00:00:05.400Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:09.400And Senator, do we have one heck of a show, including Democrats calling for the release of the pro-Hamas protester that has been arrested?
00:00:21.300Look, there's an old saying, tell me who you stand with and I'll tell you who you are.
00:00:25.480The Trump administration is rightly going after radical pro-Hamas protesters who have disrupted college campuses with anti-Semitic protests.
00:00:37.060The Democrats' response is to stand with the pro-Hamas protesters.
00:00:42.920To make clear, today's Democrat Party, if you are a Jewish student at a university, today's Democrat Party does not stand with you.
00:00:51.660I wish that were not the case, but it is the reality.
00:00:54.040If you are a radical pro-Hamas protester whose chants, we love Hamas, who threatens Jewish students, who engages in violence and unrest, today's Democrat Party, they have your back.
00:01:10.080We're going to lay out the facts, demonstrate that's true.
00:01:12.580Not only that, but we've got two other stories tonight.
00:01:15.120We have Doge uncovering that the Biden administration gave hundreds of millions of dollars of loans and grants to children, to little kids.
00:01:42.640We're going to remove illegal immigrants.
00:01:44.440We're going to tell you all about that today.
00:01:46.580Yeah, it's really a great story, and we'll have that for you in a moment.
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00:03:18.200So, Senator, let's take people back in time to a campaign promise from the president.
00:03:22.940He made it clear that if you are one of these students that is from overseas that has gotten a special invitation, the ability to come and study in America,
00:03:33.240and you are on campuses and you're, you know, actually going out there and advocating for violence and taking over buildings on college campuses,
00:03:44.660we're going to kick you out of this country.
00:04:31.080They engaged in acts of violence, and they threatened even more acts of violence.
00:04:35.600And astonishingly, Ben, the Democrats were silent.
00:04:40.180You know, there are some folks who said in the wake of these protests, well, gosh, it's terrible, but they're happening all over the country.
00:17:11.980Doge said it identified the Small Business Association administration, I assume, granted nearly 5,600 loans for $312 million to borrowers who only listed owner was 11 years old or younger at the time of the loan.
00:17:33.060The loans were issued in 2020 and 2021, and it is unclear what they were used for.
00:17:40.840Doge and the SBA government are working together to solve this problem this week.
00:17:57.440While making the announcement, Doge shared a post on X from Tuesday where it also revealed that in 2020 and 2021, the SBA issued 3,095 loans for $333 million to borrowers over 115 years old.
00:18:19.840The borrowers were still marked as alive in the Social Security database.
00:18:25.700In one case, a 157-year-old individual received $36,000 in loans, the agency said.
00:18:35.740Look, this is, I feel very confident that nobody is 157 years old.
00:18:42.740And if they are and they're getting $36,000, that is fraud.
00:18:50.560And look, this goes back to what President Trump said and has addressed to Congress on Tuesday.
00:18:55.240When he talked about, he said there was millions of people aged over 100 that were listed on Social Security databases, with one being as old as 360 years of age.
00:19:20.640And this goes back to Elon Musk and a job that he's doing that I got to say, rarely in my life I thought there's a job that only one guy could do well.
00:19:31.920Because finding this type of waste, fraud, and abuse is exactly what Donald Trump promised, and they're paying off on it.
00:19:39.160But every American that pays taxes should be enraged by the fact that we're giving this much money to people that are children or this much money to someone that's as old as 360 years of age.
00:19:53.060To be clear, if you're giving millions of dollars to a five-year-old, you're not.
00:20:10.100What this report indicates is that the Biden administration didn't give a damn about whether the money was actually going to real people who had real needs, who were engaged in the purposes for which Congress appropriated the money.
00:20:24.380Instead, they were just shoveling money out the door, and tragically, the fraud was rampant.
00:20:31.100In many instances, the fraud was going to radical left-wing Democrat groups because the Biden administration believed in paying off their buddies.
00:20:42.480When a six-year-old puts in an application for government money, the answer should be no because you're six, and you ought to be playing with blocks in kindergarten and not trying to get millions of dollars from the government.
00:20:54.680But if you're a corrupt Democrat, you give the millions of dollars and let the parents use it for the political purposes they want.
00:21:03.720And finally, let's deal with a really fun story, and it deals with an app.
00:21:08.620It is – I call it the Reverse Uno card.
00:21:11.520You remember that app that allowed for countless people to come into this country and just walk in knowing they were here illegally, and it was an app that was exploited by the Biden-Harris administration?
00:21:22.700Well, we've got a Reverse Uno card now, Senator, because we've got a new app, and it does actually the exact opposite of that, which is you can hurry up and self-deport yourself.
00:21:46.040Scoop, the Trump admin has repurposed the controversial Biden-era CBP1 cell phone app into a self-deportation app called CBP Home that launches today.
00:22:00.820DHS tells me any migrants who had prior CBP1 app will have it auto-update to this new app, and DHS can use data from prior CBP1 registrations to track migrants for removal.
00:22:18.380The new app allows illegal aliens and migrants in the U.S. to register with CBP to self-deport.
00:22:26.720They fill out biographical information, including their countries of citizenship, which country they plan to return to, their alien registration numbers, contact information, and it allows them to upload photos of themselves to confirm their identity.
00:22:41.880All of it, then, is submitted to CBP as they leave the country.
00:22:47.920You may ask yourself, why would an illegal alien want to self-deport?
00:22:52.960In a statement to Fox News, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem answered the question.
00:22:57.840The CBP Home app gives aliens the option to leave now and self-deport so they may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream.
00:23:12.860If they don't, we will find them, we will deport them, and they will never return, Noem said.
00:23:19.800The Biden administration exploited the CBP One app to allow more than 1 million aliens to enter the United States.
00:23:27.600With the launching of CBP Home app, we are restoring integrity to our immigration system.
00:23:33.840This may be one of the simplest yet biggest turn of events for a win on law and order at our southern border dealing with the issue of illegal immigration.
00:23:43.620I just got to say, well done to the Trump administration on this one, and they keep paying off on their promises to the American people.
00:23:51.080So, Ben, I got to say, I don't know if this is going to work or not, but I got to say, if you're an illegal immigrant, you came to this country, you went to a human trafficker, you were coming from, say, Central America, came up through Mexico, and the Biden administration said, hey, we've got an app.
00:24:47.680And by the way, going back to our first story, if you were a pro-Hamas, radical, anti-Semite protester, and you're not a U.S. citizen, bye-bye.