1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: Welcome to his verdict with Center Ted Cruz Weekend Review. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:05,920 Speaker 1: Ben Ferguson with you, and here are the three stories 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 1: that you may have missed that we talked about this week. 4 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: First up to decline of Joe Biden, now on tape 5 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: with her report coming out, and you're going to be 6 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 1: shocked what you hear. Will have the latest on that 7 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: in just a moment. Also, Donald Trump signs a historic 8 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: Take It Down Act that will protect so many people 9 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 1: from revenge pornography. Will give the details as well. And finally, 10 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: Tom Homan, he is our guest on holding politicians accountable 11 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 1: for helping illegal immigrants get away with their crimes. It's 12 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 1: the weekend Review and it starts right now. I actually 13 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:41,880 Speaker 1: feel bad for Joe Biden. I think it's very clear 14 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: that people were taking advantage of him. I think this 15 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:45,479 Speaker 1: is a form of elder abuse. 16 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 2: No, that was sad. 17 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 1: It is It is absolutely sad. That is the president 18 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:51,599 Speaker 1: United States of America and the fact that there were 19 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 1: some of you who wanted to keep their power. Whoever 20 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: those five people were that they did this to him. 21 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 2: Look and he do you remember the question that was 22 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 2: in the front to that, what was it? It was 23 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 2: where are you're keeping classified documents? And he went down 24 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 2: a four minute recollection of losing his son tragically, and 25 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 2: there's nothing sadder than a parent burying a child. And 26 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,319 Speaker 2: then that's certainly a personal tragedy that Joe Biden has 27 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 2: had more than his fair share of. But he was 28 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 2: not able to even answer the question. Well, all right, 29 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 2: here's another segment of her tapes. Listen, listen to this 30 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 2: next excerpt. 31 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 3: As a memo, mister president, was this something that you 32 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 3: consciously kept after your term as vice president? Is this 33 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 3: something that he wanted to hold on too? 34 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 4: I do recall did I have this in my position 35 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 4: to spend up? 36 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 3: Yes, And to give you some context for this, mister president, 37 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 3: he was found in front of this notebook that's on 38 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 3: the first page and. 39 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 5: To what was founded in the library at the lake House. 40 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 4: He one of the parentswer you don't I don't recall 41 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:11,359 Speaker 4: how I got back. I mean, I don't recall how 42 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 4: I got back in the book because I sent it 43 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 4: to the president. 44 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 6: I gave it to the president, and this looks like 45 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 6: the original. I don't think there's maybe there's a copy. 46 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:24,680 Speaker 4: Made it, but I don't think it was faxt just oh, okay, 47 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 4: that's why. 48 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:27,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, alright, no, I got. 49 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:29,920 Speaker 4: I wasn't sure how I got how I whether I 50 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 4: gay handed the president. 51 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 6: It was fact to the president which. 52 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 4: I had to copy, right, Okay, I had the reason 53 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 4: and I just put it in the book and that 54 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:38,639 Speaker 4: was it. 55 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 5: Okay. 56 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 3: Were you awayer that you had kept it after your 57 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 3: returning vice president? 58 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 5: Did you know that you had it? 59 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 4: I I don't know that I knew, would wouldn't when 60 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 4: it's time something I would have started to think. 61 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:58,239 Speaker 5: About the reason I asked, is it's. 62 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 3: Been written it out about Woodward about it in one 63 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 3: of his books, Jewels that would cover, wrote about it 64 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 3: in his biography or you. So that's that's the reason 65 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 3: I asked. If it was something that he wanted to 66 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 3: hang on to you he cause he was gonna be. 67 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 6: Such reporting or his it's gonna be subjet reporting. 68 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:18,920 Speaker 4: But I I wanted to hang I guess I wanted 69 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 4: to hang on to it just preposterity setting. I mean 70 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 4: that this was my position on Afghanistan. I I've been 71 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 4: a view from a historical standpoints that there are certain 72 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 4: points in history, world history where fundamental things change, usually technology, 73 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 4: for example, without Gutenberg's pretty pressed Europe gonna be a 74 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 4: very different place, literally a different place, because countries would 75 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 4: not have known what what what was happened to another 76 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 4: country on the parts of the country. You know, Uh 77 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 4: think about a stupid idea, a notion Nixon had probably 78 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 4: been unpresident or you to television where he sweaty is 79 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 4: I'm I'm used to say the sweating is so profusely 80 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 4: in that debate. A lot of people thought he won 81 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 4: the debate, but he lost the debate because of his demeanor. 82 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 6: The So there's a lot of things that I think are. 83 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 4: Fundamentally changing how the international society's function, and that related 84 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 4: a lot to technology and one of the. 85 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:30,599 Speaker 6: Things that I was in the view that. 86 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 4: A lot has changed in terms of everything from the 87 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 4: Internet to to the way which we communicate with one 88 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 4: another to that that is fundamentally older built. 89 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 6: I've had this discussion with the press is for that, 90 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 6: and I mean, that's that's what I wanted to do. 91 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 4: I I uh, nothing to do with that fancy. 92 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 5: And Mark just really quickly, I probably believe. 93 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 7: I just really would like to avoid, for the purpose 94 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 7: of a Cleton record, getting into specuative areas. When the 95 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 7: President responded and said, I don't recall intending to. 96 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:09,359 Speaker 5: Keep this memo. 97 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 7: You then said, well, you know, might you have thought 98 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 7: it was important to keep him whatever, And he said, well, 99 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 7: I guess I couldn't. 100 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:18,720 Speaker 5: His recollection, as I understand. 101 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 7: It is, he does not recall specifically intending to keep 102 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 7: this memo after you left the vice presidency. 103 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 5: And I want that to. 104 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:27,039 Speaker 7: Be I want these questions to be as clearly answered 105 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 7: and recorded. 106 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 5: On the transfer it as possible. I bet we should 107 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:30,479 Speaker 5: take a great piece. 108 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: There's one thing that's consistent. They wanted to take a break, 109 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: and you had the questions coming in in such a 110 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 1: kind way like this is not what I was expecting. 111 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 2: So let me say legally that exchange is very important. 112 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,680 Speaker 2: So this is a classified document on Afghanistan. I don't 113 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:51,920 Speaker 2: actually know the precise details of the document, but it's 114 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 2: a classified document in Afghanistan that he had in a 115 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:58,720 Speaker 2: non secure location, which is a criminal violation. Is the 116 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 2: violation they were charging. Right then, the Biden Justice Department 117 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 2: was prosecuting Donald Trump for doing exactly that. And the 118 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 2: prosecutor asked him, so did you intend to keep this document? 119 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 2: And he's like, I don't know, I don't and immediately 120 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 2: his lawyer jumps in. Your answer is you don't know. 121 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:17,600 Speaker 8: Now. 122 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,720 Speaker 2: His lawyer's been a good lawyer there, because this is 123 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 2: all about establishing the men's raya the mental status to 124 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 2: be guilty of the crime. But then Biden goes on 125 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 2: and says, you know, well, why did you keep it. 126 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 2: It's been reported, it's been in this book, it's that book. 127 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 2: And he says, well, I kept it for posterity. It 128 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:38,160 Speaker 2: was important to have, and his lawyer comes in at 129 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 2: the end, he's like, oh, crap, oh crap. You just 130 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:43,040 Speaker 2: admitted that you did it on purpose, and you kept 131 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:45,840 Speaker 2: it because you wanted to be able to tell a 132 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 2: really good story about Joe Biden, and you wanted to 133 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 2: lead classified information to reporters, and you needed the memo 134 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:53,159 Speaker 2: to do it. And he admits that, and then his 135 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 2: reporter at the end, his lawyer at the end tries 136 00:06:56,279 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 2: to clean that up. That exchange has enormous legal significance. 137 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 2: Had doj not concluded that the sitting president of the 138 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:09,359 Speaker 2: United States was incompetent to stand trial, let me repeat 139 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 2: that sentence, because it's an astonishing one. Had doj not 140 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 2: concluded that the sitting president is incompetent to stand trial. 141 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 2: That exchange would have featured prominently in the criminal trial 142 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 2: convicting him of violating that law. 143 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 1: You look at now what we're seeing with this herd tape, 144 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 1: and I go back to accountability. There are clearly people 145 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: that were helping cover this up. They were taking advantage 146 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 1: of Joe Biden. I think his family obviously was in 147 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 1: on this as well. They wanted the power whoever the 148 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: five people are. The question I ask you is, how 149 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: the hell do we find out who the five people are? 150 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 1: And what is Congress's role play in this to make 151 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 1: sure it never happens again. 152 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 2: There should absolutely be congressional hearings. We need an answer. 153 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 2: The media ought to do its job and report. Want 154 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 2: to play one more excerpt from the her tapes. L 155 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 2: listen to this final excerpt went. 156 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 6: To Mongolia and UH and the Great Pictures. 157 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 4: I unfortunately embarrassed they held out a leader of Mongolia. 158 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 6: They were shown they were doing, ay what they would 159 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 6: do at the time of the innovasion. 160 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 4: Of the Mongols into Europe and UH fourteen in the 161 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 4: UH eight hundreds and and. 162 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 6: So around in the middle of nowhere, and they're looking 163 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 6: up and the aile and see this tiny mine. 164 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 4: And I was a twenty mile horse race with all 165 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 4: these kids under the age of sixteen out of bareback 166 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 4: racing to come down. 167 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:39,719 Speaker 6: And you know they're sumer wrestlers and doing everything they do. 168 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:43,720 Speaker 4: And uh so they walked over and they had uh target, 169 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 4: big bail, say, hey, a hundred yards away, and these 170 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:51,719 Speaker 4: guerrillas were, you know, taking shots, and uh, I think 171 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 4: as an embarrassed marriage I would make a point. 172 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 6: But there handed the bow and arrow. I'm not a 173 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 6: bad archer, but I found that word. I can pull 174 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 6: it back. 175 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:05,680 Speaker 5: True and luck I. 176 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 6: Ain't the target. I really get bills of Hayes, right, 177 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 6: twenty bills a hey with a. 178 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 5: Big target, and. 179 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 6: So I didn't meet any but I turned a primer 180 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 6: shandon to hear. 181 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 2: So, look, if Genghis Khan, if Genghis Khan comes comes in, 182 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:34,640 Speaker 2: if if we face the Mongol Horde, know that that 183 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 2: Joe Biden is ready to fire his bow and arrow. Look, 184 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 2: there are a lot of things you can say about 185 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 2: this interview, but it's very clear why Democrats did not 186 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:48,560 Speaker 2: want this release before the election. 187 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 1: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, 188 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 1: you can go back and listen to the full podcast 189 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 1: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two, Senaer, 190 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 1: Let's talk about and this other incredible moment that happened 191 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:04,559 Speaker 1: this week at the White House. Donald Trump signed to 192 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:06,599 Speaker 1: Take It Down Act into law. It's something that you 193 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:11,079 Speaker 1: championed and remind people what this law is intent and 194 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: why it is such an important base of legislation to 195 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 1: protect not only young people and minors, but really anyone 196 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 1: from just evil and hateful revenge from an ex. 197 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 2: Well, this is legislation that I authored that President Trump 198 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 2: signed into law this week. Actually he signed it into 199 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:30,439 Speaker 2: law in the Rose Garden and a big ceremony in 200 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:32,319 Speaker 2: the Rose Garden. I've done a lot of bill signing 201 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:35,560 Speaker 2: ceremonies in the Oval Office. This first time I've been 202 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:38,719 Speaker 2: in the Rose Garden because you had victim groups and 203 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 2: victim advocates and people who have been victims of non 204 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 2: consensual explicit imagery. 205 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:44,319 Speaker 8: Now what is that? 206 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 2: That's really two different things. Number One, so called revenge porn. 207 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 2: So if you have a boyfriend and girlfriend and they're 208 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 2: in a relationship and they take explicit pictures or videos 209 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,199 Speaker 2: and then they have a breakup and one or the 210 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 2: other is mad and they say, Okay, I'm gonna stick 211 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:02,199 Speaker 2: it to you. I'm gonna put this out for the 212 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 2: whole world to see. And it is an utterly grotesque 213 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 2: violation of privacy. Nobody has the right to do that 214 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:12,320 Speaker 2: to somebody else, and it's something we're seeing happening more 215 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:16,199 Speaker 2: and more often. There's a second manifestation that is new, 216 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 2: and it has to deal with technology, which is more 217 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:22,840 Speaker 2: and more we are seeing people use AI artificial intelligence 218 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 2: to create deep fakes and deep fakes where they appear 219 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:29,959 Speaker 2: to be either a picture or a video of a 220 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 2: real person, but it's utterly fake. And so they make 221 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 2: and naked or explicit image of someone and put it out. 222 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 2: And the incidence of deep fakes last year increased three 223 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 2: thousand percent, and over ninety percent of the victims of 224 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 2: deep fake explicit imagery are women or teenage girls, and 225 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:54,559 Speaker 2: so it is growing massively. And so the Take It 226 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:57,120 Speaker 2: Down Act is legislation that I introduce that makes it 227 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 2: a crime, a federal felony to post non consensual intimate images, 228 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:06,960 Speaker 2: either real pictures or deep fakes. And secondly, it puts 229 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 2: a federal statutory obligation on tech platforms to take the 230 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:14,959 Speaker 2: pictures down, to take the videos down, because the platforms 231 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,720 Speaker 2: have been horrifable responding to victims. They ignore victims, they 232 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 2: leave the images up, and so the victim ends up 233 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 2: being being victimized over and over and over again by 234 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:27,439 Speaker 2: the images staying out there. And so To Take It 235 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:30,440 Speaker 2: Down Act puts a legal obligation that when the victim 236 00:12:30,559 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 2: notifies them, hey, that's me, that's an explicit image of me, 237 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:36,679 Speaker 2: and you don't have my consent to put it up, 238 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:40,719 Speaker 2: they have to take it down. This legislation I introduced 239 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:44,959 Speaker 2: with Amy Klobuchar, Democrat from Minnesota, and we passed it 240 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:46,960 Speaker 2: through the Senate. We passed it unanimously. It was one 241 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 2: hundred and nothing. And then the House took it up 242 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 2: and passed it with an overwhelming bipartisan majority. And President 243 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 2: Trump signed it in the law. And give a listen 244 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:58,920 Speaker 2: to what President Trump said this week in the Rose 245 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 2: Garden as he signed the Take It Down Act into law. 246 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 5: Today. 247 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 9: It's my honor to officially sign they Take It Down 248 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:07,640 Speaker 9: Act into law. It's a big thing, very important, so 249 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:11,199 Speaker 9: horrible what takes place. This will be the first ever 250 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:16,960 Speaker 9: federal law to combat the distribution of explicit imaginary posted 251 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 9: without subjects consent, take horrible pictures, and I guess sometimes 252 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 9: even make up the pictures and they post it without 253 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:29,319 Speaker 9: consent or anything else. And very importantly, this includes for 254 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 9: forgeries generated by artificial intelligence known as deep fakes. We've 255 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 9: all heard about deep fakes. I have all the time, 256 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 9: but I don't nobody does anything. I asked, Pam, can 257 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 9: you help me, Pam, she says no, I'm too busy, 258 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 9: too busy doing other things. 259 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:43,480 Speaker 6: Don't worry. 260 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 9: You'll survive. But a lot of people don't survive. That's 261 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 9: true and so horrible. With the rise of aiimage generation, 262 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 9: countless women have been harassed with deep fakes and other 263 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:58,680 Speaker 9: explicit images distributed against their will. This is the wrong 264 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:02,559 Speaker 9: and it's just a so horribly wrong, and it's a 265 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 9: very abusive situation, like in some cases people have never 266 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 9: seen before. And today we're making it totally illegal, sinater. 267 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:13,839 Speaker 1: One of the things I just I love about this 268 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 1: legislation is the fact that not only is it bipartisan, 269 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 1: but you had the first lady who really got involved 270 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 1: in this as well. It was important to her and 271 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 1: that made it I think even easier to bridge the gap. 272 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:28,120 Speaker 2: Well, we did the First Lady became very active in 273 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 2: pushing this bill. She reached out out to me and 274 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 2: said she wanted to help get it over the finish line. 275 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 2: So last year we passed it out of the Senate 276 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 2: one hundred to nothing, and the House failed to take 277 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 2: it up last year, so it did not pass last year, 278 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 2: and so we got to this year to the new Congress. 279 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 2: I passed it through the Senate again one hundred to nothing, 280 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 2: and the real battle was to get it to rise 281 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 2: up the priority list of House leadership. And so when 282 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:57,320 Speaker 2: the First Lady called my office and said she wanted 283 00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 2: to help, what I did is I invited her to 284 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 2: come the Capitol Hill for a roundtable where she could 285 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 2: hear from the victims. And also at that roundtable was 286 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 2: the Speaker of the House and Steve Scalise, the Majority Leader, 287 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 2: and Brett Guthrie, who's the committee chairman in the House. 288 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 2: And when the First Lady asked them, will you please 289 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 2: pass this into law, they committed to her they would. 290 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 2: And this was the day before the State of the 291 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 2: Union address, and you may remember the State of the 292 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 2: Union address, Milania was sitting with a teenage girl from Texas, 293 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 2: Elliston Barry, and President Trump told her story in the 294 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 2: State of the Union and called on Congress to pass 295 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 2: this bill. And I'll tell you it's actually it's a 296 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:45,440 Speaker 2: fascinating story of how this bill came to pass because 297 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 2: it originates with one teenage girl in Texas, Elliston Barry. 298 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 2: She's from North Texas, from Aledo, Texas, and a year ago, 299 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:58,040 Speaker 2: she was fourteen, and she was in ninth grade and 300 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 2: she woke up one morning and her was blowing up 301 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 2: with texts from her friends because a classmate of hers 302 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 2: had taken a perfectly innocent picture of her from social 303 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 2: media and had used an app online that he had 304 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 2: found to create a deep fake and then sent what 305 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 2: appeared to be naked pictures of Elliston to all of 306 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 2: her ninth grade classmates. And so she was in tears. Listen, 307 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 2: it is hard to be a teenager. I'm the father 308 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:28,480 Speaker 2: of two teenage girls. I know the pressure that is 309 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 2: on teenage girls. It's much harder to be a teenager 310 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 2: today than when you and I were teenager's ben and 311 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:40,720 Speaker 2: this was just just horrific. Well, what happened is her mom, Anna. Look, 312 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 2: Elliston and Anna are are constituents, They're Texans, so Anna 313 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:47,560 Speaker 2: picked up the phone and called my office and said, hey, look, 314 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 2: you're my senator, can you help my daughter? 315 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: And my staff. 316 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 2: To their credit, they elevated this to me and they 317 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,520 Speaker 2: told me what had happened Elliston, and this is happening 318 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 2: more and more all over the country. And so I said, look, 319 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 2: let's draft legislation to fix this, to address the problem. 320 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 2: And so we did it. And it was it was 321 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 2: because of Elliston that we drafted it. But as I said, 322 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:15,359 Speaker 2: it's happening all over the country. Well, Elliston came to 323 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 2: DC the day we announced the bill last year for 324 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:21,480 Speaker 2: the press conference, and I sat down and met with Elliston. 325 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 2: I met with her mom in my office, and in 326 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:25,520 Speaker 2: the course of the meeting, I asked, I said, hey, 327 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:29,120 Speaker 2: what happened to the pictures? And her mom said, it's 328 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:31,119 Speaker 2: the most frustrating thing in the world. She said, this 329 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 2: happened nine months ago. She said, I have been calling 330 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 2: and emailing Snapchat over and over and over again. They 331 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 2: just Stone Wallace. We get no response. Ben I turned 332 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 2: to my staff, I said, I want you to get 333 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:47,680 Speaker 2: the CEO of Snapchat on the phone today. I want 334 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:53,560 Speaker 2: those pictures down today. They pulled them down within two hours. Now, 335 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:56,880 Speaker 2: it should not take a sitting senator making a phone 336 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 2: call to get those pictures taken down. And now, as 337 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 2: a result to the legislation Trump hassigned, every victim has 338 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:06,640 Speaker 2: a statutory right to insist that it be taken down 339 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:08,920 Speaker 2: as a matter of law automatically. 340 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 6: Yeah. 341 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 1: In fact, Ellison Barry got to go on Fox News 342 00:18:12,359 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 1: Channel with our good friend Kally mc andanny and talk 343 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:17,440 Speaker 1: about this moment. And here's what she had to say. 344 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 8: Take a listen. 345 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 10: But you didn't stop. You decided to go and talk 346 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 10: to your local congressman. You get connected with the senator, 347 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:26,920 Speaker 10: and then you manage there you are standing behind the 348 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:29,239 Speaker 10: President of the United States changing the laws for other 349 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:31,719 Speaker 10: young women like you. Did you ever think this day 350 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:32,200 Speaker 10: would come? 351 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:35,639 Speaker 11: I never would have thought that this could ever be 352 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 11: my reality. My mom, she's really an amazing person, and 353 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 11: she's the one that's been pushing for this, and she's 354 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:44,400 Speaker 11: the one that's encouraged me. So I wouldn't be able 355 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,800 Speaker 11: to do this without her help and her support, and 356 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 11: she really just has encouraged me to the point where 357 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:54,080 Speaker 11: I feel encouraged about this. So having the opportunity to 358 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:57,080 Speaker 11: speak about this and to bring awareness really just means 359 00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:01,640 Speaker 11: so much. Especially it's so much growth seeing how scared 360 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:04,359 Speaker 11: I was at first and seeing how confident I am 361 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:05,640 Speaker 11: able in this situation. 362 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:08,520 Speaker 10: Well, other young women now have recourse thanks to you, 363 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:10,360 Speaker 10: Elliston Berry. So impressive. 364 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:10,680 Speaker 11: Thank you. 365 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 6: I love it. 366 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:15,760 Speaker 1: It's finally a happy ending to a really hard and 367 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 1: sad subject. 368 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:19,400 Speaker 2: Well, and Ben att the signing ceremony, I was able 369 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 2: to introduce Elliston to the President. I introduced also Francesca Mani, 370 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 2: who was another fifteen year old girl who was in 371 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:29,280 Speaker 2: New Jersey and the exact same thing happened to her 372 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 2: as happened to Elliston. And I also introduced Brandon Guffy. 373 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 2: Brandon Guffy is a state rep from South Carolina, and tragically, 374 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 2: his oldest son got what we thought was a direct 375 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:44,960 Speaker 2: message from a cute girl and she convinced him to 376 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,440 Speaker 2: send naked pictures to her. Well, it turned out it 377 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 2: was not a cute girl, it was a con man, 378 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 2: and the con man began extorting him and threatening I'm 379 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:58,640 Speaker 2: going to send these naked pictures to your friends and family. Well, 380 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:02,919 Speaker 2: Brandon's son, Gavin, killed himself, and we are seeing suicides 381 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:05,680 Speaker 2: across the country. So I introduced Brandon, his family, the 382 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 2: President too, and this law is of victory for everyone 383 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 2: that is a target of this kind of exploitation. 384 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:13,680 Speaker 1: As before, if you want to hear the rest of 385 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 1: this conversation on this topic, you can go back and 386 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: dow the podcasts from earlier this week to hear the 387 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 1: entire thing. I want to get back to the big 388 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:24,879 Speaker 1: story number three of the week you may have missed. 389 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:27,719 Speaker 1: I want to go back to accountability for a second time, 390 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:29,879 Speaker 1: and I want to ask you there are a lot 391 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: of people that believe that there were laws that were 392 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 1: broken deliberately in the last administration. They knew they were 393 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:38,240 Speaker 1: breaking the law. One of those would be former Homeland 394 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:41,640 Speaker 1: Security Secretary. My orc is that you mentioned a moment ago. 395 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:45,159 Speaker 1: Should he be criminally prosecuted for his role in the 396 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:48,159 Speaker 1: border crisis if it was as deliberate as it now seems. 397 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 8: Look, I think what he did was borderline trees in 398 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:53,879 Speaker 8: this I'm not an attorney, I'm not a prosecutor, but 399 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:56,520 Speaker 8: what he did, he did more damage to this country. 400 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:59,479 Speaker 8: Him and the Biden administration. What they did to this country, 401 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 8: I can tell you when they opened that border up 402 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:08,840 Speaker 8: sex trafficking women should increase tenfold of a record number 403 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 8: of migrants died making that journey, over four thousand, A 404 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 8: record number of Americans died from fatanah that come across 405 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:18,359 Speaker 8: that open border. And it's just what he what he 406 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 8: calls this country and from a national securities perspective, because 407 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 8: here's what his orders were, process quick, release quick. They 408 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 8: didn't care about the crisis. They cared about the optics 409 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,840 Speaker 8: of the crisis. If there's no overcrowding, there's nothing to 410 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:35,919 Speaker 8: see here. So border trades were processed as quick as 411 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 8: they could, and releases a quick as they could. And 412 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 8: there's been several instances where they released so quickly the 413 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,680 Speaker 8: FBI scan didn't come back and it came back hot. 414 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,680 Speaker 8: Actually they already been released. They came back hot. As 415 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:52,920 Speaker 8: a known spectatorian, So yeah, what he did was unconsortable. 416 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 8: What he did is my opinion, borderline treason. Is he 417 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:00,199 Speaker 8: should be held accountable because a lot of death hurt 418 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:03,120 Speaker 8: under his watch. And look at like Sandra Cruz said 419 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:06,120 Speaker 8: a few minutes ago, right now, ninety six percent decline 420 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:09,680 Speaker 8: and illegal immigration, when ninety six percent less people are coming, 421 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:12,560 Speaker 8: how many women aren't being raped, how many children aren't 422 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 8: dying crossing that border. How many no inspected taaris aren't 423 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:17,480 Speaker 8: getting in the country. How many pounds of fentanyl is 424 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:18,920 Speaker 8: not getting the country. What are you going to see 425 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 8: on the President Trump's administration? Ventanyl deaths, a decrease, sex 426 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:27,119 Speaker 8: trafficking with decrease, smuggling with decrease, and no inspected tars. 427 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:27,879 Speaker 5: They got no. 428 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:30,360 Speaker 8: Open night anymore. Now that we got the board secure, 429 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:34,360 Speaker 8: every single borders religion is on the lying on patrol. 430 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,879 Speaker 8: During his National Security duty under Joe Biden, it was 431 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 8: an average most days, an average seventy percent seven zero 432 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:45,480 Speaker 8: seventy percent of agents were no longer on patrol. They 433 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 8: were changing diapers, making baby formula, making hospital runs the 434 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 8: last time, aren't down there. Before the election, I talked 435 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:53,359 Speaker 8: to hundreds of board plays, told me to hang on, 436 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:55,959 Speaker 8: hang on, changes coming. I really think the President Trump's 437 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:57,920 Speaker 8: going to win. But they told me no, we're sick 438 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 8: of being tour station. We're sick of being uber drivers. 439 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:04,760 Speaker 8: We process and delivered these people to the very same 440 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,240 Speaker 8: people who pay for their smuggling. They couldn't recruit, they 441 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 8: couldn't people were quitting. They were quickly for it, even 442 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 8: as well for retirement. They couldn't red recruiting numbers. You know, 443 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 8: last month, Ice, I'm excuse me, Bord Patrol had the 444 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:21,879 Speaker 8: highst recruiting numbers and the history of that agency just 445 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 8: last month. 446 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 2: That's fantastic. And look, I will say Tom's not exaggerating 447 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 2: at all, like when I would visit with Border Patrol 448 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 2: agents the frustration. Look, the men and women who sign 449 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 2: up for the Border Patrol, they do do so because 450 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,480 Speaker 2: they're patriots. They do so because they love America. They 451 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:40,760 Speaker 2: do so because they want to keep our communities and 452 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 2: our families and our kids safe, and they want to 453 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:47,160 Speaker 2: be out on patrol. Look, these that's what you sign 454 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 2: up in the job. And they were sitting there just 455 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 2: shuffling paperwork, they were processing and just running a revolving 456 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:57,880 Speaker 2: door to try to release as many illegal immigrants as 457 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,359 Speaker 2: fast as possible. That's what may ORCS looked viewed. His 458 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 2: job is accelerate illegal immigration, not stop it, but make 459 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 2: it go more quickly. Let me ask you, Tom, you 460 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,800 Speaker 2: mentioned fentanyl. What do we know about the numbers of 461 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 2: fentanyl traffic Over the first four months of the Trump administration. 462 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,119 Speaker 8: There's been a decrease and I've got from three or 463 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 8: four different sources. The percentage of decrease is different from 464 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 8: every source. The problem is the CDC doesn't have good 465 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,639 Speaker 8: metrics on fatanyl. But look across the country. You can 466 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 8: see the decrease in fatanyl. Fatanyl's being c's on the 467 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:36,879 Speaker 8: southern border, and it's the metrics. And that's maybe something 468 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,439 Speaker 8: you all can work on up there in the Senate. UH, 469 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 8: CDC needs a track this more more more accurately. Like 470 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:47,640 Speaker 8: I said, you got you got a number of deaths 471 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:49,679 Speaker 8: reported by states, you got a number of death reported 472 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 8: by CDC. None of them match. So, but we do 473 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,960 Speaker 8: know there's been a reduction. You don't see you know, 474 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,159 Speaker 8: three hundred people dying every day from fantanlock. We did 475 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 8: that right. We don't have two nine to elevens a 476 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,640 Speaker 8: week happening from kids dying from fatanah. So I don't 477 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:08,800 Speaker 8: have exact numbers, but we already see the effects of 478 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 8: a secure boarder. 479 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:11,920 Speaker 2: And Tom, let me ask you also. So one of 480 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 2: the things we've talked about on this podcast. In twenty eighteen, 481 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:20,399 Speaker 2: the Mexican drug cartels made roughly five hundred million dollars 482 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 2: from human trafficking. Last year, the drug cartels made over 483 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:29,680 Speaker 2: thirteen billion dollars from human trafficking. That's a twenty six 484 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,879 Speaker 2: hundred percent increase. Do we have any data yet? Do 485 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 2: you have any visibility on what has happened to the 486 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 2: drug cartel's revenue Because one of the worst consequences of 487 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 2: what Biden's open border did is is it turned these vicious, murderous, 488 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:52,280 Speaker 2: transnational criminal organizations into incredibly wealthy powerhouses, and it put 489 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 2: huge resources in their pockets. Do do you have any 490 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,040 Speaker 2: data on what's happened to their revenues? 491 00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:00,720 Speaker 8: Well, one of the first wresting President Trump too is organization. 492 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:04,920 Speaker 8: Because these cartels have killed more Americans every turance organization 493 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:08,119 Speaker 8: were combined. We knew that. That's why there's so much 494 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 8: buy on some Mexico. The last four years cartels were 495 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 8: fighting each other for control of the plausas. Why because 496 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,680 Speaker 8: they're making record amounts of money, smuggling people, record amount 497 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 8: of money, and trafficking women and children, and the record 498 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,840 Speaker 8: amount of money moving dope across that border. Now, with 499 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,480 Speaker 8: the board secure, we're hitting them where it hurts. Are 500 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 8: smugglings down, both drugs and people trafficking is down, So 501 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,400 Speaker 8: we're hitting where it hurts. That's why the latest intelligence 502 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 8: force I see they're trying to produce and push more 503 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 8: fatanol into Asian European nations because their market here in 504 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:44,440 Speaker 8: the United States has been so brutally attacked. I wish 505 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:48,119 Speaker 8: what would happen is that Mexico would agree with President 506 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 8: Trump to let us help them take the cartels and 507 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 8: wipe them off the face the ears, because right now 508 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:56,959 Speaker 8: they're like the holical cartel. They're in forty four countries 509 00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,880 Speaker 8: around the globe. They're like a fortune five hundred company's 510 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:01,520 Speaker 8: going to take to the United States to take them on. 511 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,040 Speaker 8: Mexico's failed for decades to do it, and a lot 512 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:04,400 Speaker 8: of mechs. 513 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:04,600 Speaker 5: Sure. 514 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,159 Speaker 8: You know that military, police and government versus are corrupt. 515 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 8: I'll say this, a lot of the corruption is forced corruption. 516 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,280 Speaker 8: Because you're a police officer Mexo. You're making you know, 517 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 8: four hundred dollars a month, but a Mexican cartel comes 518 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 8: up and obviously ten thousand look the other way, and 519 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,080 Speaker 8: you're going to take it? Are they going to kill 520 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:22,159 Speaker 8: you and your family? I think Mexico will be a 521 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,720 Speaker 8: much safer, a much prosper more prosperous country if they 522 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,480 Speaker 8: let President Trump help them wipe the cartels off the face. 523 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:28,600 Speaker 6: Of the ear. 524 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 2: Look that that is absolutely right. And let me underscore 525 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 2: that point. A lot of people don't realize, particularly those 526 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,800 Speaker 2: on the left, that that what Joe Biden the Democrats did, 527 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:41,480 Speaker 2: it wasn't just horribly cruel to the American people, it 528 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:47,200 Speaker 2: was horribly cruel to Mexican nationals in Mexico. Turning these 529 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 2: vicious criminals into the most powerful economic force in Mexico 530 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,880 Speaker 2: has increased the murder rate, the crime rate, the kidnapping 531 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,840 Speaker 2: rate rate. I visit with a Mexican mayor of a 532 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:03,480 Speaker 2: town on the other side of the border, and I'm 533 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:05,600 Speaker 2: not going to say which mayor because he told me 534 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,240 Speaker 2: in confidence because he was afraid, but he said in 535 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:15,359 Speaker 2: his town they had had over three thousand disappearances, just 536 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:19,920 Speaker 2: people Mexican nationals living in Mexico who just ran a 537 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 2: foul of the cartel and they just disappear, and they 538 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 2: find mass graves and the suffering and murder and kidnapping. 539 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:30,280 Speaker 2: That that that that has happened in Mexico because of 540 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 2: the Democrats political decision I think was cruel and horrible. 541 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 2: And and Tom, You're exactly right that that the US 542 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 2: military can take out the cartels. And we've done it 543 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 2: before in Colombia. President Euribe asked the military to come 544 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 2: in and take out the cartels in Colombia, and we 545 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 2: came in and did that, and we could do it again. 546 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,240 Speaker 2: And and I do think it would be much better 547 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 2: if the Mexican government invited us in. It would have 548 00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 2: transformational impact within Mexico. 549 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,480 Speaker 8: Yeah, let's say a lot of lives, like say lex 550 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 8: and cartoons have killed thousands of judges and prosecutors and journalists. Yeah, 551 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 8: and citizens. So you know, I wish they I wish 552 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 8: they'd joined with President Trump, and that would be a 553 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,880 Speaker 8: game changer, Uh, for Mexico and the United States. 554 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,960 Speaker 2: All right, final question. Uh, we saw just this week 555 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 2: that that New Jersey Democrat Congresswoman Lamonica mac Ivor was 556 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 2: charged for assaulting law enforcement at an ice facility. Uh, 557 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 2: tell me tell us how important that is and and 558 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:35,720 Speaker 2: what do you think about about the fact that that 559 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,760 Speaker 2: charges were brought for assault. We saw during the Biden 560 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 2: administration repeatedly, Uh, law enforcement Customs Border patrol ice agents 561 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,600 Speaker 2: were subject to physical assault, no charges were brought. How 562 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 2: important is it that these charges were brought? 563 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,480 Speaker 8: The SUNS of strong mentions is very important. It also 564 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 8: proves that on bluff I'd said them the David auguration. 565 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 8: If you want to not support ICE, well, but. 566 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:01,400 Speaker 6: You have that right. 567 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 8: If you want to protest against ICE and to protest 568 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,600 Speaker 8: against Trump's policies, that's fine. If you want to watch 569 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 8: ICE come in and clean your city up because you're 570 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,360 Speaker 8: a sanctuary of city don't want to help, you can 571 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 8: do that too. But ICE had from day one. You 572 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 8: can't cross that line. You can't cross the line on impediment, 573 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 8: that's a felony. You can't cross the line on noialing 574 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,360 Speaker 8: and harboring, concealing and they will go amis mice, that's 575 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:25,320 Speaker 8: a felony. You certainly can't commit criminal trespasses at our facilities, 576 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,560 Speaker 8: and for God's sake, you can't put hands on i 577 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 8: ICE officers. And this happened during the same time frame. 578 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,360 Speaker 8: The same week I went to Blue Mass in Washington, 579 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,000 Speaker 8: d c. And remembrance of the men and women in 580 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 8: law enforce and put their lives on the lines of 581 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,600 Speaker 8: this country every day. So we spent a week just 582 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:45,479 Speaker 8: just just praising these men and women, talking to their 583 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,280 Speaker 8: families who also paid the ultimate sacrifice. They lost the 584 00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 8: loved one forever. Children lost their fathers and mothers, and 585 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,560 Speaker 8: mothers and fathers lost their sons and daughters in the 586 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:55,520 Speaker 8: same week we're supposed to be honor in law enforcement. 587 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 8: You got some of the member Congress putting their hands 588 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 8: in shoving an ice officer, which makes that facility very unsafe. 589 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:03,800 Speaker 8: And I'm sick and tired of hearing what we have 590 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,880 Speaker 8: Congressional oversight responsibilities. There is a right way and wrong 591 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:08,920 Speaker 8: way to do it. You don't force your way in 592 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,400 Speaker 8: the facility. You don't put hands on an officer's We 593 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,280 Speaker 8: do oversight all the time. And what are they finding 594 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:17,720 Speaker 8: out as people are getting tours in that facility that 595 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:21,440 Speaker 8: they have the highest detention standards in the industry, and 596 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:26,880 Speaker 8: it puts every every other UH detention center in jail 597 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:28,680 Speaker 8: in the state of New Jersey, whether it is a 598 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,959 Speaker 8: county or state. It puts them to shame because our 599 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,640 Speaker 8: detention standards are so high. So when you go and 600 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,800 Speaker 8: calls that kind of practice where we're trying to maintain 601 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:41,360 Speaker 8: a facility with very dangerous people inside, we got to 602 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,960 Speaker 8: protect not only the criminals, we gotta protect the employees 603 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,640 Speaker 8: and the citizens on the outside. What she did was 604 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:50,560 Speaker 8: just horrendous. She she put hands on an officer. Like 605 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 8: they said for four years, no one's above the law. 606 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,360 Speaker 8: You're damn right. They're not above the law, even members 607 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,520 Speaker 8: of Congress. 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