October 11, 2025 • 36 mins
1. “Blue City Chaos” and Crime Policies
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Discussion of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about crime in major U.S. cities.
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The claim: 18 of the 20 most crime-ridden cities are run by Democrats.
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Criticism of “Soros-backed” district attorneys and “soft-on-crime” policies, particularly around bail reform, downgrading felonies, and early release of offenders.
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Examples cited: Alvin Bragg (New York), Deborah Gonzalez (Georgia), John Chisholm (Wisconsin).
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The narrative: Progressive criminal justice reforms are increasing violent crime.
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Senator Cruz promotes his proposed Clean DC Act, aiming to reverse DC’s 2022 crime laws.
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Argues that defunding police and reducing penalties have worsened crime.
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Mentions that Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in DC reduced murder rates by 58%.
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The conversation portrays Democrats as anti-police and Republicans as restoring safety.
3. Government Shutdown Debate
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Discussion shifts to the federal government shutdown, framing Democrats as the cause.
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The senator claims Republicans voted repeatedly to reopen the government with a “clean CR (continuing resolution).”
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Blames Chuck Schumer and the far left for the stalemate, asserting they demand “health care for illegal immigrants.”
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References CBS polling data showing low Democratic favorability, with top public perceptions being “weak” and “extreme.”
3. Judge Sentencing & Brett Kavanaugh Assassination Attempt
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Strong reaction to the sentencing of Nicholas Roske, who plotted to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
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The judge, Deborah Boardman (a Biden appointee), is accused of issuing a lenient 8-year sentence (instead of 30) allegedly because the defendant was transgender.
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The conversation characterizes this as leftist judicial bias and calls for her impeachment.
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Senator Cruz says this demonstrates dangerous partisanship and failure to protect the rule of law.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It is verdict with Ted Cruz that we can review
and Ben Ferguson with you. And here's some of the
big stories that you may have missed that we talked
about this week. First up, fighting the crime epidemic in
liberal blue cities. Donald Trump taking it on and having
massive success. So why are Democrats still fighting against him
even when the data shows it's working.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
We'll have that for you.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Also, the government shutdown is continuing and is there an
end date in sight?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
We'll have that as well.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And finally, Justice Kavanaugh attempted murder suspect given an incredibly
light sentence due to a radical judge. It's the weekend
review and it starts right now. All right, I want
to move to something else that's really important. The Senate
Judiciary is having a big hearing and it deals with
blue city chaos, democratic run cities. The report that's out
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now is pretty clear. The top twenty most crime ridden cities,
eighteen of them are controlled by left wing hard court Democrats.
And you guys are now looking into this, so what
does this actually mean?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Well, this week the Judiciary Committee held a hearing on
out of control crime in Democrat cities and it really
is horrific the policies. It turns out when you let
violent criminals go, when you undermine the police, when you
put in place prosecutors who won't prosecute crime, you get
more crime. This summer, the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley's
the chairman, put out a report that showed that the
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Biden Department of Justice sent taxpayer funded grants to Soros
backed soft on crime and goos. And in particular, here's
what the report said. Under the Biden Harris administration, the
Vera Institute was awarded millions of taxpayer dollars to prop
up left wing district attorneys who would then partner with
the Vera Institute to implement Soros backed progressive policies. These
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policies included prioritizing violent criminals over victims and declining to
fully process acute felony charges including assault, kidnapping, rape, and murder.
And here's some of the key findings from the report.
In New York, New York County DA Alvin Bragg partnered
with the Vera Institute and declined to prosecute certain misdemeanor felonies,
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actively working to downgrade felony charges to misdemeanors and refused
to detain criminals before their trials. Meanwhile, Bragg attempted to
prosecute President Donald Trump for federal campaign finance violations. In
the year twenty twenty five, there were over forty eight
thousand individuals arrested for misdemeanors in New York County WOW,
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but only three thousand of them were detained. Forty eight
thousand arrested, three thousand detained. In Georgia, Athens, DA Debor
Gonzalez partnered with the Vere Institute and pledged to protect
illegal immigrant defendants and release criminals on bonds that did
not require the posting of money. In Wisconsin, Milwaukee DA
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John Chisholm partnered with Veri Institute to implement progressive, soft
on crime policies and reportedly told the Milwaukee Sentinel Journey quote,
is there going to be an individual I divert or
who I put into a treatment program who's going to
go out and kill somebody?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
You bet?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
That is the Soros DA bragging he's going to release
criminals who murder people. And in twenty twenty, the Milwaukee
DA's office released a criminal twice before he ultimately drove
an suv through a Christmas parade, killing six and injuring
sixty two others. This pattern is happening over and over
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and over again. What is amazing is the Democrats are
not learning. They're not saying, gosh, maybe we should stop
siding with the criminals. Instead, they're doubling down.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
They're doubling down. And you see these stories that pop up.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
And there was one dad that went before Congress to
testify about his daughter and just how many times the
man that killed his daughter, that took his daughter's life
had been arrested and released. And if you didn't hear that,
people should go listen to it because I think it's
really important. But we're seeing this happen where criminals are
being caught and released dozens of times, like dozens of
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Time Center and they're just like, yeah, so what they
go out and then they kill somebody, Like okay, maybe
we should have guess locked that guy up, My bad,
it's insane.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Well, and here was a portion of the hearing this week,
Give a listen, prosecute violent criminals. Innocent victims die right
here in Washington, d C. In twenty twelve murders in
DC totaled fewer than one hundred. By twenty twenty three,
murders had nearly tripled two hundred and seventy four lives
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taken in a single year. These are the real world
consequences of Democrat crime policies that let murderers go.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And the policy to be clear sent is a simple one.
Das were instructed when they took money basically from Soros.
They're bought and paid for by Soros, and what they
were instructed to do was to have prison reform and
bail reform. They wanted people out of the prisons. They
didn't want pe to go to prisons, they didn't want
Peo to be held in prison because of bail, and
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so that is part of what they're advocating for here.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
It's comprehensive and it's at every stage. It's a left
wing agenda that wants to number one, abolish the police,
wants to defund the police. And by the way, that's
not just empty rhetoric. If you look at jurisdictions across
the country. In Minneapolis, they slashed funding for the police department.
In New York City, the NYPD, they cut over a
billion dollars from the NYPD's budget in Austin, Texas, our
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home state, one hundred and fifty million dollars cut from
the police department. So that's one way they do it
is they attack the police directly to wanting to either
abolish or defund the police. But secondly they go after
DA's and George Soros has spent tens of million millions
of dollars funding DA campaigns for radicals who've gotten elected
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in many major cities across the country. And when they
get in, they refuse to prosecute violent criminals. They downgrade
felonies to misdemeanors, they abolish cash bail, so they catch
a murderer, they let them go. They catch a violent criminal,
they let them go. Here's another portion from the hearing.
You know, it's clear from this hearing the Democrat talking
points have come out. Both Senator Padilla and Senator Booker
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spent a great deal of time talking about quote red
states as a reason they were talking about red states
because unfortunately, most red states had blue cities and that's
where the crime is. If you want to look at
in twenty twenty three, the large cities with the most
homicides per one hundred thousand people number one was New Orleans, Louisiana.
Number two was Memphis, Tennessee. Number three was Saint Louis City.
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Number four was Baltimore City. Number five was Washington, DC.
Democrat crime policies kill people. Soros das who let murderers
out of jail kill people.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
So when you look at this being exposed the way
that you guys are doing it, what is going to
be the mechanism that can obviously help stop this from happening?
And how can Congress use that leverage?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Well, there are lots of things we can do. One
is what President Trump has done, which is he sent
the National Guard to Washington, DC. And the result of
that is the crime rates of plummet. The plummeted. The
murder rates have dropped fifty eight percent.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Now you would.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Think rational people that if Democrats were rational people, they'd
be celebrating, Wow, the murder rate has plummeted. That means
people are alive because the National Guard is they're stopping murders.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
But they're not. They're furious. And I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
In the wake of George Floyd dying, the DC City
Council passed a soft on crime package of legislation that
lessened the penalty for violent crime across the board, that
tied the police hands and made it much much harder
to prosecute crime. And the result was crime rose dramatically,
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carjacking and violent crime rose dramatically. I've introduced legislation in
the Senate called the Clean DC Act. The Clean DC
Act reverses those twenty twenty two laws. It reinstates tougher
penalties on violent crimes, and it allows the police to
actually go after the violent criminals. At the hearing, the
head of the DC Police Union testified and he explicitly
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asked the Senate to pass my legislation. Pass the Clean
DC Act. Give a listen to the head of the
DC Police Officers Union.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
That is why we also support the Clean DC Act.
It begins the process of undoing harmful legislation, restoring balance,
and rebuilding MPD strength. This is not just a DC issue.
Other cities that embrace the same policies are now facing
the same consequences. The lesson is clear. When leaders attack police,
communities suffer. When lawmakers strip away tools and protections, criminals thrive.
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If this is not corrected, the crisis will deepen here
and nationwide. Urge Congress to act, support the Clean DC Act,
roll backfield legislation, and work with law enforcement instead of
against US officers want nothing more than to protect their communities,
but they cannot do it alone. Again, I thank you
for the opportunity to testify, and I welcome any questions
the committee may have.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
One of the things Centaer I like about where you
guys are going with this is that this is not
going to be a short term thing. This is actual
reform you are advocating for to make sure that these
cities don't go back to these liberal policies where innocent
people are dying every single day.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Now, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
And the first obligation, the first obligation the president, the
commander in chief has is to protect this nation, to
keep us safe. The first obligation really every elected official
should should put front and center is protecting the health
and safety of the men and women you're elected to represent.
And you know it is striking, just like like we
talk about a minute ago with the shutdown where the
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Democrats are engaged in gaslighting. You heard in the segment
I was talking about what both Corey Booker and Alex
Padilla said in that hearing where they both had talking
points almost exactly the same, where they said, well, you know,
there are bad crime stats in a bunch of red states,
and they went through a bunch of red states, and
then they're right, there are red states where the crime
stats are problematic. My response, which they have no refutation to,
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is that is entirely driven by the blue cities and
those red states that are governed by left wing Democrat
mayors and left wing Democrat das who refuse to prosecute
violent crime. And so, yes, look, Memphis, Tennessee was number
two on the list. Now, Tennessee is a red state.
But you know, God help you if you live in
Memphis when you have local officials who will not prosecute.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
The bad guys.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
And that's true in Baltimore, that's true in New Orleans,
that's true in Washington, DC. And rather than address it
and admit it and fix it, the Democrats are trying
to distract people by engaging in dishonest rhetoric.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
you can go back and listen to the full podcast
from earlier this week. Now onto story number two. Is
this going to be a really long term shutdown or
is this going to be something that's going to get
resolved pretty quickly. So let's talk about you and Washington.
Last week there were votes and movement, but it did
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not move enough to make the government go back to
actually working for the American people. When FDC, what was
a temperature and you said, now, Democrats, you feel like
are actually freaking out?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah, Look, I and every other Republican has voted repeatedly
to open up the government. The House of Representatives has
passed a clean cr a clean continuing resolution that keeps
the government open, and it's the Democrats who keep voting
it down. And we're going to this week, we're going
to be back in. We'll be in Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
maybe Friday. Every day we will vote to open the government.
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Right now. If the Democrats don't change, every day, the
Democrats will vote to keep the government shut down. And
the challenge is they don't have an off ramp that
they're trying to make up all sorts of things to say,
we're going to shut the government down because.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Of X, because of Y.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
They're claiming it's all about that they really really really
want to give health care to illeal aliens. Actually, ironically,
they're not claiming that that's in the language of the
bill they keep voting for. So every Democrat keeps voting
for a bill that would provide government provided health care
for illegals, and then they're going on TV saying what us, No, no, no,
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we don't want health care for illegals. Who's ever heard
of such a thing? That's not possibly what we want.
So there's a level of incoherence in terms of what
they're ask is. But there's a reason for that. They
don't actually have a real ask. What they have is
a political problem for Chuck Schumer. When he last kept
the government open, he came very close to losing his job.
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Left wing rose up, they were furious. I got to say,
Bennett is astonishing. Every single Democrat Senate candidate in the
country who has been asked, do you support Chuck Schumer
to remain the Democrat leader in the Senate? Not one,
not a single incumbent, not a single challenger has said yep,
he's our leader. They're all running terrified, And so you
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want to know why there's a shutdown because Schumer needs
to beat his chest now at some point he'll stop
beating his chest and the government will reopen. But just
this week, CBS did a poll and I got to say,
the Democrats' numbers are near an all time low. The
democrats favorability rating is at thirty four percent sixty six
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percent unfavorable, and it really is striking. So CBS, now
this is not a right wing poll, this is CBS.
CBS asked what words describe the Democrat Party?
Speaker 7 (14:02):
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
The number one word was, I'm gonna guess it wasn't
like inspirational, like hope and change.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Back in the day when Obama is.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Around week there you go week week was sixty four
percent of Americans bold said the Democrat Party is weak?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
What do you think? The number two word.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Was I'm gonna go with not strong.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Extreme forty six percent set extreme, So weak in extreme
are the top two words. Now after that, you've got
reasonable reasonable is it forty four percent?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Strong?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You actually asked about strong. What percent do you think
say the Democrat Party is strong?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I mean, if I had a guess, I'd say thirty
five percent. Twenty seven Wow, so.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Even lower than I thought, because thirty five was not
like a good number.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
By the way, and by the way, effective, what percent
do you think say the Democrat Party is effective?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Going to say, based on what you just said a
moment ago, twenty five percent?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Twenty six there you go. Okay, God, so all right,
think think for a minute. You are running the Democrat
Party Senate campaign, the Democrat Party House campaign. Your message
right now, two thirds of Americans think we're weak. Half
of Americans think we're extreme. We've got a full quarter
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of Americans who think we're strong and effective. So we're
telling you quarter of Americans we are strong and effective.
Everyone else, you know, we're full of crap. That is
the definition of a political crisis. You want to know
why my colleagues are nervous. Look, I this past week
I sent out a meme so you may have seen,
in fact, I know you've seen. Ben President Trump sent
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out a meme of Hakeem Jeffries wearing a sombrero with
a big handlebar mustache.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Bye.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
By the way, so good and hilarious and just funny,
and people need to calm down. But of course Democrats
start screaming race right away.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Look, it was funniest crap.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
It was ai so it had chuck Schumer saying, all right,
nobody's voting for Democrats because they know our bs, and
we would have actually played the meme, but the AI
curses a number of times, and this is a family
friendly podcast, so we're not going to play the curse
words here. But I have to admit I doubled over laughing,
and look, it's obviously AI. Nobody thinks that the yeah
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it Schumer actually said, we the Democrats are are full
of crap, Like it's obvious they're lying. But what people
have gone nuts about is a king Jeffries is there.
They're saying, Okay, nobody votes for us. Everyone hates us.
So we've decided to go all in on free healthcare,
free illegals because maybe the illegals they don't speak English,
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so maybe they'll support us at least for a while,
so they discover how horrible we are and then they
won't support us either. That's a paraphrase of what Schumer
says in the video. And you have a Keem Jeffries
at a sombrero and a big mustachio next to him,
and I have to admit my team we took a video.
There are forty four Democrats who keep voting to shut
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the government down. So we took pictures of all forty
four of those Democrat senators and we used a little
bit of AI and we stuck sombreros and big old
mustaches on them, and we put it out, and we
put it out. Actually, I want to play the tune
and we're not going to play the whole thing, but
I want to play the tune that we put it
out to because it's it's very neutral and non political.
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Give a listen to the song that we put out.
And mind you, while you're listening to this song, you
have a cascade of forty four Democrat senators with sombreros
and big handlebar mustaches.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
Give a listener.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Nomber Cono is never gonna be Novem gonna make the
goodry better than you can remember. Count Moo is never
gonna be me in November when the inside do the
Magarito shake it up. But Treila campaign now they all
love me because I'm Dante and never going to American
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wants me. Votes for me. Jn't just be on himself.
The Ferre tim this sweep votes for me. Jot just
be on himself. The ferre dumb This sweep co.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Tho is never gonna be me.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
You no gonna make the good you better than you
can remember.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
All right.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I gotta say you know that Donald Trump loves this
kind of stuff. I cannot wait to see what he
says to you when you guys hang out next.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Uh oh, look, it's hysterical and you gotta envision if
if you haven't watched it online. While the song is playing,
we've just got image after image of Democrats. So we
have Chris van Holland sitting down with the MS thirteen
member having dakery with a giant sombrero and heinelbar mustache.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
We just just have fun with it.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
By the way, I will say the Macarena so as
you know, my communications director's named Makarena Martinez. She's fantastic,
really really good. But I was talking to like several
of the young staffers in my office and I said,
you know, there's only one member of our staff who
has been the title of a number one song worldwide,
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And like the twenty two year olds in my office
had no idea what I was talking about.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Isn't it amazing? Like they've never heard of You're right now?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Yeah, Like it's it's it's for all of so so
this pod has a lot of younger listeners. There was
a song what twenty years ago, twenty five long time ageah,
long longer than that maybe, Yeah, that was the makarena,
and there there was a dance. I will say, if
you've never seen it, there's an image you don't want
to see of Hillary Clinton dancing the macarena. And it
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is just it will it will make you feel like
the gift of Homer Simpson wanting to pour bleach in
your eyes. You do not want to see Hillary. Trust me,
do not google Hillary Clinton dancing the macarena. You will
never be the same.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
That was that at the Democratic Convention. I'm having a
flashback right now.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't remember trying to be cool
right and it just completely backfired.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
It was horrible.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Now, I will tell you when I sent out this
this video of all the Democrats, Tim Kane, Democrat from Virginia,
who Tim and I are friends, but he like popped
me back on Twitter. He's like, hey, did you buy
those sombreros and can kun, which I was. I immediately
responded yes I did. And by the way, Tim, instead
of making dumb jokes about kN kun. How about we
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reopened the government since half of your friggin state Virginia
works for the government and you've taken away all their
paychecks and and he didn't like that. So I will
say on the Senate floor, I was giving Tim a
little bit of grief for that, and he was kind
of He's like, did you like my can't gun joke?
And I'm like, yeah, but I'd like it better if
you opened the government.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
If you opened the government. So all right, look into
your crystal ball.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Based on what DC was like in the mood when
you left and going back in there on Monday, do
you think that we will get the government reopened this
week or do you think that that Schumer I do still.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Dig in now.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I think they cave this week, and I want to
play for you. So last week Schumer was on the
Senate floor, and I want to paint the picture. He's
giving a speech for one of the multiple times the
Democrats are voting to shut the government down, and they
know the polling is going terribly and so Schumer got
up and his line he said, well, okay, they're polls
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that Republicans are talking about, but those are biased Republican polls.
And he says, well, it's the New York Times, but
it's biased.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
And I got to say.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I was standing ten feet away from Schumer, and I
and every other Republican just cracked up laughing because he's
like claiming the New York Times is a biased right
wing publication. And it was spontaneous. We did not organize this.
We just like doubled over laughing, and Schumer he stammered,
he stopped. He's like, uh uh, well, I mean it
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was Look, who knew Schumer could be so funny. I
want you to play The video is better, but I
want you to play the audio Schumer saying this and
the spontaneous reaction appeals of laughter on the Senate floor.
Speaker 8 (22:30):
Now I want to know the leader is going to
show a poll that says that Democrats will be blamed
for the shutdown. There are many more polls that show
Republicans are blamed. The question in that poll is biased,
biased in the New York Times, but it's biased if
you turned the quot.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
That's true.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
I don't always believe the New York Times. You can
be sure of that. Neither do you.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Okay, it's amazing by the way, like you're here and there.
It's kind of like he realized he stepped in it.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
And he and even if he.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Really was, like I'm standing ten feet from him and
all of us wet. Like, okay, the microphone on the
Senate floor, when you're speaking, you have a little microphone
on your pel nobody else's micd That gives you a
sense of how loud the laughter was. That that's all
coming through Schumer's mic, and we were just doubled over laughing.
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And you watch his expression, He's like, oh, oh, oh wait, okay, okay,
that's really dumb. Oh crap, uh yeah, Okay. The New
York Times is a right wing biased publication.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Yeah, maybe that's not like.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
This is why my prediction is the shutdown will end
this week because I think the Democrats, as much as
Schumer feels he's in trouble with the left wing, I
think a lot of the Democrats say, we're on fire,
we don't have a win, this is not going well.
There's a combination of two things. One, an awful lot
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of Americans the government is shut down and they don't care.
It doesn't impact their lives. That is the nightmare for
any big government Democrat is if the government shuts down
and nobody notices and look, during a government shutdown, eighty
three percent of the government keeps functioning. So the military functions,
law enforcement functions, the FBI functions, the border patrol functions,
ice functions, so security, medicare, Medicaid, all of that function,
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The A benefits continue, and so it is a nightmare
if your entire political career is built on telling the
American people the most important thing in your life is
the federal government. If the government shuts down and everyone
yawns and goes about their life, that's a disaster. But
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a second disaster is to the extent people are focused.
So listen, if you're going to DC this week and
you wanted to go to the Smithsonian and goes to
see the Air and Space Museum, you can't because the
Democrats shut down the Smithsonian. They shut down Yellowstone National Park,
in all the national parks, and so people are going
to get pissed off gradually over time. But I think
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the vast majority of people are blaming the Democrats, saying
why are they shutting this down?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
As before?
Speaker 2 (25:14):
If you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
on this topic. You can go back and down the
podcast from earlier this week to hear the entire thing.
I want to get back to the big story number
three of the week you may have missed. I want
to move to another topic that we mentioned earlier, and
that is there is a lot of quiet outrage for
people that have been paying attention to the Brett Kavanaugh
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assassination scandal. You have a quote transgender man who plan
to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh only receiving eight years for that crime.
There are a lot of people that are upset and
angry about it. I'm one of them. I think you
are as well. And somehow, Oh, I guess being transgender
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now has allows three to avolesse accountability for your actions.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Explain this one.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yeah, I have to admit this story makes me incredibly angry.
When I saw it I read the news story this week,
I was literally yelling out loud as I was reading
my phone. Heidi and I and our daughter Caroline, we
were in New York this weekend. I was with a
half dozen NYPD cops and I got admit. I vented
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to the cops who were all pissed about this. So
the man who planned to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett
Kavanaugh in twenty twenty two. He flew from California to Maryland.
He arrived there, he had with him.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
He had.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
A knife, he had a gun, he had duct tape,
he had zip ties, and he had planned to murder
not just Brett Kavanaugh, but a total of three Supreme
Court justices. He was deranged, and he was caught on
the street right outside Justice Kavanaugh's home. And by the way,
he was also threatening Justice Kavanaugh's why wife and their
two daughters. Well, this guy was prosecuted quite rightily, and
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the Department of Justice asked for thirty years, which is
a pretty reasonable sentence for someone trying to kill a
Supreme Court justice. Well, this left wing judge, her name
is Deborah Boardman, she's a Joe Biden appointee to the
Maryland Federal Court. She made a twenty two year downward departure.
So instead of thirty years, she sentenced him to eight years.
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And her reasoning was essentially, instead of thirty years, you
get eight Why because you're transgender. Here's what Judge Boardman said, quote,
under the law, I must consider the sentencing guidelines. The
guidelines in this case are three hundred and sixty months
to life. It's important to understand the Supreme Court stands
on guidelines. They used to be mandatory, but in a
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case called Booker, the Supreme Court held they were advisory.
The judge acknowledge that quote this case did involve domestic terrorism,
but she undid most of the terrorism enhancement created by
the sentencing commission and said, quote, I have not seen
evidence that the sentencing Commission relied on evidence that it
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would reduce recidivism. The sentencing took more than seven hours,
and she discussed at length her justification for the light sentence.
Here's what she said, Miss Roski. Of course she calls
the man a woman because she's a leftist. Miss Rosky
came out to herself, to herself like this is a
private like just in the quiet of night, I've decided
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I'm a woman. Mis Rosky came out to herself as
transgender in twenty twenty, but kept it a secret. Mis
Roski's sister came out as gay two years prior, but
miss Roski saw their parents struggle to recognize her sexuality
with their religious beliefs. By the way, it is not
it is not subtle or implied. The judge thinks religious
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beliefs on this are horrible and terrible, and you are
bad if you have religious beliefs concerning sexuality. The judge continues, quote,
I am heartened that this terrible infraction has helped the
Roski family accept their daughter, by which she means Nicholas
Rosky for who she is. So you have someone attempting
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to murder as sitting Supreme Court justice and the federal
district judge who's sentencing the attempted murderer says, I'm heartened.
The great thing about this is the parents are now
accepting of their psychopathic, murderous son that thinks he's a daughter.
The mother of the murderer told the judge on Friday
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that quote, I've attended p flag meetings. I have attended
p flag meetings and learned about the LGBTQ plus community.
I am committed to going on this journey with Sophie,
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by which she means her son, Nicholas. She was frustrated
with what was going on in the world, and we
weren't a safe place to process it. And by the way,
the Daily Wire in their story the next sentence says,
as his mother wept. Nicholas Rosky also choked up his
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Adam's apple, bobbing up and down. Now here's what the
judge continued saying. Quote, any prison time is punishment for her.
The length doesn't need to be particularly long. Unduly harsh
conditions make a difference too. She will be imprisoned in
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a male facility even though she is a transgender prisoner,
pursuant to an executive order from the President. Before the
executive order, that wasn't the case. In other words, this
judge really wanted to send this dude to a woman's prison,
where after attempting to murder a sitting Supreme Court justice,
he could assault women who were incarcerated. This is I
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want to be clear, this is lunacy. This is nuts.
I have to admit. I literally yelled and cursed out loud.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Listen. Number one.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Brett Kavanaugh's a friend. I've literally known Brett Kavanaugh for
thirty years. His wife Ashley, Heidi, and I were with
Ashley on the two thousand George W. Bush campaign. She's
a West Texas girl. She's a wonderful woman. They have
two daughters who went through an utter nightmare going through
his confirmation hearing. Night after night after night, the Kavanaugh House,
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along with the house of every Supreme Court justice, had angry,
violent left wing protesters out front, screaming, violating federal law.
It is a crime to protests at the home of
a justice seeking to change the decision of an opinion,
and yet the Biden Justice Department refused to enforce that law.
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They would not prosecute those felonies and the heated rhetoric. Look,
this is very much like what we're seeing with Ice,
where Democrat rhetoric gets the lunatics and their party energized
to go commit crimes of violence. I want to be clear,
violence is never, ever, ever justified, So I'm not advocating
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violence against any Democrat. I'm not advocating violence again any
left wing judges or justices. Violence is wrong. And by
the way, when it comes to politically motivated violence, it
is almost exclusively a left wing phenomenon. Look, when George
Floyd died, we saw riots in American cities, on fire,
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being burned to the ground. We saw police cars being
firebomb we saw people being murdered. When Charlie Kirk was murdered,
we saw prayers across the countries. People went went out
and lit candles and prayed and sang together. And we
did see violence, but not from the people supporting Charlie Kirk.
Instead from the same left wing violent activists who were
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attacking the people in prayer visuals. There is a difference.
And and and I have to say this judge, this
judge is demonstrated she is utterly unfit to be a
federal judge. I think the House of Representatives should seriously
contemplate impeaching this judge.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
And and I don't by the way, does that happen
for what you're describing right now, because everybody listening is
to me, like a hold on a second.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
If this is the case, then why don't we do it?
Does it happen? How many votes do you need to
do it? How does that work?
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Yeah, it's happened a number of times. There have been
multiple federal judges who've been impeached and removed from office.
Typically they are impeached after committing a crime, something like
committing accepting bribes. So Alsei Hastings, for example, was a
federal judge who was convicted of accepting bribes as a judge.
He was removed from office and then he turned around
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and ran for Congress as a Democrat and got elected
as a congressman. So he was a Democrat congressman who
had been impeached and removed from office for being a
federal judge taking bribes. So that I'm going to let
you draw all the inferences you want. Those facts are objective.
It is not easy to impeach a judge, although under
the Constitution, to impeach a judge it takes a majority
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vote in the House of Representatives. And I actually think
in this instance, a judge who thinks someone trying to
murder a Supreme Court justice because he disagrees with a
decision the Supreme Court justice is rendering that is a
fundamental assault on our judicial system, on the rule of law,
on the basic protection of rights all of us have.
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And if you are such a zealot, such a partisan ideologue,
that you will not follow the sentencing guidelines, you will
not acknowledge this is terrorism, and instead you say, you
know what, this person's transgender, and my ideology is such
that I love transgenders, and so instead of thirty years,
I'm going to give this person eight years. And by
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the way, I really think this man should be in
a woman's prison. But that mean mean president won't let
me do.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
That, I believe. And I don't know this woman at all.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
I don't know this judge, but just how she conducted
herself in this proceeding to me, demonstrates she is completely
unfit to be a federal judge. I would urge the
House Representatives take up impeachment and I would love to
have a trial in the Senate. Do we want judges
who refuse to enforce the criminal law for psychopathic murderers
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who are trying to murder Supreme Court justices? I think
the obvious answer is does tell you this? No democrat
wants to defend the other side.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with sentater
Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you don't forget to deal
with my podcast and you can listen to my podcasts
every other day you're not listening to Verdict or each
day when you.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Listen to Verdict.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Afterwards, I'd love to have you as a listener to
again the Ben Ferguson podcasts, and we will see you
back here on Monday morning.
Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It is verdict with Ted Cruz that we can review
and Ben Ferguson with you. And here's some of the
big stories that you may have missed that we talked
about this week. First up, fighting the crime epidemic in
liberal blue cities. Donald Trump taking it on and having
massive success. So why are Democrats still fighting against him
even when the data shows it's working.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
We'll have that for you.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Also, the government shutdown is continuing and is there an
end date in sight?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
We'll have that as well.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And finally, Justice Kavanaugh attempted murder suspect given an incredibly
light sentence due to a radical judge. It's the weekend
review and it starts right now. All right, I want
to move to something else that's really important. The Senate
Judiciary is having a big hearing and it deals with
blue city chaos, democratic run cities. The report that's out
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now is pretty clear. The top twenty most crime ridden cities,
eighteen of them are controlled by left wing hard court Democrats.
And you guys are now looking into this, so what
does this actually mean?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Well, this week the Judiciary Committee held a hearing on
out of control crime in Democrat cities and it really
is horrific the policies. It turns out when you let
violent criminals go, when you undermine the police, when you
put in place prosecutors who won't prosecute crime, you get
more crime. This summer, the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley's
the chairman, put out a report that showed that the
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Biden Department of Justice sent taxpayer funded grants to Soros
backed soft on crime and goos. And in particular, here's
what the report said. Under the Biden Harris administration, the
Vera Institute was awarded millions of taxpayer dollars to prop
up left wing district attorneys who would then partner with
the Vera Institute to implement Soros backed progressive policies. These
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policies included prioritizing violent criminals over victims and declining to
fully process acute felony charges including assault, kidnapping, rape, and murder.
And here's some of the key findings from the report.
In New York, New York County DA Alvin Bragg partnered
with the Vera Institute and declined to prosecute certain misdemeanor felonies,
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actively working to downgrade felony charges to misdemeanors and refused
to detain criminals before their trials. Meanwhile, Bragg attempted to
prosecute President Donald Trump for federal campaign finance violations. In
the year twenty twenty five, there were over forty eight
thousand individuals arrested for misdemeanors in New York County WOW,
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but only three thousand of them were detained. Forty eight
thousand arrested, three thousand detained. In Georgia, Athens, DA Debor
Gonzalez partnered with the Vere Institute and pledged to protect
illegal immigrant defendants and release criminals on bonds that did
not require the posting of money. In Wisconsin, Milwaukee DA
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John Chisholm partnered with Veri Institute to implement progressive, soft
on crime policies and reportedly told the Milwaukee Sentinel Journey quote,
is there going to be an individual I divert or
who I put into a treatment program who's going to
go out and kill somebody?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
You bet?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
That is the Soros DA bragging he's going to release
criminals who murder people. And in twenty twenty, the Milwaukee
DA's office released a criminal twice before he ultimately drove
an suv through a Christmas parade, killing six and injuring
sixty two others. This pattern is happening over and over
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and over again. What is amazing is the Democrats are
not learning. They're not saying, gosh, maybe we should stop
siding with the criminals. Instead, they're doubling down.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
They're doubling down. And you see these stories that pop up.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
And there was one dad that went before Congress to
testify about his daughter and just how many times the
man that killed his daughter, that took his daughter's life
had been arrested and released. And if you didn't hear that,
people should go listen to it because I think it's
really important. But we're seeing this happen where criminals are
being caught and released dozens of times, like dozens of
(04:19):
Time Center and they're just like, yeah, so what they
go out and then they kill somebody, Like okay, maybe
we should have guess locked that guy up, My bad,
it's insane.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Well, and here was a portion of the hearing this week,
Give a listen, prosecute violent criminals. Innocent victims die right
here in Washington, d C. In twenty twelve murders in
DC totaled fewer than one hundred. By twenty twenty three,
murders had nearly tripled two hundred and seventy four lives
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taken in a single year. These are the real world
consequences of Democrat crime policies that let murderers go.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And the policy to be clear sent is a simple one.
Das were instructed when they took money basically from Soros.
They're bought and paid for by Soros, and what they
were instructed to do was to have prison reform and
bail reform. They wanted people out of the prisons. They
didn't want pe to go to prisons, they didn't want
Peo to be held in prison because of bail, and
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so that is part of what they're advocating for here.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
It's comprehensive and it's at every stage. It's a left
wing agenda that wants to number one, abolish the police,
wants to defund the police. And by the way, that's
not just empty rhetoric. If you look at jurisdictions across
the country. In Minneapolis, they slashed funding for the police department.
In New York City, the NYPD, they cut over a
billion dollars from the NYPD's budget in Austin, Texas, our
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home state, one hundred and fifty million dollars cut from
the police department. So that's one way they do it
is they attack the police directly to wanting to either
abolish or defund the police. But secondly they go after
DA's and George Soros has spent tens of million millions
of dollars funding DA campaigns for radicals who've gotten elected
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in many major cities across the country. And when they
get in, they refuse to prosecute violent criminals. They downgrade
felonies to misdemeanors, they abolish cash bail, so they catch
a murderer, they let them go. They catch a violent criminal,
they let them go. Here's another portion from the hearing.
You know, it's clear from this hearing the Democrat talking
points have come out. Both Senator Padilla and Senator Booker
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spent a great deal of time talking about quote red
states as a reason they were talking about red states
because unfortunately, most red states had blue cities and that's
where the crime is. If you want to look at
in twenty twenty three, the large cities with the most
homicides per one hundred thousand people number one was New Orleans, Louisiana.
Number two was Memphis, Tennessee. Number three was Saint Louis City.
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Number four was Baltimore City. Number five was Washington, DC.
Democrat crime policies kill people. Soros das who let murderers
out of jail kill people.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
So when you look at this being exposed the way
that you guys are doing it, what is going to
be the mechanism that can obviously help stop this from happening?
And how can Congress use that leverage?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Well, there are lots of things we can do. One
is what President Trump has done, which is he sent
the National Guard to Washington, DC. And the result of
that is the crime rates of plummet. The plummeted. The
murder rates have dropped fifty eight percent.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Now you would.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Think rational people that if Democrats were rational people, they'd
be celebrating, Wow, the murder rate has plummeted. That means
people are alive because the National Guard is they're stopping murders.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
But they're not. They're furious. And I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
In the wake of George Floyd dying, the DC City
Council passed a soft on crime package of legislation that
lessened the penalty for violent crime across the board, that
tied the police hands and made it much much harder
to prosecute crime. And the result was crime rose dramatically,
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carjacking and violent crime rose dramatically. I've introduced legislation in
the Senate called the Clean DC Act. The Clean DC
Act reverses those twenty twenty two laws. It reinstates tougher
penalties on violent crimes, and it allows the police to
actually go after the violent criminals. At the hearing, the
head of the DC Police Union testified and he explicitly
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asked the Senate to pass my legislation. Pass the Clean
DC Act. Give a listen to the head of the
DC Police Officers Union.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
That is why we also support the Clean DC Act.
It begins the process of undoing harmful legislation, restoring balance,
and rebuilding MPD strength. This is not just a DC issue.
Other cities that embrace the same policies are now facing
the same consequences. The lesson is clear. When leaders attack police,
communities suffer. When lawmakers strip away tools and protections, criminals thrive.
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If this is not corrected, the crisis will deepen here
and nationwide. Urge Congress to act, support the Clean DC Act,
roll backfield legislation, and work with law enforcement instead of
against US officers want nothing more than to protect their communities,
but they cannot do it alone. Again, I thank you
for the opportunity to testify, and I welcome any questions
the committee may have.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
One of the things Centaer I like about where you
guys are going with this is that this is not
going to be a short term thing. This is actual
reform you are advocating for to make sure that these
cities don't go back to these liberal policies where innocent
people are dying every single day.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Now, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
And the first obligation, the first obligation the president, the
commander in chief has is to protect this nation, to
keep us safe. The first obligation really every elected official
should should put front and center is protecting the health
and safety of the men and women you're elected to represent.
And you know it is striking, just like like we
talk about a minute ago with the shutdown where the
(10:02):
Democrats are engaged in gaslighting. You heard in the segment
I was talking about what both Corey Booker and Alex
Padilla said in that hearing where they both had talking
points almost exactly the same, where they said, well, you know,
there are bad crime stats in a bunch of red states,
and they went through a bunch of red states, and
then they're right, there are red states where the crime
stats are problematic. My response, which they have no refutation to,
(10:28):
is that is entirely driven by the blue cities and
those red states that are governed by left wing Democrat
mayors and left wing Democrat das who refuse to prosecute
violent crime. And so, yes, look, Memphis, Tennessee was number
two on the list. Now, Tennessee is a red state.
But you know, God help you if you live in
Memphis when you have local officials who will not prosecute.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
The bad guys.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
And that's true in Baltimore, that's true in New Orleans,
that's true in Washington, DC. And rather than address it
and admit it and fix it, the Democrats are trying
to distract people by engaging in dishonest rhetoric.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
you can go back and listen to the full podcast
from earlier this week. Now onto story number two. Is
this going to be a really long term shutdown or
is this going to be something that's going to get
resolved pretty quickly. So let's talk about you and Washington.
Last week there were votes and movement, but it did
(11:24):
not move enough to make the government go back to
actually working for the American people. When FDC, what was
a temperature and you said, now, Democrats, you feel like
are actually freaking out?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah, Look, I and every other Republican has voted repeatedly
to open up the government. The House of Representatives has
passed a clean cr a clean continuing resolution that keeps
the government open, and it's the Democrats who keep voting
it down. And we're going to this week, we're going
to be back in. We'll be in Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
maybe Friday. Every day we will vote to open the government.
(11:59):
Right now. If the Democrats don't change, every day, the
Democrats will vote to keep the government shut down. And
the challenge is they don't have an off ramp that
they're trying to make up all sorts of things to say,
we're going to shut the government down because.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Of X, because of Y.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
They're claiming it's all about that they really really really
want to give health care to illeal aliens. Actually, ironically,
they're not claiming that that's in the language of the
bill they keep voting for. So every Democrat keeps voting
for a bill that would provide government provided health care
for illegals, and then they're going on TV saying what us, No, no, no,
(12:38):
we don't want health care for illegals. Who's ever heard
of such a thing? That's not possibly what we want.
So there's a level of incoherence in terms of what
they're ask is. But there's a reason for that. They
don't actually have a real ask. What they have is
a political problem for Chuck Schumer. When he last kept
the government open, he came very close to losing his job.
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Left wing rose up, they were furious. I got to say,
Bennett is astonishing. Every single Democrat Senate candidate in the
country who has been asked, do you support Chuck Schumer
to remain the Democrat leader in the Senate? Not one,
not a single incumbent, not a single challenger has said yep,
he's our leader. They're all running terrified, And so you
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want to know why there's a shutdown because Schumer needs
to beat his chest now at some point he'll stop
beating his chest and the government will reopen. But just
this week, CBS did a poll and I got to say,
the Democrats' numbers are near an all time low. The
democrats favorability rating is at thirty four percent sixty six
(13:49):
percent unfavorable, and it really is striking. So CBS, now
this is not a right wing poll, this is CBS.
CBS asked what words describe the Democrat Party?
Speaker 7 (14:02):
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
The number one word was, I'm gonna guess it wasn't
like inspirational, like hope and change.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Back in the day when Obama is.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Around week there you go week week was sixty four
percent of Americans bold said the Democrat Party is weak?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
What do you think? The number two word.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Was I'm gonna go with not strong.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Extreme forty six percent set extreme, So weak in extreme
are the top two words. Now after that, you've got
reasonable reasonable is it forty four percent?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Strong?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You actually asked about strong. What percent do you think
say the Democrat Party is strong?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I mean, if I had a guess, I'd say thirty
five percent. Twenty seven Wow, so.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Even lower than I thought, because thirty five was not
like a good number.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
By the way, and by the way, effective, what percent
do you think say the Democrat Party is effective?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Going to say, based on what you just said a
moment ago, twenty five percent?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Twenty six there you go. Okay, God, so all right,
think think for a minute. You are running the Democrat
Party Senate campaign, the Democrat Party House campaign. Your message
right now, two thirds of Americans think we're weak. Half
of Americans think we're extreme. We've got a full quarter
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of Americans who think we're strong and effective. So we're
telling you quarter of Americans we are strong and effective.
Everyone else, you know, we're full of crap. That is
the definition of a political crisis. You want to know
why my colleagues are nervous. Look, I this past week
I sent out a meme so you may have seen,
in fact, I know you've seen. Ben President Trump sent
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out a meme of Hakeem Jeffries wearing a sombrero with
a big handlebar mustache.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Bye.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
By the way, so good and hilarious and just funny,
and people need to calm down. But of course Democrats
start screaming race right away.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Look, it was funniest crap.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
It was ai so it had chuck Schumer saying, all right,
nobody's voting for Democrats because they know our bs, and
we would have actually played the meme, but the AI
curses a number of times, and this is a family
friendly podcast, so we're not going to play the curse
words here. But I have to admit I doubled over laughing,
and look, it's obviously AI. Nobody thinks that the yeah
(16:26):
it Schumer actually said, we the Democrats are are full
of crap, Like it's obvious they're lying. But what people
have gone nuts about is a king Jeffries is there.
They're saying, Okay, nobody votes for us. Everyone hates us.
So we've decided to go all in on free healthcare,
free illegals because maybe the illegals they don't speak English,
(16:47):
so maybe they'll support us at least for a while,
so they discover how horrible we are and then they
won't support us either. That's a paraphrase of what Schumer
says in the video. And you have a Keem Jeffries
at a sombrero and a big mustachio next to him,
and I have to admit my team we took a video.
There are forty four Democrats who keep voting to shut
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the government down. So we took pictures of all forty
four of those Democrat senators and we used a little
bit of AI and we stuck sombreros and big old
mustaches on them, and we put it out, and we
put it out. Actually, I want to play the tune
and we're not going to play the whole thing, but
I want to play the tune that we put it
out to because it's it's very neutral and non political.
(17:31):
Give a listen to the song that we put out.
And mind you, while you're listening to this song, you
have a cascade of forty four Democrat senators with sombreros
and big handlebar mustaches.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
Give a listener.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Nomber Cono is never gonna be Novem gonna make the
goodry better than you can remember. Count Moo is never
gonna be me in November when the inside do the
Magarito shake it up. But Treila campaign now they all
love me because I'm Dante and never going to American
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wants me. Votes for me. Jn't just be on himself.
The Ferre tim this sweep votes for me. Jot just
be on himself. The ferre dumb This sweep co.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Tho is never gonna be me.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
You no gonna make the good you better than you
can remember.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
All right.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I gotta say you know that Donald Trump loves this
kind of stuff. I cannot wait to see what he
says to you when you guys hang out next.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Uh oh, look, it's hysterical and you gotta envision if
if you haven't watched it online. While the song is playing,
we've just got image after image of Democrats. So we
have Chris van Holland sitting down with the MS thirteen
member having dakery with a giant sombrero and heinelbar mustache.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
We just just have fun with it.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
By the way, I will say the Macarena so as
you know, my communications director's named Makarena Martinez. She's fantastic,
really really good. But I was talking to like several
of the young staffers in my office and I said,
you know, there's only one member of our staff who
has been the title of a number one song worldwide,
(19:27):
And like the twenty two year olds in my office
had no idea what I was talking about.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Isn't it amazing? Like they've never heard of You're right now?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Yeah, Like it's it's it's for all of so so
this pod has a lot of younger listeners. There was
a song what twenty years ago, twenty five long time ageah,
long longer than that maybe, Yeah, that was the makarena,
and there there was a dance. I will say, if
you've never seen it, there's an image you don't want
to see of Hillary Clinton dancing the macarena. And it
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is just it will it will make you feel like
the gift of Homer Simpson wanting to pour bleach in
your eyes. You do not want to see Hillary. Trust me,
do not google Hillary Clinton dancing the macarena. You will
never be the same.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
That was that at the Democratic Convention. I'm having a
flashback right now.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't remember trying to be cool
right and it just completely backfired.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
It was horrible.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Now, I will tell you when I sent out this
this video of all the Democrats, Tim Kane, Democrat from Virginia,
who Tim and I are friends, but he like popped
me back on Twitter. He's like, hey, did you buy
those sombreros and can kun, which I was. I immediately
responded yes I did. And by the way, Tim, instead
of making dumb jokes about kN kun. How about we
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reopened the government since half of your friggin state Virginia
works for the government and you've taken away all their
paychecks and and he didn't like that. So I will
say on the Senate floor, I was giving Tim a
little bit of grief for that, and he was kind
of He's like, did you like my can't gun joke?
And I'm like, yeah, but I'd like it better if
you opened the government.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
If you opened the government. So all right, look into
your crystal ball.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Based on what DC was like in the mood when
you left and going back in there on Monday, do
you think that we will get the government reopened this
week or do you think that that Schumer I do still.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Dig in now.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I think they cave this week, and I want to
play for you. So last week Schumer was on the
Senate floor, and I want to paint the picture. He's
giving a speech for one of the multiple times the
Democrats are voting to shut the government down, and they
know the polling is going terribly and so Schumer got
up and his line he said, well, okay, they're polls
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that Republicans are talking about, but those are biased Republican polls.
And he says, well, it's the New York Times, but
it's biased.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
And I got to say.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I was standing ten feet away from Schumer, and I
and every other Republican just cracked up laughing because he's
like claiming the New York Times is a biased right
wing publication. And it was spontaneous. We did not organize this.
We just like doubled over laughing, and Schumer he stammered,
he stopped. He's like, uh uh, well, I mean it
(22:16):
was Look, who knew Schumer could be so funny. I
want you to play The video is better, but I
want you to play the audio Schumer saying this and
the spontaneous reaction appeals of laughter on the Senate floor.
Speaker 8 (22:30):
Now I want to know the leader is going to
show a poll that says that Democrats will be blamed
for the shutdown. There are many more polls that show
Republicans are blamed. The question in that poll is biased,
biased in the New York Times, but it's biased if
you turned the quot.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
That's true.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
I don't always believe the New York Times. You can
be sure of that. Neither do you.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Okay, it's amazing by the way, like you're here and there.
It's kind of like he realized he stepped in it.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
And he and even if he.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Really was, like I'm standing ten feet from him and
all of us wet. Like, okay, the microphone on the
Senate floor, when you're speaking, you have a little microphone
on your pel nobody else's micd That gives you a
sense of how loud the laughter was. That that's all
coming through Schumer's mic, and we were just doubled over laughing.
(23:29):
And you watch his expression, He's like, oh, oh, oh wait, okay, okay,
that's really dumb. Oh crap, uh yeah, Okay. The New
York Times is a right wing biased publication.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Yeah, maybe that's not like.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
This is why my prediction is the shutdown will end
this week because I think the Democrats, as much as
Schumer feels he's in trouble with the left wing, I
think a lot of the Democrats say, we're on fire,
we don't have a win, this is not going well.
There's a combination of two things. One, an awful lot
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of Americans the government is shut down and they don't care.
It doesn't impact their lives. That is the nightmare for
any big government Democrat is if the government shuts down
and nobody notices and look, during a government shutdown, eighty
three percent of the government keeps functioning. So the military functions,
law enforcement functions, the FBI functions, the border patrol functions,
ice functions, so security, medicare, Medicaid, all of that function,
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The A benefits continue, and so it is a nightmare
if your entire political career is built on telling the
American people the most important thing in your life is
the federal government. If the government shuts down and everyone
yawns and goes about their life, that's a disaster. But
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a second disaster is to the extent people are focused.
So listen, if you're going to DC this week and
you wanted to go to the Smithsonian and goes to
see the Air and Space Museum, you can't because the
Democrats shut down the Smithsonian. They shut down Yellowstone National Park,
in all the national parks, and so people are going
to get pissed off gradually over time. But I think
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the vast majority of people are blaming the Democrats, saying
why are they shutting this down?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
As before?
Speaker 2 (25:14):
If you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
on this topic. You can go back and down the
podcast from earlier this week to hear the entire thing.
I want to get back to the big story number
three of the week you may have missed. I want
to move to another topic that we mentioned earlier, and
that is there is a lot of quiet outrage for
people that have been paying attention to the Brett Kavanaugh
(25:38):
assassination scandal. You have a quote transgender man who plan
to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh only receiving eight years for that crime.
There are a lot of people that are upset and
angry about it. I'm one of them. I think you
are as well. And somehow, Oh, I guess being transgender
(26:01):
now has allows three to avolesse accountability for your actions.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Explain this one.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yeah, I have to admit this story makes me incredibly angry.
When I saw it I read the news story this week,
I was literally yelling out loud as I was reading
my phone. Heidi and I and our daughter Caroline, we
were in New York this weekend. I was with a
half dozen NYPD cops and I got admit. I vented
(26:27):
to the cops who were all pissed about this. So
the man who planned to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett
Kavanaugh in twenty twenty two. He flew from California to Maryland.
He arrived there, he had with him.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
He had.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
A knife, he had a gun, he had duct tape,
he had zip ties, and he had planned to murder
not just Brett Kavanaugh, but a total of three Supreme
Court justices. He was deranged, and he was caught on
the street right outside Justice Kavanaugh's home. And by the way,
he was also threatening Justice Kavanaugh's why wife and their
two daughters. Well, this guy was prosecuted quite rightily, and
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the Department of Justice asked for thirty years, which is
a pretty reasonable sentence for someone trying to kill a
Supreme Court justice. Well, this left wing judge, her name
is Deborah Boardman, she's a Joe Biden appointee to the
Maryland Federal Court. She made a twenty two year downward departure.
So instead of thirty years, she sentenced him to eight years.
(27:34):
And her reasoning was essentially, instead of thirty years, you
get eight Why because you're transgender. Here's what Judge Boardman said, quote,
under the law, I must consider the sentencing guidelines. The
guidelines in this case are three hundred and sixty months
to life. It's important to understand the Supreme Court stands
on guidelines. They used to be mandatory, but in a
(27:56):
case called Booker, the Supreme Court held they were advisory.
The judge acknowledge that quote this case did involve domestic terrorism,
but she undid most of the terrorism enhancement created by
the sentencing commission and said, quote, I have not seen
evidence that the sentencing Commission relied on evidence that it
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would reduce recidivism. The sentencing took more than seven hours,
and she discussed at length her justification for the light sentence.
Here's what she said, Miss Roski. Of course she calls
the man a woman because she's a leftist. Miss Rosky
came out to herself, to herself like this is a
private like just in the quiet of night, I've decided
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I'm a woman. Mis Rosky came out to herself as
transgender in twenty twenty, but kept it a secret. Mis
Roski's sister came out as gay two years prior, but
miss Roski saw their parents struggle to recognize her sexuality
with their religious beliefs. By the way, it is not
it is not subtle or implied. The judge thinks religious
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beliefs on this are horrible and terrible, and you are
bad if you have religious beliefs concerning sexuality. The judge continues, quote,
I am heartened that this terrible infraction has helped the
Roski family accept their daughter, by which she means Nicholas
Rosky for who she is. So you have someone attempting
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to murder as sitting Supreme Court justice and the federal
district judge who's sentencing the attempted murderer says, I'm heartened.
The great thing about this is the parents are now
accepting of their psychopathic, murderous son that thinks he's a daughter.
The mother of the murderer told the judge on Friday
(29:46):
that quote, I've attended p flag meetings. I have attended
p flag meetings and learned about the LGBTQ plus community.
I am committed to going on this journey with Sophie,
(30:06):
by which she means her son, Nicholas. She was frustrated
with what was going on in the world, and we
weren't a safe place to process it. And by the way,
the Daily Wire in their story the next sentence says,
as his mother wept. Nicholas Rosky also choked up his
(30:27):
Adam's apple, bobbing up and down. Now here's what the
judge continued saying. Quote, any prison time is punishment for her.
The length doesn't need to be particularly long. Unduly harsh
conditions make a difference too. She will be imprisoned in
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a male facility even though she is a transgender prisoner,
pursuant to an executive order from the President. Before the
executive order, that wasn't the case. In other words, this
judge really wanted to send this dude to a woman's prison,
where after attempting to murder a sitting Supreme Court justice,
he could assault women who were incarcerated. This is I
(31:15):
want to be clear, this is lunacy. This is nuts.
I have to admit. I literally yelled and cursed out loud.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Listen. Number one.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Brett Kavanaugh's a friend. I've literally known Brett Kavanaugh for
thirty years. His wife Ashley, Heidi, and I were with
Ashley on the two thousand George W. Bush campaign. She's
a West Texas girl. She's a wonderful woman. They have
two daughters who went through an utter nightmare going through
his confirmation hearing. Night after night after night, the Kavanaugh House,
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along with the house of every Supreme Court justice, had angry,
violent left wing protesters out front, screaming, violating federal law.
It is a crime to protests at the home of
a justice seeking to change the decision of an opinion,
and yet the Biden Justice Department refused to enforce that law.
(32:08):
They would not prosecute those felonies and the heated rhetoric. Look,
this is very much like what we're seeing with Ice,
where Democrat rhetoric gets the lunatics and their party energized
to go commit crimes of violence. I want to be clear,
violence is never, ever, ever justified, So I'm not advocating
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violence against any Democrat. I'm not advocating violence again any
left wing judges or justices. Violence is wrong. And by
the way, when it comes to politically motivated violence, it
is almost exclusively a left wing phenomenon. Look, when George
Floyd died, we saw riots in American cities, on fire,
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being burned to the ground. We saw police cars being
firebomb we saw people being murdered. When Charlie Kirk was murdered,
we saw prayers across the countries. People went went out
and lit candles and prayed and sang together. And we
did see violence, but not from the people supporting Charlie Kirk.
Instead from the same left wing violent activists who were
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attacking the people in prayer visuals. There is a difference.
And and and I have to say this judge, this
judge is demonstrated she is utterly unfit to be a
federal judge. I think the House of Representatives should seriously
contemplate impeaching this judge.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
And and I don't by the way, does that happen
for what you're describing right now, because everybody listening is
to me, like a hold on a second.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
If this is the case, then why don't we do it?
Does it happen? How many votes do you need to
do it? How does that work?
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Yeah, it's happened a number of times. There have been
multiple federal judges who've been impeached and removed from office.
Typically they are impeached after committing a crime, something like
committing accepting bribes. So Alsei Hastings, for example, was a
federal judge who was convicted of accepting bribes as a judge.
He was removed from office and then he turned around
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and ran for Congress as a Democrat and got elected
as a congressman. So he was a Democrat congressman who
had been impeached and removed from office for being a
federal judge taking bribes. So that I'm going to let
you draw all the inferences you want. Those facts are objective.
It is not easy to impeach a judge, although under
the Constitution, to impeach a judge it takes a majority
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vote in the House of Representatives. And I actually think
in this instance, a judge who thinks someone trying to
murder a Supreme Court justice because he disagrees with a
decision the Supreme Court justice is rendering that is a
fundamental assault on our judicial system, on the rule of law,
on the basic protection of rights all of us have.
(34:58):
And if you are such a zealot, such a partisan ideologue,
that you will not follow the sentencing guidelines, you will
not acknowledge this is terrorism, and instead you say, you
know what, this person's transgender, and my ideology is such
that I love transgenders, and so instead of thirty years,
I'm going to give this person eight years. And by
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the way, I really think this man should be in
a woman's prison. But that mean mean president won't let
me do.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
That, I believe. And I don't know this woman at all.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
I don't know this judge, but just how she conducted
herself in this proceeding to me, demonstrates she is completely
unfit to be a federal judge. I would urge the
House Representatives take up impeachment and I would love to
have a trial in the Senate. Do we want judges
who refuse to enforce the criminal law for psychopathic murderers
(35:51):
who are trying to murder Supreme Court justices? I think
the obvious answer is does tell you this? No democrat
wants to defend the other side.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with sentater
Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you don't forget to deal
with my podcast and you can listen to my podcasts
every other day you're not listening to Verdict or each
day when you.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Listen to Verdict.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Afterwards, I'd love to have you as a listener to
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