Verdict with Ted Cruz - Obama Admin Caught in a Bombshell LIE about the Russia Hoax plus ALL THE WINS in the One Big Beautiful Bill

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00:00:05.420 Welcome, it is Vertic with Senator Ted Cruz.

00:00:07.680 Ben Ferguson with you, Senator.

00:00:09.080 It's a big week out of Washington, D.C.

00:00:11.300 You were there for a lot of it.

00:00:13.340 Tulsi Gabbard coming out and making it pretty clear

00:00:16.980 she believes that there are people in and around

00:00:19.400 the President of the United States of America at the time,

00:00:21.500 Barack Obama, who may have deliberately

00:00:23.860 and purposely perpetrated a hoax against Donald Trump.

00:00:28.340 People are even using the word treason at this point

00:00:31.760 and criminal referrals are actually being talked about.

00:00:35.060 Well, Tulsi Gabbard this week released a bombshell.

00:00:39.180 She released evidence that Barack Obama

00:00:41.920 and his senior intelligence team

00:00:44.460 deliberately lied to the American people.

00:00:47.300 They knew they lied and they did so to undermine

00:00:50.900 the incoming Trump administration,

00:00:53.380 the incoming president who had just been elected in 2016.

00:00:56.060 And the bombshell, we're going to break it down for you.

00:00:59.240 She laid out chapter and verse.

00:01:01.400 She brought the receipts.

00:01:03.320 How for months, the Obama intelligence community

00:01:07.960 had assessed Russia was not trying to interfere

00:01:11.380 with the election, was not trying to elect Donald Trump,

00:01:14.340 which is, of course, exactly the opposite

00:01:16.780 of what they spent the next four years

00:01:18.340 telling the American people.

00:01:19.560 We're going to break down exactly what she laid out

00:01:22.880 and what it means and what the criminal liability is,

00:01:27.180 who's going to be held accountable

00:01:28.420 and what to expect next.

00:01:29.700 We're also going to do something that is really important,

00:01:31.920 which is break down the details

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00:01:55.960 We're going to explain it all to you.

00:01:57.240 Yeah, it's really incredible.

00:01:58.320 We're going to have that for you in a minute.

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00:03:47.040 All right, so let's go to the bombshell center.

00:03:49.620 I was in D.C. when this happened

00:03:51.740 and everyone was talking about the report that was released

00:03:54.920 showing how the Obama administration,

00:03:57.700 in essence, perpetrated the Russian hoax 0.77

00:04:00.500 on Donald Trump to undermine his presidency,

00:04:02.660 but also to really get him out of the White House.

00:04:05.580 Well, that's right.

00:04:06.860 And it's important to understand what is new about this.

00:04:09.140 Listen, everyone has known for some time

00:04:11.200 that the Obama team pushed the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.

00:04:15.000 We've known that.

00:04:16.040 That's been well established.

00:04:17.840 What is new, what Tulsi Gabbard put out this week,

00:04:21.360 is that they knew they were lying when they did that

00:04:24.240 because the intelligence had been precisely the opposite.

00:04:27.360 And what I want to do is I want to walk through

00:04:29.060 a little bit of this timeline and give you the specific facts.

00:04:32.220 So, August 31st of 2016,

00:04:36.820 a DHS official tells former DNI director James Clapper

00:04:40.920 that there was, quote,

00:04:42.980 no indication of a Russian threat

00:04:46.280 to directly manipulate the actual vote count.

00:04:49.220 That's in August of 2016.

00:04:51.440 Then September 2nd, 2016,

00:04:53.340 the FBI said it was, quote,

00:04:56.000 uncomfortable,

00:04:57.700 implying that there was definitive information

00:05:00.200 that Russia intended to disrupt our elections.

00:05:03.400 Then on September 9th, 2016,

00:05:06.760 quote,

00:05:07.500 the intelligence community concluded

00:05:09.920 that Russia was probably not

00:05:13.580 trying to influence the election

00:05:16.020 by using cyber means

00:05:17.760 to target election infrastructure.

00:05:19.760 That continued.

00:05:22.420 So that was not just through August and September of 2016,

00:05:26.100 but it continued after the election.

00:05:27.960 The election happens in November of 2016.

00:05:31.400 On December 7th, 2016,

00:05:34.920 here are the talking points

00:05:36.500 that DNI director Clapper had prepared for him.

00:05:39.400 Quote,

00:05:39.660 foreign adversaries did not use cyber attacks

00:05:45.960 on election infrastructure

00:05:47.380 to alter the U.S. presidential election outcome.

00:05:50.860 The next day, December 8th,

00:05:53.840 Barack Obama's presidential daily brief

00:05:56.140 read as follows, quote,

00:05:58.420 we assess that Russian and criminal actors

00:06:02.060 did not impact recent U.S. election results

00:06:06.240 by conducting malicious cyber activities

00:06:08.680 against election infrastructure.

00:06:10.040 That's an important point there, by the way.

00:06:13.340 That's what Barack Obama was briefed on December 8th.

00:06:17.880 And then December 9th, 2016,

00:06:20.400 everything changed.

00:06:22.240 On December 9th,

00:06:24.300 DNI director Clapper,

00:06:26.100 national security advisor Susan Rice,

00:06:28.280 secretary of state John Kerry,

00:06:30.060 and deputy FBI director McCabe,

00:06:32.080 they all met in person.

00:06:34.220 And in that meeting,

00:06:36.900 they reversed course entirely,

00:06:39.340 180 degrees.

00:06:41.740 They flipped,

00:06:44.080 and they agreed to recommend sanctioning

00:06:47.920 members of the Russian military intelligence

00:06:51.520 because of the Russia hoax.

00:06:53.820 They tasked the intelligence community

00:06:56.560 with creating an assessment

00:06:57.780 of the tools Moscow used

00:06:59.360 to influence the 2016 election.

00:07:01.100 And that same day,

00:07:04.060 deep state officials

00:07:05.200 in the intelligence community

00:07:06.420 began leaking false intelligence

00:07:09.200 to the Washington Post.

00:07:11.680 This was a decision they made

00:07:14.020 to lie to the American people.

00:07:17.040 And that's the new piece.

00:07:18.140 Deliberately and orchestrated

00:07:19.280 and well planned out.

00:07:20.620 This wasn't just a random

00:07:21.780 let's go out there and lie

00:07:22.980 at a press briefing.

00:07:24.460 This was a plan

00:07:25.820 like writing a movie script

00:07:27.160 of how you were going

00:07:28.240 to lie to the American people

00:07:29.760 and use the intelligence agencies

00:07:31.320 to do it.

00:07:32.360 And what Tulsi Gabbard

00:07:33.740 has now given us

00:07:34.780 the receipts on

00:07:35.740 is they knew they were lying.

00:07:38.060 That for months

00:07:38.980 and months and months

00:07:39.960 the intelligence community

00:07:41.040 had been reporting

00:07:41.760 exactly the opposite.

00:07:43.320 So when they made this decision,

00:07:45.140 it was a political determination.

00:07:46.560 It was a political determination

00:07:47.920 because they hated Donald Trump.

00:07:49.680 And it was a political determination

00:07:51.140 because they were furious

00:07:52.400 with the American people

00:07:53.680 for electing Donald Trump president.

00:07:55.900 And this was an attempt

00:07:57.000 to subvert democracy.

00:07:59.320 And this was an attempt

00:08:00.400 to overthrow

00:08:01.440 the then newly elected

00:08:03.120 president of the United States.

00:08:05.120 And what is brazen about it

00:08:08.340 is that they did it.

00:08:10.840 All of the intelligence

00:08:11.960 that for months and months

00:08:13.120 and months had been reported,

00:08:14.380 it suddenly magically disappeared.

00:08:15.920 They didn't acknowledge it.

00:08:17.240 They simply,

00:08:18.480 those facts were no longer operative.

00:08:20.520 They had a political agenda. 0.93

00:08:21.920 The facts be damned. 0.70

00:08:24.280 And they were willing 0.68

00:08:24.880 to lie to the American people

00:08:26.160 and they were willing

00:08:26.640 to lie to Congress.

00:08:27.580 Yeah, when you think about

00:08:28.320 changing the papers

00:08:29.500 is the way it was described

00:08:30.860 in the White House press briefing

00:08:31.780 where it was like,

00:08:32.640 the report says

00:08:33.440 one plus one equals two.

00:08:34.840 And they're like,

00:08:35.060 no, no, we're going to change

00:08:35.840 that to equal seven.

00:08:37.180 They knew they were doing this

00:08:39.020 to hurt the president.

00:08:40.320 And in essence,

00:08:40.960 a coup attempt.

00:08:41.760 It wasn't even

00:08:42.680 one plus one equals seven.

00:08:43.900 It's one plus one

00:08:44.700 equals cucumber.

00:08:45.700 Yeah, I mean,

00:08:46.480 great point.

00:08:47.160 And this is what happens

00:08:48.420 when you have

00:08:49.060 a rogue deep state,

00:08:50.220 which goes back

00:08:51.220 to what the president said.

00:08:52.720 He believed

00:08:53.460 this was what had happened to him

00:08:54.560 and they said

00:08:55.080 it was crazy

00:08:55.880 when it happened.

00:08:56.980 Senator,

00:08:57.240 I want to go back

00:08:57.920 into what Tulsi Gabbard said

00:08:59.200 when she went

00:09:00.440 to the White House,

00:09:01.520 White House press briefing room,

00:09:02.740 and she opened it up

00:09:03.760 as she was introduced

00:09:04.540 by the White House press secretary.

00:09:05.980 And here's what she had to say.

00:09:07.340 The stunning revelations

00:09:08.720 that we are releasing today

00:09:10.380 should be of concern

00:09:11.440 to every American.

00:09:12.580 This is not about

00:09:13.160 Democrats or Republicans.

00:09:14.480 This has to do

00:09:15.200 with the integrity

00:09:16.340 of our Democratic Republic

00:09:17.920 and American voters

00:09:19.280 having faith

00:09:20.060 that the votes cast

00:09:21.220 will count.

00:09:22.880 There is irrefutable evidence

00:09:24.660 that detail

00:09:25.400 how President Obama

00:09:26.740 and his national security team

00:09:28.560 directed the creation

00:09:29.700 of an intelligence

00:09:31.020 community assessment

00:09:31.980 that they knew

00:09:33.480 was false.

00:09:35.160 They knew it would promote

00:09:36.560 this contrived narrative

00:09:37.820 that Russia interfered

00:09:39.260 in the 2016 election

00:09:40.500 to help President Trump win,

00:09:42.660 selling it to the American people

00:09:44.040 as though it were true.

00:09:46.240 It wasn't.

00:09:47.380 The report that we released today

00:09:48.740 shows in great detail

00:09:50.080 how they carried this out.

00:09:52.580 They manufactured findings

00:09:53.980 from shoddy sources.

00:09:55.680 They suppressed evidence

00:09:56.920 and credible intelligence

00:09:58.260 that disproved

00:09:59.760 their false claims.

00:10:01.680 They disobeyed

00:10:02.860 traditional tradecraft

00:10:04.760 intelligence community standards

00:10:06.460 and withheld the truth

00:10:08.100 from the American people.

00:10:10.120 In doing so,

00:10:11.080 they conspired

00:10:11.800 to subvert the will

00:10:12.840 of the American people

00:10:13.880 who elected Donald Trump

00:10:15.220 in that election

00:10:15.980 in November of 2016.

00:10:17.780 They worked with their partners

00:10:19.280 in the media

00:10:20.060 to promote this lie,

00:10:21.800 ultimately to undermine

00:10:22.760 the legitimacy

00:10:23.380 of President Trump

00:10:24.560 and launching

00:10:25.480 what would be

00:10:26.440 a years-long coup

00:10:27.840 against him

00:10:28.600 and his administration.

00:10:30.280 A years-long coup

00:10:32.120 against him

00:10:32.960 and his administration

00:10:34.260 orchestrated

00:10:35.180 with the deep state

00:10:36.540 and the media.

00:10:37.640 She's indicting

00:10:38.520 all of them

00:10:39.180 saying they knew

00:10:40.080 this was a lie.

00:10:41.520 She is,

00:10:42.180 and I will say,

00:10:43.780 as she rightly pointed out,

00:10:45.740 the evidence she put out

00:10:46.820 shows,

00:10:47.320 number one,

00:10:48.000 it was false

00:10:48.780 that Russia was trying 0.82

00:10:49.720 to interfere with the election,

00:10:50.920 but number two,

00:10:51.720 a second predicate

00:10:52.480 of their lie

00:10:53.200 is that Russia

00:10:54.200 was trying to interfere

00:10:55.280 to benefit Donald Trump.

00:10:56.940 That was a critical

00:10:57.780 Democrat partisan lie,

00:10:59.420 and one of the pieces

00:11:02.380 that she put out

00:11:03.400 is that the Obama

00:11:05.820 intelligence community

00:11:07.260 assessed that Russia

00:11:10.460 had in its possession

00:11:11.980 damaging information

00:11:13.680 about Hillary Clinton,

00:11:15.600 including DNC communication.

00:11:19.600 So this is the Democrat

00:11:20.340 National Committee

00:11:21.140 communicating,

00:11:21.940 saying that Clinton

00:11:22.760 was suffering from,

00:11:24.200 quote,

00:11:25.140 intensified psycho-emotional

00:11:27.400 problems,

00:11:28.700 including uncontrolled

00:11:30.240 fits of anger,

00:11:32.020 aggression,

00:11:33.540 and cheerfulness.

00:11:34.480 And by the way,

00:11:35.040 that's really weird.

00:11:36.380 Well, if you've been

00:11:36.840 around Hillary Clinton,

00:11:37.840 and cheerfulness.

00:11:38.840 If you've been around

00:11:39.180 Hillary Clinton,

00:11:39.780 she's not exactly

00:11:40.300 the most cheerful person,

00:11:41.460 so that would be

00:11:41.980 a red flag.

00:11:42.460 And what the DNC communications

00:11:46.320 further indicated

00:11:47.320 was that Clinton

00:11:48.240 was placed on a daily

00:11:49.800 regimen of,

00:11:51.180 quote,

00:11:51.740 heavy tranquilizers,

00:11:54.500 and while afraid

00:11:56.020 of losing,

00:11:56.600 she remained,

00:11:57.560 quote,

00:11:57.980 obsessed with a thirst

00:11:59.460 for power.

00:12:00.100 Now,

00:12:00.580 I don't know

00:12:01.700 if this supposed

00:12:03.100 Russian intelligence

00:12:03.960 is accurate or not.

00:12:06.220 Tulsi Gabbard released it

00:12:07.360 and said that the

00:12:08.160 Obama intelligence community

00:12:10.060 assessed that Russia

00:12:11.420 had this,

00:12:12.060 and here's the critical part.

00:12:14.140 Russia didn't release it.

00:12:15.940 It clearly would have been

00:12:16.780 damaging to Hillary Clinton.

00:12:17.880 If they wanted Donald Trump

00:12:18.960 to win,

00:12:20.040 they would have put it out,

00:12:21.320 presumably,

00:12:21.760 in October of 2016.

00:12:23.780 They didn't.

00:12:24.760 That's yet another element

00:12:25.920 of the lie.

00:12:27.160 Yeah,

00:12:27.380 it's a huge element

00:12:28.480 of the lie.

00:12:28.900 So the question now

00:12:29.780 becomes this,

00:12:31.380 where we go from here,

00:12:32.500 and it seems to be moving

00:12:34.000 actually very fast.

00:12:35.560 Great example of that

00:12:36.580 is the Attorney General

00:12:37.420 Pam Bondi,

00:12:38.300 we're now being told,

00:12:39.540 is forming a strike force

00:12:41.240 to, quote,

00:12:41.880 investigate disclosures

00:12:43.320 from the Office

00:12:44.100 of the Director

00:12:44.780 of National Intelligence,

00:12:46.500 that would be Tulsi Gabbard,

00:12:48.100 that raises allegations.

00:12:50.420 The Obama administration,

00:12:51.700 quote,

00:12:51.920 manufactured an intelligence

00:12:54.140 assessment in 2017

00:12:55.500 promoting the Russian

00:12:57.260 hoax collusion,

00:12:58.240 saying, quote,

00:12:58.700 the Department of Justice

00:12:59.440 announcing the formation

00:13:00.740 of the strike force

00:13:01.620 on Wednesday.

00:13:02.640 The strike force

00:13:03.420 will assess the evidence

00:13:05.020 publicized by the DNI director

00:13:07.340 and investigate

00:13:08.420 any potential,

00:13:10.120 quote,

00:13:10.260 next level steps

00:13:11.600 which might stem

00:13:13.020 from DNI Gabbard's disclosures.

00:13:15.020 That's coming from the release.

00:13:16.520 And Bondi called the disclosures

00:13:17.760 from Gabbard's office,

00:13:18.980 quote,

00:13:19.600 troubling in the statement.

00:13:21.180 Well,

00:13:21.840 I'm very glad

00:13:22.620 that the Trump Department

00:13:23.480 of Justice

00:13:23.960 is investigating this.

00:13:25.760 Tulsi Gabbard

00:13:26.460 made a criminal referral

00:13:27.900 to the Department of Justice

00:13:29.100 and Pam Bondi

00:13:30.040 launched this strike force

00:13:31.620 and many people

00:13:32.620 are asking quite reasonably,

00:13:34.020 is anyone going to be

00:13:35.200 held accountable for this?

00:13:36.220 Because it seems

00:13:36.820 so frustrating

00:13:37.620 to have people

00:13:38.160 breaking the law

00:13:39.080 over and over and over again

00:13:40.800 and nobody being prosecuted,

00:13:42.280 nobody going to jail.

00:13:43.600 I very much hope

00:13:44.560 people are held accountable.

00:13:45.500 I hope that the Trump

00:13:46.400 Department of Justice

00:13:47.280 is able to prosecute

00:13:49.020 and prove

00:13:50.240 if there is criminal conduct

00:13:51.620 that they're able

00:13:52.460 to prove it

00:13:53.200 and get convictions

00:13:54.500 and people are held accountable.

00:13:55.780 And I'll tell you,

00:13:56.840 the people who are most likely

00:13:58.620 to face criminal liability

00:14:00.420 are those senior members

00:14:02.540 of the Obama intelligence community,

00:14:04.960 those people that were in

00:14:06.580 the December 9th meeting

00:14:09.120 where they decided

00:14:10.060 to deliberately lie

00:14:11.060 to the American people.

00:14:12.200 Those names, by the way.

00:14:13.200 And in particular,

00:14:15.180 so those names...

00:14:17.400 You're talking about

00:14:17.920 James Clapper

00:14:18.680 is one example.

00:14:19.940 We're talking about

00:14:20.300 the biggest names there.

00:14:21.380 Yes, I'm talking about

00:14:22.200 James Clapper.

00:14:23.000 I'm talking about

00:14:23.600 Susan Rice.

00:14:24.240 I'm talking about

00:14:24.700 John Kerry.

00:14:25.820 And I'm talking about

00:14:27.260 Deputy FBI Director McCabe.

00:14:29.720 Wow.

00:14:30.100 Those were the ones.

00:14:31.240 And in particular also,

00:14:33.360 it is the senior officials

00:14:34.680 who testified,

00:14:36.340 falsely testified

00:14:37.300 before Congress

00:14:38.340 and lied

00:14:39.660 and knew they were lying.

00:14:40.560 And there are two relevant

00:14:41.880 federal criminal statutes

00:14:43.540 that are most relevant.

00:14:44.460 Number one is 18 U.S.C.

00:14:46.280 Section 1621,

00:14:47.680 and that is perjury.

00:14:49.260 Whoever, having taken an oath,

00:14:50.420 willfully states

00:14:51.100 any material matter

00:14:52.000 which he does not believe

00:14:53.120 to be true

00:14:53.620 is guilty of perjury.

00:14:55.240 This applies

00:14:56.080 to sworn congressional testimony.

00:14:57.900 And secondly,

00:14:59.060 18 U.S.C.

00:15:00.080 Section 1001,

00:15:02.040 whoever knowingly

00:15:02.840 and willfully makes

00:15:03.560 any materially false,

00:15:04.780 fictitious,

00:15:05.240 or fraudulent statement

00:15:06.160 in any matter

00:15:06.760 within the jurisdiction

00:15:07.540 of the executive,

00:15:08.420 legislative,

00:15:08.760 or judicial branch

00:15:09.660 shall be fined

00:15:11.020 or in prison.

00:15:11.760 Both of these,

00:15:13.020 you've got in particular

00:15:14.480 two different testimonies

00:15:16.360 that are really problematic.

00:15:18.180 Number one,

00:15:19.260 on May 8th, 2017,

00:15:21.100 James Clapper testified

00:15:22.220 before the Senate

00:15:22.940 Judiciary Committee

00:15:23.900 about the Russia collusion

00:15:26.780 and what he said,

00:15:27.880 according to what's been released

00:15:29.200 by Tulsi Gabbard,

00:15:30.060 he knew was false.

00:15:31.680 He said in particular,

00:15:33.080 quote,

00:15:34.060 Russia's influence activities

00:15:35.360 in the run-up

00:15:35.880 to the 2016 presidential election

00:15:37.680 constituted

00:15:38.380 the high-water mark

00:15:39.280 of their long-running efforts.

00:15:40.840 They must be congratulating themselves.

00:15:42.420 This episode is a clarion call

00:15:43.800 for vigilance and action

00:15:45.000 against a threat

00:15:46.160 to the very foundations

00:15:47.160 of our democratic system.

00:15:48.800 And then in November of 2020,

00:15:51.020 Andrew McCabe testified

00:15:52.040 before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

00:15:53.980 He lied as well.

00:15:55.440 And I will say

00:15:56.040 for the statute of limitations,

00:15:57.180 if it was materially covered up,

00:15:59.740 it is extended.

00:16:00.980 This is the most likely area

00:16:02.700 you'll find criminal liability.

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00:16:07.000 More out of themselves,

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00:16:35.860 It is time for us

00:16:36.960 to take a moment

00:16:37.480 to give you real information

00:16:38.840 about the big, beautiful bill.

00:16:40.780 Much of what was in it

00:16:41.780 that's going to affect you

00:16:42.540 and your family

00:16:43.060 in a positive way.

00:16:44.860 Share this,

00:16:45.720 our top 12 list

00:16:47.080 of things in this bill.

00:16:48.600 Share it wherever you can

00:16:49.400 on social media.

00:16:50.260 Take a listen.

00:16:51.620 You can watch CNN

00:16:53.160 all day long.

00:16:54.520 God help you if you do.

00:16:55.860 Your eyes will bleed. 0.99

00:16:57.100 You will go insane 0.91

00:16:58.020 and run around in circles. 0.53

00:16:59.280 But you could watch it

00:17:00.320 all day long

00:17:00.880 and you will not get

00:17:01.760 this information

00:17:02.900 that you're getting

00:17:03.980 right now on verdict.

00:17:05.780 12 victories

00:17:06.600 that are in the one

00:17:07.580 big, beautiful bill.

00:17:09.200 Victory number one.

00:17:10.920 We have stopped

00:17:11.860 a $4 trillion tax increase.

00:17:14.600 If we did nothing

00:17:15.420 on December 31st,

00:17:17.000 the Trump tax cuts

00:17:17.940 would disappear

00:17:18.620 and every American taxpayer,

00:17:20.460 your taxes would go up

00:17:21.660 significantly.

00:17:23.320 $4 trillion.

00:17:24.300 Every taxpayer.

00:17:25.400 And by the way,

00:17:26.200 the Democrats wanted

00:17:27.300 your taxes to go up

00:17:28.860 to stop a $4 trillion

00:17:30.680 tax increase

00:17:31.780 is a massive victory.

00:17:33.940 That's victory one

00:17:34.840 in the one big,

00:17:35.480 beautiful bill.

00:17:36.760 Victory two.

00:17:38.080 We enacted new tax cuts.

00:17:40.320 No tax on tips.

00:17:41.520 Yep.

00:17:41.880 That's my legislation.

00:17:43.140 I drafted it.

00:17:44.260 It is in this bill.

00:17:45.420 That means if you're

00:17:46.400 a waiter or a waitress,

00:17:47.600 if you're a bartender,

00:17:48.880 if you're a barber

00:17:49.880 or a hairstylist,

00:17:50.940 if you work in a nail salon,

00:17:52.340 if you're a taxi cab driver

00:17:53.680 or an Uber driver,

00:17:55.520 millions of Americans

00:17:56.720 rely on tips,

00:17:57.740 we're providing real

00:17:58.860 and meaningful tax relief

00:18:00.120 to working Americans.

00:18:01.180 That's in there.

00:18:02.340 No tax on overtime

00:18:03.440 is in there.

00:18:04.460 No tax on Social Security

00:18:05.740 is in there.

00:18:06.320 All three of those

00:18:07.300 were President Trump's

00:18:08.600 campaign promises.

00:18:09.700 We delivered on all three

00:18:10.820 of those.

00:18:11.700 And working Americans

00:18:12.780 all across Texas

00:18:13.660 and all across this country

00:18:14.840 will see the benefits

00:18:16.400 of those major tax cuts.

00:18:19.780 That's huge.

00:18:20.960 I mean, it's just huge

00:18:21.800 when you think about that

00:18:22.940 and you think about the promise

00:18:24.220 and how it was,

00:18:25.900 you know,

00:18:26.120 you look at the president.

00:18:26.980 I go back to the campaign

00:18:28.020 and he came out

00:18:29.420 and he was in Vegas

00:18:30.120 and he was like,

00:18:31.080 hey, we shouldn't be taxing people.

00:18:32.820 They're working their tails off

00:18:33.700 and the tips

00:18:34.220 and everything else.

00:18:35.200 And then the left

00:18:35.880 actually came out

00:18:36.580 and immediately started

00:18:37.320 attacking him

00:18:37.960 for the saying

00:18:38.380 it'll never happen.

00:18:39.180 This is not a good idea.

00:18:40.580 They did say

00:18:41.480 it'll never happen.

00:18:42.180 They said it's an empty promise.

00:18:43.540 Yep.

00:18:43.760 By the way,

00:18:44.220 I've told the story

00:18:45.060 of where he came up

00:18:45.780 with the idea of no tax on tips.

00:18:47.340 He was the day 0.87

00:18:47.980 of his Vegas rally.

00:18:48.900 He was having lunch in Vegas.

00:18:50.340 He said there was a waitress

00:18:51.340 who came up to him

00:18:52.160 and was serving him lunch

00:18:53.600 and Trump being Trump,

00:18:54.980 he told us,

00:18:55.740 he said,

00:18:56.220 she was beautiful.

00:18:57.540 I'm telling you,

00:18:58.380 she was beautiful.

00:18:59.880 And he said

00:19:01.060 she was saying

00:19:01.740 how stressful it was

00:19:02.860 to pay taxes on tips

00:19:03.960 and how complicated it was.

00:19:05.620 And he said

00:19:05.900 he just put on a piece of paper

00:19:07.000 and he wrote on the piece of paper

00:19:08.080 no tax on tips.

00:19:09.360 He said,

00:19:09.600 what do you think?

00:19:10.380 She says,

00:19:10.760 that sounds great.

00:19:11.560 And he said,

00:19:12.240 I had a rally that afternoon

00:19:13.400 so I went out to the rally

00:19:14.380 and I said,

00:19:14.720 all right,

00:19:14.900 let's try it out.

00:19:16.000 And he said,

00:19:16.440 no tax on tips.

00:19:17.540 The place went nuts.

00:19:18.480 It went nuts.

00:19:19.140 Because that's a tipped town.

00:19:20.640 I mean,

00:19:20.820 it is.

00:19:21.720 25% of the workers in Nevada

00:19:24.180 are tipped workers.

00:19:26.120 They rely on it

00:19:27.280 as their income.

00:19:28.000 Yes.

00:19:28.380 And so I saw it

00:19:29.740 and I said,

00:19:30.240 this is political genius

00:19:31.340 and I immediately drafted

00:19:32.980 the legislation

00:19:33.540 to make it happen.

00:19:34.880 That is part of

00:19:35.560 one big beautiful bill.

00:19:36.840 Victory 3.

00:19:38.720 Securing the border.

00:19:39.880 We mentioned

00:19:40.500 what the president

00:19:41.760 has done

00:19:42.220 by enforcing the law.

00:19:43.340 What we put in

00:19:43.920 one big beautiful bill

00:19:44.960 is $150 billion

00:19:47.740 to secure the border.

00:19:49.360 It is the largest

00:19:50.260 investment in border security

00:19:51.740 in the history of America.

00:19:53.980 It will build the wall.

00:19:55.180 It will complete the wall.

00:19:56.640 We will hire 0.99

00:19:57.220 more border patrol agents.

00:19:58.500 We will hire 0.99

00:19:59.020 more ICE agents.

00:20:00.000 We will build

00:20:00.520 more detention facilities.

00:20:02.260 We will have

00:20:02.840 more detention beds

00:20:03.980 and we will employ

00:20:05.500 technology,

00:20:06.640 infrared,

00:20:07.280 drones,

00:20:07.880 helicopters.

00:20:08.940 It is,

00:20:09.720 as I said,

00:20:10.500 the biggest investment

00:20:11.400 ever to secure the border.

00:20:13.160 That is in the bill.

00:20:14.100 One of the things

00:20:15.180 that you mentioned

00:20:15.680 there was technology.

00:20:16.820 It is amazing

00:20:17.440 to see how far behind

00:20:18.480 we've been on technology

00:20:19.260 and how we didn't have

00:20:21.520 the funding

00:20:22.100 for the technology

00:20:22.880 that we knew we needed.

00:20:24.380 That was clearly done

00:20:25.200 on purpose

00:20:25.620 by the prior administration

00:20:26.760 because if you don't

00:20:27.580 have the technology

00:20:28.420 then you're behind.

00:20:29.340 The cartels are ahead.

00:20:30.340 The human traffickers

00:20:31.060 are ahead.

00:20:31.920 The people are ahead of you.

00:20:33.640 They held us back

00:20:34.860 on purpose

00:20:35.720 to, again,

00:20:36.840 open the border.

00:20:37.840 Yes.

00:20:38.120 So we've been playing catch up

00:20:39.420 and that's why this money

00:20:40.360 was so important in this bill.

00:20:41.500 There's another strategic victory

00:20:42.820 which is every spending bill

00:20:44.500 the Democrats hold

00:20:45.480 border spending

00:20:46.140 and military spending hostage.

00:20:47.680 Yep.

00:20:47.860 What we've done

00:20:48.580 is funded the things

00:20:49.640 that are critical

00:20:50.160 to keeping this country safe

00:20:51.460 which means the Democrats

00:20:52.620 can't hold it hostage anymore.

00:20:54.020 So it has,

00:20:55.180 there's a tactical advantage

00:20:56.580 going forward

00:20:57.340 on the next budget battle

00:20:58.640 because this $150 billion

00:21:00.380 we have appropriated it.

00:21:01.940 It is going out the door

00:21:03.180 and there's not a damn thing 0.54

00:21:04.800 Chuck Schumer

00:21:05.420 or AOC can do to stop it.

00:21:07.200 That is valuable.

00:21:08.200 On the psyche aspect of it

00:21:10.260 because I do think

00:21:11.580 this is one of the things

00:21:12.740 that is,

00:21:13.300 I'm witnessing a change.

00:21:15.060 Our border patrol agents

00:21:16.460 whether it's

00:21:16.920 Department of Homeland Security,

00:21:17.920 ICE,

00:21:18.580 their mentality right now

00:21:20.560 has got to be on a high.

00:21:23.020 It is like a drowning man

00:21:25.160 about to die

00:21:26.620 given a life preserver

00:21:28.600 lifted out,

00:21:29.900 saved,

00:21:30.760 they're able to do their jobs,

00:21:32.340 they're locking up bad guys.

00:21:33.460 They're fired up.

00:21:34.080 They're ready to go to war.

00:21:35.020 They're stopping human traffickers,

00:21:35.660 they're stopping drug traffickers

00:21:36.900 every time I see

00:21:37.840 a border patrol agent

00:21:39.000 or an ICE agent.

00:21:39.840 To be honest,

00:21:40.540 half the time we just hug.

00:21:42.340 I mean,

00:21:42.560 the level of,

00:21:43.520 they're just like,

00:21:44.140 thank God.

00:21:45.040 We get to do our job.

00:21:46.680 Victory number four,

00:21:49.200 repaying the states

00:21:50.580 for border security.

00:21:52.020 $13.5 billion,

00:21:53.720 over $10 billion

00:21:54.840 going to Texas.

00:21:56.080 Texas taxpayers

00:21:56.960 spent over $10 billion

00:21:58.380 to secure the border

00:21:59.480 because Joe Biden

00:22:00.240 and the Democrats

00:22:00.940 refused to do so.

00:22:03.620 I helped lead the charge

00:22:04.940 to repay the states.

00:22:06.180 That is in there.

00:22:07.140 That means Texas

00:22:07.960 is getting over $10 billion

00:22:09.860 paid back.

00:22:11.240 That's a huge victory.

00:22:12.300 Victory number four.

00:22:13.960 Victory number five.

00:22:15.940 Rebuilding the military.

00:22:18.200 Massive.

00:22:18.580 Over $150 billion

00:22:21.240 to support our soldiers,

00:22:23.780 our sailors,

00:22:24.480 our airmen,

00:22:25.020 our Marines,

00:22:25.820 to build new submarines,

00:22:27.300 to build new

00:22:28.380 next generation fighter jets,

00:22:29.900 to improve our ability

00:22:31.960 to stand up to China, 0.94

00:22:34.420 to stand up to our enemies,

00:22:35.640 to combat hypersonics,

00:22:37.820 the next generation of warfare.

00:22:39.700 Look,

00:22:40.300 with the military,

00:22:41.180 often you're fighting

00:22:41.880 the last war.

00:22:43.600 We're going forward,

00:22:44.860 we're going to face

00:22:45.520 10,000 drone swarms

00:22:48.200 using AI,

00:22:49.940 investing $150 billion

00:22:52.000 to make sure

00:22:53.200 we can defend this nation.

00:22:55.140 There's no responsibility

00:22:56.360 the federal government has

00:22:57.480 that is more important.

00:22:58.740 And by the way,

00:22:59.960 this is the money

00:23:00.660 the Democrats

00:23:01.160 always hold hostage.

00:23:02.460 So we funded it right now.

00:23:04.780 They can't,

00:23:05.280 they can no longer

00:23:06.120 touch this hostage

00:23:07.020 because this is done.

00:23:08.780 Huge.

00:23:10.180 Victory number six.

00:23:12.360 The Coast Guard.

00:23:13.600 Now this is something

00:23:14.340 I'm particularly proud of

00:23:15.540 because, as you know,

00:23:16.700 I'm the chairman

00:23:17.200 of the Committee on Commerce,

00:23:18.680 Science, and Transportation.

00:23:19.780 Yep.

00:23:20.200 The Coast Guard

00:23:20.760 is in our jurisdiction.

00:23:22.060 So I wrote

00:23:23.060 the Coast Guard provision.

00:23:25.040 $24 billion

00:23:26.600 for the Coast Guard.

00:23:28.780 This is the single

00:23:30.180 largest investment

00:23:31.280 in the Coast Guard

00:23:32.080 in the history

00:23:32.640 of the United States

00:23:33.340 of America.

00:23:34.380 To give you a sense

00:23:35.640 of the scope

00:23:36.480 of the order of magnitude,

00:23:38.620 the annual budget

00:23:39.600 of the Coast Guard

00:23:40.340 is about $12 billion.

00:23:42.340 We are spending

00:23:43.440 about 200%

00:23:45.280 of the annual budget

00:23:46.740 on the Coast Guard

00:23:47.560 in investments.

00:23:48.620 And what are we doing?

00:23:49.780 We're buying new ships.

00:23:50.880 We're buying new helicopters.

00:23:52.740 We're buying new

00:23:53.300 physical infrastructure.

00:23:54.300 And critically,

00:23:55.760 we're investing

00:23:56.620 in ice cutters

00:23:57.600 and polar ice cutters

00:23:58.640 and Arctic ice cutters.

00:23:59.880 Right now, 1.00

00:24:00.880 China is kicking our ass 1.00

00:24:03.360 in the Arctic. 1.00

00:24:04.460 And the Arctic

00:24:05.080 is critical

00:24:05.820 for national security.

00:24:07.400 Any war ICBMs

00:24:08.900 are going to come

00:24:09.320 over the Arctic.

00:24:10.040 The Arctic is now,

00:24:11.260 you've got the United States

00:24:12.280 on the Arctic,

00:24:12.900 you've got China 0.99

00:24:14.040 playing on the Arctic,

00:24:14.900 you've got Russia 0.96

00:24:15.840 playing on the Arctic,

00:24:16.820 and we are losing.

00:24:19.040 This funding

00:24:19.980 will enable us

00:24:20.920 not only to compete

00:24:21.900 to win,

00:24:22.620 and by the way,

00:24:23.660 a huge theme

00:24:24.700 of everything I do

00:24:25.500 in Congress

00:24:25.980 is beat China,

00:24:26.920 beat China, 0.95

00:24:27.540 beat China.

00:24:28.540 This investment

00:24:29.260 in the Coast Guard

00:24:29.940 is to beat China

00:24:30.900 and the Arctic.

00:24:32.060 But let me tell you

00:24:32.840 a huge America First

00:24:34.120 benefit for this,

00:24:35.860 which is shipbuilding

00:24:36.940 in America

00:24:37.620 has almost entirely disappeared.

00:24:39.600 Yeah.

00:24:40.180 And that's scary

00:24:40.880 from a national security standpoint.

00:24:42.060 It is very scary.

00:24:43.520 But this Coast Guard bill

00:24:45.260 will bring shipbuilding

00:24:47.260 back to America. 0.89

00:24:48.400 You look at Galveston, Texas.

00:24:49.880 Yeah.

00:24:50.020 There's a huge multi-billion dollar

00:24:52.120 shipyard

00:24:52.700 that is being built

00:24:54.300 and expanded right now

00:24:55.580 to build these ice cutters.

00:24:57.380 And the problem previously

00:24:58.900 is if you're a private company,

00:25:00.960 you couldn't make

00:25:01.940 the multi-billion dollar investment

00:25:03.860 because you didn't know

00:25:05.040 where demand

00:25:05.600 was going to come from.

00:25:06.540 Because we have

00:25:07.320 $24 billion appropriated,

00:25:09.700 there is a multi-year stream

00:25:12.160 of buy orders

00:25:13.360 coming from the Coast Guard

00:25:14.580 for these ice cutters. 0.91

00:25:15.900 That is going to bring back

00:25:17.400 thousands of jobs,

00:25:19.040 good American jobs

00:25:20.400 right here building ships

00:25:22.060 to keep America safe.

00:25:23.500 That is in the bill.

00:25:24.720 I'll tell you,

00:25:25.320 when I was in the Hill Country,

00:25:26.560 when I was with

00:25:27.160 the Coast Guardsmen

00:25:28.320 who were rescuing Texans

00:25:29.940 from the floods,

00:25:31.580 every single Coastie,

00:25:33.680 every one of them,

00:25:34.640 every man and woman

00:25:35.560 knew exactly about

00:25:38.100 this investment

00:25:38.800 in the Coast Guard.

00:25:39.560 They knew it was

00:25:40.000 the biggest in history.

00:25:41.220 And every one of them said,

00:25:42.500 thank you,

00:25:43.280 this will make

00:25:44.140 a massive difference

00:25:45.760 in our ability

00:25:46.280 to do our jobs.

00:25:46.560 I've got a good friend

00:25:47.360 in the Coast Guard

00:25:47.820 and he said to me

00:25:48.480 the other day about this.

00:25:49.500 He said,

00:25:49.900 you know,

00:25:50.160 the Coast Guard,

00:25:50.840 he's been in for 20 plus years.

00:25:53.140 He said,

00:25:53.560 we've always gotten

00:25:54.120 the hand-me-downs.

00:25:55.300 We get the leftover equipment

00:25:56.600 and the old equipment.

00:25:57.920 That's a lot of their equipment.

00:25:59.040 Literally come from surplus,

00:26:00.580 from military and other things.

00:26:02.220 He said,

00:26:02.700 this is the first time

00:26:03.520 that we are now like

00:26:04.480 on the cutting edge

00:26:05.760 on our own

00:26:06.980 because of what you just described.

00:26:08.700 He said,

00:26:09.300 not only has morale

00:26:10.120 gone through the roof,

00:26:10.840 we're no longer

00:26:11.400 like the forgotten agency.

00:26:12.760 Like we're kind of like,

00:26:13.640 oh,

00:26:13.680 the fifth wheel

00:26:14.480 of military and government.

00:26:16.940 He's like,

00:26:17.220 now we matter

00:26:18.100 and it matters

00:26:18.760 for national security

00:26:19.660 as he described it

00:26:20.400 and I think that's a great point.

00:26:21.600 That is absolutely right

00:26:22.680 and by the way,

00:26:23.200 the Coast Guard

00:26:23.780 also does drug interdiction.

00:26:25.600 It does border security.

00:26:26.900 Exactly.

00:26:27.260 The Coast Guard

00:26:27.620 is critical

00:26:28.200 for securing our border

00:26:29.400 and so this investment,

00:26:30.620 having those Coast Guard cutters 1.00

00:26:31.820 to stop drug traffickers,

00:26:33.380 stop human traffickers

00:26:34.940 and also to engage

00:26:36.180 in search and rescue,

00:26:37.140 which is hugely important.

00:26:39.660 That investment,

00:26:40.820 something I care deeply about

00:26:42.420 and by the way,

00:26:44.480 we're at number six.

00:26:46.400 I told you

00:26:46.880 I'm going to give you 12

00:26:47.920 major conservative victories

00:26:49.920 in the one big beautiful wheel.

00:26:51.100 We're at six.

00:26:51.760 I actually want listeners

00:26:52.660 to pause for a second.

00:26:54.600 How many of you

00:26:55.600 could list the first six

00:26:56.800 before this podcast?

00:26:58.680 And I just want to make the point,

00:27:00.520 what kind of job

00:27:01.460 does the corporate media do?

00:27:02.780 I'm willing to bet

00:27:03.680 virtually none of our listeners

00:27:05.560 could have listed

00:27:06.320 those first six

00:27:07.340 because the news

00:27:08.380 hasn't covered it

00:27:09.240 and it's why we do this podcast,

00:27:10.900 to give you information

00:27:12.660 so that when you're talking

00:27:14.540 to your friends

00:27:15.180 and your colleagues,

00:27:16.100 you will know

00:27:16.700 what's being accomplished.

00:27:18.240 There's a reason

00:27:18.980 President Trump

00:27:19.660 is so excited

00:27:20.340 about this one big beautiful bill

00:27:21.860 because it is massive,

00:27:23.720 massive victories for America.

00:27:26.580 Number seven.

00:27:27.340 Number seven.

00:27:28.840 Spectrum.

00:27:30.240 Now spectrum.

00:27:31.120 What is spectrum?

00:27:32.160 Electromagnetic spectrum.

00:27:33.180 It is how we communicate.

00:27:35.000 It's how our cell phones work.

00:27:36.080 It's how Wi-Fi works.

00:27:37.160 It's how satellites work.

00:27:38.420 It's how streaming works.

00:27:39.520 It's all of electronics.

00:27:41.880 Spectrum.

00:27:43.120 The largest holder of spectrum

00:27:45.000 is the United States government.

00:27:46.660 The United States government

00:27:47.600 has vast swaths of spectrum

00:27:49.580 and under Joe Biden,

00:27:51.480 the United States government

00:27:52.580 stopped making new spectrum

00:27:54.620 available to the private sector.

00:27:55.940 They ended auction authority.

00:27:57.440 It was grotesquely irresponsible.

00:27:59.980 It did massive damage to America.

00:28:01.880 It destroyed jobs in America

00:28:03.560 and it let China

00:28:04.940 get ahead of America.

00:28:06.080 In this bill,

00:28:08.300 I wrote the legislation

00:28:10.520 that directs the federal government

00:28:12.520 to auction to the private sector

00:28:14.460 800 megahertz

00:28:16.020 of spectrum

00:28:17.800 for private sector investment.

00:28:19.420 What does that mean?

00:28:20.080 Number one,

00:28:22.720 that will generate

00:28:23.920 in excess of

00:28:25.260 $100 billion

00:28:26.840 of revenue

00:28:28.000 to the federal government.

00:28:29.540 Wow.

00:28:29.960 Real money.

00:28:30.600 Now, even in government terms,

00:28:33.380 $100 billion

00:28:33.980 is real money.

00:28:35.220 And listen,

00:28:35.760 you and I are deeply concerned

00:28:36.900 about the deficit

00:28:37.600 and the debt.

00:28:38.740 The entire commerce title

00:28:40.900 that I wrote

00:28:41.520 that had historic investments

00:28:42.920 in Coast Guard

00:28:43.700 and a bunch of other things,

00:28:46.080 I ended up saving

00:28:47.060 over $40 billion,

00:28:48.880 reducing the deficit

00:28:49.880 and the debt

00:28:50.400 by over $40 billion.

00:28:52.380 And the driver was,

00:28:53.580 because of Spectrum Auction Authority,

00:28:55.940 we brought in,

00:28:56.820 we will bring in

00:28:57.620 $100 billion

00:28:58.560 to pay down the debt.

00:29:00.580 That's real money,

00:29:01.560 but it's not

00:29:01.920 the biggest piece of this.

00:29:03.460 The biggest piece of this

00:29:04.800 is by auctioning

00:29:05.580 this Spectrum off,

00:29:07.660 we will open up

00:29:09.080 billions and billions

00:29:10.680 of dollars

00:29:11.300 of private sector investment.

00:29:12.880 The companies

00:29:13.320 that buy this Spectrum

00:29:14.540 are going to invest.

00:29:15.960 It is going to create

00:29:17.120 hundreds of thousands of jobs.

00:29:19.880 That is not an exaggeration.

00:29:21.560 Hundreds of thousands of jobs.

00:29:23.360 And you know what Spectrum

00:29:24.080 is all about?

00:29:25.560 Beating China to 6G.

00:29:27.680 I mentioned my consistent theme,

00:29:29.420 beat China.

00:29:30.080 Beat China in the Arctic 0.61

00:29:31.500 with the Coast Guard.

00:29:32.800 Beat China to 6G

00:29:34.240 with Spectrum.

00:29:35.980 And I got to tell you,

00:29:37.620 three months ago,

00:29:39.640 there was nobody

00:29:40.820 in Washington

00:29:41.700 who thought

00:29:42.440 we could get this done.

00:29:43.900 I sat in the office

00:29:44.780 of the Speaker of the House,

00:29:46.500 Mike Johnson,

00:29:47.140 a good friend of mine.

00:29:48.020 I said,

00:29:48.340 Mike,

00:29:49.080 we're going to do Spectrum

00:29:50.120 on the one big,

00:29:51.180 beautiful bill.

00:29:51.700 And Mike laughed in my face.

00:29:53.000 He's a good friend,

00:29:53.760 but he didn't start laughing.

00:29:54.700 There's no way.

00:29:55.160 He said,

00:29:55.540 there's no chance

00:29:56.520 because the Department of Defense

00:29:58.600 and the CIA

00:29:59.740 will fight you.

00:30:00.580 They will stop you.

00:30:01.300 You cannot get it done.

00:30:03.580 We not only got it done

00:30:04.920 when I cut the deal

00:30:05.960 and got it in the bill,

00:30:07.220 President Trump called me

00:30:08.360 the next morning.

00:30:09.140 He said,

00:30:09.540 Ted,

00:30:10.500 this is incredible.

00:30:12.040 This is like,

00:30:12.960 how did you get

00:30:14.100 such an incredible deal?

00:30:17.960 Historic Spectrum

00:30:19.100 auction authority

00:30:20.020 producing hundreds

00:30:20.940 of thousands of jobs

00:30:22.060 and beating China

00:30:23.120 to 6G?

00:30:24.140 That's in the bill.

00:30:24.980 Number eight,

00:30:27.760 air traffic control.

00:30:29.480 This bill invests

00:30:30.800 $12.5 billion

00:30:32.240 modernizing our air traffic control

00:30:34.660 to keep your family safer

00:30:36.320 when you fly,

00:30:37.040 to keep my family safer

00:30:38.160 when we fly,

00:30:39.260 to stop using

00:30:40.460 outdated radars,

00:30:41.600 to stop using computers

00:30:42.820 that have floppy disks

00:30:43.900 and little slips of paper.

00:30:44.320 And copper wire.

00:30:45.180 Copper wire

00:30:46.040 to modernize

00:30:47.400 our air traffic control,

00:30:48.640 a massive investment

00:30:50.060 in keeping

00:30:50.800 the American public safe.

00:30:52.660 This bill,

00:30:53.160 I wrote that portion,

00:30:54.180 that is also in the

00:30:54.940 commerce title,

00:30:55.600 so I wrote that portion

00:30:56.720 that will fund

00:30:57.880 and improve

00:30:58.480 air traffic control

00:30:59.680 a huge victory.

00:31:01.260 Number nine,

00:31:02.780 space.

00:31:03.520 Yep.

00:31:04.160 This bill has

00:31:05.160 $10 billion

00:31:06.520 for NASA

00:31:07.620 to go to the moon

00:31:10.220 for the Artemis program,

00:31:11.780 for the Gateway program,

00:31:13.140 to beat China

00:31:14.760 to the moon.

00:31:16.000 China has said

00:31:16.680 they intend to return

00:31:17.540 to the moon

00:31:18.020 by 2030.

00:31:19.760 In my view,

00:31:20.940 if we lose the moon

00:31:21.920 to China,

00:31:23.320 it would be

00:31:23.940 a catastrophic loss.

00:31:25.360 It would be a loss

00:31:26.200 if we woke up

00:31:27.300 in a few years

00:31:27.980 and China was on the moon

00:31:29.080 and China established

00:31:30.020 a base on the moon,

00:31:30.880 which is what they said

00:31:31.560 they intend to do

00:31:32.400 with the Russians.

00:31:33.880 And they made that

00:31:34.460 very clear.

00:31:35.080 That is the sole intent

00:31:36.500 of going,

00:31:36.820 it's not just to go to the moon,

00:31:37.620 it's to have a base

00:31:38.740 on the moon.

00:31:39.420 Yes.

00:31:40.080 If they did that

00:31:41.260 and we lost,

00:31:42.620 I think it would be

00:31:43.840 worse than Sputnik.

00:31:45.840 That it would be

00:31:46.720 a national body blow

00:31:48.800 that would crush

00:31:50.040 this country.

00:31:50.740 And look,

00:31:51.000 the moon is critical,

00:31:52.540 number one,

00:31:53.140 for national security.

00:31:54.200 The moon is the high ground.

00:31:55.680 You look at so much

00:31:56.660 of our national security

00:31:57.620 and so much

00:31:58.100 of our commerce

00:31:58.680 depends on satellites

00:32:00.180 in orbit around the earth.

00:32:01.780 The moon gives you

00:32:02.620 the high ground.

00:32:03.940 It is very dangerous

00:32:05.100 for us to cede that

00:32:06.400 to China.

00:32:06.960 It is unacceptable

00:32:07.860 for us to cede that

00:32:09.220 to China.

00:32:09.740 But number two,

00:32:10.840 there are massive

00:32:11.860 rare earth minerals

00:32:13.160 on the moon.

00:32:14.340 There are enormous

00:32:15.000 economic advantages.

00:32:16.280 It is current

00:32:17.680 U.S. law

00:32:18.360 that it is the policy

00:32:20.160 of the American

00:32:20.760 government to have

00:32:21.700 a sustained human

00:32:22.660 habitation either

00:32:23.600 on the lunar surface

00:32:24.700 or in cislunar orbit.

00:32:27.880 This investment

00:32:29.040 in beating China

00:32:30.340 to the moon,

00:32:30.860 and by the way,

00:32:31.320 the moon is a

00:32:32.780 stepping stone to Mars.

00:32:34.060 We will go to Mars,

00:32:35.160 but we haven't landed

00:32:36.300 on a celestial body

00:32:37.340 in over 50 years,

00:32:38.240 so we're going to land

00:32:38.780 on the moon first

00:32:39.480 to make sure we know

00:32:40.420 how to do it,

00:32:40.940 and then we're going

00:32:41.320 to go to Mars.

00:32:42.580 This investment,

00:32:43.820 I wrote this investment

00:32:44.940 in there.

00:32:45.880 I will say there was

00:32:47.180 significant resistance,

00:32:49.860 and without getting

00:32:50.920 too much into the

00:32:51.720 sausage making,

00:32:52.940 we won against

00:32:55.180 the resistance.

00:32:56.060 This is in there.

00:32:57.380 It is a massive investment.

00:32:59.480 And China is going

00:33:00.360 to notice this as well.

00:33:01.540 Yeah.

00:33:01.700 That is exactly right.

00:33:03.280 That's number nine.

00:33:04.060 Number ten,

00:33:06.220 CAFE standards.

00:33:07.880 The standards that mandate

00:33:09.520 you keep having to have

00:33:10.600 higher and higher

00:33:11.180 fuel efficiency,

00:33:11.940 on your cars.

00:33:13.520 That's what the

00:33:14.140 Biden administration

00:33:14.880 has used as its tool,

00:33:16.880 as one of its tools,

00:33:18.280 to wage the war

00:33:19.800 on the internal

00:33:20.340 combustion engine,

00:33:21.100 to try to force

00:33:21.720 every car to be electric,

00:33:23.080 is they keep jacking

00:33:24.040 up CAFE standards

00:33:24.900 higher and higher and higher.

00:33:27.040 What does that mean?

00:33:27.920 Number one,

00:33:28.240 it drives up the cost

00:33:29.020 of your cars.

00:33:29.820 You notice cars

00:33:30.380 have gotten a lot

00:33:30.800 more expensive.

00:33:31.400 Trucks have gotten

00:33:31.980 a lot more expensive.

00:33:33.340 Number two,

00:33:33.780 it makes cars less safe,

00:33:35.420 because one of the ways

00:33:36.200 you get the gas efficiency

00:33:37.180 higher is you replace

00:33:38.200 metal with plastics.

00:33:39.260 Yeah,

00:33:39.500 make a lighter.

00:33:40.060 Cheap plastic

00:33:41.640 that crumbles

00:33:42.500 in a crash

00:33:43.360 and more people die.

00:33:45.880 In the commerce section

00:33:47.020 of the one big

00:33:48.080 beautiful bill,

00:33:48.780 you know what we did

00:33:49.220 to CAFE standards?

00:33:50.600 What was that?

00:33:51.460 Zeroed them out.

00:33:52.400 Really?

00:33:52.860 They're gone.

00:33:53.820 So it's actually,

00:33:54.620 so you're telling me

00:33:55.880 that my car,

00:33:56.600 instead of being all plastic,

00:33:57.740 we have a little fender

00:33:58.320 and everything breaks,

00:33:59.800 they could actually

00:34:00.380 go back and say,

00:34:00.960 hey, we're not trying

00:34:01.460 to save weight here.

00:34:02.220 We're trying to actually

00:34:02.860 make safe cars again.

00:34:03.940 It can be a great

00:34:05.240 American car again,

00:34:06.740 made of steel,

00:34:07.720 tough as hell.

00:34:08.540 And by the way,

00:34:09.220 you want to buy

00:34:09.640 an electric car?

00:34:10.320 Great.

00:34:10.840 That's your choice.

00:34:11.800 You want to buy

00:34:12.340 a hybrid?

00:34:12.900 Great.

00:34:13.160 You want to buy

00:34:13.660 a gas car?

00:34:14.620 Great.

00:34:15.100 It ought to be

00:34:15.640 consumers choosing.

00:34:16.580 And actually,

00:34:17.100 the way we did this,

00:34:19.220 we very much modeled

00:34:20.520 how in 2017,

00:34:22.160 we repealed the individual

00:34:23.460 mandate on Obamacare.

00:34:24.460 So that was a fight

00:34:25.220 I led in 2017.

00:34:27.020 The individual mandate,

00:34:28.260 the way we eliminated it

00:34:29.940 is under the rules

00:34:32.940 of reconciliation,

00:34:33.660 we could not eliminate

00:34:36.080 the legal mandate

00:34:37.700 to buy health insurance,

00:34:39.080 which was the individual

00:34:39.720 mandate under Obamacare.

00:34:41.220 So you know what we did?

00:34:42.500 We made the penalty zero.

00:34:45.040 So it used to be

00:34:45.980 the IRS fines you.

00:34:47.040 If you didn't buy

00:34:47.480 health insurance,

00:34:48.140 the IRS would fine you.

00:34:49.300 It is still the law.

00:34:50.620 You're required

00:34:51.120 to buy health insurance.

00:34:51.820 And if you don't,

00:34:52.960 you will be fined

00:34:53.660 zero dollars and zero cents.

00:34:55.420 We did the same thing

00:34:56.400 to CAFE standards.

00:34:57.180 So they can put

00:34:57.760 their standards out.

00:34:58.600 Yeah.

00:34:58.940 But the penalty

00:34:59.600 for violating it

00:35:00.740 is zero.

00:35:02.400 And I want to mention,

00:35:03.280 look,

00:35:03.940 this is again,

00:35:04.920 like PBS and NPR,

00:35:06.860 this has been

00:35:07.760 a conservative battle

00:35:08.900 for 50 years.

00:35:11.100 And Democrats

00:35:12.000 have been winning

00:35:12.520 for 50 years,

00:35:13.360 unfortunately.

00:35:14.000 And we got this done.

00:35:15.340 I wrote this portion.

00:35:16.580 It is in the bill.

00:35:17.680 It is zeroed out.

00:35:18.920 And we got this done.

00:35:20.400 And I'm willing to bet

00:35:21.460 fewer than 1%

00:35:23.260 of our listeners

00:35:23.960 even knew we had done it

00:35:25.740 because we won

00:35:27.060 so many victories

00:35:28.160 that this falls

00:35:29.240 all the way down

00:35:29.920 to number 10 on the list.

00:35:31.560 Incredible.

00:35:32.240 Well done.

00:35:33.060 The final two.

00:35:33.880 Yep.

00:35:34.300 The final two,

00:35:35.160 as you know,

00:35:35.580 are very near

00:35:36.320 and dear to my heart.

00:35:38.160 Number 11

00:35:38.720 is school choice.

00:35:40.160 In this bill,

00:35:41.280 we passed

00:35:42.000 the single largest

00:35:43.600 and most consequential

00:35:44.840 federal school choice bill

00:35:46.040 in the history

00:35:47.180 of our country.

00:35:47.820 I wrote this provision.

00:35:49.820 Every single

00:35:50.480 American taxpayer

00:35:51.400 can now contribute

00:35:53.280 up to $1,700 a year

00:35:55.320 to a scholarship

00:35:56.560 granting organization

00:35:57.600 in the states

00:35:58.360 and get a dollar

00:35:59.540 for dollar credit

00:36:00.580 on their taxes.

00:36:01.960 It means the money

00:36:02.580 is free.

00:36:03.560 The effect of this

00:36:04.940 is going to be

00:36:06.420 tens of billions

00:36:07.540 of new scholarship money

00:36:09.020 in the states

00:36:10.700 for school choice,

00:36:12.600 for K-12 school choice.

00:36:14.500 We're going to do

00:36:15.020 a subsequent pod

00:36:15.860 that does a really

00:36:16.580 deep dive

00:36:17.300 because...

00:36:18.660 This is part

00:36:19.180 of your legacy,

00:36:19.840 by the way.

00:36:20.400 This is going to be

00:36:21.200 part of your legacy.

00:36:21.780 This is the issue

00:36:22.460 I care more about

00:36:23.840 than anything else.

00:36:25.260 I have spent

00:36:25.740 30 years fighting for it

00:36:27.220 and we're going to do

00:36:27.980 another pod 0.94

00:36:28.460 where we do

00:36:28.760 a very deep dive

00:36:29.560 because there are

00:36:30.100 some aspects of this

00:36:31.260 that I want the listeners

00:36:32.440 to appreciate

00:36:33.140 that are both

00:36:33.800 incredible policy victories

00:36:35.840 but also massive

00:36:37.500 political victories.

00:36:38.640 We are creating incentives

00:36:39.920 to turn blue states red,

00:36:42.600 to build constituencies

00:36:44.020 of parents and kids

00:36:45.260 who want fantastic education.

00:36:47.980 This is...

00:36:48.660 I told the president

00:36:49.600 if and when we get this done

00:36:51.700 you will go down

00:36:52.440 in history

00:36:52.960 as one of the greatest

00:36:54.120 civil rights presidents

00:36:55.200 in our nation's history.

00:36:56.440 Your critics will never

00:36:57.240 acknowledge that.

00:36:58.260 But the reality will be

00:36:59.340 you're going to change

00:37:00.160 poor communities.

00:37:01.080 The reality is

00:37:02.040 the school choice provision

00:37:03.580 is massive

00:37:05.020 and it's in the bill

00:37:06.520 and then the final number 12

00:37:08.720 are the Trump accounts,

00:37:09.720 the Invest America accounts.

00:37:11.040 Again, I wrote this provision.

00:37:12.680 This could fundamentally

00:37:13.460 change this country,

00:37:14.600 by the way.

00:37:15.060 Yes, starting next year,

00:37:16.620 July 4th of next year,

00:37:18.540 the 250th anniversary

00:37:20.020 of the United States of America.

00:37:22.160 Every child in America

00:37:23.300 will have a personal

00:37:24.640 investment account.

00:37:25.980 Every newborn child

00:37:26.980 will have it seeded

00:37:27.740 with $1,000.

00:37:29.940 Parents, family,

00:37:32.400 employers can contribute

00:37:33.620 up to $5,000 a year

00:37:35.460 in a tax advantage account.

00:37:37.380 All of that money

00:37:38.060 is invested in the S&P 500,

00:37:39.920 is invested in the stock market.

00:37:41.500 That enables every kid

00:37:43.340 to enjoy the incredible benefits

00:37:45.240 of compound growth,

00:37:46.820 which will transform our kids. 0.68

00:37:50.120 The wealth creation

00:37:51.440 for the next generation

00:37:52.880 of Americans

00:37:53.440 will be utterly transformative.

00:37:55.600 And not only that,

00:37:56.800 this creates a new generation

00:37:58.300 of capitalists

00:37:59.100 as our kids

00:37:59.920 will all be owners

00:38:01.780 of the largest employers

00:38:03.080 in America.

00:38:04.720 These two victories,

00:38:06.200 school choice

00:38:06.860 and personal investment

00:38:10.120 accounts for kids

00:38:11.080 without exaggeration,

00:38:13.120 Ben, and I've told

00:38:13.580 the president this,

00:38:15.040 I think 10 years,

00:38:16.340 20 years,

00:38:17.120 30 years from now,

00:38:18.340 these will be the two things

00:38:19.820 everyone remembers

00:38:20.620 from this bill.

00:38:21.320 Everything else I listed,

00:38:22.640 1 through 10,

00:38:23.600 which are massive.

00:38:24.680 Yeah.

00:38:24.960 They are conservative victories

00:38:26.520 for the generations.

00:38:28.060 I think 11 and 12

00:38:29.600 will dwarf 1 in 10

00:38:30.860 because the difference,

00:38:33.340 we will see trillions

00:38:35.000 of dollars invested

00:38:36.320 in 401ks for kids

00:38:38.660 in these Trump accounts

00:38:39.920 that will change the future

00:38:41.280 of every one of our kids

00:38:42.300 and make them all

00:38:43.420 have skin in the game

00:38:44.680 in our capitalist society.

00:38:46.260 And school choice

00:38:47.080 is going to literally provide

00:38:49.040 hope and opportunity

00:38:50.500 to millions of kids.

00:38:52.100 We got both of them done.

00:38:53.740 Those are victories,

00:38:55.300 generational victories.

00:38:56.740 And when the president

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - July 25, 2025

Obama Admin Caught in a Bombshell LIE about the Russia Hoax plus ALL THE WINS in the One Big Beautiful Bill

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