Verdict with Ted Cruz - LA Riots Spread Nationally as we Predicted, and Become the New ＂Summer of Love＂

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00:00:05.300 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you as always.

00:00:09.580 And Senator, I hate to say it, but we were right.

00:00:12.340 These protests have now organically, the left one, you believe, just started all over the country.

00:00:18.300 We're in, what, 20 plus states now.

00:00:20.540 And this looks like the summer of raids, the same thing we saw with the big summer, Black Lives Matter.

00:00:25.560 Everything's peaceful. We just burn down and loot a bunch of stuff.

00:00:28.320 Well, America, tragically, is aflame.

00:00:31.820 And as we predicted, the L.A. riots have now spread across the country, coast to coast.

00:00:36.920 This is organized. This is paid for.

00:00:39.240 This is the new summer of love.

00:00:41.500 This is the left.

00:00:43.500 They want these riots.

00:00:45.100 Democrats are celebrating these riots.

00:00:47.720 And this is who they stand for.

00:00:49.300 They are for violence.

00:00:50.540 They are for illegal immigration. 0.99

00:00:51.960 They are for open borders.

00:00:53.380 They are for looting.

00:00:54.520 And they are cheering it all on.

00:00:56.640 We're going to take you all across the country, walk through what's happening and where this is going.

00:01:02.540 Yeah, it is truly shocking what is happening.

00:01:05.020 And we're going to break it all down for you as it is continuing to develop very quickly.

00:01:09.060 Before we get to that, I want to just say now is the time for so many Americans to stand up with our friends in Israel.

00:01:17.740 And what we are seeing right now is truly disturbing.

00:01:20.920 Anti-Semitism, unfortunately, is on the rise, not just around the world, but right here in America.

00:01:26.960 We are seeing Jewish schools that are being targeted.

00:01:29.520 We've seen synagogues that have been threatened.

00:01:31.960 Families are truly living in fear.

00:01:33.700 I was talking this morning with a friend of mine who is Jewish, and he said this is something that he has not seen in his lifetime in America, just how bad the anti-Semitism right now.

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00:02:56.040 So, Senator, you and I said this on this show a couple days ago that this was clearly going to be something that was premeditated and preplanned and was going to spread across the country.

00:03:06.300 They acted like I was an insane person when I said this on CNN last night, and everybody started yelling at me.

00:03:11.580 I'm like, you watch.

00:03:12.300 It's going to happen.

00:03:13.100 Now we're in 20-plus states.

00:03:15.380 We were right.

00:03:16.060 Well, as of when we're recording, we have seen riots and protests for illegal immigration break out not just in L.A., but in San Francisco, Santa Ana, Sacramento, in Phoenix, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, in Seattle, in Portland, in Salt Lake City, in Detroit, in Hartford, Connecticut, in Boston, in Philadelphia, in Atlanta, in Baltimore.

00:03:45.840 In New York City, in Washington, D.C., in Washington, D.C., in Tampa, in Jacksonville, in Raleigh, and in Louisville.

00:03:52.320 That is not simply organic.

00:03:56.460 There is money.

00:03:57.560 And by the way, we are seeing supplies arriving at these events.

00:04:01.700 This is the same agenda that was behind the Black Lives Matter and the Antifa riots across the country.

00:04:11.220 They're paid for, whether it is George Soros or other anti-American leftists who hate this country, who want violence and are funding it.

00:04:20.820 And this is virtually every one of those cities is controlled by Democrats.

00:04:26.400 And the Democrats in those cities, in many instances, are complicit and are cheering them on.

00:04:33.840 And understand, this is also openly embracing criminality.

00:04:40.480 This is openly embracing – I want you to listen to the owner of a family-owned jewelry store in Los Angeles with tears in his eyes after looters had destroyed his family business.

00:04:55.300 Give a listen.

00:04:56.340 And remember, don't forget, they said that it was all peaceful.

00:04:59.460 Earlier, we were at the Apple store.

00:05:01.440 We were at the Adidas store.

00:05:03.160 Both of them looted.

00:05:04.420 The glass shattered.

00:05:05.620 A lot of things stolen.

00:05:07.660 And they're big companies.

00:05:08.940 They'll take a hit.

00:05:10.300 But it is the small, the mom and pop businesses that have also been looted that are heartbreaking.

00:05:17.660 Joining me now live, Neemat, his daughter, Sheila.

00:05:20.920 They've been in the jewelry business, Nathan's Jewelers, since 1987 here on South Hill.

00:05:27.260 And we're going to show you the shattered glass in just a moment.

00:05:29.880 Neemat, I mean, you have tears in your eyes of what they've done to your business. 1.00

00:05:37.600 What they've done to my business?

00:05:39.120 I don't know.

00:05:39.600 I have to go inside and see what's going on.

00:05:41.920 I don't know what they've done to business.

00:05:43.760 Right.

00:05:44.100 But you were telling me that why take out whatever issues people have on you, a small business owner.

00:05:51.380 Not only me.

00:05:53.500 There's a lot of people.

00:05:55.240 There are so many people.

00:05:56.740 How does this affect you?

00:05:58.820 Very bad.

00:05:59.540 There is one week is a riot and the people of the trying to end there or other things.

00:06:11.700 And they close the business and nobody can come inside.

00:06:15.940 Another day, something else.

00:06:17.880 Another day, something else.

00:06:19.920 Why they don't, why they bring them to downtown?

00:06:23.560 Why these people come to downtown?

00:06:25.220 They go to somewhere out of the city limit and they scream at what they want to do.

00:06:33.240 Why they come here?

00:06:34.080 And why did they affect a small business owner?

00:06:36.980 Sheila, your dad worked so hard.

00:06:39.080 And he was telling me, and he had tears in his eyes earlier, that, you know, the store now, you still have to see the damage done inside.

00:06:46.200 This is a jewelry mart.

00:06:47.520 We also have video of other stores that were looted overnight.

00:06:50.980 There were reports, Sheila, of up to a hundred looters at a time at a jewelry business.

00:06:57.060 Crazy.

00:06:58.140 Very crazy. 0.85

00:06:59.060 Very sad.

00:06:59.820 Very terrible.

00:07:00.440 And your dad works really hard.

00:07:02.180 I'm sure you work really hard, too.

00:07:03.500 This is a small family-owned business and there's no insurance.

00:07:06.800 No.

00:07:07.840 No.

00:07:08.900 How is this going to affect your family?

00:07:10.820 Really bad.

00:07:12.100 Really bad. 1.00

00:07:13.080 People are stupid. 1.00

00:07:15.180 People are stupid. 1.00

00:07:16.040 What can you do? 1.00

00:07:17.580 And why target you?

00:07:18.940 You have nothing to do with any of this.

00:07:20.640 I know.

00:07:21.360 I know.

00:07:22.340 I don't know why.

00:07:24.240 I'm sorry, Sheila.

00:07:25.400 I'm sorry, Nemat.

00:07:26.520 I hope the damage isn't too bad inside.

00:07:28.620 We live in San Bernardino.

00:07:30.880 You know, he is far away to come in here.

00:07:34.040 And we are scared to drive the car.

00:07:36.000 Comes in here, they damaged the car.

00:07:39.260 We took the bus at 2 o'clock and we came right now to in here.

00:07:43.440 I hope the damage isn't too bad.

00:07:45.640 Your business was one of many businesses that were looted overnight.

00:07:50.700 But I don't sell jewelry.

00:07:52.420 I sell like a custom jewelry, silver.

00:07:56.160 You know, I'm not a big guy.

00:07:57.480 I'm not a big fish.

00:07:58.900 You're not a big fish.

00:08:00.260 Well, that's why it hurts even more, because you're not a big fish.

00:08:03.220 You're not Apple.

00:08:04.000 You're not Adidas.

00:08:04.900 And they're going to take a loss, too.

00:08:07.160 I'm so sorry for this.

00:08:09.000 Multiple businesses, there were many arrests made.

00:08:12.040 We're waiting to get those numbers from the LAPD.

00:08:14.680 Now, let's just be clear.

00:08:16.140 I can't believe she said there was many arrests, because this was all peaceful, Senator.

00:08:19.560 And by the way, where a lot of this looting was happening, this was not where there were actual protests.

00:08:25.300 It's just full-blown looting and riots.

00:08:27.740 Yeah, look, this is criminality, which is, look, and that's what happened during the Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots, is that criminals are unchained and they loot, often small businesses. 1.00

00:08:38.660 You know, you listen to the daughter there saying, people are stupid, but what can you do? 0.99

00:08:42.460 Well, what you can do is arrest them. 1.00

00:08:44.400 What you can do is allow law enforcement to do their jobs, put them in handcuffs, put them in jail.

00:08:50.460 And tragically, they're in L.A.

00:08:53.400 And in L.A., they won't let them do that.

00:08:55.800 Listen to another Los Angeles business owner on the looters.

00:08:58.580 What's interesting about what he said is the story came out later.

00:09:16.860 This is a legal immigrant who is criticizing the illegal immigrants and those that are looting. 1.00

00:09:24.340 He is saying, I want law and order, and I want there to be protection in L.A.

00:09:30.120 Well, that's exactly right.

00:09:31.780 And the citizens of L.A. and the citizens of California are being abandoned.

00:09:36.940 And they're being abandoned deliberately by Gavin Newsom and by elected Democrats.

00:09:41.720 Here, I want you to listen to Sheriff Chad Bianco, who is the sheriff in Riverside County in California.

00:09:48.620 Listen to what he has to say about these rioters and about Gavin Newsom's responsibility for what they're doing.

00:09:56.060 Absolutely appalled that we are at this point in society where people come out and think that this is okay.

00:10:02.840 And then it makes it 100 times worse when you have politicians that are encouraging it,

00:10:09.080 that are not calling it what it is, which is criminal activity.

00:10:13.520 The lying to all of us, lying to the media, and purposely using the word peaceful while maybe they should look at their phones or their TVs

00:10:23.960 because I have law enforcement officers that are being shot at, that are being injured, that are being hurt,

00:10:29.240 vehicles being damaged, things being burned, and they're calling it peaceful.

00:10:33.600 It is a disgusting display of partisan politics.

00:10:36.740 I wish they would all just put their phones down, be quiet, and let law enforcement handle this how it should be handled,

00:10:44.080 which is the complete enforcement of law and holding criminals accountable.

00:10:49.380 It's rocks, bottles, tools, weapons being thrown at us.

00:10:54.060 You watched multiple vehicles destroyed yesterday by bricks.

00:10:58.960 There are people hauling bricks into the zone and then dropping them off and leaving them there for weapons.

00:11:06.960 And then our deputies and our police officers, they're being used against us.

00:11:11.520 And we're being hit with bottles.

00:11:13.160 We're being hit with glass bottles, with tools, with rocks, with bricks.

00:11:18.300 This is not a peaceful protest.

00:11:20.120 It isn't even a protest anymore.

00:11:21.420 It is a violent riot.

00:11:23.620 And if they are going to try and do harm, then it is the responsibility of law enforcement to win that confrontation.

00:11:31.880 And all of them need to go to jail.

00:11:34.540 We know that gunfire has been reported.

00:11:37.560 We have a – I know that there is a report of an officer being shot already.

00:11:41.180 I'm not sure of the circumstances, so I don't know if it was a – if it was pertaining to the – to what is going on or if it was involving something in the peripheral.

00:11:49.220 I don't know.

00:11:50.000 It's quite – quite frankly, it's irrelevant.

00:11:53.040 We are responsible for keeping people and property safe.

00:11:56.380 And when people come and attack us, then we need to make sure that they're held accountable.

00:12:01.660 They are trying to violently influence something by political action.

00:12:05.700 That is what this is.

00:12:06.560 That is what everything that the Constitution stands against, that is what law enforcement stands against, and that is what will facilitate the downfall of our civilized society.

00:12:18.060 A civilized society has an adherence to the rule of law, and there is consequence for breaking that social compact.

00:12:24.960 And when politicians encourage this behavior, which that's exactly what they are doing, is encouraging this behavior, encouraging people to come out and participate in these riots.

00:12:34.660 And they lie to us and say that they're encouraging a peaceful protest.

00:12:39.500 No, they're not.

00:12:40.260 They know exactly what they're doing.

00:12:41.820 This is far beyond peaceful protest.

00:12:44.240 This is now a political action, and they are using violence and the threats of violence in order to get their way.

00:12:51.200 And we absolutely must stomp this into the ground and stop it from happening.

00:12:56.920 Chief of police from the largest police agency in the country said that they are being overwhelmed.

00:13:02.240 Governor Newsom needs to put his phone down, go sit in his house behind the comfort of his TV screen and a couch, and be quiet.

00:13:10.140 Because he is doing nothing but fueling this process.

00:13:13.720 He needs to stay out of the way of law enforcement.

00:13:15.940 He knows nothing about this.

00:13:17.600 He knows absolutely nothing about the enforcement of law.

00:13:21.320 He despises the enforcement of law, and he has encouraged this – he has enabled this lawless act that is going on right now.

00:13:32.840 This has been years in the making that he has encouraged.

00:13:36.040 So quite frankly, I don't care what he says.

00:13:38.540 He says everything in a disingenuous manner for his own personal political gain, and we are suffering the consequences.

00:13:46.220 I couldn't agree more, but it also goes back to the narrative that the left has put out there that there's no help needed.

00:13:54.980 Everything's fine.

00:13:56.060 This is all somehow Donald Trump's fault because he sent in ICE, because he sent in the National Guard.

00:14:01.560 And yet we are seeing this grow, not just in L.A. as we speak, but also all over the country.

00:14:09.540 Yeah.

00:14:09.900 Look, that sheriff you just listened to is running for governor in California as a Republican.

00:14:14.700 And sadly, I think the people of California, they have demonstrated over and over again they double down on these lawless Democrats, and tragically they pay the price.

00:14:25.760 I want you to listen to Maxine Waters, who actually – she may formally be the mayor of Crazy Town, but just listen to her talking about claiming there's no violence. 0.99

00:14:36.880 Give a listen.

00:14:37.420 Peaceful protest, and even those who were out of step with what we are advocating, peaceful protest, did not create any violence.

00:14:47.140 Nobody was shot.

00:14:48.000 Nobody was killed.

00:14:49.100 Get it in your head.

00:14:50.360 And so when martial law is called, what are you going to say?

00:14:54.320 I missed the point.

00:14:55.560 Don't miss the point, you all.

00:14:57.560 Don't think that somehow because they called out the National Guard, there was violence.

00:15:02.640 There was no violence.

00:15:04.300 I was on the street.

00:15:05.780 I know.

00:15:06.420 And I went from downtown detention back out into the community, talking to people, what happened in Paramount, what happened in Compton, what happened in Inglewood.

00:15:16.200 So, first of all, get it straight, and don't just rely on what you're being told or the few incidents that you saw.

00:15:25.160 Don't rely on what you saw.

00:15:27.360 Don't believe your lying eyes.

00:15:29.600 The police cars that are on fire, these are not the droids you're looking for.

00:15:34.780 These are not the fires.

00:15:36.520 The looting, the stores robbed, nope, doesn't matter.

00:15:39.860 And by the way, Maxine Waters is not alone.

00:15:43.580 I want you to listen now to Karen Bass, who's going to claim, spoiler alert, who do you think is responsible for the riots?

00:15:52.360 Donald J. Trump.

00:15:54.220 Bingo.

00:15:54.860 Boy, it's almost like you've heard the Democrat talking points.

00:15:57.380 Listen to the mayor in L.A.

00:16:00.880 It's incredible.

00:16:02.000 Here she is.

00:16:03.040 We need to stop the raids.

00:16:06.420 This should not be happening in our city.

00:16:09.100 It is not warranted.

00:16:10.780 And the only thing it does is contribute to chaos.

00:16:15.100 This was chaos that was started in Washington, D.C.

00:16:19.000 On Thursday, the city was peaceful.

00:16:21.120 On Friday, it was not because of the intervention of the federal government.

00:16:28.380 It's law enforcement's fault that we have anarchy.

00:16:31.640 Said no same person ever.

00:16:33.820 So Comrade Bass is unhappy that the federal government is enforcing federal immigration law.

00:16:42.840 And she does not want illegal immigrants arrested.

00:16:47.040 And she says, well, you know, if you arrest illegal immigrants, if you remove them, then it's your fault.

00:16:54.040 The rioting, you know, you should understand that we're going to have violent rioting if you remove illegal immigrants. 1.00

00:17:01.440 And I want to give you an example of some of the people who are being removed.

00:17:08.300 So DHS put out a list of some of the illegal immigrants, some of the violent illegal immigrants who are being removed.

00:17:16.820 One of them was Chong Chon Phan. 0.85

00:17:20.300 Chong Chon Phan is a 49-year-old Vietnamese national.

00:17:23.840 He was previously convicted of second-degree murder.

00:17:27.040 He was sentenced to serve 15 years to life in prison after he and his gang member associates were asked to leave a high school graduation party in 1994 following a dispute.

00:17:37.000 And then they returned with semi-automatic weapons, which they fired into a crowd of about 30 partygoers.

00:17:43.240 Dennis Braun, 18, of South Pasadena, and David Hang, 15, of San Marino, California, were killed, and seven others were wounded.

00:17:52.580 Then this is what DHS said, quote,

00:17:54.700 This criminal illegal alien is who Governor Newsom, Mayor Bass, and the rioters in Los Angeles are trying to protect over U.S. citizens. 0.97

00:18:04.800 Who else did ICE arrest?

00:18:06.440 ICE also criminally arrested Cielo Vivar Ubaldo,

00:18:11.040 who was a previously deported Mexican national who was convicted for sex with a minor, narcotics violations, and a hit and run.

00:18:20.780 He faces deportation.

00:18:22.800 Another person that was arrested was José Cristóbal Hernández Buitrán, 43 years old, of Peru.

00:18:29.580 He was previously convicted of robbery and sentenced to serve 10 years in prison.

00:18:33.840 Another one arrested, Julian Riveros Caravid, a Colombian national, who was arrested on administrative immigration violations.

00:18:44.720 He has prior arrests on charges of domestic battery, child endangerment, assault with a deadly weapon, grand theft, and narcotics violations.

00:18:53.200 They also arrested Crisida Tui.

00:18:57.340 Crisida Tui is a 48-year-old Indonesian national previously convicted on narcotics, DUI, and illegal entry charges.

00:19:05.840 They also arrested Rolando Veneration Enriquez, a 55-year-old Filipino illegal immigrant,

00:19:12.900 whose criminal history includes theft, assault, burglary, and sexual penetration with a foreign object with force and assault with intent to commit rape in Pomona, California,

00:19:25.820 which carries a 37-year prison sentence.

00:19:29.300 Another one, Honduran national, Jordan Mauricio Meza Escobel, 32 years old.

00:19:36.140 His criminal history includes convictions on charges of domestic violence, as well as heroin and cocaine distribution.

00:19:43.440 Another one arrested, Jesus Alan Hernandez Morales, a 26-year-old Mexican illegal immigrant,

00:19:50.200 previously convicted of conspiracy to transport an illegal alien in Las Cruces, Mexico, and he received a 239-day sentence.

00:19:59.460 Another one, Delfino Aguilar Martinez, 51-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico,

00:20:04.480 accused of assault with a deadly weapon with great bodily injury in Los Angeles, sentenced to serve one year in prison.

00:20:14.620 On top of that, Victor Mendoza Aguilar, a 32-year-old Mexican national previously convicted of possessing unlawful paraphernalia,

00:20:22.660 possessing controlled substances, assault with a deadly weapon, not firearm, and obstructing a public officer in Pasadena.

00:20:30.020 And there are more and more and more.

00:20:31.560 I could keep reading names. 0.91

00:20:33.260 These are violent criminals.

00:20:34.760 And so what Karen Bass, what the Democrats are saying, is if the federal government arrests violent criminals,

00:20:41.240 who are a threat to your family, to your community, 0.91

00:20:45.480 then it's the federal government's fault for the rioting and looting and criminality.

00:20:51.520 This is today's Democrat party.

00:20:52.580 Let's be clear, Senator.

00:20:53.560 Senator, let's be clear.

00:20:54.480 None of what you said can be true because I have a montage of the media saying that what you just described is a lie.

00:21:03.140 It's not rioting.

00:21:04.620 It's not looting.

00:21:06.100 It's not burning of police cars.

00:21:08.600 Here's the media saying you're just wrong.

00:21:11.260 The L.A. County police say that they have it under control.

00:21:16.020 Carrying a flag is not illegal, as you know.

00:21:19.220 What did happen in 1992 was so different from what we're seeing now.

00:21:23.980 I mean, that was a real riot.

00:21:28.220 Video after video has shown that these agents are the ones provoking protesters

00:21:33.660 and also making up, you know, aggression by these protesters that later video shows people were not aggressive.

00:21:42.500 We are having an administration that's targeting peaceful protests, people that are there to protest.

00:21:48.400 The president is sending the National Guard because he doesn't like the scenes.

00:21:51.860 He doesn't like the scenes of people peacefully protesting.

00:21:55.080 Unrest is isolated.

00:21:56.460 L.A. is home to millions of people, most of whom are having a normal day here on Sunday.

00:22:01.260 You know, you've heard reports that there are riots on the streets of Los Angeles.

00:22:04.400 That is not what's happening across the city of Los Angeles.

00:22:07.140 Governor Houston's right.

00:22:08.220 There wasn't anything like a riot happening on Friday, Saturday.

00:22:10.620 We just witnessed a protester thanking a National Guardsman for his service here in California.

00:22:17.540 LAPD, by most estimates, had this under control last night.

00:22:22.260 No, I don't think the National Guard is needed now.

00:22:25.380 Things in L.A. are calm.

00:22:27.040 There was a protest that got a little unruly late at night.

00:22:30.840 There had been no violence where anybody that was protesting hit anybody, shot anybody, threatened anybody.

00:22:38.840 Nothing has happened.

00:22:40.820 What is just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn.

00:22:44.820 Most of those demonstrations were very peaceful.

00:22:47.460 They were chanting, they were shouting, people were driving by honking their horns.

00:22:51.520 I mean, that's just normal life out there.

00:22:53.960 You know, they were just having fun watching cars burn.

00:22:56.440 You know, that's just good old-fashioned entertainment.

00:22:59.560 Like, get out your popcorn, you know, light some police cars on fire, you know. 0.79

00:23:04.620 TC, next time you and I are just hanging out, you know, we should just maybe just, I don't know, find a car and just set it on fire and watch it burn.

00:23:12.740 We're not doing anything illegal.

00:23:14.080 Everything's fine.

00:23:14.860 So, to give you a sense of just how much propaganda the media is desperately trying to spin, I'm going to read you four headlines.

00:23:25.600 All right, so this is a headline from the New York Times.

00:23:27.720 Quote,

00:23:27.960 Now, mind you, they're waving the flag saying,

00:23:46.300 Dear God, whatever you do, do not send me back to Mexico.

00:23:49.360 That is their message.

00:23:51.020 But apparently it's pride in their heritage simultaneously.

00:23:53.760 Here's CNN.

00:23:54.540 Quote,

00:23:54.760 That's CNN.

00:24:04.160 Nice and objective.

00:24:05.720 All right, how about the Washington Post?

00:24:08.260 Quote,

00:24:08.540 He's waging a war on us.

00:24:12.080 As Trump escalates, Angelenos defend their city.

00:24:16.880 Across this vast metropolis, residents denounce what they consider an attack on the very fabric of their city.

00:24:24.000 On their neighbors, coworkers, family members.

00:24:26.580 That's the Washington Post.

00:24:28.300 And finally, NPR.

00:24:29.800 NPR, which, by the way, you and I are paying for.

00:24:32.060 Every one of us who listens is paying for it through our tax dollars.

00:24:35.040 Here's what NPR says.

00:24:36.460 Quote,

00:24:37.320 Trump using National Guard in L.A. is an abuse of power, says national security expert.

00:24:44.420 That's the media.

00:24:45.260 Well, and with the media doing everything they can to deny the truth, to lie, to obfuscate, to pretend that this is all peaceful, that there's no violence, never mind the violence that is unfolding in front of our eyes.

00:24:59.240 You know, Maxine Waters said, don't believe your lying eyes.

00:25:01.600 I'm telling you, there's no violence.

00:25:03.540 What is Gavin Newsom doing?

00:25:04.780 Is he protecting the people of California?

00:25:06.500 No.

00:25:07.840 Instead, he's suing President Trump to stop the president from protecting the people of California.

00:25:15.260 Gavin Newsom tweeted out, quote, I have formally requested the Trump administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops in Los Angeles County and return them to my command.

00:25:26.020 We didn't have a problem until Trump got involved.

00:25:28.800 This is a serious breach of state sovereignty and flaming tensions while pulling resources from where they're actually needed.

00:25:35.480 Rescind the order.

00:25:37.660 Return control to California.

00:25:40.460 So Gavin Newsom is not upset that illegal immigrants have flooded into this country for the last four years across open borders. 1.00

00:25:50.780 He's not upset that murderers and rapists and child molesters and gangbangers have been released.

00:25:56.320 He's not upset that Californians are being murdered, are being violently assaulted by illegal immigrants. 1.00

00:26:02.460 None of that dismays him.

00:26:03.900 He's not upset at the looting.

00:26:05.000 He's not standing with the poor small business owners and shop owners whose stores were destroyed by the violent crime.

00:26:10.800 None of that upsets him. 0.98

00:26:12.360 Instead, Gavin Newsom's problem is, damn it, number one, Trump is arresting illegals and we're the Democrats, we're the party of illegals. 0.97

00:26:21.140 And number two, even worse, Trump is sending in federal officers, sending in the National Guard to keep communities safe, to protect families, to protect homes. 0.97

00:26:32.540 That is unacceptable because if there's one thing the Democrats stand for beyond illegal immigration and crime, it is preventing the police from doing their job, preventing them from keeping you safe.

00:26:44.600 I think that really sums up the lunacy of where the left is today.

00:26:51.040 Final question on this one.

00:26:52.780 I don't think there's any near end in sight.

00:26:56.780 I think this is going to continue to grow.

00:26:58.940 Do you agree?

00:26:59.460 I do, and let me say, we started by saying this went where we predicted, that this spreads nationally, that we see these protests and these riots in cities across the country.

00:27:10.860 And I think we need to follow the money, and that's certainly what I am urging the president, urging the Department of Justice to do, is follow the money.

00:27:18.240 And anyone who is funding this, this is just like the anti-Semitic protests on college campuses.

00:27:22.720 By the way, I suspect it's the same people who funded the anti-Semitic protests, who funded the Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots.

00:27:30.840 It is the same radicals who hate America, many of them are openly Marxist, Black Lives Matter is openly Marxist, they're rabidly anti-Israel, they're rabidly anti-capitalism, they're rabidly anti-police, they're rabidly anti-law and order, they're rabidly pro-criminal, they're rabidly pro-violence, but we need to follow the money and prosecute anyone who is funding riots across this country.

00:27:58.560 And I hope that's exactly what the Trump administration does.

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00:28:33.520 Yeah, no doubt about it.

00:28:34.700 Before we wrap, I got to just hit pause.

00:28:37.480 And you got a really cool letter from a kid.

00:28:42.260 This inspires me.

00:28:43.800 It makes me happy.

00:28:44.580 It reminds me when I got into radio when I was 12 years old.

00:28:47.680 And I want you to just tell us about this letter.

00:28:50.180 And I want to read it for everybody that listens to Verdict.

00:28:52.260 It's awesome.

00:28:52.760 Well, listen, I had a member of my staff who was down in Texas this past week and was at Fort Cavazos, which actually just got renamed back to Fort Hood.

00:29:04.340 And he was there at Fort Cavazos, and there was a major who stationed there who gave him a letter.

00:29:12.100 And gave him a letter.

00:29:13.100 It was a letter from his 10-year-old son.

00:29:16.680 And I'm going to read it.

00:29:17.800 I'm not going to give you his last name, but I'm going to read the letter that I was handed today.

00:29:24.380 Dear Senator Cruz, my name is Justin, and I am a student at Hill Country Christian School of Austin.

00:29:31.080 And I am pro-God, pro-life, and pro-gun Republican who loves America, Jesus, and politics.

00:29:38.400 I want to write to you to say thank you for everything you have done for Texas and America.

00:29:43.980 There's a paragraph that's really nice and praising me, which I'm going to skip because that seems a little self-centered to read a paragraph praising me.

00:29:53.480 But here's the paragraph I wanted every Verdict listener to hear.

00:29:57.680 I listen to your podcast, Verdict, every week.

00:30:03.060 I have learned so much from you about how government works and all the things you are doing to stop the radical left agenda and help President Trump pass the America First agenda.

00:30:15.280 You have helped me to want to be a politician when I'm older.

00:30:19.240 Thank you for everything you do.

00:30:20.880 Sincerely, Justin, age 10.

00:30:23.140 I love it.

00:30:24.000 This is exactly why I love doing this show.

00:30:26.080 I hope you let your kids listen, your grandkids.

00:30:29.660 And what a cool—Justin, thanks for listening.

00:30:31.720 What an awesome letter.

00:30:32.980 It's just fun to see that and to hear that and to know that there are people that are listening and make a difference.

00:30:37.960 So don't forget, share the show.

00:30:39.260 And by the way, I'll give you a little bit of color.

00:30:42.320 When we were initially doing the show, we were going to play two additional clips of the riots.

00:30:47.580 And they're live audio, but they're live audio that featured people in the riots screaming, and they had several expletives.

00:30:55.240 And we actually recorded that segment, and then I said, Ben, let's delete those.

00:30:59.120 We don't really need to be playing expletives for our listeners, particularly when we have a young man like Justin listening.

00:31:06.100 We can just skip over that part.

00:31:08.200 Amen to that.

00:31:08.980 Don't forget, we do this show Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

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00:31:17.280 Make sure you do that.

00:31:18.400 And The Center and I will see you back here in a couple of days.

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - June 11, 2025

LA Riots Spread Nationally as we Predicted, and Become the New ＂Summer of Love＂

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