Speaker 1: Welcome. It is Verdic with Ted Cruz, the Weekend Review,
Speaker 1: Ben Ferguson with you, and here are the big stories
Speaker 1: that you may have missed that we talked about. First
Speaker 1: up Centator Cruz and I went to the memorial for
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk. We're going to talk about that memorial and
Speaker 1: just how incredible it was to watch that level of
Speaker 1: worship and honoring of God and the future legacy of
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk. We're also going to talk about Jimmy Kimmel
Speaker 1: being fired, but not really. It was a four day
Speaker 1: vacation at ABC bringing him right back on the air.
Speaker 1: And finally, it is the third time we've seen us
Speaker 1: shooting alone in Texas, the second time in Dallas area
Speaker 1: with ICE agents being targeted. So what's behind it? We'll
Speaker 1: have that as well. It's the Weekend Review and it
Speaker 1: starts right now. One of the things I think that
Speaker 1: is so cool that came out of this that is
Speaker 1: just something that no one could have planned, is how
Speaker 1: many people are now sharing their own faith and sharing
Speaker 1: the gospel. You and I have talked more about our
Speaker 1: faith on this podcast in the last two weeks than
Speaker 1: we have ever before, and it's not that we're afraid
Speaker 1: to talk about our faith, but we talk a lot
Speaker 1: about what's happening in the world in politics. Jd Vance said, and.
Speaker 2: That was something really profound. Jad said as he said
Speaker 2: that he often felt uncomfortable talking about faith, and he
Speaker 2: made the same comment that he's talked more about faith
Speaker 2: in the last two weeks than he has probably in
Speaker 2: his entire life.
Speaker 1: And I mean even this morning. I had two times
Speaker 1: I was on Fox this morning before the before it started,
Speaker 1: and the entire conversation was not about politics. The entire
Speaker 1: conversation was about faith. Yeah, that his life being taken
Speaker 1: has given the opportunity for all of us to share faith.
Speaker 1: And I think in a more bold way, in a
Speaker 1: more proud way, and a more I'm not afraid to
Speaker 1: share my faith. I think sometimes I think I'm in
Speaker 1: the world of politics and that's maybe not my place
Speaker 1: to be doing that as much. I'm going to change
Speaker 1: my mentality on that, I think forever moving forward.
Speaker 2: And I can think of very few sentiments that would
Speaker 2: make Charlie happier than that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it was the whole time, it was about faith.
Speaker 1: If you look at today, I also think one of
Speaker 1: the most incredible things was you and I were sitting
Speaker 1: there with the most powerful people in the world, certainly
Speaker 1: in the conservative movement where we're all in the political world,
Speaker 1: and the entire thing was about God. I've never seen
Speaker 1: that before. I've never been a part of that before.
Speaker 2: No, And at the very end, President Trump spoke and
Speaker 2: he gave I think, very good remarks. But I want
Speaker 2: you to listen to what he said, in particular about
Speaker 2: Erica and her testimony. Here here, give a listen.
Speaker 3: Did Charlie's incredible and beautiful widow, Erica. We know the
Speaker 3: weight of this monumental loss is almost unbearable, but even
Speaker 3: in the midst of heartache campaign too great to even fathom,
Speaker 3: you have somehow found the strength and deep faith to
Speaker 3: be a comfort to millions and millions of people. And
Speaker 3: thank you very much, Erica, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: You and I have seen Donald Trump give a lot
Speaker 1: of speeches. This was one of the most I think, somber,
Speaker 1: sincere and one of the most incredible speeches I think
Speaker 1: by Donald Trump that had nothing to really.
Speaker 4: Do with him.
Speaker 2: Well, and President Trump knew Charlie. Well, Charlie has spent
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 1: I think he's rattled by it.
Speaker 2: Charlie. Charlie in the twenty sixteen campaign was Don Junior's
Speaker 2: body man. He traveled with Don Junior all over the
Speaker 2: country and Charlie helped mobilize young people for the twenty
Speaker 2: sixteen election. He helped mobilize young people for the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty election. He played a really, really integral part in
Speaker 2: the victory in twenty twenty four. And President Trump has
Speaker 2: spent a lot of time with Charlie Kirk. Just about
Speaker 2: everyone in the White House has. I mean, it was
Speaker 2: one of the things the entire White House has shaken.
Speaker 2: This is not some distant person they don't know. This
Speaker 2: touched almost everyone who works in the Trump administration had
Speaker 2: connections to Charlie, had personal connections, and they were shaken
Speaker 2: by it. And you know one of the bits of
Speaker 2: news that broke this week that I thought it was
Speaker 2: a small snippet, but it encapsulated who Charlie was well.
Speaker 2: And Van Jones, you and I both know, well he's
Speaker 2: very much a man of the left, maybe even far left.
Speaker 2: He's not someone who you would typically envision saying nice
Speaker 2: things about Charlie Kirk. But I want you to listen
Speaker 2: to what he said in the last few days about
Speaker 2: his last interaction with Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 5: Charlie Kirk and I were not friends at all. In fact,
Speaker 5: the last week of his life we were beef and hard,
Speaker 5: beefing online, beefing on air. But the day before he died,
Speaker 5: he did something that shocked me. He sent me a
Speaker 5: personal message calling for personal dialogue. Wanted me to come
Speaker 5: on the show. He said we could be gentlemen together.
Speaker 5: He said we could deal with our disagreements agreeably. And
Speaker 5: in the past week and a half, just watching people
Speaker 5: talk about civil wars and censorship and all this stuff
Speaker 5: coming out of his death, I just thought it was
Speaker 5: important to let people know don't put that on Charlie Kirk,
Speaker 5: because the last day of his life he was reaching
Speaker 5: out to have not more censorship, more conversation, more dialogue
Speaker 5: with somebody who honestly was one of his adversaries. Me
Speaker 5: and I just wanted to share that with the world,
Speaker 5: and I hope that maybe it might help somebody on
Speaker 5: both sides deal with issues more like he did.
Speaker 1: Then putting that out there immediately brought me to today. You
Speaker 1: and I were sitting there and we looked over to
Speaker 1: the right of us, and you leaned over and you said,
Speaker 1: there's Elon. And several weeks or months ago, Charlie had
Speaker 1: said that he wanted Donald Trump and Elon to make up.
Speaker 1: We then a few minutes later see Elon in the
Speaker 1: box with President Trump. They hugged the President, patted him
Speaker 1: on the chest, and he tweeted out a picture Elon
Speaker 1: did of them talking, and all it said was for Charlie.
Speaker 2: I mean, you want to.
Speaker 1: Talk about bringing people back together.
Speaker 2: That's incredible, that's important, it's valuable. It is very much
Speaker 2: a testament to Charlie. The legacy for Charlie. I will say,
Speaker 2: I respect Van Jones for putting that out. You know
Speaker 2: Van better than I do. But he didn't have to
Speaker 2: put that out. He didn't have to say that. And
Speaker 2: I do think it reflects who Charlie was, yea, And
Speaker 2: I think the entire memorial today reflected. It was a
Speaker 2: celebration of his life, and it was a proclamation of
Speaker 2: the gospel and that I'm really grateful to have been
Speaker 2: friends with Charlie. I'm really grateful to have a chance
Speaker 2: to be there for the celebration because I think it
Speaker 2: is going to have really profound impacts on our country.
Speaker 1: I think we're going to end up finding out down
Speaker 1: the road that today was one of the biggest days,
Speaker 1: not in politics with the biggest people in politics in
Speaker 1: a room, but one of the biggest days for young
Speaker 1: men and women accepting Christ and learning about the Lord
Speaker 1: from this horrific moment in our history. And I think
Speaker 1: you look at that bring all these people together, the
Speaker 1: way that he was doing it. I think it's going
Speaker 1: to change the way we have dialogue and conversation. I
Speaker 1: think my demeanor is probably gonna be different. I'm still
Speaker 1: going to fight the good fight, and I'm still going
Speaker 1: to fight hard, but I want to have better conversations
Speaker 1: while doing it. I think everybody's temperature is going to
Speaker 1: change a little bit and how we interact the way
Speaker 1: that Charlie did it. And I left there today, and
Speaker 1: I don't know. I want to ask you this as
Speaker 1: we wrap. I left there today more hopeful for the
Speaker 1: future of this country, yes, than I have been in decades,
Speaker 1: and more hopeful for the younger generation in this country
Speaker 1: that they're going to see the light because I've been
Speaker 1: very worried for quite some time. It's part of the
Speaker 1: reason why I do this is that we have lost
Speaker 1: an entire generation to the radical left. I think we
Speaker 1: are seeing a very quick pendulum shift that only God
Speaker 1: could create and put people in a place to do it.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. You know, I'm reminded of the Scripture, second Chronicle
Speaker 2: seven fourteen. If my people, who are called by my
Speaker 2: name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face
Speaker 2: and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear
Speaker 2: from heaven, and I will forgive their sins, and I
Speaker 2: will heal their land. That has been my prayer for
Speaker 2: a long time, and I think today was, in a
Speaker 2: very real sense, a great many people in America calling
Speaker 2: out for God to hear our prayer and to heal
Speaker 2: our land. And I pray that that is the outcome
Speaker 2: the path we are on, that we see revival. Our
Speaker 2: country needs it now.
Speaker 1: If you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
Speaker 1: you can go back and listen to the full podcast
Speaker 1: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two. All right,
Speaker 1: I want to pay you real quick to something that
Speaker 1: just truly is hysterical, and that is ABC News. We
Speaker 1: thought they had actually done the right thing, and we're
Speaker 1: willing to say that, Yet no Jimmy Kimmel, You're not
Speaker 1: going to go out there and lie about who assassinated
Speaker 1: and what they believed in of Charlie Kirk. We now
Speaker 1: know that the sin for doing that, for that crime
Speaker 1: is a sentence of going on a vacation for about
Speaker 1: six days, so less than a week. And ABC News like,
Speaker 1: all right, we started back up on Tuesday night. Now
Speaker 1: here's the other interesting thing. Not everybody's going along with this.
Speaker 1: Next Star and Sinclair are saying no, they're not.
Speaker 2: Going to be hearing it.
Speaker 1: They want a real apology for him before they think
Speaker 1: about putting him back on the air. Your reaction to that.
Speaker 2: Well, you and I are recording this show Tuesday night,
Speaker 2: and as we're recording it, Kimmel has not yet gone
Speaker 2: on air, So I don't know what he's going to say.
Speaker 2: He might do all sorts of things. He might stand
Speaker 2: up up and give a heartfelt apology. He might admit
Speaker 2: that in his last show he told a lie, he
Speaker 2: engaged in active disinformation. His sort of joke, which wasn't
Speaker 2: remotely funny, was that the murderer of Charlie Kirk was
Speaker 2: a right wing maga guy. Now that's a lie, and
Speaker 2: it's a lie. With consequence. I mean, we've seen the
Speaker 2: polling that shows a majority of Democrats believe Charlie Kirk's
Speaker 2: killer was a right winger. Now that is a brazen lie.
Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk's killer was radicalized. He was a leftist. Law
Speaker 2: enforcement has said this over and over again. He was
Speaker 2: living with his boyfriend who was a transgender, who was
Speaker 2: a furry, who was a man transitioning to be a woman.
Speaker 2: The killer engraved Antifa and transgender slogans on the casings
Speaker 2: that he used for the assassination. So there's no ambiguity.
Speaker 2: This is a man of the left. And so maybe, maybe,
Speaker 2: just maybe, and I may be holding out hope. Kimmel
Speaker 2: stands up and gives a heartfelt apology, says I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: and what happened to Charlie Kirk was horrific. It was
Speaker 2: a political assassination. It is wrong, and it's clear this
Speaker 2: was not some right winger who did this. This was
Speaker 2: a leftist. This is my side of the aisle. This
Speaker 2: is Jimmy Kimmel speaking, and I'm sorry. If that happens.
Speaker 2: I think the odds are very very high. You and
Speaker 2: I almost regardless of what happens, are going to be
Speaker 2: talking about this on Friday's pod. So on Friday, we'll
Speaker 2: know what he said. We don't know what he said
Speaker 2: right now. I think that's unlikely. Maybe I'll be proven wrong,
Speaker 2: but I think it's unlikely that Kimmel. He may give
Speaker 2: a half hearted apology. He may say I'm sorry some
Speaker 2: people were offended. Maybe I actually think he's more likely
Speaker 2: to be defiant and say, to hell with you everyone
Speaker 2: who was offended by the lies that I told. But
Speaker 2: we'll see what I will say. Look my view on Kimmel,
Speaker 2: I think he is profoundly unfunny. He hasn't been funny
Speaker 2: in years. There was a long time ago when he
Speaker 2: could be a comedian, a thousand years ago, but then
Speaker 2: partisanship and hate overcame him, and his show consists of
Speaker 2: just relentlessly screaming I hate Donald Trump. I hate Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: I hate Conservatives, I hate Republicans. By the way, frequently,
Speaker 2: I hate Ted Cruz. Ever since I beat him at basketball,
Speaker 2: I've lived rent free in his head. And the problem is, listen,
Speaker 2: I'm as a Republican, I'm actually fine with comedy that
Speaker 2: is roasting Republicans and Democrats. I think good comedy makes
Speaker 2: fun of everyone. Actually, today I retweeted, so John Stewart
Speaker 2: did a whole riff on the Daily Show blasting me,
Speaker 2: and it was funny as hell. He actually played a
Speaker 2: clip from our last Verdict uh where you know where
Speaker 2: where I talked about Kim Olenna and I did an
Speaker 2: impression of of of of a godfather. Actually, I'll tell
Speaker 2: you what. Let's play John Stewart because this is actually comedy.
Speaker 3: Listen.
Speaker 2: I don't agree with John Stewart's politics, but Stuart is
Speaker 2: actually funny. I mean he makes me laugh and and
Speaker 2: and and so let's play the clip. I'm gonna play clip.
Speaker 2: This is making fun of me. But to all our
Speaker 2: Verdict listeners, this is me playing John Stewart, just mocking me,
Speaker 2: and he does a very good job. He's a talented comedian.
Speaker 2: I'm perfectly fine with with with comedians who mock me,
Speaker 2: as long as that's not all they do, as long
Speaker 2: as they don't just scream I hate you, I hate you,
Speaker 2: I hate you. But but they're actually funny. So here
Speaker 2: was John Stewart on the Daily Show talking about it.
Speaker 2: He's gonna quote Verdict and then he's just gonna mercilessly
Speaker 2: mock me give a listen.
Speaker 6: Now, Cruz has supported this president through insults to his
Speaker 6: own wife looks, and to his own father's loyalties, and
Speaker 6: yet Cruz still manages to maintain a modicum of self
Speaker 6: respect when it comes to this president trampling all over
Speaker 6: a constitution, Sir, it brings me no pleasure.
Speaker 4: To have to play this.
Speaker 2: Look. I like Brendan Carr. He's a good guy. He's
Speaker 2: the chairman of the FCC. I work closely with him.
Speaker 2: But what he said there is dangerous as hell.
Speaker 4: Fan TASTI fan pasthi, Senator Ted Cruz, boldly stating that
Speaker 4: the FCC chairman threatening the licenses of networks is dangerous.
Speaker 4: And Senator Cruz, I would just say, maybe you should
Speaker 4: stop there. I would stop there. I would not continue
Speaker 4: with the thought perfect no notes, all right, go.
Speaker 2: On, And I got to say, he threatens it. He says,
Speaker 2: we can do this thease way, or we could do
Speaker 2: this the hard.
Speaker 4: Way, the sort of routed the hard way.
Speaker 1: Oh what kind of monster.
Speaker 4: Have you ever heard? We could do that did way?
Speaker 1: God, we could do it.
Speaker 6: By god way, hazy odd.
Speaker 4: It's nothing, Godfather, that Lenny from Mice and Men.
Speaker 6: I get bunny.
Speaker 4: The bunny can do a dasy the hard way. You
Speaker 4: got you got more, Senator? Do you?
Speaker 2: And I got to say, that's right out of good Fellows.
Speaker 2: That that that that that that's right out of a
Speaker 2: mafioso coming into a bar going nice bye. You have here.
Speaker 2: It'd be a shame if something happened to it.
Speaker 4: That's not a good Fellaw's call. I know this because
Speaker 4: all of my decorative pillows have good fellas called karma.
Speaker 4: I mean I would go home. I would say, as
Speaker 4: me at home.
Speaker 2: Look at me.
Speaker 4: Now, Senator, unless a man might tell you to go
Speaker 4: home and get your shine box. But I don't because
Speaker 4: you wouldn't even know what that means.
Speaker 6: Dead cruise. I mean to do that with goodfellas, but
Speaker 6: that accent. Is there anything in pop culture that I
Speaker 6: love that you can't ruin?
Speaker 2: Dad? I'm a vegetarian. I don't eat animals, but Lisa,
Speaker 2: animals are so delicious. There's the animal. We get bacon
Speaker 2: from the animal, we get ham from the animal, we
Speaker 2: get sausage from dad. That's all the same animal.
Speaker 1: Smith has release the hounds eggs.
Speaker 4: They're not booing, they're saying boo earns. Imagine having to
Speaker 4: endure a Texas power outage with this guy who wants
Speaker 4: to hear my poo anyway, Well, he ruined my love
Speaker 4: of the sentence. At least I've still got my favorite franchise,
Speaker 4: Star Wars, all to myself, So I don't have the
Speaker 4: force is strong with this storm.
Speaker 2: There is no try.
Speaker 1: Do or do not.
Speaker 4: At best, he sounds like Yoda with a sinus infection,
Speaker 4: trying not to come. Dore Duke, you may enjoy Star
Speaker 4: Wars that Christ, but there's one thing will never have
Speaker 4: in common, and that's my comfort movie. The Princess Bride,
Speaker 4: a fantastical tale of adventure and true love with an
Speaker 4: outstanding cast. Oh you know what's coming. You know what's
Speaker 4: coming with an outstanding cast, including the inimitable Oh it
Speaker 4: just roll it.
Speaker 2: So what does it you have that's so worth living
Speaker 2: for presses on his chest and Wesley goes true liar,
Speaker 2: shut up, witch, I'm not a witch. I'm your wife.
Speaker 2: But after what you just said, I wish I wasn't.
Speaker 2: Don't say that name what pumping, pumpting, hopping, humpet it.
Speaker 2: I can't hear you?
Speaker 4: So whoa that was the straight But oh I'm like, oh,
Speaker 4: the one man. So do you know how hard it
Speaker 4: is to make Mario Lopez uncomfortable? Truely, Mario Lopez, the
Speaker 4: man who need I remind you did this dance in
Speaker 4: a tank tee in front of everyone at the Max.
Speaker 1: All Right, I gotta say I'm laughing a little bit
Speaker 1: because it is pretty good roast. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2: Look, Ben, that's hysterical. I do like to do impressions.
Speaker 2: I'm not particularly great at him, but I have fun
Speaker 2: and I like pop culture. But like, that's actual comedy.
Speaker 2: Like I'm gonna make a prediction right now. What John
Speaker 2: Stewart just did there is one hundred thousand times funnier
Speaker 2: than whatever Jimmy Kimmel will do tonight. So we'll see
Speaker 2: what he does. But look, the point that I made
Speaker 2: in this podcast is the federal government, the FCC, should
Speaker 2: not be threatening the licenses of ABC in order to
Speaker 2: force them to take someone off the air, even someone
Speaker 2: incredibly unfunny with terrible ratings who gets one point one
Speaker 2: million views, which means he gets fewer views and listens
Speaker 2: than Verdict. Does we beat Jimmy Kimmel regularly, and someone
Speaker 2: who was actively lying about a political assassination. I think
Speaker 2: all of those are reasons for ABC to fire him,
Speaker 2: But I don't think the federal government should be forcing
Speaker 2: ABC to fire him. Why because look, when Biden was president,
Speaker 2: the Biden FCC tried to yank Fox News's license, and
Speaker 2: I led the fight against it. We beat them, we
Speaker 2: stopped them from doing it. You know what, if we
Speaker 2: embrace the FCC stripping licenses from anyone who says something
Speaker 2: you disagree with, the next Democrat president who gets in
Speaker 2: the White House will do this, and will come after,
Speaker 2: will come after everyone right of center, and so that
Speaker 2: is that is a slippery slope to oblivion. But at
Speaker 2: the same time, understand, just because I'm saying the federal
Speaker 2: government shouldn't force Kimmel off the air, I think market
Speaker 2: forces should. And it's interesting that that sixty six ABC
Speaker 2: stations did not carry the Kimmel program tonight. And if
Speaker 2: there are enough market forces, ABC ultimately will respond to them.
Speaker 2: I think market forces are a great check for horrific, unfunny, partisan,
Speaker 2: dishonest speech. And by the way, if you're dishonest enough,
Speaker 2: there could also be legal liability and litigation and all
Speaker 2: sorts of consequences that come when you lie on air.
Speaker 2: I just don't think it should be government regulators saying
Speaker 2: we don't agree with the politics of your speech, so
Speaker 2: we're taking your license. But that being said, the world
Speaker 2: is better off without an unfunny, dishonest left wing partisan
Speaker 2: who lies to the American people. And sadly, there was
Speaker 2: a time when Jimmy Kimmel could be funny, but that's
Speaker 2: what he has become.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great point, as before. If you want to hear
Speaker 1: the rest of this conversation on this topic, you can
Speaker 1: go back and dow the podcast from early this week
Speaker 1: to hear the entire thing. I want to get back
Speaker 1: to the big story number three of the week. You
Speaker 1: may have missed, Senator, you were in Dallas when this
Speaker 1: shooting happened. It was eight hours after we watched Gavin
Speaker 1: Newsom go on late night TV demonizing ICE agents, saying
Speaker 1: that they are authoritarian. And then the liberals are like, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: we're not attacking ICE agents. Yes they are. They've undermined them,
Speaker 1: they've demonized them, and we were watching attack after attack
Speaker 1: happen against ICE agents. It's horrific.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was in Dallas this week for a series
Speaker 2: of unrelated meetings, and the news broke that this strange
Speaker 2: gunman had opened fire on an ICE facility in Dallas.
Speaker 2: That he had gone onto a rooftop emulating Charlie Kirk's
Speaker 2: assassin and with a bolt action rifle fired multiple rounds,
Speaker 2: ended up killing two people severely injuring a third. And
Speaker 2: then then he took the gun to himself and took
Speaker 2: his own life. And it was horrific. When the news broke,
Speaker 2: I canceled my morning meeting and just drove over to
Speaker 2: the ICE facility that morning was there, was there shortly
Speaker 2: after the shooting had occurred. And this has happened far
Speaker 2: too often. Here's what I had to say at the
Speaker 2: press conference that was ongoing when I arrived at the facility.
Speaker 2: If this needs to stop, violence is wrong, Politically motivated
Speaker 2: violence is wrong. It was two weeks ago today that
Speaker 2: we saw political assassination in Utah that tore the heart
Speaker 2: out of much of this country. This is the third
Speaker 2: shooting in Texas directed at ICE or CBP. This must stop.
Speaker 2: To every politician who is using rhetoric demonizing ICE and
Speaker 2: demonizing CBP, stop to every politician demanding that ICE agents
Speaker 2: be dosed and calling for people to go after their families. Stop.
Speaker 2: This has very real consequences. Look in America, we disagree.
Speaker 2: That's fine, that's the democratic process. But your political opponents
Speaker 2: are not Nazis. We need to learn to work together
Speaker 2: without demonizing each other, without attacking each other. And I
Speaker 2: want to say thank you. I want to say thank
Speaker 2: you to the brave men and women of law enforcement.
Speaker 2: I want to say thank you to the brave men
Speaker 2: and women of ICE and CBP and everyone who puts
Speaker 2: their lives on the lines to keep us safe. The
Speaker 2: divisive rhetoric tragically has real consequences. I hope that every
Speaker 2: one of us will I hope that every one of
Speaker 2: us will pray Number one, for the safety of law
Speaker 2: enforcement that are risking their lives to keep us safe.
Speaker 2: Number two, for the health of those who were shot
Speaker 2: and injured. Today we still don't know the full details
Speaker 2: of who was injured, but for the families also of
Speaker 2: the victims of this shooting. Violence has no place, It
Speaker 2: is wrong, and we should come together. If we want
Speaker 2: to have a debate of an immigration policies, we can
Speaker 2: do so in the halls of Congress without demonizing each other,
Speaker 2: and especially without demonizing the men and women who every
Speaker 2: day put on a badge and go risk their lives
Speaker 2: to keep us safe. And we should not be putting
Speaker 2: language out there that inspires mad men to commit evil crimes.
Speaker 2: Our prayers are with the men and women of law enforcement,
Speaker 2: and we ought to come together and have some decency
Speaker 2: across the political aisle to say this violence is wrong
Speaker 2: and it needs to stop.
Speaker 1: We know Senator a lot about this gunman. We know
Speaker 1: that he was googling the shooting of our friend whose
Speaker 1: funeral we just went to, Charlie Kirk. We know that
Speaker 1: he was looking at the app that they put out
Speaker 1: there and these websites where you can track ICE agents
Speaker 1: which is doccent where they are.
Speaker 2: That is an app designed to encourage violence against ICE
Speaker 2: agents and law enforcement. And whether it's Gavin Newsom or
Speaker 2: a Keen Jeffries or any any other Democrat who is
Speaker 2: encouraging this targeting of ICE agents, it is fundamentally wrong
Speaker 2: and that they need to stand up and stop it.
Speaker 2: You know, I will say this shooter, it's the news
Speaker 2: has since come out. This shooter his mother was a
Speaker 2: hard leftist who actually had been vocally critical of me
Speaker 2: and other Texas Republicans for not in brace seeing gun
Speaker 2: control and in fact, in May of twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: she posted the following, Governor Abbot, Senator Cornyn, and Senator Cruz,
Speaker 2: how does it feel that your action to open up
Speaker 2: gun laws is responsible for the killing of twenty one
Speaker 2: more people? Do you secretly sit in front of a
Speaker 2: TV and smile with a demented smile. You must be
Speaker 2: proud of all the money that sits in your bank
Speaker 2: accounts from the gun lobby support. Was it worth it?
Speaker 2: Governor Abbot? How about you senators? When you prioritize money
Speaker 2: over people, this is what you get. And I will
Speaker 2: say the irony is rich that this leftist mom who
Speaker 2: was championing gun control now her son has committed a
Speaker 2: mass murder as a sniper. It is tragic and it
Speaker 2: is a consequence of extreme rhetoric, extreme ideology that is
Speaker 2: poisoning the minds of those who are driven to violence.
Speaker 2: And I will say this assassin wrote on his shell
Speaker 2: case anti ice very much, emulating what Charlie Kirk's murderer did,
Speaker 2: writing pro Antifa and pro transgender propaganda on he'll shell casings.
Speaker 2: And we need to stop this violence, regardless of where
Speaker 2: your politics are, but we need to stop the rhetoric
Speaker 2: that is fueling this violence. And there's a lot of
Speaker 2: Democrat politicians engaging in this rhetoric, no matter how many
Speaker 2: lives are lost. And I want to be clear, I
Speaker 2: am not calling them Nazis. I am absolutely opposing any
Speaker 2: violence or calls to violence. I'm calling on them to
Speaker 2: tone down their rhetoric and stop demonizing their opponent, stop
Speaker 2: demonizing ice, stop demonizing law enforcement, because it's dangerous and tragically,
Speaker 2: lunatics are acting on the rhetoric they're hearing from these politicians.
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