Verdict with Ted Cruz - December 06, 2023


Monthly $$ from Hunter for Joe Biden, VA Prioritizing Illegal Immigrants over Veterans & Big Business Tries to Destroy Elon Musk


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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is joined by Sen. Ben Ferguson (D-NJ) to discuss new details about payments between Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. The Biden White House is fighting back hard against these new allegations.

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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00:00:05.560 Welcome.
00:00:06.240 It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.
00:00:08.020 Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:09.360 Senator, there is some breaking news tonight that deals with the Biden crime family.
00:00:13.080 We're going to talk about that.
00:00:14.880 Also, you may be shocked how your money is being spent at the border,
00:00:20.460 specifically when it comes to illegal immigrants coming to this country.
00:00:24.000 We're going to expose that as well.
00:00:25.640 And why is it that the entire advertising world is moving against Elon Musk?
00:00:32.240 Is this all on purpose to silence him and others on X for freedom of speech?
00:00:38.060 We're going to talk about that as well.
00:00:39.680 Before we get to that, though, Senator, let's talk about these new allegations.
00:00:44.080 The White House, to be full disclaimer here,
00:00:46.820 they're fighting back hard on this new reporting that's come out on reoccurring payments
00:00:52.340 that we're going back and forth between Hunter Biden and the President of the United States of America,
00:00:57.000 and now Joe Biden.
00:00:58.140 Let's talk about what they're saying in these new accusations.
00:01:01.300 Well, remember that the talking point for the Biden White House and for Democrats
00:01:05.740 has been it's changed from the beginning.
00:01:08.540 Initially, it was that Joe Biden never talked to Hunter Biden
00:01:11.560 about any of his overseas business dealings.
00:01:14.320 Then that was proven to be a rampant lie.
00:01:16.640 Then it was that Joe Biden had never talked to any of Hunter Biden's business associates.
00:01:24.540 Then testimony came out that that was a rampant lie.
00:01:27.960 Then it became that Joe Biden was not in business with Hunter Biden
00:01:34.160 while he was shaking down Chinese oligarchs and Ukrainian oligarchs
00:01:38.380 and Russian oligarchs for millions of dollars in exchange for favors from daddy. 1.00
00:01:43.140 That was a lie.
00:01:44.300 Then the latest discussion, and we broke this down on verdict,
00:01:48.680 the Democrats are saying their talking point,
00:01:50.580 they've basically thrown Hunter overboard.
00:01:52.380 They've concluded Hunter, yeah, he's corrupt as a $3 bill.
00:01:56.200 There's no saving him. 0.99
00:01:57.420 But he was an addict.
00:01:58.760 But he had substance abuse problems.
00:02:00.520 They want to defend him.
00:02:01.680 And more importantly, what they are invested in saying
00:02:04.440 is there is no direct evidence of Joe Biden's involvement in criminality.
00:02:11.380 That's their sort of final line.
00:02:13.560 And by the way, we did an entire podcast refuting that claim.
00:02:17.360 So if you didn't watch that, you got to go back and watch our podcast explaining why the claim
00:02:21.600 there's no direct evidence implicating Joe Biden in the corruption is a flat out lie.
00:02:26.040 And also go back.
00:02:27.740 And if you just want to go back to the evidence,
00:02:29.280 go back and listen to the two part series we did with Jim Jordan.
00:02:33.200 And we also did a two part series with James Comer.
00:02:35.900 Go back and listen to those episodes.
00:02:37.600 Well, and the James Comer one is particularly relevant because this week,
00:02:41.660 James Comer received evidence.
00:02:43.220 Remember, the Democrat talking point is there's no direct evidence
00:02:45.700 that Joe Biden benefited from Hunter Biden's corruption.
00:02:49.160 Well, what James Comer released is that Joe Biden received a recurring payment of $1,380
00:02:57.220 from his son Hunter's law firm beginning in late 2018.
00:03:02.680 And that was right after a bank money laundering officer warned that the same account was receiving
00:03:10.880 millions of dollars in Chinese government linked funds without, quote, any services rendered.
00:03:19.340 And in particular, that company was a Wasco PC, which set up a monthly transfer to then former Vice President Joe Biden
00:03:30.240 with a voided check for the future president included in the documentation.
00:03:35.960 And on Monday, the House Oversight Committee released that documentation.
00:03:40.120 The New York Post reported that at least three payments were made on September 17th,
00:03:47.140 on October 15th and on November 15th, 2018.
00:03:51.400 And it totaled $4,140 to Joe Biden from a Wasco PC.
00:03:59.020 Now, remember, the Democrats, their last ground to defend this is Joe Biden hasn't benefited personally.
00:04:07.040 He wasn't directly involved in the corruption.
00:04:09.320 Well, now we have evidence of monthly payments, at least three, potentially more,
00:04:14.160 from the shell company that Hunter Biden set up that we know received millions of dollars from the Chinese company.
00:04:22.220 So it's money directly going to Papa Joe.
00:04:25.800 And by the way, you mentioned the White House is fighting back.
00:04:29.660 They're fighting back furiously.
00:04:30.780 And what they're saying is, oh, this isn't corrupt at all. 0.60
00:04:35.280 This was Joe helping his poor, sad sack, drug addict son with buying a car.
00:04:43.760 In particular, there's an email from Hunter Biden's laptop that annotates various expenses,
00:04:50.780 including, quote, Ford Raptor reimbursement to J.R.B., which is presumably Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., for $1,380.
00:05:01.860 Yeah.
00:05:02.340 So that's the same amount.
00:05:04.340 And it's at least indicated to be the payment for a truck.
00:05:08.100 That may or may not be the case.
00:05:09.800 But at the end of the day, whether it's the payment of a truck or not,
00:05:13.140 this is an account that we know received millions of dollars from the Chinese communists.
00:05:18.600 And was flagged, by the way, for suspicious activity.
00:05:20.520 Yeah, the banks noted it.
00:05:21.940 Look, if you have a bank account that is suddenly getting wired tens of thousands
00:05:25.940 and hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars from the Chinese communists
00:05:28.640 under our banking laws, that gets flagged as money laundering.
00:05:32.140 This was flagged.
00:05:33.480 And nonetheless, month after month after month, it was transferred to Papa Joe.
00:05:38.720 And the Democrats say, never mind.
00:05:41.420 I'm pretty sure Papa Joe was happy to spend that money,
00:05:44.980 money that on its face appears to have derived from the Chinese communists
00:05:49.920 so that we don't know.
00:05:50.620 We don't know the source of it, but we know the entity paying Joe
00:05:53.620 was getting millions of dollars from the Chinese communists.
00:05:56.560 And we know that money is fun.
00:05:57.880 And by the way, either of these things, let's be honest, could be plausible.
00:06:01.620 It's totally plausible.
00:06:03.280 And now I would argue 100% factual that shortly after a bank money laundering officer warned 0.95
00:06:12.460 that the same damn account that was receiving the millions of dollars in Chinese government-linked funds 0.84
00:06:17.940 without, quote, this is the bank's words, any services rendered. 0.98
00:06:21.560 Now, all of a sudden, we got, you know, well, we're paying for really nice Ford Raptor cars.
00:06:27.100 Well, and listen.
00:06:27.660 That's just, that's not normal, but completely normal for criminal activity
00:06:31.340 in the Biden administration, the Biden family, right?
00:06:34.880 This is not normal for government officials to have multiple shell companies.
00:06:40.520 Yeah.
00:06:40.600 This is not normal, actually, for anybody to have multiple shell companies.
00:06:44.020 If your name's Tony Montana, if you're a drug dealer, then you've got multiple shell companies.
00:06:47.680 But generally, people who don't have something to hide don't create dozens of shell companies.
00:06:53.960 You might create a company.
00:06:55.820 So, Ben, all right, you own a barbecue restaurant.
00:06:58.040 Yeah, have an LLC.
00:06:59.060 You own a gun store.
00:07:00.460 Yes.
00:07:01.320 Presumably, it is incorporated in some form.
00:07:03.200 Correct.
00:07:03.380 So you have a company.
00:07:04.080 Yes.
00:07:04.460 But that company has employees.
00:07:06.260 Yes.
00:07:06.800 You have payroll.
00:07:07.860 Yes.
00:07:08.180 You have payroll, taxes, sales tax, property taxes, all this insurance.
00:07:12.120 Like the expenses.
00:07:13.360 You have a P&L.
00:07:14.360 Right.
00:07:14.500 Like you make money.
00:07:15.800 You make expenses.
00:07:16.920 You're running a business.
00:07:17.880 That's normal.
00:07:20.160 These shell companies created by Hunter and Joe and the Biden family, they don't have employees.
00:07:25.360 They don't have expenses.
00:07:26.920 They are simply.
00:07:28.100 And they have no services rendered.
00:07:29.460 That's how they don't do anything.
00:07:30.820 They don't do anything.
00:07:31.100 They said they don't do anything.
00:07:32.420 Okay.
00:07:32.560 I want to ask you something.
00:07:34.340 Imagine for a second you're a Chinese communist reporting to President Xi in China.
00:07:40.800 In what example would Chinese men pay millions of dollars to Hunter Biden?
00:07:50.500 Like what service would Hunter, the crackhead, provide that would be worth you going to your
00:07:58.060 Communist Party bosses and say, hey, let's give this guy millions of dollars.
00:08:01.600 Like give me an innocent explanation for why a Chinese communist gives Hunter Biden millions 0.93
00:08:07.060 of dollars.
00:08:07.920 Well, the best part is at least the White House said, hey, when did it become a crime to buy
00:08:11.580 American referring to a Ford Raptor?
00:08:14.000 Well, it is a crime if you're laundering Chinese communist money and hiding it.
00:08:18.140 That is, in fact, a crime.
00:08:19.500 People serve jail time unless your name is Hunter Biden and unless you have the Biden
00:08:23.860 DOJ that is covering up your crimes.
00:08:26.000 Unless you have the Biden attorney general that is desperately trying to obstruct justice
00:08:30.120 and prevent anyone from inquiring into Joe Biden's involvement, then it's not a crime
00:08:34.800 to laundermine.
00:08:35.380 For anyone else, it is.
00:08:36.560 Rarely am I disappointed in you, Senator, but I was looking at your Twitter account today.
00:08:40.240 I was expecting the snarky remark to the White House's statement on when is it a crime
00:08:45.200 to buy American made?
00:08:46.120 I was waiting for you to write back when the money paid for the American made product came
00:08:49.860 from communist China.
00:08:51.040 So number one, I will point out the night's not over.
00:08:54.540 OK, all right.
00:08:55.160 Fair point.
00:08:55.720 So smart ass tweets can come later tonight. 1.00
00:08:58.600 Yes.
00:08:59.120 OK, number two, I'll point out I woke up in Houston, Texas, got on a plane and flew to
00:09:03.920 D.C.
00:09:04.620 So I haven't had a chance to read many of these stories or to engage in Twitter.
00:09:08.880 But look, it is important to understand.
00:09:12.380 Listen, the White House is furiously spinning.
00:09:17.240 What's wrong with a dad paying for a car for his kid?
00:09:20.560 And on its face, that question is a reasonable question.
00:09:23.460 But what is worth noting, and I get this is an incredibly partisan divided time, so it's
00:09:30.780 hard to know what to believe.
00:09:33.200 But what is striking is the Biden White House is not giving an innocent explanation for this.
00:09:38.320 They say, well, it's paying for a truck for his son.
00:09:40.780 OK.
00:09:40.960 But what they haven't answered is where did the money come from?
00:09:45.660 Yep.
00:09:46.160 What they haven't answered is, did this money come from Chinese communists?
00:09:51.120 What they haven't answered is, was this money extorted from Chinese communists because Hunter
00:09:56.740 Biden threatened punishment from Joe Biden in his official capacity if they didn't pay
00:10:03.340 him millions of dollars?
00:10:04.260 We've seen the WhatsApp text that he sent.
00:10:06.660 I'm sitting here with daddy.
00:10:07.320 I'm sitting here next to my father.
00:10:09.240 The White House has never refuted that.
00:10:11.620 So understand, listen, it's easy to think in today's polarized world, there's a he said,
00:10:16.300 she said, each side has a narrative.
00:10:18.960 Understand, Biden and the Democrats don't have a narrative on the other side.
00:10:24.000 Their narrative is stick their head in the sand and ignore that it has happened because
00:10:28.420 they have not addressed the facts of this.
00:10:31.320 And every day, their talking points, it's getting harder and harder for them to claim Joe Biden
00:10:36.980 is not involved when thousands of dollars are flowing directly into his bank account.
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00:12:08.340 You mentioned the White House, Senator, a second ago, and they don't answer questions.
00:12:12.980 It's funny that you mention that, because at the White House press briefing today, Jean-Pierre
00:12:19.160 was asked a question, and she was asked a question about the money, and then the best
00:12:23.100 part was this.
00:12:24.760 It was the last question she answered, aka didn't answer, and then walked off the stage. 1.00
00:12:31.140 Listen.
00:12:32.260 Thank you.
00:12:32.680 The White House has said repeatedly that the President and his son were never in business
00:12:38.300 together.
00:12:39.120 They've said that repeatedly also in this room.
00:12:42.440 According to bank records obtained by the House Oversight Committee, though, one of Hunter
00:12:47.180 Biden's businesses, Osawa PC, set up direct payments to the President.
00:12:52.120 Did the President accept payment?
00:12:55.160 And why would there be such an arrangement if they were never in business together, or
00:12:59.320 if there was a wall of separation, as the President has previously said?
00:13:02.200 So I have to be clear with you.
00:13:04.800 I have not seen that report, so I would have to refer you to my colleagues over at the White
00:13:09.340 House Counsel's office on that particular question.
00:13:12.240 All right, everyone.
00:13:13.120 See some of you in Boston or on Wednesday.
00:13:15.260 Thanks, everybody.
00:13:16.120 I mean, literally walked off the stage, Senator, and says, let me be clear with you, and then
00:13:19.660 doesn't clear any of it up.
00:13:21.000 Yeah, look, this Biden White House ignores the facts.
00:13:26.220 They don't defend themselves, and it's because they're counting on the corrupt corporate media
00:13:30.000 to cover up for them.
00:13:31.600 At this point, it is literally every day the evidence is growing.
00:13:35.500 But the frustrating thing has been, if you watch CNN, the evidence isn't growing because
00:13:40.220 the evidence doesn't exist.
00:13:41.280 If you watch MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, the evidence doesn't exist.
00:13:45.300 It's why people are listening to this podcast.
00:13:48.240 It's why we're at a million listeners a month, because you can't get this information anywhere
00:13:53.460 other than here.
00:13:54.460 And look, that moves us to our second story, and our second story is another one that's
00:13:58.220 very hard to get anywhere other than this podcast, which is under Joe Biden, the Department
00:14:03.920 of Veterans Affairs processed 161,000 medical and dental care claims for illegal aliens in
00:14:15.140 the year 2022.
00:14:16.600 So in one year, 161,000 claims for medical and dental from illegal aliens.
00:14:22.120 And at the same time, the Biden VA Department was delaying claims for United States veterans
00:14:30.120 in urgent need of care.
00:14:32.340 So 161,000 medical bills, in essence.
00:14:35.740 Why is the VA doing one?
00:14:37.140 Why is the VA doing one for an illegal alien?
00:14:40.640 The last I checked, illegal aliens haven't defended this nation.
00:14:43.620 The VA is there to be there for our veterans, for our servicemen and women, for soldiers and
00:14:49.020 sailors and airmen and Marines who fought and bled and risked their lives.
00:14:53.260 The VA is part of our way of saying thank you.
00:14:55.840 The last I checked, someone who crossed into this country illegally has not risked their lives
00:15:00.380 to defend our liberty.
00:15:01.240 I find it outrageous that one illegal alien is getting health care at the VA, much less
00:15:08.060 161,000.
00:15:09.460 How does this happen, by the way?
00:15:11.120 Well, I'll tell you what.
00:15:11.940 Listen to Fox News because Fox News, to their credit, is covering it.
00:15:14.960 Nobody else is.
00:15:15.680 But listen to Fox News on this.
00:15:17.500 Veterans are now calling out the VA's role in processing medical care for illegals.
00:15:23.160 Yes, you heard that right.
00:15:24.100 While those who fought to protect us wait to be treated.
00:15:27.220 Concerned Veterans for America is one organization calling on lawmakers to investigate.
00:15:31.720 Air Force veteran Darren Selmick is one of its senior advisors.
00:15:35.020 He joins us now.
00:15:36.940 Darren, nobody knows VA and VA health care better than you.
00:15:40.260 This story is on foxnews.com right now.
00:15:43.240 Break down what's happening.
00:15:44.160 Is it really the case that when someone comes across the border illegally, in some way they're
00:15:50.180 using the VA to get health care services?
00:15:53.120 Hey, Pete, thanks for having me on your show.
00:15:55.080 Yeah, it's happening.
00:15:56.240 And I got to tell you, when I found out about this a few weeks ago, it made me mad.
00:16:00.400 And everyone I've talked to is a veteran.
00:16:02.220 It makes them mad.
00:16:04.160 VA's mission is to serve veterans.
00:16:06.480 It is not to help ICE and the Border Patrol, which we have the documents, which are on their
00:16:11.260 websites and from a memo.
00:16:13.140 It's not to help them go ahead and process medical claims and pay medical claims and make
00:16:18.460 it easy for the unauthorized migrants to get health care and dental care. 0.98
00:16:23.440 So what is happening is, and look, as someone who's a former senior advisor in the Trump
00:16:27.940 administration at the VA and advisor at the White House, I would have stopped this.
00:16:33.400 We would have stopped this because it's not right.
00:16:35.900 The mission of the VA is to serve veterans, not to serve unauthorized migrants.
00:16:39.600 And so what's happening is, and we have this from the Undersecretary of Health, he's put
00:16:44.620 out in a video, which I've seen, hey, make it hard for veterans.
00:16:49.160 Make it hard for veterans to go ahead and get community care.
00:16:52.620 But at the same time, they are processing for 2022, 161,000 medical claims and paying those
00:16:59.500 claims for unauthorized migrants.
00:17:02.300 Meanwhile, veterans are having a hard time getting health care.
00:17:05.260 They're literally dying because they can't get mental health in a timely manner.
00:17:09.140 They can't get cancer treatment.
00:17:12.340 Bills are being sent to them because they're not paying the providers on time.
00:17:15.360 So it's make it hard for veterans.
00:17:17.100 They've told the staff to do that.
00:17:18.440 Only default to the VA community care when you have to.
00:17:21.260 At the same time, they're helping Border Patrol and ICE make it easy button.
00:17:26.500 Easy button for unauthorized migrants. 0.98
00:17:28.620 Hard button for veterans.
00:17:29.900 It's got to stop.
00:17:30.760 Congress needs to investigate this.
00:17:33.160 Last year, Mayorkas said in testimony that they were working with the VA to go ahead and
00:17:38.180 expand this, possibly in medical centers.
00:17:40.580 We don't know exactly how deep this is.
00:17:42.840 It's got to be investigated.
00:17:43.660 It's insane.
00:17:44.780 That VA employee you're talking about said, press the easy button less for vets with community
00:17:49.700 care.
00:17:50.080 They want vets stuck inside VA facilities and not able to go outside to get care if they're
00:17:55.640 waiting too long.
00:17:57.060 This is a bill that was passed intentionally to fix what VA is doing so terribly.
00:18:01.960 Here's a source, by the way, for this story.
00:18:03.720 It's an ICE agent and a vet talking to Fox News Digital.
00:18:06.640 He said, we served in the military in this country and we have these benefits to use in
00:18:11.520 the VA.
00:18:12.280 I pay an exorbitant amount of taxes to this country and I can't even get seen for basic
00:18:16.120 needs.
00:18:16.560 But illegals can.
00:18:18.120 They can literally cross the border with all these pre-existing medical injuries or
00:18:21.200 illnesses or whatever they have going on and they literally walk right into a primary
00:18:24.920 care doctor or specialty care doctor and get whatever services they need.
00:18:28.740 And what we're learning now, Darren, is that the VA is part of facilitating the reimbursements
00:18:33.700 and the payments for this.
00:18:35.400 Now, VA is denying they're involved in this, of course.
00:18:37.720 But there's a VA in front of the process by which these health care providers get reimbursed
00:18:43.140 for the care they're providing for illegals.
00:18:44.960 Absolutely.
00:18:46.160 So understand what that's reporting, that the Biden VA is in the business of providing
00:18:51.540 health care to illegal aliens.
00:18:53.660 In one year, in the year 2022, 161,000 medical claims and dental claims were processed by the
00:19:02.580 VA.
00:19:02.840 Now, listen, every one of those claims, that means there's a veteran who's getting delayed,
00:19:07.680 who's not getting the care that he or she earned.
00:19:11.380 U.S. law doesn't provide for this.
00:19:13.120 This is blatantly lawless.
00:19:15.580 And I'll point out, look, kudos to Fox News.
00:19:17.320 I appreciate they're covering that.
00:19:19.580 But why doesn't CNN?
00:19:21.060 Does CNN not give a damn about veterans?
00:19:23.340 How about ABC?
00:19:24.540 ABC is supposed to be a news network.
00:19:26.180 CBS, NBC.
00:19:27.500 Do veterans not matter for them?
00:19:28.900 Does the fact that the Biden administration is ignoring the law, does that not matter to
00:19:32.940 them?
00:19:33.380 Does the fact that the Biden administration is taking the money and the time of doctors
00:19:37.160 and nurses and administrators that are meant to go to our veterans and giving it instead 0.99
00:19:40.840 to illegals, does that not matter to them?
00:19:43.020 And this is it is part of a pattern.
00:19:45.840 It is partisanship and dishonesty.
00:19:48.780 And the partisanship and dishonesty is fueled by the corporate media's willingness to cover
00:19:54.220 up for the Democrats.
00:19:54.960 And it'd be clear that a honest headline here, Senator, would be Biden administration puts
00:20:01.500 illegal immigrants ahead of U.S. military members.
00:20:05.440 Because that's what they're doing.
00:20:06.100 Right.
00:20:06.360 And that would be that would be an honest, sincere, genuine, journalistic headline.
00:20:11.200 But they won't run that headline here at all.
00:20:13.520 They won't even acknowledge 161,000 illegal immigrants have been treated by the VA.
00:20:18.140 Forget the headline about putting it and putting them in front of veterans.
00:20:21.500 They won't report on the facts.
00:20:23.280 The facts are inconvenient.
00:20:25.280 So the facts do not exist.
00:20:27.040 And this is where journalism is broken.
00:20:29.420 It's why my latest book, Unwoke, explains how journalism is broken, because when they
00:20:35.460 will not report on the facts, what it does is it drives the elected politicians in Congress.
00:20:41.400 It drives the White House.
00:20:42.400 It drives the staffers. 0.50
00:20:43.520 It drives the apparatchiks even further to the left, because there is no accountability.
00:20:48.160 It used to be in an ordinary, sane world, an elected official would say, hey, wait a second.
00:20:53.420 Maybe we shouldn't have the VA providing health care and dental care for 161,000 claims for
00:21:00.800 illegals, because that ought to be going to veterans. 0.98
00:21:03.600 Like in a normal world, someone would have a warning sign.
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00:21:11.660 they can keep giving in to the extremes.
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00:21:45.140 Let me ask you this, because the people that are listening to this are going to say, okay,
00:21:48.320 who authorized this and who is in charge of the oversight for this?
00:21:54.620 And how do we stop it from continuing to happen?
00:21:57.680 Because I would assume, and I'm just thinking basic math here, there's got to be a significant
00:22:03.880 price tag to this.
00:22:05.440 We've all had basic medical bills or $1,000 or more, right?
00:22:08.820 Basic bills.
00:22:09.660 So it's 161,000 different times.
00:22:13.440 This could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
00:22:16.020 Yes.
00:22:16.200 So we don't know for sure, because the Biden administration won't tell us.
00:22:19.800 Who authorized it?
00:22:21.000 It's some combination between the White House, between the Secretary of HHS.
00:22:26.340 Health and Human Services.
00:22:27.240 Health and Human Services.
00:22:27.780 Between the Secretary of DHS.
00:22:30.000 Department of Homeland Security.
00:22:31.960 And the Department of Justice.
00:22:33.500 It's some combination of those cabinet agencies that have authorized this.
00:22:38.280 Is there any way the Biden administration, I'm talking about at the top level, didn't
00:22:41.440 know this was going on and this is some rogue program beneath them?
00:22:44.620 You don't pay the medical claims for 161,000 illegal aliens by accident.
00:22:50.160 As you noted, this is in all likelihood hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more.
00:22:54.680 Could be well into the billions of dollars.
00:22:56.620 Yes.
00:22:56.640 So they're aware of it.
00:22:58.340 There are senior political players who want to do this, who made the decision.
00:23:02.720 Look, there are scarce resources.
00:23:04.480 There are finite resources.
00:23:05.600 If you're allocating health care dollars and you're allocating billions of dollars, you're
00:23:09.500 making a choice.
00:23:10.880 Who receives these billions of dollars in medical care? 0.61
00:23:13.480 Do our veterans who bled and risked their lives and sacrificed for them, do they deserve
00:23:18.520 them?
00:23:18.740 Or do illegal aliens who our political agenda tells us we want to invade this country to 1.00
00:23:24.260 make sure it's Democrat forever, do they deserve them?
00:23:27.880 And for the Biden administration appointees, the answer is the latter.
00:23:32.020 They're willing to give our veterans short shift and understand the most basic principle
00:23:37.540 of economics is tonstoffel.
00:23:40.120 There is no such thing as a free lunch.
00:23:42.280 Yeah.
00:23:42.380 But except in their case, then the question becomes, what is the point of a budget?
00:23:46.880 And do they even exist in our government any longer?
00:23:48.660 Because if you do have dollars allocated...
00:23:51.020 But they know when they give care to 161,000 claims, they are effectively delaying or denying
00:23:57.380 care to an equal number of veterans.
00:23:59.600 So that's how they're basically paying that bill, is they're saying...
00:24:01.920 Yes.
00:24:01.940 They're saying, screw the veterans because we care about illegals more than veterans.
00:24:05.100 So it's not like they just printed more money.
00:24:06.960 No, because they don't have the ability to expand the dollars in the program.
00:24:09.840 So they're limited dollars in the program.
00:24:11.400 And if they spend on one, it means the people who are entitled to those dollars, their claims
00:24:16.540 get delayed.
00:24:17.320 They get dragged out in paperwork.
00:24:18.920 It's not that they necessarily get denied, although presumably some of them do.
00:24:22.300 But they say, you know, much like Wimpy and Popeye, we'll gladly pay you Tuesday for
00:24:27.280 a hamburger today.
00:24:28.880 They push the veterans to next Tuesday and they figure they'll figure it out then.
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00:26:02.900 Do you expect, Senator, that there will be any type of proper investigation out of Congress
00:26:08.800 with this shocking new information about illegal immigrants being put ahead and their bills
00:26:14.280 being paid for ahead of veterans?
00:26:15.800 So I do.
00:26:16.320 I expect the House of Representatives to engage in this investigation, and it's one of the
00:26:19.860 reasons why it matters that we have a Republican majority in the House.
00:26:24.120 I think the chances of the Senate investigating this are virtually zero.
00:26:28.520 Wow.
00:26:28.780 That Senate Democrats don't care.
00:26:30.480 They want this to happen.
00:26:32.360 And remember-
00:26:33.060 When did it become good politics and not stand for veterans?
00:26:35.200 Like, this is the weirdest thing in the world.
00:26:36.660 It used to be the third rail.
00:26:37.860 Don't touch veterans. 1.00
00:26:38.700 Because the media lies and covers it up.
00:26:40.340 Okay.
00:26:40.620 So it's not good politics.
00:26:41.860 But it's good politics when the radical left-wing groups are pushing for you to put illegal
00:26:46.460 immigration above everything else, and you know your voters will never hear about the
00:26:50.620 fact you're doing it.
00:26:51.740 So it's not that you have a bunch of Democrats out there on TV defending, hey, we think it's
00:26:56.580 a great idea that Joe Biden is giving the money that should have gone to veterans care to
00:27:00.220 illegal aliens. 0.98
00:27:00.780 That would be a dumb argument for them to make. 0.99
00:27:03.200 Instead, what Senate Democrats are doing is they're just silent. 0.93
00:27:05.940 They say nothing.
00:27:06.540 They look at their shoes, and they control the gavels because they have the majorities. 0.98
00:27:10.820 They decide what we have hearings on.
00:27:12.480 So there will not be a hearing on this topic because if there's a hearing, it makes it more
00:27:17.200 likely the press will feel obliged to cover it.
00:27:19.620 So they're counting on the corrupt corporate media hiding it.
00:27:24.600 And by the way, to understand just how corrupt it is, let's shift to our third story of the
00:27:29.300 day, which is, let me ask you, how many of you are grateful that Elon Musk purchased
00:27:36.280 Twitter?
00:27:36.660 I'll tell you, I'm intensely grateful.
00:27:38.360 I think it is the single most important development for free speech in decades.
00:27:44.540 But what is striking, and this again is a topic I discuss at great length in my brand new book
00:27:49.800 Unwoke, is how corporate America has become woke and how they use economic power to punish
00:28:00.900 those that cross them.
00:28:02.580 So corporate America is mad at Elon Musk.
00:28:05.040 Why?
00:28:05.340 Because he stopped censoring views that were not the orthodoxy of the Biden White House.
00:28:12.000 He stopped censoring conservative views, and he allowed free speech to occur.
00:28:15.840 Now, what was the volcanic rage of corporate America?
00:28:19.220 One company after another began boycotting what used to be Twitter is now X.
00:28:23.860 So IBM was the first to pull its ads.
00:28:26.720 So IBM, if you have an IBM computer at home, you know what?
00:28:29.440 You're supporting a company that says, we're not going to advertise on a social media company
00:28:33.600 that believes in free speech.
00:28:34.720 Now, right after IBM, what followed?
00:28:37.380 Apple, Disney, Sony, Warner Brothers, Comcast, NBC Universal, and Paramount.
00:28:46.900 All of them have said, we're pulling our ads.
00:28:49.320 But not only that, you know who else has pulled their ads?
00:28:51.840 Chevrolet, Chipotle, Ford, Jeep, Kindrel, Merck and Company, Novartis AG, and Eli Lillian Company.
00:29:05.560 All of these companies, they are engaged in censorship.
00:29:10.480 Understand, when they say...
00:29:11.780 It's a corporate assassination of a free speech company orchestrated and designed to cripple them and to bring them to their knees.
00:29:20.180 This doesn't happen by accident.
00:29:21.740 I think that's what some people need to understand.
00:29:23.700 When one corporation does this and the others do it, don't think this isn't orchestrated and being done by the left,
00:29:30.020 in leftist groups and organizations that organize these companies and get in the ear of these companies and say,
00:29:36.620 hey, guys, so-and-so is going to do it.
00:29:38.480 You should do it, too.
00:29:39.300 And then they call the next one.
00:29:40.440 They say, hey, guys, we hear these two companies are about to pull their ads.
00:29:44.120 You should, too.
00:29:45.760 And understand, Art.
00:29:46.740 So here's what Elon Musk has said about it.
00:29:49.480 He said the decisions of advertisers to boycott Twitter, quote, could kill the company.
00:29:54.620 And he went on to say, quote, and the whole world will know that these advertisers killed the company.
00:30:00.240 That is their objective.
00:30:01.720 And what they want, they want Twitter to go under.
00:30:04.320 They want X to go under.
00:30:05.540 And then they want the only social media to be Facebook controlled by Mark Zuckerberg that censors conservative views because their silence that works on behalf of the Biden White House.
00:30:15.560 They want Google that is controlled by left wing socialists that censors views they disagree with, that skews public discourse in the favor of the left.
00:30:23.960 They want YouTube that actively censors conservative views, including this podcast verdict.
00:30:29.800 Yeah, just a few weeks ago, they censored one of our one of our episodes because we were telling the truth about what was going on.
00:30:35.080 And mind you, we were telling the truth about a Palestinian who, by all appearances, is a crisis actor who creates false videos pretending to be a victim of what he claims is Israeli aggression when, in fact, he's a Hamas propagandist. 0.90
00:30:48.720 And we laid out the evidence for that.
00:30:50.200 And YouTube properly said, oh, we don't want people to notice this.
00:30:54.540 So they blocked.
00:30:56.140 So you could not access our podcast on YouTube without signing in and be age verified because apparently 17 year olds cannot know.
00:31:05.120 There's a crisis actor that's a Hamas warrior.
00:31:07.360 And mind you, it's not just that they want Facebook and YouTube and Google to be driving the topics.
00:31:12.640 They want TikTok, which is controlled by the Chinese communists, which is actively pushing pro-Hamas propaganda.
00:31:20.260 Every one of these companies.
00:31:21.700 So I want you to go back and look at this list.
00:31:23.640 Just IBM, Apple, Disney, Sony, Warner Brothers, Comcast, NBC Universal, Paramount, Chevrolet, Chipotle, Ford, Jeep, Kindle, Merck and Company, Novartis AG, Eli Lilly and Company.
00:31:39.040 Every one of them is saying, you, Americans, you don't deserve the right to speak.
00:31:44.740 And even more importantly, you don't deserve the right to hear the speech of others.
00:31:47.860 We want big tech to silence and skew.
00:31:52.980 And mind you, this is all based on an allegation that is a bogus allegation attacking Elon Musk for retweeting a tweet that they're claiming is anti-Semitic.
00:32:01.940 Yeah.
00:32:02.140 And it was deliberate.
00:32:03.580 The same guy that just went and met with over in Israel.
00:32:06.260 That just flew over there, met, talked to the leadership and is now clearly supporting Israel.
00:32:10.820 Look, their attack is deliberately disingenuous, but it doesn't matter.
00:32:13.940 It doesn't matter what the claim is.
00:32:15.920 It is an excuse.
00:32:17.860 Because they want to use economic muscle to punish Twitter and force either Elon Musk to sell it or shut it down.
00:32:27.360 Because once they do, then the rest of big tech will have a monopoly unchecked.
00:32:33.160 And this is an assault on free speech.
00:32:36.020 It's an intersection of what I talk about in multiple chapters of my book on woke.
00:32:40.820 It's an intersection of big tech, big business and journalism all coming together.
00:32:45.680 And it's designed to be dishonest and to silence free speech among the American people.
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00:34:35.080 Senator, last thing I want to just point out here.
00:34:38.540 Conservative Talk Radio, and many of you know I do a podcast outside of this,
00:34:42.940 and I do an actual terrestrial radio show every day.
00:34:45.800 For about 10 years now, everybody in radio has had to deal with what Elon Musk is dealing
00:34:52.860 with now, which is all corporate people stop spending money on Conservative Talk Radio.
00:34:58.740 They went after the great Rush Limbaugh.
00:35:01.080 That's where it started.
00:35:01.960 Yes.
00:35:02.220 Then they went after Hannity.
00:35:03.640 Then they went after Beck.
00:35:04.760 Then they went after Levin.
00:35:06.060 Then they went after guys like me.
00:35:08.940 And what we used to have in radio was the big ones.
00:35:12.340 We had Chevy.
00:35:13.200 We had John Deere.
00:35:14.640 We had, you know, mutual fund companies.
00:35:16.460 None of these giant companies advertising Conservative Podcasts.
00:35:19.200 None of them.
00:35:19.540 In fact, there's a funny skit that we've talked about in Verdict a couple of years ago
00:35:23.260 that contrasts a left-wing, hippie, commie, Marxist podcast saying,
00:35:28.480 this podcast brought to you by Pfizer.
00:35:30.260 Get the jab right now. 0.58
00:35:31.700 You need your 42nd booster shot.
00:35:33.820 Yeah.
00:35:34.100 Compared to, they have a Conservative broadcast, and they say,
00:35:37.280 this broadcast brought to you by Patriot Water.
00:35:40.140 A bucket of water in your closet.
00:35:42.420 And the contrast is striking because all of the Fortune 500 boycotts.
00:35:48.180 None of them spend money.
00:35:49.220 None of them will ever reach a Conservative audience.
00:35:51.620 They deliberately try to destroy Conservative talk radio.
00:35:54.600 By the way, even Fox News, which is incredibly profitable.
00:35:58.020 Look at the advertisers.
00:35:59.940 Spend an hour watching CNN and spend an hour watching Fox News.
00:36:03.380 Write down who advertises.
00:36:05.800 CNN, it's the entire Fortune 100.
00:36:08.400 Fox News.
00:36:09.380 Doesn't have any of them.
00:36:10.020 It's my pillow, which, look, I'm grateful.
00:36:12.240 I'm grateful my pillow advertises because there are not many that do.
00:36:15.800 But even though Fox News has 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x the viewers.
00:36:20.780 6x, 7x, yeah.
00:36:22.020 As CNN.
00:36:23.500 The Fortune 100 doesn't care.
00:36:25.460 It's not about money.
00:36:26.260 Understand, this is not the economic marketplace.
00:36:29.080 This is they're enforcing their ideology.
00:36:32.220 They don't want to support views that are right of center.
00:36:37.320 They want to silence them.
00:36:38.540 Yeah.
00:36:38.680 And I will say to people, if you're on Twitter, look, yes, Elon Musk is a very wealthy man,
00:36:43.900 no doubt.
00:36:44.740 He's lost a ton of his net wealth by buying Twitter.
00:36:47.060 The evaluation, they say the company's worth less than half than what he paid for it.
00:36:50.480 And they're trying to destroy him.
00:36:51.880 And I tell people this all the time.
00:36:53.120 If you like what he did and you see an ad, click on that ad and use it.
00:36:57.780 Don't go Google the ad.
00:36:58.820 Click on the actual link and stand with Twitter, who's standing up for free speech and Elon Musk, 0.99
00:37:03.820 because otherwise these, I call them communist bastards, they're going to win. 0.86
00:37:07.780 And I got to say, ever since Ben started saying that, he's been clicking on ads for dwarf tossing 0.98
00:37:12.200 and he's getting all sorts of strange things.
00:37:14.700 He's in trouble at home.
00:37:16.040 But, you know, I appreciate your standing for free speech.
00:37:19.120 And on that, we will end tonight's podcast.
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