Verdict with Ted Cruz - November 04, 2023


FBI Warns Terrorism at Whole Other Level, WH Refuses to Stand Up to Iran & Exposing The Marxists Behind the Attack on American Kids the Week In Review


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Ted Cruz reacts to the White House admitting that terrorism is at a whole other level when it comes to the threat in the U.S. Iran is selling a ton of oil and much of it is in violation of sanctions. Liz Wheeler joins us to talk about her new book and what you need to know about what they're doing with your kids.

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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00:00:05.340 Welcome.
00:00:05.940 It is Verdict with Ted Cruz.
00:00:07.800 Weekend Review.
00:00:08.760 Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:09.980 And these are the big stories that you may have missed that we talked about this week.
00:00:13.940 First up this week, it was a bombshell that the media refused to report on.
00:00:18.280 And that was the fact that Scott Kirby at the White House said he was, quote,
00:00:21.720 not shocked by the FBI coming out and saying that terrorism is at a whole other level
00:00:27.720 when it comes to the threat in this country.
00:00:30.360 Why?
00:00:30.700 Because the open southern border.
00:00:33.360 Up next, in a shock, yes, Iran is selling a ton of oil right now.
00:00:38.260 And much of it is in violation of sanctions.
00:00:40.760 So why is the White House not standing up to Iran? 0.97
00:00:43.400 And also at the same time, why is the White House and their policies deliberately making Iran wealthy
00:00:49.880 while putting a hardship on Americans through their obsession with green alternative energy?
00:00:56.640 And finally, they're coming for your kids like never before.
00:01:00.740 At the university level, at the high schools, junior highs, and even elementary schools.
00:01:05.640 Liz Wheeler joins us to talk about her new book
00:01:08.060 and what you need to know about what they're doing with your children.
00:01:12.140 It is the Weekend Review with Ted Cruz, and it starts right now.
00:01:16.120 There was a question that was asked of Kirby at the White House about our open border,
00:01:23.260 about how unsecure it is, and now not about the illegal immigrants necessarily coming across,
00:01:28.580 but the terrorists that are coming across.
00:01:31.020 And he was forced to answer the question, I think, honestly, that yes, he is concerned.
00:01:36.280 Listen.
00:01:36.580 The FBI director said today,
00:01:37.900 the ongoing war in the Middle East has raised the threat of an attack against Americans
00:01:42.140 in the United States to a whole other level.
00:01:45.720 Let's just stop there for a second.
00:01:47.140 When you heard that, Senator, how shocked were you by that?
00:01:52.300 So I wasn't.
00:01:54.860 But them admitting that it's at a whole other level.
00:01:57.500 I was shocked by that type of candid answer from anybody in this administration.
00:02:02.340 Well, my thought was immediately, 0.92
00:02:04.640 holy crap, what does the FBI know that we don't know?
00:02:08.440 Because just weeks or months ago, 1.00
00:02:14.040 the FBI was saying the greatest threat to public safety is white supremacists in America. 0.99
00:02:20.560 And give me a friggin' break. 1.00
00:02:22.280 Listen, Nazis and Klansmen are idiots and bigots. 1.00
00:02:25.240 They're imbeciles. 1.00
00:02:27.260 I oppose them wholly and unequivocally. 1.00
00:02:29.860 But there's not a rise of Nazis in America.
00:02:33.140 Like, okay, you got like six yahoos in some bar in somewhere in America that are going, 1.00
00:02:41.360 woo-hoo! 1.00
00:02:42.320 But like, in the real world, that is not a rising threat.
00:02:46.740 And yet, the politicized Biden Department of Justice and FBI said,
00:02:51.300 that's the threat!
00:02:52.680 And I was always like, okay, what about radical jihadists 0.52
00:02:56.500 who pledge that they want to murder all of us, 0.74
00:02:59.480 who have committed horrific acts of terrorism all across the globe,
00:03:03.420 who carried out 9-11?
00:03:05.260 Do you not think they're a greater threat?
00:03:08.260 And until October 7th, until the attack on Israel, 0.83
00:03:12.580 the Biden DOJ and the Biden FBI said,
00:03:14.960 nope, nope, nope, jihadists are just okie-dokie, no problem at all.
00:03:20.040 We're just concerned that the Ku Klux Klan is coming back. 0.95
00:03:23.240 And I'm like, okay, that's absurd.
00:03:25.460 Now, they've changed their talking points.
00:03:29.480 So, this week, the FBI went before the House and said,
00:03:35.280 wow, there is a real risk of Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists 0.91
00:03:40.540 coming across the border.
00:03:41.680 Now, listen, this podcast has covered this.
00:03:44.780 I have said repeatedly that I think there is a greater risk
00:03:47.960 of a major terrorist attack on the United States
00:03:52.000 than there has been at any time since September 11th.
00:03:57.220 And we did a whole podcast on the written memo
00:04:03.220 from Customs and Border Patrol
00:04:04.780 instructing Border Patrol agents be on lookout
00:04:08.060 for Hamas, for Hezbollah, for Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
00:04:13.080 They're going to try to hide who they are,
00:04:15.340 and they're coming here to commit acts of terror.
00:04:18.320 And so, when I see the FBI saying this, 0.98
00:04:21.300 my reaction is like, holy crap, 0.90
00:04:23.400 they know stuff. 0.88
00:04:24.480 For them to change their political talking points,
00:04:28.500 frankly, takes my level of concern from an 8 to an 11.
00:04:34.100 Well, and that's what Kirby was also, when he answered this,
00:04:37.700 it was a very different answer.
00:04:38.960 Remember, this is the same Mayorkas that said, 0.85
00:04:41.140 the border is secure, the border is secure.
00:04:43.360 And now they're saying, not only no is it not,
00:04:45.700 admitting it's not,
00:04:46.620 now they're saying they're worried about terrorist threat.
00:04:48.440 Keep listening.
00:04:49.200 ...in the United States to a whole nother level.
00:04:52.640 Has the White House considered the possibility
00:04:54.620 that a terrorist could be in the country right now
00:04:57.000 after crossing the southern border?
00:04:59.640 Peter, we are always concerned
00:05:01.480 about the potential presence on U.S. soil
00:05:05.140 of terrorists coming from overseas.
00:05:09.440 That's something we're always worried about.
00:05:10.960 But there was this bulletin last week,
00:05:13.800 the CBP in San Diego said militants associated
00:05:16.340 with the Israel-Hamas war
00:05:18.000 may be potentially encountered at the southwest border.
00:05:21.360 You're talking about the San Diego...
00:05:22.840 Yeah.
00:05:23.680 Is there any heartburn around here?
00:05:25.440 600,000 known gotaways just in the last fiscal year.
00:05:29.980 Yeah.
00:05:30.200 Is there any heartburn about leaving the border
00:05:34.080 in such a condition
00:05:35.280 that one of those 600,000 could be a terrorist?
00:05:39.340 So let me just break this down for you
00:05:41.100 just a little bit here.
00:05:41.960 First of all, I can't speak to this intelligence report
00:05:45.040 that was leaked to the media.
00:05:46.740 I wouldn't do that.
00:05:48.400 I can tell you that we are constantly monitoring,
00:05:52.340 as best we can,
00:05:53.440 all ports of entry to the country
00:05:54.960 for the potential arrival of anybody
00:05:58.340 who might wish us harm.
00:05:59.820 And one of the things that the president asked for
00:06:02.240 in this supplemental
00:06:02.840 was additional funding for border security
00:06:05.940 for like 1,500 more border patrol agents
00:06:08.900 and better technology at the border.
00:06:11.300 I mean, so again,
00:06:12.120 we would urge Congress
00:06:13.220 to take a look at that supplemental request
00:06:14.680 and pass it.
00:06:15.580 But if the general gist of your question is,
00:06:17.740 are we taking the potential threat seriously?
00:06:19.760 Of course we are.
00:06:20.500 The general gist was,
00:06:21.500 is it possible that somebody
00:06:22.900 who wants to commit a terrorist attack
00:06:24.660 during a time of elevated threat
00:06:26.600 crossed the southern border
00:06:28.340 into the United States already?
00:06:30.720 I couldn't possibly answer that question, Peter.
00:06:32.920 All I can do is tell you
00:06:34.800 that we have remained vigilant
00:06:37.820 to that potential threat.
00:06:39.740 Good, gentlemen.
00:06:40.960 We have.
00:06:41.900 I disagree with that.
00:06:43.240 Senator, I would love to get your take on that.
00:06:44.840 I do not believe they've stayed vigilant.
00:06:46.860 I think, in fact,
00:06:47.820 they've turned their heads and run
00:06:49.180 and said every illegal immigrant
00:06:50.500 or anyone that wants to come across the border,
00:06:52.300 come on over. 1.00
00:06:53.820 What utter and complete crap. 0.99
00:06:56.820 That entire answer. 1.00
00:06:58.840 Listen, John Kirby is an admiral in the Navy.
00:07:02.760 It makes me sad to watch an admiral
00:07:05.780 just lie to the American people. 0.69
00:07:08.320 You know, one of the things he says,
00:07:09.380 we're vigilant at the ports of entry. 1.00
00:07:12.060 Well, no kidding, you moron. 1.00
00:07:14.320 Terrorists don't enter at the ports of entry 1.00
00:07:16.400 and they don't come up and say,
00:07:17.620 hey, I'm in Amas Terrace. 0.99
00:07:18.780 I want to kill people. 1.00
00:07:20.140 Like, they're stupid, 1.00
00:07:21.800 but they're not that stupid. 1.00
00:07:23.640 You want to know the stat that is horrifying? 1.00
00:07:27.240 Two million gotaways.
00:07:30.560 So we're now north of 8 million people
00:07:32.660 who've crossed illegally into this country.
00:07:34.600 Roughly 6 million have come in
00:07:36.100 and turned themselves in.
00:07:37.460 They've said, okay, I'm here.
00:07:38.900 They look for Border Patrol.
00:07:39.980 They turn themselves in.
00:07:41.280 Most of them,
00:07:42.920 they're fleeing poverty.
00:07:44.780 They're fleeing economic misery.
00:07:46.640 They're coming to America 1.00
00:07:47.780 because Joe Biden has said,
00:07:49.280 if you come to America, 0.76
00:07:49.960 you get to stay.
00:07:51.100 It's a disaster.
00:07:52.360 And many of them are being abused.
00:07:54.280 They're being brutalized by traffickers. 0.94
00:07:56.480 They're being sexually assaulted. 0.99
00:07:58.300 They're being left for dead. 0.93
00:07:59.560 But those 6 million actually worry me
00:08:02.480 much, much less than the 2 million.
00:08:05.420 Who are the 2 million?
00:08:06.760 The 2 million are the gotaways.
00:08:08.580 Now, what's a gotaway?
00:08:09.440 A gotaway is someone
00:08:10.580 that Border Patrol observes.
00:08:13.340 They observe through a sensor.
00:08:14.580 They observe through visual observation,
00:08:17.040 but they don't catch them.
00:08:18.800 They're the people that run.
00:08:20.980 Now, why do the gotaways concern me?
00:08:22.860 Because, look,
00:08:23.380 the people who are turning themselves in,
00:08:24.960 when I was down at the southern border
00:08:27.560 Thursday night at midnight patrol,
00:08:30.020 the group that turned themselves in,
00:08:31.940 they looked for border patrol.
00:08:33.200 They turned themselves in.
00:08:34.300 We spent 30 to 45 minutes
00:08:36.880 visiting with them.
00:08:38.260 They were mostly women and children. 0.96
00:08:39.740 Look, I don't think the 5-year-olds
00:08:41.220 are going to commit acts of terror.
00:08:43.960 They've been brutalized.
00:08:45.420 They've been assaulted.
00:08:46.940 Like, what they've gone through
00:08:48.580 is horrific and inhumane.
00:08:50.500 But the 5-year-olds are not
00:08:51.920 a national security threat
00:08:53.160 to the United States.
00:08:55.000 The gotaways are the people
00:08:56.360 that are actively avoiding
00:08:58.060 and evading Border Patrol apprehension.
00:09:02.380 And they are, 0.93
00:09:03.020 many of them are criminals.
00:09:04.280 So they have criminal histories. 1.00
00:09:05.560 They're murderers. 1.00
00:09:06.520 They're rapists. 1.00
00:09:07.540 They're child molesters. 1.00
00:09:08.640 They have DUIs.
00:09:09.840 They have,
00:09:10.500 many of them have horrible
00:09:12.340 criminal histories.
00:09:13.280 Others of them are gang members.
00:09:14.880 They're MS-13 or otherwise.
00:09:18.400 But others of them are worse.
00:09:21.800 It's the 2 million gotaways.
00:09:24.780 If you're a terrorist 0.99
00:09:26.240 and you want to murder Americans, 0.99
00:09:27.840 you're not in the people 0.96
00:09:29.360 that are turning yourself
00:09:30.480 into the Border Patrol.
00:09:32.100 You're in the 2 million gotaways.
00:09:34.020 And the point that he's ignoring,
00:09:36.120 well, we're vigilant
00:09:36.960 at the points of entry,
00:09:38.200 ports of entry.
00:09:39.140 Well, great.
00:09:40.320 That's not where the terrorists
00:09:41.780 are coming in.
00:09:42.940 And it is so fundamentally dishonest
00:09:45.680 what this administration
00:09:46.500 says about that.
00:09:47.520 Final question on this.
00:09:49.340 I want to ask you about,
00:09:50.500 you know,
00:09:50.940 the new accusation,
00:09:53.200 which is accurate.
00:09:54.800 And that's that Joe Biden
00:09:56.520 has welcomed 6 million
00:09:58.460 illegal aliens in the U.S.,
00:09:59.920 exceeding the population now
00:10:01.680 of 31 states.
00:10:04.420 Now, let's just think about that.
00:10:07.040 6 million illegal aliens
00:10:08.340 into the United States of America,
00:10:09.660 a foreign population
00:10:11.480 that exceeds the population center
00:10:13.480 of 31 different states.
00:10:15.680 And the White House
00:10:16.900 was asked about this, okay?
00:10:19.060 They were asked, like,
00:10:19.840 hey, are you guys going to
00:10:21.720 talk about this number?
00:10:23.720 And not only that,
00:10:24.460 how many more illegal aliens 0.91
00:10:26.020 are you going to let in?
00:10:27.580 Senator Johnson had this to say
00:10:29.400 to one of your colleagues.
00:10:30.720 Secretary Mayorkas,
00:10:31.620 I've asked you this in the past.
00:10:33.680 What numbers are represented here?
00:10:35.580 How many people has
00:10:37.220 this administration let in
00:10:39.260 by encountering,
00:10:41.800 processing, dispersing,
00:10:43.000 or that have come in
00:10:44.900 as a known or unknown gotaway?
00:10:48.540 Approximately.
00:10:49.000 I don't need an exact number.
00:10:50.580 So what do we got?
00:10:51.240 Senator, let me say.
00:10:52.820 I need numbers.
00:10:53.700 Again, don't filibuster me.
00:10:54.860 How many people
00:10:55.800 has this administration
00:10:56.600 let into the country?
00:10:57.540 Let me say at the outset
00:10:58.700 that our job would be
00:11:00.280 a lot easier
00:11:00.860 if the broken immigration system
00:11:02.780 was fixed.
00:11:02.900 No, Mr. Secretary,
00:11:04.300 I want a number.
00:11:05.660 How many people
00:11:06.440 have you let into this country?
00:11:07.940 I should also comment.
00:11:09.600 Okay, I'll give you the number.
00:11:10.880 It's about 6 million.
00:11:13.580 He won't answer 1.00
00:11:14.560 the damn question 0.99
00:11:15.360 because he doesn't want 1.00
00:11:16.340 to be on record
00:11:17.460 as saying,
00:11:18.160 yes,
00:11:18.620 we've let in the population
00:11:20.340 that is more than
00:11:21.060 31 different states
00:11:22.220 in America.
00:11:24.360 Well,
00:11:25.040 and it's worse than that
00:11:26.340 because the 6 million
00:11:28.000 is just the people
00:11:28.900 who've been apprehended.
00:11:30.400 There are an additional
00:11:31.500 2 million gotaways.
00:11:32.800 So the actual number
00:11:33.800 is 8 million
00:11:34.880 illegal immigrants
00:11:35.800 who've crossed
00:11:36.280 under Joe Biden.
00:11:37.480 And that is larger
00:11:38.960 than all but 12 states
00:11:41.740 in America.
00:11:42.880 And I want to do something.
00:11:44.300 I want to read to you
00:11:45.320 the states
00:11:46.140 that are smaller
00:11:48.220 than the number
00:11:49.540 of illegal immigrants 0.94
00:11:50.400 who come in
00:11:50.860 under Joe Biden.
00:11:52.320 Wyoming has
00:11:52.940 581,000 population.
00:11:55.320 Vermont,
00:11:56.660 D.C.,
00:11:57.840 Alaska,
00:11:59.120 North Dakota,
00:11:59.880 South Dakota,
00:12:00.540 Delaware,
00:12:01.060 Rhode Island,
00:12:01.620 Montana,
00:12:02.220 Maine,
00:12:02.560 New Hampshire,
00:12:03.140 Hawaii,
00:12:04.020 West Virginia,
00:12:04.800 Idaho,
00:12:05.280 Nebraska,
00:12:05.860 New Mexico,
00:12:06.340 Kansas,
00:12:07.080 Mississippi,
00:12:08.080 Arkansas,
00:12:08.660 Nevada,
00:12:09.240 Iowa,
00:12:10.200 Puerto Rico,
00:12:11.360 Utah,
00:12:12.040 Connecticut,
00:12:12.680 Oklahoma,
00:12:13.740 Oregon,
00:12:14.380 Kentucky,
00:12:15.060 Louisiana,
00:12:15.800 Alabama,
00:12:16.940 South Carolina,
00:12:17.880 Minnesota,
00:12:18.560 Colorado,
00:12:19.660 Wisconsin,
00:12:20.560 Maryland,
00:12:21.200 Missouri,
00:12:22.220 Indiana,
00:12:22.980 Massachusetts,
00:12:24.460 Tennessee,
00:12:25.380 Arizona,
00:12:26.480 and Washington State.
00:12:27.640 Washington State
00:12:28.420 has 7,785,000
00:12:30.460 people in it.
00:12:31.840 It is only
00:12:32.560 when you get
00:12:33.060 to Virginia,
00:12:33.800 Virginia has 0.56
00:12:34.440 8,683,000
00:12:36.760 people in it.
00:12:37.680 So we haven't
00:12:38.580 yet crossed
00:12:39.620 the population
00:12:40.380 of Virginia.
00:12:41.340 Virginia is the 0.94
00:12:42.040 12th largest
00:12:42.620 state in America.
00:12:43.880 We are between
00:12:44.920 13 and 12.
00:12:46.820 And by the end
00:12:47.660 of the Biden
00:12:48.080 administration,
00:12:48.860 we'll pass
00:12:49.240 Virginia,
00:12:50.020 we'll pass
00:12:50.780 New Jersey
00:12:51.280 at 9,261,000,
00:12:53.540 we'll probably
00:12:54.380 pass Michigan
00:12:55.160 at 10,034,000,
00:12:56.840 we may pass
00:12:58.000 North Carolina
00:12:58.880 at 10,698,000,
00:13:01.920 and you get
00:13:02.920 into the
00:13:03.300 territory
00:13:03.820 of number
00:13:04.260 8,
00:13:05.520 Georgia,
00:13:06.640 10,912,000,
00:13:08.680 or Ohio,
00:13:10.100 number 7,
00:13:10.900 at 11,756,000.
00:13:13.320 That's how
00:13:14.260 many illegal
00:13:15.060 immigrants
00:13:15.560 have crossed
00:13:16.680 under Joe
00:13:17.340 Biden
00:13:17.760 in less
00:13:19.140 than 3 years.
00:13:20.620 8 million,
00:13:22.160 larger than
00:13:22.760 the population
00:13:23.580 of all
00:13:25.100 but a dozen
00:13:26.100 U.S. states.
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00:14:05.480 Now on to
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00:14:06.900 two.
00:14:07.720 I want to
00:14:08.160 move to
00:14:08.420 another issue,
00:14:09.200 Senator,
00:14:09.420 and it's
00:14:09.740 one that
00:14:10.500 deals with
00:14:11.780 energy
00:14:12.220 independence.
00:14:12.820 It also
00:14:13.120 deals with
00:14:13.640 what we're
00:14:13.920 witnessing now
00:14:14.680 in Iran.
00:14:15.700 The amount
00:14:16.320 of money that
00:14:16.900 Iran is making 1.00
00:14:17.720 right now
00:14:18.360 from oil
00:14:20.380 is upwards
00:14:22.520 of, I've
00:14:22.940 been seeing
00:14:23.440 some numbers
00:14:23.920 that are
00:14:24.180 billion dollars
00:14:25.220 a day,
00:14:26.760 is what
00:14:27.340 they're
00:14:27.620 selling.
00:14:29.320 These numbers
00:14:30.260 are staggering.
00:14:31.620 There are many
00:14:32.120 that are
00:14:32.480 screaming right 0.91
00:14:33.220 now and
00:14:33.600 they're saying,
00:14:34.320 hey, this
00:14:35.460 shouldn't be
00:14:36.020 happening.
00:14:36.860 There are
00:14:37.220 sanctions that
00:14:37.980 should just be
00:14:38.740 enforced, not
00:14:39.700 needing to pass
00:14:40.420 new sanctions
00:14:41.140 to stop this
00:14:42.580 country that is
00:14:43.680 sponsoring terrorism,
00:14:44.900 especially against
00:14:45.820 Israel with Hamas, 0.93
00:14:47.480 Hezbollah,
00:14:47.920 they've helped
00:14:48.340 ISIS and 0.63
00:14:48.900 Al-Qaeda.
00:14:49.840 They are openly
00:14:51.300 saying they want
00:14:52.080 death to America 0.75
00:14:52.880 and death to 0.92
00:14:53.480 Israel and to 0.99
00:14:54.840 wipe us off the 0.86
00:14:55.660 face of the
00:14:56.100 earth, and yet
00:14:57.000 we're not
00:14:57.320 enforcing these.
00:14:58.340 This all at
00:14:59.820 the same time,
00:15:00.980 while we are
00:15:01.860 hurting in this
00:15:02.480 country from a
00:15:03.340 lack of energy
00:15:04.180 independence,
00:15:04.700 which makes
00:15:05.420 them richer.
00:15:06.300 When we stop
00:15:07.200 doing things
00:15:07.840 here and we
00:15:08.940 go into this
00:15:09.560 green alternative
00:15:10.180 energy, it's
00:15:11.500 just making
00:15:12.120 them richer,
00:15:12.740 which means they
00:15:13.140 can sponsor
00:15:13.760 more terrorist
00:15:15.300 activities around
00:15:16.200 the world.
00:15:17.060 And it's
00:15:17.460 something that
00:15:18.120 you've really
00:15:18.960 dived into in
00:15:20.200 this book that
00:15:21.400 comes out on
00:15:22.180 Tuesday that
00:15:22.940 people need to
00:15:23.660 get their hands
00:15:24.340 on.
00:15:24.680 Your new
00:15:25.760 book, Unwoke,
00:15:26.660 is going to
00:15:26.980 be out on
00:15:27.440 Tuesday of
00:15:27.880 next week.
00:15:28.240 You can
00:15:28.440 pre-order it
00:15:29.080 now.
00:15:29.680 But this is
00:15:30.360 something you've
00:15:30.920 been talking
00:15:31.420 about, the
00:15:32.000 Democrats'
00:15:32.660 obsession with
00:15:33.300 green alternative
00:15:33.840 energy and
00:15:34.780 how it's
00:15:35.280 actually helping
00:15:36.720 the most
00:15:37.360 dangerous people
00:15:38.440 and terrorists
00:15:38.960 in the world
00:15:39.540 by having this
00:15:40.660 policy.
00:15:41.920 Well, so
00:15:42.780 Iran right now
00:15:44.180 is selling
00:15:44.820 2 million
00:15:45.720 barrels of oil
00:15:46.600 a day.
00:15:47.800 So they're
00:15:48.480 not making
00:15:49.180 billions per
00:15:50.060 day.
00:15:50.560 Right now,
00:15:51.020 today, the
00:15:51.640 price of a
00:15:52.240 barrel of oil
00:15:52.940 is about
00:15:53.940 $82 a
00:15:54.920 barrel.
00:15:55.640 That means
00:15:56.200 Iran is
00:15:56.760 making about
00:15:57.960 $160 million
00:15:59.460 a day from
00:16:00.540 selling oil.
00:16:01.260 And the bulk
00:16:01.680 of that they're
00:16:02.120 selling to
00:16:02.560 communist China.
00:16:03.840 We assume
00:16:04.940 China is 0.85
00:16:05.500 actually paying
00:16:06.220 less than
00:16:06.720 that.
00:16:07.340 So let's
00:16:07.900 say they're
00:16:08.340 making $140
00:16:09.440 to $150
00:16:10.200 million a
00:16:11.060 day, although
00:16:11.380 we don't
00:16:11.800 know what
00:16:12.180 price China
00:16:13.320 is paying
00:16:13.720 them.
00:16:16.100 2 million
00:16:17.020 barrels a
00:16:17.640 day, what
00:16:18.080 that has
00:16:18.500 produced for
00:16:19.640 the Ayatollah
00:16:20.460 over the
00:16:21.560 last three
00:16:22.160 years is
00:16:22.740 about $80
00:16:23.560 billion.
00:16:25.180 That is
00:16:25.800 funding Iran,
00:16:28.080 which is the
00:16:28.520 world's largest
00:16:29.520 state sponsor
00:16:30.500 of terrorism.
00:16:31.600 It is funding
00:16:32.420 Hamas. 0.73
00:16:33.040 It is funding 0.91
00:16:33.540 the death
00:16:34.000 squads that
00:16:34.620 are murdering 0.65
00:16:35.160 Israelis and 1.00
00:16:35.800 murdering 1.00
00:16:36.140 Americans. 0.99
00:16:36.560 It is funding
00:16:37.640 the rockets that
00:16:38.460 are raining
00:16:38.880 down from
00:16:39.980 the sky and 0.69
00:16:40.840 murdering 0.99
00:16:41.340 Israelis. 1.00
00:16:41.760 It is funding
00:16:42.840 the drones
00:16:43.560 that Iran is 0.95
00:16:44.860 providing to
00:16:45.580 Russia, that 0.82
00:16:46.680 Russia is using 0.98
00:16:47.600 to attack and 1.00
00:16:48.460 kill Ukrainian 1.00
00:16:49.240 soldiers. 1.00
00:16:49.940 So while Biden
00:16:50.660 is giving
00:16:51.080 billions to
00:16:51.720 Ukraine, he's 0.95
00:16:52.940 also giving
00:16:53.460 billions to
00:16:54.080 Iran and
00:16:55.100 funding both
00:16:55.680 sides of the
00:16:56.180 war.
00:16:57.020 Now, that
00:16:58.820 makes no
00:17:00.040 sense at all,
00:17:00.980 but the point
00:17:01.980 you made, and
00:17:02.580 this is something
00:17:03.180 that I
00:17:06.340 emphasize in
00:17:07.240 this new
00:17:07.620 book.
00:17:07.880 The new
00:17:08.160 book, as
00:17:08.940 you said,
00:17:09.680 is called
00:17:10.140 Unwoke,
00:17:11.460 How to
00:17:12.580 Defeat
00:17:12.980 Cultural
00:17:13.560 Marxism in
00:17:14.380 America.
00:17:15.540 And the
00:17:15.980 book walks
00:17:16.680 through all
00:17:17.380 of the
00:17:17.640 institutions
00:17:18.240 in our
00:17:18.940 nation that
00:17:19.480 have been
00:17:19.760 seized by
00:17:20.260 the radical
00:17:20.720 left, and 0.91
00:17:21.220 it lays
00:17:21.640 out how
00:17:22.520 they were
00:17:22.860 seized, why
00:17:23.620 it happens,
00:17:24.280 it tells
00:17:24.640 stories, but
00:17:25.920 it also lays
00:17:26.620 out a strategy
00:17:27.300 to defeat
00:17:27.800 them.
00:17:28.380 And the
00:17:28.900 final chapter
00:17:29.680 is on
00:17:30.740 China, and
00:17:31.900 it describes
00:17:32.580 how China
00:17:33.320 is a central
00:17:34.240 nexus that
00:17:35.020 links them
00:17:35.460 all.
00:17:36.220 And one of
00:17:36.780 the points
00:17:37.140 that I make
00:17:37.540 in the book,
00:17:37.940 and this is
00:17:38.280 a point that
00:17:38.820 is rarely
00:17:39.500 understood, and
00:17:40.260 it has to
00:17:40.740 do with
00:17:41.620 science and
00:17:42.300 the Green
00:17:42.620 New Deal,
00:17:43.760 which is,
00:17:44.400 right now
00:17:44.780 today, the
00:17:45.600 United States
00:17:46.300 is the
00:17:46.640 world's
00:17:47.040 leader,
00:17:47.380 in oil
00:17:47.760 production and
00:17:48.380 natural gas
00:17:48.900 production.
00:17:50.100 America produces 0.91
00:17:51.000 roughly 20%
00:17:52.420 of all the
00:17:53.300 oil and gas
00:17:53.980 produced worldwide,
00:17:55.300 and we are a
00:17:56.420 net energy
00:17:57.200 exporter.
00:17:58.020 We produce
00:17:58.740 more than we
00:17:59.560 consume, so
00:18:00.220 that is
00:18:00.660 incredibly valuable
00:18:02.440 to have energy
00:18:03.160 independence.
00:18:04.520 What do the
00:18:05.300 Democrats want 0.51
00:18:06.060 us to do?
00:18:06.540 They want to
00:18:06.960 shift our
00:18:07.420 energy usage
00:18:08.320 entirely to
00:18:10.100 energy produced
00:18:11.040 by wind and
00:18:11.760 solar.
00:18:12.060 solar and
00:18:13.220 who controls
00:18:14.440 wind and
00:18:15.120 solar, and
00:18:15.600 the answer
00:18:15.960 to that is
00:18:16.400 communist
00:18:16.760 China.
00:18:17.660 So here
00:18:18.200 are some
00:18:18.460 of the
00:18:18.660 stats.
00:18:19.760 China
00:18:20.080 controls
00:18:20.680 refining
00:18:21.320 capacity for
00:18:23.060 73% of
00:18:25.060 the world's
00:18:25.580 cobalt, for
00:18:26.980 40% of
00:18:28.440 the copper,
00:18:29.440 for 59% of
00:18:31.440 the lithium,
00:18:32.400 for 68% of
00:18:34.380 the nickel,
00:18:34.780 and for
00:18:35.900 83% of
00:18:38.060 rare earth
00:18:38.640 minerals, and
00:18:39.800 every one of
00:18:40.520 those is
00:18:41.780 necessary for
00:18:42.700 wind and
00:18:43.120 solar power.
00:18:44.480 And when it
00:18:45.480 comes to
00:18:46.020 finished products
00:18:46.900 that the
00:18:47.480 Democrats want 0.51
00:18:48.460 to produce all
00:18:49.680 of our
00:18:49.960 domestic energy,
00:18:51.900 China is 0.85
00:18:52.820 responsible for
00:18:53.860 80% of
00:18:55.920 global solar
00:18:57.020 panels
00:18:57.540 manufacturing,
00:18:58.880 for 70%
00:19:00.540 of global
00:19:01.780 wind turbine
00:19:02.760 manufacturing,
00:19:03.600 and 77%
00:19:06.120 of global
00:19:07.300 lithium-ion
00:19:08.840 battery
00:19:09.400 manufacturing.
00:19:10.540 So every
00:19:11.340 time you hear
00:19:12.140 a Democrat,
00:19:12.820 every time you
00:19:13.340 hear the
00:19:13.620 corporate media
00:19:14.260 say, we
00:19:15.260 must move
00:19:16.120 from oil and
00:19:17.260 gas to wind
00:19:18.040 and solar,
00:19:18.660 understand what
00:19:19.340 they're saying.
00:19:20.200 We need to
00:19:21.060 shift our
00:19:21.620 entire economy
00:19:22.500 from an
00:19:23.460 energy source
00:19:24.360 that America
00:19:25.020 controls and
00:19:26.000 that we are
00:19:26.400 dominant globally
00:19:27.500 in, to an
00:19:29.020 energy source
00:19:29.800 that China 0.93
00:19:30.540 controls and
00:19:31.740 that they are
00:19:32.440 dominant globally
00:19:33.380 in, and we
00:19:33.880 should give
00:19:34.600 communist China
00:19:35.640 the power at
00:19:36.920 any moment they
00:19:37.620 want to cripple 1.00
00:19:39.540 our economy and
00:19:41.000 shut down our
00:19:41.980 ability to access
00:19:42.920 energy.
00:19:43.920 That makes no
00:19:44.840 sense, and I
00:19:45.400 gotta say, in
00:19:46.100 the national
00:19:47.440 energy debates
00:19:48.240 we have, very,
00:19:50.060 very few people
00:19:50.900 are making what I
00:19:51.800 think is this
00:19:52.400 very important
00:19:53.220 point.
00:19:53.660 When you were
00:19:55.080 writing this
00:19:55.580 book, and I
00:19:56.480 encourage people
00:19:56.940 to go ahead and
00:19:57.640 pre-order it now,
00:19:58.520 it comes on
00:19:59.120 Tuesday, you
00:20:00.740 wanted to look at
00:20:01.620 these issues and
00:20:02.560 bring them to
00:20:03.200 light, obviously,
00:20:04.200 as we're going
00:20:04.800 into this very
00:20:06.200 important election
00:20:07.140 cycle, it's the
00:20:07.880 presidential election
00:20:08.600 cycle, because this
00:20:09.840 is really about the
00:20:10.720 future of this
00:20:11.260 country.
00:20:12.380 Well, it is.
00:20:13.340 Look, our country
00:20:14.220 is in crisis.
00:20:15.260 I wrote this book
00:20:16.020 because lots of
00:20:17.480 people are saying,
00:20:18.220 what the hell
00:20:18.720 happened?
00:20:19.580 How did we wake
00:20:20.620 up and find every
00:20:21.620 major institution?
00:20:22.780 Look, you look at
00:20:23.640 our universities and
00:20:24.640 you see these
00:20:25.300 rabid anti-Semitic
00:20:26.900 protests, anti-Israel
00:20:28.240 protests, and
00:20:29.420 what's happened is
00:20:30.660 the viciously
00:20:32.060 left-wing Marxist
00:20:35.100 forces have taken
00:20:36.160 over many of our
00:20:37.680 universities.
00:20:38.240 You look at K-12
00:20:39.460 education, at the 0.99
00:20:41.000 garbage being taught 1.00
00:20:42.160 to our kids, 1.00
00:20:42.920 critical race theory
00:20:43.900 and radical
00:20:44.420 transgender theory.
00:20:45.920 You look at how
00:20:47.540 journalism has been
00:20:48.700 broken, you look at
00:20:49.460 how government has
00:20:50.160 been broken, you look
00:20:50.820 at big tech,
00:20:51.620 you look at big
00:20:52.320 business, you look
00:20:53.160 at entertainment,
00:20:53.960 at movies.
00:20:54.860 This book, every one
00:20:56.080 of the chapters in
00:20:56.860 this book focuses on
00:20:58.220 a different institution
00:20:59.980 that the radical
00:21:00.620 left has taken over
00:21:01.660 and I explain how
00:21:03.540 it happened.
00:21:04.060 And look, one of the
00:21:04.620 things that I try to
00:21:05.400 do in this book,
00:21:06.060 this is not an
00:21:07.560 academic book, this
00:21:08.580 is not an abstract
00:21:09.560 treatise.
00:21:10.960 This book is designed
00:21:11.960 to be fun, designed
00:21:13.020 to be readable, designed
00:21:14.220 to tell stories and
00:21:15.960 give you information
00:21:17.240 that's useful.
00:21:18.440 Look, the stats I
00:21:20.320 just laid out on
00:21:22.160 the critical minerals
00:21:24.060 and rare earth
00:21:24.660 minerals that are
00:21:25.260 needed for wind and
00:21:26.020 solar.
00:21:27.300 You haven't heard
00:21:28.180 those anywhere else.
00:21:29.920 That's designed to
00:21:31.220 give you the tools.
00:21:32.960 The book has the
00:21:34.160 same purpose as the
00:21:35.100 podcast.
00:21:35.680 The reason you and
00:21:37.280 I put so much time
00:21:38.440 into this podcast is
00:21:39.500 I want to equip our
00:21:41.320 listeners.
00:21:41.840 I believe our listeners
00:21:42.860 are the patriots who
00:21:44.340 are going to save
00:21:44.760 America.
00:21:45.160 And I want to equip
00:21:46.560 you with the news,
00:21:47.760 with the information,
00:21:48.720 with the facts, with
00:21:49.800 the data, with the
00:21:50.700 evidence, with the
00:21:51.520 arguments, to know
00:21:53.540 what's going on to
00:21:55.440 fight to save the
00:21:56.400 country.
00:21:56.800 And so that's what
00:21:57.420 this book is all
00:21:58.080 about, is getting
00:21:59.820 you prepared, but
00:22:00.820 also, you know,
00:22:02.800 giving you something
00:22:03.500 to read that's fun and
00:22:04.660 interesting.
00:22:05.200 And by the way, the
00:22:05.820 book, I think, makes
00:22:07.620 you know, we're
00:22:08.000 heading into
00:22:08.400 Christmas, it makes
00:22:09.160 a great Christmas
00:22:09.900 gift, which is you
00:22:10.720 ought to get one for
00:22:11.380 yourself and get
00:22:12.680 one for your mom,
00:22:13.620 get one for your
00:22:14.220 son, get one for
00:22:15.140 your next-door
00:22:15.620 neighbor, because 0.52
00:22:16.460 the entire purpose of
00:22:18.520 this book is to get
00:22:19.400 as many people as
00:22:20.560 possible to read it
00:22:22.460 and to hear and
00:22:23.400 understand what's
00:22:24.440 happening in our
00:22:25.160 country, because
00:22:26.200 that's the only way
00:22:27.360 we're going to turn
00:22:27.920 it around and bring
00:22:29.540 our country back.
00:22:30.660 No doubt about it.
00:22:31.560 And it's going to be
00:22:32.400 just one aspect of
00:22:33.620 this book that we're
00:22:34.280 going to start
00:22:35.080 highlighting so that
00:22:36.160 you guys know what's
00:22:36.980 in there, but make
00:22:37.580 sure you grab a copy,
00:22:38.740 pre-order it now
00:22:39.620 wherever you buy
00:22:40.600 your books.
00:22:41.460 Finally, Senator, I
00:22:42.320 want to ask you about
00:22:43.220 the FBI Director
00:22:44.160 Wray and his
00:22:45.800 testimony that he
00:22:47.040 delivered.
00:22:47.900 It is some shocking
00:22:49.100 testimony.
00:22:50.360 Here is part of what
00:22:51.200 he had to say before
00:22:52.440 Congress.
00:22:53.500 But as I said a few
00:22:55.220 moments ago, on top
00:22:57.100 of the homegrown
00:22:57.840 violent extremists
00:22:58.820 and domestic violent
00:22:59.760 extremists threat, we
00:23:00.900 also cannot and do
00:23:02.960 not discount the
00:23:03.980 possibility that Hamas 0.99
00:23:05.400 or another foreign 0.97
00:23:07.460 terrorist organization
00:23:08.500 may exploit the
00:23:09.640 current conflict to
00:23:10.760 conduct attacks here
00:23:12.340 on our own soil.
00:23:15.100 I mean, Senator, you
00:23:15.680 hear Christopher Wray
00:23:16.800 saying this.
00:23:17.940 It's something that
00:23:19.120 unfortunately we've
00:23:20.080 talked about so much.
00:23:21.580 You've got an open
00:23:22.440 border.
00:23:23.300 You've got these types
00:23:24.320 of people that get
00:23:25.080 into this country and
00:23:26.520 the threats are real.
00:23:27.800 Look, the threats are
00:23:29.060 incredibly real.
00:23:30.080 I've said multiple
00:23:31.040 times.
00:23:31.620 I think the risks, the
00:23:34.380 likelihood of a major
00:23:36.360 terrorist attack on U.S.
00:23:37.880 soil is higher today
00:23:40.940 than it has been any
00:23:42.260 point since September
00:23:43.520 11th.
00:23:44.740 And, you know, as I
00:23:46.100 hear Chris Wray saying
00:23:47.140 that, listen, as you
00:23:48.160 know, I know Chris Wray
00:23:49.000 quite well.
00:23:50.380 For years, he has been
00:23:52.320 annoyingly and 0.90
00:23:53.400 counterfactually and
00:23:54.560 bizarrely saying the
00:23:56.360 greatest threat we have
00:23:57.720 is from homegrown
00:23:59.140 terrorists and they're 0.99
00:24:00.080 from white supremacists, 1.00
00:24:01.260 they're from Nazis and 0.99
00:24:02.160 Klansmen.
00:24:02.940 And listen, Nazis and 1.00
00:24:04.360 Klansmen are idiots, 1.00
00:24:05.580 they're bigoted 1.00
00:24:06.240 morons, they're bad 1.00
00:24:07.620 people, no dispute 1.00
00:24:09.340 there.
00:24:10.480 But the last I check,
00:24:11.600 we don't have this
00:24:12.340 rising wave of
00:24:13.960 Klansmen.
00:24:15.160 Like they're not
00:24:16.260 Nazis that are
00:24:18.960 suddenly attacking
00:24:19.960 America.
00:24:20.680 And frankly, the FBI
00:24:22.520 focusing on that over
00:24:23.780 and over again, it
00:24:24.620 fit into the
00:24:25.380 political narrative
00:24:26.140 the left wanted.
00:24:27.540 And it utterly
00:24:28.680 discarded global
00:24:30.140 jihadists who have
00:24:31.340 pledged to murder 0.98
00:24:32.980 as many Americans as 0.99
00:24:34.080 they have, they can,
00:24:35.360 and who are actively
00:24:36.420 trying to do so.
00:24:37.640 And so my
00:24:39.500 reaction, the fact
00:24:40.460 that Chris Wray
00:24:41.100 said there's a real
00:24:41.940 risk right now that
00:24:42.780 Hamas terrorists may 0.95
00:24:43.920 quote, conduct
00:24:45.160 attacks here on our
00:24:46.180 own soil, my
00:24:48.280 reaction is, holy 0.96
00:24:49.080 crap, what does he 0.96
00:24:50.140 know now that has 1.00
00:24:52.160 suddenly forced him
00:24:53.080 to say that publicly
00:24:53.960 that he's like, uh-oh,
00:24:55.000 this might happen
00:24:56.120 really soon and I
00:24:58.160 at least want
00:24:58.740 something on the
00:24:59.400 record so that they
00:25:00.200 can't claim I was
00:25:01.000 blindsided by it.
00:25:02.560 It's obvious our
00:25:03.840 southern border is
00:25:04.700 wide open, there's a
00:25:05.780 major risk of
00:25:06.620 terrorists coming
00:25:07.240 across, but the
00:25:08.880 fact that Chris
00:25:09.860 Wray said that right
00:25:10.940 now worries me
00:25:13.020 enormously.
00:25:13.800 I don't know any
00:25:14.760 classified information
00:25:15.780 that he might have
00:25:17.360 that says that they
00:25:19.280 know of Hamas
00:25:19.980 terrorists in the
00:25:20.700 United States, but
00:25:21.460 the fact that he's
00:25:22.160 saying that I think
00:25:24.080 is very worrying.
00:25:25.260 As before, if you
00:25:26.720 want to hear the
00:25:27.200 rest of this
00:25:27.640 conversation on this
00:25:29.040 topic, you can go
00:25:29.960 back and download the
00:25:30.980 podcast from early
00:25:32.040 this week to hear the
00:25:32.880 entire thing.
00:25:34.340 I want to get back
00:25:35.380 to the big story
00:25:36.560 number three of the
00:25:37.320 week you may have
00:25:37.940 missed.
00:25:38.560 Senator, I also want
00:25:39.600 to bring in our
00:25:40.060 guests.
00:25:40.480 We've talked a lot
00:25:41.060 about kids, protecting
00:25:42.120 kids.
00:25:42.860 We also have problems
00:25:43.900 in this country where
00:25:45.380 we have basically given
00:25:46.260 our kids over to the
00:25:47.240 government and parents
00:25:48.360 are trying to get back
00:25:49.200 in their kids' lives
00:25:49.920 and have been
00:25:50.180 declared domestic
00:25:51.560 terrorists by our
00:25:52.640 own government, which
00:25:53.560 is shocking.
00:25:54.600 A good friend of the
00:25:55.540 show, someone that you
00:25:56.800 used to do Verdict Plus
00:25:58.060 with, people will know
00:25:59.000 her from that, Liz
00:25:59.780 Wheeler, has her own
00:26:01.280 great show.
00:26:01.840 She's got an 0.94
00:26:02.440 incredible new book
00:26:03.400 out as well, and I
00:26:04.680 know it was important
00:26:05.320 that we make sure we
00:26:05.880 had her on Verdict.
00:26:07.140 Well, Liz, welcome
00:26:08.300 back.
00:26:08.800 Liz is my former
00:26:09.640 co-host of Verdict.
00:26:11.100 We did Verdict
00:26:12.400 together.
00:26:13.080 We traveled the
00:26:13.960 country.
00:26:14.460 We went to college
00:26:15.160 campuses together and
00:26:17.160 dealt with young 0.93
00:26:18.760 leftists who had
00:26:19.620 questions and wanted
00:26:20.540 to be confronted with
00:26:21.380 the truth, and Liz
00:26:22.300 does an amazing job
00:26:24.020 on her own show, on
00:26:24.840 the Liz Wheeler
00:26:25.320 Show, and she has a
00:26:26.160 brand new book,
00:26:27.360 Hide Your Children,
00:26:29.280 Exposing the Marxists
00:26:31.180 Behind the Attack on
00:26:32.460 American Kids.
00:26:33.220 Liz, welcome back.
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00:27:06.020 Senator, thanks so much
00:27:06.980 for having me.
00:27:07.520 Thanks, Ben.
00:27:08.500 Good to have you here.
00:27:09.960 Tell us a little bit
00:27:10.660 about this book, why you
00:27:12.380 wanted to write it, and
00:27:13.340 why it's so important,
00:27:14.380 especially right now.
00:27:15.920 Yeah, this book started as
00:27:17.800 a question that I, I think
00:27:19.460 a lot of parents actually
00:27:20.300 had the same question that
00:27:21.120 I had during COVID when we
00:27:23.200 saw this increase in
00:27:24.980 attacks on our children.
00:27:26.560 I mean, all parents had to
00:27:27.380 do was look over their
00:27:28.460 kids' shoulder on Zoom
00:27:29.520 school and they'd see
00:27:30.180 critical race theory and
00:27:31.840 trans ideology, the 1619
00:27:33.880 project, plus good old
00:27:35.680 fashioned moral relativism
00:27:36.800 just thrown at their
00:27:37.660 kids.
00:27:38.560 And I understand that this
00:27:40.040 isn't a new thing, that
00:27:41.160 our kids are the target of
00:27:43.380 the left, but it did seem
00:27:44.140 to be escalating.
00:27:45.260 So I wondered, well, where
00:27:47.040 is this coming from?
00:27:47.900 Who's behind this?
00:27:48.740 What's behind this?
00:27:49.480 What's their goal?
00:27:50.800 So the purpose of this
00:27:51.920 book is I sought to find the
00:27:53.580 answer to that question.
00:27:54.580 And what I found was both
00:27:56.780 frightening and frustrating.
00:27:58.900 The frightening part is that
00:27:59.840 the left has spent decades
00:28:01.980 trying to get to our
00:28:03.720 children and to do so they
00:28:05.620 have co-opted, they've
00:28:06.880 captured what I call four of
00:28:08.880 the five major cultural
00:28:10.280 institutions.
00:28:10.820 So the media, that's an
00:28:11.980 obvious one, the education
00:28:13.560 system, sadly a lot of
00:28:15.280 religious institutions too,
00:28:17.060 the law, which has become
00:28:18.440 evident in the last couple
00:28:19.500 of years, and now they've
00:28:21.000 set their sights on the
00:28:22.180 nuclear family, particularly
00:28:23.500 on children.
00:28:25.360 This is the frightening
00:28:26.120 part.
00:28:26.800 The frustrating part is if
00:28:28.680 this attack on our
00:28:29.720 children isn't new, if it's
00:28:30.760 been decades in the making,
00:28:32.560 why haven't we been able
00:28:33.440 to stop this?
00:28:34.100 What has the Republican
00:28:34.840 Party been doing for all of
00:28:36.740 these decades to fight
00:28:38.380 back?
00:28:38.940 And so what I do in the
00:28:39.880 book, the first half of the
00:28:40.680 book is I name the names of
00:28:42.400 the people in the
00:28:43.080 organizations that are
00:28:44.180 behind the capture of the
00:28:45.300 institutions, behind the
00:28:46.520 attack on our kids.
00:28:47.840 And the second half of the
00:28:48.780 book is a critique of the
00:28:50.240 Republican Party.
00:28:51.000 I offer a solution that I
00:28:53.980 will tell you is different
00:28:54.860 than what the Republican
00:28:55.640 Party offers for how we
00:28:57.420 can actually start winning,
00:28:58.660 how we can recapture our
00:28:59.840 institutions, how we can
00:29:01.200 protect our kids and
00:29:02.360 therefore our country.
00:29:03.760 All right.
00:29:03.940 So let's take those one at
00:29:05.220 a time.
00:29:06.260 You said the first half of
00:29:07.440 the book, you're naming
00:29:08.240 names.
00:29:08.820 So who are the biggest
00:29:09.640 names?
00:29:10.140 Who are the individuals
00:29:11.140 most responsible for the
00:29:13.480 relentless attack on our
00:29:14.480 kids?
00:29:15.560 Yeah, that's a great
00:29:16.140 question.
00:29:16.680 So what I do in the book
00:29:17.640 is I make sure to
00:29:18.380 differentiate between the
00:29:20.220 Marxists who conceived the
00:29:22.820 ideas, many of whom are
00:29:24.060 long dead, and the
00:29:25.760 current Marxists, the
00:29:27.040 modern Marxists that are
00:29:27.980 alive and well in our
00:29:28.960 country today, who are
00:29:30.480 propagating these ideas on
00:29:32.000 our children.
00:29:32.560 And I'll give you an
00:29:33.120 example of one of each.
00:29:35.000 One of the modern
00:29:35.720 Marxists who's propagating
00:29:37.260 an entirely destructive
00:29:38.460 ideology on our children
00:29:39.660 is a woman by the name of 0.88
00:29:41.240 Gail Rubin.
00:29:42.440 Gail Rubin is known as the
00:29:44.860 founder, or she wrote the
00:29:46.460 founding document of
00:29:47.660 queer theory.
00:29:48.380 Queer theory is a 1.00
00:29:49.700 neo-Marxist theory that,
00:29:52.000 unsurprising to most of
00:29:53.120 your viewers, is what
00:29:54.700 underpins the transgender 1.00
00:29:55.980 ideology. 0.87
00:29:56.840 So these poisonous ideas
00:29:58.920 that are being taught to
00:29:59.640 children in school right now
00:30:00.660 that boys can be girls,
00:30:01.740 girls can be boys, gender
00:30:03.200 is not connected to
00:30:04.120 biological sex,
00:30:05.160 everything's fluid.
00:30:06.360 This is not just a random
00:30:07.320 assortment of nonsense.
00:30:08.520 This is pulled directly from 0.80
00:30:10.360 neo-Marxist queer theory,
00:30:12.260 which was penned by Gail Rubin,
00:30:15.300 who is alive and well in our
00:30:16.680 country today.
00:30:17.900 And yet, most people, maybe
00:30:19.600 in the past couple months
00:30:20.440 they've heard about her,
00:30:21.600 because I've been talking so
00:30:22.480 much about her, most people
00:30:23.440 have never heard of this
00:30:24.480 woman, even though she's 1.00
00:30:25.600 having such a direct and
00:30:26.800 destructive impact on our
00:30:28.100 children.
00:30:28.940 That's the first example.
00:30:30.400 The second example I will
00:30:31.320 give is a Marxist who is
00:30:32.740 long dead.
00:30:33.640 And that's a Marxist, a
00:30:34.800 Brazilian Marxist, actually,
00:30:36.060 by the name of Paulo
00:30:36.920 Freire.
00:30:37.860 He was the one who contended
00:30:40.380 that teachers in school
00:30:41.700 shouldn't teach children
00:30:43.160 facts and knowledge.
00:30:44.300 He should teach them a
00:30:45.400 worldview, how to view the
00:30:46.740 world.
00:30:47.520 And he called this worldview
00:30:48.640 critical consciousness.
00:30:50.500 What critical consciousness
00:30:51.440 is, really, is just teaching
00:30:53.160 children to look at
00:30:53.960 everything through a
00:30:54.980 Marxist lens.
00:30:56.440 And this idea of critical
00:30:57.640 consciousness is what exists
00:30:59.320 in our public school system
00:31:00.360 today under the all-encompassing
00:31:02.540 vague umbrella term of
00:31:04.200 wokeness.
00:31:05.220 So I trace everything back to
00:31:06.900 its origins and show the
00:31:08.580 manifestations of how it's
00:31:10.100 impacting our kids in our
00:31:11.400 society in America today.
00:31:12.660 Liz, I want to ask you about
00:31:14.900 moms specifically.
00:31:16.320 I've actually been inspired,
00:31:17.880 and I think TC and I, when
00:31:18.980 we've been on the road, we've
00:31:19.880 seen this.
00:31:21.000 There are a lot of moms have 1.00
00:31:22.500 gotten off the bench and are
00:31:24.200 getting really involved with
00:31:25.500 their kids and their kids' 0.84
00:31:26.860 curriculum and what's having
00:31:28.320 their schools and what they're
00:31:29.500 being taught.
00:31:30.880 That's one of the biggest
00:31:31.940 blessings, I think, of the
00:31:32.960 COVID lockdowns was moms got to 0.98
00:31:35.100 see in the classroom what was
00:31:36.480 happening with their kids.
00:31:37.960 I'm inspired by that, and I
00:31:39.400 think this is going to be
00:31:41.140 something that liberals are
00:31:42.420 going to have hell to pay now
00:31:43.340 with moms that are now
00:31:44.160 involved.
00:31:44.880 Is that part of what you're
00:31:45.940 seeing and inspiring you to
00:31:47.280 write this book?
00:31:48.500 Yeah, it's incredible to see
00:31:49.840 how many parents, moms and 0.99
00:31:51.200 dads, who've had their eyes
00:31:52.720 opened.
00:31:53.140 I think as conservatives, we're
00:31:54.680 generally people of good
00:31:55.760 faith.
00:31:56.160 We generally like to give other
00:31:57.340 people the benefit of the
00:31:58.260 doubt.
00:31:58.560 We generally see the good in
00:31:59.880 humanity.
00:32:00.900 And sometimes because of that,
00:32:02.580 it can be difficult to look at
00:32:04.720 our political opposition and
00:32:06.300 label them for what they are.
00:32:08.100 We'd rather say, oh, you know
00:32:09.160 what?
00:32:09.400 This is a well-intentioned,
00:32:11.200 good-faith opposition who just
00:32:12.480 has unwise, practical solutions
00:32:14.720 to problems that we all admit
00:32:17.020 are problems.
00:32:17.820 That's how the Republican Party
00:32:18.900 actually has operated for the
00:32:20.060 last 50 years.
00:32:21.340 But I think for the first time in
00:32:23.300 many parents' lives during
00:32:25.300 COVID, they saw that, no, that's
00:32:27.280 not true.
00:32:28.140 Our Democrat opposition are not
00:32:29.580 well-intentioned opposition who
00:32:32.460 want the best, just have bad ideas
00:32:34.740 for how to bring that about.
00:32:35.560 They are, in fact, embracing
00:32:37.400 neo-Marxist, anti-Christian,
00:32:39.720 anti-American, sometimes anti-human
00:32:41.740 ideology.
00:32:42.940 And it's a really important step
00:32:44.300 in fighting back against this to
00:32:45.740 be able to define what the other
00:32:47.940 side is.
00:32:48.580 That's why I spent so much time
00:32:49.820 doing that in the first half of
00:32:51.580 my book, because if we don't
00:32:53.100 understand the reality of this
00:32:55.140 political enemy we face, we won't
00:32:56.580 fight well against it.
00:32:57.900 And if we don't fight well, we
00:32:59.160 won't win.
00:32:59.940 And I'm tired of not winning.
00:33:01.300 I'm ready to win, as I know
00:33:02.480 everyone watching this show is
00:33:04.040 too.
00:33:04.880 Amen.
00:33:05.520 All right, Liz, last question.
00:33:07.180 You said the second half of the
00:33:08.420 book focuses on a critique of the
00:33:10.260 Republican Party and what we need
00:33:12.620 to do better to fight back.
00:33:14.080 What does the Republican Party
00:33:15.520 need to do to stop this madness?
00:33:18.280 Honestly, this is the part of the
00:33:19.280 book that I'm proudest of, and I
00:33:20.480 know it's the part that's ruffled
00:33:21.400 some feathers a little bit, but I
00:33:22.980 stand by this 100 percent.
00:33:24.480 So I'll give you an example of one
00:33:25.560 of the most interesting pieces of
00:33:27.600 information that I found in the
00:33:28.860 course of researching this book.
00:33:30.600 Our public school system was not
00:33:32.640 mandatory.
00:33:32.960 Children were not compelled to go
00:33:34.340 to public school until the year
00:33:35.520 1852.
00:33:37.120 In 1852, the state of Massachusetts
00:33:38.920 became the first state to compel
00:33:40.720 public education.
00:33:42.180 And the reason why was because
00:33:43.820 there was an influx of immigrants
00:33:45.220 to our country at the time,
00:33:46.720 particularly Catholic immigrants.
00:33:48.760 And the Protestant politicians in
00:33:50.960 charge wanted to indoctrinate these
00:33:52.400 immigrant children in American
00:33:54.140 values so that they would be loyal
00:33:55.860 to America first rather than the 0.96
00:33:57.260 country of their birth, and in
00:33:58.760 Protestant doctrine because of the
00:34:00.080 centuries-long battle between
00:34:01.180 Protestants and Catholics.
00:34:02.820 And I realized that our
00:34:04.460 institutions were never intended
00:34:05.820 to be neutral institutions.
00:34:08.120 Our school system was never
00:34:09.140 intended to simply teach reading,
00:34:10.800 writing, and arithmetic, and
00:34:11.740 otherwise be value neutral.
00:34:13.460 That if we as conservatives and the
00:34:15.680 Republican Party do not harness
00:34:17.760 these institutions to teach
00:34:19.680 children our values, what's going to
00:34:22.540 happen is the left is going to
00:34:23.500 swoop in and teach their own.
00:34:24.760 The Republican Party has fallen for
00:34:27.060 the false idea of tolerance and
00:34:30.000 neutrality, which doesn't exist.
00:34:32.760 And perhaps the philosophical reason
00:34:34.580 for this is because they misdefine the
00:34:36.800 word liberty.
00:34:37.840 They define liberty as simply the
00:34:39.100 maximum amount of individual freedom
00:34:40.920 possible in a civil society, when
00:34:43.460 really our government was formed
00:34:45.440 around the idea that liberty is the
00:34:47.560 means to something greater, that
00:34:49.440 there's a moral, the thing that is
00:34:51.600 greater is a moral thing, and that our
00:34:53.980 society, a flourishing society, is
00:34:55.680 intended to try to attain that.
00:34:57.840 And Republicans have gotten very shy
00:34:59.660 of bringing religion or morals or
00:35:02.580 anything of that nature into our
00:35:04.140 politics, and it's been to our
00:35:05.720 detriment.
00:35:06.300 We wouldn't be in the chaos, the
00:35:08.900 cultural chaos that we exist in now, 0.79
00:35:10.700 if Republicans had not surrendered both
00:35:13.660 institutions in the name of
00:35:15.060 neutrality and morality and virtue in
00:35:18.580 the name of libertarianism to the left a
00:35:20.340 long time ago.
00:35:21.320 Liz, congratulations on the new book,
00:35:23.460 grab it for your kids, your grandkids,
00:35:25.880 make sure you read this, hide your
00:35:27.180 children.
00:35:28.260 It is out now, exposing the Marxists
00:35:30.140 behind the attack on America's kids.
00:35:32.880 Congratulations.
00:35:34.200 Thank you, gentlemen.
00:35:34.880 I appreciate it.
00:35:35.560 Great to see you.
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