Verdict with Ted Cruz - March 18, 2024


Hezbollah Terrorist CAUGHT at Our Southern Border, Media LIES About Trump Calling for 'Bloodbath' & Hunter Runs Away


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A Hezbollah terrorist was caught at the southern border trying to cross into the United States. He admitted that he had trained with Hezbollah for 7 years and served as an active member guarding weapons locations for another 4 years. He said he was headed to New York City to make a bomb.

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00:00:05.440 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:09.220 And Senator, I hate to say that this is something we talked about a long time ago
00:00:13.500 and have been warning, but sure enough, another warning sign coming from our southern border
00:00:18.720 with terrorists using and exploiting that open border to get into America.
00:00:25.120 Well, that's exactly right. We've got a big show today.
00:00:27.800 Last week, a Hezbollah terrorist was caught at our southern border
00:00:32.060 trying to cross into this country, trying to come here to detonate a bomb in New York City. 0.71
00:00:38.120 We're going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened with that.
00:00:40.840 On top of that, we saw this past week the media engage in a frenzy of lies and deception.
00:00:47.940 If you picked up any newspaper, you've seen the headline that Donald Trump pledged a, quote,
00:00:52.980 bloodbath if he didn't get elected.
00:00:55.040 That makes for good headlines. It just turns out it was a complete and total lie.
00:01:00.500 We'll explain.
00:01:02.000 And finally, Hunter Biden. You know, Hunter Biden had a lot of bravado
00:01:04.800 when the House wanted him to come in, wanted him to come in for a private deposition.
00:01:08.540 And he said publicly, I will not come in in a private deposition.
00:01:11.780 I will only come publicly. I want to tell my story to America.
00:01:16.380 Well, he ended up blinking. He ended up coming in for a private deposition.
00:01:19.200 And now the House has asked him to come in for a public hearing.
00:01:22.220 And what did Hunter Biden do? Run away.
00:01:25.060 Say, absolutely not. I'm not willing to do a public testimony.
00:01:27.960 I want out of here. We'll get to the bottom of that as well.
00:01:31.620 First, I want to say thank you to so many of you that have got involved and helped the people in Israel.
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00:03:11.700 Senator, let's get to this first story at the border.
00:03:14.860 I would like to say that I'm shocked by this story, this article.
00:03:19.160 The New York Post has put it out.
00:03:20.640 Well, talking about this illegal immigrant from Lebanon, he was caught at the border admitting,
00:03:27.560 number one, he's a Hezbollah terrorist. 0.98
00:03:29.740 Number two, he's a Hezbollah terrorist hoping to make a bomb. 0.99
00:03:32.900 And number three, he says he was headed to New York City. 0.90
00:03:37.400 Well, that's exactly right.
00:03:38.860 And I want to credit the New York Post for breaking this story.
00:03:41.440 It's a very important story.
00:03:43.280 This was an illegal immigrant from Lebanon.
00:03:45.460 He was caught sneaking over the border, and he admitted that he trained as a member of Hezbollah,
00:03:51.740 that his destination was New York City, and he hoped to make a bomb.
00:03:54.920 His name was Basil Basil Ebadi.
00:03:59.000 He was 22 years old.
00:04:00.860 He was caught by Border Patrol on March 9th near El Paso, Texas.
00:04:05.980 While he was in custody, he was asked what he was doing in the U.S., to which he replied,
00:04:10.900 quote, I'm going to try to make a bomb.
00:04:14.180 Uh, Abadi said in a sworn interview that he had trained with Hezbollah for seven years,
00:04:22.520 and it served as an active member guarding weapons locations for another four years.
00:04:28.680 Abadi's training focused on jihad and on killing people, quote, that was not Muslim.
00:04:36.920 So listen, this individual was clearly a threat. 0.91
00:04:39.820 He said he was headed to New York City.
00:04:41.240 And we ought to, number one, be thankful that this Hezbollah terrorist was caught. 1.00
00:04:46.540 He admitted who he was.
00:04:47.900 He admitted what he came to do.
00:04:50.080 But understand, the numbers keep growing and growing and growing.
00:04:56.160 In fiscal year 2022, 98 individuals on the terror watch list were encountered at our southern and northern borders.
00:05:04.000 And in fiscal year 2023, that number doubled to 172.
00:05:13.220 So far, in the first four months of 2024, 59 more people have been apprehended, according to the federal numbers.
00:05:23.060 And understand, for the entirety of the Trump presidency for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, a total of 30 people on the terror watch list were apprehended crossing illegally.
00:05:36.160 So we've gone from 30 over four years to 172 in a single year.
00:05:42.240 That is what happens when Joe Biden and the Democrats open up our southern border.
00:05:47.380 And it is inviting the inevitable, which is what just happened, Hezbollah terrorists crossing our border with the intention of carrying out acts of terror in the United States. 0.95
00:05:58.460 If it wasn't for this incredible reporting, and I want to make sure we give a lot of credit to this reporter who did this, the New York Post, Jenny Taylor, she put this out there.
00:06:09.280 I have a question, Senator, and you may know this answer.
00:06:15.000 This is the first time we've heard about this because the media reporting it.
00:06:19.580 How many times has this happened where there is someone that is saying the exact same things as this individual, this terrorist, that we don't know about because the government hasn't told us?
00:06:32.360 So here's the infuriating answer.
00:06:34.320 I have no idea.
00:06:35.920 I serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
00:06:38.360 We have jurisdiction over immigration, over the border.
00:06:42.620 And yet when we ask how many Hezbollah terrorists have you encountered, how many Hamas terrorists have you encountered, they won't answer that.
00:06:51.780 They stonewall. 1.00
00:06:52.620 The Biden administration does not want anyone to know.
00:06:56.480 They certainly don't want Congress to know.
00:06:58.220 And more importantly, they don't want the American people to know.
00:07:00.940 Is that behind closed doors, by the way, when you ask that?
00:07:03.820 Yes, both.
00:07:04.420 Behind closed doors and public.
00:07:06.080 Both.
00:07:06.360 So I'm going through excuses in my head.
00:07:08.620 I could see where they say, well, sir, there's a public hearing.
00:07:11.180 We don't want to give you that information.
00:07:12.380 It may put our, you know, methods or whatever at risk.
00:07:16.500 But you're saying these questions you guys are asking behind closed doors.
00:07:19.940 So that idea is thrown out the window and they're still stonewalling. 0.84
00:07:23.660 They absolutely stonewall. 1.00
00:07:25.060 They will not give you an answer.
00:07:26.960 And understand, all right, let's take fiscal year 2023.
00:07:30.000 172 people on the terror watch list.
00:07:33.940 Now that's troubling.
00:07:35.700 But what's much more troubling is the hundreds of thousands of gotaways.
00:07:41.100 Understand that 172 are the people they apprehended.
00:07:44.360 That gives you an indication that the volume coming across of terrorists or potential terrorists has exploded, has dramatically, has exponentially increased.
00:07:55.020 But the really serious terrorists are the ones that don't get apprehended, are the ones that are gotaways.
00:08:03.820 And so, all right, here's how this plays out at the border.
00:08:06.620 When you're at the southern border, groups come across illegally.
00:08:09.980 Many of them turn themselves in affirmatively.
00:08:13.080 That consumes a lot of the energy of border patrol.
00:08:17.180 It's just dealing with people that go find border patrol, turn themselves in.
00:08:20.660 And by the way, when they do so, suddenly the border patrol agents, let's say you've got two agents out in a truck.
00:08:25.920 And they've got 30 people who turn themselves in.
00:08:28.500 Those agents are now out of commission for several hours.
00:08:31.660 They have to watch those migrants. 1.00
00:08:34.440 They have to call for backup.
00:08:36.000 They have to get vehicles.
00:08:37.080 They have to transport them to the system.
00:08:39.020 They have to get them processed.
00:08:41.080 There are more than half the border patrol agents are back at the detention facility processing them or are sitting there filling out paperwork or giving them food or giving them clothing or giving them diapers.
00:08:51.960 You know what they're not doing if they're at the detention center?
00:08:55.300 They're not on the border patrolling.
00:08:58.000 They're not looking for drug dealers.
00:08:59.920 They're not looking for human traffickers.
00:09:02.020 They're not looking for terrorists.
00:09:03.520 And so the people that turn themselves in suck an enormous amount of resources away from patrolling the border.
00:09:09.940 And then the bad guys are the ones, the really bad guys, the really dangerous ones, are the ones that evade arrest.
00:09:15.840 Now, some of them get caught.
00:09:17.780 And I will say we don't know of this individual how he was apprehended outside El Paso. 0.96
00:09:23.880 We don't know if he was dumb enough to turn himself in. 0.72
00:09:26.260 If he was, this guy is not going to be in the terrorist chapter of Mensa. 0.98
00:09:33.940 So I don't know.
00:09:35.640 I don't know if he turned himself in or I don't know if he was attempting to be a gotaway and they caught him.
00:09:41.160 That is not in the New York Post reporting.
00:09:43.180 I'd sure like to know.
00:09:44.700 But I can tell you today, whatever day it is, there are thousands of gotaways.
00:09:52.040 Every day there are thousands of gotaways.
00:09:55.140 That's what the volume is.
00:09:56.920 And those gotaways are the ones I'm very worried about.
00:10:00.060 About 10, 20, 50, 100 more Hezbollah and Hamas terrorists coming over and intending to do something worse than 9-11, intending to do something on the order of magnitude of October 7th or even worse.
00:10:16.420 This is a clear and present danger.
00:10:19.580 And it is caused daily by Joe Biden and congressional Democrats leaving our border wide open.
00:10:26.300 It seems that the administration is more obsessed with the PR aspect of not telling you guys what's actually going on than they do about national security.
00:10:36.360 What have they actually told you guys in the Senate that you can tell us obviously publicly about the terrorists that are coming across the southern border?
00:10:45.960 Has there been any admission that they're concerned about it or they're worried about it?
00:10:49.880 I mean, I know the FBI director has changed his tune in the last three or four months, obviously, and is saying he's very concerned about those on known terrorists or those on the watch list coming across the southern border.
00:11:00.540 But the rest of the administration seems to be completely silent on that.
00:11:05.220 Well, the FBI, it's interesting, the administrator of the FBI has changed his tune.
00:11:09.480 He has been in the past few months repeatedly and loudly warning of the risk of a terror attack.
00:11:14.900 And I have to assume it's because what the FBI is seeing, that they are, number one, terrified.
00:11:20.760 But number two, I think they view it as almost inevitable.
00:11:23.120 We will see a terror attack.
00:11:24.640 And they want to get that on record.
00:11:26.180 But you know what?
00:11:27.060 Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, a single Democrat senator, a single Democrat House member, all of them are silent.
00:11:33.640 Here, listen to what Joe Biden said on March 11th.
00:11:37.440 Give a listen.
00:11:37.880 Look, what we need is we need is we need just an orderly process of the border, not to keep they're not vermin. 0.99
00:11:45.180 They're not scum. 0.93
00:11:46.600 They're not people who are all criminals coming. 0.97
00:11:52.660 I mean, I love that idea from Joe Biden from back in the day.
00:11:56.440 But there's nothing orderly about what's happening at the border.
00:11:59.000 That's been clearly documented.
00:12:01.120 Yeah, it's not orderly.
00:12:02.440 It's chaos.
00:12:03.660 And this line about they're not people who are all criminals coming.
00:12:07.900 Well, what about this Hezbollah terrorist? 0.61
00:12:09.580 What about him?
00:12:10.240 I guess Joe Biden's defense is, well, you know, we have terrorists in the United States.
00:12:14.400 What about Lake and Riley's parents?
00:12:16.140 His answer is, well, he let that murderer go.
00:12:19.120 But his answer is, well, you know, we have murderers in the United States.
00:12:21.480 What about Jeremy Caceres, the two-year-old boy in Maryland who was murdered by another illegal alien that Joe Biden released?
00:12:28.100 Again, his answer is, well, we have murderers here.
00:12:30.240 He takes zero responsibility for releasing murderer after murderer after murderer. 0.99
00:12:37.600 He takes zero responsibility for releasing child rapist after child rapist after child rapist. 0.98
00:12:43.420 And he takes zero responsibility for the terrorists who are coming in to murder Americans. 0.97
00:12:50.780 His answer is just, well, I want an orderly process.
00:12:53.600 If we have an orderly way to bring terrorists in, that's great for America.
00:12:57.220 That is so wildly, A, incompetent, but B, ideological, that he refuses to actually value the safety and security of Americans above his political ideology of complete and total open borders.
00:13:15.420 Final question, I want to get your response to the White House Press Secretary, Jean-Pierre, and what she said about the open border and him not using executive action to secure the southern border, which I know is a problem.
00:13:29.220 It's obvious.
00:13:30.360 But also the second part I want to ask you, Senator, is if there was, God forbid, a terrorist attack, do you think this administration would not move immediately to secure the border through executive action?
00:13:40.300 And I say that in reference to this from the White House Press Secretary.
00:13:43.340 Take a listen.
00:13:44.240 The president said yesterday that he was hoping executive action on the border would happen by itself, that Congress would legislate it.
00:13:51.720 Can you just confirm for us that this indicates that he's no longer considering executive action on the border?
00:13:58.560 Well, the president has been very clear, and I've been very clear.
00:14:01.180 Anytime I've asked about executive actions here, the bottom line, the bottom line is in order to have actually have change, extensive change, real change, comprehensive change, that Senate bill that was negotiated between Republicans and obviously Democrats in the Senate would have been the best way to go.
00:14:21.180 It would have been the toughest, fairest piece of legislation, law, if you will, if it had been moved and the president was able to sign it into law.
00:14:29.200 And that's what's important.
00:14:30.740 The president is trying to make it very clear no executive action would have that effect, the effect that this bipartisan negotiation would have had.
00:14:38.840 I mean, Senator, you hear that, and then it's like, OK, what if there is something that, heaven forbid, happens?
00:14:44.300 Are they going to stick to that same line, or would they pivot quickly?
00:14:48.180 Well, unfortunately, I don't think they would pivot quickly.
00:14:50.700 I think they would immediately look to put the blame anywhere else but themselves, because we've seen that pattern over and over and over again.
00:14:57.280 Listen, when I listened to that press conference with Corrine Jean-Pierre, it saddens me to say, but how do you know when Corrine Jean-Pierre is lying?
00:15:07.060 Answer, her lips are moving.
00:15:08.780 Everything that woman says from the podium at the White House on behalf of the president of the United States is a lie and a deliberate lie. 0.93
00:15:16.740 Number one, she claims the Democrat bill would have secured the border.
00:15:19.860 The Democrat bill, as we've discussed at great length, is a terrible bill.
00:15:23.460 It would not have secured the border.
00:15:25.540 It would have put into law.
00:15:26.640 It would have codified Joe Biden's open borders.
00:15:29.400 It would have made the problem worse.
00:15:31.400 But number two, when she claims, gosh, without legislation, there's nothing that can be done, that is a deliberate lie.
00:15:40.360 The Biden administration has taken 94 executive actions on immigration just in the first 100 days in office.
00:15:47.740 And understand, those 94 were all designed to open up the border.
00:15:51.400 They were all designed to stop the steps that Donald Trump had put in place that were working, that were securing the border.
00:15:57.580 Every one of those 94, Joe Biden could reverse.
00:16:00.740 He doesn't want to reverse it.
00:16:03.120 And so when he was asked, all right, here, give a listen, again on March 11th, to what happens when Biden is asked about executive action on the border.
00:16:13.500 President, what is a border executive action?
00:16:17.780 An executive action on the border.
00:16:19.720 Counting on the border action happened by itself.
00:16:22.540 They're passing it.
00:16:23.580 The Congress can't come to an agreement.
00:16:25.760 Well, they haven't yet.
00:16:26.780 How can you help them?
00:16:27.220 They haven't yet.
00:16:28.040 Mr. President?
00:16:28.700 I'm helping them.
00:16:29.980 I love how that reporter's like breaking news, the president, like talking like she's talking to her old grandfather, like, but, sir, they can't reach an agreement.
00:16:37.180 It's just embarrassing.
00:16:38.740 But there's the president completely out of touch with the reality.
00:16:42.060 Well, except that's his pattern every day, which is to shift blame.
00:16:46.800 Well, they haven't yet.
00:16:47.580 I'm not helping them.
00:16:48.400 It's their fault taking no responsibility for what he did.
00:16:53.600 Let's go back to Lakin Riley, because I think Lakin Riley sums up the number one issue before the American people in this election.
00:17:02.680 Lakin Riley should still be alive.
00:17:05.260 And the reason she is not alive is because of decisions made by Joe Biden and made by partisan Democrats.
00:17:12.860 And let's recap what happened.
00:17:15.480 Lakin Riley's murderer came into the United States illegally from Venezuela.
00:17:21.060 He came in to El Paso, same place this Hezbollah terrorist was. 0.75
00:17:25.940 He was apprehended in El Paso, same place this Hezbollah terrorist was.
00:17:31.780 Joe Biden made the decision.
00:17:34.580 I'm not going to follow the law.
00:17:36.980 If Biden were willing to follow the law, here's what would have happened.
00:17:40.380 When the murderer came in, they would have taken him, put him on an airplane and flown him back to Venezuela.
00:17:46.820 If that had happened, Lakin Riley would still be alive.
00:17:51.440 But instead, Joe Biden decided, I'm going to let this guy go.
00:17:55.560 I don't care what the law says.
00:17:57.380 I want to let him go.
00:17:59.080 And so he did.
00:17:59.640 He let him go.
00:18:00.260 After that, the murderer went to New York City and immediately was arrested again, this time for endangering the welfare of a child.
00:18:12.860 And this is the second time Lakin Riley could have been saved.
00:18:17.560 But unfortunately, New York City is a sanctuary city controlled by left wing Democrats.
00:18:23.640 And so they let the murderer go again.
00:18:27.740 Had they put him in jail for endangering the welfare of a child, Lakin Riley would be alive.
00:18:35.880 Had they simply referred him to ICE, to the Federal Immigration Control, and had ICE, had the Biden administration deported him, Lakin Riley would be alive.
00:18:47.300 But they didn't.
00:18:47.980 They just let him go.
00:18:48.820 They just said, oh, it's a criminal.
00:18:49.940 What should we do?
00:18:50.660 We should let him go because that's what our ideology demands.
00:18:54.480 And then the murderer went down to Georgia.
00:18:58.060 This 22-year-old woman, a nursing student, was out jogging. 1.00
00:19:02.500 Out jogging. 0.95
00:19:03.840 And this psychopath beat her to death, bludgeoned her to death.
00:19:09.180 And Joe Biden, in the State of the Union, when he was heckled and called out about Lakin Riley, he took zero responsibility for that. 0.93
00:19:19.160 His defense is, well, she was killed by an illegal. 0.94
00:19:25.140 Legals kill people, too. 1.00
00:19:26.460 So, okay, apparently because the fact that there are murderers in the United States, he has no responsibility for releasing more murderers into the United States, more rapists in the United States, more pedophiles into the United States, more terrorists in the United States. 0.92
00:19:43.740 That, sadly, is the record of Joe Biden and every congressional Democrat who has rubber-stamped this for over three years.
00:19:51.940 Yeah, you add in fentanyl on top of that, and then you add in these new issues with terrorists coming across the southern border, and yet this administration refuses to deal with the issue.
00:20:02.100 We'll keep you updated on it, that I can promise you.
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00:22:07.480 Senator, I want to move on to the other big story that you mentioned earlier.
00:22:11.140 And that is, no shock here, the media has lied about Donald Trump.
00:22:15.480 And lied about him yet again on something that's just not accurate.
00:22:20.100 And they're also saying that there is going to be a bloodbath in the U.S.
00:22:27.560 if Trump isn't elected as president again.
00:22:30.840 That's their warning to America.
00:22:32.820 Take it from there.
00:22:34.060 Well, we saw the entire corporate media in unison report on Trump's rally.
00:22:38.700 And let me read you some of the headlines.
00:22:40.960 NBC News.
00:22:42.420 Trump says there will be a, quote, bloodbath if he loses the election.
00:22:47.660 CBS News.
00:22:49.300 In Ohio rally, Trump says there will be a, quote, bloodbath if he loses the election.
00:22:55.300 Rolling Stone.
00:22:56.400 Trump says there will be a, quote, bloodbath.
00:22:59.460 All of them, virtually word for word.
00:23:02.080 And I have to say, when I saw these headlines, look, I was concerned.
00:23:06.540 I had not seen the speech in Ohio.
00:23:08.980 I read all the headlines and I was like, oh, goodness, I hope he didn't say that.
00:23:13.580 That sounds like a really bad thing to say.
00:23:15.400 Like, a threat of violence if he loses the election.
00:23:18.620 I mean, that's not a good thing to say.
00:23:21.900 Then I listened to what he actually said.
00:23:24.300 And we're going to play for you in one second what he actually said.
00:23:27.460 And I'm going to tell you, if you have not heard what he actually said, if you just saw the headlines, this is going to piss you off.
00:23:34.160 Because it is totally and completely different than what the media reported on.
00:23:39.340 So listen.
00:23:40.220 Listen to the segment of his speech that prompted all those headlines.
00:23:44.360 Mexico has taken over a period of 30 years. 0.71
00:23:47.180 34 percent of the automobile manufacturing business in our country.
00:23:52.820 Think of it.
00:23:53.620 Went to Mexico.
00:23:55.000 China now is building a couple of massive plants where they're going to build the cars in Mexico and think, they think, that they're going to sell those cars into the United States with no tax at the border.
00:24:06.440 Let me tell you something to China.
00:24:08.400 If you're listening, President Xi, and you and I are friends, but he understands the way I deal.
00:24:13.580 Those big monster car manufacturing plants that you're building in Mexico right now, and you think you're going to get that, you're going to not hire Americans, and you're going to sell the cars to us. 0.99
00:24:25.420 Now, we're going to put a 100 percent tariff on every single car that comes across the line.
00:24:31.120 And you're not going to be able to sell those cars if I get elected.
00:24:35.200 Now, if I don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath for the whole.
00:24:39.200 That's going to be the least of it.
00:24:40.640 It's going to be a bloodbath for the country.
00:24:42.400 That'll be the least of it.
00:24:43.860 But they're not going to sell those cars.
00:24:45.700 They're building massive factories.
00:24:47.220 A friend of mine.
00:24:48.860 I mean, you can hear where he's going from there.
00:24:50.800 But let's go back to the headlines that you just mentioned a moment ago.
00:24:54.940 Donald Trump chillingly warns of a bloodbath in the U.S. if he isn't elected as president again.
00:25:01.880 Another headline, NBC News, Rolling Stones, all of these, putting them out there, saying the bloodbath Trump described would be in the car industry.
00:25:10.160 Did they say that?
00:25:10.860 No.
00:25:11.300 No, they didn't say that at all.
00:25:12.220 They're saying, like, basically, if you don't elect him, there's going to be a civil war.
00:25:16.620 Not even remotely close to what he actually said.
00:25:19.780 Yeah, look, this is deliberately deceptive.
00:25:23.980 He's talking, obviously, about the auto industry.
00:25:26.280 He's talking about the loss of manufacturing jobs in the auto industry.
00:25:30.140 He's talking about Joe Biden being unwilling to fight for U.S. jobs, for U.S. manufacturing, for the U.S. auto industry.
00:25:36.660 He's in Ohio, where there are a bunch of blue-collar workers, a bunch of Ohio workers.
00:25:40.140 And he's saying, if you elect me, I'm going to fight for U.S. jobs.
00:25:44.080 And if you don't, we're going to have a bloodbath in the auto industry because we're going to see jobs going away.
00:25:49.180 Now, that is a perfectly normal way to describe the position he's laying out.
00:25:55.140 And you know what?
00:25:56.340 Every single reporter who watched it and listened to it, they know that, too.
00:26:01.620 And yet, they have an agenda.
00:26:04.900 They want to say Trump is threatening violent revolution if he's not elected.
00:26:10.760 That's their narrative. 0.94
00:26:12.740 And facts be damned. 0.87
00:26:14.120 He said the word bloodbath. 0.96
00:26:15.300 That's all we need.
00:26:16.200 No context is necessary.
00:26:18.220 Doesn't matter that he was talking in depth about the auto industry, about factories, about Chinese factories, about factories in Mexico.
00:26:25.920 Doesn't matter that he's talking about putting tariffs on cars made overseas to protect jobs here.
00:26:32.060 Look, this is a trade debate.
00:26:33.720 We've had trade debates for a long time.
00:26:36.340 And yet, the media, this is a great example.
00:26:39.700 NBC News knows they're lying.
00:26:42.140 CBS News knows they're lying.
00:26:44.180 Rolling Stone knows they're lying.
00:26:46.580 And they do not care.
00:26:47.440 Well, just read the Politico headline.
00:26:48.380 Read the Politico headline for everybody.
00:26:50.220 Or in part of their, I should say, in their article.
00:26:52.720 Just read their one statement.
00:26:54.480 You and I were talking about this earlier.
00:26:55.860 And it just tells you how much they're willing to deceive the American people.
00:26:59.160 Well, Politico says, Trump says country faces, quote, bloodbath if Biden wins in November.
00:27:06.620 So they use that quote.
00:27:09.160 And then it says in the subhead, while it is unclear what the former president meant exactly.
00:27:15.100 The remarks came as Trump was complaining about the automobile industry.
00:27:19.560 Complaining, mind you.
00:27:20.980 And it's unclear. 1.00
00:27:22.140 No, it wasn't unclear, you blithering morons. 1.00
00:27:25.420 You know it wasn't unclear. 1.00
00:27:26.880 You just want to write that headline.
00:27:30.580 And he said a word that gave you a hook.
00:27:33.100 Okay, that's all we need.
00:27:34.460 We got that word.
00:27:35.480 Let's cut it out of context.
00:27:37.260 Go tell our lies.
00:27:39.380 And, you know, the media wonders.
00:27:41.280 Why does nobody believe the corporate media?
00:27:44.100 It's because no real journalist would listen to that speech and write that headline.
00:27:49.660 And, by the way, every journalist whose byline is there ought to demand the headline be corrected.
00:27:56.040 Now, one thing to know, reporters typically don't write headlines.
00:28:00.260 It's the editor that writes the headline.
00:28:02.160 But if your name is going under a headline and the headline is a blatant lie,
00:28:06.680 any reporter with a shred of integrity would say change the headline or I'm retracting the story and denouncing it as misleading.
00:28:16.320 Any reporter with real integrity would resign rather than putting his or her name under a story that was a blatant lie.
00:28:23.900 And yet, you know what?
00:28:24.720 Not a one of them has done that.
00:28:26.560 To the best of my knowledge, none of these outlets have corrected or retracted their story.
00:28:32.000 And, you know, there's an old line that a lie can make it halfway around the world before the truth even gets its shoes on.
00:28:40.900 This is this will fit like the many other hoaxes, like the Russia hoax, like all of the attacks on Trump that the media has made up.
00:28:48.500 I guarantee you there will be people, millions of people who believe, well, Trump threatened a bloodbath if he doesn't win.
00:28:56.880 When he was talking about, no, we need U.S. manufacturing jobs and auto jobs in America. 0.97
00:29:01.880 And Biden is doing a lousy job of fighting for U.S. manufacturing.
00:29:06.220 That's a message a large percentage of America agrees with.
00:29:09.640 And the media wants to just just just deliberately deceive their readers.
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00:29:44.680 It brings me to the final story that you mentioned earlier.
00:29:49.900 And, you know, it's funny how the media will go and lie to you over claiming there's this bloodbath if Trump wins and taking it out of taking out of context.
00:29:58.940 But then you look at another story, which you would think they would have reported on over the weekend.
00:30:05.040 And there was complete, I would call it malfeasance by not talking about this.
00:30:11.680 Joe Biden, they had no they had no problem talking about his son, Hunter Biden, when he went to Washington, D.C., when he had that press conference, when he said, I will not testify behind closed doors because Republicans are going to lie about what I say.
00:30:24.320 And I will only do it in a public hearing.
00:30:26.700 I demand a public hearing.
00:30:28.240 And there was a big charade.
00:30:29.380 It was in front of the Capitol where you serve, Senator.
00:30:32.460 And now we found out that there is a public hearing that's coming.
00:30:37.800 And Hunter Biden has rejected the GOP invitation for the public hearing after demanding that the same GOP give him a damn public hearing and demanded it in Washington in front of the Capitol.
00:30:52.560 Well, this was all theatrics and it was all dishonest theatrics by Hunter Biden and his legal team and by Joe Biden and the White House.
00:31:00.460 But but as you noted, Hunter Biden said from the beginning that he only wanted to testify in public.
00:31:05.440 He didn't trust a closed door event.
00:31:07.040 He said he was happy to testify in public.
00:31:09.420 So the House has taken him up on it and invited him, said, come testify on March 20th.
00:31:13.960 We've got a hearing.
00:31:15.420 Devin Archer, Tony Bobulinski and Jason Galanis are testifying.
00:31:18.660 By the way, these are individuals Hunter knows very well that he's done business with.
00:31:23.580 Come testify publicly.
00:31:25.440 And immediately the lie was apparent because Hunter Biden said no.
00:31:31.280 Hunter Biden's lawyer refused to go calling the public hearing a, quote, blatant planned for media event.
00:31:38.920 And in fact, let me read what what what what Abby Lowell, who's Hunter Biden's lawyer, wrote, quote, your blatant plan for media event is not a proper proceeding, but an obvious attempt to throw a Hail Mary pass after the game has ended. 0.74
00:31:52.040 Let me remind you of a statement you made about how witnesses and specifically Mr.
00:31:56.580 Biden could satisfy your prior requests at your press conference after the January 10th, 2024 committee hearing to hold Mr.
00:32:05.820 Biden in contempt.
00:32:06.780 You stated, quote, all we need are people to come in for the depositions and then we'll be finished.
00:32:12.540 We just need people to show up to the depositions and we'll wrap this up.
00:32:16.560 Nobody wants to wrap this up more than I do.
00:32:19.300 Mr.
00:32:20.340 Biden did just as you asked and as you as you did when you announced that witnesses could choose depositions.
00:32:27.640 You want to ignore what you said.
00:32:30.220 Now, let me note.
00:32:32.060 You and I had this conversation with James Comer at the time.
00:32:35.720 And James Comer is a good man.
00:32:37.600 He's a friend.
00:32:38.160 He's doing a very good job.
00:32:39.580 I told him then on this podcast, forget about the closed door deposition.
00:32:46.060 Hunter is saying he will testify publicly.
00:32:48.140 Do it tomorrow.
00:32:49.400 Get him on record publicly tomorrow.
00:32:52.960 I wish I could say I'm surprised.
00:32:54.640 I'm not surprised.
00:32:56.200 Hunter Biden is playing games.
00:32:58.300 He is trying to delay this until after the election.
00:33:01.060 And as I reminded James Comer, Hunter Biden's not the target here.
00:33:06.220 He's not the reason this is a matter of public concern.
00:33:09.380 Joe Biden, the corruption of the president of the United States, is the target.
00:33:12.780 And so, listen, nothing of me, no part of me is surprised that Hunter's now saying, oh, no, I did the deposition.
00:33:19.940 Now I'm not going to do it.
00:33:21.240 I think the next step is obvious.
00:33:23.600 The House needs to issue a subpoena for Hunter Biden to testify publicly.
00:33:28.400 Hunter will have a choice, comply with the subpoena or defy the subpoena.
00:33:33.020 And if he defies the subpoena, the House needs to hold him in contempt.
00:33:36.940 That needs to happen fast.
00:33:38.720 Time is running out.
00:33:40.060 But I got to say, you know, all of the bravado, remember we talked about on verdict also, how when the House was having a hearing, Hunter Biden showed up in the hearing room just gloating.
00:33:52.180 In my view, I wish they had right then said, Mr. Biden, come down to the table.
00:33:57.380 We'll swear you in.
00:33:58.260 Let's go.
00:33:59.380 That's what they should have done.
00:34:01.340 I still think and hope they will get him to testify publicly.
00:34:04.680 But if he avoids public testimony through these games, it will be tragic because this is an effort at obfuscation.
00:34:14.600 This is an effort at cover up.
00:34:16.400 This is an effort at hiding the criminal behavior of Joe Biden, the president of the United States.
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00:36:08.960 Senator, how important is it that we get Hunter Biden on the record publicly?
00:36:16.300 It's one thing to read the transcripts.
00:36:18.240 You've read them, what's been released.
00:36:20.660 I've read what's been released.
00:36:22.020 We've had reporting on it.
00:36:23.460 But look, there's an aspect of Hunter Biden that could offer, in my opinion, a huge opportunity for conservatives to capitalize on just how corrupt Joe Biden is.
00:36:36.800 Because you never know what he's going to say or how angry he's going to get or how self-righteous he's going to be.
00:36:43.400 And part of having a public hearing is getting to ask him those uncomfortable questions that need to be answered.
00:36:49.140 But you don't know what he's going to do.
00:36:51.580 And that is, I think, something the American people deserve to see.
00:36:54.640 It's incredibly important.
00:36:57.980 Look, Hunter Biden, I believe, is lying.
00:37:01.600 I think he lied in his closed-door deposition.
00:37:03.460 I think if he has a public hearing, he will lie.
00:37:05.920 But I also think he's not a very good liar.
00:37:08.240 His lies are facially inconsistent.
00:37:11.360 They're contradictory.
00:37:12.200 And competent cross-examination can demonstrate how he is lying to cover up for his father.
00:37:21.360 Now, we have a closed-door deposition.
00:37:23.560 We have a transcript.
00:37:24.340 A transcript is dry.
00:37:25.600 A transcript is lifeless.
00:37:27.360 A transcript is not going to dominate the evening news.
00:37:30.620 A transcript people are not going to watch and see for themselves.
00:37:33.980 And understand the context of it.
00:37:35.700 The context of this is very much like going into the 2020 election.
00:37:38.860 The 2020 election in October of 2020, the news broke of the Hunter Biden laptop.
00:37:45.700 The New York Post broke the story.
00:37:48.380 And we saw big tech silence and censor it.
00:37:51.700 We saw Facebook and Twitter block anyone sharing it.
00:37:54.840 We saw big tech threaten to deplatform any media outlets that reported on it.
00:37:59.880 And media outlets like Politico happily obeyed big tech and simply kept it secret.
00:38:06.180 What was in the Hunter Biden laptop.
00:38:07.760 Mind you, the Hunter Biden laptop was real.
00:38:10.100 It was accurate. 0.89
00:38:11.020 It had evidence of multiple felonies.
00:38:13.060 And mind you, also, the Department of Justice and the FBI knew that it was real and accurate
00:38:17.220 because they had the laptop in their possessions and they had had it for over a year.
00:38:22.860 But particularly as you get closer to an election, their objective is do not let the American people
00:38:28.660 see things that demonstrate Joe Biden's criminal culpability.
00:38:33.560 The same thing is true here.
00:38:35.100 The reason to have Hunter Biden testify is so the American people can look him in the eye.
00:38:40.940 You know, the American people are very good at judging credibility.
00:38:44.780 They can tell when somebody is spouting BS.
00:38:48.020 They can tell when they're not telling the truth.
00:38:51.200 And it's harder to tell that when you're reading a transcript.
00:38:54.020 And so in my view, it is critically important to get Hunter Biden in sworn testimony alone.
00:39:03.700 I actually don't think it was a great idea to have him testifying alongside a bunch of other people.
00:39:07.940 I get there's some value in saying, well, so-and-so said this.
00:39:11.060 How about you?
00:39:11.760 But I think Hunter Biden ought to be alone at that table.
00:39:14.120 I think every question ought to be directed to him.
00:39:16.040 And you can use the answers from the other witnesses to cross-examine him.
00:39:20.460 I also hope, if and when Hunter testifies, that there's a degree of coordination.
00:39:26.800 One of the problems when you have a hearing is if you've got lots of individual members, lots of House members,
00:39:31.920 each of whom has five minutes, you will often have people go on marches in one direction or another,
00:39:38.780 and they don't follow up on anything, and it's kind of whatever any individual member wants to do.
00:39:42.980 They just ask that, and some of them are not very good cross-examiners, so they can't follow up.
00:39:47.480 And it doesn't present a coherent storyline.
00:39:51.580 It doesn't systematically dismantle the lies.
00:39:55.440 What I hope is that James Comer and or Jim Jordan, the chairman, sit down with their Republican members,
00:40:02.740 that they plan out a strategy for the hearing, a strategy for the cross-examination,
00:40:08.440 that they assign each member of the committee, okay, you've got this point.
00:40:13.280 This point, here are the questions that will be helpful to ask, and you drive a systematic message.
00:40:19.320 That's something in the Commerce Committee.
00:40:21.420 I'm the ranking member on the Senate Committee of Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
00:40:24.920 On major hearings, that's exactly what I try to do.
00:40:27.600 In the Senate Judiciary Committee, we have done that on multiple hearings.
00:40:31.320 For example, the Brett Kavanaugh hearing.
00:40:33.640 That was a major fight.
00:40:35.320 We sat and we strategized exactly how we were going to handle the cross-examination, the messaging.
00:40:41.280 I hope the House does that.
00:40:43.140 But none of that matters unless you get Hunter at the witness stand, sworn in, and on national television.
00:40:52.500 Because, listen, if Hunter's testifying, as much as the media wants to hide it from the American people,
00:40:57.780 they cannot completely do so.
00:41:00.400 And it gives the American people the chance to decide, is the President of the United States corrupt?
00:41:06.100 Has he taken bribes from Chinese communists, from Russians, from Ukrainians, from foreign oligarchs?
00:41:12.500 It lets the American people decide when Hunter sent a WhatsApp text to a Chinese communist threatening his father's punishment
00:41:24.040 if the Chinese communists didn't send him millions of dollars.
00:41:28.460 Was Dad complicit in that shakedown?
00:41:31.920 I think the answer is obviously yes.
00:41:34.100 But seeing Hunter being forced to answer those questions goes a long way to letting the American people decide based on the facts.
00:41:42.440 Yeah, great point.
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