Verdict with Ted Cruz - Watching Horrifying Video of Hamas Attacks, Dems Trying to Condition Israel Aid on Concessions to Gaza & Hunter Biden to Testify before the House!

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00:00:05.720 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:09.540 We have a jam-packed show for you today that includes two big stories that deal with Israel,

00:00:15.960 specifically, and a shock of Democrats demanding, well, conditional aid to Israel

00:00:22.160 if they do certain things that would actually help Hamas.

00:00:25.340 We're going to deal with that.

00:00:26.220 Plus, Hunter Biden is cracked out, demanding new things from Congress.

00:00:32.000 His new demands that are pretty funny, we'll explain those.

00:00:34.940 But before we get to that, on a serious note, Senator,

00:00:37.720 you and several other senators today were able to sit down and watch

00:00:43.480 some of the horrific videos of the attack on Israel by Hamas.

00:00:49.300 I want you to walk us through this because it's important that people understand

00:00:53.700 just how barbaric, how well thought out, how well planned, how orchestrated,

00:00:59.120 and how these jihadists trained in Iran to prepare for this attack.

00:01:06.300 Well, that's right.

00:01:08.320 So it is right now 11.32 p.m. on Tuesday night.

00:01:12.160 And so we're recording this at the end of the day, Tuesday.

00:01:15.940 I started the day at 9 a.m. in a room in the Capitol watching a video.

00:01:22.660 And the video consists of 46 minutes of footage, raw video, that the government of Israel has compiled.

00:01:31.620 And most of the footage is from either body cameras that Hamas terrorists were wearing

00:01:37.960 or from their cell phones that they were wearing, or in some instances from security cameras

00:01:43.300 that were set up in different people's homes that filmed what was happening.

00:01:47.980 And it was, we watched 138 people being murdered.

00:01:55.440 It was, it was horrible.

00:02:01.400 Look, I mean, and it, I will say there were about 50 senators in the room.

00:02:05.100 So about half the Senate came to watch.

00:02:07.540 And, and I was glad of that.

00:02:09.660 And there were a fair number of Democrats in the room.

00:02:11.660 I was glad in particular the Democrats were seeing this.

00:02:15.120 I will say, look, it's one thing to watch like an action movie,

00:02:19.040 to watch Rambo or John Wick, and you see lots of people being shot.

00:02:22.800 And it's, you know, it's Hollywood.

00:02:25.440 And what was horrifying about this is this was real people being murdered in real time.

00:02:33.040 And it was one after the other after the other.

00:02:38.500 It was wanton.

00:02:40.060 It was, it was directed.

00:02:43.540 Any civilian they saw, they just came up and just began firing shots at him, firing.

00:02:49.180 There were several things that were horrifying.

00:02:51.180 But, but one of the most horrifying aspects was the joy that the Hamas terrorists expressed as they were murdering, 0.72

00:03:02.700 as they were shooting little children, as they were shooting women, as they were shooting just any civilian they saw,

00:03:07.860 as they were gunning down teenagers at the music festival.

00:03:10.600 They're laughing, they're cheering, they're saying, Allah Akbar, God is great, God is great, God is great.

00:03:15.820 They say it over and over and over again as they're just murdering people.

00:03:19.280 And there's, there's a joy.

00:03:22.160 The, the, the, the, the, the raw hatred.

00:03:24.740 Um, we saw them with a knife cutting the head off of a corpse of a man, just sawing his head off.

00:03:34.260 And it's watching someone being beheaded.

00:03:37.260 Thankfully that man was dead already, so at least he wasn't alive while he was being beheaded.

00:03:42.080 But they sawed his head off and took his head as a, as a trophy.

00:03:45.580 That we saw footage of the terrorists desecrating bodies, playing with, they would, they would sever heads and play with the heads.

00:03:55.680 Um, we saw them dragging dead bodies of, of Jews into Gaza.

00:04:00.460 And they'd throw them in the public square and, and just a mob would descend and kick and punch and, and, and beat the dead body.

00:04:08.660 They were cheering in joys and celebration.

00:04:11.080 I, I, I'll tell you, Ben, the, the most disturbing thing that, that, that I saw in the video was actually audio.

00:04:21.160 And it was audio of a cell phone conversation that the Israelis intercepted.

00:04:27.640 And it was a Hamas terrorist who was calling home to his parents in Gaza.

00:04:34.040 And first he talks to his dad.

00:04:36.580 And he says in, in, in Arabic, Arabic, he says, dad, I just killed 10 with my bare hands. 0.94

00:04:45.340 I killed 10 with my bare hands. 0.85

00:04:47.200 And he's, he's, he's so proud and he's bragging and his father is proud of him. 0.89

00:04:52.220 And he's bragging. 0.87

00:04:53.820 He says over and over again, I killed 10 with my bare hands.

00:04:56.540 And then he says, let me talk to mom.

00:04:58.640 Let me talk to mom. 0.98

00:05:00.040 And his mother gets on the phone and he repeats again his joy. 0.99

00:05:04.580 I killed 10 Jews with my bare hands. 1.00

00:05:08.120 I killed them. 1.00

00:05:08.760 I killed them. 1.00

00:05:09.280 I killed them. 1.00

00:05:09.760 I killed them. 1.00

00:05:10.460 And, and his mother is joyously crying. 0.99

00:05:15.820 I got to say, Ben, like.

00:05:18.300 They're celebrating it.

00:05:19.260 That's what you're saying.

00:05:20.260 This was like a celebration of like winning a football game, except they're actually mass murdering people.

00:05:25.580 Listen, the level of absolute hate.

00:05:31.720 In, in warfare, if you have a war, let's say you have the Ukraine war and the Russians and Ukrainians are shooting at each other.

00:05:39.340 There may be a day when a Russian soldier or Ukrainian soldier, let's say they shoot 10 soldiers on the other side.

00:05:45.060 I cannot imagine someone calling their mom and joyously describing, I just killed 10 people today, much less the people they're killing.

00:05:58.460 They're not opposing soldiers in a war.

00:06:01.100 They're civilians.

00:06:01.980 They're women. 1.00

00:06:02.560 They're little children that they're gunning down.

00:06:05.220 And I want you to think about how just twisted the racist, vicious anti-Semitic hate is that's inculcated in Hamas. 0.69

00:06:17.140 And most of these Hamas terrorists, they're teenagers.

00:06:20.700 They're in their early 20s.

00:06:22.100 They're young Palestinians in Hamas.

00:06:25.280 And, and they are thrilled when they murder someone, they stop and say, take a selfie with me. 1.00

00:06:31.220 By the way, you also have idiots on college campuses and, and, and other morons on, in the global media denying these atrocities happen. 1.00

00:06:42.980 Look, most of this video was filmed by Hamas. 1.00

00:06:46.020 They are proud of it.

00:06:47.420 They want the world to know what they did and they photographed it.

00:06:52.280 They took videos of it and, and you see them like they go through a room and they're like some dead bodies. 1.00

00:06:57.540 But if something's not dead, they're like, shoot them in the head, shoot them in the head. 0.97

00:07:01.060 And I'll tell you something else that was really disconcerting. 1.00

00:07:06.600 Repeatedly, the Hamas terrorists, number one, they referred to Israelis over and over again as dogs. 0.91

00:07:12.020 That's what they called them.

00:07:13.100 Your dogs, your dogs, your dogs. 0.89

00:07:14.780 But they also repeatedly referred to Israelis as it.

00:07:20.920 Not he or she, it.

00:07:23.440 And this was multiple Hamas terrorists.

00:07:25.260 This is over 46 minutes.

00:07:26.300 So it's lots of little videos that, that, that were spliced together.

00:07:29.680 But you'd have multiple Hamas terrorists say, saying things like, it's dead, it's dead, grab it.

00:07:35.780 And, and I got to say it, it reminded me of the dehumanization of Jews by the Nazis. 0.72

00:07:43.240 That, that, that, that, that, that they have been so inculcated in vicious hatred that they are convinced that Jews are not people. 0.66

00:07:54.340 They're not women. 1.00

00:07:55.280 They're not men.

00:07:55.940 They're not children.

00:07:57.220 They're it's.

00:07:58.260 And, and, and they're dogs.

00:07:59.720 Listen, I've lived 52, almost 53 years on planet Earth.

00:08:10.640 I've never had a day where I've seen over 130 people murdered in front of my eyes.

00:08:16.320 And, and that's how today began.

00:08:19.440 Explain how all of this transpired of the video being put together.

00:08:24.660 Who did that? 0.91

00:08:25.700 Who put this together for you guys as senators?

00:08:28.060 This obviously wasn't classified.

00:08:30.540 It sounds encouraging that, that about 50% of the Senate showed up.

00:08:34.600 It also, to me is discouraging that the other 50% did not show up.

00:08:40.680 Should every Senator have watched this?

00:08:43.040 Do they not have an obligation to watching it, to see it, to understand it, to, to realize what happened on that day?

00:08:50.300 And, and why did somebody not show up and how was this put together?

00:08:53.360 So, so, so look, this, this was grotesque and horrible.

00:08:59.260 I, I felt physically sick.

00:09:01.040 I, I wanted to vomit in the room.

00:09:03.580 You're seeing abject terror.

00:09:05.640 You're seeing a level of evil.

00:09:07.920 I, that I, I've never seen before.

00:09:10.620 Um, and, and by the way, the 130 plus people who were murdered on these videos, that's about 10% of the Israelis that were murdered on October 7th.

00:09:23.140 They killed over 1,200.

00:09:25.160 So, that, that is right about 10% of the people who murdered that they have videos.

00:09:29.040 So, this is a, it's a collection of videos that the Israeli government put together.

00:09:33.340 And so, a lot of them are ones they got from Hamas social media. 0.67

00:09:37.820 So, a lot of this, Hamas posted this.

00:09:39.480 Like, they're proud of it.

00:09:40.400 They're, they're celebrating what they did.

00:09:42.680 Some of this they got from Hamas cell phones.

00:09:44.960 Some of this they got from victim cell phones.

00:09:46.600 So, there, there are images of victim cell phones where, for example, you have a bunch of Israelis hiding in a closet and terrified, saying, they're coming, they're coming.

00:09:55.040 And you see them covered with blood, that, there's video, some of them, a couple of the snippets in this video have been on Twitter.

00:10:02.640 So, for example, there, there's video of a relatively young Israeli woman, I'd say probably early 20s, wearing gray sweatpants where her entire crotch area is covered.

00:10:19.020 It is soaked in blood. 0.60

00:10:20.540 And, and it is obvious from, from the blood that is, is both in the rear and the front of her crotch area, that, that this young woman has been violently, violently raped. 0.93

00:10:34.340 And, and probably raped with, with foreign, the quantity of the blood suggests major bleeding. 0.67

00:10:42.300 And, and this woman is being, like, thrown in a truck and being taken as a hostage. 0.87

00:10:49.120 So, after she was violently raped, she was taken as a hostage.

00:10:52.280 You see lots of people taken as hostage with, and the joy of the terrorists.

00:10:59.760 So, the way it was shown, the Israeli government put it together and that, and they spliced it together.

00:11:04.260 And it's, as I said, it's from Hamas social media, it's from Hamas cell phones, it's from victim social media, it's from victim cell phones.

00:11:11.460 There were a number of videos from security, security footage, like in someone's home, if they have a security camera, there were, there were footage of the terrorists coming in, the terrorists going into a kindergarten, shooting a teacher.

00:11:23.920 And, and, there were also footage from first responders who came in after.

00:11:31.860 So, after the attack happened, they came in, and for example, the music festival, you know, the music festival, Hamas terrorists came in on paragliders, and with machine guns, murdered a couple of hundred, mostly young people who were at an outdoor music festival.

00:11:45.920 And, and like the first responders walking through, there were just dozens of bodies, like in an area behind, behind the, like, Coke machines, not Coke machines, but sort of soda fountains where they were serving drinks.

00:12:01.000 And you could see that people were hiding, they were hiding behind the counters, and this was a first responder video, so, so we don't know how those people were murdered, but presumably terrorists came in with machine guns and just shot one after the other, after the other, as they were hiding.

00:12:15.200 There was also, at the music festival, there was a whole line of port-a-potties, you know, probably, I don't know, 20 or 30 port-a-potties.

00:12:23.980 It was a big outdoor music festival, so it was a place for people to go to the restroom. 0.68

00:12:27.280 And the Hamas terrorists walked down, all the port-a-potties have the doors closed, and they walked down, and they shoot multiple bullets through the doors of each port-a-potty. 0.57

00:12:35.720 Wow.

00:12:36.160 And, and, and, you know, they're obviously assuming, and, and we didn't actually see someone killed in the port-a-potty,

00:12:42.880 but we did see one of the port-a-potties with just blood smeared all throughout, so obviously at least one person was hiding in there and was murdered.

00:12:50.760 And it was just, so this was put together by the Israeli government.

00:12:55.660 They have shown it to, to, to multiple people in the Senate.

00:12:59.060 The people who displayed it for the other senators were Marco Rubio and, and Jackie Rosen.

00:13:06.700 Marco Rubio is the ranking member on the Intelligence Committee, Jackie Rosen.

00:13:10.840 I, I, I don't know why the two of them were the ones showing it, but they decided to show it, and, and as I said, about half the senators came.

00:13:17.800 Listen, people were really, you know, senators are a pretty garrulous bunch.

00:13:23.140 They're, they're, they're often joking, they're talking.

00:13:26.820 People walking out of it were in tears.

00:13:29.800 Like, like, it was, it was horrifying to see.

00:13:37.120 And, like, like, like when we filed out of the room, the room was silent.

00:13:41.300 Like, no one was speaking.

00:13:42.820 It was just like, oh my God, what did I just watch?

00:13:46.120 And I believe we had a responsibility to watch it.

00:13:49.780 I, I did not want to watch this footage, but I felt like it is my responsibility to know what happened, and also to be able to tell people what happened.

00:14:00.140 And, and, and so it, it, I think it's important.

00:14:04.820 I, the senators who didn't watch it, I would encourage every one of them, you need to watch it.

00:14:09.340 And I'll tell you, I hope the Israeli government releases this footage just universally.

00:14:16.040 They've, they've, right now, they've kept it confidential.

00:14:19.340 So it was not a classified briefing, but it was in a room in the Capitol that's sort of right, it's right next to the SCIF, which is the secure classified area.

00:14:30.900 And the rules were coming in that each of us had to check our cell phones, that they did not want any of us to take a cell phone in.

00:14:37.040 Presumably they didn't want any recordings.

00:14:38.580 And, and I understand the sensitivity.

00:14:41.360 Look, these are people being murdered, and they want to be sensitive to the victims, and I'm, I, I fully get that.

00:14:48.900 I, I will say on, on much of the footage, particularly with the children, there were lots of dead bodies.

00:14:54.860 There were lots of corpses that were burned, that were horribly burned.

00:14:59.200 We saw corpses of little children and infants that were, that were burned to a crest.

00:15:03.600 They were unrecognizable.

00:15:04.980 We saw bodies of, of adults burned, burned completely, many of them in their cars.

00:15:12.120 They were chasing people down in their cars as they drove.

00:15:15.040 They'd chase them down and just shoot and kill the driver in their car.

00:15:19.000 That happened in a lot of different cars.

00:15:21.060 Um, the bodies that were just lining the streets, like, like, 1,200 people murdered is a volume, and as I said, we only saw just over 130 of it.

00:15:35.300 But.

00:15:37.000 This is a massacre that took an extreme number of people to pull it off, because, you know, as, as I was talking to one, one person that.

00:15:46.960 It was thousands of Hamas terrorists.

00:15:48.920 Yeah, that's, and that's what it was described by me by somebody I talked to that, that is in the military in Israel.

00:15:54.600 He said the difference, he said, between what you guys went through in 9-11 was you, it was massive explosions and, and, and, and the planes and the people of the buildings.

00:16:04.720 This was hand-to-hand massacres, whereas it was described by him as it was up close and personal.

00:16:12.200 You're shooting people from three, four, five feet away. 0.99

00:16:14.900 You're grabbing people and then killing them. 0.96

00:16:16.900 This was barbaric, uh, on a personal level.

00:16:20.740 And, and I'm assuming that's what you, in essence, had to witness today.

00:16:24.520 So, so when I next talk with the Israeli government, I'm going to encourage them to release it publicly.

00:16:30.540 And I, I am deeply sympathetic to, to wanting to respect the victims and the victims' families.

00:16:36.680 But I think there's also an obligation to document this for history, much like if you go to the Holocaust Museum in D.C., which, which it's, it's an incredible museum.

00:16:47.020 Look, it's horrifying because they show the utter horrors of what the Nazis did.

00:16:52.020 And, and, and, and, and they document many of the victims.

00:16:55.360 And, and, and it's valuable, you know, after the, the Holocaust, the, the, the phrase, uh, never again.

00:17:03.760 It, it, it, it, in order for that to mean something, you've got to understand what happened.

00:17:13.360 And, and so I think, you know, if you go to Israel, Yad Vashem, which is the memorial again to the Holocaust, is, is a beautiful, beautiful museum.

00:17:22.400 But it's horrifying.

00:17:23.420 I mean, you go through and you watch, you know, the Nazis did just grotesque, inhumane things.

00:17:30.000 I mean, they tortured and murdered people.

00:17:31.860 They murdered 6 million Jews.

00:17:33.320 They did things like they made lampshades from human skin. 0.97

00:17:36.740 I mean, the, the Nazis dehumanized the Jews as, as dogs. 0.96

00:17:43.940 And it's just like the Hamas terrorists. 0.76

00:17:46.420 And, and what was so horrifying watching this video is this was no different than watching Nazis, except this is 2023 and not 1940.

00:17:58.560 Yeah.

00:17:59.040 Yeah, I, I, I agree with you.

00:18:01.140 I hope that the government of Israel will release it.

00:18:04.300 And like you said, I'm glad that about 50 senators show up, but the other 50 need to see this as well.

00:18:09.980 This shouldn't be a Republican or Democrat, conservative, liberal thing.

00:18:13.180 This is just good and evil.

00:18:14.980 And everybody should be able to say we're on the side of, of good and not on the side of evil.

00:18:19.440 But there is a political side of this.

00:18:22.060 And I think there's many that may not want to see this for political cover reasons.

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00:19:54.340 Senator, I think part of the reason why there are some in D.C. that don't want to see these videos

00:20:01.500 is because it's going to put pressure on them to change their mindset

00:20:05.840 or to realize that you can't live in a world where Hamas has power 0.96

00:20:10.020 or Hamas is in control of a government, for goodness sakes.

00:20:14.200 There is new reporting coming out of Washington tonight

00:20:17.900 that Biden is putting pressure on Israeli tactics

00:20:22.000 that would, in fact, leave Hamas intact and in power after this ceasefire.

00:20:28.900 Sources within the Israeli government have said to Breitbart News

00:20:31.900 that the U.S. President Joe Biden's pressure

00:20:34.680 would lead to Hamas surviving the war intact 0.84

00:20:38.280 rather than allowing Israel to destroy Hamas

00:20:40.960 or remove its military and governing capabilities.

00:20:44.640 In recent days, the White House has acknowledged

00:20:47.080 that Israel intends to continue fighting Hamas

00:20:49.380 after the current pause sought by Biden

00:20:51.960 to allow the release of hostages as that ends later this week.

00:20:55.760 The Israelis have been pretty clear, quote-unquote,

00:20:58.940 that once the pauses are complete and the hostage exchanges are over,

00:21:02.980 that they intend to continue their military operations against Hamas.

00:21:06.220 That's what the White House advisor John Kirby said on Monday.

00:21:08.720 Also, to put it in perspective,

00:21:12.040 the media has been claiming that Israel has been trading hostages.

00:21:16.660 That's not true.

00:21:17.720 Israel does not hold hostages.

00:21:19.420 It is releasing convicted Palestinian terrorists

00:21:23.380 to save the lives of those that were taken hostage.

00:21:27.680 And so now we're at this pivotal moment, Senator,

00:21:30.800 that makes me angry, especially after what you just described,

00:21:33.840 that the Biden's goals may be changing

00:21:36.880 and Democrats are putting pressure to say,

00:21:39.780 hey, let's figure out a way that we can coexist with Hamas 1.00

00:21:44.060 and then maybe in power or even in leadership.

00:21:47.780 Look, the left wing of the Democrat Party right now

00:21:51.120 is profoundly anti-Israel.

00:21:53.260 We're seeing in the House of Representatives with the squad,

00:21:56.260 we're seeing just vicious anti-Semitism.

00:21:58.340 We're seeing it on college campuses across the country.

00:22:00.760 The left wing of the Democrat Party, the cultural Marxists,

00:22:04.680 this is something I talk about extensively

00:22:07.620 in my brand new book, Unwoke, the cultural Marxists.

00:22:11.660 The book is How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America.

00:22:14.600 And the cultural Marxists define Israel. 0.56

00:22:17.500 They define Jews as oppressors. 0.99

00:22:19.760 They define Palestinians as victims. 1.00

00:22:22.240 And as a result, the radical left,

00:22:24.320 they support the violent revolution of the victims

00:22:28.000 against the so-called oppressors.

00:22:29.480 What that means for the White House,

00:22:33.060 listen, we've talked at length on this podcast

00:22:35.440 about the hostage deal.

00:22:38.060 I'm very, very glad the hostages are being released.

00:22:40.720 That's cause for celebration.

00:22:42.780 The price of some 50-odd hostages being released

00:22:47.020 is that Hamas is getting stronger.

00:22:50.000 Hamas is recuperating.

00:22:51.200 Hamas is restoring.

00:22:52.520 It will be more difficult for Israel to defeat Hamas.

00:22:55.460 And there likely will be IDF, Israeli soldier casualties,

00:23:00.300 that will be higher because Hamas is stronger.

00:23:03.300 That is a bad outcome.

00:23:05.220 Israel is also releasing roughly 150 Palestinian prisoners

00:23:09.920 who are convicted criminals.

00:23:11.360 Many of them are convicted of terrorism.

00:23:13.440 Some significant percentage of them will return to terrorism.

00:23:16.920 And so there will be Israelis, 0.97

00:23:19.400 there will be very possibly Americans

00:23:21.320 who were murdered because those terrorists are being released.

00:23:24.900 That's the downside of the deal.

00:23:26.640 There's another downside of the deal,

00:23:28.280 which is Israel is engaging in a temporary pause,

00:23:32.000 and they're doing it to bring their civilians home,

00:23:34.660 to bring women and children home, 0.97

00:23:35.960 and that is a wonderful thing.

00:23:37.400 But as the pause continues,

00:23:41.040 the leftists in the White House

00:23:42.540 and in the corrupt corporate media

00:23:45.580 and on the global stage

00:23:46.840 will all pressure Israel. 0.91

00:23:48.640 Do not resume fighting Hamas. 0.68

00:23:51.300 Do not try to defeat Hamas. 0.87

00:23:52.760 Do not try to eradicate Hamas. 0.89

00:23:54.660 Do not try to eliminate Hamas. 0.91

00:23:56.260 That is completely wrong.

00:23:57.800 I believe Prime Minister Netanyahu

00:23:59.380 when he said that Israel is going to utterly eliminate Hamas.

00:24:03.720 We should stand with them.

00:24:05.120 And I'll tell you, look,

00:24:07.560 to give you a sense of just how fractured

00:24:10.240 the Democrat Party is right now,

00:24:12.260 there is right now a vigorous and contentious debate

00:24:16.720 among Senate Democrats.

00:24:18.680 And the contentious debate is whether to condition

00:24:21.900 military assistance to Israel

00:24:24.680 on a set of demands concerning Gaza.

00:24:27.620 And the people leading the charge

00:24:29.620 are Bernie Sanders and Chris Murphy.

00:24:33.060 Bernie, obviously, is the socialist from Vermont.

00:24:36.320 Chris Murphy is the extremely liberal Democrat

00:24:38.520 from Connecticut.

00:24:40.020 They are both rabidly left-wing.

00:24:43.760 Sanders has floated demands for Israel

00:24:48.620 to end its, quote,

00:24:50.380 indiscriminate bombing of Gaza.

00:24:52.720 By the way, Israel is not engaged

00:24:54.340 in indiscriminate bombing of Gaza.

00:24:55.820 It's targeting terrorists.

00:24:57.520 Sanders also wants to allow aid into the region

00:24:59.640 and take other steps to, quote,

00:25:01.000 lay the groundwork for a peaceful resolution

00:25:03.320 to the conflict.

00:25:05.960 Other left-wingers, Senator Peter Welch,

00:25:08.120 the other Democrat from Vermont,

00:25:10.180 said we've got to have the debate.

00:25:11.800 You can't have that many civilian casualties

00:25:13.740 as a part of the Netanyahu war plan.

00:25:16.760 Now notice who the Democrats are targeting.

00:25:19.660 It's not Hamas.

00:25:20.480 It's not the terrorists.

00:25:21.340 It's Netanyahu. 0.53

00:25:22.400 Netanyahu is the bad guy.

00:25:23.600 Why?

00:25:23.920 Because to the cultural Marxist,

00:25:26.680 Netanyahu is the oppressor,

00:25:28.360 and the Hamas terrorists 0.99

00:25:29.640 who are gleefully beheading civilians 1.00

00:25:32.000 and raping little girls, 1.00

00:25:33.420 they're the victims. 1.00

00:25:36.640 This debate is vigorous.

00:25:39.960 It is significant.

00:25:41.940 It is, by public reports,

00:25:45.440 was really energetic

00:25:47.300 in the Democrat conference.

00:25:50.140 And they want, and by the way,

00:25:51.320 they're not talking just about conditioning

00:25:53.580 the emergency military aid

00:25:56.740 to Israel for the Hamas war.

00:25:59.660 They're talking about the military aid

00:26:01.740 that America regularly provides

00:26:04.080 to Israel.

00:26:07.240 So putting in pro-Hamas restrictions, 0.75

00:26:10.340 and that's what the left-wing 0.72

00:26:11.600 of the Democrat Party wants.

00:26:13.180 Now I will say,

00:26:14.320 there are some Democrats

00:26:15.920 who are pushing back.

00:26:17.040 So for example,

00:26:17.980 Chris Coons from Delaware said,

00:26:19.520 quote,

00:26:19.880 I'm not sure that would

00:26:21.640 come of that now.

00:26:23.860 So he was pouring

00:26:24.920 some cold water on that.

00:26:26.500 Tim Kaine from Virginia said,

00:26:28.400 quote,

00:26:29.200 I don't think you're going

00:26:30.080 to see conditionality.

00:26:32.080 That's helpful.

00:26:33.780 Mark Kelly,

00:26:34.700 Democrat from Arizona,

00:26:35.820 said, quote,

00:26:36.440 I think it's important

00:26:37.200 to be clear here

00:26:37.900 that Israel was violently 0.86

00:26:39.000 attacked on October 7th,

00:26:40.400 and they have a right

00:26:41.520 to defend themselves.

00:26:42.400 That's actually quite helpful.

00:26:44.160 And Ben Cardin,

00:26:45.200 who's right now

00:26:45.720 the chairman

00:26:46.200 of the Senate Foreign Relations

00:26:47.380 Committee,

00:26:47.700 told reporters

00:26:48.540 he is opposed

00:26:50.220 to conditioning

00:26:51.780 aid.

00:26:54.960 Now,

00:26:56.420 that,

00:26:57.020 all of that

00:26:57.860 is,

00:26:59.660 the Democrats

00:27:01.760 who are pushing back,

00:27:03.340 that is

00:27:04.460 a good thing.

00:27:06.540 But the fact

00:27:07.520 that there are

00:27:08.100 multiple left-wing Democrats

00:27:10.020 explicitly turning

00:27:11.400 on Israel

00:27:12.120 after the worst

00:27:13.920 terror attack

00:27:14.860 in Israel

00:27:15.360 in a generation

00:27:16.460 is just stunning,

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00:27:27.180 their businesses,

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00:27:29.080 and the world around them.

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00:29:22.640 I want to ask you

00:29:23.120 one other last question

00:29:24.260 on Israel.

00:29:25.660 And you mentioned

00:29:26.380 these senators

00:29:26.980 that are wavering

00:29:27.960 on the Democratic side.

00:29:30.240 You forced a vote

00:29:31.460 before the recess

00:29:34.300 over Thanksgiving

00:29:35.420 for emergency funding

00:29:37.660 for Israel,

00:29:38.580 stand-alone,

00:29:39.480 not tied to funding

00:29:41.320 for Ukraine

00:29:42.040 or any other

00:29:42.860 port barrel project.

00:29:44.380 It failed

00:29:45.000 on a party line vote.

00:29:46.040 You needed just

00:29:46.740 one Democrat

00:29:47.600 to switch over.

00:29:48.760 Not a single Democrat

00:29:50.320 switched over

00:29:51.160 to do the right thing.

00:29:52.760 That was very telling

00:29:54.260 as well

00:29:54.820 about the Democratic

00:29:55.560 Party right now.

00:29:56.440 But where does

00:29:57.360 that funding stand now?

00:29:58.600 Is it still at a standstill

00:29:59.760 or is it moving

00:30:00.420 with other legislation?

00:30:01.900 Where are we?

00:30:03.040 It's at a complete standstill.

00:30:04.780 So the House

00:30:05.760 has passed

00:30:06.480 funding emergency

00:30:07.440 military aid

00:30:08.180 for Israel

00:30:08.640 $14.5 billion.

00:30:09.980 The House

00:30:11.740 paid for it

00:30:12.500 by rescinding

00:30:13.700 $14.5 billion

00:30:14.900 of the additional

00:30:15.980 funding Democrats

00:30:16.980 had passed

00:30:17.640 for the IRS

00:30:18.760 to pay for

00:30:19.800 87,000 new IRS agents.

00:30:22.900 When it came

00:30:23.960 to the Senate,

00:30:24.860 Chuck Schumer

00:30:25.360 initially said

00:30:26.100 he would not allow

00:30:26.800 the Senate to vote

00:30:27.520 on what the House

00:30:28.140 had passed.

00:30:29.160 That emergency

00:30:29.820 military aid

00:30:30.720 for Israel

00:30:31.160 was just not

00:30:31.940 apparently a priority

00:30:33.180 for Schumer.

00:30:34.080 So I joined

00:30:35.320 with a number

00:30:35.720 of other Republican senators

00:30:36.860 two weeks ago

00:30:37.640 and we used

00:30:38.560 a special

00:30:39.680 procedural tool

00:30:40.800 to force a vote

00:30:42.400 on the Senate floor

00:30:43.120 and you and I

00:30:43.640 talked about this

00:30:44.380 at length

00:30:44.900 at the podcast

00:30:46.000 two weeks ago

00:30:47.000 where we explained

00:30:48.340 what happened.

00:30:49.140 We forced a vote

00:30:50.320 through what's called

00:30:51.160 filing a rogue

00:30:52.560 cloture petition

00:30:53.520 and Democrats

00:30:55.680 freaked out

00:30:56.300 but ultimately

00:30:56.860 we had the vote

00:30:57.740 and it was astonishing

00:30:58.800 every single Democrat

00:31:01.060 all of them

00:31:01.980 voted against

00:31:04.340 emergency military

00:31:05.900 aid to Israel.

00:31:06.900 It was the day 0.96

00:31:07.900 of the massive

00:31:08.920 pro-Israel

00:31:09.760 march

00:31:11.360 in Washington

00:31:12.640 that I had gone to

00:31:13.900 and participated in

00:31:15.180 some 300,000

00:31:17.320 supporters of Israel

00:31:18.360 on the mall

00:31:18.960 and there were

00:31:20.460 Democrat senators

00:31:21.180 who went to that march

00:31:22.240 and then went to the Senate

00:31:23.300 and voted against

00:31:24.120 military aid for Israel.

00:31:25.680 Now,

00:31:26.420 they did so

00:31:27.200 because they knew

00:31:28.960 the corporate media

00:31:29.880 would never tell

00:31:30.600 the voters

00:31:31.020 about their vote

00:31:31.740 and I have not seen

00:31:33.140 even a single story

00:31:35.320 on CNN

00:31:36.520 on ABC

00:31:37.280 on NBC

00:31:37.840 on CBS

00:31:38.540 in the New York Times

00:31:40.100 in the Washington Post

00:31:41.220 the corporate media

00:31:42.440 simply disappeared

00:31:43.400 and it does not exist

00:31:44.720 because

00:31:45.780 they are propagandists

00:31:47.880 they do not want

00:31:49.180 people to know

00:31:50.020 that Chuck Schumer

00:31:51.440 and the Democrats

00:31:52.180 are blocking

00:31:52.980 military aid to Israel.

00:31:54.380 Now,

00:31:54.560 why did they do that?

00:31:55.400 They did so

00:31:56.140 number one

00:31:57.320 because

00:31:57.680 they are passionately

00:31:59.480 committed

00:31:59.920 to 87,000

00:32:01.440 new IRS agents

00:32:02.480 to harass

00:32:03.120 their political enemies

00:32:04.200 to go after

00:32:05.400 small businesses

00:32:06.220 and families

00:32:07.000 and to raise

00:32:08.260 more money

00:32:08.860 for them to spend

00:32:10.140 and so they did not want

00:32:12.760 any reduction

00:32:13.540 in funding

00:32:14.120 for their army

00:32:14.920 of new IRS agents

00:32:16.100 but number two

00:32:16.880 they very cynically

00:32:19.440 want to tie

00:32:20.560 Israel funding

00:32:21.540 to a Christmas list

00:32:24.980 of other Democrat priorities

00:32:26.340 and top of the list

00:32:27.300 is funding for Ukraine

00:32:28.740 which the Democrats

00:32:29.620 really, really want

00:32:31.120 and they want

00:32:31.640 to tie funding

00:32:32.520 for Ukraine

00:32:33.280 to funding

00:32:34.600 for Israel

00:32:35.280 because they want

00:32:36.120 to try to force

00:32:36.960 Republicans to vote

00:32:38.000 for it

00:32:38.480 because we support

00:32:40.460 Israel

00:32:40.900 they want to try

00:32:41.680 to extract

00:32:42.500 a blank check

00:32:43.740 for Ukraine

00:32:44.340 as the price

00:32:45.140 for aid to Israel

00:32:45.960 that's really cynical

00:32:46.820 like

00:32:47.120 I think we need

00:32:48.520 to take up

00:32:49.120 and pass Israel 0.54

00:32:50.040 funding on its own

00:32:51.280 separately

00:32:51.800 but

00:32:52.660 it says something

00:32:55.040 that Schumer

00:32:55.760 whipped the Democrats

00:32:57.000 and all of them

00:32:58.300 voted against military aid

00:33:00.280 for Israel

00:33:00.700 and by the way

00:33:01.520 you know

00:33:02.740 I talked a minute ago

00:33:03.900 about the left wing

00:33:06.000 Senate Democrats

00:33:06.860 pushing for conditioning

00:33:08.140 aid

00:33:08.740 to Israel

00:33:10.260 on Gaza

00:33:12.020 and on making

00:33:12.900 concessions

00:33:13.680 to Gaza

00:33:15.080 and effectively

00:33:16.000 to Hamas

00:33:16.700 well on Friday

00:33:18.360 of last week

00:33:19.300 Joe Biden

00:33:20.080 at a press conference

00:33:21.140 at the White House

00:33:21.680 was asked about that

00:33:22.660 the question he was asked

00:33:24.340 was quote

00:33:24.920 Mr. President

00:33:26.200 there are members

00:33:27.320 of your party

00:33:27.940 who would like

00:33:28.360 to see conditions

00:33:29.380 placed on aid

00:33:30.380 to Israel

00:33:30.920 what is your view

00:33:32.600 on that

00:33:33.140 they would like

00:33:34.260 to see

00:33:34.800 you know

00:33:35.340 a reduction

00:33:36.460 in the bombing

00:33:37.220 and that sort of thing

00:33:38.580 and here was

00:33:39.620 Joe Biden's answer

00:33:40.580 quote

00:33:40.980 well I think

00:33:42.680 that's a

00:33:43.300 a worthwhile thought

00:33:45.400 but I don't think

00:33:46.920 if I started off

00:33:47.740 with that

00:33:48.120 that we have ever

00:33:48.740 gotten to where

00:33:49.360 we are today

00:33:49.980 we are having

00:33:51.320 to take this

00:33:52.100 a piece at a time

00:33:53.240 I want you to note

00:33:55.500 Joe Biden

00:33:57.520 from the White House

00:33:58.760 said

00:33:59.160 it is a quote

00:34:00.120 worthwhile thought

00:34:02.680 to condition

00:34:04.820 aid to Israel

00:34:06.240 now he didn't

00:34:07.360 embrace the idea

00:34:08.320 so that was good

00:34:09.060 he didn't go

00:34:09.560 all the way

00:34:10.260 to Bernie Sanders

00:34:11.000 and Chris Murphy

00:34:12.100 and the anti-Israel squad

00:34:15.280 but he claimed

00:34:17.640 their view

00:34:18.520 their demand

00:34:19.760 to undermine Israel 0.76

00:34:21.060 was a quote

00:34:21.980 worthwhile thought

00:34:24.580 that is the state

00:34:26.360 of today's

00:34:27.080 Democrat party

00:34:28.020 they are

00:34:28.580 terrified

00:34:29.620 of their left wing

00:34:31.060 and and this

00:34:32.280 this fissure

00:34:33.700 in the Democrat party

00:34:34.920 it is getting worse

00:34:36.680 in Congress

00:34:37.420 every single day

00:34:38.620 within the Democrats

00:34:39.520 yeah

00:34:40.320 no doubt about it

00:34:41.240 I got to ask you

00:34:42.080 about this other issue

00:34:43.140 real quick

00:34:43.640 before I let you go

00:34:44.580 and that is

00:34:45.120 Hunter Biden

00:34:46.340 agrees to appear

00:34:47.720 before the House

00:34:48.400 Oversight Committee

00:34:49.300 I promise

00:34:50.060 we're going to spend

00:34:50.620 more time on this

00:34:51.620 later this week

00:34:52.380 but I have to get

00:34:53.680 your initial reaction

00:34:54.640 to his demands

00:34:56.040 after being subpoenaed

00:34:57.600 that he will do it

00:34:58.740 but only in public

00:35:00.540 that is what his lawyer

00:35:02.400 has now said

00:35:03.740 that yes

00:35:04.660 he's willing to testify

00:35:05.720 before the House

00:35:06.500 Oversight Committee

00:35:07.140 only in public

00:35:08.200 according to the letter

00:35:09.040 from his attorney

00:35:09.740 that he wrote

00:35:10.440 to the Republican lawmakers

00:35:12.120 I get trying to punch back

00:35:16.220 and look like you're on offense

00:35:17.560 but to be clear

00:35:19.320 it is not crazy

00:35:21.020 it is not crazy

00:35:21.040 to have a subpoena

00:35:21.880 behind closed doors

00:35:22.920 we saw this happen

00:35:24.280 when they were trying

00:35:25.400 to impeach

00:35:25.900 not once but twice

00:35:26.940 Donald J. Trump

00:35:27.840 they had people come in

00:35:29.440 behind closed doors

00:35:30.560 and they do these

00:35:31.500 these sit downs

00:35:32.760 and answer questions

00:35:34.560 under oath

00:35:35.380 they give their

00:35:36.560 testimony in essence

00:35:38.160 and then we saw

00:35:39.480 the media go berserk

00:35:40.680 over who was walking in

00:35:41.960 to give their testimony

00:35:42.900 why does Hunter Biden

00:35:44.500 want it differently

00:35:45.120 and what's the political play

00:35:46.420 here that we may not understand

00:35:47.620 well you're right

00:35:49.040 that it's quite common

00:35:50.320 for people to be subpoenaed

00:35:51.700 to testify behind closed doors

00:35:53.520 in a closed deposition

00:35:54.900 that happens regularly

00:35:56.400 congressional committees

00:35:58.440 that are investigating something

00:35:59.860 they like to do that

00:36:00.880 you can often spend more time

00:36:02.480 asking questions

00:36:03.360 you can essentially prepare

00:36:05.500 and build the foundations

00:36:07.080 for an open and public hearing

00:36:09.420 it's the due diligence

00:36:11.120 you do before a hearing

00:36:12.620 and not everyone

00:36:13.960 that you bring in

00:36:14.720 for a closed deposition

00:36:16.400 merits a hearing

00:36:17.740 so I understand

00:36:19.080 why the committee

00:36:19.720 initially subpoenaed him

00:36:21.520 to come in

00:36:22.120 for a deposition

00:36:25.140 I also understand

00:36:26.620 why Hunter Biden

00:36:27.380 came back and said

00:36:28.340 he would do it

00:36:28.980 but only if it's a public hearing

00:36:30.280 his lawyer is a guy

00:36:32.100 named Abby Lowell

00:36:32.940 I don't know Abby personally

00:36:34.580 but he has a reputation

00:36:35.780 as one of the

00:36:36.760 most experienced

00:36:38.200 and most talented lawyers

00:36:40.000 in Washington

00:36:40.800 for fighting

00:36:42.360 congressional investigations

00:36:43.600 and so he does

00:36:44.660 when an individual

00:36:47.100 is in a whole lot

00:36:48.260 of trouble

00:36:48.680 with a criminal investigation

00:36:49.960 or congressional investigation

00:36:51.360 this lawyer

00:36:53.260 is one of the top

00:36:54.120 Washington power brokers

00:36:55.240 for fighting back

00:36:56.060 and the stated reason

00:36:57.940 that Hunter Biden

00:36:58.700 and his lawyer gave

00:36:59.660 is they said

00:37:01.400 well the Republicans

00:37:03.100 in the House

00:37:03.720 when they've done

00:37:04.320 closed door depositions

00:37:05.580 they quote

00:37:07.120 selectively leak

00:37:08.560 portions of the depositions

00:37:10.040 in ways that make

00:37:11.640 the witnesses look bad

00:37:12.780 so we don't want

00:37:13.880 that to happen

00:37:14.420 we want the public

00:37:15.180 to see exactly

00:37:16.740 what Hunter says

00:37:17.600 now look

00:37:17.980 that's a gamble

00:37:18.680 you know

00:37:19.820 if you're the lawyer

00:37:21.880 there is a real advantage

00:37:24.760 for Hunter

00:37:25.180 in keeping it closed door

00:37:26.780 and not having a video

00:37:27.940 not having it on the news

00:37:29.300 will portions of it

00:37:32.740 get leaked

00:37:33.200 of course

00:37:33.740 that's what

00:37:34.380 people in politics

00:37:35.860 do on both sides

00:37:37.180 all the time

00:37:38.160 the January 6th committee

00:37:39.280 did it

00:37:39.700 day after day

00:37:40.740 after day

00:37:41.200 after day

00:37:41.680 both sides

00:37:42.320 do that

00:37:42.880 but

00:37:44.000 I will say

00:37:45.940 by demanding

00:37:46.660 that it be public

00:37:47.620 there's some degree

00:37:49.680 of protection

00:37:50.400 for Hunter Biden

00:37:51.360 in having it be public

00:37:52.300 and that it can't be

00:37:53.220 selectively leaked

00:37:54.260 you get to hear

00:37:54.780 everything he said

00:37:55.580 but it's also

00:37:56.620 a risky play

00:37:57.580 having it be public

00:37:58.820 even as corrupt

00:38:00.620 as the corporate media

00:38:01.580 is

00:38:02.080 when Hunter Biden

00:38:02.980 testifies before the House

00:38:04.580 the corporate media

00:38:06.380 cannot avoid

00:38:07.500 covering it

00:38:08.200 so it will drive

00:38:09.580 a crap ton

00:38:11.240 of news 0.71

00:38:11.640 and I say 0.58

00:38:12.660 crap ton

00:38:13.280 as a technical 0.97

00:38:14.080 legal term

00:38:15.440 but it will

00:38:17.440 it will be

00:38:18.700 and you know

00:38:20.240 look

00:38:20.540 I don't know

00:38:21.800 Hunter Biden

00:38:22.300 I've never met

00:38:22.880 Hunter Biden

00:38:23.440 I don't know

00:38:24.060 how he is

00:38:24.580 at answering questions

00:38:25.640 but I have no reason

00:38:27.440 to expect

00:38:28.180 that he's a particularly

00:38:29.240 nimble

00:38:29.880 or effective witness

00:38:30.900 and so you're going

00:38:31.860 to have

00:38:32.300 some very vigorous

00:38:33.860 questioning

00:38:34.340 and I will say

00:38:36.480 listen James Comer

00:38:37.680 we've had James Comer

00:38:38.720 on this podcast

00:38:39.480 for a two-part

00:38:40.500 interview

00:38:41.340 if you didn't

00:38:41.980 listen to that

00:38:42.560 by the way

00:38:42.980 you ought to go back

00:38:43.740 and listen to our

00:38:44.720 two-part interview

00:38:45.980 with James Comer

00:38:46.800 you ought to go back

00:38:47.380 and listen to our

00:38:47.960 two-part interview

00:38:48.700 with Jim Jordan

00:38:50.020 both of them

00:38:50.820 we did a deep dive

00:38:51.920 in terms of those

00:38:52.760 House investigations

00:38:53.820 and what they've

00:38:55.480 revealed to date

00:38:56.280 my counsel

00:38:57.960 to House Republicans

00:38:59.940 when Hunter Biden

00:39:01.420 testifies

00:39:02.220 in an open hearing

00:39:03.620 is remember

00:39:05.460 the reason

00:39:06.600 this is an issue

00:39:07.340 of public concern

00:39:08.200 is not about Hunter

00:39:09.460 it is not because

00:39:10.420 he's some poor 0.94

00:39:11.540 sad sack 0.98

00:39:12.660 with a substance

00:39:13.260 abuse problem

00:39:14.060 the reason

00:39:15.240 this is a matter

00:39:15.960 of public concern

00:39:16.760 is Joe Biden

00:39:17.780 the reason

00:39:18.280 this is a matter

00:39:18.940 of public concern

00:39:19.760 is the evidence

00:39:20.820 indicates that

00:39:21.540 Hunter Biden's

00:39:22.300 business

00:39:22.820 was selling

00:39:24.220 favors

00:39:24.940 from daddy

00:39:25.800 from Joe Biden 0.99

00:39:26.860 to corrupt 0.90

00:39:27.920 oligarchs 1.00

00:39:28.740 in Ukraine

00:39:29.280 and Russia

00:39:29.900 and communist China

00:39:30.900 and so the focus

00:39:32.560 needs to be

00:39:33.960 on Joe Biden

00:39:34.900 on the corruption

00:39:35.740 of the President

00:39:36.940 of the United States

00:39:37.820 on the evidence

00:39:38.500 that the President

00:39:39.140 of the United States

00:39:39.960 sold favors

00:39:40.720 on the evidence

00:39:41.740 that the President

00:39:42.360 of the United States

00:39:43.120 solicited and received

00:39:44.540 bribes

00:39:45.240 and so I hope

00:39:46.640 that House Republicans

00:39:48.980 can keep that

00:39:50.400 front and center

00:39:51.620 but there's no doubt

00:39:54.000 when Hunter testifies

00:39:55.900 it is going to drive

00:39:56.940 a whole lot of news

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00:41:38.560 Senator

00:41:39.120 is there any hope

00:41:40.480 that we will ever

00:41:41.840 get to see

00:41:43.020 real justice

00:41:44.400 coming out of the house

00:41:45.440 that could possibly

00:41:46.360 move somewhere

00:41:47.780 when it comes

00:41:48.580 to the Biden crime family

00:41:50.000 do you feel like

00:41:51.560 we are getting closer

00:41:52.540 by the way

00:41:53.200 that Comer 0.98

00:41:54.200 and Jordan

00:41:55.300 are doing this

00:41:56.000 methodically

00:41:56.700 there have been

00:41:57.120 a lot of

00:41:57.520 I say

00:41:58.480 Monday morning

00:41:59.700 quarterbacking

00:42:00.660 and armchair

00:42:01.820 quarterbacking

00:42:02.660 from a lot of people

00:42:03.520 on social media

00:42:04.300 are saying

00:42:04.720 we've screwed this up

00:42:06.140 we've gotten nowhere

00:42:07.060 they promised to do

00:42:08.220 something

00:42:08.560 they haven't done it yet

00:42:09.860 is that a fair assessment

00:42:12.560 because I think

00:42:13.540 what they've been doing

00:42:14.200 is really

00:42:14.700 making sure

00:42:15.900 they do this right

00:42:16.800 so it sticks

00:42:17.740 yeah listen

00:42:19.080 I think both

00:42:19.920 Jim Jordan

00:42:20.500 and James Comer

00:42:21.320 are doing an excellent job

00:42:22.440 I think they're

00:42:22.920 approaching their job

00:42:23.860 very seriously

00:42:24.740 I think they're

00:42:25.960 laying out the evidence

00:42:27.080 in a systematic matter

00:42:28.440 I think that's important

00:42:29.400 I think laying out

00:42:30.180 the evidence

00:42:30.620 for the public

00:42:31.220 matters enormously

00:42:32.420 I believe the house

00:42:34.460 should already have

00:42:35.300 impeached Alejandro Mayorkas

00:42:36.800 I believe the house

00:42:37.720 should already have

00:42:38.720 impeached Merrick Garland

00:42:40.520 and you know

00:42:42.100 when it comes to

00:42:42.860 impeachment of Biden

00:42:43.880 I think they're

00:42:45.440 getting very very close

00:42:46.560 to having the evidence

00:42:47.420 to impeach Joe Biden

00:42:48.480 as well

00:42:49.000 the question

00:42:51.380 on all three of those

00:42:52.360 is will they have

00:42:53.160 the votes in the house

00:42:54.060 so the house

00:42:54.720 republicans have

00:42:55.580 an exceptionally

00:42:57.200 narrow majority

00:42:58.260 they have a four vote

00:42:59.280 majority

00:42:59.780 it's not clear

00:43:01.340 that they have

00:43:02.420 the votes

00:43:03.000 to impeach

00:43:03.660 any of them

00:43:04.460 and so that's

00:43:05.620 a fundamental challenge

00:43:06.960 that they face

00:43:08.360 the new speaker

00:43:09.160 Mike Johnson

00:43:09.760 I know Mike

00:43:10.400 very well

00:43:11.200 he's a conservative

00:43:11.980 I'm confident

00:43:13.100 that Mike

00:43:14.420 would be

00:43:14.940 perfectly

00:43:16.280 willing

00:43:18.120 to impeach

00:43:19.080 these officials

00:43:19.860 if he had the votes

00:43:21.960 but if there are

00:43:23.540 five republicans

00:43:25.360 who say no

00:43:26.320 there's no magic wand

00:43:30.680 that can change that

00:43:31.780 and so

00:43:32.540 I think

00:43:34.260 given that

00:43:35.540 very real dynamic

00:43:36.920 that it is a tiny majority

00:43:39.300 with a number

00:43:40.540 of wobbly votes

00:43:41.680 the best course

00:43:43.620 of action

00:43:44.120 the house

00:43:44.540 can do

00:43:45.000 is keep developing

00:43:46.060 the evidence

00:43:46.840 and making the case

00:43:48.360 stronger

00:43:49.060 and stronger

00:43:49.800 and stronger

00:43:50.580 and developing it

00:43:51.820 in front of the

00:43:52.340 American people

00:43:53.180 who ultimately

00:43:54.000 are going to be

00:43:54.480 the arbiter

00:43:54.900 because look

00:43:55.420 even if they

00:43:56.020 impeached

00:43:56.420 all three of them

00:43:57.240 none would be

00:43:58.740 removed by the Senate

00:43:59.680 it takes two-thirds

00:44:00.560 of the Senate

00:44:01.020 to remove

00:44:01.720 an individual

00:44:02.880 in impeachment

00:44:03.520 and the chances

00:44:05.340 that Senate Democrats

00:44:06.360 would vote

00:44:06.900 to do so

00:44:07.540 are 0.000%

00:44:09.800 yeah we'll certainly

00:44:11.400 be following this

00:44:12.280 and we'll keep you

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - November 29, 2023

Watching Horrifying Video of Hamas Attacks, Dems Trying to Condition Israel Aid on Concessions to Gaza & Hunter Biden to Testify before the House!

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