WEBVTT - Debate Night In Review 0:00:01.240 --> 0:00:01.720 Welcome. 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:05.640 It is a special Debate Verdict with Ted Cruz and 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:08.399 Ben ferguson podcast. We get to do these on big 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:11.960 nights jointly like this. Depending on where you're listening to 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:15.760 us right now, you get us both. Senator, your initial reaction, 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:18.800 you watched the debate. I watched the debate. What were 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:19.799 your big takeaways? 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:23.159 Well, tonight was a big and consequential debate, but I 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:25.480 have to say it before we get into it, and 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:28.080 then this entire podcast we're going to analyze the debate 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:32.880 in depth and say what it showed about about where 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:36.279 the race is, where President Trump is, where Kamala Harris is. 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.320 But I do want to point out it is exactly 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:41.960 midnight as you and I are recording, which means that 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:46.519 it has just become September eleventh, and for our listeners 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:50.560 who are downloading this, you'll be downloading this today during 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.040 September eleventh. And so I just want to start by 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:57.400 acknowledging that twenty three years ago, the worst terrorist attack 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:01.720 in our nation's history happened, and you and I both 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:06.120 lived through nine to eleven. We had friends who lost 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:09.560 their lives in nine to eleven. We saw the agony 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.800 and We have talked on this podcast many times about 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:17.160 my view that today we have a greater risk of 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:20.080 a major terrorist attack than we have had any time 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.840 since September eleventh, two thousand and one, because of the 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:27.320 disastrous policies of the last four years. And so I 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.520 want to acknowledge that at the front end, and then 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:34.920 we're going to walk through right now what the biggest 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:38.160 takeaways are from the debate tonight Center. 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:43.840 This was a obviously important debate for Kamala Harris. It 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:47.120 was really a rollout in a sense where she could 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:51.559 be challenged. What we quickly saw though, was a three 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:55.240 on one debate against Donald Trump and ABC News. 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:57.200 What an end kind donation they gave. 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:00.800 Yeah, the ABC moderators did not do a good job 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:05.280 that They clearly were biased towards Kamala Harris. We saw 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:09.160 that from their live quote fact checking, where repeatedly they'd 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:12.519 follow up what Trump said by contradicting him, by disputing him. 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:16.040 Many instances, their fact checks were wrong and they never 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.160 never could be bothered a fact check a word that 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:20.880 came out of Kamala Harris's mouth. It was very one 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:24.880 sided on that front. But look, ABC News was the 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:30.080 least consequential part of tonight. What tonight illustrated is that 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:35.080 Kamala Harris is utterly incapable of defending her own record. 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:41.520 And what we saw tonight, this was her stump speech, 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.919 and this was her DNC convention speech, cut into sound 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:50.640 bites and repeated. She memorized a series of vignettes, a 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:55.000 series of little segments, and just repeated those talking points 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:58.760 ad nauseum. And it really became clear with the very 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:02.040 first question of the night, and the first question of 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.360 the night that David Muir asked her, is the question 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:07.240 that you and I and Monday's podcast said is the 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:10.720 single most important question of the debate and really of 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:13.840 every election, which is are you better off than you 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:18.280 were four years ago? And to Mere's credit, he started 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:21.320 with that question, are people off today than they were 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:25.360 four years ago? Under Trump? Now? Interestingly enough, Kamala refused 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:27.920 to answer it at all. She didn't say yes, she 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:31.200 didn't say people's lives are better, she said nothing at all. Instead, 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.720 she had a little memorized set peace about how I 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:37.680 was raised in a middle class family. I was raised 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:39.840 with a mom who loved me and struggled. And she 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:45.280 just talked about her bio and gave just just empty 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:51.440 platitudes that continued for the entire night. And so look, 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:57.480 we saw this evening. Why it is that Kamala's campaign 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:01.600 team keeps her hidden in Joe Biden's base. Why they 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.760 just bring her out, have a read from a teleprompter, 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:06.720 and then they tackle her and throw back in the basement. 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.480 Because all right, let's take the very simple question. She 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:11.640 didn't say, yes, you're better off than you were four 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.960 years ago. Why, well, you really can't, Like it's impossible 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.280 to defend on every front. Inflation. All let's just take 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:23.320 inflation in the economy. Her policies and Joe Biden's policies 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:28.400 have been disastrous America. The working people of America have 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:30.960 seen the price of just about everything go up, from 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:36.720 food to electricity, to rent, to lumber, to healthcare, to gasoline, 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:42.200 to mortgages, everything go up. And critically, this is where 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:46.760 her record matters. Kamala Harris was the tie breaking vote 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:50.600 multiple times on the floor of the Senate on trillions 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.839 of dollars of the out of control spending from this 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:59.280 administration that has caused this inflation. She was literally without 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:02.640 her vote, the trillions of dollars that we borrowed, and 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:06.640 the trillions of dollars that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:09.840 ran the printing presses on that drove this inflation that 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:12.680 doesn't happen, and she can't defend that. She doesn't have 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:16.040 a good answer. When it comes to energy and gas prices. 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:19.640 People are hurting because of gas price as well. It 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:23.400 is her policies and Joe Biden's policies that has waged 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:27.920 war systematically on oil and gas production and American energy, 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:33.000 and she can't defend that either, and so instead she 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.600 simply says, well, we're going to lower energy prices, We're 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.960 going to lower gas prices, and with no acknowledgment that 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:43.160 Wait a second, she is, in fact the sitting vice president, 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:45.240 and who knows where the heck the actual president is 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.359 besides passed out asleep on a beach. 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:51.440 When you see, I think the strategy, and now it 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.640 actually I think makes more sense, right, like just hider, 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:59.040 buy ads, get the media to cover for you and 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:02.640 protect you at all costs. And maybe that is a 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:06.120 winning strategy, which comes to the obviously, the next big question, 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:08.280 should there be another debate? 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:10.440 Do you believe there will be? In the other debate. 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:14.159 They were obviously in the Harris camp implying that there 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.760 was a big victory tonight, saying that was fun, let's 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:20.440 do it again, and threw out another date. Uh, signaling 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.360 from her campaign they want to tee it up again 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.279 and go toe to toe with Donald Trump again. 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:27.839 Is that the right move for her? 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.479 Well, listen, I think Trump should absolutely accept that offer 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:33.800 for another debate. He should jump on it and say 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:38.599 let's go. I think the debate is a valuable opportunity 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:44.240 to calmly litigate her actual record. And and let me 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:48.719 say this though, even if Trump does does follow that 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:51.920 advice and does accept the debate, I think there's very 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:54.680 little chance it happens. I think Kamala's team will back 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:56.880 out on it. I think they're mostly just puffing out 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.719 their chest and boasting right now with the offer of 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.679 another debate, I think there is no world in which 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:05.640 they let her do a second debate. I think it's 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:08.200 back to the basement. And if I were to predict, 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.240 we're not going to see Kamala emerge from the basement 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:15.400 until election day. It's like the groundhog until she sees 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:17.360 her shadow on election day. She doesn't get to come 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:20.560 out of the basement, other than to show up at 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:22.760 a rally here and there and read from the teleprompter 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.880 the same speech. But they want to keep her absolutely 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:32.400 controlled and repeating. And listen, I will say, the Democrat 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.680 Party has very good message masters. They have very good 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:37.520 This is the party of Hollywood. This is the party 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:41.800 of storytellers. Her memorized set pieces, some of them are 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:45.760 pretty effective. They're disconnected from reality. They don't acknowledge any 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:49.440 facts on earth. But if you just listen to them, 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:55.800 they are calmly reassuring, they sound nice. And it's why. Look, 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.640 this is the same reaction I had with her convention speech. 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.880 It's dangerous as hell, because if you're not paying close attention, 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:07.160 what she says sounds nice unless she is forced to 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:11.160 confront her actual own record. And in the entire debate, 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:15.800 the ABC moderators never once pointed out that her record 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.680 is exactly the opposite of what she said on the 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:20.040 debate stage over and over again. 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.080 So when I watched the debate, the question I always 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:25.640 ask myself is okay, if I was going in a 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.520 night voting for Donald Trump, was I convinced by Kamala 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:31.440 Harris that I should switch my vote, The answer honestly 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:35.400 is no. And if I'm a Kamala Harris voter and 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.120 was going into the night watching Kamala Harris saying I'm 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.280 going to vote for her. Am I going to switch 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.680 my vote to Donald Trump tonight? Honestly? Probably not. Does 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:47.760 that mean that this is a draw in essence, where Hey, 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.800 Donald Trump's team they walk out of this going Okay, 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:53.160 maybe we could have done a little better on this 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:55.080 that or the other. Maybe we'll work on that for 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:56.760 the next subbate, but we didn't do any harm and 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.640 we got out are some good points. Kama's team probably says, hey, 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:03.440 we survived the night we had you in hiding in 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.320 the basement. Is this one of those debates that we 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.000 both said was one of the most important ever? 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:09.680 But could in theory be a draw? 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:13.960 Because really, you're if the if the barometer is I'm 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:15.800 trying to change hearts and minds. 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:18.560 Did anyone's mind change tonight? 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.680 Well, Kamala's team and all of our cheerleaders in the 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.640 corporate media are going to relentlessly hype that she won, 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:26.520 that she won, that she won. And by the way, 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:28.400 they were going to say that whatever happened she could 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.040 literally fall to the ground and start screaming and wailing 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:32.400 and kicking her feet in the air, and they would 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:34.280 say she won, So that that was going to be 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:39.040 the narrative regardless. I will say, what we learned is 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.360 she doesn't have a good answer to her own record. 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.680 The Trump campaign needs to continue to prosecute the case. 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.040 So let's take, for example, there was a hole back 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:53.120 and forth on abortion, and Trump said accurately that she 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:57.280 supports late term abortions into the eighth and ninth months 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:00.120 of pregnancy, and she just said, over and over again, no, 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.559 I don't know, I don't that's false, that's false, and 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:07.080 the moderators sat there like potted plants. Well, it so 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.920 happens that Kamala actually has a record, and in particular, 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.640 she has voted for legislation on the floor of the 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:17.920 Senate to strike down every single restriction on abortion in 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:21.880 the country and to legalize abortion in the eighth and 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:25.840 ninth months up to the moment of birth. That is 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.719 her actual voting record, what she has voted for. There 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.800 was another exchange where Trump points out that the governor 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:34.960 of Virginia, the former governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam had 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:40.400 advocated for post birth abortion, and she flat out lied 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.640 and said no, no, he didn't know, he didn't and 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:43.719 play that. 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:45.760 Because we have that clip. And this is why I 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.440 love doing the show, is we get to play it. 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:53.480 This is Northam on the radio on WTP saying what 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:56.520 she said, and the media said, never happened. 0:10:57.960 --> 0:10:59.840 If a mother is in labor, I can tell you 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:04.520 exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered, the 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:08.520 infant would be kept comfortable, the infant would be resuscitated 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:12.000 if that's what the mother and the family desired, and 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:15.880 then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mothers. 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.640 I mean, where's the fact check for ABC News on that? Senator? 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:24.680 Yeah, and understand Ralph Northam, he was a Democrat governor 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:28.160 of Virginia. He was also someone whose medical school yearbook 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.719 featured a picture of a Klansman. That's another part of 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:37.040 Ralph Northm's background. But he was also an obgyn, so 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.839 he was actually talking about as a doctor who presumably 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:43.080 has done that. He was describing the approach, and that 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.559 is delivering a baby. The baby is alive, is breathing, 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:49.080 is outside the mother's womb and he's talking about just 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:53.120 letting the baby die. And again, this is where records matter. 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.280 Kamala has a record on this. So when she says 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.720 that's ridiculous, that's no, no, no, no, no, that's not true. Well, 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:04.240 Kamala Harris voted against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:06.840 and that was a bill that we voted on the 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:10.120 floor of the Senate that said if during the course 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:13.679 of an attempted abortion, the child is delivered, the child 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:17.520 is born, and this happens, and the child is alive 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:21.480 and breathing and outside the womb, that the doctor cannot 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:26.800 just let the baby die. And she voted no. Now, 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:29.160 as you noted, ABC did in fact check her on that, 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:33.120 her voting record is very clear, and this was a 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:37.960 pattern over and over and over again on energy. So 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:42.079 her big trick now on energy is she's run away 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:46.079 from her long held position opposing fracking. Okay, fine, so 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:49.040 she's like, yeah, I just flip flopped on that. What 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:52.400 ABC didn't point out is, well, wait a second, your 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.000 repeated statements about banning fracking, that's not the only thing 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.880 you've done on energy. First week in office. You and 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:02.440 Joe Biden shut down the Keystone pipeline. Joe Biden, when 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:04.880 he was campaigning for president, promised to shut down drilling 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.040 on shore, on federal lands and offshore. You put in 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:12.400 over ninety different regulations and executive orders attacking oil and 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:16.040 gas production in the United States that has had a 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:22.160 very direct effect driving up cost. Your administration banned new 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:26.640 permits exporting liquid natural gas. Like her record on energy 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:30.360 is terrible, and she has no answer to that. And 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:32.320 by the way, Trump did a good job on this 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:36.679 point of saying, listen, you banned the Keystone pipeline and 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:41.440 gave a giant gift of Vladimir Putin by allowing him 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.360 to complete the Nordstream two pipeline, which caused the war 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.040 in Ukraine. And that's something you and I have talked 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:49.040 about in this podcast a lot. It was my legislation 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.760 in the Senate that sanctioned Nordstream two and shut it down. 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:57.000 Trump signed my legislation and Putin literally stopped building the 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:00.600 nord Stream two pipeline the day that Trump signed sanctions 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:04.920 legislation in the law. Northstream two was a dead hunk 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:06.839 of metal at the bottom of the ocean until Joe 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:10.760 Biden and Kamala Harris came into office and they demonstrated 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:14.199 weakness and and they waived the sanctions on nord Stream 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:18.559 two and it was a multi billion dollar gift to 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:21.960 to Russia and it caused the war in Ukraine. None 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:24.120 of that does she have an answer for. 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:29.480 We just got in the official number. ABC News fact 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:34.480 check Donald Trump seven times, not one time the debate. 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:36.920 Did they fact check Kamala Harris? 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:37.800 Not once? 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:42.200 So that's the official caw tally now is seven times 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:45.880 on Trump. That's three on one, and I do think 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.080 that's going to have a turnoff. I would hope to 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:52.680 some of those voters, maybe in the middle, the undecideds, 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:56.520 which very much can be the deciding factor in this election. 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.440 Will that play with undecideds? Do you think did they 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.000 see the bi that you and I saw? 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:04.720 They saw that some, but I think they also go 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:06.960 in expecting the media to be biased. So I don't 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:11.440 think anyone is surprised that ABC is a left wing 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.240 mouthpiece for the Democrats. That's been the case sadly for 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:18.120 a long time for ABCNBCCBSC and AN, MSNBC, all of 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:21.440 them have been mouthpieces for the Democrats. So yes, they 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:26.280 saw it, but again they're not surprised. Look, the critical 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:29.000 thing that we saw tonight is is she doesn't have 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.560 a good answer on the chaos at our southern border. 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:37.600 Kamala Harris was the borders are. She is directly responsible 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:41.720 for the worst level of illegal immigration in our nation's history. 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:47.600 She is directly responsible for the people who have died. 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.320 Eight hundred and fifty three migrants died last year crossing 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:54.160 illegalian in this country. She is responsible for the people, 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.440 the women who have been brutally raped. She's responsible for 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.720 the children who have been brutalize. She's responsible for the 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.560 little boys and little girls who've been horribly assaulted by 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.520 human traffickers. She's responsible for the one hundred and ten 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:11.040 thousand Americans who died last year of drug overdoses. She 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:16.880 is responsible for the murderers that she and Joe Biden 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:20.520 had in their custody, Murderers like the illegal alien murder 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:22.440 of Lake and Riley that she and Joe Biden had 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:26.080 in custody, and they released murderers like the illegal alien 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:30.520 murderer of Rachel Morin that illegal alien was in her custody. 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:36.080 She released them. Murderers like the illegal alien murderers of 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.720 Joscelyn Hungary. Both of them were in her custody and 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:42.040 she and Joe Biden released them, and so that record. 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.680 She was not forced tonight to answer for any of 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:51.200 that record and that, but it demonstrated that she does 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:56.880 not have a good response. And and that's what I 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:00.440 think the next two months the Trump campaign has to 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:05.640 prosecute systematically based on the facts. Here is her record, 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.720 Here is what she has done, and it hasn't worked. 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:12.600 It has failed, and the American people are worse off 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:16.159 as a result of the failures of her extreme policy. 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.040 You mentioned Donald Trump's got to bring up some more 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:21.640 of this stuff, and I think you and I've talked 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:25.120 about this, but let's just remind people since kamaiers took 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:27.680 off as total prices are up over twenty percent, car 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:31.119 insurance up fifty four percent, hotels are up say when 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:33.800 you rent a hotel fifty one point two percent, Gases 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:37.200 up fifty point fifty percent, fuel oil is up forty 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:41.880 nine point one, transportation up thirty two point nine, Electricity 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:43.639 is up thirty one point seven percent. 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:45.960 Baby food's up over thirty fifty. 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:48.919 Percent, eating out of up twenty five percent, Airfare up 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:52.800 twenty three percent, rent up twenty two percent, and groceries 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:56.720 are up about twenty two percent as well. That's what 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.800 they've got to focus on, every single one of a Sarah, 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.000 It's not all this other and the weed stuff. They 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:06.160 I really do believe they've got to keep it simple 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:09.679 for the American voter, especially if you're trying to go 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:10.760 after undecided. 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:14.120 Sure. And and that's what we talked about in Monday's pod, 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:18.240 that that the focus needs to be on harms, harms, harms. 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:22.879 How are people's lives worth aught worse off because of 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:27.440 the horrible policies that Kamala Harris is directly responsible for. 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.600 And and that's true. On inflation, she was literally the 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:34.480 tie breaking vote behind the trillions of spending that that 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:39.119 unleash this inflation. It's true. On energy, she and Joe Biden. 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:42.439 It has been their executive orders and their regulations that 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:46.000 have driven up energy prices. And and and it's true 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:47.960 on the border, and and and let me play there 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:50.520 that there was one of the best exchanges with something 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:52.640 Trump said on the border where he made the point 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:56.440 that that that that listen, she could secure the border today, 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:59.040 and and and and and listen, listen to this what 0:18:59.040 --> 0:18:59.800 what what he said to her? 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:02.560 Right now, I would say we would both leave this 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:06.040 debate right now. I'd like to see her go down 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:09.600 to Washington, D C. During this debate because we're wasting 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:12.120 a lot of time. Go down to because she's been 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:13.480 so bad, it's so ridiculous. 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:15.359 Go down to Washington, D C. 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.400 And let her sign a bill to close up the border, 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:20.480 because they have the right to do it. They don't 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:22.560 need bills, they have the right to do it. The 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:24.920 president of the United States. You'll get them out of bed, 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:27.240 You'll wake them up at four o'clock in the afternoon. 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:29.160 You'll say, come on, come on down to the office, 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:29.880 let's sign a bill. 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:32.639 It was a great moment in the debate. 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:37.000 Yeah, look, that point is very powerful. And understand this 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:41.959 invasion at our southern border. It is happening right now today. 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:47.280 There are hundreds, if not thousands of illegal immigrants crossing 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:51.400 the border right now today today, Joe Biden and Kamala 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:54.520 Harris are apprehending hundreds, if not thousands of illegal aliens 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:58.840 and they're going to release them tomorrow. There are criminals 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:01.760 they're going to release tomorrow sorrow. There are murderers they're 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:04.080 going to release. Going forward, there are rapists, there are 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:07.000 child molestors, and they keep on doing it. And the 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:10.280 point Trump is making and listen, his campaign needs to 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:15.400 follow this up by explaining, by really explaining. Look, when 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:19.520 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris came into office, they inherited 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:22.480 the lowest rate of illegal immigration in forty five years. 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:25.760 Donald Trump, I worked hand in hand with President Trump 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:30.160 to secure the border, and we had incredible success. When 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:34.040 Trump was president, the border was secure, and it was 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:39.600 unilateral executive actions that caused this crisis. Three decisions that 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:43.520 Biden Harris did in the very first week. Number one, 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:47.240 they immediately halted construction of the border wall. Number two, 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:50.280 they reinstated the disastrous policy of catch and release, and 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:53.640 number three they pulled out of the incredibly successful Remain 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:59.199 in Mexico agreement. All three of those they could reverse tomorrow. 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:01.680 And so the point like, literally, go down to the 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:05.880 White House right now and do it. That is absolutely right. 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:09.120 It is also right that if and I pray when 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:12.760 Trump is re elected that he will reverse all three 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:17.120 of those decisions on January twentieth of next year, and 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:19.240 we will see the border crisis end, and it will 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:23.040 end quickly, and so that point was very effective. Let 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:27.119 me say, also, Ben, I thought the foreign policy portion 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:30.639 of the debate was particularly strong for Trump and it 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:32.840 was very weak for Kamala Harris. At one point, she 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:36.280 looks over at Trump and says, well, you know, everyone 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:39.120 knows that he was weak and ineffective on foreign policy. 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:41.440 And I got to say to me that that was 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:46.440 a laugh line. And listen, if you look across the globe, 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:49.879 we had peace and prosperity when Trump was president. We 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:53.159 had no foreign wars, and in fact, we saw peace 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:55.560 breaking out in the Middle East. We saw the Abraham 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:59.480 Accords being signed, we saw Arabs and Israelis coming together. 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:03.520 And I think it is absolutely the case that if 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:06.239 Trump were still in the White House today, the war 0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:08.080 in Ukraine would not have happened, in the war in 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:10.359 Israel would not have happened. That it was Joe Biden 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:16.960 and Kamala Harris's weakness that caused those wars. And critically, 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:18.760 and Trump did a good job of this too, laying 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:22.840 out that that Listen, Kamala Harris has flowed over one 0:22:22.960 --> 0:22:27.399 hundred billion dollars to Iran. Iran provides ninety percent of 0:22:27.400 --> 0:22:30.040 the funding for hamas ninety percent of the funding for Hesbela, 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:33.600 Kamala Harris, in a very real sense paid for the 0:22:33.680 --> 0:22:38.840 death squads that carried out the atrocities on October seventh, 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:43.280 and and and Kamala has no answer to that, And 0:22:43.440 --> 0:22:46.080 and tonight showed that powerfully. You know. 0:22:46.160 --> 0:22:47.680 I also think, and you go to the end of 0:22:47.720 --> 0:22:50.920 the debate that one of the best parts was actually 0:22:51.040 --> 0:22:54.800 Donald Trump in his closing argument. And it goes back 0:22:54.840 --> 0:22:57.240 to the campaign strategy I think he needs to have 0:22:58.359 --> 0:23:02.000 moving forward, and that is to make sure he makes 0:23:02.160 --> 0:23:08.520