WEBVTT - With Iran Threatening Terror Attacks, Biden's Open Borders Get even WORSE, plus IRS Targeting the Middle Class

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome.

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<v Speaker 2>It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you, Senator,

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<v Speaker 2>we have got a lot on this money to talk about,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's more than just the eclipse. There are new

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<v Speaker 2>warnings at the southern border about possible terrace coming across

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<v Speaker 2>as well.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, that's right.

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<v Speaker 3>We should start with the fact that the eclipse is

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<v Speaker 3>going to be happening today, that it is by all

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<v Speaker 3>accounts going to be spectacular. It's right over the middle

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<v Speaker 3>of Texas, and so if you are anywhere in the

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<v Speaker 3>path of the eclipse, i'd encourage you to go outside,

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<v Speaker 3>take a few minutes to obviously don't look directly in

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<v Speaker 3>the sun, but you can do the pinhole pinhole effort

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<v Speaker 3>with a piece of paper and take your kids out

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<v Speaker 3>there and see. We should get for good chunk of

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<v Speaker 3>Texas about about four minutes of darkness right in the

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<v Speaker 3>middle of the day, and so that should be worthwhile

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<v Speaker 3>to go see. And actually, Ben, you're right now in Kerrville, Texas,

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<v Speaker 3>at a ranch right in the prime viewing spot. So

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<v Speaker 3>I will say today, as Verdict is coming out, the

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<v Speaker 3>sun will be blotted out.

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<v Speaker 2>It will be and I said, rarely in my life

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<v Speaker 2>can I say that I went to the perfect spot.

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<v Speaker 2>If it's good enough for NASA, it's gotta be good

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<v Speaker 2>enough for me. So it's gonna be four plus minutes

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<v Speaker 2>of total darkness, they say, and my kids are here.

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<v Speaker 1>It's gonna be fun in Curveville. They say.

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<v Speaker 2>The town of Curveville is gonna swell by over five

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<v Speaker 2>hundred thousand people just to see this moment. While it's

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<v Speaker 2>a lifetime experience. Well, that is phenomenal. And I will say,

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<v Speaker 2>We've got a lot to talk about on the pod today.

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<v Speaker 2>We've got, first of all, the border continues to get

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<v Speaker 2>worse and worse and worse. We're seeing god aways increasing,

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<v Speaker 2>We're seeing people on the known terror list increasing. That

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<v Speaker 2>is combining with the growing news of the threats of

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<v Speaker 2>a direct terror attack because of the war in the

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<v Speaker 2>Middle East, because of Iran, because of Hamas, because of Hesbola,

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<v Speaker 2>because of Palestinian Islamic jihad. The risk of a terror

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<v Speaker 2>attack here in the United States keeps going up, and

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<v Speaker 2>Joe Biden's open border is making it worse and worse.

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<v Speaker 2>We're also going to talk about the new audit done

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<v Speaker 2>at the IRS when it turns out that well, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>all of Joe Biden and Janet Yellen's promises not to

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<v Speaker 2>audit the middle class, turns out they were lying. They

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<v Speaker 2>are in fact going after the middle class, which would

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<v Speaker 2>be exactly what we told you on this podcast they

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<v Speaker 2>Let's talk about the warning at the southern border. The

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<v Speaker 2>number of godaways has skyrocketed center and this is as

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<v Speaker 2>there has been so much attention on the border, which

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<v Speaker 2>which again goes back to the point that you've said

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<v Speaker 2>over and over again, this administration created this. They don't

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<v Speaker 2>believe it's a problem. They believe this is a way

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<v Speaker 2>to change this country. It's an opportunity for them to

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<v Speaker 2>bring in new voters and change things with the map

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<v Speaker 2>in Congress, with a census. The list of their person

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<v Speaker 2>is skyrocketing. Is more and more illegals coming across the border.

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<v Speaker 2>The problem now is the number of people that are

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<v Speaker 2>on the terrorist watch list is also skyrocketing that are

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<v Speaker 2>coming across southern border. As there's been concerns and warnings

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<v Speaker 2>from the FBI. You've been warning about this for quite

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<v Speaker 2>some time.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, if you.

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<v Speaker 3>Look at the number of suspects on the terror watch

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<v Speaker 3>list apprehended at the Southern border for the entire four

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<v Speaker 3>years of the Trump administration, fiscal year twenty seventeen to

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<v Speaker 3>fiscal year twenty twenty one, the total people on the

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<v Speaker 3>terror watch list apprehended was twenty six over a total

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<v Speaker 3>of four years. Joe Biden came in, opened up the border,

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<v Speaker 3>and those numbers have skyrocketed in the last six months.

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<v Speaker 3>In the first half of fiscal year twenty twenty four,

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<v Speaker 3>sixty nine suspects on the terror watch list have been apprehended.

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<v Speaker 3>That's in six months. That that is more than ten

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<v Speaker 3>a month we had twenty six and four years, and

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<v Speaker 3>under Joe Biden, we have more than ten known terrorist

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<v Speaker 3>or people on the terror watch list apprehended every single

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<v Speaker 3>month of this fiscal year. You put that on top

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<v Speaker 3>of the really concerning number, which is the known god aways.

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<v Speaker 3>Known god aways are people we've observed at the border,

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<v Speaker 3>we know are there, but they got away, and they

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<v Speaker 3>got away. Typically, the god aways are much more likely

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<v Speaker 3>to be serious problems. They're more likely to be criminals.

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<v Speaker 3>They're more likely to be murderers or rapists or child molesters.

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<v Speaker 3>They're more likely to be gang members, and they're more

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<v Speaker 3>likely to be terrorist. If you're a terrorist, you're not

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<v Speaker 3>likely going to go turn yourself in to the border

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<v Speaker 3>patrol agents, which is what millions of the legal immigrants

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<v Speaker 3>Joe Biden has led interdoing. Just in the month of March,

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<v Speaker 3>there were over twenty thousand known god aways. Just on

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<v Speaker 3>Sunday there were nine hundred and nineteen known god aways.

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<v Speaker 3>Those are people among those nine hundred and nineteen. We

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<v Speaker 3>don't know how many terrorists are there, but we do

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<v Speaker 3>know that if the terrorists are coming, that's what they're

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<v Speaker 3>going to be as a gutaway.

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<v Speaker 2>And those numbers are coming from customs and border patrols.

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<v Speaker 2>So this is the own Biden administration's numbers. They're telling

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<v Speaker 2>you this. There was also something else that Governor Abbott,

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<v Speaker 2>a good frint of yours, said on Fox News Channel.

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<v Speaker 2>He was asked about the Biden administration. Are they changing,

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<v Speaker 2>Are they doing anything different? I mean, in reality, we

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<v Speaker 2>know the Biden administration sues Texas so that Texas can't

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<v Speaker 2>protect and defend itself and tries to rip down the

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<v Speaker 2>razor wire and the border security measures they put up.

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<v Speaker 2>But what he said about this is the issue of

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<v Speaker 2>the terrorists coming across. He also said something else that's

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<v Speaker 2>very interesting that those on the tarists watch lists they

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<v Speaker 2>make more money for the smugglers than the cartel members

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<v Speaker 2>that are bringing them across. They're willing to pay more

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<v Speaker 2>to get across our scar border. Take a listen to

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<v Speaker 2>this from Fox News.

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<v Speaker 4>The chief of the Border Patrol is saying exactly one

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<v Speaker 4>hundred and forty thousand got aways. If we don't know

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<v Speaker 4>who is coming into our country and we don't know

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<v Speaker 4>what their intent is, that is a threat. Does President Biden?

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<v Speaker 2>Degree President absolutely believes that along that border, we do

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<v Speaker 2>have significant national security concerns that have to be met.

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<v Speaker 3>He also said that they're doing everything that they possibly can.

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<v Speaker 5>But are you worried that we're in a September tenth

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<v Speaker 5>mentality on this issue. Let's be clear, the Bid administration

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<v Speaker 5>is doing nothing to stop terrorists from coming across the border.

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<v Speaker 5>They are knowingly allowing them in. And there's two categories here.

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<v Speaker 5>They're the terrorists who are actually apprehended. The terrorists apprehended

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<v Speaker 5>are an all time record, many multiples of those who

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<v Speaker 5>came across the border under the Trump administration. But second

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<v Speaker 5>you talked about the god aways, well, the terrorists will

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<v Speaker 5>pay extra not to be caught. What that means is

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<v Speaker 5>the number that we've caught, which is extraordinary. There's far

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<v Speaker 5>more than that who've gotten across the border. Remember this.

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<v Speaker 5>Also last month, the FBI director talked about a potential

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<v Speaker 5>nine to eleven type terrorist attack because of the terror

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<v Speaker 5>who are coming across our border. The chief job of

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<v Speaker 5>the president of the United States is national security. The

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<v Speaker 5>President Biden is failing at national security. We are extraordinarily

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<v Speaker 5>concerned about a terrorist attack occurring in Texas or elsewhere

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<v Speaker 5>in the United States because of the terrorists who are

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<v Speaker 5>crossing our border at will, unstopped by the botom of

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<v Speaker 5>you think ISIS is here today, so I have no

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<v Speaker 5>information that they are. However, again, the FBI director was

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<v Speaker 5>talking last month about the possibility that Isis could be

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<v Speaker 5>coming here. Think about this concept. It's ridiculous that anybody

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<v Speaker 5>has their shoes inspected at an airport these days, when

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<v Speaker 5>terrorists can come right across the border and sneak in

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<v Speaker 5>and come here. Let me foreshadow also another concern we're

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<v Speaker 5>going to have really soon that started kind of beginning

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<v Speaker 5>right now, and that's going to be drone wars. The

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<v Speaker 5>capability of the cartels about getting things across the border

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<v Speaker 5>through drones already is extraordinary, and they're going to be

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<v Speaker 5>more aggressive, more sophisticated in the drawing attacks. We can

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<v Speaker 5>sustain a drawing attack anytime.

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<v Speaker 2>Senator, You've talked about this, the number of drones that

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<v Speaker 2>are coming across. We played this audio on Verdict just

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<v Speaker 2>a few weeks ago, where where they were before Congress.

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<v Speaker 2>They were talking about tens of thousands of drones that

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<v Speaker 2>are coming across into American airspace, some of them dropping

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<v Speaker 2>drugs and fetnyls, some of them spying on Americans. They

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<v Speaker 2>can also be used to target and to kill people

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<v Speaker 2>as well. We are seeing that in the Middle East

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<v Speaker 2>right now. We're seeing that the war between Russia and Ukraine.

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<v Speaker 2>And yet all of this is happening. And we go

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<v Speaker 2>back to one of the things you said there, I mean, center,

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<v Speaker 2>are we in a September tenth mentality, which is what

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<v Speaker 2>you heard her say there on Fox, Because I am

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<v Speaker 2>terrified that the Biden administration is absolutely in a September

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<v Speaker 2>tenth mindset.

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<v Speaker 3>I think there's no question about it. And the risk

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<v Speaker 3>of a major terrorist attack in the United States is

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<v Speaker 3>higher today than it has been any time since September eleventh,

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<v Speaker 3>two thousand and one. And on top top of that,

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<v Speaker 3>we have the news breaking this weekend. USA Today reported

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<v Speaker 3>the US is on high alert for a potential attack

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<v Speaker 3>on Israel or on American facilities in the Middle East,

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<v Speaker 3>in retaliation for an Israeli strike in Syria that killed

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<v Speaker 3>Iranian commanders. Two US officials told USA Today. Iran vowed

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<v Speaker 3>revenge after suspected Israeli warplanes bombed its embassy in Damascus

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<v Speaker 3>on Monday, killing a top Iranian military commander, a major

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<v Speaker 3>escalation in Israel's war with its regional adversaries. The Biden

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<v Speaker 3>administration is concerned about the possibility Iranians might attack US

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<v Speaker 3>bases in Iraq and Syria, sources said, and American forces

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<v Speaker 3>were in a heightened state of vigilance. Iran's Revolutionary guards

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<v Speaker 3>announced the death of seven military advisers in the Damascus strike,

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<v Speaker 3>including Mohammad Reza Zahidi, a senior commander at its Kudz Force,

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<v Speaker 3>an elite foreign espionage and paramilitary arm Iran promised quote

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<v Speaker 3>to take a decisive response. So we have Iran, the

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<v Speaker 3>leading state sponsor of terrorism, promising a decisive response, funding

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<v Speaker 3>millions and millions of dollars to fund Hamas terrorists, to

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<v Speaker 3>fund Hesbala terrorists, to fund Palestinian Islamic jihad to attack

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<v Speaker 3>directly American forces in the Middle East. And we have

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<v Speaker 3>on top of that Joe Biden and the Democrats. And

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<v Speaker 3>by the way, it's not just Joe Biden, it's every

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<v Speaker 3>congressional Democrat who has rubber stamped these open border policies,

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<v Speaker 3>who have given the Iranians and Hamas and Hezbollah a

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<v Speaker 3>red carpet invitation to come into this country. And by

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<v Speaker 3>the way, you heard Greg Gabbett talking about the drones.

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<v Speaker 3>Our drone vulnerability is enormous. I mean, we had testimony

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<v Speaker 3>of upwards of twenty five thousand drone incursions from the

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<v Speaker 3>car tells across our southern border. At a time when

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<v Speaker 3>Americans are directly threatened with terror, Joe Biden has given

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<v Speaker 3>an invitation to the for the terrorists to come to America.

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<v Speaker 2>drinking blackout coffee every single day. Let's talk about what's

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<v Speaker 2>also happening in those warnings coming in the Middle East

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<v Speaker 2>right now. We did a show and I got to

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<v Speaker 2>say to all the vertic listeners, you guys were amazing

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<v Speaker 2>and spreading that show on social media. If you missed it,

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<v Speaker 2>we did an entire episode on Israel and what's going

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<v Speaker 2>on in Israel. You can grab it and share that

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<v Speaker 2>wherever you are on social media. But there was a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of people that I think learned a lot from

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<v Speaker 2>the just quession that we had here and look, you

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<v Speaker 2>now look at what's going on the Middle East and

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<v Speaker 2>this threat from Iran. I think we should all take

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<v Speaker 2>it obviously, very seriously. I don't think they're lying. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't think they're they're they're they're basically trying to bluff

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<v Speaker 2>on this one. And the concerns are significant, But the

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<v Speaker 2>real concern is is America's lack of response or saying

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<v Speaker 2>to Iran, you better not screw with us. And we've

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<v Speaker 2>allowed them for months and months to attack us interest

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<v Speaker 2>in the Middle East without US really retaliating, And that's

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<v Speaker 2>part of the reason why they're so bold right now,

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<v Speaker 2>am I wrong?

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<v Speaker 3>You're not, And it's worse than that. Look, I mean

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<v Speaker 3>we just a couple of weeks ago. I forced a

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<v Speaker 3>vote on the Senate floor to block the Biden administration

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<v Speaker 3>from sending billions of dollars to Iran, and every single

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<v Speaker 3>Senate Democrat but won. Everyone but Bob Menendez voted no.

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<v Speaker 3>And Menendez did it right at the end. I think

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<v Speaker 3>he was mostly pissed at the other Democrats who have

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<v Speaker 3>demanded that he resign, and so he voted with me.

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<v Speaker 3>But every other Democrat was happy to vote to send

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<v Speaker 3>billions to Iran. And by Iran has launched over one

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<v Speaker 3>hundred attacks on US servicemen and women in the last

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<v Speaker 3>six months. Not only that. You know, we just talked

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<v Speaker 3>about the threat from from Iran and the escalation in

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<v Speaker 3>the in the in the threat, what did the Biden

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<v Speaker 3>administration do well a US This is from NBC News Now.

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<v Speaker 3>A US intelligence assessment warns that Iran could carry out

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<v Speaker 3>an attack using a swarm of drones or land attack

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<v Speaker 3>cruise missiles, and that Iran could target an Israeli diplomatic

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<v Speaker 3>or consular facility in the region in retaliation for the

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<v Speaker 3>strike on Damascus. According to two US officials familiar with

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<v Speaker 3>the assessment, Iran is likely to respond before the end

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<v Speaker 3>of Ramadan next week, so there's a particularly heightened alert

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<v Speaker 3>right now. On Friday, a tap aid to Iranian President

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<v Speaker 3>Ibrahim Rasi said said Tehran sent a message warning the

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<v Speaker 3>United States not to get involved in the fight between

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<v Speaker 3>Israel and Iran. Quote in a written message, the Islamic

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<v Speaker 3>Republic of Iran warns US leadership not to get dragged

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<v Speaker 3>in net Yahu's trap for the US. Stay away so

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<v Speaker 3>you won't get hurt.

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<v Speaker 1>Is what.

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<v Speaker 3>Mohammed Jamshitti. Uh, that's how what his name is posted

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<v Speaker 3>on x He wrote that in response, the US asked

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<v Speaker 3>i Ran not to target American facilities. A spokesperson for

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<v Speaker 3>the National Security Council said reports that the US had

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<v Speaker 3>asked Iran not to target American facilities were simply wrong

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<v Speaker 3>and an Iranian spin. And and here's here's a little

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<v Speaker 3>bit more.

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<v Speaker 1>Quote.

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<v Speaker 3>We received a message from Iran following the strike in Damascus.

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<v Speaker 3>In response, we made clear that we were not behind

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<v Speaker 3>the strike. We also warned Iran not to use the

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<v Speaker 3>strike as a pretext to further escalate in the region

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<v Speaker 3>or attack US facilities or personnel. In the hours after

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<v Speaker 3>the strike in Damascus, that is, the Biden administration reached

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<v Speaker 3>out to Iran directly to assure Tehrod that the US

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<v Speaker 3>was not involved and did not have advanced knowledge of

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<v Speaker 3>the strike. So, in other words, this is what the

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<v Speaker 3>Biden administration does in the middle of the war.

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<v Speaker 1>What do they do?

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<v Speaker 3>They call Iran and they're like, oh, we're sorry, We're sorry,

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<v Speaker 3>We're sorry.

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<v Speaker 1>Mind you.

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<v Speaker 3>Iran is funding Hamas, is effectively waging war with Israel.

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<v Speaker 3>And what is Biden doing calling Iran and apologizing and

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<v Speaker 3>also allowing an open border with an invitation for anyone

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<v Speaker 3>with ill intent to come into this country.

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<v Speaker 2>We also know that Iran, through their proxies have been

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<v Speaker 2>targeting American interests in the Middle East, and yet we

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<v Speaker 2>still call and say, hey, don't worry, we weren't involved

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<v Speaker 2>in this.

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<v Speaker 1>What message is that said to them?

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<v Speaker 2>They can do whatever they want in the Middle East

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<v Speaker 2>and America won't respond.

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<v Speaker 3>Now, sadly, that's exactly the message that Joe Biden is

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<v Speaker 3>sending every day. Iran is discovering they can attack Americans,

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<v Speaker 3>they can murder Americans, they can attack over and over

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<v Speaker 3>and over again, and the Biden administration not only no response,

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<v Speaker 3>the Biden administration's response will be here have billions of dollars.

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<v Speaker 3>It is bizarre. It ought to be an incredibly simple principle,

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<v Speaker 3>don't give money to people who want to kill you.

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<v Speaker 3>And I'll add an addendum to that, who are actively

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<v Speaker 3>trying to kill you. And yet Biden and the Democrats

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<v Speaker 3>keeps shoveling cash more and more to Iran. And by

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<v Speaker 3>the way, Iran is still selling two million barrels a

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<v Speaker 3>day of oil because Joe Biden refuses to enforce the

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<v Speaker 3>oil sanctions that's funding the regime.

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<v Speaker 2>I want you to explain this even more because this

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<v Speaker 2>is something I think many in the media have refused

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<v Speaker 2>to cover and tell the truth about this. We have

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<v Speaker 2>sanctions right now, yes, are in place on Iranian oil

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<v Speaker 2>that have been in place for quite some time. And

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<v Speaker 2>the only difference is this administration. They have not officially

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<v Speaker 2>lifted the sanctions. The sanctions are technically still there in

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<v Speaker 2>name only, but we're allowing them to export the oil.

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<v Speaker 2>Is that the easiest way to explain it to everyone listening.

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<v Speaker 3>No, that's exactly right, And let's review the bidding Let's

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<v Speaker 3>do a little bit of history on Iranian oil sales.

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<v Speaker 3>So if you go back to the Trump administration, there

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<v Speaker 3>was a big battle in the Trump administration. Within the

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<v Speaker 3>administration about whether to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal,

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<v Speaker 3>the Obama deal, which was a terrible deal. Both the

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<v Speaker 3>State Department and the Defense Department said no, do not

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<v Speaker 3>pull out of the deal. I strongly disagreed. I went

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<v Speaker 3>to President Trump repeatedly, over and over and over again

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<v Speaker 3>and argued, this deal was catastrophic, it was endangering America,

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<v Speaker 3>it was bad, and the President agreed with me. President

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<v Speaker 3>Trump overruled his own Secretary of State, overruled his own

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<v Speaker 3>Secretary Defense. He pulled out of the Iran deal. Now,

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<v Speaker 3>once he pulled out of the deal, there were still

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<v Speaker 3>significant components of the deal that remained in a place,

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<v Speaker 3>and the most significant was what was called the oil waivers.

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<v Speaker 3>The oil waivers allowed Iran to sell oil and that

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<v Speaker 3>was the major source of funding for the regime. I

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<v Speaker 3>began then arguing to President Trump, we needed to end

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<v Speaker 3>the oil waiver. There was again a fight within the

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<v Speaker 3>Trump administration on this question. At this time, the lines

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<v Speaker 3>were a little bit different. You had State arguing no,

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<v Speaker 3>do not end the oil waivers. You had Energy, the

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<v Speaker 3>Department of Energy saying yes, end the oil waivers. This

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<v Speaker 3>was Mike Pompeo had just started a Secretary of State,

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<v Speaker 3>and the State Department was arguing, if we end the

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<v Speaker 3>oil waiver on Iran, the effect will be that the

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<v Speaker 3>price of oil will skyrocket, the price of gasoline will skyrocket.

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<v Speaker 3>The Department of Energy chimed in, and you would think

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<v Speaker 3>that Apartment of Energy has some expertise in energy. They said, no,

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<v Speaker 3>that's ridiculous. There's plenty of global supply of oil. We

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<v Speaker 3>can end the oil waiver and it's not going to

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<v Speaker 3>cause prices to skyrocket. Again, I leaned in vigorously. I

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<v Speaker 3>urged President Trump end the oil waivers. State's wrong, Energy's right. Well,

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<v Speaker 3>President Trump again agreed with me, overruled his own secretary

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<v Speaker 3>of State. He ended the oil waivers. At the time

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<v Speaker 3>he did that, Iran was selling roughly one million barrels

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<v Speaker 3>a day of oil, so that was their major revenue source.

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<v Speaker 3>We ended the oil waivers, and we now know who

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<v Speaker 3>was right. Energy was right and State was wrong. Because

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<v Speaker 3>we ended the oil waivers and the global price barely moved.

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<v Speaker 3>It had negligible impact on price, There was plenty of supply.

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<v Speaker 3>What it did have an impact on is it devastated

0:22:41.640 --> 0:22:45.520
<v Speaker 3>the Iranian economy and their oil sales dropped from one

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<v Speaker 3>million barrels a day to about three hundred thousand barrels

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<v Speaker 3>a day. And so when Joe Biden came into office,

0:22:52.920 --> 0:22:57.080
<v Speaker 3>the Iranian economy was in shambles. The effect of those

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<v Speaker 3>oil sanctions were crushing, and all Joe Biden had to

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<v Speaker 3>do was not screw it up. But understand that Biden

0:23:06.800 --> 0:23:10.399
<v Speaker 3>and the Democrats, their number one foreign policy objective is

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<v Speaker 3>getting a new nuclear deal with Iran, and bizarrely they

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<v Speaker 3>prioritize this over everything. So Biden almost immediately stopped in

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<v Speaker 3>forcing the oil sanctions, just just kind of look the

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<v Speaker 3>other way. And so what happens is Iran has a

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<v Speaker 3>ghost fleet of tankers that they send oil mostly to

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<v Speaker 3>communists China. China buys it and it funds Iran. Biden

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<v Speaker 3>came in, Iran is selling three hundred thousand barrels a day. Today,

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<v Speaker 3>Iran is selling two million barrels of oil a day. Wow,

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<v Speaker 3>more than double what they were doing before we ended

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<v Speaker 3>the oil waiver. And they're using that that has been

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<v Speaker 3>upwards of eighty billion dollars that Joe Biden has given

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<v Speaker 3>a theocratic, homicidal, genocidal maniac, that is the Ayatola who

0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:08.960
<v Speaker 3>pledges death to America, and right now he's pledging to

0:24:09.040 --> 0:24:14.480
<v Speaker 3>retaliate directly. And yet Joe Biden continues to this day

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<v Speaker 3>not to enforce the oil sanctions.

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<v Speaker 2>Last question for you on this, why do you believe

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<v Speaker 2>he refuses to enforce them. Is it just political ideology,

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<v Speaker 2>Is it he's compromised in some way, or is it

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<v Speaker 2>he's just completely ignorant to the threat that Iran is

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<v Speaker 2>to the world's stability, including to Israel as well as America.

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<v Speaker 3>I think the ideology of the Biden White House and

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<v Speaker 3>the Biden State Department in many ways, this White House

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<v Speaker 3>doesn't have a foreign policy that they have a domestic

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<v Speaker 3>policy writ large, so they broadcast out to the world.

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<v Speaker 3>They divide the world into blue countries and red countries.

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<v Speaker 3>And red countries are those countries that wanted to be

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<v Speaker 3>friends with America when Donald Trump was president, and blue

0:25:05.280 --> 0:25:09.040
<v Speaker 3>countries are those countries that hated America when Donald Trump

0:25:09.119 --> 0:25:13.000
<v Speaker 3>was president. And the entirety of the Biden foreign policy

0:25:13.960 --> 0:25:19.680
<v Speaker 3>is to undermine, to alienate, to weaken the red countries,

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<v Speaker 3>and to acquiesce, to appease to and send billions of

0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:29.359
<v Speaker 3>dollars to the blue country. So the reddest country of

0:25:29.400 --> 0:25:33.360
<v Speaker 3>all is Israel. It's why Biden systematically undermines Israel. Other

0:25:33.440 --> 0:25:39.560
<v Speaker 3>red countries include the United Kingdom, that include nations like Brazil.

0:25:39.640 --> 0:25:43.000
<v Speaker 3>When you had Bolsonara was very pro pro America. What

0:25:43.119 --> 0:25:46.000
<v Speaker 3>happened the Biden administration undermined him and they got Lula

0:25:46.160 --> 0:25:49.840
<v Speaker 3>radical leftists to hate America. Colombia was another red country.

0:25:49.880 --> 0:25:53.320
<v Speaker 3>We had a very strong pro American ally in Ivon Duque.

0:25:53.640 --> 0:25:57.040
<v Speaker 3>The Biden White House undermined Duque. We ended up with

0:25:57.160 --> 0:26:03.200
<v Speaker 3>now an anti American leftist Petro who again hates America. Guatemala,

0:26:03.240 --> 0:26:05.919
<v Speaker 3>Guatemala we had, we had the president of Guatemala was

0:26:06.000 --> 0:26:09.600
<v Speaker 3>strongly allied with the United States. As soon as he left,

0:26:09.640 --> 0:26:14.280
<v Speaker 3>the Biden administration imposed sanctions on the outgoing president of Guatemala.

0:26:14.280 --> 0:26:16.000
<v Speaker 3>Who are the blue countries, Well, there are lots of

0:26:16.000 --> 0:26:19.439
<v Speaker 3>blue countries. Uh, You've got China's a blue country, Russia,

0:26:19.520 --> 0:26:23.320
<v Speaker 3>Russia's a blue country. North Korea is a blue country.

0:26:23.400 --> 0:26:25.600
<v Speaker 3>Venezuela is a blue country. But the bluest of all

0:26:25.640 --> 0:26:31.359
<v Speaker 3>blue countries is Iran. The Biden administration that they they

0:26:31.480 --> 0:26:37.760
<v Speaker 3>view this it's almost like religious their obsession with a

0:26:37.840 --> 0:26:41.040
<v Speaker 3>new nuclear deal with Iran, and they're willing to bend

0:26:41.119 --> 0:26:43.000
<v Speaker 3>over backwards no matter what.

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<v Speaker 6>You know.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm reminded there was a political cartoon when when John

0:26:47.640 --> 0:26:50.960
<v Speaker 3>Kerry was Secretary of State Obama was president, and it

0:26:51.040 --> 0:26:54.800
<v Speaker 3>had the Iyatolas saying death to America, and it had

0:26:54.880 --> 0:26:58.399
<v Speaker 3>John Kerry saying, can we meet you halfway? That's the

0:26:58.480 --> 0:27:02.199
<v Speaker 3>view of this White House. They're naive, they're ignorant, and

0:27:02.240 --> 0:27:06.359
<v Speaker 3>they want to shove billions of dollars to Iran even

0:27:06.520 --> 0:27:09.960
<v Speaker 3>while they're actively trying to murder Americans and funding the

0:27:10.000 --> 0:27:10.679
<v Speaker 3>war in Israel.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to talk to you about what you can

0:27:12.640 --> 0:27:16.240
<v Speaker 2>do to help people in Israel. Right now, we all

0:27:16.280 --> 0:27:19.320
<v Speaker 2>know about the atrocities that were committed by Hamaslaks last

0:27:19.359 --> 0:27:23.040
<v Speaker 2>October the seventh, which kicked off a vicious war as

0:27:23.280 --> 0:27:26.840
<v Speaker 2>Israel is defending herself from terrorists now on every side.

0:27:27.200 --> 0:27:30.760
<v Speaker 2>The toll on the Israeli people is real, it is staggering,

0:27:30.840 --> 0:27:34.120
<v Speaker 2>and it's massive. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been

0:27:34.160 --> 0:27:38.159
<v Speaker 2>forced from their homes. Entire communities torn apart, lives have

0:27:38.280 --> 0:27:42.480
<v Speaker 2>been devastated by death and destruction and war. The International

0:27:42.520 --> 0:27:46.600
<v Speaker 2>Fellowship of Christian and Jews, known as IFCJ, is right

0:27:46.680 --> 0:27:49.359
<v Speaker 2>there in the middle of it. Each and every day

0:27:49.920 --> 0:27:54.240
<v Speaker 2>they are distributing right now critical essentials like food, medicine,

0:27:54.280 --> 0:27:58.560
<v Speaker 2>and emergency supplies for hundreds of thousands of suffering Jews

0:27:58.560 --> 0:28:01.640
<v Speaker 2>that have been displaced. The need is great and that's

0:28:01.720 --> 0:28:05.320
<v Speaker 2>why I am partnering with IFCJ today and I want

0:28:05.480 --> 0:28:07.840
<v Speaker 2>you to get involved in help. I want you to

0:28:08.000 --> 0:28:15.159
<v Speaker 2>visit support IFCJ dot org to help. Every donation is

0:28:15.280 --> 0:28:17.399
<v Speaker 2>urgently need to help the people of Israel. A lot

0:28:17.440 --> 0:28:19.240
<v Speaker 2>of people have said, how can I help? This is

0:28:19.280 --> 0:28:22.200
<v Speaker 2>how you can help to give the International Fellowship of

0:28:22.280 --> 0:28:24.520
<v Speaker 2>Christian and Jews. All you have to do is go

0:28:24.560 --> 0:28:28.600
<v Speaker 2>to support IFCJ dot org and give as generously as

0:28:28.640 --> 0:28:31.880
<v Speaker 2>you can, because your gift will be matched to double

0:28:31.960 --> 0:28:36.560
<v Speaker 2>in impact and help provide twice the support right now. Again,

0:28:36.600 --> 0:28:42.080
<v Speaker 2>that's support IFCJ dot org. Support IFCJ dot org. Thank

0:28:42.160 --> 0:28:46.400
<v Speaker 2>you and God bless Senator. Let's talk about this shocking

0:28:46.520 --> 0:28:49.960
<v Speaker 2>new data that's come out, a warning that came from

0:28:50.040 --> 0:28:52.200
<v Speaker 2>you on this show, and I want to play that

0:28:52.320 --> 0:28:53.960
<v Speaker 2>in a moment, but I want to get to the

0:28:54.000 --> 0:28:56.800
<v Speaker 2>headline here. There are two things right now that are

0:28:56.840 --> 0:29:00.360
<v Speaker 2>worrying many Americans. Number one, it's bid nomics. It is

0:29:00.400 --> 0:29:04.640
<v Speaker 2>a disaster right now. We are seeing even top Biden

0:29:04.800 --> 0:29:09.200
<v Speaker 2>economic advisor bragged about gas prices, which are up fifty

0:29:09.320 --> 0:29:13.280
<v Speaker 2>percent since Biden took office, saying, quote, we are pleased

0:29:13.320 --> 0:29:15.640
<v Speaker 2>that gas prices have come down. Now the media is

0:29:15.680 --> 0:29:18.920
<v Speaker 2>allowing them to lie, and the American people are not

0:29:19.080 --> 0:29:20.840
<v Speaker 2>going to fall for this. I don't believe. But take

0:29:20.880 --> 0:29:23.080
<v Speaker 2>a listen to this. This is coming from the White House,

0:29:23.480 --> 0:29:26.480
<v Speaker 2>from the Biden team trying to convince Americans that, hey,

0:29:26.720 --> 0:29:29.040
<v Speaker 2>you're paying less of the pump right now than ever.

0:29:29.160 --> 0:29:30.120
<v Speaker 1>You should be excited.

0:29:30.640 --> 0:29:35.440
<v Speaker 6>Oh important for American families and a big focus of

0:29:35.520 --> 0:29:39.200
<v Speaker 6>President Biden. We are pleased that gas prices have come

0:29:39.240 --> 0:29:43.680
<v Speaker 6>down by a dollar forty relative to that peak that

0:29:43.840 --> 0:29:47.760
<v Speaker 6>was caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But as you say,

0:29:48.200 --> 0:29:52.360
<v Speaker 6>we are watching carefully to make sure that those gas

0:29:52.400 --> 0:29:54.640
<v Speaker 6>prices that the pump don't go up.

0:29:54.680 --> 0:29:58.520
<v Speaker 2>To Now, Senator, that's just a lie that gas prices

0:29:58.600 --> 0:29:59.400
<v Speaker 2>are not down.

0:30:00.000 --> 0:30:01.680
<v Speaker 1>Anyone that goes the pump knows this.

0:30:01.840 --> 0:30:04.520
<v Speaker 2>We also know now that grocery prices are nearing forty

0:30:04.560 --> 0:30:08.280
<v Speaker 2>percent higher than they were in twenty nineteen. And to

0:30:08.440 --> 0:30:11.920
<v Speaker 2>add insult to injury, we're now being told, on top

0:30:11.960 --> 0:30:14.720
<v Speaker 2>of all of that that's hurting the middle class, there's

0:30:14.880 --> 0:30:17.960
<v Speaker 2>now going to be more than ever IRS agents that

0:30:18.040 --> 0:30:23.959
<v Speaker 2>are targeting specifically middle class Americans, with more audits than

0:30:23.960 --> 0:30:24.680
<v Speaker 2>ever before.

0:30:25.280 --> 0:30:26.520
<v Speaker 1>Well, that's exactly right.

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<v Speaker 3>First of all, in terms of prices, you know, they're

0:30:29.000 --> 0:30:32.800
<v Speaker 3>crowing about that that they say gasoline prices are lower

0:30:33.160 --> 0:30:36.160
<v Speaker 3>than the worst they were under Biden, but they're still

0:30:36.240 --> 0:30:39.080
<v Speaker 3>up fifty one percent from where they were under Trump.

0:30:39.640 --> 0:30:42.560
<v Speaker 3>By the way, overall prices are up eighteen point six percent.

0:30:42.760 --> 0:30:46.880
<v Speaker 3>Real average weekly earnings are down four point two percent.

0:30:47.400 --> 0:30:50.320
<v Speaker 3>Real average weekly warnings earnings were up eight point two

0:30:50.400 --> 0:30:53.720
<v Speaker 3>percent under Trump. And in the month of March zero

0:30:53.920 --> 0:30:57.880
<v Speaker 3>new manufacturing jobs were added. And so look, the economy

0:30:57.960 --> 0:31:00.360
<v Speaker 3>is hurting mightily. And then you put on top of

0:31:00.400 --> 0:31:04.960
<v Speaker 3>that the IRS is doing actually what we predicted on

0:31:05.640 --> 0:31:08.920
<v Speaker 3>this podcast is targeting the middle class. The Wall Street

0:31:09.000 --> 0:31:12.920
<v Speaker 3>Journal wrote that wrote just a few days ago, quote

0:31:13.560 --> 0:31:15.840
<v Speaker 3>the internal Revenue Service got an audit of its own

0:31:15.880 --> 0:31:18.520
<v Speaker 3>in time for tax Day, and two irregularities jump out.

0:31:19.080 --> 0:31:21.600
<v Speaker 3>President Biden's plan to hire a new army of tax

0:31:21.640 --> 0:31:25.680
<v Speaker 3>collectors is falling flat, and the agents already at work

0:31:25.960 --> 0:31:29.960
<v Speaker 3>are targeting the middle class. Those are the two findings

0:31:30.000 --> 0:31:34.080
<v Speaker 3>of the IRS's watchdog, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

0:31:34.880 --> 0:31:38.600
<v Speaker 3>The most recent data suggests the IRS is still focused

0:31:39.000 --> 0:31:43.280
<v Speaker 3>on the middle class. As of last summer, sixty three

0:31:43.400 --> 0:31:49.160
<v Speaker 3>percent of new audits targeted taxpayers with incomes of less

0:31:49.600 --> 0:31:54.720
<v Speaker 3>than two hundred thousand dollars. Only a small overall share

0:31:54.840 --> 0:31:58.360
<v Speaker 3>reached the very highest earners, while eighty percent of the

0:31:58.400 --> 0:32:02.360
<v Speaker 3>audits covered earning less than one million dollars.

0:32:02.800 --> 0:32:04.400
<v Speaker 1>And as the Wall.

0:32:04.200 --> 0:32:06.400
<v Speaker 3>Street Journal urge, as you don't forget to save those

0:32:06.480 --> 0:32:13.200
<v Speaker 3>charitable giving receipts. This is exactly opposite what Joe Biden

0:32:13.360 --> 0:32:15.840
<v Speaker 3>promised the American people. But it's what we knew was

0:32:15.920 --> 0:32:18.440
<v Speaker 3>going to happen. They were going to use the new

0:32:18.480 --> 0:32:21.120
<v Speaker 3>agents to go after the middle class. That's exactly what

0:32:21.160 --> 0:32:21.600
<v Speaker 3>they're doing.

0:32:22.520 --> 0:32:24.400
<v Speaker 2>Let me just remind people of what you said on

0:32:24.440 --> 0:32:26.640
<v Speaker 2>the show, and this was quite some time ago. Here

0:32:26.800 --> 0:32:29.440
<v Speaker 2>is the warning when we said it here early on

0:32:29.520 --> 0:32:32.200
<v Speaker 2>that they're going to come after average Americans, not just

0:32:32.240 --> 0:32:33.640
<v Speaker 2>the elites, as they were claiming.

0:32:33.960 --> 0:32:36.840
<v Speaker 3>For Good Friday in Easter, the IRS released the news.

0:32:36.880 --> 0:32:39.480
<v Speaker 3>They did it as a news dump going into the

0:32:39.520 --> 0:32:41.959
<v Speaker 3>holiday because they didn't want people to pay attention to it.

0:32:43.160 --> 0:32:46.880
<v Speaker 3>That they are right now hiring the first thirty thousand

0:32:46.920 --> 0:32:50.240
<v Speaker 3>of those employees. Ten thousand of them are being hired

0:32:50.280 --> 0:32:53.600
<v Speaker 3>in the current fiscal year, and in fiscal year twenty

0:32:53.640 --> 0:32:57.360
<v Speaker 3>twenty four they're planning to double that with twenty seven

0:32:57.440 --> 0:33:01.920
<v Speaker 3>thousand new hires. Now, now, what does that need, Well,

0:33:02.280 --> 0:33:05.360
<v Speaker 3>let's go through a lot of different elements. The long

0:33:05.400 --> 0:33:07.600
<v Speaker 3>and short of it is, it means a whole bunch

0:33:07.720 --> 0:33:11.800
<v Speaker 3>more IRS employees there to harass you, to harass citizens,

0:33:11.840 --> 0:33:15.360
<v Speaker 3>to rass small businesses, to harass and target the political

0:33:15.440 --> 0:33:18.360
<v Speaker 3>enemies of the Biden White House.

0:33:18.400 --> 0:33:21.520
<v Speaker 2>But Senator, you look at that warning, and you look

0:33:21.560 --> 0:33:25.840
<v Speaker 2>at what you mentioned right beforehand about prices that have skyrocketed,

0:33:26.160 --> 0:33:29.240
<v Speaker 2>the costs of goods and services are up, manufacturing jobs

0:33:29.240 --> 0:33:32.959
<v Speaker 2>that are down, and there has to be a moment,

0:33:33.480 --> 0:33:36.240
<v Speaker 2>I would argue of reckoning with the average American voter

0:33:36.320 --> 0:33:39.400
<v Speaker 2>where they look at this administration, and they sit there

0:33:39.400 --> 0:33:41.040
<v Speaker 2>and they stare at you in the face. They say, no, no,

0:33:41.120 --> 0:33:44.120
<v Speaker 2>gas prices are good, and the American people have to know, no,

0:33:44.200 --> 0:33:46.000
<v Speaker 2>that's not true. When they say, oh no, no, the

0:33:46.040 --> 0:33:47.480
<v Speaker 2>price at the grocery store, they're.

0:33:47.320 --> 0:33:48.040
<v Speaker 1>Not that bad.

0:33:48.480 --> 0:33:50.840
<v Speaker 2>They've got to have a moment where they say, no, no, no,

0:33:50.960 --> 0:33:54.840
<v Speaker 2>we don't believe you anymore. You travel a lot, you

0:33:54.960 --> 0:33:56.960
<v Speaker 2>talk to a lot of people on the state of Texas.

0:33:57.400 --> 0:33:59.680
<v Speaker 2>I don't believe that the American people are going to

0:33:59.720 --> 0:34:01.560
<v Speaker 2>being boozled by this much longer.

0:34:02.080 --> 0:34:02.320
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

0:34:02.320 --> 0:34:05.360
<v Speaker 3>Look, I think the American people know that that Bidenomics

0:34:05.440 --> 0:34:07.480
<v Speaker 3>is a mess. And in fact, you see the Biden

0:34:07.520 --> 0:34:11.920
<v Speaker 3>White House backing away from using that term Bidenomics because

0:34:11.960 --> 0:34:14.560
<v Speaker 3>they thought it was a good thing and they discovered

0:34:14.560 --> 0:34:16.359
<v Speaker 3>oh wait, people think it's a terrible thing.

0:34:16.680 --> 0:34:18.920
<v Speaker 1>That that's it.

0:34:19.040 --> 0:34:22.000
<v Speaker 3>Listen to anyone who's paying the bills, anyone who goes

0:34:22.040 --> 0:34:24.600
<v Speaker 3>to the grocery store, anyone who fills up their tank

0:34:24.640 --> 0:34:28.200
<v Speaker 3>at the pump, anyone who deals with health care cost,

0:34:28.320 --> 0:34:32.759
<v Speaker 3>electricity costs, rent, mortgages. I'll tell you, young people, I

0:34:33.040 --> 0:34:35.520
<v Speaker 3>think one of the real most potent things is young

0:34:35.560 --> 0:34:40.040
<v Speaker 3>people buying their first home a young married couple. They're

0:34:40.080 --> 0:34:42.840
<v Speaker 3>suddenly discovering they can get about half as much house

0:34:43.480 --> 0:34:45.680
<v Speaker 3>as they thought they could get, because a few years ago,

0:34:45.760 --> 0:34:48.520
<v Speaker 3>when you had mortgage rates at at two and a

0:34:48.560 --> 0:34:51.560
<v Speaker 3>half percent, you could get actually a pretty big, pretty

0:34:51.600 --> 0:34:54.040
<v Speaker 3>you know, a nice three bedroom house, a backyard, a

0:34:54.120 --> 0:34:58.960
<v Speaker 3>swing And suddenly young people are discovering, holy cow, what

0:34:59.120 --> 0:35:01.200
<v Speaker 3>I thought I could have Ford is now out of reach.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you're absolutely right.

0:35:03.320 --> 0:35:05.560
<v Speaker 2>This is going to be a top issue certainly going

0:35:05.600 --> 0:35:09.320
<v Speaker 2>into this big election November. And I hope that conservatives

0:35:09.360 --> 0:35:11.480
<v Speaker 2>all of the country just tell the truth, and I

0:35:11.480 --> 0:35:13.520
<v Speaker 2>hope that the media will start covering it. They're still

0:35:13.560 --> 0:35:15.319
<v Speaker 2>covering and you could hear it in those headlines. You

0:35:15.320 --> 0:35:17.560
<v Speaker 2>can hear it in the audio. They will allow them

0:35:17.560 --> 0:35:20.120
<v Speaker 2>to lie on national TV to your face about how

0:35:20.160 --> 0:35:22.680
<v Speaker 2>great things are when they know compared to where they

0:35:22.719 --> 0:35:25.239
<v Speaker 2>were in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, it is a disaster.

0:35:25.560 --> 0:35:27.520
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