Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joins Sen. Ben Fergus (D-NJ) to discuss the latest on the October 7th attack on the Israeli Embassy in Gaza, the Palestinian Authority's bid to expel Israel from the United Nation's General Assembly, and the FBI's attempt to cover up the truth about crime statistics under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
00:00:37.440But what sadly is also unsurprising is the Biden-Harris administration is doing little to nothing to fight it.
00:00:44.380And so I have called for the Biden-Harris administration to actually stand up for Israel.
00:00:50.940And I've made clear that if they don't, that if the UN actually expels Israel from the General Assembly, that the United States should halt all funding from America to the United Nations, that we should use the stick we have not to let the radical Semites at the UN punish Israel for being the victims of October 7th and for being victorious, defeating the leadership of Hamas and Hezbollah.
00:01:16.840We're going to break that down in greater detail.
00:01:19.040We're also going to talk about the FBI magically, quietly, stealthily editing the crime statistics.
00:01:25.720You know, the FBI had put out stats that said crime had dropped under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
00:01:30.540And the Democrats in the corporate media were gleefully repeating that.
00:05:25.200One of them today that really made me laugh, it said, imagine it's a picture of him at the drive-thru window with his apron on, out the window waving.
00:05:32.520It says, imagine if it's the last thing an illegal alien sees before they're deported.
00:05:40.360I've got to say, though, it does illustrate the complete moral bankruptcy of the media, that it takes Trump, you know, doing what was clearly a stunt and a pretty funny stunt.
00:05:52.780I mean, the media is mocking him for it, which, I mean, look, they can acknowledge is pretty charming and pretty funny to do.
00:05:59.460But it has a more serious point, which is that Kamala Harris has told multiple falsehoods over and over and over again,
00:06:08.280and the corporate media covers up and, in fact, repeats and amplifies the falsehoods.
00:06:14.120It's also one of those moments, and as I watch this, and I'm like, the media still didn't get it, which really made me laugh.
00:06:20.920And that is, Donald Trump wasn't doing this for a publicity stunt.
00:06:25.020Donald Trump was doing this to expose.
00:06:26.440The man gets quite a bit of publicity.
00:06:37.360He's showing the hypocrisy of what it takes for a conservative candidate to actually get the media to even report on the actual issue,
00:06:46.800which is Kamala Harris lied about working at McDonald's.
00:06:49.780So in my experience, and I do this a lot, like when I'm doing a town hall, I will often ask people,
00:06:54.660how many of y'all ever worked in a restaurant?
00:06:57.440And inevitably, any town hall you're doing, half the people, their hands will go up.
00:07:01.340And particularly as teenagers, that you work at a McDonald's or Jack in the Box or Taco Bell or you work as a waiter or waitress at a restaurant.
00:07:09.640And in my experience, teenagers either did that or they mowed lawns.
00:07:13.700So when I was a teenager, I mowed lawns.
00:07:16.300So I figured, all right, if I've got to make some money, you know, I can be out in the sun and, you know, be in shorts and a T-shirt instead of going in and flipping burgers.
00:07:25.220But, you know, mowing lawns was a good business when you were 14, 15 years old.
00:08:44.460And I actually conducted an informal poll.
00:08:48.000So just about everyone raised a finger to me.
00:08:50.800I will say I was very happy at the finger ratio because I would say it was about 20 percent the middle finger and about 80 percent a thumbs up.
00:09:01.320So I liked 80-20 among the truck drivers coming in.
00:09:06.520But it was like it was a real-time poll.
00:09:09.000And just about everyone, look, obviously I'm not Trump, but you still got like weird double takes.
00:09:13.800Like, what in the hell is Cruz doing here?
00:09:16.040And I'm sure I really wish I haven't seen if they got pictures of like people in the cars, but but I am sure they were absolutely flabbergasted.
00:09:25.520So the videos that came through, just because this is too good to pass out, it was incredible to watch the reactions and the people that were so happy and proud to say, I support you.
00:09:37.180And like and a lot of them were people that you could tell it was very sincere moments for them.
00:09:45.520And and I said on on my national show Sunday night, I was like, this is why we need to stop being afraid to just be honest that we're in favor of of conservatives and our candidates, because I do believe we are the silent majority.
00:10:02.440And at this point, just do it like I have gotten the point now where I'm either wearing a hat with your name on it or a hat with with Trump's name on it because of election.
00:10:11.900But I thought I was going to get a lot more people that were angry.
00:10:14.360I can't tell you the number of people that walk up to me now when I wear the hats and they're like, dude, I love your hat.
00:10:24.540And I think if we all just like picked a random Tuesday and said, wear your favorite political hat, we would be shocked how many conservatives are among us each and every day.
00:10:33.240But we're so afraid now because they've been towing us forever.
00:10:42.660I think we're the silent majority and we need to become a loud majority.
00:10:46.340Well, let me actually I'm going to prove that you're right, because the basic dynamic nationally with elections is conservatives win when we effectively articulate what we believe.
00:10:58.940And liberals win when they effectively obfuscate, when they effectively hide what they believe.
00:12:18.860So the Palestinian Authority is is working to expel Israel from the United Nations General Assembly.
00:12:26.800And so I've drafted a letter that I'm right now in the process of getting other senators to sign that I'm going to send both to the U.N.
00:12:34.280Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield and a secretary of state, Tony Blinken.
00:12:38.660And I'm going to send it in this next week.
00:12:40.140And the letter lays out the consequences of such an action.
00:12:45.660In other words, what happens if the U.N. actually expels Israel?
00:12:49.620And if they do that, what what I lay out is is in fact here, I'll quote from the letter, quote,
00:12:56.480the effort to diplomatically isolate Israel is aimed at ultimately destroying the Jewish state, which is both obscene and antithetical to American national security interest.
00:13:04.880If Israel is suspended for the from the U.N. General Assembly, we will move to limit American participation and funding across the U.N., including U.N. programs, funds and other entities and bodies, as well as its specialized agencies and related organizations, both those in which the PLO participates and generally.
00:13:25.660And look, I also point out that if if the Palestinian Authority is successful in this, it would violate the Oslo Accords, an agreement that the P.A. signed on to.
00:13:36.920And so the letter notes, quote, those agreements committed the Palestinians not to internationalize their conflict with Israel outside the contours of bilateral negotiations, which the United States has traditionally mediated.
00:13:49.280The proposal by President Abbas to suspend Israel from the U.N. General Assembly would straightforwardly violate and fundamentally abrogate those commitments, in turn requiring a comprehensive reevaluation of the U.S.-Palestinian relationship.
00:14:05.320We would pursue such a reevaluation, which would minimally include downgrading cooperation with the P.A., ending assistance to the West Bank and Gaza, terminating all Palestinian related offices across the U.S. government, including the Palestinian facing consulate and the Office of Palestinian Affairs, and broadly curtailing diplomatic, economic and security engagements between American and Palestinian officials.
00:14:32.980And it goes on to make clear that we will reimpose anti-terrorism sanctions on the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority that are currently, quote, vitiated by licenses and waivers and are primarily limited to Americans' ability to assist those groups.
00:14:52.180Should the PLO move to suspend Israel from the U.N. General Assembly, we will seek to ensure that those licenses and waivers are ended and to expand American anti-terrorism sanctions to include third parties.
00:15:06.620So you look at this, and I think there's going to be some shock by people that are listening.
00:15:12.360There's going to be some anger and there's going to be some, why the hell are we still involved with the U.N.?
00:15:27.000And look, one of the main reasons to stay in the U.N., listen, as I campaign across Texas and across the country, I frequently get questions about why don't we just pull out of the U.N.
00:15:36.880And I understand the U.N. is fundamentally corrupt.
00:15:41.920It is filled with viciously anti-American organizations.
00:15:45.500UNRWA, it was infiltrated by Hamas and actively assisting Hamas.
00:15:50.620UNRWA is the Palestinian aid organization within the United Nations.
00:15:54.440But the answer that I frequently give, it is important, I believe, for us to stay in the U.N., among other things, to defend Israel.
00:16:04.340That that Israel without America would be persecuted.
00:16:08.100There is so much anti-Semitism, so much hatred of Israel that without the U.S. and the U.N., it would be completely unchecked.
00:16:19.500Now, if Joe Biden and Kamala Harris just roll over and do nothing to stop it, then I've got to say the justification for remaining in the U.N.
00:16:31.160Part of us being in the U.N., and this goes back to a debate that we had, gosh, I want to say it was in 16 and 17, is why aren't we such big funders of the U.N., especially with the UNRWA corruption and the other corruption that you just mentioned?
00:17:17.000And I could imagine that being justified if we were using our leverage to significantly advance American interests and to protect our allies.
00:17:26.060If we're not – and here's the problem.
00:17:28.620Let's go back to the end of the Barack Obama administration.
00:17:33.180At the very end of the Barack Obama administration, after Trump won in 16, the Obama administration pushed a resolution called U.N. Resolution 2334.
00:17:47.080That was adopted on December 23, 2016.
00:17:51.820Resolution 2334 was viciously anti-Israel and viciously anti-Semitic.
00:17:57.260It condemned the modern state of Israel as illegitimate and illegally occupied.
00:18:03.180It condemned the West Bank as illegitimate and illegally occupied.
00:18:07.020It condemned the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem as illegitimate and illegally occupied.
00:18:14.300It condemned the Wailing Wall of Solomon's Temple as illegitimate and illegally occupied.
00:18:27.320And what happened, number one, the Obama administration waited until after the election.
00:18:31.300They didn't want people to know they were doing this to Israel.
00:18:33.760And then, number two, what they did is quietly orchestrate it behind the scenes and then simply not veto it because the United States is on the Security Council.
00:18:44.340The United States could have vetoed it, but Obama did not.
00:18:47.440And the consequence of that was that the U.N., at the behest of the apparatchiks in the Obama-Biden administration, attacked Israel.
00:18:59.820And that's what's going on here as well.
00:19:01.940And it's why I'm circulating a letter to the Biden-Harris administration to make clear, look, I think we're going to win a Republican majority in the Senate.
00:19:45.820I believe if it happens under Trump, I believe Trump would pull us out of the U.N.
00:19:51.280And I think if the U.N. understands those are the real consequences, they won't throw Israel out.
00:19:58.040But I think Kamala Harris is quietly pushing this behind the scenes because this White House has been the most anti-Israel White House we have ever seen.
00:20:20.060I wish this White House would understand that at some point.
00:20:23.880Well, you've got to understand why they don't do that.
00:20:27.180They agree with the Palestinian Authority.
00:20:31.400They agree with the enemies of Israel.
00:20:34.080Look, on October 7th, when the attack was happening, the Biden State Department that night at 3 in the morning tweeted out from the Office of Palestinian Affairs,
00:20:45.740Israel should not retaliate for 1,200 citizens being murdered, 1,200 civilians being murdered, for women and little girls being raped, for over 200 hostages being taken.
00:21:10.340By the way, it wasn't just an aberration.
00:21:12.640It wasn't just some lone anti-Semite in the administration.
00:21:15.960Because the next day, Tony Blinken, the Secretary of State, on October 8th, a year ago, tweeted essentially the same thing.
00:21:22.760He said he'd just spoken with a Turkish foreign minister, and they both agreed Israel must not retaliate.
00:21:27.520There should be no military response to the most, the broadest and the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust.
00:21:35.380And let's be clear, we just took out Senwar, the head, we actually, Israel took out Senwar, the head of Hamas.
00:21:43.020They did so despite Kamala Harris threatening Israel, urging them not to go into Rafa.
00:21:48.560At every stage, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris tried to stop Israel from defeating Hamas.
00:21:54.100And Israel, to its credit, and actually enhancing our national security, has done so anyway, despite the fervent opposition of this White House.
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00:23:39.880Senator, I want to also move on to another story, and it's one that it was a flashpoint for the media.
00:23:49.640They were obsessed with saying that under Harris and under Biden, America has actually gotten safer.
00:24:21.660They've had to revise their lies they put out earlier.
00:24:25.580Yeah, and I got to say what the Democrats have been saying and what the media has been saying is actual and literal fake do's.
00:24:31.960So the talking points of all the Democrats, the talking points of all of the corporate media was crime has gone down under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
00:24:40.260Now, anyone looking at the rapes and murders and the children being abused, like that defied common sense, but they pointed to the FBI stats as their proof.
00:24:52.780Let me read from an article in Real Clear Investigations by John Lott, who's an economist, and it's entitled Stealth Edit.
00:25:04.200Quote, when the FBI originally released the final crime data for 2022 in September of 2023, it reported that the nation's violent crime rate fell by 2.1%.
00:25:14.680This quickly became and remains a Democratic Party talking point to counter Donald Trump's claims of soaring crime.
00:25:21.880But the FBI has quietly revised those numbers, releasing new data that shows violent crime increased in 2022 by 4.5%.
00:27:42.960Immigration, we saw them do this deal with Mexico to make the numbers artificially go down in August and September going into the election.
00:27:52.840Going, see, we're securing the border.
00:27:54.480It's no different with the violent crime stats here.
00:27:57.740This is why so many Americans now don't trust the government, certainly the deep state, certainly, unfortunately, the FBI.
00:28:06.960And yet no one's going to get fired for screwing up their job this bad because it wasn't a screw-up.
00:29:41.300The FBI helps with kidnapped children.
00:29:43.800I mean, there is a very, very important law enforcement mission of the FBI.
00:29:47.880And I'll tell you, with first James Comey and now Chris Wray running the FBI, I think the integrity and the reputation of the FBI has been so profoundly tarnished that half the country wants to get rid of the damn thing altogether.
00:30:03.020That is really bad from a law enforcement perspective, from a perspective in stopping terrorists and stopping criminals.
00:30:09.760And I'll tell you, I have chewed out Chris Wray that when he circles the wagons and defends the hardcore partisans who have politicized the FBI, he is lighting on fire the FBI's credibility and its reputation.
00:30:26.480And I think if Trump wins, there needs to be a wholesale cleaning house getting rid of the wildly partisan career bureaucrats who burrowed into senior leadership positions at the FBI.
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00:31:11.360All right, let's let's dive into this even on it on a more intense level, because this is one of those moments where I think there's a lot of voters that are listening right now.
00:31:21.520They're saying, OK, my worry is we've heard this before, that there's going to be a real draining of the swamp.
00:31:29.280What how different do you think a Trump administration will be this time compared to 2016 when there was a lot of people that were on a list and you've done transitions?
00:31:42.980I've done it before when when people win.
00:31:46.240And what you go through is you say, OK, well, there's a certain group of people over here.
00:32:09.380And and this is a great example of that.
00:32:12.200So do you believe that there is is the political will to actually clean house the way that many voters are expecting?
00:32:19.800And I say that I think there's a lot of voters are expecting it.
00:32:22.860They're like, OK, if we're going to put you back in there, Republicans, a.k.a.
00:32:27.900Trump, then you guys better do what you said you're going to do this time and clean house, because that's what we're voting for.
00:32:32.640Well, as you know, this is the topic of the third book that I wrote, which which is called Justice Corrupted, how the left has weaponized the legal system.
00:32:41.080And in the book Justice Corrupted, I lay out how Barack Obama weaponized the Department of Justice and the FBI and the IRS and the alphabet soup of federal agencies to target and attack his political enemies.
00:32:54.060And then when Trump became president, by that point, many of these hard partisans had burrowed into senior career positions in the agency.
00:33:03.120And they spent the four years of the Trump presidency waging war on Donald Trump.
00:36:49.460But we're seeing now that this is a real problem yet again weeks before Election Day.
00:36:56.520Yeah, the Washington Post had an investigation that said that Instagram, which is part of Meta, buries political posts and it slashes the audience by 63 percent when the word vote is posted.
00:37:12.720And one influencer faced, as I said, a 63 percent drop.
00:37:19.740And this is an investigation done by Washington Post tech columnist Jeffrey Fowler that showed that Meta across its platforms, including Instagram, Facebook and threads, actively suppress content related to the upcoming 2024 election.
00:37:35.560And it affects partisan political posts, but it also just nonpartisan content like vote that they are suppressing it.
00:37:45.320And Fowler found that that that whenever an Instagram account creator named Mrs. Frazzled, whose real name is Ariel Fodor, whenever Fodor mentioned anything related to politics over the last six months, her audience size decreased by about 40 percent compared to her nonpolitical posts.
00:38:03.520And when she used the word vote in a caption across 11 posts, the average audience was 63 percent smaller and her experience is not isolated.
00:38:14.600Fowler, this is a Washington Post investigative reporter, found several other Instagram creators who noticed a similar pattern.
00:38:22.020And it's not unique to individual accounts.
00:38:23.880There was a wider study by an advocacy group called Accountable Tech that quantified the audience drops for five prominent leftist Instagram accounts, including the Human Rights Campaign and Feminist.
00:38:35.760And over 10 weeks this spring, their average audiences fell by 65 percent.
00:38:40.100The study found that conservative accounts experienced a similar drop in engagement when discussing political topics and meta suppression of political content happened when when Zuckerberg in 2021 decided to pull back on political content and and just just try to avoid politics.
00:39:01.860Now, look, I'd rather they avoid politics than then actively be biased, which is how they were in the 2020 election.
00:39:10.500But silencing the ability of citizens to talk about politics is a really bad dynamic.
00:39:15.940And you contrast that to X, which I think X with with Elon Musk's having purchased it is the new town square.
00:39:22.560But but Facebook and Instagram have huge reaches and silencing politics is really harmful for democracy.