In the opening segment, Ben and Ted discuss reports about the DNC’s finances and internal party tensions, including fundraising concerns and leadership challenges ahead of upcoming elections. The conversation focuses on what those developments could mean for Democratic political strategy and organization. Later, Cruz and Ferguson turn to newly discussed materials related to Anthony Fauci’s handling of COVID-19. They argue that diary entries, congressional testimony, school shutdown decisions, and debates over the origins of the coronavirus raise new questions about accountability, transparency, and public trust in government health officials. The episode concludes with a discussion about migration into Spain from Morocco. Cruz and Ferguson compare images from Spain to immigration challenges previously seen at the U.S. southern border and debate what those developments could mean for Europe and the United States. In this episode of Verdict with Ted Cruz, Senator Ted Cruz and Ben Ferguson review major political stories from the week, including the Democratic Party’s reported financial difficulties, ongoing debates surrounding Anthony Fauci’s COVID-era actions and testimony, and concerns about migration and border security in Spain and Europe.
Topics Covered:
- Reports of financial strain and internal conflict within the Democratic National Committee
- DNC fundraising challenges and election-year political implications
- Anthony Fauci’s congressional testimony and newly discussed diary entries
- COVID-19 school shutdowns, public health decisions, and accountability debates
- Questions surrounding COVID-19 origins and gain-of-function research allegations
- Migration into Spain and comparisons to U.S. border security debates
Ted Cruz and Ben Ferguson argue that financial instability within the Democratic Party, unresolved questions about COVID-era leadership, and migration pressures in Europe highlight broader concerns about government accountability and border security. The views and conclusions presented reflect the hosts’ analysis and commentary throughout the episode.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Verdict with Ted Cruz week in Review.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Ben Ferguson with you, and here are the stories that
you may have missed that we talked about this week.
First up, the Democratic National Committee is broke. They literally
have crashed out financially. What caused it and could it
be the communists, Socialists and Marxists that are in the
Democratic Party. We explain it to you. Plus doctor Anthony Fauci.
(00:25):
He had nothing to say before Congress. Why he's afraid
he's going to go to jail and we have the
receipts of what he said in the past compared to
what he's not saying now. And finally, an invasion in
real time happening in Spain. So what are the socialists
in Spain doing? Apparently absolutely nothing? And why this is
(00:46):
a warning for America the Democrats get back in power.
It's the weekend Review and it starts right now. If
you want to know how much the Democratic social of
America have a hold right now on the Democratic Party.
This is is abnormal going into a midterms, So people understand,
usually the party that is out of power the people
(01:07):
that support them. Whether you're a Republican or Democratic, you're
in the minority, you usually have a lot of fundraising
because then you say, Okay, now my ideals are under threat,
I'm no longer taking them for granted. This other side
has got power, we want to get it back, and
usually you have a surge in fundraising. It is typical
to see the party out of power have a great
amount of cash come in once their ideals, what they
(01:29):
believe in, are under attack. The Democratic National Committee does
not have the money. In fact, we're now being told
that going into the midterms there in essence completely broke Well.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
That's right, and our source for that is admittedly a
very right wing outlet. So you've got to take what
they say with a grain of salt. And that would
of course be the New York Times and the New
York Times. I want to read from the beginning of
the article inside the phone throwing drama, the troubled broke
(02:02):
Democratic Party. The Democrat should be well positioned to make
gains in this year's midterms, but inside party headquarters every
week brings paranoia, worries about money, and on occasion, emotional eruptions.
The Democratic Party is so short on cash that leaders
at its headquarters have undertaken a new gambit to mass
the severity of problems, asking vendors not to send bills
(02:28):
until after the midterm elections. The book keep maneuver, which
was described by three people briefed on it, is the
latest sign of financial dress for the DNC and as
it's embattled leader, as money troubles threatened to undercut Democratic
momentum with one hundred days until the midterms. And to
give you a sense of the money differential directly, here's
(02:50):
what the New York Times says. The Democratic Party and
its allies are far beyond Republicans when it comes to money.
Mister Trump controls a four hundred million dollars pack and
the Republican National Committee is sitting on nearly one hundred
and thirty million dollars. Where's the DNC two million dollars
in debt? When you have the New York Times saying
(03:14):
what in the hell is going on with you people?
You know it goes on to say trusted Mister Martin,
the head of the DNC, was sapped by his handling
of a long promise autopsy of the twenty twenty four election.
Late last year. He said he would not release the document,
but then his criticism mounted, he released an incomplete draft
that featured searing annotations from the DNC that undermined the report. Now,
(03:38):
mister Martin is both paralyzed by the idea of leaks
and surrounded by them. During a May meeting with the
full staff of the DNC days after the autopsy's release,
he admitted that times were tough, and he chided his
team for revealing the reporters what was happening inside party headquarters. Quote.
It pisses me off when I see leaks out of
this building. No more. Mister Martin's that he saw a
(04:00):
lot of down faces and people hanging their heads. Keep
your heads up, keep a smile on. My success is
your success. So the weaker, I am the weaker. All
of you are, well, what kind of manager it is
this fellow? Let me tell you, well, this is clearly
someone who knows how to watch his pennies. Here's another
quote from the New York Times article, the single biggest
(04:22):
expense of the Martin era. What do you think that was? Ben?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I'm going to go with private jets just because I
know how much say we love those private.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Jets in the DNC. I have every certainty of the
private jet bill is massive, but that was not the
single biggest expenditure. The single biggest expenditure was seven point
three million dollars to buy the remnants of Kamala Harris's
campaign list from her failed twenty twenty four bid. Miss
harris Political Action Committee then used that money to cover
(04:52):
additional remaining debts. So that's his biggest expenditure is bailing
out Kamala Harris's bank rupt campaign rather than actually trying
to win elections going forward. And here's a little more
about his very gentle experience management style. Another paragraph from
The New York Times, Mister Martin's fraying nerves are showing.
(05:17):
In a peak of frustration in early July, he threw
his phone at the desk of a junior aid while
upbraiding the person. The phone tossing incident resulted in a
formal complaint to the DNC's human resources department. The fallout
from the phone throwing episode was described by half a
(05:38):
dozen people familiar with the incident, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss
internal party matters. None of them witnessed the account, and
there was some dispute over how aggressively the phone was tossed.
Mister Martin was said to have thrown the phone at
the desk, rather than the aid oh there you go.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
That makes it bet you go.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
You know what, somehow I've managed to live fifty five
years on planet Earth, uh, to work at a bunch
of different offices, to work with a lot of people
that have a lot of people working for me. I've
magically managed to refrain from from throwing a phone at anybody.
And you know, I got to say, at at a desk,
I've got to say, it hasn't been difficult. I think
(06:21):
the only thing I've ever thrown at anyone who works
for me is I have thrown a nerf basketball, So
if that counts, I'll plead guilty to that. But but
but when it comes to like not throwing hard metal
objects at your employees, that does not take massive restraint.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, I guess it doesn't. It doesn't a boost morale.
It's incredible that is the Democratic Party.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Although although I do need to, I do need to
come clean. Although I haven't thrown anything at one, young Benjamin,
this is true.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
You have.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I have, in fact broken his finger, so so so maybe.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Maybe it's you see the kidness there, folks. You see
I just want everybody watching to see that is not
straight anymore.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
That is a Ted cruise broken bone right there.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And it's just clear about that. Look, it's important to
acknowledge that you have this, you know, big strapping division
one college athlete. This like study. And if you don't
know how Studeley is, give Ben a minute. He'll tell
you how Studeley is. He's very proud of being a
Division one college athlete and he's playing hoops with little
old me, a college debater, And I'm just saying the
(07:29):
consequence of playing hoops is his bones are broken.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
And when you're losing, Ted doesn't play fair. That's what
I learned from that. When you're losing, Ted doesn't play fair.
And this is what happens. It's crooked for life.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
It's so you're admitting to our listeners that not only
did your finger get broken, but you also lost. That's good.
I'm glad you are on. I don't think so no
he was broken. No, No, I think that the finger lies.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Do you want to know what I keep on my desk?
This is the true story. So we were in Austin.
We were playing the game. This is the remnants of
the tape that is still left that I used to
tape said finger together, the crooked finger right there, and
keep playing an entire another game. So I kept it
as I just you know, that's just that's that's that's right.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Well, be Ben, just don't ever say I never gave
you anything.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
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, I
went talking about lunatics, I got to get to this
other big story that deals with Anthony Fauci. So thank you,
I I've never said this before to Anthony Fauci, but
thank you for keeping a really, really good diary, because
(08:41):
now we have his record of what he was worried
about during COVID when it was exploding, and it all
went back to what I would describe as psychotic narcissism.
He was obsessed with being famous, He loved being the
center of attention. He also, I think clearly knew that
and there's new accusations out that he was lying about
(09:03):
the side effects of COVID nineteen vaccines, some of which
apparently affected him personally, but he did not disclose to
the public.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah. Look, Fauci is the single most dangerous bureaucrat in
American history. He's a megal and maniac. He loved the press,
and he was willing to implement policies that hurt Americans,
and he was willing to lie. So, for example, Fauci
played a critical role in shutting down schools all across America. Yeah, now,
(09:31):
when America saw devastating results we have witnessed. I actually
think a decade or two from now, people will look
back at the school shutdowns during COVID and marvel at
what an idiotic policy this country pursued, a sort of
mass psychosis. We have seen in the data demonstrate this
the largest learning loss in recorded history since we began
(09:54):
measuring the learning of our students. Yeah, the biggest learning
loss came from the COVID shutdown. And by the way,
the racial gap, the gap between black and white students,
the gap between Hispanic and white students, grew more than
the during the COVID lockdowns, again than any time since
it's been recorded. Now, once it became irre irrefutable that
(10:17):
the schools shutdowns were a travesty a disaster. Fauci's tried
to back away and say, oh, I didn't ask for
the schools to be shut down. Well, a number of
his private diary entries had been released. Here's what he
wrote on March fifteenth, twenty twenty, So this is pretty
early in the COVID pandemic. He writes, quote big days,
written in red letters. I spoke with Bill Deblasio, Mayor
(10:41):
New York City, and convinced him, based on what I
was saying publicly and my conversations tonight, to close the
New York City schools. He had already decided based on
what I was saying on TV. That's what he said
is private notes in March. By the way, he said
the same thing quote. I had a similar call with
Ann O'Leary, staff of Governor Gavin Newsom in California, and
(11:05):
said that based on my TV appearances today and yesterday,
the governor has decided to close the schools in California,
as well as the bars and the restaurants. Now, seven
months later, October sixteenth, twenty twenty, ABC News is interviewing
Fauci and he denies he had any role in the lockdowns.
He says, quote, let's go back and look at the transcript.
(11:27):
We said we should try as best as possible we
possibly can to keep the children in schools. Nobody plays
that clip. They always come back and say Fauci was
responsible for shutting schools down. I had nothing to do
with it. Now there's a technical word for that. That's
called a lie. Also in twenty twenty two, he told
The Hill that he quote didn't recommend locking anything down. Well,
(11:50):
his own private diary refutes that, by the way, January
twenty twenty four, he said, quote, when he was testifying
the House representatives, I did not close the schools. Fauci
is dishonest and the diary is unequivocal. Five days later,
(12:12):
here's what Fauci's diary says. Quote. Also, at a phone
call with Mereti de Blasio, who wants to go to
shelter in place for the entire city, is asking my
advice since Governor Cuomo's pushing back, I advised a Blasia
to go ahead and do it. I will try to
speak with Cuomo. So he's saying shut everything down, by
the way. Fauci, also in March or twenty twenty, describes
(12:35):
President Trump as incorrigible. This is this pattern and the
rest of these diary entries are stunning that they reveal
a mego lemaniac. All right, here's another component that's fairly stunning.
(12:55):
You remember Fauci laid out at great length that the
source of COVID was not the Wuhan Institute for Virology.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, so that was one of the big ones, and
he got angry on TV when it was brought up.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
It was not the Chinese government, it was not any
of that. It was instead the wet market in China
that occurred organically from like bat soup in the wet
market that just jumped from animals. So here is what
he wrote in January of twenty twenty. So right at
the outset he wrote the following. It now appears using
(13:35):
epidata and genomic data that the first affection it was
in early December and not connected to the market. The
infection spread among people weeks before the Chinese reported that
they were dealing with a new infection, and that gave
the virus time to establish itself in multi generational sustain spread. Remember,
(13:57):
early on the Chinese were saying that there is no
human to human transmission and that all the original twenty
seven cases were from the market. Now we know the
market was not the source, it was the amplifier. Having
(14:18):
said that somewhere the virus jumped from animals to humans,
I want to repeat that sentence. Now we know the
market was not the source, it was the amplifier. This
was January of twenty twenty, and Fauci repeatedly lied about
this over and over again. And by the way, in
March and April of twenty twenty, for those who are
(14:38):
longtime listeners to Verdict, we have a lot of new
listeners to Verdict, But in March and April of twenty twenty,
go back and listen to I did two episodes on
Verdict where we laid out the evidence early in COVID,
that the weight of the evidence was the COVID virus
came from the Wuhan Institute from virology where they were
studying coronaviruses derived from bats, and that it escaped. I
(15:04):
think it was likely an accidental lab lak. I think
they were engaged in research gain a function, research where
they took existing viruses, they made them more dangerous, they
more the more transmissible, more targeted at humans. I think
they were studying them, and then they screwed up. They
had las, they had lousy biosecurity measures, and I think
a doctor, a researcher, or someone got the disease, walked
(15:26):
out and spread it to someone else, and spread it
someone else to spread it someone else. That is the
most likely scenario. By the way, multiple US government agencies
now concur with that that assessment. Fauci knew that at
the outset and life he lied. It was straight out lying,
and it was it was profoundly harmful.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
You look at what we're seeing now in these notes.
I love the transparency. There's some that are mad that
is put out saying, well, people aren't going to take
accurate notes in the future.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
They think they're going to be outed. In this scenario,
you should not be.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Afraid of your notes unless you were lying and manipulating
and don't lie.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yeah, just don't don't lie. Don't you want transparency?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I'm like, of course, like, well, if you out these
types of notes, you're never gonna get transparency again. I'm like, no,
just don't be a pathological liar to the American people.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
And what we saw.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
In these notes was on the biggest issues of COVID,
and I think this is the core reason why I
want to wrap it up and get your reaction to it. Now.
I understand why he needed a pardon, preemptive pardon, because
I think it's abundantly.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
He and quoting his own words.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
He was lying under oath to you guys who were
questioning him in Congress.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
And by the way, I also believe Fauci funded the
gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute Virology. He
was covering his own rear end because his decision to
fund reckless research was a direct cause I believe of
the pandemic. Understand this is this is not a new
phenomenon for Fauci. I want to read an entry from
his diary from twenty thirteen, so long before COVID happened
(17:06):
twenty thirteen January fourteenth, twenty thirteen. HHS turned me down
on request from CNN, Wolf Blitzer and Solidad O'Brien. I
asked John burkeou to call up Bill Hall and find
out what the heck is going on and what the
reason for all of this is. John told me that
CDC complaining to Bill Hall and HHS that I was
getting all of the publicity on an issue influenza tracking
(17:29):
that they considered was their issue. I do not know
who at CDC did this. It could be anyone from
Tom Fried, and I doubt this to more likely Tom Skinner,
CDCPR person. In any event, it has nothing to do
with my use of the word epidemic on Wolf Blitzer show,
(17:50):
and everything to do with pure jealousy that I am
a rock star stealing their thunder. Shame on the CDC.
So this is twenty thirteen, this man's own personal assessment.
I want to read that sentence again. It has everything
to do with pure jealousy that I am a quote
(18:13):
unquote rock star stealing their thunder. This is someone who's
a narcissist, who just wants to be on TV. So
when we're in the middle of a pandemic, we're in
the middle of a crisis, what did he wanted to do.
He wanted to be on TV as the savior, as
the solution, and he was willing to lie. He knew
early on, he knew that the wet market is not
(18:35):
where this virus came from, and yet he lied about
that deliberately, and I think he did so again to
cover his own culpability, and when it came to lockdowns,
he repeatedly urged and advocated locking down schools, locking down
small businesses, locking down churches, destroying people's livelihood's, destroying kids.
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There were tens of millions of kids in America who
did not go to school for more than a year
because of these lockdowns.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
And ruling their education moving forward.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
And by the way, the data show that learning loss
will be with them the rest of their lives, when
when you're eighty, they will still suffer the consequences. And
he's born no consequences for his own recklessness. This was
ego maniacal, It was reckless, and it was wrong.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
As before, If you want to hear the rest of
this conversation on this topic, you can go back and
dow the podcast from earlier this week to hear the
entire thing. I want to get back to the big
story number three of the week you may have missed,
including a massive invasion of legal immigrants in Spain and
doctor Fauci had a lot to say sarcasm insert it
(19:49):
right there in Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
This week, Well, Fauci's testimony before Congress was absolutely disgraceful.
We're going to get into that in depth. But first
we're going to talk about what is happening in Spain,
because it is outrageous, it is frightening, it is terrifying.
If you have not watched these images online, if you're
watching this on YouTube, you can see it on the
(20:12):
YouTube show. If you haven't, go and Google watch it
with your eyes, because I cannot with my voice do
justice to what's happening in Spain. Spain is being invaded.
Thousands upon thousands of people from Morocco are coming over,
one after the other after the other, and there's not
(20:34):
another word to describe it. It is an invasion. It
reminds me very much of what happened in Texas on
the southern border, and in particular in Del Rio. And
if you remember Del Rio, which is a town in
the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. It's a town
of about thirty thousand people, and in one day, more
(20:56):
than ten thousand Haitian illegal immigrants crossed the Rio Grande,
crossed into the United States into into the small town
of Del Rio. It was an absolute invasion. I was there.
I was there. In fact, I filmed it and put
out the video of what was happening in Del Rio.
You had thousands upon thousands of Haitians under a bridge,
(21:18):
under a giant overpass, and it looked like it looked
like the Third World. It was suddenly in America. It
looked like you were in Haiti. They were just basically
shanty towns. And it was designed by the Biden administration
and the drug cartels. The Mexican cartels made the decision
to send the Haitians to the southern border to Del
Rio and to send them over in an invasion, and
(21:40):
the Democrats welcomed them. Well, the same thing is happening
in Spain and it is horrified. And I say this
without hyperbole. I think we are witnessing civilizational suicide in Europe.
I agree they are destroying the great nations of Europe.
(22:02):
And understand this is not happening accidentally. It's just like
what happened in Texas for the four years of the
Biden administration, where the invasion was by design. The Left
hates the West Yep. This is what Mandami and the
(22:23):
other communists wants. This is what the DSA wants when
they say open borders, when they say abolish Ice. They
want this invasion for the same purpose. It's the same
reason the socialists in Spain, who unfortunately are in control
of that government, they want to destroy Spanish civilization, and tragically,
(22:45):
these American leftists want to destroy American civilization.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
You know, I was talking about this earlier day, and
I want to get your take on this, but one
of the things I said was, I think part of
the reason why we're witnessing these types of invasions and
really it's happening not just in Spain, but we're saying
massive illegal immigration numbers all throughout Europe that have spiked,
and as you described it, I think it's spot on
that we're watching the crumbling of civilization and actually having
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pride in a nation.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Right, you just get rid of the nation.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
It's kumbaiaism of the left and the commedies and the socialists.
But I also think part of why this is happening
right now in Europe is Donald Trump one reelection, got
back to the White House by saying I'm going to
secure the southern border and I'm going to stop the
invasion that you're witnessing on TV.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
The videos that you took.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I still go back to that moment where I think
we saw the tide change, and that was when the
federal government under the Biden administration used that forklift and
raised up that bob wire in Texas and people came
flooding into America. That for me was a picture is worth, right,
a thousand words, however you want to describe it. But
when you can't come to America anymore, the way that
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you were able to buy the millions and millions under
the Biden and the bo administration combined, and the leftist policies,
where are you gonna go next?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Europe? Europe would be your next stop. And now they're.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Getting what would have a lot of people that probably
would have tried to keep coming to America if the
Democrats were in charge.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Well, and this is also the Islamization of Europe. Uh,
these illegal immigrants that are invading the country, they are
essentially entirely Muslim. And and you're saying, you know, there
was a meme online, uh that that that that that
showed President Trump flying in Air Force one and looking
(24:33):
out the window and and and and saying, my goodness,
Pakistan is just just horrible. What's happening there? And an
aide stops and says, I'm mister President, that's London. Yeah,
like Europe is deliberately and we're seeing this throughout. Europe
has allowed the entire continent to face an invasion from
(24:54):
the Middle East, face an invasion from Africa, and and
and it is changed the underlying character of the continent,
and you're seeing, you're seeing the consequences. Look, I think
Europe is foreshadowing where the United States will go if
we don't stop this. And it's about ten years ahead
(25:14):
of us. So in some ways, you can look to
Spain and it's like you're looking at a crystal ball.
You can see. And by the way, it'll happen faster
than ten years. If God forbid Elizabeth Warren or Gavin
Newsom RAOC becomes president, the same invasion we're seeing in Spain,
(25:35):
the same invasion that we saw under Joe Biden, will
happen again. And the reason is the same, because the left,
they want these illegal immigrants to destroy Western civilization, to
destroy American civilization, to tear down the Constitution, the foundations
(25:56):
of free enterprise, the foundations of rule of law, and
and you know, I have to wonder what a typical
Spanish citizen is thinking right now. And listen. What I
fear is that what they might be thinking is the
same thing that the idiot voters who voted for Mandami
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and the other communists in America are thinking, which is
this is a great thing, this is a wonderful thing.
I don't know if they're looking away and just just
averting their eyes or if they think wonderful, what a blessing.
But I'll tell you one thing that is deeply chilling
about these images, the videos that are coming up, the
videos I saw, there was not a single woman or
(26:40):
not a single child. Yeah, these are all military age men.
There are men from about fifteen to about forty and
they're coming one after the other, after the other after
the other. And by the way, like one fellow on
Twitter put it, put out a very good question, he said,
what what is the purpose of having an army if
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thousands of foreign invaders can just cross your border and
invade your country? Because that is what is happening.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
And and by the way, no vetting, let's be clear.
They there was a there was a there was a
really interesting video that got released. It showed the government
opening up a gate and allowing men. There was no
women or children hundreds and hundreds of rushing. I don't
know how deep it was. I mean it could be
thousands and thousands. No one is vetting if these are terrorists,
(27:35):
if they're drug cartel members, if they're setting up a human.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Trad and we know they we know they are, we
know that they're a terrorist among them. We know that
there are cartel members members and criminals and murderers and rapists.
We know that because that's what happened in America's what's
happening there too, and it is part of the less design.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
As always, thank you for listening to Verdicts with Center
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Welcome to Verdict with Ted Cruz week in Review.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Ben Ferguson with you, and here are the stories that
you may have missed that we talked about this week.
First up, the Democratic National Committee is broke. They literally
have crashed out financially. What caused it and could it
be the communists, Socialists and Marxists that are in the
Democratic Party. We explain it to you. Plus doctor Anthony Fauci.
(00:25):
He had nothing to say before Congress. Why he's afraid
he's going to go to jail and we have the
receipts of what he said in the past compared to
what he's not saying now. And finally, an invasion in
real time happening in Spain. So what are the socialists
in Spain doing? Apparently absolutely nothing? And why this is
(00:46):
a warning for America the Democrats get back in power.
It's the weekend Review and it starts right now. If
you want to know how much the Democratic social of
America have a hold right now on the Democratic Party.
This is is abnormal going into a midterms, So people understand,
usually the party that is out of power the people
(01:07):
that support them. Whether you're a Republican or Democratic, you're
in the minority, you usually have a lot of fundraising
because then you say, Okay, now my ideals are under threat,
I'm no longer taking them for granted. This other side
has got power, we want to get it back, and
usually you have a surge in fundraising. It is typical
to see the party out of power have a great
amount of cash come in once their ideals, what they
(01:29):
believe in, are under attack. The Democratic National Committee does
not have the money. In fact, we're now being told
that going into the midterms there in essence completely broke Well.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
That's right, and our source for that is admittedly a
very right wing outlet. So you've got to take what
they say with a grain of salt. And that would
of course be the New York Times and the New
York Times. I want to read from the beginning of
the article inside the phone throwing drama, the troubled broke
(02:02):
Democratic Party. The Democrat should be well positioned to make
gains in this year's midterms, but inside party headquarters every
week brings paranoia, worries about money, and on occasion, emotional eruptions.
The Democratic Party is so short on cash that leaders
at its headquarters have undertaken a new gambit to mass
the severity of problems, asking vendors not to send bills
(02:28):
until after the midterm elections. The book keep maneuver, which
was described by three people briefed on it, is the
latest sign of financial dress for the DNC and as
it's embattled leader, as money troubles threatened to undercut Democratic
momentum with one hundred days until the midterms. And to
give you a sense of the money differential directly, here's
(02:50):
what the New York Times says. The Democratic Party and
its allies are far beyond Republicans when it comes to money.
Mister Trump controls a four hundred million dollars pack and
the Republican National Committee is sitting on nearly one hundred
and thirty million dollars. Where's the DNC two million dollars
in debt? When you have the New York Times saying
(03:14):
what in the hell is going on with you people?
You know it goes on to say trusted Mister Martin,
the head of the DNC, was sapped by his handling
of a long promise autopsy of the twenty twenty four election.
Late last year. He said he would not release the document,
but then his criticism mounted, he released an incomplete draft
that featured searing annotations from the DNC that undermined the report. Now,
(03:38):
mister Martin is both paralyzed by the idea of leaks
and surrounded by them. During a May meeting with the
full staff of the DNC days after the autopsy's release,
he admitted that times were tough, and he chided his
team for revealing the reporters what was happening inside party headquarters. Quote.
It pisses me off when I see leaks out of
this building. No more. Mister Martin's that he saw a
(04:00):
lot of down faces and people hanging their heads. Keep
your heads up, keep a smile on. My success is
your success. So the weaker, I am the weaker. All
of you are, well, what kind of manager it is
this fellow? Let me tell you, well, this is clearly
someone who knows how to watch his pennies. Here's another
quote from the New York Times article, the single biggest
(04:22):
expense of the Martin era. What do you think that was? Ben?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I'm going to go with private jets just because I
know how much say we love those private.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Jets in the DNC. I have every certainty of the
private jet bill is massive, but that was not the
single biggest expenditure. The single biggest expenditure was seven point
three million dollars to buy the remnants of Kamala Harris's
campaign list from her failed twenty twenty four bid. Miss
harris Political Action Committee then used that money to cover
(04:52):
additional remaining debts. So that's his biggest expenditure is bailing
out Kamala Harris's bank rupt campaign rather than actually trying
to win elections going forward. And here's a little more
about his very gentle experience management style. Another paragraph from
The New York Times, Mister Martin's fraying nerves are showing.
(05:17):
In a peak of frustration in early July, he threw
his phone at the desk of a junior aid while
upbraiding the person. The phone tossing incident resulted in a
formal complaint to the DNC's human resources department. The fallout
from the phone throwing episode was described by half a
(05:38):
dozen people familiar with the incident, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss
internal party matters. None of them witnessed the account, and
there was some dispute over how aggressively the phone was tossed.
Mister Martin was said to have thrown the phone at
the desk, rather than the aid oh there you go.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
That makes it bet you go.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
You know what, somehow I've managed to live fifty five
years on planet Earth, uh, to work at a bunch
of different offices, to work with a lot of people
that have a lot of people working for me. I've
magically managed to refrain from from throwing a phone at anybody.
And you know, I got to say, at at a desk,
I've got to say, it hasn't been difficult. I think
(06:21):
the only thing I've ever thrown at anyone who works
for me is I have thrown a nerf basketball, So
if that counts, I'll plead guilty to that. But but
but when it comes to like not throwing hard metal
objects at your employees, that does not take massive restraint.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, I guess it doesn't. It doesn't a boost morale.
It's incredible that is the Democratic Party.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Although although I do need to, I do need to
come clean. Although I haven't thrown anything at one, young Benjamin,
this is true.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
You have.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I have, in fact broken his finger, so so so maybe.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Maybe it's you see the kidness there, folks. You see
I just want everybody watching to see that is not
straight anymore.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
That is a Ted cruise broken bone right there.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And it's just clear about that. Look, it's important to
acknowledge that you have this, you know, big strapping division
one college athlete. This like study. And if you don't
know how Studeley is, give Ben a minute. He'll tell
you how Studeley is. He's very proud of being a
Division one college athlete and he's playing hoops with little
old me, a college debater, And I'm just saying the
(07:29):
consequence of playing hoops is his bones are broken.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
And when you're losing, Ted doesn't play fair. That's what
I learned from that. When you're losing, Ted doesn't play fair.
And this is what happens. It's crooked for life.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
It's so you're admitting to our listeners that not only
did your finger get broken, but you also lost. That's good.
I'm glad you are on. I don't think so no
he was broken. No, No, I think that the finger lies.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Do you want to know what I keep on my desk?
This is the true story. So we were in Austin.
We were playing the game. This is the remnants of
the tape that is still left that I used to
tape said finger together, the crooked finger right there, and
keep playing an entire another game. So I kept it
as I just you know, that's just that's that's that's right.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Well, be Ben, just don't ever say I never gave
you anything.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
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, I
went talking about lunatics, I got to get to this
other big story that deals with Anthony Fauci. So thank you,
I I've never said this before to Anthony Fauci, but
thank you for keeping a really, really good diary, because
(08:41):
now we have his record of what he was worried
about during COVID when it was exploding, and it all
went back to what I would describe as psychotic narcissism.
He was obsessed with being famous, He loved being the
center of attention. He also, I think clearly knew that
and there's new accusations out that he was lying about
(09:03):
the side effects of COVID nineteen vaccines, some of which
apparently affected him personally, but he did not disclose to
the public.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah. Look, Fauci is the single most dangerous bureaucrat in
American history. He's a megal and maniac. He loved the press,
and he was willing to implement policies that hurt Americans,
and he was willing to lie. So, for example, Fauci
played a critical role in shutting down schools all across America. Yeah, now,
(09:31):
when America saw devastating results we have witnessed. I actually
think a decade or two from now, people will look
back at the school shutdowns during COVID and marvel at
what an idiotic policy this country pursued, a sort of
mass psychosis. We have seen in the data demonstrate this
the largest learning loss in recorded history since we began
(09:54):
measuring the learning of our students. Yeah, the biggest learning
loss came from the COVID shutdown. And by the way,
the racial gap, the gap between black and white students,
the gap between Hispanic and white students, grew more than
the during the COVID lockdowns, again than any time since
it's been recorded. Now, once it became irre irrefutable that
(10:17):
the schools shutdowns were a travesty a disaster. Fauci's tried
to back away and say, oh, I didn't ask for
the schools to be shut down. Well, a number of
his private diary entries had been released. Here's what he
wrote on March fifteenth, twenty twenty, So this is pretty
early in the COVID pandemic. He writes, quote big days,
written in red letters. I spoke with Bill Deblasio, Mayor
(10:41):
New York City, and convinced him, based on what I
was saying publicly and my conversations tonight, to close the
New York City schools. He had already decided based on
what I was saying on TV. That's what he said
is private notes in March. By the way, he said
the same thing quote. I had a similar call with
Ann O'Leary, staff of Governor Gavin Newsom in California, and
(11:05):
said that based on my TV appearances today and yesterday,
the governor has decided to close the schools in California,
as well as the bars and the restaurants. Now, seven
months later, October sixteenth, twenty twenty, ABC News is interviewing
Fauci and he denies he had any role in the lockdowns.
He says, quote, let's go back and look at the transcript.
(11:27):
We said we should try as best as possible we
possibly can to keep the children in schools. Nobody plays
that clip. They always come back and say Fauci was
responsible for shutting schools down. I had nothing to do
with it. Now there's a technical word for that. That's
called a lie. Also in twenty twenty two, he told
The Hill that he quote didn't recommend locking anything down. Well,
(11:50):
his own private diary refutes that, by the way, January
twenty twenty four, he said, quote, when he was testifying
the House representatives, I did not close the schools. Fauci
is dishonest and the diary is unequivocal. Five days later,
(12:12):
here's what Fauci's diary says. Quote. Also, at a phone
call with Mereti de Blasio, who wants to go to
shelter in place for the entire city, is asking my
advice since Governor Cuomo's pushing back, I advised a Blasia
to go ahead and do it. I will try to
speak with Cuomo. So he's saying shut everything down, by
the way. Fauci, also in March or twenty twenty, describes
(12:35):
President Trump as incorrigible. This is this pattern and the
rest of these diary entries are stunning that they reveal
a mego lemaniac. All right, here's another component that's fairly stunning.
(12:55):
You remember Fauci laid out at great length that the
source of COVID was not the Wuhan Institute for Virology.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, so that was one of the big ones, and
he got angry on TV when it was brought up.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
It was not the Chinese government, it was not any
of that. It was instead the wet market in China
that occurred organically from like bat soup in the wet
market that just jumped from animals. So here is what
he wrote in January of twenty twenty. So right at
the outset he wrote the following. It now appears using
(13:35):
epidata and genomic data that the first affection it was
in early December and not connected to the market. The
infection spread among people weeks before the Chinese reported that
they were dealing with a new infection, and that gave
the virus time to establish itself in multi generational sustain spread. Remember,
(13:57):
early on the Chinese were saying that there is no
human to human transmission and that all the original twenty
seven cases were from the market. Now we know the
market was not the source, it was the amplifier. Having
(14:18):
said that somewhere the virus jumped from animals to humans,
I want to repeat that sentence. Now we know the
market was not the source, it was the amplifier. This
was January of twenty twenty, and Fauci repeatedly lied about
this over and over again. And by the way, in
March and April of twenty twenty, for those who are
(14:38):
longtime listeners to Verdict, we have a lot of new
listeners to Verdict, But in March and April of twenty twenty,
go back and listen to I did two episodes on
Verdict where we laid out the evidence early in COVID,
that the weight of the evidence was the COVID virus
came from the Wuhan Institute from virology where they were
studying coronaviruses derived from bats, and that it escaped. I
(15:04):
think it was likely an accidental lab lak. I think
they were engaged in research gain a function, research where
they took existing viruses, they made them more dangerous, they
more the more transmissible, more targeted at humans. I think
they were studying them, and then they screwed up. They
had las, they had lousy biosecurity measures, and I think
a doctor, a researcher, or someone got the disease, walked
(15:26):
out and spread it to someone else, and spread it
someone else to spread it someone else. That is the
most likely scenario. By the way, multiple US government agencies
now concur with that that assessment. Fauci knew that at
the outset and life he lied. It was straight out lying,
and it was it was profoundly harmful.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
You look at what we're seeing now in these notes.
I love the transparency. There's some that are mad that
is put out saying, well, people aren't going to take
accurate notes in the future.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
They think they're going to be outed. In this scenario,
you should not be.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Afraid of your notes unless you were lying and manipulating
and don't lie.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yeah, just don't don't lie. Don't you want transparency?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I'm like, of course, like, well, if you out these
types of notes, you're never gonna get transparency again. I'm like, no,
just don't be a pathological liar to the American people.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
And what we saw.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
In these notes was on the biggest issues of COVID,
and I think this is the core reason why I
want to wrap it up and get your reaction to it. Now.
I understand why he needed a pardon, preemptive pardon, because
I think it's abundantly.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
He and quoting his own words.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
He was lying under oath to you guys who were
questioning him in Congress.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
And by the way, I also believe Fauci funded the
gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute Virology. He
was covering his own rear end because his decision to
fund reckless research was a direct cause I believe of
the pandemic. Understand this is this is not a new
phenomenon for Fauci. I want to read an entry from
his diary from twenty thirteen, so long before COVID happened
(17:06):
twenty thirteen January fourteenth, twenty thirteen. HHS turned me down
on request from CNN, Wolf Blitzer and Solidad O'Brien. I
asked John burkeou to call up Bill Hall and find
out what the heck is going on and what the
reason for all of this is. John told me that
CDC complaining to Bill Hall and HHS that I was
getting all of the publicity on an issue influenza tracking
(17:29):
that they considered was their issue. I do not know
who at CDC did this. It could be anyone from
Tom Fried, and I doubt this to more likely Tom Skinner,
CDCPR person. In any event, it has nothing to do
with my use of the word epidemic on Wolf Blitzer show,
(17:50):
and everything to do with pure jealousy that I am
a rock star stealing their thunder. Shame on the CDC.
So this is twenty thirteen, this man's own personal assessment.
I want to read that sentence again. It has everything
to do with pure jealousy that I am a quote
(18:13):
unquote rock star stealing their thunder. This is someone who's
a narcissist, who just wants to be on TV. So
when we're in the middle of a pandemic, we're in
the middle of a crisis, what did he wanted to do.
He wanted to be on TV as the savior, as
the solution, and he was willing to lie. He knew
early on, he knew that the wet market is not
(18:35):
where this virus came from, and yet he lied about
that deliberately, and I think he did so again to
cover his own culpability, and when it came to lockdowns,
he repeatedly urged and advocated locking down schools, locking down
small businesses, locking down churches, destroying people's livelihood's, destroying kids.
(18:59):
There were tens of millions of kids in America who
did not go to school for more than a year
because of these lockdowns.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
And ruling their education moving forward.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
And by the way, the data show that learning loss
will be with them the rest of their lives, when
when you're eighty, they will still suffer the consequences. And
he's born no consequences for his own recklessness. This was
ego maniacal, It was reckless, and it was wrong.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
As before, If you want to hear the rest of
this conversation on this topic, you can go back and
dow the podcast from earlier this week to hear the
entire thing. I want to get back to the big
story number three of the week you may have missed,
including a massive invasion of legal immigrants in Spain and
doctor Fauci had a lot to say sarcasm insert it
(19:49):
right there in Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
This week, Well, Fauci's testimony before Congress was absolutely disgraceful.
We're going to get into that in depth. But first
we're going to talk about what is happening in Spain,
because it is outrageous, it is frightening, it is terrifying.
If you have not watched these images online, if you're
watching this on YouTube, you can see it on the
(20:12):
YouTube show. If you haven't, go and Google watch it
with your eyes, because I cannot with my voice do
justice to what's happening in Spain. Spain is being invaded.
Thousands upon thousands of people from Morocco are coming over,
one after the other after the other, and there's not
(20:34):
another word to describe it. It is an invasion. It
reminds me very much of what happened in Texas on
the southern border, and in particular in Del Rio. And
if you remember Del Rio, which is a town in
the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. It's a town
of about thirty thousand people, and in one day, more
(20:56):
than ten thousand Haitian illegal immigrants crossed the Rio Grande,
crossed into the United States into into the small town
of Del Rio. It was an absolute invasion. I was there.
I was there. In fact, I filmed it and put
out the video of what was happening in Del Rio.
You had thousands upon thousands of Haitians under a bridge,
(21:18):
under a giant overpass, and it looked like it looked
like the Third World. It was suddenly in America. It
looked like you were in Haiti. They were just basically
shanty towns. And it was designed by the Biden administration
and the drug cartels. The Mexican cartels made the decision
to send the Haitians to the southern border to Del
Rio and to send them over in an invasion, and
(21:40):
the Democrats welcomed them. Well, the same thing is happening
in Spain and it is horrified. And I say this
without hyperbole. I think we are witnessing civilizational suicide in Europe.
I agree they are destroying the great nations of Europe.
(22:02):
And understand this is not happening accidentally. It's just like
what happened in Texas for the four years of the
Biden administration, where the invasion was by design. The Left
hates the West Yep. This is what Mandami and the
(22:23):
other communists wants. This is what the DSA wants when
they say open borders, when they say abolish Ice. They
want this invasion for the same purpose. It's the same
reason the socialists in Spain, who unfortunately are in control
of that government, they want to destroy Spanish civilization, and tragically,
(22:45):
these American leftists want to destroy American civilization.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
You know, I was talking about this earlier day, and
I want to get your take on this, but one
of the things I said was, I think part of
the reason why we're witnessing these types of invasions and
really it's happening not just in Spain, but we're saying
massive illegal immigration numbers all throughout Europe that have spiked,
and as you described it, I think it's spot on
that we're watching the crumbling of civilization and actually having
(23:12):
pride in a nation.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Right, you just get rid of the nation.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
It's kumbaiaism of the left and the commedies and the socialists.
But I also think part of why this is happening
right now in Europe is Donald Trump one reelection, got
back to the White House by saying I'm going to
secure the southern border and I'm going to stop the
invasion that you're witnessing on TV.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
The videos that you took.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I still go back to that moment where I think
we saw the tide change, and that was when the
federal government under the Biden administration used that forklift and
raised up that bob wire in Texas and people came
flooding into America. That for me was a picture is worth, right,
a thousand words, however you want to describe it. But
when you can't come to America anymore, the way that
(23:55):
you were able to buy the millions and millions under
the Biden and the bo administration combined, and the leftist policies,
where are you gonna go next?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Europe? Europe would be your next stop. And now they're.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Getting what would have a lot of people that probably
would have tried to keep coming to America if the
Democrats were in charge.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Well, and this is also the Islamization of Europe. Uh,
these illegal immigrants that are invading the country, they are
essentially entirely Muslim. And and you're saying, you know, there
was a meme online, uh that that that that that
showed President Trump flying in Air Force one and looking
(24:33):
out the window and and and and saying, my goodness,
Pakistan is just just horrible. What's happening there? And an
aide stops and says, I'm mister President, that's London. Yeah,
like Europe is deliberately and we're seeing this throughout. Europe
has allowed the entire continent to face an invasion from
(24:54):
the Middle East, face an invasion from Africa, and and
and it is changed the underlying character of the continent,
and you're seeing, you're seeing the consequences. Look, I think
Europe is foreshadowing where the United States will go if
we don't stop this. And it's about ten years ahead
(25:14):
of us. So in some ways, you can look to
Spain and it's like you're looking at a crystal ball.
You can see. And by the way, it'll happen faster
than ten years. If God forbid Elizabeth Warren or Gavin
Newsom RAOC becomes president, the same invasion we're seeing in Spain,
(25:35):
the same invasion that we saw under Joe Biden, will
happen again. And the reason is the same, because the left,
they want these illegal immigrants to destroy Western civilization, to
destroy American civilization, to tear down the Constitution, the foundations
(25:56):
of free enterprise, the foundations of rule of law, and
and you know, I have to wonder what a typical
Spanish citizen is thinking right now. And listen. What I
fear is that what they might be thinking is the
same thing that the idiot voters who voted for Mandami
(26:19):
and the other communists in America are thinking, which is
this is a great thing, this is a wonderful thing.
I don't know if they're looking away and just just
averting their eyes or if they think wonderful, what a blessing.
But I'll tell you one thing that is deeply chilling
about these images, the videos that are coming up, the
videos I saw, there was not a single woman or
(26:40):
not a single child. Yeah, these are all military age men.
There are men from about fifteen to about forty and
they're coming one after the other, after the other after
the other. And by the way, like one fellow on
Twitter put it, put out a very good question, he said,
what what is the purpose of having an army if
(27:05):
thousands of foreign invaders can just cross your border and
invade your country? Because that is what is happening.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
And and by the way, no vetting, let's be clear.
They there was a there was a there was a
really interesting video that got released. It showed the government
opening up a gate and allowing men. There was no
women or children hundreds and hundreds of rushing. I don't
know how deep it was. I mean it could be
thousands and thousands. No one is vetting if these are terrorists,
(27:35):
if they're drug cartel members, if they're setting up a human.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Trad and we know they we know they are, we
know that they're a terrorist among them. We know that
there are cartel members members and criminals and murderers and rapists.
We know that because that's what happened in America's what's
happening there too, and it is part of the less design.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
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