WEBVTT - Dems Make Clear: They Support Open Borders MUCH MORE than They Care about Ukraine 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:02.560 Welcome. 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:05.520 It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:07.400 you as well, and we have a lot to talk 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:12.320 about on this episode, including Zelensky coming to Washington begging 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:15.760 for more money that involves you crave funding, which involves 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:20.120 funding at the border, which involves funding with Israel, and 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:22.680 if that's not enough for you, we also have an 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:26.160 update on impeachment moving its way through the House. Senator, 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:28.880 let's go back to the very beginning, and it was 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:33.159 a wild day on Capitol Hill. You've got Zelensky who 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.640 comes to town, he's asking for money. The thread that 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:39.920 we've seen of kind of headlines here from the Democrats 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:45.360 is you must stand with them no matter what, forever importuity, Amen, 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:48.120 And you can't ask questions about where the money's going 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:51.440 or transparency. We've just got to write then this blank 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:56.200 check And how dare you Republicans tie this to border security? 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:58.360 Give me your initial reaction to that. 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:06.840 Zelensky's coming to Washington yesterday was designed. It's a manifestation 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:11.839 of the Democrats not living in reality. Chuck Schumer does 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:15.959 not believe that Republicans are serious about securing the border. 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.479 He's in absolute denial and I got to say, the 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:24.120 supplemental bill on Ukraine, the border in Israel, the entire 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:26.600 thing is in a stalemate, and I think it is 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:30.440 very possible this thing will not pass for a long 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:34.119 time because Schumer and the Democrats they're living in an 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:39.880 alternate reality and they're just assuming Republicans will cave. Now, sadly, 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.640 that is a reasonable assumption in a lot of instances. 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:46.080 Senate Republicans in particular, are are pretty quick to cave. 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.680 I don't think that's going to happen in this instance, 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.880 and Schumer and the Democrats don't believe it. And so 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:57.720 Zelensky came this week to Washington because they're trying to 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:02.320 bludgeon Republicans into set saying Ukraine really really really needs 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:06.080 the money, rather than Look, there have been a lot 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:09.360 of Republicans. House Republicans have made very clear there will 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:14.799 be no Ukraine bill without serious, strong border security. And 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:18.119 right now the Democrats are saying, we won't do border security, 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:21.520 but give us the Ukraine money. Anyway, that ain't going anywhere. 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:23.959 Yeah, it was also saying that the news Speaker of 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:26.320 the House Mike Johnson referred to. He said, look, they 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:31.360 basically went silent when referring to negotiations with Republicans on 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:35.160 this US border security package. Take a listen to what 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.280 he had to say on Fox News. 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:42.560 Significant steps that are happening, negotiations still going on. Secretary 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.320 Mariorcis and others in the administration about changes. 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:46.839 Well, I hope. 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:46.960 So. 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:49.480 Look, I've been crystal clear about this. You know, if 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:51.840 we're going to have a national security package of spending, 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:55.160 national security begins at our own border. This is about 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:58.919 our own sovereignty. That these are policy changes that could 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:02.480 be easily made. But the White House has been very reluctant. 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:05.880 They really went silent on us all of this time. 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:07.840 I've been the Speaker for a little over six weeks, 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.800 almost seven weeks, and since the day I was handed 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:12.800 the gavel, I've been saying that this was the condition 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:15.720 that we had to do this first, and we passed 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.119 HR two. The House passed our bill six months ago. 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.720 It's been sitting on the desk of Chuck Schumer ever since. 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:22.760 They've not taken it seriously. And here we are at 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:24.400 the end of the year, and now they're saying we've 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.239 run out of time. It's not the House's fault. 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.200 Yes, here is Center Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on the 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:30.480 timing of all this Sticklers. 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.680 They're leaving at the end of the week, so all 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:39.760 I have said is practically impossible. Even though we reach 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:43.880 an agreement to craft it, get it through the Senate, 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.880 get it through the House before Christmas, that doesn't mean 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:52.120 it's not important. And even though we've been emphasizing the border, 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:57.240 I want to remind everybody of the importance of Ukraine. 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:02.200 So just logistically, it would you send the house home 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.760 and then call them back if there's a deal, or 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:07.280 just punt everything to January. 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:09.760 Look, the House will do its work if there was 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.720 a deal, but it has not materialized, and as of tonight, 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.520 they have given us the cold shoulders, so they're ignoring 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.680 this what I believe is the top priority of the 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:19.640 American people. It doesn't matter where I've been in the 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:23.039 country over the last few weeks, Brett, whether I'm in 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:26.640 New York or the southeast or out west, they all 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.040 say the same thing. They're deeply concerned about what's happening. 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.440 We had twelve thousand people come over that border one 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:33.560 day last week and Wednesday. If you look at the 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.800 statistics from October November and so far in December more 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:40.200 people have crossed that border illegally since any entire year 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.280 during the Obama administration. It is not a sustainable situation. 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.000 It is a harm in our country in ways that 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.840 are hard to describe, and we have to get on top. 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:50.720 So here's my question. 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.760 You hear the Senate majority leader there, obviously, Mitch McConnell, 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.200 and implying like, hey, there's no deal. So if they 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.200 think this is going to get done before Christmas, that's 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:00.760 just not reality. Then you have this speaker saying the 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:03.560 White House went silent on us on border package, and 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.120 he said the policy change is easily made, but the 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.640 White House has been very reluctant to do this. So 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:14.040 Redisin behind the scenes, why is it this much of 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.960 a hell bent answer from the Democrats not to secure 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.839 a southern border knowing these numbers we talked about twelve 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:21.839 thousand coming across just last Wednesday alone. 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.640 Because the Democrats right now are in a state of denial, 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:27.240 Let's rewind. 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:27.720 A couple of weeks ago. 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:32.200 Two weeks ago, we had a classified briefing in the Senate, 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:33.440 had every senator in there. 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:34.400 It was on Ukraine. 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:38.120 It had the Secretary of State, it had the Secretary 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:41.839 of Defense, it had the intelligence agencies there, and the 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:46.080 entire purpose of the briefing was to say, Ukraine really, 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:49.960 really really needs the money. 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:50.479 Now. 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.160 On the Republican side, the Republican position for a long 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:55.840 time has been this bill will not move without real 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:57.960 border security. And so right at the outset, when we 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.680 got to the questions, most of the briefing questions from 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.840 the senators, Republicans began to make clear, all right, well 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:08.039 where are we on border security? And Chuck Schumer, what 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.920 happened is something I've never seen before. There was a 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.080 screaming match down in the skiff, down in the secure 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:17.200 facility where we're having the classified briefing, where senators are 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:19.440 screaming at the top of their lungs at each other, 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:23.840 and several senators stormed out. I've never seen that. And 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:28.320 what precipitated it is Schumer sat back and crossed his 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:30.880 arms and he was defiant. He was like, no, we 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:33.479 are not doing border security. This is not a part 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.359 of it. It's not gonna happen. That's not what this 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:38.240 briefing is about. And we're not even going to talk 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:42.600 about it. And a whole lot of Republicans got pissed. 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:47.400 Now that was the defiance two weeks ago, and Schumer 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:54.840 bizarrely believes that that is a reasonable and viable negotiating position. Now, 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:59.039 last week David Cameron was in town. David Cameron, you'll remember, 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:02.480 it was the former prime of the United Kingdom. He's 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:04.840 now the Foreign Minister of the United Kingdom. So he's 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:07.080 back in the government. This time he's Foreign Minister instead 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.800 of Prime Minister. And so he came to Washington, d c. 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:13.360 And often when you have heads of state or senior 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:17.040 officials from foreign countries, they will sit down and meet 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:20.120 for coffee with the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.760 And so I'm on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:24.679 so I went to that coffee and so we're sitting 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.400 it's in a very cool it's a ceremonial room in 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:32.320 the capital, that is the Foreign Relations Committee room. And 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.240 when we have it there, they put a tablecloth on 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.720 this table that's, you know, one hundred plus years old, 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:42.280 and they serve tea and china. It's it's kind of 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.880 very old school, and you sit around talking with the 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:47.440 head of state or in this case, the British Foreign minister, 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.120 and he was there talking about Ukraine. He was part 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.640 of the lobbying effort to say, you gotta get money 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:56.600 to Ukraine, you gotta give money to Ukraine. And I 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.160 got to the coffee a few minutes late, so I 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:01.760 was near the end of the order of the senators 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:05.760 who were commenting or speaking, and so I heard senator 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:10.040 after senator, mostly Democrats, just saying everything is wonderful and 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.040 peachy keen, and we're going to vote out more Ukraine 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:15.080 funding and it's going to happen. And at one point 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:19.160 Bob Menendez, Democrat from New Jersey, he was talking about 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:22.320 he mentioned the border briefly and he said, look, the border. 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:24.920 The problem there is there's a lot of poverty in 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.160 Latin America, and that's really we're never going to fix 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.920 this until until we cure poverty in Central and South America. 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.520 So that's what we need to do, is make them 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:35.200 rich countries and we won't. 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:35.679 Have that problem. 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:40.560 So it got to me and I said said to Cameron, 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:45.000 I said, listen, number one, it's not your job to 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:50.199 try to resolve our border security problems. You're here representing 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:54.440 the government of the United Kingdom. However, you should know, 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.400 because you have a distinct interest in knowing this, that 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:02.480 right now, this Ukraine bill is going nowhere. It is dead. 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:04.839 And the reason you just heard, you just heard a 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:08.199 bunch of Democrats blow and smoke up your rear end. 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:12.400 They're just telling you everything is fine. And so I 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.480 actually relayed the story to Cameron about what had happened 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:18.920 the preceding week in the classified briefing, where Schumer had 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.440 defiantly said we'll do nothing and people had screamed and 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:24.559 stormed out, And I said, I said to Cameron, listen, 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.560 I don't know what is wrong with my Democrat colleagues. 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:32.960 But Number one, the chances of a bill that funds 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.920 Ukraine and doesn't secure the border, the chances of that 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:40.319 passing the House are zero point zero zero percent. There 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.920 is no way. Mike Johnson's been saying that from the 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:44.000 day became speaker. 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:45.960 Zero chance. 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.320 And Schumer and the Democrats are just incomplete denial. And 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:52.400 I said, let me be clear, I think the chances 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:54.719 are exceptionally slim it would pass the Senate. I can 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.360 tell you the Senate Republican conference is as unified on 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:00.439 this issue as I've ever seen it. You played a 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:02.880 minute ago the clip from Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell may 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:08.840 be the biggest Ukraine hawk among the Republicans. He wants 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:14.760 to fund Ukraine. And even Mitch is holding firm on this. 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:18.080 We don't have any defectors on the Republican side. And 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:22.760 the bizarre thing is Schumer is just in utter denial, 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.320 and the other Democrats are as well. And by the way, 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.920 I pointed out, you know, Menendez said, well, gosh, it's 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.880 just poverty in Latin America. I said, with all due 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:34.959 respect to what Bob said, you know what, there's been 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:38.319 poverty in Latin America a long time. That's not the 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:42.040 cause of this crisis. When Biden came into power, he 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:46.280 inherited the lowest rate of illegal immigration in forty five years. 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.840 You know what, there was poverty in Latin America then too. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.400 The reason for the crisis is Joe Biden and his 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:55.240 administration refused to follow the law. They've implemented catch and 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:59.680 release and the numbers of skyrocketed. Nine point six million 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.679 ELI legal aliens have crossed under Joe Biden. And what 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.040 I said at this this coffee with the Senate for 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:09.520 Relations Committee, I said, listen, Eric Adams, the liberal Democrat 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.560 mayor of New York City, says that one hundred and 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.400 ten thousand illegal immigrants in New York City are a 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.920 crisis and they are destroying New York City. Now he's 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:21.760 right about that, Yeah, But if one hundred and ten 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.160 thousand are doing that to New York City, what in 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.959 the hell do you think nine point six million are 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:29.440 doing to Texas and the other states of the southern border. 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:31.160 And so I made that point to Cameron. And the 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.400 bizarre thing is, listen, I had multiple conversations with my 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:38.320 Democrat colleagues today. They still believe, oh, we'll reach a 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:42.160 deal on this, you know, just some reasonable compromise. 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:42.400 You know. 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:45.680 One one Democrat senator suggested to me, well, well, maybe 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:49.480 the White House will agree to reinstate Title forty two. Well, no, 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:53.240 forget it. That is not When Title forty two was 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:56.160 in place, we still had the worst illegal immigration in history, 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:57.160 and they got. 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:58.960 Title forty two. What that was, because some of you 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:00.040 may not remember. 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:04.800 So Title forty two was a law that allowed individuals 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.720 to be sent back because of COVID and so it 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:11.400 was the one area where Biden was not practicing catch 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.640 and release, where there was some limited deportation, and then 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:16.840 they ended Title forty two and they decided, okay, everyone 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:22.320 gets to stay. Basically the problem that goes right to 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.040 the heart of this why do we have a border crisis? 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:31.839 Three words, catch and release. Joe Biden unilaterally ended the 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:35.319 Remain in Mexico agreement and began when people got apprehended, 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.800 they release them. As long as we do catch and release, 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.240 the border will not be secure. 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One the 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:07.640 hysterical bowing down to Warnock introduction. I can't not play 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:11.360 it and that just made me laugh. Welcome to MSNBC, right, 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:13.880 And then the second thing is is him trying to 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.760 go on offense against Republicans with a terrible argument. 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:17.360 Take a listen. 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:19.920 Helpful to have a pastor around, even better if they're 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.600 also a senator. And joining me now is Senator and 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:26.320 Reverend Raphael Warnock and Georgia, senior pastor at Doctor King's Church, 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:30.520 Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Happy Holidays in advance, Merry 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:31.760 Christmas in advanced. 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:32.960 Happy holidays. Great to be with. 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:33.400 You, Thank you. 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:35.360 It is good to see something that's taking the preacher's voice. 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:36.200 But I'll do my best. 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:36.920 That's okay, Liotle. 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:38.680 Preacher can always find their voice. That's one thing I 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:40.720 know about a pastor. But let's talk about all of 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:42.800 the Let's go through a few other things. I want 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:46.120 to start with Ukraine. In the House as well as 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.160 some in the United States Senate, there is this resistance 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:52.680 to providing funding for Ukraine, which is still suffering this 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:57.000 attack from Russia, trying to trade things like border border policy, 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:01.960 border security for funding jd Vance saying basically that Ukraine 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.480 should seed land and cut a deal. What in the 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:06.040 world is going on on the other side of the aisle. 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:09.040 That's a very good question. I'll tell you that this 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:13.600 is politics in the worst sense of the word. There 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:18.000 is no replacement for American leadership in the world. I 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:23.960 have had occasion now on a few opportunities to hear 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.760 President Zelensky, to meet him, and I think he's just 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.520 a very impressive person who is standing up in a 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.560 critical moment, not only for his country but in terms 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:38.280 of the world order. And it's unfortunate that I've got 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:44.640 colleagues who are reducing such an important geopolitical crisis to 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:49.640 typical political horse trading. Look, there are issues at the 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:53.080 border and they need to be addressed. I for one, 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:58.320 am open to any reasonable bipartisan proposal that will get 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:00.880 there on the way to what we really need. It's 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:03.440 comprehensive immigration reform. But this is one of the most 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:09.200 fraught issues in our political system, and so unfortunately not everybody, 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:11.560 not all the Republicans. But on the other side you 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.439 have some Republicans who are not willing to support Ukraine 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:18.280 no matter what, and so they're just using this issue 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.760 of the border, which is very serious in the most 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.640 cynical way. I hope that at the end of the day, 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:30.880 Kula heads will prevail. Certainly, we don't want to see 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:36.520 American soldiers on the ground as Putin continues his aggressive 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:40.879 move across Europe. I think it only makes sense for 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:42.399 us to support our friends in Ukraine. 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:44.040 Yeah, but by the way, I just have to go 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:45.800 to the very end part there when he says, well, 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.000 it's almost like a weird threat. And this is like 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:49.800 the third or fourth time I've heard this this week 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:53.320 from Democrats. Well, if you guys don't give the funding, 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:56.280 you may see American troops over there. 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:57.840 So you should really give. 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:01.520 This funding because if you don't, then it's your fault 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:04.480 that we have to send American troops. That is the 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:08.560 most messed up negotiating I've ever seen from Democrats. And 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:10.600 I've seen a lot of pretty crappy stuff. You've seen 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:13.240 more being in Washington Center. But that's a whole nother 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:15.840 level of vile politics that I just don't I can't 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:17.000 beliether even trying it. 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:20.280 Well, look, you got to understand that that those comments 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:25.639 that that Raphael Warnock made were filled with hypocrisy and 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.919 sadly with dishonesty. You know, it started right at the 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:31.240 beginning by emphasizing that he's a pastor. It's true, although 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:33.720 I'll tell you I've never seen a pastor that refuses 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.560 to say Merry Christmas. That he insists on saying Happy Holidays, 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.720 because it turns out more important than being a pastor 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.399 is he's a Democrat and Merry Christmas is not allowed 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:45.520 for Democrats to say. But then when he gets into 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:49.640 the substance, he gets very moralistic about American leadership on Ukraine. 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:52.879 You know what, Raphael Warnock didn't mention that it was 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.159 Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer that caused the war in 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:58.600 Ukraine when they refuse to vote in favor of my 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:02.800 sanctions to Sanctionstream two. I had shut down nord Stream two. 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:05.639 I had passed legislation that shut it down. And on 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.280 the day of the vote, Joe Biden came personally to 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:11.439 Capitol Hill and lobbied the Democrat senators. Now, actually Raphael 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:15.080 Warnock voted with me, but forty four Democrats flipped their 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:19.439 votes at Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer's behest and voted in 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:22.520 favor of Russia and putin and against sanctioning the pipeline. 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:25.639 And weeks later Russia invaded Ukraine. So he admitted no 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.480 responsibility for his own party in causing this war. He 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:33.359 also admitted no responsibility of the Biden administration for funding 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:36.080 both sides of this war, for sending billions of dollars 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:38.840 to Iran that is used to make drones that Russia 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:42.199 is using to kill Ukrainian soldiers that right now Biden 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:44.240 is literally funding both sides of the war. He admits 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:47.040 no fault there, and Stad he moralizes, and he says 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:51.480 on the border he's open to reasonable quote bipartisan solutions. 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:55.320 What Boloney, Raphael Warnock and the rest of the Democrats 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:59.520 have voted every single time, over and over and over 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:04.120 again in favor of open borders, against anything to secure 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:07.040 the border. They have not budged even once. And I 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:09.880 will say I will invite Raphael, I will invite any 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:12.720 of my Democratic colleagues come with me to the border. 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:16.920 See the dead bodies that Texas farmers and ranchers find 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:19.800 every day. Look in the eyes of the children who 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:23.760 were being sexually assaulted and brutalized by the human traffickers. 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:26.639 Look in the eyes of the women who've been violently raped. 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.160 Look in the eyes of the parents who've had kids 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:32.760 who they've lost to fentanyl and drug overdoses because of 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:37.359 the drug traffickers. This is an existential crisis. And you 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:41.760 hear him saying, well, it's just playing politics. Listen. The 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:45.800 position of Republicans, quite reasonably is that we're not going 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:49.400 to focus on securing Ukraine's border until we secure our 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:53.320 own border, because right now, Joe Biden and the Democrats 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:57.240 led by Chuck Schumer have an open invitation to Hamas 0:20:57.280 --> 0:21:01.000 and Hezbeala terrorists to cross our southern order and Ben, 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:03.399 we are living on borrow time. I think it is 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:06.919 only a matter of time before we see tragically another 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:12.520 major terrorist attack because this administration is doing nothing to 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:15.879 prevent terrorists from coming in and they've sat by and 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:19.000 allowed nine point six million to come into this country. 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:22.600 You know, the other day, and this is the clip 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:24.359 we played a moment ago. There was I think it 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:26.800 was when you say twelve thousand, thirteen thousand league immigrants 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:28.000 and came across the. 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:29.119