WEBVTT - Defining A Recession 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.320 We seem to be redefining everything these days. People just 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:07.080 don't know what words mean. We don't know what a 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:10.640 baby is, We certainly don't know what a woman is, 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:15.080 and now we don't even know what a recession is. 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:25.160 This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. This episode of Verdict 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:28.080 with Ted Cruz is sponsored by American Hartford Gold. If 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:30.320 you're like me, then you are growing more and more 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:33.360 concerned about the state of our country and about your 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:36.920 own future. Inflation is at the highest rate that we've 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:40.520 seen in forty years, and interest rates are skyrocketing. 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The Director of the National Economic 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:14.520 Council made the claim, in anticipation of Thursday's economic numbers, 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:19.440 which will show a recession to consecutive quarters of economic 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:24.600 falling down GDP going down, that we are not in 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:30.760 a recession, because that is not the definition of a recession. Senator, 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.480 I am no economist. I have not studied these things 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:36.920 in a very long time. But last time I checked, 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:41.480 that is literally the definition of a recession. Am I wrong? 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.800 You're not wrong. That is the textbook definition of a recession. 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.880 And this White House believes that if they redefine words, 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.680 so instead of a recession, instead of the economy going 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:56.160 to crap, if they define it as Joe Biden's happy 0:02:56.200 --> 0:03:00.280 go lucky time with things going great, that they're client 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.840 lapdogs in the corporate media will echo that message and 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:09.160 say the economy is booming. A recession is defined as 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:13.000 two consecutive quarters of GDP growth going down. That's what 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:16.799 it means. They really don't want the headline that we're 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.760 in a recession going into the election because they recognize 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.040 the voters are going to pound the heck out of 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.760 Democrats and throw them out of office for putting us 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:28.639 into a recession. So the level of I mean, this 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:31.760 is ob one Kenobe, These are not the droids we're 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:35.920 looking for. This is George Orwell two plus two equals five. 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.800 They just say this is not a recession. Why cause 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:41.400 we say it's not a recession. Never mind, words have 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:46.360 no meaning, Ignore them everything's great. It wasn't just the 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.360 director of the National Economic Council, it was also then 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:53.040 Karine Jampierre, the president's spokesman the press sectory at the 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.320 White House, who simply refused to answer the question. She 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.720 was asked by a reporter, if you're not going to 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:02.880 use the traditional definition of a recession because you don't 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:05.760 want to admit that you've brought us into one, then 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:09.400 how do you all define recession? She wouldn't even give 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:13.320 an alternative explanation. Well, their answer is they define recession 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:17.159 as anything that happens under a republican president, and they 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:21.640 define great economic success is anything that happens under a democrat. 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:26.719 And it's just it's propaganda, like substance truth. Facts have 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.320 nothing to do with it. And so actually this week 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:33.160 I'm introducing a resolution in the Senate, and the resolution 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.160 is very simple. I'm going to read you the entirety 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:36.960 of it because it's because it's only just over a 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:41.279 page resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:44.800 historic definition of a recession is two negative quarters of 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:50.480 gross domestic product growth, whereas globally, the most commonly used 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:54.360 and widely accepted definition of recession is two negative quarters 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:58.320 of gross domestic product growth, whereas most of the recessions 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.640 in the United States identified by the National Bureau of 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:04.200 Economic Research have consisted of two negative quarters of gross 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:07.520 domestic product growth, and in each of the last ten 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:11.160 instances in which there have been two or more such quarters, 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.800 a recession was officially declared ten times in a row. 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.960 Whereas the use of the historic definition of a recession 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:22.520 by the federal government has been important for purposes of 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:29.440 economic study and analysis, historical comparisons, and policymaking. Now therefore 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.719 be it resolved that it is the sense of the 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:36.360 Senate that the federal government should continue to use the 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:40.760 historic definition of a recession. These guys are trying to 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:45.080 define us out of a recession. We are, I think 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.320 it's extremely likely we're about to enter a recession, and 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.520 they're trying to play word games to get out of 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:55.160 that problem. What is the motivation here for them other 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:57.799 than they don't want to admit that their economic policies 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.760 are no good. But presumably that's true of other administrations 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.520 in the past. And yet this is the first administration 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:08.599 we've seen that actually is denying the definition of the 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:10.599 word recession and it's not as though this is the 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.719 first time we've seen the left use the redefinition of 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.440 words to try to change the culture. Just last week, 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:20.160 we were all arguing over the definition of marriage. Before that, 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.480 we were arguing over the definition of what a woman is. 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:27.760 Before that, We've been arguing over these politically correct changes 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:31.279 to language for a very long time. So that does 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:35.680 this tactic from seemingly everybody at the White House speak 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:40.520 to a larger, deeper problems that's particular to our moment 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:45.239 in time. Well, there's a cynicism, So so democrats believe 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.680 that they can. It's propaganda. There you asked, what's their motivation? 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:52.480 Is propaganda? But the propaganda only works because the corporate 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:56.440 media is compliant. So the corporate media will echo whatever 0:06:56.600 --> 0:07:01.720 absurd lies they say, and it is designed to obscure 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:03.560 the truth from the American people. Look, I'll show you 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:05.520 a couple of charts that are that are pretty compelling. 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:12.120 This chart, this is the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index. 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.520 And so it goes back all the way to nineteen 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.120 seventy eight. You see it's been down and up it 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:21.400 went up, up, up, up. You look that it went 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:27.920 up here all right, here's twenty twenty. It is up 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.360 around one hundred. And here's what the consumer sentiment index does. 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:36.680 It plummets. It goes straight down with like the vertical 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:41.480 descent of a cliff, down to what is this fifty, 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:45.600 So it went from one hundred to fifty. That is 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.840 an ominous chart in terms of recession consumer sentiment. I'll 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:52.640 give you another chart that is really quite similar. So 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:56.600 this is the NFIB National Federation of Small Business Outlook 0:07:56.640 --> 0:08:00.680 for General Business Conditions. So they ask small businesses what 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.960 do you think business conditions are? And you can see 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.440 going back to seventy four, it's going up, down, up, down. 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:10.240 It's been all over the place. But here in twenty 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.000 twenty it was up here. What was it at It 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:17.080 was up at forty and then it's same exact like 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:24.160 precipitous plummet It is down now at negative sixty. That 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:29.000 ain't good. That means small businesses think the economy's and 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:32.559 the crapper. That means consumers think the economy is in 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:37.600 the crapper. And so the Biden politicos are saying, well, 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:41.520 let's just define it. We don't want every headline in 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:44.000 every newspaper in America to say the economy is in 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:48.200 a recession because people think that's bad. So let's just 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:52.400 magically claim recession no longer means what you think it means. 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:54.560 It means, well, we don't know what it means, but 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.400 it means anything other than what's happening right now, because 0:08:57.400 --> 0:08:59.840 we really don't want the headline that this is a recession. 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.400 Do you think this is fooling anybody? Because I'm still 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:07.800 trying to wrap my head around how the Biden administration 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:11.440 thinks that this is a workable solution in the long term. 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.480 If we could all just deny our failures by changing 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:16.160 the meaning of words, I'm sure we would all be 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.200 tempted to do it. But the problem with that is 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:23.120 people aren't stupid. Most people aren't stupid most of the time. 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.199 And so you point out that the establishment media are 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.640 carrying water for the White House. Of course they are, 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.920 But is that fooling anybody. You've got cynicism from the 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:38.240 Biden administration, cynicism and loyalty to the Democrats from the media. 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:43.040 But you're a small business owner, your regular old employee, 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.000 your person on the street who realizes that his dollar 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:48.400 is not going as far as it used to. We're 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:52.480 headed into a mid term election in November. Are any 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:54.520 of these people going to buy it? No matter what 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:58.240 definition the White House uses? So unfortunately, I think they 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:01.240 will succeed in fooling some people because there are some 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.960 people who are not necessarily paying all that close attention, 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:07.920 and who literally given two worlds, one world in which 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:11.760 every newspaper in America has the banner headline America in 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.640 a recession, and one world in which they don't have 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:18.400 the headline in a recession, there's going to be a chunk, 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:22.080 and it's millions of people who won't realize America's in 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:26.439 a recession like that, Actually, I think will be somewhat 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:31.280 successful political propaganda. Why because the media, the corporate media's dishonest. 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:34.120 If you didn't have a dishonest corporate media wouldn't work. 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.640 They'd laugh at him and call them out. But they're 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:42.760 enough just absolute prostitutes in the media who will lie 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:46.960 and lie eagerly and happily and lay back and think 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:50.839 of England. That is who they are, that is what 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:54.320 they do, and so I do think it will have 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:57.800 some effect. But at the same time, I think what 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:03.920 is consequential for economic data is people feel in their lives. 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:08.240 So inflation, you don't have all the inflation numbers you want. 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.800 But when you go and fill up your truck and 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:15.160 it's one hundred and fifty bucks, you don't need a 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:16.959 chart to know that. When it's one hundred bucks to 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:19.120 fill up a minivan, you don't need a chart to 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.400 know that. When you go to the grocery store and 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.640 the cost of everything has gone up ten, twenty, thirty, forty, 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:27.360 you don't need a chart to know that. You're looking 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:30.920 at the numbers going, wait a second, I can't afford 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:32.840 the stuff I could afford last week. There are people 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.840 that are making hard choices between what am I going 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.240 to spend? If you're on a fixed income and the 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:42.480 prices of everything have gone up, you're seeing it firsthand. 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:46.160 The two charts I showed small businesses the fact that 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:50.280 their confidence is plummeted. They're seeing it consumers. Their confidence 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.439 is plummeted. So even though they won't have the headlines, 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:56.600 they're seeing it every day in the economy. And I'm 0:11:56.640 --> 0:12:00.280 reminded of one of the classic things Reagan said. He said, 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:05.120 a recession is when your neighbor loses his job, a 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:10.360 depression is when you lose your job, and a recovery 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:15.439 is when Jimmy Carter loses his job. I think that 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.960 was a beautiful and brilliant point, and I think that 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:22.559 is playing out right here today. If you're losing your job, 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.559 if you're paying more at the gas pump, if you're 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:27.400 paying more at the grocery store, if you're feeling the 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:31.120 pain of the economic disaster that is the Biden administration. 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.680 Whether or not you read a headline that says we're 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:39.360 in a recession, you know it ain't good. It's even 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:42.960 more insidious than all of those inflation numbers that we're 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.720 seeing because of something we mentioned on this show several 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.520 episodes back. But you're now seeing the fruit of it 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:51.400 because of shrink inflation, which is the other side of it. 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:54.120 So prices are going up. Isn't that what George Costanza 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:56.920 talked about when he got into cold Pool? You think 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:01.680 a related concept, but a little bit different. So we 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.079 were so the other night, Sweet Little Lace and I 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:07.000 were going to have fondue with our friends. I don't know. 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:08.840 We felt like we were living in the nineteen seventies 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.160 or something. I went out to go buy cheese, I 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.480 had to buy twenty four ounces of cheese. I pick 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.120 up the various blocks of cheese, and I noticed something 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:19.600 a little weird. The amount of cheese in the block 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:22.719 had gone down. I looked at the one block of 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:26.240 cheese I bought. It was five point nine ounces. Why 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:29.160 was it five point No recipe ever in the history 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:33.600 of cheese has called for five point nine ounces of cheese. Clearly, 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:37.240 what the companies had done is shrunken the amount that 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.040 they were giving you, and they were either maintaining the 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:40.920 price or the price was going up. There's a new 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.640 report out of The Daily Mail analyzing a number of 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:47.760 major brands to show that major cereal companies are reducing 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:50.560 the amount of cereal in the box only by two 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:52.480 and a half three ounces, but that can be a 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.680 seventeen percent reduction in the amount of cereal in the 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:57.480 box because they were just isn't that much cereal in 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:03.439 a box? To begin with? Gatorade docing to an unnoticeable 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:05.840 until you really start to look for a degree the 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.320 amount of gatorade in the bottle. You're seeing this with 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:11.000 toilet tissue, You're seeing this with paper towels, You're seeing 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:14.480 this with canned coffee you're sees across the economy. So 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:18.640 the actual inflation that we are all experiencing is even 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.360 worse just than the number going up a little bit 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.560 at the checkout line when you're in the grocery store. 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:28.560 So I think you're beginning to see this reality reflected 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.880 in Joe Biden's polls. Biden now the majority of Democrats 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.280 don't want him to run again for re election. There 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:36.760 was a poll out of New Hampshire where Pete Boota 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:41.120 Jedge actually did better among prospective Democrat voters than Joe 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:44.640 Biden did. And by the way, speaking of insidious problems, 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:48.040 you've got this problem now of mass migration, which is 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.920 even starting to bother the Democrats in New York. New 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:54.880 York Democrat Mayor Eric Adams just claimed that the illegal 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:58.440 immigrants were being bust from your state senator up to 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:02.200 New York are creating a huge burden on New Yorkers, 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.200 which is kind of ironic because the New York Democrats 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.960 always tout how wonderful illegal immigration is and how it's 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:10.600 our great strength. Well, if it's a great strength for 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:12.880 Texas and Arizona, why is it all of a sudden 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.440 a burden when you Democrats have to deal with the 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.400 problem in your state. I know you were just down 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:22.120 there touring the border yourself, seeing at firsthand, so I 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.560 was let me say the point you just made a 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.080 minute ago, I think is important, which is, the last 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:29.920 week we saw the mayor of New York City and 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:32.640 the mayor of Washington, DC, Eric Adams and Muriel Bowser 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:37.560 both publicly complain about the enormous burden illegal immigration is 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:42.280 putting on DC in New York City. Now, for blue state, 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:46.320 Blue city Democrats to be whining about illegal immigration is 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:49.800 rich with hypocrisy at a level. That is, if they 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.520 think it's bad, what do you think South Texas is experiencing? 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:54.680 What do you think Laredo and McCallan, an Eagle Pass 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:58.720 del Rio are experiencing. And by the way, if they 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:02.400 want to solve it, both of them are enthusiastic supporters 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.320 of Joe Biden and all the Democrats. It's the Democrats 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:08.120 who have caused this. So you mentioned I just got 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.600 back from the border. So two weeks ago, I took 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:12.920 a trip to the southern border. I brought seven senators 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:16.360 with me. I've been to the border a lot, and 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.320 the ten years I've been in the Senate, I've gone 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:22.000 dozens of times down to the border. It is the 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.400 worst right now that I have ever seen it. We 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:27.400 got down there Thursday night. First thing we did is 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.480 we went out on midnight patrol with the border patrol. 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.280 Now you go out on midnight patrol, you might think, Okay, 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:34.240 you're gonna go hunt free legal aliens to see if 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:37.160 you can find them. You don't hunt for him. Within 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.360 minutes you encounter them. You just go down to the 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:42.560 border and you find them. And we were there three 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:46.880 four minutes. First group we saw was three teenagers, two 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.640 girls and a boy. They all said they were sixteen 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:51.320 or seventeen years old. Night. I don't know if they're 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:54.840 sixteen or seventeen, because if they say they're under eighteen, 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.920 they definitely stay. If they're eighteen, there's a chance the 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.280 law might be enforced against them, So every one of 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:04.560 them claims to be under eighteen. The second group was 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.040 a group of women and children, about a dozen people. 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:12.719 In that group were two seven year old girls. We 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:15.919 talked to them. Both of the seven year old girls 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:19.200 were unaccompanied minors, so they didn't have a parent with them. 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:22.520 They didn't have a family member with them. They weren't sisters, 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:24.640 they weren't related to each other. So both of them 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:27.959 were seven year old girls that their families had handed 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:32.239 over to criminal drug cartels. They were with strangers in 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:35.440 this group. I got to say, as the father of daughters, 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.720 I cannot imagine handing us your seven year old daughter 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:42.560 over to drug cartels. The border patrol we were down 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:45.919 on the border. They pointed us to a patch of grass. 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:48.400 It was a couple hundred yards away from where we were. 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:52.679 They said, a couple of weeks earlier they had found 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:57.359 two little girls, aged five and six, both of whom 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:02.200 had been violently raped by the chaos, and the border 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:05.520 patrol had to perform emergency medical care on these little 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:09.480 girls that had been badly violated. The thing that is 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:14.840 infuriating is this is happening literally every hour of every day. 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:18.040 This was within five or ten minutes of being down 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:19.560 on the border, and then we encountered another group, and 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:23.719 another group, and another group. It's a constant stream of humanity, 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:28.320 a people being brutalized, people being abused, people being assaulted, 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:33.000 people being sexually assaulted. The Democrats pitched their open border 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:39.120 policies as humane and compassionate. It's not humane, it's not compassionate. 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:44.280 It is horrific and indefensible. Do you think there is 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:48.000 any hope of anything being done about it before we 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:50.680 get a Republican in the White House? Ordinarily I would 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:53.680 say no, there's no hope that Democrats want to keep 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:56.240 going because they think it gives them a political benefit. 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:00.360 But when you see New York, when you see DC, 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:05.919 when you see liberal mayors complaining about this because red states, 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.919 finally Greg Abbott down in Texas are shipping some of 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:12.159 the illegal aliens up to those blue places so they 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:14.800 can deal with it, do you think there is any 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:18.520 chance that that pressure from the Dems will encourage the 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:23.000 Biden administration to in any way start enforcing the law. 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:26.240 So I do think there's hope, And let me flesh 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:31.160 out because it's important to understand how completely indefensible it 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:33.960 is what's going on down in the southern border. Nobody 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:36.120 who's there is defending it, like if you see it. 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:40.160 We met with landowners, with ranchers and farmers. They showed 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:43.600 us photograph after photograph of dead bodies they find on 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:47.000 the ranches. They find pregnant women that the coyotes abandoned 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:50.760 in the hot desert. They die that they find elderly people, 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:54.120 they find children, just over and over again who die 0:19:54.240 --> 0:20:01.480 because these human traffickers, they are vicious, inhumane criminals. They 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:04.920 do not care about the people they're trafficking in. As 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:07.000 you know, a few weeks ago, we had attracted trailer 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:10.760 just outside of San Antonio. Fifty three people died in 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:14.080 that tractor trailer. They died of heat exposure. They were 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:17.840 basically cooked in an oven that included children as young 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:20.520 as thirteen years old. You want to talk about mass murders, 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:25.600 fifty three people killed. Last year, we had over one 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:32.080 hundred thousand drug overdoses from fennol. The Biden body bags 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:37.679 keep piling up because these are the human cost and tragedy. 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:39.560 And you know, there's a reason Joe Biden has not 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:42.359 been to the border once. There's a reason Kamala Harris, 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:46.120 who's ostensibly the borders are for Biden, has not been 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:49.280 to the Rio Grand Valley once because if they came, 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:54.600 the TV cameras have followed them and you cannot defend 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:58.520 what's happening. Their only hope, and it actually goes back 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:00.760 to the recession. It's the point where are making before 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:05.439 about redefining recession. They're counting on the corrupt corporate media 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:08.639 lying and just ignoring it. So if you watch CNN, 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:11.640 if you're one of the six people on planet Earth 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:15.480 who watch a CNN, you have no idea there's a 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:19.439 border crisis because they don't cover it. CNN had you know. 0:21:19.480 --> 0:21:21.119 I watched the other day. I got a haircut in 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:24.280 the barbershop. They were playing CNN, which I was kind 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:26.840 of irritated about, but I watched for thirty minutes. They 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:29.239 talked about how it's really hot. It's hot in New 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:31.000 York City and people are going out and they're dancing 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:34.000 in fountains because it's really hot. And I'm like, okay, fine, 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:37.720 I get it, it's summertime, it's hot, but could you 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:44.560 possibly cover the humanitarian crisis that is unfolding on our 0:21:44.560 --> 0:21:49.040 southern border. So Michael I stood at midnight on the 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:52.880 northern bunk of the Rio Grand and on the ground 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:59.040 you saw hundreds of colored wristbands. The wristbands are worn 0:21:59.160 --> 0:22:03.320 by the illegal limit prints. So every illegal immigrant who 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:06.440 comes to America must pay the Mexican drug cartels, and 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:10.280 they pay them anywhere typically from three thousand to twelve 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:14.040 thousand dollars. Some of the immigrants from China in particular 0:22:14.440 --> 0:22:17.960 pay as much as fifty to seventy thousand dollars. The 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:20.440 only way you cross is to pay a cartel. If 0:22:20.480 --> 0:22:22.040 you try to cross on your own, if you get 0:22:22.040 --> 0:22:25.040 an a raft and swim, the cartels will kill you. 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:28.919 Like there is one hundred percent operational control on the 0:22:28.960 --> 0:22:33.440 southern border on the south from the cartels. So when 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:38.399 people cross, the armbands they're wearing, the color corresponds to 0:22:38.440 --> 0:22:41.119 how many thousands of dollars they owe the cartels. So 0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:43.399 depending on how many thousands of dollars they owe, because 0:22:43.440 --> 0:22:46.200 many of these people don't have three, four, five, ten, 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:49.280 twelve thousand dollars, so they come in and they're in 0:22:49.440 --> 0:22:53.840 hack five to six seven thousand dollars. So what happens 0:22:53.840 --> 0:22:58.320 when they get here, The border patrol doesn't catch them. 0:22:58.440 --> 0:23:01.640 It's not a chase, it's not an apprehension. They come 0:23:01.640 --> 0:23:04.359 and affirmatively look for the border patrol. They come and 0:23:04.400 --> 0:23:07.960 turn themselves in. The Biden administration has actually put arrows, 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:11.040 like from the river bank up to where the border 0:23:11.080 --> 0:23:13.560 patrol is to guide the guide the people. Just a 0:23:13.680 --> 0:23:17.440 steady stream of people. They come carrying a plastic baggie. 0:23:18.400 --> 0:23:21.600 Within the baggie they have a typically a card with 0:23:22.000 --> 0:23:24.240 a name of somebody in the United States, a phone number, 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:27.679 and an address. And Joe Biden, Kamala Harris are the 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:31.320