1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: Welcome it. His verdict with Ted Cruz Weekend Review. Ben 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: Ferguson with you, and these are the big stories that 3 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: you may have missed that we talked about this week. 4 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: First up this week, it was a bombshelf that the 5 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: media refused to report on, and that was the fact 6 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 1: that Scott Kirby at the White House said he was 7 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:20,080 Speaker 1: quote not shocked by the FBI coming out and saying 8 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 1: that terrorism is at a whole other level when it 9 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:26,800 Speaker 1: comes to the threat in this country. Why because the 10 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: open southern border up next in a shock. Yes, Iran 11 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: is selling a ton of oil right now and much 12 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 1: of it is in violation of sanctions. So why is 13 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:39,520 Speaker 1: the White House not standing up to Iran? And also 14 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:41,919 Speaker 1: at the same time, why is the White House and 15 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:47,560 Speaker 1: their policies deliberately making Iran wealthy while putting a hardship 16 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:53,560 Speaker 1: on Americans through their obsession with green alternative energy. And finally, 17 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 1: they're coming for your kids like never before, at the 18 00:00:56,920 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: university level, at the high school's, junior highs, and even 19 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: elementary schools. Liz Wheeler joins us to talk about her 20 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 1: new book and what you need to know about what 21 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 1: they're doing with your children. It is the Weekend Review 22 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 1: with Ted Cruz, and it starts right now. There was 23 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:17,039 Speaker 1: a question that was asked of Kirby at the White 24 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:20,840 Speaker 1: House about our open border, about how unsecure it is 25 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 1: and now not about the illegal immigrants necessarily coming across, 26 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: but the terrorists that are coming across, and he was 27 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 1: forced to answer the question. I think honestly that yes, 28 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:31,680 Speaker 1: he is concerned. 29 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 2: Listen, YEPBI director said today the ongoing war in the 30 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 2: Middle East has raised the threat of an attack against 31 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 2: Americans in the United States to a whole another level. 32 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:44,679 Speaker 1: Let's just stop there for a second. When you heard that, center, 33 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: how shocked were you by that? So I wasn't, but 34 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 1: then admitting that it's at a whole other level, I 35 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: was shocked by that type of candid answer from anybody 36 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: in this administration. 37 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 3: Well, my thought was immediate, Holy crap, what does the 38 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 3: FBI know that we don't know, because just weeks or 39 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 3: months ago, the FBI was saying the greatest threat to 40 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 3: public safety is white supremacists in America. And give me 41 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 3: a friggin break, listen. Nazis and klansmen are idiots and 42 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 3: bigots there, They're imbeciles. I oppose them wholly and unequivocally. 43 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 3: But there's not a rise of Nazis in America. Like, Okay, 44 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 3: you got like six Yahoos in some bar in somewhere 45 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:40,079 Speaker 3: in America that are going whoohoo. But like in the 46 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 3: real world, that is not a rising threat. And yet 47 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 3: the politicized Biden Department of Justice and FBI said that's 48 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 3: the threat. And I was always like, okay, what about 49 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 3: radical Jihadis who pledged that they want to murder all 50 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 3: of us, who have committed horrific acts of terrorism all 51 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 3: across the globe, who carried out nine to eleven? Do 52 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 3: you not think they're a greater threat? And until October seventh, 53 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 3: until the attack on Israel, the Biden DOJ and the 54 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 3: Biden FBI said nope, no, no, Johannis are just oki doki, 55 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 3: no problem at all. We're just concerned that the Ku 56 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 3: kus Klan is coming back. And I'm like, okay, that's absurd. 57 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 3: Now they've changed their talking points. So this week the 58 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 3: FBI went before the House and said, Wow, there is 59 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 3: a real risk of Hamas and hesbal A terrorists coming 60 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 3: across the border. Now listen, this podcast has covered this. 61 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 3: I have said repeatedly that I think there is a 62 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 3: greater risk of a major terrorist attack on the United 63 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 3: States than there has been at any time since September eleventh. 64 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 3: And we did a whole podcast on the written memo 65 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 3: from Customs and Border Patrol instructing border patrol agents be 66 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 3: on lookout for Hamas, for Hesbola, for Palestinian Islamic jihad. 67 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 3: They're going to try to hide who they are and 68 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 3: they're coming here to commit acts of terror. And so 69 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:17,919 Speaker 3: when I see the FBI saying this, my reaction is like, 70 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 3: holy crap, they know stuff. For them to change their 71 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 3: political talking points, frankly takes my level of concern from 72 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:29,839 Speaker 3: an eight to an eleven. 73 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 1: Well, and that's what Kirby was also when he answered this, 74 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:35,559 Speaker 1: it was a very different answer. Remember that's the same 75 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 1: my orchis had said, the border is secure. The border 76 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:40,840 Speaker 1: is secure. And now they're saying, not only know is 77 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 1: it not admitting it's not. Now they're saying they're worried 78 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 1: about terror threat to keep listening. 79 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 2: In the United States to a whole another level, has 80 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 2: the White House considered the possibility that a terrorist could 81 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 2: be in the country right now after crossing the southern border, Peter, we. 82 00:04:56,040 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 4: Are always concerned about the potential presence on US soil 83 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 4: of terrorists coming from overseas. That's something we're always worried about. 84 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 2: But there was this bulletin last week the CBP in 85 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 2: San Diego said militants associated with the Israel Hamas war 86 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 2: may be potentially encountered at the south. 87 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 4: We'll talk about the San Diego. 88 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:22,679 Speaker 2: Is there any heartburn around yet? Six hundred thousand known 89 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 2: godaways just in the last fistful year. Is there any 90 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 2: heartburn about leaving the border in such a condition that 91 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 2: one of those six hundred thousand could. 92 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 5: Be a terrorist. 93 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 4: So let me just break this down for you just 94 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:38,599 Speaker 4: a little bit here. First of all, I can't speak 95 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 4: to this intelligence report that was leaked to the media. 96 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 4: I wouldn't do that. I can tell you that we 97 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:49,680 Speaker 4: are constantly monitoring as best we can all ports of 98 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 4: entry to the country for the potential arrival of anybody 99 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:56,839 Speaker 4: who might wish us harm. And one of the things 100 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:59,720 Speaker 4: that the President asked for in this supplemental was additional 101 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:03,839 Speaker 4: fund for border security for like fifteen hundred more border 102 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 4: patrol agents and better technology at the border. I mean, 103 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 4: so again, we would urge Congress to take a look 104 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:11,839 Speaker 4: at that selflemental request and pass it. But if the 105 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:14,160 Speaker 4: general gist of your question is are we taking the 106 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 4: potential threat seriously, of course we will. 107 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 2: The general just was is it possible that somebody who 108 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 2: wants to commit a terrorist attack during a time of 109 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:25,719 Speaker 2: elevated threat across the southern border into the United States already? 110 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 4: I couldn't possibly answer that question, Peter. All I can 111 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 4: do is tell you that we have remained vigilant to 112 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 4: that potential threat. 113 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:39,160 Speaker 1: Okay, John, we have. I disagree with that center. I 114 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 1: would love to get your take on that. I do 115 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 1: not believe they've stayed vigilant. I think, in fact, they've 116 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:46,239 Speaker 1: turned their heads and run and said every illegal immigrant 117 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 1: or anyone that wants to come across the border, come on. 118 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 3: Over what utter and complete crap that entire answer Listen. 119 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:59,200 Speaker 3: John Kirby is an admiral in the Navy. It makes 120 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:03,600 Speaker 3: me sad watch an admiral just lie to the American people. 121 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 3: You know, one of the things he says, we're vigilant 122 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:09,320 Speaker 3: at the ports of entry, Well, no kidding, you, moron. 123 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 3: Terrorists don't enter at the ports of entry, and they 124 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 3: don't come up and say, hey, I'm an a mos terrorists. 125 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 3: I want to kill people like they're stupid, but they're 126 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 3: not said that stupid. You want to know the stat 127 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 3: that is horrifying. Two million got aways. So we're now 128 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:29,880 Speaker 3: north of eight million people who crossed illegally in this country. 129 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 3: Roughly six million have come in and turned themselves in. 130 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 3: They've said okay, I'm here, they look for border patrol, 131 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 3: they turned themselves in. Most of them they're fleeing poverty, 132 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 3: they're fleeing economic misery. They're coming to America because Joe 133 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 3: Biden has said, if you come to America, you get 134 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 3: to stay. It's a disaster. And many of them are 135 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 3: being abused. They're being brutalized by traffickers, they're being sexually assaulted, 136 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 3: they're being left for dead. But those six million actually 137 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 3: worried me much much less than the two million who 138 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 3: are the two million. The two million are the god aways. Now, 139 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 3: what's a god away? A god away is someone that 140 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 3: border patrol observes, They observe through a censor, they observe 141 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 3: through visual observation, but they don't catch them. They're the 142 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 3: people that run. Now, why do the god Aways concern 143 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 3: me because, look, the people who are turning themselves in. 144 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 3: When I was down at the southern border Thursday night 145 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 3: at midnight patrol, the group that turned themselves in, they 146 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 3: looked for border patrol, they turned themselves in. We spent 147 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:34,199 Speaker 3: thirty to forty five minutes visiting with them. They were 148 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 3: mostly women and children. Look, I don't think the five 149 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 3: year olds are going to commit acts of terror. They've 150 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 3: been brutalized, they've been assaulted, they like. What they've gone 151 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 3: through is horrific and inhumane. But the five year olds 152 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 3: are not a national security threat to the United States. 153 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,840 Speaker 3: The god Aways are the people that are actively avoiding 154 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 3: and evading border patrol apprehension, and they are Many of 155 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 3: them are criminals. They have criminal histories. They're murderers, their rapists, 156 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 3: their child molesters, they have DUIs that they have. Many 157 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:09,800 Speaker 3: of them have horrible criminal histories. Others of them are 158 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 3: gang members, they're MS thirteen or otherwise, but others of 159 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:20,960 Speaker 3: them are worse. It's the two million god Aways. If 160 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 3: you're a terrorist and you want to murder Americans, you're 161 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:26,960 Speaker 3: not in the people that are turning yourself into the 162 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 3: border patrol. You're in the two million godaways and the 163 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 3: point that he's ignoring, well, we're vigilant at the points 164 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 3: of entry, ports of entry. Well great, that's not where 165 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 3: the terrorists are coming in. And it is so fundamentally 166 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 3: dishonest what this administration says about. 167 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 1: That final question on this I want to ask you about, 168 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 1: you know, the new accusation which is accurate, and that's 169 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 1: that Joe Biden has welcomed six million illegal aliens in 170 00:09:55,080 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 1: the US, succeeding the population now of thirty one states. Now, now, 171 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:04,319 Speaker 1: let's just think about that six million legal aliens into 172 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 1: the United States of America, a foreign population that exceeds 173 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 1: the population center of thirty one different states. And the 174 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:15,720 Speaker 1: White House was asked about this, Okay, they were asked like, hey, 175 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: are you guys gonna talk about how this number and 176 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 1: not only that, how many more illegal aliens are you 177 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:25,080 Speaker 1: going to let in? Senator Johnson had this to say, 178 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:27,200 Speaker 1: one of your colleagues sectamy ORCA. 179 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 5: So I've asked you this in the past. What numbers 180 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 5: are represented here? How many people has this administration let 181 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:40,559 Speaker 5: in by encountering, processing, dispersing, or that have come in 182 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:44,840 Speaker 5: as a known or unknown got away approximately. I don't 183 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 5: need an exact number. So what do we got center? 184 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:49,840 Speaker 5: Let me let me see I need numbers again. Don't 185 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 5: feel abust for me. How many people has this administration 186 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 5: led into the country. Let me say at the outset 187 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 5: that our job would be a lot easier if the 188 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 5: broken immigration system was nosion in this sector. I want 189 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:03,439 Speaker 5: a number. How many people have you led into this country? 190 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 5: I should also, Okay, I'll give you the number. It's 191 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 5: about six million. 192 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 1: He won't to answer the damn question because he doesn't 193 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 1: want to be on record. It's saying, yes, we've let 194 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:17,559 Speaker 1: in the population that is more than thirty one different 195 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 1: states in America. 196 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 3: Well, and it's worse than that because the six million 197 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 3: is just the people who've been apprehended. They're an additional 198 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:30,040 Speaker 3: two million got away. So the actual number is eight 199 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 3: million illegal immigrants who crossed under Joe Biden. And that 200 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:39,000 Speaker 3: is larger than all but twelve states in America. And 201 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:40,680 Speaker 3: I want to do something. I want to read to 202 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 3: you the states that are smaller than the number of 203 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:48,560 Speaker 3: illegal immigrants who come in under Joe Biden. Wyoming has 204 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 3: five hundred and eighty one thousand population, Vermont, DC, Alaska, 205 00:11:54,760 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 3: North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana, Maine, New Hampshire, Hawaii, Westernvirginia, Idaho, Nebraska, 206 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 3: New Mexico, Kansas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Nevada, Iowa, Puerto Rico, Utah, Connecticut, Oklahoma, Oregon, Kentucky, Louisiana, Alabama, 207 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 3: South Carolina, Minnesota, Colorado, Wisconsin, Maryland, Missouri, Indiana, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Arizona, 208 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:25,400 Speaker 3: and Washington State. Washington State has seven million, seven hundred 209 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 3: and eighty five thousand people in it. It is only 210 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:31,320 Speaker 3: when you get to Virginia. Virginia has eight million, six 211 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:33,840 Speaker 3: hundred and eighty three thousand people in it, so we 212 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:37,640 Speaker 3: haven't yet crossed the population of Virginia. Virginia is the 213 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:42,080 Speaker 3: twelfth largest state in America. We are between thirteen and twelve, 214 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:45,440 Speaker 3: and by the end of the Biden administration will pass Virginia, 215 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 3: will pass New Jersey at nine million, two hundred sixty 216 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 3: one thousand, will probably pass Michigan at ten million, thirty 217 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 3: four thousand, We may pass North Carolina at ten million, 218 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:58,920 Speaker 3: six hundred ninety eight thousand, and you get into the 219 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:03,319 Speaker 3: territory of number eight Georgia ten million, nine hundred and 220 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:07,400 Speaker 3: twelve thousand, or Ohio number seven at eleven million, seven 221 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:11,319 Speaker 3: hundred and fifty six thousand. That's how many illegal immigrants 222 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:15,840 Speaker 3: have crossed under Joe Biden in less than three years, 223 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 3: eight million, larger than the population of all but a 224 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:22,839 Speaker 3: dozen US states. 225 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:25,640 Speaker 1: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, 226 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: you can go back and listen to the full podcast 227 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:32,600 Speaker 1: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two. I 228 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:34,839 Speaker 1: want to move to another issue center and it's one 229 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: that deals with energy independence. It also deals with what 230 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:41,600 Speaker 1: we're witnessing now in Iran. The amount of money that 231 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 1: Iran is making right now from oil is upwards that 232 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 1: I've been seeing some numbers that are billion dollars a 233 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:56,439 Speaker 1: day is what they're selling. These numbers are staggering. There 234 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 1: are many that are screaming right now and they're saying, hey, 235 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 1: this shouldn't be happening. There are sanctions that should just 236 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 1: be enforced, not needing to pass new sanctions to stop 237 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:12,559 Speaker 1: this country this sponsoring terrorism, especially against Israel with Hamas Hezbla, 238 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 1: they've helped ISIS and al Qaida. They are openly saying 239 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 1: they want death to America and death to Israel and 240 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 1: to wipe us off the face of the earth. And 241 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:24,960 Speaker 1: yet we're not enforcing these this all at the same 242 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 1: time while we are hurting this country from a lack 243 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: of energy independence, which makes them richer. When we stop 244 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 1: doing things here and we go into this green alternative energy, 245 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 1: it's just making them richer, which means they can sponsor 246 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 1: more terrorist activities around the world. And it's something that 247 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 1: you've really dived into in this book that comes out 248 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:49,360 Speaker 1: on Tuesday, that people need to get their hands on. 249 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 1: Your new book, Unwoke is going to be out on 250 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: Tuesday next week. You can pre order it now. But 251 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 1: this is something you've been talking about, the democrats obsession 252 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 1: with green alternative energy and how it's actually helping the 253 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:05,160 Speaker 1: most dangerous people in terrists in the world by having 254 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 1: this policy. 255 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 3: Well, so Iran right now is selling two million barrels 256 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 3: of oil a day, so they're not making billions per 257 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 3: day right now. Today, the price of a barrel of 258 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 3: oil is about eighty two dollars a barrel. That means 259 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 3: Iran is making about one hundred and sixty million dollars 260 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 3: a day from selling oil, and the bulk of that 261 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 3: they're selling to communist China. We assume China is actually 262 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 3: paying less than that. So let's say they're making one 263 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 3: hundred and forty to one hundred and fifty million dollars 264 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:38,240 Speaker 3: a day, although we don't know what price China is 265 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 3: paying them two million barrels a day, what that is 266 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 3: produced for the Ayatola over the last three years is 267 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:53,120 Speaker 3: about eighty billion dollars. That is funding Iran, which is 268 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 3: the world's late largest state sponsor of terrorism. It is 269 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 3: funding Hamas. It is funding the death squads that are 270 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 3: murdering as and murdering Americans. It is funding the rockets 271 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 3: that are raining down from the sky and murdering Israelis. 272 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 3: It is funding the drones that Iran is providing to 273 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 3: Russia that Russia is using to attack and kill Ukrainian soldiers. 274 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 3: So while Biden is giving billions to Ukraine, he's also 275 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 3: giving billions to Iran and funding both sides of the war. 276 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 3: Now that makes no sense at all, But the point 277 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 3: you made, and this is something that I emphasize in 278 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 3: this new book. The new book, as you said, is 279 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 3: called Unwoke, How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America, and 280 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 3: the book walks through all of the institutions in our 281 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 3: nation that have been seized by the radical left, and 282 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 3: it lays out how they were seized, why it happens. 283 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 3: It tells stories, but it also lays out a strategy 284 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 3: to defeat them. And the final chapter is on China, 285 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 3: and it describes how China is a central nexus that 286 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 3: links them all. And one of the points that I 287 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 3: make in the book, and this is a point that 288 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:06,920 Speaker 3: is rarely understood, and it has to do with science 289 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:09,879 Speaker 3: and the Green New Deal, which is right now today. 290 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 3: The United States is the world's leader in oil production 291 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 3: and natural gas production. America produces roughly twenty percent of 292 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:20,879 Speaker 3: all the oil and gas produced worldwide, and we are 293 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 3: a net energy exporter. We produce more than we consume, 294 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:29,760 Speaker 3: so that is incredibly valuable to have energy independence. What 295 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:31,680 Speaker 3: do the democrats want us to do? They want to 296 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:36,280 Speaker 3: shift our energy usage entirely to energy produced by wind 297 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:40,439 Speaker 3: and solar. And who controls wind and solar and the 298 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:43,159 Speaker 3: answer to that is communist China. So here are some 299 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:48,760 Speaker 3: of the stats. China controls refining capacity for seventy three 300 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:53,720 Speaker 3: percent of the world's cobalt, for forty percent of the copper, 301 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:58,200 Speaker 3: for fifty nine percent of the lithium, for sixty eight 302 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 3: percent of the nickel, and for eighty three percent of 303 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 3: rare earth minerals, and every one of those is necessary 304 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:10,719 Speaker 3: for wind and solar power. And when it comes to 305 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 3: finished products that the Democrats want to produce all of 306 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:20,680 Speaker 3: our domestic energy, China is responsible for eighty percent of 307 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 3: global solar panels manufacturing, for seventy percent of global wind 308 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:33,560 Speaker 3: turbine manufacturing, and seventy seven percent of global lithium ion 309 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:37,760 Speaker 3: battery manufacturing. So every time you hear a Democrat, every 310 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 3: time you hear the corporate media say we must move 311 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 3: from oil and gas to wind and solar, understand what 312 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 3: they're saying. We need to shift our entire economy from 313 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:51,200 Speaker 3: an energy source that America controls and that we are 314 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 3: dominant globally in, to an energy source that China controls 315 00:18:56,359 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 3: and that they are dominant globally in. And we should 316 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 3: give communists China the power at any moment they want 317 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 3: to cripple our economy and shut down our ability to 318 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:10,399 Speaker 3: access energy. That makes no sense. And I got to 319 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 3: say in the national energy debates, we have very very 320 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 3: few people are making what I think is this very 321 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:19,920 Speaker 3: important point when you were. 322 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 1: Writing this book, and I encourage you to go ahead 323 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:25,439 Speaker 1: and pre order it now it comes on Tuesday. You 324 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,160 Speaker 1: wanted to look at these issues and bring them to light, 325 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 1: obviously as we're going into this very important election cycle 326 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:35,359 Speaker 1: it's the presidential elections now, because this is really about 327 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 1: the future of this country. 328 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 3: Well it is. Look, our country is in crisis. I 329 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:43,120 Speaker 3: wrote this book because lots of people are saying, what 330 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:46,119 Speaker 3: the hell happened? How did we wake up and find 331 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:49,399 Speaker 3: every major institution. Look, you look at our universities and 332 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:53,679 Speaker 3: you see these rabid anti Semitic protests, anti Israel protests, 333 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 3: And what's happened is the viciously left wing Marxist f 334 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:03,520 Speaker 3: courses have taken over many of our universities. You look 335 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:06,960 Speaker 3: at K through twelve, education, at the garbage being taught 336 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 3: to our kids, critical race theory and radical transgender theory. 337 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:14,120 Speaker 3: You look at how journalism has been broken. You look 338 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:16,200 Speaker 3: at how government has been broken. You look at big tech, 339 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 3: you look at big business, you look at entertainment movies. 340 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 3: This book, every one of the chapters in this book 341 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:26,440 Speaker 3: focuses on a different institution. The radical left is taken over, 342 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 3: and I explain how it happened. And look. One of 343 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 3: the things that I try to do in this book. 344 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:33,879 Speaker 3: This is not an academic book. This is not an 345 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:37,880 Speaker 3: abstract treatise. This book is designed to be fun, designed 346 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 3: to be readable, designed to tell stories and give you 347 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:45,640 Speaker 3: information that you useful. Look the stats I just laid 348 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:49,879 Speaker 3: out on the critical minerals and rare earth minerals that 349 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:53,120 Speaker 3: are needed for wind and solar you haven't heard those 350 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:58,199 Speaker 3: anywhere else. That's designed to give you the tools. The 351 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 3: book has the same purpose as the postodcast. The reason 352 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,119 Speaker 3: you and I put so much time into this podcast 353 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:07,240 Speaker 3: is I want to equip our listeners. I believe our 354 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 3: listeners are the patriots who are going to save America. 355 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 3: And I want to equip you with the news, with 356 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,920 Speaker 3: the information, with the facts, with the data, with the evidence, 357 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:20,520 Speaker 3: with the arguments to know what's going on to fight 358 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 3: to save the country. And so that's what this book 359 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 3: is all about. It is getting you prepared, but also, 360 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:29,880 Speaker 3: you know, giving you something to read that's fun and interesting. 361 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:32,440 Speaker 3: And by the way, the book I think makes you 362 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 3: know we're heading into Christmas. It makes a great Christmas gift, 363 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,159 Speaker 3: which is you got to get one for yourself and 364 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:39,280 Speaker 3: get one for your mom, get one for your son, 365 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,639 Speaker 3: get one for your next door neighbor, because the entire 366 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:45,119 Speaker 3: purpose of this book is to get as many people 367 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:48,840 Speaker 3: as possible to read it and to hear and understand 368 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 3: what's happening in our country, because that's the only way 369 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 3: we're going to turn it around and bring our country back. 370 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,439 Speaker 1: No doubt about it. And it's going to be just 371 00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 1: one aspect of this book that we're going to start 372 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 1: highlighting so that you guys know what's in there, but 373 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:04,880 Speaker 1: makes you grab a copy pre order it now wherever 374 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 1: you buy your books. Finally, Senator, I want to ask 375 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 1: you about the FBI Director Ray and his testimony that 376 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:15,680 Speaker 1: he delivered. It is some shocking testimony. Here is part 377 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:17,919 Speaker 1: of what he had to say before Congress. 378 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 6: But as I said a few moments ago, on top 379 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:25,399 Speaker 6: of the homegrown violent extremists and domestic violent extremists threat, 380 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:29,560 Speaker 6: we also cannot and do not discount the possibility that 381 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:34,679 Speaker 6: HAMAS or another foreign terrorist organization may exploit the current 382 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 6: conflict to conduct at tax here on our own soil. 383 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 1: I mean, Senator, you hear Christopher Ray saying this. It's 384 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: something that unfortunately we've talked about so much. You've got 385 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:49,639 Speaker 1: an open border, you've got these types of people that 386 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,160 Speaker 1: get into this country, and the threats are real. 387 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 3: Look, the threats are incredibly real. I've said multiple times, 388 00:22:56,359 --> 00:23:01,639 Speaker 3: I think the risks, the likely of a major terrorist 389 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:06,240 Speaker 3: attack on US soil is higher today than it has 390 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:10,720 Speaker 3: been any point since September eleventh. And you know, as 391 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:13,000 Speaker 3: I hear Chris Ray saying that, listen, As you know 392 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 3: I know Chris Ray quite well. For years, he has 393 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:21,800 Speaker 3: been annoyingly and counterfactually and bizarrely saying the greatest threat 394 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:26,000 Speaker 3: we have is from homegrown terrorists, and they're from white supremacists. 395 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 3: They're from Nazis and klansmen. And listen, Nazis and Klansmen 396 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:34,480 Speaker 3: are idiots, they're bigoted morons, they're bad people. No dispute there. 397 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 3: But the last I check, we don't have this rising 398 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:43,719 Speaker 3: wave of clansmen. But like, they're not Nazis that are 399 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 3: suddenly attacking America. And frankly, the FBI focusing on that 400 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 3: over and over again, it fit into the political narrative 401 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:55,880 Speaker 3: that left wanted and it utterly discarded global jihadists who 402 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:59,159 Speaker 3: have pledged to murder as many Americans as they have 403 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,160 Speaker 3: they can, and who we're actively trying to do so. 404 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:06,160 Speaker 3: And so my reaction the fact that Chris Ray said 405 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,640 Speaker 3: there's a real risk right now that Hamas terrorists may 406 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 3: quote conduct attacks here on our own soil, my reaction is, 407 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:17,360 Speaker 3: holy crap. What is he know now that has suddenly 408 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,920 Speaker 3: forced him to say that publicly that he's like, oh, oh, 409 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:23,520 Speaker 3: this might happen really soon. And I at least want 410 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:25,639 Speaker 3: something on the record so that they can't claim I 411 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:29,439 Speaker 3: was blindsided by it. It's obvious our southern border is 412 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 3: wide open, there's a major risk of terrorists coming across. 413 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:36,119 Speaker 3: But the fact that Chris Ray said that right now 414 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:41,159 Speaker 3: worries me enormously. I don't know any classified information that 415 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 3: he might have that says that they know of Hamas 416 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:46,920 Speaker 3: terrorists in the United States, but the fact that he's 417 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,639 Speaker 3: saying that, I think is very worrying. 418 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,200 Speaker 1: As before, if you want to hear the rest of 419 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,119 Speaker 1: this conversation on this topic, you can go back and 420 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,639 Speaker 1: dow the podcast from earlier this week to hear the 421 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:00,840 Speaker 1: entire thing. I want to get back to the big 422 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 1: story number three of the week you may have missed, 423 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 1: Senator I also want to bring in our guests. We've 424 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:08,159 Speaker 1: talked a lot about kids, protecting kids. We also have 425 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,159 Speaker 1: problems in this country where we have basically given our 426 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 1: kids over to the government and parents are trying to 427 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,400 Speaker 1: get back in their kids' lives. Have been declared domestic 428 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 1: terrorists by our own government, which is shocking. A good 429 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 1: friend of the show, someone that you used to do 430 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 1: Verdict Plus with. People will know her from that. Liz 431 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,680 Speaker 1: Wheeler has her own great show. She's got an incredible 432 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:29,680 Speaker 1: new book out as well, and I know it was 433 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:31,359 Speaker 1: important that we make sure we had her on Verdict. 434 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 3: Well, Liz, welcome back. Liz is my former co host 435 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:39,120 Speaker 3: of Verdict. We did Verdict together. We traveled the country, 436 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 3: We went to college campuses together and dealt with young 437 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,159 Speaker 3: leftists who had questions and wanted to be confronted with 438 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:49,000 Speaker 3: the truth. And Liz does an amazing job on our 439 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 3: own show, on the Liz Wheeler Show, and she has 440 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:56,040 Speaker 3: a brand new book, Hide Your Children, exposing the Marxists 441 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:57,920 Speaker 3: behind the attack on American kids. 442 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:01,320 Speaker 7: Liz, welcome back, Senator, Thanks so much for having me. 443 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:03,160 Speaker 8: Thanks Ben, good to. 444 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:05,359 Speaker 1: Have you here. Tell us a little bit about this book. 445 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,159 Speaker 1: Why you wanted to write it and why it's so important, 446 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 1: especially right now. 447 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:13,239 Speaker 7: Yeah, this book started as a question that I think 448 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 7: a lot of parents actually had the same question that 449 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 7: I had during COVID when we saw this increase in 450 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 7: attacks on our children. I mean, all parents had to 451 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:23,680 Speaker 7: do is look over their kids shoulder on Zoom school 452 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 7: and they'd see critical race theory and trans ideology, the 453 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,879 Speaker 7: sixteen nineteen project, plus good old fashioned moral relativism just 454 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:34,200 Speaker 7: thrown at their kids. And I understand that this isn't 455 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,159 Speaker 7: a new thing that our kids are the target of 456 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,399 Speaker 7: the left, but it did seem to be escalating. So 457 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,440 Speaker 7: I wondered, well, where is this coming from, Who's behind this, 458 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 7: what's behind this, what's their goal? So the purpose of 459 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:47,879 Speaker 7: this book is I sought to find the answer to 460 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:52,400 Speaker 7: that question, and what I found was both frightening and frustrating. 461 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:53,640 Speaker 8: The frightening part. 462 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:57,159 Speaker 7: Is that the left has spent decades trying to get 463 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:00,040 Speaker 7: to our children, and to do so they have co 464 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 7: op did. They've captured what I call four of the 465 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 7: five major cultural institutions, So the media, that's an obvious one, 466 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:10,320 Speaker 7: the education system sadly a lot of religious institutions, to 467 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,400 Speaker 7: the law, which has become evident in the last couple 468 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,920 Speaker 7: of years, and now they've set their sights on the 469 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:20,359 Speaker 7: nuclear family, particularly on children. This is the frightening part. 470 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,879 Speaker 7: The frustrating part is if this attack on our children 471 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,640 Speaker 7: isn't new, if it's been decades in the making, why 472 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:27,840 Speaker 7: haven't we been able to stop this? 473 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 8: What has the Republican Party been doing for all of 474 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 8: these decades to fight back? And So what I do 475 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:33,679 Speaker 8: in the. 476 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:35,160 Speaker 7: Book, the first half of the book is I name 477 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 7: the names of the people and the organizations that are 478 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:40,919 Speaker 7: behind the capture of the institutions, behind the attack. 479 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 8: On our kids. 480 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 7: And the second half of the book is a critique 481 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:47,760 Speaker 7: of the Republican Party. I offer a solution that I 482 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,960 Speaker 7: will tell you is different than what the Republican Party 483 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 7: offers for how we can actually start winning, how we 484 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:56,000 Speaker 7: can recapture our institutions, how we can protect our kids 485 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 7: and therefore our country. 486 00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 3: All Right, so let's take those one at a time. 487 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 3: You said the first half of the book, you're naming names. 488 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,120 Speaker 3: So who are the biggest names, Who are the individuals 489 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,680 Speaker 3: most responsible for the relentless attack on our kids? 490 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:10,439 Speaker 8: Yeah, that's a great question. 491 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:11,920 Speaker 7: So what I do in the book is I make 492 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:17,280 Speaker 7: sure to differentiate between the Marxists who conceived the ideas, 493 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,720 Speaker 7: many of whom are lung dead, and the current Marxists, 494 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:22,800 Speaker 7: the modern Marxists that are alive and well in our 495 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 7: country today, who are propagating these ideas on our children. 496 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 7: And I'll give you an example of one of each. 497 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 7: One of the modern Marxists who's propagating an entirely destructive 498 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,920 Speaker 7: ideology in our children is a woman by the name 499 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:39,320 Speaker 7: of Gail Rubin. Gail Ruben is known as the founder 500 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,920 Speaker 7: or she wrote the founding document of queer theory. Queer 501 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:46,840 Speaker 7: theory is a Neo Marxist theory that, unsurprising to most 502 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:50,760 Speaker 7: of your viewers, is what underpins the transgender ideology. So 503 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 7: these poisonous ideas that are being taught to children in 504 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:55,959 Speaker 7: school right now that boys can be girls, girls can 505 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 7: be boys. Gender is not connected to biological sex. Everything's fluid. 506 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,480 Speaker 7: This is not just a random assortment of nonsense. This 507 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:06,800 Speaker 7: is pulled directly from Neil Marxist queer theory, which was 508 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 7: penned by Gail Rubin, who is alive and well in 509 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,600 Speaker 7: our country today, and yet most people, maybe in the 510 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:15,880 Speaker 7: past couple months they've heard about her because I've been 511 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 7: talking so much about her. Most people have never heard 512 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 7: of this woman, even though she's having such a direct 513 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 7: and destructive impact on our children. That's the first example. 514 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,360 Speaker 7: The second example I will give is a Marxist who 515 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 7: is long dead, and that's a Marxist, a Brazilian Marxist 516 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 7: actually by the name of Pallo Friari. He was the 517 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 7: one who contended that teachers in school shouldn't teach children 518 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,080 Speaker 7: facts and knowledge, he should teach them a worldview, how 519 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:44,080 Speaker 7: to view the world, and he called this worldview critical consciousness. 520 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,480 Speaker 7: What critical consciousness is really is just teaching children to 521 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:51,040 Speaker 7: look at everything through a Marxist lens. And this idea 522 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:54,000 Speaker 7: of critical consciousness is what exists in our public school 523 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:58,920 Speaker 7: system today under the all encompassing, vague umbrella term of wokeness. 524 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 7: So I trace everything back to its origins and show 525 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 7: the manifestations of how it's impacting our kids in our 526 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:06,600 Speaker 7: society in America today. 527 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,320 Speaker 1: Liz, I want to ask you about moms specifically. I've 528 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:12,960 Speaker 1: actually been inspired and I think TC and I we've 529 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 1: been on the road, we've seen this. There are a 530 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 1: lot of moms have gotten off the bench and are 531 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,280 Speaker 1: getting really involved with their kids and their kids curriculum 532 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:24,080 Speaker 1: and what's having their schools and what they're being taught. 533 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 1: That's one of the biggest blessings I think of the 534 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 1: COVID lockdowns was moms got to see in the classroom 535 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,959 Speaker 1: what was happening with their kids. I'm inspired by that, 536 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,440 Speaker 1: and I think this is going to be something that 537 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:37,240 Speaker 1: the liberals are going to have hell to pay now 538 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:39,480 Speaker 1: with moms that are now involved. Is that part of 539 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 1: what you're seeing and inspiring you to write this book. 540 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,000 Speaker 7: Yeah, it's incredible to see how many parents, moms and 541 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:48,280 Speaker 7: dads who've had their eyes opened. I think as conservatives, 542 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 7: we're generally people of good faith. We generally like to 543 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:52,960 Speaker 7: give other people the benefit of the doubt. We generally 544 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,040 Speaker 7: see the good in humanity, and sometimes because of that, 545 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,640 Speaker 7: it can be difficult to look at our political opposition 546 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,800 Speaker 7: and label them for what they are. We'd rather say, oh, 547 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,440 Speaker 7: you know what, this is a well intentioned, good faith 548 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:10,240 Speaker 7: opposition who just has unwise practical solutions to problems that 549 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:12,800 Speaker 7: we all admit our problems. That's how the Republican Party 550 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,600 Speaker 7: actually has operated for the last fifty years. But I 551 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,880 Speaker 7: think for the first time in many many parents' lives. 552 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,080 Speaker 7: During COVID, they saw that, no, that's not true. Our 553 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:26,360 Speaker 7: Democrat opposition are not well intentioned, well intentioned opposition who 554 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,800 Speaker 7: want the best just but have bad ideas for how 555 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 7: to bring that about. They are in fact embracing Neo Marxist, 556 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:37,080 Speaker 7: anti Christian, anti Americans, sometimes anti human ideology. And it's 557 00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,560 Speaker 7: a really important step in fighting back against this to 558 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,520 Speaker 7: be able to define what the other side is. That's 559 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 7: why I spent so much time doing that in the 560 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,600 Speaker 7: first half of my book, because if we don't understand 561 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 7: the reality of this political enemy we face, we won't 562 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 7: fight well against it. And if we don't fight well, 563 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,280 Speaker 7: we won't win. And I'm tired of not winning. I'm 564 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,760 Speaker 7: ready to win. As I know everyone watching the show 565 00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,200 Speaker 7: is to amen. 566 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,240 Speaker 3: All right, question you said. The second half of the 567 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,719 Speaker 3: book focuses on a critique of the Republican Party and 568 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:07,920 Speaker 3: what we need to do better to fight back. What 569 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,720 Speaker 3: does the Republican Party need to do to stop this madness. 570 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:13,520 Speaker 7: Honestly, this is the part of the book that I'm 571 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:15,360 Speaker 7: proudest of, and I know it's the part that's ruffled 572 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:15,800 Speaker 7: some feathers. 573 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,280 Speaker 8: A little bit, but I stand by this one hundred percent. 574 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:19,520 Speaker 7: So I'll give you an example of one of the 575 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,680 Speaker 7: most interesting pieces of information that I found in the 576 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:26,240 Speaker 7: course of researching this book. Our public school system was 577 00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,600 Speaker 7: not mandatory. Children were not compelled to go to public 578 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 7: school until you're eighteen fifty two. In eighteen fifty two, 579 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 7: the state of Massachusetts became the first state to compel 580 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,920 Speaker 7: public education. And the reason why was because there was 581 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,360 Speaker 7: an influx of immigrants to our country at the time, 582 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:45,400 Speaker 7: particularly Catholic immigrants, and the Protestant politicians in charge wanted 583 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,840 Speaker 7: to indoctrinate these immigrant children in American values so that 584 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,080 Speaker 7: they would be loyal to America first rather than the 585 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,800 Speaker 7: country of their birth, and in Protestant doctrine because of 586 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,960 Speaker 7: the centuries long battle between Protestants and Catholics, and I 587 00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:01,680 Speaker 7: realized that our institutions were never intended to neutral institutions. 588 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,880 Speaker 7: Our school system was never intended to simply teach reading, writing, 589 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:06,520 Speaker 7: and arithmetic and otherwise. 590 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:07,040 Speaker 8: Be value neutral. 591 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,840 Speaker 7: That if we, as Conservatives and the Republican Party, do 592 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:16,160 Speaker 7: not harness these institutions to teach children our values, what's 593 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:17,840 Speaker 7: going to happen is the Left is going to swoop in. 594 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:18,640 Speaker 8: And teach their own. 595 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:22,800 Speaker 7: The Republican Party has fallen for the false idea of 596 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:28,200 Speaker 7: tolerance and neutrality, which doesn't exist, and perhaps the philosophical 597 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,560 Speaker 7: reason for this is because they misdefine the word liberty. 598 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:34,480 Speaker 7: They define liberty as simply the maximum amount of individual 599 00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:38,320 Speaker 7: freedom possible in a civil society, when really our government 600 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,840 Speaker 7: was formed around the idea that liberty is the means 601 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:45,240 Speaker 7: to something greater, that there's a moral the thing that 602 00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:48,320 Speaker 7: is greater is a moral thing, and that our society, 603 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:51,240 Speaker 7: a flourishing society, is intended to try to attain that. 604 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:53,080 Speaker 8: And Republicans have gotten. 605 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:56,959 Speaker 7: Very shy of bringing religion or morals or anything of 606 00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,960 Speaker 7: that nature into our politics, and it's been to our detriment. 607 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,080 Speaker 8: We wouldn't be in. 608 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,400 Speaker 7: The chaos, the cultural chaos that we exist and now 609 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:08,920 Speaker 7: if Republicans had not surrendered both institutions the name of 610 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:13,560 Speaker 7: neutrality and morality and virtue in the name of libertarianism 611 00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:15,040 Speaker 7: to the left A long time ago. 612 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,800 Speaker 1: List congratulations on the new book. Grab it for your kids, 613 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,600 Speaker 1: your grandkids, Make sure you read this hide your children. 614 00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:25,040 Speaker 1: It is out now, exposing the Marxists behind the attack 615 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:27,640 Speaker 1: on America's kids. Congratulations. 616 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,359 Speaker 8: Thank you, gentlemen. I appreciate it. 617 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,720 Speaker 1: Great to see you as always. 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