Speaker 1: Welcome in his verdict with Ted Cruz the Weekend Review,
Speaker 1: Ben Ferguson with you as always, and here are the
Speaker 1: big stories that you may have missed that we talked
Speaker 1: about this week. First, up, Zelenski comes to White House
Speaker 1: and leaves empty handed.
Speaker 2: So where's he?
Speaker 1: Run to Europe and is begging now for support? So
Speaker 1: what does this mean for American taxpayers? We break it
Speaker 1: all down for you in just a moment. Also, Democrats
Speaker 1: decide to stand for nothing during the Joint session of Congress,
Speaker 1: including supporting us getting a terrorist back to this country.
Speaker 1: They didn't stand when there was a young man becoming
Speaker 1: a Secret Service agent who is fighting for his life
Speaker 1: with cancer. So is there anything that Democrats would actually
Speaker 1: stand for that most Americans would will break that down
Speaker 1: as well. And finally, almost one hundred known terrorists, those
Speaker 1: that are on the Terrorists watch List or have direct
Speaker 1: connections to terraces, were purposely let go into the United
Speaker 1: States of American twenty twenty four, and the Biden administration
Speaker 1: knew about all of them and could have stopped it.
Speaker 1: So where are they now? We'll break that down for
Speaker 1: you as well. It's the Weekend Review and it starts
Speaker 1: right now, which brings us to.
Speaker 2: Now where we are. And look, you've got.
Speaker 1: Uk in France and Ukraine that have agreed to quote
Speaker 1: work on a ceasefire plan and try to get I
Speaker 1: guess Zolensky back into a conversation with the President of
Speaker 1: the United States of America. They're having this big meeting
Speaker 1: over in Europe. A lot of different countries are there.
Speaker 1: The summit includes France, Germany, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Canada, Finland, Sweden,
Speaker 1: Chez Republic in Romania, the Turkish Foreign Minister, the NATO
Speaker 1: Security General, and the Presidence of the European Commission and
Speaker 1: the European Council will also attend. Now you notice I
Speaker 1: didn't say the United States of America. This is part
Speaker 1: of I think the most interesting part of President Trump's
Speaker 1: meeting was Zelenski.
Speaker 2: It's like, look, thank it's for granted.
Speaker 1: You're come in here, you lecture us, you have no
Speaker 1: plan for peace, You clearly aren't here for peace.
Speaker 2: Good luck. And now all of these.
Speaker 1: Other leaders are having to step up and say, okay,
Speaker 1: let us try to help you fix this so that
Speaker 1: we can save your country.
Speaker 2: Because he did so much harm to Ukraine.
Speaker 3: And look, I say great, if Europe wants to step
Speaker 3: up and fund the war for another year, knock yourselves out, guys,
Speaker 3: like our checkbook is done, but it is striking. It's
Speaker 3: an indication of just how disastrous Zelensky's meeting was that
Speaker 3: he immediately ran to the United Kingdom to France to
Speaker 3: meet with the King of England. All right, here's one
Speaker 3: story from NPR. UK Prime minister unveil steps towards a
Speaker 3: Ukraine peace deal urges US cooperation. Here's what NPR reports
Speaker 3: quote British Prime Minister Kiir Starmer on Sunday laid out
Speaker 3: of framework for a plan to end Russia's war in Ukraine,
Speaker 3: one where Europe will lead the charge for securing peace yay,
Speaker 3: while still relying heavily on US backing boo. The proposal
Speaker 3: is the result of emergency talks held by European leaders
Speaker 3: in London following President Trump's heated exchange with Ukrainian President
Speaker 3: of Vladimir Zelenski at the end at the White House
Speaker 3: last week. Over the weekend, leaders from over a dozen
Speaker 3: countries got together to discuss a roadmap for peace and
Speaker 3: security for Ukraine as the country faces its third year
Speaker 3: of war with Russia. The emergency summit was also aimed
Speaker 3: at working to preserve Ukraine's relationship with the US and
Speaker 3: Americans involvement in the war overseas. Starmer said that Europe
Speaker 3: must do the quote heavy lifting to secure a lasting
Speaker 3: peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, and that the UK
Speaker 3: should lead the front. He emphasized that quote this effort
Speaker 3: must have strong US backing, which, if he means more
Speaker 3: hundreds of billions of dollars, the answer is no, thank you.
Speaker 3: But he continues quote. Through my discussions over recent days,
Speaker 3: we've agreed that the UK, France and others will work
Speaker 3: with Ukraine on a plan to stop the fighting. Starmar
Speaker 3: Center at the press conference on Sunday. Then we'll discuss
Speaker 3: that plan with the United States and take it forward together.
Speaker 3: Now it's interesting to do so. Starmar valve. The United
Speaker 3: Kingdom would ramp up at support for Ukraine that included
Speaker 3: a loan of what do you think.
Speaker 2: A lot of money?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: What do you think pick a number?
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, see, this is when you get me in trouble,
Speaker 1: because I'm going to either be way too low or
Speaker 1: way too high.
Speaker 2: Let's call it.
Speaker 3: Fifty million, so higher than that, so you're even more pessimistic. Okay,
Speaker 3: that includes a loan of two point twenty six billion
Speaker 3: British points, which is two point eight four billion dollars.
Speaker 3: So look, two point eight four billion dollars, that's real money,
Speaker 3: except for the fact that the United States has spent
Speaker 3: about one hundred and seventy five billion dollars on Ukraine.
Speaker 3: That's part of the fundamental imbalance there.
Speaker 1: Well, look, I love the breath thing about finding money,
Speaker 1: like you go back to Trump saying like, we're no
Speaker 1: long just an open blank check. There was also something
Speaker 1: else that was said that Europe quote needs to step
Speaker 1: in and release some two hundred billion euros it's two
Speaker 1: hundred and seven billion in quote seized Russian assets to
Speaker 1: help fund the war efforts. So all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: they're now saying, well, we got two hundred billion or
Speaker 1: two hundred and seven billion in US dollars two hundred
Speaker 1: billion euros of seize Russian assets. Maybe we should use
Speaker 1: that money instead of our own money to help them
Speaker 1: in Ukraine. And I'm like, wow, you turn off this
Speaker 1: picket in America A brilliant, simple plan and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, they find two hundred billion euros sitting around,
Speaker 1: They're like, okay, maybe we can give that to them.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, I'm all for the Europeans stepping in and
Speaker 3: doing everything they can. If they want to do that,
Speaker 3: knock yourself out. They're welcome to spend their money, but
Speaker 3: we're not the welfare provider for the world. And to
Speaker 3: be clear, why are we borrowing when we got thirty
Speaker 3: six trillion dollars in debt? Why are we borrowing money
Speaker 3: from China to give it to other countries. That makes
Speaker 3: no sense, and it is an interesting shift.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Look, I will say one of the frustrating things about
Speaker 3: this meeting last week in the Oval is the meeting
Speaker 3: was there to sign an agreement, an agreement that had
Speaker 3: been negotiated ahead of time. And that agreement was an
Speaker 3: agreement where Ukraine would give the United States a substantial
Speaker 3: interest in its rare earth minerals and valuable resources to
Speaker 3: pay back the one hundred and seventy five billion dollars
Speaker 3: we've given them. That agreement made a lot of sense.
Speaker 3: That agreement was pre negotiated. I think the White House
Speaker 3: thought Zelensky was going to show up sign the agreement
Speaker 3: and leave. He didn't. Instead, he put on this performance.
Speaker 3: And I actually want you to listen to this exchange
Speaker 3: on CNN because it's a striking exchange. The first speaker
Speaker 3: of Scott Jennings, who, by the way, Scott Jennings is
Speaker 3: doing a phenomenal job on CNN being a voice of
Speaker 3: reason and common sense fighting against a bunch of numb
Speaker 3: nuts and and and left wing comies. He's really doing
Speaker 3: an effective job. And and he's in this case talking
Speaker 3: with with Josh Rogan. Josh Rogan is is a very
Speaker 3: smart reporter for for Washington Post Intelligence. He does foreign policy.
Speaker 3: But but look, Josh Rogan and and and Scott Jennings
Speaker 3: do not often agree. Listen to this back and forth
Speaker 3: as they're analyzing what happened with Zelensky in the Oval office.
Speaker 5: I don't know if he needs an apology. He needs
Speaker 5: Zelensky to recognize the position that he's in. We'll see
Speaker 5: you as what where their patron. We're their best hope
Speaker 5: for the killing to stop and for them to emerge
Speaker 5: from this sovereign and prosperous and we're also their best
Speaker 5: hope as a business partner. I mean all Zelensky had
Speaker 5: to do today was put on a tie, show up, smile,
Speaker 5: say thank you, sign the papers, and have lunch.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 5: And he couldn't do that. And this followed ten days
Speaker 5: of being difficult in private and now one day of
Speaker 5: being stupid and public. That this did not have to
Speaker 5: go down this way. And however you feel about why
Speaker 5: it started, why it's going on, who's right and who's wrong.
Speaker 5: We can help them in this and come out okay
Speaker 5: on the other side, and he's making it hard.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: First of all, I can't believe I'm about to say this,
Speaker 5: but I actually agree with Scott and everything that he
Speaker 5: said was basically right.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 6: I know I'm going to get killed on social media
Speaker 6: for admitting that, But.
Speaker 5: So I have a short answer on this. And so
Speaker 5: the short answer is the Trump administration believes that if
Speaker 5: Ukraine goes into business with the United States, that in
Speaker 5: and of itself is a security guarantee. If if your
Speaker 5: interests become our interests, we're going to be interested in
Speaker 5: making sure our interests are secure. So it would have
Speaker 5: been wise for him to understand the economic deal, the
Speaker 5: mineral deal is a security guarantee in and of itself,
Speaker 5: and he lost sight of that today in the arguments premedity.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think Zelenski misplayed it in the room and you
Speaker 5: can and we could disagree about JD. Vance's position on
Speaker 5: it or agree on it. But either way, Zolensky certainly
Speaker 5: had been briefed on what the right way to handle
Speaker 5: this was. And all he had to do was walk
Speaker 5: in there and say, thank you, I'm really grateful to
Speaker 5: be here. We want to be partners with the United States.
Speaker 5: We're grateful for your leadership. Where's the papers? And what
Speaker 5: are we having for lunch? That's all he had to do.
Speaker 5: And look, the posturing doesn't have to occur now if
Speaker 5: if he is serious about wanting peace and ending this war,
Speaker 5: you don't have to keep posturing as a tough guy.
Speaker 5: Everybody knows you're tough, all right. The Ukrainians are tough,
Speaker 5: they're brave, they're fighting a much larger country. Everybody knows.
Speaker 5: The question for Zelenski is can you take off the
Speaker 5: military uniform and put on the uniform of diplomacy.
Speaker 1: He failed to test it, yeh, he failed diplomacy that
Speaker 1: test today.
Speaker 2: It was not a hard meeting.
Speaker 1: This wasn't something that was gonna It was harder to
Speaker 1: screw it up than it was to get it right.
Speaker 3: Look, he needed mostly to be saying sir, yes, sir,
Speaker 3: thank you, sir. May I have another it? And Scott
Speaker 3: is right. Look, this deal on minerals had the advantage
Speaker 3: for Ukraine of having the Trump administration being an integally
Speaker 3: involved economic partner with Ukraine. That's really beneficial. And the
Speaker 3: alternative is very different, which is without the United States,
Speaker 3: Ukraine's prospects are really dim. And so if you know
Speaker 3: that your prospects for success are miserably sad unless President
Speaker 3: Trump supports you, in what universe do you come in
Speaker 3: and start attacking and insulting him?
Speaker 1: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
Speaker 1: you can go back and listen to the full podcast
Speaker 1: from earlier this week.
Speaker 2: Now onto story number two.
Speaker 1: I want to go back to one other point that
Speaker 1: we mentioned earlier, but I think it's important to kind
Speaker 1: of expand on it. And it was a shocking moment
Speaker 1: of just either completely out of touch or this Democratic Party,
Speaker 1: I guess you could just say, is in a sense
Speaker 1: just completely lost. You had not a single Democrat applaud
Speaker 1: Peyton McNabb, who suffered brain damage after a volleyball spiked
Speaker 1: by a trans person, a man that acting like a woman, ended.
Speaker 2: Her hopes of a college career.
Speaker 1: That's how significant the injury was, and it made her retire,
Speaker 1: and also it took potentially like a scout, changed her
Speaker 1: life forever, and they couldn't even clap for her.
Speaker 2: No, not a Democrat clap for not one.
Speaker 3: And by the way, just this past week, every single
Speaker 3: Democrat in the Senate voted against protecting girls from boys
Speaker 3: competing in sports, every one of them.
Speaker 2: And you know in the campaign.
Speaker 3: Listen, in my reelection campaign, Colin all Read claims, I
Speaker 3: don't support boys playing in girls sports. Well, every Senate
Speaker 3: and except the fact that he voted for it over
Speaker 3: and over and over again. Every single Senate Democrat when
Speaker 3: they're on reelection campaigns, they tell the voters, I don't
Speaker 3: support boys and girls sports, and yet every single one
Speaker 3: of them just voted for it, and not a one
Speaker 3: of them applauded. I mean, I mean, it's the simple
Speaker 3: reality of how extreme their party is.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: I will tell you one thing that that was particularly
Speaker 3: meaningful to me was was all the Texans whom President
Speaker 3: Trump honored a night, including Alexis Nungary, the mom of Joscelyn.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 3: Alexis was going to be my guest tonight. Every senator
Speaker 3: gets one guest, and I had invited Alexis. She was
Speaker 3: coming up as my guest, and then the President invited her,
Speaker 3: so she went and she was sitting with Melania Trump.
Speaker 3: I was really grateful for the for her being invited
Speaker 3: by the President to come there. And then right next
Speaker 3: to Malania Trump was Elliston Barry. And Elliston Berry is
Speaker 3: someone also another Texan who was the inspiration for the
Speaker 3: Take It Down Act. So, Elliston Barry is a fifteen
Speaker 3: year old girl from North Texas from Aledo, who when
Speaker 3: she was fourteen and a freshman in high school, a boy,
Speaker 3: a classmate of hers, took an innocent social media picture
Speaker 3: of her and used artificial intelligence to create a deep
Speaker 3: fake naked image of her that appeared to be real
Speaker 3: but it was fake, and then sent it to her classmates.
Speaker 3: And she was the inspiration for my legislation to Take
Speaker 3: It Down Act, which passed the Senate unanimously.
Speaker 1: And by the way, how many times have you been
Speaker 1: involved in legislation that was passed unanimously.
Speaker 2: In your career in the Senate.
Speaker 3: A lot of times I've passed one hundred and one
Speaker 3: different pieces of legislation into law. A number of them
Speaker 3: were unanimous. The Senate off and if you do the work,
Speaker 3: you can bring people together and and pass something. And actually,
Speaker 3: just yesterday, the first Lady, Milania Trump came to the Capitol,
Speaker 3: first time she has his first lady the second term
Speaker 3: uh supporting the Take It Down Act, and we did
Speaker 3: a round table, which we're gonna we're gonna talk about
Speaker 3: significantly more on Friday's pod. But we did a round
Speaker 3: table where Milania Trump heard from Elliston Berry, heard from
Speaker 3: other victims of non consensual intimate images, and and called
Speaker 3: on the House to pass the Take It Down Act.
Speaker 3: And President Trump tonight called in the House to pass
Speaker 3: the date Take It Down Act.
Speaker 2: So I was really glad.
Speaker 3: The two people directly next to to Malania Trump to
Speaker 3: her left, where two Texans Elliston Berry and Alexis Nungary
Speaker 3: and and and that made me very happy.
Speaker 1: It was that that may have been one of the
Speaker 1: best parts of the night. Let's talk about what this
Speaker 1: looks like moving forward. I think the President's speech is
Speaker 1: going to play very well with the American people. I
Speaker 1: think it's going to help with momentum move moving forward.
Speaker 1: I also do think that the American people, in the
Speaker 1: way they were watching this on TV saw the the
Speaker 1: shocking moments when they wouldn't stand for children that were,
Speaker 1: you know, murdered by illegal immigrants, their families, police officers
Speaker 1: dyeing in the lie of doody duty.
Speaker 2: It was on the list. I mean, you look at
Speaker 2: all of this.
Speaker 1: Bringing an American hostag home from Russia, by the way,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't stand for that. That was another moment we
Speaker 1: left at earlier. Were you shocked by that as well?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: And you and I covered Mark Fogel coming back. We
Speaker 3: covered that on the podcast when had happened. That was
Speaker 3: one of the multiple times I turned to the folks
Speaker 3: around me, and I'm like, what the hell is wrong
Speaker 3: with these people, Like, like, how do you not this
Speaker 3: is not partisan? This is not I get that they
Speaker 3: don't cheer for, you know, conservative ideas because they're all
Speaker 3: wacko lefties, but how do you not cheer for things
Speaker 3: that are just unambiguously good good And it's today's Democrat party,
Speaker 3: it's accommodation. They become the party of hate and rage,
Speaker 3: and they're in denial. They don't know how to respond
Speaker 3: to this election other than to fume and glare. And
Speaker 3: I got to say, if you're an elected Democrat, how
Speaker 3: do you think this is a good message to the
Speaker 3: American people? We hate everyone and everything that's the Democrats like.
Speaker 2: I don't get that. No, I don't either. So what
Speaker 2: happens now? This is my prediction.
Speaker 1: I think the presence approval rating is going to stay
Speaker 1: solid and in certain categories, support on certain issues will
Speaker 1: actually rise coming out of this state of the Union.
Speaker 1: I think this is going to continue the momentum on
Speaker 1: on things like Doge and even in some of the
Speaker 1: issues that we're talking about that are in tough ones,
Speaker 1: whether it's dealing with Mexico and cartels or tariffs, or
Speaker 1: Canada and Fetanohl. The list goes on and on. I
Speaker 1: think the same thing on Ukraine funding. I think this
Speaker 1: could catapult him to even greater near term success. That's
Speaker 1: a lot of political capital that obviously you want your
Speaker 1: your prediction.
Speaker 3: Look, I agree with you. I think the American people
Speaker 3: are going to be happy with this speech. They're going
Speaker 3: to be happy with the results. The American people are
Speaker 3: happy with successes for America, and we're getting on the border,
Speaker 3: seeing illegal immigrations and illegal boarding crossings drop over ninety percent.
Speaker 3: That's an unambiguous victory. On energy, Seeing energy production going up,
Speaker 3: seeing regulations being repealed, seeing wasteful spending being eliminated, those
Speaker 3: are unambiguous victories. In terms of jobs, he went through
Speaker 3: the investments, the investments on new investments, whether from Oracle
Speaker 3: or Apple, or car companies bringing new factories here. Those
Speaker 3: are big wins. Those are the sorts of things. Those
Speaker 3: are the sorts of things. Frankly, when Joe Biden talked
Speaker 3: about if you know, he had crats and their speeches
Speaker 3: would talk about a new factory, and you know what,
Speaker 3: the Republicans would all stand and cheer, because, hey, a
Speaker 3: new factory in America is a good thing, and we
Speaker 3: even if we don't support many, if not most, of
Speaker 3: Biden and Obama's policies, we cheer for the American people.
Speaker 3: I think that the President's message was really strong, but
Speaker 3: I also think the contrast with the Democrats made it
Speaker 3: even stronger, and so I think this was a good
Speaker 3: night for America, but not a good night for today's
Speaker 3: Democrat Party.
Speaker 1: As before, if you want to hear the rest of
Speaker 1: this conversation on this topic, you can go back and
Speaker 1: dow the podcasts from earlier this week to hear the
Speaker 1: entire thing. I want to get back to the big
Speaker 1: story number three of the week. You may have missed
Speaker 1: almost one hundred terrace linked migrants released in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: The part that I think we really should hone in
Speaker 1: on is this wasn't an accident. It wasn't like a
Speaker 1: misappropriate of paperwork. This was done on purpose.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they knew, they had full knowledge. And look, don't
Speaker 3: take my word for it. Listen to Tulsea Gabbart and
Speaker 3: what she said this week down in Texas to Eagle Pass.
Speaker 2: Give a listen.
Speaker 6: Jumpe has been in office. Really what you're seeing here today.
Speaker 4: And what you'll continue to see as a unified effort
Speaker 4: across President Trump's National security team, the Department of Homeland
Speaker 4: Security towards our mission, which is to ensure a safe, free,
Speaker 4: and prosperous society for Americans. As Director of National Intelligence,
Speaker 4: there are a.
Speaker 6: Number of areas where we are focused.
Speaker 4: The President talked about in his speech over twenty one
Speaker 4: million people have come across our borders illegally under Joe
Speaker 4: Biden's administration. There are many of them that we don't
Speaker 4: know who they are. They have not been vetted, we
Speaker 4: don't know where they are. I'll give you one quick
Speaker 4: example of one of the problems that we are getting
Speaker 4: after from Central Asia. There were over four thousand people
Speaker 4: who came across our borders using an ISIS affiliated network work.
Speaker 4: Our National counter Terrorism Center went through and identified those individuals.
Speaker 4: There were hundreds of them who were either known terrorists
Speaker 4: or associated with known terrorists. That information was provided to
Speaker 4: the Biden administration.
Speaker 6: You may remember in some of the news.
Speaker 4: A little over one hundred of those people were arrested
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty four. Of those who were arrested, only
Speaker 4: eight were either deported or remained in custody.
Speaker 6: Only eight.
Speaker 4: The rest of them were released back into our country.
Speaker 4: Where are they, what are they doing? What may they
Speaker 4: be plotting? This is just the beginning.
Speaker 6: There are many many areas that we need to.
Speaker 4: Stay very focused on, working with Department of Homeland Security,
Speaker 4: working with the FBI to ensure that we're keeping the
Speaker 4: American people safe. Our counter Terrorism Center is working on
Speaker 4: making sure that we have that single source for vetting
Speaker 4: so that we can figure out who is actually in
Speaker 4: our country and identify those who pose a threat and
Speaker 4: get them removed. The President's designation of the the cartels
Speaker 4: as foreign terrorists organizations falls directly into this, especially as
Speaker 4: we're seeing some of the tactics that these cartels are
Speaker 4: using reflect some of the tactics that we've seen used
Speaker 4: by Islamus terrafs in countries that many of us have
Speaker 4: served in overseas.
Speaker 6: Our mission is very clear.
Speaker 4: Our objective is to keep the American people safe. I'm
Speaker 4: grateful to be a part of this team that President
Speaker 4: Trump has assembled to accomplish that mission.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I love the focus.
Speaker 1: The Vice President was down there as well the team,
Speaker 1: and you know, you compare that to the borders are
Speaker 1: who never decided to go to Eagle Pass, didn't want
Speaker 1: anything to do with it. And now we understand again
Speaker 1: more why because they knew they were doing all of
Speaker 1: the things that they were doing to put America's national
Speaker 1: security at risk.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's worth really focusing on the facts that
Speaker 3: Telsea Gabbert is now the Director of National Intelligence. What
Speaker 3: she said, she said from Central Asia, there were more
Speaker 3: than four thousand people who came across our borders using
Speaker 3: an ISIS affiliated network. So isis, you know, kind of
Speaker 3: bad guys, terrorists who've killed lots and lots of Americans.
Speaker 3: They're smuggling over four thousand people illegally into this country
Speaker 3: from Central Asia. By the way, Central Asia includes multiple
Speaker 3: Islamic countries like Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, where radical Islamic terrorism
Speaker 3: is a real threat. And Tulsi said, the National counter
Speaker 3: Terrorism Center went through and identified those over four thousand individuals,
Speaker 3: and there were hundreds of them, hundreds of the word
Speaker 3: she used, who were either known terrorists or associated with
Speaker 3: known terrorists. And then she says, quote that information was
Speaker 3: provided to the Biden administration, So the Biden administration knew
Speaker 3: hundreds of either known terrorists or people associated with known
Speaker 3: terrorists were smuggled into America illegally by an ISIS affiliated network.
Speaker 3: And then she goes on to say, in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 3: a little over one hundred of those terror leaked people
Speaker 3: were arrested. And then the shocking thing of the little
Speaker 3: more than one hundred, only eight were either deported or
Speaker 3: remained in custody only eight quote the rest of them
Speaker 3: were released back into our country. So this is not
Speaker 3: illegal aliens crossing the border that get apprehended. They let
Speaker 3: them go, but they don't know their terrorists. These are
Speaker 3: people they know are either themselves known terrorist or associated
Speaker 3: with known terrorists. They also know that they were smuggled
Speaker 3: illegally into this country by an ISIS affiliated network and
Speaker 3: they were arrested again. And yet over ninety of them,
Speaker 3: nearly one hundred the Biden administration released into America into
Speaker 3: your community, into my community in a single year. This
Speaker 3: is in twenty twenty four. That is stunning. And I
Speaker 3: got to tell you, bet, I've never heard a single
Speaker 3: Democrat give any justification for what is just idiocy. Let's
Speaker 3: release terror linked illegal immigrants into America.
Speaker 2: What possibly could go wrong with that?
Speaker 1: When you look at the and you sometimes it's just
Speaker 1: people are stupid, is it? But it also could be
Speaker 1: more I could be more sinister than that.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 1: I look at this, I'm like they knew it, did
Speaker 1: They just not want to admit that the open border
Speaker 1: would allow for so many bad actors to come across,
Speaker 1: with many that may just be coming across right for
Speaker 1: a better life, a job if you put it in
Speaker 1: the best like possible center. And so they knew that
Speaker 1: if they admitted they caught these people and then they
Speaker 1: didn't release them and they actually prosecute them or sent
Speaker 1: them back to their country, there's a lot of options
Speaker 1: here that was going to sign a huge light on
Speaker 1: the problem. So therefore, hey, we can't admit it's happening.
Speaker 1: So we're just gonna go with this anarchy and in
Speaker 1: Sandy till the end.
Speaker 3: Look, bet, I really don't know. You know, I had
Speaker 3: My very first boss had a phrase he used to say.
Speaker 3: He said, never attribute to incompetence and never attribute to malice.
Speaker 3: What can be explained with incompetence. And look, I think
Speaker 3: there's a lot of wisdom to that that. A lot
Speaker 3: of times people are just they just do dumb things.
Speaker 3: That being said, listen, I do I believe the Biden
Speaker 3: administration wants terrorists to attack America? No, But then why
Speaker 3: the hell would you release these people? And I guess
Speaker 3: the only plausible explanation I can come up with is
Speaker 3: there such radicals on open borders. They're so committed to
Speaker 3: their open borders because they want millions and millions of
Speaker 3: illegal immigrants because they can. They view them as future
Speaker 3: Democrat voters. That they're just deportation was off the table.
Speaker 3: They're not in that business. They don't do it. I
Speaker 3: don't know. Listen, this is related to a story we
Speaker 3: covered in a pod a couple of weeks ago. We're
Speaker 3: in Massachusetts right now. They're taking violent child abusers, child molesters,
Speaker 3: people who are raping children, who are illegal aliens, and
Speaker 3: even with violent child rapists, the Massachusetts authorities are releasing
Speaker 3: them rather than give them over to Ice to be deported. Now, look,
Speaker 3: reasonable people, you could have an argument about what should
Speaker 3: be the level of illegal immigration. You could. There are
Speaker 3: all sorts of things you'd have reasonable disagreements on. But
Speaker 3: I mean, Ben explained to me why someone says, you
Speaker 3: know what we need more of, We need more child
Speaker 3: rapists in our community. Let's let these go. Like I
Speaker 3: my brain cannot wrap itself around those repeated actions. And
Speaker 3: yet that's what's happening. This is the same sort of thing.
Speaker 3: You apprehend someone who's a known terrorist who was smuggled
Speaker 3: into America bi ISIS, and you say, oh, let's let
Speaker 3: them go, Like I don't know, you.
Speaker 1: Know, The poll numbers that came out from the president
Speaker 1: speech the other night were truly incredible. Seventy six percent
Speaker 1: approved of Trump's address to Congress. That is a massive
Speaker 1: win for the president. You look at some of the
Speaker 1: other ones and poll numbers. Not only that, ninety one
Speaker 1: percent said Trump spent time on issues they cared about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is a home run seventy one percent. So the
Speaker 1: speech was quote inspiring, and sixty two percent said it
Speaker 1: was unifying. And they said that this speech sixty eight percent,
Speaker 1: so they felt hopeful fifty four percent, so they felt
Speaker 1: proud of the country from the speech.
Speaker 2: And when you look at these numbers, even on.
Speaker 1: The issue of inflation, where Democrats leaned in heavy over
Speaker 1: the last few weeks to try to say everything that's
Speaker 1: you know, eggs and everything else are the problem of
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, the American people aren't buying that either. When
Speaker 1: they were asked for the president a clear plan to
Speaker 1: battle inflation, sixty eight percent said yes to that as well.
Speaker 1: And then on the issue of immigration the border, the
Speaker 1: people watched in seventy seven percent said they were in
Speaker 1: favor of Donald Trump's plan on immigration at the border.
Speaker 1: When you see this right and you look at what
Speaker 1: the President's saying, and then all those that are working
Speaker 1: towards this. You've got the Vice President, You've got told you,
Speaker 1: you've got the Secretary of State. Everyone seems to be
Speaker 1: in lockstep on this issue of the border. Is that
Speaker 1: the reason why you think the President's winning so much
Speaker 1: right now on securing this border, because he's explaining it
Speaker 1: the way we are right.
Speaker 3: Now as well because he is not absolutely frigging nuts. Yes,
Speaker 3: I think the Democrat Party has gone insane. Releasing murderers
Speaker 3: and rapists and child molesters into America is a really
Speaker 3: bad idea. It turns out it's a really unpopular idea.
Speaker 3: Releasing terrorists into America is a really bad idea. It
Speaker 3: turns out it's a really unpopular idea. Look, you and
Speaker 3: I the we cover did pod the Night of the
Speaker 3: State of the Union, and we talked a lot about
Speaker 3: how the Democrats for the first time ever, didn't applaud
Speaker 3: for the President of the United States, didn't stand for
Speaker 3: the President of the United States, didn't applaud and anything.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you actually yesterday and the Senate, Jim I
Speaker 3: had a conversation with a Senate Democrat. I'll keep him anonymous.
Speaker 3: But he was a Senate Democrat, one of my colleagues,
Speaker 3: and he.
Speaker 2: Made a comment.
Speaker 3: He said something about he thought we were just living
Speaker 3: in a surreal world. And I said, look, I got
Speaker 3: to say, I was shocked that you guys didn't applaud
Speaker 3: or stand for the president at all. And he was like, well,
Speaker 3: you got to understand, we just think he's destroying the constitution.
Speaker 3: And I said, look, I stood and applauded every year
Speaker 3: for Barack Obama, I stood and applauded every year for
Speaker 3: Joe Biden. And I disagreed with almost everything they were doing,
Speaker 3: but I respect the office and I respect the America people.
Speaker 3: And he just kind of shrugged and said, we're living
Speaker 3: in different universes and we're and we're our bases are
Speaker 3: fundamentally different. You look at Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Speaker 1: He also announced the policy to penalize foreign countries that
Speaker 1: allow the transit of illegal immigrants and is pressuring many
Speaker 1: countries that refuse to accept to the return of their
Speaker 1: migrants as well. This could also have a big impact
Speaker 1: on this country. I want to get your thoughts on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, this administration is securing the border they're doing
Speaker 3: it right now, and they are going to deport illegal aliens.
Speaker 3: They are going to send out of the country, especially
Speaker 3: the violet criminal illegal aliens, the murderers, the rapists, the
Speaker 3: child molesters, the gang bangers, and the countries that don't
Speaker 3: take it, they're they're going to make them take it.
Speaker 3: And that's what a strong president who's actually defending this
Speaker 3: country does.
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