Verdict with Ted Cruz - Illegals Being Recruited to Vote, Black Voters Dumping Biden for Trump, & Sen Cruz goes After a Communist Judicial Nominee Week in Review

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00:00:05.220 Welcome.

00:00:06.100 It is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

00:00:08.100 The Weekend Review.

00:00:09.300 Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:10.540 And these are the stories that you may have missed that we talked about this week.

00:00:14.360 First up, illegal immigrants in this country are actually being recruited to vote in our elections. 0.87

00:00:21.480 How are they getting recruited?

00:00:23.240 In the same offices of our government where they come in to get financial aid from our

00:00:29.520 country as illegals.

00:00:31.200 We're going to break that down for you.

00:00:33.540 Also, Joe Biden losing the African-American community at a record number with new poll

00:00:40.520 numbers showing that black voters are moving to Trump in a massive swing.

00:00:45.420 Why is this happening?

00:00:46.740 We're going to break it down for you.

00:00:49.040 And finally, Senator Cruz goes after one Biden judicial nominee.

00:00:55.120 You do not want to miss his cross-examination.

00:00:57.800 It's the Weekend Review, and it starts right now.

00:01:02.080 There was also new details that came out about how non-citizens are getting voter registration

00:01:09.300 forms from across the U.S.

00:01:12.020 Republicans are trying to stop this.

00:01:14.660 Democrats are saying no.

00:01:16.280 And just to break this down so people understand, United States welfare offices, as well as other

00:01:24.360 government agencies under the Biden administration in 49 different states in this country, are

00:01:32.480 now providing voter registration forms to illegal immigrants without requiring proof of citizenship.

00:01:41.600 And Democrats, this isn't a loophole.

00:01:45.380 They're exploiting it.

00:01:47.700 Yeah, that's exactly right.

00:01:48.880 And I'll say the New York Post had an important article on this past weekend entitled,

00:01:57.420 How Non-Citizens Are Getting Voter Registration Forms Across the United States and How Republicans

00:02:02.440 Are Trying to Stop It.

00:02:03.460 And it describes how every state but Arizona, and Arizona recently passed a law barring the

00:02:10.520 practice on state but not federal forms, every other state gives applicants for either welfare

00:02:16.020 benefits, driver's licenses, or in some cases mail-in ballots, gives them voter registration

00:02:22.260 forms without demanding proof of citizenship.

00:02:25.380 And there's no requirement on federal forms to provide proof of U.S. citizenship, although

00:02:31.740 it is illegal to falsely claim one is a citizen or for a non-citizen to cast a ballot.

00:02:36.660 But of course, if you're not asking for proof of citizenship, I guess it's just sort of wink,

00:02:41.640 wink, trust me, and we just will take it on an honor system that you're not going to do it.

00:02:47.200 It's also, if you think about this, if you know you're voting illegally, but you're voting for

00:02:53.440 the people that claim they're going to give you amnesty, and you already broke into the United

00:02:57.260 States of America, it's not a far-stretched senator to think, of course they're going to

00:03:02.040 sign up to vote because they're going to vote for the party that's about to hand them amnesty.

00:03:06.500 Well, of course, and that's the entire point.

00:03:09.820 The reason the Democrats are allowing and actively facilitating this invasion is they want

00:03:16.280 voters, and they recognize that illegal immigrants are very likely to vote Democrat, that if you're

00:03:21.740 willing to break the law, if you're coming here illegally, that you're going to go with the 1.00

00:03:26.240 party that is inviting you to break the law and is coming showering you with benefits and looking

00:03:32.420 the other way.

00:03:33.420 And look, a lot of the problem stems back from a law that was passed in 1993 called the National

00:03:39.540 Voter Registration Act, and it was signed into law by Bill Clinton.

00:03:42.720 It was also called the Motor Voter Law, and what it did is it ordered states to register

00:03:49.600 voters at the Department of Motor Vehicles and also at agencies where Americans apply for

00:03:56.560 public benefits, and those offices, in turn, are required by federal law to hand the registration

00:04:02.180 forms along with the application papers over to the federal government.

00:04:07.620 And if an applicant simply attests, if they say, yep, I'm a U.S. citizen, that is considered

00:04:14.020 valid on its face, and that person is then registered to vote.

00:04:19.540 And so the challenge right now is that millions of illegal immigrants with humanitarian parole or 0.99

00:04:27.760 with refugee or asylum status are eligible right now for benefits that brings them to the offices

00:04:34.780 where voter registration is taking place.

00:04:36.820 So that's happening right now.

00:04:38.500 Millions of these illegal immigrants are going to the offices where the offices are handing

00:04:43.660 them voter registration forms.

00:04:45.740 And I want to pause for a second and reflect on how the Motor Voter Law passed, because it

00:04:52.860 had in 1992, it had passed Congress, and George Herbert Walker Bush had vetoed it.

00:04:59.680 But then in 1993, look, elections have consequences.

00:05:03.720 And when Bill Clinton got elected, it passed again.

00:05:07.300 But I'll tell you, in the Senate, the reason it passed in the Senate, so every Democrat voted yes.

00:05:14.140 So the Democrats get exactly what they're doing.

00:05:16.620 All of the Democrats voted yes.

00:05:18.040 Not a single Democrat voted no.

00:05:20.040 But here's the problem.

00:05:21.560 Six Republicans voted yes as well.

00:05:24.720 So the vote in the Senate was 62 to 36.

00:05:27.940 In other words, if the Republicans had voted no, they could have killed it.

00:05:32.060 But just going through this, and I'm just looking down the list of the Republicans,

00:05:37.380 Domenici from New Mexico voted yes.

00:05:40.180 Durenberger from Minnesota voted yes.

00:05:43.380 Hatfield from Oregon voted yes.

00:05:46.420 Packwood from Oregon voted yes.

00:05:49.760 Spector from Pennsylvania voted yes.

00:05:52.440 And Jeffords from Vermont voted yes.

00:05:55.740 Now, that's six Republicans.

00:05:57.120 If just three of them had voted no, this bill wouldn't pass.

00:06:01.320 And it's frustrating because the Democrats all get in line.

00:06:04.640 They get what they're doing.

00:06:06.140 They get that they are engaged in an effort to stay in power.

00:06:10.420 And it's not lost on them.

00:06:12.220 Look, when the bill passed, it's not an accident that they put voter registration in welfare offices.

00:06:18.620 It says, hey, if you want welfare, register to vote for the people giving you welfare. 1.00

00:06:23.660 And but why are Republicans idiots? 1.00

00:06:26.940 And they go along with that. 1.00

00:06:28.500 And the bill doesn't require proof of citizenship.

00:06:31.380 Why is that? 1.00

00:06:32.780 Because Republican senators were idiots enough to vote for it. 1.00

00:06:35.640 Now, to be clear, none of those senators are still in the Senate. 1.00

00:06:39.040 This was a long time ago.

00:06:40.220 This was 1993.

00:06:42.280 Look, I was a year out of college.

00:06:43.800 I was a first year law student at the time.

00:06:46.520 So those senators are gone.

00:06:48.180 But it's a pattern that has happened over and over again.

00:06:51.000 And and it's frustrating.

00:06:53.860 So let's break this down, because I think this is an important point for people to end on.

00:06:59.680 It is a fact.

00:07:01.140 And Democrats are really good, Senator, at counting.

00:07:04.600 They know how many millions of illegal immigrants are in this country on humanitarian parole as refugees, asylum status.

00:07:15.160 They know how many of them can go in and get different forms of government aid.

00:07:23.180 And they understand that then once you're in the federal system, whether it's to get welfare benefits, a driver's license, there's a instant pathway to go, hey, here's your register to vote paperwork.

00:07:41.040 And these millions of migrants that are walking in and out of government offices are now open to that.

00:07:48.140 That's the reason why this is so dangerous.

00:07:49.940 This isn't just a one off for a couple of people or as Democrats, I describe it within, you know, an asterisk when you're counting votes.

00:07:57.180 This could be catastrophic to canceling out American voters with illegal immigrants who were literally saying, fill this out, turn it in and you can vote, even though we know we're handing them to illegal immigrants. 0.98

00:08:10.680 Yeah, look, that's exactly right.

00:08:12.880 And the Democrats are the party of government.

00:08:15.100 They've always been the party of government, the party of big government, their party of high taxes.

00:08:18.860 They're the party of job killing regulations.

00:08:21.200 And they want they want to make people dependent on government.

00:08:26.100 They're the party of dependency.

00:08:28.020 They trap people.

00:08:29.280 They trap people tragically in generations of dependency.

00:08:33.060 And the price that they extract, it's a little bit like a drug dealer going and preying on kids in a junior high.

00:08:40.120 They're like, hey, just try this a little.

00:08:41.920 Just try it a little.

00:08:42.540 Just get a free sample.

00:08:43.500 Just try a little.

00:08:44.500 And the price, if they want to keep getting their fix of what the drug dealing Democrats are providing, their price is just make sure you vote for Democrats.

00:08:53.880 That's your ticket to admission.

00:08:56.640 Now, look, in the House, the House is taking up a bill called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, the SAVE Act, which the House Administration Committee last month passed.

00:09:08.200 And this bill requires states to receive proof of citizenship whenever anyone registers to vote by mail or at a DMV office or at a welfare agency office.

00:09:21.080 And here's what Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, said following the approval of the bill.

00:09:27.620 He said, quote, as President Biden has welcomed millions of illegal immigrants through our borders, including sophisticated criminal syndicates and foreign adversaries, it is incumbent upon Congress to implement greater enforcement measures that secure the voter registration process and ensure only American citizens decide the outcome of American elections.

00:09:46.460 And yet, astonishingly, the Democrats are fighting this.

00:09:52.560 So, for example, there's a left-leaning operation called the Campaign Legal Center that has said that the SAVE Act is, quote, a shameful measure that will undermine trust in the electoral process.

00:10:04.460 And they dismiss concerns about non-citizen voting by saying it hasn't taken place at any meaningful level, quote, it is a fabrication being peddled for personal and political gain by leaders who should know better.

00:10:19.160 Shameful bills like the SAVE Act often result in eligible U.S. citizens being incorrectly prevented from voting or being forced to jump through additional hoops to exercise their freedom to vote.

00:10:34.260 Campaign Legal Center opposes this bill.

00:10:36.580 But, and you know what?

00:10:39.060 The Democrats are very happy to salute and follow the line.

00:10:45.760 Right now, at least 19 states plus Washington, D.C., allow non-citizens to obtain driver's licenses.

00:10:52.840 So in nearly half the states, you don't have to be a citizen to get a driver's license.

00:10:57.060 And that is something that Biden supported during his presidential campaign.

00:11:01.620 By the way, Biden was one of the Democrats who voted for Motor Voter.

00:11:05.160 So he is just implementing the plan now from the executive side instead of the legislative side.

00:11:11.520 And tragically, this pattern of amnesty and voting answers the question that I asked at the beginning of this pod.

00:11:21.080 Why are Democrats willing to look the other way?

00:11:23.560 Why don't they care about the people being killed? 0.99

00:11:26.620 Why don't they care about the women being raped? 0.98

00:11:28.680 Why don't they care about the children being assaulted? 0.93

00:11:31.520 And it's because they've made a very cynical decision that staying in power is worth it.

00:11:37.160 And if innocent people have to die, I guess that's a price they're willing to pay.

00:11:42.520 Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, you can go back and listen to the full podcast from earlier this week.

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00:12:20.520 Now on to story number two.

00:12:22.960 I want to also get to another story, and this one actually makes me laugh.

00:12:28.840 CNN, and rarely do I get to say this, has been left speechless, Senator, after polling fines.

00:12:36.300 Can you just say that again?

00:12:37.620 Yeah, right.

00:12:38.200 CNN left speechless.

00:12:40.240 Exactly.

00:12:40.700 After polling fines, Donald Trump headed for, quote-unquote, historic performance with black voters. 0.84

00:12:47.620 Now, there's two parts of this that we should just bring up at the very beginning.

00:12:52.540 One, it is amazing that no one's calling out just the straight-up racism aspect of this,

00:12:59.300 that the Democratic Party and the media just assumes that if you're black, you must support the Democratic Party.

00:13:04.540 And if you don't, then you're basically, in their mind, not a real black person. 0.94

00:13:09.160 You're not a real black woman. 1.00

00:13:11.820 You're not a real black mother, right? 1.00

00:13:13.880 You're not a real black father. 1.00

00:13:15.020 No, no, you're an Uncle Tom. 0.98

00:13:17.280 You can't leave the Democratic plantation to think for yourself because you must be a Democrat,

00:13:25.120 a modern-day slave, in essence, to the Democratic Party.

00:13:27.740 And now they can't believe that Donald Trump is headed for literally historic performance with African-American voters saying,

00:13:35.680 we don't like what's happening under the Biden administration.

00:13:39.120 And Biden's support from black voters under the age of 50 has cratered over the last four years.

00:13:46.640 And they don't know what to do with this.

00:13:48.420 Look, that is exactly right.

00:13:51.500 They are shocked that they come in with an assumption that anyone who is African-American must support the Democrats. 0.67

00:13:59.900 As Joe Biden famously or infamously said, if you're not supporting me, you ain't black.

00:14:06.680 Which is just an arrogance that I think suffuses the current Democrat Party.

00:14:14.840 And it's worth, well, I'll tell you what, just listen to CNN as they're discussing these polling numbers.

00:14:21.560 Senior data reporter Harry Enten is with us.

00:14:24.820 So where does the race stand among African-American voters right now?

00:14:28.020 Yeah, I keep looking for this to change, to go back to a historical norm.

00:14:32.400 And it simply put, has not yet.

00:14:34.340 So this is the margin, or Biden and Trump among black voters, compare where we were at this point in 2020, compare where we are now.

00:14:40.740 You know, at this point, look at this, in 2020, Joe Biden was getting 86% of the African-American vote.

00:14:46.580 Look at where it is now.

00:14:48.680 It's 70%.

00:14:50.260 That's a 16-point drop, John.

00:14:53.180 And more than that, it's not just that Joe Biden is losing ground, it's that Donald Trump is gaining ground.

00:14:59.540 You go from 7%, single digits at this point in 2020, to now 21%.

00:15:05.740 And again, John, I keep looking for signs that this is going to go back to normal, and I don't see it yet in the polling.

00:15:12.020 If anything, right now, we're careening towards a historic performance for a Republican presidential candidate, the likes of which we have not seen in six decades.

00:15:20.700 And when you dig into this...

00:15:22.460 I love this, by the way.

00:15:23.760 They're basically saying, we need to go back to normal, and you guys need to get back on the Democratic plantation.

00:15:28.760 They're saying that on TV.

00:15:30.040 Yeah, look, it is not subtle who CNN is rooting for.

00:15:36.120 They want Joe Biden to win.

00:15:37.540 They want the Democrats to win.

00:15:39.420 And they're shocked, and they're terrified, and they are freaking out.

00:15:45.160 And listen, I think this is an incredibly important shift.

00:15:49.800 I think we're seeing African-American voters moving towards Republicans.

00:15:53.500 I think we're seeing Hispanic voters moving towards Republicans even faster.

00:15:56.780 And I think that is part of the broader demographic shift we're seeing of blue-collar voters that are moving towards Republicans.

00:16:04.600 We're seeing the old conventional wisdom was that Republicans were the party of the rich and Democrats were the party of the poor and working class.

00:16:12.940 I'm not sure that was ever true, but it is especially not true now.

00:16:17.240 It has been turned on its head.

00:16:19.400 Today, Democrats are the party of rich coastal elites.

00:16:22.660 They're the party of big tech billionaires and Hollywood moguls and California environmentalist billionaires.

00:16:29.620 And I think Republicans, we are the party of truck drivers and steel workers and cops and firefighters and waiters and waitresses and everyone who works for a living and has calluses on their hands.

00:16:39.440 And I think also, so there's an overlap, listen, if you're right now, let's say you're an Hispanic guy in South Texas, and you work in the oil fields, and you drive a pickup truck, and you go bird hunting on the weekends, you're voting Republican.

00:16:57.860 Number one, you're seeing the invasion at our southern border the Democrats have caused.

00:17:01.780 But number two, the Democrats have declared war on your livelihood and way of life.

00:17:06.920 And so we're seeing Hispanics moving, Republicans significantly, but African Americans, we're seeing movement as well.

00:17:12.260 Not as rapidly, but listen, the simple reality, and I'm going to give Donald Trump credit.

00:17:19.420 He went to Detroit.

00:17:20.300 He went to an African American church.

00:17:21.800 He made the case.

00:17:22.660 He said, listen, for the black community, your lives have gotten a lot worse under Joe Biden and the Democrats.

00:17:29.240 Between inflation, between crime, you look at what has happened, and he made the point.

00:17:34.400 Illegal immigration, who do you think 11 million illegal immigrants are taking jobs from?

00:17:39.400 They're not taking jobs.

00:17:41.060 Jake Tapper is not losing his job to an illegal immigrant. 1.00

00:17:45.100 It's actually a point, you remember, I made in 2016 in the presidential, where I said,

00:17:52.580 if you suddenly had, crossing the border, a bunch of lawyers and bankers and journalists coming here to take the job of rich professionals in the media,

00:18:07.020 then you would have a crisis.

00:18:08.480 Then they would lose their mind.

00:18:10.060 But their view is, no, no, no, that's fine to bring 11 million people in who take the job of low-income workers,

00:18:15.960 who take the job of the working class, who take the job of a lot of legal immigrants in the Hispanic community,

00:18:21.940 and who take the jobs of African Americans and drive down their wages.

00:18:26.020 And I think you're seeing a lot of voters.

00:18:30.020 I mean, the numbers among African American voters have more than doubled,

00:18:34.400 and that's got Democrats really freaked out.

00:18:36.120 Well, this goes back to a podcast that we did with, actually, your congressman, Wesley Hunt.

00:18:41.080 Yeah.

00:18:41.400 Where he was on this show, and I would encourage people to go back and listen to it,

00:18:44.820 but he discussed the bigotry of low expectations that the Democrats put on African Americans.

00:18:50.980 And he said at the time, and I'm going back to this quote because I wrote it down,

00:18:54.720 it's to create victims.

00:18:56.780 And he was talking about how the Democratic Party has really victimized the African American community

00:19:03.940 with low expectations, high crime, high poverty, and basically the government getting you addicted to poverty.

00:19:13.220 And I encourage people to go back and listen to it,

00:19:15.140 but that seems to be the case, in essence, that Donald Trump is now making.

00:19:19.420 And Fox, by the way, when these new poll numbers came out,

00:19:21.880 I want you to hear how they explained it.

00:19:24.580 Listen.

00:19:24.760 The poll has widened down nearly 30% among black voters since the 2020 election.

00:19:31.240 What's changed?

00:19:31.920 Look at the economy.

00:19:33.100 The optimal color is not black or brown.

00:19:35.080 It's green.

00:19:35.800 You hear me say that almost every day.

00:19:37.680 Trump has gained 15 points in that time.

00:19:40.280 Congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina downplaying the numbers here.

00:19:43.800 He says, I don't think black voters have left the fold.

00:19:46.060 I don't know what is going on with the polling taking place here.

00:19:49.880 How can the polls get that so wrong?

00:19:52.200 That's going on all over the country.

00:19:55.660 Well, not everybody sees it that way.

00:19:57.860 Political reports.

00:19:59.180 Prominent black Democrats are setting off alarm bells over Biden's black voter problems.

00:20:04.020 I mean, the arrogance there of just Clyburn, who's saying, I don't believe this.

00:20:09.480 I don't see it.

00:20:11.000 I don't think this is actually happening.

00:20:13.320 Right.

00:20:13.660 As he said, that's not going on all over the country.

00:20:16.180 How can the polls get that so wrong?

00:20:18.700 It's it's it's again, I go back to this idea and what Wesley Hunt said on the show.

00:20:23.380 The Democratic Party believes they own the own the black community and you cannot leave.

00:20:29.720 Well, listen, I would encourage listeners go back, as you just said, Ben, listen to the

00:20:34.440 podcast we did with Wesley Hunt.

00:20:36.080 And actually, that was one of the video ones we did.

00:20:38.000 So you can watch it on YouTube.

00:20:39.200 But also go back and listen or watch the podcast we did with Eric Johnson, the mayor of mayor

00:20:44.900 of Dallas, who's African-American, and he was elected as a Democrat mayor of Dallas.

00:20:49.240 He's now become a Republican, both of both with Wesley Hunt and Eric Johnson.

00:20:53.220 Both of them are friends of mine.

00:20:55.260 We have a real discussion about how the Democrat agenda has has utterly failed the African-American

00:21:01.260 community.

00:21:01.720 And the approach of Democrats is not to provide real policy solutions, but it's instead to

00:21:08.040 demagogue, you remember Joe Biden went, I think it was in front of the NAACP, if I remember

00:21:12.760 correctly, where he said, they're going to put y'all back in chains, which is ridiculous. 0.77

00:21:17.900 And by the way, if you want to talk about about who enslaved African-Americans, the answer 0.89

00:21:22.400 to that was Democrats.

00:21:23.460 It was Democrats who were the party of slavery. 0.67

00:21:26.040 It was Democrats who founded the Ku Klux Klan. 0.75

00:21:28.260 It was Democrats who wrote the Jim Crow laws. 0.80

00:21:30.540 And by the way, you're in my party.

00:21:32.540 The Republican Party was founded to end slavery.

00:21:36.340 That's why our party was founded.

00:21:38.320 The first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln.

00:21:40.940 The Democrats record on race issues have been horrible.

00:21:44.820 And yet they demagogue and scare people.

00:21:48.300 And I do think you're seeing African-American voters saying, all right, enough already. 0.97

00:21:53.320 Produce results.

00:21:54.480 And by the way, I'll give you three issues that I think resonate powerfully in the black

00:21:59.940 community.

00:22:00.600 Number one, inflation in the economy.

00:22:03.220 And African-Americans are getting hammered by that.

00:22:05.520 Number two, safety and the combination of the invasion at our southern border, which is

00:22:10.940 endangering African-Americans and all Americans.

00:22:14.820 But also the Democrats undermining the police, undermining, pushing for defunding the police,

00:22:21.560 for abolishing the police.

00:22:22.780 That has resulted in a lot more African-Americans being murdered.

00:22:26.560 And the Democrats like to say Black Lives Matter.

00:22:29.040 Well, their radical policies result in more African-Americans being victims of murder. 0.60

00:22:34.480 But number three is school choice.

00:22:37.320 And as you know, school choice is the issue.

00:22:39.540 I think it is the most important domestic issue in the country.

00:22:42.580 It is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.

00:22:45.400 And today's Democrats are the modern day Bull Connor.

00:22:50.800 They are standing at the school door saying, we will not let low-income students out.

00:22:56.200 I believe every child in Texas and every child in America should have a right to access excellent

00:23:02.140 education.

00:23:02.720 It ought to be about education, freedom, the student and your parents should decide, not

00:23:08.120 bureaucrats who want to keep kids trapped.

00:23:11.080 Finally, just to expand on this, it's not just African-American voters that Biden has lost

00:23:17.120 touch with.

00:23:17.920 There is now new data with Hispanic voters.

00:23:20.640 For example, another policy that Trump has doubled down on, mass deportations, is now popular

00:23:27.520 in this country, the majority of registered voters favor a new national program to deport

00:23:33.320 all undocumented immigrants currently living in the U.S.

00:23:36.400 illegally by 62 to 38 percent.

00:23:39.600 That is massive.

00:23:40.420 But here's, you break that number down.

00:23:42.640 Now, a majority of Hispanics, Senator, favor mass deportations in America as well, 53 to 47.

00:23:51.020 And this is another blow to Joe Biden with, quote, minority voters.

00:23:56.500 Well, that's right.

00:23:58.420 And it is the fruits of the failures of Democrat open border policies that are people are seeing

00:24:05.380 the absolute disaster of.

00:24:07.060 And I'll tell you, years ago, I was doing a national interview with Jorge Ramos.

00:24:12.360 Jorge Ramos was, of course, is the national journalist.

00:24:19.980 And he accused me of being, and I'm going to quote him, a traitor to my race because I

00:24:28.520 believe in securing the border.

00:24:30.240 And his view was, as an Hispanic, I'm not allowed to support securing the border.

00:24:36.040 He practically yelled on me on national television that I'm a traitor to my race.

00:24:39.820 And I asked him, I said, Jorge, tell me, what would happen if I went illegally to Mexico?

00:24:45.680 What would they do?

00:24:46.500 And he said, oh, they deport you.

00:24:48.300 And it's like, well, OK, if Mexico is allowed to enforce its laws, why is America, why are

00:24:56.300 our laws less consequential?

00:24:58.360 And, you know, Jorge Ramos chairs the national news program on Univision.

00:25:04.620 And yet the view that he characterizes as a traitor to your race is now, as you noted,

00:25:11.260 according to polling number, the view of the majority of Hispanics in America.

00:25:16.560 As before, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic, you can go

00:25:20.780 back and download the podcast from early this week to hear the entire thing.

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00:25:56.340 I want to get back to the big story number three of the week you may have missed.

00:26:00.840 I want to move to something else.

00:26:02.420 And we get to cover this on this podcast.

00:26:04.580 And I think it's so important.

00:26:05.960 And that is your interaction specifically with Biden judicial nominees.

00:26:11.500 Biden has nominated a judge with ties to communists.

00:26:16.660 You had a chance to have a conversation with this nominee.

00:26:20.780 Carla Campbell for literally she worked openly with a Marxist organization.

00:26:27.760 Read us into this insanity.

00:26:29.880 Yeah, look, we had this morning a judicial confirmation hearing with actually two Court

00:26:34.540 of Appeals nominees, one to the First Circuit Court of Appeals, one to the Sixth Circuit Court

00:26:38.240 of Appeals.

00:26:38.840 They're both terrible nominees.

00:26:40.380 The one to the First Circuit Court of Appeals is a judge in Maine who repeatedly has given

00:26:45.380 incredibly soft and lenient sentences to vicious criminals.

00:26:50.080 There was one guy who was a child molester who molested two little girls, one five years

00:26:55.340 old, one nine years old.

00:26:57.280 This judge sentenced him to just six years and described from the bench, she said, I can

00:27:01.580 see so much good in you.

00:27:02.980 You're such a good person.

00:27:04.280 This is to the child molester repeatedly molesting a five-year-old, nine-year-old girl.

00:27:08.780 There was another woman, a mom, whose one-year-old baby died of fentanyl poisoning.

00:27:15.300 Now, she was a drug dealer. 1.00

00:27:16.900 She had drug dealing all throughout her apartment. 1.00

00:27:19.640 This one-year-old child massively overdosed of fentanyl.

00:27:23.840 When he was found, his pajamas were coated in fentanyl.

00:27:28.120 The sheets that he was lying on were coated in fentanyl.

00:27:31.020 They had fentanyl everywhere.

00:27:32.520 He had enough fentanyl in his system to kill four adults, one year old.

00:27:38.560 She could have sentenced this mother to 30 years in jail for murdering her child with 1.00

00:27:44.320 fentanyl.

00:27:45.180 She sentenced the child to four years.

00:27:48.000 This is a terrible nominee.

00:27:50.420 But you know what?

00:27:51.760 Most of the hearing, she got very few questions.

00:27:53.980 You know why?

00:27:54.760 Because the other nominee was even worse.

00:27:57.160 The other nominee has been actively supporting radicals and literally communists.

00:28:04.360 She has been a volunteer supporting a communist group that is openly calling for a workers'

00:28:10.960 revolution to overthrow capitalism.

00:28:12.980 She's done that for years. 0.62

00:28:14.780 She also supported a radical left-wing candidate for Congress. 0.95

00:28:19.200 Just give a listen, because I questioned her vigorously, and she would not answer a damn 0.56

00:28:26.900 thing about her own record. 0.59

00:28:28.840 Ms. Campbell, I will say I have seen some astonishing nominees from this administration,

00:28:34.380 but I have to admit your record takes the cake.

00:28:37.020 A judge should not be a political activist.

00:28:39.480 Your record demonstrates to me a long history of being a political activist, but not just

00:28:46.000 an activist, an activist who affiliates with extreme and radical organizations.

00:28:51.780 Now, when Senator Grassley asked you about the Workers' Dignity Organization, you gave, I think,

00:29:00.840 deliberately misleading answer.

00:29:02.520 You said you did not represent them, and that convinced Senator Grassley not to continue

00:29:06.800 on that line of questioning.

00:29:07.900 You have been a legal advisor to that organization since 2013.

00:29:13.360 That is what you have publicly printed on your AVO biography.

00:29:19.960 It is what has been described in the Tennessee Bar Association when you were nominated.

00:29:25.340 It explicitly says she served as a legal advisor for local workers' rights, nonprofit workers'

00:29:29.960 dignity.

00:29:30.560 Now, why is it you're distancing yourself from them?

00:29:33.200 The reason is because they are utterly radical.

00:29:35.760 If you look at this group that you've served as the legal advisor for, for over a decade,

00:29:42.460 this is an openly Marxist organization.

00:29:45.200 This is a communist organization.

00:29:47.760 Now, those words are not said lightly.

00:29:50.200 According to their own characterization of their views, this group says there's no election

00:29:55.800 outcome that improves conditions for workers.

00:29:58.060 The laws of this country have never worked for our people, and now that the system is crumbling,

00:30:01.880 we will continue to stand in community and solidarity with each other.

00:30:05.060 The only way we win in a world we deserve is by building a multiracial, working-class revolution

00:30:11.560 that can push out white nationalism, violent state racism, and the capitalist class that

00:30:17.220 is desperately clutching to hold control and profits as the people rise up.

00:30:22.060 Why have you spent a decade as a legal advisor to an openly communist and Marxist organization?

00:30:26.920 If I could briefly clarify, more than a decade ago, probably for the course of two or three years,

00:30:35.480 I served on an advisory board that helped this, at the time, was supposed to be a non-profit

00:30:41.900 workers' rights organization, get set up and get started.

00:30:45.860 Did you know they were a communist organization?

00:30:47.680 Senator, at that time, none, they, they did not express these kinds of views.

00:30:52.380 It was an organization that was...

00:30:53.940 So this is new, this wasn't the case then?

00:30:55.980 Yes, and I have not been affiliated with them in more than a decade.

00:31:00.420 You're aware that your current profile that you have up, your legal bio,

00:31:03.580 says you are right now an advisor to them?

00:31:05.820 I apologize for any confusion about that.

00:31:08.900 So your testimony under oath, and that's all right, the facts will come out,

00:31:11.720 but your testimony under oath, I want to make it explicit.

00:31:14.360 Your testimony under oath is that you have done absolutely nothing

00:31:17.600 and had zero contact with them for how long?

00:31:20.220 I have not served on their advisory board for...

00:31:23.220 You've done absolutely nothing and had zero contact with them for how long?

00:31:26.680 Please answer the question.

00:31:27.680 Many, many years.

00:31:28.660 How many?

00:31:29.360 I don't know, sitting here today.

00:31:31.040 It's been many years.

00:31:31.940 Okay, if you look at other statements from this organization, because they are radicals.

00:31:35.920 They are radicals.

00:31:37.040 If you look also, this is the same group in 2020.

00:31:40.360 They called for abolishing ICE, abolishing prisons and detention centers, and abolishing the police.

00:31:45.820 Why did you volunteer for a communist organization that calls for abolishing ICE and abolishing the police?

00:31:52.960 Senator, I have never seen these comments before.

00:31:56.000 You didn't know who you were volunteering for?

00:31:57.420 I was not a volunteer for them at that time.

00:31:59.060 You were a legal advisor.

00:32:00.200 Were you paid?

00:32:00.920 No, I wasn't.

00:32:01.480 Then you were a volunteer.

00:32:02.780 If you volunteered to be a legal advisor, you were a volunteer.

00:32:05.760 Why did you volunteer?

00:32:07.260 Do you support abolishing ICE?

00:32:08.900 Senator, at this time, I had...

00:32:10.540 Do you support abolishing ICE?

00:32:11.540 I do not, Senator.

00:32:12.420 Well, it's amazing, because a minute ago, you also told Senator Graham that the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition that has a manifesto calling for abolishing ICE,

00:32:22.660 you said you had nothing to do with it, which is fairly astonishing, because on page three of their manifesto, they thank you by name for what they say.

00:32:32.920 We would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for their thoughtful feedback and input.

00:32:37.340 This platform would not have been possible without their expertise.

00:32:41.100 Are they lying?

00:32:42.580 Senator, I'm not familiar with that manifesto.

00:32:45.600 Are they lying?

00:32:47.240 Did you provide any assistance?

00:32:49.300 Did you give feedback and input, which is what they say on the cover page?

00:32:54.620 Senator, I didn't even know that existed, and so, no, I did not provide input on it.

00:32:59.080 And why, you know, when Senator Graham asked why you gave money to this radical candidate who has said 52 senators are Jim Crow senators,

00:33:09.360 and said multiple of us are siding with the devil, you laughed and thought that was funny.

00:33:14.620 But Senator Graham asked you a question.

00:33:15.920 Look, that candidate was as radical as I've ever seen.

00:33:19.140 And when Senator Graham asked why you gave money to that candidate, you just smiled and didn't answer.

00:33:24.380 So why did you give money to a radical candidate who believes multiple members of the Senate are siding with the devil?

00:33:31.980 Senator.

00:33:32.860 Actually, Senator Whitehouse, you weren't here before.

00:33:34.840 But in exchange with the chairman where Senator Kennedy asked for longer periods because you have two circuit justices,

00:33:40.260 and the chairman said he was going to give additional time.

00:33:42.560 So the comment they want to be gaveled as part of the show is not accurate.

00:33:46.200 And Senator Welch said he was going to give additional time.

00:33:49.340 In fact, he said at the beginning he was going to give six minutes.

00:33:51.380 So my question, you did not answer, Senator Graham.

00:33:54.420 Mr. Chairman, how much time has expired?

00:33:56.520 How much time has expired?

00:33:57.560 I just want to clarify.

00:33:58.240 I just walked in.

00:33:58.820 Why did you give money?

00:33:59.820 Six minutes?

00:34:00.360 Because it seems like more than six has passed.

00:34:03.760 Why did you give money to this radical?

00:34:06.520 Put up the devil one, too.

00:34:07.920 Why did you give money to this radical candidate?

00:34:10.680 $1,500, a lot of money.

00:34:13.100 That's a question.

00:34:13.840 Senator, again, I'm not familiar with these comments.

00:34:16.840 Why did you give money to this radical candidate?

00:34:20.460 Could you let her answer the question, please?

00:34:23.220 I'm not familiar with these comments, and I...

00:34:25.540 Why did you give money to her? 1.00

00:34:27.660 That's the question.

00:34:29.420 You're not going to answer?

00:34:30.560 You're refusing to answer why you gave money to her?

00:34:32.860 Senator, I'm not familiar with these comments.

00:34:34.880 That's not an answer.

00:34:35.960 My answer is why did you?

00:34:37.480 What is the affirmative reason you gave $1,500?

00:34:40.080 There was something you saw in her that you said, this needs $1,500.

00:34:44.620 Why?

00:34:45.160 Please answer that question.

00:34:46.520 Senator, time is expired.

00:34:47.580 Would you please ask the witness to answer the question?

00:34:50.180 She's refusing to answer it.

00:34:52.040 It's indefensible, but answer.

00:34:53.700 Was there any reason?

00:34:54.880 Or did you just give $1,500 to anyone?

00:34:56.720 Senator, your time is expired.

00:34:59.080 I would like her to answer the question.

00:35:00.620 And you said she could answer the question.

00:35:02.440 She has refused to do so multiple times.

00:35:04.220 Please answer the question, Mr. Campbell.

00:35:05.460 She answered the question.

00:35:06.320 No, she did not.

00:35:07.000 She said she didn't know those comments.

00:35:08.400 That's not why she gave the money.

00:35:10.380 Senator.

00:35:11.080 Can I ask you why she gave the money?

00:35:13.020 No.

00:35:13.220 You don't know because she hasn't answered.

00:35:15.320 Are you going to answer, Ms. Campbell, or does this committee not deserve to know why

00:35:18.740 you gave money to a radical who says we are aligned?

00:35:21.740 Mr. Chairman, I have a lot of other senators of busy days.

00:35:24.940 Can we get on with the next person?

00:35:26.100 So you don't want an answer to the question either, Senator Booker?

00:35:29.060 I just want to say for the record.

00:35:30.400 Are you able to answer the question, Ms. Campbell, or do you believe this committee doesn't deserve

00:35:32.920 an answer to that question?

00:35:33.800 Mr. Chairman.

00:35:34.600 Who has it for?

00:35:35.560 Who has it for?

00:35:36.280 They're just refusing to answer.

00:35:38.220 Who's next?

00:35:39.100 The senator's time has expired.

00:35:40.700 If the senator doesn't like the answer, he can take it.

00:35:43.160 It's not an answer.

00:35:44.000 She sat there silently and has not spoken.

00:35:46.100 That is, by definition, not an answer.

00:35:48.720 It's amazing, by the way, they said she answered the question.

00:35:51.160 They'll just flat out lie, won't they?

00:35:53.520 They will.

00:35:54.340 And it was really striking.

00:35:55.320 I've never seen – so this particular judicial nominee, she presents as a sort of very mousy, shy woman, which is really weird because she volunteers for communists.

00:36:07.660 Like, I've never seen that.

00:36:09.280 And she had – so, Chuck Grassley asked her, hey, you volunteered for this communist group.

00:36:17.480 She said, I've never represented them.

00:36:18.860 And he was like, oh, well, okay, I guess my staff got that wrong.

00:36:22.180 Sorry.

00:36:23.180 So that happened first.

00:36:24.820 And then Lindsey Graham asked, and he asked her, why'd you give money to this?

00:36:27.960 I mean, this was a radical candidate who literally said all 52 Republicans who voted against Ketanji Brown-Jackson – or all 52 Republicans, not who voted against Ketanji Brown-Jackson, but 52 Republicans were Jim Crow Republicans, including, by the way, Tim Scott.

00:36:47.480 She called Tim Scott a white supremacist.

00:36:50.460 He's African-American, but she called Tim Scott a white supremacist.

00:36:54.120 This was this judicial candidate's single largest donation.

00:36:58.060 She gave $1,500 more than she'd ever given to any political candidate.

00:37:01.720 And Lindsey asked her, said, why did you give the money?

00:37:04.360 And she just stared at him silently.

00:37:07.500 And Lindsey moved on. 0.78

00:37:08.520 So I went and asked her, why'd you give the money?

00:37:10.800 And she tried that.

00:37:11.840 She had the weirdest – I've never seen a candidate do this, where you have a question,

00:37:15.300 and she just looks at you silently.

00:37:18.560 And then what happened is a bunch of Democrat senators rush in.

00:37:21.620 So Peter Welch was chairing the hearing.

00:37:23.440 He's trying to gavel down, saying, no, no, no, no, I don't want to answer this question.

00:37:26.860 Then Cory Booker came in.

00:37:28.380 So Sheldon Whitehouse chimed in.

00:37:30.260 None of them were there for most of the hearing.

00:37:32.380 And Sheldon Whitehouse came in and said, oh, just gavel them down.

00:37:34.600 They want that.

00:37:35.140 So he was trying to do that.

00:37:36.380 And then Cory Booker was just trying to stop the bleeding.

00:37:39.620 But you know what?

00:37:40.160 It's amazing.

00:37:41.720 Do you know how many Democrat senators on Judiciary Committee asked her,

00:37:44.800 hey, why'd you represent a communist organization?

00:37:48.020 I'm going to go with probably zero.

00:37:50.020 That would be zero.

00:37:50.780 None of them care.

00:37:52.440 Do you know, none of them – it is a bizarre thing.

00:37:57.160 There is no independent free thinking among the Democrats.

00:38:00.660 There's none.

00:38:01.580 Listen, when Donald Trump was president, he nominated some terrific judges.

00:38:06.000 We confirmed the vast majority of his judges.

00:38:08.060 He had some judicial nominees that were mistakes, that were bad nominees.

00:38:11.080 And you know what we did as Republicans?

00:38:12.880 We rejected them.

00:38:13.600 We said, nope, take this one back.

00:38:15.440 This one's not there.

00:38:16.520 That's actually under the Constitution the job of the Senate. 0.93

00:38:19.540 It's called advise and consent.

00:38:22.020 The Democrats never, ever do that.

00:38:24.020 They're just a rubber stamp and they're willing – this is a woman who's volunteering 0.65

00:38:28.480 for multiple organizations that are calling for abolishing ICE and abolishing the police.

00:38:32.920 And the Democrats will all be like the Politburo and vote, duh, that sounds like a federal appellate judge to us.

00:38:40.880 It's incredible.

00:38:41.720 At the end of the day, the question everybody's asking right now is, is she going to get confirmed?

00:38:47.700 And the answer is yes, correct?

00:38:49.980 No, I think we'll probably beat this judge.

00:38:52.320 And I actually think the reason they paired them – so typically the Judiciary Committee, they'll do one Court of Appeals judge at a time.

00:38:59.680 It's unusual to do two.

00:39:01.140 And I think the reason they did this is I think they knew this woman's record was pretty radical and she was going to have a really rough time.

00:39:08.680 I think they really want the left-wing judge from Maine on the First Circuit.

00:39:14.240 And they know that her record is terrible, too.

00:39:17.400 She keeps letting violent criminals go with really, really short prison sentences.

00:39:22.680 But they knew – so, you know, look, I spent, I don't know, 45 seconds laying out the terrible record about this judge letting violent criminals go early.

00:39:31.680 But you had a communist next to her. 0.99

00:39:33.380 I don't know if she's a communist.

00:39:34.400 She just volunteers for the communists.

00:39:36.140 So you decide what that is.

00:39:37.700 I think it was a strategy.

00:39:39.660 They know the Sixth Circuit judge will go down, that she's not going to get the votes.

00:39:43.420 But they're trying to ram the other judge through.

00:39:45.540 And the other judge from Maine got a bumpy ride, but a much better ride than if she'd been solo and people had actually been able to really dive into her record. 0.99

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - June 22, 2024

Illegals Being Recruited to Vote, Black Voters Dumping Biden for Trump, & Sen Cruz goes After a Communist Judicial Nominee Week in Review

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