consent.
00:47:19.860 The Democrats never, ever do that.
00:47:21.860 They're just a rubber stamp, and they're willing.
00:47:24.580 This is a woman who's volunteering for multiple organizations that are calling for abolishing 0.92
00:47:29.420 ICE and abolishing the police.
00:47:31.140 And the Democrats will all be like the Politburo and vote, duh.
00:47:35.140 That sounds like a federal appellate judge to us.
00:47:37.840 It's incredible.
00:47:42.540 At the end of the day, the question everybody's asking right now is, is she going to get confirmed?
00:47:47.500 And the answer is yes, correct?
00:47:49.820 No, I think we'll probably beat this judge.
00:47:52.120 And I actually think the reason they paired them, so typically a judiciary committee, they'll do one court of appeals judge at a time.
00:47:59.480 It's unusual to do two, and I think the reason they did this is I think they knew this woman's record was pretty radical and she was going to have a really rough time.
00:48:08.540 I think they really want the left-wing judge from Maine on the First Circuit.
00:48:14.040 And they know that her record is terrible, too.
00:48:17.220 She keeps letting violent criminals go with really, really short prison sentences.
00:48:22.500 But they knew, so, you know, look, I spent, I don't know, 45 seconds laying out the terrible record about this judge letting violent criminals go early.
00:48:32.320 But you had a communist next to her. 0.99
00:48:34.000 I don't know if she's a communist.
00:48:35.020 She just volunteers for the communists, so you decide what that is.
00:48:37.860 But I think it was a strategy.
00:48:40.940 They know the Sixth Circuit judge will go down, that she's not going to get the votes, but they're trying to ram the other judge through.
00:48:46.800 And the other judge from Maine got a bumpy ride, but a much better ride than if she'd been solo and people had actually been able to really dive into her record. 0.99
00:48:55.400 Incredible.
00:48:56.000 We'll keep you updated, obviously, as this moves forward.
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