Sen. Kamala Harris will be in Texas on Friday morning. Ted Cruz and Ben Fergus break down why she s coming to Texas and why it s a bad idea. Plus, Ted and Ben react to the latest CNN Town Hall debacle.
00:10:05.180If you commit an act of violence, you should be prosecuted.
00:10:07.640That includes people who I might agree with.
00:10:11.160Whether I agree with you or not, if you violently assault someone, if you assault a police officer, you should be prosecuted.
00:10:17.540That's true for right-wing, left-wing, or anything else.
00:10:19.900Now, by the way, if you engage in peaceful protest, you should not.
00:10:24.080And what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have done is they've used the violent actions of a limited number of people as an excuse to persecute hundreds or even thousands who engaged in peaceful protest on January 6th.
00:10:37.280Standing in the mall, waving a flag, singing God bless America, is not violent conduct.
00:10:42.040And yet, they have used that to target and persecute them.
00:10:45.680And by the way, again, they look away from violence when they agree with the perpetrators.
00:10:55.860So, Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots, they're not just fine.
00:13:02.020Anderson asked a direct question, would you be stronger on Israel than Trump?
00:13:06.140And there was a seven-minute answer, but none of it related to the question he was asking.
00:13:12.120And so, you know, on certain questions like that, on immigration, I thought she missed an opportunity because she would acknowledge no concerns about any of the administration's policies.
00:14:13.140You know, I think back to when I was arguing cases in court, when I was arguing cases before the Supreme Court, that I would always try as an advocate to acknowledge the weakest points of my argument, whether the weakest facts in the case or the weakest case law.
00:14:30.800If there was a fact that was a problem in my case, I wouldn't try to run away from it.
00:14:48.000But then you give the argument why you think you should win anyway.
00:14:51.340And look, I want to start with what may win the Guinness Book of World Records for the worst town hall answer ever, which is Anderson Cooper asks her, what are biggest weaknesses?
00:15:04.440Now, this is not a complicated question to figure out.
00:15:08.260You think about just about every job interview that an intern – from an intern down to a senior position, what's your biggest weakness is a very typical job interview question.
00:15:18.240But her answer – I mean, it's just spectacularly bad.
00:20:32.300The easiest thing to say would be on the southern border, listen, what's happened has been a mess, but we're going to fix it.
00:20:40.660But when she's asked about the policies that she and Joe Biden put in place that caused this invasion on the southern border, she acknowledges nothing.
00:20:53.440Do you wish you'd done those executive orders in 2022, 2023?
00:20:56.500I think we did the right thing, but the best thing that can happen for the American people is that we have bipartisan work happening,
00:21:05.160and I pledge to you that I will work across the aisle to fix this longstanding problem.
00:21:11.800I think the American people are demanding it on both sides of the aisle, and it's time we actually put the partisan approach to this aside.
00:21:23.980One hell of a way to end a question like that, saying that you're the one that created the problem,
00:21:27.940but somehow it's got to be bipartisan, and we know it can work when you're the one that allowed all these people to come in this country with a wide-open border, as the borders are.
00:21:36.180Well, and it's amazing to say I think we did the right thing.
00:21:57.380And by the way, she goes on, there is also an element, part of acknowledging mistakes is occasionally having some graciousness to concede something positive about your opponent.
00:22:12.120When Anderson Cooper asked her about the border wall, listen to what she says about this.
00:22:16.840Donald Trump, you criticized the wall more than 50 times.
00:22:20.000You called it stupid, useless, and a medieval vanity project.
00:23:01.240And I am going to work across the aisle to pass a comprehensive bill that deals with a broken immigration system.
00:23:10.660I think Jackson's question, part of it, was to acknowledge that America has always had migration, but there needs to be a legal process for it.
00:23:24.380And that's the point that I think is the most important point that can be made, which is we need a president who is grounded in common sense and practical outcomes.
00:24:39.320Every single day she's been in the Senate.
00:24:41.320I know that because I've been there with her every single day she's been at the Senate.
00:24:44.840At every stage, her answer was no, no, no on any vote.
00:24:50.180By the way, I'm the author of Kate's Law.
00:24:52.760Kate's Law is named for Kate Steinle, a beautiful 28-year-old California woman who was murdered on a California pier, shot through the heart by an illegal immigrant who had been in and out of jail over and over and over again.
00:25:08.400And had been deported repeatedly over and over and over again, and the revolving door system of illegal immigration just kept letting him back in.
00:25:16.060Kate's Law says that anyone who is a repeat illegal immigrant who is an aggravated felon would face a mandatory minimum prison sentence.
00:25:23.720An overwhelming majority of Americans agree with that.
00:25:27.300A super majority of Americans agree with Kate's Law.
00:25:30.420And yet, twice I forced a vote on Kate's Law on the floor of the Senate, and Kamala Harris happily voted against it.
00:25:36.920So her claiming that she wants to secure the border, no, she doesn't, because she's opposed it at every stage.
00:25:43.140She can't acknowledge, and when she claims, oh, Donald Trump did nothing, well, what about the fact that we produced the lowest rate of illegal immigration in 45 years?
00:25:55.640And her claim that, well, he did nothing, what he did was a joke, but I'm going to do something, because now suddenly the thing I fought against at every stage, I'll do, but not really.
00:26:05.780But by the way, we made no mistakes when it came to the border.
00:30:58.660Price of grocery is still too high, and we need to address it in a number of ways.
00:31:03.000One of my aspects of doing what we need to do to bring down the cost of living for working people and the middle class in America is to address the issue of grocery prices.
00:31:13.040Part of my background and how I come to it is probably a new approach grounded in a lot of my experiences as a former Attorney General, where I took on price gouging.
00:31:22.980And part of my plan is to create a new approach that is the first time that we will have a national ban on price gouging.
00:31:30.500I mean, that seems like the most ridiculous answer, this national ban on price gouging.
00:31:37.680We already have a lot of laws on price gouging.
00:31:40.260A lot of states have those laws, and they're the ones that usually are implementing them.
00:31:44.640So what is she actually offering up here, that everybody that has a big store is evil if I don't like their price today?
00:31:52.740Well, and listen, in the grocery context, it's particularly absurd.
00:31:56.320So states that have price gouging laws, and by the way, Texas has a price gouging law, they are typically focused on emergency.
00:32:03.960So if you have, say, a hurricane, price gouging laws are if, you know, ordinarily you charge a dollar for a bottle of water and a hurricane hits and you decide you're going to charge $50 for a bottle of water.
00:32:17.560That's when price gouging kicks in, is that when you're taking a disaster and just taking advantage of people in a time of crisis.
00:32:28.640They don't apply just to day in, day out, the ordinary pricing of goods and services.
00:32:33.920And particularly in the grocery context, the average profit margin in a grocery store is typically 1% or 2%.
00:32:41.460So the idea that the feds are going to come like forced grocery stores, it's, you know, big grocery that is the cause of inflation rather than the disastrous policies she has led is asinine.
00:32:58.300But I will say, look, look, to Anderson Cooper's question, you know, to his credit, he pointed out, wait a second, you're in the White House right now.
00:33:09.860If this is a good idea, why aren't you doing it?
00:33:12.140And listen to her response about why she hasn't done what she's proposing, despite the fact that she's been in the White House four years and in power.
00:33:19.100Before I play that, I want to talk to you about your safety, especially if you have a daughter, a wife, someone that you love that maybe doesn't feel comfortable with a firearm.
00:36:24.040They recognize that the Biden-Harris record is a disaster.
00:36:27.740So when she's asked how she's different from Joe Biden, take a listen to her answer.
00:36:32.780Considering you have been in the position of vice president for the past four years under the Biden administration,
00:36:38.380how can we expect you to deviate from the direction of that administration compared to your own?
00:36:43.640How can we differentiate your policy and your beliefs from that of Biden's?
00:36:48.220That's a great question, and thank you.
00:36:49.680Well, first of all, my administration will not be a continuation of the Biden administration.
00:36:56.200I bring to this role my own ideas and my own experience.
00:37:02.160I represent a new generation of leadership on a number of issues and believe that we have to actually take new approaches.
00:37:09.740For example, what we talked about in terms of housing, my experience that leads to that priority includes what I did to take on the big banks around the foreclosure crisis
00:37:21.900when I brought billions of dollars to homeowners that were the subject of predatory lending.
00:37:26.860I know what homeownership means to the American people, not to mention what it meant to my mother, who worked very hard and saved up so that by the time I was a teenager, she was able to buy our first home.
00:37:38.620I bring to it my experience actually taking care of my mother when she was sick, and it was as it turned out dying from cancer.
00:37:45.560And so I know what it means and have the experience of taking care of an elderly relative, and I have raised children.
00:37:55.440And so I bring to my priorities and will, as president, a new approach and a new idea, frankly, about what we need to do to deal with the sandwich generation.
00:38:05.380There it is. It's it's I'm not him. His policies are terrible. I'm different.
00:38:12.100But a month ago, I told you we were amazing together and his policies were amazing.
00:38:17.440And the difference is I'm a new generation. I actually care about people, unlike that old geezer.
00:38:22.260By the way, I know what it's like to care for old geezers.
00:38:24.280Look at the one I care for in the White House right now that I lied to you about and said was brilliant and engaged when he actually isn't.
00:38:29.560I mean, I mean, it truly is it. It is a miracle of circularity.
00:38:37.200But but we actually should close on what we opened on.
00:38:41.340We talked about how she held a press conference to say that Trump is a fascist and Trump is Hitler.
00:38:46.640She's not running away from that, that that that that's her big October surprise.
00:38:50.920So so so give a listen when when when she's asked asked whether she thinks Trump is a fascist.
00:38:56.620Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist? Yes, I do.
00:38:59.560Yes, I do. And I and I also believe that the people who know him best on this subject should be trusted.
00:39:08.520Senator, I go back to the dog whistle.
00:39:12.340This is so concerning to me because all I hear is, hey, if there's someone out there that wants to finish the job,
00:39:18.740these other two attempted assassins were trying to finish.
00:39:21.960The president's already been shot once.
00:39:24.260We've dehumanized him to the point where we're right back to calling him a fascist.
00:39:29.040And earlier today in front of the official American flag at the home of the vice president.