Verdict with Ted Cruz - June 12, 2024


Why the WH is Happy w the Hunter Biden Guilty Verdict, plus EIGHT Suspected ISIS-K Illegal Immigrant Terrorists ARRESTED


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Hunter Biden has been found guilty on three felony gun charges. We discuss what that means and how it impacts Joe Biden s political campaign to be president. Plus, 8 suspected ISIS terrorists have been arrested for suspected terrorist activity.

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00:00:05.320 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:09.960 And normally, Senator, the big story today would just be the single story
00:00:14.020 that Hunter Biden has been convicted on charges.
00:00:16.860 But the shocking part is we've got a full show with some other stories
00:00:20.960 that are just as important to that as well.
00:00:24.060 Well, that's exactly right.
00:00:25.040 We're going to start with the breaking news
00:00:26.860 that Hunter Biden has been found guilty of three felony gun charges.
00:00:29.920 We're going to discuss what that means
00:00:31.340 and how it impacts Joe Biden and his political campaign to be president.
00:00:35.320 And the spoiler alert is I think the Biden White House political operatives
00:00:38.740 are quite happy with how things have unfolded.
00:00:42.060 Secondly, eight ISIS terrorists, suspected ISIS terrorists, have been arrested.
00:00:48.280 They came into this country illegally. 1.00
00:00:50.040 Joe Biden and the Democrats released them.
00:00:52.920 And now they've been arrested for suspected terrorist activity.
00:00:55.980 Yeah, it's incredible, especially those ISIS terrorists.
00:00:58.180 Guess what?
00:00:58.680 Coming across that southern border.
00:01:01.320 We'll dive into that in a second.
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00:02:42.780 Senator, I got to ask you about the Hunter Biden case.
00:02:46.860 This was the one case that the left, if they were going to prosecute him,
00:02:52.480 it was on these charges because it completely protected the president
00:02:56.520 and the rest of the Biden crime family from the millions of dollars coming to their bank account.
00:03:02.220 Yes, it's a moment where you think you should be celebrating it,
00:03:04.980 but is this nothing but a red herring of all red herrings
00:03:07.540 where they're going to get away with all the other stuff because of this little charge?
00:03:11.380 Well, that's certainly their plan, and this is exactly the political outcome
00:03:15.800 that the Biden White House wanted.
00:03:17.780 And go back to our early podcast when the Biden investigation was moving forward,
00:03:23.740 and we talked at length about if the prosecution focuses on crimes that are personal to Hunter,
00:03:29.220 on the gun crime, on his drug issues, that's their entire political narrative.
00:03:35.300 Hunter is a troubled soul.
00:03:37.540 He has had substance abuse problems for years and years, and all of that's true.
00:03:43.840 And to be clear, if Hunter Biden were just Hunter Smith, this wouldn't be national news.
00:03:50.720 It would be someone who broke the law, who should be held accountable, who should be prosecuted.
00:03:54.180 And by the way, there are people all across the country who are found guilty of gun crimes like this
00:03:58.660 and prosecuted, and so Hunter should be held to the same standard.
00:04:01.120 But we wouldn't be talking about it if he were not the son of the president.
00:04:04.860 And the reason we're talking about it if he's the son of the president
00:04:07.280 is the Biden White House and the Biden DOJ's objective from day one
00:04:12.640 was insulate the big guy, insulate Joe Biden.
00:04:16.600 And so the gun crimes, Joe Biden has nothing to do with.
00:04:19.400 What Hunter Biden has just found guilty of is not corruption.
00:04:22.920 It's not influence peddling.
00:04:24.560 It's not selling favors from daddy.
00:04:26.240 It's not being an illegal and unregistered lobbyist for China, for Russia, for our country's enemies.
00:04:31.460 It is crimes that he was indisputably guilty of.
00:04:35.660 And by the way, look, there are mastermind criminals.
00:04:39.560 And then on the other end of the spectrum, there's Hunter Biden.
00:04:41.940 I mean, the guy had pictures documented. 0.98
00:04:44.880 He's sitting there with a gun and with crack cocaine and with prostitutes.
00:04:48.160 I mean, this was not subtle or complicated. 0.65
00:04:52.020 This was about as straightforward as possible.
00:04:54.640 And Ben, it's worth remembering, even though he was clearly and indisputably guilty,
00:04:59.800 and now a jury has found him guilty, the Biden DOJ tried to do a sweetheart deal
00:05:05.500 where he doesn't spend a minute in jail even for these crimes.
00:05:08.920 And they wanted to do that sweetheart deal in exchange for essentially giving immunity
00:05:12.920 for every other issue of corruption.
00:05:14.760 It was only the IRS whistleblowers coming forward.
00:05:17.740 It was only the House of Representatives shining a light on the IRS whistleblowers
00:05:20.880 that caused that sweetheart deal to crater. 0.97
00:05:23.540 And by the way, Hunter's legal team ended up turning down the deal at the end
00:05:27.860 because they pulled back from blanket immunity.
00:05:31.120 And Hunter said, well, no, no, if I can be prosecuted for all the really bad stuff I did,
00:05:35.300 I won't take the deal.
00:05:37.460 It's interesting to see whether Hunter and his legal team regret that decision.
00:05:41.420 Yeah, you look at that deal, and it was obviously an abuse of power.
00:05:44.380 And that's the reason why ultimately the judge said this is insane,
00:05:47.020 going backwards and giving you immunity for all your other sins.
00:05:49.960 In the past, it would have just completely protected him
00:05:53.840 and, more importantly, would have protected the President of the United States of America.
00:05:57.740 But let's go back through what has not been brought up in any court case yet
00:06:03.980 against the Biden crime family.
00:06:06.860 And that is the millions and millions of dollars
00:06:09.420 that they've still not had to answer for.
00:06:12.240 Since Joe Biden was vice president, his family and their shell companies
00:06:16.980 have hauled in at least $18 million from foreign sources
00:06:21.840 and bad actors around the world specifically.
00:06:25.900 Well, that's exactly right.
00:06:27.460 The House Oversight Committee just put out a list of the latest evidence
00:06:30.900 of illegal actions from Joe Biden and Hunter Biden.
00:06:34.240 They detailed, as you noted, $18 million from foreign sources.
00:06:37.780 Now, let's break that down.
00:06:38.760 $7.3 million from China directly to Joe Biden and his family.
00:06:44.500 $4 million from Ukraine.
00:06:46.780 $3.5 million from Russia.
00:06:49.040 $1 million from Romania.
00:06:50.900 $1 million from Panama.
00:06:53.500 $142,300 from Kazakhstan.
00:06:56.600 Guess what? For what? For a Porsche.
00:06:58.520 It was a nice one.
00:07:01.040 $142,000. 0.99
00:07:02.740 That's a damn nice car. 0.97
00:07:04.280 We're not talking the old 944 and 16 Candles that, I mean, 0.97
00:07:09.940 we're talking a heck of a lot nicer car than that.
00:07:12.300 And then a million other in other foreign payments.
00:07:16.300 And understand, look, the Biden White House and Joe Biden's defenders try to say,
00:07:22.020 this is just Hunter, this is just Hunter, this is just Hunter.
00:07:24.640 Joe Biden personally met with nearly every single foreign national who was funneling his family millions and millions of dollars.
00:07:34.560 He met with the chairman of CEFC, Yijing Ming.
00:07:39.340 He met with Chinese fund executive, Jonathan Lee.
00:07:42.580 And lied about it.
00:07:43.620 And lied about it.
00:07:44.880 He met with Burisma corporate secretary, Vadim Porzharsky.
00:07:49.080 He met with Russian oligarch, Yelena Baturina.
00:07:52.920 And he met with Kazakhstani oligarch, Kenez Rakishev.
00:07:56.880 So, understand, let's go back.
00:08:01.460 Hunter Biden has no discernible skills and certainly no skills that are worth $18 million.
00:08:07.700 The only thing he has to sell is daddy.
00:08:13.020 That is the commodity being marketed, not just marketed, but sold and sold for millions and millions and millions of dollars.
00:08:20.880 Ask yourself, why does China give $7.3 million to the Biden family?
00:08:27.540 It's not because Hunter Biden is Clarence Darrow, is some ace lawyer.
00:08:31.660 He has a law degree, but nobody in their right mind would hire him to practice law.
00:08:35.000 Why did Burisma give him millions?
00:08:36.900 It's not because he knows a damn thing about oil and gas in Ukraine.
00:08:41.280 It is because they want favors from daddy.
00:08:43.940 And to be clear, daddy collects the cash.
00:08:46.660 We broke it out how daddy gets the cash frequently.
00:08:48.720 So, all of this focus on Hunter, here's what the Biden White House wants right now.
00:08:53.920 They want two things.
00:08:54.640 They want, number one, this is over.
00:08:56.820 It's been decided.
00:08:58.220 All of the Hunter issues have been prosecuted.
00:09:00.320 Nothing to see here.
00:09:01.220 Move on.
00:09:02.020 Oh, and by the way, Joe, of course, has been completely exonerated.
00:09:04.400 That's what they want the press to say, number one.
00:09:06.460 And number two, they want to self-righteously say, see, nobody's above the law.
00:09:10.900 We prosecuted Hunter.
00:09:11.880 Now let's go on our jihad against Donald Trump because this is all about winning the elections.
00:09:17.420 And I got to say, by the way, the most ludicrous statement I think I've heard in a long time in politics is Joe Biden's claim he will not pardon his son.
00:09:29.460 I'm going to make a prediction right now.
00:09:31.120 If Joe Biden loses in November, I'll wager $1,000, Ben, that Joe Biden pardons Hunter before he leaves.
00:09:37.880 I thought you'd throw down more money than that, Senator.
00:09:40.140 I'm not going to lie.
00:09:41.140 I'm a government employee.
00:09:42.540 You know, I'm not some, you know, fancy radio talk show host.
00:09:47.020 I was going to say, I'd take out a loan on that bet because I think you're so right on it.
00:09:50.660 It's just you look at this and I got to ask you a legal question because the president's come out.
00:09:56.680 He's really been kind of beating his chest on this over the last 10 days.
00:10:00.320 He was asked in an interview, would you would you, you know, let your son off the hook?
00:10:04.940 Right.
00:10:05.200 Would you pardon your son?
00:10:06.220 He said, no.
00:10:06.960 Look, I think win or lose, there's a good chance he'll pardon him, as you just said.
00:10:10.780 But he also has not said anything about commuting his son's sentence.
00:10:15.440 That's not a pardon.
00:10:16.680 Can you explain for people the difference and how valuable commuting his sentence would be?
00:10:22.280 Well, sure.
00:10:23.100 So pardoning someone is the offense itself goes away.
00:10:26.300 The guilty conviction goes away.
00:10:27.920 It basically pardoning functions to erase the crime.
00:10:31.700 So you're not a felon.
00:10:32.780 If you get a pardon, you are no longer a convicted felon.
00:10:36.880 Commuting the sentence, you're still a convicted felon.
00:10:39.780 The crime is on your record.
00:10:41.720 You have all the consequences of being a convicted felon.
00:10:44.840 However, commuting the sentence can mean you can say, OK, no jail time for you or your jail time is over now.
00:10:51.180 And listen, if Biden wins in November, I agree it's more complicated.
00:10:56.260 I think the odds are pretty good that he commutes the sentence at least, even if he wins.
00:10:59.920 But if he loses, I think it's a no brainer that Biden just just goes ahead and does the pardon and leaves.
00:11:07.200 But but if he wins, commuting the sentence is probably a good cut the baby in half solution.
00:11:12.840 But, you know, I will say one consequence of commuting rather than pardoning is is is you stay a felon.
00:11:19.740 It means, among other things, ironically, Hunter can't legally own a gun.
00:11:24.720 So one of the consequences of being a convicted felon, you no longer have to prove that he's on crack right then, which is what this trial was about, because convicted felons are not allowed to own a gun.
00:11:35.140 And can we just pause and note the utter and complete hypocrisy?
00:11:43.060 So what did Joe Biden do yesterday, the day his son was convicted of three felony gun charges?
00:11:51.900 Talking about gun control.
00:11:53.780 He had a press release about gun control saying we must stand up and go after gun criminals.
00:11:58.820 And ironically enough, he didn't say like my own son. 0.76
00:12:02.700 And let's be clear, crackheads buying guns illegally and then disposing of them in a dumpster for any kid to come along and shoot himself or someone else.
00:12:11.900 That would qualify as serious gun safety violations. 0.97
00:12:15.660 The utter hypocrisy of it is astonishing.
00:12:20.380 I'm assuming if there is a case this fall going after Hunter for some of his tax offenses.
00:12:26.640 Now, the special counsel allowed the most serious tax offenses, the statute of limitation to expire on purpose, on purpose.
00:12:33.960 Let's make sure.
00:12:34.680 Let's yeah, deliberately.
00:12:35.500 Let's let's remind people of that point real quick.
00:12:38.220 Yeah.
00:12:38.400 Look, Merrick Garland did not want the most serious tax charges brought against Joe Biden and Hunter Biden.
00:12:46.900 This was about protecting Joe.
00:12:49.000 This was all about look, any magician engages in in distraction and misdirection.
00:12:53.700 Any magician wants you to look at what's under what's under the the shell on the left instead of what's under the shell on the right.
00:12:59.940 And so they're sitting there going gun charges, crack gun charges, crack trouble, troubled substance abuse.
00:13:05.680 Don't look at the corrupt president who is in hock to enemies of America.
00:13:12.220 You notice the countries that they make all this money from.
00:13:15.200 Why isn't France there?
00:13:16.560 Why isn't the United Kingdom there?
00:13:18.360 Why isn't Japan there?
00:13:19.980 Why aren't any of our friends and allies there?
00:13:21.940 They only take money from countries that are our enemies.
00:13:25.540 And that's because that was Joe Biden's business model.
00:13:30.240 And the result in this verdict, I think, will further their political narrative.
00:13:37.020 Now, I will say this.
00:13:38.420 I fully suspect that this is having a personal toll on Joe Biden, that he is politically sacrificing his son for his own political favor.
00:13:48.040 Now, Hunter got himself into this mess and they tried everything they could to get Hunter off scot-free.
00:13:54.660 But but I think the consequences are we're going to see a jail sentence imposed.
00:13:58.920 But you know what?
00:13:59.800 All the Democrats in the media are going to say, OK, jail sentence for Hunter Biden.
00:14:03.000 Now let's go try to sentence Donald Trump to jail, too.
00:14:06.160 Yeah.
00:14:06.260 And we also saw on CNN yesterday, immediately after this came out, they were already saying, well, this is the president's only son.
00:14:12.780 This is the president's only living son.
00:14:15.020 They were already setting the president up to commuter or to pardon him.
00:14:18.920 I mean, is it that stressful if you've had the conversation behind the closed doors?
00:14:23.580 Hey, hey, son, don't worry about this.
00:14:24.960 Look, I just need you to go through the process on these two things.
00:14:27.860 I got you.
00:14:28.540 You're never going to jail, buddy.
00:14:30.000 I've got you.
00:14:30.780 I'm never running for reelection.
00:14:32.140 If I win this time, I'm going to pardon you.
00:14:34.340 I don't care.
00:14:35.300 Like, that's a real conversation that I could see taking place behind closed doors.
00:14:39.140 Hey, man, just go in there.
00:14:40.540 Let's make this not any worse than it is for me politically as I'm running.
00:14:44.180 And look, Joe Biden and his son and his brother, they've already lied to Congress about his role in the family's corrupt influence peddling schemes.
00:14:53.420 They're already covering for Joe.
00:14:54.780 They're already covering for daddy.
00:14:55.920 We know for a fact that Hunter Biden lied to Congress about these basic issues, saying that, you know, it had no affiliation with a slush fund account that received foreign payments after foreign business associates met with then Vice President Biden.
00:15:10.620 He lied to Congress about that.
00:15:12.840 And that's just one of a couple big lies that came out recently.
00:15:16.920 Well, that's right.
00:15:18.900 And any time you see now someone on the media saying, move on, this case is over, it's been decided, you know, they might as well put on a hat that says Joe Biden 2024 because they're acting as a Biden political operative.
00:15:30.480 And that's a big part of the strategy here is to allow their media shills to say all of these issues have been decided now.
00:15:37.120 There's nothing to see here.
00:15:38.200 And especially, especially, especially nothing about Joe Biden's own personal corruption.
00:15:42.920 Final question on this, Senator.
00:15:44.240 This is obviously a topic we have talked about a lot, the Biden family corruption.
00:15:49.360 My question for you is we've got a debate a couple weeks away or less now.
00:15:53.620 And if you were debating Joe Biden on stage, what would your strategy be on this issue of Hunter and the lies to Congress and the money that's coming in?
00:16:04.980 How do you not overplay it where people go, we've heard about this forever because it has been dragging on forever.
00:16:10.580 How do you make this stick with the American voters, the Biden corruption?
00:16:14.240 So, look, I think Trump should have a focused, carefully laid out indictment that can be made succinctly.
00:16:27.300 And I think I'd start with, you know, Joe, at the last debate, you looked at the American people and you lied to the American people.
00:16:36.480 And this is what we talked about two days ago in the last podcast.
00:16:39.920 Your son's laptop had just been revealed and you stood up and told the American people that your son's laptop wasn't real, that it was Russian disinformation.
00:16:49.020 And you had 51 stooges from the intelligence community who said that they were all lying.
00:16:55.440 We now know they're all lying.
00:16:56.780 And in fact, the Department of Justice has proven that in court, that the laptop was real.
00:17:01.000 Now, the reason you didn't want everyone to know the laptop was real in part was because it showed your son had committed multiple gun crimes and drug crimes.
00:17:09.640 But the real evidence on that laptop is of your corruption, of the millions of dollars that you personally and your family took from China, from Russia, from Ukraine.
00:17:18.480 I would use the lie about the laptop to prosecute Joe Biden for his own corruption.
00:17:26.620 I would ask him, tell me, Joe, what skills does Hunter Biden, and since this is Trump, he'd probably say your crackhead son, have that would earn $18 million from our nation's enemies?
00:17:43.780 The only thing he had to sell was you and your favors.
00:17:49.060 Why are you in the business of selling favors to our enemies?
00:17:52.540 Yeah, that's probably the best strategy.
00:17:55.100 And that's why I want to ask your opinion on it, because it's going to be so important in the election.
00:17:59.080 We're going to keep covering this.
00:18:00.920 There is that second trial coming up.
00:18:03.240 That one, I would argue, is way more important to connecting dots to his father.
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00:19:54.700 Senator, as I said at the beginning, shocking how crazy the news cycle is in the last 24 hours.
00:20:00.820 Hunter Biden trial is a big story, yes, being found guilty.
00:20:04.440 But there is an even bigger story that we have been warning about for months on this show.
00:20:10.360 And that is prospective terrorists, those that are on the terrorist watch list, hundreds that have been caught, a lot of gotaways that have not been caught.
00:20:19.500 And even when terrorists are getting caught, we're letting them go.
00:20:23.740 This is the second story of this happening.
00:20:25.880 And now we have multiple arrests of ISIS-K coming across our southern border.
00:20:33.260 Here is how CBS News broke the story last night.
00:20:37.080 Eight individuals, all from the Central Asian country of Tajikistan, were arrested in Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia.
00:20:44.960 They entered the United States this year and in 2023, crossing the Mexican border.
00:20:51.840 They were vetted and allowed to remain in the country.
00:20:55.860 CBS News has learned further investigation uncovered the men had possible ties to ISIS-K,
00:21:02.180 the terror group which claimed responsibility for an attack at a Moscow concert hall that killed more than 140 people earlier this year.
00:21:10.540 Senator, that's eight across the entire country, from the extreme West Coast to the East Coast and Philadelphia.
00:21:20.500 And these are just the ones that we've caught that have been arrested.
00:21:25.500 You've been warning about this open border, and we've had the numbers to back it up of those on the terrorist watch list.
00:21:31.580 And the administration is saying we're willing to roll the dice and take that risk to bring in illegal immigrants. 0.99
00:21:36.560 Well, sadly, that's exactly right. 0.67
00:21:39.860 This story is a big damn deal. 0.89
00:21:43.040 We have eight suspected terrorists with ISIS-K who've been arrested. 0.94
00:21:48.940 They've been arrested in Los Angeles, in New York, and in Philadelphia.
00:21:53.940 Now, they came into this country illegally at our southern border.
00:21:57.700 The Biden administration apprehended them, and then they let them go.
00:22:02.380 They let terrorists go.
00:22:04.020 And I've been saying for a long time, we are at a greater risk of a major terrorist attack in the United States right now than we have been any time since September 11th.
00:22:18.220 And let's go.
00:22:19.760 So the first outlet to break this story was the New York Post.
00:22:22.940 And the New York Post announced that these people had been arrested, and they were arrested in a coordinated sting operation that occurred in three cities, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia.
00:22:34.680 Two ICE sources confirmed to the Post that they arrested six people from Tajikistan over the last week after the FBI contacted the agency to warn them.
00:22:48.880 And two others who were part of the same group were also arrested after being under surveillance for several months by the multi-agency Joint Terrorism Task Force.
00:22:59.040 Part of the investigation featured a wiretap, which revealed one of the now-arrested individuals was talking about bombs.
00:23:07.860 And here's a quote, quote,
00:23:11.060 Remember the Boston Marathon bombing?
00:23:14.460 I'm afraid something like that might happen again or worse, one of the sources told the Post.
00:23:19.460 The subject, the target who was the subject of the wiretap, was previously released by federal authorities at the southern border with a court date next year.
00:23:32.080 But it has since emerged that he has potential ties to ISIS.
00:23:35.320 And by the way, it is worth noting, who is ISIS-K? 0.59
00:23:39.820 So ISIS-K is a splinter group, but it is the group that carried out the terror attack that we just saw, the terror attack that happened in the concert hall in Moscow.
00:23:55.540 And that was carried out by terrorists from Tajikistan.
00:23:59.940 So the same country these folks are from, the same terror group, ISIS-K.
00:24:03.940 And remember what they did.
00:24:05.380 They killed 145 people in that Moscow terror attack.
00:24:12.280 And so the Biden administration has an open border.
00:24:16.300 It is effectively a red carpet. 1.00
00:24:17.760 If you're a terrorist, come to America, and we, the idiot Democrats, will let you in if we catch you. 1.00
00:24:24.080 And by the way, they catch all these guys because, and what happens? 1.00
00:24:27.600 They turn around and let them go.
00:24:29.360 How many terrorists are Joe Biden and the Democrats going to let go?
00:24:32.560 And by the way, is anyone in the news covering this?
00:24:36.540 Is anyone asking Joe Biden this?
00:24:38.620 Is anyone asking any other Democrat?
00:24:40.420 You know, I've got 51 Democrat colleagues.
00:24:42.180 How many of them in Capitol Hill are being asked, why does your party keep releasing terrorists into America?
00:24:48.640 And why are you endangering the lives of American families across this country?
00:24:53.700 This goes back to another story that happened in April.
00:24:56.420 And we talked about it here.
00:24:58.060 There was a man on the terror watch list that was released also by Border Patrol.
00:25:02.560 With border security funding blocked in Congress, this became an issue.
00:25:08.420 And they said, quote,
00:25:09.280 The case illustrates the challenges U.S. officials face in identifying migrants who pose national security threats
00:25:16.020 because we're being overrun at the border.
00:25:19.220 NBC News at the time, and we played this, and I just think it's important to remind them,
00:25:23.340 it's not just these eight ISIS-K, but go back just to April 11th, NBC News broke the story.
00:25:29.760 This is happening over and over and again.
00:25:31.860 Yeah, listen to what they said back in April.
00:25:33.660 An alarming development in the border crisis.
00:25:36.040 Among the record number of migrants crossing the southern border was a member of an Afghan terror organization
00:25:41.120 who was released into the U.S. by border agents, according to U.S. officials.
00:25:46.360 48-year-old Mohammed Harwin illegally crossed into California in March of last year.
00:25:51.220 His name is on a U.S. terror watch list, identifying him as a member of HIG,
00:25:56.080 a terror group that's killed Americans in Afghanistan.
00:25:58.860 I mean, Senator, this is another story that is completely unrelated.
00:26:04.460 A month before that, we found out that another man on a terrorist watch list was released,
00:26:09.460 and they had to go grab him up in upstate, I think it was upstate New York.
00:26:13.280 So you have these headlines that keep happening.
00:26:18.120 We are catching some of these people, and we're releasing them because we're overrun.
00:26:23.260 So, and it's worth remembering that the FBI Director Chris Wray has repeatedly testified before Congress
00:26:31.420 about possible ISIS terror plots being carried out on U.S. soil
00:26:35.940 and the group's potential for using the southern border to get into this country illegally.
00:26:41.820 And Chris Wray has warned about a possible, quote, coordinated attack
00:26:46.960 that could take place on the United States from ISIS case.
00:26:50.900 So they know this risk is there, and I want to point out also, you know,
00:26:54.700 we had a couple of months ago, we had the impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas,
00:26:58.000 and it came over to the Senate, and I and many others on the Republican side
00:27:02.000 wanted to lay out the facts that this administration, that Mayorkas' lawless refusal
00:27:08.960 to follow federal immigration law and his releasing of millions and millions and millions,
00:27:14.660 over 11 million illegal immigrants that have come into this country under Joe Biden,
00:27:17.940 that a major threat from that are the terrorists that they keep releasing over and over and over again.
00:27:24.120 And it's worth noting, Ben, every single Democrat voted not to hear the case,
00:27:29.580 to throw it out, to dismiss it at the outset.
00:27:31.540 They didn't want to hear the evidence of terrorists being released in the country.
00:27:36.780 They didn't want to allow the House managers to present that evidence.
00:27:39.620 They didn't want the American people to hear that evidence.
00:27:41.760 And we are on borrowed time.
00:27:44.780 It is not complicated that if you continue to invite terrorists from all over the world,
00:27:50.160 whether Hamas or Hezbollah or Palestinian Islamic Jihad or ISIS-K or anybody else,
00:27:55.540 if you invite terrorists from all over the world come into this country,
00:27:59.360 if when you catch them, you release them and allow them to continue planning terror attacks,
00:28:05.160 it is only a matter of time before, tragically, Americans are going to die. 0.56
00:28:10.620 March the 11th, Christopher Wray, in his own words, before Congress.
00:28:15.560 From an FBI perspective, we are seeing a wide array of very dangerous threats that emanate from the border.
00:28:22.240 There is a particular network that has, where some of the overseas facilitators of the smuggling network,
00:28:29.780 have ISIS ties that we're very concerned about,
00:28:33.520 and that we've been spending an enormous amount of effort with our partners investigating.
00:28:38.620 That's at least his second, if not third, warning to Congress.
00:28:42.420 I think in the last six to seven months, Senator,
00:28:45.180 does this give you guys leverage to now say,
00:28:48.480 we've got these eight ISIS-K, 1.00
00:28:50.980 ISIS-K is the same group that had the spinoff that had the attack in Russia,
00:28:54.960 the FBI director has now warned us a couple times,
00:28:57.540 why are you guys not changing the policy at the southern border, Ms. President?
00:29:01.280 And clearly, you should know now from all of these warnings that this policy is a disaster,
00:29:06.880 and there are multiple terrorists that are already in this country that we don't know where they are.
00:29:11.820 So frankly, the only leverage we have is what I'm doing right now,
00:29:15.260 is shining a light and informing the American people.
00:29:18.300 Why is that?
00:29:19.480 Because not a single Democrat in the United States Congress cares.
00:29:22.700 Look, the Mayorkas impeachment, every single Democrat, all 51 of them, they voted,
00:29:29.860 no, we don't want to hear the evidence, we don't care.
00:29:32.280 I sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
00:29:34.600 In three and a half years of Biden's presidency,
00:29:36.780 we have had zero hearings on the risk of terrorism from illegal immigrants coming into this country.
00:29:43.660 Joe Biden and the Democrats, they don't want to hear it,
00:29:48.560 which means as long as Chuck Schumer is the majority leader and the Democrats have control over the Senate,
00:29:53.320 the Senate is not going to do anything.
00:29:54.860 And there are 49 of us.
00:29:55.760 We can jump up and down and yell, but 49 cannot outvote 51.
00:30:00.260 And so fundamentally, the Senate will do nothing as a matter of law
00:30:04.500 to hold Joe Biden and the Democrats accountable.
00:30:07.860 And the media will do nothing.
00:30:09.400 It's why you and I do this podcast, because the only solution is the ballot box,
00:30:16.260 is throwing Joe Biden and the Democrats out of office.
00:30:19.460 And then, listen, in January, in a Trump administration, 0.99
00:30:24.000 that we're going to secure the damn border. 0.99
00:30:25.860 But you've got to have a president willing to follow the law, 0.99
00:30:28.880 and Joe Biden refuses to follow the law.
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