1 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:02,000 Speaker 1: Welcome. 2 00:00:02,080 --> 00:00:05,199 Speaker 2: It is a verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson 3 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 2: with you. It is after eleven o'clock at night. I 4 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:10,719 Speaker 2: want you to understand when we're doing this is we're 5 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:14,320 Speaker 2: going to be talking about this breaking news that deals 6 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:20,279 Speaker 2: with this retaliatory strike from Israel on Iran. Senator, your 7 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:21,479 Speaker 2: initial thoughts to that. 8 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:25,440 Speaker 3: Well, as we're recording this at is eleven twelve pm 9 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 3: on Thursday night, and what we know right now is 10 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 3: that Israel has launched what appears to be a series 11 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 3: of coordinated attacks against Iran, in Syria, in Iraq, and 12 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 3: Iran all at the same time. We'll get into that 13 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 3: on this pod in greater detail. 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Senator, Uh, this is not a surprise, guys, 54 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 2: that Israel responded, even though every single time they're attacked 55 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 2: this administration, whether it's through the State Department or through 56 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 2: the President, or through the White House spokesman or Kirby 57 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 2: at the White House, they keep telling Israel don't respond, 58 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 2: don't react, don't defend yourself, don't as they describe anything 59 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 2: you do that looks aggressive. 60 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 1: We're gonna say basically no to it. 61 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 2: Israel has a right to defend itself, and clearly they 62 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 2: said we're going to take steps to do that right now. 63 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 3: Well, of course Israel has a right to defend itself, 64 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 3: and of course, of course that's what Israel is doing. 65 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 3: Part of the reason that we specified the time that 66 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 3: this is shortly after eleven PM on Thursday, is that 67 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 3: it's unfolding literally this minute, and so by the time 68 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 3: this podcast post on Friday morning, there may have been 69 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 3: many more developments throughout the night and in the morning. 70 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 3: And indeed, even what we know now, I have not 71 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 3: had a classified briefing this evening, so I don't have 72 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 3: any insight beyond what has been publicly reported. And there's 73 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 3: always a fog of war when something is just breaking, 74 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 3: so we don't know the reliability of the early reports. 75 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 3: But what's being reported is that Israel launched a coordinated 76 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 3: attack using jets and using missiles against Iran, but attacking 77 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 3: Iran in at least three different places, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. 78 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 3: And before we get to anything else, Ben, it's worth 79 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 3: noting that the scope of the attacks show just how 80 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 3: far Iran's reach has extended. 81 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 4: Across the region. 82 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 3: What does it say that if you want to strike 83 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 3: back in Iran, you have to do it in Iran 84 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:45,239 Speaker 3: and Iraq and Syria because they're everywhere. And understand, Iran 85 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 3: is the most malevolent force in the Middle East. They 86 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 3: are funding the most dangerous terrorists on Earth. They fund Hamas, 87 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 3: ninety percent of Hamas's budget comes from Iran. They fund Hesbela, 88 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 3: ninety percent of Hesbela's budget comes from Iran. And Iran, 89 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 3: led by the Ayatola and the Mullas, they routinely chant 90 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 3: death to America and death to Israel. And it's worth noting, 91 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 3: as you just said, from the instant October seventh happened, 92 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:19,920 Speaker 3: the Biden administration has been telling Israel, do not retaliate, 93 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 3: do not defend yourself, do nothing. From the instant Iran 94 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 3: attacked Israel directly with over three hundred drones and missiles. Again, 95 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 3: the Biden administration's immediate refrain was do nothing, do not 96 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 3: defend yourself, do not retaliate it. 97 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 4: It was truly absurd. 98 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,480 Speaker 3: But you have to understand at every stage that has 99 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 3: been the mantra of the Biden White House and the 100 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:48,280 Speaker 3: Democrats is they're undermining Israel's right to self defense. I 101 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 3: think absolutely Israel should respond. It is responding forcefully. I 102 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 3: expect them to respond significantly more forcefully. I don't anticipate 103 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 3: that this is the only response we will see. 104 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:01,840 Speaker 4: And this may be. 105 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 2: That was the question I was gonna ask you for 106 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:06,359 Speaker 2: just putting in context that people understand is we're recording 107 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:09,599 Speaker 2: this after eleven o'clock at night tonight. There I don't 108 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,159 Speaker 2: think there's anybody that believes that this is the end 109 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:15,720 Speaker 2: of the response from Israel. It's probably more like the 110 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:17,039 Speaker 2: beginning of the response. 111 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:20,680 Speaker 3: That's probably right, Although I say, we don't know what 112 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:24,599 Speaker 3: we will see what unfolds. But you know, it was 113 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 3: really striking that when when the missiles and both ballistic 114 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 3: missiles and cruise missiles and the drones over three hundred 115 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 3: were launched from Iran, that there are a number of 116 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:39,279 Speaker 3: things that are really striking. Number one, a bunch of 117 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 3: them never even made it to Israel, both because their 118 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 3: technology was not great and also because they were shot 119 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:50,920 Speaker 3: down in the air. They were shot down number one, 120 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 3: using Israel's missile defense, using iron dome and arrow two 121 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,160 Speaker 3: and three those systems. But number two, they were shot 122 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 3: down with fighter jets. And let me say something extraordinary. 123 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 3: So the fighter jets that were shooting him down. My 124 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 3: understanding is you had Israeli fighter jets, but you also 125 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 3: had American fighter jets that were assisting and shooting them down. 126 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 3: But you also had and this is extraordinary, Saudy fighter 127 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 3: jets and Jordanian fighter jets. 128 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 1: Exactly why that's so significant. 129 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 3: Look, if I'd have told you ten years ago or 130 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 3: even five years ago that the Arabs would defend Israel 131 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 3: in a military attack against it from Iran, that would 132 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 3: have seen absurd. And it really is a testament. It's 133 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 3: a testament to the incredible progress that occurred when Donald 134 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 3: Trump was president, the peace that was flowering in the 135 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 3: Middle East, the Abraham Accords, where we started to see 136 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 3: the Arabs and Israelis coming together. And I'll tell you 137 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 3: a big part of what brought them together was mutual 138 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 3: concern over the danger Iran poses, and and that h 139 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 3: that this is the fruit of of of what was 140 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 3: planted during the Trump administration in the Abraham Accords. But 141 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 3: that being said, it's still remarkable. I don't believe there 142 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 3: is any precedent for Arabs in conflict in support of 143 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 3: Israel and and and so that's that's really quite remarkable. 144 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 3: And it does say something when when the Arab states 145 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:32,320 Speaker 3: in the Middle East in some ways may be more 146 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 3: supportive of Israel than the Biden White House. 147 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, great point. And there's also another a question that 148 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 2: I have for you. And as I was watching right 149 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 2: before we were we were going to record on CNN, 150 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 2: they were saying, well, now now that the world really 151 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 2: has to be concerned and worried h of of a 152 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:53,080 Speaker 2: massive and they were using this these types of words. 153 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:58,319 Speaker 2: Massive retaliation from Iran should be expected because Iran has 154 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 2: said so, They've said that they are going to unleash 155 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:06,439 Speaker 2: basically Holy Hell in response to what Israel has just done. 156 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 2: And they said it's going to be a on a 157 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 2: level that you know, basically no one's ever seen before. 158 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 1: YadA, ya YadA. And then they said, you know. 159 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 2: This is what the Biden administration had been warning Israel about. 160 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:23,679 Speaker 2: It is genuinely shocking to me as I was watching 161 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 2: that before we got on here, to think you just 162 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 2: want Israel to just keep taking it indefinitely and never 163 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 2: defend themselves and never fight back and not hit strategic 164 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:38,320 Speaker 2: targets because of the threat that is being given by 165 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 2: the same country that literally just attacked you. What world 166 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 2: are they living in? 167 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:46,720 Speaker 3: Look in many ways, Joe Biden, the Democrats are more 168 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 3: supportive of Iran right now than they are of Israel. 169 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 3: And that's an astonishing statement. Israel is our closest ally 170 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:55,840 Speaker 3: in the Middle East. They share our values, They are 171 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:59,840 Speaker 3: an incredibly valuable military ally to the United States. There 172 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 3: intelligence saves the lives of Americans. Their enemies are our enemies. 173 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:08,839 Speaker 3: And yet, as we've discussed at every stage, literally from 174 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:11,679 Speaker 3: the moment he was sworn in, Joe Biden and the 175 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:16,800 Speaker 3: apparatics in his administration have been undermining Israel from day one, 176 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 3: and simultaneously they have been flooding money to Iran, billions 177 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,319 Speaker 3: of dollars. And just a couple of weeks ago, when 178 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 3: I forced to vote on the Senate floor that we 179 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 3: should not send billions of dollars to Iran, every single 180 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 3: Democrat but one voted no. The Democrats keep look at 181 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 3: it this way. They want to send money to Iran, 182 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:42,400 Speaker 3: and the Democrats are blocking sending money to Israel. That's extraordinary, 183 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:51,559 Speaker 3: and it is their radical base hates Israel. The anti Semitic, 184 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 3: radical left that chance from the river to the sea. 185 00:10:56,640 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 3: That is who the Democrat Party is terrified of. And 186 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:05,440 Speaker 3: it's who's setting their tune and so even their talking points. 187 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 4: You know. 188 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 3: You know, look, let's go back to October seventh. Remember 189 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 3: the night of October seventh, the Biden State Department tweeted 190 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 3: out that Israel should not retaliate. That night, as twelve 191 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:21,640 Speaker 3: hundred Israelis were being murdered, as women and children were 192 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 3: being raped, as some thirty Americans were being murdered, and 193 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 3: more were being kidnapped, as hundreds of Israelis were being kidnapped, 194 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:33,680 Speaker 3: the Biden administration's immediate reaction was, do not retaliate. They 195 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:35,680 Speaker 3: did that on October seventh. They did it again on 196 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 3: October eighth, Tony Blinken personally. So that was the reaction 197 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 3: at the outset. And understand who started this war. It 198 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:46,960 Speaker 3: was Iran. Iran funds Hasbela, Iran controls Hasbela. They are 199 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 3: in Iran proxy. The Wall Street Journal reported that the 200 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 3: Hamas terrorists trained in Iran for October seventh. So it 201 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:59,119 Speaker 3: was Iran that invaded Israel and murdered twelve hundred Israelis. 202 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:02,840 Speaker 3: Imagine how America would react if that happened, and then 203 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 3: it was Iran again who escalated directly firing missiles and 204 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 3: drones from Iran into Israel. Of course Israel is going 205 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 3: to defend itself and retaliate. It has to do so. 206 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 3: And yet the Biden administration cannot refrain from repeating Iran's 207 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:21,600 Speaker 3: talking points of oh, well this is terrible, and now 208 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:25,439 Speaker 3: of course Iran is going to respond massively. How about 209 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 3: having a president telling Iran we stand with Israel period 210 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 3: the end. That's what Biden should be saying, but it's 211 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 3: not what he's saying. 212 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:40,080 Speaker 2: You also have to wonder will this administration change course. 213 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 2: And I've said this before you and I've had this 214 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:46,200 Speaker 2: conversation several times. I never root for the United States 215 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:50,440 Speaker 2: America to fail on national security issues, especially when it 216 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 2: deals with foreign nations. Right, I don't care who the 217 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 2: president is. I want Joe Biden to be successful in 218 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 2: protecting and defending US always against oursaries as well as 219 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 2: our allies. And he clearly has done a one eighty 220 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 2: from what the Trump doctrine was foreign policy was and 221 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:09,440 Speaker 2: to stand with Ismaie like you just mentioned, no matter what, 222 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 2: this is not working. 223 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 3: This weak yes, and just just pause and ask yourself 224 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 3: which was better peace and prosperity or war everywhere you look. 225 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:24,680 Speaker 3: That's the result of the Biden and foreign policy is 226 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 3: war everywhere. That's the result of the Biden. Foreign policy 227 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 3: is our enemies stronger, emboldened, and more threatening. 228 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:34,199 Speaker 2: So will they look at this and at some point 229 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:37,720 Speaker 2: do you believe that they may actually change course? Because 230 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:40,079 Speaker 2: I mean it sincerely when I say I want us 231 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 2: to be safe and I want them to protect Israel. 232 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 3: I think they are ideologues. I think they are self righteous. 233 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 3: I think they are naive. I think they believe, like 234 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 3: a bunch of college professors in the faculty lounge, that Iran, 235 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 3: if we just give piece of chance, man, you know Iran, 236 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 3: we don't have any right to tell Iran to have nukes. 237 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 3: You know, So what if if they're crazy religious zealots 238 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:06,559 Speaker 3: who say they want to murder us, you know, if 239 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 3: we're just nice to them, if we just give them 240 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 3: a bunch of money, that they'll be our friends. Look, 241 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:17,439 Speaker 3: it is hopeless naivete, and they believe it like a religion. 242 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 3: They keep doing it. Think of the the just how 243 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 3: devoted you have to be to appeasement to Iran? To 244 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 3: in the wake of October seventh, still refuse to enforce 245 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 3: the oil sanctions today, yeah, this not enforce the oil sections. 246 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 3: And by the way, it is also worth noting today 247 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 3: on Friday, Biden is announcing massive sanctions against Alaska, our state, 248 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 3: the National Petroleum Reserve. They are shutting down production in 249 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 3: It is an incredibly rich petroleum reserve in Alaska, massive reserves. 250 00:14:56,280 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 3: So explain to me how these anti American Marxist zelots 251 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 3: can possibly justify they hate oil and gas in America. 252 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 3: They're going to destroy jobs in America, They're gonna they're 253 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 3: gonna drive up the cost of gasoline for Americans in America. 254 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 3: But at the same time they're going to allow Iran 255 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 3: to go to go from three hundred thousand barrels a 256 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 3: day of oil to two million barrels of oil a day. 257 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 3: That's what they're doing right now. And apparently Biden and 258 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 3: the Democrats they only like oil and gas if it's 259 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 3: produced by crazed Zelots who want to murder us and 260 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 3: want to kill as many Israelis as possible. 261 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 2: What you just said made me want to talk about 262 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 2: funding for a second. What is sad is because the 263 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 2: position that you just mentioned. The Biden administration is absolutely 264 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 2: funding Iran and their needs. Yes, what we're not doing 265 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 2: right now is giving Israel funding that they need, an 266 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 2: aid in sport, they need, in military hardware that they 267 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:56,760 Speaker 2: need from the United States of America. 268 00:15:57,320 --> 00:15:58,600 Speaker 1: How is that possible? 269 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 3: Because the Democrat Party is captured by the radical left, 270 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 3: and sadly the mainstream Democrat Party has turned against Israel. 271 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 3: It's not just the fringe. It's not just ilhan Omar 272 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 3: and Taleb and AOC, It's not just the whack jobs. 273 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 3: It's Chuck Schumer. Chuck Schumer is the one that stood 274 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 3: on the floor and demanded that Net and Yahoo be 275 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 3: thrown out of office. The democratically elected leader of Israel, 276 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 3: it's Joe Biden. Joe Biden is the one who orchestrated 277 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 3: a resolution in the United Nations effective condemning Israel for 278 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 3: not having an immediate cease fire. 279 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 4: It's Nancy Pelosi who. 280 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:45,160 Speaker 3: Signed a letter demanding that America cut off weapons military 281 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 3: weapons for Israel to defend itself. Those are not fringe Democrats. 282 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 3: Those are the leading Democrats in office. And that's an 283 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 3: enormous problem. 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Finally, when it comes to 319 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:56,440 Speaker 2: the aid package that Israel needs, what does it look 320 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:58,399 Speaker 2: like and how quickly are we going to get an 321 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 2: answer for Israel, especially if this turns into a significant 322 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:08,399 Speaker 2: military conflict between them and Iran that goes back and forth. 323 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:11,640 Speaker 3: They need it now, Well, that's up in the air 324 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 3: right now as we sit here tonight. The House is 325 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:16,879 Speaker 3: in the middle of debating that question right now, and 326 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 3: they're trying to put together an aid package and voted out. 327 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:23,119 Speaker 3: They're putting together a big supplemental bill that they're talking about, 328 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 3: including Israel Aid in that they're talking about, including Ukraine 329 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:29,359 Speaker 3: eight in, which is going to split some members of 330 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 3: the House and some members of the Senate. They're talking about, 331 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 3: including their bill forcing China to sell TikTok, which is 332 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:38,680 Speaker 3: a very important bill. It's going to be a big, 333 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:42,199 Speaker 3: complicated supplemental It's not clear right now that they're going 334 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:43,919 Speaker 3: to get the votes to pass any of it, but 335 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:47,000 Speaker 3: they are actively battling it out in the House right 336 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:47,960 Speaker 3: now as we speak. 337 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 2: We'll keep you updated on this as it's going to 338 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:53,400 Speaker 2: be a very quick moving next I think week week 339 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 2: and a half on these issues. 340 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 1: We will cover it all for you. 341 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:00,120 Speaker 2: There's also another big warning and a moment of honesty 342 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:02,920 Speaker 2: that came from the Attorney General, Merrick Garland. 343 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 1: He was in front. 344 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 3: Hold hold on a second, did you just say honesty 345 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:07,679 Speaker 3: from the Attorney General, Merrit Garland? 346 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 2: I know, I know, it's everybody get right with the 347 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:12,119 Speaker 2: Lord because it could be rapture alert. 348 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 4: Holy cow, that is a sign of the end times. 349 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:19,199 Speaker 2: I was wondering if you were going to let me 350 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 2: get away with that moment, and clearly see this is 351 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 2: why I love doing this show because I was like. 352 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:25,640 Speaker 1: Am setting him up? And yes, you took, you. 353 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:29,800 Speaker 3: Took, Like the man is so smug and so dishonest. 354 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:32,919 Speaker 3: All right, So what did he say? I mean, I 355 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:35,200 Speaker 3: suppose even a stop clock is right twice a day? 356 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:36,919 Speaker 4: What what? What did he say? That that that that 357 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 4: was actually honest? 358 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 2: So the Attorney General was asked about how bad the 359 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:47,000 Speaker 2: the fetanol not only you know deaths and abuse are, 360 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:49,639 Speaker 2: but how much is coming across the border and how 361 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:51,719 Speaker 2: big of a threat does he sees? The Attorney General 362 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 2: he was asked this question, and I want to play it. 363 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:57,200 Speaker 2: It's it's it's a little bit longer, but it's important 364 00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:59,120 Speaker 2: because I want you to hear what he said. And 365 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:01,439 Speaker 2: the reason why I think this is so important is 366 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:04,200 Speaker 2: we also have to tie this back to the impeachment 367 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:09,679 Speaker 2: of the man. My orchists who Democrats refuse to move on. 368 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:12,440 Speaker 2: So at the same time they're doing that, you have 369 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:14,400 Speaker 2: the Attorney Joe going, yeah, yeah, we got a major 370 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:15,680 Speaker 2: problem with fetnah in this country. 371 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 1: It's hell of a lot of people here. Take a listen. 372 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 5: Senator Moran and I both mentioned in our opening statements, 373 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 5: as did you the continuing fight against the opioid epidemic, 374 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 5: substance misuse, the drug cartels. I continue to be very 375 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:40,480 Speaker 5: concerned about fentanyl use and poisoning. New Hampshire has lost 376 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:44,359 Speaker 5: too many people to fentanyl overdoses. Can you talk a 377 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 5: little bit about the OJ's efforts to interdict these drugs 378 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 5: and efforts to find a way to prosecute those responsible. 379 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,720 Speaker 6: Yes, Senator, I have said, and I deeply mean this, 380 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:01,359 Speaker 6: that fentanyl is the dead has a drug threat that 381 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:07,440 Speaker 6: this country has ever faced. I've met with families at 382 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 6: the DEA, whose children, whose teenagers, whose infants, whose grandparents 383 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:20,719 Speaker 6: have died, mostly not even knowing that what they're taking 384 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:23,920 Speaker 6: is fentanyl, thinking it's another kind of prescription pill that 385 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 6: they were able to get over the internet. We don't 386 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:31,159 Speaker 6: even refer to this as overdoses anymore, for this is 387 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:34,160 Speaker 6: drug poisoning, because that's what it is. So we are 388 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:36,680 Speaker 6: facing this with the urgency it requires. 389 00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 2: Let me just stop there. He says, we are facing 390 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 2: this with the urgency that it requires. If this is 391 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,399 Speaker 2: as urgent as he just said, and I want to 392 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:50,320 Speaker 2: read that back to you, Centaer, I have said, and 393 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 2: I deeply mean this, that fetnah is the deadliest drug 394 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:57,240 Speaker 2: threat that this country has ever faced. I've met with 395 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 2: the families at the DEA, whose children, who'se teenagers, whose infants, 396 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:06,000 Speaker 2: whose grandparents have died, mostly not even knowing that what 397 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:09,199 Speaker 2: they were taking as ventnol, thinking it's another kind of 398 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,360 Speaker 2: a prescription pill that they are able to get over 399 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:17,880 Speaker 2: the internet. We don't even refer to this as overdoses anymore. 400 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:23,120 Speaker 2: This is drug poisoning, because that's what it is. So 401 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:27,919 Speaker 2: then he says that we are facing this with the 402 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:32,440 Speaker 2: urgency that it requires. If that was true, Senator, wouldn't 403 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:35,160 Speaker 2: you be then closing the southern border and not having 404 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:37,080 Speaker 2: it wide open like it is right now? 405 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:43,840 Speaker 3: Of course that this is not complicated. The drug traffickers 406 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:48,119 Speaker 3: are the human traffickers. It's the same drug cartels. In 407 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:52,639 Speaker 3: twenty eighteen, the drug cartels made five hundred million dollars 408 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:57,760 Speaker 3: from human trafficking. In twenty twenty two, they made thirteen 409 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:02,720 Speaker 3: billion dollars from human trafficking. That's a twenty six hundred 410 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:07,800 Speaker 3: percent increase. The people making fentanyl are getting extraordinarily rich 411 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 3: under Joe Biden and Alejandro Majorcis and Merrick Garland's open borders. 412 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:16,720 Speaker 3: They are flooding the border, and the human trafficking and 413 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 3: drug trafficking are completely intertwined. It's the same people doing it, 414 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 3: it's the same cartels doing it. And the way they 415 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:26,240 Speaker 3: do it is they'll send a flood of migrants over 416 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,920 Speaker 3: one portion of the river, and border patrol will all 417 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 3: go there. And while border patrol is dealing with the migrants. 418 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:36,640 Speaker 3: And by the way, because Biden's policy is catch and release, 419 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:40,920 Speaker 3: once border patrol apprehends a group, and let's be clear, 420 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,920 Speaker 3: the group is normally finding border patrol and turning themselves in, 421 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:49,400 Speaker 3: then the majority of agents are spending their time processing 422 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:53,000 Speaker 3: those migrants, or staying with them in the detention facilities, 423 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 3: or getting them diapers, or getting them food, or caring 424 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 3: for this massive influx. And so the percentage of agents 425 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:03,679 Speaker 3: on on the border that are actually deployed drops precipitously 426 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:07,080 Speaker 3: because the vast majority of the agents are processing migrants 427 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:11,639 Speaker 3: and doing administrative work. And then what the cartels do 428 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:13,439 Speaker 3: is a mile up the river, that's where they move 429 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 3: the fetanyl across where the border patrol agents are dealing 430 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:20,400 Speaker 3: with the illegal immigrants, they move the fetanyl somewhere else. 431 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:24,400 Speaker 3: And so the two are very closely intertwined. And if 432 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,560 Speaker 3: Joe Biden and Mayorcis and Garland were willing to deport 433 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:31,160 Speaker 3: illegal immigrants and follow the law, what that would mean 434 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 3: is that border patrol agents could be on the border 435 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 3: and stop the fentanyl from coming in. But they can't. 436 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:40,959 Speaker 3: And I'll tell you, I'll give you some amazing stats. 437 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:45,160 Speaker 3: So do you know how much how much drugs were 438 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 3: seized at the southern border in March in one month? 439 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:55,159 Speaker 3: How much of feanyl one three and eighty nine pounds? 440 00:25:55,680 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 3: And understand, look, fetanyl is so powerful. Just a tiny 441 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 3: grain or two is enough to kill you. 442 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 1: Tell the story you told us a while ago. 443 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:06,560 Speaker 2: But I think it's important for people to understand that, 444 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,879 Speaker 2: just so that they have context. Fetnah is not a 445 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,639 Speaker 2: heavy drug, Okay, Like you see like a kilo of 446 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:17,760 Speaker 2: cocaine and it looks pretty heavy and pretty dense, and 447 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,680 Speaker 2: then you look at you know, a kilo for example, 448 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:24,800 Speaker 2: of marijuana. It's obviously a pretty big package. But there's 449 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,960 Speaker 2: talk about the grains when you met uh with the 450 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 2: agents explaining just how little can kill you, and the 451 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:32,720 Speaker 2: story that you told with your own daughters using a 452 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:33,719 Speaker 2: sweeten low packet. 453 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:37,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, this is something that a DA agent told me, 454 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 3: and he had me and several other people take out 455 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:43,399 Speaker 3: a packet of Sweet and Low and tear open the 456 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 3: packet of Sweet and Low and dump dump all the 457 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,960 Speaker 3: contents out, empty all the contents. And then he said, okay, 458 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:53,040 Speaker 3: stick your pinky and the empty empty bag of Sweet 459 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,199 Speaker 3: and Low and you pull your pinky out, and there 460 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,800 Speaker 3: are two or three little grains that are on your pinky. 461 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,399 Speaker 3: He said, that's enough fatanyl to kill you, just the 462 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 3: residue that's in the packet after you've emptied it. And 463 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,199 Speaker 3: so what I did with both my daughters is I 464 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 3: got three packets of Sweet and Low and I tore 465 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 3: one open. 466 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:12,160 Speaker 4: I had them to tear it open. 467 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 3: I had them empty out the contents and then then 468 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,639 Speaker 3: do exactly that, because look, it's terrifying. My girls are 469 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 3: thirteen and sixteen. 470 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:20,879 Speaker 4: They're good kids. 471 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:25,400 Speaker 3: But what is so frightening about this epidemic is it's 472 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 3: not Look, it's one thing if you know a heroin 473 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,679 Speaker 3: junkie on the street who's abusing drugs for years and 474 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 3: years and years, if they overdose, that's sad when anyone dies, 475 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:41,159 Speaker 3: but that's the result of extended conduct. What is terrifying 476 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 3: about this crisis is the people who are dying are 477 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:47,119 Speaker 3: not drug addicts, and in many instances, they're not even 478 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 3: drug users in the ordinary sense of things. They're a 479 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:55,359 Speaker 3: teenager or a young adult who goes to a party 480 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,280 Speaker 3: and they're at a party and someone says, hey, you 481 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 3: want to try a xanax, want to try a percoset, 482 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:07,160 Speaker 3: You want to try you know, a riddlin, And look, 483 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,960 Speaker 3: should you take those drugs if they're not prescribed to 484 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:14,440 Speaker 3: you know? But a teenager doing that that didn't used 485 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,399 Speaker 3: to be a death sentence. Because if they get a 486 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,840 Speaker 3: pill that someone say god on the internet, and it 487 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:24,720 Speaker 3: happens to have fentanyl in it, they literally can drop dead. 488 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 3: And that is happening over and over and over again. 489 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 3: I'll give you an amazing stay. 490 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,199 Speaker 2: You go back to Garland's exact words, and I think 491 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,159 Speaker 2: it's important that people hear this as he described it. 492 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,720 Speaker 2: We don't even refer to this as an as an 493 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 2: overdose or overdose anymore. 494 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,880 Speaker 1: This is drug poisoning because that's what it is. 495 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 4: Right. 496 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,120 Speaker 3: This is a point I've tried with my kids to 497 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:48,360 Speaker 3: emphasize it. But it's frightening because look, teenagers do stupid things, 498 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 3: and it can be just one random And the reason 499 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 3: why Garland is right to use the term poisoning because 500 00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 3: an overdose suggests a drug user that takes too much. 501 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:05,480 Speaker 3: And what's happening with feanyl is you have things that 502 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 3: are laced with fate fetanyl that they don't know they're 503 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,320 Speaker 3: taking feentanyl. That's why it's a poisoning because taking a 504 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 3: xanax pill will not kill you, but if there's fentanyl 505 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 3: in it, and if there's a little bit too much, 506 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,480 Speaker 3: you can literally just drop dead right there. And here 507 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:25,280 Speaker 3: is the stat that is amazing and terrifying. Right now today, 508 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:29,840 Speaker 3: fetanyl is the number one cause of death for Americans 509 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 3: age eighteen to forty five, number one, number one, more 510 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,480 Speaker 3: than car accidents, more than heart disease, more than anything. 511 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 1: By the way, did you say to forty five? 512 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:40,960 Speaker 4: Eighteen to forty five? 513 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 2: So what that means is if you remember at the 514 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,920 Speaker 2: end of last year, it was eighteen to thirty nine, 515 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,240 Speaker 2: so that it's expanded now to forty five. 516 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:53,880 Speaker 3: I'm not sure if the numbers have expanded or just 517 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 3: the category that I'm looking at, but eighteen to forty 518 00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,200 Speaker 3: five it's the number one cause of death. 519 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 1: Wow. 520 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:04,200 Speaker 3: And here let me give you a quote from Biden's 521 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 3: DEA administrator and Milgrim. She said, cartels are quote killing 522 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:14,840 Speaker 3: Americans with fentanyl at catastrophic and record rates like we've 523 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:20,320 Speaker 3: never seen before. And that begs the question, then, why 524 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 3: the hell are you making cartels incredibly rich and allowing 525 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:30,600 Speaker 3: them to bring ten point four million illegal immigrants into 526 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:31,160 Speaker 3: this country? 527 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:33,440 Speaker 1: Senator, I'm not sure what's worse. 528 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,640 Speaker 2: Is it the fact that we have an Attorney general 529 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:40,880 Speaker 2: that is genuinely being honest now with the American people 530 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,800 Speaker 2: about the threat, talking about this being the number one 531 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 2: killer for those forty five to eighteen in this country 532 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 2: and knowing it and publicizing it, and then yet they're 533 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,360 Speaker 2: not doing a damn thing to stop the flow of 534 00:30:55,440 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 2: the drug coming across the southern border or securing that order. 535 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,960 Speaker 2: So what is the takeaway for the American people? We 536 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 2: know that you're dying at record rates, but we need 537 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,600 Speaker 2: illegal immigrants to come into fundomly change this country. So 538 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:12,160 Speaker 2: we're willing to sacrifice your lives, and your kids' lives, 539 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 2: and your grandparents' lives. 540 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,200 Speaker 3: So, Ben, I'm going to give you the very sad takeaway. 541 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 3: The Democrats simply do not care. Now, that sounds harsh, 542 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:25,400 Speaker 3: that sounds political, But what other conclusion can you draw 543 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:29,320 Speaker 3: when they continue to put in place the policies that 544 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 3: enriches the cartels and that allows them to keep flooding 545 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:36,800 Speaker 3: this country with fentanyl. And you know there's some irony 546 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,080 Speaker 3: about that exchange. So the senator who was questioning Merrick 547 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:43,280 Speaker 3: Garland was Jeene Shaheen. Jean Shaheen is a Democrat from 548 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:50,280 Speaker 3: New Hampshire. Literally the day before yesterday, Jean Shaheen sat 549 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:54,920 Speaker 3: on the Senate floor along with every single Democrat and 550 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:59,840 Speaker 3: voted to shut down, to not have a trial on 551 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:05,200 Speaker 3: Alajandro Majorcis, to block even one word of testimony, to 552 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 3: block any and all evidence of the invasion at our 553 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:13,200 Speaker 3: southern border, any and all evidence of the fentanyl poisonings. 554 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:17,840 Speaker 3: That was a major element of why Mayorcis was impeached, 555 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:22,640 Speaker 3: and every single Democrat voted straight party line. Look the 556 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:28,360 Speaker 3: vote on Wednesday, you need to understand how dramatic and 557 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:34,000 Speaker 3: unprecedented it was. And let me say on two fronts. 558 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:38,280 Speaker 3: Number one, twenty two times in our nation's history, the 559 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,560 Speaker 3: House of Representatives has voted to impeach an individual and 560 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 3: has sent articles of impeachment to the Senate twenty two 561 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:50,920 Speaker 3: times prior to yesterday. The twenty one times in every 562 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,959 Speaker 3: single time when the Senate had jurisdiction, in other words, 563 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,920 Speaker 3: when the person who had been impeached hadn't died or 564 00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 3: resigned from office. Every single time, the Senate held a trial, 565 00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:07,240 Speaker 3: hurt evidence, and then the Senators adjudicated the case, voted 566 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,600 Speaker 3: guilty or not guilty. Yesterday is the first time in 567 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:12,440 Speaker 3: over two hundred years of our nation's history with the 568 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:17,000 Speaker 3: Senate refused to do its job, and it defied the Constitution. 569 00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:20,200 Speaker 3: And listen, I remember well, I was standing on the 570 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,920 Speaker 3: Senate floor when Harry Reid, then the Senate majority leader 571 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:28,479 Speaker 3: in twenty thirteen, the Democrat exercised the nuclear option and 572 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:34,480 Speaker 3: blew up the Senate filibuster for appointees, and it did 573 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,960 Speaker 3: did enormous damage to the Senate. It broke the rules 574 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,160 Speaker 3: of the Senate. And I remember turning and turning to 575 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:44,440 Speaker 3: Amy Klobuchar, Democrat senator from Minnesota at the time, and 576 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:47,080 Speaker 3: I told her, I said, Amy, you are going to 577 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:51,720 Speaker 3: regret this. This is going to result in a lot 578 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:55,120 Speaker 3: more judges and justices in the mold of antonin Scalia 579 00:33:55,200 --> 00:34:01,360 Speaker 3: and Clarence Thomas and every Democrat. Nonetheless, Lemmings jumped off 580 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:06,160 Speaker 3: that cliff, and ironically, the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe 581 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:10,360 Speaker 3: versus Wide never would have happened if Harry Reid the 582 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,880 Speaker 3: Democrats had not nuked the filibuster in twenty thirteen. That 583 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:16,440 Speaker 3: was the direct result, because there's no way on earth 584 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:20,399 Speaker 3: that Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Cony Barrett, and probably even Neil 585 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:24,200 Speaker 3: Gorsich could have gotten sixty votes to get confirmed, which 586 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,880 Speaker 3: is what would have been required if the filibuster still existed. 587 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:34,879 Speaker 3: And what happened yesterday is the Democrats nuked not the 588 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:40,160 Speaker 3: Senate rules, but the Constitution, the Constitution's power of impeachment 589 00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:43,439 Speaker 3: for the Senate. And as a result of yesterday, never 590 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:47,560 Speaker 3: again will there be an impeachment trial when the Senate 591 00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:50,000 Speaker 3: is of the same party as the president. And so, 592 00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 3: by the way, this could happen less than a year 593 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:58,040 Speaker 3: from now. I think it is likely that Donald Trump 594 00:34:58,080 --> 00:34:59,040 Speaker 3: is going to win in November. 595 00:34:59,080 --> 00:34:59,800 Speaker 4: I hope he does. 596 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,320 Speaker 3: I think it is likely that Republicans are going to 597 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:03,960 Speaker 3: take the Senate. 598 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:04,600 Speaker 4: I hope we do. 599 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:10,479 Speaker 3: It is also possible, unfortunately, that Democrats take the House. 600 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:12,600 Speaker 3: I hope they don't, but it is a real possibility. 601 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,680 Speaker 3: It's a very very close majority if that happens. If 602 00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:18,320 Speaker 3: we start January of next year with a Democrat House, 603 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:21,879 Speaker 3: a Republican Senate, and Trump in the White House, I'm 604 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:25,239 Speaker 3: here to predict what's going to happen. The Democrats are 605 00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:28,920 Speaker 3: going to impeach Donald Trump again a third time, and 606 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:30,799 Speaker 3: who knows, maybe a fourth and a fifth time. They 607 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,960 Speaker 3: hate him. They'll do it again if they have a 608 00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:37,120 Speaker 3: majority in the House. But you know what will happen. 609 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,080 Speaker 3: If they do that, they'll send it to the Senate, 610 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:42,120 Speaker 3: and I guarantee you a Senate, Republicans are going to say, nope, 611 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:43,880 Speaker 3: we're not having a trial. We're going to follow the 612 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,840 Speaker 3: Democrat president. What's good for the goose is good for 613 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:50,480 Speaker 3: the gander. So no trial for you. That's a bad thing. 614 00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:54,000 Speaker 3: And by the way, it is worth noting that was 615 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:58,719 Speaker 3: the scenario for the first Trump impeachment. The first Trump impeachment, 616 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:03,480 Speaker 3: there was a Democrat House, a Republican Senate, and obviously 617 00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:05,960 Speaker 3: Trump was in the White House, and we could have 618 00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,520 Speaker 3: done what Chuck Schumer and the Democrats did yesterday, but 619 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,759 Speaker 3: we didn't. 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When we 673 00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,799 Speaker 3: enter impeachment, we were all sworn in and then we 674 00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,640 Speaker 3: all sign the oath Book, one at a time. We 675 00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:07,760 Speaker 3: signed the oath Book. And what is supposed to happen 676 00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,560 Speaker 3: next is that we adopt a resolution laying out a 677 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,640 Speaker 3: trial schedule of how the House managers are going to 678 00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:19,840 Speaker 3: present their case. But instead what happened is Chuck Schumer 679 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:24,719 Speaker 3: rose on a constitutional point of order, and a constitutional 680 00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:29,360 Speaker 3: point of order as you stand and say, what is 681 00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:32,080 Speaker 3: on the floor violates the Constitution. And he raised a 682 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,719 Speaker 3: constitutional point of order and he said Article one, the 683 00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:40,080 Speaker 3: first article sent over by the House does not allege 684 00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:44,560 Speaker 3: a high crime or misdemeanor. And so what happened next 685 00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:48,799 Speaker 3: is we voted on whether Article one alleged a high 686 00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:50,799 Speaker 3: crime or misdemeanor. High crime and misdemeanor is what you 687 00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,880 Speaker 3: need to be able to impeach someone. Now, Article one 688 00:39:54,800 --> 00:40:00,759 Speaker 3: focused on Alejandro Majorcis's defiance of federal law, that that 689 00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:05,040 Speaker 3: that that he was refusing to follow explicit and clear 690 00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:11,600 Speaker 3: federal law, federal law that that says that that illegal 691 00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:15,160 Speaker 3: immigrants shall be detained, that that illegal immigrants with criminal 692 00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:18,480 Speaker 3: conviction shall be detained and shall be deported over and 693 00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:21,640 Speaker 3: over again. Immigration law is mandatory. It says shall shall, 694 00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:24,680 Speaker 3: shall shall, and he's defying it at a level it's 695 00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:28,879 Speaker 3: never happened before. It's not that he's bad at his job. 696 00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:34,520 Speaker 3: It's that he is utterly flouting and defying federal law. 697 00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:38,719 Speaker 3: And that that's the first article of impeachment. And they argued, well, 698 00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,319 Speaker 3: actually they didn't argue. They just made a motion that 699 00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,760 Speaker 3: it's not a high crime or misdemeanor. They presented no argument. 700 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,840 Speaker 3: They they did not give a legal argument, they did 701 00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:49,880 Speaker 3: not write a brief, they did not present an argument. 702 00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:51,799 Speaker 4: And and I was the. 703 00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:56,640 Speaker 3: Person who who who raised the lead objection to that. Now, 704 00:40:56,719 --> 00:41:01,320 Speaker 3: under the impeachment rules, you can't debate on the Senate floor. 705 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,200 Speaker 3: You're supposed to be silent because you're jurors. I'm just saying, 706 00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:07,520 Speaker 3: why is that? But that makes sense because your juror 707 00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:12,080 Speaker 3: not a lawyer. I guess presenting right, right, And so 708 00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:17,560 Speaker 3: I made a motion for us to move into executive session. 709 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,359 Speaker 3: If we move into executive session, we throw the reporters out, 710 00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:22,799 Speaker 3: we turned the TV cameras off, but then we can 711 00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:26,040 Speaker 3: debate it. And I said, look, you're making a major 712 00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:30,280 Speaker 3: legal point. You presented no argument, and what you're saying 713 00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,840 Speaker 3: is quality is fundamentally wrong. 714 00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:35,160 Speaker 4: And I'll tell you the amazing thing is. 715 00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:41,239 Speaker 3: The idea that refusing to follow the law, defying the 716 00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:44,080 Speaker 3: law is not a high crime and misdemeanor is not impeachable. 717 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:49,440 Speaker 3: It is contrary to the original understanding of the Constitution. 718 00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:52,600 Speaker 3: Joseph Story, who was a Supreme Court justice, one of 719 00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:55,840 Speaker 3: the leading constitutional scholars right at the very beginning of 720 00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:59,520 Speaker 3: our country, and his commentaries in the Constitution are widely 721 00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:05,320 Speaker 3: cited for understanding what the founding generation believed the Constitution 722 00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:07,799 Speaker 3: to mean. And he talked about he wrote at length 723 00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,759 Speaker 3: about high crimes and misdemeanors, and he gave lots of examples, 724 00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:16,600 Speaker 3: including the Lord Admiral refusing to protect the high seas, 725 00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:19,160 Speaker 3: and he said, that is a high crime or misdemeanor, 726 00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:25,400 Speaker 3: and that is virtually analogous, very closely analogous to the 727 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,640 Speaker 3: head of Homeland Security refusing to secure the border. It's 728 00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:33,920 Speaker 3: the same principle of allowing lawless piracy to threaten and 729 00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:38,800 Speaker 3: invade America. So Joseph's story and the founding generation understood 730 00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:41,799 Speaker 3: this to be a high crime and misdemeanor. And amazingly enough, 731 00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:47,040 Speaker 3: Ben the Biden Justice Department argued in front of the U. S. 732 00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:52,840 Speaker 3: Supreme Court that impeachment was the remedy for the Biden 733 00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:56,600 Speaker 3: administration refusing to follow the law. So in Texas versus 734 00:42:56,640 --> 00:43:00,640 Speaker 3: the United States, Texas sued the Biden administration for refusing 735 00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:03,520 Speaker 3: to secure the border, and the Supreme Court ended up 736 00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:06,880 Speaker 3: agreeing with the Biden administration and saying, well, Texas can't 737 00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:12,759 Speaker 3: sue and the Biden doj The Solicitor General for Biden argued, look, 738 00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:17,640 Speaker 3: if you have a cabinet member who's refusing to follow 739 00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:22,920 Speaker 3: the law, Congress has remedies, including impeachment. And so I 740 00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:25,800 Speaker 3: stood up and said, listen, the Biden Department of Justice 741 00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:31,280 Speaker 3: argued last year this was impeachable. It didn't matter. Every 742 00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:33,760 Speaker 3: single Democrat, all of them. And by the way, even 743 00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:36,640 Speaker 3: the so called moderates Joe Manchin and Cursten Cinema, they 744 00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:40,279 Speaker 3: voted also Nope, not a high crime or misdemeanor. And 745 00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:44,759 Speaker 3: as a result, because they had to have a majority, 746 00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,040 Speaker 3: the point of order carried. They got fifty one votes 747 00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:50,359 Speaker 3: for it. And so the first article was thrown out, 748 00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:53,000 Speaker 3: and then they did it again on the second one. 749 00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,440 Speaker 3: And I'll tell you the second one is even more astonishing. 750 00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:59,040 Speaker 3: So as a result of the first vote, it is 751 00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:02,000 Speaker 3: now the position of Democrats that any cabinet member can 752 00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,360 Speaker 3: refuse to follow the law and defy the law and 753 00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:07,239 Speaker 3: utterly ignore the law, and you can't impeach him for it. 754 00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:12,000 Speaker 3: I mean, that's an astonishing and dangerous proposition in Democrat 755 00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:17,960 Speaker 3: looney land. But the second article of impeachment was for 756 00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:22,840 Speaker 3: breach of trust, and it focused on majorcas repeatedly lying 757 00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,680 Speaker 3: to Congress under oath about what was happening at the border. 758 00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:28,680 Speaker 3: And again Chuck Schumer rose on a point of order 759 00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:31,520 Speaker 3: and said this is not a high crime or misdemeanor. 760 00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:35,640 Speaker 3: Now mind you, they're saying lying under oath to Congress 761 00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:38,520 Speaker 3: is not impeachable. It is a felony. It is a 762 00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:42,080 Speaker 3: felony that you can serve jail time for. And it's 763 00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:47,920 Speaker 3: worth remembering Bill Clinton was impeached for perjury. The House 764 00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:50,040 Speaker 3: impeached him, and what did the Senate do. They didn't 765 00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:53,120 Speaker 3: throw it out, they didn't dismiss it. The House managers 766 00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:55,400 Speaker 3: presented the case, they hurt and conducted a trial, and 767 00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:59,280 Speaker 3: ultimately the Senate acquitted him. But they did their duty 768 00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:03,640 Speaker 3: to hold a trial. And actually before that, there's someone 769 00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:06,040 Speaker 3: I'm sure you've never heard of, a guy named Walter Nixon. 770 00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:07,160 Speaker 4: You know who Walter Nixon was? 771 00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:08,520 Speaker 1: Who is that? 772 00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:12,040 Speaker 3: Walter Nixon was a federal judge. He was a federal 773 00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:15,400 Speaker 3: judge actually from Mississippi. You're an all MS grad. He 774 00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,239 Speaker 3: was a federal judge from Mississippi. But he was not 775 00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:22,040 Speaker 3: a good guy. And he was convicted a perjury before 776 00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:25,600 Speaker 3: a grand jury. And you know what happened. The Congress 777 00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:29,759 Speaker 3: impeached him, The House impeached him, the Senate convicted him, 778 00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:33,400 Speaker 3: and he was removed as a federal judge for perjury. 779 00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:37,560 Speaker 3: So even though it was clear, there was clear precedent 780 00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:41,160 Speaker 3: that yes, perjury, lying under oath is a high crime 781 00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:48,760 Speaker 3: or misdemeanor, it is impeachable, every single Senate Democrat voted 782 00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:53,000 Speaker 3: that it's not a high crime or misdemeanor. So now apparently, 783 00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:58,279 Speaker 3: again in Democrat Wonderland, lying to Congress is AOK. And understand, 784 00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:04,040 Speaker 3: this was not about the Constitution. They didn't care. They 785 00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:07,120 Speaker 3: had no arguments as to why the Constitution said this. 786 00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:11,239 Speaker 3: This was about power, and this was about protecting their 787 00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:17,280 Speaker 3: political backsides because they're terrified of the American people hearing 788 00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:19,920 Speaker 3: what is happening at the border, the fentanyl, the deaths, 789 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:23,000 Speaker 3: the rapes, the children being abused. They do not want 790 00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:25,600 Speaker 3: that evidence before the American people. And I'll say this 791 00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:29,200 Speaker 3: is a final point to wrap up. Do you want 792 00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:32,759 Speaker 3: to see proof of why this is all political and 793 00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:34,160 Speaker 3: why the Democrats did what they did? 794 00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:35,359 Speaker 4: Yes? 795 00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:38,000 Speaker 3: You know what, you know what ms you know what, 796 00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:44,880 Speaker 3: MSNBC and CNN covered all day yesterday, Trump, the Trump Trial, 797 00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:50,920 Speaker 3: Stormy Daniels, ooh smut lying processing Like apparently there was 798 00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:52,680 Speaker 3: no impeachment proceeding in the Senate. 799 00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:55,320 Speaker 4: Nothing happened. There's no border crisis. 800 00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:59,040 Speaker 3: The only thing they would cover is is the attack 801 00:46:59,120 --> 00:46:59,560 Speaker 3: on Trump. 802 00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:00,719 Speaker 1: Yeah. 803 00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:03,600 Speaker 2: Facts, don't forget. 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