Verdict with Ted Cruz - August 07, 2023


Joe Biden Caught in Lie about Meeting Hunter's Foreign Partners, plus Sikh Store Clerks Fight Back & Dems Side with the Criminals


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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ben Ferguson (D-Illinois) discuss the latest in the Biden crime family scandal, including breaking news from CBS calling out Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman for a lie he told on Devin Archer's testimony.

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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00:00:05.560 Welcome.
00:00:06.260 It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you on this Monday morning.
00:00:10.120 Really nice to have you with us, Senator.
00:00:11.720 We've got a lot to talk about, including some breaking news that deals with the Biden crime
00:00:16.580 family.
00:00:17.440 CBS now calling out Democrat Representative Dan Goldman for the lies that he told on
00:00:25.120 Devin Archer's testimony.
00:00:26.380 Now that we have the official transcript, we find out he lied to the country and the
00:00:31.960 media went with it.
00:00:32.940 Take a listen.
00:00:34.120 Well, earlier this week, we just had to rely on the characterization from Republicans and
00:00:39.100 Democrats about Devin Archer's testimony.
00:00:41.780 But now we can see the full transcript.
00:00:44.960 You'll recall that Democrat Congressman Dan Goldman said that Archer testified that it
00:00:50.540 was the illusion of access to Joe Biden that Hunter Biden was offering to these clients.
00:00:56.960 But in fact, when you look at the transcript, what you see is that that phrase, illusion of
00:01:02.840 access, is in Dan Goldman's question.
00:01:06.340 It's actually not what Devin Archer testified to.
00:01:09.020 He says, yes, but that's not quite fair.
00:01:12.660 This was about showing that there was the signal that there's influence and access here.
00:01:20.980 I mean, that's a pretty big lie.
00:01:23.260 And the media ran with that wall to wall coverage that he said he didn't sell access to the family.
00:01:29.160 It's the complete opposite, Senator.
00:01:31.680 Well, that's exactly right.
00:01:33.160 Let me say, first of all, it's a big deal that CBS is reporting on that.
00:01:37.120 You're having at least one corporate media outlet that is doing a little bit of journalism.
00:01:41.620 And so I want to give credit to CBS.
00:01:44.200 I also want to point out where the hell's NBC, where the hell's ABC, where's the hell
00:01:48.380 is CNN or MSNBC, the rest of the outlets, where's the Washington Post, where's the New
00:01:53.980 York Times.
00:01:54.920 None of them are covering this, but kudos to CBS.
00:01:57.500 It's starting, we've talked about this before, the facade is starting to have cracks.
00:02:04.260 Catherine Herridge's point is exactly right, that immediately after the Devin Archer testimony,
00:02:10.540 and by the way, our last podcast, we did a deep dive into Devin Archer's testimony.
00:02:16.460 We went through the specifics of what he testified to.
00:02:19.200 To be honest, this podcast is about the only place you can find that.
00:02:23.340 It's not being covered in the news.
00:02:25.060 It's not being covered in the corporate media.
00:02:27.780 So if you haven't listened to the last podcast, you should go back and listen to it, because
00:02:31.840 there was an enormous amount of substance that Devin Archer testified to.
00:02:36.260 But first, he testified behind closed doors, and you just had the Republicans and Democrats
00:02:42.300 come out and characterize his testimony.
00:02:45.040 And the sort of leading talking head for the Democrats was Dan Goldman, who had been the
00:02:51.500 Democrats lawyer.
00:02:52.460 He was a staffer during the Trump impeachments, and then he just got elected to Congress from
00:02:57.400 New York.
00:02:57.940 He's a brand new baby freshman Democrat congressman, and he's sort of the self-appointed defense
00:03:04.140 lawyer for Joe Biden and Hunter Biden.
00:03:06.080 And he's now the talking head putting out the regime talking points.
00:03:10.920 And then his phrase was, well, Hunter wasn't selling access.
00:03:15.500 He was selling the illusion of access.
00:03:18.480 And you're right.
00:03:19.980 Just about every corporate media outlet in America took that and ran with that and said,
00:03:24.280 oh, that's all it was, was the illusion of access.
00:03:26.800 Well, then they released the actual transcripts, which caused Democrat heads to explode because
00:03:33.300 they thought they would get to characterize the testimony and there would be nothing to refute
00:03:37.260 it.
00:03:37.480 And as Catherine Herridge notes there, Devin Archer didn't testify that it was the illusion
00:03:43.720 of access.
00:03:44.560 That was Dan Goldman's spin.
00:03:46.480 That was him trying to say, hey, wait a second.
00:03:48.680 Wasn't it the illusion of access?
00:03:50.000 And actually, Devin Archer said, no, no, that wasn't it at all.
00:03:53.120 That's not fair.
00:03:54.220 And remember, Devin Archer testified that 20 different times Hunter Biden put his business
00:04:04.080 associates on the phone with Joe Biden.
00:04:07.080 That's not the illusion of access.
00:04:08.820 That is actual access.
00:04:10.720 When you're putting someone on the phone with the sitting vice president, there ain't no
00:04:14.980 illusion about that.
00:04:16.300 You're talking to the vice president.
00:04:17.800 And also, Devin Archer testified that not once, but at least twice in fancy dinners in Washington,
00:04:25.660 D.C. with Hunter's foreign business associates, Joe Biden was physically there and had dinner
00:04:32.100 with them in person.
00:04:34.340 Again, that's not the illusion of access.
00:04:37.360 That is actual access.
00:04:39.260 And it's access for which Hunter Biden and allegedly Joe Biden were compensated millions of dollars.
00:04:47.080 Yeah, the White House deputy spokesman, Andrew Bates, has also been busted now for lying.
00:04:52.880 The part that should irritate anyone is our tax dollars are going to pay this man's salary.
00:04:57.960 And he's lying to the American people about Joe Biden having a Burisma meeting and the White
00:05:05.340 House Senate press secretary misled.
00:05:07.780 That's the kind way of putting it.
00:05:09.100 I say lied in 2020 when he denied from the White House that a meeting between the then
00:05:14.880 vice president, Joe Biden, and a Burisma board advisor took place in 2015, a meeting that
00:05:22.420 was confirmed now last week.
00:05:24.800 In fact, in October of 2020, the New York Post revealed an email from this individual from
00:05:30.660 Burisma on the laptop of Biden's son, Hunter, in the email dated April the 17th, 2015.
00:05:37.040 This Burisma executive thanked Hunter Biden for inviting him to Washington, D.C. to meet and
00:05:43.200 spend time with his father.
00:05:45.680 The email, therefore, suggests that Joe Biden had lied when he told reporters in 2019 that
00:05:51.380 he, quote, had never discussed his family's business dealings.
00:05:54.000 It also confirmed a link to Burisma, which the Biden had denied during Trump's first impeachment
00:05:59.560 trial as well.
00:06:00.500 So there's multiple lies here.
00:06:02.000 And if we got to remind people, Senator, the Biden campaign vigorously denied that such
00:06:06.600 a meeting ever even took place.
00:06:08.600 And then we had the White House who had to change their narrative a week ago when they're
00:06:13.520 like, well, we've said it a thousand times.
00:06:16.480 Joe Biden was never in business with Hunter Biden.
00:06:19.120 That's not what they said.
00:06:19.960 They said that Joe Biden never talked about business.
00:06:22.400 So they changed that narrative.
00:06:24.100 And they also at the time, they even went back to the official schedules and they said there
00:06:29.120 was no such meeting on the official schedules of the then vice president.
00:06:33.380 And and that was what Andrew Bates said.
00:06:35.300 The spokesman for the campaign issued a very tough statement saying investigations by the
00:06:41.100 press during impeachment and even by two Republican led Senate committees.
00:06:44.780 I want your take on that, Senator, whose work was decried as, quote, not legitimate by a
00:06:50.820 political GOP colleague.
00:06:52.120 We've all reached the same conclusion that Joe Biden carried out official U.S.
00:06:56.140 policy towards Ukraine and engaged in no wrongdoing.
00:06:59.740 Trump administration officials have attested to these facts under oath.
00:07:03.260 Again, they lied.
00:07:05.800 Well, and Ben, it's worth looking back at the exact statements that were put out.
00:07:10.100 So this is during the presidential campaign.
00:07:12.460 Andrew Bates, who was part of the communications team on Biden's 2020 campaign, publicly stated
00:07:19.720 in Politico, that that he had, quote, reviewed Joe Biden's official schedules from the time
00:07:26.620 and no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place.
00:07:32.920 And it went on from there.
00:07:35.640 Another Biden associate, Michael Carpenter, denounced the allegation that a meeting happened
00:07:41.700 as, quote, part of a Russian disinformation operation.
00:07:47.140 And he added, I am very comfortable saying that.
00:07:51.820 Now, you remember, that's the same thing they said about the Hunter Biden laptop.
00:07:54.880 Yeah, it was a Russian disinformation operation.
00:07:58.420 And when they said that, just about every media outlet in America, certainly all the corporate
00:08:02.980 media outlets, happily parroted it.
00:08:05.500 Oh, it's Russian disinformation.
00:08:07.260 Joe Biden never met with Burisma.
00:08:08.680 Well, if Devin Archer is telling the truth, then the Biden campaign flat out lied to the
00:08:16.700 American people.
00:08:17.640 It flat out lied and it alleged that the truth was Russian disinformation.
00:08:23.980 And you know what hasn't happened since the Devin Archer testimony?
00:08:27.380 We haven't seen any of the corporate media outlets that repeated those lies come back and
00:08:32.760 apologize.
00:08:33.660 We haven't seen any of the corporate media outlets go back and investigate.
00:08:36.960 Look, this is a meeting that occurred in Cafe Milano.
00:08:39.320 Cafe Milano is in D.C.
00:08:41.460 You and I have both eaten there many times.
00:08:43.300 It's a very fancy shishi restaurant.
00:08:45.020 You can find a gazillion lobbyists in there any given given night.
00:08:49.120 It is not complicated to figure out if Devin Archer was telling the truth, if the vice president
00:08:54.780 was there.
00:08:55.960 That is not a difficult fact to ascertain.
00:08:58.900 It is indisputable that the Biden campaign on the record flat out denied it, said it was
00:09:06.160 a lie and said it was Russian disinformation.
00:09:09.260 And if there is one reporter who gives a damn about being a reporter, he or she will investigate
00:09:15.340 that.
00:09:15.860 We'll ascertain who's telling the truth.
00:09:17.460 And then we'll ask Joe Biden.
00:09:19.340 We'll ask Karine Jean-Pierre, the current liar in chief working for the White House.
00:09:24.200 Why did the Biden campaign lie to America?
00:09:26.120 The Biden campaign said you reviewed Joe Biden's schedules.
00:09:29.500 Was that true or false?
00:09:30.820 If it was true, was this meeting not on the schedule?
00:09:33.480 Why was it omitted from the schedule?
00:09:35.120 If it was false, why did the campaign lie on the record and say you reviewed the schedule?
00:09:39.480 Is one or the other?
00:09:40.220 Is it on the schedule?
00:09:41.280 Yes or no.
00:09:42.360 Either one of those answers is a problem.
00:09:45.000 And why did the campaign claim it was Russian disinformation?
00:09:48.020 And is there an editor at the New York Times who has buried deep down a tiny bit, a twinge
00:09:57.980 of journalistic integrity who can say, you know, we were wrong to parrot like ventriloquist
00:10:06.000 dummies whatever the Biden campaign said.
00:10:10.060 And whenever they said Russian disinformation, just to repeat it without even thinking, without 0.86
00:10:14.680 even bothering to investigate.
00:10:17.520 This is a flat out lie.
00:10:20.060 Biden has been caught up, caught in.
00:10:22.780 And to date, virtually all of the media is ignoring it.
00:10:27.500 Yeah.
00:10:27.620 And I'm just wanting to know at this point, would anybody even retract their stories that
00:10:31.160 were lies back in the day?
00:10:32.940 No, no retractions so far.
00:10:34.900 I got to tell everybody.
00:10:36.100 Corrections.
00:10:36.380 Have you seen any corrections?
00:10:37.620 Yeah, no, not a single one.
00:10:39.240 They don't exist anymore.
00:10:40.360 They don't do that anymore.
00:10:41.400 If they're correcting a narrative or a story that they want to protect the president at
00:10:45.980 all costs.
00:10:46.740 And that seems to be the media's narrative right now, which is we must save him and prop
00:10:51.060 him up no matter what he's done, no matter what we've allowed him to lie about, or we've
00:10:54.860 helped tell that lie in the past.
00:10:56.260 We won't correct the story.
00:10:57.660 We won't cover it.
00:10:58.720 And unless it's CBS and Kevin Heritage, she's done an amazing job on telling the truth on these
00:11:03.640 types of stories.
00:11:04.080 But outside that, they all seem to just be on the payroll of the White House.
00:11:07.300 It's in essence.
00:11:08.020 Yep.
00:11:08.800 Absolutely right.
00:11:09.380 And his campaign.
00:11:10.120 And his campaign.
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00:12:38.560 Senator, I also want to ask you one last question about the lies that are coming from Congress on this.
00:12:45.180 Is there any accountability for Dan Goldman's lies on Devin Archer's testimony, or is that just fair game in politics where you can flat out misrepresent and lie about what a witness says?
00:12:57.980 Is there any accountability there?
00:12:59.400 Is that just get used to it?
00:13:01.120 This is how it works now.
00:13:02.960 Well, unfortunately, if anything, there's reverse accountability.
00:13:06.340 Think of Adam Schiff.
00:13:07.800 Think about how he propelled himself into prominence in the Democrat Party by going on TV and lying seemingly on a daily basis.
00:13:15.620 He has now raised the most money of any Democrat Senate candidate this cycle.
00:13:19.860 He may well be the next senator from the state of California.
00:13:22.580 And it turns out lying to partisan Democrats and telling them what they want to hear, especially about Donald Trump,
00:13:29.140 is a very popular thing to do with the angry left-wingers who are in the Democrat Party and who suffer from Trump derangement syndrome.
00:13:38.220 So my suspicion is we know the media is not going to hold Dan Goldman to account.
00:13:41.820 They're going to ignore the fact that he lies on the record.
00:13:44.320 They're going to continue to have him on TV.
00:13:45.920 They're going to continue to have him say things that are just laughably untrue.
00:13:50.000 And look, kudos to CBS for calling him out.
00:13:52.480 Part of the reason why we're talking about it and playing that clip on this podcast is it's so unusual.
00:13:57.800 It shouldn't be unusual.
00:13:59.700 You should actually have journalists being willing to call politicians out of either party when they lie.
00:14:05.360 But as a practical matter, the corporate media doesn't do that to Democrats,
00:14:09.180 particularly when the lie furthers the Democrat Party narrative of orange man bad and Biden White House pure and innocent of everything.
00:14:19.160 And sadly, I expect that to continue.
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00:15:00.220 And there is an interesting trend that's happening, Senator, and that is crime is starting to get back up as a top issue in high crime cities
00:15:08.060 and around the country because crime has gotten out of control with activist DAs that have been elected by George Soros and those on the left,
00:15:15.480 not prosecuting criminals when they commit crimes, even when we catch them, catch and release policies,
00:15:21.160 defund the police policies, and driving police basically insane by not allowing the laws that are on the books to lock people up.
00:15:29.520 Now, there was a great example of this this week.
00:15:32.540 There were some store clerks who protected their store and beat a thief with a stick.
00:15:40.360 This is a repeat thief that they've been dealing with.
00:15:43.700 And instead of actually investigating the thief, they're now going after these store clerks.
00:15:50.200 Only in Biden's America can criminals become the victims and the victims become the criminals.
00:15:56.860 Take a listen to the local news and how they explain this story.
00:15:59.800 Beating a man who was trying to steal from their store are now under investigation for assault.
00:16:06.060 So here's how it all started.
00:16:07.480 The video shows this man going into a 7-Eleven in Stockton and emptying shelves of cigarettes into that large trash can.
00:16:15.120 The video then shows the two clerks try to stop him before hitting him with a stick more than two dozen times.
00:16:22.300 The store clerks now say this man stole from their store two other times and threatened them.
00:16:27.520 Stockton police say they are investigating the man who was beaten for robbery and the clerks for assault.
00:16:33.440 When the investigation is complete, it will be sent to the San Joaquin County District Attorney for review.
00:16:39.000 Then it's going to be up to the DA to determine what charges, if any, are filed against the store clerks.
00:16:45.080 Against the store clerks.
00:16:46.700 Senator, this is total insanity.
00:16:48.600 But it seems to be being done in city after city on purpose now.
00:16:53.240 Well, I have to say this video this past week went viral online on Twitter.
00:16:57.600 I saw it multiple times.
00:16:59.540 I watched it multiple times.
00:17:00.900 And I think there's a reason it resonated.
00:17:02.440 I think people are fed up with the lawlessness.
00:17:05.100 People are fed up with Democrat policies that have just empowered thieves. 0.73
00:17:08.700 In this instance, the video starts with this thief who has a giant trash can.
00:17:15.180 And he's behind the counter in the 7-Eleven.
00:17:17.880 And he's just sweeping all sorts of products into the trash can.
00:17:22.300 Mostly cigarettes.
00:17:23.120 But he's sweeping dozens, I'd say probably even hundreds of packets of cigarettes into the trash can.
00:17:31.540 And while he's doing that, he's taunting the store clerks.
00:17:35.240 He's saying, there's nothing you can do.
00:17:38.160 This is someone who allegedly had done this at least twice before.
00:17:42.880 And the store clerks are watching him.
00:17:44.740 They're watching him.
00:17:45.420 They're watching him.
00:17:46.020 And he keeps throwing.
00:17:46.780 And by the way, he's also wreaking havoc while he does it.
00:17:49.260 You know, he has complete disrespect for the store owners, for the clerks, for anything.
00:17:53.880 He's just throwing stuff in there that he intends to sell.
00:17:56.960 And he's stealing with no sense of accountability, no sense that there's anything that can happen.
00:18:02.440 And as he rolls the trash can away, one of the clerks tackles him.
00:18:06.900 And the other clerk comes up with a stick and begins whacking him with a stick.
00:18:11.540 And they're both Sikhs.
00:18:13.700 And according to the reporting, one of the two was the store owner.
00:18:17.140 And so you had a Sikh store owner and another Sikh who are presumably immigrants.
00:18:22.120 I assume that, I don't know if they are directly immigrants or their families are immigrants, but they are clerks and a grocery store owner who are defending their property.
00:18:33.100 And I got to say, when you watch that video, a lot of people, myself included, said, you know, thank God.
00:18:39.260 Someone is standing up to this lawlessness, to this garbage, good for the clerks, for defending themselves and defending their store and showing that criminality cannot be allowed to just go with no consequences.
00:18:54.300 And I got to say, within a couple of days, the results were so sadly and utterly predictable, which is in Stockton, California, the DA and the police are now investigating. 0.67
00:19:09.060 Yes, they're investigating the thief.
00:19:10.620 We'll see if they charge the thief, even though there's video of him committing theft.
00:19:14.500 But they are also investigating the store owner and the clerks.
00:19:18.840 And I got to say, it's a real simple question that is illustrative, not just of California, but across the country.
00:19:27.660 Who do you stand with?
00:19:29.140 Do you stand with hardworking immigrant clerks?
00:19:33.720 Do you stand with small business owners?
00:19:36.320 Or do you stand with brazen and repeat criminals?
00:19:40.100 And sadly, Democrats across the country, that is not a hard question for them to answer.
00:19:45.740 They stand with the criminals.
00:19:47.960 We saw the same thing in New York City with the owner of a bodega that that or actually, as Jill Biden calls it, a bodega, because, you know, you know, those Bidens, they understand we Hispanics and they call us all tacos and they talk about the bodegas in New York City.
00:20:04.800 But the bodega owner defends his store.
00:20:08.260 And, of course, what happens?
00:20:09.800 The prosecutor threatens to go after the store owner for defending his store.
00:20:14.720 This is it's a story that is outrageous because it shows where the allegiances of Democrats today lie.
00:20:23.520 Yeah, it is.
00:20:24.100 And it's not just there.
00:20:25.180 It's happening all over the country.
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00:22:11.080 You look at San Francisco and we're seeing a really big trend that's happening coming out of San Francisco now and other cities as well.
00:22:20.260 Senator, there are just cities where people are just saying, I'm done.
00:22:23.780 Store owners are saying, I'm done.
00:22:25.100 I'm out of here.
00:22:25.920 I can't afford to keep doing business here.
00:22:28.500 I'm not safe.
00:22:29.640 People are able to steal my stuff.
00:22:31.840 And when they steal my stuff, it costs me money.
00:22:34.720 We're hearing that people can't even get insurance now in certain areas because the liability is so high from looting.
00:22:41.080 And major stores are now walking away.
00:22:43.340 San Francisco is a great example of that.
00:22:46.100 Well, you know, you think about it.
00:22:47.260 If you were this Sikh store owner, this convenience store owner who owns the 7-Eleven in Stockton, California,
00:22:52.260 and you stand up and defend your store and suddenly the local officials talk about prosecuting you and putting you in jail,
00:23:00.480 I don't know how you don't say, I'm done.
00:23:03.220 I'm getting the hell out of here. 0.99
00:23:04.680 I'm tired of crazy Democrats. 0.64
00:23:07.600 I want to go to a place where they actually enforce the law. 0.73
00:23:10.100 And if you look at San Francisco, I don't know that there's a sadder place.
00:23:15.220 Listen, objectively speaking, in history, San Francisco has been a great American city.
00:23:21.460 It has been an icon of America.
00:23:23.920 And look, San Francisco's politics are different than yours.
00:23:26.560 They're different than mine.
00:23:27.540 But I got to tell you, I am not celebrating the demise of San Francisco.
00:23:32.820 I am incredibly saddened because seeing great American cities destroyed and destroyed by deliberate political decisions is tragic.
00:23:45.740 It's bad for America.
00:23:46.860 In downtown San Francisco, in just recent months, we have seen at least 22 major stores shut down and leave downtown San Francisco.
00:24:01.320 Let me read you the list.
00:24:02.340 Give an example of what a major store is so people understand.
00:24:04.520 These are big boxes.
00:24:06.340 Okay, I'm going to read you the list of at least 22 that have shut down, all within a few blocks of each other in downtown San Francisco.
00:24:13.200 Whole Foods, Hilton Union Square, Park 55, AT&T, Saks Off 5th, Nordstrom Rack, Abercrombie & Fitch, Westfield Mall, Nordstrom, Cinemark, Anthropologie, CB2, Creighton Barrel, Cocoa Republic, Old Navy, The Container Store,
00:24:41.800 The Real Real, Banana Republic, Arc'teryx, Athleta, Amazon Go, and Office Depot, all within a few blocks of each other, they have shut down their stores in downtown San Francisco.
00:24:59.360 Why?
00:25:00.560 It's not because the weather suddenly got bad.
00:25:02.820 It's not because there was an earthquake.
00:25:04.540 It's not because there was a fire or some other natural disaster.
00:25:08.100 Instead, there was a man-made disaster. 1.00
00:25:10.800 There were idiot Democrats who got elected who decided, give me a choice between criminals and store owners, and I choose the criminals. 1.00
00:25:22.360 And it became just like this guy who, with complete impunity, went into the 7-Eleven and just threw stuff into the trash can. 1.00
00:25:33.220 That is happening in San Francisco on a weekly basis over and over and over again, and we're seeing major brand names who say, you know what?
00:25:44.420 I'd rather be in Beirut than San Francisco.
00:25:47.340 Yes, it's a war zone there, but at least somebody enforces the law in Beirut.
00:25:51.840 But San Francisco, given a choice, the Democrats stand with criminals and repeat criminals instead of store owners and instead of ordinary citizens.
00:26:03.940 By the way, if you're a San Francisco resident, what do you think it means that you can't go to the Whole Foods, that you can't go to Banana Republic, that you can't go to Office Depot anymore?
00:26:14.080 It is they're driving ordinary citizens out of San Francisco, and it's because of deliberate political decisions from elected Democrats.
00:26:25.660 Well, and there's also politics involved in this.
00:26:27.760 I mean, I remember the last election go-around, Democrats used and really attacked grocery stores.
00:26:35.120 Kroger's was one of those that they attacked, saying that they were pulling out of largely minority areas in the country, and they attacked Kroger, saying, you know, you're not serving, for example, the African-American community well.
00:26:47.140 How dare you close these stores?
00:26:48.340 And the response from Kroger and several others were, when Democrats were running on this issue, was, hey, if you would stop, if you would actually stop the criminals and allow for those that shoplift to not just walk out of our store whenever they want to and no one enforces the law, we would love to be open.
00:27:06.660 But we're forced to close down because we're losing millions of dollars per year on these store locations, because when the criminals walk in, they know they can take whatever they want, and they can walk right out the front door, and no one's going to stop them or prosecute them.
00:27:20.040 And they don't hide.
00:27:20.780 They don't hide.
00:27:21.820 They're not ashamed.
00:27:22.840 They're not embarrassed.
00:27:23.900 They don't feel like there's any risk of accountability.
00:27:26.600 Why?
00:27:26.980 Because, frankly, there's not.
00:27:28.420 Because the politicians have decided we're with the criminals.
00:27:32.200 Well, I was recently out in California, and I went in to a store, and they had behind plastic, where you had to get someone to come open it with a key, toothbrushes and deodorant.
00:27:47.000 That's not a city I want to live in if that's what you're having to lock up, because there's no law in order.
00:27:52.460 So let me tell you a true story.
00:27:54.780 Recently, Heidi, my wife, was in San Francisco.
00:27:57.800 She was in downtown San Francisco.
00:27:59.360 She was there for a business meeting.
00:28:00.700 And so she's in downtown, and she decided to stop at a Starbucks to change.
00:28:05.100 She'd been traveling, so she had flown, I don't know, in sweats or some sort of travel clothes, and so she wanted to change into dress clothes for a business meeting.
00:28:12.400 So she stops at a Starbucks, figures that's an easy place to go to the bathroom. 0.99
00:28:16.440 She walked in, and Heidi said the entire Starbucks was filled with homeless people.
00:28:21.920 And she said the clerks looked at her with shock of like, wait, you're actually a paying customer who's going to pay for coffee?
00:28:29.300 And she said she had to literally step over and around homeless people who were filling the Starbucks to go order a coffee and to go to the restroom and change. 1.00
00:28:39.820 And I'll tell you, she did not feel safe remotely.
00:28:42.540 And this is right in the middle of downtown San Francisco where a woman could not feel safe going and getting a Starbucks.
00:28:52.140 Yeah, and that's the cities that we're dealing with in this country right now.
00:28:56.640 I think this is going to be a big Achilles heel for the Democrats come election year because even if you think that you want activist DAs and this kumbaya,
00:29:06.160 we hate the cops, defund the police rhetoric, the Black Lives Matter rhetoric,
00:29:10.540 when it actually hits your neighborhood, this may be one of the biggest backfires because people don't feel safe in places like D.C.
00:29:17.920 and in New York City right now.
00:29:20.140 Even in New York, you recently had the mayor there saying, hey, we need border security.
00:29:24.880 And Senator, I want to ask you about that.
00:29:26.480 I'll throw you the curveball here.
00:29:27.900 But you have the mayor of New York who said we're welcoming cities, send everybody here.
00:29:31.740 We're going to help take care of them.
00:29:32.900 We've got hotel rooms.
00:29:33.940 They now have a city that has a significant number of people there that are illegal immigrants,
00:29:38.920 and they don't have the hotel rooms for them that they promised.
00:29:41.760 And now he's actually advocating for a secure border because it's become such a political liability for Mayor Adams there.
00:29:49.920 Well, and of course, the Democrats in New York have happily trumpeted that New York is a sanctuary city.
00:29:56.340 And then when they're actually dealing with just a fraction of the number of illegal immigrants that are coming into this country,
00:30:03.540 that they realize that they cannot – that they can't handle it. 0.85
00:30:09.700 And it's the utter hypocrisy.
00:30:11.820 Look, if you look at Martha's Vineyard, and as you know, more than a year ago,
00:30:15.940 I filed legislation to move and create new ports of entry for people coming in illegally, 1.00
00:30:23.060 places like Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket and Palo Alto and the Hamptons
00:30:28.200 and all the places that rich liberals go and sip Chardonnay and go to parties.
00:30:34.340 And when I did that, the executive in Martha's Vineyard actually publicly proclaimed,
00:30:40.900 he said, Cruz does not understand what is happening at the border.
00:30:46.060 And he said, in Martha's Vineyard, we would happily welcome illegal immigrants here in Martha's Vineyard. 0.96
00:30:54.600 Now, as you know, about six months later, Ron DeSantis followed what I had suggested,
00:31:00.800 and he sent 50, 5-0, illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard.
00:31:05.900 And within hours, the elected leadership there, all Democrats, declared an emergency and lost their minds.
00:31:12.240 That was 50. Last week, we had one of the elected officials, the deputy mayor in New York,
00:31:21.020 tells a press conference that over 2,100 migrants are coming to New York City per week,
00:31:27.260 and it is unsustainable. That's over 2,100.
00:31:30.580 I pointed out, I responded to that. In fact, I invited her.
00:31:33.880 I said, listen, come to South Texas, because South Texas and all along our southern border,
00:31:39.900 I said, we would be thrilled. We would throw a party to only have 2,100 illegal immigrants per week, 1.00
00:31:48.620 because for two and a half years under Joe Biden, we have averaged more than 50,000 illegal immigrants per week.
00:31:59.020 And so the hypocrisy of these Democrats who virtue signal, 0.53
00:32:02.800 and yet when they see 2,100 illegal immigrants, they lose their minds, 0.98
00:32:07.540 it's the same as the hypocrisy at Martha's Vineyard.
00:32:10.420 It is, I love these policies until it actually impacts me.
00:32:14.700 Yeah, and it only took the last two months for Eric Adams to go from one rhetoric,
00:32:20.780 which was, hey, we should probably allow, and we're advocating, supporting,
00:32:25.360 and wanting private residents in New York to house illegal immigrants to,
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00:33:53.040 Senator, this may be one of the biggest switches I've ever seen.
00:33:56.580 Go back to June 5th.
00:33:58.460 This is what Mayor Adams said about illegal immigrants in New York.
00:34:01.760 It is my vision to take the next step to this, go to the faith-based locales, and then move
00:34:10.140 to private residents.
00:34:12.900 There are residents who are suffering right now because of economic challenges.
00:34:17.660 They have spare rooms, they have locales, and if we can find a way to get over the 30-day
00:34:24.400 rule and other rules that government has in its place, we can take that $4.2 billion,
00:34:30.660 $4.3 billion, it may be now, that we potentially have to spend, and we can put it back in the
00:34:35.400 pockets of everyday New Yorkers, everyday houses of worship, instead of putting it in the pockets
00:34:39.800 of corporations, and some of those corporations come from outside our city.
00:34:43.480 Now, that was on the 5th of June.
00:34:47.980 You then go to last week, and all of a sudden, he sounds like you, saying, we need a secure
00:34:52.740 border.
00:34:53.260 Listen.
00:34:54.560 Eventually, this was going to come to a neighborhood near you.
00:34:57.520 Having someone embedded is a good start.
00:34:59.760 That came from the Secretary of Homeland Security.
00:35:02.320 We want to thank him.
00:35:03.360 But I've been very clear on what we need.
00:35:05.760 We need to control the border.
00:35:07.740 We need to call a state of emergency, and we need to properly fund this national crisis.
00:35:15.620 I'm just wondering, like, is he up for, like, a recall or an election soon?
00:35:19.080 Because that's one hell of a switch in less than two months.
00:35:22.380 Well, and what he doesn't acknowledge, and what the mayor of Chicago doesn't acknowledge,
00:35:26.140 and what the mayor of D.C. doesn't acknowledge, is there is a reason we have this crisis at the
00:35:30.640 southern border, and it is because we have a Democrat president of the United States,
00:35:35.140 and we have a Democrat majority in the Senate, and today's elected Democrats in Washington,
00:35:40.520 they support illegal immigration.
00:35:42.280 They want these open borders, and the Department of Homeland Security under Joe Biden.
00:35:47.040 Alejandro Mayorkas is not trying to stop illegal immigration.
00:35:50.180 He's trying to expedite it.
00:35:51.600 He's trying to speed it up.
00:35:53.060 He wants more.
00:35:54.000 In two and a half years, we've seen 7 million illegal immigrants, the worst illegal immigration 1.00
00:35:58.680 in our nation's history, and their objective is to turn 7 million into 10 million into 15 million
00:36:04.840 into 20 million, and they do not care about the dead bodies, about the women being brutalized,
00:36:10.280 about the children being assaulted.
00:36:11.680 They do not care about the more than 100,000 people who died last year of drug overdoses.
00:36:16.660 None of that matters because they've got a political objective, and then when all of these mayors
00:36:21.680 in blue cities discover it's a problem, not one of them, all right, Mayor Adams, you want
00:36:26.960 to demonstrate some backbone, call out Joe Biden, call out Kamala Harris, call out Chuck
00:36:32.280 Schumer.
00:36:32.820 He's a New Yorker.
00:36:33.840 You want to know why those illegal immigrants are in New York? 1.00
00:36:36.880 Chuck Schumer is a major reason why, because every single time we try to do anything to
00:36:41.540 secure the border, he opposes it.
00:36:43.540 Call out Alejandro Mayorkas.
00:36:45.200 They're not willing to do any of that.
00:36:46.820 Instead, he complains, well, gosh, Greg Abbott in Texas sent them here.
00:36:51.240 It isn't that terrible.
00:36:52.660 It's not Greg Abbott who produced an open border.
00:36:55.760 It is Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and the Democrats, and millions are suffering the
00:37:01.940 very real and human consequences of this barbaric policy.
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