Verdict with Ted Cruz - Laken Riley Trial Begins, Detailing Her Horrifying Murder, plus Dems Brazenly Trying to STEAL Pennsylvania Senate Election

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00:00:06.140 It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:09.440 And Senator, it is a big fight right now for this country and what's going to happen early

00:00:16.000 on on border security.

00:00:17.980 There are concerns that there's going to be a major surge of illegal immigrants coming

00:00:21.280 across the border.

00:00:22.520 And there's also the reality that there's still serious crimes that are happening, including

00:00:27.820 some high profile trials that are going on right now.

00:00:31.460 Well, right now, the Lake and Riley trial is unfolding and there was no issue more front

00:00:36.980 and center in this election than the invasion at our southern border.

00:00:40.580 And Lake and Riley, as much as anybody, came to signify what the stakes are and the tragic

00:00:46.760 circumstances that unfolded in Georgia with Lake and Riley.

00:00:50.540 They horrified the country and we're seeing the testimony of exactly what happened.

00:00:56.580 That's going to end.

00:00:57.280 That is going to end on January 20th.

00:01:00.280 We are days away from the border being secured.

00:01:04.680 We're going to talk about Lake and Riley.

00:01:05.840 We're going to talk about what's going to happen to finally, finally, finally secure the

00:01:09.640 border.

00:01:10.280 We're also seeing, ironically, the Democrats shamelessly trying to steal an election in

00:01:16.580 Pennsylvania.

00:01:17.180 I say ironically because the Democrats prattled on for two years about how they're the party

00:01:21.660 that's defending democracy.

00:01:23.580 And yet they are right now in Pennsylvania trying to steal the Senate race.

00:01:26.660 They are defying the orders of the state Supreme Court.

00:01:29.960 We're going to walk through that as well.

00:01:31.580 And finally, we're going to talk about the Democrats in the wake of the election.

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00:01:37.420 They have an answer for how to how to solve their problems with the voters.

00:01:41.980 And their answer is censorship.

00:01:43.780 They want to silence any criticism.

00:01:45.520 They want to ensure that no one can ever disagree with them.

00:01:48.940 We're going to break that down, too.

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00:03:57.620 Senator, let's start with this trial.

00:03:59.500 As the audio from this trial came out, I was sitting in New York City on set.

00:04:05.940 It outnumbered right when they went live.

00:04:09.120 And the 911 call, as well as the body cam audio from the officer, was stunning.

00:04:18.260 It was shocking.

00:04:19.280 It made me angry.

00:04:20.840 It made everybody on set just furious and so sad that Lake and Riley fought for 18 minutes

00:04:28.400 to try to save her life.

00:04:29.740 This is a situation that never should have happened because this person should have never

00:04:34.220 been in the United States of America.

00:04:35.520 And it was because of the Biden-Harris policies that this monster was able to take her life.

00:04:41.260 Well, that's exactly right.

00:04:45.040 And it was heartbreaking as Lake and Riley's mom wept in court, listening to the 911 call.

00:04:52.680 18 minutes, 18 minutes that Lake and Riley fought.

00:04:55.860 She fought to avoid being raped. 0.54

00:04:58.280 She fought for her life. 0.99

00:04:59.720 And tragically, at the end, this monster, this murderer, bashed her head in with a rock. 0.77

00:05:06.840 And it's horrific. 0.96

00:05:08.980 And it's preventable.

00:05:10.540 What is so, so infuriating is that this should never have happened.

00:05:15.980 And I want you to listen to Bill Malugian from Fox reporting on the opening statements

00:05:22.360 of the trial that really laid out the tragedy of what unfolded.

00:05:27.120 Dana, it was really hard to listen to that opening statement from the prosecutor, the

00:05:32.800 condition that Lake and Riley's body was found in the fact that her Garmin watch tracked the

00:05:37.600 very moment her heart stopped.

00:05:40.040 I can only imagine being her family.

00:05:41.960 I think this just shows why we as a network made it such a priority to cover the border

00:05:48.280 so much these last few years.

00:05:50.040 These mass catch and release policies, they have consequences, real world consequences

00:05:55.580 that affect real people, particularly when it comes to the mass catch and release of Venezuelan

00:06:02.560 men.

00:06:02.900 I mean, how many live shots were we doing together in 2022, 2023, hundreds of them in Eagle

00:06:08.280 Pass, in El Paso, watching these lines of hundreds of upon hundreds of Venezuelan men just 1.00

00:06:14.500 walking into the country single file every day, not running, not hiding, very nonchalant

00:06:21.960 because they knew they were going to be released into the country with a court date potentially

00:06:25.860 years away.

00:06:27.200 And the problem with that is you can't vet Venezuelan men.

00:06:31.660 Venezuela does not cooperate with the U.S.

00:06:33.720 We have no database, no records to run their names against.

00:06:37.220 So what you're listening to right now with this horrible case with Lake and Riley, unfortunately,

00:06:41.960 it's not even an isolated incident.

00:06:43.720 What happened just a few months later, Jocelyn Nungary was murdered in Houston, a 12-year-old

00:06:49.060 girl allegedly sexually assaulted and murdered at the hands of two Venezuelan illegal aliens

00:06:55.220 who had been caught and released at the Texas border just weeks prior.

00:06:59.640 Sound familiar?

00:07:00.940 Unfortunately, it's been happening all over the country, whether it's Trende Aragua setting

00:07:05.840 up footholds across the country, migrant crime happening in different cities across the country.

00:07:10.620 The idea that what happens at the border stays at the border ended a long time ago.

00:07:15.960 You look at Rachel Morin, she was murdered in Maryland.

00:07:21.300 You look at Lake and Riley, that happened in Georgia.

00:07:24.300 Jocelyn Nungary was in Houston.

00:07:26.400 These catch and release policies affect the entire country.

00:07:29.660 And say what you want about Donald Trump and the way he campaigns, but at his rallies, he

00:07:34.300 wasn't bringing celebrities up on stage.

00:07:36.060 Who was he bringing up?

00:07:37.300 Jocelyn Nungary's mom, Rachel Morin's mom.

00:07:40.100 Real people who suffered horrible, horrible, horrible consequences as a result of these catch

00:07:46.280 and release policies.

00:07:47.640 We'll send it back to you.

00:07:48.380 Bill Malusian, it is interesting to imagine that you actually could have been standing right

00:07:52.280 there or Griff Jenkins could have been reporting to us on live shots as we watched people just

00:07:57.880 stream across.

00:07:58.920 And it's certainly possible that we were down there when he crossed over and before he came

00:08:04.380 to New York.

00:08:05.160 Bill Malusian, thank you so much.

00:08:06.840 The question that so many people have after hearing that, Senator, is how much longer is

00:08:11.620 this going to happen?

00:08:12.240 Because we're even hearing reports of surges of illegal immigrants that may be trying to

00:08:16.940 get across before Donald Trump takes office, and this is because they still refuse to act

00:08:23.200 at the White House.

00:08:24.520 Well, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, they want every illegal alien possible to come into this country 1.00

00:08:29.060 between now and January 20th, because they look at every one of them as a future Democrat

00:08:34.160 voter.

00:08:34.560 And, you know, the trial of Lakin Riley's murderer, where they played the 911 call, they

00:08:42.460 went through the timeline.

00:08:43.540 And one of the things, Lakin Riley, she wasn't killed at 2 in the morning.

00:08:48.180 She was killed just after 9 a.m.

00:08:50.760 She left her home jogging on the University of Georgia campus at 9.03 a.m.

00:08:57.500 She was seen at 9.05 a.m. jogging with her cell phone in her hand.

00:09:01.600 And then at 9.11 a.m., she called 911 while running.

00:09:07.260 And there was a minute-long recording where you can hear a male voice.

00:09:15.720 And the jury heard the operator repeating herself, saying, Clark County 911, hello, Clark

00:09:21.500 County 911, can anyone hear me?

00:09:24.580 The call ended at 9.12 a.m.

00:09:26.800 And if you can imagine, Riley's mom listened to that in court.

00:09:35.100 The suspect didn't even, his face didn't move.

00:09:39.820 He had no reaction.

00:09:41.700 As he listened to what happened, and the prosecution laid out that this murderer was, quote, hunting

00:09:50.100 for females on the campus when he came upon Riley. 1.00

00:09:54.680 And here's what the prosecutor said to the jury.

00:09:58.300 She said, quote,

00:09:59.500 When Lakin Riley refused to be his rape victim, he bashed her skull in with a rock repeatedly.

00:10:08.120 The evidence will show that Lakin fought.

00:10:11.160 She fought for her life.

00:10:13.260 She fought for her dignity.

00:10:15.160 And in that fight, she caused this defendant to leave forensic evidence behind.

00:10:20.180 She also marked her killer for the entire world to see.

00:10:26.520 I've got to say, the tragedy of what happened to Lakin Riley, the tragedy of what happened

00:10:33.220 to Jocelyn Nungary, the tragedy of what happened to Rachel Moran, the tragedy of what has happened

00:10:37.840 over and over and over again, all of this was preventable.

00:10:42.140 But we can at least take solace that we will see crimes like this begin to be prevented on

00:10:52.800 January 20th.

00:10:54.140 You mentioned January the 20th, and obviously that's coming soon, not soon enough.

00:11:00.300 But is there no change of your colleagues that realize what this election was about in D.C.,

00:11:08.880 where they say, hey, guys, maybe we want to get ahead of this.

00:11:12.020 Maybe we really, really misread this with the American people.

00:11:17.200 Maybe we should start now and not just allow for these open borders.

00:11:22.160 Or is this just the official policy of the Democratic Party that we are always open borders

00:11:26.880 no matter what?

00:11:27.780 So I don't know.

00:11:29.420 It has not been very long since Election Day.

00:11:31.980 We were back in session last week, so I was there with the Democrat senators.

00:11:36.320 I'll tell you, they're just kind of a little shell-shocked.

00:11:40.140 I think they're stunned by the election results.

00:11:42.980 We'll see if they change.

00:11:44.900 I'll tell you what I am urging.

00:11:46.860 I would like to see us in January, when we get the new Congress sworn in, I'd like to see

00:11:52.400 one of the very first bills that we vote on be the Justice for Jocelyn Act, the law

00:11:57.760 that I've introduced that mandates that when illegal immigrants are detained, that they

00:12:02.740 be kept in detention, that they not be released as long as there are detention facilities there

00:12:07.660 for them.

00:12:08.020 I'd like to see that vote early on and put every Democrat on record, and we'll see.

00:12:13.240 Maybe they look at these election results and say, okay, we've got to change.

00:12:18.300 Or maybe they don't.

00:12:19.140 Maybe they dig in and say, we don't care, and we're going to keep doing the same thing

00:12:22.600 over and over again.

00:12:23.540 But I think we ought to force them in January, go on record.

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00:13:08.300 Part of the story, and I think it's important for people to understand, Laken Riley's murderer

00:13:18.160 entered the country illegally back in 2022.

00:13:22.620 There's a timeline.

00:13:24.400 And we knew that this person was in the country illegally, and yet we kept allowing him to 1.00

00:13:30.440 come back.

00:13:31.660 Listen.

00:13:32.060 Shannon, I want to just remind everybody, how did Jose Eberra get here, and how did we

00:13:35.680 get to this point?

00:13:36.340 So, in September of 2022, he crossed illegally on the west side of Texas in El Paso.

00:13:42.280 He makes his way all the way to New York, and that was in September of 2023.

00:13:47.660 As we've seen, a pattern, arrested in New York City then, but let go.

00:13:53.700 Makes his way down to Georgia.

00:13:55.660 And in October 2023, he was cited for shoplifting.

00:13:59.080 Okay, that's crime, but he's let go again.

00:14:01.560 And in February of 2024, this is the date where he is charged with the killing of Laken Riley.

00:14:08.880 So, I was just looking at the bigger picture, Shannon.

00:14:10.740 Well, under President Trump, these are the types of numbers you're looking at for ICE removals

00:14:15.340 of illegal immigrants who, for whatever reason, were in the country illegally, but also criminals

00:14:21.860 that were in the country illegally.

00:14:22.940 Then you look at the Biden administration, and those are the numbers, and that's one

00:14:26.840 of the reasons you see this number, Shannon, which I think is amazing.

00:14:30.120 Immigration being the most important issue, either overall, and in Georgia, 20%, 18%.

00:14:35.520 But look at the difference.

00:14:36.900 In 2020, it was 3%, 4%.

00:14:39.480 And so, something happened, I think we all know what it was, which is the change from

00:14:43.480 Biden to Trump on border policy.

00:14:46.440 There it is.

00:14:47.540 Biden to Trump on border policy.

00:14:49.660 That's what changed.

00:14:50.440 Well, and understand that timeline, Ben.

00:14:52.020 Three times, this murder, and by the way, you will notice, I will not say his name. 0.99

00:14:56.160 I will not say the names of any of these bastards. 0.98

00:14:58.560 I'll say the names of the victims. 1.00

00:15:00.380 But these bastards deserve to be forgotten. 1.00

00:15:02.740 They deserve to be prosecuted and executed and utterly forgotten because they are evil, 1.00

00:15:09.040 what they have done to these victims. 1.00

00:15:10.780 But this monster, three times, was apprehended.

00:15:16.520 Three times, he was let go.

00:15:18.900 The first time he was apprehended was in 2022 in El Paso, Texas, and Joe Biden and Kamala

00:15:25.640 Harris and the Democrats let him go.

00:15:27.960 Had they followed the law then, had they put him on a plane, had they flown him back to Venezuela,

00:15:31.700 had they kept him in detention, Lake and Riley would be alive.

00:15:35.460 The second time he was arrested and let go was in New York.

00:15:39.100 Again, New York, Democratic prosecutors.

00:15:42.620 He was charged with endangering the safety of a child, but let go again.

00:15:47.420 The third time he was arrested and let go was in Georgia.

00:15:51.740 Again, Democrat prosecutors over and over and over again.

00:15:55.700 There is a pattern.

00:15:57.140 And the good news, you know, people wonder, well, how does this change so quickly?

00:16:01.120 Why does January 20th matter so much?

00:16:03.860 Well, look, on January 20th, we're not going to build any new wall on January 20th.

00:16:10.820 We're not going to likely hire any new Border Patrol agents.

00:16:13.760 So you wonder what can change so quickly.

00:16:16.720 And what can change so quickly is a simple policy decision.

00:16:21.080 On January 20th, I am absolutely certain that Donald Trump will instruct the Border Patrol,

00:16:25.960 catch and release ends now.

00:16:29.500 If you apprehend someone, you detain them and we deport them.

00:16:34.120 And the thing to understand, not only does that mean the first step in the timeline of the Lake and Riley murderer ends,

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00:19:22.280 Senator, I want to move to Pennsylvania, and this has become a really big issue, especially on Sunday.

00:19:29.460 As this race has tightened, and there are a lot of people that are just straight up saying now,

00:19:36.240 at this point, the Democrats are trying to steal an election in Pennsylvania.

00:19:40.200 They're looking at the Democrats trying to violate the rule of law and undermine the electoral process

00:19:47.560 as the new accusation.

00:19:49.400 Because of the ballots, they're now allowing to, in essence, be counted.

00:19:53.160 This seems very confusing, but also the game plan that you would expect from the Democrats right now.

00:19:59.620 Well, understand right now that Democrats are actively trying to steal an election in Pennsylvania.

00:20:06.340 Dave McCormick has won that Senate race.

00:20:08.840 He's won.

00:20:09.420 The AP has called the race.

00:20:10.760 Bob Casey, the incumbent Democrat, has lost.

00:20:13.580 Bob Casey doesn't want to concede.

00:20:15.060 Apparently, Bob Casey and Chuck Schumer are election deniers.

00:20:18.580 They don't like the results.

00:20:19.640 They brought in a guy named Mark Elias.

00:20:21.200 Mark Elias is the top Democrat litigation attorney for elections in the country.

00:20:27.400 Mark Elias' job is to try to steal elections, to try to get illegal votes in, to try to get Democrats to win, no matter what.

00:20:36.160 I'm going to do something that I rarely will do on verdict.

00:20:40.260 I'm just going to read from the New York Times.

00:20:43.480 The New York Times is not a paper that I respect.

00:20:46.780 It often is profoundly dishonest.

00:20:49.000 But when the Democrats are too extreme for the New York Times, that tells you something.

00:20:54.440 Here's an article from the New York Times.

00:20:56.020 The headline, quote,

00:20:57.400 In Pennsylvania, the election litigation continues with a twist.

00:21:02.320 As a Senate recount plays out, at least four counties are ignoring an order from the state Supreme Court that undated or misdated mail ballots cannot be counted.

00:21:14.260 And the article begins.

00:21:15.900 In an election defined in part by a tsunami of litigation before the polls even opened,

00:21:20.100 few states saw as much legal haggling over which ballots should count as Pennsylvania.

00:21:24.160 The polls have long since closed, yet a new round of litigation is flooding the recount battle between Senator Bob Casey, a Democrat,

00:21:31.220 and Dave McCormick, his Republican challenger, who currently leads by around 21,000 votes, a margin rarely overtaken by a simple recount.

00:21:40.300 The landscape, however, in at least four counties, Bucks, Philadelphia, Center, and Montgomery, local election officials are acting in open defiance of a ruling from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that arrived weeks before the election.

00:21:57.900 The court found that mail ballots that are missing the date on the outer envelope or that have the wrong date cannot be counted for this election.

00:22:06.320 The Bucks County Election Commission felt differently.

00:22:08.780 Quote, 0.85

00:22:09.920 It's a pretty stupid thing to not count someone's vote simply because they didn't date an envelope for a ballot, said Robert Harvey Jr., the chairman of the board and a Democrat who's desperately trying to steal the election. 0.88

00:22:21.220 That last part is me editorializing. 0.91

00:22:24.000 During a meeting on Tuesday where the board voted two to one to count 405 ballots with date errors on the envelope,

00:22:31.260 He added that election officials know when ballots were printed for voters, making the outer envelope date requirement meaningless.

00:22:38.500 The law needs to be changed, Mr. Harvey said.

00:22:41.640 The commissioners were advised that they were likely to be sued no matter how they ruled.

00:22:45.440 So we're going to get sued either way.

00:22:47.140 I'd rather be on the side of counting ballots than not counting them, Mr. Harvey said.

00:22:51.760 So you have four counties that are battling the state Supreme Court,

00:22:58.580 that are refusing to follow the state Supreme Court.

00:23:02.420 You've got Bucks, Philadelphia, Montgomery, and Center.

00:23:06.960 And the commissioners, Lisa Dealey, who's one of the Democratic commissioners on the Philadelphia board,

00:23:12.700 said before her vote that she felt a local city court had ruled on the ballots that the ballots should count

00:23:17.440 and that the state Supreme Court did not reject that decision.

00:23:20.580 And so in an interview, Seth Blustein, the Republican commissioner on the county commission,

00:23:25.500 reiterated that the state Supreme Court had already settled the issue.

00:23:31.040 Quote,

00:23:31.660 Even though the commissioners and the boards of elections have some discretion in how they vote,

00:23:35.520 when you have something as explicit as an order from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court,

00:23:40.620 we need to follow that.

00:23:42.800 And what is amazing,

00:23:45.380 if you listen to one of the Democrat members of the Bucks County Board,

00:23:49.960 Diane M. Ellis Marsegalia.

00:23:54.240 Here's what Ms. Ellis Marsegalia said.

00:23:56.840 She's a Democrat on the Bucks County Board.

00:23:58.820 Quote,

00:23:59.800 I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn't matter anymore in this country.

00:24:05.840 People violate laws anytime they want.

00:24:09.200 So for me,

00:24:10.780 if I violate this law,

00:24:12.500 it's because I want a court to pay attention.

00:24:15.840 There's nothing more important than counting votes.

00:24:18.360 So you've got Democrats in Pennsylvania

00:24:21.640 openly defying the law.

00:24:24.380 You've got the state Supreme Court.

00:24:25.580 By the way,

00:24:25.920 the state Supreme Court are Democrats.

00:24:27.860 The state Supreme Court has issued an order

00:24:30.180 as to what ballots you can legally count

00:24:32.640 and what ballots you can't.

00:24:34.280 And these local Democrats are pissed

00:24:36.000 because under that result,

00:24:38.220 the Republican has won.

00:24:39.180 And so their view is,

00:24:40.100 we're going to keep illegally counting ballots

00:24:41.640 and keep illegally counting ballots

00:24:43.020 until the Democrat wins.

00:24:44.900 And the instant the Democrat wins,

00:24:46.620 we're done.

00:24:47.280 It is shocking

00:24:48.280 and it is happening in plain daylight.

00:24:51.000 And mind you,

00:24:52.200 that's not me saying that.

00:24:53.420 That's the New York Times.

00:24:54.820 So how do you,

00:24:56.120 and this is where people have lost,

00:24:57.460 I think,

00:24:57.700 just total faith in the system.

00:24:58.980 If the court has said you can't do this

00:25:00.900 and they're like,

00:25:01.560 yeah, 0.66

00:25:01.800 screw it,

00:25:02.040 we'll do it anyway. 0.61

00:25:03.080 What is the recourse?

00:25:04.380 And is there a real chance

00:25:05.800 they could actually succeed

00:25:07.260 in stealing this election?

00:25:08.460 Because as you said it,

00:25:10.020 and I agree with you,

00:25:11.120 this is active,

00:25:12.700 an active campaign

00:25:14.500 by Democrats

00:25:16.160 to steal an election

00:25:17.480 they know they lost.

00:25:18.920 Well,

00:25:19.380 look,

00:25:19.600 there's litigation

00:25:20.340 and I can tell you

00:25:21.020 the McCormick campaign,

00:25:22.380 they have hired serious lawyers,

00:25:24.860 they're engaged in litigation,

00:25:25.780 they're fighting back

00:25:26.640 and hopefully the courts

00:25:28.100 will stop this.

00:25:29.440 But I'll tell you what,

00:25:30.120 it's not just the New York Times.

00:25:31.560 Do you know who the Democrats have lost?

00:25:33.620 They've lost the Washington Post.

00:25:35.880 So here's the Washington Post

00:25:37.620 editorial board,

00:25:38.680 quote,

00:25:39.800 Democrats thumb their nose

00:25:41.780 at the rule of law

00:25:43.060 in Pennsylvania.

00:25:45.020 Elections need rules

00:25:46.180 and they must be applied equally

00:25:47.660 and consistently.

00:25:49.220 And this is the Washington Post

00:25:50.340 editorial board,

00:25:51.480 no friend to Republicans,

00:25:52.920 quote,

00:25:53.920 before the November 5th election,

00:25:55.880 Pennsylvania Supreme Court

00:25:56.960 ruled that provisional ballots

00:25:58.220 must be signed

00:25:59.020 in two required places

00:26:00.160 and that mail-in votes

00:26:01.580 must be dated.

00:26:02.880 Yet elected Democrat officials

00:26:04.400 in Philadelphia

00:26:05.340 and three other counties,

00:26:06.540 Buck, Center, and Montgomery,

00:26:08.160 voted this week

00:26:09.200 to defy these

00:26:10.400 and other court decisions

00:26:11.580 at the request of lawyers

00:26:14.220 for Democratic Senator Bob Casey,

00:26:16.600 who trails GOP challenger

00:26:18.460 Dave McCormick

00:26:19.180 by about 24,000 votes,

00:26:21.120 with almost all of the roughly

00:26:22.800 7 million ballots cast

00:26:24.160 having been counted.

00:26:25.560 These Democrats' decision

00:26:26.980 will almost certainly

00:26:27.780 be overturned on appeal,

00:26:29.420 but the mere attempt

00:26:30.860 to defy judicial rulings

00:26:33.180 is corrosive to democracy

00:26:35.800 and invites similar behavior

00:26:38.680 in future elections.

00:26:41.320 Now, this is the Washington Post

00:26:45.580 who's pointing out,

00:26:47.140 and by the way,

00:26:47.660 understand,

00:26:48.680 you've got elected Democrats

00:26:49.820 in Pennsylvania

00:26:51.120 who are voting openly.

00:26:53.300 We are going to ignore

00:26:54.500 the Pennsylvania Supreme Court

00:26:56.080 because we want the Democrats

00:26:57.540 to win.

00:26:57.980 And why are they doing this?

00:26:59.140 Because Bob Casey,

00:27:00.300 the Democrat,

00:27:01.140 went to them and said,

00:27:02.600 ignore the Supreme Court.

00:27:03.960 It's more important

00:27:04.740 that I, the Democrat,

00:27:05.700 win than that you follow the law.

00:27:08.280 And you know what?

00:27:09.120 I've got to say,

00:27:10.020 if there's a Democrat

00:27:11.680 in Washington

00:27:12.880 who is embarrassed 0.96

00:27:13.840 by this shameless 0.50

00:27:15.840 undermining of democracy,

00:27:17.300 I don't know who it is.

00:27:18.560 It certainly hasn't been Joe Biden.

00:27:20.180 It certainly hasn't been

00:27:21.040 Kamala Harris.

00:27:21.880 It certainly hasn't been

00:27:22.960 Chuck Schumer.

00:27:23.580 It certainly hasn't been

00:27:24.480 Bob Casey.

00:27:25.160 They're all cheering this on

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00:27:30.660 shut them up

00:27:31.660 from talking about

00:27:32.880 their love for democracy

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00:29:32.980 finally,

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00:29:41.620 post-election.

00:29:43.400 Media elites

00:29:44.020 are fuming

00:29:44.860 over their

00:29:46.000 inability

00:29:46.840 to force-feed

00:29:47.880 narratives

00:29:48.460 to the American people.

00:29:49.820 They're also angry

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00:29:52.040 seems to be losing

00:29:53.060 their power,

00:29:54.660 the potency,

00:29:55.900 you know,

00:29:56.460 whether it's

00:29:56.920 Saturday Night Live

00:29:57.560 or the late shows

00:29:58.380 or CNN

00:29:58.820 or MSNBC,

00:30:00.240 their ratings are down

00:30:01.380 and so now

00:30:02.640 they're saying,

00:30:03.240 well,

00:30:03.280 we just need to censor

00:30:04.220 everybody

00:30:04.700 and just take it all down

00:30:05.960 from the internet

00:30:06.420 anything we don't like.

00:30:08.020 Well,

00:30:08.360 the Democrats,

00:30:09.040 they're not actually

00:30:09.880 looking introspectively

00:30:11.220 and saying,

00:30:11.800 gosh,

00:30:12.100 maybe we were wrong

00:30:12.700 on the issues.

00:30:13.340 Maybe the fact

00:30:13.940 that over 70%

00:30:15.760 of Americans

00:30:16.260 thought we were

00:30:16.720 on the wrong track,

00:30:17.500 maybe that's a problem.

00:30:18.400 Maybe we shouldn't

00:30:18.940 have had an open border

00:30:19.800 and let this country

00:30:20.480 be invaded.

00:30:21.100 Maybe we shouldn't

00:30:21.680 have spent money

00:30:22.260 like drunken sailors

00:30:23.480 and caused inflation

00:30:24.440 that hurt working families

00:30:26.460 across this country.

00:30:27.720 Maybe,

00:30:28.280 maybe,

00:30:28.660 maybe we shouldn't

00:30:29.760 have waged a war

00:30:30.420 on energy

00:30:31.020 that hurt everyone

00:30:32.720 who's struggling

00:30:33.280 to make ends meet.

00:30:34.100 Maybe we shouldn't

00:30:34.660 have undermined

00:30:35.140 our friends and allies

00:30:36.040 and we shouldn't

00:30:37.200 have appeased our enemies.

00:30:38.260 Maybe we shouldn't

00:30:38.700 have given $100 billion

00:30:39.560 to Iran

00:30:40.520 that funds terrorists

00:30:41.800 in Hamas and Hezbollah

00:30:42.940 and causes a war.

00:30:44.240 Maybe we shouldn't

00:30:44.800 have transformed

00:30:45.300 peace and prosperity

00:30:46.240 into war across the globe.

00:30:47.840 Maybe we shouldn't

00:30:48.900 have turned the other way

00:30:50.340 and, in fact,

00:30:50.920 secretly cheered on

00:30:51.900 anti-Semitic protesters

00:30:52.980 that threaten students.

00:30:54.380 Maybe our policies

00:30:55.380 are wrong.

00:30:55.900 That would be a rational

00:30:57.020 and sensible thing

00:30:57.760 for Democrats to do.

00:30:59.000 So they're not doing that.

00:31:00.580 Instead,

00:31:01.100 they're saying,

00:31:01.820 hmm,

00:31:03.000 maybe if people

00:31:04.000 just didn't know

00:31:05.820 what we were doing,

00:31:06.860 maybe if they couldn't

00:31:07.820 say what we were doing,

00:31:09.240 maybe if they couldn't

00:31:10.180 criticize what we're doing,

00:31:11.500 yeah,

00:31:11.760 that's how we'd win.

00:31:13.040 So Jen Psaki, 1.00

00:31:14.480 Joe Biden's

00:31:15.220 former press secretary,

00:31:16.480 Jen Psaki went on a podcast

00:31:17.740 and she said this,

00:31:18.900 quote,

00:31:19.480 one of the things

00:31:20.100 that's changed

00:31:20.720 ever since I got involved

00:31:21.740 in politics

00:31:22.460 is just the rise

00:31:24.000 of the percentage

00:31:24.620 of people

00:31:25.060 who get their information

00:31:26.020 off of platforms

00:31:26.880 that have no fact-checking

00:31:28.560 mechanism

00:31:29.000 and no accountability

00:31:29.880 for having disinformation spread.

00:31:32.280 Quote,

00:31:32.540 local TV

00:31:33.700 is held to a higher

00:31:34.460 standard of accountability

00:31:35.460 than social media platforms

00:31:36.820 in terms of accurate information

00:31:38.900 on their platforms.

00:31:39.960 That is crazy.

00:31:41.380 Quote,

00:31:42.440 laws have to change. 0.96

00:31:44.920 I don't even know

00:31:45.740 the entire answer to it,

00:31:47.020 but it seems to me

00:31:48.100 to be a core issue.

00:31:50.500 And in particular,

00:31:52.200 she focused on Trump

00:31:53.360 appearing on Joe Rogan,

00:31:54.640 the fact that he could go

00:31:55.640 directly in front of the voters.

00:31:57.560 And here's what she says,

00:31:59.180 quote,

00:31:59.400 I don't think Joe Rogan

00:32:01.080 deserves 100% of the credit

00:32:02.760 for Donald Trump being elected,

00:32:04.240 but it was a misunderstanding

00:32:06.120 of kind of also

00:32:08.760 how people are getting

00:32:09.820 their information

00:32:10.580 and an undervaluing

00:32:12.520 of some of those platforms

00:32:14.200 that Trump was doing.

00:32:16.220 This is sadly

00:32:18.480 where the Democrats are.

00:32:19.720 Understand,

00:32:20.760 she's not saying

00:32:21.880 we the Democrats

00:32:22.540 need to communicate better.

00:32:23.640 She's not saying

00:32:24.240 we the Democrats

00:32:24.800 need to change our policy.

00:32:26.040 She's saying

00:32:26.680 we need to change the laws.

00:32:29.400 To make it illegal

00:32:31.060 for that SOB Joe Rogan

00:32:33.280 to say things we don't like.

00:32:34.440 We need to change the laws

00:32:35.600 to make it illegal

00:32:36.540 for anyone to post on X

00:32:38.900 what the actual facts are

00:32:41.040 of what we the Democrats

00:32:42.020 are doing.

00:32:42.620 If we can silence everyone,

00:32:44.960 then we stay in power forever.

00:32:46.980 That is dangerous as hell.

00:32:49.500 Yeah.

00:32:49.780 Listen to Jen Psaki 0.90

00:32:50.760 when she was doing this podcast

00:32:53.400 and what she said.

00:32:54.820 And no accountability

00:32:55.760 for having disinformation spread.

00:32:58.240 Right.

00:32:59.380 And as you know well,

00:33:00.940 and I mean,

00:33:01.260 when I when I got started

00:33:02.560 in Democratic politics,

00:33:04.040 you know,

00:33:05.080 most of it was like

00:33:05.780 local TV ads.

00:33:07.300 That was what it was about.

00:33:08.060 Obviously, national TV,

00:33:09.420 local print.

00:33:10.820 Those local TV

00:33:12.120 is held to a higher standard

00:33:14.380 of accountability

00:33:15.620 than social media platforms

00:33:17.100 in terms of having

00:33:18.580 accurate information

00:33:19.660 on their platforms.

00:33:21.240 That is crazy.

00:33:22.360 Um, and so it is

00:33:24.620 how how does it change?

00:33:26.260 How is it?

00:33:26.740 How is it?

00:33:27.560 How are people held to account?

00:33:29.240 Laws have to change. 0.96

00:33:30.500 Laws have to change, Senator.

00:33:31.820 I guess we just need to

00:33:32.460 start locking up anybody

00:33:33.420 that says something

00:33:33.980 we don't like.

00:33:35.620 That sadly is where

00:33:36.960 the Democrats are.

00:33:38.220 And listen,

00:33:39.180 we talked before

00:33:40.360 during the election

00:33:41.180 how this campaign

00:33:42.800 with Kamala Harris

00:33:44.340 and Tim Waltz

00:33:45.100 was the most

00:33:45.640 anti-free speech campaign

00:33:47.480 since John Adams

00:33:49.800 who had signed

00:33:50.460 the Alien and Sedition Acts.

00:33:52.000 And it really is

00:33:53.440 historic

00:33:54.680 and dangerous.

00:33:57.080 I'm glad that

00:33:58.120 the American people

00:33:59.000 repudiated that assault

00:34:00.720 on free speech

00:34:01.680 and yet

00:34:02.100 I don't hear

00:34:03.420 anyone in the Democrat Party

00:34:05.480 defending free speech

00:34:07.060 and sadly

00:34:08.080 I think they're going

00:34:08.860 to double down

00:34:09.640 on the answer is

00:34:11.160 more censorship

00:34:12.580 so no one dares

00:34:14.340 criticize us.

00:34:15.700 Yeah, I agree with you there.

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - November 18, 2024

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