Verdict with Ted Cruz - Ukraine Drones Russia, Chinese Nationals Caught for alleged Agri-Terror & the Real Threat of Terrorists in America Week In Review

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00:00:05.120 Welcome, it is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.

00:00:07.620 Weekend Review, Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:09.640 And here are the major stories that we talked about this week

00:00:12.800 that you may have missed.

00:00:14.440 First up, Ukraine drone strike on Russia.

00:00:17.960 How it was done.

00:00:19.320 It was truly incredible.

00:00:20.740 And what does it mean moving forward?

00:00:22.940 Also, two Chinese nationals with biopathogens 0.97

00:00:27.500 snuck them into the U.S. and were going to do research

00:00:30.740 at the University of Michigan.

00:00:32.740 How many more could there be in this country just like them?

00:00:35.700 And what does this mean for China and America?

00:00:38.560 That explained as well.

00:00:39.900 And finally, the real threat of other terrorists being here

00:00:44.400 in the U.S. after the Colorado attack.

00:00:47.800 So how big of a threat was Biden's open borders?

00:00:50.600 And how many terrorists could be lying in wait?

00:00:53.400 It's the Weekend Review, and it starts right now.

00:00:56.380 I want to move to the other big story,

00:00:59.000 and that is Ukraine claims a massive drone strike on Russia.

00:01:04.900 And all across literally the country,

00:01:09.020 from one side to the other,

00:01:10.020 they were hitting sites of Russian bombers

00:01:12.820 in what was called a spider web operation.

00:01:17.100 I want to make sure, though, that people understand

00:01:20.440 this was a response to an attack

00:01:24.440 that took place at the hands of Russia and Putin 0.95

00:01:28.100 that Donald Trump referred to him as a crazy man afterwards.

00:01:31.960 So let's give the background before we explain what happened.

00:01:35.820 Well, listen, the war has been ongoing for more than two years now.

00:01:39.440 There's been massive casualties on both sides.

00:01:42.840 Russia is the aggressor. 0.98

00:01:46.460 Russia is the wrongdoer. 1.00

00:01:48.660 Putin invaded Ukraine, or another sovereign nation.

00:01:51.760 Putin did so because Joe Biden was so incredibly weak

00:01:55.440 because he was an ineffective commander-in-chief.

00:01:58.400 Putin did so because Joe Biden waived the sanctions on Nord Stream 2,

00:02:03.540 the pipeline that was designed to move natural gas

00:02:06.900 directly from Russia to Germany.

00:02:08.660 I authored those sanctions.

00:02:10.540 I passed them into law.

00:02:12.360 And President Trump signed my sanctions legislation into law.

00:02:16.500 Putin shut down Nord Stream 2 literally the day

00:02:19.580 Trump signed my sanctions legislation into law.

00:02:22.880 Biden waived those sanctions,

00:02:25.100 and Putin completed the pipeline

00:02:27.180 and almost immediately invaded Ukraine.

00:02:29.500 So the war has been ongoing,

00:02:32.480 and the cause of it is Biden's weakness.

00:02:37.600 Well, what happened today, Ukraine,

00:02:39.960 you know, I'll tell you, at the start of the war,

00:02:41.480 I remember sitting in a classified briefing,

00:02:44.000 and it was a classified briefing with all 100 senators.

00:02:47.600 And we had in that briefing,

00:02:49.080 we had the Secretary of State,

00:02:50.140 we had the Secretary of Defense,

00:02:51.200 we had the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,

00:02:53.060 we had the head of the CIA,

00:02:54.460 the Director of National Intelligence.

00:02:56.140 We had multiple players

00:02:57.880 throughout the national security apparatus.

00:03:00.120 This is all during the Biden administration.

00:03:02.200 Every single one of them briefed all of the senators.

00:03:05.160 They said this war will be over within a week.

00:03:08.400 Russia will sweep in, 1.00

00:03:09.680 they'll conquer the whole country,

00:03:11.020 Ukraine will fall, 0.93

00:03:12.740 and within a week,

00:03:14.160 Kiev will be a Russian city. 0.61

00:03:15.940 Now, that intel,

00:03:18.240 that national security assessment,

00:03:21.020 Ben, it wasn't slightly wrong,

00:03:23.140 it wasn't a teeny bit wrong,

00:03:25.180 it was totally catastrophically 180 degrees false.

00:03:29.320 We're sitting here more than two years later,

00:03:31.260 the war is ongoing.

00:03:32.960 And the Ukrainians keep shocking 1.00

00:03:34.780 both the Russians

00:03:36.720 and the American analysts

00:03:39.140 who insist that they must lose,

00:03:40.800 they must lose.

00:03:41.540 This latest strike,

00:03:42.680 it truly is audacious.

00:03:44.760 So the Ukrainians hit 1.00

00:03:46.320 more than 40 Russian bombers

00:03:48.180 inside Russian territory.

00:03:51.560 And it was a total of 41 strategic Russian aircraft.

00:03:56.100 The name of the operation was Spiderweb.

00:03:58.760 And you can see online,

00:04:01.340 there's a video

00:04:02.100 showing a drone attack

00:04:04.280 at the Belaya Air Base

00:04:05.960 in Russia's Irkust region,

00:04:09.680 which is in Siberia,

00:04:11.500 nearly 3,000 miles away from Ukraine.

00:04:14.900 So understand,

00:04:15.520 this happened not by Ukraine,

00:04:17.080 but 3,000 miles away.

00:04:19.120 And the bombers,

00:04:20.360 they're under attack,

00:04:21.840 there are explosions,

00:04:24.040 smoke is rising from the scene.

00:04:25.780 And one source said,

00:04:28.680 quote,

00:04:29.440 preliminary estimates indicate

00:04:30.840 that enemy aviation

00:04:31.960 has suffered over $2 billion in damage.

00:04:37.020 Enemy strategic bombers

00:04:38.360 are burning en masse in Russia.

00:04:41.680 That is a major attack.

00:04:44.340 It is an extraordinary attack.

00:04:45.980 Now, that follows the night before.

00:04:50.420 Russia launched 472 drones,

00:04:53.540 according to the Ukrainian Air Force.

00:04:55.980 Earlier on Sunday,

00:04:58.320 Ukraine's army said

00:04:59.440 a Russian missile strike

00:05:00.680 killed at least 12 Ukrainian service members

00:05:03.460 and injured 60.

00:05:04.480 So Russia has been very much the aggressor, 0.95

00:05:07.280 but this attack,

00:05:08.640 taking out major aircraft resources from Russia,

00:05:13.860 is a big victory for Ukraine.

00:05:16.340 It is a big, big victory.

00:05:18.980 There are obviously worried individuals,

00:05:21.880 especially in that part of the world,

00:05:23.100 that Russia will then now retaliate

00:05:26.060 in some massive way,

00:05:27.440 and then therefore blaming Ukraine,

00:05:29.900 saying you should not have done this attack

00:05:32.440 that took them a long time to plan strategically.

00:05:35.740 I want to get your response to that,

00:05:37.980 because there does seem to be quite often

00:05:40.740 that when Ukraine does something,

00:05:42.960 the narrative becomes,

00:05:44.360 well, they're the ones that are bringing us

00:05:46.540 to the brink of World War III,

00:05:47.700 because now Russia is going to respond,

00:05:50.300 and it's actually their fault

00:05:51.760 that they went over the top on this one.

00:05:54.620 Yeah, look, Russia has been the aggressor 0.99

00:05:56.260 from the beginning.

00:05:57.120 Ukraine is defending itself.

00:05:58.960 I want to break down how they carried this out,

00:06:01.200 because it's actually,

00:06:02.220 this is the stuff of spy novels.

00:06:04.260 You know, we talked about

00:06:05.200 when Israel struck back against Hezbollah

00:06:07.200 with first the pagers,

00:06:09.540 and then with the walkie-talkies.

00:06:10.900 That was an extraordinary story.

00:06:12.840 This has similar aspects.

00:06:14.340 It's like something out of Mission Impossible

00:06:17.560 or the Bourne Identity.

00:06:19.100 And let me read from,

00:06:20.460 it's a story in Reuters,

00:06:22.340 the specific facts.

00:06:23.820 Here's what Reuters reported.

00:06:25.700 To attack Russian airbases, 0.79

00:06:27.360 Ukrainian spies hid drones in wooden sheds.

00:06:33.320 Ukrainian secret services

00:06:34.660 were able to attack strategic bomber aircraft

00:06:37.040 at Russian airbases on Sunday

00:06:38.620 by hiding explosive-laden drones

00:06:41.860 inside the roofs of wooden sheds,

00:06:45.600 according to a Ukrainian security official.

00:06:49.040 Ukraine's domestic security agency,

00:06:51.180 the SBU,

00:06:52.480 acknowledged that it carried out the operation

00:06:54.380 codenamed Spider's Web

00:06:55.740 and said it had caused considerable damage.

00:06:58.920 The sheds were loaded onto trucks

00:07:01.360 that were driven to the perimeter

00:07:03.600 of the airbases.

00:07:05.060 The roof panels of the sheds

00:07:07.040 were lifted off

00:07:08.600 by a remotely activated mechanism,

00:07:11.960 allowing the drones to fly out

00:07:13.780 and begin their attack,

00:07:15.200 the officials said.

00:07:16.480 The security official,

00:07:17.740 who spoke on conditions of anonymity,

00:07:19.700 said the strikes conducted on Sunday

00:07:21.500 were on four airbases

00:07:23.580 and that 41 Russian warplanes were hit.

00:07:27.480 An SBU statement posted

00:07:29.120 on the Telegram messaging app

00:07:30.580 estimated the damages caused by the assault

00:07:33.660 at $7 billion.

00:07:35.840 And here's a quote.

00:07:37.980 34% of strategic cruise missile carriers

00:07:41.140 at the main airfields

00:07:43.020 of the Russian Federation

00:07:44.100 were hit.

00:07:46.040 Wow.

00:07:46.760 That is remarkable.

00:07:49.280 And it is the fact

00:07:50.920 that they could carry it out

00:07:52.000 in wooden sheds

00:07:52.920 that they could smuggle

00:07:53.740 right next to the Russian airfields,

00:07:56.200 that's a significant tactical

00:07:58.500 and strategic victory.

00:07:59.620 So when you look at this,

00:08:02.120 what is the best case scenario

00:08:04.320 for this attack?

00:08:05.880 Does it make Russia realize, 0.84

00:08:08.460 A, they're vulnerable,

00:08:09.560 and B, maybe we need to go back to the table?

00:08:12.940 Because as you heard President Trump say,

00:08:15.980 he said Putin was crazy last week, 1.00

00:08:18.440 a crazy man, 0.99

00:08:19.740 and refusing to actually stop this war. 0.99

00:08:23.180 Instead, he went on this big attack

00:08:24.660 in Ukraine.

00:08:25.500 Ukraine responds.

00:08:26.560 Yeah, look, I think President Trump

00:08:28.860 is deeply frustrated

00:08:30.200 with Vladimir Putin right now.

00:08:32.560 President Trump wants this war to end.

00:08:35.060 I believe this war will end.

00:08:36.300 It will end this year.

00:08:37.760 And one of the reasons

00:08:38.860 it's going to end

00:08:39.680 is I think the United States Congress

00:08:41.140 is done sending money to Ukraine.

00:08:44.220 That at this point,

00:08:45.420 we have sent over $100 billion.

00:08:47.340 Enough is enough.

00:08:48.360 This war needs to end.

00:08:49.400 So the blank checkbook

00:08:51.080 that Joe Biden and the Democrats gave,

00:08:52.940 that blank checkbook is done.

00:08:55.320 Now, what I believe is it needs to end

00:08:57.780 in a negotiated settlement,

00:08:59.740 and it should end in a way

00:09:01.120 that is a clear

00:09:02.060 and objectively discernible loss for Russia.

00:09:06.040 Putin is our enemy.

00:09:07.400 Russia is our enemy. 0.96

00:09:08.740 And we want our enemies

00:09:11.140 to be weaker and not stronger.

00:09:14.080 How this ends exactly,

00:09:16.060 it's going to depend on Zelensky and Putin.

00:09:19.400 Zelensky right now

00:09:20.620 doesn't want to negotiate a peace.

00:09:22.980 He's looking to fight

00:09:23.880 and defend his country.

00:09:24.880 I understand that.

00:09:25.700 He just doesn't have an entitlement

00:09:26.940 for us to pay for it.

00:09:28.820 Putin, Putin right now,

00:09:30.780 Trump believed that if he leaned in,

00:09:33.160 Putin would agree to come to the table

00:09:34.760 and seek terms of peace.

00:09:36.980 At least so far, he hasn't.

00:09:38.320 It is possible

00:09:39.220 this devastating strike on Russia

00:09:41.520 will change Russia's calculus.

00:09:43.760 That being said,

00:09:44.760 look, one of the dangerous things

00:09:46.160 about fighting a dictatorship

00:09:47.400 is that Putin can inflict

00:09:50.520 enormous pain and misery

00:09:52.100 on the Russian citizenry

00:09:53.440 and still stay in power.

00:09:55.220 So I don't know how this resolves.

00:09:56.820 I believe it will resolve

00:09:58.140 at the end of the day.

00:09:59.720 But right now,

00:10:01.120 Putin and Zelensky

00:10:01.960 both seem like

00:10:02.680 they want to keep fighting.

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00:10:41.840 Now on to story number two.

00:10:44.160 Senator,

00:10:44.640 let's move to this really,

00:10:47.420 I would say,

00:10:48.560 very shocking and scary news

00:10:51.900 that not one but two

00:10:52.920 Chinese nationals

00:10:54.060 have been charged

00:10:55.580 by U.S. federal authorities

00:10:56.900 for allegedly smuggling

00:10:58.120 a dangerous agricultural pathogen

00:11:01.180 into the United States of America.

00:11:03.620 It is basically,

00:11:04.640 in layman's terms,

00:11:05.680 a fungus

00:11:06.500 that poses

00:11:07.860 a significant threat

00:11:09.100 to crops

00:11:10.220 such as wheat,

00:11:11.600 barley,

00:11:11.900 and rice.

00:11:13.140 It could cause

00:11:14.120 massive disease

00:11:15.160 and, in essence,

00:11:16.100 famine

00:11:16.700 on our agriculture

00:11:19.340 in this country.

00:11:20.940 And this was brought

00:11:21.740 in this country

00:11:22.420 and it just screams

00:11:24.200 of another example

00:11:26.040 of why you don't trust China

00:11:28.300 and why we have to watch them

00:11:30.200 and protect ourselves.

00:11:31.380 It reminds,

00:11:32.380 I think,

00:11:32.500 a lot of people

00:11:33.020 of COVID-19,

00:11:33.820 but this could literally

00:11:35.660 wreak havoc

00:11:36.360 on our entire

00:11:37.460 national security

00:11:38.540 from a basic,

00:11:41.220 we-need-food-to-live

00:11:43.420 strategy

00:11:44.100 if it was weaponized

00:11:45.560 against us.

00:11:46.900 Well,

00:11:47.460 this is a story,

00:11:48.280 unfortunately,

00:11:48.880 you're not going to watch

00:11:49.720 on the corporate media,

00:11:51.040 ABC, NBC, CBS,

00:11:52.200 they're not going to cover it.

00:11:53.640 But China is our enemy 0.98

00:11:55.560 and China is,

00:11:57.800 I think,

00:11:58.340 the greatest geopolitical threat

00:11:59.780 we have for the next

00:12:00.640 hundred years.

00:12:01.420 We saw with COVID

00:12:03.000 the incredible threats

00:12:04.240 of a pathogen,

00:12:05.640 of a virus

00:12:06.280 that can do

00:12:08.240 enormous damage,

00:12:09.300 can destroy

00:12:09.780 trillions of dollars,

00:12:11.240 can take massive toll

00:12:13.080 in human life.

00:12:14.340 Well,

00:12:14.760 this story,

00:12:15.880 and I just want to read

00:12:16.860 to you a tweet

00:12:17.580 from the director

00:12:18.340 of the FBI,

00:12:19.080 Kash Patel.

00:12:20.160 Here's what the FBI

00:12:21.140 director said.

00:12:22.460 Quote,

00:12:23.680 New,

00:12:24.520 I can confirm

00:12:25.600 that the FBI

00:12:26.300 arrested a Chinese national

00:12:28.020 within the United States

00:12:30.200 who allegedly smuggled

00:12:32.320 a dangerous

00:12:33.080 biological pathogen

00:12:35.200 into the country.

00:12:36.940 The individual,

00:12:38.880 Yun-Quin Jian,

00:12:40.900 is alleged to have

00:12:42.060 smuggled a dangerous

00:12:43.260 fungus called

00:12:44.300 Fusarium

00:12:45.280 Graminarium,

00:12:48.080 which is an

00:12:48.840 agro-terrorism agent

00:12:50.660 into the U.S.

00:12:52.480 to research

00:12:53.900 at the University

00:12:54.880 of Michigan,

00:12:55.520 where she works.

00:12:56.680 This fungus

00:12:58.420 can cause

00:12:59.380 a disease

00:12:59.980 called

00:13:00.540 head blight,

00:13:01.980 a disease

00:13:02.800 of wheat,

00:13:04.360 barley,

00:13:05.500 maize,

00:13:05.940 and rice,

00:13:06.800 causing significant

00:13:08.140 health issues

00:13:08.840 in both humans

00:13:09.720 and livestock.

00:13:11.640 It is responsible

00:13:13.160 for billions

00:13:14.300 of dollars

00:13:15.000 in economic losses

00:13:16.060 worldwide

00:13:16.620 each year.

00:13:18.760 Evidence

00:13:19.400 also indicates

00:13:20.240 Jian had expressed

00:13:21.500 loyalty

00:13:22.200 to the Chinese

00:13:23.840 Communist Party

00:13:24.840 and had received

00:13:26.540 funding from

00:13:27.460 the Chinese government

00:13:28.380 for similar work

00:13:30.080 on this pathogen

00:13:31.280 in China.

00:13:33.360 Jian's boyfriend,

00:13:34.920 Zun-Yang Liu,

00:13:36.600 also charged

00:13:37.820 in the complaint,

00:13:39.460 works at a

00:13:40.260 Chinese university

00:13:41.280 where he conducts

00:13:43.060 research

00:13:43.820 on the same

00:13:45.300 pathogen.

00:13:46.960 Liu is alleged

00:13:48.140 to have first lied

00:13:49.260 that admitted

00:13:50.800 to also smuggling

00:13:52.960 Fusarium

00:13:54.260 Graninarium

00:13:55.780 into America

00:13:57.220 through the

00:13:58.520 Detroit

00:13:59.000 Metropolitan Airport

00:14:00.340 so that he too

00:14:02.160 could conduct

00:14:03.480 research

00:14:04.180 at the University

00:14:05.380 of Michigan.

00:14:06.680 Both individuals

00:14:07.920 have been charged

00:14:09.080 with conspiracy,

00:14:10.960 smuggling goods

00:14:11.680 into the United States,

00:14:13.520 false statements,

00:14:14.840 and visa fraud.

00:14:15.960 This case

00:14:17.680 is a sobering

00:14:18.980 reminder

00:14:19.400 that the CCP

00:14:20.280 is working

00:14:21.420 around the clock

00:14:22.920 to deploy

00:14:24.040 operatives

00:14:24.700 and researchers

00:14:25.580 to infiltrate

00:14:27.500 American institutions

00:14:28.680 and target

00:14:29.740 our food supply,

00:14:31.820 which would have

00:14:32.700 grave consequences,

00:14:34.380 putting American lives

00:14:35.480 and our economy

00:14:36.580 at serious risk.

00:14:38.080 Your FBI

00:14:39.000 will continue

00:14:40.260 working tirelessly

00:14:41.260 to be on guard

00:14:41.920 against it.

00:14:43.500 You go through this

00:14:45.200 and let's unpack it

00:14:46.940 and just go back

00:14:47.820 a little bit

00:14:48.620 to paint,

00:14:49.620 I think,

00:14:50.140 the broader picture.

00:14:52.200 We've seen China 0.95

00:14:53.640 financially

00:14:55.140 infiltrate

00:14:56.640 our colleges,

00:14:58.360 our best colleges.

00:15:00.660 We have seen them

00:15:01.480 by influence.

00:15:02.380 We saw this hell

00:15:03.020 with the Biden Institute

00:15:04.140 for goodness sakes.

00:15:05.460 We have witnessed

00:15:06.380 the number

00:15:06.960 of Chinese students

00:15:08.460 that we allow

00:15:09.100 to come into this country, 0.98

00:15:10.360 be trained here,

00:15:11.280 have access

00:15:12.000 to R&D here,

00:15:13.460 and then we've

00:15:15.600 witnessed what

00:15:16.100 our government

00:15:16.620 did under Fauci

00:15:17.680 with the amount

00:15:18.480 of money we were

00:15:19.000 sending to China

00:15:20.240 that was doing

00:15:21.680 a lot of this type

00:15:22.440 of research

00:15:22.980 and other things

00:15:23.860 and we shouldn't

00:15:25.360 be surprised

00:15:26.460 that this is

00:15:27.780 happening now,

00:15:28.580 but this again

00:15:29.600 goes back

00:15:30.220 to the vulnerability.

00:15:31.760 If China 0.97

00:15:32.300 is sending you money

00:15:33.460 and sending

00:15:34.620 billions of dollars

00:15:36.280 to American universities

00:15:37.420 and then we see

00:15:38.840 this type of research

00:15:39.920 and the access

00:15:41.060 at these research

00:15:42.200 institutes

00:15:42.560 like the University

00:15:43.180 of Michigan,

00:15:43.780 etc.,

00:15:44.280 why isn't there

00:15:45.480 a massive red flag

00:15:46.560 on every dollar

00:15:47.360 now coming in

00:15:48.060 from China

00:15:48.540 after seeing yet again

00:15:49.980 the Chinese are our enemy 1.00

00:15:51.580 and they cannot be trusted? 0.93

00:15:53.520 There's no doubt

00:15:54.420 there should be

00:15:55.120 and listen,

00:15:55.940 when I was first elected

00:15:56.880 to the Senate

00:15:57.300 13 years ago,

00:15:58.960 I was saying then

00:16:00.640 that China 0.93

00:16:01.660 is the greatest threat

00:16:02.740 we have

00:16:03.180 for the next 100 years.

00:16:05.120 I gotta tell you,

00:16:05.860 Ben,

00:16:05.960 at the time

00:16:06.540 that was a very lonely

00:16:08.100 view in the United States Senate.

00:16:09.420 Every Democrat

00:16:11.320 disagreed with me

00:16:12.200 and most of the Republicans

00:16:14.180 did too.

00:16:15.360 They all looked to China 1.00

00:16:16.660 and they saw nothing

00:16:17.560 but dollar signs

00:16:18.660 as far as the eye

00:16:20.100 could see.

00:16:21.300 Now,

00:16:21.880 COVID changed that

00:16:22.900 for a lot of people.

00:16:23.780 They realized

00:16:24.740 the mendacity,

00:16:26.160 the duplicity,

00:16:27.500 the damage

00:16:28.380 China causes. 0.97

00:16:30.200 China engages in

00:16:31.440 widespread murder

00:16:32.560 of its citizens,

00:16:33.580 torture of its citizens.

00:16:34.600 It has over a million

00:16:36.140 Uyghurs in concentration camps, 0.99

00:16:38.420 modern-day human slavery,

00:16:40.280 organ harvesting,

00:16:41.480 but they also engage

00:16:42.940 in massive propaganda,

00:16:45.240 massive espionage

00:16:46.380 against the United States,

00:16:48.080 massive theft

00:16:48.940 of intellectual property.

00:16:51.160 They are engaged

00:16:52.980 in a global battle

00:16:54.240 for world domination.

00:16:56.660 Their objective,

00:16:57.440 which they've told us,

00:16:58.360 they're very explicit,

00:17:00.120 their objective

00:17:01.020 is to be the dominant

00:17:02.060 world power

00:17:02.880 and to displace America. 0.51

00:17:05.140 And we need to combat them

00:17:06.560 on the global stage.

00:17:08.020 China is engaged 0.94

00:17:08.940 in Africa,

00:17:09.860 in Latin America,

00:17:11.000 in the Middle East,

00:17:11.720 in Asia,

00:17:12.280 every part of the world.

00:17:13.800 China is trying 0.81

00:17:14.760 to become

00:17:15.260 the dominant world power.

00:17:16.540 They are waging

00:17:17.440 a thousand-year war.

00:17:21.120 And when it comes

00:17:22.320 to the danger of pathogens,

00:17:24.080 look,

00:17:24.320 you look at COVID.

00:17:26.340 COVID,

00:17:27.080 it was clear

00:17:27.960 within the first couple

00:17:29.060 of months

00:17:29.380 of this pandemic

00:17:30.140 that the evidence

00:17:31.920 strongly suggested

00:17:33.120 that the virus

00:17:34.640 escape from

00:17:35.560 the Wuhan Institute

00:17:36.580 of Virology

00:17:37.440 in Wuhan, China.

00:17:39.900 We now know

00:17:41.080 that the corporate media

00:17:42.660 suppressed that story,

00:17:44.060 that Facebook

00:17:45.060 suppressed that story

00:17:46.440 at the explicit request

00:17:47.760 of Dr. Fauci.

00:17:49.140 I will tell you,

00:17:49.840 this podcast,

00:17:51.180 Verdict with Ted Cruz,

00:17:52.600 in March

00:17:54.480 and in April

00:17:55.480 of 2020,

00:18:00.540 when COVID

00:18:01.840 was first starting,

00:18:03.360 we laid out

00:18:04.340 the evidence

00:18:04.880 that this came

00:18:05.800 from China,

00:18:07.040 from the Wuhan

00:18:07.560 Institute of Virology,

00:18:08.720 before you could get it

00:18:10.020 practically anywhere else.

00:18:12.560 China bears

00:18:14.200 enormous responsibility

00:18:15.900 for what happened

00:18:17.080 with COVID.

00:18:18.140 I think the evidence

00:18:18.820 is overwhelming

00:18:19.540 that COVID escaped

00:18:21.640 from a Chinese

00:18:22.480 government lab.

00:18:23.300 I think the evidence

00:18:24.900 is significant

00:18:25.900 that COVID

00:18:27.380 was actually

00:18:28.120 invented

00:18:28.820 in a Chinese

00:18:29.620 government lab,

00:18:30.440 that they took

00:18:31.040 natural viruses

00:18:32.320 and they altered

00:18:33.100 them using

00:18:33.760 gain-of-function

00:18:34.360 research.

00:18:35.040 That's not

00:18:35.760 as compelling

00:18:36.680 as the fact

00:18:38.080 that it escaped

00:18:38.640 from a government

00:18:39.240 lab,

00:18:39.540 but I think

00:18:39.880 there's a lot

00:18:40.420 of evidence

00:18:40.820 of that.

00:18:41.580 By the way,

00:18:42.160 there are multiple

00:18:42.940 federal agencies

00:18:43.780 that have now

00:18:44.400 explicitly concluded

00:18:45.500 that COVID

00:18:46.620 likely escaped

00:18:47.480 from a Chinese

00:18:48.040 government lab.

00:18:49.000 When COVID

00:18:49.800 escaped,

00:18:50.260 the Chinese

00:18:51.280 government

00:18:51.680 covered it up,

00:18:52.480 they suppressed

00:18:53.040 the evidence,

00:18:53.660 they destroyed

00:18:54.260 the samples,

00:18:55.080 they did everything

00:18:56.060 they could

00:18:56.720 to prevent

00:18:57.460 others from

00:18:58.800 understanding

00:18:59.340 the source

00:18:59.840 of this virus

00:19:00.500 and also

00:19:01.780 to frustrate

00:19:02.540 efforts to stop

00:19:03.480 the spread

00:19:03.920 of this pandemic.

00:19:04.820 Now,

00:19:05.420 put that in the

00:19:06.120 context of this

00:19:06.860 story.

00:19:07.960 A dangerous

00:19:09.020 agro-terrorism

00:19:10.320 fungus

00:19:11.100 that could do

00:19:12.500 massive damage

00:19:13.720 to crops,

00:19:14.900 to livestock,

00:19:16.240 to human beings

00:19:17.240 in the United States

00:19:18.320 being smuggled in

00:19:19.260 by not one,

00:19:20.080 but two

00:19:20.680 Chinese nationals

00:19:22.460 being paid

00:19:24.360 by the Chinese

00:19:25.080 Communist Party.

00:19:26.600 Look,

00:19:26.880 it is not

00:19:27.300 difficult to

00:19:28.040 imagine a

00:19:29.700 pathogen like

00:19:30.540 that being

00:19:31.000 released in the

00:19:31.780 United States

00:19:32.380 and doing

00:19:32.780 enormous damage,

00:19:34.440 and that's the

00:19:35.400 sort of threat

00:19:36.060 our government,

00:19:37.040 we need to be

00:19:37.660 vigilant against

00:19:39.320 when it comes

00:19:39.860 to Communist

00:19:40.240 China.

00:19:41.160 Well,

00:19:41.380 and it goes

00:19:42.000 back to,

00:19:42.780 again,

00:19:43.260 some of this

00:19:43.660 evidence that

00:19:44.660 apparently they've

00:19:45.460 been discussing

00:19:46.000 the plan to

00:19:46.640 smuggle these

00:19:47.280 biological materials

00:19:48.440 since at least

00:19:49.680 2022.

00:19:51.700 The electronic

00:19:52.180 devices contain

00:19:53.160 documents expressing

00:19:54.240 the Chinese

00:19:55.180 Communist Party,

00:19:56.220 the CCP,

00:19:57.340 and detailing

00:19:58.140 research funded

00:19:59.060 by the Chinese

00:19:59.800 government.

00:20:00.420 So,

00:20:00.980 the story just

00:20:02.040 keeps repeating

00:20:02.700 itself.

00:20:03.300 It is over and

00:20:04.220 over again.

00:20:05.180 When we see

00:20:05.660 these things

00:20:06.080 happen,

00:20:06.540 it's directly

00:20:07.100 tied to the

00:20:08.060 Chinese Communist 0.72

00:20:08.880 Party,

00:20:09.400 the Chinese

00:20:10.240 Communist

00:20:10.700 government,

00:20:11.880 and we should

00:20:12.940 not be

00:20:14.380 surprised this

00:20:15.520 is happening.

00:20:16.000 Will there

00:20:16.960 be any

00:20:17.340 reaction or

00:20:18.180 anything that

00:20:18.720 Congress can

00:20:19.420 do on this

00:20:19.820 very quickly?

00:20:21.320 Well,

00:20:21.600 listen,

00:20:22.020 this has been

00:20:22.580 an area I've

00:20:23.060 been legislating

00:20:23.760 for a long

00:20:24.280 time.

00:20:24.640 So,

00:20:24.840 for example,

00:20:25.320 one of the

00:20:25.720 very first

00:20:26.200 bills I

00:20:26.640 passed into

00:20:27.120 law dealt

00:20:28.240 with Confucius

00:20:29.060 Institutes.

00:20:29.660 Confucius

00:20:30.100 Institutes were

00:20:30.740 formed on

00:20:31.940 U.S.

00:20:32.560 universities all

00:20:33.240 across the

00:20:33.680 country,

00:20:34.000 hundreds of

00:20:34.500 them,

00:20:35.000 and they were

00:20:36.180 funded by the

00:20:36.860 Chinese Communist 0.72

00:20:37.520 Party.

00:20:38.060 They conducted

00:20:38.540 espionage and

00:20:39.540 propaganda.

00:20:40.860 I introduced

00:20:41.380 legislation to

00:20:42.400 cut off federal

00:20:43.400 funding to

00:20:43.980 universities that

00:20:44.640 have Confucius

00:20:45.260 Institutes,

00:20:46.240 passed it into

00:20:47.160 law,

00:20:47.840 and as a

00:20:48.280 result,

00:20:48.660 we've shut

00:20:49.080 down most

00:20:49.840 of the

00:20:50.080 Confucius

00:20:50.500 Institutes

00:20:51.000 across the

00:20:51.900 country.

00:20:52.160 So we can

00:20:52.780 fight this,

00:20:53.620 but we need

00:20:54.300 to be vigilant

00:20:55.020 and we need

00:20:55.500 to fight.

00:20:56.020 As before,

00:20:56.960 if you want

00:20:57.420 to hear the

00:20:57.780 rest of this

00:20:58.220 conversation on

00:20:59.360 this topic,

00:21:00.140 you can go

00:21:00.540 back and download

00:21:01.240 the podcast from

00:21:02.380 earlier this week

00:21:03.020 to hear the

00:21:03.460 entire thing.

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00:21:34.320 I want to

00:21:36.760 get back to

00:21:37.400 the big story

00:21:38.400 number three

00:21:38.940 of the week

00:21:39.360 you may have

00:21:39.780 missed.

00:21:40.760 I want to

00:21:41.060 also get to

00:21:41.700 this other

00:21:42.080 big issue,

00:21:42.740 and that is

00:21:43.160 out in

00:21:43.480 Colorado and

00:21:44.320 the terror

00:21:44.780 attack there.

00:21:45.520 We've got a

00:21:46.040 significant update

00:21:47.260 on this

00:21:48.700 individual and

00:21:49.760 also real

00:21:51.280 concerns and

00:21:52.560 honesty now

00:21:53.720 coming from

00:21:54.480 the administration

00:21:55.400 about the

00:21:56.600 real threat of

00:21:57.400 other terrorists

00:21:58.280 that may be in

00:21:59.220 this country that

00:22:00.060 were led into

00:22:00.640 this country by

00:22:01.320 the Biden and

00:22:01.920 Harris

00:22:02.100 administration.

00:22:02.840 Well, it turns

00:22:03.860 out that four

00:22:04.520 years of open

00:22:05.180 borders, allowing

00:22:06.300 over 12 million

00:22:07.760 people to come

00:22:08.400 into this country

00:22:09.020 illegally, that

00:22:10.380 was a really bad

00:22:11.060 policy.

00:22:12.000 And even worse,

00:22:13.960 look, there were

00:22:15.560 10 million people

00:22:16.620 who were apprehended

00:22:18.500 by the Biden

00:22:19.080 administration that

00:22:19.880 let them go.

00:22:20.880 That is problematic

00:22:22.180 on many, many

00:22:22.980 fronts, but the

00:22:23.740 most disturbing

00:22:24.640 number is 2

00:22:26.600 million.

00:22:27.020 There are roughly

00:22:27.440 2 million gotaways.

00:22:28.920 Those are people

00:22:29.520 that crossed the

00:22:30.220 border.

00:22:30.980 We know crossed

00:22:31.700 the border, but

00:22:32.280 yet they escaped

00:22:33.280 detection.

00:22:35.040 And those

00:22:35.760 gotaways are

00:22:36.620 much, much

00:22:37.180 more likely to

00:22:37.920 be criminals.

00:22:39.300 They're much

00:22:39.620 more likely to

00:22:40.220 be murderers, 0.73

00:22:42.220 rapists, child 1.00

00:22:43.540 molesters, 1.00

00:22:44.840 terrorists, gang 0.86

00:22:46.180 members. 0.85

00:22:46.980 And if you look

00:22:48.360 at this radical

00:22:50.720 who attacked

00:22:52.300 and firebombed

00:22:54.020 the peaceful 0.97

00:22:55.900 Jewish protesters

00:22:57.100 in Boulder,

00:22:58.340 Colorado, this

00:22:59.600 was a guy who

00:23:00.440 never should have

00:23:01.460 been in this

00:23:02.540 country to begin

00:23:03.220 with.

00:23:03.800 He came in on

00:23:04.920 a tourist visa.

00:23:05.860 He overstayed it.

00:23:07.180 And this was a

00:23:08.500 radical Islamist.

00:23:10.160 And I want to

00:23:11.020 read to you a

00:23:11.760 tweet from Bill

00:23:13.280 Malusian.

00:23:14.040 Now, regular

00:23:14.720 listeners of this

00:23:15.440 podcast know Bill

00:23:16.380 Malusian is the 1.00

00:23:17.860 best reporter in

00:23:18.780 America.

00:23:19.520 He reports for

00:23:20.180 Fox News, and he's

00:23:21.140 been detailing

00:23:22.700 what's going on at

00:23:23.560 the border.

00:23:23.940 Here's what Bill

00:23:24.460 Malusian tweeted.

00:23:25.500 Breaking.

00:23:25.880 New details on

00:23:27.280 Colorado terror

00:23:28.160 attack suspect as

00:23:29.940 feds charge him

00:23:31.180 with federal hate

00:23:31.960 crime.

00:23:32.740 According to

00:23:33.360 federal court

00:23:33.880 filings obtained

00:23:34.800 by Fox News,

00:23:36.120 Egyptian illegal

00:23:37.520 alien Mohammed 1.00

00:23:38.920 Solomon admitted

00:23:40.940 in an interview

00:23:41.800 that he wanted 1.00

00:23:42.620 to kill all 1.00

00:23:43.620 quote Zionist 1.00

00:23:45.000 people, and he

00:23:46.020 had been planning

00:23:46.740 the attack for

00:23:47.860 a year, and

00:23:48.860 that he would

00:23:49.280 conduct the

00:23:50.020 attack again if

00:23:51.920 he could.

00:23:52.700 He allegedly

00:23:53.280 told investigators

00:23:54.340 that he waited

00:23:55.220 to carry out

00:23:55.820 the attack until

00:23:57.500 his daughter

00:23:58.320 graduated high

00:23:59.780 school, and

00:24:00.640 that he

00:24:00.960 specifically targeted

00:24:02.420 the quote Zionist

00:24:04.480 group in Boulder

00:24:05.420 after learning

00:24:06.740 about them from

00:24:07.560 an online search.

00:24:09.020 It was

00:24:09.400 premeditated, as

00:24:10.680 he allegedly

00:24:11.600 admitted he knew

00:24:12.700 they would gather

00:24:13.460 on Sunday at

00:24:15.200 1 p.m.

00:24:15.820 He arrived and

00:24:17.640 waited for them.

00:24:18.860 Additionally,

00:24:20.000 investigators found

00:24:21.320 a black container

00:24:22.420 with 14 more

00:24:24.360 Molotov

00:24:25.000 cocktails near the

00:24:26.880 spot he was

00:24:27.500 arrested in.

00:24:28.600 Inside his

00:24:29.200 vehicle, investigators

00:24:30.700 found paperwork

00:24:31.700 with the words

00:24:32.940 Israel, Palestine,

00:24:35.380 and USAID.

00:24:37.100 This man was

00:24:38.040 admitted into the

00:24:39.200 country via a

00:24:40.960 tourist visa during

00:24:42.880 the Biden

00:24:43.360 administration.

00:24:44.200 He overstayed,

00:24:45.640 filed an asylum

00:24:46.720 request, and was

00:24:48.280 granted work

00:24:49.500 authorization by the

00:24:50.900 Biden administration,

00:24:51.820 election, which

00:24:52.880 expired at the

00:24:54.040 end of March of

00:24:55.540 this year.

00:24:56.020 So understand, this

00:24:57.140 guy came into this

00:24:58.020 country, he

00:24:58.980 overstayed his

00:24:59.780 visa, and yet

00:25:01.020 the Biden

00:25:01.440 administration said,

00:25:02.440 hey, look, a

00:25:03.460 radical Islamic 1.00

00:25:04.400 terrorist, we want 1.00

00:25:05.880 you to stay. 0.96

00:25:06.680 It was not hard to

00:25:07.960 figure out from his

00:25:08.760 social media who

00:25:09.540 this guy was.

00:25:10.740 But the Biden

00:25:11.760 administration, they

00:25:12.840 were not focused on

00:25:14.180 defending this nation.

00:25:15.040 They were not

00:25:15.560 focused on stopping

00:25:17.220 terrorists from

00:25:17.980 coming into this

00:25:18.540 country.

00:25:19.460 Instead, they

00:25:20.900 made a political

00:25:21.580 decision.

00:25:22.120 I get asked all

00:25:22.760 the time, Ben, why

00:25:24.540 would Democrats

00:25:25.480 open up the

00:25:26.080 borders?

00:25:26.520 It clearly hurt

00:25:27.500 them in the last

00:25:28.140 election.

00:25:28.900 Why would they do

00:25:29.420 this?

00:25:30.200 And I believe it

00:25:31.040 was entirely about

00:25:32.200 power.

00:25:32.880 They viewed 12

00:25:34.060 million illegal

00:25:34.760 immigrants.

00:25:35.360 They said, listen,

00:25:36.680 every one of these

00:25:37.720 we think are going

00:25:38.800 to vote for

00:25:39.260 Democrats.

00:25:40.340 We want them in

00:25:41.300 here.

00:25:42.000 Some portion of

00:25:42.900 them will vote

00:25:43.440 illegally.

00:25:44.220 The rest of them,

00:25:45.300 they believed if

00:25:46.060 they stayed in

00:25:46.660 power, they would

00:25:47.260 grant amnesty and

00:25:48.380 make them all

00:25:48.920 voters.

00:25:49.900 And if they have

00:25:51.140 to bring in

00:25:51.940 Muslim Brotherhood 0.99

00:25:53.480 terrorists who 1.00

00:25:54.940 are murdering 0.86

00:25:55.520 people, sadly, the 0.97

00:25:57.240 Democrats were

00:25:57.840 willing to do

00:25:58.320 that.

00:25:59.100 This is the part

00:26:00.480 that I really

00:26:01.060 think we do need

00:26:02.220 to make it

00:26:02.840 clear, not

00:26:04.460 just now, but

00:26:05.380 in the future.

00:26:06.480 The Democratic

00:26:07.220 Party, and you

00:26:09.040 alluded to this in

00:26:09.960 your comments

00:26:10.640 there, their

00:26:11.740 plan, they

00:26:12.740 knew, was

00:26:14.400 going to have

00:26:15.180 disastrous

00:26:15.780 consequences from

00:26:17.020 a national security

00:26:17.800 standpoint.

00:26:18.660 They were

00:26:19.400 willing to play

00:26:20.080 Russian roulette

00:26:20.760 with that open

00:26:21.440 border, and they

00:26:22.660 were warned, and

00:26:24.040 they saw the

00:26:24.800 people that were on

00:26:25.540 the terrorist watch

00:26:26.320 list, Senator, and

00:26:27.580 they didn't care

00:26:28.620 because it was their

00:26:30.220 overall plan to flood

00:26:31.620 the country with

00:26:32.380 illegal immigrants and

00:26:33.840 fundamentally change

00:26:34.700 this country.

00:26:35.380 They knew this plan

00:26:37.020 would allow for

00:26:37.900 people that are

00:26:38.620 terrorists, some of

00:26:40.160 them on the

00:26:40.620 terrorist watch list

00:26:41.720 at the time, to

00:26:43.040 get into this

00:26:43.620 country, and they

00:26:44.860 still continue to

00:26:46.720 have the open

00:26:47.460 border policy

00:26:48.380 because they

00:26:49.360 basically said, hey,

00:26:50.320 it's part of our

00:26:51.420 bigger plan, and

00:26:52.840 there's going to be

00:26:53.400 collateral damage from

00:26:54.480 this, so be it.

00:26:56.180 And listen, when I

00:26:57.720 say this, this

00:26:59.060 sounds harsh, and

00:27:00.600 you sort of think

00:27:01.940 of a listener who's

00:27:03.640 not terribly

00:27:04.200 political, and

00:27:05.800 they're like, wait,

00:27:06.860 the Democrats

00:27:07.660 couldn't really want

00:27:09.060 more terrorists in

00:27:10.060 this country.

00:27:10.580 But at the end of

00:27:12.040 the day, that was

00:27:12.880 the inevitable

00:27:13.660 consequence of the

00:27:15.500 policies they put

00:27:16.540 in place, when you

00:27:17.980 allow 12 million

00:27:18.940 people to cross the

00:27:19.900 border illegally.

00:27:21.300 And by the way, the

00:27:22.340 Biden Border

00:27:23.740 Control, the Border 0.92

00:27:26.140 Patrol, they

00:27:27.720 instructed their

00:27:28.660 agents, be on the

00:27:29.820 lookout for

00:27:31.100 Hezbollah, Hamas,

00:27:33.620 Palestinian Islamic

00:27:34.720 Jihad terrorists 0.99

00:27:35.680 coming across this 0.94

00:27:36.620 border.

00:27:37.500 Look, we have

00:27:38.840 radical zealots,

00:27:40.580 who have

00:27:41.540 declared jihad

00:27:43.000 in America, who

00:27:43.900 have demanded of

00:27:45.100 their terrorists

00:27:45.780 murder as many 0.99

00:27:47.300 Americans as you 1.00

00:27:48.080 can, and murder as 1.00

00:27:48.980 many Jews and 1.00

00:27:49.960 Israelis as you 0.99

00:27:50.780 can. 0.74

00:27:51.580 And in the face

00:27:53.080 of those very

00:27:54.480 real and clear

00:27:55.940 national security

00:27:56.800 threats, the fact

00:27:58.380 that the Biden

00:27:58.940 administration and

00:27:59.820 the Democrats, it

00:28:00.480 wasn't just Joe

00:28:01.200 Biden, it wasn't

00:28:01.960 just Kamala Harris,

00:28:03.100 it was every single

00:28:04.680 Democrat in the

00:28:05.600 Senate, it was every

00:28:06.380 single Democrat in

00:28:07.180 the House, because

00:28:07.700 they voted in favor

00:28:08.700 of open borders,

00:28:09.700 over and over and

00:28:11.860 over again.

00:28:12.380 They knew that

00:28:13.640 some of the people

00:28:14.220 coming were just

00:28:15.740 like this radical.

00:28:17.620 And listen, I've

00:28:19.080 reintroduced this

00:28:20.220 week legislation to

00:28:22.060 designate the Muslim

00:28:23.380 Brotherhood as a 0.97

00:28:24.800 terrorist organization. 0.99

00:28:26.180 The Muslim 0.99

00:28:26.520 Brotherhood, sadly...

00:28:27.600 And by the way, this is

00:28:28.380 something you've been

00:28:29.100 sounding the alarm on

00:28:30.920 for quite some time.

00:28:32.100 I want to be very

00:28:32.720 clear about that.

00:28:33.600 So I've been fighting

00:28:35.660 for this legislation

00:28:36.640 for more than a

00:28:37.380 decade.

00:28:38.100 The Muslim

00:28:38.580 Brotherhood is a 1.00

00:28:39.920 terrorist organization. 0.98

00:28:41.720 It is in countries

00:28:43.380 throughout the Middle

00:28:44.100 East.

00:28:44.620 It is in Egypt.

00:28:46.480 It is in Qatar.

00:28:49.920 It is all across the

00:28:51.680 Middle East.

00:28:52.220 And the Muslim

00:28:52.700 Brotherhood, openly,

00:28:55.060 aggressively, they

00:28:56.880 support Hamas, they 1.00

00:28:58.020 support Hezbollah. 0.99

00:28:58.980 They are a terrorist 1.00

00:29:00.040 organization. 0.97

00:29:00.800 And by the way, to

00:29:02.560 be clear, in Egypt,

00:29:04.980 they're an actual

00:29:05.980 political party.

00:29:07.080 Look, we had

00:29:07.580 Mohamed Morsi, who

00:29:09.620 was the leader of

00:29:11.000 Egypt, who was a

00:29:12.580 Muslim Brotherhood

00:29:13.540 radical.

00:29:14.160 Now, thankfully,

00:29:16.040 Mohamed Morsi was

00:29:17.080 defeated.

00:29:18.560 And he was defeated

00:29:19.680 by al-Sisi, who is

00:29:22.860 fighting against the

00:29:23.900 Muslim Brotherhood.

00:29:24.640 Look, if you look at

00:29:25.680 the Arabs who are

00:29:26.900 dealing with this, the

00:29:28.740 Muslim Brotherhood and

00:29:29.680 the jihadists,

00:29:30.800 they believe in

00:29:32.560 using violence, using

00:29:34.660 murder, to force

00:29:36.420 people to embrace 0.77

00:29:37.600 their radical Islamist

00:29:38.940 view.

00:29:40.480 And yet, these are

00:29:43.220 the radicals that

00:29:45.580 are fighting, that

00:29:46.640 are murdering 0.56

00:29:47.800 Israelis, and that 0.99

00:29:48.740 are murdering 1.00

00:29:49.260 Americans. 0.94

00:29:50.580 And this is exactly

00:29:52.320 the radicals that 0.98

00:29:54.240 this lunatic in 0.98

00:29:55.680 Boulder, Colorado, 0.99

00:29:56.560 was embracing, and

00:29:58.640 that Joe Biden and

00:29:59.440 the Democrats were

00:30:00.140 letting into this

00:30:00.760 country.

00:30:01.920 Final question on

00:30:03.080 the designate of

00:30:04.620 Muslim Brotherhood as 0.52

00:30:05.700 a terrorist 0.98

00:30:06.060 organization.

00:30:07.460 Is this finally

00:30:09.040 going to be the

00:30:09.520 moment where you

00:30:10.480 think there's a

00:30:10.980 decent chance that

00:30:11.900 this can become

00:30:12.620 reality, or there's

00:30:13.880 still going to be

00:30:14.480 Democrats at all

00:30:15.340 costs that say, we

00:30:16.740 are going to defend

00:30:17.380 this?

00:30:18.220 So, I hope so.

00:30:19.900 So, right now,

00:30:20.780 today, the Muslim

00:30:22.300 Brotherhood is

00:30:22.960 designated as a

00:30:23.980 terrorist organization

00:30:25.000 in Saudi Arabia.

00:30:26.600 They're designated in

00:30:28.240 the United Arab

00:30:29.100 Emirates.

00:30:30.120 They're designated in

00:30:31.420 Egypt, in Syria, and

00:30:33.840 Bahrain.

00:30:34.720 But the United States

00:30:35.860 has yet to designate

00:30:37.260 the Muslim Brotherhood

00:30:38.180 as a terrorist 0.96

00:30:38.880 organization.

00:30:39.940 When you have a

00:30:41.640 group that actively

00:30:43.440 encourages the

00:30:45.500 waging of jihad, the 0.96

00:30:46.960 murdering of 0.90

00:30:47.560 innocents, they are a 1.00

00:30:49.980 terrorist organization. 0.99

00:30:51.020 And so, I pressed the

00:30:53.380 entire first Trump

00:30:55.360 term for the Muslim

00:30:57.120 Brotherhood to be

00:30:57.880 designated.

00:30:58.540 We did not succeed.

00:30:59.920 I think we will

00:31:00.980 succeed this

00:31:01.700 administration.

00:31:02.420 I think President

00:31:03.080 Trump is going to do

00:31:04.060 this, and I'm going

00:31:05.220 to keep pressing

00:31:06.560 designate the Muslim

00:31:08.360 Brotherhood as a 0.96

00:31:09.600 terrorist organization

00:31:10.500 because that is who

00:31:12.400 they are, and we saw

00:31:14.340 the horrific and

00:31:15.400 potentially deadly

00:31:16.580 consequences this

00:31:18.320 week in Boulder,

00:31:19.100 Colorado.

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - June 07, 2025

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