1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:03,880 Speaker 1: Welcome in his verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, ben Ferguson 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 1: with you. It's so nice to have you with us. 3 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 1: And Senator there has been a lot that has happened 4 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 1: in this country dealing with people that have come into 5 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: this country unvetted, and now we have seen an attack. 6 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,600 Speaker 1: It's cost people with their lives, and not only that, 7 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 1: we've also found others that are now threatening to do 8 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:20,639 Speaker 1: violence in America. 9 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 2: I'm angry about it. 10 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:24,279 Speaker 1: A lot of Americans are, and finding out just how 11 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: ignorant the last administration was and letting people in is 12 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 1: truly shocking and a real national security issue. 13 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 3: Now, well, it's truly horrific what happened on Wednesday, the 14 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 3: Wednesday before Thanksgiving, two National Guard members, Sarah Beckstrom H 15 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 3: twenty and Andrew Wolf H twenty four, were shot less 16 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 3: than twenty four hours after they were sworn in. Sarah 17 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 3: tragically passed away on Thanksgiving Day as you and I 18 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 3: are recording this. Andrew is still fighting for his life 19 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 3: but in very serious condition. The shooter, as we all know, 20 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 3: was an Afghan national who Joe Biden brought to the 21 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:07,119 Speaker 3: United States, who had very limited vetting, who was released, 22 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 3: who was living in Washington State who got in a 23 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 3: car and drove from Washington State to Washington d C. 24 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 3: Pulled out a gun and shot these two National Guard members. Now, 25 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 3: if that is not infuriating, that, I don't know what is. 26 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 3: And in particular Ben, some of us, including the two 27 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 3: of us, including the Verdict podcast, have been predicting this 28 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:33,319 Speaker 3: was going to happen for more than four years when 29 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 3: Joe Biden began doing this, when Joe Biden began bringing 30 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 3: in thousands upon thousands of unvetted Afghan nationals, just bringing 31 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 3: in people who who were in a war torn country 32 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 3: where radical Islamic terrorism is rife, and engaging in little 33 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 3: to no vetting. This was, sadly the predictable and the 34 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 3: predicted outcome. 35 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 2: They also lied about it. 36 00:01:57,720 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: And that's something else that I think people need to 37 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 1: unders is they tried to act like this was no 38 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 1: big deal early on center that we were vetting, and 39 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 1: they flat out lied to the American people because they 40 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 1: were trying to cover for the disastrous exit of Afghanistan. 41 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 3: Well, that's exactly right. And if you remember, the exit 42 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 3: of Afghanistan was when the Biden presidency began to collapse. There, 43 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:27,760 Speaker 3: you know, the Biden presidency was extremely political and their 44 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 3: poll numbers dropped ten points when it was an utter disaster. 45 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 3: They pulled out of Afghanistan. If you remember they pulled out. 46 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 3: They wanted to be out by September eleventh, the twentieth 47 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 3: anniversary of September eleventh, and so they ordered the troops 48 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 3: out with no level of competence, no level. The military 49 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 3: told them, look, we need sufficient troop levels to at 50 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 3: least do the evacuation. We need sufficient troop levels to 51 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 3: have a secure evacuation. At Bogram Airfield that we had 52 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 3: spent billions of dollars building, it was safe, it was secure. 53 00:02:57,760 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 3: If you wanted to do an evacuation, it was the 54 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 3: right place to do it from. But the Biden political 55 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 3: operatives said, no, we want the number down to twenty 56 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 3: five hundred troops by a date certain, and so they 57 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:09,799 Speaker 3: abandoned Bagram. They just gave it to the Taliban. They 58 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 3: did the evacuation out of Cabul National Airport, which is 59 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:15,920 Speaker 3: in the middle of it a dense urban area, and 60 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 3: tragically resulted in thirteen servicemen and women being murdered. Because 61 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:24,679 Speaker 3: of those decisions and the incompetence and the ideology and 62 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 3: understand it was both. It was incompetence, to be sure, 63 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 3: but it was also ideology that they refused to recognize. 64 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 3: This is an administration that we refused to recognize radical 65 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 3: Islamic terrorism exists. And so we saw the images of 66 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 3: planes taking off in Cabbal with people clinging to the 67 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 3: to the tires and trying to get into the wheel wells, 68 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 3: the panic, the terror, the chaos, the death, and politically 69 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 3: the Biden administration that was the turning point. After that, 70 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 3: they began shipping in thousands and tens of thousands and 71 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 3: even hundreds of thousands of Afghans, and because idea logically, 72 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 3: they don't acknowledge radical Islamic terrorism as a threat, they 73 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 3: didn't vet them. They just said, Hey, the more people 74 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 3: we bring into this country who hate America, the more 75 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 3: people are going to vote Democrats. That's the only justification. 76 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 3: It's like ignorance, an ideology plus a long term political objective. 77 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 3: And we've seen it. We've seen it with the Somali 78 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:25,480 Speaker 3: invasion in Minnesota and the tragedies that are unfolding there. 79 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 3: We've seen it with the radicalization of places like Dearborn, 80 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 3: Michigan and We've seen it with the Afghans, and this 81 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 3: is something I have been screaming from the ramparts and 82 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 3: fighting from day one. And what happened in DC is infuriating. 83 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:41,599 Speaker 3: And those two National guardsmen did not need to be shot. 84 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 3: And this is the result of idiotic policies from the 85 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:46,039 Speaker 3: Biden Harris administration. 86 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, the frustrating part about this is this is another 87 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:51,479 Speaker 1: disaster that Trump administration has inherited, and so how do 88 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 1: we clean it up? We're going to talk about that 89 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 1: in a moment, but before we do that, I want 90 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: to talk to you about your cell phone provider. 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All right, So center, 128 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 1: let's go back to what we were talking about before, 129 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 1: and let's really do a reset of the warnings, the 130 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: fact that the Biden administration was warned about this turning 131 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 1: into what it is now. 132 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:11,679 Speaker 2: It's costing people their lives. 133 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 1: And there were quite a few that listened to show 134 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 1: that knew we were sounding the alarm, not because we 135 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 1: wanted to be right, but because this is a national 136 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 1: security issue and we saw it happening before our very eyes. 137 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 3: Now that's exactly right. We're going to put up for 138 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 3: those of you who are watching the podcast on YouTube, 139 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 3: We're going to put up a tweet that I sent 140 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 3: out in August of twenty twenty one, and I'll read 141 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 3: you the tweet. It says, touring the Donna Anna Camp 142 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 3: at Fort Bliss this morning, where Biden administration plans to 143 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 3: house ten thousand Afghan refugees. We should rescue Afghans who've 144 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 3: assisted the US military, but they should go to a 145 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 3: neutral and safe third country. They should not come to 146 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 3: the US without a full security So, look, there were. 147 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 2: Afghans during the way. Wait, what was the day to that. 148 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 1: I want to make sure people understand how much we 149 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 1: knew this was going to be a problem. 150 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 3: Okay, So it was August twenty seventh, twenty twenty one. 151 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 3: And by the way, I was and I also have 152 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 3: a picture, so I'm in a black Hawk helicopter touring 153 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 3: the tent facility. They literally built a gigantic tent city 154 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 3: on Fort Bliss. Fort Bliss is in El Paso, Texas. 155 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 3: It is a massive military base and they built a 156 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 3: tent city to house ten thousand Afghans. Now, there was 157 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:34,560 Speaker 3: very little security. They didn't know who was coming in. 158 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 3: They didn't know how they would leave. They didn't know 159 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:38,319 Speaker 3: if they could leave, if they were terrorists. They could 160 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 3: literally hail an uber leave and go wherever they wanted. 161 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 3: It was insanity and listen. During the war in Afghanistan, 162 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:51,440 Speaker 3: there were Afghans who made courageous decisions to help the 163 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:54,120 Speaker 3: US government, And I think it's wrong and im moral 164 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:56,199 Speaker 3: to just leave them to be murdered by the Taliban. 165 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 3: So I think we had an obligation knew something. But 166 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 3: there are a lot of options short of bringing them 167 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 3: to America. That they're a whole bunch of Muslim countries 168 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:06,560 Speaker 3: in the Middle East where they would not pose the 169 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:10,840 Speaker 3: same terror threat that they pose here, And a perfectly 170 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:14,319 Speaker 3: reasonable approach would be We're going to set up refugee 171 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 3: camps with our allies through throughout the throughout the Middle East, 172 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:23,720 Speaker 3: move those refugees there, and for those that pass a 173 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 3: vigorous screening test, it is possible some of them might 174 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 3: come to the United States, but only after we were 175 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:33,599 Speaker 3: absolutely certain that there was not a risk of a 176 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:35,079 Speaker 3: terror attack like we saw. 177 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 2: By the way you and I talked about this. 178 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: I knew several people that worked that fought for our 179 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 1: country in Afghanistan and they said their most frustrating aspect 180 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:47,560 Speaker 1: of the pullout was the US was almost like they 181 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:49,839 Speaker 1: were playing a numbers game. Well, we got out five 182 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:53,079 Speaker 1: thousand or ten thousand or twenty thousand, and they said 183 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 1: their interpreters were being hunted down, people that helped American 184 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 1: soldiers were being hunted down. They weren't actually pulling out 185 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:04,320 Speaker 1: the people that deserve to be pulled out. It was 186 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 1: just a numbers game after the disaster, try to make 187 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:07,439 Speaker 1: it go away. 188 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 3: No, that's exactly right. They were both over inclusive and 189 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 3: under inclusive. In other words, they were missing people who 190 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 3: really had been allies of the United States because there 191 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 3: was no serious process to identify who would risk their lives, 192 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 3: who was at real danger of persecution and murder. And 193 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 3: they were also just letting waving people in. I want 194 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 3: you to listen to this cross examination that I did 195 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:36,680 Speaker 3: of Tony Blinkn, then the Secretary of State at the time, 196 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 3: give a listen on this topic. But I want to 197 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 3: ask you flat out, did the State Department give the 198 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 3: Taliban a list or multiple list of Americans and or 199 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:47,960 Speaker 3: Afghans that we wanted out. 200 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:50,439 Speaker 4: Those reports and the idea that we would do anything 201 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 4: to endanger our citizens or anyone else at a time 202 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:56,200 Speaker 4: when we were trying to save their lives is flat 203 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 4: out wrongs. 204 00:10:57,520 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 3: Let me just like a yes or no, did you 205 00:10:59,120 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 3: give them? 206 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:00,520 Speaker 5: Let me very. 207 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:04,960 Speaker 4: Clear, a Senator, if I may please thank you, in 208 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 4: limited instances where we were seeking to get a bus 209 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:14,320 Speaker 4: or a group of people through a checkpoint. We gave 210 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:17,360 Speaker 4: a manifest to the people at the checkpoint to demonstrate 211 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 4: that those people were expected way. 212 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 3: How many names were on the list you gave. 213 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 5: It doesn't matter because they all. 214 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:25,839 Speaker 3: Dozen, the hundreds, thousands, give us some order of magnitude. 215 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 5: This happened in a handful of situations where to dozen. 216 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:30,839 Speaker 3: So is it your testimony It wasn't hundreds. I want 217 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 3: to understand. Did you give them thousands of names? 218 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 6: No? 219 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 5: We did not. Okay, hundreds, not going to put a 220 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:37,959 Speaker 5: number on it, but it was again. 221 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 3: Why not? This is a hearing to discover how many 222 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 3: names and how many of those individuals you gave the 223 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 3: Taliban the name to have been targeted for torture or murder. 224 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:50,199 Speaker 4: Senator, by definition, these were in limited instances with a 225 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:52,439 Speaker 4: bus or a group of people to get them through 226 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 4: a checkpoint. 227 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 5: They got through the checkpoint. 228 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 3: So not only did you fail to evacuate Americans and 229 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,840 Speaker 3: green cardholes who were there, but you also brought in 230 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:07,320 Speaker 3: tens of thousands of Afghans who had wholly inadequate vetting, 231 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 3: bringing many of them to the United States. And one 232 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:12,600 Speaker 3: of the things that has done is that has brought 233 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 3: in a humanitarian crisis to America. Child marriage and domestic 234 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:22,720 Speaker 3: abuse tragically are widespread in Afghanistan. According to the World 235 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:27,000 Speaker 3: Health Organization, more than half of the women in Afghanistan 236 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:30,679 Speaker 3: are married as child brides and ninety percent of women 237 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 3: are subject to domestic abuse ninety percent. On August twenty seventh, 238 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:41,599 Speaker 3: according to public reports, you distributed internal documentation highlighting numerous 239 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 3: instances and intake centers of sexual abuse in which much older, 240 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 3: grown Afghan males appeared with children. Young children claimed they 241 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:57,560 Speaker 3: were their brides, claimed they were their wives, and the 242 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 3: document said the State Department urgent requested guidance. That was 243 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 3: your word urgently. Subsequently, Department of Homeland Security said that 244 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 3: it showed the desperation of families that they were willing 245 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:13,600 Speaker 3: to give little girls to grown men to be subject 246 00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:17,320 Speaker 3: to sexual abuse and child wives. My questions as follows. 247 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:20,839 Speaker 3: Did you receive that urgent guidance? How many children have 248 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 3: been subject to sexual abuse? What have you done to 249 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 3: rescue young children from illegal and abusive relationships? After being 250 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 3: brought to America by the State Department. 251 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:37,560 Speaker 4: Across the entire government, everyone involved in the evacuation effort, 252 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:41,080 Speaker 4: whether it's at a transit point in one of the 253 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:43,679 Speaker 4: countries that we negotiated with, whether it's here in the 254 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 4: United States at Dulles or Philadelphia or the military bases, 255 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:53,160 Speaker 4: we have all of our officers at extreme vigilance to 256 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 4: look for and to deal with any cases or concerns 257 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 4: that he's. 258 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 3: The urgent guidance And how many child. 259 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:02,960 Speaker 5: Guides have you seen? 260 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 4: I don't know the specific guidance referring to I'm happy 261 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 4: to look, uh, to look at it. 262 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 3: So is there not urgency to discover its abuse. 263 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 4: As could we could detect and deal with at any cases? 264 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 4: And there have been, to my knowledge a limited number 265 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 4: of cases where we have separated people because we were concerned. 266 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 5: The cases I'm aware of a handful. 267 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 1: I think it's a really important point here, Senator, that 268 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 1: we are now dealing with the reality of this situation, 269 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:35,440 Speaker 1: and that is this was more than just a national 270 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 1: security threat. This was a threat to so many Americans. 271 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: It's not just terrorism. It's also what you just described there. 272 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:46,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, and look, this is related. We have covered on 273 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 3: Verdict before the the incredible epidemic of child rapes from 274 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 3: pakistanis in the United Kingdom and the United Kingdoms turning 275 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 3: a blind eye to to this this pattern, this this 276 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:04,480 Speaker 3: massive challenge of young children, young girls being raped tragically 277 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 3: in Afghanistan. That is also a very real problem. The 278 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 3: statistics on child brides are horrifying. Ninety percent of women 279 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:16,360 Speaker 3: reported to have been subject to domestic abuse. And understand, 280 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 3: when the Taliban was taking over in Afghanistan, there were 281 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 3: families that were desperate, and so they would have a 282 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 3: little girl, a seven eight nine year old girl that 283 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:25,600 Speaker 3: they would give to a grown man who was getting 284 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 3: on a plane and say here, take her as your wife, 285 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 3: to get her out of here. And that little girl 286 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 3: would would then be raped for the rest of her life. 287 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 3: And the Biden State Department, they knew it was going on, 288 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 3: but they didn't act to stop it. And understand, this 289 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 3: is ideology at play. Everyone not everyone. Many of those 290 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 3: who manned the Biden administration were alums of the Obama administration. 291 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 3: Under the Obama administration, I chaired a hearing because the 292 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 3: Obama White House had sent out a written guidance to 293 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 3: the Department of Homeland Security to urge and they use 294 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:06,160 Speaker 3: the word purge any reference to radical Islam or the 295 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 3: Muslim Brotherhood or jihad and as a result, DHS either 296 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 3: edited or deleted more than eight hundred of their records 297 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 3: or racing references to radical Islam, Muslim brotherhood Jahad and 298 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:21,680 Speaker 3: you know what, And then miraculously, later on when you 299 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 3: had a terror attack, they'd say, but we have no 300 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 3: record that this is connected to radical Islam. It's like, well, 301 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 3: because you had a purge and you deleted all the records. Ideologically, 302 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:35,160 Speaker 3: those same left wing ideologues that were in the Obama 303 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 3: administration they went forward to the Bided administration. And so 304 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 3: it's a reason why if they've got people who are 305 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 3: American allies. You heard Tony blink and say, oh yeah, well, 306 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:44,440 Speaker 3: we would give lists of them to the Taliban. What 307 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 3: could possibly be wrong? And it's a fundamental misunderstanding. It's 308 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 3: also bizarrely, look, Democrats claim they care about women's rights, Well, 309 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 3: it turns out that is not true when it's dealing 310 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,840 Speaker 3: with women or girls being raped by radical Islamists. That 311 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:07,639 Speaker 3: for them, in their Marxist hierarchy of oppression, being Palestinian, 312 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:12,160 Speaker 3: being Taliban, being Isis is much more oppressed than being women. 313 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:16,440 Speaker 3: So women's rights go out the window in the leftist hierarchy. 314 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:20,440 Speaker 3: But it's not just the child brides and the humanitarian 315 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:24,480 Speaker 3: victims from Afghanistan. It is the very real risk of 316 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:27,920 Speaker 3: terror attacks here. I want to play this podcast Verdict 317 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 3: in September of twenty twenty one. Here's what we were 318 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:34,639 Speaker 3: covering un Verdict in September twenty one. Give a listen. 319 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:38,359 Speaker 3: So everyone assumes the camps where the evacuees are taken 320 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 3: are secure facilities. Process they're wide open and they are 321 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:47,120 Speaker 3: free to go anywhere they want, and the Biden administration 322 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:50,880 Speaker 3: apparently doesn't care if these are adult men with little 323 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,879 Speaker 3: girls who they are sexually assaulting. The vetting is so 324 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 3: half asked that there is a very real risk that 325 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:00,359 Speaker 3: if even one or two Jihads are in the mix, 326 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:03,680 Speaker 3: that we could see a suicide bomb like we saw 327 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:07,719 Speaker 3: in Afghanistan, but in an American mall or restaurant. 328 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,159 Speaker 7: If they're letting people hop on these planes who have 329 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:14,600 Speaker 7: been convicted of crimes in the United States, it's surely 330 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:16,720 Speaker 7: the vetting is not top notch. And it's not as 331 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 7: though they're only going to Fort blizz They're going all 332 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 7: around the country. 333 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 1: By the way, it's spot on, they're going all around 334 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,879 Speaker 1: the country. Fast forward to literally what we're dealing with 335 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 1: now in this administration where they're like, well, okay, yeah, 336 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:32,720 Speaker 1: we had this attack, and oh there's another guy that 337 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 1: was talking about want to do another attack. But hey, 338 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:38,960 Speaker 1: at least we can somehow Jedi mind trick you into 339 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,200 Speaker 1: believing that somehow this is Donald Trump's fault, because that's 340 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:42,840 Speaker 1: what the media did at first. And I think you've 341 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 1: got to connect these dots her center. The media is 342 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:49,600 Speaker 1: trying to say that these National guardsmen that got shot, 343 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 1: one of them has died as the time we are 344 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:55,000 Speaker 1: doing this, it happened. They're trying to say because of 345 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:58,200 Speaker 1: Donald Trump rewriting the history and the warnings going back 346 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 1: to as we just played there for September of twenty 347 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 1: twenty one on this exact thing happening in reality. 348 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 3: Yeah. At the same time, I wrote an op ed 349 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 3: and Fox News where I said, unfortunately, I believe we 350 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 3: will see American blood spilled because of these foolish mistakes, 351 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:15,679 Speaker 3: and I went on to say the truth is that 352 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 3: the Taliban doesn't want to be welcomed into the community 353 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:21,879 Speaker 3: of civilized nations. They are vicious terrorists who want to 354 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 3: kill us. Unfortunately, because of the catastrophic mistakes the Biden 355 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 3: administration made in Afghanistan. We are much more at risk 356 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 3: for deadly attacks by the Taliban or Al Qaeda, which 357 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 3: Pentagon officials estimate could regroup in Afghanistan in the next 358 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 3: year or two. It's a disgrace and the fault lies 359 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:44,359 Speaker 3: directly with President Joe Biden and his administration. This was 360 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:47,840 Speaker 3: obvious at the time. And look you heard on that 361 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 3: clip in September twenty one, I'm talking about seeing the 362 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 3: Donyana tent facility. When I showed up there, I was like, well, 363 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:59,480 Speaker 3: are there any fences around it? No? Is there any bearer? 364 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 3: They're like none, This is not a prison facility. And 365 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 3: it was a one star general who was taking me 366 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:07,040 Speaker 3: around with the helicopter. And I'm like, well, you know 367 00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:09,800 Speaker 3: what happens. You're saying anyone can leave. He's like, yeah, 368 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 3: they're not detained. This is just we're just offering them housing. 369 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 3: Think of this like an apartment complex. They can't stay here. 370 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:17,920 Speaker 3: If they want or if they want to go somewhere else, 371 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 3: they can go. They can go somewhere else. And I yeah, 372 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:23,919 Speaker 3: And I asked the Army, are y'all doing any vetting here? 373 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,400 Speaker 3: That they said no, no, no, The State Department does that Afghanistan, 374 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:29,159 Speaker 3: so it's all done before they get there. So they 375 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:32,320 Speaker 3: got ten thousand people there and who knows where they went. 376 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 3: They don't keep a record of them that they don't 377 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 3: ask where do you go? I mean, that's part of 378 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 3: the infuriating problem that the Biden administration invited into this country. Islamists, 379 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:50,879 Speaker 3: terrorists who explicitly want to murder us. And by the way, 380 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:56,520 Speaker 3: you know what is unbelievable is the shooting in d 381 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:02,200 Speaker 3: C was one of two yeah Afghans who were arrested 382 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:06,680 Speaker 3: this week for threatening violence. Another one happened in Texas. 383 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:11,639 Speaker 3: Here's one report from Breitbart. An Afghan national admitted to 384 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 3: the United States under President Biden's Operation Allies Welcome Resettlement 385 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:20,520 Speaker 3: program was arrested this week after posting a TikTok video 386 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 3: in which he appeared to be building a bomb and 387 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:27,199 Speaker 3: referenced Fort Worth as a target, according to the Department 388 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:31,000 Speaker 3: of Homeland Security. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia 389 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:34,800 Speaker 3: McLaughlin reported the arrest of Mohammed da wood Alo Kase, 390 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,920 Speaker 3: saying he allegedly posted a video on TikTok threatening to 391 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,919 Speaker 3: blow up a building in Fort Worth, Texas with a bomb. 392 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 3: The Texas Department of Public Safety of the FBI Joint 393 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 3: Terrorism Task Force teamed up to make the arrest on 394 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 3: charges of making terroristic threats. This is happening, and by 395 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:56,880 Speaker 3: the way, it continues to be. Alo Kase is an 396 00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:00,360 Speaker 3: Afghan national who was pardoned into the United States by 397 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 3: the Biden administration. His arrest came one day prior to 398 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 3: the a vicious attack on two West Virginia National Guard 399 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 3: soldiers in Washington, d c. By another Afghan national. This pattern, 400 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:15,639 Speaker 3: when you let people in, you don't vet them. This 401 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:19,719 Speaker 3: violence and this terrorism is predictable. And you had a 402 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 3: combination of a for four years, an open southern border, 403 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,119 Speaker 3: so any Hamas or HESBLO or other terrorists could come 404 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:26,159 Speaker 3: in through the southern border. 405 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 1: By the way, let's see you for a second, because Sara, 406 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:30,399 Speaker 1: you're just brougham saying I wanted to ask you about 407 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 1: a moment ago, and before I do that, I want 408 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 1: to tell you about our friends at Compassion International. 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That's Compassion dot com. 425 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:43,360 Speaker 1: You combine what we're witnessing now with what you just mentioned. 426 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: Center At the Southern border, we knew for a fact 427 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,880 Speaker 1: that people on the Terrace watch list were coming across 428 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 1: our southern border, the same border that when Texas tried 429 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 1: to secure it, the federal government said no, no, We're going 430 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 1: to use forklists to raise up the Bob Weier to 431 00:23:57,880 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 1: let more people, and we have that on video, we 432 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 1: talk about that on verdict. They knew that people were 433 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,760 Speaker 1: getting it on the terrorists watch list, people that wanted 434 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,160 Speaker 1: to kill Americans. Well, they knew there was a real 435 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:11,159 Speaker 1: threat of sleeper cells in this country coming from multiple. 436 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 2: Places around the world. And there still is. Al Shabab 437 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:14,719 Speaker 2: exactly still is. 438 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 1: And you combine that with this, and you sit there 439 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: and you go basically they said, look, we know people 440 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,639 Speaker 1: are gonna die, but we want an open border. We 441 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:24,399 Speaker 1: know terroifts are coming in, we know they're on the 442 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,400 Speaker 1: watch list. We know we're catching some of them. There's 443 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 1: a lot of guidaw ways that we don't catch. This 444 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:30,439 Speaker 1: is just the cost of doing business. There will be 445 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:34,679 Speaker 1: human carbage of American citizens', abusive children, the rape of children, 446 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 1: the sex traffigany of children. There will be murderers and 447 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:41,200 Speaker 1: all sorts of people in this country. We know that 448 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:45,119 Speaker 1: it's worth it to flood America with illlegal immigrants. That 449 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:47,400 Speaker 1: was a calculated decision they made. 450 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,760 Speaker 3: It was and the two occurred simultaneously. So one on 451 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 3: the one hand, they're opening the southern border and letting 452 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,440 Speaker 3: anyone come in, yep. But on the other hand, they're 453 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 3: affirmatively flying ten of thousands of Afghans. And by the way, 454 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:03,439 Speaker 3: we don't have any firm numbers in terms of how 455 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,560 Speaker 3: many they brought in. In terms of vetting, you know, 456 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:09,800 Speaker 3: you don't have anyone from the Biden administration saying, oh, yeah, 457 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,560 Speaker 3: we thoroughly vetted this guy before we brought him here, 458 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 3: because their view was there was nothing to vet. If 459 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:19,720 Speaker 3: they're bringing a fifty year old dude with an eight 460 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,720 Speaker 3: year old girl that he says is his wife, that 461 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,959 Speaker 3: shows you how utterly incompetent the vetting is. That they 462 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:30,920 Speaker 3: just didn't care. Ideologically, they believed, well, their culture apparently 463 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 3: it's okay to rape little girls, and and so they 464 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:38,119 Speaker 3: certainly were not asking engaging in the serious vetting. And 465 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,280 Speaker 3: it's difficult. Look, one of the problems with vetting a 466 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 3: place like Afghanistan is there are limited records, and so 467 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,399 Speaker 3: that's not an easy task. And my view, unless you 468 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:49,720 Speaker 3: can conclusively determine that this person is not a terror threat, 469 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:52,639 Speaker 3: we should not be bringing him to America. And so, 470 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:58,120 Speaker 3: but the Biden administration I don't believe was even trying 471 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:00,840 Speaker 3: to vet them in any serious way. They were just 472 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:05,160 Speaker 3: bringing in numbers because this was all about politics rather 473 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,480 Speaker 3: than the substance of keeping America safe. 474 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, Centat, there's also let's go back in time and 475 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 1: just remind people of what happened in this country last year. 476 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,720 Speaker 1: It deals with Rashida Leib the radicals of the left, 477 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:20,480 Speaker 1: and we're going to play that for you in a moment. 478 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 1: But before we do that, I got to tell you 479 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:26,560 Speaker 1: about an amazing opportunity for all of you that listen 480 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,160 Speaker 1: to Verdict and is to take some amazing classes from 481 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:36,399 Speaker 1: Hillsdale College right now for free. 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All right, Santa, 511 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 1: I want to go back to a little over a 512 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 1: year ago, and let's just remind people of the Democratic 513 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,200 Speaker 1: Party and also how we got to the point that 514 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 1: we're at right now. 515 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,920 Speaker 3: Well, this just shows the overlap we were talking about 516 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:29,760 Speaker 3: before that Ideologically, Today's Democrat Party refuses to acknowledge the 517 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 3: threat of radical Islamic terrorism, refuses to acknowledge radical Islam 518 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 3: and that it is fundamentally anti American. And so in 519 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:41,040 Speaker 3: April twenty four, there were protesters in Dearborn, Michigan for 520 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,719 Speaker 3: the and it was the International Al Kudds Day rally 521 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 3: where they began chanting death to America. And when that happened, so, 522 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,120 Speaker 3: Dearborn Michigan is in Rashida to Leeds district. She is 523 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 3: the member of Congress that represents Dearborn Michigan. You have 524 00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:01,120 Speaker 3: a rally interdistrict channing death to America. And Fox News 525 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 3: quite reasonably came and asked her if she would condemn that. Uh, 526 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,440 Speaker 3: give a watch and give a listen to how she responded, 527 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 3: I love. 528 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:10,560 Speaker 2: Their regard. 529 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:16,480 Speaker 3: Red red love. 530 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 2: Not a great look. 531 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,800 Speaker 8: The mayor condemned it, the White House condemned it. But 532 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:26,720 Speaker 8: what about Congresswoman Rashida to leave she Repsteerborn. Is she 533 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 8: okay with her constituents chanting death to America? Fox Business 534 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 8: correspondent Hillary Vaughan asked her watch congressmenan. 535 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:38,480 Speaker 6: To Lee Fox News, I don't talk to Fox Snood. 536 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 6: At a rally in your district, people were chanting death 537 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,880 Speaker 6: to America? Do you condemn talk to Fox News? 538 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,120 Speaker 5: Do you condemn chance of death to America? 539 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,120 Speaker 6: I don't talk to people that use racist trunks. 540 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,920 Speaker 7: Why can't you just say whether or not you condemn 541 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 7: people chanting death to me? 542 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,600 Speaker 6: Why are you afraid to talk to Fox News? Is 543 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,680 Speaker 6: not listen using racist tropes? 544 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 1: Where us? 545 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 6: My community is what fox shoos is about? And I 546 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 6: don't talk to Fox News. Is death to America? Racists? 547 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 6: Is chanting death to America? 548 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 2: Racist? 549 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:15,000 Speaker 6: Talking about your guys racist tropes. You know, you guys 550 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,760 Speaker 6: know exactly what you do. I know you're from Polk, 551 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 6: but you guys gotta go deal with it. You're on 552 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:21,000 Speaker 6: your own self. You're not gonna use me. 553 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:22,800 Speaker 2: All right, Sinner. 554 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,160 Speaker 1: You go back to that, and it's just one of 555 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:30,120 Speaker 1: those moments where the warning signs are there, where we 556 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,800 Speaker 1: tell you that these warning signs are there, and then 557 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,000 Speaker 1: it happens, and I hate it that it happens, but 558 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:38,240 Speaker 1: it's so predictable. 559 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,760 Speaker 2: Now, you know. 560 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 3: It reminds me when when Obama was president, John Carey 561 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 3: was Secretary of State. There was an editorial cartoon and 562 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 3: it had the Iotolin Iran going death to America, and 563 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 3: it had John Carey saying, well, can we meet you halfway? Yeah, 564 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:58,959 Speaker 3: that's the ideological incoherence. Look, when you walk down the 565 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 3: halls of Congress, and you've been there with me, ben 566 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 3: reporters stop you all the time. By the way, I 567 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,560 Speaker 3: answer questions from Fox News, I answer questions from CNN, 568 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,080 Speaker 3: I answer questions New York Times, I answer questions from 569 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:13,360 Speaker 3: every lefty outlet, just walking along, because if you know 570 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:17,280 Speaker 3: what you believe, I gotta say, that's not a gotcha question. 571 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:22,240 Speaker 3: It's not a difficult question. Do you support death to America? 572 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:25,200 Speaker 3: If you are a member of the United States Congress, 573 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,200 Speaker 3: the Congress of the United States of America, one would 574 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,120 Speaker 3: think it ought to be easy to say, Yeah, of 575 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,640 Speaker 3: course death to America is wrong. I'm against that. That 576 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:38,280 Speaker 3: should not be difficult for anyone. It speaks volumes that 577 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 3: Rashida Talib was unwilling to even condemn chance of death 578 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:47,880 Speaker 3: to America in her own congressional district. That shows just 579 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:51,760 Speaker 3: how dangerous the ideological rod is and tragically, we saw 580 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:55,880 Speaker 3: the very real consequences of that ideological rod in letting 581 00:31:56,080 --> 00:32:01,800 Speaker 3: unvetted Afghan Afghan immigrants into this country, one of whom 582 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:05,160 Speaker 3: just murdered one DC National Guardsman and may have murdered 583 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,840 Speaker 3: a second. We pray that he survives, but at this 584 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,240 Speaker 3: point our prayers are with him because we don't know 585 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,600 Speaker 3: if he's going to survive the horrific attack. 586 00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's truly incredible. We're gonna keep you updated on 587 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,120 Speaker 1: this subject. I can promise you don't forget. 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