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Speaker 1: Up next, The Truth with Lisa Both Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: the Truth with Lisa Booth. America has become a laughing

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Speaker 1: stock on the world stage under Joe Biden, a complete embarrassment.

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Speaker 1: Russia's Vladimir Putin is eyeing an evasion of Ukraine, China

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Speaker 1: is eyeing an invasion of Taiwan, And why wouldn't they?

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Speaker 1: After Biden's embarrassing withdrawal from Afghanistan, why would anyone fear us?

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Speaker 1: He got thirteen service members killed. He left the Taliban

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Speaker 1: with over eighty billion dollars of weapons and military equipment

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Speaker 1: that we paid for as taxpayers. We went from being

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Speaker 1: respected and feared under President Trump to being weak and

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Speaker 1: taken advantage of under Biden. So what does this all

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Speaker 1: mean for the United States? What does it mean for

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Speaker 1: the world? On this week's episode of The Truth with

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Speaker 1: Lisa Booth, I'm going to get into all of this

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Speaker 1: with Senator Ted Cruz. It's going to be a fascinating show.

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned. So I'm really looking forward to this week's guest.

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Speaker 1: We've got a lot of stuff going on on the

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Speaker 1: world stage right now. We've got a more aggressive China,

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Speaker 1: a more aggressive Russia. I'll due to Joe Biden's weakness.

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Speaker 1: So Senator Ted Cruz, thank you so much for making

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Speaker 1: the time to join the show. Well, it's great to

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Speaker 1: be with you. At least thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: And first of all, we got a little bit of

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Speaker 1: trouble over tweets with Big Bird. Who knew who new? Senator,

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Speaker 1: you know, it is it is amazing that that that

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Speaker 1: chaos at the southern border. They're not troubled by UH

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Speaker 1: Biden's disastrous surrender in Afghanistan. They're not they're not troubled

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Speaker 1: by galloping inflation. But if you insult Big Bird, they

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Speaker 1: lose their minds. It was it was fairly fairly isn't

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Speaker 1: just just how much they reacted to that. And the point,

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Speaker 1: which is that the vaccine mandates UH coming from the

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Speaker 1: Biden administration are illegal. They're an abusive power. And in

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Speaker 1: this instance, you know, Big Bird tweeted out from Sesame

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Speaker 1: boyd as my wing hurt, and and you know I

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Speaker 1: sent one smart Alec tweet saying government sponsored propaganda for

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Speaker 1: your kid, for your five year old. And and to

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Speaker 1: see Biden and the Democrats wanting to force children to

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Speaker 1: get vaccinated despite their parents wishes, not caring about individual choice,

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Speaker 1: I think it's wrong. And and and the freak out

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Speaker 1: know they're on on thin ice on this one. Now,

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Speaker 1: I totally agree, and I appreciate you standing up for that,

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Speaker 1: because you know, sanity has really overtaken our nation. We're

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Speaker 1: about to get into a broader conversation about Ukraine and

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Speaker 1: China and some of the things we're saying on the

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Speaker 1: world stage. But you mentioned open borders. Why aren't open

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Speaker 1: borders more attributed with national security and a sign of weakness?

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Speaker 1: And if we can't control our borders, were there for

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Speaker 1: a weak nation? Right? That's exactly right, And and and

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Speaker 1: it's a very direct national security threat. Um, we've got

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Speaker 1: over two million illegal aliens who would have come in

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Speaker 1: are significant number of people coming into are COVID positive,

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Speaker 1: and Joe Biden keeps releasing COVID positive illegal aliens into

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Speaker 1: our communities. And there are also people on the terror

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Speaker 1: watch list, people who are terrorists. When you've got two

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Speaker 1: if you are a radical Islamic terrorist and you want

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Speaker 1: And and that is a very direct and a very

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Speaker 1: How did we get here and so quickly? Well we

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Speaker 1: around him believe an appeasement. They believe that that America

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Speaker 1: chances of China invading Taiwan just increased tenfold. And and

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Speaker 1: as Putin is preparing to invade Ukraine. The Biden administration

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Speaker 1: is now declassified their own projections that that that that

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Speaker 1: this is the direct result of Biden's weakness, both the

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Speaker 1: Putin on the North String to pipeline where where where

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Speaker 1: a little bit of history is helpful here. So so

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Speaker 1: so why does Putin want to invade Ukraine. Ukraine as

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Speaker 1: grand ambitions to reassemble the Soviet Union. Now, our country

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Speaker 1: dangerous for the world. Now Putin has already invaded Ukraine once.

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Speaker 1: He he did it in two he marched into Crimea

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Speaker 1: Biden one of his top foreign policy priorities, it's to

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Speaker 1: to re enter the Iran nuclear deal, the Ayatollah literally

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Speaker 1: I think we should be very reluctant to use my

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