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00:01:05.720 Welcome to this Verdict with Ted Cruz Weekend Review.

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00:01:10.140 And here are the stories that you may have missed that we talked about this week.

00:01:13.360 First up, Iran and where we are now in the politics of this deal.

00:01:18.100 Could we get a deal done?

00:01:19.720 And how much does this have to do with national security?

00:01:22.700 We break it down for you.

00:01:23.880 Also, we have got a shocking story coming out of Minnesota that the governor there actually paid private investigators to spy and to intimidate government employees who had whistleblown on the massive fraud that was taking place.

00:01:40.480 And finally, the Trump administration going all out to find children that were released into the country after they came across the southern border

00:01:50.800 And these children are missing by the hundreds of thousands

00:01:54.120 So who have they found? Well, it's an incredible story

00:01:57.380 We have that for you as well

00:01:58.860 It's the Week in Review, and it starts right now

00:02:01.840 All right, let's timestamp this

00:02:04.100 It is 12.37 a.m. Eastern Time as we are recording right now, Senator

00:02:09.220 And so let's talk about what's happening right now in the Middle East.

00:02:13.140 We have had a flare-up.

00:02:15.100 I think it's a fair way to put it.

00:02:16.480 Israel involved, Iran involved, hitting terrorist targets as well in Lebanon.

00:02:21.020 This has turned into a bigger deal.

00:02:22.780 The president trying to still get this deal done with Iran, making phone calls apparently to Bibi Netanyahu saying,

00:02:30.220 hey, let's not go too heavy here.

00:02:32.460 Let us see if we can keep this framework together, trying to keep that ceasefire together as well.

00:02:36.580 there's an awful lot happening right now. Well, let's talk about the latest news. And as you noted,

00:02:42.860 it is Sunday night, so things could break by Monday. By the time this podcast is out,

00:02:48.980 we could have more news breaking. But as of right now, the latest news, Axios reported just a few

00:02:54.240 minutes ago, quote, the Israeli Air Force conducted strikes on military targets in central and western

00:03:00.140 Iran on Monday morning local time, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement. The strikes

00:03:04.960 in retaliation for an Iranian missile attack against Israel mark a new phase in a growing

00:03:10.860 escalation that started on Sunday morning. This is the first time Israel has struck Iran since the

00:03:18.260 April 8 ceasefire. Further exchanges of fire could unravel the negotiations between the United States

00:03:25.200 and Iran and lead to the resumption of the war. President Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin

00:03:30.340 Netanyahu hours before the strikes not to retaliate after Tehran conducted a retaliatory

00:03:35.900 attack on Israel. A U.S. defense official said the U.S. military was not involved in the Israeli

00:03:41.660 strikes on Iran. The official said the Israeli strikes were relatively limited in their scope.

00:03:49.880 So we have returned to firing missiles, active hostility between Iran and Israel. Both have

00:03:58.300 fired missiles at each other in the in the past 24 hours that certainly has the potential to

00:04:03.780 escalate uh and and also sunday morning uh president trump was on meet the press he was

00:04:09.600 asked about iran uh here's what president trump had to say their leaders are gone do you know

00:04:16.020 where all of iran's nuclear material is yes yes would you unfreeze any iranian assets or lift any

00:04:24.060 sanctions up front as a part of any deal.

00:04:26.880 No.

00:04:27.880 So that would come after.

00:04:28.880 Comes after, yeah.

00:04:29.880 If they behave, if they do a good job, we start talking, yeah.

00:04:33.100 Material.

00:04:34.100 Unlike Obama.

00:04:36.300 Obama flew a Boeing 757, a plane I know very well.

00:04:40.440 They took the seats out and they loaded it up with $1.7 billion in cash from the banks

00:04:47.100 in Maryland and Virginia and D.C.

00:04:50.360 They emptied out the banks, and they gave them 1.7 in green, and they gave them tens of billions of dollars, just kept giving them money, and it didn't work.

00:05:00.100 Would any, again, Mr. President, you promised that you were going to negotiate a better deal.

00:05:06.880 I have.

00:05:08.160 You listen to the president there, and I do think it's really interesting to see how quick, on Meet the Press, they wanted to get back in his face and go, but this is a disaster.

00:05:18.000 you're like, he's like, it's three months. Like, what I'm doing right now is really tough. Others

00:05:23.560 said they were in favor of what I'm doing. They didn't do it the way I'm doing it. I'm holding

00:05:27.300 them accountable. This goes back to just perspective here, I think is the biggest thing

00:05:32.000 the president's saying. Well, what the president said that is very clear is he's drawn a red line

00:05:36.800 and he's insisting that Iran comply with his red line. His red lines, which we've talked about at

00:05:41.320 length, are number one, no nukes, no nuclear materials. They have no nuclear enrichment and

00:05:46.300 they have to hand over the enriched uranium they have. Number two, they have to stop funding

00:05:50.220 terrorism. Number three, they have to open the Strait of Hormuz. And you will not see, he has

00:05:56.760 said, sanctions relief. You will not see money going to them until they comply with those

00:06:01.460 conditions. That's the right way to negotiate. Both Barack Obama and Joe Biden just flooded

00:06:06.180 billions into Iran. As the president said, Obama literally flew a plane filled with almost $2

00:06:12.040 billion in cash, pallets of cash, into Iran in the dead of night. There was another exchange

00:06:17.700 President Trump had with Meet the Press. Give a listen to this one.

00:06:21.420 And they would have had a nuclear weapon five years ago.

00:06:23.820 But Mr. President, I'm curious, because when you were campaigning, you said you would rip

00:06:28.120 up the Iran nuclear deal, but negotiate a better deal. Why didn't you negotiate a better deal

00:06:33.340 at the time? Because after it was ripped up, there weren't guardrails and they escalated

00:06:38.040 their production of enriched uranium. Excuse me. It takes years to do these things.

00:06:42.920 These people have been fighting for 47 years. They've been killing Americans. They've been

00:06:48.200 taking off their legs and their arm and their faces have been hurt so badly and so horribly.

00:06:53.480 I'm moving very fast. I'm into three months. Vietnam lasted 19 years. I'm into my third

00:07:00.280 month. And all I do is say, well, when are you gonna win? If I were a Democrat, nobody

00:07:05.160 would be talking that way, but it doesn't matter to me, I've gotten so used to it. 0.58

00:07:09.160 Look, we have totally destroyed their military. They have some missiles left, they have some

00:07:14.820 drones left.

00:07:15.820 Do you know how many missiles?

00:07:16.820 Yes, exactly.

00:07:17.820 How many?

00:07:18.820 I don't want to tell you.

00:07:19.820 Can you give me a ballpark?

00:07:20.820 They have some left, no, but I know almost of the number, and we know where they are

00:07:25.780 too. And we know where their drones are, and we know where their drone factories are.

00:07:29.860 Most of the drone factories have been knocked out, most of the launching pads have been

00:07:33.920 knocked out and most of the missile manufacturing areas have been knocked out but they still have

00:07:39.320 capacity they have some missiles they have some drones uh i would say uh percentage wise maybe

00:07:46.520 21 22 percent of their missiles it's a lot of missiles but it's not what it was when we first

00:07:52.540 attacked so you're saying they have 21 22 percent of their missiles left correct yes i i just i got

00:07:58.760 to say, I laugh at how they want him to tell them, and he's like, I'm not going to tell you that

00:08:04.760 publicly. Well, why won't you? Because I'm not going to tell the enemy what I know on everything.

00:08:10.100 This seems pretty normal, yet the entire interview had that level of hostility in it.

00:08:15.580 Yeah, look, I mean, NBC, unfortunately, it is approaching this, and it has approached this

00:08:20.940 like the rest of the corporate media, with effectively rooting for the United States to

00:08:26.340 lose. As the president laid out, the United States has had extraordinary military results in this

00:08:33.280 conflict. 80% of the missiles, 80% of the drones destroyed, virtually all of the drone manufacturing

00:08:39.260 and missile capacity destroyed, the air force in rubble, the Navy sunken at the bottom of the

00:08:45.260 ocean, the Ayatollah dead, many of the mullahs dead, many of the leaders of the IRGC dead.

00:08:51.160 And her question, she says, well, why didn't you negotiate a better deal? You know, I'm listening

00:08:55.480 to that, wondering, you know, it's like someone saying to the police, why didn't you negotiate

00:09:02.020 a better deal with Charles Manson? Why didn't you negotiate a better deal with Jeffrey Dahmer?

00:09:05.900 Why didn't you negotiate a better deal with Ted Bundy? It is not possible to negotiate a deal

00:09:13.560 with someone whose only objective is to murder you. And the media refuses to acknowledge that.

00:09:21.020 They're like, you know, the right solution is send them billions of dollars. That's what

00:09:24.720 Democrats want. It is complete appeasement. It is denial of the reality that when the Ayatollah

00:09:31.960 says death to America, he means it. And the reason President Trump is waging this war

00:09:37.200 is because if the Ayatollah got nuclear weapons, we could see hundreds of thousands of Americans

00:09:45.300 murdered in a flash of an eye. And the president is not going to let that happen. And it is, 0.64

00:09:53.380 I got to say, by the way, I'm quite confident the folks at NBC News are cheering the results

00:09:59.680 of the L.A. Mayors race because the last thing they want is a mayor that can actually put out

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00:11:44.860 Now on to story number two.

00:11:47.160 All right.

00:11:47.400 I want to move on to this other incredible story, Senator, coming out of Minnesota.

00:11:51.600 And in life, especially in government work, you're told that if you're a whistleblower,

00:11:57.100 that you have protections.

00:11:59.200 And that if you're a whistleblower, you should not be afraid for your job or that someone's

00:12:03.380 going to come after you, certainly the government that you work for.

00:12:06.080 Well, apparently that's not the case in Minnesota. 0.57

00:12:09.980 And if you want to know how the Somali fraud got so bad, it might actually be because the 0.78

00:12:15.620 governor was coming after the whistleblower, not those that were committing the crimes in Minnesota

00:12:21.880 with his new shocking report. Well, that is inevitably, number one, the law, federal law,

00:12:27.520 and typically state law that protects whistleblowers, that gives you legal protection

00:12:30.900 because you want whistleblowers to call attention to fraud. But number two, if a government official

00:12:40.400 goes after the whistleblowers, attacks the whistleblowers, refuses to follow the law on

00:12:44.800 whistleblowers. That is powerful indication of a guilty mind, that you're covering something up.

00:12:53.280 It's sort of like if someone is murdered in Central Park, and you catch a person burning

00:13:00.680 their clothes from that night and destroying the murder weapon. That is powerful, powerful evidence

00:13:07.100 that they're the murderer, that it is typically the guilty who destroys evidence who tries to

00:13:12.640 cover it up, that if you're not guilty, you have far less motivation, far less likelihood to try

00:13:21.440 to silence whistleblowers to try to destroy evidence. So here's the story that broke in

00:13:25.880 the Daily Caller. The headline is, Tim Waltz's staff hired private investigators to silence

00:13:30.620 fraud whistleblowers, committee report fines. Senior Minnesota state officials allegedly hired

00:13:36.340 outside investigators to silence whistleblowers in an attempt to cover up widespread state

00:13:42.280 social services fraud, a House committee report released Monday found. The 200-page staff report

00:13:48.640 by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform found that Democrat Minnesota Governor

00:13:52.880 Tim Walz's state's administration intimidated and retaliated against state employees who raised

00:14:01.100 concerns about fraud, soliciting private investigators to reveal employees' personal

00:14:08.600 details. The report titled, The Cost of Doing Nothing, How Tim Walts and Keith Ellison Fueled

00:14:15.540 Minnesota's Fraud Explosion, exposed that senior state officials, as high as allegedly Governor

00:14:22.440 Walts, were aware of widespread fraud for years and neglected to respond to reports.

00:14:29.720 A Minnesota Department of Education official who contacted the FBI told federal investigators she

00:14:34.920 was pressured quote at every turn by her superiors to stop raising fraud concerns and was quote

00:14:43.560 handslapped when she continued to investigate according to the report. The official also

00:14:50.100 reported that she was warned by state administrators to quote stop digging into things

00:14:55.160 as it would appear that she was quote targeting certain groups. This is DEI and fraud all coming

00:15:04.120 together along with corruption to elect Democrats. The article continues, dozens of other whistleblowers

00:15:10.620 reported, dozens, that they were told to stay silent about fraud concerns by the Minnesota

00:15:16.920 Department of Human Services because they would be labeled, quote, racist or Islamophobic. DHS also

00:15:25.040 told state employees that raising fraud concerns would harm the state, the report said. Whistleblowers

00:15:32.120 reported the DHS conducted arbitrary investigations to photograph their cars and houses, monitor their

00:15:40.400 phones and computers, and asked employees where their kids attended school. Now it's going to get

00:15:47.960 worse. Then Temporary Commissioner Shireen Gandhi, by the way I'm going to give you some foreshadowing

00:15:55.580 that Ms. Gandhi did not behave like Gandhi. Instead, she confirmed in a testimony copied

00:16:06.080 in the report that the State Department used outside entities to conduct these investigations

00:16:13.740 of employees, but could not confirm whether independent law firms were used. Gandhi also

00:16:20.380 confirmed in her testimony that DHS management would regularly meet and, quote, check in on

00:16:26.860 employees who had reported fraud concerns. Gandhi continued to conduct these check-ins on DHS

00:16:33.100 whistleblower Faye Bernstein, quote, a year or two after her investigatory leave. So they hunted

00:16:41.260 them down and they stayed harassing them. Bernstein alleged that Gandhi, quote, shamed her in a meeting

00:16:47.740 after she raised concerns about fraud and, quote, excluded her from further meetings on the topic.

00:16:53.140 Whistleblowers also allege that former state commissioner Jody Harpstead held a division-wide

00:16:58.720 meeting and told attendees that, quote, employees would be punished if they reported concerns about

00:17:06.880 fraud in DHS programs, according to the report. DHS employee Emanuel Nuala told colleagues that

00:17:14.120 He, quote, did intelligence research within the Army and appears to have threatened to provide IP addresses to former colleagues in order to find the locations of whistleblowers' email addresses, an email obtained through a public data request showed.

00:17:35.040 Now it's about to get even worse. The report also alleged that DHS de-anonymized an internal

00:17:47.120 fraud hotline for employees in an attempt to intimidate fraud reporters. After whistleblowers

00:17:55.260 later created an anonymous external email to report fraud, DHS blocked the email address.

00:18:02.600 whistleblowers reported that their fraud hotline tips were sent to human resources and used

00:18:10.140 against them the hotline was originally anonymous but was de-anonymized under gandhi's tenure as

00:18:18.000 deputy commissioner of hr governor waltz appointed gandhi as commissioner of dhs in february 2026

00:18:25.660 but removed her in May before her confirmation hearing amid scrutiny of her response to fraud

00:18:33.100 allegations. This is anyone who claims, gosh, the elected officials of Minnesota, they were

00:18:42.280 victims. They didn't know. They wanted to go after the fraud, which by the way, both Waltz and

00:18:47.360 Ellison keep saying, oh, we wanted to go after the fraud. We wanted to prosecute it. This

00:18:52.600 demonstrates, I think powerfully, they are lying. Not only did they not want to go after the fraud,

00:18:58.980 they were doing everything they could to silence the whistleblowers and prevent anyone from

00:19:04.200 knowing about the fraud. Yeah. And this goes back to the other question of accountability.

00:19:10.380 If everything that we just mentioned turns out to be true, there's obviously now an open

00:19:15.440 investigation into this. If you do these things, are you breaking the law? And if it goes all the

00:19:22.420 way the governor, is he breaking the law? And the people below him, are they breaking the law?

00:19:26.900 And is there any accountability for this? Or is this just, well, Walt isn't running for re-election,

00:19:31.740 so it doesn't really matter anymore, and we'll just move on. And yeah, we may continue to do

00:19:36.800 things like this in the future without accountability. Listen, the Department of

00:19:40.440 Justice has created an entire new division focused at going after fraud. And I hope everyone who made

00:19:47.480 these decisions faces accountability if they committed criminal violations that they are

00:19:52.360 prosecuted i am hopeful i can tell you i'm urging the department of justice hold them accountable

00:19:58.040 the way our our constitutional system works it's not the legislature look i'm i'm in the senate i

00:20:03.820 can't prosecute anybody i don't have executive authority i have legislative authority i can

00:20:07.680 write legislation which i have but but i can't the power to bring an indictment the power to go

00:20:13.620 before a grand jury to get an indictment to prosecute that is exclusively within the executive

00:20:19.780 branch, within principally the U.S. Department of Justice at the federal level. And so I can tell

00:20:25.740 you this, I am urging the attorney general and DOJ prosecute every single person who committed

00:20:32.020 criminal acts, who covered up this fraud, who benefited from it, who knew what they were doing.

00:20:36.960 And this is a real smoking gun. And at the AG, I go back to Ellison there, we know his name

00:20:43.400 well. If he's involved in this and is using and weaponizing the government to go after those that

00:20:49.980 were not committing the fraud, those that were trying to whistleblow on the fraud, and they are

00:20:55.900 harassed, is there any lane for the people that were being harassed to somehow have, like, you

00:21:01.780 know, restitution for what they went through? If you're being harassed for two years after you put

00:21:06.800 in a tip, that's got to put a lot of stress on your life. I'm assuming it puts stress on your

00:21:12.140 career. I'm assuming it could have affected a lot of people getting promotions that they deserved.

00:21:17.840 Yeah, look, and I would assume we're going to see civil litigation of people filing lawsuits and

00:21:24.200 seeking compensation for this. And that litigation could well be successful.

00:21:30.520 In terms of criminal prosecution, this would not surprise me. I don't know sitting here

00:21:35.540 if Minnesota law makes doing this a criminal violation in Minnesota. Now, of course,

00:21:42.920 the federal government can't prosecute violations of Minnesota law. It would take a Minnesota

00:21:47.760 district attorney to bring that case. And I got to admit, I'm very skeptical that there are any

00:21:54.680 prosecutors in Minnesota willing to hold the corrupt Democrats in charge of that state

00:22:00.020 accountable. If they're not, then there's not really a mechanism to enforce Minnesota law,

00:22:06.620 which means you would be left with federal law. And given that these are federal funds

00:22:11.200 that were effectively being stolen and funneled to Somali, funneled to Somalian fraudsters being

00:22:18.360 sent, among other places, to Al-Shabaab, and we had terrorists before, on this podcast,

00:22:25.600 that the single largest funder of Al-Shabaab, which is the radical Islamic terrorist group that

00:22:31.540 is in Somalia, their number one funder was the taxpayers of Minnesota. And those are also federal

00:22:37.960 taxpayer money. So look, I expect the Department of Justice, they've already prosecuted a number

00:22:43.040 of the fraudsters at the lower level, but I hope they go right up the ladder of accountability and

00:22:49.700 any politicians that are responsible. And to be clear, this happened because it was in politicians'

00:22:57.120 political interest for this to happen, because they were getting money from campaign donations 0.83

00:23:02.500 and they were getting votes from allowing Somalian fraudsters to rob the taxpayers of Minnesota and 0.79

00:23:09.520 the American taxpayers. And look, this has happened also in other states. It's happened 0.66

00:23:15.940 in Maine under the Democrat governor there. It's happened in California. It's happened in Illinois.

00:23:21.540 It's happened, I think, all over the country, but predominantly in Democrat states where there

00:23:27.820 are Democrat politicians who are benefiting from turning the other way to fraud. And I think

00:23:34.280 everyone who committed a criminal act should face prosecution and real consequences.

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00:24:20.400 Why should you listen to Armstrong and Getty On Demand?

00:24:23.960 We're not boring.

00:24:25.060 A lot of news is boring.

00:24:26.040 And tedious.

00:24:26.920 And depressing.

00:24:27.500 And makes you angry.

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00:25:16.980 for free have a great day i heart radio i want to get back to the big story number three of the week

00:25:25.500 you may have missed senator i want to move into another story that we highlighted here months ago

00:25:31.120 it's an important story about the children that were lost by the prior administration there were

00:25:39.140 kids that were let into this country. They were not vetted, but with the adults that were with

00:25:44.000 them, they were then given out to different people to, quote, take care of them in this country,

00:25:48.280 and they disappeared. These children, many of them have been abused. Many of them have been

00:25:53.800 abused sexually. Many of them have been abused even in work conditions, and they were lost by

00:25:59.180 the prior administration. And now, luckily, many of them are being found because of what Donald

00:26:04.540 Trump and the administration are doing? So perhaps the biggest lie about Joe Biden and

00:26:11.220 the Democrats' immigration policies is the lie that they embrace open borders because of compassion.

00:26:19.020 The reality is it is precisely the opposite. The Democrats had zero compassion for the Americans

00:26:25.500 who were murdered by the violent criminal illegal aliens they released. They had zero compassion

00:26:30.120 for the women who were raped by the violent criminal illegal aliens they released. They had 1.00

00:26:35.560 zero compassion for the kids who were brutalized and sexually assaulted by the violent criminal 0.99

00:26:41.960 illegal aliens they released. Another aspect of this tragedy is specifically the kids. During

00:26:48.640 four years of Joe Biden's administration, the Biden administration lost over 300,000 children.

00:26:58.900 yeah verdict has covered this at length we've this is a topic we talked about throughout the

00:27:05.120 Biden uh years but it was staggering these are kids often kids that come across the border

00:27:10.740 unaccompanied we had over 12 million illegal immigrants come into this country during the

00:27:14.600 Biden years and in many instances you'd get a little boy you get a little girl they'd be in

00:27:19.040 government custody and what the Biden administration would do is they would hand it over to adults that

00:27:24.860 came to pick them up, but they wouldn't check to see if those adults were family members. They

00:27:29.400 wouldn't do DNA tests to see if they're related. They'd hand them over to adults, and then they

00:27:34.200 simply lost them. And they would end up with random adults that have kids, and the Biden

00:27:39.620 administration said, we don't know where they are. We have no contact for them. And a significant

00:27:46.000 number, we don't know how many, but a significant number of those kids were put into forced child

00:27:52.100 labor. A significant number of those kids were put into sex slavery, were sexually abused,

00:27:59.080 and no one in the Biden administration gave a damn. When Alejandro Mayorkas, who ran the 0.76

00:28:05.240 Department of Homeland Security, would testify before the Senate, I would question him about it.

00:28:09.260 He was defiant. Well, thankfully, one of the very top priorities the Trump administration came in

00:28:16.460 with is we're going to find those kids. And they've already found over 146,000 of them.

00:28:23.220 They're still looking. I want you to listen to current DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen

00:28:27.780 at a press conference this week. Give a listen. We're going to enforce our nation's laws and

00:28:33.580 we're going to right the wrongs that the Biden administration turned a blind eye to. It's because

00:28:39.280 of President Trump's leadership. It's horrific to what's happening right in our own country

00:28:45.100 because of four years of a blind eye that allowed unvetted sponsors to come pick up 450,000 kids

00:28:55.780 on our borders. Knowing their reports, why the Biden administration was in office,

00:29:01.580 their own reports was reporting that over a third of the females, regardless of age,

00:29:09.920 was sexually assaulted before they made it to their border.

00:29:14.480 They knew it was human traffickers that were trafficking these young kids

00:29:19.680 to the border, and then they were unvetting or refusing to vet

00:29:25.400 the so-called sponsors, and there was zero wellness checks.

00:29:29.840 And they want to claim that Republicans, because we're enforcing the laws,

00:29:34.200 is inhumane somehow?

00:29:35.680 What's inhumane about taking care of our kids?

00:29:37.760 As a father of six with three young girls, I will do whatever I have to do.

00:29:43.160 I will move heaven and hell to go find these kids.

00:29:47.220 You know, I love the commitment there.

00:29:49.080 And I want to remind people of the vote center that have taken place, the Democrats.

00:29:53.700 You had 145 Democrats that vote against mandating deportation for illegal aliens who commit sex crimes.

00:30:02.000 You have 160 Democrats vote against mandating deportation for illegal aliens with DUIs.

00:30:10.100 You have 186 Democrats who voted against mandating deportations for illegal aliens who commit welfare fraud.

00:30:19.520 And you have 190 Democrats who voted against mandating deportation for illegal aliens who harm police animals.

00:30:29.120 I think it's clear.

00:30:30.280 Democrats have literally never met an illegal alien. 0.91

00:30:32.880 They're not willing to feed, protect, defend, and allow to then take children and unvet them. 0.63

00:30:38.700 There's nothing they won't do to have an open border policy. 0.92

00:30:42.500 Yeah, look, that's right.

00:30:44.020 And those votes were all in this past year.

00:30:46.540 If you go back to during the Biden administration in the Senate, 100 percent, every single Senate Democrat voted in favor of open borders over and over and over again.

00:30:57.680 We would tee up the votes. I led the fight on many of these. And the Democrats' straight party

00:31:03.600 line would vote in favor of open borders. And when you asked them about the kids,

00:31:09.880 they didn't have a response. They don't dispute these figures. They just don't talk about them.

00:31:16.300 And it's, look, I want you to listen to Secretary Mullen talking about the kids they found so far

00:31:23.160 and what they're what they continue looking for. You know, I tell people that I haven't quit

00:31:29.020 smiling since I've been secretary of Department of Homeland Security. But I have to take that back

00:31:34.420 because when we start digging into these cases and you start hearing the absolute horrific

00:31:41.320 things that took place underneath the Biden administration under true neglect at best

00:31:48.280 and criminal at worst, to allow 450,000 kids to go missing throughout this country.

00:31:57.260 President Trump has made it a point to go find these kids. Because of our partnership

00:32:02.300 with HHS and DOJ, Department of Homeland Security, truly using the best of the best,

00:32:11.580 which the Democrats sometimes want to demonize, because a lot of times this is ICE, this is HSI,

00:32:16.160 it's a cvp these individuals that the democrats seem to want to defund but because of president

00:32:24.180 trump we finally funded them for three years we're able to push and go find these kids we found 146

00:32:30.800 000 kids so far 146 000 kids we still have nearly 300 000 missing we're we're investigating reports

00:32:40.300 to where some of these kids claim

00:32:42.200 that they were raped 600 to 700 times.

00:32:45.560 I don't care who you are. 0.97

00:32:47.980 I don't care if you have kids.

00:32:49.040 If you don't have kids,

00:32:49.640 I don't care if you're a liberal,

00:32:50.680 you're independent,

00:32:51.620 you're a Democrat,

00:32:52.300 you're a Republican.

00:32:53.280 If you can't stand for law enforcement

00:32:56.740 to go find these kids,

00:32:58.680 who are you?

00:32:59.680 Who are you?

00:33:00.820 Every leader should understand what's going on.

00:33:03.920 And do you know where we're finding the most of them?

00:33:05.680 Sanctuary cities.

00:33:06.840 Because they know they're safe.

00:33:07.920 if you think about sex trafficking a child center you would go to a sanctuary city that is the

00:33:14.520 safest place for you to operate you and i have talked about this bluntly well and it's worth

00:33:19.860 explaining why because in a sanctuary city you have democrat elected officials you have democrat

00:33:25.560 district attorneys who won't prosecute the human traffickers who won't prosecute the sex traffickers

00:33:32.580 who have decided as a political matter that their party, the Democrat Party, is for open borders.

00:33:38.600 You know, you remember Chris Murphy, when he said on TV, the very liberal Democrat from 0.93

00:33:43.800 Connecticut, he said, the people we care about most, illegal immigrants. That was his phrase,

00:33:49.840 the people we care about most. And by the way, that's a lie also. He doesn't care about the

00:33:57.160 little girls and little boys being raped and turned into sex slaves. He doesn't care about 1.00

00:34:00.740 them at all. What he cares about is letting in as many illegal immigrants as possible who will 1.00

00:34:05.360 then vote Democrat and keep the party in power. I want you to listen to Secretary Mullen making

00:34:10.620 this point that as there were multiple reports of kids being trapped in sex slavery, no Democrat

00:34:17.700 gave a damn. It was being reported at the time it was happening and there was no outrage and no one

00:34:22.700 tried to hold these people accountable and kids now have been paying for it. They've been getting

00:34:26.620 raped over and over and over again because this previous administration chose not to enforce our

00:34:34.300 nation's laws and protect the most vulnerable. That is shameful. Six to 700 times. That is a

00:34:41.300 number that I do believe should haunt everyone listening. Yeah. Yeah. Look, I want you to

00:34:46.860 remember when Alejandro Mayorkas testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee

00:34:50.720 and and i showed him the the plastic bracelets the colored bracelets that traffickers would put on

00:34:58.640 every illegal they brought into this country and they were color-coded for how many thousands of

00:35:02.760 dollars they owed them and it was literally they were treating human beings like cattle 0.67

00:35:06.680 and when you stand on on the border down by the rio grande river you see hundreds of these in

00:35:12.060 the grass and i asked him what the colored wristbands were and his answer was i have no

00:35:17.000 idea. I've never seen them before, which I get a bit made me really angry because it means he

00:35:22.640 hadn't bothered to go to the border at all. He did not care about the children being trafficked.

00:35:29.780 And I view those colored wristbands as modern day leg irons. This is slavery today in America, 0.75

00:35:37.020 and the Democrats were responsible for it. And one of the most important things the Trump 0.57

00:35:41.000 administration is doing is stopping this horrific abuse of kids that the Democrats allowed to have

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