Verdict with Ted Cruz - September 18, 2024


Dems Refuse to Fully Protect Trump, Israel Explodes Hezbollah Pagers & Dems Cynically Block Legislation Protecting IVF


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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joins Sen. Ben Ferguson (D-NJ) to discuss the latest attempt on President Donald Trump's life, the Senate vote on in vitro fertilization, and the White House response to the latest assassination attempt on the President.

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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00:00:05.420 Welcome.
00:00:06.160 It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:09.540 And Senator, they can't even keep it together at the White House 48 hours
00:00:13.760 before they continue to call Donald Trump a threat.
00:00:19.440 Less than 48 hours after someone tried to kill him,
00:00:22.940 they're now back to the rhetoric of we hate him, you should hate him,
00:00:26.680 he's a threat to our country. 0.99
00:00:27.980 Look, Democrats, sadly, are truly unhinged. 0.94
00:00:31.880 We saw just a couple of days ago the second assassination attempt 0.92
00:00:35.860 on President Donald Trump in 64 days.
00:00:39.220 And yet, just a couple of days later,
00:00:42.060 the Democrats are not saying we need to protect Donald Trump.
00:00:45.360 Joe Biden is not saying we need to provide a full presidential detail to protect him.
00:00:49.780 Kamala Harris is not saying protect Donald Trump. 0.97
00:00:52.520 Instead, they're doubling down on he's terrible, he's evil, he's a threat. 0.98
00:00:56.780 It is disgraceful.
00:00:58.800 Is there no decency?
00:01:00.800 I'm reminded of the McCarthy hearings.
00:01:04.220 Have you no decency, sir?
00:01:06.380 At long last, have you no decency?
00:01:09.440 They will not even stand up and say,
00:01:12.000 we are going to assign Secret Service protection to ensure that neither of the presidential candidates are assassinated.
00:01:21.760 Instead, their hate dominates them.
00:01:23.940 We're also going to talk about an incredible story, a remarkable story,
00:01:27.760 where Israel detonated pagers that had been distributed to Hezbollah terrorists.
00:01:35.640 And Hezbollah terrorists ended up being wounded and even in some cases killed.
00:01:39.880 It is an extraordinary story.
00:01:41.820 We're going to talk about that.
00:01:42.820 And finally, we're going to talk about the vote on the Senate floor that happened this week on in vitro fertilization
00:01:48.140 and how the Democrats cynically engaged in a political move to block my legislation to protect IVF
00:01:55.680 because they want to deceive the American voters and have an issue to campaign on.
00:02:00.000 All of those are issues we're going to get into in today's pod.
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00:04:03.840 Senator, this first story is just straight-up shocking to me.
00:04:08.440 The White House was being asked some questions today,
00:04:11.420 and right away, what did the White House do?
00:04:14.140 They went back to their old ways.
00:04:16.420 Jean-Pierre calling Donald Trump a threat to democracy.
00:04:20.620 Now, the good news is there was at least one person
00:04:23.840 that was there willing to ask the blank question,
00:04:27.360 and that was Fox News saying this.
00:04:30.700 Two days since somebody allegedly tried to kill Donald Trump again.
00:04:36.060 And you're here at the podium in the White House briefing room calling him a threat.
00:04:41.020 How many more assassination attempts on Donald Trump
00:04:44.360 until the President and the Vice President and you
00:04:46.700 pick a different word to describe Trump other than threat?
00:04:49.660 Peter, if anything, from this administration,
00:04:57.680 I actually completely disagree with the premise of your question,
00:05:02.600 the question that you're asking.
00:05:04.560 It is also incredibly dangerous in the way that you're asking it
00:05:08.520 because American people are watching.
00:05:12.240 And to say that, to say that from an administration
00:05:15.520 who has consistently condemned political violence,
00:05:19.940 from an administration where the President called the former President
00:05:22.960 and was thankful, grateful that he was okay,
00:05:27.860 from an administration who has called out January 6th,
00:05:32.100 called out the attack of Paul Pelosi,
00:05:35.100 called out and said we need to lower the temperature
00:05:37.960 after the Butler incident,
00:05:40.400 and now for you to make that kind of comment in your question,
00:05:48.940 because your question involved a comment and a statement,
00:05:53.040 and, you know, it is,
00:05:56.980 that is also incredibly dangerous.
00:05:59.920 I love at the end, she says,
00:06:01.420 that is also incredibly dangerous.
00:06:02.700 Okay, so she admitting, yes, we're using dangerous rhetoric.
00:06:05.960 Yes, we are purposely calling Donald Trump a threat.
00:06:09.040 Yes, we're saying to all the crazies up there, 0.87
00:06:11.160 keep up the good work.
00:06:12.180 Two of you have tried.
00:06:13.100 Keep going.
00:06:15.140 So, Ben, let me ask you something.
00:06:17.280 Look, that whole answer from Corrine Jean-Pierre
00:06:19.880 was outrageously offensive,
00:06:21.920 but I want to ask you,
00:06:23.920 what do you make of the two words she uses,
00:06:27.120 the Butler incident?
00:06:29.780 Yeah.
00:06:30.200 That may be one of the most chilling euphemisms
00:06:33.500 I've ever heard.
00:06:35.060 The Butler incident.
00:06:36.360 I mean, she didn't say
00:06:39.140 the attempted assassination of President Trump.
00:06:42.720 She didn't say
00:06:43.840 when an assassin shot President Trump in the head,
00:06:49.220 hit him, 0.84
00:06:50.300 and came within a half inch of murdering him.
00:06:53.580 She just says the Butler incident.
00:06:57.500 That is disgraceful,
00:06:59.140 and they cannot bring themselves
00:07:01.200 even to have a moment of graciousness,
00:07:05.520 a moment of civility,
00:07:09.180 a moment of respect for democracy.
00:07:12.400 Look,
00:07:13.520 at that same White House press conference,
00:07:18.260 Corrine Jean-Pierre
00:07:19.260 also referred to Donald Trump
00:07:21.320 as a, quote,
00:07:22.540 threat to democracy.
00:07:24.420 Now, that's incendiary rhetoric.
00:07:27.460 It's rhetoric
00:07:28.100 that is
00:07:30.220 obviously designed
00:07:31.980 to continue to encourage
00:07:33.320 people who hate him,
00:07:34.720 to continue to encourage 0.99
00:07:36.880 lunatics. 0.99
00:07:39.080 And
00:07:39.200 the sad thing is,
00:07:41.480 can they not bring themselves to say,
00:07:45.100 it would be really nice
00:07:46.660 to hear Joe Biden stand up and say,
00:07:49.020 I disagree with Donald Trump.
00:07:51.200 I think his policies are wrong.
00:07:53.260 But what happened this weekend
00:07:55.060 was horrific.
00:07:55.940 It was wrong.
00:07:56.620 It was evil.
00:07:57.380 What happened in Butler, Pennsylvania
00:07:58.940 was horrific.
00:07:59.680 It was wrong.
00:08:00.260 It was evil.
00:08:00.960 And understand,
00:08:01.880 there's no place for violence,
00:08:03.040 and we,
00:08:04.740 the Biden-Harris administration,
00:08:06.620 we are going to do everything
00:08:08.180 necessary to protect Donald Trump,
00:08:09.940 and that includes,
00:08:10.660 look,
00:08:10.940 you and I on this podcast
00:08:12.260 two days ago on Monday,
00:08:13.860 we called for
00:08:15.180 the Biden-Harris administration
00:08:18.200 to provide a full
00:08:19.500 presidential
00:08:20.660 Secret Service protection
00:08:22.340 detail to Donald Trump,
00:08:23.620 given two
00:08:24.440 assassination attempts
00:08:25.860 in 64 days.
00:08:27.340 It is the obvious step.
00:08:29.120 And on Monday,
00:08:30.340 I said,
00:08:30.680 listen,
00:08:31.640 if Kamala Harris
00:08:32.520 has any sense,
00:08:33.520 she would stand up
00:08:34.420 and call for this.
00:08:35.160 Now, sadly,
00:08:36.380 I guess I overestimated
00:08:39.580 Kamala,
00:08:40.060 I overestimated Joe Biden,
00:08:41.480 because they're not capable,
00:08:43.100 they hate him so much,
00:08:45.640 that they're not capable
00:08:46.780 of saying this election
00:08:48.800 will be decided
00:08:49.640 by the voters.
00:08:51.000 We will not allow 0.99
00:08:52.380 some crazed lunatic 1.00
00:08:53.760 to threaten, 1.00
00:08:56.360 to murder one of the candidates. 0.95
00:08:58.020 The voters of America 0.98
00:08:59.020 are going to decide,
00:09:00.020 and we're going to do
00:09:00.940 everything necessary
00:09:01.660 to keep them safe.
00:09:02.420 They can't say that,
00:09:04.280 because their hatred
00:09:05.540 so consumes who they are.
00:09:08.260 It's not just them,
00:09:10.460 and I think this is
00:09:12.600 a stark moment,
00:09:13.680 because the White House,
00:09:15.440 and for people
00:09:16.380 that don't know
00:09:16.860 how it works,
00:09:17.960 you have a comms team,
00:09:19.680 you have the chief of staff,
00:09:21.480 you have people that meet,
00:09:23.220 they obviously had
00:09:24.340 very clear conversations
00:09:25.640 about Donald Trump
00:09:26.600 and the second assassination
00:09:27.660 attempt on him,
00:09:28.740 and they clearly
00:09:29.640 made the decision
00:09:30.400 for Jean-Pierre
00:09:31.160 to go out there
00:09:31.900 and to continue
00:09:32.900 to refer to Donald Trump
00:09:34.040 as a threat to America, 0.80
00:09:35.520 a threat to democracy,
00:09:36.740 a threat to our way of life.
00:09:38.400 They didn't want
00:09:39.400 to ratchet it down,
00:09:40.120 and so when I see
00:09:40.960 that, Senator,
00:09:41.500 I just have to now
00:09:42.940 just be honest with you.
00:09:44.460 I'm like,
00:09:44.800 all right,
00:09:45.180 you guys,
00:09:46.160 I mean, 0.91
00:09:46.700 do you want him dead?
00:09:47.960 Because you're not 0.91
00:09:48.620 giving them protection.
00:09:50.400 You're not trying
00:09:51.740 to stop it.
00:09:52.940 You're not condemning it.
00:09:54.920 You're going out there
00:09:55.900 and you're using 1.00
00:09:56.420 the same damn words 0.99
00:09:57.360 that got us 1.00
00:09:58.160 to this point.
00:09:59.080 So is that
00:10:00.240 the game plan now?
00:10:01.400 Like,
00:10:01.640 nothing else has worked, 0.69
00:10:02.800 so you crazies 0.58
00:10:03.880 will keep giving you
00:10:04.740 the words you need
00:10:05.420 to be inspired?
00:10:06.440 Is that how far gone
00:10:07.900 we are in this country,
00:10:09.740 especially on the Democratic
00:10:11.180 side of things?
00:10:13.060 Look,
00:10:13.660 I don't want to impute
00:10:14.940 that intention to them,
00:10:16.380 but what I will say
00:10:17.920 is that neither Joe Biden
00:10:19.640 or Kamala Harris
00:10:20.560 is standing up
00:10:21.980 and leading right now.
00:10:23.040 Neither one of them
00:10:23.760 is willing to say,
00:10:24.900 we need the same protection
00:10:28.160 that Trump had
00:10:30.260 when he was president
00:10:31.000 and, frankly,
00:10:32.120 the same protection
00:10:32.860 that he will have
00:10:33.800 when he's re-elected
00:10:34.580 president in November.
00:10:36.180 Like,
00:10:36.540 that would be
00:10:37.520 the gracious,
00:10:38.360 the honorable thing.
00:10:39.000 And, by the way,
00:10:39.720 it might even help
00:10:40.900 Kamala Harris politically
00:10:42.560 to demonstrate
00:10:44.140 that she's not just
00:10:45.820 a hard leftist partisan,
00:10:48.220 but I just believe
00:10:50.260 that's so,
00:10:51.860 look,
00:10:52.160 I think the hard left,
00:10:54.040 they are so consumed
00:10:55.300 by hate.
00:10:56.040 They really do believe.
00:10:57.520 They believe he's Hitler. 0.81
00:10:59.220 They believe he's the devil.
00:11:01.060 And so they can't
00:11:02.240 bring themselves,
00:11:04.120 they can't bring themselves
00:11:06.080 to be honorable
00:11:07.200 and gracious
00:11:07.880 and say
00:11:08.640 it would be horrible
00:11:11.100 for America.
00:11:12.160 Horrible.
00:11:13.800 If either of the two
00:11:16.060 presidential candidates
00:11:17.080 were murdered
00:11:17.720 before Election Day.
00:11:18.700 Look,
00:11:19.040 it would be horrible
00:11:19.640 for America.
00:11:20.400 I don't want,
00:11:21.140 I certainly don't wish
00:11:22.200 any violence on Kamala.
00:11:23.260 I'm glad she has
00:11:23.860 a Secret Service detail.
00:11:25.100 As we talked about
00:11:26.080 on Monday,
00:11:26.660 I pray for Donald Trump's safety.
00:11:28.520 I pray for Joe Biden's safety.
00:11:30.160 I pray for Kamala Harris's safety.
00:11:31.540 But why is it,
00:11:35.560 what is it with this White House,
00:11:37.200 what is it with Democrats
00:11:38.300 that they can't reciprocate
00:11:40.440 and say the same thing?
00:11:42.320 Well,
00:11:42.520 and even on CNN,
00:11:44.060 they had a former FBI
00:11:45.260 counterterrorism expert on,
00:11:47.560 and he was just telling the truth.
00:11:49.900 He said,
00:11:50.820 on CNN,
00:11:51.740 it's the rhetoric
00:11:52.440 that got us here.
00:11:53.740 And this second shooting
00:11:55.380 was clearly,
00:11:56.360 quote,
00:11:56.520 politically motivated,
00:11:57.980 meaning it's the politics here
00:12:00.080 and the rhetoric being used
00:12:01.740 in the politics.
00:12:02.760 And this was said on CNN.
00:12:04.740 I don't know if this was
00:12:05.420 his last appearance ever,
00:12:06.620 but he did say it once.
00:12:08.380 What does the fact
00:12:08.800 that he wanted to survive
00:12:09.640 say to you?
00:12:11.780 It says that he's not,
00:12:13.280 first,
00:12:14.500 he's not suicidal,
00:12:15.240 apparently.
00:12:15.840 He wasn't going to take
00:12:16.500 his own life
00:12:17.040 if he was almost being captured.
00:12:18.680 Clearly,
00:12:18.960 we saw that he was captured
00:12:20.060 without that.
00:12:21.120 And it tells me that
00:12:22.120 he's probably much more
00:12:23.320 politically motivated.
00:12:24.780 The last shooter
00:12:25.740 in Pennsylvania,
00:12:26.520 I don't want to say his name
00:12:27.440 because I don't want to
00:12:28.180 promote him in any way.
00:12:29.860 But he was clearly a guy
00:12:31.240 that was looking for the notoriety 0.93
00:12:32.580 of taking that shot.
00:12:33.780 I would think we're going to find
00:12:34.940 that this guy's extremely
00:12:36.380 politically motivated
00:12:37.440 and that he probably
00:12:39.020 was spurred on
00:12:39.880 by much of the political
00:12:41.160 diatribes that are going on
00:12:42.480 these days,
00:12:43.480 talking about Trump
00:12:44.200 equating him to Hitler 0.87
00:12:45.220 and things like that.
00:12:46.400 So I don't think
00:12:47.000 this is the last we'll see
00:12:48.080 of crazies out there 0.90
00:12:48.980 trying to do this.
00:12:50.000 He's warning.
00:12:50.840 This is not going to be
00:12:51.800 the last of the crazies
00:12:52.940 if you guys keep it up.
00:12:55.340 And the light,
00:12:56.520 White House couldn't refrain
00:12:58.100 from the horrible
00:12:59.560 and hateful rhetoric
00:13:00.540 for even 48 hours.
00:13:02.240 They're so invested in it.
00:13:04.400 Would it be that hard
00:13:05.280 for them to say,
00:13:06.080 you know what,
00:13:06.440 we don't like Trump's policies.
00:13:08.440 We think they're bad
00:13:09.480 for America.
00:13:10.080 By the way,
00:13:10.680 you and I don't.
00:13:11.760 But they do.
00:13:12.640 And that's legitimate
00:13:14.060 political discourse.
00:13:15.080 But they can't.
00:13:16.780 They have to describe him
00:13:18.480 as an existential threat
00:13:20.780 to our nation.
00:13:21.560 And they have to know
00:13:22.580 that that only encourages 0.54
00:13:25.140 yet more crazies
00:13:27.580 to do more crazy things.
00:13:29.740 And when you combine
00:13:32.320 that rhetoric
00:13:33.020 with the continued decision,
00:13:36.080 so Joe Biden
00:13:36.860 and Kamala Harris
00:13:37.580 has done nothing,
00:13:39.060 zero,
00:13:40.080 to increase the protection
00:13:42.180 around Donald Trump
00:13:43.080 that we know of.
00:13:43.700 They're certainly not out there
00:13:44.840 saying,
00:13:45.460 we will make sure
00:13:46.800 this will never happen again.
00:13:48.060 If you wish harm
00:13:49.180 on either of the
00:13:50.340 presidential candidates,
00:13:51.300 you will fail.
00:13:52.400 You will be arrested. 1.00
00:13:53.600 You will be shot. 0.99
00:13:54.520 You will not succeed. 0.98
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00:13:57.960 And that is
00:13:59.060 an incredible
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00:14:35.040 It's also another part
00:14:36.300 of this story
00:14:36.700 that is really exposed.
00:14:38.780 And I'm not going to call them
00:14:39.880 the liberal media anymore.
00:14:40.900 I'm just going to call them
00:14:41.480 the state-sponsored media
00:14:42.460 because that's what they are.
00:14:43.940 And what they're now doing
00:14:45.600 is they're victim-shaming.
00:14:47.700 It's the same way 0.70
00:14:48.640 that you see people
00:14:49.820 that victim-shame 0.65
00:14:50.800 an attractive young female
00:14:52.220 after she's sexually assaulted.
00:14:53.560 Like, well,
00:14:53.940 if she didn't wear
00:14:54.560 that beautiful dress
00:14:55.640 and dress provocatively,
00:14:57.980 dot, dot, dot.
00:14:59.020 It's victim-shaming.
00:15:00.600 And now they're doing
00:15:01.280 with Donald Trump.
00:15:01.920 They're like,
00:15:02.040 well, if Donald Trump
00:15:02.900 wouldn't just go play golf,
00:15:04.720 then this wouldn't happen.
00:15:05.980 If he wouldn't have
00:15:06.680 outdoor rallies,
00:15:07.680 this wouldn't happen.
00:15:08.560 It's actually his fault
00:15:09.700 that he's getting shot at.
00:15:12.060 This was Joe Scarborough.
00:15:13.620 First chance back, right?
00:15:14.980 First time back on TV
00:15:16.460 after someone tried
00:15:17.960 to kill Trump
00:15:18.600 and what was their conversation? 0.99
00:15:21.180 Talking about victim-shaming
00:15:22.820 and mentioning a golf course
00:15:24.420 that had nothing to do
00:15:26.080 with Trump International Golf Club
00:15:28.200 in West Palm Beach.
00:15:29.720 He used a point
00:15:31.060 about a golf course,
00:15:32.320 I think it was in Virginia.
00:15:33.620 Listen.
00:15:34.080 The Secret Service
00:15:35.020 showed a new president,
00:15:37.840 Donald Trump,
00:15:38.840 photos of how
00:15:40.220 you could shoot
00:15:41.220 long-range pictures of him
00:15:42.720 while he golfed
00:15:43.720 at his Virginia club
00:15:45.280 and warned that an assassin
00:15:46.960 could kill him the same way.
00:15:48.660 But Trump insisted 0.98
00:15:49.560 that the clubs were safe
00:15:51.240 and he was going to keep
00:15:52.360 playing golf.
00:15:53.520 despite the fact
00:15:56.520 that his habit,
00:15:57.500 quote,
00:15:59.180 at the semi-public courses
00:16:00.820 put his life at risk
00:16:02.020 for many years.
00:16:02.520 Anyone who has had
00:16:03.340 any experience
00:16:04.080 with the Secret Service
00:16:05.000 know that it is,
00:16:08.480 in a way,
00:16:10.360 I would say teamwork,
00:16:11.420 where the Secret Service
00:16:12.820 can do what they can do.
00:16:13.960 They also have to warn you
00:16:15.560 as to when their job is harder
00:16:18.180 or their job is made impossible.
00:16:21.600 I mean,
00:16:22.340 let's just victim shame him.
00:16:23.500 It's his fault, folks.
00:16:24.600 He deserves it.
00:16:26.280 Well, Ben,
00:16:27.000 to be fair,
00:16:28.080 no other president
00:16:29.280 of the United States
00:16:30.220 has ever in the history
00:16:31.620 of this country
00:16:32.200 played golf.
00:16:33.120 Donald Trump
00:16:33.660 is the only president 0.97
00:16:34.820 so reckless 0.99
00:16:35.540 and irresponsible
00:16:36.360 as to go to a golf course,
00:16:37.500 right?
00:16:38.880 Valid point, right?
00:16:39.940 No, yeah.
00:16:40.320 We've never seen
00:16:41.180 any other president
00:16:41.860 playing golf.
00:16:42.500 Good point.
00:16:42.900 Look, look,
00:16:43.560 I want to go back to this. 0.99
00:16:44.940 That is friggin' absurd. 0.98
00:16:47.220 Let's be clear. 0.98
00:16:48.560 Gerald Ford
00:16:49.400 went to the golf course repeatedly.
00:16:51.400 Richard Nixon
00:16:52.080 went to the golf course repeatedly.
00:16:53.920 Jimmy Carter
00:16:54.580 went to the golf course.
00:16:55.540 Ronald Reagan
00:16:56.080 went to the golf course.
00:16:57.080 George Herbert Walker Bush
00:16:58.080 went to the golf course.
00:16:59.300 Bill Clinton
00:16:59.800 went to the golf course.
00:17:00.880 Barack Obama
00:17:01.620 went to the golf course.
00:17:02.900 Every president
00:17:03.900 of our lifetimes
00:17:04.980 and before
00:17:05.680 has gone to the golf course.
00:17:08.080 And yet,
00:17:09.380 what does MSNBC say?
00:17:11.640 It's his fault.
00:17:12.660 How dare he play golf?
00:17:15.280 Because,
00:17:15.780 understand,
00:17:16.580 they're operating
00:17:17.220 in a world
00:17:17.840 where they hate Trump
00:17:18.840 so much
00:17:19.440 that they view
00:17:21.040 the only place
00:17:22.420 he should be safe
00:17:23.280 is in an underground bunker
00:17:25.040 at NORAD in Colorado.
00:17:26.640 Because if he's out
00:17:27.580 in public,
00:17:28.300 their view is,
00:17:29.300 well,
00:17:29.540 look,
00:17:29.840 he's taking a risk. 1.00
00:17:30.920 He's going to be killed. 0.96
00:17:32.200 That is, 0.99
00:17:33.440 like that whole exchange
00:17:35.240 and, you know,
00:17:36.200 the line,
00:17:36.660 well,
00:17:36.960 with the Secret Service,
00:17:38.040 it's a back and forth.
00:17:39.380 It's a conversation.
00:17:40.680 Well,
00:17:40.900 you know what?
00:17:41.820 Every other president,
00:17:42.820 they had Secret Service
00:17:43.760 and yet somehow
00:17:44.380 they managed to play golf.
00:17:45.980 Why?
00:17:46.580 Because the Secret Service
00:17:47.560 was able to protect them.
00:17:48.980 Here,
00:17:49.800 there is not a sufficient detail
00:17:51.700 to protect Donald Trump.
00:17:53.080 Why?
00:17:53.920 I believe
00:17:54.700 because Joe Biden
00:17:55.780 and Kamala Harris
00:17:56.560 and Alejandro Mayorkas
00:17:57.700 are so political,
00:17:59.300 they do not want
00:18:00.520 to assign
00:18:01.160 the resources necessary
00:18:02.580 to protect Trump.
00:18:03.820 and so that,
00:18:04.960 I got to say,
00:18:05.500 that exchange
00:18:06.480 just pisses me off.
00:18:09.240 It's constant
00:18:10.320 and it's constantly
00:18:12.000 happening now.
00:18:13.660 They're not holding back
00:18:15.220 at all
00:18:15.800 and we have a media
00:18:17.880 with a narrative
00:18:18.540 that A,
00:18:19.140 it's his fault
00:18:19.740 and he's a threat 0.69
00:18:20.540 to this country.
00:18:21.840 We put together
00:18:23.040 a couple of different
00:18:24.020 montages
00:18:24.760 of the left
00:18:26.460 and the rhetoric
00:18:27.180 that they used
00:18:27.900 against him.
00:18:28.540 These are the highest people
00:18:29.440 in our government
00:18:30.140 and the state-sponsored
00:18:32.160 media.
00:18:32.800 This is what they said
00:18:34.420 and I'm going to remind people,
00:18:35.960 here's just some
00:18:36.720 of their biggest words
00:18:37.860 they've used
00:18:38.400 to attack Trump.
00:18:40.120 I just don't even know
00:18:41.860 why there aren't uprisings
00:18:43.120 all over the country
00:18:43.960 and maybe there will be.
00:18:45.400 People need to start
00:18:46.420 taking to the streets.
00:18:47.640 This is a dictator.
00:18:49.440 You know,
00:18:49.660 there needs to be unrest
00:18:50.700 in the streets
00:18:51.200 for as long as there's
00:18:52.040 unrest in our lives.
00:18:53.480 Enemies of the state.
00:18:55.260 Show me where it says
00:18:56.120 that protests
00:18:56.700 are supposed to be polite
00:18:57.860 and peaceful.
00:18:59.300 Do something
00:19:00.220 about your dad's
00:19:01.260 immigration practices, 0.92
00:19:02.440 you feckless.
00:19:03.220 When they go low, 1.00
00:19:04.320 we kick them. 0.66
00:19:04.880 How do you resist 0.94
00:19:05.900 the temptation
00:19:06.480 to run up
00:19:07.040 and wring her neck?
00:19:07.920 Biggest terror threat
00:19:08.860 in this country 1.00
00:19:10.300 is white men, 0.97
00:19:12.400 most of them radicalized
00:19:13.840 up to the right.
00:19:14.960 I thought he should've 0.99
00:19:15.620 punched him in the face. 0.99
00:19:16.440 I said, 0.92
00:19:16.600 even if you lost,
00:19:17.440 he insulted your wife.
00:19:18.480 Yes.
00:19:18.720 He came down the escalator
00:19:19.540 and called Mexicans 1.00
00:19:20.240 rapists and murders. 0.99
00:19:21.180 He said, 0.99
00:19:21.420 well,
00:19:21.480 what do you think
00:19:21.780 I should've done?
00:19:22.200 I said,
00:19:22.340 I think you should've 1.00
00:19:22.720 punched him in the face 0.99
00:19:23.420 and then gotten out of the race. 0.80
00:19:24.280 You would've been a hero. 1.00
00:19:25.640 I'd like to punch him 1.00
00:19:26.580 in the face. 1.00
00:19:27.420 I said,
00:19:27.820 if we were in high school,
00:19:28.500 I'd take him behind the gym 0.99
00:19:29.460 and beat the hell out of him. 1.00
00:19:30.920 Punch some people 1.00
00:19:32.380 in the face! 1.00
00:19:33.460 When was the last time
00:19:34.580 an actor assassinated
00:19:36.140 a president?
00:19:37.020 They're still gonna have
00:19:37.820 to go out 0.99
00:19:38.180 and put a bullet 1.00
00:19:38.680 in Donald Trump 1.00
00:19:39.340 and that's a fact.
00:19:40.200 Look as his character
00:19:44.480 is stabbed to death.
00:19:46.280 Where is John Wilkes Booth
00:19:48.380 when you need him?
00:19:50.400 Where is John Wilkes Booth
00:19:51.920 when you need him?
00:19:52.920 This has been going on
00:19:54.240 since 16.
00:19:55.820 And you go back
00:19:56.940 and you look at these
00:19:57.840 and you're like,
00:19:58.240 oh yeah,
00:19:58.560 this makes sense.
00:19:59.760 One plus one,
00:20:00.560 center equals two.
00:20:01.780 You say this long enough,
00:20:03.440 you do this long enough,
00:20:05.060 there are gonna be people
00:20:06.020 that are inspired
00:20:06.740 to do what they're doing
00:20:07.820 against Donald Trump
00:20:08.600 right now.
00:20:09.060 And you got back to DC
00:20:11.100 and I have,
00:20:12.580 I wanna know,
00:20:13.540 how many people
00:20:14.520 there are even talking
00:20:15.720 about the fact
00:20:17.260 that clearly
00:20:17.960 Donald Trump
00:20:18.560 doesn't have adequate
00:20:19.800 police,
00:20:20.680 you know,
00:20:21.780 security
00:20:22.500 from the Secret Service?
00:20:24.260 Is anybody outraged
00:20:25.420 about this?
00:20:27.020 So the Senate
00:20:28.000 has been back in session
00:20:29.100 for two days.
00:20:29.840 I have not heard
00:20:30.360 a single Democrat
00:20:31.140 talk about it.
00:20:31.960 Not one.
00:20:33.000 Wow.
00:20:33.320 And look,
00:20:35.300 you played that montage.
00:20:37.940 Listen,
00:20:38.460 I heard most
00:20:39.400 of those clips
00:20:40.080 in real time.
00:20:40.880 I heard most
00:20:41.380 of those clips
00:20:41.980 when they were said.
00:20:43.080 I gotta say,
00:20:43.780 hearing them back
00:20:44.400 to back,
00:20:45.740 again,
00:20:46.380 just is infuriating.
00:20:48.100 It is a level
00:20:49.160 of grotesque rhetoric
00:20:50.280 and to be clear,
00:20:51.860 there is overheated
00:20:52.780 rhetoric on both sides
00:20:54.000 and I wish
00:20:55.180 both sides
00:20:56.260 would tamp it down
00:20:57.060 some.
00:20:57.840 I think we should
00:20:58.540 keep our disagreements
00:20:59.540 based on issues,
00:21:00.600 based on substance.
00:21:01.500 on this podcast,
00:21:04.580 you and I
00:21:05.020 try to keep
00:21:05.540 our focus
00:21:06.060 on policy disagreements.
00:21:07.740 So we talk a lot
00:21:08.520 about,
00:21:08.880 for example,
00:21:10.080 the policy,
00:21:11.300 the egregious
00:21:12.040 policy mistakes
00:21:13.000 of Joe Biden
00:21:13.680 and Kamala Harris.
00:21:14.760 Open borders, 0.65
00:21:16.260 allowing murderers 0.95
00:21:17.680 and rapists 0.99
00:21:18.160 into this country,
00:21:19.040 allowing potential
00:21:20.080 terrorists
00:21:20.500 in this country.
00:21:21.500 That's all legitimate.
00:21:22.660 Those are policy
00:21:23.480 disagreements.
00:21:24.640 But there's
00:21:25.220 a qualitative
00:21:25.880 difference
00:21:26.560 between that
00:21:27.360 and what you
00:21:28.920 just played.
00:21:30.020 Where's John Wilkes
00:21:31.100 Booth when you
00:21:31.760 need him?
00:21:32.280 That is a level
00:21:34.660 of poisonousness,
00:21:35.980 a level of toxicity
00:21:37.040 that I think
00:21:38.680 is overwhelmingly
00:21:40.200 on the left.
00:21:41.580 They have convinced
00:21:42.640 themselves
00:21:43.360 that Donald Trump 0.98
00:21:44.920 is Hitler. 0.86
00:21:45.660 You may disagree
00:21:46.400 with his policies.
00:21:47.280 Fine.
00:21:47.720 That's what politics
00:21:48.760 is about.
00:21:49.400 Go make the case
00:21:50.060 to the voters.
00:21:51.080 But calling
00:21:52.080 for his murder
00:21:53.360 and the quote
00:21:55.340 you played there
00:21:56.620 about putting 0.99
00:21:57.140 a bullet in him 1.00
00:21:58.060 is exactly that. 1.00
00:22:00.160 That is way,
00:22:01.860 way,
00:22:02.460 way outside
00:22:03.500 the bounds
00:22:04.340 and yet
00:22:05.680 they're not
00:22:06.160 going to stop.
00:22:07.000 As we approach
00:22:08.160 the one year mark
00:22:09.160 of the heroic
00:22:09.860 events of October
00:22:11.220 7th in Israel,
00:22:12.740 the International
00:22:13.400 Fellowship of
00:22:14.260 Christians and Jews
00:22:15.240 is inviting you
00:22:16.280 to join them
00:22:17.240 in flags of fellowship.
00:22:19.080 An opportunity
00:22:19.940 for Christians
00:22:20.900 to remember
00:22:21.660 the victims,
00:22:23.160 honor the heroes,
00:22:24.480 and pray
00:22:25.740 for those still
00:22:26.660 held hostage
00:22:27.400 as well as
00:22:28.340 highlight the
00:22:29.020 unwavering support
00:22:30.060 of Christians
00:22:31.220 for Israel
00:22:32.060 and the Jewish
00:22:32.720 people.
00:22:33.780 On October
00:22:34.300 the 6th,
00:22:35.860 thousands of
00:22:36.760 Christians will 0.99
00:22:37.340 be praying
00:22:37.900 for those
00:22:38.340 impacted by the
00:22:39.440 war and
00:22:40.660 planting flags
00:22:41.540 across America
00:22:42.620 to honor the
00:22:43.420 victims of
00:22:44.000 October the 7th.
00:22:45.500 I want you to
00:22:46.120 join us in
00:22:46.980 letting the world
00:22:47.660 know that
00:22:48.560 Christians stand
00:22:49.640 with Israel.
00:22:51.520 Your generous
00:22:52.460 donation today
00:22:53.260 will not only
00:22:54.060 provide a flag
00:22:54.940 symbolizing your
00:22:55.760 support in
00:22:56.540 churchyards
00:22:57.200 across America,
00:22:58.120 but it will
00:22:59.060 also support
00:22:59.960 the fellowship's
00:23:00.880 ongoing emergency
00:23:01.880 efforts in the
00:23:03.020 Holy Land.
00:23:04.140 We cannot stay
00:23:04.880 silent and we
00:23:05.880 cannot stay on
00:23:07.000 the sidelines as
00:23:07.960 anti-Semitism
00:23:08.680 spreads like
00:23:09.540 wildfire in this
00:23:11.680 country and around
00:23:12.440 the world.
00:23:13.400 Israel needs us
00:23:14.980 now.
00:23:16.480 Visit
00:23:17.000 supportifcj.org
00:23:20.000 to stand in
00:23:21.200 solidarity with the
00:23:22.220 Jewish people.
00:23:23.100 That's one word,
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00:23:27.580 That's supportifcj.org.
00:23:30.600 Senator, this next
00:23:31.640 story has a lot
00:23:32.740 to do with the
00:23:33.860 issue of Israel
00:23:34.780 and rarely do I
00:23:36.620 see a headline
00:23:37.500 come across that
00:23:38.640 actually I'm
00:23:39.940 excited because I
00:23:41.740 feel like this is
00:23:42.540 just one of those
00:23:43.160 headlines where
00:23:43.780 you're like,
00:23:44.320 finally, the good
00:23:45.760 guys win and the
00:23:47.320 bad guys got
00:23:48.320 something that was
00:23:49.200 coming to them
00:23:50.000 in an amazing
00:23:51.040 story in an
00:23:52.020 amazing way and
00:23:53.880 for people that
00:23:54.780 don't know what
00:23:55.520 we're talking
00:23:56.060 about, hundreds
00:23:58.280 of Hezbollah
00:23:59.360 operatives were
00:24:01.080 injured simultaneously
00:24:03.440 killed, some of
00:24:05.580 them even killed
00:24:06.260 after pagers, like
00:24:07.700 I'm talking about
00:24:08.140 old school pagers
00:24:09.100 that they used to
00:24:10.400 communicate when
00:24:11.440 the terrorist
00:24:11.880 organization, these
00:24:12.920 cells, exploded
00:24:14.820 and after they
00:24:16.920 got a beep,
00:24:18.260 they would, many
00:24:19.020 of them pick up
00:24:19.680 the pager and
00:24:20.180 get it close to
00:24:20.720 their face and
00:24:21.780 there was a, it
00:24:22.620 looked like it
00:24:23.040 was a legitimate
00:24:23.660 page, we're being
00:24:24.680 told, that came
00:24:25.320 across there from
00:24:26.240 Hezbollah and
00:24:27.980 then the pager
00:24:29.540 exploded and
00:24:31.160 the, in these
00:24:33.000 areas, these hot
00:24:33.940 beds where they
00:24:34.540 have Hezbollah 0.84
00:24:35.420 operatives, the
00:24:36.980 hospitals and the 0.64
00:24:38.100 pictures coming
00:24:38.920 out of the
00:24:39.200 hospital and the
00:24:39.680 videos show
00:24:40.340 countless terrorists
00:24:41.680 screaming and
00:24:42.440 yelling for help
00:24:43.260 in the hospitals.
00:24:44.820 This was an
00:24:45.800 amazing story.
00:24:47.140 It really is
00:24:49.700 extraordinary and
00:24:50.600 the backstory, we're
00:24:51.840 just getting the
00:24:52.380 details, we're
00:24:52.900 going to find out
00:24:53.440 more, but the
00:24:54.380 backstory is
00:24:55.160 apparently that
00:24:56.060 Mossad, which is
00:24:57.140 the equivalent of
00:24:58.340 the CIA in
00:24:59.100 Israel, Mossad
00:25:01.080 intercepted a
00:25:02.480 shipment of new
00:25:03.520 pagers for
00:25:04.160 Hezbollah months
00:25:04.860 ago and they
00:25:06.400 rigged them with
00:25:07.260 high explosives
00:25:08.020 and in particular
00:25:09.420 they placed an
00:25:12.120 explosive called
00:25:13.340 penterythorol
00:25:15.640 tetranitrate, P-E-T-N 0.97
00:25:19.600 which is incredibly
00:25:21.720 explosive, they 0.99
00:25:23.140 placed it inside the
00:25:24.280 batteries of the
00:25:24.940 pagers, so they
00:25:25.860 intercepted them, they
00:25:27.520 were going to
00:25:27.940 Hezbollah and then
00:25:28.860 they trusted Hezbollah, 0.62
00:25:30.520 hey distribute this to
00:25:31.680 your terrorists and so 0.96
00:25:32.680 Hezbollah put them in 0.97
00:25:34.300 the hands of terrorists.
00:25:35.640 Now look, they're using
00:25:36.340 pagers because they
00:25:37.080 don't want their cell
00:25:37.680 phones to be
00:25:38.220 intercepted, so it's
00:25:39.100 old school, but what
00:25:41.220 Hezbollah didn't 1.00
00:25:42.200 realize is that as
00:25:43.260 they were distributing
00:25:43.980 pagers and they
00:25:44.660 were deciding who
00:25:45.360 gets them, I feel
00:25:47.000 confident they were
00:25:47.780 not giving pagers to
00:25:49.460 the newspaper delivery
00:25:51.180 guy, they were not
00:25:52.000 giving pagers to the
00:25:53.480 fruit stand salesmen,
00:25:54.620 they were giving
00:25:55.060 pagers to terrorists,
00:25:56.080 they were giving
00:25:56.660 pagers to people that
00:25:58.340 Hezbollah wanted to be 1.00
00:25:59.300 able to page and say
00:26:00.320 hey let's commit acts
00:26:01.360 of terrorism and then 0.81
00:26:03.120 once Israel had these 0.97
00:26:04.880 pagers distributed,
00:26:06.720 yesterday they exploded
00:26:08.140 them and one tweak
00:26:09.620 I'll say you said
00:26:10.420 hundreds of people
00:26:11.140 look, the reports
00:26:12.200 are thousands of
00:26:13.520 terrorists who had
00:26:14.380 these pagers explode
00:26:15.560 and there were
00:26:17.280 multiple fatalities
00:26:18.480 according to the
00:26:19.040 public reports and
00:26:19.900 there were thousands
00:26:20.940 of injuries and I
00:26:23.240 gotta say that is an
00:26:25.080 amazing thing for
00:26:27.360 Israel to simultaneously
00:26:29.360 target Hezbollah 0.94
00:26:31.460 terrorists wherever 0.82
00:26:32.980 they are. 0.59
00:26:34.020 It's whoever Hezbollah 0.98
00:26:35.580 gave a pager to, if
00:26:38.420 they had that pager on
00:26:39.500 their body and I gotta
00:26:40.400 say by the way, more
00:26:42.480 than a few of them had
00:26:43.640 their pagers in their
00:26:45.360 pants and without
00:26:47.100 getting too graphic
00:26:48.040 when they exploded.
00:26:49.960 The memes that were
00:26:50.980 flowing out there in the
00:26:52.020 world were incredible
00:26:52.780 and the story of this
00:26:54.680 as it was unfolding on
00:26:56.520 TV, I want you to hear
00:26:57.580 this report from Fox.
00:26:58.740 So at 1030 here in New York
00:27:00.480 there is a fascinating
00:27:01.400 story developing right
00:27:02.580 now in the Middle
00:27:03.120 East, specifically in the
00:27:04.220 country of Lebanon.
00:27:05.180 There are numerous
00:27:06.460 reports moments ago that
00:27:08.040 claim hundreds of Hezbollah
00:27:09.980 members have been
00:27:11.520 seriously injured after the
00:27:13.320 pagers they were using to
00:27:14.780 communicate exploded.
00:27:17.980 Mike Tobin's got more from
00:27:19.340 Tel Aviv to try and tie this
00:27:20.740 together.
00:27:21.200 What do you got now, Mike?
00:27:22.200 Hello.
00:27:22.400 Well, this is the kind of
00:27:24.840 thing, Bill, that Israel
00:27:25.980 will never confirm,
00:27:26.980 certainly not in the early
00:27:27.920 stages of it, but it's this
00:27:29.880 remarkable development out of
00:27:31.920 Lebanon where as many as a
00:27:33.680 thousand Hezbollah fighters
00:27:35.360 have suddenly been injured
00:27:36.420 rather seriously.
00:27:37.760 What we've seen through some
00:27:39.080 of the security video that's
00:27:40.120 coming out so far, the pagers
00:27:41.880 that they were wearing
00:27:42.820 suddenly play an audio
00:27:44.080 message and then explode,
00:27:46.120 resulting in serious injury.
00:27:47.840 And we're talking again,
00:27:48.740 Reuters news agency is saying
00:27:50.600 that as many as a thousand
00:27:51.580 people were injured.
00:27:52.920 So it excreates this scene
00:27:54.240 where you've got all of the
00:27:55.840 ambulances scrambling all
00:27:57.060 over Beirut and places
00:27:58.080 south of Beirut to try to
00:27:59.860 deal with the overwhelming
00:28:00.840 number of injured that they
00:28:02.480 have right now.
00:28:03.220 These pagers, apparently,
00:28:04.820 according to three different
00:28:05.700 security sources who were
00:28:06.760 speaking to the Reuters news
00:28:07.760 agency, were the latest
00:28:09.580 wave of pagers that these
00:28:11.280 Hezbollah operatives were
00:28:12.300 getting with the belief that
00:28:14.100 this was secure communication,
00:28:15.940 that Israel couldn't tap into 0.95
00:28:17.960 whatever they were saying and
00:28:19.460 give up some information.
00:28:20.600 So they were carrying these
00:28:21.700 pagers, apparently, and
00:28:23.460 something came out where you
00:28:24.960 heard this audio signal came
00:28:26.580 out and all of the pagers
00:28:27.900 detonated all at once, which
00:28:30.220 is really a remarkable
00:28:31.080 development, which would
00:28:32.280 minimize collateral damage.
00:28:34.220 It doesn't mean that there is
00:28:35.300 no collateral damage.
00:28:36.580 We're hearing some reports that
00:28:37.900 the Iranian ambassador to
00:28:39.640 Lebanon, an individual named
00:28:41.180 Mojtaba Amani, was among the
00:28:43.840 injured.
00:28:44.380 So you have a very chaotic and
00:28:46.040 dramatic development in Lebanon
00:28:47.900 right now, with as many as a
00:28:50.020 thousand Hezbollah fighters
00:28:51.220 injured, Bill.
00:28:52.100 So thank you, Mike, for that.
00:28:53.980 Just stand by one second.
00:28:55.140 Dana, this is a really an
00:28:56.260 intriguing story.
00:28:57.040 I wanted to ask Mike a question,
00:28:58.320 if you're still there, Mike.
00:28:59.700 Was the ambassador holding one
00:29:02.560 of these pagers?
00:29:03.160 Was it on his person?
00:29:05.200 I don't have that information,
00:29:06.880 but as it stands to reason, you
00:29:08.260 could be standing near someone who
00:29:10.120 had one of these small
00:29:10.900 explosions, presumably on their
00:29:12.760 waist, and be injured by it as well.
00:29:14.020 And so what's interesting is this
00:29:16.040 connection, right, between Iran
00:29:17.600 and Hezbollah.
00:29:20.820 Well, exactly.
00:29:21.720 I mean, Iran, Hezbollah is the
00:29:23.460 forward-deployed army for Iran.
00:29:26.360 It has always been supported by
00:29:28.180 Iran.
00:29:28.600 So presumably they would have
00:29:30.540 contact with each other, whoever
00:29:31.840 the operative is.
00:29:32.800 And there's a lot of video coming
00:29:34.400 out on social media right now.
00:29:35.840 We're going to be judicious in how
00:29:37.020 we air that, because some of it is
00:29:38.580 graphic.
00:29:39.260 Yep.
00:29:39.960 So stand by.
00:29:41.520 The hospitals say they're just
00:29:43.000 being overwhelmed throughout the
00:29:44.900 country, especially in the capital
00:29:46.760 city of Beirut.
00:29:47.800 So this is something to watch
00:29:49.360 there.
00:29:49.660 Mike, thank you.
00:29:50.340 Get back on it.
00:29:51.560 By the way, Senator, I feel bad
00:29:53.440 for, like, the random dude today
00:29:55.040 that, like, spilt some, you know,
00:29:56.880 hot water, some boiling water
00:29:58.200 himself, but he has to go to the
00:29:59.280 hospital.
00:29:59.640 He's like, I'm not a terrorist.
00:30:00.640 I'm not a terrorist.
00:30:01.240 I promise.
00:30:01.840 They're like, okay, buddy, sure,
00:30:03.060 you're not.
00:30:03.380 No, no, no.
00:30:03.700 Like, this legit normal injury.
00:30:05.960 And then you hear this, like, oh,
00:30:08.280 yeah, the ambassador from Iran,
00:30:09.880 he got hurt, too.
00:30:12.340 A, did he have the pager?
00:30:14.700 And so he was in direct
00:30:15.920 communication with Hezbollah, or
00:30:18.020 was he hanging out with a bunch
00:30:19.200 of terrorists?
00:30:19.740 Either way, it's pretty damning
00:30:20.880 for them.
00:30:21.920 Don't worry.
00:30:22.440 I'm sure the White House won't
00:30:23.340 respond to that and say that's a
00:30:24.940 threat to the world at all.
00:30:27.340 No, they'll just say Donald Trump
00:30:28.460 is.
00:30:29.660 Look, the fact that Iran's 1.00
00:30:32.100 ambassador to Lebanon, whose name
00:30:34.000 is Majtaba Amani, was injured by an
00:30:37.280 explosion of a pager, it makes
00:30:39.880 transparent what is obvious.
00:30:41.920 Hezbollah and Hamas are both 0.99
00:30:44.320 agents of Iran.
00:30:46.940 Iran provides 90% of the funding
00:30:49.680 to Hezbollah.
00:30:50.460 Iran provides 90% of the funding
00:30:52.460 to Hamas.
00:30:53.580 Iran funded the October 7th 0.90
00:30:57.100 death squads that murdered over 0.97
00:30:59.720 1,200 Israelis that raped Israeli 0.99
00:31:02.260 women and little girls, and that 0.99
00:31:05.860 took multiple Americans hostage, and
00:31:08.480 then murdered multiple Americans.
00:31:10.920 And so, at one level, it's not
00:31:13.180 surprising.
00:31:13.840 Of course, Iran's ambassador had a 0.99
00:31:15.900 damn pager, because Hezbollah works 1.00
00:31:18.980 for him. 1.00
00:31:19.900 But it still makes abundantly clear.
00:31:22.920 I mean, there is something about
00:31:26.040 this response by Israel that has a
00:31:33.180 simplicity to it.
00:31:35.340 They trusted Hezbollah to give the 1.00
00:31:38.580 pagers to whomever is working for
00:31:40.820 them.
00:31:41.380 So Hezbollah determined who gets 0.93
00:31:44.280 killed, who gets serious injuries, who
00:31:46.440 gets body parts blown off. 0.96
00:31:49.900 Whoever Hezbollah says, we want a 0.99
00:31:51.840 pager whenever we need you.
00:31:53.400 And apparently the ambassador for
00:31:55.220 Iran is among those people who had
00:31:58.080 one of those pagers.
00:31:58.880 And, you know, it is particularly
00:32:02.600 amazing when you consider that Joe
00:32:05.240 Biden and Kamala Harris in the past
00:32:08.940 four years have flowed $100 billion
00:32:12.560 to Iran.
00:32:13.720 While Iran is funding Hezbollah, the 0.92
00:32:17.260 Biden-Harris administration is sending
00:32:19.120 money to them.
00:32:20.580 And this is, it was an amazing military
00:32:25.420 strike by Israel, and in particular,
00:32:27.160 what is so powerful, look, if you're
00:32:29.920 engaged in warfare, as obviously
00:32:31.460 Israel is, and they're engaged in 1.00
00:32:32.980 warfare against Hamas and Gaza, they're
00:32:35.520 engaged in warfare against Hezbollah
00:32:37.260 and Lebanon.
00:32:38.040 But anytime you're engaged in warfare, if
00:32:40.160 you have, say, information that a
00:32:42.640 terrorist or multiple terrorists are in
00:32:44.120 a building, and let's say you fire a 0.59
00:32:46.120 missile or drop a bomb, and you try to 0.98
00:32:48.640 kill the terrorists, there are significant 0.97
00:32:50.840 risks of collateral damages. 0.95
00:32:52.520 And that's true in every war. 0.70
00:32:54.680 That's true in all warfare.
00:32:55.820 And by the way, it is exponentially more
00:32:58.620 true in this battle because Hamas and 0.98
00:33:02.020 Hezbollah both deliberately use human
00:33:04.020 shields.
00:33:04.500 In other words, they locate their
00:33:05.660 terrorists where they're surrounded by
00:33:07.820 civilians because they want, anytime
00:33:09.780 Israel tries to take out one of the
00:33:11.840 terrorists, they want innocent civilians 0.95
00:33:13.580 to be killed so they can use it to 0.99
00:33:15.340 demonize Israel. 0.98
00:33:16.680 I got to say, this strategy, I've never
00:33:19.320 seen anything like it.
00:33:20.240 It's something out of, like, a James
00:33:22.940 Bond movie or a spy novel where they
00:33:26.040 distribute the pagers.
00:33:28.440 It may come out that there are some
00:33:32.080 relatively small number of people who
00:33:34.120 were innocent bystanders that maybe were
00:33:36.800 right next to someone with a pager and
00:33:38.720 got injured.
00:33:39.940 But presumably the explosions are fairly
00:33:42.820 controlled.
00:33:43.460 And they're designed, if you have a pager
00:33:45.920 in your pants and it blows up, well, maybe
00:33:49.960 you shouldn't be taking a pager from a
00:33:51.880 terrorist organization who's presumably
00:33:53.560 paging you to murder people.
00:33:56.260 And so it is precisely targeted to take
00:34:00.420 out terrorists in a way that I've never
00:34:03.240 seen before.
00:34:03.800 I'm sure the U.N. will come out with a
00:34:05.780 condemning statement.
00:34:06.620 Don't worry.
00:34:07.220 I'm sure.
00:34:07.820 Because I'm just waiting for it to come
00:34:10.280 out saying, well, they didn't know who
00:34:11.680 exactly had these pagers.
00:34:13.400 I'm sure we'll see all that propaganda
00:34:15.020 that will hit the pages shortly.
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00:36:06.740 Senator, there's another really important
00:36:08.280 story, and it's not getting as much
00:36:09.900 press as it should.
00:36:10.820 And that's why I think many people
00:36:12.140 actually listen to the show, because
00:36:14.080 they get info like this.
00:36:15.800 You may remember if you go backwards,
00:36:17.720 there was a big fake controversy by
00:36:20.840 virtually every Democratic operative, the
00:36:23.140 people running for office, congressmen,
00:36:26.640 senators on the left, and it was over
00:36:29.180 IVF.
00:36:30.660 Conservatives have been in favor of IVF
00:36:33.740 and protecting IVF for, I mean, as
00:36:36.700 long as I can remember.
00:36:37.820 My kids are in vitro fertilization kids.
00:36:42.020 Without it, I probably wouldn't have
00:36:44.040 kids, and I'm so thankful for the
00:36:46.140 technology.
00:36:47.560 And so when this controversy happened in
00:36:49.600 Alabama, you teamed up with Katie Britt 0.99
00:36:52.000 to say, okay, we're going to put our
00:36:54.380 money where our mouth is and make sure 0.95
00:36:55.840 that we protect IVF, and there was an
00:36:59.080 opportunity to do that in Congress, and
00:37:01.540 the Democrats stopped it?
00:37:04.040 Why?
00:37:05.260 So, look, this story is incredibly
00:37:08.020 revealing of everything that's wrong with
00:37:09.720 Washington and how corrupt a lot of
00:37:12.460 politics is.
00:37:13.480 Let's start with IVF.
00:37:15.280 You and I both strongly and unequivocally
00:37:18.480 support in vitro fertilization.
00:37:20.220 I think IVF is an incredible medical
00:37:24.060 miracle.
00:37:25.760 It has enabled millions of parents, moms
00:37:28.960 and dads, to have kids that couldn't
00:37:31.280 otherwise have kids.
00:37:32.920 Two percent of all live births in America
00:37:35.260 come from IVF.
00:37:37.440 There are over eight million children born
00:37:40.600 via IVF, including your kids.
00:37:43.840 Yeah.
00:37:43.940 Look, that is amazing.
00:37:46.680 A very close staffer of mine who is with
00:37:49.500 me most days, we were talking about this
00:37:51.800 issue as I was fighting to defend IVF, and
00:37:53.820 he told me, much to my surprise, he said,
00:37:55.580 you know what?
00:37:55.940 I was born via IVF.
00:37:57.420 I'm an IVF kid.
00:37:59.220 Wow.
00:37:59.320 Like, that's amazing.
00:38:01.820 And I think IVF is extraordinary.
00:38:04.820 Now, following a decision of the Alabama
00:38:08.780 Supreme Court concerning IVF, there was
00:38:12.600 enormous uncertainty, there was enormous
00:38:15.820 fear, and enormous concern that IVF would
00:38:18.900 be in jeopardy.
00:38:20.520 To be clear, in Alabama, when that concern
00:38:23.740 was raised, the state legislature acted
00:38:26.560 incredibly quickly to pass legislation making
00:38:29.660 clear that IVF would be protected in Alabama.
00:38:31.760 So, as a real practical matter, I believe
00:38:37.660 there is zero threat to IVF in America.
00:38:41.140 Why?
00:38:41.720 Well, let's take the U.S. Senate. 0.98
00:38:43.120 In the U.S. Senate, there are 100 senators.
00:38:45.500 To the best of my knowledge, all 100 senators
00:38:48.680 support IVF.
00:38:49.900 I do not know of a single senator in either
00:38:52.480 party who opposes IVF.
00:38:54.540 But yet, there was genuine concern, there was
00:38:58.420 confusion that IVF might be in jeopardy.
00:39:00.820 And this is where Democrats and the corporate
00:39:03.520 media had an intense political interest to
00:39:07.240 flame that fear and to encourage that
00:39:11.060 confusion.
00:39:12.720 And so, as that was happening, I saw that I
00:39:15.520 was dismayed.
00:39:16.460 And I will tell you, so, when the Senate's in
00:39:19.340 session, Republican senators, we have lunch every
00:39:21.360 Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday together.
00:39:22.860 So, all the Republican senators are together.
00:39:24.780 And Katie Britt, the senator from Alabama, has
00:39:26.740 become a good friend.
00:39:27.520 She's been a guest on this podcast.
00:39:28.820 She stood up at one lunch, and she gave an
00:39:31.700 impassioned speech to the other Republican
00:39:35.340 senators about how important IVF was and how she
00:39:39.260 was hearing from women and men, although mostly
00:39:42.680 women, but parents and would-be parents across 0.86
00:39:45.620 Alabama who were incredibly concerned IVF was in
00:39:48.880 jeopardy.
00:39:49.300 And she said, we've got to protect that.
00:39:51.320 I listened to what she said.
00:39:52.780 And so, I went to her and approached her and said,
00:39:56.020 listen, you support IVF.
00:39:58.180 I support IVF.
00:40:00.200 Let's draft legislation that puts a clear, unequivocal
00:40:04.260 protection into federal statutory law to make clear
00:40:08.500 that no state and no local government can ban IVF.
00:40:12.780 Let's find common ground.
00:40:14.100 She agreed.
00:40:15.220 I drafted the legislation.
00:40:16.980 We did it together.
00:40:17.600 Now, the Democrats want a fearmonger on IVF.
00:40:23.780 So there's a different bill that they call an IVF bill that
00:40:26.360 is introduced by Tammy Duckworth, the very liberal
00:40:29.440 Democrat from Illinois.
00:40:31.540 The Tammy Duckworth, quote, IVF bill is not an IVF bill.
00:40:35.340 It's a radical abortion bill. 1.00
00:40:36.920 It would give the Secretary of HHS, Health and Human Services,
00:40:40.560 broad authority to, under that bill, protect abortion in a vast
00:40:45.720 variety of circumstances.
00:40:47.340 Also, the Duckworth bill explicitly overturns the protections
00:40:52.880 of religious liberty under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
00:40:55.820 I support IVF, but I certainly don't want to force a physician
00:40:59.600 to participate in IVF if it's against their religious faith.
00:41:04.760 It's not against my religious faith, but if it's against theirs, 0.96
00:41:08.200 I respect everyone's religious liberty to decide,
00:41:11.160 okay, I don't want to personally participate in it.
00:41:13.480 And yet the Democrats, they do want to force someone to potentially
00:41:19.340 violate their own religious faith to participate in something
00:41:22.560 that they have moral concerns about.
00:41:25.180 And so yesterday, Chuck Schumer teed up a vote.
00:41:31.140 It's the second time in a couple of months on the Tammy Duckworth bill.
00:41:35.020 Now, the reason he teed up the vote is because he knew it would fail,
00:41:38.260 and it was written in such a way as to be filled with poison pills,
00:41:43.040 as to force any Republican with principles who believes in life to vote against it
00:41:51.140 because this would empower a Joe Biden or Kamala Harris administration
00:41:55.360 to go after laws protecting unborn children in states across this country.
00:42:00.560 This was an abortion bill. 0.87
00:42:01.500 It was not an IVF bill.
00:42:02.500 And it was, again, designed to trample religious liberty.
00:42:07.320 So yesterday on the Senate floor, I went to the Senate floor along with Katie Britt,
00:42:11.160 and we tried to pass our IVF bill.
00:42:13.020 And I stood up and gave a speech in support of it.
00:42:15.320 Katie Britt stood up and gave a speech in support of it. 0.94
00:42:18.080 And I asked for unanimous consent to pass our bill.
00:42:22.140 And what happened?
00:42:23.760 The Democrats stood up and objected.
00:42:26.480 They said, no, we will not allow this to pass.
00:42:30.640 And we had a debate back and forth, and I want to encourage you,
00:42:33.060 if you care about this issue, go listen to the debate.
00:42:35.600 Listen to my speech.
00:42:36.820 Listen to Katie Britt's speech.
00:42:37.980 And then listen to Patty Murray, the Democrat from Washington State, who objected.
00:42:42.600 Because the entire point of what the Democrats were doing was a purely political exercise.
00:42:50.520 If they actually wanted to protect IVF,
00:42:54.400 all they had to do was very simple.
00:42:56.980 Not say two words.
00:42:59.000 Not say the words, I object.
00:43:01.800 If they had not said those two words,
00:43:05.940 today, the Senate would have unanimously passed my legislation protecting IVF.
00:43:11.900 But from the Democrats' perspective, that would have been a catastrophic disaster.
00:43:16.100 Because if we actually pass a strong statutory protection for IVF,
00:43:22.200 then they can't run millions of dollars of campaign ads,
00:43:25.080 scaring voters into saying the mean Republicans want to take away IVF.
00:43:29.580 So they objected to Katie Britt's and my legislation because they don't want to protect IVF.
00:43:36.980 And a point that I made in the debate, I said, listen,
00:43:39.020 the Democrat bill was drafted deliberately with poison pills.
00:43:43.740 Their objective, they wanted Republicans to vote no because they don't actually want to pass their bill.
00:43:50.120 What they want to do is force Republicans to vote no so they can run ads saying,
00:43:54.840 oh, Republicans are opposed to IVF.
00:43:57.020 That is a lie.
00:43:58.260 Not a single Republican is opposed to IVF.
00:44:00.820 A couple of months ago when we had this debate,
00:44:02.460 one of the people who joined Katie and me on the Senate floor was Roger Marshall.
00:44:05.660 Roger Marshall, Republican senator from Kansas, is a physician.
00:44:09.280 He is an OBGYN who has delivered thousands of babies and he actually has performed IVF procedures for hundreds of parents.
00:44:20.160 He literally was an IVF doctor.
00:44:22.340 And yet the Democrats talking point is an IVF doctor is opposed to IVF.
00:44:27.280 It's absurd.
00:44:28.420 So understand, they drafted their bill with poison pills because their objective was to make Republicans vote against it and all but two of us did.
00:44:38.080 My bill and Katie's bill has no poison pills in it.
00:44:41.660 Every Democrat agrees with every word of our bill.
00:44:44.460 There's not a word in it that they disagree with.
00:44:47.580 Their problem is if it passes, the issue they want to run against goes away and they don't want the issue to go away.
00:44:57.420 And so sadly, they objected.
00:45:00.460 And I got to tell you, this is an example of where the corrupt corporate media matters. 0.90
00:45:04.720 When I was giving my speech, when Katie was giving her speech, there were no reporters in the gallery.
00:45:09.680 If you read any of the press coverage, the reporters all said the headlines today were Republicans block bill to protect IVF.
00:45:18.720 And you know what?
00:45:20.380 The corporate media, virtually none of them covered the fact that we had a bill to protect IVF the Democrats blocked.
00:45:29.360 Part of the reason the Democrats are willing to do that is they know the media will not cover what they're doing.
00:45:33.680 It's incredible.
00:45:35.840 Go watch the speech.
00:45:37.380 It's up on your Twitter account.
00:45:39.440 I retweeted it out as well.
00:45:41.220 So you can grab it either on the center's account or on mine.
00:45:45.360 Ben Ferguson show on on X and it's there.
00:45:50.040 You ought to go listen to it.
00:45:51.540 It's incredible.
00:45:52.580 Don't forget, we do the show Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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