Verdict with Ted Cruz - October 05, 2024


Iran wants Revenge for Soleimani, Border Crossings Aren't Down Walz & Riley Gaines： More Men are Ruining Women's Sports Week In Review

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Donald Trump Sam Harris Joe Biden Ayatollah Khomeini Tim Waltz Verdict Ben Ferguson Jennifer Stewart Caitlin Clark Mike Pompeo Peyton McNabb John Bolton Boise State Brian Hook Soleimani Hillary Austin
The Assault by Men Playing in Women's Sports： An Exclusive one-on-one w Riley Gaines October 7-One Year Later, How It Changed the World, plus Democrats Fleeing their Party, Rep. Shawn Thierry's Journey

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Ted Cruz delivers the verdict on Iran's latest attack on Israel and calls for an end to Iran's oil sales to the US. Also, the border crisis with Mexico continues to get worse, and the media fails to fact check the president's claim that border crossings are down. And more men are getting into women s sports.

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
00:00:02.540 Guaranteed human.
00:00:05.340 Welcome.
00:00:06.120 It is Verdict with Ted Cruz, the week in review.
00:00:09.340 Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:10.540 And we had some major stories that you may have missed that we talked about this week.
00:00:14.460 First up, Iran attacks Israel. 0.77
00:00:17.160 And the worst part is our administration seems to be helping Iran be flowing with cash through
00:00:23.380 oil sales that are sanctioned.
00:00:25.340 But we are not actually doing anything with those sanctions.
00:00:28.660 We're going to break that down for you.
00:00:30.960 Also, Walls lies and said the border crossings are down during the debate.
00:00:36.960 That is actually not true at all.
00:00:39.720 So why did they not fact check him in the media?
00:00:42.560 We'll expose that.
00:00:44.000 And finally, Riley Gaines joins us to talk about how more men are getting into women's sports.
00:00:49.740 Will this be the end of women's sports? 1.00
00:00:51.820 And what do women and mothers and grandmothers need to do to stand up for their granddaughters 1.00
00:00:57.540 and their daughters?
00:00:59.040 It's the week in review, and it starts right now.
00:01:02.620 That's how they fund Hamas. 0.95
00:01:04.000 That's how they fund Hezbollah. 0.99
00:01:05.400 That's how they fund the assassins that are trying to murder Donald Trump is by selling oil.
00:01:09.580 They were selling roughly a million barrels of oil a day.
00:01:12.740 I made the case to the president, end the oil waivers.
00:01:16.040 There was a fight in the Trump administration.
00:01:17.940 State, again, was on the wrong side.
00:01:20.380 Mike Pompeo was secretary of state.
00:01:22.260 He argued, if we end the oil waivers, the price of oil will skyrocket.
00:01:26.400 The price of gasoline at home will go up.
00:01:28.780 The Department of Energy, who you would think would know something about energy, said that's
00:01:33.420 nonsense.
00:01:33.980 There's plenty of global supply of oil.
00:01:36.340 You could end the oil waivers without materially impacting the price.
00:01:39.120 Again, I weighed in more than a dozen times with Trump.
00:01:42.480 I was there day after day after day making this case.
00:01:45.820 Again, he agreed with me.
00:01:47.200 He ended the oil waivers.
00:01:49.080 Boom.
00:01:50.520 We know who was right.
00:01:51.480 We know who was wrong.
00:01:52.820 Energy was right and state was wrong.
00:01:55.640 The oil waivers ended and Iran's oil sales dropped from a million barrels a day to 300,000.
00:02:03.380 Their revenue collapsed.
00:02:04.780 And you know what?
00:02:05.220 The global price of oil didn't move a blip.
00:02:07.220 It had essentially zero impact, zero impact to the price of the pump back at home, but
00:02:12.820 it crushed the regime.
00:02:15.000 When Joe Biden and Kamala Harris came into office, the Iranian economy was in shambles.
00:02:20.160 The regime was teetering.
00:02:21.420 It was near falling, which would be the best thing that could possibly happen for the people
00:02:26.300 of Iran and the best thing that could possibly happen for Israel and for America.
00:02:30.660 And what did Joe Biden and Kamala Harris do?
00:02:32.700 They came in, they rode like the cavalry to save the Ayatollah, and almost immediately
00:02:39.120 they stopped enforcing oil sanctions.
00:02:41.900 When they came in, Iran was selling 300,000 barrels of oil a day.
00:02:45.560 How much do you think they're selling today?
00:02:46.980 I'm assuming it's got to be back to close to where it was.
00:02:49.940 It used to be at a million barrels a day.
00:02:51.660 Today it's at two million barrels a day.
00:02:53.180 So they've doubled it.
00:02:54.180 They've doubled it from their high.
00:02:56.860 Do you know how much the difference is between 300,000 barrels a day and two million barrels
00:03:00.840 a day for the last four years?
00:03:02.020 How much?
00:03:02.700 $80 billion, more than $80 billion.
00:03:04.620 Which goes back to them being able to now sponsor as much terrorism activity as they
00:03:08.440 want to, which includes putting Israel and our other allies at risk. 0.83
00:03:12.640 And I want you to understand this threat on Trump is real.
00:03:17.040 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have given the Ayatollah $100 billion.
00:03:21.940 $100 billion buys you a lot of assassins.
00:03:25.080 And listen, we're not just talking about, you know, some jack-a-doodle with a suicide vest
00:03:31.880 wandering up and trying to blow up the president.
00:03:34.380 We're not just talking about some guy on a roof with a sniper rifle, although we've now
00:03:39.200 seen two guys with sniper rifles, one who succeeded in shooting Donald Trump, the other
00:03:44.620 who was prepared to do so and trying to do so.
00:03:47.000 But they're also greater dangers.
00:03:48.880 I want you to watch a video.
00:03:50.740 And this is one where I hope as many of you as possible are able to see the video version
00:03:55.020 of this and go to YouTube, subscribe to the YouTube channel, but also watch this video
00:04:00.600 version.
00:04:01.600 This is a video that was put out by the government of Iran, by the Ayatollah.
00:04:05.860 It was put out a couple of years ago in 2022.
00:04:08.420 I want you to watch it.
00:04:10.000 And for those of you who are listening, you'll be able to hear it.
00:04:12.540 And we'll describe afterwards exactly what you see.
00:04:15.040 But this shows you what Iran wants to do. 0.91
00:04:17.680 Give a watch.
00:04:30.960 For those who are listening, we're seeing right now an animated video of a drone attacking
00:04:45.280 Mar-a-Lago.
00:04:47.340 They're hacking into the computers.
00:04:49.220 This is the Iranians.
00:04:50.220 They put together this video.
00:04:51.620 They're disabling the security cameras.
00:04:54.660 The drone is now going to the golf course.
00:04:59.120 Donald Trump is playing on the golf course.
00:05:01.300 There's a drone.
00:05:02.280 There's a robot that's on the ground.
00:05:04.700 And there's a drone in the air.
00:05:07.100 The robot is pulling up to the golf course.
00:05:09.660 And it is now sighting Donald Trump, who is playing golf at his home at Mar-a-Lago. 0.94
00:05:16.040 And the Iranians are targeting him directly to murder him. 1.00
00:05:21.200 They're typing into computers. 0.95
00:05:22.580 It says hacking.
00:05:24.100 They're hacking into computers.
00:05:25.660 People who are playing golf with Trump are getting a text.
00:05:29.600 Soleimani's murderer and the one who gave the order will pay the price.
00:05:34.680 Each of the people playing golf with Trump is now getting that text.
00:05:40.640 The robot drone on the ground is lighting Trump up with a laser guide.
00:05:45.480 And the drone in the air is preparing to fire a missile.
00:05:49.640 The Iranian is hitting fire on a dashboard.
00:05:56.020 And it ends with the words, revenge is definite.
00:06:00.540 And then an animation of General Soleimani with the Ayatollah Khamenei's website on the bottom.
00:06:08.980 This is what Iran wants to do. 1.00
00:06:11.940 And this was a couple years ago when this came out.
00:06:14.760 It's now resurfaced and kind of turned into, oh wait, this is something they've been wanting to do, trying to do, planning to do.
00:06:21.680 And now you find out they've got the money and they're hiring people to try to take out Donald Trump.
00:06:26.040 And nothing from this White House.
00:06:28.640 And here's the point that has been undercovered.
00:06:31.940 And by undercovered, I mean not covered at all in the media.
00:06:35.500 This White House is complicit. 0.80
00:06:37.740 What the hell is this White House doing? 0.97
00:06:39.840 You have a foreign nation trying to murder the former president of the United States, 1.00
00:06:44.420 the Republican nominee for president, the leading candidate for president in the polls,
00:06:48.340 the person who may well be president, president-elect in less than 40 days.
00:06:53.600 And this Biden White House is doing nothing.
00:06:55.980 They are not going after, they are not making clear, you know what they're doing today?
00:07:02.120 They're letting Iran sell 2 million barrels of oil today.
00:07:06.100 Like tomorrow, you know how much they're going to sell?
00:07:08.200 2 million barrels of oil, mostly to communist China.
00:07:10.980 The Biden White House is not saying a word.
00:07:13.400 Biden hasn't said a word.
00:07:14.700 Kamala hasn't said a word.
00:07:15.780 They haven't said to Iran, understand clearly, you will end this attempt.
00:07:19.980 By the way, it's not just Trump.
00:07:21.420 They're also trying to murder Mike Pompeo, the former Secretary of State of the United States.
00:07:25.640 They're also trying to murder John Bolton, the former National Security Advisor to President Trump.
00:07:30.960 They're also trying to murder Brian Hook, the former Assistant Secretary of State.
00:07:34.500 The Department of State is today, right now, spending 2 million dollars a month
00:07:38.320 protecting those officials from the Iranian hitman.
00:07:42.060 And this administration continues to treat Iran.
00:07:45.580 The president of Iran was in New York at the United Nations this past weekend. 0.98
00:07:50.180 was treated like a celebrity with this administration kissing his behind while he's actively trying to murder 0.98
00:07:59.740 the president of the United States. 0.99
00:08:01.820 And look, here's the dirty little secret.
00:08:03.520 There is a not insubstantial number of Democrats who are quietly rooting for Iran to be successful in murdering Trump.
00:08:12.520 We've seen it on social media, by the way.
00:08:14.340 You're not exaggerating.
00:08:15.280 Every time there's an attack on Trump's life, there are celebrities, there are Democrats,
00:08:20.920 there are people that are not, I would say, extreme or fringe people who are, like, rooting this on. 0.65
00:08:26.360 The polling shows 20 to 30 percent of Democrats want Trump to be killed.
00:08:31.260 Now, let me be clear.
00:08:32.040 I don't want Biden killed.
00:08:33.320 I don't want Kamala killed. 0.90
00:08:34.220 I don't want any Democrats killed.
00:08:35.940 I am anti-murder.
00:08:37.240 I'm anti-assassination.
00:08:38.640 If any country tries to do that, we should bring the full might of the U.S. military
00:08:43.460 to bring any regime that threatens the president or vice president or senior official in this administration,
00:08:49.360 bring them to their knees.
00:08:50.880 I want to beat Kamala at the polls.
00:08:52.960 I want the voters to say your policies are terrible. 0.60
00:08:56.360 But there is a not insubstantial percentage of Democrats that are rooting for, please, please, please have an assassin's bullet. 0.99
00:09:06.120 Destroy. 0.99
00:09:06.900 They have been so poisoned by hate.
00:09:10.480 They've been so indoctrinated to hate Trump.
00:09:14.360 He's not their political opposition.
00:09:16.320 He is the enemy.
00:09:18.200 And it is, I cannot believe there is not outrage.
00:09:23.600 There is not strength.
00:09:24.640 I cannot believe the Ayatollah has not been told. 0.99
00:09:28.500 If you attempt to assassinate Donald Trump, you, the Ayatollah, will die and every mullah around you will die. 0.94
00:09:35.400 You want to know what strength looks like? 0.99
00:09:37.180 Look at Israel. 0.98
00:09:38.260 We're going to put a pager in your pants and blow your pants off. 1.00
00:09:42.140 I mean, Israel knows how to stand up to people that are trying to murder them. 0.99
00:09:45.980 The Biden White House.
00:09:48.840 What are they doing to stop an attempted assassination of the former president and quite possibly the next president of the United States?
00:09:56.680 Senator, 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.
00:10:08.240 And people are like, well, you're misleading the audience by claiming that we don't have sanctions on Iran.
00:10:15.100 We have sanctions on Iran.
00:10:17.300 That's what this administration says.
00:10:18.980 But they're worthless if they're not being enforced.
00:10:22.220 And that is the part I want you to just expand on quickly because you'll see the media and they'll say this.
00:10:27.560 And the White House has said it countless times.
00:10:29.300 We have sanctions on Iran.
00:10:30.920 We have sanctions on their oil.
00:10:32.660 They're not being enforced.
00:10:33.920 So they're worthless.
00:10:34.660 So 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?
00:10:46.080 And why today are they selling 2 million barrels of oil a day?
00:10:50.420 So 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.
00:10:59.580 And this administration is not going after the ghost fleet.
00:11:02.440 It's not vigorously enforcing the sanctions.
00:11:05.080 And the reason it's not is this administration desperately wants a new Iran deal.
00:11:09.460 And so they're bending over backwards to give Iran everything they want because they want an Iran deal and they're willing.
00:11:15.540 Iran is funding Hamas, who carried out October 7th.
00:11:18.840 Iran is funding Hezbollah, who is attacking Israel every day.
00:11:22.540 Iran is actively attacking U.S. servicemen and women in the Middle East right now today.
00:11:28.500 And Iran is actively trying to murder Donald Trump. 0.72
00:11:30.860 And yet, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, they are sending Iran billions of dollars, principally through not enforcing the oil sanctions.
00:11:39.920 But they are providing the funding for the hitmen who are targeting Donald Trump.
00:11:44.540 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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00:12:23.360 Now on to story number two.
00:12:25.880 You know, there was another moment on the same topic of the border where Tim Waltz said the most brazen lie of the entire debate.
00:12:34.580 And 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.
00:12:48.880 Yeah.
00:12:49.540 Now, which is a lie.
00:12:51.140 And you and I both are looking at the TV like that's not true.
00:12:53.840 That is not slightly true.
00:12:58.040 It's not kind of true.
00:12:59.280 It's not in any way.
00:13:00.140 And let me give you the stats.
00:13:01.360 So in December 2020, the total encounters with illegals was eighty nine thousand and seventy two.
00:13:09.180 In August twenty twenty four.
00:13:12.260 The total encounters was one hundred and fifty eight thousand nine hundred and eighty eight.
00:13:16.900 So it was nearly twice as many.
00:13:19.340 And 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.
00:13:30.400 And to put it in, in all of fiscal year 2020, do you know how many encounters with illegals there were under Trump?
00:13:37.380 How many?
00:13:38.380 Six hundred and forty six thousand eight hundred and twenty two.
00:13:41.200 That's like a month in this administration.
00:13:43.380 In fiscal year twenty four year to date.
00:13:45.700 And by the way, we're not all the way through twenty four.
00:13:48.780 Do you know how many there been?
00:13:49.960 How many?
00:13:50.620 Two million seven hundred and fifty six thousand six hundred and forty six.
00:13:54.140 Yeah.
00:13:54.560 And by the way, these these brave fact checkers.
00:13:59.140 Did you notice the CBS?
00:14:00.980 They didn't cut off anybody's mind, did they?
00:14:03.000 Say, wait a second, Governor.
00:14:04.960 You just said that border encounters were lower now than they were under Trump.
00:14:10.180 That is flat out false.
00:14:13.760 They didn't say that because they're not in the business of fact checking Democrats.
00:14:17.980 Well, and they also didn't bring up something else that I actually thought this was a missed opportunity.
00:14:22.960 I think J.D. had a great night, but I wish he would have seized on this.
00:14:26.020 The acting ICE director put out all of these numbers that we've talked about here.
00:14:32.640 Yes.
00:14:33.020 About 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.
00:14:41.740 And we still let go into this country. 1.00
00:14:44.320 And that didn't see the light of day tonight.
00:14:47.240 And 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.
00:14:56.280 How do you talk about the border without that?
00:14:58.320 But I do.
00:14:58.900 And again, it's debating is tough and I want to be clear.
00:15:02.180 It's tough.
00:15:02.860 But there was a missed opportunity there.
00:15:04.660 I'm shocked that J.D. didn't really try to hammer that that point home.
00:15:08.480 Yeah.
00:15:08.640 Look, look, I think J.D. did a very good job tonight.
00:15:11.480 I was surprised that the 13,000 convicted murderers did not come up.
00:15:17.040 It's such a powerful number.
00:15:19.680 And CBS hasn't covered it.
00:15:21.280 The news hasn't covered it.
00:15:22.600 And 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.
00:15:32.920 You need to understand that right now, there are more than 13,000 illegal aliens.
00:15:41.400 Who are free, who have not been apprehended, who are convicted murderers.
00:15:49.200 There is nothing whatsoever stopping Kamala Harris from picking up all 13,000 of them tomorrow.
00:15:57.780 Legally, she has every right to do so.
00:16:00.220 They are here illegally. 1.00
00:16:01.420 They can be detained.
00:16:02.640 They can be deported.
00:16:04.220 And yet, and there are another 2,000, roughly, illegal aliens who have pending murder charges. 0.65
00:16:12.580 So they're being charged with murder.
00:16:14.480 And you know what?
00:16:15.120 They're free, too.
00:16:16.120 There is nothing, zero, preventing Kamala Harris from picking up those 2,000.
00:16:22.700 And 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?
00:16:32.480 And what would you say to the mothers of the children murdered by these illegal alien murderers that you continue to allow on the street? 1.00
00:16:41.600 Yeah.
00:16:41.940 He wouldn't have an answer to that.
00:16:43.460 No, he wouldn't have an answer to that.
00:16:44.760 And look, again, like I said, debating is hard.
00:16:47.460 And 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. 1.00
00:16:56.220 And it backfired on CBS.
00:16:58.240 They were talking about the economy.
00:16:59.880 And they were talking about the housing crisis.
00:17:01.580 It was a little bit later in the debate.
00:17:02.960 Many people, if you didn't watch the whole debate, this was one of those moments.
00:17:06.020 I think they actually buried it on purpose.
00:17:08.700 They needed to check a box, ask a question about housing.
00:17:11.500 But there was a moment there where J.D. Vance seized on, like, well, yeah, of course, home prices are going to be up.
00:17:17.660 You let 15, 20 million people in this country.
00:17:20.500 They've got to have a roof over their head at night.
00:17:22.780 They're competing with you, especially for low-cost housing and apartments, which have skyrocketed in price.
00:17:28.960 Undoubtedly.
00:17:29.860 And CBS really beclowned themselves on this because one of the moderators chimed in and said, well, do you have any evidence of that?
00:17:36.100 What proof do you have of that?
00:17:37.400 And 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.
00:17:45.900 And we'll put that out on social media right now so you can go read the study.
00:17:49.300 But he also made the point of just supply and demand.
00:17:52.680 What do you think an additional 11.5 million people demanding housing is going to do?
00:17:58.520 Do these houses magically get created from the sky?
00:18:01.940 Is there a wand that makes them come into existence?
00:18:04.820 And the moderators just didn't like that point.
00:18:10.120 And so they were – but they looked pretty silly when they asked if he had any evidence, and the answer was, well, yes.
00:18:15.840 I love the other day on TV they were talking about the price of hotels in New York City have skyrocketed. 0.90
00:18:20.780 Yeah, because I think it's like one out of X number of every hotel is filled with illegal immigrants.
00:18:25.700 They're taking away hotel rooms.
00:18:27.820 Of course.
00:18:28.080 So then they get more for the hotel rooms that are available.
00:18:33.000 You 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?
00:18:41.280 Did I tell you this?
00:18:42.420 So this is how bad it is.
00:18:43.780 And this is when I learned, like, really firsthand.
00:18:46.800 I went to the airport, was on the plane, was on the plane for like four hours.
00:18:49.980 They finally canceled the flight.
00:18:51.480 We pull back up the gate, and they say, go back in the city.
00:18:53.540 So 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.
00:19:01.860 And 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. 0.83
00:19:07.140 She said, I've never seen this before, there's not a single hotel room in the city.
00:19:11.900 And 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.
00:19:18.180 And I was like, are you kidding?
00:19:19.460 Well, then I open up my app, and I'm like, I get on Expedia, no hotel rooms.
00:19:24.060 They start looking in New Jersey.
00:19:25.740 They're looking everywhere.
00:19:27.860 Finally, the only option was to go back to the city and hope that someone doesn't come to a hotel room.
00:19:33.700 I 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. 1.00
00:19:41.940 He goes, there's no hotel rooms to deal with the capacity.
00:19:44.500 I 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.
00:19:51.240 So I sat there from 7 to 1 a.m.
00:19:53.240 My flight was at 6 in the morning, so I slept for like three hours.
00:19:56.420 And he said, this is what they've done to our city, referring to the illegal immigrants, and how many have come in. 1.00
00:20:02.220 And when I say there was not a hotel room in the city, that's what's happening now because of illegal immigration. 0.88
00:20:09.920 Senator, I want to talk and wrap on the issue of style.
00:20:14.480 You know, you and I both thought this was going to be an intense debate.
00:20:18.420 They don't like each other.
00:20:19.360 They're going to throw down.
00:20:20.320 I think we've also gotten kind of used to that with Donald Trump.
00:20:23.360 That's what we've seen over the last several years.
00:20:25.600 Joe Biden likes to do that as well.
00:20:27.760 We've seen a lot of the Republican debates, primary debates, Democratic debates.
00:20:30.800 And by the way, Hillary and Trump was nasty. 0.99
00:20:32.620 They were both nasty. 1.00
00:20:33.540 Oh, yeah. 0.94
00:20:34.080 I mean, they threw down.
00:20:35.360 And tonight, I did enjoy a little bit of the civility.
00:20:40.740 Absolutely.
00:20:41.500 And that was something we haven't seen.
00:20:44.400 But I also think if it was a strategy by the Trump team, hey, you're going to be the likable guy.
00:20:50.640 You're going to try to bring more people into the tent.
00:20:52.820 But I want people to walk away really thinking that you're the right choice.
00:20:58.040 They nailed it.
00:20:59.240 If that was the intent tonight.
00:21:01.480 Yeah.
00:21:01.620 Look, I think J.D. came across as real and relatable.
00:21:05.400 He did a good job of telling his own family story and his own background.
00:21:10.660 I mean, his, you know, he wrote a bestselling book.
00:21:13.720 Hillbilly Elgee was made into a movie.
00:21:16.720 A very good movie.
00:21:18.260 A movie that's terrific to watch.
00:21:19.660 And but yet a lot of people don't know that story.
00:21:22.960 He's been a caricature just like Trump has.
00:21:27.060 And I think tonight made real progress, making him seem like a real person, seem like a husband and a father.
00:21:34.680 And, 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.
00:21:46.120 That's one heck of a journey.
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00:22:27.780 I want to get back to the big story number three of the week you may have missed.
00:22:32.260 Riley, 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.
00:22:41.060 Right.
00:22:41.220 Like one spot out of of of an incredible prestigious award.
00:22:44.180 When 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?
00:22:57.160 Like, I don't think people understand just how close it is at the elite level.
00:23:02.480 Yeah.
00:23:03.040 Again, 10th of seconds.
00:23:04.340 And 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.
00:23:17.720 It's 10th of a second.
00:23:20.140 Now, we're seeing this not just in swimming.
00:23:22.500 We're seeing this in sport after sport after sport.
00:23:24.920 Right 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.
00:23:32.260 And there have now been multiple women's teams that that have refused to play. 0.96
00:23:38.240 Give us your reaction to that, having competed in a different sport, but at the same elite level.
00:23:44.540 Well, 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.
00:23:58.360 Enough is enough.
00:23:59.060 You'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.
00:24:10.500 As you described, San Jose State University, they allowed a man onto their team to take a scholarship.
00:24:16.720 He's taken a roster spot.
00:24:18.120 He has taken when they travel, you know, that that travel spot that rightfully belongs to to a girl, to a woman. 0.98
00:24:24.800 But 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.
00:24:45.180 The 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. 1.00
00:24:55.000 Yeah.
00:24:55.120 They 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.
00:25:04.880 We don't want to be on the receiving end.
00:25:06.620 I've seen this boy give career-ending concussions to girls, and so they cite safety concerns, these women, for not feeling comfortable to play.
00:25:16.200 And 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.
00:25:23.640 Well, 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,
00:25:34.140 or 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.
00:25:56.540 Well, I'm not even going to give you my thoughts.
00:25:58.560 I'll tell you exactly what is happening.
00:26:00.780 I'm going to give you factual information here.
00:26:03.120 Yeah.
00:26:03.680 Let's look, for example, at Peyton McNabb, a high school senior.
00:26:07.320 She was at the time in North Carolina.
00:26:10.440 A similar situation, actually.
00:26:12.220 It's a sport of volleyball.
00:26:14.020 A man on the opposing team, he jumps up, he spikes the ball, hits her in the face.
00:26:18.180 She's knocked unconscious, where she lays for many minutes before, you know, finally coming back around.
00:26:23.720 Still to this day, that was two years ago.
00:26:25.600 That was September of 2022, so over two years ago.
00:26:29.260 Still to this day, she's partially paralyzed on her right side.
00:26:33.120 Wow.
00:26:33.520 Her vision is impaired.
00:26:34.600 Her memory is impaired.
00:26:35.800 She has to have special accommodations for testing at school because she can't retain information like she once could. 0.99
00:26:41.760 She was supposed to play softball in college, but because of this brain injury, she will not go on to do that.
00:26:48.520 She has to have part of her pituitary gland removed out of her brain because of how traumatic the head injury was.
00:26:54.400 And 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.
00:27:06.880 And this boy, he slaps a shot at the women, one of the women on the field.
00:27:11.280 It hits her in the face, in the mouth, and it knocked all her teeth out. 0.97
00:27:15.200 Wow.
00:27:15.480 Even if she had to undergo reconstruction, facial reconstruction surgery to reconstruct her jaw.
00:27:20.520 This male player, he's given career-inning concussions to girls, like I said. 0.90
00:27:26.460 Most recently, we saw him hit a woman in the face from University of Delaware to where she didn't even have time to defend herself.
00:27:33.120 There was no reaction time for her that would have been able to prevent this hit from hitting her in the head.
00:27:42.480 The list goes on.
00:27:43.620 We saw recently even what the Olympics has done.
00:27:47.360 The 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.
00:28:00.380 And 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.
00:28:10.940 She said this was nothing, a punch that a woman could throw. 1.00
00:28:15.680 How is this remotely fair?
00:28:17.620 In what universe is this even arguably fair?
00:28:23.020 Well, it's absolutely not.
00:28:24.900 And 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.
00:28:34.160 Even 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,
00:28:43.860 Hey, look, you know, I played football at Stanford.
00:28:47.280 I totally get where you're coming from.
00:28:49.260 I totally agree.
00:28:50.220 And then gets on the other side of the table, and what does he do?
00:28:53.500 He starts grilling me and sympathizes with those on the other side.
00:28:59.480 Yeah.
00:29:00.340 Not the women. 1.00
00:29:01.720 So they don't believe this. 1.00
00:29:03.780 They're, again, just cowards. 0.99
00:29:05.480 And they know. 0.98
00:29:06.620 That's why, one, you have been incredible on many issues outside of the gender ideology movement.
00:29:14.380 But your opponent here in your state, I was so enthused to see this ad come out recently.
00:29:23.160 It was so powerful.
00:29:24.720 It was so effective.
00:29:25.900 If the people listening haven't seen it, go watch it.
00:29:28.500 I've reposted it on my page.
00:29:29.780 It's this perfect depiction that, even if you just watch the last 10 seconds, you see a man in a jersey with all red on the back of it,
00:29:40.180 and he tramples a young girl.
00:29:44.500 And that is the message, perfectly depicted.
00:29:47.640 That is the message that we are receiving and that people are voting for.
00:29:53.840 That's what you're getting if you vote for someone who advances these progressive and harmful policies.
00:30:00.040 Let me ask you.
00:30:01.240 You've gone to a number of campuses and you've spoken out.
00:30:03.960 And I admire your courage because you've had some really unpleasant receptions and threats of violence against you.
00:30:13.140 Describe a little bit what you've experienced as a consequence of speaking out against this.
00:30:18.340 Well, I was just actually explaining to Ben, I'm actually at University of Texas and Austin's campus today.
00:30:28.100 And 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.
00:30:39.160 They've been denied it from their universities, from these institutional academic institutions.
00:30:45.020 They've been denied the truth through censorship and other things.
00:30:50.100 And so I had a great reception tonight, but you're right.
00:30:53.100 I have been in scenarios where I have not been overly well received.
00:30:57.960 One, for example, is San Francisco State University where, I mean, I was accosted.
00:31:03.680 I was ambushed.
00:31:04.360 I was attacked by these protesters, hundreds of them.
00:31:07.780 They rush into the room.
00:31:08.880 They turn off the lights.
00:31:09.780 I 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.
00:31:24.140 All the while, the police are being held for ransom with me because, remember, this is San Francisco, and the police don't know.
00:31:30.560 I shouldn't say they don't know how to do their job.
00:31:32.340 They just don't do their job in this city.
00:31:38.020 Well, 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.
00:31:52.040 And 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.
00:32:06.420 That 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.
00:32:23.640 And that's exactly what these officers said.
00:32:26.680 You know, I asked them, can't you do something?
00:32:29.700 To which they said, no, we can't.
00:32:31.760 We'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. 0.93
00:32:37.480 Again, 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.
00:32:47.580 And that's who they, again, were almost forcibly had to side with in this scenario.
00:32:55.620 Well, Riley, thank you for speaking out.
00:32:58.020 Thank you for speaking out, not just for yourself, but you're speaking out for women.
00:33:02.500 You're speaking out for young girls.
00:33:04.140 You're speaking out for the next generation of athletes.
00:33:06.380 You 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. 1.00
00:33:19.440 And 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.
00:33:32.920 And I think your courage, there are a lot of people who are grateful to you, even if they don't say so.
00:33:39.080 I'm telling you, there are millions of Texans and millions of people across the country who are grateful to you, Riley.
00:33:44.600 As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
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