Verdict with Ted Cruz - VA Dems Melting Down, facing Corruption Charges, plus Dems Embracing Communist Cuba & Neuralink’s Extraordinary Promise Curing Disability

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00:00:04.520 Welcome.

00:00:05.200 It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:08.380 And if you're listening on the radio, it is so nice to have you with us wherever you are

00:00:11.940 around the country.

00:00:13.100 Senator, we've got a lot to talk about on this week's show, including some shocking

00:00:17.120 news involves FBI raids on top of the fact that the DOJ has launched a federal probe 0.52

00:00:23.700 into America's worst Soros DA

00:00:25.580 over preferential treatment

00:00:28.560 for illegal immigrants, plural.

00:00:31.480 Well, we have corruption in Virginia, 0.98

00:00:33.920 Soros DAs. 0.66

00:00:35.220 We have the head of the Virginia Senate

00:00:36.940 being raided by the FBI for corruption.

00:00:40.580 We also have, extraordinarily enough,

00:00:44.740 a Democratic member of the House

00:00:46.660 trying to smuggle fuel into communist Cuba

00:00:50.920 because she supports the communists

00:00:53.020 over the united states of america we're also going to discuss i had a chance to visit neuralink an

00:00:57.960 incredible company in texas that is literally doing science fiction but before all of that ben

00:01:04.920 i want to take a moment to say thank you to our incredible listeners and viewers everyone on the

00:01:11.560 radio everyone on the podcast everyone watching on youtube look we do this show three days a week

00:01:16.860 And it's a lot of hours. It's right now 11 to 48 p.m. We do it late at night. And there are times when I'm tired. And there are times when Ben is, frankly, dysfunctional and hiccuping like a sick leper on the road.

00:01:38.620 yes yes yes so for people that miss let's just be clear about where you're going with this

00:01:44.960 so i have got a back injury they gave me some medicine it gave me the hiccups as one of the

00:01:50.160 side effects and uh in the last show i got the hiccups it just could not get rid of them all

00:01:55.720 day by the way i didn't go to bed till by the way for an audio podcast yes for an audio podcast or

00:02:00.980 a radio show having the host go like every 12 seconds yeah i'm just saying for an ordinary

00:02:10.540 listener that would be annoying but i i want to take the moment to thank our listeners because

00:02:16.520 they endured it and and ben can you read like like like some of the comments the listeners made

00:02:21.680 because they embraced you they loved you yeah my phone stopped uh working i i there was a lots of

00:02:28.780 thoughts and prayers and there was some dearest ben you gave me the best slow creeping smile i've

00:02:34.880 ever had i've had in a while that was what one of them said i did have a little brandy you were so

00:02:39.060 committed that see there you go i am committed to the show senator even with the hiccups i power

00:02:44.740 through uh to fight the commies every day so the other i will say the number of ideas like to be

00:02:51.100 clear man was impressive i i for one i'm not sure it was about a back injury i just think you were

00:02:56.540 hammered and hiccuping because you had like 92 beers that night yeah yeah that's it i have no

00:03:04.640 basis in fact i just figured i'd say that because it's fun yeah because it because it's fun i i do

00:03:10.660 appreciate all the verdict listeners who sent in and made sure that i had every possible hiccup

00:03:16.520 remedy in the history of mankind so there were they're committed listeners that gave me last

00:03:23.420 time i told told ben my father's rule yeah which is in 87 years in life he has never hiccuped twice

00:03:30.960 and and i gotta say i love my dad but he's not a terribly shall we say understanding soul

00:03:39.060 there you go and he really does i've hiccuped twice and and and he really does view it as a

00:03:44.940 fundamental moral failing not saying anything ben i'm just saying that's my dad's worldview

00:03:49.300 I did. True story. I did go to bed after 4 a.m. because I could not get them to stop.

00:03:53.880 It was that long. Are you sure? That that sucks. I'm sorry, man.

00:03:57.300 It was it was it was four hours straight before the show.

00:04:01.260 Then they went away. Then they started halfway through the show.

00:04:03.520 And then literally I could not go to bed until about 4.15.

00:04:06.760 OK, that's a nightmare. All right. Let's talk about something worse.

00:04:09.540 Let's talk about commie prosecutors in Virginia.

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00:05:31.720 Alright, now

00:05:32.820 Back to your press conference and everything that we've got in detail on this story.

00:05:38.380 Press release for the Department of Justice.

00:05:40.180 Justice Department notifies Fairfax County, Virginia Commonwealth's attorney of investigation into his plea bargaining, charging decisions and sentencing policy.

00:05:50.640 Today, the Justice Department notified the Fairfax County, Virginia Commonwealth's attorney, Steve Descano, of the initiation of a federal investigation into the Commonwealth's attorney's plea bargaining charge in decisions and sentencing policy.

00:06:04.500 The Justice Department Civil Rights Division will investigate whether the office of the Fairfax Commonwealth's attorney discriminated against United States citizens by offering preferential treatment only to illegal, alien, criminal defendants.

00:06:27.000 Now, stop for a second.

00:06:28.440 How is this possible?

00:06:29.880 what kind of prosecutor that says given every criminal defendant in front of us

00:06:35.860 let's discriminate against u.s citizens and let's favor illegal aliens well that is in fact what is

00:06:44.380 happening in northern virginia it's it's not only happening but i think when you look at

00:06:51.240 the reach what you realize is george soros understood that he was going to be able to buy

00:06:57.140 access to power he was going to be able to then use those individuals however he wanted to because

00:07:04.660 he's the one that got them elected and that meant going easy on the people that he said 0.63

00:07:10.340 regardless of what the law says are the actual criminal illegal immigrants including if they're 0.64

00:07:17.480 committing heinous crimes if he says you let him go you look the other way i'm the one that got you

00:07:22.940 elected apparently that's exactly what happened in this scenario well let me go through the facts

00:07:28.800 and and there's an article uh written by tim carney entitled team steve descano america's

00:07:36.040 worst prosecutor here's what it says murderers rapists perverts and pimps these are the folks

00:07:44.360 served by fairfax county prosecutor steve descano the george soros funded commonwealth's attorney 0.78

00:07:50.080 for the suburban county of one million has openly stated he won't enforce the law when it clashes

00:07:57.060 with his ideology. The results have been ugly. Richard Cox was already a serial sex offender

00:08:03.960 when he exposed himself in a woman's locker room in Fairfax, but Descano let him go and he

00:08:10.200 proceeded to expose himself in a high school girl's locker room. Abdul Jalla was arrested more than

00:08:17.660 30 times, including for malicious wounding, but was repeatedly set free. He is now accused of

00:08:26.120 stabbing Stephanie Mintner to death on February 23rd. Gret Glier was executed in his bed in a

00:08:37.060 calculated assassination. Descano last month let the killer go with an insanity plea, and a Chinese 0.92

00:08:45.500 pimp ran a brothel in a residential neighborhood across the street from a school bus stop.

00:08:53.140 While police did everything they could to shut it down, Descano's office dropped the

00:08:57.740 prostitution charges and let the place continue operating until the Republican Attorney General

00:09:03.260 got it shuttered. These are just a few of the stories that illustrate Descano's extreme

00:09:08.120 tolerance of criminals and harm to constituents. Descano is in office because of left-wing

00:09:14.220 billionaire George Soros. Descano was first elected as Fairfax County's Commonwealth's

00:09:19.280 Attorney in 2019 when he knocked off the incumbent, Raymond Morrow, in the Democrat primary,

00:09:26.000 winning by 1,500 votes in a low turnout election. Descano raised about $1 million

00:09:34.140 between the primary and the general election, a shocking amount for a down-ballot county race.

00:09:40.960 about two-thirds of his cash came from two Soros-funded organizations, the Justice and Public

00:09:47.460 Safety PAC and the New Virginia Majority PAC. This is a pattern. It's a pattern over and over

00:09:54.260 again. George Soros and the radical leftists, the Marxists then, they've discovered a vulnerability

00:10:00.780 in our democracy, in our constitutional republic, which is they can elect what are now called Soros

00:10:06.760 DAs. And these are DAs that make the decision, we're going to release murderers. We're going to

00:10:13.920 release rapists. We're going to release violent criminals. You know, you think about it. Virtually 1.00

00:10:19.200 every Democrat in the Senate has voted repeatedly in favor of abolishing the police. That is a

00:10:24.280 radical and nutty idea. Five years ago, if you asked any person in favor of abolishing the

00:10:30.580 police, people would say, no, no, that's crazy. Well, today's Democrat party, that is now

00:10:35.200 mainstream there is are two ways you abolish the police one you cut off the funding and shut down

00:10:41.280 the police and we've seen democrat cities do that from new york city to minneapolis to sadly austin

00:10:48.320 texas and our home state of texas but the second way you abolish the police is you elect a soros

00:10:55.040 da you flood millions of dollars from george soros you elect a da and by the way the police cannot

00:11:00.720 enforce the law if the DA will not prosecute. Doesn't do any good for the police to arrest

00:11:05.480 someone if the DA says, you know what, we're going to let these violent criminals go.

00:11:10.500 And so now you've got the Department of Justice going after this elected Soros DA

00:11:15.400 for giving sweetheart deals to illegal immigrants and favoring illegal immigrants over U.S.

00:11:22.740 citizens. It is shocking. And the most shocking thing is it's not shocking. That is

00:11:30.120 look, I think George Soros and his team of cronies have discovered a vulnerability in our

00:11:36.140 Democrat society, and we need to fight back against this. How do you fight back against

00:11:42.860 this? I mean, when you see the deals that are being made, I think every American should be

00:11:48.140 outraged over this. Illegal immigrants should not be able to walk away from the laws that they're 1.00

00:11:54.480 breaking but american citizens be held accountable for breaking those same laws but if you as you 1.00

00:12:00.060 mentioned if you have a da that decides to do this what are our options after that uh and when you

00:12:08.360 look into this investigation i gotta say this can't be just happening in one place it's probably

00:12:14.240 happening in by activist da's all over the country if this is the kickback that in essence soros was

00:12:20.240 guaranteeing himself. Yeah. The way you do it is you do what we're doing right now. You shine a

00:12:24.760 light on it. You go defeat him in elections. You go run candidates against him. You go run and say,

00:12:29.360 let me say a radical idea. Violent criminals should be in jail. Let me give you some facts

00:12:34.440 about Fairfax County DA Steve Descano. He reduced rape, which is normally punishable by up to life

00:12:42.820 in prison to misdemeanor assault, 90 days suspended sentence, no jail. He dropped gun

00:12:50.920 possession by illegal alien to brandishing. The result of it is he has released over and over

00:13:00.100 again, violent criminals and violent criminal illegal aliens. But I'll tell you, Virginia's

00:13:07.940 having a tough week because not only do they have a radical D.A. who the Department of Justice is

00:13:14.300 now investigating, but the head of the top Democrat in the state legislature, this extremely left-wing

00:13:23.400 Democrat, Virginia Senate President pro tempore Louise Lucas, has now had her offices raided by

00:13:33.440 the FBI, rated by the FBI for corruption. The FBI has executed court-authorized federal search

00:13:40.100 warrant in Portsmouth, Virginia, an FBI spokesperson, told the Washington Examiner,

00:13:44.460 adding there's no threat to public safety. This is an ongoing investigation. Now, what is the

00:13:49.240 investigation? By the way, this particular left-wing Democrat, she was the leading author

00:13:56.700 of Virginia's Democrat gerrymander that took their 6-5 Democrat majority in the congressional

00:14:04.960 delegation and drove it to 10-1. And by the way, this particular Democrat was particularly mad at

00:14:12.360 me. So when I pointed out that this was a corruption of democracy, to take a state where

00:14:18.740 nearly half of the citizens voted for Donald Trump and to gerrymander it so that 10 seats

00:14:25.800 would be democrat one would be republican she responded blasting me she said you all started it

00:14:32.600 blasting me we effing finished it well i gotta say right now she's being prosecuted for corruption

00:14:40.700 prosecuted for corruption in particular favoring marijuana distribution uh locations uh it's it's

00:14:49.600 an investigation examining possible corruption and bribery related to marijuana dispensary

00:14:55.920 businesses. And this is a bad, bad week for left-wing radical Democrats in Virginia.

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00:15:36.380 all right senator uh this is a very interesting and just weird story you have a liberal democratic 0.99

00:15:44.020 Congresswoman Jaipal, who defies President Trump, to literally go work with a foreign country, Cuba, 1.00

00:15:52.900 to try to get them oil. And I'm pretty sure that if I'm looking at this the right way,

00:15:59.380 this could be against the law. What she's now trying to do is, again, advocate for Cuba right 0.98

00:16:04.280 now. Well, Ben, let me make a statement that I don't want to be true. And I want to make the

00:16:10.080 statement, and then we're going to assess the facts to determine if it's true. Here's the

00:16:15.500 statement. Too many elected Democrats in Congress hate America and actively, aggressively, and

00:16:25.860 enthusiastically support the communist enemies of America. Now, as I say that, listen, as someone

00:16:33.260 who loves our country, I hate saying those words. I don't want them to be true. I want you to listen

00:16:39.180 to the words of Pramila Jayapal, who is a left-wing, progressive, communist member of the

00:16:47.800 Democrat Party from Washington. Listen to what she had to say about what she's been doing lately.

00:16:53.980 In January, Trump issued an executive order threatening tariffs on any country supplying

00:17:01.140 fuel to Cuba. This was this January, just a few months ago. And oil shipments from Venezuela,

00:17:06.960 that's where Cuba had been getting its oil, were halted after the U.S. operations to kidnap

00:17:13.340 Nicolas Maduro. Since January, only one Russian tanker of oil has made it to Cuba. In fact,

00:17:23.080 it landed just a couple of days before I landed. And one tanker has enough oil basically for 10

00:17:31.420 to 14 days of Cuba's oil needs. So it's a very limited amount of time. Now, Russia has said

00:17:38.420 they're going to send another tanker. I was in conversations with the ambassadors from Mexico

00:17:44.280 and some other places, and I know other countries in Latin America are trying to figure out how to

00:17:49.020 get oil there. But it is a crisis beyond imagination. Just this past Friday, on May 1st,

00:17:56.700 Trump signed a broad executive order that widens sanctions and allows for new penalties similar to what we have for Iran and Russia against foreign banks and firms that are dealing with Cuba, and it also reinforces the ban on U.S. tourism.

00:18:14.780 I have called these sanctions an economic bombing of the infrastructure of Cuba.

00:18:23.300 It is illegal. It is against the war. We've been talking about this in Iran, obviously, to bomb the infrastructure of any country.

00:18:29.720 That is against international law. This is essentially doing the same thing. 0.95

00:18:34.700 It is bombing the infrastructure of Cuba with economic sanctions that essentially ensure that the infrastructure collapses.

00:18:46.220 There's something interesting that she said there.

00:18:48.560 She kept saying the kidnap of Maduro like it was a crime center.

00:18:53.940 I'm like, which I mean, it's like whose side is she on?

00:18:57.560 Is it on the side of Maduro and the communist in Cuba?

00:19:01.140 because the way she said it there,

00:19:03.080 she was saying it like it was a crime what America was doing.

00:19:06.040 So listen, there used to be a rule 0.99

00:19:08.580 that politics ends at our water's edge.

00:19:12.260 I liked that rule.

00:19:14.080 I liked a time where we said, gosh,

00:19:16.700 Democrats and Republicans will disagree.

00:19:18.700 We'll disagree on how high the top marginal tax rate should be.

00:19:22.140 We'll disagree on some policy questions.

00:19:23.960 But when it comes to defending America,

00:19:26.440 when it comes to standing with American servicemen and women,

00:19:29.120 when it comes to standing up against our enemies,

00:19:31.140 We're going to stand united. Sadly, that is not this world. Representative Jayapal, who I've never met. She's a very, very left wing. She is part of the squad. She is part of AOC and Ilhan Omar and these extremely left wing House members.

00:19:48.800 look when she says the kidnapping of nicholas maduro understand nicholas maduro was indicted

00:19:54.540 for being a massive narco trafficker our fbi came down executed a legitimate arrest warrant

00:20:02.020 the delta force accompanied them to carry out that arrest warrant she describes it as the kidnapping

00:20:08.860 that is language that is identical to what every enemy of america would say the last i checked

00:20:16.040 executing a legitimate arrest warrant nicolas maduro number one he's he's a tyrant who's

00:20:22.000 responsible for massive oppression of his people for murder for torture for he has destroyed 0.59

00:20:28.200 venezuela just like hua chavez has but you know what that's not what he was indicted for that's 0.88

00:20:33.000 not what he was arrested for he is a huge narco trafficker and he has killed thousands of americans

00:20:39.840 through the drugs he's flooded into this country and her view is nicolas maduro is the victim 0.54

00:20:44.720 It is the evil American government that dared arrest this narco trafficker.

00:20:50.700 So on Cuba, understand, she is unambiguous. 0.68

00:20:54.640 She stands with the Cuban communist government.

00:20:57.080 And I will say this, my family was imprisoned and tortured by Cuban communists. 0.62

00:21:03.260 I don't take this as cute. 0.79

00:21:04.860 I don't take this as fun.

00:21:06.100 I get that she's from Washington state.

00:21:07.920 I get there are a bunch of leftists who snap their fingers at yes, yes, yes,

00:21:11.680 communism is wonderful because they're soft and and and weak and they hate america but i gotta

00:21:18.760 say the idea that they're actively trying to smuggle fuel into cuba because their objective is

00:21:26.960 they want the communist regime in cuba to stand to exist i find infuriating look ben

00:21:35.580 did you ever have a chance to meet my tia sonia i i yes i actually did once at an election event

00:21:42.760 okay my tia sonia my aunt she's my father's kid sister i i adored her she was an amazing

00:21:50.680 spectacular person she passed away earlier this year yeah my nickname what i've called her my 0.59

00:21:57.340 whole life is my tia loca which is spanish for crazy and she was a fireball she died at 82 she

00:22:03.780 lived a wonderful life, a life that I celebrate. She was in Cuba after the revolution. She fought

00:22:10.300 in the Cuban revolution. She was tortured in Cuban prisons. When she was dying, she lived in

00:22:17.880 Dallas. She was fading away earlier this year. And she was on her deathbed. We all knew she was

00:22:22.920 going. And I told her, it was right after Maduro had been arrested. And I told her, I said, yeah,

00:22:28.220 We just arrested Maduro. Cuba's next. Cuba is going to fall.

00:22:36.100 And I got to say, the look of joy in her face.

00:22:40.260 And there are millions of people in America, millions of Cubans, Americans, millions of Venezuelan Americans, millions of Chinese Americans and Korean Americans.

00:22:50.960 And everyone who has been a victim of communism, who has understood, listen, Ben, I believe communism is the most evil ideology that the world has ever produced.

00:23:03.080 There's been no ideology in American history and world history that has resulted in more murder, more torture, more slavery, more oppression, more poverty, and more misery than China.

00:23:18.800 and and to listen to an elected member of congress a leader of the democrat party 0.83

00:23:27.140 saying she desperately wants to smuggle fuel in because her objective is to save the communist

00:23:34.620 government in cuba i gotta say it it will be an amazing thing i don't know what's going to happen

00:23:40.120 in cuba but we have a greater opportunity right now than at any point in my lifetime to see the

00:23:45.280 communist regime fall. And then here's what I want to see happen. I want to see this communist

00:23:51.080 regime fall. I want to see a new government in Cuba that is democratically elected, that is

00:23:57.080 legitimate, that is just two things, that embraces free markets and that wants to be friends with

00:24:04.560 America. And let me tell you what that will look like if that happens. Number one, I would love to

00:24:10.940 see Cuba be this oasis of free enterprise, much like a Singapore or a Hong Kong before China took

00:24:18.340 it over. I think it could be extraordinary. But number two, Cuba has a massive advantage.

00:24:25.040 There are millions of Cuban expats, Cubans who fled Cuba, came to America seeking freedom,

00:24:32.300 who if Cuba had a free market government that was friends with America,

00:24:36.780 would eagerly invest in cuba there would be billions of dollars tens of billions of dollars

00:24:43.880 that would be invested in cuba you would see a mass of capital cuba is stuck in the dark ages

00:24:50.520 it's like going to cuba and i've never been i will go to cuba when we have a free cuba i do not wish

00:24:55.040 to go to cuba under communism but cuba the cars they drive you know the cars they drive are from

00:25:00.540 the 1950s yeah it's like the the movie the land that time forgot when the revolution happened

00:25:07.400 the cars stopped the innovation stopped the food stopped the misery stopped the poverty

00:25:13.200 everything froze in time and i'll tell you cuba has some of the most beautiful beaches on the

00:25:18.840 face of the planet if we have a free market government that's friends with america we will

00:25:25.060 see this tourist oasis, billions of dollars flooding into Cuba, and it's just 90 miles

00:25:31.580 off the coast of America.

00:25:32.720 And what befuddles me, I want to ask you this, Ben, take a minute, get in the mind 0.81

00:25:39.680 of a leftist, Congresswoman Premier Jayapal, why would you root for Cuban communists over 0.59

00:25:47.200 America? 0.65

00:25:48.280 All right, Senator, I want to get into, you got to take a tour of Neuralink.

00:25:53.620 And for people that don't know what Neuralink is, number one, explain it to us, what the

00:25:59.700 technology is and where this could be taking us.

00:26:02.920 Well, let me say, our first three stories on today's pod have been a little depressing.

00:26:08.580 Number one, a radical George Soros VA in Virginia favoring illegal immigrants over American

00:26:14.860 citizens, releasing murderers, rapists, violent criminals. 0.95

00:26:19.140 That's disturbing. 0.68

00:26:19.960 Number two, the lead Democrat, the Virginia Senate, her office is raided by the FBI for corruption, for corruption concerning marijuana dispensaries.

00:26:32.540 That's disturbing.

00:26:34.160 Number three, a Democrat member of the House openly supporting communist Cuba, trying to do everything she can to smuggle fuel into Cuba so that the communist regime continues oppressing the people.

00:26:46.580 That's disturbing.

00:26:48.140 This last segment, I don't want you guys to be down.

00:26:51.300 I want to give you a moment of optimism.

00:26:53.060 I want to give you a moment of hope.

00:26:55.420 Today, in Austin, Texas, I toured the facilities of Neuralink.

00:27:00.020 Neuralink is a company started by Elon Musk.

00:27:02.900 Elon is a good friend of mine.

00:27:04.780 I know Elon very well.

00:27:06.860 I've got to say, Neuralink feels like it's not real.

00:27:10.500 It feels like it's something out of science fiction.

00:27:13.760 I toured their facilities.

00:27:15.100 Their facilities are amazing.

00:27:16.300 Here's what they're doing.

00:27:17.860 They're creating technology that can implant in the human brain to help people who have lost basic abilities, who have lost mobility, who have lost speech, who have lost sight, to turn that around and give them a life again.

00:27:35.520 So, for example, what they do, they have a unit, and it's a unit about the size of a quarter.

00:27:41.080 So it's a little round disk.

00:27:42.340 Most of it is a battery.

00:27:43.320 and what they will do is they will drill a hole in someone's skull

00:27:47.560 about the size of a quarter. They will implant the unit and there are

00:27:51.740 128 little filaments, little strands. They are

00:27:55.840 incredibly thin. They're thinner than a strand of hair.

00:28:00.640 They have a robot surgeon

00:28:02.720 that will place each of these 128 strands

00:28:06.660 into different places in the brain where the sort of

00:28:11.760 round, quarter-sized piece is being embedded inside the skull.

00:28:18.320 What this will do, so let's take someone with ALS,

00:28:21.540 an incredibly debilitating disease that incapacitates people,

00:28:27.180 makes them unable to move, unable to communicate.

00:28:30.420 What they're able to do, or let's take someone that has a spinal cord injury,

00:28:33.840 that had a horrible accident, broke their spinal cord,

00:28:37.400 and so they're a paraplegic or quadriplegic.

00:28:39.240 They can't walk, they can't move their arms.

00:28:41.760 Neuralink is embedding these units in people's skulls that enable people who are paralyzed to move again.

00:28:53.440 They have all sorts of different mechanisms.

00:28:55.500 So, for example, they have one mechanism they're experimenting with, which is robot arms.

00:29:00.860 Robot arms.

00:29:01.700 So someone, imagine, God forbid, and look, Ben, you and I are blessed, and most of the folks listening are blessed.

00:29:07.900 We have our physical health.

00:29:08.940 imagine the nightmare of being a quadriplegic of being unable to move

00:29:13.500 what neural link lets you do is you can think and just your thoughts can move robot arms so you can

00:29:23.200 pick things up you can feed yourself you can manipulate things you can have the ability to

00:29:28.280 not only that for people with als or other debilitating diseases let's say you're unable

00:29:33.680 to speak. Neuralink right now is able to implant the threads in your brain, and you're able to

00:29:41.660 think, and the computer will speak for you. And I watch, they've implanted, they've done a lot of

00:29:49.540 animal experimentation, mostly on sheep, with great success. They've implanted it in 25 human

00:29:55.580 beings, and you have people who are unable to speak, but they think, and a computer will say,

00:30:00.060 i am speaking to you right now this is me thinking can you imagine look the madness of feeling

00:30:08.740 imprisoned in a cage in your brain yeah where your brain is functional you're smart you're aware

00:30:15.940 you're able to think but your body has shut down you cannot communicate neuralink lets someone

00:30:23.120 communicate. By the way, it also lets them, I saw

00:30:27.180 amazing videos, it lets them control, for example

00:30:31.180 a computer cursor online so you can draw art

00:30:34.880 just thinking. You can control the art and express yourself.

00:30:39.120 I saw one woman who was paralyzed just weeping

00:30:42.180 that she was able to have artistic expression.

00:30:48.020 Another component of it that is amazing, Ben,

00:30:50.260 is people who are blind people either born blind or or say they've had a an injury that damaged

00:30:57.880 their eyes or their optic nerve so they can't see neuralink is working on the technology so

00:31:05.780 that you can have a camera see what's in front of you and they broadcast that image to your brain

00:31:12.200 so you're able to see.

00:31:15.900 So this is technology

00:31:17.180 that lets people who are paralyzed and crippled

00:31:20.820 move and walk and have their arms

00:31:24.780 and have the ability to engage in the world. 0.81

00:31:27.560 That lets people who are blind see

00:31:30.260 and lets people who cannot speak, speak. 0.99

00:31:35.400 It is truly, it's a combination of magic and science fiction

00:31:39.860 and all of that is happening in our great state of texas it is unbelievable innovation i can't

00:31:46.080 imagine by the way how many people could be affected by this in a positive way millions

00:31:50.560 that i was going to say i'm assuming they gave you a briefing on that so it is in the millions

00:31:55.360 so so they have tens of thousands of people who signed up for their waiting list

00:32:01.500 so look the process and they talked to me about this they're they're doing

00:32:04.980 like watching their factory they're they're designing these neural links they have these so

00:32:10.080 i met with their team their neurosurgeons so when they go in for someone for a human that's going

00:32:15.800 in for the operation the neurosurgeon will will cut someone's uh the the the skin away from their

00:32:22.680 scalp will carve a little hole in in their skull about the size of a quarter and by the way where

00:32:29.440 they locate it depends on what they're trying to do so it's it's one place in the skull if they're

00:32:34.960 trying to do mobility because you're unable to move it's a different place in the skull if they're

00:32:38.580 trying to do sight it's a different place in the skull if they're trying to do speech because

00:32:42.320 there are different parts of the brain that the brain that does all that but the neurosurgeon

00:32:47.220 will cut it open but then the way they attach 128 tiny little filaments it's really cool they

00:32:54.640 built these robots that will just it's a needle and it's a tiny thin needle that will place each

00:33:01.520 of these filaments in different spots so that the filaments are in a place to connect with the

00:33:06.500 neurons and and to fill the the voids that we have and and i will say they expressed frustration

00:33:14.320 that the fda can be slow they're in the process of approving and one of the dynamics china is

00:33:19.600 rushing to develop this same technology and china the approvals are almost instantaneous and the fda

00:33:26.720 it is very very slow i'm working to speed this up because like the ability to to cure disease

00:33:36.000 imagine god forbid you were christopher reeve you were superman incredibly like virile strong

00:33:42.880 person you get in in an accident riding a horse you you break your neck and are paralyzed

00:33:47.920 imagine the transformational gift of being able to move again that's what this technology is

00:33:55.320 doing and i'm so proud that it's happening in our great state of texas it's awesome don't forget we

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