1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: Welcome. It is Verdict with Ted Cruz Weekend Review, Ben 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:05,559 Speaker 1: Ferguson with you and hear the big stories that we 3 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 1: talked about this week that you may have missed. First up, 4 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 1: Democrats are going all in on the idea of the 5 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:16,920 Speaker 1: attacks in Iran becoming an endless war. Will break down 6 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:21,439 Speaker 1: exactly why that's not true and it's not going to happen. Also, 7 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson and the woke right well, they're isolationists, and 8 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: we explain why this undermines President Trump and also America 9 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:34,840 Speaker 1: First policies and helps our enemies. And finally, what's next 10 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: after the terrorist attacks that we've already had here in 11 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 1: the US. So many Americans are so concerned right now 12 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:42,880 Speaker 1: as they should be and want to feel safe. We 13 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 1: break it down for you. It's the weekend Review and 14 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:49,880 Speaker 1: it starts right now. The President's been pretty clear about this. 15 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:52,519 Speaker 1: This is going to be short term increase. Democrats do 16 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 1: seem to be latching onto this. Like remember when egg 17 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 1: prices is like a big thing in the put of world. Yep, 18 00:00:57,480 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: this is the new egg pricing right. Oh my god, 19 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: Stald Trump say's my lower price to the pump for you? 20 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: Look at it now, look how bad it is now, 21 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 1: it's going to be you know, ten hours a gallon 22 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: in California, it's gonna be five six hours gallon everywhere else. 23 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 1: The presents come out and says it's going to be 24 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 1: short term. I believe him. I think also seeing how 25 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:16,839 Speaker 1: hard we're hitting a RAN right now is also showing 26 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 1: the timeline here that they are wanting to do everything 27 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,680 Speaker 1: as fast as they can. Why drag this out, go 28 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:25,959 Speaker 1: all in, do it quickly, get the pain over with 29 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:28,680 Speaker 1: and let those people hopefully rise up and take over 30 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: a RAN and actually move forward. Are you that worried 31 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: about about the gas prices? I'm not yet. Like if 32 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:38,039 Speaker 1: it's three months from now or two months from now, 33 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 1: I'm going to be more worried. But right now I 34 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 1: feel like this is exactly on schedule or ahead of schedule, 35 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: as the White House has described it. 36 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 2: Yeah. So, look, there's been a short term increase in 37 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 2: gas prices, and anytime there's a military conflict in the 38 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 2: Middle East, gas prices go up because a lot of 39 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 2: oil comes for the Middle East, and so military conflict 40 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 2: has an effect on supplying demand. I think this will 41 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 2: be short term. One of the things to remember is 42 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 2: so six months ago, gas prices were about I don't 43 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 2: have the exact number off the top of my head, 44 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 2: but about two dollars and fifty cents a gallon. They've 45 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 2: risen about a dollar. They're about three dollars and fifty 46 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 2: cents a gallon. This is national averages, And so it 47 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 2: is true that over the last six months gasoline prices 48 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 2: have risen. Where were they eighteen months ago under Joe 49 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:31,799 Speaker 2: Biden there were nearly six dollars a gallon, So by 50 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 2: any measure, they're was massively cheaper than Joe Biden. Yes, 51 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:38,519 Speaker 2: they've gone up from about two fifty to about three fifty. 52 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 2: But I think this is a short term increase. And 53 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 2: I got to say, if and when the Iranian regime collapses, 54 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 2: and by the way, we've utterly degraded their military and 55 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:52,959 Speaker 2: we've taken out the itolin the senior military leadership, if 56 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 2: and when we have a government in Iran that is 57 00:02:56,560 --> 00:03:00,959 Speaker 2: not a radical theocratic Islamist government who wants to murder America, 58 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 2: who is funding terrorists all across the world, who is 59 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:07,640 Speaker 2: actively trying to murder Americans every single day, if we 60 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 2: have just a normal government, I don't really care who 61 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 2: we have, just as long as it's not a crazy 62 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 2: person killing Americans. The effect on global gas prices will 63 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,359 Speaker 2: be to lower them significantly. So I actually think this conflict, 64 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 2: in the long term or even the medium term, will 65 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 2: have a substantial downward pressure on gasoline prices. There's a 66 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 2: short period where prices have spiked somewhat, although to be clear, 67 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 2: they're much much lower than under Biden, but they are 68 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 2: higher than they were six months ago under Trump. Look, 69 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 2: I think the Democrats are attacking gas prices because they 70 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 2: hate Trump, and they're just everything Trump does is wrong. 71 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 2: This is an incredibly important decision that Trump has made 72 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 2: for advancing US national security. And I will say part 73 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 2: of the reason why, when like I was being questioned 74 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:00,040 Speaker 2: on Lindsey Graham, I like lindsay, as I said, I 75 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 2: agree with them sometimes, I disagree with them sometimes. But 76 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 2: what the questioning really was about is isn't the Iran 77 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 2: War about Israel? Isn't this all about Israel? And the 78 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 2: suggestion was Israel or as a puppet master controlling Donald Trump. 79 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 2: That's just a blatant lie. This military conflict has very 80 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:23,720 Speaker 2: little to do with Israel. The reason President Trump decided 81 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 2: to attack Iran is because Iran has been waging war 82 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 2: with America for forty seven years and they've killed nearly 83 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 2: a thousand Americans, and they're the leading state sponsor of 84 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 2: terrorism the world. And so the people trying to say 85 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 2: I don't want another war for Israel, I don't want 86 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:45,720 Speaker 2: my children to die for the Jews, that is that 87 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 2: is not honest, because we're doing this because the regime 88 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 2: in Iran is killing Americans. And to be clear, if 89 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 2: they had the capacity, if they had nuclear weapons, they 90 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:02,359 Speaker 2: would kill many, many more Americans. If they could, they 91 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:04,920 Speaker 2: would kill you and me right now, Ben, if they could, 92 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 2: every listener of this podcast, they would kill If they 93 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 2: had a nuclear weapon, I believe there is a real 94 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 2: possibility they would detonate it in the skies of Tel 95 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 2: Aviv or New York or Los Angeles. And I'm not 96 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:20,000 Speaker 2: interested in seeing a day where hundreds of thousands of 97 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:24,280 Speaker 2: Americans are murdered by an iotola channing death to America. 98 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:28,600 Speaker 2: That's why President Trump acted. But it was not about Israel. 99 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:30,919 Speaker 2: It was about America, and I think we need to 100 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 2: be very very clear about that. 101 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 1: I also think one of the other things that I 102 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:36,919 Speaker 1: think is really frustrating is just seeing how many people 103 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: act as if somehow Donald Trump was hoodwinked by Israel 104 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: for US to get involved in this war. Yeah, and 105 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: you were asked about that. I was asked about as 106 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 1: well on TV, and I said, that is the biggest 107 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:49,480 Speaker 1: load of crap I've heard in a long time. President 108 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 1: Trump isn't hoodwink by anybody. President Trump isn't walked around 109 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 1: by anyone. And if you've ever been around him, you 110 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: know that. I think it goes back to what you 111 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:00,839 Speaker 1: just said. The President understood the nationalists scurity risks not 112 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:04,719 Speaker 1: to Israel. All right there, This is America first, correct, 113 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:07,919 Speaker 1: it's America and the national security threat to America and 114 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 1: clear the fact that they're trying to kill and have 115 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 1: sent people and train people and pay people to try 116 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:14,600 Speaker 1: to kill the President of the United States of America. 117 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: Also people in the last administration. John Bolton, for example, 118 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: was one of those. There's several others on this list 119 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: that have actually have been they've had hits out all 120 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 1: Obrian Hook Yes, exactly. So you go with the list here. 121 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 1: The President was clear about this that this is about America. 122 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 1: And I think that's another example when I said there's 123 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 1: like four or five working theories Democrats throw on jel 124 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: at a wall saying does any of this fit with Americans? 125 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 1: I also think it's very interesting and final thing to you, 126 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,360 Speaker 1: I don't think the American people are buying this. And 127 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 1: part of it's because I think Democrats have just said 128 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:51,159 Speaker 1: some of those orlandis and crazy things on every issue, 129 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 1: tried to hurt Donald Trump. Now it's becoming a little 130 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:56,159 Speaker 1: bit more of white noise, and that's that. I'm thankful 131 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 1: for that, to be honest with you. 132 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think that's right. And look, some of 133 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:03,040 Speaker 2: the reaction of the voters will depend on how this 134 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:08,839 Speaker 2: plays out. If this military conflict lasts many months or years, 135 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 2: if we're sitting here a year from now and still 136 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 2: mired to military conflict, if we've got a massive troop 137 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 2: presence on the ground, if we have hundreds or thousands 138 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 2: of American soldiers being killed, this war will be very unpopular. 139 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 2: I think the chances of that happening are very very 140 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 2: close to zero percent. Iran is not a RAQ. We're 141 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 2: not going to see a massive troop presence on the ground. 142 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 2: We're not going to see an extended military occupation. Actually, 143 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 2: I want you to listen to Pete hegg Seth making 144 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:43,680 Speaker 2: this point, and we're going to wrap up on this. Listen, 145 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 2: listen to the Secretary of War, Pete hegg Seth. 146 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 3: You see, this is not two thousand and three. This 147 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 3: is not endless nation building under those types of quagmires 148 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 3: we saw under Bush or Obama. It's not even close. 149 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 3: Our generation of soldier will not let that happen again, 150 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 3: and nor will this president, who very clearly ran against 151 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 3: those kinds of never ending, nebulously scoped missions. Those days 152 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 3: are dead. Instead, we're winning decisively with brutal efficiency, total 153 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 3: air dominance, and an unbreakable will to accomplish the President's 154 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 3: objectives on our timeline. We stay locked on the target 155 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 3: because here at the Department of War, that's our job. 156 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:34,679 Speaker 1: You listen to Pete there. This is one of the 157 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 1: reasons why I actually think it was a blessing that 158 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:38,439 Speaker 1: he was named and made it through confirmation. 159 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 2: He's a guy, he's a combat veteran who's been in 160 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 2: harm's way. 161 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a guy that I think is genuinely 162 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:48,679 Speaker 1: in the room advocating to make sure that what happened 163 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 1: to a lot of his colleagues when he was serving 164 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:55,080 Speaker 1: in uniform and deployed. That doesn't happen to this group 165 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 1: of soldiers now. And it's clear that this is personal 166 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 1: for him. I'm so thankful that he's there in this 167 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 1: position because he lived the other side of it that 168 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: he was just describing. 169 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:12,200 Speaker 2: Right. Look, avoiding endless wars does not mean embracing isolationism. Yeah, 170 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 2: peace through strength is what Reagan called it. Donald Trump 171 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:19,839 Speaker 2: just understands it as being a strong commander in chief 172 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 2: that when people are killing Americans, he is going to 173 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 2: respond vigorously to take them out. And by the way, 174 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:29,960 Speaker 2: our enemies are terrified. As I've said before, at three 175 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:34,079 Speaker 2: am on January third, there was not a Latin American 176 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:37,080 Speaker 2: dictator who didn't have to change his shorts because that's 177 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 2: when President Trump sees Nicholas Maduro, what is happening in Iran. 178 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 2: The top leadership has been taken out. Every bad guy, 179 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:48,719 Speaker 2: every person who hates America is really really worried right 180 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 2: now because this is a nation that defends itself. And 181 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 2: by the way, that makes clear, if you kill Americans, 182 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 2: there are going to be massive consequences to it. Barack 183 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 2: Obama and Joe Iden's weakness and appeasement that if you 184 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:04,199 Speaker 2: kill Americans, oh well, we're not going to do anything 185 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 2: about it. That invites more people to target and kill Americans. 186 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 2: This is about avoiding war by being strong enough to 187 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 2: take out the people that are killing Americans, and that 188 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 2: avoids protracted military conflict. I think that's what we're seeing 189 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 2: right now, and it makes America a whole lot safer. 190 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 1: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, 191 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 1: you can go back and listen to the full podcast 192 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 1: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two. 193 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 2: The Democrats and the press are trying to undermine President Trump. 194 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:40,200 Speaker 2: They're trying to undermine the US military, and they're trying 195 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 2: to bolster Iran and the iatolas. Do you know who 196 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:49,080 Speaker 2: else is doing that? Who else? Tucker Carlson and the 197 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 2: rest of the so called woke right. There's a group 198 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:56,240 Speaker 2: of isolationists folks on the right. It is a small group, 199 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:59,679 Speaker 2: but they are loud and vocal, and Tucker Carlson has 200 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 2: now all but declared war on President Trump's foreign policy. 201 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 2: I want you to listen to Tucker Carlson in his 202 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:08,200 Speaker 2: latest show. I'm going to warn you what he says, 203 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 2: here is shocking, and it is to the left of 204 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:15,560 Speaker 2: Chris Murphy. So it is more anti Donald Trump than 205 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 2: Chris Murphy and the Democrats. Listen to Tucker Carlson. 206 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 4: Unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape your wife 207 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 4: and daughter if they want. And everyone knows that, and 208 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 4: that has been If there's one consistent lesson of history, 209 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 4: it means unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape 210 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 4: your wife and daughter. Everyone can feel that. That's like 211 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 4: the most atavistic instinct there is. And so to avoid that, 212 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 4: people will do anything. And so that's why it requires 213 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:47,080 Speaker 4: that level of force to get a population subdued to 214 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 4: the point of unconditional surrender. That's why. And so in 215 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,719 Speaker 4: this case, of course, we don't have the ground force necessary. 216 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:56,960 Speaker 4: I don't think Americans would voluntarily participate in it. I 217 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 4: just don't think we can do that. It would require 218 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 4: weapons semesterice struction. It would require presumably nuclear weapons in 219 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 4: order to do that. And let's stop, let's not lie 220 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 4: to ourselves. We're moving toward that. 221 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 1: You hear Tucker there, and I mean you want to 222 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 1: talk about on hinge that is like some of the 223 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 1: most anti American propaganda I've ever seen spewed by someone 224 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 1: like Tucker Carlson. It is a new low even for him. 225 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:24,200 Speaker 1: And that and the bar keeps dropping day after day. 226 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 2: Look the phrase, the words someone like Tucker Carlson, you 227 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:30,520 Speaker 2: don't even have to put that constraint. That is more 228 00:12:30,559 --> 00:12:33,800 Speaker 2: anti American rhetoric than anything I've ever heard Bernie Sanders say, 229 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:36,959 Speaker 2: or even Chris Murphy what he said there. Listen, Tucker 230 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 2: continues to go to new lows and new lows, and 231 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 2: part of it is President Trump this week said that 232 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:45,559 Speaker 2: that Tucker Carlson is quote, not maga and not smart. 233 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,680 Speaker 2: The more Tucker Carlson attacks Donald Trump, the more fringe 234 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 2: he gets. And so I think this was Tucker acting 235 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 2: out when when Trump said what was obviously true, but 236 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 2: Tucker just said, go back, rewind and listen to what 237 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:02,439 Speaker 2: he just said. He said, number one, if Iran surrenders, 238 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 2: that American soldiers are going to rape their wives and daughters, 239 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 2: and in fact he said it twice. What utter and 240 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 2: complete garbage, you America hating Islamist fluffer. I gotta say 241 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:19,439 Speaker 2: that makes me mad. I think of the servicemen and 242 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 2: men who in women. But the men in particular, who 243 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:26,720 Speaker 2: are risking their lives. And Tucker Carlson's standing there saying, 244 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 2: if you surrender to America, American soldiers are gonna rape 245 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:33,200 Speaker 2: your women. We have never done that. That is not 246 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:38,200 Speaker 2: something America does, No, Tucker, American soldiers are not gonna 247 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 2: rape Iranian women. You know who rapes the people they conquer? 248 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 2: Iranians do? Islamists do? That is in fact part of 249 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 2: what they do. Part of what they do is is 250 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 2: is that they rape women as a means of subjugation. 251 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:53,680 Speaker 2: But Tucker's not going to tell you that because Tucker 252 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 2: is now one of the leading proponents of sharia law 253 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 2: in the United States. He's literally an apologist for Islam. 254 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 2: And so now you might say, wow, that statement seems incredible, 255 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 2: it seems extreme. Here a couple of data points. Number One, 256 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 2: during this war, the Iranian National Television is playing Tucker 257 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:16,280 Speaker 2: Carlson's show in Iran. They view that as such valuable 258 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 2: propaganda they want the Iranian people to hear Tucker. Number Two, 259 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 2: the Muslim Brotherhood, by the way, Hamas is the Muslim 260 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 2: brotherhood in Palestine, and they are terrorists are tweeting out 261 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:30,760 Speaker 2: Tucker Carlson's show. The Muslim Brotherhood has said, this is 262 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 2: our spokesman. Man, this guy is good. I cannot recall 263 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 2: another major political figure on left or right who has said, 264 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:43,040 Speaker 2: if you surrender to America, American soldiers will rape your women. 265 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 2: That's what Tucker Carlson just said. That is grotesque. And 266 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 2: by the way, any soldier who sees Tucker Carlson I 267 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 2: ought to say, how dare you say that? American soldiers 268 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 2: know we would not and impugning our troops is disgusting. 269 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 2: And the second thing that Tucker said in that clip 270 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:03,560 Speaker 2: is that Donald Trump is moving towards using a nuclear 271 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 2: weapon in Iran. No, he's not, Tucker. That is a 272 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 2: complete nutter lie. That is false. We are not going 273 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 2: to nuke Iran. It is only deranged. That's the sort 274 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 2: of thing the Ayatola would say. And you've got to 275 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 2: ask yourself. Look, some of you may think back to 276 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 2: when Tucker was on Fox News and he was actually 277 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 2: said a lot of things you and I love that 278 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 2: made a lot of sense. This guy today is just 279 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:30,200 Speaker 2: a kook. And even worse than that, he is the 280 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 2: most prominent purveyor of Islamists lies about America. And about 281 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 2: Donald Trump. Tucker Carlson has gone full out to war 282 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 2: with Donald Trump's national security and foreign policy. And it 283 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 2: is he and Chris Murphy are now that they are 284 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 2: comrades in arms. He and Chris Tucker Carlson and Chris 285 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 2: Murphy and Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and Ilhan Omar 286 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 2: and AOC. They all have the exact same foreign policy 287 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 2: and it is anti American and it is pro Islamist 288 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 2: and it's dangerous as hell. 289 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 1: We've got some breaking news as we are recording this 290 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 1: on Sunday. They have now named a new leader in Iran. 291 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 1: It is the son of the former leader there. That 292 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 1: is someone that the presidents said is unacceptable. Your reaction 293 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:17,359 Speaker 1: to that as well. 294 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 2: Well, look, it's not surprising. The Malas are going to 295 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 2: get together and they're going to want another Mala to 296 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 2: be the Ayatola, and they want the country to continue 297 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 2: to be run by Islamist clerics who embrace a death cult. 298 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 2: And it's interesting. One of the things I'm going back 299 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 2: to Chris Murphy and what he said a minute ago. 300 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 2: You know, we rely on deterrence to stop the most 301 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:49,280 Speaker 2: egregious acts of harm. Deterrence works with many countries because 302 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 2: you have rational actors. Let's take for example, North Korea. 303 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:57,680 Speaker 2: So North Korea is an exceptionally dangerous part of the world. 304 00:16:57,760 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 2: Why does North Korea have nukes? Well, it goes back 305 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 2: to a previous Democrat president, Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton sent 306 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 2: a State Department of employee named Wendy Sherman to negotiate 307 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:16,879 Speaker 2: a nuclear agreement with Kim Jong il, who was the 308 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:20,160 Speaker 2: father of the current dictator Kim Jongun. And the deal 309 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:24,400 Speaker 2: they cut is that Bill Clinton agreed to send billions 310 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:27,520 Speaker 2: of dollars to North Korea and in exchange for that money, 311 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:31,560 Speaker 2: North Korea would promise not to develop nuclear weapons. Well 312 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 2: what happened. We now know what happened. They took the 313 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:36,960 Speaker 2: billions of dollars, they used it to develop nuclear weapons, 314 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:38,919 Speaker 2: and today North Korea has nuclear weapons. So it was 315 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:43,440 Speaker 2: a spectacular failure. Fast forward to Barack Obama. Barack Obama 316 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:47,639 Speaker 2: comes into office and he decides his signature foreign policy moves. 317 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 2: He wants to negotiate an agreement with Iran on nuclear weapons. 318 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:53,360 Speaker 2: So what does he do. He actually goes and recruits 319 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 2: the same damn person, Wendy Sherman, to negotiate his Iran deal. Literally, 320 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:00,640 Speaker 2: there are eight billion people on play at Earth been 321 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:04,879 Speaker 2: there is one out of eight billion who has screwed 322 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:07,680 Speaker 2: this up previously, as negotiated a deal to send billions 323 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:10,360 Speaker 2: of dollars to a foreign dictator, and it's resulted in 324 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:13,359 Speaker 2: that dictator using the billions of dollars to develop nuclear weapons. 325 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 2: That would be Wendy Sherman. That's who Obama brought in 326 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:17,680 Speaker 2: and said, hey, can you do the same for us? 327 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:22,240 Speaker 2: Now we live with the failures of the Clinton administration 328 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:26,120 Speaker 2: and Wendy Sherman with North Korea and Kim Jong un 329 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:30,240 Speaker 2: is a dictator, he's megalomaniacal, he's dangerous as hell. He 330 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 2: is testing ICBMs, he is targeted explicitly target US citizens, 331 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 2: including Austin, Texas. He is a city that he has 332 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 2: said he's targeted before. However, our best protection is Kim 333 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:45,359 Speaker 2: Jong un knows if he ever used a nuclear weapon, 334 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:49,639 Speaker 2: the result would be massive, overwhelming retaliation and his regime 335 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:52,479 Speaker 2: would lose power that day. It would be the end 336 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:53,120 Speaker 2: of his life. 337 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 4: If he did that. 338 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 2: As dangerous as Kim Jong un is, at least there's 339 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:03,600 Speaker 2: some possible ability of rational self deterrence. Here's what makes 340 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 2: Iran orders a magnitude more dangerous when you're dealing with 341 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 2: religious extremism. When you're dealing with theocratic zealots who are 342 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 2: in a death cult, who glorify death and suicide, rational 343 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:21,040 Speaker 2: deterrence doesn't work the same way. So, for example, if 344 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 2: the Iotola detonated and nuclear weapons, say in Tel Aviv, 345 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:28,199 Speaker 2: or in New York or Los Angeles, and let me 346 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 2: be clear, I believe if the Iotola could do so, 347 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:33,720 Speaker 2: he would have done so already. The response would be 348 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 2: overwhelming and devastating. But the problem is when you celebrate 349 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:43,639 Speaker 2: death and suicide, that normal cost benefit analysis does not apply. 350 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 2: And so yes, they've named a new Iotola. The Iotola 351 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:49,359 Speaker 2: is what the son of the old Iotola? Okay, great, 352 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:54,480 Speaker 2: that is not acceptable because President Trump has rightly made 353 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 2: the decision We're not going to allow US national security 354 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 2: to be vulnerable to religious zeal who are funding terrorism, 355 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:07,200 Speaker 2: who are funding who are the number one funders of 356 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:12,400 Speaker 2: terrorisms worldwide and have been for forty seven years. So 357 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:16,199 Speaker 2: I total number one. Skippy Junior is not going to 358 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:21,159 Speaker 2: get to take over either, because allowing Iran to wage 359 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:24,879 Speaker 2: war and murder Americans is not consistent with US national 360 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:26,240 Speaker 2: security as before. 361 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 1: If you want to hear the rest of this conversation 362 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:30,879 Speaker 1: on this topic, you can go back and now the 363 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:33,640 Speaker 1: podcast from earlier this week to hear the entire thing. 364 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 1: I want to get back to the big story number 365 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 1: three of the week you may have missed Sanat. I 366 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:42,359 Speaker 1: want to go back to the overall conversation here with 367 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:45,679 Speaker 1: these tears attacks. It is depressing. I think there's a 368 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,560 Speaker 1: lot of Americans that are very concerned about it, and 369 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,119 Speaker 1: that is something that I think so many Americans they 370 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:54,400 Speaker 1: want to feel safe and secure. The Department of Homeland 371 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 1: Security not being funded and these four chears attacks in 372 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:01,439 Speaker 1: a normal world with a normal would be front page 373 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 1: news and they'd be running up and they'd be sticking 374 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:06,439 Speaker 1: a microphone in front of the face of the people 375 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 1: that voted no to funding DHS. I go back to 376 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 1: the media when they were obsessed with the price of eggs, remember, 377 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:15,119 Speaker 1: and they were trying to say that it was somehow 378 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,920 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's fault that the egg prices were high. They 379 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:21,880 Speaker 1: went like twenty four to seven coverage on that over eggs. 380 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:26,919 Speaker 1: But on this issue, they're completely gone from covering it 381 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 1: and holding accountable. The Democratic leadership, Like, how are you 382 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 1: guys holding this up? There are dead Americans and that's 383 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 1: not sensationalizing that as a fact, there are dead Americans 384 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 1: and terrorist attacks, and you guys have unfunded the department 385 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 1: that is supposed to be doing this in charge of 386 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:46,159 Speaker 1: it helping with US aiding with this, and this is 387 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:48,159 Speaker 1: one of those times where there is a lot of 388 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 1: uncertainty about what's next. 389 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:54,359 Speaker 2: Yeah, the Democrats, it is hard to overstate how little 390 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 2: they're concerned. Look, I think they could leave DHS defunded 391 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:01,320 Speaker 2: for the rest of the year. That's really how bad 392 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:04,400 Speaker 2: it is. They're not concerned at all. They don't care 393 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 2: about the people whose lives they're ruining. They don't care 394 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 2: about the people who can't pay their rent or can't 395 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,880 Speaker 2: feed their kids, and they don't care about leaving us 396 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:16,119 Speaker 2: exposed to a massive terrorist attack. And that seems harsh. 397 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 2: I don't like saying they don't care about it, because 398 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:21,879 Speaker 2: but give me an alternative explanation. And I think the 399 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 2: media plays a huge part in it because they believe 400 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:29,720 Speaker 2: there is zero cost, so they're appeasing their radical base. 401 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:33,199 Speaker 2: So look the CNN tweet that I read just a 402 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 2: minute ago describing the two ISIS inspired terrorists as just 403 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:41,320 Speaker 2: two Pennsylvania teenagers that could have had a normal day 404 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:46,399 Speaker 2: enjoying the warm weather. Like that was so ridiculous. They 405 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 2: deleted that tweet. But I also want to play what 406 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:52,880 Speaker 2: Abby Phillips, who you know you've been on her show 407 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:57,120 Speaker 2: with her, what she said about this, because it shows 408 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 2: just the mindset of CNN. Here. Give a listen to 409 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 2: how she described. 410 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 5: Two Republicans say Muslims don't belong here after an attempted 411 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:09,879 Speaker 5: terror attack against New York's mayors, or on Mumdanni and 412 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 5: the House speaker Mike Johnson says nothing really to condemn 413 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:14,360 Speaker 5: those comments. 414 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 1: That is shocking that she said that, and it did 415 00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:20,880 Speaker 1: backfire as you described it, because she had to come 416 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:25,360 Speaker 1: out center and then apologize on this one or retracted, 417 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:28,440 Speaker 1: and this is how her retraction, by the way, the 418 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 1: next night. 419 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 5: Take a listen this morning, I issued a correction first 420 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 5: thing in the morning on X for a mistake that 421 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 5: I made in last night's show, but I also wanted 422 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 5: to do so on air as well. I incorrectly said 423 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,240 Speaker 5: that the bombs that were thrown by ISIS inspired suspects 424 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,400 Speaker 5: in New York over the weekend were directed at Mayor Mumdanni. 425 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,040 Speaker 5: They were not. I failed to catch and correct that 426 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:52,440 Speaker 5: mistake in real time, and I take full responsibility for that. 427 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,199 Speaker 5: And while we do make mistakes, it is important to 428 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,560 Speaker 5: acknowledge and correct those errors when they. 429 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:01,080 Speaker 1: Happen, Senator, I appreciate when there's a care But there 430 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:03,960 Speaker 1: was a lot of people online that were actually frustrated 431 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:07,359 Speaker 1: with the correction because what Abby was doing was acting 432 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:10,600 Speaker 1: like she didn't correct somebody that said something on her 433 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,159 Speaker 1: show in real time, And there was a lot of 434 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,640 Speaker 1: people going like, you're the one that said it. Don't 435 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,000 Speaker 1: act like someone else said it. You're the one that 436 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,959 Speaker 1: has to correct your own. No information you put out 437 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,200 Speaker 1: there that was incorrect. It wasn't a guest on your 438 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 1: show that you failed to correct what they said. 439 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, and Ben, I don't care about her. She's a 440 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:34,760 Speaker 2: leftist quack. What I do care about is the failure 441 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 2: of supposedly journalistic outlets to actually do journalism. They are propagandists. 442 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:45,159 Speaker 2: The stake she made was not random. It was just 443 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 2: not oops, got I said green, I meant red. It 444 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 2: is consistently skewing in a way that Number one, she's 445 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:57,200 Speaker 2: not identifying that the terrorist in question were radical Islamic terrorists. 446 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:01,480 Speaker 2: Number two, she's claiming the target or what she claimed 447 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:05,760 Speaker 2: the target was Mandami. The target was not Mandami. In fact, 448 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,399 Speaker 2: there was a protest against Mandami and the radical Islamic 449 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 2: terrorists tried to throw the bombs at the protesters who 450 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 2: were opposing Mandami. And if you look at her whole story, 451 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,159 Speaker 2: it wasn't even on the terror attack. It was on 452 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 2: and Republicans criticized Muslims. And oddly enough, there's not outrage 453 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,720 Speaker 2: that Republicans criticized Muslims. It reminds me of that. So 454 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 2: there's a classic tweet that Norm MacDonald, the great SNL 455 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:34,240 Speaker 2: comedian said, And his tweet, he said, what terrifies me 456 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:39,120 Speaker 2: is if ISIS were to detonate a nuclear device and 457 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 2: kill fifty million Americans, imagine the backlash against peaceful Muslims. 458 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,119 Speaker 2: Like that was Norm MacDonald's tweet years ago, and that 459 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 2: was CNN, Like ISIS terrorists tried to kill a lot 460 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,360 Speaker 2: of Americans. Can you believe how upset people are with Muslims? 461 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:00,040 Speaker 2: Like like, cover the damn news, cover the facts. But 462 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,000 Speaker 2: by the way, you look at Bondami's statement after that 463 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:05,520 Speaker 2: terror attack. He didn't identify the two criminals. He didn't 464 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 2: mention they were radical Islamic terrorists, he didn't mention they 465 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 2: were affiliated with ISIS. Instead, he blamed the guy who 466 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:15,239 Speaker 2: was protesting against him, who was intended to be the 467 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:23,160 Speaker 2: target of the bombs. When the media is this wildly dishonest, 468 00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 2: it has real consequences. And so yes, those are two 469 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:30,399 Speaker 2: instances on this terror attack where CNN had to correct 470 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:35,119 Speaker 2: themselves because they were so absurd. But I ask you, 471 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 2: I mean you mentioned before. I have not seen a 472 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 2: single one of my Democrat colleagues asked by any reporter, 473 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 2: how can you justify not funding the Department of Homeland 474 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,880 Speaker 2: Security when we've had four terror attacks from radical Islamic 475 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:53,439 Speaker 2: terrorists in ten days, and we have radical clerics calling 476 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 2: for more. 477 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, by the way, it's journalism, one on one. Every 478 00:26:57,359 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 1: journalist out there knows that's the question you should ask 479 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,359 Speaker 1: on the way of the airport as you're walking out 480 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:04,359 Speaker 1: of their office, as they're at the airport wedding. Like 481 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 1: this is just basic journalism. If you have terrorist attacks 482 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:11,959 Speaker 1: and you've voted to not fund the Department of Hodseecurity, 483 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:14,560 Speaker 1: there should be and traditionally there would have been hell 484 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,119 Speaker 1: to pay on that one. I also go back to 485 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:19,640 Speaker 1: the part you're talking about with this whole like cleansing 486 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,360 Speaker 1: of Oh like, let's not act like this is Muslim extremists. 487 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:25,719 Speaker 1: I put out a list of just like the history 488 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,440 Speaker 1: and the past that we've dealt with with with radical Muslims. 489 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:32,760 Speaker 1: The shoe bomber Muslim, Orlando attack Muslim, the Beltway Sniper's Muslim, 490 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,399 Speaker 1: the fort Hood shooter Muslim, the underwear bomber Muslim, the 491 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:39,119 Speaker 1: Westminster Tech Muslim, the five Bali bombings Muslim, the murder 492 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:39,679 Speaker 1: of Lee. 493 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 2: Ben and Ben Ben. Let me let me jump in. Look, 494 00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:45,240 Speaker 2: you are right, but I want to draw a distinction 495 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 2: because there are more than a billion Muslims across the globe, 496 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,440 Speaker 2: and there are hundreds of millions of Muslims who are 497 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 2: in fact peaceful and in fact, you look at different 498 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,679 Speaker 2: different regions of the world. If you look at at 499 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,119 Speaker 2: a country like India, India it has millions and millions 500 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,639 Speaker 2: of Muslims and it has very little problem with radical 501 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 2: Islamic terrorism. It's not something that plagues India even though 502 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:11,120 Speaker 2: it has a huge population. There is a distinction between 503 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:15,680 Speaker 2: being Muslim, Yes, and being an Islamist. An Islamist is 504 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:20,440 Speaker 2: a particular ideology. There's a great book called The Looming Tower. 505 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:22,800 Speaker 2: It was written by a journalist, a Texas journalist called 506 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 2: Lawrence Wright, that traces the history of Islamism, and Islamism 507 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,919 Speaker 2: is a political ideology that says, we will use force, 508 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:35,320 Speaker 2: we will use violence, we will use terrorism to forcibly 509 00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 2: attack the infidels and to force them to either convert 510 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 2: to Islam or to die an Islamist that they have 511 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 2: killed vast numbers of Muslims. By the way, the Islamists target, 512 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 2: they're fellow Muslims with great frequency. They target Christians, they 513 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:56,480 Speaker 2: target Jews Islamism, which is where we get radical Islamic terrorism. 514 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 2: That's where on nine to eleven Osama bin Laden was 515 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:03,640 Speaker 2: an Islamist. That is a particular ideology, and one of 516 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,240 Speaker 2: the real problems is leftist refused to acknowledge it. In fact, 517 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:10,280 Speaker 2: I'll tell you during the Obama administration, I chared a 518 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:16,719 Speaker 2: hearing on the purge of radical Islamic terrorism from the 519 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:20,320 Speaker 2: Department of Homeland Security, and the Obama White House sent 520 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:24,400 Speaker 2: an email to DHS instructing it to purge and by 521 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 2: the way, purge was the word used by the Obama 522 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:32,240 Speaker 2: White House political operative purge from the DHS records, any 523 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 2: reference to Jahad, any reference to Muslim Brotherhood, any reference 524 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:42,880 Speaker 2: to radical Islamic terrorism, and DHS under Obama either deleted 525 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 2: or modified over eight hundred different records. And then when 526 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,360 Speaker 2: you'd have another radical Islamic terror attack, they'd be like, 527 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,480 Speaker 2: we have no idea where this came from. That same 528 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:56,239 Speaker 2: ideology is playing out in CNN's coverage like gosh, we 529 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 2: can't figure out what's going on here. And by the way, 530 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 2: it played on in their open borders when they allowed 531 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:06,520 Speaker 2: people to come in who are coming from countries that 532 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:11,440 Speaker 2: are filled with terrorists, filled with Jahadis, they didn't do 533 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 2: vetting to be clear. Look, you look at the Afghan 534 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 2: immigrants that Joe Biden brought into this country. They did 535 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 2: a terrible job vetting it. We saw one of those 536 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:25,320 Speaker 2: Afghan immigrants murder one National guardsmen and severely wound another 537 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:30,280 Speaker 2: in DC. If you cannot acknowledge what it is you're fighting, 538 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,720 Speaker 2: if you can't even say the words, and sadly CNN 539 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:36,080 Speaker 2: has a really hard time saying the words radical Islamic terrorism, 540 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 2: then you know what, you don't hold anyone to account 541 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:40,480 Speaker 2: for doing nothing to stop it and doing nothing to 542 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:41,560 Speaker 2: keep American safe. 543 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:45,040 Speaker 1: As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Center 544 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:47,560 Speaker 1: Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you don't forget to deal 545 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:49,880 Speaker 1: with my podcast and you can listen to my podcast 546 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 1: every other day you're not listening to Verdict or each 547 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,400 Speaker 1: day when you listen to Verdict. 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