1
00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:05,560
Speaker 1: Welcome in is Verdict with Ted Cruz Weekend Review, Ben

2
00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:07,640
Speaker 1: Ferguson with you, and these are the stories that you

3
00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:09,880
Speaker 1: may have missed that we talked about this past week.

4
00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:14,600
Speaker 1: First up, Democrats, including the governor of Illinois. They're going

5
00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:18,439
Speaker 1: all in to defend their criminals and their cities that

6
00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:22,280
Speaker 1: are ruining it. So what is behind this logic? We're

7
00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:25,680
Speaker 1: going to break it down for you. Also, DC's getting

8
00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:28,520
Speaker 1: cleaned up and now we have the Clean DC Act,

9
00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:31,320
Speaker 1: and why other cities mayow to look at the exact

10
00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:36,800
Speaker 1: same blueprint. And finally, one hundred and seventeen narco terrace

11
00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:40,239
Speaker 1: caught in New England, all of them a part of

12
00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:44,640
Speaker 1: one major narcos gang. It's a week in review and

13
00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:48,520
Speaker 1: it starts right now, which centater brings us to part

14
00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,880
Speaker 1: two of this conversation. Let's bring it back home. JD.

15
00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:56,200
Speaker 1: Pritzker is a interesting man. He's got a lot of money.

16
00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:00,320
Speaker 1: He's a governor, and he thinks he's succeeding at fighting crime.

17
00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:05,039
Speaker 1: But getting illegal immigrant killers and rapists off our streets

18
00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:08,520
Speaker 1: is quote unquote dangerous, he says. And now it is

19
00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:12,080
Speaker 1: apparently anti American. Tie that into your trip to Mexico.

20
00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:14,520
Speaker 1: I mean, you want to talk about to people the

21
00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:16,480
Speaker 1: kid gotten together and had one heck of a lunch.

22
00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:18,360
Speaker 1: The people you met with with JD, they'd be like

23
00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:19,680
Speaker 1: kumbayayeing this stuff.

24
00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:20,840
Speaker 2: Well.

25
00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:21,160
Speaker 1: JB.

26
00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:25,520
Speaker 3: Pritzker, he is a billionaire, like many Democrat billionaires. He

27
00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:29,200
Speaker 3: did not make his money. He inherited it. He inherited

28
00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:32,120
Speaker 3: a vast fortune. And he's now the governor of Illinois

29
00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,399
Speaker 3: and presiding over a state where the people are fleeing,

30
00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:37,720
Speaker 3: a state where crime is out of control, where left

31
00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:45,200
Speaker 3: wing policies are are an absolute disaster, and it's striking.

32
00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:50,760
Speaker 3: He has the same reality denying vision. Gavin Newsom has

33
00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:52,760
Speaker 3: the same thing in California where they both You know,

34
00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:55,840
Speaker 3: it reminds me of that meme of the dumpster burning

35
00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:58,040
Speaker 3: in the background and saying, you know, everything's fine here.

36
00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:01,919
Speaker 3: That that is today's demoics just telling you don't believe

37
00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:04,120
Speaker 3: you're lying eyes. Just make sure to duck the bullets

38
00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:05,920
Speaker 3: when you're in your living room. But everything other than

39
00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:06,520
Speaker 3: that is great.

40
00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:07,880
Speaker 1: JB.

41
00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,639
Speaker 3: Pritzer says he's succeeding at fighting violent crime in Chicago,

42
00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:14,840
Speaker 3: and you're right, it is reminiscent of these Mexican government

43
00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:17,040
Speaker 3: leaders who said they're handling it just fine. Look at

44
00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:18,799
Speaker 3: the great progress they're making, and you look at the

45
00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:23,080
Speaker 3: cartels who are murdering Mexicans with impunity and who are

46
00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:25,440
Speaker 3: committing vast numbers of crime in the United States here

47
00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:27,960
Speaker 3: give a listen to JB. Prisker, Governor Illinois.

48
00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:32,560
Speaker 4: What we won't do, however, is engage in what is

49
00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:37,080
Speaker 4: a federal effort. That is to say, they have their

50
00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:41,040
Speaker 4: job immigration. We have our job, which is to fight

51
00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:44,160
Speaker 4: violent crime on the streets of our city. And by

52
00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:46,400
Speaker 4: the way, we're succeeding at that job. But when they

53
00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:49,200
Speaker 4: bring people in and don't coordinate with us, they're going

54
00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:50,880
Speaker 4: to cause enormous problems.

55
00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:54,240
Speaker 1: So going to cause enormous problems they're center. I mean,

56
00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:55,760
Speaker 1: if that doesn't sound like a threat, I don't know

57
00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:56,120
Speaker 1: what is.

58
00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:57,000
Speaker 5: So.

59
00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:00,920
Speaker 3: Pritzker claims he is succeeding at fighting violent crime in Chicago.

60
00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:05,520
Speaker 3: Chicago has had the most murders of any American city

61
00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:10,000
Speaker 3: for thirteen consecutive years thirteen years in a row. Chicago

62
00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:13,720
Speaker 3: is number one. Chicago's murder rate is three times higher

63
00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,360
Speaker 3: than Los Angeles. It is five times higher than New

64
00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:21,440
Speaker 3: York City. It is two times higher than Islamabad, that

65
00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:26,000
Speaker 3: it is fifteen times higher than Delhi. And the answer

66
00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:30,320
Speaker 3: to a billionaire Democrat who is surrounded by police officers

67
00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:32,480
Speaker 3: at all times, so he's not worried about being mugged

68
00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,320
Speaker 3: on the streets of Chicago. That's not a threat he's facing.

69
00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:38,120
Speaker 3: He says, we've got the highest murder rate in America.

70
00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:42,600
Speaker 3: We're succeeding. This is Democrats success, you know. But he

71
00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:49,560
Speaker 3: goes even further. He expresses great dismay that if President

72
00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:53,120
Speaker 3: Trump is successful in turning around crime in Chicago, that

73
00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:55,160
Speaker 3: would be a bad thing. Listen to the second clip.

74
00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:58,680
Speaker 4: So this is dangerous. They shouldn't be doing it. It's

75
00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:03,040
Speaker 4: anti American American, and I would tell her to maybe

76
00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:07,000
Speaker 4: check herself for what does she really believe?

77
00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:10,960
Speaker 1: Nothing says we're fighting crime like threatening the woman who's

78
00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,800
Speaker 1: out there in Department of Homescurity Secretary Nome and saying

79
00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:16,159
Speaker 1: you need to check yourself right and saying it's dangerous

80
00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:19,320
Speaker 1: and un American and anti American to go after a

81
00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:21,279
Speaker 1: legal American killers and rapists.

82
00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:26,440
Speaker 3: It's stunning. The Democrats are becoming more and more open

83
00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:30,280
Speaker 3: that if they have a conflict between a murderer and

84
00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:33,400
Speaker 3: a victim, if they have a conflict between a Venezuelan

85
00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,280
Speaker 3: gang member and an innocent American citizen, if they have

86
00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:39,680
Speaker 3: a conflict between a rapist and a single mom, if

87
00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:43,800
Speaker 3: they have a conflict between a violent sexual predator and

88
00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:48,480
Speaker 3: your children, the Democrats will pick the criminal every single time.

89
00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:52,159
Speaker 3: They're not even pretending anymore to go after those criminals.

90
00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:57,200
Speaker 3: Democrat Governor Pritzker says is dangerous, anti American and un American,

91
00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:00,440
Speaker 3: and I think the American people are getting fed up.

92
00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,359
Speaker 3: You know, there was a new poll from ap slash

93
00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:08,800
Speaker 3: NRC that found that a large majority of Americans sixty

94
00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:12,800
Speaker 3: eight percent, see crime as a major problem in large cities,

95
00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:16,280
Speaker 3: and the approach of the Democrat Party is they're not

96
00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,200
Speaker 3: going to do anything about it. In fact, the highest

97
00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,960
Speaker 3: murder rate in the US they describe as a success.

98
00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:27,160
Speaker 3: And what it is, it's reminiscent of the leadership in

99
00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:29,360
Speaker 3: Al Salvador when they had the highest murder rate in

100
00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:31,240
Speaker 3: the world, and they describe what they were doing as

101
00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,440
Speaker 3: a success. And the only answer is new political leadership

102
00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:38,200
Speaker 3: that actually says keeping our citizens safe is our number

103
00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:41,160
Speaker 3: one priority and we're going to do so. We've seen

104
00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:44,320
Speaker 3: what happens when President Trump does so in the United

105
00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:47,280
Speaker 3: States and the border is immediately secured. We had a

106
00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:50,680
Speaker 3: ninety nine percent decrease in illegal crossings. We saw what

107
00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,640
Speaker 3: happened with President bucell in El Salvador, where they had

108
00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:57,920
Speaker 3: a ninety eight percent drop in homicides. Ironically, we saw

109
00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:01,680
Speaker 3: what happened in San Francisco, and she came to San

110
00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:04,839
Speaker 3: Francisco and Gavin Newsom immediately cleaned up San Francisco, removed

111
00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:07,320
Speaker 3: the homeless people, took the junkies off the street, and

112
00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:11,040
Speaker 3: cleaned up the human feces off the street, all of

113
00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:13,479
Speaker 3: which demonstrates they know how to do so. If they

114
00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:17,440
Speaker 3: could do so on Monday, they could do so on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,

115
00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:21,600
Speaker 3: Saturday and Sunday. The reason they don't, the reason the

116
00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:25,560
Speaker 3: crime persists, the reason your family is threatened, is because

117
00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:29,080
Speaker 3: the Democrats politically, their ideology, they think it's better to

118
00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:32,200
Speaker 3: side with the criminals than it is with you and

119
00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:36,680
Speaker 3: that I don't get that, but that's where we are,

120
00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:39,360
Speaker 3: and I do think it's part of the reason we

121
00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:43,160
Speaker 3: see today's Democrat party getting more and more extreme and

122
00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:46,520
Speaker 3: appealing to a smaller and smaller sliver of our society.

123
00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:50,440
Speaker 1: Final question on this, I believe now that the Democratic

124
00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:53,240
Speaker 1: Party is in such shambles that they don't even know

125
00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:55,479
Speaker 1: how to get out of this. There is no real leader.

126
00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,240
Speaker 1: We're being told Obama's coming back and going to like

127
00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:01,120
Speaker 1: quote start mentoring people in the Democratic Party. That's how

128
00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:04,520
Speaker 1: desperate they are. The same guy that's the godfather, as

129
00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:07,280
Speaker 1: I described it on Laura Ingram's show on Fox Friday Night,

130
00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:11,640
Speaker 1: as the godfather of this type of insandi and anarchy.

131
00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,920
Speaker 1: He's the that created the aocs of the party and

132
00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:18,840
Speaker 1: gave them power. And so you look at the Democratic

133
00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:21,200
Speaker 1: Party now. I don't want to be over confident, but

134
00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:23,280
Speaker 1: what I do want to say is I feel like

135
00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,040
Speaker 1: these midterms may actually be a big opportunity for Republican

136
00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:29,040
Speaker 1: candidates coming up. Usually you give up seats when you

137
00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:32,720
Speaker 1: have all three branches in the midterms. There's a chance

138
00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:35,559
Speaker 1: this could actually work out for concernis, as you mentioned,

139
00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:38,800
Speaker 1: because the voters are so sick and tired of the

140
00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:41,880
Speaker 1: left not keeping them safe. It's not even about the economy,

141
00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:43,120
Speaker 1: It's about safety.

142
00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:44,120
Speaker 2: Yeah.

143
00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:47,640
Speaker 3: Look, I hope so Ben, I'll confess I'm significantly more

144
00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,760
Speaker 3: worried than you. We've got cross cutting forces for the midterms.

145
00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:55,239
Speaker 3: On the positive side, for Republicans, the Democrats have gotten

146
00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:59,360
Speaker 3: so extreme, so whack job out there that it seems

147
00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:01,480
Speaker 3: like they took a list of a dozen eighty twenty

148
00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:03,640
Speaker 3: issues and they said, let's take the twenty percent side

149
00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:05,920
Speaker 3: of all of them. And in some instances they've even

150
00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:08,800
Speaker 3: taken ninety ten issues and said, let's appeal to the

151
00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:12,480
Speaker 3: smallest liver of America we can. Generally speaking, that is

152
00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:16,680
Speaker 3: a really bad political strategy, so that augurs in our favor.

153
00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:20,400
Speaker 3: On the other side, we have a real enthusiasm gap,

154
00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:23,240
Speaker 3: and this worries me about the midterms, which is an

155
00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:26,320
Speaker 3: awful lot of Americans are really happy with the success

156
00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,400
Speaker 3: we've seen in the first eight months of twenty twenty five.

157
00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:33,280
Speaker 3: President Trump has been winning major victories. The danger is

158
00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:37,600
Speaker 3: that when people are happy, when they're seeing success, they're complacent,

159
00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:40,240
Speaker 3: they stay home. I'll tell you what. The left is

160
00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:43,040
Speaker 3: not complacent. They are in rage. They are out raising

161
00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:47,599
Speaker 3: Republicans three to one. They hate Donald Trump. And we

162
00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:50,080
Speaker 3: saw we just saw a special election in Iowa state

163
00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:54,360
Speaker 3: senator seat that Trump had won that district by eleven points.

164
00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:58,040
Speaker 3: They just elected a Democrat state senator in that district

165
00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:01,240
Speaker 3: that I believe was an enthusiasm gap. That the left

166
00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:05,000
Speaker 3: is motivated by rage and hate, and that means that

167
00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:07,959
Speaker 3: they are definitely showing up. And it's our job to

168
00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:12,160
Speaker 3: make sure that that the common sense majority of this

169
00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:16,440
Speaker 3: country is not complacent but realizes if we don't show

170
00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:18,920
Speaker 3: up to defend what we've got, that that's how you

171
00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:22,160
Speaker 3: get these whack jobs elected in the first place.

172
00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:24,840
Speaker 1: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,

173
00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:27,439
Speaker 1: you can go back and listen to the full podcast

174
00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:31,920
Speaker 1: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two. All Right, Senaer,

175
00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,040
Speaker 1: I want to bring it back home to something, and

176
00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:37,640
Speaker 1: you talk about cleaning things up. That's what President Trump

177
00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:40,040
Speaker 1: has said he's going to do with the terrorists, uh

178
00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:42,599
Speaker 1: and those that are bringing drugs in this country. But

179
00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:46,280
Speaker 1: he's also doing big things in different cities. And now

180
00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:50,920
Speaker 1: you have introduced the Clean DC Act. Explain to us

181
00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:51,640
Speaker 1: what this is.

182
00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:54,679
Speaker 3: Well, the principle is very much the same as we

183
00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:57,920
Speaker 3: were talking about in foreign policy with the terrorists, which

184
00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:03,240
Speaker 3: is when you react with weakness, the result is domestically,

185
00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,000
Speaker 3: you get more and more crime. When you react with weakness, abroad.

186
00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:09,320
Speaker 3: The result is internationally, you get more and more terrorism

187
00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:13,080
Speaker 3: and more and more enemies attacking. The converse is true

188
00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:16,800
Speaker 3: when you react with strength with regard to crime. When

189
00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:19,319
Speaker 3: you lock up murderers and rapists and child molesters, you

190
00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:23,120
Speaker 3: get fewer violent crimes number one because of deterrence. Number two,

191
00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:25,320
Speaker 3: because of prevention, you get the bad guys off the street.

192
00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:29,120
Speaker 3: In DC, the murder rate has consistently been one of

193
00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:31,800
Speaker 3: the highest in the entire country. Among large cities. It

194
00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:36,280
Speaker 3: is twenty seven homicides per one hundred thousand residents each year.

195
00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:41,000
Speaker 3: That is higher than Bogota, Columbia, DC. Not only that,

196
00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:43,760
Speaker 3: but if you look at at vehicle theft, vehicle theft

197
00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:46,800
Speaker 3: is eight hundred and forty two per one hundred thousand residents,

198
00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:51,160
Speaker 3: which is three times the national average, and carjackings have

199
00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:54,120
Speaker 3: tripled in recent years. I'll tell you actually, one time

200
00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:56,839
Speaker 3: I was filming several years ago, I was filming Verdict.

201
00:10:57,120 --> 00:10:59,480
Speaker 3: It was a little past midnight, and we had our

202
00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:01,480
Speaker 3: truck warked on the street. I was in the studio

203
00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:05,400
Speaker 3: filming it. The truck was broken into and my briefcase

204
00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:08,360
Speaker 3: was stolen on the streets of d C. If you

205
00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:10,640
Speaker 3: look at d C, which is our nation's capital. You've

206
00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:13,880
Speaker 3: got elected representatives and staff from all fifty states, from

207
00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:17,199
Speaker 3: all over the country. We had earlier this year we

208
00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:19,800
Speaker 3: had a staffer from the White House from DOGE who

209
00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:23,040
Speaker 3: was violently assaulted in d C, beaten up by ten

210
00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:28,160
Speaker 3: juvenile offenders. We had we hadn't in recent years. We

211
00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:32,360
Speaker 3: had a staffer for rand Paul who was stabbed in

212
00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:34,520
Speaker 3: the middle of the afternoon on d C Street. We

213
00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:37,559
Speaker 3: had a former official in the first Trump administration who

214
00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:40,439
Speaker 3: was shot and killed at five o'clock in the afternoon,

215
00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:43,320
Speaker 3: parked in his car on d C Street. The violence

216
00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:47,160
Speaker 3: is out of control, and it was made worse by

217
00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:49,760
Speaker 3: a twenty twenty two law. Twenty twenty two law in

218
00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:53,480
Speaker 3: the wake of the George Floyd killing in the Black

219
00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:58,240
Speaker 3: Lives Matter protest, when when anti police fervor was driving

220
00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:01,560
Speaker 3: the left crazy, the DC City Council and the DC

221
00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:04,960
Speaker 3: Mayor came in and they passed a law that lessened

222
00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:08,200
Speaker 3: the penalties for violent crimes almost entirely across the board.

223
00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:10,800
Speaker 3: They lessened the penalty for murder, they lessened the penalty

224
00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:14,839
Speaker 3: for carjacking, they lessened the penalty for violent assault, and

225
00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:19,160
Speaker 3: the effect, understandably was those crimes all increased. If you

226
00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:22,679
Speaker 3: lessen the penalty for violent crime, the crimes increase. And

227
00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:26,520
Speaker 3: this is the thing that the left doesn't understand. We

228
00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:31,000
Speaker 3: saw a Democrat Congressman Henry Quaar from Texas, who was

229
00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:34,040
Speaker 3: carjacked in his car at about eight or nine o'clock

230
00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,240
Speaker 3: at night. He was coming home with his dinner and

231
00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:38,679
Speaker 3: he was carjacked outside an apartment building that, if I

232
00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:42,960
Speaker 3: remember correctly, five other congressmen lived in. That's how bad

233
00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,120
Speaker 3: it was. Now, I will tell you in the past Congress,

234
00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:50,200
Speaker 3: Congress took up legislation to reverse that twenty twenty two law.

235
00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,120
Speaker 3: It passed the House, and it passed the Senate, and

236
00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:56,400
Speaker 3: then Joe Biden vetoed it. Joe Biden decided, all right,

237
00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:59,240
Speaker 3: we're not going to let this go into effect. Well,

238
00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:02,319
Speaker 3: i've it or again. Legislation that is called the Clean

239
00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:05,000
Speaker 3: d C Act, and the Clean d C Act is

240
00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:10,959
Speaker 3: very simple. It is designed to repeal the twenty twenty

241
00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:15,240
Speaker 3: two law lessening the penalty for violent crimes. And the

242
00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:18,360
Speaker 3: Clean d C Act we're pushing for a vote. I

243
00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:20,800
Speaker 3: think the House may vote on it as soon as

244
00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:23,360
Speaker 3: the next week or two I'll tell you the Clean

245
00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:26,000
Speaker 3: d C Act. It's supported by the DC Police Union,

246
00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:28,880
Speaker 3: it's supported by the Fraternal Order of the Police, and

247
00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,760
Speaker 3: it's a good opportunity. I think every member of Congress,

248
00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:36,200
Speaker 3: every Democrat, every House member, needs to decide, Okay, where

249
00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:38,720
Speaker 3: do you stand? Do you stand with the violent criminals?

250
00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:40,240
Speaker 3: Do you stand with the murderers, do you stand with

251
00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:42,520
Speaker 3: a rapist? Will you do you stand with the carjackers?

252
00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:47,360
Speaker 3: Or do you stand with the citizens of America? That

253
00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:49,760
Speaker 3: ought to be an easy vote, although sadly I'm going

254
00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:51,880
Speaker 3: to predict I think an awful lot of Democrats are

255
00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:52,920
Speaker 3: going to vote with criminals.

256
00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:57,520
Speaker 1: Yeah. It really does tell you where the Democrats mindset

257
00:13:57,679 --> 00:13:59,880
Speaker 1: is right now, where they can't even agree that criminals

258
00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:03,439
Speaker 1: should be held accountable. And it also just tells you

259
00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:06,360
Speaker 1: about how sinister they are, which brings us to our

260
00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:10,720
Speaker 1: final story. The idea that because the president wasn't seen

261
00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:13,160
Speaker 1: like twenty four to seven, totally different than Joe Biden

262
00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:15,360
Speaker 1: when he was president, by the way, but somehow he

263
00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:19,320
Speaker 1: was dead was a trend on social media and Democrats

264
00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:20,640
Speaker 1: were celebrating it.

265
00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:21,880
Speaker 2: Now.

266
00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:25,320
Speaker 3: It really was bizarre. The left was losing their mind

267
00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:28,360
Speaker 3: because a couple of days, President Trump hadn't done a

268
00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:32,880
Speaker 3: public event, and so suddenly the left, they were so excited,

269
00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:37,240
Speaker 3: they were so excited that, oh, this means Trump is

270
00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:39,600
Speaker 3: really sick. He's in the hospital, he's at a stroke,

271
00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:43,160
Speaker 3: he's dead. You know, Andrew Yang, you remember the Democratic

272
00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:47,400
Speaker 3: ran for president. He tweeted out, quote, I would be

273
00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:50,560
Speaker 3: pumped to have a president whose physical vitality or mental

274
00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:55,800
Speaker 3: fitness wasn't an ongoing issue or concern. It's like, what,

275
00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:58,920
Speaker 3: where the hell were the Democrats during the last four

276
00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:02,560
Speaker 3: years of Joe Biden. The man was almost publicly in

277
00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:06,600
Speaker 3: a coma for four years. He was drooling and coloring

278
00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:09,640
Speaker 3: with crayons. And the Democrats are like, nothing to see here, No, no, no,

279
00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:13,120
Speaker 3: it's perfectly fine. Yes, we have a White House staffer

280
00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:16,680
Speaker 3: we dress as a giant Easter bunny to lead him away,

281
00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:18,800
Speaker 3: to keep him out of trouble. But there's nothing to

282
00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:22,760
Speaker 3: see here. And I got to say so. So today

283
00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:25,280
Speaker 3: President Trump was asked about this by Peter Doucy, and

284
00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:27,920
Speaker 3: in fact, Peter Deucy asked about the stories that he'd

285
00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,160
Speaker 3: been dead. Listen to the exchange between Peter Doucy and

286
00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:35,000
Speaker 3: President Trump about a big viral social media trend over

287
00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:35,520
Speaker 3: the weekend.

288
00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:38,640
Speaker 1: How did you find out over the weekend that you

289
00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:39,120
Speaker 1: were dead?

290
00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:42,920
Speaker 2: Do you see that? No, people didn't see him for

291
00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:43,440
Speaker 2: a couple of days.

292
00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:46,640
Speaker 4: One point three million user engagements as of Saturday morning

293
00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:47,840
Speaker 4: about your demise.

294
00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:51,280
Speaker 2: Really, I didn't see that, you know, I have heard

295
00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:52,680
Speaker 2: it's sort of crazy.

296
00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:56,480
Speaker 6: But last week I did numerous news conferences, all successful.

297
00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:58,800
Speaker 2: They went very well, like this is going very well.

298
00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:02,040
Speaker 6: And then I didn't do any for two days, and

299
00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:04,440
Speaker 6: they said there must be something wrong with him.

300
00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:06,440
Speaker 2: Biden wouldn't do him for months.

301
00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:09,240
Speaker 6: You wouldn't see him, and nobody ever said there was

302
00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:11,720
Speaker 6: ever anything wrong with him, and we know he wasn't

303
00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:12,840
Speaker 6: in the greatest of shape.

304
00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:16,440
Speaker 2: No, I heard that. I get reports, now you knew.

305
00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:18,800
Speaker 6: I did an interview that lasted for about an hour

306
00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:21,280
Speaker 6: and a half with somebody and everybody, So that was

307
00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:26,040
Speaker 6: on one of your competitors. I did numerous shows and

308
00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:29,480
Speaker 6: also did a number of truths, long truth so I

309
00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:31,760
Speaker 6: think pretty poignant truth now.

310
00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:33,240
Speaker 2: I was very active over the weekend.

311
00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:36,000
Speaker 6: They also went out to visit some people at the

312
00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:40,320
Speaker 6: club that I own pretty nearby on the Potomac River,

313
00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:43,680
Speaker 6: and now I've been very active actually over the weekend.

314
00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:47,120
Speaker 2: I didn't hear that one. That's pretty serious. Well, it's

315
00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:47,800
Speaker 2: fake news, you.

316
00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:51,400
Speaker 6: Know, it's just so it's so fake. That's why the

317
00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:56,160
Speaker 6: media has so little credibility. I knew that you were saying, like,

318
00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:58,200
Speaker 6: is he okay, how's he feeling?

319
00:16:58,320 --> 00:16:58,800
Speaker 2: What's wrong?

320
00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:02,320
Speaker 6: I said, just left. And it's also sort of a

321
00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:05,119
Speaker 6: longer weekend. You know, it's Labor Day weekend, so I

322
00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:06,760
Speaker 6: would say a lot of people. No, I was very

323
00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:09,560
Speaker 6: active this Labor Day. I had heard that, but I

324
00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:10,760
Speaker 6: didn't hear to that extent.

325
00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:14,320
Speaker 1: I love how the president just trolls the media on

326
00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:16,399
Speaker 1: this one, like, yeah, you guys are a bunch of scumbags,

327
00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:18,159
Speaker 1: and I'm not surprised that this is what you did.

328
00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:21,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, look, it was absurd. I mean, this president,

329
00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:25,400
Speaker 3: you can disagree with him on substance, you can disagree

330
00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:28,399
Speaker 3: with him on style, but the man has enormous energy.

331
00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:30,720
Speaker 3: I mean, if you look at the first seven months

332
00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:33,399
Speaker 3: of this administration, I think there's been no administration or

333
00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:38,040
Speaker 3: a lifetime that has had more velocity and volume and action.

334
00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:40,879
Speaker 3: And it has been incredible. And this president he is

335
00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,280
Speaker 3: going this weekend. Actually, President Trump called me. I talked

336
00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:46,000
Speaker 3: to him this weekend. He was in great spirits.

337
00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:49,520
Speaker 1: We were talking talking Jim while he was dead but alive.

338
00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:52,160
Speaker 3: Oh yes, breaking, yeah, yeah. And oddly enough, I didn't

339
00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:54,040
Speaker 3: have a Ouiji board. I didn't have to do a seance,

340
00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:55,879
Speaker 3: and he was kind of and it was we were

341
00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:57,800
Speaker 3: not talking about are you are right? He was key

342
00:17:57,920 --> 00:17:59,280
Speaker 3: called me on an issue that he and I had

343
00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:01,200
Speaker 3: been working on, so he had a substance of conversation.

344
00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:04,919
Speaker 3: You know, today the President announced that there was going

345
00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:07,200
Speaker 3: to be a White House address at two o'clock and

346
00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:11,960
Speaker 3: I got to say, Twitter went crazy with anticipation, and

347
00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:15,680
Speaker 3: I think people expected them to announce. Okay, President Trump

348
00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:19,160
Speaker 3: is dead. He's entered a permanent vegetative state. He's resigning,

349
00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:23,840
Speaker 3: like like the left was. They were beside themselves, but

350
00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:27,439
Speaker 3: particularly egregious. I want you to listen to Tim Waltz.

351
00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:31,679
Speaker 3: Tim Waltz is the governor of Minnesota. He's a weird dude,

352
00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:34,960
Speaker 3: and and you'll remember, for like twelve seconds, he was

353
00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:38,960
Speaker 3: Kamala Harris's vice presidential nominee. Give a listen to what

354
00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:41,639
Speaker 3: Tim Waltz had to say about President Trump and his

355
00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:45,119
Speaker 3: hopes that the President was dead to get.

356
00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:47,280
Speaker 5: Up in the morning and you doom scroll through things.

357
00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:50,720
Speaker 5: And although I will say this, the last few days

358
00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:54,960
Speaker 5: you woke up thinking there might be news, just saying,

359
00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:59,080
Speaker 5: just saying there will be news sometime, just so you

360
00:18:59,160 --> 00:18:59,919
Speaker 5: know there will be new.

361
00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:02,719
Speaker 1: I mean, that's sick. And that's the guy who ran

362
00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:04,440
Speaker 1: for vice president of the Democratic Party.

363
00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:08,040
Speaker 3: Let me say that is sick. And I have never

364
00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:12,119
Speaker 3: wished death upon Joe Biden or Barack Obama or Hillary

365
00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:15,399
Speaker 3: Clinton or any of the Democrat leaders the president of

366
00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:18,040
Speaker 3: the United States, whether you agree with them or not.

367
00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:20,800
Speaker 3: What the hell is wrong with these people where they

368
00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:23,920
Speaker 3: say they wake up every day hoping, please, please, please,

369
00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:26,359
Speaker 3: let me see that he is dead. You know, there

370
00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:29,760
Speaker 3: used to be a notion. Listen, when Barack Obama was president.

371
00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:34,240
Speaker 3: I disagreed with a lot of the policies that he implemented.

372
00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:35,560
Speaker 3: I think they did a lot of damage, a lot

373
00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:39,560
Speaker 3: of harm to this country. But I wish success on him.

374
00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:42,680
Speaker 3: I wanted America to succeed. You know, we talked about

375
00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:45,439
Speaker 3: earlier this year President Trump's State of the Union address.

376
00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:48,560
Speaker 3: I've been to thirteen State of the Union addresses. Every

377
00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:51,159
Speaker 3: single one begins the same way with the sergeant at

378
00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:55,720
Speaker 3: arm calling out the President of the United States, and

379
00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,240
Speaker 3: twelve of the thirteen I've been to, every House member

380
00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,160
Speaker 3: and senator stand and applauds. And that's true, whether it's

381
00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,280
Speaker 3: a Democrat or Republican, whether it's your party of the

382
00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:08,439
Speaker 3: other party, you respect the office. And so when Barack

383
00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:11,359
Speaker 3: Obama walked onto the floor of the House, I stood

384
00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:13,399
Speaker 3: and applauded for him. When Joe Biden walked on the

385
00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:15,280
Speaker 3: floor of the House, I stood and applauded for him.

386
00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:18,920
Speaker 3: This year, when Trump walked under the floor, every single

387
00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,320
Speaker 3: Democrat I saw states sitting and would not applaud. And

388
00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:28,720
Speaker 3: there's something really wrong when you were openly cheering for

389
00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:31,800
Speaker 3: the President of the United States to die and the

390
00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:34,760
Speaker 3: people laughing, and I suspect there were reporters there, and

391
00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,960
Speaker 3: there were also leftist activists, the people laughing and cheering.

392
00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:41,040
Speaker 3: There's something just fundamentally wrong about that.

393
00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:43,240
Speaker 1: As before, if you want to hear the rest of

394
00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:46,119
Speaker 1: this conversation on this topic, you can go back and

395
00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:48,639
Speaker 1: dow the podcasts from earlier this week to hear the

396
00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:52,160
Speaker 1: entire thing. I want to get back to the big

397
00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:54,440
Speaker 1: story number three of the week. You may have missed.

398
00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:57,040
Speaker 1: I want to also move on to the other story

399
00:20:57,160 --> 00:20:59,919
Speaker 1: that is one that is not getting a lot of coverage,

400
00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:02,399
Speaker 1: and it's really important. It's why I love doing this

401
00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:06,320
Speaker 1: show with you. The cinelo At Cartel is now in

402
00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:11,159
Speaker 1: essence in every single major city in America. They have

403
00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:15,480
Speaker 1: set up a massive network. They are making billions and

404
00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:20,960
Speaker 1: billions of dollars poisoning and killing Americans, human trafficking, sex trafficking,

405
00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:24,520
Speaker 1: child trafficking. The list goes on and on. Anything that's illegal,

406
00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:28,200
Speaker 1: they've got their tentacles in it. And you may think

407
00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:31,800
Speaker 1: that you're far away from the border, so this isn't

408
00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:34,360
Speaker 1: actually in your city, or your big city or your

409
00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,439
Speaker 1: area of the country. Great example of that is New England.

410
00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:39,199
Speaker 1: If you're a New England listening to us right now,

411
00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:41,080
Speaker 1: you're priving an AD's not near as bad as like

412
00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,920
Speaker 1: where we are in Houston at the moment. Well, guess

413
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:49,320
Speaker 1: what you'd be wrong. A hundred and seventy one cinelo

414
00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,399
Speaker 1: At cartel members were arrested in New England. The DEA

415
00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:54,040
Speaker 1: has now announced.

416
00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:57,160
Speaker 3: That was in a single week. In a single week,

417
00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:59,480
Speaker 3: one hundred and seventy one settle low of cartel members

418
00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:02,959
Speaker 3: arrested in Boston. The arrest also led to the seizure

419
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 3: of more than twenty two thousand counterfeit pills, fentanyl, powder,

420
00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:12,480
Speaker 3: and packaging branded with the Sineloa cartel logo, and the

421
00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:16,280
Speaker 3: DEA Agent in charge for the New England Field Division said,

422
00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:22,320
Speaker 3: the Cineloa cartel is quote public enemy number one in

423
00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:26,520
Speaker 3: New England. That's what the Democrats open border policies have done.

424
00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,639
Speaker 3: And listen to a local news story covering this arrest

425
00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:33,159
Speaker 3: of one hundred and seventy one Cineloa cartel members in Boston.

426
00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:33,680
Speaker 3: Give a listen.

427
00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:36,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, And by the way, ask yourself this question, America,

428
00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:39,040
Speaker 1: why did you not hear about this on the national news.

429
00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:41,640
Speaker 1: This is Boston twenty five news covering it there.

430
00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,880
Speaker 7: The Federal Drug Enforcement Administration says a week long cartel

431
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,520
Speaker 7: crackdown led to nearly two hundred arrests just in New England.

432
00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:52,920
Speaker 7: The DEA says they were all members of the Cineloa cartel,

433
00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:56,800
Speaker 7: the largest drug cartel in the world. Twenty five investigates

434
00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:59,240
Speaker 7: went one on one with the DEA special Agent in

435
00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:02,440
Speaker 7: charge of out their recent operation. He says the vast

436
00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:04,920
Speaker 7: Sineloa network has deep roots in New.

437
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,320
Speaker 8: England, there are public Enemy number one.

438
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:10,520
Speaker 7: Jared Fourge, the special Agent in charge of DEA's New

439
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 7: England Field Division, says last week the DEA set out

440
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 7: to arrest as many members of the Mexico base Sinaloa

441
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 7: cartel as possible. New England saw the highest number of

442
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:25,200
Speaker 7: regional arrests at one seventy one, with forty nine in Massachusetts,

443
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,359
Speaker 7: thirty three in New Hampshire. Connecticut saw the most at

444
00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:30,960
Speaker 7: sixty four. Do you think people would be surprised to

445
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:35,840
Speaker 7: learn how many members of that cartel are operating, probably

446
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:37,920
Speaker 7: in plain sight, in their communities.

447
00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 1: Sure so.

448
00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:43,399
Speaker 8: Sineloa cartel in every single state across America, more than

449
00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:46,080
Speaker 8: forty countries around the world, and obviously they're at every

450
00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:47,600
Speaker 8: state throughout New England.

451
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:49,600
Speaker 2: What's their number one product they push?

452
00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:50,359
Speaker 1: Is it the pills.

453
00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,680
Speaker 8: So we see fetanoh powder, and we see counterfeit pills,

454
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:57,280
Speaker 8: pills that are made to look like legitimate pills, notably

455
00:23:58,080 --> 00:23:58,880
Speaker 8: M thirty.

456
00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:02,399
Speaker 7: S M thirty pills are counterfeit oxy codone. But Forge

457
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:06,280
Speaker 7: says they're also increasingly seeing counterfeit stimulant pills made to

458
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:10,360
Speaker 7: look like adderall Foge showed us some of the more

459
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,760
Speaker 7: than twenty two thousand pills and other drug sees during

460
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 7: the operation, like signature purple fentanyl and some drug packaging

461
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,200
Speaker 7: even displaying the Sinaloa cartel stamp.

462
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 8: I'm a DEA agent. I cannot tell the difference between

463
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,879
Speaker 8: a fake one and a real one. So we need

464
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:30,760
Speaker 8: to remind parents, schools, caregivers, everybody in the community.

465
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,360
Speaker 1: Have those conversations with each other, Have them with your kids.

466
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:38,400
Speaker 7: Forge says. The cartel targets unsuspecting young people online through

467
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:42,119
Speaker 7: common social media apps. Many have no idea they're buying

468
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:46,480
Speaker 7: potentially deadly counterfeit pills. One hundred and seventy one arrests

469
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:47,439
Speaker 7: throughout New England.

470
00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:50,320
Speaker 1: Does that make a dent where the DEA.

471
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:53,440
Speaker 8: We're not going after low level retailed drug traffickers. We

472
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 8: are going after drug trafficking organizations the networks.

473
00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:00,440
Speaker 7: How do you disrupt that something that is so large,

474
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:02,880
Speaker 7: so vast, and seemingly so powerful.

475
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 8: Right, it's an ongoing battle, one that we cannot we

476
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,960
Speaker 8: can't afford to give up. Right it's the Cineloa cartel

477
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 8: is a threat to public safety, our public health, and

478
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 8: our national security as a country.

479
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,440
Speaker 7: This year, the Centers for Disease Control reported while drug

480
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 7: overdose deaths are declining, overdose is the leading cause of

481
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 7: death for young people ages eighteen to forty five Centator.

482
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 1: You hear that report, it should be national news. It's not.

483
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,400
Speaker 1: Thank goodness, we're doing the show to make it national.

484
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 1: But this is concerning because it's not just in New England.

485
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:38,960
Speaker 1: This is in every major city in America. They've set

486
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:39,400
Speaker 1: up shop.

487
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 3: Well, CNN won't cover it, MSNBC won't, but cover it.

488
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,119
Speaker 3: I'm glad the local news covered it, and it is

489
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:50,320
Speaker 3: critically important. The cartels Public enemy number one in New England,

490
00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,680
Speaker 3: brought to you by the Democrats is the Cineloa cartel.

491
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:56,159
Speaker 3: And you know it was striking what they were arrested with.

492
00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,640
Speaker 3: They were arrested with with, among other things, counterfeit pills,

493
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,080
Speaker 3: pills like adderall and and those are designed to be

494
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 3: sold to your kids. Ben, you and I are both parents.

495
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:08,920
Speaker 3: I will tell you it is terrifying being the parents

496
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 3: of young kids today. Your kids are younger than mine. Ben,

497
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 3: My girls are teenagers. And you know, I think back

498
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 3: when you and I were teenagers. You go out to party,

499
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:20,919
Speaker 3: there may be some kids in high school. They might

500
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,960
Speaker 3: be drinking. Maybe someone would would would smoke some marijuana,

501
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:26,680
Speaker 3: but the odds were that you were not going to

502
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,639
Speaker 3: die going to a party when you and I were kids.

503
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 3: What is terrifying now is that kids go to a

504
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 3: party and someone says, here, hey, try a pill. It's

505
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,399
Speaker 3: it's it's an adderall it's it's it's a riddle, and

506
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:43,199
Speaker 3: it's something they think is fairly innocuous. And the kid

507
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:47,200
Speaker 3: takes one pill and it is a counterfeit pill that

508
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 3: has fentanyl, and the child drops dead. And that is

509
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:55,440
Speaker 3: happening at a scale that is truly terrifying. In twenty

510
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 3: twenty three, more than one hundred thousand Americans died of

511
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:03,680
Speaker 3: over seventy percent of those we're fentanyl, and overdose is

512
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 3: the wrong word for those. Those are poisonings, because you know,

513
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,399
Speaker 3: you think of an overdose. If you have a junkie

514
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 3: on the street who's shooting up heroin, he shoots up

515
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 3: a little bit too much heroin, that's a tragedy. But

516
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 3: there are a series of decisions that put the person

517
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 3: in that situation. This circumstance is much more frightening because

518
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 3: it can be one tiny mistaken decision made by a

519
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:32,159
Speaker 3: fourteen year old. That ends that child's life, and that

520
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 3: is the result. Open borders are endangering our families in

521
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 3: a very fundamental way.

522
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,399
Speaker 1: It's an epidemic. And what's interesting is when you do

523
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 1: research on this, Senator, one of the things that's the

524
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: most shocking about it is a lot of police forces

525
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 1: are actually running out of their narcan, which is what

526
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 1: you can give to try to save someone's life when

527
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 1: they overdose. They're yearly supply, they're eating through it in

528
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,680
Speaker 1: two to three months into the year, and they're having

529
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: to go to their city council and their board of aldermen,

530
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 1: the county commissioners, depending on where what type of government

531
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,439
Speaker 1: they have, and they're having to beg them for more

532
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 1: money because they're running through the budget for what they

533
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,919
Speaker 1: need to save people's lives. That's how big of an

534
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,400
Speaker 1: epidemic it has become. And again it's the number one

535
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:22,120
Speaker 1: killer of young people in this country. That is something

536
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:23,639
Speaker 1: that needs to be said over and over again and

537
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 1: it's something that we must stop well.

538
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:31,040
Speaker 3: And and police officers and first responders they often wear gloves.

539
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 3: They're very frightened because if they inadvertently touch fentanyl, a

540
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 3: tiny amount can kill them. The level that this is

541
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 3: deadly is truly unprecedented. And you know, I'll say, I

542
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 3: want to share an illustration that a DA agent told

543
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 3: me a number of years ago, which we were sitting,

544
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 3: sitting and doing a round table with a DA agent

545
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 3: and with a mom who had lost lost her child

546
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 3: to fentanyl poisoning. And here's what the DA agent did

547
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 3: is he handed out everyone sweetened low packets of the

548
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 3: sweetener you put in your tea or coffee. And he said, okay,

549
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 3: tear open the sweetened low packet and he said empty

550
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 3: all the sweet and low under the table, So we

551
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,479
Speaker 3: all did that. He then said, stick your pinky, your

552
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 3: little finger into the empty packet. So we did that

553
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 3: and he said pull it out. And you pull it out,

554
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 3: you have a handful of tiny little grains with sweet

555
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 3: and low that are on your finger. And he said,

556
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 3: that is enough fentanyl to kill you. And it's a

557
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 3: very effective illustration, I'll tell you. With both of our

558
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 3: teenage girls, I sat them down in the kitchen, I

559
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 3: hand them to them packets of sweet and low and

560
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 3: I had them do exactly that illustration. And if you

561
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 3: are a parent, if you are a grandparent, have this

562
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 3: conversation with your kids or your grandkids, because look, hopefully

563
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 3: your kids will not make catastrophically wrong decisions, but in

564
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 3: this circumstance, one small decision that seems easy. Hey, it's

565
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 3: a friend of theirs that as you know, hey, hey

566
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 3: try this pill. We're all at a party, and they

567
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 3: don't think they are risking their lives. I don't know

568
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 3: a parent who is not terrified about the risks that

569
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 3: their kids will make one wrong choice and it will

570
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 3: cost them their entire life.

571
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, it really is scary, There's no doubt about it.

572
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 1: And this is part of the reason why I think

573
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: the President is also as you wrap up this last week,

574
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 1: going after these drug cartels and saying we're going to

575
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: use the full force of our government to go after

576
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 1: them since we've declared them terrorist organizations because they're killing Americans.

577
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 3: Look, obviously, the US military took out at Trenduragua Narco

578
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 3: terrorist boat off the shores of Venezuela just this past week.

579
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 3: As you know, last week I was in Mexico meeting

580
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 3: with senior government officials in Mexico and making clear to

581
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 3: them the United States is going after these cartels and

582
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 3: we're going to do so, either with or without you. Yet,

583
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 3: you know, listening to the story of one hundred and

584
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 3: seventy one Sineloa cartel members arrested New England reminded me

585
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 3: of the MS thirteen cartel member that I spoke with

586
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 3: down in El Salvador. I went to the SEACOT, the

587
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 3: maximum security terrorist prison. And if you didn't listen to

588
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 3: our podcast last week, I mean encourage every one of

589
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 3: you go back and listen to last week's podcast, or

590
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 3: I take you inside this prison, this maximum security prison

591
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 3: built for forty thousand gang members, mass murderers, and terrorists.

592
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 3: And I met with one MS thirteen gang member who

593
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 3: lived in Texas many years. He spoke perfectly fluent English.

594
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 3: He became an MS thirteen member when he was thirteen

595
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 3: years old, living in Falls Church, Virginia. That's the level

596
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 3: at which these gangs have penetrated our society. And by

597
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 3: the way, the only way you become a member of

598
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,239
Speaker 3: MS thirteen is you have to murder someone. So at

599
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 3: age thirteen, he murdered someone to become a member of

600
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 3: this gang. When I asked him why he did it,

601
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 3: he said all of his friends were doing the same

602
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 3: thing that he was hanging out with other thirteen year

603
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 3: olds who were joining the same gang. And this is

604
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 3: now a forty two year old man who's spending the

605
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 3: rest of his life in a maximum security prison because

606
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 3: of the multiple murders he committed. That is not in Columbia,

607
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 3: that's not deep in Mexico City. That was Falls Church, Virginia,

608
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:33,479
Speaker 3: and later he moved to Dallas, Texas. We've heard New England.

609
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 3: This is public enemy number one. You and I and

610
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 3: our families. We want the border secured. And I'm grateful

611
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 3: that we have a president commander in chief who says

612
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 3: we're going to stop the human trafficking, We're going to

613
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 3: stop the drug trafficking. We are securing the border. That's

614
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 3: an incredible success and it's incredibly important.

615
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're absolutely right about that. And also Reuters is

616
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 1: now reporting and this is just showing I think the

617
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 1: president's commitment to fighting these narco terras. Ruters is now

618
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 1: saying the US is deploying stealth fighter jets to the

619
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:09,960
Speaker 1: Caribbean for drug fight as the tensions of Venezuela continued

620
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 1: to rise. They're saying Axios is saying that ten f

621
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 1: thirty five jets are being dispatched also to Puerto Rico

622
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 1: to support the drug war there. And this is on

623
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: top of it them Ben Ben.

624
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 3: When I was down at the Panama Canal, I actually

625
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 3: saw the USS Lake Erie that was transiting from the

626
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 3: Pacific to the Caribbean specifically to participate in the war

627
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 3: on drugs. This is a missileship with enormous capacity. I

628
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 3: don't know if this was the particular ship that took

629
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 3: out the trend Uragua, but I went and toured the ship,

630
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 3: met many of the sailors on board. We are moving

631
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 3: major assets to take on the cartels and to defeat

632
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 3: the cartels.

633
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 1: As always, thank you for listening to Verdicts with Center

634
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you don't forget to deal

635
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:58,479
Speaker 1: with my podcast and you can listen to my podcast

636
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:00,520
Speaker 1: every other day you're not listening to Verdict or each

637
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 1: day when you listen to Verdict. Afterwards, I'd love to

638
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 1: have you as a listener to again the Ben Ferguson

639
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: podcasts and we will see you back here on Monday morning.