Verdict with Ted Cruz - March 30, 2026


Longest Shutdown in History Continues, AI Tells us How to Destroy a Nation & ＂NO KINGS＂ Funding from Commie Billionaires Revealed

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ben Fergus (D-GA) give an update on the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, the No Kings protest, and why you should be spending your money on conservative causes.

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00:00:34 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:37 Hope you've had a fabulous weekend and we've got a lot to cover on this Monday, Senator,
00:00:42 including a big update on the government shutdown.
00:00:45 Where are we now?
00:00:46 We are right now on day 44 of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
00:00:51 The Democrats are refusing to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
00:00:54 They're refusing to fund ICE. They're refusing to fund Customs and Border Patrol. We're going to
00:00:59 break it down on where things are. The good news, thankfully, is the TSA is going to be funded as
00:01:05 of today, Monday, and that means lines are going down in airports, but the rest of the TSA is still
00:01:11 facing a shutdown and the Democrats are showing no sign of budging. We're going to give you the
00:01:16 inside story on that. We're also going to talk to you about the reason that happened, which is
00:01:21 we're going to step back and take a look at AI and ask AI a very simple question.
00:01:28 How do you destroy a country? How do you destroy a country from inside without a war?
00:01:33 And we're going to see what AI tells us. And that, in turn, will lead us to the No Kings protest,
00:01:39 which, spoiler alert, is one of the answers to how you destroy a country.
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00:03:42 verdict. All right, Senator, so it's Monday. You actually flew. I was a commoner. I drove back
00:03:48 from CPAC. You decided to go to the airport and fly. Are things getting better from what you saw
00:03:54 and where are we with this government shutdown? Because everybody is looking at the airports like
00:03:58 it's the worst place in the world you don't want to go. Yeah, the good news is on Saturday, I was
00:04:03 up in Dallas at CPAC. I flew back to Houston Saturday night. At DFW, there were essentially
00:04:10 no lines. The TSA lines were empty. Houston, when I landed, the lines, I landed at Terminal A and
00:04:17 there were no lines in Houston at Bush. Now, Bush and Atlanta have been the two worst airports for
00:04:23 the delays. And that's something, when this is all said and done, one of the things that I'm
00:04:27 going to want to sit down on TSA and figure out why things were so much worse in Houston at Bush
00:04:33 Airport than they were in other airports. But at least Saturday night when we landed from Dallas,
00:04:39 the line in in houston was way way down uh my daughter katherine is is landing at bush
00:04:46 sunday night tonight at 9 p.m so we'll see what the lines are when she lands but but the lines
00:04:52 and she missed the flight right didn't she miss the flight she did she she waited four hours
00:04:59 thursday night uh in line at bush missed her flight and then had to get up early friday morning 0.84
00:05:05 waited another four hours and then got on her flight. She's spending the weekend with a friend
00:05:09 and then coming back tonight. Look, these delays have been infuriating. But if you go back and
00:05:17 look at the last podcast we did, the podcast we did late, late Thursday night, we did the podcast
00:05:23 at three in the morning, Thursday night, Friday morning. I'm still recovering, by the way, but
00:05:28 keep going. It was an interesting example. And by the way, the reason we had done it so late
00:05:35 is actually Thursday night, I was speaking at a Faith and Freedom gathering in Pittsburgh.
00:05:40 And it was great that you had probably 500 Christian activists who were fighting to save
00:05:45 our country. It was a terrific evening. But when I finished the event, I needed to get back to D.C.
00:05:51 And given how unreliable the airports were, we decided to drive from Pittsburgh back to D.C.
00:05:59 And so we left at about 9 p.m. from Pittsburgh.
00:06:04 Ordinarily, that's about a three-hour drive.
00:06:06 Yeah.
00:06:07 It was raining.
00:06:08 The weather was not good.
00:06:09 So it took us five hours to get from Pittsburgh back to D.C.
00:06:13 I show up at our D.C. apartment just after 2 a.m., and you and I sat down and did the podcast.
00:06:18 See, I thought you were just trying to haze me that night because you knew how tired I was from the day of driving to Dallas.
00:06:23 I was like, I guess he's just messing with you.
00:06:24 So you really were in the car for five hours.
00:06:26 I drove further than you did for the same reason, because the airports, with all the chaos, it was just unreliable.
00:06:34 And I didn't want to have to count on that to get back.
00:06:37 So we decided to drive.
00:06:38 But I will say, as we were recording the podcast late Thursday night, early Friday morning,
00:06:43 That's when the Senate passed the bill that funded all of TSA and funded all of DHS, but carved out ICE and carved out $6 billion from CBP.
00:06:56 And in fact, in the middle of the pod, I looked and said, oh, wow, okay, it just passed the Senate.
00:07:01 And the reason I did that is that you had John Thune who went to the floor at like 2.30 in the morning and called for a voice vote.
00:07:07 There were only a half dozen senators on the floor.
00:07:09 That was an agreement both sides had reached to let it pass.
00:07:12 Well, we said at the time we weren't sure how things were going to play out, and Friday that illustrated to be the case, because the House came back, and House Republicans were pissed.
00:07:24 They were really, really angry.
00:07:26 Not even a little bit, a lot.
00:07:27 Like, I was talking to some of them, and they were like, you guys think this is going to fly with us, it won't, so explain that and where it is now.
00:07:35 Yeah, look, they were volcanically mad, and part of it is House Republicans have not been dealing with Senate Democrats for the last 44 days.
00:07:45 And so House Republicans' views were, it is ridiculous, it is objectively insane to defund ICE and to cut the funding for CBP, and they're absolutely right. 0.67
00:07:57 It is it is reckless. It is dangerous. It is a lunatic policy that for the entire history of the republic never would have happened except right now. 0.58
00:08:07 Yeah. And and what I will say is Senate Democrats, they are so angry. They hate Trump so much.
00:08:13 My view and we've been talking about this in the pod for two weeks. I'm not surprised with where we ended up.
00:08:18 And I think it's where we will end up being, because in my view, I believe the Democrats will never again vote to fund ICE forever.
00:08:26 For a year, for five years, for 10 years, they are just a no, and they do not care if they shut down law enforcement.
00:08:35 They want open borders. They don't want criminals deported. They don't want murderers deported.
00:08:39 They're just a hard no. And so what I was arguing to my colleagues, look, this is an unbelievably dangerous and indefensible position.
00:08:47 it also happens to be reality they're not going to move so what i said is all right let's fund
00:08:52 everything they'll go along with but i'm not saying surrender and in fact i'm saying let's
00:08:57 go on offense let's fund everything they're willing to fund and then let's immediately
00:09:01 take up a reconciliation bill we can we don't need democrat votes to do that and what i have
00:09:07 argued to my colleagues is let's fund ice for 10 years 10 years is the maximum budget window you
00:09:12 can do. And I've urged, let's not just do it at current levels. Let's up the funding by 10%. So
00:09:19 Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Schumer are right now crowing to the left. Ha ha, we got everyone to
00:09:24 defund ICE. Look how successful we are. I want to say, stick it where the suns don't shine.
00:09:31 The effect of your ridiculousness is you increased funding for ICE by 10% and got it funded for 10
00:09:38 years that's actually going on offense that's the case that i made to my colleagues by the way the
00:09:43 white house was fully part of those negotiations and agreed which is why the senate did what it did
00:09:48 but the house has not been banging into the reality that the democrats are just not going
00:09:54 to move they don't care and so yeah i mean they're obsessed with defunding ice that is a victory for
00:10:01 them as you describe it this is that there is no negotiating and you're you're right they want to
00:10:06 destroy anybody that has a badge and the power and the authority they have for law and order.
00:10:10 This is the same party, by the way, that was defund the police and let everybody out of jail
00:10:15 with prison reform. And then they said, well, you want cashless bail for people based on how
00:10:19 much money they have, even if they've committed murder or they're a rapist. They wanted to
00:10:23 completely undermine every part of law and order in this country. And ICE just falls right into that.
00:10:29 That's right. And the House Republicans had a visceral, emotional and completely understandable
00:10:35 reaction of this is indefensible so they passed a bill that just funds everything yeah that bill
00:10:41 unfortunately will go nowhere we voted on that bill i think eight separate times and the democrats
00:10:46 voted it down every time so the effect of the house saying no tsa will be funded because the
00:10:53 president signed an executive order to fund them but the effect of the house saying no is the coast
00:10:57 guard is still not getting its paychecks fema's still not getting that okay so so give it a list 0.89
00:11:02 So Coast Guard and FEMA, if there's a natural disaster saying terrible happens right now, they've got nothing coming, right?
00:11:11 Secret Service. 0.93
00:11:12 The people that we asked if someone tries to kill the president, put your body in front of the bullet and die for the president,
00:11:18 Secret Service is not getting their paycheck right now.
00:11:21 DHS, the offices, cyberterrorism, the offices that deal with bioterrorism, the people charged with preventing a terrorist attack are not getting paid.
00:11:32 And it's why in the face of just the Democrat insanity – and by the way, we've had four major terror attacks in the last three weeks, all from radical Islamic terrorists.
00:11:43 So the idea that we're defunding the department that prevents terrorist attacks and fights against them, it is a level of recklessness that I've never seen.
00:11:53 And so I get the House's reaction, but the consequences of saying we're not going to vote for the deal that the White House negotiated with Schumer, and understand, it was the White House that cut this deal.
00:12:05 It was the White House that was the point, the negotiating point back and forth with Schumer.
00:12:10 House Republicans were mad about it, but the consequence of that is Coast Guardsmen and Secret Service and FEMA are not getting their paycheck, and unless something significant changes, they're not going to get their paycheck for another two weeks.
00:12:23 So we're not going to see lines at airports, but we're going to have Coast Guardsmen who are risking their lives to rescue people to stop drug smugglers and human smugglers who don't know how they're going to pay their rent, don't know how they're going to pay their mortgage, who are going to food pantries to feed their kids, and not a Democrat cares.
00:12:41 And so it's – the good news on ICE and CBP is we pre-funded both of those back last year when we did the big reconciliation bill.
00:12:52 And by the way, thank goodness you guys did that.
00:12:54 Was that preemptive because you had a feeling this could happen, or was that kind of dumb work? 0.98
00:12:58 Yes. No, it was preemptive. 0.97
00:13:00 We knew they were getting more and more extreme.
00:13:02 I don't think we fully realized how bad it was.
00:13:04 We had not yet focused on their just absolute refusal to fund ICE, and they don't care about the consequences.
00:13:13 But we funded four years of ICE and CBP because we could see that that was going to be a problem,
00:13:17 which means if the house had passed the bill that that the white house had negotiated with
00:13:24 senate democrats the president would have signed it he said he would have signed it and all of dhs
00:13:29 except ice and parts of cbp would be funded and those parts of ice and cbp were already funded
00:13:35 it's why the white house was willing to do it because they're like oh we've got all the money
00:13:38 we need for right now so even though the democrats talking point is we defunded ice
00:13:44 they wouldn't have taken a penny away from ICE
00:13:48 and we've already started the reconciliation process
00:13:51 we are going to fund ICE and CBP
00:13:54 for the next 10 years
00:13:55 but right now unfortunately we just crossed
00:13:58 so 44 days is the longest government shutdown in American history
00:14:02 the old record was the Schumer shutdown
00:14:05 right before election day last year
00:14:06 that was 43 days
00:14:07 so we've now crossed the line
00:14:09 and unless something dramatically changes
00:14:12 this will continue at least another two weeks yeah another two weeks and that's the part that
00:14:18 i think so many americans are frustrated about but like you said the lines though will go down
00:14:22 during that next two-week period yes but but it may take some time remember we've had about 500
00:14:27 yeah so so what are they what are you being told and have you talked to uh you know who's in charge
00:14:34 transportation secretary and others at homeland security you got mark wayne there now i mean the
00:14:38 idea that this is going to just get instantly fixed overnight. That's not reality. You mentioned
00:14:42 it. 500 plus agents have quit. Yeah, they've quit. There are manpower shortages. Now, I will say I've
00:14:48 been in multiple airports. There are ICE agents. One of the things President Trump did is put ICE
00:14:53 agents in the airports. They're helping speed things along. You know, what I saw in the Houston
00:14:58 airport, the Dallas airport, the D.C. airport was as people were walking along, they were stopping
00:15:03 and saying thank you to the ICE agents.
00:15:05 It's causing some real problems for the Democratic agenda.
00:15:10 By the way, I'm glad the president did it
00:15:12 because it also humanizes ICE agents
00:15:14 and shows that they're Americans just like you and I are
00:15:17 who love their country and want to protect and defend their country
00:15:20 and they're willing to serve.
00:15:22 Can I make a point also that is an aside,
00:15:25 but it's worth pausing and reflecting?
00:15:27 Yeah.
00:15:28 Do you remember 13 years ago
00:15:31 when I was a brand-new baby senator, and one of the very first things I did was a 21-hour filibuster
00:15:38 against Obamacare at the end of September 2013, and it led to an extended government shutdown.
00:15:44 I was Harry Reid who forced the shutdown, but if you remember, the press demonized me for that
00:15:51 shutdown. I mean, just relentlessly pounded the hell out of me. Yes. What I was trying to do
00:15:57 regarding Obamacare in 2013
00:15:59 is what Chuck Schumer just did
00:16:03 concerning ICE and CBP.
00:16:06 That's a great point.
00:16:08 The difference, there is a difference.
00:16:10 When I led the fight against Obamacare,
00:16:12 you know who led the fight against me?
00:16:14 Who was that?
00:16:16 Mitch McConnell and Republican leadership.
00:16:18 Oh, yeah, you were an outsider then, for sure.
00:16:20 That's right.
00:16:21 I remember they didn't like you very much.
00:16:23 You are understating it by a billion sums.
00:16:27 Okay. They hated your guts, and they wished the Democrat would beat you basically at that point. I'm being honest. I'm not crazy.
00:16:34 Undoubtedly right, and in fact, in 2013, we had more leverage. We had more official control than the Democrats do now.
00:16:42 So in 2013, we had control of the House of Representatives, and the Democrats had control of the Senate and the White House.
00:16:50 Right now, the Democrats have none. They don't have the Senate. They don't have the House. They don't have the White House.
00:16:53 So Republicans were in a stronger position in 2013 than Democrats are today, just in terms of the bodies they control.
00:17:02 And what I argued, in fact, if you look at 2013, I made the case to House Republicans fund all of the government but do not fund Obamacare.
00:17:11 And House Republicans agreed with me.
00:17:13 They did exactly that.
00:17:14 So I encouraged House conservatives to stand up.
00:17:17 Millions of Americans picked up the phone and called their members of Congress.
00:17:21 and House Republicans in 2013 stood strong, funded all of government, but not Obamacare.
00:17:27 And when it went to the Senate, the case I made to my colleagues, I said, here's a crazy idea.
00:17:31 How about Senate Republicans support House Republicans?
00:17:35 And Mitch McConnell and Senate leadership not only did not do so,
00:17:41 it was Republican leadership that went on TV pounding me and repeating Harry Reid's talking points.
00:17:48 And I just want to say, look, the difference between today and then as Chuck Schumer and the Democrats stood together, you didn't have Chuck Schumer taking a flamethrower to Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
00:18:01 You had him just standing united, and it showed what I argued in 2013 could have happened.
00:18:07 And by the way, their argument was how will Barack Obama possibly make any concessions on his signature legislative achievement, Obamacare?
00:18:17 What was the singular issue Donald Trump was re-elected on in 2024?
00:18:22 It was securing the border.
00:18:23 That's exactly what the Democrats were fighting on.
00:18:26 And yet the White House was willing to make this deal.
00:18:29 Now, to be clear, neither Trump nor I are giving up on supporting CBP and ICE and securing the border.
00:18:35 But my point is if you stand united, you can have leverage.
00:18:40 And that's – the Democrats have shown exactly what my strategy was 13 years ago.
00:18:46 it really is incredible it's it's and like you said it's a fight there's still a lot of americans
00:18:52 that are frustrated it's very frustrating by the way as a conservative to see how often republicans
00:18:57 get power and then i feel like we kind of screw it up because we don't support each other the way
00:19:00 that you just described it is spot on for that it was a big part of the conversation this week at
00:19:04 cpac when i was there it's like why is there this divide right now when we when we're in power but
00:19:10 Yet again, here we are having that same conversation.
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00:19:40 Let me ask this question.
00:19:45 Why would the Democrats be doing this?
00:19:47 What might they be trying to accomplish?
00:19:49 And how can we figure that out?
00:19:51 Yeah, all you got to do is just look at their playbook,
00:19:54 which I think is literally to destroy this country from within.
00:19:58 And it's a conversation I'm so glad we get to have here.
00:20:01 So I was this weekend I was prepping.
00:20:03 I was doing Kayleigh McEnany's show.
00:20:05 And then I was doing a good friend, Life, Liberty, and Levin, Mark Levin's TV show.
00:20:09 And so you prep hard for that because Mark's a dear friend of ours, and I was thinking about what the Democratic Party was doing, the No Kings rally that was happening.
00:20:17 And I decided, I was like, I'm going to ask AI, how do you destroy a country without a civil war, without war, without bombs, without shooting?
00:20:26 What would you do?
00:20:28 And what it sent back to me literally sounds like if you had a mission statement of the Democratic Party of the United States of America, I sent it to you.
00:20:37 Let's go through this a little bit because it is a warning to every American.
00:20:41 When I say that I truly believe the Democratic Party hates this country and they want to destroy it and they have disdain for it, when you look at what AI says you do to destroy it – and I didn't say America.
00:20:51 I want to be clear about this.
00:20:52 I said to destroy a country.
00:20:55 So this would be anywhere in the world.
00:20:57 I'll say – look, I don't like to impugn the motives of others, but throughout the Biden administration, I have asked the question.
00:21:04 This is before AI was commonplace.
00:21:06 i asked the question if you were trying to destroy america deliberately if that were your stated
00:21:13 objective what would you do differently than what the biden white house has done that's another way
00:21:18 of putting it well we now have ai on our phones and so you typed in you asked how would how would
00:21:23 you destroy a country without going to war and and chat gpt came up with eight steps let's just
00:21:30 go through what AI says this is how you destroy a country and chat GPT began with history shows
00:21:36 you don't need bombs or an invasion to weaken a country bad policy decisions especially over time
00:21:41 can do real damage from within number one economic mismanagement runaway spending
00:21:48 unsustainable debt high inflation or over regulation can choke growth we can currency
00:21:55 stability and erode trust in institutions we got three of the four my friend three i mean three of
00:22:02 the four literally are very very clear there which one are we missing well i mean inflation isn't is
00:22:08 not the top of the list for me on that one but i'm but it was under biden i mean we we had incredibly
00:22:14 high yes like look it's the democrat policies that led to every one of them that is their economic
00:22:19 policy yes no no no you're absolutely correct there and i was really in my head like to where
00:22:24 are we now? And I'm like, well, thank goodness we've lowered inflation a lot with Donald Trump
00:22:28 being in office. But you're right. Their policy was runaway inflation under the Biden regime.
00:22:33 What do they call it? Bidenflation? They're like, that's not real. We've got a great economy,
00:22:37 right? Yeah, so much for that. All right. Number two, breakdown of law and order.
00:22:43 If laws aren't enforced consistently, whether on crime, borders, or corruption,
00:22:50 public confidence collapses and disorder can grow now how is that anything but word for word
00:22:58 what the democrat open border policy anti-law enforcement policy has been for the past decade
00:23:03 yeah and that i mean this again i go back to like people listening right now this is what ai says
00:23:08 if you want to destroy a country from within how you do it and everything in that category the
00:23:13 democrats are doing at full speed not like dabbling in it it's full speed for them okay number three
00:23:20 Weak or inconsistent leadership, frequent policy reversals, lack of clear direction, or prioritizing politics over governance can create instability and uncertainty.
00:23:35 Look, we spent four years with a man with dementia as commander-in-chief with his finger on the nuclear button.
00:23:41 And AI is telling us if you want to destroy a country, that's a great way to start.
00:23:47 Yep, no doubt.
00:23:47 All right, number four. Number four, erosion of institutions, undermining courts, law enforcement, elections, or the military, either through politicization or loss of credibility, can weaken the backbone of a country.
00:24:10 By the way, let's go through this.
00:24:11 Democrats put out a video not that long ago telling people in the military to go rogue against the president of the United States of America.
00:24:18 We had a sitting member of one of your colleagues.
00:24:20 Defy your commander's orders.
00:24:22 Defy and put out a full video on it and defying it.
00:24:26 They're accomplishing every single check there in that list of things that they said to do there.
00:24:32 All right, number five.
00:24:34 Cultural and social division.
00:24:36 policies or rhetoric that deepen divisions racial economic political can fracture national unity
00:24:45 and make it hard to function cohesively i mean if that's not the democratic party i don't know
00:24:51 what is right now right things like describing ice as nazis and gestapos things like demanding
00:24:59 that that you dox law enforcement officers and go harass their families by the way last night
00:25:05 Heidi and I, I took Heidi out to date night in Houston, and a fellow came over to me who was a
00:25:11 former Democrat elected judge in Houston. He's an older guy, and he came to me very earnestly,
00:25:17 and he said, I think it is terrible. I think it is horrible, and I want to ask you to reconsider.
00:25:21 He said, I think it is terrible that ICE wears masks, and we need to stop it right now.
00:25:27 And I said, sir, I understand what you're saying, but I said, do you know why they're wearing masks?
00:25:31 he's just like no and i said they're wearing masks because the extreme left is doxing them
00:25:40 and is urging radicals to go to their homes and threaten their wives and threaten their children
00:25:46 they're wearing now and i said by the way this is not just some fringe hakeem jeffries the top
00:25:52 democrat in the house said about ice officers we will unmask you we will go to your home we will
00:25:58 find you and he's like well i don't support that i said well but with respect it's your party that
00:26:04 is doing it and it is the elected leaders of your party that are calling for it and the reason these
00:26:10 officers are wearing masks i don't like that they wear masks i wish they didn't have to if we didn't
00:26:15 live in a world where they were facing a threat of violence against their children that they they
00:26:21 wouldn't feel the need to wear masks to protect their families and i gotta say this guy who i
00:26:25 think was a very sincere very liberal democrat engaged with not a word i was saying he's like
00:26:30 well they just need to stop now and and when i asked like how would you feel what about your
00:26:35 family he had no response number six education decline if education systems fail to produce
00:26:45 informed skilled citizens long-term competitiveness and civic understanding suffer yes that that is
00:26:53 public education in America today. We have spent countless dollars on it. We are failing the
00:26:58 majority of our kids in this country in public education. They're behind in reading, writing,
00:27:01 and arithmetic. We're behind the rest of the world. We rank very low in the world, especially
00:27:05 of civilized countries. We're one of the lowest in math, one of the lowest in reading,
00:27:11 we're one of the lowest in science, for example. And this is the Democratic Party dumbing down
00:27:16 this country. And again, AI says this is exactly how you have a country that you can completely
00:27:23 destroyed. And understand that the Democrats have had a near total monopoly on public education and
00:27:28 the big inner cities for decades. They've had almost total control and the results have been
00:27:34 screamingly horribly bad. Now, the good news is we're pushing back. Texas passed the largest state
00:27:40 school choice program in the country. As you know, I spent a lot of time and energy fighting for Texas
00:27:45 to do that. And last year with the reconciliation bill, we passed the biggest federal school choice
00:27:50 bill in history. I wrote that provision. It's going to unleash tens of billions of dollars
00:27:56 of scholarships to kids in need. But, you know, look, according to AI, if you want to destroy
00:28:02 a country, do what has been done to our schools. Number seven, energy and infrastructure neglect.
00:28:11 Weakening domestic energy production or failing to maintain infrastructure can hurt national
00:28:18 security and economic resilience. Now, I think that may actually be written into the DNC platform.
00:28:25 Their objective is to weaken domestic energy production and fail to maintain infrastructure.
00:28:29 Like it is the entirety of what the Biden administration did 365 days for four years
00:28:37 consecutively. Yes? Yes. Yes. All right. Number eight. Dependence on adversaries. Relying heavily
00:28:47 on rival nations for critical supply chains, energy, technology, manufacturing, can create
00:28:55 strategic vulnerabilities. China, China, China, with a side of China. Yeah, and to be fair,
00:29:01 this one I will not blame entirely on the Democrats. There are a lot of Republicans who
00:29:06 bear some blame for making us so totally dependent on China. I've spent 14 years in the Senate
00:29:12 fighting to delink our economy from China to move semiconductor manufacturing back to this country
00:29:17 to move pharmaceuticals back to this country, to move critical minerals back to this country.
00:29:22 Both parties bear some fault in letting us become so dependent on China.
00:29:28 But what's amazing about this, Ben, chat GPT is generally considered a lean pretty left.
00:29:34 You did not ask some right-wing source, criticize the Democrat agenda.
00:29:39 And let me ask a serious question.
00:29:40 If you were a Democrat senator, let's say you're Chuck Schumer.
00:29:44 I'm going to ask you to go through the mental anguish.
00:29:49 Put yourself into his loafers.
00:29:51 Yes.
00:29:53 How would you respond to this?
00:29:55 How would you, if you were willing to, and you don't just get to attack and yell,
00:29:58 like, what substantive answer would you give to those eight things that are the essence of the Democrat agenda right now?
00:30:08 Yeah, I don't know how, if he was answering it honestly, he'd be like, we stand for all these things.
00:30:11 It just so happens. It's exactly how chat GBTAI tells us to destroy a nation.
00:30:17 And I don't know how you would defend it, right?
00:30:19 You could yell and you could pander and you could say it's Republicans.
00:30:23 But that was the reason why. And I want to give a shout out because she's a good friend of ours.
00:30:26 Kaylee let me go long, I think, in that segment to put this out there on Fox.
00:30:30 She has a great weekend show. And I want to say thank you to her because she's a she's a she's a great person.
00:30:35 Great. You and I know her well, but she was look at you trying to get invited back to guest host. 1.00
00:30:39 I mean, look at you, like, like, like, kiss it up.
00:30:43 Who never, whoever knew this on TV, right?
00:30:45 They don't let you read whoever knew that Benjamin could be this charming.
00:30:50 But I admit it because I was like, I'm going to take this risk and read on my phone.
00:30:56 They don't like that on TV and they let it go.
00:30:58 And then it went viral.
00:30:59 And I'm glad it did, because this is the warning from AI that this is the Democratic Party and what they're doing,
00:31:05 Which brings us, by the way, to the demise of this country in real time and their No Kings rally.
00:31:11 This is something that this show, and Senator, you warned about the first time there was a No Kings rally.
00:31:17 A quote from a Fox News article, I'm going to go back in time, says, quote,
00:31:21 Senator Ted Cruz, Republican from Texas, was the first to sound the alarm on ties between Soros and the quote-unquote No Kings protest during an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity.
00:31:31 And you and I were talking about that on this show.
00:31:35 Follow the money.
00:31:36 Look who is behind this.
00:31:38 The kingpins is how I describe them of the Democratic Party.
00:31:42 The communists, the socialists, the Marxists, the billionaires and multimillionaires.
00:31:46 They are the kingpins of the party.
00:31:49 They're funding all this.
00:31:50 None of this is organic.
00:31:52 All of this is manufactured BS.
00:31:54 And the media wants you to believe this is organic and all this just randomly happens because people are angry.
00:32:01 No, this is all orchestrated and paid for by Democratic kingpins in their party.
00:32:07 Well, Ben, and I will say this is the reason I think that people listen to verdict or watch
00:32:12 verdict on YouTube, because we cover topics and we give you information long before you can get
00:32:19 it somewhere else, often years before. So go back to COVID. Within a couple of months of the COVID
00:32:25 pandemic starting on this podcast, we had two podcasts, one in March of 2021 and April of 2020.
00:32:31 laying out the facts that supported the conclusion that the COVID virus escaped from a Chinese
00:32:37 government-owned lab, likely the Wuhan Institute for Virology. And I think the odds are overwhelming
00:32:42 that COVID escaped from a Chinese government lab. And I think the odds are significant,
00:32:47 greater than 50%, that the virus was in fact created in that lab through gain-of-function
00:32:52 research, taking existing viruses and making them more lethal, making them more transmissible,
00:32:56 making them more targeted to humans. It's less compelling than the lab leak basis,
00:33:02 but I think it is greater than 50%. We put that out years before that was publicly acknowledged
00:33:10 by federal agencies. And at the time, social media, Facebook and Twitter were censoring those
00:33:14 views. This podcast verdict was putting them out. Likewise, a year ago, this podcast put out with
00:33:21 receipts, that these No King rallies, they're not organic. They're not just rising up out of
00:33:26 nowhere. They are funded. They are funded by George Soros. They're funded by left-wing
00:33:31 billionaires, and they are communist Marxist organizations. Now, this latest rally,
00:33:37 it was striking. Number one, Bernie Sanders, I did enjoy it. Bernie Sanders hopped into his
00:33:42 first-class seat to fly to his No Kings rally to denounce the oligarchs as he's sitting up in
00:33:47 first class um but if you look at that's slumming it for him by the way it's usually it's normal
00:33:53 normally a private jet so you're right i mean i mean that he was slumming it yeah first class
00:33:58 was really like like like with the the proletariat yeah but if you look at this latest rally you had 0.80
00:34:06 flags everywhere of hammer and sickle the soviet union flags you had people chanting about we need
00:34:12 a communist revolution. Look, here's the latest story from Fox News. Quote, a network of about
00:34:18 500 groups with an estimated $3 billion in combined annual revenues is behind the coordinated
00:34:24 nationwide No Kings protest Saturday, including communist groups who are using the day to call
00:34:30 for a, quote, revolution, according to a Fox Digital News investigation. According to a copy
00:34:36 of the permit for the, quote, flagship march in St. Paul, Minnesota, indivisible, a national well-heeled
00:34:42 Democratic political advocacy organization funded by billionaire George Soros, is the lead
00:34:48 coordinator for the protest. But Fox News Digital has also identified key participation by a network
00:34:53 of radical, socialist, and communist organizations funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American tech
00:35:00 tycoon and avowed communists living in China. Over nearly a decade, Singham has financed a
00:35:06 constellation of activist institutions that promote revolutionary socialist policies and
00:35:11 frequently collaborate in protest campaigns, including the People's Forum in New York,
00:35:16 the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Answer Coalition, and Code Pink, whose founder,
00:35:21 Jody Evans, is married to Singham. These groups work closely with the Freedom Road Socialist
00:35:27 Organization. They're all sending members to the protest, and one group said they plan to bring
00:35:33 a message of revolution to the protest. This is who they are, and they're less and less bothering
00:35:40 to hide it. Yeah, they really are. And look, if you listen to some of the speakers, one of those
00:35:46 at the No Kings rally was the emcee in Minnesota. It was Liz Winstead. She said, finally, the quiet
00:35:53 part, I guess you could describe out loud. I want to play this for everyone so they can hear.
00:35:58 This is what you missed if you didn't go to one of the rallies. Take a listen.
00:36:01 I want people to know that if you want to act like Minnesota or you think Minnesota is a model,
00:36:07 what can I do? Well, you can check your ego about what you want to do and listen to the
00:36:13 leadership. And when they tell you what they need done, you do that. And you pay enough attention
00:36:22 to the amazing organizers who've been on the ground, who actually have the information,
00:36:27 who've already done the work instead of starting your own. Oftentimes you're like, who's doing it?
00:36:32 it's like someone you just need to learn who and then you need to be the pack mule in the fight
00:36:37 that they have been doing and organizing because let me tell you what what we need is pack mules
00:36:42 because there's brilliant minds and brilliant leaders in this community who oftentimes are
00:36:47 putting up the folding chairs when they should be literally strategizing because that's their
00:36:51 strong suit so be the peep be the folding chairs people be the i'll bring donuts people for the
00:36:57 brilliant minds who are actually making this train run.
00:37:05 And on that note, I'm going to bring up some really brilliant minds.
00:37:10 I've never heard such a condescending way for an emcee to talk to the minions beneath you.
00:37:16 We are the socialist communist dictators.
00:37:18 You are the people that put the chairs up and bring the donuts.
00:37:21 We don't need to be doing these basic jobs because we're so much smarter than you are.
00:37:25 We need to be strategizing, so you need to shut up, sit down, and do what we tell you to do.
00:37:31 I was glad that you said it, and the best part was there were people that cheered it.
00:37:36 This is who communists are.
00:37:38 Fidel Castro was a billionaire.
00:37:41 Vladimir Putin is a billionaire.
00:37:44 Raul Castro is a billionaire.
00:37:47 Communist dictators live the lives as kings. 1.00
00:37:51 The irony of these idiot leftists waving signs that say no kings and then also waving signs that say we need a communist revolution. 0.99
00:38:00 Every communist dictator lives better than any king has ever lived, and the people suffer in every instance. 0.99
00:38:06 And I'll tell you, that video, I really hope that video, that Pam Bondi is listening carefully, that Kash Patel is listening carefully, that Scott Besson at the Treasury Department is listening carefully.
00:38:18 Follow the money.
00:38:19 I have been advocating this since the day the second Trump administration started, these violent protests, whether it was the George Floyd, the Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots, whether it was the open border riots, whether it was the anti-Semitic riots on college campuses, whether it was the harassment of law enforcement in Minneapolis causing violent altercations, or whether it is these fake no kings rallies, they're all the same thing.
00:38:46 Yep. It is all the same people paying for it. And right now, the only people who've been arrested anywhere have been, as she said, the pack mules, the people just engaging in the little violence, and not the people writing millions of dollars of checks, the brilliant strategists who, you know what? They may well have typed into AI, how do you destroy a nation? And they are executing it precisely.
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