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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome and his verdict with Center Ted Cruz. The Week
in Review, Ben Ferguson with you. We had some big
stories that you may have missed that we talked about
this week. First up, poll numbers helping Donald Trump get
his agenda done. Just how big are the poll numbers
for the president and what does it mean about the
media who's still coming after him? Will break that down
for you. Also, Doe just come out and found four
(00:23):
point seven trillion in untraceable spending. Was it done deliberately
by the government so no one would know where your
tax dollars are going. Will break that down for you
as well. And finally, Pam Bondi, the Attorney General of
the United States of America, joins us, talking about the
relationship she has with other people in the administration and
(00:46):
just how important it is that they are friends and
working together. It's the weekend Review and it starts right now.
When I was at the Bush administration, we were on
the campaign. If you had a poll on something we
wanted that was above fifty three percent, that was like
a home run. If you were at fifty five percent
or above, it was like a mandate. I have not
(01:07):
seen sixty percent polls like these in decades have you
on these types of issues?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And to see ABC reporting on it and you're right,
Jonathan carl is very dismayed to be reporting on it.
He's shaking his head. But a king Jefferies looks like
he's filming a hostage video. He's just terrified. Why are
you asking me this? Because he doesn't want to say no,
I don't agree with Trump on anything, because when you're
on the wrong side of a bunch of sixty forty issues,
that's a recipe to lose elections. But he doesn't want
(01:37):
to say yes, I agree with Trump on anything because
his base hates Trump so much they'll lose their mind
and go nuts. So all he can say is, well,
it's just the beginning. I hope things will go wrong
and then then we can celebrate the things are going wrong.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
It is astounding, astonishing.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I should say that this is now where we are,
but this turns into what I call a man date,
a supermandate, and it just means keep going Trump, keep going.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Republicans.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
What does this do to some of your colleagues who
maybe didn't want to go along with some of these
types of things when they see these poll numbers. Is
this going to make it easier to get things done
in Congress as well? I would hope so.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Well, it certainly should. And by the way, I'll tell
you historically, for the last four years, every Democrat voted
on the wrong side of these issues. On the question
of are there two sexes male and female? Every single
Democrat the Senate voted no over and over and over again.
On the question of deporting illegals, every Democrat and the
Senate voted no over and over and over again. On
(02:38):
the question of more oil and gas exploration, virtually every Democrat,
actually Joe Manchin would vote yes occasionally, Joe Manchin isn't
there anymore. So every Democrat that remains in the Senate
has voted no over and over and over again. On
the question of declaring an emergency on the Southern border, again,
every Democrat voted no. And so the Democrat Party, listen,
(03:00):
you're in a crisis. If you're on the wrong side
of sixty forty issues across the board. Well, that's how
you get the kind of election we had November. That's
how you get a president elected with more than three
hundred electoral votes. That's how you get a president who
of the seven swing states wins all seven. That's how
you get a Republican Senate and a Republican House. Because
(03:20):
the Democrats on the issues, they're not listening to the
American people. They're listening to the crazy fringe. And I
don't see a whole lot of indication that they're moving.
You know, It's a fascinating question, is are there Democrats
in the party who say, gosh, we've gotten so far
out of the mainstream, we're really we're really listening to
(03:43):
just a fringe. Let's get back to the middle. They're
one or two people saying that. But I got to say,
all right, I want you to listen to James Carville.
James Carvill is a Democrat through and through. Listen to
what James Carville had to say about his party just
just completely getting so extreme that they leave the American
(04:04):
people behind. He's really upset about it. Here are the
words Carville is quoted online is saying, we don't have
the audio, but we have the words. And look, I'll
give a warning. Carvill's language as always colorful that it
is here, but here's how he's quoted quote, I dedicated
the best years of my f and life to this party,
only to see it taken over by a bunch of
(04:25):
stupid mf ers. Everything's gone to s By the way,
he did not abbreviate any of those And if you
look at the tweet that is particularly circulating online, it
says Carvill is especially livid following the DNC leadership election,
reportedly saying quote, who are these people This David hog
(04:46):
guy and that other sissy referring to Malcolm Canyata come
out of the gd left field? Well there goes the
mail vote forever. Thanks guys, We're ft and we deserve it.
That's James Carville's assessment of where the Democrat Party is right.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Now based on the poll numbers that we're seeing. He's
not far off, by the way from reality. I mean,
if he's an honest broker, I've known James for years,
you have as well, like he's This is the assessment.
I think he's spot on with where the Democratic Party is.
And they still don't seem to understand where that This
is how far they are away from the American people.
(05:23):
That's a blessing disguise for us.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, that they are not listening to reality. But look
let's look at the facts. Let's take the facts, all right.
Here's a headline from the New York Post just a
couple of days ago. Quote, illegal border crossings hit record
low after Trump's swift crackdown and could be on track
for levels not seen in sixty years. Wow, the numbers
(05:51):
are stunning. So far in February, about three hundred and
fifty nine illegal migrants per day have been caught across
the entire southern border, down more than ninety percent nine
zero from February twenty twenty four. According to leaked Customs
and Border Protection data, that puts the US on track
to have the lowest monthly border crossings in at least
(06:14):
twenty five years. If the trend continues, the number of
illegal migrants coming into the US could hit a level
not seen since nineteen sixty eight, nearly sixty years ago.
Here's a quote from Mark Krian, who runs the Center
for Immigration Studies. It's the lowest the US has seen
quote in almost a lifetime.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
If you kind of break down the numbers, divide them
by three sixty five, we hadn't add numbers this low
since the nineteen sixties, So we're talking sixty year lows
if it's sustained. Obviously, the CPP data shows that just
three nine hundred and fifty three illegal migrants have been
caught this month through February eleventh. If that trend continues
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through the month, that would put the February boarding crossings
at roughly ten thousand, which is a number that hasn't
been seen since CPBB began tracking month to month data
in nineteen ninety nine, ten thousand. Under Biden, we were
getting ten thousand a day. We're on track for that
to be the total monthly traffic. And that's just in
(07:21):
the very first month.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
It's a momentum thing, now right.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I mean you've got to feel that, I'm sure on
Capitol Hill, which is we've just gotten started. The American
people are behind us, and we're recruiting a bigger audience
that's cheering this on each and every day.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Well, look this election, President Trump and Republicans in the
Senate and House promised the American people real results. And
you look at what was promised. Number one, we promised
we are going to secure the border. And remember repeatedly
Joe Biden said, first of all, he said the Border
of Security, said it over and over and over again.
(07:57):
People knew that was a lie, and then he said, well,
it's impossible to fix it. Look, I want you it's
up to Congress. I want you to listen to this
clip from the National Border Patrol Council Vice President talking
about Biden lying to the American people on this topic.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Give a listen.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
You know, it's interesting because down on the southern border
there has also been a dramatic reduction in the number
of people who are coming across the border.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I want to put up call for number four here.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
This is a senior DHS official talking about that Chris
delivering consequences has results. Illegal crossings are down, god aways
are down, criminal prosecutions are on the rise. Daily reports
of large groups in Mexico, Guatemala turning back south and
surrendering to authorities requested to go home. And we have
only just begun policy matters. President Biden told us repeatedly
(08:49):
Chris that he had basically done all he could and
that it was up to Congress to do more. What's
happened in the last two and a half weeks would
seem to suggest that Biden was just gaslighting everybody.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Yeah, you know, it's unfortunate. I think, yeah, I don't know.
I don't know who he thought he was fooling. I mean,
Dunchure wasn't us. We knew what was going on the
whole time. And you're right, the apprehension numbers have slown
to a crawl.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Last night.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
I was actually working the river and you have the
Mexican military patrolling their northern border, so that slows down
a lot of traffic coming our way. So things have
changed a great deal. And this president has proven that
he's a man of his word and can get it done.
He actually gave President Biden, then President Biden, the road
map to do it.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
He just failed to have failed to do it there.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
It is failed to do it right. That's what it
boils down to.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Well, and it was deliberate, it was a decision. And listen,
Biden knew he was lying to the American people. Kamala
Harris knew she was lying to the American people. Kareem
John Pierre knew she was lying to the American people.
Chuck Schumer knew he was lying to the American people.
Every Democrat in the Senate, in the House, they knew
they were lying to the American people. And it's because
(09:58):
they elevated politics ab of their basic job of representing
their constituents and protecting them. And listen, reasonable people can disagree, say,
on the right level of legal immigration. Some people might
say we should allow more legal immigration. Other people might
say we should allow less. That that's a discussion reasonable
(10:19):
and rational people can have. Let me ask you something seriously, Ben,
Imagine for a second you're a Democrat strategist. So imagine
you're a transgender witch and you are are a complete lunatic,
and you have no reason even so you presumably want
your team to win. I mean, one would think that
would be sort of the basics if you're running a campaign. Sure,
(10:42):
explain to me how a political party gets so far
away from common sense in the American people that they decide,
let's release multiple child rapists that raping kids. You know,
so apparently our constituents want child rapists in our community.
(11:04):
And if you think, okay, come on, Ted, that's a
little extreme. The Democrats are not doing this. I want
you to listen about Bill Malugin. Bill Malugin is the
best immigration reporter in the countries with Fox News. I
want you to listen to this clip because this is
exactly what the Democrat Party has been doing.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Give a listen, well, Dana, It's hard to believe there
are any jurisdictions out there that wouldn't cooperate with ICE
when it comes to illegal aliens charged with forcibly raping children.
But in Massachusetts it's just routine. Take a look at
this case. ICE Boston just announcing they arrested this Guatemala
illegal alien charge in Massachusetts with three counts of aggravated
child rape and three counts of forcible rape of a child.
(11:42):
So the question is why was he on the streets
right well, I says their detainer request on him was
ignored by the Essex County Superior Court due to sanctuary policy.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
The locals released.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
Him into the community on bail without any notice to ICE.
In a statement, the director of ICE Boston says, in
part quote host Day Fernando Perez has been charged with
some horrific crimes against the minor in our commonwealth. He
is exactly the type of alien we are targeting with
our worst first policy. He posts a significant danger to
the children of Massachusetts and we will not tolerate such
(12:13):
a threat to our community. ICE Boston also announcing the
arrest of this Turkish illegal alien charged in Massachusetts with
a sultant battery against an intellectually disabled person and witness intimidation.
But I says their detainer on him was also ignored
by the sanctuary city of Somerville. He had also been
released into the public elsewhere around the US. I Seattle
(12:36):
arrested this Salvadoran illegal alien wanted in his home country
for aggravated homicide. Here in Los Angeles, ICE arrested this
Guatemalan illegal alien charged with sexual assault and rape with
a gun. And in Colorado, the DEA announced their top
ten arrests of illegal immigrants in recent days, including several
affiliated with Trendy Aragua and others with egregious crimes like kidnapping,
(13:00):
child sexual assault, and fentanyl trafficking and Dana. I was
talking to a law enforcement source in Massachusetts about the
child rape case that I reference, and I asked, like,
there's got to be some sort of a catch here, right,
forget about cooperating with ICE. How does somebody charge with
so many counts of aggravated forcible child rape even get
released on bail in the first place. The response I
got was quote welcome to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. We'll
(13:23):
send it back to you.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Well, they're finally on their way out, thanks Bill.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Welcome the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. That's how much they hate
Donald Trump. They don't care about these rapists running around
among us.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
It really is shocking. And understand what is being reported there,
which is that in Massachusetts, but also you're seeing it
in Seattle. Also you're seeing it in Colorado and across
the country. You have Democrats who have people who are
violent child rapists, who are violently, horribly raping little children.
(14:00):
And number one, these Democrats are releasing these child rapists. Now,
these child rapists are illegal immigrants. They could be deported,
but their politics of we want as many illegal immigrants
as possible is more important than any sort of common
sense of let's stop, let's stop horrible crimes against vulnerable kids.
(14:25):
You know, there's a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche in Beyond
Good and Evil which I think is really on point here.
And it is quote there is a point in the
history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and
tender that, among other things, it sides even with those
who harm it, criminals, and it does this quite seriously
(14:48):
and honestly, punishing somehow seems unfair to it. And it
is certain that imagining punishment and being supposed to punish
hurts it, arouses fear in it. Is it not enough
to render him undangerous? Why still punish? Punishing itself is terrible?
(15:10):
With this question heard, morality, the morality of timidity draws
its ultimate consequence.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
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, Senata,
I want to move on to Doge, and I mean,
it's just mind blowing at this point how much money
is being uncovered that is involved in waste, fraud and
(15:39):
abuse within our government. And then there's this new headline
that came out of the White House, and that is
a bombshell that there has been four point seven trillion
dollars that has been spent that is untraceable in the
way that the payments went out from the Treasury Department.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Explain that to America.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Well, let me read from our article in Fox News.
Doze says it found nearly untraceable budget line atoms responsible
for four point seven trillion in payments. The Trump administration's
Doze discovered an identification code linking US Treasury payments to
a budget line ATOM, which accounts for nearly four point
(16:25):
seven trillion dollars in payments, which was oftentimes left blank.
The Treasury Access Symbol TAS is an identification code linking
a Treasury payment to a budget line ATOM standard financial process,
Doze wrote in post on X. In the federal government,
the TAS field was optional for four point seven trillion
(16:49):
dollars in payments and was often left blank, making traceability
almost impossible. As of Saturday, this is now a required field,
increasing insight into where money is actually going. So understand
four point seven trillion dollars. Listen, A million dollars is
(17:09):
a lot of money. A billion dollars is a crap
ton more, it's actually a thousand times more. A trillion
dollars is a thousand thousand times more than a million dollars,
and four point seven trillion is even in federal government
spending a massive amount. The point here is the money
(17:30):
that has been coming from the federal government has been
massively wasted, and there has been no accountability, and the
entire governmental system is reacting in pain and horror and
agony that Donald Trump and Elon Musker bringing finally accountability
to it.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
You look at the four point seven trillion. Is this
done on purpose? For this exact reason? If you don't
know where the money's going, you can't trace the money,
then you can't ask questions.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Oh look, yes, and no. I had an old boss
of mind, my very first boss, who said this was
actually quite profound. He said, never blame on malice. What
can be explained with incompetence. Look, that explains a lot
of government. There is massive waste, There is massive politicization
(18:21):
and weaponization. If you're spending your own money, you care
about it, then you care about your own money. If
you're spending someone else's money, you don't care about it.
And that problem in government is there's a culture of
endemic waste that is enormously problematic. And you combine that
(18:42):
with a politicization that there's a it doesn't matter I'm
spending someone else's money, I don't care, and I'm going
to spend it to promote transgender witches in some far
off country. That's what we've seen and that's what Trump
and are exposing.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
You talk about what all they're exposing outside the four
point seven trillion in payments that we can't trace, let's
talk about illegal immigrants receiving benefits. And the media, by
the way, they're going to defend everything they can, even
if it's indefensible.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
A great example of.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
That, man, let me ask you this, is there one
Democrat you know who has criticized one single example of
massive waste abuse and fraud. And by the way, by
one democrat. I don't mean James Carvell. We talked about
that two days ago. I don't mean a consult I
mean one elected democrat. I can tell you in the
US Senate, I don't know of a single one, do you.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
No, not a single one.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
And you would think at some point they could, they
would come out and go, yeah, this is good for Americans,
it's good for my district, it's good for the taxpayers.
I represent that we're not going to spend money on X,
Y or Z. None of these egregious items that we've
listed on the show. Uh, And we've done a really
good job of keeping pep up today where were the
money's going? None of them have been criticized by the
Democrats and the media. Again, they are just hell bent
(20:06):
on saying Donald Trump bad, Elon Musk bad, Doge bad.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Here's a great example.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Listen to this exchange with Stephen Miller, because it is.
It is hysterical. By the way, tonight I saw Stephen.
I was at a party, so Howard Luddick was just
confirmed as Commerce Secretary.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
He had a party at his house.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I saw Stephen this evening and I told him, great
job on CNN. Listen to this exchange, because she really is.
It's nutty. And I gotta say CNN has become a
clown show. It's not even it's not even real journalism.
It's just silly. But listen to this back and forth.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
You mentioned yesterday and you mentioned again here illegal immigrants
who are getting child tax credits. If are you looking
for that information in the IRS data?
Speaker 9 (20:53):
Anytime a crime is committed, of course there should be
an investigation. Is it your position that of somebody who
is data, the federal government will find every illegal alien
who is stealing American tax payer dollars and that is
what Americans spend. I don't even fath that.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
It's a simple question. In the IRS data share that with.
Speaker 9 (21:20):
IRS investigators find illegal aliens stealing tax payer money. Of
course it'll be referred to ICE. Of course, it'll be
referred to Homeland security investigations. Of course it will be Surely,
your position is not that we should let illegal aliens
steal taxpayer dollars. You want to talk about something to
be upset about, that's it. What do you think the
millions of illegal aliens who have also stolen social security?
(21:43):
Illegal aliens in mass have fake Social Security numbers, they
have fake identities.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Those are felonies.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
Why should there be an entire class in this country
that is immunized from criminal prosecution and arrest for committing
felonies felony, theft of taxpayer information, tell any, theft of
social security, felony, theft of identity. These are all crimes.
And yes they will be investigated. Yes they'll be prosecuted,
and yes he will be deported. And you know what,
(22:12):
Americans will get jobs, Americans will Americans will get housing.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
Even if they got a child, if they got a credit,
a child tax credit, and they will be referred you're
saying to ICE for that and you would expect deported
for that?
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Is that?
Speaker 8 (22:27):
Is that the position of the administration.
Speaker 9 (22:29):
If it is found that a crime has been committed,
they'll be referred if the If it is justifies the prosecution,
they'll be prosecuted. If it justifies a deportation, they will
be deported. This will be based on existing IRIS protocols
and procedures for criminal investigation and fraud.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
All right.
Speaker 9 (22:47):
Difference is that no one is given immunity anymore, no
one is given permission to break the law anymore, because
this is not a country, this is not a sovereign territory.
If legal aliens can freely still billions with a beat,
billions of taxpayer dollars, and I would have to imagine
that that CNN, which is endlessly talked about the importance
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of democracy and the rule of law, would say that
no class in this country should be above the law,
least of all illegal aliens who've trespassed on our territory.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
Stephen, I'm just asking. I wanted to get your position
on some things this. We're not taking a position here.
We wanted to get some answers to some questions. There
are so many questions that need to be answer.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
In fact, indifferent or unbiased on these questions.
Speaker 8 (23:29):
But thank you, Steven Miller, Thank you so much for
your time. Really appreciate it, and we'll be right by.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Thank you. It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
It's like, oh, we don't take positions here, And I
love how grids he grids and laughs in her face,
like are you kidding me? Everybody watching right now knows
exactly what you're doing, and you're trying to act like
we're doing something wrong when in fact we're saving taxpayers dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
What Miller is saying is exactly right. The federal government
should enforce the law. If you have illegal aliens who
are stealing from the taxpayers, they should be prosecuted. And
the bizarre our position CNN is taking is well, if
the IRS knows that you're illegally stealing from the taxpayers,
the IRS shouldn't tell that to the rest of the
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federal government. You should protect the illegal aliens who are
stealing from the taxpayers. That's a weird proposition. Why is
the IRS separate from dj separate from DHS, separate from ICE,
separate from all of the different federal agencies. And CNN
is so vested in saying, we want millions of illegal
(24:30):
aliens here and we want there to be no consequences,
so their continuing to engage in fraud, to work illegally,
to draw so security payments, to draw government payments fraudulently.
That is CNN's position. And I got to say, I'm
going credit Steven Miller for calling out CNN for they're
(24:51):
not engaged in news. They have a position on this.
They don't want the law enforced. And I got to say,
I think the American people do as before.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
If you want to hear the rest of this conversation
on this topic, you can go back and down the
podcasts from earlier this week to hear the entire thing.
I want to get back to the big story number
three of the week.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
You may have missed.
Speaker 10 (25:12):
How important are those relationships that you say, Hey, I
trust excuse me, I trust you. I trust you, I
trust you.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
I got your back. Let's go to work, vital and
crucial and Mike Watson, Christy We're on the phone with
each other all the time. And to change the topic
just a little bit, just to give you an example,
Leez Eldon a dear friend of mine. On President's Day,
Ronnie now EPA. Leez Elden, great administrative of EPA. I'm
on the phone hours with Scott Bessen, our Secretary of
(25:40):
Treasury and Leezelden, and you know we've seen thanks to
Elon Musk, my buddy's great work, and it's been reported.
Look what they're doing at Yeah, I'm changing the subject
a little bit, but they're giving out billions of dollars
after Joe Biden lost the election, trying to push this
money out the door.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Is actually shoveling cash out the windows.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
As I said, gold bars, Let's throw all the gold
bars off the ship.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
And we're stopping them. We're stopping them in real time.
We're going after them. But it's because we all pick
up the phone and we talked directly to each other,
so we're able to work together. Talk to Marco Rubio
and look at them in like Steve Whitcoff out there, Grinnell,
what they're doing working with Marco and Mike Watson, all
(26:28):
the great the people that they're saving around the world.
And that's thanks to one man, Donald Trump. He put
all of us in these positions.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Well, and in the consistent nine spread of the cabinet
nominees is that you're all change agents. You all came
in with the mission and it is Listen, there has
never been a first month of any presidency in the
history of the United States of America, like the last
thirty days.
Speaker 10 (26:59):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
And I'll tell you I have had great joy turning
to my Democrat colleagues in the Senate and just dead panning,
well three years and eleven months ago, and they literally
start twitching, like you get they have facial tics that
they cannot suppress.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Yeah, but all right, Pam.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
One of the things that people like about this podcast
that we try to do is we try to bring
people behind the scenes to actually understand what's going on
behind closed doors. So tell us about your first day
as Attorney General. You're confirmed and like day one when
you get sworn in, just just walk everyone through what
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day one of being Attorney General in the United States is, Like, you.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Go NonStop And I jokingly said it felt like fifteen
years because you're working seven days a week NonStop. You're
when we're all working with each other. Everything we do
it overlaps, and especially with Department of Justice, especially too,
with all this money going out the USA and all
of these agencies, and we're going to be helping all
these agencies. But you just hit the ground running literally
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and don't look back. I don't look at what time
of day it is. It's I don't think I've slept
in fifteen days. But you don't want to. And then
when when you find out about this human trafficking ring
that was just broken up, it's just that's why we're
all doing what we're doing, and you just keep going forward.
And our directive, our directive from our boss is so easy,
(28:37):
especially on my end, make America safe. And so you
just don't, Senator, you don't even big my heart is saying, no,
is I forget to eat? You forget what time it
is and at six o'clock at night, And why do
I have a headache because I haven't eaten today? But
you're going non stop and it's not me. It's an
entire team. I've got Chad myself, I've got Aim Well,
(28:57):
I've got Todd Blanch thank goodness coming in, and we've
got cash Fortell now, so they better look out.
Speaker 10 (29:04):
How nice is it to have a boss by the
guy and guy by the name of Donald J. Trump
who just lets you do your job exactly. I mean,
there's a lot of presents in the past that have
really tried to keep their thumb on people. It seems
like he's saying, go and go, get it done, and
call me when you need me.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
He has trusted all of us and all of our
various capacities and all the different roles we have, whether
it's education or or agriculture, you know, all the cabinet labor,
all of the different cabinet secretaries, just to go out
and do the best we can. And and you know,
we want to make all of you proud, and we
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want to fulfill his directive to make our country great.
That me ensured didn't need that job. He's a good
friend of mine and I love during my confirmation hearing
when they try they get on me because they say
I'm friends with Donald Trump. Yes, I know, I'm not
friends with them. I'm good friends with him, and I'm
very proud to work for him.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
You know, when you look at weaponization and politicization, part
of it is using it to attack your political opponents,
and we've seen four years of that under Joe Biden.
Another part of it is turning the other way at
your political allies and refusing to enforce the law against them.
And I think one of the most egregious examples we've
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seen over the last two years is the rising anti
semitism on college campus. I mean the violent protesters and rioters,
many of whom are not students, are not affiliated with
the universities, and they are threatening students. You look at
Columbia University. The Orthodox rabbi there sent out an email
to the Jewish students on campus and said, do not
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come to campus because the university cannot and will not
keep you safe. And the Biden Justice Department did nothing.
They investigated nobody, they didn't follow the money, they didn't
indict anyone, they didn't prosecute anyone, and they did not
enforce Title six of the Civil Rights Laws, which say
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that if you are tolerating harassment on the basis of
ethnicity or religion, that you will have your federal funds
cut off. How is the Department of Justice different today
and what will your approach be to anti semitism and
threats of violence directed against Jewish students on campus or
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any other students on campus.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
We have an October seventh task force that we started,
and we will protect you. When I was just a
citizen before I had this job, what you said, I'm
watching these these aren't peaceful protests. We all believe in
peaceful protests. Oh, I'm sorry, unless you're a liberal and
you don't want a parent to quietly pray outside an
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abortion clinic, or you're a character or a parent at
a school board, they're going to call you a domestic securisty.
But I'm screaming up my TV watching these violent protests,
you know, the last since October seventh. You're watching this happen,
and all of our students deserve to be safe. First
of all, these these students from who are here on visas,
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who are who are threatening our American students need to
be kicked out of this country.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Amen. It is refreshingly simple to have an attorney general
who has the approach that you're going to follow the
(32:44):
law and enforce the law, and that sadly has been missing,
uh for the last four years.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
It's pretty basic, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
It should not be complicated. Let me ask you what
keeps you up at night? What scares you? In the
first two weeks in this job.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Pretty much everything. I don't sleep at night anymore. Of course,
everything we talked about, the drugs, the cartels, the great
Maybe I'll get a little sleep tonight based on the
arrest that we're just made, the children that are being trafficked,
things that have been so personal to me since I
was a state prosecutor and then since I was state
attorney general. Now you just get to help people on
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a bigger level, which is pretty pretty cool to get
to do that. But most recently it's really been what
Elon has been uncovering and the USA, the waste at EPA,
this money, trillions of dollars they believe just being handed out,
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which is most likely making a round trip and going
to terrorist organization.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
And you are on the front line of defending the
president and Elon Moskin do all the effort they're doing.
And every day we are seeing Democrat attorneys general and
Democrat interest groups suing the president, suing Elon Musk, suing
the federal government and the Department of Justices on the
front lines, and sadly, we're seeing left wing activist judges,
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individual district court judges issuing nationwide injunctions. Tell us about
what it's like defending against those lawsuits, and give us
your thoughts on the authority of one radical district judge
to try to run the executive branch and issue a
nationwide injunction.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
Two words, we're winning, but yeah, so you've got you've
got one. I like that answer, one unelected district judge
trying to tell President Trump, who was elected overwhelmingly by
the American people, where federal funds can go. We're winning
even in liberal courts. By the way, I'm senator, we're
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winning as always.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Thank you for listening to Verdict with Sentner, Ted Cruz,
Ben Ferguson with you don't forget to deal with my podcast,
and you can listen to my podcast every other day
you're not listening to Verdict or each day when you
listen to Verdict. Afterwards, I'd love to have you as
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will see you back here on Monday morning.
Welcome and his verdict with Center Ted Cruz. The Week
in Review, Ben Ferguson with you. We had some big
stories that you may have missed that we talked about
this week. First up, poll numbers helping Donald Trump get
his agenda done. Just how big are the poll numbers
for the president and what does it mean about the
media who's still coming after him? Will break that down
for you. Also, Doe just come out and found four
(00:23):
point seven trillion in untraceable spending. Was it done deliberately
by the government so no one would know where your
tax dollars are going. Will break that down for you
as well. And finally, Pam Bondi, the Attorney General of
the United States of America, joins us, talking about the
relationship she has with other people in the administration and
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just how important it is that they are friends and
working together. It's the weekend Review and it starts right now.
When I was at the Bush administration, we were on
the campaign. If you had a poll on something we
wanted that was above fifty three percent, that was like
a home run. If you were at fifty five percent
or above, it was like a mandate. I have not
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seen sixty percent polls like these in decades have you
on these types of issues?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And to see ABC reporting on it and you're right,
Jonathan carl is very dismayed to be reporting on it.
He's shaking his head. But a king Jefferies looks like
he's filming a hostage video. He's just terrified. Why are
you asking me this? Because he doesn't want to say no,
I don't agree with Trump on anything, because when you're
on the wrong side of a bunch of sixty forty issues,
that's a recipe to lose elections. But he doesn't want
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to say yes, I agree with Trump on anything because
his base hates Trump so much they'll lose their mind
and go nuts. So all he can say is, well,
it's just the beginning. I hope things will go wrong
and then then we can celebrate the things are going wrong.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
It is astounding, astonishing.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I should say that this is now where we are,
but this turns into what I call a man date,
a supermandate, and it just means keep going Trump, keep going.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Republicans.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
What does this do to some of your colleagues who
maybe didn't want to go along with some of these
types of things when they see these poll numbers. Is
this going to make it easier to get things done
in Congress as well? I would hope so.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Well, it certainly should. And by the way, I'll tell
you historically, for the last four years, every Democrat voted
on the wrong side of these issues. On the question
of are there two sexes male and female? Every single
Democrat the Senate voted no over and over and over again.
On the question of deporting illegals, every Democrat and the
Senate voted no over and over and over again. On
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the question of more oil and gas exploration, virtually every Democrat,
actually Joe Manchin would vote yes occasionally, Joe Manchin isn't
there anymore. So every Democrat that remains in the Senate
has voted no over and over and over again. On
the question of declaring an emergency on the Southern border, again,
every Democrat voted no. And so the Democrat Party, listen,
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you're in a crisis. If you're on the wrong side
of sixty forty issues across the board. Well, that's how
you get the kind of election we had November. That's
how you get a president elected with more than three
hundred electoral votes. That's how you get a president who
of the seven swing states wins all seven. That's how
you get a Republican Senate and a Republican House. Because
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the Democrats on the issues, they're not listening to the
American people. They're listening to the crazy fringe. And I
don't see a whole lot of indication that they're moving.
You know, It's a fascinating question, is are there Democrats
in the party who say, gosh, we've gotten so far
out of the mainstream, we're really we're really listening to
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just a fringe. Let's get back to the middle. They're
one or two people saying that. But I got to say,
all right, I want you to listen to James Carville.
James Carvill is a Democrat through and through. Listen to
what James Carville had to say about his party just
just completely getting so extreme that they leave the American
(04:04):
people behind. He's really upset about it. Here are the
words Carville is quoted online is saying, we don't have
the audio, but we have the words. And look, I'll
give a warning. Carvill's language as always colorful that it
is here, but here's how he's quoted quote, I dedicated
the best years of my f and life to this party,
only to see it taken over by a bunch of
(04:25):
stupid mf ers. Everything's gone to s By the way,
he did not abbreviate any of those And if you
look at the tweet that is particularly circulating online, it
says Carvill is especially livid following the DNC leadership election,
reportedly saying quote, who are these people This David hog
(04:46):
guy and that other sissy referring to Malcolm Canyata come
out of the gd left field? Well there goes the
mail vote forever. Thanks guys, We're ft and we deserve it.
That's James Carville's assessment of where the Democrat Party is right.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Now based on the poll numbers that we're seeing. He's
not far off, by the way from reality. I mean,
if he's an honest broker, I've known James for years,
you have as well, like he's This is the assessment.
I think he's spot on with where the Democratic Party is.
And they still don't seem to understand where that This
is how far they are away from the American people.
(05:23):
That's a blessing disguise for us.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, that they are not listening to reality. But look
let's look at the facts. Let's take the facts, all right.
Here's a headline from the New York Post just a
couple of days ago. Quote, illegal border crossings hit record
low after Trump's swift crackdown and could be on track
for levels not seen in sixty years. Wow, the numbers
(05:51):
are stunning. So far in February, about three hundred and
fifty nine illegal migrants per day have been caught across
the entire southern border, down more than ninety percent nine
zero from February twenty twenty four. According to leaked Customs
and Border Protection data, that puts the US on track
to have the lowest monthly border crossings in at least
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twenty five years. If the trend continues, the number of
illegal migrants coming into the US could hit a level
not seen since nineteen sixty eight, nearly sixty years ago.
Here's a quote from Mark Krian, who runs the Center
for Immigration Studies. It's the lowest the US has seen
quote in almost a lifetime.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
If you kind of break down the numbers, divide them
by three sixty five, we hadn't add numbers this low
since the nineteen sixties, So we're talking sixty year lows
if it's sustained. Obviously, the CPP data shows that just
three nine hundred and fifty three illegal migrants have been
caught this month through February eleventh. If that trend continues
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through the month, that would put the February boarding crossings
at roughly ten thousand, which is a number that hasn't
been seen since CPBB began tracking month to month data
in nineteen ninety nine, ten thousand. Under Biden, we were
getting ten thousand a day. We're on track for that
to be the total monthly traffic. And that's just in
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the very first month.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
It's a momentum thing, now right.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I mean you've got to feel that, I'm sure on
Capitol Hill, which is we've just gotten started. The American
people are behind us, and we're recruiting a bigger audience
that's cheering this on each and every day.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Well, look this election, President Trump and Republicans in the
Senate and House promised the American people real results. And
you look at what was promised. Number one, we promised
we are going to secure the border. And remember repeatedly
Joe Biden said, first of all, he said the Border
of Security, said it over and over and over again.
(07:57):
People knew that was a lie, and then he said, well,
it's impossible to fix it. Look, I want you it's
up to Congress. I want you to listen to this
clip from the National Border Patrol Council Vice President talking
about Biden lying to the American people on this topic.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Give a listen.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
You know, it's interesting because down on the southern border
there has also been a dramatic reduction in the number
of people who are coming across the border.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I want to put up call for number four here.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
This is a senior DHS official talking about that Chris
delivering consequences has results. Illegal crossings are down, god aways
are down, criminal prosecutions are on the rise. Daily reports
of large groups in Mexico, Guatemala turning back south and
surrendering to authorities requested to go home. And we have
only just begun policy matters. President Biden told us repeatedly
(08:49):
Chris that he had basically done all he could and
that it was up to Congress to do more. What's
happened in the last two and a half weeks would
seem to suggest that Biden was just gaslighting everybody.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Yeah, you know, it's unfortunate. I think, yeah, I don't know.
I don't know who he thought he was fooling. I mean,
Dunchure wasn't us. We knew what was going on the
whole time. And you're right, the apprehension numbers have slown
to a crawl.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Last night.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
I was actually working the river and you have the
Mexican military patrolling their northern border, so that slows down
a lot of traffic coming our way. So things have
changed a great deal. And this president has proven that
he's a man of his word and can get it done.
He actually gave President Biden, then President Biden, the road
map to do it.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
He just failed to have failed to do it there.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
It is failed to do it right. That's what it
boils down to.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Well, and it was deliberate, it was a decision. And listen,
Biden knew he was lying to the American people. Kamala
Harris knew she was lying to the American people. Kareem
John Pierre knew she was lying to the American people.
Chuck Schumer knew he was lying to the American people.
Every Democrat in the Senate, in the House, they knew
they were lying to the American people. And it's because
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they elevated politics ab of their basic job of representing
their constituents and protecting them. And listen, reasonable people can disagree, say,
on the right level of legal immigration. Some people might
say we should allow more legal immigration. Other people might
say we should allow less. That that's a discussion reasonable
(10:19):
and rational people can have. Let me ask you something seriously, Ben,
Imagine for a second you're a Democrat strategist. So imagine
you're a transgender witch and you are are a complete lunatic,
and you have no reason even so you presumably want
your team to win. I mean, one would think that
would be sort of the basics if you're running a campaign. Sure,
(10:42):
explain to me how a political party gets so far
away from common sense in the American people that they decide,
let's release multiple child rapists that raping kids. You know,
so apparently our constituents want child rapists in our community.
(11:04):
And if you think, okay, come on, Ted, that's a
little extreme. The Democrats are not doing this. I want
you to listen about Bill Malugin. Bill Malugin is the
best immigration reporter in the countries with Fox News. I
want you to listen to this clip because this is
exactly what the Democrat Party has been doing.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Give a listen, well, Dana, It's hard to believe there
are any jurisdictions out there that wouldn't cooperate with ICE
when it comes to illegal aliens charged with forcibly raping children.
But in Massachusetts it's just routine. Take a look at
this case. ICE Boston just announcing they arrested this Guatemala
illegal alien charge in Massachusetts with three counts of aggravated
child rape and three counts of forcible rape of a child.
(11:42):
So the question is why was he on the streets
right well, I says their detainer request on him was
ignored by the Essex County Superior Court due to sanctuary policy.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
The locals released.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
Him into the community on bail without any notice to ICE.
In a statement, the director of ICE Boston says, in
part quote host Day Fernando Perez has been charged with
some horrific crimes against the minor in our commonwealth. He
is exactly the type of alien we are targeting with
our worst first policy. He posts a significant danger to
the children of Massachusetts and we will not tolerate such
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a threat to our community. ICE Boston also announcing the
arrest of this Turkish illegal alien charged in Massachusetts with
a sultant battery against an intellectually disabled person and witness intimidation.
But I says their detainer on him was also ignored
by the sanctuary city of Somerville. He had also been
released into the public elsewhere around the US. I Seattle
(12:36):
arrested this Salvadoran illegal alien wanted in his home country
for aggravated homicide. Here in Los Angeles, ICE arrested this
Guatemalan illegal alien charged with sexual assault and rape with
a gun. And in Colorado, the DEA announced their top
ten arrests of illegal immigrants in recent days, including several
affiliated with Trendy Aragua and others with egregious crimes like kidnapping,
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child sexual assault, and fentanyl trafficking and Dana. I was
talking to a law enforcement source in Massachusetts about the
child rape case that I reference, and I asked, like,
there's got to be some sort of a catch here, right,
forget about cooperating with ICE. How does somebody charge with
so many counts of aggravated forcible child rape even get
released on bail in the first place. The response I
got was quote welcome to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. We'll
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send it back to you.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Well, they're finally on their way out, thanks Bill.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Welcome the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. That's how much they hate
Donald Trump. They don't care about these rapists running around
among us.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
It really is shocking. And understand what is being reported there,
which is that in Massachusetts, but also you're seeing it
in Seattle. Also you're seeing it in Colorado and across
the country. You have Democrats who have people who are
violent child rapists, who are violently, horribly raping little children.
(14:00):
And number one, these Democrats are releasing these child rapists. Now,
these child rapists are illegal immigrants. They could be deported,
but their politics of we want as many illegal immigrants
as possible is more important than any sort of common
sense of let's stop, let's stop horrible crimes against vulnerable kids.
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You know, there's a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche in Beyond
Good and Evil which I think is really on point here.
And it is quote there is a point in the
history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and
tender that, among other things, it sides even with those
who harm it, criminals, and it does this quite seriously
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and honestly, punishing somehow seems unfair to it. And it
is certain that imagining punishment and being supposed to punish
hurts it, arouses fear in it. Is it not enough
to render him undangerous? Why still punish? Punishing itself is terrible?
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With this question heard, morality, the morality of timidity draws
its ultimate consequence.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
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, Senata,
I want to move on to Doge, and I mean,
it's just mind blowing at this point how much money
is being uncovered that is involved in waste, fraud and
(15:39):
abuse within our government. And then there's this new headline
that came out of the White House, and that is
a bombshell that there has been four point seven trillion
dollars that has been spent that is untraceable in the
way that the payments went out from the Treasury Department.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Explain that to America.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Well, let me read from our article in Fox News.
Doze says it found nearly untraceable budget line atoms responsible
for four point seven trillion in payments. The Trump administration's
Doze discovered an identification code linking US Treasury payments to
a budget line ATOM, which accounts for nearly four point
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seven trillion dollars in payments, which was oftentimes left blank.
The Treasury Access Symbol TAS is an identification code linking
a Treasury payment to a budget line ATOM standard financial process,
Doze wrote in post on X. In the federal government,
the TAS field was optional for four point seven trillion
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dollars in payments and was often left blank, making traceability
almost impossible. As of Saturday, this is now a required field,
increasing insight into where money is actually going. So understand
four point seven trillion dollars. Listen, A million dollars is
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a lot of money. A billion dollars is a crap
ton more, it's actually a thousand times more. A trillion
dollars is a thousand thousand times more than a million dollars,
and four point seven trillion is even in federal government
spending a massive amount. The point here is the money
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that has been coming from the federal government has been
massively wasted, and there has been no accountability, and the
entire governmental system is reacting in pain and horror and
agony that Donald Trump and Elon Musker bringing finally accountability
to it.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
You look at the four point seven trillion. Is this
done on purpose? For this exact reason? If you don't
know where the money's going, you can't trace the money,
then you can't ask questions.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Oh look, yes, and no. I had an old boss
of mind, my very first boss, who said this was
actually quite profound. He said, never blame on malice. What
can be explained with incompetence. Look, that explains a lot
of government. There is massive waste, There is massive politicization
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and weaponization. If you're spending your own money, you care
about it, then you care about your own money. If
you're spending someone else's money, you don't care about it.
And that problem in government is there's a culture of
endemic waste that is enormously problematic. And you combine that
(18:42):
with a politicization that there's a it doesn't matter I'm
spending someone else's money, I don't care, and I'm going
to spend it to promote transgender witches in some far
off country. That's what we've seen and that's what Trump
and are exposing.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
You talk about what all they're exposing outside the four
point seven trillion in payments that we can't trace, let's
talk about illegal immigrants receiving benefits. And the media, by
the way, they're going to defend everything they can, even
if it's indefensible.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
A great example of.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
That, man, let me ask you this, is there one
Democrat you know who has criticized one single example of
massive waste abuse and fraud. And by the way, by
one democrat. I don't mean James Carvell. We talked about
that two days ago. I don't mean a consult I
mean one elected democrat. I can tell you in the
US Senate, I don't know of a single one, do you.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
No, not a single one.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
And you would think at some point they could, they
would come out and go, yeah, this is good for Americans,
it's good for my district, it's good for the taxpayers.
I represent that we're not going to spend money on X,
Y or Z. None of these egregious items that we've
listed on the show. Uh, And we've done a really
good job of keeping pep up today where were the
money's going? None of them have been criticized by the
Democrats and the media. Again, they are just hell bent
(20:06):
on saying Donald Trump bad, Elon Musk bad, Doge bad.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Here's a great example.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Listen to this exchange with Stephen Miller, because it is.
It is hysterical. By the way, tonight I saw Stephen.
I was at a party, so Howard Luddick was just
confirmed as Commerce Secretary.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
He had a party at his house.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I saw Stephen this evening and I told him, great
job on CNN. Listen to this exchange, because she really is.
It's nutty. And I gotta say CNN has become a
clown show. It's not even it's not even real journalism.
It's just silly. But listen to this back and forth.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
You mentioned yesterday and you mentioned again here illegal immigrants
who are getting child tax credits. If are you looking
for that information in the IRS data?
Speaker 9 (20:53):
Anytime a crime is committed, of course there should be
an investigation. Is it your position that of somebody who
is data, the federal government will find every illegal alien
who is stealing American tax payer dollars and that is
what Americans spend. I don't even fath that.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
It's a simple question. In the IRS data share that with.
Speaker 9 (21:20):
IRS investigators find illegal aliens stealing tax payer money. Of
course it'll be referred to ICE. Of course, it'll be
referred to Homeland security investigations. Of course it will be Surely,
your position is not that we should let illegal aliens
steal taxpayer dollars. You want to talk about something to
be upset about, that's it. What do you think the
millions of illegal aliens who have also stolen social security?
(21:43):
Illegal aliens in mass have fake Social Security numbers, they
have fake identities.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Those are felonies.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
Why should there be an entire class in this country
that is immunized from criminal prosecution and arrest for committing
felonies felony, theft of taxpayer information, tell any, theft of
social security, felony, theft of identity. These are all crimes.
And yes they will be investigated. Yes they'll be prosecuted,
and yes he will be deported. And you know what,
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Americans will get jobs, Americans will Americans will get housing.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
Even if they got a child, if they got a credit,
a child tax credit, and they will be referred you're
saying to ICE for that and you would expect deported
for that?
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Is that?
Speaker 8 (22:27):
Is that the position of the administration.
Speaker 9 (22:29):
If it is found that a crime has been committed,
they'll be referred if the If it is justifies the prosecution,
they'll be prosecuted. If it justifies a deportation, they will
be deported. This will be based on existing IRIS protocols
and procedures for criminal investigation and fraud.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
All right.
Speaker 9 (22:47):
Difference is that no one is given immunity anymore, no
one is given permission to break the law anymore, because
this is not a country, this is not a sovereign territory.
If legal aliens can freely still billions with a beat,
billions of taxpayer dollars, and I would have to imagine
that that CNN, which is endlessly talked about the importance
(23:08):
of democracy and the rule of law, would say that
no class in this country should be above the law,
least of all illegal aliens who've trespassed on our territory.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
Stephen, I'm just asking. I wanted to get your position
on some things this. We're not taking a position here.
We wanted to get some answers to some questions. There
are so many questions that need to be answer.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
In fact, indifferent or unbiased on these questions.
Speaker 8 (23:29):
But thank you, Steven Miller, Thank you so much for
your time. Really appreciate it, and we'll be right by.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Thank you. It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
It's like, oh, we don't take positions here, And I
love how grids he grids and laughs in her face,
like are you kidding me? Everybody watching right now knows
exactly what you're doing, and you're trying to act like
we're doing something wrong when in fact we're saving taxpayers dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
What Miller is saying is exactly right. The federal government
should enforce the law. If you have illegal aliens who
are stealing from the taxpayers, they should be prosecuted. And
the bizarre our position CNN is taking is well, if
the IRS knows that you're illegally stealing from the taxpayers,
the IRS shouldn't tell that to the rest of the
(24:10):
federal government. You should protect the illegal aliens who are
stealing from the taxpayers. That's a weird proposition. Why is
the IRS separate from dj separate from DHS, separate from ICE,
separate from all of the different federal agencies. And CNN
is so vested in saying, we want millions of illegal
(24:30):
aliens here and we want there to be no consequences,
so their continuing to engage in fraud, to work illegally,
to draw so security payments, to draw government payments fraudulently.
That is CNN's position. And I got to say, I'm
going credit Steven Miller for calling out CNN for they're
(24:51):
not engaged in news. They have a position on this.
They don't want the law enforced. And I got to say,
I think the American people do as before.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
If you want to hear the rest of this conversation
on this topic, you can go back and down the
podcasts from earlier this week to hear the entire thing.
I want to get back to the big story number
three of the week.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
You may have missed.
Speaker 10 (25:12):
How important are those relationships that you say, Hey, I
trust excuse me, I trust you. I trust you, I
trust you.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
I got your back. Let's go to work, vital and
crucial and Mike Watson, Christy We're on the phone with
each other all the time. And to change the topic
just a little bit, just to give you an example,
Leez Eldon a dear friend of mine. On President's Day,
Ronnie now EPA. Leez Elden, great administrative of EPA. I'm
on the phone hours with Scott Bessen, our Secretary of
(25:40):
Treasury and Leezelden, and you know we've seen thanks to
Elon Musk, my buddy's great work, and it's been reported.
Look what they're doing at Yeah, I'm changing the subject
a little bit, but they're giving out billions of dollars
after Joe Biden lost the election, trying to push this
money out the door.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Is actually shoveling cash out the windows.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
As I said, gold bars, Let's throw all the gold
bars off the ship.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
And we're stopping them. We're stopping them in real time.
We're going after them. But it's because we all pick
up the phone and we talked directly to each other,
so we're able to work together. Talk to Marco Rubio
and look at them in like Steve Whitcoff out there, Grinnell,
what they're doing working with Marco and Mike Watson, all
(26:28):
the great the people that they're saving around the world.
And that's thanks to one man, Donald Trump. He put
all of us in these positions.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Well, and in the consistent nine spread of the cabinet
nominees is that you're all change agents. You all came
in with the mission and it is Listen, there has
never been a first month of any presidency in the
history of the United States of America, like the last
thirty days.
Speaker 10 (26:59):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
And I'll tell you I have had great joy turning
to my Democrat colleagues in the Senate and just dead panning,
well three years and eleven months ago, and they literally
start twitching, like you get they have facial tics that
they cannot suppress.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Yeah, but all right, Pam.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
One of the things that people like about this podcast
that we try to do is we try to bring
people behind the scenes to actually understand what's going on
behind closed doors. So tell us about your first day
as Attorney General. You're confirmed and like day one when
you get sworn in, just just walk everyone through what
(27:43):
day one of being Attorney General in the United States is, Like, you.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Go NonStop And I jokingly said it felt like fifteen
years because you're working seven days a week NonStop. You're
when we're all working with each other. Everything we do
it overlaps, and especially with Department of Justice, especially too,
with all this money going out the USA and all
of these agencies, and we're going to be helping all
these agencies. But you just hit the ground running literally
(28:12):
and don't look back. I don't look at what time
of day it is. It's I don't think I've slept
in fifteen days. But you don't want to. And then
when when you find out about this human trafficking ring
that was just broken up, it's just that's why we're
all doing what we're doing, and you just keep going forward.
And our directive, our directive from our boss is so easy,
(28:37):
especially on my end, make America safe. And so you
just don't, Senator, you don't even big my heart is saying, no,
is I forget to eat? You forget what time it
is and at six o'clock at night, And why do
I have a headache because I haven't eaten today? But
you're going non stop and it's not me. It's an
entire team. I've got Chad myself, I've got Aim Well,
(28:57):
I've got Todd Blanch thank goodness coming in, and we've
got cash Fortell now, so they better look out.
Speaker 10 (29:04):
How nice is it to have a boss by the
guy and guy by the name of Donald J. Trump
who just lets you do your job exactly. I mean,
there's a lot of presents in the past that have
really tried to keep their thumb on people. It seems
like he's saying, go and go, get it done, and
call me when you need me.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
He has trusted all of us and all of our
various capacities and all the different roles we have, whether
it's education or or agriculture, you know, all the cabinet labor,
all of the different cabinet secretaries, just to go out
and do the best we can. And and you know,
we want to make all of you proud, and we
(29:44):
want to fulfill his directive to make our country great.
That me ensured didn't need that job. He's a good
friend of mine and I love during my confirmation hearing
when they try they get on me because they say
I'm friends with Donald Trump. Yes, I know, I'm not
friends with them. I'm good friends with him, and I'm
very proud to work for him.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
You know, when you look at weaponization and politicization, part
of it is using it to attack your political opponents,
and we've seen four years of that under Joe Biden.
Another part of it is turning the other way at
your political allies and refusing to enforce the law against them.
And I think one of the most egregious examples we've
(30:27):
seen over the last two years is the rising anti
semitism on college campus. I mean the violent protesters and rioters,
many of whom are not students, are not affiliated with
the universities, and they are threatening students. You look at
Columbia University. The Orthodox rabbi there sent out an email
to the Jewish students on campus and said, do not
(30:50):
come to campus because the university cannot and will not
keep you safe. And the Biden Justice Department did nothing.
They investigated nobody, they didn't follow the money, they didn't
indict anyone, they didn't prosecute anyone, and they did not
enforce Title six of the Civil Rights Laws, which say
(31:12):
that if you are tolerating harassment on the basis of
ethnicity or religion, that you will have your federal funds
cut off. How is the Department of Justice different today
and what will your approach be to anti semitism and
threats of violence directed against Jewish students on campus or
(31:33):
any other students on campus.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
We have an October seventh task force that we started,
and we will protect you. When I was just a
citizen before I had this job, what you said, I'm
watching these these aren't peaceful protests. We all believe in
peaceful protests. Oh, I'm sorry, unless you're a liberal and
you don't want a parent to quietly pray outside an
(31:55):
abortion clinic, or you're a character or a parent at
a school board, they're going to call you a domestic securisty.
But I'm screaming up my TV watching these violent protests,
you know, the last since October seventh. You're watching this happen,
and all of our students deserve to be safe. First
of all, these these students from who are here on visas,
(32:18):
who are who are threatening our American students need to
be kicked out of this country.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Amen. It is refreshingly simple to have an attorney general
who has the approach that you're going to follow the
(32:44):
law and enforce the law, and that sadly has been missing,
uh for the last four years.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
It's pretty basic, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
It should not be complicated. Let me ask you what
keeps you up at night? What scares you? In the
first two weeks in this job.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Pretty much everything. I don't sleep at night anymore. Of course,
everything we talked about, the drugs, the cartels, the great
Maybe I'll get a little sleep tonight based on the
arrest that we're just made, the children that are being trafficked,
things that have been so personal to me since I
was a state prosecutor and then since I was state
attorney general. Now you just get to help people on
(33:28):
a bigger level, which is pretty pretty cool to get
to do that. But most recently it's really been what
Elon has been uncovering and the USA, the waste at EPA,
this money, trillions of dollars they believe just being handed out,
(33:49):
which is most likely making a round trip and going
to terrorist organization.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
And you are on the front line of defending the
president and Elon Moskin do all the effort they're doing.
And every day we are seeing Democrat attorneys general and
Democrat interest groups suing the president, suing Elon Musk, suing
the federal government and the Department of Justices on the
front lines, and sadly, we're seeing left wing activist judges,
(34:17):
individual district court judges issuing nationwide injunctions. Tell us about
what it's like defending against those lawsuits, and give us
your thoughts on the authority of one radical district judge
to try to run the executive branch and issue a
nationwide injunction.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
Two words, we're winning, but yeah, so you've got you've
got one. I like that answer, one unelected district judge
trying to tell President Trump, who was elected overwhelmingly by
the American people, where federal funds can go. We're winning
even in liberal courts. By the way, I'm senator, we're
(35:00):
winning as always.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Thank you for listening to Verdict with Sentner, Ted Cruz,
Ben Ferguson with you don't forget to deal with my podcast,
and you can listen to my podcast every other day
you're not listening to Verdict or each day when you
listen to Verdict. 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.
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