1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:01,680 Speaker 1: Welcome. 2 00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 2: It is verdict with center, Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you, 3 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,880 Speaker 2: Senator fireworks on Capitol Hill. We're gonna start with that 4 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 2: because it was a very big day for Pete Hedgseth. 5 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 2: Democrats tried to derail him. It did not work well. 6 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 2: The circuses in town. 7 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:21,440 Speaker 3: Democrats were putting on a show today at the hearing 8 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:23,959 Speaker 3: for Pete hegg Seth. The good news is he will 9 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 3: be confirmed. We're gonna break it down exactly what happened 10 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 3: at his confirmation hearing yesterday. And this is the beginning 11 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 3: of the confirmation hearings for the Trump cabinet. Tomorrow, we'll 12 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 3: have confirmation hearings. I'll participate in three. I'll participate in 13 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:39,519 Speaker 3: the confirmation hearing for Pam Bondy as Attorney General, the 14 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 3: confirmation hearing from Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, and 15 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 3: I'll be chairing the confirmation hearing for Sean Duffy, a 16 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:48,280 Speaker 3: Secretary of Transportation. We'll tell you what to expect on that, 17 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 3: and then we're going to talk about one of the 18 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 3: most shocking scandals that you've never heard of, and it 19 00:00:54,800 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 3: is the child rape gang scandal in the United Kingdom. 20 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 3: Thousands upon thousands of children were raped over decades, systematically, repeatedly, 21 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:15,199 Speaker 3: and the British government, British prosecutors turned the other way 22 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 3: because of political correctness and multiculturalism. The shocks that the 23 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 3: facts are shocking, and the six o'clock news won't cover it. 24 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 3: That's why you listen to Verdict to discover the real 25 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 3: facts that you will not hear in the corporate media. 26 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 3: And finally, Joe Biden, on his way out, decided to 27 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 3: give a gift to the communists in Qube, but he 28 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 3: took them off the list of state sponsors of terrorism. 29 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 3: It turns out if you're a leftist, you can try 30 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:46,039 Speaker 3: to kill anyone you want and the Democrats will love you. 31 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 4: All of that. 32 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 2: On today's Verdict, Yeah, it's the story on that one 33 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 2: is truly shocking. 34 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 1: Will explain why is yes a big deal. 35 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 2: But you know what, Donald Trump's coming On January the 36 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 2: twenty seventh, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day will be here 37 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 2: and we will remember the great evil of the Holocaust, 38 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:08,399 Speaker 2: when millions of Jews were slaughtered during the Nazis reign 39 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:13,119 Speaker 2: of terror. 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You can also call eight at 57 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:18,399 Speaker 2: eight four eight eight IFCJ that's eight eight eight four 58 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 2: eight eight IFCJ eighty eight four eight eight four three 59 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 2: two five, or SUPPORTIFCJ dot org. All right, so let's 60 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 2: start with Democrats game plan center. It was to do 61 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 2: everything they could to smear Pete. It was to try 62 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 2: to say he's unfit for office. It was to try 63 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,839 Speaker 2: to say, well, he's not what we traditionally have in 64 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 2: this role in the past, and we must keep the 65 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 2: status quo. And then it went to personal attacks on 66 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 2: him as well. 67 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 1: None of it stuck. 68 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, le le, let's start with the punchline. Pete hegseeth 69 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 3: will be confirmed. He is going to be confirmed as 70 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 3: the Secretary of Defense. I believe he will have at 71 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 3: least fifty votes in the US Senate, and today's hearing 72 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 3: is a big part of the reason why Democrats tried 73 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 3: to come after him, and frankly, in the course of 74 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 3: the hearing, I don't think they laid a glove on 75 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 3: him very effectively. Now, listen, you and I had talked 76 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 3: about this before. We had predicted it was going to 77 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 3: be a political circus, and there were clowns, there were 78 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 3: dancing bears that were ballerinas and trapeze artists. They went 79 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 3: after him, But. 80 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 4: It actually speaks volumes. 81 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:31,920 Speaker 3: What did they choose to go after him on. They 82 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 3: choose chose to go after him on political smears to 83 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:40,040 Speaker 3: personal smears, to drag him through the gutter, and based 84 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 3: on a whole series of allegations that the press has 85 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 3: covered breathlessly over and over and over again, almost all 86 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 3: of which are anonymous allegations. So you don't have anyone 87 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 3: coming forward being willing to say I was there, this 88 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 3: is what happened. They're all anonymous, given to left wing papers, 89 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 3: and there's no evidence to back any of them up. 90 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 3: And yet the Democrats, in any massive display of hypocrisy, 91 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 3: just went after and they were They were mean, they 92 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 3: were nasty, that they were personal. You know, look, you 93 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 3: look at Pete Haigs's background. First of all, he went 94 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 3: to Princeton and Harvard, which which I confess I'm kind 95 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:25,920 Speaker 3: of partial to that particular comedy. I wonder why, by 96 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:28,799 Speaker 3: the way, I learned this today reading through his bio. 97 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:30,039 Speaker 4: Do you know what he did at Princeton? 98 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 1: I do not. 99 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 4: He played on the basketball team. 100 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: Well, then the next question is why have you guys 101 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: not played? 102 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 3: I found that out today. I'm but that's like twelve 103 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,599 Speaker 3: hours ago. Usually says you already get a game together 104 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:48,039 Speaker 3: in these cities. So I played hoops this afternoon. We 105 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 3: play old guys against young guys. Pete is forty four, 106 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 3: he's not not my age, but he still qualifies as 107 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 3: an old guy. So I was already laughing, going, all right, 108 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:58,799 Speaker 3: I'm recruiting to me a ringer. He not only played 109 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 3: on the Princeton basketball team, he played in March Madness. 110 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:03,480 Speaker 4: Uh, he played played in the tournament. 111 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:07,279 Speaker 1: I had no idea. That is a very cool piece 112 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: of info there. 113 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:10,479 Speaker 3: I learned it from Wikipedia today. So I have not 114 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 3: talked to about it today because I learned it like 115 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:14,279 Speaker 3: three hours ago, and I was like, wow, that's really cool. 116 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 3: But Princeident Harvard and then he served active duty military, deployed, 117 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:24,919 Speaker 3: deployed in combat, commanded troops in combat, was awarded the 118 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 3: Bronze Star. Was is a decorated combat veteran. And and 119 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:34,719 Speaker 3: and then when when when he left active duty, uh, 120 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 3: he led two veterans organizations advocating on behalf of veterans 121 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 3: advocating on behalf of active duty troops. Pete someone I've 122 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 3: known a long time. He he is a strong leader. 123 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 3: He is he is a principal leader. And and and 124 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:55,840 Speaker 3: what was really striking about the hearing all of the 125 00:06:55,839 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 3: Democrats they hate him like they hate Donald Trump, and 126 00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 3: and every one of the Democrats on the committee is 127 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 3: going to vote against him. But you could see the 128 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 3: vitriol and hatred the fact that they had to go 129 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 3: to personal spears. What I think spoke volumes is they 130 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 3: didn't talk at all about the job that he is 131 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 3: going to do at the Department of Defense. And you 132 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 3: and I talked about this on the podcast the day 133 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 3: after Trump announced Pete hagg Seth, and we predicted on 134 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 3: this pod. So they're going to have they're going to 135 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 3: come after him, They're going. 136 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 4: To go crazy. It's going to be a political circus. 137 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 3: But my take on him the day it was announced 138 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 3: is the same as my take on him now, which 139 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 3: is Pete hagg Seth will be a change agent. That 140 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 3: he was nominated and he's going to be confirmed to 141 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 3: go to the Department of Defense and to bring DoD 142 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 3: back to its core mission, to bring it back to 143 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 3: supporting the warfighter, to bring it back to being ready 144 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 3: and pair to defeat our enemies and to kill our enemies. 145 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 3: And we have seen the Department of Defense under Barack 146 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:11,440 Speaker 3: Obama initially and even more so Inner Joe Biden get 147 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 3: mired into the games of political correctness and woke ideology 148 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 3: and and and they're more interested in transgender soldiers than 149 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 3: they are actually in defeating our enemies, and and and 150 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 3: and by the way, one of the consequences of it, 151 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:34,560 Speaker 3: the military is suffering a recruitment crisis because it turns. 152 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 4: Out young men and women are not eager to. 153 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 3: Be part of some left wing political crusade. They are 154 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 3: eager to be heroes defending America. And a prediction that 155 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 3: I've made, I believe we will see recruiting and enlistment 156 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:54,959 Speaker 3: love numbers rise significantly when Pete Hegsith is confirmed to 157 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 3: Secretary of Defense. Because young men and women, many of 158 00:08:57,720 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 3: them in the South. You get a lot of people 159 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:01,720 Speaker 3: who enlist in the military from the South are going 160 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 3: to say, that's what I want to be a part 161 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 3: of I want to focus on defending our nation. I 162 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:09,200 Speaker 3: thought Pete Hexas did a terrific job today. 163 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 2: One of the things that he said that I thought 164 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 2: was also really interesting is he talked about how we 165 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 2: hold the men and women that are in combat to 166 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:20,360 Speaker 2: insanely high standards. But he said, we have too many 167 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 2: people that are in the bloated upper echelons of the 168 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 2: bureaucracy of the Pentagon that get as he described it, 169 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 2: these bigger roles even after big failures. And he said, 170 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 2: if you lose a war, you shouldn't be able to 171 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 2: get a better job after you lose a war. And 172 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 2: he said, we have way too many people that are 173 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:46,560 Speaker 2: on the payroll and in general roles, for example, when 174 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:48,440 Speaker 2: we don't need as many and when we won World 175 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 2: War Two, he compared it to how many we have today. 176 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 2: It is significant to see the idea, as you said, 177 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 2: about being change in it where he's like, look, we 178 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 2: need to put the fighters first, the soldiers first, and 179 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:01,319 Speaker 2: not le readership first all the time. 180 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 3: Well, and and he also talked a great deal about 181 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 3: modernizing the military, developing weapons systems to fight tomorrow's war, 182 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:12,080 Speaker 3: not yesterday's war. And and and in particular that's going 183 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:16,199 Speaker 3: to involve all sorts of technology like drones and artificial 184 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 3: intelligence and hypersonics and and and modernizing the military. Look, 185 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 3: the job he's been nominated to is an insanely difficult job. 186 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:28,559 Speaker 3: It is there three million people in d O D. 187 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:34,840 Speaker 3: It's nine hundred billion dollars. Turning that battleship is not easy. 188 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 3: And and and and and I think I think Pete 189 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:39,679 Speaker 3: is up to the task. It's not gonna be an 190 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:41,439 Speaker 3: easy thing, you know. I want to focus on to 191 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 3: give you an example of the sorts of things that 192 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 3: democrats did not did not ask about, and we're not 193 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 3: concerned about it. I want to start by by his answer, uh, 194 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 3: concerning Israel and and and Hamas and and this is 195 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 3: when Tom Cotton was questioning him, and at the beginning 196 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 3: of Pete Haggis testimony, you had a couple of protesters 197 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:06,440 Speaker 3: that stood up and screamed and disrupted, and so Cotton 198 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:09,720 Speaker 3: gave him a chance to respond to the protesters. 199 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 4: Give a listen to Cotton's question, a hexcess answer. 200 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 5: Big audience here. Many of them seem to be patriotic 201 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 5: supporters of you, mister Heseath. Some of them seem to 202 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 5: be liberal critics of you. I would note that it's 203 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 5: only the liberal critics that have disrupted this hearing. As 204 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 5: was my custom during the Biden administration, I want to 205 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 5: give you a chance to respond to what they said 206 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:34,320 Speaker 5: about you. I think the first one accused you of 207 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 5: being a Christian Zionist. I'm not really sure why that 208 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 5: is a bad thing. I'm a Christian, I'm a Zionist. 209 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 5: Zionism is that the Jewish people deserve a homeland in 210 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 5: the ancient Holy Land where they've lived since the dawn 211 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 5: of history. Do you consider yourself a Christian Zionist. 212 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 6: Senator, I support. I'm a Christian, and I robustly support 213 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 6: the state of Israel and it's existential defense and the 214 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 6: way America comes alongside the great. 215 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:03,439 Speaker 5: Thank you because another protester, and I think this one 216 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 5: was a member of Code Paint, which by the way, 217 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:09,560 Speaker 5: is a Chinese communist front group these days, said that 218 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 5: you support Israel's war in Gaza. I support Israel's existential 219 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:18,319 Speaker 5: war in Gaza. I assume, like me and President Trump, 220 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 5: you support that war as well, don't. 221 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 6: You, Senator I do. I support Israel destroying and killing 222 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 6: every last member of Hamas, and. 223 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:29,560 Speaker 1: I love that aspect of his answer. 224 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 4: Look, there is a clarity to it. 225 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 3: I support Israel destroying and killing every last member of Hamas. 226 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:43,559 Speaker 3: That is exactly right. And yet you cannot imagine Joe 227 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 3: Biden or anyone in the Biden administration uttering those words. 228 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:49,440 Speaker 3: Why because they don't support that. And in fact, at 229 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 3: every stage on and after October seventh, the Biden administration 230 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 3: has been urging Israel stop killing the terrorist, stop killing 231 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:04,319 Speaker 3: the terror and there's a reason the Democrats didn't want 232 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:07,680 Speaker 3: to talk about the job he was nominated to and 233 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 3: instead wanted to go to personal spheres. And it is 234 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:14,720 Speaker 3: that clarity. I also want to play another clip where 235 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 3: he was talking about he was talking about the service 236 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 3: members who were kicked out because of the COVID vaccine. 237 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a big flash point and a big 238 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 2: question you and I have talked about for a long time, 239 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 2: which is should the people that were kicked out get 240 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:31,839 Speaker 2: their jobs back? 241 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 1: Should they get back pay? 242 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 4: Well, he answered that, and give a listen to his answer. 243 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:39,240 Speaker 6: We haven't even talked about COVID and the tens of 244 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 6: thousands of service members who were kicked out because of 245 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 6: an experimental vaccine. In President Trump's Defense department, they will 246 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:49,840 Speaker 6: be apologized to, They will be reinstituted, reinstituted with pay 247 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 6: and rank. 248 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 1: Center. 249 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:53,199 Speaker 2: This goes back to what you said a minute ago 250 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:55,640 Speaker 2: about you think that recruitment's going to go up. 251 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:56,080 Speaker 4: Yep. 252 00:13:57,160 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 2: Part of that recruitment's going to be I think a 253 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:01,560 Speaker 2: lot of men women that were kicked out that are 254 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:03,839 Speaker 2: going to want to come back and serve under this 255 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 2: type of leadership as well. 256 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, look that is absolutely right. 257 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:09,440 Speaker 3: And look at a time that we've got huge recruitment challenges, 258 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 3: what did Joe Biden the Democrats do. They threw out 259 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 3: tens of thousands of servicemen and women because they declined 260 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:18,800 Speaker 3: to get the COVID vaccine. It was asinine, it was irrational, 261 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 3: it was arbitrary, and I believe the reason they did 262 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 3: so is precisely because they recognized that many of them 263 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 3: were conservatives, and it was an excuse to purge conservatives. 264 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 3: By the way, they did the same thing as the 265 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 3: Department of Justice at the FBI as a border patrol. 266 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 3: And this is an issue as you know that I've 267 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 3: been leading the fight on in the Senate for the 268 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 3: past several years. I led the fight successfully to end 269 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:45,200 Speaker 3: the vaccine mandate in the military, so it's no longer 270 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:49,360 Speaker 3: a current mandate. But I've introduced legislation, the Americans Act, 271 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 3: that would mandate that those who were thrown out of 272 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 3: the military be allowed back in, reinstated with backpay and rank, 273 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 3: and the Democrats have systematically blocked it. Pete hagg Seth 274 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 3: just promised to do that. That is the right thing 275 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 3: to do. I'll tell you I knew he was going 276 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 3: to say that, because when I sat down and met 277 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:08,800 Speaker 3: with him, I asked him that very directly, and he 278 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 3: made that commitment to me in our meeting, and I'm 279 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 3: glad he now made it publicly at his confirmation hearing. 280 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:19,160 Speaker 3: And that's the sort of clarity that frankly, the Democrats 281 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 3: don't want at the Department of Defense. But that's also 282 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 3: why he's going to be confirmed, and that's a very 283 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 3: good thing. 284 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 2: Let's finally talk about accountability. One other thing he said 285 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 2: that I think should make headlines. I don't think the 286 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 2: media is going to cover it, but it should was 287 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 2: his thoughts on the withdrawal in Afghanistan. 288 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 1: Here's what he said. 289 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 6: There's been no accountability for the disaster of the withdrawal 290 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 6: in Afghanistan. And that's precisely why. 291 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 5: We're here today. 292 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 6: Is that leadership he's been unwilling to take accountability. It's 293 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 6: the time to restore that to our most senior ranks. 294 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 2: I love how they were trying to cut him off 295 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 2: when he was saying that Democrats did not want that 296 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 2: out there. 297 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, that was Jack Reid, who's the ranking member of 298 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 3: the senior Democrat on the Armed Services Committee. He's interrupting 299 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 3: excus no, no, don't get into that, and it is shocking. 300 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 3: The disaster of Afghanistan was the first major foreign policy 301 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 3: screw up of the Biden administration, and it foreshadowed all 302 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 3: the other disasters because it told our enemies this commander 303 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 3: in chief was weak and ineffective and it was embarrassing. 304 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 3: And I'll tell you the servicemen and women I've talked 305 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 3: to who fought in Afghanistan, they're angry. They're angry at 306 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 3: the disgrace and debacle of that withdrawal. And nobody lost 307 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 3: their job, not as Secretary of Defense didn't lose his job, 308 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:35,120 Speaker 3: The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs didn't lose his job. 309 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 3: To the best of my knowledge, no general lost his job, 310 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 3: no civilian lost his job. Nobody did because in the 311 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 3: Biden administration, no one gets fired ever, and there are 312 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 3: no consequences. 313 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:51,239 Speaker 4: And that needs to be assessed. 314 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 3: What were the mistakes that led to one of the 315 00:16:55,440 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 3: most humiliating and disastrous military retreats in US military history that, 316 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 3: at least to date, there's been zero accountability for. 317 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:09,320 Speaker 2: So let's move to what people are going to see Wednesday, 318 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 2: and that's going to be these three confirmation hearings that 319 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 2: you're involved in, Bondi, Duffy, and Rubio. Let's start with 320 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:20,879 Speaker 2: Pam Bondy first. What can people expect and what should 321 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:21,680 Speaker 2: they be looking for? 322 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 3: So it'll be a circus too. Bondi will be one 323 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 3: of the hotter ones. It won't be quite the circus 324 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:30,440 Speaker 3: that Haig Seth was, but it's going to be a show. 325 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 3: We're going to have two days of hearings for Pam Bondy. Look, 326 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 3: I don't think they're really going to go after her. 327 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:39,679 Speaker 3: They don't have a lot of shots at her personally. 328 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:44,719 Speaker 3: She's clearly qualified. She's she's a veteran prosecutor. She was 329 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:49,959 Speaker 3: she was the elected Attorney General of Florida. She's got 330 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,359 Speaker 3: a lot of experience. So I don't think they're really 331 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 3: going to go after her. But what they are going 332 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 3: to do is go after Trump. They hate Trump, and 333 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:59,400 Speaker 3: so their attack for the next two days is going 334 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:02,879 Speaker 3: to be your Trump's lackey. And their attack is also 335 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,919 Speaker 3: going to be you're going to weaponize the Department of Justice. Now, 336 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:09,640 Speaker 3: I'm confident that she's going to respond and say no, 337 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 3: we're not We're going to follow the law and restore 338 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:16,280 Speaker 3: integrity to doj But I expect the attacks to be 339 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:22,480 Speaker 3: very much not attacking her directly, but using her to 340 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:26,200 Speaker 3: attack Trump, and I think she'll she'll respond very effectively. 341 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:29,159 Speaker 3: The other two. The Rubio hearing is going to be 342 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 3: a love fest. Marco's going to be confirmed easily. It 343 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:37,680 Speaker 3: would not surprise me if Marco gets ninety five votes 344 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:40,399 Speaker 3: or more. I think all the Republicans are going to 345 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:42,160 Speaker 3: vote for him, and I think most, if not all, 346 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 3: the Democrats are going to vote for him, and so 347 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:45,640 Speaker 3: I think it will be. 348 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 2: Surely abnormal in the political times right now. It used 349 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:50,440 Speaker 2: to not be this way back in the day. You 350 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 2: could actually get a lot of people through with this 351 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:55,439 Speaker 2: significant number of votes. So this is going to be 352 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:57,520 Speaker 2: maybe one of the abnormal ones that Trump puts up. 353 00:18:57,600 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 1: Right. 354 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, Secretary's of State, that sometimes happened. One of 355 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 3: the very first votes I ever cast was was I 356 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 3: was elected in twenty twelve. Twenty thirteen was the beginning 357 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:11,800 Speaker 3: of the second Obama term, and he nominated John Kerry 358 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:15,600 Speaker 3: to be Secretary of State. John was obviously a former 359 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:19,080 Speaker 3: senator and was known by everyone there. And Carrie was 360 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 3: confirmed ninety seven to three, and I was one of 361 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:25,239 Speaker 3: the three. And I got to tell you, when I 362 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 3: cast my vote, I was a brand new baby freshman, 363 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 3: still down in the little basement office that they stick 364 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:35,119 Speaker 3: brand new senators in, and when I cast the vote 365 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:37,919 Speaker 3: that there was an audible gasp in the well of 366 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:41,240 Speaker 3: the Senate because freshmen weren't supposed to do such a thing. 367 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:43,719 Speaker 3: And it was actually at the time people it was 368 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:46,880 Speaker 3: regarded as as like courageous, which I thought was bizarre. 369 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:49,680 Speaker 3: I'm like, John Kerry has been wrong on every foreign 370 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:53,960 Speaker 3: policy issue every day of his life. Systematically, what a 371 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,639 Speaker 3: train wreck of a nomination. Now he proved to be 372 00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 3: a train wreck of a Secretary of State, and yet 373 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:02,399 Speaker 3: ninety seven of my colleagues happily voted for. 374 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 1: Well, let's go backwards just for a second. 375 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 2: What are these confirmation hearings look like beforehand? How does 376 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:14,719 Speaker 2: the decision be made if it's one day or two day? 377 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:17,880 Speaker 2: Because you mentioned Bonnie's over two days. And then let's 378 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:21,200 Speaker 2: go and explain to people how prep works for the 379 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 2: candidate nominee for this, because I've actually gotten to be 380 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 2: a part of that before and the prep and it's 381 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:31,239 Speaker 2: very interesting to see how you get ready for what 382 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:31,880 Speaker 2: you're about to. 383 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:34,920 Speaker 3: Face, so it varies committee by committee, and that they 384 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 3: typically follow precedent. So, for example, at the beginning of 385 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:40,400 Speaker 3: the heg Seth hearing, there was a back and forth 386 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:45,119 Speaker 3: skirmish where the Democrats wanted multiple rounds of questioning and 387 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:48,199 Speaker 3: Roger Wicker, who's the Republican chairman, said no, we're going 388 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 3: to follow the same precedent we followed for Lloyd Austin, 389 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 3: Biden's Secretary of Defense, which is one round of questioning, 390 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,199 Speaker 3: seven minute questions for each person. And that's what the 391 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:01,480 Speaker 3: Senate Armed Service Committee had done. It's also what they 392 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 3: did for Jim Mattis, who was Trump's first Secretary of Defense, 393 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:09,920 Speaker 3: and so so that's how that committee decided it. Uh 394 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 3: the Attorney General and Judiciary, it's not unusual for that 395 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 3: to be a two day hearing. I don't know some 396 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 3: of it, as lawyers are long winded, I guess, but 397 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 3: but that also has been the tradition of the committee 398 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 3: that that that it takes considerable time. Each chairman decides 399 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 3: when to notice various hearings. So Sean Duffy, the third 400 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,440 Speaker 3: one that I'm going to participate in tomorrow, is nominated 401 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:35,720 Speaker 3: to be the Secretary of Transportation. He'll be confirmed. I 402 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 3: think he'll be confirmed easily, and I think with bipartisan votes. 403 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,159 Speaker 3: I also think that will be something of a love fest, 404 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,680 Speaker 3: because you've got a bunch of senators on the Commerce Committee, 405 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 3: which I chair, who are all wanting the Secretary of 406 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 3: Transportation to to spend highway funds and transportation funds in 407 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:56,359 Speaker 3: their states and and so they're they're particularly incentivized to 408 00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:58,520 Speaker 3: be nice to him, and so I think that will 409 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:01,600 Speaker 3: be a pretty easy hearing to And look, one of 410 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 3: the dynamics of being a senator, these are all going 411 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:07,879 Speaker 3: on simultaneously. So I will start the day at nine thirty, 412 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 3: which is when the Pambondi hearing gabbles in, and I'll 413 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 3: be in my chair at nine thirty. And the reason 414 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:16,760 Speaker 3: is in judiciary, if you're in your chair at gavel, 415 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,879 Speaker 3: then you reserve your questioning order in order of seniority. 416 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 3: And I'm pretty high up the list of seniority in judiciary, 417 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:26,240 Speaker 3: So that means if I'm in the chair at gavel, 418 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 3: I get to be one of the first Republicans to 419 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:31,720 Speaker 3: question her. If you're not in your chair at gavel, 420 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:34,800 Speaker 3: if you're anywhere else, and sometimes you can't be then 421 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,879 Speaker 3: you you basically speak last and and so I'll be 422 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 3: in the chair at gavel, But then right after we 423 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 3: gavel in, I'll leave because at ten I have to 424 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,400 Speaker 3: gavele in the confirmation hearing for Sean Duffy, and I'm 425 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 3: charing that one. So I'll spend most of the day, 426 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:55,639 Speaker 3: most of the morning at least hiring the Duffy confirmation 427 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,600 Speaker 3: hearing in At some point i'll leave that hearing. I'll 428 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 3: go back to Judiciary and question Pambondi. At another point, 429 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:04,200 Speaker 3: I will leave the hearing and go to Senate Foreign 430 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 3: Relations Committee, where I'll question Marco Rubio. I will not 431 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:09,720 Speaker 3: be at the chair at gavel for that because it 432 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 3: gabbles in at ten also, and I've got to be 433 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:17,760 Speaker 3: charing Transportation then, so I'll drop in the Rubio hearing 434 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 3: at some point closer to the end when i can 435 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:23,640 Speaker 3: get up. And that's part of being a senator. Sometimes 436 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 3: you have multiple hearings and you have to run from 437 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:28,960 Speaker 3: one committee room to the other. But all of those 438 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,879 Speaker 3: will happen tomorrow, and again all of those I believe 439 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:34,439 Speaker 3: will get confirmed. And my prediction is every one of 440 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:36,120 Speaker 3: the Trump cabinet members will be confirmed. 441 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 1: Wait, wait, wait, say that again. That's the most important thing. 442 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 3: I believe every one of the Trump cabinet members will 443 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 3: be confirmed, all of them. 444 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 1: That is good news, That is very very good news. 445 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,160 Speaker 2: I want to move to another story you mentioned earlier, 446 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 2: and this is a story that on face value, it's 447 00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:00,239 Speaker 2: something that's in the UK, and there's somebody would say, well, like, 448 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,199 Speaker 2: this is the UK, why does this matter to me? 449 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,399 Speaker 2: And I want to connect it to what has happened 450 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:09,399 Speaker 2: in this country because of our open borders and the 451 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 2: number of miners that we have released in this country 452 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:18,040 Speaker 2: to non family members through the Biden Harris program, and 453 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,520 Speaker 2: when we go back to check on them, they are 454 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:25,360 Speaker 2: nowhere to be found. There are tens of thousands of. 455 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 3: Children over three hundred thousand, not tens of thousands, over 456 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 3: three hundred thousands that's in the United States that the 457 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,920 Speaker 3: Biden administration has lost, that they do not know where 458 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:40,680 Speaker 3: they are, that they came as unaccompanied miners and they 459 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,160 Speaker 3: were handed over to adults and they have no idea 460 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:45,120 Speaker 3: where they are, and many of them are no doubt 461 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 3: being abused. And the corrupt corporate media could not care less, 462 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 3: The Democrats could not care less. I don't know a 463 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:56,159 Speaker 3: Democrat senator who's ever asked about the three hundred thousand 464 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,359 Speaker 3: children that this administration lost. They don't care about it. 465 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,199 Speaker 3: But look, I want to say, what's happened in the 466 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:06,520 Speaker 3: UK and is happening right now is horrifying and it's 467 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 3: a real warning sign here. I want to start by 468 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,919 Speaker 3: reading from an article in the Free Press because it 469 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 3: sums it up really effectively. It's entitled the biggest peacetime 470 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:23,480 Speaker 3: crime and cover up in British history. The grooming and 471 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:27,159 Speaker 3: serial rape of thousands of English girls by men of 472 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 3: mostly Pakistani Muslim background over several decades is the biggest 473 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:36,639 Speaker 3: peacetime crime in the history of modern Europe. It went 474 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 3: on for many years, it is still going on, and 475 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,639 Speaker 3: there has been no justice for the vast majority of 476 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:48,439 Speaker 3: the victims. British governments, both conservative and labor, hoped that 477 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:52,280 Speaker 3: they had buried the story after a few symbolic prosecutions 478 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 3: in the twenty tens, and it looked like they had 479 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 3: succeeded until Elon Musk read some of the court papers 480 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:03,600 Speaker 3: and tweeted his disgusted and bafflement on X over the 481 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 3: new year. Britain now stands shamed before the world. The 482 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:14,000 Speaker 3: public's suppressed wrath is bubbling to the surface in petitions, 483 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 3: calls for a public inquiry and demands for accountability. The 484 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:22,680 Speaker 3: scandal is already reshaping British politics. It's not just about 485 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 3: the heinous nature of the crimes. It's that every level 486 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:29,640 Speaker 3: of the British system is implicated in the cover up. 487 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 3: Social workers were intimidated into silence. Local police ignored, excused, 488 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:43,360 Speaker 3: and even embedded pedophile rapist across dozens of cities. Senior 489 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 3: police and Home Office officials deliberately avoided action in the 490 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 3: name of maintaining what they called quote community relations. Local 491 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 3: councilors and members of Parliament rejected pleas for help from 492 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:03,080 Speaker 3: the parents of raped children. Charities, NGOs and labor MPs 493 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:08,480 Speaker 3: accused those who discussed the scandal of racism and islamophobia. 494 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:13,119 Speaker 3: The media mostly ignored or downplayed the biggest story of 495 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 3: their lifetimes. Zealous in their incuriosity, much of Britain's media 496 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 3: elite remained barnacled to the bubble of Westminster politics and 497 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:28,120 Speaker 3: its self serving priorities. They did this to defend the 498 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 3: failed model of multiculturalism and to avoid asking hard questions 499 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:38,439 Speaker 3: about failures of immigration policy and assimilation. They did this 500 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 3: because they were afraid of being called racist or Islamophobic. 501 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 3: They did this because Britain's traditional class snobbery had fused 502 00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:53,440 Speaker 3: with the new snobbery of political correctness. All of which 503 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:58,679 Speaker 3: is why no one knows precisely how many thousands of 504 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,679 Speaker 3: young girls were raped in how many towns across Britain 505 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:06,320 Speaker 3: since the nineteen seventies. What we do know is that 506 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:09,359 Speaker 3: the epicenter was in the post industrial mill towns of 507 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:14,480 Speaker 3: England's North and Midlands, where immigrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh 508 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:18,720 Speaker 3: settled in the nineteen sixties. White locals say the grooming 509 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 3: and rapes began soon after. In Rotherdam, the run down 510 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:27,919 Speaker 3: Yorkshire city where the scandal first broke. Local police and 511 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:32,920 Speaker 3: counselors were notified about systematic grooming and sex abuse by 512 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,399 Speaker 3: two thousand and one. The first convictions did not occur 513 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 3: until twenty ten, when five men in Pakistani background were 514 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 3: jailed for multiple offenses against girls as young as twelve 515 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 3: years old. The breadth of what occurred is staggering, and 516 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 3: the systematic willingness to look aside is truly horrific. 517 00:28:58,320 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 1: And let's be clear. 518 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 2: The reason why they look the other way you mentioned 519 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 2: it is really from a pr standpoint. They wanted to 520 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 2: have quote good relations and not have a stigma related 521 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,400 Speaker 2: to people that were coming from the Middle East that 522 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 2: were there. So they said, all right, we'll just look 523 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:14,960 Speaker 2: the other way and that'll make it easier. 524 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:19,000 Speaker 3: It's actually less Middle East than real primarily Pakistan Pakistan, 525 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 3: and it's Pakistani Muslims and what we've seen, so we 526 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,760 Speaker 3: have seen since the nineteen seventies the grooming and serial 527 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 3: rape of thousands of children. And the issue is in 528 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 3: particular relevant because Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, was England's 529 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:47,760 Speaker 3: Director of Public Prosecutions between twenty eight and twenty thirteen, 530 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:52,360 Speaker 3: and so he was actively involved in looking the other 531 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 3: way and a right So let's break down a little 532 00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:00,120 Speaker 3: bit of the facts of what happened, because the story 533 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:05,520 Speaker 3: sounds so extreme as to not be be credible. But 534 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:14,080 Speaker 3: the child sex rapes weren't just individual instances done by 535 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,520 Speaker 3: rogue individuals. Rather, in nearly all the cases, there were 536 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 3: groups of mostly Pakistani men that cooperated and conspired to 537 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:31,240 Speaker 3: groom and sexually abuse girls over decades, and they targeted 538 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:37,360 Speaker 3: mostly vulnerable girls poor orphans, children in care homes. 539 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 4: They raped the girls. 540 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:42,880 Speaker 3: They passed them around network, so raping them one after 541 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 3: the other after the other. Some of these child rapists 542 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,200 Speaker 3: had roles in local governments. The leader of one of 543 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:55,960 Speaker 3: the rape gangs in Oldham, individual named Shabir Ahmed, worked 544 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,600 Speaker 3: for the local council as a quote welfare rights officer 545 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 3: and ran his gang from the council's welfare office. And 546 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:08,360 Speaker 3: let me give you some of the facts because they're 547 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:13,760 Speaker 3: just just horrifying. One of the victims, a girl named 548 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:19,480 Speaker 3: Victoria Agaglia. Victoria was a fifteen year old teenager and 549 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,880 Speaker 3: she was subject to the governments round the clock caretaking, 550 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:27,760 Speaker 3: but she went missing nineteen times in three months, from 551 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,480 Speaker 3: up to two weeks at a time. Instead of trying 552 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,880 Speaker 3: to find her, the welfare worker simply messaged her saying 553 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:34,120 Speaker 3: when are you coming back? 554 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 1: Wow. 555 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,920 Speaker 3: It turns out she was forced into a Pakistani sex 556 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:43,680 Speaker 3: ring by older women who raped her in exchange for cash, alcohol, 557 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 3: and hard drugs. She was sometimes abused by up to 558 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 3: twenty five men in a single night. Victoria wrote wrote 559 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,680 Speaker 3: a heartbreaking letter to the police documenting her abuse, but 560 00:31:55,720 --> 00:32:01,080 Speaker 3: it was ignored and eventually ignored when she was found 561 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:05,720 Speaker 3: dead from a fatal dose of heroine given by an abuser, 562 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:09,400 Speaker 3: and she was repeatedly drugged and raped the night she 563 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:14,520 Speaker 3: was killed. I'll give you another example, Charlene Downs in Blackpool. 564 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 3: In two thousand and three, fourteen year old Charlene Downs disappeared. 565 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,160 Speaker 3: Police had a lead that Charlene's body had been dismembered 566 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:25,720 Speaker 3: and disposed of at a kebab shop in Blackpool. Police 567 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,400 Speaker 3: uncovered evidence that Charlene had been the victim of child 568 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:33,440 Speaker 3: sexual exploitation after being groomed by a gang. The criminals 569 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,120 Speaker 3: have not been found and her body is missing. Twenty 570 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:42,120 Speaker 3: years later, Lucy Lowe in Telford, an individual named azar 571 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:46,360 Speaker 3: Ali Mahmood groomed Lucy Lowe from the age of twelve 572 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:53,600 Speaker 3: and impregnated her at fourteen. He burned her alive in 573 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:59,160 Speaker 3: her own home with her mother, her disabled sister, and 574 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:04,760 Speaker 3: her unborn second child, also fathered by Mahmood. Mehmood was 575 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,240 Speaker 3: jailed for life in two thousand and one for murder, 576 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:08,200 Speaker 3: not for the sex crimes. 577 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:08,720 Speaker 5: For murder. 578 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:13,960 Speaker 3: Reports indicated that South Asian men were targeting teenagers in 579 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:15,280 Speaker 3: Telford since the nineteen eighties. 580 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:18,200 Speaker 4: I'll give you one other example. Sophie. 581 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,000 Speaker 3: In Oldham in two thousand and six, a twelve year 582 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,640 Speaker 3: old girl named Sophie entered a police station and reported 583 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,880 Speaker 3: that she had just been molested in a graveyard by 584 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,280 Speaker 3: a man named Ali. A desk officer told her to 585 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,480 Speaker 3: come back with an adult when she was sober. Mind you, 586 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:39,080 Speaker 3: she was twelve. Two men accosted her in the police station, 587 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,560 Speaker 3: joined by a third. They raped her in their car. 588 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,600 Speaker 3: When they dumped her on the street, she asked a 589 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:52,040 Speaker 3: man named Sarwar Ali for directions. He took her to 590 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,960 Speaker 3: his home, raped her, and gave her money for bus 591 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,720 Speaker 3: fare home. Sarwar Ali was arrested and remanded to prison 592 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:03,760 Speaker 3: over attack on Sophie. However, he was then released following 593 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:07,160 Speaker 3: a bail application to a judge, despite being an illegal 594 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:10,880 Speaker 3: immigrant in the United Kingdom. He subsequently failed to attend 595 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:15,320 Speaker 3: his appointment with the Immigration Service and is still at large. 596 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:19,960 Speaker 3: Then a man named Shaquille Chowdery pulled up in his 597 00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:25,120 Speaker 3: car and offered to take Sophie home. He abducted her, 598 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,520 Speaker 3: took her to a house, fed her alcohol. Soon after, 599 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:33,640 Speaker 3: he and four other men repeatedly raped her. Only Shaquille 600 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:37,360 Speaker 3: was convicted six years in prison. During his trial, Chowdery 601 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:39,200 Speaker 3: named two of the other men involved in the rapes 602 00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,640 Speaker 3: of Sophie as part of his mitigation, but these were 603 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:45,160 Speaker 3: not followed up by police at the time. One of 604 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:47,839 Speaker 3: the men named by Chowtery was subsequently convicted in two 605 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,560 Speaker 3: thousand and nine of the attempted. 606 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:52,400 Speaker 4: Murder of his wife. 607 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:59,640 Speaker 3: This pattern happened over and over and over again, and 608 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:05,040 Speaker 3: the numbers are staggering. We are talking about thousands of 609 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:12,640 Speaker 3: girls systematically, repeatedly raped and the entire British government looked 610 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:13,880 Speaker 3: the other way for decades. 611 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,239 Speaker 2: So sata the question that I'm sure everyone listening is 612 00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:21,400 Speaker 2: thinking to themselves like, A, has anything changed now? 613 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,759 Speaker 1: And B what should happen? The fact that now this 614 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:25,520 Speaker 1: is all out in the. 615 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:30,920 Speaker 3: Open, Well, what has changed is Elon Musk has started 616 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:34,360 Speaker 3: tweeting about it, and Elon has over two hundred million followers, 617 00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,680 Speaker 3: and it has drawn attention to it in a way 618 00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:40,759 Speaker 3: that is really important, and it has become, thankfully a 619 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:45,160 Speaker 3: political crisis in the United Kingdom. But I want you 620 00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:47,520 Speaker 3: to listen to Keir Starmer, this is just about a 621 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:51,319 Speaker 3: week ago addressing this crisis and and and listen to 622 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:52,840 Speaker 3: what he had to say, This is the Prime Minister 623 00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:54,400 Speaker 3: of the United Kingdom. 624 00:35:54,440 --> 00:36:00,520 Speaker 7: I'm when politicians and I mean politicians who government for 625 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:06,080 Speaker 7: many years a casual of our honesty, decency, truth and 626 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:10,359 Speaker 7: the rule of law, fooling for inquiries because they want 627 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:14,719 Speaker 7: to jump on a bandwagon of the far right, and 628 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:19,480 Speaker 7: that affects politics because a robust debate can only be 629 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,120 Speaker 7: based on the true facts. 630 00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:22,880 Speaker 4: So there you have it. 631 00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:27,520 Speaker 3: The sitting Prime Minister is saying that if you're concerned 632 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:31,680 Speaker 3: about the ongoing rape of thousands of girls in the 633 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:35,600 Speaker 3: United Kingdom and the complicity of government, he says, you're 634 00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:40,040 Speaker 3: jumping on the bandwagon of the far right that continues 635 00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:43,759 Speaker 3: to be the multiculturalism political correctness that he does not 636 00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:46,799 Speaker 3: want to acknowledge. And by the way, he was the 637 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:49,719 Speaker 3: chief prosecutor for many of these years. He was the 638 00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:54,000 Speaker 3: one who was directly involved in looking the other way, 639 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:58,200 Speaker 3: so naturally he doesn't want an inquiry. Now I'll give 640 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:01,120 Speaker 3: you the response of Nigel Farrad one one of the leaders, 641 00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:04,359 Speaker 3: and actually Nigel Farage we've had had on the on 642 00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,840 Speaker 3: this podcast. He's been a guest on this podcast before. 643 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:10,920 Speaker 3: Nigel Farage obviously led the fight for Brexit in the 644 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,680 Speaker 3: United Kingdom, and and listen to Nigel Farage's response to 645 00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:15,719 Speaker 3: what kier Starmer said. 646 00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,560 Speaker 8: Well, so much talk over the last few days about 647 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:21,960 Speaker 8: grooming gangs or should I say rape gangs, and Kirstarmer's 648 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,240 Speaker 8: today is saying that anyone is calling for a full 649 00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:28,439 Speaker 8: public inquiry is jumping on the bandwagon of the far right, 650 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,600 Speaker 8: wrong prime minister. The vast majority of people in this 651 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:35,759 Speaker 8: country are absolutely mortified by what has gone on, but 652 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,680 Speaker 8: even worse the cover up we've had from the police, 653 00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:44,360 Speaker 8: social services and both Conservative and labor governments. The inquiries 654 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,200 Speaker 8: that have happened so far have been nothing more than 655 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,960 Speaker 8: a whitewash. There needs to be a full public inquiry. 656 00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,640 Speaker 8: Let us find out the truth of the scale of this. 657 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:56,560 Speaker 8: I'm told that in up to fifty British towns these 658 00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:59,480 Speaker 8: gang rapes were going on. I believe the public need 659 00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:02,440 Speaker 8: the truth. We must have an inquiry. 660 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:02,840 Speaker 1: Sanat. 661 00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:06,400 Speaker 2: You hear the frustration there from Nigel, But it also 662 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:08,839 Speaker 2: and this is where I say, let's bring it back 663 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,799 Speaker 2: to the US. I worry that we're going to have 664 00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:15,080 Speaker 2: this same type of conversation yeap in the not too 665 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:18,360 Speaker 2: near distant future. About all the children that we've lost 666 00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:19,680 Speaker 2: in this country. 667 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:21,839 Speaker 3: So the answer to both needs to be the same, 668 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:23,919 Speaker 3: which is there needs to be an inquiry. That needs 669 00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:28,000 Speaker 3: to be transparency. In the United Kingdom, you know, Nigel 670 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:32,040 Speaker 3: Farage mentioned that there their allegations of up to fifty 671 00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:36,120 Speaker 3: towns where these rape gangs were ongoing for years and years. 672 00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:40,800 Speaker 3: That's a staggering scale. So there needs to be full transparency, 673 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:44,400 Speaker 3: the opposite of a whitewasher, a cover up, but real transparence. 674 00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:47,040 Speaker 3: In the United States, the over three hundred thousand children 675 00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,399 Speaker 3: that the Bide the administration lost, we need full transparency. 676 00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:52,839 Speaker 3: We need to find those kids, those kids who are 677 00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:55,160 Speaker 3: being abused right right now. We need to get them 678 00:38:55,160 --> 00:39:00,160 Speaker 3: out of harm's way and sunlight and transparency is power power. 679 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,359 Speaker 3: But there also needs to be accountability for those who 680 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:04,000 Speaker 3: are culpable. 681 00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:04,960 Speaker 1: Amen to that. 682 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,960 Speaker 2: Finally, I want to just get your reaction to a 683 00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,480 Speaker 2: shocking headline that may not be as big. 684 00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:13,520 Speaker 1: Of a deal in just a few days as it 685 00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:14,520 Speaker 1: could be, and. 686 00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,600 Speaker 2: That is Joe Biden waiting for the very last moment 687 00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:24,480 Speaker 2: to remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terror. 688 00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:28,920 Speaker 2: Why because he says, well, they haven't been involved in 689 00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:32,879 Speaker 2: sponsoring terrorism in the last six months, So now they're 690 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:33,319 Speaker 2: all good. 691 00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:34,480 Speaker 1: Don't worry about him. 692 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:39,680 Speaker 3: Your reaction to that, well, until today, Cuba was one 693 00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:43,640 Speaker 3: of four designated state sponsors of terrorism. The four were 694 00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:48,759 Speaker 3: North Korea, Iran, and Syria, and their designated pursuant to 695 00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:51,640 Speaker 3: determination from the Secretary of State that those countries have 696 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:57,200 Speaker 3: quote repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism. Cuba 697 00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:00,240 Speaker 3: was designated in twenty twenty one by the Trump administration. 698 00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:04,760 Speaker 3: The designation noted that quote for decades, the Cuban government 699 00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:09,520 Speaker 3: has fed, housed, and provided medical care for murderers, bomb makers, 700 00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:13,280 Speaker 3: and hijackers, while many Cubans go hungry, homeless, and without 701 00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:21,560 Speaker 3: basic medicine, and the Biden administration today delisted them even 702 00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:26,480 Speaker 3: though Cuba is today a sponsor of terrorism right now, 703 00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:32,160 Speaker 3: So Cuba is right now refusing requests by Colombia to 704 00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:35,759 Speaker 3: extradite ten members of the National Liberation Army after the 705 00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:39,520 Speaker 3: group claim responsibility for a twenty nineteen bombing of a 706 00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:44,200 Speaker 3: Bogata police academy, killing twenty two people. Cuba also harbors 707 00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:48,360 Speaker 3: several American fugitives wanted on or convicted of charges of 708 00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:54,240 Speaker 3: political violence or murdering police officers. Cuba also supports fark 709 00:40:54,360 --> 00:41:00,080 Speaker 3: terrorists and props up the Maduro regime in Venezuela. And 710 00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:04,000 Speaker 3: all of those facts are are clear, they're indisputable. The 711 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:10,480 Speaker 3: Biden administration doesn't dispute them. Today's decision was just politics. 712 00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:14,520 Speaker 3: It was left wing politics of the very worst sort. 713 00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,160 Speaker 2: And thank goodness, Donald Trump will be here in just 714 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:19,439 Speaker 2: a few more days. 715 00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,759 Speaker 3: Forget, and I believe, and I believe this determination will 716 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:28,480 Speaker 3: be reversed next week. I fully expect next week. And 717 00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:32,040 Speaker 3: in fact, I think one of Marco Rubio's very first 718 00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:35,640 Speaker 3: acts when he is confirmed as Secretary of State, and 719 00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,200 Speaker 3: my prediction is I think Marco will be confirmed on 720 00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:42,359 Speaker 3: January twentieth, the same day that President Trump is torn 721 00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:45,719 Speaker 3: into office. It would not surprise me if Marco on 722 00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:50,560 Speaker 3: January TWENTIETHS lists Cuba again. So understand what this is. 723 00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:52,960 Speaker 3: This is not going to be a fundamental shift in 724 00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:56,680 Speaker 3: US policy. This is just Biden saying screw you on 725 00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:59,839 Speaker 3: the way out, and the Biden White House saying, number one, 726 00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:03,200 Speaker 3: we stand with communists. We like the Cuban communist. You know, 727 00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,280 Speaker 3: when we were in college, we had posters of Tchaegovar 728 00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:08,640 Speaker 3: on the wall, and we find communists. We just think 729 00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:11,839 Speaker 3: they're really cute and lovely, and it's consistent with their 730 00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,640 Speaker 3: pattern of kissing up to communists across across the world. 731 00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:20,000 Speaker 3: But number two, this is yet another manifestation of Biden 732 00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:25,080 Speaker 3: and Harris's and and and democrats contempt for democracy. In 733 00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:28,799 Speaker 3: the closing hours, they're trying to do everything they can 734 00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:32,120 Speaker 3: to make it difficult for the Trump administration, and and 735 00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:36,120 Speaker 3: and and to just say screw you to the voters 736 00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:39,960 Speaker 3: in November who gave a clear and unequivocal mandate, that 737 00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:42,440 Speaker 3: there's an arrogance and contempt for the voters, that this 738 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,400 Speaker 3: is just just one of the most one of the 739 00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,799 Speaker 3: latest and one of the most shocking manifestations of. 740 00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:51,600 Speaker 2: Yeah incredible, don't forget. We do this show money Wednesday Friday. 741 00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:52,880 Speaker 2: We're going to keep you up to date on all 742 00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:56,319 Speaker 2: the confirmation hearings, and as we get closer to inauguration Day, 743 00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:58,920 Speaker 2: there will be more big news. So make sure you 744 00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,800 Speaker 2: don't miss an episode. Hit that subscribe auto down little button. 745 00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:04,480 Speaker 2: I will also keep you up to date each and 746 00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:07,440 Speaker 2: every day on my podcast when we don't do Verdict, 747 00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,960 Speaker 2: Ben ferguson podcasts wherever you get your podcasts as well. 748 00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:13,120 Speaker 2: It is going to be a very exciting month and 749 00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,520 Speaker 2: a very exciting next four years. We'll see you back 750 00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:16,720 Speaker 2: here on Friday morning.