Verdict with Ted Cruz - June 10, 2025


BONUS POD： The Left’s Chaotic Political Playbook using LA as Ground Zero


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Ben Ferguson talks about the chaos in Los Angeles, California, and calls on President Trump to send in the National Guard to help restore order in the streets of Los Angeles. Also, California Governor Gavin Newsom threatens to sue President Donald Trump for what he says is a legal takeover of the California National Guard.

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
00:00:02.700 Guaranteed human.
00:00:05.820 Are you going to deploy Marines in California?
00:00:08.760 We'll see what happens.
00:00:09.780 I mean, I think we have it very well under control.
00:00:12.500 I think it would have been a very bad situation.
00:00:14.860 It was heading in the wrong direction.
00:00:16.620 It's now heading in the right direction.
00:00:18.220 And we hope to have the support of Gavin
00:00:20.040 because Gavin's the big beneficiary
00:00:22.260 as we straighten out his problems.
00:00:23.920 I mean, his state is a mess.
00:00:25.680 You're listening to the 47 Morning Update
00:00:27.920 with Ben Ferguson.
00:00:29.160 Good Tuesday morning.
00:00:30.640 Welcome.
00:00:31.360 It is the 47 Morning Update
00:00:33.240 and we have one big story for you today.
00:00:37.120 Gavin Newsom says it's not an insurrection in California,
00:00:40.640 but he is wanting to sue the President
00:00:42.840 of the United States of America.
00:00:45.000 Suing Trump for what he says is a legal takeover
00:00:47.920 of the California National Guard.
00:00:50.660 Legal experts say Gavin Newsom's going to lose this battle,
00:00:54.540 but it doesn't matter
00:00:55.640 because he's decided to put politics over public safety.
00:00:59.200 We're also going to talk about this spreading.
00:01:03.020 And is this organic
00:01:04.100 or is this just another summer of rage
00:01:07.160 being paid for by the radical left
00:01:09.100 that we saw under Black Lives Matter?
00:01:11.460 And finally,
00:01:12.420 what is the President saying
00:01:14.240 in response to all of this?
00:01:16.640 You're going to hear his own words.
00:01:18.480 It's the 47 Morning Update
00:01:20.200 and it starts right now.
00:01:22.320 Story number one.
00:01:23.360 Anarchy and chaos continuing to erupt in L.A.
00:01:27.060 and now coming to a city near you.
00:01:29.840 In fact,
00:01:30.400 it's almost like we've seen this before
00:01:32.700 in the summer of rage
00:01:34.220 with Black Lives Matter protests
00:01:36.100 that popped up all over the country.
00:01:38.860 Well,
00:01:39.080 now in L.A.,
00:01:40.140 they're not going after the actual bad guys
00:01:42.900 that are attacking law enforcement.
00:01:44.560 No, no, no.
00:01:45.600 They're now coming after Donald Trump
00:01:48.340 and threatening to sue
00:01:49.800 the governor making this his political stand.
00:01:53.400 Let me just remind you
00:01:54.700 what the same Democrats were saying
00:01:56.760 over the weekend.
00:01:58.340 Elizabeth Warren was saying
00:01:59.740 it was just, you know,
00:02:01.240 peaceful protests.
00:02:02.840 Kamala Harris referred to it
00:02:04.340 as overwhelmingly peaceful protests.
00:02:07.260 Cory Booker said
00:02:08.340 it was a peaceful protest again
00:02:10.320 on the Sunday morning shows.
00:02:12.060 And Gavin Newsom said
00:02:13.560 that the anarchy
00:02:14.840 you're seeing right now on TV
00:02:16.760 is, quote,
00:02:17.960 under control.
00:02:19.580 Even the Los Angeles
00:02:20.740 Police Department lying,
00:02:22.280 saying it was, quote,
00:02:23.400 a weekend, you know,
00:02:24.400 without incident,
00:02:26.140 quote, unquote.
00:02:27.620 So how did it change so quickly?
00:02:30.500 Where now California is saying
00:02:32.760 they're suing Donald Trump
00:02:34.860 and they're angry
00:02:35.760 that Donald Trump
00:02:36.660 said in the National Guard.
00:02:38.200 Now, I want to play for you
00:02:39.260 Donald Trump in his own words.
00:02:40.880 Asked about two different things.
00:02:42.920 One, about sending in
00:02:44.320 the National Guard.
00:02:45.560 And two, Gavin Newsom
00:02:47.420 in California
00:02:48.400 threatening to sue Donald Trump.
00:02:50.720 That's right.
00:02:51.400 They're not going after
00:02:52.360 the rapists or the terrorists.
00:02:54.480 They're not going after
00:02:55.580 the human smugglers,
00:02:56.720 the sex traffickers.
00:02:57.960 They're not going after
00:02:59.080 those that are selling fentanyl
00:03:00.580 that is killing more Americans 0.87
00:03:02.440 my age than anything else
00:03:04.340 in this country's history.
00:03:06.200 No, no, no.
00:03:06.880 Instead, they're doing
00:03:08.380 what Democrats do well.
00:03:09.980 They're suing Donald Trump.
00:03:12.020 When you were talking about
00:03:13.100 unrest in American cities,
00:03:14.600 you said, quote,
00:03:15.620 we have to go by the laws.
00:03:17.200 We can't call in 0.93
00:03:18.020 the National Guard
00:03:18.820 unless we're requested
00:03:20.100 by a governor.
00:03:21.080 What changed now?
00:03:22.360 Why is this situation different
00:03:23.820 to not consult
00:03:24.640 with Governor Newsom about this?
00:03:25.800 Well, the biggest change
00:03:26.580 from that statement
00:03:27.200 is we have an incompetent governor.
00:03:28.920 So I talked about governors,
00:03:30.540 but I didn't talk about 0.54
00:03:31.480 he's an incompetent governor. 0.89
00:03:32.680 Look at the job 0.99
00:03:33.420 he's doing in California.
00:03:34.920 He's destroying
00:03:35.720 one of our great states.
00:03:36.940 And if I didn't get involved,
00:03:39.080 if we didn't bring the guard in,
00:03:40.840 and we would bring more in
00:03:41.960 if we needed it
00:03:42.720 because we have to make sure
00:03:44.340 there's going to be law and order.
00:03:46.120 You had a disaster happening
00:03:48.860 and they now admit
00:03:50.020 it was a disaster.
00:03:50.980 I watched the chief yesterday,
00:03:52.820 who's a good man, by the way.
00:03:54.460 And he said,
00:03:55.140 well, we're lucky we did this
00:03:56.800 because they were overwhelmed.
00:03:59.220 You saw what was happening.
00:04:00.940 So we did the right thing.
00:04:02.100 Everybody agrees to that.
00:04:03.600 But you have a governor
00:04:05.080 who let the city burn down
00:04:06.480 and didn't want water
00:04:07.820 to be sent down to him.
00:04:09.240 And I sent billions
00:04:10.500 of gallons of water.
00:04:12.020 I wanted to do it
00:04:13.520 in the first term.
00:04:14.580 He wouldn't do it over.
00:04:15.720 I don't know.
00:04:16.120 They have environmental reasons,
00:04:17.440 but there were no
00:04:18.280 environmental reasons.
00:04:19.460 It's I think it's just
00:04:20.580 a political philosophy.
00:04:22.320 But it's lucky for the people
00:04:25.080 in Los Angeles
00:04:25.840 and in California
00:04:26.720 that we did what we did.
00:04:28.920 We got it just in time.
00:04:30.200 It's still simmering a little bit.
00:04:32.240 Primary crime
00:04:33.220 is running for governor
00:04:34.360 because he's done
00:04:34.960 such a bad job.
00:04:36.360 What he's done to that state
00:04:37.520 is like what Biden
00:04:38.640 did to this country.
00:04:40.160 And that's pretty bad.
00:04:42.260 It's the wrong philosophy.
00:04:44.920 Thousands,
00:04:45.560 hundreds of thousands
00:04:46.400 of illegal immigrants,
00:04:47.660 many of them prisoners
00:04:49.180 are taking up your health care.
00:04:50.760 They're taking up
00:04:51.360 your space in schools.
00:04:52.440 They're taking up
00:04:53.060 your hospital.
00:04:54.180 And in many cases, 0.66
00:04:55.500 they're criminals.
00:04:56.740 And we have to do
00:04:57.860 something about it.
00:04:58.800 And we're doing
00:04:59.280 something about it.
00:05:00.180 I want to thank
00:05:00.800 the incredible
00:05:01.980 Patriots of Ice
00:05:02.980 and Tom Holman,
00:05:04.440 who has been incredible.
00:05:06.040 And Christy Noem,
00:05:07.520 likewise, incredible.
00:05:09.640 The job they're doing.
00:05:11.420 And it's like
00:05:12.320 an unforced error.
00:05:13.260 There was no reason
00:05:13.880 for this.
00:05:14.760 21 million people
00:05:15.980 were allowed
00:05:16.460 into our country.
00:05:17.740 And many of those people
00:05:18.960 were criminals.
00:05:20.040 And it's a shame.
00:05:21.180 It's a shame.
00:05:21.880 But we're getting them out.
00:05:23.860 And I will say,
00:05:25.780 I think it's a 95 to 5 issue,
00:05:28.220 just like so many
00:05:29.000 other issues, 95 to 5.
00:05:30.900 And the Democrats
00:05:31.960 lost an election
00:05:33.020 in a landslide
00:05:33.820 because they're
00:05:34.900 on the wrong side
00:05:35.700 of the issues.
00:05:36.540 I mean, it's not even
00:05:38.220 conceivable that somebody
00:05:40.200 would do the kind
00:05:40.900 of things that he did.
00:05:41.960 And then, you know,
00:05:42.800 you talk about projects.
00:05:44.320 They want to build
00:05:44.780 a train going from
00:05:45.860 San Francisco to L.A.
00:05:47.620 And it's costing
00:05:48.540 hundreds of billions
00:05:50.100 of dollars more
00:05:50.960 than they thought
00:05:51.460 it was going to cost.
00:05:52.260 It's not even believable.
00:05:53.700 To Brad and to people
00:05:55.120 sitting here,
00:05:56.080 would you believe
00:05:56.700 that a train,
00:05:57.320 it was going to cost
00:05:58.660 X dollars
00:05:59.880 and it might be
00:06:00.560 100 times X.
00:06:02.600 Would have paid for this
00:06:03.480 for about 50 million
00:06:05.500 American children.
00:06:06.640 You're right.
00:06:07.320 50 million American children
00:06:08.640 instead of a three-mile
00:06:09.840 train track
00:06:10.820 that never got built.
00:06:11.980 We could have put
00:06:12.640 Lincoln in charge
00:06:13.500 with no experience.
00:06:14.600 He would have done
00:06:15.060 a good job.
00:06:16.060 I guarantee you that.
00:06:17.860 All right, please, Peter.
00:06:19.200 Mr. President,
00:06:19.840 have you gotten an update
00:06:20.860 from your negotiating?
00:06:22.060 Thank you, President Trump.
00:06:22.820 So, it seems like
00:06:24.140 Gavin Newsom
00:06:24.820 likes the attention
00:06:26.420 that he's getting
00:06:27.040 right now from you.
00:06:28.380 I do, yeah.
00:06:28.740 It seems like he does.
00:06:30.740 He, if you look
00:06:32.300 at recent history,
00:06:33.600 somebody who was
00:06:34.120 running for president,
00:06:35.300 you, who got arrested
00:06:36.540 and had a mugshot,
00:06:37.660 you could make the argument
00:06:38.480 that politically
00:06:39.180 that wound up helping you.
00:06:41.220 Are you worried at all
00:06:42.740 at this moment?
00:06:44.040 The talking about him
00:06:44.980 getting arrested
00:06:45.620 could be helpful
00:06:46.640 to his political prospects
00:06:48.520 because a lot of people
00:06:49.600 think he wants to be
00:06:50.280 sitting right where you are.
00:06:51.180 Well, in my case,
00:06:52.260 it was a witch hunt
00:06:53.100 and everybody knew it
00:06:54.120 and I was able to explain
00:06:55.260 that during the process.
00:06:56.480 Otherwise, I wouldn't
00:06:57.140 be sitting here right now
00:06:58.260 and it was a total witch hunt.
00:06:59.720 It's proven to be a witch hunt
00:07:00.940 and you see what's happened.
00:07:02.260 In his case,
00:07:02.980 it really is very obvious.
00:07:04.480 You look at what's happened
00:07:05.440 between the fires,
00:07:07.460 between, I could name
00:07:09.300 10 things right now.
00:07:10.860 We talk about the trains.
00:07:12.060 We talk about
00:07:12.720 all of the costs
00:07:14.260 in California.
00:07:15.380 You talk about
00:07:16.220 all of the people
00:07:17.100 that are flowing
00:07:17.680 and destroying life
00:07:18.680 for everyone else.
00:07:19.460 So, no, I don't think
00:07:21.060 it's going to help them.
00:07:21.760 I think it's actually
00:07:22.880 very bad for them.
00:07:24.000 And right around the time
00:07:25.040 that we were walking in here,
00:07:26.840 the governor
00:07:27.800 and the state attorney general
00:07:29.620 said that they're going to sue you
00:07:31.300 for sending the National Guard
00:07:32.700 and they're saying
00:07:33.160 there's no invasion,
00:07:34.140 there's no rebellion.
00:07:35.480 The president is trying
00:07:36.300 to manufacture chaos
00:07:37.900 and crisis on the ground
00:07:39.280 for his own political ends.
00:07:41.640 Federalizing the California
00:07:42.680 National Guard
00:07:43.340 is an abuse
00:07:44.140 of the president's authority
00:07:45.500 under law.
00:07:47.120 Well, you know,
00:07:47.760 it's interesting.
00:07:48.700 You watch the same clips
00:07:49.860 as I did.
00:07:50.960 Cars burning all over the place,
00:07:52.600 people rioting.
00:07:53.420 And by the way,
00:07:53.940 we stopped it.
00:07:55.020 We were able to make it
00:07:55.900 much better,
00:07:56.720 but it still looked pretty bad.
00:07:58.580 And in watching clips last night,
00:08:01.420 people were saying,
00:08:02.040 this is really a big problem.
00:08:04.180 And until we went in,
00:08:05.280 if we didn't do the job,
00:08:06.360 that place would be burning down
00:08:07.720 just like the houses burned down.
00:08:09.600 They were in big trouble
00:08:10.480 last night, Peter.
00:08:11.380 You know it.
00:08:12.000 And the night before
00:08:12.800 and the night before that.
00:08:14.240 And I feel we had no choice.
00:08:16.320 I don't want to see,
00:08:17.180 I don't want to see happen
00:08:18.700 what happened
00:08:19.500 so many times in this country.
00:08:21.280 I watched Minneapolis burn.
00:08:23.760 I watched,
00:08:24.460 look at what happened
00:08:25.360 in so many different parts
00:08:26.720 of California.
00:08:28.160 You take a look
00:08:28.800 at what happened
00:08:29.440 in San Diego.
00:08:30.840 There's so many
00:08:31.840 different places
00:08:32.740 where we let it burn.
00:08:34.740 We want to be politically correct.
00:08:36.360 We want it to be nice.
00:08:37.700 We want to be nice
00:08:38.700 to the criminal.
00:08:40.000 And what you're doing
00:08:40.680 is destroying the fabric
00:08:41.840 of our life in this country.
00:08:43.160 No, we did the right thing.
00:08:44.980 We've been given credit
00:08:45.960 by people that I would
00:08:47.780 least suspect.
00:08:49.400 I would say that
00:08:50.500 some of the people
00:08:51.620 that came in and said,
00:08:52.680 thank goodness,
00:08:53.840 they said,
00:08:54.380 some of them,
00:08:55.140 thank God
00:08:55.840 that Trump got involved.
00:08:57.300 And I'm very happy
00:08:58.060 I got involved.
00:08:59.120 And I think Gavin
00:09:00.620 in his own way
00:09:01.400 is probably happy
00:09:02.300 I got involved.
00:09:03.240 Yeah, go ahead, Peter.
00:09:03.960 What do you make
00:09:04.900 of the fact that he says
00:09:06.180 you want a civil war 0.96
00:09:08.320 on the streets of America?
00:09:10.620 No, it's just the opposite.
00:09:12.120 I don't want a civil war.
00:09:13.500 A civil war would happen 0.98
00:09:14.860 if you left it.
00:09:15.560 If you left it to people like him
00:09:17.160 and I liked him,
00:09:18.220 you know,
00:09:18.380 I always got along with him,
00:09:19.720 never had a problem with him, 0.99
00:09:21.140 but he's grossly incompetent. 0.96
00:09:23.280 One thing's for sure. 0.98
00:09:24.620 Donald Trump
00:09:25.220 is not backing down.
00:09:26.540 He is going to protect
00:09:27.340 American citizens
00:09:28.400 even in sanctuary cities.
00:09:30.440 Which brings me
00:09:31.200 to the second part
00:09:32.160 of the conversation.
00:09:33.480 What is going to happen next?
00:09:35.460 It is very clear
00:09:36.780 that the Democrats
00:09:37.800 and their donors
00:09:39.560 are going to help spread
00:09:41.780 all of this chaos
00:09:43.480 to many other cities.
00:09:45.100 As I'm doing this show
00:09:46.200 right now,
00:09:46.980 we are seeing protests
00:09:48.120 pop up from Florida
00:09:49.360 to Texas
00:09:50.280 and pretty much now
00:09:51.960 everywhere in between.
00:09:53.900 There is no doubt
00:09:55.660 that the Democratic Party
00:09:57.220 is behind this
00:09:58.160 and their mega donors.
00:09:59.800 This is what they do.
00:10:01.180 I also want to say this.
00:10:03.220 Expect a lot more of this
00:10:04.980 to happen in the days
00:10:06.240 and the weeks ahead.
00:10:07.720 Democrats believe
00:10:09.100 that law and order
00:10:10.100 should not take place
00:10:11.580 in their sanctuary cities.
00:10:13.260 In fact,
00:10:13.800 they want this chaos
00:10:14.940 so they can blame it
00:10:15.920 on Donald Trump.
00:10:17.120 Which brings me
00:10:18.000 to Kristi Noem.
00:10:19.300 Kristi Noem,
00:10:20.340 the Department of Homeland
00:10:21.280 Security Secretary,
00:10:22.780 came out
00:10:23.460 and had this to say
00:10:24.840 about what's happening
00:10:26.500 in L.A.
00:10:27.640 Listen carefully
00:10:28.640 to the words
00:10:29.740 she chooses
00:10:30.620 as she's explaining
00:10:32.180 what's happening
00:10:33.300 with the leaders there.
00:10:35.020 Yeah, absolutely.
00:10:35.840 And that's, Sean,
00:10:36.400 those are the people
00:10:37.200 we're going after.
00:10:38.160 I mean, those are our targets.
00:10:39.380 Today we had over
00:10:40.220 four to five hundred targets
00:10:41.860 we were going after
00:10:42.660 that were known members
00:10:43.880 of gangs in L.A.
00:10:45.720 that have been victimizing
00:10:47.260 people for years
00:10:48.560 that Gavin Newsom
00:10:49.860 has done absolutely
00:10:50.640 nothing about,
00:10:51.580 that Mayor Bass
00:10:52.420 has done absolutely
00:10:53.140 nothing about.
00:10:53.840 Listen, I served with her
00:10:54.760 in Congress
00:10:55.360 before she was ever mayor.
00:10:57.600 And she is a train wreck 1.00
00:10:58.760 of a mayor now
00:10:59.540 that is endorsing
00:11:00.560 these kind of activities,
00:11:01.700 has allowed her city
00:11:03.400 to be completely
00:11:04.300 devastated with crime.
00:11:05.560 And now she's holding
00:11:07.120 press conferences
00:11:08.020 talking about the fact
00:11:09.660 that people have the right
00:11:10.420 to peacefully protest
00:11:11.500 and that they're
00:11:12.240 a city of immigrants.
00:11:13.260 Well, they're not
00:11:13.720 a city of immigrants, 0.99
00:11:14.920 they're a city of criminals
00:11:15.880 because she has protected them
00:11:17.640 for so many years.
00:11:18.680 And so we're coming in
00:11:19.800 and doing what the president
00:11:21.400 has said that he's going to do
00:11:22.840 and he's going to allow people
00:11:24.460 to live in a safe community again.
00:11:26.820 And we're going to use
00:11:28.020 the authority that he has
00:11:29.220 as president of the United States
00:11:30.640 to conduct these operations.
00:11:32.400 And the more that people
00:11:33.600 conduct violence
00:11:34.480 against law enforcement officers, 0.94
00:11:35.980 boy, we're going to hit them back. 0.99
00:11:37.760 And we're going to hit them back 0.99
00:11:38.580 harder than we ever have before.
00:11:40.280 And we conducted
00:11:40.920 more operations today
00:11:42.200 than we did the day before.
00:11:44.100 And tomorrow,
00:11:44.800 we're going to double
00:11:45.380 those efforts again.
00:11:47.040 The more that they protest
00:11:48.240 and commit acts of violence
00:11:50.140 against law enforcement officers,
00:11:52.360 the harder ICE
00:11:53.180 is going to kind of come after them
00:11:54.520 because these people
00:11:55.420 are patriots.
00:11:56.280 These ICE officers
00:11:57.740 are people who are fighting
00:11:58.880 for their country.
00:11:59.780 And I'm so proud of them.
00:12:00.880 They've acted with dignity.
00:12:02.780 They've acted with grace
00:12:04.120 under stressful situations.
00:12:06.540 And when they've been disrespected,
00:12:08.040 they've responded appropriately
00:12:09.680 under the law
00:12:10.520 to make sure that they were
00:12:11.740 treating every single individual
00:12:13.260 the same and making sure
00:12:14.980 that due process was followed
00:12:16.400 and that they were doing their jobs.
00:12:18.240 So this is an unfortunate situation
00:12:20.860 that we see violence
00:12:21.920 and instigators out there.
00:12:24.100 But the president Trump
00:12:25.320 is really dedicated
00:12:26.540 to bringing peace again.
00:12:27.980 Kristi Noem is right.
00:12:29.100 L.A. is not a city of immigrants. 0.99
00:12:30.560 They are a city of criminals 0.98
00:12:32.100 under the mayor's protection.
00:12:34.520 And she protected them
00:12:35.540 for so many years
00:12:36.600 that this anarchy and chaos
00:12:38.160 is now the reality.
00:12:39.760 I will also say it again.
00:12:41.920 And remember this moment.
00:12:43.600 The Democratic Party
00:12:44.900 is going to do everything they can
00:12:47.420 to turn L.A. into the test case.
00:12:50.920 They're going to learn
00:12:51.700 from what they've done
00:12:52.700 and they're going to move this
00:12:54.460 to other cities.
00:12:56.180 They're going to act like it's organic.
00:12:58.060 It is pre-planned,
00:13:00.160 well-organized,
00:13:01.440 and paid for by the radical left
00:13:03.620 that cares more about illegal immigrants 0.99
00:13:05.880 than those in this country
00:13:08.600 that are actually American citizens.
00:13:11.180 And that's exactly
00:13:12.100 who Donald Trump
00:13:12.980 is trying to protect.
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