1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: Welcome. 2 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 2: It is Verdic with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. 3 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 2: Really nice to have you with us on the radio 4 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:07,720 Speaker 2: as well wherever you are around the country. And a 5 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:10,239 Speaker 2: quicker reminder, if you are listening to this radio show 6 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 2: and you've never listened to our podcast, grab it for free. 7 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 2: It's three days a week. You can dow with Vertic 8 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:18,760 Speaker 2: with Ted Cruz wherever you get your podcast center. We've 9 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 2: got a lot to talk about in the show, including 10 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:23,440 Speaker 2: an update on Iran, and there's a lot happening there 11 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:24,639 Speaker 2: as well well. 12 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 3: First and foremost, after thirty nine days of an active 13 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 3: military campaign against Iran, after bombing their military, bombing their missiles, 14 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 3: bombing their droans, bombing their air force, bombing their navy, 15 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 3: we have had incredible military success and President Trump has 16 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 3: announced a two week ceasefire, a two week ceasefire that 17 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 3: is happening as we speak. We're going to break down 18 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 3: exactly what has been accomplished so far in Iran, what 19 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 3: the military successes have been, and what's next, what President 20 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 3: Trump is demanding of Iran, Iran has to do to 21 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 3: have the ceasefire continue, and what's going to happen with 22 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:06,480 Speaker 3: the Strait of Hormuz. All of that we're going to 23 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 3: break down. We're also going to tell you about a 24 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 3: conversation I had this week with four astronauts on Artemis 25 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 3: two coming back from the Moon orbiting the Moon. I'll 26 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 3: bring you inside mission control at Johnson Space Center where 27 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:20,679 Speaker 3: I was connected directly to them, and we're going to 28 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:23,640 Speaker 3: talk about going back to the Moon and beating China 29 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 3: to the Moon. And finally, we're going to talk about 30 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 3: the lasting consequences that America still suffers from Joe Biden's 31 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 3: open borders and the Democrat policies year after year of 32 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:40,679 Speaker 3: releasing violent criminals, and day after day we see Americans 33 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 3: killed because of the violent, criminal, illegal aliens Joe Biden 34 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 3: the Democrats released into America. Trump is turning that around, 35 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 3: but we still have a lot of criminals on the 36 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 3: street that the Democrats decided belonged in your community and 37 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 3: my community. 38 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 2: But first, I want to take a moment before we 39 00:01:57,960 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 2: get into all that, and I want to tell you 40 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 2: about the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews and how 41 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 2: your help is needed right now, especially for those that 42 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 2: are under attack in Israel as we speak. I want 43 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 2: to take a moment and talk to you about a 44 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 2: man named Phineas who has a child survived the Holocaust. 45 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:21,800 Speaker 2: Phineas survived because Christians hid him from the Nazis, risking 46 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 2: everything to save his life. Today, he is in his eighties. 47 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 2: He can no longer stand on his own or leave 48 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,639 Speaker 2: his home to receive medical care, and when the siren 49 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:36,080 Speaker 2: sounds and the missiles fall, he doesn't have time or 50 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 2: the strength to reach safety. But once again, Christians are 51 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 2: helping save his life. 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Or 61 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 2: go online to IFCJ dot org. That's if CJ dot 62 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 2: ORG Center. Let's start with Iran, and it is clear that, 63 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 2: as Sentcom chief put it today, Iran has suffered a 64 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:43,320 Speaker 2: generational military defeat. They described as a forty year military 65 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 2: build up that has been crushed in under forty days. 66 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 2: Yet on TV, Democrats are using the word a lot 67 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 2: in the last twenty four hours. And that word that 68 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 2: they're obsessed with now is a quagmire. Forget the definition 69 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 2: of a quagmire. And actually, if you related to military 70 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 2: intervention or a war, usually that word is used after 71 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 2: years of what has become stagnant. But they're like, oh no, 72 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 2: Donald Trump's got to said a quagmire. Your reaction to 73 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 2: all of that, well. 74 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 3: I will say, we had thirty nine days of active 75 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 3: military conflict, and if you look at what occurred, we 76 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 3: took out the entirety of Iran's air defenses. We took 77 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 3: out the entirety of their ballistic missiles, their ballistic missile launchers, 78 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:30,919 Speaker 3: their ballistic missile manufacturing capability. We took out the entirety 79 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 3: of their drone arsenal, the entirety of their drone launchers, 80 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:38,600 Speaker 3: We took out their drone manufacturing capacity. We also took 81 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 3: out their air force which which is virtually nonexistent at 82 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 3: this point. We took out their navy, sinking more than 83 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 3: one hundred and forty naval ships. It's the single largest 84 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 3: naval defeat since World War II. And all of that 85 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 3: is on top of the fact that we took out 86 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 3: the Iatola and virtually the entirety of the military leadership. 87 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 3: Here's what US Central commit under Admiral Bradley Cooper had 88 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 3: to say. He said, quote, we set out to dismantle 89 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 3: Iran's military capability, and we clearly accomplished this task. He said, 90 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:16,920 Speaker 3: Iran's conventional military quote built over forty years at the 91 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 3: cost of billions of dollars, has been eliminated. He further elaborated, quote, 92 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 3: our core strategic military objectives have been achieved after destroying 93 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 3: Iran's missile, drone, and naval capabilities and their defensive industrial base. 94 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 3: Outlining what he characterized as a comprehensive dismantling of Iran's 95 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 3: war machine. The sent Con commander emphasized the scale of 96 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:51,600 Speaker 3: the operation. We conducted more than thirteen thousand let me 97 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 3: repeat that, thirteen thousand strikes on Iranian military targets. We 98 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 3: flew thousands upon thousands of combat miss over Iran, and 99 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 3: as Admiral Cooper put it, quote in less than forty days, 100 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 3: you destroyed the military that Iran had built for over 101 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 3: forty years. He also said more than fifty thousand American 102 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 3: service members took part in the operation, and he called 103 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 3: it a mission of profound consequences which exceeded each in 104 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 3: every expectation for what the forces achieved. And he went 105 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 3: on to say, quote we remain present, we remain vigilant, 106 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 3: and we remain ready if called. And he added that 107 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 3: the United States Forces would continue to stand quote shoulder 108 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 3: to shoulder with regional partners to maintain quote the most 109 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 3: sophisticated and largest active air defense umbrella in the world. 110 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:54,720 Speaker 3: That is a big deal. The success that was carried 111 00:06:54,760 --> 00:07:00,840 Speaker 3: out was extraordinary. Now the question is after that. And 112 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 3: by the way, the instant the attack started, Democrats began attacking, 113 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 3: not Iran, not attacking the people who chant death to America, 114 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 3: not attacking the regime that has been the world's leading 115 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 3: state sponsor of terrorism. Not attacking the Iranian regime that 116 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 3: provides over ninety percent of the funding to Hamas, over 117 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 3: ninety percent of the funding to Hezbelo, over ninety percent 118 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 3: of the funding. The houthis no, the Democrats didn't attack 119 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 3: any of that. What did they attack our commander in 120 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 3: chief Donald J. 121 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 1: Trump. 122 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 3: You know, it used to be that politics end at 123 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 3: the nation's border, at our water's edge, and yet today 124 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 3: the instant this military conflict began the Democrats hate Trump 125 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:46,480 Speaker 3: so much. Rather than stand with our troops, rather than 126 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 3: stand for defeating our enemies, they immediately began cheering effectively 127 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 3: for the United States to lose. 128 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 2: Let's talk about what success actually looks like. We know 129 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:02,119 Speaker 2: that Democrats, as you mentioned before, the they're criticizing Trump 130 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 2: because he didn't bomb the power plants and the roads. 131 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 2: But if he would have done it, they said that 132 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 2: he would be then committing war crimes and he should 133 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 2: be arrested. 134 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 1: So which one is it? 135 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 3: Well, look, they're wrong on both fronts. So let's talk 136 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 3: about what President Trump is demanding of Iran for this 137 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 3: ceasefire to continue. And mind you, this is a two 138 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 3: week ceasefire. There's no guarantee if Iran fails, the ceasefire 139 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 3: will end. But President Trump is making three demands and 140 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 3: I agree with all of them. Number one, he is 141 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 3: insisting that Iran engage in no enrichment, zero enrichment of uranium. Now, 142 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 3: Iran has been pressing back repeatedly saying them a right 143 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:46,680 Speaker 3: to enricheranium. Of course, Barack Obama and his disastrous Iran 144 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 3: Nuclear Deal effectively protected their right to enrich uranium, which 145 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 3: would have led inexorably to Iran having a nuclear weapon. 146 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 3: And listen, when you have an Ayatola, who's a religious zealot, 147 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:04,240 Speaker 3: who chance death to America, who has killed nearly a 148 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:08,559 Speaker 3: thousand Americans, the idea of any universe in which he 149 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 3: has a nuclear weapon where he could kill in the 150 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 3: blink of an eye hundreds of thousands of Americans, that's 151 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:19,959 Speaker 3: utterly unacceptable. So President Trump is right to insist zero enrichment. 152 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 3: Number one. Number two, Iran has a substantial stockpile of 153 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 3: enriched uranium. President Trump is insisting hand over your enriched uranium. 154 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 3: You cannot keep it, you cannot hold on to it. 155 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 3: You must hand it over. He is absolutely right to 156 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 3: insist on that as well. And then number three, President 157 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 3: Trump is insisting open the strait of hormose and keep 158 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 3: it open. You cannot use this as a choke point. 159 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:50,319 Speaker 3: That is exactly right. Now, I will say. You have 160 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 3: some Democrats some of the media that are saying, oh, 161 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 3: they're actually saying Iran won this war because they threaten 162 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,599 Speaker 3: the Strait of Hormuse. Look, Iran has an engaged in 163 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:06,320 Speaker 3: terrorism for forty seven years. They are continuing to engage 164 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:11,199 Speaker 3: in terrorism. I cannot none of us can promise today 165 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 3: that Iran will stop engaging in terrorism. But what President 166 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 3: Trump has done is number one, dramatically limited their ability 167 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:22,800 Speaker 3: to engage in warfare to kill Americans or to kill 168 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 3: Iran's neighbors. The missiles are gone, the drones are gone, 169 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:30,200 Speaker 3: the air force jets are gone, the air defenses are gone, 170 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 3: the naval ships are gone. All of that, not to 171 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 3: mention the military leadership has been killed. All of that 172 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 3: has dramatically weakened Iran's ability to kill others. As for 173 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 3: the Strait of Hormuz, President Trump made a clear and 174 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,199 Speaker 3: direct threat, if you do not open the strait, we 175 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:53,440 Speaker 3: will bomb your power plants and we will bomb your bridges. Now, 176 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:56,559 Speaker 3: Democrats had a conniption fit. They said, it is a 177 00:10:56,720 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 3: war crime to bomb power plants. Now, in our life, 178 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,319 Speaker 3: last podcast that we did on Wednesday, we went through 179 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:07,599 Speaker 3: the Pentagon Manual on warfare. That makes very explicit that 180 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:12,079 Speaker 3: power plants, civilian power plants are legitimate military targets because 181 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:15,199 Speaker 3: they're integral for the military defense of a nation. They 182 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 3: power communication, they power the military system, and so they 183 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 3: are have long been treated as legitimate military target targets 184 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:27,839 Speaker 3: under the rules of war. Of course, that doesn't stop 185 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 3: the corporate media, that doesn't stop the Democrats from screaming 186 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 3: war crime. But Bennett's worth underscoring why did President Trump 187 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 3: threaten the power plants and the bridges? The obvious thing 188 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 3: to threaten, the thing that would be the most devastating 189 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 3: to Iran is to threaten the oil infrastructure, to threaten 190 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 3: the refineries, to threaten carg Island, which is the main point, 191 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:55,559 Speaker 3: the main terminal through which oil is exported. If the 192 00:11:55,679 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 3: United States bombed the oil infrastructure in Iran, it would 193 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 3: utterly cripple their economy. That is, the vast majority of 194 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 3: the revenue that the Iran Iranian government receives that the 195 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 3: Iranian people receive is revenue from selling oil, and if 196 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:16,079 Speaker 3: we bomb those facilities, it would be devastating to the 197 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 3: Iranian economy. Why does Trump not want to do it? Well, 198 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:24,080 Speaker 3: quite sensibly because when this military conflict is over, Iran 199 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 3: presumably is going to need to rebuild. It's not going 200 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:28,439 Speaker 3: to be American taxpayers who rebuild. We're not going to 201 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 3: rebuild at all. We're not going to spend our money 202 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:33,319 Speaker 3: to do that. But if we have a government in 203 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:35,959 Speaker 3: Iran that is not run by Islamists, that is not 204 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:40,439 Speaker 3: actively trying to murder Americans, then presumably that government is 205 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 3: going to need to rebuild from the consequences of this war. 206 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 3: And the only way that they're going to be able 207 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:49,840 Speaker 3: to rebuild with any speed, any alacrity, is if they 208 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 3: are able to sell the oil they have and have 209 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 3: that revenue. And so President Trump, I think quite sensibly, 210 00:12:56,080 --> 00:13:00,959 Speaker 3: is focusing on other choke points that are not the 211 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 3: beating heart of the Iranian economy going forward. That's why 212 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:07,440 Speaker 3: threatened power plants and bridges. And let me be clear, 213 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,800 Speaker 3: I think there is still a very real possibility President 214 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 3: Trump follows through on that threat and takes out the 215 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 3: power plants in Iran, which would plunge that nation into darkness, 216 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 3: would literally turn out the lights. I think President Trump 217 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 3: will do that if number one Iran continues to shut 218 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 3: down the Strait of horror moves. I think that if 219 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 3: they think Donald Trump is bluffing, they are making a 220 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 3: bad calculus. And the previous Iatola made that calculus and 221 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:40,080 Speaker 3: he did not live twenty four hours into this military conflict. 222 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:42,800 Speaker 3: The current leaders have to make their own judgment. But 223 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:45,200 Speaker 3: in my view, Trump is not bluffing. 224 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 2: When you talk about Trump not bluffing on this one, 225 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:51,679 Speaker 2: there's people that say, well, he's just reaching for straws here, 226 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 2: He's just trying to salvage this thing. 227 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:56,079 Speaker 1: I disagree with that. 228 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 2: I think what we've done with our military in the 229 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:03,480 Speaker 2: last forty days is truly just remarkable. It's historic taking 230 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:05,599 Speaker 2: out a forty year military in forty days. It's a 231 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:07,400 Speaker 2: year a day, if you want to break it down 232 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 2: in a different perspective, for every year it took them 233 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 2: to do to build their military. It took us one 234 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 2: day to take out of year's worth of work in 235 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 2: forty years and forty days is pretty impressive. But there's 236 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 2: also a real political concern here about the midterms coming up. 237 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 2: That's something that I hear a lot of people that, 238 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 2: by the way, support the president. I look, we got 239 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 2: to get this thing over with. This is going to 240 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 2: ruin us. The midterms. How concerned are you about the 241 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:32,360 Speaker 2: quote politics playing back at home with this. 242 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 3: Look, we need to do the right thing, and we 243 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 3: need to keep America safe. President Trump is a strong 244 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 3: commander in chief, and he launched this military attack because 245 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:43,920 Speaker 3: Iran has been waging war against the United States. They 246 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 3: have been funding terrorism, they've been murdering Americans, and they've 247 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 3: stated they had intended to continue funding terrorism and murdering Americans. 248 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 3: So he was acting to keep Americans safe. Unlike Barack Obama, 249 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 3: Unlike past presidents, he's not engaged in nation building. He's 250 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 3: not invading foreign nations and putting our sons and daughters 251 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 3: in harm's way to achieve amorphous goals like spreading democracy. 252 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 3: Spreading democracy may be a wonderful thing, but we're not 253 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 3: going to sacrifice our fighting men and women to do it. 254 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:15,520 Speaker 3: What he is doing is taking out a real threat 255 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:19,160 Speaker 3: that was threatening the lives of Americans. The politics will come. 256 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 3: He needs to focus on doing the right thing. That's 257 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 3: exactly what President Trump is doing. 258 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 1: All right, Senator, I want to get to something else. 259 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 2: There's been so much about Iran in the news for 260 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 2: good reason, but there's also some other really big news 261 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 2: items that are happening, and one of them is our astronauts, 262 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 2: and you got to talk to them after this launch 263 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 2: on their way back to Earth. 264 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 3: Well I did in terms of when I came home 265 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 3: this evening and my family asked, what'd you do today? 266 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 3: I was able to answer, well, I talked to four 267 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 3: astronauts today coming back from the Moon. And it's not 268 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 3: often you get to say something like that. So kidding 269 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 3: you look at the Artemist two mission. The Artemist two 270 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 3: mission launched eight days ago. It's a nine day long mission. 271 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 3: It is the first time we have sent men back 272 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 3: to the Moon since the Apollo program. It's been nearly 273 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 3: fifty years now. Of course, they did not land on 274 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 3: the Moon, but we launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. 275 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:19,280 Speaker 3: They launched, left the Earth's atmosphere, went to the Moon, 276 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 3: they orbited around the Moon, and now they're returning back. 277 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 3: And so they actually went further from Earth than any 278 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:31,120 Speaker 3: human being says that have ever been and they're on 279 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 3: their journey back. When I spoke to them, it was 280 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 3: just under twenty four hours before splashdown. They're scheduled to 281 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 3: splash down sixty miles off the coast of San Diego 282 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:48,120 Speaker 3: at just after seven pm on Friday, and so I 283 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 3: spoke to the four astronauts. You have Reid and Victor, 284 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:56,160 Speaker 3: you have Christina and Jeremy, and they're all in the 285 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 3: Orion capsule. 286 00:16:58,440 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 1: I know all four of them. 287 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 3: I was there when their astronaut class was selected to 288 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:07,480 Speaker 3: be on Artemis two. Artemis four, by the way, is 289 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 3: going to be the mission that actually goes and lands 290 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:12,680 Speaker 3: on the Moon and puts another astronaut on the Moon. 291 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:15,080 Speaker 3: One of the reasons, why do you know why this 292 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 3: particular set of missions is called Artemis. 293 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: I was going to ask you that why, because I 294 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 1: know you've been briefed on it. 295 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:27,440 Speaker 3: Well, in Greek mythology, Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo, 296 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:31,680 Speaker 3: and so they were twins, and in Apollo, that was 297 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 3: the last time we landed astronauts on the Moon, and 298 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:38,359 Speaker 3: we landed only men on the moon. This mission, NASA's 299 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,240 Speaker 3: said from day one, we're going to land the first 300 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:42,639 Speaker 3: woman on the Moon. And that's why they named it Artemis, 301 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:45,280 Speaker 3: because we're going to have a female astronaut in addition 302 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:48,359 Speaker 3: to male astronauts. We're gonna have both. And I got 303 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 3: to say, look, I'm as you know, I'm the father 304 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:53,720 Speaker 3: of daughters. I have two teenage girls, and I really 305 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:56,640 Speaker 3: like the fact that the plan is by twenty twenty 306 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 3: eight we're going to land on the Moon. And I 307 00:17:58,200 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 3: like the fact that we're going to put the first 308 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 3: woman on the Moon. That's something my daughters can be 309 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:05,360 Speaker 3: proud of, they can look forward to. They can say, look, 310 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,000 Speaker 3: I can do anything if I want. I can be 311 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:09,680 Speaker 3: an astronaut, I can land on the Moon. 312 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:11,120 Speaker 1: And you look back. 313 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:14,680 Speaker 3: You and I were not alive in nineteen sixty nine 314 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:17,680 Speaker 3: when Neil Armstrong first stepped on the surface of the Moon, 315 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 3: but it inspired an entire generation of Americans, an entire 316 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:27,639 Speaker 3: generation across the world. And I'll tell you you and 317 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:31,200 Speaker 3: I both live in Houston, our hometown or my hometown 318 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:35,639 Speaker 3: of Houston, and your current town of Houston has an 319 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:40,919 Speaker 3: incredible history with space. One of the very first words 320 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:46,360 Speaker 3: ever uttered on the surface of the Moon was Houston. Houston, 321 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 3: the eagle is landed. And our city. There's a reason 322 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:55,360 Speaker 3: why the sports teams are the Astros and the Rockets, 323 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:57,880 Speaker 3: and we now have a WNBA's team coming back. That's 324 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:02,120 Speaker 3: the Comets. I mean, our our city sports. The Astrodome 325 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 3: is where the Asteroid played played forever. Astroworld used to 326 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:09,120 Speaker 3: be our theme park. Sadly it closed. We're a city. 327 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:13,640 Speaker 3: You look at Commercial Space. The four Artemis astronauts trained 328 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:16,680 Speaker 3: right here in Houston at Johnson Space Center. That's where 329 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 3: every astronaut trains. It's where mission control is. So I 330 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:24,920 Speaker 3: went today down to mission control. I met with the 331 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:28,520 Speaker 3: engineers who are controlling everything that is happening up there, 332 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:32,120 Speaker 3: and got to you know, sort of like et got 333 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 3: the phone home and talked to We did a call 334 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 3: that had about a dozen members of Congress and we 335 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 3: talked to the astronauts. Jared Isaacman, who's the administrator of NASA, 336 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 3: he spoke first, and I got to say it was 337 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:48,160 Speaker 3: really cool. He spoke to them and and he greeted 338 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:50,399 Speaker 3: them and thanked them for what they were doing. And 339 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:53,400 Speaker 3: he said, he said, I'm speaking to you on behalf 340 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:57,480 Speaker 3: of the people of Earth. And I got to say 341 00:19:57,520 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 3: that was really cool to hear. And I commented right 342 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:01,920 Speaker 3: after that, I said, that is the first time in 343 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,159 Speaker 3: my life I've stood next to someone or stood with 344 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:09,640 Speaker 3: someone who greeted someone on behalf of the people of Earth. 345 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 3: And that was not hyperbole. You look at they traveled 346 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 3: over two hundred and fifty thousand miles. The Orion capsule 347 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:23,560 Speaker 3: itself is really small. The capsules three hundred and thirty 348 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:29,160 Speaker 3: cubic feet of volume. It is sixteen and a half 349 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:33,600 Speaker 3: feet wide, and it is eleven feet tall, and it's 350 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 3: round and sort of shaped like a cone. And four 351 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 3: people have been living that. The size has been compared 352 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:45,480 Speaker 3: to about the size of Too Mini vans, so four 353 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 3: people have been living in Too minivans for nine days. 354 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 3: I have been in a mockup of the capsule. It's 355 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:56,399 Speaker 3: really small. I mean there's not much room at all. 356 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 3: And by the way, it's four people sharing, among other things, 357 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 3: one one toilet, and in fact they had a problem 358 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:06,440 Speaker 3: where the toilet jammed and that they had to play 359 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 3: space plumbers. And it has been fascinating. There have been 360 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:18,200 Speaker 3: millions of people watching them just day to day doing 361 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:21,440 Speaker 3: their mission in space and watching them. It's been live 362 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 3: stream and they've been doing a lot of media interviews, 363 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 3: which I think is really powerful. One of the most 364 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:31,440 Speaker 3: important purposes of the space mission is to inspire the 365 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 3: next generation, and I think in the midst of all 366 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 3: the other challenges we have going on seeing that that 367 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 3: that four human beings are capable of going back to 368 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:44,320 Speaker 3: the Moon and knowing the promise that we're soon going 369 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 3: to be walking on them, and by the way, not 370 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 3: just walking on the Moon. It is the objective of 371 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:53,399 Speaker 3: NASA and I have written this into law that we 372 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:57,240 Speaker 3: will have sustained human habitation on the surface of the Moon. 373 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:01,480 Speaker 3: And President Trump is committed to building a lunar base. 374 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 3: And one of the cool things been, you know, representing 375 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 3: Texas for fourteen years, just about every single major piece 376 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 3: of space legislation that has passed in the last fourteen years, 377 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:18,359 Speaker 3: I've either written or co written, and so I've had 378 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 3: space legislation signed by Barack Obama. I've had space legislation 379 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:27,640 Speaker 3: signed by Donald Trump. I've had space legislation signed by 380 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:29,920 Speaker 3: Joe Biden. And one of the things I've worked hard 381 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 3: on to do is keep space out of partisan politics. 382 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 3: There's so much partisan politics on everything else. But if 383 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 3: America is going to lead in space, listen. China has 384 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 3: stated their goal they want to go to the Moon 385 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:46,200 Speaker 3: by twenty thirty. They want to beat us to the moon, 386 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:50,639 Speaker 3: and there's a land rush. The most the optimum land 387 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 3: to occupy is at the South Pole. It's at the 388 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:57,399 Speaker 3: south pole where there is water. Water is available for 389 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 3: human habitation, for energy, but it's also the crater is 390 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 3: high enough that you can see the sun and have 391 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 3: solar power, and so the South Pole, the scientists believe, 392 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:10,960 Speaker 3: is the optimum location. We're in race to get there, 393 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:14,119 Speaker 3: and the United States intends to win. We're going to 394 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:16,880 Speaker 3: beat China. And a big part of the way we're 395 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 3: beating China is not letting this be subject to the 396 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 3: back and forth partisan political bickering so much else is. 397 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 3: And I'm proud of the fact that for fourteen years 398 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:31,360 Speaker 3: we have kept American leadership in space outside of partisan politics. 399 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:34,200 Speaker 2: Sinner, Let's talk about also just something that's going to 400 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,080 Speaker 2: be really exciting, and that is the prospect that I 401 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:39,639 Speaker 2: and also my kids are going to be able to 402 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:41,399 Speaker 2: see us land on the Moon again. 403 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: When is that expected to happen? 404 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 2: And I know you've learned a lot about that and 405 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 2: this plans, and this is obviously this trip is one 406 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 2: very big step getting us much closer to that. 407 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,680 Speaker 3: Twenty twenty eight is the target date to land back 408 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,159 Speaker 3: on the Moon and to take astronauts safely to the 409 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 3: surface of the Moon. And then back again to planet Earth. 410 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 3: And the plan is for it to be in the 411 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 3: last year of President Trump's presidency. And by the way, 412 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,200 Speaker 3: I will say OMB the Office of Management and Budget. 413 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 3: Last year there were some folks at OMB that wanted 414 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:16,880 Speaker 3: to drastically slash the budget to go to the Moon. 415 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 3: They had decided Mars was more important than the Moon 416 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 3: was going to be substantially deprioritized. And what happened last 417 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,639 Speaker 3: year when we were passing the big reconciliation bill, the 418 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:32,399 Speaker 3: Working Family's tax cut, I decided that was a terrible 419 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 3: thing for the United States. I was not going to 420 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:38,200 Speaker 3: sit by and watch America lose to China and seed 421 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:41,439 Speaker 3: the Moon to China. And so when we were writing 422 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 3: the reconciliation bill, I wrote in ten billion dollars to 423 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,159 Speaker 3: fund going back to the Moon, to fund artemists, to 424 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,440 Speaker 3: fund what is happening right now. And OMB was really 425 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 3: unhappy with me. It was a battle, but I had 426 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:57,840 Speaker 3: the support, I had locked down the votes in the Senate, 427 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:00,879 Speaker 3: and so we passed it in law. And it was 428 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 3: an example of Article one of the Constitution, the Congress 429 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:07,120 Speaker 3: exercising its authority. And I'll tell you what I told 430 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,880 Speaker 3: the President I said, look, if we were to look 431 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 3: up in twenty twenty eight or twenty thirty and see 432 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,680 Speaker 3: the Chinese on the moon, understand that they had gotten 433 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,440 Speaker 3: there and beaten us there, and seize the high ground 434 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 3: and the preferred location, I think it would be more 435 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 3: damaging to this country than Sputnik was when the Soviets 436 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,360 Speaker 3: launched a satellite in the space. We are not going 437 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 3: to lose the race with China and Artemis too. It's 438 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:33,000 Speaker 3: an inspirational example of America leading in America winning. 439 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 2: We want to talk about another issue that it needs 440 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 2: to be back on the radar screen for a lot 441 00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 2: of Americans, and that is that continual crimes are being 442 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:47,119 Speaker 2: committed by illegal immigrants that are in this country. The 443 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 2: media continues to overlook this. They don't want you to 444 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 2: know that it's happening. But it's another example of why 445 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,479 Speaker 2: the President needs to be fighting so hard against these 446 00:25:55,520 --> 00:26:00,240 Speaker 2: sanctuary cities that are harboring many of these criminals, or 447 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:01,520 Speaker 2: is he would describe them really bad? 448 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:02,920 Speaker 1: Ombrace Well. 449 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,680 Speaker 3: You may recall back in twenty twenty four the Republican 450 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:09,399 Speaker 3: National Convention, when I spoke and addressed the convention, my 451 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 3: remarks were focused on this topic, and the theme of 452 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:18,960 Speaker 3: it was every damn day, every day, another American has raped, 453 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,920 Speaker 3: another American is assaulted, another American is murdered by a 454 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:26,440 Speaker 3: violent criminal, illegal alien that Joe Biden and the Democrats 455 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,639 Speaker 3: have released. And I walked through the tragic cases of 456 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,639 Speaker 3: Joscelyn Nungary, the beautiful twelve year old girl raped and 457 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:36,399 Speaker 3: murdered here in Houston. I walked through Lake and Riley, 458 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:40,520 Speaker 3: the horrific murder of the young nursing student in Georgia. 459 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 3: I walked through Rachel Morin, the mom of five raped 460 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:48,439 Speaker 3: and murdered outside of Washington, d C. It was happening 461 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:52,320 Speaker 3: over and over and over again. That was one of 462 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:55,399 Speaker 3: the big reasons that the voters came out in overwhelming numbers, 463 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:58,960 Speaker 3: re elected President Trump, elected a Republican House, elected a 464 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:04,080 Speaker 3: Republican Senate, and we've seen immediate results. We've seen illegal 465 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:08,000 Speaker 3: border crossings drop more than ninety nine percent. The problem is, 466 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:10,960 Speaker 3: we have four years of open borders that we have 467 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 3: to unwind. We have over twelve million illegal aliens that 468 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:16,639 Speaker 3: were allowed to flood into this country. And so just 469 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:21,679 Speaker 3: this week, the story broke that a gas station clerk, 470 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:26,400 Speaker 3: a mom in Fort Myers, Florida, was bludgeoned to death 471 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 3: with a hammer. I mean, what a horrible way to 472 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,480 Speaker 3: go beaten to death with a hammer. And who is 473 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:37,160 Speaker 3: it that committed this crime? A Haitian illegal alien who 474 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,119 Speaker 3: was caught and then released at the border by the 475 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:44,639 Speaker 3: Biden administration. In twenty twenty two, an immigration judge ordered 476 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:50,439 Speaker 3: him deported. Robert Joshim is his name, but the Biden 477 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:59,480 Speaker 3: administration shielded him from deportation by granting him temporary protected status. So, 478 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 3: in other word, wards what this person did. He took 479 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,760 Speaker 3: a hammer the parking lot of a gas station. He 480 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 3: walks at her with full strengths. He beats her on 481 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 3: the head with a hammer. She falls down, unconscious, and 482 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:15,400 Speaker 3: then he crushes her head with the hammer while she's 483 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:20,679 Speaker 3: unconscious six more times. Here's the statement of the Department 484 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:26,080 Speaker 3: Homeland Security put out quote. This illegal alien barbarically hit 485 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,240 Speaker 3: this woman in the head multiple times with a hammer. 486 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:34,320 Speaker 3: This heinous murderer was released into the country by the 487 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 3: Bidad administration. Not only did the Bida administration release him 488 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:41,920 Speaker 3: into the country, but they gave him temporary protected status. 489 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:50,360 Speaker 3: Their reckless immigration policies cost this woman her life. This 490 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 3: keeps happening over and over and over again. And what 491 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 3: is amazing, Ben, In spite of that, every Democrat in 492 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:04,719 Speaker 3: the Senate when we have a vote, the Department I'm 493 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 3: less Security is still shut down because they have decided 494 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,560 Speaker 3: they hate ICE so much, they hate border enforcement so 495 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 3: much that it is the position of the Democrat Party 496 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 3: they are opposed. They want to defund ICE, which is 497 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 3: the organizations that is charged with finding this vicious criminal, 498 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 3: arresting him and deporting him. They don't want him deported. 499 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,240 Speaker 3: They want this Haitian murderer in your community. They don't 500 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:34,000 Speaker 3: care if you happen to be the poor woman who's 501 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:38,960 Speaker 3: bludgeoned to death. Look, you know, Chris Murphy, the very 502 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:43,720 Speaker 3: liberal Democrat from Connecticut, was on TV, and you know 503 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 3: there's an old line that a gaff is when a 504 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:50,120 Speaker 3: politician actually accidentally tells the truth. He described he said, 505 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 3: the people we care about the most, meaning we meaning Democrats, 506 00:29:56,120 --> 00:30:00,040 Speaker 3: are illegal immigrants. That is what their party is. And 507 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,840 Speaker 3: it's infuriating. It keeps happening over and over and over again. 508 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 2: When you talk about it still being shut down, and 509 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,080 Speaker 2: this is I think one of the midterms are going 510 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 2: to be a really important. Obviously, this should be one 511 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 2: of the important issues of the midterms that Republicans need 512 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 2: to remind if Democrats get back in charge, they've made 513 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 2: it clear they will immediately open the borders wide up 514 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:22,400 Speaker 2: and they don't care who comes in. 515 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 1: It's going to happen. Get ready for it. 516 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 2: That is their form, that is their policy, and they 517 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 2: will absolutely abolish ice if they can do it as well. 518 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 3: And by the way, understand, the risk is not just 519 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,800 Speaker 3: the murderers. It's not just the child molesters and the 520 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,400 Speaker 3: rapist and the gang bangers. It is also a very 521 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,160 Speaker 3: real risk of terrorism. We have seen in the last 522 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:48,000 Speaker 3: month four acts of terrorism by radical Islamic terrorists. And 523 00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 3: here's a story that broke this week. I'm just going 524 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 3: to read a tweet from Bill Malusian, the fantastic reporter 525 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:55,400 Speaker 3: at Fox. 526 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:56,160 Speaker 1: Here's what he said. 527 00:30:56,240 --> 00:31:01,040 Speaker 3: New Border patrol caught and arrested for British national entering 528 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:04,760 Speaker 3: the US illegally in a remote part of Maine after 529 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:10,160 Speaker 3: crossing from Canada. Their names these are four British nationals. 530 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:18,760 Speaker 3: Ali Mohammad Ali Abdullah that's number one, Hamid Mohammed Nagi 531 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:24,640 Speaker 3: that's number two, Ibrahim Ayub Khan, that's number three, and 532 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:29,920 Speaker 3: Mohammed Sultan Salai. And these are illegal immigrants that were 533 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:37,160 Speaker 3: sneaking into a remote wooded part of Maine. This is dangerous. 534 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,600 Speaker 3: Now you know what happened. Because President Trump is in 535 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 3: office and Border Patrol's allowed to do their job. They 536 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:47,080 Speaker 3: were apprehended. They weren't just let in and they're apprehended. 537 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,840 Speaker 3: You know what, I guarantee you they will not be released. 538 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,000 Speaker 3: They won't be released into this country. If Joe Biden 539 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,400 Speaker 3: were president, those four people whose names I just released, 540 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,760 Speaker 3: they named that they'd be released and we might be 541 00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:03,400 Speaker 3: reading about them in another week or two. That pattern 542 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 3: has played out over and over and over again. And 543 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:13,200 Speaker 3: by the way, it's not just illegal immigrants, it is 544 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:19,080 Speaker 3: criminals across the board. It is criminals across the board, 545 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:26,000 Speaker 3: such as for example, De Carlos Brown, who was this 546 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:33,680 Speaker 3: psychotic lunatic who murdered the beautiful Ukrainian woman in North Carolina. 547 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:41,640 Speaker 3: He was just ruled not competent to stand trial. And 548 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,480 Speaker 3: I don't doubt that the guy as crazy as a loon. 549 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:50,200 Speaker 3: But let's be clear, Democrats and Roy Cooper in particular, 550 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:58,719 Speaker 3: the Democrat governor, released this psychopath murderer fourteen separate times. 551 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,920 Speaker 3: If you keep releasing violent criminals and it actually helped 552 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:08,240 Speaker 3: me on this Ben play Devil's advocate for a minute. 553 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:11,160 Speaker 3: Try to get inside the mind of a Democrat. Why 554 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:16,000 Speaker 3: would they want to release violent criminals over and over again? 555 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't make sense, and yet they continue to 556 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,000 Speaker 2: do it because for them, I really do think it's 557 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,400 Speaker 2: an issue of politics, right, they want to bring in 558 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:25,280 Speaker 2: a new voters. 559 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:26,760 Speaker 1: That's the simplest way I can put it. 560 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,240 Speaker 3: Well, it's not just new voters, yes, for the illegals. 561 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,160 Speaker 3: But you look at this to Carlos Brown, he was 562 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:35,800 Speaker 3: not an illegal immigrant. He was just a psychopathic, lunatic American. 563 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,280 Speaker 3: But you know what Democrats also think, not only should 564 00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:40,880 Speaker 3: he be released from jail, they think he ought to 565 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,440 Speaker 3: be a voter. He's perfectly fine to vote in US elections. 566 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:49,160 Speaker 3: And I guarantee you violent criminals vote overwhelmingly Democrat. And 567 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,440 Speaker 3: I guess that explains why the Democrats their priority is 568 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,240 Speaker 3: violent criminals and not American citizens. 569 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, you're absolutely right. Don't forget. We do this show Monday, 570 00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:02,600 Speaker 2: Wednesday and Friday. 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