We're not WORTHY or READY for Michelle, a Gambling Curveball in Pro Sports & the Ongoing Atrocities against Christians in Nigeria Week In Review
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Ted and Ben discuss Michelle Obama's comments about a woman running for president, why a woman should never run for president and why she doesn't deserve to be a candidate. Plus, Christian persecution in Nigeria is a real problem and we need to do something about it.
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And here are the big stories that you may have missed
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First up, Michelle Obama going scorched earth on Americans.
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She says it's your fault that a woman hasn't become president.
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And that also means she's not going to grace you as a candidate
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Also, there is a big gambling issue that has come to light
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with game fixing or prop bet fixing in major sports.
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So now, what does it mean for Congress getting involved?
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It is a real problem, and it's time that we all sound the alarm
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and we'll let you know what you can do to get involved.
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It's the Week in Review, and it starts right now.
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they're the only ones that are discontent right now, you would be wrong.
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I will not grace you with my presence as a president of the United States of America.
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You don't deserve me because there's too many misogynists out there,
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Yeah, she was asked whether or not she would run for president.
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Her response was, as we saw in this past election, sadly, we ain't ready.
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That's why I'm like, don't even look at me about running,
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And she says, you know, we've got a lot of growing up to do,
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and there's still, sadly, a lot of men who do not feel like they can be led by a woman,
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By the way, Joe Biden was getting his ass kicked.
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Now, I understand the Democrats can't tell the difference between a man and a woman,
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so maybe Michelle Obama thinks that Joe Biden is a woman,
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but Trump was winning when Biden was the nominee.
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Trump was winning when Michelle Obama was the nominee.
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Trump was winning, A, because the Biden-Harris-Democrat agenda was a train wreck
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and B, because the American people wanted President Trump back in the Oval Office here.
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I want you to give a listen to exactly what Michelle Obama said.
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Do you think that that impacts the room that we've made for a woman to be president?
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Well, as we saw in this past election, sadly, we ain't ready.
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That's why I'm like, don't even look at me about running,
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and there's still, sadly, a lot of men who do not feel like they can be led by a woman,
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I mean, you listen to that, and the room goes wild with women.
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It was clearly a female audience that she's talking with there.
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We can't assume from the high-pitchedness of the screams in the room that it was actually women.
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It could be people that identify as a woman.
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Well, if you have a male who's taking estrogen and, like, wearing a tight strap to, like, tuck in,
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Well, you know, they shop, hey, during the holidays, they can shop at Target,
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get those tucking swimsuits for them, right?
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And half of them used to work at the White House anyway, so there's always that as well.
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When I heard that, I laughed because I thought it was so funny.
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One, I don't think there's a bunch of people that are wanting her to run right now for president.
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Her best shot at it would have been a coronation like we had with Kamala Harris.
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That obviously didn't happen, but she's like, you basically don't deserve me.
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That is the weirdest Jedi mind trick political thing I've ever seen.
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Well, look, it's just arrogance, and you're right.
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Had she wanted to do it, they would have handed it to her instead of Kamala Harris,
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and you and I talked about this a lot on this podcast.
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By the way, this podcast predicted more than a year before the Democrat Party pulled the rug out
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We make predictions that, frankly, are risky, that are out there,
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and the overwhelming majority of the predictions we make on this podcast have come true.
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When you and I said a year before Joe Biden was yanked unceremoniously off the ticket
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No, no, you did agree with me, but they didn't make fun of you.
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The press went after me and says Cruz is a moonbat numbskull.
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I think they kind of bake into the cake that you're a moonbat numbskull.
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I do host this show with you, so there's that, right?
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But, like, literally the corporate media went crazy.
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What a crazy thing for Cruz to say Biden's not going to be the nominee.
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Obviously, anyone with any sense at all knows he's going to be the nominee.
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And if Michelle Obama had wanted it, she would have been the nominee last time.
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But the dripping arrogance of her, you know, you listen to her comments.
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The American people have a lot of growing up to do.
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Like, the absolute condescension, you people are too immature to elect my magnificence.
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Not because the Democrat ideas are horrible and have resulted in open borders, have resulted
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in people being murdered and women being raped and children being assaulted.
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Not because Joe Biden and the Democrats caused war all over the earth, turned peace and prosperity
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into a war in Ukraine and October 7th and a war in Gaza.
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You know, not because every single thing we touched turned to absolute garbage.
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That's not the reason Kamala Harris lost resoundingly.
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The reason, according to the leftist ideology, is you all are bigots and you're racist and
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And I got to say, that contemptuous condescension is one of the worst characteristics of the
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But it also does indicate this is not a party that is reassessing.
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You know, normally when you lose an election and you lose an election badly, at least some
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people with sense in the party go, huh, I wonder why the voters rejected what we said.
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You know, you think back to in 1980, Reagan was elected.
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In 84, Reagan was re-elected, won 49 out of 50 states, came within a few thousand votes
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Reagan won California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, every state but Minnesota.
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And after losing three consecutive presidential races, Democrats said, huh, maybe nominating Jimmy
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Carter and Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis was a bad idea.
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Maybe crazy left-wing loons do not command a majority in America.
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And they nominated what was then a moderate to conservative Democrat, the governor of Arkansas,
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And Bill Clinton won two consecutive elections because they shifted.
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I don't see any Democrats doing that right now.
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I don't see them looking and saying, why did we get clobbered?
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Why did Trump win all seven of the swing states?
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And Michelle Obama saying, you people are a bunch of bigots and sexists, and you just
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Whoever the Democrat nominee is in 28, please make Michelle Obama your spokesperson, because
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we really need her lecturing the American people how much the voters suck.
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Because, you know, that historically has proved such an effective way to campaign.
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Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, you can go back and listen to the full podcast
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I want to move to another issue, and that is sports gambling.
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I just genuinely, this is like my TMZ, my soap opera.
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I'm loving watching the corruption slowly unfold before our very eyes.
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And I've noticed, and I've got friends that literally play pro sports, and they will watch
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games, and they'll text him like, that's not normal.
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I mean, I have friends who are in these sports, and they're like, they even are like, this is
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What just happened in the last two minutes of the game, or the last four minutes of that
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game, and now we're finding out we weren't crazy.
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Now, it may not be fixing the outcome of the winner and the loser, and that's what people
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A lot of times, this is like total number of points that are going to be scored.
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It can even be as simple as a certain player not hitting what they were projected in points
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or three-pointers or even free throws, and you see these anomalies or weird things that
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happen with an individual player or faking an injury so that they make sure they don't
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This was happening in a widespread way among sports, and there were people that were literally
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It may not be fixing the game as in the score, it's fixing aspects of the game that you can
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Well, look, you and I are both big sports fans.
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But, you know, look, unfortunately, as long as there's been sports, there's been some risk
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of corruption in sports, and I got to say, the proliferation of betting on sports has increased
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It's one thing to bet that your team's going to win or lose.
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Presumably, if you're betting particularly that your team will win, the incentives are
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aligned that all the members of the team want to win.
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But you now have these prop bets where you can bet on all sorts of different aspects of
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And that, I think, significantly increases the risk of corruption.
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Because a prop bet, an individual player, can have really significant impact on the outcome
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And so we've seen there's an ongoing criminal investigation involving the NBA, involving
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coaches and players, fixing games, and Major League Baseball as well.
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And so I'm chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
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Part of the jurisdiction of the Commerce Committee is sports, both college sports and pro sports.
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And so I've launched an oversight investigation into the problem of corruption and the impact
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I sent a letter to Major League Baseball, and let me just read you a portion of it, because
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Dear Mr. Manfred, game-fixing allegations are not new to baseball.
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105 years ago, a Chicago grand jury indicted eight Chicago White Sox players for allegedly
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Labeled the Chicago Black Sox in the press, the players were eventually acquitted by a Chicago
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jury, even though some had earlier confessed, and all eight were banned from baseball for
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Major League Baseball and American sports generally are facing a new integrity crisis.
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Last week, prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York unsealed an indictment against two
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pitchers for the Cleveland Guardians, accusing them of rigging their own pitches to make a profit.
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That indictment comes just a few weeks after prosecutors leveled similar allegations against
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Ranking member Cantwell and I sent a letter to the NBA requesting documents and information
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about that matter, and we now seek information from Major League Baseball about how the league
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is addressing alleged game manipulation and threats to baseball's integrity.
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The recent indictment alleges Cleveland Guardians players Emmanuel Clace and Luis Ortiz purposely
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Both players allegedly told friends of their plan and to place prop bets beforehand.
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Perhaps most shockingly, this scheme lasted more than two years before Major League Baseball
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On May 19, 2023, Clace, pitching in relief against the New York Mets, allegedly informed friends
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he would throw a pitch faster than 94.95 miles per hour.
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I mean, can you just hit pause there for a second?
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But it's also just fixing the game where you're like, hey, I'm going to perform differently
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so that my friends can get hooked up and make $27,000 there.
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I actually believe this is probably a lot more widespread than we are being told.
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And part of that is I think that Major League Baseball and others are going to cover their
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ASSs, they want to make sure that we don't realize just how bad it actually was or is.
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Well, and with individual players and prop bets, they have almost total control over the outcome
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And so, look, the $27,000 is not the worst part.
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Let me give you a few more of the facts from the letter.
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Clace would go on to blow a save opportunity as the Guardians lost 10 to 9 in extra innings.
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In June 2023, Clace flung a pitch into the dirt in two separate games, well short of the
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While Cleveland fans were shouting in frustration, Clace was apparently cashing in.
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In both games, he allegedly sent texts notifying his friends that he would throw balls.
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They placed prop bets on his pitches, winning a combined $96,000.
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Across other games from 2023 to 2025, Clace and his accomplices are accused of winning
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You got to wonder how many others were out there, right?
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It was talking about there's been an uptick in wild pitches.
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But because you can bet on that, and they're just saying there is certain data that has
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significantly changed since prop betting got introduced nationwide, basically, you know,
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where everybody can bet on these things and has grown.
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And it's like, that didn't happen for 50 years of baseball before when we have data or 30 years
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And then all of a sudden, they're like, wow, this is happening a lot more often.
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This is weird that they would get worse at these anomalies when technology and cameras and coaching
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You'd think that would actually reduce the number of these unique moments that happen in sports.
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And now we're finding out, yeah, it may not be unique at all.
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Well, and negative prop bets are 100% within the control of an individual player.
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So if you think about it, if you or I were a major league pitcher, we may not be able to win a bet that my next pitch will be a strike,
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because you might try to throw a strike and fail.
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But you know what you and I could win a bet on?
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Because as much like I suck at baseball, but yet I can throw the ball into the dirt.
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I could pitch a ball 100% of the time with no deviation.
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And some of the times, and in this instance, you know, someone who's good at cheating would not pound it into the dirt.
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They would just be a little bit outside the strike zone, so you couldn't tell.
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Well, it looks really obvious when you don't even make it to home plate.
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But that problem, look, you were a Division I tennis player.
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I could whiff at a ball if that was a prop bet and make money off of it.
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if you also get in Ben's head and screw with him,
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you can make him double fault even when he doesn't want to.
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He's an infinitely better tennis player than I am.
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But I do have a little bit of ability to taunt him.
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Either that or you're going to get hit with the ball.
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And that would be a great prop bet, by the way.
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There is that, although the sad thing is when Ben and I play tennis,
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So if he's hitting me with the ball, he's really doing it wrong.
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If you're hitting your teammate, good God, you're doing it wrong.
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It's only when you get lackadaisical can you become a target.
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I've seen a lot of people in sports, journalists, say,
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And is it the job of Major League Sports to police their own?
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Look, I think there need to be some steps taken to fix this.
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And so I'm starting with sending letters to the NBA and Major League Baseball
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And listen, as you know, I'm a diehard Rockets fan.
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By the way, did you happen to see the Rockets' last victory against Orlando?
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Look, the Rockets actually were trailing almost the entire regular season.
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By the way, you haven't mentioned my Ole Miss Rebels in a few weeks.
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And I just want everybody to know that's because we're winning and we're now, what is it, 10-1?
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But when my team loses one game this year, there's two shows in a row that it was brought up.
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Look, I got to say, as a Texan beating the Gators, I'm kind of like, that's interesting.
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One of my favorite images, when Florida played A&M, I tweeted out there was a giant barbecue truck in College Station
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that had, I think, five seven-foot Gators on a rotisserie rotating around being cooked.
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I'm just saying, the Rockets' win against Orlando was really sweet,
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because we were not playing great during the whole of the game,
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And KD, I'm going to say right now, I think the Rockets can win the whole damn thing.
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Oh, that's an early season prediction right there.
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Now, look, most seasons, I think the Rockets can win it all.
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Yeah, but you've never said it the way you just said it with me.
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Like, there's hoping, and then there's, like, the real possibility.
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Our problem last season is we didn't have a closer.
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We didn't have someone who, in the last two minutes of the fourth quarter, you could give
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And KD, I mean, look, he's one of the greatest players in history.
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And in the game against Orlando, I mean, it was, you want to talk about cold.
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He hit two three-pointers that were just devastating.
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And you had Shang-Goon, who's a great center, who played a great game as well.
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Did you have a problem on that overtime, by the way?
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I'm just curious, because you're really into this right now.
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And as I said, I DVR the games, and I watch them typically late at night at the end of the
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day, but anyway, my point is, it's one thing, and I will say, I like to play poker, but I've
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So among vices, that is not one that has impacted me.
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But I get, you know, I'll put five bucks in a March Madness pool, and I've got to say
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my picks are almost always wrong, because I don't know that I've ever won a March Madness
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You're what we refer to as a charity bracket, and we appreciate your service to the charity
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Okay, so I actually, I just pick a homer thing.
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I pick teams I like, and I'm just like, I'm going to go with, I think my final four a year
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or two ago was, I think, three Texas teams in the final four.
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Yeah, that didn't work out too well for you, I'm not going to lie.
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Yeah, so look, on the question of gambling, and by the way, you've got pro sports, but
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And in many ways, with such a proliferation, you know, you look at a small school with a
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game that's not in the headlines, and an individual player there, you know, you may have, it's
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one thing for, you know, am I that worried about massive superstars making millions or
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tens of millions of dollars of being corrupted?
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Well, yes, because we're seeing this in the NBA and Major League Baseball.
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Well, but the incentive is less than some, you know, 19-year-old kid playing at Podunk
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School who has a chance to make 10 grand fixing the game.
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I think the leagues can maybe take some steps about it, but it would not surprise me to see
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And it's one of the reasons I'm just trying to start with saying, okay, tell me the facts
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of how many allegations you're getting of cheating.
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And then, particularly the more serious the problem is, my hope is we may see Congress
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As before, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic, you can go
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back and download the podcast from early this week to hear the entire thing.
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More out of themselves, their businesses, their elected leaders, and the world around them.
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And that's why we're thrilled to introduce the Honest Talk podcast.
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And in this podcast, we interview Canada's most inspiring women.
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Entrepreneurs, artists, athletes, politicians, and newsmakers, all at different stages of
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So if you're looking to connect, then we hope you'll join us.
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Listen to the Honest Talk podcast on iHeartRadio or wherever you listen to your podcasts.
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I want to get back to the big story number three of the week you may have missed.
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Senator, one of the reasons why you do this show and why I love co-hosting it with you
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is we get to talk about issues that are not getting the attention they deserve.
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One of those right now is the persecution of Christians in Nigeria.
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We haven't got to talk about that as much as we thought because the government shut down.
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But one of the things that you see when you see that people are under attack because of
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their faith, and I witnessed it going into the kibbutz, into the homes of those that were
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When I met with the parents who lost their loved ones on that soccer field as their kids
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When I went to the north and I saw the homes that were destroyed and met with people whose
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And you witnessed this type of persecution and death and destruction and went to the
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site where the music festival was and watched people die just because they were Jews.
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It makes me angry to now see what's happening in Nigeria.
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And the American people need to know what's going on.
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Yeah, listen, radical Islamic terrorists, they hate Christians and they hate Jews.
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And they have murdered vast numbers of Christians.
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And they also murder a significant number of Muslims.
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Radical Islamic terrorists, if you don't embrace their radical jihadist view, their ideology
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justifies violence or even murder to force you to submit.
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And the 13 years I've been in the Senate, I've spent a lot of time fighting for persecuted
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Christians, fighting for persecuted Christians all across the globe, especially those being persecuted
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Boko Haram, that is in Nigeria, is a vicious radical Islamic terrorist group.
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And if you look at, there is no country on planet Earth where more Christians have been murdered
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Since 2009, more than 50,000 Christians have been murdered in the country of Nigeria.
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I mean, literally, these Christians are being hunted down.
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Over 20,000 Christian churches and schools have been burned to the ground or otherwise destroyed.
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I mean, this has been mass murder, and it is horrific.
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And so I filed legislation in the Senate to direct the administration to designate Nigeria
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a country of particular concern and to impose in particular sanctions on the government officials
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because there are many government officials who are acquiescing in this mass murder against
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And so my legislation would impose sanctions on particular government officials.
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There are 12 states in the North where Sharia laws or blasphemy laws are enforced.
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There's also federal Sharia and blasphemy laws that are enforced.
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And the government officials use those laws to discriminate against and to persecute Christians.
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In some instances, they simply just turn a blind eye, as Boko Haram and other radical
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In other instances, they actually use the law to facilitate the persecution.
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But after I filed the legislation and I began pressing the administration to designate
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Nigeria as a country of particular concern, President Trump did so.
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It says, Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria.
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Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter.
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I am hereby making Nigeria a country of particular concern, but that is the least of it.
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When Christians or any such group is slaughtered like is happening in Nigeria, 3,100 versus 4,476
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I am asking Congressman Riley Moore, together with Chairman Tom Cole and the House Appropriations
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Committee to immediately look into this matter and report back to me.
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The United States cannot stand by while such atrocities are happening in Nigeria and numerous
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We stand ready, willing, and able to save our great Christian population around the world.
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I saw President Trump shortly after he issued that designation, and I thanked him.
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And I'll tell you, the government in Nigeria is deeply dismayed, and their response, their
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main defense, they say, well, they argue it's not a genocide.
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And what they say is, well, yes, 50,000 Christians have been killed, but you know what?
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Boko Haram has also killed Muslims, so it's all fine.
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Nobody's disputing that they've killed Muslims as well, but radical Islamic terrorists target
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Christians in particular for persecution, and the government is complicit in that persecution.
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And, you know, I got to say, you and I have talked about before that those who hate Jews
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hate Christians, and those who hate Israel hate America, that that is true.
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We've also talked about rising anti-Semitism, and we've talked quite a bit about Tucker Carlson,
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because I think Tucker has unfortunately gone down a very, very dark path, a path where he
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brings on Hitler-praising nutjobs onto his show over and over and over again, but it also
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results, not only does he attack Israel in almost every show he does, but when you go on the
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path of hating Israel and blaming everything on the Jews, that often that same dark path
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So Tucker has said, we should apologize to the family of Osama bin Laden.
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Tucker has said he doesn't know that Hamas is a terrorist organization.
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I'm sorry, but when you murder 1,200 innocent civilians and rape women and children, you
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are most definitely a terrorist group, and Hamas has killed a great many Americans.
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Just recently, Tucker did a show where he talked about Nigerians, and he disputed that
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I want you to give a listen, because he took the chance to basically defend Boko Haram.
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But he's all of a sudden, kind of out of nowhere, deeply concerned about the play of
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Christians in Nigeria, which I want to restate.
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All of a sudden, everybody's concerned about people who clearly have no track record being
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interested in Christians at all, including Ted Cruz.
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Look, I got to say, listen, I understand that Tucker's told the world there's no one he hates
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more than Christian Zionist, and he singled out me and Mike Huckabee as the people he
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But that's truly a bizarre claim, what he says there, which is that I have no interest
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You know, I might ask Tucker, does he have any idea who Miriam Ibrahim is?
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So Miriam Ibrahim was a Christian woman in Sudan, and she was imprisoned, and she was
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sentenced to receive 100 lashes and then to hang by the neck until dead for the crime
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She had a son named Martin, and she actually gave birth to a daughter, Maya, while she was
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And I'll tell you, I repeatedly, practically begged the Obama administration for President
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And globally, many, the Pope got involved shining a light defending her.
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And the pressure became so great, Sudan released her.
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I actually got to meet Miriam Ibrahim when she came to Washington.
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And I asked her, she was a little bitty woman.
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She couldn't have weighed more than 100 pounds.
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And I asked her, I said, Miriam, tell me, when you were in that prison cell and your babies
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are in front of you and you've been sentenced to die for your faith, how did you not give
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And she looked at me with a peace that I'll never forget, and she just said, Jesus was
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But I think this illustrates how anti-Semitism is a poison that ends up poisoning every other
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So now Tucker is running around defending Hamas, defending Boko Haram, saying, well, I don't
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know that Nigerians or Christians are being killed in Nigeria, and why does anyone care
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And apparently Tucker is only interested in atrocities if he can blame them on Israel.
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And since it's not Israel that's killing Christians in Nigeria, it's not a concern for
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Look, I think we should defend Christians when they're being persecuted.
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I think we should defend Jews when they're being persecuted.
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I think we should stand up and make a difference.
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Now, that doesn't mean that we invade every country in which there's injustice, but it does
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mean we use our voice as a voice to stand up for those.
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And look, as you know, my dad was imprisoned and tortured in Cuba.
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And so I have a particular heart for people who are unjustly detained and have spent a long
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time highlighting and doing everything we can to get people out of unjust detentions, whether
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And I'm very glad President Trump is standing up for the Christians in Nigeria.
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As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
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