Verdict with Ted Cruz - Leftist Fund Plan to Get Violent Criminals out of Jail plus Tucker Caught Lying about Israel & Aliens are REAL？

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00:00:23.240 Senator, we've got a lot to talk about on today's show,

00:00:25.600 including another one that is a big warning for America.

00:00:30.900 Watch the money, and where Democrats are spending it right now

00:00:34.120 is they're now trying to affect the court system altogether.

00:00:37.720 Well, that's exactly right.

00:00:39.600 Major left-wing groups are putting serious money behind pushing jury nullification,

00:00:44.640 trying to convince jurors not to enforce the criminal laws,

00:00:48.180 essentially to allow left-wing violent protesters to get away with violent assault

00:00:53.660 and not face any consequences.

00:00:55.900 We're going to explain exactly what they're doing and why it matters,

00:00:58.800 how it's the latest iteration of the left's effort to abolish the police,

00:01:02.960 and how it's fundamentally dangerous and contrary to rule of law.

00:01:06.660 We're also going to talk about a fairly amazing story.

00:01:08.920 Tucker Carlson flew to Israel.

00:01:11.000 He was there for like 14 seconds, stepped foot on the ground,

00:01:14.380 ran away screaming.

00:01:15.660 He did interview Mike Huckabee.

00:01:16.880 I'm sure we will see that shortly.

00:01:18.640 But then he amazingly claimed that Israel detained him,

00:01:23.160 and he sort of conjured up being thrown in a dungeon with leg irons.

00:01:27.120 And then he sort of had a little bit of a problem because the video came out,

00:01:30.940 and it's obvious that's not happening.

00:01:32.940 He's happily posing for selfies,

00:01:35.360 and the Israeli government came out and said he's lying,

00:01:38.600 and then the American embassy came out and said he's lying.

00:01:41.020 We're going to come with the receipts.

00:01:42.320 It's really every day when I think Tucker Carlson can't get sadder and sadder,

00:01:46.580 it gets sadder and sadder.

00:01:48.600 And if you wonder what happened, was he abducted by space aliens?

00:01:52.940 Well, that brings you to our third story,

00:01:54.820 which is Barack Obama told the world space aliens are real,

00:01:59.360 and now President Trump has said he's directing the administration

00:02:03.000 to release all the evidence of space aliens.

00:02:05.640 We're going to cover all of that on today's show.

00:02:08.400 Yeah, my favorite line from Trump was when he was asked about it on the plane.

00:02:11.460 He's like, by the way, that's classified.

00:02:12.920 He's not supposed to be talking about that publicly,

00:02:14.680 which was just such a great Trump line.

00:02:16.340 So we'll have that for you in a moment.

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00:03:24.880 All right, Senators.

00:03:25.920 So this is a complicated issue for many Americans,

00:03:29.200 and they look over it quickly because it just seems that way.

00:03:32.440 Let's explain exactly what jury nullification even means from the outset.

00:03:37.600 And then I think people really understand, oh, so that's why Democrats are now pushing this so hard,

00:03:42.200 and the dark money is coming in from the big mega donors in the Democratic Party.

00:03:46.700 Well, look, jury nullification is the ability of a jury to disregard the instructions given to the jury by the judge,

00:03:54.680 to disregard the law, and to disregard the facts,

00:03:57.820 and simply to say we are going to find the defendant not guilty.

00:04:01.840 Even if they are guilty, right?

00:04:03.700 I want to be clear.

00:04:05.360 It's only jury nullification if they are guilty.

00:04:08.020 If they're not guilty, then it's actually the jury finding them not guilty.

00:04:12.460 Nullification is specifically when the prosecution has proven that the individual committed the criminal offense,

00:04:19.640 the judge has instructed the jury, here's what the law is, here's what you must do,

00:04:23.520 and the jury nonetheless says we're not going to apply it.

00:04:27.240 And what's happening here, I want to give some of the details of what these left-wing groups are doing,

00:04:32.120 and then we're going to talk about why it matters.

00:04:34.180 So here's one story that was published by Alpha News in Minneapolis.

00:04:40.520 It is entitled,

00:04:41.380 Minneapolis Anti-ICE Activist Groups Promote Jury Nullification Training Amid High-Profile Cases.

00:04:47.360 And here's what the story reports.

00:04:50.400 A Minneapolis-based activist network is now openly advertising, quote,

00:04:54.960 jury nullification training,

00:04:57.140 raising new concerns about the integrity of jury trials in the Twin Cities.

00:05:01.620 Defend 612, which seeks to support, quote,

00:05:05.620 resistance to the ICE occupation in Minneapolis,

00:05:08.800 is promoting two virtual sessions titled

00:05:11.400 The People's Pardon or Jury Nullification scheduled in the coming weeks.

00:05:16.000 One description frames the effort, quote,

00:05:19.740 because when systems fail to deliver justice, the people must.

00:05:25.020 Quote,

00:05:25.980 jury nullification is a legal tactic that has been used to protect one another

00:05:30.280 from unjust laws and political persecution.

00:05:32.860 This is the description of the advertisement.

00:05:35.260 We will learn about jury nullification or The People's Pardon,

00:05:37.980 how it's been used, ways it can stem authoritarian overreach,

00:05:41.320 and how we can use it today.

00:05:43.240 In an email to supporters, Defend 612,

00:05:45.500 defended the trainings as a means of protecting our local heroes

00:05:49.260 through jury nullification.

00:05:51.660 Jury nullification occurs when jurors vote to acquit a defendant,

00:05:55.060 despite believing the law was broken,

00:05:57.040 often because they oppose the law itself or how it is enforced.

00:06:00.760 Last month, Alpha News reported on a Minnesota Democratic Party officials

00:06:04.380 urging his followers to use jury nullification in a federal case

00:06:08.700 involving an assault against an immigration officer.

00:06:12.200 Nick Cruz, a former vice president of the Minnesota Young DFL

00:06:17.200 and a current at-large director of Stonewall DFL,

00:06:21.020 wrote in a since-deleted post on X that, quote,

00:06:24.200 no one should be going to prison for defending our city against ICE.

00:06:29.400 Cruz was referring to the federal case of Claire Louise Fang,

00:06:32.360 who is accused of biting off the tip of a U.S. border agent's finger

00:06:38.400 during a struggle in Minneapolis.

00:06:40.680 So understand this.

00:06:41.620 A federal law enforcement officer has the tip of his finger

00:06:45.120 bitten off by an activist,

00:06:46.720 and these lunatics are saying,

00:06:48.560 don't convict the person who bit off part of his finger.

00:06:52.920 By the way, you can see that picture on X.

00:06:55.280 It went viral.

00:06:56.160 They actually showed the baggie of the fingertip

00:06:59.160 and the agent's finger.

00:07:01.300 If you just want to see, like, how violent these attacks are,

00:07:04.460 that went viral because people thought they were lying.

00:07:06.740 And so then someone took the picture and was like,

00:07:08.700 okay, you think we're lying?

00:07:09.900 Look at my finger that's missing.

00:07:11.680 Here it is in a bag, and we're going to the hospital now.

00:07:13.980 Just so you understand what they're up against to the left.

00:07:16.560 And this left-wing activist,

00:07:19.000 he encouraged followers to spread information

00:07:21.200 about jury nullification and to, quote,

00:07:23.640 act neutral during the voir dire,

00:07:26.620 the jury selection process, in order to get seated.

00:07:28.840 I'm going to take a brief digression to say,

00:07:33.000 two weeks ago I spoke at an event honoring Justice Scalia.

00:07:36.860 It was the 10th anniversary of his passing away.

00:07:39.720 And I described preparing for an oral argument

00:07:42.220 in a Supreme Court case

00:07:43.380 where jury selection was an aspect of that case.

00:07:46.920 And Justice Scalia was brilliant.

00:07:48.500 He was a remarkable person.

00:07:50.040 But he was also a stickler for language.

00:07:52.460 And the process of selecting jurors,

00:07:57.080 it's spelled V-O-I-R-D-I-R-E.

00:08:00.000 And in many parts of the country,

00:08:01.700 that's pronounced voir dire.

00:08:03.600 In Texas, it's voir dire.

00:08:06.200 And actually, in preparing for the oral argument,

00:08:09.040 one of the questions I prepared for is,

00:08:11.520 when I said voir dire,

00:08:12.620 having Scalia ask,

00:08:13.980 counsel, I just heard you say words.

00:08:16.180 I'm sorry, I don't understand them.

00:08:18.360 And my response, which I was ready to give,

00:08:20.980 I would have said, Justice Scalia,

00:08:22.180 I understand that in other parts of the country,

00:08:24.520 there may be more Frenchified pronunciations

00:08:27.380 of those words.

00:08:28.240 But in the great state of Texas,

00:08:29.960 it is voir dire.

00:08:31.460 And representing Texas,

00:08:32.820 that's what I'll be using.

00:08:35.000 Understand, though, the relevance of voir dire here.

00:08:37.840 This leftist is saying,

00:08:39.320 lie during voir dire.

00:08:40.760 Tell the judge you'll be neutral

00:08:43.000 and then defy the law anyway.

00:08:45.840 This is blatantly undermining our justice system.

00:08:49.380 This is something that I think is a very scary moment.

00:08:53.960 It is Democrats now putting big money behind the idea

00:08:56.960 of advocating for juries to basically say,

00:08:59.780 even if you have someone that has broken the law,

00:09:01.920 if they've broken a law that you're in essence favor of,

00:09:04.780 then just don't find them guilty,

00:09:06.500 even though you're admitting they are guilty.

00:09:08.100 And now the Democratic Party is like, let's do this.

00:09:11.180 We're going to put real money behind it.

00:09:13.760 And look, understand,

00:09:15.460 jury nullification has always been part of the justice system.

00:09:19.940 And so there are numerous examples in history.

00:09:23.460 So, for example, in 1735,

00:09:25.680 John Peter Zenger was tried in New York.

00:09:27.920 He was charged with seditious libel

00:09:29.580 for criticizing the royal governor of New York,

00:09:32.680 William Cosby, in the New York Weekly Journal.

00:09:34.640 And under English law, truth was not a defense.

00:09:38.360 But the jury decided to acquit anyway.

00:09:40.860 That was a very early example of jury nullification.

00:09:45.620 The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850,

00:09:48.320 Northern juries sometimes refuse to convict individuals

00:09:51.500 charged with assisting escaped slaves.

00:09:55.860 That was another instance of jury nullification

00:09:57.700 where they'd say,

00:09:58.580 we're not going to participate in this unjust law.

00:10:00.460 There are really tragic and bigoted examples

00:10:05.940 of jury nullification.

00:10:07.080 For example, the Emmett Till murder trial in 1955,

00:10:10.880 the defendants were quickly acquitted

00:10:13.260 despite very significant evidence.

00:10:15.180 And it was an all-white male jury that nullified.

00:10:19.460 And it was simply racism.

00:10:21.500 They weren't going to hold the defendant guilty

00:10:24.100 for murdering Emmett Till.

00:10:25.960 And by the way, in the Vietnam War,

00:10:29.080 there were some juries that acquitted draft dodgers

00:10:32.040 and protesters and activists.

00:10:33.760 That is a check built in the system.

00:10:36.200 What is different here is you've got George Soros

00:10:39.520 and left-wing groups putting serious money

00:10:41.980 behind promoting this on a systemic basis

00:10:44.840 by trying to send leftists in to infiltrate jury pools

00:10:48.500 and to undermine it.

00:10:51.140 And understand the purpose of this.

00:10:53.680 This is really, it's a form of really jury tampering

00:10:57.080 because, look, Minneapolis is not a particularly

00:11:00.240 huge municipality.

00:11:01.640 And if they're able to push enough left-wing activists,

00:11:04.820 their objective is for their protesters

00:11:07.880 to be able to engage in criminal violence.

00:11:10.480 Understand, this is not like draft dodgers

00:11:13.380 and you disagree with the Vietnam War.

00:11:15.560 This is biting someone's finger off

00:11:18.500 and saying, we're going to refuse

00:11:21.860 to hold you criminally accountable.

00:11:23.420 And understand, this will also be

00:11:25.080 beating someone up, seriously injuring them.

00:11:28.100 And this is part and parcel

00:11:29.380 with the leftist agenda of abolishing the police.

00:11:33.660 That's one way that you eliminate

00:11:35.780 criminal penalties for violent conduct.

00:11:38.820 Another way you do so

00:11:41.440 is by electing George Soros prosecutor.

00:11:44.540 Soros has put millions of dollars

00:11:46.320 into electing radical prosecutors

00:11:48.900 who simply refuse to charge crimes.

00:11:51.680 And you know what?

00:11:52.260 If someone commits an act of violence

00:11:53.640 and the prosecutor won't charge them,

00:11:55.020 you've effectively abolished the police

00:11:56.660 because you've legalized violence.

00:11:58.680 And this is another strategy

00:12:00.900 designed to do the exact same thing.

00:12:03.300 Yeah, it really is.

00:12:04.360 When you look at the money behind this too,

00:12:06.720 it makes a lot of sense, right?

00:12:08.320 This isn't just something

00:12:09.160 they want to do in Minnesota.

00:12:10.400 This is something that Democrats

00:12:11.820 want to do all over the country

00:12:13.640 where they're being activists.

00:12:16.160 And then it could expand.

00:12:17.900 I actually was reading

00:12:19.300 on one of the websites

00:12:20.440 and I went deep into this.

00:12:22.460 We were getting ready for the show

00:12:23.540 that there was calls for

00:12:26.000 this being a new way

00:12:27.100 to deal with what they described

00:12:28.600 as reparations.

00:12:29.580 Hey, if we have somebody

00:12:30.380 that's a minority,

00:12:31.560 even if they've committed a crime,

00:12:33.440 we should let them go

00:12:34.520 and we can do it this way.

00:12:36.100 I mean, you want to talk about

00:12:37.480 opening Pandora's box

00:12:38.640 to radicals that believe things like this.

00:12:40.800 That is what they're writing right now.

00:12:42.380 They're saying, no, no, this is far outside

00:12:43.960 of just this issue with ICE right now.

00:12:45.920 This could be to right

00:12:47.140 all the wrongs of the world

00:12:48.320 is how they're describing it

00:12:49.440 in their own forums.

00:12:50.980 Yeah, and understand,

00:12:52.140 like these Soros DAs,

00:12:53.560 they include George Gascon

00:12:55.160 in Los Angeles,

00:12:56.260 Chesa Boudin in San Francisco,

00:12:58.720 Kim Fox in Chicago,

00:13:00.100 Kim Gardner in St. Louis,

00:13:01.500 Rachel Rollins in Boston,

00:13:02.960 Marilyn Mosby in Baltimore.

00:13:05.900 Don't forget Steve Mulroy

00:13:07.080 down there in Memphis, Tennessee.

00:13:08.300 I just got to give that guy a shout out

00:13:09.720 because he's a radical as well.

00:13:10.960 Look, and it's a challenge

00:13:13.760 because there are vulnerabilities

00:13:16.820 in our justice system

00:13:18.060 and in our democratic system.

00:13:20.360 And George Soros, listen,

00:13:22.020 you and I disagree with everything

00:13:23.440 George Soros has done,

00:13:25.280 but I'm going to credit him

00:13:26.420 with something,

00:13:27.640 which is being effective.

00:13:29.600 This man is a Marxist

00:13:32.240 who hates America,

00:13:33.700 and he has spent billions of dollars

00:13:37.040 effectively tearing this country down,

00:13:39.280 and the network that he funds.

00:13:41.440 And much of it is done

00:13:43.060 through dark money.

00:13:44.160 It's done through 501C3s and C4s, 0.97

00:13:46.620 and I actually have legislation

00:13:47.880 that will help at least expose

00:13:51.920 the billions of dollars

00:13:53.540 that are going to tear down

00:13:55.380 tear down this country.

00:13:57.160 But you look at electing DAs.

00:13:59.180 It wasn't that long ago

00:14:00.280 where a DA election

00:14:01.940 was a fairly sleepy affair

00:14:03.300 where you'd have a couple of candidates

00:14:04.560 and they both wanted

00:14:05.620 to enforce the law.

00:14:06.660 They'd both prosecute criminals.

00:14:07.940 They'd lock up bad guys.

00:14:08.940 Everyone agreed,

00:14:09.900 if you're a murderer,

00:14:10.840 you should be charged.

00:14:11.660 You should be prosecuted.

00:14:12.660 You should be convicted.

00:14:13.480 You should go to jail.

00:14:13.840 It was a popularity contest

00:14:15.080 in essence, right?

00:14:16.020 It was two of the same,

00:14:16.900 but who has more friends?

00:14:18.640 Right.

00:14:19.440 And it was, you know,

00:14:20.400 who looks like a tougher,

00:14:21.500 like there was an old DA

00:14:23.260 in Houston

00:14:24.500 who had this giant

00:14:25.620 handlebar mustache for years.

00:14:27.520 And like,

00:14:27.820 who is sort of the tougher

00:14:29.520 law enforcement guy?

00:14:31.480 And Soros understood

00:14:32.980 that for really a cheap amount,

00:14:36.520 if you put a DA in,

00:14:37.920 in most instances,

00:14:38.840 a DA's decision not to prosecute,

00:14:41.060 there's nothing you can do about it.

00:14:42.660 A DA has almost

00:14:43.440 total discretion over that.

00:14:45.600 And this is another effort.

00:14:47.800 And look,

00:14:48.120 it's one thing

00:14:48.720 if jury nullification happens

00:14:50.580 in a particular case,

00:14:52.420 you know,

00:14:52.840 I think of, for example,

00:14:54.300 a case where, say,

00:14:56.100 God forbid,

00:14:56.840 a child is raped

00:14:57.880 and the father

00:14:59.140 beats the hell out of

00:15:01.220 or even commits

00:15:02.280 more serious violence

00:15:03.480 against the rapist.

00:15:04.380 That's the sort of case

00:15:05.320 where a jury could say,

00:15:06.780 you know,

00:15:07.840 damn it,

00:15:08.260 I'm not,

00:15:09.740 you know,

00:15:10.160 there's an old line in Texas

00:15:11.420 that it's a defense to murder

00:15:12.760 that the defendant

00:15:14.180 needed killing.

00:15:16.160 Yeah.

00:15:17.780 It's one thing

00:15:18.840 for it to organically happen

00:15:20.600 in a case of

00:15:22.240 grotesque injustice,

00:15:24.380 and that's built into the system.

00:15:26.160 It is another thing

00:15:27.140 when you have millions of dollars

00:15:28.720 promoting people

00:15:30.260 going into lie,

00:15:31.400 like showing up

00:15:32.420 with the purpose of

00:15:33.780 I'm here to get

00:15:36.080 violent left-wing protesters off,

00:15:39.060 to get them off scot-free,

00:15:40.340 so it is effectively

00:15:41.220 not a crime

00:15:42.360 in this jurisdiction anymore

00:15:44.460 to beat the hell

00:15:46.460 out of a cop

00:15:47.380 walking down the street,

00:15:49.020 to bite the tip

00:15:50.220 of their finger off,

00:15:51.080 or to commit even more

00:15:52.260 egregious acts of violence.

00:15:53.820 This is dangerous,

00:15:55.180 and this is Soros

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00:15:59.280 in our system

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00:16:33.920 All right, Senators,

00:16:34.840 so it was a very interesting week.

00:16:37.160 There was a big back and forth.

00:16:39.160 I don't think it's an interview.

00:16:40.580 I think it's a debate.

00:16:42.200 It had a lot of fanfare.

00:16:44.080 It was Tiger Carlson

00:16:45.080 going to Israel

00:16:46.080 to have a sit-down

00:16:48.020 with the U.S. ambassador,

00:16:49.340 dear friend of both of ours,

00:16:50.760 Mike Huckabee.

00:16:52.040 I was rooting for Mike

00:16:53.720 because you knew

00:16:54.560 what Tucker was going to do.

00:16:56.380 But before we even got

00:16:57.720 any of the interview out,

00:16:59.440 and maybe it's because

00:17:00.420 it didn't go well for Tucker,

00:17:01.840 we'll see.

00:17:03.060 But what he did do

00:17:04.140 is had a great distraction

00:17:05.400 claiming he was detained

00:17:06.900 in Israel at the airport.

00:17:09.240 And thank goodness

00:17:09.840 he got safe out of the country.

00:17:12.140 Turns out it was all crap and a lie.

00:17:14.800 Yeah, look,

00:17:15.240 I got to say,

00:17:15.920 Tucker Carlson's descent

00:17:17.400 into madness

00:17:18.100 has been tragic

00:17:20.580 and horrific to watch.

00:17:22.440 You and I have both known

00:17:23.260 Tucker a long, long time.

00:17:24.540 I've known him

00:17:25.080 probably 25 years.

00:17:27.280 And, you know,

00:17:28.380 there was a time

00:17:29.360 when he would vocally

00:17:30.480 defend Israel,

00:17:31.920 when he was,

00:17:32.540 look,

00:17:32.680 when he had his Fox TV show

00:17:34.260 during COVID

00:17:34.920 and the lockdowns,

00:17:36.320 his monologue every night

00:17:37.880 was the single best thing

00:17:38.760 on television,

00:17:39.320 and it was destination TV.

00:17:41.780 Well, he got fired from Fox,

00:17:43.220 and he's gone into

00:17:44.280 the kind of the dark

00:17:45.140 hinterlands of the Internet,

00:17:46.140 and he's turned really twisted.

00:17:48.400 He is, number one,

00:17:49.740 obsessed with Israel.

00:17:51.380 It seems like

00:17:52.460 if you are a Jew-hating bigot,

00:17:54.900 you too can be a guest

00:17:56.120 on Tucker's show.

00:17:56.920 He will find every person

00:17:58.660 that says the Jews 0.98

00:18:00.020 are responsible

00:18:00.740 for terrible things.

00:18:01.660 By the way,

00:18:02.280 if you're a Nazi apologist,

00:18:03.780 if you think Adolf Hitler

00:18:04.860 was very, very cool,

00:18:06.680 you too can be on Tucker's show.

00:18:08.820 By the way,

00:18:09.500 if you're an Islamist,

00:18:10.680 if you think Hamas

00:18:11.780 is not a terrorist organization,

00:18:13.300 as Tucker has said,

00:18:14.360 you too can be on Tucker's show.

00:18:16.900 If you hate Donald Trump

00:18:19.400 because his show now

00:18:20.500 is attacking almost

00:18:21.400 every foreign policy decision

00:18:23.220 Donald Trump makes,

00:18:24.780 you too can be on Tucker's show.

00:18:27.060 And he has said

00:18:27.960 the people he hates

00:18:28.960 most in the world.

00:18:30.860 Are they the jihadists

00:18:31.960 who murder Americans? 0.68

00:18:33.060 No.

00:18:33.400 No, no, no.

00:18:33.880 Those are the people

00:18:34.680 he actually prezes.

00:18:35.420 Not ISIS, not Al-Qaeda,

00:18:36.300 not Hamas, not Hezbollah.

00:18:39.260 Who are they?

00:18:40.160 They are Christian Zionists. 0.99

00:18:41.600 He said there's no one

00:18:42.460 on planet Earth.

00:18:43.200 By the way,

00:18:44.120 if you are A, a Christian,

00:18:45.940 and B, you believe

00:18:47.220 Israel should exist.

00:18:48.700 That's what it means

00:18:49.400 to be a Zionist.

00:18:50.260 You know, a lot of the Jew haters,

00:18:51.980 they're scared of actually

00:18:53.620 admitting they're Jew haters,

00:18:54.700 so instead of saying

00:18:55.420 the word Jew,

00:18:56.500 they say Zionist

00:18:57.660 because they think

00:18:58.140 that sounds so much more...

00:18:59.960 Like, Zionist means

00:19:02.360 should Israel exist?

00:19:05.260 Yeah.

00:19:05.980 I gotta say,

00:19:07.160 I am proudly a Zionist,

00:19:09.080 and I am proudly a Christian,

00:19:10.560 and if you're a Christian,

00:19:11.680 and you believe

00:19:12.520 the nation of Israel

00:19:13.380 should exist,

00:19:14.200 there are 57 Muslim countries

00:19:16.240 in the world

00:19:16.740 if you think the Jewish people

00:19:17.940 should have one country,

00:19:19.640 just one.

00:19:21.360 Mind you,

00:19:22.180 the modern state of Israel

00:19:23.020 was formed after the Holocaust,

00:19:24.740 after the Nazis

00:19:25.660 murdered over 6 million Jews

00:19:28.080 in committing a genocide,

00:19:30.060 and the phrase

00:19:31.320 never again meant something,

00:19:32.760 that there would be

00:19:33.300 a homeland

00:19:33.900 that at least there would be

00:19:35.300 one place for Jews to flee to.

00:19:36.960 If you think Jews ought to exist, 1.00

00:19:38.880 well, then Tucker hates you

00:19:40.880 more than anybody else

00:19:42.620 on planet Earth,

00:19:43.380 and he's identified

00:19:44.060 two people in particular

00:19:45.320 that he hates the most,

00:19:46.860 and that is Mike Huckabee and me,

00:19:48.120 and so he went to interview

00:19:49.200 Mike Huckabee.

00:19:50.200 I'm sure there are fireworks.

00:19:51.700 We'll see what happened in it,

00:19:53.540 and he touched down.

00:19:55.540 It was the most bizarre thing.

00:19:57.080 He landed in Israel.

00:19:59.220 He didn't leave the airport,

00:20:00.620 so I guess the interview

00:20:01.560 was at the airport.

00:20:03.580 And it sounded like

00:20:04.540 that's because he was afraid

00:20:05.480 of his safety or something.

00:20:06.700 Like, he was trying to say,

00:20:07.460 I don't feel safe in this country,

00:20:08.740 and I need to be able to leave

00:20:09.540 at a moment's notice,

00:20:10.440 so I'll only do the interview

00:20:11.400 at the airport.

00:20:12.100 That is what the team

00:20:13.800 seemed to be wanting

00:20:14.420 to get out there.

00:20:15.040 They didn't feel safe.

00:20:16.060 They didn't think that Israel

00:20:16.920 would be a place

00:20:18.100 they would be able to be,

00:20:19.000 you know, free or welcome

00:20:20.400 or whatever,

00:20:21.000 so we're just going to stay

00:20:22.040 in the airport.

00:20:22.680 But meanwhile,

00:20:23.500 the same guy that would go to Russia

00:20:24.980 that detains Americans 0.99

00:20:26.300 on a regular basis

00:20:27.100 and will happily put out

00:20:28.500 grocery store propaganda

00:20:29.620 on their behalf

00:20:30.420 and travel anywhere in Russia

00:20:32.360 that they would let him go.

00:20:33.700 And by the way,

00:20:34.460 interview Putin.

00:20:35.940 Interview the president of Iran.

00:20:37.540 The president of Iran

00:20:38.180 is actively trying to murder

00:20:39.680 President Trump right now.

00:20:41.440 And Tucker did an interview

00:20:43.400 where he was practically

00:20:44.580 rubbing his leg

00:20:46.160 and gazing adoringly

00:20:46.980 like a lovesick 16-year-old

00:20:50.320 sucking soda straws

00:20:52.000 with her crush

00:20:53.000 at the soda fountain.

00:20:54.260 And don't forget,

00:20:54.820 he buys houses in Qatar, right?

00:20:56.600 Let's not forget that one.

00:20:58.020 He has literally purchased

00:20:59.140 a home in Qatar.

00:21:01.260 And by the way,

00:21:01.920 I get asked routinely,

00:21:04.500 is Tucker being paid

00:21:06.560 millions of dollars from Qatar?

00:21:08.460 I don't know.

00:21:09.320 I have no evidence of that.

00:21:10.800 I will tell you,

00:21:11.460 it would explain an awful lot

00:21:12.740 because if you play

00:21:13.560 what Tucker said on TV

00:21:14.800 for years

00:21:15.820 and he's done an about-face

00:21:17.080 on everything,

00:21:18.560 money would certainly

00:21:19.520 explain an awful lot.

00:21:20.620 I don't know why.

00:21:21.620 I just know that he is

00:21:22.860 attacking Israel and Jews 1.00

00:21:24.340 every day.

00:21:25.440 He is praising Islamists 1.00

00:21:27.200 and he is attacking capitalism.

00:21:29.040 He's praised Mandami repeatedly.

00:21:31.420 He's praised Maduro.

00:21:33.140 I mean, it is,

00:21:34.440 it's a crazy descent.

00:21:36.780 When he went to Israel,

00:21:38.120 there were some Christians

00:21:38.980 in Israel who said,

00:21:39.900 come visit us.

00:21:40.560 We'll show you

00:21:41.200 that Christians are protected

00:21:42.540 and prospering in Israel,

00:21:44.280 that the people

00:21:44.820 who are persecuting Christians 0.99

00:21:46.140 are the Islamists 0.98

00:21:49.720 who are persecuting Christians.

00:21:50.960 He's focused on,

00:21:52.200 well, Bethlehem,

00:21:53.300 the Christian population

00:21:54.360 is under assault.

00:21:55.680 Well, that's true

00:21:56.800 because the Palestinian authority

00:21:58.220 is in charge of Bethlehem,

00:21:59.780 not Israel.

00:22:01.240 Yeah.

00:22:01.780 He refused to meet

00:22:03.320 with Christians there.

00:22:04.120 I just got back from Israel.

00:22:04.860 The number of people

00:22:06.040 that are there

00:22:06.600 on a pilgrimage

00:22:07.540 as Christians

00:22:08.840 is massive.

00:22:11.340 And by the way,

00:22:13.400 I want to be,

00:22:13.980 I forgot to tell you this.

00:22:15.200 I too, Senator,

00:22:16.440 and I probably should have

00:22:17.380 put this out,

00:22:18.440 seeing the video

00:22:19.140 of Tucker Carlson Airport,

00:22:20.160 I was detained as well

00:22:21.320 when I left.

00:22:22.240 I just can't believe

00:22:22.900 you didn't come save me.

00:22:23.980 I'm a little disappointed.

00:22:25.180 I thought you had my back here,

00:22:26.560 but I was detained in Israel

00:22:27.920 because they checked my passport

00:22:29.440 and they held me

00:22:30.360 for a second to the side.

00:22:31.680 So I just want to be clear.

00:22:33.660 If Tucker Carlson was detained,

00:22:35.280 I was detained as well.

00:22:36.600 Well, and here's the statement

00:22:39.220 Tucker put out.

00:22:40.260 Quote,

00:22:41.060 men who identified themselves

00:22:42.360 as airport security

00:22:43.480 took our passports,

00:22:45.260 hauled our executive producer

00:22:46.580 into a side room,

00:22:47.620 and then demanded

00:22:48.320 to know what we spoke

00:22:49.580 to Ambassador Huckabee about.

00:22:51.500 Now, I got to say,

00:22:52.400 this ridiculous claim

00:22:53.980 that he put out

00:22:54.720 was promptly refuted,

00:22:56.960 A, by the video

00:22:58.200 of his interaction.

00:22:59.220 He's in the airport.

00:22:59.980 He's laughing.

00:23:00.580 He's taking pictures

00:23:01.340 and selfies with people.

00:23:03.340 B, by a statement

00:23:04.780 from the government of Israel

00:23:05.880 saying this is totally false

00:23:07.060 and C, by the U.S. Embassy.

00:23:10.100 But actually,

00:23:10.740 the best refutation to this

00:23:12.220 is there is a fellow online.

00:23:15.620 I don't know him,

00:23:17.260 but he's a comedian

00:23:18.400 and he's a comedian

00:23:19.200 named Ami Kozak

00:23:20.560 who does this great

00:23:22.140 Tucker impression.

00:23:23.520 And it's hysterical.

00:23:24.840 If you're watching it on video,

00:23:26.100 you really should watch it on video

00:23:27.280 because he's actually,

00:23:28.040 his hair looks like Tucker

00:23:28.900 and he does it.

00:23:29.740 If not, give a listen

00:23:30.840 because this is satire.

00:23:32.620 It's not real,

00:23:33.200 but this is a comedian

00:23:34.200 portraying Tucker

00:23:36.480 being, quote,

00:23:37.380 detained by Israeli airport.

00:23:40.660 Shalom.

00:23:41.240 Hi.

00:23:42.880 Okay, you pack your own bags

00:23:44.180 or somebody pack for you?

00:23:45.640 I don't even know

00:23:46.880 what that means, actually.

00:23:48.240 I mean, I certainly,

00:23:48.900 I pack some things.

00:23:49.960 I certainly pack a lot of things,

00:23:51.460 like a lot.

00:23:52.500 And I probably overpacked.

00:23:53.920 I always tend to overpack.

00:23:55.480 I bring everything.

00:23:56.760 And I'm sure other people

00:23:57.880 pack for me, too.

00:23:59.320 Well, we have to ask

00:24:00.080 to make sure, you know,

00:24:00.780 no one put their weapon

00:24:01.640 or something you don't know.

00:24:03.180 Well, I'm proud of owning guns.

00:24:05.500 I own lots of guns.

00:24:06.600 I'm not going to apologize

00:24:07.460 for that, like at all.

00:24:08.420 I own guns.

00:24:09.380 You have one here?

00:24:10.100 And so I'm not going

00:24:11.160 to apologize for that.

00:24:11.780 Okay, but did you pack it?

00:24:12.760 I'm not going to do it.

00:24:13.720 Okay, okay.

00:24:14.500 What do you do for work?

00:24:15.880 Oh, I'm a journalist.

00:24:17.000 I'm a journalist,

00:24:17.680 a commentator.

00:24:18.520 I talk to people.

00:24:19.720 I have conversations

00:24:20.580 with people.

00:24:21.500 Journalist?

00:24:21.880 Okay.

00:24:22.160 Do you ever lie?

00:24:22.840 Oh, all the time.

00:24:23.960 I lie every day.

00:24:24.720 I lie every day.

00:24:25.700 And I'll continue to do it.

00:24:27.560 I'm sure I'll continue

00:24:28.420 to do that.

00:24:30.020 And I hate it.

00:24:31.620 I hate that I do that,

00:24:32.460 but I'm certain

00:24:32.920 that I do do it.

00:24:33.940 You're lying right now

00:24:34.940 about your intentions?

00:24:36.020 Oh, yeah.

00:24:38.300 And I'm very honest

00:24:39.200 about that.

00:24:39.760 I'm very honest about that.

00:24:40.840 You're honest

00:24:41.360 that you're lying.

00:24:41.980 Okay.

00:24:42.320 You with a major network?

00:24:43.460 No.

00:24:44.020 We're independent.

00:24:44.900 Okay.

00:24:45.480 And who is funding you?

00:24:49.080 I'd rather not say.

00:24:50.900 That's not your business.

00:24:52.240 It's not your business at all.

00:24:53.100 It's a secret?

00:24:53.720 Actually, I don't have

00:24:54.380 to disclose that.

00:24:55.240 Okay.

00:24:55.920 You traveled to the Middle East

00:24:57.180 at all in the last six months?

00:24:58.320 I have.

00:24:58.980 Okay.

00:24:59.460 Yes.

00:24:59.880 Where do you go?

00:25:01.260 Which places do you travel?

00:25:03.160 Well...

00:25:03.740 And why do you go there?

00:25:06.460 No, let's go.

00:25:07.280 I went to places.

00:25:09.020 They were nice.

00:25:09.520 I just...

00:25:09.840 I wanted to...

00:25:10.360 I wanted to talk to people

00:25:12.820 and see people

00:25:13.660 and have conversations

00:25:15.180 with people.

00:25:15.920 Okay.

00:25:16.360 Any of the people

00:25:17.080 you talked to

00:25:17.600 have any connections

00:25:18.220 to radical terrorist organizations?

00:25:20.980 I mean...

00:25:22.580 Really?

00:25:23.140 I mean,

00:25:24.400 last I checked,

00:25:24.920 they were all

00:25:25.260 political organizations.

00:25:26.500 They're what?

00:25:26.900 Any of those regimes

00:25:27.940 were political organizations

00:25:29.820 in the last I checked.

00:25:31.840 Okay.

00:25:34.460 This funny to you?

00:25:35.960 Are you Jewish?

00:25:36.740 No, I'm not Jewish.

00:25:38.180 I certainly...

00:25:38.780 There's nothing wrong

00:25:39.620 with being Jewish.

00:25:40.520 Some of my favorite people

00:25:41.280 are Jewish.

00:25:41.800 Like, really, like,

00:25:42.620 some of my very

00:25:43.360 absolutely favorite people

00:25:44.540 are Jewish.

00:25:45.620 Some of my least favorite people

00:25:46.620 are Christian Zionists. 0.84

00:25:47.740 I hate them.

00:25:48.360 I'm appalled by them, actually.

00:25:49.700 Like, really.

00:25:50.240 Like, really appalled.

00:25:51.020 But I'm not going to apologize

00:25:51.960 for who I am.

00:25:52.680 I'm a white person.

00:25:53.520 I'm a Christian.

00:25:54.160 I'm a man.

00:25:54.980 And I'm not going to apologize

00:25:55.940 for that.

00:25:56.920 Period.

00:25:57.700 Okay, okay.

00:25:58.560 Couple more questions.

00:25:59.960 Where are you from?

00:26:00.780 Oh, I came from Maine.

00:26:01.740 What is Maine?

00:26:02.360 Yeah, I live across

00:26:02.940 from my parents' graves.

00:26:03.880 Wow.

00:26:04.460 Okay, for Maine,

00:26:05.300 what's the population?

00:26:07.480 I see what you did.

00:26:09.900 Why not?

00:26:12.000 And so...

00:26:12.880 So what brings you to Israel?

00:26:13.920 Well, I'm here to interview

00:26:14.680 Ambassador Mike Huckabee.

00:26:16.120 You know Ambassador Mike Huckabee?

00:26:18.000 Very well, actually.

00:26:18.980 I know him a lot.

00:26:19.480 From where you know him?

00:26:20.460 And I also have no idea

00:26:21.380 who he is, like, at all.

00:26:22.640 Like, I barely even know

00:26:23.740 who that is.

00:26:24.260 I don't even know who he is.

00:26:25.460 Ma?

00:26:25.740 And so I'm here to interview him.

00:26:26.780 So wait, you do know him

00:26:27.760 or you don't know him?

00:26:28.760 An Ilomevin.

00:26:29.580 Okay, anyone give you

00:26:30.420 a gift or something

00:26:31.220 to take to Israel with you?

00:26:32.300 I mean, I got a house

00:26:33.620 from Qatar.

00:26:34.540 Why you get that?

00:26:35.360 They're an ally.

00:26:36.040 Last I checked,

00:26:36.600 they're an ally.

00:26:37.920 They're, like,

00:26:38.360 one of our closest allies, actually.

00:26:39.820 Okay, we're going to need

00:26:40.500 your passport, please.

00:26:41.680 Why do you need

00:26:42.220 to see my passport?

00:26:43.020 Is it because I'm a Christian?

00:26:44.360 What's you saying?

00:26:45.380 Did you just spit at me?

00:26:46.780 Ma?

00:26:47.180 Did you just spit at me?

00:26:48.040 We need your passport.

00:26:49.900 Your passport, please.

00:26:51.140 Well, I'm certainly not going

00:26:51.780 to give you my passport.

00:26:52.820 I would never do that.

00:26:53.780 Like, at all.

00:26:54.220 This is standard.

00:26:55.740 Take it to a supervisor.

00:26:57.820 They're detaining me!

00:26:58.740 We just need a passport.

00:26:59.700 Get off me! 1.00

00:27:00.180 This is just like the demon!

00:27:01.160 Ma?

00:27:01.460 This is just like the demon!

00:27:04.100 All right, why?

00:27:05.240 Hey, Mr. Blah!

00:27:08.740 Look, I'm not sure

00:27:09.600 that's satire.

00:27:10.300 That might actually be real.

00:27:11.840 All right, Sinner.

00:27:13.160 One other thing

00:27:14.100 about Tucker real quick.

00:27:15.360 We played the satire

00:27:16.920 and it's amazing.

00:27:18.320 That comedian,

00:27:19.000 brilliant job.

00:27:20.320 But this just blatant

00:27:22.560 and clear lie,

00:27:24.360 I think this is,

00:27:25.680 unfortunately,

00:27:27.000 what many Americans

00:27:28.080 need to see

00:27:28.740 to realize

00:27:29.460 just how much

00:27:30.660 Tucker Carlson

00:27:31.440 is spinning things

00:27:32.460 and also

00:27:33.340 just not being

00:27:34.220 intellectually honest

00:27:35.120 about Israel.

00:27:36.480 Yeah, if you haven't

00:27:37.640 watched the video

00:27:38.720 that was put out,

00:27:39.980 like, it's a little bit amazing

00:27:41.160 he would lie

00:27:41.660 about being detained.

00:27:42.640 Did it not occur to him

00:27:43.700 that the interaction

00:27:44.640 would be videoed,

00:27:46.080 that he's in

00:27:47.220 the customs office?

00:27:48.660 That video clearly shows

00:27:50.420 he's laughing,

00:27:51.080 he's taking selfies,

00:27:51.900 he's happy,

00:27:52.320 it's gone viral.

00:27:53.040 If you haven't watched it,

00:27:53.960 Google and watch it

00:27:54.700 for yourself.

00:27:55.660 And I just want to tell you

00:27:56.620 what both the Israeli

00:27:57.760 foreign ministry said

00:27:58.800 and the United States

00:28:00.100 Embassy said.

00:28:01.240 Here's what the Israeli 0.94

00:28:02.120 foreign ministry said.

00:28:03.220 Quote,

00:28:03.460 Israeli Airports Authority,

00:28:05.720 contrary to reports,

00:28:06.980 Tucker Carlson

00:28:07.580 and his entourage

00:28:08.280 were not detained,

00:28:09.380 delayed,

00:28:09.720 or interrogated.

00:28:10.900 Mr. Carlson and his party

00:28:12.020 were politely asked

00:28:12.920 a few routine questions

00:28:14.500 in accordance

00:28:15.080 with standard procedures

00:28:16.300 applied to many travelers.

00:28:18.040 The conversation

00:28:18.580 took place

00:28:19.300 in a separate room

00:28:20.180 within the VIP lounge

00:28:21.580 solely to protect

00:28:22.880 their privacy

00:28:23.660 and to avoid conducting

00:28:24.640 such a discussion

00:28:25.360 in public.

00:28:26.420 No unusual incident

00:28:27.580 occurred

00:28:28.080 and the Israeli

00:28:28.720 Airports Authority

00:28:29.640 firmly rejects

00:28:31.360 any other claim.

00:28:32.660 And then here

00:28:34.560 I want to read

00:28:35.740 the statement

00:28:36.360 from the United States

00:28:37.620 Embassy

00:28:38.140 about this.

00:28:41.320 And here's what

00:28:42.540 the Daily Mail

00:28:43.900 reported on this.

00:28:44.820 Quote,

00:28:45.640 A spokesperson

00:28:46.200 for the U.S. Embassy

00:28:47.240 in Israel

00:28:47.740 denied that Carlson

00:28:48.860 was detained

00:28:49.480 and claimed that,

00:28:50.560 quote,

00:28:51.080 he received

00:28:51.680 the same passport control,

00:28:54.200 questions that

00:28:55.080 countless visitors

00:28:56.120 to Israel,

00:28:56.840 including Ambassador Huckabee

00:28:58.220 and other diplomats,

00:28:59.240 receive as part

00:29:00.500 of the normal entrance

00:29:01.620 and exit from Israel.

00:29:02.660 It is not accurate

00:29:04.160 that Israel

00:29:04.760 was only going

00:29:05.540 to let Tucker

00:29:06.180 into the country

00:29:06.880 for the interview,

00:29:07.720 the spokesperson added.

00:29:09.220 The only engagement

00:29:10.060 the embassy had

00:29:11.180 with Israel

00:29:11.680 about his visit

00:29:12.420 was to coordinate

00:29:13.140 his private plane

00:29:14.520 landing as a part

00:29:16.380 of facilitating

00:29:17.140 a seamless visit.

00:29:18.740 It was Tucker

00:29:19.360 who chose

00:29:20.280 to only come

00:29:20.920 into the country

00:29:21.480 for a few hours

00:29:22.340 and depart.

00:29:23.320 And Tucker

00:29:23.960 received the same

00:29:25.000 positive treatment

00:29:25.920 of any visitors

00:29:27.080 to Israel.

00:29:27.780 look,

00:29:30.300 if you lie

00:29:31.800 to people

00:29:32.320 and make

00:29:33.700 an accusation

00:29:34.520 that is false,

00:29:35.240 I think it's reasonable

00:29:36.100 to ask why

00:29:37.360 would he be lying

00:29:38.760 and the next question

00:29:40.180 is what else

00:29:40.780 is he lying about?

00:29:41.920 Yeah,

00:29:42.260 I just want to know

00:29:42.860 who paid for the plane.

00:29:43.840 A private jet

00:29:44.460 all the way to Israel?

00:29:45.300 I'm just saying

00:29:45.760 that's pretty bougie.

00:29:46.760 That's pretty bougie.

00:29:47.720 I got a lot of questions.

00:29:49.660 Well, you know,

00:29:50.460 and that's not the only thing.

00:29:51.540 I got questions

00:29:51.840 about that center

00:29:52.660 and I got questions

00:29:53.500 about aliens

00:29:54.560 at the same time.

00:29:55.480 I just want to be clear

00:29:56.200 about that.

00:29:57.360 And I was going to say

00:29:58.340 that's not the only thing

00:29:59.300 I have questions about.

00:30:00.600 If you miss the news,

00:30:02.340 maybe there are

00:30:03.580 little green men.

00:30:05.020 Yes, yes.

00:30:06.220 We're getting

00:30:06.680 the good stuff now.

00:30:08.360 By the way,

00:30:09.040 if you happen to be

00:30:11.060 a Democrat,

00:30:12.460 a liberal,

00:30:13.380 A, I think it's amazing

00:30:14.320 you've listened

00:30:15.080 this deep into the podcast.

00:30:16.600 That's really quite remarkable.

00:30:18.060 But if you are,

00:30:19.680 maybe you don't believe me

00:30:21.360 when I say

00:30:21.880 there might be aliens.

00:30:22.960 Instead,

00:30:24.380 listen to Barack Obama.

00:30:25.700 Here's what Barack Obama

00:30:26.800 said about aliens.

00:30:27.700 Give a listen.

00:30:29.320 Are aliens real?

00:30:31.740 They're real,

00:30:32.620 but I haven't seen them

00:30:33.820 and they're not being kept

00:30:35.920 in, what is it?

00:30:37.600 Area 51.

00:30:38.020 Area 51.

00:30:39.300 There's no underground facility

00:30:41.720 unless there's

00:30:43.500 this enormous conspiracy

00:30:45.360 and they hid it

00:30:47.400 from the President

00:30:47.960 of the United States.

00:30:51.360 Wow.

00:30:52.440 And okay,

00:30:53.180 so the press

00:30:54.660 asked Donald Trump

00:30:55.900 on Air Force One

00:30:56.880 about what Obama

00:30:58.220 just said.

00:30:58.920 Give a listen

00:30:59.320 to President Trump's

00:31:00.100 response.

00:31:02.080 No discrimination.

00:31:03.940 Something that got

00:31:04.580 a lot of attention

00:31:05.200 this week.

00:31:05.880 Barack Obama said

00:31:07.080 that aliens

00:31:08.400 are real.

00:31:10.180 Have you seen

00:31:10.860 any evidence

00:31:11.560 of non-human visitors

00:31:13.460 to Earth?

00:31:14.280 Well, he gave players

00:31:15.020 the right information.

00:31:16.040 He's not supposed

00:31:16.600 to be doing that.

00:31:17.940 So aliens are real?

00:31:18.880 Well, I don't know

00:31:19.600 if they're real or not.

00:31:20.360 I can tell you

00:31:20.840 he gave classified

00:31:21.640 information.

00:31:22.520 He's not supposed

00:31:23.140 to be doing that.

00:31:24.060 He made a big mistake.

00:31:26.520 He took it out

00:31:27.080 of classified information.

00:31:28.840 No, I don't have

00:31:30.040 an opinion on it.

00:31:30.840 I never talk about it.

00:31:32.300 A lot of people do.

00:31:33.640 A lot of people believe it.

00:31:35.900 Do you believe it, Peter?

00:31:37.300 Well, the President

00:31:38.400 can declassify anything

00:31:39.780 that he wants to.

00:31:40.620 So if you want to make

00:31:41.360 an announcement.

00:31:41.660 Well, I may get him

00:31:42.680 out of trouble

00:31:43.120 by declassifying.

00:31:44.180 We know illegal aliens, really.

00:31:45.860 Yeah, illegal.

00:31:46.880 Only illegals.

00:31:47.660 What else?

00:31:49.180 I love his response.

00:31:50.880 It's like, well, you know,

00:31:51.700 he revealed classified information.

00:31:53.700 So I just I'm just saying

00:31:55.420 like, let's just

00:31:56.160 throw that out there. 0.72

00:31:57.800 And by the way,

00:31:58.560 the exchange,

00:31:59.360 they point out

00:31:59.860 the president

00:32:00.360 can declassify information.

00:32:02.040 And so following

00:32:03.040 that exchange,

00:32:04.760 President Trump

00:32:05.440 sent out the following

00:32:06.540 truth social quote,

00:32:08.560 based on the tremendous

00:32:09.720 interest shown,

00:32:10.520 I will be directing

00:32:11.780 the secretary of war

00:32:13.020 and other relevant

00:32:13.860 departments and agencies

00:32:15.140 to begin the process

00:32:16.680 of identifying

00:32:17.480 and releasing

00:32:18.080 government files

00:32:19.020 related to alien

00:32:20.180 and extraterrestrial

00:32:22.180 life,

00:32:24.640 unidentified aerial

00:32:25.920 phenomenon,

00:32:26.720 UAP,

00:32:27.460 and unidentified

00:32:28.040 flying object,

00:32:29.160 UFOs,

00:32:29.900 and any and all

00:32:31.420 other information

00:32:32.500 connected to these

00:32:33.540 highly complex

00:32:34.660 but extremely

00:32:36.080 interesting

00:32:36.920 and important

00:32:37.940 matters.

00:32:39.180 God bless America.

00:32:41.720 So let me just say

00:32:42.860 hot diggity damn

00:32:44.160 wow.

00:32:45.400 All right.

00:32:45.780 So I don't want

00:32:46.760 to get you in trouble

00:32:47.460 with classified

00:32:48.100 information,

00:32:48.980 but have you ever

00:32:49.840 asked this question?

00:32:50.740 I just got to know.

00:32:51.460 I have.

00:32:52.060 I have.

00:32:52.820 And on a scale

00:32:55.140 of one to ten,

00:32:56.040 how exciting

00:32:56.800 was that review

00:32:58.260 of that information?

00:32:59.800 Negative 47.

00:33:01.080 Okay.

00:33:01.880 All right.

00:33:02.220 So you're telling me

00:33:03.760 we're not going to

00:33:04.320 fly to Vegas

00:33:05.000 and put a bet

00:33:05.720 out in Vegas

00:33:06.320 right now on aliens.

00:33:07.220 Is that what

00:33:07.500 you're telling me?

00:33:07.980 So listen,

00:33:09.540 I have reviewed

00:33:10.860 lots of classified

00:33:12.180 materials over the

00:33:13.300 last 14 years

00:33:14.200 in the Senate

00:33:14.640 on many,

00:33:16.220 many topics,

00:33:17.140 and I am aware

00:33:19.300 of absolutely

00:33:20.180 nothing demonstrating

00:33:21.440 aliens are real.

00:33:22.840 Now,

00:33:23.240 I haven't reviewed

00:33:24.020 all the classified

00:33:24.800 materials.

00:33:25.460 Maybe Barack Obama.

00:33:26.080 I'm sure Barack Obama

00:33:27.140 and President Trump

00:33:28.120 have seen things

00:33:28.660 that I have not,

00:33:29.500 many things.

00:33:30.860 But I will say

00:33:32.200 we did have,

00:33:33.120 there was this

00:33:34.020 briefing that was

00:33:35.020 classified that was

00:33:35.880 supposed to be

00:33:36.440 on aliens,

00:33:37.260 UFOs,

00:33:37.840 and I was like,

00:33:38.300 all right,

00:33:39.020 I'm going to go

00:33:39.560 read it.

00:33:39.740 I'm going to that one.

00:33:40.740 Yeah.

00:33:41.100 So you go down

00:33:42.180 to the skiff.

00:33:43.180 The skiff is in

00:33:43.920 the basement

00:33:44.320 of the Capitol.

00:33:45.080 I went in,

00:33:45.520 like,

00:33:45.760 behind the steel doors.

00:33:46.920 I sat down

00:33:47.560 eagerly to read it.

00:33:48.660 All right,

00:33:49.000 little green men,

00:33:49.660 let's see what we

00:33:50.140 find out.

00:33:51.220 And I can't reveal

00:33:52.360 anything,

00:33:53.020 but I can tell you

00:33:53.820 it was the most

00:33:54.520 underwhelming

00:33:55.840 nothing burger.

00:33:57.100 I'm like,

00:33:58.240 guys,

00:33:58.740 why did you tell me

00:33:59.640 there's a classified

00:34:00.440 briefing that I read

00:34:02.160 and it has,

00:34:02.820 like,

00:34:03.520 words,

00:34:04.220 somebody saw

00:34:05.460 something not

00:34:06.420 sure what it is,

00:34:07.340 but something

00:34:07.960 somewhere.

00:34:08.680 Something,

00:34:09.140 something,

00:34:09.700 somewhere.

00:34:10.820 So I've only,

00:34:11.680 I've only had my,

00:34:13.180 my life threatened,

00:34:14.060 by the way,

00:34:14.460 by one cabinet member.

00:34:15.840 Okay.

00:34:16.280 It was sort of,

00:34:17.540 so you know,

00:34:18.220 this,

00:34:18.460 my mentor was John

00:34:19.360 Ashcroft back in,

00:34:20.200 this was gotta be 2005,

00:34:21.860 2000,

00:34:22.320 somewhere in there.

00:34:23.220 We're at his,

00:34:23.880 we're at his farm

00:34:24.600 and we rode dirt bikes

00:34:25.780 and I ate,

00:34:26.280 we were sitting

00:34:26.620 having lunch.

00:34:27.160 I was like,

00:34:27.360 all right,

00:34:27.500 I gotta ask you.

00:34:28.120 I was like,

00:34:28.300 are there aliens?

00:34:28.980 And he started

00:34:29.440 dying laughing.

00:34:30.200 He goes,

00:34:30.380 he goes,

00:34:30.620 I can't tell you,

00:34:31.300 Ferguson.

00:34:32.140 He's like,

00:34:32.480 if I did,

00:34:32.840 I'd have to kill you

00:34:33.380 afterwards.

00:34:33.820 I was like,

00:34:34.060 oh,

00:34:34.260 that's really,

00:34:34.900 he's like,

00:34:35.120 I'm just,

00:34:35.500 I'm gonna keep it there.

00:34:36.240 And he loved knowing

00:34:37.160 that he knew

00:34:37.800 and I didn't know

00:34:38.680 and he messed with us

00:34:39.900 forever on that one.

00:34:41.180 So I,

00:34:42.020 but we're not going to,

00:34:42.920 more of the story

00:34:43.400 is we're not going to Vegas.

00:34:44.480 We're not putting money

00:34:45.100 on little green men.

00:34:45.960 That's what we're,

00:34:46.420 that's,

00:34:46.720 we're agreeing on that

00:34:47.560 tonight,

00:34:47.780 right?

00:34:48.540 Look,

00:34:49.000 I've,

00:34:49.460 I've watched every

00:34:50.160 man in black movie.

00:34:51.900 I do believe them

00:34:53.360 when they say

00:34:53.940 Dennis Rodman was an alien.

00:34:55.740 Listen,

00:34:56.020 Elon Musk is so damn smart.

00:34:57.800 He may be an alien.

00:35:02.480 There's the headlines

00:35:03.140 coming out of this show.

00:35:04.400 Ted Cruz says Elon Musk

00:35:05.840 may be an alien.

00:35:07.260 But by the way,

00:35:08.000 when like Elon

00:35:08.780 has toured me around SpaceX,

00:35:10.600 the phrase he uses repeatedly,

00:35:11.980 he looks around and goes,

00:35:12.860 this is all alien technology.

00:35:14.560 It actually would explain a lot

00:35:15.980 of like the innovation

00:35:17.480 he,

00:35:17.900 he,

00:35:18.120 he's done.

00:35:19.440 But amazing.

00:35:20.400 I,

00:35:20.740 I hope that the admin

00:35:22.880 follows through on this.

00:35:24.080 I'm actually excited

00:35:24.820 about the president's directive.

00:35:26.200 I want to know.

00:35:27.140 I want to see

00:35:27.960 the little green men.

00:35:29.240 It's verdict with Senator Ted Cruz,

00:35:31.160 Ben Ferguson with you.

00:35:31.940 We'll see you back here soon.

00:35:34.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - February 20, 2026

Leftist Fund Plan to Get Violent Criminals out of Jail plus Tucker Caught Lying about Israel & Aliens are REAL？

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