1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,600 Speaker 1: All right, So we are doing a dual podcast if 2 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:05,000 Speaker 1: you are listening right now to the Ben Ferguson podcast. 3 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:06,440 Speaker 1: Actually thought I was going to take a little bit 4 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:08,639 Speaker 1: of time off during spring break, but then the war 5 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: broke out in Iran. So Senator Cruz and I are 6 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: doing a dual podcast right now that you are hearing 7 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: both of us, and we've got a lot to bring 8 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:18,960 Speaker 1: you on what's happening in Iran and some other issues 9 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: as well. 10 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,240 Speaker 2: Well. We're in week two of the war with Iran, 11 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 2: and I will say this success is continue to build up. 12 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:29,720 Speaker 2: If you look at the first day of this conflict, 13 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:34,879 Speaker 2: Iran launched three hundred and fifty ballistic missiles. By day 14 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 2: eight that had dropped to fifteen. The second day of 15 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 2: this conflict, Iran launched five hundred and forty one drone 16 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 2: attacks by day eight that had dropped to twelve. What 17 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 2: we have done in less than two weeks now, we 18 00:00:55,160 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 2: have taken out Iran's air defenses. We've taken out their 19 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:05,399 Speaker 2: missile launching capacity, we have taken out their missiles, we 20 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 2: have taken out their missile manufacturing. We've taken out their 21 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 2: drone launch capacity, we have taken out their drones. We 22 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 2: have taken out their drone manufacturing. If you look at 23 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 2: their navy, virtually every ship in their navy has been 24 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:24,040 Speaker 2: sunk to the bottom of the ocean. That effect in 25 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 2: less than two weeks is profound. And I want you 26 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,559 Speaker 2: to listen to the Secretary of War Pete Hesith talking 27 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 2: about what's been accomplished and what to expect next. Give 28 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:35,960 Speaker 2: a listen. 29 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: Before we get to that, though, I want to tell 30 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 1: you about our friends at bitcoin IRA. Can you buy 31 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: real bitcoin in your retirement account? If not, it's time 32 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: to upgrade to bitcoin IRA. You can buy and sell 33 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: bitcoin with major tax advantages. Visit bitcoinra dot com slash 34 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: ben to learn more. Right now, that's bitcoin ira dot 35 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 1: com slash ben or call eight six six six seven 36 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 1: nine seven eight seven to one. That's eight six six 37 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,079 Speaker 1: six seven nine seven eight seven to one. 38 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 3: All right, center, So let's play. 39 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,639 Speaker 2: For every interrupt you let me interrupt you right now, Ben, 40 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 2: So you're right now in Caba. 41 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 3: I am that's true. Yes, yes, that's true. 42 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 2: And I just want to thank you on behalf of 43 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,920 Speaker 2: every Verdict listener, but especially the Verdict viewers. So there 44 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 2: are a lot of Vertict viewers who watch on on 45 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,639 Speaker 2: on YouTube, who watch on Facebook? And I just want 46 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:41,920 Speaker 2: to say, I'm really glad that you are not in 47 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 2: aspito right now. I am not. 48 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:47,799 Speaker 4: I am in a suit, a jacket, or even worse, 49 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 4: a borat. A borat, yes that like covers the equipment 50 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 4: and goes over your shoulders. I'm just gonna say, to 51 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:58,960 Speaker 4: be honest, we don't know if you're in aspeito a 52 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 4: borat because the camera shot is only chest up. 53 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, this is this is what you call hazing. When 54 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: when when when center Cruise is one. 55 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 2: Of us is at work, Like I've spent the whole 56 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:12,639 Speaker 2: day in the Senate, I'm working. By the way, it's 57 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 2: your spring break, it's my spring break. My girls were 58 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 2: were skiing on spring break. I went for a day 59 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 2: and a half and then got on a plane and 60 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 2: I flew back to Washington, d C. Because some of 61 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 2: us have a job. 62 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, I know. And and I'm proud. 63 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: I want you to know that I'm proud of you, 64 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 1: as I would clear on the beach today. 65 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:35,119 Speaker 2: Benjamin has had nineteen dakeries today, and and and if 66 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 2: I asked him to walk in a straight line and 67 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 2: spell the alphabet backwards, he couldn't do so. 68 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 3: I did have two Miami Vices today just an interview. 69 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 3: I knew you would. 70 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 2: I don't even know what a Miami Vice is you. 71 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 3: That's that's just said. I'll introduce you the next time 72 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 3: we're hanging out in Cabba. 73 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 2: What what is a Miami Vice. 74 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 1: It's it's a pinnaclauda strawberry dacre together. They called him 75 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 1: Miami Vice. You never had a Miami Vice in your 76 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 1: entire life. As I'm sitting here in Cava, I will 77 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: mean this sincerely. 78 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 3: I just don't care. I'm That's how happy I am. 79 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 3: All Right, So here we go. Here's Pete head Seth. 80 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 1: We're gonna start with Pete head Seth giving an update 81 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: on the war. I want you to take a listen 82 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 1: to what he had to say about where we are 83 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: now and what is happening. 84 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 3: Take a listen to this. 85 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:21,840 Speaker 5: On day ten of Operation Epic Fury, we are winning 86 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:27,920 Speaker 5: with an overwhelming and unrelenting focus on our objectives, which 87 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:30,559 Speaker 5: are the same as the day I gave my first 88 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:35,039 Speaker 5: briefing here on Operation Epic Fury. They're straightforward, and we 89 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 5: are executing them with ruthless precision. One destroy their missile stockpiles, 90 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 5: their missile launchers, and their defense industrial base missiles and 91 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:53,480 Speaker 5: their ability to make them two destroy their navy, and 92 00:04:53,560 --> 00:05:00,800 Speaker 5: three permanently deny Iran nuclear weapons forever. It's a focused, 93 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 5: maximum authority mission delivered with overwhelming and unrelenting precision, no hesitation, 94 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 5: no half measures. 95 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:12,119 Speaker 3: Well, let me ask you this sinator. 96 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 1: As you hear him lay that out, I want to 97 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: know what the pulsees in DC as you guys are 98 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 1: there talking about this. I'm still trying to figure out 99 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 1: what exactly the Democrat talking point is. I've seen like 100 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:26,160 Speaker 1: four or five of them that they've been kind of 101 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: throwing jello at a wall to. 102 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:29,239 Speaker 3: See if anything will stick. 103 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 1: They're obviously wanting to hurt Donald Trump and this or 104 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:33,159 Speaker 1: trying to say he's going to get into forever or 105 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 1: it's not really working. So what are your colleagues saying 106 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: in the Senate about this? And also among Republicans as well, 107 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 1: there's even been there was an interesting moment by the way, 108 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: where like they were trying to bait you into trashing 109 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:49,040 Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham and others are trying to turn Republicans against Republicans. 110 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: And as I was sitting here on the beach drinking 111 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 1: my Miami Vice. I enjoyed watching You Have to Deal 112 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 1: with That on TV because I just got to be 113 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 1: a spectator. 114 00:05:57,920 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 3: It was great. 115 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, last night I was on Laura Ingram, and 116 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,920 Speaker 2: Laura's a friend and she's supporting President Trump in this 117 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 2: military conflict. But she asked a whole series of questions 118 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 2: about aren't you upset that it's been reported that Lindsey 119 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,839 Speaker 2: Graham was talking to Prime Minister net and Yahoo? And 120 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 2: she basically said, isn't Lindsay acting as a lobbyist for Israel? 121 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 2: And I said, Laura, with all due respect, now, and 122 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 2: that's really a silly question. Listen, Lindsey, I agree with 123 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,720 Speaker 2: Lindsay on some issues. I disagree with Lindsay on other issues. 124 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:37,720 Speaker 2: You look at the Iraq War. Lindsay was a big 125 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 2: proposent of the Iraq War. I think the Iraq War 126 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 2: was a serious mistake. I think it did harm to 127 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 2: the United States. And I've said that for a long 128 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 2: long time. So Lindsay and are on totally different pages 129 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:52,280 Speaker 2: when it comes to Iraq. When it comes to Iran, 130 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 2: Lindsey and I agree. I think when the Ayatola says 131 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:58,839 Speaker 2: death to America. He means it. I think President Trump 132 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 2: is right to act to take out the leadership in 133 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 2: Iran because having radical Islamist leadership that wants to murder 134 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 2: Americans is bad for America. The regime in Iran has 135 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 2: been the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism for forty 136 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 2: seven years. Theyre provide ninety percent of the funding for Hamas, 137 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 2: for Hesbela and for the Houthis. They've killed nearly one 138 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 2: thousand Americans in the last five decades. The Ayahtola he 139 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:36,240 Speaker 2: leads mobs channing death to America, and he hires two 140 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 2: different crews of hit men to try to murder Donald J. Trump. 141 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, by the way too, and can pause on that. 142 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 2: One was just convicted the last week of doing so. Yeah. 143 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 1: I was gonna say, let's spend a moment on this 144 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 1: because this is part of the Democrats talking point, and 145 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:54,559 Speaker 1: I've been fighting this pretty hard on TV as well, 146 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 1: and they're like, well, they weren't. There was not a 147 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 1: direct threat here. This was not a direct threat to America. 148 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 1: You're now putting people in harm's way. Let's make it 149 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 1: very clear on this show as you described it, not 150 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: one but two that we know about were sent to 151 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: try to take out and kill the President of America. 152 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 3: That came directly from Iran. 153 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 2: And by the way, the hitman told the Department of Justice, 154 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 2: I was hired by Iran, I was trained by Iran, 155 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 2: and my purpose was to murder President Trump. There's no 156 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 2: dispute that it was Iran that was paying for this. 157 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 2: And I will note if you remember last year when 158 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 2: I was interviewed by Tucker Carlson, it was an unhinged interview, 159 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 2: but he disputed me. He said, no, no, no, I've 160 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 2: never heard that Iran's trying to murder Donald Trump, which 161 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:44,680 Speaker 2: was insane and totally counterfactual. And it's hard to actually 162 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 2: argue with someone for whom facts don't matter and they 163 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:51,959 Speaker 2: just make up facts. But then Tucker said, bizarrely, well, 164 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:57,679 Speaker 2: and if Iran was trying to murder Trump, we should 165 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 2: attack them now, we should nuke them, which was insane. 166 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 2: And by the way, I will say, in Monday's podcast, 167 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:11,199 Speaker 2: we pointed out Tucker has become such an Islamist shill, 168 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 2: such an Israel hating zealot, such an advocate for every 169 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 2: Islamist enemy of America that he has argued this week 170 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 2: that President Trump's demand for unconditional surrender of Iran means 171 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:34,560 Speaker 2: that Iran should expect American soldiers to rape their wives 172 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 2: and daughters. Yes, that is an absolute slander of our 173 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:45,959 Speaker 2: American servicemen and women. It is totally false, it is ahistorical. 174 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 2: We don't do that. Other armies do that. America does not. 175 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 2: And he also argued that he thinks America is going 176 00:09:53,960 --> 00:10:01,200 Speaker 2: to nuke Iran. To be clear, that's what Jahadis Tucker 177 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 2: said in his interview we should do if Iran was 178 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 2: trying to murder President Trump. We now have one of 179 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 2: the hit men convicted in a federal jury for trying 180 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 2: to murder Trump. So Tucker's bad faith, disingenuous position is 181 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 2: we should nuke them. Of course, we should nuke them. 182 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 2: We're not gonna nuke Iran. That is bizarre, that is wrong. 183 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 2: We're also not There is no circumstance in which American 184 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 2: soldiers are going to rape the women of Iran. But 185 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 2: do you know who is broadcasting Tucker's broadcast right now? 186 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 3: Literally Iran? 187 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 1: The state sponsored media is broadcasting it to their people. 188 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:48,400 Speaker 2: The government of Iran is broadcasting Tucker to their people. 189 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 2: The Muslim Brotherhood has retweeted and put out Tucker's broadcast 190 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 2: to the world. R T the press organization Russia. Russia 191 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 2: Today is pushing out Tucker. So you want to talk 192 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:06,319 Speaker 2: about a damn effective propagandist for people who hate America. 193 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 2: And this is the slippery slope of Jew hate and 194 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 2: Israel hate. You start with just hating Israel and Jews 195 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 2: blaming everything bad in the world. It's the Jews, and 196 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 2: you very quickly get into the problem is capitalism. By 197 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 2: the way, Tucker is now attacking capitalism on a daily 198 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 2: basis and embracing He's embraced Comrade Mandami as the mayor 199 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:32,320 Speaker 2: of New York. He's defended him repeatedly. He's embraced Nicholas Maduro, 200 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 2: the Marxist America hating dictator of Venezuela, who Donald Trump 201 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:39,680 Speaker 2: went and rightly apprehended for being one of the biggest 202 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:44,439 Speaker 2: drug dealers in the world, killing Americans. Tucker is defending him. 203 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 2: And that pattern is incredibly dangerous. We're seeing it play 204 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 2: out every day. 205 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 3: By the way, side note, this is going to be interesting. 206 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 1: I want you to guess in two thousand, this would 207 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 1: probably be two thousand and. 208 00:11:57,840 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 3: Nine, eight or nine. 209 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,840 Speaker 1: My big to day to day like to date right now, 210 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:07,080 Speaker 1: the biggest contract I've ever been offered in my entire 211 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:08,960 Speaker 1: life to do radio TV. 212 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 3: Do you know who it was from? 213 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:13,680 Speaker 2: I'm guessing Tucker. And what I want to ask is, 214 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 2: did you have to buy a home and cut her 215 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 2: like he has no. 216 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:17,680 Speaker 1: No, that's a good guess, but no, it was not. 217 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 1: My biggest offer in the history of my career was RT. 218 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,679 Speaker 1: They tried to hire. They were trying to hire conservatives, 219 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 1: and so in two thousand whatever year they like, they 220 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:30,079 Speaker 1: came into America in the marketplace. 221 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 2: How much did they offer you? 222 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 3: Oh dude, it was seven figures. 223 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:36,320 Speaker 1: I mean it was I don't remember, Like seriously, I 224 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:38,720 Speaker 1: get rich, like instant, get rich money. 225 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 2: So they offered you over a million dollars. 226 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 3: Yes, over a million dollars. 227 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:46,680 Speaker 2: So the likes to say, Vladimir Putin is wise and 228 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 2: a damn good looking man. 229 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 1: So this is how they entrap people. As I describe it, 230 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 1: I was in the bush years. I get a phone 231 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:58,319 Speaker 1: call from a former worker slash, you know, TV executive 232 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 1: from Fox News Channel, and they said, Hey, I've moved 233 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:02,959 Speaker 1: on to something else. I'd love to meet with you. 234 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 1: I'm like, sure, more than happy to me. I'd worked 235 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 1: with them before at Fox News Channel. Like, okay, no 236 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:10,199 Speaker 1: big deal. I go to lunch in DC, that's where 237 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 1: I was living at the time, and she hands me 238 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 1: her card and she's working for RT and I'm like 239 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 1: RT like Russia today like and she's like yes, and 240 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 1: she's like, we would love to have you come on 241 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 1: and just give your viewpoint. We would never tell you 242 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 1: what to say. We would never tell you what to like. 243 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 1: You know, we want you to just be exactly who 244 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,280 Speaker 1: you are. We want a fair and balanced conversation about 245 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: the world. We think you would be great. I was like, 246 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 1: I was like, I'm still in shock. I'm like this 247 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 1: is I'm like looking for cameras. I'm waiting for, like 248 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 1: you know, somebody to come out, like from the side 249 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:40,679 Speaker 1: room like we got him. 250 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 3: And I'm like I literally looked. 251 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 1: I was like, there's no amount of money that is 252 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:46,800 Speaker 1: gonna make me work for the Russia and for BLA. 253 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 1: I think I said Vladimir put and they were like, well, 254 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 1: here's the offer, and they slid it across the table. 255 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 3: It was like a scene ow of the movie. And 256 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:52,560 Speaker 3: I opened it. 257 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: It was I mean, it was seven figures and I literally, 258 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:57,599 Speaker 1: I literally number tell me what seven figures means? Do 259 00:13:57,679 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 1: you remember that it was well over a million per year? 260 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:01,959 Speaker 1: But it was a multi year deal, so it was like. 261 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 2: It was like a million one, a million nine, Like I. 262 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 1: Can't remember if it was like I want to say 263 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:08,560 Speaker 1: again a long time. I want to say it was 264 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:10,080 Speaker 1: like a million two or three. And that was their 265 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 1: first offer per year. And so I leave the meeting 266 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:15,560 Speaker 1: and I'm like, look, I'm not going to do it, 267 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 1: but things, I just think about it and I'm like, 268 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:18,560 Speaker 1: I'm not going to do it, but things they're like, well, 269 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 1: if you ever want to come as a guest or 270 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 1: if you ever change your mind. So I leave and 271 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 1: I called John Ashcroft at the time, he was the 272 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 1: former Turity general. I was like, John, I just got 273 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: offered money from Vladimir Putin. He was like started chuckling, 274 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 1: like Santa. He was like Russia today. I was like, yay. 275 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 1: He's like, you're like the eighth person's called me today 276 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 1: to tell me the last week they're getting an offer 277 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 1: from russiaday because they're trying to legitimize themselves in America 278 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: for their propaganda. 279 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 3: And then they were on. 280 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 1: TV until they invaded Ukraine and then Artie like fired 281 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:48,280 Speaker 1: everybody in America. But I knew people that took the 282 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 1: money and got rich, like I knew like legitiularly, like yeah, 283 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 1: take the Russian cash, like no problem. That is by 284 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 1: the way, the reason why I bring it up is 285 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:57,320 Speaker 1: because with Tucker Carlson, when everybody's like, well, there is 286 00:14:57,320 --> 00:14:59,040 Speaker 1: there really money to be made to be like anti 287 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:03,560 Speaker 1: America anti Yes, there is lots of money that people 288 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 1: are getting paid. I don't know who's getting paid, but 289 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 1: a lot of people are getting paid. 290 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 3: So just know that money. 291 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 2: By the way, we know that a foreign funders for 292 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 2: US universities. Yeah, the number one country in the world. 293 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 2: You know what it is? Is it China? Nope? 294 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:21,160 Speaker 3: Really, Russia nope? 295 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 2: Iran nope? 296 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 3: All right, who is it? 297 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 2: Cutter? 298 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:26,720 Speaker 3: Oh that okay, there you go. 299 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 2: Six point six billion dollars with a B. 300 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 1: Six point six billion comes from cut to our universities, 301 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 1: to our universities. 302 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 2: You want to know why our universities are so rabidly 303 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 2: anti American, so rabidly anti Semitics, so rabidly anti Israel, 304 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 2: so rabidly anti capitalism, so rapidly Look you look at 305 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 2: the anti Semitic protests that we had on college campuses 306 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 2: all across the country. Yeah, did any of you notice 307 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 2: that the tents all matched? 308 00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:58,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go. 309 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:02,600 Speaker 2: And to be clear cutter, by the way, it's been 310 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 2: publicly reported, they hired spies to spy on me. They 311 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 2: view me as their biggest opponent in Washington, and listen, 312 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 2: it's very simple. I don't have anything against the Kutaris 313 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 2: other than they welcome and host. Hold, let me finish this, 314 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:22,520 Speaker 2: Let me finish this. I don't have anything against the 315 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 2: Kataris other than that they welcome and host the senior 316 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 2: leadership of Hamas. They live like billionaires, They live in 317 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 2: lavish luxury. They support Hamas, they encourage Hamas, They fund 318 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:41,520 Speaker 2: Israel haters, America haters, communists, people tearing America down. They 319 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 2: propagandize our kids. I'm perfectly happy to welcome the Qataris 320 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 2: into the society of civilized nation if they will stop 321 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 2: funding people trying to destroy America. And I don't take 322 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 2: it kindly when you write lots of checks to people 323 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 2: who hate American or trying to destroy our nation. I 324 00:16:57,360 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 2: view that as less than friendly content. 325 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 1: This year marks a critical moment for our country. 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Sometimes he really is methodical. 352 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:41,720 Speaker 3: It's not there's nothing exciting happening there. 353 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:43,880 Speaker 2: I just want to be calling right like a can 354 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,480 Speaker 2: can I tell a story? And it's a story some 355 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 2: of our podcast listeners will will will remember. So back 356 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen, when I'm running for president and it's 357 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:58,640 Speaker 2: it's getting down to to the end of the race, 358 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 2: and it's me and Donald trumpet where neck and neck. 359 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 2: And in that race, I won twelve states, Trump won 360 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 2: twenty four, and no other Republican won more than a 361 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:13,639 Speaker 2: single state Kaiseiquan, Ohio, Rubio one Minnesota, and Trump and 362 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 2: I won every other state in the country. And in 363 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:21,639 Speaker 2: the course of that campaign, there was a story that 364 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:25,679 Speaker 2: broke in the National Inquirer that said I was having 365 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:31,199 Speaker 2: five simultaneous affairs and this is front page, big story. 366 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:36,680 Speaker 2: Cruise caught yes, and look, men, you know my wife, Heidi, 367 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:42,679 Speaker 2: I do. I had to call Heidi and for anyone married. 368 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 2: Let me say to everyone listening and watching this spot, 369 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 2: if you're married, I got to tell you, it sucks 370 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:52,359 Speaker 2: to pick up the phone and call your spouse and 371 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:56,040 Speaker 2: say a sweetheart. So there is a front page story 372 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:01,119 Speaker 2: that is in every checkout aisle of every supermarket in 373 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:08,439 Speaker 2: America that said I'm having five simultaneous affairs and I 374 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:10,480 Speaker 2: adore Heidi. She's my best friend in the world. But 375 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 2: I was nervous about this call. That is not a 376 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 2: fun If you had to call on and say that, 377 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 2: that would be a call that sucked. So I make 378 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:21,879 Speaker 2: the call. Do you know Heidi's reaction? 379 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 1: Well, I know this story and I know exactly reaction, 380 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:27,879 Speaker 1: which is the best part about the whole story. 381 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:34,480 Speaker 2: Heidi burst into a uporious laughter. She's like doubled over laughing, 382 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:39,919 Speaker 2: and I actually got offended. I'm like, sweetheart, it's not true, 383 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:42,679 Speaker 2: but damn it, I could. I mean, like, what are 384 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:45,640 Speaker 2: you saying? Like like I didn't, but but. 385 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:49,120 Speaker 3: You're that undesirable, That's what she's saying right there. There's 386 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:49,600 Speaker 3: no way. 387 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:55,160 Speaker 2: And I gotta say for the Katari spies, I think 388 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:58,719 Speaker 2: they were frustrated because look, I have dinner many nights 389 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 2: in DC at Capitol Garrel. You and I have had 390 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:04,520 Speaker 2: dinner many times there. Yes, we had my political fact. 391 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 1: To be clear, I don't think you and I have 392 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,920 Speaker 1: ever had dinner anywhere else in d C. But there, 393 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:09,920 Speaker 1: that's how Mondane. 394 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:10,640 Speaker 2: It is okay. 395 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 3: Even exist in DC in that world. 396 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,360 Speaker 2: Look, I'm if you're cheating on anybody. 397 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:19,919 Speaker 3: It's Capital Grill. That would be the story. 398 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:23,639 Speaker 2: I'm a homebody. Listen. When I was in law school, 399 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 2: I lived in the dorms Hemingway. I lived in Hastings Hall, 400 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,200 Speaker 2: which is a dorm. I lived there three years. Right 401 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:34,080 Speaker 2: next to it was Hemingway Gym, and then right next 402 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 2: to it was Gannett House was the Law Review. That 403 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:41,720 Speaker 2: triangle was maybe three hundred yards. I spent almost every 404 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:43,719 Speaker 2: waking moment of three years of law school in that 405 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 2: triangle between my dorm, the gym, and the Law Review. 406 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 2: That was basically I would go to class occasionally, but 407 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 2: it was essentially that triangle d C. I rarely, like, 408 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 2: like Capgirl is six blocks away from the Capitol. I 409 00:21:56,359 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 2: rarely go beyond that that that radius. But I will 410 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:02,959 Speaker 2: tell you in twenty sixteen, my opponents and more than 411 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 2: one of my opponents, was like flashing major chunks of cash, 412 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:11,879 Speaker 2: trying to get cap grill waiters and waitresses to like 413 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:16,760 Speaker 2: rat on me, like running around and getting busy with 414 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 2: some Washington lobs. 415 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 1: They were looking for an Easter and Peo don't realize this. 416 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:21,919 Speaker 1: This is real in politics, Like they. 417 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:23,919 Speaker 2: Go to they're dragging through trying to get. 418 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 3: Me hand out cash to anybody. 419 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:27,000 Speaker 1: They'll give them a story so they can report it 420 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 1: as someone who says in this world. 421 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 2: And I got to say, like, my life is just 422 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 2: pretty damn boring on that. And I will tell you 423 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,200 Speaker 2: I actually I want to take a minute. I want 424 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:39,719 Speaker 2: to speak to the men listening to this podcast. I 425 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:44,160 Speaker 2: want to share some wisdom. So our pastor is Greg Mott, 426 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 2: and actually you now go to our church. You used 427 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 2: to go to Second Baptist, you now go to First Baptist. 428 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:50,880 Speaker 2: Greg Mott is a wonderful, dear friend. He's a man 429 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:55,720 Speaker 2: of God. Before you moved first Pastor, Greg did a 430 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,159 Speaker 2: sermon series. It was like I think six weeks and 431 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 2: it was on King Dave. And I really enjoyed that 432 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:03,919 Speaker 2: sermon series. King David was remarkable person in the Bible, 433 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:08,480 Speaker 2: and I remember he was covering the chapter on Bestsheba. 434 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 2: And if you remember, King David is standing on the 435 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:12,879 Speaker 2: roof of his palace and he looks down and he 436 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:16,080 Speaker 2: sees Besthsheba, the most beautiful woman in the land, and 437 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 2: he gazes upon her, and he ultimately ends up bringing 438 00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 2: her in and sending her husband your riot, to the 439 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,239 Speaker 2: front lines and killing him and sleeping with her and 440 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,359 Speaker 2: then marrying her, and and God extracts the price of 441 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 2: killing her firstborn son, although her next son was King Solomon, 442 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 2: So he did continue the line. But Pastor greg is 443 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,160 Speaker 2: talking about and he just stops. He says, all right, 444 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,719 Speaker 2: I want to talk to all the men in the congregation. 445 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:45,639 Speaker 2: And he says, you may be. 446 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 1: By the way, if you're says podcast and you want 447 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,200 Speaker 1: to hear greg Mont's voice, like go listen to one 448 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,679 Speaker 1: of his sermons, and you'll understand how good he is 449 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:54,159 Speaker 1: at delivering these types of lines. 450 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 2: Continue it's and by the way. Pastor Gregg started his ministry. 451 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:02,119 Speaker 2: He was a student at Texas A and M. And 452 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,360 Speaker 2: he started a little Bible study in his dorm room 453 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,640 Speaker 2: or his apartment, and it started with a few students. 454 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:10,960 Speaker 2: It grew into what's called breakaway and he would have 455 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:15,200 Speaker 2: ten thousand students a week meeting in the basketball gymnasium. 456 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:19,159 Speaker 2: So where we go to church. First Baptist Church is 457 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,560 Speaker 2: an institution in Houston. I went there as a little kid. 458 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 2: Doctor John Bassania was the pastor forty years ago and 459 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 2: he was a Houston institution. By the way, the church 460 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 2: was founded. Do you know the story. Do you know 461 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:37,639 Speaker 2: where the church was founded? No, So the church was founded. 462 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 2: I don't know the exact year, but Texas was an 463 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:44,040 Speaker 2: independent nation between eighteen thirty six and eighteen forty five, 464 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 2: and First Baptist Church of Houston was founded somewhere in 465 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:49,240 Speaker 2: that nine year period. I don't remember the year. And 466 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,639 Speaker 2: Pastor Greg said one time, he said, look, this church 467 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:57,840 Speaker 2: was actually founded by American missionaries who were coming to 468 00:24:57,920 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 2: a foreign nation. And the foreign nation was the republ 469 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,359 Speaker 2: Book of Texas. So American nations went from America to 470 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 2: the Republic of Texas and they founded the church. Anyway, 471 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:11,119 Speaker 2: what he said to the men in the church. And 472 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,639 Speaker 2: by the way, so Pastor Greg built up breakaway and 473 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 2: it was getting ten thousand students a week to come 474 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:21,640 Speaker 2: to this Bible study at A and M. And then 475 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:25,879 Speaker 2: when doctor Bassanio retired First Baptist did a search who's 476 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,719 Speaker 2: our new pastor, and they actually found Pastor Greg. He 477 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 2: was thirty three years old and they brought him in. 478 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 2: He'd never pastored to church. He just like led this 479 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:36,680 Speaker 2: Bible study at A and M. They brought him in 480 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 2: and he's led. Pastor Greg and I are exactly the 481 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,920 Speaker 2: same age, we're both fifty five, and they brought him in, like, 482 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,399 Speaker 2: and he's become our pastor. And he is. He's a 483 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 2: great pastor. But what I admire most about him is 484 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 2: he's incredibly humble. Yes, Like Heidi doesn't like megachurches. She 485 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,240 Speaker 2: grew up in a very small church in the central 486 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 2: coast to California. She likes small, intimate churches where you 487 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,160 Speaker 2: have forty people there on Sunday morning, like like where 488 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 2: everyone knows everyone. And First Baptist is a huge church. 489 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 2: The only reason we go there is because she likes 490 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 2: Pastor Greg so much that she's just like, all right, 491 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:14,720 Speaker 2: I will endure the larger. 492 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:15,960 Speaker 3: The larger crowds. 493 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, But part of the reason she likes him and 494 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,760 Speaker 2: I like him is he is genuinely humble and he's 495 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:27,200 Speaker 2: a godly man, Like he's a lot of pastors of 496 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 2: megachurches are are are frankly arrogant. I mean hubris. Look, 497 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:33,040 Speaker 2: hubris is is. 498 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:34,639 Speaker 3: They become rock stars in a bubble. 499 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:38,360 Speaker 2: Pride is a temptation in the ministry, It's a temptation 500 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,959 Speaker 2: in politics, it's a temptation in the media. Like you 501 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:45,960 Speaker 2: like it's it's easy when you're surrounded by adulation to 502 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:49,879 Speaker 2: believe it, and it's hard to resist it. And I 503 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:53,159 Speaker 2: will say Pastor Greg does an amazing job. He and 504 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 2: I spend every month. Actually something we've started this year 505 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 2: which I'm really grateful for. He's begun coming over to 506 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:05,679 Speaker 2: my house else once a month Sunday afternoons or evenings, 507 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,240 Speaker 2: just to have a Bible study and prayer session together, 508 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:13,439 Speaker 2: which I'm grateful for. But anyway, his David sermon, when 509 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,360 Speaker 2: he talks about Bethshiev, he says, I want to talk 510 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 2: to the men in the congregation, and he said, you 511 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:22,760 Speaker 2: may think you are strong, you may think you have integrity, 512 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,800 Speaker 2: you have resolved, and he said, I want to tell 513 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:33,560 Speaker 2: you when temptation presents itself, run run, just get away. 514 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:35,840 Speaker 2: He said. The mistake David made is he's on the 515 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,880 Speaker 2: roof of his palacies looking down, and he kept watching. 516 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:42,280 Speaker 2: What David should have done is turn around. And by 517 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 2: the way, the Bible describes David as a man after 518 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,760 Speaker 2: God's own heart, and he said, David should have turned 519 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,399 Speaker 2: around and just gotten himself out of that. 520 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,119 Speaker 1: So before we wrap, I want to get back to 521 00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 1: something else political world that I do think is important 522 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 1: for us to cover real quick. And that is the 523 00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 1: one thing that the Democrats seem to be being able 524 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:04,120 Speaker 1: to grab on, and it's saying tangible here is gas prices. 525 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:05,880 Speaker 1: I know you've been around the president, I know you're 526 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:09,000 Speaker 1: in DC. The President's been pretty clear about this. This 527 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,960 Speaker 1: is gonna be short term increase. Democrats do seem to 528 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,480 Speaker 1: be latching onto this. Like remember when egg prices is 529 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 1: like a big thing and the putt of world. This 530 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 1: is the new egg price thing, right, Oh my gosh, 531 00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:20,880 Speaker 1: Donald Trump say he's a lower price to the pump 532 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:22,639 Speaker 1: for you. Look at it now, Look how bad it is. 533 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:24,960 Speaker 1: Now it's gonna be you know, ten hours a gallon 534 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,600 Speaker 1: in California, it's gonna be five six hours gallon everywhere else. 535 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 3: The President's come out and says it's gonna be short term. 536 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:30,600 Speaker 3: I believe him. 537 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,680 Speaker 1: I think also seeing how hard we're hitting a RAN 538 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:37,680 Speaker 1: right now is also showing the timeline here that they 539 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 1: are wanting to do everything as fast as they can. 540 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:43,600 Speaker 1: Why drag this out, go all in, do it quickly, 541 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 1: get the pain over with and let those people hopefully 542 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 1: rise up and take over a RAN and actually move forward. 543 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 3: Are you that worried about about the gas prices? I'm 544 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:54,800 Speaker 3: I'm not yet. 545 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:56,800 Speaker 1: Like, if it's three months from now or two months 546 00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 1: from now, I'm gonna be more worried. But right now 547 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 1: I feel like this is exactly on schedule or ahead 548 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,240 Speaker 1: of schedule, as the White House has described it. 549 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 2: Yeah. So, look, there's been a short term increase in 550 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 2: gas prices, and any time there's a military conflict in 551 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 2: the Middle East, gas prices go up because a lot 552 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:16,640 Speaker 2: of oil comes from the Middle East, and so military 553 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,000 Speaker 2: conflict has an effect on supplying demand. I think this 554 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,320 Speaker 2: will be short term. One of the things to remember 555 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 2: is so six months ago, gas prices were about I 556 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,200 Speaker 2: don't have the exact number off the top of my head, 557 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 2: but about two dollars and fifty cents a gallon. Yeah, 558 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,600 Speaker 2: they've risen about a dollar. They are about three dollars 559 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,920 Speaker 2: and fifty cents a gallon. This is national averages. And 560 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 2: so it is true that over the last six months 561 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:46,840 Speaker 2: gasoline prices have risen. Where were they eighteen months ago 562 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,760 Speaker 2: under Joe Biden there were nearly six dollars a gallon, 563 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:55,160 Speaker 2: So by any measure, there was massively cheaper than Joe Biden. Yes, 564 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 2: they've gone up from about two fifty to about three fifty, 565 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:01,560 Speaker 2: But I think this is a short term increase. And 566 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:05,560 Speaker 2: I got to say, if and when the Iranian regime collapses, 567 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:07,920 Speaker 2: and by the way, we've utterly degraded their military and 568 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 2: we've taken out the Ittola and the senior military leadership, 569 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 2: if and when we have a government in Iran that 570 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:19,120 Speaker 2: is not a radical theocratic Islamist government who wants to 571 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,400 Speaker 2: murder America, who is funding terrorists all across the world, 572 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:26,000 Speaker 2: who is actively trying to murder Americans every single day, 573 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,720 Speaker 2: If we have just a normal government, I don't really 574 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:30,440 Speaker 2: care who we have, just as long as it's not 575 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:35,400 Speaker 2: a crazy person killing Americans, the effect on global gas 576 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 2: prices will be to lower them significantly. So I actually 577 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,400 Speaker 2: think this conflict in the long term or even the 578 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:45,320 Speaker 2: medium term, will have a substantial downward pressure on gasoline prices. 579 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:48,960 Speaker 2: There's a short period where prices have spiked somewhat, although 580 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 2: to be clear, they're much much lower than under Biden, 581 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 2: but they are higher than they were six months ago 582 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,720 Speaker 2: under Trump. Look, I think the Democrats are attacking gas 583 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,880 Speaker 2: prices because they hate Trump and they're just everything Trump 584 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:09,240 Speaker 2: does is wrong. This is an incredibly important decision that 585 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:12,680 Speaker 2: Trump has made for advancing US national security. And I 586 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,200 Speaker 2: will say part of the reason why, when like I 587 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,680 Speaker 2: was being questioned on Lindsay Graham, I like Lindsay as 588 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 2: I said, I agree with him sometimes, I disagree with 589 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:24,400 Speaker 2: them sometimes. But what the questioning really was about is 590 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:28,280 Speaker 2: Isn't the Iran war about Israel? Isn't this all about Israel? 591 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,080 Speaker 2: And the suggestion was Israel or as a puppet master 592 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:36,760 Speaker 2: controlling Donald Trump. That's just a blatant lie. This military 593 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 2: conflict has very little to do with Israel. The reason 594 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:45,080 Speaker 2: President Trump decided to attack Iran is because Iran has 595 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,480 Speaker 2: been waging war with America for forty seven years and 596 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,440 Speaker 2: they've killed nearly a thousand Americans and they're the leading 597 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:55,000 Speaker 2: state sponsor of terrorism the world. And so the people 598 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:58,440 Speaker 2: trying to say I don't want another war for Israel. 599 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,320 Speaker 2: I don't want my children to die for the Jews. 600 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:08,480 Speaker 2: That is, that is not honest, because we're doing this 601 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:12,480 Speaker 2: because the regime in Iran is killing Americans. And to 602 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,440 Speaker 2: be clear, if they had the capacity, if they had 603 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:20,400 Speaker 2: nuclear weapons, they would kill many many more Americans. If 604 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,120 Speaker 2: they could, they would kill you and me right now, Ben, 605 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:26,120 Speaker 2: if they could, every listener of this podcast, they would 606 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,840 Speaker 2: kill If they had a nuclear weapon, I believe there 607 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,440 Speaker 2: is a real possibility they would detonate it in the 608 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 2: skies of Tel Aviv or New York or Los Angeles. 609 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 2: And I'm not interested in seeing a day where hundreds 610 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 2: of thousands of Americans are murdered by an iatola channing 611 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,840 Speaker 2: death to America. That's why President Trump acted. But it 612 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,360 Speaker 2: was not about Israel. It was about America, and I 613 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 2: think we need to be very very clear about that. 614 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:53,560 Speaker 1: I also think one of the other things that I 615 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:55,720 Speaker 1: think is really frustrating is just saying how many people 616 00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:59,160 Speaker 1: act as if somehow Donald Trump was hoodwinked by Israel 617 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:00,640 Speaker 1: for us to get involved in this war. 618 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:02,480 Speaker 3: And you were asked about that. 619 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:04,560 Speaker 1: I was asked about as well on TV, and I 620 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,840 Speaker 1: said that is the biggest load of crap I've heard 621 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,800 Speaker 1: in a long time. President Trump isn't hoodwink by anybody. 622 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:13,040 Speaker 1: President Trump isn't walked around by anyone. And if you've 623 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,320 Speaker 1: ever been around him, you know that. I think it 624 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,840 Speaker 1: goes back to what you just said. The President understood 625 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,200 Speaker 1: the national security risks not to Israel, all right there, 626 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:24,920 Speaker 1: This is America first, correct, it's America and the national 627 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,840 Speaker 1: security threat to America, and clear the fact that they're 628 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,600 Speaker 1: trying to kill and have sent people and train people 629 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:32,400 Speaker 1: and pay people to try to kill the President of 630 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,080 Speaker 1: the United States of America. Also people in the last administration. 631 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,719 Speaker 1: John Bolton, for example, was one of those. There's several 632 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,920 Speaker 1: others on this list that have actually have been they've 633 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,160 Speaker 1: had hits out all O'Brien hook, Yes, exactly, So you 634 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,720 Speaker 1: go with the list here. The President was clear about 635 00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:51,600 Speaker 1: this that this is about America. And I think that's 636 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:53,640 Speaker 1: another example when I said there's like four or five 637 00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,360 Speaker 1: working theories Democrats throwing jel at to wall saying does 638 00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:58,560 Speaker 1: any of this fit with Americans? I also think it's 639 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,920 Speaker 1: very interesting and final to you. I don't think the 640 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,960 Speaker 1: American people are buying this, and part of it's because 641 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,640 Speaker 1: I think Democrats have just said some of those orlandis 642 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:11,000 Speaker 1: and crazy things on every issue, tried to hurt Donald Trump. 643 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,360 Speaker 1: Now it's becoming a little bit more of white noise, 644 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:15,640 Speaker 1: and that's that I'm thankful for that, to be honest 645 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:15,920 Speaker 1: with you. 646 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think that's right. And and look, some 647 00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:21,680 Speaker 2: of the reaction of the voters will depend on how 648 00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:26,960 Speaker 2: this plays out. If this military conflict lasts many months 649 00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:29,919 Speaker 2: or years, if we're sitting here a year from now 650 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:33,200 Speaker 2: and still mired to military conflict, if we've got a 651 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,160 Speaker 2: massive troop presence on the ground, if we have hundreds 652 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:40,520 Speaker 2: or thousands of American soldiers being killed, this war will 653 00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:44,120 Speaker 2: be very unpopular. Yeah, I think the chances of that 654 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:48,759 Speaker 2: happening are very very close to zero percent. Iran is 655 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:53,520 Speaker 2: not a raq. We're not going to see a massive 656 00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:55,640 Speaker 2: troop presence on the ground. We're not going to see 657 00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:58,560 Speaker 2: an extended military occupation. Actually, I want you to listen 658 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,400 Speaker 2: to Pete Hagg said making this point, and we're going 659 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,480 Speaker 2: to wrap up on this. Listen, listen to the Secretary 660 00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:04,680 Speaker 2: of War, Pete Hegseth. 661 00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,600 Speaker 5: You see, this is not two thousand and three, This 662 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:14,680 Speaker 5: is not endless nation building under those types of quagmires 663 00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:18,440 Speaker 5: we saw under Bush or Obama. It's not even close. 664 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,480 Speaker 5: Our generation of soldier will not let that happen again, 665 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:26,520 Speaker 5: and nor will this president, who very clearly ran against 666 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:32,520 Speaker 5: those kinds of never ending, nebulously scoped missions. Those days 667 00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:38,640 Speaker 5: are dead. Instead, we're winning decisively with brutal efficiency, total 668 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:43,040 Speaker 5: air dominance, and an unbreakable will to accomplish the President's 669 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:47,800 Speaker 5: objectives on our timeline. We stay locked on the target 670 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:51,080 Speaker 5: because here at the Department of War, that's our job. 671 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:53,000 Speaker 3: You listen to Pete there. 672 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:54,440 Speaker 1: This is one of the reasons why I actually think 673 00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:56,359 Speaker 1: it was a blessing that he was named and made 674 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:57,239 Speaker 1: it through confirmation. 675 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,680 Speaker 2: He's a guy that he's a combat veteran who's been 676 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:01,439 Speaker 2: in harm's way. 677 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a guy that I think is genuinely 678 00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,480 Speaker 1: in the room advocating to make sure that what happened 679 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,480 Speaker 1: to a lot of his colleagues when he was serving 680 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:13,840 Speaker 1: in uniform and deployed, that doesn't happen to this group 681 00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:14,920 Speaker 1: of soldiers now. 682 00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:18,120 Speaker 3: And it's clear that this is personal for him. 683 00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:20,560 Speaker 1: That's why I'm so thankful that he's there in this 684 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,440 Speaker 1: position because he lived the other side of it that 685 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:24,400 Speaker 1: he was just describing. 686 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:31,000 Speaker 2: Right, Look, avoiding endless wars does not mean embracing isolationism. Yeah, 687 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:35,200 Speaker 2: peace through strength is what Reagan called it. Donald Trump 688 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,640 Speaker 2: just understands it as being a strong commander in chief 689 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,279 Speaker 2: that when people are killing Americans, he is going to 690 00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,080 Speaker 2: respond vigorously to take them out. And by the way, 691 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:48,719 Speaker 2: our enemies are terrified. As I've said before, at three 692 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:52,840 Speaker 2: am on January third, there was not a Latin American 693 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,879 Speaker 2: dictator who didn't have to change his shorts because that's 694 00:36:55,920 --> 00:37:00,920 Speaker 2: when President Trump sees Nicholas Maduro is happening in Iran. 695 00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:04,279 Speaker 2: The top leadership has been taken out. Every bad guy, 696 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,520 Speaker 2: every person who hates America is really really worried right 697 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:10,560 Speaker 2: now because this is a nation that defends itself. And 698 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,160 Speaker 2: by the way, that makes clear, if you kill Americans, 699 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:17,800 Speaker 2: there are going to be massive consequences to it. Barack 700 00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,799 Speaker 2: Obama and Joe Biden's weakness and appeasement that if you 701 00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:22,959 Speaker 2: kill Americans, oh well, we're not going to do anything 702 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:27,000 Speaker 2: about it. That invites more people to target and kill Americans. 703 00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:31,640 Speaker 2: This is about avoiding war by being strong enough to 704 00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:34,719 Speaker 2: take out the people that are killing Americans and that 705 00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:39,359 Speaker 2: avoids protracted military conflict. I think that's what we're seeing 706 00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:41,880 Speaker 2: right now, and it makes America a whole lot safer. 707 00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:43,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt about it. 708 00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:45,360 Speaker 1: For everybody listening, thank you for joining us as we 709 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,880 Speaker 1: do a dual pod with a Ben Ferguson podcast and 710 00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,919 Speaker 1: Vertic with Tech Cruise. 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