🔹 1. Joe Biden and Classified Documents
- Discussion centers on President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents.
- Concerns are raised about his cognitive state and whether he was exploited by others.
- A specific exchange is analyzed for its legal implications, particularly around intent and memory regarding possession of a classified Afghanistan memo.
🔹 2. The Hur Tapes
- Audio excerpts from interviews or recordings involving Biden are played and dissected.
- The speakers express concern over Biden’s coherence and memory lapses.
- Legal and ethical questions are raised about the handling of sensitive information.
🔹 3. The Take It Down Act
- A bipartisan law aimed at combating non-consensual sharing of explicit images, including AI-generated deepfakes.
- Sponsored by Senator Cruz and signed into law by President Trump.
- Inspired by real-life cases, including a Texas teenager whose image was manipulated and shared.
- The law criminalizes such acts and mandates tech platforms to remove the content upon request.
🔹 4. Border Security and Immigration
- Strong criticism of the Biden administration’s border policies.
- Former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is accused of negligence or worse.
- Claims are made about increased human trafficking, fentanyl deaths, and cartel empowerment under Biden.
- Praise is given to Trump’s border policies and recent improvements in enforcement and recruitment.
🔹 5. Cartel Activity and National Security
- Discussion on the economic power of Mexican drug cartels and their impact on both U.S. and Mexican societies.
- Advocacy for designating cartels as terrorist organizations and potentially using U.S. military force against them.
- Emphasis on the human cost of cartel violence and corruption in Mexico.
🔹 6. Law Enforcement and Accountability
- A New Jersey Congresswoman is mentioned in connection with an alleged assault on ICE officers.
- The importance of upholding the law, even for elected officials, is stressed.
- Broader commentary on respect for law enforcement and the consequences of undermining their authority.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to his verdict with Center Ted Cruz Weekend Review.
Ben Ferguson with you, and here are the three stories
that you may have missed that we talked about this week.
First up to decline of Joe Biden, now on tape
with her report coming out, and you're going to be
shocked what you hear. Will have the latest on that
in just a moment. Also, Donald Trump signs a historic
Take It Down Act that will protect so many people
(00:22):
from revenge pornography. Will give the details as well. And finally,
Tom Homan, he is our guest on holding politicians accountable
for helping illegal immigrants get away with their crimes. It's
the weekend Review and it starts right now. I actually
feel bad for Joe Biden. I think it's very clear
that people were taking advantage of him. I think this
(00:44):
is a form of elder abuse.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
No, that was sad.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
It is It is absolutely sad. That is the president
United States of America and the fact that there were
some of you who wanted to keep their power. Whoever
those five people were that they did this to him.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Look and he do you remember the question that was
in the front to that, what was it? It was
where are you're keeping classified documents? And he went down
a four minute recollection of losing his son tragically, and
there's nothing sadder than a parent burying a child. And
then that's certainly a personal tragedy that Joe Biden has
(01:18):
had more than his fair share of. But he was
not able to even answer the question. Well, all right,
here's another segment of her tapes. Listen, listen to this
next excerpt.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
As a memo, mister president, was this something that you
consciously kept after your term as vice president? Is this
something that he wanted to hold on too?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I do recall did I have this in my position
to spend up?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yes, And to give you some context for this, mister president,
he was found in front of this notebook that's on
the first page and.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
To what was founded in the library at the lake House.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
He one of the parentswer you don't I don't recall
how I got back. I mean, I don't recall how
I got back in the book because I sent it
to the president.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
I gave it to the president, and this looks like
the original. I don't think there's maybe there's a copy.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Made it, but I don't think it was faxt just oh, okay,
that's why.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, alright, no, I got.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I wasn't sure how I got how I whether I
gay handed the president.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
It was fact to the president which.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I had to copy, right, Okay, I had the reason
and I just put it in the book and that
was it.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Were you awayer that you had kept it after your
returning vice president?
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Did you know that you had it?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I I don't know that I knew, would wouldn't when
it's time something I would have started to think.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
About the reason I asked, is it's.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Been written it out about Woodward about it in one
of his books, Jewels that would cover, wrote about it
in his biography or you. So that's that's the reason
I asked. If it was something that he wanted to
hang on to you he cause he was gonna be.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Such reporting or his it's gonna be subjet reporting.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
But I I wanted to hang I guess I wanted
to hang on to it just preposterity setting. I mean
that this was my position on Afghanistan. I I've been
a view from a historical standpoints that there are certain
points in history, world history where fundamental things change, usually technology,
(03:40):
for example, without Gutenberg's pretty pressed Europe gonna be a
very different place, literally a different place, because countries would
not have known what what what was happened to another
country on the parts of the country. You know, Uh
think about a stupid idea, a notion Nixon had probably
been unpresident or you to television where he sweaty is
(04:02):
I'm I'm used to say the sweating is so profusely
in that debate. A lot of people thought he won
the debate, but he lost the debate because of his demeanor.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
The So there's a lot of things that I think are.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Fundamentally changing how the international society's function, and that related
a lot to technology and one of the.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Things that I was in the view that.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
A lot has changed in terms of everything from the
Internet to to the way which we communicate with one
another to that that is fundamentally older built.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
I've had this discussion with the press is for that,
and I mean, that's that's what I wanted to do.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I I uh, nothing to do with that fancy.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
And Mark just really quickly, I probably believe.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
I just really would like to avoid, for the purpose
of a Cleton record, getting into specuative areas. When the
President responded and said, I don't recall intending to.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Keep this memo.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
You then said, well, you know, might you have thought
it was important to keep him whatever, And he said, well,
I guess I couldn't.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
His recollection, as I understand.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
It is, he does not recall specifically intending to keep
this memo after you left the vice presidency.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
And I want that to.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Be I want these questions to be as clearly answered
and recorded.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
On the transfer it as possible. I bet we should
take a great piece.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
There's one thing that's consistent. They wanted to take a break,
and you had the questions coming in in such a
kind way like this is not what I was expecting.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
So let me say legally that exchange is very important.
So this is a classified document on Afghanistan. I don't
actually know the precise details of the document, but it's
a classified document in Afghanistan that he had in a
non secure location, which is a criminal violation. Is the
violation they were charging. Right then, the Biden Justice Department
(06:02):
was prosecuting Donald Trump for doing exactly that. And the
prosecutor asked him, so did you intend to keep this document?
And he's like, I don't know, I don't and immediately
his lawyer jumps in. Your answer is you don't know.
Speaker 8 (06:17):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
His lawyer's been a good lawyer there, because this is
all about establishing the men's raya the mental status to
be guilty of the crime. But then Biden goes on
and says, you know, well, why did you keep it.
It's been reported, it's been in this book, it's that book.
And he says, well, I kept it for posterity. It
was important to have, and his lawyer comes in at
(06:38):
the end, he's like, oh, crap, oh crap. You just
admitted that you did it on purpose, and you kept
it because you wanted to be able to tell a
really good story about Joe Biden, and you wanted to
lead classified information to reporters, and you needed the memo
to do it. And he admits that, and then his
reporter at the end, his lawyer at the end tries
to clean that up. That exchange has enormous legal significance.
(07:02):
Had doj not concluded that the sitting president of the
United States was incompetent to stand trial, let me repeat
that sentence, because it's an astonishing one. Had doj not
concluded that the sitting president is incompetent to stand trial.
That exchange would have featured prominently in the criminal trial
(07:23):
convicting him of violating that law.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
You look at now what we're seeing with this herd tape,
and I go back to accountability. There are clearly people
that were helping cover this up. They were taking advantage
of Joe Biden. I think his family obviously was in
on this as well. They wanted the power whoever the
five people are. The question I ask you is, how
the hell do we find out who the five people are?
(07:48):
And what is Congress's role play in this to make
sure it never happens again.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
There should absolutely be congressional hearings. We need an answer.
The media ought to do its job and report. Want
to play one more excerpt from the her tapes. L
listen to this final excerpt went.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
To Mongolia and UH and the Great Pictures.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I unfortunately embarrassed they held out a leader of Mongolia.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
They were shown they were doing, ay what they would
do at the time of the innovasion.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Of the Mongols into Europe and UH fourteen in the
UH eight hundreds and and.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
So around in the middle of nowhere, and they're looking
up and the aile and see this tiny mine.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
And I was a twenty mile horse race with all
these kids under the age of sixteen out of bareback
racing to come down.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
And you know they're sumer wrestlers and doing everything they do.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
And uh so they walked over and they had uh target,
big bail, say, hey, a hundred yards away, and these
guerrillas were, you know, taking shots, and uh, I think
as an embarrassed marriage I would make a point.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
But there handed the bow and arrow. I'm not a
bad archer, but I found that word. I can pull
it back.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
True and luck I.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Ain't the target. I really get bills of Hayes, right,
twenty bills a hey with a.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Big target, and.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
So I didn't meet any but I turned a primer
shandon to hear.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
So, look, if Genghis Khan, if Genghis Khan comes comes in,
if if we face the Mongol Horde, know that that
Joe Biden is ready to fire his bow and arrow. Look,
there are a lot of things you can say about
this interview, but it's very clear why Democrats did not
(09:47):
want this release before the election.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
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, Senaer,
Let's talk about and this other incredible moment that happened
this week at the White House. Donald Trump signed to
Take It Down Act into law. It's something that you
championed and remind people what this law is intent and
(10:11):
why it is such an important base of legislation to
protect not only young people and minors, but really anyone
from just evil and hateful revenge from an ex.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Well, this is legislation that I authored that President Trump
signed into law this week. Actually he signed it into
law in the Rose Garden and a big ceremony in
the Rose Garden. I've done a lot of bill signing
ceremonies in the Oval Office. This first time I've been
in the Rose Garden because you had victim groups and
victim advocates and people who have been victims of non
(10:42):
consensual explicit imagery.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
Now what is that?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
That's really two different things. Number One, so called revenge porn.
So if you have a boyfriend and girlfriend and they're
in a relationship and they take explicit pictures or videos
and then they have a breakup and one or the
other is mad and they say, Okay, I'm gonna stick
it to you. I'm gonna put this out for the
whole world to see. And it is an utterly grotesque
(11:06):
violation of privacy. Nobody has the right to do that
to somebody else, and it's something we're seeing happening more
and more often. There's a second manifestation that is new,
and it has to deal with technology, which is more
and more we are seeing people use AI artificial intelligence
to create deep fakes and deep fakes where they appear
(11:27):
to be either a picture or a video of a
real person, but it's utterly fake. And so they make
and naked or explicit image of someone and put it out.
And the incidence of deep fakes last year increased three
thousand percent, and over ninety percent of the victims of
deep fake explicit imagery are women or teenage girls, and
(11:50):
so it is growing massively. And so the Take It
Down Act is legislation that I introduce that makes it
a crime, a federal felony to post non consensual intimate images,
either real pictures or deep fakes. And secondly, it puts
a federal statutory obligation on tech platforms to take the
(12:11):
pictures down, to take the videos down, because the platforms
have been horrifable responding to victims. They ignore victims, they
leave the images up, and so the victim ends up
being being victimized over and over and over again by
the images staying out there. And so To Take It
Down Act puts a legal obligation that when the victim
notifies them, hey, that's me, that's an explicit image of me,
(12:34):
and you don't have my consent to put it up,
they have to take it down. This legislation I introduced
with Amy Klobuchar, Democrat from Minnesota, and we passed it
through the Senate. We passed it unanimously. It was one
hundred and nothing. And then the House took it up
and passed it with an overwhelming bipartisan majority. And President
Trump signed it in the law. And give a listen
(12:56):
to what President Trump said this week in the Rose
Garden as he signed the Take It Down Act into law.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Today.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
It's my honor to officially sign they Take It Down
Act into law. It's a big thing, very important, so
horrible what takes place. This will be the first ever
federal law to combat the distribution of explicit imaginary posted
without subjects consent, take horrible pictures, and I guess sometimes
(13:23):
even make up the pictures and they post it without
consent or anything else. And very importantly, this includes for
forgeries generated by artificial intelligence known as deep fakes. We've
all heard about deep fakes. I have all the time,
but I don't nobody does anything. I asked, Pam, can
you help me, Pam, she says no, I'm too busy,
too busy doing other things.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Don't worry.
Speaker 9 (13:43):
You'll survive. But a lot of people don't survive. That's
true and so horrible. With the rise of aiimage generation,
countless women have been harassed with deep fakes and other
explicit images distributed against their will. This is the wrong
and it's just a so horribly wrong, and it's a
very abusive situation, like in some cases people have never
(14:06):
seen before. And today we're making it totally illegal, sinater.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
One of the things I just I love about this
legislation is the fact that not only is it bipartisan,
but you had the first lady who really got involved
in this as well. It was important to her and
that made it I think even easier to bridge the gap.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Well, we did the First Lady became very active in
pushing this bill. She reached out out to me and
said she wanted to help get it over the finish line.
So last year we passed it out of the Senate
one hundred to nothing, and the House failed to take
it up last year, so it did not pass last year,
and so we got to this year to the new Congress.
(14:45):
I passed it through the Senate again one hundred to nothing,
and the real battle was to get it to rise
up the priority list of House leadership. And so when
the First Lady called my office and said she wanted
to help, what I did is I invited her to
come the Capitol Hill for a roundtable where she could
hear from the victims. And also at that roundtable was
(15:09):
the Speaker of the House and Steve Scalise, the Majority Leader,
and Brett Guthrie, who's the committee chairman in the House.
And when the First Lady asked them, will you please
pass this into law, they committed to her they would.
And this was the day before the State of the
Union address, and you may remember the State of the
Union address, Milania was sitting with a teenage girl from Texas,
(15:32):
Elliston Barry, and President Trump told her story in the
State of the Union and called on Congress to pass
this bill. And I'll tell you it's actually it's a
fascinating story of how this bill came to pass because
it originates with one teenage girl in Texas, Elliston Barry.
She's from North Texas, from Aledo, Texas, and a year ago,
(15:54):
she was fourteen, and she was in ninth grade and
she woke up one morning and her was blowing up
with texts from her friends because a classmate of hers
had taken a perfectly innocent picture of her from social
media and had used an app online that he had
found to create a deep fake and then sent what
(16:17):
appeared to be naked pictures of Elliston to all of
her ninth grade classmates. And so she was in tears. Listen,
it is hard to be a teenager. I'm the father
of two teenage girls. I know the pressure that is
on teenage girls. It's much harder to be a teenager
today than when you and I were teenager's ben and
this was just just horrific. Well, what happened is her mom, Anna. Look,
(16:40):
Elliston and Anna are are constituents, They're Texans, so Anna
picked up the phone and called my office and said, hey, look,
you're my senator, can you help my daughter?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
And my staff.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
To their credit, they elevated this to me and they
told me what had happened Elliston, and this is happening
more and more all over the country. And so I said, look,
let's draft legislation to fix this, to address the problem.
And so we did it. And it was it was
because of Elliston that we drafted it. But as I said,
it's happening all over the country. Well, Elliston came to
(17:15):
DC the day we announced the bill last year for
the press conference, and I sat down and met with Elliston.
I met with her mom in my office, and in
the course of the meeting, I asked, I said, hey,
what happened to the pictures? And her mom said, it's
the most frustrating thing in the world. She said, this
happened nine months ago. She said, I have been calling
and emailing Snapchat over and over and over again. They
(17:38):
just Stone Wallace. We get no response. Ben I turned
to my staff, I said, I want you to get
the CEO of Snapchat on the phone today. I want
those pictures down today. They pulled them down within two hours. Now,
it should not take a sitting senator making a phone
call to get those pictures taken down. And now, as
(17:59):
a result to the legislation Trump hassigned, every victim has
a statutory right to insist that it be taken down
as a matter of law automatically.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
In fact, Ellison Barry got to go on Fox News
Channel with our good friend Kally mc andanny and talk
about this moment. And here's what she had to say.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
Take a listen.
Speaker 10 (18:18):
But you didn't stop. You decided to go and talk
to your local congressman. You get connected with the senator,
and then you manage there you are standing behind the
President of the United States changing the laws for other
young women like you. Did you ever think this day
would come?
Speaker 11 (18:33):
I never would have thought that this could ever be
my reality. My mom, she's really an amazing person, and
she's the one that's been pushing for this, and she's
the one that's encouraged me. So I wouldn't be able
to do this without her help and her support, and
she really just has encouraged me to the point where
I feel encouraged about this. So having the opportunity to
(18:54):
speak about this and to bring awareness really just means
so much. Especially it's so much growth seeing how scared
I was at first and seeing how confident I am
able in this situation.
Speaker 10 (19:05):
Well, other young women now have recourse thanks to you,
Elliston Berry. So impressive.
Speaker 11 (19:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
It's finally a happy ending to a really hard and
sad subject.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Well, and Ben att the signing ceremony, I was able
to introduce Elliston to the President. I introduced also Francesca Mani,
who was another fifteen year old girl who was in
New Jersey and the exact same thing happened to her
as happened to Elliston. And I also introduced Brandon Guffy.
Brandon Guffy is a state rep from South Carolina, and tragically,
(19:38):
his oldest son got what we thought was a direct
message from a cute girl and she convinced him to
send naked pictures to her. Well, it turned out it
was not a cute girl, it was a con man,
and the con man began extorting him and threatening I'm
going to send these naked pictures to your friends and family. Well,
(19:58):
Brandon's son, Gavin, killed himself, and we are seeing suicides
across the country. So I introduced Brandon, his family, the
President too, and this law is of victory for everyone
that is a target of this kind of exploitation.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
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.
I want to go back to accountability for a second time,
and I want to ask you there are a lot
of people that believe that there were laws that were
(20:32):
broken deliberately in the last administration. They knew they were
breaking the law. One of those would be former Homeland
Security Secretary. My orc is that you mentioned a moment ago.
Should he be criminally prosecuted for his role in the
border crisis if it was as deliberate as it now seems.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Look, I think what he did was borderline trees in
this I'm not an attorney, I'm not a prosecutor, but
what he did, he did more damage to this country.
Him and the Biden administration. What they did to this country,
I can tell you when they opened that border up
sex trafficking women should increase tenfold of a record number
of migrants died making that journey, over four thousand, A
(21:12):
record number of Americans died from fatanah that come across
that open border. And it's just what he what he
calls this country and from a national securities perspective, because
here's what his orders were, process quick, release quick. They
didn't care about the crisis. They cared about the optics
of the crisis. If there's no overcrowding, there's nothing to
(21:32):
see here. So border trades were processed as quick as
they could, and releases a quick as they could. And
there's been several instances where they released so quickly the
FBI scan didn't come back and it came back hot.
Actually they already been released. They came back hot. As
a known spectatorian, So yeah, what he did was unconsortable.
(21:53):
What he did is my opinion, borderline treason. Is he
should be held accountable because a lot of death hurt
under his watch. And look at like Sandra Cruz said
a few minutes ago, right now, ninety six percent decline
and illegal immigration, when ninety six percent less people are coming,
how many women aren't being raped, how many children aren't
dying crossing that border. How many no inspected taaris aren't
(22:15):
getting in the country. How many pounds of fentanyl is
not getting the country. What are you going to see
on the President Trump's administration? Ventanyl deaths, a decrease, sex
trafficking with decrease, smuggling with decrease, and no inspected tars.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
They got no.
Speaker 8 (22:27):
Open night anymore. Now that we got the board secure,
every single borders religion is on the lying on patrol.
During his National Security duty under Joe Biden, it was
an average most days, an average seventy percent seven zero
seventy percent of agents were no longer on patrol. They
were changing diapers, making baby formula, making hospital runs the
(22:49):
last time, aren't down there. Before the election, I talked
to hundreds of board plays, told me to hang on,
hang on, changes coming. I really think the President Trump's
going to win. But they told me no, we're sick
of being tour station. We're sick of being uber drivers.
We process and delivered these people to the very same
people who pay for their smuggling. They couldn't recruit, they
couldn't people were quitting. They were quickly for it, even
(23:10):
as well for retirement. They couldn't red recruiting numbers. You know,
last month, Ice, I'm excuse me, Bord Patrol had the
highst recruiting numbers and the history of that agency just
last month.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
That's fantastic. And look, I will say Tom's not exaggerating
at all, like when I would visit with Border Patrol
agents the frustration. Look, the men and women who sign
up for the Border Patrol, they do do so because
they're patriots. They do so because they love America. They
do so because they want to keep our communities and
our families and our kids safe, and they want to
(23:43):
be out on patrol. Look, these that's what you sign
up in the job. And they were sitting there just
shuffling paperwork, they were processing and just running a revolving
door to try to release as many illegal immigrants as
fast as possible. That's what may ORCS looked viewed. His
job is accelerate illegal immigration, not stop it, but make
(24:05):
it go more quickly. Let me ask you, Tom, you
mentioned fentanyl. What do we know about the numbers of
fentanyl traffic Over the first four months of the Trump administration.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
There's been a decrease and I've got from three or
four different sources. The percentage of decrease is different from
every source. The problem is the CDC doesn't have good
metrics on fatanyl. But look across the country. You can
see the decrease in fatanyl. Fatanyl's being c's on the
southern border, and it's the metrics. And that's maybe something
(24:37):
you all can work on up there in the Senate. UH,
CDC needs a track this more more more accurately. Like
I said, you got you got a number of deaths
reported by states, you got a number of death reported
by CDC. None of them match. So, but we do
know there's been a reduction. You don't see you know,
three hundred people dying every day from fantanlock. We did
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that right. We don't have two nine to elevens a
week happening from kids dying from fatanah. So I don't
have exact numbers, but we already see the effects of
a secure boarder.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
And Tom, let me ask you also. So one of
the things we've talked about on this podcast. In twenty eighteen,
the Mexican drug cartels made roughly five hundred million dollars
from human trafficking. Last year, the drug cartels made over
thirteen billion dollars from human trafficking. That's a twenty six
hundred percent increase. Do we have any data yet? Do
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you have any visibility on what has happened to the
drug cartel's revenue Because one of the worst consequences of
what Biden's open border did is is it turned these vicious, murderous,
transnational criminal organizations into incredibly wealthy powerhouses, and it put
huge resources in their pockets. Do do you have any
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data on what's happened to their revenues?
Speaker 8 (25:56):
Well, one of the first wresting President Trump too is organization.
Because these cartels have killed more Americans every turance organization
were combined. We knew that. That's why there's so much
buy on some Mexico. The last four years cartels were
fighting each other for control of the plausas. Why because
they're making record amounts of money, smuggling people, record amount
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of money, and trafficking women and children, and the record
amount of money moving dope across that border. Now, with
the board secure, we're hitting them where it hurts. Are
smugglings down, both drugs and people trafficking is down, So
we're hitting where it hurts. That's why the latest intelligence
force I see they're trying to produce and push more
fatanol into Asian European nations because their market here in
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the United States has been so brutally attacked. I wish
what would happen is that Mexico would agree with President
Trump to let us help them take the cartels and
wipe them off the face the ears, because right now
they're like the holical cartel. They're in forty four countries
around the globe. They're like a fortune five hundred company's
going to take to the United States to take them on.
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Mexico's failed for decades to do it, and a lot
of mechs.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Sure.
Speaker 8 (27:04):
You know that military, police and government versus are corrupt.
I'll say this, a lot of the corruption is forced corruption.
Because you're a police officer Mexo. You're making you know,
four hundred dollars a month, but a Mexican cartel comes
up and obviously ten thousand look the other way, and
you're going to take it? Are they going to kill
you and your family? I think Mexico will be a
much safer, a much prosper more prosperous country if they
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let President Trump help them wipe the cartels off the face.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Of the ear.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Look that that is absolutely right. And let me underscore
that point. A lot of people don't realize, particularly those
on the left, that that what Joe Biden the Democrats did,
it wasn't just horribly cruel to the American people, it
was horribly cruel to Mexican nationals in Mexico. Turning these
vicious criminals into the most powerful economic force in Mexico
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has increased the murder rate, the crime rate, the kidnapping
rate rate. I visit with a Mexican mayor of a
town on the other side of the border, and I'm
not going to say which mayor because he told me
in confidence because he was afraid, but he said in
his town they had had over three thousand disappearances, just
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people Mexican nationals living in Mexico who just ran a
foul of the cartel and they just disappear, and they
find mass graves and the suffering and murder and kidnapping.
That that that that has happened in Mexico because of
the Democrats political decision I think was cruel and horrible.
And and Tom, You're exactly right that that the US
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military can take out the cartels. And we've done it
before in Colombia. President Euribe asked the military to come
in and take out the cartels in Colombia, and we
came in and did that, and we could do it again.
And and I do think it would be much better
if the Mexican government invited us in. It would have
transformational impact within Mexico.
Speaker 8 (29:01):
Yeah, let's say a lot of lives, like say lex
and cartoons have killed thousands of judges and prosecutors and journalists. Yeah,
and citizens. So you know, I wish they I wish
they'd joined with President Trump, and that would be a
game changer, Uh, for Mexico and the United States.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
All right, final question. Uh, we saw just this week
that that New Jersey Democrat Congresswoman Lamonica mac Ivor was
charged for assaulting law enforcement at an ice facility. Uh,
tell me tell us how important that is and and
what do you think about about the fact that that
charges were brought for assault. We saw during the Biden
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administration repeatedly, Uh, law enforcement Customs Border patrol ice agents
were subject to physical assault, no charges were brought. How
important is it that these charges were brought?
Speaker 8 (29:51):
The SUNS of strong mentions is very important. It also
proves that on bluff I'd said them the David auguration.
If you want to not support ICE, well, but.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
You have that right.
Speaker 8 (30:01):
If you want to protest against ICE and to protest
against Trump's policies, that's fine. If you want to watch
ICE come in and clean your city up because you're
a sanctuary of city don't want to help, you can
do that too. But ICE had from day one. You
can't cross that line. You can't cross the line on impediment,
that's a felony. You can't cross the line on noialing
and harboring, concealing and they will go amis mice, that's
a felony. You certainly can't commit criminal trespasses at our facilities,
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and for God's sake, you can't put hands on i
ICE officers. And this happened during the same time frame.
The same week I went to Blue Mass in Washington,
d c. And remembrance of the men and women in
law enforce and put their lives on the lines of
this country every day. So we spent a week just
just just praising these men and women, talking to their
families who also paid the ultimate sacrifice. They lost the
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loved one forever. Children lost their fathers and mothers, and
mothers and fathers lost their sons and daughters in the
same week we're supposed to be honor in law enforcement.
You got some of the member Congress putting their hands
in shoving an ice officer, which makes that facility very unsafe.
And I'm sick and tired of hearing what we have
Congressional oversight responsibilities. There is a right way and wrong
way to do it. You don't force your way in
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the facility. You don't put hands on an officer's We
do oversight all the time. And what are they finding
out as people are getting tours in that facility that
they have the highest detention standards in the industry, and
it puts every every other UH detention center in jail
in the state of New Jersey, whether it is a
county or state. It puts them to shame because our
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detention standards are so high. So when you go and
calls that kind of practice where we're trying to maintain
a facility with very dangerous people inside, we got to
protect not only the criminals, we gotta protect the employees
and the citizens on the outside. What she did was
just horrendous. She she put hands on an officer. Like
they said for four years, no one's above the law.
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You're damn right. They're not above the law, even members
of Congress. The president is above the law, but these
are members of Congress.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
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Welcome to his verdict with Center Ted Cruz Weekend Review.
Ben Ferguson with you, and here are the three stories
that you may have missed that we talked about this week.
First up to decline of Joe Biden, now on tape
with her report coming out, and you're going to be
shocked what you hear. Will have the latest on that
in just a moment. Also, Donald Trump signs a historic
Take It Down Act that will protect so many people
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from revenge pornography. Will give the details as well. And finally,
Tom Homan, he is our guest on holding politicians accountable
for helping illegal immigrants get away with their crimes. It's
the weekend Review and it starts right now. I actually
feel bad for Joe Biden. I think it's very clear
that people were taking advantage of him. I think this
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is a form of elder abuse.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
No, that was sad.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
It is It is absolutely sad. That is the president
United States of America and the fact that there were
some of you who wanted to keep their power. Whoever
those five people were that they did this to him.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Look and he do you remember the question that was
in the front to that, what was it? It was
where are you're keeping classified documents? And he went down
a four minute recollection of losing his son tragically, and
there's nothing sadder than a parent burying a child. And
then that's certainly a personal tragedy that Joe Biden has
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had more than his fair share of. But he was
not able to even answer the question. Well, all right,
here's another segment of her tapes. Listen, listen to this
next excerpt.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
As a memo, mister president, was this something that you
consciously kept after your term as vice president? Is this
something that he wanted to hold on too?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I do recall did I have this in my position
to spend up?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yes, And to give you some context for this, mister president,
he was found in front of this notebook that's on
the first page and.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
To what was founded in the library at the lake House.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
He one of the parentswer you don't I don't recall
how I got back. I mean, I don't recall how
I got back in the book because I sent it
to the president.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
I gave it to the president, and this looks like
the original. I don't think there's maybe there's a copy.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Made it, but I don't think it was faxt just oh, okay,
that's why.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, alright, no, I got.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I wasn't sure how I got how I whether I
gay handed the president.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
It was fact to the president which.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I had to copy, right, Okay, I had the reason
and I just put it in the book and that
was it.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Were you awayer that you had kept it after your
returning vice president?
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Did you know that you had it?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I I don't know that I knew, would wouldn't when
it's time something I would have started to think.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
About the reason I asked, is it's.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Been written it out about Woodward about it in one
of his books, Jewels that would cover, wrote about it
in his biography or you. So that's that's the reason
I asked. If it was something that he wanted to
hang on to you he cause he was gonna be.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Such reporting or his it's gonna be subjet reporting.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
But I I wanted to hang I guess I wanted
to hang on to it just preposterity setting. I mean
that this was my position on Afghanistan. I I've been
a view from a historical standpoints that there are certain
points in history, world history where fundamental things change, usually technology,
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for example, without Gutenberg's pretty pressed Europe gonna be a
very different place, literally a different place, because countries would
not have known what what what was happened to another
country on the parts of the country. You know, Uh
think about a stupid idea, a notion Nixon had probably
been unpresident or you to television where he sweaty is
(04:02):
I'm I'm used to say the sweating is so profusely
in that debate. A lot of people thought he won
the debate, but he lost the debate because of his demeanor.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
The So there's a lot of things that I think are.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Fundamentally changing how the international society's function, and that related
a lot to technology and one of the.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Things that I was in the view that.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
A lot has changed in terms of everything from the
Internet to to the way which we communicate with one
another to that that is fundamentally older built.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
I've had this discussion with the press is for that,
and I mean, that's that's what I wanted to do.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I I uh, nothing to do with that fancy.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
And Mark just really quickly, I probably believe.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
I just really would like to avoid, for the purpose
of a Cleton record, getting into specuative areas. When the
President responded and said, I don't recall intending to.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Keep this memo.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
You then said, well, you know, might you have thought
it was important to keep him whatever, And he said, well,
I guess I couldn't.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
His recollection, as I understand.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
It is, he does not recall specifically intending to keep
this memo after you left the vice presidency.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
And I want that to.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Be I want these questions to be as clearly answered
and recorded.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
On the transfer it as possible. I bet we should
take a great piece.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
There's one thing that's consistent. They wanted to take a break,
and you had the questions coming in in such a
kind way like this is not what I was expecting.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
So let me say legally that exchange is very important.
So this is a classified document on Afghanistan. I don't
actually know the precise details of the document, but it's
a classified document in Afghanistan that he had in a
non secure location, which is a criminal violation. Is the
violation they were charging. Right then, the Biden Justice Department
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was prosecuting Donald Trump for doing exactly that. And the
prosecutor asked him, so did you intend to keep this document?
And he's like, I don't know, I don't and immediately
his lawyer jumps in. Your answer is you don't know.
Speaker 8 (06:17):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
His lawyer's been a good lawyer there, because this is
all about establishing the men's raya the mental status to
be guilty of the crime. But then Biden goes on
and says, you know, well, why did you keep it.
It's been reported, it's been in this book, it's that book.
And he says, well, I kept it for posterity. It
was important to have, and his lawyer comes in at
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the end, he's like, oh, crap, oh crap. You just
admitted that you did it on purpose, and you kept
it because you wanted to be able to tell a
really good story about Joe Biden, and you wanted to
lead classified information to reporters, and you needed the memo
to do it. And he admits that, and then his
reporter at the end, his lawyer at the end tries
to clean that up. That exchange has enormous legal significance.
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Had doj not concluded that the sitting president of the
United States was incompetent to stand trial, let me repeat
that sentence, because it's an astonishing one. Had doj not
concluded that the sitting president is incompetent to stand trial.
That exchange would have featured prominently in the criminal trial
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convicting him of violating that law.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
You look at now what we're seeing with this herd tape,
and I go back to accountability. There are clearly people
that were helping cover this up. They were taking advantage
of Joe Biden. I think his family obviously was in
on this as well. They wanted the power whoever the
five people are. The question I ask you is, how
the hell do we find out who the five people are?
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And what is Congress's role play in this to make
sure it never happens again.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
There should absolutely be congressional hearings. We need an answer.
The media ought to do its job and report. Want
to play one more excerpt from the her tapes. L
listen to this final excerpt went.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
To Mongolia and UH and the Great Pictures.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I unfortunately embarrassed they held out a leader of Mongolia.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
They were shown they were doing, ay what they would
do at the time of the innovasion.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Of the Mongols into Europe and UH fourteen in the
UH eight hundreds and and.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
So around in the middle of nowhere, and they're looking
up and the aile and see this tiny mine.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
And I was a twenty mile horse race with all
these kids under the age of sixteen out of bareback
racing to come down.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
And you know they're sumer wrestlers and doing everything they do.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
And uh so they walked over and they had uh target,
big bail, say, hey, a hundred yards away, and these
guerrillas were, you know, taking shots, and uh, I think
as an embarrassed marriage I would make a point.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
But there handed the bow and arrow. I'm not a
bad archer, but I found that word. I can pull
it back.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
True and luck I.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Ain't the target. I really get bills of Hayes, right,
twenty bills a hey with a.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Big target, and.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
So I didn't meet any but I turned a primer
shandon to hear.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
So, look, if Genghis Khan, if Genghis Khan comes comes in,
if if we face the Mongol Horde, know that that
Joe Biden is ready to fire his bow and arrow. Look,
there are a lot of things you can say about
this interview, but it's very clear why Democrats did not
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want this release before the election.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
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, Senaer,
Let's talk about and this other incredible moment that happened
this week at the White House. Donald Trump signed to
Take It Down Act into law. It's something that you
championed and remind people what this law is intent and
(10:11):
why it is such an important base of legislation to
protect not only young people and minors, but really anyone
from just evil and hateful revenge from an ex.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Well, this is legislation that I authored that President Trump
signed into law this week. Actually he signed it into
law in the Rose Garden and a big ceremony in
the Rose Garden. I've done a lot of bill signing
ceremonies in the Oval Office. This first time I've been
in the Rose Garden because you had victim groups and
victim advocates and people who have been victims of non
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consensual explicit imagery.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
Now what is that?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
That's really two different things. Number One, so called revenge porn.
So if you have a boyfriend and girlfriend and they're
in a relationship and they take explicit pictures or videos
and then they have a breakup and one or the
other is mad and they say, Okay, I'm gonna stick
it to you. I'm gonna put this out for the
whole world to see. And it is an utterly grotesque
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violation of privacy. Nobody has the right to do that
to somebody else, and it's something we're seeing happening more
and more often. There's a second manifestation that is new,
and it has to deal with technology, which is more
and more we are seeing people use AI artificial intelligence
to create deep fakes and deep fakes where they appear
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to be either a picture or a video of a
real person, but it's utterly fake. And so they make
and naked or explicit image of someone and put it out.
And the incidence of deep fakes last year increased three
thousand percent, and over ninety percent of the victims of
deep fake explicit imagery are women or teenage girls, and
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so it is growing massively. And so the Take It
Down Act is legislation that I introduce that makes it
a crime, a federal felony to post non consensual intimate images,
either real pictures or deep fakes. And secondly, it puts
a federal statutory obligation on tech platforms to take the
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pictures down, to take the videos down, because the platforms
have been horrifable responding to victims. They ignore victims, they
leave the images up, and so the victim ends up
being being victimized over and over and over again by
the images staying out there. And so To Take It
Down Act puts a legal obligation that when the victim
notifies them, hey, that's me, that's an explicit image of me,
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and you don't have my consent to put it up,
they have to take it down. This legislation I introduced
with Amy Klobuchar, Democrat from Minnesota, and we passed it
through the Senate. We passed it unanimously. It was one
hundred and nothing. And then the House took it up
and passed it with an overwhelming bipartisan majority. And President
Trump signed it in the law. And give a listen
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to what President Trump said this week in the Rose
Garden as he signed the Take It Down Act into law.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Today.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
It's my honor to officially sign they Take It Down
Act into law. It's a big thing, very important, so
horrible what takes place. This will be the first ever
federal law to combat the distribution of explicit imaginary posted
without subjects consent, take horrible pictures, and I guess sometimes
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even make up the pictures and they post it without
consent or anything else. And very importantly, this includes for
forgeries generated by artificial intelligence known as deep fakes. We've
all heard about deep fakes. I have all the time,
but I don't nobody does anything. I asked, Pam, can
you help me, Pam, she says no, I'm too busy,
too busy doing other things.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Don't worry.
Speaker 9 (13:43):
You'll survive. But a lot of people don't survive. That's
true and so horrible. With the rise of aiimage generation,
countless women have been harassed with deep fakes and other
explicit images distributed against their will. This is the wrong
and it's just a so horribly wrong, and it's a
very abusive situation, like in some cases people have never
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seen before. And today we're making it totally illegal, sinater.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
One of the things I just I love about this
legislation is the fact that not only is it bipartisan,
but you had the first lady who really got involved
in this as well. It was important to her and
that made it I think even easier to bridge the gap.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Well, we did the First Lady became very active in
pushing this bill. She reached out out to me and
said she wanted to help get it over the finish line.
So last year we passed it out of the Senate
one hundred to nothing, and the House failed to take
it up last year, so it did not pass last year,
and so we got to this year to the new Congress.
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I passed it through the Senate again one hundred to nothing,
and the real battle was to get it to rise
up the priority list of House leadership. And so when
the First Lady called my office and said she wanted
to help, what I did is I invited her to
come the Capitol Hill for a roundtable where she could
hear from the victims. And also at that roundtable was
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the Speaker of the House and Steve Scalise, the Majority Leader,
and Brett Guthrie, who's the committee chairman in the House.
And when the First Lady asked them, will you please
pass this into law, they committed to her they would.
And this was the day before the State of the
Union address, and you may remember the State of the
Union address, Milania was sitting with a teenage girl from Texas,
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Elliston Barry, and President Trump told her story in the
State of the Union and called on Congress to pass
this bill. And I'll tell you it's actually it's a
fascinating story of how this bill came to pass because
it originates with one teenage girl in Texas, Elliston Barry.
She's from North Texas, from Aledo, Texas, and a year ago,
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she was fourteen, and she was in ninth grade and
she woke up one morning and her was blowing up
with texts from her friends because a classmate of hers
had taken a perfectly innocent picture of her from social
media and had used an app online that he had
found to create a deep fake and then sent what
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appeared to be naked pictures of Elliston to all of
her ninth grade classmates. And so she was in tears. Listen,
it is hard to be a teenager. I'm the father
of two teenage girls. I know the pressure that is
on teenage girls. It's much harder to be a teenager
today than when you and I were teenager's ben and
this was just just horrific. Well, what happened is her mom, Anna. Look,
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Elliston and Anna are are constituents, They're Texans, so Anna
picked up the phone and called my office and said, hey, look,
you're my senator, can you help my daughter?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
And my staff.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
To their credit, they elevated this to me and they
told me what had happened Elliston, and this is happening
more and more all over the country. And so I said, look,
let's draft legislation to fix this, to address the problem.
And so we did it. And it was it was
because of Elliston that we drafted it. But as I said,
it's happening all over the country. Well, Elliston came to
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DC the day we announced the bill last year for
the press conference, and I sat down and met with Elliston.
I met with her mom in my office, and in
the course of the meeting, I asked, I said, hey,
what happened to the pictures? And her mom said, it's
the most frustrating thing in the world. She said, this
happened nine months ago. She said, I have been calling
and emailing Snapchat over and over and over again. They
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just Stone Wallace. We get no response. Ben I turned
to my staff, I said, I want you to get
the CEO of Snapchat on the phone today. I want
those pictures down today. They pulled them down within two hours. Now,
it should not take a sitting senator making a phone
call to get those pictures taken down. And now, as
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a result to the legislation Trump hassigned, every victim has
a statutory right to insist that it be taken down
as a matter of law automatically.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
In fact, Ellison Barry got to go on Fox News
Channel with our good friend Kally mc andanny and talk
about this moment. And here's what she had to say.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
Take a listen.
Speaker 10 (18:18):
But you didn't stop. You decided to go and talk
to your local congressman. You get connected with the senator,
and then you manage there you are standing behind the
President of the United States changing the laws for other
young women like you. Did you ever think this day
would come?
Speaker 11 (18:33):
I never would have thought that this could ever be
my reality. My mom, she's really an amazing person, and
she's the one that's been pushing for this, and she's
the one that's encouraged me. So I wouldn't be able
to do this without her help and her support, and
she really just has encouraged me to the point where
I feel encouraged about this. So having the opportunity to
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speak about this and to bring awareness really just means
so much. Especially it's so much growth seeing how scared
I was at first and seeing how confident I am
able in this situation.
Speaker 10 (19:05):
Well, other young women now have recourse thanks to you,
Elliston Berry. So impressive.
Speaker 11 (19:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
It's finally a happy ending to a really hard and
sad subject.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Well, and Ben att the signing ceremony, I was able
to introduce Elliston to the President. I introduced also Francesca Mani,
who was another fifteen year old girl who was in
New Jersey and the exact same thing happened to her
as happened to Elliston. And I also introduced Brandon Guffy.
Brandon Guffy is a state rep from South Carolina, and tragically,
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his oldest son got what we thought was a direct
message from a cute girl and she convinced him to
send naked pictures to her. Well, it turned out it
was not a cute girl, it was a con man,
and the con man began extorting him and threatening I'm
going to send these naked pictures to your friends and family. Well,
(19:58):
Brandon's son, Gavin, killed himself, and we are seeing suicides
across the country. So I introduced Brandon, his family, the
President too, and this law is of victory for everyone
that is a target of this kind of exploitation.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
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.
I want to go back to accountability for a second time,
and I want to ask you there are a lot
of people that believe that there were laws that were
(20:32):
broken deliberately in the last administration. They knew they were
breaking the law. One of those would be former Homeland
Security Secretary. My orc is that you mentioned a moment ago.
Should he be criminally prosecuted for his role in the
border crisis if it was as deliberate as it now seems.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Look, I think what he did was borderline trees in
this I'm not an attorney, I'm not a prosecutor, but
what he did, he did more damage to this country.
Him and the Biden administration. What they did to this country,
I can tell you when they opened that border up
sex trafficking women should increase tenfold of a record number
of migrants died making that journey, over four thousand, A
(21:12):
record number of Americans died from fatanah that come across
that open border. And it's just what he what he
calls this country and from a national securities perspective, because
here's what his orders were, process quick, release quick. They
didn't care about the crisis. They cared about the optics
of the crisis. If there's no overcrowding, there's nothing to
(21:32):
see here. So border trades were processed as quick as
they could, and releases a quick as they could. And
there's been several instances where they released so quickly the
FBI scan didn't come back and it came back hot.
Actually they already been released. They came back hot. As
a known spectatorian, So yeah, what he did was unconsortable.
(21:53):
What he did is my opinion, borderline treason. Is he
should be held accountable because a lot of death hurt
under his watch. And look at like Sandra Cruz said
a few minutes ago, right now, ninety six percent decline
and illegal immigration, when ninety six percent less people are coming,
how many women aren't being raped, how many children aren't
dying crossing that border. How many no inspected taaris aren't
(22:15):
getting in the country. How many pounds of fentanyl is
not getting the country. What are you going to see
on the President Trump's administration? Ventanyl deaths, a decrease, sex
trafficking with decrease, smuggling with decrease, and no inspected tars.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
They got no.
Speaker 8 (22:27):
Open night anymore. Now that we got the board secure,
every single borders religion is on the lying on patrol.
During his National Security duty under Joe Biden, it was
an average most days, an average seventy percent seven zero
seventy percent of agents were no longer on patrol. They
were changing diapers, making baby formula, making hospital runs the
(22:49):
last time, aren't down there. Before the election, I talked
to hundreds of board plays, told me to hang on,
hang on, changes coming. I really think the President Trump's
going to win. But they told me no, we're sick
of being tour station. We're sick of being uber drivers.
We process and delivered these people to the very same
people who pay for their smuggling. They couldn't recruit, they
couldn't people were quitting. They were quickly for it, even
(23:10):
as well for retirement. They couldn't red recruiting numbers. You know,
last month, Ice, I'm excuse me, Bord Patrol had the
highst recruiting numbers and the history of that agency just
last month.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
That's fantastic. And look, I will say Tom's not exaggerating
at all, like when I would visit with Border Patrol
agents the frustration. Look, the men and women who sign
up for the Border Patrol, they do do so because
they're patriots. They do so because they love America. They
do so because they want to keep our communities and
our families and our kids safe, and they want to
(23:43):
be out on patrol. Look, these that's what you sign
up in the job. And they were sitting there just
shuffling paperwork, they were processing and just running a revolving
door to try to release as many illegal immigrants as
fast as possible. That's what may ORCS looked viewed. His
job is accelerate illegal immigration, not stop it, but make
(24:05):
it go more quickly. Let me ask you, Tom, you
mentioned fentanyl. What do we know about the numbers of
fentanyl traffic Over the first four months of the Trump administration.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
There's been a decrease and I've got from three or
four different sources. The percentage of decrease is different from
every source. The problem is the CDC doesn't have good
metrics on fatanyl. But look across the country. You can
see the decrease in fatanyl. Fatanyl's being c's on the
southern border, and it's the metrics. And that's maybe something
(24:37):
you all can work on up there in the Senate. UH,
CDC needs a track this more more more accurately. Like
I said, you got you got a number of deaths
reported by states, you got a number of death reported
by CDC. None of them match. So, but we do
know there's been a reduction. You don't see you know,
three hundred people dying every day from fantanlock. We did
(24:59):
that right. We don't have two nine to elevens a
week happening from kids dying from fatanah. So I don't
have exact numbers, but we already see the effects of
a secure boarder.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
And Tom, let me ask you also. So one of
the things we've talked about on this podcast. In twenty eighteen,
the Mexican drug cartels made roughly five hundred million dollars
from human trafficking. Last year, the drug cartels made over
thirteen billion dollars from human trafficking. That's a twenty six
hundred percent increase. Do we have any data yet? Do
(25:32):
you have any visibility on what has happened to the
drug cartel's revenue Because one of the worst consequences of
what Biden's open border did is is it turned these vicious, murderous,
transnational criminal organizations into incredibly wealthy powerhouses, and it put
huge resources in their pockets. Do do you have any
(25:54):
data on what's happened to their revenues?
Speaker 8 (25:56):
Well, one of the first wresting President Trump too is organization.
Because these cartels have killed more Americans every turance organization
were combined. We knew that. That's why there's so much
buy on some Mexico. The last four years cartels were
fighting each other for control of the plausas. Why because
they're making record amounts of money, smuggling people, record amount
(26:17):
of money, and trafficking women and children, and the record
amount of money moving dope across that border. Now, with
the board secure, we're hitting them where it hurts. Are
smugglings down, both drugs and people trafficking is down, So
we're hitting where it hurts. That's why the latest intelligence
force I see they're trying to produce and push more
fatanol into Asian European nations because their market here in
(26:40):
the United States has been so brutally attacked. I wish
what would happen is that Mexico would agree with President
Trump to let us help them take the cartels and
wipe them off the face the ears, because right now
they're like the holical cartel. They're in forty four countries
around the globe. They're like a fortune five hundred company's
going to take to the United States to take them on.
(27:01):
Mexico's failed for decades to do it, and a lot
of mechs.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Sure.
Speaker 8 (27:04):
You know that military, police and government versus are corrupt.
I'll say this, a lot of the corruption is forced corruption.
Because you're a police officer Mexo. You're making you know,
four hundred dollars a month, but a Mexican cartel comes
up and obviously ten thousand look the other way, and
you're going to take it? Are they going to kill
you and your family? I think Mexico will be a
much safer, a much prosper more prosperous country if they
(27:24):
let President Trump help them wipe the cartels off the face.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Of the ear.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Look that that is absolutely right. And let me underscore
that point. A lot of people don't realize, particularly those
on the left, that that what Joe Biden the Democrats did,
it wasn't just horribly cruel to the American people, it
was horribly cruel to Mexican nationals in Mexico. Turning these
vicious criminals into the most powerful economic force in Mexico
(27:54):
has increased the murder rate, the crime rate, the kidnapping
rate rate. I visit with a Mexican mayor of a
town on the other side of the border, and I'm
not going to say which mayor because he told me
in confidence because he was afraid, but he said in
his town they had had over three thousand disappearances, just
(28:15):
people Mexican nationals living in Mexico who just ran a
foul of the cartel and they just disappear, and they
find mass graves and the suffering and murder and kidnapping.
That that that that has happened in Mexico because of
the Democrats political decision I think was cruel and horrible.
And and Tom, You're exactly right that that the US
(28:40):
military can take out the cartels. And we've done it
before in Colombia. President Euribe asked the military to come
in and take out the cartels in Colombia, and we
came in and did that, and we could do it again.
And and I do think it would be much better
if the Mexican government invited us in. It would have
transformational impact within Mexico.
Speaker 8 (29:01):
Yeah, let's say a lot of lives, like say lex
and cartoons have killed thousands of judges and prosecutors and journalists. Yeah,
and citizens. So you know, I wish they I wish
they'd joined with President Trump, and that would be a
game changer, Uh, for Mexico and the United States.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
All right, final question. Uh, we saw just this week
that that New Jersey Democrat Congresswoman Lamonica mac Ivor was
charged for assaulting law enforcement at an ice facility. Uh,
tell me tell us how important that is and and
what do you think about about the fact that that
charges were brought for assault. We saw during the Biden
(29:38):
administration repeatedly, Uh, law enforcement Customs Border patrol ice agents
were subject to physical assault, no charges were brought. How
important is it that these charges were brought?
Speaker 8 (29:51):
The SUNS of strong mentions is very important. It also
proves that on bluff I'd said them the David auguration.
If you want to not support ICE, well, but.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
You have that right.
Speaker 8 (30:01):
If you want to protest against ICE and to protest
against Trump's policies, that's fine. If you want to watch
ICE come in and clean your city up because you're
a sanctuary of city don't want to help, you can
do that too. But ICE had from day one. You
can't cross that line. You can't cross the line on impediment,
that's a felony. You can't cross the line on noialing
and harboring, concealing and they will go amis mice, that's
a felony. You certainly can't commit criminal trespasses at our facilities,
(30:25):
and for God's sake, you can't put hands on i
ICE officers. And this happened during the same time frame.
The same week I went to Blue Mass in Washington,
d c. And remembrance of the men and women in
law enforce and put their lives on the lines of
this country every day. So we spent a week just
just just praising these men and women, talking to their
families who also paid the ultimate sacrifice. They lost the
(30:48):
loved one forever. Children lost their fathers and mothers, and
mothers and fathers lost their sons and daughters in the
same week we're supposed to be honor in law enforcement.
You got some of the member Congress putting their hands
in shoving an ice officer, which makes that facility very unsafe.
And I'm sick and tired of hearing what we have
Congressional oversight responsibilities. There is a right way and wrong
way to do it. You don't force your way in
(31:08):
the facility. You don't put hands on an officer's We
do oversight all the time. And what are they finding
out as people are getting tours in that facility that
they have the highest detention standards in the industry, and
it puts every every other UH detention center in jail
in the state of New Jersey, whether it is a
county or state. It puts them to shame because our
(31:32):
detention standards are so high. So when you go and
calls that kind of practice where we're trying to maintain
a facility with very dangerous people inside, we got to
protect not only the criminals, we gotta protect the employees
and the citizens on the outside. What she did was
just horrendous. She she put hands on an officer. Like
they said for four years, no one's above the law.
(31:53):
You're damn right. They're not above the law, even members
of Congress. The president is above the law, but these
are members of Congress.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
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day when you listen to Verdict. Afterwards, I'd love to
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