Zilch from Sec Serv on Assassination Attempts, Trump Campaign Hack Attack by Iran & Democrats Block IVF Week In Review
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Ted Cruz questions the Acting Director of the Secret Service about the lack of protection for Donald Trump after the first assassination attempt on him. Also, Iran hacked the DNC and gave it to the Biden-Harris campaign. And finally, Democrats come out showing their true colors in a disgusting move this week, blocking IVF legislation that was brought by Ted Cruz.
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It is Verdict with Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you as always.
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And these were some big stories that you may have missed that we talked about this week.
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First up, Senator Cruz questioned the acting director of the Secret Service about the lack
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of protection for Donald Trump after the first assassination attempt.
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Well, his answers are even more shocking after the second assassination attempt on Donald
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Also, Donald Trump had his campaign hacked by Iran.
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They gave it to the Biden-Harris campaign and also members of the media.
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But did they use the information that was hacked?
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We'll describe those details in a moment as well.
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And finally, Democrats come out showing their true colors in a disgusting move this week,
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blocking IVF legislation that was brought by Senator Cruz.
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It's the Week in Review, and it starts right now.
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The acting director of the Secret Service testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee,
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And you know what's striking is just about every single question I asked him two months
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ago remains entirely salient today, and even more so now that this has happened twice.
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So I want to go back and let's listen again to that cross-examination.
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This is the acting director of the Secret Service shortly after the first assassination attempt
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I agree with what you said at the outset that the individual Secret Service agents demonstrated
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remarkable personal courage, putting their bodies in between the line of sight of the
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That being said, the bravery of the line agents is quite different from the decisions of Secret
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Secret Service leadership committed catastrophic security failures.
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Indeed, the worst security failures for the for the Secret Service since 1981, since the
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attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan.
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It is incumbent upon this committee to determine why those security failures happened.
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Just after the shooting, Secret Service put out an official statement from your spokesperson
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that says there's an untrue assertion that a member of the former president's team requested
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additional security resources and that those were rebuffed.
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In fact, we added protective resources and technology and capabilities as part of the increased campaign
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With respect to Butler, Pennsylvania, it is accurate, sir.
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It is accurate that the Trump team had not asked for additional security and had not been rebuffed.
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If you're talking about Butler, Pennsylvania, all assets requested were approved.
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If you're talking about the media reporting of assets requested, there were times when assets were
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And those gaps were staffed with state and local law enforcement tactical assets.
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So I'm reading from the Washington Post, July 20th, 2024.
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Secret Service said to have denied requests for more security at Trump events.
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The opening paragraph, top officials of the U.S. Secret Service repeatedly denied requests
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for additional resources and personnel sought by Donald Trump security detail in the two
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years leading up to his attempted assassination, according to four people familiar with the
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That repeatedly the Trump detail asked for more resources and repeatedly Secret Service
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How many requests did the Trump team or the Trump detail ask for?
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I can speak to the ones that reported in the Washington Post and we can go through them
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But you don't know how many requests there were?
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In general, how many requests since 2021 that the former Trump detail has made a request
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You had a spokesperson put something out that is false on its face.
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By the way, did you approve this statement when it went out?
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Did your predecessor, the former director, does she approve this statement?
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Senator, our comms team, they send out statements.
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Will you commit to provide this committee in writing every written request for additional
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resources from the Trump campaign or the Trump detail and every response from Secret Service?
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Senator, I will commit to providing responses and getting you the information that you are
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Let me ask you something, and who makes the decisions in those requests?
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Are you talking about the ones that were in the Washington Post?
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The process, sir, is that a detail will make a request for either staffing, technical assets
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that is handled between the field office and the detail.
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It goes up to a logistics office between our office.
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I believe that the Secret Service leadership made a political decision to deny these requests.
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And I think the Biden administration has been suffused with partisan politics.
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Did the same person who denied the request for additional security to President Trump
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also repeatedly deny the request for security to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose father was
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murdered by an assassin and whose uncle was murdered by an assassin?
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Senator, what I will tell you is that Secret Service agents are not political.
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Leadership appointed by the President is political.
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Did the same person deny the Trump request that also denied the RFK request?
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One, there is a process for a candidate nominee to receive protection.
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That is a bicameral, bipartisan process that the Hill participates.
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For a candidate, for a candidate in Congress, you don't have a camera.
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Mr. Kennedy submitted a request that was referred over to the CPAC.
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Let me ask, because the failures on that day were catastrophic.
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By the way, is it true that on the day of the Butler event that Secret Service transferred
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There was one airport agent that actually went on the manpower request for the Trump
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What was the relative size of the Trump detail compared to the detail that is assigned
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Senator, the former President travels with a full shift, just like the President.
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Is that your testimony that President Trump had the same size detail that President Biden
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On the day of in Butler, the agents surrounding him, it is the same number of agents surrounding
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There is a difference between a sitting President who also not only...
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Hold on, you're using President in a way that is not clear.
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Is it your testimony that in Butler, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump had the same number of agents protecting
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I'm telling you the shift, the close protection shift surrounding...
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That's what you asked me, Senator, and I'm trying to answer it.
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Senator, there is a difference between the sitting President of the United States...
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The National Command Authority to launch a nuclear strike, sir.
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I'm not asking how many more agents that travel with the President that the former
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But the number of Secret Service agents protecting him...
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You are refusing to answer clear and direct questions.
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I am asking the relative difference in the number of agents between those assigned to
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I'm not asking why you assign more to Joe Biden.
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Senator, I will get you that number so you can see it with your own eyes.
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It's sad, Senator, but this seems now more relevant than it was after the first assassination
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And by the way, you asked these questions on 730, if I'm not mistaken.
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So, did you ever actually get the answers to all the questions where he said, I will get
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They have not responded to my questions in writing.
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I assume they'll do it sometime within the next century.
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But when he said in that hearing, I will get that information to you, we are sitting here
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in mid-September, and he has still not gotten it.
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And it is a sense of a complete lack of accountability.
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Now, look, what they're doing right now is a massive CYA.
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But the problem is with the senior decision-making, and I believe the partisan politics that has
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Today, the Biden-Harris administration should announce that they are assigning a full presidential
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And by the way, let me be clear on a little sleight of hand that the acting director tried
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When I asked, are the same number of agents assigned, or what was the relative number of
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He said, oh, the same number of agents are in the close protective shift.
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So the close protective shift are the agents that are assigned immediately on the body of the
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So I assume he was accurate that both Biden and Trump, the immediate circle around him
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What is different is the way the Secret Service works is in concentric circles, perimeters of
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So there's a close detail of a number of agents around the protectee.
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But then with a full presidential protection, there's an intermediate perimeter that they lock
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The broader perimeter presumably would have caught this sniper on the golf course who was
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And so the acting director was trying to be cute by saying, well, well, the immediate shift,
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And look, everyone understands right now that there are markedly fewer Secret Service agents
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protecting Donald Trump than are protecting Joe Biden, which is amazing because as best I
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can tell, all Joe Biden does is sleep on the beach in Delaware.
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And, you know, Ben, there was a reason I did not ask at that hearing.
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I didn't ask the acting director how many agents were assigned to Trump.
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And the reason I didn't ask that, and I didn't ask how many are assigned to Biden, and the
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reason I didn't is he would have reasonably declined to answer that, that that giving that
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information could compromise the security of the protectee.
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So I can tell you in my written questions, I have asked that specific question, how many
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agents, give me the number, and I said that answer can be given as law enforcement confidential
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so that it will not be made public, because that shouldn't be made public.
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There's some details about security that should not be in the public domain.
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That's why I asked the question I did, give me the relative order of magnitude.
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Is it twice as many? Is it 3x? Is it 5x? Is it 10x?
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And he adamantly refused to answer that question, and to this day, he has not answered that question.
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Senator, finally, I want to just talk about the media coverage of this second assassination attempt,
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and I can't even believe that it's gotten to this point.
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In fact, let's just look over the last, like, three days.
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This morning on Jen Psaki's show on MSNBC, you had a congresswoman that said,
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quote, Trump is the guy that stokes domestic terrorism.
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The problem isn't the people coming in, but this guy.
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the Trump campaign needs to turn down the rhetoric now that Donald Trump has been shot at
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for the second time in three months, blaming Donald Trump for this.
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There's another example, and that's not enough for you.
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You also had people on TV referring to Donald Trump and implying that he was, you know,
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And so this MSNBC guest said, quote, Donald Trump is exactly like Hitler.
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Let's just quote it like it's supposed to be quoted.
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And they even said today, well, maybe Donald Trump needs to stop playing golf outside for a while,
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somehow implying what's his fault he's exposing himself to assassins.
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Well, we are unfortunately in a horribly divided time.
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But I do think that that that personal rhetoric, the demonization of the left,
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but by the left of Donald Trump has reached a level that we've never seen before.
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And I think that kind of vicious rhetoric, it bears fruit.
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People listen to the rhetoric when they hear people describe him as another Hitler.
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Unfortunately, it increases the chances that some lunatic is going to act on that.
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And listen, I want to close this podcast the way we opened, by giving thanks to God,
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I talked with you in Milwaukee and at the Republican convention,
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how I visited with Trump right after the shooting in Butler.
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And there was a quiet introspection about it that I would say is not typical of how President Trump behaves.
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And I think for the second time in just over two months,
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I am grateful for him, but I am also grateful for the country.
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To have a presidential election decided by an assassin, decided by murder,
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It is an attack at the very essence of our Constitution and the rule of law,
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and the sovereignty of we the people to choose our leaders.
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And so, you know, today I'm just, I'm grateful for God's protection on President Trump.
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And let me be clear, I'm grateful for God's protection on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
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You and I are both Christians, and the Bible commands us to pray for our leaders.
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And so I pray for our leaders, even if I disagree with them strongly.
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I'm grateful for that protection, and I'm grateful for God's protection over our nation.
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This is a time, especially, when we need to be one nation under God.
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Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
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you can go back and listen to the full podcast from earlier this week.
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Finally, I want to move to another story, and it deals with the Trump campaign
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We already knew that the Iranians had hacked the Trump campaign and stole a variety of materials,
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but now the FBI has announced that the Iranian hackers stole information from the Trump campaign
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and sent it to people with Joe Biden's campaign.
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We also know that they also sent the information to journalists,
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and the alibis of what people did with this information are hysterical.
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There's new information into CNN on foreign efforts to interfere,
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Federal law enforcement officials now say Iranian hackers not only stole information
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from Donald Trump's presidential campaign over the summer,
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but also now adding that they sent it unsolicited to people associated with the Biden campaign.
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Law enforcement saying there's no indication the Biden team ever did anything with the information.
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That detail, though, did not stop Donald Trump from leaning on conspiracy without evidence.
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Well, we didn't respond to Iran, so we're good.
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This is such an amazing word salad of like, hey, we'll say we didn't respond.
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Well, anyone that gets this, I would assume, would know not to respond to Iran.
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And by the way, they would know not to forward it to anybody else.
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This doesn't mean that you didn't take the material and use it to your advantage.
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And look at how CNN ended that little segment where they attack Trump for, they say, pointing to conspiracy without evidence.
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We know the Iranians then took the stolen materials and forwarded it to the Biden campaign.
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Let me read from ABC, quote, the FBI and other U.S. intelligence agencies released findings that the Iranian hackers have continued efforts to influence the 2024 presidential election with stolen information from former President Donald Trump's campaign being sent to individuals associated with President Joe Biden's campaign before he left the race.
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Quote, Iranian malicious cyber actors in late June and early July sent unsolicited emails to individuals then associated with President Biden's campaign that contained an excerpt from stolen, non-public material from former President Trump's campaign as text in the emails, U.S. intelligence agency said in a statement Wednesday.
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Quote, there is currently no information indicating those recipients.
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So that's their attempt to defend the Biden administration.
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Did the Biden administration, did the Biden campaign read the emails?
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Did they learn anything that was politically useful in the emails?
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Did they call up their friends in the media and leak the information that was in the emails to their friends in the media?
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Did the media then publish the information in the emails?
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Now, mind you, they didn't forward it and they didn't reply because they're not complete blithering idiots.
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And I'm not aware of any reporters asking that question.
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Look, Caroline Leavitt, who's the Trump campaign's press secretary.
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Quote, Kamala and Biden must come clean on whether they used the hacked materials given to them by the Iranians to hurt President Trump.
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Is there any journalist in the country willing to ask it?
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But this would be a good opportunity for someone to actually pretend to be a real journalist.
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I want to ask you one final question about this.
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And that is, look, when Trump was in office, there there was maximum pressure put on Iran sanctions that made Iran weak and poor, which meant they were not able to sponsor near as much terrorist activities.
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They are now and under Harris, Iran is extremely rich, extremely strong and more emboldened than ever.
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That's why they're trying to influence the outcome of this election, because they want a Kamala Harris administration so they can do whatever the hell they want to do in the Middle East and honestly around the world.
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I mean, Biden and Harris's appeasement campaign with them and their proxy has given them tens of billions of dollars.
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And even the sanctions that we have on them, apparently we're not enforcing them.
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And this is the appeasement towards Iran has happened even among the attacks that resulted in the deaths of U.S. service members.
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Look, of course, you know, as you know, I've said many times about this election, the classic question in any election is, are you better off now than you were four years ago?
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And I've said tongue in cheek, unless you're a Mexican drug lord, the answer is no.
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By the way, if you're a Mexican drug lord, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have given you billions of dollars.
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And frankly, you ought to vote for Kamala Harris.
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Well, I now need to amend that and say unless you're a Mexican drug lord or unless you're the Ayatollah Khamenei,
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because actually Kamala Harris has given even more money to Iran's Ayatollah than she's given to the Mexican drug lords.
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The Mexican drug lords made roughly 13 billion dollars from human trafficking, courtesy of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and congressional Democrats.
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In the last four years, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have flowed over one hundred billion dollars to the Ayatollah and to the mullahs in Iran.
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Even while Iran's the leading state sponsor of terrorism, even while Iran provides 90 percent of the funding to Hamas and 90 percent of the funding to Hezbollah,
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No wonder the Iranian government is hacking Trump's campaign and giving it to the Biden campaign.
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They're trying to give a campaign contribution.
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And if someone gives you one hundred billion dollars, you would be motivated to do a campaign contribution.
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The American people have a right to be deeply upset about that.
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Yeah, the media, the question they should ask is this.
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Don't give Kamala a bailout of, oh, no, no, we kept her in the dark.
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If her apparatchiks used it, she's responsible as well.
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So it's not just her, it's or the members of her campaign or the Biden campaign.
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back and download the podcast from early this week to hear the entire thing.
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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, there's another really important story and it's not getting as much press as
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And that's why I think many people actually listen to the show because they get info like
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You may remember if you go backwards, there was a big fake controversy by virtually every
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Democratic operative, the people running for office, congressmen, senators on the left,
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Conservatives have been in favor of IVF and protecting IVF for, I mean, as long as I can
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And so when this controversy happened in Alabama, you teamed up with Katie Britt to say, okay,
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we're going to put our money where our mouth is and make sure that we protect IVF.
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And there was an opportunity to do that in Congress and the Democrats stopped it.
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So look, this story is incredibly revealing of everything that's wrong with Washington and
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You and I both strongly and unequivocally support in vitro fertilization.
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It has enabled millions of parents, moms and dads, to have kids that couldn't otherwise
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Two percent of all live births in America come from IVF.
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There are over eight million children born via IVF, including your kids.
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Look, that is an amazing, a very close staffer of mine who is with me most days, we were talking
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about this issue as I was fighting to defend IVF.
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And he told me, much to my surprise, he said, you know what?
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Now, following a decision of the Alabama Supreme Court concerning IVF, there was enormous uncertainty.
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There was enormous fear and enormous concern that IVF would be in jeopardy.
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To be clear, in Alabama, when that concern was raised, the state legislature acted incredibly
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quickly to pass legislation making clear that IVF would be protected in Alabama.
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So, as a real practical matter, I believe there is zero threat to IVF in America.
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To the best of my knowledge, all 100 senators support IVF.
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I do not know of a single senator in either party who opposes IVF.
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But yet, there was genuine concern, there was confusion that IVF might be in jeopardy.
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And this is where Democrats and the corporate media had an intense political interest to
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flame that fear and to encourage that confusion.
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And so, as that was happening, I saw that I was dismayed.
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And I will tell you, so, when the Senate's in session, Republican senators, we have lunch
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every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday together.
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And Katie Britt, the senator from Alabama, has become a good friend.
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She stood up at one lunch, and she gave an impassioned speech to the other Republican senators
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about how important IVF was and how she was hearing from women and men, although mostly
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women, but parents and would-be parents across Alabama who were incredibly concerned IVF was
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And he said, she said, we've got to protect that.
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And so, I went to her and approached her and said, listen, you support IVF, I support IVF.
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Let's draft legislation that puts a clear, unequivocal protection into federal statutory
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law to make clear that no state and no local government can ban IVF.
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So, there's a different bill that they call an IVF bill that is introduced by Tammy Duckworth,
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The Tammy Duckworth, quote, IVF bill is not an IVF bill.
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It would give the Secretary of HHS, Health and Human Services, broad authority to, under that
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bill, protect abortion in a vast variety of circumstances.
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Also, the Duckworth bill explicitly overturns the protections of religious liberty under the
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I support IVF, but I certainly don't want to force a physician to participate in IVF if
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But if it's against theirs, I respect everyone's religious liberty to decide, okay, I don't
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And yet, the Democrats, they do want to force someone to potentially violate their own religious
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faith to participate in something that they have moral concerns about.
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And so, yesterday, Chuck Schumer teed up a vote, it's the second time in a couple of months,
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Now, the reason he teed up the vote is because he knew it would fail.
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And it was written in such a way as to be filled with poison pills, as to force any Republican
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with principals who believes in life to vote against it, because this would empower a Joe
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Biden or Kamala Harris administration to go after laws protecting unborn children in states
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And it was, again, designed to trample religious liberty.
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So, yesterday on the Senate floor, I went to the Senate floor along with Katie Britton.
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We tried to pass our IVF bill, and I stood up and gave a speech in support of it.
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Katie Britt stood up and gave a speech in support of it.
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And I asked for unanimous consent to pass our bill.
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And I want to encourage you, if you care about this issue, go listen to the debate.
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And then listen to Patty Murray, the Democrat from Washington State, who objected.
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Because the entire point of what the Democrats were doing was a purely political exercise.
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If they actually wanted to protect IVF, all they had to do was very simple.
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If they had not said those two words today, the Senate would have unanimously passed my legislation protecting IVF.
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But from the Democrats' perspective, that would have been a catastrophic disaster.
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Because if we actually pass a strong statutory protection for IVF, then they can't run millions of dollars of campaign ads,
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scaring voters into saying the mean Republicans want to take away IVF.
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So they objected to Katie Britt's and my legislation because they don't want to protect IVF.
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And a point that I made in the debate, I said, listen, the Democrat bill was drafted deliberately with poison pills.
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Their objective, they wanted Republicans to vote no because they don't actually want to pass their bill.
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What they want to do is force Republicans to vote no so they can run ads saying, oh, Republicans are opposed to IVF.
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That is a lie. Not a single Republican is opposed to IVF.
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A couple of months ago when we had this debate, one of the people who joined Katie and me on the Senate floor was Roger Marshall.
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Roger Marshall, Republican senator from Kansas, is a physician.
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He is an OBGYN who has delivered thousands of babies.
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And he actually has performed IVF procedures for hundreds of parents.
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He literally was an IVF doctor. And yet the Democrats talking point is an IVF doctor is opposed to IVF.
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It's absurd. So understand they drafted their bill with poison pills because their objective was to make Republicans vote against it.
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My bill and Katie's bill has no poison pills in it.
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Every Democrat agrees with every word of our bill.
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There's not a word in it that they disagree with.
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Their problem is if it passes, the issue they want to run against goes away and they don't want the issue to go away.
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And I got to tell you, this is an example of where the corrupt corporate media matters.
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When I was giving my speech, when Katie was giving her speech, there were no reporters in the gallery.
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If you read any of the press coverage, the reporters all said the headlines today were Republicans block bill to protect IVF.
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The corporate media, virtually none of them covered the fact that we had a bill to protect IVF the Democrats blocked.
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Part of the reason the Democrats are willing to do that is they know the media will not cover what they're doing.
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As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
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