Verdict with Ted Cruz - Verdict Year End Week in Review： Goal Post Moved to Protect Joe, Democrat Congressman Carjacked, & WH Changes Course on Antisemitism

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00:00:04.240 Welcome.

00:00:04.940 It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:08.240 And as we get ready for a new year, it's important that we take a look back at some of the biggest

00:00:13.440 stories of this past year, give you some of those big stories and things to look forward to

00:00:19.540 or issues that you may need to be paying attention to heading into 2024.

00:00:24.020 The White House had a very interesting response, and this is the third change now in the goalposts

00:00:33.040 for Joe Biden's involvement with Hunter Biden's businesses.

00:00:36.560 The first was they never spoke about business ever.

00:00:40.620 Then they changed it to he was never in business with his son.

00:00:45.500 That was the goalposts moving yet again.

00:00:48.100 Now the White House's Ian Samms came out and moved the goalposts again when he said this.

00:00:54.960 The other allegations is the president was present at some of the meetings between Hunter

00:00:59.340 Biden and his business associates.

00:01:01.480 Why was the president at those meetings on those phone calls?

00:01:06.300 Well, again, I think this is part of the right wing's misinformation machine to try to confuse

00:01:10.800 people about what the truth is.

00:01:13.140 The truth is that the president, as he has said publicly for years, calls his family every

00:01:19.020 day to check in.

00:01:20.060 He calls his son every day to check in.

00:01:21.620 He calls his other family members to check in to see how they're doing.

00:01:24.620 He loves them.

00:01:25.220 They're a tight knit family.

00:01:27.140 And what the GOP's own witness testified in this case is that that's exactly what the

00:01:31.880 president was doing.

00:01:32.780 He was checking in with Hunter during a particularly hard time, I might add, a time where the family

00:01:37.820 was going through Hunter's brother, Beau's illness.

00:01:42.140 And of course, the president checks in with his son and talks to him.

00:01:45.180 But again, that witness testified no business dealings of Hunter Biden's or anyone's was

00:01:50.000 discussed in these conversations.

00:01:52.140 And so, again, they're trying to make this sort of strange connection when their own investigation

00:01:56.660 has disproven these claims.

00:01:59.300 Before I let you go in, has the president responded in terms of how the president has reacted to

00:02:04.440 this, especially somebody who's been in politics and been in Washington for as long as he has

00:02:09.360 been, the idea that he is now subject to an impeachment inquiry as president of the United

00:02:13.320 States.

00:02:13.720 What's his response to that?

00:02:15.380 You know, the president has been in politics for a long time.

00:02:17.760 And I think, as he would say, he's seen a lot of malarkey along the way.

00:02:20.660 But this might take the cake.

00:02:22.260 You know, he's focused on the issues that actually matter to the American people.

00:02:24.880 You just saw him spending the last week traveling around the world, shoring up our alliances,

00:02:29.720 advancing national interests in Asia, our economic interests in Asia, showing American

00:02:35.980 leadership on the world stage.

00:02:37.520 He's coming back here.

00:02:38.380 He's announcing today a quarter billion dollar investment in cancer research to try to finally

00:02:42.920 cure cancer.

00:02:43.960 That's what his administration and this president is focused on every day.

00:02:47.140 They're focused on the actual needs of the American people.

00:02:49.640 And I think what he would say is maybe the House Republicans should join him.

00:02:53.660 There's the part in there where he says that Joe Biden attended Hunter's business meetings

00:03:00.300 because he loves him.

00:03:01.940 That's the new goalpost that they just moved significantly from.

00:03:05.340 They never talked about business to then.

00:03:07.180 Well, they never worked together.

00:03:08.740 Now it's, well, he just went to the business meetings because he loves him.

00:03:11.740 Really?

00:03:12.120 That's the new excuse?

00:03:13.080 Well, look, I mean, what good and loving and devoted father hasn't called in 20 times to

00:03:22.400 his son's meeting with corrupt oligarchs who are paying millions of dollars in exchange

00:03:28.720 for favors from that father while he's sitting and serving as the vice president of the United

00:03:33.960 States?

00:03:34.340 I mean, that's really just what any good dad would do.

00:03:36.580 I mean, it really is, it's cynical because they point out that Joe's other son tragically

00:03:45.560 died of cancer.

00:03:46.280 So they want to wrap it in the sympathy of a human tragedy to say, well, of course, you

00:03:53.820 know, listen, why was Hunter getting paid the millions of dollars?

00:04:01.560 I didn't hear him say a word about that.

00:04:04.100 There's no value Hunter provides.

00:04:06.160 What was the value Hunter brought?

00:04:10.380 You know, Ben, you're a talented guy.

00:04:12.340 You're a charming guy.

00:04:14.100 Are there any foreign oligarchs calling you up saying, Ben, I want to wire millions of

00:04:18.380 dollars to you?

00:04:19.760 Zero.

00:04:21.240 That's not normal.

00:04:22.140 You know, they don't do that to anybody.

00:04:25.720 They only do it if you are providing value.

00:04:28.880 And what all of these talking heads, what all of these Democrat hacks are saying, what all

00:04:36.780 of the corporate media puppets are refusing to answer is, is what did Hunter get in exchange

00:04:43.800 for the tens of millions of dollars?

00:04:46.360 And according to the House, it could be north of 20, 30 million dollars.

00:04:50.380 We're talking massive amounts of money.

00:04:52.840 And by the way, not money from, you know, normal American companies, not money from our friends

00:05:01.240 and allies.

00:05:01.980 It wasn't money from France.

00:05:03.360 It wasn't money from Italy.

00:05:04.600 It wasn't money from the United Kingdom.

00:05:06.220 It wasn't money from Japan.

00:05:08.380 It was money from China, Russia, Ukraine.

00:05:14.940 They singled out nations with very significant antagonism and hostility to America and some

00:05:26.620 of the most corrupt nations on earth.

00:05:30.720 And there is no innocent explanation.

00:05:33.160 By the way, you don't hear any of these Democrats explaining why did Joe Biden have multiple

00:05:37.400 burner phones?

00:05:38.300 Why did he have fake emails?

00:05:39.640 Why did he use fake emails to send emails to his son Hunter about Ukraine on government

00:05:46.160 email while Hunter was getting paid millions of dollars?

00:05:51.260 All of that, the Democrats want you to ignore and say, well, gosh, Joe's just a loving dad.

00:05:58.960 And that's what loving dads do.

00:06:00.480 They help their sons make $30 million from corrupt oligarchs who are enemies of America.

00:06:06.820 I want to get back to this montage, Senator, that was one that went viral.

00:06:10.920 And I hope you will give this to your friends, share it on social media, because it's another

00:06:15.980 example of how many lies have been told by the Bidens and how much the media has been

00:06:19.940 willing to cover for them.

00:06:20.860 And this is what this impeachment inquiry is going to be all about.

00:06:24.680 Never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else anything having to do with

00:06:30.560 their businesses.

00:06:31.600 President Biden met with at least 14 of Hunter's business associates while he was vice president.

00:06:37.200 Then vice president Joe Biden had dinner with his son Hunter, along with Hunter's business

00:06:41.680 associates from Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan.

00:06:44.460 And the day after the dinner, a Burisma executive sent a note to Hunter quoting, dear Hunter,

00:06:50.280 thank you for inviting me to D.C. and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spend

00:06:55.380 some time together.

00:06:56.740 Hunter's lucrative business dealings often included giving as much as 50 percent of his

00:07:01.920 earnings to his dad.

00:07:03.460 The text read, quote, I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this

00:07:08.040 entire family for 30 years.

00:07:09.800 It's really hard, but don't worry, unlike Pop, I won't make you give me half your salary.

00:07:14.740 His son, Hunter, joining the then vice president on the official visit to Beijing.

00:07:19.380 Unknown to the press back then, Hunter Biden was forming a Chinese private equity fund,

00:07:24.060 planning to raise money, including from Chinese investors.

00:07:27.200 Ten days after the Biden's trip, Shanghai authorities issued the fund's business license.

00:07:32.300 And Hunter introduced me as this is Tony, dad, the individual I told you about that's helping

00:07:38.260 us with the business that we're working on and the Chinese.

00:07:41.260 The email reads this way, quote, at the moment, there's a provisional agreement that the equity

00:07:45.620 will be distributed as follows.

00:07:47.700 Ten held by Hunter for the big guy.

00:07:50.160 I thousand percent sit here and know that the big guy is referencing Joe Biden.

00:07:54.740 I met with the former vice president in person multiple times.

00:07:58.400 A newly revealed text message shows Bobulinski was apparently warned by business partner James

00:08:03.400 Gillier.

00:08:03.840 Don't mention Joe being involved.

00:08:06.460 It's only when you are face to face.

00:08:08.360 I know you know that, but they are paranoid.

00:08:10.900 Chinese executives admitted to reporters that they were actually introduced to the vice

00:08:15.660 president by Hunter Biden.

00:08:17.700 Hunter and the then vice president, seen with a pair of Mexican billionaires.

00:08:21.720 At the same time, Hunter had been working on energy deals in Mexico.

00:08:25.500 Joe Biden also had Hunter and his business partner fly on Air Force Two to Mexico.

00:08:30.660 His closest business partner, Hunter, has made at least 19 visits to the White House and

00:08:34.780 other official locations, including a sit down with then vice president Joe Biden in

00:08:39.140 the West Wing.

00:08:39.940 There's photographic evidence of Biden on a golf outing with both his son, Hunter, and

00:08:44.420 a man called Devin Archer, who was another member of the Burisma Board.

00:08:48.460 We also know that Devin Archer in that picture had a meeting in the White House, one-on-one

00:08:53.200 meeting with Joe Biden about a week before they joined the Burisma Board.

00:08:57.640 You hear that, Senator, and this explains exactly why this impeachment inquiry is going to be

00:09:05.240 so important.

00:09:06.740 Well, it does.

00:09:07.580 It also explains why the Democrat talking point and the corporate media talking point that

00:09:13.360 there is no evidence of Joe Biden's corruption is flatly false.

00:09:18.340 And I got to say, James Carville saying he's really looking forward to hearings on this.

00:09:23.100 Well, you know what, James?

00:09:24.480 So am I.

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00:09:56.620 I want to move to something else that obviously got pushed back in the headlines, but it still is

00:10:00.720 important.

00:10:01.500 The crime wave that we're seeing is not just sweeping the nation, but now it's affecting

00:10:07.020 Democratic leaders and leaders in the liberal movement like we haven't seen before.

00:10:13.100 And it's happening way more often.

00:10:14.360 I'll give you an example.

00:10:15.700 You have a Democratic representative, Henry Queller, who was carjacked at gunpoint in

00:10:21.340 D.C.

00:10:22.640 This comes as in just the past, well, it was in a 24-hour period.

00:10:27.100 You had a liberal gay reporter that was shot and killed in his home in Philly.

00:10:31.740 You had a far-left activist that was stabbed to death by a deranged stranger in Brooklyn in 0.93

00:10:37.800 front of his girlfriend.

00:10:38.480 You had this Democratic congressman who was carjacked at gunpoint in D.C. by four African-American

00:10:43.680 men.

00:10:44.720 And yet we have Democrats who have a soft on crime policies that aren't just hurting their

00:10:51.760 neighborhoods that I mentioned, these different spots, but it's hurting people in Texas as

00:10:55.440 well.

00:10:56.100 And almost every House Democrat voted against the Republican efforts to stop the D.C.

00:11:02.760 weak on crime bill, which specifically would have reduced carjacking penalties.

00:11:09.220 This is something that the Democrats, I mean, they voted for this.

00:11:13.840 Aldridge, for example, voted with the Dems on this one.

00:11:16.600 It's shocking to me.

00:11:18.900 Well, listen, crime is out of control in this country.

00:11:20.860 And it's an issue that has people understandably very concerned.

00:11:24.440 I watched tonight the video of the liberal activist in New York at four in the morning being stabbed

00:11:32.400 to death on the streets of New York by a guy that certainly appears deranged.

00:11:36.520 It was horrific to watch.

00:11:38.700 You're right, the news of the left-wing journalist in Philadelphia who was shot, I think, seven

00:11:44.420 times in his own home and killed in the past few days.

00:11:47.820 And Henry Cuellar.

00:11:49.120 Look, Henry Cuellar is a Democrat congressman from Texas.

00:11:51.820 I know Henry well.

00:11:52.540 Henry represents Laredo up to San Antonio.

00:11:55.620 Henry is the most conservative of the Texas Democrats.

00:11:59.240 I worked hand-in-hand with Henry, for example, on the Texas bridges.

00:12:05.260 We've talked on this podcast before about four bridges from Texas to Mexico that Henry and

00:12:10.500 I teamed up in and won big legislative victories to build new bridges to Mexico for legal commerce,

00:12:15.840 to expand bridges.

00:12:17.940 Henry, as I said, is by far the most conservative of the Texas Democrats.

00:12:21.640 Well, in the last couple of days, Henry was coming to his apartment in D.C.

00:12:27.080 It was 9.30 at night, and he was getting out of his car, and he was carjacked.

00:12:30.220 He was carjacked by four individuals.

00:12:31.740 They put a gun in his face.

00:12:32.980 They stole the car.

00:12:34.420 They stole his luggage.

00:12:36.560 Presumably, I haven't spoken to Henry since it happened, but you have to assume that with

00:12:40.520 a gun in his face, he was afraid for his life.

00:12:43.100 I mean, that is frightening.

00:12:44.180 My understanding is Henry lives at an apartment building where there are multiple members of

00:12:50.480 Congress who live there.

00:12:51.660 There are apparently multiple members of congressional leadership who live there, which means there

00:12:56.440 are a lot of Capitol Police around there.

00:12:58.060 And at 9.30 at night, he was carjacked on the streets of D.C., and then that reflects the

00:13:04.840 crime wave that is sweeping this country.

00:13:06.640 Now, the D.C. City Council, which is populated by left-wing Democrats, they voted to lower

00:13:14.660 the penalties for violent crimes, including carjackings.

00:13:17.680 In particular, they voted to lower the sentence from 21 years to seven years, and they voted

00:13:27.440 to lower the sentence from 40 years, if armed, to 15 years.

00:13:32.240 And under the revised code, carjacking is now divided into three gradations, dependent

00:13:38.560 on severity, with the lowest penalties for an unarmed offense ranging from four to 18

00:13:44.880 years, and the highest penalties from an armed offense ranging from 12 to 24 years.

00:13:50.820 Now, in the Congress, thankfully, the Congress has the ability to rescind any legislation in

00:13:56.200 the District of Columbia, and the reason for that is the Constitution gives Congress total

00:14:01.260 authority over D.C., unlike a state.

00:14:03.180 We can't rescind laws in Texas or any other state, but D.C. is a federal district, and

00:14:08.080 Congress has plenary authority over it.

00:14:10.380 And so in Congress, we voted to rescind these softened crime laws that lessened the penalties

00:14:15.220 for violent crimes, and the results are horrific as we're seeing carjacking, murders, crime

00:14:23.340 rates skyrocketing in D.C. and all across the country.

00:14:26.420 You also have the White House, who was asked about part of this, and I want to play that

00:14:31.900 for everybody.

00:14:32.640 Take a listen.

00:14:33.780 If a member of Congress is not safe on the streets of the nation's Capitol, who is?

00:14:40.320 Look, we're grateful and relieved that the Congressman is unharmed.

00:14:45.380 We understand what communities are going through across the country, not just in D.C.

00:14:49.880 That's why the president took action very early on in his administration to get the American 0.67

00:14:54.940 Rescue Plan done, without the help of Republicans.

00:14:58.000 That's why every time he puts forward his budget, he makes sure there are billions of dollars

00:15:02.100 to deal with crime.

00:15:03.420 That's just a fact.

00:15:04.700 All you've got to look at is what the president has been able to do this past two years.

00:15:08.600 There's always going to be more work to be done, but the fact is, the president has

00:15:13.080 taken action.

00:15:14.460 He hasn't taken action.

00:15:16.040 He's done the opposite of that.

00:15:17.640 She didn't have an answer to that. 0.97

00:15:19.060 Holy crap, if a Democrat congressman is getting carjacked on the streets of D.C. 0.98

00:15:23.360 at 9.30 p.m., what the heck is the answer? 0.98

00:15:26.500 And she's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not going to answer that.

00:15:29.620 And what was her answer?

00:15:30.660 Well, you know, Joe Biden's spending a ton of money, mind you, not actually putting

00:15:35.020 criminals in jail, not supporting police, not doing anything to stop crime.

00:15:38.700 But he's shoveling a whole lot of cash at Democrat special interest groups.

00:15:43.280 He's shoveling a whole lot of cash at deficit spending that's causing rampant inflation.

00:15:48.040 That is her answer.

00:15:49.260 It's an utter non sequitur.

00:15:51.320 And by the way, it's not just Henry Cuellar.

00:15:53.880 Angie Craig, who is a Democrat member of Congress from Minnesota, was assaulted in the apartment 1.00

00:15:59.560 of her D.C. 0.67

00:16:01.140 Her D.C. apartment in February of this year.

00:16:04.160 And this is a pattern that is happening over and over and over again.

00:16:09.380 And let me give you some stats.

00:16:11.080 Carjackings in D.C. are up 109 percent.

00:16:16.760 Robberies are up 68 percent.

00:16:20.300 Theft is up 22 percent.

00:16:23.800 Homicides are up 38 percent.

00:16:27.120 And the city is on pace for the deadliest year in two decades.

00:16:32.260 Not only that, nine of the top 10 cities with the highest homicide rights are run by Democrats.

00:16:39.000 Twenty-seven of the top 30 cities with the highest murder rates are run by Democrats.

00:16:44.000 This is a pattern.

00:16:46.580 And you're saying Corrine Jean-Pierre and the Biden White House utterly dodging responsibilities

00:16:52.920 for their soft on crime policies that are endangering people all across the country.

00:16:59.280 One last question for you.

00:17:01.020 Will Democrats move on this?

00:17:02.640 Because even the White House president was asked a question, a follow-up,

00:17:06.060 where she could have kind of gotten a redo.

00:17:07.960 I got to play it.

00:17:08.740 It's too good not to.

00:17:09.720 If President Biden's policies are helping bring crime down,

00:17:14.600 would he be comfortable with somebody borrowing his Corvette

00:17:17.380 and parking it on the street overnight in southeast D.C.?

00:17:20.580 I'm not going to get into hypotheticals.

00:17:22.300 I'm just going to get into the facts about what this president has done in this president.

00:17:26.240 I mean, she's still screwed it up.

00:17:28.480 Look, of course not.

00:17:30.180 Nobody would.

00:17:31.060 You park your Corvette on the street, it's going to get robbed.

00:17:33.380 It's going to get broken into.

00:17:34.460 It's going to get keyed.

00:17:35.220 It's going to get vandalized.

00:17:36.800 She can't answer that question.

00:17:38.540 And so, you know what she's counting on?

00:17:41.100 Look, that was a question from Fox News.

00:17:44.740 So Fox will cover it.

00:17:46.460 Ben, you worked for years at CNN.

00:17:49.100 Did CNN cover that exchange?

00:17:50.720 Hell no.

00:17:52.000 MSNBC?

00:17:53.540 No.

00:17:54.620 ABC, NBC, CBS?

00:17:56.420 Nope.

00:17:57.360 They know that the corporate media,

00:17:59.700 they are the puppets for the administration.

00:18:03.500 They are the propagandists for the administration.

00:18:05.520 They will repeat the regime line.

00:18:08.980 And so, look, any sane person would say no to the question,

00:18:14.480 would you be happy with your classic Corvette parked on the streets of D.C.?

00:18:19.940 Of course not.

00:18:21.760 Because crime is out of control.

00:18:24.800 And the problem is, look, let me underscore that again.

00:18:29.260 When the D.C.

00:18:30.360 City Council looked at skyrocketing crime rates and said, you know what the answer here is?

00:18:34.960 Let's lower the penalties on violent crime.

00:18:37.000 That's the best solution.

00:18:38.060 We've got too many murderers, too many carjackings.

00:18:41.560 Let's send people to jail for shorter times for murder and carjacking. 0.58

00:18:45.760 That's a great idea.

00:18:46.580 In Congress, thankfully, we overturned that.

00:18:50.580 In the House, every single House Democrat except two,

00:18:57.540 Vicente Gonzalez, a Texan, and Henry Cuellar, a Texan who was just carjacked in the last 48 hours,

00:19:03.860 are the only two who voted no.

00:19:06.520 That means every other House Democrat.

00:19:07.920 If you can think of a House Democrat, they voted in favor of lessening the penalties on carjackers and on murderers.

00:19:16.800 Why do you think crime is out of control?

00:19:18.700 Yeah, this is a Democratic Party, and this is certainly going to be an issue with the presidential election.

00:19:22.960 Don't forget.

00:19:23.640 Ben, Ben, Ben, hold on.

00:19:24.520 Before we wrap up, I want to ask you a final question.

00:19:26.840 I'm ready.

00:19:27.780 If you're standing by a doorway and you see a little red box that is three inches by four inches,

00:19:33.120 and it says the word fire on it, and it says, pull this for the fire alarm,

00:19:39.420 my question to you is, is that a doorknob?

00:19:42.660 That is not a doorknob, and that is not a way to exit the building.

00:19:46.600 But how do you know?

00:19:47.540 How do you know, Ben?

00:19:48.840 Seriously.

00:19:49.760 I mean, look, it's not like you—

00:19:51.640 Isn't that insurrectionism 101, right?

00:19:53.820 Like, don't you immediately lock that person up forever?

00:19:56.520 Well, let me ask you this.

00:19:57.720 It's not like you were a high school principal.

00:20:00.920 It's not like you were a high school principal in a high school that had fire alarms.

00:20:04.300 It's not like you were a high school principal in a high school that had fire alarms,

00:20:07.420 that had a policy that said if you, a student, pulls the fire alarm, you will be expelled.

00:20:13.860 Jamal Bowman, the Democrat congressman, was a principal at a high school that had a policy

00:20:18.660 that if you, Ben Ferguson, a student in his high school, pulled the fire alarm, you would be expelled.

00:20:23.880 And yet what did Jamal Bowman do?

00:20:26.020 Oh, I'm going to pull the fire alarm because I want to stop the Republican vote.

00:20:29.680 And why is it his claim, if you believe him, his defense is, 0.93

00:20:36.360 I'm dumber than a box of rocks and I think a fire alarm is a doorknob. 0.70

00:20:40.460 That is his defense, and that's the best interpretation he can hope for. 0.98

00:20:44.900 By the way, I have to ask now, because you brought it up.

00:20:47.520 If a Republican would have done that, how fast would they have been kicked out of Congress?

00:20:52.600 And would they have a mugshot at this point?

00:20:54.740 To be honest, I don't think they'd be kicked out of Congress, but I think they might have a mugshot.

00:21:00.600 And my guess is, look, kicking people out of Congress is pretty severe.

00:21:06.660 My guess is the votes won't be there for that.

00:21:08.720 My prediction is they will censure him.

00:21:11.340 I think the votes will be there for censuring him.

00:21:13.620 But it is a criminal offense in the District of Columbia to pull a fire alarm fraudulently.

00:21:18.360 And he is on video doing that.

00:21:21.360 But he is counting on the corporate media to ignore the fact that he was willing to pull a fire alarm

00:21:27.800 to try to stop the Congress from voting on a provision that he didn't like,

00:21:31.980 which, mind you, was a provision to fund the government.

00:21:33.920 And he wanted to force a government shutdown.

00:21:36.040 So he pulled a fire alarm to cause it to happen.

00:21:38.800 But again, he knew the corporate media would cover for him, and they're doing it right now.

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00:22:13.620 Senator, I want to play for you quickly the White House.

00:22:18.340 And the White House got themselves in some trouble because the president has mostly been saying the right things.

00:22:25.280 But the White House and the staffers, completely different story.

00:22:29.980 Take a listen to the White House press briefing.

00:22:31.680 What is his level of concern right now about the potential rise of anti-Semitism in light of everything that's going on in Israel?

00:22:39.340 So a couple of things.

00:22:40.740 Look, we have not seen any credible threats.

00:22:45.680 I know there's been always questions about credible threats.

00:22:49.820 And so I just want to make sure that that's out there.

00:22:52.620 But look, Muslim and those perceived to be Muslim have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks.

00:22:59.640 And certainly President Biden understands that many of our Muslim Arab Americans and Palestinian-American loved ones and neighbors are worried about the hate being directed at their communities.

00:23:10.620 And that is something you heard the president speak to in his address just last Thursday.

00:23:16.480 And so one of the things that the president has done is directed his homeland security team to prioritize prevention and disruption of any emerging threats that could harm the Jewish, the Muslim, Arab Americans, or any other communities.

00:23:30.780 And that is something that the president has sought to do since day one.

00:23:35.220 And as you know, the president ran on protecting communities, obviously, but bringing people together, protecting the soul of the nation.

00:23:46.700 And so that is something that the president takes very, very seriously.

00:23:51.580 And we're going to continue to denounce any sort of hate towards any American here.

00:23:57.120 And so that's what we're going to continue to be steadfast on.

00:23:59.660 And again, he has advised, directed his homeland security team to make sure that they're on top of this.

00:24:05.820 Now, Senator, the part about this that's so laughable is the White House press secretary has now come out and said, quote,

00:24:13.800 she misheard the anti-Semitism question only because of the massive backlash from that answer.

00:24:22.060 Well, it really is striking that the White House press secretary is unwilling to stand up and clearly and unequivocally condemn anti-Semitism,

00:24:28.320 say anti-Semitism is wrong.

00:24:30.460 It is evil.

00:24:31.180 It is a unique evil that has existed on the face of this planet for thousands of years.

00:24:36.040 And we are completely opposed to it.

00:24:38.520 Moreover, we will ensure that law enforcement resources are there to protect Jewish Americans.

00:24:44.060 I'll tell you, Jewish communities across this country have a level of concern and a level of fear unlike any time I've ever seen.

00:24:51.020 As the anti-Semitism on college campuses, there was a Jewish student at Columbia who was beaten with a stick in recent days,

00:25:00.800 the threats of violence on campuses because the anti-Israel, the Jew-hating far left, is so extreme that there is a real threat of violence

00:25:13.000 against the American Jewish community and, for that matter, the Jewish community worldwide in Europe and elsewhere.

00:25:18.960 And I've got to say, her answer to that was striking in that the Babylon Bee, which does a fabulous job as a humor and satire site,

00:25:30.420 they had an article that they hadn't published, but they tweeted it out today,

00:25:36.180 and they said it's hard to stay ahead of reality at the Babylon Bee.

00:25:39.060 We had this written up last night only to wake up and see the White House doing exactly this before we had a chance to publish.

00:25:45.400 And here was the fake satirical headline that they had written and they were getting ready to publish when Corrine Jean-Pierre beat them to the punch.

00:25:53.080 The fake headline read,

00:25:55.360 In strong response to rising hate crimes against Jews, Democrats denounce Islamophobia.

00:26:01.400 That's exactly what she did.

00:26:03.000 Yeah.

00:26:03.080 And it's, and I tweeted out, no longer satire, just sad, because their view, listen, when it comes to the anti-Semitic bigots,

00:26:12.960 when it comes to the squad, when it comes to the 35 student groups at Harvard and the radicals running our college campuses,

00:26:21.520 the Biden White House, and I would have to assume including Corrine Jean-Pierre,

00:26:25.640 side with the radicals against the people of Israel and against even American Jews.

00:26:30.760 Their answer, they say, we've seen no credible threat of anti-Semitism in America, really.

00:26:38.340 Well, where the hell have you been if you haven't seen any?

00:26:41.200 Because I got to tell you, the Jewish community is feeling it acutely, 0.84

00:26:45.580 and we've seen multiple horrific acts of violence directed against Jews, directed against synagogues,

00:26:50.940 including mass murders in the United States.

00:26:53.140 And for the White House to say they've seen no credible threat is truly absurd.

00:26:57.740 Yeah, I was talking literally today to a dear friend of mine who's Jewish that works very close to Times Square in a largely Jewish community,

00:27:06.800 and he said they had been told by local law enforcement to really be on high alert and be careful,

00:27:13.460 and even had recommended that they travel together in groups, not be isolated alone,

00:27:18.040 and to be careful at their places of business.

00:27:21.600 That is what he said to me today, and yet the White House is acting like none of that's happening at all.

00:27:26.300 It is sad, and today's Democrat Party is captive to the far left.

00:27:32.800 And I will say, I've had conversations with multiple people on the left who are not deeply political,

00:27:39.400 who are shocked at the open anti-Semitism that is arising on the far left.

00:27:46.160 It's been there for a long time, but if you're not paying close attention,

00:27:49.540 it takes something like the events of the last couple of weeks to really bring in a stark relief,

00:27:53.780 and I hope this is opening some eyes.

00:27:55.520 We're going to keep covering it.

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00:28:01.900 We can promise you that.

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - December 30, 2023

Verdict Year End Week in Review： Goal Post Moved to Protect Joe, Democrat Congressman Carjacked, & WH Changes Course on Antisemitism

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