Verdict with Ted Cruz - Harris Steals a Gratuity from Trump, Media Trashes Musk Interview w DT & a Palestinian Bomb Enthusiast at the Border Week In Review

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00:00:05.200 What a week.

00:00:06.280 Welcome.

00:00:06.820 It is Verdict with Ted Cruz, the Week in Review.

00:00:09.620 Ben Ferguson with you as always.

00:00:11.600 And there were some major stories this week that you may have missed that we talked about

00:00:15.340 that I want to make sure you heard exactly what happened here on Verdict.

00:00:19.960 First up, Kamala decides to steal intellectual property from Donald Trump, you know, like 0.99

00:00:25.240 his ideas and act like they're her own.

00:00:27.400 This time claiming that she is the one that is going to not tax tips, even though it was

00:00:33.620 actually her idea.

00:00:34.980 And she broke the tie in the Senate with her vote to actually have the IRS go after people 0.61

00:00:42.320 that were not reporting, quote, all of their taxes on their tips.

00:00:46.940 Up next, the media continues its massive billion dollar in-kind donation to Kamala Harris by

00:00:54.180 smearing this week Donald Trump and Elon Musk because they couldn't control the interview

00:00:59.860 they did.

00:01:00.480 Yeah, they sat down, had a nice conversation, and the media lost their minds over it.

00:01:06.020 And finally, more terrorists on the watch list coming across our southern border.

00:01:11.400 This time, the border czar didn't stop a Palestinian bomb maker. 1.00

00:01:16.220 And then she acts like nothing's wrong.

00:01:19.540 It's the Weekend Review, and it starts right now.

00:01:23.060 Donald Trump seized on something that was very authentic and organic.

00:01:28.380 He was out in Vegas.

00:01:30.420 He was having a conversation with people in the service industry.

00:01:33.860 He had an idea, apparently wrote it on a napkin.

00:01:36.300 We shouldn't tax tips.

00:01:39.400 Help people survive.

00:01:40.700 Help people make a living.

00:01:42.120 And he said it at a rally, and it just worked, and it stuck.

00:01:46.780 And people loved it because he was a guy looking out for the little guy.

00:01:50.280 He was advocating for these hardworking people that rely on tips as part of their income.

00:01:55.960 And it obviously played well with many people in this country.

00:02:00.280 Fast forward to a few days ago, Kamala Harris says the same thing.

00:02:04.380 Well, and let me give a little more narrative on that.

00:02:06.600 So Trump announced it at the Vegas rally, and I think the next week he was in D.C., and I had lunch with him.

00:02:13.440 He had lunch with all the Republican senators.

00:02:15.100 He was actually telling us the back story of it.

00:02:17.560 And he said, well, you know, this was not an idea that came from a bunch of policy experts that had a bunch of white papers.

00:02:23.920 He said he was in Vegas right before the rally, and he said he was having, I think, lunch or dinner.

00:02:29.520 I think it was lunch.

00:02:30.640 And he said there was a waitress who came up who complained about the really oppressive enforcement from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris of their efforts to tax tips and how it was really burdensome.

00:02:44.100 And the record-keeping, and it was really hard, and Trump says at dinner, pulled out a piece of paper and just wrote down, no taxes on tips.

00:02:51.880 And then he said he went to the rally, and he just said it, and he said, and they went wild.

00:02:56.800 They went wild.

00:02:59.300 I got to say, there are moments, I think, of political genius, and I think that was one of them.

00:03:06.720 So the next week, I introduced legislation in the Senate to exempt tips from taxes because I heard that idea, and it's exactly right.

00:03:17.100 And the reason I introduced legislation, there are a lot of reasons, but one right at the heart is for over a decade, for as long as I've been in the Senate,

00:03:24.880 I have been advocating that the Republican Party, we should be a blue-collar party.

00:03:29.640 We should be the party of waiters and waitresses.

00:03:32.260 We should be the party of bartenders.

00:03:33.840 We should be the party of hairdressers and nail salon workers and taxicab drivers and everyone who has calluses on their hands because they're working hard.

00:03:46.360 And as a policy, the contrast is night and day.

00:03:50.400 That's who we should be fighting for.

00:03:51.940 And, you know, it's striking.

00:03:52.880 I introduced that legislation.

00:03:54.720 It's got a number of co-sponsors.

00:03:56.360 You know who also joined it?

00:03:57.780 Who's that?

00:03:58.780 Both Democrat senators from Nevada.

00:04:01.660 Really?

00:04:02.120 Jackie Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto both joined my legislation because about 25 percent of the workers in Nevada are tipped workers.

00:04:13.500 And I got to say my reaction when I heard him make that proposal, I said Donald Trump will carry Nevada on that policy issue.

00:04:21.540 By the way, the Culinary Union has come out emphatically in support of Trump's proposal,

00:04:26.080 emphatically in support of my legislation, exempting tips from taxes.

00:04:32.560 And so this week, here's Kamala Harris. 0.97

00:04:35.260 I want you to give a listen first to Trump in Nevada announcing the policy proposal and then Kamala just shamelessly copying him. 1.00

00:04:44.200 Give a listen.

00:04:45.720 Because when I get to office, we are going to not charge taxes on tips.

00:04:50.940 It's people making tips.

00:04:56.560 Eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers.

00:05:01.960 I mean, that's just straight up stealing.

00:05:03.820 But I do think...

00:05:04.440 So June 9th is when Trump said it.

00:05:06.580 August 10th is when she said it.

00:05:08.340 And she didn't have the dignity to say...

00:05:10.940 You know, I actually would have respected it more if she says, look, there are lots of areas where I disagree with Donald Trump.

00:05:19.060 I'm a left-wing Democrat kook.

00:05:21.240 He's not.

00:05:22.520 However, he had an idea that's a really good one, and I'm here to tell you right now...

00:05:27.200 I would do the same thing.

00:05:27.880 I would do the same.

00:05:28.800 That I could respect, but she doesn't acknowledge it.

00:05:31.280 And the irony is she also doesn't acknowledge what prompted it, which is that her administration, the Biden-Harris administration, she was the tie-breaking vote on the legislation that provided millions for the IRS to go after waiters and waitresses.

00:05:54.020 And everyone who's making tips and to enforce it vigorously and to hammer on them, and yet she doesn't acknowledge any of that.

00:06:05.040 This is Gaslighting 101.

00:06:06.380 This is why, by the way, I love doing this show.

00:06:08.620 And I will say to everybody right now listening or watching, this is when I ask you, share it.

00:06:12.940 And here's why.

00:06:13.960 Know when the media is going to tell you this.

00:06:15.960 In February, because what you just said, it's not something 10 years ago and then she had a change of heart.

00:06:20.800 Okay, it's not like it was a policy 10 years ago and there was some negative effects came out of it that you didn't realize.

00:06:25.500 And then you're like, hey, look, that was a long time ago, a decade ago.

00:06:28.520 In February of 2023, it came to light that Biden's IRS planned to crack down on the service industry's reporting on tips.

00:06:38.820 The service industry tip compliance agreement program was to be a voluntary tip reporting system in which the IRS and the service industry companies cooperated.

00:06:50.800 Which is where they would crack down on the actual workers.

00:06:54.140 The program was meant to, quote, improve tip reporting compliance, reduce administrative burdens, and provide more transparency and certainty to taxpayers.

00:07:05.360 Again, going after the little guy here.

00:07:08.100 And the program feature included, quote, monitoring of employer compliance based on actual annual tip revenue.

00:07:17.000 So big brother watching you and charge tip data from an employer's point of sale system.

00:07:23.640 So now the computer's tracking you and allowance for adjustments in tipping practices from year to year to protect the employer from getting in trouble by turning in, in essence, their employees.

00:07:34.920 And who did this?

00:07:36.360 Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.

00:07:38.380 And now she's out there saying, I want you to not have to pay taxes on your tips.

00:07:43.220 When, again, 2023 February wasn't that long ago.

00:07:47.760 Yeah, and look, this is a standard practice and pattern of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, siding with the big guy, siding with giant corporations, whether it's big tech or giant corporations, against the little guy.

00:08:00.340 You know, there was an interesting story, the same lunch where Trump was telling us the back story of this proposal.

00:08:07.600 The day before the lunch, Trump and Lindsey Graham had played golf.

00:08:12.320 And Lindsey told everyone, he said, look, the two of us were playing golf and they're both big golfers.

00:08:16.760 And, you know, look, your son is one of the best golfers in the world.

00:08:19.500 But Lindsey described how midway through the golf game, he said their two caddies came up and hugged Donald Trump because he had just made the proposal of no taxes on tips.

00:08:33.140 And listen, golf caddies like barbers, like bartenders, there are all sorts of professions where a big chunk of their revenue and many of them are just barely making ends meet.

00:08:43.500 They're just starting to climb the economic ladder and they literally came and hugged him for that proposal.

00:08:50.020 And so Kamala Harris is now trying to pretend, look, I'm glad she's supporting my legislation. 1.00

00:08:55.220 I got to say, this is a first.

00:08:57.260 I do not believe Kamala Harris has ever before publicly endorsed legislation that I filed and the lead author of.

00:09:05.580 Now, she didn't mention it was my legislation.

00:09:07.320 She didn't mention it was Trump's idea.

00:09:08.800 And to be clear, I took the idea from Trump.

00:09:10.760 It was his idea.

00:09:11.900 And you ran with it. 0.97

00:09:12.500 I just had the sense of saying, that's a damn good idea. 0.93

00:09:15.540 Let's do it. 0.73

00:09:16.200 And so I went and put pen to paper to actually draft it to make it happen.

00:09:20.880 But I readily credit it was Trump's idea.

00:09:25.080 Kamala could not be bothered to acknowledge anything other than pretending this has always been her view.

00:09:31.280 Finally, Senator, there's also something else that's been happening over the last couple weeks.

00:09:36.280 And that is the media is trying to make Harris and her running mate look like they're moderates, like they're not extremists.

00:09:42.400 They're not radicals, even though their entire history says that's exactly what they are.

00:09:47.320 Look, I want you to listen to two clips that really sums up just how extreme they are.

00:09:53.120 The first is from Tim Waltz.

00:09:55.520 And he's talking about his fellow Minnesotan, Ilhan Omar.

00:09:58.900 And to be clear, Ilhan Omar is one of the founding members of the squad.

00:10:03.100 She is a radical anti-Semite. 0.97

00:10:04.940 She hates Israel. 0.99

00:10:06.540 She is extreme. 0.70

00:10:09.000 Listen to what Tim Waltz thinks about her.

00:10:13.260 Something I'll never get tired of saying, I think all of you, Congresswoman Omar.

00:10:18.400 Wonderful.

00:10:19.040 Doesn't that sound?

00:10:23.140 When I'm having a tough day or I'm out on about mile five of my run and I'm feeling kind of down and the world's pressing on me,

00:10:29.100 I think Ilhan Omar is a Congresswoman and it just brightens you up.

00:10:32.500 So thank you.

00:10:34.060 I just wonder, like mile three, is he sitting there thinking about that's the same Congresswoman that said that the terrorists that attacked us on 9-11 were some people that did some things?

00:10:43.120 Look, Ilhan Omar is a Congresswoman and that's something that just brightens you up.

00:10:50.380 That's what he said.

00:10:52.200 This is, everyone will acknowledge, one of the most radical and extreme zealots.

00:10:59.900 And that brightens his day.

00:11:01.880 That tells you who he is.

00:11:05.060 Now, if you think that's bad, I got something worse.

00:11:09.760 Do you like Christmas?

00:11:11.640 Love Christmas.

00:11:12.620 Okay, well, you're not Kamala Harris.

00:11:14.260 Give a listen to Kamala.

00:11:16.200 When we all sing happy tunes and sing Merry Christmas and wish each other Merry Christmas, these children are not going to have a Merry Christmas.

00:11:26.500 How dare we speak Merry Christmas?

00:11:29.360 How dare we?

00:11:31.300 I haven't seen somebody get that crazy about hating Christmas in a long time.

00:11:34.960 And understand what she's saying there in context.

00:11:37.220 She's talking about illegal immigrants and she's saying illegal immigrants are having a lousy time.

00:11:42.860 So how dare we say Merry Christmas when illegal immigrants? 1.00

00:11:47.320 I mean, it is.

00:11:49.580 This is a woman whose entire career has been siding with criminals and with illegal immigrants. 1.00

00:11:58.240 And in her mind, even saying Merry Christmas is unacceptable as long as there is one illegal immigrant who is not basking in luxury. 1.00

00:12:14.320 Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, you can go back and listen to the full podcast from earlier this week.

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00:12:52.860 Now on to story number two.

00:12:55.480 We've seen this happen now multiple times over the last couple of weeks.

00:12:59.280 We saw them say that J.D. Vance is weird, right?

00:13:02.800 And everybody, we played that montage of the media saying it over and over again, every outlet.

00:13:07.560 Then we had this, the same montage with Kamala Harris's campaign, except it was positive news for her that she's surging, surging, surging. 0.84

00:13:15.620 Everybody used that word over the weekend.

00:13:17.920 Clearly, it's coming, I think, from the Harris campaign.

00:13:20.240 And now you have the same headlines written 50 different ways this Sunday with this conversation between Trump and Musk that wasn't true and a lie.

00:13:31.340 How is this not an in-kind donation, the Harris campaign?

00:13:34.900 Look, I think it's worse than that.

00:13:37.000 It's not even an in-kind donation.

00:13:38.940 They are the Harris campaign.

00:13:41.080 Understand, there is a political strategy, a decision that has been made to hide Kamala Harris, to lock her in the basement.

00:13:48.360 I don't know if she's in the same basement with Joe Biden or not, but she does no media interviews.

00:13:52.980 It's been three weeks that she's been the presumptive nominee.

00:13:55.380 She hasn't done a single media interview.

00:13:57.000 She doesn't answer questions.

00:13:58.360 She reads from a teleprompter, and she doesn't ad-lib on anything.

00:14:02.100 And the reason they're doing that, what is their campaign?

00:14:05.580 Their campaign is the media.

00:14:08.460 Those headlines, they are the media.

00:14:11.820 And I want to play in particular one excerpt from CNN because it reveals just the lengths they will go to lie.

00:14:20.040 So play initially how CNN covered a small segment of the Trump-Elon Musk interview.

00:14:26.120 Play.

00:14:26.260 I want to play one exchange that was kind of classic.

00:14:32.060 Well, there were a lot of exchanges that were classic Donald Trump, but this one really stuck out to us.

00:14:38.360 And Nagasaki were bombed, but now they're like full cities again. 0.94

00:14:42.060 So it's really not something that, you know, it's not scary as people think, basically.

00:14:48.400 So that was more Elon Musk than Donald Trump talking about, sort of suggesting that what happened almost 80 years ago, I think 80 years ago next year, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, now it's okay. 0.91

00:15:05.160 Kind of trying to blow off the impact of that.

00:15:07.980 So let me say a couple of things.

00:15:12.160 Number one, let's start with CNN's perspective that apparently they think America winning World War II was a bad thing.

00:15:21.740 And that our bombing, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they're not crediting that that saved an enormous number of lives. 0.92

00:15:29.520 And the World War II would have gone on for much, much longer without those bombs.

00:15:33.680 CNN takes it as a given that America was in the wrong and that is horrible.

00:15:38.360 But that being said, look, if you didn't listen to the Elon Musk Trump interview, if you just heard that little segment, if all you get your news from is CNN, I understand you're being a little startled going, huh, that's weird.

00:15:51.240 Trump is like going out of his way to say, hey, no big deal that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked.

00:15:57.760 That's a wonderful thing.

00:15:59.080 The natural inference from that little segment is apparently Trump, if he's president, is going to nuke other cities.

00:16:05.420 That's it's not a big deal.

00:16:07.500 No problem. 0.99

00:16:08.140 Let's just let's just drop atom bombs all over the world. 0.87

00:16:10.800 That's that's clearly where CNN wants your inference to go.

00:16:15.140 Now, I want you to listen to the full conversation in context, because it is wildly different from the little segment CNN played.

00:16:26.600 Listen to the full conversation in context.

00:16:28.400 Yeah, actually, there's the bad side of nuclear, which is a nuclear war, very bad side.

00:16:34.180 But there's there's also, I think, nuclear electricity generation is underrated.

00:16:39.880 You're right.

00:16:40.040 And it's actually, you know, people have this fear of nuclear, nuclear electricity generation.

00:16:46.380 But it's actually one of the safest forms of electricity generation.

00:16:50.580 It's it's just a huge misunderstanding.

00:16:53.580 And if you look at the injuries and deaths, you know, caused by, say, I mean, I'm not going to try to pick on a coal mining, but just any kind of mining operation.

00:17:00.920 And there's a certain number of injuries and deaths per year.

00:17:06.200 You compare that to nuclear.

00:17:07.360 Nuclear is actually way better.

00:17:09.680 So it's underrated as a as an electricity source.

00:17:12.320 And I think it's something that's worth reconsidering.

00:17:14.440 But there's so much regulation that people can't get it done so that, you know, maybe they'll have to change the name.

00:17:21.040 The name is just it's a rough name.

00:17:22.820 There are some areas like like when you see what happened.

00:17:25.760 The bad branding.

00:17:26.780 We have to rebrand it.

00:17:28.000 We'll have to give it a good name.

00:17:29.220 We'll name it after you or something.

00:17:31.100 You know, it has a branding problem.

00:17:35.000 You know, when you see what happened, when you see what happened in Japan, where they say you won't be able to go on the land for about 3000 years.

00:17:43.180 Did you ever say that?

00:17:44.240 And in Russia, where they had the problem, where they, you know, there's a lot of bad things happened and they have a problem.

00:17:50.560 And they say that in 2000 years, people start to occupy the land again.

00:17:55.260 You know, you realize it's pretty bad.

00:17:56.940 But there's you're right about it.

00:17:59.280 It's actually not that bad.

00:18:01.440 So like after Fukushima happened in Japan, like people were asking me in California, you know, are we worried about like a nuclear cloud coming from Japan?

00:18:10.060 I'm like, no, that's crazy.

00:18:11.220 It's it's actually it's not even dangerous in Fukushima.

00:18:13.380 I actually flew there and and and ate locally grown vegetables on TV to prove it.

00:18:18.200 And I donated a solar water treatment is a solar power system for a water treatment plant.

00:18:26.280 And yeah, but you haven't been feeling so well lately and I'm worried about it.

00:18:29.980 No, no.

00:18:30.440 But I'm only kidding.

00:18:31.640 I'm fine.

00:18:32.040 You know, it's it's like, you know, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed.

00:18:37.380 But now they're they're like full cities again.

00:18:39.400 So it's really not that's something that, you know, it's not it's not as scary as people think, basically, but not even close to how CNN presented their conversation and clearly edited to make it seem like that Elon Musk and Donald Trump were basically insane.

00:18:59.240 When if you put the conversation in context, the way that we just played it right on edited, you know, now seen and just straight up lied to you.

00:19:08.320 They said, hey, find something in there and we'll just make crap up and tell everybody that this guy's unhinged.

00:19:15.160 By the way, he wasn't slurring his words there. 0.98

00:19:16.860 I think everybody heard Donald Trump and he sounded just like Donald Trump always sounds.

00:19:21.640 Well, and the whole conversation was about nuclear power.

00:19:24.980 And the point they were saying is that nuclear power is very reliable.

00:19:29.240 That it that it is safe, that that you have fewer fatalities, fewer accidents than other sources of power generation.

00:19:36.860 That if you care about the environment, nuclear power has by far the least emissions, the least carbon emissions, the least pollution.

00:19:45.040 And and and that point is is absolutely right.

00:19:48.300 And the left and it's one of the points, you know, the the radical left, the climate alarmist, they talk about carbon emissions.

00:19:54.840 But then they're rabidly anti nuclear because they give in to alarmist fear.

00:20:00.600 And in that point, Elon Musk was making the context that even when you have cities, he said, first of all, Fukushima, where they had a nuclear accident in Japan.

00:20:09.760 Yes, it was an unfortunate accident, but the fallout has not been that severe.

00:20:14.520 They also were talking about Chernobyl and in in Russia.

00:20:18.740 But but the point he made about Hiroshima and Nagasaki is even there.

00:20:23.960 There are now people living and it's come through.

00:20:25.740 He's obviously not advocating for nuking cities.

00:20:29.280 He's saying that the risks of nuclear power generation are overstated by alarmists.

00:20:37.120 Now, CNN knows that they listen to the same interview you and I listen to, but they are being deliberately dishonest when they cut out that little tiny snippet.

00:20:47.760 And notice they only played what, like 15, 20 seconds of it.

00:20:50.840 They cut out that tiny snippet with the deliberate purpose of creating a false and misleading impression because they're not engaged in news.

00:21:00.680 They are propagandists. And it's the same thing the Kamala Harris campaign would have done because CNN, like the rest of the corporate media, is effectively the communication arm of the Kamala Harris campaign.

00:21:13.720 Senator, finally, let me ask you, and if you put all of this show into context, especially if you look at what they're having to do to lie about this conversation with Musk and Trump.

00:21:25.200 Is this just what we can expect from now until eternity with the media when they lose control?

00:21:31.840 They have a meltdown. They lie to you about whether it's J.D. Vance or they lie to you about Kamala Harris and what she actually does at the border and she's not the border czar.

00:21:40.880 Or they lie about President Trump slurring his words and saying, hey, that worked with Joe Biden, getting him out of the race.

00:21:46.320 Maybe we can attack Donald Trump the same way.

00:21:48.960 Is this the reality of the world we now live in?

00:21:52.080 So I don't think it is. And we are seeing in America and across the world massive disintermediation.

00:22:01.060 The mediators, the middlemen, are being removed from the transmission of ideas.

00:22:06.320 We saw that powerfully this week with Elon Musk and Donald Trump going directly to a billion people on X without the reporters being able to block it.

00:22:15.340 But we see that on this podcast. Listen, why do you and I do the podcast often at 11 o'clock at night or midnight or even one or two in the morning?

00:22:25.920 Why do we do it three days a week?

00:22:27.860 We do it because if your only source of news is the corporate media, if you only watch CNN or MSNBC or ABC, NBC, CBS, you do not know what is happening.

00:22:38.540 They are lying to you. And the reason this podcast, we've got roughly a million unique listeners, is because people find it valuable.

00:22:47.160 We give you facts that CNN will never air.

00:22:52.020 We play the full segment of what Elon and Trump said about Hiroshima and Nagasaki instead of their dishonestly edited snippet that was designed to mislead you and lie to you.

00:23:05.540 And this podcast goes right around the corporate media.

00:23:09.820 And in fact, just about every podcast we put out drives stories in the corporate media.

00:23:15.860 That is going to accelerate. People are going to podcast. People are going to social media. People are going to X.

00:23:23.460 Elon's buying Twitter remains, I think, the single most important step for free speech in decades.

00:23:30.840 And I think that's only going to accelerate. And you're going to see a panic as the corporate media.

00:23:37.260 They want a monopoly on what we know, what we hear, what we understand.

00:23:41.840 And they're losing their monopoly. So I so I predict more and more frantic panic, but also more and more power to the people, which is a very good thing.

00:23:52.080 As before, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic, you can go back and download the podcast from early this week to hear the entire thing.

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00:24:13.120 And I'm Catherine Clark. And in this podcast, we interview Canada's most inspiring women, entrepreneurs, artists, athletes, politicians and newsmakers, all at different stages of their journey.

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00:24:32.760 I want to get back to the big story number three of the week you may have missed.

00:24:37.100 I want to switch to another topic, Senator, we mentioned earlier.

00:24:40.620 And this is another cautionary tell, a warning. 0.99

00:24:45.840 And the border czar doesn't seem to give a crap. 0.98

00:24:49.260 A Palestinian on the terror watch list was arrested on the southern U.S. border. 0.98

00:24:55.660 That's exactly right.

00:24:57.780 It's an individual named Omar Shahida, who is accused of explosives and arms use and was caught in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

00:25:07.860 Omar Shahida is a Palestinian from Judea and Samaria.

00:25:11.440 And he is on the terror watch list for alleged prior use of explosives and arms.

00:25:17.800 He was arrested, the New York Post reported.

00:25:21.800 And let me read from the memo that has been leaked showing the arrest notification of the suspected Palestinian terrorist.

00:25:28.800 The arrest notification says on August 12th, 2024, Border Patrol agents assigned to the Santa Teresa Border Patrol Station encountered a person with a terror screening data sent record.

00:25:40.800 At approximately 1.10 a.m., agents apprehended a group of seven individuals who illegally entered the United States from Mexico near Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

00:25:51.140 During processing, research revealed that Omar Nawaf Issa Shahida was a possible match to a terror watch list record.

00:26:01.000 Border Patrol agents at the National Targeting Center generated an NTC event.

00:26:05.160 Shahida was confirmed to be a positive match and is watch listed as a Category 15 used explosives slash arms.

00:26:18.660 Global APIS revealed that Shahida traveled from Madrid, Spain to Bogota, Colombia on a flight with a connecting flight to Panama City.

00:26:30.860 And that Shahida arrived in San Salvador, El Salvador, on a flight.

00:26:38.840 And Shahida is currently being held.

00:26:41.620 He was encountered as a single adult.

00:26:44.400 Now, this is a pattern.

00:26:46.880 Weeks earlier, three other suspected Palestinian terrorists were caught at the California border.

00:26:52.900 Those and we talked about that, those three on this podcast previously.

00:26:56.340 One of them had a photo on their phone, including pictures of a masked man holding an AK-47 rifle.

00:27:04.660 Kamala Harris, the border czar, is responsible for an open border that continues to be a magnet inviting terrorists to come into this country. 0.99

00:27:14.300 And, and, and, and in fact, an alert that was issued by the Border Patrol said, quote,

00:27:22.900 Individuals inspired by or reacting to the current Israel-Hamas conflict may attempt to travel to or from the area of hostilities in the Middle East via circuitous transit across the southwest border.

00:27:38.680 This is what Kamala Harris's open border is doing to us. 1.00

00:27:41.800 You, you, you look at this and you put it together with the fact that they say she's not the border czar.

00:27:50.340 And then she says, oh, I'm doing everything I can to protect you at the border.

00:27:56.160 It doesn't match up.

00:27:58.020 It's just lie after lie after lie after lie.

00:28:01.500 And, and you look at these, these gang leaders that are arrested.

00:28:05.100 You look at the, the children that are being assaulted.

00:28:07.520 Unfortunately, now it's on a weekly basis.

00:28:09.360 We also know, and I think we should just remind people that the system is so broken now that the administration has just been busted handing kids over to non-family members.

00:28:21.460 Okay, non-family members at lost track within a month, a third of the kids are hand over to their quote sponsors who are non-family members with no response and no follow up from the federal government.

00:28:35.100 So in other words, they hand a child over to a non-family member.

00:28:38.380 They call 30 days later to check in.

00:28:40.820 No one answers.

00:28:42.000 No one's talking to them and they can't find the kid.

00:28:44.200 And that's apparently happening with at least a third of the kids that they're bringing into this country. 0.70

00:28:49.100 That is pure evil.

00:28:51.020 It is pure evil.

00:28:52.160 And I'll tell you, the New York Times is even reporting on this.

00:28:56.640 And, and they're reporting Javier Becerra, who is the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

00:29:01.420 He, he has no background in health care.

00:29:03.680 He has no background.

00:29:04.640 He's not a physician.

00:29:05.540 He doesn't know anything about health care.

00:29:07.480 But what he is, is a radical left-wing lawyer who was the Attorney General of California.

00:29:11.640 And that's who Joe Biden and Kamala Harris wanted in charge of HHS.

00:29:15.580 And HHS is the one that, that, that deals with, with unaccompanied minors.

00:29:21.260 And we've seen an explosion of unaccompanied minors coming into this country because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris opened up the border.

00:29:27.420 And it ended up with a lot of little boys and a lot of little girls being trafficked in by human traffickers, being abused, many of them physically, many of them sexually.

00:29:35.460 But then when they get here, the Biden administration had a problem.

00:29:42.300 And they had a problem because they wanted to avoid kids in cages.

00:29:47.420 They had made a huge deal of it under Donald Trump.

00:29:50.140 Never mind that, that, that the, the actual cages were, were built by Barack Obama.

00:29:55.980 But they wanted to avoid the bad optics of having kids in cages under, under Joe Biden.

00:30:02.540 So what they did is they began releasing young people and releasing them to adults who, who couldn't pass basic background checks.

00:30:15.020 And when people in the system said, wait, we don't know who these adults are.

00:30:18.640 We don't know if they're bad people.

00:30:19.780 We don't know if they're looking for kids to work in child labor, enslaved labor.

00:30:24.020 We don't know if they're violent.

00:30:25.780 We don't know if they want to abuse the kids. 0.95

00:30:27.380 You know what Javier Becerra said? 0.99

00:30:28.860 Shut up and release them faster. 0.98

00:30:30.860 And so let me read from the Wall Street Journal. 0.98

00:30:32.540 This is an article on July 8th in the Wall Street Journal.

00:30:35.840 In 2021, when the new Biden administration was struggling to cope with a sudden influx of unaccompanied migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border,

00:30:42.620 the government repeatedly overrode the concerns of lower level workers who warned about placing them in certain households.

00:30:50.600 Documents and interviews show, quote, it does not appear safe for the minor to be released to a home environment that was not fully assessed.

00:30:57.980 A caseworker wrote about a child slated to live in a hostile like home in Florida with at least three adults.

00:31:05.660 A few days later, an official dismissed the recommendation to reject the proposed guardian.

00:31:10.860 According to internal government memos at another facility in Pomona, California, about 30 miles east of Los Angeles,

00:31:18.660 more than 100 children that summer were sent to temporary guardians who were issued denials early in the process by case coordinators,

00:31:29.240 according to a review of internal government data that tracks unaccompanied children, emails and other communications and interviews with caseworkers.

00:31:36.700 About two dozen more denials were overturned because of clerical errors or issues such as missing fingerprints that were resolved, records show.

00:31:46.660 But many of the others were approved with scant details explaining why.

00:31:53.160 And stunningly, the Wall Street Journal couldn't determine what happened to the children after they left the facility.

00:32:02.060 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have lost over 80,000 children that came as unaccompanied minors to this country.

00:32:12.420 They don't know where they are. They don't know who has them.

00:32:14.560 They don't know what has happened to the kids.

00:32:17.300 And you know what? Kamala Harris has zero interest in finding the answer to that. 1.00

00:32:22.540 She will never talk about it. Mind you, she was the border czar.

00:32:25.400 She still is. And yet losing 80,000 children apparently doesn't concern her at all.

00:32:32.420 Yeah. And there's doesn't seem to be accountability for this either.

00:32:35.520 Is there anything that Congress can do now knowing what we just learned in that report?

00:32:41.300 There's a lot Congress can do. But in the Senate, the Senate will do none of it.

00:32:45.840 And the reason is the Democrats who are in the majority of the Senate do not care.

00:32:50.540 I've raised this issue repeatedly in the Judiciary Committee.

00:32:53.180 You know what? Democrats in charge of Judiciary, we have not had a single hearing in four years on the crisis at our southern border.

00:33:01.440 We've had multiple hearings on the Democrats' desire to grant amnesty to illegal aliens.

00:33:06.340 We have not had a hearing in Judiciary on the 80,000 kids that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris has lost because the Democrats want to cover it up.

00:33:15.700 And listen, we know that some significant number of those individuals are in child labor work sites, are being abused, are being physically abused, are being sexually abused.

00:33:29.960 If you look, for example, I'm going to go back to the Wall Street Journal article that says,

00:33:36.520 following an internal investigation, the inspector general for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,

00:33:41.220 which oversaw a network of shelters caring for unaccompanied minors, found gaps in the process to screen temporary guardians.

00:33:48.600 It's it's it's said in February that 16 percent, 16 percent of records for children who were released to sponsors in March and April 2021 lacked evidence that a required safety check was conducted.

00:34:02.680 Quote, although well-intentioned, these sites were unregulated and unsafe, said Neha Desai, the senior director of immigration at the National Center for Youth Law.

00:34:14.680 There was enormous pressure placed on the sites to rapidly release children from custody.

00:34:20.620 And the Biden-Harris administration pressed them to release at these emergency shelters.

00:34:26.600 Caseworkers were told to discharge children within 10 to 14 days.

00:34:32.680 And so they released kids without knowing if the people they were giving them to were dangerous, without knowing what was happening.

00:34:40.880 And yet, tragically, the result is many kids suffered horrific mistreatment.

00:34:49.680 As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - August 17, 2024

Harris Steals a Gratuity from Trump, Media Trashes Musk Interview w DT & a Palestinian Bomb Enthusiast at the Border Week In Review

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