Verdict with Ted Cruz - August 30, 2023


Biden Caught with Over 5,000 Fake Emails, plus 8 BIG Legislative Victories for Texas


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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ben Fergus (D-New Jersey) join host Ben Ferguson to discuss the new details about Joe Biden's fake email accounts, and how the media is completely silent on it.

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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00:00:05.540 Welcome.
00:00:06.260 It is a verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you, and we've got a jam-packed
00:00:11.280 show, including this pretty shocking number of emails that we now are trying to get our
00:00:18.160 hands on, and it's more than 5,000, the deal with Biden's fake email addresses that he
00:00:24.080 had set up.
00:00:24.840 We're also going to give you an update on some pretty impressive legislative movements
00:00:30.200 that have happened through Senator Cruz's office, and also, you're not going to want
00:00:34.980 to miss the end of the show tonight.
00:00:36.300 We have put together one of the most incredible montages that deals with the media and how
00:00:42.620 they covered Donald Trump referring to Banana Republic issues, and they're completely silent
00:00:48.580 right now, what's happening at the DOJ covering for Biden.
00:00:52.500 That is something that's going to go viral.
00:00:54.320 You're not going to want to miss that.
00:00:55.600 But first, Senator, I want to get your reaction to this shocking new intel that is out, and
00:01:01.900 that is, former President Barack Obama, they're now saying, should allow the National Archives
00:01:06.700 to release President Joe Biden's emails and records linked to his alias.
00:01:12.140 These are his fake email address accounts.
00:01:15.140 That is now what people are calling for.
00:01:17.680 Explain this a little bit more so people understand just how important these emails may be.
00:01:22.000 Well, sure.
00:01:24.880 We did a previous podcast focused on the fact that it's now come to light that Joe Biden,
00:01:30.120 when he was vice president, he used fake emails.
00:01:32.560 He had pseudonyms.
00:01:34.020 The three that we know of that he used were Robin Ware, Robert L. Peters, and J.R.B. Ware.
00:01:42.240 And he would use these pseudonyms on official government emails that were to and from Hunter Biden.
00:01:52.840 Now, Hunter Biden was not an employee of the U.S. government.
00:01:55.260 He was his son.
00:01:55.980 And what has been reported is that some, if not many of them, concerned Ukraine.
00:02:02.180 You know, if you are wondering how much the Biden family business was Hunter selling access
00:02:10.800 to and more fundamentally favors from daddy, the news that broke this week is the number
00:02:17.520 of emails with Joe Biden's fake email addresses, the National Archives and Record Administration
00:02:25.240 acknowledged that they possessed up to 5,400 of them.
00:02:30.600 That's a stunning number.
00:02:32.460 Look, as I said, we had a prior pod where we discussed there is no legitimate reason for
00:02:39.160 the sitting vice president of the United States to use a fake email on official government emails
00:02:44.960 to his son about Ukraine at the same time that Hunter Biden was making millions of dollars
00:02:51.340 being paid by a Ukrainian oligarch for daddy's favors.
00:02:56.500 The fact that the volume of it now is up to 5,400 emails.
00:03:01.820 And by the way, the National Archives and Record Administration still hasn't handed them over.
00:03:06.000 So we don't know what Joe Biden was saying.
00:03:07.760 We don't know why it was.
00:03:09.580 Why is it?
00:03:10.560 How did he determine when he used his real email and when he used the fake names Robin
00:03:16.180 Ware, Robert L. Peters, or J.R.B.
00:03:19.300 Ware?
00:03:19.860 We haven't seen Joe Biden answer a question about this because the Biden White House believes
00:03:24.660 he's not accountable to the American people.
00:03:26.720 And we've seen the corporate media completely silent on this.
00:03:32.760 CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, they don't cover it.
00:03:36.460 It's not news.
00:03:37.400 Why?
00:03:38.120 Because it counters their official propaganda line.
00:03:41.300 And so they just utterly ignore it.
00:03:43.480 But on its face, there is no legitimate explanation for this.
00:03:48.020 And the Biden White House has not even tried to suggest a legitimate explanation for this.
00:03:53.400 Do you remember when the media freaked out?
00:03:55.520 And I think it was on January the 6th where they said that the White House was it was a
00:04:00.100 cover-up of Watergate proportions and there were missing phone calls that day from the phone
00:04:05.860 logs and then they had egg on their face and they found out, no, no, no, he was just using
00:04:09.700 his cell phone during that time.
00:04:11.000 So those calls wouldn't have actually been on the official transcripts from the White House.
00:04:15.120 They were talking about these missing periods of time.
00:04:17.900 They lost their mind over that.
00:04:19.920 Can you imagine if Donald Trump would have had alias email, like burner email accounts that he used while he was the president or anyone at the White House at any level of importance?
00:04:30.740 Well, listen, if you use a burner email, a fake email, if you use a burner phone, as it's now been reported Joe Biden did, the natural implication is you're trying to hide something.
00:04:45.240 You're trying to get around the law.
00:04:46.460 There's a reason you're hiding who you are.
00:04:49.400 If not, there's no reason to have the fake email.
00:04:53.220 And again, the White House has not attempted to give any innocent explanation for this.
00:04:59.660 And to be honest, I can't imagine what an innocent explanation would be.
00:05:03.460 But their innocent explanation is, well, gosh, we're the White House.
00:05:08.300 And so the media doesn't cover it.
00:05:10.660 It's going to be very interesting, Senator, to see how this plays out, because we do know the House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, who we had on a two part series here.
00:05:18.520 And I'll say it again.
00:05:19.120 If you missed it, go back and listen to what he had to say about the money coming into the family.
00:05:23.100 But he has requested the archives hand over all documents and communications in which then Vice President Joe Biden used these names.
00:05:32.740 You just mentioned Robert Peters, Robin Ware, J.R.B. Ware.
00:05:37.740 The archives, he says, need to be transparent and provide these unredacted records to the GOP oversight.
00:05:44.580 It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
00:05:46.760 We're going to keep covering it for you.
00:05:48.280 Senator, I also want to move on to something else.
00:05:50.460 And I don't think people realize what a day in the life in Washington or a week in the life of Washington can look like when it comes time to vote on important legislation.
00:06:02.040 There's a lot of it that happened recently.
00:06:04.280 We've had so much breaking news.
00:06:06.320 We didn't get to talk about as much as I think we should have.
00:06:09.060 And I want to fix that right now because there were some big wins that you were leading on, legislation you were leading on for the people in Texas and in this country as well.
00:06:19.960 Let's talk about how big these wins were right before recess.
00:06:24.660 Well, sure.
00:06:25.520 And I want to focus on on a single day.
00:06:27.840 And that was Thursday, the last week of July, which is the last day the Senate was in session.
00:06:33.100 We've been on recess for the for the past several weeks.
00:06:37.080 And so I've been traveling across the state of Texas and doing events all over Texas.
00:06:41.400 But the last day we were in session was the Thursday, the last week of July.
00:06:45.240 And on that one day, I passed eight separate pieces of legislation.
00:06:52.560 It was a big deal to pass eight pieces of legislation that there are a lot of members of the Senate that don't pass eight pieces of legislation.
00:07:01.680 After years of serving in the Senate, and I passed eight in a single day.
00:07:05.980 And so I just wanted to walk through that day to give a sense of what can be accomplished fighting for Texas in a single day.
00:07:12.320 So two of them passed out of the Senate Commerce Committee.
00:07:16.200 And as you know, I'm the ranking member, the senior Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee.
00:07:20.580 And there were two different bills that I'd introduced, both of which passed the Senate Commerce Committee that day.
00:07:25.780 One of them focuses on AM radio.
00:07:27.740 And we've talked about that bill here on this podcast before, which is that eight automakers announced they were pulling AM radios off of brand new cars and trucks.
00:07:36.740 I think that's a terrible step.
00:07:39.220 It's terrible for a lot of reasons, including that it denies people disaster information in the case of a hurricane or a fire or tornado or some other natural disaster.
00:07:48.960 It hurts rural Americans who rely on AM radio, and it hurts conservative speech in particular.
00:07:55.500 It's an example of corporate America silencing one of the most important platforms for conservative speech.
00:08:02.680 Well, I teamed up with Ed Markey, the single most liberal member of the Senate, in legislation called the AM radio for every vehicle act, which mandates that new cars and trucks include AM radio.
00:08:19.020 And that legislation passed the Commerce Committee, passed it with overwhelming bipartisan support.
00:08:24.540 So that was victory number one, a big deal that impacts you.
00:08:28.260 You have a radio station, a radio show.
00:08:30.720 It impacts all sorts of people on the radio, but it impacts up to 80 million Americans who listen to AM radio every single month.
00:08:39.780 It's incredible legislation.
00:08:41.600 And it's also, as you mentioned as well, a safety issue.
00:08:44.520 You look at the hurricane that we're dealing with right now in Florida that's going to be going up the East Coast.
00:08:50.180 And I've already heard it and talked to friends down there.
00:08:54.120 They're already reminding people, grab your crank AM radios to keep up when the power goes out so that you know what's going on.
00:09:01.180 And I think there were many that thought of this as a way to silence conservative talk radio.
00:09:05.340 Yes, there's no doubt there was a political side of this as well.
00:09:08.480 But this other part was a safety issue.
00:09:10.960 When hurricanes hit, when there's natural disasters that happen, and they're talking about it.
00:09:15.860 I was watching the Weather Channel today as a storm was developing this hurricane and strengthening.
00:09:20.280 They were saying, make sure you have your crank AM radio.
00:09:23.000 That is something that saves lives in situations like this.
00:09:27.280 And that's also why it was so important to make sure these AM radios, because there are people after storms hit,
00:09:31.800 and even before, they can go out to their car, turn it on for a second, listen to the latest updates of what's happening.
00:09:36.860 And that's something that happens, or those crank radios or battery-powered radios with AM, it's so vitally important for safety as well.
00:09:44.800 Yeah, and other media often go down in the case of a disaster, so it's critical for getting people out of harm's way.
00:09:51.500 A second piece of legislation that I authored that also passed the Commerce Committee that day is legislation called the Ticket Act.
00:09:57.920 And it concerns if you go online and you buy sports tickets, you go buy baseball tickets or football or basketball tickets,
00:10:04.900 or you buy concert tickets, you want to go see your favorite artists pay.
00:10:09.260 And all of us have had the experience where you go online to buy tickets, you pick out your seats, and you're really excited.
00:10:14.680 And then you get to the final step of the transaction, and you see fees that are just massive.
00:10:19.080 The fees can be upwards of 40%, 50%, 60% of the total amount you're paying,
00:10:24.280 and you don't learn until the very last step when you're entering your credit card.
00:10:28.060 And so I joined with Maria Cantwell, the Democrat from Washington State, who's the chairman of the committee,
00:10:33.700 and authored legislation that requires online ticket brokers to disclose the total amount of the ticket price with the fees up front,
00:10:43.120 so that when you're searching, you can know, okay, if this ticket's going to cost me $100,
00:10:47.920 I'm not going to think it's $50 and get surprised on the back end.
00:10:51.800 As a consumer, I'm going to get to know up front and have the information to be able to comparison shop and make informed choices.
00:10:58.680 It is an important piece as well, because as you mentioned, it happens so often where people get to that end,
00:11:04.180 and then they're like, really? Now this is what it is? And it's a surprise or a shock.
00:11:08.540 And that's why there is another piece of just transparency.
00:11:11.680 It shouldn't be this hard, by the way, to be transparent when it comes to basic things like this in commerce,
00:11:17.940 and yet you have to spend time doing this, and that's going to help so many people that do tickets all the time
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00:12:58.080 Senator, you mentioned that there was not just these two pieces of legislation,
00:13:02.600 but more than that that happened on this single day.
00:13:05.460 Walk us down, again, that path of what else happened.
00:13:08.680 Well, sure. The first two passed the Commerce Committee.
00:13:11.280 The remaining six pieces of legislation that I passed that day all passed the entire Senate,
00:13:16.980 the full Senate, and all of them on that day, the last Thursday in July,
00:13:21.920 we passed the National Defense Authorization Act,
00:13:24.440 which is the big bill that passes every year that authorizes the Department of Defense
00:13:29.280 and our military, and it's critical for ensuring that we can defend our nation.
00:13:33.740 And it is considered must-pass legislation so that if you can author amendments that get attached to it,
00:13:39.980 those amendments get passed into law and signed into law.
00:13:42.860 I had six different amendments that passed on this year's NDAA.
00:13:46.840 So one of the amendments I had was very focused on defense in the state of Texas,
00:13:51.680 and it was ensuring that B-1 bomber wings remain in service for at least three more years,
00:13:58.800 at least until 2026, until they're actually replaced by newer B-21 bombers.
00:14:05.120 And this is critically important, number one, to preserve the U.S.'s long-range strike capabilities.
00:14:11.840 But number two, many of those B-1 bomber wings are right now housed at Dias Air Force Base in Abilene, Texas.
00:14:19.880 And we're in the process of replacing B-1 bombers with B-21s.
00:14:24.160 B-21s are much more advanced bombers, but it takes time to produce the B-21s.
00:14:28.840 And there's great concern, number one, in West Texas, that the B-1s will be taken down before they're replaced by the B-21s.
00:14:37.600 And so there's been a battle year after year to make sure that we don't decommission the B-1s until we have B-21s in place to replace them.
00:14:46.520 That battle's happened every year for a number of years, and I've managed to win temporary delays in it.
00:14:52.520 This year we got a three-year freeze, which is critically important for ensuring our defense capability,
00:14:58.260 but also for protecting West Texas and Dias Air Force Base.
00:15:04.900 So a second amendment that also passed that day is legislation that I introduced that focused on what are called spy fridges,
00:15:13.120 which is there are all sorts of impliances that you buy, whether they're refrigerators, whether they're microwaves,
00:15:19.440 whether they're stoves or ovens, that are smart devices, and they have built-in cameras and or recorders.
00:15:29.780 And often people don't know when you're buying a fridge, you don't think to ask,
00:15:34.260 gosh, is my refrigerator recording me in my kitchen?
00:15:37.320 And so I authored legislation.
00:15:40.200 It's very similar to the legislation we talked about before in the Ticket Act.
00:15:45.280 It's disclosure legislation that says if there's an appliance that's being sold to consumers that can record you,
00:15:51.240 that has a camera, either a video camera or an audio recorder,
00:15:54.100 that they have to disclose to you, the consumer, hey, your fridge is spying on you.
00:15:58.880 And that likewise was bipartisan legislation.
00:16:02.040 That likewise passed on the floor of the Senate.
00:16:04.360 Senator, did you ever think you were ever going to have to pass legislation that would tell consumers
00:16:10.200 if their products would possibly be able to spy on them?
00:16:14.160 I mean, it does sound insane.
00:16:15.840 It's extremely important.
00:16:17.140 But did you ever think when you ran for the Senate that this would be something we would need?
00:16:21.560 And fast forward to 2023, it's insane to me.
00:16:25.340 It really is nuts.
00:16:26.880 And it's where technology is taking us.
00:16:28.960 It's where so much of corporate America violates the privacy of consumers.
00:16:33.940 And look, the next time, Ben, you're walking to the fridge at 2 in the morning in your boxer shorts to get a midnight snack,
00:16:40.860 just remember that video may be in the hands of whoever sold you the fridge.
00:16:46.240 Yeah.
00:16:46.780 Yeah.
00:16:47.080 Thank you for passing that.
00:16:48.240 I do appreciate that.
00:16:49.300 I think all of us can say yes on that one.
00:16:51.240 What else was on the list?
00:16:53.160 All right.
00:16:53.580 So two other amendments that both concerned oil.
00:16:57.460 One of them concerns Nord Stream 2.
00:17:01.840 We've talked a lot about Nord Stream 2, which is the pipeline that Putin was building from Russia to Germany.
00:17:07.620 And I had an amendment that holds accountable the corrupt officials who are responsible for building and or maintaining Nord Stream 2.
00:17:18.020 And so that passed on that Thursday as well.
00:17:20.920 The second one focused on U.S. oil and in particular, our strategic petroleum reserve.
00:17:27.020 And as you know, Joe Biden has sold down our strategic petroleum reserve to the lowest level it's been at in four decades.
00:17:36.100 And the strategic petroleum reserve is there to protect our economy, to protect our national security, to ensure that we have energy in a time of crisis.
00:17:43.700 And Joe Biden's used it to try to temporarily lower gas prices right before the last election to get a political benefit from it.
00:17:51.540 And so I teamed up with Joe Manchin and authored legislation to prohibit the federal government from selling oil from the strategic petroleum reserve to China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea, not to sell it to our enemies.
00:18:08.340 And that is not a hypothetical threat because Joe Biden, in fact, sold over a million barrels of oil from the U.S.'s strategic petroleum reserve to communist China.
00:18:19.440 And given that, I thought that was absurd.
00:18:22.700 Joe Manchin and I teamed up together to pass this legislation, and that was the fourth piece of legislation on the Senate floor that passed on that Thursday.
00:18:30.420 How concerned are you, real quick, on that piece of legislation that this administration is setting us up for a disaster?
00:18:38.360 Our strategic oil reserves are at the lowest levels.
00:18:40.680 I think they've been in my lifetime.
00:18:42.920 I can't remember how many decades it is, and they're getting lower.
00:18:46.140 Also, the shock that we've been allowing when we do release some of this oil for it to actually go to our adversaries is even more shocking, especially when some of it was connected directly to companies that apparently the Biden crime family had a vested interest in, a tanker that went straight to China.
00:19:02.700 But when you look at this just from a standpoint of national security, there doesn't seem to be a course correction yet.
00:19:09.680 Is there anything that you guys can do in Congress, in the Senate, to correct this?
00:19:14.860 Or is this the sole discretion where those reserves are of the president?
00:19:20.060 Well, when this legislation is signed into law, and I fully expect that it will be, it will take out of the president's hands the ability to sell that oil to our enemies, to sell it to China or Russia or Iran and North Korea.
00:19:32.140 Again, those four countries are specified.
00:19:34.820 And I'll tell you, previously, I went to the Senate floor and tried to pass this legislation as freestanding legislation.
00:19:41.300 And Senate Democrats came down and objected at that time, and they countered with their own proposal to make it illegal for any American company to sell any oil or gas to any foreign nation, which is utterly bizarre, would destroy tens of thousands of jobs in the United States.
00:20:00.540 And as I debated on the Senate floor and made the case, I said, look, one of the reasons why we shouldn't be selling oil to our enemies is we ought to be instead sending it to our friends and letting our friends come off of Russian oil. 0.93
00:20:14.460 Well, there's a war waging in Ukraine, and Russia's getting its revenue from selling oil and gas.
00:20:19.120 And I pointed out the Democrats take the proposition, let's not sell oil to our enemies, and they translate it to let's not sell oil to our friends, which is an utterly bizarre next step because it hurts U.S.
00:20:33.140 national security.
00:20:34.040 And I got to say, when it comes to energy policy, this administration and congressional Democrats regularly hurt U.S.
00:20:41.600 national security by making us more and more vulnerable to foreign players and by weakening the U.S.
00:20:47.700 energy industry and, in fact, waging war on domestic oil and gas production.
00:20:52.400 And so this legislation that passed was was a significant step to take away the Biden administration's ability to to undermine our security and in pursuit of their own political agenda.
00:21:05.060 And it truly is, I think, scary that in Washington now you would even have to pass legislation that says, yeah, don't give our oil reserves to our enemies.
00:21:13.680 This should be a no-brainer, but but at least for the Biden White House, not only is it not a no-brainer, it's directly contrary to what they've done, which is why this legislation was necessary.
00:21:27.080 The last two pieces of legislation that I passed on that day are the two biggest, and they both have huge consequences, not just for the state of Texas and for the entire country.
00:21:37.920 One deals with four bridges from Texas to Mexico, and we've talked about this at length on the pod as well, so I'll just quickly summarize.
00:21:47.140 But there are four bridge projects right now pending in Texas to either build brand new bridges that go from Texas to Mexico or to expand existing bridges.
00:21:56.480 And the way it works is to build any bridge in the United States requires what's called a NEPA environmental review, and that's standard U.S. law.
00:22:05.760 But if you're building an international bridge, if you're crossing a border to another country, you are required to get a special permit from the president of the United States.
00:22:16.000 And the way it used to operate is the president would grant that permit contingent upon the NEPA review being completed, and that expedited the whole process because it let you move through quickly.
00:22:27.620 When Biden came into power, they announced they were reversing that process, and in particular, the president announced he would grant no permits whatsoever for new bridges across the international borders unless and until the NEPA review was entirely concluded.
00:22:44.880 What that did is it delayed all four of these bridge projects substantially, potentially two, three, four years, and not only did it delay it that long, it potentially delayed it even longer because a number of the project sponsors were having difficulty getting financing because the banks didn't want to commit to financing until the presidential permit was granted, and because the Biden White House wouldn't grant the presidential permit, everything slowed down. 0.97
00:23:12.200 This was stupid. This was stupid. This hurt Texas. It hurt America. And so I introduced legislation expediting the approval of these bridges and mandating in particular that once the legislation is signed, that Biden has 60 days, has a shot clock. 1.00
00:23:29.200 He has 60 days to grant the permits, and if he doesn't grant the permits within 60 days, they're deemed automatically granted as a matter of law.
00:23:36.960 That legislation, I got bipartisan support, and it was passed on the Senate floor as part of the NDAA. Ben, this has massive impact for jobs and economic growth in the state of Texas. Every year, we have over $800 billion of trade and commerce between Texas and Mexico.
00:23:58.360 And by speeding up the construction of these bridges or the expansion of these bridges, that will result in thousands upon thousands of new jobs in Texas.
00:24:09.020 That will result in billions of dollars of new economic activity, and it will benefit Texas farmers and ranchers and small businesses and manufacturers, and it will benefit consumers all across the country who will be able to get goods in their stores cheaper with less transportation costs with less delay.
00:24:25.760 And it also benefits U.S. national security by helping us move more and more manufacturing out of China and closer home either to the United States or to our close neighbors, which improves our national security as well.
00:24:39.620 And that was a massive victory that I had spent two years fighting to get, and we got it passed with overwhelming bipartisan support on the Senate floor.
00:24:48.420 Why does something like that take two years to get the votes when it seems like it's such a common-sense piece of legislation that helps not just Texas, but so many other states and individuals?
00:25:01.200 And it really seems like it's something that's non-political.
00:25:05.000 It's not like it helps Republicans more than Democrats.
00:25:07.600 This helps everyone.
00:25:08.900 Well, it does, and look, to this date, I can't figure out why the Biden administration adopted this policy.
00:25:18.740 We've never been able to find a senior official who takes responsibility for it or defends it.
00:25:23.500 And my theory is there's some bureaucrat, either in the bowels of the State Department or in the bowels of the White House, who is a little Green New Deal knucklehead and who just decided, nope, nope, we don't want anything built, nothing until all the environmental stuff is fully complete because it makes this knucklehead feel good.
00:25:42.380 Now, ironically, the policy of the Biden administration, not only was it terrible for jobs, it was terrible for the environment.
00:25:49.560 If you look at the World Trade Bridge, the World Trade Bridge is in Laredo, and it is the largest land port in the United States.
00:25:57.960 It is a bridge on which there are massive, massive amounts of commerce traveling through there every day.
00:26:05.400 On any given day on the Mexican side of the bridge, you will see a line of 18-wheelers that will extend 4, 5, 6 miles.
00:26:13.280 And those 18-wheelers will sit there sometimes 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 hours waiting to cross the bridge in a giant bottleneck.
00:26:21.420 And by the way, when they're sitting there, they're spewing pollution in the air.
00:26:25.240 They're spewing carbon in the air.
00:26:26.780 It is terrible for the environment to force those 18-wheelers to sit there.
00:26:31.560 And you also have a problem that when they sit there that long, the drivers can time out.
00:26:37.140 There are limits on how long a driver can drive, and if they sit there in a bottleneck all day long, they then have to park overnight, and it extends the transportation time even more.
00:26:47.540 The city of Laredo wants to expand the World Trade Bridge from 8 lanes.
00:26:54.880 They want to add 10 additional lanes that would dramatically accelerate trade and commerce across that bridge.
00:27:02.140 And yet, so when I first found out about this issue was a little over two years ago, and it was fairly early in the Biden administration.
00:27:09.520 And it was when the city leaders from the city of Laredo came to meet with me in D.C., and they came to my office.
00:27:16.260 And I regularly meet with leaders from cities all across the state of Texas and counties across Texas and business leaders across Texas.
00:27:23.920 And this was a number of leaders from Laredo who raised this issue, said, gosh, the new Biden administration, they just switched their policy, and now they're not granting these permits.
00:27:33.240 And that was the first I'd heard of it because it was a new issue with the new administration.
00:27:38.060 And so the process, it started with me having my policy team say, okay, let's look into this.
00:27:42.640 Let's figure out how do these permits work?
00:27:44.820 Why do you need them?
00:27:45.560 What's the delay?
00:27:46.280 And we started by just pressing informally, by making a call to the State Department, by making multiple calls to the State Department, by pressing, number one, mid-level bureaucrats and ultimately senior-level leaders at the State Department.
00:28:01.900 That, unfortunately, did not create movement.
00:28:04.580 I sat down with Pete Buttigieg, the Secretary of Transportation, in my office, and I leaned in hard on him. 0.98
00:28:11.180 And I said, look, this is a stupid policy, and the administration is hurting the environment, hurting transportation. 0.97
00:28:17.400 You need to press State to change what they're doing. 0.99
00:28:20.040 Buttigieg said he would try to be helpful, and then, as far as I can tell, did not do anything.
00:28:25.680 Or if he did anything, it didn't succeed because State did nothing to change their policy.
00:28:29.420 The next step is I worked to try to build bipartisan consensus in the South Texas congressional delegation, and I wrote a letter to Secretary of State Tony Blinken.
00:28:42.820 The letter was joined by John Cornyn, my colleague in the Senate from Texas, and then it was joined by Henry Cuellar, who was a Democrat from South Texas, Monica De La Cruz, who was a Republican from South Texas, Vicente Gonzalez, who was a Democrat from South Texas,
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00:29:16.720 And unfortunately, once again, the Biden administration basically said, go jump in a lake.
00:29:20.740 They just stiff-armed us. They just did nothing.
00:29:22.920 And this is a good one to go a little bit of a deeper dive because it actually shows how you fight and win battles in the U.S. Senate, and that I did several things.
00:29:33.740 One of the things I did is I placed holds on multiple State Department nominees, and I said, they can't move forward until we get this bridge problem solved.
00:29:43.680 That has a way of really focusing the mind of the senior leadership, both in the State Department and the White House.
00:29:50.860 And so I'm a big believer in using both carrot and stick.
00:29:54.620 The stick was, you don't get your nominees until you fix that problem.
00:29:59.040 The carrot, because I'm the ranking member on the Commerce Committee,
00:30:03.740 I have the ability to sign off or block legislation that is moving through the Commerce Committee.
00:30:09.220 And one piece of legislation we're working on is the FAA reauthorization.
00:30:14.780 There are lots of senators who care about different elements of the FAA reauthorization.
00:30:19.820 And so some of my colleagues in the Foreign Relations Committee had amendments they cared deeply about that I worked to get included in that bill,
00:30:28.240 which in turn, when I needed to move this bridge legislation on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
00:30:34.240 they were more than willing to help me move it forward.
00:30:38.180 Ultimately, to move it through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
00:30:41.720 I had to get the chairman, Bob Menendez, to support me.
00:30:45.220 And that took significant horse trading.
00:30:47.360 It took ultimately getting the Biden State Department and the Biden White House to back down.
00:30:52.740 We had an email exchange where the Biden State Department said, so let me get this straight.
00:30:58.160 If we agree to go along with Cruz's legislation, he'll lift the holds on our nominees.
00:31:04.200 And my guy said, yeah, of course.
00:31:06.420 The whole point of these holds was to get the problem fixed.
00:31:09.880 If you fix the problem, yeah, we'll lift the holds.
00:31:12.440 And both state and the White House said, wow, that seems like a really good deal to us.
00:31:16.360 We want to get these nominations moving.
00:31:19.040 That's what it took to move the administration.
00:31:21.240 And that, in turn, along with with with some additional legislative negotiation,
00:31:25.860 is what it took to bring the Democrats on board.
00:31:28.320 But that process takes literally hundreds of hours and and takes it.
00:31:34.480 It ultimately took two years to get done.
00:31:37.140 But at this point, this legislation, I believe, is extremely likely to be signed into law by the end of the year.
00:31:43.240 And once it is, the 60 day shot clock starts and that is going to benefit South Texas massively.
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00:33:44.320 Senator, I know there's one more on your list you also want to talk about.
00:33:47.740 Yeah, and this last one is a big deal.
00:33:49.900 It was the sixth piece of legislation that I passed on the Senate floor that day.
00:33:53.720 The eighth piece of legislation altogether that I passed that day.
00:33:57.400 And it concerns semiconductors.
00:33:58.900 And we've talked about this on the pod before as well.
00:34:01.660 When it comes to economic and national security vulnerabilities of the United States,
00:34:06.440 there are few that are more acute than our vulnerability on advanced semiconductors.
00:34:13.020 Which right now, the vast majority of advanced semiconductors are manufactured in China or Taiwan.
00:34:18.280 And we manufacture very few of them here in the United States.
00:34:21.420 And we didn't realize how big of a deal this was until COVID happened.
00:34:25.760 And that's when we realized this is a national security issue as well.
00:34:31.100 Absolutely right.
00:34:32.280 Just about every piece of electronics you use uses semiconductors.
00:34:36.280 And whether that is your iPhone, whether that's your computer, whether that's your car or truck,
00:34:43.120 we use them in, or whether it's the spy fridge that is monitoring Ben and his boxers getting midnight snacks.
00:34:49.980 All of them are using it.
00:34:52.420 And then I apologize to our listeners for that image.
00:34:55.100 I really didn't mean to put that in your head.
00:34:58.020 It's cruel.
00:34:59.180 But nonetheless, hopefully some of you chuckled as you're listening.
00:35:01.560 Not only is it an economic vulnerability, but it's a military vulnerability.
00:35:07.220 Just about every weapon system we use in the military, whether it is a fighter jet, whether it's a tank,
00:35:13.580 whether it is a missile system, whether it is radars, just about all of the equipment relies on advanced semiconductors.
00:35:20.880 And not only are we dependent on China, but Taiwan,
00:35:23.460 one of the reasons why China's military threat to Taiwan is so profoundly dangerous is if China invaded Taiwan
00:35:30.860 and they took over that semiconductor manufacturing capacity,
00:35:35.040 they would have the ability to put a stranglehold to literally crater the U.S. economy at their whim
00:35:41.500 and also to hold our military captive that we couldn't get the chips we need.
00:35:46.920 You remember during COVID and coming out of it, the massive shortages there were of new cars and trucks.
00:35:52.040 That was because of a shortage in chips that you couldn't get a new car or truck
00:35:56.740 because without the chips, they couldn't make them.
00:36:00.520 So it is a national security imperative, I believe,
00:36:04.400 to bring advanced semiconductor manufacturing back to the United States.
00:36:08.920 And in the last Congress, Congress passed a bill called the CHIPS Act.
00:36:13.020 The CHIPS Act had two elements.
00:36:14.620 One element of it was what was called the FABS Act.
00:36:17.120 The FABS Act lessened the tax burden on new semiconductor manufacturing.
00:36:23.380 I was a co-sponsor of the FABS Act.
00:36:25.720 It enthusiastically supported it.
00:36:27.700 The second component of the CHIPS Act was direct federal funds,
00:36:31.480 billions of dollars in subsidies for building semiconductor manufacturing.
00:36:36.200 I voted against that because I think that corporate welfare is a bad idea,
00:36:40.720 and I think you get into the specter of corruption when U.S. taxpayer dollars are going
00:36:46.140 in multi-billion dollar checks to giant corporations.
00:36:50.920 That being said, it passed.
00:36:53.360 Once it passed, my view is, okay, if the federal government's going to spend that money,
00:36:58.460 it ought to spend it in a way that meets clear objective standards and metrics based on merit,
00:37:04.540 and it shouldn't be politicized.
00:37:07.780 And in Texas, there are tens of billions of dollars of new manufacturing that is currently
00:37:14.240 in planning and underway to manufacture semiconductors.
00:37:18.440 And what's happening now is suddenly people, as they're building these new FABS,
00:37:23.960 are discovering that the federal environmental regulations, the NEPA regulations,
00:37:29.620 can be unbelievably burdensome, and they can delay a new semiconductor FABS potentially for years.
00:37:37.100 And even Democrats were discovering, wait a second, if we want to build these plants,
00:37:41.240 we've got to expedite, we've got to streamline these regulatory burdens.
00:37:46.460 So what happened is there was what was initially pitched as bipartisan legislation
00:37:52.940 in the House and also in the Senate that would lessen the regulatory burdens on new FABS.
00:37:59.620 And so I looked at that legislation, and the sponsors of it wanted to attach it to the NDAA.
00:38:07.160 Now, for them to be able to attach it, that legislation is in the jurisdiction of the Commerce Committee,
00:38:13.300 which means they needed the sign-off of the chairman and of myself.
00:38:16.700 I had an absolute veto.
00:38:18.580 As I studied the legislation, I discovered that what they said in their press releases,
00:38:22.820 which is this lessens the regulatory burdens on new plants,
00:38:25.640 was not entirely accurate, because as drafted, it functioned as essentially a subsidy for blue states.
00:38:33.680 A subsidy, because what it said was,
00:38:36.720 if your state's state environmental standards are stricter,
00:38:41.260 if they are tougher than the federal standards,
00:38:43.980 then you get an exemption from the federal requirements.
00:38:46.440 But if not, you're out of luck.
00:38:48.820 You've got to comply with all the federal regulatory provisions.
00:38:51.780 Now, what that meant is if it had passed,
00:38:54.800 it would have been basically a subsidy for states like New York and California,
00:38:58.320 and it would have screwed Texas.
00:39:00.500 It was a harm to the state of Texas.
00:39:04.080 And so, since they needed my approval to get it on the NDAA when they sent it over to me,
00:39:09.220 my answer was, which part of hell no do you not understand?
00:39:12.960 A subsidy for blue states that hurts Texas, I'm not signing off on.
00:39:17.840 What I did next, Ben, and this is, again, important in terms of how you win these legislative fights,
00:39:22.920 I directed my legislative staff,
00:39:25.040 let's draft legislation that actually does what their press release says,
00:39:28.820 that lessens the regulatory burdens on building new fabs in the United States.
00:39:34.380 We did that.
00:39:35.020 And Mark Kelly, who had been the lead sponsor of the original legislation,
00:39:40.740 the Democrat from Arizona,
00:39:42.600 Mark came to me and he said,
00:39:44.060 Ted, would you be willing to work with me on drafting legislation that could actually pass?
00:39:51.140 And look, they're looking at, again,
00:39:52.760 billions of dollars of semiconductor manufacturing in Arizona.
00:39:56.000 So Mark cared deeply about it.
00:39:58.040 And I said, sure, I'm happy to do that.
00:39:59.740 And so my office redrafted the legislation, working with Mark Kelly's legislation.
00:40:05.940 Legislative team.
00:40:07.380 And we ended up attaching that bill.
00:40:09.780 It was Kelly Cruz to the NDAA.
00:40:12.620 It is a big, big deal.
00:40:14.860 It will produce billions of dollars of economic activity in Texas and in states across the country.
00:40:21.180 It will produce thousands of new jobs.
00:40:23.840 And critically, it does so in a way that it doesn't put a finger on the scale,
00:40:28.540 benefiting big blue states at the expense of the state of Texas.
00:40:32.240 It was a massive victory.
00:40:34.760 And to have eight victories simultaneously in one single day at the Senate, that was a big, big deal.
00:40:42.440 Yeah, a huge deal.
00:40:43.400 And congrats on those victories because they're going to have a huge impact for people in Texas and also around the country.
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00:42:32.840 Senator, finally, I want to pay off on what we teased at the very beginning.
00:42:37.100 We know just how corrupt the media is, and lately, it feels like we are in a banana republic.
00:42:46.720 What's funny is it's actually the media that was talking about the banana republic
00:42:54.160 when Donald Trump was looking to investigate the corruption of the Biden crime family.
00:42:59.020 Now that we actually have that level of corruption in our White House and the DOJ that is trying to cover it up
00:43:05.240 and the FBI that's trying to cover it up, what's funny is now no one's talking about the banana republic that we're living in.
00:43:13.940 We have a montage that we put together, and we want to play it for you.
00:43:17.700 You're going to want to share this with your family and your friends.
00:43:20.460 This is an incredible moment, and we're going to go back and forth.
00:43:25.020 You're going to hear them talking about Donald Trump and Bill Barr back in 2019, 2020 with the election.
00:43:31.320 And then you're going to hear some of the different things they said back and forth about it with today.
00:43:36.800 Take a listen carefully.
00:43:38.740 This is truly shocking, and share this on your social media platforms.
00:43:43.300 Right, Attorney General in position to do it.
00:43:45.260 But we now know they really have been trying to gin up criminal prosecutions and criminal investigations
00:43:50.200 into the president's perceived enemies.
00:43:52.620 Politically motivated persecution, right?
00:43:55.480 Courtesy of Bill Barr.
00:43:57.520 I'll roll in the FBI on you.
00:43:59.800 That's how banana republics work, right?
00:44:01.840 The home of the 45th president of the United States has been raided by the FBI.
00:44:07.000 Mr. Trump is using the Justice Department to go after his perceived enemies.
00:44:11.100 I feel worried about the prospect of the Justice Department being used as a tool of this president or any.
00:44:18.180 In our little banana republic, any capable prosecutor can get a grand jury to hand down an indictment
00:44:24.760 of something as innocent as a ham sandwich.
00:44:27.080 Today, an indictment was unsealed, charging Donald J. Trump.
00:44:31.460 Breaking news on former President Trump.
00:44:33.040 He's been indicted for the fourth time in five months.
00:44:35.500 Bill Barr, on the president's behalf, is weaponizing the Justice Department to go after the president's enemies.
00:44:42.020 When you win an election, you don't seek to just prosecute the losing side.
00:44:45.660 The president using the Justice Department as a weapon to get what he wants.
00:44:49.020 Department of Justice is totally politicized.
00:44:51.860 Sticking the Department of Justice on political opponents.
00:44:54.420 Threatening to imprison his political rival, banana republic style.
00:44:58.840 Trying to exact revenge against all of his enemies.
00:45:01.420 Tin pot dictator in a banana republic.
00:45:03.500 He's acting more like a banana republic dictator.
00:45:06.900 He's using government resources to go after his political opponent.
00:45:11.060 Essentially, we are a banana republic.
00:45:13.380 We are seeking to have a bogus and criminal investigation into a political opponent.
00:45:21.820 And that's using the Department of Justice to also target Trump's political opponent for nefarious reasons.
00:45:27.780 This is a massive abuse of power and a betrayal of our values.
00:45:31.380 The president of the United States is targeting a family member of a political opponent.
00:45:35.580 This is the type of thing that happens in a banana republic. 0.88
00:45:38.920 And trying to take out a political rival in Joe Biden.
00:45:42.040 Criminally investigating an American political rival.
00:45:44.580 Someone the president is worried about losing to in the next election.
00:45:47.260 To investigate my principal opponent or a principal opponent in the upcoming election.
00:45:53.020 Houston, we have a problem.
00:45:54.300 Don't you think that's something that should be investigated when the incumbent political party opens a counterintelligence investigation on the candidate of the opposing party?
00:46:04.280 We know Trump is itching to politicize the Justice Department and the attorney general has been super shady.
00:46:09.700 The president is weaponizing the Department of Justice to bring cases against his enemies.
00:46:14.760 The Department of Justice is in an existential crisis.
00:46:17.620 Again, it's yet another example of the Justice Department basically losing all of its independence in this administration.
00:46:24.560 This is now about corrupting the next election.
00:46:26.780 And for me, this was crossing the red line.
00:46:28.840 The president who is actively trying to potentially steal the upcoming election.
00:46:34.000 But to try to take out a political rival.
00:46:36.880 The end goal being 2020.
00:46:38.700 Donald Trump and his attorney general are using the Justice Department.
00:46:42.580 The only difference between this and a banana republic is that Trump does not eat fruit.
00:46:47.040 The 2020 election is really the last chance we have to stop our system from fully sliding into a corrupt banana republic. 0.98
00:46:52.880 Bill Barr has done everything that Donald Trump has wanted him to do.
00:46:56.560 We're living in a banana republic right now. 0.79
00:46:58.640 When you start using the Justice Department to go after your enemies, that's very, very dangerous.
00:47:04.660 Donald Trump is using the Justice Department to go after his enemies in any way that he can.
00:47:10.160 Having the head of the chief federal law enforcement agency essentially working on his behalf to investigate a political rival.
00:47:17.040 To investigate the family of a political opponent.
00:47:22.200 Basically, we're no better than some, you know, some banana republic. 1.00
00:47:29.660 And he's using the abuse of power and every element of the presidency to try to do something to smear me.
00:47:37.940 We just have to demonstrate that he will not take power by if we if he does run, if he does run.
00:47:47.680 Wow. Senator, when you hear it together, there is no such thing as a is a media that's authentic or genuine anymore.
00:47:55.660 This is all straight up propaganda.
00:47:58.060 And they accuse the Trump administration of doing exactly what's happening in real life right now.
00:48:04.440 Well, that's exactly right.
00:48:06.220 The corporate media today is utterly and completely corrupt. 0.99
00:48:10.040 It's hypocritical. 0.96
00:48:11.560 The irony is what they were accusing Trump of doing and the Trump DOJ of doing they weren't doing. 0.91
00:48:17.540 You didn't see the Trump Department of Justice trying to indict Joe Biden.
00:48:24.020 You didn't see them using the Trump Department of Justice to go after their enemies.
00:48:29.680 You didn't see this kind of abuse of power, the politicization that has unfolded.
00:48:34.600 Look, in over 200 years of our nation's history, we've never indicted a president or former president.
00:48:40.180 And now we have done so not just once, but four separate times in the last year.
00:48:49.140 And you want to talk about a banana republic?
00:48:51.280 That's what banana republics do. 1.00
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00:49:09.240 But they just don't care. 1.00
00:49:11.120 It is only from their perspective, an abuse of power.
00:49:15.040 If it's the side they don't like, even if the side they don't like isn't doing it.
00:49:19.480 And it's a principle we've talked about quite a bit, which is what what the left accuses their opponents of doing is almost without exception what they are in fact doing themselves.
00:49:32.300 And I got to say that is powerfully, powerfully true in that montage, because every single thing they falsely accused the Trump Department of Justice and the Trump FBI of doing is exactly what the Biden DOJ and the Biden FBI has been doing.
00:49:49.180 Yeah, make sure you take this podcast, share this with your family and friends so they can hear that montage, because it is so powerful.
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