1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: Welcome in his verdict with Center Ted Cruz. 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:05,440 Speaker 2: So nice to have you with us, many of you 3 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:08,560 Speaker 2: listening on the radio across the country. And it was well, 4 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:11,560 Speaker 2: one interesting week. I guess that's the best way you 5 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 2: can put it. The sausage truly being made for all 6 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:17,920 Speaker 2: the American people to see. With the longest government shut 7 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 2: down in history finally over, Senator, your reaction to that. 8 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 3: Well, hallelujah, hallelujah. After forty three days of the government 9 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 3: being shut down, forty three days of the Schumer shutdown 10 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:36,200 Speaker 3: where federal employees didn't get their paychecks and yet thousands 11 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:40,479 Speaker 3: went into work, forty three days of parks being closed, 12 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 3: museums being closed, government services being highly limited, Forty three 13 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:49,600 Speaker 3: days of delays in the airports, of air traffic controllers 14 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 3: not being paid, TSA agents not being paid, flights being canceled, 15 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 3: all because the Democrats were throwing a gigantic temper tantrum 16 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 3: because Chuck sh Humor has a political crisis, and this 17 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 3: shut down. The Democrats got nothing. But the purpose was 18 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 3: not to actually get a concession. The purpose was simply 19 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:14,319 Speaker 3: to inflict a whole lot of pain on the American 20 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 3: people to demonstrate that man O man Schumer and the 21 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 3: Democrats hate Donald Trump, and they hate Donald Trump so 22 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 3: much they're willing to hurt their own constituents. President Trump 23 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 3: Wednesday evening signed the legislation. We passed it out of 24 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 3: the Senate Monday night. The House came back on Wednesday, 25 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 3: they voted on Wednesday, they passed the legislation that we 26 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 3: had passed, and President Trump signed it into law. Listen 27 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 3: to him as he's signing the legislation reopening the government 28 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:45,759 Speaker 3: Wednesday night. 29 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 4: But with all of that, I just want to tell 30 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 4: you the country has never been in better shape. We 31 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 4: went through this short term disaster with the Democrats because 32 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 4: they thought it would be good politically, and it's an 33 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 4: honor now to sign incredible bill and get our country 34 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 4: working again. 35 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:35,239 Speaker 1: Thank you, Sarah. 36 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,079 Speaker 2: You can hear Republicans they are cheering in the Oval Office. 37 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:40,800 Speaker 2: It's not every day you actually hear real cheering like 38 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:42,799 Speaker 2: that in the Oval Office. It it's a little more 39 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 2: formal usually. Obviously, Republicans surrounding the present they were happy 40 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 2: this is finally older over and the American people aren't 41 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 2: being held hostage anymore. 42 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, the Democrats, they inflicted pain on millions of Americans. 43 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 3: They also wasted billions of dollars of taxpayer money. Just 44 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 3: the thousands upon thousands of government workers who stayed home 45 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 3: for forty three days. They didn't go to work. They're 46 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 3: all going to get paid back pay now, So forty 47 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 3: three days. Now, for forty three days, they had the 48 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:16,799 Speaker 3: challenge of not having a paycheck, not knowing how they'd 49 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 3: pay their mortgage, not knowing how they'd pay their rent. 50 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,639 Speaker 3: But now they'll get paid for all those forty three days. 51 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 3: But you know what, the American people didn't get. They 52 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 3: didn't get any work from all the workers who stayed 53 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 3: home for over a month because Chuck Schumer and the 54 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 3: Democrats wanted to throw a tantrum. President Trump at the 55 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 3: signing ceremony, he described some of the real harms that 56 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 3: the Schumer shut down caused. 57 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:41,839 Speaker 4: Here, give a listen the past seven weeks the Democrats 58 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 4: shut down as inflicted massive harm. They caused twenty thousand 59 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 4: flights to be canceled or delayed. They departed so many times, 60 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 4: so late, people were hurt so badly. Nobody's ever seen 61 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 4: anything like this one. This was a no brainer, This 62 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 4: was an easy extension. But they didn't want to do 63 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 4: it the easy way. They had to do it the 64 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 4: hard way. They looked very bad the Democrats do. They 65 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 4: deprived more than one million government workers from their paychecks 66 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 4: and cut off food stamp benefits of millions and millions 67 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 4: more Americans in need. They caused tens of thousands of 68 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 4: federal contractors and small businesses to go unpaid. And the 69 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 4: total effect of the damage their antics cause will take 70 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:31,279 Speaker 4: weeks and probably months to really calculate accurately, including the 71 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 4: serious harm that they did to our economy and to 72 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:37,479 Speaker 4: people and the families. So I just want to tell 73 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 4: the American people you should not forget this when we 74 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 4: come up to midterms and other things. Don't forget what 75 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 4: they've done to our country. You also want to call 76 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 4: for a termination to the filibuster so that this can 77 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 4: never happen again. 78 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 1: You know, Sara, this really was about inflicting pain. 79 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:58,679 Speaker 2: I was on CNN the night to shut Down ended 80 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 2: as the present was talking this live, and it was 81 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 2: amazing to see the disconnect from so many of the 82 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 2: liberals on the show, and I'm like, what did you 83 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 2: guys get out of this? This was the same deal 84 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:13,279 Speaker 2: that was on the table before the shutdown, So you 85 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,280 Speaker 2: just wanted to try to score political points. You hate 86 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 2: Donald Trump so much that you just wanted to shut 87 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:20,279 Speaker 2: on the government and see if you could bring his 88 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 2: approval writing down. You didn't give a damn about the 89 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 2: kids and their food because if you did, you would 90 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:27,600 Speaker 2: have at least made sure that those on foodstamps would 91 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:30,040 Speaker 2: have gotten those benefits. You didn't care about those waiting 92 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 2: on flights and having cancel flights and their lives being changed, 93 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 2: many of them going to things that are hard, like funerals, 94 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 2: are sick family members, Not everything's a vacation when you're 95 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 2: at the airport. You took countless hours out of our economy, 96 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 2: small businesses that were hurt. There's a long list of 97 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 2: people that were hurt during this. And this was all 98 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 2: just for one reason. They hated Donald Trump and they 99 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 2: didn't care who got hurt in the process. 100 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:57,599 Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, the shutdown had real negative effects on the economy, 101 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 3: on the GDP, it had real negative effects on small businesses, 102 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 3: It had real negative effects on millions of ordinary Americans, 103 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:11,039 Speaker 3: and all of that was inflicted to score political points 104 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 3: for the Democrats with a handful of really the crazies, 105 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 3: you know what's amazing. After forty three days, after the 106 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 3: longest government shut down in history, virtually every Democrat still 107 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 3: voted against reopening the government. So in the Senate the 108 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:33,840 Speaker 3: vote was sixty to forty. Only eight Democrats voted to 109 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 3: reopen the government. Thirty nine Democrats voted to keep the 110 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 3: government closed. Chuck Schumer voted to keep the government closed. 111 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:46,720 Speaker 3: Every potential presidential candidate on the Democrat side voted to 112 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 3: keep the government closed. So Cory Booker voted to keep 113 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 3: it closed. Abi Klobuchar voted to keep it closed. Kirsten 114 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 3: Jelibrand voted to keep it closed. Chris Murphy voted to 115 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:57,600 Speaker 3: keep it closed. Bernie Sanders voted to keep it closed. 116 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:03,799 Speaker 3: All of those are possible and even likely Democrat presidential candidates, 117 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 3: and they all voted to keep it closed. In the House, 118 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 3: the same thing was true, so the vote the vote 119 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 3: in the House. So the vote in the House was 120 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 3: two hundred and twenty two to two oh nine, but 121 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 3: of the two hundred and twenty two, only six were Democrats. 122 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 3: The six Democrats who voted to reopen the government in 123 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 3: the House were Adam Gray of California, Jared Golden of Maine, 124 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 3: Tom Susey of New York, Marie Glusen camp Perez of 125 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 3: Washington State, Don Davis of North Carolina, and Henry Quayar 126 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 3: of Texas. Other than that, every single Democrat in the 127 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 3: House voted keep the government shut, keep food stamps off, 128 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 3: keep pay stop, keep stop, don't pay air traffic controllers, 129 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 3: keep the delays, keep the cancelations. By the way, just 130 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 3: on flights, the FA said it was it was going 131 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 3: to reduce flights ten percent, but if the shutdown had continued, 132 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 3: the FA had already said it would phase into twenty 133 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:11,239 Speaker 3: percent or more. And virtually every Democrat in boast chambers 134 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 3: said that sounds good by me. Let's keep this going. 135 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 3: Let's keep the shutdown, I suppose through Thanksgiving, through the 136 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 3: busiest travel time of the year. It is amazing. The 137 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 3: question you have to ask is who are the Democrats 138 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 3: listening to and who are they working for? Yep, because 139 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 3: I think it's obvious on the face of it, they're 140 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 3: not listening to the American people or working for the 141 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:39,840 Speaker 3: American people. Instead, they're listening to their radical base, and 142 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 3: they're working for their radical base and frankly, their own 143 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 3: political self interest. 144 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 2: Sanata I want to get back into the shutdown aspect 145 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:50,679 Speaker 2: of this for just a moment. There is one I 146 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 2: do think silver lining that's come out of this, and 147 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 2: that is one I think we now really know who 148 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:58,959 Speaker 2: the Democratic Party is. Chuck Schumer is going to be 149 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 2: out of a job. He's not running for reelection. The 150 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 2: Democratic Party has gone full socialists or Marxist or communists, 151 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 2: depending on who you talk to. But it's very clear 152 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:13,160 Speaker 2: there's an excommunication happening of the old establishment Democratic radicals, 153 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:16,040 Speaker 2: that is Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. So that's one 154 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 2: thing that I do think has comeing out of the 155 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 2: show down. The other part of this is there's a 156 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 2: lot of talk right now about Obamacare and the financial disaster. 157 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 2: That it is the Affordable Care Act, it's not affordable, 158 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:30,560 Speaker 2: and that's a grand debate that's now happening in this country. 159 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:33,080 Speaker 2: Kevin O'Leary, mister wonderful, you know him from Shark Tank, 160 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:35,760 Speaker 2: we talked about this and he said this may be 161 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 2: the biggest thing Democrats didn't plan for, is that now 162 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 2: the spotlight is on Obamacare, the subseason, how unaffordable it is, 163 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 2: even though they said it was supposed to be a 164 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 2: great thing. 165 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,679 Speaker 3: Yeah, I will say that there are a couple things. 166 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 3: You're right that Nancy Pelosi next year will be here 167 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 3: last year in Congress. I think Chuck Schumer. My prediction 168 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 3: is Chuck Schumer doesn't even run for reelection. I think 169 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 3: he is not electable in a Democrat primary in the 170 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:06,199 Speaker 3: state of New York, although, although he's tenacious, he may 171 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 3: well try. But it wouldn't surprise me at all to 172 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 3: see Schumer announce his retirement at the end of his term. 173 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 3: But look, one of the infuriating things of realizing that 174 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:20,200 Speaker 3: virtually every Democrat, even after forty three days, voted to 175 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 3: keep the government shut down. We're going to replay this 176 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:27,200 Speaker 3: whole thing like Groundhog Day on January thirtieth, because the 177 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 3: continuing Resolution that President Trump just signed expires January thirtieth. 178 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:35,199 Speaker 3: So we'll get through Thanksgiving, we'll get through Christmas, we'll 179 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 3: come back January. And I think there's a very real 180 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 3: possibility that Democrats try this again, maybe not maybe the 181 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 3: same eight who ultimately said okay, reopen the government. Maybe 182 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 3: they'll say we don't want to do this again, and 183 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:50,080 Speaker 3: maybe they'll start right at the beginning by agreeing to 184 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 3: fund the government. We'll see where things are. And I 185 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 3: think the answer to that depends on what you just raised, Ben, 186 00:10:56,240 --> 00:11:02,079 Speaker 3: what happens with Obamacare and healthcare. And listen, they claimed 187 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 3: every day of this forty three day shutdown that they 188 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 3: had to have major concessions on Obamacare to save that 189 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 3: that failing government health program. Well they didn't get those 190 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 3: major concessions. They got nothing whatsoever. The government's now open. 191 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 3: But but listen to what President Trump said when he 192 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,440 Speaker 3: signed the legislation opening the government, because he talked about 193 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:24,960 Speaker 3: Obamacare and what's going to happen next, Give a listen. 194 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:28,080 Speaker 4: So I'm always willing to work with anyone, including the 195 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:31,440 Speaker 4: other party. We'll work on something having to do with healthcare. 196 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:33,679 Speaker 4: We can do a lot better, we can do great. 197 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 4: So much money is involved, and we're willing to pay 198 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 4: so much money to the people. So we're going to 199 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 4: pay a lot of money to the people. They're going 200 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:44,199 Speaker 4: to go out and buy their own healthcare, and we're 201 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 4: going to forget this Obamacare madness. 202 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 1: You hear him talking about madness. He's not wrong. 203 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 2: Even liberals are saying, well, we know that premiums have 204 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 2: gone up two hundred three hundred percent with Obamacare. So 205 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 2: that's why we need the subseus. That is the definition 206 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 2: center of a disaster. It is it is insolvent. 207 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 3: Look, that was the predictable result of Obamacare. That's what 208 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 3: I and the other critics of Obamacare said, what happened. 209 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:16,840 Speaker 3: It's exactly what's happened. Even the Washington Post admits the 210 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 3: so called Affordable Care Act is not affordable. And that 211 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:26,320 Speaker 3: was the Democrats solution to that is give fifty billion 212 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 3: dollars in subsidies from the taxpayer straight to giant health 213 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 3: insurance corporations. It's just corporate welfare. And mind you, these 214 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 3: health insurance corporations, their stock prices have increased, in some 215 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 3: instances more than one thousand percent since Obamacare was signed 216 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:46,719 Speaker 3: into law. The executives that are running these companies are 217 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 3: making tens of millions of dollars in salary. Their stock 218 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:53,120 Speaker 3: has increased, presumably if they had stock that whole time. 219 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:57,080 Speaker 3: Their stock has increased in hundreds of percents, if not 220 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 3: more than one thousand percent. And the Demo, I mean, 221 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:03,960 Speaker 3: they're craven. By the way, virtually all of the political 222 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 3: contributions from the health insurance companies go to Democrats. So 223 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:10,880 Speaker 3: the Democrats are delivering fifty billion dollars of cash to 224 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 3: their political donors. And what President Trump said said there 225 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:17,479 Speaker 3: is really important, and we talked about this on Wednesday's podcast. 226 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 3: During the shutdown, I hosted a dozen senators for dinner 227 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 3: Friday night, and we got the President on the phone 228 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:26,959 Speaker 3: and we asked the President if he would engage and 229 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 3: help make the argument that their demands for fifty billion 230 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:34,439 Speaker 3: dollars for health insurance companies were unreasonable and a bad idea. 231 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 3: And he sent out a series of tweets which which 232 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 3: I helped him write, that said, We're not going to 233 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 3: give this money for the Obamacare scam to health insurance companies. Instead, 234 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 3: the money ought to flow to individuals, to real people 235 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:54,320 Speaker 3: in health savings accounts that you control, that you own, 236 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 3: that you're the one making the choice of how to 237 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 3: spend money on your healthcare. That is a fundamental reform 238 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:04,960 Speaker 3: and healthcare that will lower prices, lower costs, that actually 239 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:08,200 Speaker 3: will help keep things affordable. And I think we have 240 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:14,839 Speaker 3: an opportunity to really increase competition, increase consumer choice, and 241 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 3: put consumers in a significantly better situation. Now, there are 242 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:26,160 Speaker 3: two ways that could happen one. We could see eight, nine, 243 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 3: ten reasonable Democrats willing to work with Republicans on something 244 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 3: that does that, and we could have legislation that gets 245 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 3: sixty votes, because to do that through ordinary, ordinary procedures 246 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:40,640 Speaker 3: takes sixty votes, just like it takes sixty votes to 247 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 3: fund the government. I think that's unlikely, although I'm sure 248 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 3: in the next month there will be some Republicans who try. 249 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 3: If the Democrats are not willing to do that. The 250 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 3: other avenue we have to address this problem is reconciliation, 251 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:58,320 Speaker 3: and we can take up another budget reconciliation that only 252 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 3: takes fifty votes. And it may well be that we 253 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 3: have to do a budget reconciliation, which is how we 254 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 3: pass the one big beautiful bill this summer to fix 255 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 3: Obamacare and effectively to repeal the mess that is Obamacare 256 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 3: and instead expand consumer choice and and enhance affordability, and 257 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:23,280 Speaker 3: and give people access to health savings accounts where the 258 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 3: money that would have gone to enrich the health insurance 259 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 3: companies instead is going to you the patient, you the consumer. 260 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 3: And if we can do that on reconciliation, that that 261 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 3: would be a major victory for our constituents. It's actually 262 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 3: why I think the Democrats are not going to have 263 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,280 Speaker 3: any interested in doing it. They're much more interested in 264 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 3: taking care of their fat cat political donors than they 265 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 3: are actually in making healthcare affordable for real people are struggling. Remember, 266 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 3: these are the same people that were happy to see 267 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 3: food steps shut down because it was more important to 268 00:15:57,400 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 3: them to make a political point to their activists than 269 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 3: to help people who were in need of food to 270 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 3: actually get the food they needed. 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One of the reasons why you do this 315 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:20,280 Speaker 2: show and why I love co hosting it with you, 316 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:23,040 Speaker 2: is we get to talk about issues that are not 317 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:27,760 Speaker 2: getting the attention they deserve. One of those right now 318 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:32,240 Speaker 2: is the persecution of Christians and Nigeria. It is shocking 319 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 2: what is happening there. And I just came back from Israel. 320 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 2: We haven't got to talk about that as much as 321 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:39,400 Speaker 2: we thought because the government shut down, and we're gonna 322 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 2: get to that. But one of the things that you 323 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:43,160 Speaker 2: see when you see that people are under attacked because 324 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:46,680 Speaker 2: their faith and I witnessed it going into the kibbutz 325 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 2: into the homes of those that were killed, including that 326 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:51,400 Speaker 2: nine month old child. When I met with the parents 327 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:53,960 Speaker 2: who lost their loved ones on that soccer fill as 328 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:56,439 Speaker 2: their kids were just playing soccer. When I went to 329 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:59,119 Speaker 2: the North and I saw the homes that were destroyed 330 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:02,440 Speaker 2: and met with people whose lives are destroyed by Hamas 331 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 2: there and you witness this type of persecution and death 332 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:09,919 Speaker 2: and destruction, and went to the site where the music 333 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:11,920 Speaker 2: festival was and watch people die just because. 334 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: They were Jews. 335 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:17,359 Speaker 2: It makes me angry to now see what's happening in Nigeria. 336 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 1: You're shining a lot on that. 337 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:21,159 Speaker 2: The White House is doing that as well, and the 338 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 2: American people need to know what's going on. 339 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, Radical Islamic terrorists, they hate Christians and they 340 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 3: hate Jews, and they have murdered vast numbers of Christians, 341 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 3: They have murdered vast number of Jews. They continue to 342 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,879 Speaker 3: do so, and they also murder a significant number of Muslims. 343 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:42,359 Speaker 3: Radical Islamic terrorists if you don't embrace their radical jihadist view, 344 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 3: their ideology justifies violence or even murder to force you 345 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 3: to submit. And the thirteen years I've been in the Senate, 346 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:55,160 Speaker 3: I've spent a lot of time fighting for persecuted Christians, 347 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:59,359 Speaker 3: fighting for persecuted Christians all across the globe, especially those 348 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 3: being persecuted by radical Islamic terrorists. Boko Haram, that is 349 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 3: in Nigeria, is a vicious radical Islamic terrorist group. And 350 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:11,760 Speaker 3: if you look at there is no country on planet 351 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 3: Earth where more Christians have been murdered in the last 352 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:21,200 Speaker 3: twenty years than Nigeria. Since two thousand and nine, more 353 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:24,919 Speaker 3: than fifty thousand Christians have been murdered in the country 354 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:25,639 Speaker 3: of Nigeria. 355 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:28,400 Speaker 1: I mean literally, these Christians are being hunted down. 356 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:34,679 Speaker 3: Yeah, they absolutely are. Over twenty thousand Christian churches and 357 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:38,440 Speaker 3: schools have been burned to the ground or otherwise destroyed. 358 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:42,879 Speaker 3: I mean, this has been mass murder and it is horrific. 359 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:46,040 Speaker 3: And so I filed legislation in the Senate to direct 360 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:51,159 Speaker 3: the administration to designate Nigeria Country of Particular Concern and 361 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:54,640 Speaker 3: to impose in particular sanctions on the government officials, because 362 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 3: there are many government officials who are acquiescing in this 363 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:02,359 Speaker 3: mass murder against Christians, and and and so my legislation 364 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:06,920 Speaker 3: would would impose sanctions on particular government officials that there 365 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:10,359 Speaker 3: are twelve states in the North where Sharia laws or 366 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:14,679 Speaker 3: blasphemy laws are enforced. There's also federal Sharia and blasphemy 367 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:17,920 Speaker 3: laws that are enforced, and the government officials use those 368 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 3: laws to discriminate against and to persecute Christians. In some instances, 369 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,160 Speaker 3: they simply just turn a blind eye, as as Bokoharram 370 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 3: and other radical Islamic terrorists murder Christians. In other instances, 371 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 3: they actually used the law to facilitate the persecution. But 372 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:38,680 Speaker 3: after I filed the legislation, and and and I began 373 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:42,399 Speaker 3: pressing the administration to designate Nigeria as a country a 374 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 3: particular concern, President Trump did so, and he sent out 375 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:49,879 Speaker 3: a tweet. Here's what his tweet says. It says Christianity 376 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 3: is facing an existential threat in Nigeria. Thousands of Christians 377 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:58,199 Speaker 3: are being killed. Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter. 378 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:02,840 Speaker 3: I am hereby making Nigeria a country of particular concern, 379 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:06,440 Speaker 3: but that is the least of it. When Christians or 380 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 3: any such group is slaughtered like is happening in Nigeria. 381 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:14,719 Speaker 3: Thirty one hundred versus four four hundred and seventy six worldwide. 382 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:19,560 Speaker 3: Something must be done. I am asking Congressman Riley Moore, 383 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:23,120 Speaker 3: together with Chairman Tom Cole and the House Appropriations Committee, 384 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:26,240 Speaker 3: to immediately look into this matter and report back to me. 385 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 3: The United States cannot stand by while such atrocities are 386 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 3: happening in Nigeria and numerous other countries. We stand ready, 387 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:39,720 Speaker 3: willing and able to save our great Christian population around 388 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 3: the world. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, 389 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,640 Speaker 3: that was exactly the right thing to do. I saw 390 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:50,119 Speaker 3: President Trump shortly after he issued that designation and I 391 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 3: thanked him. I said, it really makes a difference. It's 392 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 3: the right thing to do. He was happy to do it. 393 00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 3: And I'll tell you the government in Nigeria is deeply 394 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 3: and their response, their main defense they say, well, they 395 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 3: argue it's not a genocide. And what they say is, well, yes, 396 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:12,119 Speaker 3: fifty thousand Christians have been killed, but you know what, 397 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 3: Bukah Haram has also killed Muslims, so it's all fine. Well, 398 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,639 Speaker 3: it is true they have killed Muslims. Nobody's disputing that 399 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:23,400 Speaker 3: they've killed Muslims as well. But radical Islamic terrorists target 400 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:28,040 Speaker 3: Christians in particular for persecution, and the government is complicit 401 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 3: in that persecution. That's what this is designed to address. 402 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 3: And and you know, I got to say, you and 403 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:41,200 Speaker 3: I have talked about before that those who hate Jews 404 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 3: hate Christians, and those who hate Israel hate America. That 405 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:48,720 Speaker 3: that is true. We've also talked about rising anti Semitism, 406 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 3: and we've talked quite a bit about Tucker Carlson because 407 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,640 Speaker 3: I think Tucker has unfortunately gone down a very very 408 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 3: dark path, a path where he brings on Hitler, praising 409 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 3: nutjobs on to do show over and over and over again. 410 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:07,919 Speaker 3: But it also results. Not only does he attack Israel 411 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:11,560 Speaker 3: at almost every show he does, but when you go 412 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:15,199 Speaker 3: on the path of hating Israel and blame everything on 413 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:19,879 Speaker 3: the Jews, that often that same dark path leads you 414 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,960 Speaker 3: to embrace the enemies of America. So Tucker has said 415 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 3: we should apologize to the family of Osama bin Laden. No, no, 416 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,399 Speaker 3: we should not. Tucker has said he doesn't know that 417 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 3: Hamas is a terrorist organization. They might just be a 418 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 3: political group. I'm sorry, but when you murder twelve hundred 419 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 3: innocent civilians and rape women and children, you are most 420 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:43,440 Speaker 3: definitely a terrorist group. And Hamas has killed a great 421 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:48,119 Speaker 3: many Americans. But it really was striking. Just recently, Tucker 422 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,000 Speaker 3: did a show where he talked about Nigerians and he 423 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:54,679 Speaker 3: disputed that Christians in Nigeria are being persecuted. I want 424 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 3: you to give a listen because he took the chance 425 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:01,040 Speaker 3: to basically defend Book Haram. Give a listen. 426 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 5: But he's all of a sudden, kind of out of nowhere, 427 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 5: deeply concerned about the play of Christians in Nigeria, which 428 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:08,719 Speaker 5: I want to restate maybe a tolly bel concerning them. 429 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 5: But that's weird. What is that all of a sudden 430 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,160 Speaker 5: everybody's concern about people who clearly have no track record 431 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:16,359 Speaker 5: being interested in Chritians at all, including ce Cruz. What 432 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:17,239 Speaker 5: is going on? 433 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 1: That to me was pretty unhinged. 434 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:25,200 Speaker 3: Senator, Look, I gotta say, listen. I understand that Tucker's 435 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,280 Speaker 3: told the world there's no one he hates more than 436 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:30,320 Speaker 3: Christian Zionists, and he singled out me and Mike Huckabee 437 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 3: as the people he hates the most in the world. 438 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,440 Speaker 3: But that's truly a bizarre claim. What he says there, 439 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:40,240 Speaker 3: which is that I have no interest in defending persecuted Christians. 440 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 3: I've literally spent thirteen years doing that. You know, I 441 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:46,080 Speaker 3: might ask Tucker that does he have any idea who 442 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:49,960 Speaker 3: Miriam Ibrahim is? And I suspect he doesn't. So Mariam 443 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:54,679 Speaker 3: Ibrahim was a Christian woman in Soudan and she was 444 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:59,160 Speaker 3: imprisoned and she was sentenced to receive one hundred lashes 445 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,679 Speaker 3: and then to by the neck until dead for the 446 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 3: crime of being a Christian. And this was during Barack 447 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 3: Obama's presidency. This was early in my time in the Senate. 448 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:13,360 Speaker 3: And I spoke out vocally for Miriam Ibrahim. And she 449 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,159 Speaker 3: had two little kids. She had a son named Martin, 450 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,000 Speaker 3: and she actually gave birth to a daughter, Maya while 451 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,440 Speaker 3: she was in leg irons. And I'll tell you, I repeatedly, 452 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:27,159 Speaker 3: practically begged the Obama administration for President Obama to just 453 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 3: say her name. He would not do it. He never 454 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 3: once said her name. I went to the Senate floor, 455 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,960 Speaker 3: I gave floor speeches. I shined a light, and globally 456 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:39,360 Speaker 3: many the Pope got involved shining a light defending her, 457 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 3: and the pressure became so great Soudan released her. And Ben, 458 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 3: I'll tell you it's an amazing thing. I actually got 459 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:50,119 Speaker 3: to meet Mariam Ibrahim when she came to Washington, and 460 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,200 Speaker 3: I asked her. She was a little bitty woman. She's 461 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 3: not very very tall, maybe five to one. She couldn't 462 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 3: have weighed more than one hundred pounds. And I asked her, 463 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:01,640 Speaker 3: I said, Mariam, tell me, when when you were in 464 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 3: that prison cell and your babies are in front of you, 465 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:08,720 Speaker 3: and you've been sentenced to die for your faith, how 466 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,880 Speaker 3: did you not give up hope? And she looked at 467 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,080 Speaker 3: me with a peace that I'll never forget, and she 468 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 3: just said Jesus was with me. And I mean, it 469 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 3: was powerful, incredible. But I think this illustrates how anti 470 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:29,440 Speaker 3: Semitism is a poison that ends up poisoning every other view. 471 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:33,640 Speaker 3: So now Tucker is running around defending Hamas, defending Book 472 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,440 Speaker 3: of Haram, saying, well, I don't know that Nigerians or 473 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 3: Christians are being killed in Nigeria, and why does anyone 474 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:42,959 Speaker 3: care about that? And apparently Tucker is only interested in 475 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,200 Speaker 3: atrocities if he can blame them on Israel, And since 476 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,199 Speaker 3: it's not Israel that's killing Christians in Nigeria, it's not 477 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 3: a concern for him. Look, I think we should defend 478 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,879 Speaker 3: Christians when they're being persecuted. I think we should defend 479 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,400 Speaker 3: Jews when they're being persecuted. I think we should stand 480 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,239 Speaker 3: up and and and and make a difference. Now that 481 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:06,680 Speaker 3: doesn't mean that we invade every country in which there's injustice, 482 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:11,000 Speaker 3: but it does mean we use our voice as a 483 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 3: voice to stand up for those. And Look, as you know, 484 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,720 Speaker 3: my dad was imprisoned and tortured in Cuba, and so 485 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,480 Speaker 3: I have a particular heart for for people who are 486 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:26,840 Speaker 3: unjustly detained uh and and and have spent a long 487 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:31,119 Speaker 3: time highlighting and and doing everything we can to get 488 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:35,640 Speaker 3: people out of unjust attentions, whether in in Sudan or China, 489 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 3: or or or uh Lebanon or anywhere. And and and 490 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,760 Speaker 3: I'm very glad President Trump is standing up for the 491 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:45,840 Speaker 3: Christians in Nigeria. 492 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:47,960 Speaker 2: I want to take a moment and just talk to 493 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 2: you real quick about an incredible opportunity for you to 494 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 2: continue to expand your mind and learn, no matter what 495 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 2: your age is. Senator Cruz and I were at the 496 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 2: memorial service for Charlie Kurr and one of the people 497 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,920 Speaker 2: that spoke was the president of Hillsdale College, and he 498 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,840 Speaker 2: talked about meeting with Charlie early on and how he said, 499 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,960 Speaker 2: you're going to have to work hard. You're going to 500 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 2: have to suffer, and you're going to have to continue 501 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,440 Speaker 2: to learn. When he was so young and he talked 502 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:19,320 Speaker 2: about all of the classes that Charlie ended up taking 503 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 2: at Hillsdale, I immediately said, I want the listeners of 504 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,480 Speaker 2: this show to be able to have the same opportunity 505 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:30,600 Speaker 2: to do that. There are amazing classes history, economics, the 506 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,440 Speaker 2: great works of literature, the meaning of the US Constitution. 507 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 1: And if you didn't say these. 508 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 2: Things in school, or maybe you did, but you were, like, 509 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 2: you know, just trying to check the box and make 510 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:41,840 Speaker 2: the grade when you're twenty, now is a great time 511 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 2: for you to go back and learn so much more. 512 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 2: Hillsdale College is offering more than forty free I want 513 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:53,200 Speaker 2: to say that again, forty free online courses. That's right, 514 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 2: more than forty free online courses. You can learn about 515 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,960 Speaker 2: the works of C. S. Lewis, the stories in the 516 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:02,560 Speaker 2: Book of Genesis, the meaning of the US Constitution. I'm 517 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,440 Speaker 2: doing that when it's incredible, the rise and fall of 518 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 2: the Roman Republic, or the history of the ancient Christian Church. 519 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:12,720 Speaker 2: With his college's free online courses. Now I'm also looking 520 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 2: at the Constitution one on one. It's amazing. I refresh 521 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,040 Speaker 2: your course and you can see and explore the design, 522 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 2: the purpose of the Constitution, the challenges it faced in 523 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,280 Speaker 2: the Civil War, and how it's been undermined for more 524 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 2: than a century by progressives and liberals. This twelve lecture 525 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,640 Speaker 2: course is self paced, so you start whenever you want to, 526 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,520 Speaker 2: and it is truly amazing. 527 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:38,280 Speaker 1: So how do you do this? 528 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:43,720 Speaker 2: You can go right now to Hillsdale dot edu slash 529 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 2: verdict to enroll. There is no cost and it's easy 530 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:54,040 Speaker 2: to get started. That's Hillsdale dot edu slash verdict v 531 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 2: r diict to enroll for free and take any one 532 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 2: of these classes. Take advantage of it. It's free Hillsdale 533 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 2: dot edu slash v e r d I c t 534 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,960 Speaker 2: verdict and go check out the amazing classes they have there. 535 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,160 Speaker 2: All right, I want to end the show with talking 536 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,440 Speaker 2: about something else that is really made me sad this week. 537 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:19,080 Speaker 2: It's also I think, really telling you where we are 538 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:22,280 Speaker 2: as a country with the radical left. We have seen 539 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 2: violent protesters at a Turning Point US USA event at 540 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:32,280 Speaker 2: UC Berkeley. I wish it wasn't what we witnessed, but 541 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 2: it was radical leftists. I want to know who's funding them, Senator, 542 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:39,000 Speaker 2: I want to know who's behind this, but it is 543 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 2: it is shocking to see this level of rhetoric and 544 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:47,520 Speaker 2: attacks on conservatives who are just going to have a conversation. 545 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:51,320 Speaker 2: And it's very eerily close to what we witnessed with 546 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,080 Speaker 2: the assassination of Charlie Kirk. 547 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:53,760 Speaker 1: Yeah. 548 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 3: Look, the pattern of left wing violence continues, and it 549 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:01,080 Speaker 3: continues across the country, and it continues with the acquiescence 550 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 3: and support of of many on the far left, far 551 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 3: too many on the far left. 552 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:06,840 Speaker 4: Uh. 553 00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:10,480 Speaker 3: This week, Turning Point USA had a rally at u 554 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 3: C Berkeley. Now, the speakers at the rally were doctor 555 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:18,960 Speaker 3: Frank Turik, who's a Christian pastor, and Rob Schneider, who's 556 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,720 Speaker 3: a comedian and actor. So it's it's not like either 557 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:26,640 Speaker 3: of these speakers were particularly controversial in any normal or 558 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:33,000 Speaker 3: sane place. But but UC Berkeley is not necessarily a 559 00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 3: normal or sane place, and and Antifa targeted them, targeted 560 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,080 Speaker 3: the people coming into the rally coming in to see 561 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:45,960 Speaker 3: to to see listen to the speakers, and they were violent. Uh, 562 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,959 Speaker 3: let me read how how how Fox covered it. A 563 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,959 Speaker 3: bloody fight broke out near the University of California Berkeley 564 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,560 Speaker 3: on Monday afternoon ahead of a Turning Point USA event 565 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,680 Speaker 3: on campus. The event, which featured doctor Frank Turk and 566 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:02,400 Speaker 3: Rob Schneider mark the end of this is Turning Point Tour. 567 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,920 Speaker 3: It took place just two months after Turning Point USA's 568 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:09,280 Speaker 3: founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated at a campus event in 569 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:14,000 Speaker 3: Utah on September tenth. The confrontation erupted around four thirty 570 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,640 Speaker 3: pm Pacific Standard time. During the brawl, two men were 571 00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:21,800 Speaker 3: seen fighting each other, one of whom had blood gushing 572 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,040 Speaker 3: from his face, and you can watch the video. Video 573 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,040 Speaker 3: taken by Fox News Digital also shows a crowd of 574 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:37,640 Speaker 3: agitators gathered around the fight. These were left wing antifa activists. 575 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:45,800 Speaker 3: They were chanting obscene chants that they were celebrating that 576 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:49,080 Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk had been murdered. They were chanting how happy 577 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:53,880 Speaker 3: they are about that. Most of them had masks. And 578 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:00,520 Speaker 3: you can watch the video online of one of the 579 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:05,280 Speaker 3: people coming to the Turning Point event who they beat 580 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,640 Speaker 3: the hell out of him and his face is bleeding 581 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,680 Speaker 3: profusely and they engaged in violence. And I'll tell you 582 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:17,120 Speaker 3: what is frustrating is where was the administration of Berkeley 583 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:21,000 Speaker 3: where was the police? Why are they allowing violent protesters? 584 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,719 Speaker 3: And look, these are the same administrators. This is the 585 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:27,439 Speaker 3: same faculty that allowed their campuses to be taken over 586 00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:32,080 Speaker 3: for weeks and months on end by radical anti Semitic protesters, 587 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:36,240 Speaker 3: by antifa communists who again engage in threats of violence. 588 00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:40,560 Speaker 3: And in both instances, these are not organic. They're being 589 00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:44,640 Speaker 3: paid for. There is I've been saying for a long time, 590 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,359 Speaker 3: follow the money. I've been urging the Department of Justice 591 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,520 Speaker 3: and the FBI to follow the money. I've introduced legislation, 592 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:54,719 Speaker 3: the Stop Thunders Act to add rioting as a predicate act. Tariko, 593 00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:58,080 Speaker 3: to let us go after the money that is behind 594 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,160 Speaker 3: these violent anarchists. And I'll tell you what's being reported now. 595 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:05,440 Speaker 3: This is another story. Fox News covered UC Berkeley's bloody 596 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:10,879 Speaker 3: protest of Turning Point USA, allegedly funded by far left nonprofit. 597 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:16,480 Speaker 3: Attorney General Pambondy opens anti terrorism investigation into campus clash 598 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:20,440 Speaker 3: outside Turning Point USA event. And here's what Fox reports. 599 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:24,840 Speaker 3: Last month, a band of demonstrators marched across West Temple 600 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:28,760 Speaker 3: Street in downtown Los Angeles in the national anti Trump 601 00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:33,880 Speaker 3: No King's protest, carrying a banner that read defeat Trump's 602 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:39,759 Speaker 3: fascist takeover, stop ice raids and deportations by any means necessary. 603 00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:45,319 Speaker 3: And in one corner, four bold letters stood out B 604 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:51,440 Speaker 3: A M N, an acronym for by any means necessary. 605 00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:54,279 Speaker 3: The rest of the banner spelled out clues to the 606 00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:58,920 Speaker 3: group's full name and smaller print quote Coalition to defend 607 00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:02,520 Speaker 3: Affirmative Action in agration and immigration rights and fight for 608 00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:08,479 Speaker 3: equality by any means necessary. That organization one of two 609 00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:13,000 Speaker 3: hundred and sixty six groups with combined annual revenues of 610 00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:17,720 Speaker 3: two point nine billion dollars two point nine billion dollars 611 00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:22,400 Speaker 3: identified by Fox News Digital leading the No King's protests, 612 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:27,640 Speaker 3: would soon reappear at this week's flashpoint on the campus 613 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:31,680 Speaker 3: of University of California, Berkeley, And so this group. A 614 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:37,279 Speaker 3: flyer circulated before the demonstration urged participants to quote end 615 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:41,440 Speaker 3: fascist turning Points youth oriented campaign of incitement to violence. 616 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:45,200 Speaker 3: Now ironically they're accusing Turning Point of incitement to violence, 617 00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:47,799 Speaker 3: and they show up and violently assault the people who 618 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:51,560 Speaker 3: are going to Turning Point. This is its classic Marxist 619 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:55,520 Speaker 3: technique of projecting and accusing your opponents of doing what 620 00:36:55,560 --> 00:37:00,239 Speaker 3: you're doing. And this flier announced a rally outside at 621 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:04,560 Speaker 3: Zellerbach Hall an hour before the door's open for the event. Well, 622 00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:09,840 Speaker 3: the good news is and a QR page printed on 623 00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:14,760 Speaker 3: the flyer leads to a page on BAMN dot com, 624 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,800 Speaker 3: which is a domain of this group that was helping 625 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:21,239 Speaker 3: fund the No Kings rallies. And so there is an 626 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:27,480 Speaker 3: entire ecosystem with money flowing to promote violence. And thankfully 627 00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:32,040 Speaker 3: the Department of Justice under Pambondi has announced that they're 628 00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:36,080 Speaker 3: doing an anti terrorism investigation to go after to follow 629 00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:39,880 Speaker 3: the money. And I'll tell you also, the Assistant Attorney 630 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:48,759 Speaker 3: General for Civil Rights is questioning, is questioning why Berkeley 631 00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:53,840 Speaker 3: allowed this to happen. In fact, Assistant Attorney General for 632 00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:58,240 Speaker 3: Civil Rights Arment Dylan formally demanded that you see Berkeley 633 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:02,640 Speaker 3: preserve all records regarding their response to the mob violence 634 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:09,000 Speaker 3: at at Berkeley's Turning Point USA event. All records good. 635 00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:13,399 Speaker 3: And that's because I suspect they're going to find They're 636 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,360 Speaker 3: going to find emails, They're going to find administrators saying 637 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,800 Speaker 3: communicating back and forth, just like we did with the 638 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:25,200 Speaker 3: anti Semitic protesters, where it is clear that the administrators 639 00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:27,319 Speaker 3: do not want to protect the people at Turning Point 640 00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:30,400 Speaker 3: USA do not want the police to stop violence if 641 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:34,880 Speaker 3: it's directed against conservatives. And there's a real moral decay 642 00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,440 Speaker 3: at our universities. And I'm glad we have an Apartment 643 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:41,120 Speaker 3: of Justice that's willing to enforce the law and go 644 00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:45,680 Speaker 3: after number one, the money behind the left wing violence, 645 00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:48,480 Speaker 3: but number two the administrators who are facilitating And I 646 00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:52,760 Speaker 3: got to say, it is not dissimilar to what's happening 647 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:54,920 Speaker 3: in Nigeria we talked about a minute ago, where you 648 00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:58,360 Speaker 3: have government officials who look the other way and refuse 649 00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:01,959 Speaker 3: to enforce the law to protect crists. In Berkeley's case, 650 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,839 Speaker 3: I suspect the evidence will indicate the school administrators look 651 00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:09,359 Speaker 3: the other way and refuse to protect the students at 652 00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:14,960 Speaker 3: Turning Point USA because they're rooting for the Antifa rioters 653 00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:17,480 Speaker 3: who are physically assaulting those students. 654 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,759 Speaker 1: Ay man, don't forget. We do this show three days 655 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:20,080 Speaker 1: a week. 656 00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:23,480 Speaker 2: Makes you share the podcast wherever you can, and you 657 00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,920 Speaker 2: can watch on YouTube as well. It's Verdicate Tech Careers. 658 00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:27,879 Speaker 2: Ben Ferguson with you Be Safe. We'll see you back 659 00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:29,840 Speaker 2: here on the podcast in a couple of days.