Verdict with Ted Cruz - February 21, 2025


Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC


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Ted Cruz is joined by Pam Bondi, the new U.S. Attorney General of the United States, at CPAC, to discuss her transition from Florida to Washington, D.C., and what she's focusing on in her new role.

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00:00:05.300 Welcome, it is Verdict with Ted Cruz,
00:00:07.800 live from CPAC 2025.
00:00:15.280 Senator, it's, uh...
00:00:17.640 I like this being our annual time
00:00:19.820 to hang out with fun people.
00:00:21.760 Well, it is great to be back with CPAC,
00:00:24.100 and I gotta say, CPAC, this year,
00:00:26.120 there is energy, there is excitement.
00:00:28.540 Yeah.
00:00:30.340 It turns out winning doesn't suck.
00:00:32.880 It does not.
00:00:34.660 And we have a guest.
00:00:36.420 We have the Attorney General of the United States,
00:00:38.740 Pam Bondi.
00:00:45.060 So these guys never invite me to be on their podcast.
00:00:48.600 They finally did,
00:00:49.940 and I get to do it in front of all of you.
00:00:51.500 So this is awesome.
00:00:52.620 Well, Pam, I will tell you that there is some good karma
00:00:55.840 to being on this podcast
00:00:58.540 at CPAC was someone named J.D. Vance,
00:01:00.940 and he's done all right for himself.
00:01:02.540 He's a great man.
00:01:04.220 So, welcome.
00:01:06.200 Thank you.
00:01:07.140 You have been Attorney General 15 days.
00:01:10.320 It feels like 15 years.
00:01:11.680 I believe you.
00:01:12.260 And by the way, you just got some help.
00:01:15.940 An hour ago, the Senate just finished confirming.
00:01:18.640 Yes!
00:01:19.940 Isn't that great?
00:01:23.920 Been on the phone with him nonstop.
00:01:25.960 I talked to him on the ride over here.
00:01:28.720 He is going to do fantastic.
00:01:30.260 Sure is.
00:01:31.440 All right, let's start.
00:01:32.840 15 days.
00:01:34.320 You've come into what I think
00:01:35.960 is the single most important cabinet position
00:01:38.400 in this administration.
00:01:39.880 Because we went through four years
00:01:42.500 of Biden weaponizing the Department of Justice,
00:01:45.420 using it to attack his enemies,
00:01:47.740 and to support his friends.
00:01:49.400 So, let me ask you,
00:01:51.520 you come into DOJ,
00:01:52.920 you've got a mission.
00:01:53.900 You've got a mission
00:01:54.600 to restore integrity to the department,
00:01:57.380 to end the weaponization
00:01:58.920 and politicization.
00:02:00.500 How do you do that?
00:02:01.560 How do you get that done?
00:02:03.340 You know, the volume, Senator,
00:02:05.920 what concerned me the most,
00:02:08.600 it's the volume
00:02:09.420 of how bad it was.
00:02:12.960 And it still is.
00:02:14.180 We're working on it.
00:02:15.180 It's day by day by day.
00:02:16.780 But we've got a team of great people.
00:02:19.660 And on day one,
00:02:20.520 I issued 14 executive orders.
00:02:22.640 And number one is the weaponization ends.
00:02:24.840 And it ends now.
00:02:26.620 And that's what we did.
00:02:32.380 Let me ask you something.
00:02:33.720 In the 15 days you've been there,
00:02:36.320 how many DOJ employees
00:02:38.100 have said something to the effect of,
00:02:40.980 thank God?
00:02:42.480 A lot of them.
00:02:43.260 I believe you.
00:02:43.940 Look, I spent four years
00:02:47.220 hearing from AUSAs,
00:02:49.040 assistant U.S. attorneys,
00:02:50.380 hearing from FBI agents,
00:02:52.160 hearing from men and women
00:02:53.180 who believe in the rule of law
00:02:54.840 and were horrified
00:02:56.360 at the politicization
00:02:58.360 of the FBI and the DOJ.
00:03:00.360 And so I know for a lot
00:03:01.780 of good, honorable men
00:03:05.040 and women who've devoted
00:03:05.900 their careers
00:03:06.660 to defending the Constitution,
00:03:08.860 there's a lot of gratitude
00:03:11.920 that they can get back
00:03:14.660 to doing their job.
00:03:15.760 Their core function.
00:03:16.700 And that's thanks to Donald J. Trump
00:03:18.440 getting back in office.
00:03:20.300 And he gave us a clear directive.
00:03:22.980 Make America safe.
00:03:24.920 And that's what we're going to do.
00:03:26.240 You know, to start with
00:03:28.120 the law enforcement agencies
00:03:29.560 talking about cash,
00:03:30.920 these men and women
00:03:31.780 didn't go to Quantico.
00:03:33.260 They're not risking their lives
00:03:34.800 to waste their time
00:03:36.240 on all this politicization
00:03:37.600 and raiding Mar-a-Lago.
00:03:39.400 Really?
00:03:40.220 Stopping.
00:03:40.840 All of that is stopping.
00:03:42.520 And we are returning them
00:03:43.500 to their core function,
00:03:45.080 fighting violent crime.
00:03:46.880 And that's what the great majority
00:03:48.800 of men and women
00:03:49.980 in law enforcement,
00:03:51.040 DEA, ATF, U.S. Marshals, FBI,
00:03:53.780 as well as the incredible legal team
00:03:56.320 at the Justice Department,
00:03:57.860 that's what they want to do.
00:03:59.340 So let's talk about
00:04:00.500 one of the most lawless aspects
00:04:02.000 of the last four years,
00:04:03.680 which was the open borders
00:04:05.020 that we saw
00:04:05.800 and the 12 million
00:04:06.920 illegal immigrants
00:04:07.680 that have come into this country.
00:04:09.680 You've had just two weeks,
00:04:11.220 but you've hit the ground running
00:04:12.720 going after the criminals,
00:04:15.100 going after the murderers,
00:04:16.400 going after the rapists,
00:04:17.580 going after the child molesters, 0.99
00:04:19.140 going after the Venezuelan gang members.
00:04:23.360 Tell us, number one,
00:04:26.760 what you're doing
00:04:27.740 as Attorney General
00:04:28.680 that is making a real difference,
00:04:30.520 that is already making America safer.
00:04:33.320 And number two,
00:04:34.020 I understand you have
00:04:34.860 some breaking news
00:04:35.700 concerning my home state of Texas,
00:04:37.160 which I'm particularly proud to hear.
00:04:38.340 I do, I do.
00:04:39.460 And the press really haven't even out yet.
00:04:42.040 Joint Task Force Alpha
00:04:43.900 that we elevated
00:04:45.520 once we came in office,
00:04:47.140 it's with the Department of Justice
00:04:48.840 and the FBI.
00:04:49.960 And we work hand-in-hand
00:04:51.220 with Homeland Security.
00:04:52.220 Kristi and Ome is awesome.
00:04:53.300 We all work so well together.
00:04:55.060 Joint Task Force Alpha
00:04:56.240 just made a huge arrest
00:04:58.200 in Juarez, Mexico.
00:05:00.300 They were headed to Texas,
00:05:02.840 to El Paso.
00:05:04.180 Human smuggling.
00:05:06.100 Yeah, huge.
00:05:07.680 That's why we do what we do every day.
00:05:11.320 That's why these agents risk their lives
00:05:14.360 every single day.
00:05:16.800 It's human smuggling 0.85
00:05:18.220 and a lot of children,
00:05:20.080 a lot of children, they're saying,
00:05:22.160 are safer because of this.
00:05:23.720 Let me ask you a question.
00:05:24.860 President Trump,
00:05:25.520 and this has made headlines
00:05:26.480 on what you were just talking about,
00:05:27.640 we've designated these cartels
00:05:30.060 as terrorist organizations.
00:05:31.980 What does that allow you
00:05:33.500 to do in your job?
00:05:34.980 And Kash Patel now
00:05:36.380 is the head of the FBI.
00:05:37.640 What is that going to give you
00:05:38.920 the ability to do
00:05:39.700 and to go after them?
00:05:41.000 Well, Stephen Miller
00:05:42.220 is doing a great job
00:05:43.840 head of,
00:05:44.460 as we are, right?
00:05:47.160 Leading this effort
00:05:48.220 with all of us.
00:05:49.780 Mike Waltz at DOD.
00:05:51.420 We all work so,
00:05:52.880 Keith Huxley,
00:05:53.360 we all work so well together.
00:05:55.740 And it gives us the ability,
00:05:58.760 it gives,
00:05:59.400 they are a terrorist group.
00:06:00.880 And it gives us the ability
00:06:02.300 to go after them
00:06:03.200 more ability
00:06:04.180 anywhere in the world
00:06:05.560 and treat them 0.72
00:06:06.560 as terrorists. 1.00
00:06:07.860 They are terrorists.
00:06:09.220 If you're bringing fentanyl 0.99
00:06:10.500 into this country 0.99
00:06:11.420 and killing our kids, 1.00
00:06:12.980 you're a terrorist. 1.00
00:06:13.880 And we're coming after you. 1.00
00:06:16.700 300 a day
00:06:17.740 is the average
00:06:18.580 that are dying
00:06:19.160 in this country right now.
00:06:20.360 When you took this job
00:06:21.500 and you hear that number
00:06:22.580 and you saw the inaction
00:06:24.020 from the last administration,
00:06:25.140 how angry did that make you?
00:06:27.240 So angry.
00:06:28.000 You know,
00:06:28.140 I was state AG
00:06:28.880 before I became
00:06:30.160 United States Attorney General.
00:06:33.180 And fentanyl
00:06:33.700 was really just coming
00:06:34.920 on the market.
00:06:36.360 And now,
00:06:37.340 with this horrible
00:06:38.340 open border policy,
00:06:40.500 just flowing,
00:06:41.860 flowing across our borders 1.00
00:06:43.460 and killing kids, 0.99
00:06:45.480 killing adults 1.00
00:06:46.220 every single day.
00:06:48.480 And it's criminal
00:06:49.620 that no one was doing
00:06:50.780 anything to stop it.
00:06:52.220 I can't comprehend
00:06:53.680 how any administration,
00:06:55.360 progressive nor conservative,
00:06:57.060 how any administration
00:06:58.120 could tolerate that
00:06:59.520 and let that happen.
00:07:01.060 And it ended day one
00:07:02.680 with Donald Trump
00:07:03.420 when he shut that border.
00:07:04.940 I was at the border
00:07:06.020 back in September.
00:07:07.360 I went with
00:07:07.820 Laura Trump
00:07:08.420 and Morgan Ortegas.
00:07:09.360 Yep.
00:07:09.940 And we were in
00:07:11.120 Yuma, Arizona.
00:07:12.860 And I saw firsthand,
00:07:14.220 there is nothing
00:07:15.380 humanitarian
00:07:16.020 that was happening
00:07:16.920 at that border.
00:07:17.920 Nothing.
00:07:18.620 Nothing.
00:07:19.040 They have a rape tree 1.00
00:07:20.920 where they're raping women 1.00
00:07:22.580 as they're coming 1.00
00:07:23.640 into this country.
00:07:25.240 I saw firsthand
00:07:26.600 piles and piles
00:07:27.740 of passports
00:07:28.720 just thrown
00:07:29.680 from every country
00:07:30.760 you can imagine
00:07:31.580 because the Biden
00:07:32.980 administration
00:07:33.440 was letting you walk
00:07:34.480 right in the country.
00:07:35.420 If you didn't have
00:07:35.980 a passport,
00:07:37.060 they said they saw
00:07:37.820 Asian-Chinese individuals
00:07:39.800 saying,
00:07:40.260 oh, we're from Cuba.
00:07:41.300 So they wrote down
00:07:42.060 they're from Cuba
00:07:42.700 and had to let them
00:07:43.700 legally walk right in
00:07:44.960 under that administration.
00:07:46.040 But the drugs,
00:07:47.480 the trafficking,
00:07:48.560 I learned a new term,
00:07:50.000 disposable child.
00:07:52.060 The customs,
00:07:53.100 the border,
00:07:53.520 I mean,
00:07:53.760 the Border Patrol agents
00:07:54.840 told me
00:07:55.360 that they saw
00:07:56.560 a little boy
00:07:57.380 and they kept recognizing
00:07:58.740 the same little boy
00:08:00.060 over and over
00:08:01.560 and over coming in.
00:08:03.080 Because if you came 0.89
00:08:04.200 into our country
00:08:04.860 as a family unit,
00:08:06.600 they just let you
00:08:07.300 walk right in.
00:08:08.060 This little child
00:08:08.680 was being trafficked.
00:08:09.700 Yes.
00:08:09.980 Now how they were
00:08:10.620 getting him back to Mexico
00:08:11.780 is beyond me.
00:08:12.940 But they were bringing him
00:08:14.040 time and time again.
00:08:15.500 He wasn't their family.
00:08:17.340 So who knows
00:08:18.320 what happened
00:08:18.920 to his parents?
00:08:20.020 Well, and I will say
00:08:20.800 a number of people
00:08:21.400 in the room gasped
00:08:22.500 at a term you use,
00:08:24.100 which unfortunately
00:08:25.140 is a real term,
00:08:27.140 rape tree.
00:08:28.420 Yeah.
00:08:28.700 And it's something
00:08:29.560 that we're seeing,
00:08:30.660 we've been seeing
00:08:31.260 for the last four years
00:08:32.300 in Texas.
00:08:33.280 We've seen it in Arizona
00:08:34.800 that the cartels
00:08:35.940 will go and violently 1.00
00:08:37.260 rape women. 1.00
00:08:38.620 They'll violently rape 1.00
00:08:40.020 teenage girls, 1.00
00:08:41.920 young girls. 0.99
00:08:43.380 And then they will hang
00:08:44.220 their underwear
00:08:44.860 in the tree.
00:08:46.380 And you'll find
00:08:47.120 a tree down
00:08:47.860 on the southern border
00:08:48.780 with 10,
00:08:49.560 20 pairs of underwear
00:08:50.560 as they're mocking
00:08:52.280 law enforcement
00:08:53.260 saying we can do
00:08:54.340 whatever we want.
00:08:55.960 And for four years
00:08:57.020 the Biden Justice Department,
00:08:58.520 they just turned
00:08:59.680 a blind eye
00:09:00.520 and they facilitated it.
00:09:02.600 You know,
00:09:02.780 you talked about the kids.
00:09:04.040 So they had a policy.
00:09:05.440 If you arrive with a kid,
00:09:06.880 it's essentially
00:09:07.400 a get out of jail
00:09:08.220 free card.
00:09:08.940 And so you started
00:09:10.540 seeing a phenomenon
00:09:11.400 that we've never seen
00:09:12.260 in immigration before
00:09:13.360 which is single young men
00:09:15.780 showing up
00:09:16.380 with little kids.
00:09:17.980 Now that's not
00:09:19.040 a normal pattern
00:09:19.800 of migration
00:09:20.520 but we started seeing
00:09:22.260 military age men
00:09:25.020 showing up
00:09:25.660 with little boys
00:09:26.380 and little girls,
00:09:27.240 many of whom
00:09:28.020 are physically
00:09:29.180 and sexually assaulted
00:09:30.400 in transit 0.59
00:09:30.980 and the same kid
00:09:32.060 the cartels
00:09:33.060 would recycle
00:09:33.700 over and over
00:09:34.880 and over again
00:09:35.920 to bring in gang members,
00:09:37.540 to bring in criminals.
00:09:39.520 Now,
00:09:40.100 let me ask this.
00:09:43.460 What is most effective
00:09:45.060 stopping
00:09:45.860 the invasion
00:09:47.380 at the southern border?
00:09:49.020 The border,
00:09:49.860 closing our borders 0.63
00:09:50.680 which is what we've done.
00:09:52.440 Donald Trump
00:09:52.960 has closed our border
00:09:53.960 but now,
00:09:55.440 of course,
00:09:56.040 we all know
00:09:56.640 we have so many
00:09:58.060 of these illegal aliens 1.00
00:09:59.960 fighting age men
00:10:01.480 ages 18 to 35
00:10:03.620 in our country.
00:10:04.660 Yep.
00:10:05.000 Walking around our country
00:10:06.260 and President Trump
00:10:07.460 has been a strong
00:10:08.300 directive on that.
00:10:09.100 How concerned
00:10:09.820 are you right now
00:10:11.080 about the 12 million
00:10:13.620 illegal aliens
00:10:14.420 who came in
00:10:15.280 under Joe Biden
00:10:16.200 and about the risk
00:10:17.380 of terrorism
00:10:18.180 of Hamas,
00:10:20.320 of Hezbollah,
00:10:21.020 Palestinian Islamic Jihad,
00:10:23.080 the risk of terrorism
00:10:24.560 targeting Americans
00:10:25.700 across this country?
00:10:27.140 It's a huge risk
00:10:28.640 and we all know
00:10:30.660 how bad it is now
00:10:32.000 and that's what
00:10:33.520 Donald Trump
00:10:34.020 is committed to do
00:10:35.440 is to take
00:10:36.760 these people
00:10:37.420 out of our country
00:10:38.400 to prosecute them
00:10:39.700 to deport them
00:10:41.000 to get them
00:10:41.880 off our streets
00:10:43.120 and that's what
00:10:44.060 all of these
00:10:44.860 law enforcement agencies
00:10:46.160 are doing.
00:10:47.640 You know,
00:10:48.060 Lake and Riley,
00:10:49.100 of course,
00:10:49.760 that beautiful young woman
00:10:51.020 University of Georgia,
00:10:51.960 Lake and Riley
00:10:52.680 is probably
00:10:53.780 the most prominent name
00:10:55.340 but look how many
00:10:56.880 Lake and Riley's
00:10:58.340 are out there.
00:10:59.400 One victim
00:11:00.300 is too many.
00:11:01.460 Jocelyn Nungary,
00:11:03.000 Rachel Morin.
00:11:04.580 Right.
00:11:04.800 I mean,
00:11:05.880 the numbers
00:11:07.060 just every day
00:11:08.840 and I got to say,
00:11:10.760 so already in the
00:11:11.520 first two weeks,
00:11:12.780 you've sued New York,
00:11:14.220 you've sued Chicago.
00:11:16.220 You can clap for that.
00:11:18.060 These sanctuary cities
00:11:19.620 that are fighting
00:11:21.560 and I've got to say,
00:11:23.360 Massachusetts
00:11:23.880 in particular,
00:11:25.480 actually in our last podcast
00:11:26.800 we talked about this,
00:11:27.880 how Massachusetts
00:11:29.140 continues to this day
00:11:31.220 to have violent 1.00
00:11:32.980 child rapist 1.00
00:11:34.340 illegal immigrants 1.00
00:11:35.360 who they release
00:11:37.260 on the streets
00:11:37.980 and they refuse
00:11:38.920 to notify ICE,
00:11:40.180 they refuse,
00:11:40.940 these are illegal immigrants
00:11:41.900 who could be deported
00:11:42.680 immediately
00:11:43.280 and the Massachusetts
00:11:44.720 officials
00:11:45.700 take criminals
00:11:47.060 who violently 1.00
00:11:47.920 rape little kids. 1.00
00:11:49.740 Let me ask you, 1.00
00:11:50.680 what is your message
00:11:52.040 to
00:11:53.540 a mayor,
00:11:55.900 to a local official
00:11:57.120 who wants to defy
00:11:58.860 federal immigration law?
00:12:01.000 Well,
00:12:01.220 our message is very clear.
00:12:02.600 I sued Illinois first,
00:12:04.940 Chicago,
00:12:05.980 first day,
00:12:06.960 first day
00:12:07.580 and I gave a very
00:12:08.860 strong warning.
00:12:10.140 If you don't comply
00:12:11.160 with the law,
00:12:12.140 you're next
00:12:12.920 and guess who didn't listen?
00:12:14.180 New York.
00:12:15.680 Kathy Hochul got sued.
00:12:17.380 They all got sued
00:12:18.320 in New York
00:12:18.940 and if you don't
00:12:20.340 follow the law,
00:12:21.500 you're going to be next
00:12:22.840 because we are going
00:12:24.280 to get violent criminals
00:12:25.480 off our streets
00:12:26.040 and you know,
00:12:26.800 Senator,
00:12:27.160 it's more than that.
00:12:28.120 They're endangering
00:12:29.360 the lives
00:12:30.340 of our great men
00:12:31.140 and women
00:12:31.400 in law enforcement.
00:12:32.600 That's what people
00:12:33.340 don't understand.
00:12:34.220 When you're hiding
00:12:35.120 illegal aliens
00:12:36.060 from law enforcement,
00:12:37.160 you're endangering
00:12:38.220 their lives.
00:12:39.720 It's going to stop.
00:12:41.540 So let me ask you,
00:12:42.500 two weeks into it,
00:12:43.880 you've been at DOJ,
00:12:46.080 what's your assessment?
00:12:47.940 Is it as bad
00:12:48.740 as you thought
00:12:49.280 it would be?
00:12:50.620 Is it better?
00:12:52.020 Is it worse?
00:12:52.920 It's worse.
00:12:53.480 You're inherited chaos.
00:12:57.660 Worse meaning,
00:12:59.220 yeah,
00:12:59.580 that department
00:13:00.620 had completely lost
00:13:02.680 its mission
00:13:03.960 of fighting violent crime.
00:13:06.420 Look what they did
00:13:07.100 to President Trump.
00:13:07.920 Look at the weaponization
00:13:08.880 and weaponization ended.
00:13:11.540 And the deep state
00:13:13.240 is very real.
00:13:14.300 I think all of you
00:13:14.960 in this room
00:13:15.860 know that.
00:13:16.940 It's very real.
00:13:18.500 and people trying
00:13:19.780 to undermine
00:13:21.160 everything you're doing.
00:13:22.960 You know,
00:13:23.140 three weeks into it,
00:13:24.160 I went in one department
00:13:25.100 and found huge
00:13:27.080 20 by 20 glossies
00:13:28.700 of Joe Biden,
00:13:29.660 Merrick Garland,
00:13:30.320 and Kamala Harris
00:13:31.040 still hanging up
00:13:31.820 in my office.
00:13:33.620 They're gone.
00:13:34.760 They're gone.
00:13:36.240 They're gone.
00:13:37.380 And guess,
00:13:38.260 guess what's replacing it?
00:13:40.380 A very handsome photo
00:13:42.420 of a man Donald Trump.
00:13:45.320 Not the one in the hallway,
00:13:46.860 right?
00:13:47.100 That picture?
00:13:48.600 That one.
00:13:49.160 That one, okay.
00:13:49.840 I like that one.
00:13:50.500 That one's out there.
00:13:50.740 That one's in replacing.
00:13:52.720 But I make light of that,
00:13:54.640 but that's what's happening.
00:13:56.540 You know,
00:13:56.740 he had been in office
00:13:57.440 three weeks
00:13:58.080 and the deep state
00:13:59.580 still had those pictures
00:14:00.980 hanging.
00:14:01.480 And to me,
00:14:02.020 that's defiant.
00:14:02.800 It's insubordination.
00:14:04.080 Not going to happen.
00:14:05.700 But, you know,
00:14:06.400 what we said,
00:14:07.160 most people,
00:14:08.220 the majority of the people
00:14:09.480 are great people
00:14:10.580 who went to law school,
00:14:12.680 became prosecutors,
00:14:13.780 became law enforcement agents
00:14:14.940 to fight crime.
00:14:15.920 You've spent your professional life
00:14:17.700 as a prosecutor.
00:14:18.700 Career.
00:14:19.200 How important
00:14:19.980 is it to you
00:14:21.760 to go after bad guys
00:14:23.180 and to get bad guys
00:14:24.060 off the street
00:14:24.620 and keep people safe?
00:14:25.800 It means everything.
00:14:26.980 And the drug epidemic,
00:14:28.640 you know,
00:14:28.760 the fentanyl
00:14:29.340 just flowing into our country now,
00:14:31.600 the terrorists, 0.73
00:14:32.500 the gangs,
00:14:33.340 TDA,
00:14:33.980 Trans-Diagua,
00:14:35.460 MS-13,
00:14:38.060 all of the gangs
00:14:38.940 who are now
00:14:39.380 terrorist organizations,
00:14:40.640 we've got to stop them.
00:14:42.600 And that's why we do
00:14:44.580 what we do.
00:14:45.920 And we all have to work together.
00:14:48.140 And working with Homeland Security
00:14:49.320 has been great, too.
00:14:50.200 So one of the most shocking statistics
00:14:52.080 from the prior administration
00:14:53.260 is the number 300,000.
00:14:56.420 300,000 children
00:14:58.320 that the prior administration
00:15:00.400 had in custody
00:15:01.280 and that they lost.
00:15:02.580 That they do not know
00:15:03.500 where they are.
00:15:04.460 We know that many of those children
00:15:06.060 are being abused right now.
00:15:07.480 Tell me about the efforts
00:15:08.780 you and Homeland Security
00:15:10.280 and the Trump administration,
00:15:11.900 the efforts you are doing
00:15:12.920 to find those children
00:15:14.160 and to get them
00:15:15.040 out of harm's way.
00:15:16.100 That's top priority.
00:15:17.580 And that's Donald Trump's
00:15:18.660 top priority
00:15:19.540 to find these victims
00:15:21.360 and to save them.
00:15:22.920 And that's what I don't,
00:15:24.100 I truly can't comprehend
00:15:25.680 how any administration
00:15:27.560 would let that happen
00:15:29.760 and not care.
00:15:31.580 And that's what
00:15:32.360 we're all fighting for.
00:15:33.640 And, you know,
00:15:34.120 you say,
00:15:34.580 when you take a job
00:15:35.820 with this incredible volume,
00:15:37.480 you think,
00:15:38.380 how do you do it?
00:15:39.920 How do you focus every day?
00:15:42.800 And you do it by saying,
00:15:44.080 if I can save one life,
00:15:45.680 it's worth it.
00:15:46.740 Well, it's a lot more than one.
00:15:48.280 But it compounds.
00:15:49.320 That's how you start off.
00:15:50.680 One life.
00:15:51.280 And it is thousands
00:15:52.400 and ultimately more.
00:15:55.020 So I want to say something
00:15:56.220 to the folks here at CPAC,
00:15:58.700 which is,
00:15:59.680 as many of y'all know,
00:16:01.100 Ben and I do this podcast,
00:16:02.580 Verdict with Ted Cruz.
00:16:03.580 We do it three days a week.
00:16:04.600 We do it Monday,
00:16:05.200 Wednesday, and Friday.
00:16:06.840 We've got roughly
00:16:07.820 a million unique listeners
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00:16:10.700 And we do this
00:16:12.200 to go around
00:16:13.080 the corporate media,
00:16:14.440 to go directly
00:16:15.640 to the American people
00:16:16.920 and to bring the truth
00:16:19.300 and bring the facts.
00:16:20.120 So I want to ask
00:16:20.740 everyone here,
00:16:22.100 many of y'all already
00:16:23.240 subscribe to the pod,
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00:16:37.300 to 24005.
00:16:41.300 Again, 24005.
00:16:44.560 When you text VERDICT
00:16:46.200 to 24005,
00:16:47.800 what you'll get back
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00:16:59.140 or ask your grandkids.
00:17:00.240 Although I'll say,
00:17:00.840 if you're at CPAC,
00:17:01.880 you're pretty hip and connected.
00:17:03.100 So you may know as well
00:17:04.360 if you're here at CPAC.
00:17:06.300 But every Monday Wednesday...
00:17:06.820 And subscribe doesn't mean
00:17:07.860 it costs you money
00:17:08.500 to quote your dad.
00:17:09.340 Oh, my father points out
00:17:11.160 that he, you know,
00:17:11.620 my dad is 85
00:17:12.480 and he said when he hears subscribe,
00:17:14.100 he thinks it's a magazine subscription.
00:17:15.860 There's no charge.
00:17:17.340 It just magically appears
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00:17:20.540 on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
00:17:22.240 And we bring in guests
00:17:23.740 like the Attorney General
00:17:24.720 of the United States
00:17:25.660 and we focus on
00:17:27.380 what is happening,
00:17:28.920 the victories
00:17:29.580 that President Trump
00:17:30.600 is winning,
00:17:31.460 and the news
00:17:32.860 that the corporate media
00:17:33.960 won't cover.
00:17:34.840 Yeah.
00:17:35.660 I want to ask you...
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00:18:04.500 Listen to the Honest Talk podcast
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00:18:08.560 I want to ask you a question.
00:18:11.940 It's one that I've been
00:18:12.840 dying to ask you,
00:18:13.860 and it deals with
00:18:14.940 all of the pardons
00:18:16.180 that were given out
00:18:17.020 from Joe Biden
00:18:18.460 at the end.
00:18:19.800 There were a lot
00:18:20.640 that went to his family.
00:18:22.340 It is what it is.
00:18:23.620 There's one person
00:18:24.400 he did not pardon.
00:18:25.560 That would be himself.
00:18:27.840 There are a lot of people
00:18:28.600 who think there should be
00:18:29.220 accountability.
00:18:30.540 Should this be something
00:18:31.620 that is looked at
00:18:32.400 to see what he did
00:18:33.380 while he was president?
00:18:34.240 Don't you find it
00:18:38.200 very interesting
00:18:39.140 that they
00:18:39.900 attempted
00:18:41.400 to prosecute
00:18:42.560 the president
00:18:43.080 for having documents
00:18:44.780 in the most secure place
00:18:45.920 in the world
00:18:46.320 other than the White House
00:18:47.200 Mar-a-Laga,
00:18:48.200 and he had the security
00:18:49.540 clearance to take them,
00:18:51.000 yet Joe Biden,
00:18:51.940 who had no security
00:18:53.380 clearance to take them
00:18:54.560 at the time,
00:18:55.620 had them in his garage
00:18:56.840 with his drug addict son
00:18:58.320 going in and out
00:18:59.600 of his garage,
00:19:01.080 yet what did they say
00:19:01.880 about him?
00:19:02.640 Too old to prosecute.
00:19:03.640 Frail,
00:19:04.480 old man.
00:19:06.600 But listen,
00:19:08.320 Donald Trump and I
00:19:09.440 have not talked
00:19:10.860 about that at all.
00:19:12.400 This is not about targeting.
00:19:13.820 This is what they do to us.
00:19:15.320 This is not about targeting.
00:19:17.020 This is not about weaponization.
00:19:19.060 This is about
00:19:19.780 keeping America safe
00:19:21.140 and going forward
00:19:22.400 and prosecuting
00:19:23.700 violent criminals.
00:19:24.940 If you committed a crime
00:19:26.140 in this country,
00:19:27.640 no one is above the law.
00:19:29.140 I will say that.
00:19:29.960 No one is above the law.
00:19:33.640 So,
00:19:34.500 Pam, 0.70
00:19:35.280 the media are going crazy
00:19:37.000 about New York Mayor
00:19:38.980 Eric Adams
00:19:39.800 and the charges
00:19:40.740 that were dismissed
00:19:41.420 against him.
00:19:42.060 So glad you brought that up.
00:19:43.440 Tell us what the story is,
00:19:45.700 what happened there,
00:19:46.980 and why were the charges
00:19:47.880 dismissed?
00:19:48.440 Sure.
00:19:49.040 And Amel,
00:19:49.860 who has done
00:19:50.400 an incredible job,
00:19:51.920 he worked on this case,
00:19:53.440 he looked at this case.
00:19:54.900 It was an incredibly
00:19:56.740 weak case
00:19:58.100 filed to make
00:19:59.980 deportation harder.
00:20:02.640 That's why they did it.
00:20:03.840 They took one of the
00:20:04.740 biggest mayors
00:20:05.420 in the country
00:20:06.040 off the playing field
00:20:07.760 in order
00:20:09.260 to
00:20:10.260 protect
00:20:11.780 their sanctuary city.
00:20:13.760 This case,
00:20:14.540 it was so incredibly weak.
00:20:16.120 It was about
00:20:16.600 increases in
00:20:17.940 airline tickets,
00:20:19.100 upgrades in airline tickets
00:20:20.520 in his official capacity
00:20:21.900 without getting into
00:20:23.160 all the details
00:20:23.800 of the fact.
00:20:24.480 I don't even think
00:20:25.020 it could survive a verdict.
00:20:26.780 Excuse me.
00:20:27.860 Incredibly weak case.
00:20:29.040 That is the
00:20:30.360 weaponization
00:20:31.140 of government.
00:20:32.460 That's lawfare.
00:20:33.460 That's lawfare.
00:20:34.880 When you're filing
00:20:35.620 cases like that
00:20:36.700 to keep someone
00:20:38.280 who criticized
00:20:39.340 Joe Biden,
00:20:40.120 who said
00:20:40.840 they took away
00:20:41.620 a security clearance
00:20:42.720 so he could not
00:20:44.260 get the details,
00:20:45.460 so he could not
00:20:46.480 help enforce
00:20:47.480 the deportation efforts
00:20:48.920 in New York.
00:20:49.820 And you know,
00:20:50.300 these people are
00:20:51.040 going after him.
00:20:52.760 Ride a subway
00:20:53.560 in New York.
00:20:54.260 It's not safe.
00:20:55.800 Violent crime
00:20:56.760 is at an all-time high,
00:20:58.240 and that's what
00:20:59.240 they're doing.
00:21:00.260 So it's not about
00:21:01.080 weaponization.
00:21:01.760 It's about ending
00:21:02.620 their weaponization
00:21:03.920 of the government
00:21:05.100 and fighting violent crime
00:21:06.560 and enabling
00:21:07.660 cities like New York
00:21:09.260 and mayors
00:21:10.880 like Eric Adams
00:21:12.000 to enforce
00:21:13.300 Donald Trump's
00:21:14.660 immigration policies.
00:21:15.920 I want to ask you
00:21:20.860 and go back to
00:21:21.500 something you said
00:21:21.900 a moment ago.
00:21:22.860 We were talking
00:21:23.520 about cartels,
00:21:24.440 and they have been
00:21:25.260 able to set up networks,
00:21:26.600 and we see this
00:21:27.400 coming up now
00:21:28.300 more often.
00:21:29.280 We're controlling
00:21:30.120 states and cities
00:21:31.200 and states
00:21:31.760 and the entire flow,
00:21:33.140 and they've been
00:21:33.880 able to do this
00:21:34.600 and set it up
00:21:35.200 without having to worry
00:21:36.280 that anyone's
00:21:36.880 going to stop them.
00:21:38.080 We're seeing this
00:21:39.020 not on border states,
00:21:40.320 but all over the country,
00:21:41.800 this network.
00:21:43.300 At what point
00:21:44.220 do we get to start
00:21:45.200 dismantling that?
00:21:46.640 How long does that take?
00:21:47.940 How much time
00:21:49.320 is that going to take?
00:21:50.120 Because they've been here
00:21:50.940 for quite some time
00:21:51.800 with the last administration.
00:21:53.180 There's a lot
00:21:53.840 I can't talk about now,
00:21:55.540 but very publicly,
00:21:57.960 I think you've seen
00:21:58.840 a lot happen.
00:21:59.920 A lot is happening
00:22:00.720 every day.
00:22:02.180 Our great men and women
00:22:03.260 in law enforcement
00:22:04.020 are out there.
00:22:04.740 It's a joint effort
00:22:05.420 with our office
00:22:06.180 and with Christy Noem,
00:22:07.460 and again,
00:22:08.200 we all work so well together,
00:22:11.140 whether it's Mike Waltz.
00:22:13.280 Y'all are friends.
00:22:14.100 I think people
00:22:14.780 don't understand this.
00:22:15.580 This is a group
00:22:16.500 in this administration,
00:22:17.800 and you and I
00:22:18.180 have talked about this
00:22:18.860 on the show.
00:22:19.940 You guys are friends.
00:22:21.220 Y'all know each other
00:22:22.160 before you got here.
00:22:23.620 How important
00:22:24.300 are those relationships
00:22:25.160 that you say,
00:22:25.800 hey, I trust you.
00:22:28.060 I trust you.
00:22:29.220 I trust you.
00:22:30.040 I got your back.
00:22:30.860 Let's go to work.
00:22:31.540 Vital and crucial.
00:22:33.260 Mike Waltz and Christy,
00:22:34.560 we're on the phone
00:22:35.360 with each other
00:22:35.920 all the time.
00:22:37.760 To change the topic
00:22:38.520 just a little bit,
00:22:39.440 just to give you
00:22:40.120 an example,
00:22:41.040 Lee Zeldin,
00:22:41.600 a dear friend of mine.
00:22:42.400 Great guy.
00:22:42.760 On President's Day.
00:22:43.600 Running the EPA now.
00:22:45.340 EPA, Lee Zeldin,
00:22:46.520 great administrator of EPA.
00:22:47.700 I'm on the phone
00:22:48.760 hours with Scott Besson,
00:22:51.060 our Secretary of Treasury,
00:22:52.180 and Lee Zeldin.
00:22:53.440 And, you know,
00:22:54.260 we've seen,
00:22:54.940 thanks to Elon Musk,
00:22:55.980 my buddy's great work.
00:22:57.440 Yep.
00:22:57.940 And it's been reported.
00:22:59.340 Look what they're doing
00:23:00.180 at EPA.
00:23:00.680 I'm changing the subject
00:23:01.580 a little bit,
00:23:02.120 but they're giving out
00:23:04.000 billions of dollars
00:23:06.060 after Joe Biden
00:23:08.080 lost the election
00:23:09.080 trying to push
00:23:10.260 this money
00:23:10.720 out the door.
00:23:12.200 Virtually shoveling
00:23:13.280 cash out the windows.
00:23:15.040 As I said,
00:23:15.740 gold bars.
00:23:16.480 Yeah.
00:23:16.700 Let's throw all the
00:23:17.500 gold bars off the ship.
00:23:18.940 Yep.
00:23:19.340 And we're stopping them.
00:23:20.440 We're stopping them
00:23:21.200 in real time.
00:23:22.280 We're going after them.
00:23:24.020 But it's because
00:23:25.200 we all pick up the phone
00:23:26.400 and we talk directly
00:23:27.560 to each other.
00:23:28.480 So we're able
00:23:29.440 to work together,
00:23:30.540 you know,
00:23:30.860 talk to Marco Rubio
00:23:31.840 and look at the men
00:23:32.960 like Steve Whitcoff
00:23:34.300 out there,
00:23:34.820 Rick Grinnell,
00:23:35.520 what they're doing
00:23:36.760 working with Marco
00:23:37.700 and Mike Walton,
00:23:39.220 all the great,
00:23:39.940 the people that they're
00:23:41.020 saving around the world.
00:23:42.520 And that's thanks
00:23:43.380 to one man,
00:23:44.140 Donald Trump.
00:23:45.200 He put all of us
00:23:46.140 in these positions
00:23:46.960 because he believes
00:23:48.120 that I was trust us.
00:23:49.220 The consistent thread
00:23:50.860 of the cabinet nominees
00:23:52.400 is that you're all
00:23:54.700 change agents.
00:23:55.960 You all came in
00:23:56.800 with a mission
00:23:57.560 and it is,
00:23:58.820 listen,
00:23:59.160 there has never been
00:24:00.020 a first month
00:24:00.900 of any presidency
00:24:01.780 in the history
00:24:02.500 of the United States
00:24:03.420 of America
00:24:04.020 like the last 30 days.
00:24:06.720 That's right.
00:24:09.600 Amen.
00:24:10.680 And I'll tell you,
00:24:11.820 I have had great joy
00:24:13.740 turning to my Democrat
00:24:15.640 colleagues in the Senate
00:24:16.760 and just deadpanning,
00:24:18.380 well,
00:24:19.020 three years
00:24:20.520 and 11 months to go.
00:24:23.420 And they literally
00:24:24.540 start twitching.
00:24:25.960 Like,
00:24:26.380 they have facial tics
00:24:28.740 that they cannot suppress.
00:24:30.900 Yeah.
00:24:31.280 But,
00:24:31.500 all right,
00:24:31.780 Pam, 0.70
00:24:32.220 one of the things
00:24:33.320 that people like
00:24:34.660 about this podcast
00:24:35.420 that we try to do
00:24:36.320 is we try to bring people
00:24:38.420 behind the scenes
00:24:39.620 to actually understand
00:24:41.180 what's going on
00:24:42.240 behind closed doors.
00:24:43.740 So,
00:24:44.020 tell us about
00:24:44.980 your first day
00:24:47.420 as Attorney General.
00:24:48.420 You're confirmed
00:24:49.120 and like day one
00:24:51.220 when you get sworn in,
00:24:52.980 just walk everyone
00:24:53.880 through what
00:24:54.480 day one
00:24:55.340 of being Attorney General
00:24:56.280 of the United States
00:24:56.980 is like.
00:24:57.380 you go non-stop,
00:25:00.540 and I jokingly said
00:25:01.520 it felt like 15 years
00:25:02.880 because you're working
00:25:04.120 seven days a week
00:25:05.180 non-stop,
00:25:06.020 and we're all working
00:25:07.240 with each other.
00:25:08.200 Everything we do,
00:25:09.920 it overlaps,
00:25:10.960 and especially with
00:25:11.660 Department of Justice,
00:25:12.700 especially too,
00:25:13.300 with all this money
00:25:13.940 going out,
00:25:14.380 the USAID,
00:25:15.260 all of these agencies,
00:25:16.400 and we're going to be
00:25:17.220 helping all these agencies,
00:25:18.420 but you just hit the ground
00:25:21.260 running literally,
00:25:23.220 and don't look back.
00:25:25.480 I don't look at
00:25:26.300 what time of day it is.
00:25:27.600 I don't think I've slept
00:25:28.740 in 15 days,
00:25:29.980 but you don't want to,
00:25:31.300 and then when you find out
00:25:33.340 about this human trafficking ring
00:25:35.540 that was just broken up,
00:25:36.700 it's just,
00:25:37.240 that's why we're all doing
00:25:38.800 what we're doing,
00:25:40.300 and you just keep
00:25:41.600 going forward,
00:25:42.660 and our directive,
00:25:44.180 our directive from our boss
00:25:46.500 is so easy,
00:25:48.020 especially on my end,
00:25:49.320 make America safe,
00:25:51.200 and so you just,
00:25:52.160 you just don't,
00:25:53.420 Senator,
00:25:54.240 you don't even,
00:25:55.040 my biggest,
00:25:55.900 my hardest thing now
00:25:56.620 is I forget to eat.
00:25:57.540 You forget what time it is,
00:25:58.840 and it's six o'clock at night,
00:26:00.220 and I'm like,
00:26:00.400 why do I have a headache?
00:26:01.180 Because I haven't eaten today,
00:26:02.260 but you're going non-stop,
00:26:03.880 and it's not me,
00:26:05.320 it's an entire team.
00:26:06.840 I've got Chad Mizell,
00:26:07.920 I've got Emil,
00:26:08.800 I've got Todd Blanchett,
00:26:09.740 thank goodness coming in,
00:26:10.540 and we've got Cash Patel now,
00:26:12.140 so they better look out.
00:26:15.180 How nice is it
00:26:16.800 to have a boss
00:26:18.740 by the guy,
00:26:19.600 a guy by the name
00:26:20.300 of Donald J. Trump,
00:26:21.620 who just lets you do your job?
00:26:23.260 Exactly.
00:26:23.980 I mean,
00:26:24.560 there's a lot of presidents
00:26:25.860 in the past
00:26:26.440 that have really tried
00:26:27.380 to keep their thumb on people.
00:26:28.760 It seems like he's saying,
00:26:30.660 go,
00:26:31.080 and go get it done,
00:26:32.840 and call me when you need me.
00:26:34.120 He has trusted all of us,
00:26:36.060 and all of our various capacities,
00:26:38.460 and all the different roles we have,
00:26:40.600 whether it's education,
00:26:41.740 or agriculture,
00:26:43.760 you know,
00:26:44.020 all the cabinet,
00:26:45.020 labor,
00:26:45.880 all of the different cabinet secretaries,
00:26:48.120 just to go out
00:26:49.200 and do the best we can,
00:26:50.740 and, you know,
00:26:51.980 we want to make
00:26:52.860 all of you proud,
00:26:54.720 and we want to fulfill
00:26:56.420 his directive
00:26:57.300 to make our country great.
00:26:58.720 That man sure didn't need that job.
00:27:00.820 He's a good friend of mine,
00:27:02.080 and I love,
00:27:02.880 during my confirmation hearing,
00:27:04.400 when they try,
00:27:05.040 they get on me
00:27:05.900 because they say,
00:27:06.520 I'm friends with Donald Trump.
00:27:07.740 Yes,
00:27:08.080 I'm very,
00:27:08.960 no,
00:27:09.280 I'm not friends with him.
00:27:10.020 I'm good friends with him,
00:27:11.180 and I'm very proud
00:27:11.940 to work for him.
00:27:13.440 You know,
00:27:18.600 when you look at
00:27:19.420 weaponization
00:27:20.220 and politicization,
00:27:21.980 part of it is using it
00:27:23.380 to attack
00:27:23.900 your political opponents,
00:27:24.840 and we've seen
00:27:25.420 four years of that
00:27:26.440 under Joe Biden.
00:27:27.560 Yeah.
00:27:28.300 Another part of it
00:27:29.540 is turning the other way
00:27:31.440 at your political allies
00:27:32.720 and refusing
00:27:33.700 to enforce the law
00:27:34.880 against them,
00:27:35.500 and I think
00:27:35.840 one of the most
00:27:36.400 egregious examples
00:27:37.640 we've seen
00:27:38.780 over the last two years
00:27:40.220 is the rising anti-Semitism
00:27:42.400 on college campuses.
00:27:43.700 Amen.
00:27:44.280 The violent protesters
00:27:46.240 and rioters,
00:27:47.480 many of whom
00:27:48.180 are not students,
00:27:49.120 are not affiliated
00:27:49.920 with the universities,
00:27:50.920 and they are
00:27:51.980 threatening students.
00:27:53.560 You look at
00:27:54.040 Columbia University,
00:27:55.200 the Orthodox rabbi
00:27:56.300 there sent out
00:27:57.120 an email
00:27:57.860 to the Jewish students
00:27:58.940 on campus
00:27:59.660 and said,
00:28:00.720 do not come to campus
00:28:02.720 because the university
00:28:04.560 cannot and will not
00:28:06.140 keep you safe.
00:28:08.040 And the Biden
00:28:08.800 Justice Department
00:28:09.900 did nothing.
00:28:11.540 They investigated nobody,
00:28:13.520 they didn't follow
00:28:14.200 the money,
00:28:15.080 they didn't indict anyone,
00:28:16.540 they didn't prosecute anyone,
00:28:18.060 and they did not enforce
00:28:20.160 Title VI
00:28:20.880 of the civil rights laws
00:28:22.160 which say
00:28:23.120 that if you are
00:28:24.680 tolerating harassment
00:28:25.960 on the basis
00:28:26.760 of ethnicity
00:28:28.260 or religion
00:28:29.020 that you will have
00:28:30.120 your federal funds
00:28:30.940 cut off.
00:28:32.340 How is the Department
00:28:33.600 of Justice
00:28:34.260 different today
00:28:36.140 and what will
00:28:38.300 your approach
00:28:39.100 be to anti-Semitism
00:28:40.720 and threats
00:28:41.440 of violence
00:28:42.060 directed against 0.81
00:28:43.280 Jewish students
00:28:43.980 on campus
00:28:44.580 or any other
00:28:45.200 students on campus?
00:28:46.040 We have an October
00:28:47.220 7th task force
00:28:48.580 that we started
00:28:49.720 and we will
00:28:50.820 protect you.
00:28:51.660 When I was just
00:28:52.520 a citizen
00:28:53.100 before I had this job,
00:28:54.320 what you said,
00:28:54.840 I'm watching these,
00:28:56.480 these aren't
00:28:56.880 peaceful protests,
00:28:57.960 we all believe
00:28:58.700 in peaceful protests.
00:28:59.720 Oh, I'm sorry,
00:29:01.300 unless you're a liberal
00:29:02.580 and you don't want
00:29:03.860 a parent to quietly pray
00:29:06.060 outside an abortion clinic
00:29:07.700 or you're a Catholic
00:29:09.400 or a parent at a school board,
00:29:12.000 they're going to call you
00:29:12.500 a domestic terrorist.
00:29:13.560 I'm screaming at my TV 0.96
00:29:16.400 watching these
00:29:17.160 violent protests
00:29:18.300 since October 7th,
00:29:20.940 you're watching this happen
00:29:22.000 and all of our students
00:29:23.800 deserve to be saved.
00:29:25.240 And first of all,
00:29:25.820 these students
00:29:26.900 who are here on visas
00:29:28.300 who are threatening
00:29:30.020 our American students 0.89
00:29:31.680 need to be kicked out 0.99
00:29:33.000 of this country. 0.85
00:29:34.000 Amen.
00:29:47.220 It is refreshingly simple
00:29:49.980 to have an attorney general
00:29:52.060 who has the approach
00:29:53.400 that you're going to
00:29:54.480 follow the law
00:29:55.540 and enforce the law.
00:29:56.980 And that sadly
00:29:58.340 has been missing
00:29:59.480 for the last four years.
00:30:02.540 It's pretty basic,
00:30:03.700 isn't it?
00:30:04.600 It should not be complicated.
00:30:09.940 Let me ask you,
00:30:11.940 what keeps you up at night?
00:30:13.140 What scares you
00:30:14.300 in the first two weeks
00:30:15.780 of this job?
00:30:17.780 Pretty much everything.
00:30:19.460 I don't sleep at night anymore.
00:30:22.280 Of course,
00:30:23.120 everything we talked about,
00:30:24.220 the drugs,
00:30:24.760 the cartels,
00:30:25.620 the great,
00:30:26.760 maybe I'll get a little sleep
00:30:27.800 tonight based on the arrests
00:30:29.040 that were just made,
00:30:29.960 the children that are being trafficked,
00:30:32.260 things that have been
00:30:33.020 so personal to me
00:30:34.100 since I was a state prosecutor
00:30:35.360 and then since I was
00:30:36.180 state attorney general.
00:30:37.420 Now you just get to help people
00:30:38.860 on a bigger level,
00:30:39.920 which is pretty,
00:30:40.580 pretty cool
00:30:41.300 to get to do that.
00:30:42.600 But most recently,
00:30:44.320 it's really been
00:30:45.960 what Elon
00:30:47.520 has been uncovering.
00:30:49.540 And the USA,
00:30:51.340 the waste at EPA,
00:30:53.880 this money,
00:30:55.880 trillions of dollars,
00:30:57.660 they believe,
00:30:58.220 just being handed out,
00:31:00.160 which is most likely
00:31:01.440 making a round trip
00:31:02.440 ticket and going
00:31:04.460 to terrorist organizations.
00:31:05.540 And you are on the front line
00:31:07.140 of defending the president
00:31:08.600 and Elon Musk and Doge
00:31:10.900 and all the effort
00:31:11.580 they're doing.
00:31:12.320 And every day,
00:31:14.200 we are seeing
00:31:14.900 Democrat attorneys general
00:31:16.320 and Democrat interest groups
00:31:17.880 suing the president,
00:31:19.460 suing Elon Musk,
00:31:20.600 suing the federal government
00:31:21.700 and the Department of Justice
00:31:23.040 is on the front lines.
00:31:24.140 And sadly,
00:31:24.760 we're seeing
00:31:26.480 left-wing activist judges,
00:31:28.360 individual district court judges,
00:31:31.840 issuing nationwide injunctions.
00:31:35.360 Tell us about
00:31:36.360 what it's like
00:31:37.340 defending against
00:31:38.160 those lawsuits.
00:31:39.040 And give us your thoughts
00:31:39.900 on the authority
00:31:41.060 of one radical district judge
00:31:43.920 to try to run
00:31:45.260 the executive branch
00:31:46.400 and issue a nationwide injunction.
00:31:48.160 Two words.
00:31:48.880 We're winning.
00:31:50.700 But, yeah,
00:31:51.920 so you've got one...
00:31:53.440 I like that answer.
00:31:54.320 One unelected district judge
00:31:56.880 trying to tell
00:31:58.300 President Trump,
00:31:59.940 who was elected
00:32:01.280 overwhelmingly
00:32:02.000 by the American people,
00:32:03.420 where federal funds can go.
00:32:06.880 We're winning.
00:32:07.860 Even in liberal courts,
00:32:09.200 by the way,
00:32:09.880 Senator,
00:32:10.920 we're winning.
00:32:12.080 And if not,
00:32:13.120 we're going to go
00:32:13.580 all the way
00:32:14.040 to the Supreme Court
00:32:15.000 and keep winning.
00:32:17.540 Well, Pam,
00:32:18.260 let me say,
00:32:18.740 you and I have been friends
00:32:19.860 a long time.
00:32:20.560 A long time.
00:32:21.280 I am thrilled
00:32:22.340 with the job you're doing.
00:32:23.660 I'm thrilled.
00:32:24.160 I was thrilled
00:32:24.680 when the president
00:32:25.240 announced your nomination.
00:32:27.100 And let me say,
00:32:28.140 on behalf of 31 million Texans
00:32:31.180 and Americans
00:32:31.680 across this country,
00:32:33.000 thank you.
00:32:33.960 Thank you for stepping forward
00:32:35.720 and answering the call.
00:32:37.660 thank you for pouring your heart
00:32:42.600 into defending this nation,
00:32:45.680 into keeping my kids safe,
00:32:47.740 keeping Ben's kids safe,
00:32:49.060 keeping all of our kids safe.
00:32:50.820 And thank you for remaining faithful
00:32:52.940 to the Constitution
00:32:53.800 and the Bill of Rights
00:32:55.040 and restoring integrity
00:32:56.860 to the Department of Justice.
00:32:58.300 It is desperately needed
00:32:59.720 and you're doing a hell of a job.
00:33:01.040 Thank you, my friend.
00:33:01.980 And thank you for fighting for us.
00:33:03.740 Thank you guys here
00:33:04.740 for being here as well.
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