Verdict with Ted Cruz - How The Iran War Ends, Talking to Astronauts & Illegals Keep Committing Crimes

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00:00:38.080 Senator, we've got a lot to talk about in this show,

00:00:40.300 including an update on Iran, and there's a lot happening there as well.

00:00:43.840 Well, first and foremost, after 39 days of an active military campaign against Iran,

00:00:49.200 after bombing their military, bombing their missiles, bombing their drones,

00:00:54.600 bombing their Air Force, bombing their Navy. We have had incredible military success. And

00:01:00.740 President Trump has announced a two-week ceasefire, a two-week ceasefire that is happening as we speak.

00:01:07.880 We're going to break down exactly what has been accomplished so far in Iran, what the military

00:01:12.620 successes have been, and what's next, what President Trump is demanding of Iran, what Iran

00:01:19.680 has to do to have the ceasefire continue, and what's going to happen with the Strait of Hormuz.

00:01:25.360 All of that we're going to break down. We're also going to tell you about a conversation I had this

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00:03:50.700 Senator, let's start with Iran, and it is clear that, as the Com chief put it today,

00:03:56.860 Iran has suffered a generational military defeat.

00:04:00.640 They described it as a 40-year military buildup that has been crushed in under 40 days.

00:04:05.820 yet on tv democrats are using the word a lot in the last 24 hours and that word that they're

00:04:12.080 obsessed with now is a quagmire uh forget the definition of a quagmire and actually if you

00:04:17.800 if you relate it to military uh you know intervention or a war usually that word is

00:04:22.780 used after years of what has become stagnant but they're like oh no donald trump's got a

00:04:28.680 quagmire your reaction to all of that well i will say we had 39 days of active military

00:04:35.480 conflict. And if you look at what occurred, we took out the entirety of Iran's air defenses.

00:04:41.220 We took out the entirety of their ballistic missiles, their ballistic missile launchers, 0.82

00:04:46.860 their ballistic missile manufacturing capability. We took out the entirety of their drone arsenal,

00:04:52.180 the entirety of their drone launchers. We took out their drone manufacturing capacity.

00:04:57.640 We also took out their air force, which is virtually non-existent at this point. We took

00:05:02.120 out their navy sinking more than 140 naval ships. It's the single largest naval defeat since World

00:05:08.660 War II. And all of that is on top of the fact that we took out the Ayatollah and virtually the 1.00

00:05:15.120 entirety of the military leadership. Here's what U.S. Central Commander Admiral Bradley Cooper had 0.90

00:05:21.960 to say. He said, quote, we set out to dismantle Iran's military capability and we clearly

00:05:29.360 accomplished this task. He said Iran's conventional military, quote, built over 40 years at the cost 0.93

00:05:37.040 of billions of dollars has been eliminated. He further elaborated, quote, our core strategic

00:05:45.980 military objectives have been achieved after destroying Iran's missile, drone, and naval

00:05:52.420 capabilities and their defensive industrial base, outlining what he characterized as a

00:05:58.900 comprehensive dismantling of iran's war machine uh the sent con commander emphasized the scale

00:06:06.560 of the operation we conducted more than 13 000 let me repeat that 13 000 strikes on iranian

00:06:15.120 military targets we flew thousands upon thousands of combat missions uh over iran and and as admiral

00:06:23.300 cooper put it quote in less than 40 days you destroyed the military that iran had built

00:06:30.080 for over 40 years he also said more than 50 000 american service members took part in the

00:06:37.400 operation and he called it a mission of profound consequences which exceeded each and every

00:06:44.420 expectation for what the forces achieved then he went on to say quote we remain present we remain

00:06:51.600 vigilant and we remain ready if called and he added that the united states forces would continue

00:06:57.380 to stand quote shoulder to shoulder with regional partners to maintain quote the most sophisticated

00:07:03.060 and largest active air defense umbrella in the world that is a big deal the success that was

00:07:13.900 carried out was extraordinary now the question is after that and by the way the instant the attack

00:07:24.140 started democrats began attacking not iran not attacking the people who chant death to america

00:07:30.200 not attacking the regime that that has been the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism

00:07:34.860 not attacking the iranian regime that provides over 90 of the funding to hamas over 90 of the

00:07:40.660 funding to hezbollah over 90 of the funding the houthis no the democrats didn't attack any of

00:07:45.120 that what did they attack our commander-in-chief donald j trump you know it used to be that

00:07:51.540 politics end at the nation's border at our water's edge and yet today the instant this military

00:07:59.900 conflict began the democrats hate trump so much rather than stand with our troops rather than

00:08:06.160 stand for defeating our enemies. They immediately began cheering effectively for the United States

00:08:11.620 to lose. Let's talk about what success actually looks like. We know that the Democrats, as you

00:08:18.760 mentioned before the break, they're criticizing Trump because he didn't bomb the power plants

00:08:24.400 and the roads. But if he would have done it, they said that he would be then committing war crimes

00:08:28.900 and he should be arrested. So which one is it? Well, look, they're wrong on both fronts. Let's

00:08:35.200 talk about what President Trump is demanding of Iran for this ceasefire to continue. And mind you,

00:08:40.880 this is a two-week ceasefire. There's no guarantee if Iran fails, the ceasefire will end. But

00:08:47.320 President Trump is making three demands, and I agree with all of them. Number one, he is insisting

00:08:53.440 that Iran engage in no enrichment, zero enrichment of uranium. Now, Iran has been pressing back

00:09:00.560 repeatedly saying they have a right to enrich uranium. Of course, Barack Obama and his disastrous

00:09:05.880 Iran nuclear deal effectively protected their right to enrich uranium, which would have led

00:09:13.140 inexorably to Iran having a nuclear weapon. And listen, when you have an Ayatollah who's a 0.90

00:09:18.800 religious zealot who chants death to America, who has killed nearly a thousand Americans, 0.89

00:09:25.080 the idea of any universe in which he has a nuclear weapon where he could kill in the blink of an eye 0.71

00:09:31.560 hundreds of thousands of americans that's utterly unacceptable so president trump is right

00:09:37.460 to insist zero enrichment number one number two iran has a substantial stockpile of enriched

00:09:45.320 uranium president trump is insisting hand over your enriched uranium you cannot keep it you

00:09:52.400 cannot hold on to it you must hand it over he is absolutely right to insist on that as well and

00:09:58.520 then number three president trump is insisting open the strait of hormuz and keep it open you

00:10:04.280 cannot use this as a choke point that is exactly right now i will say you have some democrats some

00:10:11.060 of the media that are saying oh they're actually saying iran won this war because they threatened

00:10:17.040 the Strait of Hormuz. Look, Iran has engaged in terrorism for 47 years. They are continuing to

00:10:25.480 engage in terrorism. I cannot, none of us can promise today that Iran will stop engaging in 0.99

00:10:32.760 terrorism, but what President Trump has done is, number one, dramatically limited their ability

00:10:38.140 to engage in warfare to kill Americans or to kill Iran's neighbors. The missiles are gone,

00:10:44.920 the drones are gone, the Air Force jets are gone, the air defenses are gone, the naval ships are

00:10:51.120 gone, all of that, not to mention the military leadership has been killed. All of that has

00:10:58.900 dramatically weakened Iran's ability to kill others. As for the Strait of Hormuz, President 0.77

00:11:05.260 Trump made a clear and direct threat. If you do not open the strait, we will bomb your power plants

00:11:11.400 And we will bomb your bridges. Now, Democrats had a conniption fit. They said it is a war crime to bomb power plants. 0.73

00:11:19.200 Now, in our last podcast that we did on Wednesday, we went through the Pentagon manual on warfare that makes very explicit that power plants, civilian power plants are legitimate military targets because they're integral for the military defense of a nation.

00:11:34.180 They power communication. They power the military system. And so they are have long been treated as legitimate military target targets under the rules of war. Of course, that doesn't stop the corporate media. That doesn't stop the Democrats from screaming war crime. But but Ben, it's worth underscoring.

00:11:53.440 why did president trump threaten the power plants and the bridges the obvious thing to threaten the

00:12:02.340 thing that would that would be the most devastating to iran is to threaten the oil infrastructure to

00:12:08.540 threaten the refineries to threaten karg island which is the main point the main terminal through

00:12:13.720 which oil is exported if the united states bombed the oil infrastructure in iran it would utterly

00:12:21.240 cripple their economy that is the vast majority of the revenue that the iranian iranian government

00:12:26.580 receives that the iranian people receive is is revenue from selling oil and if we bomb those 0.98

00:12:31.660 facilities it would be devastating to the iranian economy why does trump not want to do it well

00:12:38.680 quite sensibly because when this military conflict is over iran presumably is going to need to

00:12:45.160 rebuild it's not going to be american taxpayers who rebuild we're not going to rebuild at all

00:12:48.780 We're not going to spend our money to do that. But if we have a government in Iran that is not run by Islamists, that is not actively trying to murder Americans, then presumably that government is going to need to rebuild from the consequences of this war.

00:13:02.820 And the only way that they're going to be able to rebuild with any speed, any alacrity, is if they are able to sell the oil they have and have that revenue.

00:13:12.260 And so President Trump, I think quite sensibly, is focusing on other choke points that are not the beating heart of the Iranian economy going forward. 0.90

00:13:24.520 That's why I threatened power plants and bridges.

00:13:26.420 And let me be clear, I think there is still a very real possibility President Trump follows through on that threat and takes out the power plants in Iran,

00:13:35.340 which would plunge that nation into darkness, would literally turn out the lights.

00:13:42.260 I think President Trump will do that if, number one, Iran continues to shut down the Strait of Hormuz.

00:13:47.780 I think that if they think Donald Trump is bluffing, they are making a bad calculus. 0.56

00:13:53.600 And the previous Ayatollah made that calculus, and he did not live 24 hours into this military conflict.

00:14:00.180 The current leaders have to make their own judgment, but in my view, Trump is not bluffing.

00:14:05.380 When you talk about Trump not bluffing on this one, there's people that say, well, he's just reaching for straws here.

00:14:11.360 just trying to salvage this thing i i disagree with that i think what we've done with our

00:14:17.160 military in the last 40 days is is truly just remarkable it's historic uh taking out a 40-year

00:14:23.840 military in 40 days it's a year a day if you want to break it down in a different perspective for

00:14:29.020 every year it took them to to build their military it took us one day to take out a year's worth of

00:14:33.920 work in 40 years in 40 days is pretty impressive but there's also a real political concern here

00:14:39.680 about the midterms coming up that's something that i hear a lot of people that by the way support the

00:14:45.180 president like look we got to get this thing over with this is going to ruin us the midterms

00:14:48.320 how concerned are you about the quote politics playing back at home with this look we need to

00:14:53.320 do the right thing and we need to keep america safe president trump is a strong commander in

00:14:57.960 chief and and he launched this military attack because iran has been waging war against the

00:15:02.820 united states they have been funding terrorism they've been murdering americans and they've

00:15:06.440 stated they had intended to continue funding terrorism and murdering Americans.

00:15:10.120 So he was acting to keep Americans safe.

00:15:12.900 Unlike Barack Obama, unlike past presidents, he's not engaged in nation building.

00:15:16.960 He's not invading foreign nations and putting our sons and daughters in harm's way to achieve amorphous goals like spreading democracy.

00:15:25.680 Spreading democracy may be a wonderful thing, but we're not going to sacrifice our fighting men and women to do it.

00:15:30.920 What he is doing is taking out a real threat that was threatening the lives of Americans.

00:15:37.600 The politics will come.

00:15:39.180 He needs to focus on doing the right thing.

00:15:40.980 That's exactly what President Trump is doing.

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00:15:57.980 all right senator i want to get to something else uh there's been so much about iran in the news

00:16:04.260 for good reason but there's also some other really big news items that are happening and one of them

00:16:09.880 is our astronauts and you got to talk to them uh after this launch on their way back to earth

00:16:15.860 well i did in terms of when i came home uh this evening and my family asked what'd you do today

00:16:22.960 i was able to answer well i talked to four astronauts today coming back from the moon

00:16:27.120 And it's not often you get to say something like that.

00:16:29.840 Yeah, no kidding.

00:16:31.220 You look at the Artemis 2 mission.

00:16:33.400 The Artemis 2 mission launched eight days ago.

00:16:36.760 It's a nine-day-long mission.

00:16:38.220 It is the first time we have sent men back to the moon since the Apollo program.

00:16:44.760 It's been nearly 50 years.

00:16:46.120 Now, of course, they did not land on the moon, but we launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

00:16:51.520 They launched, left the Earth's atmosphere, went to the moon.

00:16:54.480 they orbited around the moon and now they're returning back and so they actually went

00:16:59.040 further uh from the from earth than than any human being says have ever been and they're

00:17:06.180 on their journey back uh when i spoke to them it was just under 24 hours before splashdown

00:17:12.180 they're scheduled to splash down uh 60 miles off the coast of san diego uh at just after 7 p.m

00:17:20.460 on friday and so i i spoke to the four astronauts you've you uh you have reed and victor you have

00:17:28.380 christina and jeremy and and they're all in the orion capsule uh i know all four of them i was

00:17:34.880 there uh when their astronaut class was selected to be on artemis 2 uh artemis 4 by the way is

00:17:42.620 going to be the mission that actually goes and lands on the moon and puts another astronaut on

00:17:47.440 the moon one of the reasons why do you know why the this particular set of missions is called

00:17:51.960 artemis i was going to ask you that why because i know you've been briefed on it well uh in in

00:17:58.560 greek mythology artemis was the twin sister of apollo and and so they were twins and in apollo

00:18:06.480 that was the last time we land landed astronauts on the moon and we landed only men on the moon

00:18:11.640 this mission nasa said from day one we're going to land the first woman on the moon and that's 1.00

00:18:16.560 That's why they named it Artemis, because we're going to have a female astronaut in addition to male astronauts. 0.97

00:18:21.220 We're going to have both. And I got to say, look, I'm as you know, I'm the father of daughters.

00:18:26.520 I have two teenage girls. And I really like the fact that that that the plan is by 2028, we're going to land on the moon.

00:18:32.920 And I like the fact that we're going to put the first woman on the moon.

00:18:35.460 That's something my daughters can can be proud of. They can look forward to.

00:18:39.780 They can say, look, I can do anything if I want. I can be an astronaut. I can land on the moon.

00:18:44.840 And you look back, you and I were not alive in 1969 when Neil Armstrong first stepped on the surface of the moon, but it inspired an entire generation of Americans, an entire generation across the world.

00:19:00.780 and and i'll tell you you and i both live in houston our our hometown or my hometown of

00:19:06.440 houston and your current town of houston uh has an incredible history with space one of the very

00:19:15.120 first words ever uttered on the surface of the moon was houston uh yeah houston the eagle has

00:19:22.240 landed and and our city there's a reason why the sports teams are the astros and the rockets and

00:19:30.620 We now have a WNBA team coming back that's the Comets.

00:19:33.660 I mean, our city sports.

00:19:36.500 The Astrodome is where the Astro played forever.

00:19:40.100 Astroworld used to be our theme park.

00:19:41.660 Sadly, it closed.

00:19:43.460 We're a city, you look at commercial space.

00:19:46.820 The four Artemis astronauts trained right here in Houston at Johnson Space Center.

00:19:51.360 That's where every astronaut trains.

00:19:54.420 It's where mission control is.

00:19:55.660 So I went today down to mission control.

00:19:59.140 I met with the engineers who are controlling everything that is happening up there and got to, you know, sort of like E.T., got the phone home and talked to.

00:20:09.980 We did a call that had about a dozen members of Congress.

00:20:12.300 And we talked to the astronauts, Jared Isaacman, who's the administrator of NASA.

00:20:18.340 He spoke first. And I got to say, it was really cool.

00:20:21.180 He spoke to them and he greeted them and thanked them for what they were doing.

00:20:25.420 and he said he said i'm speaking to you on behalf of the people of earth and i gotta say that was

00:20:32.900 really cool to hear and i commented right after that i said that is the first time in my life i've

00:20:37.760 stood next to someone or stood with someone who greeted someone on behalf of the people of earth

00:20:44.820 and that was not hyperbole uh you you look at they traveled over 250 000 miles the orion capsule

00:20:53.860 itself is really small the capsule's 330 cubic feet uh of volume it is uh 16 and a half feet

00:21:04.900 wide and it is 11 feet tall and and and it's uh round and sort of shaped like a cone and and four

00:21:12.960 people have been living that the size has been compared to about the size of two minivans

00:21:19.960 So four people have been living in two minivans for nine days.

00:21:24.200 I have been in a mock-up of the capsule.

00:21:27.620 It's really small.

00:21:29.260 I mean, there's not much room at all.

00:21:31.960 And by the way, it's four people sharing, among other things, one toilet.

00:21:36.940 And in fact, they had a problem where the toilet jammed.

00:21:40.160 And they had to play space plumbers.

00:21:44.460 And it has been fascinating.

00:21:46.980 There have been millions of people watching them just day to day doing their mission in space and watching them.

00:21:56.080 It's been live stream and they've been doing a lot of media interviews, which I think is really powerful.

00:22:00.840 One of the most important purposes of the space mission is to inspire the next generation.

00:22:07.420 And I think in the midst of all the other challenges we have going on, seeing that four human beings are capable of going back to the moon and knowing the promise that we're soon going to be walking on the moon.

00:22:20.340 And by the way, not just walking on the moon.

00:22:23.060 It is the objective of NASA, and I have written this into law, that we will have sustained human habitation on the surface of the moon.

00:22:32.400 And President Trump is committed to building a lunar base.

00:22:37.760 And one of the cool things, Ben, you know, representing Texas for 14 years, just about every single major piece of space legislation that has passed in the last 14 years, I've either written or co-written.

00:22:52.760 And so I've had space legislation signed by Barack Obama.

00:22:57.060 I've had space legislation signed by Donald Trump.

00:23:00.280 I've had space legislation signed by Joe Biden.

00:23:03.620 And one of the things I've worked hard on to do is keep space out of partisan politics.

00:23:09.560 There's so much partisan politics on everything else.

00:23:13.000 But if America is going to lead in space, listen, China has stated their goal.

00:23:18.100 They want to go to the moon by 2030.

00:23:19.840 They want to beat us to the moon.

00:23:21.560 And there's a land rush.

00:23:23.060 The most the optimum land to occupy is at the South Pole.

00:23:28.720 It's at the South Pole where there is water. Water is available for human habitation, for energy, but it's also the crater is high enough that you can see the sun and have solar power.

00:23:40.700 And so the South Pole, the scientists believe, is the optimum location. We're in a race to get there, and the United States intends to win.

00:23:48.700 We're going to beat China. And a big part of the way we're beating China is not letting this be subject to the back and forth partisan political bickering.

00:23:58.420 So much else is. And I'm proud of the fact that for 14 years, we have kept American leadership in space outside of partisan politics.

00:24:06.800 Senator, let's talk about also just something that's going to be really exciting.

00:24:10.080 And that is the prospect that I and also my kids are going to be able to see us land on the moon again.

00:24:16.560 When is that expected to happen? And I know you've learned a lot about that in this and this plans.

00:24:23.200 And this is obviously this trip is one very big step getting us much closer to that.

00:24:28.140 Twenty twenty eight is the target date to land back on the moon and to take astronauts safely to the surface of the moon and then back again to planet Earth.

00:24:36.980 And the plan is for it to be in the last year of President Trump's presidency.

00:24:41.880 And by the way, I will say OMB, the Office of Management and Budget last year, there were some folks at OMB that wanted to drastically slash the budget to go to the moon.

00:24:52.500 They had decided Mars was more important and the moon was going to be substantially deprioritized.

00:24:59.120 And what happened last year when we were passing the big reconciliation bill, the working families tax cut, I decided that was a terrible thing for the United States. 0.63

00:25:08.640 I was not going to sit by and watch America lose to China and cede the moon to China. 0.79

00:25:15.180 And so when we were writing the reconciliation bill, I wrote in $10 billion to fund going back to the moon, to fund Artemis, to fund what is happening right now.

00:25:26.240 And OMB was really unhappy with me. It was a battle, but I had the support.

00:25:30.300 I had locked down the votes in the Senate. And so we passed it in law.

00:25:35.640 And it was an example of Article 1 of the Constitution, the Congress exercising its authority.

00:25:41.240 And I'll tell you what I told the president. 0.98

00:25:42.860 I said, look, if we were to look up in 2028 or 2030 and see the Chinese on the moon, understand that they had gotten there and beaten us there and seized the high ground in the preferred location, 0.96

00:25:54.100 I think it would be more damaging to this country than Sputnik was when the Soviets launched a satellite into space. 0.97

00:26:00.380 We are not going to lose the race with China and Artemis, too.

00:26:04.680 It's an inspirational example of America leading and America winning.

00:26:08.520 We want to talk about another issue that it needs to be back on the radar screen for a lot of Americans. 1.00

00:26:15.120 And that is the continual crimes are being committed by illegal immigrants that are in this country. 1.00

00:26:22.140 The media continues to overlook this. 1.00

00:26:25.160 They don't want you to know that it's happening.

00:26:27.060 But it's another example of why the president needs to be fighting so hard against these sanctuary cities that are that are harboring many of these criminals that are, as he would describe them, really bad hombres.

00:26:37.540 Well, you may recall back in 2024 at the Republican National Convention, when I spoke and addressed the convention, my remarks were focused on this topic. 0.98

00:26:46.860 And the theme of it was every damn day, every day, another American is raped. 0.98

00:26:54.040 Another American is assaulted. Another American is murdered. 1.00

00:26:57.060 by a violent criminal illegal alien that joe biden and the democrats have released and i walked

00:27:02.760 through the tragic cases of jocelyn nungary the beautiful 12 year old girl raped and murdered

00:27:08.140 here in houston i walked through lakin riley the the horrific uh murder of the young nursing

00:27:14.660 student in georgia i walked through rachel moran the the the mom of five raped and murdered

00:27:20.840 outside of Washington, D.C.

00:27:22.700 It was happening over and over and over again.

00:27:26.640 That was one of the big reasons that the voters came out in overwhelming numbers,

00:27:30.580 reelected President Trump, elected a Republican House, elected a Republican Senate.

00:27:35.720 And we've seen immediate results.

00:27:37.460 We've seen illegal border crossings drop more than 99%.

00:27:41.880 The problem is we have four years of open borders that we have to unwind.

00:27:46.800 We have over 12 million illegal aliens that were allowed to flood into this country.

00:27:51.300 And so just this week, the story broke that a gas station clerk, a mom in Fort Myers, Florida, was bludgeoned to death with a hammer.

00:28:03.700 I mean, what a horrible way to go, beaten to death with a hammer.

00:28:07.100 And who is it that committed this crime?

00:28:08.780 a Haitian illegal alien who was caught and then released at the border by the Biden administration in 2022.

00:28:17.580 An immigration judge ordered him deported.

00:28:21.060 Robert Joachim is his name.

00:28:23.880 But the Biden administration shielded him from deportation by granting him temporary protected status.

00:28:34.260 So in other words, what this person did, he took a hammer in the parking lot of a gas station.

00:28:40.480 He walks at her with full strength. 0.78

00:28:42.540 He beats her on the head with a hammer. 0.79

00:28:44.540 She falls down unconscious. 0.97

00:28:46.220 And then he crushes her head with the hammer while she's unconscious six more times.

00:28:54.440 Here's the statement the Department of Homeland Security put out. 0.83

00:28:56.980 Quote, this illegal alien barbarically hit this woman in the head multiple times.

00:29:03.460 with a hammer this heinous murderer was released into the country by the biden administration

00:29:10.460 not only did the biden administration release him into the country but they gave him temporary

00:29:15.840 protected status their reckless immigration policies cost this woman her life this keeps

00:29:26.160 happening over and over and over again and what is amazing ben in spite of that every democrat in

00:29:38.020 the senate when we have a vote the department of homeland security still shut down because they

00:29:42.420 have decided they hate ice so much they hate border enforcement so much that it is the position

00:29:46.960 of the democrat party they are opposed they want to defund ice which is the organizations

00:29:53.420 that is charged with finding this vicious criminal,

00:29:58.000 arresting him, and deporting him.

00:30:00.540 They don't want him deported. 1.00

00:30:02.140 They want this Haitian murderer in your community. 1.00

00:30:04.940 They don't care if you happen to be the poor woman who's bludgeoned to death. 1.00

00:30:10.620 Look, you know, Chris Murphy, the very liberal Democrat from Connecticut,

00:30:16.660 was on TV, and, you know, there's an old line that a gaffe

00:30:20.280 is when a politician actually accidentally tells the truth.

00:30:23.420 He described, he said, the people we care about the most, meaning we, meaning Democrats, are illegal immigrants.

00:30:32.720 That is what their party is.

00:30:34.880 And it's infuriating.

00:30:36.220 It keeps happening over and over and over again.

00:30:39.240 When you talk about it still being shut down, and this is, I think, why the midterms are going to be really important.

00:30:46.200 Obviously, this should be one of the important issues of the midterms that Republicans need to remind.

00:30:50.480 if Democrats get back in charge they've made it clear they will immediately open the borders wide

00:30:55.760 up and they don't care who comes in that like it's going to happen get ready for it that is

00:31:00.620 their for that is their policy and they will absolutely abolish ICE if they can do it as well

00:31:06.100 and by the way understand the risk is not just the murderers it's not just the child molesters

00:31:13.560 and the rapist and the gangbangers it is also a very real risk of terrorism we have seen in the 0.55

00:31:18.980 last month four acts of terrorism by radical islamic terrorists and here's a story that broke 0.80

00:31:24.780 this week i'm just going to read a tweet from bill malusion the fantastic reporter at fox here's what

00:31:30.900 he said new border patrol caught and arrested four british nationals entering the u.s illegally in a

00:31:37.380 remote part of maine after crossing from canada their names these are four british nationals

00:31:45.400 Ali Muhammad Ali Abdullah, that's number one, Hamid Muhammad Nagi, that's number two,

00:31:55.880 Ibrahim Ayyub Khan, that's number three, and Muhammad Sultan Saleh. 0.70

00:32:02.580 And these are illegal immigrants that were sneaking into a remote wooded part of Maine. 0.97

00:32:10.760 This is dangerous. 1.00

00:32:12.340 Now, you know what happened?

00:32:13.260 because president trump is in office and border patrol is allowed to do their job they were

00:32:17.980 apprehended they weren't just let in and they're apprehended you know what i guarantee you they

00:32:23.740 will not be released they won't be released into this country if joe biden were president

00:32:27.640 those four people whose names i just released they'd be named that they'd be released and and

00:32:33.400 we might be reading about them uh in another week or two that pattern has played out over and over

00:32:40.720 and over again and and by the way it's not just illegal immigrants it is criminals across the

00:32:50.700 board it is criminals across the board such such as for example uh de carlos brown who was this 0.99

00:33:01.340 psychotic lunatic who murdered the the beautiful ukrainian woman in in north carolina 0.99

00:33:08.780 he was just ruled not competent to stand trial and i don't doubt that the guy is crazy as a loon 0.99

00:33:19.780 but let's be clear democrats and roy cooper in particular the democrat governor 0.97

00:33:26.360 released this psychopath murderer 14 separate times 14 if you keep releasing

00:33:38.100 violent criminals and actually help me on this ben play play devil's advocate for a minute try

00:33:44.060 to get inside the mind of a democrat why would they want to release violent criminals over and

00:33:50.600 over again yeah it doesn't make sense and yet they continue to do it because for them i really do

00:33:55.840 think it's an issue of politics right they want to bring in a new voters that's the simplest way

00:34:01.340 i can put it well it's not just new new voters yes for the illegals but you look at this to

00:34:06.500 Carlos Brown. He was not an illegal immigrant. He was just a psychopathic lunatic American. But

00:34:11.080 you know what? Democrats also think not only should he be released from jail, they think he

00:34:15.800 ought to be a voter. He's perfectly fine to vote in U.S. elections. And I guarantee you violent

00:34:21.800 criminals vote overwhelmingly Democrat. And I guess that explains why the Democrats, their

00:34:26.920 priority is violent criminals and not American citizens. Yeah, you're absolutely right. Don't

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