Verdict with Ted Cruz - September 28, 2026


Dems Embrace Socialism & Open Borders plus UK Terror Plot Foiled

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00:03:46 Welcome, it is Vertical Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
00:03:52 Senator, I can't believe it.
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00:04:11 and this is also happening while Americans are embracing socialism at record levels. I know that
00:04:17 concerns you as well. Well, socialism is on the ballot. We're five weeks away from election day.
00:04:23 The numbers nationwide of Americans supporting socialism are skyrocketing. They're skyrocketing
00:04:30 among Democrats. That's becoming the orthodoxy in the Democrat Party, but they're even rising
00:04:35 distressingly among independents. We're going to break that down. We're also going to break down
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00:06:49 All right, Senators, so let's get into this.
00:06:50 Five weeks out, I look at these poll numbers, and it's tight.
00:06:54 I think you and I have both looked at them, and it's not exactly where anyone was hoping on the conservative side of things we would be at this moment in time going into the midterms.
00:07:02 But there's also this new kind of mantra coming from the left, which is, hey, if we get power, we will go after Donald Trump and impeach him, also cabinet members, also we'll go after family, we'll go after other conservatives.
00:07:16 Like, it is pure warfare, lawfare, whatever you want to call it, congressional lawfare, yet again.
00:07:22 And that's what now the Democrats are closing argument to the American people is vote for us because we'll go lock people up.
00:07:28 Well, that's exactly right, because that's what animates and unifies their party is hatred for Donald Trump.
00:07:34 Here, I want you to listen to Representative Ro Khanna, a Democrat, very, very wealthy tech Democrat, used to portray himself as moderate, but now is running hard, hard left because he's got presidential ambitions.
00:07:45 I want to listen. Listen to him being asked if it's true that that their objective is just impeach Trump.
00:07:53 Listen, is impeaching President Trump a third time a mistake for Democrats?
00:07:59 No, it's not because it's not about Donald Trump. 0.99
00:08:02 He's going to be a lame duck. And in my view, largely increasingly irrelevant. 0.99
00:08:08 The point is to stand up for the Constitution.
00:08:10 impeachment says that you can't get into an illegal war in iran without constitutional
00:08:17 approval impeachment says that you can't just start firing federal employees when uh in defiance
00:08:24 of what congress says impeachment says you can't do deals with foreign governments uh to allegedly
00:08:30 enrich your own family it's about setting a standard and the democrats can impeach to to
00:08:36 uphold constitutional values and at the same time have a first hundred day agenda that deals with
00:08:41 the cost of living notice it's it's not really about you it's about it's about warfare and
00:08:48 political warfare and oh absolutely we're going to go down this road yeah then we'll get to the
00:08:51 economy and other things later but really this is about attacking anyone that helped trump and trump
00:08:55 and his cabinet so no one will want to serve their country look trump derangement syndrome is alive
00:09:01 and well. They are animated. Their sole goal in life, it seems, is hatred of Trump. But actually,
00:09:07 that's not true. They also want radical policies that would destroy America. Here, I want you to
00:09:12 listen to Democrat Tom Swoozie, who is another one who pretends he's a moderate, but listen to
00:09:16 what he says his number one objective is if Democrats take power. My number one issue
00:09:23 is to try and get a resolution on immigration. My biggest desire 0.98
00:09:31 My biggest goal of what I want to accomplish in politics right now is I want to legalize seven or eight or nine or 10 million people in our country so they will not be subject to deportation.
00:09:44 Well, at least they're being honest about it.
00:09:46 Hey, Americans, you're not our priority. 1.00
00:09:48 Illegal immigrants, you are our priority. 1.00
00:09:51 And just understand, if you're an American suffering right now, we don't really care. 1.00
00:09:55 If you're someone that has issues and you have a U.S. passport, we don't really care.
00:10:01 It's the illegals that we're here to protect and defend and to honor first and foremost.
00:10:06 Now, look, this is striking because Tom Swoosey is in a potential swing district in New York,
00:10:11 and he's echoing the very same message that you remember Chris Murphy a year or two said on TV,
00:10:17 and it was widely perceived as a gaffe.
00:10:19 But listen to Chris Murphy on MSNBC explaining what his number one priority is.
00:10:24 the negotiation didn't have a path to citizenship it was entirely on their terms in order to get
00:10:31 ukraine fund right well i mean chris that's been a failed play for 20 years so you are right that
00:10:38 that has been the democratic strategy for 30 years maybe uh and it has failed to deliver for
00:10:45 the people we care about most the undocumented americans that are in this country well there
00:10:51 you heard it uh chris murphy in his own words he describes he's speaking about democrats as a party
00:10:56 he describes quote the people we care about most and then he calls them the undocumented americans
00:11:04 by which he means illegal immigrants and and and he's not he's not saying they care about him he
00:11:08 said they are the people they care about most illegal immigrants they care about it more than
00:11:13 you more than u.s citizens more than your kids that's why democrat tom swoozy is saying his
00:11:19 biggest goal, his number one goal, is to grant amnesty to seven or eight or nine or ten million
00:11:26 people in our country. That's their number one goal. It is to attack President Trump, and it is
00:11:32 to fight for illegal immigrants. That's their priority. And it's one of the reasons why, as 0.99
00:11:38 lousy as the poll numbers are looking for Republicans right now, Democrats have a problem
00:11:44 too. Listen to Mark Kelly getting confronted with this on ABC. That is that only 34% of people
00:11:50 think the Democratic Party cares about people like them. What does that tell you? What do you
00:11:58 do about it if people just aren't feeling it from the Democrats, if you're sort of a default or
00:12:03 people stay away from the race? Well, I'll tell you what I'm doing about it. I've been traveling
00:12:08 across the country uh basically non-stop for the last six months i've been in new hampshire in
00:12:15 ohio kansas missouri iowa georgia south carolina meeting with people i've also been all over
00:12:22 arizona i was just up on the navajo nation a couple weeks ago for the navajo parade and just
00:12:28 talking to people and trying to understand their challenges in their homes in their schools in
00:12:35 their communities you listen to that and it's just truly not about americans first at all well and
00:12:43 and when even abc is going at and pointing out that the poll numbers show that only 34 percent
00:12:49 of americans think democrats care about quote people like them and there's a reason for that
00:12:56 the democrats are telling you who they care about the people they care about most are illegal
00:13:00 immigrants look if you're an illegal immigrant i guess that should make you really happy that's
00:13:04 Party. That's who they're fighting for. You know, he also left out gangbangers and criminals and
00:13:12 murderers and child molesters and rapists. And that clearly is who they care about most as well,
00:13:16 because when they get in power, that's who they let go. That's who they refuse to arrest. That's
00:13:21 who they empty the jails from. That's who they release into the communities. So they care about 0.97
00:13:26 attacking Trump. They care about illegal immigrants. They care about criminals. But they also 0.98
00:13:33 fundamentally care about this is the green red alliance this is communism and islamism coming
00:13:39 together and to be clear that is not limited to manhattan it is not just comrade mandami in new 0.90
00:13:46 york they plan to bring this to your neighborhood to your town to your state they plan to bring it
00:13:51 to the whole country listen to comrade mandami talking about socialism for all of america the
00:13:58 The thing is, other Democrats are concerned.
00:14:00 Not everybody believes that America is ready on a national level to necessarily elect people
00:14:08 who are on the left.
00:14:09 Will it translate on a national level?
00:14:12 And will the midterms not just be a referendum on Trump, but a referendum on the democratic
00:14:18 socialists of America?
00:14:19 I think this will absolutely translate on a national level.
00:14:22 And the reason that I believe that is, while we are an exceptional city as the greatest
00:14:26 city in the world. We also know that the struggles that New Yorkers are facing are the struggles
00:14:30 that working class Americans are facing across the country. I often say that there's only one 0.74
00:14:34 majority in this country. It's the working class and their inability to afford housing, 1.00
00:14:40 child care, even public transit. That is something that goes beyond any one city.
00:14:45 Senator, beyond any one city, that's his message.
00:14:48 Look, this is their nationwide agenda. They want to bring socialism to you. And by the way,
00:14:53 what comrade mandami did there is what communists and and and socialists always do which is they
00:14:59 say they're fighting for the working man which is what he said but then you look at their policies
00:15:03 and their policies always always always hurt the working men and and and if you look at it this is
00:15:10 true in communist countries across the world whether the soviet union or china or cuba or
00:15:17 venezuela or nicaragua or north korea whenever you have socialism implemented and socialism is
00:15:24 the economic system of communism and the whenever they implement their policies working men and
00:15:32 women pay the price they have poverty they have shortages they have their standard of living goes
00:15:38 goes down understand the democrats it's ironic he used use the phrase working men because he
00:15:46 doesn't actually want people to work he wants to pay people not to work if you're working he wants
00:15:50 to tax the hell out of you if you own a small business he wants to destroy your small business
00:15:55 and yet this message is is getting real traction brand new polling that came from gallup i'm going
00:16:01 to read from from new york post americans are embracing socialism at record levels as popularity
00:16:07 tops 40 for the first time since 2010 a record number of americans now have a positive view of
00:16:14 socialism, with almost half admitting they embrace the far-left ideology, according to an eye-opening
00:16:21 survey. 43 percent of Americans said they feel optimistic about socialism, the new Gallup poll
00:16:29 released Wednesday revealed. It marks the first time this figure has topped 40 percent in Gallup's
00:16:35 trend since 2010. At the same time, economic concepts like free enterprise, big business,
00:16:41 and capitalism have slipped in public favorability the surge in popularity was driven surprisingly
00:16:48 by independence with 45 percent of this group reporting a positive view of socialism
00:16:54 up from 37 percent last year now that's highly troubling troubling that independence went from
00:17:00 37 percent thinking socialism was a good idea to 45 percent that that is a very disturbing
00:17:07 movement. Independence view of big business, meanwhile, dipped to a new low of 32 percent,
00:17:13 meaning independence now prefers socialism to big business. However, small businesses,
00:17:19 capitalism, and free enterprise are still viewed more positively. The increase in optimism for the
00:17:26 far-left philosophy is also driven in large part by a sharp uptick among Democrats who say they
00:17:32 have a positive view of socialism. The result in the Gallup poll showed two-thirds of progressives
00:17:39 were in favor 66 percent up from 50 percent in 2010. Democrats have been rating socialism more
00:17:48 positive that positively than capitalism since 2016 and it's now tied with free enterprise
00:17:55 at 65 percent. Democrats favorable rating of capitalism slid seven points in just the past
00:18:03 year from 42 percent in 2025 to just 35 percent today according to the survey. Now the one group
00:18:11 that's remained consistent Republicans meanwhile have stayed comparatively consistent with large
00:18:16 majorities favoring small business, free enterprise, and capitalism positively but just 14 percent
00:18:23 expressing a positive view of socialism this is the message that the far left is pushing but
00:18:30 understand this is their agenda if they win in november if they take power they want to bring 0.82
00:18:37 socialism to you they want to bring amnesty for illegals to you they want to bring violent
00:18:43 criminals that they're letting out of jail to you that's what the stakes are in this election
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00:20:19 You know, socialists, by the way, Senator, I think have been playing this game, the long
00:20:22 game, really, really well, to be honest with you.
00:20:24 You can see that over time, they are able to, in essence, mainstream in a pretty significant
00:20:33 way socialism, where it seems like a normal word, not a radical idea.
00:20:38 I think that's part of the reason why you're seeing these poll numbers the way that they
00:20:42 are now.
00:20:43 How concerned are you, by the way, that this could continue to gain momentum moving forward?
00:20:48 Yeah, it's a real problem. It is a marketing ploy. It begins with education, where the left seized K-12 education, seized college, seized much—colleges and universities seized much of entertainment, and they've been using their control over cultural organs to propagandize, and young people in particular are far more likely to say they have a positive view of socialism.
00:21:12 Now, I will say that positive view, I believe, is not deep.
00:21:18 It's not thick because most of them have no idea what socialism is.
00:21:21 Most of them think socialism is should people give me free stuff.
00:21:25 And not surprisingly, a lot of people, if you say, hey, you want free stuff, will say, sure, I'll take some free stuff.
00:21:31 But this is where elected officials need to do a better job.
00:21:35 This is where conservatives need to do a better job.
00:21:38 This is where podcasters need to do a better job.
00:21:41 explaining the facts. What is socialism? Socialism is the government ownership or control
00:21:48 of the means of production or distribution in an economy. It is the government being in charge
00:21:54 of producing and distributing goods and services. When the government is in charge,
00:22:01 it just doesn't work. The socialists, and by the way, when you ask young people what they think
00:22:07 socialism means. They don't know. Socialism also inevitably means, there's a phrase that
00:22:13 Karl Marx and others used, which is from each according to his abilities to each according to
00:22:19 his needs. It's part of the very essence of socialism and communism, which is if you're
00:22:24 producing, we're going to take from you. And if you're not producing, if you're sitting on your
00:22:29 rear end, we're going to give to you. Now what you end up happening, and this is where socialists 0.92
00:22:33 and communists don't understand, people respond to incentives. If you work hard and the government
00:22:39 takes the reward of your work, you know what you do? You stop working hard. And that ends up
00:22:44 happening. And so then they rely on government power to try to force you to work hard. They know
00:22:50 you can work hard. They know you can produce at a certain level. And so they threaten you. Look,
00:22:55 in the Soviet Union and Russia and China, they threaten you. They put you in jail
00:22:58 if you don't work as hard as they want you to work but it is all at the end of a gun it is all by
00:23:05 force and and if you look at let's take Cuba you know why is it that all of these socialists don't
00:23:13 seem to notice that down in Cuba the rafts are all going one direction they are fleeing Cuba
00:23:19 there's nobody Mondami never once has gone down to Key West jumped on a raft and said hey
00:23:24 I've got a communist socialist paradise just 90 miles south well the reason he doesn't is the
00:23:31 people in Cuba are miserable they're starving they have nothing they wait in bread lines
00:23:36 that the entire economy is frozen in time from the 1950s when the communists took over and by the way
00:23:44 in 1959 when the communists took over Cuba was had enormous prosperity it was a dominant sugar
00:23:51 producer. There was inequality and there was oppression. Batista, the dictator, was cruel.
00:23:57 But the material well-being of the Cuban people today is much, much, much worse than it was before.
00:24:05 And the answer was to overthrow the dictator, but put in place free enterprise and let small
00:24:10 businesses grow instead of putting communism and socialism in place. Yeah, no, you're absolutely
00:24:15 right. It's going to be, as we mentioned, we're five weeks away, and this is what this election
00:24:21 is going to be about. I want to move over to also the shocking news coming out of Britain
00:24:24 with this terror attack that was stopped, thank goodness. It was targeting a base that also hosts
00:24:29 Americans. Let's fill our audience in on this. Well, it's a very disturbing terror plot that
00:24:36 thankfully was stopped. Five men were taken into custody in the United Kingdom on suspicion of
00:24:42 explosion offenses and preparing a terrorist act. And here I'm reading from the Daily Wire.
00:24:47 British authorities arrested five men near a military base hosting U.S. forces early Sunday
00:24:54 on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack. RAF Fairford in southwestern England serves as a
00:25:03 forward operating location for the U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command and has recently been
00:25:09 used to launch B-52 and B-1 bombers targeting Iran. President Donald Trump praised the arrest
00:25:17 while speaking to reporters Sunday and said the United States had worked with British authorities
00:25:21 on the case. Quote, the arrests in the UK were fantastic, he said. Working with Britain, it was
00:25:28 an amazing job. We had them under investigation. Trump said the suspects, quote, were looking to
00:25:34 do big damage and that the group had been under watch, quote, for a long time. Police were alerted
00:25:40 around 1245 a.m. to three suspicious vehicles apparently bound for the base, according to the
00:25:45 Metropolitan Police statement. Armed officers responded and detained five men in a nearby
00:25:52 village on suspicion of explosive offensives, then re-arrested them on suspicion of preparing
00:25:58 an act of terrorism. Authorities evacuated about 85 households as a precaution and established a
00:26:04 400-meter cordon around the vehicles while Army bomb disposal specialists were examining them.
00:26:12 a nearby recreation center open to accommodate displaced residents.
00:26:18 Quote, we are in the early stages of an investigation and five men remain in custody, said Deputy Assistant Commissioner Vicki Evans.
00:26:26 We continue to work with police to keep the community safe as we work to gather evidence from the scene.
00:26:32 This is highly, highly disturbing.
00:26:36 Now, they went on to say, for operational security reasons, we will not discuss specific force protection measures.
00:26:42 U.S. European Command remains vigilant and will take appropriate actions to ensure the safety
00:26:48 and security of our U.S. service members, civilians, contractors, and their families
00:26:51 across the European theater. We constantly assess a variety of factors that determine
00:26:57 what measures we institute or modify to protect our installations, our people, and their families.
00:27:04 The New York Post reported that the five suspects were stripped down
00:27:07 after the officers suspected they might be wearing suicide vests.
00:27:12 The Telegraph reported that authorities are investigating whether there is a link to the Iranian regime.
00:27:19 In August, Iran threatened to attack U.S. air bases in Europe if President Trump escalated the war.
00:27:25 Quote, should the U.S. go too far, Iran will defend itself at any price, go beyond the region and hit Europe too, said a source close to the Iranian regime.
00:27:35 So you've got five what appear to be terrorists arrested in a terror attack preparing to bomb or appearing that they're preparing to bomb U.S. servicemen and women.
00:27:46 And in particular, the servicemen and women who are involved in carrying out the military strikes in Iran.
00:27:51 Thankfully, we prevented that from happening.
00:27:53 We have them in custody and further investigation will show just how far this plot goes and whether it was directed by Iran or others.
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00:29:20 Yeah, and you look at this, and it comes back to me, back to the U.S., and this is, again,
00:29:25 I go back to the midterms.
00:29:26 you look at what donald trump did so quickly i wish it was more of a midterm issue center i really
00:29:33 do because i think it's an important one it's a national security one and that is the issue of
00:29:37 securing our border and we know how many people got into this country uh when joe biden was in
00:29:41 office we know how many gotaways there are we know how many uh were on the terrorist watch list we
00:29:47 hit unbelievable numbers of people on the terrorist watch list that we did catch we don't know how many
00:29:50 got through that we don't know about that are on the terrorist watch list but when you look at this
00:29:55 issue in the uk and then you look at this what we had uh before trump came in and now we have a
00:30:00 secure border it is night and day difference and i wish this was more of a midterm issue because
00:30:06 it's almost like it happened so quickly him shutting down our southern border that people
00:30:09 forgot like how bad it used to be well and it's our responsibility to remind them to remind them 0.52
00:30:15 what it looked like when 12 million illegals were flooding into this country when we were facing an 0.86
00:30:19 invasion when we were seeing every single day another american murdered another woman raped 0.98
00:30:25 another child sexually assaulted by illegal immigrants released into this country by Joe 0.99
00:30:30 Biden and the Democrats. And by the way, these two stories are directly connected. You look at 0.92
00:30:36 the immigration policies the United Kingdom has followed, and they're exactly the same
00:30:42 open border amnesty policies that turn a blind eye to terrorists who want to kill us.
00:30:48 And tragically, the UK has faced real consequences. Here's a story that published also this weekend
00:30:54 in the Telegraph. Britain granted asylum and citizenship status to a former bodyguard
00:31:03 to the leader of Hamas, it has been reported. Named only as Mr. X for legal reasons,
00:31:10 he then allegedly plotted an anti-Semitic terrorist attack before the second anniversary
00:31:15 of the October 7 massacre, according to the Sunday Times. The suspect served in the personal
00:31:22 security detail for Ismail Hanaye, Hamas's leader in Gaza between 2007 and 2017, before moving to
00:31:33 Britain more than 10 years ago. It poses difficult questions for the home office MI5 and MI6 because
00:31:39 Mr. X was able to build a life in the country despite knowledge of his background. Before his
00:31:46 arrest last year, the married father in his 40s was reported to have changed his legal name numerous
00:31:51 times. Mr. X was able to settle in Britain under deep cover as an IT consultant in the suburbs of
00:31:58 a large English city despite reports that suggested his work for Hanaye was public knowledge. It has
00:32:06 been reported that he was known to be the son of another senior Hamas official and that he'd been
00:32:11 arrested in Egypt for operating a tunnel allegedly used to smuggle gun and gold into Gaza.
00:32:20 Nonetheless, he claimed asylum in 2015 and was granted indefinite leave to remain by the Home Office.
00:32:27 It was also reported that he attained citizenship and attended demonstrations outside the Israeli embassy.
00:32:35 He was arrested by National Crime Agency officers in central London last November
00:32:39 after Israel's National Intelligence Agency, the Mossad, and German Security and Intelligence Services learned of the attack.
00:32:48 Mr. X faces extradition to Germany, where he has been accused of being a leading figure
00:32:54 in planning what is considered one of the worst terror plots in post-war Germany
00:32:59 on Jewish community centers, Israeli diplomats, and pro-Israel demonstrations.
00:33:05 According to a German indictment obtained by Bild, Mr. X has been accused of transporting guns,
00:33:10 including handguns, live ammunition, and items that could be used as a disguise
00:33:16 to a storage facility in Vienna from Berlin his arrest was part of an effort by Berlin which
00:33:21 partners in Austria Denmark and the UK to detain seven suspects and gather guns that included an
00:33:31 AK-47 the indictment also said that Mr. X had pre-recorded a video in which he had appeared
00:33:37 massed and armed in front of a Hamas flag in it he described the plot as an act of retribution for
00:33:44 Hamas's military wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam brigades. It is striking. What the hell is any
00:33:54 rational person thinking when you take someone who was a Hamas terrorist, who was the bodyguard 0.64
00:34:00 for the head of Hamas, and you say, you know what? We want this person in our country. We're 0.84
00:34:07 going to grant him asylum. We know he's a Hamas terrorist, but we want him here. And not only 1.00
00:34:12 we're going to grant him asylum. We're going to make him a British citizen. Well, I guess in the
00:34:18 least surprising thing since the sun rose in the east this morning, the Hamas terrorists that they 0.89
00:34:23 let in and embraced turned around and continued planning and executing terror attacks. This is a 0.90
00:34:30 pattern we see, and it goes right back to what did the Democrats say their number one priority in
00:34:37 America is. It is illegal immigrants. It is amnesty for illegal immigrants. It is letting in criminals
00:34:44 and then criminals includes terrorists. And if and when they do that, you and me and all of us
00:34:50 and our families are all a lot less safe. Yeah, you're absolutely right. Don't forget we do this
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