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Zelensky's Visit to the White House:
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's visit to the White House was deemed unsuccessful as he left without securing additional support.
- Zelensky's subsequent meetings with European leaders were highlighted, emphasizing Europe's role in supporting Ukraine.
- British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's proposal for a Ukraine peace plan was discussed, stressing the need for European leadership with US backing.
- European leaders, including those from the UK, France, and Germany, are working on a ceasefire plan for Ukraine.
- The financial contributions of European countries to Ukraine were compared to the significantly larger amount spent by the US.
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Democrats' Stance During Joint Session of Congress:
- We criticize Democrats for not standing during various moments of the Joint Session of Congress, including when a young man fighting cancer was mentioned.
- The episode highlighted the release of nearly 100 known terrorists into the US in 2024, which the Biden administration allegedly knew about but did not prevent.
- The episode criticized Democrats for voting against protecting girls from competing against boys in sports and for not applauding a young woman who suffered a severe injury in a sports incident involving a transgender athlete.
- Appreciated the recognition of Texans by President Trump during the Joint Session, including individuals involved in significant legislative efforts.
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Illegal Immigration and National Security:
- The release of terror-linked migrants into the US in 2024 was a major point of concern.
- The episode featured comments from Tulsi Gabbard, now Director of National Intelligence, on the security risks posed by illegal immigration and the administration's efforts to address these issues.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome in his verdict with Ted Cruz the Weekend Review,
Ben Ferguson with you as always, and here are the
big stories that you may have missed that we talked
about this week. First, up, Zelenski comes to White House
and leaves empty handed.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
So where's he?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Run to Europe and is begging now for support? So
what does this mean for American taxpayers? We break it
all down for you in just a moment. Also, Democrats
decide to stand for nothing during the Joint session of Congress,
including supporting us getting a terrorist back to this country.
They didn't stand when there was a young man becoming
(00:35):
a Secret Service agent who is fighting for his life
with cancer. So is there anything that Democrats would actually
stand for that most Americans would will break that down
as well. And finally, almost one hundred known terrorists, those
that are on the Terrorists watch List or have direct
connections to terraces, were purposely let go into the United
(00:55):
States of American twenty twenty four, and the Biden administration
knew about all of them and could have stopped it.
So where are they now? We'll break that down for
you as well. It's the Weekend Review and it starts
right now, which brings us to.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Now where we are. And look, you've got.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Uk in France and Ukraine that have agreed to quote
work on a ceasefire plan and try to get I
guess Zolensky back into a conversation with the President of
the United States of America. They're having this big meeting
over in Europe. A lot of different countries are there.
The summit includes France, Germany, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Canada, Finland, Sweden,
(01:41):
Chez Republic in Romania, the Turkish Foreign Minister, the NATO
Security General, and the Presidence of the European Commission and
the European Council will also attend. Now you notice I
didn't say the United States of America. This is part
of I think the most interesting part of President Trump's
meeting was Zelenski.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It's like, look, thank it's for granted.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
You're come in here, you lecture us, you have no
plan for peace, You clearly aren't here for peace.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Good luck. And now all of these.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Other leaders are having to step up and say, okay,
let us try to help you fix this so that
we can save your country.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Because he did so much harm to Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
And look, I say great, if Europe wants to step
up and fund the war for another year, knock yourselves out, guys,
like our checkbook is done, but it is striking. It's
an indication of just how disastrous Zelensky's meeting was that
he immediately ran to the United Kingdom to France to
(02:40):
meet with the King of England. All right, here's one
story from NPR. UK Prime minister unveil steps towards a
Ukraine peace deal urges US cooperation. Here's what NPR reports
quote British Prime Minister Kiir Starmer on Sunday laid out
of framework for a plan to end Russia's war in Ukraine,
one where Europe will lead the charge for securing peace yay,
(03:01):
while still relying heavily on US backing boo. The proposal
is the result of emergency talks held by European leaders
in London following President Trump's heated exchange with Ukrainian President
of Vladimir Zelenski at the end at the White House
last week. Over the weekend, leaders from over a dozen
countries got together to discuss a roadmap for peace and
(03:23):
security for Ukraine as the country faces its third year
of war with Russia. The emergency summit was also aimed
at working to preserve Ukraine's relationship with the US and
Americans involvement in the war overseas. Starmer said that Europe
must do the quote heavy lifting to secure a lasting
peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, and that the UK
should lead the front. He emphasized that quote this effort
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must have strong US backing, which, if he means more
hundreds of billions of dollars, the answer is no, thank you.
But he continues quote. Through my discussions over recent days,
we've agreed that the UK, France and others will work
with Ukraine on a plan to stop the fighting. Starmar
Center at the press conference on Sunday. Then we'll discuss
that plan with the United States and take it forward together.
(04:06):
Now it's interesting to do so. Starmar valve. The United
Kingdom would ramp up at support for Ukraine that included
a loan of what do you think.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
A lot of money?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Right?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
What do you think pick a number?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Oh gosh, see, this is when you get me in trouble,
because I'm going to either be way too low or
way too high.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Let's call it.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Fifty million, so higher than that, so you're even more pessimistic. Okay,
that includes a loan of two point twenty six billion
British points, which is two point eight four billion dollars.
So look, two point eight four billion dollars, that's real money,
except for the fact that the United States has spent
about one hundred and seventy five billion dollars on Ukraine.
(04:51):
That's part of the fundamental imbalance there.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Well, look, I love the breath thing about finding money,
like you go back to Trump saying like, we're no
long just an open blank check. There was also something
else that was said that Europe quote needs to step
in and release some two hundred billion euros it's two
hundred and seven billion in quote seized Russian assets to
help fund the war efforts. So all of a sudden,
(05:16):
they're now saying, well, we got two hundred billion or
two hundred and seven billion in US dollars two hundred
billion euros of seize Russian assets. Maybe we should use
that money instead of our own money to help them
in Ukraine. And I'm like, wow, you turn off this
picket in America A brilliant, simple plan and all of
a sudden, they find two hundred billion euros sitting around,
(05:37):
They're like, okay, maybe we can give that to them.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yeah, Look, I'm all for the Europeans stepping in and
doing everything they can. If they want to do that,
knock yourself out. They're welcome to spend their money, but
we're not the welfare provider for the world. And to
be clear, why are we borrowing when we got thirty
six trillion dollars in debt? Why are we borrowing money
from China to give it to other countries. That makes
(06:01):
no sense, and it is an interesting shift.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Now.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Look, I will say one of the frustrating things about
this meeting last week in the Oval is the meeting
was there to sign an agreement, an agreement that had
been negotiated ahead of time. And that agreement was an
agreement where Ukraine would give the United States a substantial
interest in its rare earth minerals and valuable resources to
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pay back the one hundred and seventy five billion dollars
we've given them. That agreement made a lot of sense.
That agreement was pre negotiated. I think the White House
thought Zelensky was going to show up sign the agreement
and leave. He didn't. Instead, he put on this performance.
And I actually want you to listen to this exchange
on CNN because it's a striking exchange. The first speaker
(06:52):
of Scott Jennings, who, by the way, Scott Jennings is
doing a phenomenal job on CNN being a voice of
reason and common sense fighting against a bunch of numb
nuts and and and left wing comies. He's really doing
an effective job. And and he's in this case talking
with with Josh Rogan. Josh Rogan is is a very
(07:13):
smart reporter for for Washington Post Intelligence. He does foreign policy.
But but look, Josh Rogan and and and Scott Jennings
do not often agree. Listen to this back and forth
as they're analyzing what happened with Zelensky in the Oval office.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
I don't know if he needs an apology. He needs
Zelensky to recognize the position that he's in. We'll see
you as what where their patron. We're their best hope
for the killing to stop and for them to emerge
from this sovereign and prosperous and we're also their best
hope as a business partner. I mean all Zelensky had
to do today was put on a tie, show up, smile,
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say thank you, sign the papers, and have lunch.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
And he couldn't do that. And this followed ten days
of being difficult in private and now one day of
being stupid and public. That this did not have to
go down this way. And however you feel about why
it started, why it's going on, who's right and who's wrong.
We can help them in this and come out okay
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on the other side, and he's making it hard.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Now.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
First of all, I can't believe I'm about to say this,
but I actually agree with Scott and everything that he
said was basically right.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
I know I'm going to get killed on social media
for admitting that, But.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
So I have a short answer on this. And so
the short answer is the Trump administration believes that if
Ukraine goes into business with the United States, that in
and of itself is a security guarantee. If if your
interests become our interests, we're going to be interested in
making sure our interests are secure. So it would have
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been wise for him to understand the economic deal, the
mineral deal is a security guarantee in and of itself,
and he lost sight of that today in the arguments premedity.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
I think Zelenski misplayed it in the room and you
can and we could disagree about JD. Vance's position on
it or agree on it. But either way, Zolensky certainly
had been briefed on what the right way to handle
this was. And all he had to do was walk
in there and say, thank you, I'm really grateful to
be here. We want to be partners with the United States.
(09:20):
We're grateful for your leadership. Where's the papers? And what
are we having for lunch? That's all he had to do.
And look, the posturing doesn't have to occur now if
if he is serious about wanting peace and ending this war,
you don't have to keep posturing as a tough guy.
Everybody knows you're tough, all right. The Ukrainians are tough,
they're brave, they're fighting a much larger country. Everybody knows.
(09:41):
The question for Zelenski is can you take off the
military uniform and put on the uniform of diplomacy.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
He failed to test it, yeh, he failed diplomacy that
test today.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
It was not a hard meeting.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
This wasn't something that was gonna It was harder to
screw it up than it was to get it right.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Look, he needed mostly to be saying sir, yes, sir,
thank you, sir. May I have another it? And Scott
is right. Look, this deal on minerals had the advantage
for Ukraine of having the Trump administration being an integally
involved economic partner with Ukraine. That's really beneficial. And the
(10:25):
alternative is very different, which is without the United States,
Ukraine's prospects are really dim. And so if you know
that your prospects for success are miserably sad unless President
(10:45):
Trump supports you, in what universe do you come in
and start attacking and insulting him?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
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.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Now onto story number two.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I want to go back to one other point that
we mentioned earlier, but I think it's important to kind
of expand on it. And it was a shocking moment
of just either completely out of touch or this Democratic Party,
I guess you could just say, is in a sense
just completely lost. You had not a single Democrat applaud
(11:22):
Peyton McNabb, who suffered brain damage after a volleyball spiked
by a trans person, a man that acting like a woman, ended.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Her hopes of a college career.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
That's how significant the injury was, and it made her retire,
and also it took potentially like a scout, changed her
life forever, and they couldn't even clap for her.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
No, not a Democrat clap for not one.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
And by the way, just this past week, every single
Democrat in the Senate voted against protecting girls from boys
competing in sports, every one of them.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
And you know in the campaign.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Listen, in my reelection campaign, Colin all Read claims, I
don't support boys playing in girls sports. Well, every Senate
and except the fact that he voted for it over
and over and over again. Every single Senate Democrat when
they're on reelection campaigns, they tell the voters, I don't
support boys and girls sports, and yet every single one
of them just voted for it, and not a one
(12:24):
of them applauded. I mean, I mean, it's the simple
reality of how extreme their party is.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Now.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I will tell you one thing that that was particularly
meaningful to me was was all the Texans whom President
Trump honored a night, including Alexis Nungary, the mom of Joscelyn.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Now.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Alexis was going to be my guest tonight. Every senator
gets one guest, and I had invited Alexis. She was
coming up as my guest, and then the President invited her,
so she went and she was sitting with Melania Trump.
I was really grateful for the for her being invited
by the President to come there. And then right next
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to Malania Trump was Elliston Barry. And Elliston Berry is
someone also another Texan who was the inspiration for the
Take It Down Act. So, Elliston Barry is a fifteen
year old girl from North Texas from Aledo, who when
she was fourteen and a freshman in high school, a boy,
a classmate of hers, took an innocent social media picture
(13:27):
of her and used artificial intelligence to create a deep
fake naked image of her that appeared to be real
but it was fake, and then sent it to her classmates.
And she was the inspiration for my legislation to Take
It Down Act, which passed the Senate unanimously.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
And by the way, how many times have you been
involved in legislation that was passed unanimously.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
In your career in the Senate.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
A lot of times I've passed one hundred and one
different pieces of legislation into law. A number of them
were unanimous. The Senate off and if you do the work,
you can bring people together and and pass something. And actually,
just yesterday, the first Lady, Milania Trump came to the Capitol,
first time she has his first lady the second term
uh supporting the Take It Down Act, and we did
(14:16):
a round table, which we're gonna we're gonna talk about
significantly more on Friday's pod. But we did a round
table where Milania Trump heard from Elliston Berry, heard from
other victims of non consensual intimate images, and and called
on the House to pass the Take It Down Act.
And President Trump tonight called in the House to pass
the date Take It Down Act.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
So I was really glad.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
The two people directly next to to Malania Trump to
her left, where two Texans Elliston Berry and Alexis Nungary
and and and that made me very happy.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
It was that that may have been one of the
best parts of the night. Let's talk about what this
looks like moving forward. I think the President's speech is
going to play very well with the American people. I
think it's going to help with momentum move moving forward.
I also do think that the American people, in the
way they were watching this on TV saw the the
(15:08):
shocking moments when they wouldn't stand for children that were,
you know, murdered by illegal immigrants, their families, police officers
dyeing in the lie of doody duty.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
It was on the list. I mean, you look at
all of this.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Bringing an American hostag home from Russia, by the way,
they wouldn't stand for that. That was another moment we
left at earlier. Were you shocked by that as well?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Well?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
And you and I covered Mark Fogel coming back. We
covered that on the podcast when had happened. That was
one of the multiple times I turned to the folks
around me, and I'm like, what the hell is wrong
with these people, Like, like, how do you not this
is not partisan? This is not I get that they
don't cheer for, you know, conservative ideas because they're all
(15:54):
wacko lefties, but how do you not cheer for things
that are just unambiguously good good And it's today's Democrat party,
it's accommodation. They become the party of hate and rage,
and they're in denial. They don't know how to respond
to this election other than to fume and glare. And
(16:15):
I got to say, if you're an elected Democrat, how
do you think this is a good message to the
American people? We hate everyone and everything that's the Democrats like.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
I don't get that. No, I don't either. So what
happens now? This is my prediction.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I think the presence approval rating is going to stay
solid and in certain categories, support on certain issues will
actually rise coming out of this state of the Union.
I think this is going to continue the momentum on
on things like Doge and even in some of the
issues that we're talking about that are in tough ones,
whether it's dealing with Mexico and cartels or tariffs, or
(16:56):
Canada and Fetanohl. The list goes on and on. I
think the same thing on Ukraine funding. I think this
could catapult him to even greater near term success. That's
a lot of political capital that obviously you want your
your prediction.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Look, I agree with you. I think the American people
are going to be happy with this speech. They're going
to be happy with the results. The American people are
happy with successes for America, and we're getting on the border,
seeing illegal immigrations and illegal boarding crossings drop over ninety percent.
That's an unambiguous victory. On energy, Seeing energy production going up,
(17:35):
seeing regulations being repealed, seeing wasteful spending being eliminated, those
are unambiguous victories. In terms of jobs, he went through
the investments, the investments on new investments, whether from Oracle
or Apple, or car companies bringing new factories here. Those
are big wins. Those are the sorts of things. Those
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are the sorts of things. Frankly, when Joe Biden talked
about if you know, he had crats and their speeches
would talk about a new factory, and you know what,
the Republicans would all stand and cheer, because, hey, a
new factory in America is a good thing, and we
even if we don't support many, if not most, of
Biden and Obama's policies, we cheer for the American people.
(18:16):
I think that the President's message was really strong, but
I also think the contrast with the Democrats made it
even stronger, and so I think this was a good
night for America, but not a good night for today's
Democrat Party.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
As before, if you want to hear the rest of
this conversation on this topic, you can go back and
dow 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. You may have missed
almost one hundred terrace linked migrants released in twenty twenty four.
The part that I think we really should hone in
(18:55):
on is this wasn't an accident. It wasn't like a
misappropriate of paperwork. This was done on purpose.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yeah, they knew, they had full knowledge. And look, don't
take my word for it. Listen to Tulsea Gabbart and
what she said this week down in Texas to Eagle Pass.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Give a listen.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Jumpe has been in office. Really what you're seeing here today.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
And what you'll continue to see as a unified effort
across President Trump's National security team, the Department of Homeland
Security towards our mission, which is to ensure a safe, free,
and prosperous society for Americans. As Director of National Intelligence,
there are a.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Number of areas where we are focused.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
The President talked about in his speech over twenty one
million people have come across our borders illegally under Joe
Biden's administration. There are many of them that we don't
know who they are. They have not been vetted, we
don't know where they are. I'll give you one quick
example of one of the problems that we are getting
after from Central Asia. There were over four thousand people
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who came across our borders using an ISIS affiliated network work.
Our National counter Terrorism Center went through and identified those individuals.
There were hundreds of them who were either known terrorists
or associated with known terrorists. That information was provided to
the Biden administration.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
You may remember in some of the news.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
A little over one hundred of those people were arrested
in twenty twenty four. Of those who were arrested, only
eight were either deported or remained in custody.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Only eight.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
The rest of them were released back into our country.
Where are they, what are they doing? What may they
be plotting? This is just the beginning.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
There are many many areas that we need to.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Stay very focused on, working with Department of Homeland Security,
working with the FBI to ensure that we're keeping the
American people safe. Our counter Terrorism Center is working on
making sure that we have that single source for vetting
so that we can figure out who is actually in
our country and identify those who pose a threat and
get them removed. The President's designation of the the cartels
(21:00):
as foreign terrorists organizations falls directly into this, especially as
we're seeing some of the tactics that these cartels are
using reflect some of the tactics that we've seen used
by Islamus terrafs in countries that many of us have
served in overseas.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
Our mission is very clear.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Our objective is to keep the American people safe. I'm
grateful to be a part of this team that President
Trump has assembled to accomplish that mission.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I love the focus.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
The Vice President was down there as well the team,
and you know, you compare that to the borders are
who never decided to go to Eagle Pass, didn't want
anything to do with it. And now we understand again
more why because they knew they were doing all of
the things that they were doing to put America's national
security at risk.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Yeah, and it's worth really focusing on the facts that
Telsea Gabbert is now the Director of National Intelligence. What
she said, she said from Central Asia, there were more
than four thousand people who came across our borders using
an ISIS affiliated network. So isis, you know, kind of
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bad guys, terrorists who've killed lots and lots of Americans.
They're smuggling over four thousand people illegally into this country
from Central Asia. By the way, Central Asia includes multiple
Islamic countries like Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, where radical Islamic terrorism
is a real threat. And Tulsi said, the National counter
(22:23):
Terrorism Center went through and identified those over four thousand individuals,
and there were hundreds of them, hundreds of the word
she used, who were either known terrorists or associated with
known terrorists. And then she says, quote that information was
provided to the Biden administration, So the Biden administration knew
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hundreds of either known terrorists or people associated with known
terrorists were smuggled into America illegally by an ISIS affiliated network.
And then she goes on to say, in twenty twenty four,
a little over one hundred of those terror leaked people
were arrested. And then the shocking thing of the little
(23:10):
more than one hundred, only eight were either deported or
remained in custody only eight quote the rest of them
were released back into our country. So this is not
illegal aliens crossing the border that get apprehended. They let
them go, but they don't know their terrorists. These are
(23:32):
people they know are either themselves known terrorist or associated
with known terrorists. They also know that they were smuggled
illegally into this country by an ISIS affiliated network and
they were arrested again. And yet over ninety of them,
nearly one hundred the Biden administration released into America into
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your community, into my community in a single year. This
is in twenty twenty four. That is stunning. And I
got to tell you, bet, I've never heard a single
Democrat give any justification for what is just idiocy. Let's
release terror linked illegal immigrants into America.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
What possibly could go wrong with that?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
When you look at the and you sometimes it's just
people are stupid, is it? But it also could be
more I could be more sinister than that.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I look at this, I'm like they knew it, did
They just not want to admit that the open border
would allow for so many bad actors to come across,
with many that may just be coming across right for
a better life, a job if you put it in
the best like possible center. And so they knew that
if they admitted they caught these people and then they
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didn't release them and they actually prosecute them or sent
them back to their country, there's a lot of options
here that was going to sign a huge light on
the problem. So therefore, hey, we can't admit it's happening.
So we're just gonna go with this anarchy and in
Sandy till the end.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Look, bet, I really don't know. You know, I had
My very first boss had a phrase he used to say.
He said, never attribute to incompetence and never attribute to malice.
What can be explained with incompetence. And look, I think
there's a lot of wisdom to that that. A lot
of times people are just they just do dumb things.
That being said, listen, I do I believe the Biden
(25:29):
administration wants terrorists to attack America? No, But then why
the hell would you release these people? And I guess
the only plausible explanation I can come up with is
there such radicals on open borders. They're so committed to
their open borders because they want millions and millions of
(25:49):
illegal immigrants because they can. They view them as future
Democrat voters. That they're just deportation was off the table.
They're not in that business. They don't do it. I
don't know. Listen, this is related to a story we
covered in a pod a couple of weeks ago. We're
in Massachusetts right now. They're taking violent child abusers, child molesters,
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people who are raping children, who are illegal aliens, and
even with violent child rapists, the Massachusetts authorities are releasing
them rather than give them over to Ice to be deported. Now, look,
reasonable people, you could have an argument about what should
be the level of illegal immigration. You could. There are
all sorts of things you'd have reasonable disagreements on. But
(26:32):
I mean, Ben explained to me why someone says, you
know what we need more of, We need more child
rapists in our community. Let's let these go. Like I
my brain cannot wrap itself around those repeated actions. And
yet that's what's happening. This is the same sort of thing.
You apprehend someone who's a known terrorist who was smuggled
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into America bi ISIS, and you say, oh, let's let
them go, Like I don't know, you.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Know, The poll numbers that came out from the president
speech the other night were truly incredible. Seventy six percent
approved of Trump's address to Congress. That is a massive
win for the president. You look at some of the
other ones and poll numbers. Not only that, ninety one
percent said Trump spent time on issues they cared about. Yeah,
that is a home run seventy one percent. So the
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speech was quote inspiring, and sixty two percent said it
was unifying. And they said that this speech sixty eight percent,
so they felt hopeful fifty four percent, so they felt
proud of the country from the speech.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
And when you look at these numbers, even on.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
The issue of inflation, where Democrats leaned in heavy over
the last few weeks to try to say everything that's
you know, eggs and everything else are the problem of
Donald Trump, the American people aren't buying that either. When
they were asked for the president a clear plan to
battle inflation, sixty eight percent said yes to that as well.
And then on the issue of immigration the border, the
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people watched in seventy seven percent said they were in
favor of Donald Trump's plan on immigration at the border.
When you see this right and you look at what
the President's saying, and then all those that are working
towards this. You've got the Vice President, You've got told you,
you've got the Secretary of State. Everyone seems to be
(28:24):
in lockstep on this issue of the border. Is that
the reason why you think the President's winning so much
right now on securing this border, because he's explaining it
the way we are right.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Now as well because he is not absolutely frigging nuts. Yes,
I think the Democrat Party has gone insane. Releasing murderers
and rapists and child molesters into America is a really
bad idea. It turns out it's a really unpopular idea.
Releasing terrorists into America is a really bad idea. It
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turns out it's a really unpopular idea. Look, you and
I the we cover did pod the Night of the
State of the Union, and we talked a lot about
how the Democrats for the first time ever, didn't applaud
for the President of the United States, didn't stand for
the President of the United States, didn't applaud and anything.
I'll tell you actually yesterday and the Senate, Jim I
(29:15):
had a conversation with a Senate Democrat. I'll keep him anonymous.
But he was a Senate Democrat, one of my colleagues,
and he.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Made a comment.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
He said something about he thought we were just living
in a surreal world. And I said, look, I got
to say, I was shocked that you guys didn't applaud
or stand for the president at all. And he was like, well,
you got to understand, we just think he's destroying the constitution.
(29:47):
And I said, look, I stood and applauded every year
for Barack Obama, I stood and applauded every year for
Joe Biden. And I disagreed with almost everything they were doing,
but I respect the office and I respect the America people.
And he just kind of shrugged and said, we're living
in different universes and we're and we're our bases are
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fundamentally different. You look at Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
He also announced the policy to penalize foreign countries that
allow the transit of illegal immigrants and is pressuring many
countries that refuse to accept to the return of their
migrants as well. This could also have a big impact
on this country. I want to get your thoughts on that.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Yeah, look, this administration is securing the border they're doing
it right now, and they are going to deport illegal aliens.
They are going to send out of the country, especially
the violet criminal illegal aliens, the murderers, the rapists, the
child molesters, the gang bangers, and the countries that don't
take it, they're they're going to make them take it.
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And that's what a strong president who's actually defending this
country does.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Sentner,
Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you don't forget to deal
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Speaker 2 (31:08):
Listen to Verdict.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
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 in his verdict with Ted Cruz the Weekend Review,
Ben Ferguson with you as always, and here are the
big stories that you may have missed that we talked
about this week. First, up, Zelenski comes to White House
and leaves empty handed.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
So where's he?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Run to Europe and is begging now for support? So
what does this mean for American taxpayers? We break it
all down for you in just a moment. Also, Democrats
decide to stand for nothing during the Joint session of Congress,
including supporting us getting a terrorist back to this country.
They didn't stand when there was a young man becoming
(00:35):
a Secret Service agent who is fighting for his life
with cancer. So is there anything that Democrats would actually
stand for that most Americans would will break that down
as well. And finally, almost one hundred known terrorists, those
that are on the Terrorists watch List or have direct
connections to terraces, were purposely let go into the United
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States of American twenty twenty four, and the Biden administration
knew about all of them and could have stopped it.
So where are they now? We'll break that down for
you as well. It's the Weekend Review and it starts
right now, which brings us to.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Now where we are. And look, you've got.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Uk in France and Ukraine that have agreed to quote
work on a ceasefire plan and try to get I
guess Zolensky back into a conversation with the President of
the United States of America. They're having this big meeting
over in Europe. A lot of different countries are there.
The summit includes France, Germany, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Canada, Finland, Sweden,
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Chez Republic in Romania, the Turkish Foreign Minister, the NATO
Security General, and the Presidence of the European Commission and
the European Council will also attend. Now you notice I
didn't say the United States of America. This is part
of I think the most interesting part of President Trump's
meeting was Zelenski.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It's like, look, thank it's for granted.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
You're come in here, you lecture us, you have no
plan for peace, You clearly aren't here for peace.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Good luck. And now all of these.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Other leaders are having to step up and say, okay,
let us try to help you fix this so that
we can save your country.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Because he did so much harm to Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
And look, I say great, if Europe wants to step
up and fund the war for another year, knock yourselves out, guys,
like our checkbook is done, but it is striking. It's
an indication of just how disastrous Zelensky's meeting was that
he immediately ran to the United Kingdom to France to
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meet with the King of England. All right, here's one
story from NPR. UK Prime minister unveil steps towards a
Ukraine peace deal urges US cooperation. Here's what NPR reports
quote British Prime Minister Kiir Starmer on Sunday laid out
of framework for a plan to end Russia's war in Ukraine,
one where Europe will lead the charge for securing peace yay,
(03:01):
while still relying heavily on US backing boo. The proposal
is the result of emergency talks held by European leaders
in London following President Trump's heated exchange with Ukrainian President
of Vladimir Zelenski at the end at the White House
last week. Over the weekend, leaders from over a dozen
countries got together to discuss a roadmap for peace and
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security for Ukraine as the country faces its third year
of war with Russia. The emergency summit was also aimed
at working to preserve Ukraine's relationship with the US and
Americans involvement in the war overseas. Starmer said that Europe
must do the quote heavy lifting to secure a lasting
peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, and that the UK
should lead the front. He emphasized that quote this effort
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must have strong US backing, which, if he means more
hundreds of billions of dollars, the answer is no, thank you.
But he continues quote. Through my discussions over recent days,
we've agreed that the UK, France and others will work
with Ukraine on a plan to stop the fighting. Starmar
Center at the press conference on Sunday. Then we'll discuss
that plan with the United States and take it forward together.
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Now it's interesting to do so. Starmar valve. The United
Kingdom would ramp up at support for Ukraine that included
a loan of what do you think.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
A lot of money?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Right?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
What do you think pick a number?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Oh gosh, see, this is when you get me in trouble,
because I'm going to either be way too low or
way too high.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Let's call it.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Fifty million, so higher than that, so you're even more pessimistic. Okay,
that includes a loan of two point twenty six billion
British points, which is two point eight four billion dollars.
So look, two point eight four billion dollars, that's real money,
except for the fact that the United States has spent
about one hundred and seventy five billion dollars on Ukraine.
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That's part of the fundamental imbalance there.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Well, look, I love the breath thing about finding money,
like you go back to Trump saying like, we're no
long just an open blank check. There was also something
else that was said that Europe quote needs to step
in and release some two hundred billion euros it's two
hundred and seven billion in quote seized Russian assets to
help fund the war efforts. So all of a sudden,
(05:16):
they're now saying, well, we got two hundred billion or
two hundred and seven billion in US dollars two hundred
billion euros of seize Russian assets. Maybe we should use
that money instead of our own money to help them
in Ukraine. And I'm like, wow, you turn off this
picket in America A brilliant, simple plan and all of
a sudden, they find two hundred billion euros sitting around,
(05:37):
They're like, okay, maybe we can give that to them.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yeah, Look, I'm all for the Europeans stepping in and
doing everything they can. If they want to do that,
knock yourself out. They're welcome to spend their money, but
we're not the welfare provider for the world. And to
be clear, why are we borrowing when we got thirty
six trillion dollars in debt? Why are we borrowing money
from China to give it to other countries. That makes
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no sense, and it is an interesting shift.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Now.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Look, I will say one of the frustrating things about
this meeting last week in the Oval is the meeting
was there to sign an agreement, an agreement that had
been negotiated ahead of time. And that agreement was an
agreement where Ukraine would give the United States a substantial
interest in its rare earth minerals and valuable resources to
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pay back the one hundred and seventy five billion dollars
we've given them. That agreement made a lot of sense.
That agreement was pre negotiated. I think the White House
thought Zelensky was going to show up sign the agreement
and leave. He didn't. Instead, he put on this performance.
And I actually want you to listen to this exchange
on CNN because it's a striking exchange. The first speaker
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of Scott Jennings, who, by the way, Scott Jennings is
doing a phenomenal job on CNN being a voice of
reason and common sense fighting against a bunch of numb
nuts and and and left wing comies. He's really doing
an effective job. And and he's in this case talking
with with Josh Rogan. Josh Rogan is is a very
(07:13):
smart reporter for for Washington Post Intelligence. He does foreign policy.
But but look, Josh Rogan and and and Scott Jennings
do not often agree. Listen to this back and forth
as they're analyzing what happened with Zelensky in the Oval office.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
I don't know if he needs an apology. He needs
Zelensky to recognize the position that he's in. We'll see
you as what where their patron. We're their best hope
for the killing to stop and for them to emerge
from this sovereign and prosperous and we're also their best
hope as a business partner. I mean all Zelensky had
to do today was put on a tie, show up, smile,
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say thank you, sign the papers, and have lunch.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
And he couldn't do that. And this followed ten days
of being difficult in private and now one day of
being stupid and public. That this did not have to
go down this way. And however you feel about why
it started, why it's going on, who's right and who's wrong.
We can help them in this and come out okay
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on the other side, and he's making it hard.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Now.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
First of all, I can't believe I'm about to say this,
but I actually agree with Scott and everything that he
said was basically right.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
I know I'm going to get killed on social media
for admitting that, But.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
So I have a short answer on this. And so
the short answer is the Trump administration believes that if
Ukraine goes into business with the United States, that in
and of itself is a security guarantee. If if your
interests become our interests, we're going to be interested in
making sure our interests are secure. So it would have
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been wise for him to understand the economic deal, the
mineral deal is a security guarantee in and of itself,
and he lost sight of that today in the arguments premedity.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
I think Zelenski misplayed it in the room and you
can and we could disagree about JD. Vance's position on
it or agree on it. But either way, Zolensky certainly
had been briefed on what the right way to handle
this was. And all he had to do was walk
in there and say, thank you, I'm really grateful to
be here. We want to be partners with the United States.
(09:20):
We're grateful for your leadership. Where's the papers? And what
are we having for lunch? That's all he had to do.
And look, the posturing doesn't have to occur now if
if he is serious about wanting peace and ending this war,
you don't have to keep posturing as a tough guy.
Everybody knows you're tough, all right. The Ukrainians are tough,
they're brave, they're fighting a much larger country. Everybody knows.
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The question for Zelenski is can you take off the
military uniform and put on the uniform of diplomacy.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
He failed to test it, yeh, he failed diplomacy that
test today.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
It was not a hard meeting.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
This wasn't something that was gonna It was harder to
screw it up than it was to get it right.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Look, he needed mostly to be saying sir, yes, sir,
thank you, sir. May I have another it? And Scott
is right. Look, this deal on minerals had the advantage
for Ukraine of having the Trump administration being an integally
involved economic partner with Ukraine. That's really beneficial. And the
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alternative is very different, which is without the United States,
Ukraine's prospects are really dim. And so if you know
that your prospects for success are miserably sad unless President
(10:45):
Trump supports you, in what universe do you come in
and start attacking and insulting him?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
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.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Now onto story number two.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I want to go back to one other point that
we mentioned earlier, but I think it's important to kind
of expand on it. And it was a shocking moment
of just either completely out of touch or this Democratic Party,
I guess you could just say, is in a sense
just completely lost. You had not a single Democrat applaud
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Peyton McNabb, who suffered brain damage after a volleyball spiked
by a trans person, a man that acting like a woman, ended.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Her hopes of a college career.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
That's how significant the injury was, and it made her retire,
and also it took potentially like a scout, changed her
life forever, and they couldn't even clap for her.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
No, not a Democrat clap for not one.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
And by the way, just this past week, every single
Democrat in the Senate voted against protecting girls from boys
competing in sports, every one of them.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
And you know in the campaign.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Listen, in my reelection campaign, Colin all Read claims, I
don't support boys playing in girls sports. Well, every Senate
and except the fact that he voted for it over
and over and over again. Every single Senate Democrat when
they're on reelection campaigns, they tell the voters, I don't
support boys and girls sports, and yet every single one
of them just voted for it, and not a one
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of them applauded. I mean, I mean, it's the simple
reality of how extreme their party is.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Now.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I will tell you one thing that that was particularly
meaningful to me was was all the Texans whom President
Trump honored a night, including Alexis Nungary, the mom of Joscelyn.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Now.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Alexis was going to be my guest tonight. Every senator
gets one guest, and I had invited Alexis. She was
coming up as my guest, and then the President invited her,
so she went and she was sitting with Melania Trump.
I was really grateful for the for her being invited
by the President to come there. And then right next
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to Malania Trump was Elliston Barry. And Elliston Berry is
someone also another Texan who was the inspiration for the
Take It Down Act. So, Elliston Barry is a fifteen
year old girl from North Texas from Aledo, who when
she was fourteen and a freshman in high school, a boy,
a classmate of hers, took an innocent social media picture
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of her and used artificial intelligence to create a deep
fake naked image of her that appeared to be real
but it was fake, and then sent it to her classmates.
And she was the inspiration for my legislation to Take
It Down Act, which passed the Senate unanimously.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
And by the way, how many times have you been
involved in legislation that was passed unanimously.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
In your career in the Senate.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
A lot of times I've passed one hundred and one
different pieces of legislation into law. A number of them
were unanimous. The Senate off and if you do the work,
you can bring people together and and pass something. And actually,
just yesterday, the first Lady, Milania Trump came to the Capitol,
first time she has his first lady the second term
uh supporting the Take It Down Act, and we did
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a round table, which we're gonna we're gonna talk about
significantly more on Friday's pod. But we did a round
table where Milania Trump heard from Elliston Berry, heard from
other victims of non consensual intimate images, and and called
on the House to pass the Take It Down Act.
And President Trump tonight called in the House to pass
the date Take It Down Act.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
So I was really glad.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
The two people directly next to to Malania Trump to
her left, where two Texans Elliston Berry and Alexis Nungary
and and and that made me very happy.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
It was that that may have been one of the
best parts of the night. Let's talk about what this
looks like moving forward. I think the President's speech is
going to play very well with the American people. I
think it's going to help with momentum move moving forward.
I also do think that the American people, in the
way they were watching this on TV saw the the
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shocking moments when they wouldn't stand for children that were,
you know, murdered by illegal immigrants, their families, police officers
dyeing in the lie of doody duty.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
It was on the list. I mean, you look at
all of this.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Bringing an American hostag home from Russia, by the way,
they wouldn't stand for that. That was another moment we
left at earlier. Were you shocked by that as well?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Well?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
And you and I covered Mark Fogel coming back. We
covered that on the podcast when had happened. That was
one of the multiple times I turned to the folks
around me, and I'm like, what the hell is wrong
with these people, Like, like, how do you not this
is not partisan? This is not I get that they
don't cheer for, you know, conservative ideas because they're all
(15:54):
wacko lefties, but how do you not cheer for things
that are just unambiguously good good And it's today's Democrat party,
it's accommodation. They become the party of hate and rage,
and they're in denial. They don't know how to respond
to this election other than to fume and glare. And
(16:15):
I got to say, if you're an elected Democrat, how
do you think this is a good message to the
American people? We hate everyone and everything that's the Democrats like.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
I don't get that. No, I don't either. So what
happens now? This is my prediction.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I think the presence approval rating is going to stay
solid and in certain categories, support on certain issues will
actually rise coming out of this state of the Union.
I think this is going to continue the momentum on
on things like Doge and even in some of the
issues that we're talking about that are in tough ones,
whether it's dealing with Mexico and cartels or tariffs, or
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Canada and Fetanohl. The list goes on and on. I
think the same thing on Ukraine funding. I think this
could catapult him to even greater near term success. That's
a lot of political capital that obviously you want your
your prediction.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Look, I agree with you. I think the American people
are going to be happy with this speech. They're going
to be happy with the results. The American people are
happy with successes for America, and we're getting on the border,
seeing illegal immigrations and illegal boarding crossings drop over ninety percent.
That's an unambiguous victory. On energy, Seeing energy production going up,
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seeing regulations being repealed, seeing wasteful spending being eliminated, those
are unambiguous victories. In terms of jobs, he went through
the investments, the investments on new investments, whether from Oracle
or Apple, or car companies bringing new factories here. Those
are big wins. Those are the sorts of things. Those
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are the sorts of things. Frankly, when Joe Biden talked
about if you know, he had crats and their speeches
would talk about a new factory, and you know what,
the Republicans would all stand and cheer, because, hey, a
new factory in America is a good thing, and we
even if we don't support many, if not most, of
Biden and Obama's policies, we cheer for the American people.
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I think that the President's message was really strong, but
I also think the contrast with the Democrats made it
even stronger, and so I think this was a good
night for America, but not a good night for today's
Democrat Party.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
As before, if you want to hear the rest of
this conversation on this topic, you can go back and
dow 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. You may have missed
almost one hundred terrace linked migrants released in twenty twenty four.
The part that I think we really should hone in
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on is this wasn't an accident. It wasn't like a
misappropriate of paperwork. This was done on purpose.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yeah, they knew, they had full knowledge. And look, don't
take my word for it. Listen to Tulsea Gabbart and
what she said this week down in Texas to Eagle Pass.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Give a listen.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Jumpe has been in office. Really what you're seeing here today.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
And what you'll continue to see as a unified effort
across President Trump's National security team, the Department of Homeland
Security towards our mission, which is to ensure a safe, free,
and prosperous society for Americans. As Director of National Intelligence,
there are a.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Number of areas where we are focused.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
The President talked about in his speech over twenty one
million people have come across our borders illegally under Joe
Biden's administration. There are many of them that we don't
know who they are. They have not been vetted, we
don't know where they are. I'll give you one quick
example of one of the problems that we are getting
after from Central Asia. There were over four thousand people
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who came across our borders using an ISIS affiliated network work.
Our National counter Terrorism Center went through and identified those individuals.
There were hundreds of them who were either known terrorists
or associated with known terrorists. That information was provided to
the Biden administration.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
You may remember in some of the news.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
A little over one hundred of those people were arrested
in twenty twenty four. Of those who were arrested, only
eight were either deported or remained in custody.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Only eight.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
The rest of them were released back into our country.
Where are they, what are they doing? What may they
be plotting? This is just the beginning.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
There are many many areas that we need to.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Stay very focused on, working with Department of Homeland Security,
working with the FBI to ensure that we're keeping the
American people safe. Our counter Terrorism Center is working on
making sure that we have that single source for vetting
so that we can figure out who is actually in
our country and identify those who pose a threat and
get them removed. The President's designation of the the cartels
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as foreign terrorists organizations falls directly into this, especially as
we're seeing some of the tactics that these cartels are
using reflect some of the tactics that we've seen used
by Islamus terrafs in countries that many of us have
served in overseas.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
Our mission is very clear.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Our objective is to keep the American people safe. I'm
grateful to be a part of this team that President
Trump has assembled to accomplish that mission.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I love the focus.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
The Vice President was down there as well the team,
and you know, you compare that to the borders are
who never decided to go to Eagle Pass, didn't want
anything to do with it. And now we understand again
more why because they knew they were doing all of
the things that they were doing to put America's national
security at risk.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Yeah, and it's worth really focusing on the facts that
Telsea Gabbert is now the Director of National Intelligence. What
she said, she said from Central Asia, there were more
than four thousand people who came across our borders using
an ISIS affiliated network. So isis, you know, kind of
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bad guys, terrorists who've killed lots and lots of Americans.
They're smuggling over four thousand people illegally into this country
from Central Asia. By the way, Central Asia includes multiple
Islamic countries like Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, where radical Islamic terrorism
is a real threat. And Tulsi said, the National counter
(22:23):
Terrorism Center went through and identified those over four thousand individuals,
and there were hundreds of them, hundreds of the word
she used, who were either known terrorists or associated with
known terrorists. And then she says, quote that information was
provided to the Biden administration, So the Biden administration knew
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hundreds of either known terrorists or people associated with known
terrorists were smuggled into America illegally by an ISIS affiliated network.
And then she goes on to say, in twenty twenty four,
a little over one hundred of those terror leaked people
were arrested. And then the shocking thing of the little
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more than one hundred, only eight were either deported or
remained in custody only eight quote the rest of them
were released back into our country. So this is not
illegal aliens crossing the border that get apprehended. They let
them go, but they don't know their terrorists. These are
(23:32):
people they know are either themselves known terrorist or associated
with known terrorists. They also know that they were smuggled
illegally into this country by an ISIS affiliated network and
they were arrested again. And yet over ninety of them,
nearly one hundred the Biden administration released into America into
(23:56):
your community, into my community in a single year. This
is in twenty twenty four. That is stunning. And I
got to tell you, bet, I've never heard a single
Democrat give any justification for what is just idiocy. Let's
release terror linked illegal immigrants into America.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
What possibly could go wrong with that?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
When you look at the and you sometimes it's just
people are stupid, is it? But it also could be
more I could be more sinister than that.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I look at this, I'm like they knew it, did
They just not want to admit that the open border
would allow for so many bad actors to come across,
with many that may just be coming across right for
a better life, a job if you put it in
the best like possible center. And so they knew that
if they admitted they caught these people and then they
(24:49):
didn't release them and they actually prosecute them or sent
them back to their country, there's a lot of options
here that was going to sign a huge light on
the problem. So therefore, hey, we can't admit it's happening.
So we're just gonna go with this anarchy and in
Sandy till the end.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Look, bet, I really don't know. You know, I had
My very first boss had a phrase he used to say.
He said, never attribute to incompetence and never attribute to malice.
What can be explained with incompetence. And look, I think
there's a lot of wisdom to that that. A lot
of times people are just they just do dumb things.
That being said, listen, I do I believe the Biden
(25:29):
administration wants terrorists to attack America? No, But then why
the hell would you release these people? And I guess
the only plausible explanation I can come up with is
there such radicals on open borders. They're so committed to
their open borders because they want millions and millions of
(25:49):
illegal immigrants because they can. They view them as future
Democrat voters. That they're just deportation was off the table.
They're not in that business. They don't do it. I
don't know. Listen, this is related to a story we
covered in a pod a couple of weeks ago. We're
in Massachusetts right now. They're taking violent child abusers, child molesters,
(26:11):
people who are raping children, who are illegal aliens, and
even with violent child rapists, the Massachusetts authorities are releasing
them rather than give them over to Ice to be deported. Now, look,
reasonable people, you could have an argument about what should
be the level of illegal immigration. You could. There are
all sorts of things you'd have reasonable disagreements on. But
(26:32):
I mean, Ben explained to me why someone says, you
know what we need more of, We need more child
rapists in our community. Let's let these go. Like I
my brain cannot wrap itself around those repeated actions. And
yet that's what's happening. This is the same sort of thing.
You apprehend someone who's a known terrorist who was smuggled
(26:54):
into America bi ISIS, and you say, oh, let's let
them go, Like I don't know, you.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Know, The poll numbers that came out from the president
speech the other night were truly incredible. Seventy six percent
approved of Trump's address to Congress. That is a massive
win for the president. You look at some of the
other ones and poll numbers. Not only that, ninety one
percent said Trump spent time on issues they cared about. Yeah,
that is a home run seventy one percent. So the
(27:23):
speech was quote inspiring, and sixty two percent said it
was unifying. And they said that this speech sixty eight percent,
so they felt hopeful fifty four percent, so they felt
proud of the country from the speech.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
And when you look at these numbers, even on.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
The issue of inflation, where Democrats leaned in heavy over
the last few weeks to try to say everything that's
you know, eggs and everything else are the problem of
Donald Trump, the American people aren't buying that either. When
they were asked for the president a clear plan to
battle inflation, sixty eight percent said yes to that as well.
And then on the issue of immigration the border, the
(28:02):
people watched in seventy seven percent said they were in
favor of Donald Trump's plan on immigration at the border.
When you see this right and you look at what
the President's saying, and then all those that are working
towards this. You've got the Vice President, You've got told you,
you've got the Secretary of State. Everyone seems to be
(28:24):
in lockstep on this issue of the border. Is that
the reason why you think the President's winning so much
right now on securing this border, because he's explaining it
the way we are right.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Now as well because he is not absolutely frigging nuts. Yes,
I think the Democrat Party has gone insane. Releasing murderers
and rapists and child molesters into America is a really
bad idea. It turns out it's a really unpopular idea.
Releasing terrorists into America is a really bad idea. It
(28:53):
turns out it's a really unpopular idea. Look, you and
I the we cover did pod the Night of the
State of the Union, and we talked a lot about
how the Democrats for the first time ever, didn't applaud
for the President of the United States, didn't stand for
the President of the United States, didn't applaud and anything.
I'll tell you actually yesterday and the Senate, Jim I
(29:15):
had a conversation with a Senate Democrat. I'll keep him anonymous.
But he was a Senate Democrat, one of my colleagues,
and he.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Made a comment.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
He said something about he thought we were just living
in a surreal world. And I said, look, I got
to say, I was shocked that you guys didn't applaud
or stand for the president at all. And he was like, well,
you got to understand, we just think he's destroying the constitution.
(29:47):
And I said, look, I stood and applauded every year
for Barack Obama, I stood and applauded every year for
Joe Biden. And I disagreed with almost everything they were doing,
but I respect the office and I respect the America people.
And he just kind of shrugged and said, we're living
in different universes and we're and we're our bases are
(30:08):
fundamentally different. You look at Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
He also announced the policy to penalize foreign countries that
allow the transit of illegal immigrants and is pressuring many
countries that refuse to accept to the return of their
migrants as well. This could also have a big impact
on this country. I want to get your thoughts on that.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Yeah, look, this administration is securing the border they're doing
it right now, and they are going to deport illegal aliens.
They are going to send out of the country, especially
the violet criminal illegal aliens, the murderers, the rapists, the
child molesters, the gang bangers, and the countries that don't
take it, they're they're going to make them take it.
(30:53):
And that's what a strong president who's actually defending this
country does.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
As always, 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 podcasts
every other day you're not listening to Verdict or each
day when you.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Listen to Verdict.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
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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