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Again the phone number is eight five five seven, 33 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 1: six eight one eight eight three. Or you can send 34 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 1: the word cactus via text message to six five five 35 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: three two. You'll be glad you did. Come back to 36 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 1: verdicts of Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Knowles. I was watching 37 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 1: the White House today. The Director of the National Economic 38 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 1: Council made the claim, in anticipation of Thursday's economic numbers, 39 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: which will show a recession to consecutive quarters of economic 40 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: falling down GDP going down, that we are not in 41 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 1: a recession, because that is not the definition of a recession. Senator, 42 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 1: I am no economist. I have not studied these things 43 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:36,920 Speaker 1: in a very long time. But last time I checked, 44 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: that is literally the definition of a recession. Am I wrong? 45 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:45,800 Speaker 1: You're not wrong. That is the textbook definition of a recession. 46 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: And this White House believes that if they redefine words, 47 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 1: so instead of a recession, instead of the economy going 48 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: to crap, if they define it as Joe Biden's happy 49 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: go lucky time with things going great, that they're client 50 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 1: lapdogs in the corporate media will echo that message and 51 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: say the economy is booming. A recession is defined as 52 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 1: two consecutive quarters of GDP growth going down. That's what 53 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:16,799 Speaker 1: it means. They really don't want the headline that we're 54 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: in a recession going into the election because they recognize 55 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 1: the voters are going to pound the heck out of 56 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: Democrats and throw them out of office for putting us 57 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:28,639 Speaker 1: into a recession. So the level of I mean, this 58 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: is ob one Kenobe, These are not the droids we're 59 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 1: looking for. This is George Orwell two plus two equals five. 60 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: They just say this is not a recession. Why cause 61 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: we say it's not a recession. Never mind, words have 62 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 1: no meaning, Ignore them everything's great. It wasn't just the 63 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 1: director of the National Economic Council, it was also then 64 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 1: Karine Jampierre, the president's spokesman the press sectory at the 65 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 1: White House, who simply refused to answer the question. She 66 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 1: was asked by a reporter, if you're not going to 67 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: use the traditional definition of a recession because you don't 68 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: want to admit that you've brought us into one, then 69 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 1: how do you all define recession? She wouldn't even give 70 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 1: an alternative explanation. Well, their answer is they define recession 71 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:17,159 Speaker 1: as anything that happens under a republican president, and they 72 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 1: define great economic success is anything that happens under a democrat. 73 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:26,719 Speaker 1: And it's just it's propaganda, like substance truth. Facts have 74 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: nothing to do with it. And so actually this week 75 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:33,160 Speaker 1: I'm introducing a resolution in the Senate, and the resolution 76 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:35,160 Speaker 1: is very simple. I'm going to read you the entirety 77 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 1: of it because it's because it's only just over a 78 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,279 Speaker 1: page resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the 79 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 1: historic definition of a recession is two negative quarters of 80 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:50,480 Speaker 1: gross domestic product growth, whereas globally, the most commonly used 81 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 1: and widely accepted definition of recession is two negative quarters 82 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 1: of gross domestic product growth, whereas most of the recessions 83 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: in the United States identified by the National Bureau of 84 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 1: Economic Research have consisted of two negative quarters of gross 85 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 1: domestic product growth, and in each of the last ten 86 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:11,160 Speaker 1: instances in which there have been two or more such quarters, 87 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 1: a recession was officially declared ten times in a row. 88 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: Whereas the use of the historic definition of a recession 89 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 1: by the federal government has been important for purposes of 90 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 1: economic study and analysis, historical comparisons, and policymaking. Now therefore 91 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,719 Speaker 1: be it resolved that it is the sense of the 92 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:36,360 Speaker 1: Senate that the federal government should continue to use the 93 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: historic definition of a recession. These guys are trying to 94 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 1: define us out of a recession. We are, I think 95 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 1: it's extremely likely we're about to enter a recession, and 96 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 1: they're trying to play word games to get out of 97 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:55,160 Speaker 1: that problem. What is the motivation here for them other 98 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:57,799 Speaker 1: than they don't want to admit that their economic policies 99 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 1: are no good. But presumably that's true of other administrations 100 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 1: in the past. And yet this is the first administration 101 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:08,599 Speaker 1: we've seen that actually is denying the definition of the 102 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:10,599 Speaker 1: word recession and it's not as though this is the 103 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,719 Speaker 1: first time we've seen the left use the redefinition of 104 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 1: words to try to change the culture. Just last week, 105 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:20,160 Speaker 1: we were all arguing over the definition of marriage. Before that, 106 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:23,480 Speaker 1: we were arguing over the definition of what a woman is. 107 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 1: Before that, We've been arguing over these politically correct changes 108 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:31,279 Speaker 1: to language for a very long time. So that does 109 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 1: this tactic from seemingly everybody at the White House speak 110 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: to a larger, deeper problems that's particular to our moment 111 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:45,239 Speaker 1: in time. Well, there's a cynicism, So so democrats believe 112 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 1: that they can. It's propaganda. There you asked, what's their motivation? 113 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:52,480 Speaker 1: Is propaganda? But the propaganda only works because the corporate 114 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: media is compliant. So the corporate media will echo whatever 115 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:01,720 Speaker 1: absurd lies they say, and it is designed to obscure 116 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 1: the truth from the American people. Look, I'll show you 117 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: a couple of charts that are that are pretty compelling. 118 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 1: This chart, this is the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index. 119 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: And so it goes back all the way to nineteen 120 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: seventy eight. You see it's been down and up it 121 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 1: went up, up, up, up. You look that it went 122 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:27,920 Speaker 1: up here all right, here's twenty twenty. It is up 123 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 1: around one hundred. And here's what the consumer sentiment index does. 124 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:36,680 Speaker 1: It plummets. It goes straight down with like the vertical 125 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 1: descent of a cliff, down to what is this fifty, 126 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 1: So it went from one hundred to fifty. That is 127 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 1: an ominous chart in terms of recession consumer sentiment. I'll 128 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: give you another chart that is really quite similar. So 129 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: this is the NFIB National Federation of Small Business Outlook 130 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 1: for General Business Conditions. So they ask small businesses what 131 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:03,960 Speaker 1: do you think business conditions are? And you can see 132 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 1: going back to seventy four, it's going up, down, up, down. 133 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 1: It's been all over the place. But here in twenty 134 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 1: twenty it was up here. What was it at It 135 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 1: was up at forty and then it's same exact like 136 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: precipitous plummet It is down now at negative sixty. That 137 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 1: ain't good. That means small businesses think the economy's and 138 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,559 Speaker 1: the crapper. That means consumers think the economy is in 139 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: the crapper. And so the Biden politicos are saying, well, 140 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 1: let's just define it. We don't want every headline in 141 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 1: every newspaper in America to say the economy is in 142 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 1: a recession because people think that's bad. So let's just 143 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 1: magically claim recession no longer means what you think it means. 144 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:54,560 Speaker 1: It means, well, we don't know what it means, but 145 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 1: it means anything other than what's happening right now, because 146 00:08:57,400 --> 00:08:59,840 Speaker 1: we really don't want the headline that this is a recession. 147 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: Do you think this is fooling anybody? Because I'm still 148 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 1: trying to wrap my head around how the Biden administration 149 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 1: thinks that this is a workable solution in the long term. 150 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 1: If we could all just deny our failures by changing 151 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: the meaning of words, I'm sure we would all be 152 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,200 Speaker 1: tempted to do it. But the problem with that is 153 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 1: people aren't stupid. Most people aren't stupid most of the time. 154 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:26,199 Speaker 1: And so you point out that the establishment media are 155 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: carrying water for the White House. Of course they are, 156 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 1: But is that fooling anybody. You've got cynicism from the 157 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:38,240 Speaker 1: Biden administration, cynicism and loyalty to the Democrats from the media. 158 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 1: But you're a small business owner, your regular old employee, 159 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 1: your person on the street who realizes that his dollar 160 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 1: is not going as far as it used to. We're 161 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 1: headed into a mid term election in November. Are any 162 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 1: of these people going to buy it? No matter what 163 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 1: definition the White House uses? So unfortunately, I think they 164 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:01,240 Speaker 1: will succeed in fooling some people because there are some 165 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 1: people who are not necessarily paying all that close attention, 166 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 1: and who literally given two worlds, one world in which 167 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 1: every newspaper in America has the banner headline America in 168 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 1: a recession, and one world in which they don't have 169 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: the headline in a recession, there's going to be a chunk, 170 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:22,080 Speaker 1: and it's millions of people who won't realize America's in 171 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:26,439 Speaker 1: a recession like that, Actually, I think will be somewhat 172 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 1: successful political propaganda. Why because the media, the corporate media's dishonest. 173 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:34,120 Speaker 1: If you didn't have a dishonest corporate media wouldn't work. 174 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: They'd laugh at him and call them out. But they're 175 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: enough just absolute prostitutes in the media who will lie 176 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 1: and lie eagerly and happily and lay back and think 177 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:50,839 Speaker 1: of England. That is who they are, that is what 178 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:54,320 Speaker 1: they do, and so I do think it will have 179 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 1: some effect. But at the same time, I think what 180 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: is consequential for economic data is people feel in their lives. 181 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:08,240 Speaker 1: So inflation, you don't have all the inflation numbers you want. 182 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 1: But when you go and fill up your truck and 183 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: it's one hundred and fifty bucks, you don't need a 184 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:16,959 Speaker 1: chart to know that. When it's one hundred bucks to 185 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: fill up a minivan, you don't need a chart to 186 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 1: know that. When you go to the grocery store and 187 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: the cost of everything has gone up ten, twenty, thirty, forty, 188 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 1: you don't need a chart to know that. You're looking 189 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 1: at the numbers going, wait a second, I can't afford 190 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:32,840 Speaker 1: the stuff I could afford last week. There are people 191 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:35,840 Speaker 1: that are making hard choices between what am I going 192 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 1: to spend? If you're on a fixed income and the 193 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:42,480 Speaker 1: prices of everything have gone up, you're seeing it firsthand. 194 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 1: The two charts I showed small businesses the fact that 195 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 1: their confidence is plummeted. They're seeing it consumers. Their confidence 196 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,439 Speaker 1: is plummeted. So even though they won't have the headlines, 197 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 1: they're seeing it every day in the economy. And I'm 198 00:11:56,640 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 1: reminded of one of the classic things Reagan said. He said, 199 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 1: a recession is when your neighbor loses his job, a 200 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 1: depression is when you lose your job, and a recovery 201 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:15,439 Speaker 1: is when Jimmy Carter loses his job. I think that 202 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:18,960 Speaker 1: was a beautiful and brilliant point, and I think that 203 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:22,559 Speaker 1: is playing out right here today. If you're losing your job, 204 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:24,559 Speaker 1: if you're paying more at the gas pump, if you're 205 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 1: paying more at the grocery store, if you're feeling the 206 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 1: pain of the economic disaster that is the Biden administration. 207 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:34,680 Speaker 1: Whether or not you read a headline that says we're 208 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 1: in a recession, you know it ain't good. It's even 209 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:42,960 Speaker 1: more insidious than all of those inflation numbers that we're 210 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 1: seeing because of something we mentioned on this show several 211 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 1: episodes back. But you're now seeing the fruit of it 212 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 1: because of shrink inflation, which is the other side of it. 213 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 1: So prices are going up. Isn't that what George Costanza 214 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 1: talked about when he got into cold Pool? You think 215 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:01,680 Speaker 1: a related concept, but a little bit different. So we 216 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:04,079 Speaker 1: were so the other night, Sweet Little Lace and I 217 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 1: were going to have fondue with our friends. I don't know. 218 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 1: We felt like we were living in the nineteen seventies 219 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 1: or something. I went out to go buy cheese, I 220 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 1: had to buy twenty four ounces of cheese. I pick 221 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 1: up the various blocks of cheese, and I noticed something 222 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: a little weird. The amount of cheese in the block 223 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:22,719 Speaker 1: had gone down. I looked at the one block of 224 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 1: cheese I bought. It was five point nine ounces. Why 225 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 1: was it five point No recipe ever in the history 226 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 1: of cheese has called for five point nine ounces of cheese. Clearly, 227 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 1: what the companies had done is shrunken the amount that 228 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: they were giving you, and they were either maintaining the 229 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 1: price or the price was going up. There's a new 230 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 1: report out of The Daily Mail analyzing a number of 231 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 1: major brands to show that major cereal companies are reducing 232 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,560 Speaker 1: the amount of cereal in the box only by two 233 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: and a half three ounces, but that can be a 234 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:55,680 Speaker 1: seventeen percent reduction in the amount of cereal in the 235 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 1: box because they were just isn't that much cereal in 236 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:03,439 Speaker 1: a box? To begin with? Gatorade docing to an unnoticeable 237 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:05,840 Speaker 1: until you really start to look for a degree the 238 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:08,320 Speaker 1: amount of gatorade in the bottle. You're seeing this with 239 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 1: toilet tissue, You're seeing this with paper towels, You're seeing 240 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,480 Speaker 1: this with canned coffee you're sees across the economy. So 241 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:18,640 Speaker 1: the actual inflation that we are all experiencing is even 242 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:21,360 Speaker 1: worse just than the number going up a little bit 243 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:24,560 Speaker 1: at the checkout line when you're in the grocery store. 244 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 1: So I think you're beginning to see this reality reflected 245 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 1: in Joe Biden's polls. Biden now the majority of Democrats 246 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 1: don't want him to run again for re election. There 247 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:36,760 Speaker 1: was a poll out of New Hampshire where Pete Boota 248 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 1: Jedge actually did better among prospective Democrat voters than Joe 249 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 1: Biden did. And by the way, speaking of insidious problems, 250 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 1: you've got this problem now of mass migration, which is 251 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 1: even starting to bother the Democrats in New York. New 252 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,880 Speaker 1: York Democrat Mayor Eric Adams just claimed that the illegal 253 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 1: immigrants were being bust from your state senator up to 254 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 1: New York are creating a huge burden on New Yorkers, 255 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: which is kind of ironic because the New York Democrats 256 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 1: always tout how wonderful illegal immigration is and how it's 257 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 1: our great strength. Well, if it's a great strength for 258 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 1: Texas and Arizona, why is it all of a sudden 259 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 1: a burden when you Democrats have to deal with the 260 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:18,400 Speaker 1: problem in your state. I know you were just down 261 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 1: there touring the border yourself, seeing at firsthand, so I 262 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 1: was let me say the point you just made a 263 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:27,080 Speaker 1: minute ago, I think is important, which is, the last 264 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:29,920 Speaker 1: week we saw the mayor of New York City and 265 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 1: the mayor of Washington, DC, Eric Adams and Muriel Bowser 266 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 1: both publicly complain about the enormous burden illegal immigration is 267 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 1: putting on DC in New York City. Now, for blue state, 268 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 1: Blue city Democrats to be whining about illegal immigration is 269 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 1: rich with hypocrisy at a level. That is, if they 270 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 1: think it's bad, what do you think South Texas is experiencing? 271 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 1: What do you think Laredo and McCallan, an Eagle Pass 272 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 1: del Rio are experiencing. And by the way, if they 273 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 1: want to solve it, both of them are enthusiastic supporters 274 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 1: of Joe Biden and all the Democrats. It's the Democrats 275 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 1: who have caused this. So you mentioned I just got 276 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 1: back from the border. So two weeks ago, I took 277 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 1: a trip to the southern border. I brought seven senators 278 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:16,360 Speaker 1: with me. I've been to the border a lot, and 279 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: the ten years I've been in the Senate, I've gone 280 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:22,000 Speaker 1: dozens of times down to the border. It is the 281 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 1: worst right now that I have ever seen it. We 282 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: got down there Thursday night. First thing we did is 283 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 1: we went out on midnight patrol with the border patrol. 284 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:32,280 Speaker 1: Now you go out on midnight patrol, you might think, Okay, 285 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 1: you're gonna go hunt free legal aliens to see if 286 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 1: you can find them. You don't hunt for him. Within 287 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 1: minutes you encounter them. You just go down to the 288 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:42,560 Speaker 1: border and you find them. And we were there three 289 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 1: four minutes. First group we saw was three teenagers, two 290 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 1: girls and a boy. They all said they were sixteen 291 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 1: or seventeen years old. Night. I don't know if they're 292 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: sixteen or seventeen, because if they say they're under eighteen, 293 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 1: they definitely stay. If they're eighteen, there's a chance the 294 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 1: law might be enforced against them, So every one of 295 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 1: them claims to be under eighteen. The second group was 296 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 1: a group of women and children, about a dozen people. 297 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:12,719 Speaker 1: In that group were two seven year old girls. We 298 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:15,919 Speaker 1: talked to them. Both of the seven year old girls 299 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:19,200 Speaker 1: were unaccompanied minors, so they didn't have a parent with them. 300 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 1: They didn't have a family member with them. They weren't sisters, 301 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:24,640 Speaker 1: they weren't related to each other. So both of them 302 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:27,959 Speaker 1: were seven year old girls that their families had handed 303 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:32,239 Speaker 1: over to criminal drug cartels. They were with strangers in 304 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:35,440 Speaker 1: this group. I got to say, as the father of daughters, 305 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:38,720 Speaker 1: I cannot imagine handing us your seven year old daughter 306 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: over to drug cartels. The border patrol we were down 307 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:45,919 Speaker 1: on the border. They pointed us to a patch of grass. 308 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,400 Speaker 1: It was a couple hundred yards away from where we were. 309 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:52,679 Speaker 1: They said, a couple of weeks earlier they had found 310 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:57,359 Speaker 1: two little girls, aged five and six, both of whom 311 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:02,200 Speaker 1: had been violently raped by the chaos, and the border 312 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 1: patrol had to perform emergency medical care on these little 313 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:09,480 Speaker 1: girls that had been badly violated. The thing that is 314 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: infuriating is this is happening literally every hour of every day. 315 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 1: This was within five or ten minutes of being down 316 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 1: on the border, and then we encountered another group, and 317 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:23,719 Speaker 1: another group, and another group. It's a constant stream of humanity, 318 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 1: a people being brutalized, people being abused, people being assaulted, 319 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:33,000 Speaker 1: people being sexually assaulted. The Democrats pitched their open border 320 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:39,120 Speaker 1: policies as humane and compassionate. It's not humane, it's not compassionate. 321 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 1: It is horrific and indefensible. Do you think there is 322 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 1: any hope of anything being done about it before we 323 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:50,680 Speaker 1: get a Republican in the White House? Ordinarily I would 324 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:53,680 Speaker 1: say no, there's no hope that Democrats want to keep 325 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 1: going because they think it gives them a political benefit. 326 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:00,360 Speaker 1: But when you see New York, when you see DC, 327 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:05,919 Speaker 1: when you see liberal mayors complaining about this because red states, 328 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:08,919 Speaker 1: finally Greg Abbott down in Texas are shipping some of 329 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:12,159 Speaker 1: the illegal aliens up to those blue places so they 330 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: can deal with it, do you think there is any 331 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 1: chance that that pressure from the Dems will encourage the 332 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 1: Biden administration to in any way start enforcing the law. 333 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 1: So I do think there's hope, And let me flesh 334 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:31,160 Speaker 1: out because it's important to understand how completely indefensible it 335 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 1: is what's going on down in the southern border. Nobody 336 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,120 Speaker 1: who's there is defending it, like if you see it. 337 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:40,160 Speaker 1: We met with landowners, with ranchers and farmers. They showed 338 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:43,600 Speaker 1: us photograph after photograph of dead bodies they find on 339 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:47,000 Speaker 1: the ranches. They find pregnant women that the coyotes abandoned 340 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 1: in the hot desert. They die that they find elderly people, 341 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:54,120 Speaker 1: they find children, just over and over again who die 342 00:19:54,240 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 1: because these human traffickers, they are vicious, inhumane criminals. They 343 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:04,920 Speaker 1: do not care about the people they're trafficking in. As 344 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 1: you know, a few weeks ago, we had attracted trailer 345 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 1: just outside of San Antonio. Fifty three people died in 346 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 1: that tractor trailer. They died of heat exposure. They were 347 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 1: basically cooked in an oven that included children as young 348 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 1: as thirteen years old. You want to talk about mass murders, 349 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 1: fifty three people killed. Last year, we had over one 350 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 1: hundred thousand drug overdoses from fennol. The Biden body bags 351 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:37,679 Speaker 1: keep piling up because these are the human cost and tragedy. 352 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 1: And you know, there's a reason Joe Biden has not 353 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,359 Speaker 1: been to the border once. There's a reason Kamala Harris, 354 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:46,120 Speaker 1: who's ostensibly the borders are for Biden, has not been 355 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:49,280 Speaker 1: to the Rio Grand Valley once because if they came, 356 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 1: the TV cameras have followed them and you cannot defend 357 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 1: what's happening. Their only hope, and it actually goes back 358 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 1: to the recession. It's the point where are making before 359 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:05,439 Speaker 1: about redefining recession. They're counting on the corrupt corporate media 360 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,639 Speaker 1: lying and just ignoring it. So if you watch CNN, 361 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:11,640 Speaker 1: if you're one of the six people on planet Earth 362 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 1: who watch a CNN, you have no idea there's a 363 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:19,439 Speaker 1: border crisis because they don't cover it. CNN had you know. 364 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:21,119 Speaker 1: I watched the other day. I got a haircut in 365 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 1: the barbershop. They were playing CNN, which I was kind 366 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 1: of irritated about, but I watched for thirty minutes. They 367 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:29,239 Speaker 1: talked about how it's really hot. It's hot in New 368 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:31,000 Speaker 1: York City and people are going out and they're dancing 369 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 1: in fountains because it's really hot. And I'm like, okay, fine, 370 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 1: I get it, it's summertime, it's hot, but could you 371 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 1: possibly cover the humanitarian crisis that is unfolding on our 372 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: southern border. So Michael I stood at midnight on the 373 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:52,880 Speaker 1: northern bunk of the Rio Grand and on the ground 374 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 1: you saw hundreds of colored wristbands. The wristbands are worn 375 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 1: by the illegal limit prints. So every illegal immigrant who 376 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:06,440 Speaker 1: comes to America must pay the Mexican drug cartels, and 377 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 1: they pay them anywhere typically from three thousand to twelve 378 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Some of the immigrants from China in particular 379 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 1: pay as much as fifty to seventy thousand dollars. The 380 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,440 Speaker 1: only way you cross is to pay a cartel. If 381 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:22,040 Speaker 1: you try to cross on your own, if you get 382 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 1: an a raft and swim, the cartels will kill you. 383 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:28,919 Speaker 1: Like there is one hundred percent operational control on the 384 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:33,440 Speaker 1: southern border on the south from the cartels. So when 385 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:38,399 Speaker 1: people cross, the armbands they're wearing, the color corresponds to 386 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,119 Speaker 1: how many thousands of dollars they owe the cartels. So 387 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:43,399 Speaker 1: depending on how many thousands of dollars they owe, because 388 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:46,200 Speaker 1: many of these people don't have three, four, five, ten, 389 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:49,280 Speaker 1: twelve thousand dollars, so they come in and they're in 390 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:53,840 Speaker 1: hack five to six seven thousand dollars. So what happens 391 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 1: when they get here, The border patrol doesn't catch them. 392 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:01,640 Speaker 1: It's not a chase, it's not an apprehension. They come 393 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:04,359 Speaker 1: and affirmatively look for the border patrol. They come and 394 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:07,960 Speaker 1: turn themselves in. The Biden administration has actually put arrows, 395 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 1: like from the river bank up to where the border 396 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 1: patrol is to guide the guide the people. Just a 397 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,440 Speaker 1: steady stream of people. They come carrying a plastic baggie. 398 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 1: Within the baggie they have a typically a card with 399 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,240 Speaker 1: a name of somebody in the United States, a phone number, 400 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:27,679 Speaker 1: and an address. And Joe Biden, Kamala Harris are the 401 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 1: last mile of the human trafficking network. Now you might think, 402 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: if you don't live in Texas or Arizona, you know, 403 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 1: live in a border state, you might think, well, this 404 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:40,399 Speaker 1: is bad, but it's not my problem. Well, you know 405 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 1: what you do live in a border state, Michael, You 406 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:46,879 Speaker 1: live in Nashville. Nashville is not on our southern border. 407 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:52,440 Speaker 1: Every city in America. Joe Biden is flying illegal immigrants 408 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: to those cities. So you have them in Nashville, and 409 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:58,520 Speaker 1: the teenage boys arrive and most of them owe the 410 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 1: cartels still thousands of dollars. They have to pay it 411 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,120 Speaker 1: back because if they don't pay it back, the cartels 412 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:08,280 Speaker 1: will murder their families. And so in Nashville, Tennessee, you 413 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,639 Speaker 1: have teenage boys who are illegal immigrants who are paying 414 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 1: back the thousands of dollars they owe the cartels by 415 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,920 Speaker 1: working for Mexican drug cartels. So you have criminals who 416 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 1: are being and these are involuntary criminals. They came seeking freedom, 417 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 1: but now they're in hawk to a drug cartel. So 418 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 1: they got to work off their debt. And I got 419 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,639 Speaker 1: to tell you, as bad as it is for the boys, 420 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 1: the girls have it much much worse the girls. There 421 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 1: are thousands upon thousands of teenage girls who end up 422 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:44,040 Speaker 1: getting trapped in sex slavery where they owe thousands of 423 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,800 Speaker 1: dollars to the cartels. Cartels said, great, we'll help you 424 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 1: pay it off. We'll put shit a brothel. And the 425 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:53,960 Speaker 1: brothels are run like modern day plantation. So they keep 426 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 1: a ledger and they charge the girls and the brothels 427 00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:59,680 Speaker 1: for everything. They charge them for food, for room for 428 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,439 Speaker 1: or they charge them for air conditioning, they charge them 429 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,240 Speaker 1: for their sheets, they charge them. I'm told the going 430 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 1: rate to cut off an ankle bracelet, if you have 431 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,160 Speaker 1: an ankle monitoring bracelet is thirty dollars. So they keep 432 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,399 Speaker 1: a ledger and it's like the old plantations where the 433 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,439 Speaker 1: debt keeps piling up and then they work in the 434 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:17,880 Speaker 1: brothel to try to pay the debt off and they're trapped. 435 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 1: And if you think for a minute, let's say you're 436 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:24,760 Speaker 1: a Honduran fifteen year old girl, and you look north 437 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,879 Speaker 1: and you dream of freedom. You want to be in America, 438 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 1: you want to be free, and six months later you're 439 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:38,159 Speaker 1: trapped in sex slavery in hell. That's why Biden and 440 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:40,560 Speaker 1: the Democrats don't want to defend this because when you 441 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:46,640 Speaker 1: talk about those facts, Look, those colored wrist bands are 442 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:50,239 Speaker 1: like the leg irons of modern day slavery. This is 443 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 1: the slave trade. These cartels are slave traders, and Joe 444 00:25:55,400 --> 00:26:01,240 Speaker 1: Biden and Kamala Harris are facilitating today's our cost slavery. 445 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:05,119 Speaker 1: It is horrific, it is evil, it is wrong, and 446 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,720 Speaker 1: your question is can we do anything about it? Here's 447 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,440 Speaker 1: one thing we can do about it. When in November, 448 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:14,639 Speaker 1: when a huge margin in November, I think we're going 449 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,200 Speaker 1: to turn South Texas read because the people in South 450 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:20,200 Speaker 1: Texas are seeing this and they're horrified. And then I 451 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:24,440 Speaker 1: think one of the very first priorities of the new 452 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:28,920 Speaker 1: Republican Congress should be to impeach Alejandra may Orchis, who 453 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:32,719 Speaker 1: is the Secretary of Homeland Security. He is responsible for 454 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:36,199 Speaker 1: this tobaccle. I recently saw a video of him at 455 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:40,200 Speaker 1: the Aspen Security Conference where he was asked is the 456 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 1: border secure and like the whole crowd of leftist sipping chardonnay, 457 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 1: they all laughed, Oh that's so funny. Ha ha. You know, 458 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I don't think little girls being raped on 459 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:55,359 Speaker 1: our southern border is funny. You jackasses like like like, 460 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 1: it is infuriating to watch these liberals laughed and he 461 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:04,159 Speaker 1: says the is secure. It's a flat out lie. The 462 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 1: reason I believe the House should impeach Mayorcas early next 463 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:13,199 Speaker 1: year is the Senate should conduct an impeachment trial, and 464 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 1: it should be a detailed, extensive impeachment trial. We need 465 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 1: to put the evidence of the horrors of the southern 466 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,640 Speaker 1: border before the American people because the corporate media doesn't 467 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,800 Speaker 1: want people to know, and I think we have a responsibility. Now, look, 468 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 1: do I think Senate Democrats are going to vote to 469 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 1: convict No. I think they're political cowards. But I think 470 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,800 Speaker 1: laying out the facts before the American people in a 471 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:44,400 Speaker 1: trial early next year is incredibly important. Do you think 472 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,879 Speaker 1: that the House can do it politically? I suppose they 473 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 1: can do it if they get the numbers. But does 474 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:54,920 Speaker 1: what may Orcus has done or failed to do meet 475 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:59,440 Speaker 1: the legal threshold to impeach them? I think not only 476 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,280 Speaker 1: can they do, I think they will do it. And 477 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,560 Speaker 1: it's listen, I've been When I was on this border trip, 478 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,840 Speaker 1: I publicly called in the House to impeach Mayorcus. I 479 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:10,960 Speaker 1: think the momentum is growing for that. I think the 480 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,919 Speaker 1: pressure will be there. I will be surprised if they 481 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,760 Speaker 1: don't impeach may Orcus. They may well impeach Biden as well, 482 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,399 Speaker 1: and we've talked about that before on the podcast. But 483 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,239 Speaker 1: Mayorcas is as close to a no brainer. He'll be 484 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:27,040 Speaker 1: the first, and he'll be the first because it is 485 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 1: such an abject dereliction of duty. It is a refusal 486 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 1: to follow the law. It is a refusal. It is 487 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 1: an open scoffing at the national security of the United 488 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 1: States is endangering Americans. I think the House will impeach him, 489 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:46,000 Speaker 1: and I think the trial, I hope, will be an 490 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,520 Speaker 1: incredibly important Even as corrupt as the media is, I 491 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:54,000 Speaker 1: think that the impeachment trial will be very difficult for 492 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,800 Speaker 1: the media to ignore. I know a great impeachment trial 493 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 1: podcast that can just relocate to DC for it. I 494 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,720 Speaker 1: think it'll be a lot of fun. Speaking of this 495 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 1: red wave that a lot of people are anticipating, Senator, 496 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:08,120 Speaker 1: I have to confess I've had a little bit of 497 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 1: fomo the past week because I was very excited. I 498 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 1: was invited to go to the Young America's Foundation Conference, 499 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,239 Speaker 1: their big annual conference, and I was invited to go 500 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:22,080 Speaker 1: to the TPUSA Annual Conference. And these are two really big, 501 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 1: really exciting gatherings of young conservatives, and I go pretty 502 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 1: much every year every certainly every year I can go. 503 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 1: And this year I've been waiting on another young American, 504 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 1: my own second son, young American, who is not as 505 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,840 Speaker 1: of recording, this has not yet come out of mominols. 506 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:42,520 Speaker 1: So we're just waiting here. You, however, got to go 507 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 1: to both of those conferences and a whole bunch of 508 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:49,280 Speaker 1: other places as well. Well, that's right. And let me say, 509 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,960 Speaker 1: first of all, I'm really excited to welcome the youngest American, 510 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 1: and the instant he is born, he will be the 511 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,480 Speaker 1: youngest American alive. Now, someone will pass them very shortly thereafter, 512 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 1: but there will be a brief instant where your son 513 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 1: is the youngest American and the entire planet. So that's 514 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:09,840 Speaker 1: really cool. Um and and and I am praying that 515 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 1: he gets his mother's good looks. Yes, So Luckily our 516 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 1: first child did, so we're hoping number two lucks out 517 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 1: as well. Otherwise he's going to have to, I don't know, 518 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:25,000 Speaker 1: become a conservative podcast host someday. Hey that that that's 519 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:29,640 Speaker 1: a booming career. Uh so you know he can aspire 520 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:33,120 Speaker 1: to be a conservative podcaster. I will say, it's interesting. 521 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:36,760 Speaker 1: So you and I are in a very very small 522 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:40,840 Speaker 1: and select group that that goeach heered to both Turning 523 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 1: Point USA and a Young Americans Foundation. Now they're both 524 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:48,680 Speaker 1: fantastic groups. I think the world of both of them. Uh. 525 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,360 Speaker 1: They both focus on young people, on college kids, but 526 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:55,520 Speaker 1: they get a different crowd. The Turning Point crew is rowtier. 527 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:59,400 Speaker 1: They're they're a little raunchier there. They're fun crowd. The 528 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:06,120 Speaker 1: the YF crowd is probably a more cerebral and academic crowd. 529 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:10,160 Speaker 1: They're a little more buttoned up, more bow tie, more 530 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,800 Speaker 1: bow tie it ya. But they're both awesome, and I 531 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 1: gotta say, almost nobody goes to both. They tend to 532 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 1: have like if you look at the speaker list, YAF 533 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,720 Speaker 1: has one group, Turning Point as another, and there's almost 534 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:25,720 Speaker 1: zero overlap. And you and I are in the incredibly 535 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 1: small intersection of the venn diagram that is at both 536 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,040 Speaker 1: and I've done both of them in the last few days, 537 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 1: and I got to say, the energy and enthusiasm, I 538 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:39,600 Speaker 1: think there are a bunch of young people. By the way, 539 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:44,640 Speaker 1: thousands of the people at both conferences are subsubscribers to Verdict, 540 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,600 Speaker 1: and a bunch of them are new subscribers. So let 541 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,600 Speaker 1: me say, welcome to the turning Point, new subscribers, Welcome 542 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:53,800 Speaker 1: to the YAFF new subscribers. But it is encouraging to 543 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:59,480 Speaker 1: see young people who love liberty and are fed up 544 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 1: with the sanity we're seeing, and I think that is 545 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,240 Speaker 1: a really really good sign. It is. And you've been 546 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:08,400 Speaker 1: traveling to other places as well. Last I checked. Every 547 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,120 Speaker 1: time you know, we text or we do a podcast, 548 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:14,040 Speaker 1: you seem to be in a new place. Because obviously 549 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,920 Speaker 1: the midterm elections are coming up, You're going around, you're 550 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:21,600 Speaker 1: helping some other conservative candidates, rallying the troops. And I 551 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:25,400 Speaker 1: think what's especially helpful, at least from my understanding of things, 552 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,760 Speaker 1: is getting a sense of where the American people are 553 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:32,080 Speaker 1: at right now heading into November. So to give you 554 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:43,000 Speaker 1: a sense, the last week or so, I've been in Texas, DC, Georgia, Florida, Missouri, Texas, DC. 555 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:49,520 Speaker 1: And that's in I guess nine days. It has been 556 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,280 Speaker 1: a lot of time and a lot of airplanes. But 557 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:54,480 Speaker 1: between now an election day, I'm going to be on 558 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:56,960 Speaker 1: the road NonStop. I'm going to spend most of August, 559 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 1: most of October on the road campaigning for Senate candidates, 560 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:05,920 Speaker 1: for House candidates. We have an historic opportunity. And you know, 561 00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,080 Speaker 1: I'm not on the ballot this year, which is a 562 00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,120 Speaker 1: nice thing about a six year Senate term, so I 563 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,000 Speaker 1: don't have to worry about my reelection this year. So 564 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,400 Speaker 1: I'm devoting all my time to helping other people, to 565 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:20,280 Speaker 1: going and doing rallies for other candidates. And so in George, 566 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,640 Speaker 1: I spoke at a gathering of Alliance Defending Freedom, which 567 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:27,600 Speaker 1: does incredible work defending religious liberties, group I've long supported. 568 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,360 Speaker 1: In Florida. I was a turning point. I was supposed 569 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,600 Speaker 1: to go to the ADF conference as well. You're just 570 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,200 Speaker 1: giving me even more fomo. I forgot. I was supposed 571 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,320 Speaker 1: to go to that one, and baby shut that one down. 572 00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:40,320 Speaker 1: To your senator, you're having all the fun this summer. 573 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:44,960 Speaker 1: It was phenomenal, and but you know, every one of 574 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,880 Speaker 1: the gatherings was the worst off because we will we 575 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,600 Speaker 1: were Knowles free, which is a terrible condition to be 576 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:56,360 Speaker 1: in naturally naturally, But then all of these other places, Missouri, 577 00:33:56,680 --> 00:34:00,400 Speaker 1: all around the country, and so I hope and I 578 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,520 Speaker 1: take it that these visits are making you feel more 579 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:07,480 Speaker 1: encouraged about November. So Missouri, I was campaigning for Eric Schmid. 580 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:11,440 Speaker 1: Eric Schmid is running for senator in Missouri. He is 581 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,920 Speaker 1: the sitting Attorney general. Eric as a friend. He's a 582 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,720 Speaker 1: strong conservative. I think he's by far the best candidate 583 00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,480 Speaker 1: in the race. So I did three rallies, started off 584 00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:21,680 Speaker 1: in the Saint Louis area, then went to Kansas City, 585 00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:24,439 Speaker 1: and then ended in Springfield. So did a morning rally 586 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,319 Speaker 1: and afternoon rally and evening rally. And by the way, 587 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:29,719 Speaker 1: Eric decided to work me. So I did three fundraisers 588 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,239 Speaker 1: in addition to three rallies. So raised him a bunch 589 00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:35,480 Speaker 1: of money and did big rallies, had huge crowds. And 590 00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,240 Speaker 1: I gotta say, I think Eric's gonna win. The election 591 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:42,560 Speaker 1: is next week. He is leading the primary. I think 592 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:46,279 Speaker 1: we're seeing conservatives uniting behind his campaign. And I think 593 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,400 Speaker 1: if and when Eric wins, I think he will basically 594 00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:51,799 Speaker 1: take Missouri off the game board. That I don't even 595 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:56,120 Speaker 1: think the Democrats will contest Missouri because he's a strong 596 00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:59,120 Speaker 1: enough candidate, but that they don't think they can beat him. 597 00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:03,680 Speaker 1: And so it was in Springfield. I also campaigned for 598 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,920 Speaker 1: Eric Burleson, who's running for the House, who's a strong conservative, 599 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,359 Speaker 1: was a great guy. He was at the rally as well. 600 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,440 Speaker 1: So I will say it was a little complicated to 601 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,560 Speaker 1: do a rally for Eric Schmidt and Rik Burlison. You 602 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,560 Speaker 1: had to be like Eric Wander and Eric two. That 603 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:22,720 Speaker 1: that was mildly complicated, But but I was encouraged the energy. 604 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,520 Speaker 1: Every single rally we did was standing room only, like 605 00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:31,480 Speaker 1: packed houses, and people energized. And I think I've said 606 00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,920 Speaker 1: more than once I want to nominate Joseph Robadette Biden 607 00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:38,880 Speaker 1: to be Republican of the Year because he will have 608 00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:44,799 Speaker 1: elected more Republicans than any human being who's ever lived. Well, 609 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,360 Speaker 1: someone get him a trophy. You're actually I can't believe 610 00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:49,680 Speaker 1: this is every time you mentioned one of these things, 611 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,000 Speaker 1: I'm reminded. I also was supposed to go at to 612 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,920 Speaker 1: Eric Burlison's event, who is He's a great guy, But 613 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,800 Speaker 1: you know, it's gonna be okay. Even though I missed 614 00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:02,280 Speaker 1: all of the fun, extremely enthusiastic conservative events this summer, 615 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,080 Speaker 1: we will have some very fun live events coming up 616 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:10,000 Speaker 1: this fall. You mentioned YAF. We have gone on the 617 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:13,440 Speaker 1: road with YAF the Verdict Live Tour before. We're planning 618 00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:15,759 Speaker 1: to do it again this fall. We're gonna have some 619 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:19,319 Speaker 1: more information about that coming up. But that's always fun 620 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:23,160 Speaker 1: because we love talking to the conservative students. In some ways, 621 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:25,160 Speaker 1: you get even more of a kick out of talking 622 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:28,759 Speaker 1: to the wild left wing students, and we plan to 623 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,359 Speaker 1: be doing all of that come the fall, especially as 624 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:35,200 Speaker 1: we look ahead to mid term elections. But that's for 625 00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:38,320 Speaker 1: then this right now, we've got to take a break. 626 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:40,640 Speaker 1: I've got to take a break. You, Senator, are going 627 00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,080 Speaker 1: to stay on and talk with our friend Liz Wheeler, 628 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:46,200 Speaker 1: isn't that right, Liz? Hi? Michael High, Senator. Actually, before 629 00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:48,400 Speaker 1: we talk about the topic, I just want to announce 630 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,360 Speaker 1: this is the first episode of the Cloak Room that 631 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,279 Speaker 1: we're doing in person. In fact, you can see I'm 632 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:55,399 Speaker 1: sitting right here in the Verdict chair, so please join us. 633 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,839 Speaker 1: We're gonna have a great time. Our topic tonight is 634 00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,840 Speaker 1: what Rebublicans can do once we retake the House, and 635 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,920 Speaker 1: retake the Senate and retake the presidency, what Republicans can 636 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,560 Speaker 1: do to actually combat the deep state, which is of 637 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,520 Speaker 1: course another name for the administrative state. The deep state 638 00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:15,600 Speaker 1: is waging an Oakland war on Republicans, particularly Republican presidents. 639 00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:18,480 Speaker 1: So what are the legal remedies to this. Join us 640 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:22,120 Speaker 1: at Verdict with Ted Cruise dot com slash plus. If 641 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,600 Speaker 1: you use my promo code, which is Cloakroom, you can 642 00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,400 Speaker 1: get your first month free on an annual subscription Verdict 643 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,719 Speaker 1: with Ted Cruz dot com slash Plus. I very much 644 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,560 Speaker 1: look forward to that Cloakroom episode, but in the meantime, 645 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,440 Speaker 1: that's enough for me. I'm Michael Knowles. This is Verdict 646 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:48,200 Speaker 1: with Ted Cruz. 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