Verdict with Ted Cruz - Olympics： Should Male Boxers Fight Women？ plus 9⧸11 Plea Deal REVERSED!

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00:00:05.440 Welcome.

00:00:06.160 It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.

00:00:07.900 Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:08.980 Senator, everybody's obsessed with the Olympics right now.

00:00:12.940 America's whooping some tail. 0.99

00:00:14.840 That's the fun part. 0.91

00:00:16.320 But there's dudes acting like chicks that are beating up women. 1.00

00:00:20.100 And that has become a very big story as well.

00:00:23.500 Well, you're right.

00:00:24.060 It's huge.

00:00:24.520 You and I are recording this right now.

00:00:25.920 It's 1035 p.m. Sunday night.

00:00:27.680 It'll come out early Monday morning.

00:00:29.100 As we sit here right now, America is doing a phenomenal job at the Olympics.

00:00:33.880 We're winning a ton of medals.

00:00:35.240 We're dominating in gymnastics and swimming and track.

00:00:39.140 But maybe the biggest story people are talking about is two different boxers.

00:00:43.840 Two different boxers who say they're women. 1.00

00:00:45.620 Two different boxers who have been excluded from international competition for testing positive as men.

00:00:52.040 They are both performing very well and beating up women in images and videos that are shocking.

00:00:59.480 We're going to break that down.

00:01:00.860 We're also going to talk about the stunning news that the Biden-Harris administration is engaged in a 180-degree reversal, about-face, and full-speed sprint in the opposite direction.

00:01:13.280 On our last pod, we highlighted the shocking decision for the Biden-Harris administration to give a sweetheart deal to the mastermind of 9-11 and take the death penalty off the table.

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00:04:18.800 So, Senator, it is still just mind-blowing to me that we live in a world now in 2024

00:04:23.900 where if you're a dude beating up chicks, we give you gold medals. 1.00

00:04:28.640 Back in the good old days, if you're a dude beating up chicks, we put you in jail.

00:04:32.260 But, no, no, no, now we celebrate you on the international stage because this is Wokeness 101.

00:04:38.300 Well, before we break that down, I just want to take a moment to celebrate the overall results.

00:04:43.640 As we sit here Sunday night, the United States is dominating the total medal count.

00:04:48.260 Right behind us is China.

00:04:49.880 We're tied with China for gold medals.

00:04:51.500 We have 19 gold medals.

00:04:52.780 China has 19 gold medals.

00:04:54.160 But where we've really kicked butt is also in the silver and bronze.

00:04:57.860 We have 26 silver medals and 26 bronze medals.

00:05:01.320 China has 15 silver medals and 11 bronze.

00:05:04.060 That means we have a total of 71 medals.

00:05:06.540 China's in second place with 45.

00:05:08.520 In third place is France with 44 medals.

00:05:11.740 In fourth place is Australia with 31 medals.

00:05:14.020 In fifth place is Great Britain with 37 medals.

00:05:16.920 In sixth place is South Korea with 24 medals.

00:05:19.440 In seventh is Japan, also with 24 medals.

00:05:22.040 In eighth is Italy with 22 medals.

00:05:24.940 In ninth is the Netherlands with 15 medals.

00:05:27.920 And in tenth is Germany with 12 medals.

00:05:32.000 So it is our results so far, 71 medals, 19 golds, is really, really strong.

00:05:38.860 We've still got more Olympics ahead of us.

00:05:40.980 But it's reason we've seen Simone Biles, who is truly the GOAT.

00:05:45.540 She is extraordinary.

00:05:47.020 I think that woman genuinely can fly. 1.00

00:05:49.500 We've seen the American swimmers just dominating.

00:05:53.720 We've seen we won the 100-meter sprint.

00:05:57.660 So it's been it has been a really phenomenal.

00:06:01.240 And boy, the 100-meter was talk about a nail-biter.

00:06:04.500 That is the closest photo finish I've ever seen in a race.

00:06:07.240 And so there's a lot of reason just to start the day by chanting USA, USA.

00:06:11.680 Yeah, no doubt about it.

00:06:12.960 It's fun to watch the Olympics because you see athletes and you look at Scotty Scheffler, who's a Texan.

00:06:19.160 And he was crying.

00:06:20.040 Sorry about that.

00:06:21.120 I didn't mean to offend you on leaving golf out.

00:06:24.300 Scotty did phenomenal, too.

00:06:25.580 Yeah, you can't do that, man.

00:06:28.040 You can't do that.

00:06:28.940 The guy wins $30 million this year.

00:06:31.180 And in this event, he wins $0 and he's crying up there as he's getting the gold medal and the national anthem is played.

00:06:40.180 And I absolutely love watching the passion, whether it's that or even when you saw Novak Djokovic win the goal and just fall to his knees crying.

00:06:48.400 Because he knows at the end of his career, he's not playing this for the money.

00:06:52.360 And he ran up to the box.

00:06:53.720 He's grabbing his daughter and he's crying.

00:06:55.920 And that's what I love about the Olympics is because it's just so authentic.

00:06:59.800 It's incredible to watch athletes do what they love for their countries.

00:07:05.080 Well, you know, and Ben, I'm still holding out belief that if only Ben Ferguson were playing, we would have 20 golds because we would have won the tennis and you'd have beaten Djokovic.

00:07:12.880 And that would be dominating.

00:07:14.880 So I appreciate your being here with Verdict instead of taking home the gold.

00:07:18.720 If only I would have just identified as a woman, it could have happened, Senator. 0.97

00:07:21.980 I'm just saying it could have happened earlier in my career, which brings me to the insanity of the boxing.

00:07:27.280 Yeah.

00:07:27.860 OK, so look, what's going on here?

00:07:30.280 So there are two boxers, one named Emin Khalif of Algeria and another named Lin-Yu Ting of Taiwan.

00:07:39.420 Now, according to The New York Times, both of them have always identified as women.

00:07:45.560 So they have claimed to be women.

00:07:48.400 Their entire lives.

00:07:49.420 But both of them in 2023 failed a gender eligibility test at the World Boxing Championships.

00:07:57.720 Now, what the specific test is was unknown.

00:08:00.800 And it's interesting.

00:08:01.680 There is a back and forth between different associations.

00:08:04.380 So the International Boxing Association is who conducts the Women's World Boxing Championship.

00:08:10.800 And they're the ones that conducted this test.

00:08:13.640 And right now they're fighting back and forth between the International Olympic Committee and the International Boxing Association with the IOC attacking the IBA and back and forth.

00:08:26.960 The IBA used to run boxing, and apparently it lost that right about five years ago, but over unrelated issues.

00:08:35.340 And again, according to The New York Times, the IOC, the International Olympics Committee, which is in charge of the boxing now, how do they figure out who's a dude and who's a woman?

00:08:45.800 Well, according to The New York Times, the IOC, quote, primarily relies on passports, along with other official national documentation and medical clearances to distinguish men's and women's divisions in boxing and many other sports.

00:08:58.340 Some sports have additional requirements.

00:09:01.500 And here's what The New York Times explains.

00:09:04.600 Khalif and Lynn are competing after they were disqualified from the 2023 Women's Boxing World Championships.

00:09:10.740 At those championships, they failed in what the International Boxing Association, IBA, characterized as gender eligibility tests.

00:09:19.060 But written details of those tests have not been officially released.

00:09:22.020 But apparently what the what the IBA says is that IBA president Umar Kremlev said that Khalif and Lynn both had X and Y chromosomes.

00:09:35.860 And based on the DNA test, he said it was proven that they have X, Y chromosomes.

00:09:41.040 And so, look, I got to say, just watching the video, I don't think there's anyone in the world who's watched the video or seen the picture that doesn't immediately have a reaction of, wait, why is that guy beating up that woman?

00:09:58.560 And when this really lit up was the opening bout between Khalif and Angela Carini of Italy, and that fight lasted just 46 seconds.

00:10:13.800 And Carif punched Carini in the face what appeared to be really, really hard.

00:10:19.440 And Carini just gave up. 0.56

00:10:20.980 And she forfeited, didn't make it through the first round. 0.92

00:10:23.580 She wasn't knocked out.

00:10:24.300 She just stopped.

00:10:25.020 And as Khalif was celebrating the forfeiture, Carini was just crying.

00:10:31.800 She was crying.

00:10:33.240 And she said, she's video saying, not fair.

00:10:39.300 And just that image, J.K. Rowling tweeted, said, this picture sums up, I'm paraphrasing, but sums up the madness we have here.

00:10:49.200 Look, it used to be, when a guy beats up a woman, that was called domestic violence.

00:10:55.580 Now, apparently, you're not even allowed to point that out.

00:10:59.940 Yeah.

00:11:00.120 Not only are you not allowed to point it out, but I think it's also shocking to see how the media has handled this.

00:11:05.640 I mean, you have a woman who quits her Olympic dream, does a press conference talking about she's fighting for her father who has passed away and is crying because her dream of being an Olympic champion is ruined because she said she'd never been hit so hard in her entire life.

00:11:22.400 And yet the media just downplays this to act like it's not happening.

00:11:26.900 We must celebrate this this, you know, LGBTQI plus plus plus agenda that that if you say that you are a woman, we must accept you as a woman, even if we know that you are a man.

00:11:40.860 Well, and it's, you know, it's sad, Karini, after crying and saying it's not fair, the global backlash was such that Karini, a day later, apologized and backtracked.

00:11:56.280 And I got to say, the pressure, I don't know if sponsors pulled out, I don't know what the pressure was that it came down on Karini.

00:12:02.280 But it really was, you know, you see this with with some regularity when you have, say, a man competing in women's sports and track or swimming and the biological male prevails and the women who are facing really unfair, unfair treatment often are afraid to speak out because they get ostracized.

00:12:22.780 They get demonized. They get called a bigot for saying the the crazy concept that that women's sports should involve women, like that there are differences between men and women.

00:12:34.400 And and and it's it is striking now where we stand, which which is that both of these these boxers are still in the race.

00:12:49.120 Khalifa's semifinal is is Tuesday.

00:12:51.400 And and and and Khalifa is is guaranteed a medal, guaranteed at least the bronze.

00:12:58.200 We'll see the outcome.

00:12:59.960 Lynn will face Turkey's Ezra Yediz in the semifinal on on Wednesday.

00:13:06.200 And then the final is is Saturday.

00:13:07.760 And so you've got of the boxers in in semifinals.

00:13:12.620 Now, the two of them are in different weight classes, but you've got two who've been excluded from international boxing

00:13:18.780 for testing positive, having X, Y chromosomes and not being women.

00:13:24.300 And yet it looks like at least one and maybe both will take home medals as as being among the best women in the world. 0.76

00:13:32.120 What is it going to take for there to be a real correction here?

00:13:36.180 Does it take women saying we refuse to compete and just give up or forfeit every time they're up against someone claiming to be a woman that clearly isn't?

00:13:47.660 Is it women walking off the field at colleges where they're being forced to run against men, for example, in track and field where where men are beating women? 1.00

00:13:56.040 You look at Riley Gaines, for example, and you've spent time with her.

00:13:59.820 I talked to her recently.

00:14:00.840 You know, I mean, she's ostracized because she's spoken out so hardcore, not not for anything.

00:14:07.080 But women should only compete with women that it should not be controversial. 0.99

00:14:12.260 And yet look at how they've treated her.

00:14:15.100 Look, they have gone after Riley Gaines.

00:14:17.720 They've demonized her horribly. 0.89

00:14:19.880 Riley is a young woman.

00:14:21.220 She's in her early 20s.

00:14:22.640 And yet the media online, she gets violent protesters who threaten her physically, threaten her safety, threaten her life, all because she spoke out and said it is not fair that a biological male was competing.

00:14:38.060 And she ended up tying with a biological male. 0.79

00:14:43.360 And yet they gave the award to the biological male essentially because of politics.

00:14:47.160 And she's also given really disturbing testimony about how, you know, in the locker room, the women swimmers were made to shower with and change with biological males who were fully intact.

00:15:01.000 And by the way, these are college swimmers.

00:15:03.020 So these are 17, 18, 19 year old young women sitting there with naked men with with with full equipment right next to them. 1.00

00:15:11.200 And I got to say that that is it's not fair and it's not right.

00:15:15.340 And it is it is woke politics run amok.

00:15:20.320 And yet virtually every Democrat, Joe Biden supports this.

00:15:24.340 Kamala Harris supports this.

00:15:25.960 Just about every Democrat in the Senate supports this.

00:15:28.260 Just about every Democrat in the House supports it.

00:15:30.200 When we force votes on the simple proposition that women should compete in women's sports, the Democrats line up straight party line against it.

00:15:39.360 And it really is.

00:15:42.260 And to be clear, this is not even.

00:15:44.060 What do they say behind closed doors to you?

00:15:46.760 They won't talk about it.

00:15:48.140 What do they say to you when you're when you're in committee?

00:15:49.840 This look, look, it is so insane.

00:15:53.060 You know, I had there's there's one Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee who he and I are friends.

00:15:59.720 And at a hearing, he referred to birthing people.

00:16:04.200 And I pulled him aside the Senate floor.

00:16:05.980 I said, dude, is your base really so whacked out that you're not allowed to say the word moms?

00:16:13.200 And he just looked at me and said, yeah, like like they don't they won't acknowledge the absurdity of it, even in private.

00:16:20.820 But and it is it that there's a zealotry to it.

00:16:24.960 And I want to be clear.

00:16:27.520 This is not about, you know, this is not about LGBT.

00:16:32.540 This is not about this about basic fairness.

00:16:34.780 And by the way, you know what?

00:16:36.520 If a woman wanted to compete against men, great. 1.00

00:16:39.600 I don't have a problem with that because there's not a biological advantage.

00:16:42.460 And so, you know, if you if you have a sport where a woman says, all right, I can compete and beat men. 1.00

00:16:49.500 You know, why do you have and I've asked this at hearings?

00:16:52.120 Why is there a WNBA? 1.00

00:16:53.940 Why does it exist?

00:16:54.980 If there's no difference, why don't you why don't you just tell all the women coming out of college? 0.99

00:16:59.220 Hey, join the NBA.

00:17:00.780 Let's go.

00:17:01.240 Now, you know what?

00:17:02.320 If one day there's a woman who's good enough to play in the NBA, that'd be awesome. 1.00

00:17:06.460 Because there's not a biological advantage there.

00:17:09.900 And, you know, if you saw that, you occasionally see a woman who plays, you know, is a kicker, say, in football.

00:17:18.940 If she's able to do that, great.

00:17:21.420 But it's not fair the other way around where you have a biological male taking advantage of body mass and strength and lung capacity.

00:17:30.360 Just just fundamental differences, especially in sports like like like swimming or like boxing or powerlifting where the differentials are massive.

00:17:41.720 They're not even slight.

00:17:43.320 They are massive.

00:17:44.720 If you look at something like like track, where the time of high school boys track runners beats world class women, because just men and women are constructed differently.

00:17:58.740 And if you want to see girls sports, if you want to see women's sports thrive, and I do as the father of two daughters, I think it's fantastic that it's unfair to have biological males competing in something like boxing.

00:18:11.460 You know what? We're going to see someone get killed eventually.

00:18:15.620 Or badly hurt.

00:18:17.100 Yeah, that's my worry.

00:18:18.220 I worry.

00:18:19.060 And so and so many others worry about that, all because of political correctness.

00:18:23.520 And it is ironic, by the way, that every sport at the Olympics is men's or women's, including basketball, including boxing.

00:18:31.420 Yet we're supposed to accept any man that wants to go do this sport with women. 0.95

00:18:35.700 Yeah, if there's no difference, why do they have any women's sports? 1.00

00:18:38.680 And they're still embracing this.

00:18:39.580 Right. If there's no difference, why do they have any women's sports? 1.00

00:18:43.040 Yeah, it's it's it's total insanity.

00:18:45.140 And yet here we are.

00:18:46.340 And it's something we're going to have to keep fighting on.

00:18:48.100 It's something we're going to keep fighting and keep fighting and keep fighting and never accept this insanity.

00:18:53.460 And it may take a long time to win this battle.

00:18:55.980 By the way, and to be clear, someone who's been heroic on this is Martina Navratilova, who's, you know, one of the best women tennis players ever to play the game.

00:19:04.260 Truly phenomenal. And she said it is wildly unfair that that men and women are constructed differently.

00:19:10.720 And then that I'm paraphrasing.

00:19:12.680 But again, what she said is women wouldn't have a chance if they had to compete against men.

00:19:16.520 The Serbs are faster. 0.59

00:19:17.460 You would know this better than I do. 0.99

00:19:18.620 But look, for Navratilova to say that and to be clear, look, Navratilova is gay.

00:19:24.340 It's not a LGBT issue.

00:19:26.040 It is a physiological difference.

00:19:29.040 And it's a question of fairness.

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00:22:38.500 So Friday's pod, our last podcast, the lead story, we spent over half of the podcast focused on this outrageous development that the Biden administration had decided to cut a sweetheart plea deal with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other terrorists.

00:22:54.660 And Guantanamo and to take the death penalty off the table.

00:22:57.880 And then we went through how firefighters were outraged.

00:23:01.340 Police officers were outraged.

00:23:03.020 The victims of 9-11 were outraged.

00:23:05.460 They were blindsided with it.

00:23:07.180 And we explained.

00:23:07.860 We explained how the Biden-Harris White House said we had nothing to do with it.

00:23:12.120 We were completely uninvolved.

00:23:14.340 Corrine Jean-Pierre said, oh, we had no role in this.

00:23:16.800 Jake Sullivan, the national security advisor, said we had no role in this.

00:23:20.060 And we explained how all of that was a lie, that the reason this had happened was because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had said as an objective, a political objective, that they want to close Guantanamo Bay.

00:23:34.460 They want to close the detention facilities by the end of this year.

00:23:37.760 And to do that, they cut this deal in order to facilitate that political objective.

00:23:41.680 And we unloaded on it.

00:23:43.020 And I've got to say, look, a lot of our podcasts drive news.

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00:23:57.860 Look, a big part of the reason you and I do this podcast is to equip our listeners with the facts, with the information, with the knowledge, to go and fight to turn things around.

00:24:08.040 Well, after Friday's pod, y'all were outraged.

00:24:11.320 We were outraged.

00:24:12.440 And that outrage spread.

00:24:14.640 And then Friday night, an astonishing development happened.

00:24:18.360 So the story broke.

00:24:19.380 It was a Friday night news dump.

00:24:21.540 Late Friday afternoon, the New York Times reported, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday overruled the overseer of the war court at Guantanamo Bay and revoked a plea agreement reached earlier this week with the accused mastermind of the September 11th.

00:24:38.040 2001 attacks and two alleged accomplices, accomplices.

00:24:41.800 The overseer, retired Brigadier General Susan Key Escalier, signed a pre-trial agreement on Wednesday with Mr. Muhammad, with Waleed bin Atash and with Mustafa al-Hasawi that exchanged guilty pleas for sentences of at most life in prison.

00:25:00.840 In taking away the authority, Mr. Austin assumed direct oversight of the case and canceled the agreement, effectively reinstating it as a death penalty case.

00:25:11.180 He left Ms. Escalier in the role of oversight of Guantanamo's other cases.

00:25:16.540 Now, there's a whole lot there.

00:25:18.860 But number one, let's be clear.

00:25:20.960 The White House's claim we had nothing to do about this.

00:25:23.600 We have no influence over that.

00:25:25.340 That was shown to be an utter lie.

00:25:26.800 They could stop it immediately, and then the Biden administration did stop it immediately, not because they wanted to do the right thing, but because the political pushback, the outrage was so great that they were a little bit like Scooby-Doo going,

00:25:41.000 and they turned around and ran the other way.

00:25:43.160 This is sad, by the way, that we were so right on this, and we said this was solely a political decision.

00:25:50.740 This was not about national security.

00:25:52.200 I've got to pause.

00:25:52.980 Is that not slightly self-parotting?

00:25:56.340 It's sad that we were so right.

00:25:58.640 Yeah, I mean, it's true.

00:25:59.800 I'm just saying.

00:26:00.280 I'm just saying.

00:26:00.800 That's kind of funny.

00:26:03.620 But we said it.

00:26:04.720 We said this was a political decision, and then them reversing it so quickly was proof that it was, in fact, a political decision.

00:26:14.520 They wanted to close Gitmo.

00:26:16.300 He wanted it to be another feather in his hat, Joe Biden.

00:26:19.240 They were planning on doing it.

00:26:20.700 They said this last week from the White House podium.

00:26:23.020 John Kirby said on TV, by the end of his term in office, and then there's such backlash.

00:26:28.340 Kamala Harris, I think, was like, I don't want this around me running for re-election.

00:26:32.100 This is too big of a liability, as I'm running for president, I should say.

00:26:36.960 You've got to fix this, and then they come in.

00:26:40.020 And again, it's exactly what we said.

00:26:42.140 They were doing this for political.

00:26:44.080 They didn't care about the victims of 9-11.

00:26:46.480 They didn't care about the loved ones.

00:26:48.500 They didn't care about the men and women that signed up for our country and gave the ultimate sacrifice trying to track down Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. 0.68

00:26:54.820 And they didn't care that they were sparing the life of the 9-11 terrorists. 0.95

00:26:58.840 They just said, damn it, it's something we want to put on our list. 0.97

00:27:01.800 We're going to do it. 0.98

00:27:02.660 And then undoing it so quickly, it's exactly what we said.

00:27:05.900 This was political all along.

00:27:07.900 It was political from the outset.

00:27:10.360 You know, it's interesting.

00:27:11.100 The New York Times story that broke this story actually quoted from a number of the victims' families that you and I quoted in our Friday podcast.

00:27:17.740 But this time they were celebrating the outcome.

00:27:19.920 So, for example, Terry Strada, whose husband, Tom Strada, a bond broker, was killed at the World Trade Center, said, quote,

00:27:26.720 And then another, Kathleen Vigiano, who's a former police officer whose New York police detective husband, Joseph, and firefighter brother-in-law, John, were both killed at the World Trade Center, said, thank God.

00:27:52.640 And she went on to say she had long been eager for a September 11th trial to answer questions about, quote, how this was planned and who knew what.

00:28:00.900 And she called the announcement a gift for the family, which was celebrating the 84th birthday of her husband and brother-in-law's mother, Jeanette Vigiano.

00:28:09.160 It was a great birthday present for her.

00:28:12.520 And I will say it was a great birthday present, not just for the families, but for everyone in America who was outraged by 9-11 and who wants to see justice and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed face the ultimate penalty. 0.91

00:28:27.460 That's the right thing to have happen.

00:28:29.680 And, look, I think the listeners of Verdict played a significant role in making that happen.

00:28:34.820 All right.

00:28:35.560 Call me jaded, Senator.

00:28:37.800 You're jaded.

00:28:38.180 I'm worried this is just a pause until after, yeah, until after Election Day.

00:28:43.920 And if hypothetically Kamala Harris wins, Democrats will probably go right back and undo what they just did after they don't have to worry about it being a political issue months away from a presidential election cycle. 1.00

00:28:56.760 Am I too jaded or is that a real possibility as well?

00:28:59.820 Look, it's clearly not jaded.

00:29:03.320 I would put the odds of that at 100.00 percent.

00:29:06.820 In other words, if, God forbid, Kamala Harris wins, and you and I are both praying that does not happen.

00:29:13.460 But if Kamala Harris wins, I would put the odds at 100% that in the next four years we will see a plea deal with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

00:29:22.040 We'll see it early in the administration rather than late.

00:29:25.400 The reason they reversed, I believe, is because we're now less than 100 days away from Election Day, and they said, oh, crap, this is a really bad thing to be doing within three months of the election.

00:29:34.820 Next year, look, the only way, if you want to prevent this from happening, the only way to do that is reelect Donald Trump. 0.64

00:29:42.280 Donald Trump is not going to do this.

00:29:43.680 He's not going to cut a deal with the 9-11 mastermind and take the death penalty off the table.

00:29:49.060 But Kamala Harris, I believe, is eager to do so.

00:29:53.760 She just doesn't want to do so right before Election Day.

00:29:55.960 Yeah, great point.

00:29:57.680 It's going to be an issue, and I still think it should be brought up, what they tried to do with the public backlash.

00:30:02.700 And I hope that Republican candidates all over the country make sure they remind people of what their plan was and how important it is that people stand up for what they believe in.

00:30:11.680 I've got to say to Verdict listeners, thank you guys for getting involved in this one, for sharing this podcast on social media like you did,

00:30:20.200 because it clearly went viral and had a major impact, I think, on this reversal of this decision that was significant.

00:30:27.420 And most importantly, this was such an important victory for those that were victims of 9-11,

00:30:36.560 those that signed up to fight for this country that are hurt by these terrorists,

00:30:39.920 and for the family members that, damn it, they deserve closure, and it's been way too long that this guy's been alive. 0.57

00:30:46.700 And there's no end in sight for them, which is also its own form of hell for these individuals that have been affected by 9-11 so many years ago. 0.94

00:30:56.280 Unquestionably.

00:30:56.920 And, you know, it's interesting.

00:30:58.300 It was a year ago that we did a story when the first inklings began to break that the Biden-Harris administration was thinking of cutting this deal,

00:31:07.240 and they sent notifications to the victims' families, and almost nobody was covering it.

00:31:11.640 We did a podcast about a year ago on it, and it was interesting.

00:31:14.400 That podcast also went viral, and you saw the Biden-Harris administration back off.

00:31:19.660 So this is twice on this topic where I think verdict listeners have played a real role a year ago in delaying the decision,

00:31:27.180 and then just on Friday in reversing the decision because of the enormous backlash that y'all played a big role in.

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00:32:06.100 The Biden administration has come out, and they have freezed these controversial, and I think it's a mild way of putting it,

00:32:15.000 migrant flight program after there were massive fraud revelations that had been exposed.

00:32:22.460 Fox News, Bill Malugian, did an amazing job on this, and we should give him some serious credit.

00:32:27.620 But this is another example of the fraud and abuse, and just not having any clue what they're doing with a wide-open border policy,

00:32:38.180 whether it's migrants coming in on planes or coming across the southern border and terrorists coming in with them,

00:32:45.000 fentanyl coming in with them, the worst criminals in the world getting into this country.

00:32:50.040 And now we find out, oh, wait, yet again, they have no idea who's even on the flights they're allowing in.

00:32:55.820 Well, let me agree and disagree.

00:32:58.820 I'm going to agree, number one, that Bill Malugian has been incredible.

00:33:01.800 He's been the best reporter in the country highlighting the invasion at our southern border.

00:33:05.780 He's truly been a hero reporting on this.

00:33:08.160 I'm going to disagree, though, when you said that Biden and Harris have no idea what they're doing.

00:33:12.380 I think they know exactly what they're doing.

00:33:14.420 They are presiding over an invasion of our country.

00:33:17.240 Fair point.

00:33:17.380 The 11.5 million illegal aliens that have come into this country, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, want them to come in.

00:33:25.300 And they are doing this for power.

00:33:28.720 Now, this program, and you and I have talked about this program multiple times on this podcast,

00:33:33.840 was a program where they weren't simply taking people that were apprehended on the southern border and letting them go,

00:33:39.380 although they're doing that by the millions.

00:33:40.840 They were actually flying them from their home countries directly into America.

00:33:46.960 And this program was focused on four countries, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

00:33:53.200 And under this program, up to 30,000 nationals a month, Biden and Harris were flying in from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

00:34:01.720 And, by the way, we focused on, and I've talked multiple times about, one of those instances involved a Haitian national that flew in under this program from Haiti to Boston.

00:34:13.200 In Boston, they released this illegal immigrant. 0.96

00:34:16.760 He turned around and raped a 15-year-old girl with severe mental disabilities. 1.00

00:34:23.440 He was arrested for raping this 15-year-old girl. 0.99

00:34:27.660 Just a couple of weeks ago, he was released from jail on bond.

00:34:31.480 Do you know how much his bond was?

00:34:32.900 $500. 0.99

00:34:33.860 A left-wing judge said, you rape a disabled girl, a teenager, $500 should cover it. 0.99

00:34:40.300 It is outrageous. 0.98

00:34:41.560 And understand, this wasn't someone who had crossed the border and escaped.

00:34:45.460 This is someone that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris said, you know, we need to fly this guy from Haiti to commit these kind of crimes here.

00:34:52.160 And, by the way, another of the countries included in this is Venezuela.

00:34:55.400 We have talked about, I believe, Maduro in Venezuela is very deliberately, systematically emptying his jails and sending criminals here.

00:35:04.900 Sending murderers, sending rapists, sending child molesters, doing it deliberately.

00:35:09.260 And it's reminiscent of what Castro did with the Mario boat lift, where Castro emptied the jails in Cuba and put criminals and emptied the insane asylums and put people with serious mental illness on boats and send them into America.

00:35:23.720 And we saw a crime wave result from that.

00:35:26.260 And I think Maduro in Venezuela is doing the same thing.

00:35:29.580 And so suddenly, this is actually, in many ways, the same story as the one we talked about a minute ago, the reversal of the 9-11 plea deal, which is we are less than 100 days from an election.

00:35:41.720 I think the Biden administration realized, hey, wait, people really don't like chaos at our southern border and 11.5 billion people invading this country.

00:35:49.960 And they really dislike that we're facilitating it actively.

00:35:52.620 And so, again on Friday, the news broke.

00:35:57.900 The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that, quote, out of an abundance of caution, it has temporarily paused the issuing of advanced travel authorizations for the program,

00:36:07.520 which allows up to 30,000 nationals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to travel into the U.S. each month and enter legally under the administration's use of parole if they meet certain conditions.

00:36:18.900 A congressional source had told Fox News Digital that the pause came in mid-July after an internal report unearthed large amounts of fraud, no kidding, in applications for those sponsoring the applicants.

00:36:32.520 DHS said the pause was occurring as it reviewed sponsor applications.

00:36:36.120 The focus is on issues with supporter filings and not with the filings from beneficiaries of the program themselves.

00:36:43.900 Quote, DHS has review mechanisms in place to detect and prevent fraud and abuse in our immigration processes.

00:36:51.040 DHS takes any abuse of its processes very seriously, a DHS spokesperson said.

00:36:55.600 Where fraud is identified, U.S. ICE will investigate and litigate applicable cases in immigration court to make criminal referrals to the Department of Justice.

00:37:04.140 Quote, out of an abundance of caution, DHS has temporarily paused the issuance of advanced travel authorizations for new beneficiaries while it undertakes a review of supporter applications.

00:37:16.800 DHS will restart application processing as quickly as possible with appropriate safeguards.

00:37:23.300 Now, I want to emphasize one word into what I just read.

00:37:28.020 Temporarily.

00:37:29.440 As in temporarily paused.

00:37:31.840 I'm going to make a prediction.

00:37:33.560 If, God forbid, Kamala Harris wins, temporarily will end in mid-November.

00:37:41.480 They'll probably wait a week after Election Day.

00:37:43.900 And then suddenly the program is back on and we've got another four years of an invasion and we'll see an 11 and a half million people become 20 million or 30 million.

00:37:54.060 Those are the stakes of this election.

00:37:55.920 If these guys win, this temporary pause disappears and they return to the business of invading our nation.

00:38:02.680 Yeah, no doubt about it.

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00:39:22.140 Senator, I want to go to strategy for just a second here.

00:39:26.620 It's very weird to see how quickly we're moving on on different issues.

00:39:31.260 You know, Donald Trump gets shot at.

00:39:33.060 Oh, it's old news a few weeks later.

00:39:35.040 Joe Biden's incompetent and resign.

00:39:37.180 You know, it says I'm not going to run for reelection.

00:39:39.120 Uh, then we have no, no, no fight at a prime or at a convention.

00:39:44.040 Bam.

00:39:44.380 Kamala Harris gets it out.

00:39:45.480 You know, and it's all settled and done.

00:39:47.340 You move on for that.

00:39:48.600 Then they start saying that JD Vance is weird because he's a family guy.

00:39:51.880 Uh, but you know, hanging out with drag queens and story hour at the white house and men with 0.93

00:39:56.620 fake breasts, you know, flashing people at the white house. 0.93

00:39:59.160 That's normal apparently and not weird. 0.93

00:40:01.060 You got everything that's happening at the Olympics.

00:40:03.880 And we still have this really big issue, which is a wide open Southern border.

00:40:08.180 We still have terrorists that are being caught.

00:40:09.800 We talked about that.

00:40:10.880 We have, uh, potential terrorists that are trying to get onto military bases and they're

00:40:15.340 being let go.

00:40:16.640 How do you keep this an election year issue?

00:40:19.580 If you're Donald Trump against Kamala Harris specifically on this issue and going, you

00:40:25.780 guys, like, not only have you created the problem, you are the problem.

00:40:29.920 The media tells us she's not the border czar.

00:40:31.920 We've already proven she was absolutely named the border czar.

00:40:34.560 And the media said it quite a few times.

00:40:36.640 Now they're trying to take that back.

00:40:38.200 So how do you deal with this issue with the American voter where, where it matters three

00:40:44.060 months out?

00:40:45.340 You focus on substance.

00:40:46.920 You focus on issues.

00:40:47.880 You focus on Kamala's horrible record.

00:40:50.100 You focus on the disaster that it's meant for American families.

00:40:54.000 And, and you're right.

00:40:54.940 The media is working overtime trying to erase the last four years.

00:40:59.280 The fact that Donald Trump, there was an attempted assassination attempt.

00:41:02.980 We've seen big tech.

00:41:04.320 We've seen the media try to completely erase that.

00:41:06.780 Just, just, just trying to write it away on, on the fact that Kamala Harris was the

00:41:10.800 border czar.

00:41:11.440 They're trying to gaslight and say, that's not the truth.

00:41:13.880 On the fact that Kamala Harris for years has called for banning fracking.

00:41:17.340 They're trying to erase that and say, that's not the truth.

00:41:19.560 And, and, and on open borders, look, look, these two decisions, the 9-11 plea deal and,

00:41:25.640 and the program flying in over 300,000 illegal immigrants every year.

00:41:30.080 They're trying to reverse that just moments before the election because they really do think 0.99

00:41:35.360 the voters are dumb. 0.99

00:41:36.540 That they're easily fooled. 1.00

00:41:38.380 But, but I mean, let's break down some of the details.

00:41:40.720 So, so this, this temporary pause in this program was driven by an internal report at the Department

00:41:48.200 of Homeland Security about fraud.

00:41:49.800 And let me break down some of the substance of it because we're not talking a little fraud.

00:41:53.540 We're talking massive fraud.

00:41:55.940 So the report showed that 100,948 forms were filled out by a total of 3,218 serial sponsors.

00:42:08.960 A serial sponsor is someone whose number appears on 20 or more forms.

00:42:12.780 So you had about 3,000 people that are bringing in more than 100,000 illegal immigrants.

00:42:17.960 Now, here's something that will really blow you away.

00:42:20.540 It found that 24 of the 1,000 most used numbers belong to a dead person.

00:42:27.780 Meanwhile, 100 physical addresses were used between 124 and 739 times on a total of over 19,000 forms.

00:42:43.060 Those addresses included storage units.

00:42:47.720 One sponsor phone number was submitted on over 2,000 forms.

00:42:53.280 And there were 2,839 forms with non-existent sponsor zip codes.

00:43:00.940 Look, this is rampant fraud.

00:43:04.360 And it is rampant fraud designed to create, facilitate, and accelerate a criminal invasion of the United States of America.

00:43:15.280 And I'm going to stipulate right now that of those serial sponsors, those 3,218 serial sponsors, all are left-wing Democrats.

00:43:31.180 I have no proof of that.

00:43:32.340 I just live in the planet Earth.

00:43:33.740 I'm aware of the people who want this country to be invaded.

00:43:37.620 And they're committing fraud.

00:43:39.320 And to be clear, the Biden-Harris administration doesn't care.

00:43:46.140 They are happy to do this, except in the 100 days before an election.

00:43:50.860 In the 100 days before an election, they will pretend to give a damn.

00:43:55.120 But it is cynical to the point.

00:43:57.360 And by the way, have you heard Joe Biden say a word about this?

00:44:01.460 Not a word.

00:44:02.380 Have you heard Kamala Harris say a word about this?

00:44:04.900 Nope.

00:44:05.340 How about even one Democrat senator, one Democrat House member?

00:44:09.500 None of them.

00:44:10.280 They're completely silent, like it's not happening.

00:44:12.460 Like, that report is stunning.

00:44:15.840 And they will not even acknowledge it exists.

00:44:17.940 They just say, oh, no, no, we're pausing.

00:44:19.380 Not happening.

00:44:19.840 Nope, nope.

00:44:20.200 Never mind.

00:44:20.600 Never mind.

00:44:21.120 We got an election to happen.

00:44:22.440 Never mind at all.

00:44:24.480 This is the Democratic Party now.

00:44:26.300 And we are going to keep exposing it.

00:44:28.080 We're going to keep telling you this stuff.

00:44:30.120 And say again, thank you guys for being involved and sharing the info we give you.

00:44:34.820 Because without you guys, this show wouldn't, there'd be no reason to do it.

00:44:38.860 So I mean it when I say this week was such a fun week to see the impact that we can have

00:44:45.700 when we all get involved together.

00:44:47.500 Don't forget, we do the show Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

00:44:50.860 Make sure you do that subscribe or auto download button.

00:44:54.080 And the senator and I will see you back here Wednesday morning.

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00:45:00.540 Has esteemed lecture on Wednesday.

00:45:05.120 Have a great week.

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