Verdict with Ted Cruz - March 25, 2024


Dems Double Down on Open Borders-Every Senate Dem Votes Against Deporting Illegals who Assault Cops, plus National Security Goes Woke


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Ted Cruz and Ben Fergusons discuss the Democratic failure to pass a spending bill on Friday night and the chaos that ensued. They also discuss the $1.3 trillion Omnibus spending bill that was passed late into the night and into the early hours of Saturday morning.

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00:00:05.260 Welcome.
00:00:06.020 It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you as always.
00:00:10.560 And Senator, so you guys worked late into the evening as I guess the big guy in charge
00:00:16.780 of the Senate decided let's cram some more bad bills down the throats of Americans while 1.00
00:00:21.500 they're not paying attention on a Friday night.
00:00:23.980 What all went down?
00:00:25.760 Well, that's exactly right.
00:00:26.820 We had a late night voting session Friday night, went till two in the morning, and it
00:00:31.320 was really astonishing.
00:00:32.520 The Democrats doubled down on open borders.
00:00:35.580 They doubled down on weakness towards Iran.
00:00:38.120 They doubled down on anti-Israel bias.
00:00:40.980 They doubled down on extremism.
00:00:43.140 These Dems have decided they know which side their bread is buttered, and it is the open
00:00:47.300 border radical leftist view.
00:00:49.000 And we saw vote after vote after vote that every Democrat like lemmings jumped off the 0.99
00:00:54.300 cliff of these extreme positions, including a whole bunch of Democrats who are on the
00:00:58.200 ballot in November.
00:01:00.000 Those votes Friday night are going to be front and center in every one of those races.
00:01:04.120 Not only that, but we also have the state of Michigan.
00:01:09.100 This is actually quite remarkable.
00:01:10.480 The state of Michigan is offering you $500 to house an illegal alien in your home. 0.72
00:01:16.900 This is the taxpayers of Michigan.
00:01:18.320 This is their response to Biden's open borders is, hey, 500 bucks, and you too can have an
00:01:23.520 illegal alien in your home.
00:01:25.280 Just hope it doesn't have to be a criminal illegal alien.
00:01:28.120 And finally, we're going to talk today about the Biden administration putting out written
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00:03:43.840 Senator, usually you guys come back on Thursdays.
00:03:47.860 That's kind of the normal working schedule for the Senate.
00:03:50.640 All of a sudden, they throw a bunch of stuff into Friday.
00:03:53.500 They take the trash out day, so no one's paying attention.
00:03:56.580 Everybody's off for the weekend.
00:03:58.340 And you guys were voting late into the night.
00:04:00.860 And this had to also deal with the issue of another possible government shutdown. 0.86
00:04:06.380 So how bad did the American people get screwed? 0.91
00:04:10.140 Well, very badly. 0.75
00:04:11.520 What happened was Chuck Schumer was trying to ram through the trillion-dollar-plus
00:04:15.460 massive omnibus government funding bill.
00:04:18.580 And we were there all day Friday.
00:04:20.720 And a lot of us, a lot of the Republicans, opposed this bill.
00:04:23.360 And we introduced a whole series of amendments.
00:04:25.160 And we wanted votes on the amendments.
00:04:28.220 And Schumer had a problem.
00:04:29.840 Because the amendments we were seeking votes on are eminently reasonable.
00:04:33.500 They're common sense.
00:04:34.560 They're overwhelmingly popular with the American people.
00:04:37.680 And his Democrats that are on the ballot in November were terrified of voting for these
00:04:44.620 amendments.
00:04:44.940 So we spent all day Friday just in paralysis, because Schumer didn't know what to do, and
00:04:49.500 Schumer didn't know what to do.
00:04:50.960 And in particular, John Tester in Montana really, really, really didn't want to vote on these
00:04:57.160 amendments.
00:04:57.700 Sherrod Brown in Ohio really, really, really didn't want to vote on these amendments.
00:05:02.860 Jackie Rosen in Nevada didn't want to vote on these amendments. 0.99
00:05:05.740 Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin didn't want to vote on these amendments. 1.00
00:05:08.640 Bob Casey in Pennsylvania didn't want to vote on these amendments.
00:05:11.800 So we spent all day Friday just in limbo.
00:05:14.920 I actually spent a good chunk of the day Friday playing basketball, because we just had nothing
00:05:18.680 else to do.
00:05:19.260 So I played hoops while Schumer and the Democrats trying to figure their stuff out.
00:05:25.320 Finally, late at night, Friday night, Schumer decides, all right, screw it.
00:05:31.220 We're going to take all the votes, and I'm going to force all my members to cast every
00:05:36.600 terrible vote they can.
00:05:38.560 And you know what?
00:05:39.340 We're so confident that the media is corrupt, they can cast these votes and no one will know.
00:05:43.560 So let me walk through some of these votes, because it is astonishing.
00:05:47.420 One of the very first votes was an amendment I had, and my amendment was very simple.
00:05:52.840 My amendment would have barred the Biden administration from sending billions of dollars to Iran. 0.83
00:05:59.680 Iran is led by the Ayatollah, a radical, theocratic, genocidal maniac. 0.98
00:06:04.680 The Biden administration has already flowed over $100 billion to Iran. 0.63
00:06:11.520 But since then, Iran not only is the world leading state's funder of terrorism, not only 0.93
00:06:17.300 has launched over 100 attack on U.S.
00:06:20.660 servicemen and women in the Middle East, but funded October 7th.
00:06:26.060 They are the principal funder of Hamas.
00:06:27.760 They have given over 90 percent of Hamas's funding.
00:06:30.440 They're the principal funder of Hezbollah.
00:06:33.100 So in the wake of October 7th, Israel is the middle of war.
00:06:37.540 And I stood up and said, it's real simple.
00:06:39.580 If you stand with Israel, if you stand with America against Iran, this ought to be a very 0.87
00:06:46.580 simple vote.
00:06:47.720 Don't send billions of dollars to Iran.
00:06:51.060 Right now, the Biden administration is trying to send another $10 billion to Iran.
00:06:57.080 This was a straight up vote.
00:06:59.900 We ended up voting.
00:07:01.940 Every single Democrat voted no, actually except one.
00:07:07.460 Bob Menendez at the very end.
00:07:09.240 He sat there silent.
00:07:10.280 He sat there silent.
00:07:11.620 He was glowering.
00:07:13.080 And then he voted yes.
00:07:14.960 Now, look, Menendez is pretty mad at his own party.
00:07:18.820 He's facing indictment.
00:07:19.860 He's facing prosecution.
00:07:21.460 His party had basically thrown him out of the party.
00:07:24.040 He might run as an independent in the state of New Jersey.
00:07:27.400 He has long been the best Democrat when it comes to standing up to Iran compared to the 1.00
00:07:32.680 others.
00:07:33.120 And so his vote, a component of Bob's vote, I think, was a screw you to Schumer and the
00:07:38.600 rest of the Democrat Party.
00:07:40.660 But that being said, it is astonished that Tester and Brown and Casey and Rosen, they all cast
00:07:48.360 their vote and said, yep, we're all for sending billions of dollars to the Ayatollah who chants 0.76
00:07:54.180 death to America and death to Israel, even while he's funding Hamas death squads right 0.97
00:08:00.260 now.
00:08:01.200 You look at the fight here, and it is shocking that you guys are even having to have this
00:08:06.080 battle, even have these types of fights.
00:08:08.040 And yet, the American people seem to lose yet again.
00:08:13.200 How do Democrats keep getting away with this?
00:08:15.880 And I'm saying that in a real standpoint.
00:08:18.080 Is it because the media doesn't talk about what they're actually doing on a Friday night
00:08:21.900 at midnight?
00:08:23.120 Is that the main core thing so that people don't even realize how bad they're getting 0.89
00:08:26.540 screwed?
00:08:27.620 Oh, look, when it's late at night, most of the reporters are in bed.
00:08:30.400 So most of the reporters weren't even there covering it.
00:08:32.860 And it doesn't matter if they're awake or not.
00:08:35.260 The media is broken.
00:08:36.860 They do not view their role as actually reporting on news.
00:08:41.040 They don't report both sides.
00:08:43.120 They are advocates for the left wing of the Democrat Party.
00:08:47.560 The media wants to send billions of dollars to Iran.
00:08:50.520 So they're not going to tell you that every Democrat voter except Bob Menendez just voted
00:08:55.080 to send billions of dollars to Iran.
00:08:57.120 Let's walk through some of the rest of these votes, because these votes are actually astonishingly
00:09:01.860 bad.
00:09:02.280 All right.
00:09:03.120 Another one of the votes we had was a vote that was introduced by Ted Budd.
00:09:08.440 This was a vote that said we should deport illegal immigrants who have violently assaulted
00:09:17.980 police officers.
00:09:19.820 Very simple question.
00:09:21.780 You have an illegal immigrant. 1.00
00:09:22.800 If he violently assaults a cop, for example, the six illegal immigrants in New York who beat up two New York cops. 0.95
00:09:30.100 Once you beat up a cop, you should be deported.
00:09:32.900 This this ought to be easy.
00:09:34.960 Yeah.
00:09:35.120 Like, to be honest, grab a hundred people in any state in America.
00:09:42.100 It doesn't have to be a red state.
00:09:43.240 Make it a purple state.
00:09:44.280 Make it a blue state.
00:09:46.000 Ask a hundred people if an illegal immigrant beats up a cop. 0.84
00:09:49.320 Should they be deported? 0.65
00:09:51.640 An overwhelming majority will say hell yes anywhere you go.
00:09:56.720 Well, Ted Budd teed this up.
00:09:58.220 By the way, this was one of the amendments that had Tester terrified, that had Sherrod Brown terrified, that had Bob Casey terrified.
00:10:07.060 Well, you know what the vote was?
00:10:08.800 Every single Democrat voted no.
00:10:13.400 They are now on record against deporting illegal aliens who violently assault police officers.
00:10:20.920 It's not just that.
00:10:24.240 Let's talk about the importing of illegal immigrants. 0.70
00:10:26.960 And this was one of the votes that you guys had to deal with.
00:10:31.380 And it was a it was something that was brought up by Bill Haggerty, one of your colleagues out of Tennessee, that was like, hey, can we all at least agree that we shouldn't be spending the American taxpayers dollars to import on chartered flights?
00:10:45.280 Three hundred and twenty thousand in twenty twenty three that we know of illegal immigrants in America on top of the millions that have already come in.
00:10:54.980 Why are we importing them?
00:10:57.060 And yet every Democrat voted against that as well.
00:11:00.520 Yeah, look, that's exactly right.
00:11:02.200 Bill Bill Haggerty had a motion to prohibit the Department of Homeland Security from using funds to, quote, facilitate, provide or purchase air transportation from a foreign country to the United States for an alien in order for such an alien to utilize the parole process.
00:11:22.040 And this was target at the Biden administration, having flown three hundred and twenty thousand illegal immigrants into America from Cuba, from Haiti, from Nicaragua and from Venezuela.
00:11:34.520 Now, they did this in secret.
00:11:38.060 They did this in the dark of night.
00:11:39.780 We know they've flown over three hundred and twenty thousand illegal immigrants into this country to forty three different airports, but they will not tell us what airports they flew them to.
00:11:48.800 They say it's a national security risk to tell us what airports they're flying these into.
00:11:54.380 But we do know at least one of them, which is last week, a twenty six year old Haitian named Corey Alvarez, who entered under Biden's parole program, was arrested in Massachusetts for the rape of a 15 year old disabled girl.
00:12:13.300 That was last week. Now, look, I get Massachusetts is a bright blue liberal state, but even in Massachusetts, if you ask people, do you want Joe Biden flying illegal immigrants out of Haiti into Massachusetts, letting them go? 0.50
00:12:30.340 And by the way, one of them he just did just raped a 15 year old disabled girl. 0.97
00:12:35.800 Even in Massachusetts, the voters would say hell no. 0.80
00:12:40.500 But we voted on it and every single Democrat voted no straight party line vote.
00:12:48.180 So when you move forward with this and this is, I think, going to come down to November, how much of this could come back to haunt the Democrats and what they just did, the American people?
00:12:59.800 Or is this now just business as usual and Democrats say, look, at least our voters, the majority of them don't pay attention or agree with us or just don't care?
00:13:09.200 Is this the lowest level of, I would also argue, apathy you've ever seen in America, especially when there's so many issues like this that you just described?
00:13:17.440 I mean, I would have never thought it would have been politically a reason to stand and band together for Democrats to say, yes, we are, in fact, going to take millions and millions of dollars and we are going to fly illegal immigrants in the United States of America. 0.90
00:13:30.000 And some of them are doing these heinous and horrendous crimes.
00:13:33.380 And yet we're still going to stay lockstep with the president of the United States of America in a presidential election year to top all that off.
00:13:40.500 Well, I think they feel utterly unaccountable.
00:13:43.980 They know that the media is broken.
00:13:46.060 By the way, did you see the media covering any of this?
00:13:48.660 Did you see any discussion of this on the six o'clock news?
00:13:52.180 We had Sunday shows yesterday where the Sunday show sitting around going, what has happened to the Democrat Party?
00:13:58.300 How do they vote for such crazy things?
00:14:00.560 You know what happened instead?
00:14:02.020 Chuck Todd just about had a hysterical breakdown crying on Meet the Press.
00:14:07.140 Because why?
00:14:08.080 Because NBC hired Ronna McDaniel as a commentator and he could not handle it.
00:14:14.480 He said, my God, she's a Republican. 0.58
00:14:16.560 Can you believe, you know, she was a Republican?
00:14:18.760 How could we hire someone who spoke on behalf of Republicans?
00:14:22.580 Let me tell you something interesting.
00:14:24.560 Chuck Todd, before he was hired, was a Democrat staffer.
00:14:28.360 Tim Russert, the legend of NBC, before he was hired, was a Democrat staffer.
00:14:33.660 But George Stephanopoulos, before he was hired, was a senior Democrat staffer in the Clinton White House.
00:14:40.060 Jen Psaki, who was a senior Democrat staffer in the Biden White House.
00:14:45.240 She was literally the Biden press secretary charged with lying to the American people every day on behalf of Joe Biden.
00:14:51.700 She not only got hired, she has her own primetime show.
00:14:55.620 And yet Chuck Todd practically had to be medicated that how dare NBC hire one Republican?
00:15:04.060 The world will end.
00:15:05.660 No wonder NBC doesn't cover these horrible votes by Democrats.
00:15:10.520 ABC doesn't cover it.
00:15:11.800 CBS doesn't cover it.
00:15:12.980 CNN doesn't cover it.
00:15:14.440 MSNBC doesn't cover it.
00:15:15.840 The Washington Post doesn't cover it.
00:15:17.460 The New York Times doesn't cover it.
00:15:18.980 None of them cover it because they are, they're not just part of the team.
00:15:24.340 They are the advance fighting forces of the team.
00:15:28.220 Their objective is to keep driving the Democrat party left, left, left.
00:15:32.940 And so they know that no matter what bad vote gets cast, it will never be covered back home.
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00:16:10.320 You mentioned this fight.
00:16:13.880 And just to put it in perspective, there are a lot of people that are concerned over government spending.
00:16:20.080 Part of what you guys obviously were dealing with was government spending.
00:16:23.820 But there was, you know, there's a third rail in politics.
00:16:26.500 They say never talk in a presidential election year about Social Security or insolvency or any of those issues.
00:16:32.400 And we see our national debts going up.
00:16:34.480 I think it's a trillion dollars on average every now hundred days, three trillion in the year.
00:16:38.440 And people are talking about this.
00:16:40.360 Janet Yellen was even asked questions.
00:16:42.920 And the media didn't cover this.
00:16:45.160 The Biden Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, literally admitted that Biden doesn't actually have a plan for Social Security.
00:16:53.340 No one covered that, like, shocking, massive breaking news this week either.
00:16:58.460 The media, there is virtually no one in the corporate media who even pretends to be a journalist anymore.
00:17:06.600 I'll give you another example.
00:17:07.880 One of the other amendments we voted on was Ted Budd had a different amendment, but that was the Lake and Riley Act.
00:17:13.620 And it was an amendment that would prohibit funding from being used to grant immigration status to any alien who is charged with, arrested for, convicted of acts that constitute the essential elements of burglary, theft, larceny or shoplifting.
00:17:33.220 It was designed to respond to the horrific murder of Lake and Riley.
00:17:38.640 And what happened?
00:17:39.700 We had a vote on the Senate floor.
00:17:41.980 Every single Democrat voted no.
00:17:45.220 All of them.
00:17:46.100 Straight party line.
00:17:47.620 Why?
00:17:48.040 Because they know they're not asked about Lake and Riley when they get home.
00:17:50.940 When they do a press interview, nobody asks them about Lake and Riley.
00:17:53.940 That is not their narrative.
00:17:56.060 I got to play at Janet Yellen because for the people that missed this, this is the Biden Treasury secretary admitting Biden doesn't have a plan to deal with one of the biggest issues in our country that affects many seniors.
00:18:12.100 Has Treasury really not looked at, OK, we're already charging four point nine trillion for the deficit, for Medicare, for a lot of other things.
00:18:18.840 And now we've got to add social, but we haven't done the math to figure out how much that tax rate would have to be.
00:18:23.640 The president doesn't have a plan.
00:18:26.080 He has principles.
00:18:28.000 He wants to work with Congress to find a way to protect Social Security and extended solvency beyond 2034.
00:18:38.120 If the president wishes that he doesn't have a plan, Madam Secretary, how could he justify not having a plan when he's been in office for three years already?
00:18:45.220 He believes it's important to work with Congress and not Madam Secretary.
00:18:50.700 He has not worked with us at all on this Senate Finance Committee.
00:18:54.420 I mean, Senator, to be very clear with the American people, the Treasury Secretary of the United States of America, Janet Yellen, said on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Biden doesn't actually have a plan for Social Security.
00:19:07.700 But he's got principles and that should be good enough for all of us.
00:19:11.540 Well, look, on one level, it's remarkable that Yellen was that candid, but she wasn't entirely honest because he does have a plan for Social Security.
00:19:19.620 His plan is to demagogue the heck out of it, to attack Republicans, to say Republicans want to bankrupt Social Security.
00:19:26.060 Republicans want to destroy Social Security.
00:19:28.380 Mind you, it's a total lie.
00:19:29.700 He knows it's a total lie.
00:19:31.080 But it doesn't matter.
00:19:33.600 The Democrats, rather than address their own radical policies, they're going to scream and yell that Republicans hate old people, Republicans hate women, Republicans hate children, Republicans hate kittens, Republicans hate flowers and sunshine.
00:19:46.620 Like, it is all just rhetoric. 0.99
00:19:49.240 And by the way, did I mention Donald Trump is the devil? 0.90
00:19:51.620 That is the Democrat re-election plan right there.
00:19:55.220 And so when it comes to Social Security, do they know that on the current path, Social Security is careening towards insolvency and bankruptcy?
00:20:02.880 Yes. 0.86
00:20:03.420 Are they willing to do a damn thing about it? 0.94
00:20:05.520 No. 0.92
00:20:06.320 What they want to do instead is just demagogue the issue.
00:20:09.280 And Yellen's quite candid about it.
00:20:11.000 Nope, we're not going to fix it.
00:20:12.020 We're just going to use it for political attacks and cross our fingers and see what happens.
00:20:17.860 It's incredible.
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00:21:56.440 Senator, I want to move to something else that obviously deals with what you're talking about in Washington, D.C.,
00:22:02.200 but it really brings it down to the doubling down, as you described early on, by Democrats on the open border policy and illegal immigrants.
00:22:11.740 It's a story coming out of Michigan, and the reason why this, I think, is so shocking to me is there's new poll numbers out over the weekend
00:22:20.700 that show that Donald Trump, who lost Michigan to Joe Biden the last election, he won it in 16,
00:22:26.420 Trump now tops Biden by eight points in a Michigan poll.
00:22:31.420 That is significant.
00:22:33.380 The president's approval rating in Michigan is at 35%.
00:22:37.580 So what is Michigan doing?
00:22:39.540 I guess it's time to buy votes.
00:22:42.060 They're now offering homeowners a $500 a month stipend if they'll welcome what they describe as newcomers,
00:22:50.400 what that is, is an illegal immigrant, into their home, 0.99
00:22:53.420 and the state of Michigan will subsidize you $500 a citizen a month up to a year.
00:22:59.520 So basically, $6,000 is what they're willing to give you to house someone now.
00:23:04.120 Well, that's right.
00:23:05.120 The program that Michigan has rolled out, it's called the Newcomer Rental Subsidy,
00:23:09.220 and it's designed to provide shelter outside of state shelters for so-called refugees,
00:23:14.180 and refugees is simply the term they use for illegal aliens.
00:23:17.400 It lasts for up to a year, and according to Michigan, those eligible include refugees, asylees, special immigration visa holders,
00:23:28.580 victims of human trafficking, Cuban entrants, Haitian entrants, Afghan nationals, and Ukrainian humanitarian parolees.
00:23:38.940 So get this, the state of Michigan is quite literally paying individuals, paying homeowners to house illegal immigrants in their house. 0.88
00:23:50.500 And by the way, it's not just them.
00:23:52.460 Others who qualify include individuals who arrived under the family reunification parole process for El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Colombia.
00:24:02.020 Who in Michigan, what Michigan taxpayer says, you know what I really want?
00:24:08.920 I want my taxes going to paying my neighbor to put an illegal immigrant that Joe Biden led into this country into his house, 1.00
00:24:18.760 and we'll send them $500 a month to keep the illegal immigrant there. 0.77
00:24:23.440 That is how nutty today's Democrat Party is on this issue.
00:24:27.520 Well, and my question is, and I'm not joking when I say this, is this not a form of just buying votes?
00:24:32.440 If you're talking that each person is now worth $6,000 to a Michigan homeowner to house them,
00:24:41.060 and I don't know if there's a cap that you can only have one or maybe you can have two.
00:24:45.740 What if it's a family?
00:24:46.580 I'm assuming we're not going to break up the family.
00:24:48.120 So if you have a family of four and you house them, are we now talking that they're worth $24,000 to your bottom line?
00:24:57.460 How is that not the Democratic Party basically buying votes saying, hey, you better keep us in office.
00:25:03.960 You better vote for us because we're worth $24,000 a year to you right now.
00:25:08.300 Well, and look, I'll read you a quote from Amy Hovey, who is the executive director of the Michigan State Housing Development Authority,
00:25:14.780 who said the program would help migrants, quote, build a new life here.
00:25:18.540 And she said, quote, this program is truly a win-win as it addresses the most pressing barrier to refugee resettlement
00:25:26.120 by meeting housing needs while setting up families for success with increased employment and opportunities.
00:25:34.120 That's the position of the Democrat Party.
00:25:36.220 You, too, can have an illegal alien in your house. 0.76
00:25:38.700 Do they care about the cost of housing going up?
00:25:42.320 I mean, is that a conversation you guys have in D.C.?
00:25:45.740 Is that a question that anyone asks of the Democrats?
00:25:49.500 When you have this many illegal immigrants coming into America, and I'll go back to what you were talking about at the very beginning, 1.00
00:25:55.940 and these votes, it's not just the 320,000 illegal immigrants that we have flown into this country
00:26:02.000 at the taxpayers' dollars paying for these charter flights.
00:26:04.740 But if you look at how many illegal immigrants have come across the southern border since Joe Biden was sworn in,
00:26:12.160 it's at least, at minimum, 7.2 million illegal immigrants that have entered the U.S. under the Biden administration,
00:26:17.980 which is greater than the population of 36 individual states in America.
00:26:24.660 And now we see housing cost issues, rent cost issues, and we see inflationary issues,
00:26:32.140 and we see that we're seeing wages that are being undermined by illegal immigrants. 0.91
00:26:37.500 If Michigan does this and other states go along with it, which other states are as well,
00:26:42.500 they're saying the same thing.
00:26:43.720 House an illegal immigrant, we'll give you cash. 1.00
00:26:45.960 Is that not the definition of undermining hard-working American families who are just struggling to survive?
00:26:53.220 Well, look, you've got to understand the modern Democrat view is they can spend unlimited money,
00:26:57.540 trillions of dollars, they can print unlimited money,
00:26:59.700 and if they want more, they'll just tax the hell out of you.
00:27:03.140 And it's a giant Ponzi scheme where they print money, they raise taxes, they spend more money,
00:27:07.360 inflation goes up, so they print more money.
00:27:09.240 And when it comes to, if the voters don't like it, don't worry, they'll change the composition of the voters.
00:27:15.880 They'll let 10.4 million people into this country illegally. 0.99
00:27:19.560 Those guys, the Democrats are confident, will vote Democrat, and so they stay in power.
00:27:23.760 That is, you know, there used to be a time when you could have a common-sense discussion.
00:27:30.800 There are no longer any Democrats in Washington in Congress who engage in common sense.
00:27:36.840 I mean, look, we saw these votes. Every single one of them lined up over and over and over again.
00:27:43.140 Illegal immigrant who built, who beat up a cop? Nope, don't deport him.
00:27:47.260 Like, tell me what world does a sane or rational person believe that, and yet every Senate Democrat, that's their view.
00:27:55.580 Last question on this. When they vote lockstep like that, is that pre-planned with a conversation they have behind closed doors?
00:28:03.620 And they say, hey, no matter what they throw at you, no matter how sane it is, you do not agree with Republicans on anything full stop?
00:28:11.500 It's why it took all night. They knew what we were going to have votes on.
00:28:15.160 We had put forward, these are the amendments we want votes on.
00:28:18.040 And we spent the entire day Friday just doing nothing, because Schumer was talking to his Democrats, saying, okay, here are the votes.
00:28:25.820 It's we need every Democrat to stand, lock arms, and just vote against all of them.
00:28:30.320 And he had...
00:28:31.540 Hold on, walk me through Friday, that day, because people don't understand, I think, how dysfunctional Schumer can make things when they're trying to get things done like this.
00:28:40.680 So you guys wake up Friday. You know you had to stay over another day.
00:28:45.040 Well, we didn't. We actually thought we would be done Friday afternoon.
00:28:48.620 In a normal world, we would have been. We stayed there the whole night.
00:28:51.900 So tell me, like, you guys wake up Friday morning. Do you have a vote schedule yet?
00:28:57.860 And then he changes or does he just say, hey, wake up and stand by until I tell you when you get to vote?
00:29:02.640 Yeah, it's much more the latter. And the way the Senate works, it's a strange place.
00:29:07.340 So the majority leader only has one real power under the rules, and it's what's called priority of recognition,
00:29:13.740 which means he is recognized first if he's on the floor.
00:29:17.240 And he uses that to control the Senate calendar, to fill the pending business with whatever he wants so that no one else can put anything else on the Senate calendar.
00:29:28.040 So you spend a lot of time just sitting around waiting.
00:29:31.280 It's a very weird thing.
00:29:32.660 I'll tell you, when I was, you know, new in the Senate, and I'd be...
00:29:37.360 A typical Senate week, you will fly to D.C. Monday mornings, and you'll fly home Thursday nights.
00:29:43.000 And then typically I'm home in Houston Thursday nights.
00:29:46.280 Friday I travel somewhere around Texas.
00:29:48.800 Sometimes Saturday I travel around Texas.
00:29:51.020 I try to spend Sundays home with the family, and then Monday morning I fly back to D.C.
00:29:56.560 That's the usual rhythm of things.
00:29:58.260 But on Thursdays I would call home, back when Republicans had the majority, I would call home,
00:30:04.200 and my daughters would ask, well, are you coming home tonight?
00:30:06.940 And I'd say, well, I don't know.
00:30:08.140 It depends what Mitch schedules, when he schedules votes, and we have no idea.
00:30:14.620 My daughters used to say, is that mean man going to let you come home? 0.99
00:30:19.060 And by that mean man they meant Mitch McConnell, because you literally have no control over your schedule.
00:30:24.940 It is utterly incoherent.
00:30:30.600 So Friday we spent all day.
00:30:32.800 We were waiting to see if a deal would be reached.
00:30:34.780 We were waiting to see if a deal would be reached.
00:30:37.120 And throughout the afternoon and evening it looked like there was going to be no deal.
00:30:41.300 At midnight Friday night, funding for the federal government was set to expire, and we were going to have a shutdown.
00:30:46.880 So as the evening went on, I was on the Senate floor for a while.
00:30:50.380 It looked like there was no deal.
00:30:51.520 I went with some senators, grabbed some food, watched some basketball.
00:30:56.320 And actually, I had gone home.
00:30:58.420 I changed out of my suit, was getting ready to go to bed.
00:31:01.520 And then after 11 p.m., I got the note, nope, we're getting ready to vote.
00:31:05.580 And we began voting at 11.56 p.m.
00:31:08.340 So I had to get dressed again, head back to the Capitol.
00:31:11.300 Everyone did.
00:31:12.300 And we voted from 11.56 p.m. until 2.03 a.m. is when it was over.
00:31:17.340 But that's just kind of how hectic things are.
00:31:21.580 It's unbelievable.
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00:33:22.220 Senator, lastly, this story broke.
00:33:25.440 It's not being covered, of course, by the media, because why would they want to tell you about this?
00:33:31.140 But apparently now the Biden administration has decided we don't want to offend extremists, jihadist extremists,
00:33:40.080 and they want to change the way you talk about actual terrorists.
00:33:44.840 Well, that's exactly right.
00:33:46.200 This is a story that the Daily Wire broke, and it's a memo that was sent by the diversity, equity, and inclusion officials
00:33:52.460 at the Biden administration's top intelligence agency.
00:33:55.880 And it warns personnel not to use, quote, problematic phrases when discussing Islamic terrorism and foreign adversaries such as China.
00:34:05.500 The unclassified newsletter, and it's from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, is called, quote, The Dive.
00:34:12.860 And it was obtained through Freedom Information Act request by the Daily Wire.
00:34:17.300 It argues in its cover story that the intelligence community needs to focus on, quote,
00:34:23.440 changing terminology related to counterterrorism because, quote, words matter.
00:34:31.500 Here's more.
00:34:32.780 Quote, the article is about one of our goals, disentangling Islam from words and phrases used to discuss terrorism
00:34:42.040 and extreme violence.
00:34:45.100 It goes on to declare that trying to remove, quote,
00:34:50.540 certain phrases to identify international terrorism threats that are hurtful to Muslim Americans.
00:34:58.300 Some of the problematic phrases include, but are not limited to,
00:35:02.620 Salafi jihadist, jihadist, Islamic extremist, Sunni Shia extremism, and radical Islamist.
00:35:12.040 Only in America could you have a memo that someone took this much time and wastes this time under the Biden administration
00:35:19.020 to make people that are directly associated with terrorism feel better about, I guess, what, not being a terrorist?
00:35:25.740 Well, and sadly, this is continuing the path of putting politics above national security that we saw when Barack Obama was president.
00:35:36.760 When Barack Obama was president, I actually chaired a hearing that examined the purge that the Obama White House insisted DHS do
00:35:46.220 to remove from their records any reference to radical Islamic terrorism or Islam or Muslim or jihadist.
00:35:54.660 And they erased over 800 times.
00:35:58.080 They erased those words from their records.
00:36:01.600 And by the way, the word purge, that's not me adding that word to it.
00:36:07.600 That was the word that was used by the political official in the Obama White House in the instructions to DHS.
00:36:14.860 Purge your files.
00:36:16.180 Well, these same radicals are now running Biden's intelligence agencies.
00:36:23.800 And this article is part of a newsletter that is created by ODNI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence,
00:36:30.360 Intelligence Community Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Accessibility Office.
00:36:35.560 And it was sent to personnel throughout the intelligence community, which includes the CIA, the NSA, the FBI, the DHS and the Department of Justice.
00:36:46.360 All of them are being told the fact that Palestinian Islamic Jihad was one of the two terrorist groups that carried out October 7th.
00:36:56.980 October 7th was carried out by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
00:37:01.520 Apparently, that is an inconvenient fact to the language commissars who, I presume, want to edit out the word Islamic from the name of the terrorist group, Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
00:37:16.700 Look, they're not murdering Jews because they dislike their hairstyle.
00:37:21.200 They are murdering Jews because they have a perverted view of radical Islam that mandates jihad and countering jihadism, countering the radical religious extremism behind it. 0.60
00:37:35.700 It is only possible if you acknowledge it exists. 0.98
00:37:38.520 And so, on one level, you say, okay, this sort of language, political correctness stuff, it's silly. 0.95
00:37:45.380 But in this instance, it's much worse than silly.
00:37:47.640 It is dangerous because if the intelligence community has no idea, refuses to acknowledge what is actually happening,
00:37:56.840 it means they will be utterly ineffective in fighting against it and keeping Americans and our allies safe.
00:38:03.120 Yeah, and this is one of those moments when you say, what are they focusing their time on right now?
00:38:09.020 Is it political correctness or is it actually keeping us safe from actual jihadist terrorists that they're afraid of offending by using the name?
00:38:16.200 It reminds me a lot of the president saying that an individual that killed an innocent young girl in Georgia was an illegal immigrant
00:38:26.900 and then apologized to the illegal immigrants for calling that individual, who is the alleged murderer, an illegal immigrant.
00:38:36.480 It's like, what are you focusing on?
00:38:39.280 What is important to you?
00:38:40.980 Protecting innocent people?
00:38:42.400 Protecting people from terrorist attacks?
00:38:44.300 Or is it this PRPC wokeness?
00:38:48.800 Is that matter more than actually fighting the bad guys?
00:38:52.360 Well, unfortunately, based on things like their late night votes, where every Democrat voted against the American citizens,
00:39:00.820 voted in favor of illegal aliens, voted in favor of sending billions of dollars to Iran,
00:39:05.880 it's not difficult to figure out where their priorities lie right now.
00:39:09.520 Yeah, great point.
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