Verdict with Ted Cruz - October 06, 2023


Now Biden Says He'll BUILD THE WALL! plus FBI Targets Trump Supporters & More Speaker Drama


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Ted Cruz reacts to Joe Biden's announcement that a portion of the border wall will be built in the Rio Grande Valley area of Texas, and why a border wall is not the answer to the immigration crisis that President Trump has long sought.

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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00:00:05.220 Welcome.
00:00:06.040 It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.
00:00:07.920 Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:09.380 Senator, I cannot believe that I'm going to start Verdict by saying this.
00:00:14.540 But apparently, Joe Biden is going to build the wall.
00:00:19.740 And I'm talking about the wall with Mexico.
00:00:22.860 This was announced very, you know, nonchalant, no big deal.
00:00:27.120 And CNN is losing their minds over this.
00:00:30.580 I want to play that in a second.
00:00:31.620 But first, I want to get your initial reaction to this.
00:00:34.720 Well, in news of the weird, you now have Joe Biden standing up promising to build the wall.
00:00:42.160 I'm waiting for him to grab a red MAGA hat, put it on, and explain that AOC is going to pay for it.
00:00:50.900 It is truly loopy stuff.
00:00:54.300 To cut to the conclusion, I don't actually believe him.
00:00:56.960 I think this is make-believe.
00:00:59.000 This is trying to pretend they're responding to the border crisis.
00:01:03.380 But here, play how CNN covers it because it really does show that even his media cheerleaders are calling BS on this.
00:01:12.220 Biden is building the wall, at least part of it.
00:01:15.580 This is something he said he would not do.
00:01:17.700 The Biden administration announced it will waive 26 federal laws to allow border wall construction in South Texas because of what they call an acute and immediate need.
00:01:26.920 The plan is to construct up to 20 miles of new border barriers in Star County.
00:01:31.340 That's in the Rio Grande Valley area.
00:01:32.740 Some 245,000 migrants have attempted to cross the border illegally in just that one sector since October of last year.
00:01:40.820 On the entire border there, the number is closer to 3 million.
00:01:44.300 Hundreds of migrants rushed past border control agents near El Paso yesterday.
00:01:48.440 So when he was running for president, Biden made clear that he would not expand the border wall if elected.
00:01:55.780 Trump campaigned on build that wall.
00:01:58.960 Are you willing to tear that wall down?
00:02:00.460 No, there will not be another foot of wall constructed on my administration.
00:02:07.300 The president also said today that former presidents have said to him that they wish that they had built a wall.
00:02:14.420 Do you recall President Obama ever saying that?
00:02:16.800 I can't think of a single one who said that.
00:02:18.660 We need border security, but that's not the border security we need.
00:02:22.240 And on the day he took office, President Biden signed a proclamation stating that, quote,
00:02:27.600 building a massive wall that spans the entire southern border is not a serious policy solution.
00:02:33.620 That we should know today's action does not do that.
00:02:35.820 It's a 20 mile section.
00:02:37.540 Nevertheless, it is very different than what President Biden campaigned on.
00:02:40.660 I mean, Senator, I love I love CNN here because they're like owning Joe Biden.
00:02:46.520 They never fact check in this way because this is how much they hate the idea of a wall.
00:02:51.700 They can't stand that he's, quote, flip flopping.
00:02:54.780 And this is when it's fun to be a conservative.
00:02:57.260 You can just sit back and watch them burn him down on this.
00:03:00.280 I also think the part about this that needs to be put in perspective,
00:03:02.900 because you've been to the border probably more than any other senator in history,
00:03:07.720 is 20 miles is great, but it's not near as much as we actually need.
00:03:13.680 Well, that's right.
00:03:14.680 And from the announcement, they're putting it down in the Rio Grande Valley in Star County.
00:03:19.520 And that's valuable.
00:03:20.500 That's an area of very high traffic.
00:03:22.400 So that that is beneficial if they actually follow through and build that section of the
00:03:27.700 wall.
00:03:27.900 That's beneficial.
00:03:29.040 But but here's the important thing to understand.
00:03:31.680 You can build a wall on the entirety of the border and it will not stop illegal immigration 0.65
00:03:37.820 unless, unless, unless you have an administration that will follow the law and deport the people
00:03:45.540 who come here illegally.
00:03:47.040 So when I'm down at the border, almost without exception, I sit down, I meet with the border
00:03:52.320 patrol agents.
00:03:53.080 I meet with ICE.
00:03:54.120 I meet with sheriffs.
00:03:55.300 I meet with local police and local law enforcement.
00:03:58.260 And I try to listen.
00:03:59.380 I try to ask them, OK, what tools do you need?
00:04:02.660 How do you actually secure the border?
00:04:04.940 Now, without exception, they say they need a wall, that a wall is beneficial.
00:04:10.200 But but understand that a wall alone doesn't solve the problem.
00:04:14.560 And why is that?
00:04:15.460 Well, there's the old line that if you build a 10 foot wall, someone brings an 11 foot
00:04:19.640 ladder.
00:04:19.960 And what law enforcement on the border tells me is that's true, that people bring ladders,
00:04:24.800 they get over the wall, that they get around the wall, that the wall is not the complete
00:04:29.960 solution.
00:04:31.280 The reason a wall is valuable is what is critical if you're trying to stop illegal immigration 1.00
00:04:36.980 is is the time between detection and apprehension.
00:04:40.440 And what a wall does is it slows people down.
00:04:43.480 It takes longer to get over a wall, to get around a wall than if there's no wall.
00:04:48.340 And in particular, a wall is valuable in more urban environments where there's there's not
00:04:54.460 much space between the border and disappearing into a heavy, heavily populated area.
00:04:59.480 So there are parts of rugged West Texas where you've got really tough terrain and and and
00:05:06.180 a wall, frankly, is not that useful in in an area where the terrain is already a natural
00:05:11.400 barrier.
00:05:12.060 But if you're dealing with a portion of the border that is by a heavily populated area
00:05:17.480 and an illegal immigrant is able to cross and suddenly disappear into the city, that's
00:05:22.840 where a wall is really valuable.
00:05:24.300 But even when the wall is built, what you have to have is an administration willing to
00:05:33.280 deport the people they apprehend.
00:05:35.300 And and what Joe Biden is not willing to do is to end catch and release.
00:05:40.580 And as long as catch and release remains the policy, this crisis will continue to get worse
00:05:47.640 and worse and worse.
00:05:49.100 And I think the purpose of this announcement is that they want a photo op of building a few
00:05:54.620 feet of wall so that it can assuage some of the blue state governors and blue state mayors
00:06:01.000 that are getting worked up.
00:06:02.200 But it will not work at all to reduce illegal immigration because Joe Biden intends to keep
00:06:10.120 releasing the illegals who come. 0.95
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00:07:38.000 You look at the headline.
00:07:39.460 It says Biden administration waives 26 federal laws to allow border wall construction in South
00:07:45.060 Texas.
00:07:45.700 That's the headline that they wanted.
00:07:48.220 And yet you mentioned catch and release.
00:07:51.300 It's been a while.
00:07:52.680 And for many people to understand the border issue, they'll understand that.
00:07:55.520 But there's a lot of people that are listening, Senator, that may not understand the policy.
00:07:59.380 There was a different policy under the Trump administration when it come to catch and release.
00:08:02.800 And immediately the Biden administration said, we're not doing that anymore.
00:08:06.740 Can you explain why that loophole, how dangerous it is, and also how many people it's allowed to come to this country? 0.73
00:08:15.320 We're talking about millions because of a simple policy decision.
00:08:17.940 And if he changed that, that would do more than building 20 miles of a wall, correct?
00:08:22.940 That's exactly right.
00:08:25.640 And, you know, I would point listeners back.
00:08:29.080 You and I did a podcast a number of months ago down on the southern border, and we interviewed Brandon Judd.
00:08:35.400 Brandon Judd is the head of the National Border Patrol Union.
00:08:38.180 He's a good friend.
00:08:39.160 And that's the union of all the border patrol agents, the men and women risking their lives to secure the border.
00:08:44.440 And we sat down.
00:08:45.340 We were down to the Rio Grande Valley with Brandon, and we sat down with him and interviewed him by the border.
00:08:50.940 And one of the things Brandon said that a lot of people don't realize, but it was striking, he said to secure the border, to fix this problem, he said, we don't need any more money.
00:08:59.260 He said, we don't even need more agents, although more agents would help.
00:09:03.700 He said, that's not really what we need to secure the border.
00:09:07.080 He said, what we need is policy, a change in policy, a change in executive policy.
00:09:14.440 And it comes down to one central question.
00:09:17.760 When you apprehend an illegal immigrant, what do you do with that illegal immigrant? 1.00
00:09:23.540 Now, under Donald Trump, when they apprehended someone, they put him on a plane, and they flew him back to where he came from.
00:09:30.800 They deported him.
00:09:32.580 That was critical.
00:09:33.940 And then on top of that, and I'll explain this in a minute, was the Remain in Mexico agreement.
00:09:38.780 And that together, those two together, produced the lowest rate of illegal immigration in 45 years.
00:09:46.200 Biden, literally his first week in office, he reversed that.
00:09:49.500 So now, when they catch someone, they'll give him a court date, typically several years in the future.
00:09:56.200 And then they'll ask him, where do you want to go in the meantime?
00:09:58.920 And they'll say, I want to go to New York City.
00:10:00.240 I want to go to Chicago.
00:10:01.020 I want to go to Dallas.
00:10:02.200 I want to go to L.A.
00:10:04.320 And the Biden administration will put him on a plane or put him on a bus and send them to whatever city they're in.
00:10:10.760 And, in fact, you were just in New York.
00:10:13.620 You told me you were sitting next to an illegal immigrant who was flying on the plane to New York with you.
00:10:19.900 Yeah.
00:10:20.500 The plane was filled with them. 1.00
00:10:22.060 It was shocking.
00:10:23.200 I texted you the picture.
00:10:25.160 There was a man sitting next to me.
00:10:26.420 He had all of his papers in a see-through, you know, kind of sheer plastic, you know, envelope.
00:10:34.040 And he had his Red Cross blanket that was with him.
00:10:36.720 He had his little NATSAC that the U.S. government gave him.
00:10:39.740 He had his cell phone.
00:10:41.820 And I speak very little Spanish.
00:10:45.540 But I was able to communicate enough.
00:10:46.840 I said, where are you headed?
00:10:47.380 He goes, I've come to America, and they're now letting me go to New York City.
00:10:53.640 And I said, oh, across the border.
00:10:55.460 And he said, yes.
00:10:56.740 And he was very excited.
00:10:57.700 You and I, as taxpayers, paid for that airline ticket.
00:11:00.360 We paid for all the stuff that he had with him that was, you know, new.
00:11:03.940 And I'm assuming there's a good chance that cell phone he had was probably issued by the U.S. government as well because they've been doing that.
00:11:09.740 But he wasn't the only one on that plane.
00:11:11.100 I mean, that was the first time.
00:11:11.860 There's part of me saying, yay.
00:11:13.440 I'm glad that he's going to New York City and not staying in Texas because that's what's going to end up fixing this problem is what we're seeing with the – they call it, you know, anarchy and chaos.
00:11:23.360 And they can't handle the illegal immigrants. 1.00
00:11:24.680 But that was the first time I'd ever witnessed it sitting there knowing, wow, I just paid for this guy just broke into our country to go to wherever he wanted to go. 0.84
00:11:32.360 And I witnessed it firsthand.
00:11:33.440 It was shocking to me when you're sitting next to it.
00:11:36.000 So – and I understand that, and I've seen that many times, particularly when you've got flights coming out of South Texas.
00:11:43.660 You can see half the flight or more filled with illegal aliens that the Biden administration is paying to fly all over the country.
00:11:51.080 And that's happening day in, day out.
00:11:53.440 By the way, that's not Greg Abbott or, as Eric Adams calls him, that madman in Texas bussing them to New York.
00:12:00.260 That's Joe Biden flying them to New York, and that's happening day after day after day.
00:12:06.140 But, you know, I will say if you didn't listen to the podcast we did with Brandon Judd, you ought to go back and listen to it because he explains that it is the policy of catch and release that produces this problem.
00:12:19.740 And Joe Biden does not intend to change, catch and release.
00:12:23.500 And I mentioned Remain in Mexico.
00:12:25.060 So Remain in Mexico was an agreement the Trump administration negotiated with Mexico that said that when people crossed illegally into Mexico, and many of them were coming from South America or Central America, that they would remain in Mexico, that they'd stay in Mexico while their U.S. asylum case was proceeding.
00:12:44.520 And that worked incredibly well.
00:12:47.260 That's what produced the lowest rate of illegal immigration in 45 years.
00:12:52.080 Now, one thing you said, Ben, that I think is probably not the case, you said you thought that cell phone likely was given to them by the federal government.
00:13:00.360 That probably is not the case because, in my experience, virtually 100 percent of the illegal aliens crossing the border have their own cell phone with them.
00:13:08.600 It's one of the few property items they carry.
00:13:12.140 And it's why catch and release is so pernicious, because what happens is they get here, they turn themselves in, they go look for a Border Patrol agent, they turn themselves in.
00:13:22.940 The Border Patrol agent asks, OK, where do you want to go?
00:13:25.900 They say, I want to go to New York City.
00:13:27.360 They say, great.
00:13:28.000 They start processing them.
00:13:29.220 And then what happens is the illegal immigrant, they pick up their cell phone and they call their friends, they call their family, they call their buddies and say, hey, guess what? 0.98
00:13:37.240 If you come here, you get to stay.
00:13:39.900 And by the way, when they let them go, the vast majority of these people are never seen again.
00:13:44.380 The court date is a complete fiction.
00:13:46.200 That is the source of the problem.
00:13:51.140 And Biden, the same week he halted the border wall, the same week he reinstated catch and release, that same week he pulled out of Remain in Mexico.
00:14:00.700 That caused this crisis.
00:14:03.120 So explain Remain in Mexico, the same week he pulled out, because people hear that.
00:14:08.080 What did that actually do?
00:14:09.520 What did it mean?
00:14:10.060 So what it meant is that asylum cases would proceed, but they'd stay in Mexico.
00:14:17.540 They would not be allowed to come to America. 1.00
00:14:21.480 They would stay in that camps in Mexico just south of our southern border where they'd stay while the asylum case proceeded.
00:14:29.820 But it meant they didn't get let go in America.
00:14:31.860 The critical thing about Remain in Mexico is they were not released in America.
00:14:37.620 And so you didn't have the magnet.
00:14:40.560 You didn't have the pull effect.
00:14:42.320 And so they'd call home and they'd say, hey, don't come.
00:14:45.980 I thought I'd get to America.
00:14:47.140 I got here.
00:14:48.000 I got apprehended. 0.99
00:14:49.040 And I'm stuck in Mexico, damn it. 0.99
00:14:50.940 I'm not in America. 0.99
00:14:51.740 I'm in Mexico. 0.99
00:14:53.220 This sucks. 0.98
00:14:54.480 I'm not, you know, don't come. 1.00
00:14:56.920 They've actually really secured the border.
00:14:58.900 And by the way, Trump leaned vigorously on the president of Mexico, on AMLO, to force him to agree to remain in Mexico.
00:15:08.160 Also, he got the Mexican government to put 6,000 troops on their southern border.
00:15:15.180 You know, the southern border of Mexico is much, much smaller.
00:15:18.960 It's just a few hundred miles as compared to our southern border that's 2,000 miles.
00:15:23.640 And it's just obviously Mexico narrows as it goes into Central America.
00:15:29.160 The southern border of Mexico is much easier to secure than our southern border because it's much smaller.
00:15:34.700 That combination, I want to contrast it.
00:15:37.040 The same AMLO that Trump, by standing strong, was able to get to agree to remain in Mexico.
00:15:42.880 When Joe Biden was president, let's go back to January of this year, January of 2023, where Joe Biden did a press conference with AMLO.
00:15:53.080 And AMLO praised him for building, being the first president in recent history to build not even a single meter of border wall.
00:16:05.300 Listen.
00:16:05.540 President Biden, you are the first president of the United States that has not built, not even one meter of wall.
00:16:16.780 And that, we thank you for that, sir.
00:16:24.120 Although, not like it, although the conservatives don't like it.
00:16:32.220 Now, Ben, I want you to listen carefully to what AMLO said.
00:16:37.660 And AMLO is the nickname, it's the abbreviation for the Mexican president, Andres Manuel López Obrador.
00:16:44.920 That's the current president of Mexico.
00:16:46.540 He's a hard leftist.
00:16:48.280 And what he said, which we just played, and you could hear him in the Spanish in the background and then the female translator,
00:16:53.320 but I want you to listen to the words again.
00:16:56.280 And what he said is, you are the first president of the United States in a very long time that has not built even one meter of wall.
00:17:08.320 Ni un metro is what he said.
00:17:10.540 And he goes on to say, and we thank you for that, sir.
00:17:15.300 Although some might not like it, although the conservatives don't like it.
00:17:21.620 And this entire time, AMLO is praising Biden for being the first guy in a long time not to build wall,
00:17:27.860 including not Trump, not Obama, not Bush.
00:17:31.840 Nope, Biden had not built even one meter of wall. 0.98
00:17:35.520 Biden is sitting there grinning like some silly kid while he's allowing an invasion of our country. 0.92
00:17:42.660 The important thing to understand is Biden still intends to allow the invasion of the country. 0.95
00:17:47.500 He just realized that building a little bit of wall is good camouflage to pretend that this is not all his fault.
00:17:56.840 Well, and let's back that up with facts and proof of what you just said.
00:18:00.640 The Biden administration has been purposely cutting barbed wire at the border to facilitate more illegal aliens into the United States of America.
00:18:11.120 Now this, it was caught on video, reported on video on Fox News Channel.
00:18:18.040 Take a listen.
00:18:19.060 And now at Eagle Pass in Texas, our drone is up in the air again.
00:18:24.120 And this picture has not gotten better.
00:18:26.880 We've watched this now for 10 days.
00:18:28.960 The state of Texas has put that barbed wire, the concertina wire down to block migrants or to dissuade them from crossing the Rio Grande River.
00:18:36.940 It's been mildly successful.
00:18:39.040 But every time you see this, you get a backup on the banks of that river and the White House puts a phone call in the Border Patrol and they cut that wire.
00:18:47.560 And then you see the line move.
00:18:49.540 It's so cool.
00:18:50.440 It's a battle between the leadership of Texas and the White House and the people in Texas largely have to deal with it.
00:18:56.580 You know, 100,000 in New York is just, you know, a very small number compared to what they've had to deal with in Texas.
00:19:02.360 So it is an astonishingly situation, plus you have all these children who have been brought here by human traffickers and the cartel basically in charge of the operation.
00:19:11.740 On and on it goes.
00:19:12.740 And the federal government repeatedly challenges the state of Texas when they try and impede the crossing or the passing of those into that from the drone in Eagle Pass, Texas.
00:19:22.260 I mean, Senator, you can hear it there.
00:19:23.920 Martha McCallum, Bill Hemmer, they're watching this on TV.
00:19:26.660 They're laughing at the idea that now you have a president saying got to build this wall, but we're cutting down the barbed wire to let people in. 0.92
00:19:37.740 We're fighting with Texas saying you cannot secure the border.
00:19:40.780 But then we bring an announcement saying we're going to secure 20 miles of the border and the rest of it, I guess, are going to keep cutting down barbed wire.
00:19:47.340 This is literally the definition of total insanity, or they're just straight up lying to the American people, as you referenced earlier, to placate to these liberal mayors in places like New York that are freaking out.
00:20:00.180 They have 100,000.
00:20:01.280 Well, guess what?
00:20:01.980 Wait till you get a million and then see what you do.
00:20:04.840 Yeah, no, look, that's exactly right.
00:20:06.900 The Biden administration wants illegal immigration.
00:20:10.720 They want more of it.
00:20:11.820 They want the numbers right now at 7.6 million.
00:20:15.780 It's the highest ever.
00:20:17.700 They want it to grow to 10 to 15 to 20 million because they look at these illegal immigrants as future Democrat voters. 0.73
00:20:26.160 They want open borders.
00:20:27.800 So you're right.
00:20:29.240 The state of Texas is putting barbed wire up, trying to secure the border.
00:20:34.140 And the Biden administration sends people in to cut it down, to open it up so that the illegal immigrants can come faster. 0.98
00:20:41.820 The Biden Department of Justice is suing the state of Texas, trying to stop the state of Texas from putting barriers on the border.
00:20:49.620 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and Alejandro Mayorkas, they want to accelerate illegal immigration.
00:20:58.160 And understand this about Mayorkas. 0.98
00:20:59.740 He views doing his job well as getting more efficient, getting faster in processing illegal immigrants so that they shrink the time and make it even quicker and quicker and quicker to move illegal immigrants into the interior. 0.95
00:21:15.820 And so this announcement today, it is one thing and one thing only.
00:21:22.100 It's a press release.
00:21:22.900 It's a photo op.
00:21:23.720 It is designed so they can pretend, gosh, see, we're securing the border.
00:21:29.520 But their objective is for the numbers to keep going up.
00:21:33.740 And the way you know that is they're not changing catch and release.
00:21:37.400 They're not changing the policies that cause this crisis.
00:21:40.820 Instead, they're continuing to fly illegal aliens to every city in America.
00:21:46.080 And they're continuing to enrich the cartels and turn them into multibillion-dollar global criminal enterprises.
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00:24:00.220 Mexico seems to be reading the political tea leaves here as well, Senator,
00:24:04.780 and this is very concerning from a national security standpoint
00:24:07.960 because a couple years ago, for several years in a row, and I haven't seen the most recent numbers for this year,
00:24:13.520 but the number one stimulus of Mexico's economy was illegal immigrants in America sending money back to Mexico.
00:24:19.480 It was outpacing oil production, to put it in perspective, in Mexico.
00:24:24.020 And so every person they get across the border that ends up sending money back to Mexico
00:24:29.980 and not draining the resource in Mexico, that's a net gain financially for Mexico as a nation.
00:24:36.100 What we're now seeing, and part of this could be because of the rhetoric changing from the White House,
00:24:41.260 is apparently, from what's being reported, Mexico is now busing people to the border to come into America.
00:24:50.160 Take a listen to this from Fox.
00:24:51.840 Mexican government initiative that's likely going to complicate the migrant crisis, at least here in the U.S.
00:24:58.220 Authorities there have begun busing migrants from the southern part of Mexico north towards the U.S.
00:25:04.580 This is an attempt by Mexico to free up existing public transportation 0.95
00:25:08.600 that's currently being overwhelmed by the estimated 6,000 who cross into Mexico each day.
00:25:14.980 I mean, you hear that. That's shocking on its face as well.
00:25:18.140 Well, it is, and understand this is caused by Joe Biden's weakness.
00:25:24.120 AMLO doesn't respect Joe Biden. He thinks he's an incredibly weak commander-in-chief.
00:25:29.120 You know, we played earlier a snippet from the joint press conference they had in January
00:25:33.920 where AMLO is looking at him and is able to walk all over him.
00:25:38.420 And listen, AMLO is a hard leftist.
00:25:40.560 He campaigned and got elected, in part, running on an anti-American agenda.
00:25:45.480 But when he came in, Donald Trump was president, and AMLO was scared of Trump.
00:25:50.560 He didn't want to mess with Trump.
00:25:52.400 And so, ironically, this hard leftist anti-American Mexican president cooperated.
00:25:58.660 And remember, the way Remain in Mexico got signed is Trump threatened to put in place a 25% tariff
00:26:07.020 on all goods coming from Mexico.
00:26:10.940 That threat scared the hell out of AMLO, which is why he knuckled under and agreed to remain in Mexico.
00:26:17.440 He didn't do so eagerly, but he was afraid that Trump was just crazy enough that he would put those tariffs in place.
00:26:26.680 The difference now is Biden's so weak that AMLO, he's getting even further left, more anti-American.
00:26:35.020 And he's deliberately fueling this invasion at our southern border and the dynamic.
00:26:43.700 And by the way, even Eric Adams.
00:26:45.380 So Eric Adams has been getting some praise lately for having the courage to say illegal immigration is destroying New York City. 0.98
00:26:54.080 Well, this week, Eric Adams still said, well, we want open borders.
00:26:59.480 Understand what I'm saying.
00:27:00.540 We want open borders.
00:27:02.180 We just want a process to deal with it.
00:27:04.680 Basically, what he's saying is give us money.
00:27:07.320 If the feds will give us the money, we'll take these illegal immigrants and just give them billions of dollars. 1.00
00:27:13.420 We just don't have the cash to cover it.
00:27:16.060 But I think what happened is Adams was getting grief from his left flank.
00:27:19.880 And he felt the need this week to say, look, understand, I'm a Democrat.
00:27:23.660 I'm for open borders.
00:27:25.280 But this is a real problem.
00:27:27.240 This week's announcement about the border wall is is essentially press damage control from Biden.
00:27:37.380 Yeah, it is.
00:27:38.460 It is exactly that.
00:27:39.720 And like you said, it's probably an empty promise.
00:27:41.880 And watch the media.
00:27:43.100 They will pound him on this issue to make sure it doesn't happen.
00:27:46.060 I also want to get your take on a headline that's really exploded while we've been taping this right now.
00:27:52.860 And that deals with we there is now intel that shows that MAGA Republicans, Donald Trump supporters, will be targeted by the FBI as the 2024 election nears.
00:28:09.140 Newsweek is now reporting on this.
00:28:11.880 And Biden, to go back, tweeted in September of last year, quote, Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of this country.
00:28:21.580 The very soul of this country.
00:28:24.200 Christopher, FBI director, Christopher Wray, in sworn testimony said it's not just Trump supporters early this year.
00:28:30.760 He said House Republicans say the FBI document that they've obtained proved that several field offices contributed to a memo that targeted traditional Catholics.
00:28:39.020 We talked about this extensively on this show as potential terrorists and tried to turn parishioners on their fellow church goers.
00:28:49.160 So so if you just look at the last year, parents who show up at school board meetings are to be labeled domestic terrorists.
00:28:56.140 The FBI was spending time recruiting for people in the Catholic Church to spy on their friends and family.
00:29:03.920 And now we are being told that heading into the 2024 election, that if you are a Donald Trump follower supporter, that you may be now monitored or targeted by the FBI.
00:29:18.160 Well, that's exactly right.
00:29:48.140 It's not a broader problem now that they've admitted that it was multiple offices that participated in that.
00:29:55.320 This was a much broader effort to target traditional Catholics.
00:30:00.780 And the same is true with with with the targeting of Donald Trump supporters, you know, even this language.
00:30:08.420 So you can tell someone did a focus group on the Democrat side and they discovered the phrase MAGA Republican.
00:30:15.960 They're going to brand that that like MAGA, by the way, MAGA Republican in their definition, they mean everybody.
00:30:21.260 They literally mean every Republican is a MAGA Republican.
00:30:25.240 And then they just think the word MAGA is really scary.
00:30:27.960 And they claim that that if you are a MAGA Republican is defined as a Republican who voted for Donald Trump.
00:30:35.560 So, you know, 75 to 80 million Americans are defined, according to to this White House, as potential terrorists, as threats to democracy.
00:30:47.900 And this is this is how Democrats have become radicalized.
00:30:51.240 They now say, if you dare vote against Democrats, you are a threat to democracy.
00:30:57.780 Just understand, every time Democrats use the word democracy, what they mean is me.
00:31:05.540 I'm a Democrat.
00:31:06.960 I want to get elected.
00:31:08.260 And anything that stands in my way is a, quote, threat to democracy.
00:31:14.000 They don't actually want that.
00:31:18.380 They don't actually want real democracy if it elects Republicans.
00:31:22.160 What they want is Democrats to be in power forever.
00:31:25.580 And by the way, this is intimately connected to their lawlessness on the southern border, because the reason they've allowed 7.6 million illegal immigrants into the country is because they want to subvert democracy by getting them to vote for Democrats and keep Democrats in power. 0.92
00:31:42.320 Senator, I also think we should bring up in the Newsweek article, it says that if you voted for Donald Trump, the government will track you.
00:31:49.620 Well, that's right.
00:31:51.540 And in June of this year, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security filed a joint report with Congress.
00:32:01.740 And what they say in that joint report is they say, quote, threats from domestic violent extremists have increased in the last two years, and any further increases in threats likely will correspond to potential flashpoints, such as high-profile elections and campaigns or contentious current events.
00:32:25.520 So they're saying terrorists are associated with high-profile elections, and just to make sure there's no ambiguity that they're not talking about Antifa, they're not talking about left-wing terrorists, they are focused on Republicans.
00:32:40.300 Here's what the report concludes, quote,
00:32:44.720 socio-political developments, such as narratives of fraud in the recent general election, conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and conspiracy theories promoting violence, will almost certainly spur some domestic terrorists to try to engage in violence.
00:33:08.160 Now, everything they list there, they associate with Republicans.
00:33:12.980 And notice they say COVID.
00:33:14.220 So if you don't like lockdowns, you're a terrorist.
00:33:17.160 If you don't like forced maskings, you're a terrorist. 0.66
00:33:20.360 If you don't like vaccine mandates, you're a terrorist.
00:33:22.800 If you're concerned about the potential health negative effects of forced vaccines, of the COVID vaccines, you're a terrorist.
00:33:30.120 That is the narrative.
00:33:32.400 Anyone that disagrees with the regime, they now define as a violent extremist.
00:33:39.060 And amazingly enough, left-wing violence in their narrative doesn't exist.
00:33:43.680 So Black Lives Matter, not a word about that. 0.72
00:33:47.260 Antifa, not a word about that.
00:33:49.720 The efforts targeting, look, we've got now violent riots that are playing out right now in cities like Philadelphia, where they're ransacking and looting stores, where they're attacking police officers.
00:34:03.980 That is not violent extremism.
00:34:06.240 If you're a leftist, that's okay.
00:34:08.920 That's wonderful.
00:34:10.200 That is beautiful social protest to burn American cities. 0.95
00:34:15.300 But yet, if you don't want to see America locked down again on COVID, clearly you're a terrorist.
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00:35:50.900 Final question to you.
00:35:52.200 I think we should give it a quick update on that speakership and the House vote kind of risen to the top at this point.
00:35:59.620 He said he's willing to be the speaker.
00:36:02.060 That would be, and if you missed our interview with him, a two-part series on the Hunter Biden investigation, go back and listen to it.
00:36:09.480 He's phenomenal on this issue.
00:36:11.660 Talk about the timeline now of when we expect the House side to take this up of deciding again who's going to be the speaker.
00:36:19.280 Well, my understanding is the House is going to vote on speaker next week, and I expect it to be a rollercoaster ride.
00:36:27.540 I mean, you remember back in January we had a rollercoaster ride of over a dozen different ballots before Kevin McCarthy was elected speaker, and it was very narrow.
00:36:38.580 It may well be a similar battle.
00:36:41.080 At this point, there are several contenders that are talking about running.
00:36:44.120 Two have announced publicly.
00:36:47.440 One is Steve Scalise.
00:36:48.660 Steve Scalise is the majority leader, was Kevin McCarthy's number two.
00:36:55.100 Steve is generally perceived to be more conservative than McCarthy.
00:37:00.780 And so Steve is running as the candidate that can unify both the moderates in the Republican conference and also some of the conservatives.
00:37:11.440 A second candidate who's running, as you noted, is Jim Jordan.
00:37:15.600 Jim Jordan was one of the original founders of the Freedom Caucus.
00:37:19.900 He is a prominent and well-known conservative.
00:37:23.480 The media is deeply skeptical of Jim Jordan, and they say he's too conservative to get elected.
00:37:28.580 The moderates will never support him.
00:37:30.120 I don't know if that's true or not.
00:37:31.680 There is also discussion that Kevin Hearn, who is a Republican from Oklahoma, that he may run.
00:37:40.040 Kevin is a good man.
00:37:41.920 It's not clear if he will, although there have been reports that he's telling other Republicans he's looking at the race seriously.
00:37:48.880 And then there's been some chatter that Chip Roy might run.
00:37:52.520 I don't know if Chip will run or not.
00:37:54.660 At this point, neither Kevin nor Chip are in the race, but next week they might both be in the race.
00:38:00.580 And I don't know if yet another Republican might jump in.
00:38:04.940 So I think it will be vigorously contested.
00:38:08.940 I'm sure there is a lot of horse trading going on right now.
00:38:12.620 There's a lot of negotiations going on right now.
00:38:15.600 What's striking is that each of the potential candidates went and met with the Texas delegation.
00:38:21.400 The reason they met with the Texas delegation is Texas is the largest contingent of House Republicans.
00:38:27.700 And so you've got the biggest block of votes, particularly if the Texas delegation votes together.
00:38:32.680 It's not clear that they will, but they might.
00:38:35.780 And so at this point, I don't know what will happen.
00:38:38.540 My intention is to stay out of it and to leave leadership elections to House Republicans.
00:38:45.380 But the answer as to who comes out of it is going to matter quite a bit.
00:38:49.560 And so we will certainly watch with interest and continue to provide the best analysis we can.
00:38:56.700 One of the things I've heard over the last 24, 48 hours, Senator, is there are people that love Jim Jordan,
00:39:02.360 but they don't want to lose him on this investigation of Hunter Biden.
00:39:06.040 And they're afraid that if he became the speak expertise, is that a something that should be a concern?
00:39:12.340 Or could he still continue to do both or have more power as a speaker?
00:39:16.540 Well, look, there's no doubt that the speaker is by far the most powerful player in the House.
00:39:21.700 And the speaker of the House has enormous institutional authority.
00:39:26.080 The questions of what is the best role for each of the Republicans in the House are going to be questions that the House members are going to have to decide.
00:39:34.600 And I'm sure if that's a question being asked about Jim Jordan, I imagine Jim will be answering that question to his colleagues.
00:39:41.040 And I expect a whole lot of conversations on on between all the House Republicans throughout this weekend and throughout next week.
00:39:50.580 And my guess is we'll see multiple ballots and we'll see what ultimately comes out.
00:39:57.500 It's going to be very interesting. We're going to cover it here.
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