Verdict with Ted Cruz - December 29, 2023


Verdict Year in Review Part 2： 9⧸11 Shocker, Garland Stonewalls Congress & Iranian Infiltration into the Biden Administration

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Sen. Ted Cruz decries the plea deal for the suspected mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four other suspects in the attack on the U.S. on September 11th, 2001, and the decision to grant them a plea deal.

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00:00:05.340 Welcome.
00:00:06.080 It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:09.460 And let me first say to all of you, I hope that you are having a fabulous little break
00:00:14.860 with your time for your family and your friends from Christmas to New Year's.
00:00:18.980 And it's important that we take a look back at some of the biggest stories that happened
00:00:23.200 in 2023 and the most important issues that may come up in 2024.
00:00:28.080 It is our year-end review.
00:00:30.400 Take a listen.
00:00:31.560 A Pentagon email or a letter that went to the families from 9-11 who lost loved ones during
00:00:38.540 that attack and the suspected mastermind of 9-11 attacks, as well as four other defendants.
00:00:44.660 Apparently, they could all escape the death penalty under a, quote, new plea deal where
00:00:50.140 they would plead guilty and then it would save their lives literally.
00:00:55.040 Now, there are a lot of people that have direct connection to 9-11 that are beyond furious
00:01:00.600 over this.
00:01:01.360 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is the mastermind behind 9-11. 0.99
00:01:05.300 He was the CEO of this 9-11 attack.
00:01:08.240 He was the one that came up with it with Osama bin Laden.
00:01:11.960 He had in his writings before we caught him and had said publicly that his goal was to kill 0.98
00:01:16.520 as many Americans as possible.
00:01:18.040 And he wanted to have mass mass casualties, not just on 9-11, but after 9-11.
00:01:24.080 He also was planning other attacks as well.
00:01:27.280 That suspected mastermind now would be, in essence, given a deal.
00:01:30.300 Now, Senator, I think the pullback that the curtain here, you and I talked about this, is
00:01:35.300 the fact that this seems to be the department, the Pentagon and the Biden administration saying
00:01:41.320 no one wants these people, they're too dangerous, these five men, including the mastermind of
00:01:47.060 9-11.
00:01:48.160 So we want to close down Gitmo, and the way we could close it down is giving these five
00:01:54.580 defendants a plea deal so we can wrap up Guantanamo Bay and say, look, we closed this
00:02:00.420 thing down.
00:02:01.840 Aren't we great people?
00:02:03.940 That is the most, I think, disgusting part of this deal is it's just for a political purpose
00:02:09.300 for them.
00:02:09.880 This story is absolutely outrageous, and I think everyone hearing it should be shocked
00:02:17.140 and should be furious.
00:02:19.480 On September 11th, deranged radical Islamic terrorists carried out the worst terrorist 0.60
00:02:28.140 attack in the history of the United States of America.
00:02:31.560 They murdered 2,977 innocent people.
00:02:37.620 It was horrific.
00:02:40.260 It was an act of war.
00:02:42.260 It was an act of war that was planned and executed to attempt to cripple the United States. 0.88
00:02:54.440 Every one of us who was alive and an adult at the time remembers where they were on September
00:03:02.640 11th, remembers where they were when they saw the image of the first plane hitting the first
00:03:08.220 tower in New York City, and then the second plane hitting the second tower in New York City.
00:03:14.720 You remember where you were when the plane flew into the Pentagon, and you remember where they
00:03:21.400 were when the brave heroes took the plane down over that hallowed field in Pennsylvania.
00:03:28.660 Yesterday, the Biden administration sent letters to the families of the victims of the nearly 3,000 people
00:03:40.740 murdered that day saying, by the way, the guy who planned it, the guy who was the mastermind behind it,
00:03:47.280 the guy who plotted it, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four others who were active participants
00:03:53.680 in the worst act of terrorism in U.S. history, we may not seek the death penalty for them.
00:03:59.860 If you don't seek the death penalty for murdering nearly 3,000 people in an act of war,
00:04:07.040 then what the hell do you seek the death penalty for?
00:04:10.720 It is outrageous, and it's infuriating.
00:04:15.100 You look at these charges, and I go to just to remind people of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
00:04:21.660 This is an individual that worked hand-in-hand with Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.
00:04:26.520 He was the leader of al-Qaeda's propaganda operations, and that was really recruitment.
00:04:32.320 He needed to recruit soldiers for jihad. 0.59
00:04:34.620 He was in charge and was incredibly successful at the propaganda that brought people in,
00:04:42.340 especially in the Middle East, from different countries into al-Qaeda.
00:04:45.740 He did that so well from 1999 to 2001 that some described him as the number one recruiter of terrorists in the world.
00:04:55.440 When we captured him, just so people remember, in 2003, there were several countries that wanted him
00:05:03.560 because they wanted to kill him, and what we did is we wanted intel out of him
00:05:08.080 because he knew about the entire operations, and he could lead us to Osama bin Laden.
00:05:12.640 When we interrogated him in March 2007, he finally confessed to what we already knew.
00:05:19.680 He was the mastermind of the 9-11 attacks. 0.80
00:05:21.820 The Richard Reed shoe bombing attempt to blow up an airliner, he was also the mastermind of that.
00:05:27.680 The Bali nightclub bombing in Indonesia, he was involved in that.
00:05:31.800 The 1993 World Trade Center bombings.
00:05:35.620 The murder of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter.
00:05:39.820 And various other foiled attacks, as well as numerous other crimes, he was involved with.
00:05:46.200 It wasn't just 9-11. 0.74
00:05:48.820 And that's why, clearly, he deserves the death penalty.
00:05:53.360 What he was charged with was first-degree murder, 2,977 counts for everyone that died on 9-11, 0.83
00:06:01.060 attacking civilians.
00:06:02.860 He was charged with that, attacking civilian objects, intentionally causing serious bodily injury,
00:06:09.380 murder in the violation of the law of war, destruction of property in violation of the law of war,
00:06:14.460 or hijacking or hazarding a vessel or aircraft.
00:06:18.360 Then he was charged with multiple counts of terrorism.
00:06:21.100 And then all of the other things I just listed, why would anyone at the Pentagon,
00:06:26.980 unless it's political pressure from this White House, because the White House, to be clear, Senator, could stop this, right?
00:06:32.400 They could step in here and say, no, you're not going to do this, right?
00:06:35.560 You're not going to let this guy live and let him plead guilty.
00:06:38.180 So I think it's two things.
00:06:40.720 One, I think, when it comes to criminal law, this administration is populated by left-wing ideologues.
00:06:50.580 And in the entire time Joe Biden has been president,
00:06:56.580 the Department of Justice has not authorized a single new death penalty prosecution under Merrick Garland.
00:07:04.000 They've halted death penalty prosecutions.
00:07:07.560 And in fact, Joe Biden campaigned on ending the federal death penalty.
00:07:13.980 His criminal justice platform included a pledge laid out on his campaign website that said,
00:07:19.460 quote, to work to pass legislation to eliminate the death penalty at the federal level
00:07:23.360 and incentivize states to follow the federal government's example.
00:07:26.820 And he said those convicted of the most egregious federal crimes, quote,
00:07:31.140 should instead serve life sentences without probation or parole.
00:07:38.580 And since Merrick Garland took office, he has not sought the death penalty.
00:07:44.140 And by the way, that includes the deranged murderer in El Paso that went into the Walmart
00:07:51.460 seeking to murder Hispanics on a blatant racist hate crime.
00:07:57.920 And the Biden Department of Justice did not seek the death penalty there.
00:08:02.160 Instead, he was sentenced to 90 life sentences.
00:08:04.780 He might be executed by the state of Texas.
00:08:06.960 And in fact, I have every confidence that the state of Texas is going to prosecute that monster 0.91
00:08:12.300 and carry out capital punishment on him. 0.81
00:08:16.080 But the feds, the feds, you commit a horrible racist hate crime and mass murder.
00:08:22.340 The Biden DOJ, they won't consider the death penalty.
00:08:26.600 And when you're talking about terrorism, it is it is this is the worst act of terrorism in U.S. history.
00:08:36.500 And yet these left wing ideologues, they don't want to hold the mastermind of murdering nearly 3,000 Americans accountable.
00:08:47.560 It is it is so profoundly disrespectful, not just to the families of the victims,
00:08:53.440 not just to the Americans who were murdered that day, but but to everyone in this country.
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00:11:02.660 The Attorney General Merrick Garland.
00:11:05.340 He was testifying before Congress on the latest on the impeachment inquiry.
00:11:09.420 And your overall reaction I want to get because I was shocked, not really by his arrogance this time, by his, I would say, lack of just candid answers to basic questions that were asked of him.
00:11:24.180 Were you shocked by his demeanor?
00:11:26.680 You know, unfortunately, I wasn't.
00:11:28.260 Merrick Garland, from the day he was sworn in, has demonstrated a contempt for Congress, a contempt for the American people, a smug entitlement that no one is allowed to question him, that he doesn't have to answer any questions.
00:11:45.740 Look, I have questioned Merrick Garland now many times, and he will not answer, he will not give you a straight answer to anything.
00:11:52.300 And so as the evidence keeps mounting, not just of Joe Biden's personal corruption, but of Merrick Garland being personally implicated now in multiple felonies, he has not wavered at all from his attitude that seems to say, how dare you question me?
00:12:13.060 He is, he's the legal equivalent of Anthony Fauci.
00:12:17.960 Fauci says, I am the science.
00:12:20.240 Merrick Garland's response is essentially, I am the law, and they're both wrong.
00:12:27.340 I want to play a few clips that really went viral, and they went viral because of just the shock of the lack of response, and like you said, the arrogance of Garland.
00:12:39.040 One of them was just a basic question talking about, hey, what did you know, and when did you kind of know it?
00:12:46.000 Take a listen.
00:12:46.500 Have you had personal contact with anyone at FBI headquarters about the Hunter Biden investigation?
00:12:52.940 I don't recollect the answer to that question, but the FBI works for the Justice Department.
00:12:58.300 I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you don't recollect whether you've talked with anybody at FBI headquarters about an investigation of the president's son?
00:13:06.480 I don't believe that I did.
00:13:08.400 I promised the Senate when I came before it for confirmation that I would leave Mr. Weiss in place and that I would not interfere with his investigation.
00:13:19.140 I have kept that promise.
00:13:22.240 All right.
00:13:23.220 Do you believe him, Senator?
00:13:24.820 Because I don't.
00:13:26.280 Well, the IRS whistleblowers both testified to the House that he lied when he made that promise to the Senate.
00:13:38.660 When he made that promise to me in my questioning, we have now two career IRS employees who have gone before the House and said that he flat out lied, that he has directly interfered.
00:13:49.580 And I got to say the question here, this is very specific.
00:13:54.000 Have you had personal contact with anyone at FBI headquarters about the Hunter Biden case?
00:14:00.180 And for him to say, well, I don't remember.
00:14:02.780 How do you not remember that?
00:14:05.360 This isn't asking generally, have you talked to FBI headquarters?
00:14:08.660 Of course he has.
00:14:09.420 As he says in his answer, the FBI works for the Justice Department.
00:14:14.880 So, yes, the attorney general has talked to FBI headquarters, but if he is recusing himself from the matter, if he is not interfering, then he would know whether or not he had had those conversations.
00:14:27.740 And the fact that he doesn't remember with the entirety of the evidence is dubious.
00:14:35.000 There was also another congresswoman who asked a question of Garland as he was testifying by the House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing.
00:14:42.860 And I want you to hear what she had to say.
00:14:44.240 It was a lengthy back and forth, but it was an important one as well.
00:14:47.640 And I say important because it was the accusation that Merrick Garland basically is not acting on behalf of the American people or on behalf of the law of the laws of this country or making sure these laws are being followed.
00:15:02.900 But instead, he's basically working as a defense lawyer for the Biden crime family by purposely slow walking the probes into the Clintons.
00:15:14.540 And this is something we haven't talked about in a while, but also in a hundred Biden, also into Joe Biden, also in the FBI's involvement in things like January the 6th.
00:15:23.400 It's like he's in a personal attorney for anyone in the Democratic Party that does something that's nefarious.
00:15:28.960 It's like in my town, FBI, phone numbers all over the district, please call, call that.
00:15:36.040 People are truly afraid.
00:15:37.660 I just want to make sure if you're not aware that you are, and this is a big problem when people are afraid of their own government.
00:15:45.680 And I'll show you some other things.
00:15:47.540 We're talking about justice system.
00:15:50.080 I don't question, you're probably not a bad person.
00:15:52.480 I don't know you, but what I'll tell you, you are in charge of the department.
00:15:55.640 And people right now feel, you know, I look at Durham report, and I call on the vice violations of queries of millions of Americans, right?
00:16:04.500 It's like KGB, but when I read Durham reports, we have this, you have a nice, you know, playbook.
00:16:10.840 First, let's have a special counsel, and then you don't have to answer any questions here.
00:16:15.800 Then, let's extend slow walk investigation on Hillary Clinton, on Hunter, everything is slow walk.
00:16:23.660 We were very quick on Donald Trump, but you were very slow walk.
00:16:27.360 Then, by the time, you know, that investigation ended, statute of limitation expired, and all of your agents need to be tested for amnesia.
00:16:35.100 No one recalls anything.
00:16:36.280 Okay, you probably should have as part of your hiring policy.
00:16:39.540 So, no one held accountable, which was egregious, what happened, you know, in that report.
00:16:45.140 When I read about that, I can't believe it happened in the United States of America.
00:16:48.960 This is my frustration.
00:16:51.140 I'll be honest with you.
00:16:52.720 Then, it's very interesting, you know, regardless what it is, even people in Obama administration raise concerns.
00:16:58.560 You know, how can President Sons be serving on, you know, corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs?
00:17:05.340 Do you understand that it actually can undermine the one Ukrainian effort and policy?
00:17:11.560 I think these concerns were raised.
00:17:12.960 The Obama administration didn't do anything about it.
00:17:15.680 These people are dying right now, and Americans don't trust this president.
00:17:20.680 So, you, I want to ask you one thing, you know, as you, you know, I don't need answer because I know you're not going to,
00:17:26.820 but I think you're probably a good American, and you care.
00:17:30.200 And a lot of these people are so afraid they cover up this stuff, I think, in your department,
00:17:34.140 because they're embarrassed that what we became as a country, to say that what our department of justice became,
00:17:40.980 that allows Russians to do propaganda in Chinese.
00:17:44.240 It allows them to destabilize our country.
00:17:46.900 That is danger to our republic.
00:17:49.800 It is significant danger.
00:17:51.120 And I have just one more question from you.
00:17:53.040 You know, I mean, I agree on corporate crimes and FISA stuff,
00:17:56.560 even with Democrats, that we need to do a better job.
00:17:59.040 One more question for you.
00:18:00.520 Do you believe that, you know, you talk about rights to vote,
00:18:03.720 but do you believe that only U.S. citizens should be voting in this election
00:18:07.940 and doing anything to make sure that only eligible people vote in elections?
00:18:12.980 Yes and yes.
00:18:14.560 Okay, I would like to see that, what you do.
00:18:16.240 Thank you.
00:18:16.920 Neil Beck.
00:18:17.240 I play that because I feel like this is the level of frustration and anger that so many Americans have
00:18:25.920 that this Congresswoman, Mrs. Sparks, displayed there.
00:18:29.500 She's livid over the way that this man's doing his job,
00:18:33.500 almost to the point of, like, how the hell can you live with yourself,
00:18:35.860 and how are you getting away with this?
00:18:37.800 And this is where I think many Americans are at this point.
00:18:41.700 Well, you're right.
00:18:43.120 That's very powerful.
00:18:44.220 That's Victoria Sparks.
00:18:45.460 She is a Congresswoman from the state of Indiana,
00:18:47.980 and Victoria was born in the Soviet Union, and she grew up in the Soviet Union.
00:18:51.960 And so she saw a communist dictatorship.
00:18:55.960 She saw, when she's referencing the KGB, she's familiar with what the KGB would do.
00:19:00.900 And Victoria came to America when she was 22 years old,
00:19:04.240 and so she came to America seeking freedom, seeking a better life.
00:19:08.800 And the outrage that she's expressing there,
00:19:12.620 that how can it be that the U.S. Department of Justice is behaving like the KGB did?
00:19:18.420 That is from personal experience, from life experience.
00:19:23.280 She's seen oppression firsthand.
00:19:26.620 And notice, Garland doesn't respond at all to any of what she said there.
00:19:32.260 He just sits there passively, which, frankly, is what I guess the KGB would do as well.
00:19:37.680 Now, I guess they would actually arrest her for saying that, so it's still marginally better.
00:19:42.580 But at the end of the day, the points she made are fundamentally the same.
00:19:48.400 The slow walking.
00:19:49.860 Look, they just brought charges against Hunter Biden for buying a gun illegally when he was on crack.
00:19:57.180 They've had the evidence of that for years.
00:19:59.740 There's been no new evidence on that.
00:20:01.620 They could have brought that years ago.
00:20:03.040 What they did, though, was slow walk the investigation so that the statute of limitations now has expired on the most serious tax offenses.
00:20:12.100 They've allowed that statute of limitation to expire.
00:20:14.360 The statute of limitations has now expired on Joe Biden's corruption with communist China. 0.54
00:20:21.580 The text app, the text on WhatsApp that Hunter sent to the Chinese communist official saying, I'm sitting next to my father.
00:20:30.740 Well, you know what?
00:20:32.200 Merrick Garland has magically let the statute of limitations expire on that.
00:20:36.860 And he doesn't defend himself.
00:20:38.180 He doesn't dispute it.
00:20:39.160 His attitude is, I don't answer to you.
00:20:41.460 I don't answer to anybody.
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00:22:13.400 Senator, let's talk about this Iranian infiltration of the Biden administration 0.87
00:22:17.820 and what this means and explain it all for everyone listening.
00:22:21.480 It is a story that broke today that three senior officials in the Biden administration
00:22:29.060 were operatives for the Iranian government.
00:22:34.220 I mean, this is stunning and I want to walk through it because it's a very detailed expose
00:22:38.920 about how senior officials in Joe Biden's Democrat administration were operatives.
00:22:45.940 They were working for the Iranian government.
00:22:48.920 They were in close coordination with the Ayatollah.
00:22:52.540 They were working on behalf of Iran and they were setting U.S. policy.
00:22:56.860 And mind you, these are individuals who have security clearances who were working on behalf
00:23:02.280 of an Ayatollah who chants, death to America and death to Israel. 0.89
00:23:07.780 And so I want to walk through this because, again, you will not see this on the news.
00:23:12.600 The news does not want to cover it.
00:23:14.060 And so the story broke yesterday that three, quote, Iran experts who worked closely for
00:23:22.700 Rob Malley.
00:23:23.540 Now, who is Rob Malley?
00:23:24.520 Rob Malley was the Biden administration's, quote, special envoy to Iran.
00:23:29.400 Now, Rob Malley has been fired.
00:23:31.660 He's been fired because his security clearance was revoked and he was thrown out of the Biden
00:23:36.580 administration.
00:23:37.140 We still don't know why, but it is presumably for a serious violation of law because to be
00:23:44.120 too pro-Iran for the Biden administration, I don't even know what that means.
00:23:49.720 Yeah.
00:23:49.880 Maybe that entails having the Ayatollah tattooed three or more times on your body.
00:23:56.420 Maybe it entails smuggling heroin and balloons that you ingest to Iran.
00:24:02.400 And I don't know.
00:24:04.160 But all right, enough hyperbole.
00:24:06.180 Let's talk actual substance.
00:24:08.900 So the report that came out yesterday is an investigation that was based on thousands
00:24:13.640 of emails between Iranian diplomats and analysts, and it was published by Semaphore.
00:24:20.700 And Rob Malley, working for the Biden administration, named three individuals to be senior officials.
00:24:30.880 Number one, in February 2021, Rob Malley recruited Arianne Tabatabai.
00:24:39.500 Sorry if I got the pronunciation wrong.
00:24:42.080 She was a Middle East fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and she came to the
00:24:48.060 State Department to assist in negotiation for Iran.
00:24:52.120 She served in that position for 15 months.
00:24:54.660 Malley also appointed, or tried to appoint, Ali Vallez, who was the Iran projects director
00:25:02.980 at the crisis group.
00:25:05.440 But Vallez had a problem.
00:25:07.960 According to two different sources, this is in public reports, Vallez could not obtain the
00:25:13.920 necessary security clearance.
00:25:15.960 And so his appointment was canceled.
00:25:17.480 Nevertheless, Rob Malley maintained Vallez as a confidant, and according to two different
00:25:25.380 people in this report, Vallez drafted Malley's tweet.
00:25:30.480 So he's communicating on behalf of a senior Biden administration official.
00:25:36.260 Now, and the third one is another Iran analyst named Dina Esfandiari, who was hired by Malley
00:25:44.540 at the ICG in 2021.
00:25:48.020 And here's what the project from Iran was.
00:25:54.440 Iran engaged in a focused influence effort.
00:26:00.440 And I want to read you one of the leaked emails.
00:26:03.560 And this is within the Iranian government.
00:26:06.700 Quote, as you already know, based on our previous discussions, a network of young second generation
00:26:12.800 Iranian exports was initiated.
00:26:15.020 And we're looking forward to holding a meeting in Vienna, in Med Farvadian.
00:26:22.060 Actually, this very idea of Iran experts initiatives was discussed between me and two of the young
00:26:28.300 experts.
00:26:28.800 We, you and me, met in the Prague Conference, i.e.
00:26:32.780 Arian Tabatabe and Dina Esfandiari.
00:26:36.800 We three agreed to be the core group of the IEI.
00:26:42.860 For the first meeting in Vienna, in order to establish this network in practice, we have
00:26:46.440 decided to invite almost 20 scholars with established affiliation with the leading internationally
00:26:52.680 well-known think tanks.
00:26:54.600 Enclosed is the preliminary list of invitees.
00:26:57.600 Please let us know if you have any reservation on the names ASAP.
00:27:00.320 By the way, as you promised, this initiative needs your financial as well as political support.
00:27:06.180 For the first meeting, we need funds to cover the costs, including some tickets, hotel costs,
00:27:12.800 etc.
00:27:13.760 Look forward to hearing from you.
00:27:16.500 Ba Tajdidi Etaram, which I will confess my Iranian is not good enough to know what the
00:27:23.060 heck that means, but it is signed, Saeed Khalib Zadeh.
00:27:30.360 And these were individuals, it was a core of young Iranian nationals who were in the United
00:27:37.120 States, who were working for Iran.
00:27:41.100 And three of them went on to work for the Biden administration in senior positions.
00:27:48.100 Now, you look at the last two and a half years, Joe Biden has leaned into Iran at a level that
00:27:54.240 has been insane.
00:27:56.180 Iran is on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons. 0.98
00:27:58.880 This is a nation led by an ayatollah who chants death to America and death to Israel. 0.98
00:28:04.060 And he's about to acquire nuclear weapons.
00:28:07.240 And this has been cheerleaded and pushed forward by officials in the Biden administration who were
00:28:15.880 working for Iran, who were under the direction of Iran, who were literally operatives for the
00:28:21.580 government of Iran.
00:28:23.600 And this is now documented in multiple emails where they are emailing Iran saying, what do
00:28:29.880 I say?
00:28:30.660 What do I do?
00:28:31.560 I work for you.
00:28:32.700 What do you want me to do?
00:28:35.260 And I got to say, it's not illegal, by the way.
00:28:37.660 Like, how is this?
00:28:38.140 Of course it is.
00:28:39.020 Of course it is.
00:28:40.480 Because it is illegal is what you're saying.
00:28:43.120 So then how is no one being arrested for this?
00:28:46.320 Well, the story just broke yesterday.
00:28:50.340 So we'll see how it plays out.
00:28:53.540 But the first step is the media is just trying to bury it.
00:28:57.660 The media doesn't want people to know about it because, listen, I mean, is it comforting
00:29:02.760 to anyone to know that the senior government officials in the Joe Biden administration dealing
00:29:07.260 with Iran are operatives for the Iranian government? 0.96
00:29:12.880 And Iran is led by a theocratic, homicidal zealot who hates America. 0.74
00:29:19.080 And these individuals were working for him. 0.96
00:29:22.180 That is it's stunning.
00:29:26.980 And what is striking now is is is this report has.
00:29:31.820 By the way, I want to make clear that when you say that the media is not covering this
00:29:35.380 right now, as we're recording this and I just put in the word Iran into Google and the
00:29:39.940 top story comes up and it's from your website, Senator Ted Cruz, says Senator Cruz calls for
00:29:45.260 halting secret Iran negotiations after leaked emails.
00:29:47.960 Then the next one is a free beacon.
00:29:50.320 It says Pentagon mom on Biden appointee's alleged membership in Iran, you know, in this group.
00:29:55.400 And then after that, CNN.
00:29:58.040 So the first big news that has anything with Iran right now they're reporting on, it says
00:30:02.140 3M agrees to pay almost 10 million to settle an apparent Iranian sanctions violation.
00:30:09.360 Not a single news story has been written about what we're breaking right now.
00:30:15.120 When you put in the word Iran right now, the only thing that's even close is Al Jazeera says
00:30:22.680 they had this.
00:30:23.860 Why did Iran's foreign minister want to go to Washington as the U.S. refuses the Iran's top
00:30:28.200 diplomat request to visit D.C.?
00:30:29.940 That's it.
00:30:30.920 No one else is touching this right now.
00:30:33.500 Well, and it's because the media can't defend this.
00:30:36.220 And listen, this grew out of what was called the echo chamber.
00:30:39.520 So during the Obama administration, there were a group of journalists, a group of left
00:30:46.800 wing think tank activists, and a group of zealots in the White House who created what
00:30:52.680 they called the Iran echo chamber, where when Barack Obama was pushing for the Iran nuclear
00:30:58.040 deal, everything he said would get amplified by the press and the think tank world and the
00:31:02.280 NGO world.
00:31:03.780 And it was deliberate.
00:31:04.840 And this grew out of that.
00:31:06.500 But what we now know is that this was directed by the Iranian government.
00:31:16.620 And all right, so let me give you an example.
00:31:20.300 Zarif, who was the foreign minister of Iran, on October 2nd, 2014, Váez, one of the three,
00:31:26.680 wrote to Zarif regarding the discontent he had with an IGC, ICG report on Iran, trying
00:31:33.700 to clarify the situation, provide an explanation.
00:31:35.900 Here's a quote from the email.
00:31:38.240 Quote, as an Iranian, based on my national and patriotic duty, I have not hesitated to help you in any way from proposing to your
00:31:50.420 excellency, and your and excellency are both capitalized, a public campaign against the
00:31:57.140 notion of nuclear breakout to assisting your team in preparing reports on the practical
00:32:03.660 needs of Iran.
00:32:04.440 And Váez explained that the ICG's reports were compiled through a process in a collaborative
00:32:11.320 manner, which suggested that he didn't have final say in his publication.
00:32:15.580 Likewise, Adnan Tabat Abai wrote to Zarif on May 19th, 2014, after an IEI meeting with him in
00:32:28.640 Vienna, quote, as you will have noticed, we are all very much willing to dedicate our capacities
00:32:34.940 and resources to jointly working on the improvement of Iran's foreign relations.
00:32:39.700 Iran is our country, so we, too, feel the need and responsibility to contribute our share.
00:32:49.420 When I say we, I mean the very group you met.
00:32:55.220 Now, I want you to stop and think.
00:32:57.380 These are officials for the Biden administration who say Iran is our country, so we, too, feel
00:33:06.880 the need and responsibility to contribute our share.
00:33:11.620 They are literally working for a foreign nation who is our enemy and who openly advocates death 1.00
00:33:21.020 to America.
00:33:21.740 And by the way, their bosses, the Iranian Ayatollah and the mullahs in Iran are actively trying to
00:33:30.020 murder the former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the former U.S. National Security Advisor
00:33:36.380 John Bolton and the former Assistant Secretary of State Brian Hook.
00:33:39.680 They're doing that today.
00:33:41.120 As we speak, I forced the Biden State Department to admit on the record, today, the State Department
00:33:49.420 is spending $2 million a month in security costs to defend the former U.S. Secretary of State
00:33:58.420 and other former U.S. senior officials from Iran's efforts to murder them. 0.98
00:34:04.040 And three officials of the Biden administration are working for the bastards who are trying 0.97
00:34:09.320 to murder former senior U.S. officials. 0.98
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