Verdict with Ted Cruz - The Rise of the Smiling Socialist Elites, Nigeria’s Silent Christian Crisis & Bill Gates from Alarmist to Realist Week In Review

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00:00:04.260 Welcome, it is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

00:00:06.360 Weekend Review, Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:08.360 And here are some big stories that you may have missed

00:00:10.440 that we talked about this week.

00:00:11.960 First off, Mondani and Gavin Newsom.

00:00:15.140 They're marketing Marxism and socialism

00:00:17.220 to the American voter like never before.

00:00:20.180 Will there be backlash?

00:00:21.760 We're gonna break that down for you.

00:00:23.840 Also, Senator Cruz and I sat down with an incredible leader

00:00:27.440 to talk about Christian abuse in Nigeria

00:00:30.560 and why the media isn't covering this story.

00:00:34.120 But we are here and it's important.

00:00:36.520 And finally, Bill Gates, reversing course on global warming.

00:00:41.220 So how much money was made off of selling you on the big scam?

00:00:45.900 It's the Weekend Review and it starts right now.

00:00:49.300 Did you hear Gavin Newsom on the podcast

00:00:51.360 discussing his rough, hardscrabble life,

00:00:54.960 eating Wonder Bread, growing up in the hood?

00:00:57.260 Because, you know, Gavin was an oppressed youth.

00:01:03.060 Did you see that?

00:01:04.280 It was almost as oppressed as he was during the COVID lockdowns

00:01:06.860 when he was the only one allowed to have dinner

00:01:08.100 with his friends without masks on, you know?

00:01:10.240 Look, to be clear, Gavin Newsom is California royalties,

00:01:14.180 fourth or fifth generation California old money.

00:01:17.300 His daddy was one of the lead lawyers

00:01:22.220 for the Getty billionaire fortune.

00:01:24.960 He grew up, he was featured in the San Francisco paper

00:01:30.860 in an article entitled, Growing Up Rich.

00:01:34.260 And to be clear, he started a winery with the Getty millions,

00:01:38.600 billions actually, but millions from them.

00:01:40.800 Started a winery at age 25.

00:01:43.020 Now, Benjamin, let me ask you,

00:01:44.220 did you start a winery at age 25?

00:01:46.880 No.

00:01:47.900 I feel like I worked really hard,

00:01:49.520 but I promise you it was not a winery at 25.

00:01:52.840 And look, it's okay.

00:01:54.640 I don't fault Gavin for the success of his parents

00:01:58.720 or his grandparents or his great-great-grandparents,

00:02:01.220 and it's amazing how many leftists

00:02:02.880 were raised with silver spoons

00:02:05.940 and inserted just about any place you could insert a spoon.

00:02:08.980 But when he pretends, like he's on this NBA podcast

00:02:13.820 and he's talking about,

00:02:15.040 oh, I just had to support myself.

00:02:17.520 I had to support myself playing ball.

00:02:20.500 Like, what a load.

00:02:23.000 What a crock.

00:02:25.560 And it's...

00:02:26.980 Pathological.

00:02:28.440 Newsom is running a different scam

00:02:30.500 than Mondani is,

00:02:33.200 but it's the same scam.

00:02:35.340 It is marketing,

00:02:38.440 Marxism,

00:02:39.460 socialism,

00:02:40.380 confiscatory government power,

00:02:42.220 and trying to make it...

00:02:43.220 I will say this.

00:02:44.060 I'm going to compliment right now

00:02:45.380 both Comrade Mondani

00:02:46.920 and Gavin Newsom.

00:02:49.280 They got great smiles.

00:02:51.020 I mean, to be honest,

00:02:52.000 every dentist in America must be like,

00:02:54.120 look at those pearly whites. 0.54

00:02:55.380 They can smile.

00:02:57.340 Like it...

00:02:58.460 And, you know,

00:02:59.180 I got to say,

00:03:00.620 and I'll say this as a Cuban-American

00:03:03.340 whose family, you know,

00:03:04.700 fled Cuba,

00:03:05.700 it really feels better

00:03:08.200 if you're a dissident

00:03:09.080 being lined up from the firing squad

00:03:10.780 if you know that the communists 0.99

00:03:12.140 ordering your death are smiling.

00:03:13.640 Like it really makes it less painful 0.91

00:03:15.700 as you're sent to the gulag

00:03:18.980 to know...

00:03:20.440 It's a good-looking tyrant

00:03:22.600 who is sending me to the gulag.

00:03:25.440 But sadly,

00:03:26.580 that's where we are.

00:03:29.600 And can I ask you

00:03:31.100 one more question on this topic?

00:03:33.000 Sure.

00:03:33.440 Is there a single,

00:03:35.780 sane Democrat

00:03:37.080 who is calling out

00:03:39.780 Comrade Mondani

00:03:41.180 or Gavin Newsom

00:03:43.020 on these issues?

00:03:44.500 No. 0.96

00:03:45.140 Because they created these crazies 0.99

00:03:46.660 and they allowed them 0.99

00:03:47.480 to fester in their party

00:03:48.400 and they literally

00:03:49.780 didn't police their party.

00:03:51.220 So this is the Democratic Party now

00:03:53.120 and their leaders

00:03:54.340 are not Democrats.

00:03:55.820 They are commies.

00:03:57.020 They are socialists.

00:03:58.080 They are Marxists.

00:03:58.880 Just look around the country.

00:04:00.160 This is who they are.

00:04:01.600 Yeah, look,

00:04:02.140 the elected members

00:04:03.620 of the Democrat Party,

00:04:04.640 particularly on the national scene,

00:04:06.520 they're scared.

00:04:07.680 They're scared

00:04:08.420 of the mob.

00:04:10.420 They're scared

00:04:11.520 of the angry

00:04:13.040 left-wing radicals

00:04:15.200 with torches

00:04:16.280 and pitchforks.

00:04:18.160 We saw this

00:04:18.900 at the No Kings rally

00:04:19.860 where they're terrified.

00:04:20.760 We're in the middle.

00:04:21.500 We're in day 27

00:04:22.600 of the Schumer shutdown

00:04:23.920 because they're terrified

00:04:24.900 of the mob.

00:04:26.180 And so elected Democrats

00:04:27.440 are terrified.

00:04:28.280 But again, listen,

00:04:30.260 we endeavor on this podcast

00:04:32.700 to try to be real,

00:04:33.920 to try to have facts,

00:04:34.860 to try not to engage

00:04:36.420 in just empty partisan rhetoric.

00:04:39.580 So maybe you might say,

00:04:41.160 all right,

00:04:41.820 Cruz, Ferguson,

00:04:43.780 they're not the most

00:04:44.880 impartial, unbiased observers.

00:04:47.860 If you're not inclined

00:04:49.120 to listen to us,

00:04:49.840 although I will say,

00:04:50.660 if you've made it 29 minutes

00:04:51.780 into this podcast

00:04:52.540 and you're not inclined

00:04:53.260 to listen to us,

00:04:54.040 wow, you've got some endurance.

00:04:55.540 Bravo to you.

00:04:57.040 But indulge the setup nonetheless.

00:05:01.880 If you're not inclined

00:05:02.660 to listen to us,

00:05:03.540 perhaps you would be inclined

00:05:05.940 to listen to Bill Maher.

00:05:07.080 Bill Maher is a liberal.

00:05:08.780 He is a Democrat.

00:05:10.120 He's been a liberal

00:05:10.880 and a Democrat his whole life.

00:05:13.240 Listen to what Bill Maher

00:05:14.800 had to say,

00:05:15.560 the warning to Democrats

00:05:17.060 he had to say

00:05:17.760 about Comrade Mondani.

00:05:20.440 The Democrats,

00:05:21.480 let's face it,

00:05:22.040 they're kind of split now.

00:05:23.120 There's the far left version

00:05:25.060 that did not do too well

00:05:26.620 in recent elections

00:05:27.460 and then people

00:05:28.180 like the governor

00:05:28.860 who say,

00:05:29.380 we've got to come back

00:05:30.220 to the middle,

00:05:31.120 common sense,

00:05:32.140 and whenever this discussion

00:05:33.200 comes up,

00:05:33.780 this is what you hear a lot.

00:05:34.780 We need a sister soldier moment, 0.83

00:05:36.320 a time when the Democrats,

00:05:37.140 something,

00:05:37.780 some issue

00:05:38.200 where the Democrat says,

00:05:39.380 look,

00:05:39.680 I'm not with the far left

00:05:41.000 and this is how you know

00:05:41.880 you can trust me

00:05:42.660 that I'm not.

00:05:44.920 I think I have the issue.

00:05:46.500 Okay.

00:05:47.180 And it's the mayor's race

00:05:48.780 in New York.

00:05:50.140 I think,

00:05:51.280 he seems like a sweet guy,

00:05:53.320 Mom Dommy.

00:05:55.420 But I would just like to say,

00:05:57.040 because the election

00:05:57.620 is in a couple of weeks,

00:05:58.700 this is not just New York

00:06:01.600 that's on the ballot.

00:06:03.280 I think the whole Democratic Party

00:06:05.060 in the country

00:06:05.980 is on the ballot

00:06:06.980 and the whole country

00:06:07.960 will be looking at this race

00:06:09.400 to see which way

00:06:10.940 are the Democrats going to go.

00:06:12.720 No, Andrew Cuomo

00:06:13.600 may not be that exciting

00:06:14.840 and that inspirational,

00:06:16.460 but, you know,

00:06:17.080 for a party that said

00:06:17.960 we want to get back to normal,

00:06:20.300 he's kind of normal.

00:06:22.580 I mean.

00:06:23.700 What?

00:06:24.360 No?

00:06:24.560 Well,

00:06:25.060 he's got some things

00:06:26.500 in his history

00:06:26.980 that I would suggest

00:06:27.680 are not going to.

00:06:28.160 It's not the normal

00:06:29.240 I want to embrace.

00:06:30.420 Well, we did a deep dive on that

00:06:32.020 because we had him on the show.

00:06:33.340 Yeah. 1.00

00:06:33.720 A lot of it is kind of bullshit. 1.00

00:06:35.160 I mean, 1.00

00:06:35.640 maybe he was a little too handsy,

00:06:37.140 a little too Italian,

00:06:38.600 a little too touchy,

00:06:40.540 you know.

00:06:42.540 A little too Italian. 0.99

00:06:44.560 That's what he said.

00:06:45.480 You know.

00:06:46.220 Yes.

00:06:46.800 You know.

00:06:47.020 I did not get the memo.

00:06:49.740 I mean,

00:06:50.520 when you're having to defend Cuomo

00:06:52.180 to try to save your party,

00:06:53.580 you're not in a good place.

00:06:55.300 Well,

00:06:55.600 but Bill Maher,

00:06:56.460 and let's be clear,

00:06:57.320 Bill Maher

00:06:58.420 did not vote for Donald Trump.

00:07:01.240 Bill Maher would not vote for me.

00:07:03.480 He is a liberal.

00:07:04.600 He is a Democrat.

00:07:05.840 But Bill Maher every day

00:07:07.280 makes more and more sense

00:07:08.740 because his party 0.99

00:07:09.780 has gone so bat crap crazy 0.94

00:07:11.520 that he believes in things 0.97

00:07:12.880 like free speech.

00:07:15.140 He believes in things

00:07:16.700 like not supporting

00:07:17.780 a communist government

00:07:18.800 that seizes private property

00:07:20.600 and the means of production

00:07:25.160 in society.

00:07:26.680 He doesn't want to support

00:07:28.700 Hamas terrorists 0.68

00:07:29.620 and other jihadists.

00:07:32.320 That used to be mainstream.

00:07:34.720 That used to be,

00:07:35.440 all of those propositions

00:07:36.520 were things

00:07:37.120 that used to be the case

00:07:38.360 that Republicans

00:07:39.800 and Democrats

00:07:40.520 came together.

00:07:41.260 Look,

00:07:41.880 Bill Clinton,

00:07:42.460 when Bill Clinton

00:07:43.020 was president,

00:07:44.340 neither you nor I

00:07:45.320 supported Bill Clinton.

00:07:46.400 We did not vote

00:07:47.160 for Bill Clinton.

00:07:48.740 But you know what?

00:07:49.700 The Bill Clinton election,

00:07:51.140 when he was elected,

00:07:52.180 it was not

00:07:53.200 the fate

00:07:54.500 of Western civilization.

00:07:56.040 It was not

00:07:56.760 do we elect

00:07:57.560 a communist jihadist.

00:07:59.580 I would have rather

00:08:00.560 a Republican be elected,

00:08:01.840 but the world didn't end

00:08:03.180 when Bill Clinton

00:08:03.800 got elected.

00:08:05.060 Bill Clinton's views,

00:08:06.300 if you took a candidate

00:08:07.240 with the identical policy views

00:08:08.880 of Bill Clinton

00:08:09.500 and ran him today,

00:08:11.300 they would tar

00:08:12.180 and feather him 0.93

00:08:12.960 and drive him

00:08:13.580 out of the Democrat Party.

00:08:15.140 He would be completely

00:08:16.180 and entirely...

00:08:17.060 He would not get elected

00:08:17.580 today as president.

00:08:18.620 He would not get elected.

00:08:19.900 He probably wouldn't

00:08:20.660 get elected

00:08:21.180 as a Democrat dog catcher

00:08:23.060 because they have radicalized

00:08:25.580 and they instead

00:08:26.400 want someone

00:08:27.260 like Comrade Mondami

00:08:28.680 whose party says

00:08:29.780 release the terrorist 0.99

00:08:31.480 who murders Jews 1.00

00:08:32.500 because they're Jews. 1.00

00:08:34.260 That's where

00:08:35.220 their radical base is

00:08:36.920 and, you know,

00:08:39.240 some of y'all may not

00:08:40.140 may not know

00:08:41.180 what a sister soldier 1.00

00:08:42.500 moment is

00:08:43.240 and sister soldier 0.81

00:08:44.340 actually refers to Bill Clinton

00:08:45.480 when Bill Clinton

00:08:46.140 was running for president.

00:08:48.540 Sister soldier

00:08:49.240 was this rapper

00:08:50.680 and Bill Clinton

00:08:52.260 denounced her

00:08:54.020 in the middle of the primary

00:08:54.940 and it was viewed

00:08:55.800 as a brave moment

00:08:57.380 of sort of taking on

00:08:58.380 his base

00:08:59.140 but it demonstrated

00:09:00.920 to the voters

00:09:01.820 or it was perceived

00:09:02.560 to demonstrate

00:09:03.620 to the voters

00:09:04.380 that he was reasonable

00:09:05.600 and rational 0.92

00:09:06.360 and not a crazy nutcase

00:09:08.520 and it is

00:09:09.160 an interesting question.

00:09:10.200 Is there even

00:09:12.080 one

00:09:13.040 national Democrat?

00:09:15.060 By the way,

00:09:15.360 Gavin Newsom

00:09:15.840 wants to be elected

00:09:16.440 president.

00:09:17.200 Can he denounce

00:09:18.140 Mondami?

00:09:19.280 J.B. Pritzker

00:09:19.880 wants to be elected

00:09:20.560 president.

00:09:21.040 Can he do it?

00:09:22.080 Cory Booker wants to.

00:09:23.640 Chris Murphy wants to.

00:09:25.600 None of them

00:09:26.480 are going to

00:09:27.280 because

00:09:28.360 look,

00:09:29.960 John Fetterman

00:09:30.620 has been critical

00:09:31.420 but John Fetterman

00:09:32.360 I think the Democrat Party

00:09:33.620 is being quite explicit

00:09:35.120 that they're going to do

00:09:35.760 everything they can

00:09:36.440 to drive him out

00:09:37.260 of the Democrat Party

00:09:38.220 just like they would

00:09:39.400 Bill Clinton

00:09:39.860 if he were there

00:09:40.600 but I don't know

00:09:42.840 a Democrat

00:09:43.480 and interestingly

00:09:44.520 one ambitious Democrat

00:09:47.440 is there nobody

00:09:48.400 looking around

00:09:49.560 Andy Beshear

00:09:51.220 who's pretending

00:09:51.960 he's a moderate

00:09:53.240 in Kentucky

00:09:53.980 Josh Shapiro

00:09:55.020 who has got to be

00:09:57.460 horrified

00:09:58.720 at what Mondami's saying

00:09:59.980 has he said a word

00:10:01.340 crickets, crickets, crickets

00:10:02.800 there is not one

00:10:06.560 and

00:10:08.020 maybe that will change

00:10:10.700 but I fear

00:10:12.900 not just for the state

00:10:13.840 of the Democrat Party

00:10:14.740 but I fear

00:10:15.500 for the future

00:10:17.920 of our republic

00:10:18.660 I think we do better

00:10:19.720 when we have two

00:10:20.620 political parties

00:10:21.620 that are reasonable

00:10:22.940 and rational

00:10:23.660 and have some

00:10:24.320 meaningful disagreements

00:10:25.480 than we do

00:10:26.140 with one party

00:10:27.020 that is utterly

00:10:27.840 whack job

00:10:28.720 and trying to destroy 0.98

00:10:29.660 America

00:10:30.200 look we've seen

00:10:32.220 through history

00:10:32.980 it is a pendulum

00:10:34.660 and it goes from

00:10:35.280 one party to the other

00:10:36.280 there will come a time 0.99

00:10:37.800 when these lunatics 1.00

00:10:38.600 are in charge 1.00

00:10:39.220 of the country again

00:10:40.140 and they've gotten

00:10:42.040 so extreme

00:10:42.840 that I really

00:10:44.000 shudder and fear

00:10:44.780 for our great nation

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00:11:21.700 now on to story

00:11:24.220 number two

00:11:25.220 now Iyan

00:11:25.960 tell us what's

00:11:27.340 happening in Nigeria

00:11:28.320 and as you know

00:11:29.480 I've been very vocal

00:11:30.520 calling out

00:11:31.820 the mass murder 0.99

00:11:32.680 of Christians

00:11:33.300 over 50,000 Christians

00:11:34.720 have been murdered

00:11:35.500 in Nigeria

00:11:36.200 since 2009

00:11:37.480 over 20,000 churches

00:11:39.640 and schools

00:11:40.480 have been destroyed

00:11:41.540 burned to the ground

00:11:42.520 and you have

00:11:43.860 Boko Haram

00:11:44.580 and other radical

00:11:45.360 Islamic terrorist groups

00:11:46.520 that are targeting 0.92

00:11:47.300 and persecuting

00:11:48.140 Christians in particular 0.79

00:11:49.100 and I will tell you

00:11:49.800 the government of Nigeria

00:11:51.220 is very unhappy with me

00:11:52.380 they have decried

00:11:53.480 my saying this

00:11:54.400 I have introduced

00:11:54.960 legislation

00:11:55.660 to designate them

00:11:57.440 a country of special concern

00:11:58.720 and the government

00:12:00.040 of Nigeria

00:12:00.480 is very unhappy

00:12:01.260 and I've said look

00:12:01.940 there are far too many

00:12:04.000 government leaders

00:12:04.760 who have turned

00:12:05.300 a blind eye

00:12:05.940 to what is happening

00:12:06.700 who have acquiesced

00:12:07.600 in what is happening

00:12:08.380 who are enforcing

00:12:09.880 either Sharia laws

00:12:11.040 or blasphemy laws

00:12:12.120 and facilitating

00:12:13.660 the persecution

00:12:14.500 of Christians

00:12:15.140 and as I said

00:12:16.480 the Nigerian government

00:12:18.280 has been vigorously

00:12:19.880 resisting me in this

00:12:20.880 give me your judgment

00:12:22.600 what do you see

00:12:23.380 happening in Nigeria

00:12:24.600 and what do you think

00:12:25.520 is actually the truth

00:12:27.340 Nigeria is the most 1.00

00:12:32.720 important African country

00:12:33.940 it has the largest

00:12:35.620 population

00:12:36.300 and obviously

00:12:37.740 there is a vying

00:12:38.620 for control

00:12:39.420 between on the one hand

00:12:41.100 the Islamic states

00:12:43.540 of Nigeria

00:12:44.280 and the Christian states

00:12:46.880 of Nigeria

00:12:47.420 and it used to be

00:12:50.560 about 50-50

00:12:51.600 but because

00:12:53.160 the Islamist movement

00:12:55.660 Boko Haram

00:12:56.400 and others

00:12:56.880 they want to apply

00:12:58.480 force

00:12:59.380 the jihadist force

00:13:00.740 this sort of gruesome

00:13:01.680 killing that we've seen

00:13:02.480 on October 7

00:13:03.540 in 2023

00:13:05.200 in Israel

00:13:06.060 so what is going on

00:13:08.060 in Nigeria

00:13:09.180 the Islamists 0.95

00:13:11.360 in Nigeria 1.00

00:13:12.100 are killing Christians 1.00

00:13:13.780 they're burning 1.00

00:13:14.820 their churches 1.00

00:13:15.540 they're raping 1.00

00:13:16.820 their women 1.00

00:13:17.340 they are invoking

00:13:19.700 blasphemy laws

00:13:20.760 so in the southern

00:13:21.900 regions of Nigeria

00:13:23.120 Sharia law

00:13:24.200 is the law

00:13:24.900 and if you say

00:13:26.000 Ted Cruz

00:13:26.900 has

00:13:27.380 you know

00:13:28.240 he said something

00:13:29.140 bad against Islam 1.00

00:13:30.340 you can have a mob 1.00

00:13:31.660 come and lynch you 0.99

00:13:32.600 and there's nothing 0.99

00:13:33.580 you can do about it

00:13:34.520 but then the government

00:13:35.300 should be doing

00:13:35.920 something about it

00:13:36.720 and the government

00:13:37.200 isn't doing anything

00:13:38.180 about it

00:13:38.700 now what is the

00:13:40.080 characteristic of

00:13:40.960 the government

00:13:41.520 of Nigeria 0.98

00:13:42.280 it's corrupt 0.97

00:13:43.060 the elites in Nigeria 0.99

00:13:45.300 whether they're Muslim

00:13:46.200 or whether they're Christian

00:13:47.460 they're in this bubble

00:13:49.500 and I think that bubble

00:13:51.180 has to be burst

00:13:52.180 they're in a comfort bubble

00:13:53.200 I don't really think

00:13:54.240 that they care about

00:13:55.360 that much

00:13:56.220 about or are held

00:13:57.220 responsible or accountable

00:13:58.440 or transparent

00:13:59.260 for what is going on

00:14:00.700 with a large majority

00:14:01.980 of the Nigerian population

00:14:04.320 and that's what you see

00:14:06.020 and we give a lot of money

00:14:07.820 as the United States

00:14:08.980 and legitimacy

00:14:09.840 to this government

00:14:11.260 we've got to

00:14:12.260 hold them accountable

00:14:13.220 and I couldn't be

00:14:15.260 more pleased

00:14:15.980 that you are involved

00:14:17.420 in this

00:14:17.940 Senator Cruz

00:14:18.780 you're calling them out

00:14:19.900 and you're going to say

00:14:20.620 if you want to be

00:14:21.300 our ally and our friend

00:14:22.480 we need you

00:14:23.820 to uphold your end

00:14:25.080 of being

00:14:25.580 a responsible

00:14:26.800 and responsive government

00:14:28.140 there's a goal

00:14:29.220 there are more Christians 0.99

00:14:30.780 being murdered in Nigeria 1.00

00:14:32.160 than any country

00:14:34.000 on planet earth

00:14:34.860 now one thing you said

00:14:35.980 that I thought was interesting

00:14:37.200 and I think

00:14:37.760 many of our listeners

00:14:39.020 will not have heard

00:14:39.800 this before

00:14:40.420 you said in your judgment

00:14:42.700 Nigeria is the most important 0.99

00:14:44.800 African country

00:14:46.040 tell our listeners

00:14:47.540 why that is

00:14:48.560 because many will not have

00:14:50.140 a deep familiarity

00:14:51.120 with that

00:14:51.620 it has the largest population

00:14:54.020 it has oil resources

00:14:55.800 the population is very young

00:14:57.740 it's English speaking

00:14:59.380 highly educated

00:15:00.540 let me just give you

00:15:01.420 an example

00:15:02.000 Kemi Badenoch

00:15:03.300 I hope the future

00:15:04.540 Prime Minister

00:15:05.120 of the United Kingdom

00:15:06.940 is from Nigeria

00:15:08.000 and he's Christian

00:15:08.960 so if we were

00:15:10.580 you know

00:15:11.900 in our relationship

00:15:12.840 with

00:15:13.460 right now

00:15:15.620 Russia

00:15:16.040 China

00:15:17.160 etc

00:15:17.800 I think the continent

00:15:19.420 as a whole

00:15:20.440 the continent of Africa

00:15:21.660 which is home

00:15:23.200 to over a billion people

00:15:25.340 yes

00:15:25.960 and growing

00:15:27.380 a young population

00:15:28.580 that is growing

00:15:29.280 significantly

00:15:29.680 the youngest population

00:15:31.460 and it's the only population

00:15:32.760 on planet earth

00:15:33.540 that is growing

00:15:34.260 as rapidly

00:15:35.260 as it's doing

00:15:36.100 right

00:15:36.880 and so Nigeria

00:15:38.820 and so Nigeria

00:15:38.840 is strategically important

00:15:40.640 Nigeria is 0.94

00:15:41.620 is the sort of country

00:15:43.400 that should be

00:15:44.140 our ally

00:15:44.900 and there is

00:15:46.200 a huge

00:15:47.160 Christian

00:15:48.000 population

00:15:49.340 that means

00:15:50.800 they share

00:15:51.240 norms and values

00:15:52.380 with us

00:15:53.220 and we should not

00:15:54.200 be abandoning

00:15:55.140 Nigeria

00:15:55.720 and so

00:15:56.920 the population

00:15:58.380 is pro-American

00:15:59.780 but then

00:16:00.900 they are let down

00:16:02.080 by their government

00:16:02.800 and I think

00:16:03.700 that can change

00:16:04.720 if we were even

00:16:06.000 to bring

00:16:06.560 a little bit

00:16:08.080 of leverage

00:16:08.600 down on them

00:16:09.440 because

00:16:10.280 we have that leverage

00:16:11.360 when you say

00:16:12.620 a little bit of leverage

00:16:13.400 what do you mean

00:16:14.180 like what

00:16:14.700 what would the leverage

00:16:15.620 look like

00:16:16.260 that you think

00:16:17.880 could literally

00:16:19.140 save lives

00:16:20.080 especially Christian lives

00:16:21.480 in Nigeria

00:16:21.960 who are being

00:16:22.460 attacked right now

00:16:23.240 well it starts

00:16:25.680 from

00:16:26.060 the amounts

00:16:27.520 of development

00:16:28.260 aid

00:16:28.760 money that we give them

00:16:30.580 we could apply

00:16:32.040 sanctions

00:16:32.920 we could

00:16:34.440 I mean

00:16:36.500 we

00:16:37.060 well

00:16:39.000 in my legislation

00:16:39.960 would sanctions

00:16:40.860 particular government

00:16:42.460 officials

00:16:43.020 so government

00:16:44.060 officials

00:16:44.500 at the local

00:16:45.120 level

00:16:45.640 who are engaged

00:16:47.900 in facilitating

00:16:48.720 and acquiescing

00:16:49.680 in this persecution

00:16:50.520 and so it's

00:16:51.320 designed

00:16:52.020 to

00:16:52.900 use the power

00:16:55.440 of the U.S. economy

00:16:56.460 and U.S. sanctions

00:16:57.460 to incentivize

00:16:59.020 different behavior

00:16:59.660 absolutely

00:17:01.080 and incentivize

00:17:03.220 legitimacy

00:17:04.340 is really important

00:17:05.480 for them

00:17:05.940 to keep their money

00:17:07.180 in America

00:17:07.760 to in

00:17:08.240 you know

00:17:08.620 all of these

00:17:09.560 the private jets

00:17:11.080 they come

00:17:11.640 and they play

00:17:12.580 in America

00:17:13.700 and American

00:17:14.920 allies

00:17:15.820 even when they play

00:17:16.820 in Europe

00:17:17.260 I think we have

00:17:18.180 a say over that

00:17:19.100 but I don't want

00:17:20.340 to go into

00:17:20.840 the details

00:17:21.460 of that

00:17:21.880 but I think

00:17:22.720 we can leverage

00:17:23.900 our influence

00:17:24.940 to make

00:17:25.720 the Nigerian

00:17:26.540 government

00:17:27.020 stop the

00:17:28.100 violence

00:17:28.560 immediately

00:17:29.200 they have

00:17:30.300 Sharia law

00:17:30.920 in the southern regions

00:17:32.140 we can see

00:17:32.960 and then we say

00:17:33.480 oh human rights

00:17:34.580 this that

00:17:35.040 and the other

00:17:35.540 where you have

00:17:37.100 Sharia law

00:17:38.300 you do not have

00:17:39.720 human rights 1.00

00:17:40.480 are you crazy 0.99

00:17:41.380 absolutely 0.99

00:17:42.160 absolutely

00:17:43.200 and we need

00:17:43.860 to stand up

00:17:44.480 and we need

00:17:45.180 to fight vigorously

00:17:46.120 to prevent it

00:17:46.820 here in the United States

00:17:47.920 okay final topic

00:17:48.980 and we're going to wrap up

00:17:49.740 in just a couple of minutes

00:17:50.600 but but you were born

00:17:52.640 in Somalia

00:17:53.260 as you know

00:17:54.500 I publicly called

00:17:55.660 on the Trump administration

00:17:56.620 to recognize

00:17:58.080 Somaliland

00:17:59.020 as a separate

00:18:00.380 and independent nation

00:18:01.560 tell our viewers

00:18:03.620 what you think

00:18:04.280 about that

00:18:04.900 and if you think

00:18:05.480 that makes sense

00:18:06.300 tell them why

00:18:07.020 I think we should

00:18:08.840 reward Somaliland

00:18:10.500 for what they have

00:18:11.940 achieved

00:18:12.520 they have been

00:18:13.880 since 1906

00:18:15.880 I mean

00:18:16.240 the former

00:18:17.320 dictatorial government

00:18:18.440 Siad Barri

00:18:19.060 they were massacred

00:18:20.600 they were

00:18:21.480 delivered into

00:18:22.340 becoming part of Somalia

00:18:23.820 they became part of Somalia

00:18:25.360 and they live

00:18:26.360 they have come to live

00:18:27.140 to regret it

00:18:27.840 but at the moment

00:18:28.480 very quickly

00:18:29.000 they are

00:18:29.900 the only viable

00:18:31.620 nation state

00:18:32.640 they have a

00:18:33.660 homogenous population

00:18:35.020 they speak one language

00:18:37.040 and there is a narrative

00:18:38.060 of national identity

00:18:39.220 of common suffering

00:18:40.540 but also common survival

00:18:41.800 you know

00:18:42.740 as a Somali

00:18:43.620 I will tell you something

00:18:44.620 I'm not

00:18:45.100 I'm an American

00:18:46.380 but

00:18:47.100 born in Somalia

00:18:48.780 I will say that

00:18:49.960 one of the things

00:18:51.000 that we Somalis

00:18:51.840 excel at

00:18:52.600 is in vengeance

00:18:53.360 but the leadership

00:18:55.380 of Somaliland

00:18:56.300 have decided

00:18:57.140 after 1991

00:18:58.140 that they were

00:18:59.000 not going to channel

00:19:00.000 the energy

00:19:00.480 of their population

00:19:01.260 into vengeance

00:19:02.060 but into

00:19:02.840 into building

00:19:04.200 what is a nation

00:19:05.880 and they are

00:19:07.340 economically violent

00:19:08.720 I think

00:19:09.180 that might have

00:19:10.180 oil

00:19:11.420 and gas

00:19:12.640 I think that

00:19:13.680 they could be

00:19:14.300 a strategic partner

00:19:15.460 I admire them

00:19:17.120 and they want

00:19:17.880 to stand with America

00:19:18.980 they are standing up

00:19:20.000 courageously

00:19:21.640 with the United States

00:19:22.500 it is in

00:19:23.980 our national interest

00:19:25.540 to recognize

00:19:26.360 Somaliland

00:19:27.140 to have

00:19:28.520 a major ally

00:19:30.580 on the horn of Africa

00:19:31.740 that is standing

00:19:32.660 with us

00:19:33.360 that's significant

00:19:35.000 and look

00:19:35.800 I am someone

00:19:36.680 who is very much

00:19:37.400 America first 0.69

00:19:38.080 we should be putting

00:19:39.060 American national security

00:19:40.960 interest first

00:19:41.620 and recognizing Somaliland

00:19:43.080 enhances those interests

00:19:44.880 absolutely

00:19:45.900 they are

00:19:46.840 absolutely

00:19:47.460 on the same page

00:19:48.260 as us

00:19:48.680 and also

00:19:49.460 they have recognized Israel

00:19:51.160 they have

00:19:52.440 defined

00:19:53.880 they have

00:19:54.500 a defined territory

00:19:56.440 they have

00:19:57.500 a permanent population

00:19:58.980 they issue passports

00:20:00.740 but the most important

00:20:01.960 thing is

00:20:02.680 that they

00:20:04.380 hold elections

00:20:06.240 one man

00:20:07.340 one vote

00:20:08.040 for president

00:20:08.940 for parliament

00:20:09.780 and local elections

00:20:10.980 and you can come

00:20:12.960 and survey those

00:20:14.100 and see that

00:20:14.900 they are actually

00:20:15.640 in some ways

00:20:16.340 better than

00:20:16.960 our American elections

00:20:18.600 and so I think

00:20:20.020 Somaliland

00:20:20.640 should be rewarded

00:20:21.700 for the fact

00:20:22.760 that they have

00:20:23.440 built a nation

00:20:24.380 they do not rely

00:20:25.920 on development aid

00:20:26.940 they never relied

00:20:28.020 on US aid

00:20:28.940 and that's

00:20:30.100 yeah

00:20:30.760 so please

00:20:32.280 liberate them

00:20:33.280 from what is

00:20:33.940 Somalia

00:20:34.500 Mogadishu

00:20:35.320 which is just

00:20:35.900 a broken

00:20:36.500 jihadi place

00:20:37.840 well Ayan

00:20:38.920 thank you for

00:20:39.680 taking the time

00:20:40.280 thank you for

00:20:40.820 joining us

00:20:41.300 I think this has

00:20:42.080 been a very

00:20:42.880 informative

00:20:44.620 podcast

00:20:45.840 I think our

00:20:46.480 listeners are really

00:20:47.040 going to get a lot

00:20:47.640 out of it

00:20:48.120 let me encourage

00:20:48.740 our listeners

00:20:49.240 share this podcast

00:20:50.420 if you want

00:20:51.300 your friends

00:20:51.760 your family

00:20:52.300 to understand

00:20:53.080 understand

00:20:53.540 the threat

00:20:54.700 of political

00:20:55.180 Islam

00:20:55.540 what it means

00:20:56.380 what it's meant

00:20:56.940 in Europe

00:20:57.360 what it means

00:20:58.320 here in America

00:20:59.160 I think

00:21:00.360 it is

00:21:01.360 an incredibly

00:21:02.800 important topic

00:21:03.980 it is a very

00:21:04.660 real threat

00:21:05.400 it is a threat

00:21:06.080 that I am committed

00:21:07.140 to combating

00:21:07.800 and one of the

00:21:09.560 purposes of

00:21:10.320 this podcast

00:21:11.280 is to equip you

00:21:12.840 to give you

00:21:13.460 information

00:21:14.160 that when you're

00:21:15.220 talking with your

00:21:15.900 friends and families

00:21:16.720 and colleagues

00:21:17.200 and co-workers

00:21:17.780 that you know

00:21:18.560 the truth

00:21:19.120 and Ayan

00:21:19.760 I think this

00:21:20.320 has been very

00:21:21.040 very helpful

00:21:21.600 to our listeners

00:21:22.200 so thank you

00:21:22.860 so much

00:21:23.180 for joining us

00:21:23.780 as before

00:21:25.000 if you want

00:21:25.620 to hear the rest

00:21:26.180 of this conversation

00:21:27.060 on this topic

00:21:28.180 you can go back

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00:21:29.740 podcast from early

00:21:30.820 this week to hear

00:21:31.500 the entire thing

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00:21:40.160 we're thrilled

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00:22:02.660 I want to get back

00:22:05.420 to the big story

00:22:06.600 number three of the

00:22:07.360 week you may have

00:22:07.980 missed

00:22:08.300 all right so

00:22:10.000 this one is

00:22:10.880 just one of those

00:22:11.820 segments that

00:22:12.540 I'm just going to

00:22:13.520 enjoy

00:22:13.960 Bill Gates

00:22:15.720 is a guy that

00:22:16.980 was like the

00:22:17.600 world's going to

00:22:18.080 end senator

00:22:18.660 and we're all

00:22:19.280 going to you know

00:22:19.880 die of heat

00:22:21.220 and global warming

00:22:22.440 is real

00:22:22.940 and I'm investing

00:22:24.060 in all these

00:22:24.760 projects and things

00:22:26.040 and the government

00:22:27.200 should be doing

00:22:27.780 the same

00:22:28.260 and now he's like 0.66

00:22:29.140 all right screw it 0.56

00:22:29.800 it's not going to

00:22:30.340 happen

00:22:30.600 it reminds me

00:22:32.020 I think it was

00:22:32.520 Newsweek back in

00:22:33.460 the 80s

00:22:34.020 where they said

00:22:34.780 we're all going

00:22:35.140 to freeze to death

00:22:36.020 from like arctic

00:22:36.900 freezing of the

00:22:37.800 entire globe

00:22:38.740 that went away too

00:22:40.500 so they got it

00:22:41.280 wrong in the 80s

00:22:42.180 and now Bill Gates

00:22:43.400 is admitting

00:22:43.860 and Al Gore

00:22:44.560 remember we were

00:22:45.080 supposed to be

00:22:45.440 dead like after

00:22:46.060 10 years

00:22:46.520 that was like

00:22:46.940 10 years ago

00:22:47.520 when he made

00:22:47.920 his prediction

00:22:48.460 that we're all

00:22:49.340 going to die

00:22:49.680 of global warming

00:22:50.340 none of it's

00:22:51.220 actually happened

00:22:51.900 and so now Bill

00:22:52.680 Gates is like

00:22:53.040 all right screw

00:22:54.120 it I was wrong

00:22:55.000 I guess

00:22:55.700 so it wasn't

00:22:57.720 10 years

00:22:58.300 it was 12 years

00:22:59.200 and for some

00:22:59.860 reason for the

00:23:00.740 apocalyptic left

00:23:01.880 the world is always

00:23:03.160 ending in 12 years

00:23:04.240 and that's been

00:23:04.760 true for about

00:23:05.460 two decades now

00:23:06.460 they've been saying

00:23:07.460 12 years from now

00:23:08.280 we're all going to

00:23:08.740 die 12 years from

00:23:09.560 now we're all 0.95

00:23:10.220 going to die 0.98

00:23:10.720 and I got to say 0.78

00:23:11.800 Bill Gates was

00:23:12.580 willing to be

00:23:13.340 as hysterical

00:23:14.620 as Greta

00:23:15.940 the European

00:23:17.320 teenager who

00:23:18.360 shut down

00:23:19.380 the German economy

00:23:20.640 because they

00:23:21.220 listened to a

00:23:21.800 teenager and said

00:23:22.640 hey why don't we

00:23:24.020 shut down all of

00:23:24.740 our nuclear power

00:23:25.400 plants and then

00:23:26.620 they suddenly realize

00:23:27.540 they couldn't

00:23:28.040 power their

00:23:28.500 country and

00:23:29.280 ironically enough

00:23:30.140 instead they're

00:23:30.900 now opening

00:23:31.460 coal plants and

00:23:32.280 polluting a lot

00:23:32.880 more so

00:23:33.460 the apocalypse

00:23:36.760 the world is

00:23:37.720 ending because of

00:23:38.440 climate change

00:23:39.080 well look

00:23:39.400 all right

00:23:39.680 don't necessarily

00:23:40.980 believe me

00:23:41.560 let me let me

00:23:42.000 just read

00:23:42.720 what Bill Gates

00:23:44.220 has done

00:23:44.580 so this is from

00:23:45.360 Daily Wire

00:23:45.920 Microsoft co-founder

00:23:47.360 Bill Gates has done

00:23:48.180 an about face on

00:23:48.960 climate change

00:23:49.580 alarmism

00:23:50.120 recently saying

00:23:51.480 that there are

00:23:52.000 more pressing

00:23:52.680 matters people should

00:23:53.600 be worrying about

00:23:54.240 instead

00:23:54.620 the 70-year-old

00:23:56.080 tech billionaire

00:23:56.660 who has been

00:23:57.400 an outspoken

00:23:58.120 environmental

00:23:58.600 activist for

00:23:59.340 years

00:23:59.840 said as much

00:24:01.220 in a memo

00:24:01.960 published Tuesday

00:24:03.000 titled

00:24:03.580 three tough

00:24:04.960 truths about

00:24:05.860 climate

00:24:06.300 here's what he

00:24:08.100 wrote

00:24:08.320 climate change

00:24:09.160 disease and

00:24:09.720 poverty are all

00:24:10.400 major problems

00:24:11.480 we should deal

00:24:12.680 with them in

00:24:13.380 proportion to the

00:24:14.420 suffering they

00:24:15.120 cause

00:24:15.660 the businessman

00:24:16.820 admitted that

00:24:18.260 the earth's

00:24:18.800 temperature is not

00:24:20.000 the most important

00:24:20.880 factor for improving

00:24:21.860 life on the

00:24:22.480 planet

00:24:22.780 and said the

00:24:24.200 quote

00:24:24.560 doomsday view

00:24:25.940 of climate

00:24:26.520 change is

00:24:27.800 wrong

00:24:28.240 let me let me

00:24:28.820 read that again

00:24:29.460 Bill Gates

00:24:29.980 said the

00:24:30.900 doomsday view

00:24:32.120 of climate

00:24:32.640 change is

00:24:33.880 wrong

00:24:34.300 here's what

00:24:34.740 he wrote

00:24:35.080 quote

00:24:35.460 although climate

00:24:37.020 change will have

00:24:37.620 serious consequences

00:24:38.700 particularly for

00:24:39.780 people in the

00:24:40.300 poorest countries

00:24:41.040 it will not

00:24:42.700 lead to

00:24:43.640 humanity's

00:24:44.440 demise

00:24:44.960 shocking that

00:24:46.760 Bill Gates

00:24:47.240 said that

00:24:47.800 and and here

00:24:49.100 he goes on

00:24:49.660 to say

00:24:50.080 quote

00:24:50.420 does that mean

00:24:51.040 does that mean

00:24:51.740 he can fly on

00:24:52.280 his private jets

00:24:52.960 now and like

00:24:53.680 take a nap

00:24:54.260 not be like

00:24:54.880 having to buy

00:24:55.300 carbon credits

00:24:55.980 or get on

00:24:56.440 his yacht

00:24:56.800 I'm just

00:24:57.140 confused

00:24:57.400 I want to be

00:24:57.900 I want to be

00:24:58.320 cleared here

00:24:58.720 what does this

00:24:59.100 free him up

00:24:59.600 to do

00:24:59.980 oh no no

00:25:00.520 the carbon

00:25:00.920 credit scam

00:25:01.640 is definitely

00:25:02.280 still on

00:25:03.000 but he's going

00:25:03.880 to keep flying

00:25:04.460 on his jet

00:25:05.060 and remember

00:25:05.780 by the way

00:25:06.340 John Kerry

00:25:07.240 the zealot

00:25:07.900 when he

00:25:08.220 discussed his

00:25:08.820 private plane

00:25:09.460 he said

00:25:09.860 you know

00:25:10.460 he flies

00:25:10.900 private

00:25:11.320 because he

00:25:11.820 says

00:25:12.040 really

00:25:12.640 for someone

00:25:13.120 like me

00:25:13.560 it's the

00:25:13.880 only reasonable

00:25:14.800 way to

00:25:15.220 travel

00:25:15.540 yes

00:25:16.160 but like

00:25:16.620 the utter

00:25:17.460 hypocrisy

00:25:18.560 but here's 0.71

00:25:20.020 what Gates

00:25:20.440 wrote

00:25:20.720 this is a

00:25:21.980 chance to

00:25:22.460 refocus on

00:25:23.240 the metric

00:25:23.680 that should

00:25:24.280 count even

00:25:25.080 more than

00:25:25.640 emissions and

00:25:26.280 temperature change

00:25:27.180 improving lives

00:25:29.280 our chief goal

00:25:30.420 should be to

00:25:30.980 prevent suffering

00:25:31.880 particularly for

00:25:33.120 those in the

00:25:33.620 toughest conditions

00:25:34.420 who live in the

00:25:35.300 world's poorest

00:25:35.960 countries

00:25:36.500 and he added

00:25:37.720 quote

00:25:38.140 although climate

00:25:39.600 change will hurt

00:25:40.400 poor people more

00:25:41.160 than anyone else

00:25:41.940 for the vast

00:25:42.540 majority of them

00:25:43.480 it will not be

00:25:44.540 the only or even

00:25:45.500 the biggest threat

00:25:46.840 to their welfare

00:25:48.040 and he wrote

00:25:48.760 this 17 page

00:25:49.700 analysis ahead

00:25:50.880 of next month's

00:25:51.920 United Nations

00:25:52.680 climate change

00:25:53.460 conference in

00:25:54.620 Brazil

00:25:55.200 hoping to shift

00:25:56.820 funding away

00:25:57.520 from climate

00:25:58.140 initiatives towards

00:25:59.020 other endeavors

00:25:59.920 that he now

00:26:00.540 believes are

00:26:01.520 more important

00:26:02.360 look I don't

00:26:04.180 know about you

00:26:04.780 but I'm not

00:26:05.360 tired of winning

00:26:06.040 I mean this

00:26:07.600 is climate

00:26:08.740 change was an

00:26:09.680 excuse

00:26:09.940 it was all a

00:26:10.300 scam to make

00:26:10.840 a bunch of

00:26:11.240 money is that

00:26:11.740 what we can

00:26:12.120 kind of get

00:26:12.500 to here it

00:26:13.040 was just

00:26:13.300 about follow

00:26:13.880 the money

00:26:14.300 money and

00:26:15.240 power there's

00:26:16.020 a lot of

00:26:16.400 money about

00:26:17.520 power look

00:26:18.680 look for

00:26:19.160 for Democrats

00:26:19.900 if you are

00:26:20.600 a socialist

00:26:21.120 if you are

00:26:21.660 a communist

00:26:22.200 if you are

00:26:22.820 a comrade

00:26:23.420 uh

00:26:24.300 Mondani

00:26:25.820 I assume

00:26:27.440 he's a climate

00:26:28.060 change nut

00:26:28.720 I don't actually

00:26:29.680 know that

00:26:30.440 but I know

00:26:31.060 he's a communist

00:26:31.680 and and and

00:26:32.800 climate change

00:26:34.080 was the excuse

00:26:35.400 for communists

00:26:36.840 to seize

00:26:37.240 control of our

00:26:38.000 government

00:26:38.340 and and and

00:26:39.040 that today's

00:26:40.320 Democrat party

00:26:41.180 it was a great

00:26:41.900 we're all gonna

00:26:42.660 die unless 0.97

00:26:43.580 you let me 1.00

00:26:44.680 the Democrat

00:26:46.140 politician

00:26:46.840 control the

00:26:47.920 energy and

00:26:48.860 business and

00:26:49.720 your life

00:26:50.800 and and regulate

00:26:51.660 every aspect of

00:26:52.680 your life

00:26:53.140 the fact that

00:26:54.260 Bill Gates is

00:26:54.840 making this

00:26:55.320 change it

00:26:55.960 really shows

00:26:56.880 the momentum

00:26:58.020 is moving

00:26:58.960 and people

00:26:59.560 are are

00:27:00.140 engaged in

00:27:00.940 just just

00:27:01.380 common sense

00:27:02.640 is coming

00:27:03.060 back

00:27:03.460 well and

00:27:04.180 and not only

00:27:04.720 common sense

00:27:05.380 but like you

00:27:05.880 look at a lot

00:27:06.240 of these solar

00:27:06.700 farms uh

00:27:07.880 they're like

00:27:08.500 being dormanted

00:27:09.360 right now

00:27:09.880 like they're

00:27:10.320 just shutting

00:27:10.740 them down

00:27:11.160 because they

00:27:11.660 just can't

00:27:12.400 work

00:27:12.720 they're not

00:27:13.160 working

00:27:13.580 and the

00:27:14.380 pollution that

00:27:15.020 comes actually

00:27:16.140 from the

00:27:16.780 turbines and

00:27:17.520 all the other

00:27:17.880 things are

00:27:18.220 actually saying

00:27:18.680 it's like having

00:27:19.200 a real negative

00:27:19.780 effect on the

00:27:20.380 environment

00:27:20.860 shocker there

00:27:21.780 uh and then we

00:27:22.740 also found out

00:27:23.480 that like a

00:27:23.940 pension fund in

00:27:24.700 California lost

00:27:25.940 like 70 plus

00:27:26.980 percent of the

00:27:27.540 investment that

00:27:28.180 they went in

00:27:28.580 green alternative

00:27:29.180 energy that

00:27:30.240 just came out

00:27:30.840 so like they

00:27:31.460 screwed countless

00:27:32.900 hard-working even

00:27:34.060 liberals in

00:27:34.840 California with 1.00

00:27:35.700 this crap 1.00

00:27:36.480 and a point to 0.99

00:27:37.720 understand the

00:27:38.740 climate change

00:27:39.720 radicals have 1.00

00:27:41.360 consistently hurt

00:27:42.780 the environment

00:27:43.680 they are bad

00:27:44.700 on the environment

00:27:45.700 if the only

00:27:46.760 thing you care

00:27:47.560 about if you

00:27:48.100 wake up every

00:27:48.820 morning uh

00:27:50.080 praying to

00:27:50.960 mother earth

00:27:51.540 if that's your

00:27:52.380 only voting

00:27:53.280 issue you should

00:27:54.140 vote against

00:27:54.560 democrats why

00:27:55.880 let's let let's

00:27:56.780 take for example

00:27:57.520 Germany the 0.62

00:27:58.660 greens forced 0.99

00:27:59.660 nuclear power

00:28:00.420 plants to be

00:28:01.040 closed the

00:28:02.100 result is today

00:28:03.080 Germany is relying 0.94

00:28:04.000 more on coal

00:28:04.840 which is much

00:28:05.640 much worse for

00:28:06.460 the environment

00:28:07.120 and and and

00:28:08.440 what country

00:28:09.880 is leads the

00:28:11.880 world every

00:28:12.700 year in the

00:28:13.240 reduction of

00:28:13.760 carbon emissions

00:28:14.420 which one

00:28:16.580 that would be

00:28:17.620 the United

00:28:18.000 States of

00:28:18.520 America do

00:28:19.060 you know why

00:28:19.540 why is that

00:28:20.760 look this is a

00:28:22.620 question actually

00:28:23.380 I pose when

00:28:24.180 I'm when I'm

00:28:24.760 on a college

00:28:25.140 campus when I'm

00:28:25.860 talking to

00:28:26.280 college kids

00:28:27.020 and they're

00:28:27.360 Bernie Sanders

00:28:28.000 supporters and

00:28:28.800 they're they're

00:28:29.180 freaked out about

00:28:29.840 the the climate

00:28:30.600 I'll ask him a

00:28:31.800 question I'll say

00:28:32.420 tell me what

00:28:33.900 human being has

00:28:35.640 done the most to

00:28:36.580 reduce climate in

00:28:37.440 our lifetimes

00:28:38.040 and inevitably

00:28:39.100 they have no

00:28:39.720 idea there is an

00:28:41.240 objectively right

00:28:42.040 answer the right

00:28:42.640 answer to this is

00:28:43.460 George Mitchell

00:28:44.080 now who is

00:28:45.240 George Mitchell

00:28:45.760 George Mitchell

00:28:46.840 was a Texas

00:28:47.800 oil man he was

00:28:48.720 the son of a

00:28:49.800 Greek goat 0.98

00:28:50.940 herder and

00:28:52.360 George Mitchell

00:28:53.140 is is the

00:28:54.680 the man most

00:28:55.580 responsible for

00:28:56.540 pioneering fracking

00:28:57.860 and he did it in

00:28:58.920 the Barnett Shale

00:28:59.840 under Fort Worth

00:29:00.660 and Dallas

00:29:01.220 fracking unlocked

00:29:03.800 the shale

00:29:04.600 revolution which

00:29:05.560 resulted in

00:29:06.320 massive production

00:29:07.680 of natural gas

00:29:09.100 much of it in

00:29:09.760 Texas although

00:29:10.380 also in

00:29:10.880 Pennsylvania and

00:29:11.560 Ohio and other

00:29:12.660 states across the

00:29:13.460 country and the

00:29:14.980 reason the United

00:29:16.100 States every year

00:29:17.300 leads the world in

00:29:18.460 the reduction of

00:29:20.020 carbon emissions is

00:29:21.160 because at a wide

00:29:22.580 scale level we are

00:29:23.800 replacing coal

00:29:25.260 powered electricity

00:29:26.780 generation with

00:29:28.500 natural gas powered

00:29:29.880 electricity generation

00:29:31.140 and that pollutes

00:29:32.520 much much less it

00:29:33.480 emits much less

00:29:34.340 carbon and the

00:29:35.980 Greens and the

00:29:36.860 radical Dems have

00:29:38.040 opposed that at

00:29:38.840 every step by the

00:29:40.000 way do you know

00:29:40.580 what country leads

00:29:41.680 the world in

00:29:42.380 pollution what's

00:29:43.680 that that would be

00:29:44.760 communist China

00:29:45.560 which pollutes

00:29:46.500 massively and yet

00:29:47.660 the Biden

00:29:48.100 administration bear

00:29:49.240 hugged them with

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