1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 1: Welcome. It is Verdict with Ted Cruz. Wee can review 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 1: Ben Ferguson with you. And here are the big stories 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:08,639 Speaker 1: that we talked about this week that you may have missed. 4 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 1: First up, it was an incredible morale booster for the 5 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 1: American military and their capabilities to rescue the two down 6 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: pilots in Iran. 7 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:19,279 Speaker 2: What went into all of it, we explain it. 8 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:24,280 Speaker 1: Second up, Democrats accused Donald Trump of war crimes if 9 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: he does something they say he's not allowed to do. 10 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 2: We'll explain that. 11 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:33,159 Speaker 1: And finally, yet again, another illegal alien led into this 12 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:37,919 Speaker 1: country and the Biden administration commits a violent murder and 13 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:40,839 Speaker 1: will it ever stop? It's the weekend review and it 14 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: starts right now. You know, several people that I talked 15 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: to that are in the military over the last couple 16 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: of days, they were really worried about the airman who 17 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: has gone missing because they were like they knew what 18 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 1: was going to happen to him. If he was caught 19 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 1: by the IRGC, by these militias, he was a dead man, 20 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: and they were going to do it in a horrific 21 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 1: way and probably film it and put it out there 22 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 1: as propaganda to the world. And that was what they 23 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: were all concerned with. They also said to me and 24 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: and text messages on Easter Sunday, I want you to understand, 25 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 1: they said, the morale booster of seeing that you have 26 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 1: a commander in chief who says, I do not care 27 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:21,199 Speaker 1: what it costs. 28 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:23,480 Speaker 3: I don't get it. 29 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 1: Go get them, Go get them, and use everything, stop everything, 30 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:31,119 Speaker 1: and use everything to go get one man. And then 31 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 1: we'll go back to what we're doing. But whatever it takes, 32 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:36,760 Speaker 1: there is nothing I'm going to say no to. And 33 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: they said, they said to me, they said, been it's 34 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 1: been a long time since men and women in uniform 35 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:44,400 Speaker 1: have felt that they have a commander in chief who 36 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 1: truly has their back in this way. One of the 37 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 1: things they said that was I also thought was very 38 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 1: interesting and I'm going to look it up now. 39 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 2: See you looked up saying earlier. 40 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: But it was a quote and I want to quote 41 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: this because it was so it was so important what 42 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 1: this individual said. That's serving as he said, you know, 43 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: go look at the comparison to Bill Quinton and what 44 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 1: he did with American troops in Somalia. Yeah, he said, 45 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: look at Barack Obama and what he did with Americans 46 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:12,639 Speaker 1: in Libya. Look at Joe Biden, who abandoned thirteen US 47 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 1: soldiers in Afghanistan. Trump moved mountains to rescue one American 48 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: in Iran, one American. And if you're an American soldier 49 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 1: right now, how fired up for you to serve Donald 50 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 1: Trump knowing he's genuinely got your back. 51 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 3: Well, let me be clear, you're serving the United States, 52 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 3: You're not serving Donald Trump. But agreat your commander in 53 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 3: chief has you're back, and that's a powerful thing. And 54 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 3: by the way, it's not just you and me saying that, 55 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 3: it's also Barack Obama's former Secretary of Homeland Security. Listen 56 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 3: to Jay Johnson talking about this incredible. 57 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 4: Rescue, this operation for the first pilot, in this second pilot, 58 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 4: it's a remarkable exercise demonstration of US military courage technology. 59 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 4: I would encourage the President and the Secretary of Defense, 60 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:07,080 Speaker 4: consistent with operational security, share as much of that with 61 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 4: the American public so that the American public can appreciate 62 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:13,800 Speaker 4: what goes into this kind of operation was more complicated 63 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 4: than the bin laden operation. For example. 64 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 2: Wow, I'm not. 65 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 1: Sure any of that saying something that's coming from Jay Johnson. 66 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 1: That's pretty incredible. 67 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, it is, and I want to drill down a 68 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 3: little bit more on what this does for the fighting 69 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:31,959 Speaker 3: spirit and the morale of the entire military. And actually 70 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 3: a different tweet but I thought very profound as well, 71 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 3: from a fellow named John Conrad on X. Here's what 72 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 3: he said, this is why Americans are the deadliest fighters 73 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 3: on Earth. I met a priest yesterday who just got 74 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 3: accepted to chaplain school in Newport. I asked him the 75 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 3: obvious question, Marines or Navy Navy? He said, his face 76 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 3: fell a little. He told me he could never be 77 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 3: a marine because every marine is a rifleman, and as 78 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 3: a priest, he can't carry a weapon. Hoping to get 79 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 3: a sign to a marine unit. Anyway, all chaplains are 80 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 3: Navy officers, so that's the only door in. I laughed, 81 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 3: I feel a little bad about that. Then I explained 82 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 3: to him what devil doc means. The Marine Corps doesn't 83 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 3: have medics. They use Navy cormen. I told him, when 84 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 3: you get out to the fleet, find a marine sergeant 85 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 3: with a couple of purple hearts and tell him devil 86 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 3: docks aren't real. Marines be prepared to duck. Marines are 87 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 3: violently particular about who gets to wear their uniform. Navy 88 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 3: cormen and Navy chaplains who have eaten dirt alongside them 89 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 3: in combat qualify full stop. My dad was air Force, 90 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:46,160 Speaker 3: not even Navy. I remember going to VFW Hall's with 91 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 3: him as a kid. Someone would ask him what service. 92 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 3: He'd say Air Force. In the room would chuckle a little, 93 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:53,719 Speaker 3: and then they'd find out he was a medic and 94 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 3: the air in the room changed something close to reverence. 95 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,360 Speaker 3: Dad hated being honored. He had one line he used 96 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 3: to deflect it. I didn't do much savior praise for 97 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:09,479 Speaker 3: my cousin. The PJ that always broke the ice. Pjs 98 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 3: are the Air Force special operators who go into hell 99 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 3: to pull downed pilots out. They will take casualties and 100 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 3: are prepared to die to rescue a single pilot or crewman. 101 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:26,359 Speaker 3: The math doesn't math out why would any combat force 102 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 3: take multiple casualties to wreck rescue one Air Force jet jockey. 103 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:34,919 Speaker 3: What the padre is about to learn is that the 104 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:37,159 Speaker 3: military has a hierarchy that has nothing to do with 105 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 3: rank and nothing to do with the service stitched on 106 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 3: your chest. Have you deployed, have you seen combat in 107 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 3: every firefight, there are men who move towards the guns 108 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 3: and men who hang back. And when the guy at 109 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 3: the tip of the spear is pinned down, bleeding with 110 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 3: rounds cracking past his head, there is exactly one word, 111 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 3: he screams into the radio medic. YEP, here's the catch, 112 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:06,039 Speaker 3: and it is the whole reason America fights the way 113 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 3: America fights. That marine is willing to push forward into 114 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:14,919 Speaker 3: fire because he knows the core men is coming. He 115 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 3: knows the Metavac birds will land in the hot LZ. 116 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:21,360 Speaker 3: He knows the devil doc will drag him out by 117 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 3: his plate carrier if it comes to that, and if 118 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 3: the medic can't help he has what Dad called injuries 119 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 3: incompatible with life. He knows that chaplain will crawl on 120 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 3: his belly to administer last rites and deliver him to Heaven. 121 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 3: The f F fifteen pilot punching out over enemy territory knows 122 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 3: the same thing. He knows the pjs will move Heaven 123 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 3: and Earth to reach him and turn whatever is shooting 124 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 3: at him into a smoking crater of hell on Earth 125 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 3: on the way in. This is the quiet math underneath 126 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 3: American violence. Our warriors are the fiercest on Earth, not 127 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 3: because they're the more aggressive, not because they're better trained 128 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 3: or better equipped, although though they are all of those things, 129 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 3: they are the fiercest because they know in their bones 130 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 3: that when they key the mic and call for help, 131 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 3: help is coming in hot. Take that away, and you 132 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:24,119 Speaker 3: don't have the US military anymore, you have a security force. 133 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 3: I thought that those two posts I thought were very insightful, 134 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 3: and they sum up a truly extraordinary and unique aspect 135 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 3: of the American military. 136 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 1: And this brings us to the second part of the 137 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 1: conversation that is important, and that is a new warning 138 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 1: center coming from President Trump. If there's anything that I've 139 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: learned from President Trump on the second term, there's two 140 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 1: aspects of his foreign policy. One is FAFO and two 141 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 1: is if you're an OWI of the United States of 142 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: America and you don't stand with it, then his second 143 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 1: foreign policy is, well, good luck to you, because we're 144 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: not gonna we're not gonna keep funding and doing things 145 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: like NATO. Are you in or whatever it may be, 146 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 1: if you're taking advantage of us. He's calling that out 147 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: as well. And the President has made it clear when 148 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 1: he tells you there's a deadline for something he means it. 149 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: There's a new deadline with it with Iran and Tehran 150 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 1: and the leadership there, and let's talk about what his 151 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 1: new threat is by Tuesday. 152 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 3: Well, on Sunday, he sent out a truth Social that reads, 153 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 3: Tuesday will be power plant Day and Bridge Day all 154 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 3: wrapped up in one in Iran. There will be nothing 155 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:49,199 Speaker 3: like it. Oping open the effen straight, you crazy bastards, 156 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:55,439 Speaker 3: or you'll be living in hell. Just watch Praise Be 157 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 3: to Allah President Donald J. 158 00:08:57,920 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 2: Trump. 159 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 3: Now, I will say he did not abbreviatefing, but this 160 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:06,440 Speaker 3: is a PG rated podcast, so I did. I will 161 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:09,560 Speaker 3: say also that after he sent that truth Social, the 162 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 3: Wall Street Journal article that I quoted at the beginning 163 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 3: of this show quotes it. And for the first time 164 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 3: I've ever seen the F bomb in the Wall Street Journal, 165 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:20,959 Speaker 3: they did it quoting the President of the United States. 166 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:24,199 Speaker 3: I'm not aware of any precedent of a president dropping 167 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:26,560 Speaker 3: the F bomb, But then again, I'm not aware of 168 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 3: any president dropping the level of bombs that he is 169 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:33,560 Speaker 3: dropping in a concentrated focus that is having this kind 170 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:37,960 Speaker 3: of effect. And look, I think Tuesday night is a 171 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:41,320 Speaker 3: very serious deadline. The president wants the straight of horn 172 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:46,959 Speaker 3: moves open. And if you're an Iranian leader as batcrap 173 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 3: crazy as those guys are, I don't think they think 174 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 3: this is a bluff. 175 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:55,199 Speaker 1: Yeah, I would think not now they are crazy enough 176 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 1: to just say go ahead and do it. And that 177 00:09:57,080 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 1: may be how much they're holding on for dear life 178 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: just to try to stave control. But I agree with you, 179 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 1: I don't think they think he's bluffing at all. 180 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 3: Well, and that's the challenge is that the Malas, I 181 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:13,320 Speaker 3: don't think care at all about their people. You know, 182 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 3: we talked to before about comparing, say, the Nazi army 183 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 3: to the Allies during World War Two, that Hitler was 184 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 3: willing to send German soldiers in to die and just 185 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:26,839 Speaker 3: have a mode over. I think the same is true 186 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 3: with the Malas. They're happy to have, not happy, but 187 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 3: they're willing to have as many Iranians die as need be. 188 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 3: They believe they're on a mission from God. This is 189 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 3: it is theocratic and if thousands, look, they murdered the 190 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 3: Ayatola just murdered about forty thousand Iranians who were rising 191 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 3: up in protest, So thousands of Iranians dying doesn't bother 192 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:54,560 Speaker 3: them at all. Tens of thousands doesn't bother them at all. 193 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 3: It may prove to be the case that hundreds of 194 00:10:57,679 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 3: thousands or even millions of Iranians dying doesn't bother them. 195 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:05,840 Speaker 3: And so the question is, look, if the US military 196 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 3: takes out the power plants and takes out the bridges, 197 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:12,440 Speaker 3: that kind of hard infrastructure that doesn't get rebuilt overnight, 198 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 3: that has real and long lasting damage to the economy 199 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 3: in Iran. It imposes enormous consequences on Iran. What I 200 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 3: don't know is does a theocratic mulla who's chanting death 201 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 3: to America care about inflicting massive misery on the Iranian 202 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:38,840 Speaker 3: people and devastating the Iranian economy. I guess we'll find 203 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 3: out by Tuesday. I don't know the answer. 204 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 1: You know what's interesting is I was asked this question 205 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:44,800 Speaker 1: over the weekend, and it's when I want to ask 206 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 1: you center. It was someone to right, well, look, let's 207 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:49,840 Speaker 1: say we do this and we knock out their power plant. 208 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 1: What good does that do is because then we're just 209 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:53,560 Speaker 1: going to have to help them rebuild it one day. 210 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 1: My response was, what you don't understand is that may 211 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:00,040 Speaker 1: be what it is it takes for the people to 212 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 1: really overthrow their government. It'll also have a devastating impact 213 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 1: on their military in general. And it's another way, it's 214 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:10,080 Speaker 1: another way to fast track them losing control of their country. 215 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 1: That's the reason why I think the President saying, all right, fine, 216 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 1: you guys aren't budging, well, then we're going to go 217 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 1: to the next step here, because I'm not backing down. 218 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:21,199 Speaker 3: Yeah, and and and look, the President in his nationwide 219 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:23,240 Speaker 3: address said he was going to bomb them back into 220 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 3: the Stone Ages. What's one of the aspects of the 221 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 3: Stone Ages not having electricity, not having power? Going back 222 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:33,840 Speaker 3: to to to lighting fires for light. You take out 223 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 3: all their power plants and they have no electricity, which 224 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 3: is amazing for an oil rich country like Iran. But 225 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:43,760 Speaker 3: you want to talk about grinding the economy to a halt, 226 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 3: immediately grinding the military to a halt. Everything runs on 227 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:51,960 Speaker 3: electricity and and and so shutting down power and by 228 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,560 Speaker 3: the way, you take out the bridges, that means you know, 229 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 3: it's one of the things that I've learned. I didn't 230 00:12:56,760 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 3: realize when I was a kid how much of military 231 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:03,320 Speaker 3: effectiveness is logistics. One of the incredible things our military 232 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 3: is really good at is moving people in material, getting 233 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 3: it in there, getting ammunition in there, getting food in there, 234 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 3: getting fuel in there, moving it around, all of that. Logistically, 235 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:19,440 Speaker 3: we are extraordinarily we the military. That not you and me. 236 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:22,319 Speaker 3: You know, I'm a lawyer and you're even worser a podcasts, 237 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:26,840 Speaker 3: so we are not extraordinary logistically, But but the military is. 238 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:30,480 Speaker 3: Notice how I'm not a podcaster. Apparently you do this just. 239 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I was gonna say, you just just threw 240 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:34,599 Speaker 1: me under the bus, so that I'm pretty sure the 241 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:35,959 Speaker 1: name of the show is behind me there. 242 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 2: But we just keep going, there, we go. 243 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, pot meat kettle. But look, you take 244 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:45,840 Speaker 3: out the bridges and the ability to move, the military 245 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:48,360 Speaker 3: to move, but anyone else to move, you basically shut 246 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 3: down commerce in the country. That puts enormous economic pressure 247 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:58,720 Speaker 3: on the country. Look, my hope is that the endgame 248 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 3: on this is the people right up and say enough 249 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 3: with these crazy malas. We want you out. And my 250 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 3: objective has always been the President laid out his objective, 251 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 3: which is to eliminate the Iranian military's ability to strike 252 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 3: out and kill Americans or kill our allies. That's a 253 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 3: very important objective. I think the objective should be to 254 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 3: collapse this regime, to have Iran led by a government 255 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 3: that is not a crazy islabist who wants to murder Americans. 256 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 3: I don't care who it is, as long as they're 257 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 3: not actively murdering Americans, if they're not murdering Americans, if 258 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 3: they're not trying to murder Americans, I'm good with it. Now, 259 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 3: the next step, if we've leveled all the power plants, 260 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 3: you get a new government in the new government is 261 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 3: going to have to rebuild the power plants. Now, I 262 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 3: will note that there is one advantage for rebuilding, which 263 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 3: is Iran has a crap ton of oil. 264 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, and so very quickly financially. 265 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 3: There's a revenue stream. So you said, like people said 266 00:14:57,520 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 3: to you, well, gosh, we're going to have to rebuild it. 267 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 3: I promise you if Trump bombs it, the American taxpayers 268 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 3: are not rebuilding it. That there is no scenario in 269 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 3: which the endgame is Trump writing a check. Now, there 270 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 3: may be a scenario depending on what happens where when 271 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 3: you have a new government, if they're a friend and 272 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 3: ally with America, you could see assistance on the construction 273 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 3: that is paid for by Iranian oil revenues. It's possible 274 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 3: that we help them build it back where they're paying 275 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 3: for it. But I don't envision any universe in which 276 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 3: America is paying for this, and I think anyone who 277 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 3: knows Donald Trump knows that's right now. 278 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 1: If you want to hear the rest of this conversation, 279 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 1: you can go back and listen to the full podcast 280 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 1: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two, let 281 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 1: me ask you another question that's gotten a lot of 282 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 1: fodder online, and I think it's an important one to answer. 283 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 1: Democrats and the media really seem to be trying to 284 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 1: figure out some way, even if there's success with this 285 00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:59,560 Speaker 1: Iranian policy of Trump, that they can stick it to 286 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:01,840 Speaker 1: Donald Trum. And now, the new thing over the last 287 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:04,360 Speaker 1: twenty four to forty eight hour has been Donald Trump 288 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 1: is advocating for committing war crimes by blowing up bridges 289 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 1: potentially in Iran and power plants in Iran. Let's talk 290 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:16,160 Speaker 1: about the war crimes aspect of this and deal with 291 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 1: what Americans need to know about this new line by 292 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: the left, because they, I mean, they care more about 293 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 1: Donald Trump being in trouble than actually taking out a 294 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: murderer's regime in Iran. 295 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 3: That's true, and I will say one of the sad things. 296 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 3: It used to be the case for a long long 297 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 3: time that that politics ended at the water's edge, in 298 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 3: other words, that that Republicans and Democrats battle here at 299 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 3: home over all sorts of issues, but when it comes 300 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 3: to military conflict abroad, when it comes to defending America, 301 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 3: that the two sides refrained from partisan attack. I got 302 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:51,359 Speaker 3: to say that is not the case anymore. The instant 303 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 3: President Trump launched this attack, Democrats began savaging him. You know, 304 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 3: we had a classified briefly short shortly after the beginning 305 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 3: of the of this attack, where you had the Secretary 306 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 3: of State, Secretary Defense, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the 307 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:06,920 Speaker 3: head of the CIA, kind of all the top national 308 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 3: security apparatus, and the Trump administration and all one hundred 309 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 3: senators attended that and they were laying out what was happening. 310 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 3: And look, I'm not going to say anything that was 311 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:21,639 Speaker 3: said by the briefers in the classified briefing, but I 312 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 3: can tell you, other than John Fetterman, who has been 313 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 3: very positive on what he said publicly about about the 314 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:32,160 Speaker 3: conflict with Iran, every single Democrat senator in the room 315 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:36,879 Speaker 3: was highly, highly skeptical was attacking what happened was opposing 316 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 3: what happened was started on day one with we are 317 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 3: against standing up to Iran, and I sat there and 318 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:48,600 Speaker 3: just kind of shook my head. I was saddened by that. 319 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 3: And so one of their talking points when President Trump 320 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,679 Speaker 3: said he was going to take out power plants and bridges, 321 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:56,439 Speaker 3: and why did he say power plants and bridges. By 322 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:59,120 Speaker 3: the way, Look, the biggest thing to take out for 323 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:02,119 Speaker 3: Iran is there a production facility carg Island, which is 324 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:06,119 Speaker 3: the key to where they export virtually all they're oil from, yep, 325 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:09,200 Speaker 3: carg Island. If we really wanted to cripple Iran and 326 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:12,960 Speaker 3: put them into the Stone Age, we'd take out their 327 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,800 Speaker 3: their oil facilities. We'd bomb the hell out of carg Island, 328 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 3: and Iran's economy would just be screwed for a decade. 329 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:22,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, instantly. 330 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 1: By the way, people need to understand that, Like, if 331 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:26,879 Speaker 1: you just wanted to decimate them economically, that is how 332 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:28,399 Speaker 1: you would do it, and it would not be that hard. 333 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 3: So Trump very deliberately has not done that. The reason 334 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:37,920 Speaker 3: he said power plants and bridges is because they're critically 335 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:40,159 Speaker 3: important to the economy. You take out the power plants, 336 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 3: the electricity turns off. The military is crippled, but also 337 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 3: the economy is crippled. The basic all of banking, all 338 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:49,920 Speaker 3: of communication. Lights Literally at night, people start lighting candles 339 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:53,320 Speaker 3: because there's no longer the light switches don't work. And 340 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 3: bridges are essential for transportation, both military and commercial transportation 341 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:02,640 Speaker 3: across the county. I think the reason he picked those 342 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 3: two is their enormous lever points, and his hope is 343 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:09,639 Speaker 3: that it would cause the collapse of this regime, I believe. 344 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 3: But also it means if there were a new government 345 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:17,439 Speaker 3: in Iran, the oil facilities would still be there, so 346 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:21,000 Speaker 3: they have the ability to generate billions in revenue pretty quickly, 347 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:25,160 Speaker 3: and that billions. If the United States military took out 348 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 3: the power infrastructure, if you had billions in oil revenue 349 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 3: coming in, you could rebuild. It wouldn't be immediate, but 350 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 3: having the revenue stream makes rebuilding much more possible than 351 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:39,399 Speaker 3: if you take out the oil infrastructure. The revenue stream 352 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 3: is much further down the road and it's much harder 353 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 3: to turn around. I think that's why I picked it. 354 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 3: But I will say we're getting a lot of pompous 355 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 3: democrats and pompous news reporters, although I repeat myself on 356 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 3: TV saying taking out civilian power plants is a war crime. 357 00:19:58,600 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 2: Yeah. 358 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:03,399 Speaker 3: Well, let me to you from the Pentagon's Law of 359 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 3: War manuals. So the Pentagon has a manual on the 360 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:06,200 Speaker 3: law of war. 361 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:06,960 Speaker 2: Here's what it says. 362 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:12,639 Speaker 3: Quote, electric power stations are generally recognized to be of 363 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:17,159 Speaker 3: sufficient importance to a state's capacity to meet its wartime 364 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:22,960 Speaker 3: needs of communication, transport, and industry, so as usually to 365 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:30,120 Speaker 3: qualify as military objectives during armed conflicts. And by the way, 366 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:33,000 Speaker 3: the broader section which I will read from you, this 367 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:38,399 Speaker 3: is in section five point six point eight point five 368 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:43,880 Speaker 3: examples of military objectives economic objects associated with military operations, 369 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 3: and it says before what I just read, economic objects 370 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:50,360 Speaker 3: associated with military operations are with war supporting or war 371 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:59,159 Speaker 3: sustaining industries have been regarded as military objectives. That is 372 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 3: incredibly inconvenient for all of the Trump haters in the 373 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:06,280 Speaker 3: Democrat Party or in the media who want to scream 374 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:09,160 Speaker 3: war crime, war crime, war crime, because there's no doubt 375 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:13,400 Speaker 3: the power generation is integral to the war fighting ability 376 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:17,440 Speaker 3: of Iran. And listen, I will say the fact that 377 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:21,360 Speaker 3: Pakistan stepped in it actually goes to what we said 378 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:27,160 Speaker 3: on Monday's podcast, which is Trump's threat with any ordinary 379 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 3: and rational leader would be incredibly effective. If you actually 380 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:32,919 Speaker 3: had a leader that gave a damn about their people, 381 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:35,840 Speaker 3: that gave a damn about their economy, that threat would 382 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 3: be Holy cow. We can't let that happen. The risk 383 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 3: factor is the very real possibility that the I told 384 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 3: in the Malas just don't care that they're willing to 385 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 3: see that kind of devastation to their country. I will 386 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:54,879 Speaker 3: say Pakistan, Pakistan is I've long described Pakistan as a 387 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 3: problematic Ally. They are an ally, but there are challenges 388 00:21:59,320 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 3: in Pakistan. 389 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,119 Speaker 1: Actually put Pakistan, it's a very diplomatic way of putting that. 390 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:06,119 Speaker 3: Yes, but you know what, they're an ally rather than 391 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:08,879 Speaker 3: a friend. But there are real challenges. We work with Pakistan. 392 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 3: There are a lot of bad people or enemies of 393 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:13,240 Speaker 3: America that are within Pakistan, but we work with the 394 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:16,959 Speaker 3: government of Pakistan. And I think that the Prime Minister 395 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,879 Speaker 3: of Pakistan stepped up and said, hey, look, you guys 396 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:24,239 Speaker 3: in Iran, don't don't go down this road and end 397 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 3: up crippling. Don't go back to the dark uges. And 398 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:32,040 Speaker 3: and this goes back to where where Pakistan may have 399 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 3: some credibility with Iran. I don't know if Pakistan provided 400 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:39,640 Speaker 3: Iran something of an off rant that that's a good interpretation, 401 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,360 Speaker 3: or if Iran's just seizing on this to delay that's 402 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 3: another interpretation that is possible. But I do think Pakistan 403 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:50,120 Speaker 3: stepping forward and saying let's have a two week cease 404 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 3: fire is an example of a more normal country and 405 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 3: a leader who presumably cares about his people at least 406 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:03,920 Speaker 3: to significant extent, stepping forward to Iran and saying, come on, guys, 407 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,959 Speaker 3: don't keep playing chicken. This doesn't end up well as before. 408 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:10,040 Speaker 1: If you want to hear the rest of this conversation 409 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,679 Speaker 1: on this topic, you can go back and dow the 410 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:15,360 Speaker 1: podcasts from earlier this week to hear the entire thing. 411 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 1: I want to get back to the big story number 412 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 1: three of the week you may have missed, Senator. We 413 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:23,800 Speaker 1: want to talk about another issue that it needs to 414 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:27,920 Speaker 1: be back on the radar screen for a lot of Americans, 415 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:32,240 Speaker 1: and that is the continual crimes are being committed by 416 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 1: illegal immigrants that are in this country. 417 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:37,159 Speaker 2: The media continues to overlook this. 418 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,040 Speaker 1: They don't want you to know that it's happening, but 419 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 1: It's another example of why the President needs to be 420 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:46,440 Speaker 1: fighting so hard against these sanctuary cities that are harboring 421 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:48,800 Speaker 1: many of these criminals that are as he would describe them, 422 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:49,680 Speaker 1: really bad ombraves. 423 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,480 Speaker 3: Well, you may recall back in twenty twenty four the 424 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 3: Republican National Convention, when I spoke and addressed the convention, 425 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:01,200 Speaker 3: my remarks were focused on this topic, and the theme 426 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 3: of it was every damn day, every day, another American 427 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:10,680 Speaker 3: has raped, another American is assaulted, another American is murdered 428 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 3: by a violent criminal, illegal alien that Joe Biden and 429 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 3: the Democrats have released. And I walked through the tragic 430 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,880 Speaker 3: cases of Joscelyn Nungary, the beautiful twelve year old girl 431 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 3: raped and murdered here in Houston. I walked through Lake 432 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:28,719 Speaker 3: and Riley, the horrific murder of the young nursing student 433 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:32,919 Speaker 3: in Georgia. I walked through Rachel Morin, the mom of five, 434 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 3: raped and murdered outside of Washington, d C. It was 435 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 3: happening over and over and over again. That was one 436 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,119 Speaker 3: of the big reasons that the voters came out in 437 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,800 Speaker 3: overwhelming numbers, re elected President Trump, elected a Republican House, 438 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:51,200 Speaker 3: elected a Republican Senate, and we've seen immediate results. We've 439 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 3: seen illegal border crossings drop more than ninety nine percent. 440 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 3: The problem is, we have four years of open borders 441 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,920 Speaker 3: that we have to un We have over twelve million 442 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,840 Speaker 3: illegal aliens that were allowed to flood into this country. 443 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:09,240 Speaker 3: And so just this week, the story broke that a 444 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:13,639 Speaker 3: gas station clerk, a mom in Fort Myers, Florida, was 445 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:17,800 Speaker 3: bludgeoned to death with a hammer. I mean, what a 446 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,760 Speaker 3: horrible way to go, beaten to death with a hammer. 447 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:24,120 Speaker 3: And who is it that committed this crime? A Haitian 448 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:28,280 Speaker 3: illegal alien who was caught and then released at the 449 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 3: border by the Biden administration. In twenty twenty two, an 450 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 3: immigration judge ordered him deported. Robert Joshim is his name, 451 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:44,159 Speaker 3: but the Biden administration shielded him from deportation by granting 452 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:49,720 Speaker 3: him temporary protected status. So, in other words, what this 453 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 3: person did He took a hammer the parking lot of 454 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:56,120 Speaker 3: a gas station. He walks at her with full strengths, 455 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 3: He beats her on the head with a hammer, she 456 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:02,000 Speaker 3: falls down, unconscious, and then he crushes her head with 457 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 3: the hammer while she's unconscious six more times. Here's the 458 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:12,199 Speaker 3: statement of the Department Homeland Security put out quote, this 459 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:16,360 Speaker 3: illegal alien barbarically hit this woman in the head multiple 460 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:21,679 Speaker 3: times with a hammer. This heinous murderer was released into 461 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,600 Speaker 3: the country by the Bidad administration. Not only did the 462 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,720 Speaker 3: Bida administration release him into the country, but they gave 463 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 3: him temporary protected status. Their reckless immigration policies cost this 464 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:43,359 Speaker 3: woman her life. This keeps happening over and over and 465 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 3: over again. And what is amazing, Ben In spite of that, 466 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,880 Speaker 3: every Democrat in the Senate, when we have a vote, 467 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 3: the Department I'm less Security is still shut down because 468 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,240 Speaker 3: they have decided they hate ICE so much, they hate 469 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:01,000 Speaker 3: border enforcement so much that it is the position of 470 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:05,800 Speaker 3: the Democrat Party they are opposed. They want to defund ICE, 471 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:10,320 Speaker 3: which is the organizations that is charged with finding this 472 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:14,680 Speaker 3: vicious criminal, arresting him and deporting him. They don't want 473 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:18,480 Speaker 3: him deported. They want this Haitian murderer in your community. 474 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:22,200 Speaker 3: They don't care if you happen to be the poor 475 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 3: woman who's bludgeoned to death. Look, you know, Chris Murphy, 476 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 3: the very liberal Democrat from Connecticut, was on TV, and 477 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:33,960 Speaker 3: you know there's an old line that a gaff is 478 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:38,359 Speaker 3: when a politician actually accidentally tells the truth he described. 479 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:43,000 Speaker 3: He said, the people we care about the most, meaning 480 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:47,560 Speaker 3: we meaning Democrats, are illegal immigrants. That is what their 481 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,200 Speaker 3: party is. And it's infuriating. It keeps happening over and 482 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:52,560 Speaker 3: over and over again. 483 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 2: When you talk about it still being shut down. 484 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,639 Speaker 1: And this is I think one of the midterms are 485 00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 1: going to be a really important of you. This should 486 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:02,879 Speaker 1: be one of the important issues of the midterms that 487 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,399 Speaker 1: Republicans need to remind If Democrats get back in charge, 488 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 1: they've made it queer. They will immediately open the borders 489 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:11,199 Speaker 1: wide up and they don't care who comes in. 490 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:13,840 Speaker 2: It's going to happen. Get ready for it. 491 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,360 Speaker 1: That is their form, that is their policy, and they 492 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 1: will absolutely abolish ice if they can do it as well. 493 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,760 Speaker 3: And by the way, understand, the risk is not just 494 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 3: the murderers. It's not just the child molesters and the 495 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,160 Speaker 3: rapist and the gang bangers. It is also a very 496 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,919 Speaker 3: real risk of terrorism. We have seen in the last 497 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,720 Speaker 3: month four acts of terrorism by radical Islamic terrorists. And 498 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,760 Speaker 3: here's a story that broke this week. I'm just going 499 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 3: to read a tweet from Bill Belushian the fantastic reporter 500 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:44,120 Speaker 3: at Fox. 501 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 2: Here's what he said. 502 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 3: New Border patrol caught and arrested four British nationals entering 503 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:53,520 Speaker 3: the US illegally in a remote part of Maine after 504 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 3: crossing from Canada. Their names these are four British nationals. 505 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:07,480 Speaker 3: Ali Mohammad Ali Abdullah that's number one, Hamid Mohammed Nagi 506 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 3: that's number two, Ibrahim ayub Khan that's number three, and 507 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:18,640 Speaker 3: Mohammed Sultan Salaih. And these are illegal immigrants that were 508 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 3: sneaking into a remote wooded part of Maine. This is dangerous. 509 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:29,360 Speaker 3: Now you know what happened. Because President Trump is in 510 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 3: office and Border Patrol's allowed to do their job. They 511 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 3: were apprehended. They weren't just let in and they're apprehended. 512 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 3: You know what, I guarantee you they will not be released. 513 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 3: They won't be released into this country. If Joe Biden 514 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 3: were president, those four people whose names I just released, 515 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 3: they named that they'd be released and we might be 516 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:52,120 Speaker 3: reading about them in another week or two. That pattern 517 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:56,440 Speaker 3: has played out over and over and over again. And 518 00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 3: by the way, it's not just illegal immigran it is 519 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 3: criminals across the board. It is criminals across the board, 520 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:14,800 Speaker 3: such as, for example, de Carlos Brown, who was this 521 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:22,440 Speaker 3: psychotic lunatic who murdered the beautiful Ukrainian woman in North Carolina. 522 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:30,440 Speaker 3: He was just ruled not competent to stand trial. And 523 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,200 Speaker 3: I don't doubt that the guy as crazy as a loon. 524 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:38,960 Speaker 3: But let's be clear, Democrats and Roy Cooper in particular, 525 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:48,760 Speaker 3: the Democrat governor released this psychopath murderer fourteen separate times fourteen. 526 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:53,640 Speaker 3: If you keep releasing violent criminals, and it actually helped 527 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 3: me on this Ben play play devil's advocate for a minute. 528 00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 3: Try to get inside the mind of a Democrat. Why 529 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:04,800 Speaker 3: would they want to release violent criminals over and over again? 530 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't make sense, and yet they continue to 531 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 1: do it because for them, I really do think it's 532 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:13,240 Speaker 1: an issue of politics, right, they want to bring in 533 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 1: a new voters. 534 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:15,560 Speaker 2: It's the simplest way I can put it. 535 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:19,000 Speaker 3: Well, it's not just new voters. Yes, for the illegals. 536 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,880 Speaker 3: But you look at this to Carlos Brown, he was 537 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:24,520 Speaker 3: not an illegal immigrant. He was just a psychopathic lunatic American. 538 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:26,960 Speaker 3: But you know what Democrats also think, not only should 539 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 3: he be released from jail, they think he ought to 540 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:33,160 Speaker 3: be a voter, He's perfectly fine to vote in US elections. 541 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:37,840 Speaker 3: And I guarantee you violent criminals vote overwhelmingly Democrat. And 542 00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 3: I guess that explains why the Democrats their priority is 543 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:44,160 Speaker 3: violent criminals and not American citizens. 544 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:47,800 Speaker 1: As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Center 545 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 1: Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you don't forget to dial 546 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,640 Speaker 1: with my podcast and you can listen to my podcasts 547 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:54,600 Speaker 1: every other day you're not listening to Verdict or each 548 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 1: day when you listen to Verdict afterwards, I'd love to 549 00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:00,240 Speaker 1: have you as a listener to again Ben Ferguson podcast, 550 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 1: and we will see you back here on Monday morning.