1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:04,040 Speaker 1: Welcome. It is Verdict with Center Ted Cruz, the week 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 1: in Review, Ben Ferguson with you, and we had some 3 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: major stories that if you missed them this week, you 4 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: want to make sure you know about them now. First up, 5 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: Biden Harris diverted billions from actual science research to DEI activities. 6 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:23,079 Speaker 1: Where did it go and how did they get away 7 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 1: with it? We break that down for you. Also, what 8 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: does the actual law say about asylum seekers coming into 9 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: this country? Now they know how to play the system, 10 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:35,919 Speaker 1: but are we supposed to let everyone stay who crosses 11 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:38,640 Speaker 1: the southern border? The answer is no, But what does 12 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 1: the law say? And well, are the people in the 13 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:43,239 Speaker 1: White House breaking the law? We'll explain that for you 14 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:47,479 Speaker 1: as well. And finally, a major victory as Israel killed 15 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: Hamasa's mastermind behind the October seventh attack. How did they 16 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 1: pull it off? We explain it all. It's the Weekend 17 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 1: Review and it starts right now. I want to move 18 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 1: to another subject real quick. And this is the reason 19 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 1: why we do this podcast is we get to bring 20 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 1: you information that is not being covered and this is important. 21 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 2: Uh. 22 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 1: There was a investigation that you guys put together in 23 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 1: Washington that revealed and you were the leader on this 24 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:23,399 Speaker 1: how the Biden Harris administration diverted billions of dollars from 25 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: scientific research to DEI activists. And for people that are listening, 26 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: let's start with this, remind them what DEI stands for. 27 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:34,679 Speaker 1: And then this story that is broken. 28 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:39,119 Speaker 2: Well, DEI is diversity, equity and inclusion, and it is 29 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 2: the catchphrase of the woke left. And let me just 30 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 2: give you, give you the headline. Before Biden took office 31 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 2: in twenty twenty, less than one percent of the grants 32 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 2: from the National Science Foundation were related to AID. Today 33 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 2: that number is greater than ten percent. So there has 34 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 2: been a massive, massive shift. Now what does that mean. Well, 35 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 2: this past week I put out a report. So as 36 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,799 Speaker 2: you know, I'm the ranking member on the Senate Committee 37 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 2: of Commerce, Science, and Transportation. That means I'm the senior 38 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 2: Republican on the Commerce Committee. The Commerce Committee has jurisdiction 39 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 2: over about forty percent of the US economy, including science 40 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:23,839 Speaker 2: and including the National Science Foundation. So my team engaged 41 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 2: in a systematic study and we put out a report 42 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 2: examining how the National Science Foundation has increasingly politicized the 43 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:36,920 Speaker 2: use of taxpayer dollars meant for scientific research, and the 44 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 2: report shows that in its first week, the Biden Harris 45 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 2: administration mandated that all taxpayer funded scientific research and development 46 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:54,079 Speaker 2: must incorporate diversity, equity and inclusion DEI values. In response 47 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 2: to this directive, the National Science Foundation allocated over two 48 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 2: point zero five billion dollars over two billion dollars to 49 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 2: thousands of research projects that promoted neo Marxist perspectives or 50 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 2: DEI tenants, and taxpayer dollars supported these very questionable scientific 51 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 2: studies used by researchers to drive extreme ideologies in the 52 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 2: classrooms and on their campuses. And here are the top 53 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 2: line numbers. Our analysis identified three thousand, four hundred and 54 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 2: eighty three grants, over ten percent of all National Science 55 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 2: Foundation grants during the Biden Harris administration that went to 56 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 2: questionable projects promoting DEI or pushing neo Marxist perspectives about 57 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 2: enduring class struggle, and our investigation grouped these grants into 58 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 2: five categories status, social justice, gender, race, and environmental justice. 59 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 2: So let me get let me give you some of 60 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 2: the examples. So you're in Vosugi, who is an associate 61 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 2: professor of Learning Sciences at Northwestern University and a co 62 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 2: Principal Investigator for a one million, thirty four thousand, seven 63 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 2: hundred and fifty one dollars NSF grant award in twenty 64 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 2: twenty three for a project titled quote Reimagining Educator learning 65 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:26,599 Speaker 2: Pathways through story Work for racial Equity in STEM and 66 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:31,119 Speaker 2: Vosugi credits Marxist traditions for her decision to teach quilt 67 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 2: children quote the meaning of genocide and apartheid after Hamas's 68 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 2: attack against israel I give you another example. In twenty 69 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:47,280 Speaker 2: twenty three, NSF awarded Georgia Institute Technologies Kelly Cross ninety 70 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:51,039 Speaker 2: nine thousand, seven hundred and ninety one dollars to quote 71 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 2: disrupt racialized privilege in the STEM classroom by acknowledging quote 72 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 2: whiteness and white supremacy are deeply ingrained in the past, present, 73 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 2: and future of US higher education. Cross sought to quote 74 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 2: subvert these toxic systems to create a more equitable education 75 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 2: system and to quote initiate a national conversation about addressing 76 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:23,840 Speaker 2: racial inequity and white supremacy in the STEM profession and classroom. 77 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,280 Speaker 2: This is what your taxpayers tax dollars are going towards. 78 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 1: How does this happen? Where they can divert this type 79 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 1: of funding at this level is the question I think 80 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 1: most taxpayers would want to ask immediately. Like, I can 81 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:41,839 Speaker 1: understand skimming somebody here there, but diverting billions from scientific 82 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: research to di two billion dollars, yeah, two billion dollars 83 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,040 Speaker 1: to DII activists. That's not where your tax dours are 84 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: supposed to go. And by the way, I think you 85 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 1: and I agree on this, I wouldn't want these funds 86 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,599 Speaker 1: diverted to a conservative activist group either. 87 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:00,919 Speaker 2: No, this is meant to be a science. This is 88 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 2: meant to be saving people's lives. Let me give you 89 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 2: another example. In twenty twenty two, NSF awarded San Jose 90 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 2: State University four hundred and one thousand, seven hundred and 91 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 2: forty four dollars for an ongoing project to quote transform 92 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 2: science teaching and learning through empowering teachers and students as 93 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 2: climate justice action researchers and change agents. The project is 94 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 2: meant to foster quote the development of a hub for 95 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 2: justice centered science education and will produce school based materials 96 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 2: in professional development activities that examine the interwoven nature of 97 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 2: climate justice and racial justice. Now, who was in charge 98 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 2: of this? 99 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 3: Well? 100 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 2: The principal investigator was Tammy Visentainer, who sees her classroom 101 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 2: as a venue for social activism. In April twenty twenty four, 102 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 2: Vicentainer wrote that her course quote for aspiring middle and 103 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 2: high school teachers centers racial justice in science education, and 104 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 2: at the end of her course, she showed her student's 105 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 2: photos of Israel ramp dropping pamphlets inside the Gaza strip 106 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 2: to warn residents to move out of the way of 107 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 2: incoming rocket fire. Vis Attainer, who claimed that Hamasa's October 108 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 2: terror attack needed to be contextualized, explain that the photos 109 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 2: quote creates spaces that engage complexity in promotion of shared 110 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 2: dignity and humanity to build bridges across differences. But she 111 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 2: didn't explain what the hell they had to do with science, 112 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 2: which is what a National Science Foundation grant is supposed 113 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 2: to be about. 114 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 1: Send her final question on this story that you obviously 115 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: have broken, and it's a big one. When these types 116 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 1: of stories break, usually in the past, you'd have a 117 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 1: lot of media that would cover it. You'd have other 118 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 1: colleagues that would come in and say they want to 119 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: make sure this is stopped, or or have rules and 120 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: regulations that would help stop it right away. When you 121 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 1: came out with this report, did any of the major 122 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 1: media outlets call and say, hey, we want this info 123 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 1: that you're exposing, or do they just look the other way? 124 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 2: Well, there were a handful of stories, but they were 125 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 2: principally in conservative outlets because the actual corporate media doesn't 126 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:23,239 Speaker 2: cover news. This news is inconvenient. The fact that Kamala 127 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:26,440 Speaker 2: Harris and Joe Biden are funneling billions that's meant to 128 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 2: go to science, that's meant to save lives, that's meant 129 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 2: to promote like basic research, they're funneling it instead to 130 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 2: aggressively ideological left wing activists, zelots. They're using it to 131 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 2: corrupt students, to corrupt universities, to corrupt K through twelve education. 132 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 2: That is a message that the media does not want 133 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:52,079 Speaker 2: to cover. They will actively do everything they can to suppress, because, look, 134 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 2: you know, what's the big deal to stealing billions of 135 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 2: dollars a tax paramney to fund Marxists poisoning the minds 136 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 2: of our kids. The next thing you're going, you know, 137 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 2: you're going to say it's a big deal that a 138 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 2: handful of apartment complexes are taken over by Venezuelan gangs. 139 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 1: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, 140 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:13,079 Speaker 1: you can go back and listen to the full podcast 141 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 1: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two. This 142 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 1: is something that I think many Americans don't understand about 143 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 1: those that seeking asylum, and explain that more the law. 144 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 1: What it says, because this is part of the abuse 145 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 1: by the left is they make you think that if 146 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:33,720 Speaker 1: anyone in the world is in essence not happy with 147 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:37,960 Speaker 1: the conditions of where they are in their life, or 148 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:41,320 Speaker 1: what they're living, where they're living, or who's in charge 149 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:45,199 Speaker 1: of a country, that that therefore means they should immediately 150 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 1: go to the front of the line and come straight 151 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:49,080 Speaker 1: into American We should take care of them. And you 152 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 1: just says that it's really important you don't just allow 153 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 1: people to come in into this country because they don't 154 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 1: like their quote economic conditions. 155 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 2: That's exactly right what US law is as we have asylum. 156 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 2: We offer people asylum, but to qualify for asylum, you 157 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:11,319 Speaker 2: have to demonstrate a quote credible fear of political persecution. 158 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 2: If you're in say a communist country, and you can 159 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 2: demonstrate the government if they capture you, they're going to 160 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 2: torture you, they're going to kill you. That's typically the 161 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:25,679 Speaker 2: kind of showing you've got to demonstrate to qualify for asylum. 162 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 2: It's explicitly political persecution. And one of the reason is, look, 163 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 2: there're seven to eight billion people on planet Earth, that 164 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 2: there are billions of people living in poverty. Our nation 165 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:39,559 Speaker 2: has about three hundred and thirty million Americans. We don't 166 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:42,959 Speaker 2: have the capacity, we don't have the ability to provide 167 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:45,960 Speaker 2: for billions of people flooding in who are simply in 168 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 2: poverty and would like to live better, particularly when you 169 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 2: combine it with the democrats welfare state, because understand, Kamala 170 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 2: Harris doesn't just provide open border. She says, you get 171 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 2: here and we'll give you welfare, we'll give you free healthcare, 172 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:02,320 Speaker 2: we will give you money. And so frankly, look, I 173 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 2: understand why the people come to this country. If you're 174 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 2: living in poverty and you get to come to America 175 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:09,719 Speaker 2: and these idiots in the government are going to give 176 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 2: you free everything, why wouldn't you come? But that is 177 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 2: not US law. Economic need poverty does not qualify for asylum, 178 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:22,200 Speaker 2: and the Democrats don't care. They're not even pretending this 179 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 2: meets US law. So what they do, here's the game. 180 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:28,440 Speaker 2: You show up. And by the way, just about every 181 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:30,960 Speaker 2: one of these these illegal immigrants is trained by the 182 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:35,679 Speaker 2: traffickers to say, I'm claiming asylum. Now, the Biden administration 183 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 2: knows that when their claim is adjudicated, that fewer than 184 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 2: ten percent will meet the standards for asylum. That almost 185 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:44,960 Speaker 2: none of them have any credible fear. They're simply poor 186 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 2: and they want a better life and they want handouts. 187 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:51,200 Speaker 2: But what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are doing is 188 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 2: they say, Okay, we'll take you for asylum. We'll set 189 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:56,800 Speaker 2: you a court date three, four, five, ten years in 190 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 2: the future, and in the meantime, we'll let you go. 191 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 2: Welcome to America. And by the way, a bunch of 192 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 2: them are never seen again. That policy is called catch 193 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 2: and release. That when people are apprehended, they let him go. 194 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 2: By the way, how did the murderer who killed Lake 195 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 2: and Riley get to Georgia because of catch and release? 196 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 2: Because Joe Biden Kamala Harris apprehended him and let him go. 197 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 2: How did the murderer who killed Rachel Morin get to 198 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 2: suburban Maryland because of catch and release? Joe Biden Kamala 199 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,320 Speaker 2: Harris apprehended him and let him go. How did the 200 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:27,319 Speaker 2: two murderers and rapists who raped and murdered Joscelyn Nunger 201 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 2: get to Houston, Texas because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris 202 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 2: did catch and release. They caught him, they cut both 203 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 2: of them, they had them in custody, and they released them. 204 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 2: There is no credible argument with these criminals that eat 205 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 2: the standards of asylum, But Kamala Harris doesn't care. 206 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 1: You know. I think there's even something else that's just 207 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:54,680 Speaker 1: a personal example that we've talked about in the past 208 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:57,959 Speaker 1: on the show. It is the beginning of your last book. 209 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:03,680 Speaker 1: Your dad was a poster child for someone that would 210 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 1: deserve and need asylum in the US because of political persecution, 211 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:13,600 Speaker 1: the genuine fear of death when he fled Cuba. Let's 212 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 1: just take a moment and let people understand how far 213 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 1: that pendulum has swung since your dad was a political 214 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 1: refugee basically in the US. I think I'm describing that correctly. 215 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 2: My father was a political refugee. Actually came initially on 216 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 2: a student visa, so he was admitted to the University 217 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:34,679 Speaker 2: of Texas. He came in nineteen fifty seven, and so 218 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:38,319 Speaker 2: he studied at UT. He got a degree in UT 219 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:41,600 Speaker 2: graduated in sixty one with a degree in math, and 220 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:44,439 Speaker 2: at that point Castro had taken over and had begun 221 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 2: persecuting dissonance. My aunt might Theo Sonia, I was with 222 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 2: both my father and my Theosnia this evening. My Theo 223 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 2: Sonia fought in the counter revolution against Castro. Might Theos 224 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:59,040 Speaker 2: Sonia was in prison. She was tortured by Castro, and 225 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 2: so my family, my father was granted asylum status because 226 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 2: why if he came back to Cuba, they'd murder him. 227 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 2: My Thea Sonia got out of Cuba and she was 228 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 2: granted asylum status because again the government, they had a 229 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 2: credible fear, they met the legal standard we see from 230 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 2: communist countries that persecute dictators. That's what the asylum laws 231 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 2: were made for, is if you can demonstrate if I 232 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 2: go back to my country, the government will imprison me, 233 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 2: torture me, kill me. That's why we have asylum laws. 234 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 2: The claim was not just I'm in poverty and I 235 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 2: would like to live in America. And the reason our 236 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:39,800 Speaker 2: laws don't grant a special status to that is they're 237 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:43,280 Speaker 2: literally billions of people that fall into that category, and 238 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 2: we do not have the capacity. And I want to 239 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 2: make a point here, Ben, because you know, sometimes people 240 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 2: on the left say, oh gosh, we're just so compassionate 241 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 2: when it comes to immigration. Understand, there is no country 242 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:59,040 Speaker 2: on planet Earth that is more compassionate, that is more 243 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 2: generous when it came come to immigration. In the United 244 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 2: States of America, every year we let in more than 245 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 2: one million legal immigrants. There's no other country that's doing that. 246 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 2: You can't do that in France, you can't do that. 247 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 2: In Britain. You can't do that in Australia. You can't 248 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 2: do that in Japan. Name your country. None of them 249 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:19,040 Speaker 2: do what America does. So we are we welcome immigrants. 250 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 2: But there's a right way to come. You come legally, 251 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:25,520 Speaker 2: you follow the rules, you wait in line. That's the 252 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 2: way the system is meant to go. And it goes 253 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:30,440 Speaker 2: back to our first story, Bill Clinton, if they'd been 254 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:33,280 Speaker 2: properly vetted, you know what, if you're trying to come 255 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 2: in legally, if you're a member of Venezuelan gang, if 256 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 2: you're a murderer, if you're a rapist, if you're a 257 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 2: child molester. You're not going to get in legally when 258 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 2: you're vetted, which is why these open borders are causing 259 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 2: such devastations and they are making American families much much 260 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 2: less safe. 261 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: Final question on this, and it's an important one. I 262 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 1: think the American people are really understanding the game here, 263 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 1: and they're understanding that these my caravans that are coming 264 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:04,920 Speaker 1: and they're running here in case Trump gets elected. They 265 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 1: even understand this election is either about a wide open 266 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 1: border that continues in mass amnesty or law and order 267 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 1: in a secure border with Donald Trump. If the illegal 268 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 1: immigrants that are rushing to get in here before Donald 269 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 1: Trump would take office, that's that's clearly they're right that 270 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:27,800 Speaker 1: they're saying this, right, they're the ones they're telling us this. 271 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 1: Then then then shouldn't every American take a look at 272 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 1: that and realize just the difference, uh of of the 273 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 1: perspective from an illegal immigrant senator If this is what 274 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 1: they're doing right now ahead of time to understand like 275 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 1: there's two policies here, they're two very different and and 276 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 1: no matter what Harris says, no matter what Walla says, 277 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 1: the illegal immigrants know that they are good for business, 278 00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:00,760 Speaker 1: that's good for human trafficking, sex trafficking, drug trafficking. The 279 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 1: list goes on and on, and Donald Trump is gonna 280 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:07,920 Speaker 1: shut it down. The party's over. I think that's an 281 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:10,920 Speaker 1: incredibly important point that needs to be made. These illegal 282 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 1: immigrants get it. 283 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 2: They do. And you know another number that everyone should 284 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 2: know is two thousand, six hundred percent. Do you know 285 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:22,840 Speaker 2: what twenty six hundred percent is. 286 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:26,640 Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess the amount of illegal immigration that's gone 287 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:28,920 Speaker 1: up since they got into office. 288 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:32,160 Speaker 2: No, now, it's actually a different stat than that. So 289 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:37,440 Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen, the Mexican drug cartels were earning roughly 290 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:41,600 Speaker 2: five hundred million dollars in revenue from human trafficking. Now, look, 291 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:43,960 Speaker 2: five hundred million dollars a lot of money. Do you 292 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,200 Speaker 2: know how much they made last year? I hell of 293 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:52,680 Speaker 2: a lot more than that, thirteen billion dollars. And those 294 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:55,159 Speaker 2: stats are from the New York Times. That is a 295 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:59,479 Speaker 2: two thousand, six hundred percent increase, Joe Biden and Kamala 296 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 2: Harris said, been incredibly good. In fact, I've joked, you know, 297 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:06,919 Speaker 2: the standard test for any presidential election is are you 298 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 2: better off now than you were four years ago? And 299 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:13,920 Speaker 2: I've joked, unless you're a Mexican drug lord. And by 300 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 2: the way, if you are a Mexican drug lord, you 301 00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 2: should definitely vote for Kamala Harris because she's made you 302 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:22,480 Speaker 2: billions and billions of dollars. You would be an idiot 303 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 2: if you're a Mexican drug lord not to vote for 304 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:27,720 Speaker 2: Kamala Harris. But if you're not for just about everyone else, 305 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:31,359 Speaker 2: life has gotten a lot worse. That number is staggery, 306 00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 2: and one of the consequences of it is Joe Biden 307 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:37,760 Speaker 2: and Kamala Harris have devastated the nation of Mexico. Mexico 308 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 2: is a wonderful nation. In Texas, it is our immediate 309 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 2: southern neighbor. Texas and Mexican culture. There's enormous overlap. I'll 310 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 2: tell you twenty thirty years ago, you go to South Texas, 311 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 2: people would cross the border back and forth. If you 312 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:54,400 Speaker 2: were in Laredo, you'd go down in Nueva Laredo, you'd 313 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 2: have dinner at a Mexican restaurant, you come back and forth. 314 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 2: I mean, there was this this cross border culture that 315 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 2: was wonderful. Nobody does that anymore, like because the violence, 316 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:09,919 Speaker 2: the cartels, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have made the 317 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:14,240 Speaker 2: drug cartels the most powerful economic force in Mexico, and 318 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:20,480 Speaker 2: they are vicious, utterly amorl criminals. There are I met 319 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:24,360 Speaker 2: with the mayor of a border town in Mexico who 320 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 2: told me in his town alone, there had been more 321 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 2: than three thousand disappearances, just people who disappear who the 322 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:36,879 Speaker 2: cartels kidnap, they murder, and they're found just in pits 323 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:40,000 Speaker 2: of dead bodies. That's what Biden and Harris have done 324 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 2: to Mexico is they have undermined public safety to a level. 325 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:49,320 Speaker 2: They have turned these cartels into superpowers. And it is 326 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:52,600 Speaker 2: tragic what's happening to Mexico, but it's also tragic what's 327 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 2: happening to America. 328 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 1: As before, if you want to hear the rest of 329 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 1: this conversation on this topic, you can go back and 330 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,360 Speaker 1: dow the podcas Ask from earlier this week to hear 331 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 1: the entire thing. I want to get back to the 332 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:07,119 Speaker 1: big story number three of the week. You may have missed, 333 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:09,480 Speaker 1: but I want to move to this other issue because 334 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 1: I think it's really important, and it is the breaking 335 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 1: news out of Israel that Israel has killed the October 336 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:21,200 Speaker 1: seventh mastermind It is interesting it took them about a 337 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:23,600 Speaker 1: year to do that. It's something that we in this 338 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 1: country have still not accomplished. Since nine to eleven, the 339 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:30,400 Speaker 1: mastermind of nine to eleven, Khalid Sheik Muhammad, has still 340 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:33,440 Speaker 1: not been executed, even though we have him in our custody. 341 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 1: Many Democrats have tried to give him a plea deal 342 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 1: to save his life, which was a major point that 343 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,879 Speaker 1: we talked about. And we're able to at least stop 344 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 1: that deal from taking place because of so many listeners 345 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 1: that were outraged by the decision by the Biden Harris 346 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,240 Speaker 1: administration to give him a deal as the mastermind of 347 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:55,200 Speaker 1: nine to eleven. Israel said, yeah, we're not going to 348 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 1: do that. We're not going to do that at all. 349 00:20:58,280 --> 00:20:59,720 Speaker 1: In fact, what we're going to do is we're going 350 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 1: to kill the leader of Hamas that planned this attack. 351 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:09,199 Speaker 1: And they did it today and told the world, yeah, 352 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:12,159 Speaker 1: we're not messing around. We're taking out everybody that was 353 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:16,040 Speaker 1: involved in this attack on innocent civilians and those that 354 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:16,960 Speaker 1: took hostages. 355 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 2: Look that that is exactly right. And I will say 356 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 2: this is a very very good day for Israel. It's 357 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 2: a very good day for America. The Hamas leader Sinhoar 358 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 2: hated America, was responsible for American deaths, and it's a 359 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 2: good day for justice. And here I want you to 360 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:42,040 Speaker 2: listen to the coverage when the Israeli foreign minister confirms 361 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 2: that the Hamas leader is dead. Give a listen, does. 362 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:48,920 Speaker 4: A Fox News alert. Reuters is now reporting that Israel's 363 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 4: foreign minister has just confirmed the death of Hamas leader 364 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 4: Yaya Sinhwar. Ya Ya Sinhwar was responsible and the mastermind 365 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:02,959 Speaker 4: between the vicious October seventh attack that was the deadliest 366 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:07,399 Speaker 4: attack on Jews since the Holocaust. And Reuters is reporting 367 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 4: at Israeli conficials who were analyzing his dental records that 368 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:14,120 Speaker 4: he is in fact dead. We go to Trey yankst 369 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 4: and Haifa Israel with more on this developing story. Trade. 370 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, guys, good afternoon. According to reports, the leader of Hamas, 371 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:26,439 Speaker 3: Yakya Sinoar, is dead. We cannot independently confirm this, and 372 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 3: I'm going to. 373 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:27,440 Speaker 2: Tell you why. 374 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 3: There are two things ongoing at the moment. Israeli officials 375 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:34,000 Speaker 3: are using dental records and they are using DNA to 376 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:38,000 Speaker 3: try to match Jakya Sinoar's DNA to DNA. The Israelis 377 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:41,080 Speaker 3: have in their file the dental records match, but we 378 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:43,880 Speaker 3: are waiting to report until the DNA test comes back. 379 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:47,200 Speaker 3: Just given how high profile this figure is. But again, 380 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 3: according to reports attributed to Israel's Foreign Minister Israel Katz, 381 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:55,919 Speaker 3: Yakya Sinhwar is dead. This follows in Israeli operation in 382 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 3: southern Gaza today, reportedly in the city of Rafa, Gaza's 383 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:03,160 Speaker 3: third life largest city that sits next to the Egyptian border. 384 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 3: This was not a planned intelligence operation, according to officials, 385 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:11,880 Speaker 3: but rather a ground patrol that intercepted movement in southern Gaza. Ultimately, 386 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:15,640 Speaker 3: Israeli forces reportedly fired on that movement and among the 387 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 3: cell of Hamas militants was the leader, yak Ya Sinoir 388 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,639 Speaker 3: now Sinoar is a man who has been at the 389 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:24,679 Speaker 3: top of the Israeli target list since October seventh. He 390 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 3: is one of three masterminds behind the massacre, along with 391 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,840 Speaker 3: Mohammed death, a man who was killed in an Israeli 392 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:34,240 Speaker 3: airstrike earlier this year, and Ismael Khania, a man who 393 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,919 Speaker 3: was killed in an explosion in the Iranian capital of 394 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:40,040 Speaker 3: Tehran over the summer. So now that this is confirmed, 395 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:43,479 Speaker 3: the three masterminds behind the massacre are dead now. Sinowar 396 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 3: spent twenty two years in an Israeli prison. He was 397 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:48,880 Speaker 3: released back in twenty eleven as part of a prisoner 398 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 3: swap deal for one single Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit. Shalit 399 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 3: was exchanged for more than a thousand Palestinian prisoners now. 400 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,199 Speaker 3: When Sinoir went back to Gaza, he was appointed to 401 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 3: a defense minister level position among Hamas's Al Klassam Brigades, 402 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,720 Speaker 3: the military wing of Hamas, and then ultimately later took 403 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 3: over as the leader of Hamas inside Gaza. The last 404 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 3: time that I saw Sinoir was in twenty twenty one. 405 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 3: The month was May and he was giving a rally 406 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:17,679 Speaker 3: where an infamous photo of him was taken holding a 407 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 3: Palestinian child who was dressed as a member of the 408 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 3: Al Klassan Brigades. Sinwar is someone who has devoted his 409 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 3: life to killing Israelis, despite the fact that the Israelis 410 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:30,680 Speaker 3: actually saved his life during brain surgery on him in 411 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 3: the early two thousands. While he was still in prison, 412 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,119 Speaker 3: and following the October seventh massacre, he had been hiding 413 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,920 Speaker 3: in the tunnel network beneath Gaza. Some of the Israeli 414 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 3: hostages who were released as part of the November Seas 415 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,920 Speaker 3: fire deal back in twenty twenty three reported meeting him 416 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:46,879 Speaker 3: in the tunnels beneath Gaza City. 417 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:47,960 Speaker 4: And so this is. 418 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:51,360 Speaker 3: Significant news and an indication that the Israelis will continue 419 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 3: to pick off the remaining Hamas leaders that exist still 420 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 3: inside Gaza. They have destroyed the battalions within the Gaza Strip, 421 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:01,199 Speaker 3: but the question remains what does this mean for the 422 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,720 Speaker 3: remaining Israeli hostages inside Gaza. One hundred and one of 423 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,439 Speaker 3: them are there, around half of them are estimated to 424 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 3: be alive. And Israeli sources are texting now they are 425 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 3: talking about this news that is taking place. We do 426 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 3: expect to hear from Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Nettan Yahou 427 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 3: later tonight Israel time. And the Israelis, according to this source, 428 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 3: are in communication with their American counterparts to discuss the 429 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,880 Speaker 3: operation that took place today. Again, according to our reporting, 430 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,240 Speaker 3: this was not a planned operation, but rather one that 431 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:35,520 Speaker 3: took place after movement was identified inside the Gaza Strip. Again, 432 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:38,720 Speaker 3: the latest information that we have attributable to reports. We 433 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 3: are waiting for DNA evidence is that Jakio Sinoar, the 434 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:43,320 Speaker 3: leader of Hamas, is dead. 435 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:47,720 Speaker 1: Guys, I mean, this is incredible news. And I loved 436 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:52,040 Speaker 1: how steadfast and who has been Yes. 437 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:58,920 Speaker 2: So two observations Number one on yet another issue, Kamala 438 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:04,880 Speaker 2: Harris was wrong. Remember, Kamala Harris has been opposing Israel, 439 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:15,520 Speaker 2: continuing to fight to eliminate Hamas. Harris was explicit urging Israel, 440 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:19,399 Speaker 2: opposing Israel going on the offensive in Rafa, and she 441 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:21,520 Speaker 2: claimed to be an expert. She claimed to know that 442 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 2: nothing could be accomplished, and what happened today proved that wrong. 443 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,200 Speaker 2: I want you to listen to a flashback of Kamala 444 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,760 Speaker 2: in March of twenty twenty four when she's claiming to 445 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:34,879 Speaker 2: know that going into Rafa is going to be a mistake. 446 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:42,639 Speaker 5: We have been clear in multiple conversations and in every 447 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 5: way that any major military operation in Rafa would be 448 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 5: a huge mistake. Let me tell you something. I have 449 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,680 Speaker 5: studied the maps. There's nowhere for those folks to go. 450 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,400 Speaker 5: And we're looking at about a million and a half 451 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,440 Speaker 5: people in Rafa who are there because they were told 452 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 5: to go there, most of them. And so we've been 453 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:07,680 Speaker 5: very clear that it would be a mistake to move 454 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:11,080 Speaker 5: into Rafa with any type of military operation, a mistake. 455 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:14,479 Speaker 5: But would there be consequences if he does move forward? 456 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:16,600 Speaker 5: But we're going to take it one step at a time. 457 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,720 Speaker 5: But we've been very clear in terms of our perspective 458 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:20,040 Speaker 5: on whether or not that should happen. 459 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,280 Speaker 3: Are you ruling out that there would be consequences from 460 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:23,119 Speaker 3: the United States? 461 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,480 Speaker 5: I am ruling out nothing. 462 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:31,399 Speaker 2: Wow. Well, once again, Kamala Harris was wrong. She was wrong. 463 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 2: She was threatening Israel with consequences. And to be clear, 464 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:39,400 Speaker 2: she and Joe Biden cut off critical weapons to Israel 465 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:43,920 Speaker 2: and have been pressuring and undermining Israel at every stage 466 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 2: since October seventh and long before that. She was categorically wrong. 467 00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:51,280 Speaker 2: And I'll tell you the real consequences. The consequences were 468 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 2: for Sinoar And this is the final point that I 469 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:57,159 Speaker 2: want to wrap up the podcast with. You know, it 470 00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:58,919 Speaker 2: was twelve years ago that I was elected to the 471 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 2: Senate and when I came into the Senate at the time, 472 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 2: I resolved to be the leading defender of Israel in 473 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:07,760 Speaker 2: the Senate. And I got to tell you a lot 474 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,879 Speaker 2: of times people ask me, how on earth did it 475 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:18,000 Speaker 2: come to pass that a Cuban Texan Southern Baptist would 476 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,320 Speaker 2: end up the leading defender of Israel in the United 477 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,159 Speaker 2: States Senate. And there are a lot of reasons, but 478 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,000 Speaker 2: one of the fundamental reasons that I've described this before 479 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:30,440 Speaker 2: is I was a little kid when the nteby Rate happened. 480 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,240 Speaker 2: I was I think five years old, and listen, I 481 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,159 Speaker 2: didn't understand in detail what happened in the Ntebe raid, 482 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 2: but it made an impression on me as a child. 483 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,800 Speaker 2: And my understanding of the ntevy Rate at the time 484 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:47,480 Speaker 2: was the people of Israel were saying, if you take 485 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 2: our citizens hostage, our citizens might die, but you are 486 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 2: going to die. And I got to say, ben as 487 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:00,720 Speaker 2: a five year old, that struck me as a very 488 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:05,080 Speaker 2: techan foreign policy. There was a clarity to that. And 489 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:08,680 Speaker 2: I got to say, the three masterminds of October seventh, 490 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,960 Speaker 2: including Sinwar, the head of hamas well, they've gone to 491 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,800 Speaker 2: meet their seventy two virgins, and I think they're disappointed 492 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 2: with what they found. And there is an absolute seriousness 493 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:23,120 Speaker 2: with which Benjamin Netanyaho in the Nation of Israel takes 494 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 2: protecting themselves, protecting their citizens, protecting their safety defeating Hamas, 495 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 2: defeating Hezbola, and that is good for America, good for Israel, 496 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 2: good for the world, and cause for celebration. 497 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 1: As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with center 498 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:41,920 Speaker 1: Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you don't forget to deal 499 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,240 Speaker 1: with my podcast and you can listen to my podcast 500 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 1: every other day you're not listening to Verdict or each 501 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 1: day when you listen to Verdict. Afterwards, I'd love to 502 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 1: have you as a listener to again the Ben Ferguson podcasts, 503 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,400 Speaker 1: and we will see you back here on Monday morning.