1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:00,760 Speaker 1: Welcome. 2 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:03,480 Speaker 2: It is Vertic with Center, Ted Cruise, Ben Ferguson with 3 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 2: you and if you're listening on the radio right now, 4 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:07,440 Speaker 2: we love having you with us. And don't forget we 5 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 2: do the show as a podcast three days a week. 6 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 2: You can download for free Vertic with Ted Cruse wherever 7 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:16,279 Speaker 2: you get your podcast. Center Today on the show, We've 8 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:19,440 Speaker 2: got a warning every American needs to hear. The Democratic 9 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 2: Socialists of America have just unveiled what they say is 10 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 2: their new radical political agenda. It's in writing and it 11 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 2: should scare everyone in this country. 12 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:33,520 Speaker 3: Well, we are witnessing the rapid takeover of the Democrat 13 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 3: Party by the DSA. They call themselves the Democrats Socialists 14 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 3: of America, but what they are is they are Marxists, 15 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 3: they are Communists, that they are radicals. And what is 16 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 3: amazing is the Democrat Party is barely resisting this hostile takeover. 17 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,519 Speaker 3: It seems the leadership of the Democrat Party has decided 18 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 3: to follow the philosophy of feeding the alligator and hoping 19 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 3: that it'll eat you last. And it's a losing strategy. 20 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 3: Saw the primary results in New York City of three 21 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:05,960 Speaker 3: communists winning the Democrat primaries in New York City. We 22 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 3: saw the primary in Colorado of another communist winning in Colorado, 23 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:15,319 Speaker 3: and to understand just how radical these people are. These 24 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 3: are not democrats, these are open communists. Here, I want 25 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 3: you to listen. This is Fox News covering just how 26 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:23,759 Speaker 3: radical the DSA is. Give a listen. 27 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 4: Yeah. 28 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:25,959 Speaker 2: Before we get to that, I want to talk to 29 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:28,480 Speaker 2: you real quick about Patriot Mobile. 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Fox News putting this out on their new 62 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 2: agenda items. 63 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 5: All right, welcome back to the Democratic Socialists just unveiled 64 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:20,239 Speaker 5: a sweeping new policy agenda calls for a dramatic overhaul 65 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:24,640 Speaker 5: of all three branches of the government. They say, on 66 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 5: the plus side, you'll probably never have to pay a 67 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 5: bill again. 68 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 6: Take a listen, You're able to take a day off 69 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 6: and not have to worry, and you don't have to 70 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 6: have a job just to pay the bills because you 71 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 6: don't have a lot of bills. Right, Bills are no 72 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 6: longer a thing because there's not for profit businesses that 73 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 6: are constantly trying to exploit you and trying to, you know, 74 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 6: put you into debt. 75 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 5: We wanted to lift up that demand very clearly and 76 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 5: to state, you know, abolish ice and ice attention and 77 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 5: deportations and punish the brutality of these federal agents. Of 78 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 5: course on the Madeline RIVERA has all the details for 79 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 5: us in the DC newsroom. 80 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 7: Hey Maddie, Good afternoon, Jillyan. Besides those things, the DSA 81 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 7: also calls for defunding the Department of War Reparations and 82 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 7: wealth taxes. They argue capitalism hinders freedom and that our 83 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 7: current political system is not true democracy. 84 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 6: Why do we have a Senate? Like a lot of 85 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 6: people are going to see that and they be like, 86 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:22,720 Speaker 6: wait a second, why do I have a Senate, Like, 87 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 6: what's so great about the Senate? I mean, I can 88 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:27,279 Speaker 6: I'm not sure about this, but I'm pretty sure the 89 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 6: only popular senator is Bernie Sanders is because he ran 90 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:31,919 Speaker 6: for president as a Democratic Socialist. 91 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:35,799 Speaker 7: The DSA is pushing for an expansion of the House, 92 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 7: which they argue is a more accurate representation of the population, 93 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:42,160 Speaker 7: and they want the Supreme Court to be replaced by 94 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 7: age ediciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress. The new 95 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:50,719 Speaker 7: platform comes as the DSA hits one hundred twenty thousand members, 96 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 7: which they say is now the largest socialist organization in 97 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 7: the country. The agenda will essentially serve as a rallying 98 00:04:57,640 --> 00:04:59,599 Speaker 7: call as they try to build on the wins of 99 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 7: left candidates and recent primaries. Democrats are torn about how 100 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:07,039 Speaker 7: to tackle the rise of socialism within their party, but 101 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:10,719 Speaker 7: Senator Bernie Sanders says it's been a long time coming. 102 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 8: We are seeing a real movement of the American people 103 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 8: who increasingly understand that we are living in a moment 104 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:21,559 Speaker 8: we're never in our history have so few people, multi 105 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 8: multi billionaires, had so much economic and political power, and 106 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 8: all across this country, we're seeing a profound discuss people 107 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 8: are standing up and saying that establishment politics and establishment 108 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 8: policies are not working. We need change. 109 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:40,159 Speaker 7: How Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans are sounding the 110 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 7: alarm framing communism is a real threat ahead of the midterms. 111 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,359 Speaker 2: You listen to this and not only is a real threat, 112 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 2: but they're winning and as you mentioned, they're gaining momentum center. 113 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:55,040 Speaker 2: This is I actually believe that now real Democratic Party. 114 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 3: Well well, let me be clear, they are not gaining 115 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:01,919 Speaker 3: momentum in the reality of life. These are fringe and 116 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 3: radical ideas. One of the reasons that these communists won 117 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 3: the primaries in New York City is only eight percent 118 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 3: of the primary voter showed up to vote, So they 119 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 3: are doing a hostile takeover. But most Americans don't agree 120 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 3: with these ideas. These ideas are extreme, so they put 121 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 3: out this is not you and me putting words in 122 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:23,559 Speaker 3: their mouth. They put out a manifesto that is called 123 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 3: the Workers Declare more declaration. It would expand the House 124 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:32,600 Speaker 3: of Representatives, eliminate the Senate, make the new House of 125 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:36,360 Speaker 3: Representatives select the president. So guess what these radicals want 126 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:38,600 Speaker 3: to take away? Your right to vote for president. You 127 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 3: wouldn't get to vote for president at all. Under their proposal, 128 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 3: they want to make the Supreme Court subservient to the 129 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 3: new House of Representatives. As the manifesto says, quote, replace 130 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 3: the two party system with a multi party democracy, Expand 131 00:06:56,040 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 3: the House of Representatives, implement proportional representation and rank choice 132 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:03,839 Speaker 3: voting in all elections, and abolish the Senate. They're not 133 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 3: done with that. They want to abolish other things. Abolish 134 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 3: the Electoral College, replace the president of the Supreme Court 135 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 3: with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress. 136 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 3: They also said that they want to establish public ownership 137 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 3: of the largest corporations and industries to quote ensure democratic 138 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 3: control and accountability to the people. They call for enacting 139 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 3: quote aggressive wealth taxes on the richest individuals and corporations, 140 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 3: And the manifesto says, quote it's been said that it's 141 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 3: easier to imagine the end of the world than it 142 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 3: is to imagine the end of capitalism. But just because 143 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 3: it isn't easy to imagine now doesn't mean we shouldn't 144 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 3: try to make it happen. Workers deserve more, And they 145 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 3: go on to say, quote some of these demands maybe 146 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 3: one under current systems, but we know completely victory will 147 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 3: require building a new society from the ground up. On 148 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 3: top of that, their demands include defunding the Department of War, 149 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:15,880 Speaker 3: abolishing Ice, and eliminating the Jewish State of Israel, eliminating 150 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 3: Israel altogether, and making Jerusalem the capital of a free Palestine. 151 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:23,240 Speaker 3: These are the radicals that are the heart of the 152 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 3: Democrat Party, that are winning Democrat primaries, and that have 153 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:29,880 Speaker 3: every elected Democrat in Congress terrified out. 154 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 9: Of their minds. 155 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 3: Center. 156 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 2: It was a very interesting week on Capitol Hill in Washington. 157 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 2: It was actually not covered the way that typically you 158 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 2: see hearings covered with Todd Blanche. And you were there 159 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:43,960 Speaker 2: for this, so get us up to date on how 160 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 2: this went down and what happened. 161 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:48,319 Speaker 3: Well. Obviously, President Trump has nominated Todd Blanche to be 162 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 3: the Attorney General. He had his confirmation hearing this past week. 163 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 3: Actually started the week by going to the Department of 164 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 3: Justice and helping moot Todd, helping get him ready. They 165 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,320 Speaker 3: had a conference room set up with a whole line 166 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 3: of lawyers and each of us were playing different individuals, 167 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 3: different senators on the Judiciary Committee. I actually played in 168 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:08,839 Speaker 3: the mood. I played Sheldon White, house. 169 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 9: So I was going to ask you. 170 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 2: Straws for this, like, how does it work? 171 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:15,439 Speaker 1: How do you pick who gets to because. 172 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 3: They just assigned it. They assigned it to me. I 173 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 3: did not choose. But look my questioning. I will tell 174 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:27,880 Speaker 3: you in the moot, I was not nice to Todd. 175 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:31,359 Speaker 3: In the mood, I was obnoxious and yelling and screaming 176 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,000 Speaker 3: and insulting him and insulting his integrity. And I was 177 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 3: insulting the President, and I was calling everyone corrupt, and 178 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 3: I was channeling everything the Trump derangement syndrome that has 179 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:46,679 Speaker 3: so consumed the Democrat Party. I channeled it. I will 180 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 3: say I went in this was the day before the hearing. 181 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 3: We were doing the moot. I went in with a 182 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:53,720 Speaker 3: very high level of confidence because despite the fact that 183 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 3: I mean, it was a rough moot, and if you 184 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 3: do a moot right, it should be worse than the 185 00:09:56,880 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 3: real hearing, and I'll say it was when we actually 186 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 3: What gave me comfort in the mood is that Todd 187 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 3: was calm. He didn't lose his cool. He's a smart lawyer, 188 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 3: and he just answered systematically and did a very effective job. 189 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 3: And then the hearing itself, Todd did even better. Here's 190 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,200 Speaker 3: the beginning of my questioning. When the Democrats had been 191 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:22,199 Speaker 3: screaming about politicization, Here's what I said when it came 192 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 3: to my turn to ask questions. He's rich seeing Senate 193 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 3: Democrats complaining about weaponization and politicization of the Department of 194 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 3: Justice after four years in which they were complicit in 195 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 3: the greatest abuse we have ever seen of the Department 196 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:43,839 Speaker 3: of Justice. I want to do something that was strikingly 197 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 3: absent in much of the questioning from our Democrat colleagues, 198 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 3: which is actually focused on facts instead of made up stories. 199 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 3: And I want to compare where the Department was under 200 00:10:55,720 --> 00:11:01,079 Speaker 3: Joe Biden to where it is now under your leadership. 201 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 3: During the Biden administration, the Justice Department devoted extraordinary resources 202 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:12,440 Speaker 3: to investigating and prosecuting President Trump and as supporters. Is 203 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 3: that correct, mister blanch It is the Department authorized Operation 204 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 3: Arctic Frost, which investigated members of Congress and other political figures. 205 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:24,199 Speaker 9: Is that correct, yes, Center. 206 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 3: The department senior leadership, Attorney General Merrick Garland, Deputy Attorney 207 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:33,680 Speaker 3: General Lisa Monaco, FBI Director Chris ray All personally approved 208 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 3: the opening of this investigation. 209 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 8: Is that right? 210 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:36,559 Speaker 9: That's correct? 211 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:44,120 Speaker 3: This investigation involved nearly two hundred subpoenas targeted over four 212 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 3: hundred Republican aligned groups and individuals. Is that right, yes? 213 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:48,960 Speaker 9: Center? 214 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 3: And then the FBI obtained without our knowledge, the cell 215 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 3: phone data of twenty percent of the Republicans in the Senate, 216 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 3: including me and many of my colleagues on this committee, 217 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 3: as well as now FBI Director Cash Betel and now 218 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 3: White House Chief of Staff Susie Wilde's Is that correct? 219 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:10,720 Speaker 9: Yes? Center. 220 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 2: I will, by the way, the simple yes, Senator, like, 221 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 2: this is exactly what happened. Yes, Senator, this is exactly 222 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 2: what happened. And the whiteboard you had up there of 223 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,560 Speaker 2: all the senators that were spied on that was amazing 224 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:23,320 Speaker 2: visual as. 225 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 3: Well well, going through the facts and laying out the record. 226 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 3: And then if you contrast it, because what I did 227 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:33,840 Speaker 3: is I contrasted not just the absolute political corruption, but 228 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:38,680 Speaker 3: also the difference between open borders and the incredible successes 229 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 3: we've seen in the last year and a half under 230 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:44,680 Speaker 3: President Trump actually securing the border. And I pointed out 231 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 3: the victims of open borders and mass illegal immigrations that 232 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 3: the Democrats would not talk about or acknowledge. Here give 233 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 3: a listen, when the Department of Justice loses sight of 234 00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 3: criminals because it has turned into a partisan arm of 235 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 3: the DNA. See, the American people pay the price. It 236 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:07,240 Speaker 3: also meant the Department of Justice was not doing its job, 237 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 3: which is enforcing the law and putting criminals in jail. 238 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 3: During the Biden administration, there were roughly twelve million encounters 239 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 3: at the southern border. Is that correct? Yes, Approximately two 240 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 3: million illegal aliens were known to have entered but were 241 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 3: not apprehended, the so called godaways. Is that right? 242 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 9: Yes, that's correct. 243 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 3: Fentanohl became the leading cause of death for Americans between 244 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 3: the ages of eighteen and forty five. Is that right? 245 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:36,680 Speaker 9: That's correct. 246 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 3: That was courtesy of the Democrats open border policies of 247 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 3: letting drug dealers and human traffickers flood into this country 248 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 3: because they believed it would benefit them politically. Violent transnational 249 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 3: criminal organizations including the Sinaloa Cartel, the Haalisco New Generation Cartel, 250 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 3: MS thirteen, and Trend de Uragua expanded their operations inside 251 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 3: the United States. Is that right? 252 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 9: It is absolutely correct. 253 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:08,680 Speaker 3: And then, something we never hear from the Democrats side 254 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 3: of the aisle, the victims justly and Nungary. I've not 255 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 3: heard one Democrat so much as utter her name. The 256 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 3: little girl tragically raped and murdered by two Venezuelan gang members. 257 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 3: The Biden administration released Lake and Riley. Again, the Democrats 258 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 3: cannot even say her name. Rachel Moran, a mom brutally 259 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 3: raped and murdered by another illegal the Biden Justice Department released. 260 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:43,280 Speaker 3: These were daughters, these were students, these were mothers, and 261 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 3: they would be alive if the Department of Justice had 262 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 3: done its duty. So let's compare the lawlessness, the partisanship, 263 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 3: the abusive power of the Biden Department of Justice to 264 00:14:56,480 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 3: what has happened in the last eighteen months. Mis objectively, 265 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 3: the American people are safer today than they were eighteen 266 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 3: months ago? Is that correct? 267 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 9: There is no doubt? 268 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 3: Now, that's not simply empty rhetoric. Since President Trump took 269 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 3: off as federal law enforcement has arrested approximately twenty nine 270 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 3: thousand violent gang members. 271 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 6: Is that right? 272 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 9: That's correct. 273 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:25,600 Speaker 3: The Department has disrupted or dismantled approximately two thousand, seven 274 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 3: hundred gangs, a three hundred and sixty five percent increase 275 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 3: over the comparable period of time in the previous administration. 276 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 9: Is that right, that's correct. 277 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 3: Arrests of trender Aragua members have increased by approximately five 278 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 3: hundred and nineteen percent. Is that right? 279 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 9: That's correct. 280 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 3: In twenty twenty five, the United States saw the largest 281 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 3: one year drop in violent crime and murder since nineteen 282 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 3: thirty seven. Homicides across America's largest cities fell more than 283 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:59,320 Speaker 3: nineteen percent. Is that right? 284 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 9: That's correct. 285 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 2: I want to get back to this back and forth 286 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 2: with Todd blanch Center and more of what you had 287 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 2: to say at his confirmation. Here's the last part. It's 288 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 2: truly amazing to see Democrats fighting against this incredible guy 289 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 2: who's going to be a great ag. 290 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:19,440 Speaker 3: Robberies fell nearly twenty percent, Aggravated assaults felt nearly ten percent, 291 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 3: and that trend has continued into this year, with homicides 292 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 3: falling by yet another seventeen point seven percent and robberies 293 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 3: by over twenty percent during the first quarter of twenty 294 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 3: twenty six. 295 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 4: Is that right? 296 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 9: It is yes. 297 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 3: The Department has also made protecting America's children one of 298 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:41,680 Speaker 3: its highest priorities since the beginning of this administration. The 299 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 3: FBI is located approximately seven thousand, two hundred child victims, 300 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 3: a forty two percent increase. 301 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 4: Is that right? 302 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 3: Yes, the FBI has arrested approximately three thousand, five hundred 303 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 3: child predators and human traffickers, a one hundred and two 304 00:16:58,480 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 3: percent increase. Is that right? 305 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 9: That's correct? 306 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 1: By April alone. 307 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:06,480 Speaker 3: In April alone, Operation Iron Pursuit located more than two 308 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:09,879 Speaker 3: hundred child victims and arrested more than three hundred and 309 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 3: fifty alleged child sex abuse offenders. Is that right? 310 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:13,920 Speaker 9: That's right? 311 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 3: And across my home state of Texas, Operation Soteria Shield 312 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 3: rescued eighty nine children and resulted in two hundred and 313 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 3: seventy six child exploitation arrests. Is that right? 314 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,440 Speaker 9: That's the correct stat Mister Blanche. 315 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:32,200 Speaker 3: After late less than eighteen months, would it be fair 316 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 3: to say that the Department is once again focused on 317 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:39,359 Speaker 3: protecting the American people and faithfully enacting the laws. 318 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 9: That's exactly what we're focused on, Sunder, and I. 319 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:45,919 Speaker 3: Will point out that one direct result of that also 320 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:51,080 Speaker 3: is deaths by drug overdoses have dropped twenty percent. There 321 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:56,119 Speaker 3: are literally thousands of Americans who are alive today because 322 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 3: of the job you and your colleagues at the Department 323 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 3: of Justice are doing. For one want to say thank 324 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:05,159 Speaker 3: you for focusing the Department on saving people's lives and 325 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 3: putting criminals in jail. 326 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:09,440 Speaker 9: We have great prosecutor, Centator, and great agents. 327 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:13,320 Speaker 2: Senator, We've got great agents. I do love the demeanor 328 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:15,199 Speaker 2: of Toddy Blanche. I think that's the reason why he 329 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 2: will be a great attorney general. 330 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:21,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, and look the Democrats, not a single Democrat disputed 331 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 3: a word I said. They didn't dispute the chaos of 332 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 3: the open borders. They didn't dispute that this administration has 333 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 3: secured the border, that illegal border crossings are down ninety 334 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 3: nine percent, that the murder rate is down twenty percent, 335 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:35,680 Speaker 3: the drug overdose deaths are down twenty percent. They can't 336 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:38,639 Speaker 3: dispute any of that, So instead they just scream how 337 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:41,919 Speaker 3: much they hate Trump. And I'll tell you look that 338 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 3: at the end of the day, it was a bad 339 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:46,359 Speaker 3: hearing for the Democrats because none of them laid a 340 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 3: glove on Todd Blanche. And I think he's going to 341 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:54,359 Speaker 3: end up being confirmed quickly. There was another hearing this 342 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:57,400 Speaker 3: past week in Capitol Hill where Chris Wright, the Secretary 343 00:18:57,440 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 3: of Energy, a very good friend of mine, was testifying, 344 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:05,119 Speaker 3: and he was testifying about the shocking revelation that the 345 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 3: Biden administration in the last two months of the administration 346 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:14,000 Speaker 3: between election Day and when Trump was sworn in, shoveled 347 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:20,119 Speaker 3: ninety three billion dollars out of the Department of Energy, 348 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 3: mostly to left wing cronies. My very good friend John 349 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:26,400 Speaker 3: Kennedy questioned him on this. Listen to this questioning, because 350 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:29,359 Speaker 3: you know what, the corporate media did not play this 351 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 3: for you, so you don't know that these utterly corrupt criminals. 352 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:36,200 Speaker 3: And there's no other way to put it. When you're 353 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 3: ninety three billion dollars is more than twice as much 354 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 3: as the Department of Justice had the Department of Energy 355 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:48,399 Speaker 3: had put out in fifteen years. They did that in 356 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:51,240 Speaker 3: seventy six days. Give a listen, mister suck Kerry. 357 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:54,359 Speaker 4: I want to go back to some of your earlier testimony. 358 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 4: Be sure I heard it correctly. The seventy six day 359 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 4: period you're talking about, that's the period between the time 360 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 4: that President Trump was elected and President Biden left office. 361 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 4: Is that right? 362 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 9: That is correct? 363 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:13,440 Speaker 4: And during that short period of time seventy six days, 364 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 4: how much taxpayer money went out the door of the 365 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 4: Department of Energy. 366 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:21,479 Speaker 1: From the Loan Program Office in loans and commitments ninety 367 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 1: three billion dollars, well over twice as much as in 368 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,000 Speaker 1: the previous fifteen years. 369 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:33,000 Speaker 4: So how do you vet and do due diligence on 370 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 4: a loan in seventy six days one loan, much less 371 00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 4: ninety three billion dollars? 372 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:46,000 Speaker 1: How do you do it? I think it's probably pretty 373 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,200 Speaker 1: clear it wasn't done in many cases. As I mentioned, 374 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: I'm told I'm holding back clearly in place stuff. There 375 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:58,640 Speaker 1: is lots of funds that have gone out the door, 376 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:02,199 Speaker 1: and commitments that were made from businesses that provided no 377 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:06,320 Speaker 1: business plan, no numbers about their own financial solvency or 378 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:07,160 Speaker 1: how this project. 379 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:10,679 Speaker 4: So you're telling me that the Department of Energy in 380 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:13,960 Speaker 4: the seventy six day period before their boss was going 381 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:18,600 Speaker 4: to leave office, gave our loan money to institutes that 382 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:22,440 Speaker 4: had no business plan correct, no financials. 383 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 1: Correct. A number of those were not were before the 384 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:30,119 Speaker 1: seventy six day period as Well's I've come in with 385 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:34,400 Speaker 1: great concern about how this institution, this great American institution, 386 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:38,120 Speaker 1: has been run and how American taxpayer money has been handled. 387 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 1: I'm sorry everyone's upset that we're taking some time to 388 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:45,200 Speaker 1: do it, but what we've seen up a record shows, 389 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:46,159 Speaker 1: I'm not upset. 390 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:48,440 Speaker 4: Could it means a lot of people say you haven't 391 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 4: returned your calls. Could it be that you and your 392 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,680 Speaker 4: your colleagues have returned the calls, but the people call 393 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 4: and just didn't like the answer. Could that be a possibility. 394 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,240 Speaker 1: I'm not, I'm not. I'm not aware of that. 395 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 4: You know. 396 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 1: I give my cell phone number to any senator that 397 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:06,960 Speaker 1: we wanted to do, and I return my calls. 398 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:12,719 Speaker 4: I mean, is your is your department gone dark? Somebody 399 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 4: said your department's gone dark? Is it dark over there? 400 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,399 Speaker 1: Doesn't look it doesn't look dark. Behind me, I don't. 401 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 4: See any of you sitting on your hands. Somebody made 402 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:26,240 Speaker 4: that charge. I see everybody's hands. Let me ask you 403 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:31,919 Speaker 4: something else's secretary does Does anybody ever come to the 404 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 4: Department of Energy to get some of this free money 405 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 4: and lie to you? 406 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:44,119 Speaker 1: I have not experienced that, but I think it's a 407 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 1: reasonable assumption that that has happened. 408 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 2: Uh. 409 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:52,720 Speaker 4: Does anybody ever come to you? Or is it conceivable 410 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:54,920 Speaker 4: that some of these folks that heard about this free 411 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 4: money came to you with a half baked idea. 412 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 1: I think it's very conceivable. In fact, I've seen such 413 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 1: plans that were you think would be charitable. 414 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:10,160 Speaker 4: That didn't have a business plan, right, correct? 415 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 1: A promise to develop one, to find a little give me. 416 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,920 Speaker 4: The money and I'll develop the plan later. 417 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:17,360 Speaker 1: Correct. 418 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:25,639 Speaker 4: And now you're going back through not money that's already 419 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:29,640 Speaker 4: been contracted, but you're going back through and checking each 420 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,880 Speaker 4: one of these loans and these grants to make sure 421 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:37,399 Speaker 4: there was no stealing, aren't you? We are we make 422 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,479 Speaker 4: sure there was no incompetence, aren't you? 423 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:44,040 Speaker 1: Is that correct? We're looking at that and yeah, my 424 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,440 Speaker 1: blood pressure is rising right now just thinking about what 425 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:49,719 Speaker 1: we have seen and what did happen anybody? 426 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 4: And you're going to tell some of these boondoggles no, 427 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:52,639 Speaker 4: aren't you? 428 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:53,640 Speaker 1: That's correct? 429 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:55,680 Speaker 4: And they're going to be upset, aren't they? 430 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:56,480 Speaker 1: That's correct? 431 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 4: And they ought to be upset, shouldn't they. 432 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 1: I don't think they should be upset. I think they 433 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 1: should be ashamed. 434 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:10,640 Speaker 4: I am. It's rare that I'm speechless, but I want 435 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 4: to be sure I understood. The people running the Department 436 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:23,359 Speaker 4: of Energy for President Biden's administration shoveled ninety three billion dollars, 437 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:30,119 Speaker 4: not million, ninety three billion dollars out the door in 438 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:34,199 Speaker 4: seventy six days, and it just happened to be the 439 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:38,119 Speaker 4: time between when President Trump was elected and President Biden 440 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 4: their boss was leaving. 441 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 1: Is that right? It is correct and distasteful confidence undermining 442 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:54,440 Speaker 1: my god, Senator. 443 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 2: I mean, you look at this money, and it's very 444 00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:59,680 Speaker 2: clear the Democratic Party knew what they were doing and 445 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:02,000 Speaker 2: they funnel this money. How is this not illegal? 446 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 3: Well it may well have been illegal, and I think 447 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:08,680 Speaker 3: there needs to be serious investigations that there's a cynicism. Look, 448 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,359 Speaker 3: you're an appointee of Joe Biden in the Department of 449 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,399 Speaker 3: Energy and your party loses Donald Trump gets reelected, the 450 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,679 Speaker 3: American people reject your agenda. You know what you should do. 451 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,160 Speaker 3: You should start packing your things up and get ready 452 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 3: to leave because the voters have spoken. All these Democrats 453 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:27,119 Speaker 3: that love to beat their chest about democracy, that's what 454 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,479 Speaker 3: you would do if you respected democracy. But they didn't. 455 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 3: They said, we got seventy six days, let's rob the 456 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 3: taxpayers blind, let's steal the computers, let's pull the curtains 457 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:45,199 Speaker 3: off the rods. Ninety three billion dollars. To understand, that 458 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 3: is more than double the amount of money the Department 459 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 3: of Energy had sent out in the previous fifteen years combined. 460 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:57,280 Speaker 3: That is Bonnie and Clyde bank robbery. That is the 461 00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:02,359 Speaker 3: corruption of the Biden administration. And it demonstrates an utter 462 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 3: contempt for the taxpayers, an utter contempt for the country, 463 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:10,680 Speaker 3: a willingness to prioritize your political cronies over the nation. 464 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 3: And the people who did this need to be investigated 465 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:16,159 Speaker 3: and if they broke the law, they need to go 466 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 3: to jail. 467 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 2: Senator, I want to start off this last segment by saying, 468 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,159 Speaker 2: I don't ever want our government to be weaponized against 469 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:25,960 Speaker 2: our political adversaries, and didn't to use the word enemy 470 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:29,520 Speaker 2: Democrats use the word enemy to describe Republicans, I say adversaries. 471 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,240 Speaker 2: But I do want to hold those accountable that are 472 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:37,160 Speaker 2: actually doing corrupt things. And we now know a lot 473 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:41,520 Speaker 2: more about the investigation and the Chinese Communist Party tycoon 474 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:45,120 Speaker 2: Nevilroy Singham, and it should get a lot more attention 475 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,359 Speaker 2: than it is right now. Certainly the media they are 476 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 2: looking the other way. 477 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 3: Well, that's exactly right. And you know, we ended the 478 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 3: last segment by talking about the need for accountability of 479 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:59,399 Speaker 3: the corruption within the Biden administration, that those who broke 480 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 3: the law needs to be held to account, and on 481 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:06,679 Speaker 3: this podcast, we have talked at great length about the 482 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:10,360 Speaker 3: need to follow the money that these anti American efforts. Look, 483 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,680 Speaker 3: if you look at all of the stories in today's pod, 484 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 3: they're interwoven the DSSA. There is clearly a funding stream 485 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 3: funding the anti Semitic protests on college campuses, funding the 486 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:26,159 Speaker 3: communists tearing this country apart, funding the DSSA, funding the 487 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,399 Speaker 3: Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA riots across the country, funding 488 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:33,400 Speaker 3: the open border riots in LA and elsewhere. The money stream, 489 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 3: and what I've urged the Department of Justice, what I've 490 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,399 Speaker 3: urged the FBI from the beginning of this second Trump administration. 491 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:43,000 Speaker 3: Follow the money the people who are paying for this. 492 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 3: This is not organic when people carry out these acts 493 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 3: of violence. It's not organic. When you look at the 494 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 3: anti Semitic protests, the tents all match. Follow the money. 495 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:56,560 Speaker 3: And then we in a previous podcast couple of weeks ago, 496 00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:00,399 Speaker 3: talked about the bombshell story that we've all seen the 497 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:04,440 Speaker 3: rising sentiment against AI that on the left and the right, 498 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 3: suddenly people are saying, Gosh, I don't like AI. Shut 499 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 3: down data centers. Kathy Hocheld just this past couple of 500 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,960 Speaker 3: weeks said, no data centers in New York and the 501 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,440 Speaker 3: bombshell story that much of that is being paid for 502 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 3: by a communist named Neville Roy Singham who has deep 503 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,480 Speaker 3: ties to the Chinese Communist Party. And listen, we're in 504 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 3: a race America and China to see who will develop 505 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,879 Speaker 3: AI first. If China wins, it will put China in 506 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:37,159 Speaker 3: a position to dominate the world economically. But also with 507 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 3: whichever country wins, the values of that country will dominate AI. 508 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:47,400 Speaker 3: So if China wins, AI will be dominated by Communist 509 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 3: Party control and surveillance and propaganda and espionage. And I 510 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:57,600 Speaker 3: think all of us want AI to instead reflect American values, 511 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 3: to reflect free speech, individual liberty, and free enterprise. Well, 512 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 3: a bit of good news, which is the Trump Department 513 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,520 Speaker 3: of Justice is doing exactly that. It's following the money 514 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 3: and it's holding people to account. Let me read from 515 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,320 Speaker 3: a story in CBS News, husband of Code Pink founder 516 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:20,840 Speaker 3: being investigated under federal foreign agent and tax laws. Devilroy Singham, 517 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 3: the wealthy husband of the founder of the progressive nonprofit 518 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 3: Code Pink and the benefactor of far left political causes, 519 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,800 Speaker 3: is under criminal investigation by a grand jury in the 520 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,840 Speaker 3: Southern District of New York. According to multiple sources with 521 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:37,000 Speaker 3: knowledge of the matter, the investigation began by looking into 522 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:40,840 Speaker 3: possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act and has 523 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,560 Speaker 3: since expanded into a criminal tax probe over whether the 524 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:49,680 Speaker 3: money was unlawfully funneled through nonprofits he controls, and whether 525 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,000 Speaker 3: he lied on the tax forms for those nonprofits. Known 526 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:58,920 Speaker 3: as nine nineties, Singham is a major financial backer of 527 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,959 Speaker 3: a New York City base nonprofit called The People's Forum, 528 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:06,240 Speaker 3: a left leaning nonprofit that advocates for causes impacting the 529 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:10,080 Speaker 3: working class and other marginalized groups. He's also the founder 530 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:13,040 Speaker 3: of thought Works, an IT consulting company, and is married 531 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,440 Speaker 3: to Jody Evans, co founder of the anti war group 532 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:21,760 Speaker 3: Code Pink. Singham sold Thought Works to a private equity 533 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:26,000 Speaker 3: firm in twenty seventeen for seven hundred and eighty five 534 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:30,400 Speaker 3: million dollars. At around the same time, Singham moved his 535 00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 3: business operations to Shanghai, China, and began funding a vast 536 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 3: global network of nonprofits and think tanks to the tune 537 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 3: of hundreds of millions of dollars. According to reports of 538 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:48,240 Speaker 3: the Free Press in The New York Times, Singham moved 539 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 3: the funds through shell companies and other opaque entities, advancing 540 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:58,440 Speaker 3: his brand of leftist politics while pushing pro Beijing messaging. 541 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 3: He injected had much of his own money into Code Pink, 542 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 3: funding up to a quarter of its operation. According to reports, 543 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 3: Soon Code Pink softened its stance on China, which had 544 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:15,800 Speaker 3: previously been highly critical of Beijing's human rights policies. Among 545 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:19,440 Speaker 3: other things, the group defended China against widespread reports its 546 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:23,680 Speaker 3: government was committing genocide against a Muslim minority group in 547 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 3: the country's far northwest. So I and numerous other senators 548 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:30,720 Speaker 3: of the Judiciary Committee have urged the Department of Justice 549 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:35,320 Speaker 3: to look into this. Chuck Grassley wrote a letter urging 550 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,040 Speaker 3: DOJ to do that. Here's what Grass's letter said, quote 551 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,600 Speaker 3: evidence suggests that the People's Forum and Code Pink have 552 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:44,840 Speaker 3: been funded and influenced by mister Nevill Roy Singham and 553 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:48,520 Speaker 3: the Communist Chinese government, both of which are foreign principles. 554 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,400 Speaker 3: The evidence also suggests that the People's Forum and Code 555 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:55,880 Speaker 3: Pink have engaged in covered political activities that directly advanced 556 00:31:55,920 --> 00:32:00,760 Speaker 3: the Communist Chinese government's political and policy interest and by 557 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:06,239 Speaker 3: the way, Nevilroy Singham's response to that is quote I 558 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 3: categorically deny and repudiate any suggestion that I am a 559 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,280 Speaker 3: member of work for, take orders from, or follow instructions 560 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:16,040 Speaker 3: of any political party or government or their representatives. I 561 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:19,320 Speaker 3: am solely guided by my beliefs, which are long held 562 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,480 Speaker 3: personal views. So well, there's going to be an investigation 563 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,040 Speaker 3: into it. I don't know if this guy is just 564 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,760 Speaker 3: a communist who hates American wants to destroy our nation, 565 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,400 Speaker 3: or if he's a communist who hates American wants to 566 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,360 Speaker 3: destroy our nation, who is working directly for and may 567 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,040 Speaker 3: even be funded by the Chinese Communist government. That's one 568 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,280 Speaker 3: of the things that I would imagine the investigation will 569 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:42,240 Speaker 3: examine either way. I am very glad the Department of 570 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:46,360 Speaker 3: Justice is examining the hundreds of millions of dollars he 571 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:50,360 Speaker 3: is using to fund the people that are tearing our 572 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:51,520 Speaker 3: country apart. 573 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:54,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's the key thing there. And if you're 574 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:58,080 Speaker 2: doing something that is illegal and it's coming in with 575 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:01,400 Speaker 2: the Chinese Communist Party, why would anyone not want that 576 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,440 Speaker 2: to be investigated If that's what the evidence is showing. 577 00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:06,800 Speaker 2: That's the core part here that I think matters for 578 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:07,600 Speaker 2: all Americans. 579 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,600 Speaker 3: You know, it's one of the things that is dangerous 580 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:13,400 Speaker 3: in this world where we're on social media, where you 581 00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:16,040 Speaker 3: see things you're on X or Facebook or wherever you are, 582 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,960 Speaker 3: and suddenly a lot of people seem concerned about something 583 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,040 Speaker 3: and that can seem organic. And we are seeing more 584 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:26,640 Speaker 3: and more paid foreign influence operations. And China puts a 585 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:30,680 Speaker 3: lot of money into undermining America. Cutter puts a lot 586 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,440 Speaker 3: of money into undermining America. Iran puts a lot of 587 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,280 Speaker 3: money into undermining America. You know, there was a report 588 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:39,800 Speaker 3: from the Bitcoin Policy Institute that says for the past 589 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:43,600 Speaker 3: five years, nonprofits funded by Nevil Royce Singham have been 590 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:49,640 Speaker 3: putting out papers opposing export controls on advanced semiconductors to China, 591 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:55,280 Speaker 3: putting out newsletters quoting Chinese communist officials blasting America's approach 592 00:33:55,840 --> 00:34:00,800 Speaker 3: to technology, and articles characterizing US data center as fronts 593 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:05,560 Speaker 3: in the quote new Cold War on China. And this 594 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:12,360 Speaker 3: is a deliberate foreign influence effort that is targeting the 595 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,960 Speaker 3: American economy. It's targeting AI, it's trying to get America 596 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:20,000 Speaker 3: to stop leading an AI, and it's trying ultimately to 597 00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:24,840 Speaker 3: defeat capitalism and destroy our country. These it has the 598 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:29,239 Speaker 3: exact same objectives as the DSA radicals that are taking 599 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:30,400 Speaker 3: over the Democrat Party. 600 00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:32,840 Speaker 2: Also, don't forget we do the show as a podcast 601 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,440 Speaker 2: three days a week, so make sure you hit subscriber 602 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:37,760 Speaker 2: auto DOWLO wherever you're listening. And many of the shows 603 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:39,719 Speaker 2: we also do on YouTube as well, so you can 604 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,080 Speaker 2: watch the episodes there and the Center and I will 605 00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:43,680 Speaker 2: see you back here Wednesday morning.