Verdict with Ted Cruz - March 09, 2026


Big Victories in Iran, More Risks of Terrorism at Home and Tucker & Dems Both Attack Trump


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Ted Cruz and Ben Fergusons discuss the latest on Iran and the impact of the Iran military strike on Iran's ability to launch missiles and drones, and how the strikes have changed the trajectory of the conflict in the Middle East.

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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00:00:04.800 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you,
00:00:07.980 and it's nice to have you with us around the country.
00:00:10.020 We've got a lot to talk about, including the latest on Operation Epic Fury.
00:00:15.400 This regime is being really just decapitated in Iran, Senator,
00:00:20.920 and this is good news when it comes to national security.
00:00:23.700 Well, that's exactly right.
00:00:24.760 We're seeing extraordinary results in terms of the military conflict with Iran
00:00:28.840 and the efficacy with which this attack is removing the regime's ability
00:00:34.780 to launch missiles, to launch drones.
00:00:36.980 Let me give you the numbers because the numbers are really striking.
00:00:39.700 So on day one of this conflict, Iran launched 350 missiles, ballistic missiles.
00:00:45.020 On day two, it dropped to 175.
00:00:47.840 On day three, it dropped to 120.
00:00:50.280 On day four, it dropped to 50.
00:00:52.080 On day five, it dropped to 40.
00:00:53.580 On day six, it dropped to 32.
00:00:55.240 On day seven, it dropped to 28.
00:00:57.560 And on day eight, it dropped all the way down to 15.
00:01:00.980 So they went from 350 ballistic missiles launched a day to just 15 launched a day.
00:01:07.600 How about drone swarms?
00:01:09.020 Same pattern.
00:01:10.420 Day one, 294.
00:01:12.840 Day two, 541.
00:01:15.240 So they surged on day two.
00:01:17.080 Day three, 200.
00:01:19.300 Day four, 85.
00:01:21.740 Day five, 45.
00:01:23.940 Day six, 38.
00:01:25.520 Day seven, 30.
00:01:28.060 And day eight, 12.
00:01:30.020 So what that means is that our forces have systematically taken out, number one, their air defenses.
00:01:35.700 Number two, we've taken out their missile launch sites and their drone launch sites.
00:01:40.540 Most of their missile launch sites are mobile.
00:01:42.380 So what happens is when they launch from a mobile missile launcher, we lock onto it and take that launcher out.
00:01:48.640 And we've done that systemically.
00:01:50.920 Now, early on, we were using smart bombs and guided missiles.
00:01:54.860 That's very expensive munitions.
00:01:56.400 And you saw in the first few days of this conflict a lot written saying that the rate at which we're using munitions is not sustainable.
00:02:03.160 Well, the plan was never to use smart munitions for the entire duration of the conflict.
00:02:09.480 Rather, the plan was to use it to take out both their defensive capacity and their offensive capacity.
00:02:14.880 We've done that now.
00:02:16.020 Now, having achieved air superiority, we're able to use gravity bombs.
00:02:23.600 We're able to use munitions, which we have vast quantities of and which are much, much less expensive.
00:02:28.820 In other words, President Trump and the military has achieved total air dominance, has all but eliminated their ability to launch ballistic missiles and drones, and meanwhile, has achieved naval dominance as well, taking out most of the ships in their navy.
00:02:47.940 That level of control has put us in a position where we're seeing extraordinary success.
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00:03:55.480 You talk about this extraordinary success, and it's something that I think so many Americans have been concerned over what this means at home.
00:04:05.260 You look at gas prices, for example, and let's talk about that for a moment.
00:04:08.700 The president has said, and many that are analysts, military and say, look, if this is a short-term thing, this is going to be a short-term pain.
00:04:16.300 And what you gain is massive compared to that in the future because this is how much Iran could hold the world hostage. 0.99
00:04:23.500 Look at this, what has happened here recently.
00:04:25.280 And these prices have obviously jumped significantly.
00:04:28.320 The president has made it clear he thinks this is going to be a short-term event, and we're not invading.
00:04:33.360 We are going after regime change, and then things will go back to normal.
00:04:36.760 20% of the oil's world supply goes through the Strait of Hormuz.
00:04:40.920 That's another part of this and the calculation here.
00:04:43.280 So break that down a little bit so people understand.
00:04:46.040 Yeah, I think that's right.
00:04:46.880 We have seen an energy spike, and any time there's a conflict in the Middle East, you typically see oil prices spike and gasoline prices spike.
00:04:54.920 My expectation is that will be a short-term spike.
00:04:57.800 I don't expect this conflict to last more than a couple of weeks, and I think you'll see gasoline prices drop back down.
00:05:05.020 And I will note President Trump has a lot of credibility on this.
00:05:07.820 When he came in, we were seeing gasoline prices across the country.
00:05:11.120 In some places, $6, $7 a gallon, and those prices have dropped all but in half.
00:05:17.120 In Texas, you could routinely buy a gallon of gas for between $2 and $3 a gallon.
00:05:22.300 And so that has been very effective.
00:05:25.880 I also want to make a broader point about analyzing the energy component of what's going on.
00:05:32.360 And there was a Twitter thread by this analyst named Guy Lahren, who is not a fan of Trump's,
00:05:39.900 but I think actually his analysis of the energy policy in the Middle East was very insightful, so I want to share it with you.
00:05:45.640 So he asks,
00:05:46.980 Now, I don't agree with the evil characterization there, but the rest of this analysis is quite insightful.
00:06:07.980 So he continues,
00:06:37.980 That means that the Iranians read Trump differently than the Western media does.
00:06:50.780 They don't think he's after regime change or democracy.
00:06:54.000 They think he's after oil.
00:06:56.500 They might be right.
00:06:58.000 NBC reported that Trump outlined to his aides his vision for a post-war Iran.
00:07:02.400 A new Iranian regime cooperates on oil production similar to how the U.S. and Venezuela are.
00:07:09.900 The Venezuela template? 0.76
00:07:11.640 Out of Trump's own mouth.
00:07:14.100 AEI's Michael Rubin, a former advisor to the George W. Bush administration,
00:07:18.360 who is in direct contact with the Trump advisors, is pushing the same logic.
00:07:23.320 Referring to the Revolutionary Guards, he says,
00:07:25.400 If they can't sell their own oil, they can't make payroll.
00:07:31.220 Meaning, that if the U.S. seizes CARG, it doesn't need regime change.
00:07:36.760 It directly controls Iran's most important source of income.
00:07:41.020 Everything the U.S. and Israel has done so far fits this strategy.
00:07:44.900 First, quote,
00:07:45.640 Now, to whom do you delegate?
00:07:56.840 The answer isn't clear yet.
00:07:58.700 So the U.S. is reportedly encouraging Kurdish rebellion in the north of the country,
00:08:03.520 forcing Iran to send forces upwards and thin out their defenses in the south, where CARG is.
00:08:09.880 Meanwhile, the U.S. has systematically destroyed the Iranian Navy,
00:08:13.360 operations reaching as far as Sri Lanka, where an Iranian warship was intercepted.
00:08:19.600 Southern Iran is being pummeled.
00:08:22.440 These aren't random.
00:08:24.020 They are clearing the operational space for a naval seizure of CARG.
00:08:28.200 Ian Bremmer captures the military logic precisely.
00:08:32.220 The CARG island isn't extensively fortified,
00:08:35.200 and sits isolated enough that the U.S. destroyers could establish a credible defensive perimeter well offshore.
00:08:41.660 The U.S. is also preparing to escort tanker convoys through the Strait of Hormuz,
00:08:48.420 and seeking financial mechanisms to insure ships after Lloyd's pulled out.
00:08:53.700 These services aren't free.
00:08:55.380 In practice, the U.S. would control the straits, the jugular of global energy trade.
00:09:01.680 China can't respond militarily.
00:09:03.420 Finally, it prepared its navy to defend the Strait of Malacca, its other vulnerability.
00:09:10.420 Approximately 80% of China's imported crude oil,
00:09:13.880 and nearly two-thirds of its total maritime trade,
00:09:17.360 pass through the Strait of Malacca.
00:09:19.960 Having the U.S. control the Persian Gulf, 0.93
00:09:22.040 from which China imports roughly half its crude and a third of its gas,
00:09:26.900 is a strategic catastrophe for Beijing.
00:09:29.900 Beijing, the alternative?
00:09:32.460 Deeper dependence on Russian energy,
00:09:35.000 practically natural gas from Siberia,
00:09:37.940 which is exactly what Beijing loathes.
00:09:41.500 It does not want to be dependent on the transactional Putin.
00:09:46.060 Step back.
00:09:47.220 Greenland, Panama, Venezuela, now the Persian Gulf.
00:09:52.420 Trump isn't leading the world through alliances and institutions.
00:09:55.180 He's seizing nodes, the choke points and resource pools that make the world and AI run.
00:10:02.340 Whether it works or not, this is a coherent imperial strategy.
00:10:07.040 Now, I've got to say, I don't agree with every word of that,
00:10:09.680 but that is very insightful analysis and helps you understand
00:10:14.640 why the American success in Iran, it's critically important to our safety,
00:10:19.220 and the principal reason for going in is to keep Americans safe
00:10:22.120 from Iranian terrorism and aggression.
00:10:25.080 But it is also a very, very powerful China play,
00:10:29.920 enhancing U.S. economic security and national security.
00:10:33.520 You know, one of the things you mentioned there is what Americans worry about,
00:10:37.440 and you go back to just some of the headlines that we're seeing right now.
00:10:41.520 One of them out of New York,
00:10:43.040 there was an arrest made after a homemade explosive caused terror scare in New York City.
00:10:46.920 This device that was hurled at Gracie,
00:10:51.300 I mean, it's a protest determined to be highly dangerous IED capable of serious injury or death.
00:10:56.800 People see this like, well, maybe, and again, I think it's important that we deal with this.
00:11:01.060 They say, well, this is why maybe we shouldn't have gone after Iran.
00:11:04.700 I think that's flawed logic to think that way.
00:11:07.260 These threats are threats whether we got there or not,
00:11:09.680 and I don't think there's a direct cause and effect.
00:11:12.420 I think there are bad people in the world that want to commit heinous crimes,
00:11:15.580 and their timing may change because of what we did in Iran.
00:11:18.320 But if you're a terrorist in this country,
00:11:20.040 the guy in this country through the open borders,
00:11:21.640 or however you got in here,
00:11:23.380 and you're planning something or trying to do something,
00:11:27.420 I think it's in your DNA based on your beliefs.
00:11:29.840 You're going to do it no matter what.
00:11:31.680 Well, and look, this vulnerability is here
00:11:33.740 because for four years, Joe Biden, the Democrats opened up our borders
00:11:36.980 and basically invited radical Islamic terrorists to come to this country.
00:11:41.160 If you look at what happened in New York, 0.74
00:11:43.380 New York, you had Islamists throwing dangerous IEDs capable of serious injury or death. 0.96
00:11:53.060 And, you know, ask yourself, in the reporting on this,
00:11:56.740 have you seen a single news report mention
00:11:59.420 that the jihadists who threw the nail bomb into a crowd in New York City
00:12:04.880 repeatedly shouted, Allahu Akbar?
00:12:08.700 I haven't seen that.
00:12:09.520 I haven't seen that on CNN.
00:12:10.500 I haven't seen that on MSNBC or the New York Times.
00:12:13.640 They don't want to cover that.
00:12:15.440 And to be clear, we saw the same thing in Austin a week ago
00:12:19.460 when the terrorists there wearing a sweatshirt that said property of Allah,
00:12:24.520 wearing a t-shirt with an Iranian flag,
00:12:27.240 attacked a bar on 6th Street in Austin.
00:12:30.080 And again, this is the terrorism,
00:12:32.760 the vulnerability that President Trump is acting to protect against.
00:12:36.920 But I've got to tell you, in the midst of this,
00:12:39.640 look, we have an enhanced risk for terrorism right now.
00:12:42.860 It is obvious.
00:12:45.020 Jihadist clerics have put out a fatwa calling on terrorists to try to kill Americans.
00:12:51.500 And in the middle of this, do you know what we did this week?
00:12:53.880 We voted again to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
00:12:56.280 And every Democrat except John Fetterman said,
00:12:59.420 no, we will not fund DHS.
00:13:02.700 The department literally created to defend us against terrorist attacks.
00:13:07.000 You mentioned that, and let's go into that a little bit more.
00:13:09.860 This is all about politics,
00:13:11.440 and it shouldn't be because this is about a national security issue.
00:13:14.720 And I think it's important that we take a moment and explain
00:13:17.320 exactly why Democrats have wanted to keep this shutdown going.
00:13:22.080 This is a partial government shutdown.
00:13:23.720 It's something they're obsessed with DHS.
00:13:25.600 They don't like it.
00:13:26.340 They don't like law and order.
00:13:27.280 They don't like ICE agents.
00:13:28.480 And they're putting our lives at risk,
00:13:30.160 and they don't really seem to care that that's what they're doing.
00:13:32.580 They don't, and understand it's all empty politics appealing to their radical base.
00:13:38.140 So the Democrats have decided they hate ICE.
00:13:40.920 They are the party of illegal immigrants, 1.00
00:13:42.640 and they are opposed to ICE.
00:13:45.100 They are opposed to law enforcement.
00:13:46.780 They are opposed to police.
00:13:48.420 Now, their DHS shutdown,
00:13:50.940 do you know how many ICE agents are not being paid because of it?
00:13:54.000 How many?
00:13:54.880 Zero.
00:13:55.540 They are not defunding ICE.
00:13:56.680 They are failing miserably in any effort to defund ICE.
00:14:00.540 Why?
00:14:01.380 Because last year when we passed the Working Families Tax Cut,
00:14:04.440 the big reconciliation bill,
00:14:06.460 we funded ICE. 1.00
00:14:07.560 We knew the Democrats would play stupid games with it, 1.00
00:14:09.980 so we said, fine, 1.00
00:14:10.660 we'll provide the funding for ICE.
00:14:12.600 So ICE agents are being paid.
00:14:14.080 The DHS shutdown is not cutting off even a penny for ICE.
00:14:18.640 The people they are cutting off,
00:14:20.740 they're cutting off the Coast Guard.
00:14:22.460 They're cutting off FEMA.
00:14:23.940 They're cutting off TSA.
00:14:25.020 Look, if you're flying a plane,
00:14:27.060 you can expect delays to begin getting longer and longer and longer
00:14:31.560 because those TSA agents that have to check you in,
00:14:34.460 right now they're showing up at work and they are not being paid.
00:14:37.540 I just got off a plane yesterday.
00:14:39.920 Thank the TSA agents who were there and they appreciated that,
00:14:43.880 but they said, you know, boy, it'd be nice to get paid.
00:14:46.320 And I agreed.
00:14:47.120 I said, it is utter BS.
00:14:48.760 I'm sorry about that.
00:14:50.180 You should be paid.
00:14:51.480 And I just apologize to them.
00:14:53.040 Although, to be clear, I'm voting to fund them.
00:14:55.420 But the Democrats are trying to ratchet up and inflict pain.
00:15:01.060 And they believe the media won't blame them.
00:15:03.640 When your flights are delayed, they believe the media won't blame them.
00:15:07.680 When Coast Guardsmen, you know, young men and women serving in the Coast Guard
00:15:11.680 don't have the money to pay their rent, don't have the money to pay their mortgage,
00:15:14.540 they believe the media won't blame them.
00:15:16.680 When FEMA, the people in charge of responding to disasters,
00:15:19.580 are not being paid and it slows down federal disaster response,
00:15:22.900 the Democrats believe the media will not blame them.
00:15:25.380 So this is entirely an effort to say screw you to ICE by not cutting out ICE funding
00:15:31.980 because they can't do that because Republicans already paid for ICE,
00:15:34.720 but instead cutting off the funding for the rest of DHS that exists principally
00:15:40.120 to stop terrorist attacks.
00:15:42.980 So they're telling you, I, Chuck Schumer, I, Democrat,
00:15:48.260 hate ICE and hate law enforcement so much
00:15:51.000 that I'm going to increase the chance of a terrorist attack in your community 0.98
00:15:55.800 just to tell the crazies in my party how much I hate ICE. 0.97
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00:16:16.080 I want to go back to something else that we also are seeing,
00:16:34.140 and it's not just these domestic terrorist attacks here
00:16:37.980 that may be inspired by what's happening,
00:16:39.920 but we're also now seeing this happen around the country.
00:16:42.680 Police are, or the world, I should say,
00:16:45.000 police are investigating an explosion outside the U.S. Embassy, for example, in Norway.
00:16:49.740 What can you tell us about that
00:16:51.180 and the concern that people have all over the world now
00:16:53.960 for what this, with the reactions happening from these Muslim extremists?
00:16:57.900 Well, Islamists are taking this time 1.00
00:17:01.520 to engage in acts of violence, acts of terrorism,
00:17:04.900 and we could expect to see more of this.
00:17:07.220 Now, understand, many of these Islamists have been funded by Iran for years, 0.73
00:17:11.740 and so they see their money stream, their money spigot being cut off,
00:17:15.660 but we need full capacity to protect ourselves at a time that is dangerous.
00:17:20.720 I believe what the Democrats are doing is reckless,
00:17:23.320 and I pray that it does not lead to it,
00:17:25.580 but the Democrats' action cutting off the funding for DHS
00:17:28.800 could very well cause more terrorist attack,
00:17:32.380 including potentially a catastrophic terrorist attack,
00:17:36.020 and I'm not aware of any of the Democrats
00:17:39.400 who is expressing any concern about this
00:17:41.660 or is willing to do anything about it.
00:17:43.980 Look, they might leave DHS shut down,
00:17:46.680 leave these people not paid for the rest of the year.
00:17:49.420 They are radical enough to do this,
00:17:51.580 and the media is complicit in it,
00:17:53.900 and it's the reason President Trump
00:17:55.500 is trying to resolve this conflict with Iran quickly,
00:17:59.020 and what President Trump has called for is unconditional surrender,
00:18:03.800 that he wants Iran to surrender,
00:18:06.160 and he is systematically taking out first their air defenses,
00:18:09.960 then their missile launch capacity,
00:18:11.740 then their drone launch capacity,
00:18:13.220 then their missile manufacturing capacity,
00:18:15.240 then their drone manufacturing capacity,
00:18:17.460 then their military infrastructure, their leadership,
00:18:19.980 and at this point he is systematically degrading
00:18:22.860 their ability to fight back day after day after day.
00:18:25.820 He is exactly right to say this ends
00:18:29.440 when the Iranian regime says we surrender,
00:18:33.180 and when they surrender,
00:18:34.460 the result is going to be that the theocratic despots 0.93
00:18:37.980 who chant death to America, 0.97
00:18:40.040 who pay for terrorists to murder Americans, 0.99
00:18:42.380 who pay for hit men to try to murder President Trump, 0.89
00:18:46.700 they are out of power.
00:18:47.760 We are not going to allow that country to be led 0.99
00:18:50.680 by lunatics who are spending millions of dollars 0.99
00:18:54.000 trying to murder Americans. 1.00
00:18:56.140 That's what victory looks like. 0.94
00:18:58.200 I believe that's where we will end up.
00:19:00.560 But I will say at the same time,
00:19:02.800 we are seeing people spread propaganda,
00:19:06.460 and we're seeing two groups
00:19:08.220 that are spreading the same propaganda.
00:19:10.300 Let's start with Democrats.
00:19:13.340 Let's start in particular with Chris Murphy.
00:19:16.400 I want you to listen to what Chris Murphy has said.
00:19:21.240 Give a listen.
00:19:22.120 The mullahs in Iran, 0.99
00:19:24.780 this is again Rubio's characterization, 0.99
00:19:26.820 are madmen, 0.94
00:19:27.600 and they believe in holy war, 1.00
00:19:28.860 and they believe in killing the crusaders 0.99
00:19:31.020 of the United States and the Jews of Israel. 0.97
00:19:34.480 And there is a special degree of unacceptability
00:19:38.320 for them having a nuclear weapon.
00:19:39.780 So yeah, I don't disagree,
00:19:41.820 but what I disagree with
00:19:43.120 is that an aerial military campaign
00:19:45.540 or even the insertion of ground forces
00:19:47.760 can permanently dislodge Iran 1.00
00:19:50.000 from having a nuclear weapon.
00:19:51.260 Again, you were talking about knowledge.
00:19:53.540 That can't be bombed out of existence.
00:19:55.620 So how do you stop it?
00:19:56.540 A diplomatic agreement.
00:19:58.240 We had a diplomatic agreement.
00:19:59.680 Barack Obama negotiated an agreement
00:20:00.940 in which Iran was more than a year away
00:20:04.400 from getting a weapon.
00:20:05.660 We had daily inspections scouring the country.
00:20:08.560 It was working.
00:20:09.640 Donald Trump's advisors told him it was working.
00:20:12.080 He threw that agreement into the trash,
00:20:14.460 which precipitated the crisis that we are in today.
00:20:17.260 This is a place where diplomacy probably
00:20:20.720 is the only true path to make sure
00:20:22.720 that Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon.
00:20:25.480 All right, let me ask you this, Senator.
00:20:26.800 He says it was working.
00:20:29.300 That is a flat-out lie.
00:20:31.300 And I think most people that have been following this
00:20:33.000 would know that.
00:20:34.160 He's acting like they just decided to go rogue,
00:20:36.260 referring to the Trump administration,
00:20:37.520 just get into a war for no reason at all.
00:20:39.700 So what you just heard from Senator Chris Murphy
00:20:42.180 is utterly fact-free propaganda.
00:20:44.400 He's just repeating left-wing talking points.
00:20:46.560 Now, look, Chris Murphy wants to run for president
00:20:49.080 as a left-wing Democrat,
00:20:51.640 as a successor to Bernie Sanders
00:20:53.520 in terms of a rabid socialist isolationist.
00:20:56.800 And so facts are not going to get in the way.
00:20:59.580 One of the things he said there,
00:21:00.560 we were having daily nuclear weapons inspections.
00:21:03.440 That is a lie under the terms of the Obama nuclear deal.
00:21:06.420 So, number one, there were multiple areas
00:21:09.740 that were off-limits from inspection.
00:21:11.600 What areas were off-limit from inspection?
00:21:13.800 Well, one of them was Fordow,
00:21:15.500 the military site under a mountain
00:21:17.440 where they were doing their nuclear weapons development.
00:21:19.680 By the way, Donald Trump dropped bunker buster bombs
00:21:22.340 on Fordow and took it out and destroyed it.
00:21:24.280 But under the Obama nuclear deal,
00:21:26.540 nobody could inspect Fordow.
00:21:27.840 And even when we wanted to expect other areas of research,
00:21:33.240 we had to call the Iranians and get their permission,
00:21:35.820 and they would inspect it for us.
00:21:37.700 You know, I've sort of joked,
00:21:39.480 that's like calling up a drug dealer.
00:21:41.540 Can you imagine like the classic movie Scarface?
00:21:44.340 The scenario that Obama negotiated
00:21:46.400 is basically that the DEA would call Tony Montana,
00:21:50.260 the drug dealer in Scarface,
00:21:51.920 and go, hey, Tony, would you check your warehouse
00:21:54.380 and tell us if there are any drugs there?
00:21:56.480 And Tony would go, yeah, man, yeah, man,
00:21:57.820 hold on, hold on, let me look, let me look.
00:21:59.000 Nope, nope, no drugs there, we're clean.
00:22:01.500 That is the Obama nuclear deal.
00:22:03.340 It was literally Obama calling up the Ayatollah.
00:22:06.280 Hey, you got any nukes?
00:22:07.320 No, man, we're good.
00:22:08.080 We don't have any nukes.
00:22:09.120 No nukes here at all.
00:22:10.280 All right, thanks. 1.00
00:22:11.840 That's the idiocy of the Democrats. 1.00
00:22:16.140 They knew, and by the way, 1.00
00:22:17.840 the Obama-Iran nuclear deal sunset in 15 years.
00:22:20.860 So after 15 years, Obama said,
00:22:22.720 ah, we're fine with your having nukes.
00:22:25.120 Chris Murphy and the Democrats know that.
00:22:27.260 They don't care.
00:22:28.160 That deal was designed to allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon.
00:22:33.580 I'll tell you, when President Trump in the first term
00:22:35.760 pulled out of the Obama-Iran nuclear deal,
00:22:38.620 it was exactly the right decision.
00:22:40.080 I had urged him to do so.
00:22:42.600 And it set the stage.
00:22:44.680 Iran is now, particularly after President Trump last year,
00:22:47.780 bombed the nuclear weapons facility.
00:22:50.040 Iran's nuclear program is way, way, way back.
00:22:53.020 And yet, they remain dangerous,
00:22:56.140 and they remain absolutely committed
00:22:58.320 to developing nuclear weapons.
00:23:00.120 Now, the Democrats and the press
00:23:03.560 are trying to undermine President Trump.
00:23:06.640 They're trying to undermine the U.S. military,
00:23:08.320 and they're trying to bolster Iran and the Ayatollahs.
00:23:13.060 Do you know who else is doing that?
00:23:15.160 Who else?
00:23:16.220 Tucker Carlson and the rest of the so-called woke right.
00:23:19.620 There is a group of isolationist folks on the right.
00:23:23.780 It is a small group, but they are loud and vocal.
00:23:27.300 And Tucker Carlson has now all but declared war
00:23:30.360 on President Trump's foreign policy.
00:23:32.680 I want you to listen to Tucker Carlson in his latest show.
00:23:35.760 I'm going to warn you, what he says here is shocking,
00:23:38.780 and it is to the left of Chris Murphy.
00:23:41.240 So it is more anti-Donald Trump
00:23:44.100 than Chris Murphy and the Democrats.
00:23:46.080 Listen to Tucker Carlson.
00:23:47.140 Unconditional surrender means foreign troops 0.99
00:23:49.440 get to rape your wife and daughter if they want. 0.99
00:23:52.140 And everyone knows that. 1.00
00:23:53.520 And that has been,
00:23:54.420 if there's one consistent lesson of history,
00:23:56.360 it means unconditional surrender means 0.99
00:23:59.020 foreign troops get to rape your wife and daughter. 1.00
00:24:03.000 Everyone can feel that. 1.00
00:24:04.460 That's like the most atavistic instinct there is.
00:24:06.940 And so to avoid that, people will do anything.
00:24:10.180 And so that's why it requires that level of force
00:24:13.300 to get a population subdued
00:24:15.660 to the point of unconditional surrender.
00:24:17.320 That's why.
00:24:18.380 And so in this case, of course,
00:24:20.000 we don't have the ground force necessary.
00:24:23.160 I don't think Americans would voluntarily participate in it.
00:24:25.400 I just don't think we can do that.
00:24:27.040 It would require weapons of mass destruction.
00:24:29.160 It would require, presumably, nuclear weapons
00:24:31.520 in order to do that.
00:24:32.720 And let's not lie to ourselves.
00:24:34.700 We're moving toward that.
00:24:35.880 You hear Tucker there,
00:24:39.000 and I mean, you want to talk about unhinged.
00:24:40.800 That is like some of the most anti-American propaganda
00:24:43.740 I've ever seen spewed by someone like Tucker Carlson.
00:24:47.580 It is a new low even for him.
00:24:49.920 And the bar keeps dropping day after day.
00:24:52.920 Look, the phrase, the words,
00:24:54.780 someone like Tucker Carlson,
00:24:56.100 you don't even have to put that constraint.
00:24:58.540 That is more anti-American rhetoric
00:25:00.520 than anything I've ever heard Bernie Sanders say
00:25:02.560 or even Chris Murphy.
00:25:04.120 What he said there, listen,
00:25:05.320 and Tucker continues to go to new lows and new lows.
00:25:07.780 And part of it is,
00:25:09.160 President Trump this week said that Tucker Carlson
00:25:12.140 is, quote, not MAGA and not smart.
00:25:14.920 The more Tucker Carlson attacks Donald Trump, 1.00
00:25:17.360 the more fringe he gets.
00:25:18.960 And so I think this was Tucker acting out
00:25:20.900 when Trump said what was obviously true.
00:25:23.640 But Tucker just said,
00:25:24.900 go back, rewind, and listen to what he just said.
00:25:28.200 He said, number one,
00:25:29.440 if Iran surrenders, 0.99
00:25:31.880 that American soldiers are going to rape 1.00
00:25:34.320 their wives and daughters. 1.00
00:25:35.980 And in fact, he said it twice. 1.00
00:25:37.860 What utter and complete garbage, 1.00
00:25:40.320 you America-hating Islamist fluffer. 1.00
00:25:44.700 I've got to say, that makes me mad. 0.98
00:25:46.660 I think of the servicemen and women,
00:25:50.200 but the men in particular who are risking their lives.
00:25:53.200 And Tucker Carlson standing there saying,
00:25:55.540 if you surrender to America, 1.00
00:25:57.300 American soldiers are going to rape your women. 1.00
00:25:59.220 We have never done that. 0.99
00:26:01.460 That is not something America does.
00:26:03.880 No, Tucker, 0.96
00:26:05.380 American soldiers are not going to rape Iranian women. 0.98
00:26:08.060 You know who rapes the people they conquer? 0.99
00:26:10.640 Iranians do. 1.00
00:26:12.060 Islamists do. 0.96
00:26:12.780 That is, in fact, part of what they do. 1.00
00:26:14.880 Part of what they do is that they rape women 1.00
00:26:18.340 as a means of subjugation. 0.99
00:26:20.180 But Tucker's not going to tell you that
00:26:21.740 because Tucker is now one of the leading proponents
00:26:24.520 of Sharia law in the United States.
00:26:26.180 He's literally an apologist for Islamists. 0.89
00:26:29.040 And so, now you might say,
00:26:30.620 wow, that statement seems incredible.
00:26:32.820 It seems extreme.
00:26:34.000 Here are a couple of data points.
00:26:35.100 Number one, during this war,
00:26:37.080 the Iranian national television
00:26:39.020 is playing Tucker Carlson's show in Iran.
00:26:43.180 They view that as such valuable propaganda.
00:26:45.800 They want the Iranian people to hear Tucker. 0.77
00:26:47.840 Number two, the Muslim Brotherhood. 0.97
00:26:50.200 By the way, Hamas is the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine, 0.98
00:26:52.980 and they are terrorists, are tweeting out Tucker Carlson's show. 0.92
00:26:57.620 The Muslim Brotherhood is saying, 0.96
00:26:59.000 this is our spokesman.
00:27:00.320 Man, this guy is good.
00:27:02.160 I cannot recall another major political figure
00:27:05.660 on left or right who has said,
00:27:08.800 if you surrender to America, 1.00
00:27:10.200 American soldiers will rape your women. 1.00
00:27:11.780 That's what Tucker Carlson just said. 1.00
00:27:13.360 That is grotesque.
00:27:15.340 And by the way, any soldier who sees Tucker Carlson
00:27:17.740 ought to say, how dare you say that,
00:27:19.780 American soldiers?
00:27:20.460 No, we would not, and impugning our troops is disgusting.
00:27:24.980 And the second thing that Tucker said in that clip
00:27:28.000 is that Donald Trump is moving towards
00:27:31.180 using a nuclear weapon in Iran.
00:27:33.740 No, he's not, Tucker.
00:27:34.960 That is a complete and utter lie.
00:27:36.820 That is false.
00:27:37.880 We are not going to nuke Iran.
00:27:39.780 It is only deranged.
00:27:41.320 That's the sort of thing the Ayatollah would say.
00:27:43.700 And you've got to ask yourself,
00:27:45.440 look, some of you may think back
00:27:46.940 to when Tucker was on Fox News,
00:27:48.620 and he was actually said a lot of things
00:27:50.980 you and I love that made a lot of sense. 0.93
00:27:53.280 This guy today is just a kook. 1.00
00:27:56.280 And even worse than that, 0.99
00:27:58.300 he is the most prominent purveyor 0.91
00:28:00.580 of Islamist lies about America 0.97
00:28:02.880 and about Donald Trump.
00:28:05.180 Tucker Carlson has gone full out to war
00:28:08.300 with Donald Trump's national security
00:28:10.500 and foreign policy.
00:28:11.420 And it is, he and Chris Murphy are now,
00:28:15.480 they are comrades in arms.
00:28:17.520 He and Chris, Tucker Carlson and Chris Murphy
00:28:19.720 and Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren
00:28:21.780 and Ilhan Omar and AOC,
00:28:24.200 they all have the exact same foreign policy.
00:28:27.560 And it is anti-American and it is pro-Islamist 1.00
00:28:30.860 and it's dangerous as hell. 0.81
00:28:32.240 Having just come back from Israel,
00:28:34.480 I want to paint you a picture.
00:28:36.080 It's midnight, sirens are blaring,
00:28:38.060 and you have only seconds to grab your child and run.
00:28:43.620 Now imagine you're elderly.
00:28:45.260 Your legs don't work like they used to.
00:28:47.080 Getting downstairs feels impossible.
00:28:49.480 And after all of that,
00:28:50.680 you end up in a bomb shelter for hours,
00:28:53.300 even days,
00:28:54.080 because you can't make the trek again.
00:28:56.960 This is what's happening across Israel 0.92
00:28:59.180 as Operation Epic Fury continues.
00:29:02.280 Children are being traumatized.
00:29:04.320 Families are just exhausted.
00:29:05.820 And homes have been destroyed.
00:29:08.400 And that's why the International Fellowship
00:29:10.500 of Christians and Jews is there.
00:29:12.600 On the ground,
00:29:13.700 bringing food,
00:29:14.760 emergency equipment,
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00:29:17.780 and help for the elderly,
00:29:19.500 and supplying the bomb shelters
00:29:21.400 and medical centers
00:29:22.460 for critically needed essentials.
00:29:24.540 If you've ever wondered
00:29:25.960 what it looks like to stand for Israel
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00:29:58.080 We've got some breaking news
00:29:59.120 as we are recording this on Sunday.
00:30:01.220 They have now named a new leader in Iran.
00:30:03.800 It is the son of the former leader there.
00:30:06.560 That is someone that the president has said
00:30:08.000 is unacceptable.
00:30:09.540 Your reaction to that as well?
00:30:11.800 Well, look, it's not surprising.
00:30:13.200 The Mullahs are going to get together 0.99
00:30:14.320 and they're going to want another Mullah 0.64
00:30:16.340 to be the Ayatollah.
00:30:17.400 And they want the country
00:30:19.340 to continue to be run
00:30:20.540 by Islamist clerics 0.94
00:30:23.180 who embrace a death cult.
00:30:26.420 And it's interesting.
00:30:27.560 One of the things,
00:30:28.360 I'm going back to Chris Murphy
00:30:29.580 and what he said a minute ago.
00:30:32.080 You know,
00:30:33.040 we rely on deterrence
00:30:35.500 to stop the most egregious acts of harm.
00:30:39.740 Deterrence works
00:30:40.940 with many countries
00:30:42.940 because you have rational actors.
00:30:44.660 Let's take, for example,
00:30:48.140 North Korea.
00:30:48.960 So North Korea 0.85
00:30:49.640 is an exceptionally dangerous part of the world.
00:30:51.940 Why does North Korea have nukes?
00:30:53.380 Well, it goes back
00:30:54.080 to a previous Democrat president,
00:30:57.120 Bill Clinton.
00:30:58.460 Bill Clinton
00:30:59.340 sent a State Department employee
00:31:02.420 named Wendy Sherman
00:31:03.320 to negotiate a nuclear agreement
00:31:07.720 with Kim Jong-il,
00:31:09.920 who was the father
00:31:11.320 of the current dictator, Kim Jong-un.
00:31:12.840 And the deal they cut
00:31:14.860 is that Bill Clinton agreed
00:31:17.420 to send billions of dollars
00:31:18.920 to North Korea.
00:31:19.760 And in exchange for that money,
00:31:21.840 North Korea would promise 0.59
00:31:22.840 not to develop nuclear weapons.
00:31:25.240 Well, what happened?
00:31:26.200 We now know what happened.
00:31:27.040 They took the billions of dollars.
00:31:28.720 They used it
00:31:29.740 to develop nuclear weapons.
00:31:31.100 And today,
00:31:31.580 North Korea has nuclear weapons.
00:31:32.780 So it was a spectacular failure.
00:31:35.560 Fast forward to Barack Obama.
00:31:36.840 Barack Obama comes into office.
00:31:39.160 And he decides
00:31:39.980 his signature foreign policy move
00:31:41.640 is he wants to negotiate
00:31:42.880 an agreement with Iran
00:31:44.520 on nuclear weapons.
00:31:45.440 So what does he do?
00:31:46.100 He actually goes and recruits 1.00
00:31:47.420 the same damn person, 0.99
00:31:49.000 Wendy Sherman, 1.00
00:31:50.140 to negotiate his Iran deal.
00:31:52.020 Literally,
00:31:52.720 there are 8 billion people
00:31:53.840 on planet Earth, Ben.
00:31:55.580 There is one
00:31:56.500 out of 8 billion
00:31:57.480 who has screwed this up previously,
00:31:59.980 has negotiated a deal
00:32:01.020 to send billions of dollars
00:32:02.140 to a foreign dictator,
00:32:03.500 and it's resulted in
00:32:04.460 that dictator
00:32:05.300 using the billions of dollars
00:32:06.380 to develop nuclear weapons.
00:32:07.480 That would be Wendy Sherman.
00:32:08.380 That's who Obama brought in
00:32:09.900 and said,
00:32:10.200 hey, can you do the same for us?
00:32:12.800 Now,
00:32:13.860 we live with the failures
00:32:15.140 of the Clinton administration
00:32:16.360 and Wendy Sherman
00:32:17.100 with North Korea,
00:32:18.560 and Kim Jong-un
00:32:20.220 is a dictator. 0.97
00:32:21.660 He's megalomaniacal. 1.00
00:32:22.780 He's dangerous as hell.
00:32:24.380 He is testing ICBMs.
00:32:26.700 He is targeted,
00:32:27.840 explicitly target U.S. citizens,
00:32:29.460 including Austin, Texas.
00:32:31.020 He is a city
00:32:32.060 that he has said
00:32:32.620 he's targeted before.
00:32:33.500 However,
00:32:34.740 our best protection
00:32:36.820 is Kim Jong-un knows
00:32:39.400 if he ever used
00:32:40.300 a nuclear weapon,
00:32:41.480 the result would be
00:32:42.940 massive,
00:32:43.800 overwhelming retaliation,
00:32:45.340 and his regime
00:32:45.900 would lose power that day.
00:32:47.880 It would be the end
00:32:48.740 of his life
00:32:49.180 if he did that.
00:32:50.500 As dangerous
00:32:52.220 as Kim Jong-un is,
00:32:54.180 at least there's
00:32:55.360 some possibility
00:32:56.480 of rational self-deterrence.
00:32:58.800 Here's what makes Iran 1.00
00:33:00.380 orders of magnitude
00:33:01.380 more dangerous.
00:33:02.060 When you're dealing
00:33:03.800 with religious extremism,
00:33:05.360 when you're dealing
00:33:06.080 with theocratic zealots
00:33:08.260 who are in a death cult,
00:33:10.320 who glorify death 0.88
00:33:12.100 and suicide,
00:33:14.000 rational deterrence
00:33:15.040 doesn't work the same way.
00:33:16.280 So, for example,
00:33:17.140 if the Ayatollah
00:33:17.980 detonated a nuclear weapon,
00:33:20.660 say, in Tel Aviv
00:33:22.140 or in New York
00:33:23.320 or Los Angeles,
00:33:24.120 and let me be clear,
00:33:24.760 I believe if the Ayatollah
00:33:26.260 could do so,
00:33:26.960 he would have done so already.
00:33:28.640 The response would be
00:33:30.020 overwhelming and devastating,
00:33:31.620 but the problem is
00:33:32.740 when you celebrate
00:33:33.940 death and suicide,
00:33:35.580 that normal cost-benefit
00:33:37.800 analysis does not apply.
00:33:40.100 And so, yes,
00:33:40.780 they've named a new Ayatollah.
00:33:42.100 The Ayatollah is what?
00:33:43.280 The son of the old Ayatollah. 0.97
00:33:44.980 Okay, great.
00:33:46.240 That is not acceptable
00:33:47.820 because President Trump
00:33:49.900 has rightly made the decision.
00:33:51.440 We're not going to allow
00:33:52.700 U.S. national security
00:33:54.000 to be vulnerable
00:33:55.300 to religious zealots
00:33:56.540 who are funding terrorism,
00:34:00.540 who are funding,
00:34:01.320 who are the number one funders
00:34:02.760 of terrorism worldwide
00:34:06.080 and have been for 47 years.
00:34:08.580 So, Ayatollah number one,
00:34:10.660 Skippy Jr.
00:34:11.760 is not going to get
00:34:12.560 to take over either
00:34:13.620 because allowing Iran 0.98
00:34:16.840 to wage war
00:34:17.680 and to murder Americans 0.99
00:34:18.760 is not consistent
00:34:19.820 with U.S. national security.
00:34:21.500 This year marks
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00:34:26.680 more aggressive
00:34:27.500 and unapologetic.
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00:35:57.240 VERDICT.
00:35:58.280 I want to get real quick
00:35:59.340 to one other thing.
00:36:00.160 You talked earlier
00:36:00.820 about DHS funding.
00:36:03.000 And let's get to
00:36:04.200 just some of the concerns
00:36:06.100 that people are having.
00:36:07.260 You had a mid-air panic
00:36:08.280 as Southwest flight
00:36:09.460 was diverted to Atlanta
00:36:10.360 due to security threat
00:36:11.420 amid Iranian terror 0.69
00:36:12.980 fears.
00:36:13.820 fears error.
00:36:15.860 You also had a
00:36:16.640 Fort Lauderdale-bound
00:36:17.380 flight diverts
00:36:18.160 with security scare.
00:36:19.140 The passengers removed.
00:36:20.340 These are real stories
00:36:21.920 that are happening
00:36:22.580 that people are
00:36:23.660 concerned about.
00:36:24.560 And so my question
00:36:25.420 is how quickly
00:36:26.900 can we get
00:36:28.020 the Democrats
00:36:28.600 to understand
00:36:29.720 that this funding
00:36:30.760 is important?
00:36:31.320 We've seen
00:36:31.740 even at Hobby Airport
00:36:33.040 where you and I
00:36:34.240 fly out a lot,
00:36:35.500 three and a half
00:36:36.180 hour security lines,
00:36:37.700 that is unacceptable
00:36:38.780 for the American people.
00:36:40.560 Well, the only reason
00:36:41.480 they will flip
00:36:42.440 is if the political pain
00:36:43.760 becomes real to them.
00:36:45.400 I think the Democrats
00:36:46.380 are listening
00:36:47.080 to their zealots,
00:36:48.060 to the people
00:36:48.580 who want open borders,
00:36:50.040 who want ICE abolished,
00:36:51.640 who want the police abolished,
00:36:53.260 who are cheering on
00:36:54.900 when the Democrats
00:36:56.620 defend criminals
00:36:58.880 and illegal aliens
00:36:59.760 and gangbangers. 0.99
00:37:00.640 Look, go back
00:37:01.280 to the State of the Union
00:37:02.080 address.
00:37:03.220 It was powerful
00:37:04.180 when President Trump
00:37:05.580 turned to the Democrats
00:37:06.400 and said,
00:37:07.040 I'll give you an opportunity
00:37:07.860 to decide right now
00:37:09.060 where do you stand?
00:37:10.500 stand with me now
00:37:12.740 if you agree
00:37:14.420 our principal responsibility
00:37:16.480 is to defend
00:37:17.600 American citizens
00:37:18.820 and not illegal aliens.
00:37:22.180 Zero Democrats,
00:37:24.360 zero,
00:37:25.460 stood and applauded.
00:37:26.960 They all remain seated.
00:37:29.280 That is where their base is
00:37:31.220 and right now
00:37:31.980 the media
00:37:33.300 is not holding them
00:37:35.000 to account.
00:37:36.200 During the Schumer
00:37:36.940 shutdown last year
00:37:37.980 that Chuck Schumer
00:37:39.340 and the Democrats
00:37:39.940 forced the longest shutdown
00:37:41.480 in American history
00:37:42.480 right before the elections
00:37:44.140 last year,
00:37:45.180 one Democrat aide
00:37:46.280 told a reporter,
00:37:47.700 said,
00:37:48.000 we're going to keep
00:37:48.520 this shut down,
00:37:49.560 quote,
00:37:49.940 until airplanes start
00:37:51.200 falling from the sky.
00:37:52.740 They feel immune
00:37:54.260 from political consequences.
00:37:56.400 That will only change
00:37:57.820 when they start to feel
00:37:58.920 meaningful political heat.
00:38:00.120 That means the folks
00:38:00.920 listening to this podcast,
00:38:02.880 use your voice,
00:38:03.840 speak out,
00:38:04.600 make phone calls,
00:38:05.480 call Senate offices,
00:38:06.580 post on social media,
00:38:07.640 get other people,
00:38:08.980 write op-eds,
00:38:09.840 speak about it,
00:38:10.940 and hold Democrats
00:38:12.680 to account.
00:38:13.660 They are endangering
00:38:15.180 all of our families
00:38:17.240 by cutting off
00:38:18.840 the funding needed
00:38:19.720 to fight terrorism
00:38:20.660 at a time
00:38:21.480 when the risks
00:38:22.480 of terrorism
00:38:23.220 are unacceptably high.
00:38:25.380 We need to do
00:38:26.520 a better job
00:38:27.300 protecting the homeland,
00:38:28.260 and the Democrats
00:38:29.660 are being reckless
00:38:31.120 at a level
00:38:31.620 I've never seen.
00:38:32.800 Yeah,
00:38:33.040 it really is incredible.
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