Verdict with Ted Cruz - Illegal Immigrants Beat Up NY Cops & FLIP OFF the American People, plus the Senate's TERRIBLE Immigration Deal

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00:00:05.440 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:09.300 Senator, we've got a lot to talk about with the Senate immigration bill

00:00:12.860 and a lot of questions I want to ask you.

00:00:15.080 But before we even get into the details of that,

00:00:17.700 I want to talk about the state of the country with immigration and illegal immigration.

00:00:21.800 And there is a flashpoint that has happened this past week

00:00:24.740 with an illegal immigrant who flicked off basically the United States of America 0.99

00:00:29.300 after trying, I would say, to kill a police officer 0.96

00:00:33.020 where they beat police officers. 0.95

00:00:34.860 There's a group of them and they all walk free.

00:00:36.900 And apparently, from what we've been told,

00:00:38.460 they may even be on their way or already in California right now.

00:00:41.740 Your reaction to that moment?

00:00:44.120 Ben, I don't know that there's a story that has pissed me off more

00:00:47.520 in a long, long time

00:00:50.180 than what the New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg did here.

00:00:54.300 So the story, as you know, is a group of illegal immigrants,

00:00:57.220 basically a gang of them, beat up two NYPD cops,

00:01:02.460 beat them, kicked them, assaulted them,

00:01:05.300 and then they were arrested 0.92

00:01:07.100 and they got released within hours with no bail.

00:01:11.080 They were just let go.

00:01:12.740 And as you noted, the image of them walking out

00:01:16.020 and with both hands flipping off the entire country,

00:01:21.180 I think that is the image of this election.

00:01:24.920 When people go vote in November,

00:01:27.760 just remember that guy with both middle fingers extended

00:01:30.920 because that's what Joe Biden is saying to you.

00:01:33.920 That's what the Democrats are saying to you. 1.00

00:01:36.900 They are saying, screw you. 1.00

00:01:39.120 They don't care. 1.00

00:01:40.840 And they are destroying,

00:01:43.300 they're destroying our country.

00:01:46.060 And it is the idea 0.98

00:01:49.000 that illegal immigrants can beat up cops 1.00

00:01:52.340 and there are no consequences.

00:01:53.800 It's perfectly okay.

00:01:55.940 According to Democrats,

00:01:58.180 it is so toxic.

00:02:01.260 Every elected Democrat should be forced

00:02:04.100 to address this

00:02:05.740 and to denounce Alvin Bragg.

00:02:08.620 There's also a brazenness aspect

00:02:10.660 of this attack on these police officers.

00:02:12.600 It was caught on camera

00:02:13.640 because it was at Times Square.

00:02:15.440 This wasn't in some back alley

00:02:17.560 in another part of the city

00:02:19.360 where there was some sort of major crime

00:02:21.620 that was happening

00:02:22.340 and then the police got involved

00:02:23.700 and there was a fight.

00:02:24.640 This was just an assault on police officers

00:02:26.960 at Times Square

00:02:28.420 in an area where these illegal immigrants 1.00

00:02:30.660 clearly felt like

00:02:31.500 they can do whatever they want to do.

00:02:33.220 There's no reason to believe honestly otherwise

00:02:34.840 because we allow them into this country. 0.99

00:02:36.540 We give them a court date

00:02:37.440 that could be seven years from now.

00:02:39.300 And their reaction coming out of jail

00:02:42.080 because of Alvin Bragg.

00:02:43.600 And I want you to go into Alvin Bragg as well.

00:02:45.220 This is an activist George Soros DA

00:02:47.020 and he's been confronted by this

00:02:49.320 and he basically is doing the same thing

00:02:51.260 as those illegal immigrants.

00:02:52.180 He's flicking off the justice system saying,

00:02:54.120 I'm in charge,

00:02:55.460 I'm an activist DA

00:02:56.460 and there's nothing you can do to stop me.

00:02:59.080 Now that is exactly right.

00:03:00.600 Alvin Bragg is one of the sadly many

00:03:03.020 Soros DAs across the country.

00:03:05.160 George Soros has spent millions of dollars

00:03:07.740 electing radical left-wing DAs

00:03:09.920 who let violent criminals out of jail

00:03:12.420 and they go commit more and more

00:03:14.120 and more violent crimes.

00:03:15.280 And we've seen it across the country.

00:03:17.220 We've seen it in New York.

00:03:18.320 We've seen it in Philadelphia.

00:03:19.660 We've seen it in San Francisco.

00:03:20.920 We've seen it in LA.

00:03:22.660 You know, Alvin Bragg,

00:03:24.160 right after they let these illegal immigrants 1.00

00:03:26.980 out of jail with no bail,

00:03:29.100 reporters tried to get Bragg to comment

00:03:31.840 to answer why he'd done so.

00:03:33.220 And he basically ran away from the reporters,

00:03:35.720 refused to answer.

00:03:36.760 And then subsequently,

00:03:38.160 here is the explanation Bragg gave.

00:03:40.540 I'm going to quote it, quote,

00:03:42.400 in a court of law,

00:03:43.460 our profound obligation is to make sure

00:03:45.440 we have right people charged

00:03:47.660 with the right crimes.

00:03:49.260 I don't think New Yorkers want to charge

00:03:51.660 the wrong person.

00:03:53.180 There is a presumption of pretrial

00:03:55.720 non-incarceration for every case,

00:04:00.540 except those with charges of homicide

00:04:04.340 or the death of a victim.

00:04:07.060 Now, that is utterly insane.

00:04:10.980 I want you to focus on what he is saying.

00:04:13.620 I'm going to read it again.

00:04:14.900 There is a presumption.

00:04:16.220 Well, actually, the first part.

00:04:17.820 Well, we want to make sure

00:04:18.740 the right people are charged

00:04:19.840 with the right crimes.

00:04:20.920 These guys are on video.

00:04:22.680 We've all watched the video.

00:04:24.640 We know exactly who it is.

00:04:26.080 We know what they did.

00:04:27.200 There's a video of it.

00:04:28.220 They do it brazenly

00:04:29.460 in the middle of Times Square.

00:04:30.940 Nobody is worried

00:04:31.860 that you got the wrong guys here.

00:04:33.300 We know they're guilty.

00:04:35.220 They were videotaped.

00:04:36.440 When you beat up a cop

00:04:37.960 and kick two cops repeatedly 0.84

00:04:40.140 on the ground,

00:04:41.700 there is no defense to that.

00:04:43.780 So the first part of his statement

00:04:45.060 makes no sense.

00:04:45.900 But the second part,

00:04:47.520 if anything, is even crazier.

00:04:49.260 Let me read you the second part again.

00:04:51.520 There is a presumption

00:04:52.760 of pretrial non-incarceration

00:04:56.400 for every case

00:04:58.940 except those with charges of homicide

00:05:02.140 or the death of a victim.

00:05:04.220 In other words, Ben,

00:05:06.300 your wife or your mother

00:05:07.820 or your daughter or your sister 0.99

00:05:09.200 is violently raped. 0.97

00:05:11.640 Alvin Bragg is saying 1.00

00:05:12.900 we will release the rapist. 0.98

00:05:15.780 If she's not dead, 1.00

00:05:17.820 we'll release the rapist 0.98

00:05:19.200 before the trial. 0.96

00:05:20.800 Someone commits horrific

00:05:22.460 child abuse

00:05:24.100 and child molestation.

00:05:25.480 What is Alvin Bragg saying?

00:05:26.620 We will release the child molester

00:05:29.040 before the trial. 0.66

00:05:31.520 Someone beats you,

00:05:34.620 your son,

00:05:36.400 within inches of his life,

00:05:38.180 almost to death,

00:05:39.680 and you don't die.

00:05:41.400 Alvin Bragg is saying

00:05:42.580 you can beat someone

00:05:43.920 almost to death

00:05:45.080 and he's going to release the criminal.

00:05:47.400 That is so utterly insane.

00:05:52.920 It is a policy

00:05:55.320 that on its face

00:05:56.680 just produces chaos

00:05:59.520 and lawlessness

00:06:01.740 and it produces

00:06:03.980 what New York City has right now.

00:06:05.620 It's not just New York.

00:06:07.580 This is something

00:06:08.240 that we're seeing

00:06:08.920 all over the country

00:06:10.280 where illegal immigrants 0.56

00:06:11.640 are able to commit heinous crimes.

00:06:13.620 People die,

00:06:14.320 as you just mentioned,

00:06:15.060 and there's no accountability.

00:06:16.800 And Congress,

00:06:17.580 by the way,

00:06:18.280 backed that up this week.

00:06:20.140 There was a bill,

00:06:21.280 I call this a no-brainer bill,

00:06:23.540 that was a bill

00:06:24.600 that was really simple

00:06:25.540 to deport illegal immigrants 0.99

00:06:27.180 if they are caught

00:06:28.420 driving under the influence.

00:06:30.240 Now,

00:06:30.440 there's a shocking number

00:06:31.920 of people that have died

00:06:33.060 at the hands

00:06:34.220 of illegal immigrants 0.94

00:06:35.080 who have been driving drunk.

00:06:37.040 And so,

00:06:37.760 this bill was to say,

00:06:39.000 look,

00:06:39.320 you're in this country illegally, 1.00

00:06:41.000 you get caught with a DUI, 0.97

00:06:42.920 we are going to deport you, 1.00

00:06:44.260 and a hundred and fifty

00:06:45.960 Democrat senator

00:06:46.980 voted against that bill.

00:06:48.660 A no-brainer bill.

00:06:50.100 What the heck is going on?

00:06:51.280 That's the words literally

00:06:52.260 from Elon Musk on this.

00:06:54.040 Today's Democrat party

00:06:55.460 systematically

00:06:56.500 puts criminals

00:06:57.980 and illegal immigrants

00:07:00.040 ahead of the interests

00:07:01.880 of American citizens.

00:07:03.780 So,

00:07:04.180 if you're out driving

00:07:05.060 on the road,

00:07:05.740 if your wife is out 0.53

00:07:06.880 driving on the road,

00:07:07.720 if your kids are out,

00:07:09.740 and a drunk driver

00:07:11.360 slams into them 0.96

00:07:12.680 who's an illegal alien,

00:07:13.640 the Democrats are saying,

00:07:15.240 nope,

00:07:15.520 don't deport them then, 0.93

00:07:16.780 they are literally

00:07:17.840 endangering

00:07:19.000 our families.

00:07:20.880 And,

00:07:20.900 and,

00:07:21.080 and,

00:07:21.760 listen,

00:07:22.720 this has gotten so bad

00:07:24.400 that,

00:07:25.320 that even,

00:07:27.000 even some folks

00:07:28.160 in Hollywood

00:07:28.740 are jumping ship.

00:07:30.460 You know,

00:07:31.100 the,

00:07:31.340 the comedian,

00:07:32.440 this guy,

00:07:33.140 Michael Rappaport?

00:07:34.480 Yeah.

00:07:35.080 Um,

00:07:35.620 look,

00:07:35.920 he's a loud mouth,

00:07:36.960 he puts these,

00:07:38.020 you know,

00:07:38.620 profane Twitter rants

00:07:40.280 online.

00:07:41.020 Uh,

00:07:41.960 he hates Trump, 0.93

00:07:42.820 he hates me, 0.98

00:07:43.560 he, 0.98

00:07:43.740 he is a big,

00:07:45.700 big leftist.

00:07:46.640 And,

00:07:46.740 and you know how he responded

00:07:48.180 to what happened in New York?

00:07:49.420 He put out this rant

00:07:51.060 and I'm going to,

00:07:52.640 I'm going to quote from it,

00:07:53.600 although I'm going to try to

00:07:54.440 sanitize it a little bit.

00:07:56.340 He slams his fist on the table

00:07:58.400 and says,

00:07:58.980 quote,

00:07:59.960 this is why when I say

00:08:01.660 voting for expletive,

00:08:03.260 Donald Trump is on the table.

00:08:05.380 Voting for expletive,

00:08:06.940 Donald Trump is on the table.

00:08:08.800 And he goes on to say,

00:08:10.320 the other day in New York City,

00:08:11.780 six illegal aliens

00:08:13.100 jumped a New York City cop,

00:08:15.040 NYPD's finest.

00:08:16.640 They jumped a New York City cop

00:08:18.520 in Times Square

00:08:19.420 and were arrested

00:08:21.220 and released without bail.

00:08:24.640 And he continues,

00:08:27.100 quote,

00:08:27.980 released without bail,

00:08:30.100 came out of the courtroom

00:08:31.160 on some two-pack,

00:08:32.960 raising the middle finger

00:08:34.320 with the Detroit Red Wings jersey.

00:08:36.980 Let me tell you something.

00:08:38.920 What the F is the world coming to

00:08:41.360 if you could be from another country, 0.99

00:08:44.640 beat up a cop in New York City,

00:08:47.220 and walk out with no F and bail?

00:08:51.000 What the F is the world coming to

00:08:54.340 when you have angry left-wing comedians

00:08:59.420 now ready to vote for Trump?

00:09:02.040 The Democrat Party,

00:09:03.960 they've lost their minds.

00:09:06.160 And there's also,

00:09:08.500 and you and I have talked about this,

00:09:09.800 and I think this is a really important moment

00:09:11.620 we should just highlight it again.

00:09:13.760 Don't look at what they say.

00:09:15.460 Look at what they do.

00:09:17.220 You look at Mayor Adams in New York City,

00:09:19.280 and what he says is,

00:09:20.560 we're a sanctuary city early on.

00:09:22.320 We're a loving city.

00:09:23.480 Come one, come all.

00:09:24.500 We'll accept all the illegal emirants. 1.00

00:09:25.860 Now he's saying we can't afford it.

00:09:27.820 Now he's saying it's a humanitarian crisis.

00:09:29.740 Now he's saying this is all the fault

00:09:31.240 of the Texas governor,

00:09:32.800 Greg Abbott,

00:09:33.280 for busing people there.

00:09:34.860 And so he's saying one thing,

00:09:36.620 but doing another.

00:09:37.520 And then he says we have a problem,

00:09:39.000 yet New York comes out.

00:09:41.720 New York City has come out,

00:09:43.500 and now they're giving prepaid credit cards

00:09:47.740 with real cash on them

00:09:49.380 to illegal immigrants.

00:09:51.520 Even the rapper, 50 Cent,

00:09:53.720 has said maybe Trump is the answer.

00:09:55.700 This is the second, you know,

00:09:56.740 basically liberal that you just mentioned

00:09:58.140 the first comedian there,

00:09:59.060 now 50 Cent,

00:09:59.980 an African-American famous rapper,

00:10:02.300 saying I don't understand how this works.

00:10:04.360 Somebody explain this to me.

00:10:06.180 How we're giving money to illegal immigrants,

00:10:08.280 it's clearly incentivizing them,

00:10:09.660 and when I say it's not a little bit of money,

00:10:11.240 it's 53 million is going to be distributed

00:10:13.920 among illegal immigrants in the city

00:10:16.200 in the form of prepaid credit cards.

00:10:18.100 So when you say don't come here,

00:10:19.840 as Mayor Adams has said,

00:10:21.060 but he says here's 53 million,

00:10:22.780 if you do come here,

00:10:23.580 what do you think's going to happen?

00:10:24.800 They want them to come.

00:10:26.540 Look, that is exactly right.

00:10:28.900 They are literally paying illegal immigrants. 0.60

00:10:31.820 They are giving them prepaid credit cards.

00:10:37.040 Now, mind you, New Yorkers,

00:10:38.460 who do you think's paying for that? 0.98

00:10:40.180 That's coming from New York taxpayers.

00:10:42.680 So they come to New York, 0.80

00:10:44.940 they beat up cops,

00:10:46.540 they get released,

00:10:47.980 and they get paid to do it.

00:10:49.460 And by the way,

00:10:50.720 it is not just New York.

00:10:53.720 We are seeing this pattern consistently

00:10:56.860 in terms of Democrats.

00:10:59.200 So another story that broke,

00:11:00.680 also in just the last couple of days,

00:11:03.520 Washington State took $340 million

00:11:06.900 of money from the federal government

00:11:09.020 during COVID,

00:11:09.780 and it was COVID relief funds.

00:11:11.820 And what did they do with it?

00:11:13.120 They voted to give that money,

00:11:16.060 $340 million illegally,

00:11:18.580 to illegal aliens,

00:11:20.120 and to send them checks,

00:11:23.000 to send checks,

00:11:25.360 $1,000 cash giveaways,

00:11:27.720 to illegal aliens

00:11:28.960 who were not eligible

00:11:30.520 under the congressional stimulus program.

00:11:33.600 Well, Washington State says,

00:11:34.720 well, gosh,

00:11:35.120 we're going to take the Fed's money

00:11:36.200 and just pay illegal aliens.

00:11:38.640 Well, you know what?

00:11:39.220 If you pay people to come there,

00:11:41.620 you shouldn't be surprised

00:11:42.920 when more than come there.

00:11:44.800 Yeah, Mayor Adams also said this this week.

00:11:47.780 He insists that the New York City

00:11:49.940 migrant crisis,

00:11:51.540 quote,

00:11:51.780 has nothing to do with

00:11:53.400 sanctuary city status.

00:11:56.240 Your reaction to that,

00:11:57.800 that total incompetency?

00:12:00.280 Well, he wants to blame it 1.00

00:12:01.820 on that madman in Texas, 0.99

00:12:03.320 and that would be Greg Abbott. 0.96

00:12:04.440 As you know,

00:12:05.060 I'm kind of offended

00:12:06.400 that he's referring to Abbott

00:12:07.540 and not me

00:12:08.040 when he talks about 0.94

00:12:09.260 a madman in Texas, 0.66

00:12:10.360 but, you know, 0.99

00:12:10.900 that's who he was talking about.

00:12:13.720 And, all right,

00:12:14.720 I'm going to do something.

00:12:15.800 I've never before quoted

00:12:16.700 Michael Rappaport,

00:12:17.520 but I'm going to go back

00:12:18.200 to something he closes his rant with.

00:12:20.140 He says, quote,

00:12:21.520 and he's a New Yorker,

00:12:22.340 he says, quote,

00:12:23.240 maybe my city

00:12:24.340 is not the greatest city

00:12:25.920 on Earth anymore. 0.92

00:12:27.400 If you could beat up cops,

00:12:29.300 if you could beat up cops

00:12:30.660 in the greatest city in the world

00:12:31.980 and be released without bail,

00:12:33.740 are we the greatest city on Earth?

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00:13:13.500 And Mayor Adams

00:13:14.540 taking a lot of heat this week.

00:13:16.660 He may be,

00:13:17.460 by the way,

00:13:17.900 Senator,

00:13:18.280 the first Democrat

00:13:19.600 that I've seen so far

00:13:21.360 in this cycle

00:13:22.040 to actually say

00:13:23.500 that we need to start

00:13:24.260 deporting people.

00:13:25.160 He says,

00:13:25.840 only if they're doing

00:13:27.120 violent acts.

00:13:28.240 This was on local news

00:13:29.960 in New York City

00:13:30.840 doing damage control.

00:13:32.180 Well, listen,

00:13:33.380 I've been saying this

00:13:34.380 over and over again.

00:13:36.180 The national government

00:13:37.020 must do its job.

00:13:39.140 This is not a responsibility

00:13:40.460 that should be placed

00:13:41.620 in the lap

00:13:42.100 of all of these big cities.

00:13:43.920 We're seeing what's

00:13:44.420 taking place in Chicago

00:13:45.640 and Denver

00:13:46.320 and Boston.

00:13:47.560 All across our country,

00:13:49.500 big cities

00:13:50.040 are having to do

00:13:50.820 the national government job.

00:13:52.500 And those migrants 1.00

00:13:53.360 who are here

00:13:54.100 because they want to be part

00:13:55.620 of the American dream,

00:13:57.260 that's what we say yesterday.

00:13:58.940 But those who

00:13:59.840 are breaking our laws,

00:14:01.280 we need to re-examine

00:14:02.800 the laws that don't allow us

00:14:04.900 to deport them

00:14:06.320 because they're doing

00:14:07.760 violent acts.

00:14:08.600 We cannot create

00:14:09.440 an atmosphere

00:14:10.140 where you're going to

00:14:11.220 bring violence in our city.

00:14:12.840 I mean,

00:14:13.480 he says one thing like that.

00:14:15.480 He's actually saying

00:14:16.240 we should deport

00:14:16.940 violent people

00:14:17.600 that do violent acts,

00:14:18.760 yet he's giving out

00:14:19.620 millions and millions

00:14:20.360 and millions of dollars

00:14:21.280 to illegal immigrants

00:14:22.020 to come to his city.

00:14:23.260 Yep.

00:14:23.660 And the elected DA

00:14:25.740 is letting violent criminals

00:14:27.460 go who are assaulting cops.

00:14:29.120 And by the way,

00:14:29.780 it's not just

00:14:31.460 Alvin Bragg's fault.

00:14:32.600 It's not just

00:14:33.200 George Soros' fault.

00:14:34.300 It's also the governor's fault.

00:14:35.960 Kathy Hochul,

00:14:36.800 under the New York laws,

00:14:40.000 has the authority

00:14:41.140 to dismiss Bragg.

00:14:42.780 And if you remember,

00:14:43.760 there was a very hotly

00:14:45.300 contested gubernatorial race.

00:14:46.980 Lee Zeldin ran against her

00:14:48.780 and he promised

00:14:49.480 if he was elected governor

00:14:50.520 he would fire Alvin Bragg.

00:14:52.960 And so the voters of New York

00:14:54.560 had the opportunity

00:14:55.340 to fire Bragg.

00:14:57.000 And if you remember,

00:14:57.920 during that campaign,

00:15:00.260 Lee Zeldin was on

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00:15:15.540 but the ears were like a knife.

00:15:17.120 And he tried to 0.93

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00:15:21.200 And Zeldin is a veteran.

00:15:23.800 Zeldin served in the Navy.

00:15:24.800 And so Lee defended himself

00:15:26.860 and the guy was arrested.

00:15:28.800 And the guy who tried

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00:17:54.880 Senator,

00:17:55.300 there's a bill,

00:17:56.220 and I want to talk about

00:17:57.400 the side of the Senate bill

00:17:59.060 on immigration reform.

00:18:00.880 There have been words

00:18:01.820 thrown out this last week

00:18:03.020 about mass amnesty

00:18:04.320 could be a possibility,

00:18:05.920 about brokering

00:18:07.060 some sort of deal

00:18:07.820 that would basically say

00:18:08.740 if you're in this country,

00:18:09.700 you've been here for,

00:18:10.520 you know,

00:18:10.780 a year or two,

00:18:11.360 we're just going to hand you

00:18:12.420 over the American dream

00:18:13.540 with no accountability

00:18:14.380 for you breaking

00:18:15.480 into this country.

00:18:16.420 Where are we

00:18:17.780 with this bill

00:18:18.440 and what's happening

00:18:19.340 right now?

00:18:20.500 Well,

00:18:21.040 the so-called

00:18:22.300 Senate immigration bill

00:18:23.740 is an absolute mess

00:18:25.520 and I've been leading

00:18:26.880 the fight against it.

00:18:27.920 In fact,

00:18:28.200 I did a press conference

00:18:30.320 about a week ago

00:18:31.340 where I described it

00:18:32.480 as a steaming pile 1.00

00:18:34.340 of crap. 1.00

00:18:35.840 So my views on this 0.99

00:18:37.220 are not ambiguous.

00:18:39.480 And that was putting it

00:18:40.240 mildly,

00:18:40.640 by the way,

00:18:41.080 because it really is

00:18:41.880 that bad.

00:18:42.360 So let's step back.

00:18:44.280 Let's give some context.

00:18:45.500 And one of the reasons

00:18:46.200 we do this podcast

00:18:47.100 is we have a chance

00:18:48.860 to explain things

00:18:49.960 at a level of detail

00:18:51.120 you can't get anywhere else.

00:18:52.300 So why is there

00:18:54.080 an immigration deal

00:18:55.080 that's being discussed at all?

00:18:56.300 And the reason is

00:18:57.280 the Biden administration

00:18:59.120 desperately wants

00:19:00.520 a supplemental funding bill

00:19:02.820 to pass.

00:19:03.340 And in particular,

00:19:04.100 they want more money

00:19:06.020 for Ukraine.

00:19:06.680 They want more money

00:19:07.760 for Ukraine

00:19:08.420 and they've wrapped

00:19:09.980 the Ukraine funding

00:19:11.260 together with

00:19:12.700 emergency military funding

00:19:14.720 for Israel.

00:19:15.780 They wrapped the two

00:19:17.160 of them together

00:19:17.940 along with some funds

00:19:18.980 for Taiwan.

00:19:20.120 Well,

00:19:20.820 Senate Republicans

00:19:21.920 took the position

00:19:22.980 that we will not vote

00:19:24.900 to move that forward

00:19:26.060 unless we have a deal

00:19:28.220 to secure the border.

00:19:29.240 And we were actually,

00:19:30.360 all of the Senate Republicans

00:19:31.760 were united

00:19:32.520 a month ago

00:19:33.840 in saying,

00:19:34.720 you've got to secure

00:19:35.620 the border.

00:19:36.060 We're not going to secure

00:19:37.020 Ukraine's border

00:19:37.920 until we secure our own.

00:19:40.020 And that has to be part

00:19:41.800 of this funding deal.

00:19:42.660 So what happened?

00:19:43.940 What happened is

00:19:45.320 Mitch McConnell

00:19:46.440 deputized James Lankford,

00:19:49.720 Republican senator

00:19:50.580 from Oklahoma,

00:19:51.740 to negotiate

00:19:53.280 with Chris Murphy,

00:19:55.780 very liberal Democrat

00:19:57.040 from Connecticut,

00:19:58.200 and Kyrsten Sinema,

00:19:59.980 Democrat slash independent

00:20:01.880 from Arizona.

00:20:04.140 The three of them

00:20:05.100 have been negotiating

00:20:06.040 for several months now

00:20:07.160 and trying to reach

00:20:08.900 a deal.

00:20:09.740 They're saying that

00:20:11.060 they essentially

00:20:12.160 have a deal.

00:20:13.300 The problem is

00:20:14.500 the deal they've reached,

00:20:16.040 I think,

00:20:16.500 is a terrible deal

00:20:17.760 and it does not

00:20:19.480 fix the problem.

00:20:21.200 Now,

00:20:21.480 that being said,

00:20:22.900 Chuck Schumer

00:20:23.680 desperately wants

00:20:25.220 this deal to pass

00:20:26.780 and Mitch McConnell

00:20:28.380 desperately wants

00:20:30.280 this deal to pass.

00:20:31.320 Why is that?

00:20:32.940 Well,

00:20:33.420 for Mitch,

00:20:34.140 his number one

00:20:35.380 priority is

00:20:36.260 Ukraine funding.

00:20:37.240 It is clear

00:20:37.900 that he is

00:20:38.580 deeply committed

00:20:39.580 to funding Ukraine.

00:20:41.200 And so,

00:20:42.220 when it became

00:20:43.300 clear that the

00:20:44.280 Ukraine funding

00:20:45.080 would not have

00:20:45.760 the votes to pass,

00:20:46.620 especially in the House,

00:20:47.800 where a lot of

00:20:48.620 House Republicans

00:20:49.360 are vocally opposed

00:20:50.980 to additional funding

00:20:52.200 for Ukraine,

00:20:53.520 Mitch,

00:20:54.020 I think,

00:20:54.560 seized upon,

00:20:55.500 okay,

00:20:56.360 let's see if we can

00:20:57.760 get something

00:20:58.480 that we can say

00:20:59.800 secures the border

00:21:00.740 and if that will

00:21:01.480 get Republicans

00:21:02.120 in the House

00:21:02.640 to vote for Ukraine

00:21:03.860 funding,

00:21:04.440 Mitch will be happy.

00:21:05.700 Initially,

00:21:06.580 as this deal

00:21:07.660 was discussed,

00:21:08.940 we were being told

00:21:10.060 by James Lankford

00:21:12.920 and by the negotiating,

00:21:15.620 by leadership,

00:21:17.420 that the deal

00:21:19.000 would force Biden

00:21:20.480 to secure the border

00:21:21.560 to fix the problem now.

00:21:22.880 And my view was great.

00:21:24.220 Look,

00:21:24.580 if we can do that,

00:21:26.100 if we can force Biden

00:21:27.120 to secure the border,

00:21:27.920 that is worth doing,

00:21:29.920 it's interesting,

00:21:30.720 however,

00:21:31.040 as we sit here,

00:21:31.880 you and I are recording

00:21:32.820 this on Sunday.

00:21:34.020 It's going to come out

00:21:34.640 Monday morning.

00:21:35.460 As we sit here today

00:21:36.600 on Sunday,

00:21:37.600 I still have not seen

00:21:39.320 the text of the bill.

00:21:40.820 Wow.

00:21:41.800 Virtually nobody else

00:21:42.860 has either.

00:21:43.440 So I have no idea

00:21:44.480 what's in the bill.

00:21:45.640 But hold on,

00:21:46.240 that's what Nancy Pelosi

00:21:47.260 says is good about Congress,

00:21:48.780 right?

00:21:48.980 We don't know what's in the bill

00:21:50.140 until we pass the bill.

00:21:51.380 So isn't that,

00:21:52.020 that's just like a normal

00:21:52.920 day of business,

00:21:53.760 isn't it,

00:21:54.140 at this point?

00:21:54.840 Yeah.

00:21:54.980 That is exactly

00:21:56.020 what Nancy Pelosi said

00:21:57.520 about Obamacare.

00:21:58.440 You've got to pass it

00:21:59.160 to figure out

00:21:59.660 what's in it.

00:22:00.520 Now,

00:22:00.740 Chuck Schumer has announced

00:22:01.960 he's going to force a vote

00:22:03.160 on this bill on Wednesday.

00:22:05.600 And as I said,

00:22:06.500 we still haven't seen

00:22:07.700 what's in it.

00:22:08.220 So what's happened,

00:22:09.320 look,

00:22:09.560 James Langford,

00:22:10.200 he's a friend of mine.

00:22:11.020 He is a good

00:22:12.060 and decent man.

00:22:13.020 He was a pastor

00:22:13.740 before he was a senator.

00:22:16.140 He's got a good heart.

00:22:18.140 He is earnest.

00:22:20.020 He's well-liked

00:22:20.940 on both sides of the aisle.

00:22:22.200 He came back

00:22:23.360 from negotiating this deal

00:22:25.300 and he went and visited

00:22:26.220 every Republican senator.

00:22:27.700 So James came to my office.

00:22:28.960 He sat in my office

00:22:30.560 and talked through orally

00:22:32.620 different elements

00:22:34.040 that he said

00:22:34.680 were in the bill.

00:22:35.480 And so there are

00:22:35.940 different elements.

00:22:36.700 One of the elements

00:22:37.480 that he emphasizes

00:22:38.420 is he says this bill

00:22:40.280 will tighten

00:22:41.800 the asylum standards,

00:22:43.140 make it harder

00:22:43.940 to qualify for asylum.

00:22:45.880 He also has said

00:22:47.280 this bill will limit

00:22:48.480 the use of parole,

00:22:50.140 which is the legal authority

00:22:51.840 that Biden has used

00:22:53.100 to release millions

00:22:54.240 of illegal immigrants.

00:22:55.260 Now, both of those

00:22:56.040 are good if it in fact

00:22:56.980 does that.

00:22:58.000 But as I said,

00:22:58.660 we haven't seen the text,

00:22:59.500 so I'm not convinced

00:23:00.420 it even does that.

00:23:01.720 The fact that they're

00:23:02.640 not willing to release

00:23:03.600 the text is a big,

00:23:05.080 big, big warning sign.

00:23:06.720 It also apparently

00:23:08.160 has some concessions

00:23:10.080 for the Democrats

00:23:10.840 in terms of giving

00:23:11.860 work permits

00:23:12.780 to illegal immigrants.

00:23:14.380 I don't know the details

00:23:15.220 of that,

00:23:15.640 but I certainly

00:23:16.300 don't like that.

00:23:17.800 And then the provision

00:23:19.060 that has attracted

00:23:21.160 the most attention

00:23:22.180 is it has

00:23:24.620 what Lankford

00:23:25.960 characterizes

00:23:26.820 as a safety valve

00:23:28.080 that says

00:23:29.480 if the number

00:23:30.800 of illegal immigrants 0.94

00:23:32.160 exceeds 5,000 a day,

00:23:35.440 then extra tough

00:23:37.940 sanctions kick in.

00:23:39.480 And the way

00:23:40.520 Lankford describes it,

00:23:42.320 it, quote,

00:23:43.040 shuts down the border.

00:23:44.400 It prevents

00:23:45.240 it prevents

00:23:47.600 the Biden administration,

00:23:48.620 he says,

00:23:49.600 from accepting

00:23:50.860 any asylum applications.

00:23:52.680 And he said

00:23:53.180 that's designed

00:23:53.960 as like an emergency release.

00:23:55.720 Now, in December,

00:23:57.840 the last month

00:23:58.540 we have data for,

00:24:00.060 the number of

00:24:00.700 illegal aliens

00:24:01.400 coming in

00:24:02.340 was over 300,000.

00:24:04.880 It was more

00:24:05.440 than 10,000 a day.

00:24:06.920 That is the highest

00:24:08.160 month in the history

00:24:09.000 of our country.

00:24:10.100 We've never had

00:24:10.920 a month

00:24:11.480 with that many

00:24:12.540 illegal immigrants come. 0.65

00:24:14.300 Lankford is arguing,

00:24:15.580 well, this emergency

00:24:17.100 relief valve

00:24:18.220 would force

00:24:19.500 the administration

00:24:20.240 to cut that in half

00:24:21.780 from 10,000

00:24:22.720 to 5,000.

00:24:23.900 Now, look,

00:24:24.280 I agree cutting it

00:24:25.000 in half would be good.

00:24:26.300 Here's the problem.

00:24:27.680 That, I think,

00:24:29.620 effectively

00:24:30.460 normalizes

00:24:31.520 5,000 a day.

00:24:32.860 It says

00:24:33.780 we're okay

00:24:35.220 with 5,000 a day.

00:24:36.620 And by the way,

00:24:37.240 5,000 a day,

00:24:38.140 if you do the math,

00:24:39.580 that is over

00:24:40.500 1.8 million

00:24:42.000 illegal aliens

00:24:43.020 a year.

00:24:44.360 It is almost

00:24:45.020 2 million a year.

00:24:46.160 So if you look at

00:24:47.120 over the 3 plus years

00:24:48.700 of the Biden presidency,

00:24:50.480 we have seen

00:24:51.340 over 9.6 million

00:24:53.140 illegal immigrants

00:24:53.860 come into the country. 0.97

00:24:55.680 1.8 million a year,

00:24:57.220 that's nearly 6 million.

00:24:58.760 So it's basically

00:24:59.540 Republicans saying,

00:25:00.800 you know what,

00:25:01.640 we're good

00:25:02.380 with two-thirds

00:25:03.440 of Biden's

00:25:05.320 illegal immigration

00:25:06.180 with the invasion

00:25:07.160 and by the way,

00:25:08.220 with that essentially

00:25:09.200 extending into perpetuity.

00:25:10.520 I think that makes

00:25:12.060 no sense whatsoever.

00:25:13.620 Why is he forcing

00:25:15.260 this bill

00:25:15.900 if there's still

00:25:16.740 this much opposition

00:25:17.800 to it?

00:25:18.380 Does he think

00:25:18.960 that he could truly

00:25:19.760 get this rammed through

00:25:20.780 and somehow

00:25:21.220 the House

00:25:21.680 would go along

00:25:22.320 with this?

00:25:23.420 So,

00:25:23.800 understand what's happening.

00:25:25.800 Senate Republican

00:25:26.580 leadership

00:25:27.120 has basically

00:25:28.040 declared war

00:25:29.060 on House Republicans.

00:25:31.200 So,

00:25:31.800 I have been leading

00:25:32.660 the fight against

00:25:33.320 this bill

00:25:33.780 and we have

00:25:34.380 the last two weeks

00:25:35.280 at our Senate

00:25:35.740 Republican lunches.

00:25:36.720 to say we have had

00:25:39.080 energetic

00:25:41.580 disagreements on this

00:25:43.220 would be the

00:25:43.840 understatement

00:25:44.400 of the century

00:25:44.980 and I have been

00:25:45.680 standing up

00:25:46.280 as of a number

00:25:46.860 of other conservatives

00:25:47.720 making the case

00:25:49.000 against this

00:25:49.640 and many of my

00:25:50.660 Republican colleagues

00:25:51.560 are getting

00:25:52.380 really pissed off.

00:25:54.400 I've asked them,

00:25:55.360 so the question

00:25:55.920 I asked my colleagues,

00:25:56.940 I've said,

00:25:57.340 listen,

00:25:58.140 I think the chances

00:25:59.240 of this bill

00:26:00.640 passing the House

00:26:01.940 are zero percent.

00:26:04.580 And by the way,

00:26:05.180 when I first said that,

00:26:06.720 the proponents

00:26:07.700 of the bill

00:26:08.240 were like,

00:26:08.580 no,

00:26:08.820 no,

00:26:08.940 no,

00:26:09.080 no,

00:26:09.160 no,

00:26:09.260 it's going

00:26:09.580 to pass the House.

00:26:10.320 The Speaker

00:26:10.680 loves it,

00:26:11.180 he thinks it's great

00:26:12.040 and I'm like,

00:26:12.720 that's the most 0.95

00:26:13.120 ridiculous thing 0.99

00:26:13.920 I've ever heard 0.98

00:26:14.480 but that's what

00:26:14.960 they were claiming.

00:26:16.080 Then last week,

00:26:17.320 Mike Johnson,

00:26:18.000 the Speaker of the House

00:26:18.780 came out and said,

00:26:20.000 this bill is dead

00:26:21.200 on arrival

00:26:21.800 in the House,

00:26:23.320 which is exactly

00:26:24.160 what I told my colleagues

00:26:25.220 but you've got

00:26:26.740 somewhere between

00:26:28.660 a third

00:26:29.420 and two thirds

00:26:30.300 of the Senate Republicans

00:26:31.380 that desperately

00:26:32.900 want to vote

00:26:33.460 for this bill

00:26:34.020 and in our lunches

00:26:35.200 are arguing vociferously

00:26:37.440 for this bill.

00:26:38.100 Mind you,

00:26:38.620 they don't know

00:26:39.000 what's in it

00:26:39.420 but they just want

00:26:41.000 to vote for a deal

00:26:42.500 and look,

00:26:43.840 a lot of the usual suspects

00:26:45.220 who are out

00:26:46.060 being self-righteous

00:26:47.140 and saying,

00:26:48.080 we've got to do something

00:26:49.120 by the way,

00:26:50.280 the Wall Street Journal

00:26:51.240 has done multiple editorials

00:26:52.940 urging Republicans,

00:26:54.240 you've got to pass

00:26:55.060 this Senate deal.

00:26:56.940 Presumably,

00:26:57.480 they don't know

00:26:58.140 what's in it.

00:26:59.220 We haven't gotten text.

00:27:00.540 I don't know,

00:27:00.980 maybe they gave

00:27:01.480 the journal text

00:27:02.320 but their view

00:27:03.880 and what I've said

00:27:04.960 is listen,

00:27:05.880 initially,

00:27:06.600 the argument

00:27:07.100 that was given

00:27:07.760 was we were going

00:27:09.080 to force Biden

00:27:09.860 to actually secure

00:27:10.800 the border.

00:27:11.340 If this bill did that,

00:27:12.740 I'd support the bill.

00:27:14.320 Yeah.

00:27:15.240 But as the negotiations

00:27:17.400 went on,

00:27:18.220 the talking points changed

00:27:19.440 and so it started

00:27:20.220 with we're going

00:27:20.740 to force Biden

00:27:21.300 to secure the bill.

00:27:22.520 Now here's what

00:27:23.120 their talking point is.

00:27:24.640 Well,

00:27:25.420 okay,

00:27:25.800 we agree Biden

00:27:26.740 will continue

00:27:27.180 to have an open border

00:27:28.080 and the crisis

00:27:28.600 will continue

00:27:29.260 but they say

00:27:31.060 this creates

00:27:32.960 new tools

00:27:34.120 that if Donald Trump

00:27:36.040 is elected

00:27:36.620 he can use

00:27:37.880 to secure the border.

00:27:39.660 So you want to talk

00:27:40.240 about moving the goalpost.

00:27:41.480 First of all,

00:27:42.060 we were going to force

00:27:42.620 Biden to do it.

00:27:43.580 Now they can see,

00:27:44.500 nah,

00:27:44.760 we're not doing that.

00:27:45.980 But gosh,

00:27:47.820 go lickety split.

00:27:48.920 This is good

00:27:49.400 for Donald Trump

00:27:50.120 because it'll give him

00:27:50.900 new legal tools

00:27:51.760 to which I've responded

00:27:53.280 to my colleagues,

00:27:54.840 Donald Trump

00:27:55.400 doesn't need

00:27:56.440 new legal tools

00:27:58.080 to secure the border.

00:27:59.260 How do we know that?

00:28:00.220 Because he did it already.

00:28:01.800 When Joe Biden

00:28:02.700 became president

00:28:03.520 we had the lowest rate

00:28:04.480 of illegal immigration

00:28:05.280 in 45 years.

00:28:07.560 He did it by ending

00:28:08.540 catch and release.

00:28:09.360 He did it with the

00:28:09.880 Remain in Mexico agreement. 0.79

00:28:11.200 He did it by building

00:28:12.080 the wall.

00:28:12.800 We can do that again.

00:28:14.040 Trump can do that again.

00:28:15.240 And mark my words,

00:28:17.500 if and when Trump

00:28:18.380 is re-elected

00:28:19.140 you will see

00:28:19.640 illegal immigration

00:28:20.460 drop instantaneously

00:28:22.640 because we've seen

00:28:25.580 that movie before.

00:28:26.740 That's what happened

00:28:27.580 previously.

00:28:28.520 And when Biden

00:28:30.060 became president

00:28:30.840 we saw immigration

00:28:31.760 jump,

00:28:33.200 skyrocket

00:28:33.940 instantaneously.

00:28:35.880 And so the arguments

00:28:36.920 being presented

00:28:37.700 in support of this bill

00:28:39.540 are utterly disingenuous.

00:28:41.440 It's we've got to do it

00:28:42.340 to give Trump tools

00:28:43.240 that he doesn't need.

00:28:44.080 And by the way,

00:28:44.680 he doesn't want.

00:28:45.520 He said,

00:28:46.080 don't pass a bad bill.

00:28:47.480 I don't want this bill.

00:28:48.580 I don't need those tools.

00:28:49.960 And yet,

00:28:51.100 the proponents

00:28:51.720 of the bill are saying

00:28:52.520 that we should do it anyway.

00:28:54.020 Final question on this

00:28:55.380 and that goes back

00:28:56.280 to something

00:28:56.620 you mentioned earlier

00:28:57.880 when you were talking

00:28:58.800 about the image

00:29:00.080 of those illegal immigrants 0.73

00:29:01.340 who had beaten

00:29:02.780 the New York Police

00:29:04.220 Department officer.

00:29:05.660 They get out of jail.

00:29:07.200 Apparently,

00:29:07.760 they get to go on the run

00:29:09.340 and get on a bus

00:29:10.180 that was from

00:29:10.800 Catholic Charities

00:29:11.480 from what we've been told

00:29:12.400 and headed to California.

00:29:14.420 By the way,

00:29:14.920 lying about their name.

00:29:16.360 Shocker there.

00:29:17.740 And this is the world

00:29:19.220 that we have now.

00:29:20.040 And you mentioned

00:29:20.940 quickly,

00:29:22.640 you said,

00:29:23.540 this needs to be

00:29:24.960 the center of the campaign.

00:29:26.600 When you say that,

00:29:28.060 that's not just

00:29:28.880 the presidential.

00:29:29.840 You're talking about

00:29:30.800 everyone that's running

00:29:31.720 for office,

00:29:32.820 that's a conservative,

00:29:34.600 and not even just

00:29:35.580 running for federal office.

00:29:36.920 This is a state's issue

00:29:38.980 very much as well,

00:29:40.480 no matter where you are

00:29:41.380 in the country.

00:29:42.600 Absolutely,

00:29:43.520 yes.

00:29:44.400 And understand 1.00

00:29:45.560 how spectacularly stupid 1.00

00:29:48.740 what Senate Republican 1.00

00:29:50.560 leadership is doing.

00:29:51.960 This is the number one

00:29:52.880 issue in the country.

00:29:53.720 People are furious.

00:29:54.580 They understand Joe Biden

00:29:55.740 created it.

00:29:57.880 I've asked leadership.

00:29:59.800 I've turned to Mitch

00:30:00.520 and said,

00:30:00.900 Mitch,

00:30:01.200 tell me how this bill,

00:30:03.520 in what universe

00:30:04.420 does this bill

00:30:05.060 pass the House?

00:30:06.200 And if the answer is

00:30:07.640 it doesn't,

00:30:09.260 then what is accomplished

00:30:10.620 by forcing a vote

00:30:11.680 on this bill

00:30:12.220 that will split 0.65

00:30:12.840 our conference,

00:30:13.560 that a bunch of Republicans

00:30:14.920 will self-righteously vote yes.

00:30:17.020 Others,

00:30:17.800 myself included,

00:30:18.740 will vote no.

00:30:20.100 What is accomplished?

00:30:21.320 And they give no answer

00:30:22.260 to that.

00:30:22.600 They don't have a response.

00:30:23.900 But here's really

00:30:24.720 what's accomplished.

00:30:26.240 It is all about

00:30:27.520 political messaging.

00:30:28.740 This enables Chuck Schumer.

00:30:30.420 It enables every Democrat 0.68

00:30:31.940 running for re-election.

00:30:33.440 It enables Joe Biden

00:30:34.540 to say,

00:30:36.560 number one,

00:30:37.200 to not secure the border,

00:30:38.580 to leave the crisis

00:30:39.320 exactly as it is.

00:30:40.440 But number two,

00:30:41.020 to say,

00:30:41.680 well,

00:30:41.880 we wanted to secure

00:30:43.060 the border.

00:30:44.180 But the Republicans

00:30:45.180 stopped us.

00:30:46.780 This is all about

00:30:47.940 giving political cover

00:30:49.360 for Democrats.

00:30:50.340 And I'll tell you

00:30:51.240 why Republican leadership

00:30:52.860 in the Senate

00:30:53.400 wants to ram this

00:30:54.300 through in the Senate.

00:30:55.080 And listen,

00:30:55.700 they probably can get

00:30:57.000 the votes in the Senate.

00:30:58.000 They'll get all the Democrats

00:30:59.040 and they'll get

00:30:59.940 a dozen or more Republicans

00:31:02.100 in the Senate.

00:31:02.720 That will pass it

00:31:03.580 in the Senate.

00:31:04.760 The reason they want

00:31:06.040 to do it is then

00:31:07.120 once they've passed it

00:31:08.440 in the Senate,

00:31:09.520 use it as a club 1.00

00:31:11.000 to beat the crap 0.98

00:31:12.780 out of House Republicans 0.94

00:31:13.980 and to defeat

00:31:15.580 the House Republican majority.

00:31:17.100 It is literally

00:31:18.000 Senate Republican leadership

00:31:19.800 helping the Democrats

00:31:21.700 in the House

00:31:22.460 because every Democrat

00:31:23.680 in the House

00:31:24.220 will say,

00:31:24.760 well, gosh,

00:31:25.320 we had a bill

00:31:26.480 that would have stopped 0.81

00:31:27.200 illegal immigration,

00:31:28.020 but, you know,

00:31:28.900 you Republicans

00:31:29.920 didn't want to do it.

00:31:31.120 And I will tell you

00:31:32.000 the argument

00:31:32.540 that is making me

00:31:33.500 most angry.

00:31:35.380 There are a number

00:31:36.080 of my Senate Republican

00:31:37.160 colleagues

00:31:37.660 who are going out

00:31:38.260 to reporters

00:31:38.800 and they're puffing

00:31:39.960 out their chest

00:31:40.700 and explaining

00:31:41.360 what self-righteously

00:31:43.200 what great statesmen

00:31:44.980 they are.

00:31:46.180 And they say

00:31:47.240 the only reason

00:31:49.220 someone's opposing this

00:31:50.800 is that, quote,

00:31:51.840 we want the issue

00:31:53.280 rather than to solve it.

00:31:55.000 So they're blaming

00:31:55.540 it on Trump.

00:31:57.040 They say everyone

00:31:57.660 opposes this bill

00:31:58.620 and you're just

00:31:59.100 taking Trump's orders

00:32:00.120 and it's because

00:32:01.200 we don't want

00:32:02.220 to secure the border.

00:32:03.520 We want it to remain bad

00:32:05.300 in order to be able

00:32:06.720 to campaign on it.

00:32:07.560 And I will tell you

00:32:08.480 this past week

00:32:10.520 I yelled at my colleagues.

00:32:12.120 I said, 1.00

00:32:12.740 screw you 1.00

00:32:13.560 because I want 1.00

00:32:15.980 to secure the border

00:32:17.100 desperately

00:32:18.000 and the reason

00:32:18.960 I oppose this

00:32:19.860 is it does

00:32:20.780 not do that.

00:32:22.000 But I said,

00:32:22.400 you know what you're doing?

00:32:23.540 You are reading

00:32:25.480 Chuck Schumer's

00:32:26.540 talking points

00:32:27.460 and your lie

00:32:29.920 will be used

00:32:32.200 to re-elect Democrats

00:32:33.820 to the Senate

00:32:34.400 and the House.

00:32:35.340 You are,

00:32:35.680 you're not even,

00:32:37.080 you're simply 1.00

00:32:38.420 being useful idiots 1.00

00:32:39.980 and sadly 1.00

00:32:41.680 they have no response

00:32:43.460 to that.

00:32:44.060 They just go back out

00:32:45.180 and tell the reporters 0.99

00:32:46.080 the same damn thing 0.99

00:32:46.920 all over again. 0.99

00:32:48.060 Yeah,

00:32:48.240 I agree with you.

00:32:49.160 I think this is the

00:32:49.960 issue of the year

00:32:51.500 right now.

00:32:52.340 National security standpoint,

00:32:53.680 we talked about

00:32:54.420 the illegal immigrants 0.96

00:32:55.240 on the terrorist watch list

00:32:56.120 coming across

00:32:56.620 the southern border

00:32:57.160 as well.

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - February 05, 2024

Illegal Immigrants Beat Up NY Cops & FLIP OFF the American People, plus the Senate's TERRIBLE Immigration Deal

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