Verdict with Ted Cruz - September 22, 2026


BONUS POD: The Democrats’ Radical Roadmap—Abolish, Defund, Target!

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00:03:43.180 You know, what's interesting is abolish the police is not in here.
00:03:46.100 The language that we actually have about the criminal justice system
00:03:49.240 talks about how currently our police and prison system
00:03:54.220 is stacked toward persecuting poor people
00:03:57.040 and excusing rich people's crimes.
00:03:59.280 I personally have no problem with having something called a prison
00:04:02.400 be the place where people like that are kept if they can't be a realtor.
00:04:05.280 So why is abolish prisons the thing? 1.00
00:04:06.580 Is it just that it's an idiot? 0.99
00:04:07.580 The language that we have in there is abolishing 1.00
00:04:09.660 the police and prison system that protects capital.
00:04:14.200 You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
00:04:17.900 Good Tuesday morning. Nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update.
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00:04:41.800 and then you can decide just how radical the Marxists, socialists and communists
00:04:46.200 and the Democratic Party actually are.
00:04:49.100 Now I'm going to play for you their words in just a moment,
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00:06:11.760 It's the 47 Morning Update
00:06:13.780 And it starts right now
00:06:15.540 Story number one
00:06:16.960 There is an interesting ad that has come out
00:06:20.280 And I say ad and I want to play it for you
00:06:22.260 I was asked the question the other day
00:06:25.240 What is the Democratic agenda?
00:06:28.140 Now I've been saying for a long time
00:06:29.560 The Democratic Party is dead
00:06:30.980 I've been saying for a long time
00:06:32.500 That I believe the Democratic Party
00:06:33.640 Is filled with Marxists, socialists, and communists
00:06:35.700 If you've ever listened to me before
00:06:37.020 I've been saying this while people were telling me that that was an extreme statement to say.
00:06:41.500 I had people in the media call me out like, well, that's just hyperbolic and you're just
00:06:45.620 trying to say this to get ratings or clips or whatever.
00:06:48.120 No, I actually believe it.
00:06:50.520 I genuinely believe it.
00:06:52.780 And what I believe is that the Democratic agenda is to destroy this country, to destroy
00:06:59.280 democracy and to unleash lawlessness.
00:07:03.120 Now, the Democratic Socialists of America, and that is the Democratic Party, they are
00:07:07.720 socialists, they're communists or Marxists.
00:07:09.300 They have said that they want to abolish the Senate.
00:07:12.040 They want to replace the presidency.
00:07:14.820 They want to replace the Supreme Court.
00:07:18.420 They have said they want to eradicate prisons.
00:07:20.980 They want to get rid of what would make this country a country because a country without
00:07:25.600 borders is no country at all.
00:07:27.240 They want to get rid of borders. 0.84
00:07:28.800 And they also want to get rid of law enforcement.
00:07:31.220 The warning is not a guess, folks.
00:07:35.620 They're literally telling you, the voter, exactly who they are.
00:07:41.080 Now, if you still don't believe what I just said, great.
00:07:48.120 Listen to the Democrats' agenda.
00:07:50.980 Not my words, their own words.
00:07:54.280 And we'll start with a guy by the name of Bernie Sanders.
00:07:56.820 He's one of the godfathers of the Marxist-Socialist movement within the Democratic Party.
00:08:01.220 In the last eight months, Democratic Socialist candidates all over this country have been
00:08:08.620 winning major victories. We've also seen several candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists
00:08:13.520 of America topple incumbent Democrats in primaries. The co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of
00:08:18.540 America was asked about their platform yesterday. Abolish the Senate. True. Okay, replace the
00:08:25.740 Presidency and Supreme Court as we now know them.
00:08:28.300 Yep.
00:08:28.820 Defund the Pentagon.
00:08:30.220 Absolutely.
00:08:31.220 A tweet from congressional candidate Cori Bush.
00:08:33.940 She called for defunding the Pentagon. 0.89
00:08:36.420 But we talk about defunding the Pentagon. 0.94
00:08:39.640 Abolish prisons, at least in large part.
00:08:41.940 Yeah, again, as part of a long-term program, yeah.
00:08:44.860 Are prisons obsolete?
00:08:47.020 I mean, what purpose do they serve?
00:08:49.700 We need to completely dismantle 0.60
00:08:51.720 the Minneapolis Police Department.
00:08:53.280 The language that we have in there
00:08:54.440 is abolishing the police and prison system.
00:08:57.260 End policing as we know it.
00:08:59.680 Defunding the police has to happen.
00:09:01.820 Abolishing policing is one segment of reforming
00:09:05.420 our criminal justice system.
00:09:07.520 A now deleted Twitter account of a Democratic Socialist,
00:09:10.280 our Elisa Avila-Shaffier, posts and reposts
00:09:12.740 supporting abolishing police in prisons and borders.
00:09:17.040 I believe that we do need to defund the police.
00:09:19.940 I have voted against raises for police officers
00:09:22.480 that bankrupted the city.
00:09:23.600 You think about like cash bail as a system, what we're doing is discriminating against poverty.
00:09:27.520 Abolish borders and give amnesty to anyone currently in the U.S. illegally.
00:09:31.560 As a long-term plan, yep.
00:09:32.880 I want to legalize 7 or 8 or 9 or 10 million people in our country.
00:09:37.080 There has to be an immediate pathway for every single undocumented immigrant. 0.96
00:09:41.140 We've got millions of people who are living here in the shadows.
00:09:43.980 There needs to be a path to citizenship.
00:09:45.560 Get a path to citizenship for all 11 million or however many undocumented.
00:09:50.000 We need to be focusing on a pathway to citizenship for those who are here.
00:09:54.840 We have 11 million people here who need a pathway to citizenship. 1.00
00:09:58.240 I'm very supportive of bringing immigrants here to stay. 1.00
00:10:01.820 We think that there should be ways for people to stay here. 1.00
00:10:06.320 We ought to have a path for those folks to stay.
00:10:10.000 Abolish ICE. 0.97
00:10:11.000 Absolutely.
00:10:12.000 We have to abolish ICE.
00:10:13.000 This agency should be abolished.
00:10:15.000 ICE has to be abolished.
00:10:17.000 Abolish ICE. 0.97
00:10:18.000 We need to rip up ICE.
00:10:20.080 I've said ICE not only needs to be abolished,
00:10:22.160 they need to be prosecuted.
00:10:23.620 ICE will be abolished.
00:10:25.460 DHS will be dismantled.
00:10:27.500 In 2018, I was calling for the abolishing of ICE.
00:10:30.320 I voted against the creation of ICE.
00:10:32.620 If it were up to me, we would completely overhaul.
00:10:35.620 ICE stripped the agency down to the studs.
00:10:38.340 Would you be in support of defunding ICE?
00:10:41.520 I am. Yes.
00:10:43.320 Is the rise of the DSA good for your party?
00:10:46.100 Look, we are a big tent party.
00:10:51.140 There it is.
00:10:52.260 Now, the good news is what I just played for you.
00:10:55.180 If you would like to share it, I'm going to put it up right now on X and I'll put it on
00:11:00.660 Instagram as well so you can share it because this is the Democratic agenda.
00:11:05.220 Destroy our democracy.
00:11:07.220 Unleash lawlessness.
00:11:08.600 Abolish the Senate.
00:11:09.580 Replace the presidency in the Supreme Court.
00:11:11.360 Eradicate prisons, borders and law enforcement.
00:11:13.900 They are telling you who they are.
00:11:15.500 believe them and then add on it oh by the way their latest breaking news which is uh we're
00:11:21.300 going to go after trump donors we're going to go after cabinet secretaries we are going to do
00:11:28.220 everything we can to lock up anybody that is connected to the president of the united states
00:11:33.060 of america so i think there's a number of cabinet secretaries that have blatantly broken the law
00:11:38.220 done unconstitutional things and i think they better get ready because we'll come for them
00:11:42.560 congressman melanie stansbury thank you so much for being with us today basically they should be
00:11:46.640 saying thank you so much for weaponizing our government to destroy anyone that we don't like
00:11:51.660 i want to go back just to that point for a moment and and just expand on it a little bit you put
00:11:57.080 that all that i just played for you in that montage together with this other new threat which
00:12:03.100 is if you're around this president get ready to be bankrupted if you support this president get
00:12:10.560 ready for your company to be investigated and will come after you you understand why they're
00:12:16.840 doing what they're doing why they're saying what they're saying it's because they want you to be
00:12:20.580 afraid to even support the president of the United States of America or the next conservative
00:12:25.940 person out there because if you are afraid to support them then they don't win they have no
00:12:31.820 power they have no cash they have no money you know you look at what just happened in Hungary
00:12:36.680 And this is also another example of just how interesting all of this really is.
00:12:42.980 In Hungary, you had a guy by the name of Viktor Orban who was the leader there.
00:12:46.780 He lost his election.
00:12:48.500 The party that has come in has now banned 50% of his supporters that were in office from ever being in office for running.
00:12:56.260 They have stacked now the Supreme Court and they are going after Viktor Orban and anybody in government that was there serving before then.
00:13:04.660 Now, you may say, well, like, how can they do that?
00:13:07.080 Because they just won the majority.
00:13:09.280 And they're now weaponizing the government to silence not only the people, but also the media.
00:13:15.340 They want to make it where it's just not worth the risk.
00:13:18.320 It is, it's just, it's just not worth the risk to go out there and boldly stand up for what you believe in.
00:13:25.520 Now, you may say, Ben, that's hyperbole.
00:13:27.180 You don't actually mean that.
00:13:28.220 All right, fine.
00:13:29.660 Let me give you an example.
00:13:30.700 This is really interesting.
00:13:31.820 I love it when people say, I'm not really sure I believe you.
00:13:34.660 They just nationalized the media, certain parts of the media, and the only parts that
00:13:42.460 they nationalized in Hungary.
00:13:44.280 And I was in Budapest speaking not once but twice and warning about this.
00:13:49.680 I was, by the way, a supporter of Viktor Orban.
00:13:52.300 And what they did was they went in and there was very few conservative media outlets, very
00:13:57.500 much like we have in this country.
00:13:58.860 We have very few major conservative media outlets.
00:14:01.520 Fox News is clearly the leader.
00:14:03.280 and what they did is they went in and the new government nationalized the media um specifically
00:14:10.700 the conservative media and the very first thing they did was shut it down so not only have they
00:14:15.120 banned 50 plus percent of the people in the conservative movement who are elected officials
00:14:20.540 from ever being in office again they then stacked the spring court to get the rulings that they
00:14:25.720 needed to do their second thing which was to then do what i just told you they did which was they
00:14:30.080 said okay all these conservative media outlets and websites and newspapers yeah we're going to
00:14:35.120 nationalize those and then we're going to immediately shut them down and everybody's
00:14:38.640 fired and you're on a political hit list this is happening in hungary because of one election cycle
00:14:44.500 and they're trying to imprison anybody that was close to victor orban they're trying to imprison
00:14:50.580 the people that supported victor orban and they're silencing the people that disagree with the new
00:14:56.760 government by shutting by nationalizing and then shutting down these media outlets if you think
00:15:04.280 that the democratic socials of america are any different than what we're witnessing right now
00:15:08.860 and in hungary you're wrong like they will do exactly what they're doing in hungary right here
00:15:14.700 in the united states of america they will do it they're telling you what they want to do they're
00:15:18.880 telling you what they hate they're telling you who they're going to come after when you take
00:15:23.340 the government and the government no longer works for the people it works for your political ideology
00:15:27.680 and that is what democrats are now saying right they're they're telling you hey you elect us and
00:15:34.120 we will go after our political enemies that are your political enemies if you hate trump got it
00:15:40.120 we're going to go after and we're going to weaponize our government we're going to destroy his life
00:15:43.680 we're going to finish what we tried to start a few years ago but we're going to make it hurt even
00:15:47.980 more we used to just go after trump and we just went after trump and a couple associates around
00:15:52.120 him but mainly after went after trump and his kids and and we were trying to just destroy him
00:15:57.320 financially so he had to file for bankruptcy wouldn't have the power anymore he wouldn't
00:16:00.300 be elected he would be caught up in lawfare and then you guys would have to go out go with a
00:16:03.880 different candidate now they're saying no no hey guess what um your cabinet secretary who's got an
00:16:10.080 incredible record of of being a honest human being doesn't matter lee zeldon game on scott
00:16:15.860 Besant, game on. Marco Rubio, game on. Maybe you're out of power now. Maybe you maybe you've
00:16:21.900 lost your power. Kristi Noem, don't worry, we'll come after you. And I also believe they'll go 0.78
00:16:26.420 after ambassadors. There's a real conversation that's happening right now in Washington, D.C.
00:16:30.760 by ambassadors that are worried that they're going to be next because a lot of the ambassadors
00:16:34.140 were huge supporters of the president of the United States of America during his campaign run.
00:16:38.760 And if you're a huge supporter of the president of the United States of America, then what the
00:16:42.620 democratic party is now saying is hey if you're a supporter you're on the enemies list you're on
00:16:46.880 the hit list we're coming after you game on this is what dictators and tyrants do and this is what
00:16:54.400 this midterm is actually about it is not about policies have you noticed that we haven't spoken
00:16:58.860 a word about the policies really the democrats are in because they're not running on policies
00:17:03.940 anymore they're running on america's evil destroy america and then weaponize our government to go
00:17:10.040 after our political opponent so that they are no longer a problem for us it's no different than
00:17:17.600 what we're watching right now in Hungary some of the people that interviewed me when I was in
00:17:21.580 Budapest speaking of this conference uh have been their lives are their their lives as in their
00:17:27.200 professional lives have been destroyed they will never work again as long as the party that's in
00:17:31.980 power now is in power because they're they're untouchable right you can't hire them because
00:17:37.080 And if you do, we'll come in and we'll nationalize that organization and we'll shut you down.
00:17:42.120 It is truly an enemy's hit list.
00:17:46.640 That is what it is.
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