Verdict with Ted Cruz - Israel vs. Iran-What's Happening Right Now, plus AG Admits Fentanyl is the Worst Drug Threat in History...and STILL Leaves Borders Open

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00:00:05.620 Welcome. It is a verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:09.980 It is after 11 o'clock at night.

00:00:12.600 I want you to understand when we're doing this is we're going to be talking about this breaking news

00:00:17.500 that deals with this retaliatory strike from Israel on Iran.

00:00:23.900 Senator, your initial thoughts to that.

00:00:25.800 Well, as we're recording this, it is 11, 12 p.m. on Thursday night.

00:00:31.100 And what we know right now is that Israel has launched what appears to be a series of coordinated attacks 0.50

00:00:37.540 against Iran in Syria, in Iraq, and Iran, all at the same time.

00:00:43.280 We'll get into that on this pod in greater detail.

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00:03:02.460 Senator, this is not a surprise that Israel responded,

00:03:06.560 even though every single time they're attacked,

00:03:10.580 this administration, whether it's through the State Department

00:03:13.120 or through the President or through the White House spokesman

00:03:16.080 or Kirby at the White House,

00:03:18.080 they keep telling Israel, don't respond.

00:03:20.680 Don't react.

00:03:21.680 Don't defend yourself.

00:03:23.300 Don't, as they describe it, anything you do that looks aggressive,

00:03:26.220 we're going to say basically no to it.

00:03:28.560 Israel has a right to defend itself,

00:03:30.060 and clearly they said, we're going to take steps to do that right now.

00:03:33.400 Well, of course, Israel has a right to defend itself,

00:03:36.500 and of course that's what Israel is doing.

00:03:38.960 Part of the reason that we specified the time,

00:03:42.000 that this is shortly after 11 p.m. on Thursday,

00:03:44.460 is that it's unfolding literally this minute.

00:03:47.340 And so by the time this podcast posts on Friday morning,

00:03:51.300 there may have been many more developments throughout the night

00:03:54.060 and in the morning.

00:03:55.860 And indeed, even what we know now,

00:03:58.560 I have not had a classified briefing this evening,

00:04:01.020 so I don't have any insight beyond what has been publicly reported.

00:04:06.180 And there's always a fog of war when something is just breaking,

00:04:09.760 so we don't know the reliability of the early reports.

00:04:13.700 But what's being reported is that Israel launched a coordinated attack

00:04:18.040 using jets and using missiles against Iran,

00:04:22.300 but attacking Iran in at least three different places,

00:04:26.180 Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

00:04:28.180 And before we get to anything else, Ben,

00:04:30.640 it's worth noting that the scope of the attacks

00:04:34.260 show just how far Iran's reach has extended across the region.

00:04:39.360 What does it say that if you want to strike back at Iran,

00:04:42.120 you have to do it in Iran and Iraq and Syria,

00:04:45.540 because they're everywhere.

00:04:47.700 And understand, Iran is the most malevolent force in the Middle East. 1.00

00:04:53.120 They are funding the most dangerous terrorists on Earth. 0.85

00:04:57.100 They fund Hamas. 0.95

00:04:58.100 Ninety percent of Hamas's budget comes from Iran.

00:05:00.400 They fund Hezbollah. 0.94

00:05:01.700 Ninety percent of Hezbollah's budget comes from Iran.

00:05:05.120 And Iran, led by the Ayatollah and the Mullahs, 0.83

00:05:08.760 they routinely chant death to America and death to Israel.

00:05:13.500 And it's worth noting, as you just said,

00:05:17.620 from the instant October 7th happened,

00:05:21.020 the Biden administration has been telling Israel,

00:05:23.340 do not retaliate, do not defend yourself, do nothing.

00:05:25.860 From the instant Iran attacked Israel directly with over 300 drones and missiles, 0.93

00:05:34.960 again, the Biden administration's immediate refrain was,

00:05:38.520 do nothing, do not defend yourself, do not retaliate.

00:05:41.840 It was truly absurd.

00:05:43.940 But you have to understand, at every stage,

00:05:46.500 that has been the mantra of the Biden White House and the Democrats,

00:05:49.320 is they're undermining Israel's right to self-defense.

00:05:52.320 I think, absolutely, Israel should respond. 1.00

00:05:56.400 It is responding forcefully.

00:05:57.900 I expect them to respond significantly more forcefully.

00:06:01.700 I don't anticipate that this is the only response we will see,

00:06:05.560 and this may be...

00:06:06.300 That was the question I was going to ask you,

00:06:07.800 for just putting it in context so people understand,

00:06:09.940 is we're recording this after 11 o'clock at night tonight.

00:06:13.420 I don't think there's anybody that believes that this is the end of the response from Israel.

00:06:18.160 So it's probably more like the beginning of the response?

00:06:22.460 That's probably right, although I say we don't know.

00:06:24.980 We will see what unfolds.

00:06:27.660 But, you know, it was really striking that when the missiles,

00:06:32.840 and both ballistic missiles and cruise missiles and the drones,

00:06:37.480 over 300, were launched from Iran,

00:06:40.440 that there are a number of things that are really striking.

00:06:42.580 Number one, a bunch of them never even made it to Israel,

00:06:46.760 both because their technology was not great,

00:06:50.940 and also because they were shot down in the air.

00:06:53.420 They were shot down, number one, using Israel's missile defense,

00:06:57.140 using Iron Dome and Arrow 2 and 3, those systems.

00:07:00.840 But, number two, they were shot down with fighter jets.

00:07:03.600 And let me say something extraordinary.

00:07:05.440 So the fighter jets that were shooting them down,

00:07:07.260 my understanding is you had Israeli fighter jets,

00:07:09.780 but you also had American fighter jets that were assisting in shooting them down.

00:07:13.180 But you also had, and this is extraordinary,

00:07:17.220 Saudi fighter jets and Jordanian fighter jets.

00:07:21.760 Explain why that's so significant.

00:07:24.060 Look, if I'd have told you 10 years ago or even 5 years ago

00:07:28.580 that the Arabs would defend Israel

00:07:32.960 in a military attack against it from Iran,

00:07:37.920 that would have seemed absurd.

00:07:41.520 And it really is a testament.

00:07:43.480 It's a testament to the incredible progress that occurred

00:07:46.460 when Donald Trump was president,

00:07:48.860 the peace that was flowering in the Middle East,

00:07:52.700 the Abraham Accords,

00:07:53.840 where we started to see the Arabs and Israelis coming together.

00:07:57.420 And I'll tell you, a big part of what brought them together

00:07:59.620 was mutual concern over the danger Iran poses.

00:08:05.400 And this is the fruit of what was planted

00:08:13.900 during the Trump administration and the Abraham Accords.

00:08:16.380 But that being said, it's still remarkable.

00:08:19.200 I don't believe there is any precedent

00:08:21.500 for Arabs in conflict in support of Israel.

00:08:27.040 And so that's really quite remarkable.

00:08:29.920 And it does say something when the Arab states in the Middle East,

00:08:35.360 in some ways, may be more supportive of Israel

00:08:37.660 than the Biden White House.

00:08:40.020 Yeah, great point.

00:08:40.940 And there's also another question that I have for you.

00:08:43.320 And as I was watching right before we were going to record on CNN,

00:08:48.260 they were saying, well, now the world really has to be concerned

00:08:51.880 and worried of a massive,

00:08:55.260 and they were using these types of words,

00:08:57.440 massive retaliation from Iran should be expected 0.99

00:09:01.600 because Iran has said so.

00:09:03.240 They've said that they are going to unleash basically holy hell

00:09:06.080 in response to what Israel has just done.

00:09:11.000 And they said it's going to be on a level that, you know,

00:09:14.040 basically no one's ever seen before, yada, yada, yada.

00:09:17.560 And then they said, you know,

00:09:19.040 this is what the Biden administration

00:09:21.620 had been warning Israel about.

00:09:24.460 It is genuinely shocking to me

00:09:27.000 as I was watching that before we got on here

00:09:29.320 to think you just want Israel to just keep taking it indefinitely 0.82

00:09:34.000 and never defend themselves and never fight back

00:09:36.280 and not hit strategic targets

00:09:38.340 because of the threat

00:09:40.360 that is being given by the same country

00:09:43.440 that literally just attacked you.

00:09:45.180 What world are they living in?

00:09:46.940 Look, in many ways,

00:09:49.100 Joe Biden and the Democrats

00:09:50.240 are more supportive of Iran right now

00:09:52.700 than they are of Israel.

00:09:53.900 And that's an astonishing statement.

00:09:56.540 Israel is our closest ally in the Middle East.

00:09:58.700 They share our values.

00:10:00.060 They're an incredibly valuable military ally

00:10:03.060 to the United States.

00:10:04.200 Their intelligence saves the lives of Americans.

00:10:07.200 Their enemies are our enemies.

00:10:08.980 And yet, as we've discussed,

00:10:11.460 at every stage,

00:10:12.680 literally from the moment he was sworn in,

00:10:14.500 Joe Biden and the apparatchiks

00:10:16.800 in his administration

00:10:17.720 have been undermining Israel from day one.

00:10:21.380 And simultaneously,

00:10:23.240 they have been flooding money to Iran.

00:10:26.820 Billions of dollars.

00:10:27.940 And just a couple of weeks ago,

00:10:29.300 when I forced a vote on the Senate floor

00:10:32.000 that we should not send billions of dollars to Iran,

00:10:34.560 every single Democrat but one voted no.

00:10:37.740 The Democrats keep...

00:10:39.420 Look at it this way.

00:10:40.720 They want to send money to Iran, 0.82

00:10:42.380 and the Democrats are blocking

00:10:43.720 sending money to Israel.

00:10:45.440 That's extraordinary.

00:10:47.280 And it is...

00:10:48.940 Their radical base hates Israel. 0.70

00:10:53.880 The anti-Semitic radical left

00:10:56.900 that chants from the river to the sea,

00:10:59.540 that is who the Democrat Party

00:11:03.080 is terrified of,

00:11:05.180 and it's who's setting their tune.

00:11:08.120 And so even their talking points...

00:11:10.340 You know, look,

00:11:11.060 let's go back to October 7th.

00:11:12.500 Remember, the night of October 7th,

00:11:15.320 the Biden State Department tweeted out

00:11:17.160 that Israel should not retaliate.

00:11:18.780 That night,

00:11:19.780 as 1,200 Israelis

00:11:22.580 were being murdered,

00:11:24.420 as women and children 0.99

00:11:25.660 were being raped, 0.92

00:11:26.620 as some 30 Americans 0.97

00:11:28.520 were being murdered

00:11:30.020 and more were being kidnapped,

00:11:31.880 as hundreds of Israelis

00:11:33.240 were being kidnapped,

00:11:34.300 the Biden administration's

00:11:35.520 immediate reaction was

00:11:36.560 do not retaliate.

00:11:37.820 They did that on October 7th.

00:11:39.300 They did it again on October 8th.

00:11:40.800 Tony Blinken personally.

00:11:42.320 So that was the reaction

00:11:43.200 at the outset.

00:11:43.860 And understand,

00:11:45.060 who started this war?

00:11:46.660 It was Iran. 0.80

00:11:47.900 Iran funds Hezbollah.

00:11:49.220 Iran controls Hezbollah.

00:11:50.880 They are an Iran proxy. 0.72

00:11:52.780 The Wall Street Journal reported

00:11:54.160 that the Hamas terrorists 0.81

00:11:55.300 trained in Iran

00:11:57.060 for October 7th.

00:11:59.060 So it was Iran 0.88

00:12:00.060 that invaded Israel 0.56

00:12:01.480 and murdered 1,200 Israelis.

00:12:03.460 Imagine how America

00:12:04.980 would react if that happened.

00:12:06.660 And then it was Iran again 0.88

00:12:08.360 who escalated directly

00:12:09.880 firing missiles

00:12:10.860 and drones

00:12:11.900 from Iran into Israel.

00:12:13.440 Of course,

00:12:14.720 Israel is going to 1.00

00:12:15.540 defend itself

00:12:16.300 and retaliate.

00:12:17.200 It has to do so.

00:12:18.800 And yet,

00:12:19.320 the Biden administration

00:12:20.420 cannot refrain

00:12:21.520 from repeating

00:12:23.000 Iran's talking points 0.81

00:12:24.320 of,

00:12:24.620 oh, well,

00:12:24.880 this is terrible.

00:12:25.620 And now,

00:12:26.060 of course,

00:12:26.760 Iran is going to 1.00

00:12:27.500 respond massively.

00:12:29.260 How about having

00:12:30.040 a president telling Iran,

00:12:32.420 we stand with Israel.

00:12:34.540 Period.

00:12:35.260 The end.

00:12:35.900 That's what Biden

00:12:36.700 should be saying.

00:12:37.880 But it's not what he's saying.

00:12:39.580 You also have to wonder,

00:12:41.560 will this administration

00:12:42.880 change course?

00:12:44.420 And I've said this before.

00:12:45.800 You and I have had

00:12:46.260 this conversation

00:12:46.880 several times.

00:12:47.660 I never root

00:12:48.980 for the United States

00:12:50.520 America to fail

00:12:51.400 on national security

00:12:52.560 issues,

00:12:53.680 especially when it

00:12:54.800 deals with foreign

00:12:56.000 nations, right?

00:12:56.880 I don't care who

00:12:57.500 the president is.

00:12:58.320 I want Joe Biden

00:13:00.080 to be successful

00:13:00.980 in protecting and

00:13:01.960 defending us

00:13:02.840 always against

00:13:04.200 our adversaries

00:13:04.840 as well as our

00:13:05.740 allies.

00:13:06.600 And he clearly

00:13:07.800 has done a 180

00:13:08.740 from what the Trump

00:13:09.560 doctrine was,

00:13:10.420 foreign policy was,

00:13:11.420 and to stand with

00:13:12.080 Israel like you just 1.00

00:13:13.000 mentioned no matter

00:13:13.560 what.

00:13:14.840 This is not working.

00:13:16.400 This weak posture.

00:13:18.380 And just pause

00:13:19.460 and ask yourself

00:13:20.460 which was better,

00:13:22.600 peace and prosperity

00:13:23.880 or war everywhere

00:13:25.420 you look.

00:13:26.380 That's the result

00:13:27.200 of the Biden

00:13:27.660 foreign policy

00:13:28.440 is war everywhere.

00:13:29.920 That's the result

00:13:30.580 of the Biden

00:13:31.040 foreign policy

00:13:31.800 is our enemies

00:13:32.440 stronger,

00:13:33.500 emboldened,

00:13:34.240 and more threatening.

00:13:35.620 So will they

00:13:36.820 look at this

00:13:37.680 and at some point

00:13:38.540 do you believe

00:13:39.300 that they may

00:13:40.660 actually change course?

00:13:41.840 Because I mean it

00:13:42.520 sincerely when I say

00:13:43.460 I want us to be safe

00:13:44.980 and I want them

00:13:45.600 to protect Israel.

00:13:46.540 I think they are

00:13:47.800 ideologues,

00:13:48.720 I think they are

00:13:49.300 self-righteous,

00:13:50.140 I think they are

00:13:50.740 naive,

00:13:51.860 I think they believe

00:13:53.880 like a bunch of

00:13:55.740 college professors

00:13:57.320 in the faculty lounge

00:13:58.520 that Iran,

00:13:59.740 if we just give

00:14:00.420 peace a chance,

00:14:01.340 man,

00:14:01.760 you know,

00:14:02.020 Iran,

00:14:02.560 we don't have any

00:14:03.300 right to tell Iran 0.98

00:14:04.220 not to have nukes.

00:14:05.820 You know,

00:14:06.120 so what if they're 0.99

00:14:07.440 crazy religious zealots 0.99

00:14:08.660 who say they want 1.00

00:14:09.500 to murder us?

00:14:10.420 You know, 0.92

00:14:10.760 if we're just nice

00:14:11.680 to them,

00:14:12.120 if we just give them

00:14:12.780 a bunch of money,

00:14:13.760 they'll be our friends.

00:14:15.060 Look,

00:14:15.940 it is hopeless

00:14:17.620 naivete

00:14:18.420 and they believe it

00:14:19.820 like a religion.

00:14:21.660 They keep doing it.

00:14:23.580 Think of the

00:14:24.280 just how devoted

00:14:26.620 you have to be

00:14:28.440 to appeasement

00:14:29.280 to Iran

00:14:30.060 to in the wake

00:14:32.000 of October 7th

00:14:33.980 still refuse

00:14:35.860 to enforce

00:14:36.620 the oil sanctions

00:14:37.440 today.

00:14:38.740 Yeah.

00:14:39.740 Biden is not

00:14:40.680 enforcing the oil sanctions

00:14:41.580 and by the way,

00:14:42.460 it is also worth noting

00:14:43.960 today on Friday,

00:14:45.820 Biden is announcing

00:14:47.220 massive sanctions

00:14:48.400 against Alaska.

00:14:50.080 Our state,

00:14:51.620 the National Petroleum Reserve,

00:14:53.460 they are shutting down

00:14:54.420 production in.

00:14:55.640 It is an incredibly rich

00:14:57.160 petroleum reserve

00:14:58.140 in Alaska,

00:14:59.040 massive reserves.

00:15:00.540 So explain to me

00:15:01.980 how these anti-American

00:15:04.240 Marxist zealots

00:15:05.260 can possibly justify.

00:15:07.560 They hate oil

00:15:08.560 and gas in America.

00:15:09.380 They're going to destroy

00:15:10.120 jobs in America.

00:15:11.260 They're going to

00:15:11.760 drive up the cost

00:15:13.420 of gasoline

00:15:13.940 for Americans

00:15:14.560 in America,

00:15:15.120 but at the same time,

00:15:16.620 they're going to

00:15:17.040 allow Iran 0.98

00:15:17.740 to go from

00:15:18.880 300,000 barrels

00:15:19.940 a day of oil

00:15:20.620 to 2 million barrels

00:15:22.920 of oil a day.

00:15:24.080 That's what they're

00:15:24.580 doing right now.

00:15:26.260 And apparently,

00:15:27.520 Biden and the Democrats,

00:15:28.600 they only like oil

00:15:29.360 and gas

00:15:29.860 if it's produced

00:15:31.420 by crazed zealots 1.00

00:15:32.840 who want to murder us 1.00

00:15:33.980 and want to kill 1.00

00:15:34.900 as many Israelis 1.00

00:15:35.660 as possible.

00:15:36.280 What you just said

00:15:37.740 made me want to talk

00:15:38.640 about funding

00:15:39.240 for a second.

00:15:40.640 What is sad

00:15:41.560 is because

00:15:42.680 the position

00:15:43.360 that you just

00:15:43.920 mentioned,

00:15:45.100 the Biden administration

00:15:46.220 is absolutely

00:15:47.860 funding Iran

00:15:49.560 and their needs.

00:15:50.960 Yes.

00:15:51.520 What we're not

00:15:52.200 doing right now

00:15:53.100 is giving Israel 0.98

00:15:54.920 funding that they

00:15:56.160 need and aid

00:15:57.080 and support they

00:15:57.800 need and military

00:15:58.580 hardware that they

00:15:59.280 need from the

00:15:59.760 United States of

00:16:00.460 America.

00:16:01.340 How is that

00:16:02.340 possible?

00:16:02.880 because the

00:16:04.640 Democrat Party

00:16:05.560 is captured

00:16:06.700 by the radical

00:16:07.560 left and sadly

00:16:08.800 the mainstream

00:16:10.420 Democrat Party

00:16:11.680 has turned

00:16:13.220 against Israel.

00:16:14.320 It's not just

00:16:15.120 the fringe.

00:16:15.860 It's not just

00:16:16.420 Ilhan Omar

00:16:17.280 and Tlaib

00:16:18.360 and AOC.

00:16:19.400 It's not just

00:16:19.940 the whack jobs.

00:16:21.620 It's Chuck Schumer.

00:16:23.440 Chuck Schumer

00:16:24.100 is the one

00:16:24.520 that stood on the

00:16:25.140 floor and demanded

00:16:26.580 that Netanyahu

00:16:27.360 be thrown out of

00:16:28.140 office,

00:16:28.500 the democratically

00:16:29.140 elected leader

00:16:29.800 of Israel.

00:16:30.560 It's Joe Biden.

00:16:31.660 Joe Biden

00:16:32.200 is the one

00:16:33.420 who orchestrated

00:16:34.320 a resolution

00:16:35.940 in the United

00:16:36.540 Nations

00:16:36.940 effectively

00:16:37.420 condemning

00:16:38.580 Israel for

00:16:39.740 not having

00:16:40.260 an immediate

00:16:40.620 ceasefire.

00:16:41.820 It's Nancy

00:16:42.420 Pelosi

00:16:43.460 who signed

00:16:45.440 a letter

00:16:45.880 demanding

00:16:46.540 that America

00:16:47.520 cut off

00:16:48.220 weapons,

00:16:49.000 military weapons

00:16:49.840 for Israel

00:16:50.300 to defend

00:16:50.780 itself.

00:16:51.560 Those are

00:16:52.160 not fringe

00:16:53.340 Democrats.

00:16:54.460 Those are

00:16:54.940 the leading

00:16:55.760 Democrats in

00:16:56.900 office and

00:16:58.160 that's an

00:16:58.880 enormous problem.

00:16:59.640 I hit 40

00:17:01.620 a couple

00:17:02.000 years ago.

00:17:02.540 Now I'm 42

00:17:03.260 and I can tell

00:17:04.180 you the older

00:17:04.820 you get,

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00:17:06.600 start to realize

00:17:07.560 stuff changes.

00:17:09.180 I didn't have

00:17:10.060 the same energy

00:17:10.920 to play sports

00:17:11.800 like I used to

00:17:12.600 and I played

00:17:13.100 in college.

00:17:13.860 I didn't have

00:17:14.740 the same energy

00:17:15.400 to work out.

00:17:16.620 I didn't have

00:17:16.940 the same energy

00:17:17.560 to go running

00:17:18.280 and that is

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00:18:54.160 Senator,

00:18:54.620 finally,

00:18:55.580 when it comes

00:18:56.180 to the aid

00:18:57.300 package that

00:18:58.240 Israel needs, 0.89

00:18:59.600 what does it

00:19:00.420 look like and

00:19:01.340 how quickly are

00:19:02.160 we going to get

00:19:02.580 an answer for

00:19:03.260 Israel,

00:19:04.180 especially if

00:19:05.180 this turns into

00:19:06.380 a significant

00:19:07.360 military conflict

00:19:09.200 between them

00:19:10.560 and Iran that 0.56

00:19:11.680 goes back and

00:19:12.400 forth?

00:19:12.740 They need it

00:19:13.280 now.

00:19:14.080 Well,

00:19:14.740 that's up in

00:19:15.660 the air right

00:19:16.280 now.

00:19:16.800 As we sit

00:19:17.780 here tonight,

00:19:18.580 the House is

00:19:19.080 in the middle

00:19:19.440 of debating

00:19:19.940 that question

00:19:20.640 right now,

00:19:21.200 and they're

00:19:21.420 trying to put

00:19:21.980 together an

00:19:22.460 aid package

00:19:22.980 and vote it

00:19:23.520 out.

00:19:24.120 They're putting

00:19:24.560 together a

00:19:25.120 big supplemental

00:19:25.840 bill that

00:19:26.480 they're talking

00:19:27.140 about including

00:19:27.900 Israel aid in,

00:19:28.980 that they're

00:19:29.240 talking about

00:19:29.940 including Ukraine

00:19:31.120 aid in,

00:19:31.800 which is going

00:19:32.240 to split some

00:19:33.020 members of the

00:19:33.800 House and some

00:19:34.340 members of the

00:19:34.860 Senate.

00:19:35.480 They're talking

00:19:36.040 about including

00:19:36.700 their bill forcing

00:19:38.100 China to sell

00:19:38.960 TikTok, which is a

00:19:40.100 very important

00:19:40.760 bill.

00:19:41.820 It's going to be

00:19:42.600 a big,

00:19:43.100 complicated,

00:19:43.760 supplemental.

00:19:44.380 It's not clear

00:19:45.060 right now that

00:19:46.300 they're going to

00:19:46.620 get the votes to

00:19:47.300 pass any of it,

00:19:48.160 but they are

00:19:48.720 actively battling

00:19:49.900 it out in the

00:19:50.720 House right now

00:19:51.580 as we speak.

00:19:52.820 We'll keep you

00:19:53.280 updated on this

00:19:54.000 as it's going to

00:19:54.540 be a very quick

00:19:55.820 moving next,

00:19:57.140 I think,

00:19:57.360 week,

00:19:57.620 week and a half

00:19:58.160 on these issues.

00:19:59.160 We will cover

00:19:59.680 it all for you.

00:20:00.740 There's also

00:20:01.300 another big

00:20:02.020 warning and a

00:20:02.960 moment of honesty

00:20:04.240 that came from

00:20:05.180 the Attorney General

00:20:06.220 Merrick Garland.

00:20:07.680 He was in front of

00:20:08.480 Hold on a second.

00:20:09.340 Did you just say

00:20:09.900 honesty from the

00:20:10.740 Attorney General

00:20:11.320 Merrick Garland?

00:20:12.060 I know,

00:20:12.680 I know.

00:20:13.040 It's everybody

00:20:13.880 get right with

00:20:14.600 the Lord because

00:20:15.200 it could be

00:20:15.700 rapture alert here.

00:20:17.240 Holy cow, 0.51

00:20:18.260 that is a sign

00:20:19.440 of the end times.

00:20:21.920 I was wondering

00:20:22.760 if you were going

00:20:23.220 to let me get

00:20:23.640 away with that

00:20:24.260 moment and

00:20:24.900 clearly,

00:20:25.480 see,

00:20:25.640 this is why I

00:20:26.260 love doing this

00:20:26.880 show because I was

00:20:27.700 like,

00:20:27.900 am I setting him up?

00:20:28.820 And yes,

00:20:29.240 you took the opportunity.

00:20:30.680 Of course,

00:20:31.160 the man is so

00:20:32.560 smug and so 1.00

00:20:33.420 dishonest. 1.00

00:20:34.520 All right, 0.87

00:20:35.200 so what did

00:20:36.320 he say?

00:20:36.940 I mean,

00:20:37.160 I suppose even a

00:20:38.080 stop clock is

00:20:38.780 right twice a day.

00:20:39.620 What did he say

00:20:40.640 that was actually

00:20:41.760 honest?

00:20:42.340 So the Attorney

00:20:43.160 General was asked

00:20:44.360 about how bad

00:20:46.340 the fentanyl,

00:20:48.880 not only deaths

00:20:50.520 and abuse are,

00:20:51.780 but how much is

00:20:52.600 coming across the

00:20:53.520 border and how big

00:20:54.200 of a threat does

00:20:54.740 he see as the

00:20:55.240 Attorney General?

00:20:56.420 He was asked this

00:20:57.320 question and I

00:20:58.040 want to play it.

00:20:58.700 It's a little bit

00:20:59.680 longer,

00:21:00.280 but it's important

00:21:01.440 because I want you

00:21:02.320 to hear what he said

00:21:03.200 and the reason why

00:21:04.420 I think this is so

00:21:05.200 important is we also

00:21:06.640 have to tie this back

00:21:07.500 to the impeachment

00:21:08.420 of the man,

00:21:11.260 Mayorkas,

00:21:12.120 who Democrats

00:21:12.940 refuse to move on.

00:21:14.180 So at the same time

00:21:15.020 they're doing that,

00:21:16.300 you have the

00:21:17.000 Attorney General

00:21:17.440 going,

00:21:17.720 yeah,

00:21:17.940 yeah,

00:21:18.060 we got a major

00:21:18.660 problem with fentanyl

00:21:19.540 in this country.

00:21:20.140 It's killing a hell

00:21:20.600 of a lot of people

00:21:21.200 here.

00:21:21.560 Take a listen.

00:21:23.340 Senator Moran

00:21:24.140 and I both

00:21:24.760 mentioned in our

00:21:25.480 opening statements,

00:21:26.380 as did you

00:21:27.220 the continuing

00:21:29.580 fight against

00:21:31.180 the opioid epidemic,

00:21:34.060 substance misuse,

00:21:35.660 the drug cartels.

00:21:37.440 I continue to be

00:21:38.860 very concerned

00:21:39.620 about fentanyl

00:21:40.820 use and poisoning.

00:21:42.760 New Hampshire

00:21:43.260 has lost too many

00:21:45.180 people to

00:21:46.040 fentanyl overdoses.

00:21:47.940 Can you talk

00:21:48.600 a little bit

00:21:49.060 about DOJ's

00:21:50.300 efforts to

00:21:50.900 interdict

00:21:51.480 these drugs

00:21:52.660 and efforts

00:21:54.780 to find a way

00:21:55.860 to prosecute

00:21:56.600 those responsible?

00:21:58.500 Yes,

00:21:58.820 Senator.

00:21:59.540 I have said

00:22:00.780 and I deeply

00:22:01.640 mean this,

00:22:02.460 that fentanyl

00:22:03.620 is the deadliest

00:22:04.540 drug threat

00:22:05.520 that this country

00:22:06.280 has ever faced.

00:22:08.020 I've met

00:22:09.600 with families

00:22:11.080 at the DEA

00:22:12.520 whose children,

00:22:14.540 whose teenagers,

00:22:16.040 whose infants,

00:22:17.580 whose grandparents

00:22:18.620 have died,

00:22:19.900 mostly not even

00:22:23.720 knowing that what

00:22:24.480 they're taking

00:22:25.000 is fentanyl,

00:22:25.860 thinking it's

00:22:26.340 another kind of

00:22:27.340 prescription pill

00:22:28.160 that they were

00:22:28.580 able to get

00:22:29.020 over the internet.

00:22:31.620 We don't even

00:22:32.640 refer to this

00:22:33.300 as overdoses

00:22:34.440 anymore.

00:22:35.060 We refer to this

00:22:35.460 as drug poisoning

00:22:36.260 because that's

00:22:36.840 what it is.

00:22:37.360 So we are

00:22:38.500 facing this

00:22:39.160 with the urgency

00:22:40.000 it requires.

00:22:41.480 Let me just

00:22:42.100 stop there.

00:22:42.900 He says

00:22:43.520 we are facing

00:22:44.260 this with

00:22:45.520 the urgency

00:22:46.220 that it

00:22:47.200 requires.

00:22:48.540 If this is

00:22:49.660 as urgent

00:22:50.160 as he just

00:22:50.780 said,

00:22:51.680 and I want

00:22:52.280 to read that

00:22:53.040 back to you,

00:22:53.580 Senator,

00:22:53.800 I have said

00:22:54.520 and I deeply

00:22:55.100 mean this,

00:22:56.340 that fentanyl

00:22:56.960 is the deadliest

00:22:57.700 drug threat

00:22:58.480 that this country

00:22:59.380 has ever faced.

00:23:01.040 I've met

00:23:01.500 with the families

00:23:02.180 at the DEA

00:23:03.180 whose children,

00:23:04.360 whose teenagers,

00:23:04.940 whose infants,

00:23:06.800 whose grandparents

00:23:07.580 have died mostly

00:23:08.440 not even knowing

00:23:09.440 that what they

00:23:10.560 were taking

00:23:11.080 is fentanyl,

00:23:12.040 thinking it's

00:23:12.760 another kind

00:23:13.440 of a prescription

00:23:14.160 pill that they

00:23:15.280 are able to get

00:23:16.100 over the internet.

00:23:18.380 We don't even

00:23:19.420 refer to this

00:23:20.460 as overdoses

00:23:21.640 anymore.

00:23:22.580 This is

00:23:23.520 drug poisoning

00:23:25.640 because that's

00:23:26.640 what it is.

00:23:27.340 So,

00:23:27.880 then he says

00:23:28.860 that we are

00:23:29.960 facing this

00:23:31.360 with the urgency

00:23:32.840 that it requires.

00:23:33.900 If that was

00:23:34.640 true,

00:23:35.380 Senator,

00:23:36.220 wouldn't you

00:23:36.960 be then

00:23:37.520 closing the

00:23:38.280 southern border

00:23:38.860 and not having

00:23:39.480 it wide open

00:23:40.240 like it is

00:23:40.740 right now?

00:23:42.520 Of course.

00:23:43.820 This is not

00:23:44.620 complicated.

00:23:46.460 The drug

00:23:47.440 traffickers

00:23:48.080 are the human

00:23:49.420 traffickers.

00:23:50.180 It's the same 0.53

00:23:50.760 drug cartels.

00:23:52.220 In 2018,

00:23:53.920 the drug cartels

00:23:55.260 made $500 million

00:23:56.520 from human

00:23:57.400 trafficking.

00:23:58.580 In 2022,

00:24:00.540 they made

00:24:01.260 $13 billion

00:24:03.320 from human

00:24:04.980 trafficking.

00:24:05.500 That's a

00:24:05.940 2,600%

00:24:07.240 increase.

00:24:08.300 The people

00:24:08.640 making fentanyl

00:24:09.620 are getting

00:24:10.640 extraordinarily rich

00:24:12.220 under Joe Biden

00:24:13.700 and Alejandro

00:24:14.360 Mayorkas and

00:24:15.420 Merrick Garland's

00:24:16.280 open borders.

00:24:17.280 They are flooding

00:24:18.380 the border.

00:24:19.240 And the human

00:24:20.400 trafficking and

00:24:21.120 drug trafficking

00:24:21.800 are completely

00:24:23.120 intertwined.

00:24:24.200 It's the same 0.53

00:24:24.760 people doing it.

00:24:25.820 It's the same 0.53

00:24:26.460 cartels doing it.

00:24:27.440 And the way

00:24:27.820 they do it

00:24:28.520 is they'll

00:24:29.120 send a flood

00:24:29.780 of migrants 0.99

00:24:30.280 over one

00:24:30.800 portion of

00:24:31.280 the river

00:24:31.620 and Border

00:24:32.380 Patrol will

00:24:33.020 all go there.

00:24:34.500 And while Border

00:24:35.120 Patrol is

00:24:35.840 dealing with

00:24:36.440 the migrants,

00:24:36.940 and by the way,

00:24:38.180 because Biden's

00:24:39.320 policy is

00:24:40.120 catch and

00:24:40.540 release,

00:24:41.400 once Border

00:24:42.060 Patrol

00:24:42.620 apprehends a

00:24:44.320 group,

00:24:44.580 and let's be

00:24:44.980 clear,

00:24:45.300 the group is

00:24:45.840 normally finding

00:24:46.620 Border Patrol

00:24:47.140 and turning

00:24:47.540 themselves in,

00:24:48.760 then the

00:24:50.560 majority of

00:24:51.340 agents are

00:24:51.880 spending their

00:24:52.480 time processing

00:24:53.620 those migrants

00:24:54.460 or staying with

00:24:55.740 them in the

00:24:56.060 detention facilities

00:24:57.140 or getting

00:24:58.280 them diapers

00:24:58.860 or getting

00:24:59.260 them food

00:24:59.740 or caring

00:25:00.320 for this

00:25:00.900 massive influx.

00:25:02.000 And so the

00:25:02.320 percentage of

00:25:03.500 agents on

00:25:04.460 the border

00:25:04.960 that are

00:25:05.240 actually deployed

00:25:06.080 drops precipitously

00:25:07.960 because the

00:25:08.520 vast majority

00:25:09.160 of the agents

00:25:09.720 are processing

00:25:10.820 migrants and

00:25:11.600 doing administrative

00:25:12.400 work.

00:25:13.240 And then what

00:25:15.060 the cartels do

00:25:16.080 is a mile up

00:25:16.760 the river,

00:25:17.200 that's where

00:25:17.540 they move

00:25:17.800 the fentanyl

00:25:18.240 across.

00:25:18.700 When the Border

00:25:19.100 Patrol agents

00:25:19.800 are dealing

00:25:20.800 with the

00:25:21.800 illegal immigrants,

00:25:22.920 they move 0.99

00:25:23.520 the fentanyl

00:25:24.060 somewhere else.

00:25:24.760 And so the

00:25:25.200 two are very

00:25:26.260 closely

00:25:26.740 intertwined.

00:25:27.580 And if Joe

00:25:29.100 Biden and

00:25:29.660 Mayorkas and

00:25:30.360 Garland were

00:25:30.880 willing to

00:25:31.320 deport illegal

00:25:32.440 immigrants and

00:25:33.020 follow the law,

00:25:34.000 what that would

00:25:35.060 mean is that

00:25:36.040 Border Patrol

00:25:36.580 agents could

00:25:37.200 be on the

00:25:37.720 border and

00:25:38.500 stop the

00:25:39.300 fentanyl from

00:25:39.940 coming in,

00:25:40.860 but they can't.

00:25:42.360 And I'll tell

00:25:42.880 you, I'll give

00:25:43.420 you some amazing

00:25:44.600 stats.

00:25:45.600 So do you

00:25:46.100 know how

00:25:46.480 much drugs

00:25:49.120 were seized

00:25:50.060 at the

00:25:50.920 southern border

00:25:51.580 in March,

00:25:52.420 in one month?

00:25:53.540 How much?

00:25:54.060 Of fentanyl,

00:25:56.340 1,389 pounds.

00:26:00.160 And understand,

00:26:01.080 look, fentanyl

00:26:01.740 is so powerful,

00:26:03.340 just a tiny

00:26:04.200 grain or two

00:26:05.140 is enough to 0.97

00:26:05.740 kill you. 1.00

00:26:06.900 Canadian women 1.00

00:26:07.700 are looking for

00:26:08.380 more.

00:26:09.020 More out of

00:26:09.380 themselves,

00:26:10.080 their businesses,

00:26:11.020 their elected

00:26:11.440 leaders,

00:26:11.980 and the world

00:26:12.540 around them.

00:26:13.180 And that's why

00:26:13.660 we're thrilled to

00:26:14.360 introduce the

00:26:15.180 Honest Talk

00:26:15.840 podcast.

00:26:16.940 I'm Jennifer

00:26:17.440 Stewart.

00:26:18.100 And I'm

00:26:18.420 Catherine Clark.

00:26:19.080 And in this

00:26:19.800 podcast,

00:26:20.500 we interview

00:26:20.960 Canada's most

00:26:21.760 inspiring women,

00:26:22.940 entrepreneurs,

00:26:23.780 artists,

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00:26:25.780 and newsmakers,

00:26:26.660 all at different

00:26:27.340 stages of their

00:26:28.220 journey.

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00:26:37.820 Tell the story,

00:26:38.780 you told us a

00:26:39.260 while ago,

00:26:39.820 but I think it's

00:26:40.300 important for people

00:26:41.100 to understand it

00:26:41.860 just so that they

00:26:42.900 have context.

00:26:44.160 Fentanyl is not

00:26:45.000 a heavy drug,

00:26:46.120 okay?

00:26:46.460 Like you see like

00:26:47.380 a kilo of

00:26:47.940 cocaine and

00:26:49.200 it looks pretty

00:26:50.120 heavy and

00:26:51.500 pretty dense.

00:26:52.620 And then you

00:26:53.300 look at,

00:26:53.740 you know,

00:26:54.080 a kilo,

00:26:55.340 for example,

00:26:55.880 of marijuana.

00:26:56.840 It's obviously a

00:26:57.840 pretty big package,

00:26:59.380 but there's,

00:27:00.300 talk about the

00:27:01.020 grains when you

00:27:01.920 met with the

00:27:03.280 agents that

00:27:03.740 explained just

00:27:04.360 how little can

00:27:05.020 kill you and 0.99

00:27:05.560 the story that 1.00

00:27:06.380 you told with

00:27:06.840 your own

00:27:07.120 daughters using

00:27:07.900 a sweet and

00:27:08.380 low packet.

00:27:09.360 Yeah,

00:27:09.500 this is something

00:27:10.120 that a DEA

00:27:10.920 agent told me.

00:27:13.120 And he had me

00:27:13.840 and several other

00:27:14.500 people take out

00:27:15.520 a packet of

00:27:16.400 sweet and low.

00:27:17.380 And tear open

00:27:18.540 the packet of

00:27:19.060 sweet and low

00:27:19.520 and dump all 0.75

00:27:20.680 the contents out,

00:27:21.420 empty all the

00:27:21.920 contents.

00:27:23.220 And then he

00:27:23.660 said,

00:27:23.940 okay,

00:27:24.200 stick your

00:27:24.660 pinky in the

00:27:25.340 empty bag of 0.68

00:27:28.060 sweet and low.

00:27:28.820 And you pull

00:27:29.440 your pinky out

00:27:30.200 and there are

00:27:30.540 two or three

00:27:31.220 little grains

00:27:32.120 that are on

00:27:32.540 your pinky.

00:27:33.700 He said,

00:27:34.120 that's enough

00:27:34.580 fentanyl to 1.00

00:27:35.000 kill you. 1.00

00:27:36.080 Just the 1.00

00:27:36.680 residue that's

00:27:37.460 in the packet

00:27:37.960 after you've

00:27:38.620 emptied it.

00:27:39.660 And so what

00:27:40.700 I did with

00:27:41.280 both my

00:27:41.720 daughters is I

00:27:42.440 got three

00:27:43.660 packets of

00:27:44.440 sweet and low

00:27:45.000 and I tore

00:27:45.500 one open,

00:27:46.040 I had them

00:27:46.440 tear it open,

00:27:47.360 I had them

00:27:47.760 empty out

00:27:48.280 the contents,

00:27:49.960 and then do

00:27:50.960 exactly that

00:27:51.820 because look,

00:27:52.380 it's terrifying.

00:27:53.260 My girls are

00:27:53.860 13 and 16,

00:27:55.080 they're good

00:27:55.620 kids.

00:27:56.700 But what is

00:27:57.280 so frightening

00:27:58.280 about this

00:27:59.000 epidemic is

00:28:00.380 it's not,

00:28:01.100 look,

00:28:01.280 it's one thing

00:28:02.040 if a heroin

00:28:03.400 junkie on the

00:28:04.240 street who's

00:28:05.420 abusing drugs

00:28:06.300 for years and

00:28:06.980 years and

00:28:07.400 years,

00:28:07.820 if they

00:28:08.340 overdose,

00:28:09.020 that's sad

00:28:09.940 when anyone

00:28:10.380 dies,

00:28:11.020 but that's

00:28:12.000 the result

00:28:12.620 of extended

00:28:13.740 conduct.

00:28:15.020 What is

00:28:15.720 terrifying about

00:28:16.640 this crisis

00:28:17.300 is the people

00:28:17.980 who are dying

00:28:18.680 are not

00:28:19.620 drug addicts

00:28:20.760 and in many

00:28:21.160 instances they're

00:28:21.800 not even drug

00:28:22.740 users in the

00:28:23.600 ordinary sense

00:28:24.260 of things,

00:28:25.720 they're a

00:28:26.400 teenager or

00:28:28.220 a young adult

00:28:29.240 who goes to

00:28:30.200 a party and

00:28:30.760 they're at a

00:28:31.160 party and

00:28:31.680 someone says,

00:28:32.460 hey, you want

00:28:33.740 to try a

00:28:34.380 Xanax, you

00:28:35.180 want to try a

00:28:36.060 Percocet, you

00:28:36.740 want to try,

00:28:37.260 you know,

00:28:38.560 a Ritalin.

00:28:41.640 And look,

00:28:42.520 should you take

00:28:43.560 those drugs if

00:28:44.340 they're not

00:28:44.660 prescribed to

00:28:45.240 you?

00:28:45.380 No, but a

00:28:47.180 teenager doing

00:28:48.100 that, that

00:28:48.780 didn't used to

00:28:49.820 be a death

00:28:50.560 sentence because

00:28:51.920 if they get a

00:28:52.700 pill that

00:28:53.200 someone say got

00:28:54.220 on the internet

00:28:54.720 and it happens

00:28:55.460 to have fentanyl

00:28:56.820 in it, they

00:28:57.300 literally can

00:28:59.040 drop dead and 0.97

00:29:00.160 that is happening 0.95

00:29:01.020 over and over

00:29:02.280 and over again.

00:29:02.840 I'll give you

00:29:03.120 an amazing stat.

00:29:03.860 You go back to

00:29:04.740 Garland's exact

00:29:05.420 words and I

00:29:06.380 think it's

00:29:06.640 important that

00:29:07.080 people hear

00:29:07.440 this as he

00:29:07.940 described it.

00:29:08.420 We don't

00:29:08.800 even refer to

00:29:09.540 this as an

00:29:10.160 overdose or

00:29:11.820 overdose anymore.

00:29:13.400 This is drug

00:29:14.240 poisoning because

00:29:15.220 that's what it

00:29:15.880 is.

00:29:16.440 Right.

00:29:16.860 This is a

00:29:17.600 point I've

00:29:18.120 tried with my

00:29:18.960 kids to

00:29:19.420 emphasize it,

00:29:20.260 but it's

00:29:20.680 frightening because

00:29:21.540 look, teenagers 1.00

00:29:22.540 do stupid 1.00

00:29:23.120 things and 1.00

00:29:24.580 it can be

00:29:26.940 just one

00:29:27.780 random and

00:29:28.400 the reason why

00:29:29.320 Garland is

00:29:30.100 right to use

00:29:30.680 the term

00:29:31.080 poisoning because

00:29:31.840 an overdose

00:29:32.360 suggests a

00:29:33.720 drug user that

00:29:34.700 takes too

00:29:35.460 much.

00:29:36.700 And what's

00:29:37.260 happening with

00:29:37.920 fentanyl is

00:29:39.540 you have

00:29:40.240 things that

00:29:40.780 are laced

00:29:41.240 with fentanyl

00:29:42.400 that they

00:29:43.360 don't know

00:29:44.060 they're taking

00:29:44.760 fentanyl.

00:29:45.320 That's why it's

00:29:45.920 a poisoning

00:29:46.420 because taking a

00:29:47.680 Xanax pill will

00:29:48.400 not kill you.

00:29:49.820 But if there's

00:29:50.400 fentanyl in it and

00:29:51.200 if there's a little

00:29:52.640 bit too much,

00:29:53.600 you can literally

00:29:54.220 just drop dead

00:29:54.920 right there. 0.99

00:29:55.320 And here is the

00:29:57.060 stat that is

00:29:57.660 amazing and

00:29:58.340 terrifying.

00:29:59.720 Right now

00:30:00.180 today, fentanyl

00:30:01.940 is the number

00:30:02.800 one cause of

00:30:03.880 death for

00:30:04.420 Americans age 0.98

00:30:05.400 18 to 45.

00:30:07.320 Number one.

00:30:08.200 Number one.

00:30:09.100 More than car

00:30:09.860 accidents, more

00:30:10.700 than heart disease,

00:30:12.040 more than anything.

00:30:12.960 By the way, did

00:30:13.480 you say to 45?

00:30:15.020 18 to 45.

00:30:16.300 So what that

00:30:17.240 means is if you

00:30:18.040 remember at the

00:30:18.740 end of last year,

00:30:19.620 it was 18 to

00:30:20.480 39.

00:30:21.240 So it's

00:30:21.740 expanded now to

00:30:22.820 45.

00:30:24.760 I'm not sure

00:30:25.980 if the numbers

00:30:27.980 have expanded or

00:30:28.900 just the category

00:30:29.800 that I'm looking

00:30:31.820 at, but 18 to

00:30:32.580 45, it's the

00:30:33.420 number one cause

00:30:34.080 of death.

00:30:35.180 Wow.

00:30:35.960 And here, let me

00:30:37.120 give you a quote

00:30:37.820 from Biden's DEA

00:30:39.920 administrator, Ann

00:30:40.880 Milgram.

00:30:41.440 She said,

00:30:42.000 cartels are

00:30:42.920 quote, killing 0.97

00:30:44.360 Americans with 0.98

00:30:45.320 fentanyl at

00:30:46.940 catastrophic and

00:30:48.320 record rates like

00:30:49.720 we've never

00:30:50.600 seen before.

00:30:52.960 And that begs

00:30:54.020 the question,

00:30:54.840 then why the 0.90

00:30:55.760 hell are you

00:30:56.460 making cartels

00:30:57.460 incredibly rich

00:30:58.940 and allowing

00:31:01.020 them to bring

00:31:01.920 10.4 million

00:31:04.320 illegal immigrants

00:31:05.500 into this

00:31:05.980 country?

00:31:06.860 Senator, I'm

00:31:07.580 not sure what's

00:31:08.320 worse.

00:31:09.260 Is it the fact

00:31:10.480 that we have an

00:31:11.240 attorney general

00:31:11.760 that is genuinely

00:31:13.160 being honest now

00:31:15.300 with the American

00:31:15.800 people about the

00:31:16.480 threat, talking

00:31:17.860 about this being

00:31:18.600 the number one

00:31:19.040 killer for those 1.00

00:31:19.720 45 to 18 in 0.99

00:31:20.860 this country,

00:31:21.400 and knowing

00:31:23.360 it and

00:31:23.840 publicizing it,

00:31:25.740 and then yet

00:31:26.440 they're not 0.74

00:31:27.600 doing a damn

00:31:28.200 thing to stop 0.91

00:31:29.200 the flow of

00:31:30.680 the drug coming

00:31:31.540 across the

00:31:32.760 southern border

00:31:33.600 or securing

00:31:34.880 that border.

00:31:36.020 So what is the

00:31:36.620 takeaway for the

00:31:37.360 American people?

00:31:38.020 We know that

00:31:38.600 you're dying at

00:31:39.180 record rates,

00:31:39.880 but we need

00:31:41.200 illegal immigrants

00:31:41.880 to come in to

00:31:42.580 fundamentally change

00:31:43.180 this country,

00:31:43.600 so we're willing

00:31:44.580 to sacrifice your

00:31:46.040 lives and your

00:31:46.720 kids' lives and

00:31:47.800 your grandparents' 0.92

00:31:48.540 lives?

00:31:49.260 So Ben, I'm

00:31:49.900 going to give

00:31:50.140 you the very

00:31:50.540 sad takeaway.

00:31:52.100 The Democrats

00:31:52.880 simply do not

00:31:54.180 care.

00:31:54.560 Now that sounds

00:31:55.220 harsh, that

00:31:55.800 sounds political,

00:31:56.620 but what other

00:31:58.020 conclusion can

00:31:59.960 you draw when

00:32:01.640 they continue to

00:32:02.640 put in place the

00:32:03.500 policies that

00:32:04.620 enriches the

00:32:05.480 cartels and

00:32:06.920 that allows them

00:32:07.920 to keep flooding

00:32:08.680 this country with

00:32:09.500 fentanyl?

00:32:10.380 And, you know,

00:32:11.020 there's some irony

00:32:11.940 about that exchange,

00:32:13.080 so the senator who

00:32:14.080 was questioning

00:32:14.720 Merrick Garland

00:32:15.680 was Gene Shaheen.

00:32:16.520 Gene Shaheen is a

00:32:17.740 Democrat from

00:32:18.500 New Hampshire.

00:32:20.320 Literally, the

00:32:21.980 day before,

00:32:22.980 yesterday, Gene

00:32:24.740 Shaheen sat on

00:32:25.660 the Senate floor

00:32:26.360 along with every

00:32:27.580 single Democrat

00:32:28.680 and voted to

00:32:31.900 shut down, to

00:32:32.860 not have a

00:32:33.780 trial on

00:32:35.280 Alejandro

00:32:35.780 Mayorkas, to

00:32:36.480 block even

00:32:37.780 one word of

00:32:39.600 testimony, to

00:32:40.460 block any and

00:32:41.440 all evidence of

00:32:43.780 the invasion at

00:32:44.620 our southern border,

00:32:45.500 any and all

00:32:46.040 evidence of the

00:32:47.280 fentanyl poisonings.

00:32:48.560 That was a

00:32:49.520 major element of

00:32:50.920 why Mayorkas was

00:32:52.440 impeached, and

00:32:53.960 every single

00:32:55.200 Democrat voted

00:32:55.960 straight party

00:32:56.700 line.

00:32:57.540 Look, the vote on

00:32:58.800 Wednesday, you

00:33:00.760 need to understand

00:33:01.620 how dramatic and

00:33:03.720 unprecedented it

00:33:04.780 was.

00:33:06.240 And let me say

00:33:07.420 on two fronts.

00:33:09.320 Number one,

00:33:10.720 22 times in our

00:33:11.880 nation's history,

00:33:13.420 the House of

00:33:13.960 Representatives has

00:33:14.900 voted to

00:33:15.600 impeach an 0.68

00:33:16.180 individual and

00:33:16.840 has sent

00:33:17.200 articles of

00:33:17.780 impeachment to

00:33:18.320 the Senate,

00:33:18.740 22 times.

00:33:21.240 Prior to

00:33:22.020 yesterday, the

00:33:24.020 21 times in

00:33:25.540 every single

00:33:26.680 time when the

00:33:27.480 Senate had

00:33:27.900 jurisdiction, in

00:33:28.660 other words, when

00:33:29.500 the person who

00:33:30.040 had been impeached

00:33:30.760 hadn't died or

00:33:32.180 resigned from

00:33:32.820 office, every

00:33:35.040 single time the

00:33:36.180 Senate held a

00:33:36.800 trial, heard

00:33:37.980 evidence, and

00:33:39.780 then the

00:33:40.160 senators adjudicated

00:33:41.460 the case, voted

00:33:42.420 guilty or not

00:33:43.220 guilty.

00:33:44.300 Yesterday is the

00:33:45.300 first time in

00:33:45.920 over 200 years of

00:33:46.780 our nation's

00:33:47.240 history where the

00:33:47.720 Senate refused to

00:33:48.540 do its job, and

00:33:49.780 it defied the

00:33:51.540 Constitution.

00:33:53.040 And listen, I

00:33:53.780 remember well, I

00:33:54.540 was standing on

00:33:55.360 the Senate floor

00:33:56.100 when Harry Reid,

00:33:57.680 then the Senate

00:33:58.440 majority leader in

00:33:59.280 2013, the

00:34:00.800 Democrat, exercised

00:34:02.420 the nuclear option

00:34:03.480 and blew up the

00:34:05.220 Senate filibuster for

00:34:07.140 appointees.

00:34:08.540 And it did

00:34:09.740 enormous damage to

00:34:11.700 the Senate.

00:34:12.200 It broke the

00:34:12.920 rules of the

00:34:13.460 Senate.

00:34:14.120 And I remember

00:34:14.840 turning to Amy

00:34:16.980 Klobuchar, Democrat

00:34:18.080 senator from

00:34:18.680 Minnesota at the

00:34:19.320 time, and I told

00:34:20.160 her, I said, Amy,

00:34:21.120 you are going to

00:34:22.340 regret this.

00:34:24.140 This is going to

00:34:25.340 result in a lot

00:34:26.960 more judges and

00:34:27.840 justices in the

00:34:29.040 mold of Antonin

00:34:29.960 Scalia and Clarence

00:34:30.980 Thomas.

00:34:32.400 And every Democrat,

00:34:34.660 nonetheless, like

00:34:35.360 lemmings, jumped

00:34:36.280 off that cliff.

00:34:37.240 And ironically, the

00:34:39.560 Dobbs decision that

00:34:40.720 overturned Roe 0.90

00:34:41.460 versus Wade never

00:34:42.620 would have happened

00:34:43.620 if Harry Reid and

00:34:45.560 the Democrats had

00:34:46.380 not nuked the

00:34:47.240 filibuster in 2013.

00:34:48.840 That was the

00:34:49.540 direct result because

00:34:50.640 there's no way on

00:34:51.380 earth that Brett

00:34:53.060 Kavanaugh and Amy

00:34:53.860 Coney Barrett and

00:34:54.660 probably even Neil

00:34:55.600 Gorsuch could have

00:34:57.040 gotten 60 votes to

00:34:58.560 get confirmed, which

00:34:59.440 is what would have

00:34:59.980 been required if the

00:35:00.900 filibuster still

00:35:01.620 existed.

00:35:02.040 And what happened

00:35:03.880 yesterday is the

00:35:07.760 Democrats nuked, not

00:35:09.900 the Senate rules, but

00:35:11.800 the Constitution, the

00:35:12.920 Constitution's power of

00:35:14.840 impeachment for the

00:35:15.740 Senate.

00:35:16.060 And as a result of

00:35:17.080 yesterday, never again

00:35:19.200 will there be an

00:35:20.860 impeachment trial when

00:35:22.240 the Senate is of the

00:35:23.320 same party as the

00:35:24.220 president.

00:35:24.720 And so, by the way,

00:35:25.960 this could happen less

00:35:28.340 than a year from now.

00:35:30.080 I think it is likely

00:35:31.680 that Donald Trump is

00:35:33.400 going to win in

00:35:33.900 November.

00:35:34.280 I hope he does.

00:35:35.500 I think it is likely

00:35:36.760 that Republicans are

00:35:38.340 going to take the

00:35:38.920 Senate.

00:35:39.220 I hope we do.

00:35:40.820 It is also possible,

00:35:42.600 unfortunately, that

00:35:44.380 Democrats take the

00:35:45.460 House.

00:35:45.800 I hope they don't, but

00:35:46.660 it is a real

00:35:47.140 possibility.

00:35:47.860 It's a very, very

00:35:48.560 close majority.

00:35:49.620 If that happens, if

00:35:50.940 we start January of

00:35:52.100 next year with a

00:35:52.800 Democrat House, a

00:35:53.980 Republican Senate, and

00:35:55.300 Trump in the White

00:35:55.940 House, I'm here to

00:35:57.580 predict what's going

00:35:58.460 to happen.

00:35:59.260 The Democrats are

00:36:00.460 going to impeach

00:36:01.320 Donald Trump again,

00:36:03.280 a third time, and

00:36:04.220 who knows, maybe a

00:36:04.940 fourth and a fifth

00:36:05.580 time.

00:36:05.900 They hate him.

00:36:07.240 They'll do it again

00:36:08.300 if they have a

00:36:09.280 majority in the

00:36:10.000 House.

00:36:11.280 But you know what

00:36:12.020 will happen if they

00:36:12.660 do that?

00:36:13.200 They'll send it to

00:36:13.820 the Senate, and I

00:36:15.280 guarantee you Senate

00:36:16.080 Republicans are going

00:36:16.860 to say, nope, we're

00:36:17.540 not having a trial.

00:36:18.480 We're going to

00:36:18.780 follow the Democrat

00:36:19.460 precedent.

00:36:20.600 What's good for the

00:36:21.400 goose is good for the

00:36:22.240 gander, so no trial

00:36:23.380 for you.

00:36:24.760 That's a bad thing,

00:36:25.800 and by the way, it is

00:36:26.700 worth noting, that was

00:36:29.240 the scenario for the

00:36:31.500 first Trump impeachment.

00:36:32.500 The first Trump

00:36:33.400 impeachment, there was a

00:36:35.240 Democrat House, a

00:36:36.840 Republican Senate, and

00:36:38.400 obviously Trump was in

00:36:39.280 the White House.

00:36:40.020 And we could have done

00:36:41.580 what Chuck Schumer and

00:36:42.480 the Democrats did

00:36:43.200 yesterday, but we

00:36:43.920 didn't.

00:36:44.520 We could have just

00:36:45.340 thrown it out at the

00:36:46.140 outset, but we said, no,

00:36:47.360 we have a constitutional

00:36:48.920 responsibility to hold a

00:36:50.620 trial.

00:36:51.200 We think this impeachment 0.99

00:36:52.280 is garbage, but we have 0.99

00:36:53.620 a responsibility to 1.00

00:36:55.600 respect the Constitution

00:36:57.340 and allow the House

00:36:58.600 managers to present

00:36:59.480 their case, and then

00:37:00.820 to make an adjudication.

00:37:02.380 And it's sad, because

00:37:03.460 now there's this, like

00:37:04.520 you said, it doesn't

00:37:05.240 matter what you do, if

00:37:06.760 you're in the party that

00:37:07.640 has a majority, you can

00:37:08.880 pretty much get away with

00:37:09.860 murder, especially on the

00:37:10.740 Democratic side, and they

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00:39:16.760 Finally, Senator, what

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00:39:26.380 Well, at 1 p.m.

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00:39:29.740 the Senate floor.

00:39:30.460 This is pursuant to the

00:39:31.380 Senate rules.

00:39:31.980 When we enter impeachment, we

00:39:33.260 were all sworn in and then

00:39:35.840 we all signed the oath book

00:39:37.420 one at a time.

00:39:38.840 We signed the oath book

00:39:39.800 and what is supposed to

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00:39:43.980 adopt a resolution laying

00:39:45.540 out a trial schedule of how

00:39:46.880 the House managers are going

00:39:48.720 to present their their case.

00:39:51.780 But instead, what happened

00:39:53.320 is Chuck Schumer rose on a

00:39:56.280 constitutional point of order

00:39:57.920 and a constitutional point of

00:40:00.300 order is you stand and say

00:40:01.840 what is on the floor violates

00:40:05.980 the Constitution.

00:40:06.600 And he raised a constitutional

00:40:07.780 point of order and he said

00:40:08.960 Article one, the first article

00:40:10.800 sent over by the House does

00:40:14.160 not allege a high crime or

00:40:16.320 misdemeanor.

00:40:17.900 And so what happened next is

00:40:20.020 we voted on whether Article

00:40:23.020 one alleged a high crime or

00:40:24.420 misdemeanor.

00:40:24.840 High crime or misdemeanor is

00:40:25.740 what you need to be able to

00:40:26.860 impeach someone.

00:40:28.200 Now, Article one focused on

00:40:31.140 Alejandro Mayorkas is defiance of

00:40:34.020 federal law that that he he was

00:40:37.060 refusing to follow explicit and

00:40:39.920 clear federal law, federal law

00:40:42.460 that that says that that illegal

00:40:46.820 immigrants shall be detained, that 1.00

00:40:48.920 that illegal immigrants with 1.00

00:40:50.000 criminal convictions shall be 0.89

00:40:51.380 detained and shall be deported

00:40:52.940 over and over again.

00:40:54.280 Immigration law is mandatory. 0.98

00:40:55.800 It says shall, shall, shall, shall.

00:40:57.780 And he's defying it at a level

00:40:59.700 it's never happened before.

00:41:01.680 It's not that he's bad at his job.

00:41:04.720 It's that he is utterly flouting

00:41:08.280 and defying federal law and that

00:41:10.020 that's the first article of

00:41:12.300 impeachment and they argued with

00:41:14.080 actually they didn't argue they

00:41:15.060 just made a motion that it's not a

00:41:17.040 high crime or misdemeanor.

00:41:17.940 They presented no argument.

00:41:20.080 They they did not give a legal

00:41:22.440 argument.

00:41:22.940 They did not write a brief.

00:41:23.840 They did not present an argument

00:41:25.040 and and I was the person who who

00:41:27.900 raised the lead objection to that.

00:41:31.260 Now under the impeachment rules

00:41:33.420 you can't debate on the Senate

00:41:36.160 floor.

00:41:37.060 You're supposed to be silent

00:41:38.540 because you're jurors.

00:41:40.000 I was going to say why is that

00:41:41.020 but that makes sense because

00:41:42.040 you're a juror not not not a

00:41:44.160 lawyer I guess presenting right

00:41:45.580 right right and so I made a

00:41:49.020 motion for us to move into

00:41:51.640 executive session if we move into

00:41:53.500 executive session we throw the

00:41:54.860 reporters out we turn the TV

00:41:56.520 cameras off but then we can debate

00:41:58.400 it and I said look you're you're

00:42:00.200 making a major legal point you

00:42:02.140 presented no argument and what

00:42:04.780 you're saying is quality is is

00:42:07.000 fundamentally wrong and and I'll

00:42:08.840 tell you the amazing thing is the

00:42:12.200 idea that refusing to follow the

00:42:15.320 law defying the law is not a high

00:42:17.620 crime and misdemeanor is not

00:42:18.720 impeachable it is contrary to the

00:42:22.500 original understanding the

00:42:24.200 Constitution Joseph story who was a

00:42:26.500 Supreme Court justice one of the

00:42:28.020 leading constitutional scholars right

00:42:30.220 at the very beginning of our country

00:42:31.500 and his commentaries on the

00:42:32.920 Constitution are widely cited for

00:42:35.540 for understanding what the

00:42:38.340 founding generation believed the 0.88

00:42:40.060 Constitution to mean and he talked

00:42:41.680 about he wrote at length about high

00:42:43.540 crimes and misdemeanors and he gave

00:42:44.860 lots of examples including the the

00:42:48.280 Lord Admiral refusing to protect the

00:42:51.220 high seas and he said that is a high

00:42:53.440 crime or misdemeanor and and that is

00:42:55.660 that that is virtually analogous very

00:42:58.800 closely analogous to the head of

00:43:01.560 Homeland Security refusing to secure

00:43:03.280 the border it's the same principle of

00:43:05.940 allowing lawless piracy to to to threaten

00:43:08.980 and invade America so Joseph story and

00:43:12.040 the founding generation understood this to

00:43:14.380 be a high crime and misdemeanor and

00:43:16.200 amazingly enough Ben the Biden Justice

00:43:19.800 Department argued in front of the US

00:43:22.240 Supreme Court that impeachment was the

00:43:25.920 remedy for the Biden administration

00:43:28.780 refusing to follow the law so in Texas

00:43:31.480 versus the United States Texas sued the

00:43:33.520 Biden administration for refusing to

00:43:36.000 secure the border and the Supreme Court

00:43:38.260 ended up agreeing with the Biden

00:43:39.880 administration and saying well Texas

00:43:41.580 can't sue and and the Biden DOJ the

00:43:45.580 you the solicitor general for Biden

00:43:47.200 argued look if you have a cabinet member

00:43:51.440 who's refusing to follow the law Congress

00:43:54.560 has remedies including impeachment and

00:43:57.980 so I stood up and said listen the Biden

00:44:00.020 Department of Justice argued last year

00:44:02.160 this was impeachable it didn't matter

00:44:04.980 every single Democrat all of them and by

00:44:08.300 the way even the so-called moderates Joe

00:44:10.260 Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema they voted

00:44:12.220 also nope not a high crime or misdemeanor and

00:44:15.620 as a result because they had to have a

00:44:19.440 majority the point of order carried they

00:44:22.180 got 51 votes for it and so the first

00:44:24.580 article was thrown out and then they did

00:44:26.240 it again on the second one and I'll tell

00:44:28.820 you the second one is even more

00:44:30.100 astonishing so as a result of the first

00:44:33.080 vote it is now the position of Democrats

00:44:35.740 that any cabinet member can refuse to

00:44:37.900 follow the law can defy the law can

00:44:39.700 utterly ignore the law and you can't

00:44:41.780 impeach him for it I mean that's an

00:44:43.480 astonishing and dangerous proposition in

00:44:46.640 Democrat loony land but the second article

00:44:50.320 of impeachment was for breach of trust and

00:44:54.760 it focused on Mayorkas repeatedly lying to

00:44:58.280 Congress under oath about what was

00:45:00.000 happening at the border and again Chuck

00:45:02.380 Schumer rose on a point of order and

00:45:04.040 said this is not a high crime or

00:45:06.120 misdemeanor now mind you they're saying

00:45:09.380 lying under oath to Congress is not

00:45:11.220 impeachable it is a felony it is a felony

00:45:14.160 that you can serve jail time for and it's

00:45:17.340 worth remembering Bill Clinton was

00:45:20.800 impeached for perjury the House impeached

00:45:23.660 him and what did the Senate do they

00:45:24.980 didn't throw it out they didn't dismiss

00:45:26.660 it the House managers presented the case

00:45:29.180 they hurt conducted a trial and

00:45:30.700 ultimately the Senate acquitted him but

00:45:32.920 they did their duty to hold a trial and

00:45:35.420 actually before that there's someone I'm

00:45:39.080 sure you've never heard of a guy named

00:45:40.540 Walter Nixon you know Walter Nixon was

00:45:42.400 who's that Walter Nixon was was a federal

00:45:46.420 judge he was a federal judge actually

00:45:47.820 from Mississippi you're an Ole Miss

00:45:50.220 grad he was a federal judge from

00:45:51.560 Mississippi but he was not a good guy and

00:45:54.180 and he was convicted of perjury before a

00:45:57.460 grand jury and you know what happened

00:46:00.000 the Congress impeached him the House

00:46:02.000 impeached him the Senate convicted him and

00:46:05.560 he was removed as a federal judge for

00:46:08.040 perjury so even though it was clear there

00:46:11.700 was clear precedent that yes perjury

00:46:13.920 lying under oath is a high crime or

00:46:16.580 misdemeanor it is impeachable every

00:46:19.380 single Senate Democrat voted that it's

00:46:25.360 not a high crime or misdemeanor so now

00:46:27.580 apparently again in Democrat wonderland

00:46:30.540 lying to Congress is a-okay and

00:46:32.880 understand this was not about the

00:46:36.760 Constitution they didn't care they had 0.96

00:46:39.460 no arguments as to why the Constitution

00:46:41.220 said this this was about power and this

00:46:44.340 was about protecting their political

00:46:47.000 backsides because they're terrified of 1.00

00:46:49.980 the American people hearing what is

00:46:52.940 happening at the border the fentanyl the

00:46:54.740 deaths the rapes the children being 0.97

00:46:56.900 abused they do not want that evidence 0.77

00:46:58.700 before the American people and I'll say 0.92

00:47:00.660 this is a final point to wrap up do you

00:47:04.260 want to see proof of why this is all

00:47:07.400 political and why the Democrats did what

00:47:09.060 they did yes you know what you know

00:47:11.460 what you know what MSNBC and CNN

00:47:14.640 covered all day yesterday Trump 24-7

00:47:18.980 the Trump trial Stormy Daniels ooh smut

00:47:22.240 lying process like apparently there was no

00:47:26.420 impeachment proceeding in the Senate

00:47:27.800 nothing happened there's no border

00:47:29.900 crisis the only thing they would cover

00:47:32.680 is is the attack on Trump yeah facts

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