Verdict with Ted Cruz - February 21, 2025


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


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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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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,
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
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
00:06:06.560 as terrorists.
00:06:07.860 They are terrorists.
00:06:09.220 If you're bringing fentanyl
00:06:10.500 into this country
00:06:11.420 and killing our kids,
00:06:12.980 you're a terrorist.
00:06:13.880 And we're coming after you.
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
00:06:43.460 and killing kids,
00:06:45.480 killing adults
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
00:07:20.920 where they're raping women
00:07:22.580 as they're coming
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
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
00:08:37.260 rape women.
00:08:38.620 They'll violently rape
00:08:40.020 teenage girls,
00:08:41.920 young girls.
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
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
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
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
00:11:32.980 child rapist
00:11:34.340 illegal immigrants
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
00:11:47.920 rape little kids.
00:11:49.740 Let me ask you,
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,
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
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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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00:16:32.960 V-E-R-D-I-C-T,
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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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00:18:08.560 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,
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,
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
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
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
00:29:31.680 need to be kicked out
00:29:33.000 of this country.
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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