Verdict with Ted Cruz - Fauci ADMITS He Was Making It Up! plus Hunter Shows His Contempt & Hezbollah on our Southern Border

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00:00:05.340 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:09.120 Senator, we've got a lot to talk about, including new possible threats against this country from terrorist organizations.

00:00:16.540 We also have this just total insane moment for the cameras of a documentary with Hunter Biden coming to Washington.

00:00:24.980 We're going to deal with that and then walking out, then trying to have a press conference.

00:00:28.880 It was just a charade.

00:00:30.400 But before we get to that, the story that will just make so many people frustrated and want to just throw something against their computer screen is the fact that Dr. Anthony Fauci, he went behind closed doors and they asked him about social distancing.

00:00:51.740 Now, this is a guy that shut down our entire economy.

00:00:53.900 He shut down our schools, he shut down our businesses, and they asked him about social distancing and that random six-foot rule and his words, and I'm quoting Senator, it sort of just appeared.

00:01:07.300 Really? That's how they came up with the science that we were supposed to follow?

00:01:13.660 I mean, your reaction?

00:01:16.020 Look, it's infuriating, and I think Dr. Fauci is the most dangerous, the most damaging, and dishonest bureaucrat our nation's history has ever seen.

00:01:24.500 Anthony Fauci is 83 years old, and the damage he did during the COVID vaccine, he got, you know, there's an old line about drug dealers, don't get high on your own supply.

00:01:34.680 He got high on his own supply, and he believed, he believed in what he was saying, but he didn't care if it was true or not.

00:01:42.360 He was engaged in politics.

00:01:44.420 It was about power.

00:01:45.360 You know, we've talked on this podcast a number of times about my brand new book, Unwoke, How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America.

00:01:52.400 There's an entire chapter in Unwoke that is focused on science, and it's focused on the politicization of science, that science and during COVID, medical science becoming a political endeavor rather than being based on actual data and evidence.

00:02:09.760 So, how this came public is Dr. Fauci gave closed-door testimony to the House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, and he said a number of things.

00:02:23.420 He said what you just pointed out when he was asked about the six-foot rule.

00:02:29.260 He said, quote, it just, it sort of just appeared.

00:02:34.940 The hell does that mean it sort of just appeared?

00:02:37.320 You made it up.

00:02:38.500 Look, on masks, and I go through this at length in the book, Unwoke, on masks, when Sylvia Burwell, who was the Secretary of Health and Human Services under Obama, when she asked, hey, should I wear a mask?

00:02:52.040 He said in writing at the beginning of COVID, no, you shouldn't wear a mask.

00:02:55.860 Masks don't really do anything.

00:02:57.140 They're not effective against this virus.

00:02:58.680 Don't wear it.

00:02:59.580 And then just a couple of months later, boom, everyone must wear a mask, or you're thrown off an airplane, you're banned from public society, and you're killing people.

00:03:08.500 I mean, it became so overstated, and he was also asked, he was also asked about the lab leak hypothesis.

00:03:18.560 Now, one of the things I'm most proud of this podcast, we did in March and April of 2020, right at the beginning of COVID, we did two full episodes laying out all of the evidence back then that the COVID virus escaped from a Chinese government lab. 0.71

00:03:39.440 I think as early as March of 2020, that evidence was clear.

00:03:44.720 I think it is overwhelmingly likely that the COVID virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

00:03:51.520 I also think it is quite likely, not as overwhelming, it hasn't been demonstrated as conclusively, but I think it is more likely than not that the COVID virus was manufactured in that Chinese government lab, 0.96

00:04:04.300 that they started with a naturally occurring virus, and then they engaged in gain-of-function research to change the virus to make it more deadly, to make it more transmissible, to make it easier to target humans.

00:04:17.340 And we know, and this, again, I lay out in great length in the book Unwoke, that Dr. Fauci asked Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook,

00:04:28.220 will you suppress anyone saying that this virus came from a Chinese government lab?

00:04:35.340 And Facebook was more than happy to do so, and now, a couple years later, Fauci is all but admitted that there's real evidence this came from a Chinese government lab.

00:04:49.580 I want to go back to the six-foot, and then we'll get into the Wuhan part, because I do think it's important that we break this down a little bit for people.

00:04:56.980 I was envisioning, and I was trying to figure out in my mind, I'm like, all right, how would you have come up with, you know,

00:05:03.600 remember, these people were saying, follow the science, and how would you come up with a six-foot rule?

00:05:09.080 And there's part of me, Senator, that thinks there were some people in a room at NIH, and they're like, all right, we need to come up with some regulations here.

00:05:16.880 We need to come up with something that looks proactive.

00:05:19.280 And they're like, all right, well, what if we just told everybody to stand further apart from each other?

00:05:23.720 And they're like, all right, well, how many feet?

00:05:24.940 Who's got a ruler?

00:05:27.100 All right, well, you stand three feet apart.

00:05:28.720 No, that looks too close.

00:05:30.660 All right, what does four feet apart look like?

00:05:32.540 No, that still looks too close.

00:05:33.680 How about five?

00:05:34.440 No, let's make it six.

00:05:35.720 Six seems like it looks like you're far enough apart from the other person that somehow it seems like we know what we're doing.

00:05:43.700 The scary part is there's a pretty good chance that's exactly what happened.

00:05:48.680 And then they were telling us you had to follow the science. 0.99

00:05:51.560 They just made this crap up. 0.99

00:05:53.020 They had no idea what they were doing. 1.00

00:05:54.940 Look, that's exactly right.

00:05:56.500 And there's no basis for six feet being the magic number for a virus.

00:06:01.060 Now, look, I'll give them a little bit of grace.

00:06:04.840 At the time the COVID pandemic started, people were scared and they didn't know what they were dealing with.

00:06:10.780 And there are at least some people, there are some government doctors who were trying to be helpful and trying to figure out rules.

00:06:16.780 And what actually made common sense, particularly when this thing was started, is to engage in protective steps for people who are vulnerable.

00:06:27.180 We saw COVID, that people who were very elderly, people who had significant immunodeficiencies, they were vulnerable.

00:06:36.220 It made sense to protect the vulnerable, particularly at the outset of this.

00:06:39.800 What didn't make sense is to become just obsessive tyrants about masks, about COVID vaccines.

00:06:50.660 And so, look, I can understand when they're trying to say, okay, what might help?

00:06:56.440 And there was some desire and a reasonable desire to reopen society, like any rational person wanted to reopen society.

00:07:04.860 And saying, okay, how do we do this?

00:07:07.960 Maybe some separation.

00:07:09.160 You can understand how you get to that.

00:07:11.400 But what Fauci did, the way he did this, is he closed himself in a self-righteous arrogance.

00:07:21.280 What he said in one interview, he said, I am the science.

00:07:26.240 When you question me, you are questioning the science.

00:07:31.540 And actually, in the book Unwoke, I entitled the chapter on science.

00:07:35.600 I don't actually call it science.

00:07:36.920 I call it the science.

00:07:38.800 And the definitive article, I mean, it was, you needed to have a chorus of angels.

00:07:43.940 Every time you said the science, you needed, oh.

00:07:47.020 Yeah.

00:07:47.900 And it was, the self-righteousness and the tyranny is what is so infuriating.

00:07:54.760 And he hasn't backed away from that one iota.

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00:09:16.540 Let's remind people, if you brought up the Wuhan theory, which was actually not a crazy theory,

00:09:23.120 there was a lot of intel that was coming out that was talking about cell phone data from that area,

00:09:27.780 where the lockdowns initially started in China were right there,

00:09:31.720 how there was no cell phone being used and pinging within the building,

00:09:36.300 which meant that there was probably some sort of issue inside the building

00:09:39.800 because there was no cell phones in the building.

00:09:41.740 There was a lot of things that pointed to evidence that this came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

00:09:48.020 And if you or I or anyone else, and there's many that may be listening to the show,

00:09:53.120 that may have actually been a victim of this,

00:09:55.160 if you put that out on social media, you were silenced, shut down,

00:09:58.740 and your account was even taken away from you,

00:10:01.520 depending on if you had too many strikes that you mentioned Wuhan.

00:10:05.380 And they said, and the federal government went to them, as you mentioned,

00:10:09.200 and said, anyone that doesn't say what we want them to say, shut it down,

00:10:14.320 shut them down, shut their accounts down.

00:10:16.180 And that's exactly what they ended up doing.

00:10:18.500 Well, look, what we knew early on, the outbreak occurred in Wuhan, China.

00:10:25.140 Where it occurred was nine miles away from the Wuhan Institute for Virology.

00:10:31.340 Now, if you look at just the sheer statistical odds,

00:10:37.440 the Wuhan Institute for Virology was a government lab that was studying viruses.

00:10:43.320 One of the things it was studying was coronaviruses.

00:10:48.000 And in fact, it was studying coronaviruses from bats.

00:10:52.880 Now, mind you, remember early on where they said COVID came from was a virus carried by bats.

00:10:59.100 Now, those particular bats do not occur in Wuhan, China.

00:11:02.820 The closest they occur naturally is 900 miles away.

00:11:07.080 But you know where those bats were?

00:11:08.400 You know where the virus was?

00:11:09.460 In the Wuhan Institute for Virology, it was nine miles away.

00:11:14.800 In the book on WOCA, I calculate the odds.

00:11:17.260 The odds are less than one in 10,000 that you would have an outbreak of a virus

00:11:25.320 of the same type being studied in the lab that just happened to be less than 10 miles away

00:11:30.900 from where they're studying it.

00:11:34.820 That was compelling.

00:11:37.320 And we knew that at the outset.

00:11:40.060 We also knew early on that there were multiple doctors and medical professionals

00:11:46.280 who were hospitalized in November and December of 2019, right before the COVID pandemic broke out.

00:11:55.660 And they were from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

00:11:58.820 That is compelling as well.

00:12:01.520 And the behavior of our government was so infuriating because it didn't engage in rational, reasonable inquiry.

00:12:11.560 Where did this come from?

00:12:12.720 By the way, now, several years later, the FBI has publicly concluded that they believe the virus came from the Wuhan Institute for Virology.

00:12:23.880 But Dr. Fauci, has he ever once went on national television and said, I'm sorry, no.

00:12:28.720 And he's so self-righteous that those words could not come from his mouth.

00:12:32.940 It's not just that they won't come from his mouth.

00:12:35.800 There's also questions now about did he mislead or, use another word, lie to Congress under oath on some of these issues when he was asked.

00:12:45.500 Well, compared to what he's talking about now, there's a lot of people asking, will there ever be accountability?

00:12:51.120 I'm going to ask you, I think I know the answer.

00:12:53.440 Is there ever going to be accountability for anyone if they mislead or flat out lie to Congress if you're on the Democratic side?

00:12:59.580 You know, there hasn't been in our lifetime.

00:13:02.740 And I will say, as long as it is the Biden Department of Justice, this Department of Justice is politicized, it's weaponized, and they have zero interest.

00:13:12.160 I've asked the attorney general, I've asked the Department of Justice, are you going to prosecute Anthony Fauci for lying to Congress under oath?

00:13:18.980 That is a felony. 0.98

00:13:19.680 And they just defiantly say, we don't comment on investigations, which is their way of saying no, but it's also their way of saying, I don't answer to the American people, screw you. 0.69

00:13:31.120 And that, sadly, is the view of Merrick Garland and the DOJ.

00:13:34.420 Which brings me to story number two, perfect segue here.

00:13:38.020 Hunter Biden made a surprise appearance.

00:13:41.580 It was clearly a stunt.

00:13:43.700 The reason why I say it was a stunt is based, in fact, the Secret Service was there more than an hour before he showed up for this House Oversight Committee markup hearing on holding him in contempt.

00:13:53.640 We also know that the Democrats had poster boards made for his surprise appearance, so they clearly were in on it as well.

00:14:00.840 And Hunter Biden showed up at this House Oversight Committee markup hearing on holding him in contempt.

00:14:08.100 And the reason why I think he did it and knew he could do it and could show up in what many described as a shocking appearance at his own contempt hearing is because he knows what you just mentioned,

00:14:20.200 that the DOJ is not going to prosecute him for contempt of Congress charges, even though they did do it against every person they get their hands on that was ready to Donald J. Trump.

00:14:29.940 But they will not hold the president's son accountable for his actions here.

00:14:34.800 And that's the part that is, I think, the most disgusting about this.

00:14:38.160 Get me your initial reaction.

00:14:39.720 Then we'll dive more into the story about some of the questions he was asked as well at this committee hearing after he left.

00:14:45.200 Look, Hunter Biden embodies the same arrogant contempt that Dr. Fauci does.

00:14:50.800 In both instances, they have the belief that they will never be held to account, that they can do whatever they want if there are no consequences. 0.84

00:14:58.220 Hunter Biden showed up just to say, screw you to the Congress, but to say, screw you to the American people, that I'm the son of the president.

00:15:06.140 I can do whatever I want. 0.85

00:15:07.520 And he knows the Biden Department of Justice.

00:15:10.100 They're going to mean no consequences.

00:15:12.780 It the arrogant contempt.

00:15:15.400 And by the way, it's consistent.

00:15:17.080 It is Hunter Biden's approach.

00:15:18.960 It is Fauci's approach.

00:15:21.360 Approach.

00:15:21.780 It is Merrick Garland's approach.

00:15:23.560 It is Alejandro Mayorkas's approach.

00:15:25.640 It is Joe Biden's approach.

00:15:27.020 First, this administration has a dripping contempt, number one, for Congress.

00:15:32.640 They do not believe any oversight is appropriate on anything.

00:15:36.360 And number two, for the American people, because, look, if you're contemptuous to Congress, listen, when I'm in a hearing and I'm asking questions, what I'm trying to do, Ben, is ask the questions that I believe 30 million Texans want me to ask.

00:15:50.160 Ask the questions on behalf of the American people and this administration believes it owes no answers whatsoever.

00:15:59.340 Hunter showed up because he knew there would be no consequences.

00:16:02.900 Now, frankly, I wish they'd said said Hunter, come to the table right now.

00:16:06.300 Let's question you right here and now.

00:16:07.860 I wish they'd done that.

00:16:08.900 And let's be clear, if you go back to last month, we did an extensive interview with James Comer.

00:16:16.840 James Comer is doing a terrific job leading this investigation along with Jim Jordan.

00:16:21.820 But we did a three part series with James Comer right before Christmas in which I urged him.

00:16:27.880 And I still believe the House should do this.

00:16:30.200 Comer's committee wants Hunter to sit for a closed door deposition.

00:16:35.040 I understand why a closed door deposition.

00:16:37.140 You can go into more detail.

00:16:38.960 A lawyer can systematically walk through the facts, walk through the documents.

00:16:42.440 It would be better to do it that way.

00:16:45.020 Hunter is defying Congress and is going to be held in contempt.

00:16:49.320 But in order for the contempt to be enforced, the Department of Justice has to prosecute it.

00:16:53.500 They're not going to because Merrick Garland is a political hack, unfortunately.

00:16:58.840 And that saddens me to say it, but it is how he's behaving.

00:17:02.480 What I urged James Comer on this podcast to do is I said, look, Hunter has claimed he will testify

00:17:09.280 if it's at an open hearing.

00:17:12.020 What I'm urging House Republicans, do it.

00:17:14.440 Do it.

00:17:14.980 Do it.

00:17:15.600 Do it.

00:17:15.940 Remember, Hunter Biden is not the target.

00:17:18.140 Nobody would care about Hunter Biden's tragic life if his name was Hunter Smith.

00:17:25.820 The target of this investigation is Joe Biden because it is Joe Biden who is fundamentally

00:17:31.900 corrupt and is corrupting the office of President of the United States.

00:17:35.400 It is Joe Biden who the evidence suggests for years has made a business of selling favors

00:17:40.980 from official government office.

00:17:43.020 Now, Hunter has been the bag man.

00:17:45.020 Hunter has been the one going and shaking down foreign oligarchs.

00:17:48.140 But it is Joe Biden that is the target.

00:17:50.980 And if the House continues to insist on the closed door deposition, they will waste all

00:17:57.500 of 2024.

00:17:58.580 Hunter can tie that up in litigation for the rest of the year.

00:18:01.300 And by the way, I'm going to make a prediction right now, Ben.

00:18:03.420 This is not one I like.

00:18:05.300 My prediction is in December of 2024, Joe Biden will pardon Hunter Biden.

00:18:14.420 Really?

00:18:15.520 That's my prediction.

00:18:16.560 It'll be after the election.

00:18:19.040 Very likely win or lose.

00:18:20.980 You say he'll do it no matter what.

00:18:22.980 Win or lose.

00:18:24.020 If Biden were to win, I think he'll delay the pardon until right before Hunter goes to jail.

00:18:29.640 But if Biden is losing, I'd put the odds at 95 percent that in December of this year, if Biden has just lost the general election, that he pardons his son and he gives him a scot-free get-out-of-jail pass.

00:18:43.200 And so understand, Hunter's legal strategy is delay 11 months.

00:18:50.220 Delay 11 months, don't go to jail for 11 months, and then daddy gives you a get-out-of-jail-free card.

00:18:55.500 And it's why the House needs to keep their eye on the ball and bring Hunter for the public hearing.

00:19:02.260 Now, maybe Hunter will refuse to show up there, but it's harder because he's been so vocal, saying he would do it in public, take him up on the offer, call the bluff.

00:19:12.400 You know, one of the things that they said at the House Oversight Committee, and I'm going to quote, it says,

00:19:16.320 Donald Trump Jr. came before this committee, he came before the House Intelligence Committee, he came before the House Judiciary Committee, he came before the Senate Intelligence Committee twice, he came before the so-called January 6th Committee.

00:19:29.740 All of those were behind closed doors, where lawyers can sit down both sides of the aisle and have a conversation and go through documents all under oath, which is the precedent for any committee.

00:19:44.260 What is Hunter Biden afraid of? That was a question asked by Congressman Waltz, who ripped into the Democrats' hypocrisy during this House Oversight Committee hearing.

00:19:55.620 He's absolutely right, but there is a lot of Americans right now that are listening to this, they're going to say,

00:20:01.240 OK, we're angry, we're upset, but it seems like the game is rigged, it seems like the system is rigged, Republicans go to prison, Democrats don't even have to show up for a hearing, it's just not right.

00:20:13.340 Is there any way to fix this?

00:20:15.860 Yes, elect principled leaders who will reimpose the rule of law at the Department of Justice.

00:20:25.040 We talked about my book, Unwoke.

00:20:27.600 The book I wrote before that is Justice Corrupted, How the Left Has Weaponized the Legal System.

00:20:32.140 This really began in serious form under Barack Obama, where Barack Obama began using the Department of Justice, began using the FBI, began using the IRS, began using the intelligence community to target his political enemies.

00:20:48.240 And the double standard, Barack Obama was treated by the media as Saint Barack.

00:20:54.540 And what happened, for eight years, he weaponized, he put in place hardcore partisans who burrowed in to senior career positions.

00:21:04.380 When Trump became president, those partisans were in senior career positions, and they spent four years with the federal government, the executive branch, waging war on the democratically elected president of the United States.

00:21:17.720 Now, under Joe Biden, they're out in the open.

00:21:20.420 They're not hiding.

00:21:21.220 They're brazen. 0.89

00:21:22.420 They've convinced themselves Trump is Hitler.

00:21:25.040 And because Trump is Hitler in their mind, anything is justified to defeat Hitler.

00:21:29.840 And so they indict him and they indict him and they indict him and they abuse their power and they protect their friends.

00:21:36.720 Fauci will never be held to account.

00:21:38.620 Hunter Biden will never be held to account.

00:21:40.400 And Joe Biden, especially, especially, especially, will never be held to account.

00:21:44.300 The only answer is to elect a president of the United States who appoints people to the Department of Justice, to the FBI, to these government agencies, who is strong enough, who is insightful enough, who knows what they're doing and will clean out the hardcore partisans that have corrupted these agencies.

00:22:02.500 One of the things that I also think, and we go back to what I said a moment ago, and I do want to get your take on this, is that this was all just a stunt.

00:22:09.680 And it very well could have been to actually make money.

00:22:12.940 There is a camera crew or camera crews, plural, that were on Capitol Hill, and there is a documentary that's being filmed about Joe Biden and, I guess, Hunter Biden and all of this, quote, persecution against him.

00:22:28.320 If this was for the cameras and they're using Congress in this way, what does that also say just about where we are as a country and the fact that we're allowing this to happen within the walls of Congress, where it's like, hey, you want to do a documentary?

00:22:45.020 You want to have your moment?

00:22:46.180 Come on in and make a charade and a mockery of what we actually do in Congress.

00:22:50.760 Yeah, look, I don't know the motivation.

00:22:53.540 I don't know if that's why.

00:22:54.920 I can tell you Joe Biden and the White House were not happy about this.

00:23:00.620 So Hunter was not looking out for the political interest of daddy in doing this.

00:23:05.160 This was an act of arrogance and defiance.

00:23:08.120 And look, Hunter has lived a life where arrogance and defiance have characterized much of his conduct.

00:23:14.220 You know, you look at the WhatsApp text that he sent to the Chinese communists saying, I'm sitting here with my father.

00:23:20.920 Send us millions of dollars right now.

00:23:22.980 Like there is an arrogance.

00:23:24.560 There's an entitlement.

00:23:26.080 His entire life, his the business plan of the Biden family was to sell favors from daddy and to shake down corrupt oligarchs.

00:23:36.780 And that is Chinese.

00:23:38.000 That is Russian.

00:23:38.820 That is Ukrainian.

00:23:39.920 It's by the way, you know, Hunter has no business that we know of in England or France or Germany or Italy.

00:23:48.500 He has no business in in countries that are allies and friends.

00:23:52.720 His business is going to corrupt nations who are often our enemies or the minimum significantly antagonistic to us and getting paid massive seven figure amounts from those corrupt.

00:24:09.920 And that the arrogance of this, I'm sure the Biden White House was very unhappy.

00:24:16.820 Hunter did this because it drew a lot of attention to just how contemptuous he is.

00:24:21.440 He is the Dauphin. 0.86

00:24:22.780 He is the child of the emperor clothed in impunity.

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00:25:06.200 One of the things that you mentioned was this this really didn't go well from the White House perspective.

00:25:11.780 A perfect example of that was after he walked out of this meeting, he was asked a question.

00:25:17.720 And this was the question from a Fox reporter.

00:25:21.060 It didn't go well.

00:25:22.040 Listen, Mr. Biden, why did you put your dad on speakerphone with your business partners if he had no involvement in your business?

00:25:29.000 Do you have a dad?

00:25:30.080 Did he call you?

00:25:31.660 Yes.

00:25:32.120 Did he answer the phone?

00:25:32.980 Yes.

00:25:33.800 OK.

00:25:34.260 But why did you need to talk to him during business meetings if he had nothing to do with your business?

00:25:39.060 I mean, that was one of those moments.

00:25:40.960 Obviously, he wasn't planning for.

00:25:42.680 He didn't answer the second part of that question.

00:25:44.680 He just kept walking, but I think he realized, OK, maybe this wasn't perfect because those are the questions that he opened himself up to in the halls of Congress as he was making the long walk out of that committee hearing room.

00:25:56.540 Yeah, look, that's exactly right.

00:25:58.900 And mind you, every Democrat, you know, you didn't see a single Democrat who said, gosh, there's some serious issues here.

00:26:05.760 Gosh, we really should hear from from Hunter.

00:26:07.980 We should hear about was he extorting millions of dollars from foreign oligarchs?

00:26:14.680 No congressional Democrat cares.

00:26:17.680 This is warfare.

00:26:19.300 This is political warfare.

00:26:20.560 And the facts do not matter.

00:26:22.640 So that question you would never hear a congressional Democrat ask in the House or the Senate.

00:26:28.760 I want to move lastly to another major issue that is broken and it deals with our national security.

00:26:34.640 And I want to know what you think about these new warnings that are coming.

00:26:39.200 And that is it's not shocking, but it certainly is a sobering moment.

00:26:44.380 We know we have an open southern border.

00:26:46.160 We know that more people on the terrorist watch list were caught last year coming across the southern border than the last five years before it combined.

00:26:54.300 And now there's a new report coming out from Politico that American intel officials are warning of a risk of a Hezbollah attack, not just on U.S. men and women around the world and service members and in some of our bases,

00:27:08.820 but also a real elevated risk at home for officials familiar with the intelligence have confirmed this to Politico that they're worried about attacks here outside of what we've seen from ISIS and Al Qaeda,

00:27:23.920 where it's lone wolf type attacks, where they could be coming into this country already in this country and planning a major attack.

00:27:31.800 Well, I think that's exactly right.

00:27:33.680 And I've said before, I think the risk of a major terrorist attack in 2024 is greater than it has been at any time since September 11th, 2001,

00:27:45.240 that we have right now, number one, a war in the Middle East and Israel.

00:27:52.080 Hamas and Hezbollah have called upon their terrorists to wage jihad, not just against Israel, but against America.

00:28:01.260 And we have an open border on our southern border due to Joe Biden and the Democrats.

00:28:06.220 9.6 million people have crossed illegally into this country under Joe Biden.

00:28:12.640 When I was last down on the southern border, I'm down there a lot, multiple border patrol agents told me they were deeply concerned

00:28:19.920 about the risk of Hamas terrorists and Hezbollah terrorists crossing the border because Joe Biden, it continues to be an open border to this day.

00:28:28.960 They could be crossing right now.

00:28:30.800 As we are speaking, Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists could be crossing in.

00:28:34.680 And what is so frustrating is if you were a Hamas commander, Ben, you would send terrorists in. 0.51

00:28:44.520 It's a glaring vulnerability that Joe Biden and the Democrats don't care to solve.

00:28:49.980 So this political article that just came out quoted a senior U.S. intelligence official as saying, and this is a quote,

00:28:57.440 quote, Hezbollah could draw on the capability they have to put people in places to do something.

00:29:04.180 It is something to be worried about, said the official.

00:29:07.800 And this is consistent with we did a previous podcast where we read the memo that Customs and Border Patrol had sent to Border Patrol agents saying be on particular guard for Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists

00:29:22.160 and also Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists trying to cross the border.

00:29:27.320 And it is astonishing to me that even in the face of that risk, which suddenly the FBI is publicly acknowledging, where six months ago they were not acknowledging it, they are now.

00:29:38.880 And what that tells me is the classified intel is even worse than what we know in public.

00:29:46.300 You know, you don't have to leap very far to get from point A to point B on something as simplistic of, hey, if you are a terrorist organization,

00:29:54.560 are you going to take the risk of putting people that could be on the terrorist watch list on airplanes and try to get them to the country that way?

00:30:01.900 Or are you just going to get them to come across the southern open border when there's millions of people that have already it's worked successfully for?

00:30:09.020 You know that if you are not on the watch list and they catch you, about 80 plus percent of you are being released into the interior of this country.

00:30:16.340 And if you want to be one of the gotaways, it's not that hard.

00:30:19.680 You've witnessed it firsthand at the southern border, and yet this administration refuses to admit that it's a national security risk.

00:30:27.040 And I think even now, if you ask them, they would refuse to acknowledge the existence of a real terrorist threat because of an open southern border.

00:30:36.460 And you've got to ask yourself at that point, like, what does it take for them to get their heads out of the rear end, Senator?

00:30:41.800 And understand, this isn't just about an open border or border policy.

00:30:46.820 This is about a national security policy as well.

00:30:51.700 Now, look, that's exactly right.

00:30:54.060 You know, Christy Abizade, who is the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said during a congressional hearing in October, here's what she said.

00:31:01.800 Quote, Iran, Hezbollah, and their linked proxies are trying to calibrate their activity, avoiding actions that would open up a concerted second front with the United States or Israel, while still exacting costs in the midst of the current conflict.

00:31:18.160 This is a very fine line to walk.

00:31:20.280 And in the present regional context, their actions carry the potential for miscalculation.

00:31:26.900 This is what they're admitting.

00:31:28.520 Here's what Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State, said, quote, this is a moment of profound tension in the region.

00:31:37.340 This is a conflict that could easily metastasize.

00:31:41.640 And yet, even as they're admitting that, they're not willing to secure the border.

00:31:46.260 Here's what Chris Wray said in a congressional hearing on November 15th, quote,

00:31:50.280 The arrest of individuals in the United States, allegedly linked to Hezbollah's main overseas terrorist arm and their intelligence collection and procurement efforts, demonstrate Hezbollah's interests in the long term contingency planning activities here in the homeland.

00:32:08.100 And none of this is persuasive to Joe Biden or Kamala Harris or Alejandro Mayorkas or any of the congressional Democrats who are all willing to turn a blind eye and say,

00:32:21.500 Whatever you're listening to this podcast, if you're listening to this podcast at six in the morning, if you're listening to this podcast at noon, if you're listening to this podcast at 6 p.m.

00:32:32.640 or if you're listening to this podcast at midnight, whatever time you're listening to it right now, there are people crossing illegally into this country.

00:32:41.240 and the biden administration is doing nothing to stop them in the last three years there have been

00:32:46.880 over two million gotaways those are people that have evaded capture we know about them but that

00:32:53.600 but they didn't turn themselves in whereas the bulk of the people who came did turn themselves

00:32:58.200 in the gotaways are the most dangerous you want to know where the terrorists are they're the

00:33:02.360 gotaways you want to know where the criminals are they're the gotaways the murderers the rapists

00:33:06.720 they're the gotaways you want to know where the gang members the ms-13 are they're the gotaways and

00:33:11.960 i i don't know what it will take to get this administration to actually step up and say

00:33:19.060 we're going to keep the american people safe from a terror attack is it arrogance last question on

00:33:25.280 this is it arrogance that you know oh we know better uh because there is a a younger age that

00:33:33.200 is serving in the house now that we've seen that maybe doesn't understand or remember truly what

00:33:38.080 happened on 9-11 is it an arrogance of the democratic party that they just don't care about history in

00:33:43.560 the past i mean i remember 9-11 like it was yesterday i know you do as well and many americans

00:33:50.240 do and when you hear this type of threat you can imagine it because you've lived through 9-11 you can

00:33:55.780 imagine what it looks like when you allow hezbollah terrorists to come across the southern border 0.99

00:34:00.920 and what they can do if they are well trained which they are uh and if they can get their hands

00:34:06.560 on what they need to carry out a significant terrorist attack and i sit here and go how do

00:34:10.940 you not remember 9-11 where is the disconnect here well look for one thing 9-11 was 22 years ago

00:34:18.700 22 years ago is a long time um you and i although we think we're spring chickens we're not anymore

00:34:25.040 um you're in your 40s i'm in my 50s there are a lot of people there is not a single college kid who

00:34:31.920 remembers 9-11 uh there are a lot of people in their 30s who who 9-11 is a distant memory from

00:34:39.420 their childhood and and look i get it you know for me i think about like pearl harbor i know about

00:34:45.120 pearl harbor it's a horrible day in history it's a horrible day in u.s history but do i have

00:34:50.340 a personal emotional reaction to pearl harbor no it happened long before i was born so it's kind of

00:34:57.120 i've read about it but i didn't live through it so there is a dynamic that that many people in

00:35:02.760 america were getting far enough beyond 9-11 that many people don't have a personal acute memory

00:35:09.000 and then i think beyond that what has happened is is that that we've seen the democrat party in

00:35:15.880 washington radicalized and and it it it's been happening for a while barack obama started this

00:35:23.520 process of radicalizing it and then trump becoming president broke their brains they hate trump so

00:35:30.220 much that that i actually just think they've convinced themselves that anything is justified

00:35:38.160 fighting trump and and the result of it is that they're embracing radical policies and because

00:35:45.900 the press trump broke the press the media doesn't report on this and and and so the democrats are

00:35:55.360 radicalized because they know they will never be asked back home about the extreme policies they're

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - January 12, 2024

Fauci ADMITS He Was Making It Up! plus Hunter Shows His Contempt & Hezbollah on our Southern Border

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