WEBVTT - Iran: Why We're Fighting, How's it Going & What's the End Game 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:00.720 Welcome. 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.600 It is Verdict with center, Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you. 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:05.560 It's so nice for you to join us today. And 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:07.800 we've got a lot to talk about. The world's talking 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:10.680 about Iran right now, Senator, and we've got updates from 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:12.600 where we are in this war with Iran. 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:15.600 Well, we're in week two of the war with Iran, 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:19.880 and I will say the success is continue to build up. 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:23.079 If you look at the first day of this conflict, 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:28.280 Iran launched three hundred and fifty ballistic missiles. By day 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:33.040 eight that had dropped to fifteen. The second day of 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:38.559 this conflict, Iran launched five hundred and forty one drone attacks. 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:43.720 By day eight that had dropped to twelve. What we 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:48.600 have done in less than two weeks now, we have 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:54.800 taken out Iran's air defenses. We've taken out their missile 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:58.840 launching capacity. We have taken out their missiles, we have 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:03.080 taken out their missile manufacturing. We've taken out their drone 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:06.680 launch capacity. We have taken out their drones. We have 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:10.839 taken out their drone manufacturing. If you look at their navy, 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:14.160 virtually every ship in their navy has been sunk to 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:18.119 the bottom of the ocean. That effect in less than 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:23.040 two weeks is profound. 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That's eight six 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:09.440 six six seven nine seven eight seven to one. 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:13.200 All right, center, So so let's play for very interrupt 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:15.000 you let me interrupt you right now, Ben. 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:18.520 So you're right now in Caba. I am that's true. 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:19.600 Yes, yes, that's true. 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.359 And I just want to thank you on behalf of 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.280 every Verdict listener, but especially the Verdict viewers. So there 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.360 are a lot of vertict viewers who watch on on 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:33.000 on YouTube, who watch on Facebook, and I just want 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:35.280 to say, I'm really glad that you are not in 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:36.280 Aspito right now. 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:40.320 I am not I am in a suit, a jacket. 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.120 Or even worse, a borat. 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:45.600 A borat, Yes, that like covers the equipment and goes 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:50.240 over your shoulders. I'm just gonna say, to be honest, 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.160 we don't know if you're in aspeito a borat because 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.919 the camera shot is is only chest up. 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.600 Yeah, this is this is what you call hazing. When 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:00.520 when when when crazy? 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.720 One of us is at work, Like I've spent the 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:05.760 whole day in the Senate, I'm working. By the way, 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:09.239 it's your spring break, it's my spring break. My girls 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:12.519 were skiing on spring break. I went for a day 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:14.680 and a half and then got on a plane and 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:16.239 I flew back to Washington, d C. 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:17.680 Because some of us have a job. 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:18.640 Yeah, I know. 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:21.799 And I'm proud. I want you to know that I'm 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:24.400 proud of you. As I was clear on the beach today. 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:28.480 Benjamin has had nineteen dakeries today, and and and if 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.040 I asked him to walk in a straight line and 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.560 spell the alphabet backwards, he couldn't do. 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:33.760 So. 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:36.920 I did have two Miami vices today, just an interview. 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:37.440 I knew you would. 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:39.480 I don't even know what a Miami vice is. 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:41.920 You that's that's just said, I'll introduce you the next 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:42.680 time we're hanging. 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:43.000 Out in Kabba. 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:44.520 What what is a Miami Vice. 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:48.000 It's it's a pinnaclouda strawberry dodacri together. They called him 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:51.160 Miami Vice. You never had a Miami Vice in your 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:54.760 entire life. As I'm sitting here in Caba, I mean 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:58.800 this sincerely, I just don't care. That's how happy I am. 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.400 All Right, So here we go. Here's peteread Seth. We're 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:03.640 gonna start with Peter head Seth giving an update on 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:05.600 the war. I want you to take a listen to 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:08.040 what he had to say about where we are now 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:09.680 and what is happening. 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:10.800 Take a listen to this. 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:15.200 On day ten of Operation Epic Fury, we are winning 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:21.320 with an overwhelming and unrelenting focus on our objectives, which 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:23.919 are the same as the day I gave my first 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:28.400 briefing here on Operation Epic Fury. They're straightforward, and we 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:35.040 are executing them with ruthless precision. One destroy their missile stockpiles, 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:40.880 their missile launchers, and their defense industrial base missiles and 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:46.840 their ability to make them. Two destroy their navy, and 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:53.599 three permanently deny Iran nuclear weapons forever. It's a laser 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:59.839 focused maximum authority mission delivered with overwhelming and unrelenting precision, 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.160 no hesitation, no half measures. 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.120 Well, let me ask you this sinator as you hear 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:08.720 him lay that out, I want to know what the 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:12.240 pulsees in DC as you guys are there talking about this. 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:16.040 I'm still trying to figure out what exactly the Democrat 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.640 talking point is. I've seen like four or five of 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:20.400 them that they've been kind of throwing jello at a 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:21.320 wall to. 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:22.599 See if anything will stick. 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:24.720 They're obviously wanting to hurt Donald Trump and this or 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.320 trying to say he's gonna get into forever or it's 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:28.400 not really working. 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:31.000 So what are your colleagues saying in the Senate about this? 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:35.360 And also among Republicans as well, there's even been there 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.120 was an interesting moment by the way, where like they 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.640 were trying to bait you into trashing Lindsey Graham and 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.960 others are trying to turn Republicans against Republicans. And as 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:46.240 I was sitting here on the beach drinking my Miami Vice, 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:48.520 I enjoyed watching You have to deal with that on 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.280 TV because I just got to be a spectator. 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:52.200 It was great. 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:53.760 Yeah, look, last night. 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.840 I was on Laura Ingram, and Laura's a friend and 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:01.279 she's supporting President Trump in this military com But she 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:04.799 asked a whole series of questions about aren't you upset 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.680 that it's been reported that Lindsey Graham was talking to 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:11.839 Prime Minister net Yahoo? And she basically said, isn't Lindsay 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:17.719 acting as a lobbyist for Israel? And I said, Laura, 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:24.239 with all due respect, now, and that's really a silly question. Listen, Lindsey. 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.000 I agree with Lindsay on some issues. I disagree with 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:30.039 Lindsay on other issues. You look at the Iraq War. 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:31.320 Lindsay was a big. 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.479 Proposent of the Iraq War. I think the Iraq War 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.600 was a serious mistake. I think it did harm to 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:38.560 the United States. And I've said that for a long 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:42.120 long time. So Lindsay and are on totally different pages 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.640 when it comes to Iraq. When it comes to Iran, 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.880 Lindsey and I agree. I think when the Ayatola says 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:52.240 death to America, he means it. I think President Trump 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:57.320 is right to act to take out the leadership in 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:01.320 Iran because having radical islamistle readership that wants to murder 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:05.840 Americans is bad for America. The regime in Iran has 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.520 been the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism for forty 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:13.840 seven years. They provide ninety percent of the funding for Hamas, 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:17.640 for Hesbaala and for the houthies. They've killed nearly one 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:23.560 thousand Americans in the last five decades. The Ayahtola he 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:29.600 leads mobs channing death to America, and he hires two 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:32.840 different crews of hit men to try to murder Donald J. 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:36.200 Trump. Yeah, by the way, two and can you pause on. 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.920 That, for one was just convicted the last week of 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:39.320 doing so. 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:40.000 Yeah. 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:42.040 I was gonna say, let's spend a moment on this 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:45.200 because this is part of the Democrats talking point and 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.920 I've been fighting this pretty hard on TV as well, 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:49.800 and they're like, well, they weren't. There was not a 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.560 direct threat here. This was not a direct threat to America. 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.239 This is you're now putting people in harm's way. Let's 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.920 make it very clear on this show as you described it, 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:04.000 not one but two that we know about were sent 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.520 to try to take out and kill the President of America. 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:07.960 That came directly from Iran. 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.280 And by the way, the hitman told the Department of Justice, 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.120 I was hired by Iran. I was trained by Iran, 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.880 and my purpose was to murder President Trump. There's no 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.400 dispute that it was Iran that was paying for this. 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.080 And I will note if you remember last year when 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:27.560 I was interviewed by Tucker Carlson, it was an unhinged interview. 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.960 But he disputed me. 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.400 He said, no, no, no, I've never heard that Iran's 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:36.120 trying to murder Donald Trump, which was insane and totally counterfactual. 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.480 And it's hard to actually argue with someone for whom 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.319 facts don't matter and they just make up facts. But 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:48.960 then Tucker said, bizarrely, well, and if Iran was trying 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.480 to murder Trump, we should attack them now, we should 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:57.280 nuke them, Yeah, which was insane. And by the way, 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.480 I will say, in Monday's podcast, we pointed out Tucker 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:08.000 has become such an Islamist shill, such an Israel hating zealot, 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:14.520 such an advocate for every Islamist enemy of America that 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:19.160 he has argued this week that President Trump's demand for 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:25.000 unconditional surrender of Iran means that Iran should expect American 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:29.880 soldiers to rape their wives and daughters. Yes, that is 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:36.680 an absolute slander of our American servicemen and women. It 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:40.600 is totally false, it is ahistorical. We don't do that. 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:45.120 Other armies do that. America does not. And he also 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.640 argued that he thinks America is going to nuke Iran. 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:55.520 To be clear, that's what Jahadis Tucker said in his 0:09:55.600 --> 0:10:00.959 interview we should do if Iran was trying to murder 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:05.720 President Trump. We now have one of the hit men 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:09.240 convicted in a federal jury for trying to murder Trump. 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:15.800 So Tucker's bad faith, disingenuous position is we should nuke them. 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.880 Of course we should nuke them. We're not gonna nuke Iran. 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:23.840 That is bizarre, that is wrong. We're also not There 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:26.679 is no circumstance in which American soldiers are going to 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:30.040 rape the women of Iran. But do you know who 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.600 is broadcasting Tucker's broadcast right now? 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:37.960 Literally, Iran state sponsored media is broadcasting it to their people. 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.760 The government of Iran is broadcasting Tucker to their people. 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:46.079 The Muslim Brotherhood has retweeted and put out Tucker's broadcast 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:51.600 to the world r T the press organization Russia. Russia 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:55.360 today is pushing out Tucker. So you want to talk 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:59.880 about a damn effective propagandist for people who hate America. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:03.120 And this is the slippery slope of Jew hate and 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.840 Israel hate. You start with just hating Israel and Jews 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:10.280 blaming everything bad in the world, it's the Jews, and 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:12.280 you very quickly get into. 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:13.600 The problem is capitalism. 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:15.960 By the way, Tucker is now attacking capitalism on a 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:21.440 daily basis and embracing He's embraced Comrade Mondami as the 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:22.199 mayor of New York. 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:23.520 He's defended him repeatedly. 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:28.600 He's embraced Nicholas Maduro, the Marxist America hating dictator of Venezuela, 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:32.560 who Donald Trump went and rightly apprehended for being one 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:36.080 of the biggest drug dealers in the world, killing Americans. 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:41.880 Tucker is defending him, and that pattern is incredibly dangerous. 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:43.120 We're seeing it play out every day. 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.640 By the way, side note, this is going to be interesting. 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:49.520 I want you to guess in two thousand, this would 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:53.520 probably be two thousand and nine, eight or nine, my 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:58.640 big today today to date, right now, the biggest contract 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:01.560 I've ever been offered in mind higher life to do 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:02.320 radio TV. 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:03.640 Do you know who it was from? 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:07.040 I'm guessing Tucker, And what I want to ask is, 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:08.679 did you have to buy a home and cut her? 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:09.600 Like he has no. 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:11.000 No, that's a good guess, but no, it was not. 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:15.520 My biggest offer in the history of my career was RT. 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.040 They tried to hire. They were trying to hire conservatives, 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:21.840 and so in two thousand whatever year they like, they 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:23.439 came into America in the marketplace. 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:25.199 How much did they offer you? 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:26.640 Oh dude, it was seven figures. 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.680 I mean it was I don't remember, Like seriously, I 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:32.080 get rich, like instant, get rich money. 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.760 So like they offered you over a million dollars. 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:36.000 Yes, over a million dollars. 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:40.040 So the likes to say Vladimir Putin is wise and 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:41.120 a damn good looking man. 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:44.160 So this is how they entrap people. As I describe it, 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.640 I was in the bush years. I get a phone 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:51.679 call from a former worker slash, you know, TV executive 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.720 from Fox News Channel, and they said, Hey, I've moved 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:56.360 on to something else. I'd love to meet with you. 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:58.000 I'm like, sure, more than happy to me. I'd worked 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:00.560 with them before at Fox News Channel. Like, okay, big deal. 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.719 I go to lunch in DC, that's where I was 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.920 living the time, and she hands me her card and 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:10.679 she's working for RT and I'm like RT like Russia today, 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:12.800 like and she's like yes, and she's like, we would 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.520 love to have you come on and just give your viewpoint. 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.120 We would never tell you what to say. We would 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:20.160 never tell you what to like. You know, we want 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:21.920 you to just be exactly who you are. We want 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.760 a fair and balanced conversation about the world. We think 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:26.520 you would be great. I was like, I was like, 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:29.040 I'm still in shock. I'm like, this is I'm like 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.760 looking for cameras. I'm waiting for, like you know, somebody 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:33.559 to come out like from the side room like we 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:34.040 got him. 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:35.880 And I'm like I literally looked. 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:37.600 I was like, there's no amount of money that is 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.160 gonna make me work for the Russia and for BLA. 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.240 I think, I said Vladimir put and they were like, well, 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:44.160 here's the offer, and they slid across the table. 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:45.400 It was like a scene ow of the movie. And 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:45.920 I opened it. 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:47.400 It was I mean it was seven figures and I 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:49.280 literally I literally number. 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:50.880 Tell me what seven figures means? 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:52.680 Do you remember that it was well over a million 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:54.800 per year but it was a multi year deal, so 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:55.319 it was like. 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.160 It was like a million one, a million nine, like 0:13:58.440 --> 0:13:59.200 I can't remember if. 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.079 It was like I want to say again a long time. 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:02.920 I want to say, it's like a million two or three. 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.800 And that was their first offer per year. And so 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.440 I leave the meeting and I'm like, look, I'm not 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:10.160 gonna do it, but things, I just think about it, 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:11.560 and I'm like, I'm not gonna do it, but things 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:13.040 They're like, well, if you ever want to come as 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:14.840 a guess or if you ever change your mind. So 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.240 I leave and I called John Ashcroft at the time, 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.000 he was the former Turity General. I was like, John, 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:22.000 I just got offered money from Vladimir Putin. He was 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:24.760 like started chuckling, like Santa. He was like Russia today. 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:26.080 I was like, yay. He's like, you're like the eighth 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.320 person's called me today to tell me the last week 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.400 they're getting an offer from russiaday because they're trying to 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:34.200 legitimize themselves in America for their propaganda, and then they 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:39.240 were on TV until they invaded Ukraine and then Artie 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.360 like fired everybody in America. But I knew people that 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.840 took the money and got rich, Like I knew like legitiularly, 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.440 like yeah, take the Russian cash like, no problem. That 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:48.280 is by the way, the reason why I bring it 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:50.400 up is because with Tucker Carlson, when everybody's like, well, 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:51.920 there is there really money to be made to be 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:56.280 like anti America, anti Israel? Yes, there is lots of 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:58.280 money that people are getting paid. I don't know who's 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:00.440 getting paid, but a lot of people are getting so 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:01.280 just know that much. 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:04.280 So, by the way, we know that a foreign funders 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:05.520 for US universities. 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.680 Yeah, the number one country in the world. You know 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.320 what it is? 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:10.880 Is it China? 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:11.840 Nope? 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:13.600 Really, Russia? 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.320 Nope? Iran nope? 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:17.440 All right, who is it? 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:18.440 Cutter? 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:20.080 Oh that okay, there you go. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:25.880 Six point six billion dollars with a b. 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.320 Six point six billion comes from cut to our universities. 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:29.280 To our universities. 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.840 You want to know why our universities are so rabidly 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:37.680 anti American, so rabidly anti Semitics, so rabidly anti Israel, 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:42.560 so rabidly anti capitalism, so rabidly. Look you look at 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:45.080 the anti Semitic protests that we had on college campuses 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:48.480 all across the country. Yeah, did any of you notice 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:49.880 that the tents all matched? 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:51.360 Yeah? There you go. 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:54.080 And to be clear, cutter. 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:58.240 By the way, it's been publicly reported they hired spies 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:03.600 to spy on me. They view me as their biggest 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:07.240 opponent in Washington, and listen, it's very simple. I don't 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:11.480 have anything against the Kutaris other than they welcome and host. 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:12.200 Hold. 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:14.960 Let me finish this, Let me finish this. I don't 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.680 have anything against the Kataris other than that they welcome 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:23.560 and host the senior leadership of Hamas. They live like billionaires, 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:27.960 They live in lavish luxury. They support Hamas, they encourage Hamas. 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:34.360 They fund Israel haters, America haters, communists, people tearing America down. 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:38.560 They propagandize our kids. I'm perfectly happy to welcome the 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:41.360 Qataris into the society of civilized nation if they will 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:45.600 stop funding people trying to destroy America. And I don't 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.120 take it kindly when you write lots of checks to 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:50.400 people who hate American or trying to destroy our nation. 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:53.560 I view that as less than friendly conduct. 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.480 Having just come back from Israel, I want to paint 0:16:56.480 --> 0:17:00.080 you a picture. It's midnight, sirens are blaring and and 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:04.320 you have only seconds to grab your child and run. 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.639 Now imagine your elderly your legs don't work like they 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:11.840 used to. Getting downstairs feels impossible, and after all of that, 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:15.320 you end up in a bomb shelter for hours, even days, 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:19.200 because you can't make the trek again. This is what's 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:24.400 happening across Israel as Operation Epic Fury continues. Children are 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:29.280 being traumatized, families are just exhausted, and homes have been destroyed. 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:32.959 And that's why the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:37.760 is there on the ground, bringing food, emergency equipment, care 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:41.800 for those children, and help for the elderly, and supplying 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:45.520 the bomb shelters and medical centers for critically needed essentials. 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:48.520 If you've ever wondered what it looks like to stand 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:52.040 for Israel and stand for good against evil, this is it. 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:55.160 And that's why I'm asking to now please act, give 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:59.280 forty five dollars right now to rush life saving essentials 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:03.360 to the vulnerable under fire. You can also call eight 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:07.000 eight eight for eight eight I f c J. That's 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:10.399 eight eight eight for eight eight I f c J. 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:14.280 Join me and give and make a real difference online 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:16.720 at IFCJ dot org. 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:18.760 That's if c J dot org. 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:21.560 By the way, to everyone in guitar, that's a spy 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:23.959 listening right now. I just want you to know. And 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:27.440 this is the comment Ted's life is very boring. Sometimes 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:31.720 he really is sathnical. It's not there's nothing exciting happening there. 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.159 I just want to be cool, right, can I can 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:37.639 I tell a story And it's a story some of 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:42.600 our podcast listeners will will will remember. So back in 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:46.400 twenty sixteen, when I'm running for president and it's it's 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:48.720 getting down to to the end of the race, and 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:50.600 it's me and Donald Trump and we're neck and neck. 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:56.880 And in that race, I won twelve states, Trump won 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:00.280 twenty four and no other Republican one more than a 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.800 single state Kaseikuan, Ohio, Rubio one Minnesota, and trumpet I 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:08.199 won every other state in the country. And in the 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:12.000 course of that campaign, there was a story that broke 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:16.520 in the National Inquirer that said I was having five 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.560 simultaneous affairs and. 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:21.199 This is front page, big story. 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:26.360 Cruise caught yes, and look, Ben, you know my wife, 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:27.600 Heidi da. 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:30.439 I had to call Heidi. 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:34.480 And for anyone married, let me say to everyone listening 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:37.680 and watching this spot, if you're married, I got to 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:41.359 tell you it sucks to pick up the phone and 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:44.960 call your spouse and say a sweetheart. So there is 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:49.639 a front page story that is in every checkout aisle 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:55.600 of every supermarket in America that said I'm having five 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:59.080 simultaneous affairs and I ad dore Heidi. 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:01.200 She's my best friend the world. But I was nervous 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:01.880 about this call. 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:03.880 That is not a fun If you had a call 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:06.560 on and say that, that would be a call that sucked. 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:13.560 So I make the call. Do you know Heidi's reaction, Well. 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:16.080 I I know this story and I know exactly the reaction, 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:17.879 which is the best part about the whole story. 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:21.840 Heidi burst into a uporious laughter. 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:27.520 She's like doubled over laughing, and I actually got offended. 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:31.760 I'm like, sweetheart, it's not true, but damn it, I could. 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:34.119 I mean, like, what are you saying? Like? I like, 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:35.640 I didn't, but but. 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:39.120 You're that undesirable. That's what she's saying right there. There's 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:39.600 no way. 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:45.160 And I gotta say for the Qatari spies, I think 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:48.760 they were frustrated because look, I have dinner many nights 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:50.080 in DC at Capitol Garrell. 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:52.600