00:04:16.760He wouldn't answer a single question I asked the whole time.
00:04:19.600That was true of every other senator I saw.
00:04:21.620He believes his job as a witness is stand up and just read his political spin.
00:04:28.700And look, one of the things that shows is it shows a contempt not just for Congress but for the American people.
00:04:34.980The reason you have an oversight hearing is under the Constitution, under Article I, Congress has the legislative authority and has oversight authority over the executive branch.
00:04:45.780And when senators are asking those questions, it's not just me sitting there, like, asking some questions because I'm curious.
00:04:52.500I have a job to represent 30 million Texans.
00:04:55.460So when I'm asking that question, I'm trying to do my very best I can to represent what those Texans are feeling, what they're facing.
00:05:03.260I can tell you Texans know the answer.
00:05:05.780Is there a crisis at our southern border?
00:05:08.380Actually, Texans, it would be two words, not one, and I would forgive a hell yes instead of a yes.
00:05:13.680But when he just shows contempt, he will not answer because it's all political spin, and he is not willing to answer to the American people.
00:05:29.300But it's not just that he won't answer you and the oversight or the American people.
00:05:35.180It's the fact that he's sitting there almost like he thinks this is beneath him to be questioned.
00:05:54.700They embody dripping contempt and arrogance.
00:05:57.520Look, the last podcast we talked about John Kerry defending billionaires flying private jets to Davos, saying, well, you know, they work harder to save the world from climate change than most people.
00:06:08.640So they ought to be sitting there having Grey Poupon and champagne with their Corinthian leather fancy private jets.
00:06:14.720I mean, it is it is contempt that that characterizes the Biden cabinet.
00:06:22.360It also reminded me a little bit of Fauci.
00:06:51.280Joe Biden has handed the immigration agenda over to the radical open borders, extreme left.
00:06:57.960They want as many illegal aliens as possible in America.
00:07:01.560And the amazing thing is they do not care.
00:07:05.460I have to tell you, you spend time on the southern border.
00:07:08.200I spend a lot of time on the southern border.
00:07:10.020The suffering, the deaths, the misery that comes from this, the fact that, look, this official, Alejandro Mayorkas, is responsible for that suffering and death.
00:07:21.900And I don't think he stays awake at night thinking about it.
00:07:25.300I don't think he worries about it at all, even though Americans are dying, even though illegal immigrants are dying, even though children are suffering.
00:07:38.980You mentioned that he doesn't seem to care.
00:07:40.880One of the questions you asked him, and I want to play this for people, were how many migrants died under Joe Biden.
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00:08:42.740Senator, you asked Mayorkas about a basic question that he, I'm pretty sure, knows the answer to, and I think it goes to what you just said.
00:08:51.060He doesn't care about how many people die.
00:11:42.640When you look in the eyes of farmers and ranchers, I've had them put photograph after photograph after photograph of dead bodies they find.
00:12:03.600If someone is weak, if someone's frail, if someone's sick, if a woman is pregnant and she's not able to keep up, you know what?
00:12:09.380They just abandoned them to die in the heat.
00:12:12.480And Mayorkas' view is, oh, well, tough luck.
00:12:16.680You can tell he's not doing anything to stop it, and in fact, he intends to continue it.
00:12:22.320So next year, that number is going to be higher than 853.
00:12:26.740Because when you open up the border to the worst illegal immigration in the history of our country, you make the drug cartels and human trafficking cartels into massive multibillion-dollar global enterprises.
00:12:40.620The election of Joe Biden, Joe Biden becoming president, is the single best thing that has ever happened to the Mexican drug cartels in their lives.
00:12:48.680And Alejandro Mayorkas is the happy lackey turning these vicious criminals into billionaires and forcing the Border Patrol to essentially be the travel agents, to be the last mile of the human trafficking network facilitating this horrific oppression.
00:13:09.440Senator, there was something else that was interesting as I was watching this, and I want to get your take.
00:13:16.540And that was, it seemed that Mayorkas came in not necessarily ill-prepared, just not caring.
00:13:37.020It was almost like he showed up and says, I don't have to prepare for this because I know ultimately what I'm doing now is going to keep happening regardless of what you asked me today.
00:13:51.020I mean, normally a cabinet member preparing for a Senate oversight hearing spends real time, spends several days, spends maybe a week preparing.
00:14:01.120Normally they have a briefing notebook in front of them with all sorts of stats, and so if you ask them a question, how many migrants died, they flip to a tab.
00:14:09.660They may not know the number off the top of their head, but they've got a tab, and they say, oh, well, in 2022, the number's 853.
00:14:15.520That happens in Senate hearings every day.
00:14:20.120That's what actually a witness who is testifying, who's providing testimony, providing information, that's what they do.
00:14:27.620Mayorkas just sat there as a smug, content potentate with no sense.
00:14:35.900He owes nothing, he believes, to the Senate.
00:15:34.660I mean, the only reason she was, quote, border czar is because Joe Biden can't stand her, so he figures, okay, the border's a mess.
00:15:41.260Let's give it to Kamala and make the blame fall on her.
00:15:44.660But, you know, she's not clever enough to understand, okay, they're screwing me by making me in charge of this.
00:15:50.560And she's not – even if she did figure that out, she's not good enough to say, okay, well, if they're going to stick it on me, why don't I do something about it?
00:16:00.020She has the same hubris as Mayorkas, the same hubris as Merrick Garland of I don't have to answer the American people.
00:16:06.740It doesn't matter that I don't know anything about the border, that I've never been to the border, that I don't care about the border, that I'm doing nothing to solve it.
00:16:12.880But, oh, well, no one will hold me to account, and it's – there's a consistent thread that runs through this entire administration.
00:16:40.060This was a deliberate decision they made to open the floodgates to this country, the fentanyl, the human trafficking, the sex trafficking, everything else that comes across the border.
00:17:46.120These are 10%, 15% fringe views that on every issue, that's what they follow.
00:17:51.800What is interesting is I do think a couple of White House aides and I think some Senate Democrats are realizing, wow, this border has gotten so bad, we're vulnerable.
00:18:04.440And here's some of the evidence of that.
00:18:06.240Biden tweeted out this week, we need to do more to fund securing the border.
00:18:10.380And it's just – it's a deranged tweet.
00:18:13.700And, of course, what he tries to do is blame it on Republicans.
00:18:16.260It's Republicans that don't want to secure the border, which is – it's the most bizarre – but the fact that he's saying it shows vulnerability.
00:18:28.960And I'll tell you one of the things that I found very interesting in yesterday's hearing, as I was vigorously questioning Mayorkas, and he started to get in real trouble and he started to panic.
00:18:43.540And he looked over at Dick Durbin, who's the chairman of the committee, and he said, Mr. Chairman, would you help me?
00:18:48.720And he kind of looked helpless and plaintiff.
00:18:51.300And I've served 11 years on judiciary with Durbin.
00:18:54.200Durbin and I go round and round and round.
00:18:56.260And Durbin is, I think, the smartest of the Democrats on the committee, is the most effective questioner on the committee.
00:19:02.280He and I have battled 1,000 times in the Roman Coliseum arena.
00:19:08.240Dick Durbin is not remotely shy to come after me, and I'm not remotely shy to come after him.
00:19:12.260And so often at these hearings, he and I go round and round.
00:19:14.940I found it fascinating that when Mayorkas pleaded to Durbin to come in and save him, Durbin just looked at him and didn't do anything.
00:19:23.080And what it said to me is Durbin was like, dude, you're on your own on this one, that I think Senate Democrats are not eager to get in the mud pit with Mayorkas.
00:19:34.240And I got to say, it kind of felt like, and by the way, it's the only time I can think of it 11 years, when Durbin has refrained from coming after me on that sort of questioning.
00:19:42.740Usually it would feature Durbin jumping in because he likes to do that.
00:19:47.340And I actually took it as at least for some Senate Democrats, they're getting fed up with Mayorkas and they're looking at him saying, OK, this guy needs to be the sacrificial lamb.
00:19:58.340He needs to go down. Let's blame this whole border disaster on him, have him fired and focus on the midterms.
00:20:05.740I thought that was in many ways the most revealing, quiet moment of the hearing.
00:20:12.100Nobody on the outside watching noticed it.
00:20:15.140But but for sitting on the committee, it screamed from a mountaintop.
00:20:20.700Yeah, there's been talk about Mayorkas possibly being impeached for literally not doing his job.
00:20:26.600And that goes back to the most heated point of your back and forth.
00:20:31.120And I want to play that for people, because it was also very telling when he got angry that you were coming after him with the facts and he was losing with those facts and then not being bailed out by Dick Durbin.
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00:22:04.720Senator, one of the most contentious parts of the back and forth with you and Mayorkas was clearly after Durbin wasn't going to bail him out.
00:22:12.880And this was one of the most brilliant moments I've seen in a long time. Take a listen.
00:22:16.840There's a photograph from just one day along the Rio Grande of hundreds of thousands of people walking across the border.
00:22:23.920You have allowed this to happen. The photograph that was before. What are these wristbands?
00:25:42.780But we had, the year before he became Homeland Security Secretary, the year before Biden became president, 2020, we had the lowest illegal immigration in 45 years.
00:26:05.280And I have to admit, at the hearing, the answer he gave that surprised me the most is the one you just played a minute ago when he said he didn't know what the wristbands were.
00:26:17.640I was startled at that because I got to tell you, when you stand on the banks of the Rio Grande, as I've had, they cover the grass.
00:26:26.180They're everywhere because it's – look, it's like a QR code.
00:26:31.140You got to understand, these cartels – in 2018, the drug cartels made roughly $500 million from human trafficking.
00:26:54.660They send the boys to work for gangs in cities all across America.
00:26:57.920They send the girls to work in forced sex slavery.
00:27:01.840And I look at these – I have a number of the wristbands.
00:27:06.920So what you couldn't hear when I said, how do you not know, is I had a manila envelope full of wristbands that I collected at the border that I just dumped out on the dais and held them up.
00:27:17.720Because I picked them up, and some of them are tiny.
00:27:20.300Some of them obviously were on a little child, a four-, five-, six-year-old.
00:27:25.660And as I said in that questioning, I look at those wristbands as modern-day leg irons.
00:27:29.940I mean, we have today human slavery, just like the horrors of human slavery in the first century of our nation's history.
00:27:39.020We have human slavery today, except today the people responsible for the slavery are Alejandro Mayorkas and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
00:27:48.000And for him to say, I don't know what those are.
00:27:51.520Like, I was genuinely flabbergasted, speechless.
00:27:58.340Like, how do you do that job and not go down to the border, not talk to the border patrol agents, not go stand by the river and say, hey, what are these things?
00:28:06.200How do you not listen to the men and women on the front lines who tell you what's happening?
00:28:11.540And any person with a hint of morality, okay, fine, if the White House gives you a political order, we want open borders, we don't care what happens.
00:28:21.220You know what a person with integrity does?
00:29:09.020If you're a mom of one of those children who've been assaulted, I got to say you watch this testimony today.
00:29:17.220I don't know if you're filled with more grief and tears or anger or both.
00:29:23.280But what's infuriating, he intends to change nothing, which means he intends to allow more people to be killed, more people to be sexually assaulted, more people to be brutalized, and more Americans to die of fentanyl overdoses as a result.
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00:30:14.820Well, let's talk about the fentanyl for a second because this has been an issue that has affected so many families all over the country, is the ODing.
00:30:24.080And we know that the fentanyl is coming across our open border.
00:31:29.980And listen, when it comes to fentanyl overdoses, they're not even overdoses.
00:31:34.380At this point, I think they're poisonings because they're different.
00:31:37.540You think of someone who has a heroin overdose.
00:31:39.840You think of someone that, say, is a heroin user, and it's tragic, and they're injecting, and they're injecting, and they accidentally inject too much.
00:31:46.240And that's a tragedy, but it's a tragedy based on a really dangerous, slippery slope of conduct.
00:31:54.460What's happening with fentanyl is a different beast.
00:31:56.760Last year, there were over 100,000 people who died of overdoses, the majority from Chinese fentanyl coming across our southern border.
00:32:03.760And what happens, as you describe your friend, look, as you know, my sister Miriam died of an overdose about 12 years ago.
00:32:11.760It was not fentanyl, but it was painkillers, and she took too many of them.
00:32:15.180We don't know if it was on purpose or not, but she took a whole bunch of pills at night and never woke up in the morning.
00:32:23.880My sister was nine years older than me.
00:32:25.520She was an amazing person who tragically made a lot of wrong decisions and ended up paying for those decisions.
00:32:34.440The scourge of drug use has been massive, but with fentanyl now, it's qualitatively different because it's one guy at a party who smokes one joint.
00:32:46.860And listen, when we were kids, when I was a teenager, I smoked pot.
00:32:54.480I haven't smoked pot since I was a teenager, but as a teenager, when I was in high school and a little bit in college, I smoked pot.
00:33:01.400At the time, you know, you got high, you had fun, you wanted some Cheetos, and then you were done.
00:33:09.860There wasn't really a risk of, okay, if I smoke this joint, I'm going to fall over dead.
00:33:16.300There is right now that very real risk because they're lacing marijuana with fentanyl.
00:33:21.760You look at parties where a kid, a teenage kid will say, hey, take a pill, have a Valium, have a Percocet, have a Ritalin.
00:33:34.200And, you know, look, kids experiment, they do stupid things, and so some kid says, oh, that sounds like fun, and they take one pill.
00:33:42.260Now, it used to be if a kid at a party took one pill, they might get a buzz or something, and it would be fine.
00:33:48.220Now, if they take one pill and it has fentanyl in it and a little too much, the kid drops over dead.
00:33:54.220And let's be clear what a little too much is.
00:33:56.220It can be the size of the end of a ballpoint pen granular to put it in perspective of what too much is, what can kill you is.
00:34:07.660So let me tell you an illustration that a DEA agent told me.
00:34:11.640I was visiting with a DEA agent and a mom whose 22-year-old daughter was at a party, took one pill, and fell over dead from fentanyl.
00:34:19.900And the illustration this DEA agent did is he said he brought with him some packs of sweet and low, and he said, open the pack of sweet and low.
00:35:59.260So, so their other talking point is they say the bulk of the fentanyl and drugs we find are at the ports of entry, not crossing the border outside the ports of entry.
00:37:40.080You'll have a four-year-old kid getting swept away in the current and drowning.
00:37:43.160And what happens when that happens is the border patrol agents dive into the water and try to rescue the vulnerable immigrants who are drowning.
00:37:52.420And the cartels do that because they know that it consumes all the border patrol resources dealing with the humans being trafficked.
00:38:01.320And then a half mile down the river, they send another raft across loaded with fentanyl.
00:38:06.420And so they draw all the resources over there by tipping a raft over by having.
00:38:10.960And by the way, we have border patrol agents.
00:38:12.740We had a National Guardsman drown trying to save illegal immigrants who are drowning in the river.
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00:40:33.100Senator, there's been a lot of talk about impeachment.
00:40:37.620Obviously, Mayorkas is carrying out the wishes of the President of the United States of America.
00:40:42.660The President's wishes are clearly just flood the border, let everything in.
00:40:48.300Whether that's because he's compromised by the Chinese or send the fentanyl,
00:40:52.620or he's compromised by some of the deals that his family has done with people in Mexico, I don't know.
00:40:58.240But it does seem odd to be going against Americans and protecting Americans.
00:41:03.800So when you look at Mayorkas and the job he's doing, should the Republicans move to impeach him in the House and see what happens after that?
00:44:15.960The Democrats, there was not a single Democrat saying, hey, wait a second.
00:44:20.960How many kids are being sexually assaulted?
00:44:24.080How many children are sold into sex slavery?
00:44:27.100If the Democrats were really the compassionate humanitarian party they claim to be, wouldn't you think at least one of them would be worried about the modern-day slavery that the Biden administration is responsible for?
00:44:50.400The reason Mayorkas should be impeached, the reason we should have a trial is to put these facts before the American people because the press is complicit.
00:45:00.380The corporate media does not want people to know these facts.
00:45:03.660And Ben, the thing to understand, no Democrat defends these.
00:45:07.960There's a reason Mayorkas won't answer my questions.
00:45:14.540It has crossed the point to being indefensible.
00:45:18.600And so their only defense is hide it, is keep the American people ignorant and in the dark.
00:45:24.140And the purpose of the impeachment is to force the press to cover some of these facts so people understand the horror that this administration has produced.
00:45:35.440Well, I'll say it because I think there's a lot of people listening that are going to agree with me on this one.
00:45:38.980Thank you for your tough questioning of Mayorkas today, coming in and challenging him, being prepared, something that he clearly didn't have time to do because it wasn't a priority to him.
00:45:49.440But these are real questions that people want to get answers from, Senator.
00:45:53.500So I appreciate you leading on this issue.
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