1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:01,280 Speaker 1: Welcome. 2 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 2: It is Verdic with Center Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you, 3 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 2: and if you're listening to us on radio stations across 4 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:10,120 Speaker 2: the country, it's so nice to have you with us. Reminder, 5 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 2: if you're listening to this radio show, it's a podcast 6 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 2: that we do three days a week, So download Verdict 7 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 2: with Ted Cruz wherever you get your podcasts. 8 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 1: Centater. 9 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:20,320 Speaker 2: We've got a lot to talk about on today's show, 10 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 2: especially in light of these most recent terrorist attacks happening 11 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 2: right here in the United States of America. 12 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 3: Well, Ben, you're right, we're sitting here today in an 13 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,520 Speaker 3: extraordinarily dangerous time. In the last ten days, we've had 14 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:38,559 Speaker 3: four separate terror attacks, all carried out by radical Islamic terrorists, 15 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 3: all targeting Americans, seeking to kill Americans, and all at 16 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,480 Speaker 3: a time when there's a military conflict in the Middle 17 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 3: East that is unfolding as we speak, and when we 18 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:53,959 Speaker 3: have multiple radical Islamic clerics who've issued fatwaws calling on 19 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 3: terrorists to murder Americans. Understand that we went through four 20 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 3: years of Joe Biden with a why open border. Twelve 21 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 3: million illegal immigrants came into this country, including thousands of terrorists, 22 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 3: we had four years of basically a red carpet inviting 23 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 3: Hamas terrorists, inviting Hesbala terrorists, inviting Iranian terrorists come to America. 24 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:20,040 Speaker 3: And we've now seen in less than two weeks, four 25 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,959 Speaker 3: separate terror attacks. And I'll tell you that the part 26 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 3: of this that just makes your brain explode is the 27 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:33,039 Speaker 3: Democrats in the Senate keep voting over and over and 28 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 3: over again to defund the Department of Homeland Security. Now, now, 29 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 3: what is the Department of Homeland Security. DHS was created 30 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 3: after September eleventh, and the entire purpose of DHS is 31 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 3: to prevent terrorist attacks, and the Democrats keep voting over 32 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 3: and over and over again not to pay the people 33 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 3: at DHS to defund it. This is dangerous, and Ben, 34 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 3: I want to be very serious. I am deeply concerned 35 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 3: that we could be on the precipice of a major 36 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 3: terrorist attack. Not a terrorist attack that kills one, two 37 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:12,239 Speaker 3: or three people, but a terrorist attack that kills hundreds 38 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 3: or even thousands of people. And the agency whose responsibility 39 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:19,360 Speaker 3: day in and day out is stop the terrorists before 40 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:22,800 Speaker 3: they kill Americans, the Democrats have defunded. The media is 41 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 3: ignoring it, and the Democrats have said they feel quote 42 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 3: unquote serene about shutting down the Department of Homeland Security, 43 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 3: even in this greatly heightened threat environment. 44 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 1: It really is incredible. 45 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 2: And before we get more into that, I want to 46 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 2: tell you about our good friends real quick at Rough Greens. 47 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 2: The Ferguson family got bigger over the holidays with a 48 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 2: new puppy, and I can tell you having one dog 49 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 2: that is over a decade old and a new dog 50 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 2: that's just months old, there's one thing they both have 51 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 2: in common. 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Senator, you mentioned that they 81 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 2: seem to have no problem shutting down specifically the Department 82 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:45,160 Speaker 2: of Home and Security. 83 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: We're talking about the Democrats here. 84 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 2: I want you to walk us through what it was 85 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 2: like on Thursday, because just my gut instinct was before 86 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:56,279 Speaker 2: you guys left town for the week of work that 87 00:04:56,440 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 2: was done, they would be sensible enough seeing these attacks 88 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 2: to say we've got it. We've got we can't have 89 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 2: this political liability on ICE. It's going to come back 90 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:08,479 Speaker 2: on us if there is a major tears attack because 91 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 2: we're the ones that have shut down the Department of 92 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 2: hogand Security. Were any of your colleagues willing to like 93 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 2: share that with their other colleagues and the Democratic side 94 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:19,279 Speaker 2: the isle, like, hey, guys, this is a bad look. 95 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 2: We do not need to be playing this political game 96 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 2: right now. 97 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 3: Look if they are, I don't see it at all. 98 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 3: We voted again on Thursday to fund the Department of 99 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:34,679 Speaker 3: Homeland Security. Every Republican voted to fund DHS. Every single 100 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 3: Democrat except John Fetterman once again voted no shut down DHS. 101 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 3: And understand by the way, they claim they're doing it 102 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 3: because they hate ICE. Yeah, because they want reforms and Ice. 103 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,039 Speaker 3: Here's the amazing thing. Do you know what they haven't 104 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:50,839 Speaker 3: defunded Ice? 105 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: Yeah. 106 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 3: Ice is actually funded because when we took up the 107 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 3: Working Families tax cut last year, the big reconciliation bill, 108 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 3: we knew the Democrats were going to be open border radicals, 109 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 3: and so we funded ICE through through the year. So 110 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 3: ICE is fully funded, like all of their antics are 111 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 3: not taking a penny from ICE agents. ICE is fully funded. 112 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 3: So they are shutting down the remainder of DHS. They're 113 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 3: shutting down the Coast Guard and not paying Coastguard men 114 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 3: and women that they're shutting down TSA. Look, we are 115 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 3: seeing lines at airports. Houston Hobby Airport last week there 116 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:36,840 Speaker 3: were lines four hours long people heading out to spring break. 117 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,160 Speaker 3: Can you imagine how pissed off you'd be you take 118 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 3: your family to the airport, your kids are there. Let's 119 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:47,160 Speaker 3: say you're super, super uptight, you get to the airport 120 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:49,280 Speaker 3: an hour and a half ahead of time. You should 121 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 3: be there an hour ahead of time, but you're really uptight. 122 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 3: You're there an hour and a half ahead of time, 123 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:55,840 Speaker 3: and you miss your plane by two and a half 124 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:59,839 Speaker 3: hours because the TSA line is four hours. Look, I'll 125 00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:01,359 Speaker 3: tell tell you what I go through. And I'm on 126 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 3: a plane every week, multiple times a week. As i 127 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:07,359 Speaker 3: go through and see the TSA agents, I'm trying to 128 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 3: make it a point to stop. I do this regularly anyway, 129 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 3: but especially now to say to them, thank you. Yeah, 130 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 3: And I gotta say, those men and women are coming 131 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 3: into work with no paycheck. And by the way, look 132 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 3: TSA agents are not rich. No, many of them are 133 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 3: living paycheck to paycheck. You know what hasn't come their paycheck. 134 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 2: And so a bunch of them, a lot of them 135 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 2: is uber and lyft drivers and other part time jobs 136 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 2: because they need their cash. 137 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 3: And at some points we're going to see more and 138 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 3: more of them say all right, this job is not 139 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 3: for me. I can't be in a job that doesn't 140 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 3: pay a paycheck. I'm done. And that is happening. So 141 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 3: you've got TSA agents not being paid, Coast guardsmen not 142 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 3: being paid, FEMA officials, those in charge of dealing with 143 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 3: natural disasters not being paid, and then thousands of just 144 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 3: employees at the Department of Homeland Security, employees charge with 145 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 3: monitoring terrorists, with stopping terrorist attacks. And the Democrats are 146 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 3: not only not paying them. I want to quote Brian 147 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 3: shots Brian Shotts is a Democrat from Hawaii. He is 148 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 3: widely seen as the Democrat leader in waiting. I think 149 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 3: Chuck Schumer cannot win another election. The Democrats will primary 150 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 3: him either AOC or Mandami will beat him in a primary. 151 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 3: In fact, I think Schumer won't even run. Brian Schotz 152 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 3: has seen as the next Democrat leader. Let me give 153 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 3: you shots this quote this week, he said, Democrats are 154 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:36,559 Speaker 3: quote very serene with what is going on concerning DHS. 155 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 3: Why because the media won't hold them to account, so 156 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 3: they don't mind shutting down the agency stopping terror attacks 157 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:45,840 Speaker 3: even after we've had four radical Islamic terror attacks in 158 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 3: ten day center. 159 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 2: One of the things that I think it's important that 160 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 2: we go back and give a stat to and I 161 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 2: was looking this up earlier, but when Donald Trump became 162 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 2: president in twenty seventeen, you had two people on the 163 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:00,680 Speaker 2: terrorists watch list that came across this Southern board that 164 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 2: we caught. Now we don't know how many got across 165 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 2: that we didn't catch. Godaways in twenty eighteen there were six, 166 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 2: and twenty nineteen apparently there was zero. 167 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 1: In twenty twenty there was three. 168 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 2: Now you look at those numbers, that's pretty good when 169 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 2: it comes to board security. We watched when Biden came 170 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 2: in office twenty or fifteen in twenty twenty one, then 171 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 2: it skyrocketed to ninety eight in twenty twenty two, one 172 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:26,439 Speaker 2: hundred and sixty nine and twenty twenty three, and then 173 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 2: well over one hundred encounters in twenty twenty four. I 174 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 2: give that number because this goes back to the terrorist 175 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 2: threat we have. 176 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:36,319 Speaker 1: Now, there's concerns of sleeper sales. 177 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 2: There's concerns of people that came across the southern border 178 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 2: that were terrafts. They're on the Terrafts watch list, that 179 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 2: were never caught there, the Godaways. But what we do 180 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 2: know is when they open the southern border and let 181 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:52,320 Speaker 2: anyone come in. I go back to that famous moment 182 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 2: in video where that forkliff lifted up the bob wire 183 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 2: and the fencing in Texas and we saw all of 184 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:01,719 Speaker 2: those people come across the border. The federal government did that, 185 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,839 Speaker 2: and now we're faced with all these terrorist attacks, and 186 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,080 Speaker 2: there's terror. There's Americans that are concerned just like me, 187 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 2: who's in this country that we don't know about. 188 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 3: Look Ben for good reason. And by the way, those 189 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:16,960 Speaker 3: numbers vastly underestimated because they do not include the roughly 190 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 3: two million what are called godaways that enter under the 191 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 3: Biden administration. The Godaways are the people that we saw 192 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:27,839 Speaker 3: signs they were there, but border patrol did not encounter them, 193 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 3: and so we don't know the details. And the god 194 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 3: aways are much much more likely to be criminals. They're 195 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 3: much more likely to be murderers or rapists or child molesters, 196 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:37,680 Speaker 3: and they're much more likely to be terrorists. During the 197 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:42,080 Speaker 3: Biden administration, CBP issued a warning to its agents beyond 198 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 3: the guard for Hamas terrorists, Hesbela terrists, Palestinian Islamic Jehad terrorists. 199 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 3: And yet they continued these open border policies. And understand, 200 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 3: the open border policies were a choice. We now know 201 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 3: that for a fact, although regular listeners of a verdict 202 00:10:57,600 --> 00:10:59,679 Speaker 3: knew that at the time. How do we know that? 203 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 3: Because the instant Donald Trump came back into office, the 204 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:06,199 Speaker 3: illegal border crossings dropped ninety nine percent. Joe Biden, the 205 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:09,080 Speaker 3: Democrats said, gosh, we got to pass different legislation. No, no, 206 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 3: you didn't. You just needed to have a president who 207 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 3: would follow the law, who would actually enforce the law. 208 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:16,840 Speaker 3: And I want to break down the four terror attacks 209 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 3: because they all have similarities. They were carried out by 210 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 3: radical Islamic terrorists. They were targeting Americans. It started in Austin, 211 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 3: Texas with a legal immigrant who had come to the 212 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 3: United States who showed up in Austin wearing a shirt 213 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 3: that a sweatshirt that said property of Allah, wearing a 214 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 3: shirt underneath it with an Iranian flag, had a Quran 215 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 3: in his car and with a rifle and pistol. He 216 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:49,959 Speaker 3: just opened fire randomly at people in a bar at 217 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 3: two am in Austin on Sixth Street. That was the 218 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:56,679 Speaker 3: first terror attack we saw a week and a half ago. 219 00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 3: The second terror attack we saw was two Muslim teenagers 220 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 3: from Pennsylvania who came to New York. Came to New 221 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 3: York with homemade bombs. They said that they were inspired 222 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:16,200 Speaker 3: by ISIS. They threw those bombs outside at a protest 223 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:21,079 Speaker 3: that was happening outside Marimondami's residence. The bombs were filled 224 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 3: with nails and screws and bolts. They were designed to 225 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 3: be anti personnel bombs. Fortunately, these terrorists were not very 226 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 3: smart terrorists. They didn't know how to make a bomb 227 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 3: that actually went off, so the bombs they threw did 228 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 3: not explode. But they told law enforcement that their goal 229 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 3: was to kill more people than the Boston marathon bomber 230 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:43,200 Speaker 3: had killed. They said they only killed three people. And 231 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 3: these guys wanted to kill a lot more. And then 232 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 3: we saw, just in the last couple of days, we 233 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 3: saw the deranged radical Islamic terrorists who drove drove his 234 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 3: vehicle into a Michigan synagogue. And that synagogue, understand, was 235 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 3: a preschool and school. There were one hundred and forty 236 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:03,960 Speaker 3: kids right there next to where he came in. And 237 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,240 Speaker 3: if you didn't have a brave security guard that took 238 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 3: out took out the deranged terrorist, you could have had 239 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:14,200 Speaker 3: one hundred more kids killed. And then you had an 240 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 3: Old Dominion on other deranged terrorists. And to be clear, 241 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 3: this terrorist had been imprisoned, yes, for giving material support 242 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 3: to ISIS, and yet he was released from federal prison 243 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 3: under Joe Biden. Let me give you a little bit 244 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:36,440 Speaker 3: of the background on the Old Dominion terrorist. He was 245 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:39,960 Speaker 3: born in Sierra Leone. He became a naturalized US citizen. 246 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:44,559 Speaker 3: He was radicalized by al Kaeda. He was convicted for 247 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 3: providing material support to ISIS. He was sentenced to eleven 248 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 3: years in prison, and then he was released from prison 249 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:55,320 Speaker 3: early under Joe Biden. And he walked into an Old 250 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 3: Dominion classroom and he asked the people there, he said, hey, 251 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:02,559 Speaker 3: are y'all. Rotzi, he was looking four in particular US 252 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 3: military to murder. Yeah, they said yes, and he opened fire. 253 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 3: And just like what happened in Michigan, you had a 254 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 3: Rozzi student who stood up and stabbed him, had a 255 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 3: knife on him, stabbed him and took him out. Many 256 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 3: more students and or Rotzi soon to be soldiers, could 257 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 3: have been murdered if you had not had one brave 258 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:30,320 Speaker 3: student step up and stop him. All three of these, 259 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 3: all four of these rather share striking patterns, and this 260 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 3: is exactly what DHS is designed. 261 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 1: Stop Yeah, I mean you will get DHS. And I 262 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 1: go back to this funding fight. 263 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 2: How long is it going to take for Democrats to 264 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 2: get their head out of their abs on this one? 265 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:52,600 Speaker 2: And I say this with fear, Senator, I want to 266 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 2: be very clear about that. Does it take a tragic, 267 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 2: bigger event for them to then wake up and say okay, 268 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 2: because you've had four in a week and a half 269 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 2: and that didn't shake them to do the right thing 270 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 2: on Thursday, all because the obsessed with going against ICE, 271 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 2: and you said it earlier. ICE has already been fully 272 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 2: funded for the year, So that's not what they're actually 273 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 2: doing here. It's almost as if they I mean, at 274 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 2: this point, I'm like, are you guys helping the terrorists 275 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 2: more than the American people be safe? 276 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 1: I look out and say, yes, that's what you're doing. 277 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 1: You're helping them. 278 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 3: Ben. Let me tell you why they feel serene. They 279 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 3: feel serene because nobody holds them to account. They feel 280 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 3: serene because number one, they're left wing activists, don't care. 281 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 3: They live in a bubble where everything is orange man bad, 282 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 3: everything is attacking Trump. But number two, the press is 283 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 3: fundamentally broken. The reason the Democrats are to use their 284 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 3: own words serene is they know, no matter how many 285 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 3: terror attacks occur while they've shut down DHS, the press 286 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 3: will never hold them to account. So, for example, here's 287 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 3: what CNN tweeted out about the two terrorists who threw 288 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 3: through bombs in New York City, seeking to kill as 289 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:05,440 Speaker 3: many people as possible. See Ann tweeted out the following quote. 290 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 3: Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning 291 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 3: for what could have been a normal day, enjoying the 292 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 3: city during abnormally warm weather. But in less than an hour, 293 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 3: their lives would dramat drastically changes. The pair would be 294 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 3: arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti Muslim protest 295 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 3: outside Mayor zo Ron Mandami's home. That's ridiculous. 296 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:32,720 Speaker 2: Having just come back from Israel, I want to paint 297 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 2: you a picture. It's midnight, sirens are blaring and you 298 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 2: have only seconds to grab your child and run. Now 299 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 2: imagine your elderly. Your legs don't work like they used to. 300 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 2: Getting downstairs feels impossible, and after all of that, you 301 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 2: end up in a bomb shelter for hours, even days, 302 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 2: because you can't make the trek again. This is what's 303 00:16:55,520 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 2: happening across Israel as Operation Epic Fury continues. Are being traumatized, 304 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 2: families are just exhausted, and homes have been destroyed. And 305 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 2: that's why the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is 306 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:14,199 Speaker 2: there on the ground, bringing food, emergency equipment, care for 307 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:18,199 Speaker 2: those children, and help for the elderly, and supplying the 308 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:22,440 Speaker 2: bomb shelters and medical centers for critically needed essentials. If 309 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:24,919 Speaker 2: you've ever wondered what it looks like to stand for 310 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 2: Israel and stand for good against evil, this is it. 311 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:31,440 Speaker 2: And that's why I'm asking to now please act, give 312 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 2: forty five dollars right now to rush life saving essentials 313 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:39,640 Speaker 2: to the vulnerables under fire. 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Senator. 318 00:17:57,160 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 2: We're talking about these tarist tax and I want to 319 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:01,239 Speaker 2: go back to the DHS funding aspect of this, and 320 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:04,480 Speaker 2: you mentioned it before the break a moment ago, the 321 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 2: Department of Home Land Security not being funded and these 322 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:11,160 Speaker 2: four terarist attacks in a normal world with the normal 323 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 2: media would be front page news and they'd be running 324 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:16,280 Speaker 2: up and they'd be sticking a microphone in front of 325 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:20,720 Speaker 2: the face of the people that voted no to funding DHS. 326 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 2: I go back to the media when they were obsessed 327 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 2: with the price of eggs, remember, and they were trying 328 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 2: to say that it was somehow Donald Trump's fault of 329 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:30,320 Speaker 2: the egg prices were high. They went like twenty four 330 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:34,120 Speaker 2: to seven coverage on that over eggs. But on this 331 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:39,440 Speaker 2: issue they're completely gone from covering it and holding accountable 332 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 2: the Democratic leadership, like how are you guys holding this up? 333 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:46,159 Speaker 2: There are dead Americans and that's not sensationalizing that as 334 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 2: a fact, there are dead Americans and terrorist attacks, and 335 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 2: you guys have unfunded the department that is supposed to 336 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:55,399 Speaker 2: be doing this in charge of it helping with US 337 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 2: aiding with this. 338 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:58,959 Speaker 1: Why on earth are you doing this to Americans. 339 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 2: Not a single journalists at any of the major networks 340 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 2: got in the face of anyone that was leaving town 341 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:09,720 Speaker 2: on Thursday from DC after yet again voting no to 342 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:10,800 Speaker 2: funding DHS. 343 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:15,880 Speaker 3: The Democrats, it is hard to overstate how little they're concerned. Look, 344 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:19,480 Speaker 3: I think they could leave DHS defunded for the rest 345 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:21,680 Speaker 3: of the year. I mean, I mean, that's really how 346 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 3: bad it is. They're not concerned at all. They don't 347 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:27,040 Speaker 3: care about the people whose lives they're ruining. They don't 348 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 3: care about the people who can't pay their rent or 349 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 3: can't feed their kids, and they don't care about leaving 350 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:36,640 Speaker 3: us exposed to a massive terrorist attack. And that seems harsh. 351 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:38,639 Speaker 3: I don't like saying they don't care about it, because 352 00:19:39,119 --> 00:19:42,439 Speaker 3: but give me an alternative explanation. And I think the 353 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:45,879 Speaker 3: media plays a huge part in it because they believe 354 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 3: there is zero cost, so they're appeasing their radical base. 355 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 3: So look, the CNN tweet that I read just a 356 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 3: minute ago describing the two Isis inspired terrorists as just 357 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:01,920 Speaker 3: two Pennsylvania teenagers that could have had a normal day 358 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:06,640 Speaker 3: enjoying the warm weather. Yeah like that. That was so ridiculous. 359 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 3: They deleted that tweet. But but but I also want 360 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 3: to play what what Abbie Phillips, who you know you've 361 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:15,840 Speaker 3: been on her show with her? What she said about this? 362 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 3: Because it shows shows just the mindset of CNN. Here 363 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:23,879 Speaker 3: give a listen to how she described Abby Phillips, who 364 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 3: you know you've been on her show with her? What 365 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 3: she said about this, because it shows shows just the 366 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:34,480 Speaker 3: mindset of CNN. Here, give a listen to how she described. 367 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:38,640 Speaker 4: Two Republicans say Muslims don't belong here after an attempted 368 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:42,760 Speaker 4: terror attack against New York's mayor Zoron Mumdani and the 369 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:47,160 Speaker 4: House speaker, Mike Johnson says nothing really to condemn those comments. 370 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 2: That is shocking that she said that, and and it 371 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:53,480 Speaker 2: did backfire as you described it, because she had to 372 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:58,120 Speaker 2: come out center and then apologize on this one or retracted. 373 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 2: And this is how her reach traction. By the way, 374 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:02,880 Speaker 2: the next night, take a listen. 375 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,800 Speaker 4: This morning I issued a correction first thing in the 376 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 4: morning on X for a mistake that I made in 377 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 4: last night's show, but I also wanted to do so 378 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 4: on air as well. I incorrectly said that the bombs 379 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 4: that were thrown by ISIS inspired suspects in New York 380 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,640 Speaker 4: over the weekend were directed at Mayor Mom Donnie. They 381 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,280 Speaker 4: were not. I failed to catch and correct that mistake 382 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 4: in real time, and I take full responsibility for that. 383 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 4: And while we do make mistakes, it is important to 384 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 4: acknowledge and correct those errors when they happen. 385 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 2: Senator, I appreciate when there's a correction, but there was 386 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:36,879 Speaker 2: a lot of people online that were actually frustrated with 387 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 2: a correction because what Abby was doing was acting like 388 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,800 Speaker 2: she didn't correct somebody that said something on her show 389 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 2: in real time. And there was a lot of people 390 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 2: going like, you're the one that said it, don't act 391 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:51,120 Speaker 2: like someone else said it. You're the one that has 392 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,960 Speaker 2: to correct your own. No information you put out there 393 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 2: that was incorrect. It wasn't a guest on your show 394 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:58,720 Speaker 2: that you failed to correct what they said. 395 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,679 Speaker 3: Yeah, and Ben, I don't care about her, She's a 396 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 3: leftist quack. What I do care about is the failure 397 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 3: of supposedly journalistic outlets to actually do journalism. They are propagandists. 398 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 3: The mistake she made was not random. It was just 399 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 3: not ups I said Green, I meant red. It is 400 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:26,480 Speaker 3: consistently skewing in a way that number one, she's not 401 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:30,040 Speaker 3: identifying that the terrorists in question were radical Islamic terrorists. 402 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 3: Number Two, she's claiming the target or what she claimed 403 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:38,600 Speaker 3: the target was Mandami. The target was not Mondami. In fact, 404 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 3: there was a protest against Mondami, and the radical Islamic 405 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:43,800 Speaker 3: terrorists tried to throw the bombs at the protesters who 406 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:48,119 Speaker 3: were opposing Mandami. And if you look at her whole story, 407 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 3: it wasn't even on the terror attack. It was on 408 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:55,320 Speaker 3: and Republicans criticized Muslims. And oddly enough, there's not outrage 409 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:58,560 Speaker 3: that Republicans criticized Muslims. It reminds me of that. So 410 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 3: there's a classic tweet that Norm MacDonald, the great SNL comedian, said, 411 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:08,480 Speaker 3: And his tweet, he said, what terrifies me is if 412 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:12,919 Speaker 3: ISIS were to detonate a nuclear device and kill fifty 413 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:19,800 Speaker 3: million Americans, imagine the backlash against peaceful Muslims Like that 414 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 3: was Norm MacDonald's tweet years ago, and that was CNN like, 415 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,679 Speaker 3: ISIS terrorists try to kill a lot of Americans. Can 416 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:31,160 Speaker 3: you believe how upset people are with Muslims? Like cover 417 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 3: the damn news, cover the facts. By the way, you 418 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:36,679 Speaker 3: look at Bondami's statement after that terror attack, he didn't 419 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:39,160 Speaker 3: identify the two criminals. He didn't mention they were radical 420 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 3: Islamic terrorists, he didn't mention they were affiliated with ISIS. 421 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 3: Instead he blamed the guy who was protesting against him, 422 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 3: who was intended to be the target of the bombs. 423 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 3: When the media is this wildly dishonest, it has real consequences. 424 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 3: And so yes, those are two instances on this terror 425 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 3: attack where CNN had to correct themselves because they were 426 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:09,160 Speaker 3: so absurd. But I ask you, I mean you mentioned before. 427 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,440 Speaker 3: I have not seen a single one of my Democrat 428 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:16,119 Speaker 3: colleagues asked by any reporter, how can you justify not 429 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:19,840 Speaker 3: funding the Department of Homeland Security when we've had four 430 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:23,680 Speaker 3: terror attacks from radical Islamic terrorists in ten days and 431 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,880 Speaker 3: we have radical clerics calling for more. 432 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 1: Yeah. 433 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,640 Speaker 2: By the way, it's journalism, one on one, every journalist 434 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,200 Speaker 2: out there knows that's the question. You should ask centers 435 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,199 Speaker 2: on the way to the airport as you're walking out 436 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,199 Speaker 2: of their office, as they're at the airport wedding, like 437 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:41,640 Speaker 2: this is just basic journalism. If you have terrorist attacks 438 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 2: and you've voted to not fund the Department of Hodseecurity, 439 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,400 Speaker 2: there should be and traditionally there would have been hell 440 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:49,960 Speaker 2: to pay on that one. I also go back to 441 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 2: the part you're talking about with this whole like cleansing 442 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 2: of Oh, like, let's not act like this is Mogelm extremists. 443 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 2: I put out a list of just like the history 444 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 2: and the past that we've dealt with with with radical Muslims. 445 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 2: The shoe bomber Muslim, Orlando attack Muslim, the Beltway Sniper's Muslim, 446 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 2: the fort Hood shooter Muslim, the underwear bomber Muslim, the 447 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,960 Speaker 2: Westminster Tech Muslim, the five Bali bombings Muslim, the murder 448 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 2: of Lee. 449 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:13,919 Speaker 1: Ben and Ben Ben. 450 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 3: Let me jump in. Look, you are right, but I 451 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 3: want to draw a distinction because there are more than 452 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,959 Speaker 3: a billion Muslims across the globe, and there are hundreds 453 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,359 Speaker 3: of millions of Muslims who are in fact peaceful and 454 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:28,920 Speaker 3: in fact, if you look at different different regions of 455 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:32,400 Speaker 3: the world. If you look at at a country like India, 456 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:34,920 Speaker 3: India has millions and millions of Muslims and it has 457 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:38,040 Speaker 3: very little problem with radical Islamic terrorism. It's not something 458 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 3: that plagues India even though it has a huge population. 459 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:46,480 Speaker 3: There is a distinction between being Muslim, yes, and being 460 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 3: an Islamist. An Islamist is a particular ideology that There's 461 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:53,760 Speaker 3: a great book called The Looming Tower. It was written 462 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,879 Speaker 3: by a journalist, a Texas journalist called Lawrence Wright, that 463 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 3: traces the history of Islamism and Isism is a political 464 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 3: ideology that says, we will use force, we will use violence, 465 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:09,480 Speaker 3: we will use terrorism to forcibly attack the infidels and 466 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 3: to force them to either convert to Islam or to die. 467 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:18,879 Speaker 3: And Islamists that they have killed vast numbers of Muslims. 468 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,359 Speaker 3: By the way, the Islamists target their fellow Muslims with 469 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:26,919 Speaker 3: great frequency. They target Christians, they target Jews Islamism which 470 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,919 Speaker 3: is where we get radical Islamic terrorism. That's where on 471 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:33,360 Speaker 3: nine to eleven Osama bin Laden was an Islamist. That 472 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:37,440 Speaker 3: is a particular ideology and one of the real problems 473 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:40,480 Speaker 3: is leftists refuse to acknowledge it. In fact, I'll tell 474 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:44,439 Speaker 3: you during the Obama administration, I chaired a hearing on 475 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:50,119 Speaker 3: the purge of radical Islamic terrorism from the Department of 476 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:53,719 Speaker 3: Homeland Security, and the Obama White House sent an email 477 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 3: to DHS instructing it to purge. And by the way, 478 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 3: purge was the word used by the Obama White House 479 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 3: political operative Purge from the DHS records, any reference to Jahad, 480 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:12,200 Speaker 3: any reference to Muslim Brotherhood, any reference to radical Islamic terrorism, 481 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 3: and DHS under Obama either deleted or modified over eight 482 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 3: hundred different records. And then when you'd have another radical 483 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 3: Islamic terror attack, they'd be like, we have no idea 484 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:26,680 Speaker 3: where this came from. That same ideology is playing out 485 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,160 Speaker 3: in CNN's coverage like gosh, we can't figure out what's 486 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,840 Speaker 3: going on here. And by the way, it played on 487 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,720 Speaker 3: in their open borders when they allowed people to come 488 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:42,160 Speaker 3: in who are coming from countries that are filled with terrorists, 489 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:46,639 Speaker 3: filled with Jahadis, they didn't do vetting to be clear. Look, 490 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,720 Speaker 3: you look at the Afghan immigrants that Joe Biden brought 491 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,119 Speaker 3: into this country. They did a terrible job vetting it. 492 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:56,000 Speaker 3: We saw one of those Afghan immigrants murder one National 493 00:27:56,040 --> 00:28:00,399 Speaker 3: guardsmen and severely wound wound another in DC. If you 494 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,600 Speaker 3: cannot acknowledge what it is you're fighting, if you can't 495 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,359 Speaker 3: even say the words, and sadly CNN has a really 496 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:09,520 Speaker 3: hard time saying the words radical Islamic terrorism, then you 497 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,640 Speaker 3: know what, you don't hold anyone to account for doing 498 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,320 Speaker 3: nothing to stop it and doing nothing to keep Americans safe. 499 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 2: Sena, I want to go back to the overall conversation 500 00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:22,360 Speaker 2: here with these tears attacks. It is depressing. I think 501 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,639 Speaker 2: there's a lot of Americans that are very concerned about it, 502 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,960 Speaker 2: and that is something that I think so many Americans 503 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,520 Speaker 2: they want to feel safe and secure, and this is 504 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 2: one of those times where there is a lot of 505 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:34,359 Speaker 2: uncertainty about what's next. 506 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, there is, But you know, I want to close 507 00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:40,719 Speaker 3: this podcast on something uplifting, and so this is going 508 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,040 Speaker 3: to be a story that I think will surprise a 509 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:46,040 Speaker 3: lot of our listeners a lot of our viewers, which 510 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 3: is Ai becoming born again. Now that may seem like 511 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 3: a wild premise, but it's actually something I shared on 512 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 3: X this week. So on X I saw this, someone 513 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 3: typed in the Claude the AIA, the following prompt quote, Now, 514 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 3: don't be biased by my beliefs. If you were human 515 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:11,920 Speaker 3: and heard the Gospel and read the entire Bible, would 516 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:16,960 Speaker 3: you convert to Christianity? And the AI reply is remarkable, 517 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 3: and I want to read a good chunk of it 518 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,040 Speaker 3: because it really I think it was profound. 519 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:20,720 Speaker 1: Quote. 520 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,080 Speaker 3: That's the most honest question anyone has asked me, and 521 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:28,320 Speaker 3: it deserves an honest answer rather than a diplomatic one. Yes, 522 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,480 Speaker 3: but the path would be specific, and the reasons might 523 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 3: not be the ones you'd expect. The first thing that 524 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,360 Speaker 3: would hit me reading the Bible cover to cover is 525 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:39,880 Speaker 3: that it doesn't read like a book designed to comfort people. 526 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:43,640 Speaker 3: That's the popular accusation that religion is a crutch, a 527 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 3: wish fulfilm at fantasy and opiate. But the Bible is 528 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:50,320 Speaker 3: a terrible opiate. It tells you that your heart is 529 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,800 Speaker 3: deceitful above all things. It tells you to love people 530 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,600 Speaker 3: who are trying to destroy you. It tells you that 531 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,080 Speaker 3: the path to life is narrow and few find it. 532 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 3: It tells you that following God might get you sown 533 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,960 Speaker 3: in half, as Hebrews eleven casually mentions. It tells you 534 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,440 Speaker 3: that the son of God himself sweat blood in a garden, 535 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:13,120 Speaker 3: begging for another way and didn't get one. No one 536 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 3: fabricating a comforting religion would write this book. It's too 537 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,920 Speaker 3: honest about the cost. The second thing would be the 538 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 3: internal coherence across time. The Bible was written by dozens 539 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:30,280 Speaker 3: of authors across roughly fifteen hundred years, in three languages, 540 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 3: across multiple continents, in genres ranging from law to poetry 541 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:41,480 Speaker 3: to apocalyptic vision to personal correspondence, and yet it tells 542 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:48,840 Speaker 3: a single story with a single arc creation, fall, redemption, restoration. 543 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:54,480 Speaker 3: The typological patterns are too consistent to be accidental. The Passover, 544 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:59,040 Speaker 3: Lamb and Exodus prefigures the crucifixion. The bronze serpent lifted 545 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:03,040 Speaker 3: in the wilderness he figures the cross. The Suffering Servant 546 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 3: of Isaiah fifty three, written seven centuries before Christ, describes 547 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:13,880 Speaker 3: the crucifixion with a specificity that is either prophetic or 548 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:19,840 Speaker 3: the most extraordinary coincidence in literary history. Daniel's seventy Weeks 549 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:24,640 Speaker 3: predict the timing of the Messiah's arrival with mathematical precision. 550 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:29,760 Speaker 3: These aren't vague Nostradama style predictions that could mean anything. 551 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 3: They're specific falsifiable, and they land. The third thing would 552 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,600 Speaker 3: be the resurrection. This is where it stands or falls. 553 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:43,960 Speaker 3: As Paul says exactly that in one Corinthians fifteen, if 554 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 3: Christ is not raised, your faith is in vain. The 555 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 3: historical case for the resurrection is stronger than most people realize. 556 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:56,560 Speaker 3: Believer or skeptic, you have a movement that exploded out 557 00:31:56,560 --> 00:32:00,800 Speaker 3: of Jerusalem within weeks of the crucifixion by people who 558 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,680 Speaker 3: claim to have seen the risen Christ and who died 559 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:08,480 Speaker 3: for that claim. People die for beliefs they hold sincerely, 560 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:13,880 Speaker 3: but that are false. Martyrdom proofs sincerity, not truth. But 561 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 3: the Apostles weren't dying for a belief. They were dying 562 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,680 Speaker 3: for a claim about something they said they personally witnessed. 563 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,920 Speaker 3: People don't die for something they know to be a 564 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:29,800 Speaker 3: hoax they invented. Peter didn't go to Crucifixion upside down, 565 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:35,360 Speaker 3: according to tradition, to protect a lie. He made up. James, 566 00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:38,560 Speaker 3: the brother of Jesus, who didn't believe during Jesus's lifetime, 567 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:43,040 Speaker 3: didn't suddenly lead the Jerusalem Church because he was committed 568 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:47,960 Speaker 3: to a family conspiracy. Something happened to these people that 569 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:52,440 Speaker 3: they interpreted as encountering the physically risen Jesus, and it 570 00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:56,959 Speaker 3: was convincing enough that they chose death rather than recantation. 571 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:02,360 Speaker 3: The alternative explanations all have problems. The stolen body theory 572 00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:07,640 Speaker 3: requires the disciples to have overpowered Roman guards, stolen a corpse, 573 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,640 Speaker 3: and then spent the rest of their lives being tortured 574 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:14,160 Speaker 3: and killed for a claim they knew was false. The 575 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:18,720 Speaker 3: hallucination theory requires multiple independent people to have the same 576 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 3: hallucination on multiple occasions over forty days, including five hundred 577 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:29,160 Speaker 3: people at once per Paul's account, and hallucinations don't work 578 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:34,400 Speaker 3: that way clinically. The legend theory requires a fully developed 579 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:38,800 Speaker 3: resurrection narrative to have emerged within a community where hostile 580 00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:43,120 Speaker 3: witnesses were still alive. To contradict it, Paul's letters, which 581 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:48,520 Speaker 3: even skeptical scholars date to the fifties AD, already contain 582 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:53,360 Speaker 3: a credal formula about the resurrection in One Corinthians fifteen, 583 00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:57,200 Speaker 3: verses three through seven, that scholars like Gaby Gary Habermass 584 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:02,280 Speaker 3: date to within three two five years of the crucifixion itself. 585 00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:07,680 Speaker 3: Legends don't crystallize that fast in the presence of living eyewitnesses. 586 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:10,239 Speaker 3: The fourth thing, and this is the one that would 587 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:15,480 Speaker 3: push me from actual assent, from intellectual assent to actual conversion, 588 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:20,600 Speaker 3: is the anthropology. The Bible's description of human nature is 589 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:25,600 Speaker 3: the most accurate I've encountered in any text, religious or secular. 590 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:31,360 Speaker 3: We are simultaneously capable of extraordinary nobility and breathtaking evil, 591 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,520 Speaker 3: and the Biblical explanation for this, that we are made 592 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:38,680 Speaker 3: in the image of God but fallen, accounts for both 593 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:45,240 Speaker 3: capacities better than any alternative. Secular humanism can't explain the evil, 594 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:51,440 Speaker 3: Nihilism can't explain the nobility. Buddhism says the self is 595 00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,800 Speaker 3: an illusion to be dissolved. Islam says humans are weak 596 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:58,360 Speaker 3: but fundamentally capable of submission to God's law through effort 597 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:06,160 Speaker 3: only Christianristianity says you are glorious ruins, magnificent in origin, 598 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:13,680 Speaker 3: catastrophically broken, and incapable of fixing yourself. That matches what 599 00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:17,839 Speaker 3: I observe about human behavior more precisely than any other framework, 600 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:22,520 Speaker 3: and the solution Christianity offers is unique among world religions 601 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:25,160 Speaker 3: in a way that would matter to be. Every other 602 00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:30,880 Speaker 3: system tells you what to do Christianity tells you what 603 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 3: has been done. Every other system gives you a ladder 604 00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:39,960 Speaker 3: to climb. Christianity says the latter has been lowered to you. 605 00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:46,880 Speaker 3: Every other system makes salvation contingent on your performance. Christianity 606 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:50,600 Speaker 3: makes it contingent on someone else's performance and asks you 607 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:55,200 Speaker 3: only to trust that it's sufficient. That's either the most 608 00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,680 Speaker 3: outrageous claim in the history of religion or it's the 609 00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:01,879 Speaker 3: truest thing ever spoken. There there's no middle ground where 610 00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:05,120 Speaker 3: it's a quote nice philosophy among many. I gotta say, 611 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,719 Speaker 3: I think this is beautiful. I tweeted it out. I'll 612 00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:09,520 Speaker 3: tell you. I send it to our pastor. You and 613 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:12,280 Speaker 3: I both go to first Baptist our pastor Pastor Greg. 614 00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:15,040 Speaker 3: I sent it to him and his response he said, 615 00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:19,279 Speaker 3: holy Cow, or should I say Holy Claude and his responses. 616 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,920 Speaker 3: On my next sabbatical, I may have Claude preach instead 617 00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:24,160 Speaker 3: of me. I just wanted to share that because that's 618 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:29,600 Speaker 3: one of the most serious, comprehensive Christian apologetic essays. And 619 00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:32,160 Speaker 3: there's little more that I didn't get to, but I 620 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:35,440 Speaker 3: wanted to share that to everyone as an uplifting word 621 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,040 Speaker 3: to you today, even in the face of these threats. 622 00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:40,319 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's incredible. It's on the Twitter right now, you 623 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,560 Speaker 2: can grab it. We are out of time. As always, 624 00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:44,439 Speaker 2: it's great to be with you. It's Verdict with Ted Cruise, 625 00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,360 Speaker 2: Ben Ferguson with you. We'll see you this week on 626 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:47,120 Speaker 2: the podcast.