Verdict with Ted Cruz - November 13, 2026


We Will Take America Back, and China is Waging an Influence War against us

BONUS POD： Migrant Caravan Surges After Democrats Capture Congress Democrats Target The Filibuster, Republican House Stands for Hegseth & China Influences House mom to go against Data Centers Week In Review

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00:01:04 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you as well. It's so nice to
00:01:09 have you with us on radio stations around the country this weekend. And Senator, we've got a
00:01:14 lot to talk about. We're still licking our wounds after the beatdown on Tuesday, but there is a lot
00:01:19 that is happening in the world and we got to cover it. Well, let me first of all say the election
00:01:24 Day last week. It was devastating. I'll tell you, in the state of Texas, people are hurting all
00:01:29 across the state. As I encounter people, they're just in shock. They can't believe what happened.
00:01:34 I've spent the past week in D.C., people in the Senate, people in the House. We have radicals
00:01:40 who've taken over the Congress, taken over the Senate, taken over the House,
00:01:44 taken over the state of Texas. They've won every statewide elected position in Texas.
00:01:49 at this point they've won nine senate seats the democrats have won senate seats in south carolina
00:01:55 in kansas in ohio in iowa they won a senate seat in mississippi for god's sake this was a blowout
00:02:04 it's devastating and i'll tell you listen the the past week and a half since that's happened
00:02:11 i've encountered so many people that are just in shock they look at me and they're like
00:02:15 what happened and and and i want everyone to listen to me we will turn this around
00:02:22 i i want to give a word of encouragement texas we're going to flip texas red again
00:02:29 everyone in texas listen to me texas has not become a a suddenly a tofu eating gun controlling 0.84
00:02:38 commie pinko transgender nut house we are not california yeah amen to that texas we are going 0.96
00:02:49 to take back and all across the country listen i mean it's you know i've been on a bunch of planes 0.69
00:02:55 in the last week and on planes people look at me and they just grab me by the shoulder like what
00:03:00 do we do and and i'll tell you ben the word i'm saying to everyone is we're going to take it back
00:03:06 relax and and here's how the democrats are going to overshoot they're going to go crazy they have
00:03:14 given control to their party over to the nutcases and they're going to go too far and and history
00:03:21 teaches politics is a pendulum so i just want to encourage everyone if you're sitting there if
00:03:26 you're listening to the radio if you're listening to this podcast and you're like oh dear god what
00:03:29 has happened to this country i get that to be honest i'm thinking the same thing yeah but i
00:03:35 want to give you hope if there's nothing else you get from this podcast i want it to be hope
00:03:41 i want it to be encouragement we are going to take this country back in 2028 we're going to
00:03:49 win texas again we're going to win the majority in the state house we're going to win back
00:03:53 congressional seats that we lost texas is going to be red once again and and and we've got to do
00:03:59 that all across the country and i will say listen there's there's there's kind of a perverse irony
00:04:04 if we had had a great election in 2026 let's say we had a terrific election and republicans won
00:04:11 the odds of us winning in 2028 would actually go down because it's hard to have a couple of
00:04:17 consecutive good elections normally the pendulum swings the other way so if we'd had a great 2026
00:04:23 the odds would be higher that that aoc or or gavin newsom or john ossoff or whoever the
00:04:30 democrat is who wins would win in 2028 because 2026 was such a blowout we have i believe a much
00:04:39 better chance of turning this country around so i want to give that encouragement i also want to
00:04:45 talk on this podcast about how what we're seeing in america it's not organic it's not just natural
00:04:52 it should not just oh there are a bunch of left-wingers who are really pushing this country
00:04:57 in the wrong direction we are facing a foreign influence op and i want everyone listening to 0.97
00:05:05 this podcast to understand the chinese communists are spending millions of dollars trying to tear 0.89
00:05:12 america apart no doubt iran is spending millions of dollars trying to tear america apart cutter 0.57
00:05:18 is spending millions of dollars trying to tear america apart this is not organic we need to
00:05:24 understand what we're fighting and we need to stand up and fight back all right senator so
00:05:28 let's talk about this foreign influence it's really interesting to see and just take a step
00:05:33 back so people understand it was a lot harder back in the day to have influence over america
00:05:39 if you were a foreign country because you would have had in essence like buy ads in a newspaper
00:05:44 you'd have to run tv ads or radio ads to have real like real penetration into the hearts and 0.65
00:05:52 minds of Americans that was a lot harder to do than what we've now seen and there's the good and
00:05:59 bad of social media and the world wide web that it's great for freedom of speech in general but
00:06:04 we also are now learning just how much money is coming in to influence us in America we've seen
00:06:13 a lot of this with data centers we found out not that long ago that there was hundreds of thousands
00:06:19 of bots that were basically putting misinformation, scared tactics in the marketplace to turn
00:06:25 people away from data centers.
00:06:26 That was all, by the way, being paid for by China.
00:06:29 They were in charge of putting these accounts out there, putting this propaganda up there,
00:06:34 using AI to give really good graphics and statistics and things that people would share
00:06:38 in the fear mongering.
00:06:40 And now we're finding out just how effective it actually was.
00:06:43 Well, I mean, let's take all of our listeners.
00:06:46 And we have an incredibly smart, educated, savvy group of listeners that are loyal to Verdict.
00:06:53 The odds are you probably think data centers are a bad thing.
00:06:59 You probably think data centers are stealing your water.
00:07:01 You probably think data centers are driving your electricity bills up.
00:07:05 And the reason I say you probably think that is because across the country, that's what almost everybody thinks.
00:07:11 And it's an amazing, I have never seen an issue on which public opinion has moved faster than on data centers.
00:07:18 So six months ago, if you did a poll, and I've done polls on this, what do you think of a new data center coming in in your neighborhood?
00:07:28 Typically nationwide, you would get about 55-45 support.
00:07:32 So more than half of Americans say, oh, yeah, that's great.
00:07:35 More jobs, construction.
00:07:36 Okay, good.
00:07:36 I'm good with that.
00:07:38 Today, it's not 55-45 in favor.
00:07:40 It is 80-20 against the speed in just four or five months is staggering.
00:07:48 And the thing to understand, that just didn't happen.
00:07:50 By the way, no data center blew up like a mile island, like a nuclear reactor, nuclear power.
00:07:55 Like, there was no catastrophic event that made all these people just run from these things saying, oh, my gosh, they're unsafe.
00:08:03 But if you're sitting there, and I actually don't think our listeners are 80-20 against data centers because I think verdict listeners skew, more educated, more savvy, and so more sophisticated.
00:08:14 Our listeners are harder to manipulate because you're taking the time to educate yourselves.
00:08:19 I don't want you to listen to me and trust whatever I say.
00:08:21 I want you to listen to all the evidence you can and make your own determination. 0.90
00:08:26 But what I can tell you is the Chinese communists, look, China and America are in a race for AI. 0.93
00:08:31 If you're Xi in China, the single best way to win this race is convince America, handcuff themselves, tie their hands, stop developing AI, surrender and let China win. 0.90
00:08:44 And understand the consequences of that are trillions of dollars of investment in China and millions of jobs. 0.72
00:08:50 They want to take jobs away from us.
00:08:53 And it's much cheaper.
00:08:54 Oh, and they want to use AI to propagandize, to push espionage and propaganda and control.
00:09:01 They want the values of the Chinese communist government.
00:09:04 And so, look, the number one and number two argument against data centers, number one, water.
00:09:09 You need to understand, if you're worried data centers are stealing your water, you're being lied to.
00:09:14 That is a false argument.
00:09:16 It is what China puts most of his money into.
00:09:19 Why is it a false argument?
00:09:21 Because almost every data center going in uses either what's called closed-loop cooling,
00:09:27 which means the same water gets circulated round and round and round,
00:09:30 so it uses almost no water.
00:09:31 Or actually, more and more of them are using air cooling,
00:09:34 doesn't even use water at all.
00:09:36 So almost every data center uses less water than a golf course.
00:09:40 But let's just go back to how they were able to flip the script on this,
00:09:45 where the majority of Americans were in favor of it,
00:09:47 then six months later, it's everyone's against it.
00:09:50 And you mentioned something a moment ago.
00:09:52 There are a lot of golf courses out there.
00:09:54 A lot of people picked up golf after COVID.
00:09:56 The average data center uses far less water, and you mentioned this a moment ago,
00:10:02 than a golf course does in a year.
00:10:04 Now, Americans are in favor of golf courses.
00:10:07 And by the way, your boys are some of the top young golfers in the country.
00:10:11 Yeah, I appreciate the water for these golf courses.
00:10:14 I want to be very, very clear about that.
00:10:15 And let me just ask everyone listening.
00:10:18 Is there any person listening to this podcast who thinks golf courses are destroying America?
00:10:24 Correct. 0.98
00:10:25 And if you don't, and by the way, if you do, you're a lunatic nutcase, so nobody thinks that because we don't have lunatic nutcases who listen to this. 0.99
00:10:32 Other than we have reporters, to all the reporters, to all of MSNBC who is listening, you guys are the lunatic nutcases. 0.99
00:10:37 You probably do think golf courses are destroying America, but every rational person listening to this does not. 0.68
00:10:43 If you don't think golf courses are destroying America, then at least on the waterfront, understand data centers use less water.
00:10:54 Why is it that you have been told, oh, data centers are stealing our water?
00:10:59 And by the way, I hear that.
00:11:00 I hear that in rural Texas.
00:11:01 I hear that in South Texas. 1.00
00:11:02 Data centers are stealing our water because the communist Chinese are putting real money 1.00
00:11:08 to convincing you of that. 1.00
00:11:09 They're lying to you.
00:11:10 Now, the other argument they use is data centers drive up your power rates.
00:11:14 Now, that is not a crazy argument.
00:11:16 The average American's power rate, electricity rate, has risen over 30% in the last four
00:11:22 years.
00:11:23 So you are right to be worried. I don't want my electricity rates to go up. What I have been urging policymakers, what I've been urging Governor Abbott, what I've been urging tech centers to say, every data center that goes in, you need to make sure it is not increasing electricity bills. And ideally, it should be lowering electricity bills. You ought to generate more power than you use. And the vast majority of data centers are doing exactly that.
00:11:48 So, Senator, if you know the facts about this, it's not actually that scary, but that's where
00:11:54 the propaganda comes in and the money. And now we have even more information and evidence of just
00:12:00 how deep China has gone to influence Americans, especially ahead of the midterms, where candidates
00:12:07 were running on saying no to AI Center's local and state elections they were involved in as well.
00:12:13 If you think China isn't looking at your city council, your county commissioners,
00:12:16 or your board of aldermen or your mayors, you're wrong.
00:12:18 They're involved in all of it.
00:12:21 Well, and let me give an example of a story that broke this week.
00:12:24 It's from the Free Beacon.
00:12:25 It's entitled, quote,
00:12:26 Grassroots single mom activist behind Maryland Data Center moratorium
00:12:31 had a helping hand from Marxist-Leninist group tied to China. 0.84
00:12:36 Taylor Frazier McCollum's supposedly grassroots campaign
00:12:39 against the data center community
00:12:40 got extensive support from an experienced China-linked activist group.
00:12:46 Taylor Frazier McCollum, the, quote, grassroots activist who has been credited with securing a moratorium on data center development in Prince George's County, Maryland, had extensive support from a China-linked group that widely promoted her campaign and even provided signs with its logo for the on-site demonstrations.
00:13:06 The group that collaborated with McCollum, a struggling single mom with no history of activism, is the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a Marxist-Leninist group tied to notorious Beijing-based tech mogul Neville Roy Singham, who has been accused of bankrolling an extensive Chinese propaganda network.
00:13:28 The revelation is the latest evidence that the increasingly effective anti-data center movement can be traced, at least in part, to Chinese tied funders.
00:13:37 An investigation published earlier this year by the Bitcoin Policy Institute linked several anti-data center campaigns to Chinese government tied organizations.
00:13:48 While the social media platform XAI reported in August that its safety team had identified a network of Chinese, quote, inauthentic accounts that reportedly spread anti-data center content.
00:14:02 According to the washdog site Influence Watch and a recent report from the Anti-Defamation League, the PSL, which is based in San Francisco, is funded by and shares staff with Singham's $100 million pro-China Marxist network of activist groups.
00:14:23 Specifically, Influence Watch reports that the PSL boasts funding and personnel overlaps with the group Answer Coalition,
00:14:33 the group Breakthrough News, and the People's Forum, which are key cogs in Singham's influence network,
00:14:39 which the Connecticut-born expatriate controls from China.
00:14:44 City Journal reported in June that the PSL is central to that network, citing a prominent communist funder
00:14:51 that Singham's organizations, quote, redirect insurgent organizing into tightly controlled
00:14:58 institutions, and that each of the network's initiatives is designed to build up the PSL. 0.99
00:15:05 For her part, McCollum portrayed in a credulous NFL NPR profile as a struggling single mom and 0.98
00:15:14 a waxing parlor employee whose, quote, political awakening was triggered by data center development.
00:15:21 started a public petition in June of 2025 calling on Prince George's County leaders to block plans
00:15:28 for a five billion dollar data center on the site of the mall in the town of Landover that had been
00:15:34 abandoned for more than two decades so this is an abandoned mall site nothing was happening and
00:15:40 suddenly five billion dollars was going to be invested thousands of jobs were going to be
00:15:45 created. And yet she led an effort funded by China to stop it. Now, I want you to listen to
00:15:51 her talking about what she wants done with this this land in this space instead. Give a listen.
00:15:56 We did just lose six flags. So I think that this would be a great site to bring some like urban
00:16:00 air park or American Dream type facility, you know, just something that's bigger and broader
00:16:05 and can serve all the residents of French or this county and not just benefit the ones that can get 0.74
00:16:09 a job at a data center five billion dollars center senator she wants it to turn into a trampoline 1.00
00:16:15 park and forget all the people that may get a great paying job if you're a construction worker 1.00
00:16:20 if you're an electrician if you are the thousands of people that would get five billion dollars of 1.00
00:16:25 investment you ought to be pissed because this you know there's a phrase useful idiot she wants 1.00
00:16:31 a trampoline park which produces almost no jobs does not provide significant benefit to the 1.00
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00:18:55 What's also interesting, though, in following that money, is finding out who she was working with.
00:19:01 Let's talk about that as well.
00:19:02 Yeah, look, this is striking. She shut down jobs. There are thousands of people in Maryland that now are not going to get jobs because of this woman's activism. And she does not realize that she is doing the bidding of communist China. Here, give a listen to this clip. 1.00
00:19:18 Asthma conditions and bronchitis and other things that are caused by environmental factors and pollution. So why would you want to exacerbate that situation?
00:19:32 I'm Taylor Frazier. I'm a resident of Landover, second generation. I started a position on
00:19:40 change.org to help stop the data center from being built. So data centers track and store
00:19:45 information for processing services like Google, ChatGPT, OpenAI. This one is going to be one of
00:19:52 the biggest ones on the East Coast. It's going to use more water and more electricity than we've
00:19:55 seen other data centers using. We do have concerns of environmental racism because they're putting
00:20:00 it in Lando for a reason. We already got the stadium in our backyard that creates excessive
00:20:05 amounts of traffic. And now you're going to give us a data center that's going to create excessive
00:20:09 amounts of pollution in the area. We already have higher rates for different asthma conditions and
00:20:14 bronchitis and other things that are caused by environmental factors and pollution. So why would
00:20:19 you want to exacerbate that situation? Senator, it's very interesting. This site, I actually
00:20:25 looked it up before the show it is in a high crime area it's also in a high poverty area
00:20:30 is the site of an old mall that is in essence been like demolished it's gone and we see this
00:20:36 happen all over the country where what used to be a great place a great area where the malls are
00:20:40 built now they're no longer and she says there's this massive environmental issue and it's going
00:20:46 to kill your kids it's a great story but it's not backed up in fact at all and and ben let me be
00:20:52 stronger than that what is a data center data center is a giant warehouse with a bunch of 0.97
00:20:57 computers in it and she's saying the environmental impact it's going to cause asthma and bronchitis
00:21:03 when have computers ever caused asthma and bronchitis this is not a factory that is like
00:21:09 making toxic chemicals it's it's a big warehouse with a whole bunch of computers like like like 0.91
00:21:15 this is i i gotta give the the chinese credit they're putting money and and they're getting 0.79
00:21:21 people are they're like oh we're all gonna get asthma from computers down the street i'm sorry
00:21:27 computers don't give you asthma like i don't even and by the way where is the person asking her the
00:21:33 question like do you have a computer in your house and are you destroying the environment
00:21:36 with that computer i'm just asking for a friend look if if they were creating a a giant chemical
00:21:43 processing plant i would understand that then you ought to say okay what's the pollution in
00:21:48 the air and the water and we need chemical processing plants but but those are the sorts
00:21:51 of things that do produce environmental problems warehouses with computers in them don't do that
00:21:59 they're literally i've been in data centers they're just giant buildings with a ton of computers in
00:22:05 them and and they're kind of simple and they just kind of sit there and it's very by the way clean
00:22:10 and organized like they are the most sterile it's almost like a doctor's office but with computers
00:22:14 in it look and and it's they have to have power and it's why for new data centers they're coming
00:22:23 in typically with new electricity generation from natural gas sometimes you see them using solar
00:22:29 sometimes you see them using wind sometimes you see them using hydropower sometimes you're seeing
00:22:34 more and more projects coming in to try to use nuclear but the point is they generate the power
00:22:38 they use and so they consume some power because it's a whole bunch of computers and and the
00:22:44 power is to run the computers and also they have air conditioning you got to keep it cooled
00:22:48 it used to be the early on data centers had what was called open loop cooling which meant they had
00:22:54 a lot of water running through and so it was a fair criticism a couple of years ago that they
00:22:59 used a lot of water it's not anymore they they've almost all stopped doing that but look i want to
00:23:07 say something broader this is a pattern that that is occurring and and and listen i want to give you
00:23:15 another example of chinese and foreign influence pushing misinformation pushing things that are
00:23:21 ripping us apart one of it is the anti-data center movement a totally different effort 0.76
00:23:26 is anti-semitism the israel hate we see in this country and look all of us saw the anti-semitic
00:23:35 protests on college campuses. Many of us noticed that the tents all matched, that there was real
00:23:41 money behind it. And the money behind these protests are Iran and Qatar and China. And China,
00:23:47 by the way, doesn't give a damn about Israel, doesn't care about anti-Semitism, but they care 0.95
00:23:51 about ripping America apart. And what's amazing is the same people funding the anti-data center 0.70
00:23:55 movement are funding the anti-Israel and anti-Semitism movements in this country.
00:24:00 now i want to point to something that you and i don't normally talk about or repeat on this 0.57
00:24:07 podcast which is nick fuentes so we've talked about nick fuentes nick fuentes is a nazi he's
00:24:13 a proud nazi he he says hitler is very very cool he loves hitler i i am not a nick fuentes fan to 0.62
00:24:20 put it mildly i think this guy is pushing absolute poison i will say i actually tweeted 0.66
00:24:26 out this week something he said because he admitted that what he is saying is a lie,
00:24:34 and it's a lie funded by foreign governments. I want to read you what he said. I'm not going to
00:24:38 play it because I don't want to amplify him, but I want to read you what he said because he's
00:24:42 admitting that he, Nick Fuentes, and Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens, and all of these
00:24:49 toxic influencers are amplifying lies that are paid for by foreign governments. So here's what
00:24:55 he read. He said, what changed in 2024 and 2025? Is it became really in vogue and really popular
00:25:03 for people to talk about Jews and Israel in a negative way? Also just to talk about conspiracies
00:25:09 in general. Suddenly that became the grift and it attracted people that were looking for notoriety,
00:25:15 people that were looking to build the social platform. How do we know this? Well, look at
00:25:21 Jackson Hinkle. Jackson Hinkle, I think, gained like three million Twitter followers in nine
00:25:26 months. What explains the explosion and engagement for people criticizing Israel?
00:25:31 No one's going to like to hear this. You're going to call me a grifter. You're going to call me a
00:25:37 shill. You're going to say controlled opposition, switch sides, honest to God truth. This is the
00:25:43 truth. Probably it was being driven from foreign countries and the left. That's just true. Why,
00:25:54 oh, why all of a sudden did it become supercharged? If you criticize Israel on Twitter, boom,
00:26:00 100,000 likes. You could literally tweet F Israel, 100,000 likes. Did everyone in America
00:26:09 all of a sudden start hating Israel?
00:26:11 Well, some people did.
00:26:13 But I think it was driven in part, or maybe a lot,
00:26:16 by the Muslim world,
00:26:17 which is very engaged online
00:26:19 because they were the ones at war with Israel,
00:26:21 because Palestine is their regional cause.
00:26:24 Palestine is their religious-ethnic struggle.
00:26:27 So I think a lot, like Jackson Hinkle,
00:26:30 how many of his three million followers
00:26:32 that he gained in those nine months?
00:26:33 How many of them came from the United States of America?
00:26:37 People knew what he was up to before.
00:26:40 All of a sudden, you have this regional conflict between Israel and the Arab League, effectively.
00:26:45 Or you could say the axis of resistance would be more precise.
00:26:48 Now, all of a sudden, anyone going after Israel supercharged. 1.00
00:26:53 And we all know it is being driven by these Muslims. 1.00
00:26:58 Tucker, are you listening? Candace, are you listening? 1.00
00:27:00 That's not what he said, but that's me.
00:27:02 We all know it's being. We all see it on Twitter.
00:27:06 that's who's promoting it.
00:27:08 That's who's doing it.
00:27:09 And suddenly, anybody that wanted to blow up
00:27:12 and be, you know, what's the hot topic?
00:27:14 What's the woke take right now?
00:27:16 What's the edgy take?
00:27:17 What's the take that's going to get me the most notoriety? 1.00
00:27:21 It's crapping on Israel. 1.00
00:27:25 And I used a euphemism there. 0.91
00:27:27 It's joining the Israel critical cause. 0.95
00:27:29 You know, being a Jew conspiracy theorist. 1.00
00:27:32 And what the grifters know how to do is just milk it. 0.99
00:27:36 Milk it for everything.
00:27:38 It's like the wrong milk it like a cow.
00:27:42 But they were.
00:27:43 That's crazy.
00:27:44 They were milking it.
00:27:46 Hey, listen, here's the important part.
00:27:48 They were milking it for everything it was worth.
00:27:51 Here's what I mean by this.
00:27:53 If tweeting Israel critical sentiment gets them engagement and money,
00:27:57 then they, like a mouse or a cat or any animal in one of those experiments,
00:28:01 if they press a button and get a treat,
00:28:03 if they press a button and get a treat,
00:28:05 They're trained that this is what they're going to do every single day.
00:28:07 So if I'm an influencer on Twitter, I want to grow my following.
00:28:11 I want to make my X revenue dollars.
00:28:13 How do I get my reward?
00:28:14 How do I get my treat?
00:28:15 I press the button every day.
00:28:17 Every day I press the button.
00:28:18 And what's the button? 0.51
00:28:20 JFK said Hitler's spirit will rise from the grave. 0.96
00:28:23 F Israel.
00:28:24 JFK said F Israel. 0.74
00:28:28 Jews did everything.
00:28:29 The liberty was intentional.
00:28:31 Every day, press that button.
00:28:33 always escalating, always going to the same direction.
00:28:35 Does it ever get refined?
00:28:36 Is nuance introduced?
00:28:38 Counter-arguments entertained?
00:28:39 Did we discuss the limitations, the limitations of the theory?
00:28:42 No.
00:28:43 Press the button.
00:28:44 And if we're not getting the same reward, press the button harder.
00:28:47 Press the button twice.
00:28:48 Press the button 12 times.
00:28:49 Slam the button.
00:28:50 So it just got louder and louder. 0.99
00:28:51 Oh, well, it started with, I think we should be able to criticize Israel. 0.93
00:28:55 Then it turned into, well, F Israel. 1.00
00:28:58 Then it turned into, well, it's all Jews. 0.94
00:29:00 Then it turned into, well, Hitler did nothing wrong. 0.77
00:29:02 Then it turned into Israel killed Charlie Kirk. 0.77
00:29:04 Then it's Israel behinds ice.
00:29:06 Israel's why we exonited Maduro.
00:29:09 And I think that basically that is what happened.
00:29:13 I can't stand Nick Fuentes, but he's admitting everything he said, everything Tucker said, everything Candace said is a paid foreign op to destroy America.
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00:31:47 All right, finally, Senator, I want to get to two important issues.
00:31:53 I want to play one for you real quick.
00:31:55 AOC has come out and saying what she believes
00:31:59 and what Democrats, I guess, are going to do with their new power.
00:32:03 It's not just go after Donald Trump and impeach him.
00:32:05 It's not just going after his cabinet members or his family
00:32:08 or anyone around the president.
00:32:10 They're now talking about going after the Supreme Court
00:32:13 and impeaching Supreme Court justices.
00:32:15 here is AOC talking to CNN about that. How high do you go? Do you go after Trump? I mean,
00:32:22 do you try to impeach Trump? I mean, I think we should leave all options on the table. Absolutely.
00:32:28 I mean, of course, this Supreme Court as well has also kind of legalized a lot of his criminality
00:32:35 and they're pointing at impeachment. Impeachment in this Republican majority at that time was
00:32:39 pointing at the Supreme Court. So we'll see. We'll approach it. But I think all options are on the
00:32:44 Senator, all options are on the table.
00:32:47 She's out in the Capitol pointing at the Supreme Court on video talking about the Supreme Court.
00:32:53 Yeah, we'll impeach them, too.
00:32:56 You know, this reminds me of my colleague, John Kennedy, who said AOC is the reason why they put instructions on shampoo bottles. 0.99
00:33:06 Like what she just said is dumb. 0.98
00:33:09 Let's impeach the Supreme Court. 0.99
00:33:12 Yeah, man, let's let's like resist. But I'm worried that they could actually pull it off.
00:33:17 No, no, they won't. No, they won't. They're going to impeach Donald Trump. That they're going to do.
00:33:22 They may impeach him more than once, but it's 100 percent they'll impeach him once. Now, remember, impeach is just the House of Representatives voting to bring charges.
00:33:30 The Senate's not going to convict him. They're not going to remove him. That takes two thirds.
00:33:34 But the lunatics in the House will definitely impeach him. They will almost certainly impeach cabinet members, I think, more than one. 0.73
00:33:41 they're not going to impeach the supreme court they will vote to pack the supreme court
00:33:46 but at the end of the day this is just look this is the angry left understand 0.79
00:33:53 you know she's leading a movement that is funded by the chinese communists that is funded
00:34:00 you know aoc and mandami and and all of the the the the radical left that have just gotten elected
00:34:08 they are open marxists and they're open islamists and and they are being funded by by forces that
00:34:15 want to tear america apart so when she says yes let's impeach the supreme court thankfully that's 0.51
00:34:21 not going to happen but at the end of the day it does not take a sophisticated understanding of
00:34:26 what's going on to be one of the leading lights in today's democrat party yeah great point and
00:34:32 finally i i want us to take a moment and talk about there was a lot of people that were frustrated
00:34:37 because Senator Thune put out a statement saying,
00:34:41 hey, we're working hard trying to get things done, get judges passed.
00:34:44 We even worked on Veterans Day.
00:34:47 There was a lot of people online that didn't like that line.
00:34:48 They're like, hey, welcome to Average Americans.
00:34:50 We all went to work as well, sir.
00:34:52 And then there was this story that you guys were going home for three days,
00:34:56 and there are rules when you're dealing with judges.
00:34:59 The Democrats are extending the rules where apparently it's 60 hours
00:35:05 that has to be considered.
00:35:05 The clock is ticking, even if you're not in town. Is that a fair way of putting it?
00:35:11 Sort of. Not not exactly. But but look, there are a lot of folks in Twitter that are just inclined to get angry and they're like, oh, the Senate is going out of town.
00:35:19 I'm really mad. And this is where facts and reality matter.
00:35:23 And I would encourage folks, listen to the podcast that we did on Wednesday.
00:35:27 I explained on Wednesday, I took everyone inside the Republican leadership battle and the debate that we had.
00:35:33 And I mentioned that that my colleague Rick Scott introduced at a resolution that said we will stay in session every single day through Thanksgiving.
00:35:45 And you know what? That that actually is good politics. It sounds good. Yeah. Yeah. We're tough.
00:35:51 And actually, I I stood up and I said, OK, this doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
00:35:56 instead of focusing on inputs what days were physically in washington and by the way it is
00:36:02 right now what is it 226 in the morning on thursday night friday morning so i'm still in dc i'm still
00:36:08 here working i'm gonna call it friday morning i want to be clear about that but keep going it's
00:36:12 226 friday morning but but look it's actually easy politics say yeah we should work harder yeah yeah
00:36:19 beat us and never pay us salaries and beat us with sticks and it's oh congress is horrible all
00:36:24 of that is is good politics because it just kind of is easy to say oh we hate them all
00:36:29 what i said we ought to focus on is not the inputs but the outputs
00:36:33 we have as a couple of days ago we had 54 days i said i actually wrote a resolution i pulled out a
00:36:41 notepad of paper wrote it on a piece of paper and ended up the whole conference adopted the
00:36:45 resolution i i wrote and and it says that the the the republican conference uh commits that we are
00:36:52 going to maximize every day of the 54 days we have remaining while we have Republican majorities.
00:36:58 And we're going to confirm every single judicial vacancy we can and every single executive nominee
00:37:06 vacancy with which the conference agrees. And we're also going to do everything humanly possible
00:37:12 to take up and pass a reconciliation bill before January 3rd. So those are kind of the three major
00:37:18 And also, I'm sorry, I also included in past major Republican priorities.
00:37:22 So I wrote the kind of major buckets of what we wanted to do.
00:37:26 And I said, look, we ought to focus on substance, not what days are we physically here?
00:37:31 Why is that? Because the way the Senate rules work, by design, the Senate is designed to move slowly and deliberately.
00:37:38 The rules delay things. So when you take up an appellate judge, every time you take up an appellate judge, under the rules, you have to wait 30 hours and do nothing.
00:37:48 That's just how the rules are written.
00:37:51 So the reason I said let's focus on output, we've committed we're going to confirm every judicial vacancy, so we're going to get all of them done.
00:37:57 But I said we ought to empower our leadership.
00:38:00 Listen, the Democrats want to get out of town, and so the way the Senate works is you say on a Thursday, okay, we're going to confirm three appellate judges.
00:38:10 There are two ways we can do it.
00:38:12 One, we can do one, sit here 30 hours, do the second, sit here 30 hours, do the third, sit here 30 hours.
00:38:18 And that means all 100 senators sit in Washington all day Thursday, all day Friday, all day Saturday, all day Sunday.
00:38:25 30 hours of doing nothing. By the way, you can't vote on anything else.
00:38:27 You're just sitting there waiting for the clock to tick.
00:38:30 And so it's a ton of wasted time.
00:38:32 Or what you end up doing is if you tell the Democrats, hey, we're prepared to do that.
00:38:37 We'll stay Friday. We'll stay Saturday. We'll stay Sunday. You're not getting rid of us.
00:38:41 What usually happens is what happens on Thursday, which is the Democrats said, I'll tell you what, we'll let you confirm all three of the appellate judges.
00:38:50 Just let us leave on Thursday and we will basically give back all the time.
00:38:55 We'll do all of it on Thursday and then we'll come back on Monday and finish it.
00:38:58 And so the output is identical.
00:39:03 We could not do better if we stayed here and said, oh, we're tough.
00:39:08 we're beating the hell out of you we would do the exact same thing and and and so i think we
00:39:13 ought to focus on the outcome which is fill every judicial vacancy that's what we're doing 0.95
00:39:21 and the unfortunate thing is on twitter lots of people get mad and say damn it we're really pissed 0.85
00:39:25 that people went home the reason that that the senate went back to their home states is because 0.59
00:39:31 democrats gave in and said we'll let you confirm these judges on exact same time frame that's what
00:39:37 happened it's very interesting because there's so many people they're like well then you could
00:39:41 stay and work on something else and i think you can't do anything else under the senate rules you
00:39:45 can do nothing else yeah well and it i think it tells you how people are frustrated still after
00:39:51 the midterms and that's the reason why i think it's important that we explain it to people
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00:40:04 Cruz and I will see you back here next week. You've been listening to Verdict with Ted Cruz.
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00:40:56 You know, when coverage of the NFL draft is basically for moms,
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