00:04:00.560And last week on the pod, we covered two instances of horrific crime here in Texas.
00:04:05.600One in Dallas, the woman who, in her home, four Venezuelan illegal immigrants broke into her home, held her at gunpoint, tied her up, pistol whipped her with their pistols, threatened to cut her fingers off, and robbed her.
00:04:21.380And mind you, these Venezuelans, they could speak no English.
00:04:25.540They were actually using Google Translate on their phone to issue their orders.
00:04:30.420And it was just dumb luck that one of them left a fingerprint in the house that enabled them to be apprehended.
00:04:37.060We also know in Houston, Jocelyn Nungere, the beautiful 12-year-old girl raped and murdered by two illegal aliens whom Joe Biden and Kamala Harris released.
00:04:47.380They had in their custody, they released them the very same day they apprehended them.
00:04:53.060Well, we now have reports that at least one of those two child rapists and murderers was a gang member from Venezuela as well.
00:05:00.500And then this story that broke this past week, entitled, Alleged Venezuelan Gang Members Arrested in Houston, San Antonio.
00:05:08.660Dallas police also say there has been gang activity in North Dallas linked to the Trender-Aragua gang.
00:05:14.780And let me read to you from the Dallas Morning News.
00:05:17.400Authorities in Houston and San Antonio have announced the arrest of multiple people that said to have ties to the Trender-Aragua, a Venezuelan gang, recently declared a terrorist organization by Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
00:05:28.380Dallas police have also said the department has had gang activity in the North Dallas area tied to the gang and is collaborating with other agencies to address crimes linked to the Trender-Aragua and other gangs.
00:05:40.520According to a Texas Department of Public Safety news release, a DPS agent assigned to the Houston Anti-Gang Center was notified of a suspected Trender-Aragua member living in the Houston area.
00:05:51.760That led to the investigators to Jorgens Robertson-Kova, 32, who was wanted out of Pearland for theft, the release said.
00:06:01.240Robertson-Kova, who DPS said is a confirmed Trender-Aragua member, was booked into the Brazoria County Jail Monday on a theft charge.
00:06:09.300He remained in jail Tuesday on a $5,000 bond.
00:06:12.060Police said they were able to link Robertson-Kova to the Trender-Aragua due to his tattoos, including a five-point crown and a rose, which police said are known TDA markings.
00:06:23.880The arrest comes days after multiple police agencies conducted a raid at an apartment complex in San Antonio on Saturday, arresting 19 people, four of whom are alleged to be members of Trender-Aragua, according to the San Antonio Express News.
00:06:40.840The raid was conducted by the San Antonio Police, DPS, the FBI, Border Patrol, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
00:06:49.040Of those arrested, 16 were Venezuelan citizens and three were U.S. citizens.
00:06:54.160The Venezuelan citizens were taken into custody by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Removal Operation agents after they were processed at the Bexar County Sheriff's Office.
00:07:08.600It is getting more and more dangerous.
00:07:11.240And Trender-Aragua originated as a South American prison gang, and we are seeing more and more Texans and more and more Americans across the country endangered because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and the Democrats keep practicing catch and release and releasing violent criminal gang members who are illegal aliens.
00:07:30.740By the way, the media is really trying to downplay this.
00:07:35.860And there's a perfect example of this happening Sunday.
00:07:39.400We're weeks away from the election, and on TV, there was a moment.
00:07:45.540And it was a moment where ABC was interviewing the VP candidate, one of your colleagues in the Senate, J.D. Vance.
00:07:52.420And they said that, well, you guys are basically spreading misinformation, misinformation about Venezuelan gangs.
00:07:59.600And she tried to act like it is not a problem that is, quote, taking over cities, as Trump described it, because they haven't actually taken over entire cities.
00:08:08.140They're just taking over entire apartment buildings.
00:08:13.600And this is what state-sponsored media does when they have a fix-in for a candidate they're obsessed with.
00:08:20.720The fact that Donald Trump allegedly said something that you think is wrong.
00:08:24.080I'm just going to say that local officials and FEMA officials say that is just flat wrong.
00:08:27.900But we played some other comments about migrants, including in Aurora, in Colorado, where Trump said the city had been invaded and conquered by Venezuelan gangs.
00:08:40.140The Republican mayor of the city said flatly the city and state have not been taken over or invaded or occupied by migrant gangs.
00:08:48.600So do you support Donald Trump making those claims that the Republican mayor says were grossly exaggerated and have hurt the city's identity and sense of safety?
00:08:59.100I understand what you're saying, that some people left behind.
00:09:02.300But he's making these statements that the mayor is flat out disputing.
00:09:07.280Well, Martha, you just said the mayor said they were exaggerated.
00:10:02.780And I really find this exchange, Martha, sort of interesting because you seem to be more focused with nitpicking everything that Donald Trump has said,
00:10:12.120rather than acknowledging that apartment complexes in the United States of America are being taken over by violent gangs.
00:10:19.300I worry so much more about that problem than anything else here.
00:10:24.220We've got to get American communities in a safe space again.
00:10:27.720And unfortunately, when you let people in by the millions, most of whom are unvetted, most of whom you don't know who they really are,
00:10:34.940you're going to have problems like this.
00:10:36.940Kamala Harris, 94 executive orders that undid Donald Trump's successful border policies.
00:11:05.000A few apartment complexes that the mayor did not seem was invading the entire city.
00:11:09.400I mean, it's amazing that they're actually saying this with a straight face that a couple apartment complexes taken over by criminal gangs from Venezuela is apparently supposed to be normalized and is no big deal in America today.
00:11:23.460So I'm actually surprised that Martha Raddatz didn't finish her questioning with I'm Kamala Harris and I approve this message.
00:11:31.460I mean, it was pure naked propaganda for the Democrats.
00:11:38.200You know, now, mind you, if you happen to live in one of those apartment complexes that has been taken over by Venezuelan gangs that are controlling it and terrorizing you, maybe it's a problem for you.
00:11:46.560But, you know, I mean, where the media, what do we care about the pesky little people that live in apartments?
00:12:15.740Look, I think ABC looks utterly ridiculous in that exchange.
00:12:21.720The other thing I think it tells you is the fact that they believe in the idea that these gangs should be here.
00:12:31.180And as long as they're not taking over an entire city, we're not even going to be concerned or fight for the people.
00:12:37.000You remember when news and some do it locally, but remember when news used to be the ones that would stand up for one American where there was injustice being done in an apartment?
00:12:45.740Complex, whether it was a slum ward or something like that, or laws were being broken and quality of life was being affected.
00:12:52.180Right. They would go on TV and they would like do a 10 o'clock news story standing up for the little guy who's standing up for the people whose lives have been uprooted, who are being attacked.
00:13:03.480A great example of this is there was an interview done this week where, and I'm going to quote one of the people that lived in the apartment complex, put it this way.
00:13:14.560They brought the terror of living in Venezuela and gang run apartment complexes saying no one is helping them out.
00:13:21.400An alleged apartment takeover, quote, by Venezuelan gang members in Colorado has elevated the issue of migrant crime.
00:13:27.880And viral video captured by the Aurora apartment tenants has refuted attempts by politicians and establishment media to downplay or deny that there is actually a threat.
00:13:38.360Cindy Romeo, whose video of armed members of the Venezuelan gang patrolling and forcing her out of her building made news, right?
00:13:48.840But she said the part of the story that people are missing is that for months they were contacting local police and local elected officials about the takeover as it was happening.
00:14:20.500They can continue to grow their influence inside of her apartment complex.
00:14:25.440They forced people out by threatening them, by shooting their cars up, and then bringing motorcycles into the hallways to wake them up while they slept until they finally moved out.
00:14:38.580They changed the locks, and they brought in illegals, and they charged them rent.
00:14:43.500That's what she said is a takeover in how it happened.
00:14:46.800And she said the worst part is everyone in the local media acted like what we were dealing with didn't matter.
00:14:54.980There's not a single elected Democrat that gives a flip, and that seems extreme.
00:15:00.700But if they care, they do something about it.
00:15:03.180They're not concerned about the victims of crime.
00:15:05.480And by the way, many of the victims of crime by these illegal immigrants are themselves Hispanic or are African American because these illegal immigrants are frequently going to low-income areas that often have a significantly higher minority population.
00:15:21.840Jocelyn Nungary was a young Hispanic girl.
00:15:23.780That tragically is a pattern we've seen over and over and over again, which is the victims of murder, the victims of rape, the victims of child rape are frequently the most vulnerable among us.
00:15:39.800And, you know, the Democrats are big on saying they love to emote, they love to care.
00:15:44.380But if they cared, they would do something about this.
00:15:46.780I mean, let me ask you, Ben, have you seen a single Democrat saying it is unacceptable to have an apartment complex or multiple apartment complexes, or let's use Martha Raddatz's phrase, a handful of apartment complexes taken over by violent Venezuelan gangs?
00:16:04.420Have you seen even one Democrat saying that?
00:16:06.120No. And not only that, as the woman that was living in this apartment complex put it, she said, quote, how many gang members living right outside your door is okay?
00:16:14.500How many guns right outside your door is okay?
00:16:18.180How many motorcycles revving their engines in the middle of the night to wake you up and your kids up is okay?
00:16:24.820Well, the media doesn't want you to know about it.
00:16:34.600Where is the presidential race right now?
00:16:37.500If you look at the real clear politics averages of polling right now, if the election happened right now, Donald Trump would get 302 electoral votes and Kamala Harris would get 236.
00:16:52.420It doesn't necessarily mean that's where we'll be, but let's break down what is the battleground.
00:16:59.380And by the way, the best way to do this is looking at the averages, because that way, if you have particular polls that are outliers, the averages cut them out.
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00:32:32.000In 2022, NSF awarded San Jose State University $401,744 for an ongoing project to, quote,
00:32:41.780transform science teaching and learning through empowering teachers and students as climate
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00:32:51.360The project is meant to foster, quote, the development of a hub for justice-centered science education and will produce school-based materials and professional development activities that examine the interwoven nature of climate justice and racial justice.
00:33:07.760Well, the principal investigator was Tammy Vicentainer, who sees her classroom as a venue for social activism.
00:33:17.940In April 2024, Vicentainer wrote that her course, quote, for aspiring middle and high school teachers centers racial justice in science education.
00:33:29.660And at the end of her course, she showed her students photos of Israel dropping pamphlets inside the Gaza Strip to warn residents to move out of the way of incoming rocket fire.
00:33:41.580Vicentainer, who claimed that Hamas' October terror attack needed to be contextualized, explained that the photos, quote,
00:33:51.540create spaces that engage complexity in promotion of shared dignity and humanity to build bridges across differences.
00:33:59.540But she didn't explain what the hell they had to do with science, which is what a National Science Foundation grant is supposed to be about.
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00:35:55.780Senator, final question on this story that you obviously have broken, and it's a big one.
00:36:02.560When these types of stories break, usually in the past, you'd have a lot of media that would cover it.
00:36:08.780You'd have other colleagues that would come in and say they want to make sure this is stopped, or have rules and regulations that would help stop it right away.
00:36:18.260When you came out with this report, did any of the major media outlets call and say, hey, we want this info that you're exposing, or do they just look the other way?
00:36:26.260Well, there were a handful of stories, but they were principally in conservative outlets, because the actual corporate media doesn't cover news.
00:36:35.520The fact that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are funneling billions that's meant to go to science, that's meant to save lives, that's meant to promote basic research.
00:36:45.800They're funneling it instead to aggressively ideological left-wing activist zealots.
00:36:52.520Zealots, they're using it to corrupt students, to corrupt universities, to corrupt K-12 education.
00:36:58.960That is a message that the media does not want to cover.
00:37:02.920They will actively do everything they can to suppress, because look, you know, what's the big deal to stealing billions of dollars of taxpayer money to fund Marxists poisoning the minds of our kids?
00:37:13.260The next thing you know, you're going to say it's a big deal that a handful of apartment complexes are taken over by Venezuelan gangs.