Verdict with Ted Cruz - Biden Spied On 20% of GOP Senators, IMPEACH Judge Boasberg, Dems Losing Shutdown & Bill Gates Flips on Climate Change

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00:00:05.380 Welcome.

00:00:06.040 It is Vertical Center Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:08.880 And it's so nice to have you with us around the country,

00:00:10.960 wherever you are listening on radio stations all over.

00:00:14.280 And we have got a lot to talk about in today's show,

00:00:16.800 including the fact that, Senator,

00:00:19.140 it wasn't just enough that they wanted to spy on your cell phone records.

00:00:22.900 They decided, screw it.

00:00:24.460 We'll just tap like federal lines in your office.

00:00:27.180 The Biden administration has been caught spying on now nine U.S. senators,

00:00:33.560 20% of the Republicans in the Senate.

00:00:36.540 Jack Smith issued subpoenas to spy on and to get our cell phone records.

00:00:42.300 I was one of the nine.

00:00:43.760 We now know also that Judge Bosberg,

00:00:47.260 who is this left-wing radical judge

00:00:49.620 who keeps issuing national injunctions against President Trump,

00:00:53.220 signed at least an order concerning me

00:00:56.380 ordering AT&T not to tell me that DOJ was trying to get my phone records

00:01:04.580 because the judge concluded with zero basis

00:01:07.380 that I was likely to destroy evidence

00:01:10.200 and to tamper with witnesses.

00:01:13.080 It is an absolute disgrace.

00:01:15.160 We're going to break it down.

00:01:16.100 We're going to talk about the accountability that needs to flow from this.

00:01:20.420 We're also going to talk about the shutdown

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00:01:26.140 Day 31 in the Schumer shutdown with no end in sight.

00:01:30.220 We're going to talk about where the shutdown stands.

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00:03:27.180 All right, Senators, so let's just remind people

00:03:29.520 how this all started with Arctic Frost.

00:03:32.300 What was the basis of Arctic Frost?

00:03:34.380 And now what we've learned about the reality of Arctic Frost,

00:03:37.440 which is this was no more than abuse of government power.

00:03:41.200 It was a spying expedition on 20% of the Republicans in the Senate.

00:03:47.980 And not only that, but also conservative influential organizations

00:03:52.460 and individuals as well were learning.

00:03:54.600 You know, that's exactly right.

00:03:55.960 We now know that Jack Smith issued 197 different subpoenas targeting more than 400 Republicans,

00:04:07.320 targeting nine U.S. Senators, targeting a House member, targeting Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA,

00:04:14.620 targeting the Republican Attorney General's Association,

00:04:17.400 systematically going after, in a widespread basis, a fishing expedition attacking his political opponents.

00:04:25.680 On the Senate side, so the Senators who had subpoenas issued against them

00:04:30.640 were Marsha Blackburn, Lindsey Graham, Bill Hagerty, Josh Hawley, Ron Johnson,

00:04:36.800 Cynthia Lummis, Dan Sullivan, and Tommy Tuberville, and then yours truly.

00:04:42.620 For the first eight, their cell phones were all with Verizon.

00:04:48.480 And Jack Smith sent the subpoena to Verizon, and Verizon complied

00:04:52.100 and gave their cell phone records to the Department of Justice.

00:04:55.980 My cell phone was with AT&T.

00:04:58.380 AT&T got a subpoena for my cell phone records, and AT&T did not comply.

00:05:03.920 Their legal counsel concluded that the Speech and Debate Clause of the Constitution

00:05:07.740 protected my communications, and they did not comply.

00:05:11.340 And that we now know.

00:05:13.800 And just this week, I did a press conference with the other Republican senators

00:05:18.580 talking about this issue.

00:05:20.400 I want you to listen to this as me describing just the scope of how serious and grave this is.

00:05:26.520 Arctic Frost is Joe Biden's Watergate.

00:05:30.420 Merrick Garland was a fundamentally corrupt attorney general.

00:05:34.280 Jack Smith was a fundamentally corrupt prosecutor.

00:05:38.120 This was a political enemies list from the beginning.

00:05:43.400 197 subpoenas for 430 Republican entities and individuals.

00:05:50.800 That is an absolute and egregious abuse of power.

00:05:55.300 Is there any scenario there, Senator, where you look at this and you hear them

00:06:01.380 and you think they could have even for a moment thought they were doing legitimate work?

00:06:05.660 I mean, when you think about the scope of this for people that are listening,

00:06:09.360 this just seems like they said, rules be damned, laws be damned.

00:06:13.560 We're going to spy on 20% of the Republican senators.

00:06:16.900 That is bigger than Watergate.

00:06:19.000 And then all these other organizations that we think are helping conservative movements,

00:06:22.640 we're going to spy on them too.

00:06:23.740 Like, what were they even looking for?

00:06:25.620 Look, I think Jack Smith is a partisan zealot.

00:06:28.280 I think Merrick Garland is a partisan zealot.

00:06:30.460 I think they eagerly weaponized the Department of Justice.

00:06:34.580 Jack Smith was appointed as the special prosecutor to go after President Trump

00:06:39.920 three days after President Trump announced his 2024 campaign.

00:06:45.860 So this all happened two years after January 6th.

00:06:50.480 I don't think it would have happened if Donald Trump had decided I'm not running in 2024.

00:06:55.800 I don't think Jack Smith is ever appointed.

00:06:57.860 I don't think these prosecutions happen.

00:06:59.440 The reason they happened is Donald Trump announced he was running in 2024.

00:07:06.040 And immediately, three days later, Jack Smith was appointed.

00:07:10.380 And this was about target our political enemies.

00:07:14.200 Let's go after them.

00:07:15.600 I think Merrick Garland presided over the most partisan Department of Justice this country has ever seen.

00:07:21.680 And I think Merrick Garland is still seething with rage.

00:07:25.220 Remember, Merrick Garland, Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court to fill the seat when Antonin Scalia passed away.

00:07:34.460 And in 2016...

00:07:34.860 Public consent power, yeah.

00:07:35.900 Yeah, in 2016, it was the spring of 2016.

00:07:40.940 And we decided we're going to keep the seat vacant and let the voters decide in November of 2016 who's going to fill it.

00:07:49.220 And, of course, that ended up being filled by Neil Gorsuch instead of Merrick Garland.

00:07:52.580 I think Merrick Garland seethes with resentment, and he used that resentment to fuel, let's go after the Republicans, let's target them, let's target Donald Trump, let's turn the Department of Justice into an arm of the DNC.

00:08:08.320 And I think Kamala Harris and the Democrats were all eagerly on board with that.

00:08:12.460 There's a strategy here, and if they didn't trust you to know that you were being subpoenaed and your records were being subpoenaed, and other conservatives were not going to be told as well, you mentioned that earlier.

00:08:22.160 They said, no, no, we can't trust Senator Cruz.

00:08:24.340 And I'm assuming that was just a blanket across-the-board thing because everyone knew how corrupt this was, and they would fight back instantly, I'm sure.

00:08:32.160 But was this to spy to see who's working with who?

00:08:35.060 Because if you didn't know what was happening, it may not be as much about intimidation as it was connecting dots, or was it to try to find something they could charge them with criminally?

00:08:44.000 Explain the logic here behind Jack Smith.

00:08:47.180 Yeah, this was a fishing expedition.

00:08:49.820 They were sweeping broadly.

00:08:51.320 They were just trying to find evidence of wrongdoing and going as broadly as they could.

00:08:56.020 And I've got to say, I used to work at the Department of Justice.

00:08:58.440 I was an associate deputy attorney general back in 2001 when George W. Bush was president.

00:09:05.540 The idea that you would authorize subpoenas for nine U.S. senators, for 20 percent of the Republicans in the Senate, or for that matter, for 20 percent of the Democrats, that you would do the opposing party, there has never been a Department of Justice that wouldn't, like, that would be willing to do that.

00:09:24.000 That is an extraordinary step, and it's a sign of just how corrupt these folks got.

00:09:30.500 But it's not just the prosecutors.

00:09:32.120 It's not just Jack Smith.

00:09:33.820 They had, I think, an extreme partisan judge, Judge Boasberg, who has been one of the worst actors when it comes to issuing these nationwide injunctions.

00:09:43.480 We've talked about him before.

00:09:44.560 And the order he signed concerning the subpoena directed at my phone records, I believe, was an absolute corruption of his judicial oath.

00:09:54.340 And here's what I called for.

00:09:56.660 I called for him to be impeached.

00:09:58.240 Yeah, there was a great clip, and you're going to hear Senator Grassley talking at the press conference, and then your comments also you made on Newsmax about it.

00:10:06.380 Take a listen.

00:10:07.720 That includes a hard line for Senator Cruz's office and a staffer's cell phone for former Senator Loeffler.

00:10:17.680 So they tried to subpoena Verizon to tap the office phone in your office?

00:10:24.140 Well, to get the phone records, and they also subpoenaed AT&T to get my cell phone records.

00:10:30.260 And I'll tell you, AT&T did the right thing.

00:10:32.100 They refused to comply with the subpoena.

00:10:33.980 Their legal counsel concluded that it was protected by the speech and debate clause of the Constitution.

00:10:39.540 But you know one of the things that is amazing, along with that subpoena they sent to AT&T, they also included an order from Judge Boesberg, who's one of these left-wing radical judges who's issuing nationwide injunctions.

00:10:53.240 Judge Boesberg ordered AT&T, do not tell Cruz we are subpoenaing his cell phone records.

00:11:00.800 Why?

00:11:01.160 And he makes a conclusion, he says, because I conclude if he's informed, Cruz will destroy or tamper with evidence and intimidate witnesses.

00:11:12.180 That is utterly without factual basis.

00:11:14.920 It is a complete abuse of judicial power.

00:11:17.440 And I've called on the House of Representatives to impeach Judge Boesberg.

00:11:22.040 The Constitution, when Judge Boesberg decided to become a partisan warrior and be part of the most egregious abuse of power, this is, Richard, this is Joe Biden's Watergate.

00:11:34.900 And I believe the House should impeach Judge Boesberg.

00:11:38.000 And I also think we are going to get to the bottom of every partisan who signed off on surveilling and spying on 20 percent of the Republicans in the Senate.

00:11:48.900 That's what Joe Biden and their DOJ did.

00:11:50.960 You just put that number into perspective, Senator.

00:11:54.800 I mean, 20 percent is unbelievable.

00:11:58.000 And you talked about the House taking this up.

00:11:59.880 Is there a real chance that they're going to do this?

00:12:02.220 I think there is.

00:12:03.440 And it's going to be a decision for the Speaker, for Mike Johnson and for Jim Jordan, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

00:12:09.140 But I think they will.

00:12:10.600 And let me actually read from the order that Judge Boesberg signed.

00:12:14.420 He signed an order where he says, quote, the court finds reasonable grounds to believe that such disclosure.

00:12:23.260 In other words, if AT&T told me that they were subpoenaing my phone records, that such disclosure will result in destruction of or tampering with evidence.

00:12:34.760 Intimidation of potential witnesses and serious jeopardy to the investigation.

00:12:41.640 Now, that statement, and by the way, I have no reason to think that that was unique to me.

00:12:46.680 My assumption, although we have not seen the subpoenas for the other eight senators, my assumption is that Judge Boesberg signed it for all nine of us, that he was printing them out like placemats at Denny's.

00:12:57.920 If you're a Republican senator, that's all he needs to know to conclude.

00:13:02.520 And let me read again what he signed.

00:13:04.680 The court finds reasonable grounds to believe that such disclosure will result in destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy to the investigation.

00:13:17.960 And let me say, if DOJ came and represented that to the judge, that is sanctionable.

00:13:23.440 There's no factual basis.

00:13:24.860 That's the sort of order you put in if you're issuing a subpoena for the mafia, for the mob, for a drug cartel, not simply the fact that, well, it's a senator of the opposing party, so we're going to represent to you that they're going to destroy evidence.

00:13:41.060 I believe that the judge had absolutely zero basis to conclude that.

00:13:47.200 There was no evidence of that.

00:13:48.500 I don't know if DOJ made that representation or not, but the judge, there was no hearing on it.

00:13:53.280 We certainly didn't know about it.

00:13:55.480 It is utterly absurd to say that nine senators are going to go destroy evidence and tamper with witnesses.

00:14:02.360 He signed that, and when he signed that, he was no longer being a judge.

00:14:05.620 He was being a partisan.

00:14:07.500 It is clear this man hates Republicans and is willing to act on his partisan animus, and I think that is why the House should impeach him and the Senate should convict him.

00:14:17.620 Two questions quickly.

00:14:19.080 One, do you think that there may be other senators out there that we don't know about?

00:14:22.880 And two, a lot of this information we've been getting is because of people that are coming forward, whistleblowers.

00:14:27.400 How important are they going to be moving forward?

00:14:29.140 Because if this is what they were doing in this scenario, I can't imagine what else was going on that we don't know about.

00:14:35.180 There could be other spying expeditions that were taking place on House members on a completely different set of issues.

00:14:40.220 Well, look, we know 430 Republicans were the targets of these subpoenas.

00:14:47.420 There may be more.

00:14:48.240 You're right.

00:14:48.640 It's whistleblowers who have come forward with this.

00:14:51.040 We wouldn't know without the whistleblowers.

00:14:52.960 And I'll tell you an interesting little factoid.

00:14:55.960 Sean Davis of The Federalist reported, he said, Arctic Frost, the codename used for this operation, was not a randomly generated codename, which is how these operations generally get their name.

00:15:08.840 Yeah, it's important.

00:15:10.760 Arctic Frost is a cultivar of orange that thrives in Florida but can also withstand cold weather.

00:15:19.200 The codename was deliberately chosen by corrupt federal agents because the entire purpose was to take down Donald Trump, the orange man who lives in Florida.

00:15:30.960 This was corrupted.

00:15:32.240 It was political targeting.

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00:17:24.240 All right, Senators.

00:17:24.860 So I want to move to a topic that we teased earlier.

00:17:27.260 And it's also a pretty big one.

00:17:29.200 The government shut down.

00:17:30.600 We're now seeing polling data.

00:17:32.000 I'm looking at my screen over here.

00:17:33.700 And it really is fun to see this backfire in the Democrats' face.

00:17:36.980 They've been holding America hostage.

00:17:38.940 They keep negotiating the hostage deadline and extending it.

00:17:42.540 It is disgusting to see how much they're trying to hurt Americans.

00:17:46.560 Trying to withhold food stamps. 0.65

00:17:47.940 Trying to withhold military pay.

00:17:49.640 Government pay.

00:17:50.280 The list goes on.

00:17:50.980 They want this to hurt. 1.00

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00:17:56.140 That they're just going to blame the top of the food chain. 0.98

00:17:58.920 A.K.A. President Donald Trump.

00:18:00.520 But the data is showing that that is a disaster for them right now.

00:18:05.640 And, in fact, Donald Trump's approval rating has gone up, not down, during the government shutdown.

00:18:10.400 Your reaction to that?

00:18:12.040 Well, that's exactly right.

00:18:13.380 This is backfiring badly on the Democrats.

00:18:16.000 But before we dive into that, I want to tell you a fun story that you'll like.

00:18:19.860 So my press secretary was down in New Orleans.

00:18:23.080 And she took an Uber to go to her hotel.

00:18:27.260 And the Uber driver was a guy, a fellow named Dax.

00:18:30.540 And they struck up a conversation.

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00:18:34.940 And he said, I listen to Verdict every week.

00:18:37.120 I listen to it on the radio here in New Orleans.

00:18:40.180 And he told her, like, what time it aired.

00:18:43.020 And he was a regular listener.

00:18:44.720 That was very cool.

00:18:46.000 And so everyone who's listening on the radio, everyone who's listening to the podcast,

00:18:49.400 I just wanted to say thank you.

00:18:50.560 We're doing this to give you information you can't get anywhere else.

00:18:54.040 And to Dax, if you're listening, thank you especially for listening.

00:18:57.260 We're glad to have you and appreciate you.

00:18:59.980 It is.

00:19:00.940 Isn't that cool?

00:19:01.960 It's awesome.

00:19:02.540 That's the best.

00:19:03.240 Like, when you have an Uber or Lyft driver, it's like, oh, yeah, I listen to everyone.

00:19:05.600 That is what I envision as we do this show,

00:19:08.620 is people like that working hard, providing for their families,

00:19:11.920 and they just want to know someone's fighting for them.

00:19:14.700 Absolutely.

00:19:15.800 Look, today is Halloween.

00:19:17.960 It's 31 days into the shutdown.

00:19:20.000 And the Democrats have not budged an inch.

00:19:23.020 31 days, the federal government is closed.

00:19:26.860 The nonessential functions are shut down.

00:19:29.400 We're seeing thousands upon thousands of federal workers who are not getting paychecks.

00:19:34.440 Let's take airports.

00:19:35.680 Airports right now, there are 50,000 TSA agents who are going into work,

00:19:40.060 and they're not getting a paycheck.

00:19:41.500 They've missed their last paycheck.

00:19:43.200 There are 14,000 air traffic controllers.

00:19:45.580 They're going into work.

00:19:46.660 They're not getting a paycheck.

00:19:48.220 And you know what we're seeing?

00:19:49.620 We're seeing as a result of that more and more delays,

00:19:52.440 more and more ground stops, ground stops in Houston, ground stops in L.A.,

00:19:57.080 ground stops in D.C.

00:19:58.780 They want that.

00:19:59.960 You know, one senior Democrat aide told Politico that the Schumer shutdown will keep going,

00:20:06.000 he said, quote, until planes start falling from the sky.

00:20:10.760 That's what they're looking for.

00:20:12.260 Tomorrow, Saturday, November 1st, 41 million people are not going to get the food stamps

00:20:18.260 they would have otherwise gotten.

00:20:19.660 Now, it's actually 42 million.

00:20:23.340 Now, set aside the fact that the number of people on food stamps has doubled in the last five years.

00:20:28.180 That is a major problem, and it is a failure of the policies of the Biden administration.

00:20:33.720 But there are 42 million people who were expecting Saturday morning to get their food stamps,

00:20:39.260 and they're not going to get it.

00:20:40.360 And they're not going to get it because the Democrats are voting.

00:20:43.040 You don't get food stamps.

00:20:44.200 Air traffic controllers, you don't get paid.

00:20:47.220 TSA agents, you don't get paid.

00:20:49.060 FBI agents, you don't get paid.

00:20:51.360 Customs and Border Patrol, you don't get paid.

00:20:53.660 ICE, you don't get paid.

00:20:55.020 General federal worker, you don't get paid.

00:20:59.300 And by the way, the Democrat congressmen and senators, almost all of them are taking their own paychecks,

00:21:05.480 the members of Congress.

00:21:06.480 I'm not.

00:21:07.440 I said I wouldn't take my paycheck as long as the government shut down,

00:21:10.520 but most of the Democrats are happily depositing their own money.

00:21:13.320 Let's be very clear to people listening, just like Dax down there in New Orleans.

00:21:19.180 There have been moments where Republicans have said, hey, let's at least take, for example,

00:21:25.480 not giving people their food stamps off the table.

00:21:28.720 And Democrats have still said, no, we won't do that bipartisan piece with you.

00:21:34.260 We've said the same thing for FAA and military.

00:21:36.780 They want these people to suffer.

00:21:40.560 They've had the opportunity to have, in essence, a carve-out,

00:21:42.900 and they've chosen no every time because they want people to suffer, period.

00:21:46.860 No, that's right.

00:21:47.980 And I'll tell you, the media knows that this is a partisan shutdown.

00:21:51.080 Here, give a listen to Jake Tapper.

00:21:52.980 Now, Jake Tapper is hardly a conservative,

00:21:55.660 but even he on CNN is calling BS to the Democrats' talking points.

00:22:01.200 Give a listen.

00:22:01.600 Should the Democratic senators from New Mexico, your home state,

00:22:04.920 vote to open the government so that these SNAP funds are not at risk?

00:22:10.080 Let me be clear.

00:22:11.840 The administration is choosing to starve American children

00:22:17.360 with money that they already have appropriated.

00:22:21.400 I'm not applauding their tactics.

00:22:22.400 This is a choice by the White House.

00:22:25.520 This is a choice by the White House.

00:22:28.320 This is also a choice by Senate Democrats to not vote to open the government.

00:22:34.280 Yes, it is.

00:22:35.140 I understand why they're doing it.

00:22:36.920 They're doing it because they want Medicaid funds restored.

00:22:39.440 They're doing it because they want Obamacare premiums

00:22:42.460 to be extended past the end of the year.

00:22:44.800 I understand the reasoning.

00:22:46.560 Let me just be clear.

00:22:48.280 The money for contingency plans is sitting there.

00:22:51.120 That is why the states are suing.

00:22:52.880 The White House is withholding funds from children to have food.

00:22:54.900 Two to three weeks' worth of SNAP funds.

00:22:56.800 Yeah, well, it may not be a big deal to you,

00:22:59.840 but let me tell you that for the grandparents,

00:23:02.580 for grandparents that literally are feeding their children,

00:23:05.780 to not have money in those accounts,

00:23:09.100 it doesn't matter.

00:23:10.280 At the end of the day, people need to be able to feed their families,

00:23:13.540 and Saturday is when those funds run out.

00:23:15.580 I feel so strongly, Congresswoman,

00:23:17.820 why not ask the Senate Democrats from New Mexico

00:23:20.980 to vote to open the government so that the SNAP funds...

00:23:24.540 Sir, I am here in the House of Representatives.

00:23:27.440 It is shut down.

00:23:28.340 I am fighting to get the government reopened.

00:23:30.280 I am fighting to get funding put back into SNAP that is already existent,

00:23:34.580 and I am fighting for the American people.

00:23:36.320 I am here.

00:23:37.200 But show me a single Republican that is here.

00:23:39.540 Not a single one is here to make sure that Americans are fed on Saturday.

00:23:43.700 That is why I am here.

00:23:45.340 I love how right there, and it just made me laugh, 1.00

00:23:48.560 how even Jake Tapper's like, you're totally full of crap. 0.99

00:23:51.700 Like, you can say this all you want to, but they put it together. 0.99

00:23:54.960 You guys keep saying no.

00:23:56.620 And she's like, I'm here.

00:23:57.680 They're all gone.

00:23:58.480 By the way, I'm sure there was a Republican congressperson that was there.

00:24:01.900 Of course there were.

00:24:02.820 But look, Jake Tapper, as he put it, he says,

00:24:05.820 this is a choice by Senate Democrats to not vote to open the government.

00:24:09.620 And she says, no, it is not.

00:24:10.780 And he says, yes, it is.

00:24:12.360 And we've done this 13 times.

00:24:14.540 I voted repeatedly this week to open the government.

00:24:16.820 If you want the food stamps to go out,

00:24:18.980 the Democrats had it in their power to do that.

00:24:21.000 All they had to do was vote yes to fund the government,

00:24:24.060 and they had multiple opportunities.

00:24:25.640 And the Democrats all voted no, or all but three, I think, voted no.

00:24:29.620 Now, the reason the Democrats have been able to force this shutdown

00:24:33.080 is in order to move a funding bill in the Senate, it takes 60 votes.

00:24:37.540 There are only 53 Republicans.

00:24:39.800 Republicans, we are voting to open the government.

00:24:42.660 We're voting over and over and over again.

00:24:45.300 And 13 times the Democrats have voted,

00:24:47.860 shut it down, shut it down, shut it down. 1.00

00:24:50.040 And this is the stupidest shutdown we have ever seen 1.00

00:24:54.460 because the Democrats really are just trying to show off to their partisan base 1.00

00:24:59.080 that they hate Donald Trump.

00:25:01.040 The reason you're having a shutdown,

00:25:03.220 the reason people are not being paid,

00:25:05.080 the reason your flights are being delayed,

00:25:07.180 the reason food stamps are not going out tomorrow

00:25:09.840 is because the Democrats are trying to,

00:25:13.300 Chuck Schumer in particular is trying to prove

00:25:15.580 to the activists marching in the No Kings radical,

00:25:18.800 in the No Kings rallies,

00:25:20.000 that he really, really, really hates Donald Trump.

00:25:23.300 They're going to end up caving.

00:25:25.000 But I'll tell you what, my prediction is

00:25:26.580 they won't cave before next Tuesday

00:25:28.420 because Tuesday's election day in Virginia and New Jersey.

00:25:32.320 And bizarrely enough,

00:25:33.140 they think their base is energized

00:25:35.140 by the Democrats shutting down the government.

00:25:37.860 Canadian women are looking for more, 1.00

00:25:40.040 more out of themselves, their businesses,

00:25:42.040 their elected leaders, and the world around them.

00:25:44.220 And that's why we're thrilled to introduce

00:25:45.840 the Honest Talk podcast.

00:25:47.960 I'm Jennifer Stewart.

00:25:49.140 And I'm Catherine Clark.

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00:26:07.160 All right.

00:26:09.880 So this one is just one of those segments

00:26:12.300 that I'm just going to enjoy.

00:26:14.620 Bill Gates is a guy that was like,

00:26:17.220 the world's going to end, Senator,

00:26:18.540 and we're all going to, you know,

00:26:19.660 die of heat.

00:26:21.260 And global warming's real.

00:26:22.820 And I'm investing in all these projects and things.

00:26:25.760 And the government should be doing the same.

00:26:28.120 And now he's like, all right, screw it.

00:26:29.540 It's not going to happen.

00:26:30.760 It reminds me,

00:26:31.840 I think it was Newsweek back in the 80s,

00:26:33.740 where they said we were all going to freeze to death

00:26:35.760 from like Arctic freezing of the entire globe.

00:26:38.940 Now that went away too.

00:26:40.360 So they got it wrong in the 80s.

00:26:42.040 And now Bill Gates is admitting,

00:26:43.860 and Al Gore, remember,

00:26:44.600 we were supposed to be dead like after 10 years.

00:26:46.320 That was like 10 years ago

00:26:47.260 when he made his prediction

00:26:48.200 that we're all going to die of global warming.

00:26:50.480 None of it's actually happened.

00:26:51.740 And so now Bill Gates is like,

00:26:52.840 all right, screw it.

00:26:54.080 I was wrong, I guess.

00:26:56.060 So it wasn't 10 years.

00:26:57.480 It was 12 years.

00:26:58.500 And for some reason,

00:26:59.640 for the apocalyptic left,

00:27:01.220 the world is always ending in 12 years.

00:27:03.420 And that's been true for about two decades now.

00:27:06.000 They've been saying 12 years from now,

00:27:07.480 we're all going to die. 0.84

00:27:08.160 12 years from now, we're all going to die.

00:27:10.200 And I got to say,

00:27:11.060 Bill Gates was willing to be as hysterical as Greta,

00:27:15.660 the European teenager

00:27:17.200 who shut down the German economy

00:27:19.840 because they listened to a teenager and said,

00:27:22.200 hey, why don't we shut down

00:27:23.640 all of our nuclear power plants?

00:27:25.040 And then they suddenly realized

00:27:26.740 they couldn't power their country.

00:27:28.420 And ironically enough,

00:27:29.380 instead, they're now opening coal plants

00:27:31.280 and polluting a lot more.

00:27:32.320 So the apocalypse,

00:27:35.660 the world is ending because of climate change.

00:27:37.700 Well, look, all right.

00:27:38.920 Don't necessarily believe me.

00:27:40.240 Let me just read what Bill Gates has done.

00:27:43.280 So this is from Daily Wire.

00:27:44.900 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates

00:27:46.440 has done an about face on climate change alarmism,

00:27:49.140 recently saying that there are more pressing matters

00:27:51.640 people should be worrying about instead.

00:27:53.600 The 70-year-old tech billionaire,

00:27:55.580 who has been an outspoken environmental activist for years,

00:27:58.380 said as much in a memo published Tuesday,

00:28:01.800 titled Three Tough Truths About Climate.

00:28:05.380 Here's what he wrote.

00:28:06.280 Climate change, disease, and poverty

00:28:07.820 are all major problems.

00:28:09.760 We should deal with them in proportion

00:28:11.760 to the suffering they cause.

00:28:13.840 The businessman admitted

00:28:15.380 that the Earth's temperature

00:28:17.000 is not the most important factor

00:28:19.080 for improving life on the planet

00:28:20.580 and said the, quote,

00:28:22.540 doomsday view of climate change

00:28:24.920 is wrong.

00:28:26.180 Let me read that again.

00:28:27.360 Bill Gates said,

00:28:28.620 the doomsday view of climate change

00:28:30.960 is wrong.

00:28:32.200 Here's what he wrote.

00:28:33.000 Quote,

00:28:33.700 although climate change

00:28:34.700 will have serious consequences,

00:28:36.540 particularly for people

00:28:37.360 in the poorest countries,

00:28:38.920 it will not lead

00:28:40.720 to humanity's demise.

00:28:43.320 Shocking that Bill Gates said that.

00:28:45.800 And here he goes on to say,

00:28:47.600 quote,

00:28:47.860 Hold on,

00:28:48.060 does that mean he can fly

00:28:49.520 on his private jets now

00:28:50.620 and, like, take a nap,

00:28:51.660 not be, like,

00:28:52.260 having to buy carbon credits

00:28:53.340 or get on his yacht?

00:28:54.220 I'm just confused.

00:28:54.780 I want to be cleared here.

00:28:56.120 What does this free him up to do?

00:28:57.520 Oh, no, no.

00:28:57.880 The carbon credit scam

00:28:59.000 is definitely still on,

00:29:00.360 but he's going to keep flying

00:29:01.800 on his jet.

00:29:02.740 And remember, by the way,

00:29:03.800 John Kerry, the zealot,

00:29:05.320 when he discussed his private plane,

00:29:06.900 he said, you know,

00:29:07.840 he flies private

00:29:08.680 because he says,

00:29:09.480 really, for someone like me,

00:29:10.940 it's the only reasonable way

00:29:12.440 to travel.

00:29:13.260 Yes.

00:29:13.500 Like the utter hypocrisy.

00:29:16.480 But here's what Gates wrote.

00:29:17.960 This is a chance to refocus

00:29:19.480 on the metric

00:29:20.140 that should count

00:29:21.180 even more than emissions

00:29:22.480 and temperature change.

00:29:24.420 Improving lives.

00:29:26.120 Our chief goal

00:29:26.880 should be to prevent suffering,

00:29:28.480 particularly for those

00:29:29.860 in the toughest conditions

00:29:30.900 who live in the world's 0.98

00:29:32.160 poorest countries.

00:29:33.380 And he added, quote,

00:29:35.300 Although climate change

00:29:36.480 will hurt poor people

00:29:37.400 more than anyone else,

00:29:38.480 for the vast majority of them,

00:29:40.340 it will not be the only

00:29:41.480 or even the biggest threat

00:29:43.300 to their welfare.

00:29:44.500 And he wrote

00:29:45.220 this 17-page analysis

00:29:46.700 ahead of next month's

00:29:48.380 United Nations

00:29:49.140 Climate Change Conference

00:29:50.340 in Brazil,

00:29:52.120 hoping to shift funding

00:29:53.640 away from climate initiatives

00:29:55.100 towards other endeavors

00:29:56.380 that he now believes

00:29:57.440 are more important.

00:29:59.520 Look,

00:30:00.220 I don't know about you,

00:30:01.320 but I'm not tired of winning.

00:30:03.040 I mean,

00:30:03.360 this is,

00:30:04.860 climate change

00:30:05.760 was an excuse.

00:30:06.200 So it was all a scam

00:30:07.000 to make a bunch of money?

00:30:07.980 Is that what we can

00:30:08.580 kind of get to here?

00:30:09.420 It was just about

00:30:09.980 follow the money.

00:30:11.160 Money and power.

00:30:12.340 There's a lot of money,

00:30:13.100 a whole lot of money about it.

00:30:14.360 But power,

00:30:14.980 look,

00:30:15.200 look,

00:30:15.480 for Democrats,

00:30:16.580 if you are a socialist,

00:30:17.740 if you are a communist,

00:30:18.840 if you are a comrade,

00:30:20.360 Mondani,

00:30:22.840 I assume he's a climate change nut.

00:30:25.240 I don't actually know that.

00:30:27.160 But I know he's a communist.

00:30:28.760 And climate change

00:30:30.540 was the excuse

00:30:31.860 for communists

00:30:33.300 to seize control

00:30:34.180 of our government.

00:30:35.160 And that today's Democrat party,

00:30:37.740 it was a great, 0.86

00:30:38.360 we're all going to die

00:30:39.580 unless you let me,

00:30:41.580 the Democrat politician,

00:30:43.160 control the energy

00:30:44.560 and business

00:30:45.540 and your life

00:30:46.880 and regulate

00:30:47.660 every aspect of your life.

00:30:49.680 The fact that Bill Gates

00:30:50.780 is making this change,

00:30:51.860 it really shows

00:30:53.000 the momentum

00:30:54.120 is moving

00:30:55.080 and people are engaged

00:30:56.880 and just common sense

00:30:58.740 is coming back.

00:30:59.980 Well,

00:31:00.180 and not only common sense,

00:31:01.560 but like you look at

00:31:02.160 a lot of these solar farms,

00:31:03.780 they're like being dormant

00:31:05.380 right now.

00:31:05.960 Like they're just shutting them down

00:31:07.260 because they just can't work.

00:31:08.900 They're not working.

00:31:09.840 And the pollution

00:31:10.880 that comes actually

00:31:12.240 from the turbines

00:31:13.380 and all the other things

00:31:14.200 are actually saying

00:31:14.760 it's like having a real negative effect

00:31:16.240 on the environment.

00:31:17.220 Shocker there.

00:31:18.300 And then we also found out

00:31:19.580 that like a pension fund

00:31:20.620 in California

00:31:21.340 lost like 70 plus percent

00:31:23.420 of the investment

00:31:24.080 that they went in

00:31:24.660 green alternative energy

00:31:25.820 that just came out.

00:31:27.000 So like they screwed

00:31:28.160 countless hardworking,

00:31:29.880 even liberals,

00:31:30.820 in California 1.00

00:31:31.560 with this crap. 1.00

00:31:32.240 And a point to understand, 0.99

00:31:34.700 the climate change radicals

00:31:36.620 have consistently hurt

00:31:38.860 the environment.

00:31:40.000 They are bad

00:31:40.820 on the environment.

00:31:42.100 If the only thing

00:31:43.200 you care about,

00:31:43.900 if you wake up every morning

00:31:45.420 praying to Mother Earth,

00:31:47.700 if that's your only voting issue,

00:31:49.780 you should vote

00:31:50.420 against Democrats.

00:31:51.640 Why?

00:31:52.160 Let's take,

00:31:53.140 for example,

00:31:53.720 Germany.

00:31:54.540 The Greens forced

00:31:55.760 nuclear power plants

00:31:56.860 to be closed.

00:31:57.920 The result is today

00:31:59.160 Germany is relying 0.94

00:32:00.100 more on coal,

00:32:00.940 which is much,

00:32:01.880 much worse

00:32:02.360 for the environment.

00:32:03.960 And what country

00:32:05.980 leads the world

00:32:08.360 every year

00:32:09.100 in the reduction

00:32:09.660 of carbon emissions?

00:32:10.840 Which one?

00:32:12.100 That would be

00:32:12.480 the United States of America.

00:32:13.840 Do you know why?

00:32:14.940 Why is that?

00:32:16.580 Look,

00:32:16.940 this is a question

00:32:17.880 actually I pose

00:32:18.860 when I'm on a college campus,

00:32:20.380 when I'm talking

00:32:20.980 to college kids

00:32:21.900 and they're Bernie Sanders supporters

00:32:23.380 and they're freaked out

00:32:24.500 about the climate.

00:32:25.900 I'll ask them a question.

00:32:27.060 I'll say,

00:32:27.400 tell me,

00:32:28.460 what human being

00:32:29.780 has done the most

00:32:31.280 to reduce climate

00:32:32.180 in our lifetimes?

00:32:33.340 And inevitably,

00:32:34.160 they have no idea.

00:32:35.680 There is an objectively

00:32:36.540 right answer.

00:32:37.260 The right answer

00:32:37.800 to this is George Mitchell.

00:32:39.440 Now,

00:32:39.840 who is George Mitchell?

00:32:41.060 George Mitchell

00:32:41.700 was a Texas oil man.

00:32:43.420 He was the son

00:32:44.200 of a Greek goat herder.

00:32:46.860 And George Mitchell

00:32:48.020 is the man

00:32:50.080 most responsible

00:32:51.080 for pioneering fracking.

00:32:52.860 And he did it

00:32:53.420 in the Barnett Shale

00:32:54.720 under Fort Worth

00:32:55.520 and Dallas.

00:32:56.080 fracking unlocked

00:32:58.420 the shale revolution

00:32:59.880 which resulted

00:33:00.660 in massive production

00:33:02.300 of natural gas,

00:33:03.800 much of it in Texas,

00:33:04.840 although also in Pennsylvania

00:33:05.840 and Ohio

00:33:06.560 and other states

00:33:07.580 across the country.

00:33:08.820 And the reason

00:33:09.760 the United States

00:33:10.700 every year

00:33:11.480 leads the world

00:33:12.480 in the reduction

00:33:13.260 of carbon emissions

00:33:15.020 is because

00:33:15.740 at a wide scale level

00:33:17.580 we are replacing

00:33:18.620 coal-powered

00:33:20.380 electricity generation

00:33:21.720 with natural gas-powered

00:33:24.060 electricity generation.

00:33:25.340 and that pollutes

00:33:26.700 much, much less.

00:33:27.600 It emits

00:33:27.940 much less carbon.

00:33:29.620 And the Greens

00:33:30.620 and the radical Dems

00:33:31.920 have opposed that

00:33:32.920 at every step.

00:33:33.900 By the way,

00:33:34.440 do you know what country

00:33:35.380 leads the world

00:33:36.360 in pollution?

00:33:37.500 What's that?

00:33:38.480 That would be

00:33:38.960 communist China

00:33:39.760 which pollutes massively

00:33:41.420 and yet the Biden

00:33:42.280 administration

00:33:42.960 bear-hugged them

00:33:43.820 with all they had.

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - October 31, 2025

Biden Spied On 20% of GOP Senators, IMPEACH Judge Boasberg, Dems Losing Shutdown & Bill Gates Flips on Climate Change

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