1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:01,840 Speaker 1: Welcome. 2 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Ted Cruz and the Weekend Review 3 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:08,159 Speaker 2: Ben Ferguson with you, and these are the stories that 4 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 2: you may have missed that we talked about earlier this week. 5 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 2: Let's start off with what's happening in Michigan. In a 6 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 2: shocking move, Democrats are looking to buy votes by giving 7 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:24,120 Speaker 2: home owners cash thousands and thousands of dollars a year 8 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 2: if they will house illegal immigrants. 9 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: How is this legal? We're gonna break that down for you. 10 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 2: Plus, Mexico's president decides to come out and do a 11 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 2: sit down interview with sixty minutes. 12 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 1: What he said was pretty clear. You gotta well bribe 13 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 1: him and then he. 14 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 2: Might help you stop the flow of illegal drugs and 15 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 2: illegal immigrants coming across the border. But if you don't 16 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 2: give him billions of dollars every single year, he says, 17 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 2: the problem is gonna continue and Americans will die. And finally, 18 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 2: you may have seen the world get rocked when a 19 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 2: Democratic mayor it's the Republican party in a major city 20 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 2: in America, So why did he do it? We're going 21 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 2: to have the story of Eric Johnson, the mayor of Dallas. 22 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 2: It is Verdict. We can review and it starts right now. 23 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 2: There's new poll numbers out over the weekend that show 24 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 2: that Donald Trump, who lost Michigan to Joe Biden the 25 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 2: last election he won it in sixteen, Trump now tops 26 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 2: Biden by eight points in a Michigan poll. 27 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:26,760 Speaker 1: That is significant. 28 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 2: The President's approval rating in Michigan is at thirty five percent. 29 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 2: So what has Michigan been doing? I guess it's time 30 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:39,040 Speaker 2: to buy votes. They're now offering homeowners a five hundred 31 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:43,040 Speaker 2: dollars a month stipend if they'll welcome what they describe 32 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 2: as newcomers. What that is is an illegal immigrant into 33 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 2: their home, and the state of Michigan will subsidize you 34 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 2: five hundred dollars a sayzen a month up to a year. 35 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 2: So basically six grand is what they're willing to give 36 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 2: you to house someone. 37 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 3: Now, well, that's right. The program that Michigan is rolled out, 38 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 3: it's called the Newcomer Rental Subsidy and it's designed to 39 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 3: provide shelter outside of state shelters for so called refugees, 40 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 3: and refugees is simply the term they use for illegal aliens. 41 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,359 Speaker 3: It lasts for up to a year, and according to Michigan, 42 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 3: those eligible include refugees, assylees, special immigration visa holders, victims 43 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:29,920 Speaker 3: of human trafficking, Cuban entrance, Haitian entrance, Afghan nationals, and 44 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:35,519 Speaker 3: Ukrainian humanitarian paroleese. So get this, the state of Michigan 45 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:43,360 Speaker 3: is quite literally paying individuals, paying homeowners to house illegal 46 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 3: immigrants in their house. And by the way, it's not 47 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:49,119 Speaker 3: just them. Others who qualify include individuals who arrived under 48 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 3: the family Reunification parole process for El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, 49 00:02:55,320 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 3: and Columbia who in Michigan. Michigan taxpayer says, you know 50 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 3: what I really want. I want my taxes going to 51 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 3: paying my neighbor to put an illegal immigrant that Joe 52 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:13,519 Speaker 3: Biden led into this country into his house and we'll 53 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 3: send them five hundred bucks a month to keep the 54 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 3: illegal immigrant there. That is how nutty today's Democrat party 55 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:21,679 Speaker 3: is on this issue. 56 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:23,640 Speaker 2: Well, and my question is that I'm not joking when 57 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 2: I say this. Is this not a form of just 58 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 2: buying votes? If you're talking, each person is now worth 59 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 2: six thousand dollars to a Michigan a homeowner to house them. 60 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 2: And I don't know if there's a you know, a 61 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 2: cap that you can only have one or maybe you 62 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 2: have two. What if it's a family. I'm assuming we're 63 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 2: not going to break up the family. So is if 64 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 2: you have a family of four and you house them 65 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 2: or are we now talking that there were twenty four 66 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 2: thousand dollars to your bottom line? How is that not 67 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 2: the Democratic Party basically buying vote, saying, hey, you better 68 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 2: keep us in office, you better vote for us, because 69 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 2: we're we're twenty four ran a year to you right now. 70 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 3: Well, and look, I'll read you a quote from Amy Hovey, 71 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 3: who is the executive director of the Michigan State Housing 72 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 3: Development Authority, who said the program would help migrants quote 73 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 3: build a new life here and she said, quote this 74 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 3: program is truly a win win as it addresses the 75 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 3: most pressing barrier to refugee resettlement by meeting housing needs 76 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 3: while setting up families for success with increased employment and opportunities. 77 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 3: That's the position of the Democrat Party. You too, can 78 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:32,559 Speaker 3: have an illegal alien in your house. 79 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 2: Do they care about the cost of housing going up? 80 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:39,039 Speaker 2: I mean, is that a conversation you guys have in DC? 81 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 2: Is that a question that anyone asked of the Democrats 82 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:47,039 Speaker 2: when you have this many illegal immigrants coming into America. 83 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:48,479 Speaker 2: And I'll go back to what you were talking about 84 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:52,039 Speaker 2: the very beginning and these votes. It's not just the 85 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 2: three hundred and twenty thousand legal immigrants that we have 86 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 2: flown into this country at the taxpayer's dours paying for 87 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 2: these charter flights. But if you look at how many 88 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 2: illegal immigrants have come across the southern border since Joe 89 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 2: Biden was torn in, it's at least at minimum seven 90 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 2: point two million illegal immigrants have entered the US under 91 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:15,040 Speaker 2: the Biden administration, which is greater than the population of 92 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 2: thirty six individual states in America. And now we see 93 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 2: housing cost issues, rent cost issues, and we see inflationary issues, 94 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 2: and we see that we're seeing wages that are being 95 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 2: undermined by illegal immigrants. If Michigan does this and other 96 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:36,360 Speaker 2: states go along with it, which other states are as well, 97 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,160 Speaker 2: they're saying the same thing, housing illegal immigrant will give 98 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:43,799 Speaker 2: you cash. Is that not the definition of undermining hard 99 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 2: working American families who are just struggling to survive. 100 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 3: Well, look, you got to understand the modern democrat view. 101 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 3: As they can spend in unlimited money, trillions of dollars, 102 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 3: they can print unlimited money, and. 103 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:56,720 Speaker 4: If they want more, they'll just tax the hell out 104 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:56,919 Speaker 4: of you. 105 00:05:57,120 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 3: And it's a giant Ponzi scheme where they print money, 106 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 3: they raise taxes, they spend more money, Inflation goes up, 107 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 3: so they print more money. And when it comes to 108 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 3: if the voters don't like it, don't worry. They'll change 109 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 3: the composition of the voters. They'll let ten point four 110 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,919 Speaker 3: million people into this country illegally. Those guys the Democrats 111 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 3: are confident will vote Democrat, and so they stay in power. 112 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 3: That is, you know, there used to be a time 113 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 3: when you could have a common sense discussion. There are 114 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 3: no longer any Democrats in Washington and Congress who engage 115 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 3: in common sense. I mean, look, we saw these votes, 116 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:35,920 Speaker 3: every single one of them lined up over and over 117 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,679 Speaker 3: and over again. Illegal immigrant who beat up a cop, Nope, 118 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 3: don't deport him, like fuck, tell me what world does 119 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,159 Speaker 3: a sane or rational person believe that? 120 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 4: And yet every Senate Democrat that's their view. 121 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 2: Last question on this when they vote lockstep like that, 122 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:56,839 Speaker 2: is that pre planned with a conversation they have behind 123 00:06:56,880 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 2: closed doors and they say, hey, no matter what they 124 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:01,160 Speaker 2: throw out, you know, no matter how sane it is. 125 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 2: You do not agree with the Republicans on anything, full stop. 126 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:08,160 Speaker 3: It's why it took all night. They knew what we 127 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 3: were gonna have votes on. We had put forward these 128 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 3: early mements we want votes on, and we spent the 129 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 3: entire day Friday just doing nothing because Schumer was talking 130 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 3: to his Democrats saying, okay, here are the votes. We 131 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 3: need every Democrat to stand lock arms and just vote 132 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 3: against all of them. 133 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:25,679 Speaker 4: And he had John. 134 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 2: Walk me through Friday that day because people don't understand. 135 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 2: I think how dysfunctional Schumer can make things when they're 136 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 2: trying to get things done like this. So you guys 137 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 2: wake up Friday. You know you had to stay over 138 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 2: another day. 139 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 4: But we didn't. 140 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 3: We actually thought we would be done Friday afternoon. In 141 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 3: a normal world we would have been. We stayed there 142 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 3: the whole night. 143 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 2: So tell me, like, you guys, wake up Friday morning, 144 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 2: do you have a vote schedule yet? 145 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 1: And then he changed ours. 146 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 2: He just say, hey, wake up and stand by until 147 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 2: I tell you when you get to vote. 148 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's much more of the latter, and the way 149 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 3: the Senate works worked. It's a strange place. So the 150 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 3: majority leader only has one real power under the rules, 151 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 3: and it's what's called priority of recognition, which means he 152 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 3: is recognized first if he's on the floor, and he 153 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 3: uses that to control the Senate calendar, to fill the 154 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 3: pending business with whatever he wants so that no one 155 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 3: else can can put anything else on the Senate calendar. 156 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 3: So you spend a lot of time just sitting around waiting. 157 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 3: It's a very weird thing. I'll tell you When I 158 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 3: was new in the Senate, and I'd be a typical 159 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 3: Senate week. You will fly to DC Monday mornings, and 160 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,199 Speaker 3: you'll fly home Thursday nights, and then typically I'm home 161 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 3: in Houston Thursday nights. Friday, I travel somewhere around Texas. 162 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 3: Sometimes Saturday I travel around Texas. I try to spend 163 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 3: Sunday's home with a family, and then Monday morning I 164 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:52,200 Speaker 3: fly back to DC. That's the usual rhythm of things. 165 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:56,239 Speaker 3: But on Thursdays I would call home. Back when Republicans 166 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 3: had the majority, I would call home and my daughters 167 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 3: would ask, well, are you coming home tonight, And I'd say, 168 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 3: I don't know. It depends what Mitch schedules. When he 169 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:09,439 Speaker 3: schedules votes, and we have no idea. My daughters used 170 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 3: to say, is that mean man going to let you 171 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 3: come home? And by that mean man, they meant Mitch McConnell. 172 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 3: Because you literally have no control over your schedule. It 173 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:26,320 Speaker 3: is it is utterly incoherent. So Friday we spent all 174 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 3: day we were waiting to see if a deal would 175 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:29,679 Speaker 3: be reached. We were waiting to see if a deal 176 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 3: would be reached, and throughout the afternoon and evening it 177 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:35,439 Speaker 3: looked like there was going to be no deal. At 178 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 3: midnight Friday night, funding for the federal government was set 179 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 3: to expire and we were going to have a shutdown. 180 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 3: So as the evening went on, I was on the 181 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 3: Senate floor for a while it looked like there was 182 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 3: no deal. I went with some senators, grab some food, 183 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 3: watch some basketball. 184 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:52,199 Speaker 4: And actually I had gone home. 185 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 3: I changed, changed out of my suit, was getting ready 186 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 3: to go to bed, and then after eleven PM I 187 00:09:57,520 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 3: got the note, note we're getting ready to vote, and 188 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 3: we he began voting at eleven fifty six pm, so 189 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 3: I had to get dressed again head back to the capital. 190 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 3: Everyone did, and we voted from eleven fifty six pm 191 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,200 Speaker 3: until two oh three am is when it was over. 192 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 3: But that's just kind of how hectic things are center. 193 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:18,200 Speaker 1: Lastly, this story broke. 194 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 2: It's not being covered, of course by the media, because 195 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 2: why would they want to tell you about this. But 196 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:29,959 Speaker 2: apparently now the Biden administration has decided we don't want 197 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 2: to offend extremists jeehatis extremists, and they want to change 198 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 2: the way you talk about actual terrorists. 199 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:39,320 Speaker 4: Well, that's exactly right. 200 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 3: This is a story that The Daily Wire broke, and 201 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 3: it's a memo that was sent by the diversity, equity 202 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 3: and inclusion officials at the Biden administration's top intelligence agency, 203 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 3: and it warns personnel not to use quote problematic phrases 204 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 3: when discussing Islamic terrorism and foreign adversary such as China. 205 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 3: The unclassified newsletter, and it's from the Office of the 206 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:06,679 Speaker 3: Director of National Intelligence, is called Quote the Dive, and 207 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 3: it was obtained through Freedom Information Act requests by The 208 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 3: Daily Wire. It argues in its cover story that the 209 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 3: intelligence community needs to focus on quote changing terminology related 210 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 3: to counter terrorism because quote words matter. Here's more quote. 211 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:31,720 Speaker 3: The article is about one of our goals disentangling Islam 212 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:36,960 Speaker 3: from words and phrases used to discuss terrorism and extreme violence. 213 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 3: It goes on to declare that trying to remove quote 214 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 3: certain phrases to identify international terrorism threats that are hurtful 215 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:53,960 Speaker 3: to Muslim Americans. Some of the problematic phrases include, but 216 00:11:54,000 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 3: are not limited to, Salafi Jihadist, Jahadist, Islamic extremists, Suni 217 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 3: Shia extremism, and radical Islamist. 218 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: Only in America. 219 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 2: Could you have a memo that someone took this much 220 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 2: time and waste his time under the Biden administration to 221 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 2: make people that are directly associated with terrorism feel better 222 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:18,840 Speaker 2: about I guess what not being a terrorist. 223 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 3: Well, and sadly, this is continuing the path of putting 224 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 3: politics above national security that we saw when Barack Obama 225 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 3: was president. When Barack Obama was president, I actually chaired 226 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 3: a hearing that examined the purge that the Obama White 227 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:41,920 Speaker 3: House insisted DHS do to remove from their records any 228 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:46,320 Speaker 3: reference to radical Islamic terrorism or Islam or Muslis or 229 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 3: Muslim or Jahadist. And they erased over eight hundred times. 230 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 3: They erased those words from their records. And by the way, 231 00:12:55,360 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 3: the word purge, that's not me adding that word to it. 232 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 3: That was the word that was used by the political 233 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 3: official in the Obama White House in the instructions to 234 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:13,200 Speaker 3: DHS purge your files. Well, these same radicals are now 235 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:18,200 Speaker 3: running Biden's intelligence agencies. And this article is part of 236 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 3: a newsletter that is created by ODNI that the Office 237 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 3: of the Director of National Intelligence, Intelligence Community Diversity, Equity 238 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 3: and Inclusion and Accessibility Office, and it was sent to 239 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 3: personnel throughout the intelligence community, which includes the CIA, the NSSA, 240 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 3: the FBI, the DHS, and the Department of Justice. All 241 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 3: of them are being told the fact that Palestinian Islamic 242 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:48,760 Speaker 3: Jihad was one of the two terrorist groups that carried 243 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 3: out October seventh. October seventh was carried out by Hamas 244 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:57,840 Speaker 3: and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Apparently that is an inconvenient fact 245 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:04,560 Speaker 3: to the Language commissars, who I presume want to edit 246 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 3: out the word Islamic from the name of the terrorist group, 247 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 3: Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Look, they're not murdering Jews because they 248 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:17,200 Speaker 3: dislike their hairstyle. They are murdering Jews because they have 249 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 3: a perverted view of radical Islam that mandates Jahad and 250 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:28,920 Speaker 3: countering Jahadism, countering the radical religious extremism behind it. It 251 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 3: is only possible if you acknowledge it exists, and so 252 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 3: on one level you say, Okay, this sort of language 253 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 3: political correctness stuff, it's silly, But in this instance it's 254 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 3: much worse than silly. It is dangerous because if the 255 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 3: intelligence community has no idea, refuses to acknowledge what is 256 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 3: actually happening, it means they will be utterly ineffective in 257 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 3: fighting against it and keeping Americans in our allies safe. 258 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is one of those moments when you say, 259 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 2: what are they focusing their time on right now? Is 260 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 2: it political correctness or is it actually keeping us safe 261 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 2: from actual jihadis teraris that they're afraid of offending by 262 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 2: using the name. It reminds me a lot of the 263 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 2: President saying that the a individual that killed an innocent 264 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 2: young girl in Georgia was an illegal immigrant and then 265 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 2: apologized to the illegal immigrants for calling that individual who 266 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 2: is the alleged murderer an illegal immigrant. 267 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 1: It's like, what are you focusing on? What is important 268 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 1: to you? 269 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 2: Protecting innocent people, protecting people from terrors tax or is 270 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 2: it this pr PC wokeness? Is that matter more than 271 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:45,440 Speaker 2: actually fighting the bad guys? 272 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 3: Well, unfortunately, based on things like their late night votes, 273 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 3: where every Democrat voted against the American citizens voted in 274 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 3: favor of Illy Laliens voted in favor of sending billions 275 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 3: of dollars to Iran. It's not difficult to figure out 276 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 3: where their priorities lie right now. 277 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 2: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, 278 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 2: you can go back and listen to the full podcast 279 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 2: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two, Senata, 280 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 2: I want to move to another issue. There was an 281 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 2: issue a interview, I should say that happened on Sunday. 282 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 2: A lot of people don't watch sixty minutes anymore, but 283 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 2: the Mexican president did do a sit down interview, and 284 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 2: it actually took a couple days until anyone noticed it, 285 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,000 Speaker 2: which was I think the most unique part of this. 286 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 2: First off, and then what he said it was diplomatic blackmail, 287 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:38,800 Speaker 2: as it's been described by many as the Mexican president 288 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 2: said that the flow of illegal immigrants will continue unless 289 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 2: the US meets some of his new demands. 290 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 1: In an interview, he was. 291 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 2: Asked about the flow of not just illegals, but also 292 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:54,120 Speaker 2: drugs coming across the southern border. And here's what the 293 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 2: President of Mexico said about America. 294 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 5: He thinks you have the power in this moment to 295 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 5: slow down migration. 296 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 6: Do you plan to I'll just say we do and 297 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 6: want to continue doing it, but we do want for 298 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:11,399 Speaker 6: the root causes to be attended to, for them to 299 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:12,639 Speaker 6: be seriously looked at. 300 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:17,440 Speaker 5: With the ear of the White House, President Lopez Obrador 301 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:21,560 Speaker 5: proposed his fix that the United States commit twenty billion 302 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 5: dollars a year to poor countries in Latin America and 303 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:28,960 Speaker 5: the Caribbean, lift sanctions on Venezuela and the Cuban embargo, 304 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 5: and legalize millions of law abiding Mexicans living in the US. 305 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 5: If they don't do the things that you've said need 306 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 5: to be done, then what. 307 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:41,000 Speaker 7: Bomb the flow of migrants? 308 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 5: And if you will continue your critics have said what 309 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 5: you're doing or what you're asking for to help secure 310 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:51,200 Speaker 5: the borders, diplomatic blackmail? 311 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 1: What do you say? 312 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:53,680 Speaker 8: I'm speaking frankly. 313 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 7: We have to say things as they are. 314 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:01,600 Speaker 2: Senator, There's like five different things I want to discuss 315 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:04,199 Speaker 2: with you. Let's just start with number one. This is 316 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:08,120 Speaker 2: diplomatic blackmail. Twenty billion a year. And if you give 317 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:11,879 Speaker 2: me twenty billion a year and then you allow all 318 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 2: the illegal emergateants to become citizens in your country they 319 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:18,400 Speaker 2: are there. Then you give what we want with Cuba 320 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:22,120 Speaker 2: in Venezuela, and then if you keep giving us twenty 321 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:24,199 Speaker 2: billion a year, we might stop the flow of fedneal 322 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 2: coming across. 323 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:25,639 Speaker 1: The southern border. 324 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:28,400 Speaker 2: This is extortion on a level that I can't even 325 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 2: get my head around. 326 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:33,199 Speaker 3: From Mexico, well, look, of course it is. And the 327 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 3: Mexican president everyone calls him Amlo. Amlo is short for 328 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:41,199 Speaker 3: his full name, which is Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. He 329 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 3: is a thug. He is a hard leftist. He's been 330 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:50,480 Speaker 3: a hard leftist his entire life. He has been vocally 331 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 3: and visually viciously anti American his entire life. That has 332 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:59,119 Speaker 3: been That's how he got elected. That was his campaign 333 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:02,880 Speaker 3: standing up against the Yankee imperialists to the north. That's 334 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:05,200 Speaker 3: who he is. And by the way, notice his demands. 335 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:09,600 Speaker 3: His demands are in the embargo against Cuba and in 336 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:14,679 Speaker 3: the sanctions against Venezuela. He's standing with communist dictators in 337 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 3: Cuba and Venezuela. That's who he aligns himself with is 338 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:24,959 Speaker 3: the hard left anti American communist axis through Latin America. 339 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 3: That's who Amlo is, so it's not surprising. That's who 340 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:35,160 Speaker 3: he's always been. Now that being said, is he trying 341 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 3: to extort America? 342 00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:38,199 Speaker 4: Of course he is. 343 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:40,840 Speaker 3: The threat that the flow of migrants will continue unless 344 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 3: you pay us off twenty billion a year to Latin 345 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 3: American countries. It's kind of like, you know, a mob enforcer. 346 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:51,359 Speaker 3: Nice little bar you got here, shame if something happened 347 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,480 Speaker 3: to it, boy, a fire would do real damage. He's saying, well, 348 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 3: we'll keep these migrants coming unless you pay us off. 349 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:01,120 Speaker 3: Just you know, a bag of cash each week would 350 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 3: be good. I'll send my guys to pick it up. Yes, 351 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 3: that's exactly what he's trying to do. 352 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 2: But it's almost like, is there a difference between the 353 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:12,439 Speaker 2: President of Mexico and the cartels of Mexico because the 354 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 2: way he was talking seems like the same type of 355 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:16,200 Speaker 2: conversation you'd have with the narcos. 356 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 3: Well, and by the way, Amlo, one of the problems 357 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:21,480 Speaker 3: is his government has very much been in bed with 358 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 3: the narcos and it is devastating the nation of Mexico. 359 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 3: The people of Mexico are facing murders, they're facing kidnapping, 360 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 3: They're that they're they're facing enormous violence from these multi 361 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,919 Speaker 3: billion dollar global criminal cartels that that Amlo has facilitated. 362 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 3: But I'm gonna say something that's gonna surprise you. I'm 363 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 3: actually not terribly upset that AMLO's doing that. 364 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:48,400 Speaker 4: That's who he is. That's you know, it's it's like. 365 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 2: Brand is what you're saying. It's not like he's betraying us. 366 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:52,040 Speaker 2: This is who he is. 367 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:56,399 Speaker 3: He is an anti American leftist who is gonna behave 368 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:59,879 Speaker 3: like a thug. He is just like Nicholas Maduro. He 369 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:03,720 Speaker 3: is just like the Chavista's in Venezuela. He's just like 370 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:07,879 Speaker 3: the Gasadistas, uh, Fidel Castro at all of their prodigy 371 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:09,240 Speaker 3: in Cuba. 372 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:11,159 Speaker 4: And and that's who he is. 373 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:13,639 Speaker 3: But but you know why I'm actually not all that 374 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:16,679 Speaker 3: worked up about what he said. Why is that because 375 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 3: Joe Biden wants him to say this. Understand, this crisis 376 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 3: at our southern border is not because Amlo, like his comment, 377 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 3: you could stop it, couldn't you, And and well, yes, 378 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:31,480 Speaker 3: but pass money for us to stop it. Understand, Joe 379 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:35,120 Speaker 3: Biden doesn't want it to stop. Chuck Schumer doesn't want 380 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 3: it to stop. The Democrats, don't want it to stop. 381 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:41,040 Speaker 3: The ten point four million illegal immigrants. They're glad of them. 382 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:44,359 Speaker 3: They want more. They want ten million to become twenty million, 383 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:48,400 Speaker 3: to become thirty million. Those they view as future Democrat voters. 384 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:53,440 Speaker 3: And so Amlow listen, you know, do you get mad 385 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 3: when when when a little like yapping dog comes and 386 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 3: yaps at the door. No, AMLO's gonna scream. So what 387 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:03,680 Speaker 3: if we had a president? I'll tell you, when Donald 388 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:08,200 Speaker 3: Trump was president, Amlo was terrified of him, utterly and 389 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:11,199 Speaker 3: completely terrified him. By the way, Amlo actually did a 390 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,199 Speaker 3: pretty good job when Trump was president because he was 391 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:20,679 Speaker 3: so afraid. Let's pause and ask how did we secure 392 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:21,679 Speaker 3: the border under Trump? 393 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 4: What happened? 394 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what happened. Trump threatened Amlo, and 395 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 3: what he said is you either help us secure the 396 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 3: border or I'm going to oppose I Donald J. Trump, 397 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 3: I am going to impose a twenty five percent tariff 398 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:44,919 Speaker 3: on everything coming out of Mexico. And Amlow ran screaming. 399 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:47,080 Speaker 3: It terrified him because he believed Trump would do it. 400 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:50,280 Speaker 3: It wasn't an empty threat, and he was terrified. And 401 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:54,600 Speaker 3: what happened. Number one, Amlo put six thousand troops on 402 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:57,920 Speaker 3: Mexico's southern border. You know, remember the shape of Mexico. 403 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:00,159 Speaker 3: Mexico is much more narrow at the south than it 404 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 3: is at the north. At the north, Mexico has a 405 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 3: two thousand mile border with the United States. At the south, 406 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:09,240 Speaker 3: their border is much much smaller. Amlo put six thousand 407 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:13,719 Speaker 3: soldiers on their southern border to stop the flow, and critically, 408 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 3: because of Trump's threat, Amlo agreed to the Remain in 409 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 3: Mexico Agreement. What was remained in Mexico. It said, anyone 410 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 3: that crossed illegally into Mexico, and most of the people 411 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 3: coming at that time and now were not Mexicans. They 412 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:30,680 Speaker 3: were from elsewhere. At the time they were mostly from 413 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:34,359 Speaker 3: Central and South America, remain in Mexico. Said they would 414 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:38,119 Speaker 3: stay in Mexico. These illegal immigrants would remain in Mexico 415 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 3: while their US asylum case was proceeding. In what happened 416 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:45,640 Speaker 3: when suddenly people paid cartels thousands of dollars, traveled all 417 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 3: the way north and discovered, Holy Cow, I don't get 418 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 3: to come into America. I'm stuck in Mexico. I can't 419 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:56,720 Speaker 3: cross over. The numbers plummeted to the lowest rate in 420 00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 3: forty five years. So when Amlo says this, by the way, 421 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 3: the incidant Joe Biden became president of the number of skyrocketed 422 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,959 Speaker 3: because Biden is weak, Amlo isn't afraid of him. Amelou 423 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 3: isn't scared at all. And actually everything Amlo is threatening 424 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:15,680 Speaker 3: Joe Biden and every other Democrat in Congress wants him 425 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:16,119 Speaker 3: to do that. 426 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 2: It's almost like he's empowered to say this because he's 427 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 2: actually backed up by the American policy. 428 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 1: That's what you're telling us, that that is. 429 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 3: Exactly right, that he's doing what what they know he'll do. 430 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,400 Speaker 3: He's look, look, Marxist, gonna Marxist, that's who they are. 431 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:37,879 Speaker 3: He is going to engage in anti American rhetoric. The 432 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 3: only thing he responds to his strength. This Biden White 433 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 3: House is not capable of strength against leftist, against enemies 434 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 3: of America. They're only capable of strength against our friends. 435 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,879 Speaker 3: They're only capable of undermining allies of America. But because 436 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 3: Amlo is a leftist, just like in Cuba, they're communists, 437 00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:00,840 Speaker 3: just like in Venezuela their communists, just like like Lula 438 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,679 Speaker 3: in Brazil is an anti American leftist, just like Petro 439 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 3: in Colombia is an anti American leftist. Every anti American leftist. 440 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:11,040 Speaker 3: This administration gives everything they want and usually they want 441 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,720 Speaker 3: to give them money. So when actually AMLO's saying lift 442 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,640 Speaker 3: the Cuban embargo, you know what Biden White House wants 443 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:18,840 Speaker 3: to lift the Cuban in bargo. When AMLO says in 444 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:22,119 Speaker 3: the sanctions against Venezuela, you know what Biden wants to 445 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:26,639 Speaker 3: end the sanctions against Venezuela. This is they are to 446 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:30,119 Speaker 3: use the old communist phrase, they are fellow travelers. 447 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:33,920 Speaker 2: You mentioned the drug aspect of this, and I want 448 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 2: you to hear what he had to say, and everybody listening, 449 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:40,160 Speaker 2: because there's zero compassion. The number one killer forty nine 450 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:43,640 Speaker 2: under this country's fetanol in this nation more than anything else, 451 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,200 Speaker 2: that's what's killing us. And he was asked about the 452 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:51,119 Speaker 2: drugs and he kind of mocked America and laughed at 453 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:55,720 Speaker 2: America's demise when it comes to drugs and the deaths 454 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:56,440 Speaker 2: that are happening. 455 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:57,159 Speaker 1: Take a listen. 456 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,640 Speaker 5: The head of the DEA says cartels are US producing 457 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 5: fentanyl and the US State Department has said that most 458 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:06,160 Speaker 5: of it is coming out of Mexico. 459 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 8: Are they wrong, see yes, no, or rather they don't 460 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:16,199 Speaker 8: have all the information. Because fentanyls is also produced in 461 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:17,680 Speaker 8: the United States, the. 462 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 5: State Department says most of it's coming from Mexico. 463 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,760 Speaker 7: Fentanyl is produced in the United States, in Canada and 464 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 7: in Mexico, and the chemical precursors come from Asia. Do 465 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 7: you know why we don't have the drug consumption that 466 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 7: you have in the United States Because we have customs, traditions, 467 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,440 Speaker 7: and we don't have the problem of the disintegration of 468 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 7: the family. 469 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 6: But there is drug consumption in Mexico, but. 470 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 8: We put very little. 471 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:47,480 Speaker 5: So why the violence then in Mexico? 472 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:53,440 Speaker 8: Borke, because drug trafficking exists, but not the consumption. 473 00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:56,360 Speaker 2: I mean, he's laughing when he gives the last answer there, 474 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 2: like he's smiling and smirking when he's like, Aha, this 475 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:01,640 Speaker 2: is Hilaire, Like I can't believe you guys are even 476 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:02,880 Speaker 2: asking me these questions. 477 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,440 Speaker 3: Well, look, that's exactly right, and he's lying when he's 478 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:11,199 Speaker 3: suggesting that fentanyl is manufactured in large quantities in the 479 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:15,120 Speaker 3: United States. The vast majority of what is killing Americans 480 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 3: is being manufactured in Mexico. Now he's right that the 481 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:22,040 Speaker 3: precursors are coming from China. It's the Chinese communists who 482 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,639 Speaker 3: are sending it to Mexico. It's the Mexican drug cartels 483 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,359 Speaker 3: who are manufacturing it, and they're smuggling it over the border. 484 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 3: There's some fentanyl production in the United States, but it 485 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 3: is very minor compared to the volume coming from Mexico. 486 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:35,400 Speaker 4: He knows that. 487 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:39,600 Speaker 3: But this is and by the way, understand the total 488 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 3: volume last year, over one hundred thousand Americans died of 489 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:51,199 Speaker 3: drug overdoses. Seventy percent of that, over seventy thousand, was 490 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:55,960 Speaker 3: from fentanyl, and the vast majority of that was Chinese 491 00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:00,720 Speaker 3: fentanyl manufactured in Mexico by the Mexican drug cartel. And 492 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 3: Amloe is saying, sadly, with Biden's blessing in the Democrats blessing, 493 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,720 Speaker 3: we're going to keep it flowing as before. 494 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:09,760 Speaker 2: If you want to hear the rest of this conversation 495 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,399 Speaker 2: on this topic, you can go back and dow the 496 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,120 Speaker 2: podcast from earlier this week to hear the entire thing. 497 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 2: I want to get back to the big story number 498 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:19,360 Speaker 2: three of the week. 499 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:20,159 Speaker 1: You may have missed. 500 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 2: You were up for reelection right now, running as a 501 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 2: Republican for mayor. 502 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,880 Speaker 9: Yes, your policies haven't changed. 503 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:29,679 Speaker 1: The only thing it's changed is they d went to 504 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:30,119 Speaker 1: an R. 505 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,600 Speaker 9: Correct could you win, I'd win overwhelmingly. I don't have 506 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,440 Speaker 9: any doubt about it, no doubt about it. I'll tell 507 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,760 Speaker 9: you why I believe that. I'll tell you why. I'm 508 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 9: glad someone finally asked me that on the record, because 509 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,680 Speaker 9: that's sort of the chatter as well. That's why I asked. 510 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 2: And the other going to say, oh, well, this guy 511 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 2: could never win, that's why he waited till the end 512 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:50,760 Speaker 2: of his served and then switch parties. 513 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,560 Speaker 9: So here's the reality that people have to ignore to 514 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:56,800 Speaker 9: even make that argument. But I understand why people need 515 00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 9: to make it. I mean I told someone, I said, 516 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,200 Speaker 9: you know, you don't switch parties in a two parties 517 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:02,480 Speaker 9: one to the other and think the other part is 518 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 9: going to say, well, you know, we wish him the best. 519 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,200 Speaker 4: He was great, and it's our loss. 520 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 9: You know, they got to come up with something, and 521 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:10,920 Speaker 9: that's kind of These are the kinds of argument they've 522 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 9: come up with. But here's the reality I won my 523 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:19,000 Speaker 9: last election with. It wasn't ninety three percent. Dallas City, 524 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 9: you know, has ordinances about how right in candidates get 525 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 9: on the ballot, and if you write in a name 526 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,800 Speaker 9: other than the actual right in candidate's name, that's there. 527 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 9: You just essentially didn't vote. You threw your vote, your 528 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,120 Speaker 9: your bollot, and the trash of the cast votes, which 529 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,920 Speaker 9: were canvassed by the city and are the official records 530 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 9: of the city. Ninety eight point seven percent of the vote. 531 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 9: That's Democrats and Republicans in that group. That's a that's 532 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:47,600 Speaker 9: a pretty hearty endorsement of the incumbent mayor. And I 533 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:49,920 Speaker 9: didn't run with a D or an R behind my name. 534 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,280 Speaker 9: I ran just with you, know, as Eric Johnson. Because 535 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,560 Speaker 9: you don't run in Texas, in any city with a 536 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:56,800 Speaker 9: D or for folks wh aren't from Texas. We don't 537 00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:00,280 Speaker 9: actually have partisan elections in Texas for mayor. You just run, 538 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:05,080 Speaker 9: and you don't run with a party support. Now, what 539 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 9: do I think would have actually happened if I had 540 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,640 Speaker 9: just come out and said six months before the election, 541 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 9: I'm actually a Republican. Here's what would have happened. Some 542 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,560 Speaker 9: Democrats would have gotten together and said, well, this is 543 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:20,120 Speaker 9: an opportunity for us to run an ostensibly just overtly 544 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 9: partisan candidate. We're going to do something that's never been 545 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,480 Speaker 9: done in now before, which is to just make it partisan, 546 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,800 Speaker 9: like to say, Okay, we got an R running and 547 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:31,280 Speaker 9: now we're gonna run a D against him. The problem 548 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:33,760 Speaker 9: is that the R you're talking about for four years 549 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 9: well enough to clear the field and went with ninety 550 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:37,720 Speaker 9: eight or seven percent of the vote. But that didn't 551 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:41,400 Speaker 9: happen yet. So let's just go back and say a 552 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,520 Speaker 9: Republican has been that effective who happens to also be 553 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:49,200 Speaker 9: African American and supported by the African American community. We 554 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 9: think that that person would lose simply by saying I've 555 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,960 Speaker 9: become a Republican. I think what happens is is I 556 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:59,760 Speaker 9: won the first race in a contested nine person field, 557 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:01,880 Speaker 9: that it went to a runoff with twelve percent of 558 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,800 Speaker 9: the vote. I want, you know, fifty six forty four. 559 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,200 Speaker 9: I think that goes down to the normal, you know, 560 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:13,040 Speaker 9: pretty solid win of a you know, fifty four fifty 561 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 9: three percent win. But I still win. There's still question 562 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 9: I still win that race because I'm the incumbent at 563 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,960 Speaker 9: that point. No incumbent mayor, if we've had Republican and 564 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,520 Speaker 9: Democrat mayors before, by the way, no incumbent mayor seeking 565 00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:27,880 Speaker 9: re election Dallas has ever lost ever. 566 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,200 Speaker 3: All Right, so let me let me ask a final question, 567 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 3: which is you have started now a national organization, yes, 568 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:38,760 Speaker 3: a Republican Mayor's Association, and you have been out articulating 569 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:42,200 Speaker 3: that Republicans need to have an agenda for the cities, 570 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:45,320 Speaker 3: that we can't just write off big cities where an 571 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:46,600 Speaker 3: awful lot of Americans live. 572 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,480 Speaker 4: And I think that's a very important message. 573 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 3: It's something and I want to ask you what's your 574 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,920 Speaker 3: vision for the message Republicans should have in the cities 575 00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:01,840 Speaker 3: and how do we end up with a lot more 576 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,240 Speaker 3: Republican mayors to big cities. What's the path forward there? 577 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:06,880 Speaker 9: I said this in the Wall Street Journale, and I 578 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:12,960 Speaker 9: meant it. It's a two way benefit for America and 579 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:17,840 Speaker 9: for our party. America needs the leadership that Republicans provide 580 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,040 Speaker 9: at the local level because of the things we talked 581 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:23,520 Speaker 9: about just a few minutes ago. A Republican mayor is 582 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,240 Speaker 9: going to is going to because it's part of the 583 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:28,600 Speaker 9: DNA of the party, is going to be right on 584 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,680 Speaker 9: law and order issues, going to be right on public safety. 585 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:34,960 Speaker 9: People who asked me about that, I've said, let me 586 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,479 Speaker 9: just quiz you very quickly. Every bad idea you can 587 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,320 Speaker 9: think of about public safety came from one side of 588 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:44,040 Speaker 9: the aisle. There's not even a mixed bag on this issue. 589 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 9: If it's a bad idea when it comes to public safety, 590 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,760 Speaker 9: you know, defund the police, don't prosecute shopping whatever. Republicans 591 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:53,480 Speaker 9: don't propose ideas that undermine law and order. They not 592 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:57,960 Speaker 9: every Democrat believes them, but they only emanate from the Democrat. 593 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:02,200 Speaker 9: Ye that's just a fact statement. So a Republican is 594 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,600 Speaker 9: going to be right on law and order, republic safety. 595 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:06,800 Speaker 9: A Republican mayor is going to be right on taxes. 596 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 9: A Republican mayor ought to be right on infrastructure spending 597 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:15,360 Speaker 9: and investing prudently. And there's studies that show, I mean, 598 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:20,000 Speaker 9: been have proven that you actually have lower debt levels 599 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,760 Speaker 9: and you issue less debt when you have a Republican 600 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:26,840 Speaker 9: mayor versus a Democrat when they've mit professor actually studied 601 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:30,760 Speaker 9: this and concluded that it is a statistically significant different 602 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:34,280 Speaker 9: level of debt associated with a city when there's a 603 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,320 Speaker 9: Republican in charge and a Democrat in charge. So we 604 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:41,400 Speaker 9: actually need Republicans running our major cities because eighty percent 605 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:44,760 Speaker 9: of Americans live in cities. By twenty fifty, that number 606 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,240 Speaker 9: is going to be ninety percent. So the country actually 607 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:50,280 Speaker 9: needs the leadership. But I'm actually telling you, as a 608 00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,840 Speaker 9: group of partisans, we actually have to pay attention to this. 609 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:55,680 Speaker 9: And I think we have to pay attention to it 610 00:33:55,760 --> 00:34:01,920 Speaker 9: because I, in my heart of hearts, believe that by 611 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:06,520 Speaker 9: being competitive in the cities, by basically re engaging. Because 612 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:08,560 Speaker 9: we were once engaged. So if there was a Republican 613 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,120 Speaker 9: Majors Association at one time, it had a similar name, 614 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 9: it was like the Republican Conference. It was during the 615 00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:18,120 Speaker 9: Ford administration, and at some point we just lost interest 616 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,200 Speaker 9: in competing at that level and it sort of just 617 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,040 Speaker 9: faded away. But it was very active at one time, 618 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,479 Speaker 9: and we were more competitive in our cities at one time. 619 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,560 Speaker 9: We need to get more competitive there again, because the 620 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:34,160 Speaker 9: margin of victory at the state level in states like Wisconsin, 621 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 9: in states like Michigan, states like Pennsylvania, is the difference 622 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:44,799 Speaker 9: between performing at the city level in You're ready, Madison, 623 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:51,400 Speaker 9: Green Bay, and in Detroit and in Philadelphi and Pittsburgh 624 00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:55,040 Speaker 9: by just five or ten percent points better. So, in 625 00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:58,160 Speaker 9: other words, engaging in the cities in a more significant 626 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,960 Speaker 9: way and having the GOP brand and associated with the 627 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,479 Speaker 9: things we're talking about. At the local level, it didn't 628 00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:06,840 Speaker 9: take that many votes, and now all of a sudden, 629 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:11,000 Speaker 9: the whole state is no longer lock stock and barrel 630 00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,160 Speaker 9: going one direction because of the advantage that has been 631 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,640 Speaker 9: run up in the cities. You've cut into the advantage 632 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:17,360 Speaker 9: that the cities have. 633 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:21,960 Speaker 3: You know, Eric, I'll tell you on that point. So, 634 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:25,200 Speaker 3: Heidi and I met twenty five years ago when we 635 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,320 Speaker 3: were both working on the George W. Bush campaign in 636 00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:31,000 Speaker 3: two thousand, the presidential campaign. And actually in that campaign, 637 00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:33,719 Speaker 3: you know, I was a young, twenty nine year old staffer, 638 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:39,200 Speaker 3: but I wrote a memo urging that the campaign consider 639 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:45,279 Speaker 3: at the time Condoleeza Rice as a VP nominee. And 640 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,160 Speaker 3: in the course of the memo, I laid out all 641 00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:50,960 Speaker 3: sorts of reasons why I thought this was worth considering carefully. 642 00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:53,080 Speaker 3: But one of the things I did is I did 643 00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:57,839 Speaker 3: an electoral analysis. I looked at the three preceding presidential elections, 644 00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:02,080 Speaker 3: and I posited a series of hypotheticals. I said, what 645 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:06,160 Speaker 3: would have happened if Republicans had gotten five percent more, 646 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:11,400 Speaker 3: ten percent more, or fifteen percent more of the African 647 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,960 Speaker 3: American and Hispanic vote. So I didn't posit, what if 648 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,040 Speaker 3: we get fifty percent more? I've did five, ten or fifteen, 649 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:23,719 Speaker 3: so goals that were achievable, I believe, And I ran 650 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,080 Speaker 3: through the numbers, and the one that was most that 651 00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:30,120 Speaker 3: stood out the most was if Republicans had gotten an 652 00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,800 Speaker 3: additional fifteen percent of the African American and Hispanic vote 653 00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:37,120 Speaker 3: in nineteen ninety six, Republicans would have won an additional 654 00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:44,480 Speaker 3: ninety six electoral votes. I mean, itrect clips the election dramatically. 655 00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:47,320 Speaker 4: But to do that, we've got to compete. 656 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:53,759 Speaker 9: It's a whole different national conversation about the competitiveness of 657 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:58,640 Speaker 9: this party if we are a factor at the city level, yep, 658 00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:01,560 Speaker 9: because it's just we're so many people are concentrated. It's 659 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:03,400 Speaker 9: getting harder and harder to figure out how to win 660 00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:06,040 Speaker 9: elections where we're just not even playing there. I mean, 661 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:10,359 Speaker 9: it's just not even we ought to be competing in 662 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:15,480 Speaker 9: every major city where we're currently just sort of saying, 663 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,080 Speaker 9: you know, a Democrat hasn't won, I mean, Republican had 664 00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,600 Speaker 9: won there in a long time, so let's not try. 665 00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:26,480 Speaker 9: We just flipped just in this last cycle, the mayor, 666 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:30,200 Speaker 9: the current mayor of I believe it's Charleston, South Carolina 667 00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:34,319 Speaker 9: is now a Republican. They hadn't elected a Republican mayor 668 00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:38,200 Speaker 9: in Charleston in like one hundred and seventy five years, 669 00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:41,960 Speaker 9: So it can happen. It can be done. You have 670 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:43,960 Speaker 9: to run the right candy. He was a former legislator 671 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,200 Speaker 9: like I was, and he ran a great campaign. Now 672 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,040 Speaker 9: they've got a Republican mayor. So what's going to happen 673 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,400 Speaker 9: next is he's going to do a good job. And 674 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,080 Speaker 9: when he does a good job, these people who've been 675 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,000 Speaker 9: voting for Democrat mayors for one hundred and seventy five 676 00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:55,799 Speaker 9: year are going to say, you know, when Republicans are 677 00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:58,720 Speaker 9: in charge, the city just seems to be it's safer, 678 00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,960 Speaker 9: we hire more cops, and crime goes down, and you 679 00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:04,000 Speaker 9: know what, the taxes go down, and you know, things 680 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:08,680 Speaker 9: are just better. The brand means something to them at 681 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:11,680 Speaker 9: the local level and not just the brand will always 682 00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:13,960 Speaker 9: have a federal aspect to it, it will always have 683 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,080 Speaker 9: a state aspect to it. But right now in this party, 684 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,800 Speaker 9: we're missing a brand at the local level. It doesn't 685 00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:21,640 Speaker 9: mean anything out right now at the local level, and 686 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,520 Speaker 9: we get to decide what it means. And I'm saying 687 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:27,520 Speaker 9: we should be running solid conservatives at the local level, 688 00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:30,720 Speaker 9: winning elections, running cities well. And then that makes people 689 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,880 Speaker 9: at the local level go, yeah, I'm actually a Republican. 690 00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,360 Speaker 9: I love my Republican mayor, and so I'm a Republican 691 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:39,360 Speaker 9: and that has benefits for people running for US Senate, 692 00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:42,759 Speaker 9: running for president, running for governor. But we are right 693 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:45,240 Speaker 9: now just aren't doing anything. I mean, I was shocked 694 00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:47,480 Speaker 9: to find that there was no one even in this lane. 695 00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:50,440 Speaker 9: I wasn't even stepping on anybody's chose by doing this. 696 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,280 Speaker 3: Well, let me say, Eric, I appreciate you. I appreciate 697 00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,480 Speaker 3: your friendship, I appreciate your leadership, and I appreciate your 698 00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:57,840 Speaker 3: joining us from the Verdict podcast. 699 00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:01,759 Speaker 2: Appreciate that as always day, thank you for listening to 700 00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:04,680 Speaker 2: Verdict with Sentner, Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you don't 701 00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:06,959 Speaker 2: forget to deal with my podcast and you can listen 702 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:08,719 Speaker 2: to my podcasts every other day you're not listening to 703 00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,399 Speaker 2: Verdict or each day when you listen to Verdict. Afterwards, 704 00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:13,800 Speaker 2: I'd love to have you as a listener to again 705 00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:16,279 Speaker 2: the Ben Ferguson podcasts, and we will see you back 706 00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:17,720 Speaker 2: here on Monday morning.