Speaker 1: Welcome its verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you.
Speaker 1: It's nice to have you with us on this Wednesday morning.
Speaker 1: And there's a big controversy and a big story that
Speaker 1: the media has just I mean, they've gone all in
Speaker 1: on that deals with conversations that were had center on
Speaker 1: the Signal app. A lot of people in government use it.
Speaker 1: I use this app. It's encrypted, that's why they use it.
Speaker 1: And a journalist it was inadvertently put on apparently one
Speaker 1: of those text message threads.
Speaker 2: Well, the media are a flutter with what they're calling
Speaker 2: Signal Gate, which is this text thread on the app
Speaker 2: Signal and it was about the military strikes against the
Speaker 2: Huthis who have been attacking shipping shipping in the Suez Canal,
Speaker 2: and inadvertently the National Security Advisor added this journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg,
Speaker 2: who then wrote an article and I got to say,
Speaker 2: it's an astonishing article. The media are going crazy and
Speaker 2: they're using it as an excuse to attack President Trump,
Speaker 2: to attack his national security team. Now we're going to
Speaker 2: break down what exactly was going on there, What did
Speaker 2: they do anything wrong? Were they talking about? What happened?
Speaker 2: Why does it matter. We're going to break it all down.
Speaker 2: We're also going to talk about what has happened to
Speaker 2: the Democrat Party. They're getting angrier and angrier and angrier,
Speaker 2: and they are embracing violence every day, they're calling for violence.
Speaker 2: They are the Party of Rage. And finally, we're going
Speaker 2: to talk about the media coverage about how the Democrats
Speaker 2: are in a quote deep dark hole. That's not me,
Speaker 2: that's Axios, one of the most mainstream corporate media outlets
Speaker 2: there is, that says the Democrats are in the deepest
Speaker 2: hole in fifty years. We're going to break that down.
Speaker 2: How when a party decides it doesn't stand for anything,
Speaker 2: When a party gets so radical that it abandons the voters,
Speaker 2: When a party is formed only around one idea, which
Speaker 2: is hatred for Donald J. Trump, that turns out not
Speaker 2: to be a successful electoral strategy. We're going to talk
Speaker 2: about that as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the gig seems to be up certainly the American
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Speaker 1: So Senator. When this story broke, it was very clear
Speaker 1: the media thought this was the moment where they could
Speaker 1: turn the tables on Donald Trump as administer. I think
Speaker 1: there was even some dreams of maybe someone gets fired
Speaker 1: sixty days into this administration, the cabinet because of this
Speaker 1: journalist report that I got on a text thread with
Speaker 1: all these important people in Trump administration world. And now
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you what I saw.
Speaker 2: Well, look what happened is there was a text thread
Speaker 2: and it was using the app called Signal. Now, Signal
Speaker 2: is an encrypted app. A lot of people in government
Speaker 2: use it. You use it, I use it, a lot
Speaker 2: of journalists use it. It's a way to communicate an
Speaker 2: encrypted way that it is less likely to be intercepted.
Speaker 2: And that there was a group chat that was created
Speaker 2: by President Trump's national security advisor, Michael Waltz about the
Speaker 2: upcoming strikes against the Houthis and Yemen, and bizarrely included
Speaker 2: in the group was a journalist named Jeffrey Goldberg who
Speaker 2: was at The Atlantic magazine. And jeff Beffrey Goldberg is
Speaker 2: a liberal. He's a well known journalist, and it I
Speaker 2: have no good explanation for why Jeffrey Goldberg was added.
Speaker 2: He's the editor in chief of The Atlantic, and it
Speaker 2: was a screw up, and and and let's start with that.
Speaker 2: It was clearly a screw up. It was embarrassing. It
Speaker 2: it's sort of comparable to a butt dial. You know, Look,
Speaker 2: I've inadvertently sent texts to the wrong person. I'm sure
Speaker 2: you have. In this instance, it was clear it was
Speaker 2: a mistake. He was not meant to be added to
Speaker 2: this group, and suddenly, bizarrely he is getting text about
Speaker 2: an upcoming military strike. So that was bad. At the
Speaker 2: end of the day. Though, what is striking, although although
Speaker 2: you're seeing the sharks circle and trying to attack the
Speaker 2: president of the National Security Team, is the underlying substance
Speaker 2: of what's being discussed is actually quite good. So the
Speaker 2: substance of what's being discussed. The Huthies are radical Islamic terrorists.
Speaker 2: They're based in Yemen, and they are funded by Iran.
Speaker 2: They are Iran proxies, and they have been for months,
Speaker 2: for years attacking shipping in and around the Suez Canal,
Speaker 2: and they've been shutting down a massive amount of shipping
Speaker 2: at the Suez Canal and that has had a real
Speaker 2: consequence to Americans. So listen, when you go to the
Speaker 2: grocery store, when you go to the department store, you
Speaker 2: are paying significantly higher prices because the Huthis have been
Speaker 2: shutting down shipping through the Suez Canal, which makes shipping
Speaker 2: and transportation cost much much higher. And I got to say,
Speaker 2: for four years, Joe Biden, the Democrats, they didn't do
Speaker 2: a damn thing. They let radical Islamic terrorists engage in
Speaker 2: acts of terrorism and shut down shipping, slow down shipping.
Speaker 2: And what has happened in the first two months of
Speaker 2: the Trump administration is President Trump gave an instruction to
Speaker 2: his team. He said, open up the shipping lanes. Let's
Speaker 2: go after the Houthies. And by the way, we carried
Speaker 2: out a military strike hit the Houthis and did real damage.
Speaker 2: And so this entire text chain is the national security
Speaker 2: leadership of the Trump administration talking about this upcoming strike,
Speaker 2: and the strike was a massive success. So on substance,
Speaker 2: we got to be thrilled. We actually have a commander
Speaker 2: in chief who's standing up for America, who's defending American shipping,
Speaker 2: is defending American interests, who's fighting terrorists who hate America.
Speaker 2: All of that is a massive contrast from what happened
Speaker 2: under Joe Biden. What was the mistake? The mistake was
Speaker 2: inadvertently they added this journalist who then wrote this sort
Speaker 2: of breathless bombshell story about I was on this text
Speaker 2: about the war plans, and again it was a screw up.
Speaker 2: It was embarrassing, but the under lying substance every one
Speaker 2: of us ought to be really happy about.
Speaker 1: You mentioned that this was one of those moments that, look,
Speaker 1: the press wanted to go ballistic on. There was also
Speaker 1: really I think a smart move by the White House
Speaker 1: to have no problem having a conversation about this. The
Speaker 1: President didn't run away from it. There was no no comment,
Speaker 1: there was much. There was a lot of like openness
Speaker 1: and conversation, like, hey, we're more than happy to talk
Speaker 1: about this. I actually think the American people appreciate that,
Speaker 1: because usually when they're screw ups, Amen, everybody just disappears
Speaker 1: from you know, accountability or even answering questions or saying
Speaker 1: we can't talk about this time or it deals with
Speaker 1: classified there's always a million excuses. The president didn't use
Speaker 1: any of those, like let's talk about it and he
Speaker 1: did it in front of the journalists, in front of
Speaker 1: this entire cabinet as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so let me make a couple comments on this.
Speaker 2: Number One, During four years of Biden's presidency, he hit
Speaker 2: hid from the press, he didn't press conferences, he didn't
Speaker 2: take questions, and it's not complicated why his mental condition
Speaker 2: was so deteriorated that nobody trust him to take questions.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump is taking questions. It seems like every day
Speaker 2: he's answering hard questions. And so today at the White
Speaker 2: House he was asked about reporters about what happened here,
Speaker 2: and we're going to play a segment, and this is
Speaker 2: a lengthy segment, but it's worth listening to because the
Speaker 2: president explains what's going on. I think his answers here
Speaker 2: are terrific and it's worth really listening to what he says.
Speaker 3: So give a listen, mister president, are you going to
Speaker 3: change in you to practices that your national security officials used?
Speaker 4: Acker reporter was inaffortently added to a group chat about
Speaker 4: attacks on Evan.
Speaker 5: Well, I think it's a question I've been asked now
Speaker 5: and I've given it a few answers, and they've all
Speaker 5: been the same. We have an amazing group or national
Speaker 5: security now is stronger than it's ever been. We have
Speaker 5: I've had a very very successful numerous attacks.
Speaker 6: In that area.
Speaker 5: These are people that shoot down ships. Not only are
Speaker 5: ships ships all over the world. They're shooting down right
Speaker 5: out of the water and damaging them badly or they're
Speaker 5: going down. They're also shooting anything that happens to be
Speaker 5: flying in the area.
Speaker 6: We hit them very, very hard.
Speaker 5: There was no classified information as I understand it.
Speaker 6: They used a.
Speaker 5: App, if you want to call it an app that
Speaker 5: a lot of people use, a lot of people in
Speaker 5: government use, a lot of people in the big aus.
Speaker 5: And I think I'll ask Mike, Mike is here. Do
Speaker 5: you want to respond to theness?
Speaker 7: Yes, mister President, you asked about lessons. I think there's
Speaker 7: a lot of the lessons. There's a lot of journalists
Speaker 7: in this city who have made big names for themselves
Speaker 7: making up lies about this president, whether it's the Russia
Speaker 7: hoax or making up lies about gold Star families. And
Speaker 7: this one in particular, i've never met.
Speaker 8: Don't know, never communicated with, And we are and we
Speaker 8: are looking into and reviewing how the heck he got
Speaker 8: into this room but I'll tell you what the world
Speaker 8: owes President Trump of favor.
Speaker 6: Under Biden, global.
Speaker 7: Shipping was shut down, penprick attacks months between them, are
Speaker 7: destroyers being fired upon dozens of times. President Trump took
Speaker 7: decisive active action with his national security team, took out
Speaker 7: the head missileer, knocked out missiles, knocked out headquarters, knocked
Speaker 7: out communication sites, and for once, as we hear, as
Speaker 7: you all hear from every one of our allies, thank
Speaker 7: god for American leadership again, thank God for American strength,
Speaker 7: your health. And we had a national security team that
Speaker 7: was coordinating these efforts. As Director Ratcliffe testified today, his
Speaker 7: first day on the job, he was introduced to this
Speaker 7: app on his government systems at the CIA and at
Speaker 7: the State Department and otherwise. So look this journalist, mister President.
Speaker 7: Once the world talking about more hoaxes in this kind
Speaker 7: of nonsense, rather than the freedom that you're enabling. And
Speaker 7: a key part of our sovereignty is open sea lanes
Speaker 7: and knocking the crop out of terrorists, which is exactly
Speaker 7: what your team. And Pete Hexat, a good friend and
Speaker 7: fellow veteran, is leading the charge on.
Speaker 5: And it's an honor orful excuse me. We had a
Speaker 5: very very successful evening, and we've had numerous successful evenings
Speaker 5: and days in that area. The Hoodies are absolutely on
Speaker 5: the run. The worst of them had been killed. This
Speaker 5: should have been done a long time ago by Biden.
Speaker 5: But Biden was an incompetent president. He couldn't do anything.
Speaker 5: He get in nowhere where it was going. He had
Speaker 5: no clue. This guy had no clue. This should have
Speaker 5: been done a long time ago. As they shoot missiles
Speaker 5: at chips, randomly shoot missiles at chips, and they make
Speaker 5: their own missiles. You know, this is not an incompetent
Speaker 5: group of people. They make their own missiles. They get
Speaker 5: the missiles also from Iran. It's an offshoot of Iran,
Speaker 5: another offshoot. You have Hamas, you have Hesbula, you have
Speaker 5: the Hoodies. You got a lot of stuff going on
Speaker 5: with Iran, and we set a letter to Iran. You're
Speaker 5: gonna have to be speaking to us one way or
Speaker 5: the other pretty soon because we can't let this happen.
Speaker 6: But that's an app that a lot of people use.
Speaker 5: And somebody got on, I mean happened to know the
Speaker 5: guy's in total sleevesberg.
Speaker 6: The Atlantic.
Speaker 5: The Atlantic is a failed magazine does very very poorly.
Speaker 5: Nobody gives a damn about it. This gives it a
Speaker 5: little bit of a shot. And I will tell you
Speaker 5: this that they've made up more stories and they're just
Speaker 5: a failing magazine.
Speaker 6: The public understands that he's a very good man.
Speaker 5: That man is a very good man right there that
Speaker 5: you criticize so strong, he's a very good man and
Speaker 5: he will continue to do good job. In addition to him,
Speaker 5: we had very good people in that meeting, and those
Speaker 5: people have done a very very effective job.
Speaker 6: And you're can see it, and it goes on. By
Speaker 6: the way, it's going to go.
Speaker 5: On, and I think the hoodies wish that it didn't happen,
Speaker 5: But that's what it's all about. We have to create
Speaker 5: a safe country, a safe world, and that's what we're doing.
Speaker 6: Security put it for.
Speaker 4: A spand rem president of senior officials using signal or
Speaker 4: the use of signal to communicate from senior officials.
Speaker 6: I don't know anything about signal.
Speaker 5: I wasn't involved in this, but I just turn about
Speaker 5: it and I hear it's used by a lot of groups.
Speaker 6: It's used by the media a lot.
Speaker 5: It's used by a lot of the military, and I
Speaker 5: think successfully, but sometimes somebody can get onto those things.
Speaker 5: That's one of the prices you pay when you're not
Speaker 5: sitting in the situation room with no phones on, which
Speaker 5: is always the best, frankly, but you know, you you
Speaker 5: the best is to be there. In fact, oftentimes I've
Speaker 5: been in the infectious Last week, I was in the
Speaker 5: situation room with something very important and we had a
Speaker 5: couple of people hooked up by line, and I said,
Speaker 5: cancel the line, sorry, fellas. What you do is we'll
Speaker 5: tell you all about the meeting, because I know people
Speaker 5: do get on those lines, whether it's signal or anything else.
Speaker 6: Yeah, are you going to change any procedures as a
Speaker 6: result of this.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, look, we look at everything, and you know,
Speaker 5: they've made a big deal out of this because we've
Speaker 5: had two perfect months.
Speaker 6: We're bringing we are bringing in business.
Speaker 5: We have another one announced tomorrow, a big one, very big,
Speaker 5: like in the history of our country.
Speaker 6: Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
Speaker 5: And I think probably a lot of people are saying
Speaker 5: it's They started by saying it was the greatest first
Speaker 5: month that a president has ever had, and I think
Speaker 5: that's true. And now they say it's the best second month,
Speaker 5: and they had to find something and this certainly we'll
Speaker 5: look at this, But the main thing was nothing happened.
Speaker 5: The attack was totally successful. It was I guess from
Speaker 5: what I understand, took place during and it wasn't classified information.
Speaker 5: So this was not class of now butch classified information.
Speaker 5: It's probably a little bit different. But I always say
Speaker 5: you have to learn from every experience. I think it
Speaker 5: was very unfair the way they attacked Michael. He's a
Speaker 5: good person. The person that was on just happens to
Speaker 5: be a Slees bag. So maybe that's just coincidence.
Speaker 6: I don't know. I love it.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's just you know, it's leeves bag. You can't
Speaker 1: make it up.
Speaker 2: Well, look, I got to say I love President Trump's
Speaker 2: answer to this because he's very candid, he's very real.
Speaker 2: He admits it was a screw up. It was a
Speaker 2: mess up to add the journalist. But one of the
Speaker 2: things that's most important is he strongly defends Mike Waltz.
Speaker 2: Mike Waltz is Donald Trump's national security advisor. Mike is
Speaker 2: a friend to mine. He's a very good man. Mike
Speaker 2: is a veteran. He was in Special Forces he received
Speaker 2: four Bronze Stars while serving combat tours in Afghanistan and
Speaker 2: the Middle East and Africa. And he's smart, he's serious.
Speaker 2: And I got to say, there are people who hate
Speaker 2: President Trump that are trying to use this mess up
Speaker 2: to attack Mike Waltz. And I was really glad the
Speaker 2: President stood strongly with Mike Waltz. He's doing a very
Speaker 2: good job. I had dinner with Mike just a few
Speaker 2: weeks ago. He is a smart, serious leader focused on
Speaker 2: defending this nation from our enemies. I also like that
Speaker 2: the President focused on the underlying substance. Look, what we
Speaker 2: did was a great victory for America. Joe Biden had
Speaker 2: let four years go by of the who he's attacking,
Speaker 2: American shipping companies, hurting American interests. And President Trump he's
Speaker 2: been in office just over two months and he's already
Speaker 2: standing up, taking out terrorists, fighting for American interests. That
Speaker 2: is a huge, substant victory. I want to make another point.
Speaker 2: There are some observers that are looking at the Trump
Speaker 2: administration and her writing story saying the Trump administration is isaists.
Speaker 2: They're not willing to engage and defend American interests. That
Speaker 2: is wrong. Donald Trump is not an isolationist. America first
Speaker 2: is not an isolationist philosophy. If you look at the
Speaker 2: first term of President Trump, he took out General Solomoni
Speaker 2: from Iran. That was incredibly important. General Solomoni had murdered
Speaker 2: over six hundred American servicemen and women. He fought and
Speaker 2: was vigorous taking out enemies of America. And it's worth
Speaker 2: noting in the first few months of Trump's first term
Speaker 2: he took out ISIS. ISIS had a caliphate larger than
Speaker 2: the state of Indiana, and he utterly decimated and destroyed ISIS.
Speaker 2: So Donald Trump his record, he is not an isolationist.
Speaker 2: And this is a good illustration of this. The Huthies
Speaker 2: are a proxy of Iran. They were attacking America. Joe
Speaker 2: Biden was too weak to fight back, and Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: in his first two months is already fighting back. And
Speaker 2: the media wants to change the subject from the substance
Speaker 2: of protecting America to attacks on the administration. I'm very glad.
Speaker 2: I'm really happy with the President's defense of Mike Waltz
Speaker 2: and the president's substance of defense of his policy defending America.
Speaker 1: You mentioned attacks. I want to move to this other subject,
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Speaker 1: And then there's people now they're threatening you. This seems
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Speaker 1: they did to Donald Trump, and we saw that the
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Speaker 1: assassination attempt that actually got him. And now they don't
Speaker 1: seem to be backing down at all.
Speaker 2: Well, the Democrats today are the party of rage, the
Speaker 2: party of anger. And I will say there's a house
Speaker 2: member in Texas, Jasmine Crockett, who this week has been
Speaker 2: a rough week for she has been unhinged. She has
Speaker 2: called for violence against me. She has denigrated and mocked
Speaker 2: Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, because he is in
Speaker 2: a wheel wheelchair, because he has a disability. And it
Speaker 2: really does show who today's Democrats are. And I want
Speaker 2: you to listen to what she said first about me
Speaker 2: and then about Greg Abbott. Give a listen, just in case.
Speaker 4: The slow people listening decide to click this up later.
Speaker 4: I just want to say that I have never promoted
Speaker 4: violence whatsoever.
Speaker 3: I think that you punch.
Speaker 1: I think you punch.
Speaker 3: I think you're okay with you okay with punching.
Speaker 4: You know, I think, and I love Colin, and I
Speaker 4: think towards the end he started to punch a little harder.
Speaker 6: But like it's sad ruse.
Speaker 4: I mean, like this dude has to be knocks over
Speaker 4: the head like hard, right, Like there is no niceties
Speaker 4: with him, like at all, Like you go clean off
Speaker 4: on him, right.
Speaker 1: I hear that, and I just shake my head center
Speaker 1: Because of course, when the fire is of the spotlight
Speaker 1: is on her, she's like, oh, I've never called for violence,
Speaker 1: And then you play the clip right there, it's very
Speaker 1: clear what she's saying.
Speaker 2: Look, I gotta admit I've never met this woman, Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 2: I don't know her. She's a new congresswoman from Texas.
Speaker 2: She seems really angry, she seems really radical. She seems
Speaker 2: to be the darling of the radical left because she
Speaker 2: calls for crazy things I will tell you, Look, I've
Speaker 2: been this Senate thirteen years. One of it's an incredible privilege.
Speaker 2: I'm blessed. I jump out of bed every day excited
Speaker 2: because I get to fight for Texas, I get to
Speaker 2: fight for America. I will tell you one of the
Speaker 2: downsides of this job. I have literally hundreds of death
Speaker 2: threats against me.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I'm going to be clear, you
Speaker 1: and I we spend a lot of time together. We travel.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of people that come up and encourage.
Speaker 1: But man, some of the things that people say. And
Speaker 1: I've had the threats, not like you've had threats, but
Speaker 1: it's like part of the business now. Which is the
Speaker 1: worst part about it is that if you're in politics
Speaker 1: and you're conservative, there are people that want you to
Speaker 1: die and come after you. But you and I we
Speaker 1: went to a game and people are screaming the F
Speaker 1: bomb in front of your daughter who was with thus,
Speaker 1: And there was several times that happened, and it's like
Speaker 1: there is no just like, you're a dad in that moment,
Speaker 1: you're a father. I'm a dad when I'm out my
Speaker 1: son and someone get to my face to the HGB
Speaker 1: and start screaming exers at me in a cereal io.
Speaker 1: It's like, what is wrong with these people? And yet
Speaker 1: it seems to be getting.
Speaker 2: Worse not better. Yeah, look, there are a lot of
Speaker 2: people that are just unhinged and filled with hate. And
Speaker 2: I'll tell you, look, I'll vivian encouragement. Listen, the folks
Speaker 2: that listen to verdict, you guys are amazing. I'm so
Speaker 2: grateful for you. You're incredibly engaged and you're passionate, and
Speaker 2: you're fighting to save this country. I will tell you,
Speaker 2: when I travel around, the ratio of positive to negative comments,
Speaker 2: it is more than ninety percent positive. It's probably ninety
Speaker 2: five percent or even ninety eight percent positive. So it's encouraging.
Speaker 2: When I'm out at airport, when I'm out at a
Speaker 2: shopping mall, people say nice things. They say thank you,
Speaker 2: they say that I appreciate you, and that's gratifying that
Speaker 2: that makes me. There are regularly people who don't and
Speaker 2: and people on the left. Now, I got to say
Speaker 2: many of them on the left, when they say something negative,
Speaker 2: they'll like screw up their courage that they'll run up
Speaker 2: and they'll go f you and they'll just like yell
Speaker 2: at me, and it's very funny. It's like, Wow, you
Speaker 2: spent a long time thinking about that, and that was
Speaker 2: the best you could come up with. That was very clever.
Speaker 2: And my standard response, and unfortunately it happens often enough
Speaker 2: that I have to have a standard response. My standard
Speaker 2: response is I say God bless you. And I got
Speaker 2: to tell you, it infuriates them. And you know, there's
Speaker 2: a principle in the Bible that if you repay hatred
Speaker 2: with kindness, that it is like piling hot coals on
Speaker 2: their heads. So I'll say God bless you, and I'll smile,
Speaker 2: I'll be very happy, like when they say f you
Speaker 2: have my response is God bless you. And there was
Speaker 2: one time in Houston where this this like liberal woman
Speaker 2: screamed F you and I said God bless you. And
Speaker 2: she's like, I don't want your God's love and I
Speaker 2: said that's okay, Jesus loves you anyway. And it drove
Speaker 2: her nuts, like like she almost had an aneurysm when
Speaker 2: I said that. And I try to be smiling and
Speaker 2: show a contrast. And I will say, just a couple
Speaker 2: of days ago, I had a young woman who was
Speaker 2: screaming F you, and I did say something to the
Speaker 2: effect of your very charming, your mother, but it must
Speaker 2: be very proud. How'd that turn out?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: She just stormed off. And I'm sure as she was
Speaker 2: driving home she's thought of fifty different responses, but she
Speaker 2: didn't say any of them. She's just like, yeah, I
Speaker 2: randomly scream f you at people at the airport. I'm
Speaker 2: a great person. But listen when you have people on
Speaker 2: the left, and listen, Jasmine is saying you need to
Speaker 2: hit him in the head and hit him really hard.
Speaker 2: I'll be honest, Ben, I really hope someone doesn't hit
Speaker 2: me in the head really hard, like like I would
Speaker 2: prefer not to have my brains bashed in.
Speaker 1: This is the part where I think it's a bigger
Speaker 1: issue that concerns me. It's the dog whistles that come
Speaker 1: from the leaders. Hit by the way Democratic Party, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump push in your face.
Speaker 2: You had two assassins who tried to kill him. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we've got Democrats who are firebombing Tesla and radical leftists
Speaker 2: and no Democrat is condemning it. They are calling for violence.
Speaker 2: These are the same people that had Antifa and Black
Speaker 2: Lives Matter riots and and and so the threat of
Speaker 2: violence is very real. We had at the at the
Speaker 2: baseball practice, we had a radical leftist, a Bernie Sanders supporter,
Speaker 2: who came and said, he asked someone, Hey, are those
Speaker 2: Republicans there? They said yes, and he came with a
Speaker 2: rifle and shot people and and had It was pure
Speaker 2: happenstance that Steve Scalise, who was a member of House Leadership,
Speaker 2: was there because he had a security detail, and that
Speaker 2: security detail shot and killed this radical leftist. If let's
Speaker 2: say Scalice had been ten minutes late that morning, let's
Speaker 2: say he'd been delayed, he'd been taking his kids to school,
Speaker 2: he'd been doing something else, and he was delayed, that
Speaker 2: radical leftist would have murdered over a dozen House members
Speaker 2: and two US senators. We came incredibly close to a
Speaker 2: massacre because of the active solicitation of violence. And let
Speaker 2: me be clear, this is on one side the leftist
Speaker 2: calling for violence. I categorically opposed violence. I don't want
Speaker 2: anyone to engage in violence against leftists. I'm not calling
Speaker 2: for this nutcase Jasmine Crockett to face the violence. No, no, no, Now,
Speaker 2: I think her views are anathema and I want you
Speaker 2: to play what she said like a day or two later,
Speaker 2: attacking Greg Abbott because it is equally noxious. Listen to this.
Speaker 3: We in these hot ass Texas streets, Honey, y'all know
Speaker 3: we got governor hot wheels down there, Come on now,
Speaker 3: and the only.
Speaker 6: Thing hot about him is that he is a.
Speaker 4: Hot ass mess honey.
Speaker 3: So so yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, I mean you listen to that. It's like, one,
Speaker 1: what do you think is going to come of that?
Speaker 1: The other thing is the backdrop behind her is she's
Speaker 1: literally speaking at the Human Rights Campaign and that's what
Speaker 1: she's preaching and people are laughing and clapping as she's
Speaker 1: on stage four again.
Speaker 2: But by the way, baby, do you do you know
Speaker 2: why Greg Abbott is in a wheelchair?
Speaker 1: Yeah? It was, if I remember the story correctly, he
Speaker 1: was running at the park and a random tree limb
Speaker 1: fell on his head and paralyzed.
Speaker 2: It broke us back. And I'll tell you I worked
Speaker 2: for him five and a half years. Greg Abbott is
Speaker 2: a dear friend. He's been a boss, a mentor, and
Speaker 2: he would tell a joke, Like when I first went
Speaker 2: to work for him, he would tell a joke. He'd
Speaker 2: get up and say, Okay, I know what you're thinking.
Speaker 2: How slow was that guy running to get hit by
Speaker 2: a tree? And like the first time he jokes about it,
Speaker 2: you're not sure what to say, Like, wait, am I
Speaker 2: allowed to laugh about it? And he would, he would
Speaker 2: tell jokes about it, and you could be like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess if you can joke about it,
Speaker 2: I can laugh about it. But you know, it was tragic.
Speaker 2: And he's been paralyzed for twenty plus maybe thirty plus years,
Speaker 2: a long time in a wheelchair. And she's sitting there
Speaker 2: at supposedly the Human Rights Campaign. Now it's a leftist
Speaker 2: radical group that is obsessed with LGBT. I mean, that's
Speaker 2: really what they exist. But they're cheering, yes, Governor hot wheels,
Speaker 2: he's disabled in a wheelchair?
Speaker 6: Ha ha.
Speaker 2: What the hell's wrong with these people? I mean that
Speaker 2: is that is nasty and hateful and it's who's today's
Speaker 2: Democrat party is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it really is, which brings me to a final
Speaker 1: thing I want to talk about with you, and this
Speaker 1: is one of those. It seems like this used to
Speaker 1: be more effective dividing the country. That's what I think Crockett,
Speaker 1: for example, loves to do. We divide and then hopefully
Speaker 1: I can conquer by division, and that doesn't seem to
Speaker 1: be working now with the American people. That's why it
Speaker 1: seems like the president I think truly has a majority
Speaker 1: support on virtually every issue that he's talking about right now,
Speaker 1: an overwhelming support sixty five seventy five percent approval ratings
Speaker 1: in certain categories. Because the Democratic Party does seem to
Speaker 1: be floundering, and I'm talking about the entire party. I
Speaker 1: think part of that is because the Democratic Party isn't
Speaker 1: really a Democratic party anymore. They're Marxists and socialists and
Speaker 1: communists masquerading around and so now people are looking at
Speaker 1: him for what they are.
Speaker 2: And Ben, You're not the only person making that point.
Speaker 2: I'm not the only person making that point. Just this week,
Speaker 2: there was an article in Axios and Axios may be
Speaker 2: the sort of most insidery Washington d C. Swampy media
Speaker 2: outlet there is, and the lead reporters there, Jim Vanderheind
Speaker 2: Mike Allen. They write a column that is really worth
Speaker 2: reading because it's astonishing. It is entitled behind the Curtain
Speaker 2: DEM's dark, deep Hole, and here's what they write. They say,
Speaker 2: top Democrats tell us their party is in its deepest
Speaker 2: toll in nearly fifty years, and they fear things could
Speaker 2: actually get worse, and they lay out a series of
Speaker 2: bullet points. The party has its lowest favorability ever, no
Speaker 2: popular national leader to help improve it, insufficient numbers to
Speaker 2: stop most legislation in Congress, a durable minority on the
Speaker 2: Supreme Court, dwindling influence over the media ecosystem with right
Speaker 2: wing with right leaning podcasters like Ted Cruz and Ben Ferguson,
Speaker 2: I may be adding that to which I say, and
Speaker 2: social media accounts ascendant, and that clearly is about verdict
Speaker 2: with Ted Cruz and all of our incredible listeners. Another bulletpoint,
Speaker 2: young voters are growing dramatically more conservative. A bad twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six map for Senate races. Democratic Senate retirements could
Speaker 2: make it harder for the party to flip the House.
Speaker 2: With members tempted by statewide races. There are only three
Speaker 2: House Republicans in districts former Vice President Harris I in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, a dim signed for a Democratic surge.
Speaker 2: There were twenty three eight years ago in seats Hillary
Speaker 2: Clinton won, and thanks to the number of people fleeing
Speaker 2: blue states, the math for a DEM to win the
Speaker 2: presidency will just get harder in twenty thirty. Amen. Amen, Amen,
Speaker 2: Amen to that.
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