Ted Cruz is joined by Sen. Ben Ferguson (R-CA) to discuss the Epstein scandal, the Democratic response to the release of the Epstein files, and why Michelle Obama will not run for President in 2020.
00:03:48.600As I said on Friday night aboard Air Force One to the fake news media, House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files,
00:03:58.100because we have nothing to hide and it's time to move on from this Democrat hoax perpetuated by the radical left lunatics in order to deflect from the great success of the Republican Party,
00:04:09.120including our recent victory on the Democrat shutdown.
00:04:12.760The Department of Justice has already turned over tens of thousands of pages to the public on Epstein and are looking at various Democrat operatives,
00:04:21.620Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers, etc., and their relationship to Epstein.
00:04:26.780And the House Oversight Committee can have whatever they are legit entitled to.
00:04:34.360All I do care about is that the Republicans get back on point, back on point as in all caps,
00:04:39.500which is the economy, affordability, where we are winning big, our victory on reducing inflation from the highest level in history to practically nothing,
00:04:50.860bringing down prices for the American people, delivering historic tax cuts,
00:04:55.580gaining trillions of dollars of investment into America, a record in all caps,
00:05:48.000I got to say it's breaking news, and I think it's a big deal.
00:05:51.800I fully expect the House will do exactly what President Trump urged them to do,
00:05:55.760which is vote to release the files, and hopefully the president is right that that will put the constant obsession
00:06:04.960about the Epstein files behind us for the media.
00:06:08.100Because understand, the media is not upset and obsessed over the victims of Jeffrey Epstein.
00:06:14.540They're not obsessed over protecting the teenage girls who were sexually assaulted.
00:06:18.800They're obsessed over one thing, which is attacking Donald Trump.
00:06:21.840If it's not attacking Donald Trump, they have zero interest.
00:06:25.060By the way, the Democrats, if it's not attacking Donald Trump, they have zero interest.
00:06:29.920And one of the important things to understand, Jeffrey Epstein was a Democrat.
00:06:36.480Jeffrey Epstein was a major Democrat donor.
00:06:40.780Jeffrey Epstein was one of the major FOBs, friends of Bills, very close to Bill Clinton.
00:06:47.020Jeffrey Epstein was so close to Bill Clinton that in his New York home,
00:06:51.760he had hanging on the wall a painting of Bill Clinton in Monica Lewinsky's blue dress wearing red pumps.
00:07:02.140Now, that is weird and Freudian, and I'm very glad I was not Jeffrey Epstein's shrink,
00:07:07.560because I don't want to know what's going on inside of his mind that he's fantasizing about Bill Clinton in a blue dress with red pumps.
00:07:14.820But at the end of the day, this guy was a massive donor to Democrats, including Bill Clinton, including Chuck Schumer, including Nancy Pelosi.
00:07:23.660And the Democrats have engaged in one of the most incredible political jujutsus that I think has ever happened,
00:07:31.500because they've tried to hang this scandal around Donald Trump's neck.
00:07:37.360And what he said Sunday night is enough of this already.
00:07:47.640We're not going to pretend it's about anything else.
00:07:49.100By the way, there was also another really big story that was connected to this the media did not want to cover either.
00:07:54.300It wasn't Republicans that Epstein was texting during apparently hearings on Capitol Hill.
00:08:02.340Epstein was texting House Democrats during the Michael Cohen hearing and trying to give advice on how to hurt Donald Trump.
00:08:11.640That is like completely been admitted by the media.
00:08:14.340They are not going to cover the story that Epstein was literally texting, trying to hurt Donald Trump, texting Democrats in real time.
00:08:22.720Like if you've ever watched Congress or Senator during a hearing and they look at their phone, Epstein's texting what you should be saying or doing.
00:09:23.900Now, I know that the corporate media, their hearts are going pitter-patt.
00:09:28.100They want some incredibly damning evidence of Donald Trump committing a crime.
00:09:33.120They want video of Donald Trump committing a crime.
00:09:35.380They've been dreaming about that forever and ever and ever.
00:09:38.040And I just want to ask you, I want to ask you what Trump said.
00:09:41.040If there were evidence of that, and the Biden Justice Department, the most politicized, politically weaponized Department of Justice in the history of this country, had it,
00:09:52.600what are the chances that they would not have released it before Election Day last year?
00:10:38.900But everything we know about it is the overwhelming weight of the evidence is a bunch of corrupt Democrats who were on Jeffrey Epstein's plane,
00:10:46.980on the Lolita Express, who went to his island, and who presumably participated in sexually assaulting underage girls.
00:10:54.640And I've said for a long time, release that all, make it public.
00:10:58.540If anyone has sexually assaulted an underage girl, prosecute them.
00:11:03.120And so I think Donald Trump and the Trump White House said, all right, fine, if some Republican is embarrassed by some glancing reference,
00:11:16.220But the bulk of the evidence from everything we know is going to be evidence that is a real, real problem for, I suspect, a significant number of Democrats.
00:11:58.620I think you will see Congress engage in some oversight.
00:12:01.380You know, I've talked on this podcast before about how Pam Bondi, the attorney general, told me there were significant videos that they were in the process of reviewing to make sure they're protecting the victims.
00:13:31.760And he's like, they just bring this crap up whenever they want to start hitting me on something because they don't want to talk about something else.
00:13:37.540And that's why I think he's so irritated.
00:13:39.100And it's also, I think, the reason why on the plane decided, all right, forget it.
00:13:54.440We went from the worst invasion of this country in history, 12 million illegals, by far the highest rate ever, to illegal border crossings dropping more than 99%.
00:14:04.760When's the last time the corporate media covered that?
00:14:07.380The fact that this crisis that was endangering Americans across this country, President Trump has solved that.
00:14:13.700You look at the one big, beautiful bill you and I have talked about before.
00:14:16.740There are more conservative victories in that one big, beautiful bill than any legislation that has ever passed into law,
00:14:23.640including more than $4 trillion in tax cuts, including no taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime, no taxes on Social Security,
00:14:30.640including the provision I authored, the largest federal school choice provision in history that is going to help millions of kids across America get access to an excellent education,
00:14:41.300including the Trump accounts that is going to make every child in America an owner of the biggest companies in America.
00:14:47.560These are landmark victories, and I think the president is frustrated that not enough Republicans are talking about that.
00:14:55.740The media is not talking about that, and I think this is his efforts to say, look, let's focus on our real successes.
00:15:01.500The president, as a result of his leadership, we're seeing trillions of dollars of new investments in the U.S. economy, opening new factories.
00:15:09.400I'm talking to CEOs every week who are talking about making massive new investments in America, creating jobs.
00:15:16.480Then I think the president quite rightly says that's what we should be talking about, how we're making a difference in the lives of Americans,
00:15:23.000not the Democrats' political game trying to blame this Democrat donor who was a pedophile trying to blame him on Republicans.
00:16:52.260By a wide margin, Americans say it was Republicans and President Trump who succeeded in getting more of what they wanted from negotiations to end the shutdown.
00:17:01.480This survey recontacted Americans first interviewed in our early November poll while the shutdown was in effect.
00:17:39.380So that's what CBS, CBS is hardly this right-wing source.
00:17:43.800CBS is concluding the American people clearly see this as a loss for Democrats.
00:17:50.160And I want you to listen to Tim Kaine.
00:17:52.360So Tim Kaine is, as you know, a Democrat senator from Virginia.
00:17:57.240Virginia has an awful lot of federal employees who went 43 days without being paid, without getting a paycheck, many of whom were frustrated.
00:18:07.220And Tim Kaine, by the way, voted for reopening the government.
00:18:11.200And so I want you to listen to Tim Kaine when he's being asked about AOC attacking Senate Democrats for being willing to open the government at all.
00:20:49.280Usually when you have two senators from the same party from the same state, they vote as a pair because they don't like to have a distinction.
00:20:57.460Mark Warner is not going to enjoy for the next year being asked, why didn't you vote with Tim Kaine to reopen the government?
00:21:13.260Now, he votes with Chuck Schumer virtually every single time.
00:21:18.180But Schumer himself has a fundamental problem.
00:21:22.540I mean, when you said Democrat civil war, that's not hyperbole.
00:21:26.220And it is the reason we had the Schumer shutdown, the largest, longest government shutdown in American history is because Schumer has a political crisis.
00:21:36.660His left wing wants to take him out and fire him, end his job.
00:21:41.480By the way, the second longest government shutdown in history was the first Schumer shutdown under the first Trump term.
00:21:47.300So Chuck Schumer has spots one and two in the record books.
00:21:51.020But even though Chuck Schumer threw this temper tantrum, shut the government down, didn't pay federal government employees, inflicted enormous pain on the American people, even though he did all of that to show his crazies he hates Trump as much as they did, even though on day 43 of the shutdown, Chuck Schumer still voted, no, don't reopen the government.
00:22:13.420Take a listen to Tim Kaine being asked about whether Schumer should be fired.
00:22:19.040The Democratic Party, more than a dozen House members are calling for Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer to step down, including my next guest, Congressman Ro Khanna.
00:22:30.320Senator, given this, given that so many Democrats are calling for Leader Schumer to step aside, can he be an effective leader?
00:22:40.080Yes, Chuck has been an effective leader.
00:22:42.120Remember, when Chuck was Majority Leader during the Biden administration, he produced a string of legislative wins with a bare majority, nearly unparalleled in recent history.
00:22:54.080Infrastructure, the American Rescue Plan, the Inflation Reduction Act, fixing the Electoral College first gun safety bill in 25 years, an important veterans legislation.
00:23:59.680You know, it reminds me of the old quip that Ronald Reagan used to say, which is the problem with Republicans is the right hand doesn't know what the far right hand is doing.
00:24:06.580This is an instance where, for Democrats, the left hand doesn't know what the far left hand is doing, other than they are punching each other.
00:24:15.740And so it really is striking to see Tim Kaine going on a Sunday show and getting asked, AOC says you guys suck, and Ro Khanna says Chuck Schumer should be fired.
00:25:13.540And she says, you know, we've got a lot of growing up to do, and there's still, sadly, a lot of men who do not feel like they could be led by a woman, and we saw it.
00:25:24.920By the way, Joe Biden was getting his ass kicked.
00:25:27.240Now, I understand the Democrats can't tell the difference between a man and a woman, so maybe Michelle Obama thinks that Joe Biden is a woman.
00:25:35.280But Trump was winning when Biden was the nominee.
00:25:37.880Trump was winning when Michelle Obama was the nominee.
00:25:40.360Trump was winning, A, because the Biden-Harris Democrat agenda was a train wreck that hurt the American people,
00:25:46.640and B, because the American people wanted President Trump back in the Oval Office here.
00:25:51.120I want you to give a listen to exactly what Michelle Obama said.
00:26:16.760You know, we got a lot of growing up to do, and there's still, sadly, a lot of men who do not feel like they can be led by a woman, and we saw it.
00:28:05.420We make predictions that, frankly, are risky, that are out there.
00:28:09.380And the overwhelming majority of the predictions we make on this podcast have come true.
00:28:14.400When you and I said a year before Joe Biden was yanked unceremoniously off the ticket, that Biden would be pulled off the ticket, you and I, and by that I mainly mean me, I was mocked mercilessly.
00:29:30.880Not because my ideas are terrible, not because the Democrat ideas are horrible and have resulted in open borders, have resulted in people being murdered and women being raped and children being assaulted, not because we had rampant inflation, not because Joe Biden and the Democrats caused war all over the earth, turned peace and prosperity into a war in Ukraine and October 7th and a war in Gaza.
00:29:53.660You know, not because every single thing we touched turned to absolute garbage.
00:30:00.840That's not the reason Kamala Harris lost resoundingly.
00:30:04.020The reason, according to the leftist ideology, is you all are bigots and you're racist and you're sexist, and that's the only possible reason.
00:30:12.860And I got to say, that contemptuous condescension is one of the worst characteristics of the Democrat Party today, but it also does indicate this is not a party that is reassessing.
00:30:28.600You know, normally when you lose an election and you lose an election badly, at least some people with sense in the party go, huh, I wonder why the voters rejected what we said.
00:30:39.940You know, you think back to, in 1980, Reagan was elected.
00:30:44.200In 84, Reagan was re-elected, won 49 out of 50 states, came within a few thousand votes of winning every single state in the union.
00:30:51.780Reagan won California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, every state but Minnesota.
00:30:57.8601988, George Herbert Walker Bush was elected, and after losing three consecutive presidential races, Democrats said, huh, maybe nominating Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale
00:31:50.620Whoever the Democrat nominee is in 28, please make Michelle Obama your spokesperson because we really need her lecturing the American people how much the voters suck because, you know, that historically has proved such an effective way to campaign.