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Recent attacks & immigration/vetting
- Ben and Senator Cruz link a shooting of National Guard soldiers in Washington, D.C. to failures in vetting Afghan nationals admitted under “Operation Allies Welcome,” asserting a broader pattern of violence from inadequately vetted immigrants. They cite a TikTok bomb-threat arrest in Texas and connect these incidents to Biden administration policies.
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Border security and terrorism risk
- They argue that an “open” southern border has allowed individuals on terror watch lists to enter the U.S., warning of sleeper cells and describing human trafficking and violent crime as predictable outcomes of lax enforcement.
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Critique of Democratic officials & protests
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AI: geopolitical race & domestic skepticism
- The senator argues the U.S. must “win” the AI race against China to ensure global AI reflects American values. They note polling shows public anxiety about AI (job loss, distrust), and discuss local resistance to data center construction, energy needs, and the prospect of white‑collar job displacement.
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Auto policy: CAFE standards and EV mandates
- Ben and the Senator praise actions attributed to “the President” (portrayed as Donald Trump) to rescind tailpipe emissions standards, zero out CAFE standards via a “one big beautiful bill,” and roll back EV mandates—arguing these moves lower car prices, improve safety (heavier/steel cars vs. “plastic”), and boost U.S. auto jobs. They reference planned Senate Commerce Committee hearings with major automakers and Tesla.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome in a Verdict with Ted Cruz. Weekend Review. Ben
Ferguson with you, and these are the stories you may
have missed that we talked about this week. First up,
a big story coming out of Washington, d C. National
guardsmen that were shot, one of them killed. And what
we now know is the media wanted to blame Donald
Trump for this. Well, they now have had a massive
(00:22):
backfire as we're learning that this was clearly lack of
vetting done and warnings that were there by the Biden
administration that they were letting people in this country that
could be a threat to all of us. I'll have
all those details for you in just a moment. We're
also joined by Scott Jennings, you know him from CNN.
He's talking about his new book and also AI and
(00:44):
what you need to know. It's really incredible and finally
a massive win for the President of United States of
America telling Americans, I want to get out of your car.
Cafe standards are now changing and going backwards. And what
does that mean? A car that you can buy is
going to be a lot lower priced. It's the Weekend
(01:06):
Review and it starts right now. The media is trying
to say that these National guardsmen that got shot, one
of them has died. As the time we are doing this,
it happened, they're trying to say because of Donald Trump
rewriting the history and the warnings going back to as
we just played there from September of twenty twenty one
on this exact thing happening in reality.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
At the same time, I wrote an op ed and
Fox News where I said, unfortunately, I believe we will
see American blood spilled because of these foolish mistakes. And
I went on to say, the truth is that the
Taliban doesn't want to be welcomed into the community of
civilized nations. They are vicious terrorists who want to kill us. Unfortunately,
because of the catastrophic mistakes the Biden administration made in Afghanistan,
(01:52):
we are much more at risk for deadly attacks by
the Taliban or Al Qaeda, which Pentagon officials estimate could
re group in Afghanistan in the next year or two.
It's a disgrace and the fault lies directly with President
Joe Biden and his administration. This was obvious at the time.
And look you heard on that clip in September twenty one.
(02:13):
I'm talking about seeing the Donaana tent facility. When I
showed up there, I was like, well, are there any
fences around it? No? Is there any bearer? They're like no, no, no,
this is not a prison facility. And it was a
one star general who was taking me around in the helicopter.
And I'm like, well, you know what happens. You're saying
anyone can leave. He's like, yeah, they're not detained. This
(02:35):
is just we're just offering them housing. Think of this
like an apartment complex. They can stay here if they want,
or if they want to go somewhere.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Else, they can go.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
They can go somewhere else. And I yeah, And I
asked the army, are y'all doing any vetting here? They
said no, no, no, the State Department does that Afghanistan, So
it's all done before they get there. So they got
ten thousand people there and who knows where they went.
They don't keep a record of them. They don't ask
where do you go? I mean, that's part of the
infuriating problem that the Biden administration invited into this country. Islamists,
(03:11):
terrorists who explicitly want to murder us. And by the way,
you know what is unbelievable is the shooting in d
C was one of two Afghans who were arrested this
week for threatening violence. Another one happened in Texas. Here's
(03:32):
one report from Breitbart. An Afghan national admitted to the
United States under President Biden's Operation Allies Welcome Resettlement program
was arrested this week after posting a TikTok video in
which he appeared to be building a bomb and referenced
Fort Worth as a target, according to the Department of
Homeland Security. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Triscia McLaughlin
(03:56):
reported the arrest of Mohammad da wood Alokose, saying he
allegedly posted a video on TikTok threatening to blow up
a building in Fort Worth, Texas with a bomb. The
Texas Department of Public Safety and the FBI Joint Terrorism
Task Force teamed up to make the arrest on charges
of making terroristic threats. This is happening, and by the way,
(04:18):
it continues to be. Alcase is an Afghan national who
was pardoned into the United States by the Biden administration.
His arrest came one day prior to the a vicious
attack on two West Virginia National Guard soldiers in Washington,
d C. By another Afghan national This pattern when you
let people in, you don't vet them, This violence and
(04:41):
this terrorism is predictable. And you had a combination of
a for four years, an open southern border, so any
Hamas or Hesblo or other terrorists could come in through
the southern border.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
You combine what we're witnessing now with what you just
mentioned center at the southern border. We knew for a
fact that people on the terrorists watch list were coming
across our southern border, the same border that when Texas
tried to secure it, the federal government said no, no, we're
gonna use fork lists to raise up the bob wire
to let more people. And we have that on video.
(05:11):
We talked about that on Verdict. They knew that people
were getting it on the terrorists watch list, people that
wanted to kill Americans. They knew there was a real
threat of sleeper cells in this country coming from multiple
places around the world, and there still is. Al Shabab
exactly still is. And you combine that with this, and
you sit there and you go basically they said, look,
(05:31):
we know people are gonna die, but we want an
open border. We know terifts are coming in, we know
they're on the watch list, we know we're catching some
of them. There's a lot of guidaways that we don't catch.
This is just the cost of doing business. There will
be human carbage of American citizens', abusive children, the rape
of children, the sex trafficking of children. There will be
murderers and all sorts of people in this country. We
(05:52):
know that it's worth it to flood America with illegal immigrants.
That was a calculated decision they made.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
It was and the two occurred simultaneously. So on the
one hand, they're opening the southern border and letting anyone
come in. But on the other hand, they're affirmatively flying
tens of thousands of Afghans. And by the way, we
don't have any firm numbers in terms of how many
they brought in. In terms of vetting, you know, you
don't have anyone from the Biden administration saying, oh, yeah,
(06:22):
we thoroughly vetted this guy before we brought him here,
because their view was there was nothing to vet. If
they're bringing a fifty year old dude with an eight
year old girl that he says is his wife, that
shows you how utterly incompetent the vetting is that they
just didn't care. Ideologically, they believed, well, their culture apparently
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it's okay to rape little girls, and so they certainly
were not asking engaging in the serious vetting. And it's difficult. Look,
one of the problems with vetting a place like Afghanistan
is there are limited records, and so that's not an
easy task in my view, unless you can conclusively determine
that this person is not a terror threat, we should
not be bringing him to America. And so but but
(07:06):
the Biden administration I don't believe was even trying to
vet them in any serious way. They were just bringing
in numbers because this was all about politics rather than
the substance of keeping America safe.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Right, sina, I want to go back to a little
over a year ago, and let's just remind people of
the Democratic Party and also how we got to the
point they we're at right now.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Well, this just shows the overlap we were talking about
before that Ideologically, today's Democrat Party refuses to acknowledge the
threat of radical Islamic terrorism, refuses to acknowledge radical Islam
and that it is fundamentally anti American and so in
April twenty four there were protesters in Dearborn, Michigan for
that and it was the International Al Kudds Day rally
(07:52):
where they began chanting death to America. And when that happened,
so so, Dearborn Michigan is in Rashida to Leed's district.
She is the member of Congress that represents Dearborn Michigan.
You have a rally in her district channing death to America.
And Fox News quite reasonably came and asked her if
she would condemn that. Uh, give a watch and give
(08:13):
a listen to how she responded, I love.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Their record, recD read not a great look.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
The mayor condemned it, the White House condemned it. But
what about Congresswoman Rashida to leave she reps Dearborn. Is
she okay with her constituents chanting death to America? Fox
Business correspondent Hillary Vaughan asked her, watch congressmenan.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
To Lee Fox News, I don't talk to Fox.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Newd At a rally in your district, people were chanting
death to America?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Do you condemn talk to Fox News?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Do you condemn chance of death to America?
Speaker 6 (08:55):
I don't talk to people that use racist troupes.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Why can't you just say whether or not you condemn
people chanting death to me?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Why are you afraid to talk to Fox.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
News is not not listen using racist tropes for us?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
My community is what Fox joos is about.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
And I don't talk to Fox News. It's death to America.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Racist news is chanting death to America.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Racist talking about your guys, racist tropes.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
You know you are.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
You guys know exactly what you do.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I know you're from a pole, but you guys gotta
go deal with it.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You're on your own self.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
You're not gonna use me.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
All right, Sinner. You go back to that, and it's
just one of those moments where the warning signs are there.
We tell you that these warning signs are there, and
then it happens, and I hate it that it happens,
but it's so predictable now, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
It reminds me when when Obama was president, John Carey
was Secretary of State. There was an editorial cartoon and
it had the Eyotolin Iran going death to America, and
it had John Carey saying, well, can we meet you halfway? Yeah,
that's the ideological incoherence. Look, when you walk down the
halls of Congress, and you've been there with me, ben
(10:10):
reporters stop you all the time. By the way, I
answer questions from Fox News, I answer questions from CNN,
I answer questions New York Times, I answer questions from
every lefty outlet, just walking along. Because if you know
what you believe, I gotta say, that's not a gotcha question.
It's not a difficult question. Do you support death to America?
If you are a member of the United States Congress,
(10:33):
the Congress of the United States of America, one would
think it ought to be easy to say, Yeah, of course,
death to America is wrong. I'm against that. That should
not be difficult for anyone. It speaks volumes that Rashida
Talib was unwilling to even condemn chance of death to
America in her own congressional district. That shows just how
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dangerous the ideological rod is. And tragically, we saw the
very real consequences of that ideological rod in letting unvetted
Afghan Afghan immigrants into this country, one of whom just
murdered one DC National guardsman and may have murdered a second.
We pray that he survives, but at this point our
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prayers are with him because we don't know if he's
going to survive the horrific attack.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
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.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
So on AI. AI is an issue I care about
a lot, and I agree with you that we are
in a race. AI is coming and either the United
States is gonna win or China's going to win. And
I think the world is much much worse off if
China wins, and it's much better off of America wins.
I will tell you the polling on AI is terrible.
AI is unpopular in America. If you do almost any
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polling ideas, it's about seventy thirty. People are terrified. They're
afraid they're going to lose their jobs. They don't trust it,
they're scared of it. And I get that, and in fact,
I talk with a lot of the tech leaders and
I say, look, if you don't engage on this issue,
the easy political outcome. Every Democrat and a number of
Republicans are like, AI is horrible. We oppose it. And
(12:14):
that if you look at the polling, that's the knee
jerk response. I get that fear. I understand anytime you
have economic dislocation, it is frightening, it is dangerous. But
at the end of the day, I'm not a lot.
I don't think you can stop technological advancement. I'll give
(12:35):
you an example. If I could right now destroy every
cell phone in America, I would. I think these are
evil portals to everything harmful in the world. All three
of us are parents. These things invite every horrible force
to our children. But we don't live in that world.
We can't end that. I'd also like a world with
(12:55):
no nuclear weapons, Like if I could push a button
and every nuclear weapon disappear, I would, But we don't
live in that world. And if we're going to live
in a world with nuclear weapons, I sure a sec
want to make sure the United States has enough that
China and Russia and our enemies can't dominate US. I
view AI in the same world. Even if you don't
want it to happen, it is coming, and one of
two outcomes will occur in five to ten years. Either
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China will have won the race, in which case AI
worldwide will reflect China's values, will be totalitarian, We'll be controlling,
we'll be censoring, will reflect the values of communists. China
or America will have won, in which case, hopefully AI
will reflect American values of freedom, free enterprise, free speech.
That is a massive shift between those two worlds. World
(13:41):
two is much better where America wins. Two questions, Number one,
do you agree with that? And number two? If so,
how does the politics change? Do you agree with my
point that right now the politics is against AI and
that is dangerous?
Speaker 6 (14:00):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
I agree.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
First of all, in point one, I agree with everything
you said about which world we want to live in.
Number two, I agree with you on the polling, and
I think people have a healthier fear of how this
is going to upend their life and reasonable and which
is a reasonable fear? And so the next iteration of
this march towards AI is going to have to be
not how it's going to make your life worse? How's
it going to make your life better? How is any
(14:24):
other technological evolution ultimately made your life better? And so
that explanation has to come, And then point four is
just going to be how are we going to power
it all? And you know, are we going to be
able to produce enough energy to do what we have
to do now?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Plus what we have.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
To do AI is energy, And if we don't unleash energy,
we cannot win the race.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Frae. I. One other issue on this that is on
my mind is how are we going to build enough
of these data centers to win this thing. I'm noticing
in local communities in a lot of places, folks are
like rising up against data center development.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
So the polling is terrible in most communities. But I
will say, by the way, one of the few except
options is sort of West Texas. You've got West Texas
in the Panhandle, and you're seeing a ton of data
centers come in there, and and Texans are like, all right,
we want jobs, we want investment, we want billions in investment.
And there'll be jobs for construction, they'll be jobs for
running the data centers. Look, I think in dense urban areas,
(15:16):
people are afraid. They're afraid it will suck power, it
will drive up their electricity prices, it will suck water.
And I get those fears. Look, anyone, if you're given
a choice, do you want something that will make your
life worse or better. People are naturally going to say,
I don't want something that makes my life worse, and so.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I think I'm a guy by the way, Centata. I
had a guy the other day that said to me,
in the AI industry, he said, the hardest part for
them now is overcoming what you're describing, because he said
they're polling that internally, says that the fear and a
lot of parts of the country right now are at
the level of where they were with nuclear reactors back
in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yes, interesting now, and there's been a lot of demagoguery,
and but there's also the demagoguery is there, But I
will say the fears of AI are real and justified
and all right, Look, with every great technological change, there's
been economic dislocation. So when the automobile was invented, the
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horse and buggy industry was decimated, and if you were
in the buggy business, you were screwed. The difference with
AI is twofold. Number One, the volume is greater. I
think there are going to be more jobs that are
going to be threatened by AI than have been in
previous technological innovations. Number Two, it's a different contour of jobs.
(16:40):
So often in the past it's been blue collar jobs
that have been at risk. Many of the jobs that
are at risk with AI are white collar jobs. There
if you look at Mandami, part of what elected Mandami
is you have young college graduates who have two hundred
thousand dollars in college debt, who we're told I can
(17:01):
go and be an investment banker or a consultant or
an accountant, and they're seeing those jobs being eliminated as
AI is replacing thousands and thousands of those jobs. That's
a level of I guess I would call elite discontent
that is politically complicated and so and I get those
(17:25):
concerns are very real. If you've gone and worked hard
and you've got a degree and you took out loans
and you were told this is what I got to do,
and then suddenly you come out and you can't get
a job, you're pissed like that's a very real concern.
And so I actually think as policy makers, as people
in an elected office, we need to have real solutions
(17:45):
to that problem because that content is not illegitimate, but
it is driving much of this resistance and it's.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
A very real battle we've got well and you have
now for you know, many years, people teaching their children,
here's the course you got to get on you well
in school, go to college, you can get one of
these white collar jobs. And you know, for you know,
a few generations we've been telling people this is the path.
It may not be the path anymore. We're going to
have to reorient how we're educating kids, what we're teaching
(18:17):
them to do, What other skills can we teach them
to do. I agree with you on the white collar
versus blue collar issue. Also creatives, I mean I've sneaked out.
I've seen AI apps and a matter of seconds write
songs that sounded like they had a whole team of
musicians and writers over weeks putting them together in California.
And it literally happened on my phone in a matter
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of seconds.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
By the way, I'll tell you, in politics, it's interesting.
I'll pull up AI and I'll ask something like, what
has Cruz said on the following issue? And listen, I've
been doing this a long time, so I don't remember
every comment I've given in every newspaper interview ten years ago,
and in like four seconds it comes out with he
said this here, he said this here, and it like traces,
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and it's like.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
It's insane.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
It is insane. The ability of power you have on
your cell phone.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Oh yeah, I mean, and it's basically free. I mean
information for the first time in human history is basically
accessible to all and free to all and instant. And yeah,
I can see why the pulling on this is bad. Now,
the positive outlook here is how can we use these
tools to make your life easier, make you more productive,
(19:27):
and maybe make you more economically successful. Maybe you haven't
conceived of how that will work yet, but that's the
challenge of these companies that are developing the technology.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
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
Center on Wednesday. You were at the White House for
a really cool moment, and that was President Trump saying
(19:55):
I want government to get out of your way and
stop making things to expense for you, specifically cars, having
a reset of cafe standards that were out of control.
That is going to lower the costs of cars for
many Americans. We're also getting rid of the obsession with
a mandate for ev vehicles, which the Democrats were hell
bent on, and this is going to again make cars
(20:17):
more affordable for Americans. Everyone should be excited about that.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Well, that's exactly right. After spending Monday at the White
House with the President while he was signing my legislation
tripling the monthly stipend for Medal of Honor recipients. After
spending Tuesday at the White House with the President, Michael
and Susan Dell giving six and a quarter billion dollars
to the Kids of America for Trump accounts, on Wednesday,
I joined the President again, this time with the CEOs
(20:43):
of the major auto companies in the United States, as
the President was implementing legislation and provision again that I
wrote zeroing out the Cafe standards. The Cafe standards were
the federal mileage requirements that the Biden administration used to
jack them up so high that at number one made
(21:03):
cars much much more expensive, but number two was part
of their effort to eliminate the internal combustion engine to
force everyone to buy an electric car, whether they wanted
or not. And as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill,
we zeroed that out entirely. I wrote that provision, and
on Wednesday, the President was implementing it. Here I want
(21:24):
you to give a listen to the President describing the
historic steps he took on Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
From day one, I've been taking action to make buying
a car more affordable. I signed an executive order to
end the unfair expensive electric vehicle mandate. As you know,
we had to have an electric car within a very
short period of time, even though there was no way
of charging them, and lots of other things. Would of
course five trillion dollars to build the charging plants, and
(21:51):
as you know, in certain parts of the Midwest they
spent to build nine chargers. They spent eight billion dollars.
So that wasn't working out too well. That was done
before me. By the way, I wouldn't have let it
go forward. We're canceling the EPA is observed tailpipe permission standards.
One of the most important things that I've never had
(22:11):
a group of people come to me more more powerfully
and really just devastated that they had to do it.
It was killing them then the automobile manufactures the tailpipe
permission standards. And I can tell you your people at
Ford were coming to me all the time and they
were saying, like, please, it doesn't do anything, and it's
(22:34):
killing us, and it's driving the course through the roof.
And we revoke Biden's emissions waiver for California so that
California communists could not regulate the automobile industry and ruin
the entire nation of automobiles. And they were doing that too,
but we have that now under control, also with your governor,
(22:55):
who's got much more than he can control. Now, under
the new rules being issued today by Secretary Duffy, the
Department of Transportation will rescind the Biden fuel economy prices.
And I hate to say that, because they were really
not economy. They were really they were anti economy. They
were horrible what they were doing to the costs and
(23:18):
actually making the car much worse. But these policies forced
automakers to build cars using expensive technologies that drove up costs,
drove up prices, and made the car much worse. The
action is expected to save the typical consumer at least
one thousand dollars off the price of a new car,
and we think substantially more than that.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Senator, you hear him talk about this. This is exactly
what I think so many Americans voted for. It's government
actually not mandating things. It's government getting out of the
way of insane regulations to make your life easier. Just
give me a little bit of my freedom back. Let
the private sector do what the private sector does. Yo
(24:00):
putting all this government agenda on top of me, and
let me do what I want to do. If I
want to buy an Eva, I'll buy an EV. But
don't force me to do something. And don't make these
standards so insane that you raise the cary that the
costs of cars a point where I can't even afford anyone.
It's your choice.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
It should be your choice. If you decide you want
to go buy a Tesla, Tesla's are amazing automobiles, you
can go do that. But if you decide you want
to drive your F one fifty, that ought to be
your choice too. And this legislation and what the President
did this week benefited consumers. Lowered prices made cars and
trucks a lot cheaper. It also made them safer. It
(24:36):
saved lives. It also helped produce jobs. Thousands and thousands
of jobs. Is billions of dollars of being invested by
car manufacturers in the United States. We're bringing blue collar
jobs back to America. Ben, Here's how. Here's how I
explained that in the Oval Office, standing next to the President.
Give a listen.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Anybody else want to say a few words?
Speaker 5 (24:57):
Oh? Did I did? I?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Generally I'm easy to miss. Well, miss President. I want
to congratulate you on behalf everyone here for the leadership
that you're showing.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
And this is a.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Victory today for consumers. This is a victory for affordability.
Your critics like to say the word affordability. Under Joe Biden,
the Democrats, they put mandate after mandate after mandate on
cars and trucks, and they drove the price up thousands
and thousands of dollars. And with the actions you're taking today,
and you put on top of that the one big
beautiful bill. You know, most of the senators here on
(25:33):
the Senate Commerce Committee and on the Commerce Committee, we
worked together to zero out the Cafe standards. We wrote
that into the law, that the Cafe standards went to zero.
What does that mean? It means you can now, as
a consumer, buy the car you want. It also means
people's lives will be safer because what these regulations did
is they forced cars to be more expensive and made
(25:55):
a plastic instead of steel because you had to make
them lighter to comply with these standards. Getting a wreck
and people would die. The results of what you're doing,
you're literally saving people's lives and you're making it where
families can afford to get a new car. These actions
will drop the cost of cars and trucks thousands of dollars.
That's makes a real difference. And I'll make one final point.
(26:16):
You know about half the members here are car dealers,
and I will say, my good friend Roger Williams out
in the lobby, he tried to sell me a car,
which didn't surprise me. But I just just want to
give props to Mike Kelly. He showed he was savvyer
because he tried to sell you a car. And you
can aford a lot of nicer cars than I can.
So well done, Mike, Roger, you just went to the
wrong customer.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I was one hundred dollars chief.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
The thing that tends you said, It's true plastic instead
of steal thinking of that, and people died because of that.
The plastic was plastic in an auto accident that it
broke up and people were shattered because of that crazy deal.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
But it's a really good point.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
God and vis President, I'll tell you the setate commerce
could On January fourteenth, we're going to have a hearing
with all of the big three there in Tesla, and
the entire hearing is going to focus on how your
leadership has reduced the burdens on car makers. That's lowering costs,
that's getting consumers more choices, and it's producing more jobs
in America and it's highlighted. That's a real record of success.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Not only is it a record of success, but as
you mentioned there and highlighted and the President agreed with you,
it's an issue of safety.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Senator Yeah, yeah, No, I mean it's these cafe standards
were making cars much much more dangerous. And we'll never
know who, but there are people who will live now
because of this change because they'll be able to be
in safer cars. Some of it is they may be
able to afford a new car now because as this
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drives down the price of new cars and new trucks.
They may sell their old used car and buy a
new car because it makes it more affordable. New cars
typically have more safety features and enhance their safety. But second,
if you're not having to make these cars and remove
all the steel, you're much more likely to survive an
accident if you're in a car that has some weight,
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has some steel, and doesn't just crumple up like a
beer can.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
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Welcome in a Verdict with Ted Cruz. Weekend Review. Ben
Ferguson with you, and these are the stories you may
have missed that we talked about this week. First up,
a big story coming out of Washington, d C. National
guardsmen that were shot, one of them killed. And what
we now know is the media wanted to blame Donald
Trump for this. Well, they now have had a massive
(00:22):
backfire as we're learning that this was clearly lack of
vetting done and warnings that were there by the Biden
administration that they were letting people in this country that
could be a threat to all of us. I'll have
all those details for you in just a moment. We're
also joined by Scott Jennings, you know him from CNN.
He's talking about his new book and also AI and
(00:44):
what you need to know. It's really incredible and finally
a massive win for the President of United States of
America telling Americans, I want to get out of your car.
Cafe standards are now changing and going backwards. And what
does that mean? A car that you can buy is
going to be a lot lower priced. It's the Weekend
(01:06):
Review and it starts right now. The media is trying
to say that these National guardsmen that got shot, one
of them has died. As the time we are doing this,
it happened, they're trying to say because of Donald Trump
rewriting the history and the warnings going back to as
we just played there from September of twenty twenty one
on this exact thing happening in reality.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
At the same time, I wrote an op ed and
Fox News where I said, unfortunately, I believe we will
see American blood spilled because of these foolish mistakes. And
I went on to say, the truth is that the
Taliban doesn't want to be welcomed into the community of
civilized nations. They are vicious terrorists who want to kill us. Unfortunately,
because of the catastrophic mistakes the Biden administration made in Afghanistan,
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we are much more at risk for deadly attacks by
the Taliban or Al Qaeda, which Pentagon officials estimate could
re group in Afghanistan in the next year or two.
It's a disgrace and the fault lies directly with President
Joe Biden and his administration. This was obvious at the time.
And look you heard on that clip in September twenty one.
(02:13):
I'm talking about seeing the Donaana tent facility. When I
showed up there, I was like, well, are there any
fences around it? No? Is there any bearer? They're like no, no, no,
this is not a prison facility. And it was a
one star general who was taking me around in the helicopter.
And I'm like, well, you know what happens. You're saying
anyone can leave. He's like, yeah, they're not detained. This
(02:35):
is just we're just offering them housing. Think of this
like an apartment complex. They can stay here if they want,
or if they want to go somewhere.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Else, they can go.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
They can go somewhere else. And I yeah, And I
asked the army, are y'all doing any vetting here? They
said no, no, no, the State Department does that Afghanistan, So
it's all done before they get there. So they got
ten thousand people there and who knows where they went.
They don't keep a record of them. They don't ask
where do you go? I mean, that's part of the
infuriating problem that the Biden administration invited into this country. Islamists,
(03:11):
terrorists who explicitly want to murder us. And by the way,
you know what is unbelievable is the shooting in d
C was one of two Afghans who were arrested this
week for threatening violence. Another one happened in Texas. Here's
(03:32):
one report from Breitbart. An Afghan national admitted to the
United States under President Biden's Operation Allies Welcome Resettlement program
was arrested this week after posting a TikTok video in
which he appeared to be building a bomb and referenced
Fort Worth as a target, according to the Department of
Homeland Security. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Triscia McLaughlin
(03:56):
reported the arrest of Mohammad da wood Alokose, saying he
allegedly posted a video on TikTok threatening to blow up
a building in Fort Worth, Texas with a bomb. The
Texas Department of Public Safety and the FBI Joint Terrorism
Task Force teamed up to make the arrest on charges
of making terroristic threats. This is happening, and by the way,
(04:18):
it continues to be. Alcase is an Afghan national who
was pardoned into the United States by the Biden administration.
His arrest came one day prior to the a vicious
attack on two West Virginia National Guard soldiers in Washington,
d C. By another Afghan national This pattern when you
let people in, you don't vet them, This violence and
(04:41):
this terrorism is predictable. And you had a combination of
a for four years, an open southern border, so any
Hamas or Hesblo or other terrorists could come in through
the southern border.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
You combine what we're witnessing now with what you just
mentioned center at the southern border. We knew for a
fact that people on the terrorists watch list were coming
across our southern border, the same border that when Texas
tried to secure it, the federal government said no, no, we're
gonna use fork lists to raise up the bob wire
to let more people. And we have that on video.
(05:11):
We talked about that on Verdict. They knew that people
were getting it on the terrorists watch list, people that
wanted to kill Americans. They knew there was a real
threat of sleeper cells in this country coming from multiple
places around the world, and there still is. Al Shabab
exactly still is. And you combine that with this, and
you sit there and you go basically they said, look,
(05:31):
we know people are gonna die, but we want an
open border. We know terifts are coming in, we know
they're on the watch list, we know we're catching some
of them. There's a lot of guidaways that we don't catch.
This is just the cost of doing business. There will
be human carbage of American citizens', abusive children, the rape
of children, the sex trafficking of children. There will be
murderers and all sorts of people in this country. We
(05:52):
know that it's worth it to flood America with illegal immigrants.
That was a calculated decision they made.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
It was and the two occurred simultaneously. So on the
one hand, they're opening the southern border and letting anyone
come in. But on the other hand, they're affirmatively flying
tens of thousands of Afghans. And by the way, we
don't have any firm numbers in terms of how many
they brought in. In terms of vetting, you know, you
don't have anyone from the Biden administration saying, oh, yeah,
(06:22):
we thoroughly vetted this guy before we brought him here,
because their view was there was nothing to vet. If
they're bringing a fifty year old dude with an eight
year old girl that he says is his wife, that
shows you how utterly incompetent the vetting is that they
just didn't care. Ideologically, they believed, well, their culture apparently
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it's okay to rape little girls, and so they certainly
were not asking engaging in the serious vetting. And it's difficult. Look,
one of the problems with vetting a place like Afghanistan
is there are limited records, and so that's not an
easy task in my view, unless you can conclusively determine
that this person is not a terror threat, we should
not be bringing him to America. And so but but
(07:06):
the Biden administration I don't believe was even trying to
vet them in any serious way. They were just bringing
in numbers because this was all about politics rather than
the substance of keeping America safe.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Right, sina, I want to go back to a little
over a year ago, and let's just remind people of
the Democratic Party and also how we got to the
point they we're at right now.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Well, this just shows the overlap we were talking about
before that Ideologically, today's Democrat Party refuses to acknowledge the
threat of radical Islamic terrorism, refuses to acknowledge radical Islam
and that it is fundamentally anti American and so in
April twenty four there were protesters in Dearborn, Michigan for
that and it was the International Al Kudds Day rally
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where they began chanting death to America. And when that happened,
so so, Dearborn Michigan is in Rashida to Leed's district.
She is the member of Congress that represents Dearborn Michigan.
You have a rally in her district channing death to America.
And Fox News quite reasonably came and asked her if
she would condemn that. Uh, give a watch and give
(08:13):
a listen to how she responded, I love.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Their record, recD read not a great look.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
The mayor condemned it, the White House condemned it. But
what about Congresswoman Rashida to leave she reps Dearborn. Is
she okay with her constituents chanting death to America? Fox
Business correspondent Hillary Vaughan asked her, watch congressmenan.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
To Lee Fox News, I don't talk to Fox.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Newd At a rally in your district, people were chanting
death to America?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Do you condemn talk to Fox News?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Do you condemn chance of death to America?
Speaker 6 (08:55):
I don't talk to people that use racist troupes.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Why can't you just say whether or not you condemn
people chanting death to me?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Why are you afraid to talk to Fox.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
News is not not listen using racist tropes for us?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
My community is what Fox joos is about.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
And I don't talk to Fox News. It's death to America.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Racist news is chanting death to America.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Racist talking about your guys, racist tropes.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
You know you are.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
You guys know exactly what you do.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I know you're from a pole, but you guys gotta
go deal with it.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You're on your own self.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
You're not gonna use me.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
All right, Sinner. You go back to that, and it's
just one of those moments where the warning signs are there.
We tell you that these warning signs are there, and
then it happens, and I hate it that it happens,
but it's so predictable now, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
It reminds me when when Obama was president, John Carey
was Secretary of State. There was an editorial cartoon and
it had the Eyotolin Iran going death to America, and
it had John Carey saying, well, can we meet you halfway? Yeah,
that's the ideological incoherence. Look, when you walk down the
halls of Congress, and you've been there with me, ben
(10:10):
reporters stop you all the time. By the way, I
answer questions from Fox News, I answer questions from CNN,
I answer questions New York Times, I answer questions from
every lefty outlet, just walking along. Because if you know
what you believe, I gotta say, that's not a gotcha question.
It's not a difficult question. Do you support death to America?
If you are a member of the United States Congress,
(10:33):
the Congress of the United States of America, one would
think it ought to be easy to say, Yeah, of course,
death to America is wrong. I'm against that. That should
not be difficult for anyone. It speaks volumes that Rashida
Talib was unwilling to even condemn chance of death to
America in her own congressional district. That shows just how
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dangerous the ideological rod is. And tragically, we saw the
very real consequences of that ideological rod in letting unvetted
Afghan Afghan immigrants into this country, one of whom just
murdered one DC National guardsman and may have murdered a second.
We pray that he survives, but at this point our
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prayers are with him because we don't know if he's
going to survive the horrific attack.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
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.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
So on AI. AI is an issue I care about
a lot, and I agree with you that we are
in a race. AI is coming and either the United
States is gonna win or China's going to win. And
I think the world is much much worse off if
China wins, and it's much better off of America wins.
I will tell you the polling on AI is terrible.
AI is unpopular in America. If you do almost any
(11:52):
polling ideas, it's about seventy thirty. People are terrified. They're
afraid they're going to lose their jobs. They don't trust it,
they're scared of it. And I get that, and in fact,
I talk with a lot of the tech leaders and
I say, look, if you don't engage on this issue,
the easy political outcome. Every Democrat and a number of
Republicans are like, AI is horrible. We oppose it. And
(12:14):
that if you look at the polling, that's the knee
jerk response. I get that fear. I understand anytime you
have economic dislocation, it is frightening, it is dangerous. But
at the end of the day, I'm not a lot.
I don't think you can stop technological advancement. I'll give
(12:35):
you an example. If I could right now destroy every
cell phone in America, I would. I think these are
evil portals to everything harmful in the world. All three
of us are parents. These things invite every horrible force
to our children. But we don't live in that world.
We can't end that. I'd also like a world with
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no nuclear weapons, Like if I could push a button
and every nuclear weapon disappear, I would, But we don't
live in that world. And if we're going to live
in a world with nuclear weapons, I sure a sec
want to make sure the United States has enough that
China and Russia and our enemies can't dominate US. I
view AI in the same world. Even if you don't
want it to happen, it is coming, and one of
two outcomes will occur in five to ten years. Either
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China will have won the race, in which case AI
worldwide will reflect China's values, will be totalitarian, We'll be controlling,
we'll be censoring, will reflect the values of communists. China
or America will have won, in which case, hopefully AI
will reflect American values of freedom, free enterprise, free speech.
That is a massive shift between those two worlds. World
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two is much better where America wins. Two questions, Number one,
do you agree with that? And number two? If so,
how does the politics change? Do you agree with my
point that right now the politics is against AI and
that is dangerous?
Speaker 6 (14:00):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
I agree.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
First of all, in point one, I agree with everything
you said about which world we want to live in.
Number two, I agree with you on the polling, and
I think people have a healthier fear of how this
is going to upend their life and reasonable and which
is a reasonable fear? And so the next iteration of
this march towards AI is going to have to be
not how it's going to make your life worse? How's
it going to make your life better? How is any
(14:24):
other technological evolution ultimately made your life better? And so
that explanation has to come, And then point four is
just going to be how are we going to power
it all? And you know, are we going to be
able to produce enough energy to do what we have
to do now?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Plus what we have.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
To do AI is energy, And if we don't unleash energy,
we cannot win the race.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Frae. I. One other issue on this that is on
my mind is how are we going to build enough
of these data centers to win this thing. I'm noticing
in local communities in a lot of places, folks are
like rising up against data center development.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
So the polling is terrible in most communities. But I
will say, by the way, one of the few except
options is sort of West Texas. You've got West Texas
in the Panhandle, and you're seeing a ton of data
centers come in there, and and Texans are like, all right,
we want jobs, we want investment, we want billions in investment.
And there'll be jobs for construction, they'll be jobs for
running the data centers. Look, I think in dense urban areas,
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people are afraid. They're afraid it will suck power, it
will drive up their electricity prices, it will suck water.
And I get those fears. Look, anyone, if you're given
a choice, do you want something that will make your
life worse or better. People are naturally going to say,
I don't want something that makes my life worse, and so.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I think I'm a guy by the way, Centata. I
had a guy the other day that said to me,
in the AI industry, he said, the hardest part for
them now is overcoming what you're describing, because he said
they're polling that internally, says that the fear and a
lot of parts of the country right now are at
the level of where they were with nuclear reactors back
in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yes, interesting now, and there's been a lot of demagoguery,
and but there's also the demagoguery is there, But I
will say the fears of AI are real and justified
and all right, Look, with every great technological change, there's
been economic dislocation. So when the automobile was invented, the
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horse and buggy industry was decimated, and if you were
in the buggy business, you were screwed. The difference with
AI is twofold. Number One, the volume is greater. I
think there are going to be more jobs that are
going to be threatened by AI than have been in
previous technological innovations. Number Two, it's a different contour of jobs.
(16:40):
So often in the past it's been blue collar jobs
that have been at risk. Many of the jobs that
are at risk with AI are white collar jobs. There
if you look at Mandami, part of what elected Mandami
is you have young college graduates who have two hundred
thousand dollars in college debt, who we're told I can
(17:01):
go and be an investment banker or a consultant or
an accountant, and they're seeing those jobs being eliminated as
AI is replacing thousands and thousands of those jobs. That's
a level of I guess I would call elite discontent
that is politically complicated and so and I get those
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concerns are very real. If you've gone and worked hard
and you've got a degree and you took out loans
and you were told this is what I got to do,
and then suddenly you come out and you can't get
a job, you're pissed like that's a very real concern.
And so I actually think as policy makers, as people
in an elected office, we need to have real solutions
(17:45):
to that problem because that content is not illegitimate, but
it is driving much of this resistance and it's.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
A very real battle we've got well and you have
now for you know, many years, people teaching their children,
here's the course you got to get on you well
in school, go to college, you can get one of
these white collar jobs. And you know, for you know,
a few generations we've been telling people this is the path.
It may not be the path anymore. We're going to
have to reorient how we're educating kids, what we're teaching
(18:17):
them to do, What other skills can we teach them
to do. I agree with you on the white collar
versus blue collar issue. Also creatives, I mean I've sneaked out.
I've seen AI apps and a matter of seconds write
songs that sounded like they had a whole team of
musicians and writers over weeks putting them together in California.
And it literally happened on my phone in a matter
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of seconds.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
By the way, I'll tell you, in politics, it's interesting.
I'll pull up AI and I'll ask something like, what
has Cruz said on the following issue? And listen, I've
been doing this a long time, so I don't remember
every comment I've given in every newspaper interview ten years ago,
and in like four seconds it comes out with he
said this here, he said this here, and it like traces,
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and it's like.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
It's insane.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
It is insane. The ability of power you have on
your cell phone.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Oh yeah, I mean, and it's basically free. I mean
information for the first time in human history is basically
accessible to all and free to all and instant. And yeah,
I can see why the pulling on this is bad. Now,
the positive outlook here is how can we use these
tools to make your life easier, make you more productive,
(19:27):
and maybe make you more economically successful. Maybe you haven't
conceived of how that will work yet, but that's the
challenge of these companies that are developing the technology.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
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
Center on Wednesday. You were at the White House for
a really cool moment, and that was President Trump saying
(19:55):
I want government to get out of your way and
stop making things to expense for you, specifically cars, having
a reset of cafe standards that were out of control.
That is going to lower the costs of cars for
many Americans. We're also getting rid of the obsession with
a mandate for ev vehicles, which the Democrats were hell
bent on, and this is going to again make cars
(20:17):
more affordable for Americans. Everyone should be excited about that.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Well, that's exactly right. After spending Monday at the White
House with the President while he was signing my legislation
tripling the monthly stipend for Medal of Honor recipients. After
spending Tuesday at the White House with the President, Michael
and Susan Dell giving six and a quarter billion dollars
to the Kids of America for Trump accounts, on Wednesday,
I joined the President again, this time with the CEOs
(20:43):
of the major auto companies in the United States, as
the President was implementing legislation and provision again that I
wrote zeroing out the Cafe standards. The Cafe standards were
the federal mileage requirements that the Biden administration used to
jack them up so high that at number one made
(21:03):
cars much much more expensive, but number two was part
of their effort to eliminate the internal combustion engine to
force everyone to buy an electric car, whether they wanted
or not. And as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill,
we zeroed that out entirely. I wrote that provision, and
on Wednesday, the President was implementing it. Here I want
(21:24):
you to give a listen to the President describing the
historic steps he took on Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
From day one, I've been taking action to make buying
a car more affordable. I signed an executive order to
end the unfair expensive electric vehicle mandate. As you know,
we had to have an electric car within a very
short period of time, even though there was no way
of charging them, and lots of other things. Would of
course five trillion dollars to build the charging plants, and
(21:51):
as you know, in certain parts of the Midwest they
spent to build nine chargers. They spent eight billion dollars.
So that wasn't working out too well. That was done
before me. By the way, I wouldn't have let it
go forward. We're canceling the EPA is observed tailpipe permission standards.
One of the most important things that I've never had
(22:11):
a group of people come to me more more powerfully
and really just devastated that they had to do it.
It was killing them then the automobile manufactures the tailpipe
permission standards. And I can tell you your people at
Ford were coming to me all the time and they
were saying, like, please, it doesn't do anything, and it's
(22:34):
killing us, and it's driving the course through the roof.
And we revoke Biden's emissions waiver for California so that
California communists could not regulate the automobile industry and ruin
the entire nation of automobiles. And they were doing that too,
but we have that now under control, also with your governor,
(22:55):
who's got much more than he can control. Now, under
the new rules being issued today by Secretary Duffy, the
Department of Transportation will rescind the Biden fuel economy prices.
And I hate to say that, because they were really
not economy. They were really they were anti economy. They
were horrible what they were doing to the costs and
(23:18):
actually making the car much worse. But these policies forced
automakers to build cars using expensive technologies that drove up costs,
drove up prices, and made the car much worse. The
action is expected to save the typical consumer at least
one thousand dollars off the price of a new car,
and we think substantially more than that.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Senator, you hear him talk about this. This is exactly
what I think so many Americans voted for. It's government
actually not mandating things. It's government getting out of the
way of insane regulations to make your life easier. Just
give me a little bit of my freedom back. Let
the private sector do what the private sector does. Yo
(24:00):
putting all this government agenda on top of me, and
let me do what I want to do. If I
want to buy an Eva, I'll buy an EV. But
don't force me to do something. And don't make these
standards so insane that you raise the cary that the
costs of cars a point where I can't even afford anyone.
It's your choice.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
It should be your choice. If you decide you want
to go buy a Tesla, Tesla's are amazing automobiles, you
can go do that. But if you decide you want
to drive your F one fifty, that ought to be
your choice too. And this legislation and what the President
did this week benefited consumers. Lowered prices made cars and
trucks a lot cheaper. It also made them safer. It
(24:36):
saved lives. It also helped produce jobs. Thousands and thousands
of jobs. Is billions of dollars of being invested by
car manufacturers in the United States. We're bringing blue collar
jobs back to America. Ben, Here's how. Here's how I
explained that in the Oval Office, standing next to the President.
Give a listen.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Anybody else want to say a few words?
Speaker 5 (24:57):
Oh? Did I did? I?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Generally I'm easy to miss. Well, miss President. I want
to congratulate you on behalf everyone here for the leadership
that you're showing.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
And this is a.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Victory today for consumers. This is a victory for affordability.
Your critics like to say the word affordability. Under Joe Biden,
the Democrats, they put mandate after mandate after mandate on
cars and trucks, and they drove the price up thousands
and thousands of dollars. And with the actions you're taking today,
and you put on top of that the one big
beautiful bill. You know, most of the senators here on
(25:33):
the Senate Commerce Committee and on the Commerce Committee, we
worked together to zero out the Cafe standards. We wrote
that into the law, that the Cafe standards went to zero.
What does that mean? It means you can now, as
a consumer, buy the car you want. It also means
people's lives will be safer because what these regulations did
is they forced cars to be more expensive and made
(25:55):
a plastic instead of steel because you had to make
them lighter to comply with these standards. Getting a wreck
and people would die. The results of what you're doing,
you're literally saving people's lives and you're making it where
families can afford to get a new car. These actions
will drop the cost of cars and trucks thousands of dollars.
That's makes a real difference. And I'll make one final point.
(26:16):
You know about half the members here are car dealers,
and I will say, my good friend Roger Williams out
in the lobby, he tried to sell me a car,
which didn't surprise me. But I just just want to
give props to Mike Kelly. He showed he was savvyer
because he tried to sell you a car. And you
can aford a lot of nicer cars than I can.
So well done, Mike, Roger, you just went to the
wrong customer.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I was one hundred dollars chief.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
The thing that tends you said, It's true plastic instead
of steal thinking of that, and people died because of that.
The plastic was plastic in an auto accident that it
broke up and people were shattered because of that crazy deal.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
But it's a really good point.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
God and vis President, I'll tell you the setate commerce
could On January fourteenth, we're going to have a hearing
with all of the big three there in Tesla, and
the entire hearing is going to focus on how your
leadership has reduced the burdens on car makers. That's lowering costs,
that's getting consumers more choices, and it's producing more jobs
in America and it's highlighted. That's a real record of success.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Not only is it a record of success, but as
you mentioned there and highlighted and the President agreed with you,
it's an issue of safety.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Senator Yeah, yeah, No, I mean it's these cafe standards
were making cars much much more dangerous. And we'll never
know who, but there are people who will live now
because of this change because they'll be able to be
in safer cars. Some of it is they may be
able to afford a new car now because as this
(27:46):
drives down the price of new cars and new trucks.
They may sell their old used car and buy a
new car because it makes it more affordable. New cars
typically have more safety features and enhance their safety. But second,
if you're not having to make these cars and remove
all the steel, you're much more likely to survive an
accident if you're in a car that has some weight,
(28:07):
has some steel, and doesn't just crumple up like a
beer can.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with center
Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you don't forget to deal
with my podcast and you can listen to my podcast
every other day you're not listening to Verdict or each
day when you listen to Verdict. Afterwards, I'd love to
have you as a listener to again the Ben Ferguson
podcasts and we will see you back here on Monday morning,
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