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

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00:00:34.500 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:37.820 Hope you've had a fabulous weekend and we've got a lot to cover on this Monday, Senator,

00:00:42.460 including a big update on the government shutdown.

00:00:45.580 Where are we now?

00:00:46.740 We are right now on day 44 of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

00:00:51.400 The Democrats are refusing to fund the Department of Homeland Security.

00:00:54.940 They're refusing to fund ICE. They're refusing to fund Customs and Border Patrol. We're going to

00:00:59.420 break it down on where things are. The good news, thankfully, is the TSA is going to be funded as

00:01:05.220 of today, Monday, and that means lines are going down in airports, but the rest of the TSA is still

00:01:11.900 facing a shutdown and the Democrats are showing no sign of budging. We're going to give you the

00:01:16.060 inside story on that. We're also going to talk to you about the reason that happened, which is

00:01:21.120 we're going to step back and take a look at AI and ask AI a very simple question.

00:01:28.240 How do you destroy a country? How do you destroy a country from inside without a war?

00:01:33.040 And we're going to see what AI tells us. And that, in turn, will lead us to the No Kings protest,

00:01:39.080 which, spoiler alert, is one of the answers to how you destroy a country.

00:01:43.580 This fake No Kings protest all across the country, funded by billionaires, communists,

00:01:49.280 and left-wing activists we're going to break it down and we're going to give you the receipts who

00:01:53.240 is paying for this and ask a simple question what is their objective all of that on today's verdict

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00:03:42.040 verdict. All right, Senator, so it's Monday. You actually flew. I was a commoner. I drove back

00:03:48.620 from CPAC. You decided to go to the airport and fly. Are things getting better from what you saw

00:03:54.900 and where are we with this government shutdown? Because everybody is looking at the airports like

00:03:58.760 it's the worst place in the world you don't want to go. Yeah, the good news is on Saturday, I was

00:04:03.980 up in Dallas at CPAC. I flew back to Houston Saturday night. At DFW, there were essentially

00:04:10.400 no lines. The TSA lines were empty. Houston, when I landed, the lines, I landed at Terminal A and

00:04:17.400 there were no lines in Houston at Bush. Now, Bush and Atlanta have been the two worst airports for

00:04:23.520 the delays. And that's something, when this is all said and done, one of the things that I'm

00:04:27.980 going to want to sit down on TSA and figure out why things were so much worse in Houston at Bush

00:04:33.100 Airport than they were in other airports. But at least Saturday night when we landed from Dallas,

00:04:39.080 the line in in houston was way way down uh my daughter katherine is is landing at bush

00:04:46.600 sunday night tonight at 9 p.m so we'll see what the lines are when she lands but but the lines

00:04:52.920 and she missed the flight right didn't she miss the flight she did she she waited four hours

00:04:59.000 thursday night uh in line at bush missed her flight and then had to get up early friday morning 0.84

00:05:05.160 waited another four hours and then got on her flight. She's spending the weekend with a friend

00:05:09.720 and then coming back tonight. Look, these delays have been infuriating. But if you go back and

00:05:17.960 look at the last podcast we did, the podcast we did late, late Thursday night, we did the podcast

00:05:23.000 at three in the morning, Thursday night, Friday morning. I'm still recovering, by the way, but

00:05:28.400 keep going. It was an interesting example. And by the way, the reason we had done it so late

00:05:35.100 is actually Thursday night, I was speaking at a Faith and Freedom gathering in Pittsburgh.

00:05:40.840 And it was great that you had probably 500 Christian activists who were fighting to save

00:05:45.820 our country. It was a terrific evening. But when I finished the event, I needed to get back to D.C.

00:05:51.280 And given how unreliable the airports were, we decided to drive from Pittsburgh back to D.C.

00:05:59.020 And so we left at about 9 p.m. from Pittsburgh.

00:06:04.000 Ordinarily, that's about a three-hour drive.

00:06:06.920 Yeah.

00:06:07.400 It was raining.

00:06:08.340 The weather was not good.

00:06:09.420 So it took us five hours to get from Pittsburgh back to D.C.

00:06:13.080 I show up at our D.C. apartment just after 2 a.m., and you and I sat down and did the podcast.

00:06:18.500 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.

00:06:23.220 I was like, I guess he's just messing with you.

00:06:24.660 So you really were in the car for five hours.

00:06:26.380 I drove further than you did for the same reason, because the airports, with all the chaos, it was just unreliable.

00:06:34.300 And I didn't want to have to count on that to get back.

00:06:37.020 So we decided to drive.

00:06:38.620 But I will say, as we were recording the podcast late Thursday night, early Friday morning,

00:06:43.540 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.

00:06:56.760 And in fact, in the middle of the pod, I looked and said, oh, wow, okay, it just passed the Senate.

00:07:01.000 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.

00:07:07.420 There were only a half dozen senators on the floor.

00:07:09.240 That was an agreement both sides had reached to let it pass.

00:07:12.580 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.

00:07:24.460 They were really, really angry.

00:07:26.180 Not even a little bit, a lot.

00:07:27.880 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.

00:07:35.620 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.

00:07:45.200 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

00:07:57.100 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

00:08:07.280 Yeah. And and what I will say is Senate Democrats, they are so angry. They hate Trump so much.

00:08:13.500 My view and we've been talking about this in the pod for two weeks. I'm not surprised with where we ended up.

00:08:18.440 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.

00:08:26.480 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.

00:08:35.360 They want open borders. They don't want criminals deported. They don't want murderers deported.

00:08:39.680 They're just a hard no. And so what I was arguing to my colleagues, look, this is an unbelievably dangerous and indefensible position.

00:08:47.340 it also happens to be reality they're not going to move so what i said is all right let's fund

00:08:52.360 everything they'll go along with but i'm not saying surrender and in fact i'm saying let's

00:08:57.480 go on offense let's fund everything they're willing to fund and then let's immediately

00:09:01.720 take up a reconciliation bill we can we don't need democrat votes to do that and what i have

00:09:07.160 argued to my colleagues is let's fund ice for 10 years 10 years is the maximum budget window you

00:09:12.920 can do. And I've urged, let's not just do it at current levels. Let's up the funding by 10%. So

00:09:19.900 Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Schumer are right now crowing to the left. Ha ha, we got everyone to

00:09:24.860 defund ICE. Look how successful we are. I want to say, stick it where the suns don't shine.

00:09:31.920 The effect of your ridiculousness is you increased funding for ICE by 10% and got it funded for 10

00:09:38.480 years that's actually going on offense that's the case that i made to my colleagues by the way the

00:09:43.780 white house was fully part of those negotiations and agreed which is why the senate did what it did

00:09:48.980 but the house has not been banging into the reality that the democrats are just not going

00:09:54.760 to move they don't care and so yeah i mean they're obsessed with defunding ice that is a victory for

00:10:01.400 them as you describe it this is that there is no negotiating and you're you're right they want to

00:10:06.560 destroy anybody that has a badge and the power and the authority they have for law and order.

00:10:10.920 This is the same party, by the way, that was defund the police and let everybody out of jail

00:10:15.240 with prison reform. And then they said, well, you want cashless bail for people based on how

00:10:19.500 much money they have, even if they've committed murder or they're a rapist. They wanted to

00:10:23.400 completely undermine every part of law and order in this country. And ICE just falls right into that.

00:10:29.880 That's right. And the House Republicans had a visceral, emotional and completely understandable

00:10:35.440 reaction of this is indefensible so they passed a bill that just funds everything yeah that bill

00:10:41.680 unfortunately will go nowhere we voted on that bill i think eight separate times and the democrats

00:10:46.660 voted it down every time so the effect of the house saying no tsa will be funded because the

00:10:53.540 president signed an executive order to fund them but the effect of the house saying no is the coast

00:10:57.500 guard is still not getting its paychecks fema's still not getting that okay so so give it a list 0.89

00:11:02.220 So Coast Guard and FEMA, if there's a natural disaster saying terrible happens right now, they've got nothing coming, right?

00:11:11.140 Secret Service. 0.93

00:11:12.260 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,

00:11:18.660 Secret Service is not getting their paycheck right now.

00:11:21.900 DHS, the offices, cyberterrorism, the offices that deal with bioterrorism, the people charged with preventing a terrorist attack are not getting paid.

00:11:32.220 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.

00:11:43.340 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.

00:11:53.540 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.

00:12:05.460 It was the White House that was the point, the negotiating point back and forth with Schumer.

00:12:10.620 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.

00:12:23.000 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.

00:12:41.340 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.

00:12:52.360 And by the way, thank goodness you guys did that.

00:12:54.540 Was that preemptive because you had a feeling this could happen, or was that kind of dumb work? 0.98

00:12:58.460 Yes. No, it was preemptive. 0.97

00:13:00.240 We knew they were getting more and more extreme.

00:13:02.200 I don't think we fully realized how bad it was.

00:13:04.960 We had not yet focused on their just absolute refusal to fund ICE, and they don't care about the consequences.

00:13:13.280 But we funded four years of ICE and CBP because we could see that that was going to be a problem,

00:13:17.780 which means if the house had passed the bill that that the white house had negotiated with

00:13:24.080 senate democrats the president would have signed it he said he would have signed it and all of dhs

00:13:29.740 except ice and parts of cbp would be funded and those parts of ice and cbp were already funded

00:13:35.560 it's why the white house was willing to do it because they're like oh we've got all the money

00:13:38.960 we need for right now so even though the democrats talking point is we defunded ice

00:13:44.940 they wouldn't have taken a penny away from ICE

00:13:48.400 and we've already started the reconciliation process

00:13:51.900 we are going to fund ICE and CBP

00:13:54.220 for the next 10 years

00:13:55.700 but right now unfortunately we just crossed

00:13:58.620 so 44 days is the longest government shutdown in American history

00:14:02.480 the old record was the Schumer shutdown

00:14:05.060 right before election day last year

00:14:06.640 that was 43 days

00:14:07.740 so we've now crossed the line

00:14:09.300 and unless something dramatically changes

00:14:12.280 this will continue at least another two weeks yeah another two weeks and that's the part that

00:14:18.160 i think so many americans are frustrated about but like you said the lines though will go down

00:14:22.180 during that next two-week period yes but but it may take some time remember we've had about 500

00:14:27.640 yeah so so what are they what are you being told and have you talked to uh you know who's in charge

00:14:34.120 transportation secretary and others at homeland security you got mark wayne there now i mean the

00:14:38.800 idea that this is going to just get instantly fixed overnight. That's not reality. You mentioned

00:14:42.860 it. 500 plus agents have quit. Yeah, they've quit. There are manpower shortages. Now, I will say I've

00:14:48.900 been in multiple airports. There are ICE agents. One of the things President Trump did is put ICE

00:14:53.100 agents in the airports. They're helping speed things along. You know, what I saw in the Houston

00:14:58.080 airport, the Dallas airport, the D.C. airport was as people were walking along, they were stopping

00:15:03.300 and saying thank you to the ICE agents.

00:15:05.240 It's causing some real problems for the Democratic agenda.

00:15:10.860 By the way, I'm glad the president did it

00:15:12.680 because it also humanizes ICE agents

00:15:14.480 and shows that they're Americans just like you and I are

00:15:17.660 who love their country and want to protect and defend their country

00:15:20.840 and they're willing to serve.

00:15:22.540 Can I make a point also that is an aside,

00:15:25.000 but it's worth pausing and reflecting?

00:15:27.100 Yeah.

00:15:28.440 Do you remember 13 years ago

00:15:31.800 when I was a brand-new baby senator, and one of the very first things I did was a 21-hour filibuster

00:15:38.220 against Obamacare at the end of September 2013, and it led to an extended government shutdown.

00:15:44.860 I was Harry Reid who forced the shutdown, but if you remember, the press demonized me for that

00:15:51.320 shutdown. I mean, just relentlessly pounded the hell out of me. Yes. What I was trying to do

00:15:57.680 regarding Obamacare in 2013

00:15:59.580 is what Chuck Schumer just did

00:16:03.100 concerning ICE and CBP.

00:16:06.560 That's a great point.

00:16:08.120 The difference, there is a difference.

00:16:10.600 When I led the fight against Obamacare,

00:16:12.960 you know who led the fight against me?

00:16:14.940 Who was that?

00:16:16.040 Mitch McConnell and Republican leadership.

00:16:18.740 Oh, yeah, you were an outsider then, for sure.

00:16:20.880 That's right.

00:16:21.360 I remember they didn't like you very much.

00:16:23.200 You are understating it by a billion sums.

00:16:27.120 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.

00:16:34.660 Undoubtedly right, and in fact, in 2013, we had more leverage. We had more official control than the Democrats do now.

00:16:42.480 So in 2013, we had control of the House of Representatives, and the Democrats had control of the Senate and the White House.

00:16:50.000 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.

00:16:53.540 So Republicans were in a stronger position in 2013 than Democrats are today, just in terms of the bodies they control.

00:17:02.720 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.

00:17:11.360 And House Republicans agreed with me.

00:17:13.080 They did exactly that.

00:17:14.400 So I encouraged House conservatives to stand up.

00:17:17.860 Millions of Americans picked up the phone and called their members of Congress.

00:17:21.800 and House Republicans in 2013 stood strong, funded all of government, but not Obamacare.

00:17:27.240 And when it went to the Senate, the case I made to my colleagues, I said, here's a crazy idea.

00:17:31.240 How about Senate Republicans support House Republicans?

00:17:35.540 And Mitch McConnell and Senate leadership not only did not do so,

00:17:41.200 it was Republican leadership that went on TV pounding me and repeating Harry Reid's talking points.

00:17:48.600 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.

00:18:01.480 You had him just standing united, and it showed what I argued in 2013 could have happened.

00:18:07.660 And by the way, their argument was how will Barack Obama possibly make any concessions on his signature legislative achievement, Obamacare?

00:18:17.600 What was the singular issue Donald Trump was re-elected on in 2024?

00:18:22.780 It was securing the border.

00:18:23.840 That's exactly what the Democrats were fighting on.

00:18:26.980 And yet the White House was willing to make this deal.

00:18:29.220 Now, to be clear, neither Trump nor I are giving up on supporting CBP and ICE and securing the border.

00:18:35.840 But my point is if you stand united, you can have leverage.

00:18:40.600 And that's – the Democrats have shown exactly what my strategy was 13 years ago.

00:18:46.380 it really is incredible it's it's and like you said it's a fight there's still a lot of americans

00:18:52.040 that are frustrated it's very frustrating by the way as a conservative to see how often republicans

00:18:57.060 get power and then i feel like we kind of screw it up because we don't support each other the way

00:19:00.620 that you just described it is spot on for that it was a big part of the conversation this week at

00:19:04.920 cpac when i was there it's like why is there this divide right now when we when we're in power but

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00:19:40.020 Let me ask this question.

00:19:45.380 Why would the Democrats be doing this?

00:19:47.320 What might they be trying to accomplish?

00:19:49.660 And how can we figure that out?

00:19:51.120 Yeah, all you got to do is just look at their playbook,

00:19:54.320 which I think is literally to destroy this country from within.

00:19:58.200 And it's a conversation I'm so glad we get to have here.

00:20:01.120 So I was this weekend I was prepping.

00:20:03.640 I was doing Kayleigh McEnany's show.

00:20:05.940 And then I was doing a good friend, Life, Liberty, and Levin, Mark Levin's TV show.

00:20:09.400 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.

00:20:17.520 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?

00:20:26.080 What would you do?

00:20:28.100 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.

00:20:37.600 Let's go through this a little bit because it is a warning to every American.

00:20:41.460 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.

00:20:51.400 I want to be clear about this.

00:20:52.840 I said to destroy a country.

00:20:55.340 So this would be anywhere in the world.

00:20:57.160 I'll say – look, I don't like to impugn the motives of others, but throughout the Biden administration, I have asked the question.

00:21:04.860 This is before AI was commonplace.

00:21:06.720 i asked the question if you were trying to destroy america deliberately if that were your stated

00:21:13.060 objective what would you do differently than what the biden white house has done that's another way

00:21:18.860 of putting it well we now have ai on our phones and so you typed in you asked how would how would

00:21:23.920 you destroy a country without going to war and and chat gpt came up with eight steps let's just

00:21:30.380 go through what AI says this is how you destroy a country and chat GPT began with history shows

00:21:36.680 you don't need bombs or an invasion to weaken a country bad policy decisions especially over time

00:21:41.180 can do real damage from within number one economic mismanagement runaway spending

00:21:48.360 unsustainable debt high inflation or over regulation can choke growth we can currency

00:21:55.600 stability and erode trust in institutions we got three of the four my friend three i mean three of

00:22:02.520 the four literally are very very clear there which one are we missing well i mean inflation isn't is

00:22:08.420 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

00:22:14.000 high yes like look it's the democrat policies that led to every one of them that is their economic

00:22:19.640 policy yes no no no you're absolutely correct there and i was really in my head like to where

00:22:24.080 are we now? And I'm like, well, thank goodness we've lowered inflation a lot with Donald Trump

00:22:28.760 being in office. But you're right. Their policy was runaway inflation under the Biden regime.

00:22:33.400 What do they call it? Bidenflation? They're like, that's not real. We've got a great economy,

00:22:37.560 right? Yeah, so much for that. All right. Number two, breakdown of law and order.

00:22:43.280 If laws aren't enforced consistently, whether on crime, borders, or corruption,

00:22:50.060 public confidence collapses and disorder can grow now how is that anything but word for word

00:22:58.260 what the democrat open border policy anti-law enforcement policy has been for the past decade

00:23:03.680 yeah and that i mean this again i go back to like people listening right now this is what ai says

00:23:08.880 if you want to destroy a country from within how you do it and everything in that category the

00:23:13.500 democrats are doing at full speed not like dabbling in it it's full speed for them okay number three

00:23:20.440 Weak or inconsistent leadership, frequent policy reversals, lack of clear direction, or prioritizing politics over governance can create instability and uncertainty.

00:23:35.380 Look, we spent four years with a man with dementia as commander-in-chief with his finger on the nuclear button.

00:23:41.680 And AI is telling us if you want to destroy a country, that's a great way to start.

00:23:47.200 Yep, no doubt.

00:23:47.980 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.

00:24:10.040 By the way, let's go through this.

00:24:11.420 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.

00:24:18.660 We had a sitting member of one of your colleagues.

00:24:20.920 Defy your commander's orders.

00:24:22.620 Defy and put out a full video on it and defying it.

00:24:26.520 They're accomplishing every single check there in that list of things that they said to do there.

00:24:32.160 All right, number five.

00:24:34.520 Cultural and social division.

00:24:36.600 policies or rhetoric that deepen divisions racial economic political can fracture national unity

00:24:45.600 and make it hard to function cohesively i mean if that's not the democratic party i don't know

00:24:51.800 what is right now right things like describing ice as nazis and gestapos things like demanding

00:24:59.340 that that you dox law enforcement officers and go harass their families by the way last night

00:25:05.980 Heidi and I, I took Heidi out to date night in Houston, and a fellow came over to me who was a

00:25:11.740 former Democrat elected judge in Houston. He's an older guy, and he came to me very earnestly,

00:25:17.560 and he said, I think it is terrible. I think it is horrible, and I want to ask you to reconsider.

00:25:21.420 He said, I think it is terrible that ICE wears masks, and we need to stop it right now.

00:25:27.520 And I said, sir, I understand what you're saying, but I said, do you know why they're wearing masks?

00:25:31.280 he's just like no and i said they're wearing masks because the extreme left is doxing them

00:25:40.200 and is urging radicals to go to their homes and threaten their wives and threaten their children

00:25:46.140 they're wearing now and i said by the way this is not just some fringe hakeem jeffries the top

00:25:52.300 democrat in the house said about ice officers we will unmask you we will go to your home we will

00:25:58.580 find you and he's like well i don't support that i said well but with respect it's your party that

00:26:04.040 is doing it and it is the elected leaders of your party that are calling for it and the reason these

00:26:10.260 officers are wearing masks i don't like that they wear masks i wish they didn't have to if we didn't

00:26:15.020 live in a world where they were facing a threat of violence against their children that they they

00:26:21.240 wouldn't feel the need to wear masks to protect their families and i gotta say this guy who i

00:26:25.700 think was a very sincere very liberal democrat engaged with not a word i was saying he's like

00:26:30.880 well they just need to stop now and and when i asked like how would you feel what about your

00:26:35.840 family he had no response number six education decline if education systems fail to produce

00:26:45.560 informed skilled citizens long-term competitiveness and civic understanding suffer yes that that is

00:26:53.740 public education in America today. We have spent countless dollars on it. We are failing the

00:26:58.120 majority of our kids in this country in public education. They're behind in reading, writing,

00:27:01.640 and arithmetic. We're behind the rest of the world. We rank very low in the world, especially

00:27:05.360 of civilized countries. We're one of the lowest in math, one of the lowest in reading,

00:27:11.160 we're one of the lowest in science, for example. And this is the Democratic Party dumbing down

00:27:16.160 this country. And again, AI says this is exactly how you have a country that you can completely

00:27:23.000 destroyed. And understand that the Democrats have had a near total monopoly on public education and

00:27:28.880 the big inner cities for decades. They've had almost total control and the results have been

00:27:34.620 screamingly horribly bad. Now, the good news is we're pushing back. Texas passed the largest state

00:27:40.580 school choice program in the country. As you know, I spent a lot of time and energy fighting for Texas

00:27:45.040 to do that. And last year with the reconciliation bill, we passed the biggest federal school choice

00:27:50.700 bill in history. I wrote that provision. It's going to unleash tens of billions of dollars

00:27:56.060 of scholarships to kids in need. But, you know, look, according to AI, if you want to destroy

00:28:02.020 a country, do what has been done to our schools. Number seven, energy and infrastructure neglect.

00:28:11.480 Weakening domestic energy production or failing to maintain infrastructure can hurt national

00:28:18.380 security and economic resilience. Now, I think that may actually be written into the DNC platform.

00:28:25.120 Their objective is to weaken domestic energy production and fail to maintain infrastructure.

00:28:29.960 Like it is the entirety of what the Biden administration did 365 days for four years

00:28:37.080 consecutively. Yes? Yes. Yes. All right. Number eight. Dependence on adversaries. Relying heavily

00:28:47.720 on rival nations for critical supply chains, energy, technology, manufacturing, can create

00:28:55.440 strategic vulnerabilities. China, China, China, with a side of China. Yeah, and to be fair,

00:29:01.900 this one I will not blame entirely on the Democrats. There are a lot of Republicans who

00:29:06.220 bear some blame for making us so totally dependent on China. I've spent 14 years in the Senate

00:29:12.000 fighting to delink our economy from China to move semiconductor manufacturing back to this country

00:29:17.400 to move pharmaceuticals back to this country, to move critical minerals back to this country.

00:29:22.100 Both parties bear some fault in letting us become so dependent on China.

00:29:28.280 But what's amazing about this, Ben, chat GPT is generally considered a lean pretty left.

00:29:34.420 You did not ask some right-wing source, criticize the Democrat agenda.

00:29:39.440 And let me ask a serious question.

00:29:40.980 If you were a Democrat senator, let's say you're Chuck Schumer.

00:29:44.520 I'm going to ask you to go through the mental anguish.

00:29:49.140 Put yourself into his loafers.

00:29:51.880 Yes.

00:29:53.060 How would you respond to this?

00:29:55.140 How would you, if you were willing to, and you don't just get to attack and yell,

00:29:58.780 like, what substantive answer would you give to those eight things that are the essence of the Democrat agenda right now?

00:30:08.000 Yeah, I don't know how, if he was answering it honestly, he'd be like, we stand for all these things.

00:30:11.980 It just so happens. It's exactly how chat GBTAI tells us to destroy a nation.

00:30:17.260 And I don't know how you would defend it, right?

00:30:19.900 You could yell and you could pander and you could say it's Republicans.

00:30:23.580 But that was the reason why. And I want to give a shout out because she's a good friend of ours.

00:30:26.980 Kaylee let me go long, I think, in that segment to put this out there on Fox.

00:30:30.820 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.

00:30:35.200 Great. You and I know her well, but she was look at you trying to get invited back to guest host. 1.00

00:30:39.700 I mean, look at you, like, like, like, kiss it up.

00:30:43.020 Who never, whoever knew this on TV, right?

00:30:45.860 They don't let you read whoever knew that Benjamin could be this charming.

00:30:50.940 But I admit it because I was like, I'm going to take this risk and read on my phone.

00:30:56.160 They don't like that on TV and they let it go.

00:30:58.640 And then it went viral.

00:30:59.900 And I'm glad it did, because this is the warning from AI that this is the Democratic Party and what they're doing,

00:31:05.860 Which brings us, by the way, to the demise of this country in real time and their No Kings rally.

00:31:11.500 This is something that this show, and Senator, you warned about the first time there was a No Kings rally.

00:31:17.740 A quote from a Fox News article, I'm going to go back in time, says, quote,

00:31:21.520 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.

00:31:31.520 And you and I were talking about that on this show.

00:31:35.080 Follow the money.

00:31:36.400 Look who is behind this.

00:31:38.260 The kingpins is how I describe them of the Democratic Party.

00:31:42.300 The communists, the socialists, the Marxists, the billionaires and multimillionaires.

00:31:46.380 They are the kingpins of the party.

00:31:49.080 They're funding all this.

00:31:50.900 None of this is organic.

00:31:52.500 All of this is manufactured BS.

00:31:54.500 And the media wants you to believe this is organic and all this just randomly happens because people are angry.

00:32:01.240 No, this is all orchestrated and paid for by Democratic kingpins in their party.

00:32:07.340 Well, Ben, and I will say this is the reason I think that people listen to verdict or watch

00:32:12.280 verdict on YouTube, because we cover topics and we give you information long before you can get

00:32:19.060 it somewhere else, often years before. So go back to COVID. Within a couple of months of the COVID

00:32:25.200 pandemic starting on this podcast, we had two podcasts, one in March of 2021 and April of 2020.

00:32:31.240 laying out the facts that supported the conclusion that the COVID virus escaped from a Chinese

00:32:37.700 government-owned lab, likely the Wuhan Institute for Virology. And I think the odds are overwhelming

00:32:42.760 that COVID escaped from a Chinese government lab. And I think the odds are significant,

00:32:47.300 greater than 50%, that the virus was in fact created in that lab through gain-of-function

00:32:52.340 research, taking existing viruses and making them more lethal, making them more transmissible,

00:32:56.700 making them more targeted to humans. It's less compelling than the lab leak basis,

00:33:02.960 but I think it is greater than 50%. We put that out years before that was publicly acknowledged

00:33:10.000 by federal agencies. And at the time, social media, Facebook and Twitter were censoring those

00:33:14.880 views. This podcast verdict was putting them out. Likewise, a year ago, this podcast put out with

00:33:21.840 receipts, that these No King rallies, they're not organic. They're not just rising up out of

00:33:26.980 nowhere. They are funded. They are funded by George Soros. They're funded by left-wing

00:33:31.520 billionaires, and they are communist Marxist organizations. Now, this latest rally,

00:33:37.760 it was striking. Number one, Bernie Sanders, I did enjoy it. Bernie Sanders hopped into his

00:33:42.340 first-class seat to fly to his No Kings rally to denounce the oligarchs as he's sitting up in

00:33:47.660 first class um but if you look at that's slumming it for him by the way it's usually it's normal

00:33:53.880 normally a private jet so you're right i mean i mean that he was slumming it yeah first class

00:33:58.500 was really like like like with the the proletariat yeah but if you look at this latest rally you had 0.80

00:34:06.880 flags everywhere of hammer and sickle the soviet union flags you had people chanting about we need

00:34:12.640 a communist revolution. Look, here's the latest story from Fox News. Quote, a network of about

00:34:18.580 500 groups with an estimated $3 billion in combined annual revenues is behind the coordinated

00:34:24.540 nationwide No Kings protest Saturday, including communist groups who are using the day to call

00:34:30.760 for a, quote, revolution, according to a Fox Digital News investigation. According to a copy

00:34:36.440 of the permit for the, quote, flagship march in St. Paul, Minnesota, indivisible, a national well-heeled

00:34:42.620 Democratic political advocacy organization funded by billionaire George Soros, is the lead

00:34:48.140 coordinator for the protest. But Fox News Digital has also identified key participation by a network

00:34:53.720 of radical, socialist, and communist organizations funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American tech

00:35:00.380 tycoon and avowed communists living in China. Over nearly a decade, Singham has financed a

00:35:06.200 constellation of activist institutions that promote revolutionary socialist policies and

00:35:11.460 frequently collaborate in protest campaigns, including the People's Forum in New York,

00:35:16.840 the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Answer Coalition, and Code Pink, whose founder,

00:35:21.960 Jody Evans, is married to Singham. These groups work closely with the Freedom Road Socialist

00:35:27.340 Organization. They're all sending members to the protest, and one group said they plan to bring

00:35:33.280 a message of revolution to the protest. This is who they are, and they're less and less bothering

00:35:40.480 to hide it. Yeah, they really are. And look, if you listen to some of the speakers, one of those

00:35:46.080 at the No Kings rally was the emcee in Minnesota. It was Liz Winstead. She said, finally, the quiet

00:35:53.780 part, I guess you could describe out loud. I want to play this for everyone so they can hear.

00:35:58.160 This is what you missed if you didn't go to one of the rallies. Take a listen.

00:36:01.500 I want people to know that if you want to act like Minnesota or you think Minnesota is a model,

00:36:07.340 what can I do? Well, you can check your ego about what you want to do and listen to the

00:36:13.720 leadership. And when they tell you what they need done, you do that. And you pay enough attention

00:36:22.080 to the amazing organizers who've been on the ground, who actually have the information,

00:36:27.380 who've already done the work instead of starting your own. Oftentimes you're like, who's doing it?

00:36:32.640 it's like someone you just need to learn who and then you need to be the pack mule in the fight

00:36:37.700 that they have been doing and organizing because let me tell you what what we need is pack mules

00:36:42.860 because there's brilliant minds and brilliant leaders in this community who oftentimes are

00:36:47.960 putting up the folding chairs when they should be literally strategizing because that's their

00:36:51.840 strong suit so be the peep be the folding chairs people be the i'll bring donuts people for the

00:36:57.980 brilliant minds who are actually making this train run.

00:37:05.960 And on that note, I'm going to bring up some really brilliant minds.

00:37:10.560 I've never heard such a condescending way for an emcee to talk to the minions beneath you.

00:37:16.140 We are the socialist communist dictators.

00:37:18.680 You are the people that put the chairs up and bring the donuts.

00:37:21.920 We don't need to be doing these basic jobs because we're so much smarter than you are.

00:37:25.980 We need to be strategizing, so you need to shut up, sit down, and do what we tell you to do.

00:37:31.920 I was glad that you said it, and the best part was there were people that cheered it.

00:37:36.440 This is who communists are.

00:37:38.820 Fidel Castro was a billionaire.

00:37:41.660 Vladimir Putin is a billionaire.

00:37:44.480 Raul Castro is a billionaire.

00:37:47.800 Communist dictators live the lives as kings. 1.00

00:37:51.180 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

00:38:00.480 Every communist dictator lives better than any king has ever lived, and the people suffer in every instance. 0.99

00:38:06.480 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.

00:38:18.400 Follow the money.

00:38:19.700 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.

00:38:46.520 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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Verdict with Ted Cruz - March 30, 2026

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