00:09:48.840What are they doing to stop an attempted assassination of the former president and quite possibly the next president of the United States?
00:09:56.680Senator, I want to say one thing because I know this is going to come up and I laugh when I see the comments, when we put up the episodes on social media, when we put them up on YouTube.
00:10:08.240And people are like, well, you're misleading the audience by claiming that we don't have sanctions on Iran.
00:10:34.660So a simple question, anytime you hear a talking head saying that, why, when Trump left the office, was Iran selling 300,000 barrels a day of oil?
00:10:46.080And why today are they selling 2 million barrels of oil a day?
00:10:50.420So the way they're selling it is they have a ghost fleet of tankers, tankers that are not flagged, that are surreptitiously bringing the oil from Iran to China.
00:10:59.580And this administration is not going after the ghost fleet.
00:11:02.440It's not vigorously enforcing the sanctions.
00:11:05.080And the reason it's not is this administration desperately wants a new Iran deal.
00:11:09.460And so they're bending over backwards to give Iran everything they want because they want an Iran deal and they're willing.
00:11:15.540Iran is funding Hamas, who carried out October 7th.
00:11:18.840Iran is funding Hezbollah, who is attacking Israel every day.
00:11:22.540Iran is actively attacking U.S. servicemen and women in the Middle East right now today.
00:11:28.500And Iran is actively trying to murder Donald Trump.
00:11:30.860And yet, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, they are sending Iran billions of dollars, principally through not enforcing the oil sanctions.
00:11:39.920But they are providing the funding for the hitmen who are targeting Donald Trump.
00:11:44.540Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, you can go back and listen to the full podcast from earlier this week.
00:12:25.880You know, there was another moment on the same topic of the border where Tim Waltz said the most brazen lie of the entire debate.
00:12:34.580And when when Waltz was backpedaling and trying to defend the disaster of Kamala's open borders, Tim Waltz said, quote, border crossings are down compared to when Donald Trump left office.
00:13:19.340And mind you, look, there's been a slight dip in the last couple of months because Biden and Harris are trying to pretend to do something about the border and they're just doing it as as electioneering.
00:13:30.400And to put it in, in all of fiscal year 2020, do you know how many encounters with illegals there were under Trump?
00:14:33.020About the number of rapists that were let go that we knew were rapists, the number of murderers that were let go and the number of those that had been charged with heinous crimes.
00:14:41.740And we still let go into this country.
00:14:44.320And that didn't see the light of day tonight.
00:14:47.240And it's again, it goes back to the moderators like it's shame on them for not actually talking about the acting ICE director saying this when they're going to talk about the border.
00:14:56.280How do you talk about the border without that?
00:15:22.600And so this debate was an opportunity for that's actually something that that I wish that like it had been slowly explained, that they'd taken a little bit of time.
00:15:32.920You need to understand that right now, there are more than 13,000 illegal aliens.
00:15:41.400Who are free, who have not been apprehended, who are convicted murderers.
00:15:49.200There is nothing whatsoever stopping Kamala Harris from picking up all 13,000 of them tomorrow.
00:15:57.780Legally, she has every right to do so.
00:16:16.120There is nothing, zero, preventing Kamala Harris from picking up those 2,000.
00:16:22.700And I would have loved to see J.D. turn to Tim Waltz and say, Governor, why doesn't Kamala Harris pick up those 15,000 murderers right now?
00:16:32.480And what would you say to the mothers of the children murdered by these illegal alien murderers that you continue to allow on the street?
00:16:43.460No, he wouldn't have an answer to that.
00:16:44.760And look, again, like I said, debating is hard.
00:16:47.460And I think one of the things that he did really well was he talked about the fact that people are suffering in this country because there are so many illegal immigrants.
00:17:37.400And J.D., to his credit, was prepared and said, well, actually, there's a Federal Reserve study that lays out the impact of illegal immigration driving up the cost of housing.
00:17:45.900And we'll put that out on social media right now so you can go read the study.
00:17:49.300But he also made the point of just supply and demand.
00:17:52.680What do you think an additional 11.5 million people demanding housing is going to do?
00:17:58.520Do these houses magically get created from the sky?
00:18:01.940Is there a wand that makes them come into existence?
00:18:04.820And the moderators just didn't like that point.
00:18:10.120And so they were – but they looked pretty silly when they asked if he had any evidence, and the answer was, well, yes.
00:18:15.840I love the other day on TV they were talking about the price of hotels in New York City have skyrocketed.
00:18:20.780Yeah, because I think it's like one out of X number of every hotel is filled with illegal immigrants.
00:18:28.080So then they get more for the hotel rooms that are available.
00:18:33.000You and I, I don't even know – did you know I got stranded in New York City and there wasn't a single hotel room after we came back from the airport?
00:18:51.480We pull back up the gate, and they say, go back in the city.
00:18:53.540So I immediately get on the phone, I call Fox, I'm there for TV, I'm like, hey, I'm going to need a hotel room, and I've got to get back to the city, and then I need a flight back in the morning to Houston.
00:19:01.860And she was like, no problem, I'll call you in a minute, go ahead and head down to the cars, and we'll get you back to the city.
00:19:07.140She said, I've never seen this before, there's not a single hotel room in the city.
00:19:11.900And I'm like, not – and it wasn't like there was like the Super Bowl going on, this is a normal Tuesday in New York.
00:19:27.860Finally, the only option was to go back to the city and hope that someone doesn't come to a hotel room.
00:19:33.700I sat outside of the hotel I always stay at, know the manager, and I walked in, he's like, Ben, he's like, this is because of all the illegal immigrants in the city.
00:19:41.940He goes, there's no hotel rooms to deal with the capacity.
00:19:44.500I sat outside until 1 in the morning until finally someone canceled the hotel, and then he checked me into that room at 1 o'clock.
00:21:19.660And but yet a lot of people don't know that story.
00:21:22.960He's been a caricature just like Trump has.
00:21:27.060And I think tonight made real progress, making him seem like a real person, seem like a husband and a father.
00:21:34.680And, you know, someone who is has has journeyed from very humble beginnings to to right now being the nominee to be vice president of the United States.
00:21:47.360As before, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic, you can go back and download the podcast from early this week to hear the entire thing.
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00:22:27.780I want to get back to the big story number three of the week you may have missed.
00:22:32.260Riley, you mentioned All-American a moment ago that, you know, that the girls that were crying and the mothers and the dads that were crying because they were they were one shot out.
00:22:41.220Like one spot out of of of an incredible prestigious award.
00:22:44.180When you talk about shaving time and then this advantage that he has over you, what was the difference between first place and in 10th place when it talks about when you're talking about shaving seconds or 10th of seconds off?
00:22:57.160Like, I don't think people understand just how close it is at the elite level.
00:23:04.340And that's how much you're you're even in the 50 freestyle, for example, it's first place to 16th place, which is what qualifies of being an All-American top 16 in the country.
00:23:20.140Now, we're seeing this not just in swimming.
00:23:22.500We're seeing this in sport after sport after sport.
00:23:24.920Right now, it's become an issue with with San Jose State volleyball, where there's a biological man who's playing on the women's volleyball team.
00:23:32.260And there have now been multiple women's teams that that have refused to play.
00:23:38.240Give us your reaction to that, having competed in a different sport, but at the same elite level.
00:23:44.540Well, first, this is the first time we have seen something like this, a movement in motion where teams are standing in unity together, saying we won't allow this to happen.
00:23:59.060You're not going to continue to discriminate against us on the basis of our sex, which is, of course, everything that Title IX was passed originally to prevent from happening.
00:24:10.500As you described, San Jose State University, they allowed a man onto their team to take a scholarship.
00:24:18.120He has taken when they travel, you know, that that travel spot that rightfully belongs to to a girl, to a woman.
00:24:24.800But in talking with and working with these presidents of these other Mountain West Conference schools, like, for example, Southern Utah, Boise State, followed by University of Wyoming, and most recently, just last night, Utah State, these four schools have said, hey, we're not going to compete against this team.
00:24:45.180The universities, of course, haven't specifically cited a reason, but I can tell you in talking to these teams, these girls are fearful of their safety.
00:24:55.120They understand, look, we know we're going to take a loss, that's what it means when you forfeit a match, but this is a worthy cause.
00:25:04.880We don't want to be on the receiving end.
00:25:06.620I've seen this boy give career-ending concussions to girls, and so they cite safety concerns, these women, for not feeling comfortable to play.
00:25:16.200And I'll tell you, there's more schools in the pipeline coming up who will soon also cancel their games against San Jose State University.
00:25:23.640Well, and the risks of physical safety, particularly in sports that have more and more direct contact, whether you're dealing with volleyball and someone spiking the ball into your face,
00:25:34.140or a sport like basketball, or we saw at the Olympics so-called women's boxing with biological males competing, give us your thoughts on the risks of really serious injury that can happen when you have biological males engaged in direct physical violence in a sport against women.
00:25:56.540Well, I'm not even going to give you my thoughts.
00:25:58.560I'll tell you exactly what is happening.
00:26:00.780I'm going to give you factual information here.
00:26:35.800She has to have special accommodations for testing at school because she can't retain information like she once could.
00:26:41.760She was supposed to play softball in college, but because of this brain injury, she will not go on to do that.
00:26:48.520She has to have part of her pituitary gland removed out of her brain because of how traumatic the head injury was.
00:26:54.400And let's look for or look at, for example, what we saw at a high school in Massachusetts where a male was allowed to play field hockey with the girls against the girls.
00:27:06.880And this boy, he slaps a shot at the women, one of the women on the field.
00:27:11.280It hits her in the face, in the mouth, and it knocked all her teeth out.
00:27:43.620We saw recently even what the Olympics has done.
00:27:47.360The IOC allowed two men, two plural males, to compete in women's boxing, which naturally, both of these men went on to win gold medals in their respective weight divisions.
00:28:00.380And one of the female boxers who fought against this boxer, one of the male boxers, said she had never been punched that forcefully, that hard in her entire life.
00:28:10.940She said this was nothing, a punch that a woman could throw.
00:28:24.900And I'll tell you, the people who are lobbying for this, who are voting in favor of this, who are advocating for this, they don't even believe it.
00:28:34.160Even recently, Senator Cruz, when I testified, actually before your committee, I had some of your colleagues from across the aisle come up to me before the hearing and say,
00:28:43.860Hey, look, you know, I played football at Stanford.
00:28:47.280I totally get where you're coming from.
00:30:01.240You've gone to a number of campuses and you've spoken out.
00:30:03.960And I admire your courage because you've had some really unpleasant receptions and threats of violence against you.
00:30:13.140Describe a little bit what you've experienced as a consequence of speaking out against this.
00:30:18.340Well, I was just actually explaining to Ben, I'm actually at University of Texas and Austin's campus today.
00:30:28.100And I'll tell you, there was some minor heckling, but for the most part was very well received because these students are desperate to hear the truth, to be honest with you.
00:30:39.160They've been denied it from their universities, from these institutional academic institutions.
00:30:45.020They've been denied the truth through censorship and other things.
00:30:50.100And so I had a great reception tonight, but you're right.
00:30:53.100I have been in scenarios where I have not been overly well received.
00:30:57.960One, for example, is San Francisco State University where, I mean, I was accosted.
00:31:09.780I mean, I'm being punched in the face by these men wearing dresses, which, again, they ultimately held me for ransom for about five hours, demanding that if I wanted to make it home to see my family safely again, I had to pay them money.
00:31:24.140All the while, the police are being held for ransom with me because, remember, this is San Francisco, and the police don't know.
00:31:30.560I shouldn't say they don't know how to do their job.
00:31:32.340They just don't do their job in this city.
00:31:38.020Well, and often they're prevented from doing it by the political leadership who doesn't let them protect the rights of innocence because ideology trumps actually defending people's rights and people's safety.
00:31:52.040And we see, whether it's in San Francisco or Minneapolis or New York or Los Angeles, we see that left-wing Democrats prevent law enforcement from protecting innocence, in many cases from violence.
00:32:06.420That the ideology on the left is if the violence is carried out by someone whose politics they align with, then they're happy to look the other way and to effectively handcuff police officers from protecting the innocent from violence.
00:32:23.640And that's exactly what these officers said.
00:32:26.680You know, I asked them, can't you do something?
00:32:31.760We're not allowed to do anything because we're not allowed to be seen as anything other than an ally to that community or else we'll lose our jobs.
00:32:37.480Again, the same community who's on the other side of the door where we were barricaded, who called these officers racist pigs for protecting a white girl like me.
00:32:47.580And that's who they, again, were almost forcibly had to side with in this scenario.
00:32:55.620Well, Riley, thank you for speaking out.
00:32:58.020Thank you for speaking out, not just for yourself, but you're speaking out for women.
00:33:04.140You're speaking out for the next generation of athletes.
00:33:06.380You know, Title IX transformed athletics and created opportunity for millions of schoolgirls to compete and develop discipline and teamwork and get all of the benefits of athletic competition.
00:33:19.440And I got to say, the current insanity of pretending there is no such thing as girls and boys, there is no such thing as women and men, it really threatens the ability of both women and girls to compete in athletics.
00:33:32.920And I think your courage, there are a lot of people who are grateful to you, even if they don't say so.
00:33:39.080I'm telling you, there are millions of Texans and millions of people across the country who are grateful to you, Riley.
00:33:44.600As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
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00:34:00.240And we will see you back here on Monday morning.