Verdict with Ted Cruz - France is on FIRE—the Reverse Crusades are Destroying Europe & America is Next if the Red-Green Alliance Prevails

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00:02:13.680 Welcome. It is Vertical Center Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

00:02:17.340 Senator, I can't believe I'm going to say this out loud.

00:02:19.840 It seems like we've been talking about the midterms for a really long time.

00:02:23.780 We are two weeks out from Election Day, and that means there's already several states in the country where early voting has already started.

00:02:32.700 And some of those are in very important, you could call them swing states.

00:02:36.340 We are in the final moments and days of this campaign for everyone.

00:02:41.500 People are voting all over the country.

00:02:43.360 Early voting begins today in Texas.

00:02:45.840 we're two weeks out and and I'm on the road non-stop I just got back I took a red eye back

00:02:51.960 from Alaska I spent 24 hours barnstorming Alaska with Dan Sullivan the senator there Dan is a

00:02:58.680 very good friend of mine I've campaigned in Alaska every time Dan's run for senate so when he ran

00:03:03.460 first in 2014 and got elected I barnstormed the state with him then when he ran for re-election

00:03:07.800 in 2020 I barnstormed the state with him then and in the last 24 hours we went to four different

00:03:13.600 cities we started in anchorage uh then we went to fairbanks then we went to the kenai peninsula

00:03:18.660 then we ended up in the matzu valley did four huge rallies had a couple thousand people in alaska

00:03:24.540 the energy there was incredible alaska is breathtaking have you been to alaska oh yeah

00:03:30.440 i was there earlier this year oh yeah you were we did we did a we did a verdict a verdict with

00:03:34.960 you from alaska and from alaska yeah in the middle of nowhere alaska yeah it's it is one of the most

00:03:39.840 gorgeous places on earth it is a spectacular place the the energy there was really good but

00:03:45.880 i'll tell you look dan has a very competitive race the polling shows that race basically tied

00:03:51.640 it's complicated by the fact that the democrats are dishonest and trying to steal the election

00:03:57.320 and so what they did is they recruited a guy named dan sullivan and so they're two dan sullivan

00:04:02.100 can you explain to people so they understand how it works in alaska they have a different way of

00:04:07.400 voting there. That's how they were able to find an actual human being with the same name,

00:04:12.180 hoping that you would vote for the wrong Dan Sullivan. Well, Alaska is really messed up

00:04:17.360 because they've adopted something called rank choice voting. And it means they don't have

00:04:21.260 primaries anymore. And it is designed to elect Democrats. And so what happens, there are four

00:04:27.440 names on the ballot. And unfortunately, there are three that are styled Republicans initially. So

00:04:32.720 So under the Alaska rules, the top four vote-getters on primary day, regardless of party, go to the general.

00:04:39.980 Well, they had two Democrats and two Republicans, but because Democrats want to win more than anything,

00:04:45.700 they got one of the Democrats to drop out.

00:04:48.220 And so there's only one Democrat that is on the ballot for the—this is in the governor's race.

00:04:55.080 There are three Republicans and one Democrat.

00:04:57.740 In the Senate race, the same thing is true.

00:05:01.460 There are three Republicans and one Democrat, and one of the Republicans is fake Dan Sullivan.

00:05:08.940 They found a guy whose name was Dan Sullivan, and this was entirely orchestrated.

00:05:15.360 The press release announcing fake Dan Sullivan's campaign was written by the political consultant for Mary Patola, the Democrat who's running.

00:05:25.760 So the Democrat, by the way, fake Dan Sullivan has been a donor to Mary Patola, the Democrat who's running.

00:05:31.760 So they just found a guy named Dan Sullivan, and it's designed.

00:05:36.280 They're hoping that they can fool some voters, that some voters will go in and say, you know, I like Dan Sullivan.

00:05:42.140 He's been a really good senator.

00:05:43.340 I'm going to vote for him.

00:05:45.000 But, you know, that 2, 3, 4 percent of the voters get confused.

00:05:48.500 They vote for the wrong Dan Sullivan.

00:05:50.020 And the way it works, if you rank it, so actually what we were telling everyone on the rally to do is vote for all the Republicans. 0.63

00:05:57.320 Vote for real Dan Sullivan first, vote for the second Republican second, and even vote for fake Dan Sullivan, which is ridiculous to do.

00:06:04.540 But the reason is somebody will get confused and vote for the wrong Dan Sullivan first.

00:06:10.640 Now, the way the rank choice voting works, the fourth place person gets eliminated and their number two votes get redistributed to the other candidates until someone gets 50%.

00:06:22.240 Then the third place finisher gets eliminated and their votes get redistributed.

00:06:27.160 And so it is a ridiculous – now, fortunately, the voters are going to vote or at least have a vote on eliminating rank choice voting.

00:06:34.720 So one of the things we urge people to do was vote yes on two, two is the ballot referendum to end this nonsense of ranked choice voting designed to elect Democrats.

00:06:45.420 But the reason I was in Alaska and by the way, in the next two weeks, I'm going to be in North Carolina.

00:06:51.220 I'm going to be in South Carolina. I'm going to be in Georgia. I'm going to be in Michigan. I'm going to be in Kansas.

00:06:55.380 I'm going to be campaigning all over the state of Texas, putting real time in to helping hopefully us win Texas.

00:07:02.820 But there are eight to ten Senate races across the country that are basically tied, that are all within the margin of error.

00:07:11.600 We could have a great election night.

00:07:13.620 We could end up winning all eight to ten.

00:07:15.740 We could actually end up picking up three or four Senate seats.

00:07:19.220 We could win a Senate seat in Michigan.

00:07:20.700 We could win a Senate seat in New Hampshire.

00:07:22.680 We could win a Senate seat in Minnesota, actually.

00:07:25.140 Minnesota is quite competitive.

00:07:27.360 And then we have a shot at Georgia.

00:07:28.980 Georgia, the numbers are rougher.

00:07:30.140 but those are our four pickup opportunities. So we could have a great night but we could also have

00:07:35.640 a terrible night. Those eight to ten seats we could lose them all and we could we could wake

00:07:40.500 up in January with 45 Republicans in the Senate. I hope and pray that won't happen. I don't know

00:07:46.440 if it will but I'll tell you I'm devoting every waking moment to fighting to prevent that and

00:07:52.940 fighting to hold on to our majorities in the House and Senate. All right I want to take a moment I

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00:09:15.980 All right, Senator, I want to go back real quick before we move on to some of the other issues.

00:09:19.800 And I think this is really important that people understand.

00:09:22.760 The polls right now, as you mentioned, it could go one way, it could go the other.

00:09:26.620 The good news is we seem to see a lot of the Republicans closing the gap with Democrats

00:09:32.720 that are in the lead, especially in these Senate races in these closing weeks, where

00:09:37.520 it seems to be trending, at least in the right direction.

00:09:40.380 That is phenomenal news.

00:09:42.720 Yeah, look, I think momentum is positive.

00:09:44.740 I think you're seeing Republican candidates surge.

00:09:48.140 But it's a question of turnout.

00:09:49.860 The left is going to show up.

00:09:51.500 They're angry. They hate Donald Trump. They're going to show up in massive numbers.

00:09:56.480 And what is dangerous is if conservatives stay home, if conservatives are unhappy about this or that or the other,

00:10:03.260 if we're divided, if moderates decide, oh, I don't like what's going on,

00:10:07.340 if just common sense voters stay home, that leads to a disaster.

00:10:12.420 And so at this point, it's all about turnout.

00:10:14.780 And we're doing rallies. Look, in Alaska, we covered 1,100 miles in 24 hours.

00:10:20.960 You know, we just got on a little prop plane and flew from one town to another to another, from one rally to another to another.

00:10:26.900 And I'm doing that all over the country, doing rallies to help candidates, Senate candidates, gubernatorial candidates, House candidates, just help turn out the votes and win.

00:10:37.660 But this election is really close, and everyone listening to Verdict should do everything they can to not only show up and vote, but get their friends, get their family, get everyone else to show up, too.

00:10:49.340 Yeah, and if you need to compare and contrast of what happens if we don't vote, let's take a look and let's talk about what's happening right now in Europe, specifically in France.

00:10:58.440 It is shocking. I have a friend that's actually over in France. I talked to them. It's a guy I played tennis with in school.

00:11:04.420 And he said that they are terrified because they don't feel safe. They don't have what we have here in this country with the Second Amendment.

00:11:12.100 And so they are terrified of the violence that is spreading, but they said it's now spreading in almost every major city in France, including Paris.

00:11:21.600 People there that were going for weddings, they're putting up videos, they're in shock.

00:11:25.800 We see these tragic moments are being caught on tape.

00:11:28.660 A lot of it is not in English where these store owners are begging the looters, please don't destroy my store.

00:11:35.020 This is all I have.

00:11:36.160 This is my everything.

00:11:37.200 and they almost look at them with a numb face or even smiling

00:11:41.060 and they go in and they ransack their stores.

00:11:43.260 They're going after the mom and pops and the Rolexes and the Louis Vuittons.

00:11:47.020 They're destroying anything they can get their hands on.

00:11:49.860 Well, France is burning and it is tragic what is happening.

00:11:53.520 We are seeing full-scale riots.

00:11:55.460 The numbers on Saturday, October 17th,

00:11:59.340 an estimated 550,000 people marched across France.

00:12:03.400 That's according to the Interior Ministry.

00:12:05.360 Labor organizers put the number closer to 800,000.

00:12:09.000 So you've got hundreds of thousands of protesters, many of them violent.

00:12:13.640 By Sunday, authorities reported roughly 2,400 arrests and nearly 1,000 injured police and gendarmes, according to the latest account.

00:12:25.600 One of the most shocking images was from Limoges.

00:12:30.380 and and there the historic city hall was engulfed in flames was burned to the ground it collapsed

00:12:38.220 and and and this is this is violence that is out of control but understand this is the direct result 0.58

00:12:45.280 of an invasion europe has committed cultural suicide and and it's heartbreaking to watch

00:12:52.160 Europe has extraordinary history, extraordinary culture, the birthplace of democracy.

00:13:00.800 The United States, we owe our existence to European explorers who came and settled the new world.

00:13:10.840 And much of our culture and value came from Europe.

00:13:15.380 And yet Europe has deliberately invited in an invasion.

00:13:20.740 They have been invaded, and the invaders, they don't share their culture. 0.61

00:13:25.820 They don't share their values. 0.98

00:13:27.180 They don't share their faith. 0.82

00:13:29.240 And these are, it is a combination of communists and Islamists who are rioting and protesting. 0.68

00:13:39.140 Now, the press keeps reporting it as, oh, this is just students, just students asking for more resources for schools. 0.52

00:13:45.680 If you look at, you see Palestinian flags everywhere, you see people waving communist banners, and then you just see violent criminal leftists looting stores, burning stores, burning down historic town halls. 0.80

00:14:01.980 This is the consequence of the Green-Red Alliance, and I'll tell you what is scary. 0.81

00:14:08.080 Europe is about 10 years ahead of America. 1.00

00:14:12.300 Yep. 1.00

00:14:12.440 Europe is foreshadowing what happens in America if we don't stop the Green-Red Alliance. 1.00

00:14:18.960 You want to know what these midterms are about? 1.00

00:14:21.200 Turn on the TV and watch Paris on fire.

00:14:24.080 That's what will happen here. 0.97

00:14:26.300 The same communists and Islamists that hate Europe, they hate America, 0.95

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00:16:11.120 really shocking right now macron is is is basically lame duck he's out in i think six months or less

00:16:16.540 um he did a a address to the nation i think it was sunday night over there where he was saying

00:16:23.660 i can't believe that the french people would do this to france there was an amount of just

00:16:30.180 pathological being tone death to reality instead of calling it out the way that you just did 0.80

00:16:37.940 that this is a massive immigration problem islamist problem communist problem he and 0.61

00:16:43.140 realizing a lot of the protesters clearly are people that have come into france they were not 0.67

00:16:48.500 born in france who he's invited who he has invited yes and he's raised and welcomed come invade my

00:16:55.140 nation and destroy it and he sits there he goes i can't believe the people of france right the

00:16:59.880 citizens of France who do this to France and I'm like dude if you don't know who's doing this to

00:17:04.360 you which is people again you've invited them in but they're not the people of France the people

00:17:08.480 of France the majority of them are terrified and saddened by what they're watching look that that

00:17:12.820 is exactly right it turns out the reverse crusades were really bad idea look you look at the crusades 1.00

00:17:20.720 the crusades where a bunch of Christians came in came in and and and invaded invaded the Middle 1.00

00:17:28.800 least well this is now muslim nations invading europe and and destroying them and i want you 0.74

00:17:35.000 to listen to this was a couple of weeks ago that that that a french woman a french woman named 0.93

00:17:40.540 thais uh the s s kufan although my french is not very good she she posted this uh this this video

00:17:48.620 on on twitter and i actually retweeted it elon musk retweeted it it's really powerful and she's

00:17:55.000 This is a beautiful French woman who is grieving what is happening to the country she loves and the culture she loves.

00:18:03.560 I want you to give a listen to what she has to say.

00:18:07.280 Hello to all friends of Europeans.

00:18:11.220 I am native French, and I am so ashamed.

00:18:16.580 I'm not ashamed of being French, of course, but I'm so ashamed to see France humiliating itself like this

00:18:23.660 and being dragged through the muds for the full world to see.

00:18:27.340 For more than three days now, you've seen that high school students have been wrecking havoc across France

00:18:33.880 to protest against their overly demanding school schedules, poor things,

00:18:38.660 and the lack of resources in schools to provide them with a better quality of education.

00:18:43.780 Here, for example, you can see high school students protesting against the lack of trash cans in their schools.

00:18:53.880 Here, against the shortage of teachers.

00:19:02.560 And here, against student poverty by setting fire to the eco-friendly, anti-racist Nelson Mandela High School,

00:19:11.060 which costed 77 millions to build.

00:19:13.780 Obviously, you understand that all of this is nothing more than an excuse found by a certain new France to skip school and unleash all their hatred against everything that represents France, the police and even firefighters because they're racists.

00:19:30.580 Meanwhile, Macron remains silent because he has completely lost control.

00:19:35.180 And, you know, I remember when I was in middle school, the 2005 riots in the suburbs were discussed in contemporary history class.

00:19:43.400 But now, immigrants and their descendants are everywhere, they are no longer confined to the suburbs,

00:19:49.800 looting and mob violence are becoming increasingly frequent, 1.00

00:19:53.640 the Nile case, every PSG match celebration, Black Lives Matter and so on,

00:19:58.600 not to mention the everyday assaults, murders and rapes committed against our people.

00:20:03.400 It has become so recurrent that no one would even bother keeping track of every riot anymore.

00:20:09.320 It has become almost normal. 1.00

00:20:11.800 Every generation of immigrants hates us more than the one before. 0.99

00:20:16.440 Some of these rioters are 14, 15 years old. 1.00

00:20:20.040 However, they were born here, raised here.

00:20:23.160 So do you really think things are going to get better?

00:20:26.760 We have done everything for them.

00:20:29.640 Everything.

00:20:31.000 Social benefits, anti-racist policies, new schools.

00:20:34.760 And this is how they thank us? 0.97

00:20:36.520 Assimilation is a myth. 1.00

00:20:39.080 we have to stop pretending it is possible to make it work anymore. 1.00

00:20:42.280 Now they are trying to make us feel sorry for them because

00:20:45.320 one of them lost an eye while attacking police officers. 0.57

00:20:48.200 I can tell you that not only will I never shed a single tear for these thugs,

00:20:53.960 but they would deserve for there to be more of them.

00:20:56.200 The question is, how did we ever get to this point?

00:20:59.720 France, like this jewel of European civilization,

00:21:03.160 a country of extraordinary cultural wealth,

00:21:06.280 brought to its knees by thugs with an IQ of 80, they only understand force and we are too weak.

00:21:13.560 We need to get rid of all empathy. These people hate us and would like to see us dead, 1.00

00:21:19.240 so we will never coexist peacefully. It is either them or us. So the reasonable and peaceful

00:21:26.280 solution is to send them back to the countries of origin they love so much. 1.00

00:21:31.000 Please share this video.

00:21:33.200 Americans, Westerners, Europeans and their friends.

00:21:36.440 The French are counting on you to shine a light on what the media refused to show about the situation here.

00:21:42.800 Look at what we have become.

00:21:44.960 Do not make the same mistakes we did. 0.97

00:21:47.120 Close your borders while you still have time.

00:21:49.520 Across the world, European peoples are facing the same problems.

00:21:53.960 We are all in this together and together we will prevail.

00:21:58.400 Senator, you know, you listen to this video and then you look at one of the other pictures that has gone viral over the last, I don't know, 12 hours.

00:22:05.740 There is a couple in Paris where the rioters robbed them.

00:22:10.860 They were in their 80s and they left them only in their underwear.

00:22:14.880 They stole their clothes.

00:22:16.200 They stole all of their belongings.

00:22:18.100 And the picture shows the masked men.

00:22:20.660 They're all in black.

00:22:21.400 They have the hoodies on with two people that are in their 80s.

00:22:25.080 I mean, an 80-year-old, they look like they are 80.

00:22:27.700 The man is in his underwear, the woman is in her underwear, nightgown-esque type thing.

00:22:32.520 They stole everything that they had in the streets, and no one stopped them, and they're 80.

00:22:38.900 Look, this is evil, this is violent, this is dangerous, and the tragedy is this was invited by the French government.

00:22:50.080 It has been invited by Europe. They have welcomed Islamist invaders. 1.00

00:22:54.820 you know, one of the most profound things that that young woman said there is each generation 0.99

00:22:59.540 of these immigrants hates us more than the one before them. And we are seeing this. This is not 0.98

00:23:05.980 look, America, we're a country of immigrants, but immigrants who came here to assimilate. One of the 0.99

00:23:12.020 things she says also is assimilation is a myth. If you look at particularly the illegal immigrants 1.00

00:23:17.440 in America, who Joe Biden and the Democrats invited in, they invited them in to change 1.00

00:23:24.280 this country, not to become Americans, but to fundamentally tear this country down. You look

00:23:28.940 at the Islamists, whether Abdul El-Sayed or whether Zohran Mondami, they want to fundamentally 1.00

00:23:36.820 change this country and mandate Sharia law and take away our liberties. That's what is at stake 1.00

00:23:42.900 here. And I got to say, you know, another video that went viral that I want to play right now

00:23:48.920 is a video of another pretty young French woman, 0.87

00:23:52.920 although this pretty young French woman is a leftist.

00:23:56.240 And she originally started joining the protest

00:23:59.400 because as a leftist, she's like,

00:24:00.880 oh, this protesting is great. 0.93

00:24:02.220 But it so happens that this French woman 0.99

00:24:05.060 is also her father owns a store

00:24:06.900 and the protesters began looting the store.

00:24:10.500 And the video I'm going to play, it's in French.

00:24:13.940 So Ben and I are going to narrate

00:24:16.080 the English translation of what she's saying.

00:24:18.160 if you can watch the video

00:24:20.240 this is a good one to watch on YouTube

00:24:22.160 because the images are really profound

00:24:23.880 but I want to play it

00:24:25.040 and Ben and I while it's playing

00:24:28.120 are going to tell you in English what she's saying

00:24:30.280 here give a listen 1.00

00:24:31.840 she starts yelling 0.96

00:24:33.820 stop why are you doing this 0.71

00:24:36.260 this isn't the cause

00:24:38.300 don't touch me

00:24:40.180 stop it she says

00:24:41.680 this ain't your store

00:24:43.200 my father's store

00:24:44.900 get some wine one of the people yells

00:24:46.860 They're in the store. I'm done shopping. One of them says their shampoo wants some ice cream.

00:24:52.280 The look of horror on this young woman's face. It's an image that has gone viral. The look of

00:24:58.480 just agony and horror. And the line she said, this isn't the cause. And she says that multiple

00:25:04.520 times. This isn't the cause. This isn't the cause. And by the way, they forcibly push her out of the

00:25:08.940 way. And they're just breaking into the store. They're trashing it. They're taking everything

00:25:12.840 from the store. And these are thieves and criminals. And you see this young leftist 0.99

00:25:17.240 who understands she voted for this. This is what she wanted. These are the people she wanted

00:25:22.900 in France. And you see, look, when the mob comes for you, they turn on even the naive liberals who

00:25:33.260 welcome them in. And it is tragic, but it's also a real warning to America.

00:25:38.840 Yeah, it is.

00:25:39.760 And by the way, the numbers are not just like 10 stores or 20 stores.

00:25:43.040 It is in the thousands, they say, of stores that have been ransacked, looted, or attacked in all across France.

00:25:50.560 I mean, when we say this is widespread and anarchy, that is literally what this is.

00:25:56.000 It's not in one little area.

00:25:57.660 This is in multiple places.

00:25:58.900 They're also going after the government buildings, historic buildings, burning churches.

00:26:03.380 I mean, there is nothing that is off limits in France right now.

00:26:06.480 And understand, like the Black Lives Matter riots in the United States, like the anti-Semitic protests and riots on college campuses across the country, like the open border riots, riots we had in America.

00:26:19.760 This is not organic.

00:26:21.540 This is funded.

00:26:22.760 There is money behind it. 1.00

00:26:24.360 And in fact, I want to spend a little bit of time on an article that Fox News put out by a woman named...

00:26:30.780 I was only going to ask you, how much of the money you think that's going to France also comes to America?

00:26:35.920 it's the same same people it's the same people exactly and i want to read from an article by

00:26:41.840 a woman named asra q nomani in fox news and and and it's entitled behind france's student riots

00:26:47.900 communists unions and a global propaganda network fox news digital traces how a transnational

00:26:55.100 network of 50 groups mobilizes around school protests only one-third of them are youth groups

00:27:01.320 When young adults stormed France's Bastille on Thursday, a little-known media outlet called Breakthrough News sent followers a, quote,

00:27:09.660 But that isn't the full story.

00:27:16.600 A Fox News digital investigation has found that a transnational network of far-left communist and socialist organizations

00:27:23.940 is seizing on France's fiery student protests to advance a wider political and ideological agenda.

00:27:30.500 using tactics deployed in the United States over the past decade

00:27:34.980 to amplify unrest, deepen divisions, and project an image of chaos.

00:27:41.440 Earlier in the week, Breakthrough News splashed another headline across the front of its website.

00:27:47.340 French students shut down schools in historic strike against austerity,

00:27:52.140 mobilizing with support from unions and progressive forces.

00:27:55.620 But those, quote, progressive forces aren't limited to students demanding education reform.

00:28:02.900 From France to the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Greece, and India,

00:28:09.240 adults with deep pockets are tapping France's school protest

00:28:13.600 and turning a domestic education dispute into a platform

00:28:17.680 for broader political and ideological confrontation.

00:28:21.360 Breakthrough News is a pro-communist propaganda outlet.

00:28:25.620 Based in New York City, funded by an American-born, Shanghai-based communist tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, who has financed a network of communist and far-left groups in the United States that have capitalized on grievances to stoke similar street unrest for almost a decade.

00:28:45.720 A Fox News digital investigation traces how a movement that the media is mostly framing as students protesting deteriorating school conditions is actually part of an extensive infrastructure of unions, communist activists, far-left political parties, and international media organizations that are organizing demonstrations, calling strikes, mobilizing supporters, and broadcasting the arrest around the world with, quote, breaking alerts.

00:29:15.720 In a digital analysis of scores of news articles, social media posts, and public statements, Fox News Digital has identified 50 organizations in the French student protest movement and its wider network of supporters and international amplifiers, revealing an activist ecosystem extending far beyond the students who launched the demonstrations.

00:29:36.720 Of the network of 50 groups, 15 are student or youth groups, including several communist youth movements and a Muslim student association.

00:29:48.720 The remaining 35 adult groups include a dozen labor unions, eight communist or social organizations, five groups spanning other issues from taxes to parental advocacy, environmental activism, economic justice, international media, and diaspora organizing, five civil rights or human rights groups, four political parties, one the French Communist Party,

00:30:16.400 one Palestinian advocacy group that complete the red-green alliance of communists with Muslims. 0.52

00:30:28.220 That's what's happening in France, and it is also what's happening here in America. 0.65

00:30:33.860 All right, I want to take a moment and talk to you real quick about the midterms.

00:30:37.620 You've got to listen up, folks, because there are enough people listening to this show right now

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00:30:49.860 And everyone listening knows every single ultra far-left Democratic Socialists,

00:30:55.100 well, they're going to be showing up to vote this fall.

00:30:56.960 That I can guarantee you.

00:30:58.360 The Democrats, they are fired up.

00:31:00.180 They hate Trump.

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00:31:43.400 Which brings us to finally one of the big races here, Abdul El-Sayed.

00:31:47.200 There's more and more that continues to come out about him.

00:31:50.780 We've talked about this, Senator, an awful lot, but I want to give an update real quick for everybody

00:31:55.460 so they know the latest on the news around him also ties the Muslim Brotherhood.

00:32:01.100 Yeah, I want you to listen to Abdul El-Sayed being asked to condemn the Muslim Brotherhood, 0.97

00:32:09.100 and he refuses to do so, and there's a reason. 0.91

00:32:11.860 And we had, by the way, last week, if you didn't listen to our podcast on the evidence, the receipts behind Abdul El-Sayed and his family's deep, deep and longstanding connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, you should, because he's lying about it.

00:32:27.220 NBC News, Meet the Press tried to cover up, just accepted his word.

00:32:31.600 Oh, OK, you're not connected to them.

00:32:33.040 All's good. 0.70

00:32:34.040 But I want you to listen to this exchange as El-Sayed is asked directly to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood. 0.68

00:32:41.360 It's a simple question. 0.76

00:32:42.420 No, your friend's got the mic.

00:32:43.360 I'm going to ask you a simple question.

00:32:45.220 Give me your name.

00:32:45.800 I'll answer the question.

00:32:47.000 Hi, Tommy.

00:32:47.840 How are you?

00:32:48.500 Hi, David.

00:32:49.160 Are you?

00:32:50.200 Do you know what the Constitution of the United States is?

00:32:52.620 I have one simple question. 1.00

00:32:54.580 Will you disavow the Muslim government? 1.00

00:32:55.860 Sure. 1.00

00:32:56.440 Yeah, absolutely.

00:32:57.200 But I want to ask them the question that you're asking.

00:32:59.640 Why are you asking the question?

00:33:01.240 Well, because they're a terrorist group.

00:33:04.220 Okay.

00:33:04.720 No, no, but what are you implying?

00:33:06.540 Do you assume that I wouldn't?

00:33:08.800 Yes.

00:33:09.400 Why not?

00:33:09.760 Because I have not heard you disavow them yet.

00:33:12.000 Have you disavowed them? I haven't heard you disavow them yet.

00:33:14.180 I do disavow them.

00:33:15.020 You're great. But here's the thing about it.

00:33:17.580 You're asking the question because implicitly you assume that I'll have dual loyalty.

00:33:22.940 Right?

00:33:24.120 You assume that somehow I wouldn't disavow them.

00:33:26.960 Or that I'll have some higher order allegiance into the Constitution.

00:33:31.760 Correct?

00:33:32.680 Tommy, is that what you imply?

00:33:34.220 Yes.

00:33:34.460 Why would you think that about it?

00:33:35.800 Because I have not heard you disavow them.

00:33:37.200 No, no, no, no. Why would you actually think that about it?

00:33:39.320 But I just did but why would you actually think that why would you what have you asked everybody in your life if they disavow

00:33:47.420 So why are you asking me because I have not no no no answer the question Tommy everybody knows the answer to it answer the question

00:33:55.260 All right, so let me just tell you let me just tell you I'm gonna swear an oath to the Constitution United States

00:34:02.160 And that Constitution guarantees us all

00:34:09.320 And now, you assume, Tommy, that because I am Muslim, that somehow I would have some allegiance to something that is not our Constitution.

00:34:20.480 That's your assumption. That's implicit in the question.

00:34:23.660 And what's interesting to me is that this is not the first time people have asked those kinds of questions.

00:34:28.900 Because, do you know who John F. Kennedy is? Do you know who that is, Tommy?

00:34:33.560 I do.

00:34:33.880 Alright, do you know what he was asked as the first possible Catholic president of the United States? When did they ask you? You don't remember? You should read history. When he ran for president, he was asked whether or not he was going to have allegiance to the Pope at the Vatican, because of course he's Catholic. And his answer famously was that he was not running to be a Catholic president, he was running to be president and happened to be Catholic.

00:35:03.880 And so, you know, it's important, I think, because you would ask this question in a way

00:35:20.640 that suggests that somehow our constitution shouldn't be the thing that all of us bear

00:35:29.040 And I'm just telling you that for me, that constitution is the guy in life.

00:35:34.040 It guarantees me the right to pray as I choose to pray or not pray at all.

00:35:38.040 It guarantees me the right to pray as you choose to pray or not pray at all.

00:35:45.040 I'm going to ask you about your faith. Are you made of faith?

00:35:48.040 What faith do you practice?

00:35:50.040 You're a Christian.

00:35:52.040 Do you? No, no. I mean, it's a good question. Look out. 0.97

00:35:55.040 Do you live by Christian doctrine? 1.00

00:35:58.040 Good. And you try as hard as you can to live by a Christian doctor, right? 0.92

00:36:02.560 Do you think I have to live by a Christian doctor?

00:36:05.980 Do you? It's up to me, right? Why? Why is it up to me? 1.00

00:36:11.660 Right. Free will and also in this country, what else do we have?

00:36:15.700 What else do we have, Tommy?

00:36:19.060 No, I mean, you're asking me about my allegiance to the Constitution.

00:36:22.320 It's the Constitution, my God. We have a Constitution.

00:36:24.760 and that constitution guarantees you the right to live by your faith

00:36:28.800 and guarantees me the right to do the same.

00:36:31.580 And the reality of it is this.

00:36:33.500 I'm never going to tell you what faith you can or can't practice.

00:36:36.640 I want to protect your right to practice your faith as you choose as a Christian man.

00:36:43.120 The protection, though, is that it seems like you don't want to protect my right to practice as I choose.

00:36:51.460 do you disavow any attempt to read any religious doctrine into the laws of our country

00:37:04.520 you don't disavow that so i think it's you who needs to understand the constitution

00:37:11.280 senator i gotta say i wish i could have taken over tommy for a second because

00:37:22.960 instead of just saying i what i what i wish you would have said was why i'm asking this question

00:37:28.420 because your family has said that they are the muslim brotherhood your writings have talked about

00:37:35.260 how much you like the muslim brotherhood your funding comes directly from organizations tied

00:37:40.500 to the Muslim Brotherhood.

00:37:41.640 I'm not asking you to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood

00:37:44.120 because you're Muslim. 1.00

00:37:45.740 I'm asking if you disavow the Muslim Brotherhood 0.99

00:37:47.820 because of your financial and family direct ties 0.82

00:37:51.600 to the Muslim Brotherhood, 0.96

00:37:52.620 which is a terrorist organization. 0.68

00:37:55.200 Unfortunately, Tommy didn't go there.

00:37:57.800 Yeah, look, I appreciate that young man, Tommy,

00:38:00.180 asking the question.

00:38:01.280 And by the way, you listen, Abdul El-Sayed is talented. 0.98

00:38:04.700 Understand these communists and Islamists 0.94

00:38:07.620 who are taking over the Democrat Party, 0.98

00:38:09.680 They're not lacking in charm. They're not lacking in intelligence. They are highly charismatic. They are highly intelligent. Zoran Mandami is incredibly talented. AOC is very, very talented. El Saeed is very, very talented. Tallarico is very, very talented. These people, they are liars. They are ideologues. They are dangerous, but they can sound charming and charismatic.

00:38:31.580 And you're right, the reason to ask that is not simply because he's Muslim. It is because he has a long history, him personally, Abdullah al-Sayed, of vocally advocating for the Muslim Brotherhood, writing op-eds, defending the Muslim Brotherhood, urging the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt to purge the police and the press to go after them, actively defending it. 0.67

00:38:54.800 his sister, who is a vicious anti-American communist and leftist, and she vocally hates

00:39:00.160 America. His sister celebrated October 7th, celebrated 9-11, viciously hates America. His 0.92

00:39:07.680 sister has said repeatedly that their family has long supported the Muslim Brotherhood.

00:39:13.600 The single largest donor to the super PAC supporting El Saeed is his father-in-law,

00:39:21.000 who is a founder of the Islamic Society of North America, ISNA,

00:39:26.760 which is an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation criminal case.

00:39:34.020 That was a criminal case that convicted the Holy Land Foundation

00:39:36.540 of funneling over $12 million to Hamas to be used for terrorism.

00:39:42.140 And the biggest funder of El Saeed is one of the founders of that unindicted co-conspirator.

00:39:49.760 The evidence is massive. And it's interesting that in his answer, El-Sayed said, well, the Constitution protects your right to practice your faith, and I'll protect your right.

00:40:01.580 Abdul El-Sayed has said he has a, quote, obligation to follow Sharia law. Sharia law is not about every person do as you want and follow your own faith.

00:40:13.200 Sharia law is about the government forcing you to obey Sharia law, forcing you to obey Muslim doctrine, that it is an ideology of using government power to force everyone, whether Christian or Jew or atheist, to comply with Sharia law. 0.53

00:40:31.440 That is what Abdul Al-Sayed has said he has an obligation to implement. 0.76

00:40:40.140 And by the way, I will say, you know, in Egypt, there are Coptic Christians who are Egyptian Christians.

00:40:47.580 When Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood president, took over, they persecuted, the Muslim Brotherhood persecuted the Egyptian Christians.

00:40:56.180 There are thousands of Coptic Christians living in Michigan right now.

00:41:01.440 who have been persecuted by the Muslim Brotherhood previously.

00:41:05.140 It's not theoretical.

00:41:06.620 They know what it's like.

00:41:08.540 And at the time that Mohammed Morsi was persecuting the Christians in Egypt,

00:41:13.340 you know what Abdul El Saad was saying?

00:41:16.940 Keep at it.

00:41:17.720 I think he wasn't denouncing it, yeah.

00:41:18.960 No, no, he wasn't just not denouncing them.

00:41:21.480 He was cheering them on.

00:41:23.140 He was saying, purge the press, purge the police, go after them.

00:41:26.920 So his record is directly contrary to the lies he's campaigning on now.

00:41:32.600 But I'll tell you, the corporate media will not report those facts, which is why this podcast, the listeners of this podcast, share this podcast so that people have the facts.

00:41:44.020 Because if you don't want America to look like France, the time to act is right now in this election.

00:41:50.380 Yeah, amen to that. 0.82

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