Verdict with Ted Cruz - September 10, 2026


BONUS POD: Zelensky Crowned the ‘Free World’ Leader as Democrats Ditch America


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00:01:05.320 Look, I think the president's dominance over the party is unquestionable.
00:01:08.260 But I also think that going into this election, I think he's very frustrated with the fact that House Republicans and Senate Republicans seem very bad at making the case for themselves.
00:01:17.580 They need a reset in this RNC in Dallas where they actually come together and have a message going into the fall.
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00:01:28.440 You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
00:01:32.240 Good Thursday morning. It's nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update.
00:01:35.740 And we've got two big stories for you.
00:01:37.760 First up, Democrats double down on their message of hating on America.
00:01:43.140 And not only do they say you should be ashamed of this country,
00:01:46.160 but they have a foreign leader that they're now crowning,
00:01:49.600 the true leader of the free world that we should want to emulate,
00:01:53.760 Who have they named? I'll explain that in a moment.
00:01:56.440 Also, in a shocking move, we're now learning who is behind El Saeed.
00:02:01.900 And it is a super PAC that is linked to Hamas, you know, the terrorist organization.
00:02:07.120 We also know that in their own internal emails,
00:02:09.640 they're saying that they're building a movement in U.S. Mosque to take over in government.
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00:02:17.720 It's the 47 Morning Update, and it starts right now.
00:02:21.460 Story number one.
00:02:22.540 There seems to be a real theme right now, and that is Democrats that are running for office or Democratic Socialists of America and their supporters are pushing a new agenda item.
00:02:32.280 It is hate America.
00:02:34.100 Take a listen to Democratic Senator Chris Coons, who says America is no longer the leader of the free world.
00:02:42.520 And then even more shocking than that, he tells you who you should idolize.
00:02:47.500 And you can guess it's not Donald Trump at all.
00:02:50.980 I would say we are no longer the leaders of the free world. In fact, if anything, Volodymyr Zelensky is the primary national leader who is putting his country's men and women on the line for freedom. And we need to earn our place back as leader of the free world in the future.
00:03:08.800 so to be clear unless you're a radical extremist democratic marxist socialist communist who's
00:03:15.240 leading america then you should be ashamed of this country and and if their guy's not in charge
00:03:21.740 democratic senator chris coon says america is no longer the leader of the free world in other words
00:03:27.340 the majority of americans who voted for donald trump well we hate you and instead we'd rather
00:03:33.040 have Zelensky be our leader. Because in his words, Zelensky is the primary national leader
00:03:38.620 and we're no longer the leaders of the free world. That would be Zelensky. Now, he also wasn't done 0.92
00:03:45.620 there. Democratic Senator Chris Kuhn went on to brag about depriving thousands of hardworking
00:03:52.580 Americans of their paychecks. Why? To protect illegal immigrants. Again, they hate you. And
00:04:00.640 When they tell you, believe them.
00:04:02.220 I do not support using ICE as an ill-trained, masked, concealed, thuggish local force
00:04:11.120 that goes into churches and synagogues and mosques, into court buildings, into schools and hospitals.
00:04:18.320 These should be safe places.
00:04:20.800 And we had such a fundamental fight over this that my caucus, the Democrats in the Senate,
00:04:26.540 shut the government down for several months last year because we were unwilling to vote to fund
00:04:33.040 ICE. So not only does he hate ICE, the men and women who are going out there and getting the
00:04:39.360 gangbangers and the cartel members and the fentanyl dealers and the human smugglers and
00:04:45.660 the drug traffickers and the murderers and the child rapists and the rapists and those that are
00:04:50.880 abusing children right like those are the people that ICE are going after people that are real
00:04:57.000 threat to society and what you just heard there it was very clear you have a man who's high up in
00:05:05.220 the Democratic Party that says that well I hate them I don't want them involved I don't want them
00:05:12.020 around I don't want them doing any of these things that they are currently doing now again this is
00:05:20.280 the Democratic Party saying, we hate America. We hate American leaders. We hate American voters.
00:05:26.900 We actually idolize leaders around the world like Zelensky. Just so you know, Zelensky hasn't had an
00:05:33.040 election there since the war broke out. So much for, you know, free and fair elections and for
00:05:38.480 actually listening to the people in Ukraine. But yet again, it's another example of how important
00:05:45.500 in the midterm elections actually are.
00:05:48.200 Democrats will tell you when they hate you.
00:05:51.300 And they will tell you that they hate your values.
00:05:54.040 And they will tell you that you should look to Zelensky
00:05:56.180 for the future of what America, I guess, should look like.
00:05:59.640 So get ready, folks.
00:06:00.900 You have a real decision to make come November.
00:06:03.840 And it's not just about showing up to vote.
00:06:06.460 It's also about getting out and supporting the candidates
00:06:08.660 that you believe in.
00:06:10.000 Because one thing that is for certain is this.
00:06:12.520 The Democrats, the Socialists, and the Communists,
00:06:15.500 They are angry and they are fired up to win this election.
00:06:20.440 Now story number two.
00:06:21.500 A super PAC linked to Hamas-friendly care is now taking credit for helping elect Abdul
00:06:28.700 El-Sayed.
00:06:30.220 And even scarier than that, they're now saying they're building a quote-unquote movement
00:06:34.880 in the U.S.
00:06:36.580 Where? 1.00
00:06:37.540 Inside of mosques. 1.00
00:06:39.660 That's right. 0.99
00:06:40.320 The Care-Linked Lobby arm also not only taking credit for boosting the campaign of Mundani,
00:06:46.920 as well as Adam Hamaway, a New Jersey Democratic nominee for Congress, 0.67
00:06:52.360 but they're saying this is all starting in their mosques.
00:06:56.460 The Super PAC saying that they believe that we are building a victory
00:07:00.060 and showing we're building a movement in our mosques across the U.S.
00:07:04.920 The Unity and Justice Fund is a super PAC controlled and funded by CARE's lobbying arm known as CARE Action.
00:07:13.900 And they said in a fundraising email over the weekend that it helped mobilize tens of thousands of Muslims and Middle Eastern voters to turn out for El Saeed,
00:07:25.400 who defeated the pro-Israel Democrat Stevens by one point in the August 4th primary.
00:07:32.280 So if you want to know who is behind these communist, socialist, Marxist candidates,
00:07:36.960 these democratic, quote, socialists of America, 0.86
00:07:40.080 well, look no further than the Muslim movement with care.
00:07:43.740 Quote, the Unity and Justice Fund helped elect Mandani, Dr. Hemaway, and now El Saeed.
00:07:49.800 We're doing more than just securing electoral wins across the country.
00:07:54.120 We're building a movement in mosques and communities across this country.
00:07:58.900 That is what the Unity and Justice Fund said in their own words.
00:08:03.720 They also claim to have, quote,
00:08:05.120 knocked on more than 30,000 doors specifically of Muslim voters.
00:08:11.600 As of August 24th, the fund appears to have removed the phrase
00:08:15.800 a movement in mosque from the fundraising email
00:08:19.480 and have changed Muslim voters to Muslim and Middle Eastern voters.
00:08:25.040 I guess that's how you PC all of this.
00:08:27.280 Now, according to the campaign disclosures, the Unity and Justice PAC, which is about two years old, contributed more than $175,000 last month alone to fighting for Michigan PAC, the largest outside group supporting El Saeed.
00:08:43.440 And the Unity and Justice Fund paid more than $40,000 to a consulting firm owned by the chief of staff to the mayor of Dearborn Heights, Michigan, for quote-unquote canvassing services in support of El Saeed, the record show.
00:08:59.240 Now, that's not all. Again, it's all about follow the money.
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00:11:02.280 Now let's get back to the shocking story about the amount of money 0.82
00:11:05.440 that's being raised specifically by care in the Muslim community to get out the Muslim vote.
00:11:10.900 Unity and Justice Fund, for example, is seeking to raise an additional $1.5 million
00:11:15.560 ahead of the November elections.
00:11:18.420 The super PAC's support of El Saeed could further alienate moderate Democrats
00:11:22.920 as well as Jewish people in Michigan who are very concerned about El Saeed's link
00:11:28.320 to anti-Israel and pro-terrorist, pro-Hamas activists.
00:11:32.720 Devotion to Sharia law is another issue.
00:11:35.440 and intellectual interest in some of the most extreme corners of Islam. 0.86
00:11:40.780 Now, again, this is exactly where the money is coming from, 0.84
00:11:44.300 the radical extreme left in the Muslim movement. 0.91
00:11:47.580 We're talking about Islamists.
00:11:49.820 Now, it also undercuts El Saeed's primary campaign attacks on AIPAC.
00:11:54.340 That is the pro-Israel group that heavily backed Stephen
00:11:57.260 to he beat in that midterm election.
00:11:59.700 AIPAC has spent a record amount in this race to elect my opponent,
00:12:03.300 El-Sayed said, because she'll be a reliable vote for a foreign government that is aiding, arming, and abetting a genocide.
00:12:11.660 That is the words of El-Sayed just last month.
00:12:14.400 Now, let me just remind you about CARE and who they are just for a moment.
00:12:18.760 They were designated as an unindicted co-conspirator of a Hamas front group in 2008.
00:12:25.480 and they have sought to distance itself from the Unity and Justice Fund
00:12:29.680 and claims that it neither created nor funded the super PAC.
00:12:34.180 Quote, CARE has never donated to any funds to any political campaign, PACs or super PACs,
00:12:40.800 nor has CARE established any PACs, nor has CARE ever endorsed any candidates.
00:12:46.100 That is what the CARE Deputy Executive Director, Edward Mitchell, said in a statement saying,
00:12:50.900 quote, doing so would be illegal.
00:12:53.040 Now, that is true by a narrow legal definition, but CARE two years ago openly created CARE Action, which immediately established the Unity and Justice Fund.
00:13:04.040 CARE and CARE Action shared board members and have shared the same street address in the past as well.
00:13:10.020 CARE has also created a super PAC, and it's called Unity and Justice Fund.
00:13:15.300 That is what Nyan Awad, CARE's co-founder and executive director, said on a 2024 podcast.
00:13:24.340 Awad, who has donated $750 to El Sade's campaign, has also come under intense scrutiny in late 2023
00:13:31.640 for stating he was, quote-unquote, happy to see, those are his words, Hamas attack Israel on October the 7th.
00:13:42.300 Quote, my organization, CARE, the Council on American Islamic Relations, would like to share the good news that we are expanding our C-4 lobbying and PAC's organization in the next few days.
00:13:55.800 That is what Awad said in a rally in D.C. in January of 2024.
00:14:01.360 CARE's website also quotes a news article that refers the Unity and Justice Fund as a super PAC link to the Council on American Islamic Relations.
00:14:12.300 CARE Action, by the way, has contributed more than $185,000 to the Unity and Justice Fund so far this year.
00:14:19.440 Now, let me also tell you about the CARE Action Executive Director, Bassem Elkara,
00:14:23.840 who has expressed support for a terrorist, promoted incitement and demonizing Israel.
00:14:31.060 That, according to Canary Mission, and was listed as the Super PAC's first treasurer
00:14:36.860 and signed the fundraising emails that the Unity Injustice Fund sent out this weekend.
00:14:43.140 CARE Action's three board members all serve on CARE's National Board of Directors.
00:14:48.740 I think you can pretty much connect the dots here of just how corrupt all of this actually has become.
00:14:54.640 Now, CARE officials and employees have contributed heavily to the Unity Injustice Fund
00:14:59.020 and directly to El Sade's campaign as well.
00:15:01.740 According to Fox News, current and former CARE employees have contributed more than $115,000 to El Saeed's campaign directly
00:15:10.980 Now even El Saeed's father-in-law donated $100,000 to the Unity Injustice Fund on July 20th
00:15:17.940 Campaign records now show
00:15:19.560 He also serves on the board of directors of CARE's Michigan chapter
00:15:23.880 The program's manager at CARE California also contributed more than $1,000 to the Unity Injustice Fund
00:15:30.720 Now, all of this is about following the money.
00:15:34.540 And what we're now learning is simply this.
00:15:36.980 El-Sayed is absolutely aided, supported, and backed by all of these groups that are directly tied to Hamas.
00:15:45.800 Yes, the terrorist organization.
00:15:48.320 And CARE is saying it very clearly in their own words.
00:15:51.440 They're taking credit for helping elect El-Sayed and building a movement, a Muslim movement, in the U.S. through their mosque organization.
00:16:01.400 Notice how after this has been exposed, that is when they started, well, changing their words slightly.
00:16:08.240 So if you want to know what we're up against, if you want to know who El Saeed is actually representing,
00:16:13.820 it is not the citizens of the United States of America.
00:16:17.200 It's clearly the special interest groups tied to CARE.
00:16:20.320 And those groups are tied to Hamas. 0.73
00:16:23.460 So welcome the Democratic Party in 2026. 0.74
00:16:26.780 When they tell you what they believe in and who they hate, that includes many of us and especially those that are Jewish, you should probably listen to exactly what they're saying because they're not holding back in their own emails.
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00:17:01.720 A lot of news is boring.
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00:17:07.840 Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong.
00:17:08.900 He's Joe Getty.
00:17:09.540 We're Armstrong and Getty.
00:17:10.660 We try to bring you the truth.
00:17:11.800 And help you figure out this crazy modern world.
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00:17:18.700 We have a winner.
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