Verdict with Ted Cruz - March 24, 2026


BONUS POD： Democrat Created TSA Shortage Triggers Nationwide Airport Crisis


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Trump orders ICE agents to hit major airports and suddenly the wait times are falling. Why is the media so angry about this? And how long could it continue on? Democrats said they're going to hold America hostage no matter what.

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
00:00:02.620 Guaranteed human.
00:00:04.840 So the discussions took place yesterday.
00:00:07.400 They went into yesterday evening.
00:00:10.400 They want very much to make a deal.
00:00:13.000 We'd like to make a deal too.
00:00:14.800 We're going to get together today by probably phone
00:00:19.100 because it's very hard to find a country.
00:00:21.560 It's very hard for them to get out, I guess.
00:00:23.880 But we'll at some point very, very soon meet.
00:00:26.780 We're doing a five-day period.
00:00:28.200 We'll see how that goes.
00:00:29.340 And if it goes well, we're going to end up with settling this.
00:00:32.860 Otherwise, we'll just keep bombing our little hearts out.
00:00:35.520 You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
00:00:39.300 Good Tuesday morning.
00:00:40.340 Nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update.
00:00:42.940 And we've got one very big story for you.
00:00:45.820 TSA lines were out of control.
00:00:48.180 But Donald Trump is stepping in, sending ICE agents to hit major airports.
00:00:53.380 And suddenly the wait times are falling.
00:00:56.420 So why is the media so angry about this?
00:00:59.340 And how long could it continue on?
00:01:02.360 Democrats said they're going to hold America hostage no matter what.
00:01:06.980 I've got the details on it.
00:01:08.620 It's the 47 Morning Update, and it starts right now.
00:01:12.100 Story number one.
00:01:13.240 For weeks, Americans have been dealing with a travel nightmare.
00:01:16.900 We're talking about two, three, four, and even five-hour wait times at airports,
00:01:23.600 four-hour lines, and international hubs like Houston,
00:01:26.780 and entire terminals completely backed up with people outside waiting for hours.
00:01:33.360 Families missing flights, loved ones missing funerals,
00:01:37.140 and unable to reach family dealing with medical emergencies.
00:01:41.100 At one point this weekend at Bush's airport, lines stretched more than four hours.
00:01:47.200 Only a fraction of the checkpoints were even open.
00:01:50.780 And the question obviously is why?
00:01:52.680 Because Democrats in Washington are holding the Department of Homeland Security funding hostage,
00:01:59.820 even though you paid your taxes.
00:02:02.800 That is leaving the TSA agents working without pay, calling out in massive numbers,
00:02:09.840 and just flat out quitting because they've got to find another job
00:02:13.380 where they can depend on the paycheck actually showing up.
00:02:17.220 In fact, we now know that more than 3,400 TSA agents have called out nationwide.
00:02:24.940 And well over 400 agents have already turned in their resignation, saying they've moved on.
00:02:31.260 Now, that's not a small problem.
00:02:33.320 That's a system breakdown in real time, all done by design by the Democrats to continue to hold America hostage.
00:02:41.940 Which brings us to President Donald Trump.
00:02:44.580 He just told Republicans in Congress to refuse any DHS deal with the Democrats without voter ID and citizenship being attached.
00:02:58.320 That's playing hardball.
00:03:00.280 The president speaking in Memphis, Tennessee at a Make America Safe Again event.
00:03:06.280 He had this to say to the American people about what they're experiencing at the airports.
00:03:11.600 Some disruptions at major airports nationwide last weekend.
00:03:16.440 I'm again demanding that Democrats in Congress immediately end their disgraceful shutdown
00:03:21.360 of the Department of Homeland Security and restore the full funding for airport security and the TSA.
00:03:28.540 They are holding it up because they want to take care of illegal immigrants coming into our country. 1.00
00:03:35.240 They want to take care of criminals that are in sanctuary cities.
00:03:39.360 They want to take care of transgender for everybody, literally the utilization of our children, men in women's sports.
00:03:48.720 But what they don't want to do is give us anything to do with citizenship for voting or voter ID.
00:03:57.220 Can you imagine? We're the only country that doesn't do voter ID.
00:04:00.740 Every country does voter ID.
00:04:02.240 You know, brought to my attention today that we're the only country that does mail-in voting.
00:04:10.880 Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating.
00:04:12.660 I call it mail-in cheating.
00:04:14.840 And we got to do something about it all.
00:04:16.880 And it's part of Homeland Security.
00:04:19.080 And I'm suggesting strongly to the Republican Party, don't make any deal on anything.
00:04:25.040 The most important thing we can have is what's called the Save America Act.
00:04:28.560 don't make any deal on anything unless you include voter id and you have to be a citizen
00:04:36.040 to vote you have to show citizenship to vote very easy to do it's very insulting when they say
00:04:42.080 people can't do it because they don't know how to do it anybody that can't do it i think it's a very
00:04:46.820 insulting thing to say the democrats are fully to blame with the struggle of the as he said there
00:04:53.560 Democrats are fully to blame for what we're witnessing right now.
00:04:58.720 Now, President Trump also ordered ICE agents deploy to major airports across the country.
00:05:04.440 And the message from his administration was crystal clear.
00:05:08.780 President Trump is using every tool available to help American travelers.
00:05:14.660 While politicians are arguing, Trump is putting people on the ground.
00:05:19.700 And what is ICE doing and why does it matter?
00:05:22.320 Well, no, let's be very clear about that, because the media will not explain it honestly to you at all.
00:05:29.140 ICE agents are not replacing TSA.
00:05:32.780 They are managing crowds, checking IDs, controlling lines, and securing exits.
00:05:41.080 And that matters because it frees up the TSA agents who are still showing up without pay to focus on screening, which is the real bottleneck.
00:05:51.580 This is about efficiency. This is about stabilizing a crisis fast.
00:05:57.680 The president understands how important air travel is to our economy.
00:06:02.880 The Democrats are holding billions of dollars each and every hour hostage when it comes to work that is not being done.
00:06:10.940 Meetings that are not taking place and people that cannot travel all because of the Democratic Party putting illegal immigrants first 0.98
00:06:19.580 and the fact that they want to hold Americans hostage.
00:06:23.660 Now, this is where it's getting interesting.
00:06:26.320 And this is what the headlines won't emphasize enough.
00:06:29.860 After days of total chaos, airports like Houston, Minneapolis, Chicago,
00:06:35.780 and others are already seeing wait times drop significantly in some terminals,
00:06:40.800 from hours down to minutes in certain checkpoints.
00:06:44.440 That's not an accident.
00:06:46.200 That's what happens when leadership shows up.
00:06:48.820 But let's be honest. This is still a real crisis. This is a bandaid. And now it's going to get even worse as Democrats are doing everything they can to try to make the problem go back to hours and hours of wait times.
00:07:04.120 I'm not going to sugarcoat this because you deserve the truth. This is not fixed yet at all. Across the country, some airports are still seeing multi-hour delays.
00:07:14.820 absentee rates are hitting 40 plus percent in some locations staffing is still stretched very thin
00:07:23.360 and here's the key difference before president trump got involved with ice it was chaos and no
00:07:30.160 response now at least there's a plan action and early results trump is calling out the real problem
00:07:38.060 and president trump is not mincing words about who caused this he said it directly saying quote
00:07:43.820 Democrats are endangering the USA by holding back the money for the TSA.
00:07:51.180 That is the fight.
00:07:52.960 This isn't just about airport lines.
00:07:55.440 This is about DHS funding.
00:07:57.940 It's now about the SAVE Act.
00:08:00.280 It's about border security.
00:08:02.300 It's about election integrity.
00:08:04.540 And Trump is saying we are not going back to business as usual.
00:08:08.820 We are not funding the system without fixing it.
00:08:11.640 This is true leadership under pressure.
00:08:15.120 And let me translate it for the liberals this way.
00:08:18.100 When the system started breaking, when the Americans were stuck in lines, when TSA agents were overwhelmed, Trump didn't wait for permission.
00:08:28.040 He moved resources immediately when they were already funding ICE agents and they put them where the crisis was happening.
00:08:36.440 That is the decisive leadership that so many Americans voted for.
00:08:41.060 So here's the bottom line right now.
00:08:44.060 Yes, this crisis is very real.
00:08:47.020 Yes, it was caused by a funding fight in Washington.
00:08:50.400 But also, the Trump administration is actively responding.
00:08:55.340 ICE deployment is already helping relieve the pressure.
00:08:58.420 And this is the first real step towards stabilizing a system that clearly was out of control.
00:09:04.420 And the message from the White House couldn't be clear.
00:09:07.020 They say this.
00:09:08.480 We will use every tool we have to protect Americans and keep this country moving.
00:09:15.140 And what are the Democrats saying?
00:09:17.080 They're not talking.
00:09:18.540 They're not trying to work on a deal.
00:09:20.480 They wanted this to happen.
00:09:22.520 And more importantly, they wanted to hold you hostage in a line for hours on end.
00:09:28.080 As the president said earlier today, as he was getting on Air Force One,
00:09:31.860 he made it clear the TSA agents are heroes and something has to be done differently.
00:09:38.480 Last year you gave a $10,000 bonus to the U.S. workers who kept showing up to work during the shutdown. Will you do that again?
00:09:47.560 Well, it could happen. It's amazing. There's such people that are really, really loyal and great, and it's not easy for them.
00:09:56.020 And this is all caused by the Democrats. Just so you know, all this money was approved. Everything was approved.
00:10:02.140 this is done the democrats went in and they want to have radical left lunatics come into our 0.96
00:10:08.180 country they want to have drug dealers they want to have murderers come into our country they want 0.53
00:10:12.600 to have open borders and we're not letting it happen that's what this is all about they don't 0.86
00:10:17.500 want voter id they don't want proof of citizenship they don't want mail-in ballots they're so corrupt
00:10:24.620 what they want the only thing they want is mail-in ballots so we also added as you know into
00:10:31.060 the Save
00:10:33.460 America Act. And it's called Save
00:10:35.240 America. It's not the Save Act.
00:10:37.200 But we added no transgender 1.00
00:10:39.060 mutilization of our children
00:10:40.860 and no men in women's sports. 0.94
00:10:43.460 President Trump not losing
00:10:45.400 focus on the issues. Over
00:10:47.300 and over again saying the same thing.
00:10:49.780 And also saying the TSA
00:10:51.280 agents that are showing up that have been harmed by
00:10:53.280 the Democrats, they're heroes.
00:10:55.340 And it could happen again. Another
00:10:57.220 $10,000 bonus for
00:10:59.240 those men and women who show up to do a job, even though the Democrats refuse to pay them.
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