WEBVTT - New Year's Resolutions plus Minnesota Shooting, Riots & Fraud 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:01.400 Welcome. 0:00:01.400 --> 0:00:04.240 It is Verdict with Center, Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you. 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:05.559 It's so nice to have you with us on the 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:08.400 radio wherever you are around the country. And as a reminder, 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:10.280 if you like the show, you love the podcast that 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:12.319 we do three days a week and you can grab 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:15.400 it wherever you get your podcast Center. It's a new 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:16.920 year and this is our first show in the new 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:19.320 Year for men on the radio that are listening and Senator, 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:21.440 so let's have a little phone in New Year's resolutions. 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:23.520 You've got three, and I've got a few as well. 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:25.000 I don't know if I have three, but we're going 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:26.479 to have those for you in a minute. But before 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:27.640 we get to that, I want to tell you about 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:32.240 our great friends over at Compassion International. Right now, somewhere 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:34.720 in the world, a kid you've never met is writing 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:39.040 you a letter. They're telling you about their day, their dreams, 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:43.080 the goal they scored, the test they passed, the new 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:45.920 friend they made it school. 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I 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.080 do not know what they are, but I'm just going 0:01:58.160 --> 0:01:59.680 to see if we are aligned on this. 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:01.680 So give me your top one for the year. 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:04.880 I'm ready, all right, So number one in twenty twenty six, 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:08.440 I'm gonna lose some weight. I like two damn fat uh. 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:12.360 You know I weighed in this week at two thirty six. 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:14.720 That is two damn fat. You know, when I graduated 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.040 from college, I was a buck thirty five one hundred 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:19.040 and thirty five pounds. I was skinny as a rail. 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:23.600 And my target for twenty twenty six is to drop 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:27.120 thirty pounds. I want to clock in next January at 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.359 two oh six. I'm at two thirty six right now, 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:31.120 Ben and I are in a weight loss group. We've 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.480 got several guys that are are are are trying to 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.200 lose weight together and and so my objective over the 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.880 next twelve months has dropped those thirty pounds, uh and 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:41.760 and be at two oh six one year from now. 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:43.679 Now, now, my question is, hold on, how are you 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.040 gonna what's your plan for this? Is this gonna be 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.520 like water polo or are you gonna get a trainer? 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:50.160 I got to give you a little a little hard 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:51.000 time here. I want to know. 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:52.840 Look, look, it's it's kind of all of that. It's 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.040 diet and exercise at the end of the day. And 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:56.960 you know what, we're going to talk over the course 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:58.880 of the year about how to do that and what's 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.240 working and what's not. We're to have some of those 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.480 conversations over the course of the year on the podcast. 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:06.520 The objective, which which I've. 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.520 Decided on, is to drop thirty and so so we'll 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:10.160 see if we can do that, and and and and 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:14.040 get to that point. H. My second resolution is actually 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.480 related to my first, which which is that I am 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:21.280 doing a dry January. As you know, Ben, I I 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:25.920 enjoy red wine with dinner. It it it makes for 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:29.800 a fun dinner. The problem is it's like injecting calories 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:30.720 straight in your gut. 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:32.040 Uh. 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.359 And and and so if if you want to drop 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:38.080 some weight, having wine with dinner is not conducive to that. 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.320 And so I've decided for the month of January, I'm 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:41.040 gonna go dry. 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:42.080 Uh. 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:44.120 And I'll tell you just a few days into it, 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.760 I'm already feeling I'm sleeping better and feeling better. I 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:49.200 think that's just a good It's healthier. I mean, at 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.640 the end of the day. Uh, it's a lot healthier 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:53.960 way to live. And and and so that is resolution 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:59.400 number two. And then resolution number three, Uh is I 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.400 am committing to myself that I am going to read 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:06.080 the Bible every day in twenty twenty six. 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:07.440 All right, that's strong. 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.520 That's something I've done at different periods of my life. 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:14.200 When our girls were younger, we would do devotion at 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:18.680 night with them, so we read through the Bible, the 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:21.279 New Testament with them every night. We would read and 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.280 talk about it and pray together. And you know, when 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.920 you're being a parent, that gives you an excuse to 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.560 do so, but life pulls you a million different directions 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.320 and sometimes it eats away at the time you would 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.479 have to otherwise just just sit down and study the Word. 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:38.520 And so I'm making a commitment to myself also that 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:41.960 every day I'm going to read the Bible. And those 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.359 three things together, I think are really they have me 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:47.920 excited about twenty twenty six because I think all three 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.359 of them are the right thing to do for this 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:50.839 year ahead. 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:53.120 Dude, I love that. By the way, the Bible one. 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.480 That's cool because I literally tried a couple different times 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.520 and life gets busy to do that one year Bible 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:01.039 where you rea every day and you read the whole 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:02.800 Bible in a year. And I got through it a 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:04.719 couple of times where it was like you get about 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.400 halfway and then things get happen the year. But the 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:09.920 idea of just reading it every day, I actually will 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:12.640 take that challenge with you, I will, I will actually 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.320 commit to getting on board with that one. So my 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:18.160 the thirty three percent, by the way, I was right 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:21.080 because I my weight, so my weight journey. I was 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.880 to you know this August twenty six, I was two 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:27.120 ninety eight. I went to the doctor scared the living 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.320 snot out of me. I'm now down to I think 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:33.120 two oh nine, and my goal for this year is 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.440 I know. See that's I'm glad I didn't look as 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:37.599 bad as you just said. Right Like, So, I'm like, 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.480 I'm down about ninety my goal this year. 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:43.680 I don't realize you're down at two and nine. That's impressive, man, 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:47.360 that is a lot of weightl lot and then that's 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:48.159 really impressive. 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.080 So yesterday I was like, what is my goal? And 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:52.640 my goal for this year is I want to put 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:54.839 back muscle on and because I've been so focused on 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.000 weight loss, so I'm going to work out lifting weights 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.120 to a neighbor three days a week at least it 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:01.680 just waights do the other stuff I've been doing. But 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.200 I put on a shirt yesterday to kind of motivate me. 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:06.080 I had one of my old shirts. I pulled it out. 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:07.839 I swear to you it's this far in front of 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:09.880 my chest, like I was able to pull it out 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.040 this far, and I kept one. I got rid of 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.000 all the other clothes, but I didn't want to go backwards, 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:15.640 but I kept it. And it's like my motivations, like 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:17.680 all right, I can do this this year, So I'll 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.919 take I'm at sixty six percent with you, you know me, 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.839 I laugh. I really don't care about alcohol. It's never 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.440 been a thing. I'm alert to sofa drugs, which means 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:29.240 red wine gives me the worst headache in the world. 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.919 It's probably the biggest blessing God's ever given me because 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:35.080 I've never cared. It makes me feel horrible, Like two 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.479 SIPs and I feel like I want to die of 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:38.080 red wine. 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:39.240 So it's never been a thing. 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.240 But I'm sixty six percent in with you, but I'll 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:43.400 encourage you on the other thirty three percent, So I 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:43.800 like it. 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:48.080 Well, look, it's a journey, and I expect that a 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.320 lot of our listeners are making your own commitments in 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:54.120 a new year, and maybe the maybe the resolutions Ben 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:56.599 and I are doing our resolutions, you'll decide to do 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.960 in your own life. Maybe you're maybe you're already skinny, 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.160 in great shape, and so that's not a resolution you 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.839 didn't need to make. But maybe there's some other aspect 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:08.760 of your life that it's a chance to think about. 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.600 You know, what you want this next year, twenty twenty 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:16.680 six to be to make a real investment in your 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:20.000 own quality of life, in your wife or your husband, 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.680 or your kids and your family. You know, I think 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.320 all of that really really matters. And you know, both 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:29.320 of us are dads, and I think I think both 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:33.400 of us. Look, I'm facing Carolina is seventeen, she's a 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:35.240 senior in high school, so we're getting ready to have 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:39.600 one leave the house, which is a terrifying moment. And 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.320 Catherine is fifteen, she's a freshman. We just got a 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:45.200 couple of years till she's gone too. I'll tell you 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.840 the first day we're an empty nester, I'm going to 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.800 go into the girl's room and probably just just just 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.800 cry and miss them. You've got a few more years 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:55.880 till that happens. But my guess is you're going to 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:56.880 feel the same sentiment. 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:57.680 All right, center. 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.560 I want to get into Minnesota, and what happened in 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:04.840 Minnesota There is a rallying cry because of a woman 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.040 who tried to run over an ICE agent that she 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:10.280 is somehow a victim, and the Left is wanting to 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.160 have a civil war over this. You have the mayor 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:15.880 there telling ICE agents to literally get the f out. 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:19.000 You have civil war the words being used by the governor. 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.960 They're seizing on this like it's an opportunity to derail 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:26.840 ICE in law enforcement. It is truly sick and shocking 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:28.400 to witness what we're watching right now. 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.560 You're right, and what we're witnessing in Minnesota is is 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:38.439 the natural culmination of several years of just increasingly heightened 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:45.360 rhetoric from Democrats demonizing ICE agents, demonizing border patrol, demonizing 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.800 law enforcement, just attacking them. We have democrats who call 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:53.760 ICE agents Nazis, they call them Gestapo, and and listen, listen. 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:56.240 As you know, I was on the ground in Dallas 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:02.120 within minutes of of when the drain shooter in Dallas 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:07.320 opened open fire at ICE ICE agents there because he 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:11.280 had listened to all of the less horrible anti ICE rhetoric. 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:15.640 We're seeing that pattern. We're seeing acts of violence over 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:19.800 and over and over again. And listen what happened in Minneapolis. 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:24.320 Anytime someone dies in an interaction with law enforcement, it's tragic. 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:28.800 We don't want to see anybody die. But I will say, 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:32.240 look that this woman had a very easy way to 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:38.720 avoid fatal consequences, which is, when law enforcement detains you, 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.400 you follow the instructions of law enforcement. If you're pulled 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.559 over at the side of a road and law enforcement 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.760 pulls you over, you follow their instructions and you don't 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:51.800 drive your vehicle, in this case, a big SUV right 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:55.640 at law enforcement because that look, that potentially can be fatal. 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:59.880 And I have to say it's systematically true that the 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:04.080 that if someone attacks law enforcement. You see instances where 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.840 sometimes someone has pulled over and and they reach for 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:10.000 and try to grab a police officer's taser or his weapon, 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.719 and and an awful lot of those instances end up 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:17.480 with with with a fatality because if if you if 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:20.760 you present present what could be a deadly threat to 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.520 a law enforcement officer, and many many instances, that's going 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:27.280 to be the last thing you do. And and and unfortunately, 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.520 this woman, I'm sure if she could could go back 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.960 in time, she would have changed her behavior. But but 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.920 the decision she made in that split second cost her life. 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:42.800 And now we're seeing democrats deliberately stoking the fire and 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:47.559 just just pouring gasoline on the divisions and anger, and 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.920 it's incredibly cynical and incredibly harmful what they're doing. 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.959 It's so sad to see them look at this almost 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.560 like an opportunity to score political points. It was like, yes, 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.680 we've got someone that's passed away. We can now seize 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:03.000 on this, make our political statements. It is a tragedy, 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.840 as you said earlier, that this woman died. I hate 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:09.760 that this woman died, but you gave this law enforcement 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:13.000 individual no other choice when you have a car coming 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:14.800 right at you. And thank goodness, by the way, if 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:17.040 you watch the video, there was some ice on the 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:21.319 street there. It's winter, and the tires spun a little bit. 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.280 If there wouldn't have been the ice there, there's a 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.000 very good chance he'd be dead right now. It gave 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.200 him the moment to be able to defend himself that 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.559 he may not have had otherwise. And I think that's 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:32.160 the part about this that I look at it and 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:35.040 I'm like, no one wins in this situation. But you 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.319 don't get to go out there when you don't like 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:40.320 law enforcement and just decide I don't have to listen 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:42.880 to them or I can run them over, and they said, 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.520 Christyen Hoomes said it yesterday. More than a hundred incidents 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:48.960 is of people using their cars to go at ICE 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:52.160 agents in the last thirty days. This is happening all 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:55.880 over the country because the left is organized for this 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:56.720 exact reason. 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:57.720 Yeah. 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.880 And look, anytime there's an officer shooting, there will be 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:04.160 an investigation. That standard procedure, so they'll go and examine 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:06.760 the facts after the facts and then that's the way 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:10.160 law enforcement operates anytime you've got a particularly a shooting 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:14.040 involving a fatality. But but but it is it is 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:18.920 amazing that this particular ICE agent, uh, Christinome, the DHS 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:23.679 secretary said, had previously in recent months been hit by 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:27.040 a car previously and dragged behind a car. So this 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:30.400 is the second time this very same agent face this 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:34.200 threat and and and and that's what we are seeing 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:41.640 the the extreme left, uh that that are threatening Ice. 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:45.920 They that they are they are in extreme cases shooting 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:50.080 at ICE agents and and using their cars as weapons. 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:55.520 And and I just wish you would see even a 0:12:55.559 --> 0:13:01.520 couple of Democrats demonstrate some restraint, dem straight, some prudence 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:10.959 and not just all right, the mayor of Minneapolis. Yeah, 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:17.199 left wing radical. Here was his calm, sober reflections on 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:18.480 where to go from here. 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:21.880 Give a listen, and I have a message for Ice 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:29.040 to Ice, get out of Minneapolis. We do not want 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:33.360 you here. Your stated reason for being in this city 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.880 is to create some kind of safety, and you are 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:41.160 doing exactly the opposite. People are being hurt, Families are 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:46.000 being ripped apart. Long term Minneapolis residents that have contributed 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:49.640 so greatly to our city, to our culture, to our 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:55.240 economy are being terrorized. And now somebody is dead. That's 0:13:55.280 --> 0:14:00.640 on you, and it's also on you to leave. It's 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:05.000 on you to make sure that further damage, further loss 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.280 of life and injury, is not done. 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:10.360 I never thought i'd see a day where I would 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:15.760 witness a mayor be so political after something like this happens, 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:19.040 to tell law enforcement who were just sitting to do 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.720 their job to enforce the laws of the land, to 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:24.920 get the f out and then say it's their fault. 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:32.960 What a repulsive partisan swine like that is. I'm physically 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:38.040 sick listening to and watching Jacob Fry. You know we 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:42.240 talked about before how he you know, dances with glee 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:46.240 waving the Somali flag and the massive fraud that has 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:49.040 happened he has presided over and profited from. 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:50.360 And here he is. 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:55.120 You know what, this woman, a thirty seven year old woman, 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:58.920 she's the mother of three. Look, she was there in 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:04.080 part because of rhetoric like that, because of rhetoric attacking Ice. 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:07.560 And and by the way, this woman she was married 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:11.720 to another woman. Apparently her her wife was there videoing 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:16.000 the entire incident. That that is a level of radicalization, 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:20.280 and it is radicalization the Democrats have caused, they want 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:26.040 and they're deliberately inflaming that passion center. 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:28.760 Let's go back to just the rhetoric that is coming 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:30.160 out of the left, and we're going to talk about 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.160 the governor wats in a moment. But there's been also, 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:36.440 i think a very back law enforcement mentality that's been 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:40.320 clear across the entire Trump administration. I'm glad that's their 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:43.160 line and they're not backing down from Ice doing their job. 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:45.360 Look that that is absolutely right. 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.400 President Trump has the back of Ice, has the back 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:52.000 of border patrol agents and law enforcement. You know, I 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.640 view my job as having the back of law enforcement. 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:56.560 I'll tell you, as I travel the country, I see 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.440 whether it's border patrol agents or ice agents, or sheriffs 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:02.120 or local local police, and I tell them all the time, 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:04.000 I just say thank you, and it's my job to 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:07.160 have your back. And that's a big part of why 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:11.040 President Trump was re elected in twenty twenty four is 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:15.720 law enforcement. We're tired of having elected politicians who threw 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:19.200 them under the bus at any excuse, and a lot 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:22.120 of people across the country were tired of politicians who 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:24.680 were letting violent criminals into this country and not standing 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:28.680 with law enforcement. This week, Jade Vance, the Vice President, 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:30.600 did a press conference at the White House. He did 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:32.600 a very good job with it. Here's what he had 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:36.000 to say about the shooting that happened in Minneapolis. 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:37.840 Thank you for taking questions today. 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:41.240 He is there a risk with you describing for as 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.240 a deranged left as talking about very specific facts of 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:48.120 these events when an investigation is just beginning. Are you 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:53.040 preempting a thorough investigation by drawing such conclusions? And have 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:56.960 you received any information beyond the videos we've seen publicly 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:01.360 about this individual per specific act that has informed your 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:02.000 point of view. 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.480 Well, first of all, the Department of Justice is going 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.879 to investigate this. The Department of Homeland Security is already 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:10.960 investigating this. But the simple fact is what you see 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:12.720 is what you get. In this case, you have a 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:16.720 woman who is trying to obstruct a legitimate law enforcement operation. 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.680 Nobody debates that you have a woman who aimed her 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.720 car at a law enforcement officer and pressed on the accelerator. 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:25.280 Nobody debates that I can believe that her death is 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:28.359 a tragedy while also recognizing that it's a tragedy of 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.399 her own making and a tragedy of the far left, 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:35.840 who has marshaled an entire movement, a lunatic fringe against 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:39.760 our law enforcement officers. I think what is clearly happening here, 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.119 and it's going to keep on happening unless the Democrats 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:44.000 wake up and say, you know what, you don't have 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.280 to agree with our immigration policies. You don't have to 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:48.440 agree with what the president or the vice president believe 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:51.119 about immigration enforcement. But why don't you take this to 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:51.919 the ballot box. 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:52.919 Why don't you vote? 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:56.200 Why don't you organize instead? What some of them are doing, 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.359 what some of them are doing is encouraging people to 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:03.119 get violent with our law enforcement officials. It's disgraceful and 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:03.879 it's got to stop. 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:07.040 It's sad that you have to have that type of clarity, 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:08.960 but he's absolutely right in what he's saying. If you 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:10.840 don't like something, you can vote and change, but you 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:13.120 don't just get to make up the rules and target 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:14.479 people you disagree with. 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:18.159 Well and more and more, the left is condoning violence, 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:20.360 violence on a partisan basis. And let me be clear, 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:24.359 violence is always always wrong, whether whether I agree with 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.960 your politics or disagree with your politics, nobody has a 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.800 right to engage in violence. And and we're seeing on 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:34.120 the left, more and more, we've seen the pole numbers 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:37.080 of growing numbers of people on the left think violence 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:40.440 is justified. Think violence is justified against Donald Trump. Think 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:43.959 violence is justified against Elon Musk and and think violence 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:47.400 is justified against Ice And it's it's fundamentally wrong, and 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:50.320 and and and the Democrats are deliberately pushing this and 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:53.159 and and listen, I will say, for this woman, she 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:58.200 had complete control to avoid this happening. Yeah, and and 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:01.119 and and any time you interact with law enforcement, I 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:04.959 believe you should interact respectfully and understand. Look, Look, if 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:08.880 a police officer pulls you over on the road, that officer. 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:12.800 Every day it is potentially a deadly encounter for that officer. 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:14.800 And every year you have officers who are shot and 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:18.760 killed on the side of the road by some lunatic 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:22.080 who's packing. They don't know when they're coming up, coming 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:24.640 up to the driver's side. That's that in most instances, 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.960 they have no idea who they're going to encounter. I'll 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.399 tell you know again. You and I are parents. What 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:34.080 when your kids start driving? With my kids, what I 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:37.120 tell them is if you get pulled over, pull over, 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.080 put the car in park, and put your hands on 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:43.040 ten and two on the steering wheel, on the steering 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:47.879 wheel visible because the officer coming up doesn't know if 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:50.520 you have a firearm, doesn't know if you're a deadly threat. 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:52.520 And by the way, the officer sees your hands at 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:54.800 ten and two and realize you're showing the hands for 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:57.480 a reason. The officer comes and says, let me see 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:01.679 your license and registration. It's a good to tell the officer, Okay, 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:04.280 my licenses is in my wallet. Can I get it 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:07.960 so the officer doesn't think you're reaching for a gun beneath. 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:08.479 The seat or something. 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:12.440 Look, all of that is prudent it's the advice that 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:16.080 I give my kids. It's the advice that every responsible 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:20.159 parent I know, yeah, gives their child that that don't 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:25.119 put yourself in a position where law enforcement has reason 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:27.200 to be afraid, even if you're not a threat. 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:28.960 Don't give them reason to be afraid. 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:31.080 My dad was in law enforcement. He said to me 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:33.040 so clearly. He said, I want to make it clear 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:36.439 you never argue with law enforcement. If they're wrong, you 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:40.240 get to go to court, but you always make sure 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:43.800