00:09:56.500And they said there are a couple who've come down, and they said they do totally different things than you guys, the Republicans, do.
00:10:02.480They said they will never go out on midnight patrol because they don't want to actually see the kids who are being abused because I guess then they would have to lie about it if they've never seen it.
00:10:14.200What they do instead is they go in to the headquarters.
00:10:18.060They don't want to actually see the illegal aliens.
00:10:20.000And they say, okay, talk to us about what kind of food you're giving and what kind of medical care you're giving and what kind of – their whole focus is like a welfare worker where they assume the Border Patrol is the bad guy.
00:10:30.140And can we give them more stuff is basically what the handful of Democrats who go down there do.
00:10:38.880Now, mind you, Kamala Harris has been to the southern border zero times since she became the border czar.
00:10:45.960Joe Biden has ostensibly been to the border once.
00:10:50.140Except when he went there, he didn't go to any migrant facilities, and his advance team cleared all the illegal immigrants off the street, so he went to a bridge.
00:11:00.820He met with some government officials, and he left.
00:11:03.040And according to the White House, he literally did not see a single illegal alien.
00:11:07.800That is a heartlessness because when you see these people – by the way, we did that on midnight patrol.
00:11:12.520Also in that group was a couple, a husband and wife with a little girl that were from Moldova.
00:11:18.380The little girl was beautiful, blonde, blonde curls, maybe two, three years old, a gorgeous little girl.
00:11:25.060They had gone from Moldova to Holland to South America to Central America to Mexico and then trafficked up into the United States.
00:11:39.120It was a many-month trip to come from Moldova, and I'll tell you that couple, it was evident they had gone through hell, especially the eastern Europeans.
00:11:52.220The border patrol agents told us they will never tell you what happened to them.
00:12:43.680Mostly kids, little, little kids, three- and four-year-old kids, teenagers, several moms, a couple of men, but it was mostly women and children.
00:12:54.240And the Border Patrol agents told us, they said, in all likelihood, every one of these children has been sexually abused.
00:13:54.880Can they even – you know, like, when you have normal investigations in the U.S. and something happens, they'll usually separate, even if you're two good guys.
00:14:03.260They'll separate you to get your stories to see.
00:14:05.760And I've been told the Biden administration doesn't even allow them to be separated anymore.
00:14:32.820And that really happened, to go back in time to remind people, when there was a humanitarian issue and there were so many people under that bridge and they started getting the drones up and the media were covering it and there was tens of thousands of people under this bridge and it was a humanitarian PR problem.
00:14:47.180That's when they went into full expedite and as fast as they come in, release them so that we don't look like we have a problem at the border with a bunch of people gathering.
00:14:56.520And by the way, release them means send them to every city in America.
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00:23:36.560There's also something that's changed.
00:23:38.140And I really want to focus on this for a moment before we move on to other stuff.
00:23:41.480But there are new threats that are against our men and women at the border.
00:23:45.900Our border patrol agents, we're seeing bounties on them.
00:23:50.620We're seeing people that are willing to pay for their families' addresses, where they're living, where they're renting, if they're in a hotel, whatever it may be.
00:24:01.400There's a new level of boldness from the cartels that are now saying,
00:24:06.440we want these border patrol agents to be afraid of us and not do their job and just disappear.
00:24:45.600For absolute dereliction of duty, for defying federal law, for facilitating the invasion of the United States of America by 7.9 million people,
00:24:55.720for facilitating the deaths of 753 migrants last year,
00:25:01.000for facilitating the rape and sexual abuse of thousands of women and thousands of little children,
00:25:06.720for 100,000 overdoses, including 70 percent from Chinese fentanyl across the southern border.
00:25:12.780After all of that, Alejandro Mayorkas is responsible for, and he doesn't give a damn.
00:25:17.400And by the way, you remember when I questioned him in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
00:25:21.860I asked him about the colored wristbands.
00:25:23.640He said he had no idea what they were.
00:28:57.840And I sat there, Ben, and I flipped through it one at a time.
00:29:03.640The conditions of those bodies, I have to tell you, I was physically ill, seeing in the heat, people's face gets charred, they get blown up and enlarged.
00:29:19.140Just the effects of the weather are grotesque.
00:29:23.740There were multiple young women who had died, and every one of them had their pants open and pulled down.
00:29:33.760And it was clear they'd been raped before they died, one after the other after the other.
00:29:48.020I got to say, I don't know a reporter at CNN or MSNBC or ABC or CBS or NBC who goes through that book, who covers that book, who tells the story.
00:30:10.780How concerned were Border Patrol agents over the possibility of terrorists, not possibility, the reality that terrorists are coming across at a much higher rate than we've seen over the last five years combined?
00:30:21.680We talked about this on a previous verdict.
00:30:23.700But this is the first time you've been down there since these new numbers have been released that are saying there's a significant increase of terrorists that are on the terrorist watch list that we are catching at the border.
00:30:34.980Doesn't count any of the ones that we're not catching.
00:30:39.180We talked about, particularly with the war in Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah specifically targeting coming across the border.
00:30:45.100As we talked about in last week's podcast, the San Diego Division of the Border Patrol instructed their agents be on the lookout for people from Hamas and Hezbollah hiding and pretending that they're not.
00:30:57.320In the Rio Grande Valley, they said they had not encountered recently people from Hamas and Hezbollah.
00:31:02.500So in the last couple of weeks, that had not yet presented.
00:31:19.280And one of the real problem is the volume is so great that it overwhelms the Border Patrol agents so that you have, on any given night, no capacity to even chase the gotaways.
00:31:32.620And so that evening, Muster, it was interesting.
00:31:35.420I was talking with Brandon Judd, who's the head of the Border Patrol Union, a good friend.
00:31:39.980And he was saying, he said, all right, that night, he said, typically that night there would be about 170 agents that are available to go out on patrol.
00:31:48.880He said that night there were 31 that were available because all of the rest were doing paperwork and processing and handling the detention facility.
00:34:31.160Tell us a little bit about this book, why you wanted to write it, and why it's so important, especially right now.
00:34:37.240Yeah, this book started as a question that I think a lot of parents actually had the same question that I had during COVID
00:34:44.100when we saw this increase in attacks on our children.
00:34:47.520I mean, all parents had to do was look over their kids' shoulder on Zoom school, and they'd see critical race theory and trans ideology, the 1619 Project, plus good old-fashioned moral relativism just thrown at their kids.
00:34:59.860And I understand that this isn't a new thing, that our kids are the target of the left, but it did seem to be escalating.
00:35:06.380So I wondered, well, where is this coming from?
00:35:12.160So the purpose of this book is I sought to find the answer to that question.
00:35:15.940And what I found was both frightening and frustrating.
00:35:20.060The frightening part is that the left has spent decades trying to get to our children, and to do so, they have co-opted, they've captured what I call four of the five major cultural institutions.
00:35:32.180So the media, that's an obvious one, the education system, sadly a lot of religious institutions too, the law, which has become evident in the last couple of years,
00:35:41.300and now they've set their sights on the nuclear family, particularly on children.
00:35:48.140The frustrating part is if this attack on our children isn't new, if it's been decades in the making, why haven't we been able to stop this?
00:35:55.440What has the Republican Party been doing for all of these decades to fight back?
00:36:00.160And so what I do in the book, the first half of the book is I name the names of the people in the organizations that are behind the capture of the institutions, behind the attack on our kids.
00:36:08.700And the second half of the book is a critique of the Republican Party.
00:36:12.580I offer a solution that I will tell you is different than what the Republican Party offers for how we can actually start winning, how we can recapture our institutions, how we can protect our kids and therefore our country.
00:36:25.100All right, so let's take those one at a time.
00:36:27.640You said the first half of the book, you're naming names.
00:36:37.840So what I do in the book is I make sure to differentiate between the Marxists who conceived the ideas, many of whom are long dead, and the current Marxists, the modern Marxists that are alive and well in our country today, who are propagating these ideas on our children.
00:36:53.920And I'll give you an example of one of each.
00:36:56.380One of the modern Marxists who's propagating an entirely destructive ideology on our children is a woman by the name of Gail Rubin.
00:37:03.380Gail Rubin is known as the founder, or she wrote the founding document of queer theory.
00:37:10.160Queer theory is a neo-Marxist theory that, unsurprising to most of your viewers, is what underpins the transgender ideology.
00:37:17.380So these poisonous ideas that are being taught to children in school right now, that boys can be girls, girls can be boys, gender is not connected to biological sex, everything's fluid.
00:37:27.660This is not just a random assortment of nonsense.
00:37:29.880This is pulled directly from neo-Marxist queer theory, which was penned by Gail Rubin, who is alive and well in our country today.
00:37:38.840And yet, most people, maybe in the past couple months they've heard about her, because I've been talking so much about her, most people have never heard of this woman, even though she's having such a direct and destructive impact on our children.
00:37:51.700The second example I will give is a Marxist who is long dead.
00:37:54.980And that's a Marxist, a Brazilian Marxist, actually, by the name of Paulo Freire.
00:37:59.420He was the one who contended that teachers in school shouldn't teach children facts and knowledge.
00:38:05.640He should teach them a worldview, how to view the world.
00:38:08.880And he called this worldview critical consciousness.
00:38:11.860What critical consciousness is, really, is just teaching children to look at everything through a Marxist lens.
00:38:17.800And this idea of critical consciousness is what exists in our public school system today under the all-encompassing, vague umbrella term of wokeness.
00:38:26.580So I trace everything back to its origins and show the manifestations of how it's impacting our kids in our society in America today.
00:38:34.000Liz, I want to ask you about moms specifically.
00:38:37.680I've actually been inspired, and I think TC and I, when we've been on the road, we've seen this.
00:38:42.340There are a lot of moms have gotten off the bench and are getting really involved with their kids and their kids' curriculum and what's happening in their schools and what they're being taught.
00:38:51.580But that's one of the biggest blessings, I think, of the COVID lockdowns was moms got to see in the classroom what was happening with their kids.
00:38:59.320I'm inspired by that, and I think this is going to be something that liberals are going to have hell to pay now with moms that are now involved.
00:39:06.220Is that part of what you're seeing and inspiring you to write this book?
00:39:09.220Yeah, it's incredible to see how many parents, moms and dads, who've had their eyes opened.
00:39:14.500I think as conservatives, we're generally people of good faith.
00:39:17.520We generally like to give other people the benefit of the doubt.
00:39:19.920We generally see the good in humanity.
00:39:22.240And sometimes because of that, it can be difficult to look at our political opposition and label them for what they are.
00:39:29.340We'd rather say, oh, you know what, this is a well-intentioned, good faith opposition who just has unwise, practical solutions to problems that we all admit are problems.
00:39:39.180That's how the Republican Party actually has operated for the last 50 years.
00:39:42.680But I think for the first time in many parents' lives during COVID, they saw that, no, that's not true.
00:39:49.480Our Democrat opposition are not well-intentioned, well-intentioned opposition who want the best, just have bad ideas for how to bring that about.
00:39:56.920They are, in fact, embracing neo-Marxist, anti-Christian, anti-American, sometimes anti-human ideology.
00:40:04.280And it's a really important step in fighting back against this to be able to define what the other side is.
00:40:09.940That's why I spent so much time doing that in the first half of my book, because if we don't understand the reality of this political enemy we face, we won't fight well against it.
00:40:19.260And if we don't fight well, we won't win.
00:40:45.820So I'll give you an example of one of the most interesting pieces of information that I found in the course of researching this book.
00:40:51.940Our public school system was not mandatory.
00:40:54.320Children were not compelled to go to public school until the year 1852.
00:40:58.480In 1852, the state of Massachusetts became the first state to compel public education.
00:41:03.540And the reason why was because there was an influx of immigrants to our country at the time, particularly Catholic immigrants.
00:41:09.780And the Protestant politicians in charge wanted to indoctrinate these immigrant children in American values so that they would be loyal to America first rather than the country of their birth and in Protestant doctrine because of the centuries long battle between Protestants and Catholics.
00:41:23.580And I realized that our institutions were never intended to be neutral institutions.
00:41:29.280Our school system was never intended to simply teach reading, writing and arithmetic and otherwise be value neutral.
00:41:34.440That if we as conservatives and the Republican Party do not harness these institutions to teach children our values, what's going to happen is the left is going to swoop in and teach their own.
00:41:46.120The Republican Party has fallen for the false idea of tolerance and neutrality, which doesn't exist.
00:41:53.380And perhaps the philosophical reason for this is because they misdefine the word liberty.
00:41:59.160They define liberty as simply the maximum amount of individual freedom possible in a civil society.
00:42:04.220When really our government was formed around the idea that liberty is the means to something greater, that there's a moral, the thing that is greater is a moral thing.
00:42:14.680And that our society, a flourishing society is intended to try to attain that.
00:42:18.860And Republicans have gotten very shy of bringing religion or morals or anything of that nature into our politics.
00:42:27.660We wouldn't be in the chaos, the cultural chaos that we exist in now, if Republicans had not surrendered both institutions in the name of neutrality and morality and virtue in the name of libertarianism to the left a long time ago.
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