Verdict with Ted Cruz - Harris Word Salad on Late Night, Colleges & Universities Overrun by Antisemitic Hate, plus Democrats Turn on Their Own Week In Review

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00:00:04.560 Welcome.

00:00:05.340 It is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

00:00:07.020 Week in review.

00:00:08.400 Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:09.620 And we had some major stories that you may have missed that we talked about this week.

00:00:13.880 First up, Kamala Harris.

00:00:15.840 While Americans are suffering from a second hurricane within weeks hitting Florida,

00:00:22.060 she was on late night television drinking beers and, well, doing podcasts called Call Her Daddy.

00:00:28.500 The worst part is, even on these shows, she was a word salad princess. 0.80

00:00:34.340 We'll have that for you in a moment.

00:00:36.360 Plus, what's going on on our college campuses and universities?

00:00:40.320 And how are they able to brainwash so many kids with terrorist propaganda backing Hamas and Hezbollah, 0.53

00:00:48.680 especially on the anniversary of the terrorist attack in Israel?

00:00:52.540 We'll dive into that.

00:00:53.780 And finally, there is a very interesting thing that's happening in this country.

00:00:58.500 Democrats who are leaving the Democratic Party to join the Republican Party that are currently in office.

00:01:07.180 So what happens to them when they change parties?

00:01:09.780 We're going to tell that story with one elected official that stood up to the extremists in her own party,

00:01:16.520 the Democratic Party.

00:01:17.880 It's the Week in Review, and it starts right now.

00:01:20.880 She tried to redo, by the way, on her question of what she would do different.

00:01:26.220 This was when she decided to go on Stephen Colbert last night.

00:01:30.960 And here's what she said when she was asked about, hey, would you be any different than Joe Biden?

00:01:36.340 Now, I have a theory, Senator.

00:01:38.120 I think they said, can you re-ask that question? 0.87

00:01:41.240 Because our other answer really sucked. 0.84

00:01:42.000 Yes, they did. 0.93

00:01:42.340 That was entirely staged.

00:01:44.080 The campaign realized, oh, my goodness, this was a disaster of an answer.

00:01:48.920 You've just given Trump their lead campaign commercial heading into the election.

00:01:54.120 So let's tee up and give a different answer.

00:01:56.480 And, of course, Stephen Colbert.

00:01:57.680 You know, I'm actually surprised he wasn't wearing, like, a cheerleader, like, mini skirt and pom-poms,

00:02:05.080 because it is not complicated who he's rooting for.

00:02:08.440 But go ahead and play the clip.

00:02:10.860 Polling shows that a lot of people, especially independent voters, really want this to be a change election

00:02:17.020 and that they tend to break for you in terms of thinking about change.

00:02:21.620 You are a member of the president of the administration.

00:02:24.500 Under a Harris administration, what would the major changes be and what would stay the same?

00:02:31.740 Sure.

00:02:32.180 Well, I mean, I'm obviously not Joe Biden.

00:02:33.960 I noticed.

00:02:35.180 And so that would be one change in terms of...

00:02:39.280 But also, I think it's important to say with, you know, 28 days to go, I'm not Donald Trump.

00:02:45.180 And so when we think about the significance of what this next generation of leadership looks like,

00:02:53.220 try to be elected president, it is about, frankly, I love the American people.

00:03:00.480 And I believe in our country.

00:03:02.220 I love that it is our character and nature to be an ambitious people.

00:03:10.120 You know, we have aspirations.

00:03:12.300 We have dreams.

00:03:13.420 We are...

00:03:14.440 We have incredible work ethic.

00:03:16.720 And I just believe that we can create and build upon the success we've achieved in a way that we continue to grow opportunity and in that way grow the strength of our nation.

00:03:29.220 And so, for example, my economic policies, I think of it and I've named it as creating an opportunity economy.

00:03:35.600 So it's about things like investing in small businesses.

00:03:38.460 I love our small businesses.

00:03:40.180 I love this part where she's like, I created it.

00:03:42.820 Like, out of thin air, Senator, I created it.

00:03:45.700 I've created...

00:03:46.160 And I named it like it's a puppy.

00:03:48.640 I've named it.

00:03:49.500 Like, she didn't give any answer there, right?

00:03:52.000 It's just...

00:03:53.000 She just says, I love the American people and we have ambition, quote-unquote.

00:03:58.800 Look, that answer...

00:04:01.260 It's actually screamingly funny and at the same time, screamingly terrifying.

00:04:05.960 So Colbert's tried.

00:04:07.680 He's like, look, people desperately want change.

00:04:09.820 The entire fiction of your campaign is you're the change candidate, except for the fact that you're the incumbent administration.

00:04:15.140 And every other vice president in history who's run for election has run on continuity, continue the successes.

00:04:21.000 Well, you know that the successes are very few and that the record is a train wreck.

00:04:25.880 So you want change because people aren't happy with your disastrous record.

00:04:30.340 So what would you change?

00:04:31.620 Now, that actually, to call that a softball is an insult to softballs.

00:04:36.200 That's a t-ball.

00:04:38.600 That's a giant kickball. 0.85

00:04:40.100 It's a setup, though.

00:04:41.000 Like, we need to just be intellectually honest about this.

00:04:43.280 Like, this is a clear, we need to redo, we're going to use why, not Donald Trump. 0.97

00:04:48.200 I don't know if her campaign is just miserably incompetent, or she is, or both. 0.73

00:04:56.680 But for a setup, that may be the worst answer I've ever heard. 0.86

00:05:00.000 Because she talks, I mean, the phrase word salad is used a lot. 1.00

00:05:04.280 But she says, well, the change is I'm not Joe Biden.

00:05:07.200 Okay.

00:05:08.220 And I'm not Donald Trump.

00:05:09.540 That's the whole change.

00:05:10.720 And then I love, what else is the change?

00:05:12.340 The next thing she says, I love America.

00:05:16.300 Yeah.

00:05:16.640 Oh, my goodness.

00:05:17.440 So your position is Joe Biden doesn't love America?

00:05:20.400 That's the change.

00:05:21.600 She literally says, I love America.

00:05:23.840 That's the change. 1.00

00:05:25.260 Unlike those evil, mean bastards that aren't me. 0.99

00:05:29.040 Well, and the other thing is, they try to humanize her. 0.99

00:05:32.080 She cracked open a beer with Stephen Colbert, and that got like a full segment on CNN, which was hysterical.

00:05:39.260 And then you go back to what she actually says.

00:05:42.720 And the vice president of the United States of America said, and I want you to listen for this, the American dream right now is really elusive.

00:05:50.880 Is she trying to write another ad for Donald Trump? 0.97

00:05:53.780 Listen.

00:05:54.000 The American dream right now is really elusive for far too many people in terms of even aspiring to own a home.

00:06:01.600 It's too expensive.

00:06:02.780 We don't have enough housing.

00:06:03.740 We have a housing shortage.

00:06:04.580 So part of my plan is to work with the private sector, with builders and developers, to build three million more homes by the end of my first term, and to give first-time homebuyers a $25,000 down payment assistance so they can just get their foot in the door to home ownership, which is the fastest and the most efficient way for people to build intergenerational wealth.

00:06:26.280 These are the ways that I think about how we build up our country in a way that is about supporting the middle class.

00:06:34.560 I come from the middle class.

00:06:35.940 I'm never going to forget where I come from.

00:06:37.800 I love it.

00:06:38.700 Middle class is apparently really tough for her.

00:06:41.000 If you know her history, you kind of got to roll your eyes at that.

00:06:44.860 But this idea, she says, everything's bad right now.

00:06:47.780 Far too many people in terms of even aspiring to own a house because there's not enough houses.

00:06:51.840 Well, why is that?

00:06:52.600 Because the illegal immigrants you've allowed into this country by the tens of millions. 0.99

00:06:57.260 Well, of course, Colbert pressed back with that, right?

00:06:59.560 No, no, no, he did not.

00:07:00.800 They just decided to drink a beer instead because that's how you do an interview now when it's somebody that no one's voted for and we're just, you know, less than 30 days away from Election Day, right?

00:07:10.540 You know, by the way, I will say I think it is fitting that that was a comedy show.

00:07:14.000 Because if you recall in her debate with with Donald Trump, the opening question was elections come down to the question, are you better off now than you were four years ago?

00:07:25.740 And so, Madam Vice President, are the American people better off now than they were four years ago?

00:07:30.800 And her answer was, I came from the middle class.

00:07:34.300 But like it's become a punchline because it was such a non sequitur.

00:07:39.940 She's unable to say yes because the record is a disaster.

00:07:44.580 And so she just she has this talking point and the fact that at a comedy show she goes back to, well, I come from the middle class.

00:07:52.260 Apparently, some focus group somewhere told her that was a good thing to say and she doesn't have anything else to say.

00:07:59.140 Senator, two quick things I want to bring up and it dealt with foreign policy.

00:08:03.940 Kamala Harris has refused to directly answer if Netanyahu is a ally of our country.

00:08:12.840 Here's what she said in the 60 Minutes interview that was shocking as well.

00:08:17.160 Do we have a real close ally in Prime Minister Netanyahu?

00:08:24.800 I think with all due respect, the better question is, do we have an important alliance between the American people and the Israeli people?

00:08:34.400 And the answer to that question is yes.

00:08:37.620 So she throws our relationship with a leader that was elected by the people in Israel.

00:08:42.720 Netanyahu under the bus and she clearly is saying there is separation between me and Netanyahu and Israel.

00:08:52.480 She had to make that that comment, I think, in her mind to keep the radicals that are anti-Jewish, anti-Semites who support Hezbollah and Hamas on her side.

00:09:05.300 And that's why she was so, I think, careful with her words there to say, he's not my guy.

00:09:10.160 I mean, I'm fine with Israel, but not him. 1.00

00:09:13.160 Well, look, she clearly hates Benjamin Netanyahu. 0.92

00:09:15.960 And that that's true of this entire White House.

00:09:18.420 It's true of Joe Biden.

00:09:19.460 It's true of most of the Democrats.

00:09:20.920 And remember, Kamala Harris, as the sitting vice president, boycotted Netanyahu's speech to a joint session of Congress.

00:09:28.460 I was there sitting on the floor of the House.

00:09:30.840 Prime Minister Netanyahu gave an extraordinary address.

00:09:33.560 And, you know, the vice president, you know, the old line is it's a job that's not worth a bucket of spit.

00:09:41.560 But among the very few responsibilities of the vice president are to sit and preside on a joint session of Congress.

00:09:48.740 To sit your rear end down in that chair while someone addresses a joint session of Congress.

00:09:53.800 Well, she loathes Prime Minister Netanyahu so much she refused to attend.

00:10:00.760 And so her answer, does she consider Netanyahu an ally?

00:10:03.700 No.

00:10:04.280 And frankly, she can barely bring herself to describe Israel as an ally.

00:10:10.080 Listen, there is a growing pro-Hamas wing of the Democrat Party.

00:10:16.540 And Kamala Harris clearly wants their vote. 1.00

00:10:18.760 She wants the votes in Dearborn, Michigan.

00:10:20.440 She wants the votes of the radicals, the anti-Semites on college campuses. 0.99

00:10:24.860 And I got to say, and we should wrap up on this.

00:10:28.120 I want to play the answer she gave when asked about Israel on 60 Minutes, the actual answer she gave.

00:10:38.420 And then I want us to play what 60 Minutes aired.

00:10:41.640 Because we mentioned before the phrase word salad.

00:10:44.500 This word salad answer is truly remarkable.

00:10:46.960 And so let's play initially what she said in the actual interview.

00:10:52.900 And then we'll go to what they aired.

00:10:54.160 And then the 60-minute fabulous edit.

00:10:56.560 That's the only way to describe it.

00:10:58.080 It's, they knew it was bad, so let's fix it.

00:11:01.180 Here it is.

00:11:02.200 But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.

00:11:06.300 Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.

00:11:28.360 Now, that is the original answer, all right?

00:11:32.720 So it was 27 seconds long.

00:11:35.820 So they tweeted that out before the interview aired.

00:11:38.680 So it was public in the Twitterverse.

00:11:41.980 And people were vicious in mocking it.

00:11:45.480 Because it's so lacking in content.

00:11:47.540 It doesn't say anything.

00:11:48.760 So here's what 60 Minutes actually aired.

00:11:52.420 But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.

00:11:57.880 We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.

00:12:06.120 That's a completely different answer.

00:12:09.320 Holy cow. 0.89

00:12:10.880 Like, listen, that's not 60 Minutes.

00:12:13.340 That's like 57 Minutes.

00:12:15.020 And it makes you wonder, what else did they edit out?

00:12:18.760 What other answers did she give that the 60 Minutes producers buried their head in their hands and said, oh, no, if people see this, they're not going to vote for it.

00:12:30.120 And we need her to vote for it.

00:12:31.360 Now, look, I'm going to be mixed in my commentary on 60 Minutes because I will say at least they asked the question on quadrupling the number of illegal immigrants.

00:12:40.900 That was important.

00:12:43.540 And her refusal to answer it was important.

00:12:46.340 So they didn't edit that out.

00:12:47.540 But on Israel, they just couldn't stomach letting letting her answer stand on its own merits.

00:12:53.540 And they tried to help her out.

00:12:55.240 And they actually got caught, which I got to say, I think, has done real damage to their credibility going forward.

00:13:01.720 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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00:13:37.740 Now on to story number two.

00:13:41.340 You need to understand the ideological rot that has infused so much of our elite academy.

00:13:49.720 And by the way, it's been a year since October 7th.

00:13:53.340 Have you noticed the protests on the campus?

00:13:55.940 They're not springing up organically.

00:13:58.580 They're not spontaneous.

00:14:00.320 Am I the only one who's noticed that the tents all match?

00:14:02.820 There is real money funding these anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, anti-American protests.

00:14:11.800 And that money is coming from Iran.

00:14:13.640 That money is coming from Qatar.

00:14:15.800 And that money is coming from prominent leftists in this country who are also funding prominent politicians in this country.

00:14:24.020 I want to ask you in a year, has there been a single investigation by the Department of Justice or the FBI to follow the money?

00:14:32.060 Under Title VI of our civil rights law, a university cannot create an environment that is threatening to the safety of a student based on race or ethnicity.

00:14:42.400 Has there been a single university in America who's had their federal funding cut off because they refused to protect Jewish students on campus?

00:14:50.880 The answer is no.

00:14:51.900 Not one.

00:14:52.800 That's not an accident.

00:14:54.260 We need a Department of Justice that stands with our students.

00:14:58.060 By the way, I will note, the protesters that were arrested in the University of Texas, roughly half of them had no connection to UT.

00:15:05.720 They weren't students there.

00:15:07.420 They just came in to agitate and threaten violence.

00:15:11.920 The same was true at Columbia.

00:15:13.440 The same was true at Fordham. 0.91

00:15:14.920 That when people have been arrested, about half of them are either radical Islamists or Marxists or just anti-American paid violent thugs.

00:15:24.100 Clarity matters.

00:15:25.100 Clarity matters.

00:15:26.360 And by the way, I will say that clarity is not entirely delineated on partisan bases.

00:15:32.200 I will say one of the most astonishing things to me has been the courage my colleague John Fetterman has shown on this topic.

00:15:38.200 I'll confess, when Senator Fetterman was elected from Pennsylvania, I had no reason to anticipate that he would show that kind of courage.

00:15:46.800 But he has been astonishing.

00:15:48.520 And I will say, when giving a commencement address, when he removed his hood from Harvard University as a fellow Harvard grad,

00:15:57.060 I was proud that he was willing to stand up to the shameful behavior of his and my alma mater.

00:16:02.540 However, clarity is an opportunity for everyone on each and every day to decide, where do I stand?

00:16:10.780 There is a second enormously beneficial outcome of the horror and evil that was October 7th,

00:16:18.540 which is that Israel has stated its commitment to utterly and completely eliminate Hamas and now eliminate Hezbollah.

00:16:25.980 And I have to say, eliminating Hamas and eliminating Hezbollah is unquestionably in the national security interest of Israel 0.98

00:16:34.980 and unquestionably in the national security interest of America.

00:16:38.840 And U.S. policy should very simply be, we stand unequivocally with Israel for as long as it takes.

00:16:46.600 I listen to colleagues of mine in the Senate and the House,

00:16:52.000 who their only response to what happens in Israel is, we need a ceasefire now.

00:16:57.740 What is it that leads American politicians to say, our view should be, please, please, please stop killing the terrorists?

00:17:06.760 When I got on Southwest Airlines this morning and flew from Houston to Dallas to come here today,

00:17:11.160 a woman standing in the line came up to me and said, please, we need a ceasefire now. 0.96

00:17:15.580 On the one-year anniversary of October 7th, I'll tell you, month after month after month,

00:17:22.720 every Saturday morning at 7 a.m., I had anti-Israel, anti-Semitic protesters in my front lawn,

00:17:29.820 screaming, yelling, ringing cowbells, blowing whistles, screaming expletives at the top of their lungs,

00:17:37.480 waking up my daughters, waking up my neighbors and their young children, week after week after week.

00:17:44.420 And I'll tell you, when I encounter, as I do with some regularity, people on airplanes who will yell at me,

00:17:51.560 we need a ceasefire now.

00:17:54.060 And I ask them, really, tell me, why is it that you side with genocidal maniacs carrying out Nazi ends?

00:18:02.560 How do you look at what happened and say the murderers and rapists are the ones we stand with?

00:18:08.360 But part of it is a lot of people are lied to.

00:18:10.660 They don't know the truth.

00:18:12.180 They are being told the victims, in our definition, are the good and the oppressors are the evil.

00:18:19.180 That's why that clarity needs to continue.

00:18:22.300 I will say, if you look at Israel's distribution of pagers,

00:18:27.860 I've got to say, that is one of the most extraordinary intelligence and military operations I have ever seen.

00:18:36.300 When I saw it on the news, when I read about it, it read like a James Bond novel.

00:18:42.580 If you, I don't know if any of y'all are fans of the show FAUDA.

00:18:45.700 FAUDA is phenomenal.

00:18:47.420 If you tried to write it in a plot of FAUDA, they wouldn't publish it, 0.96

00:18:50.960 because they would have said, this is ridiculous.

00:18:54.100 And I will say, what was truly elegant about it is the people who received the pagers

00:19:03.280 were decided by the leadership of Hezbollah. 0.72

00:19:07.200 The leaders of Hezbollah said, all right, you are enough of a genocidal murderer that I want you on page. 0.80

00:19:15.160 They selected every person. 0.92

00:19:18.020 And then, they got their page.

00:19:20.960 And then, a few days later, they said, let's go to walkie-talkies.

00:19:25.000 And the walkie-talkies blew up.

00:19:27.260 And then, the head of Hezbollah said, let's go to a basement bunker and meet in person.

00:19:31.920 And then, the basement bunker blew up.

00:19:34.500 And if you want to understand where someone stands, look to their reaction to that.

00:19:39.940 Let me tell you, I think it is beautiful that psychopathic terrorists are terrified now to pick up the phone

00:19:46.180 and pick up the pager and go meet with another terrorist.

00:19:49.020 That is unequivocally good for Israel and America. 0.87

00:19:55.120 We are seeing forces across the globe arrayed against the people of Israel.

00:19:59.480 And I will tell you in particular, if you want to prevent another October 7th,

00:20:06.160 if you want to save innocent lives in Israel and America,

00:20:10.440 then you've got to start by focusing on the nation of Iran.

00:20:14.760 Iran is the head of the stake. 0.99

00:20:17.500 I will say in the last four years, the U.S. government has funneled over $100 billion to Iran.

00:20:28.860 We all know about the $6 billion.

00:20:31.180 That got the most attention.

00:20:32.320 That was $6 billion in ransom for five Americans.

00:20:35.660 I and many others at the time said that's a terrible policy.

00:20:38.860 It will only encourage more Americans to be taken hostage. 0.98

00:20:42.220 It effectively puts a bounty of $1.2 billion per hostage.

00:20:46.100 Tragically, when we said that, I didn't realize it would be just a couple of months

00:20:50.200 before we would see more Americans taken hostage.

00:20:52.560 Some of you may also know about the $10 billion in funds that were frozen in Iraq from electricity receipts

00:20:58.140 that the administration unfroze to flow to Iran.

00:21:03.260 Both of those, however, pale in comparison to the real source of revenue.

00:21:08.280 Iran derives the bulk of its revenue from oil and gas sales.

00:21:14.380 When Joe Biden and Kamala Harris came into office four years ago,

00:21:18.140 Iran was at the time selling roughly 300,000 barrels of oil a day.

00:21:22.720 That was a consequence of the previous administration vigorously enforcing oil sanctions.

00:21:29.340 I had spent hundreds of hours urging President Trump to vigorously enforce oil sanctions on Iran.

00:21:36.500 He did so, and their oil sales plummeted from a million barrels a day to 300,000.

00:21:43.280 In January of 2021, the Iranian economy was in shambles.

00:21:48.580 The Iranian regime was teetering and near collapse.

00:21:52.800 And the current administration came in and immediately stopped enforcing those oil sanctions.

00:21:58.800 What are the consequences of that?

00:22:01.180 Iran's oil sales went from 300,000 barrels a day,

00:22:04.420 where they were in January of 2021.

00:22:06.540 Do you know what they are today?

00:22:08.260 Roughly 2 million barrels of oil a day.

00:22:13.140 Primarily sold to Communist China.

00:22:16.200 What is the delta between 300,000 barrels a day and 2 million barrels a day?

00:22:21.360 It is more than $80 billion that came in like a lifeline to save the regime.

00:22:29.160 I told you this is a battle between good and evil.

00:22:32.280 The Ayatollah Khamenei is unambiguously evil. 0.72

00:22:36.660 He leads mobs in chants of death to Israel and death to America. 0.98

00:22:43.340 Now, if history teaches anything, it is that when somebody tells you they want to kill you, 0.80

00:22:48.520 believe them.

00:22:50.020 And you need to understand this is not just a threat to Israel.

00:22:54.420 There is a reason the Ayatollah refers to Israel as the little Satan and America as the great Satan.

00:23:02.640 The enemies of Israel are enemies of America. 0.99

00:23:06.400 Those who hate Jews hate Christians.

00:23:09.760 And I have to say, if any sanity comes from the aftermath of October 7th,

00:23:16.420 it is that we should agree to come together and cut off all of the funds for Iran.

00:23:24.640 Two statistics that are important to know.

00:23:27.500 Over 90% of the funding for Hamas comes from Iran.

00:23:32.420 Over 90% of the funding for Hezbollah comes from Iran.

00:23:38.460 Iran, if you are giving $100 billion to Iran,

00:23:43.240 you are giving the money to the terrorists who are committing these atrocities.

00:23:47.680 I got to say, regardless of your politics,

00:23:51.000 it should not be a complicated proposition to say,

00:23:55.420 do not give money to people who want to murder you.

00:24:00.560 And yet, somehow in Washington, that's deemed a controversial statement.

00:24:03.620 As before, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic,

00:24:08.380 you can go back and download the podcast from early this week to hear the entire thing.

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00:24:44.300 I want to get back to the big story number three of the week you may have missed.

00:24:48.640 If you're listening to this right now or you're watching this,

00:24:51.520 when you think about going from $50,000 race to a million dollars against you,

00:24:57.980 that's a political assassination on your career. 0.90

00:25:01.140 That's saying, we're just going to buy a winner and make sure you're a loser because that's how much we want to punish you 1.00

00:25:07.840 and make sure everybody else stays in line. 0.78

00:25:09.700 Exactly.

00:25:10.460 I always tell folks it was literally to make an example out of me and to warn others,

00:25:15.280 don't get any bright ideas.

00:25:17.300 Don't stand up there and speak out and tell the truth for your constituents

00:25:20.500 because we will Sean Theory you and put over a million dollars in your race. 0.90

00:25:25.520 But I said it on the House floor, you know, I always say sunlight is the best disinfectant, Senator.

00:25:32.020 Absolutely.

00:25:32.340 And so I did rip the lid off of it and I exposed the harms and I exposed the hypocrisy.

00:25:37.300 You talked about 18 being such a reasonable age.

00:25:40.700 Every policy that the Democrats put forth is usually to raise the age.

00:25:45.220 Yeah.

00:25:45.400 This is the only area where not only do they not want to set the age, they want no age.

00:25:51.860 They want to raise the age from 18 to 21 to have a gun.

00:25:55.980 We raised the age from 18 to 21 to buy tobacco cigarettes, which everyone, you know, agreed.

00:26:02.120 We raised the age from 18 to 21 to work in a sexually oriented business. 0.99

00:26:06.220 We have acknowledged, they said they're the party of science.

00:26:11.040 They said the frontal lobe of the brain is not developed until almost 25.

00:26:15.520 Yeah.

00:26:15.940 Why on earth are Democrats saying, as you said very well, Senator,

00:26:20.500 that a child as young as nine who hasn't even entered puberty

00:26:24.880 has the capacity to sign away their future in terms of being castrated and sterilized?

00:26:31.880 What is this?

00:26:32.960 So tell us the sort of things, what did your then fellow Democrats say to you as this is all going down?

00:26:41.980 What sort of conversation did y'all have?

00:26:44.020 Well, I guess the cat kind of got out of the bag that there was a potential dissident

00:26:49.380 who wasn't going along with the program.

00:26:52.120 And so they started pulling me to the side, usually in like groups of three,

00:26:55.900 then groups of six, and telling me, you know, Sean, what's going on here?

00:27:01.000 A lot of these are your friends, right?

00:27:02.940 I mean, these are the colleagues.

00:27:03.880 Yeah, people are, they're colleagues, colleagues, some friends.

00:27:08.860 The friends were the ones that really just came with the warning.

00:27:12.320 They said, Sean, listen, because I was pulling out papers and showing what Lupron does,

00:27:16.540 showing that it causes early onset osteoporosis and that some of these cross-sex hormones.

00:27:22.320 Tell our viewers and listeners, what is Lupron?

00:27:24.900 So give some of those details.

00:27:25.940 Sure.

00:27:26.560 So Lupron is the drug that they want to give children in America to stop them from going to puberty.

00:27:32.960 It is prescribed for men who have prostate cancer.

00:27:39.000 It is a chemotherapy drug.

00:27:40.460 Wow.

00:27:40.580 This is a drug we are giving children that do not have cancer.

00:27:45.860 The only other use for it, it gets even grosser, that they want to give it to children. 0.97

00:27:51.680 This drug is given as a chemical castration drug to child rapists, to pedophiles.

00:27:56.900 And they're giving it to kids because they say, or the parents say, they want to transition at the age of 8 or 9 or 10.

00:28:05.640 And by the way, if the kids, when they get older, they change their mind, much of this is irreversible.

00:28:12.860 If you have a teenage girl who has a double mastectomy, you don't get your breasts back. 1.00

00:28:18.100 That's right.

00:28:18.560 That's right.

00:28:18.920 Like that's permanent and forever.

00:28:20.720 It's too late.

00:28:22.320 And that's what the Lupron is for.

00:28:24.040 It is to put you on the trajectory for a sex change, to make it easier.

00:28:27.980 Because if your body never develops in the first place, it's that much easier to start mutilating and amputating body parts.

00:28:35.180 So I started to meet.

00:28:37.000 Now, you talked about transitioning.

00:28:39.300 There's a group of young people called D-transitioners. 1.00

00:28:42.960 These were the kids.

00:28:44.000 Many of them are grown that went through this that have deep regret.

00:28:48.840 And they visited the Capitol as well.

00:28:51.880 Unfortunately, their voices were shut out by these radical activists.

00:28:55.960 They didn't want us to listen to these kids.

00:28:58.760 Wow.

00:28:58.920 I met a young lady who had a double mastectomy and a full hysterectomy. 1.00

00:29:04.720 She's only 26.

00:29:06.120 Wow.

00:29:06.680 She said, Rep Theory, crying in the hallway to me.

00:29:10.100 I have the biological profile now of a 72-year-old woman.

00:29:14.240 A biological profile of a 72-year-old woman at her age again?

00:29:17.940 Full menopause.

00:29:19.140 She's 24.

00:29:21.040 She said, My bones hurt me so badly.

00:29:25.180 She was on so much testosterone.

00:29:27.600 So now, she said, I realized I never really wanted to be a boy.

00:29:32.700 She said, I was love-bombed.

00:29:34.980 And I said, Tell me more about that.

00:29:37.020 And she said, I was a lonely child, a girl.

00:29:39.280 She said, I think I'm gay.

00:29:41.360 She said, But I don't want to be a man.

00:29:42.920 And she said, But I watched a lot of YouTube. 0.83

00:29:45.860 And she met these transgender ideologists who love-bombed her. 1.00

00:29:51.160 And then she told her mom. 0.71

00:29:53.140 Her mom was scared.

00:29:54.300 She took her to her gender clinic somewhere outside of Austin. 1.00

00:29:57.980 Despite what they tell you, she said in 30 minutes, they had a letter authorizing for her to get on all of these hormones. 1.00

00:30:07.260 Wow.

00:30:07.720 30 minutes?

00:30:08.700 And they always say that there's all this profiling that's done and all these interviews and mental, you know, they look at everything.

00:30:15.820 30 minutes.

00:30:16.640 Here's your letter. 0.99

00:30:17.460 Go change sex. 1.00

00:30:19.500 Of a child. 0.99

00:30:20.520 Absolutely.

00:30:21.360 And, Senator, here's the part that really got me.

00:30:24.540 She said that they told her mother.

00:30:26.640 Because her mom thought she was doing the right thing.

00:30:28.280 Her mom wasn't one of those women that was pushing it on her kid. 1.00

00:30:31.380 Right.

00:30:32.000 You can either have a dead daughter or a living son threatening her mother that she would kill herself.

00:30:39.940 And she said, I never said that.

00:30:41.780 She goes, But then I started to believe that.

00:30:44.200 And so when I was talking to the detransitioners, they even took a photo of me. 1.00

00:30:49.320 I think it's on Twitter somewhere.

00:30:50.880 And it said, Look at Rep Theory, you know, meeting with these.

00:30:54.420 They called the detransitioners a hate group.

00:30:57.840 These were LG.

00:30:58.740 They're saying, We've already done this.

00:31:01.420 Listen to us.

00:31:02.300 And then they called them a hate group.

00:31:03.480 Yeah.

00:31:03.640 That I was meeting with a hate group.

00:31:05.740 That I was anti-LGBTQ.

00:31:08.140 What's amazing is there's no compassion for these kids and the life-altering decisions that I think in many instances, it's adults who are foisting it on them. 0.67

00:31:20.720 So let me ask you, if you listen to the media, if you listen to the conventional wisdom, Republicans are a bunch of intolerant bigots.

00:31:31.140 You were a four-time elected Democrat representative.

00:31:37.400 You flipped over to the Republican Party.

00:31:40.660 What has the reaction on both sides been?

00:31:44.000 And what have you found?

00:31:45.420 Well, the reaction was, one, very welcoming, from the governor of Texas to the Speaker of the House to all of my colleagues to just regular folks writing me on Facebook and inboxing me and saying, Welcome, Rep Theory.

00:32:00.400 Praise God.

00:32:01.500 You know, we're so grateful to have you.

00:32:03.700 So there was none of this boogeyman racism that people, that the Democrat Party is using to fearmonger, I think, half of America.

00:32:12.500 But I knew that because I served with these folks.

00:32:17.160 And, you know, all of this talk of calling people bigots and Nazis and white supremacists, it was always so bizarre to me because I would sit with my colleagues who were saying those things and they would be in the members' lounge five minutes later sharing ice cream with these very folks that they were calling Nazis.

00:32:36.300 And then they actually started calling me a Nazi.

00:32:39.000 And I'm like, me?

00:32:39.920 I'm a black woman. 0.98

00:32:41.020 I'm a Nazi. 0.98

00:32:41.520 OK. 0.68

00:32:42.120 I'm a Nazi now. 0.91

00:32:43.560 So, Senator, I knew, you know, that that was just a bunch of crazy talk.

00:32:48.360 The Democrats had been, like I said, from the moment I stood up on that bill, I started getting death threats the night before.

00:32:56.480 Wow.

00:32:56.600 Because the cat got let out the bag that Rep Theory is probably going to vote in favor of setting the age.

00:33:02.540 Did any other Democrats cross over and vote for the bill?

00:33:05.300 Three others.

00:33:06.980 Three others.

00:33:08.240 So four.

00:33:09.560 And they told me, each one of them said they would not have done it but for hearing my speech.

00:33:14.420 I gave a 12-minute speech on the House floor.

00:33:16.820 I think it's on YouTube.

00:33:17.900 And it's gone viral.

00:33:18.760 It went viral.

00:33:19.620 The letter I wrote explaining it got over two and a half million views on Twitter.

00:33:23.500 But if you watch it, my hands were shaking.

00:33:27.200 My voice was cracking because I was so sleep deprived.

00:33:30.680 Because for days, you know, they had just been harassing me and pounding me and threatening me and trying to change my mind.

00:33:37.620 Beat you in a submission.

00:33:38.660 Absolutely.

00:33:39.080 Just like a cult.

00:33:40.740 And there was one colleague who you said who could be a friend.

00:33:44.460 And I remember he pulled me to the side and he said to me, Sean, hold your nose.

00:33:51.600 You better hold your nose and vote with us if you want to make it back here.

00:33:56.320 And I just looked him in the face and said, I can't do that.

00:34:01.220 I can't do it.

00:34:02.680 A lot of people listening are going to ask, are you a cautionary tale?

00:34:05.840 Are you safe now in your elected position?

00:34:09.140 What's the end of the story for your career when it comes to this position that clearly you won four times?

00:34:15.540 Well, I did not win my seat for re-election.

00:34:18.080 I went to a runoff.

00:34:19.320 That's a question that everybody listening right now is like, what happened?

00:34:21.720 They beat her in the Democrat primary.

00:34:24.000 With a million bucks.

00:34:24.680 The million dollars worked.

00:34:26.040 They found a candidate who said she was a dual identity queer black woman that had never run for office. 0.92

00:34:32.220 I'd never seen her in the district one time volunteering, doing anything.

00:34:35.880 It never served, put the money behind that candidate.

00:34:38.620 And even though nobody knew her, she won.

00:34:41.940 However, I always say there's a comma, not a period there.

00:34:47.180 Okay.

00:34:47.940 As I said, again, that's a temporary pit stop.

00:34:52.500 My dad who passed away, I shared, we were talking about our fathers when we sat down and talked.

00:34:58.020 And before my dad passed away, it must have been very fortuitous of him for no reason at all.

00:35:02.180 He was in the hospital and he looked at me and he said, Sean, I want you to promise me one thing.

00:35:07.320 I was like, of course, daddy.

00:35:08.680 And he said, don't ever let the power and the prestige of the position cause you to sell your soul.

00:35:16.340 Amen to that.

00:35:17.900 And I didn't.

00:35:19.800 And I stayed with that.

00:35:20.780 So I think people need to look at it and say, you can survive it.

00:35:24.140 I'm still here.

00:35:25.080 They censored me, but they did not silence me.

00:35:29.420 So I think that the good news is you can survive it.

00:35:33.160 I've switched parties, not because I'm so much politically ambitious, but because I'm a citizen.

00:35:37.720 I'm an American and I want to do what's right for my country.

00:35:41.000 And so now I'm speaking out.

00:35:42.380 I'm using whatever platform I have to educate Americans.

00:35:46.020 And Senator, so many folks, and I'll even say African-American voters, have come to me and said, Rep Theory, if only I had known, I didn't even know the Democrat Party was up to this.

00:35:57.920 Well, Sean, thank you for your courage.

00:36:00.400 And thank you for sharing your story.

00:36:02.020 Stories are powerful.

00:36:03.400 A lot of what we try to do on this podcast is tell stories, stories that impact people's lives, stories that are reality.

00:36:09.860 As you know, the media has their own narrative that they want to convince people of.

00:36:15.260 And it's part of the reason we've seen things like podcasts grow so much is people are hungry for the truth.

00:36:21.100 And so I appreciate you coming and joining us.

00:36:23.580 And thank you for standing up.

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - October 12, 2024

Harris Word Salad on Late Night, Colleges & Universities Overrun by Antisemitic Hate, plus Democrats Turn on Their Own Week In Review

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