1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:01,920 Speaker 1: Welcome. 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:05,760 Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you, Senator, 3 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:08,360 Speaker 2: we have got a lot on this money to talk about, 4 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 2: and it's more than just the eclipse. There are new 5 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:14,240 Speaker 2: warnings at the southern border about possible terrace coming across 6 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 2: as well. 7 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:16,120 Speaker 1: Well, that's right. 8 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:18,279 Speaker 3: We should start with the fact that the eclipse is 9 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:21,760 Speaker 3: going to be happening today, that it is by all 10 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 3: accounts going to be spectacular. It's right over the middle 11 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 3: of Texas, and so if you are anywhere in the 12 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 3: path of the eclipse, i'd encourage you to go outside, 13 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 3: take a few minutes to obviously don't look directly in 14 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 3: the sun, but you can do the pinhole pinhole effort 15 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 3: with a piece of paper and take your kids out 16 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 3: there and see. We should get for good chunk of 17 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 3: Texas about about four minutes of darkness right in the 18 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:49,520 Speaker 3: middle of the day, and so that should be worthwhile 19 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 3: to go see. And actually, Ben, you're right now in Kerrville, Texas, 20 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 3: at a ranch right in the prime viewing spot. So 21 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 3: I will say today, as Verdict is coming out, the 22 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 3: sun will be blotted out. 23 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 2: It will be and I said, rarely in my life 24 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:10,039 Speaker 2: can I say that I went to the perfect spot. 25 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:12,479 Speaker 2: If it's good enough for NASA, it's gotta be good 26 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 2: enough for me. So it's gonna be four plus minutes 27 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 2: of total darkness, they say, and my kids are here. 28 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun in Curveville. They say. 29 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 2: The town of Curveville is gonna swell by over five 30 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 2: hundred thousand people just to see this moment. While it's 31 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:29,320 Speaker 2: a lifetime experience. Well, that is phenomenal. And I will say, 32 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 2: We've got a lot to talk about on the pod today. 33 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:33,560 Speaker 2: We've got, first of all, the border continues to get 34 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 2: worse and worse and worse. We're seeing god aways increasing, 35 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 2: We're seeing people on the known terror list increasing. That 36 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 2: is combining with the growing news of the threats of 37 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 2: a direct terror attack because of the war in the 38 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 2: Middle East, because of Iran, because of Hamas, because of Hesbola, 39 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 2: because of Palestinian Islamic jihad. The risk of a terror 40 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 2: attack here in the United States keeps going up, and 41 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 2: Joe Biden's open border is making it worse and worse. 42 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 2: We're also going to talk about the new audit done 43 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 2: at the IRS when it turns out that well, you know, 44 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 2: all of Joe Biden and Janet Yellen's promises not to 45 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 2: audit the middle class, turns out they were lying. They 46 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 2: are in fact going after the middle class, which would 47 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 2: be exactly what we told you on this podcast they 48 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 2: were going to do. 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They don't 94 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 2: believe it's a problem. They believe this is a way 95 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:53,839 Speaker 2: to change this country. It's an opportunity for them to 96 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:56,840 Speaker 2: bring in new voters and change things with the map 97 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 2: in Congress, with a census. The list of their person 98 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 2: is skyrocketing. Is more and more illegals coming across the border. 99 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 2: The problem now is the number of people that are 100 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 2: on the terrorist watch list is also skyrocketing that are 101 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 2: coming across southern border. As there's been concerns and warnings 102 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,799 Speaker 2: from the FBI. You've been warning about this for quite 103 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:17,280 Speaker 2: some time. 104 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, if you. 105 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:22,159 Speaker 3: Look at the number of suspects on the terror watch 106 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 3: list apprehended at the Southern border for the entire four 107 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:28,919 Speaker 3: years of the Trump administration, fiscal year twenty seventeen to 108 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 3: fiscal year twenty twenty one, the total people on the 109 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 3: terror watch list apprehended was twenty six over a total 110 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 3: of four years. Joe Biden came in, opened up the border, 111 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 3: and those numbers have skyrocketed in the last six months. 112 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 3: In the first half of fiscal year twenty twenty four, 113 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 3: sixty nine suspects on the terror watch list have been apprehended. 114 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 3: That's in six months. That that is more than ten 115 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 3: a month we had twenty six and four years, and 116 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:04,920 Speaker 3: under Joe Biden, we have more than ten known terrorist 117 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:10,279 Speaker 3: or people on the terror watch list apprehended every single 118 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,360 Speaker 3: month of this fiscal year. You put that on top 119 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 3: of the really concerning number, which is the known god aways. 120 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:20,599 Speaker 3: Known god aways are people we've observed at the border, 121 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 3: we know are there, but they got away, and they 122 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 3: got away. Typically, the god aways are much more likely 123 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 3: to be serious problems. They're more likely to be criminals. 124 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 3: They're more likely to be murderers or rapists or child molesters. 125 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 3: They're more likely to be gang members, and they're more 126 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 3: likely to be terrorist. If you're a terrorist, you're not 127 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 3: likely going to go turn yourself in to the border 128 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:42,040 Speaker 3: patrol agents, which is what millions of the legal immigrants 129 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 3: Joe Biden has led interdoing. Just in the month of March, 130 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 3: there were over twenty thousand known god aways. Just on 131 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:55,799 Speaker 3: Sunday there were nine hundred and nineteen known god aways. 132 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 3: Those are people among those nine hundred and nineteen. We 133 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:00,919 Speaker 3: don't know how many terrorists are there, but we do 134 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 3: know that if the terrorists are coming, that's what they're 135 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:04,600 Speaker 3: going to be as a gutaway. 136 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:07,479 Speaker 2: And those numbers are coming from customs and border patrols. 137 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 2: So this is the own Biden administration's numbers. They're telling 138 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 2: you this. There was also something else that Governor Abbott, 139 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 2: a good frint of yours, said on Fox News Channel. 140 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 2: He was asked about the Biden administration. Are they changing, 141 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 2: Are they doing anything different? I mean, in reality, we 142 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 2: know the Biden administration sues Texas so that Texas can't 143 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 2: protect and defend itself and tries to rip down the 144 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 2: razor wire and the border security measures they put up. 145 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 2: But what he said about this is the issue of 146 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 2: the terrorists coming across. He also said something else that's 147 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 2: very interesting that those on the tarists watch lists they 148 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 2: make more money for the smugglers than the cartel members 149 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 2: that are bringing them across. They're willing to pay more 150 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 2: to get across our scar border. Take a listen to 151 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 2: this from Fox News. 152 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 4: The chief of the Border Patrol is saying exactly one 153 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 4: hundred and forty thousand got aways. If we don't know 154 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:57,240 Speaker 4: who is coming into our country and we don't know 155 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 4: what their intent is, that is a threat. Does President Biden? 156 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 2: Degree President absolutely believes that along that border, we do 157 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:08,559 Speaker 2: have significant national security concerns that have to be met. 158 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 3: He also said that they're doing everything that they possibly can. 159 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 5: But are you worried that we're in a September tenth 160 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 5: mentality on this issue. Let's be clear, the Bid administration 161 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 5: is doing nothing to stop terrorists from coming across the border. 162 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 5: They are knowingly allowing them in. And there's two categories here. 163 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 5: They're the terrorists who are actually apprehended. The terrorists apprehended 164 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:35,719 Speaker 5: are an all time record, many multiples of those who 165 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 5: came across the border under the Trump administration. But second 166 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 5: you talked about the god aways, well, the terrorists will 167 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 5: pay extra not to be caught. What that means is 168 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 5: the number that we've caught, which is extraordinary. There's far 169 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 5: more than that who've gotten across the border. Remember this. 170 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 5: Also last month, the FBI director talked about a potential 171 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 5: nine to eleven type terrorist attack because of the terror 172 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:02,959 Speaker 5: who are coming across our border. The chief job of 173 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,440 Speaker 5: the president of the United States is national security. The 174 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:11,080 Speaker 5: President Biden is failing at national security. We are extraordinarily 175 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 5: concerned about a terrorist attack occurring in Texas or elsewhere 176 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 5: in the United States because of the terrorists who are 177 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 5: crossing our border at will, unstopped by the botom of 178 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:24,120 Speaker 5: you think ISIS is here today, so I have no 179 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:29,520 Speaker 5: information that they are. However, again, the FBI director was 180 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 5: talking last month about the possibility that Isis could be 181 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 5: coming here. Think about this concept. It's ridiculous that anybody 182 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 5: has their shoes inspected at an airport these days, when 183 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 5: terrorists can come right across the border and sneak in 184 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 5: and come here. Let me foreshadow also another concern we're 185 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:49,440 Speaker 5: going to have really soon that started kind of beginning 186 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 5: right now, and that's going to be drone wars. The 187 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 5: capability of the cartels about getting things across the border 188 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 5: through drones already is extraordinary, and they're going to be 189 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 5: more aggressive, more sophisticated in the drawing attacks. We can 190 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 5: sustain a drawing attack anytime. 191 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 2: Senator, You've talked about this, the number of drones that 192 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 2: are coming across. We played this audio on Verdict just 193 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 2: a few weeks ago, where where they were before Congress. 194 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,200 Speaker 2: They were talking about tens of thousands of drones that 195 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 2: are coming across into American airspace, some of them dropping 196 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 2: drugs and fetnyls, some of them spying on Americans. They 197 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 2: can also be used to target and to kill people 198 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 2: as well. We are seeing that in the Middle East 199 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:31,559 Speaker 2: right now. We're seeing that the war between Russia and Ukraine. 200 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 2: And yet all of this is happening. And we go 201 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 2: back to one of the things you said there, I mean, center, 202 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 2: are we in a September tenth mentality, which is what 203 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:41,559 Speaker 2: you heard her say there on Fox, Because I am 204 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 2: terrified that the Biden administration is absolutely in a September 205 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 2: tenth mindset. 206 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 3: I think there's no question about it. And the risk 207 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:53,320 Speaker 3: of a major terrorist attack in the United States is 208 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:57,720 Speaker 3: higher today than it has been any time since September eleventh, 209 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:00,520 Speaker 3: two thousand and one. And on top top of that, 210 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:03,960 Speaker 3: we have the news breaking this weekend. USA Today reported 211 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,440 Speaker 3: the US is on high alert for a potential attack 212 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 3: on Israel or on American facilities in the Middle East, 213 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 3: in retaliation for an Israeli strike in Syria that killed 214 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 3: Iranian commanders. Two US officials told USA Today. Iran vowed 215 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 3: revenge after suspected Israeli warplanes bombed its embassy in Damascus 216 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:29,680 Speaker 3: on Monday, killing a top Iranian military commander, a major 217 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:34,360 Speaker 3: escalation in Israel's war with its regional adversaries. The Biden 218 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 3: administration is concerned about the possibility Iranians might attack US 219 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 3: bases in Iraq and Syria, sources said, and American forces 220 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:47,480 Speaker 3: were in a heightened state of vigilance. Iran's Revolutionary guards 221 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 3: announced the death of seven military advisers in the Damascus strike, 222 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:57,440 Speaker 3: including Mohammad Reza Zahidi, a senior commander at its Kudz Force, 223 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 3: an elite foreign espionage and paramilitary arm Iran promised quote 224 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:10,440 Speaker 3: to take a decisive response. So we have Iran, the 225 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 3: leading state sponsor of terrorism, promising a decisive response, funding 226 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 3: millions and millions of dollars to fund Hamas terrorists, to 227 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 3: fund Hesbala terrorists, to fund Palestinian Islamic jihad to attack 228 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 3: directly American forces in the Middle East. And we have 229 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:33,200 Speaker 3: on top of that Joe Biden and the Democrats. And 230 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,079 Speaker 3: by the way, it's not just Joe Biden, it's every 231 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 3: congressional Democrat who has rubber stamped these open border policies, 232 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:43,200 Speaker 3: who have given the Iranians and Hamas and Hezbollah a 233 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 3: red carpet invitation to come into this country. And by 234 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:49,559 Speaker 3: the way, you heard Greg Gabbett talking about the drones. 235 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 3: Our drone vulnerability is enormous. I mean, we had testimony 236 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:59,720 Speaker 3: of upwards of twenty five thousand drone incursions from the 237 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 3: car tells across our southern border. At a time when 238 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:09,200 Speaker 3: Americans are directly threatened with terror, Joe Biden has given 239 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 3: an invitation to the for the terrorists to come to America. 240 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: Yeah. Great point. 241 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 2: When you wake up in the morning, if you're like me, 242 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 2: you want a great cup of coffee. 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We did a show and I got to 270 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 2: say to all the vertic listeners, you guys were amazing 271 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 2: and spreading that show on social media. If you missed it, 272 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 2: we did an entire episode on Israel and what's going 273 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 2: on in Israel. You can grab it and share that 274 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 2: wherever you are on social media. But there was a 275 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 2: lot of people that I think learned a lot from 276 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 2: the just quession that we had here and look, you 277 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 2: now look at what's going on the Middle East and 278 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 2: this threat from Iran. I think we should all take 279 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 2: it obviously, very seriously. I don't think they're lying. I 280 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 2: don't think they're they're they're they're basically trying to bluff 281 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 2: on this one. And the concerns are significant, But the 282 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 2: real concern is is America's lack of response or saying 283 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:24,040 Speaker 2: to Iran, you better not screw with us. And we've 284 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 2: allowed them for months and months to attack us interest 285 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 2: in the Middle East without US really retaliating, And that's 286 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 2: part of the reason why they're so bold right now, 287 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 2: am I wrong? 288 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 3: You're not, And it's worse than that. Look, I mean 289 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 3: we just a couple of weeks ago. I forced a 290 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:43,160 Speaker 3: vote on the Senate floor to block the Biden administration 291 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 3: from sending billions of dollars to Iran, and every single 292 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 3: Senate Democrat but won. Everyone but Bob Menendez voted no. 293 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:53,880 Speaker 3: And Menendez did it right at the end. I think 294 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 3: he was mostly pissed at the other Democrats who have 295 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 3: demanded that he resign, and so he voted with me. 296 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 3: But every other Democrat was happy to vote to send 297 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 3: billions to Iran. And by Iran has launched over one 298 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 3: hundred attacks on US servicemen and women in the last 299 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 3: six months. Not only that. You know, we just talked 300 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 3: about the threat from from Iran and the escalation in 301 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 3: the in the in the threat, what did the Biden 302 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 3: administration do well a US This is from NBC News Now. 303 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 3: A US intelligence assessment warns that Iran could carry out 304 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:36,040 Speaker 3: an attack using a swarm of drones or land attack 305 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 3: cruise missiles, and that Iran could target an Israeli diplomatic 306 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 3: or consular facility in the region in retaliation for the 307 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 3: strike on Damascus. According to two US officials familiar with 308 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 3: the assessment, Iran is likely to respond before the end 309 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 3: of Ramadan next week, so there's a particularly heightened alert 310 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 3: right now. On Friday, a tap aid to Iranian President 311 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:03,560 Speaker 3: Ibrahim Rasi said said Tehran sent a message warning the 312 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 3: United States not to get involved in the fight between 313 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 3: Israel and Iran. Quote in a written message, the Islamic 314 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 3: Republic of Iran warns US leadership not to get dragged 315 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 3: in net Yahu's trap for the US. Stay away so 316 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 3: you won't get hurt. 317 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 1: Is what. 318 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:23,160 Speaker 3: Mohammed Jamshitti. Uh, that's how what his name is posted 319 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:28,359 Speaker 3: on x He wrote that in response, the US asked 320 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 3: i Ran not to target American facilities. A spokesperson for 321 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:36,080 Speaker 3: the National Security Council said reports that the US had 322 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:39,520 Speaker 3: asked Iran not to target American facilities were simply wrong 323 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:43,120 Speaker 3: and an Iranian spin. And and here's here's a little 324 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:43,439 Speaker 3: bit more. 325 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 1: Quote. 326 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 3: We received a message from Iran following the strike in Damascus. 327 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:50,399 Speaker 3: In response, we made clear that we were not behind 328 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 3: the strike. We also warned Iran not to use the 329 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 3: strike as a pretext to further escalate in the region 330 00:17:55,680 --> 00:18:00,439 Speaker 3: or attack US facilities or personnel. In the hours after 331 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 3: the strike in Damascus, that is, the Biden administration reached 332 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:08,440 Speaker 3: out to Iran directly to assure Tehrod that the US 333 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:11,119 Speaker 3: was not involved and did not have advanced knowledge of 334 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:12,920 Speaker 3: the strike. So, in other words, this is what the 335 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 3: Biden administration does in the middle of the war. 336 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: What do they do? 337 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:17,480 Speaker 3: They call Iran and they're like, oh, we're sorry, We're sorry, 338 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 3: We're sorry. 339 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: Mind you. 340 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 3: Iran is funding Hamas, is effectively waging war with Israel. 341 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:25,239 Speaker 3: And what is Biden doing calling Iran and apologizing and 342 00:18:25,359 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 3: also allowing an open border with an invitation for anyone 343 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:32,240 Speaker 3: with ill intent to come into this country. 344 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 2: We also know that Iran, through their proxies have been 345 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 2: targeting American interests in the Middle East, and yet we 346 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:40,520 Speaker 2: still call and say, hey, don't worry, we weren't involved 347 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 2: in this. 348 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:42,879 Speaker 1: What message is that said to them? 349 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 2: They can do whatever they want in the Middle East 350 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:45,440 Speaker 2: and America won't respond. 351 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:49,399 Speaker 3: Now, sadly, that's exactly the message that Joe Biden is 352 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:53,280 Speaker 3: sending every day. Iran is discovering they can attack Americans, 353 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:56,480 Speaker 3: they can murder Americans, they can attack over and over 354 00:18:56,680 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 3: and over again, and the Biden administration not only no response, 355 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:04,120 Speaker 3: the Biden administration's response will be here have billions of dollars. 356 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:09,520 Speaker 3: It is bizarre. It ought to be an incredibly simple principle, 357 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:12,159 Speaker 3: don't give money to people who want to kill you. 358 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:15,639 Speaker 3: And I'll add an addendum to that, who are actively 359 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:18,919 Speaker 3: trying to kill you. And yet Biden and the Democrats 360 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:23,120 Speaker 3: keeps shoveling cash more and more to Iran. And by 361 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:27,200 Speaker 3: the way, Iran is still selling two million barrels a 362 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:30,840 Speaker 3: day of oil because Joe Biden refuses to enforce the 363 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:33,440 Speaker 3: oil sanctions that's funding the regime. 364 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 2: I want you to explain this even more because this 365 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 2: is something I think many in the media have refused 366 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 2: to cover and tell the truth about this. We have 367 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 2: sanctions right now, yes, are in place on Iranian oil 368 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 2: that have been in place for quite some time. And 369 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:54,520 Speaker 2: the only difference is this administration. They have not officially 370 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:58,199 Speaker 2: lifted the sanctions. The sanctions are technically still there in 371 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 2: name only, but we're allowing them to export the oil. 372 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:04,400 Speaker 2: Is that the easiest way to explain it to everyone listening. 373 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:08,120 Speaker 3: No, that's exactly right, And let's review the bidding Let's 374 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:11,360 Speaker 3: do a little bit of history on Iranian oil sales. 375 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:13,880 Speaker 3: So if you go back to the Trump administration, there 376 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:16,879 Speaker 3: was a big battle in the Trump administration. Within the 377 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:20,360 Speaker 3: administration about whether to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, 378 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 3: the Obama deal, which was a terrible deal. Both the 379 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 3: State Department and the Defense Department said no, do not 380 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 3: pull out of the deal. I strongly disagreed. I went 381 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:33,639 Speaker 3: to President Trump repeatedly, over and over and over again 382 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:37,360 Speaker 3: and argued, this deal was catastrophic, it was endangering America, 383 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:41,080 Speaker 3: it was bad, and the President agreed with me. President 384 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 3: Trump overruled his own Secretary of State, overruled his own 385 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:48,200 Speaker 3: Secretary Defense. He pulled out of the Iran deal. Now, 386 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:52,119 Speaker 3: once he pulled out of the deal, there were still 387 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:55,679 Speaker 3: significant components of the deal that remained in a place, 388 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,680 Speaker 3: and the most significant was what was called the oil waivers. 389 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:04,720 Speaker 3: The oil waivers allowed Iran to sell oil and that 390 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:08,639 Speaker 3: was the major source of funding for the regime. I 391 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 3: began then arguing to President Trump, we needed to end 392 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:15,240 Speaker 3: the oil waiver. There was again a fight within the 393 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 3: Trump administration on this question. At this time, the lines 394 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:22,480 Speaker 3: were a little bit different. You had State arguing no, 395 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:25,679 Speaker 3: do not end the oil waivers. You had Energy, the 396 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 3: Department of Energy saying yes, end the oil waivers. This 397 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:32,119 Speaker 3: was Mike Pompeo had just started a Secretary of State, 398 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,199 Speaker 3: and the State Department was arguing, if we end the 399 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:38,919 Speaker 3: oil waiver on Iran, the effect will be that the 400 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:42,680 Speaker 3: price of oil will skyrocket, the price of gasoline will skyrocket. 401 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 3: The Department of Energy chimed in, and you would think 402 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:50,639 Speaker 3: that Apartment of Energy has some expertise in energy. They said, no, 403 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,679 Speaker 3: that's ridiculous. There's plenty of global supply of oil. We 404 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:55,399 Speaker 3: can end the oil waiver and it's not going to 405 00:21:55,480 --> 00:22:01,399 Speaker 3: cause prices to skyrocket. Again, I leaned in vigorously. I 406 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 3: urged President Trump end the oil waivers. State's wrong, Energy's right. Well, 407 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:13,200 Speaker 3: President Trump again agreed with me, overruled his own secretary 408 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:15,840 Speaker 3: of State. He ended the oil waivers. At the time 409 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:20,240 Speaker 3: he did that, Iran was selling roughly one million barrels 410 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:22,720 Speaker 3: a day of oil, so that was their major revenue source. 411 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 3: We ended the oil waivers, and we now know who 412 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 3: was right. Energy was right and State was wrong. Because 413 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:33,400 Speaker 3: we ended the oil waivers and the global price barely moved. 414 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:36,679 Speaker 3: It had negligible impact on price, There was plenty of supply. 415 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 3: What it did have an impact on is it devastated 416 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 3: the Iranian economy and their oil sales dropped from one 417 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 3: million barrels a day to about three hundred thousand barrels 418 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:52,880 Speaker 3: a day. And so when Joe Biden came into office, 419 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 3: the Iranian economy was in shambles. The effect of those 420 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:02,679 Speaker 3: oil sanctions were crushing, and all Joe Biden had to 421 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 3: do was not screw it up. But understand that Biden 422 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:10,399 Speaker 3: and the Democrats, their number one foreign policy objective is 423 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 3: getting a new nuclear deal with Iran, and bizarrely they 424 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:22,119 Speaker 3: prioritize this over everything. So Biden almost immediately stopped in 425 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:25,320 Speaker 3: forcing the oil sanctions, just just kind of look the 426 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:28,639 Speaker 3: other way. And so what happens is Iran has a 427 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 3: ghost fleet of tankers that they send oil mostly to 428 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:36,560 Speaker 3: communists China. China buys it and it funds Iran. Biden 429 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 3: came in, Iran is selling three hundred thousand barrels a day. Today, 430 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:48,800 Speaker 3: Iran is selling two million barrels of oil a day. Wow, 431 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,200 Speaker 3: more than double what they were doing before we ended 432 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 3: the oil waiver. And they're using that that has been 433 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 3: upwards of eighty billion dollars that Joe Biden has given 434 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 3: a theocratic, homicidal, genocidal maniac, that is the Ayatola who 435 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,960 Speaker 3: pledges death to America, and right now he's pledging to 436 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 3: retaliate directly. And yet Joe Biden continues to this day 437 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,720 Speaker 3: not to enforce the oil sanctions. 438 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,959 Speaker 2: Last question for you on this, why do you believe 439 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,360 Speaker 2: he refuses to enforce them. Is it just political ideology, 440 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:27,239 Speaker 2: Is it he's compromised in some way, or is it 441 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,639 Speaker 2: he's just completely ignorant to the threat that Iran is 442 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:34,880 Speaker 2: to the world's stability, including to Israel as well as America. 443 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 3: I think the ideology of the Biden White House and 444 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:42,920 Speaker 3: the Biden State Department in many ways, this White House 445 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 3: doesn't have a foreign policy that they have a domestic 446 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:52,160 Speaker 3: policy writ large, so they broadcast out to the world. 447 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:56,640 Speaker 3: They divide the world into blue countries and red countries. 448 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 3: And red countries are those countries that wanted to be 449 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 3: friends with America when Donald Trump was president, and blue 450 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 3: countries are those countries that hated America when Donald Trump 451 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:13,000 Speaker 3: was president. And the entirety of the Biden foreign policy 452 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:19,680 Speaker 3: is to undermine, to alienate, to weaken the red countries, 453 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:26,119 Speaker 3: and to acquiesce, to appease to and send billions of 454 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,359 Speaker 3: dollars to the blue country. So the reddest country of 455 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:33,360 Speaker 3: all is Israel. It's why Biden systematically undermines Israel. Other 456 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 3: red countries include the United Kingdom, that include nations like Brazil. 457 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:43,000 Speaker 3: When you had Bolsonara was very pro pro America. What 458 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 3: happened the Biden administration undermined him and they got Lula 459 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 3: radical leftists to hate America. Colombia was another red country. 460 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 3: We had a very strong pro American ally in Ivon Duque. 461 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 3: The Biden White House undermined Duque. We ended up with 462 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:03,200 Speaker 3: now an anti American leftist Petro who again hates America. Guatemala, 463 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:05,919 Speaker 3: Guatemala we had, we had the president of Guatemala was 464 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 3: strongly allied with the United States. As soon as he left, 465 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 3: the Biden administration imposed sanctions on the outgoing president of Guatemala. 466 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 3: Who are the blue countries, Well, there are lots of 467 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,439 Speaker 3: blue countries. Uh, You've got China's a blue country, Russia, 468 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 3: Russia's a blue country. North Korea is a blue country. 469 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,600 Speaker 3: Venezuela is a blue country. But the bluest of all 470 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:31,359 Speaker 3: blue countries is Iran. The Biden administration that they they 471 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:37,760 Speaker 3: view this it's almost like religious their obsession with a 472 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 3: new nuclear deal with Iran, and they're willing to bend 473 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 3: over backwards no matter what. 474 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 6: You know. 475 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:47,560 Speaker 3: I'm reminded there was a political cartoon when when John 476 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,960 Speaker 3: Kerry was Secretary of State Obama was president, and it 477 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 3: had the Iyatolas saying death to America, and it had 478 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,399 Speaker 3: John Kerry saying, can we meet you halfway? That's the 479 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:02,199 Speaker 3: view of this White House. They're naive, they're ignorant, and 480 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:06,359 Speaker 3: they want to shove billions of dollars to Iran even 481 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,960 Speaker 3: while they're actively trying to murder Americans and funding the 482 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:10,679 Speaker 3: war in Israel. 483 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 2: I want to talk to you about what you can 484 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:16,240 Speaker 2: do to help people in Israel. Right now, we all 485 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 2: know about the atrocities that were committed by Hamaslaks last 486 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 2: October the seventh, which kicked off a vicious war as 487 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 2: Israel is defending herself from terrorists now on every side. 488 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:30,760 Speaker 2: The toll on the Israeli people is real, it is staggering, 489 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:34,120 Speaker 2: and it's massive. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been 490 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:38,159 Speaker 2: forced from their homes. Entire communities torn apart, lives have 491 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 2: been devastated by death and destruction and war. The International 492 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:46,600 Speaker 2: Fellowship of Christian and Jews, known as IFCJ, is right 493 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,359 Speaker 2: there in the middle of it. Each and every day 494 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 2: they are distributing right now critical essentials like food, medicine, 495 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 2: and emergency supplies for hundreds of thousands of suffering Jews 496 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,640 Speaker 2: that have been displaced. The need is great and that's 497 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:05,320 Speaker 2: why I am partnering with IFCJ today and I want 498 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 2: you to get involved in help. I want you to 499 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:15,159 Speaker 2: visit support IFCJ dot org to help. Every donation is 500 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,399 Speaker 2: urgently need to help the people of Israel. A lot 501 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,240 Speaker 2: of people have said, how can I help? This is 502 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,200 Speaker 2: how you can help to give the International Fellowship of 503 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 2: Christian and Jews. All you have to do is go 504 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 2: to support IFCJ dot org and give as generously as 505 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,880 Speaker 2: you can, because your gift will be matched to double 506 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 2: in impact and help provide twice the support right now. Again, 507 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 2: that's support IFCJ dot org. Support IFCJ dot org. Thank 508 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 2: you and God bless Senator. Let's talk about this shocking 509 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,960 Speaker 2: new data that's come out, a warning that came from 510 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 2: you on this show, and I want to play that 511 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 2: in a moment, but I want to get to the 512 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,800 Speaker 2: headline here. There are two things right now that are 513 00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,360 Speaker 2: worrying many Americans. Number one, it's bid nomics. It is 514 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 2: a disaster right now. We are seeing even top Biden 515 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 2: economic advisor bragged about gas prices, which are up fifty 516 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 2: percent since Biden took office, saying, quote, we are pleased 517 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 2: that gas prices have come down. Now the media is 518 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 2: allowing them to lie, and the American people are not 519 00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:20,840 Speaker 2: going to fall for this. I don't believe. But take 520 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 2: a listen to this. This is coming from the White House, 521 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:26,480 Speaker 2: from the Biden team trying to convince Americans that, hey, 522 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 2: you're paying less of the pump right now than ever. 523 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 1: You should be excited. 524 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 6: Oh important for American families and a big focus of 525 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 6: President Biden. We are pleased that gas prices have come 526 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:43,680 Speaker 6: down by a dollar forty relative to that peak that 527 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:47,760 Speaker 6: was caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But as you say, 528 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,360 Speaker 6: we are watching carefully to make sure that those gas 529 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 6: prices that the pump don't go up. 530 00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 2: To Now, Senator, that's just a lie that gas prices 531 00:29:58,600 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 2: are not down. 532 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,680 Speaker 1: Anyone that goes the pump knows this. 533 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 2: We also know now that grocery prices are nearing forty 534 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:08,280 Speaker 2: percent higher than they were in twenty nineteen. And to 535 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,920 Speaker 2: add insult to injury, we're now being told, on top 536 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,720 Speaker 2: of all of that that's hurting the middle class, there's 537 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,960 Speaker 2: now going to be more than ever IRS agents that 538 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:23,959 Speaker 2: are targeting specifically middle class Americans, with more audits than 539 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 2: ever before. 540 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 1: Well, that's exactly right. 541 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,920 Speaker 3: First of all, in terms of prices, you know, they're 542 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,800 Speaker 3: crowing about that that they say gasoline prices are lower 543 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,160 Speaker 3: than the worst they were under Biden, but they're still 544 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,080 Speaker 3: up fifty one percent from where they were under Trump. 545 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,560 Speaker 3: By the way, overall prices are up eighteen point six percent. 546 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 3: Real average weekly earnings are down four point two percent. 547 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,320 Speaker 3: Real average weekly warnings earnings were up eight point two 548 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,720 Speaker 3: percent under Trump. And in the month of March zero 549 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:57,880 Speaker 3: new manufacturing jobs were added. And so look, the economy 550 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,360 Speaker 3: is hurting mightily. And then you put on top of 551 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 3: that the IRS is doing actually what we predicted on 552 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,920 Speaker 3: this podcast is targeting the middle class. The Wall Street 553 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 3: Journal wrote that wrote just a few days ago, quote 554 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,840 Speaker 3: the internal Revenue Service got an audit of its own 555 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 3: in time for tax Day, and two irregularities jump out. 556 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 3: President Biden's plan to hire a new army of tax 557 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:25,680 Speaker 3: collectors is falling flat, and the agents already at work 558 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:29,960 Speaker 3: are targeting the middle class. Those are the two findings 559 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:34,080 Speaker 3: of the IRS's watchdog, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. 560 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,600 Speaker 3: The most recent data suggests the IRS is still focused 561 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:43,280 Speaker 3: on the middle class. As of last summer, sixty three 562 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:49,160 Speaker 3: percent of new audits targeted taxpayers with incomes of less 563 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:54,720 Speaker 3: than two hundred thousand dollars. Only a small overall share 564 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 3: reached the very highest earners, while eighty percent of the 565 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:02,360 Speaker 3: audits covered earning less than one million dollars. 566 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:04,400 Speaker 1: And as the Wall. 567 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,400 Speaker 3: Street Journal urge, as you don't forget to save those 568 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:13,200 Speaker 3: charitable giving receipts. This is exactly opposite what Joe Biden 569 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,840 Speaker 3: promised the American people. But it's what we knew was 570 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,440 Speaker 3: going to happen. They were going to use the new 571 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,120 Speaker 3: agents to go after the middle class. That's exactly what 572 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:21,600 Speaker 3: they're doing. 573 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 2: Let me just remind people of what you said on 574 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,640 Speaker 2: the show, and this was quite some time ago. Here 575 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,440 Speaker 2: is the warning when we said it here early on 576 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,200 Speaker 2: that they're going to come after average Americans, not just 577 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:33,640 Speaker 2: the elites, as they were claiming. 578 00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,840 Speaker 3: For Good Friday in Easter, the IRS released the news. 579 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,480 Speaker 3: They did it as a news dump going into the 580 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:41,959 Speaker 3: holiday because they didn't want people to pay attention to it. 581 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:46,880 Speaker 3: That they are right now hiring the first thirty thousand 582 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:50,240 Speaker 3: of those employees. Ten thousand of them are being hired 583 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:53,600 Speaker 3: in the current fiscal year, and in fiscal year twenty 584 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:57,360 Speaker 3: twenty four they're planning to double that with twenty seven 585 00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 3: thousand new hires. Now, now, what does that need, Well, 586 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,360 Speaker 3: let's go through a lot of different elements. The long 587 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,600 Speaker 3: and short of it is, it means a whole bunch 588 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:11,800 Speaker 3: more IRS employees there to harass you, to harass citizens, 589 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:15,360 Speaker 3: to rass small businesses, to harass and target the political 590 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,360 Speaker 3: enemies of the Biden White House. 591 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,520 Speaker 2: But Senator, you look at that warning, and you look 592 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:25,840 Speaker 2: at what you mentioned right beforehand about prices that have skyrocketed, 593 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:29,240 Speaker 2: the costs of goods and services are up, manufacturing jobs 594 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,959 Speaker 2: that are down, and there has to be a moment, 595 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,240 Speaker 2: I would argue of reckoning with the average American voter 596 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:39,400 Speaker 2: where they look at this administration, and they sit there 597 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,040 Speaker 2: and they stare at you in the face. They say, no, no, 598 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:44,120 Speaker 2: gas prices are good, and the American people have to know, no, 599 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,000 Speaker 2: that's not true. When they say, oh no, no, the 600 00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:47,480 Speaker 2: price at the grocery store, they're. 601 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:48,040 Speaker 1: Not that bad. 602 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,840 Speaker 2: They've got to have a moment where they say, no, no, no, 603 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:54,840 Speaker 2: we don't believe you anymore. You travel a lot, you 604 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:56,960 Speaker 2: talk to a lot of people on the state of Texas. 605 00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,680 Speaker 2: I don't believe that the American people are going to 606 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:01,560 Speaker 2: being boozled by this much longer. 607 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:02,320 Speaker 1: Yeah. 608 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:05,360 Speaker 3: Look, I think the American people know that that Bidenomics 609 00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,480 Speaker 3: is a mess. And in fact, you see the Biden 610 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:11,920 Speaker 3: White House backing away from using that term Bidenomics because 611 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,560 Speaker 3: they thought it was a good thing and they discovered 612 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:16,359 Speaker 3: oh wait, people think it's a terrible thing. 613 00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:18,920 Speaker 1: That that's it. 614 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,000 Speaker 3: Listen to anyone who's paying the bills, anyone who goes 615 00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,600 Speaker 3: to the grocery store, anyone who fills up their tank 616 00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:28,200 Speaker 3: at the pump, anyone who deals with health care cost, 617 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:32,759 Speaker 3: electricity costs, rent, mortgages. I'll tell you, young people, I 618 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,520 Speaker 3: think one of the real most potent things is young 619 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:40,040 Speaker 3: people buying their first home a young married couple. They're 620 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:42,840 Speaker 3: suddenly discovering they can get about half as much house 621 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,680 Speaker 3: as they thought they could get, because a few years ago, 622 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,520 Speaker 3: when you had mortgage rates at at two and a 623 00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:51,560 Speaker 3: half percent, you could get actually a pretty big, pretty 624 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,040 Speaker 3: you know, a nice three bedroom house, a backyard, a 625 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:58,960 Speaker 3: swing And suddenly young people are discovering, holy cow, what 626 00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:01,200 Speaker 3: I thought I could have Ford is now out of reach. 627 00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:03,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, you're absolutely right. 628 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,560 Speaker 2: This is going to be a top issue certainly going 629 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:09,320 Speaker 2: into this big election November. And I hope that conservatives 630 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,480 Speaker 2: all of the country just tell the truth, and I 631 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,520 Speaker 2: hope that the media will start covering it. They're still 632 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:15,319 Speaker 2: covering and you could hear it in those headlines. You 633 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,560 Speaker 2: can hear it in the audio. They will allow them 634 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,120 Speaker 2: to lie on national TV to your face about how 635 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,680 Speaker 2: great things are when they know compared to where they 636 00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,239 Speaker 2: were in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, it is a disaster. 637 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:27,520 Speaker 2: Don't forget Center. Cruise and I do the show with 638 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,320 Speaker 2: you every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 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