1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:01,600 Speaker 1: Welcome. 2 00:00:01,680 --> 00:00:04,960 Speaker 2: It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with 3 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 2: you and Senator there is a viral video of a 4 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:12,640 Speaker 2: invasion selling word I know to use it at the 5 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:16,440 Speaker 2: southern border that now everyone is seeing of illegal immigrants 6 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:18,440 Speaker 2: breaking through razor wire. 7 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 3: Well, that's right. 8 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:22,279 Speaker 4: Every day and every week the border crisis continues to 9 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:25,080 Speaker 4: get worse and worse and worse. We now have video 10 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 4: of hundreds of illegal immigrants storming the National Guard, pushing 11 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 4: them aside, pushing them down. 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The only way I can describe 54 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 2: it as an invasion of our southern border. And the 55 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 2: worst part is you can clearly tell that the people 56 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 2: that are on the American side in uniform don't have 57 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 2: the ability from our government to stand their ground and 58 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 2: fight back as they are overrun by illegal immigrants that 59 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 2: come through a very clear barrier invading America. If you 60 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 2: haven't seen the video, go look at it to on 61 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 2: mynd social media. 62 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 1: It's on yours. 63 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:22,639 Speaker 2: But when you saw this center, I mean, this is 64 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:24,959 Speaker 2: all encompassing of just how bad the problem is. 65 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 4: Right now, that's exactly right, Ben, what happened this week 66 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 4: in our Passa. We had over one hundred illegal immigrants who. 67 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 3: Not broke through. 68 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 4: Razor wire that the state of Texas had erected, and 69 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 4: you had National guardsmen that were standing there guarding it, 70 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 4: trying to secure our border, and and just this mob. 71 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 4: They were simply outnumbered, and it was a mass that 72 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 4: just runs over them, is knocking them down, and it's 73 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 4: it's a surge that is happening. That is I don't 74 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 4: know what you call it other than an invasion. That's 75 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 4: what this is. And the infuriating thing is this is 76 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 4: what Joe Biden and congressional Democrats want to have happen. 77 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 4: And you watch this video. You see the National guardsmen 78 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 4: trying to put their hands up, trying to hold them back, 79 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 4: but there's simply too many of them, and they overwhelmed 80 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 4: them with their mass coming into this country. And this 81 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:26,720 Speaker 4: is happening. As I said, it keeps getting worse and 82 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 4: worse and worse. El Paso's migrant dashboard showed that on Thursday, 83 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 4: seven hundred and forty three people had been released from 84 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 4: custody and into the United States. That's on Thursday in 85 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 4: El Paso, seven hundred and forty three. It also showed 86 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 4: between two thousand and two thousand, five hundred people held 87 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,159 Speaker 4: in border control custody each and every night. This is 88 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 4: in one city on the border, and that same thing 89 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 4: is happening all across the two thousand miles of our 90 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 4: southern border. 91 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 2: This is I think a psychological thing now too. And 92 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 2: I want to talk to you about this because you 93 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,840 Speaker 2: know when younger people started these flash mobs and stores 94 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 2: and they realize, Hey, no one's going to stop us 95 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 2: in San Francisco, or in Baltimore and Washington, DC, or 96 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 2: New York City. We can just get into large groups 97 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 2: and we're going to win because no one's going to 98 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 2: arrest us. You look at these illegal immigrants, and I 99 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 2: think it's very clear they figured it out. This president, 100 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 2: the United States of America is not trying to stop you. 101 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 2: And you can control the border and do whatever you 102 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 2: want to do. Who's going to stop you? 103 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:40,480 Speaker 4: Look that that is exactly right. And it's not even 104 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 4: that this president's not going to stop you. He's going 105 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 4: to help you. He wants them to come illegally. He 106 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 4: looks at every one of them and sees, there's another 107 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:52,360 Speaker 4: Democrat voter. There's another Democrat voter, there's another Democrat vote. 108 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 4: Let's be clear, Joe Biden wants to flip the state 109 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 4: of Texas right now to be a blue state. He 110 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 4: wants to flip every eight right now to be a 111 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 4: blue state. And so he is happy for as many 112 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 4: of these people who are coming illegally to vote illegally 113 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 4: as possible, and even if they don't, he's confident that 114 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 4: in time, if the Democrats ever get control, they will 115 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:18,280 Speaker 4: grant amnesty and voting rights to all of these illegals. 116 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:22,239 Speaker 4: And Biden assumes, and I don't think his assumption is crazy, 117 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 4: that these illegal immigrants are going to vote for other 118 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 4: Democrats to continue the open border. 119 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 2: You combine this story, and I do think it's it's 120 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:35,040 Speaker 2: it reminds me of those flashpoint moments, and unfortunately, we're 121 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:37,720 Speaker 2: seeing these center I think more and more often, those 122 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 2: illegal immigrants that attacked the men in New York City 123 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:45,919 Speaker 2: and got released from jail, and we're flicking off really 124 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 2: not just the cameras, they're flicking off. 125 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:50,280 Speaker 4: America, and the whole world sees there's no consequence to it. 126 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 4: That New York City, you beat up cops, they let 127 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 4: you go. Bail, no cash, no bail. Hey you know. 128 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 4: I mean, look, I don't know. If you're a New 129 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:01,839 Speaker 4: York cop had how do you keep doing your job? 130 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:04,159 Speaker 4: And look the Border patrol agents. I mean when I 131 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 4: talk to Border Patrol agents, when I talk to New 132 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 4: York cops, I make a point to thank them and 133 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 4: tell them we're grateful for what they're doing, because there 134 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 4: is a heroism and a patriotism to do your job 135 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 4: in the face of political imbeciles who make it almost 136 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 4: impossible for you to do your job. 137 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 2: And see, I worry too that the Biden administration and 138 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 2: the Department of Homeland Security and my orcas are probably 139 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 2: not that upset with what just happened, because what they're 140 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:36,240 Speaker 2: going to see from this is, Hey, they figured it 141 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 2: out how to beat Texas because they're at Warwick, Texas 142 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 2: at the same time, are they not? 143 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 3: Sadly they are Joe Biden. 144 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 4: And this is true of just about every Democrat in 145 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 4: the Senate, just about every Democrat in the House. 146 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 3: Given a choice between where do you side. 147 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 4: Do you side with illegal immigrants, do you side with 148 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 4: the violent criminals they're being released into this country, or 149 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 4: do you side with the American people who are being 150 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 4: the victims of crimes at the hands of this invading mob. 151 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 4: The Democrats have made the decision where with the cartels? 152 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:12,720 Speaker 4: Where with the mob? And this White House is furious 153 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 4: that Texas is fighting back. 154 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 2: You combine this story and this is more of a 155 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 2: I think, a symbolic moment with this other shocking testimony. 156 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 2: Air Force general has come forward before Congress and revealed 157 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 2: an alarming number of drones crossing into the US airspace 158 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 2: at the southern border. It's an air Force. This came 159 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,880 Speaker 2: up during a hearing with one of your colleagues, Senator 160 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 2: Ted Budd who is a freshman senator who is there 161 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 2: asking basic questions about what's going on with all these 162 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 2: drones coming across the southern border. I want to play 163 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 2: this and then get your reaction. 164 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:51,199 Speaker 5: It's my understanding there's been a lot of drone incursions 165 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 5: along our southern border. How many drone incursions have we 166 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 5: had and what are they doing? Senator? The number of 167 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 5: incursions was something that was alarming to me as as 168 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 5: I took command last month. I don't know the actual number. 169 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 5: I don't think any of it's in the thousands. I 170 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 5: have talked to Customs and Border Protection, who are responsible 171 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 5: for the uas incursions and in the border along with 172 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 5: dj and they put the number at thousands. Over what 173 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 5: period of time is that thousands? I would say in 174 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:33,520 Speaker 5: the probably over a month. We could probably have over 175 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:36,960 Speaker 5: a thousand a month. General, Do they, in your view 176 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 5: represent homeland defense threat? 177 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 3: Senator? 178 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:46,080 Speaker 5: They alarmed me from the being the person responsible for 179 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 5: homeland defense. I haven't seen any of them manifest in 180 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 5: a threat to the level of national defense. But I 181 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 5: see the potential only growing. 182 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 2: I see the potential only growing. You dig into this 183 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 2: a little bit more, and this has obviously been something 184 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 2: that they didn't want to get out. 185 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 1: They didn't want us to know about this. 186 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 2: And then an article comes out in the New York 187 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:13,680 Speaker 2: Post about other testimony that's already happened. They've got a 188 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 2: whole damn air force down there at the southern border, 189 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 2: and this is the cartels that have this. 190 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 3: Well, that's right. 191 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 4: So that was the testimony of Air Force General Gregory Guillot, 192 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,680 Speaker 4: who is the commander of Norad, so a very senior 193 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 4: Air Force general. He's just taken over the command of 194 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 4: Norrad and also US Northern Command, and he's looking at 195 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 4: the number that is coming in. He just testified over 196 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:43,480 Speaker 4: one thousand a month, and we likewise had last month 197 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:47,840 Speaker 4: testimony from the Rio Grand Valley sector chief Border Patrol 198 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 4: Agent Gloria Chavez, who told the House Oversight Committee that 199 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:56,200 Speaker 4: in her sector alone, So this is just the Rio 200 00:10:56,200 --> 00:11:02,719 Speaker 4: Grand Valley sector, there head in more than ten thousand 201 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 4: drone incursions and more than twenty five thousand drone sightings 202 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 4: in the last year. Now think about that for a second. 203 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:18,560 Speaker 4: Twenty five thousand drone sightings in a year. That's in 204 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 4: one sector in the Rio Grand Valley. We've got testimonies 205 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 4: the cartels. You said they have an air force. That's 206 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 4: not hyperbole. You are looking at thousands, if not tens 207 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:34,160 Speaker 4: of thousands of drones. Now right now, they're principally using 208 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 4: these drones for surveillance. They're going over, they're seeing where 209 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 4: the Border Patrol agents are. And by the way, I've 210 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 4: been out on the boats with the Border Patrol and 211 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 4: the Rio Grand River and they carry with them guns 212 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 4: to shoot down the drones. But it's very hard to 213 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 4: shoot down a drone. And when you've got thousands upon thousands, 214 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 4: they're simply is not enough to take down the number 215 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 4: of drones they're able to just send them, and they 216 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 4: base have not only do they have operational control of 217 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 4: our southern border. And understand, this is very much like 218 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:14,080 Speaker 4: like like like military warfare. Nobody crosses the border without 219 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 4: the cartels taking them across. And and literally, if you're 220 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 4: down in Mexico and you decide, hey, I'm just going 221 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 4: to try to swim the river come across, they will 222 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 4: kill you right like it is. You are taking your 223 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,439 Speaker 4: life in your own hands if you try to cross 224 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 4: without them. So they have complete operational control south of 225 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 4: the border. And now with their air force of drones, 226 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:38,439 Speaker 4: they have surveillance north of the border. And and and 227 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:43,720 Speaker 4: Joe Biden and the Democrats are happily just facilitating this, 228 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:46,960 Speaker 4: doing nothing to stop it. And and and as the 229 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 4: General testified the head of Norad, right now, they're using 230 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 4: these drones for surveillance, but what's to stop them from 231 00:12:54,559 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 4: using them for for direct hostile activity. We are literally 232 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:08,080 Speaker 4: being invaded by multi billion dollar global criminal cartels on 233 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 4: a daily basis. 234 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 2: You look at this drone and we hear the word drone, 235 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:16,320 Speaker 2: and we think, okay, fun little object you fly around, 236 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:19,200 Speaker 2: take pictures. We see them when you sell your house 237 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:21,200 Speaker 2: and they come out and they take drone shots of 238 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 2: your home and everything else to show your lot in 239 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:23,960 Speaker 2: your backyard. 240 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 1: You gotta I. 241 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 2: Think some people may not understand the sophistication of these 242 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:34,360 Speaker 2: drones for surveillance, for moving drugs fetanyl. The number one 243 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:37,959 Speaker 2: killer people forty nine under in this country is fetnyl overdoses, 244 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 2: the human smuggling, the sex trafficking, and also, I mean 245 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,800 Speaker 2: drones are being used in warfare in the Middle East. 246 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:50,400 Speaker 2: A lot of our soldiers are being attacked by drones. 247 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 2: Now it's a new way to attack. We're seeing an Afghant, 248 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 2: We're seeing it also in Ukraine and Russia, where drone 249 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 2: attacks are are very It's a very big new technology 250 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 2: in warfare. And that's the reason why I think we 251 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 2: need people to understand how serious it is to have 252 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 2: an army of this many drones that you can be 253 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 2: using for this many nefarious reasons. 254 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:14,320 Speaker 3: Well, look, that's absolutely right. 255 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 4: Drones today are used regularly as a weapon of war. 256 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 4: They're used for surveillance. They can be very effective for surveillance. 257 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:26,200 Speaker 4: They're also used and you rightly noted another way the 258 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:28,480 Speaker 4: cartels are using it right now, which is to transport 259 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 4: drugs that you can put fetanol, you can put meth, 260 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 4: you can put cocaine or heroine. You can put it 261 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 4: on a drone, use the drone to fly across the 262 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 4: river and then to land to go to someone from 263 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 4: the cartel that is in the United States to receive 264 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,080 Speaker 4: those drugs. And so the cartels are using that as 265 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 4: well as a means of drug delivery. But there's also 266 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 4: on top of that, they can be used as an 267 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 4: offensive weapon. 268 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 3: They can be used. 269 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 4: We see drones in combat theaters that have weapons mounted 270 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 4: on them. We see drones. Drones can also will be 271 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 4: used to spread a biological agent, a chemical agent. And 272 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:08,040 Speaker 4: there's a reason that the commander of NORAD said, this 273 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 4: is very alarming. When you're dealing with thousands and thousands 274 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:15,240 Speaker 4: of drones routinely coming across our border. It only takes 275 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:21,800 Speaker 4: one that is manned by a terrorist to potentially murder 276 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 4: people on the American side of the border. And the 277 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 4: point is, under Joe Biden, we're not even trying to 278 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,800 Speaker 4: stop this. The federal government is not trying to prevent 279 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 4: these drone incursions. They're simply saying, much as they did 280 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:41,160 Speaker 4: with the Chinese by balloons, they're simply saying if you 281 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 4: want to invade us, hey, come on in. 282 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: Yeah. 283 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 2: And not only that, if you want to just rush 284 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 2: the border with a couple hundred people, go ahead and 285 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 2: do that. We will not give the authority for America 286 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 2: to protect and defend its borders there either. Let me 287 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 2: talk to you about your retirement for a moment. Is 288 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 2: the money you've been saving for retirement going to be enough? 289 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 2: That's a big question. 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You go back 319 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 2: to that article that you read earlier with the with 320 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 2: the testimony on the House side saying they've got basically 321 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:51,199 Speaker 2: an air force, and not only do they have an 322 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 2: air force, but it's one that is the quote. The 323 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:57,159 Speaker 2: adversaries have seventeen times the number of drones, twice the 324 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 2: amount of flight hours, and unlimited funding to grow their operations. 325 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:02,160 Speaker 1: Is what Chavez. 326 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 2: The Rio Grand Valley sector chief testified the House Oversight Committee, 327 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:10,120 Speaker 2: and there doesn't seem to be a plan. Is there 328 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:16,120 Speaker 2: anything that will change this administration stance to have a plan. 329 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 2: I mean, they're at war with us. How are we 330 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 2: not going to respond? And at what point will this 331 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:25,160 Speaker 2: administration respond? Or are we just basically sol until election day? 332 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:27,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, Joe Biden is not going to change. He doesn't 333 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 3: want to change. He is stug in. 334 00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:35,359 Speaker 4: He views this as as the path to Democrats staying 335 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:37,440 Speaker 4: in power. And look, if he was going to change, 336 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,199 Speaker 4: he would have done it already. The only answer is 337 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 4: we've got to win in November because these people are 338 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,200 Speaker 4: destroying our country in front of our eyes. 339 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:49,840 Speaker 2: Senator, while they're trying to destroy our country and not 340 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:52,240 Speaker 2: going after the people that are breaking in There's one 341 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 2: thing that is very clear, and that is public enemy 342 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:58,360 Speaker 2: number one of this administration, the Democrats, is Donald Trump. 343 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 2: We now are saying them trying to break Trump financially. 344 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:06,200 Speaker 2: I would assume that you would agree this is certainly 345 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 2: a level of election interference at shocking. But let's talk 346 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:14,119 Speaker 2: about the money now. The ag James who said vote 347 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 2: for me and I'll go after Trump is now asked 348 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:18,720 Speaker 2: the court to deny Donald Trump's four hundred and fifty 349 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:26,119 Speaker 2: four million dollar bond appeal. This is unprecedented in American society. 350 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:29,200 Speaker 2: This is what would happen in communist countries, yet it's 351 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:30,760 Speaker 2: happening right now in America. 352 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 4: Well, we are seeing across the country Democrat prosecutors abusing 353 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:39,919 Speaker 4: the justice system to try to number one, destroy Donald Trump, 354 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 4: but to try to number two subvert democracy. They are 355 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 4: terrified that the voters in November will vote to re 356 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 4: elect Donald Trump, and so they want to abuse their 357 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:54,520 Speaker 4: power to stop the voters from doing that. What Letitia 358 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 4: James has done. She ran for Attorney General promising I'm 359 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,920 Speaker 4: going to get Trump, and I'll say, at least so far, 360 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,159 Speaker 4: she's delivered on that promise. She went after him with 361 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:06,360 Speaker 4: everything she had in a fraud case that is under 362 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 4: a New York statute that is really a ridiculous statute 363 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:15,879 Speaker 4: because she alleged fraud with no victims. She alleged that 364 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 4: he had borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars from sophisticated 365 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:24,359 Speaker 4: banks like Deutschebank. And Deutschebank didn't lose money, in fact, 366 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:26,960 Speaker 4: they made money on the loans. Trump repaid the loans 367 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 4: and Deutschbach said they were thrilled to make the loans 368 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:32,919 Speaker 4: and would happily make them again. And the argument was 369 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,639 Speaker 4: that he valued his real estate more than it was worth. 370 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:41,160 Speaker 4: Deutschbach Bank is not some like poor little old lady 371 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 4: who's a vulnerable consumer. They're a multi billion dollar global bank. 372 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:47,440 Speaker 4: They valued the real estate on their own damn thing. 373 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 4: You know, if I come in and tell tell my 374 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 4: mortgage company, hey, my home is worth ten million dollars, 375 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:56,239 Speaker 4: They're gonna send their own appraiser to go figure out 376 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 4: what my home is worth. They're going to laugh at me. 377 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 4: So an alleged offense with no victim, no injury, and 378 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:10,239 Speaker 4: no harm. The judgment with interest is four hundred and 379 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 4: fifty four million dollars half a billion dollars. And then 380 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 4: New York has a provision that you see in a 381 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 4: number of states that to appeal that you've got to 382 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 4: put the four hundred and fifty four million dollars in 383 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 4: cash either liquid, so either cash or securities liquid, or 384 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:32,399 Speaker 4: you have to have a bond that covers that amount. 385 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:34,160 Speaker 4: And so Trump went and tried to get a bond, 386 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:38,400 Speaker 4: and he went to thirty different surety companies, and all 387 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:42,919 Speaker 4: of them turned him down, and he filed an affidavit. 388 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,920 Speaker 4: So he's raised an issue on appeal to say, look, 389 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:49,119 Speaker 4: you can't require me to put up a half billion 390 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:53,200 Speaker 4: dollars just to be able to appeal. And Leticia James 391 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:55,280 Speaker 4: just opposed that and said, oh yeah, he doesn't put 392 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:58,119 Speaker 4: that money up. We're coming to take his property. So 393 00:21:58,200 --> 00:21:59,919 Speaker 4: understand what she wants to do. And she wants to 394 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:03,440 Speaker 4: do this as soon as potentially next week. She wants 395 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 4: to show up and physically seize his properties, literally go 396 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:11,879 Speaker 4: and seize properties that he has in New York or elsewhere. 397 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:16,680 Speaker 4: It could literally come down to her trying to essentially 398 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 4: put a padlock on Trump Tower. And I say that 399 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 4: not really with hyperbole, because this is a political jahad 400 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 4: for her, So I think she will look for the 401 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 4: most visible political way to attack her opponent. And here's 402 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 4: here's what Trump's lawyers told the New York Appellate Court. 403 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:40,920 Speaker 4: The attorneys wrote that quote, it is not possible under 404 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:45,439 Speaker 4: the circumstances presented. They said, the underwriters insisted on cash 405 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:49,720 Speaker 4: or other liquid assets instead of real estate as collateral. 406 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 4: So Trump has lots of real estate. But apparently the 407 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 4: o of writers said no, it's got to be cash 408 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 4: or liquid, and he didn't have a half billion dollars 409 00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 4: sitting around, and they insisted on cash to cover one 410 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 4: hundred and twenty percent of the judgment, which is five 411 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:09,879 Speaker 4: hundred and fifty seven million dollars. An insurance broker Gary 412 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 4: Giuletti wrote in a sworn statement that quote a bond 413 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:17,639 Speaker 4: of this size is rarely, if ever. 414 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:18,639 Speaker 3: Seen, and. 415 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:23,240 Speaker 4: Letitia James responded, well, no, no, that's not true. There 416 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 4: have been billion dollar bonds before, yes, for massive public corporations. 417 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:30,960 Speaker 3: But Trump's business is not a public corporation. 418 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 4: It is a private company, and to get a half 419 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:41,120 Speaker 4: billion dollar bond is incredibly difficult, and so understand the impact. 420 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:44,720 Speaker 4: If Trump is not able to post this bond. The 421 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:48,440 Speaker 4: effect would be to deny him the right to even 422 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:53,720 Speaker 4: appeal the absurd partisan decision from the district court. I 423 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:57,440 Speaker 4: got to say, this is such a profound abuse. Now, 424 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 4: that doesn't mean Trump would be out of option, because 425 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,479 Speaker 4: if the New York courts insist you got to put 426 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 4: up a half billion dollars in order to appeal this decision, 427 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,679 Speaker 4: I am confident that Trump will appeal that, and potentially 428 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:12,880 Speaker 4: appeal that all the way to the U. S. Supreme 429 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,560 Speaker 4: Court and the U. S. Supreme Court. He would have 430 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 4: multiple arguments, constitutional arguments, including the Constitution prohibits denying an individual, 431 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:27,200 Speaker 4: depriving an individual of property without due process of law. 432 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 4: And there would be an argument that this is such 433 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:35,119 Speaker 4: an excessive bond that it constitutes a violation of due process. 434 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:37,679 Speaker 4: He would also have an argument under the Eighth Amendment. 435 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 4: The Eighth Amendment specifies excessive bail shall not be required, 436 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:48,120 Speaker 4: nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. Now, 437 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 4: the Eighth Amendment typically applies in a criminal context, but 438 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,480 Speaker 4: given the magnitude here, I would expect him to make 439 00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:59,959 Speaker 4: both an Eighth Amendment argument and a due process argument, 440 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:04,600 Speaker 4: and it is entirely possible that would prevail ultimately. But 441 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:08,200 Speaker 4: what New York is doing, what the New York Attorney 442 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:13,000 Speaker 4: General is doing, is the conduct of a banana Republic. 443 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,200 Speaker 2: Kevin O'Leary, who many you will know from Shark Tank, 444 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 2: not the most political guy. He talked about the business 445 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 2: fallout of this and asking where are the adults in 446 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:26,399 Speaker 2: the room, because we can't let this stand in the 447 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,520 Speaker 2: United States of America. Here's part of what he said, 448 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:30,880 Speaker 2: which I thought was really interesting. 449 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 6: But more importantly, the message about the American brand. You 450 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 6: think about America, the reason this is the number one 451 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,240 Speaker 6: economy on Earth is that we have laws, and we 452 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:43,640 Speaker 6: have due process, and we have property rights. It attracts 453 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 6: foreign capital from all around the world. All of that 454 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 6: is being shaken to the core here. The concept of 455 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 6: seizing assets in thirty days on a bond number that's 456 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:58,120 Speaker 6: never been issued, No insurance bond companies ever issued anything 457 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:01,200 Speaker 6: near this, so it chance that was going to happen, 458 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 6: and only giving thirty days notice in time, that's a 459 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:09,760 Speaker 6: really bad message. And I think New Yorker should think 460 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 6: well past Trump, whether he's president or not, or whether 461 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 6: this Attorney's General is gone in four years or not, 462 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 6: it's irrelevant. This is case setting against the American brand. 463 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:25,880 Speaker 6: The most stable country on earth anywhere to put capital 464 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 6: work over a long period of time, particularly in real estate, 465 00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 6: is the United States of America. 466 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:32,119 Speaker 3: This is an. 467 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 6: Assault on what we believe to be core and I 468 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 6: find it extraordinary. I think it's very troubling. It has 469 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 6: absolutely nothing to do with Donald Trump at this point, 470 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:48,679 Speaker 6: in my view, and it is completely bipartisan. This is 471 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:53,399 Speaker 6: an attack on America. And I don't know how you 472 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 6: can look at it any other way. And as an investor, 473 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:00,720 Speaker 6: and I know plenty of investors are completely disturbed by this, 474 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 6: but I mean, no one is going to put any 475 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,200 Speaker 6: money to work in New York in these amounts until 476 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 6: this thing settles down. The whole world is watching, and 477 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:15,160 Speaker 6: everybody's waiting for one thing we haven't got yet. Adult supervision. 478 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:16,240 Speaker 1: Where is it? 479 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:20,960 Speaker 6: Where are the adults in this crazy narrative? Certainly there's 480 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:23,640 Speaker 6: got to be adult supervision at some point. And I understand, 481 00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 6: you know the war going on here and all the 482 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:30,120 Speaker 6: political YadA YadA, Wolf Wolf Wolf, but we need an 483 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 6: adult in the room. 484 00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:31,399 Speaker 3: Now. 485 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:35,400 Speaker 6: This is the United States of America under. 486 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,920 Speaker 2: Siege, under siege. I mean, he's not joking around. He says, 487 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 2: where are the adults center? I'm going to ask you this, 488 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:42,920 Speaker 2: where are the adults? At what point do the adults 489 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:43,679 Speaker 2: get a hold of this? 490 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,320 Speaker 4: Well, at this point, it's not clear to me that 491 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,600 Speaker 4: there are any adults left in New York. There certainly 492 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,120 Speaker 4: are not among politicians. I don't know of a single 493 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:58,359 Speaker 4: Democrat politician who has spoken out against this abuse. Certainly 494 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,920 Speaker 4: Chuck Schumer hasn't Governor hasn't. The mayor of New York 495 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:05,880 Speaker 4: City hasn't. Leticia James is auditioning to be governor. She's 496 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 4: clearly ambitious. She views this as the path to success 497 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:12,240 Speaker 4: in the Democrat Party in New York. And I got 498 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:16,320 Speaker 4: to say, look, I think they rationalize in their own mind, 499 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,359 Speaker 4: this is a special rule just for Donald Trump. We 500 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:22,399 Speaker 4: hate Trump so much. They think Trump is the devil, 501 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 4: and so this applies just to Trump. But this precedent 502 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 4: can apply to anyone. If simply claiming that you overstated 503 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:36,800 Speaker 4: the value of your real estate gives the Attorney General 504 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 4: the justification to seize hundreds of millions or billions of dollars, 505 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:44,320 Speaker 4: what real estate developer in their right mind would would 506 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 4: continue to do business. Every real estate developer, just as 507 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:51,360 Speaker 4: a starting point is subject to this kind of shakedown. 508 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 4: And if you don't think that Letitia James or the 509 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:58,640 Speaker 4: next ambitious Attorney General will use that power, then you're 510 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:04,000 Speaker 4: smoking something, because look, it is arbitrary, it's unreviewable, and 511 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 4: by the way, if you can't get a bond to 512 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,000 Speaker 4: appeal it, there is no appellate review. So it's the 513 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 4: ability to shake it down. And so if she wants 514 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 4: to negotiate a settlement. Suppose she comes in. That gives 515 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 4: this politician the ability to terrorize businesses, to terrorize foreign corporations, 516 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,360 Speaker 4: anyone that they decide we don't like. 517 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:25,400 Speaker 5: It. 518 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:32,719 Speaker 4: Essentially empowers the politicians to terrorize individuals and companies and 519 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 4: force them to comply with whatever their demand is, or 520 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,400 Speaker 4: else we will seize your assets and you can't even 521 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 4: appeal it. And yet, why is not a single Democrat 522 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 4: in New York worried about this or speaking out about it? 523 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:51,400 Speaker 4: You know, it's astonishing. 524 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:53,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's not just if you think it's only 525 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:55,600 Speaker 2: going to be Donald Trump, you may be wrong. Which 526 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,080 Speaker 2: brings us to our final story, and that deals with 527 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:03,040 Speaker 2: the IRS. Jordan has announced he's opened up an investigation 528 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:10,360 Speaker 2: accusations the IRS is using AI to spy on tax payers. 529 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,959 Speaker 2: I would love to say I'm surprised by this, senator, 530 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,000 Speaker 2: but we've seen the IRS go after conservative groups and 531 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:19,960 Speaker 2: Tea party groups and others in the past, and no 532 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,280 Speaker 2: one really got in trouble for that, So why would 533 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 2: it be any different this time? 534 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:25,960 Speaker 3: Well, that's exactly right. 535 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:27,880 Speaker 4: So we have a pair of letters that was sent 536 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 4: to the Treasury Secretary into the Attorney General. One was 537 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 4: sent by Jim Jordan, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, 538 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 4: and another one was sent by Harriet Hageman from Wyoming, 539 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 4: and it is examining whether the IRS is using artificial 540 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:50,760 Speaker 4: intelligence to surveil American taxpayers. And in the letters that 541 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 4: they describe how the IRS put out a press release 542 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:59,800 Speaker 4: in twenty twenty three saying that artificial intelligence quote will 543 00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:04,000 Speaker 4: he help i r S compliance teams better detect tax cheating, 544 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:10,200 Speaker 4: identify emerging compliance threats, and improve case selection tools to 545 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:17,080 Speaker 4: avoid burdening taxpayers with needless no change audits. And the 546 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:22,880 Speaker 4: letter from Jordan and Hageman continues quote, However, recent reporting 547 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:27,240 Speaker 4: alleges that the IRS's use of AI has also included 548 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:33,720 Speaker 4: actively monitoring American citizens bank accounts en mass and without 549 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 4: legal process. And they cite a report from from James 550 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 4: O'Keeffe and and the video footage from James O'Keefe UH 551 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 4: captures an individual named Alex Mina, who's an IRS official 552 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 4: work working in the agency's Criminal Investigations Unit, who admits 553 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 4: and and and this is a quote I'm going to 554 00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,800 Speaker 4: quote for the letter. Quote video footage obtained by an 555 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:01,120 Speaker 4: investigated media outlet appears to cap thus Alex Mina, an 556 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:05,520 Speaker 4: IRS official working in the agency's Criminal Investigations Unit, admitting 557 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:09,840 Speaker 4: that the IRS has a new system that uses AI 558 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:15,959 Speaker 4: to target potential abusers by examining all returns, bank statements, 559 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 4: and related financial information for potential for fraud, and Mina 560 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,840 Speaker 4: asserted that the new AI system has the ability to 561 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:30,280 Speaker 4: access and monitor all the information from all the companies 562 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:32,520 Speaker 4: in the world. 563 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:35,760 Speaker 2: I mean the amount of power that the IRS has 564 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,400 Speaker 2: not just to spy on people, but to come after 565 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,360 Speaker 2: people for their political viewpoints. And everybody's like, oh, it 566 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,440 Speaker 2: never has happened. They don't do that. We know that 567 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,320 Speaker 2: from tea party groups in the past. This is going 568 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,520 Speaker 2: to be very interesting. If Jim Jordan opening these investigations, 569 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:51,960 Speaker 2: what comes to this. We will keep you updated on it. 570 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:54,720 Speaker 2: Don't forget we did this show Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 571 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:58,000 Speaker 2: Make sure you hit that follow subscriber auto download button. 572 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:02,600 Speaker 2: Please share our podcasts on your social media platforms wherever 573 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,000 Speaker 2: you are and the Center and I will see you 574 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:06,640 Speaker 2: back here tomorrow.