Verdict with Ted Cruz - Border Madness & Gun Ignorance

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00:00:04.900 Welcome to Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.

00:00:07.060 Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:08.180 Senator, nice to be with you today,

00:00:10.100 except we're in different places on this episode

00:00:12.700 for people that are like, wait,

00:00:14.120 why aren't they in the same room?

00:00:15.480 I had to fly back to my hometown of Memphis

00:00:17.280 to check out my dad who was in the hospital.

00:00:19.920 He is doing okay, but that's why we're remote today.

00:00:22.780 And Senator, it's good to be with you as always.

00:00:25.320 Ben, great to be with you.

00:00:26.660 A lot going on in the world

00:00:27.780 and hope your dad continues to do better.

00:00:29.740 He is doing well, thank goodness.

00:00:31.640 Let's start in on this big issue,

00:00:33.740 and that is we have a game plan now

00:00:36.120 from the president of the United States of America

00:00:38.280 to fix the problems at the border.

00:00:41.660 And he's decided that if we just use woke terminology,

00:00:46.420 all the issues at the border are gonna go away.

00:00:49.240 Let's just let you get your initial reaction

00:00:51.660 to some of these terminologies the president's decided to use

00:00:54.800 while visiting apparently the president in Mexico.

00:00:57.280 This is what their master plan is.

00:00:59.180 Yeah, look, it's even worse than that.

00:01:01.660 So in the last few days, Joe Biden,

00:01:04.240 there's good news and bad news.

00:01:05.840 Joe Biden has done more in the last few days

00:01:08.220 on our southern border

00:01:09.160 than he has the entirety of his presidency.

00:01:10.920 That's the good news.

00:01:12.440 The bad news is everything he's done is bad.

00:01:15.020 He flew down to the southern border.

00:01:17.060 He went to El Paso, not the Rio Grande Valley,

00:01:19.640 which is the epicenter of the disaster.

00:01:21.420 Before he arrived in El Paso,

00:01:22.820 there had been illegal immigrants sleeping on the streets.

00:01:25.460 The mayor had declared it an emergency.

00:01:27.700 So what did they do?

00:01:28.400 They cleaned all the illegal immigrants off the street 1.00

00:01:30.140 before Joe Biden arrived

00:01:31.300 because they wanted to set it up like a TV set

00:01:33.980 and clear everyone out.

00:01:35.940 When he got there, this is an amazing thing,

00:01:38.280 Corrine Jean-Pierre said from the White House podium.

00:01:42.840 She said Biden did not meet or speak to or see

00:01:46.020 a single illegal immigrant when he was there. 0.90

00:01:49.600 Now, Ben, that is frigging hard.

00:01:51.420 I have been to the border many, many times.

00:01:55.160 We've had 5.3 million people cross illegally

00:01:58.500 under Joe Biden's presidency.

00:02:00.140 For him to go to the border

00:02:01.580 and not see a single illegal immigrant,

00:02:04.320 I guarantee you that was political staffers

00:02:07.280 working overtime saying,

00:02:09.560 make sure you don't show some little girl 0.99

00:02:12.320 who was sexually assaulted by the traffickers.

00:02:14.740 Make sure you don't show some impoverished person

00:02:18.320 who went through a horrific journey to get here.

00:02:20.180 Definitely make sure you don't show an MS-13 gang member

00:02:24.460 who just came into this country 1.00

00:02:26.040 and is now carrying out crimes in this country.

00:02:28.500 Instead, he went down there for a photo op,

00:02:30.800 but then he wasn't done.

00:02:32.740 Then he got on a plane and he headed to Mexico

00:02:34.980 and he met with AMLO, the president of Mexico.

00:02:39.080 And he announced the Biden border plan

00:02:42.100 and it is truly stunning.

00:02:44.400 So here's what Joe Biden has said,

00:02:46.400 and I want to quote him.

00:02:47.920 He has said, quote,

00:02:48.960 quote, we are trying to make it easier

00:02:51.780 for people to get here.

00:02:54.380 In other words,

00:02:55.960 the 5.3 million that have crossed illegally,

00:02:58.680 that's not a bug, that's a feature.

00:03:00.840 They want more of it.

00:03:02.720 He doesn't intend to fix this.

00:03:04.120 He doesn't want to fix this.

00:03:06.740 Instead, he wants full on open borders.

00:03:11.820 He's not hiding it.

00:03:13.240 And by the way, AMLO, the president of Mexico,

00:03:15.140 he gets it.

00:03:16.700 Have a listen to what AMLO said

00:03:18.520 with Joe Biden standing next to him

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00:04:26.360 Senator, let's play that video real quick

00:04:28.100 of the president in Mexico

00:04:29.320 talking about how proud he is

00:04:31.100 that America's given the ultimate thing,

00:04:33.240 the ultimate gift, that open border.

00:04:34.780 Usted es el primer presidente de Estados Unidos

00:04:39.880 en mucho tiempo

00:04:41.280 que no ha construido ni un metro de muro.

00:04:49.080 Y eso se lo agradecemos.

00:04:52.460 And Ben, if your Spanish is not up to snuff,

00:04:57.560 what AMLO just said is that you're the first president

00:05:01.120 of the United States in a long time

00:05:03.220 who hasn't built even a single meter of border wall.

00:05:09.200 And that, he said, we appreciate.

00:05:12.560 So explicitly, by the way,

00:05:14.300 AMLO is a leftist Marxist president of Mexico

00:05:18.740 who has been embracing the cartels,

00:05:21.260 who's been turning a blind eye to the cartels,

00:05:24.240 murdering police officers, murdering journalists.

00:05:26.860 And he's standing there with Biden beaming, 0.65

00:05:30.040 praising him because you're the first president

00:05:32.060 in a long time.

00:05:32.680 By the way, he's including Barack Obama in that.

00:05:36.060 He's including George W. Bush.

00:05:37.500 He's including Barack Obama.

00:05:38.780 He's including Bill Clinton.

00:05:39.780 He's including, of course, Donald Trump.

00:05:42.520 Joe Biden is the worst of all of them

00:05:45.060 on open borders.

00:05:46.980 AMLO is praising him.

00:05:49.260 And then the White House rolled out

00:05:51.920 this rather amazing document

00:05:54.240 on January 10th.

00:05:56.120 It's called the Declaration of North America, DNA.

00:05:59.500 So this is their leftist DNA.

00:06:01.300 I don't think that acronym is accidental.

00:06:06.840 So we are right now facing the worst crisis

00:06:10.360 of illegal immigration in the history of our country.

00:06:12.640 It has never been this bad.

00:06:14.580 5.3 million people have crossed illegal under Joe Biden.

00:06:18.780 The Biden White House lays out six principles.

00:06:23.280 You know what principle number one is?

00:06:25.440 All woke liberal ideology.

00:06:27.480 That's what they're going to do with the entire list.

00:06:29.440 Principle number one,

00:06:32.300 diversity, equity, and inclusion.

00:06:36.220 That's the very first thing.

00:06:37.880 Not border security, not saving lives,

00:06:40.160 not preventing women from being raped,

00:06:42.220 not preventing children from being assaulted,

00:06:44.020 not stopping fentanyl from flooding across the border.

00:06:47.600 Diversity, equity, and inclusion.

00:06:50.080 What do you think number two is?

00:06:51.780 I'm going to go with woke ideology yet again.

00:06:54.280 Like an academic decided to write this

00:06:56.120 for the White House at some woke school, right?

00:07:00.360 Climate change and environment.

00:07:03.760 That's number two.

00:07:04.860 That's what he's down there talking to Mexico about.

00:07:06.980 Hey, that made Al Gore happy.

00:07:08.500 I'm sure it did.

00:07:09.720 Yeah, that made Al Gore happy.

00:07:10.660 Number three,

00:07:12.060 surely illegal immigration comes up number three.

00:07:14.300 Nope.

00:07:15.360 Competitiveness.

00:07:15.880 We need to outsource more to Mexico. 0.50

00:07:19.720 What's number four?

00:07:21.640 Number four.

00:07:22.540 All right.

00:07:23.360 Finally, immigration comes up.

00:07:25.920 It's entitled migration and development.

00:07:29.420 And what do they say they want to do about it?

00:07:32.380 Work together to advance labor mobility in North America.

00:07:38.160 And in particular, it says,

00:07:39.840 since June, Mexico, the United States, and Canada

00:07:41.760 have collectively welcomed record numbers

00:07:44.160 of migrants and refugees from the Western Hemisphere

00:07:46.780 under new and expanded humanitarian programs.

00:07:50.800 They don't want to end it.

00:07:52.560 They're not trying to end it.

00:07:54.260 They're not asking for Mexico's help in ending it. 0.96

00:07:57.060 They want more.

00:07:59.260 Number five on this list is health.

00:08:01.240 Number six is regional security.

00:08:07.920 Do you know what word does not appear

00:08:09.500 in this entire White House list?

00:08:12.620 Cartel.

00:08:13.260 I didn't hear anything about actual border security

00:08:15.820 or the cartels or the drugs or the fentanyl,

00:08:18.680 for that matter.

00:08:20.240 Fentanyl.

00:08:20.860 Look, last year we had over 100,000 Americans

00:08:24.480 die of drug overdoses.

00:08:26.360 Most of those opioids, many of them fentanyl.

00:08:29.220 It is a deadly poison that is murdering Americans.

00:08:35.060 Joe Biden and the Democrats don't care.

00:08:37.200 They don't want to stop it.

00:08:38.200 They're not purporting to stop it.

00:08:40.380 And this meeting with AMLO,

00:08:43.460 listen, even though AMLO is a leftist,

00:08:47.280 he was afraid of Donald Trump.

00:08:50.440 He was afraid of Donald Trump.

00:08:52.860 I'm going to tell you an interesting story.

00:08:54.840 So we've talked before about how

00:08:57.620 the Remain in Mexico agreement,

00:08:59.600 how effective it was.

00:09:01.780 Let me tell you how it came to pass.

00:09:03.840 So it came to pass.

00:09:04.940 Donald Trump was president.

00:09:07.280 And he issued a threat to Mexico.

00:09:10.060 He said he was going to impose

00:09:11.820 a 25% tariff

00:09:14.260 on goods coming in from Mexico.

00:09:17.080 Now, I've got to say,

00:09:18.820 you and I are both Texans.

00:09:20.040 And a 25% tariff on goods coming from Mexico

00:09:22.940 would be devastating

00:09:25.240 to Texas farmers,

00:09:27.180 to Texas ranchers,

00:09:28.480 to Texas manufacturers and businesses.

00:09:30.820 And so...

00:09:31.340 Catastrophic.

00:09:32.700 I was vocal criticizing.

00:09:34.660 And I said, look,

00:09:36.020 I'm all for securing the border

00:09:37.640 and doing everything necessary,

00:09:39.140 but punishing the people of Texas

00:09:41.200 and the businesses of Texas

00:09:42.360 and jobs in Texas

00:09:43.820 is a mistake.

00:09:45.140 And what I said at the time,

00:09:46.180 I said, look,

00:09:47.460 Trump is playing a game of chicken

00:09:49.220 where he's driving a truck

00:09:51.500 really fast

00:09:52.340 at another guy

00:09:53.000 at a country road.

00:09:54.520 And sometimes you win

00:09:55.880 a game of chicken.

00:09:56.520 Sometimes the other guy swerves.

00:09:58.320 And I said at the time

00:09:59.580 when he issued that demand,

00:10:01.020 I said,

00:10:01.440 if Trump wins this game of chicken,

00:10:03.260 if AMLO swerves,

00:10:04.200 then it'll be great

00:10:05.060 and we'll make real steps

00:10:06.960 towards solving the problem.

00:10:08.020 But if he doesn't,

00:10:09.980 if AMLO crashes

00:10:11.080 his truck into Trump's,

00:10:12.440 the result is going to be

00:10:14.060 a ton of lost jobs

00:10:16.460 and harm in the state of Texas.

00:10:18.920 Well, it turned out

00:10:20.240 Trump won the game of chicken.

00:10:21.400 AMLO blinked.

00:10:22.780 He gave in.

00:10:23.780 Yeah.

00:10:24.460 And he signed

00:10:25.900 the Remain in Mexico agreement.

00:10:27.920 Now, the night he signed it,

00:10:30.740 I was at a retreat

00:10:32.920 with a bunch of other

00:10:33.800 Republican senators.

00:10:34.720 I was there with my wife

00:10:35.800 and I was with Roy Blunt

00:10:39.140 and his wife

00:10:39.840 and I was with Corey Gardner

00:10:40.840 and his wife.

00:10:41.380 Roy Blunt was a senator

00:10:42.180 from Missouri.

00:10:42.940 Corey Gardner was a senator

00:10:43.700 from Colorado.

00:10:44.900 So the six of us

00:10:45.880 were sitting down

00:10:48.120 having a glass of wine together

00:10:49.320 and Trump calls my cell phone

00:10:51.540 right after the news broke.

00:10:54.420 And I answer it

00:10:55.780 and he goes,

00:10:57.880 Ted, I was right.

00:11:00.600 You were wrong.

00:11:02.640 I said, hi, Mr. President.

00:11:04.720 And he was exultant.

00:11:07.660 He was on cloud nine.

00:11:09.120 And I decided, all right,

00:11:11.640 if he's going to give me grief

00:11:12.840 about it,

00:11:13.340 I'm going to do the natural step,

00:11:15.000 which is bring in other people.

00:11:16.460 So I said, Mr. President,

00:11:17.660 I'm here with Roy and Corey.

00:11:19.340 Why don't I put it on speakerphone?

00:11:21.760 And so we put it on speakerphone

00:11:23.800 and Trump was exultant.

00:11:25.400 He was really, really happy.

00:11:27.460 And he said,

00:11:27.920 you want to hear the details

00:11:28.820 of the deal?

00:11:29.340 We said, sure.

00:11:30.580 And the deal involved,

00:11:31.920 among other things,

00:11:32.640 if I remember right,

00:11:33.420 Mexico agreed to put 6,000 soldiers

00:11:35.960 on their southern border.

00:11:37.340 You know, the southern border

00:11:38.080 of Mexico next to Guatemala

00:11:40.420 is much, much smaller

00:11:41.800 than our southern border.

00:11:42.840 It's much easier

00:11:43.660 to secure the border

00:11:44.980 south of Mexico

00:11:45.840 than it is on our southern border.

00:11:48.160 And he agreed to remain in Mexico.

00:11:49.880 He agreed to the agreement

00:11:50.780 that people who crossed

00:11:51.800 illegally into Mexico

00:11:52.700 would remain in Mexico

00:11:53.820 while their U.S. asylum case

00:11:55.880 was proceeding.

00:11:56.460 And he walks through it

00:11:57.600 and he asked, you know,

00:11:59.980 so it turns out

00:12:01.060 all you guys were wrong

00:12:02.520 about this.

00:12:03.120 And Roy Blunt

00:12:04.180 had the line of the night.

00:12:06.000 He said, Mr. President,

00:12:07.960 now that you got a deal,

00:12:09.680 we were with you

00:12:10.840 the entire way.

00:12:13.420 And Trump howled laughing.

00:12:14.760 Welcome to politics,

00:12:15.700 by the way.

00:12:16.100 Brilliant.

00:12:16.680 Yeah, look.

00:12:17.320 Trump howled laughing.

00:12:18.580 It was a good line,

00:12:19.520 but it was,

00:12:20.980 AMLO was scared of Trump.

00:12:22.960 The amazing thing is

00:12:24.140 he was scared enough,

00:12:25.240 look, he thought Trump 0.81

00:12:26.120 was crazy enough 0.72

00:12:27.020 to put the tariffs on Mexico,

00:12:29.480 which would have hurt

00:12:30.260 the United States,

00:12:31.760 but it would have hurt

00:12:32.460 Mexico too.

00:12:34.120 And because Trump

00:12:35.380 had a credible threat,

00:12:36.540 I have to say,

00:12:37.360 look, his judgment

00:12:39.140 that AMLO was going to blink

00:12:40.260 was the right judgment.

00:12:42.120 And that agreement

00:12:43.480 was such a massive,

00:12:46.120 massive success

00:12:47.320 that it produced

00:12:49.580 the lowest illegal immigration

00:12:51.540 in 45 years.

00:12:54.340 It's remarkable.

00:12:55.480 And it's because

00:12:56.460 even though this leftist

00:12:58.460 who ran on anti-American rhetoric

00:13:00.620 didn't want to secure the border,

00:13:03.460 he was scared

00:13:05.400 of the American president,

00:13:06.680 and so he helped do so,

00:13:08.400 and we got enormous results.

00:13:09.940 When Biden came in,

00:13:11.300 not only is AMLO

00:13:12.640 not remotely scared of Biden,

00:13:14.500 Biden comes in there

00:13:15.480 as the most beta male, 0.96

00:13:17.440 weak American president,

00:13:18.960 that AMLO is glowing,

00:13:21.960 saying,

00:13:22.400 well, you know,

00:13:23.020 it's great that unlike Obama,

00:13:25.040 unlike all the other presidents,

00:13:26.360 you haven't built

00:13:27.020 any border wall at all.

00:13:28.600 And what does Biden say?

00:13:30.980 Well, diversity, equity,

00:13:32.240 and inclusion,

00:13:32.820 climate change,

00:13:34.140 and we want

00:13:35.340 even more open borders.

00:13:36.980 It is a travesty,

00:13:39.200 and it's even more

00:13:40.220 of a travesty

00:13:40.980 because in the face

00:13:41.760 of this crisis,

00:13:43.000 we should have a president

00:13:44.900 who actually stands up

00:13:47.000 for America

00:13:47.600 when dealing with Mexico,

00:13:49.060 and that's not what Biden did.

00:13:50.180 I want to ask you

00:13:50.660 about the politics.

00:13:51.980 There's a lot

00:13:52.700 that you can, I think,

00:13:54.040 read into the fact

00:13:55.940 that he said this publicly,

00:13:57.300 referring to the president in Mexico,

00:13:59.080 about the American president.

00:14:00.720 Even if,

00:14:01.920 and this is just politics,

00:14:03.840 most American presidents

00:14:05.300 would not want to be praised

00:14:07.720 publicly

00:14:08.840 by another country

00:14:10.580 for having an open border.

00:14:12.500 It's just,

00:14:13.080 you would assume

00:14:13.700 bad optics,

00:14:14.700 bad for your country,

00:14:16.160 even if that is your plan.

00:14:17.900 And I think it's also

00:14:19.080 just a point

00:14:20.360 where this president

00:14:21.200 felt so comfortable

00:14:22.300 because Biden's so weak

00:14:24.120 that even Biden

00:14:24.860 wouldn't look at him

00:14:25.500 and say,

00:14:25.740 hey man,

00:14:26.100 don't say that in public.

00:14:27.680 You're just undermining

00:14:28.900 what I'm helping you with here.

00:14:30.100 You're undermining

00:14:30.880 the border,

00:14:31.900 the open border policy

00:14:33.080 that I have here.

00:14:34.280 Don't say it out loud

00:14:35.420 in front of the media.

00:14:36.400 Don't praise me for it.

00:14:37.940 Just enjoy it

00:14:39.000 and be quiet about it.

00:14:40.600 And yet it's like

00:14:41.420 Joe Biden 0.98

00:14:42.060 is so incompetent 1.00

00:14:43.240 that he didn't even understand 0.98

00:14:44.620 how strong

00:14:45.940 this made Mexico look

00:14:47.400 while mocking

00:14:48.560 the lack

00:14:49.200 of American security.

00:14:50.480 Well, look,

00:14:52.080 the problem,

00:14:53.500 and people ask me

00:14:54.260 all the time,

00:14:54.940 why would

00:14:55.920 the Biden administration

00:14:57.160 do this?

00:14:57.860 Why would they have

00:14:58.520 open borders?

00:14:59.760 And the challenge

00:15:01.020 with today's Democrat party

00:15:02.760 in Washington,

00:15:04.060 they've given their agenda

00:15:06.060 on every issue

00:15:07.060 over to the radicals.

00:15:08.480 So on immigration,

00:15:09.760 they've given it over

00:15:10.380 to the open border radicals.

00:15:12.020 On gun control,

00:15:14.220 they've given it over

00:15:14.960 to the gun control radicals.

00:15:16.340 On crime and law enforcement,

00:15:18.080 they've given it over

00:15:18.640 to the abolish the police radicals.

00:15:20.480 On issues of sexuality,

00:15:22.820 they've given it over 0.64

00:15:23.600 to the transgender radicals

00:15:25.460 who want boys competing

00:15:27.280 against girls in sports

00:15:28.540 and are fighting

00:15:31.360 for the chemical castration 0.82

00:15:34.760 of little boys

00:15:35.700 and sterilization

00:15:37.180 of little girls

00:15:38.040 in pursuit of woke ideology.

00:15:40.700 Look, all of those

00:15:41.940 are fringe positions.

00:15:43.860 They're fringe positions nationally.

00:15:45.340 Every one of those,

00:15:46.620 70, 80% of Americans oppose.

00:15:48.600 I mean, they're not,

00:15:50.800 you know, you think back

00:15:51.880 to like the Bill Clinton presidency

00:15:53.440 and I was not a fan

00:15:54.260 of Bill Clinton.

00:15:55.340 Yeah.

00:15:55.940 But Bill Clinton

00:15:56.800 consciously tried to triangulate,

00:15:58.660 tried to go to the middle

00:15:59.540 and it was successful.

00:16:01.360 It got him elected twice,

00:16:02.660 even despite his personal scandals.

00:16:06.880 Going to the middle

00:16:07.880 was a successful strategy

00:16:09.200 for the Democrats.

00:16:09.900 What Biden has employed

00:16:12.240 is very different,

00:16:13.220 which is today's Democrat Party

00:16:15.200 is essentially an assembly

00:16:17.940 of radical groups

00:16:19.440 and each radical group

00:16:20.700 gets their issue area.

00:16:23.100 And they're not calculating.

00:16:25.680 The Democrats are not hiding

00:16:28.280 that they are open borders.

00:16:31.000 They're not pretending

00:16:32.460 they're going to solve

00:16:33.680 this situation.

00:16:34.540 And part of the reason is

00:16:35.900 the corporate media

00:16:37.380 is so utterly corrupt

00:16:38.640 that they're counting on them

00:16:40.660 not to tell the stories,

00:16:42.460 not to tell the truth.

00:16:44.560 Yeah.

00:16:44.740 There's a reason Biden

00:16:45.940 didn't see a single

00:16:47.120 illegal immigrant.

00:16:48.340 Because when you see

00:16:49.520 a little boy or little girl

00:16:50.720 who's been sexually assaulted

00:16:51.940 and abused,

00:16:52.800 you can't just spin it off

00:16:54.880 as look how compassionate I am.

00:16:56.820 So instead they try to hide it

00:16:58.440 and count on the media

00:16:59.200 to hide it with them.

00:17:00.600 And that's the question

00:17:02.040 I was going to ask you

00:17:03.020 as we wrap this part up

00:17:04.660 is there's one big story here

00:17:06.940 that was so clearly underreported

00:17:09.100 and it was an omission of guilt

00:17:10.480 I think by this administration.

00:17:12.740 There were a lot of videos

00:17:13.840 that came out in El Paso

00:17:15.560 of what the Biden administration

00:17:17.440 was doing, Senator,

00:17:18.580 to get ready for his visit.

00:17:20.360 And they showed the picture

00:17:21.600 the day before

00:17:22.400 and the day he arrived.

00:17:24.320 They came in 0.96

00:17:25.340 and you can't say

00:17:26.920 this administration

00:17:27.600 doesn't know what's going on.

00:17:29.480 Because not only do they know

00:17:30.580 what's going on,

00:17:31.380 they went into El Paso

00:17:32.680 and they literally

00:17:33.660 in the most inhumane way

00:17:35.440 I would argue possible

00:17:36.700 just cleaned out

00:17:39.220 every illegal immigrant,

00:17:41.440 every illegal immigrant

00:17:42.460 that was homeless,

00:17:43.500 all of the stuff

00:17:44.620 that could look bad

00:17:45.560 for the TV cameras

00:17:46.680 of the route

00:17:47.780 that the president

00:17:48.440 was going to take.

00:17:49.380 So they know

00:17:50.020 the chaos was there.

00:17:51.500 They know how many illegals 1.00

00:17:52.740 are sleeping on the street. 0.98

00:17:53.980 They know how dirty

00:17:55.180 the streets have become

00:17:56.200 and how they've lost control

00:17:57.840 in El Paso

00:17:58.520 because of the massive number

00:17:59.820 of illegal immigrants 0.94

00:18:00.400 coming across the border.

00:18:01.380 But they made sure

00:18:02.240 for a 24-hour period

00:18:03.760 that they just cleaned it out.

00:18:05.980 They arrested people.

00:18:07.220 This was caught on video.

00:18:08.240 They put them

00:18:08.700 in the paddy wagons.

00:18:10.060 They did exactly

00:18:11.120 what they should be doing

00:18:12.400 to secure the border

00:18:13.300 just for a 24-hour period

00:18:15.400 solely so the cameras

00:18:17.020 with the president

00:18:17.640 wouldn't see it.

00:18:19.020 And for the video version

00:18:20.300 of this pod,

00:18:21.500 we'll put up right now

00:18:23.060 the before and after picture.

00:18:24.420 So if you're watching

00:18:25.140 the video on YouTube,

00:18:26.700 you can see it.

00:18:27.520 You can see the before and after.

00:18:29.380 They cleaned it up.

00:18:30.440 By the way,

00:18:31.260 if you're watching

00:18:31.720 the video on YouTube,

00:18:32.620 that's great.

00:18:33.100 Make sure you subscribe

00:18:33.860 on YouTube,

00:18:34.640 but also make sure

00:18:35.340 you subscribe

00:18:35.900 on the audio version

00:18:37.420 because we put out

00:18:38.420 two a week in just audio

00:18:39.800 and then we put out

00:18:40.620 one a week in both audio

00:18:41.960 and video.

00:18:42.680 So make sure you're

00:18:43.540 subscribed to both.

00:18:44.460 But if you're watching

00:18:45.040 the video,

00:18:45.540 you can see the before

00:18:46.360 and after.

00:18:47.420 And in the before and after,

00:18:48.880 look, what becomes clear,

00:18:50.960 this is a Hollywood movie.

00:18:52.100 This is a TV production.

00:18:53.720 The people in charge of it

00:18:54.900 are Hollywood producers.

00:18:56.880 And if we actually

00:18:58.720 had a functioning press corps,

00:19:01.200 you couldn't do this.

00:19:02.560 If you had journalists

00:19:04.680 who were actual journalists

00:19:06.520 who were not PR flacks

00:19:09.040 for the White House,

00:19:10.200 they would cover it.

00:19:12.100 But they don't cover it

00:19:13.440 because they support

00:19:16.020 the agenda of open borders.

00:19:17.880 They support the agenda

00:19:19.040 of this White House.

00:19:20.140 And they no longer view

00:19:21.300 their job as actually

00:19:22.400 reporting on

00:19:23.200 the children being murdered

00:19:26.300 don't matter to these journalists.

00:19:29.320 and they don't matter

00:19:30.640 to the Democrats.

00:19:31.340 And the Democrats know

00:19:32.440 the journalists won't

00:19:33.220 report on it.

00:19:33.960 And it's why you have

00:19:35.340 Biden not only not

00:19:37.300 trying to fix this crisis,

00:19:39.040 but promising

00:19:40.720 to continue this crisis.

00:19:43.200 He is promising

00:19:44.120 next year

00:19:45.320 more people will cross 0.98

00:19:47.040 illegally,

00:19:47.620 more children will be

00:19:48.500 assaulted, 1.00

00:19:49.380 more women will be raped, 1.00

00:19:51.060 more elderly people 0.99

00:19:52.060 will be abandoned

00:19:52.800 to die in the desert,

00:19:54.080 more drugs will come in,

00:19:55.140 more fentanyl,

00:19:56.120 more gang crimes,

00:19:57.800 more teenagers trapped

00:19:59.200 working for the cartels.

00:20:00.920 And by the way,

00:20:01.580 the cartels,

00:20:02.340 the word that doesn't appear

00:20:03.240 in this White House document,

00:20:04.940 have made billions

00:20:06.500 and billions of dollars

00:20:08.640 because of Joe Biden.

00:20:11.280 Joe Biden becoming president

00:20:12.760 was hands down

00:20:13.720 the single best thing

00:20:15.060 that has ever happened

00:20:16.420 for the human traffickers

00:20:17.580 and drug traffickers

00:20:18.680 in Mexico

00:20:19.660 and across the world.

00:20:21.220 Record profits.

00:20:22.460 It was,

00:20:22.920 I saw a report

00:20:23.880 the other day

00:20:24.580 that said they believe

00:20:26.180 now the amount of money

00:20:27.480 being made off fentanyl

00:20:28.600 will far outpace

00:20:29.620 the cocaine

00:20:30.340 and marijuana drugs

00:20:32.000 that they were running

00:20:32.880 for decades

00:20:34.120 into this country.

00:20:35.360 They said it's

00:20:35.840 the most profitable period

00:20:37.100 they believe

00:20:37.600 for the cartels

00:20:38.560 in the history

00:20:39.280 in Mexico

00:20:40.400 and the president

00:20:41.480 is allowing it to happen.

00:20:43.160 Well, and Ben,

00:20:43.840 one thing about the cartels,

00:20:45.400 they make about

00:20:46.260 the same amount of money

00:20:47.420 from human trafficking

00:20:48.900 and from drug trafficking.

00:20:50.220 Both of those

00:20:50.900 are approximately

00:20:52.180 50% of their revenue

00:20:53.840 which tells you

00:20:54.620 what a big business

00:20:56.100 it is

00:20:56.800 treating human beings

00:20:58.440 as cattle.

00:20:59.740 This is modern day slavery.

00:21:02.820 Joe Biden is responsible

00:21:04.400 for modern day slavery

00:21:05.880 and it is every bit

00:21:07.060 as evil

00:21:08.080 and grotesque

00:21:09.060 and cruel

00:21:09.720 and inhumane

00:21:10.820 as it was

00:21:11.700 in the 1700s

00:21:12.800 and 1800s.

00:21:14.240 Under Joe Biden,

00:21:15.640 he's responsible

00:21:16.580 for funding

00:21:17.520 the slave traders

00:21:18.560 and for their murder

00:21:19.820 and torture

00:21:20.480 and suffering.

00:21:21.960 That is all

00:21:22.800 deliberately caused

00:21:24.240 by this White House.

00:21:25.720 If you hear

00:21:26.640 any Democrats,

00:21:27.560 by the way,

00:21:28.080 say that there is

00:21:29.140 a secure border,

00:21:30.600 they're lying to you

00:21:31.600 because we know

00:21:32.360 for a fact

00:21:32.900 that last year,

00:21:33.820 Senator,

00:21:34.580 and as a senator

00:21:35.740 from Texas,

00:21:36.540 you see this

00:21:37.300 more than anybody,

00:21:38.560 more people

00:21:39.380 crossed the border

00:21:40.260 into Texas illegally

00:21:41.120 last year

00:21:41.640 than any other

00:21:42.620 year on record

00:21:44.120 that we've had

00:21:45.400 since the government

00:21:46.200 has been keeping

00:21:46.960 these stats

00:21:47.640 and that's just

00:21:48.780 of the people

00:21:49.280 that we caught.

00:21:50.580 We don't know

00:21:51.480 how many people

00:21:52.400 got across the border

00:21:53.200 that we didn't catch

00:21:54.740 which they clearly

00:21:55.840 believe is another

00:21:56.820 record year

00:21:57.780 that we've never

00:21:58.680 seen before.

00:22:00.000 No,

00:22:00.160 that's exactly right

00:22:01.120 and it is

00:22:02.380 deliberate,

00:22:03.760 it's not an accident

00:22:04.660 and they don't

00:22:05.340 intend to stop,

00:22:06.620 they intend to

00:22:07.380 continue making

00:22:08.380 the problem worse

00:22:09.400 and worse

00:22:09.900 and worse

00:22:10.560 and turning a blind eye

00:22:12.220 to the human suffering

00:22:13.020 that results.

00:22:14.160 I want to switch gears

00:22:15.160 to what we're seeing

00:22:16.140 with the playbook

00:22:16.900 from Democrats

00:22:17.580 on issues

00:22:18.900 that they go back

00:22:19.920 to, Senator,

00:22:21.120 when they lose.

00:22:22.960 We're seeing,

00:22:23.880 and we're going to do

00:22:24.540 another show on this

00:22:25.700 but I'm just going

00:22:26.400 to use as an example,

00:22:27.860 San Francisco

00:22:28.560 is now saying

00:22:29.460 they want to pay

00:22:30.000 reparations to people

00:22:31.340 of $5 million

00:22:32.160 and give them

00:22:33.040 200 years,

00:22:34.400 I'm sorry,

00:22:34.740 150 years of salary.

00:22:37.040 You see Sheila Jackson Lee

00:22:38.780 that's talking

00:22:39.360 about reparations

00:22:40.400 and saying that she

00:22:41.040 wants to imprison

00:22:41.660 people that say

00:22:42.360 anything that's negative

00:22:43.180 towards a minority

00:22:44.040 and we'll deal

00:22:45.040 with that another day.

00:22:46.800 Canadian women

00:22:47.620 are looking for more,

00:22:48.940 more out of themselves,

00:22:50.020 their businesses,

00:22:50.960 their elected leaders

00:22:51.720 and the world around them.

00:22:53.140 And that's why

00:22:53.580 we're thrilled

00:22:54.080 to introduce

00:22:54.740 the Honest Talk podcast.

00:22:56.780 I'm Jennifer Stewart

00:22:57.780 and I'm Catherine Clark

00:22:58.980 and in this podcast

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00:23:17.140 They're going back

00:23:18.260 to their playbook

00:23:19.060 which is

00:23:19.720 we go after guns,

00:23:21.540 we try to start

00:23:22.400 a race war

00:23:23.120 and divide the country

00:23:24.700 to solidify our base

00:23:26.500 and now we are seeing

00:23:28.380 the President

00:23:29.600 and Democrats

00:23:30.620 calling for banning

00:23:31.920 of AR-15s again.

00:23:33.980 The President

00:23:34.600 talked about this

00:23:36.020 on Martin Luther King Day

00:23:37.920 in a very blunt way

00:23:39.520 and then we saw

00:23:41.140 the governor

00:23:42.220 in Illinois

00:23:43.080 come out

00:23:44.020 banning all

00:23:44.840 semi-automatic weapons.

00:23:46.860 That's part two

00:23:47.660 of this

00:23:48.000 so they're actually

00:23:48.620 implementing,

00:23:49.280 they're not just

00:23:49.680 talking about,

00:23:50.380 they're actually

00:23:50.840 doing this state

00:23:51.820 by state

00:23:52.380 where they can

00:23:53.080 and then you have

00:23:54.240 people,

00:23:54.640 and it may have been

00:23:55.180 the most amazing clip,

00:23:57.140 it was Geraldo

00:23:58.080 on Fox

00:23:58.960 where he said

00:24:00.260 this about AR-15s.

00:24:02.220 It makes macho

00:24:04.460 the people

00:24:05.380 who possess it,

00:24:06.400 oh look at me,

00:24:07.160 I'm a big deal.

00:24:07.860 It's a rifle.

00:24:08.700 It's not a rifle, Greg.

00:24:10.000 Yes, it's a rifle.

00:24:11.020 It is a machine.

00:24:11.980 What does AR stand for?

00:24:13.140 It is, it is,

00:24:14.420 it's a machine.

00:24:16.020 No, no,

00:24:17.640 that's not what it is.

00:24:21.160 I mean,

00:24:22.040 if you're going to say

00:24:23.300 you want to ban something,

00:24:24.700 at least Google it

00:24:25.800 and find out

00:24:26.420 what the hell it means,

00:24:27.460 right?

00:24:27.840 And this is the reason

00:24:29.000 why I will never trust

00:24:30.180 liberals, Senator,

00:24:31.280 with my guns

00:24:32.240 because they don't

00:24:33.180 even know what

00:24:33.920 they're talking about

00:24:34.620 when it comes to

00:24:35.240 the name of a gun.

00:24:36.620 Yeah, look,

00:24:37.100 that embodies

00:24:38.540 the ignorance

00:24:40.500 and apathy

00:24:41.860 and ideology

00:24:42.840 of the left-wing media.

00:24:45.420 So,

00:24:46.220 Geraldo has no idea

00:24:47.100 what an AR-15 is.

00:24:48.700 All right,

00:24:49.000 that's fine.

00:24:49.440 There's some people

00:24:49.940 that don't.

00:24:50.940 But,

00:24:51.320 Geraldo's job

00:24:52.300 is to go on TV

00:24:53.280 and talk about issues

00:24:55.640 like gun control

00:24:56.380 and Geraldo's decided

00:24:57.300 to be a left-winger

00:24:58.100 and advocate gun control.

00:25:00.040 So,

00:25:00.240 he's advocating

00:25:01.160 banning AR-15s.

00:25:04.440 Here's the problem.

00:25:05.360 He doesn't know

00:25:06.460 what an AR-15 is.

00:25:08.040 Now,

00:25:09.320 Gutfeld comes back

00:25:10.280 with,

00:25:10.880 you know,

00:25:11.340 what does the AR stand for?

00:25:13.660 And Geraldo responds,

00:25:15.660 automatic rifle.

00:25:16.580 Now,

00:25:16.760 you and I both know

00:25:17.500 that is wrong.

00:25:18.600 That is not

00:25:19.300 what the AR stands for.

00:25:20.860 The AR stands for

00:25:22.180 Armalite rifle.

00:25:23.760 Armalite was the company

00:25:24.840 in the 1950s

00:25:25.800 that developed it.

00:25:27.000 And an AR-15

00:25:28.120 is a semi-automatic rifle.

00:25:29.780 It's not automatic.

00:25:30.900 It's semi-automatic.

00:25:32.360 The difference,

00:25:33.200 and look,

00:25:33.780 listeners of this pod

00:25:35.120 are educated and savvy

00:25:37.040 and so y'all know

00:25:37.840 the difference,

00:25:38.520 but Geraldo has no idea.

00:25:40.520 An automatic rifle,

00:25:42.100 a machine gun,

00:25:43.440 is a weapon

00:25:44.960 that when you hold

00:25:45.920 the trigger down,

00:25:46.900 multiple bullets come out.

00:25:48.240 You think Rambo 0.92

00:25:49.020 going,

00:25:49.360 that's a machine gun.

00:25:51.680 A semi-automatic weapon

00:25:53.600 is a weapon

00:25:54.140 when you pull the trigger once,

00:25:56.020 one bullet comes out.

00:25:57.320 And then you pull the trigger

00:25:58.380 a second time,

00:25:59.200 and a second bullet comes out.

00:26:00.560 It's a fundamental difference.

00:26:02.800 Machine guns,

00:26:04.020 automatic rifles,

00:26:05.360 have been functionally illegal

00:26:07.420 in the United States

00:26:08.300 for over 80 years,

00:26:09.500 other than in very limited circumstances

00:26:12.120 with very strict licenses.

00:26:13.940 As a practical matter,

00:26:15.280 an ordinary citizen

00:26:16.100 cannot own a machine gun.

00:26:18.120 So Geraldo there,

00:26:20.060 when he says,

00:26:20.620 oh, AR stands for automatic rifle,

00:26:23.060 it's not just a gotcha question. 1.00

00:26:25.820 He's fundamentally ignorant 0.98

00:26:27.160 about what the thing is 0.98

00:26:28.320 that he wants to ban.

00:26:29.500 And he says actually

00:26:30.200 earlier in that clip,

00:26:31.580 he calls it a machine gun.

00:26:32.840 He thinks it is a machine gun,

00:26:35.500 and he doesn't really care.

00:26:37.960 It is an example

00:26:40.800 when why can the Democrats

00:26:43.720 be so left-wing?

00:26:45.700 Because the media is that bad.

00:26:47.300 They don't know

00:26:48.340 what an AR-15 is.

00:26:51.660 They don't care

00:26:52.560 what an AR-15 is.

00:26:54.520 They don't know what they're talking about

00:26:57.740 at all with weapons.

00:26:58.680 And another example of this,

00:27:00.500 Senators,

00:27:00.820 this last week,

00:27:01.740 there was a man

00:27:02.580 who had created

00:27:03.340 apparently one gun

00:27:04.960 that was a single-shot .22

00:27:07.320 little mini gun,

00:27:08.900 they called it,

00:27:09.400 with a spring

00:27:10.040 that he had to pull back

00:27:11.080 and it shot.

00:27:11.600 And he found out

00:27:13.700 through someone

00:27:15.020 that was looking at the bill

00:27:16.040 in Illinois

00:27:16.800 where they're banning

00:27:17.800 all of these guns

00:27:18.880 that his prototype

00:27:20.580 that never went into production,

00:27:22.400 that was one little bullet,

00:27:24.300 a .22,

00:27:25.280 a spring-loaded

00:27:26.060 that never went into production,

00:27:27.560 somehow his gun

00:27:28.740 got on the list

00:27:29.540 of the evil, scary, terrible guns

00:27:31.440 that should be banned in America, 0.51

00:27:33.240 they're saying,

00:27:33.860 at least in Illinois.

00:27:35.420 And they found this guy

00:27:36.480 and they're like,

00:27:36.920 you never even produced this gun.

00:27:38.980 This is not something

00:27:40.000 you can even buy on the market.

00:27:41.780 It doesn't really exist.

00:27:43.640 How did you end up on this list?

00:27:45.100 And he says,

00:27:45.660 I genuinely have no idea.

00:27:48.040 This is a gun

00:27:49.020 that I got a patent on.

00:27:50.320 This is a gun

00:27:50.840 that I did once.

00:27:52.080 And yet Democrats,

00:27:53.080 and again,

00:27:53.400 it shows the example

00:27:54.180 that you're mentioning,

00:27:54.960 they don't even know

00:27:55.820 what they're banning.

00:27:57.100 And the governor in Illinois

00:27:58.600 has come out,

00:27:59.400 and this is serious,

00:28:00.560 and I would say

00:28:01.180 to conservatives,

00:28:02.120 listen,

00:28:03.060 the governor in Illinois,

00:28:04.400 Senator,

00:28:04.960 has passed

00:28:05.660 a significant law.

00:28:07.440 It's going to be challenged,

00:28:09.180 yes,

00:28:09.420 but it bans

00:28:09.940 all semi-automatic guns.

00:28:12.240 And the majority

00:28:12.840 of firearms bought

00:28:13.680 in America today,

00:28:14.300 the majority of guns

00:28:15.180 are used to protect

00:28:16.100 people's lives.

00:28:17.540 The number one gun

00:28:18.640 that people have

00:28:19.680 to protect themselves

00:28:20.920 with personal carry

00:28:21.980 are semi-automatic weapons.

00:28:24.160 They've now banned them all,

00:28:25.640 which is really going back

00:28:26.720 to gun confiscation.

00:28:28.460 Just take a look at this.

00:28:29.800 You know,

00:28:30.120 I think it's a lot

00:28:30.760 of grandstanding, frankly,

00:28:32.220 and I know there are

00:28:32.840 some of them

00:28:33.400 that are opposed to the law.

00:28:34.740 But the fact is,

00:28:36.400 they've signed

00:28:36.960 an oath of office

00:28:38.360 to uphold

00:28:39.620 and enforce

00:28:40.560 the laws of the state

00:28:41.640 of Illinois,

00:28:42.180 and I expect them

00:28:42.740 to do so.

00:28:43.880 What penalty

00:28:45.120 would state residents

00:28:47.180 pay if they don't

00:28:48.200 abide by that

00:28:49.060 and within the next year

00:28:50.280 come forward

00:28:51.300 and register their weapons

00:28:52.360 in this category?

00:28:54.860 Well,

00:28:55.460 it begins with a fine

00:28:56.740 if they don't,

00:28:59.460 you know,

00:28:59.640 if they're caught

00:29:00.220 under this law.

00:29:01.020 It begins with a fine,

00:29:01.880 but a second instance,

00:29:03.920 it is a class four felony.

00:29:06.660 I mean,

00:29:07.480 this is gun confiscation

00:29:08.960 and the first part there,

00:29:10.880 and this is,

00:29:11.700 I think,

00:29:11.960 pretty cool.

00:29:12.900 I'm going to give you

00:29:13.340 the numbers.

00:29:14.380 Sheriffs in 80

00:29:15.380 Illinois counties,

00:29:16.720 Senator,

00:29:17.280 are making clear

00:29:18.260 they will,

00:29:19.060 not enforce

00:29:19.880 the assault weapons ban

00:29:21.220 that the Democratic governor

00:29:22.420 signed into law

00:29:23.200 on Tuesday,

00:29:24.280 saying they will not do this

00:29:25.880 because they believe

00:29:26.600 it's unconstitutional,

00:29:28.600 which I think is amazing

00:29:29.600 that law enforcement

00:29:30.240 is standing up.

00:29:30.780 But this is about

00:29:32.020 taking away your guns

00:29:32.920 in a gun registry,

00:29:33.860 saying if you don't

00:29:34.560 register them,

00:29:35.420 then you'll be a felon

00:29:36.320 because you didn't

00:29:36.820 register them by default,

00:29:37.820 which when you're a felon,

00:29:39.360 at that point,

00:29:40.480 you're not allowed

00:29:41.020 to own any firearms.

00:29:42.760 Well,

00:29:43.220 look,

00:29:43.440 that clip,

00:29:44.060 I think,

00:29:44.440 really embodies

00:29:45.240 just how extreme

00:29:46.220 today's Democrat party

00:29:47.420 is on the question

00:29:48.600 of guns 0.94

00:29:49.060 and how hypocritical 0.97

00:29:50.120 it is. 0.96

00:29:51.240 Number one,

00:29:52.140 Pritzker is a billionaire.

00:29:53.960 He lives with

00:29:54.680 vast wealth.

00:29:55.860 He is surrounded,

00:29:57.320 as governor,

00:29:58.000 he's surrounded

00:29:58.800 by an armed police detail.

00:30:00.780 previously he was

00:30:02.960 surrounded,

00:30:04.060 no doubt,

00:30:04.740 I don't know this for sure,

00:30:06.020 but I would wager

00:30:06.780 a whole lot of money

00:30:07.860 that he had

00:30:08.960 armed security

00:30:09.740 with him

00:30:10.500 just as a really rich guy.

00:30:12.240 He lives

00:30:12.680 in a really rich neighborhood

00:30:14.060 with armed security

00:30:15.160 and is kept

00:30:15.760 very,

00:30:16.240 very safe.

00:30:17.280 What does he want to do?

00:30:18.560 He wants to disarm

00:30:20.000 the ordinary citizens

00:30:21.580 of Illinois.

00:30:22.300 And by the way,

00:30:23.920 Illinois,

00:30:24.660 Chicago already has

00:30:26.080 some of the strictest

00:30:27.560 gun control laws

00:30:28.480 in the country

00:30:29.280 and it year after year

00:30:31.360 after year

00:30:32.060 has among the highest

00:30:32.960 crime rates

00:30:33.580 and murder rates.

00:30:34.500 Why?

00:30:35.260 Not because they don't

00:30:36.400 have tough enough gun control.

00:30:37.760 In fact,

00:30:38.840 in Chicago,

00:30:39.720 the gun control laws

00:30:40.760 have succeeded

00:30:41.400 in disarming

00:30:42.240 the law-abiding citizens

00:30:43.760 because by definition,

00:30:44.920 if you're law-abiding,

00:30:46.080 you abide the law.

00:30:47.840 But the criminals

00:30:48.940 are not law-abiding.

00:30:50.280 The gangbangers

00:30:50.980 are not law-abiding

00:30:52.020 and they have

00:30:52.720 all the guns they need

00:30:53.780 and so they're shooting 0.97

00:30:54.780 each other

00:30:55.920 and they're shooting

00:30:57.280 innocent citizens.

00:30:58.440 They're shooting

00:30:58.880 many of the people

00:30:59.840 murdered in Chicago

00:31:01.420 under these gun control laws.

00:31:02.820 Many of them

00:31:03.280 are African-American.

00:31:04.540 Many of them

00:31:05.000 are Hispanic.

00:31:05.800 The vast majority

00:31:06.520 of them are low-income.

00:31:07.860 And the Democrats

00:31:08.500 don't care. 0.99

00:31:09.340 Those black lives 1.00

00:31:10.200 don't matter to them. 1.00

00:31:11.580 The kids that are shot

00:31:12.680 in drive-by shootings,

00:31:13.800 those don't matter

00:31:14.440 and their solution

00:31:15.220 is to say,

00:31:16.540 you can't defend

00:31:17.040 your home.

00:31:18.400 Every year,

00:31:19.200 this is according

00:31:19.740 to the Obama White House,

00:31:20.980 firearms are used

00:31:22.360 defensively

00:31:23.460 to stop a crime

00:31:25.280 between 500,000

00:31:27.340 and a million times

00:31:28.560 each year.

00:31:29.620 According to the Democrats,

00:31:30.920 they take the guns away

00:31:31.880 from all of them

00:31:32.620 and just let the criminals

00:31:33.740 be armed

00:31:34.300 and you can see

00:31:35.940 the suffering,

00:31:37.940 the chaos,

00:31:39.020 the tragedy

00:31:39.840 that plays out

00:31:41.640 in Chicago

00:31:42.440 every day

00:31:43.340 and every week

00:31:44.160 and every month

00:31:44.800 and every year

00:31:45.540 because of those

00:31:46.860 misguided policies.

00:31:48.120 I'll also note,

00:31:49.900 you know,

00:31:50.140 Pritzker says,

00:31:50.860 well,

00:31:51.780 the sheriff,

00:31:52.980 the sheriffs took an oath.

00:31:55.020 Yes, they did.

00:31:56.240 But they didn't take

00:31:57.160 an oath

00:31:57.580 to obey

00:31:58.480 the Democratic kingpin.

00:32:01.720 Boss Hogg

00:32:02.620 who sits there

00:32:03.460 and decrees,

00:32:04.800 you shall obey

00:32:05.640 my orders.

00:32:06.460 They took an oath

00:32:07.360 to defend

00:32:07.860 and protect

00:32:08.240 the Constitution.

00:32:09.640 And I believe

00:32:10.960 these Illinois laws

00:32:11.840 are going to be

00:32:12.160 struck down.

00:32:13.540 The courts

00:32:14.180 are not going

00:32:14.540 to let him stand.

00:32:15.680 But the Democrats

00:32:16.580 don't care.

00:32:17.500 And by the way,

00:32:19.160 one of the strategies

00:32:21.520 of gun confiscation,

00:32:23.080 law-abiding people,

00:32:24.340 as I said,

00:32:25.080 abide by the law.

00:32:26.580 They want to confiscate

00:32:27.640 as many firearms

00:32:28.440 as they can.

00:32:29.340 By the way,

00:32:29.940 they also want

00:32:30.700 to turn into felons

00:32:32.540 as many gun owners

00:32:33.640 as they can

00:32:34.260 because that's one way

00:32:35.360 of confiscating them

00:32:36.780 and taking away

00:32:37.420 their rights.

00:32:38.820 You know,

00:32:39.240 when the courts

00:32:40.320 began striking down

00:32:41.660 Joe Biden's

00:32:42.480 illegal COVID vaccine

00:32:43.940 mandates,

00:32:44.420 when he was trying

00:32:45.100 to force employers,

00:32:47.160 large employers

00:32:47.920 to fire their employees

00:32:49.120 who didn't get

00:32:49.720 a COVID vaccine,

00:32:50.620 the courts struck it down.

00:32:51.880 And the White House

00:32:52.940 said,

00:32:53.240 well,

00:32:53.360 you should comply

00:32:54.200 with it anyway,

00:32:54.960 even though it's

00:32:55.540 been enjoined,

00:32:56.440 even though it's

00:32:57.000 not in force,

00:32:58.060 you should comply

00:32:59.440 anyway.

00:33:00.460 That's their view

00:33:01.280 on guns anyway.

00:33:02.340 We will use power.

00:33:04.100 You must obey.

00:33:05.840 And listen,

00:33:08.080 the Democrat view

00:33:09.440 of politics

00:33:10.280 is they use

00:33:12.140 government power

00:33:13.080 to punish their enemies

00:33:15.400 and reward their friends.

00:33:17.340 So they want to go

00:33:18.280 after their enemies

00:33:19.100 if you believe

00:33:20.000 in free speech,

00:33:20.800 if you believe

00:33:21.280 in religious liberty,

00:33:22.240 if you believe

00:33:22.940 in the Second Amendment,

00:33:23.980 if you believe

00:33:24.520 in free enterprise,

00:33:25.600 they consider you

00:33:26.920 an enemy.

00:33:27.560 They want to punish you.

00:33:28.800 They want to make

00:33:29.420 your life difficult.

00:33:30.380 They want to crush you

00:33:31.320 into submission.

00:33:32.300 On the other hand,

00:33:34.060 if you're a Democrat

00:33:34.980 lobbyist,

00:33:35.640 if you make money

00:33:36.780 on all of these

00:33:38.880 different scams

00:33:39.700 dealing with the

00:33:40.240 federal government,

00:33:40.840 they want to make you rich.

00:33:42.020 They want to shovel cash

00:33:43.400 into your pocket.

00:33:45.080 And that fundamentally

00:33:46.720 is the corruption

00:33:48.680 that's at the heart

00:33:50.120 of today's Democrat party.

00:33:51.320 I want to ask you

00:33:52.400 a practical question

00:33:53.400 from a legislative

00:33:54.320 standpoint, Senator,

00:33:55.400 because there are

00:33:56.040 a lot of Second Amendment

00:33:57.460 advocates, gun owners,

00:33:59.280 that are concerned

00:34:00.200 about two aspects of this.

00:34:02.260 And yes,

00:34:02.860 we have the court system

00:34:03.720 that I believe

00:34:04.180 is going to strike this

00:34:04.920 down in Illinois,

00:34:05.740 but Democrats clearly

00:34:06.760 are trying to figure

00:34:07.540 around workarounds

00:34:08.620 to take away our rights.

00:34:10.500 There are two things

00:34:11.380 that concern many gun owners,

00:34:12.660 and I know you've heard

00:34:13.480 about this a lot.

00:34:14.600 One is this gun registry

00:34:17.100 aspect of that,

00:34:18.480 and that's what they're

00:34:19.380 obviously trying to do

00:34:20.560 in Illinois.

00:34:21.600 The second is

00:34:22.740 government monitoring.

00:34:24.200 We talked about this,

00:34:25.260 I think,

00:34:25.700 on this podcast

00:34:26.240 a couple months ago

00:34:27.040 when banks

00:34:28.600 were recording transactions,

00:34:31.260 and the White House

00:34:31.840 was warning this,

00:34:32.440 for gun stores

00:34:33.880 and places

00:34:34.500 to kind of monitor

00:34:35.480 and then see

00:34:36.620 if you were buying

00:34:37.360 what they believed

00:34:38.220 was too much ammo

00:34:39.280 or too many guns

00:34:40.260 or too many transactions.

00:34:42.140 Look,

00:34:42.440 I own a gun store,

00:34:44.000 and we've had banks

00:34:45.140 and credit card processing

00:34:46.720 companies

00:34:47.220 that have actually

00:34:48.240 just said,

00:34:48.780 we're not working with you

00:34:49.820 even though you're selling

00:34:50.880 the most regulated industry

00:34:52.940 by the government.

00:34:54.040 We have multiple layers

00:34:55.260 of regulations

00:34:56.160 on this industry.

00:34:57.420 And they've also said,

00:34:58.980 you know,

00:34:59.580 not only are we not

00:35:00.280 going to do it,

00:35:00.820 we're going to try

00:35:01.440 to basically use that

00:35:02.260 to put you out of business.

00:35:03.760 And people are terrified

00:35:05.000 of the government

00:35:05.580 monitoring their transactions.

00:35:07.920 So number one,

00:35:09.080 is there anything

00:35:09.860 that you guys can do

00:35:11.180 to make that illegal?

00:35:13.480 And second of all,

00:35:14.960 is there any type

00:35:15.940 of legislation

00:35:16.480 that could come about

00:35:17.420 that says you cannot

00:35:18.280 have gun registries

00:35:19.440 in this country?

00:35:21.260 So yes,

00:35:22.440 there is.

00:35:23.200 And in the Senate,

00:35:24.340 I've been leading

00:35:24.980 the fight

00:35:25.560 against a gun registry

00:35:27.200 and in defense

00:35:27.900 of the Second Amendment

00:35:28.860 for the entire time

00:35:30.000 I've been there.

00:35:30.700 And listen,

00:35:31.300 the Second Amendment,

00:35:33.020 I believe passionately

00:35:34.120 in the Constitution.

00:35:36.660 As you know,

00:35:37.960 my second book

00:35:39.220 that I wrote

00:35:40.000 was One Vote Away,

00:35:41.240 How a Single Supreme Court

00:35:42.320 Seat Can Change History.

00:35:43.840 And there's an entire chapter

00:35:45.280 in One Vote Away

00:35:46.160 that talks about

00:35:47.300 the Heller case

00:35:48.160 where the Supreme Court

00:35:49.460 upheld and first clarified

00:35:52.260 the individual right

00:35:53.180 to keep and bear arms

00:35:54.140 in the Second Amendment.

00:35:55.840 And I led the states.

00:35:58.380 I was Solicitor General

00:35:59.340 of Texas

00:35:59.820 and I led the states

00:36:01.100 in defense of the

00:36:02.340 Second Amendment

00:36:02.900 in Heller,

00:36:04.260 which is why

00:36:05.540 the NRA

00:36:06.580 named me

00:36:08.080 as a champion

00:36:08.980 defending the Second Amendment

00:36:10.160 because that victory,

00:36:11.760 that victory

00:36:13.120 and the subsequent case

00:36:14.500 of McDonald

00:36:15.040 is a big part

00:36:15.880 of why this Illinois law

00:36:17.180 is likely to be struck down.

00:36:21.620 Protecting those rights

00:36:22.700 when I first got

00:36:23.500 to the Senate,

00:36:24.020 one of the very first

00:36:27.360 things that happened,

00:36:28.220 I was elected in 2012,

00:36:29.580 I arrived in 2013.

00:36:31.160 Tragically,

00:36:31.780 we saw the shooting

00:36:32.860 in Newtown, Connecticut

00:36:33.820 where that monster,

00:36:35.020 that animal, 0.79

00:36:35.680 murdered little children.

00:36:37.260 You and I are both parents

00:36:38.360 and I think there is

00:36:39.020 nothing more evil

00:36:40.140 on planet Earth 0.97

00:36:41.460 than a monster

00:36:42.060 who hurts little kids.

00:36:43.860 And the Democrats

00:36:44.940 were exultant.

00:36:46.940 Obama had just been re-elected.

00:36:48.460 They were convinced

00:36:49.100 they were going to pass

00:36:50.000 gun control.

00:36:51.120 And I was a brand new

00:36:52.420 baby freshman senator.

00:36:53.960 I was still in my basement office.

00:36:55.660 I didn't know

00:36:55.960 where the men's room was.

00:36:57.520 But I said, 0.97

00:36:58.240 I'll be damned

00:36:58.940 if I let this Congress

00:37:00.380 pass anything

00:37:01.180 that takes away

00:37:02.220 the Second Amendment rights

00:37:03.280 of Texans and Americans.

00:37:05.000 And I led the fight

00:37:06.240 just fresh into the Senate.

00:37:08.600 And we defeated those bills

00:37:10.180 on the floor of the Senate.

00:37:11.200 I authored the lead alternative

00:37:12.660 to those bills

00:37:13.800 that was a law enforcement alternative

00:37:15.380 that focused on criminals

00:37:16.660 and fugitives

00:37:17.760 and those with serious

00:37:18.860 mental illness

00:37:19.560 and putting them in jail

00:37:20.600 and taking their firearms away

00:37:22.500 and securing schools.

00:37:24.920 All of those.

00:37:25.800 There's a lot we can do

00:37:26.960 to make people safer.

00:37:28.500 The Democrats don't want that.

00:37:30.080 They want to disarm you,

00:37:32.580 the law-abiding citizen.

00:37:33.860 And one of the most central elements

00:37:35.660 you rightly focused on

00:37:36.880 is a gun registry.

00:37:38.520 And listen,

00:37:39.100 for people who don't follow

00:37:40.880 these issues,

00:37:42.640 a registry can sound innocuous.

00:37:45.760 One of the arguments

00:37:46.700 they like to give is,

00:37:47.720 look, you need a license

00:37:49.360 to drive a car.

00:37:50.560 You ought to have a license

00:37:51.480 to own a firearm.

00:37:52.640 And just, you know,

00:37:53.960 you ought to register a car,

00:37:55.280 you should register a firearm.

00:37:57.260 Well, the difference is

00:37:59.760 there are not yet

00:38:02.100 a group of political ideologues

00:38:04.840 and zealots

00:38:05.400 that want to confiscate

00:38:06.540 our automobiles.

00:38:07.440 By the way,

00:38:07.940 that may be coming.

00:38:08.780 They want to confiscate

00:38:09.560 our gas stoves.

00:38:10.760 Automobile confiscation

00:38:12.040 may be coming.

00:38:13.340 But we're not there yet.

00:38:14.540 But with firearms,

00:38:18.860 Pritzker wants to take them.

00:38:21.240 Joe Biden wants to take them.

00:38:22.940 Dianne Feinstein wants to take them. 0.69

00:38:24.760 Gavin Newsom wants to take them.

00:38:26.720 They want to come in

00:38:27.560 and forcibly remove your firearms.

00:38:30.380 And so the entire purpose

00:38:31.440 of a registry

00:38:32.120 is create a list.

00:38:33.880 Okay, Ben Ferguson

00:38:35.000 has the following firearms.

00:38:36.640 Okay.

00:38:38.400 The local law enforcement

00:38:41.240 shows up and says,

00:38:42.120 Mr. Ferguson,

00:38:42.660 hand over every gun on this list.

00:38:44.220 And if you don't hand it up,

00:38:45.180 we're putting you in handcuffs

00:38:45.980 and taking you away.

00:38:47.160 That's why they want a registry.

00:38:50.080 And so there are already elements

00:38:52.880 of current federal law

00:38:54.220 that prohibit,

00:38:54.900 for example, the ATF.

00:38:56.600 When you go and buy a gun

00:38:58.780 at a firearms dealer,

00:38:59.880 you own a gun store.

00:39:00.740 So you're a firearms dealer.

00:39:02.300 You got to fill out

00:39:03.080 a background check.

00:39:04.200 And as you know,

00:39:05.360 federal law requires you

00:39:06.500 to run that background check.

00:39:08.220 But after it comes back clean,

00:39:10.040 you're required

00:39:10.800 to destroy those records.

00:39:12.660 And the reason

00:39:13.380 federal law requires that

00:39:14.880 is because they don't want

00:39:16.460 a registry

00:39:17.820 that becomes a list

00:39:19.180 for the gun grabbers

00:39:20.620 to disarm America.

00:39:22.140 That is their objective.

00:39:24.240 And it is,

00:39:25.580 fortunately,

00:39:26.180 it's unconstitutional.

00:39:27.660 But as the Democrat Party

00:39:29.340 has gotten more

00:39:29.980 and more extreme,

00:39:32.000 they're not even bothering

00:39:33.480 to hide their objective

00:39:35.000 that they want

00:39:35.980 to disarm you.

00:39:37.320 And mind you,

00:39:39.000 at the same time,

00:39:40.100 they want to let out of jail

00:39:41.340 the violent criminals

00:39:42.400 who are committing

00:39:43.060 these acts.

00:39:44.100 I mean,

00:39:44.520 think of the combination.

00:39:47.220 Prevent your ability

00:39:48.580 to defend your home

00:39:49.500 and your kids,

00:39:50.240 but at the same time,

00:39:51.200 these are the people

00:39:51.920 that want to abolish

00:39:53.280 the police

00:39:53.820 and that are supporting

00:39:54.660 George Soros DAs

00:39:56.100 that let violent criminals

00:39:57.400 out of prison

00:39:57.960 who turn around

00:39:58.840 and commit more crimes.

00:39:59.820 You and I live

00:40:00.400 in Houston, Texas.

00:40:01.340 In Houston,

00:40:02.480 we've got cashless bail policies

00:40:04.700 that are releasing

00:40:05.680 murderers

00:40:06.740 who turn around 0.99

00:40:07.360 and murder more people. 0.54

00:40:09.380 I don't understand.

00:40:12.480 I really do struggle

00:40:14.620 with the reason

00:40:17.620 and logic

00:40:18.320 that says,

00:40:20.480 disarm someone

00:40:21.660 who's never committed

00:40:22.520 a crime,

00:40:23.280 who wants a firearm

00:40:24.480 to protect their children,

00:40:25.920 but at the same time,

00:40:27.620 release someone

00:40:28.540 who's already murdered somebody

00:40:30.540 and is likely

00:40:31.300 to murder somebody else.

00:40:32.560 That's not logic.

00:40:36.220 That's emotion.

00:40:37.660 That's rage.

00:40:38.780 That's ideology

00:40:40.020 disconnected from real life.

00:40:43.060 And it is a tiny sliver

00:40:44.700 of America.

00:40:45.920 But what's bizarre

00:40:47.420 is the Democrat Party

00:40:48.820 has handed their policy

00:40:50.160 on these issues

00:40:51.020 over to that tiny sliver

00:40:52.640 of America.

00:40:53.620 And embraced

00:40:54.700 every bit of it.

00:40:55.460 I say to people

00:40:56.180 all the time,

00:40:56.720 if you think

00:40:57.340 these types of things

00:40:58.380 cannot happen in America

00:40:59.480 or you think

00:41:00.580 that it'll never happen,

00:41:01.680 call anybody

00:41:03.020 you know in Canada

00:41:03.800 right now

00:41:04.320 and ask them

00:41:04.840 what rights

00:41:05.280 they have with guns

00:41:06.140 because Trudeau

00:41:07.100 just took them

00:41:07.720 all away

00:41:08.220 because of truck drivers

00:41:09.640 that stood up

00:41:10.880 to the vaccine mandate.

00:41:12.700 It scared the elitists

00:41:14.160 enough in Canada.

00:41:15.500 Those truck drivers

00:41:16.520 banding together,

00:41:17.540 they then said,

00:41:18.500 here's our response

00:41:19.640 to this.

00:41:20.380 Let's get rid of the guns. 0.96

00:41:21.700 And they did it

00:41:22.380 successfully there.

00:41:23.520 And that is a reminder

00:41:24.680 of how quickly

00:41:25.420 it can happen

00:41:26.020 if you're not

00:41:26.500 paying attention.

00:41:27.580 Senator,

00:41:27.840 I want to end

00:41:28.400 on a positive note

00:41:29.740 and I think

00:41:30.300 we should do this

00:41:31.640 more often

00:41:32.400 when we have victories

00:41:33.760 in the conservative movement.

00:41:35.720 You and I

00:41:36.160 just had dinner

00:41:36.860 recently in D.C.

00:41:38.400 with some of those

00:41:39.660 that were fighting

00:41:40.700 for a lot of the deals

00:41:43.060 that were done

00:41:43.820 to basically have

00:41:45.620 strong, staunch conservatives

00:41:47.400 sit on certain committees.

00:41:49.580 Your former chief of staff,

00:41:51.200 congressman from Texas,

00:41:52.900 Chip Roy,

00:41:53.440 was instrumental

00:41:54.380 in working this deal.

00:41:56.080 We now are seeing

00:41:57.100 the fruits of that fight

00:41:58.560 over the speakership

00:41:59.980 with Kevin McCarthy

00:42:00.720 and the payoff

00:42:02.140 is massive.

00:42:04.260 Tell people about

00:42:04.980 how good this is.

00:42:06.280 Well, we're starting

00:42:07.260 to get the announcement

00:42:08.160 of who is on

00:42:09.000 various committees

00:42:09.760 and one of the things

00:42:10.500 we talked about

00:42:11.160 at great length

00:42:11.880 when the media

00:42:12.420 was freaking out,

00:42:13.960 when Democrats

00:42:14.880 were freaking out

00:42:15.660 and even some Republicans,

00:42:17.140 particularly those

00:42:17.820 kind of at home

00:42:18.520 that weren't following

00:42:19.180 it closely

00:42:19.680 were freaking out,

00:42:21.180 that the speaker fight

00:42:22.960 was a disaster,

00:42:24.460 it was a disgrace,

00:42:25.400 that it was a catastrophe.

00:42:27.260 Look,

00:42:27.540 it was the democratic process.

00:42:29.360 We spent four days

00:42:30.500 with the House of Representatives

00:42:31.740 debating who its leader

00:42:32.780 should be

00:42:33.240 and debating,

00:42:34.540 more importantly,

00:42:35.340 how it should lead.

00:42:37.220 And the consequence,

00:42:39.040 those that stood up

00:42:40.260 and led that fight

00:42:41.220 extracted major concessions

00:42:43.400 and those concessions

00:42:45.040 are going to change

00:42:46.040 how the House majority

00:42:47.820 is able to govern

00:42:49.220 and able to fight

00:42:50.380 bad policies

00:42:52.060 from Biden

00:42:52.780 and the Democrats

00:42:53.380 over the next two years.

00:42:54.560 And it was a massive victory.

00:42:55.980 If you care about

00:42:57.600 having Republicans

00:42:58.420 actually stand up

00:42:59.920 and fight

00:43:00.320 for what they say

00:43:01.260 they believe,

00:43:02.420 that fight over

00:43:03.300 the speakership

00:43:04.060 was massively important.

00:43:06.000 Now,

00:43:06.180 in the middle of the fight,

00:43:07.040 one of the things

00:43:07.720 that shifted the battle,

00:43:09.000 you know,

00:43:09.200 early on,

00:43:10.200 there were a handful

00:43:11.280 of rebels

00:43:11.780 and it wasn't clear

00:43:12.540 how many were going

00:43:13.280 to vote against

00:43:14.600 Kevin McCarthy

00:43:15.280 as speaker.

00:43:16.420 And they had a meeting

00:43:17.620 of the House

00:43:18.100 Republican Conference

00:43:19.020 and one of McCarthy's

00:43:20.680 lieutenants

00:43:21.160 stood up

00:43:21.740 and threatened

00:43:22.820 the rebels.

00:43:23.480 If you dare

00:43:25.620 vote against him,

00:43:27.120 you'll be stripped

00:43:27.780 of your committees.

00:43:28.880 Now,

00:43:29.120 that's the kind

00:43:29.800 of high-handed,

00:43:31.580 haughty authoritarianism

00:43:33.020 that you expect

00:43:33.780 of Nancy Pelosi.

00:43:35.400 But it's not

00:43:36.520 what you should expect

00:43:37.540 of Republican leadership.

00:43:39.000 And I'll tell you,

00:43:39.580 that pissed

00:43:40.380 a lot of members off.

00:43:42.220 And I think

00:43:42.660 it played a big part.

00:43:43.820 We could easily

00:43:44.720 have seen

00:43:45.500 on the first vote

00:43:47.260 maybe 10 or 12

00:43:48.320 no votes.

00:43:48.960 Instead,

00:43:49.320 we saw 19

00:43:50.060 on the first vote.

00:43:51.360 And I think

00:43:51.940 that threat

00:43:52.760 may well

00:43:53.960 have doubled

00:43:55.000 or nearly doubled

00:43:56.060 the number

00:43:56.420 of no votes.

00:43:57.180 Well,

00:43:57.980 turned out

00:43:58.420 that threat

00:43:58.920 wasn't carried

00:43:59.580 through.

00:44:00.820 And we're starting

00:44:02.060 to get who's going

00:44:02.820 to be on the various

00:44:03.520 committees.

00:44:04.180 And one in particular

00:44:05.460 that is quite notable

00:44:08.140 is the House

00:44:10.660 Oversight Committee.

00:44:12.420 And the members

00:44:13.540 of that committee

00:44:14.300 will be Kelly Armstrong

00:44:15.580 from North Dakota,

00:44:16.680 Lauren Boebert

00:44:17.300 from Colorado,

00:44:18.860 Tim Burkett

00:44:19.620 from Tennessee,

00:44:20.380 Eric Burleson

00:44:22.100 from Missouri,

00:44:23.500 Byron Donalds

00:44:24.420 from Florida,

00:44:25.140 Chuck Edwards

00:44:25.700 from North Carolina,

00:44:26.860 Russell Frye

00:44:27.480 from South Carolina,

00:44:28.920 Marjorie Taylor Greene

00:44:29.880 from Georgia,

00:44:30.700 Paul Gosar

00:44:31.440 from Arizona,

00:44:32.320 Nick Langworthy

00:44:33.040 from New York,

00:44:34.420 Jake Leterner

00:44:35.540 from Kansas,

00:44:36.440 Gary Palmer

00:44:36.920 from Alabama,

00:44:38.180 Anna Polina Luna

00:44:38.960 from Florida,

00:44:39.660 Scott Perry

00:44:40.220 from Pennsylvania,

00:44:41.200 Lisa McClain

00:44:41.960 from Michigan,

00:44:42.760 Pete Sessions

00:44:43.280 from Texas,

00:44:44.540 and William Tibbins

00:44:45.300 from South Carolina.

00:44:46.260 Now,

00:44:46.400 what's striking

00:44:47.040 is that a whole

00:44:48.720 bunch of those

00:44:49.720 are rock-ribbed

00:44:51.700 conservatives

00:44:52.200 who were among

00:44:53.840 the rebels,

00:44:54.480 who were among

00:44:55.040 the people

00:44:55.500 that were told

00:44:56.340 you will be

00:44:57.340 in Siberia,

00:44:58.300 you will get

00:44:58.780 no committees,

00:44:59.520 and they've been

00:45:00.020 put now

00:45:00.640 on the Oversight

00:45:02.060 Committee

00:45:02.480 with the ability

00:45:03.700 to go after

00:45:04.520 the abuse of power

00:45:05.760 from Joe Biden

00:45:06.980 and this administration.

00:45:08.320 That's what we need

00:45:09.480 as principled fighters.

00:45:10.700 I think this is

00:45:11.180 a great,

00:45:12.360 great development.

00:45:13.820 I think we will

00:45:14.340 see more.

00:45:15.040 we will see

00:45:15.960 strong conservatives

00:45:17.740 in significantly

00:45:18.920 greater positions

00:45:20.220 able to leverage

00:45:22.040 their position

00:45:23.220 to fight

00:45:24.480 conservative battles

00:45:25.560 and hopefully

00:45:26.040 win conservative

00:45:27.200 victories

00:45:27.740 for the American people.

00:45:29.620 And I think

00:45:30.480 standing and fighting

00:45:31.600 for issues

00:45:33.180 and principles

00:45:33.920 that matter

00:45:34.800 is also how

00:45:36.440 we win in 24.

00:45:37.840 It's how we win

00:45:38.520 the Senate back.

00:45:40.380 It's how we hold

00:45:40.940 this House

00:45:41.360 and grow our House

00:45:42.140 majority.

00:45:42.860 It's how we win

00:45:43.600 the White House back.

00:45:44.480 And so

00:45:44.900 this is a good

00:45:45.920 illustration

00:45:46.600 when people said

00:45:49.120 gosh

00:45:49.620 why have this fight?

00:45:52.600 And look

00:45:52.960 when you and I

00:45:53.400 were having dinner

00:45:53.920 in D.C.

00:45:54.440 I pulled out my phone

00:45:55.480 and I read to you

00:45:56.280 texts

00:45:56.820 from Republican donors

00:45:59.040 some of whom

00:45:59.560 are friends of mine

00:46:00.260 who were irate.

00:46:02.100 Why is this fight

00:46:03.140 happening?

00:46:03.700 And listen

00:46:04.060 I understand

00:46:04.820 if you're a business guy

00:46:06.880 and you're at home

00:46:07.820 and you turn on

00:46:09.140 the news

00:46:09.680 and they just say

00:46:10.640 chaos

00:46:11.260 chaos

00:46:11.480 and madness

00:46:14.380 with the House

00:46:15.600 Republicans

00:46:16.140 you're kind of

00:46:17.840 annoyed

00:46:18.200 and you're kind

00:46:19.040 of embarrassed

00:46:19.520 if you don't

00:46:20.280 understand

00:46:21.060 why that fight

00:46:23.440 is happening

00:46:24.040 and I think

00:46:24.460 we're seeing

00:46:25.360 the very real

00:46:27.020 and tangible

00:46:27.760 results

00:46:28.560 of standing

00:46:29.420 and fighting

00:46:30.060 if you want

00:46:31.260 conservative leadership

00:46:32.460 you've got to

00:46:33.940 stand up

00:46:34.460 and have a

00:46:35.100 conservative conference

00:46:36.140 that demands it

00:46:36.980 and this is a big

00:46:37.540 step forward.

00:46:38.080 Look I just have to say

00:46:40.020 sitting at the dinner

00:46:40.700 that night

00:46:41.180 and this was me

00:46:42.340 looking from the outside

00:46:43.400 it was fun

00:46:45.140 to see you

00:46:46.420 and I think

00:46:47.000 how proud you were

00:46:48.280 of someone

00:46:49.380 that you know well

00:46:50.120 Chip Roy

00:46:50.740 and the way

00:46:51.400 that he was able

00:46:52.040 to orchestrate

00:46:52.780 that deal

00:46:53.260 and communicate

00:46:54.020 with the speaker

00:46:54.820 and to make sure

00:46:56.840 that these principals

00:46:57.840 had another day

00:46:59.700 to fight

00:47:00.320 and live

00:47:00.880 and have people

00:47:01.700 on these committees

00:47:02.400 it was just cool

00:47:03.840 to see

00:47:04.400 as I put it

00:47:05.500 the good guys

00:47:06.360 win here

00:47:07.080 and when we have

00:47:08.200 these moments

00:47:08.840 we should celebrate

00:47:09.740 them

00:47:10.160 and remind people

00:47:11.120 that this is why

00:47:12.280 we fight so hard

00:47:13.700 this is why

00:47:14.280 you fight so hard

00:47:15.240 this is why

00:47:15.860 you do the bus tour

00:47:17.300 in a year

00:47:17.920 when you're not up

00:47:18.920 for re-election

00:47:19.640 and you try to get

00:47:21.300 principal conservatives

00:47:22.520 into Congress

00:47:23.300 and these are those

00:47:25.060 moments that we should

00:47:25.940 enjoy

00:47:26.380 and take a moment

00:47:27.700 and say

00:47:28.020 it was worth it

00:47:29.080 and to the donors

00:47:30.720 it's worth it

00:47:31.960 and to finding

00:47:33.060 tough

00:47:33.640 strong

00:47:34.180 principal conservatives

00:47:35.140 and running them 0.68

00:47:36.380 and backing them

00:47:37.260 it's worth it

00:47:38.520 and it paid off big

00:47:39.780 and I just think

00:47:40.480 it's a big moment

00:47:41.160 that we should all enjoy

00:47:42.160 fully agree

00:47:43.980 senator

00:47:44.980 I appreciate it

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - January 20, 2023

Border Madness & Gun Ignorance

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