1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: Welcome in his verdict with Ted Cruz, we can review 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:06,520 Speaker 1: Ben Ferguson with you, and here are the three major 3 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:08,680 Speaker 1: stories that you may have missed that we talked about 4 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 1: this week. First up, we put together an incredible list 5 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 1: of twelve things that you may not have known that 6 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:18,600 Speaker 1: we're in the Big Beautiful Bill that will impact your 7 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: life in a major way. I've got the final six 8 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: great things for you in today's list, and you can 9 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: also go back and hear the entire list from earlier 10 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 1: this week. Story number two real problem with enemy drones 11 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: in the skies and the national threat they pose to 12 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: our national security. So what can Congress do to protect 13 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:41,239 Speaker 1: all of us? We're going to break that down for 14 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 1: you as well. And finally, in the biggest story of 15 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:47,560 Speaker 1: the week, the bombshell report from the Director of National 16 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:51,599 Speaker 1: Intelligence Tolsta Gabbard on Barack Obama what now is being 17 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: described as treasonous actions by Obama and the Attorney General 18 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: Pam Bondi has jumped into the case. It's the week 19 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 1: we can review and it starts right now. 20 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:05,120 Speaker 2: I told you I'm going to give you twelve yeah, 21 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 2: major conservative victories in the one Big Beautiful Bill. We're 22 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:10,680 Speaker 2: at six, I actually want listeners to pause for a second. 23 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:13,279 Speaker 2: How many of you could list the first six before 24 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 2: this podcast? And I just want to make the point, 25 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:18,960 Speaker 2: what kind of job does the corporate media do. I'm 26 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 2: willing to bet virtually none of our listeners could have 27 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 2: listed those first six because the news hasn't covered it. 28 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 2: And it's why we do this podcast to give you 29 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:31,319 Speaker 2: information so that when you're talking to your friends and 30 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 2: your colleagues, you will know what's being accomplished. There's a 31 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 2: reason President Trump is so excited about this one big, 32 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 2: beautiful bill because it is massive, massive victories for America. 33 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 2: Number seven, Number seven spectrum now spectrum. What is spectrum? 34 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 2: Electromagnetic spectrum. It is how we communicate. It's how our 35 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 2: cell phones work, it's how Wi Fi works, it's how 36 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 2: satellites work, it's how streaming works. It's all of electronics spectrum. 37 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 2: The largest holder of spectrum is the United States government. 38 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 2: The United States Government has vast swaths of spectrum, and 39 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 2: under Joe Biden, the United States Government stop making new 40 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 2: spectrum available to the private sector. They ended auction authority. 41 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 2: It was grotesquely irresponsible. It did massive damage to America. 42 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 2: It destroyed jobs in America, and it let China get 43 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 2: ahead of America. In this bill, I wrote the legislation 44 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 2: that directs the federal government to auction to the private 45 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:35,359 Speaker 2: sector eight hundred megahertz of spectrum for private sector investment. 46 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 2: What does that mean? Number One, that will generate in 47 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 2: excess of one hundred billion dollars of revenue to the 48 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 2: federal government. 49 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 3: Wow. 50 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 2: Real money. Now, even in government terms, one hundred billion 51 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 2: dollars is real money. And listen, you and I are 52 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 2: deeply concerned about the deficit and the debt. The entire 53 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 2: commerce title that I wrote that had historic investments in coastguard, 54 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:03,360 Speaker 2: a bunch of other things, I ended up saving over 55 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 2: forty billion dollars, reducing the deficit and the debt by 56 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 2: over forty billion dollars. And the driver was because of 57 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 2: spectrum auction authority we brought in. We will bring in 58 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 2: one hundred billion dollars to pay down the debt. Credible, 59 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 2: that's real money. But it's not the biggest piece of this. 60 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 2: The biggest piece of this is by auctioning the spectrum off, 61 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 2: we will open up billions and billions of dollars of 62 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 2: private sector investment. The companies that buy this spectrum are 63 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 2: going to invest. It is going to create hundreds of 64 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 2: thousands of jobs. That is not an exaggeration. Hundreds of 65 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 2: thousands of jobs. And you know what spectrum is all about, 66 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 2: beating China to six G. I mentioned my consistent theme, 67 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 2: beat China, Beat China in the Arctic with the Coastguard, 68 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 2: beat China to six G with spectrum. And I got 69 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 2: to tell you, three months ago there was nobody in 70 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 2: Washington who thought we could get this done. Sat in 71 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 2: the office of the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, 72 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 2: a good friend of mine. I said, Mike, We're gonna 73 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 2: do Spectrum on the one big, beautiful bill. And Mike 74 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 2: laughed in my face. He's a good friend. But yeah, 75 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 2: there's no way, he said, there's no chance because the 76 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 2: Department of Defense and the CIA will fight you. They 77 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 2: will stop you. You cannot get it done. We not 78 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,039 Speaker 2: only got it done when I cut the deal and 79 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:24,479 Speaker 2: got it in the bill. President Trump called me the 80 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 2: next morning. He said, Ted, this is incredible. This is like, 81 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 2: how did you get such an incredible deal? Historic spectrum 82 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 2: auction authority producing hundreds of thousands of jobs and beating 83 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 2: China to six G that's in the bill. Number eight 84 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:46,919 Speaker 2: Air traffic Control. This bill invests twelve and a half 85 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 2: billion dollars modernizing our air traffic control. To keep your 86 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 2: family safer when you fly, to keep my family safer 87 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 2: when we fly. To stop using outdated radars, to stop 88 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 2: using computers that have floppy discs and sper copper wire. 89 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 2: To modernize our air traffic control. A massive investment in 90 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 2: keeping the American public safe. This bill. I wrote that 91 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 2: portion that is also in the Commerce title. So I 92 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 2: wrote that portion that will fund and improve air traffic control. 93 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 2: A huge victory. Number nine Space YEP. This bill has 94 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 2: ten billion dollars for NASA to go to the Moon, 95 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 2: for the Artemis program, for the Gateway program, to beat 96 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 2: China to the moon. China has said they intend to 97 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:35,240 Speaker 2: return to the Moon by twenty thirty. In my view, 98 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 2: if we lose the Moon to China, it would be 99 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:41,159 Speaker 2: a catastrophic loss. It would be a loss if we 100 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:43,159 Speaker 2: woke up in a few years and China was on 101 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 2: the Moon and China established a base on the Moon, 102 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 2: which is what they said they intend to do with 103 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 2: the Russians, and. 104 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: They made that very clear. That is the sole intent 105 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:52,039 Speaker 1: of going. It's not just to go to the Moon, 106 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: it's to have a base. 107 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 3: On the Moon. 108 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:57,559 Speaker 2: Yes, if they did that and we lost, I think 109 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 2: it would be worse than sputt in it that it 110 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 2: would be a national body blow that would crush this country. 111 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,600 Speaker 2: And look, the Moon is critical number one for national security. 112 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 2: The Moon is the high ground you look at. So 113 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 2: much of our national security and so much of our 114 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:16,280 Speaker 2: commerce depends on satellites in orbit around the Earth. The 115 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:19,600 Speaker 2: Moon gives you the high ground. It is very dangerous 116 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:22,480 Speaker 2: for us to see that to China. It is unacceptable 117 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 2: for us to see that to China. But number two, 118 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 2: there are massive rare minerals on the Moon. There are 119 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:33,839 Speaker 2: enormous economic advantages. It is current US law that it 120 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 2: is the policy of the American government to have a 121 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:39,919 Speaker 2: sustained human habitation either on the lunar surface or in 122 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 2: cisar orbit. This investment in beating China to the Moon. 123 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 2: And by the way, the Moon is a stepping stone 124 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 2: to Mars. We will go to Mars, but we haven't 125 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 2: landed on a celestial body in over fifty years. So 126 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 2: we're going to land on the Moon first to make 127 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 2: sure we know how to do it, and then we're 128 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 2: gonna go to Mars. This investment. I wrote this investment 129 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 2: in there, I will say there was significant resistance, and 130 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 2: without getting too much into the sausage making, we won 131 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 2: against the resistance. This is in there. It is a 132 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 2: massive investment. That is exactly right. That's number nine. Number ten, 133 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 2: Cafe standards, the standards that mandate you keep having to 134 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 2: have higher and higher fuel efficiency on your cars. That's 135 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 2: what the Biden administration has used as its tool, as 136 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 2: one of its tools to wage the war on the 137 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 2: internal combustion engine, to try to force every car to 138 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 2: be electric. Is they keep jacking up CAFE standards higher 139 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 2: and higher and higher. What does that mean? Number what 140 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 2: It drives up the cost of your cars. You notice 141 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 2: cars have gotten a lot more expensive. Trucks have gotten 142 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 2: a lot more expensive. Number two, it makes cars less 143 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 2: safe because one of the ways you get the gas 144 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 2: efficiency highre is you replace metal with plastics, cheap plastic 145 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 2: that crumbles it in a crash and more people die. 146 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 2: In the commerce section of the One Big Beauty Bill, 147 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 2: you know what we did to cafe standards? What was 148 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:03,960 Speaker 2: that zeroed them out? 149 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 1: Really they're gone, So it's actually in this so you're 150 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: telling me that my car, instead of being all plastic, 151 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 1: we have a little finger bird and everything breaks. They 152 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: could actually go back and say, hey, we're not trying 153 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: to save weight here, We're trying to actually make safe cars. 154 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 2: It can be a great American car again made a 155 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 2: steel tough as hell. And by the way, you want 156 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 2: to buy electric car, great, that's your choice. You want 157 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 2: to have to hybrid, great, you want to buy a 158 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 2: gas car, great. It ought to be consumers choosing. And actually, 159 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 2: the way we did this we very much modeled how 160 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:36,239 Speaker 2: in twenty seventeen we repealed the individual mandate on Obamacare, 161 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 2: so that was a fight I led in twenty seventeen. 162 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 2: The individual mandate. The way we eliminated it is under 163 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 2: the rules of reconciliation, we could not eliminate the legal 164 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 2: mandate to buy health insurance, which was the individual mandate 165 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 2: under Obamacare. So you know what we did. We made 166 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 2: the penalty zero. So you used to be the irs 167 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 2: finds you. If you didn't buy health insurance, the eye 168 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 2: rest would find you. It is still the law. You're 169 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 2: required to buy health atz don't, you will be fined 170 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:08,080 Speaker 2: zero dollars and zero cents. We did the same thing 171 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 2: to Cafe standards, so they can put their standards out, 172 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 2: but the penalty for violating it is zero. And I 173 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 2: want to mention, look, this is again like PBS at NPR. 174 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 2: This has been a conservative battle for fifty years. 175 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 3: And Democrats have been winning for fifty years, unfortunately. 176 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 2: And we got this done. I wrote this portion, it 177 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 2: is in the bill, it is zeroed out, and we 178 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 2: got this done. And I'm willing to bet fewer than 179 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 2: one percent of our listeners even knew we had done it, 180 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 2: because we won so many victories that this falls all 181 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 2: the way down to number ten on the list. 182 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:44,600 Speaker 3: Incredible, well done. 183 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 2: The final two, yep, the final two, as you know, 184 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 2: are very near and dear to my heart. Number eleven 185 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:54,439 Speaker 2: is school choice. In this bill, we passed the single 186 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:58,560 Speaker 2: largest and most consequential federal school choice bill in the 187 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 2: history of our country. I wrote this provision. Every single 188 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 2: American taxpayer can now contribute up to seventeen hundred dollars 189 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 2: a year to a scholarship granting organization in the States 190 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 2: and get a dollar for dollar credit on their taxes. 191 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 2: It means the money is free. The effect of this 192 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:20,439 Speaker 2: is going to be tens of billions of new scholarship 193 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:25,079 Speaker 2: money in the states for school choice, for K through 194 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:27,560 Speaker 2: twelve school choice. We're going to do a subsequent pod 195 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 2: that does a really deep die because this. 196 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:32,560 Speaker 3: Is part of your legacy. By the way, this is 197 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 3: going to be part of your life. 198 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 2: This is the issue I care more about than anything else. 199 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:39,360 Speaker 2: I have spent thirty years fighting for it. And we're 200 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 2: going to do another pod where we do a very 201 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 2: deep dive because there's some aspects of this that I 202 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 2: want the listeners to appreciate that are both incredible policy 203 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:51,840 Speaker 2: victories but also massive political victories. We are creating incentives 204 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 2: to turn blue states red, to build constituencies of parents 205 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 2: and kids who want fantastic educations. This this is I 206 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:03,439 Speaker 2: told the President. If and when we get this done, 207 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 2: you will go down in history as one of the 208 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 2: greatest civil rights presidents in our nation's history. Your critics 209 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:09,559 Speaker 2: will never acknowledge that. 210 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, but the reality will be you're going to change 211 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:12,680 Speaker 3: poor communities. 212 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 2: The reality is the school choice provision is massive, and 213 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 2: it's in the bill. And then the final number twelve 214 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 2: are the Trump accounts, the invest America accounts. Again, I 215 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:24,559 Speaker 2: wrote this provision. 216 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,200 Speaker 3: This can fundamentally change this country. 217 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:29,680 Speaker 2: By the way, starting next year July fourth of next year, 218 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 2: the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the United States 219 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:36,439 Speaker 2: of America, every child in America will have a personal 220 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:39,560 Speaker 2: investment account. Every newborn child will have it seated with 221 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:45,720 Speaker 2: one thousand dollars. Parents, family employers can contribute up to 222 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 2: five thousand dollars a year in a tax advantage account. 223 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:50,920 Speaker 2: All of that money is invested in the S and P. 224 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 2: Five hundred is invested in the stock market. That enables 225 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:58,439 Speaker 2: every kid to enjoy the incredible benefits of compound growth, 226 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 2: which will try transform our kids. The wealth creation for 227 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:07,679 Speaker 2: the next generation of Americans will be utterly transformative. And 228 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:10,839 Speaker 2: not only that, this creates a new generation of capitalists, 229 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 2: as our kids will all be owners of the largest 230 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 2: employers in America. These two victories, school choice and personal 231 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:24,559 Speaker 2: investment accounts for kids without exaggeration, Ben and I've told 232 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 2: the President this. I think ten years, twenty years, thirty 233 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 2: years from now, these will be the two things everyone 234 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 2: remembers from this bill. Everything else. I listed one through ten, 235 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:39,079 Speaker 2: which are massive that they are conservative victories for the generations. 236 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 2: I think eleven and twelve will dwarf one in ten 237 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 2: because the difference, we will see trillions of dollars invested 238 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 2: in four oh one case for kids in these Trump 239 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 2: accounts that will change the future of every one of 240 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 2: our kids and make them all have skin in the 241 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:58,920 Speaker 2: game in our capitalist society. And school choice is going 242 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:03,200 Speaker 2: to literally prove hope and opportunity to millions of kids. 243 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:08,000 Speaker 2: We got both of them done. Those are victories, generational victories, 244 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:10,760 Speaker 2: and when the President signed it on July fourth, they 245 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:12,239 Speaker 2: were victories for all of America. 246 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, 247 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 1: you can go back and listen to the full podcast 248 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:21,560 Speaker 1: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two, I 249 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 1: want to move to something else, and this is about 250 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:28,559 Speaker 1: securing our skies, law enforcement and drones and public safety 251 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:29,960 Speaker 1: or something I think a lot of people are paying 252 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 1: attention to, especially since we really exposed this on Verdict, 253 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 1: where we were talking about how the cartels have got 254 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 1: an amazing ability to use drones. Now they are heavily 255 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:48,560 Speaker 1: advanced and have advanced invested in this technology for drones 256 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 1: to be able to see what we're doing on our 257 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 1: side of the border. See when border patrol agans are 258 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 1: going one direction or the others. They can get people across, 259 00:13:55,559 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: drugs across. It's incredible. There's also another national security standpoint 260 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:03,320 Speaker 1: on drones as well. We've witnessed what drones are becoming 261 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:06,680 Speaker 1: this war with Russia and Ukraine, and it terrifies me 262 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:11,199 Speaker 1: what we're seeing now with drone technology and how drones 263 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:16,440 Speaker 1: are changing warfare, and unfortunately you're seeing it have a 264 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 1: massive impact on the number of casualties between Russia and Ukraine. 265 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:24,160 Speaker 1: You combine those two things, the cartels, the drugs, the 266 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 1: human trafficking, sex trafficking, child trafficking, the fetanyl and the 267 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 1: war aspect of this, and there's a nefarious individual's isis 268 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 1: how kind of the list goes on and on. You 269 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 1: guys are looking at this from an issue of we 270 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 1: got to secure our skies with this new legislation that 271 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 1: you're advocating for. 272 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 2: Talk about that, well, war often foreshadows the next threats 273 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 2: we will face, the next threats we will face from terrorism, 274 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 2: the next threats we will face from criminal attacks, and 275 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 2: you're right the war in Ukraine right now. If you 276 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 2: look at how drones are being used, it illustrates the 277 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 2: profound threat. We had a hearing this week in the 278 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 2: Senate Judiciary Committee. I raised some questions on this. I 279 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 2: laid this out. Give a listen to what I had 280 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 2: to say in the Judiciary Committee hearing this week. In 281 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:14,800 Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, Thomas Crooks flew a drone over a 282 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 2: Trump rally site for eleven minutes, scouting the grounds before 283 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 2: his attempted assassination of President Trump. That same year, drones 284 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 2: hovered over Naval air Station Fort Worth for more than 285 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 2: two hours unintercepted. At our southern border, cartels now operate 286 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 2: drone fleet, smuggling fentanyl, coordinating illegal crossings, and jamming US surveillance. 287 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 2: They formed specialized drone units. They've dropped bombs, They've deployed jammers. 288 00:15:53,080 --> 00:16:00,240 Speaker 2: Drones right now are outpacing our law enforcement at every turn. 289 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 2: Drones drop weapons, phones, and fentanyl, arming inmates, and fueling 290 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 2: the deadliest drug drug epidemic in American history. And here's 291 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 2: the most damning part. Cartels right now have more drone 292 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 2: capability than American law enforcement. Let me repeat that cartels 293 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 2: today have more drone capability than American law enforcement. Mister Hardy, 294 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 2: you work at the intersection of law and policy regarding 295 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 2: drones at the DOJ. Is it true that only a 296 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 2: handful of federal agents under narrow legal authority can intercept 297 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 2: or disable a drone? 298 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 4: Thank you, Senator. That is generally true under the twenty 299 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 4: eighteen Act that gives DHS and DHS a DOJ authority 300 00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 4: to conduct detection and mitigration operation. 301 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 3: That shocking center. 302 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 1: That that's it, Like were you want to talk about 303 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:06,960 Speaker 1: being behind me the eight ball? 304 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 3: Like good grief? 305 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:10,800 Speaker 2: Yes, And it's not just at the hearing. We also 306 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:13,920 Speaker 2: got into the fact that federal law enforcement is highly 307 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:16,680 Speaker 2: limited and actually stayed in. Local law enforcement is even 308 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 2: more limited. So understand the threat we're going to face. 309 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 2: We are going to see a major terrorist attack carried 310 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:27,479 Speaker 2: out by drones. We are going to see people killed 311 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:32,240 Speaker 2: via drones. We may see a drone flown into a 312 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:36,400 Speaker 2: commercial airline. We are going to see I believe, political 313 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:42,000 Speaker 2: leaders assassinated using drones. The threats are massive and right now, 314 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:45,120 Speaker 2: the authority of law enforcements take out a drone. If 315 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:48,280 Speaker 2: there's a drone that is over a sports stadium for 316 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:51,160 Speaker 2: a football game, a baseball game, a World Cup game. 317 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:56,119 Speaker 2: Right now, there is extremely limited, almost no authority to 318 00:17:56,160 --> 00:18:02,199 Speaker 2: take out that drone, even moments before it detonates a bomb, 319 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:07,440 Speaker 2: or distributes a bioweapon, or engages in some other act 320 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:08,200 Speaker 2: of terrorism. 321 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 3: This is the most scary. 322 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 1: I think part about red tape with government is if 323 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 1: you see a threat and it's there, it's almost like 324 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:19,679 Speaker 1: you have to hope that law enforcement will just say 325 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:22,080 Speaker 1: I'll deal with one of the consequences later, because I 326 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 1: know I'm doing the right thing, and you worry that 327 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 1: people are like, well, hold on a second, you can't 328 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 1: do that, you don't have the authority, and then the 329 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:29,640 Speaker 1: worst case scenario happens. 330 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:33,919 Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, and this hearing is driving we need legislation 331 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 2: that gives law enforcement the authority to protect us, to 332 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:38,600 Speaker 2: take out drones, to take out drones that are a 333 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 2: threat to airplanes. I am very concerned about an aviation 334 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 2: accident of a drone getting in the way of a 335 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 2: commercial aircraft. We need authority to take out drones that 336 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:54,960 Speaker 2: pose a threat to civilians, pose a threat to sports gatherings, 337 00:18:55,119 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 2: pose a threat. As I laid out the assassination attempt 338 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:05,320 Speaker 2: on Donald Trump, the assassin who shot President Trump used 339 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:09,600 Speaker 2: a drone initially to scout it out. This is coming 340 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:12,199 Speaker 2: and it is dangerous, and I think we have a 341 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:16,159 Speaker 2: responsibility to act and to act. You know, there's a 342 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:20,400 Speaker 2: long phenomenon that when it comes to warfare, generals far 343 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 2: too often fight the last war rather than the next war. 344 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 2: If you look at the war in Ukraine, it gives 345 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:30,159 Speaker 2: us a window into the future because drones allow for 346 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:35,879 Speaker 2: asymmetric attacks for those who lack power to use a 347 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 2: four hundred dollars drone to take out a multimillion dollar 348 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:44,919 Speaker 2: tank or a multimillion dollar fighter jet. That asymmetry is 349 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 2: dangerous and I think we need real leadership, real leadership 350 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:51,240 Speaker 2: on the part of the Trump administration, real leadership on 351 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 2: the part of Congress to enhance our ability to stop 352 00:19:55,760 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 2: dangerous drones and to recognize this is the next frontier 353 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:06,920 Speaker 2: for warfare, for terrorism, and for threats of violence against 354 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 2: civilians across this country. 355 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 1: Final question on this, do you believe this is at 356 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:14,880 Speaker 1: least one of those issues where you can get bipartisan support, 357 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,160 Speaker 1: that this won't be Republican to v Democrat and make 358 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 1: this so hard to do. Our Democrats on board with 359 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:23,920 Speaker 1: us because it's a national security issue. 360 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 3: So I hope. 361 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 2: So I don't know yet if Democrats will be willing 362 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:29,440 Speaker 2: to work together. It should be. I mean, this ought 363 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:32,680 Speaker 2: to be a level of common sense that people would recognize. 364 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 2: This threat is not a partisan threat. It's not a 365 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 2: right wing threat or a left wing threat. It's a 366 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,439 Speaker 2: vulnerability we have as a society. And so I'm certainly 367 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:43,639 Speaker 2: going to try to get Democrats and Republicans to come together. 368 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:45,440 Speaker 2: But I will say it as early so we don't 369 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 2: know for sure, but this ought to be an issue 370 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:49,040 Speaker 2: that brings us all together. 371 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:50,120 Speaker 3: As before. 372 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:52,200 Speaker 1: If you want to hear the rest of this conversation 373 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 1: on this topic, you can go back and dow the 374 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: podcasts from earlier this week to hear the entire thing. 375 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,160 Speaker 1: I want to get back to the big story, number 376 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 1: three of the week. You may have missed, all right, 377 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:06,160 Speaker 1: so let's go to the Bombshell Center. I was in 378 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:09,639 Speaker 1: DC when this happened, and everyone was talking about the 379 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:13,679 Speaker 1: report that was released showing how the Oba administration in 380 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 1: essence perpetrated the Russian hoax on Donald Trump to under 381 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:20,200 Speaker 1: by his presidency but also to really get him out 382 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:20,920 Speaker 1: of the White House. 383 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 2: Well, that's right, and it's important to understand what is 384 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 2: new about this. Listen, everyone has known for some time 385 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:30,439 Speaker 2: that the Obama team pushed the Russia Russia Russia hoax. 386 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 2: We've known that that's been well established. What is new, 387 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,919 Speaker 2: what Tulsea Gabbard put out this week is that they 388 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 2: knew they were lying when they did that, because the 389 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 2: intelligence had been precisely the opposite. And what I want 390 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:45,200 Speaker 2: to do is I want to walk through a little 391 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,120 Speaker 2: bit of this timeline and give you the specific facts. 392 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 2: So August thirty first of twenty sixteen, a DHS official 393 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 2: tells former DNI director James Clapper that there was quote 394 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:03,679 Speaker 2: no indication of a Russian threat to directly manipulate the 395 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:07,680 Speaker 2: actual vote count. That's in August of twenty sixteen. Then 396 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 2: September second, twenty sixteen, the FBI said it was quote 397 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:17,480 Speaker 2: uncomfortable implying that there was definitive information that Russia intended 398 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:23,000 Speaker 2: to disrupt our elections. Then on September ninth, twenty sixteen, quote, 399 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:30,400 Speaker 2: the intelligence community concluded that Russia was probably not trying 400 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:34,439 Speaker 2: to influence the election by using cyber means to target 401 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:39,040 Speaker 2: election infrastructure. That continued, so that was not just through 402 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:42,240 Speaker 2: August and September of twenty sixteen, but it continued after 403 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 2: the election. The election happens in November twenty sixteen. On 404 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 2: December seventh, twenty sixteen, here are the talking points that 405 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 2: DNI Director Clapper had prepared for him. Quote, foreign adversaries 406 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:03,520 Speaker 2: did not use iber attacks on election infrastructure to alter 407 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:07,919 Speaker 2: the US presidential election outcome. The next day, December eighth, 408 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:13,359 Speaker 2: Barack Obama's Presidential Daily Brief read as follows. Quote We 409 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:19,679 Speaker 2: assess that Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent 410 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 2: US election results by conducting militious cyber activities against election infrastructure. 411 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,320 Speaker 3: That's an important point there by the way. 412 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:32,119 Speaker 2: That's what Barack Obama was briefed on December eighth, And 413 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:36,880 Speaker 2: then December ninth, twenty sixteen, everything changed. On December ninth, 414 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:41,720 Speaker 2: d and I Director Clapper, national Security Advisor Susan Rice, 415 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:45,960 Speaker 2: Secretary of State John Carey, and Deputy FBI Director McCabe. 416 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 2: They all met in person, and in that meeting they 417 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 2: reversed course entirely one hundred and eighty degrees. They flipped, 418 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 2: and they agreed to recommend and sanctioning members of the 419 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 2: Russian military intelligence because of the Russia hoax. They tasked 420 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:11,440 Speaker 2: the intelligence community with creating an assessment of the tools 421 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:15,360 Speaker 2: Moscow used to influence the twenty sixteen election, and that 422 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:19,720 Speaker 2: same day, deep state officials in the intelligence community began 423 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 2: leaking false intelligence to the Washington Post. This was a 424 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,959 Speaker 2: decision they made to lie to the American people, and 425 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:29,680 Speaker 2: that's the news. 426 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:33,119 Speaker 1: Deliberately and orchestrated and well planned out. This wasn't just 427 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,080 Speaker 1: a random what's got there and lie at a press briefing. 428 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 1: This was a plan, like writing a movie script of 429 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:41,639 Speaker 1: how you were going to lie to the American people 430 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:43,840 Speaker 1: and use the intelligence agencies to do it. 431 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,359 Speaker 2: And what Tulsey Gabbert has now given us the receipts 432 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 2: on is they knew they were lying that for months 433 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 2: and months and months, the intelligence community had been reporting 434 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 2: exactly the opposite. So when they made this decision, it 435 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 2: was a political determination. It was a political determination because 436 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:03,159 Speaker 2: they hated Donald Trump. And it was a political determination 437 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 2: because they were furious with the American people for electing 438 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 2: Donald Trump president. And this was an attempt to subvert democracy. 439 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,560 Speaker 2: And this was an attempt to overthrow the then newly 440 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 2: elected president of the United States. And what is brazen 441 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,879 Speaker 2: about it is that they did it all of the 442 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 2: intelligence that for months and months and months had been reported, 443 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:29,400 Speaker 2: it suddenly magically disappeared. They didn't acknowledge it. They simply 444 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:33,440 Speaker 2: those facts were no longer operative. They had a political agenda, 445 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 2: facts be damned, and they were willing to lie to 446 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 2: the American people, and they were willing to lie to Congress. 447 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 3: Ceda. 448 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,639 Speaker 1: I want to go back into what Tulsa Gabbert said 449 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 1: when she went to the White House White House Press 450 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 1: briefing room, and she opened it up as she was 451 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 1: introduced by the White House pres Secretary, and here's what 452 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:49,760 Speaker 1: she had to say. 453 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:53,399 Speaker 5: The stunning revelations that we are releasing today should be 454 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,960 Speaker 5: of concern to every American. This is not about Democrats Republicans. 455 00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 5: This has to do with the integrity of our Democratic 456 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,679 Speaker 5: republic and American voters having faith that the votes cast 457 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:08,880 Speaker 5: will count. There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President 458 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 5: Obama and his national security team directed the creation of 459 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:17,959 Speaker 5: an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false. They 460 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,720 Speaker 5: knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered 461 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,920 Speaker 5: in the twenty sixteen election to help President Trump win, 462 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,159 Speaker 5: selling it to the American people as though it were true. 463 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,760 Speaker 5: It wasn't. The report that we released today shows in 464 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 5: great detail how they carried this out. They manufactured findings 465 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:41,520 Speaker 5: from shoddy sources. They suppressed evidence and credible intelligence that 466 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:47,959 Speaker 5: disproved their false claims. They disobeyed traditional trade craft intelligence 467 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,879 Speaker 5: community standards and withheld the truth from the American people. 468 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,439 Speaker 5: In doing so, they conspired to subvert the will of 469 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:58,479 Speaker 5: the American people who elected Donald Trump in that election 470 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:01,960 Speaker 5: in November of twenty sixteen. They worked with their partners 471 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,360 Speaker 5: in the media to promote this lie, ultimately to undermine 472 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,920 Speaker 5: the legitimacy of President Trump and launching what would be 473 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:13,159 Speaker 5: a year's long coup against him and his administration. 474 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 1: A year's long coup against him and his administration orchestrated 475 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 1: with the deep state and the media. 476 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,879 Speaker 3: She's indicting all of them, saying they knew this was 477 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 3: a lie. 478 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 2: She is, and I will say, as she rightly pointed out, 479 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,879 Speaker 2: the evidence she put out shows number one, it was 480 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 2: false that Russia was trying to interfere with the election. 481 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 2: But number two, a second predicate of their lie is 482 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,399 Speaker 2: that Russia was trying to interfere to benefit Donald Trump. 483 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 2: That was a critical Democrat partisan lie. And one of 484 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:48,359 Speaker 2: the pieces that she put out is that the Obama 485 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 2: intelligence community assessed that Russia had in its possession damaging 486 00:27:55,640 --> 00:28:01,720 Speaker 2: information about Hillary Clinton, including the NC communication. So this 487 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:05,040 Speaker 2: is the Democrat National Committee communicating saying that Clinton was 488 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:12,600 Speaker 2: suffering from quote intensified psycho emotional problems, including uncontrolled fits 489 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:17,280 Speaker 2: of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness. And by the way, that's 490 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:18,080 Speaker 2: really weird. 491 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,760 Speaker 1: Well you better aroun Hillary Clinton and cheerful if you've 492 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 1: better around Hillary Clinton. 493 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 3: She's not exactly the most cheerful person, so that would 494 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:24,480 Speaker 3: be a red flag. 495 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:30,280 Speaker 2: And what the DNC communications further indicated was that Clinton 496 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 2: was placed on a daily regimen of quote heavy tranquilizers, 497 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:40,680 Speaker 2: and while being afraid of losing, she remained quote obsessed 498 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,920 Speaker 2: with a thirst for power. Now, I don't know if 499 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 2: if this supposed Russian intelligence is accurate or not. Tulsea 500 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:51,480 Speaker 2: Gabbard released it and said that the Obama intelligence community 501 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 2: assessed that Russia had this And here's the critical part. 502 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 2: Russia didn't release it. It clearly would have been damaging 503 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,720 Speaker 2: to Hillary Clinton. If they wanted Donald Trump to win, 504 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,280 Speaker 2: they would have put it out, presumably in October of 505 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:07,000 Speaker 2: twenty sixteen. They didn't that she had another element of 506 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:07,600 Speaker 2: the lie. 507 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:09,760 Speaker 3: It's a huge element of the lie. 508 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 1: So the question now becomes this where we go from here, 509 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 1: and it seems to be moving actually very fast. Great 510 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,320 Speaker 1: example of that is the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, we're 511 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,800 Speaker 1: now being told, is forming a strike force to quote 512 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:27,360 Speaker 1: investigate disclosures from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, 513 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:31,760 Speaker 1: that would be Toulsa Gabbard that raises allegations the Obama 514 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:37,719 Speaker 1: administration quote manufactured an intelligence assessment in twenty seventeen promoting 515 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 1: the Russian Hoaks collusion, saying quote the Department of Justice 516 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:43,640 Speaker 1: announcing the formation of the strike force on Wednesday. The 517 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:47,560 Speaker 1: strike force will assess the evidence publicized by the d 518 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 1: and I director and investigate any potential quote next level 519 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 1: steps which might stem from d and I Gabbard's disclosures 520 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,720 Speaker 1: that's coming from the release. And Bondi called the disclosures 521 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 1: from Gabbard's office quote quote troubling in the statement. 522 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,120 Speaker 2: Well, I'm very glad that the Trump Department of Justice 523 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:09,000 Speaker 2: is investigating this. Tulsea Gabbard made a criminal referral to 524 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 2: the Department of Justice, and Pambondi launched this strike force, 525 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,880 Speaker 2: and many people are asking quite reasonably. Is anyone going 526 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 2: to be held accountable for this? Because it seems so 527 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,040 Speaker 2: frustrating to have people breaking the law over and over 528 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 2: and over again and nobody being prosecuted, nobody going to jail. 529 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 2: I very much hope people are held accountable. I hope 530 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,960 Speaker 2: that the Trump Department of Justice is able to prosecute 531 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,959 Speaker 2: and and and prove if there is criminal conduct, that 532 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,840 Speaker 2: they're able to prove it and get convictions and people 533 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,480 Speaker 2: are held accountable. And I'll tell you the people who 534 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:43,000 Speaker 2: are most likely to face criminal liability are those senior 535 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:47,080 Speaker 2: members of the Obama intelligence community, those people that were 536 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 2: in the the the December ninth meeting where they decided 537 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 2: to deliberately lie to the American people. Those names, by 538 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,840 Speaker 2: the way, and in particular, so those names. 539 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,080 Speaker 1: You're talking about James Clapper for one example, we're talking 540 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:02,200 Speaker 1: the biggest names there. 541 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,080 Speaker 2: Yes, I'm talking about James Clapper, I'm talking about Susan Rice, 542 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:09,320 Speaker 2: I'm talking about John Carey, and I'm talking about Deputy 543 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:13,760 Speaker 2: FBI director mckabe. Wow, those were the ones. And in particular, 544 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:18,360 Speaker 2: also it is the senior officials who testified, falsely testified 545 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,720 Speaker 2: before Congress and lied and knew there were lying. And 546 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 2: there are two relevant federal criminal statutes that are most relevant. 547 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,640 Speaker 2: Number one is eighteen USC. Section sixteen twenty one, and 548 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:32,040 Speaker 2: that is perjury. Whoever, having taken an oath, wilfully states 549 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 2: any material matter which he does not believe to be true, 550 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:38,760 Speaker 2: is guilty of perjury. That this applies to sworn congressional testimony. 551 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:43,280 Speaker 2: And secondly, eighteen USC. Section one thousand and one, whoever 552 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,760 Speaker 2: knowingly and wilfully makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent 553 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,760 Speaker 2: statement in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, 554 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,960 Speaker 2: or judicial branch shall be fined or in prison. Both 555 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:57,360 Speaker 2: of these you've got, in particular, two different testimonies that 556 00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:01,840 Speaker 2: are really problematic. Number one, on May eighth, twenty seventeen, 557 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:06,560 Speaker 2: James Clapper testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the 558 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,840 Speaker 2: Russia collusion and what he said, according to what's been 559 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:13,200 Speaker 2: released by Toolsey Gabbert, he knew was false. He said, 560 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,840 Speaker 2: in particular, quote Russia's influence activities in the run up 561 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,920 Speaker 2: to the twenty sixteen presidential election constituted the high water 562 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:23,320 Speaker 2: mark of their long running efforts. They must be congratulating themselves. 563 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:25,880 Speaker 2: This episode is a clarion call for vigilance and action 564 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:29,360 Speaker 2: against the threat to the very foundations of our democratic system. 565 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:33,320 Speaker 2: And then in November twenty twenty, Andrew McCabe testified before 566 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,520 Speaker 2: the Senate Judiciary Committee. He lied as well, and I 567 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:38,520 Speaker 2: will say for the Statute of Limitations, if it was 568 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:43,000 Speaker 2: materially covered up, it is extended. 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