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00:02:43.000 Welcome, it is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

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00:02:50.720 First up, France is burning and the leadership, Macron especially, is completely silent on

00:02:58.180 what's actually happening.

00:02:59.560 So how did they lose their country and get to this point?

00:03:02.360 We break it down.

00:03:03.840 Next up, a shocking attack on your freedom to work in our federal government to serve

00:03:10.300 the president of the United States of America is a radical left Democratic senator.

00:03:14.940 is now warning young people that your life may be ruined

00:03:18.500 if you go work for President Donald J. Trump and the administration.

00:03:23.420 So is there any pushback or is this a new reality?

00:03:26.620 We break that down as well.

00:03:28.360 And finally, Ilham Omar, if that's actually really even her name,

00:03:32.480 well, is now under even more scrutiny in the investigation against her.

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00:03:38.140 What do we know and what is the next steps?

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00:03:42.820 It's the Week in Review, and it starts right now.

00:03:46.280 By the way, France leadership is also really shocking right now. 0.96

00:03:49.940 Macron is basically a lame duck. 0.66

00:03:51.880 He's out in, I think, six months or less. 0.98

00:03:54.700 He did an address to the nation, I think it was Sunday night over there,

00:03:59.680 where he was saying,

00:04:00.920 I can't believe that the French people would do this to France.

00:04:05.020 There was an amount of just pathological being tone deaf to reality 1.00

00:04:12.080 instead of calling it out the way that you just did that this is a massive immigration problem

00:04:17.620 islamist problem communist problem he and realizing a lot of the protesters clearly are

00:04:22.940 people that have come into france they were not born in france who he's invited who he has invited 0.97

00:04:28.780 yes and he's raised and welcomed come invade my nation and destroy it and he sits there he goes

00:04:34.880 i can't believe the people of france right the citizens of france would do this to france and

00:04:39.060 i'm like dude if you don't know who's doing this to you which is people again you've invited them

00:04:43.240 in but they're not the people of france the people of france the majority of them are terrified and

00:04:47.700 saddened by what they're watching look that that is exactly right it it turns out the reverse 0.91

00:04:53.240 crusades were really bad idea look you look at the crusades the crusades where a bunch of christians 1.00

00:04:59.680 came in came in and and and invaded invaded the middle east well this is now muslim nations 1.00

00:05:08.100 invading Europe and destroying them, and I want you to listen to, this was a couple of 1.00

00:05:14.620 weeks ago, that a French woman, a French woman named Thais Escoffon, although my French is

00:05:21.940 not very good, she posted this video on Twitter, and I actually retweeted it, Elon Musk retweeted

00:05:29.900 it, it's really powerful, and she's, this is a beautiful French woman who is grieving

00:05:36.440 what is happening to the country she loves and the culture she loves.

00:05:40.720 I want you to give a listen to what she has to say.

00:05:44.680 Hello to all friends of Europeans.

00:05:48.460 I am native French, and I am so ashamed.

00:05:53.860 I'm not ashamed of being French, of course,

00:05:56.440 but I'm so ashamed to see France humiliating itself like this

00:06:00.900 and being dragged through the mud for the full world to see.

00:06:04.320 For more than three days now, you've seen that high school students have been wrecking havoc across France

00:06:11.140 to protest against their overly demanding school schedules, cool things,

00:06:15.920 and the lack of resources in schools to provide them with a better quality of education.

00:06:21.560 Here, for example, you can see high school students protesting against the lack of trash cans in their schools.

00:06:31.200 Here, against the shortage of teachers.

00:06:34.320 And here against student poverty by setting fire to the eco-friendly, anti-racist Nelson Mandela High School, which costed 77 millions to build. 0.58

00:06:50.880 Obviously, you understand that all of this is nothing more than an excuse found by a certain new France to skip school and unleash all their hatred against everything that represents France, the police and even firefighters because they're racists.

00:07:07.940 Meanwhile, Macron remains silent because he has completely lost control.

00:07:12.280 And, you know, I remember when I was in middle school, the 2005 riots in the suburbs were discussed in contemporary history class.

00:07:20.640 But now, immigrants and their descendants are everywhere.

00:07:24.480 They are no longer confined to the suburbs. 1.00

00:07:27.040 Looting and mob violence are becoming increasingly frequent.

00:07:30.880 The Nile case, every PSG match celebration, Black Lives Matter and so on.

00:07:35.840 Not to mention the everyday assaults, murders and rapes committed against our people.

00:07:40.640 It has become so recurrent that no one would even bother keeping track of every riot anymore.

00:07:46.560 It has become almost normal. 1.00

00:07:49.120 Every generation of immigrants hates us more than the one before. 0.99

00:07:53.520 Some of these rioters are 14, 15 years old. 1.00

00:07:57.420 However, they were born here, raised here.

00:08:00.600 So do you really think things are going to get better?

00:08:04.080 We have done everything for them.

00:08:07.000 Everything.

00:08:08.340 Social benefits, anti-racist policies, new schools.

00:08:12.140 And this is how they thank us? 0.97

00:08:13.940 Assimilation is a myth. 1.00

00:08:16.480 We have to stop pretending it is possible to make it work. 1.00

00:08:18.960 anymore. Now they are trying to make us feel sorry for them because one of them lost an eye

00:08:23.740 while attacking police officers. I can tell you that not only will I never shed a single tear

00:08:30.200 for these thugs, but they would deserve for there to be more of them. The question is,

00:08:34.580 how did we ever get to this point? France, like this jewel of European civilization,

00:08:40.160 a country of extraordinary cultural wealth brought to its need by thugs with an IQ of 80,

00:08:46.480 they only understand force and we are too weak we need to get rid of all empathy these people 0.73

00:08:53.980 hate us and would like to see us dead so we will never coexist peacefully it is either them or us

00:09:01.300 so the reasonable and peaceful solution is to send them back to the countries of origin they love so 1.00

00:09:07.820 much please share this video americans westerners europeans and their friends the french are

00:09:14.540 counting on you to shine a light on what the media refused to show about the situation here

00:09:19.660 look at what we have become do not make the same mistakes we did close your borders while you still

00:09:25.940 have time across the world european peoples are facing the same problems we are all in this

00:09:32.400 together and together we will prevail senator you know you listen to this video and then you look

00:09:38.160 at one of the other pictures that has gone viral uh over the last i don't know 12 hours there is a

00:09:43.900 couple in paris where the rioters robbed them they were in their 80s and they left them only

00:09:51.000 in their underwear they stole their clothes they stole all of their belongings and the picture

00:09:56.360 shows the masked men they're all in black they have the hoodies on with two people that are in

00:10:01.680 their 80s i mean an 80 year old they look like they are 80 the man is in his underwear the woman

00:10:06.900 is in her underwear nightgown s type thing they stole everything that they had in the streets and

00:10:13.000 no one stopped them and they're 80. Look this is evil this is violent this is dangerous and and

00:10:22.400 you know the the tragedy is this was invited by the French government it has been invited by 0.98

00:10:28.600 Europe they have welcomed Islamist invaders you know one of the the most profound things that 0.99

00:10:34.440 that young woman said there is each generation of these immigrants hates us more than the one 1.00

00:10:38.880 before them. And we are seeing this, this is not, look, America, we're a country of immigrants,

00:10:46.780 but immigrants who came here to assimilate. One of the things she says also is assimilation is a

00:10:51.320 myth. If you look at particularly the illegal immigrants in America, who Joe Biden and the

00:10:58.120 Democrats invited in, they invited them in to change this country, not to become Americans, 1.00

00:11:03.160 but to fundamentally tear this country down. 0.97

00:11:05.940 You look at the Islamists, whether Abdul El-Sayed or whether Zohran Mondami, 0.98

00:11:12.560 they want to fundamentally change this country and mandate Sharia law and take away our liberties. 0.98

00:11:18.580 That's what is at stake here. 0.99

00:11:21.340 And I got to say, you know, another video that went viral that I want to play right now

00:11:26.160 is a video of another pretty young French woman, although this pretty young French woman is a leftist.

00:11:33.160 and and she originally started joining the protest because as a leftist she's like oh this

00:11:38.380 protesting is great but it so happens that this uh french woman is also her father owns a store

00:11:44.140 and the protesters began looting the store and and the video i'm going to play it's it's it's in

00:11:50.500 french so so ben and i are going to narrate the english translation of what she's saying

00:11:55.400 uh if you can watch the video this is a good one to watch on on youtube because the images are

00:12:00.540 really profound, but I want to play it, and Ben and I, while it's playing, are going to tell you

00:12:06.240 in English what she's saying. Here, give a listen. She starts yelling, stop. Why are you doing this?

00:12:14.180 This isn't the cause. Don't touch me. Stop it, she says. This ain't your store. My father's store.

00:12:22.440 Get some wine, one of the people yells. They're in the store. I'm done shopping, one of them says.

00:12:27.160 their shampoo wants some ice cream. The look of horror on this young woman's face. It's an image

00:12:33.800 that has gone viral. The look of just agony and horror. And the line she said, this isn't the

00:12:40.420 cause. And she says that multiple times. This isn't the cause. This isn't the cause. And by

00:12:44.300 the way, they forcibly push her out of the way. And they're just breaking into the store. They're

00:12:48.840 trashing it. They're taking everything from the store. And these are thieves and criminals. And

00:12:53.100 And you see this young leftist who understands she voted for this.

00:12:57.300 This is what she wanted.

00:12:58.740 These are the people she wanted in France.

00:13:01.840 And you see, look, when the mob comes for you, they turn on even the naive liberals who welcome them in.

00:13:11.860 And it is tragic, but it's also a real warning to America.

00:13:16.440 Yeah, it is.

00:13:16.860 And by the way, the numbers are not just like 10 stores or 20 stores.

00:13:20.120 it is in the thousands they say of stores that have been ransacked looted or attacked uh in all

00:13:26.900 across france i mean when when we say this is widespread and anarchy that is literally what

00:13:32.820 this is it's not in one little area this is in multiple places they're also going after the

00:13:37.340 government buildings historic buildings burning churches i mean there is nothing that is off

00:13:42.520 limits in france right now and understand like the black lives matter riots in the united states

00:13:48.640 like the anti-Semitic protests and riots on college campuses across the country,

00:13:53.940 like the open border riots we had in America.

00:13:57.300 This is not organic. This is funded.

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00:14:37.440 Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong.

00:14:38.840 He's Joe Getty.

00:14:39.520 We're Armstrong and Getty.

00:14:40.600 We've been trying to figure out how to describe what is Armstrong and Getty on demand for many years.

00:14:45.120 I'm going to give it a shot.

00:14:45.840 So most media is either agenda-driven.

00:14:48.220 So they intentionally leave parts out or they lie to you.

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00:14:51.580 And boring.

00:14:52.720 You don't learn anything anyway.

00:14:54.400 We try to get to the bottom of the stories that are shaping our worlds and help you understand what's actually happening.

00:15:00.400 The Armstrong and Getty Show, practically perfect in every way.

00:15:03.500 Yeah, I really like you guys' show. I've been listening for over 10 years.

00:15:06.680 And I'll always be an avid listener and better informed for it. 0.63

00:15:09.700 The show is a collection of silly, serious, and irreverent musings of the day.

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00:15:25.120 I love it.

00:15:25.840 Keep up the great work.

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00:15:27.800 So give it a try sometime.

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00:15:37.060 The World Cup is over, but if you caught the soccer bug

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00:15:42.620 I'm Cameron Dicker, the kicker from the Los Angeles Chargers, most accurate kicker in NFL history.

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00:16:14.860 Oh, damn. 1.00

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00:16:16.320 He's better than me.

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00:16:18.720 Scoring a penalty kick or scoring a field goal?

00:16:20.800 He's in the NFL and I'm like, just a big fat guy.

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00:17:30.220 a shocking

00:17:35.080 crime and a cover up at the

00:17:37.140 highest levels of the United States Marine Corps. Someone opened the door and was the primary

00:17:42.700 shooter. Is it possible you could do that and then suppress the memory? A new podcast series,

00:17:47.580 Faultline Haditha, tells the story the United States government wants to keep buried. How can

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00:17:57.100 don't know what happened that day? Based on thousands of pages of previously classified

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00:18:08.200 crimes in Marine Corps history can finally be told. If you've got five players and one of them

00:18:14.260 is guilty of murder at least, and you offer immunity to the other four, you better be right

00:18:19.080 about the fifth. Because if you're not, then you've just given immunity to your killer.

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00:18:31.500 now on to story number two yeah amen to that i want to move from that story to one that's very

00:18:39.640 different and that deals with one of your colleagues from michigan uh saying this at

00:18:46.340 the university of chicago campus warning conservatives young conservatives you do not

00:18:53.460 want to go work in the trump administration because if you do it could have lasting effects

00:18:58.080 on your life. Here she is at the University of Chicago, their political institute. And one of

00:19:03.880 your colleagues said this. So that's what I'm saying. I want to look at these signature cases

00:19:08.520 and not just focus on the president, but on the people who enabled him. I want young people coming

00:19:14.780 out of school to say, should I go work for the Trump administration? Like, that sounds fun. I

00:19:18.820 might get an opportunity. I want them to be like, Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of

00:19:24.720 problems that i don't want and so let me avoid participating in that i want that deterrence 0.79

00:19:30.780 message let's be clear what she's saying senator she's saying i want to weaponize the government

00:19:36.200 to break people i want to financially ruin and destroy people that go work for donald trump

00:19:41.780 i want good people to be afraid to work anywhere in this administration serving their their fellow

00:19:48.640 man in our government and you better say to yourself this is not a good opportunity for me

00:19:54.140 to go work for the president of the United States of America.

00:19:56.060 This is an opportunity that could land me in jail or bankrupt or indicted or worse, apparently.

00:20:03.020 Well, unfortunately, nothing you're saying there is hyperbole.

00:20:06.820 None of that is an exaggeration.

00:20:08.420 You know, Alyssa Slotkin is a freshman senator. 0.99

00:20:10.940 She was newly elected from Michigan. 1.00

00:20:12.580 She's a Democrat.

00:20:13.980 And she styles herself a moderate.

00:20:16.320 She tells the voters, oh, I'm a moderate.

00:20:18.120 I'm a reasonable middle-of-the-road Democrat.

00:20:21.060 She is not.

00:20:22.560 This is powerful evidence.

00:20:23.860 Now, Alyssa Slotkin is also actively campaigning for Abdul El-Sayed, who is—he, along with James Tallarico, are the two most dangerous and radical Senate candidates in the country.

00:20:35.580 And Alyssa Slotkin is happily and enthusiastically supporting El-Sayed.

00:20:40.120 What she is saying here is openly weaponizing the federal government.

00:20:48.040 And understand, she's not saying if someone commits a criminal offense, we're going to prosecute them.

00:20:53.460 that's actually a reasonable statement. That's a statement I agree with. If you commit a criminal

00:20:56.920 offense, you should be prosecuted regardless of your party. She's saying, no, I want us to go

00:21:02.820 after young people. She is targeting kids. She's targeting 21, 22-year-old kids fresh out of

00:21:08.640 college. And she's saying, if you go take a job in the federal government, when the Democrats get

00:21:15.000 in power, we're going to come after you. And by the way, what 21, 22-year-old can defend themselves

00:21:20.680 against a prosecution, against civil liability.

00:21:23.720 I mean, you want to talk about bankrupting kids, and she's very open about it.

00:21:27.540 She wants to deter, she wants college graduates to say,

00:21:30.600 you know what, I'm not going to work for the federal government

00:21:33.600 because the Democrats are going to inflict so much pain.

00:21:41.500 Look at her quote.

00:21:43.900 I want young people coming out of school to say,

00:21:47.680 should I go work for the Trump administration?

00:21:50.680 Like, that sounds fun.

00:21:52.440 I might get an opportunity.

00:21:54.100 I want them to be like, Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don't want.

00:22:00.040 So let me avoid participating in that.

00:22:03.120 I want that deterrence message.

00:22:05.400 She's not suggesting anyone committed any crime, did anything wrong.

00:22:08.360 She's just saying, if you go work for them, we are going to punish you.

00:22:13.100 We are going to abuse you. 0.97

00:22:14.440 We are going to use the power of the government to crush you. 0.99

00:22:17.440 I'm going to be honest.

00:22:18.580 I don't know. I don't know anyone else who's made a threat like this. Law professor Jonathan Turley rightly criticized the remarks. He said that she had, quote, said the quiet part out loud. And I think that's right.

00:22:37.500 but but it is it is really open and direct and and look barack obama began the practice of

00:22:48.220 weaponizing the federal government and successfully weaponizing the federal government and and what

00:22:52.800 richard nixon had tried to do when nixon tried to use the federal government to go after his

00:22:58.760 political opponents the system worked and it actually resisted his effort to politicize

00:23:03.840 the federal government well what Nixon tried to do Barack Obama succeeded in doing he look Lois

00:23:11.380 Lerner used the IRS to target conservatives to go after conservatives people people who did things

00:23:17.140 like defended the constitution they made the constitution a key word that if you spoke out

00:23:23.140 in favor of the constitution they would target and persecute you and by the way Lois Lerner was

00:23:28.780 held in contempt of Congress she repeatedly pleaded the fifth and it was open weaponization

00:23:34.380 what Nixon tried to do Obama succeeded in doing and then Biden made it even worse you remember

00:23:40.520 his attorney general Merrick Garland wrote a memo to the FBI directing the FBI to target parents

00:23:48.060 who exercise their first amendment rights and go to school boards and to target them

00:23:52.440 as domestic terrorists again this was weaponization because they didn't want parents

00:23:57.940 speaking out on behalf of their kids. Slotkin is taking it further. We're going to go after kids.

00:24:04.140 And it is a sign of just how radical today's Democrat Party is.

00:24:10.280 When you look at what she said there, how many of your colleagues on the left probably agree

00:24:14.900 with her, just are not willing to say that, as you mentioned earlier, as you're quoting there,

00:24:20.100 the silent part out loud?

00:24:22.060 look i don't know of a single one of my democrat colleagues who's disagreed with her if there has

00:24:29.820 been even one democrat senator who has said alissa was wrong we should not be persecuting

00:24:36.440 kids fresh out of college go work for the federal government if they've said it i haven't seen it

00:24:40.340 and look most of them wouldn't say that out loud but you know what during barack obama not a single

00:24:48.500 Democrat senator spoke up and said this is wrong. During Joe Biden, not a single Democrat senator

00:24:53.600 spoke up and said this is wrong. When Donald Trump was indicted, not once, not twice, not three times,

00:24:58.800 but four separate times, not even one Democrat senator spoke up and said this is wrong. When

00:25:05.300 Democrat judges ordered that Trump be removed from the ballot so the voters couldn't vote for him,

00:25:12.160 not a single Democrat senator spoke up and said this is wrong. By the way, those decisions were

00:25:16.400 reversed unanimously by the u.s supreme court and yet every single senate democrat was silent

00:25:23.380 and and listen as radical as they were under obama as even more radical as they became under biden

00:25:33.880 if the democrats if these democrats get power again they will make us long for the days of

00:25:41.720 obama and biden they are so filled with rage listen alissa slotkin is not perceived as one

00:25:51.100 of the more left-wing members of the senate now her voting record is essentially is but she at 0.99

00:25:56.400 least likes to hold herself out as a moderate and she's perfectly happy saying let's persecute the 0.87

00:26:03.140 kids let's punish them let's abuse government power because we hate the other party that is

00:26:11.580 a really, really dangerous threshold

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00:26:54.020 Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe Getty.

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00:26:57.120 We've been trying to figure out how to describe what is Armstrong and Getty on demand for many years.

00:27:01.600 I'm going to give it a shot.

00:27:02.560 So, most media is either agenda-driven...

00:27:04.680 So they intentionally leave parts out or they lie to you?

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00:27:08.100 And boring!

00:27:09.060 You don't learn anything anyway.

00:27:10.940 We try to get to the bottom of the stories that are shaping our world

00:27:13.920 and help you understand what's actually happening.

00:27:16.940 The Armstrong and Getty Show, practically perfect in every way.

00:27:20.020 Yeah, I really like you guys' show. I've been listening for over 10 years.

00:27:23.200 I'll always be an avid listener and better informed for it.

00:27:26.220 The show is a collection of silly, serious, and irreverent musings of the day.

00:27:30.800 Hilariously balanced with more than just a pinch of sarcasm.

00:27:35.040 Whether it's on the left or the right, if somebody does something 0.99

00:27:37.940 or says something stupid, they're going to call it out. 0.99

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00:27:55.680 Football's back.

00:27:56.920 Hey, it's Drew Franklin from NFL Cover Zero.

00:27:59.340 Enjoy the NFL season while listening to NFL Cover Zero.

00:28:02.160 We have storylines, predictions, and lots of silliness.

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00:28:08.600 When you meet people and you say your job's a sports announcer,

00:28:12.420 it's always interesting to see what the first thing they say is.

00:28:15.880 I did have one of the more difficult questions, though.

00:28:20.060 He sits next to me, and he sees I'm on my computer,

00:28:24.460 and he goes, big sports fan.

00:28:26.220 And I was like, yeah, actually.

00:28:27.760 And he goes, what do you think about my Jaguars this year?

00:28:30.660 I realized, like, no one's ever asked me that question ever about anything.

00:28:36.320 And I was like, Duval.

00:28:40.740 Listen to NFL Cover Zero on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

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00:28:55.940 I'm Cameron Dicker, the kicker from the Los Angeles Chargers,

00:28:58.660 Most accurate kicker in NFL history, but I was raised on the soccer pitches of Shanghai.

00:29:03.460 And I'm here with Timmy Tillman, LAFC star, grew up in the academies of Germany,

00:29:07.700 and now under the bright lights of Major League Soccer.

00:29:10.160 So, we know a little something about kicking balls.

00:29:13.160 Maybe you're new to the game, or you're ready to take your passion to the next level.

00:29:17.000 Each week, we'll tackle things like, who's winning the Premier League this year?

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00:29:50.820 A shocking crime and a cover-up at the highest levels of the United States Marine Corps.

00:29:56.700 Someone opened the door and was the primary shooter.

00:29:59.960 Is it possible you could do that and then suppress the memory?

00:30:02.140 A new podcast series, Faultline Haditha,

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00:30:22.140 The truth about one of the most infamous crimes in Marine Corps history can finally be told.

00:30:28.540 If you've got five players, and one of them is guilty of murder at least,

00:30:32.700 and you offer immunity to the other four, you better be right about the fifth.

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00:30:40.100 Listen to Faultline Haditha on the iHeartRadio app,

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00:30:46.460 i want to get back to the big story number three of the week you may have missed

00:30:54.740 all right senator i want to get back uh to again one of the really interesting stories of the week

00:30:59.900 dealt with uh one of the members of the squad one of the most radical leftists in congress

00:31:06.180 alam omar that might not even be her real name uh and yeah so we don't know exactly how old she is

00:31:13.300 We don't know what her name is, and we're not sure if she did or didn't apparently possibly marry her brother. 0.91

00:31:18.780 And we know that she's under a major investigation.

00:31:24.700 Well, in this past week, the Department of Justice executed a search warrant on Ilhan Omar's home.

00:31:32.380 She is a congresswoman from Minnesota. 0.99

00:31:34.240 She is one of the most radical, noxious, Marxist, Islamist, leftist members of Congress there is.

00:31:44.320 There have long been allegations and concerns that she committed immigration fraud.

00:31:51.460 She was born in Somalia, grew up in Somalia, came to the United States as a minor.

00:31:56.180 The bases for immigration fraud are threefold.

00:31:59.240 number one her father came he got a green card she said on her application that she was 17 at

00:32:09.540 the time he got a green card under immigration laws if she was 17 she was entitled to a green

00:32:14.720 card to become a citizen herself is she if she was 18 she was not and so question number one

00:32:22.220 was how old was she when she applied to be a citizen. There have been ongoing allegations

00:32:29.600 that she lied about her age, that she was 18 and she lied about it and said she was 17. That's

00:32:34.600 claim number one. A sect claim deals with her name, and I'm going to read from you a story

00:32:42.600 from the New York Post. Ilhan Omar is not the Minnesota Congresswoman's real name.

00:32:49.340 sources. Janine Pirro moved to keep the search warrant sealed as DNA, passport, and phone were

00:32:56.280 seized in an October 12th raid. And here's what the New York Post writes. Ilhan Omar is not the

00:33:03.100 real name of the Minnesota congresswoman, Fox Digital News has learned. Her real name is Ilhan

00:33:09.480 Noor Saeed Elmi, which for the record is pretty different from Omar. According to two people

00:33:18.060 familiar with the ongoing investigation into the Somali-born congresswoman, including a law

00:33:23.500 enforcement source. And if proven in court that Omar has lived her, quote, entire life under an

00:33:30.980 alias, a former Minnesota federal immigration judge tells Fox News Digital that every single

00:33:38.640 form she ever filled out could be, quote, called into question. On Wednesday, U.S. District Attorney

00:33:45.700 for the District of Columbia, and actually that's not District Attorney, that's U.S. Attorney for

00:33:49.920 the District of Columbia, Janine Pirro, filed a motion seeking to prevent the federal search

00:33:55.400 warrant for the Congresswoman's home from being unsealed, which was requested by several media

00:34:00.520 outlets. The motion says the federal government has not yet finished executing the search warrant

00:34:05.520 and that it shouldn't be unsealed yet. Before the court of three applications to unseal ex-party

00:34:12.600 materials and proceedings related to a federal search warrant for the personal residence in the

00:34:17.040 District of Columbia of Congresswoman Ilhan Noor Saeed Elmi, aka Ilhan Abdullahi Omar. The motion

00:34:26.580 begins. That's not her real name, one real source said when asked why the motion used the aka Ilhan

00:34:33.340 Abdullahi Omar language. After publication, a spokesperson from Omar's office provided a

00:34:40.300 statement to Fox News Digital disputing the report. Quote, this is completely false. Ilhan Omar has a

00:34:46.480 real name, the spokesperson said, followed by an attack on Fox News. Now, those are the two claims,

00:34:53.420 but the claim that has been most persistent of immigration fraud was not that she lied about

00:34:59.340 her age, although that's a real dispute, and it was not even that she lied about her name, although

00:35:05.460 though that is apparently a dispute now as well. The biggest allegation against Ilhan Omar

00:35:11.620 is that her brother wanted to become a U.S. citizen. And to help him become a U.S. citizen,

00:35:19.340 Ilhan Omar married her brother. And because if a foreign national marries a U.S. citizen,

00:35:26.700 you can get that foreign national green card, the act of marrying her brother helped her brother

00:35:31.820 become a U.S. citizen. Now, that is a serious allegation of immigration fraud. If it was

00:35:37.580 demonstrated, it would be a criminal offense. It could potentially support her denaturalization, 1.00

00:35:43.620 the removal of her U.S. citizenship, and it could support her deportation. So it is serious. Now,

00:35:49.460 Democrats are freaking out. How dare you hold Ilhan Omar to account? I want you to listen.

00:35:55.920 So she did an interview on MSNOW, what used to be MSNBC, with Chris Hayes, very liberal host, smart guy, but very liberal host.

00:36:05.020 And he asked her about, okay, look, was your first husband your brother?

00:36:10.380 Now, by the way, was your first husband your brother?

00:36:13.940 That ought to be a real easy answer, like hell no, is what most normal people would say.

00:36:20.120 Give a listen to what Ilhan Omar said, and mind you, this is from a left-wing host on MSNOW.

00:36:25.920 Who was this man that was your husband? When did they start saying that he was your brother? Why?

00:36:32.640 It started with a Somali blog that I don't know if it still exists, but somebody put in there that, you know, that he had to have been my brother or something to that effect.

00:36:44.600 You were not related to him at all.

00:36:46.500 Not that.

00:36:47.280 There's not some weird kernel of truth that's through some game of telephone.

00:36:49.980 Not to my knowledge.

00:36:51.920 Not to my knowledge.

00:36:54.360 senator that that is not a normal answer let's just be really clear so benjamin ferguson i want

00:37:01.760 to ask you on the record i've never asked this before you're on verdict you're on national

00:37:05.840 you're on national podcast and national radio is anna your sister uh no she is not she is my wife

00:37:13.860 she is not my sister we are not related you're certain i'm you're certain your answer is not

00:37:18.800 not to my knowledge like you may have grown up with her and pulling her hair like your whole

00:37:22.680 childhood like heidi okay what kind of freak answers let's just be clear right heidi most 1.00

00:37:29.420 definitely is not she's a california girl who married into these crazy cuban texan like 0.92

00:37:37.500 carnivores she's a california vegetarian like like she's most definitely not my sister she's 0.72

00:37:43.960 my best friend she's the love of my life but she is most assuredly not my sister

00:37:48.180 who can't answer i want everyone listening to this question so so so look what we have millions

00:37:56.280 of listeners across the country some of y'all are young you're not married yet okay so fine so don't

00:38:02.400 answer this question but but many of you my guess is more than half of our listeners i don't know

00:38:06.780 this because we are our listenership skews young but i'm still going to guess that more than half

00:38:12.600 of our listeners are in fact married i want you to ask yourself if someone asked you is your wife

00:38:20.620 your sister if someone asked you is your husband your brother in what universe would you answer

00:38:28.060 not to my knowledge yeah like is that not a lawyerly weaselly answer and the democrats are

00:38:35.300 freaking out this is weaponization this is persecution they're going after her look

00:38:39.520 let me be clear if she is innocent of these charges then she should not be prosecuted

00:38:45.680 but if she's guilty if she's committed immigration fraud then she should be held to account

00:38:51.100 everyone should be held to account regardless of their party the democrats hate that

00:38:55.500 that's what at stake here as always thank you for listening to verdict with senator ted cruz

00:39:01.900 ben ferguson with you don't forget to download my podcast and you can listen to my podcast every

00:39:06.200 of the day you're not listening to verdict or each day when you listen to verdict afterwards

00:39:09.520 i'd love to have you as a listener to again the ben ferguson podcast and we will see you back here

00:39:14.960 on monday morning hey i'm jack armstrong he's joe getty we've been trying to figure out how to

00:39:19.660 describe what is armstrong and getty on demand for many years i'm gonna give it a shot so most

00:39:24.360 media is either agenda driven or they're so shallow and boring you don't learn anything

00:39:29.560 anyway we try to get to the bottom of the stories that are shaping our worlds and help you understand

00:39:34.200 and what's actually happening.

00:39:36.080 So give it a try sometime.

00:39:37.340 Entertaining and you learn something?

00:39:38.600 Where do I tune in?

00:39:39.440 Listen to Armstrong and Getty on demand

00:39:41.100 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

00:39:43.440 or wherever you get your podcasts.

00:39:46.220 The World Cup is over,

00:39:47.620 but if you caught the soccer bug

00:39:48.800 and aren't sure what to do now,

00:39:50.280 check out our podcast, Big Kick Energy.

00:39:52.340 I'm Cameron Dicker, the kicker

00:39:53.620 from the Los Angeles Chargers,

00:39:55.120 and I'm here with Timmy Tillman,

00:39:56.440 current LAFC star player.

00:39:58.600 So, we know a little something about kicking balls.

00:40:01.500 Each week, we'll tackle things like

00:40:03.100 who's winning the Premier League this year?

00:40:05.220 What do you think is harder?

00:40:06.880 Scoring a penalty kick or scoring a field goal?

00:40:09.100 Join us each week for a quick chat

00:40:10.820 with your soccer-loving bros

00:40:11.940 about the best sport in the world.

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00:40:14.140 Just don't tell my coaches I said that.

00:40:16.380 Listen to Big Kick Energy on the iHeartRadio app,

00:40:19.020 Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

00:40:22.820 Hey, it's Drew Franklin from NFL Cover Zero.

00:40:25.520 The 2026 season is underway,

00:40:27.420 and we are loving football on TV.

00:40:29.780 Here's what you can expect from the podcast

00:40:31.400 in our second season.

00:40:32.400 I would suggest for these preseason games, I think they should do what they do on the NFL draft.

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00:40:47.820 Listen to NFL Cover Zero on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

00:40:54.920 I believe that whoever was in that room and did that was a murderer.

00:40:59.020 A new podcast series, Faultline Haditha, tells the story of a shocking crime and a cover-up at the highest levels of the United States Marine Corps.

00:41:07.980 If you've got five players and you offer immunity to four, you better be right about the fifth, because if you're not, then you've just given immunity to your killer.

00:41:15.680 Listen to Faultline Haditha on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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