Speaker 1: Welcome. It is Verdict to his center.
Speaker 2: Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you, and it's the week
Speaker 2: in Review. These are the big stories that you may
Speaker 2: have missed that we talked about this week.
Speaker 1: First up, Biden caught on a hot.
Speaker 2: Mike at the State of the Union basically trashing bb
Speaker 2: and Israel. We'll have the latest behind what that actually means.
Speaker 2: Plus Katie Britt discusses Biden apologizing for calling an illegal
Speaker 2: immigrant and illegal that illegal also responsible for allegedly killing
Speaker 2: a young girl in Georgia. And finally, the Biden administration
Speaker 2: decides to quietly try to give ten billion dollars to
Speaker 2: Iran to keep funding terrorism. It is the weekend Review
Speaker 2: and it starts right now. Finally, I want to move
Speaker 2: on to one other issue real quick, and that is
Speaker 2: we found out what Joe Biden was saying as he
Speaker 2: decided to hang out on the floor of the House
Speaker 2: for I.
Speaker 1: Don't know about an hour after the State of the Union.
Speaker 2: He was caught on a hot mic and his staff
Speaker 2: was just I mean closing their eyes, shaking their heads.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: When Joe Biden was talking about what's going on in
Speaker 2: Israel and a conversation that he had with net and Yahoo.
Speaker 2: Take a listen to this caught on a hot mic, and.
Speaker 3: Mistress is one of the great speech.
Speaker 4: I was telling your secretary and was in short, this weekend,
Speaker 4: you got to keep pushing without the humanitarian stuff and
Speaker 4: all the chefts.
Speaker 5: So I told him I was good.
Speaker 1: Senator.
Speaker 2: You can hear Joe Biden there, and for people that
Speaker 2: maybe had a hard time hearing exactly what he said,
Speaker 2: give a little bit of a play by play here
Speaker 2: of what he was saying. And this is a president
Speaker 2: that's basically saying, oh, yeah, I'm gonna take my hand
Speaker 2: off of Israel.
Speaker 6: So the quote if he had a hard time hearing it,
Speaker 6: but the hot mic picked it up. He said quote,
Speaker 6: I told him, Bibi, and don't repeat this, but you
Speaker 6: and I are going to have a come to Jesus meeting.
Speaker 6: And so he's bragging to a fellow Democrat about how
Speaker 6: he was threatening the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin n Yah,
Speaker 6: whose nickname is Bibi. But number one, let me just say, look,
Speaker 6: you and I are both Southern Baptists. We both believe
Speaker 6: Jesus is our savior. But I got to say just
Speaker 6: saying to the Jewish Prime Minister of Israel. We're going
Speaker 6: to have a come to Jesus meeting as a way
Speaker 6: to beat the hell out of him. If a Republican
Speaker 6: had said that, the media would lose their minds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like they're insensitive on so many different levels.
Speaker 6: That there is an offensive condescension and understand what he
Speaker 6: means that come to Jesus meeting. What he means is
Speaker 6: you stupid Israeli, stop killing Hamas terrorists. That's what he's saying.
Speaker 6: We're going to force you, as a response to October seventh,
Speaker 6: to allow the Hamas terrorists who murdered twelve hundred Israelis,
Speaker 6: twelve hundred Jews who kidnapped Americans, who murdered Americans. We're
Speaker 6: going to force you to allow them to create their
Speaker 6: own state where they can engage in acts of terror
Speaker 6: like this, over and over and over again. It is
Speaker 6: the anti Israel animus in this administration and in sadly
Speaker 6: today's Democrat Party. I've never seen anything like it. It
Speaker 6: keeps getting worse, and this shows this is how Biden
Speaker 6: talks behind closed doors. I'm gonna beat up these damn
Speaker 6: Disraelis like that. That's just terrific.
Speaker 2: Well, and it's shocking, but it's also goes hand in
Speaker 2: hand with him basically pandering to the extreme laugh that
Speaker 2: is all about Hamas and supporting the terrorists and the
Speaker 2: Palestinian protesters that are supporting these terrorists who butchered children,
Speaker 2: who took hostage eighty year old women, grandmothers, and and
Speaker 2: put babies in ovens to burn them for sport. You
Speaker 2: also have a president during the State of the Union,
Speaker 2: to appease them, said hey, We're going to order the
Speaker 2: US military to construct a port in Gaza to increase
Speaker 2: the aid flowed flow there.
Speaker 6: He acted like, by the way, by the way, you
Speaker 6: know words that Joe Biden didn't say. He did didn't
Speaker 6: say we will utterly and completely destroy Hamas. He didn't say,
Speaker 6: as Israel defends itself, we have your back, we are
Speaker 6: with you. You are right, we must destroy Jimas. We stand together.
Speaker 6: That's what a real American president would say. That's what
Speaker 6: an American president defending America, defending our allies, would say.
Speaker 6: But instead today's Democrat Party, the cultural Marxist, the radical leftists,
Speaker 6: if they see a battle between Jews and Palestinians, they
Speaker 6: define Jews as the oppressors, they define Palestinians as the victims,
Speaker 6: and any cultural Marxist he supports the violent revolution of
Speaker 6: the victims against the oppressors. And so the consequence, what
Speaker 6: is Joe Biden bragging about when he thinks he's in private, Well,
Speaker 6: we just got this hot mic here. He's bragging that
Speaker 6: he's he's berating the Prime Minister of Israel. And mind you,
Speaker 6: at a time when the prime minister is defending his
Speaker 6: nation at war after a massive attack, the worst mass
Speaker 6: murder murder of Jews in a single day since the Holocaust.
Speaker 6: And what is Biden doing attacking Israel.
Speaker 2: Well and building this peer The question I have for
Speaker 2: you is does this put American troops in harm's way?
Speaker 2: Because that's the question that everybody should be asking this president.
Speaker 2: Let's be clear, about one hundred and eighty six American
Speaker 2: troops have been injured or killed in attacks on US
Speaker 2: personnel in the Middle East since mid October when the
Speaker 2: attack by the Hamas Terras happened on Israel. And of those,
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty have been traumatic brain injuries. Yet,
Speaker 2: and that's been confirmed by the Pentagon this week on Monday.
Speaker 2: Yet you have a president that acts like building this
Speaker 2: peer is no big deal at all.
Speaker 6: Well, look, I think that's right. And the thing understand
Speaker 6: is today's Democrat Party listen, Biden has an open revolt
Speaker 6: within his State Department, within his White House because today's
Speaker 6: Democrat Party, particularly the young people, they are active sympathizers
Speaker 6: of Hamas. Mind you, the Biden administration has given hundreds
Speaker 6: of millions of dollars to Gaza that went straight to Hamas.
Speaker 6: Mind you, the Biden administration has flowed one hundred billion
Speaker 6: dollars to Iran, which is the principal funder for Hamas
Speaker 6: and for Hesbola and all of that you have. I
Speaker 6: got to say, it is really distressing just how radicalized
Speaker 6: the Democrat Party has become and how much they have
Speaker 6: normalized anti Semitism in their party. That is a terrible,
Speaker 6: terrible thing, and it's something we're going to have to
Speaker 6: work together to fight.
Speaker 2: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
Speaker 2: you can go back and listen to the full podcast
Speaker 2: from earlier this week.
Speaker 1: Now onto story number two.
Speaker 2: By the way, one of the biggest controversies coming out
Speaker 2: of the State of the Union was one you didn't
Speaker 2: even have a chance to get to respond to.
Speaker 1: And I want to get your take on this.
Speaker 2: Biden used the word illegal immigrant when he was referencing
Speaker 2: the person who's been accused of killing Lake and Riley.
Speaker 1: The name, by the way, that he got wrong.
Speaker 2: You mentioned that earlier Lincoln Riley's a football coach USC
Speaker 2: and he got it wrong. But now he's gone on
Speaker 2: essence an apology tour to the illegal immigrant who was
Speaker 2: accused of killing her. And this is what he had
Speaker 2: to say on MSNBC, and you didn't. Obviously, I don't
Speaker 2: think anyone thought that this was actually going to happen
Speaker 2: or be a controversy when you were doing your response.
Speaker 2: But the biggest controversy from his whole night is actually
Speaker 2: now this.
Speaker 1: Take a listen.
Speaker 7: I noticed the look of surprise on your face when
Speaker 7: you walked into the chamber and you saw Congresswoman Marjorie
Speaker 7: Taylor Green. It was priceless. You feigned shop at seeing her.
Speaker 7: But during your response to her heckling of you, you
Speaker 7: use the word illegal when talking about the man who
Speaker 7: allegedly killed.
Speaker 3: An undocumented person. I shouldn't have used the legal as undocumented.
Speaker 3: And look, when I spoke about the difference between Trump
Speaker 3: and me. One of the things I talked about on
Speaker 3: the border was that his the way he talks about vermin,
Speaker 3: the way he talks about these people polluting the blood.
Speaker 3: I talked about what I'm not going to do, what
Speaker 3: I won't do. I'm not going to treat any any
Speaker 3: of these people with disrespect. Look, they've built the country,
Speaker 3: the reason our economy is growing. We have to control
Speaker 3: the border and more orderly slow. But I don't share
Speaker 3: to you at all.
Speaker 1: So you regret using that word, Yes, I regret using
Speaker 1: that word.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry basically to the illegal immigrant for saying he's
Speaker 2: an illegal immigrant, not talking about Blake and Riley. No
Speaker 2: one could have seen that coming, and that was something
Speaker 2: you didn't even get a chance to bring up because
Speaker 2: I hadn't an and that hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 8: That's exactly right, And I mean, I still can't rep
Speaker 8: my head around this.
Speaker 1: You have.
Speaker 8: Him apologizing for quote mislabeling her murderer, but not only
Speaker 8: did he not take that opportunity to correct her name,
Speaker 8: but the reporter didn't even ask him. I mean, think
Speaker 8: about that, Ted, This Joe's they have an agenda. They
Speaker 8: don't care about the things that they should.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So that interview is Jonathan k. Part It's on an MSNBC,
Speaker 6: and that exchange it makes my blood boil. Number one,
Speaker 6: his little aside saying they built this country. No, Joe,
Speaker 6: illegal immigrants did not build the United States of America.
Speaker 6: That is utter and complete garbage. But number two, think
Speaker 6: about the priorities he comes off of. And I gotta say,
Speaker 6: I think there are now two images that sum up
Speaker 6: the twenty twenty four election. Number one, there is the
Speaker 6: image of the illegal immigrants in New York City who
Speaker 6: beat up two New York cops, were arrested, were released
Speaker 6: without bail, and they came out with both hands flipping
Speaker 6: the bird at everyone. And that image flipping the bird
Speaker 6: right in left hand is what Joe Biden and the
Speaker 6: Democrats are saying to the American people. That's image number one.
Speaker 6: And image number two is the contrast right after the
Speaker 6: State of the Union of Donald Trump with lacn Riley's
Speaker 6: family hugging his mother binga, which is actually what someone
Speaker 6: who's a president who gives a damn about the American people,
Speaker 6: who is siding with our families, our moms, our kids,
Speaker 6: And simultaneously Joe Biden is on MSNBC apologizing because he
Speaker 6: referred to this murderer as an illegal. Well, you know what,
Speaker 6: he is an illegal. He's an illegal and a murderer.
Speaker 6: And he never should have killed Lincoln Ryan. Look at
Speaker 6: me now, I'm using Joe Biden's phrase. He never should
Speaker 6: have killed Lake and Riley. And the only reason he
Speaker 6: was free to do so is because Joe Biden chose
Speaker 6: to let him go. And not only that, Sanctuary City,
Speaker 6: New York City let him go again. And that is
Speaker 6: why that beautiful twenty two year old woman is dead.
Speaker 1: Now that's it.
Speaker 8: And tierwake when you hear him do that, and you
Speaker 8: can't help but be enraged that not only that, this
Speaker 8: is what our president of the United States is choosing
Speaker 8: to focus on. But then then the media doesn't hold
Speaker 8: him accountable. But I think people should see we have
Speaker 8: a very clear choice in November.
Speaker 1: And this says it all.
Speaker 8: You said it, Ted. You have President Biden over here
Speaker 8: apologizing for mislabeling her murderer, and then you have President
Speaker 8: Trump embracing her family, and I think that is all
Speaker 8: Americans need to know.
Speaker 6: The choice is clear, and that's your choice. And if
Speaker 6: you side with illegal alien murderers. Well, you probably shoul
Speaker 6: vote for Joe Biden if those are your peeps, if
Speaker 6: that's where your allegiance is. By the way, MSNBC, CNN,
Speaker 6: they're all voting for Joe Biden because their allegiance is
Speaker 6: actually with illegal alien murderers. And by the way, you know,
Speaker 6: not only did Joe Biden not properly say lake in
Speaker 6: Riley's name, he didn't say Jeremy Cassarras's name either. Jeremy Cassarras,
Speaker 6: beautiful two year old boy murdered in Prince George's County, Maryland,
Speaker 6: just a couple of weeks ago, again by another illegal alien.
Speaker 6: Joe Biden released, he didn't mention any of the of
Speaker 6: the American of the teenagers who have been violently raped
Speaker 6: by illegal immigrants. He takes no responsibility for his own culpability.
Speaker 6: And it is you really couldn't ask for a clear contrast.
Speaker 1: No, you couldn't.
Speaker 8: And then also you think about Fittanel poisonings, and you
Speaker 8: think about the decisions that have been made, they are
Speaker 8: all his. He inherited the most secure border that our
Speaker 8: country has had, and then he chose to halt deportations
Speaker 8: he chose to stop construction of the border wall. He
Speaker 8: I mean, he chose to say I'm going to get
Speaker 8: amnesty to millions. This is the thing that was so
Speaker 8: frustrating about the liberal media. It's like these policies and
Speaker 8: then the ninety four executive orders in the first one
Speaker 8: hundred days are acting as magnets.
Speaker 1: Ted there.
Speaker 8: He is saying, come on, and he is putting every
Speaker 8: one of those men, women and children in harm's way.
Speaker 8: Their cartels are using them in multiple ways. You know,
Speaker 8: we've talked about some of the horrific things that are
Speaker 8: happening to them on their way here. When they get here.
Speaker 8: It is mind boggling. It is a not only national
Speaker 8: security crisis, but a humanitarian crisis that no reporter is telling,
Speaker 8: you know, and they're choosing you focused earlier you said
Speaker 8: you know about about sex trafficking. They're not telling the
Speaker 8: story of human trafficking and what's happening under him.
Speaker 1: Well, and you and you.
Speaker 6: And I have both looked in the eyes of women
Speaker 6: and children who have been brutally sexually assaulted by these
Speaker 6: human traffickers. And when you when you see the pain,
Speaker 6: the agony, it sticks with you.
Speaker 1: It haunts you absolutely, and.
Speaker 6: This is happening day after day after day. And I
Speaker 6: got to say, you know, Katie, just listening to your
Speaker 6: talk about this, you're making far too much sense. What
Speaker 6: you said is incredibly reasonable, So that means necessarily you're crazy.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, but those are the rules, right hey, And
Speaker 6: if you're making sense.
Speaker 1: I guess you gotta be cuckoos. You gotta be.
Speaker 8: And I guess you know when you get in the arena,
Speaker 8: which the irony is in my remarks, you know, I
Speaker 8: wanted to leave people with hope ted because I believe
Speaker 8: that I believe in the people of this nation, and
Speaker 8: I believe in what we're built on, and wanted to
Speaker 8: encourage everyone to get in the arena because that's what
Speaker 8: we need them to do, because we are literally fighting
Speaker 8: for the heart and soul of our nation. We are
Speaker 8: fighting for the future for our children, and we need
Speaker 8: everybody stepping up. So I said, you know, get in
Speaker 8: the arena. Well, I found out real quick that I
Speaker 8: am in the arena. And when you're in the arena,
Speaker 8: you get arrows, but it's worth it. If you're fighting
Speaker 8: for what family need, you're being a voice for the voiceless.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 8: Then I'll take those arrows head all day long, because
Speaker 8: that is what we're going to have to do in
Speaker 8: order to get this country back on track and speak
Speaker 8: truth to power. And we found out where the power is.
Speaker 8: It's in the media, and they want to silence anyone
Speaker 8: who doesn't think just like them.
Speaker 6: And to use a military analogy, if you're not taking flak,
Speaker 6: you're not.
Speaker 1: Over the target.
Speaker 8: There you go.
Speaker 6: There is a reason they're coming after you, and it
Speaker 6: they tell you who they're afraid of. So I would
Speaker 6: take I was actually I thought you did a terrific job.
Speaker 6: But I was actually even happier with the job you
Speaker 6: did by seeing the freak out of the media, because
Speaker 6: to be honest, if you'd sucked, they wouldn't said anything.
Speaker 6: If it were bad, they would have been like, nothing
Speaker 6: to see here, And so that they squeal this loudly
Speaker 6: tells you a great deal.
Speaker 8: Well, and I do think you've got here. You have
Speaker 8: the president literally for an hour and seven minutes, I
Speaker 8: guess is what you said. It was yelling and giving
Speaker 8: a political speech in a space where he's supposed to
Speaker 8: be bringing our country together. And then you know, even
Speaker 8: you know, as I mentioned, tried to leave the country
Speaker 8: with hope because I believe in our nation. And I said,
Speaker 8: our nation's history is written with the gritten, the grit
Speaker 8: of men and women who got knocked down. But we
Speaker 8: know their stories because they did not stay down. We
Speaker 8: are here because they stood back up. And this is
Speaker 8: one of those moments where I'm just gonna have to
Speaker 8: stand back up because this fight is worth fighting, and
Speaker 8: we have got Every voice has got to be lifted
Speaker 8: loud because there are people that are counting on us,
Speaker 8: whether it is what's happening at our border, whether it
Speaker 8: is families that literally cannot make ends meet. I don't
Speaker 8: think and I said this in my remarks as well,
Speaker 8: but I mean I actually drove carpool the day that
Speaker 8: I gave the State of the Union response.
Speaker 1: So I was in so awesome right.
Speaker 6: Well, you know, actually you and Biden have something in
Speaker 6: common because he was actually hanging outside of a junior
Speaker 6: high that day.
Speaker 1: Due I need it.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna get in trouble with that comment that that
Speaker 6: one man am I allowed to say that.
Speaker 1: I don't know, We'll find out that's that's your headline, right,
Speaker 1: So you really drove carpool that day. That is actually
Speaker 1: very literally drove carpool.
Speaker 6: You were from school or both both both.
Speaker 8: I did both, And so when I was in pickup line,
Speaker 8: actually the head of the middle school was like, what
Speaker 8: are you doing? She had the little you know, the
Speaker 8: little walkie talkie and she, you know, was and I said,
Speaker 8: I need you know, I need bridgeway, and she was like,
Speaker 8: what are you doing. I was like, I'm running carpool.
Speaker 8: So ran carpool, did all the things. But you think about, like,
Speaker 8: when's the last time he did something like that. When's
Speaker 8: the last time you went to the grocery store and
Speaker 8: saw that eggs are like off the charts, and the
Speaker 8: price of meat and milk and all of the things,
Speaker 8: And when's the last time he went and filled up
Speaker 8: his car with gas? Because I promise you, it just
Speaker 8: gets more and more and more, and you think this
Speaker 8: man is trying to make us energy depends.
Speaker 1: That's not fair.
Speaker 6: He went to the store and he brought bought buttermilk
Speaker 6: and molasses from corn pop you know what. And so
Speaker 6: so he and he understands, I think you maybe.
Speaker 8: Went to something or maybe when he went to his
Speaker 8: beach retreat, he had someone run to the store for him.
Speaker 8: But seriously, you know, and you think about and I
Speaker 8: you know, when I go walking with my friends in
Speaker 8: the morning and I listen to the things they're concerned about,
Speaker 8: you know, this is what people want a voice to.
Speaker 8: And so if bringing a voice to that, if I
Speaker 8: get some flak for it, and you know, obviously you know,
Speaker 8: gave passionate remarks, but I think that there was.
Speaker 1: Never apologize for being passionate. That's for sure.
Speaker 8: That's right. It's like it's worth it, you know, it's
Speaker 8: worth it. The people are worth it, worth fighting for,
Speaker 8: and I'm going to keep doing it. And the hey,
Speaker 8: and the more they try to silence me, which by
Speaker 8: the way, they're doing quite a bit right now. It's
Speaker 8: a I had to give a speech this morning, Dad,
Speaker 8: and I walk up there, and you can tell everybody
Speaker 8: is just kind of like on edge, right because they're thinking,
Speaker 8: she has just been plummeted for the last solid four days,
Speaker 8: and we've seen her in a number of memes and
Speaker 8: this and that, and I think, you know, the scary
Speaker 8: mom one was also a good one because I thought,
Speaker 8: you know what that means, they really are afraid, because
Speaker 8: everybody knows when your mom goes into scary mom mode.
Speaker 6: Like, get out of the way.
Speaker 8: Yeah, because stuff's about to get done.
Speaker 6: Do you know what, I know exactly?
Speaker 8: I mean, just don't move over because we're about to
Speaker 8: take care of business.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 6: Look, And you know what, there are a lot of
Speaker 6: moms in America who are pissed off at everything that's happened.
Speaker 6: And you gave voice to that. And it wasn't the angry,
Speaker 6: bitter way that Biden did it, but it was if
Speaker 6: you're paying attention, you ought to be upset. Listen, if
Speaker 6: you were Lake and Riley's mom, exactly, like, imagine number one,
Speaker 6: the grief and agony you feel, but imagine the fury
Speaker 6: you feel that this was unnecessary and it's a result
Speaker 6: of a political agenda that said your family doesn't matter.
Speaker 6: And by the way, the next person murdered by an
Speaker 6: illegal alien that Joe Biden lets in, they're gonna feel
Speaker 6: the same way. So they keep they keep doing this, and.
Speaker 8: That's not who he's apologizing to. And it made me
Speaker 8: so mad. He stood up there and flippantly said, that
Speaker 8: set her name wrong, you know it just it I
Speaker 8: thought you have got as a mom.
Speaker 6: And by the way, his response, he said, well, she
Speaker 6: was killed by an illegal.
Speaker 1: But how many are killed by legals?
Speaker 6: Now what does that mean? And of course MSNBC didn't
Speaker 6: ask about that, Oh, how many are killed by legals?
Speaker 6: So what you're saying is that your crime policy is terrible. Also,
Speaker 6: and there's lots of murders. Yeah, I can't agree with that.
Speaker 6: Also that, but that's not much of a defense. Well, gosh,
Speaker 6: we're killing even more Americans that that is. And of
Speaker 6: course no scrutiny from the corporate media on anything, none.
Speaker 8: And he also he's killing the American dream because he's
Speaker 8: continuing to put Americans last and we only thing we
Speaker 8: can ask for is an opportunity to achieve, opportunity to
Speaker 8: try and fail. And you look at him and he
Speaker 8: continues to put policies in place that limit anyone's ability
Speaker 8: to try and achieve because he's prioritizing a liberal agenda.
Speaker 8: Above above that, I mean, it's everything from energy to
Speaker 8: the border to prices. I mean, that's one thing. Ted like,
Speaker 8: I'm on the Banking committee and I cannot believe the
Speaker 8: agenda in the financial sector. I mean all of the
Speaker 8: ESG and the D I mean, it just it is tremendous.
Speaker 8: So I feel like at every turn. We are having
Speaker 8: to fight to preserve what I know this nation was
Speaker 8: founded on and to try to preserve it for our kids,
Speaker 8: and it's worth it. So I had a little fun
Speaker 8: with it. Like I said, this morning, when I got
Speaker 8: up to give those remarks, everyone was on edge and
Speaker 8: I said, hey, guys, I haven't haven't had access to Twitter.
Speaker 8: Is there anything going on that I need to know about?
Speaker 8: And the whole crowd, whole crowd started started laughing. But
Speaker 8: HAVE had a little bit of fun with that.
Speaker 6: But after it gets you through everything it does. It does,
Speaker 6: it absolutely does.
Speaker 2: So as before, if you want to hear the rest
Speaker 2: of this conversation on this topic, you can go back
Speaker 2: and down the podcast from earlier this week to hear
Speaker 2: the entire thing. I want to get back to the
Speaker 2: big story number three of the week.
Speaker 1: You may have missed.
Speaker 2: You mentioned you watching that video. I last week was
Speaker 2: asked to go to the Israeli Console and and have
Speaker 2: a meeting and an update on what's happening right now,
Speaker 2: specifically with the number of people that are still being
Speaker 2: held hostage as we speak. And there was a book
Speaker 2: that we were able to look at and see the
Speaker 2: faces of the people that are still being held hostage
Speaker 2: that you hope are alive, that you know are being
Speaker 2: kept in unimaginable conditions. And we know that they have
Speaker 2: tortured and raped and killed many of the hostages. But
Speaker 2: when you look at these pictures center and you you.
Speaker 9: And I have talked about what that video looked like
Speaker 9: that you saw, you look at these people and it
Speaker 9: is sad to me that the media has not done
Speaker 9: a better job of humanizing.
Speaker 1: There were people in.
Speaker 9: Their upper eighties, yes, who couldn't defend themselves against being abducted.
Speaker 9: On that days.
Speaker 6: There were infants and toddlers murdered and raped.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and there was the elderly that couldn't defend themselves
Speaker 9: or even get out of their wheelchair. I mean, they
Speaker 9: were at the mercy of the attackers. And you look
Speaker 9: at the people that they took hostage. They wanted nobody
Speaker 9: in Israel to ever feel again, that's part of the
Speaker 9: terrorism of that day. They wanted everyone to feel like
Speaker 9: they could be next and that they were coming for
Speaker 9: them as well. Like you said, whether it's toddlers in
Speaker 9: their cribs or a ninety year old great great grandmother,
Speaker 9: they this was psychological warfare on the most grotesque and
Speaker 9: horrific level. And it was pre planned and orchestrated. It
Speaker 9: wasn't one madman.
Speaker 2: This was a terrorist organization that used countless warriors to.
Speaker 6: Do this well. And understand that's not one isolated event.
Speaker 6: Chuck Schumer's disgraceful speech is not one isolated event. This
Speaker 6: is comprehensive throughout the Biden administration and throughout Congressional Democrats.
Speaker 6: Just in the last twenty four hours, Joe Biden and
Speaker 6: Biden administrations, they gave I RAN a ten billion dollar
Speaker 6: sanctions waiver.
Speaker 1: Also in the last twenty.
Speaker 2: Four seeing that, by the way, because it sounds complicated,
Speaker 2: but I really think it's important that we explain this
Speaker 2: what does that mean, because we've already given them billions
Speaker 2: in actual cash.
Speaker 6: I will, but I want to underscore just what's happened
Speaker 6: in the last twenty four hours. In the last twenty
Speaker 6: four hours, they gave a RAN a ten billion dollar
Speaker 6: sanctions waiver. They also the Biden administration directly sanctioned Israeli Jews.
Speaker 6: They also said Israel's top priority should be aiding Gozins,
Speaker 6: and the majority leader of the Senate demanded the overthrow
Speaker 6: of Israel's democratically elected government in the middle of a war.
Speaker 6: All of that happened within twenty four hours. Now you
Speaker 6: ask what happened with the sanctions, Well, the Biden administration
Speaker 6: on Wednesday reapproved a sanctions waiver that unlocks ten billion
Speaker 6: dollars in frozen funds for the Iranian government. And this
Speaker 6: was according to a notice submitted to Congress late Wednesday.
Speaker 6: The sanctions waiver allows Iraq to transfer electricity payments to
Speaker 6: Iran via third party countries. The sanctions waiver was last
Speaker 6: approved by the Biden administration in November and it was
Speaker 6: set to expire this month, but they just reissued that waiver.
Speaker 6: So get this. Iran funded Hamas. Ninety percent of Hamas
Speaker 6: is funded by Iran. Iran funds HESBLA ninety percent of
Speaker 6: Hesbela is funded by Iran. Iran is actively attacking ships,
Speaker 6: Iran is funding the Huthis, Iran is attacking American soldiers.
Speaker 6: And what does Joe Biden do? He gives Iran ten
Speaker 6: billion dollars And that is this week after October seventh,
Speaker 6: after Americans have been targeted over and over and over again.
Speaker 6: Let me ask you this, seriously, Ben, how does one
Speaker 6: even mount an argument that giving ten billion dollars to
Speaker 6: an Ayahtola who repeatedly chants death to America is in
Speaker 6: any way, shape or form in the interest of the
Speaker 6: United States of America.
Speaker 1: No, it's not.
Speaker 9: And yet that's exactly what they're doing.
Speaker 6: And understand also that the antipathy to Israel and to
Speaker 6: net Yahoo it's not new.
Speaker 8: Look.
Speaker 6: When net Yahoo was elected, Biden refused to call him.
Speaker 6: It took enormous public pressure for him to call him.
Speaker 6: Biden has still not welcomed net Nyahu to the White House.
Speaker 6: He said net Yaho is not welcome in the Biden
Speaker 6: White House. Mind you, this was long before October seventh.
Speaker 6: This was long before his alleged concerns about Gaza. And
Speaker 6: contrasts that to how Biden treats Lula. Lula is an
Speaker 6: anti American, pro Iran thug, the leader of Brazil. When
Speaker 6: Lula was was elected, Biden called him immediately. He congratulated
Speaker 6: to me, invited Lula to the White House. Enemies of America.
Speaker 6: Here's what Biden tweeted when Lula was at the White House.
Speaker 6: It was great sitting down with my friend and partner
Speaker 6: in democracy. It is bizarre. If you're an enemy of America,
Speaker 6: Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer, they like you. And if
Speaker 6: you are a friend of America, especially if you are Israel,
Speaker 6: they actively undermine you at every step.
Speaker 2: Final question on this for you, I believe this is
Speaker 2: not just should be one of the top issues of
Speaker 2: this election cycle coming up. I actually believe this is
Speaker 2: one of the top issues of our lifetime. How do
Speaker 2: conservative candidates explain this and do a better job of
Speaker 2: explaining the history of Israel, especially because if you look
Speaker 2: at the polling, it's so concerning to me how many
Speaker 2: people thirty five and under are standing now with terrorists
Speaker 2: over Israel. We've got to change the conversation to let
Speaker 2: them understand this. How did we lose so easily, so quickly,
Speaker 2: an entire generation to stand with Israel instead of standing
Speaker 2: with a terrorists? And what a candidates need to do
Speaker 2: and how do they need to.
Speaker 1: Talk about this?
Speaker 6: So how did we lose? We lost the universities, we
Speaker 6: lost K through twelve, We lost the media, we lost entertainment,
Speaker 6: we lost social media. Young people are barraged with propaganda
Speaker 6: and the propaganda is telling them lies. Look, I was
Speaker 6: just just a couple of days ago in the airport,
Speaker 6: I was standing in Chicago getting on a plane to
Speaker 6: fly back to DC and this young leftist began berating
Speaker 6: me and filming And it's interesting he hadn't put it online.
Speaker 6: I really actually hope he puts it online. But berating me, saying,
Speaker 6: why do you stand for genocide? Why do you stand
Speaker 6: for Israel committing genocide? And I have engaged him, and
Speaker 6: I said, I stand on equivocally with Israel, and understand
Speaker 6: you are on the side of murderers and terrorists and
Speaker 6: who torture and rape little children and who rape women.
Speaker 6: You are standing on the side of evil, and Israel
Speaker 6: is right to utterly defeat Hamas because they are evil,
Speaker 6: and and he just kept going on and on and
Speaker 6: on and about no, no, no, and he said all
Speaker 6: of that has been debunked. This is a guy I
Speaker 6: don't know. He's about twenty five years old. He was
Speaker 6: a young leftist who said it's been debunked. October seventh,
Speaker 6: that that that Hamas committed those murders and raped he
Speaker 6: claimed has been debunked. And I said, you know, I'm
Speaker 6: really sorry that you're a young man who's just been
Speaker 6: lied to and deluded. I said, I've seen the videos,
Speaker 6: I saw what happened that day, But but he happily
Speaker 6: believes it. And I couldn't help. But but turn to
Speaker 6: him and say, you know, I have to I have
Speaker 6: to assume if this were World War II, you'd be
Speaker 6: rooting for the Knaza. And he got offended at that,
Speaker 6: and he said, I'm actually Jewish American. And I just
Speaker 6: shook my head and walked away. But there are people,
Speaker 6: there are young people who've just been lied to. They're ignorant,
Speaker 6: and they have been buffeted with propaganda. Look, it's one
Speaker 6: of the reasons for this podcast is we're trying to
Speaker 6: give people the truth. It is. Yeah, the lines here
Speaker 6: that this is not gray. It is black and white
Speaker 6: between genocidal mass murderers and people defending innocent civilians. You
Speaker 6: shouldn't be on the fence with which one you stand.
Speaker 6: You shouldn't be be seeking some moral relativity of well,
Speaker 6: they're both in the wrong. No, No, there is nothing good.
Speaker 6: There is nothing redeemable about people who murder little children,
Speaker 6: who kidnap little children, who rape women, who do it
Speaker 6: in a degrading, animalistic way. That is who Hamas is
Speaker 6: and Israel has every right to defend itself. And I
Speaker 6: got to say it, really, it worries me. To the
Speaker 6: best of my knowledge, I have not seen a single
Speaker 6: Democrat senator denounced what Chuck Schumer did yesterday. Maybe it's
Speaker 6: happened and I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is not one, not.
Speaker 6: One and so and listen, I know a lot of
Speaker 6: people who are voters that still want to vote Democrat,
Speaker 6: and they have other issues they care about and they
Speaker 6: think of and they try to rationalize. No, it's it's
Speaker 6: just AOC, it's just O mar just the squad. This
Speaker 6: was the Democratic leader in the United States Senate. And
Speaker 6: by the way, it was Joe Biden. So Joe Biden
Speaker 6: who just gave ten billion dollars to I ran now
Speaker 6: after October seven, and I mentioned a minute ago the
Speaker 6: sanctions on Israel. Yesterday, the Biden administration put even more sanctions,
Speaker 6: but they only applied it to Jews. They sanctioned for
Speaker 6: Jews yesterday. And I recently questioned Biden's nominee to be
Speaker 6: sanctions are and he's been in charge of sanctions, and
Speaker 6: there was an executive order that is essentially targeting Jews,
Speaker 6: and he claimed and basically, they want to make it
Speaker 6: illegal to be Jewish and living in Judae and Samara.
Speaker 6: And he said, well, no, no, no, it doesn't target Jews,
Speaker 6: And so I asked him, I said, well, have you
Speaker 6: sanctioned any Palestinians who are supporting terrorism in the West Bank?
Speaker 6: And he said, well, no, they haven't. And then after
Speaker 6: the hearing you walked out and they sanctioned even more Jews.
Speaker 6: This is prevalent throughout the administration and it is becoming
Speaker 6: the position of Congressional Democrats.
Speaker 2: As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Center
Speaker 2: Teed Ben Ferguson with you don't forget to deal with
Speaker 2: my podcast and you can listen to my podcasts every
Speaker 2: other day you're not listening to Verdict or each day
Speaker 2: when you listen to Verdict. Afterwards, I'd love to have
Speaker 2: you as a listener to again the Ben Ferguson podcasts
Speaker 2: and we will see you back here on Monday morning.