Verdict with Ted Cruz - Celebrating America’s Greatness and Answering the Call to Defeat the Communists Taking over the Democrat Party

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00:00:34.520 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:37.980 It's nice to have you with us after an awesome celebration of the United States of America with the 250th anniversary of this country.

00:00:45.680 I love it. It was amazing.

00:00:47.440 Senator, I know you were with family and friends. How was your fourth?

00:00:50.860 Well, let me say I'm really proud to be now in our nation's 251st year.

00:00:55.960 We are the start of our second quarter millennium.

00:01:02.220 And you look back, this first 250 years has been extraordinary.

00:01:06.460 America has been, I believe, the greatest country in the history of the world.

00:01:11.800 We have a lot to celebrate.

00:01:13.000 On our Friday podcast, we did a deep dive into what makes America exceptional, what makes it extraordinary.

00:01:20.000 And part of what we celebrate on the 4th of July is just the families that are the foundational building blocks of our nation.

00:01:29.240 And so, you know, Ben, I know you were with your family, with your kids.

00:01:32.900 I was, too.

00:01:34.340 We had a great time.

00:01:36.100 We had some burgers and hot dogs.

00:01:40.380 We watched fireworks.

00:01:43.320 And then we actually went and watched on TV the big fireworks show down in D.C.

00:01:49.420 the president's speech uh i gotta say it was uh the fireworks we watched were were impressive in

00:01:56.360 person but even more impressive was there was a massive thunderstorm and it was really quite

00:02:02.900 striking looking at we were looking at the kind of little fireworks and then above it

00:02:07.040 massive thunderbolts cracking through the sky and i and i uh joked to heidi and the kids although

00:02:15.820 was right it's like well god's celebrating the 250 and uh his fireworks show is putting uh putting

00:02:22.240 anything done by the hand of man to shame dude if people didn't see your video that you posted

00:02:28.540 of those fireworks it i mean and i mean the ultimate fireworks of that lightning you should

00:02:33.840 go check it out on social because you actually put a video up there and it was it you're almost

00:02:38.980 understanding how cool it was yeah and i just pulled out my phone and just filmed it because

00:02:44.220 You could see the little bitty fireworks going off and then just the entire sky shaking as thunder and lightning was cracking across.

00:02:53.560 It was pretty spectacular.

00:02:55.460 That being said, the D.C. fireworks display was something else.

00:03:00.000 I mean, I guess they were saying it was the largest fireworks display in human history.

00:03:06.060 I've got to say, I believe it.

00:03:07.420 That thing went on for 40 minutes and they just kept playing another song and another song.

00:03:11.760 you know the the ordinance that was exploded that that was breathtaking you know it was fun

00:03:17.340 seeing all those families they'd been rained out initially and they stayed there anyway and seeing

00:03:22.420 those veterans world war ii veterans there and and especially seeing little kids it was really

00:03:27.440 fun to see the families that decided let's let's go to dc let's go to the mall let's go cheer on

00:03:33.400 our country let's watch fireworks and little kids after midnight you know five and six year olds

00:03:39.280 just filled with joy and wonder and and and really just celebrating america that that is a beautiful

00:03:47.580 thing i hope everyone listening i i hope you took the time number one to love on your family to love

00:03:54.120 on your kids love on your spouse and your parents uh and those those who who you care for but but

00:04:01.680 number two to reflect you know what why is it we lasted 250 years what what is it that we've done

00:04:10.420 that is different from other nations uh this is a really good time to reflect especially because

00:04:16.660 we are here in a time of crisis look you and i and and the folks listening to this podcast we

00:04:24.440 love our country but but this is not a time of just kind of everything's hunky-dory nothing to

00:04:30.880 worry about yippee-oh-ki-yay, there are massive threats facing America right now.

00:04:38.860 We are facing an almost civil war of extreme radical activist views, much of that financed

00:04:51.120 by foreign money that is trying to tear down everything that made America exceptional for

00:04:57.280 the first 250 years.

00:04:58.720 You know, we saw contrasting speeches between President Trump and I think his reflection on American greatness was was beautifully done. 0.79

00:05:07.660 But we saw before that Comrade Mondani give a very different dark speech about his view of a communist and Islamist takeover of this country. 0.75

00:05:18.440 And the coming years are going to determine which vision prevails.

00:05:22.980 were you shocked by that speech because i i watched the mandani speech and for me it was

00:05:29.780 weird on two different points one it was just tone death and i'm like who really wants to hear this

00:05:35.500 on the fourth of july that was the part that was just kind of shocking i believe everything that

00:05:39.820 he said in there he actually believes i actually think he can't stay in this country and thinks

00:05:43.560 it's terrible and wants to completely dismantle it and turn it into uh you know a comrade mandani

00:05:48.180 a communist country i i believe that part truly but but i i was trying to figure out like who is

00:05:55.540 his audience is it those that suffer from trump derangement syndrome or was this more of a rallying

00:06:01.220 cry for other communists to come out of the woodworks and get involved in the democratic

00:06:06.340 party because now this is the democratic party yeah this was a call to young angry uh communists

00:06:14.220 young angry leftists we are taking over the democrat party we are taking over new york we

00:06:20.560 are taking over colorado we are taking over california we are taking over the world that

00:06:25.100 was his message here give a listen to mandami and what he had to say on the fourth of july

00:06:29.640 yeah before we play that i do want to also just take a moment and talk about how awesome the

00:06:34.740 250th anniversary is that we get to celebrate in america it's a milestone that also is a time to

00:06:40.740 reflect on the enduring relationship between the United States of America and Israel. They're our

00:06:46.480 greatest ally. President John F. Kennedy once said, Israel was not created in order to disappear.

00:06:52.800 Israel will endure and flourish. Now, those words, they really capture the spirit of a young

00:06:59.200 democracy determined to truly survive. Two different nations, thousands of miles apart we are,

00:07:05.520 yet we're united by the shared values of democracy, faith, freedom, and honestly, resilience.

00:07:12.700 As American, we fight against communism right now.

00:07:15.780 We celebrate our 250 years of independence, the international fellowship of Christians and Jews.

00:07:21.580 Well, they turn to God in prayer, asking that his wisdom will guide elected officials

00:07:26.760 and lead America and Israel to moral clarity and national unity.

00:07:31.860 And that is where the really cool call to action comes in for you.

00:07:36.280 When I go on TV, I wear a U.S.-Israel flag pin.

00:07:40.440 And so many have asked me about where can I get one.

00:07:43.260 And I want to give you one for free right now.

00:07:45.660 All you have to do to get your free U.S.-Israeli flag pin is you can go online right now to FlagPinIFCJ.org.

00:07:55.880 that's flagpinifcj.org flagpinifcj.org all right i want to play for you what senator

00:08:04.720 cruz mentioned a moment ago that uh that this very dark dark fourth of july speech from mandani

00:08:11.180 whereas by the way his desk was backwards if you didn't see that it's hilarious but here's

00:08:15.540 mandani in his own words yes we see america in a health insurance industry that exploits the sick

00:08:21.020 but that is not all we see when we look for america we see it too in the nurse who works

00:08:26.720 a double shift and then stops on our way home to check on an ailing neighbor yes we see america in

00:08:32.100 corporate landlords for whom negligence is a business model we see it too in the father who

00:08:37.160 tucks his children into bed beneath a ceiling stained with leaks who wakes before dawn to go

00:08:42.000 to work and still believes his country can do better by his family yes we see america when we

00:08:48.400 spend our tax dollars on bombs and bailouts when we sell our elections to the highest bidder i mean

00:08:54.860 that you hear that and it's like wow you really genuinely hate this country and it's scary what

00:09:00.800 you want to do with it well and and he's contrasting he every everything about america is bad but then

00:09:07.680 he says you know we care for the nurse we care for the individual person this is the classic lie

00:09:13.020 of the communists that the communist comes and says we're for the little guy we're for the poor

00:09:19.180 we're for the down truck and yet what you have every time you have communism you get poverty

00:09:26.760 and misery and suffering and death you get more poor people you get equality but you get a quality

00:09:34.540 of misery and in fact the only people that are not equal are the rulers ironically uh you know

00:09:42.360 Mondami put out a decree, told New Yorkers, turn your air conditioning up to 78 degrees because it's going to be hot this Fourth of July.

00:09:53.040 And a watchdog group came and checked on Mondami's offices.

00:09:56.460 And, of course, they were not up in 78 degrees.

00:09:59.020 They were turned down to 72 because what the communist decrees for you, he never lived by his own rules.

00:10:06.780 You know, by the way, I was laughing.

00:10:08.400 You were on vacation.

00:10:09.320 I didn't send you the clip, but it exploded.

00:10:11.320 It exploded.

00:10:12.080 I was on CNN on Abby Phillips' show on Thursday night when they were celebrating Mandani saying to turn your AC up to 78.

00:10:22.840 And I just asked, are you in favor of this?

00:10:27.220 And they tried to, you know, like, yeah, well, yeah.

00:10:29.620 I was like, well, it's not 78 right now in this studio.

00:10:33.440 So let's crank up.

00:10:35.460 I looked at everybody on set, all the liberals.

00:10:37.420 Like, all right, let's crank it up in solidarity with Mandani.

00:10:40.220 Like, let's go to 78 and sweat.

00:10:42.060 Let's go.

00:10:42.560 If you guys are going to be all in favor of this, why is it 67 in here right now instead of 78?

00:10:47.520 And it goes to the point you're making.

00:10:49.440 They'll go on national TV and say that he's a hero for saying this, but they wouldn't, even in New York City.

00:10:55.440 We were in New York City.

00:10:56.640 They would not put the studio at 78 degrees because they would never do that and have a sweaty show.

00:11:01.620 Look, Fidel Castro was a billionaire.

00:11:05.280 Putin is a billionaire.

00:11:06.960 communist leaders aggregate all the money for themselves they live like kings and they use the

00:11:13.660 military with guns as enforcers i want you to listen to another another segment from coming

00:11:18.560 on dami's speech american exceptionalism american exceptionalism the conventional wisdom tells us

00:11:25.360 makes our freedom a little more free is how we dug the erie canal and irrigated the west

00:11:30.040 is why children in faraway lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here and yet the irony is that

00:11:35.300 the story of america has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and

00:11:40.520 influence and wealth that they were anything but exceptional for generation after generation

00:11:45.820 we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores it has not sent its best

00:11:51.300 it sent puritans and sikhs and quakers and muslims and jewish people who were banished for praying the

00:11:56.900 wrong way worshiping the wrong gods angering the wrong people it sent peasants and serfs from slums 0.75

00:12:03.580 and shtetls, who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land. 0.90

00:12:08.460 It sent immigrants from whom power was something someone else had. We are told that America is 0.99

00:12:13.940 exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else. The truth,

00:12:20.800 my friends, is that America is exceptional because here nothing is fixed into place.

00:12:26.460 The frontier may be closed. We may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values

00:12:31.980 first enshrined in the declaration of independence that work endures and it belongs to us all it

00:12:38.460 belongs too to our newest americans those standing here with me today all of whom were recently

00:12:43.580 naturalized nearly a decade ago i too felt what you feel the joy of no longer being just a new

00:12:49.820 yorker but an american too you each hold a special power the power to determine what america means

00:12:57.500 the powerful have always known their answer america in their view is an arena of supremacy

00:13:03.320 where only a select few are allowed freedom where not all are created equal america if you ask them

00:13:09.540 becomes less the more people it welcomes america they will tell you belongs only to those with the

00:13:15.640 right accent or the right shade of skin the rest of us they insist should be grateful for merely

00:13:20.180 being allowed to visit how small they are how weak how unoriginal at every moment in our past

00:13:28.460 those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves

00:13:33.820 by turning us against one another division is the oldest trick in politics and the cheapest

00:13:39.680 but time and again including 250 years ago those forces of division have been vanquished

00:13:47.380 by the forces of progress you you listen again this is a manifesto of why america is bad why

00:13:56.720 america should not apparently i guess be celebrated on the fourth of july why you should tamper down

00:14:02.740 your excitement for the fireworks and and i do believe this is not a one-off as we mentioned

00:14:09.320 earlier this is the new manifesto of the democratic party heading into the midterms

00:14:16.040 as i listen to him talk i think what a small and petty man filled with hate filled with ideology

00:14:23.500 filled with contempt not just for you and me and this fellow americans but for the very idea of

00:14:32.260 america you know his remarks there are profoundly dishonest one thing he says is we are told that

00:14:39.720 America is exceptional because we are richer or stronger or more powerful. Baloney. Who has ever

00:14:46.260 said that? I've never heard any human being articulate that sentence. That's what's known

00:14:51.320 as a straw man. It's erecting a fake argument to then demolish it. He is, in fact, inverting the

00:14:58.640 causality. We are not richer and stronger and more powerful. That is not why we are exceptional.

00:15:06.060 Rather, because we are exceptional, that is why we have become richer and stronger and more powerful.

00:15:12.960 He's completely misunderstanding the cause and effect.

00:15:16.580 What is exceptional about America, number one, is that our rights come from God.

00:15:21.220 And, you know, nowhere in that speech could Vandami bring himself to say that, that God has given the rights.

00:15:26.680 He says, we're told people are not created equal.

00:15:29.160 Well, really, gosh, comrades, what is this holiday we are celebrating on the 4th of July?

00:15:36.060 What was the document that John Hancock put his signature on?

00:15:41.040 What did Thomas Jefferson write?

00:15:42.880 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights,

00:15:52.020 that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

00:15:56.200 He claims that America was built on the notion that we're not equal.

00:16:00.720 and he is spitting in the face of the declaration of the constitution of course

00:16:06.220 he probably doesn't know that he is counting on the people listening to it definitely not to know

00:16:12.460 that and and and his notion about the the people that that came here because we are built by

00:16:19.060 immigrants we must let everyone in with no limits listen my father was an immigrant who came from

00:16:23.980 cuba america was a beacon of freedom for my family but there's a right way to come you come

00:16:30.380 legally and and the argument that the leftists and the marxists say is because we were built by

00:16:37.020 immigrants we have to open up our our borders to every criminal to every rapist to every terrorist

00:16:42.240 that we could have no laws whatsoever and why and i'm going to answer this question but i want to 0.53

00:16:49.160 ask it first why in the speech does comrade mandami not reflect on what is it that makes

00:16:57.000 people from every country on earth want to be in america what do we have here that is different

00:17:02.260 you don't have other countries people coming coming to and it is because of the opportunity

00:17:08.940 the opportunity to to a have your rights protected life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and

00:17:15.980 notably we don't have a right to happiness we have a right to the pursuit to the journey

00:17:23.240 None of us are guaranteed happiness, but the American dream is real and alive, and it comes from, do you know what gives us the American dream?

00:17:33.980 Capitalism, not communism.

00:17:36.360 If you want communism, Comrade Mondami, go to Russia.

00:17:40.920 Comrade Mondami, go to Cuba.

00:17:43.220 Comrade Mondami, go to North Korea. 0.71

00:17:45.800 Why do all the communist countries have such misery and suffering? 0.99

00:17:50.200 And you know what they all also have? 0.94

00:17:52.020 zero human rights because those petty little despots and mandami is so eager to use that

00:17:59.220 power when they get power if you disagree if you dare speak to the contrary they will lock

00:18:06.040 you up that is the history that is the legacy of communism you know ben it's been a while since

00:18:15.940 since i told the story uh that my grandmother told me of what happened in cuba when fidel castro

00:18:23.220 and the communists took over so my grandmother was was a sixth grade teacher in cuba and then

00:18:29.100 she taught sixth grade for many many years and she told me the story that that when the communists

00:18:35.960 took over soldiers came into the classrooms and she described to me in particular what they did

00:18:41.980 in a first grade classroom they came in with machine guns and they told all of the kids in

00:18:47.080 the classroom they said close your eyes close your eyes and pray to jesus for candy and all the kids

00:18:54.580 closed their eyes they prayed and there was no candy they then told the kids close your eyes

00:19:02.140 and pray to fidel castro for candy they closed their eyes and the soldiers quietly set a piece

00:19:10.020 of candy on the desk of every child that is communism it is based on lies it is based on

00:19:18.120 power it is based on subjugation and mandami noticed the only reason he says anyone should

00:19:26.060 come to america he tells the story of those recent immigrants and he said you come here

00:19:30.360 to change it this is what leftists are trying to do why did joe biden and kamala harris and the

00:19:37.260 Democrats brought over 12 million illegals into this country because they want them to fundamentally

00:19:45.340 usher in a takeover of this country by the Democrat Party. And by the way, the Chuck 0.69

00:19:50.600 Schumers of the world think that means they get to be in power. Mondami's laughing, no, no, no,

00:19:56.000 Chuck, Chuck, you are a useful idiot because the people we brought into this country, 1.00

00:20:03.000 we are going to use this not just to keep the democrats in power but the communists are right 1.00

00:20:09.100 now seizing control of the democrat party we're seeing it in new york where mandami

00:20:15.360 backed america hating bigots and communists and by the way they didn't just win in new york they

00:20:23.180 also won in colorado they're winning all over the country that is the base of the democrat party 0.93

00:20:28.980 And I don't think the Democrats in office have fully realized that the mob is coming for them, that Robespierre will find that the guillotine falls on his head as well.

00:20:44.280 And this takeover, let me say to the Republicans who are celebrating, yay, the crazies are taking over the Democrat Party.

00:20:52.580 That means it's easier for us to win.

00:20:55.200 Do not celebrate. 0.96

00:20:56.640 Do not celebrate because these lunatics can get into power. 0.91

00:21:00.920 All right, I'm going to give an example.

00:21:02.760 One of the people who just won the primary and took out a long-time Democrat incumbent is a candidate named Milot Kyrgios. 0.95

00:21:13.560 He is a communist and an Islamist. 0.68

00:21:16.560 And I want you to listen to what she says about what they are trying to do, what the communists are trying to do. 0.77

00:21:24.700 Give a listen.

00:21:25.120 We are winning from coast to coast, from every level of office.

00:21:32.040 We are taking back our party and our country.

00:21:39.480 By the way, this is not a Saturday Night Live skit.

00:21:42.040 That actually is what it sounded like in Denver as she unseed a 30-year incumbent as a full-blown socialist.

00:21:49.780 And understand, socialist, Democrat socialist is just their fake term for communist.

00:21:55.120 The economic system of communism is socialism, and they're using – they use the word Democrat simply to say they're taking over the Democrat Party and turning it into a communist party.

00:22:04.860 To give you a sense of how America-hating these radicals are, give a listen to what Mila Kiros says about September 11th and the nearly 3,000 Americans who were murdered in that horrific act of terrorism on U.S. soil.

00:22:21.900 Give a listen.

00:22:22.280 do you believe that the 9-11 terrorist attacks on america were the inevitable consequence of

00:22:28.220 american foreign policy inevitable in the sense that we destabilized a lot of the middle east

00:22:35.860 that forced people to believe that another act of violence was the only response 0.89

00:22:40.200 and again just like i said before our responsibility is to getting rid of those

00:22:45.460 conditions that lead to violence in the first place you and by the way that was her pc answer

00:22:51.920 The reason why she was asked that question by that reporter ahead of Election Day was they were trying to nail her down on what she had said in the past that, yeah, we deserved it.

00:22:59.940 It's our fault. And that was her and her most PC response.

00:23:04.000 Try not to, you know, just look like she's a total crazy person and what she was saying. 0.95

00:23:09.520 That's right. She had said America deserved 9-11.

00:23:13.680 She's also been clear what she wants to do. 0.99

00:23:16.100 She wants to abolish ICE, which means we don't enforce our borders at all.

00:23:19.560 We don't arrest criminally legal aliens.

00:23:21.500 We don't arrest murderers, rapists, child molesters, gangbangers.

00:23:25.260 And she wants to give full and immediate citizenship to every single illegal immigrant in America.

00:23:30.940 That would be, I don't know, 20 million, 30 million.

00:23:33.560 We don't have anywhere near a reliable measure.

00:23:36.980 Why does she want to do that? 1.00

00:23:38.680 Because she wants to elect 100 other communists just like her. 1.00

00:23:42.780 Give a listen to her laying out that political objective. 0.98

00:23:46.820 Abolishing ICE is just one step, right? 1.00

00:23:49.160 Democrats have been in power multiple times over the last few decades

00:23:52.580 and did nothing to address the immigration reform that we actually need.

00:23:55.580 Increased spending values.

00:23:57.080 Exactly, yeah.

00:23:57.820 And so if we're, I think there has to be an immediate pathway 1.00

00:24:01.160 for every single undocumented immigrant that's here in this country today

00:24:04.240 that does not require them to shell out thousands of dollars

00:24:07.800 to go through their process for it to take decades at a time

00:24:10.920 to be able to get to citizenship, an immediate pathway to citizenship,

00:24:14.580 and then just re...

00:24:15.900 I mean, not only is she saying immediate pathway to citizenship, we're talking about amnesty,

00:24:20.440 and we're saying you abolish all ICE, and that is what she's going to do,

00:24:25.340 and she believes Democratic Party must do, so you get rid of law enforcement.

00:24:29.760 This is another example of the defund the police movement.

00:24:33.380 It is. You cannot enforce the law. There are no borders.

00:24:38.760 Any criminal, any gangbanger, any terrorist is welcome in this country, 0.96

00:24:43.280 and she wants to make them an American citizen.

00:24:45.900 And here's what she said her priorities in Congress are.

00:24:49.480 She's been very explicit.

00:24:50.600 Give a listen.

00:24:51.700 We will not wait.

00:25:00.020 We will not wait to take the fight to Donald Trump and the oligarchy.

00:25:06.340 We will not wait.

00:25:09.320 We will not wait to abolish ICE and pass Medicare for all.

00:25:15.900 I mean, if she's going to change things, that's for sure.

00:25:20.840 And the simple reality is there is not a Democrat in Congress who is not terrified of the next candidate like her in their primary.

00:25:32.760 I'm here to tell you right now, Chuck Schumer cannot win a Democrat primary in the state of New York.

00:25:39.040 And in fact, I'm going to predict Chuck Schumer won't run for re-election.

00:25:42.300 That he's looking at this party and he realizes this party has left him.

00:25:48.200 And by the way, he was complicit in all the policies that led to this takeover of the Democrat Party by the communists.

00:25:57.540 And part of what we're seeing here is this is a shift of where the heartbeat of the Democrat Party is.

00:26:06.040 and it's moved from the university from the union hall to the university faculty lounge instead of

00:26:13.580 the democrat party being a blue collar steel worker type party a working man party it is no longer

00:26:21.320 and in fact they hate blue collar workers understand these communists they are all many

00:26:27.980 many of them have have vast resources they have trust funds they have inherited wealth

00:26:34.020 Many of them, they have college degrees.

00:26:36.580 They sat around gazing at their navel and reading Foucault and reading Marx and believing that these abstract theories work.

00:26:45.380 And by the way, they rationalize away to the extent they know anything about the misery and suffering that communism has wrought across the world.

00:26:54.380 They rationalize it in a way as, oh, well, they did it wrong there.

00:26:58.340 Here we'll do it differently.

00:26:59.880 and it always ends up the same this is look as we start the 250 first year

00:27:10.520 i'm i'm reminded of what ben franklin said as he came out of constitutional and two things one

00:27:21.600 one a woman asked him what have you given us and he said a republic man if you can keep it

00:27:28.200 Secondly, he described how the chair that Washington was sitting in, the back of it had a sun carved into it.

00:27:38.540 And Franklin described how he wondered each day if it was a rising sun or a setting sun.

00:27:46.560 And at the end of the Constitutional Convention, he said, I can now tell you it is a rising sun and not a setting sun.

00:27:53.720 And if these forces of darkness, if these America-hating leftists that believe you have no rights, you have no free speech, you have no right to liberty, you have no right to defy the state, they want power over what you think, over what you say, over your religious faith.

00:28:13.600 they want power over your money, they want to control you, they want to destroy anyone who is successful.

00:28:23.460 If they succeed in seizing power, that rising sun more than 200 years ago will have become a setting sun instead.

00:28:36.220 And so the stakes we have, Ben, I'm energized. I'm energized. You and I and everyone listening to this podcast, we get to fight at a time of consequence, at a time when it matters. Do we save the next 250 years? That's our task.

00:28:55.900 Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more.

00:28:57.620 And I will say I'm glad that we've been so blunt in calling it out.

00:29:01.400 I'm glad the president was so blunt in his speech on the 4th of July calling out that communism is a threat to this country.

00:29:07.460 And it's something that we should really be focused on, that they do not take over, that we do not allow them to take over.

00:29:13.600 But this is no longer a joke.

00:29:16.020 This is no longer a sideshow.

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00:29:51.800 Why should you listen to Armstrong and Getty On Demand?

00:29:55.340 We're not boring.

00:29:56.420 A lot of news is boring.

00:29:57.400 And tedious.

00:29:58.280 And depressing.

00:29:58.860 And makes you angry.

00:30:00.240 You don't want to live your life like that.

00:30:02.520 Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong.

00:30:03.580 He's Joe Getty.

00:30:04.240 We're Armstrong and Getty.

00:30:05.340 We try to bring you the truth.

00:30:06.480 And help you figure out this crazy modern world.

00:30:08.900 How about something about a comedic tone?

00:30:13.400 We have a winner.

00:30:14.880 Yes.

00:30:15.280 Listen to Armstrong and Getty On Demand on the iHeartRadio app,

00:30:19.000 Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

00:30:22.400 Speaking of fun, by the way, I got to say, we got some really exciting news.

00:30:28.320 One of our best players that got a red card in the last match.

00:30:34.560 And if you're not a soccer fan, there's a lot of people that are fair weather on this one,

00:30:39.380 and I'm totally fine.

00:30:40.400 I'm one of those, but I cannot wait to watch Monday night, uh, America in their next in

00:30:46.520 the knockout rounds.

00:30:47.420 And it's going to be fun because one of our best players who got that red card, which

00:30:50.880 makes you ineligible for the next game, it was overturned by FIFA.

00:30:54.900 So he will be able to play, uh, you can call this the 4th of July miracle, but I'm pumped

00:30:59.980 because of it.

00:31:01.680 Look, I, I am too.

00:31:03.520 It was great fun.

00:31:04.840 I will admit I'm, I'm a fair weather soccer fan myself.

00:31:08.460 I did play soccer in high school.

00:31:09.940 I played basketball, football, and soccer, and I enjoyed playing it,

00:31:13.380 but I've not been a soccer fan who follows the sport closely as an adult.

00:31:18.320 The World Cup has been fun.

00:31:19.700 It's been fun at a time when there's so much America hating everywhere else.

00:31:24.180 It's been fun seeing people come together and rooting for America.

00:31:28.500 You know what's been fun also?

00:31:30.200 Watching people from other countries come to America

00:31:32.640 and discover how wonderful this country is.

00:31:34.660 You know, Freddie from Germany.

00:31:36.420 I don't know if you've seen what he's been tweeting.

00:31:37.840 I probably retweeted him 20 times. 0.91

00:31:39.940 As he's come and seen, you know, a Buc-ee's and he's like, you know, Waffle House.

00:31:44.860 And he's like, this country is incredible.

00:31:47.100 Nobody told me how amazing this country is.

00:31:49.720 That celebration is great.

00:31:51.540 I will say our World Cup victory against Bosnia-Herzegovina was fantastic,

00:31:56.620 particularly when we got the red card, and the red card knocked out one of our best players.

00:32:02.940 Then we had to play a man down with just 10 men on the field.

00:32:07.800 Miraculously, we not only held on, but scored another goal and advanced to the round of 16.

00:32:12.600 But the ordinary consequence of getting a red card is the player is out, not just for that game, but for the next game as well.

00:32:21.140 And the player, Belogen, who's scored a bunch of goals in this World Cup, he's been one of us, if not our single best player.

00:32:32.080 Losing him against Belgium was going to hurt.

00:32:35.640 And so I got to admit that the story that broke today, so FIFA reversed their decision, and here's what Clay Travis put out, which I hope is true and I have no reason to assume it's not.

00:32:48.400 Clay Travis says, sources, President Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and White House Task Force Head Andrew Giuliani put together a team of elite lawyers from outside the government to challenge the flow below gum red card.

00:33:05.640 Specifically, they challenged the use of slow-motion instant replay to give the red card, which they argued violated FIFA rules.

00:33:16.160 The president also conveyed to Gianni Infantino, FIFA's president, that the appeal had been filed and he believed the red card penalty was accepted.

00:33:26.380 FIFA's independent committee reviewed the decision and agreed the penalty was incorrectly given, rescinding it under their Rule 27 authority.

00:33:34.980 I am thrilled with that because I've got to say, watching that red card,

00:33:39.280 I was at a sports bar with the family watching it,

00:33:42.140 and we were enjoying some wings and cheering,

00:33:45.780 and I might have yelled some expletives that I wasn't terribly proud of yelling

00:33:53.060 in front of my kids when that red card came down because, look,

00:33:56.840 I mean, if that's a red card, it was a foul, sure,

00:34:01.560 But if that's a red card, they'd throw half the players out of soccer in every game because, you know, he, yes, he hit him in the ankle.

00:34:09.840 It was not to injure another player.

00:34:11.860 It was a play on the ball.

00:34:13.400 Like, yes, yes, yes.

00:34:16.120 It was not done maliciously.

00:34:19.640 They were playing hard.

00:34:21.500 And by the way, the player went down, grabbed his ankle, was screaming and wailing.

00:34:27.300 And then as soon as the red card issued, he jumped up and was fine.

00:34:30.200 And so magically, the agonizing pain went away.

00:34:35.860 This was the right decision.

00:34:37.440 But I got to say, the fact that Trump engaged directly, you know what I thought immediately?

00:34:44.280 What was that?

00:34:45.460 I'm still not tired of winning.

00:34:48.220 Yeah.

00:34:48.620 Like, you remember Trump said, we're going to win so much, you're going to get tired of winning.

00:34:52.660 I'm not tired of winning.

00:34:54.240 And God bless the president.

00:34:55.880 I looked at that, and my response is USA, USA, USA, and beat Belgium tonight.

00:35:03.380 Yeah, it's going to be a fun game, and we'll have a recap, I can promise you, on Wednesday.

00:35:08.320 Hope you had a great weekend and a great time with your family,

00:35:11.020 4th of July, celebrating America, and be safe if you're heading back home.

00:35:15.000 A lot of people do that on Monday, and the center,

00:35:16.880 I will see you back here on Wednesday morning as well, and go Team USA.

00:35:21.260 Why should you listen to Armstrong and Getty on Demand?

00:35:24.620 We're not boring.

00:35:25.720 A lot of news is boring.

00:35:26.720 And tedious.

00:35:27.580 And depressing.

00:35:28.160 And makes you angry.

00:35:29.540 You don't want to live your life like that.

00:35:31.820 Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong.

00:35:32.880 He's Joe Getty.

00:35:33.540 We're Armstrong and Getty.

00:35:34.640 We try to bring you the truth.

00:35:35.800 And help you figure out this crazy modern world.

00:35:38.200 How about something about a comedic tone?

00:35:42.700 We have a winner.

00:35:44.180 Yes.

00:35:45.200 Listen to Armstrong and Getty on demand on the iHeartRadio app,

00:35:48.220 Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Verdict with Ted Cruz - July 06, 2026

Celebrating America’s Greatness and Answering the Call to Defeat the Communists Taking over the Democrat Party

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