Verdict with Ted Cruz - April 09, 2025


THREE Supreme Court Victories against Lawfare Attacking the Trump Administration, plus 4 MILL Illegals w Social Security Numbers


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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joins me to discuss the latest Supreme Court rulings in favor of the Trump administration, a new report on illegal immigration, and the growing trend of men competing in women s sports.

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00:00:05.380 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.
00:00:07.640 Nice to have you with us on this Wednesday morning.
00:00:09.920 And we get to start with good news, Senator,
00:00:11.700 and that is there are three different rulings
00:00:14.880 that have come down from the Supreme Court
00:00:16.520 all in favor of the Trump administration.
00:00:19.460 Well, that's right, and it's very encouraging.
00:00:21.220 You know, we've talked about at length on this podcast
00:00:23.860 how the lawfare that is unfolding
00:00:26.100 against the Trump administration,
00:00:27.420 the pattern of nationwide injunctions
00:00:30.560 has in the last three months
00:00:33.220 exceeded what has happened in the last 20 years.
00:00:36.320 It's exceeded what happened in the entire 20th century
00:00:39.340 in terms of the number of nationwide injunctions
00:00:42.300 issued against the Trump administration.
00:00:44.260 Well, the good news is in the last couple of days,
00:00:46.920 we've had not one, not two,
00:00:48.900 but three Supreme Court victories
00:00:50.720 for the Trump Department of Justice
00:00:53.200 against these nationwide injunctions.
00:00:55.180 We're going to break down all three of them
00:00:56.960 and lay out, we've talked about on this podcast
00:01:00.060 how the principal check on this abuse of power
00:01:03.540 that's going to be effective
00:01:04.500 is the appellate process and the Supreme Court.
00:01:07.740 It's encouraging now we have three victories.
00:01:10.060 We're also going to talk about a new report from Doge
00:01:13.040 that over 4 million Social Security numbers
00:01:16.340 were given to illegal aliens,
00:01:18.340 people who are not U.S. citizens.
00:01:19.960 And finally, we've seen the growing pattern
00:01:22.700 of men competing in women's sports.
00:01:25.420 This past week, it went viral.
00:01:27.740 A woman competing in fencing faced a man, 0.99
00:01:30.860 a man identifying as a woman,
00:01:32.580 and she declined to compete.
00:01:34.360 The woman took a knee and ended up being disqualified. 1.00
00:01:37.800 Disqualified because she declined to compete
00:01:40.480 against a biological man.
00:01:42.740 That was wrong.
00:01:43.660 That was an abuse of power.
00:01:44.820 And as the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee,
00:01:47.840 I am holding USA fencing to account.
00:01:50.580 We're going to explain all of that
00:01:52.120 and what the consequences are.
00:01:53.860 Yeah, that story is truly shocking.
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00:03:34.740 Senator, this is a big deal,
00:03:37.580 these rulings that you mentioned
00:03:39.260 in the lead-in there in the show,
00:03:41.580 because it's not just one, not two,
00:03:43.880 but three victories for the Trump administration,
00:03:46.160 and no one's covering this.
00:03:48.300 No, that's exactly right.
00:03:49.680 And let's start with the most prominent one,
00:03:51.780 which is the Supreme Court on Monday
00:03:53.880 lifted a judge's order
00:03:55.240 that had blocked the deportation
00:03:57.480 of suspected Venezuelan gang members
00:03:59.700 to a prison in El Salvador.
00:04:02.020 And it was the Trump administration
00:04:05.040 was removing these gang members
00:04:06.980 under an 18th century law
00:04:08.980 known as the Alien Enemies Act.
00:04:11.760 And you'll recall a district judge,
00:04:15.260 James Bozberg,
00:04:16.640 had ordered the halt
00:04:18.280 of the removals under the act.
00:04:20.800 And in fact, President Trump
00:04:22.260 had called for Judge Bozberg's impeachment
00:04:24.820 as a result of that.
00:04:26.540 Well, the court issued a 5-4 decision
00:04:29.040 that blocked the judge's order
00:04:32.640 stopping the deportation.
00:04:34.560 The vote was 5-4.
00:04:36.560 So it was close.
00:04:38.040 5-4.
00:04:39.220 It was a per curiam decision.
00:04:41.180 In the majority were the Chief Justice,
00:04:44.500 Clarence Thomas,
00:04:45.780 Samuel Alito,
00:04:47.220 Neil Gorsuch,
00:04:48.460 and Brett Kavanaugh.
00:04:49.620 And a whole lot of attention
00:04:50.700 has been focused on the fact
00:04:52.020 that Amy Coney Barrett
00:04:53.100 voted with the liberals on this.
00:04:55.180 And so it was a 5-4 decision.
00:04:56.760 Nonetheless, it's a victory
00:04:58.440 in that what the court concluded
00:05:00.160 was that if you wanted
00:05:01.680 to challenge the deportation,
00:05:03.600 that you could not do so in D.C.,
00:05:06.560 which is where they filed the case.
00:05:08.000 Instead, you had to file it
00:05:09.460 as a habeas corpus petition.
00:05:12.340 What is a habeas corpus petition?
00:05:14.880 Habeas corpus is a Latin term.
00:05:17.240 It means produce the body.
00:05:19.020 And habeas corpus is a civil avenue
00:05:21.680 to justify someone's unlawful detention.
00:05:25.900 But the court said,
00:05:26.860 look, these individuals,
00:05:28.520 these gang members were detained
00:05:29.920 at the time the case was filed
00:05:31.320 in South Texas.
00:05:32.680 They said the right place
00:05:33.680 to file the case is in South Texas,
00:05:35.560 not D.C.
00:05:36.560 They weren't being held in D.C.
00:05:37.780 They were being held in South Texas.
00:05:39.340 So the right avenue to challenge this
00:05:41.740 was to file a habeas corpus petition
00:05:43.520 in South Texas.
00:05:44.960 And they said you shouldn't do so
00:05:46.500 as a class action
00:05:47.960 on behalf of everyone,
00:05:49.060 which is what had been done here.
00:05:50.480 Rather, each individual defendant,
00:05:53.880 if you have a claim,
00:05:55.280 so look, if you've been detained,
00:05:56.800 if you're getting ready to be deported,
00:05:58.100 and they say you're a
00:05:59.440 Venezuelan gang member,
00:06:00.540 if you have a claim
00:06:01.260 that I'm not a Venezuelan gang member,
00:06:03.000 the facts are wrong.
00:06:04.300 They said the avenue to do that
00:06:05.620 is go and file a habeas corpus petition
00:06:08.060 in the location
00:06:09.640 where you're being detained.
00:06:10.840 That was 5-4.
00:06:12.360 I wish it had been 9-0.
00:06:14.120 That was clearly right.
00:06:16.300 Now, the court did say
00:06:17.720 that anyone who is being detained
00:06:20.920 and being deported,
00:06:22.100 they should have reasonable notice
00:06:24.420 under due process
00:06:25.260 to have the challenge,
00:06:26.780 the opportunity to challenge
00:06:28.540 their detention and deportation.
00:06:31.000 But this victory is a big,
00:06:33.760 big victory
00:06:34.840 in what had been,
00:06:36.320 I think,
00:06:36.940 an egregious order
00:06:38.240 from the district court
00:06:39.260 trying to stop the deportation
00:06:41.460 of really, really dangerous criminals.
00:06:43.900 Well, let me ask you a question
00:06:44.920 because you mentioned it there,
00:06:46.020 and I think it'd be crazy
00:06:47.260 if I didn't ask it
00:06:48.480 because there's so many people asking.
00:06:50.140 Why was there a,
00:06:51.460 what many would consider
00:06:52.600 a conservative justice,
00:06:54.400 go with the Democrats
00:06:55.660 in this decision?
00:06:57.680 As an aside here,
00:06:58.860 that was obviously part of the headline
00:07:00.880 that we saw on social media.
00:07:02.420 Yeah, look,
00:07:03.020 I don't have a good answer.
00:07:04.560 I think it is unfortunate.
00:07:06.040 I disagree with her decision on that.
00:07:08.060 In this case,
00:07:10.700 look,
00:07:11.380 the left,
00:07:12.600 but both the Democrats
00:07:13.900 and activist judges
00:07:15.600 and left-wing radical legal groups
00:07:18.960 are challenging any deportation.
00:07:22.300 The Trump administration
00:07:23.680 relied on a law
00:07:25.580 called the Alien Enemies Act,
00:07:27.500 which is a law
00:07:28.420 that was signed into law
00:07:29.540 in 1798
00:07:31.080 by President John Adams.
00:07:32.800 And what the Trump administration did
00:07:34.580 is it classified
00:07:35.460 a transnational criminal gang,
00:07:37.440 Tranda Aragua,
00:07:39.180 as an arm of a hostile government,
00:07:41.260 Venezuela.
00:07:42.320 And based on that law,
00:07:45.560 there are very broad
00:07:46.940 legal authorities
00:07:48.140 to deport
00:07:48.920 those who are part
00:07:50.780 of a hostile government
00:07:51.720 waging war
00:07:52.440 on the United States.
00:07:53.520 That was the basis
00:07:54.680 of the deportations.
00:07:56.120 The district judge,
00:07:57.280 Judge Bozberg,
00:07:58.480 had tried to shut down
00:07:59.920 all these deportations
00:08:01.180 and thankfully,
00:08:02.700 the Supreme Court,
00:08:03.700 by a vote of five to four,
00:08:05.560 ended that and said,
00:08:06.700 if you've got an issue
00:08:07.740 with a particular deportation,
00:08:09.720 bring a case,
00:08:10.700 but bring it in the location
00:08:12.020 where the individual is detained.
00:08:14.040 And they did say,
00:08:15.060 you've got to give them
00:08:16.380 a reasonable time
00:08:17.700 to challenge it.
00:08:18.540 And so that presumably
00:08:21.060 will slow down
00:08:21.820 the deportation slightly,
00:08:23.080 but I don't expect
00:08:24.240 it will slow it down much.
00:08:25.400 It may slow it down
00:08:26.440 a matter of days
00:08:27.540 rather than months.
00:08:28.820 And to be clear,
00:08:30.680 this is a victory
00:08:31.680 because it allows
00:08:32.620 the president
00:08:33.140 to continue doing
00:08:34.380 what he wanted to do
00:08:35.520 when it comes to deportations.
00:08:37.360 If this would have gone
00:08:38.220 the other way,
00:08:38.800 this could have been catastrophic.
00:08:40.360 No, that's exactly right.
00:08:41.740 Look, the election in November
00:08:43.760 was a clear mandate
00:08:45.140 to secure the border
00:08:46.740 and to end the invasion
00:08:48.780 at our southern border.
00:08:49.960 And the Trump administration
00:08:51.880 has been following through
00:08:53.400 on that mandate
00:08:54.860 and has been deporting
00:08:56.320 vast numbers
00:08:57.700 of criminal illegal aliens. 1.00
00:08:59.880 The left is losing their mind. 0.98
00:09:01.680 And that was the basis
00:09:05.820 of this injunction.
00:09:06.960 Thankfully,
00:09:07.420 the Supreme Court reversed that.
00:09:08.720 Now, there's another victory
00:09:10.420 that occurred,
00:09:11.500 which is another 5-4 decision
00:09:13.460 where the Supreme Court
00:09:15.000 concluded that it was okay
00:09:16.300 to cancel $600 million
00:09:18.680 in teacher training grants.
00:09:21.060 $65 million of that
00:09:22.480 had yet to be distributed.
00:09:23.780 And there you had
00:09:25.480 a different majority.
00:09:26.820 You had Clarence Thomas,
00:09:29.000 Samuel Alito,
00:09:30.460 Neil Gorsuch,
00:09:31.760 Brett Kavanaugh,
00:09:32.960 and Amy Coney Barrett.
00:09:34.040 So she was in the 5-4.
00:09:35.800 The chief justice
00:09:36.900 joined the liberals.
00:09:37.900 So in the Venezuelan case,
00:09:39.800 Amy Coney Barrett
00:09:40.580 joined the liberals.
00:09:41.940 In the case about
00:09:43.240 canceling the teacher
00:09:44.400 training grants,
00:09:45.820 it was the chief justice
00:09:46.900 who joined the liberals.
00:09:48.240 And what the court concluded
00:09:49.640 in this other case
00:09:50.560 is that that should have been brought
00:09:52.200 in the court of federal claims.
00:09:54.080 That if you have a claim
00:09:55.020 against money being given
00:09:57.420 from the federal government,
00:09:58.560 that the proper venue
00:09:59.440 for challenging that
00:10:00.540 is the court of federal claims.
00:10:02.580 Now, look,
00:10:03.240 some might say,
00:10:04.140 gosh,
00:10:04.840 these decisions are narrow
00:10:06.220 and technical.
00:10:07.500 And they are.
00:10:08.900 But that being said,
00:10:10.640 they're nonetheless victories
00:10:12.120 against district judges
00:10:14.500 that are engaged in lawfare,
00:10:17.000 that are trying to shut down
00:10:19.420 the Trump administration's agenda
00:10:22.220 and the agenda
00:10:24.020 they were elected
00:10:24.680 to implement
00:10:26.140 by the American people.
00:10:27.280 So when you look at this,
00:10:29.260 these, really,
00:10:30.260 these three big decisions,
00:10:32.000 does this also empower
00:10:34.060 the Trump team
00:10:35.260 and administration
00:10:35.780 to do their job now
00:10:37.340 saying, hey,
00:10:38.060 we now know
00:10:39.220 that when we go to court,
00:10:40.340 we're going to be,
00:10:40.980 our side is going to be
00:10:41.980 at least listened to
00:10:43.240 and it's not stacked against us
00:10:45.160 and we're doing the right thing
00:10:46.400 within the law.
00:10:47.300 So yes and no.
00:10:48.020 No, we've only talked about
00:10:48.960 two of the cases.
00:10:49.720 Let me talk about the third one.
00:10:51.320 The third one was
00:10:53.460 there was an order
00:10:54.200 from a district judge
00:10:55.400 that was ordering
00:10:56.740 the Trump administration
00:10:57.680 to reinstate
00:10:58.880 16,000 federal employees
00:11:01.520 that it had fired.
00:11:03.280 Yeah.
00:11:04.240 And that went to the Supreme Court
00:11:06.320 and the Supreme Court
00:11:07.580 actually by a vote of 72
00:11:09.200 reversed it
00:11:10.700 and they said
00:11:12.380 that these federal employees
00:11:15.920 did not have to be reinstated.
00:11:18.520 The two liberal justices
00:11:20.620 that dissented
00:11:21.340 were Sonia Sotomayor 0.93
00:11:23.120 and Ketanji Brown Jackson
00:11:24.480 but the full court,
00:11:26.920 what happened in that case,
00:11:29.580 it was an injunction
00:11:30.340 that was issued
00:11:31.000 by Judge William Alsep
00:11:33.040 who was a district judge
00:11:35.100 in San Francisco
00:11:35.860 and he required
00:11:37.400 the reinstatement
00:11:38.300 of probationary employments
00:11:39.800 at multiple agencies
00:11:40.960 that the Trump administration
00:11:42.940 had sought to dismiss.
00:11:44.520 The judge was appointed
00:11:45.880 by Bill Clinton
00:11:46.580 and the judge concluded
00:11:49.220 that the administration
00:11:50.520 hadn't followed
00:11:51.380 the proper procedures
00:11:53.120 for the firing.
00:11:54.760 Well, the Supreme Court
00:11:56.040 disagreed
00:11:56.760 and 72,
00:11:58.500 they reversed that
00:11:59.460 which is yet another victory.
00:12:01.420 So if you look
00:12:02.180 at the combination of these,
00:12:03.800 you have a victory
00:12:04.660 for deporting
00:12:05.760 violent criminal gang member
00:12:08.020 illegal aliens. 0.97
00:12:08.760 You have a victory
00:12:10.120 for canceling
00:12:11.440 grants that were given
00:12:14.460 and grants that were given
00:12:16.020 in the Trump administration's view
00:12:18.120 inappropriately.
00:12:19.340 And you have a victory
00:12:20.240 for dismissing
00:12:21.440 16,000 primarily
00:12:23.700 probationary employees
00:12:25.020 from federal agencies.
00:12:26.320 In all three of them,
00:12:28.200 you had federal district judges
00:12:29.460 that had stepped in
00:12:30.380 and said,
00:12:30.880 no, we're going to stop you
00:12:32.560 from carrying out
00:12:33.180 this agenda.
00:12:34.200 And in all three of them,
00:12:35.880 the Supreme Court,
00:12:36.800 albeit on technical grounds,
00:12:38.880 reversed or vacated
00:12:40.340 the district court's orders.
00:12:41.800 This is a very,
00:12:43.600 very good development
00:12:44.740 because it's exactly
00:12:45.980 what we talked about.
00:12:47.080 The remedy
00:12:47.800 for lawless decisions
00:12:49.760 by district courts,
00:12:51.420 the best remedy
00:12:52.420 is the appellate process
00:12:54.200 and the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:12:55.980 Now we've talked about
00:12:56.760 on this podcast
00:12:57.620 how there are other remedies,
00:12:59.640 how Congress could pass
00:13:00.860 legislation limiting
00:13:02.660 nationwide injunctions.
00:13:04.180 I support that.
00:13:05.160 In fact,
00:13:05.420 I'm the co-sponsor
00:13:06.320 of legislation
00:13:07.020 to do that,
00:13:08.160 but the problem is
00:13:08.860 the Democrats
00:13:09.360 will filibuster that.
00:13:10.880 It will never get 60 votes.
00:13:12.660 Another possible remedy
00:13:13.780 is impeachment.
00:13:15.000 It is possible
00:13:16.260 the House of Representatives
00:13:17.360 could impeach
00:13:18.280 a district judge
00:13:19.720 who had egregiously
00:13:20.620 abused his power.
00:13:22.220 That takes simply
00:13:23.260 a majority vote
00:13:24.140 in the House of Representatives,
00:13:25.260 218.
00:13:26.100 The Republicans
00:13:26.580 could vote to do that.
00:13:28.140 However,
00:13:28.660 to convict a judge
00:13:29.940 under the Constitution
00:13:31.200 takes two-thirds
00:13:32.160 of the Senate,
00:13:32.840 which means we would need
00:13:33.940 a lot of Democrats,
00:13:35.840 we would get zero,
00:13:37.700 so impeachment
00:13:38.500 will not be
00:13:39.180 an effective remedy either.
00:13:41.480 That means
00:13:42.280 we really are dependent
00:13:43.760 on the appellate process
00:13:44.920 of the Supreme Court,
00:13:46.180 and I'm very encouraged
00:13:47.460 to have three victories
00:13:49.680 within just a couple of days.
00:13:52.200 Yeah,
00:13:52.360 these are big victories,
00:13:53.300 and this is also,
00:13:54.560 like you said,
00:13:55.080 going to encourage,
00:13:55.960 I think,
00:13:56.500 the Trump administration
00:13:57.240 to continue to make bold moves
00:13:58.600 and say,
00:13:59.020 hey,
00:13:59.380 you guys want to sue,
00:14:00.760 go ahead,
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00:14:02.360 and we'll see what happens there.
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00:15:59.240 All right,
00:15:59.600 Senator,
00:15:59.880 let's talk also
00:16:00.860 about this other
00:16:01.820 shocking news
00:16:03.060 that's come out
00:16:03.780 that's been exposed
00:16:05.400 with Doge
00:16:06.360 and that is
00:16:07.020 that there were
00:16:07.580 a whole lot
00:16:08.420 of illegal immigrants 0.94
00:16:10.000 that were receiving
00:16:11.060 social security numbers
00:16:12.380 right away.
00:16:13.280 It made them eligible
00:16:14.140 for a lot of
00:16:14.800 government program,
00:16:15.680 government aid,
00:16:16.620 and was costing
00:16:17.500 American taxpayers
00:16:18.520 hundreds of billions
00:16:20.120 of dollars
00:16:20.740 and this was all
00:16:21.440 done on purpose
00:16:22.260 by the prior
00:16:22.960 administration.
00:16:23.640 Yeah,
00:16:24.640 that's exactly
00:16:25.280 right.
00:16:25.760 You know,
00:16:26.000 there's a great
00:16:26.740 story about this
00:16:27.560 in the Daily Wire.
00:16:28.860 It begins with,
00:16:30.220 quote,
00:16:30.840 according to the
00:16:31.460 latest numbers
00:16:32.060 reported by the
00:16:32.840 Department of
00:16:33.320 Government Efficiency,
00:16:34.360 Doge,
00:16:35.300 nearly 4 million
00:16:37.280 non-citizens
00:16:38.380 were issued
00:16:39.440 social security
00:16:40.120 numbers in the
00:16:40.740 United States
00:16:41.360 during former
00:16:42.480 President Joe
00:16:43.240 Biden's time
00:16:43.880 in the White
00:16:44.260 House.
00:16:45.320 Stuart Varney
00:16:45.900 broke down
00:16:46.420 some of the
00:16:46.820 details during
00:16:47.520 Tuesday morning's
00:16:48.340 broadcast of his
00:16:49.200 Fox Business
00:16:49.840 show,
00:16:50.780 showing how the
00:16:51.900 numbers exploded
00:16:52.900 from 270,425
00:16:56.060 in Biden's
00:16:57.640 first year in
00:16:58.320 office,
00:16:59.500 up to
00:17:00.260 2,095,247
00:17:05.940 in his last
00:17:06.740 year as
00:17:07.240 president.
00:17:07.940 And in fact,
00:17:08.620 we've got that
00:17:09.340 audio of Stuart.
00:17:10.240 I want to play it
00:17:10.880 for everybody.
00:17:11.620 Take a listen.
00:17:12.980 Doge exposed
00:17:14.060 our immigration
00:17:14.820 asylum disaster. 1.00
00:17:16.400 That was the
00:17:16.880 tip of the iceberg.
00:17:17.900 Now,
00:17:18.060 here's the story.
00:17:19.420 Doge has found
00:17:20.140 that immigration 1.00
00:17:20.900 gave a work
00:17:22.220 authorization
00:17:22.800 document to
00:17:23.760 illegals just 0.92
00:17:24.920 five months
00:17:26.000 after they
00:17:26.620 filed for
00:17:27.820 asylum.
00:17:28.440 That document
00:17:29.240 allowed them
00:17:29.780 to work while
00:17:30.840 they waited to
00:17:31.540 hear whether
00:17:32.000 their asylum
00:17:32.620 request had
00:17:33.180 been accepted
00:17:33.680 or denied.
00:17:34.440 So, they
00:17:35.220 could work
00:17:35.880 as an illegal
00:17:36.620 knowing it
00:17:37.900 would take
00:17:38.280 years before
00:17:39.420 their case
00:17:39.900 was heard.
00:17:40.860 The
00:17:41.200 immigration
00:17:41.620 department
00:17:42.180 mailed them
00:17:43.240 a social
00:17:44.160 security number.
00:17:45.200 No interview,
00:17:46.200 no proof of
00:17:46.720 identity.
00:17:47.260 Just put it
00:17:47.620 in the mail.
00:17:48.100 Here's your
00:17:48.380 number.
00:17:48.580 In 2021,
00:17:50.640 Doge says
00:17:51.200 270,000 new
00:17:53.240 aliens were
00:17:53.940 issued social
00:17:54.640 security numbers,
00:17:55.900 590,000 in
00:17:57.320 2022,
00:17:58.540 964,000 in
00:18:00.420 2023,
00:18:01.580 and 2.1
00:18:02.620 million in
00:18:03.100 2024, right
00:18:03.960 before Biden
00:18:04.660 left office.
00:18:05.940 Doge also
00:18:06.580 discovered that
00:18:07.620 1.3 million
00:18:08.980 aliens are now
00:18:09.880 receiving Medicaid.
00:18:11.840 Millions received
00:18:12.740 driver's licenses.
00:18:13.940 Some registered
00:18:14.540 to vote, and
00:18:15.180 Doge says some
00:18:15.920 actually did vote.
00:18:17.260 Try and square
00:18:18.260 that against
00:18:19.280 Democrat claims
00:18:20.220 that Musk is
00:18:20.800 destroying social
00:18:21.940 security and
00:18:22.880 cutting Medicaid.
00:18:24.240 He's not
00:18:24.640 destroying.
00:18:25.660 He's weeding
00:18:26.180 out people who
00:18:26.780 don't qualify,
00:18:27.900 who is really
00:18:28.700 guilty of
00:18:29.400 misinformation in
00:18:30.240 this case.
00:18:30.820 It is not
00:18:31.620 Elon Musk.
00:18:32.960 By the way,
00:18:33.500 one of the
00:18:33.860 things that he
00:18:34.300 said there was
00:18:34.960 we were mailing
00:18:35.680 out these
00:18:36.440 social security
00:18:37.360 cards to
00:18:38.140 people that
00:18:38.640 had no
00:18:39.320 proof of
00:18:40.000 who they
00:18:40.280 were,
00:18:40.920 no proof of
00:18:41.660 identity,
00:18:42.040 just here you
00:18:42.560 go, sign up,
00:18:43.440 and bam, 0.58
00:18:43.860 we'll give you
00:18:44.180 a bunch of
00:18:44.540 government aid,
00:18:45.060 including, as he
00:18:46.180 mentioned there,
00:18:46.580 Medicaid.
00:18:47.580 Yeah, no, it's
00:18:48.120 an amazing
00:18:48.560 quote.
00:18:49.260 No interview,
00:18:50.500 no proof of
00:18:51.540 identity, just
00:18:52.980 put it in the
00:18:53.720 mail.
00:18:54.600 And the
00:18:55.140 important thing
00:18:55.720 to understand,
00:18:56.400 this was not
00:18:57.160 by accident.
00:18:58.500 This is not
00:18:59.340 because the
00:19:00.140 Biden administration 0.83
00:19:01.260 was incompetent. 0.84
00:19:02.840 It's not because 0.98
00:19:03.620 they're lazy.
00:19:05.000 This was their 0.73
00:19:06.460 intention.
00:19:07.260 You don't go
00:19:07.900 from 200,000
00:19:09.200 to 2 million
00:19:10.480 in four years
00:19:11.520 by accident.
00:19:13.000 They made
00:19:14.640 a conscious
00:19:15.180 decision.
00:19:16.320 Number one,
00:19:16.960 the 12 million
00:19:17.600 illegal immigrants
00:19:18.360 that invaded 0.77
00:19:19.040 this country
00:19:19.700 under Joe
00:19:20.180 Biden,
00:19:21.080 they made
00:19:21.540 a conscious
00:19:21.980 decision,
00:19:22.640 let's open
00:19:23.080 up our
00:19:23.400 borders,
00:19:23.840 we want
00:19:24.200 this to
00:19:24.540 happen.
00:19:25.320 Number two,
00:19:26.160 the 4 million
00:19:27.240 non-citizens
00:19:28.140 who got
00:19:28.440 social security
00:19:28.980 numbers,
00:19:29.740 they made
00:19:30.220 a conscious
00:19:30.660 decision.
00:19:31.440 We want
00:19:32.060 every one
00:19:33.160 of them,
00:19:33.600 look,
00:19:34.100 the reason
00:19:34.820 why,
00:19:35.600 you know,
00:19:36.000 I've had
00:19:36.280 people ask
00:19:36.720 me,
00:19:37.000 why would
00:19:37.480 the Democrats
00:19:38.020 allow this
00:19:39.540 horrific invasion?
00:19:40.460 It hurt them
00:19:40.980 politically,
00:19:41.460 it hurt them
00:19:41.840 badly.
00:19:43.100 Don't any
00:19:43.960 of them
00:19:44.280 say,
00:19:44.600 gosh,
00:19:44.920 this is
00:19:45.260 egregious?
00:19:46.060 And it's
00:19:47.060 a simple
00:19:47.500 political
00:19:47.920 calculus.
00:19:49.020 I believe
00:19:49.620 the Democrats
00:19:50.400 decided every
00:19:51.720 illegal immigrant
00:19:52.400 in America
00:19:53.200 is a future
00:19:53.880 Democrat voter,
00:19:55.200 and so
00:19:56.100 we'll take
00:19:57.400 12 million,
00:19:58.300 even if it
00:19:58.760 includes murderers
00:19:59.800 and rapists 0.96
00:20:00.280 and child 0.99
00:20:00.720 molesters
00:20:01.140 and gang
00:20:02.360 members,
00:20:02.840 because we
00:20:04.240 want power.
00:20:05.820 And so
00:20:06.260 hand-in-hand
00:20:07.180 with that
00:20:07.780 is giving
00:20:08.860 them social
00:20:09.460 security numbers
00:20:10.240 even if
00:20:10.840 it's
00:20:11.080 fraudulent,
00:20:12.160 they don't
00:20:12.780 care,
00:20:13.520 and this
00:20:14.260 is yet
00:20:14.840 another
00:20:15.160 example
00:20:15.760 of the
00:20:16.600 abuse of
00:20:17.240 power we've
00:20:17.880 seen over
00:20:18.280 the last
00:20:18.860 four years
00:20:19.900 in particular
00:20:20.600 that is being
00:20:21.720 exposed by
00:20:22.620 Elon Musk
00:20:23.280 and by
00:20:23.780 President Trump.
00:20:25.320 So how do
00:20:25.760 we turn
00:20:26.220 this off?
00:20:26.900 I mean,
00:20:27.220 there's this
00:20:27.900 many that are
00:20:28.480 out there,
00:20:29.000 and if you
00:20:29.340 go back over
00:20:30.040 the numbers
00:20:30.500 that you
00:20:30.940 mentioned
00:20:31.920 and that
00:20:33.080 Stuart
00:20:33.600 mentioned
00:20:34.000 there,
00:20:34.440 the number
00:20:35.020 of people
00:20:35.740 that got
00:20:37.040 these social
00:20:37.580 security cards
00:20:38.740 just in
00:20:39.900 the fiscal
00:20:40.320 year 2024
00:20:41.000 over 2
00:20:41.860 million,
00:20:42.620 about a
00:20:43.100 million and
00:20:43.480 23,
00:20:44.560 500 or
00:20:45.260 90,000,
00:20:46.000 almost 600,022
00:20:47.080 and 270,000
00:20:48.720 in 2021.
00:20:49.680 How do we
00:20:50.120 turn those
00:20:50.700 off?
00:20:51.220 How do we
00:20:51.660 say, no,
00:20:52.700 you don't
00:20:53.080 need this,
00:20:53.780 and you were
00:20:54.460 given, this was
00:20:55.420 abuse of power,
00:20:56.880 no, we're not
00:20:57.620 going to have you
00:20:58.220 getting all this
00:20:58.840 free government
00:20:59.320 aid.
00:20:59.980 Is that where
00:21:00.660 Congress has to
00:21:01.500 step in and
00:21:01.980 say, hey, we
00:21:02.980 got to go back
00:21:03.660 through all these
00:21:04.440 non-citizens and
00:21:05.120 social security numbers
00:21:05.960 that have been
00:21:06.300 issued and
00:21:06.860 connect the dots
00:21:08.340 of those that
00:21:09.460 were issued,
00:21:10.100 are you getting
00:21:10.840 government aid?
00:21:12.240 Yes, Congress
00:21:13.520 should act, but
00:21:14.420 at the same time,
00:21:15.760 I think the
00:21:16.240 Trump administration
00:21:16.920 has ample
00:21:17.800 authority to act,
00:21:18.700 and I think
00:21:19.100 Elon Musk
00:21:19.800 views that really
00:21:21.100 as a very
00:21:21.640 significant part
00:21:22.440 of his mandate.
00:21:23.520 You know, one
00:21:23.900 of the things
00:21:24.340 Stuart Varney
00:21:25.300 reported on,
00:21:26.120 he said,
00:21:26.480 quote,
00:21:27.380 Doge also
00:21:28.300 discovered that
00:21:29.840 1.3 million
00:21:32.220 aliens are now
00:21:34.120 receiving Medicaid,
00:21:35.960 millions received
00:21:37.340 driver's licenses,
00:21:39.020 some registered
00:21:39.880 to vote,
00:21:41.060 and Doge
00:21:41.700 said some
00:21:42.360 actually did
00:21:43.160 vote.
00:21:43.820 Try and square
00:21:44.620 that against
00:21:45.240 Democrat claims
00:21:46.200 that Musk is
00:21:46.920 destroying Social
00:21:48.300 Security and
00:21:48.920 cutting Medicaid.
00:21:50.160 He's not
00:21:50.760 destroying,
00:21:51.720 he's weeding
00:21:52.620 out people
00:21:53.220 who don't
00:21:53.640 qualify.
00:21:54.680 Who's really
00:21:55.440 guilty of
00:21:56.080 misinformation
00:21:56.500 in this case?
00:21:57.940 It's not
00:21:58.800 Elon Musk.
00:22:00.240 And that point,
00:22:01.260 I think,
00:22:01.620 is exactly right,
00:22:02.740 that I think
00:22:03.580 the Trump
00:22:03.960 administration
00:22:04.660 has a real
00:22:05.700 mandate to
00:22:06.340 go find
00:22:07.180 waste,
00:22:08.160 fraud,
00:22:08.440 and abuse
00:22:08.840 and go
00:22:09.260 find illegal
00:22:10.040 immigrants that 0.85
00:22:10.800 are wrongly
00:22:11.560 receiving government
00:22:12.620 benefits and
00:22:13.600 cut them off.
00:22:14.360 And I think 0.97
00:22:14.660 Congress should
00:22:15.220 back them up,
00:22:15.960 but I also
00:22:16.620 think the
00:22:16.980 Trump administration
00:22:17.680 is going to
00:22:18.460 do so on
00:22:19.080 its own,
00:22:19.500 and I think
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00:22:52.240 Senator,
00:22:52.820 there's also
00:22:53.240 another important
00:22:54.000 story that is
00:22:54.860 one that is,
00:22:56.440 I think,
00:22:57.000 exciting for
00:22:57.720 transparency,
00:22:58.460 but also
00:22:59.480 frustrating at the
00:23:00.480 same time.
00:23:01.180 you have
00:23:02.900 opened an
00:23:03.500 investigation into
00:23:04.760 U.S.
00:23:05.720 fencing over
00:23:07.240 their trans
00:23:08.120 athlete policy.
00:23:09.780 Give us the
00:23:10.280 backstory on
00:23:11.100 this and
00:23:12.200 why you're
00:23:13.100 so involved.
00:23:14.320 So,
00:23:14.960 USA fencing
00:23:16.160 has received
00:23:18.740 widespread
00:23:19.220 criticism for
00:23:20.200 something that
00:23:20.600 happened last
00:23:21.160 week.
00:23:22.220 Stephanie
00:23:22.520 Turner,
00:23:23.380 who's a
00:23:23.760 female fencer,
00:23:25.260 she refused to
00:23:26.360 compete against a
00:23:27.300 transgender opponent,
00:23:28.380 a biological male
00:23:30.100 who decided that
00:23:32.220 he was a she,
00:23:33.820 and what
00:23:34.980 happened is
00:23:35.660 Stephanie Turner,
00:23:37.020 rather than
00:23:37.620 compete against
00:23:38.400 this biological
00:23:39.160 male,
00:23:40.200 Stephanie Turner
00:23:40.740 took a knee,
00:23:41.940 and as a
00:23:43.240 result,
00:23:44.000 she was
00:23:44.340 disqualified
00:23:45.140 from the
00:23:46.340 tournament.
00:23:46.780 She was given
00:23:47.240 a black card
00:23:48.200 and disqualified
00:23:49.360 from the
00:23:49.800 tournament.
00:23:50.180 It was
00:23:50.360 treated as
00:23:51.680 forfeiting.
00:23:54.480 Incredible.
00:23:54.820 And I saw
00:23:56.660 this,
00:23:57.040 frankly,
00:23:57.660 I saw this
00:23:58.180 on X,
00:23:59.200 I saw this
00:23:59.620 on Twitter,
00:24:00.580 and I thought
00:24:01.560 this was
00:24:01.920 outrageous
00:24:02.380 because women 0.99
00:24:03.900 should not
00:24:04.540 be forced
00:24:05.100 to compete
00:24:05.540 against men
00:24:06.260 in sports.
00:24:07.080 That's not
00:24:07.800 right.
00:24:08.680 Now,
00:24:09.560 as you know,
00:24:10.960 I am the
00:24:11.520 chairman of
00:24:12.580 the Senate
00:24:12.940 Committee on
00:24:13.500 Commerce,
00:24:14.080 Science,
00:24:14.340 and Transportation.
00:24:15.400 The Commerce
00:24:16.020 Committee has
00:24:16.600 massive
00:24:17.160 jurisdiction,
00:24:17.900 has jurisdiction
00:24:18.460 over roughly
00:24:19.260 40% of the
00:24:20.760 U.S.
00:24:21.060 economy.
00:24:21.780 One of the
00:24:22.360 things we have
00:24:22.940 jurisdiction over
00:24:23.840 is sports.
00:24:25.260 We have a
00:24:25.840 jurisdiction over
00:24:26.980 collegiate sports,
00:24:29.040 Olympic sports,
00:24:30.720 and any kind
00:24:32.100 of sports
00:24:32.680 competition.
00:24:34.240 And USA
00:24:35.160 Fencing is
00:24:36.540 explicitly,
00:24:38.320 it is the
00:24:40.700 vehicle through
00:24:42.680 which the
00:24:44.300 American fencing
00:24:45.680 team in the
00:24:46.280 Olympics is
00:24:46.800 chosen.
00:24:47.580 And so,
00:24:48.360 last week,
00:24:49.400 I launched an
00:24:50.220 investigation,
00:24:52.000 and I sent
00:24:53.500 an oversight
00:24:55.500 letter to
00:24:56.020 USA Fencing
00:24:56.880 asking for
00:24:58.680 the documents
00:24:59.460 on what
00:25:00.520 their policy
00:25:01.160 is,
00:25:02.040 how many
00:25:02.620 transgender
00:25:03.280 athletes have
00:25:04.240 attempted to
00:25:04.800 compete,
00:25:05.580 how many
00:25:06.400 women they 0.59
00:25:07.020 have disqualified
00:25:07.820 for declining
00:25:08.560 to compete,
00:25:09.460 how many
00:25:09.980 injuries have
00:25:10.680 occurred.
00:25:11.120 Look,
00:25:11.360 there are
00:25:11.580 biological
00:25:12.380 differences.
00:25:13.740 Men are
00:25:14.440 made differently
00:25:15.240 than women, 0.97
00:25:15.940 and we've
00:25:16.500 seen in many
00:25:17.060 other sports
00:25:17.780 significant
00:25:18.960 injuries from
00:25:20.280 women being
00:25:21.420 forced to
00:25:21.960 compete against
00:25:22.480 biological men.
00:25:24.120 And at the
00:25:24.520 end of the
00:25:24.920 day,
00:25:26.160 Congress has
00:25:28.000 a very direct
00:25:29.000 remedy,
00:25:30.460 which is we
00:25:31.300 have the
00:25:31.620 ability to
00:25:32.800 cease the
00:25:34.500 designation of
00:25:35.540 USA Fencing
00:25:36.360 as the
00:25:37.540 organization that
00:25:38.560 chooses U.S.
00:25:39.520 Olympic athletes.
00:25:41.040 And so,
00:25:42.200 this oversight
00:25:43.120 is an effort.
00:25:43.860 I want to get
00:25:44.400 them to change
00:25:45.060 their policy.
00:25:45.820 I want to get
00:25:46.420 them to protect
00:25:47.300 women. 0.81
00:25:48.360 I think women's 1.00
00:25:49.380 sports matters,
00:25:50.260 girls' 0.95
00:25:50.480 sports matters,
00:25:51.520 and I don't
00:25:52.080 think any
00:25:52.520 woman should 1.00
00:25:53.020 be forced to
00:25:53.600 compete against
00:25:54.160 a man in
00:25:54.660 sports.
00:25:55.060 I don't think
00:25:55.460 any girl should 1.00
00:25:56.540 be forced to
00:25:57.160 compete against
00:25:57.680 a boy in
00:25:58.140 sports.
00:25:59.140 What does it
00:26:00.040 look like if
00:26:00.660 they're actually
00:26:01.140 held accountable
00:26:01.760 for this?
00:26:02.840 What it looks
00:26:03.600 like is they
00:26:04.060 change their
00:26:04.560 policies.
00:26:05.040 That is my
00:26:07.040 objective here,
00:26:08.520 is to change
00:26:09.800 the policy so
00:26:10.880 that you don't
00:26:12.440 end up having
00:26:13.500 women discriminated 1.00
00:26:15.700 against and put
00:26:16.560 in a position
00:26:17.460 where they're
00:26:19.000 competing unfairly,
00:26:20.220 where they're
00:26:21.080 put in a
00:26:21.480 position where
00:26:22.160 they're risking
00:26:22.820 real injuries.
00:26:26.820 It'll be very
00:26:27.280 interesting to see
00:26:27.880 what that injury
00:26:28.500 report looks like.
00:26:29.520 Is there a
00:26:30.000 timeline for
00:26:30.900 them getting
00:26:31.280 back to you
00:26:31.960 with this
00:26:32.360 request?
00:26:33.700 Sure.
00:26:34.300 So here's
00:26:34.960 what I said
00:26:35.500 in my letter.
00:26:36.440 I wrote it to
00:26:37.380 the chief
00:26:37.980 executive officer
00:26:38.920 of USA
00:26:39.500 Fencing,
00:26:39.980 and I said,
00:26:40.880 Dear Mr.
00:26:41.340 Andrews,
00:26:41.740 it has come
00:26:42.120 to my attention
00:26:42.640 that USA
00:26:43.120 Fencing is
00:26:43.720 still permitting
00:26:44.200 men to
00:26:44.580 compete in
00:26:45.000 women's fencing
00:26:45.960 in violation
00:26:46.520 of federal law.
00:26:47.720 I'm writing
00:26:48.220 to ask why.
00:26:49.020 Your organization
00:26:50.340 is the recognized
00:26:51.280 national governing
00:26:52.080 body for fencing
00:26:53.300 in the United
00:26:53.740 States, but to
00:26:54.800 remain so, it
00:26:56.340 must comply with
00:26:57.240 the United States
00:26:57.900 Olympic and
00:26:59.160 Paralympic Committee
00:27:00.080 rules and
00:27:00.620 procedures, its
00:27:02.140 statutory obligations
00:27:03.280 to protect women,
00:27:04.580 and President
00:27:05.460 Trump's recent
00:27:06.260 executive order on
00:27:07.360 keeping men out 0.99
00:27:08.300 of women's sports.
00:27:09.740 If it does not,
00:27:11.000 and instead continues
00:27:12.160 to put women at 0.79
00:27:12.940 risk, Congress
00:27:14.440 may be forced to
00:27:15.660 terminate USA 0.90
00:27:17.380 fencing's NGB
00:27:18.660 certification.
00:27:20.160 Last week,
00:27:20.900 Stephanie Turner
00:27:21.480 from the Fencing
00:27:22.080 Academy of
00:27:22.700 Philadelphia competed
00:27:24.340 at the USA
00:27:25.160 Fencing Sanction
00:27:26.160 Cherry Blossom
00:27:27.060 Open Circuit at
00:27:28.360 the University of
00:27:29.080 Maryland.
00:27:29.900 The young woman
00:27:30.540 was set to face
00:27:31.420 a man who now
00:27:32.940 claims to be a
00:27:33.680 transgender woman
00:27:34.560 in a fencing
00:27:35.120 bout. 0.65
00:27:35.980 However, at the
00:27:36.600 start of the
00:27:36.980 match, Ms.
00:27:37.880 Turner bravely
00:27:38.600 took a knee and
00:27:39.920 refused to compete
00:27:40.800 against her male
00:27:41.500 opponent.
00:27:42.380 In response to
00:27:43.200 this young woman's
00:27:44.040 courage, tournament
00:27:45.520 officials presented
00:27:46.700 her with a black 0.96
00:27:47.480 card and
00:27:48.780 disqualified her 0.99
00:27:49.740 from the entire
00:27:50.460 tournament.
00:27:51.560 USA's fencing's
00:27:53.140 director of
00:27:53.700 communications,
00:27:55.100 Brian Wendell,
00:27:56.420 said the young
00:27:57.260 woman's disqualification 0.99
00:27:58.480 was, quote,
00:27:59.600 the direct result of
00:28:00.780 her decision to
00:28:01.500 decline to fence
00:28:02.320 an eligible opponent,
00:28:03.880 a supposed violation
00:28:05.200 of the International
00:28:06.040 Fencing Federation
00:28:07.100 rules.
00:28:08.640 He reiterated the
00:28:09.700 USA fencing remains
00:28:11.340 committed to
00:28:12.220 inclusivity.
00:28:13.440 USA fencing's
00:28:14.480 commitment to
00:28:14.980 inclusivity is
00:28:16.640 nothing less than
00:28:17.640 a full-throated
00:28:18.260 support for males
00:28:19.380 competing in
00:28:20.600 women's sports in 0.88
00:28:21.680 violation of
00:28:22.500 federal law.
00:28:23.400 As the recognized
00:28:24.380 NGB for fencing,
00:28:26.340 USA fencing is
00:28:27.320 required to provide,
00:28:28.620 quote, support and
00:28:30.000 encouragement for
00:28:30.860 participation by
00:28:31.880 women where 0.99
00:28:33.020 separate programs for
00:28:34.200 male and female
00:28:35.120 athletes are conducted
00:28:36.160 on a national
00:28:36.820 basis, as well as,
00:28:38.900 quote, safe
00:28:39.520 environments in
00:28:40.300 sports.
00:28:41.380 Failure to do so
00:28:42.580 is grounds for the
00:28:44.340 United States
00:28:45.000 Congress to
00:28:45.700 terminate USA 0.90
00:28:47.400 fencing certification
00:28:48.780 as an NGB.
00:28:50.080 And I go on to
00:28:50.960 say that they have
00:28:52.220 to comply with
00:28:53.040 President Trump's
00:28:53.900 executive order.
00:28:55.180 And I point out
00:28:55.860 that male fencers
00:28:56.720 naturally possess
00:28:58.200 inherent advantages
00:28:59.240 over potential
00:29:00.520 female competitors. 1.00
00:29:02.360 Men tend to be 1.00
00:29:03.080 taller, have greater
00:29:04.580 muscle mass, and
00:29:06.000 more testosterone.
00:29:07.560 All advantages for
00:29:09.100 fencing movements
00:29:09.860 like lunges, jumping,
00:29:11.160 or leg power
00:29:11.780 measures.
00:29:12.200 And I point out
00:29:15.420 that under the
00:29:16.060 rules of the
00:29:16.580 Senate, the
00:29:17.760 Commerce Committee
00:29:18.500 has a duty and
00:29:19.560 an authority to
00:29:20.460 review and study on
00:29:21.340 a continuing basis
00:29:22.300 both sports and
00:29:23.860 sports agencies, such
00:29:25.180 as USA fencing.
00:29:27.040 And so I ask, I
00:29:28.980 ask a whole series
00:29:30.140 of questions, and I
00:29:31.680 want documents and
00:29:32.740 answers by April
00:29:33.640 21st, 2025.
00:29:35.520 And it's documents
00:29:36.900 about their
00:29:37.360 transgender policy,
00:29:38.600 how many men or
00:29:40.180 transgender women
00:29:40.940 currently compete in
00:29:41.840 the women's division? 0.99
00:29:43.160 In the last four
00:29:43.920 years, how many
00:29:44.540 bouts have occurred
00:29:45.340 between transgender 0.87
00:29:46.520 women and women? 1.00
00:29:48.440 How many times did
00:29:49.740 the female athlete 0.89
00:29:50.620 prevail?
00:29:51.080 How many times did
00:29:51.780 the female athlete 0.89
00:29:52.660 suffer an injury?
00:29:53.920 Does USA fencing
00:29:55.360 comply with the
00:29:56.200 president's executive
00:29:57.000 order?
00:29:57.960 And I have a whole
00:29:59.220 series of additional
00:30:00.040 questions.
00:30:01.000 But this is an
00:30:02.180 example of holding
00:30:04.260 to account, and
00:30:05.160 you've got throughout
00:30:06.020 sports, these radical
00:30:08.660 associations, organizations
00:30:10.780 that have embraced
00:30:12.580 the woke ideology.
00:30:13.960 There's no difference
00:30:15.380 between men and
00:30:16.340 women. 0.81
00:30:17.160 And that is
00:30:17.800 profoundly unfair to
00:30:19.760 women and girls
00:30:20.580 competing in sports,
00:30:21.640 and I'm going to do
00:30:22.700 everything I can to
00:30:23.420 stop it.
00:30:23.880 In a minute of that,
00:30:24.540 we'll keep you updated
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