Verdict with Ted Cruz - Biden Trashes BiBi, Katie Britt on Joe Biden Apology for Using the Word 'Illegal' & POTUS Helps Iran Once Again Week In Review

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00:00:05.480 Welcome.

00:00:06.200 It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you, and it's the Week in Review.

00:00:11.900 These are the big stories that you may have missed that we talked about this week.

00:00:15.640 First up, Biden caught on a hot mic at the State of the Union, basically trashing Bibi

00:00:21.780 and Israel.

00:00:23.260 We'll have the latest behind what that actually means.

00:00:25.540 Plus, Katie Britt discusses Biden apologizing for calling an illegal immigrant an illegal.

00:00:32.920 That illegal?

00:00:33.920 Also responsible for allegedly killing a young girl in Georgia.

00:00:38.640 And finally, the Biden administration decides to quietly try to give $10 billion to Iran

00:00:44.840 to keep funding terrorism.

00:00:47.220 It is the Week in Review, and it starts right now.

00:00:51.000 Finally, I want to move on to one other issue real quick, and that is

00:00:55.260 we found out what Joe Biden was saying as he decided to hang out on the floor of the House

00:01:00.820 for, I don't know, about an hour after the State of the Union.

00:01:03.180 He was caught on a hot mic, and his staff was just, I mean, closing their eyes, shaking their heads.

00:01:10.840 Are you kidding me?

00:01:12.580 When Joe Biden was talking about what's going on in Israel

00:01:17.260 and a conversation that he had with Netanyahu.

00:01:20.780 Take a listen to this caught on a hot mic.

00:01:23.440 I was telling your secretary, you know, I was in Jordan and Israel last weekend, and who is it?

00:01:46.320 You know, you've got to keep pushing what you're doing on the humanitarian stuff and all this stuff.

00:01:51.580 So, I told him, baby, I'm going to get this.

00:01:57.280 I said, baby, you're not going to come.

00:01:58.900 Sir, just, just, just, I'm not going to put it.

00:02:04.300 That was good.

00:02:05.060 Senator, you can hear Joe Biden there, and for people that maybe had a hard time hearing exactly what he said,

00:02:13.920 give a little bit of a play-by-play here of what he was saying,

00:02:17.540 and this is a president that's basically saying, oh, yeah, I'm going to take my hand off of Israel.

00:02:21.900 So, the quote, if you had a hard time hearing it, but the hot mic picked it up, he said, quote,

00:02:28.220 I told him, Bibi, and don't repeat this, but you and I are going to have a come-to-Jesus meeting.

00:02:36.880 And so, he's bragging to a fellow Democrat about how he was threatening the prime minister of Israel,

00:02:45.860 Benjamin Netanyahu, his nickname is Bibi, but, number one, let me just say, look, you and I are both Southern Baptists.

00:02:54.320 We both believe Jesus is our Savior, but I've got to say, just saying to the Jewish prime minister of Israel,

00:03:02.460 we're going to have a come-to-Jesus meeting as a way to, like, beat the hell out of him, 0.81

00:03:07.740 if a Republican had said that, the media would lose their minds.

00:03:11.940 Yeah.

00:03:12.800 It's so insensitive on so many different levels.

00:03:15.240 That there is an offensive condescension.

00:03:19.300 And understand what he means, the come-to-Jesus meeting. 1.00

00:03:22.200 What he means is, you stupid Israeli, stop killing Hamas terrorists. 1.00

00:03:29.060 That's what he's saying. 1.00

00:03:30.900 We're going to force you, as a response to October 7th,

00:03:36.360 to allow the Hamas terrorists who murdered 1,200 Israelis, 0.61

00:03:42.500 1,200 Jews who kidnapped Americans, who murdered Americans.

00:03:46.680 We're going to force you to allow them to create their own state where they can engage in acts of terror like this over and over and over again.

00:03:55.540 It is the anti-Israel animus in this administration and in, sadly, today's Democrat Party.

00:04:05.400 I've never seen anything like it.

00:04:07.420 It keeps getting worse.

00:04:09.180 And this shows, this is how Biden talks behind closed doors. 1.00

00:04:14.160 I'm going to beat up these damned Israelis. 1.00

00:04:18.300 Like, that's just horrific. 1.00

00:04:22.240 Well, and it's shocking, but it also goes hand-in-hand with him basically pandering to the extreme left that is all about Hamas

00:04:30.040 and supporting the terrorists and the Palestinian protesters that are supporting these terrorists who butchered children,

00:04:36.140 who took hostage 80-year-old women, grandmothers, and put babies in ovens to burn them for sport.

00:04:46.360 You also have a president during the State of the Union to appease them, said,

00:04:50.660 Hey, we're going to order the U.S. military to construct a port in Gaza to increase the aid flow there.

00:04:59.180 He acted like it wasn't playing—

00:05:00.660 By the way, you know words that Joe Biden didn't say?

00:05:04.060 He didn't say, we will utterly and completely destroy Hamas.

00:05:07.560 He didn't say, as Israel defends itself, we have your back.

00:05:12.580 We are with you.

00:05:13.900 You are right. 0.70

00:05:14.920 We must destroy Hamas. 0.88

00:05:17.120 We stand together.

00:05:18.260 That's what a real American president would say.

00:05:21.040 That's what an American president defending America, defending our allies would say.

00:05:25.700 But instead, today's Democrat Party, the cultural Marxists, the radical leftists,

00:05:32.440 if they see a battle between Jews and Palestinians, they define Jews as the oppressors.

00:05:40.600 They define Palestinians as the victims. 1.00

00:05:43.200 And any cultural Marxist, he supports the violent revolution of the victims against the oppressors.

00:05:51.060 And so the consequence, what is Joe Biden bragging about when he thinks he's in private?

00:05:56.900 Well, we just got this hot mic here.

00:05:58.940 He's bragging that he's berating the prime minister of Israel.

00:06:03.400 And mind you, at a time when the prime minister is defending his nation at war after a massive attack,

00:06:12.760 the worst mass murder of Jews in a single day since the Holocaust.

00:06:18.960 And what is Biden doing attacking Israel?

00:06:22.380 Well, and building this pier, the question I have for you is, does this put American troops in harm's way?

00:06:28.780 Because that's the question that everybody should be asking this president.

00:06:33.860 Let's be clear.

00:06:35.140 About 186 American troops have been injured or killed in attacks on U.S. personnel in the Middle East since mid-October,

00:06:42.640 when the attack by the Hamas terrorists happened on Israel.

00:06:47.740 And of those, 130 have been traumatic brain injuries.

00:06:52.220 And that's been confirmed by the Pentagon this week on Monday.

00:06:55.520 And yet you have a president that acts like building this pier is no big deal at all.

00:07:01.480 Well, look, I think that's right.

00:07:03.620 And the thing to understand is today's Democrat Party.

00:07:07.280 Listen, Biden has an open revolt within his State Department, within his White House,

00:07:13.060 because today's Democrat Party, particularly the young people,

00:07:17.260 they are active sympathizers of Hamas.

00:07:21.140 Mind you, the Biden administration has given hundreds of millions of dollars to Gaza that went straight to Hamas.

00:07:27.500 Mind you, the Biden administration has flowed $100 billion to Iran,

00:07:33.080 which is the principal funder for Hamas and for Hezbollah.

00:07:37.000 And all of that you have, I got to say, it is really distressing just how radicalized the Democrat Party has become

00:07:45.900 and how much they have normalized anti-Semitism in their party.

00:07:51.540 That is a terrible, terrible thing.

00:07:54.160 And it's something we're going to have to work together to fight.

00:07:57.380 Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,

00:08:00.000 you can go back and listen to the full podcast from earlier this week.

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00:08:35.500 Now on to story number two.

00:08:37.760 By the way, one of the biggest controversies coming out of the State of the Union was,

00:08:42.200 one, you didn't even have a chance to get to respond to.

00:08:46.120 And I want to get your take on this.

00:08:48.660 Biden used the word illegal immigrant when he was referencing the person who's been accused

00:08:56.760 of killing Lakin Riley.

00:08:58.900 The name, by the way, that he got wrong.

00:09:01.000 You mentioned that earlier.

00:09:02.040 Lakin Riley's a football coach, USC.

00:09:03.760 And he got it wrong.

00:09:06.640 But now he's gone on, in essence, an apology tour to the illegal immigrant who was accused

00:09:13.460 of killing her.

00:09:14.980 And this is what he had to say on MSNBC. 0.89

00:09:17.640 And you didn't, obviously.

00:09:18.880 I don't think anyone thought that this was actually going to happen or be a controversy

00:09:23.040 when you were doing your response.

00:09:24.520 But the biggest controversy from his whole night is actually now this.

00:09:27.960 Take a listen.

00:09:28.880 Notice the look of surprise on your face when you walked into the chamber and you saw Congresswoman

00:09:32.900 Marjorie Taylor Greene.

00:09:34.960 It was priceless.

00:09:36.240 You fainted shock at seeing her.

00:09:38.800 But during your response to her heckling of you, you used the word illegal when talking

00:09:44.440 about the man who allegedly killed Lakin Riley.

00:09:48.060 An undocumented person.

00:09:49.920 And I shouldn't have used illegal.

00:09:51.260 I shouldn't have been undocumented. 0.99

00:09:52.220 And look, when I spoke about the difference between Trump and me, one of the things I

00:09:56.720 talked about in the border was the way he talks about vermin, the way he talks about

00:10:01.180 these people polluting the blood.

00:10:03.040 I talked about what I'm not going to do, what I won't do.

00:10:05.800 I'm not going to treat any of these people with disrespect.

00:10:10.260 Look, they built the country.

00:10:11.820 The reason our economy is growing.

00:10:13.620 We have to control the border and more orderly flow.

00:10:16.400 But I don't share this view at all.

00:10:19.180 So you regret using that word?

00:10:21.040 Yes.

00:10:22.220 I regret using that word.

00:10:23.640 I'm sorry, basically, to the illegal immigrant for saying he's an illegal immigrant, not talking

00:10:28.420 about Lakin Riley.

00:10:29.540 No one could have seen that coming.

00:10:32.160 And that was something you didn't even get a chance to bring up because it hadn't, in

00:10:35.340 essence, happened yet.

00:10:36.620 That's exactly right.

00:10:38.260 And I mean, I still can't wrap my head around this.

00:10:42.420 You have him apologizing for, quote, mislabeling her murderer.

00:10:48.780 But not only did he not take that opportunity to correct her name, but the reporter didn't

00:10:58.000 even ask him.

00:10:59.700 I mean, think about that, Ted.

00:11:00.980 This shows they have an agenda.

00:11:02.780 They don't care about the things that they should.

00:11:07.580 Yeah.

00:11:08.060 So that interview is Jonathan Capehart.

00:11:10.340 It's on MSNBC.

00:11:12.180 And that exchange, it makes my blood boil.

00:11:15.660 Number one, his little aside saying they built this country.

00:11:19.240 No, Joe, illegal immigrants did not build the United States of America. 1.00

00:11:22.600 That is utter and complete garbage. 1.00

00:11:24.660 But number two, think about the priorities. 0.81

00:11:29.700 He comes off of, and I got to say, I think there are now two images that sum up the 2024

00:11:37.060 election.

00:11:38.680 Number one, there is the image of the illegal immigrants in New York City who beat up two

00:11:42.940 New York cops, were arrested, were released without bail, and they came out with both hands

00:11:48.300 flipping the bird at everyone.

00:11:50.860 And that image, flipping the bird, right and left hand, is what Joe Biden and the Democrats

00:11:56.940 are saying to the American people.

00:11:58.300 That's image number one.

00:11:59.880 And image number two is the contrast, right after the State of the Union, of Donald Trump

00:12:05.240 with Lake and Riley's family hugging his mother.

00:12:08.160 Bingo.

00:12:08.660 Which is actually what someone who's a president who gives a damn about the American people,

00:12:13.520 who, like, is siding with our families, our moms, our kids, and simultaneously Joe Biden

00:12:21.860 is on MSNBC apologizing because he referred to this murderer as an illegal.

00:12:28.600 Well, you know what? 0.82

00:12:29.600 He is an illegal. 0.98

00:12:30.680 He's an illegal and a murderer, and he never should have killed Lake and Riley. 0.99

00:12:35.400 Look at me now. 0.99

00:12:35.880 I'm using Joe Biden's phrase.

00:12:37.100 He never should have killed Lake and Riley.

00:12:39.220 And the only reason he was free to do so is because Joe Biden chose to let him go.

00:12:44.540 And not only that, Sanctuary City, New York City, let him go again.

00:12:48.560 And that is why that beautiful 22-year-old woman is dead now. 0.98

00:12:52.580 That's it.

00:12:53.420 And too, like, when you hear him do that, and you can't help but be enraged that not

00:13:00.300 only that this is what our president of the United States is choosing to focus on, but

00:13:03.840 then the media doesn't hold him accountable.

00:13:05.440 But I think people should see we have a very clear choice in November, and this says it

00:13:11.640 all.

00:13:12.360 You said it, Ted.

00:13:13.560 You have President Biden over here apologizing for mislabeling her murderer, and then you

00:13:20.500 have President Trump embracing her family.

00:13:23.860 And I think that is all Americans need to know.

00:13:26.420 The choice is clear.

00:13:27.460 We need President Trump back.

00:13:27.920 Which side are you on?

00:13:28.640 Exactly.

00:13:29.020 Which side are you on?

00:13:29.560 Bingo.

00:13:29.660 And that's your choice. 0.97

00:13:30.860 And if you side with illegal alien murderers, well, you probably should vote for Joe Biden.

00:13:36.260 If those are your peeps, if that's where your allegiance is.

00:13:39.280 By the way, MSNBC, CNN, they're all voting for Joe Biden because their allegiance is actually 0.72

00:13:44.000 with illegal alien murderers.

00:13:45.840 And by the way, you know, not only did Joe Biden not properly say Lakin Riley's name, he

00:13:51.980 didn't say Jeremy Caceres's name either.

00:13:53.780 Jeremy Caceres, beautiful two-year-old boy, murdered in Prince George's County, Maryland,

00:13:59.120 just a couple of weeks ago, again by another illegal alien Joe Biden released.

00:14:03.440 He didn't mention any of the American, of the teenagers who have been violently raped 0.95

00:14:08.620 by illegal immigrants. 0.89

00:14:10.040 He takes no responsibility for his own culpability.

00:14:14.200 And it is, you really couldn't ask for a clear contrast.

00:14:17.260 No, you couldn't.

00:14:17.960 And then also you think about fentanyl poisonings, and you think about the decisions that have

00:14:21.540 been made.

00:14:22.040 They are all his.

00:14:22.860 He inherited the most secure border that our country has had.

00:14:26.520 And then he chose to halt deportations.

00:14:29.480 He chose to stop construction of the border wall.

00:14:32.740 He, I mean, he chose to say, I'm going to give amnesty to millions.

00:14:36.260 This is the thing that was so frustrating about the liberal media.

00:14:39.540 It's like these policies and then the 94 executive orders in the first 100 days are acting as magnets,

00:14:45.140 Ted.

00:14:45.860 There he is saying, come on.

00:14:47.660 And he is putting every one of those men, women, and children in harm's way.

00:14:51.060 Their cartels are using them in multiple ways.

00:14:55.520 You know, we've talked about some of the horrific things that are happening to them on their way

00:14:59.260 here when they get here.

00:15:00.720 It is mind boggling.

00:15:02.480 It is a not only national security crisis, but a humanitarian crisis that no reporter is

00:15:08.900 telling.

00:15:09.240 You know, and they're choosing, you focused earlier, you said, you know, about sex trafficking.

00:15:14.180 They're not telling the story of human trafficking and what's happening under him.

00:15:18.340 Well, and you and I have both looked in the eyes of women and children who have been brutally

00:15:25.160 sexually assaulted by these human traffickers.

00:15:27.500 And when you see the pain, the agony, it sticks with you. 0.98

00:15:33.460 It haunts you.

00:15:34.860 Absolutely.

00:15:35.440 And this is happening day after day after day.

00:15:37.880 And I got to say, you know, Katie, just listening to you talk about this, you're making far too much sense.

00:15:43.140 What you said is incredibly reasonable. 0.98

00:15:45.300 So that means necessarily you're crazy.

00:15:47.440 I'm sorry, but those are the rules. 0.90

00:15:49.180 Right.

00:15:49.620 And if you're making sense, you've got to be cuckoo as Cocoa Pops.

00:15:53.260 You've got to be.

00:15:54.420 And I guess, you know, when you get in the arena, which the irony is in my remarks, you

00:16:00.300 know, I wanted to leave people with hope, Ted, because I believe that I believe in the people

00:16:06.760 of this nation.

00:16:08.280 And I believe in what we're built on and wanted to encourage everyone to get in the arena because

00:16:15.500 that's what we need them to do because we are literally fighting for the heart and soul

00:16:19.780 of our nation.

00:16:20.500 We are fighting for the future for our children.

00:16:23.260 And we need everybody stepping up.

00:16:25.220 So I said, you know, get in the arena.

00:16:26.620 Well, I found out real quick that I am in the arena.

00:16:29.180 And when you're in the arena, you get arrows.

00:16:32.320 But it's worth it.

00:16:33.560 If you're fighting for what families need, you're being a voice for the voiceless.

00:16:38.060 Amen.

00:16:38.920 Then I'll take those arrows, Ted, all day long, because that is what we're going to have to

00:16:46.300 do in order to get this country back on track and speak truth to power.

00:16:50.740 And we found out where the power is.

00:16:51.900 It's in the media.

00:16:52.820 And they want to silence anyone who doesn't think just like them.

00:16:57.340 And to use a military analogy, if you're not taking flack, you're not over the target.

00:17:01.640 There you go.

00:17:02.400 There is a reason they're coming after you.

00:17:04.780 And they tell you who they're afraid of.

00:17:06.900 So I would take, I was actually, I thought you did a terrific job, but I was actually

00:17:12.540 even happier with the job you did by seeing the freak out of the media.

00:17:17.180 That's right. 0.98

00:17:17.660 Because to be honest, if you'd sucked, they wouldn't have said anything. 0.98

00:17:21.380 If it were bad, they would have been like nothing to see here. 0.97

00:17:24.620 And so that they squeal this loudly tells you a great deal.

00:17:28.860 Well, and I do think you've got, here you have the president literally for an hour and

00:17:33.560 seven minutes, I guess is what you said it was, yelling and giving a political speech

00:17:39.700 in a space where he's supposed to be bringing our country together.

00:17:42.380 Um, and then, you know, even, you know, as I mentioned, tried to leave the country with 0.56

00:17:49.000 hope because I believe in our nation.

00:17:51.440 And I said, our, the, our nation's history is written with the grit and men, the grit of

00:17:56.820 men and women who got knocked down, but we know their stories because they did not stay

00:18:01.320 down.

00:18:01.780 We are here because they stood back up.

00:18:06.040 And this is one of those moments where I'm just going to have to stand back up because

00:18:10.160 this fight is worth fighting.

00:18:11.480 And, and we have got, every voice has got to be lifted loud because there are people

00:18:16.440 that are counting on us, whether it is what's happening at our border, whether it is families

00:18:21.260 that literally cannot make ends meet.

00:18:23.300 I don't think, and I said this in my remarks as well, but I mean, I actually drove carpool

00:18:29.140 the day that I gave the state of the union response.

00:18:31.740 So I was in, in.

00:18:33.780 That is, that is so awesome.

00:18:35.580 Well, you know, actually you and Biden have something in common because he was actually hanging

00:18:40.640 outside of a junior high that day too.

00:18:43.260 Oh, I needed that.

00:18:44.540 I'm going to get in trouble for that comment.

00:18:46.520 That, that one, Ben, am I allowed to say that?

00:18:50.000 I don't know.

00:18:50.720 We'll find out.

00:18:51.460 That's, that's your headline, right?

00:18:55.060 So you really drove carpool that day.

00:18:57.100 That is actually very cool.

00:18:58.440 I literally drove carpool that day.

00:18:59.920 To or from school or both?

00:19:01.000 Both.

00:19:01.360 Both.

00:19:01.820 I did both.

00:19:02.500 And so when I was in pickup line, actually the, uh, the head of the middle school was

00:19:07.180 like, what are you doing?

00:19:08.640 She had the little, um, you know, the little walkie talkie and she, you know, was, and I

00:19:13.440 said, I need, you know, I need Ridgeway.

00:19:15.320 And she was like, what are you doing?

00:19:16.900 I was like, I'm running carpool.

00:19:18.860 Um, so ran carpool, did all the things, but you think about like, when's the last time

00:19:23.300 he did something like that?

00:19:24.720 When's the last time you went to the grocery store and saw that eggs are like off the charts

00:19:28.860 and the price of meat and milk and all of the things.

00:19:32.320 And when's the last time he went and filled up his car with gas?

00:19:34.780 Because I promise you, it just gets more and more and more.

00:19:38.420 And you think this man is trying to make us energy dependent.

00:19:41.660 That's not fair.

00:19:42.420 He went to the store and he brought, bought buttermilk and molasses from corn pop.

00:19:47.800 Oh, you know what?

00:19:49.160 And so, so he, he understands.

00:19:51.940 I think he maybe went to something or maybe when he went to his beach retreat, uh, he had

00:19:56.500 someone run to the store for him.

00:19:57.840 But, uh, but seriously, you know, and you think about, and I, you know, when I go walking

00:20:02.320 with my friends in the morning and I listen to the things they're concerned about, you know,

00:20:06.980 this is what people want a voice to.

00:20:09.600 And so if bringing a voice to that, if I get some flack for it and, you know, obviously,

00:20:15.400 uh, you know, gave passionate remarks.

00:20:18.180 Um, but I think that the response.

00:20:21.220 Never apologize for being passionate.

00:20:22.840 That's for sure.

00:20:23.820 That's right.

00:20:24.560 It's like, it's worth it.

00:20:25.760 You know, it's worth it.

00:20:26.920 The people are worth it.

00:20:28.120 Worth fighting for.

00:20:29.060 And I'm going to keep doing it.

00:20:30.060 And I, and the, Hey, and the more they try to silence me, which by the way, they're doing

00:20:33.340 quite a bit right now.

00:20:34.340 It's a, I had to give a speech this morning, Ted, and I walk up there and you can tell everybody

00:20:39.200 is just kind of like on edge, right?

00:20:41.740 Because they're thinking she has just been plummeted for the last solid four days.

00:20:46.760 And we've seen her and, uh, in a number of memes and this and that.

00:20:51.380 And, um, I think, you know, the, the scary mom one was also a good one because I thought,

00:20:56.960 you know what, that means they really are afraid because everybody knows when your mom

00:21:01.080 goes into scary mom mode, like get out of the way because stuff's about to get done.

00:21:06.500 Do you know what I mean?

00:21:07.440 I know exactly what you mean.

00:21:08.700 I mean, just don't move over because we're about to take care of business, right?

00:21:13.340 Look, and, and, and you know what?

00:21:15.380 There are a lot of moms in America who are pissed off at everything that's happening and 1.00

00:21:19.360 you gave voice to that.

00:21:21.140 And it wasn't the, the angry, bitter way that Biden did it, but it was, if you're paying

00:21:28.320 attention, you ought to be upset.

00:21:30.760 Listen, if you were Lake and Riley's mom, like, like imagine number one, the grief and

00:21:37.780 agony you feel, but imagine the fury you feel that this was unnecessary and, and it's a result

00:21:44.060 of a political agenda that said your family doesn't matter.

00:21:48.280 And by the way, the next person murdered by an illegal alien that Joe Biden lets in, 0.98

00:21:53.620 they're going to feel the same way and they keep, they keep doing this.

00:21:57.360 And that's not who he's apologizing to.

00:21:59.640 And it made me so mad.

00:22:01.560 He stood up there and flippantly said that, said her name wrong.

00:22:04.680 You know, it just, it, I thought you have got as a mom. 1.00

00:22:08.340 And by the way, his response, he said, well, she was killed by an illegal, but how many are

00:22:13.700 killed by legals?

00:22:14.880 Now, what does that mean?

00:22:16.120 And of course, MSNBC didn't ask about that.

00:22:18.980 How many are killed by legals?

00:22:20.580 So what you're saying is that your crime policy is terrible also, and there's lots of murders.

00:22:24.400 Yeah, I agree with that.

00:22:25.760 Also that.

00:22:26.320 But, but that's not much of a defense. 0.91

00:22:28.540 Well, gosh, we're killing even more Americans. 0.74

00:22:30.520 That, that, that is, and of course, no scrutiny from, from the corporate media on anything.

00:22:35.720 None.

00:22:35.820 And he also, he's killing the American dream because he's continuing to put Americans last.

00:22:42.340 And you, we, only thing we can ask for is an opportunity to achieve, opportunity to try

00:22:47.520 and fail.

00:22:48.100 And you look at him and he continues to put policies in place that, that limit anyone's

00:22:54.840 ability to, to, to, to try and achieve because he's prioritizing a liberal agenda above, above

00:23:03.680 that.

00:23:04.060 I mean, it's everything from energy to the border, to, to prices.

00:23:08.780 I mean, that's one thing, Ted, like I'm on the banking committee and I cannot believe the

00:23:14.380 agenda in the financial sector.

00:23:17.180 I mean, all of the ESG and the D, I mean, it just, it is tremendous.

00:23:21.780 So I feel like at every turn we are having to fight to preserve what I know this nation

00:23:26.780 was founded on and to try to preserve it for our kids.

00:23:30.200 And it's worth it.

00:23:31.500 So, um, so I've had a little fun with it.

00:23:33.800 Like I said, this morning, when I got up to give that, those remarks, everyone was on

00:23:37.080 edge.

00:23:37.400 And I said, Hey guys, I, uh, haven't, haven't had access, uh, to, uh, Twitter.

00:23:43.700 Is there anything going on that I need to know about?

00:23:45.820 And the whole, the whole crowd, uh, whole crowd started, started laughing, but have, have

00:23:50.800 had a little bit of fun with that.

00:23:52.120 Laughter gets you through everything.

00:23:53.440 It does.

00:23:53.920 It does.

00:23:54.480 It absolutely does.

00:23:55.420 So as before, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic, you can go

00:24:01.120 back and download the podcast from early this week to hear the entire thing.

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00:24:36.620 I want to get back to the big story.

00:24:39.060 Number three of the week.

00:24:39.980 You may have missed.

00:24:41.000 You mentioned you watching that video.

00:24:43.420 I last week was asked to go to the Israeli console and, and have a meeting and an update

00:24:49.900 on what's happening right now, specifically with the number of people that are still being

00:24:56.440 held hostage as we speak.

00:24:59.720 And, and there was a book that we were able to, to look at and see the faces of the people

00:25:05.640 that are still being held hostage that you hope are alive, that you know are being kept

00:25:11.080 in unimaginable conditions and we know that they have tortured and raped and killed many

00:25:19.740 of the hostages.

00:25:21.500 But when you look at these pictures, Senator, and, and you, you and I have talked about what

00:25:25.320 that video looked like that you saw, you look at these people and I, it is sad to me that the

00:25:31.680 media has not done a better job of, of humanizing.

00:25:34.300 There were people in their upper eighties who couldn't defend themselves against being

00:25:40.560 abducted on that day.

00:25:42.100 There were infants and toddlers murdered and raped. 0.81

00:25:50.240 Yeah.

00:25:50.940 And, and, and there was the elderly that couldn't defend themselves or even get out of their 0.99

00:25:55.000 wheelchair.

00:25:55.640 I mean, they were at the mercy of the attackers and you look at the people that they took

00:26:00.040 hostage.

00:26:00.540 They wanted nobody in Israel to ever feel safe again. 0.63

00:26:06.800 That's part of the terrorism of that day.

00:26:09.660 They wanted everyone to feel like they could be next and that they were coming for them

00:26:14.800 as well.

00:26:15.480 Like you said, whether it's toddlers in their cribs or a, or a 90 year old great, great

00:26:20.340 grandmother, they, this was psychological warfare on the most grotesque and horrific level.

00:26:27.220 And it was preplanned and orchestrated.

00:26:30.100 It wasn't one madman.

00:26:31.560 This was a terrorist organization that used countless warriors to do this.

00:26:37.900 Well, and, and, and understand that's not one isolated event.

00:26:42.540 Chuck Schumer's disgraceful speech is not one isolated event.

00:26:46.700 This is comprehensive throughout the Biden administration and throughout congressional Democrats.

00:26:52.760 Just in the last 24 hours, Joe Biden and Biden administrations, they gave Iran a $10 billion

00:27:00.640 sanctions waiver.

00:27:02.640 Also in the last 24 hours.

00:27:04.140 Explain that, by the way, because it sounds complicated, but I really think it's important

00:27:07.880 that we explain this.

00:27:09.180 What does that mean?

00:27:09.800 Because we already given them billions in actual cash.

00:27:12.160 So I will, but I want to underscore just what's happened in the last 24 hours.

00:27:17.300 In the last 24 hours, they gave Iran a $10 billion sanctions waiver.

00:27:21.780 They also, the Biden administration directly sanctioned Israeli Jews.

00:27:26.620 They also said Israel's top priority should be aiding Gazans, and the majority leader of the Senate

00:27:35.560 demanded the overthrow of Israel's democratically elected government in the middle of a war.

00:27:42.560 All of that happened within 24 hours.

00:27:44.620 Now you ask, what happened with the sanctions?

00:27:46.900 Well, the Biden administration on Wednesday re-approved a sanctions waiver that unlocks $10 billion

00:27:55.940 in frozen funds for the Iranian government, and this was according to a notice submitted

00:28:02.320 to Congress late Wednesday.

00:28:04.900 The sanctions waiver allows Iraq to transfer electricity payments to Iran via third-party

00:28:12.260 countries.

00:28:12.880 The sanctions waiver was last approved by the Biden administration in November, and it was

00:28:17.980 set to expire this month, but they just reissued that waiver.

00:28:23.100 So get this, Iran funded Hamas.

00:28:29.060 90% of Hamas is funded by Iran.

00:28:31.780 Iran funds Hezbollah.

00:28:33.400 90% of Hezbollah is funded by Iran.

00:28:36.220 Iran is actively attacking ships.

00:28:40.620 Iran is funding the Houthis.

00:28:42.880 Iran is attacking American soldiers. 0.95

00:28:45.340 And what does Joe Biden do?

00:28:46.820 He gives Iran $10 billion.

00:28:49.480 And that is this week after October 7th, after Americans have been targeted over and over

00:28:55.940 and over again.

00:28:57.460 Let me ask you this seriously, Ben.

00:28:59.540 How does one even mount an argument that giving $10 billion to an Ayatollah who repeatedly chants 0.74

00:29:08.380 death to America is in any way, shape, or form in the interest of the United States of America?

00:29:15.000 Yeah.

00:29:16.400 It's not, and yet that's exactly what they're doing.

00:29:19.160 And understand also that the antipathy to Israel and to Netanyahu, it's not new.

00:29:28.540 Look, when Netanyahu was elected, Biden refused to call him.

00:29:34.740 It took enormous public pressure for him to call him.

00:29:38.420 Biden has still not welcomed Netanyahu to the White House.

00:29:41.720 He said Netanyahu is not welcome in the Biden White House.

00:29:45.660 Mind you, this was long before October 7th.

00:29:48.000 This was long before his alleged concerns about Gaza.

00:29:51.740 And contrast that to how Biden treats Lula.

00:29:56.940 Lula is an anti-American, pro-Iran thug, the leader of Brazil.

00:30:03.260 When Lula was elected, Biden called him immediately. 0.55

00:30:07.900 He congratulated him.

00:30:08.920 He invited Lula to the White House.

00:30:11.020 Enemies of America.

00:30:12.140 Here's what Biden tweeted when Lula was at the White House.

00:30:15.660 It was great sitting down with my friend and partner in democracy.

00:30:19.540 It is bizarre.

00:30:22.340 Wow.

00:30:22.720 If you're an enemy of America, Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer, they like you.

00:30:28.840 And if you are a friend of America, especially if you are Israel, they actively undermine you at every step. 0.99

00:30:37.580 Final question on this for you.

00:30:39.960 I believe this is not just should be one of the top issues of this election cycle coming up.

00:30:47.680 I actually believe this is one of the top issues of our lifetime.

00:30:53.200 How do conservative candidates explain this and do a better job of explaining the history of Israel?

00:31:02.340 Especially because if you look at the polling, it's so concerning to me how many people, 35 and under, are standing now with terrorists over Israel.

00:31:12.640 We've got to change the conversation to let them understand this.

00:31:17.800 How did we lose so easily, so quickly, an entire generation to stand with Israel instead of standing with the terrorists? 0.80

00:31:24.740 And what do candidates need to do and how do they need to talk about this?

00:31:29.160 So how did we lose?

00:31:30.100 We lost the universities.

00:31:31.360 We lost K through 12.

00:31:32.800 We lost the media.

00:31:34.240 We lost entertainment.

00:31:35.460 We lost social media.

00:31:36.560 Young people are barraged with propaganda, and the propaganda is telling them lies.

00:31:43.700 Look, I was just a couple of days ago in the airport.

00:31:47.720 I was standing in Chicago getting on a plane to fly back to D.C., and this young leftist began berating me and filming.

00:31:55.180 And it's interesting.

00:31:55.660 He hadn't put it online.

00:31:56.460 I really actually hope he puts it online.

00:31:58.380 But berating me, saying, why do you stand for genocide?

00:32:01.740 Why do you stand for Israel committing genocide? 0.99

00:32:04.040 And I happily engaged him, and I said, I stand unequivocally with Israel and understand you are on the side of murderers and terrorists who torture and rape little children and who rape women. 0.99

00:32:19.200 You are standing on the side of evil, and Israel is right to utterly defeat Hamas because they are evil. 0.98

00:32:26.960 And he just kept going on and on and on and about, no, no, no.

00:32:31.380 And he said, all of that has been debunked.

00:32:33.800 This was a guy, I don't know, he was about 25 years old.

00:32:36.320 He was a young leftist who said it's been debunked.

00:32:39.240 October 7th, that Hamas committed those murders and rapes he claimed has been debunked.

00:32:45.000 And I said, you know, I'm really sorry that you're a young man who's just been lied to and deluded.

00:32:49.960 I said, I've seen the videos.

00:32:52.500 I saw what happened that day.

00:32:55.140 But he happily believes it, and I couldn't help but turn to him and say, you know, I have to assume if this were World War II, you'd be rooting for the Nazis. 0.90

00:33:07.280 And he got offended at that, and he said, I'm actually Jewish American.

00:33:11.240 And I just shook my head and walked away.

00:33:13.200 But there are people, there are young people, who've just been lied to. 0.99

00:33:19.360 They're ignorant, and they have been buffeted with propaganda. 0.88

00:33:25.580 Look, it's one of the reasons for this podcast, is we're trying to give people the truth. 0.99

00:33:33.080 It is, the lines here, this is not gray, it is black and white.

00:33:40.100 But between genocidal mass murderers and people defending innocent civilians, you shouldn't be on the fence with which one you stand.

00:33:51.180 You shouldn't be seeking some moral relativity of, well, they're both in the wrong.

00:33:56.500 No, no, there is nothing good, there is nothing redeemable about people who murder little children, who kidnap little children, who rape women, who do it in a degrading, animalistic way.

00:34:09.140 That is who Hamas is, and Israel has every right to defend itself. 1.00

00:34:14.880 And I got to say, it really, it worries me.

00:34:21.960 To the best of my knowledge, I have not seen a single Democrat senator denounce what Chuck Schumer did yesterday.

00:34:29.640 Maybe it's happened and I haven't seen it.

00:34:31.540 Yeah, which is really sad.

00:34:33.000 Not one.

00:34:35.620 And so, and listen, I know a lot of people who are voters that still want to vote Democrat and they have other issues they care about and they think about and they try to rationalize.

00:34:47.120 No, it's just AOC.

00:34:48.840 It's just Omar.

00:34:49.800 It's just the squad.

00:34:50.660 But this was the Democratic leader in the United States Senate.

00:34:57.620 And by the way, it was Joe Biden.

00:35:00.820 So Joe Biden, who just gave $10 billion to Iran now after October 7th.

00:35:07.760 And I mentioned a minute ago the sanctions on Israel.

00:35:10.160 Yesterday, the Biden administration put even more sanctions, but they only applied it to Jews.

00:35:19.380 They sanctioned four Jews yesterday.

00:35:21.540 And I recently questioned Biden's nominee to be sanctions are.

00:35:25.760 And he's been in charge of sanctions.

00:35:28.000 And there was an executive order that is essentially targeting Jews.

00:35:31.680 And he claimed, and basically, they want to make it illegal to be Jewish and living in Judea and Samara.

00:35:39.700 And he said, well, no, no, no, it doesn't target Jews.

00:35:43.300 And so I asked him, I said, well, have you sanctioned any Palestinians who are supporting terrorism in the West Bank?

00:35:50.060 And he said, well, no, they haven't.

00:35:52.100 And then after the hearing, you walked out and they sanctioned even more Jews. 0.89

00:35:55.680 This is prevalent throughout the administration, and it is becoming the position of congressional Democrats.

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - March 16, 2024

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