1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:01,600 Speaker 1: Welcome. 2 00:00:01,639 --> 00:00:04,520 Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Center, Ted Kruz, Ben Ferguson with 3 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 2: you and Senator. We had a really big day of 4 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:10,360 Speaker 2: rallies around the country over the weekend. Apparently Democrats are 5 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:12,880 Speaker 2: just writ in big old checks right now to go 6 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 2: back to their old school organizing for these outrage rallies 7 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,479 Speaker 2: at a king by the name of Donald Trump, who's 8 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:22,279 Speaker 2: been in office many less years than any of the 9 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 2: Democrats that they're out there complaining about him being in office. 10 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 3: Well, this weekend we saw protests all across the country 11 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 3: that was angry white women go march. It was boomers unleashed, 12 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 3: and it was an expression of rage. What we're going 13 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 3: to talk about here is follow the money who's paying 14 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 3: for this? That not only was this an expression of rage, 15 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:46,560 Speaker 3: but it was an expressive expression of rage that was 16 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 3: AstroTurf that was bought and paid for. And we're going 17 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 3: to follow the money to George Soros and his network 18 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 3: and an entire interconnected network of radical left wing groups 19 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 3: that we're funding these tests. We're also going to talk 20 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:04,320 Speaker 3: about a tragedy that has been unfolding in recent years 21 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 3: in the country of Nigeria, where more than fifty thousand 22 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 3: Christians have been killed. The mass murder of Christians in 23 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:16,759 Speaker 3: Nigeria has been ongoing. It is targeted, it is systematic. 24 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 3: Boko Haram and other jihadis are targeting Christians, are targeting churches, 25 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 3: are targeting schools. We're going to lay out the facts 26 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 3: of what's going on the Government of Nigeria is pressing 27 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 3: back and saying nothing to see here, nothing to see here. 28 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 3: We're going to give you the facts and we're going 29 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 3: to talk about legislation I've introduced to hold the government 30 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 3: of Nigeria accountable and to pressure them to finally, finally, 31 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:42,839 Speaker 3: finally stop the mass murder of Christians. 32 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 1: Amen to that. 33 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:45,399 Speaker 2: Whant I take a moment and talk to you real 34 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 2: quick about my good friends over at Berna. Being able 35 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 2: to protect my family is so important to me, and 36 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 2: it's one of the things that I want you to 37 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 2: know about how you can help protect your family as 38 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 2: well from those that may be trying to do you harm. Now, 39 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 2: for weeks, I've been joined by Josh from Burna to 40 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 2: share stories of how people just like you and me 41 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 2: have used their Burno launcher protect themselves and their families. Now, 42 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 2: Burna is a handheld pistol that fires both connect grounds 43 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 2: and chemical irritants to separate you from an attacker. Josh 44 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 2: just back today to share a true story of how 45 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 2: a man was able to stop two pit bulls from 46 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 2: harming him and his daughter using the Berna SD. 47 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: Josh tell us the story. 48 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:29,839 Speaker 4: You know this story is great because I guarantee many 49 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 4: people have been in a very similar situation. So Kyle, 50 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 4: an Illinois resident, was walking his young daughter home from 51 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 4: a playdate just down the street from their house when 52 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 4: he noticed two unleashed pit bulls running down an alley 53 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 4: aggressively charging right at them. He quickly lifted his daughter 54 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 4: over a fence of a yard to put her in 55 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:50,120 Speaker 4: a safe place, and drew the Burna SD that he 56 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 4: was actually carrying on him, and using a combination of 57 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 4: kinetic and our Max fridge styles, Kyle fired five rounds 58 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 4: of the two pitbules, striking both the ground in front 59 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 4: of them, but also the dog themselves. The dogs stopped 60 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 4: in their tracks. The rounds had an immediate effect, and 61 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:08,960 Speaker 4: both dogs quickly ran the other way. The entire incident 62 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,640 Speaker 4: was also captured on home surveillance video, allowing everyone to 63 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:15,519 Speaker 4: watch exactly how Berna kept Kyle and his daughter out 64 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:16,239 Speaker 4: of harm's way. 65 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 2: Now, look, obviously the burner worked great in this case, 66 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:21,800 Speaker 2: But why wouldn't someone choose to use a gun in 67 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 2: this case instead of a burna? 68 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: So many people ask me that type of question. 69 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 4: You know, it's same I get to ask that all 70 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:29,799 Speaker 4: the time. And here we have a couple different reasons. One, 71 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 4: he may not be in an area where he could 72 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 4: carry a gun. Depending on the laws of your state, 73 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 4: it may limit where you can and can't carry a gun. 74 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 4: And two, look, nobody wants to kill these dogs, right, 75 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 4: nobody wants to kill anybody but dogs either. If we 76 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 4: can use a lower level of force to affect a 77 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 4: safe getaway for us and everyone else, man, that's the 78 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 4: way to do it. And that's exactly what happened here. 79 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 2: If you want to be able to protect your family 80 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 2: and you want to have something like this, a left 81 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 2: lethal option, you need to check out Berna. You can 82 00:03:56,200 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 2: go right now to burna b y r ina dot com. Again, 83 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 2: that's burnap B why rna dot com. You'll understand after 84 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 2: you see the videos exactly why I carry this in 85 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 2: every car. 86 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: We have burnup b why RNA dot com? All Right, senator. 87 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 2: So let's get into this day of I call it rage, 88 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:19,600 Speaker 2: this anti American day, this no king's day. There was 89 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 2: something that hit online and it just made me smile 90 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:25,839 Speaker 2: because it said, all right, so let me get this straight. 91 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,839 Speaker 2: There's no kings referring to Donald Trump. Chuck Grassley's been 92 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 2: in office fifty plus years, Chuck Schumer forty four plus years, 93 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:36,159 Speaker 2: Mitch McConnell forty plus years, Anti Pelosi thirty eight years, 94 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 2: Maxine Waters thirty seven years, Bernie Sanders thirty four years. 95 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 2: Trump's been in office total of four years at nine 96 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 2: and a half months. But somehow they're saying Donald Trump 97 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,840 Speaker 2: is the king. When you look at the numbers there, 98 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 2: and that's like some bipartus numbers. It's pretty darn funny. 99 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 1: Well it is. 100 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 3: And there was this little minor detail of an election 101 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 3: that occurred in November in which the American people overwhelmingly 102 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 3: voted to reelect Donald Trump ump very quickly, Look, you're 103 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 3: trying to engage in reason, ben reason is not welcome 104 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 3: on the radical left anymore. 105 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:09,839 Speaker 1: Then I forgot about that memory. 106 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 3: This is emoting, this is rage, this is orange man bad. 107 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 3: There's nothing more beyond that. And by the way, this 108 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 3: is also voters bad, you know, the irony of no 109 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 3: Kings that they're suggesting that they're somehow fans of democracy. 110 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: Understand. 111 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 3: These are the same radical left wing democrats that indicted 112 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:31,720 Speaker 3: Donald Trump not once, not twice, not three times, but 113 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:36,360 Speaker 3: four times in an effort to stop the voters from 114 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:39,480 Speaker 3: re electing him. These are the same left wing radicals 115 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 3: who then went to left wing judges and in multiple jurisdictions, 116 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 3: including Colorado, Illinois, Maine, they're left wing radicals ruled they 117 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,040 Speaker 3: would remove Donald Trump's name from the ballot because nothing 118 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:56,480 Speaker 3: says you are a defender of democracy like making it 119 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:00,120 Speaker 3: impossible for the voters to vote for your opponent. Now, thankfully, 120 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:05,800 Speaker 3: the US Supreme Court came in unanimously nine zero and said, no, no, no, sorry, 121 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:10,040 Speaker 3: you don't get to rig an election by removing your opponent, 122 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 3: the Republican nominee for president, from the ballot. And wonder 123 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 3: of wonders, with Trump on the ballot, the voters voted 124 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 3: for him. That this is actually, you know, in some ways, 125 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 3: the left had some truth in advertising. They just had 126 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 3: one too many words that they call this the No 127 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 3: King's rally. What they really want to want to protest 128 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:33,840 Speaker 3: is the king's rally. Look, when Joe Biden was president, 129 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:36,719 Speaker 3: they wanted him to have unlimited power. And by the way, 130 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:40,040 Speaker 3: once they realized that Joe Biden had been legally dead 131 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 3: for three years and that he was not going to 132 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:45,840 Speaker 3: be a formidable candidate in November, they promptly defenestrated him, 133 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:49,039 Speaker 3: threw him out a window, grabbed Kamala Harris and congratulations, 134 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 3: you're the Democrat nominee. And you know what detail, They 135 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 3: skipped the whole voting thing, Like the Democrat primary voters 136 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:57,719 Speaker 3: didn't get to vote at all. They basically tried to 137 00:06:57,760 --> 00:06:59,839 Speaker 3: make her a queen. You know, when you coroinate someone, 138 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 3: when you put a crown on someone and say, don't 139 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 3: bother with the little voting stuff. We've decided you get 140 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:09,280 Speaker 3: to run. That is kind of right at the heart 141 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 3: of monarchy. So this their messaging is incoherent, but at 142 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 3: the end of the day, there is no messaging other 143 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:22,240 Speaker 3: than a primal scream they hate Trump. And look, it's 144 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 3: a good thing they did these rallies because you know, 145 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 3: prior to Saturday, I didn't know they hated Trump. I 146 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 3: really I had missed that the last ten months, and 147 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 3: so it really took seeing a bunch of seventy five 148 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 3: year old white liberal women screaming outside and dyeing their 149 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 3: hair pink. You know, without that, we would have had 150 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 3: no idea that the far left did not like President Trump. 151 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 2: You know, one thing that was interesting about these rallies 152 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 2: is the way that the media covered it. It was 153 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 2: before the rallies happened, they were already making these things 154 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 2: a success and say, yeah, we're expecting millions to gather 155 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 2: across the country. Then as it was happening, I was 156 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 2: flipping the channels in between watching what's really important, and 157 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 2: that was college football over the weekend. During during a 158 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 2: couple of moments, I checked over to see how they 159 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 2: were covering, and it was like millions gather. I'm sorry, Center, 160 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 2: I did not see millions as in plural, anywhere close 161 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:22,239 Speaker 2: to that. Yeah, there were some bigger crowds for sure, 162 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 2: New York City for example, Chicago. 163 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: It was not millions. 164 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 2: And yet they already act like this was just some amazing, 165 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 2: unpresced success. Meanwhile, the average American was watching football on Saturday. 166 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 3: Well, and I do have to express my condolences. I'm 167 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:39,679 Speaker 3: very sorry about old miss and George, I knew. 168 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:41,959 Speaker 1: You were waiting for this show to I didn't talk 169 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 1: about that. 170 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 3: Look, I knew that that that that hurt. But look, 171 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 3: you can you can gain solace because even though Old 172 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:56,560 Speaker 3: Miss lost to Georgia, an Old Miss Royalty prevailed because 173 00:08:56,640 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 3: Arch Manning and the Longhorns won. Although I got admit 174 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 3: it was an glee game. 175 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: At least there's some intellectual honesty. 176 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 3: And the Aggies keep on winning. And I was I 177 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 3: was sad that the Tech finally lost. There's still a 178 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 3: heck of a team. But but, but but I'm very 179 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 3: sorry about Ole Miss. 180 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 1: The grin right now in your face. 181 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 2: Is this unbelievably telling, unbelievably telling of your thoughts and prayers, 182 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:24,559 Speaker 2: Now that you got that moment out of the way, Yeah, 183 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:26,679 Speaker 2: I'm glad that was his moment. He's been waiting all 184 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:29,199 Speaker 2: week and he was silent. He didn't text me on Saturday. 185 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 2: I want the audience to understand that he was waiting 186 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 2: for the show to bring that up. So let's talk 187 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 2: about the money here for a second. This is clearly. 188 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 3: By the way, I will say what One of my 189 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 3: closest friends, Gray, as you know, played played football at 190 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 3: Arkansas Yeah, Arkansas came within inches of beating the Aggies, 191 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 3: and my phone would have lit up the grief he 192 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:53,080 Speaker 3: would have given me. Uh And to be fair, Arkansas 193 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 3: almost did beat the Aggies. 194 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:54,599 Speaker 5: I mean it. 195 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 4: You know. 196 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 3: The A and m Arkansas game reminded me a little 197 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 3: bit of the A and M Notre Dame game, where 198 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 3: neither side bothered to bring defense. 199 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 1: They just scored like crazy. 200 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:04,679 Speaker 3: And whoever had the ball last one? 201 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 2: Yeah it was it was. It was aired out football 202 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:09,960 Speaker 2: one oh one. So you look at the money here, 203 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 2: and I wasn't concerned. I did TV over the weekend 204 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:16,679 Speaker 2: on No Kings, and they asked me like, you know, well, 205 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 2: this seems to be momentum. Like, it's not momentum if 206 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 2: you're paying for it. This isn't authentic or organic. It 207 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:25,240 Speaker 2: is bought and paid for. If I gotten by a 208 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 2: bunch of ads this weekend to play for whatever my 209 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 2: thing is, you know that I want to advocate for it. 210 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 2: Does that mean there's actual authentic momentum behind it? Or 211 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:37,199 Speaker 2: does that just mean that I paid for something like this? 212 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:40,319 Speaker 2: To me is paid to play politics. I'm not concerned 213 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 2: about quote momentum. I do think, however, those that were 214 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 2: organizing and paying for this No King's rally, are holding 215 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 2: America hostage with the government shutdown. If there's any takeaway 216 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 2: for me, it's that that Democrats could not open the 217 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 2: government back up until after the No Kings rally took place. 218 00:10:57,120 --> 00:10:58,839 Speaker 2: Now this week they may actually be able to do 219 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:00,520 Speaker 2: their damn job well. 220 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 3: And this past week I went on Fox News and said, 221 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 3: there's clear evidence that George Soros and his network is 222 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 3: paying for these No Kings rallies. And I have to say, 223 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:12,839 Speaker 3: lefty activists on Twitter went crazy and said, there's no 224 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:15,680 Speaker 3: evidence of that. What's cruse talking about. Well, you know, 225 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 3: fortunately we brought the receipts. So so let me let 226 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:20,560 Speaker 3: me walk through. And in fact, if you want to 227 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 3: read it, Fox News has has a story entitled quote 228 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:29,479 Speaker 3: Soros Foundation's helping fund anti Trump No King's protests nationwide. 229 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:34,320 Speaker 3: So and and and and here here are the facts. 230 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:39,280 Speaker 3: In two thousand and three, the Open Society Foundation, which 231 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 3: was founded by George Soros, UH issued a two year 232 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:50,600 Speaker 3: grant of three million dollars to Indivisible. The grant was 233 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 3: quote to support the grantees social welfare activities. According to 234 00:11:55,760 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 3: the Open Society Foundation's website. What is individual able doing 235 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 3: it is quote managing data and communication with participants, I e. 236 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 3: AstroTurf for the No King's protests that will be taking 237 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:14,760 Speaker 3: place in Washington and across the country. According to the 238 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 3: Open Society Foundation's website, George Soros has given away How 239 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:23,080 Speaker 3: much do you think George Soros has given to the 240 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:24,679 Speaker 3: Open Society Foundations? 241 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 2: I mean, it's sorrows, It's gonna be millions. It could 242 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 2: easily be tens of. 243 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:35,559 Speaker 3: Millions, more than thirty two billion dollars. Wow, okay, more 244 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 3: than thirty two billion with a B golly, And and 245 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:45,439 Speaker 3: if you look at that that they in turn are 246 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 3: funding Indivisible and Indivisible U is organizing or help or 247 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 3: helping organize the No Kings Foundations. By the way, the 248 00:12:56,200 --> 00:13:00,680 Speaker 3: Left has these these inner woven dark money organization. So, 249 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:04,959 Speaker 3: for example, in twenty seventeen, Visible received a three hundred 250 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 3: and fifty thousand dollars grant from the Tides Foundation. From 251 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 3: Tides Advocacy, which is a group affiliated with the Tides Network. 252 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 3: The Tides Foundation, which is also affiliated with the Tides Network, 253 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 3: has been funding anti Israel campus riots. The grant report 254 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 3: for twenty twenty four for the Open Siety Foundation was 255 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 3: not not available, but Soros's Foundation of awarded grants to 256 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:36,200 Speaker 3: Indivisible every single year since since individual was created in 257 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:41,960 Speaker 3: twenty seventeen. In total, the Open Society Foundations have awarded 258 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 3: seven point sixty one million in grants to the group 259 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:49,959 Speaker 3: behind the No King's protest. So seven point sixty one million, 260 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:53,320 Speaker 3: that's where the money's coming from. So if you're surprised 261 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:57,000 Speaker 3: there's a lot of organizing, Well, it turns out that 262 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 3: deranged Trump, hating America hating radical socialist, Marxist, anarchist, a 263 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 3: police abolishing nutcase billionaires can fund what looks like an 264 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:13,719 Speaker 3: awful lot of action. I got to say, given all 265 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:17,640 Speaker 3: that cash, what is striking to me, Ben is how 266 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:19,760 Speaker 3: lame the result was. Like, like I got to say, 267 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 3: to be honest, I didn't spend a whole lot of 268 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 3: time watching footage of it. But the footage I saw, 269 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 3: you know what was missing any black people, any Hispanic people. 270 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 1: Maybe every video like non minorities welcome, right? Could that 271 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 1: be it? 272 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 4: Look? 273 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 3: Look every video I saw it was a bunch of 274 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 3: old white liberals. It was like, you know, it was 275 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 3: like a a Patagonia convention with lots of prune juice. 276 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 3: I mean, it was really the numbers were underwhelming. You 277 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 3: knew the numbers were underwhelming when you started to see 278 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 3: on Twitter are people sending fake videos of protests in 279 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 3: prior years and claiming, oh, this is the no Kings turnout. 280 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, and that did happen a lot, by the way. 281 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 2: I mean, you're not joking when you say that. I 282 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 2: saw quite a few of those and it just made 283 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 2: you laugh. 284 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a video of a big protest in Boston 285 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 3: years ago that has been tweeted around like crazy, and 286 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 3: they say, oh, this was no Kings in Boston. It's like, no, Well, 287 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:27,280 Speaker 3: why are you sending around a fake video? Because even 288 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 3: when you have millions of dollars from George Soros, apparently 289 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 3: the people motivated by the way, this is very much 290 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 3: the same pattern. 291 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 4: As you know. 292 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 3: They did a dry run for this with the protests 293 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 3: in d C against President Trump sending in the National Guard. 294 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 3: And again, those protests were a bunch of white liberals. 295 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 3: There were very few in the video. I saw very 296 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:53,360 Speaker 3: few African Americans who and the high crime areas in 297 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:57,240 Speaker 3: d C are predominantly African American, and it was really striking. 298 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 3: You see these sort of wealthy liberal many that government 299 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 3: bureaucrats who are saying, no, no, get the National Guard 300 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 3: out of DC. And then if camera crews that would 301 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 3: go into high crime areas in d C, you'd look 302 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 3: at the people living there, predominantly African American, facing gang 303 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 3: bangers and drive by shootings and facing being afraid to 304 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 3: go out at night. And there's interview after interview with 305 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 3: DC residents who are like, Okay, I feel a lot safer. 306 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 1: This is great. 307 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 3: But by the way, your hometown of Memphis, you got 308 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 3: the same interviews where people are saying, you know, for 309 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 3: the first time in a long time, I feel safe 310 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 3: to go outside. I can go outside with my kids. 311 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 3: I'm not afraid of my kids getting shot or attacked 312 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 3: or even Bill. 313 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 2: Street, which is the famous street in Memphis, you know 314 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 2: where you can go listen to a live music and 315 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 2: it's downtown by the Facts Forum, I know, people have 316 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 2: not gone down there five six, seven, eight, nine, ten years. 317 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:48,680 Speaker 2: They're now going down there because they've it's been so 318 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 2: unsafe and the National Guard's there, and now citizens of 319 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:55,560 Speaker 2: Memphis are actually getting to go enjoy their own city again, 320 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 2: which is exactly what we've seen in Washington, d C. 321 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's amazing that the bosition of the Democrat 322 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:04,920 Speaker 3: Party as they are against law and order. Apparently having 323 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 3: law and order means you have a king. That they 324 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:10,720 Speaker 3: are against criminals being arrested. Apparently that's the act of 325 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 3: a king. That they are against violent criminals being incarcerated, 326 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 3: taken off the streets, and they are against our families 327 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 3: being protected. You know, I got to say, people who 328 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 3: are not political radicals find all of that common sense 329 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:30,119 Speaker 3: that that's not a particularly right wing proposition that that 330 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:34,240 Speaker 3: that violent criminals. You know, I'll tell a story Ben, 331 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:38,199 Speaker 3: when I was a brand new baby lawyer back in 332 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 3: I think nineteen ninety seven, I just finished clerking for 333 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:45,760 Speaker 3: Chief Justice Renquist. I just started practicing law at a little 334 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 3: law firm in DC, and there was a show on 335 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 3: PBS that was called Debates, Debates, and it was it 336 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 3: was a three on three debate for an hour, and 337 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 3: they would they would take a particular topic and get 338 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 3: three conservatives, three liberals, and you debate for an hour. 339 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:05,440 Speaker 3: And it was it was produced by a guy named 340 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:08,120 Speaker 3: Warren Steibel, who was also the producer of Firing Line 341 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 3: with Bill Buckley, and I got a call from someone 342 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 3: from a friend of mine who said, Hey, they're looking 343 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:16,280 Speaker 3: for someone to go on the show. Do you want 344 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:18,240 Speaker 3: to do this? And it ended up being the first 345 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:21,399 Speaker 3: TV show I ever went on, you know, right at 346 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:25,359 Speaker 3: the start of my legal career, and the topic was 347 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 3: should we release should we grant amnesty? To quote America's 348 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:35,760 Speaker 3: political prisoners, and by that they meant cop killers and 349 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:39,680 Speaker 3: other radical left wingers who were incarcerated. But they claimed 350 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:42,680 Speaker 3: they were political prisoners because they had an ideology and 351 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 3: they were having a hard time finding conservatives to debate 352 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 3: the conservative side of it. And I remember I got 353 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:49,679 Speaker 3: the phone call ask if I would do it, and 354 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:51,879 Speaker 3: I started laughing and I said, okay, so let me 355 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 3: get this straight. You want me to defend the proposition 356 00:18:56,400 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 3: that violent criminals should be punished. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I 357 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 3: feel good with that. I'm quite comfortable with that proposition. 358 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:08,040 Speaker 1: Way to load the deck against me, right. 359 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:08,480 Speaker 4: You know. 360 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:10,800 Speaker 3: And look, to be clear, I don't care if they're 361 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 3: left wing or right wing or they don't have any 362 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:15,399 Speaker 3: wings at all. If you commit acts of violence, you 363 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 3: should be arrested, you should be prosecuted, You should go 364 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:20,639 Speaker 3: to jail and listen the question we asked at the 365 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:24,520 Speaker 3: start of this show about following the money. Regular listeners 366 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 3: of the pod will know that is something that I'm 367 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 3: pressing both Pambondi and the Department of Justice and cash 368 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 3: PTEL and the FBI to do not just the money 369 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 3: behind the No Kings rallies, but also the money behind 370 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:38,960 Speaker 3: the anti Semitic protest on college campuses, the money behind 371 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,119 Speaker 3: the Black Lives Matter at Antifa riots all over the country, 372 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 3: the money behind the open border riots in Los Angeles 373 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:49,119 Speaker 3: and other cities earlier this year. I think it is 374 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 3: likely all the same money. It is the same collection 375 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 3: of radicals. We are a combination of extreme leftists, Marxists, 376 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:02,879 Speaker 3: jihadist anarchists, and I think George Soros is the granddaddy 377 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 3: of them all. But I've introduced legislation, and the legislation 378 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:10,639 Speaker 3: is called the Stop Thunders Act. And what the Stop 379 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:14,680 Speaker 3: Thunders Act would do is very simple. It simply adds 380 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 3: rioting to the list of predicate acts under RICO. 381 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:19,879 Speaker 1: Now, what is RICO. 382 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 3: RICO is the Rocketeer Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act, and 383 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:28,440 Speaker 3: it is a tool that prosecutors use to go after 384 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 3: organized crime and is a very powerful prosecutorial tool. And 385 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:35,600 Speaker 3: the value of RICO is that what you can do 386 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 3: is under RICO you can prove an organization. This is 387 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 3: used often for something like the mafia or say a 388 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 3: drug cartel, where you prove the existence of an organization 389 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,520 Speaker 3: and that you're part of the organization, and then you 390 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 3: have to prove that you committed predicate acts and you 391 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:55,080 Speaker 3: can be prosecuted under RICO and serve long jail time. Well, 392 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 3: the way the left right now is funding rioting as 393 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,200 Speaker 3: they do do it through multiple different organizations that are 394 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:06,639 Speaker 3: deliberately ignorant of what each other is doing, and I 395 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 3: think they're doing it to avoid accountability and liability. The 396 00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:13,639 Speaker 3: Stop Funders Act by adding rioting to the list of 397 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 3: predicate acts for RICO, would give prosecutors a heck of 398 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:20,879 Speaker 3: a tool that if you're cutting the check that is 399 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:23,960 Speaker 3: going to funding the rioting and rioters are engaged in 400 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,960 Speaker 3: acts of violence. Rioters are on campus, assaulting Jewish students 401 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 3: in a public street, looting a store, firebombing a police car, 402 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:38,399 Speaker 3: murdering someone, assaulting someone, that you the person who wrote 403 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:41,160 Speaker 3: the check and funded the entire effort. You the one 404 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:44,399 Speaker 3: who say on the college campuses paid for all of 405 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 3: the tents that look exactly the same. They all match. 406 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:51,439 Speaker 3: You would face liability just like you would if you 407 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 3: were the one writing the check and funding the mafia 408 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 3: family or funding the drug cartel. And so I'm urging 409 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 3: Congress take up my stop funderzact pass it, and DOJ 410 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 3: needs to go after the money. If we cut off 411 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,439 Speaker 3: the money with no checks, there would be no no 412 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:13,119 Speaker 3: King's protests, not because people are prevented from speaking, but 413 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:18,400 Speaker 3: because this sort of demonstration is not real and organic. 414 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 3: It is driven by a handful of left wing billionaires 415 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:29,919 Speaker 3: who are using their money to buy the appearance of 416 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:30,920 Speaker 3: something much broader. 417 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 2: Final question on this, how hard or how easy should 418 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:35,840 Speaker 2: it be or will it be to get this pass 419 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,879 Speaker 2: with Republican leadership. It doesn't seem like this would be 420 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:41,320 Speaker 2: a hard thing to convince people to say, yeah, we 421 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:42,399 Speaker 2: need to follow the money. 422 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:45,720 Speaker 3: So look, I think it is easy to get Republican votes. 423 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,359 Speaker 3: I think all or virtually all Republicans would vote for it. 424 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 3: The challenge to passing in the law will be the 425 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 3: Senate filibuster rule, which means to pass it we need 426 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:57,920 Speaker 3: sixty votes in the Senate, which would mean we would 427 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:01,480 Speaker 3: need at least seven Democrats fifty three Republicans. It's the 428 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,320 Speaker 3: same challenge we have in the middle of the shutdown. 429 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:06,120 Speaker 3: We need sixty votes. We need at least seven Democrats 430 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,280 Speaker 3: to reopen the government, and right now the Democrats are 431 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 3: just no, no, hell no to everything. So I think 432 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 3: it is entirely possible and maybe even likely that if 433 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 3: we bring it up for a vote in the Senate 434 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:22,399 Speaker 3: Judiciary Committee, that every Senate Democrat would vote no on 435 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 3: the committee. Now, if that happens, it would still be 436 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 3: voted out of committee, because if the Republicans all voted together, 437 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:29,439 Speaker 3: we have a majority on the committee, and so if 438 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 3: we voted out of committee, it would go to the floor. 439 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 3: And what I'm merging Republican leadership to do is put 440 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,119 Speaker 3: it up for a vote on the floor and listen. 441 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,560 Speaker 3: If the Democrats all want to vote no, they can. 442 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:42,920 Speaker 3: That prevents it from being passed. But I got to say, 443 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,200 Speaker 3: that is a terrible vote. If you are voting against 444 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 3: liability for violent rioting, that is not a vote that 445 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 3: that is not a vote that any Democrat running in 446 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:58,360 Speaker 3: a purple state wants to defend to his or her 447 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,000 Speaker 3: constituents and so I think. I think either we take 448 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 3: it up and they decide to support it and we 449 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,200 Speaker 3: pass it, or we take it up and they vote 450 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 3: party line against it, in which case those are terrible 451 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 3: votes and you campaign against them. 452 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 2: And I want to move now center to something that 453 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,600 Speaker 2: you've been spearheading and leading on. It's certainly not getting 454 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 2: attention to the media, but you're wanting to hold Nigeria 455 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:23,520 Speaker 2: accountable for the fifty thousand. Let me see that number again, 456 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:29,479 Speaker 2: fifty thousand Christians that have been killed. There, explain why 457 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 2: this story is so important and what you're trying to do, 458 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,639 Speaker 2: and also why is no one covering this? 459 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 1: Does this been described to me? 460 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:41,040 Speaker 3: Look, it is truly horrific. The numbers are stunning. The 461 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:45,399 Speaker 3: numbers are staggering. Here are the top line numbers of 462 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 3: what we're seeing. We have seen over fifty thousand Christians killed. 463 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 3: We have seen over eighteen thousand churches and at least 464 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:04,199 Speaker 3: two thousand schools burned. And the response to this, the 465 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:09,240 Speaker 3: Nigerian government is fighting back ferociously saying this is not happening, 466 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:10,200 Speaker 3: this is not true. 467 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:11,040 Speaker 1: There's a battle. 468 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,480 Speaker 3: The Nigerian government officials are getting very angry that I'm 469 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 3: calling them out. I want to read to you from 470 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:21,399 Speaker 3: the executive Summary of the US State Departments twenty twenty 471 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:26,120 Speaker 3: four Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Nigeria, and 472 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:27,800 Speaker 3: here's what it says. 473 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 1: Quote. 474 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 3: Significant human rights issues included credible reports of arbitrary and 475 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:39,680 Speaker 3: unlawful killings, disappearances, torture or cruel inhuman or degrading treatment 476 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:45,720 Speaker 3: or punishment, arbitrary arrested attention, serious abuses in a conflict, 477 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:50,200 Speaker 3: serious restrictions on freedom of expression and media freedom, including 478 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:54,359 Speaker 3: violence or threats of violence against journalists, violence or threats 479 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:58,919 Speaker 3: against labor activists or union members, and significant presence of 480 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:02,960 Speaker 3: any of the worst forms of child labor. Non state 481 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,840 Speaker 3: actors committed arbitrary and unlawful killings, disappearances, physical abuse, and 482 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:11,560 Speaker 3: other mistreatments. Boko Haram and the Islamic State in West 483 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 3: Africa continued attacks on civilians, military, police, humanitarian and religious targets, 484 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:26,880 Speaker 3: unlawfully recruited and forcibly conscripted child soldiers, and carried out 485 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:30,879 Speaker 3: scores of attacks on population centers in the North East regions. 486 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 3: Abductions by Bokohram and the Islamic State in West Africa continued. 487 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:42,200 Speaker 3: Both groups subjected many women and girls to gender based violence, 488 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 3: including forced marriage, sexual slavery, and rape. This is what's 489 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 3: going on in Nigeria right now, and it is going 490 00:26:54,280 --> 00:27:00,480 Speaker 3: on far too often with the acquiescence of the elected 491 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:06,480 Speaker 3: government officials, far too often, and in some instances, you 492 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 3: have provinces in Nigeria that have on the books blasphemy 493 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:18,840 Speaker 3: law and Sharia law, and they will prosecute Christians for blasphemy, 494 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:22,919 Speaker 3: they will plot prosecute Christians for violating Sharia law, in 495 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:27,159 Speaker 3: which case the government becomes a tool of the persecution 496 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 3: of Christians. 497 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,119 Speaker 1: And look it is. 498 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 3: It is devastating. It is the most Christians being murdered 499 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:42,439 Speaker 3: anywhere on the face of the planet is happening in Nigeria. 500 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 3: And so I introduce legislation to require the Secretary of 501 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,880 Speaker 3: State to designate Nigeria as a country of particular concern 502 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 3: and to impose sanctions, including in particular sanctioning the individual 503 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,680 Speaker 3: government officials. So, if you're a local effe and you're 504 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:04,800 Speaker 3: enforcing blasphemy laws and Sharia laws and you're persecuting Christians, 505 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,400 Speaker 3: or you're turning the other way and turning a blind 506 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:14,159 Speaker 3: eye to Christians being murdered, at in mass numbers. The 507 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 3: result of my legislation would be each of those individual 508 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,920 Speaker 3: government officials would face sanctions. And I got to say, 509 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:26,120 Speaker 3: the Nigerian government has been pushing back ferociously. For example, 510 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 3: the Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs ol 511 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:34,639 Speaker 3: Ok said the Cruise bill is quote a deliberate attempt 512 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:39,280 Speaker 3: to damage the Nigerian image, and he insists Nigeria is 513 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:43,840 Speaker 3: a very tolerant country, well other than murdering fifty thousand Christians. 514 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:47,720 Speaker 3: Very tolerant other than that. Likewise, the Minister of Information 515 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 3: and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris rejected the suggestion that quote 516 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 3: any Nigerian officials will willingly deliberately indulge in the act 517 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 3: of siding with violent extremists to target at any particular 518 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:09,440 Speaker 3: religion in the country. Likewise, Presidential spokesperson baya on Anungo 519 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 3: demanded that Cruz stop his quote malicious and contrived lies 520 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:21,920 Speaker 3: against quote my country. And finally, Senate President God's Will 521 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 3: Akpabillo cautioned against framing the crisis quote along religious lines 522 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:37,680 Speaker 3: since quote terrorists and bandits target Nigerians indiscriminately regardless of faith. 523 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:41,320 Speaker 3: Now listen, it is certainly true that Bukoharram and other 524 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,720 Speaker 3: religious radicals in Nigeria are killing Muslims as well. They're 525 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 3: killing both, but they are systematically targeting Christians for mass murder. 526 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,960 Speaker 3: When you've got fifty thousand Christians being murdered, that is 527 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,440 Speaker 3: not accidental, that is not random. And the over eighteen 528 00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 3: thousand churches and the over two thousand schools, they're singling 529 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:04,120 Speaker 3: out and targeting Christian churches and Christian schools and burning 530 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:08,080 Speaker 3: them to the ground. And the government of Nigeria is 531 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:12,960 Speaker 3: not acting with any vigor at all to defend and 532 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 3: to defend the Christians or just to keep them alive. 533 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:18,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, to keep them alive. 534 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:22,200 Speaker 2: And so now obviously this is about letting it shining 535 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,440 Speaker 2: a light on this, and then you go back to 536 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,960 Speaker 2: the policy aspect of this, what happens next And for 537 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,960 Speaker 2: people specifically that are listening, what do they need to 538 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 2: be doing and advocating for to make sure that we 539 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 2: can move this forward. 540 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:40,840 Speaker 3: Look, the next step needs to be that I'm pushing 541 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,680 Speaker 3: for the Congress to pass my legislation. I'm on the 542 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 3: Senate Foreign Relations Committee, so I'm pressing for the Senate 543 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:50,200 Speaker 3: Foreign Relations Committee to take it up that would designate 544 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,320 Speaker 3: Nigeria as a country of particular concern. Now, I would 545 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:55,960 Speaker 3: note the Trump administration can do so on its own, 546 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,240 Speaker 3: and this is often the case in foreign policy areas, 547 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:01,840 Speaker 3: where all introduce legislation and I'll push for action. So, 548 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:06,280 Speaker 3: for example, I've introduced legislation to designate the Muslim Brotherhood 549 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,920 Speaker 3: is a terrorist organization. I've done so repeatedly in multiple congresses. 550 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 3: I think it is unequivocally a terrorist organization. In fact, 551 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:17,320 Speaker 3: Hamas is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas is 552 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:22,280 Speaker 3: the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine, is what they call themselves, 553 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:26,560 Speaker 3: and that has not yet happened. But I would like 554 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,240 Speaker 3: to see Congress pass my legislation. But the most likely 555 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,280 Speaker 3: way we'll get the Muslim Brotherhood designated is that I 556 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:35,360 Speaker 3: will succeed in convincing President Trump and the Trump administration 557 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,040 Speaker 3: to do so. And I've been making that case vigorously. 558 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 3: With respect to Nigeria, the same thing is true. I'm 559 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:42,840 Speaker 3: going to try to pass the legislation, but I'm also 560 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,120 Speaker 3: very much making the case to the Trump administration. They 561 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:49,239 Speaker 3: have the authority to do it now. And look, I 562 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,120 Speaker 3: want to point out you asked what people can do 563 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:56,000 Speaker 3: speak out highlight fifty thousand Christians massacred since two thousand 564 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 3: and nine, the single greatest mass slaughter of Christians anywhere 565 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:04,240 Speaker 3: in the world world. And look here's how Fox News 566 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 3: put it. 567 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:05,200 Speaker 4: Quote. 568 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:08,680 Speaker 3: A diplomatic battle is being waged between leading Republican Senator 569 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:12,240 Speaker 3: Ted Cruz and Nigerian government officials. The Texas senators has 570 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,920 Speaker 3: warned he will hold them accountable for the reported mass 571 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:18,360 Speaker 3: slaughter of tens of thousands of Christians in Nigeria. The 572 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,360 Speaker 3: official say Cruz is lying, with one claiming that despite 573 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:25,360 Speaker 3: even the Pope publicly calling out the killings, there is 574 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:29,440 Speaker 3: religious harmony in the country. But you know what, maybe 575 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:33,360 Speaker 3: you don't believe me, maybe you don't believe the Pope. 576 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:37,400 Speaker 3: So if the Pope and I are both wrong, how 577 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:41,480 Speaker 3: about this, maybe maybe you'll believe Bill Maher. You have 578 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,080 Speaker 3: a listen to what Bill Maher had to say on 579 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:43,560 Speaker 3: this topic. 580 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,520 Speaker 5: If you don't know what's going on in Nigeria, your 581 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:51,200 Speaker 5: media sources suck. You are in a bubble. And again, 582 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,840 Speaker 5: I'm not a Christian, but they are systematically killing the 583 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:58,280 Speaker 5: Christians in Nigeria. They've killed over one hundred thousand since 584 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,080 Speaker 5: two thousand and nine they've burned eighty thousand churches. 585 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:02,320 Speaker 1: This is so much. 586 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,160 Speaker 5: More These are their Islamis vocoha ram. This is so 587 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,560 Speaker 5: much more of a genocide attempt than what is going 588 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,440 Speaker 5: on in Gaza. They are literally attempting to wipe out 589 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 5: the Christian population of an entire country. 590 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:16,360 Speaker 1: Where are the kids protesting this? 591 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,120 Speaker 4: Yeah? Thank you? 592 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:21,360 Speaker 1: All will talk about it, so thank you. 593 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,680 Speaker 4: Absolutely, it's Africa, That's what. 594 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:27,320 Speaker 1: No one's talking about it and they should be. 595 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,640 Speaker 4: You can't read about it on mainstream media. It's sad, 596 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:30,720 Speaker 4: So thank you for bringing Vicker. 597 00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:34,040 Speaker 5: The Jews aren't involved, that's why it's. 598 00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:35,640 Speaker 1: The Christians and the Muslims two players. 599 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:40,040 Speaker 3: He is exactly right, and I appreciate Bill Maher calling 600 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:43,280 Speaker 3: it out and shining a light on it. He's right 601 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,640 Speaker 3: that that that the corporate media does not want to 602 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,520 Speaker 3: cover it. And by the way, on that same show, 603 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:53,200 Speaker 3: someone you know well, Van Jones from CNN. He was 604 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,680 Speaker 3: on that show, and Van Jones is a very left 605 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,080 Speaker 3: wing guy and he's on CNN regularly. But but he 606 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:03,200 Speaker 3: commented and and he chimed in agreeing with Bill Maher. 607 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,880 Speaker 3: Here give a listen to Van Jones talking about the 608 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,239 Speaker 3: slaughter of Christians in Nigeria. 609 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,080 Speaker 5: You're talking about young people. A lot of them seem 610 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:12,279 Speaker 5: to know one thing. White people did some very bad 611 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,799 Speaker 5: things in this world, and they certainly did. But there 612 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:15,680 Speaker 5: are other things to. 613 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:19,879 Speaker 6: Know, yes, and including the fact that in Sudan right now, 614 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,320 Speaker 6: which nobody is talking about, you have Arab militia murdering 615 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,839 Speaker 6: people by the wheelbarrow. Including the fact that Africa right 616 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:29,200 Speaker 6: now is being overrun by Islamis terravists, including Boko rob 617 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:30,799 Speaker 6: with no conversation about that at all. 618 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:34,920 Speaker 5: I did it last week Nigeria. I mean this is 619 00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:38,399 Speaker 5: an actual planned genocide. Yes, I mean they really want 620 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,920 Speaker 5: to kill all the Christians in that country and they 621 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:42,440 Speaker 5: are systematically doing it. 622 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,600 Speaker 6: And the fact that there's almost no response from the 623 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:48,200 Speaker 6: global left and no attention from mainstream media is a 624 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,400 Speaker 6: crime against African people, black people, and human rights. I 625 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:52,560 Speaker 6: agree with that one hundred percent. 626 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:54,560 Speaker 1: It turns out. 627 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:56,840 Speaker 6: That there's a double standard for Jews. 628 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,800 Speaker 1: That is true, use no news. 629 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,000 Speaker 6: As long as you can put the put the Jewish 630 00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,040 Speaker 6: state in the conversation, it's gonna be a big conversation. 631 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,000 Speaker 6: If you can't, you get no attention at all. This 632 00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,759 Speaker 6: is a big problem. It is a big problem. I 633 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,680 Speaker 6: mean you hear Van Jones saying it. Yep, he is correct. 634 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:15,160 Speaker 6: It is a huge problem. 635 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:18,439 Speaker 2: No Jews, no news like I mean, it's it's it's 636 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:19,960 Speaker 2: amazing that this is happening. 637 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:25,120 Speaker 3: Look, we see the protests on college campuses. We see 638 00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:29,160 Speaker 3: these angry leftists who are completely enraged about Gaza. The 639 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:33,360 Speaker 3: instant President Trump negotiates a peace deal, they go away. 640 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,840 Speaker 3: Now Hamas is executing Palestinians on the street, lighting up 641 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,040 Speaker 3: Palestinians on their knees, shooting him in the back of 642 00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:42,000 Speaker 3: the head, and not a peep. These leftist radicals, they 643 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:46,839 Speaker 3: are perfectly fine with Palestinians being systematically murdered as long 644 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,760 Speaker 3: as it's Palestinians. As long as Hamas doing the murder. 645 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,920 Speaker 3: You don't see a protest. You don't see and he 646 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:56,839 Speaker 3: calls a genocide. Their protest is about one thing, which 647 00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:00,040 Speaker 3: is they hate Israel and they hate Jews. And I 648 00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,880 Speaker 3: to say, where is ABC, where is CBS, Where is 649 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:07,479 Speaker 3: an NBC? Where's CNN and MSNBC? Where's the New York Times? 650 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:12,200 Speaker 3: Where's the Washington Post? About the mass murder of over 651 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,920 Speaker 3: fifty thousand Christians in Nigeria? You know what, if you 652 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:18,520 Speaker 3: want to find out things like that, you got to 653 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:20,480 Speaker 3: listen to Verdict, You got to listen to the podcast. 654 00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:22,680 Speaker 3: You got to go and work. But I will say 655 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:28,560 Speaker 3: there are not many issues that bring together me, the Pope, 656 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,320 Speaker 3: Bill Maher and Ven Jones. 657 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:32,400 Speaker 2: Amen to that. 658 00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:33,719 Speaker 1: Amen to that. 659 00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:34,080 Speaker 4: Man. 660 00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,400 Speaker 2: Make sure you take this podcast, share it with your 661 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:38,560 Speaker 2: family and friends, put it up on social media. If 662 00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:40,040 Speaker 2: you get that little forward button, you can put it 663 00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:42,640 Speaker 2: on wherever you're on social media. It's actually really easy 664 00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,400 Speaker 2: and it helps other people hear this. Also, if you 665 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:49,880 Speaker 2: missed our episode on Friday with Donald Trump's' son Eric Trump, 666 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,080 Speaker 2: go back and grab that. It was a really interesting episode. 667 00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:54,480 Speaker 2: I want to make sure you guys, if you miss 668 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,440 Speaker 2: it on Friday, you can grab that as well. And 669 00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:58,440 Speaker 2: then Senat and I will see you back here on 670 00:36:58,480 --> 00:36:59,200 Speaker 2: Wednesday morning. 671 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:00,239 Speaker 4: Yeah,