Speaker 1: Welcome.
Speaker 2: It is a verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson
Speaker 2: with you. It is after eleven o'clock at night. I
Speaker 2: want you to understand when we're doing this is we're
Speaker 2: going to be talking about this breaking news that deals
Speaker 2: with this retaliatory strike from Israel on Iran. Senator, your
Speaker 2: initial thoughts to that.
Speaker 3: Well, as we're recording this at is eleven twelve pm
Speaker 3: on Thursday night, and what we know right now is
Speaker 3: that Israel has launched what appears to be a series
Speaker 3: of coordinated attacks against Iran, in Syria, in Iraq, and
Speaker 3: Iran all at the same time. We'll get into that
Speaker 3: on this pod in greater detail. We're also going to
Speaker 3: get into the Attorney General's testimony before Congress as to
Speaker 3: the extraordinary threat Fetanohl is that it's the most deadly
Speaker 3: drug threat that has ever faced this country, and it
Speaker 3: is flooding across our southern border. And finally we're going
Speaker 3: to get into in the face of fentanyl, in the
Speaker 3: face of this invasion in our southern border, order, every
Speaker 3: single Democrat defied the Constitution and refused to even allow
Speaker 3: an impeachment trial. I'm going to explain the constitutional issues there.
Speaker 3: What happened and it's gonna make your blood boil.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about it.
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Speaker 2: off your first order. Senator, Uh, this is not a surprise, guys,
Speaker 2: that Israel responded, even though every single time they're attacked
Speaker 2: this administration, whether it's through the State Department or through
Speaker 2: the President, or through the White House spokesman or Kirby
Speaker 2: at the White House, they keep telling Israel don't respond,
Speaker 2: don't react, don't defend yourself, don't as they describe anything
Speaker 2: you do that looks aggressive.
Speaker 1: We're gonna say basically no to it.
Speaker 2: Israel has a right to defend itself, and clearly they
Speaker 2: said we're going to take steps to do that right now.
Speaker 3: Well, of course Israel has a right to defend itself,
Speaker 3: and of course, of course that's what Israel is doing.
Speaker 3: Part of the reason that we specified the time that
Speaker 3: this is shortly after eleven PM on Thursday, is that
Speaker 3: it's unfolding literally this minute, and so by the time
Speaker 3: this podcast post on Friday morning, there may have been
Speaker 3: many more developments throughout the night and in the morning.
Speaker 3: And indeed, even what we know now, I have not
Speaker 3: had a classified briefing this evening, so I don't have
Speaker 3: any insight beyond what has been publicly reported. And there's
Speaker 3: always a fog of war when something is just breaking,
Speaker 3: so we don't know the reliability of the early reports.
Speaker 3: But what's being reported is that Israel launched a coordinated
Speaker 3: attack using jets and using missiles against Iran, but attacking
Speaker 3: Iran in at least three different places, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
Speaker 3: And before we get to anything else, Ben, it's worth
Speaker 3: noting that the scope of the attacks show just how
Speaker 3: far Iran's reach has extended.
Speaker 4: Across the region.
Speaker 3: What does it say that if you want to strike
Speaker 3: back in Iran, you have to do it in Iran
Speaker 3: and Iraq and Syria because they're everywhere. And understand, Iran
Speaker 3: is the most malevolent force in the Middle East. They
Speaker 3: are funding the most dangerous terrorists on Earth. They fund Hamas,
Speaker 3: ninety percent of Hamas's budget comes from Iran. They fund Hesbela,
Speaker 3: ninety percent of Hesbela's budget comes from Iran. And Iran,
Speaker 3: led by the Ayatola and the Mullas, they routinely chant
Speaker 3: death to America and death to Israel. And it's worth noting,
Speaker 3: as you just said, from the instant October seventh happened,
Speaker 3: the Biden administration has been telling Israel, do not retaliate,
Speaker 3: do not defend yourself, do nothing. From the instant Iran
Speaker 3: attacked Israel directly with over three hundred drones and missiles. Again,
Speaker 3: the Biden administration's immediate refrain was do nothing, do not
Speaker 3: defend yourself, do not retaliate it.
Speaker 4: It was truly absurd.
Speaker 3: But you have to understand at every stage that has
Speaker 3: been the mantra of the Biden White House and the
Speaker 3: Democrats is they're undermining Israel's right to self defense. I
Speaker 3: think absolutely Israel should respond. It is responding forcefully. I
Speaker 3: expect them to respond significantly more forcefully. I don't anticipate
Speaker 3: that this is the only response we will see.
Speaker 4: And this may be.
Speaker 2: That was the question I was gonna ask you for
Speaker 2: just putting in context that people understand is we're recording
Speaker 2: this after eleven o'clock at night tonight. There I don't
Speaker 2: think there's anybody that believes that this is the end
Speaker 2: of the response from Israel. It's probably more like the
Speaker 2: beginning of the response.
Speaker 3: That's probably right, Although I say, we don't know what
Speaker 3: we will see what unfolds. But you know, it was
Speaker 3: really striking that when when the missiles and both ballistic
Speaker 3: missiles and cruise missiles and the drones over three hundred
Speaker 3: were launched from Iran, that there are a number of
Speaker 3: things that are really striking. Number one, a bunch of
Speaker 3: them never even made it to Israel, both because their
Speaker 3: technology was not great and also because they were shot
Speaker 3: down in the air. They were shot down number one,
Speaker 3: using Israel's missile defense, using iron dome and arrow two
Speaker 3: and three those systems. But number two, they were shot
Speaker 3: down with fighter jets. And let me say something extraordinary.
Speaker 3: So the fighter jets that were shooting him down. My
Speaker 3: understanding is you had Israeli fighter jets, but you also
Speaker 3: had American fighter jets that were assisting and shooting them down.
Speaker 3: But you also had and this is extraordinary, Saudy fighter
Speaker 3: jets and Jordanian fighter jets.
Speaker 1: Exactly why that's so significant.
Speaker 3: Look, if I'd have told you ten years ago or
Speaker 3: even five years ago that the Arabs would defend Israel
Speaker 3: in a military attack against it from Iran, that would
Speaker 3: have seen absurd. And it really is a testament. It's
Speaker 3: a testament to the incredible progress that occurred when Donald
Speaker 3: Trump was president, the peace that was flowering in the
Speaker 3: Middle East, the Abraham Accords, where we started to see
Speaker 3: the Arabs and Israelis coming together. And I'll tell you
Speaker 3: a big part of what brought them together was mutual
Speaker 3: concern over the danger Iran poses, and and that h
Speaker 3: that this is the fruit of of of what was
Speaker 3: planted during the Trump administration in the Abraham Accords. But
Speaker 3: that being said, it's still remarkable. I don't believe there
Speaker 3: is any precedent for Arabs in conflict in support of
Speaker 3: Israel and and and so that's that's really quite remarkable.
Speaker 3: And it does say something when when the Arab states
Speaker 3: in the Middle East in some ways may be more
Speaker 3: supportive of Israel than the Biden White House.
Speaker 2: Yeah, great point. And there's also another a question that
Speaker 2: I have for you. And as I was watching right
Speaker 2: before we were we were going to record on CNN,
Speaker 2: they were saying, well, now now that the world really
Speaker 2: has to be concerned and worried h of of a
Speaker 2: massive and they were using this these types of words.
Speaker 2: Massive retaliation from Iran should be expected because Iran has
Speaker 2: said so, They've said that they are going to unleash
Speaker 2: basically Holy Hell in response to what Israel has just done.
Speaker 2: And they said it's going to be a on a
Speaker 2: level that you know, basically no one's ever seen before.
Speaker 1: YadA, ya YadA. And then they said, you know.
Speaker 2: This is what the Biden administration had been warning Israel about.
Speaker 2: It is genuinely shocking to me as I was watching
Speaker 2: that before we got on here, to think you just
Speaker 2: want Israel to just keep taking it indefinitely and never
Speaker 2: defend themselves and never fight back and not hit strategic
Speaker 2: targets because of the threat that is being given by
Speaker 2: the same country that literally just attacked you. What world
Speaker 2: are they living in?
Speaker 3: Look in many ways, Joe Biden, the Democrats are more
Speaker 3: supportive of Iran right now than they are of Israel.
Speaker 3: And that's an astonishing statement. Israel is our closest ally
Speaker 3: in the Middle East. They share our values, They are
Speaker 3: an incredibly valuable military ally to the United States. There
Speaker 3: intelligence saves the lives of Americans. Their enemies are our enemies.
Speaker 3: And yet, as we've discussed at every stage, literally from
Speaker 3: the moment he was sworn in, Joe Biden and the
Speaker 3: apparatics in his administration have been undermining Israel from day one,
Speaker 3: and simultaneously they have been flooding money to Iran, billions
Speaker 3: of dollars. And just a couple of weeks ago, when
Speaker 3: I forced to vote on the Senate floor that we
Speaker 3: should not send billions of dollars to Iran, every single
Speaker 3: Democrat but one voted no. The Democrats keep look at
Speaker 3: it this way. They want to send money to Iran,
Speaker 3: and the Democrats are blocking sending money to Israel. That's extraordinary,
Speaker 3: and it is their radical base hates Israel. The anti Semitic,
Speaker 3: radical left that chance from the river to the sea.
Speaker 3: That is who the Democrat Party is terrified of. And
Speaker 3: it's who's setting their tune and so even their talking points.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: You know, look, let's go back to October seventh. Remember
Speaker 3: the night of October seventh, the Biden State Department tweeted
Speaker 3: out that Israel should not retaliate. That night, as twelve
Speaker 3: hundred Israelis were being murdered, as women and children were
Speaker 3: being raped, as some thirty Americans were being murdered, and
Speaker 3: more were being kidnapped, as hundreds of Israelis were being kidnapped,
Speaker 3: the Biden administration's immediate reaction was, do not retaliate. They
Speaker 3: did that on October seventh. They did it again on
Speaker 3: October eighth, Tony Blinken personally. So that was the reaction
Speaker 3: at the outset. And understand who started this war. It
Speaker 3: was Iran. Iran funds Hasbela, Iran controls Hasbela. They are
Speaker 3: in Iran proxy. The Wall Street Journal reported that the
Speaker 3: Hamas terrorists trained in Iran for October seventh. So it
Speaker 3: was Iran that invaded Israel and murdered twelve hundred Israelis.
Speaker 3: Imagine how America would react if that happened, and then
Speaker 3: it was Iran again who escalated directly firing missiles and
Speaker 3: drones from Iran into Israel. Of course Israel is going
Speaker 3: to defend itself and retaliate. It has to do so.
Speaker 3: And yet the Biden administration cannot refrain from repeating Iran's
Speaker 3: talking points of oh, well this is terrible, and now
Speaker 3: of course Iran is going to respond massively. How about
Speaker 3: having a president telling Iran we stand with Israel period
Speaker 3: the end. That's what Biden should be saying, but it's
Speaker 3: not what he's saying.
Speaker 2: You also have to wonder will this administration change course.
Speaker 2: And I've said this before you and I've had this
Speaker 2: conversation several times. I never root for the United States
Speaker 2: America to fail on national security issues, especially when it
Speaker 2: deals with foreign nations. Right, I don't care who the
Speaker 2: president is. I want Joe Biden to be successful in
Speaker 2: protecting and defending US always against oursaries as well as
Speaker 2: our allies. And he clearly has done a one eighty
Speaker 2: from what the Trump doctrine was foreign policy was and
Speaker 2: to stand with Ismaie like you just mentioned, no matter what,
Speaker 2: this is not working.
Speaker 3: This weak yes, and just just pause and ask yourself
Speaker 3: which was better peace and prosperity or war everywhere you look.
Speaker 3: That's the result of the Biden and foreign policy is
Speaker 3: war everywhere. That's the result of the Biden. Foreign policy
Speaker 3: is our enemies stronger, emboldened, and more threatening.
Speaker 2: So will they look at this and at some point
Speaker 2: do you believe that they may actually change course? Because
Speaker 2: I mean it sincerely when I say I want us
Speaker 2: to be safe and I want them to protect Israel.
Speaker 3: I think they are ideologues. I think they are self righteous.
Speaker 3: I think they are naive. I think they believe, like
Speaker 3: a bunch of college professors in the faculty lounge, that Iran,
Speaker 3: if we just give piece of chance, man, you know Iran,
Speaker 3: we don't have any right to tell Iran to have nukes.
Speaker 3: You know, So what if if they're crazy religious zealots
Speaker 3: who say they want to murder us, you know, if
Speaker 3: we're just nice to them, if we just give them
Speaker 3: a bunch of money, that they'll be our friends. Look,
Speaker 3: it is hopeless naivete, and they believe it like a religion.
Speaker 3: They keep doing it. Think of the the just how
Speaker 3: devoted you have to be to appeasement to Iran? To
Speaker 3: in the wake of October seventh, still refuse to enforce
Speaker 3: the oil sanctions today, yeah, this not enforce the oil sections.
Speaker 3: And by the way, it is also worth noting today
Speaker 3: on Friday, Biden is announcing massive sanctions against Alaska, our state,
Speaker 3: the National Petroleum Reserve. They are shutting down production in
Speaker 3: It is an incredibly rich petroleum reserve in Alaska, massive reserves.
Speaker 3: So explain to me how these anti American Marxist zelots
Speaker 3: can possibly justify they hate oil and gas in America.
Speaker 3: They're going to destroy jobs in America, They're gonna they're
Speaker 3: gonna drive up the cost of gasoline for Americans in America.
Speaker 3: But at the same time they're going to allow Iran
Speaker 3: to go to go from three hundred thousand barrels a
Speaker 3: day of oil to two million barrels of oil a day.
Speaker 3: That's what they're doing right now. And apparently Biden and
Speaker 3: the Democrats they only like oil and gas if it's
Speaker 3: produced by crazed Zelots who want to murder us and
Speaker 3: want to kill as many Israelis as possible.
Speaker 2: What you just said made me want to talk about
Speaker 2: funding for a second. What is sad is because the
Speaker 2: position that you just mentioned. The Biden administration is absolutely
Speaker 2: funding Iran and their needs. Yes, what we're not doing
Speaker 2: right now is giving Israel funding that they need, an
Speaker 2: aid in sport, they need, in military hardware that they
Speaker 2: need from the United States of America.
Speaker 1: How is that possible?
Speaker 3: Because the Democrat Party is captured by the radical left,
Speaker 3: and sadly the mainstream Democrat Party has turned against Israel.
Speaker 3: It's not just the fringe. It's not just ilhan Omar
Speaker 3: and Taleb and AOC, It's not just the whack jobs.
Speaker 3: It's Chuck Schumer. Chuck Schumer is the one that stood
Speaker 3: on the floor and demanded that Net and Yahoo be
Speaker 3: thrown out of office. The democratically elected leader of Israel,
Speaker 3: it's Joe Biden. Joe Biden is the one who orchestrated
Speaker 3: a resolution in the United Nations effective condemning Israel for
Speaker 3: not having an immediate cease fire.
Speaker 4: It's Nancy Pelosi who.
Speaker 3: Signed a letter demanding that America cut off weapons military
Speaker 3: weapons for Israel to defend itself. Those are not fringe Democrats.
Speaker 3: Those are the leading Democrats in office. And that's an
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Speaker 2: the aid package that Israel needs, what does it look
Speaker 2: like and how quickly are we going to get an
Speaker 2: answer for Israel, especially if this turns into a significant
Speaker 2: military conflict between them and Iran that goes back and forth.
Speaker 3: They need it now, Well, that's up in the air
Speaker 3: right now as we sit here tonight. The House is
Speaker 3: in the middle of debating that question right now, and
Speaker 3: they're trying to put together an aid package and voted out.
Speaker 3: They're putting together a big supplemental bill that they're talking about,
Speaker 3: including Israel Aid in that they're talking about, including Ukraine
Speaker 3: eight in, which is going to split some members of
Speaker 3: the House and some members of the Senate. They're talking about,
Speaker 3: including their bill forcing China to sell TikTok, which is
Speaker 3: a very important bill. It's going to be a big,
Speaker 3: complicated supplemental It's not clear right now that they're going
Speaker 3: to get the votes to pass any of it, but
Speaker 3: they are actively battling it out in the House right
Speaker 3: now as we speak.
Speaker 2: We'll keep you updated on this as it's going to
Speaker 2: be a very quick moving next I think week week
Speaker 2: and a half on these issues.
Speaker 1: We will cover it all for you.
Speaker 2: There's also another big warning and a moment of honesty
Speaker 2: that came from the Attorney General, Merrick Garland.
Speaker 1: He was in front.
Speaker 3: Hold hold on a second, did you just say honesty
Speaker 3: from the Attorney General, Merrit Garland?
Speaker 2: I know, I know, it's everybody get right with the
Speaker 2: Lord because it could be rapture alert.
Speaker 4: Holy cow, that is a sign of the end times.
Speaker 2: I was wondering if you were going to let me
Speaker 2: get away with that moment, and clearly see this is
Speaker 2: why I love doing this show because I was like.
Speaker 1: Am setting him up? And yes, you took, you.
Speaker 3: Took, Like the man is so smug and so dishonest.
Speaker 3: All right, So what did he say? I mean, I
Speaker 3: suppose even a stop clock is right twice a day?
Speaker 4: What what? What did he say? That that that that
Speaker 4: was actually honest?
Speaker 2: So the Attorney General was asked about how bad the
Speaker 2: the fetanol not only you know deaths and abuse are,
Speaker 2: but how much is coming across the border and how
Speaker 2: big of a threat does he sees? The Attorney General
Speaker 2: he was asked this question, and I want to play it.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's a little bit longer, but it's important
Speaker 2: because I want you to hear what he said. And
Speaker 2: the reason why I think this is so important is
Speaker 2: we also have to tie this back to the impeachment
Speaker 2: of the man. My orchists who Democrats refuse to move on.
Speaker 2: So at the same time they're doing that, you have
Speaker 2: the Attorney Joe going, yeah, yeah, we got a major
Speaker 2: problem with fetnah in this country.
Speaker 1: It's hell of a lot of people here. Take a listen.
Speaker 5: Senator Moran and I both mentioned in our opening statements,
Speaker 5: as did you the continuing fight against the opioid epidemic,
Speaker 5: substance misuse, the drug cartels. I continue to be very
Speaker 5: concerned about fentanyl use and poisoning. New Hampshire has lost
Speaker 5: too many people to fentanyl overdoses. Can you talk a
Speaker 5: little bit about the OJ's efforts to interdict these drugs
Speaker 5: and efforts to find a way to prosecute those responsible.
Speaker 6: Yes, Senator, I have said, and I deeply mean this,
Speaker 6: that fentanyl is the dead has a drug threat that
Speaker 6: this country has ever faced. I've met with families at
Speaker 6: the DEA, whose children, whose teenagers, whose infants, whose grandparents
Speaker 6: have died, mostly not even knowing that what they're taking
Speaker 6: is fentanyl, thinking it's another kind of prescription pill that
Speaker 6: they were able to get over the internet. We don't
Speaker 6: even refer to this as overdoses anymore, for this is
Speaker 6: drug poisoning, because that's what it is. So we are
Speaker 6: facing this with the urgency it requires.
Speaker 2: Let me just stop there. He says, we are facing
Speaker 2: this with the urgency that it requires. If this is
Speaker 2: as urgent as he just said, and I want to
Speaker 2: read that back to you, Centaer, I have said, and
Speaker 2: I deeply mean this, that fetnah is the deadliest drug
Speaker 2: threat that this country has ever faced. I've met with
Speaker 2: the families at the DEA, whose children, who'se teenagers, whose infants,
Speaker 2: whose grandparents have died, mostly not even knowing that what
Speaker 2: they were taking as ventnol, thinking it's another kind of
Speaker 2: a prescription pill that they are able to get over
Speaker 2: the internet. We don't even refer to this as overdoses anymore.
Speaker 2: This is drug poisoning, because that's what it is. So
Speaker 2: then he says that we are facing this with the
Speaker 2: urgency that it requires. If that was true, Senator, wouldn't
Speaker 2: you be then closing the southern border and not having
Speaker 2: it wide open like it is right now?
Speaker 3: Of course that this is not complicated. The drug traffickers
Speaker 3: are the human traffickers. It's the same drug cartels. In
Speaker 3: twenty eighteen, the drug cartels made five hundred million dollars
Speaker 3: from human trafficking. In twenty twenty two, they made thirteen
Speaker 3: billion dollars from human trafficking. That's a twenty six hundred
Speaker 3: percent increase. The people making fentanyl are getting extraordinarily rich
Speaker 3: under Joe Biden and Alejandro Majorcis and Merrick Garland's open borders.
Speaker 3: They are flooding the border, and the human trafficking and
Speaker 3: drug trafficking are completely intertwined. It's the same people doing it,
Speaker 3: it's the same cartels doing it. And the way they
Speaker 3: do it is they'll send a flood of migrants over
Speaker 3: one portion of the river, and border patrol will all
Speaker 3: go there. And while border patrol is dealing with the migrants.
Speaker 3: And by the way, because Biden's policy is catch and release,
Speaker 3: once border patrol apprehends a group, and let's be clear,
Speaker 3: the group is normally finding border patrol and turning themselves in,
Speaker 3: then the majority of agents are spending their time processing
Speaker 3: those migrants, or staying with them in the detention facilities,
Speaker 3: or getting them diapers, or getting them food, or caring
Speaker 3: for this massive influx. And so the percentage of agents
Speaker 3: on on the border that are actually deployed drops precipitously
Speaker 3: because the vast majority of the agents are processing migrants
Speaker 3: and doing administrative work. And then what the cartels do
Speaker 3: is a mile up the river, that's where they move
Speaker 3: the fetanyl across where the border patrol agents are dealing
Speaker 3: with the illegal immigrants, they move the fetanyl somewhere else.
Speaker 3: And so the two are very closely intertwined. And if
Speaker 3: Joe Biden and Mayorcis and Garland were willing to deport
Speaker 3: illegal immigrants and follow the law, what that would mean
Speaker 3: is that border patrol agents could be on the border
Speaker 3: and stop the fentanyl from coming in. But they can't.
Speaker 3: And I'll tell you, I'll give you some amazing stats.
Speaker 3: So do you know how much how much drugs were
Speaker 3: seized at the southern border in March in one month?
Speaker 3: How much of feanyl one three and eighty nine pounds?
Speaker 3: And understand, look, fetanyl is so powerful. Just a tiny
Speaker 3: grain or two is enough to kill you.
Speaker 1: Tell the story you told us a while ago.
Speaker 2: But I think it's important for people to understand that,
Speaker 2: just so that they have context. Fetnah is not a
Speaker 2: heavy drug, Okay, Like you see like a kilo of
Speaker 2: cocaine and it looks pretty heavy and pretty dense, and
Speaker 2: then you look at you know, a kilo for example,
Speaker 2: of marijuana. It's obviously a pretty big package. But there's
Speaker 2: talk about the grains when you met uh with the
Speaker 2: agents explaining just how little can kill you, and the
Speaker 2: story that you told with your own daughters using a
Speaker 2: sweeten low packet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is something that a DA agent told me,
Speaker 3: and he had me and several other people take out
Speaker 3: a packet of Sweet and Low and tear open the
Speaker 3: packet of Sweet and Low and dump dump all the
Speaker 3: contents out, empty all the contents. And then he said, okay,
Speaker 3: stick your pinky and the empty empty bag of Sweet
Speaker 3: and Low and you pull your pinky out, and there
Speaker 3: are two or three little grains that are on your pinky.
Speaker 3: He said, that's enough fatanyl to kill you, just the
Speaker 3: residue that's in the packet after you've emptied it. And
Speaker 3: so what I did with both my daughters is I
Speaker 3: got three packets of Sweet and Low and I tore
Speaker 3: one open.
Speaker 4: I had them to tear it open.
Speaker 3: I had them empty out the contents and then then
Speaker 3: do exactly that, because look, it's terrifying. My girls are
Speaker 3: thirteen and sixteen.
Speaker 4: They're good kids.
Speaker 3: But what is so frightening about this epidemic is it's
Speaker 3: not Look, it's one thing if you know a heroin
Speaker 3: junkie on the street who's abusing drugs for years and
Speaker 3: years and years, if they overdose, that's sad when anyone dies,
Speaker 3: but that's the result of extended conduct. What is terrifying
Speaker 3: about this crisis is the people who are dying are
Speaker 3: not drug addicts, and in many instances, they're not even
Speaker 3: drug users in the ordinary sense of things. They're a
Speaker 3: teenager or a young adult who goes to a party
Speaker 3: and they're at a party and someone says, hey, you
Speaker 3: want to try a xanax, want to try a percoset,
Speaker 3: You want to try you know, a riddlin, And look,
Speaker 3: should you take those drugs if they're not prescribed to
Speaker 3: you know? But a teenager doing that that didn't used
Speaker 3: to be a death sentence. Because if they get a
Speaker 3: pill that someone say god on the internet, and it
Speaker 3: happens to have fentanyl in it, they literally can drop dead.
Speaker 3: And that is happening over and over and over again.
Speaker 3: I'll give you an amazing stay.
Speaker 2: You go back to Garland's exact words, and I think
Speaker 2: it's important that people hear this as he described it.
Speaker 2: We don't even refer to this as an as an
Speaker 2: overdose or overdose anymore.
Speaker 1: This is drug poisoning because that's what it is.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: This is a point I've tried with my kids to
Speaker 3: emphasize it. But it's frightening because look, teenagers do stupid things,
Speaker 3: and it can be just one random And the reason
Speaker 3: why Garland is right to use the term poisoning because
Speaker 3: an overdose suggests a drug user that takes too much.
Speaker 3: And what's happening with feanyl is you have things that
Speaker 3: are laced with fate fetanyl that they don't know they're
Speaker 3: taking feentanyl. That's why it's a poisoning because taking a
Speaker 3: xanax pill will not kill you, but if there's fentanyl
Speaker 3: in it, and if there's a little bit too much,
Speaker 3: you can literally just drop dead right there. And here
Speaker 3: is the stat that is amazing and terrifying. Right now today,
Speaker 3: fetanyl is the number one cause of death for Americans
Speaker 3: age eighteen to forty five, number one, number one, more
Speaker 3: than car accidents, more than heart disease, more than anything.
Speaker 1: By the way, did you say to forty five?
Speaker 4: Eighteen to forty five?
Speaker 2: So what that means is if you remember at the
Speaker 2: end of last year, it was eighteen to thirty nine,
Speaker 2: so that it's expanded now to forty five.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if the numbers have expanded or just
Speaker 3: the category that I'm looking at, but eighteen to forty
Speaker 3: five it's the number one cause of death.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: And here let me give you a quote from Biden's
Speaker 3: DEA administrator and Milgrim. She said, cartels are quote killing
Speaker 3: Americans with fentanyl at catastrophic and record rates like we've
Speaker 3: never seen before. And that begs the question, then, why
Speaker 3: the hell are you making cartels incredibly rich and allowing
Speaker 3: them to bring ten point four million illegal immigrants into
Speaker 3: this country?
Speaker 1: Senator, I'm not sure what's worse.
Speaker 2: Is it the fact that we have an Attorney general
Speaker 2: that is genuinely being honest now with the American people
Speaker 2: about the threat, talking about this being the number one
Speaker 2: killer for those forty five to eighteen in this country
Speaker 2: and knowing it and publicizing it, and then yet they're
Speaker 2: not doing a damn thing to stop the flow of
Speaker 2: the drug coming across the southern border or securing that order.
Speaker 2: So what is the takeaway for the American people? We
Speaker 2: know that you're dying at record rates, but we need
Speaker 2: illegal immigrants to come into fundomly change this country. So
Speaker 2: we're willing to sacrifice your lives, and your kids' lives,
Speaker 2: and your grandparents' lives.
Speaker 3: So, Ben, I'm going to give you the very sad takeaway.
Speaker 3: The Democrats simply do not care. Now, that sounds harsh,
Speaker 3: that sounds political, But what other conclusion can you draw
Speaker 3: when they continue to put in place the policies that
Speaker 3: enriches the cartels and that allows them to keep flooding
Speaker 3: this country with fentanyl. And you know there's some irony
Speaker 3: about that exchange. So the senator who was questioning Merrick
Speaker 3: Garland was Jeene Shaheen. Jean Shaheen is a Democrat from
Speaker 3: New Hampshire. Literally the day before yesterday, Jean Shaheen sat
Speaker 3: on the Senate floor along with every single Democrat and
Speaker 3: voted to shut down, to not have a trial on
Speaker 3: Alajandro Majorcis, to block even one word of testimony, to
Speaker 3: block any and all evidence of the invasion at our
Speaker 3: southern border, any and all evidence of the fentanyl poisonings.
Speaker 3: That was a major element of why Mayorcis was impeached,
Speaker 3: and every single Democrat voted straight party line. Look the
Speaker 3: vote on Wednesday, you need to understand how dramatic and
Speaker 3: unprecedented it was. And let me say on two fronts.
Speaker 3: Number one, twenty two times in our nation's history, the
Speaker 3: House of Representatives has voted to impeach an individual and
Speaker 3: has sent articles of impeachment to the Senate twenty two
Speaker 3: times prior to yesterday. The twenty one times in every
Speaker 3: single time when the Senate had jurisdiction, in other words,
Speaker 3: when the person who had been impeached hadn't died or
Speaker 3: resigned from office. Every single time, the Senate held a trial,
Speaker 3: hurt evidence, and then the Senators adjudicated the case, voted
Speaker 3: guilty or not guilty. Yesterday is the first time in
Speaker 3: over two hundred years of our nation's history with the
Speaker 3: Senate refused to do its job, and it defied the Constitution.
Speaker 3: And listen, I remember well, I was standing on the
Speaker 3: Senate floor when Harry Reid, then the Senate majority leader
Speaker 3: in twenty thirteen, the Democrat exercised the nuclear option and
Speaker 3: blew up the Senate filibuster for appointees, and it did
Speaker 3: did enormous damage to the Senate. It broke the rules
Speaker 3: of the Senate. And I remember turning and turning to
Speaker 3: Amy Klobuchar, Democrat senator from Minnesota at the time, and
Speaker 3: I told her, I said, Amy, you are going to
Speaker 3: regret this. This is going to result in a lot
Speaker 3: more judges and justices in the mold of antonin Scalia
Speaker 3: and Clarence Thomas and every Democrat. Nonetheless, Lemmings jumped off
Speaker 3: that cliff, and ironically, the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe
Speaker 3: versus Wide never would have happened if Harry Reid the
Speaker 3: Democrats had not nuked the filibuster in twenty thirteen. That
Speaker 3: was the direct result, because there's no way on earth
Speaker 3: that Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Cony Barrett, and probably even Neil
Speaker 3: Gorsich could have gotten sixty votes to get confirmed, which
Speaker 3: is what would have been required if the filibuster still existed.
Speaker 3: And what happened yesterday is the Democrats nuked not the
Speaker 3: Senate rules, but the Constitution, the Constitution's power of impeachment
Speaker 3: for the Senate. And as a result of yesterday, never
Speaker 3: again will there be an impeachment trial when the Senate
Speaker 3: is of the same party as the president. And so,
Speaker 3: by the way, this could happen less than a year
Speaker 3: from now. I think it is likely that Donald Trump
Speaker 3: is going to win in November.
Speaker 4: I hope he does.
Speaker 3: I think it is likely that Republicans are going to
Speaker 3: take the Senate.
Speaker 4: I hope we do.
Speaker 3: It is also possible, unfortunately, that Democrats take the House.
Speaker 3: I hope they don't, but it is a real possibility.
Speaker 3: It's a very very close majority if that happens. If
Speaker 3: we start January of next year with a Democrat House,
Speaker 3: a Republican Senate, and Trump in the White House, I'm
Speaker 3: here to predict what's going to happen. The Democrats are
Speaker 3: going to impeach Donald Trump again a third time, and
Speaker 3: who knows, maybe a fourth and a fifth time. They
Speaker 3: hate him. They'll do it again if they have a
Speaker 3: majority in the House. But you know what will happen.
Speaker 3: If they do that, they'll send it to the Senate,
Speaker 3: and I guarantee you a Senate, Republicans are going to say, nope,
Speaker 3: we're not having a trial. We're going to follow the
Speaker 3: Democrat president. What's good for the goose is good for
Speaker 3: the gander. So no trial for you. That's a bad thing.
Speaker 3: And by the way, it is worth noting that was
Speaker 3: the scenario for the first Trump impeachment. The first Trump impeachment,
Speaker 3: there was a Democrat House, a Republican Senate, and obviously
Speaker 3: Trump was in the White House, and we could have
Speaker 3: done what Chuck Schumer and the Democrats did yesterday, but
Speaker 3: we didn't. We could have just thrown it out at
Speaker 3: the outset, but we said, no, we have a constitutional
Speaker 3: responsibility to hold a trial. We think this impeachment is garbage,
Speaker 3: but we have a responsibility to respect the constitution and
Speaker 3: allow the house managers to present their case and then
Speaker 3: to make it adjudication.
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Speaker 3: Well, at one pm yesterday we convened on the Senate floor.
Speaker 3: This is pursue it to the Senate rules. When we
Speaker 3: enter impeachment, we were all sworn in and then we
Speaker 3: all sign the oath Book, one at a time. We
Speaker 3: signed the oath Book. And what is supposed to happen
Speaker 3: next is that we adopt a resolution laying out a
Speaker 3: trial schedule of how the House managers are going to
Speaker 3: present their case. But instead what happened is Chuck Schumer
Speaker 3: rose on a constitutional point of order, and a constitutional
Speaker 3: point of order as you stand and say, what is
Speaker 3: on the floor violates the Constitution. And he raised a
Speaker 3: constitutional point of order and he said Article one, the
Speaker 3: first article sent over by the House does not allege
Speaker 3: a high crime or misdemeanor. And so what happened next
Speaker 3: is we voted on whether Article one alleged a high
Speaker 3: crime or misdemeanor. High crime and misdemeanor is what you
Speaker 3: need to be able to impeach someone. Now, Article one
Speaker 3: focused on Alejandro Majorcis's defiance of federal law, that that
Speaker 3: that that he was refusing to follow explicit and clear
Speaker 3: federal law, federal law that that says that that illegal
Speaker 3: immigrants shall be detained, that that illegal immigrants with criminal
Speaker 3: conviction shall be detained and shall be deported over and
Speaker 3: over again. Immigration law is mandatory. It says shall shall,
Speaker 3: shall shall, and he's defying it at a level it's
Speaker 3: never happened before. It's not that he's bad at his job.
Speaker 3: It's that he is utterly flouting and defying federal law.
Speaker 3: And that that's the first article of impeachment. And they argued, well,
Speaker 3: actually they didn't argue. They just made a motion that
Speaker 3: it's not a high crime or misdemeanor. They presented no argument.
Speaker 3: They they did not give a legal argument, they did
Speaker 3: not write a brief, they did not present an argument.
Speaker 4: And and I was the.
Speaker 3: Person who who who raised the lead objection to that. Now,
Speaker 3: under the impeachment rules, you can't debate on the Senate floor.
Speaker 3: You're supposed to be silent because you're jurors. I'm just saying,
Speaker 3: why is that? But that makes sense because your juror
Speaker 3: not a lawyer. I guess presenting right, right, And so
Speaker 3: I made a motion for us to move into executive session.
Speaker 3: If we move into executive session, we throw the reporters out,
Speaker 3: we turned the TV cameras off, but then we can
Speaker 3: debate it. And I said, look, you're making a major
Speaker 3: legal point. You presented no argument, and what you're saying
Speaker 3: is quality is fundamentally wrong.
Speaker 4: And I'll tell you the amazing thing is.
Speaker 3: The idea that refusing to follow the law, defying the
Speaker 3: law is not a high crime and misdemeanor is not impeachable.
Speaker 3: It is contrary to the original understanding of the Constitution.
Speaker 3: Joseph Story, who was a Supreme Court justice, one of
Speaker 3: the leading constitutional scholars right at the very beginning of
Speaker 3: our country, and his commentaries in the Constitution are widely
Speaker 3: cited for understanding what the founding generation believed the Constitution
Speaker 3: to mean. And he talked about he wrote at length
Speaker 3: about high crimes and misdemeanors, and he gave lots of examples,
Speaker 3: including the Lord Admiral refusing to protect the high seas,
Speaker 3: and he said, that is a high crime or misdemeanor,
Speaker 3: and that is virtually analogous, very closely analogous to the
Speaker 3: head of Homeland Security refusing to secure the border. It's
Speaker 3: the same principle of allowing lawless piracy to threaten and
Speaker 3: invade America. So Joseph's story and the founding generation understood
Speaker 3: this to be a high crime and misdemeanor. And amazingly enough,
Speaker 3: Ben the Biden Justice Department argued in front of the U. S.
Speaker 3: Supreme Court that impeachment was the remedy for the Biden
Speaker 3: administration refusing to follow the law. So in Texas versus
Speaker 3: the United States, Texas sued the Biden administration for refusing
Speaker 3: to secure the border, and the Supreme Court ended up
Speaker 3: agreeing with the Biden administration and saying, well, Texas can't
Speaker 3: sue and the Biden doj The Solicitor General for Biden argued, look,
Speaker 3: if you have a cabinet member who's refusing to follow
Speaker 3: the law, Congress has remedies, including impeachment. And so I
Speaker 3: stood up and said, listen, the Biden Department of Justice
Speaker 3: argued last year this was impeachable. It didn't matter. Every
Speaker 3: single Democrat, all of them. And by the way, even
Speaker 3: the so called moderates Joe Manchin and Cursten Cinema, they
Speaker 3: voted also Nope, not a high crime or misdemeanor. And
Speaker 3: as a result, because they had to have a majority,
Speaker 3: the point of order carried. They got fifty one votes
Speaker 3: for it. And so the first article was thrown out,
Speaker 3: and then they did it again on the second one.
Speaker 3: And I'll tell you the second one is even more astonishing.
Speaker 3: So as a result of the first vote, it is
Speaker 3: now the position of Democrats that any cabinet member can
Speaker 3: refuse to follow the law and defy the law and
Speaker 3: utterly ignore the law, and you can't impeach him for it.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's an astonishing and dangerous proposition in Democrat
Speaker 3: looney land. But the second article of impeachment was for
Speaker 3: breach of trust, and it focused on majorcas repeatedly lying
Speaker 3: to Congress under oath about what was happening at the border.
Speaker 3: And again Chuck Schumer rose on a point of order
Speaker 3: and said this is not a high crime or misdemeanor.
Speaker 3: Now mind you, they're saying lying under oath to Congress
Speaker 3: is not impeachable. It is a felony. It is a
Speaker 3: felony that you can serve jail time for. And it's
Speaker 3: worth remembering Bill Clinton was impeached for perjury. The House
Speaker 3: impeached him, and what did the Senate do. They didn't
Speaker 3: throw it out, they didn't dismiss it. The House managers
Speaker 3: presented the case, they hurt and conducted a trial, and
Speaker 3: ultimately the Senate acquitted him. But they did their duty
Speaker 3: to hold a trial. And actually before that, there's someone
Speaker 3: I'm sure you've never heard of, a guy named Walter Nixon.
Speaker 4: You know who Walter Nixon was?
Speaker 1: Who is that?
Speaker 3: Walter Nixon was a federal judge. He was a federal
Speaker 3: judge actually from Mississippi. You're an all MS grad. He
Speaker 3: was a federal judge from Mississippi. But he was not
Speaker 3: a good guy. And he was convicted a perjury before
Speaker 3: a grand jury. And you know what happened. The Congress
Speaker 3: impeached him, The House impeached him, the Senate convicted him,
Speaker 3: and he was removed as a federal judge for perjury.
Speaker 3: So even though it was clear, there was clear precedent
Speaker 3: that yes, perjury, lying under oath is a high crime
Speaker 3: or misdemeanor, it is impeachable, every single Senate Democrat voted
Speaker 3: that it's not a high crime or misdemeanor. So now apparently,
Speaker 3: again in Democrat Wonderland, lying to Congress is AOK. And understand,
Speaker 3: this was not about the Constitution. They didn't care. They
Speaker 3: had no arguments as to why the Constitution said this.
Speaker 3: This was about power, and this was about protecting their
Speaker 3: political backsides because they're terrified of the American people hearing
Speaker 3: what is happening at the border, the fentanyl, the deaths,
Speaker 3: the rapes, the children being abused. They do not want
Speaker 3: that evidence before the American people. And I'll say this
Speaker 3: is a final point to wrap up. Do you want
Speaker 3: to see proof of why this is all political and
Speaker 3: why the Democrats did what they did?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: You know what, you know what ms you know what,
Speaker 3: MSNBC and CNN covered all day yesterday, Trump, the Trump Trial,
Speaker 3: Stormy Daniels, ooh smut lying processing Like apparently there was
Speaker 3: no impeachment proceeding in the Senate.
Speaker 4: Nothing happened. There's no border crisis.
Speaker 3: The only thing they would cover is is the attack
Speaker 3: on Trump.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
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