Verdict with Ted Cruz - May 23, 2026


Statehood for DC & Puerto Rico？ Full-Blown Political Brawl on Gerrymandering & U.S. Takes Aim at Cuban Strongman Week In Review

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Ted Cruz explains why he thinks Puerto Rico should become a U.S. state and why it s better than Washington, D.C. Democrats are fighting back after their decades of gerrymandering, and why they think Puerto Ricans are a traitor to their party.

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00:01:47.600 I think that especially people that listen to the show that are younger, they hear this argument on statehood.
00:01:53.500 Democrats are really leaning into this. It's becoming an election year issue multiple times
00:01:59.200 over now. And the argument that young people hear and the one that they then make is, well,
00:02:04.980 they're not being fairly represented. Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., representation or taxation
00:02:11.400 without representation. Why should we not make sure these people have a voice in Washington, D.C.?
00:02:17.980 Explain to to people listening now how to defend against that that argument that's being made by the left, because they are really pushing this on colleges and college students and young people in this country.
00:02:29.840 Well, look, the Constitution explicitly created D.C. and the framers of the Constitution wanted our nation's capital to be a federal district that was not part of any state.
00:02:40.380 They didn't want any state to be favored because the Congress was there, because the president was there.
00:02:45.120 and so they carved out the lines of the District of Columbia. It was originally carved out to be
00:02:49.680 10 miles by 10 miles, and then what ultimately happened is they gave the southern portion of it,
00:02:54.820 everything south of the Potomac River, they gave to Virginia. So what used to be D.C.,
00:02:59.400 Arlington used to be part of D.C., it was given to Virginia. So it's now that 10 mile by 10 mile
00:03:05.340 diamond kind of chopped, the bottom portion chopped off by the Potomac River. And the idea
00:03:10.140 of the framers was quite clear that it was not fair. If you had a state that had our capital,
00:03:16.640 that state would have advantages that no other state had. The only reason Democrats want DC to 0.63
00:03:22.920 be a state is because DC would immediately become the most liberal state in the union. It would make
00:03:28.500 California and Illinois and New York look conservative by comparison. They want two new
00:03:36.140 Democrat senators. They want one new Democrat House member. They want to be radical and extreme
00:03:43.840 because, and notice it's not about any substance. Go back to Kamala's list. Is there a single policy
00:03:50.240 she listed that impacts your life, that is about your job, that is about your kids, that is about
00:03:55.260 your family? No, the only, only focus is power. By the way, if D.C., if they were likely to vote
00:04:02.880 Republican, you would see Democrats saying making D.C. a state is Jim Crow. Yeah. Puerto Rico is
00:04:09.860 actually a little more complicated because Puerto Rico has elected Republicans. The Democrats
00:04:14.640 assume Puerto Rico will elect two Democrat senators. They might be right, but they might
00:04:19.720 be wrong. If Puerto Rico became a state, we would fight and vigorously contest it. I don't know if
00:04:25.020 we could prevail on that or not. But their assumption, look, the Democrats, if there's
00:04:30.540 one essential feature about them. They're racist. They believe all African Americans must be 0.99
00:04:35.880 Democrats. That's why they hate Clarence Thomas, because in their view, he's a traitor to his race. 0.99
00:04:41.000 They believe all Hispanics must be Democrats. That's why they hate me, because they think I'm 0.92
00:04:44.580 a traitor to my race. And so their view of Puerto Ricans is you must be Democrats because we,
00:04:49.640 the Democrat Party, control you. I'm not sure that would play out. But look, Puerto Rico is
00:04:55.580 a territory. It has a different history. And by the way, the people of Puerto Rico have long been
00:05:00.360 divided on the question of whether to become a state or not. At various times in elections,
00:05:05.680 they've had options of statehood. They've had options of independence. There are some in Puerto
00:05:09.860 Rico that want to be a separate and independent nation. Then the third option, which is what they
00:05:14.220 have now, they're a commonwealth. They get some of the benefits of American citizenship, but yet
00:05:19.100 they're not fully a state. And the people of Puerto Rico have long disagreed on that. Democrats don't
00:05:24.520 care about any of that. All they want is power. And I'll point to another instance. We've talked 0.99
00:05:29.360 about Kamala nationwide. We've talked about Virginia and Governor Spanberg are both gone
00:05:36.200 wild. And then you look at California. So, all right, here's a story in the New York Post,
00:05:42.980 Bay 16th. California sees massive surge in Republican votes as more than 900,000 ballots
00:05:49.040 already returned. Could the state of California actually be turning red? Early voters in the
00:05:54.820 Golden State have already returned more than 900,000 ballots ahead of the June 2nd primary,
00:06:00.520 showing a massive surge in Republican votes compared to four years ago for the governor's
00:06:04.680 race. A post on Saturday from the research firm Political Data PDI showed that out of 905,889
00:06:12.780 ballots that have been returned, 37 percent were from Republicans, with Republican returns up 11
00:06:20.440 percent compared to the same stage of the 2022 midterm so Republican votes up 11 percent
00:06:26.280 more shocking is the fact that the data showed 41 percent of Democrats who have returned their
00:06:32.560 ballots down 13 points from the same moment in the primary election four years ago so Republicans
00:06:38.560 up 11 percent Democrats down 13 percent now we all know because they tell us incessantly
00:06:45.900 Democrats are committed to democracy and they beat their chest when they say it and they get
00:06:52.380 a little tear in the corner of their eye it is democracy with a trademark on it it is capital
00:06:58.080 D democracy and and by democracy what do they mean they mean any decision-making apparatus
00:07:05.500 that elects Democrats that's how they define democracy if the voters vote for something they
00:07:10.260 don't like to hell with the voters the democrats want what they want so gavin newsom california
00:07:16.580 has this really weird system of electing governors where you vote for they're like 60 candidates on
00:07:21.660 the ballot both republicans and democrats they got rid of a primary and the way the way it works
00:07:27.000 the top two candidate vote getters then go to a runoff there are right now two strong republicans
00:07:35.800 who are in the top four, Steve Hilton and Chad DeBanco, those two could possibly end up one and
00:07:43.200 two. If that happened, it would mean the runoff would have only Republicans. By the way, it was
00:07:47.920 Democrats who designed this system because they wanted every election to feature just two Democrats.
00:07:52.760 They wanted to ensure that there wasn't even a Republican on the general election ballot. They
00:07:56.540 assumed they could take the top two seats and just clean. Every time. Yeah, every time in this.
00:08:01.680 And then they'd never have to worry about a Republican winning again. You know, and it turns
00:08:05.100 out when you do things like let your city burn to the ground, not fill in the water, let homeless 0.88
00:08:10.780 people on the streets, let needles and robbery and abuse the economic system so much, propose a 0.52
00:08:19.340 wealth tax to confiscate people's wealth, destroy jobs, cause a massive exodus of people fleeing
00:08:24.460 California. It turns out when you really, really, really screw up running the state or running,
00:08:29.000 say, the city of Los Angeles, eventually people notice. And so here's Gavin Newsom. I want you
00:08:35.080 you to listen to Gavin Newsom talking about what would happen if Republicans win the top two spots
00:08:41.440 in the election, if California voters choose to vote Republican. We all have agencies. We can
00:08:46.380 shape the future. There's still a lot. Look, I've said this before, so I'll repeat it. I don't
00:08:52.140 anticipate this need to be the case, but there is a break the glass scenario. And there's many
00:08:57.500 people that have a deep understanding of what it would look like if Democrats were locked out.
00:09:02.940 and we're going to do everything to make sure that doesn't happen.
00:09:05.440 I'll leave it there.
00:09:06.420 So in other words, we're just going to rig elections?
00:09:08.340 Is that basically the response?
00:09:09.920 Like, don't worry, this may happen once, but it'll never happen again, Senator?
00:09:13.220 Look, what he called the break the glass scenario,
00:09:16.760 understand what he's saying to the voters.
00:09:18.980 If you pesky voters vote Republican,
00:09:23.380 and if the top two candidates that come into the runoff are both Republicans,
00:09:27.360 he will, quote, break the glass.
00:09:30.440 And I don't know what the heck that means.
00:09:32.080 What, throw one of the Republicans out of the election?
00:09:34.280 Cancel the election?
00:09:35.600 I mean, anything he's talking about, do you know what you just witnessed there?
00:09:40.380 A promise of an insurrection.
00:09:43.000 That is, in fact, what he's doing.
00:09:44.080 I mean, that's a fair way of saying it.
00:09:45.920 You're basically saying, even if you guys decide to go a different way, we won't let you.
00:09:49.060 He said, we have the agencies.
00:09:50.720 We have the power.
00:09:51.900 There are break-the-glass scenarios.
00:09:54.060 If Republicans win, this is, he's literally declaring war on the voters.
00:09:58.260 He's saying, you voters have no say in the state.
00:10:01.340 and if, God forbid, from his perspective, you choose to vote for Republicans, you deny us power,
00:10:07.360 we will use our power to crush the voters. This is Democrats Gone Wild. And look, Gavin Newsom,
00:10:14.400 Abigail Spanberger, Kamala Harris, they're all doing the same thing. They're freaking out,
00:10:19.480 they're panicking, and they're saying, we got to keep changing the rules so that under no
00:10:24.500 circumstances is it possible that we lose. That's dangerous. It's cynical. It is explicitly,
00:10:30.000 as Kamala put it, an assault on the Constitution and an assault on democracy.
00:10:35.320 And this is where today's Democrats are.
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00:12:17.540 Now on to story number two.
00:12:19.360 I want to move to some fireworks that took place today in the Senate Judiciary where they were talking, you guys were talking about the issue of gerrymandering, and it got very heated between you and another senator. Walk us through that.
00:12:34.740 Well, we had a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee on racial gerrymandering and the Supreme Court's recent decision making clear that you cannot draw congressional lines discriminating based on race.
00:12:44.940 And the Democrats have been losing their minds about this. They've been screaming that it's Jim Crow and Maisie Hirono, the very, very liberal Democrat from Hawaii.
00:12:53.880 She spoke right before me and she gave a whole speech about how Democrats or how Republicans are racist, how they they want to hurt minorities.
00:13:03.760 And it was just it was a typically vicious, false, slandering speech.
00:13:11.120 I'll tell you, I had a whole set of remarks prepared for me.
00:13:15.140 I had a whole set of questions prepared for me.
00:13:17.220 I did not ask a single one of the questions my team had prepared.
00:13:20.700 What I did instead was just off the cuff.
00:13:23.540 It was reacting to Maisie Hirono's comments.
00:13:27.300 Give a listen and hear what I had to say.
00:13:32.100 Mr. Chairman, just a moment ago, our colleague, Senator Hirono, said there's a lot more to say.
00:13:37.280 And indeed, she's right.
00:13:39.740 And in fact, I want to go back to her comments.
00:13:42.320 She began by saying we have a long history of racial discrimination in this country. 1.00
00:13:46.060 That's undoubtedly correct. 1.00
00:13:47.760 And then she said, quote, we had poll taxes.
00:13:51.840 We had literacy tests.
00:13:53.560 We even had tests of how many jelly beans are in a jar.
00:13:56.660 Mr. Chamberlain, when Senator Hirono says we had poll taxes, I want to ask you who we is.
00:14:04.200 And in particular, what party was it that implemented poll taxes in the South?
00:14:09.680 I mean, I don't want to necessarily speak in every single case, but I'm pretty confident it was mostly the Democrats.
00:14:14.700 And what party was it that put literacy tests in place in the South?
00:14:18.420 Same answer, mostly the Democrats.
00:14:20.260 And what party was it that had tests like how many jelly beans are in a bottle?
00:14:23.640 The Democrats. 0.55
00:14:25.120 Tell me, what party were the founders of the Ku Klux Klan from? 0.81
00:14:31.180 I'm pretty sure that was the Democrats. 0.90
00:14:33.280 Indeed.
00:14:33.900 In fact, Nathan Bedford Forrest, the founder of the Klan, was a delegate to the 1860 Democrat National Convention.
00:14:41.080 What party wrote the Jim Crow laws in the South?
00:14:43.800 The Democrats.
00:14:46.580 And so on this side of the aisle were members of the Republican Party.
00:14:51.160 Who was the first Republican president?
00:14:52.940 Abraham Lincoln.
00:14:54.140 The Republican Party was literally founded to oppose slavery.
00:14:58.980 We came into existence because slavery was a grotesque evil, and it was President Lincoln, the first Republican president, who signed the Emancipation Proclamation, who won the Civil War, and that resulted in the freeing of the slaves and the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
00:15:18.320 By the way, fast forward to the civil rights era.
00:15:23.840 Bull Connor, one of the most noxiously racist politicians, what party was he from?
00:15:30.120 He was a Democrat.
00:15:31.680 The Democrats for the entire history of their party have been a party based on racial discrimination. 0.62
00:15:39.660 They affirmatively embrace it. They support it. 0.96
00:15:42.540 Let me ask you, Mr. Grime, is discriminating based on race consistent with the United States Constitution?
00:15:49.500 No.
00:15:51.940 What does the 14th Amendment say about discrimination based on race?
00:15:56.600 It's prohibited.
00:15:58.000 What does the 15th Amendment say about discriminating based on race,
00:16:01.700 and in particular, drawing congressional lines and explicitly discriminating based on race?
00:16:07.280 It's prohibited.
00:16:08.240 Now, the Democrats are fond of telling this story that is, and I wish I could find a kinder way to say it, a flat-out lie, that without discriminating based on race, that no African Americans will be elected and no Hispanics will be elected.
00:16:25.500 Indeed, there was one fellow online who was a vocal left-wing spokesperson who tweeted out,
00:16:32.520 if I'm advising anybody to run for president, they sure as hell better have a solution to how you make sure
00:16:37.540 that it's not another hundred years before another black person can represent South Carolina. 0.93
00:16:45.260 So that's a typical Democrat statement, that we cannot elect a black person in South Carolina 0.78
00:16:50.960 without discriminating based on race.
00:16:53.880 I want to ask you, Mr. Chamberlain, who is the junior senator from South Carolina right now?
00:17:00.060 That would be Tim Scott.
00:17:01.680 And, all right, I'll tell you what I said online.
00:17:04.720 I said, hey, Grock, who is Tim Scott, and why do Democrats think he isn't black?
00:17:11.060 And, by the way, was Tim Scott elected because of a gerrymandered district drawn only to elect an African American?
00:17:18.040 No, he won statewide.
00:17:19.240 He won statewide. 0.77
00:17:20.200 Uh, by the way, the Democrat position is you can only elect African Americans with a gerrymandered 0.57
00:17:27.200 district. I will point out Burgess Owens, an African American, has elected the majority
00:17:31.300 white district in the state of Utah. He's a Republican. Byron Donalds, another African
00:17:36.040 American, has elected the majority white district in Florida. He is a Republican. John James,
00:17:41.380 another African American, has elected the majority white district in Michigan. He is
00:17:45.880 a Republican. And my own congressman, Wesley Hunt, who represents me in the House of Representatives,
00:17:51.540 he is elected in the majority white district. He is a Republican. And yet, in the Democrats
00:17:55.880 world, you're not black if you're not a liberal Democrat. There is an arrogance to African 1.00
00:18:02.980 American voters. By the way, they also have that same arrogance to Hispanic voters. They 0.98
00:18:08.960 say you're not Hispanic if you're not a liberal Democrat. Well, I'll tell you, I am proud
00:18:15.140 to be the first Hispanic ever elected to represent the state of Texas in the United States Senate.
00:18:21.140 And Mr. Chamberlain, in my election in Texas, was I elected the gerrymandered district that
00:18:27.180 could only elect an Hispanic?
00:18:28.500 No, you were elected statewide.
00:18:32.840 Discrimination based on race is wrong.
00:18:36.740 Final question.
00:18:37.740 The Democrats are now clutching their pearls.
00:18:40.920 seats drawn to elect liberal Democrats in the South are going to go away. 1.00
00:18:45.640 You may get black Republicans instead. Indeed, in Tennessee, they're freaking out that a 0.99
00:18:49.840 liberal white guy who's a Democrat is likely going to lose his seat to an African-American
00:18:54.740 woman who's a Republican, and they say that's horrible racial oppression.
00:19:01.420 My final question is this. If you look nationwide, which party has egregiously abused Jerry
00:19:10.820 gerrymandering for decades both parties are guilty of it but which who has been the worst
00:19:15.620 offender and in particular take new england take massachusetts take connecticut take rhode island
00:19:20.780 take maine take vermont take new hampshire how many republicans are elected from all of new
00:19:26.820 england in the house of representatives i think the answer to that is zero zero they've drawn
00:19:30.880 every district in a naked gerrymander and yet they're very upset that their illegal pursuit
00:19:37.400 of power has now been stopped by the Supreme Court that is enforcing the Constitution and
00:19:41.540 prohibiting the racial gerrymandering and discrimination their party is built on.
00:19:46.780 Senator Padilla.
00:19:48.000 Mr. Chairman, part of personal privilege.
00:19:50.640 Sure.
00:19:51.920 I feel personally aggrieved to sit here and to be lectured by my colleague from Texas.
00:19:59.720 And this reminds me of the time when he was first elected to the Senate and the Judiciary
00:20:05.540 committee had a hearing on gun safety and he felt a need to lecture diane feinstein who was
00:20:11.860 a leader on gun safety legislation and he took that opportunity to lecture diane feinstein
00:20:17.680 about gun safety and her leadership on the issue and she said to him something along the lines of
00:20:24.040 i did not sit here on this committee for however many years she did only to be lectured by you and
00:20:30.660 that is how i feel so why don't you just stop lecturing the rest of us just because you think
00:20:36.060 you are the smartest person in the world doesn't mean the rest of us agree to that okay thank you
00:20:40.660 senator hirono senator i knew diane feinstein i served with diane feinstein and you're not diane
00:20:46.100 feinstein all right senator padilla senator i just got one question for you you're not a big
00:20:51.120 morning person so who made you mad this morning and what did you eat because that was brilliant 0.99
00:20:55.960 Well, look, I couldn't stand seeing the Democrats being hypocritical and dishonest. 0.99
00:21:02.000 And, you know, it was striking. 0.98
00:21:03.940 Maisie Hirono said, I'm offended.
00:21:05.720 I'm offended that you said this.
00:21:07.820 You know what she didn't do?
00:21:09.380 She didn't dispute a single word I said because every word I said was factual.
00:21:13.720 She didn't dispute that her party has been viciously racist since the very beginning of that party, that it embraces racial gerrymandering.
00:21:20.740 Like every word of substance, she just – and this is a classic Democrat tactic.
00:21:25.800 how dare you speak the truth i'm offended by the truth and obviously my reference at the end
00:21:30.660 i was quoting a democrat if you'll recall when when george w bush or not george w bush george
00:21:37.980 h.w bush was running for president and he was running uh with dan quayle and he was running
00:21:43.880 against michael dukakis and and his running mate was lloyd benson and lloyd benson was a senator
00:21:48.240 from texas and dan quayle when he was nominated to be vice president was a very young senator i
00:21:54.380 think he was 41 or 42, and he did not have a ton of experience. And in the vice presidential debate
00:22:00.200 between Dan Quayle and Lloyd Benson, Dan Quayle had a riff that I suspect was prepared by his
00:22:07.180 team where he said, look, I'm the same age that John Kennedy was when he became president.
00:22:12.480 And it was, I think, their line to say, gosh, I'm not inexperienced because Kennedy and I
00:22:17.620 are the same age. And Lloyd Benson looked at him and said, Senator, I knew Jack Kennedy.
00:22:24.380 jack kennedy was a friend of mine i served with jack kennedy senator you're no jack kennedy
00:22:33.260 and that obviously was the riff i was i was using for for for mazy um diane feinstein my first year 0.71
00:22:41.760 we did have a fiery blow up over gun control uh because she was a big advocate of gun control i i 0.58
00:22:48.320 am a big defender of the second amendment and and when i asked her a specific question about
00:22:53.620 the constitutional basis for what she was proposing. She got very upset, and she, much like
00:22:59.320 Mazie Hirono, she said, I am not a sixth grader, and she was horrified that I would actually ask
00:23:05.080 her the constitutional basis for what she was trying to do. Mazie does not have, she could not
00:23:13.300 refute a word I said, so instead she resorted to insults and emotional offense, and look, I think
00:23:23.060 that's a fairly typical example of where the Democrats are. Truth and facts are not their
00:23:27.940 strong points, and they're not going to engage in them. Instead, they're going to try to engage
00:23:32.800 in deception. And sadly, that was the entire Democrat theme in the entire hearing.
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00:25:18.200 I want to get back to the big story number three of the week you may have missed.
00:25:24.840 I want to move on to what we talked about in the last show has now become a reality,
00:25:29.960 and that is Raul Castro has been indicted.
00:25:34.280 This is bringing lots of celebration to the Cuban community down in Florida.
00:25:40.180 A lot of excitement also in Cuba because of this,
00:25:44.940 and we've seen some of those videos have been able to get out of the country.
00:25:48.200 with limited access to the Internet there.
00:25:50.500 But this is a very big moment for justice.
00:25:54.060 And now there couldn't be more of a stark difference between having a former President Barack Obama
00:26:00.280 that would sit down with this man who's now been accused of murder by the United States of America,
00:26:04.940 indicted for that.
00:26:06.220 He sat down with him in a baseball game, hung out with him,
00:26:09.040 and now Donald Trump's like, no, no, no, we don't do that with bad guys.
00:26:12.020 We don't negotiate with them.
00:26:13.280 We indict them. 1.00
00:26:14.780 Well, forget the Cuban community in Florida. 1.00
00:26:18.200 This Cuban-American in Houston, Texas, in my laundry room, thankfully not surrounded by cat crap right now, is celebrating because Raul Castro has been indicted. 0.94
00:26:30.700 Let me read from Fox News. 0.84
00:26:32.560 Former Cuban President Raul Castro has been indicted in connection to his alleged role in the 1996 downing of two planes operated by the Miami-based exile group Brothers to the Rescue.
00:26:44.940 The indictment, which a Florida grand jury returned in April.
00:26:48.200 was unsealed Wednesday, acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said during an announcement
00:26:53.180 in Miami on Wednesday. It charges Castro with conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, destruction
00:27:01.120 of aircraft, and four separate counts of murder. The indictment stems from a February 1996 indictment
00:27:08.680 in which four Americans, Carlos Costa, Armando Alejandra Jr., Mario de la Pena, and Pablo Morales,
00:27:16.920 were flying in civilian aircraft when Cuban military aircraft shot their planes down
00:27:22.920 in international waters and killed them the indictment alleges according to Blanche
00:27:27.920 quote they were unarmed civilians and were flying humanitarian missions for the rescue
00:27:34.300 and protection of people fleeing oppression across the Florida Straits Blanche said
00:27:39.560 quote as alleged in the indictment Raul Castro and five co-defendants participated in a conspiracy
00:27:46.100 that ended with Cuban military aircraft firing missiles at those planes and killing four
00:27:52.620 Americans, he continued. Nations and their leaders cannot be permitted to target Americans.
00:27:58.720 Kill them and not face accountability, Blanche also said. Joining Blanche announcing the 0.98
00:28:04.860 indictment were United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jason A. Reading
00:28:10.000 quinones deputy fbi director christopher rea and florida attorney general james utheimer look 0.99
00:28:18.660 raul castro he's in his mid-90s he is a murdering torturous communist bastard look if there's one 0.93
00:28:30.720 thing and and let me say to the folks that listen to verdict you guys know me if there's one thing 0.99
00:28:37.540 about me, I genuinely and deeply and passionately loathe communists. Communism is the most evil 0.98
00:28:47.200 ideology humanity has ever created. Communism has produced more murder, more torture, more 0.99
00:28:55.440 imprisonment, more poverty, more misery than any ideology in the history of our planet. 1.00
00:29:03.700 Fidel Castro was an evil monster. 0.94
00:29:08.320 When Fidel Castro died, I gave a floor speech saying how happy I was that Fidel Castro had moved to warmer climates. 0.99
00:29:23.300 I believe Fidel Castro is burning in hell right now.
00:29:28.620 his brother Raul was vicious was responsible for much of the oppression in Cuba
00:29:37.060 he's no longer the president he's now 94 and I am incredibly glad I am gratified
00:29:45.520 that the Trump Department of Justice has indicted him for murder this is an evil man and this may
00:29:53.080 well set set the predicate just like nicolas maduro for the united states going in to execute
00:30:00.620 this arrest warrant to arrest him and and i gotta say one of the striking by the way i had to ask
00:30:07.520 you this real quick do you think there's a a decent probability that is actually what could
00:30:12.160 happen here 50 50 look i i think president trump is going to ask the military how likely are we to
00:30:20.840 succeed. It depends where Raul Castro is. Could you mount a military campaign to go in and get
00:30:27.040 him? I don't know how secure he is. I have zero classified information on this, so I'm not
00:30:31.860 revealing anything. But I don't think President Trump will order the operation if it is unlikely
00:30:39.140 to succeed. So if Castro makes a stupid decision and goes somewhere where we could get him, 0.99
00:30:46.820 i think there's a real chance we go arrest him if he is hidden underground either figuratively or 1.00
00:30:53.860 literally where we don't know where he is that becomes more complicated so i don't know the
00:30:59.620 answer to that but but i think it's a 50 50 proposition right now and i will say the contrast
00:31:07.340 if you look at the alums from the obama administration if you look at ben rhodes who
00:31:13.160 was the deputy national security advisor under obama he he is effectively weeping you look at
00:31:19.900 jen saki jen saki had ben rhodes on tv and they were lamenting how horrible it was that raul
00:31:27.040 castro had been indicted understand when obama was president he went and joined raul castro at a
00:31:34.920 baseball game they were palling it around they had their arms around each other and and listen
00:31:40.080 commies like other commies listen barack obama when he was president at times he pretended he
00:31:49.400 was moderate but i think as the years have gone by it has been clear look there is a very real 0.79
00:31:57.280 communist movement in the democrat party they've got people like graham plattner this crazy
00:32:03.460 self-described communist running for senate in maine the guy with the nazi totenkampf
00:32:08.940 tattoo on his chest yeah he will tell you he's a communist uh aoc ilhan omar uh those folks
00:32:20.120 they won't quite tell you they're communists but they're close al-said who's the radical leftist
00:32:26.860 running for senate in michigan is also pretty damn close to a communist and and listen i believe i
00:32:32.820 i think obama is responsible for all of this he has radicalized the democrat party and and so you
00:32:40.780 look at you you look at the pictures and images of of obama embracing raul castro obama loved
00:32:50.220 communists who were enemies of america obama started his presidency one of the very first
00:32:55.240 things he did he went to the university of cairo in egypt and he gave a speech and he said it ran 0.97
00:33:02.220 has a right and he used the word right to nuclear technology now that's idiocy that that makes no 0.69
00:33:10.220 sense but all of the obama bros are weeping right now because if you gave them a choice 0.99
00:33:19.000 who do you like more raul castro the communist murdering torturing evil tyrant or donald trump
00:33:28.000 100% of the Obama bros would pick Castro over Trump and so they're all freaking out I gotta say 0.99
00:33:36.200 karma is a bitch as always thank you for listening to verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson 0.95
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