March 9, 2025 • 33 mins
This episode recaps President Trump's State of the Union address and the reactions from both Republicans and Democrats.
1. Positive Reception of Trump's Speech:
- Senator Cruz and Ben Ferguson praise President Trump's address, calling it triumphant, positive, and forward-looking.
- They highlight Trump's emphasis on promises made and kept, and the victories achieved during his presidency.
2. Criticism of Democrats' Behavior:
- The hosts criticize the Democrats for their behavior during the address, describing it as disrespectful, defiant, and delusional.
- They note that Democrats did not stand or applaud for various positive moments and achievements mentioned in the speech.
3. Emotional and Significant Moments:
- The podcast highlights several emotional moments from the address, such as the recognition of a 13-year-old cancer survivor and the admission of a young man to West Point.
- The hosts express frustration that Democrats did not stand for these moments.
4. Discussion of Specific Policies and Achievements:
- The episode covers various policies and achievements mentioned in Trump's speech, including tax cuts, border security, and support for the military.
- The hosts discuss the importance of these policies and criticize Democrats for not supporting them.
5. Reactions to Interruptions and Protests:
- The podcast addresses interruptions and protests by Democrats during the speech, including an incident involving Congressman Al Green.
- The hosts express disbelief at the behavior and discuss the potential consequences.
6. Conclusion and Reflections:
- The hosts reflect on the overall impact of the State of the Union address and its reception by the American people.
- They express optimism about the future and the continued success of President Trump's policies.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I love it when we get to have a joint
address to Congress, to stay of the Union and Senator
Cruse and I get to do a combined podcast. Welcome
it is Verdict with Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you,
and for my audience, you're gonna hear the same show
on the Ben Ferguson podcast, So welcome to you guys
as well.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Senator you just I'm curious for a joint address. Do
you call your show Ben Ferguson with Ted Cruz.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
That's all right, Ben Ferguson with Ted Cruz. That's a
great audible. I'm digging that right.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
There you go. I'm just trying to help you out.
I like that.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
And Ben Ferguson Podcasts with Ted Cruz. We'll get a
sign made, get a logo done. I'm sold.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I'm sold.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You just left the Joint Session Center and it was
one hell of a night. If there's anything you can say,
Democrats pretty much stood for nothing like it at all.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well, look, this is where doing the podcast is fun.
It is twelve twenty eight in the morning. I just
got got home to my DC apartment about five minutes
ago and just left the State of the Union and
the State of the Union. I got to say it
was I think a spectacular State of the Union addressed
from President Trump. It's the fifth one hees given. I
think it was triumphant. I think it was positive. I
(01:12):
think it was forward looking. I think it emphasized exactly
what you and I predicted in Monday's pod that he
was going to emphasize. It emphasized promises, made promises, kept
the victories we've seen in the first month and a
half of the presidency. But I got to say all
of that was overshadowed in many ways by the utterly
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disgraceful behavior of the Democrats. It was something I've never
seen before. It was shocking, it was disrespectful, it was defiant,
it was delusional.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
We're gonna break it all down.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
We're gonna break down the best parts of the speech,
the best things President Trump had to say, and we're
going to talk about what it indicates that today's Democrat
party stands for nothing, applat for nothing, does not cheer
on America. It is something never before seen at a
State of the Union address.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
We're going to break it down on what it means.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
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the show? You mentioned in a second ago, and and you,
I know, probably had a mental list in your in
your head. In there in the room, I was making
notes on my phone and putting them out on X
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of all the things that Democratic lawmakers couldn't stand up
to honor. It's a long list.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah, but look, let's start with the very beginning of
the night. The very beginning of the night is when
the president walks onto the the floor of the Senate
and he's introduced the President of the United States.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
And not a.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Single Democrat stood, not a single Democrat applauded. Now, Ben listen,
I've been to thirteen State of the Union addresses. I've
gone to everyone since I got elected to the Senate,
and I actually loved going to the State of the Union.
There's a pageantry to it, there's something amazing. It's more
fun when your guys in office. It's more fun when
you get to cheer on your own party. But I
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go go when the Democrats are in office. And I
got to tell you, every single time Joe Biden walked in,
every single time Barack Obama walked in, I stood up,
and I applauded, not because I agreed with their agendas.
Their agendas were disgraceful and disastrous, but because I respect
the office a president of the United States, and I
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respect the American people. And I have never once seen
the opposing party refused to applaud.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
For the president.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Understand what a break with tradition that is. Even in
past years, the Democrats applauded at the outset for the
President of the United States until tonight and and the
entire night. I guess I'm actually grumpy with the Democrats
because they've they've stolen my favorite game to play at
the State of the Union, so I can't.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
By the way, I know this game, and that's why
i'm laughing right now, because it was a great game
you created years ago.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah, and we've talked about it in the pod before.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
So the State of the Union address, Look, if your
party's in power, it's you know, I joke, it's it's
like I actually was. I was sitting with Dave McCormick,
the New Center from Pennsylvania, who's you know, an our
Army veteran, and I said, all right, Dave, this is
gonna be like pt in the army, get ready for
Jane Fonda aerobics. You're gonna pop up and down and
up and down, and imagine the Trump the President's wearing
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leg warmers, and you're just gonna be doing nothing but
every four words, standing up and applauding.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
And that's what we did.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I got to say, you know, my my my thighs
are killing me from from from from just doing squats
all night.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
But I want to see the stats, by the way,
on your R ring. I want to know what's the
what's the calorie burn during a state the longest stay
of the Union ever with Donald Trump speaking, Now, that's
real intel I need.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
So I so, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I could look at it in a second, And I
don't know if they count as steps because we're not moving.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
We're just standing and sitting and standing in citting and
standing in city.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
But what I like doing during the State of the
Union is watching the opposing party and picking out like
a couple of senators or House members and typically the
more moderate ones, and watching them agonize over what to
applaud or what to stand for it. In the past,
you know, i'd look at like a Joe mansion and
you know he he would be you know, America is great,
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and you'd see a few Democrats applaud for that, even
stand we support the troops, and they'd kind of agonize, Oh, okay,
I guess I could support the troops. But then they'd
go back and forth. Tonight they stood for nothing. So
they stood that. They did not stand for Joscelyn Nungery's mother,
(08:09):
the twelve year old beautiful girl raped and murdered in
Texas by illegal immigrants. They would not stand for Alexis.
They did not stand for Lake and Riley's mother and sister.
They did not stand for a thirteen year old kid
surviving brain cancer. Like how do you not like Like, Okay,
(08:31):
I'm a crazy partisan who hates Trump, but okay, thirteen
year old kids surviving brain cancer wants to be a
cop like us. Like literally every single State of the
Union address that has been given from the beginning of time,
every person on the floor would have stood for the
thirteen year old kid or survive brain cancer. Zero Democrats stood.
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I looked at them. They didn't still that.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I was an emotional in there because I was watching
it and I got choked up watching and there was
a lot of people that were texting me like, dude,
I'm crying right now because when you see a little
kid and how big his eyes got. You may not
have been able to see it from the floor because
they zoomed in, but when they said we're gonna make
you an agent, his eyes got so big. He clearly
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didn't know what was going to happen. His dad didn't
know either, and it was just one of those get
a lump in your throat, choke up moments.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
So I will say it was emotional, but it was true.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
When you were in the chamber, we couldn't see the
kid's facial expressions.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
It was just too far away that you couldn't see it.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
So I saw his facial expressions for the first time
about a half hour ago when I did Hannity and
Sean played the close up and so I could see,
you know, I mean, I saw the kid and it
was beautiful and we were cheering and like when you
know Trump made him an honorary Secret Service agent.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
That was really cool.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
But you're right, the close up of his facial expressions
was was really powerful. And he's a Texan. DJ Daniel
is a Texan. You had Alexis Nungrie. It was a
Texan but it was amazing. Look, the Democrats did not stand.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
They didn't stand for cutting taxes. They didn't stand for
no taxes on tips.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
They didn't stand for automakers building new manufacturing plants in America.
They didn't stand for steel workers. That I mean, they
didn't stand for border patrol agents. It was they didn't
stand for a kid going to West Point whose father
was a police officer killed in the line of duty,
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and the President admitted him to West Point stat in
the middle of the speech, which was a pretty amazing
moment too, Like I it was.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
But but I will.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Say this is actually a There was one thing the
entire night they stood and clapped for.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
You know what it was?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
What was that they stood and clapped for giving hundreds
of billions of dollars to Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I knew there was a moment there and but the
pant when the feet I saw you could hear the
room get louder. But I wasn't sure if they were
standing for it. And so that was the moment.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
So not everyone stood, but a number of them stood,
A number of them pulled out Ukrainian flags none of
them had American flags, but a number of them pulled
out Ukrainian flags, And I got to say, look, you
could have disagreements about the war on Ukraine, but what
the hell does it say about Democrats that they will
cheer for Ukraine but not for America.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
You go back to what you said about those emotional moments.
There was also moments in there that were good for
the American people, Yes, and just policies. I mean, you
can't clap for tax cuts, you can't clap for a
secure border, which was something by the way they said
that they were in favor of. Remember when they were like,
well it's us that we're in favor of it. Us
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still workers, they couldn't clap for. They couldn't quap for,
you know, the I go back to the West Point
for a moment. That was another emotional moment where you've
got a young man that's getting into West Point who
had a tragedy in his family life, and they wouldn't
stand for that. The capture of terrorists, by the way,
that one actually.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Was responsible for murdering service thirteen servicemen and women in Afghanistan.
Capturing the terrorists, and they're not happy to capture the
terrorist people.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Look, can we.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Play that clip because it's an important one. Just this
is what the President said. It's not hard to clap
for this or stand for this. It should be like
a universal everyone stand moment to.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
The country tonight and please to announce that we have
just apprehended the top terrorists responsible for that atrocity, and
he is right now on his way here to face
the swift sword of American justice.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I mean that that was, by the way, breaking news
in n nine point nine percent of the people I'm
assuming in the room.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Sure to me, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
To you, okay, So I was wondering if you guys
knew that before, because it seemed like that everybody was
kind of caught off guard, like that was new to everyone.
And yet the president says it. You can hear half
the rumor up the other affic. No, no, no terrorists
that kills Americans that we're bringing back to America.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Nope, that's under Donald Trump. Can't and listen. I was
looking over at the Democrats and repeatedly turning to the
folks around me, just saying, what the hell is wrong
with these people? Look like it is? How do you
not cheer for that. And I think the answer is
they're so filled with hate. This is now the party
of hate and rage. And they hate Donald Trump. They
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Haye Deal on Musk and and they're just and they
hate the voters that elected Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
And so.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
There always were points.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Listen in Democrats State of the Union addresses, there have
been a number of things that I applauded for. If
they say something that I agree with, I happily applaud
for if they, you know, anytime they talk about supporting
the troops, by the way, at a State of the Union.
So the Supreme Court never never applauds other than they
applaud at the beginning. So the Supreme Court applauds traditionally
at the President of the United States when he's introduced,
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and that's typically the only thing they applaud for. The
Joint Chiefs, they usually do the same thing. They'll applaud
at the introduction of the President of the United States.
But I'll tell you the Joint Chiefs. They applauded at
the kid when he was admitted to West Point. And
it was I noticed that the General's applauding, and yet
not a Democrat would and I got to say, Ben,
there was a lot in this speech to applaud for.
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As I said, I think this is the best speech
President Trump has ever given, and so I was happy
and enthusiastically applauding. Now, if you did not have two
hours to listen to the speech tonight, if you didn't
actually watch it, we've tried to help you out in
this podcast. So we have a montage where we've selected
some of the key moments of the speech. And it's
a little over three minutes, so it's not very long.
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So if you didn't have two hours, here's three minutes
that sums up the best moments from President Trump's State
of the Union address tonight.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I returned to.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
This chamber tonight to report that America's momentum is back,
our spirit is back, prior is back, our confidence is back,
and the American dream is surging bigger and better than
ever before.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
How we have ended.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Weaponized government where as an example, a sitting president is
allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent like me.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
How did that work out?
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Not to go? Not Within hours of taking the oath
of office, I declared a national emergency on our southern
border and I deployed the US military and border patrol
to repel the invasion of our country, and what a
job they've done. As a result, illegal border crossings last
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month were by far the lowest ever recorded ever. To
unshackle our economy, I have directed that for every one
new regulation, ten old relations must be eliminated, just like
I did in my very successful first day, and I
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have stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech
in America.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
It's back.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
We've ended the tyranny of so called diversity, equity, and
inclusion policies all across the entire federal government, and indeed
the private sector and our military and our country will
be worked no longer. I also signed an executive order
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to ban men from playing in women's sports, and in
the near future, I want to do what has not
been done in twenty four years, balance the federal budget.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
We're going to balance it.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
One point three million people from ages one hundred and
fifty to one hundred and fifty nine and over one
hundred and thirty thousand people according to the Social Security databases.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Our age over one hundred.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
And sixty years old. We have a healthier country than
I thought bobbying, including to finish one thousand and thirty
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nine people between the ages of two hundred and twenty
and two hundred and twenty nine, one person between the
age of two hundred and forty and two hundred and
forty nine, and one person is listed at three hundred
and sixty years of age, more than one hundred years,
more than one hundred years older than our country. But
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we're going to find out where that money's going, and
it's not going to be pretty.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I mean this speech to go back to what you
said at the beginning. Number one, it did not feel long,
and there's an art when you're speech writing that you
want to be done before people are ready for you
to be done. Yeah, this speech did not seem long.
I want to know what it felt like when you
were in the chamber. Number one. But two, like the
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President came in and just brought the heat, and I
think the American people are going to respond to this.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
So look, I thought it was a terrific speech. As
I said, it was optimistic, it was positive, it was
focused on results, the results that the President has been
producing and Republicans have been producing in just over forty days.
I mean, I mean it really is incredible. It was
also a funny speech like that, that whole litany going
through that the people on social Security, over one hundred
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and twenty and over two hundred.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Years and over three hundred years old.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Every line of it was funny. He had a whole
litany he went through Doge and the wasteful spending. That
was just hysterical. And by the way, we're cracking up laughing.
All the Republicans, no Democrat laughed like even on the
funny lines as he goes through. They support every bit
of waste possible. And just across the board. Now in
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terms of the length, so this was the longest State
of the Union in history. And I'll tell you so,
I was sitting I was sitting with Tommy Tubberville from Alabama.
I was sitting with Josh Holly from Missouri, and I
was sitting with Dave McCormick from Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
So how does that work? How do you decide you
sit with it? Is it just happened organically or you
guys now hang out?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
No, no, no, you just kind of we all all
the senators gather on the Senate floor and then we
walk from the Senate floor over the House floor across
the Capitol, and we walk in together, and the House
saves the front seats for the Senate, and so they
actually give give the best seats to the Senate, which
is nice, nice of the House to do. And so
there are a whole bunch of seats I presume one
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hundred seats that are kept in the front, and they
have little placards on the seats that say reserved for
a senator. But other than leadership like John Thune and
the elected leadership, they have seats that are reserved specifically
for them. But for everyone else, it's just senator, and
you can sit wherever you want. And so just as
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you walk in, you take the open seats. So it's
a little bit happenstance. But as we were preparing, we
actually had a friendly wager.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
On how long the speech was going to go.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
So I bet that it was going to go ninety
three minutes, So an hour and thirty three minutes. Josh Holly,
who was sitting next to me, bet it was going
to go an hour and thirty seven minutes.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Okay, just plan a little bit of prices.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Right, little price is right.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Tommy Tubberville and and Uh, Dave McCormick both bet an
hour and forty minutes, so we were all in the
same neighborhood. And actually the one who won was Holly
So so it was in fact an hour and thirty
eight minutes. So I was five minutes off, but Josh
was only one minute off, and if he'd got another minute,
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McCormick and Tubberville would have won. But but but it
was so it was interesting that that that those were
the four of our.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
How did you guys picked that number? By the way,
it was it did you see enough beforehand or excerpts
or themes you know, or original gut.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
We had not seen a text of it at all.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
It's just knowing Donald Trump and having been the State
of the Union addresses before. Look, I mean, we knew
it was going to be about an hour and a half,
maybe a little bit more, and.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
So that uh uh, we we knew he had a
lot to say.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
It was not going to be a short speech, and
and uh, but it didn't feel long, You're right, I
mean it was there was storytelling in it. It was funny,
it was relating powerful moments. And then as I said,
the antics of the Democrats really look including sadly Al Green,
congressman from from your in my hometown Houston, who stood
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up and just made a complete ass of himself.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
And I was going to ask you on that one,
because it played on TV like it was very clearly
pre planned and for mere they don't know him. This
is the guy that he's now called for turning to
impeach a third time. He led impeachment first second, that's
like his thing, and so as soon as the president's elected,
it's like, oh, yeah, yeah, we got impeach this guy,
and we're going to call for impeachment. It played on
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TV like it was one hundred percent pre planned by
him to do that, or maybe even Democratic Party. I
don't know if they were involved with this is just
his own brainchild. What was it like being there though?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
So look, I think everyone was shocked, shocked and not chocked.
We expected the Democrats to misbehave and engage in antics.
I didn't expect that they would refuse to applaud for anything,
and I've never seen There have been a couple of
instances where House members have have called out like like,
have you know Joe Wilson famously said said when Obamacare,
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said when Obama said, I think it was on Obamacare.
If you want your health in church, you can keep it.
And Joe Wilson famously called out, you lie. And that
was a big deal that that one congressman called out
two words was a big deal that people still talk
about a decade later.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
So, by the way, the media totally freaked out the
entire night afterwards, like I can't believe they do this.
He shouldn't be in Congress, she resign, I mean, And
then tonight nothing from the mainstream media on this one.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
And look, he stood up, he interrupted the speech. And
by the way, I don't know, could you hear what
he was saying. I know we could not.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Just I thought it very interesting that it looked like
Speaker Johnson ready in cases happened because he looked down
to read the words he was reading about the rules.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
So what he was saying, it's interesting what he got
mad at. He got mad when Trump said I've got
a mandate from the election, and Al Green stood up
and he was yelling, saying, you don't have a mandate,
you do not have a mandate, and it was the
Democrats are in absolute denial. They're in denial that the
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election happened. Look, the facts are straightforward.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Trump.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Of the seven swing states, he won all seven. He
won the popular vote in this country, something that Republicans
haven't done for twenty years. He won a Republican House
and a Republican Senate. Any way you look at it,
that's a mandate. And yet that's what al Green was
screaming about. And he kept on screaming and interrupting the president.
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The president finally had to stop. I mean, he was
standing right in the middle and just screaming and trying
to yell over the President, and the Speaker gaveled him
down and said, listen, if you don't maintain decorum, the
sergeant at arms will remove you. And al Green kept
on yelling, and so the sergeant at arms removed him.
Uh and and by the way, the Speaker said tonight
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on Hannity that al Green is likely going to be
censured by the House of Representatives, which which I think
is unsurprising because if you if you disturb an official
proceeding like that, that's that's the natural remedy.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Senator I want to go back to one other point
that that we mentioned earlier, but I think it's important
to kind of expand on it. And it was a
shocking moment of just either completely out of touch or
this Democratic Party, I guess you could just say, is
in a sense just completely lost. You had not a
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single Democrat appod Peyton McNabb, who suffered brain damage after
a volleyball spiked by a trans person, a man that
acting like a woman, ended her hopes of a cop career.
That's how significant the injury was, and it made her retire,
and also it took potentially like a scout, changed her
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life forever, and they couldn't even clap for her.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
No, not a Democrat clapped for not one.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
And by the way, just this past week, every single
Democrat in the Senate voted against protecting girls from boys
competing in sports, every one of them. And you know,
in the campaign listen, in my reelection campaign, Colin all
Read claims, I don't support boys playing in girl sports. Well,
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every Senate and except the fact that he voted for it,
over and over and over again. Every single Senate Democrat
when they're on reelection campaigns, they tell the voters I
don't support boys and girls sports, and yet every single
one of them just voted for it, and not a
one of them applauded. I mean, it's the simple reality
of how extreme their party is.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Now.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I will tell you one thing that that was particularly
meaningful to me was all the Texans whom President Trump
honored a night, including Alexis Nungary, the mom of Joscelyn.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Alexis was going to be my guest tonight. Every senator
gets one guest, and I had invited Alexis. She was
coming up as my guest, and then the President invited her.
So she went and she was sitting with Malania Trump.
I was really grateful for the for her being invited
by the President to come there. And then right next
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to Malania Trump was Elliston Barry. And Elliston Berry is
someone also another Texan who was the inspiration for the
Take It Down Act. So, Elliston Barry is a fifteen
year old girl from North Texas from Aledo who when
she was fourteen and a freshman in high school, a boy,
a classmate of hers, took an innocent social media picture
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of her and used artificial intelligence to create a deep
fake kid image of her that appeared to be real
but it was fake, and then sent it to her
class bates and she was the inspiration for my legislation
to Take It Down Act, which which passed the Senate unanimously.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
And by the way, how many times have you been
involved in legislation that was passed unanimously in your in
your career in the Senate.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
A lot of times.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I've passed one hundred and one different pieces of legislation
into law. A number of them were unanimous the Senate
off And if you do the work, you can bring
people together and pass something. And actually, just yesterday, the
first Lady, Milania Trump came to the Capitol first time
she has this first lady the second term, supporting the
Take It Down Act, and we did a round table,
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which we're we're gonna talk about significantly more on Friday's pod,
but we did a round table where Milania Trump heard
from Elliston Berry, heard from other victims of non consensual
intimate images, and called on the House to pass the
Take It Down Act. And President Trump tonight called in
the House past the day to Take It Down Act.
So I was really glad. The two people directly next
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to to Blania Trump to her left were two Texans,
Elliston Berry and Alexis Nungary and and that made me
very happy.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
That may have been one of the best parts of
the night. Let's talk about what this looks like moving forward.
I think the President's speech is going to play very
well with the American people. I think it's going to
help with momentum moving forward. I also do think that
the American people and the way they were watching this
on TV, saw the the shocking moments when they wouldn't
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stand for children that were, you know, murdered by illegal immigrants,
their families, police officers, dyeing in the lie of doooney duty.
It was on the list. I mean, you look at
all of this, bringing an American hostit home from Russia,
by the way, they wuldn't stand for that. That was
another moment we left at earlier. Were you shocked by
that as well?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Well?
Speaker 2 (29:57):
And you and I covered Mark Fogel coming back. We
covered that on the podcast when it happened. That was
one of the multiple times I turned to the folks
around me and I'm like, what the hell is wrong
with these people, Like, like, how do you not this
is not partisan? This is not I get that they
don't cheer for, you know, conservative ideas because they're all
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wacko lefties. But how do you not cheer for things
that are just unambiguously good. And it's today's Democrat party,
it's a commodation. They become the party of hate and
rage and they're in denial. They don't know how to
respond to this election other than to fume and glare.
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And I got to say, if you're an elected Democrat,
how do you think this is a good message to
the American people? We hate everyone and everything that's the
Democrats like.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
I don't get that.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
No, I don't either. So what happens now?
Speaker 3 (30:57):
This is my prediction.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I think the presence proval rating is going to stay
solid and in certain categories, support on certain issues will
actually rise coming out of this State of the Union.
I think this is going to continue the momentum on
on things like Doge and even in some of the
issues that we're talking about that are in tough ones,
whether it's dealing with Mexico and cartels or tariffs or
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Canada and fetanol. The list goes on and on. I
think same thing on Ukraine funding. I think this could
catapult him to even greater near term success. That's a
lot of political capital that obviously you want your prediction.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Look, I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
I think the American people are going to be happy
with this speech. They're going to be happy with the results.
The American people are happy with successes for America. And
we're getting on the border, seeing illegal immigrations and illegal
boarding crossings drop over ninety percent. That's an unambiguous victory.
On energy, Seeing energy production going up, seeing regulations being repealed,
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seeing wasteful spending being eliminated, those are unambiguous victories. In
terms of jobs, he went through the investments, the investments
on new investments, whether from Oracle or Apple, or car
companies bringing new factories here. Those are big wins. Those
are the sorts of things. Those are the sorts of things. Frankly,
when Joe Biden talked about if he you know, he
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had Democrats and their speeches would talk about a new factory,
and you know what, the Republicans would all stand and cheer, because, hey,
a new factory in America is a good thing, and
we even if we don't support many, if not most,
of Biden and Obama's policies, we cheer for the American people.
I think that the President's message was really strong, but
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I also think the contrast with the Democrats made it
even stronger.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
And so.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
I think this was a good night for America, but
not a good night for today's Democrat party.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Great point. It's always fun to get to do a
joint pod. So wherever you're listening right now, makes you
hit that subscribe or auto download button, whether it's Verdict
with Ted Cruise or the Ben Ferguson Podcast with Ted Cruse.
We got to get a logo made for that one.
It's always a pleasure. I love these nights. It's when
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and I will see you back here center, and I
will see you on Friday on Verdict, and I'll see
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on the in between days and we'll see you back
there tomorrow and Friday.
I love it when we get to have a joint
address to Congress, to stay of the Union and Senator
Cruse and I get to do a combined podcast. Welcome
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Senator you just I'm curious for a joint address. Do
you call your show Ben Ferguson with Ted Cruz.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
That's all right, Ben Ferguson with Ted Cruz. That's a
great audible. I'm digging that right.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
There you go. I'm just trying to help you out.
I like that.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
And Ben Ferguson Podcasts with Ted Cruz. We'll get a
sign made, get a logo done. I'm sold.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I'm sold.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You just left the Joint Session Center and it was
one hell of a night. If there's anything you can say,
Democrats pretty much stood for nothing like it at all.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well, look, this is where doing the podcast is fun.
It is twelve twenty eight in the morning. I just
got got home to my DC apartment about five minutes
ago and just left the State of the Union and
the State of the Union. I got to say it
was I think a spectacular State of the Union addressed
from President Trump. It's the fifth one hees given. I
think it was triumphant. I think it was positive. I
(01:12):
think it was forward looking. I think it emphasized exactly
what you and I predicted in Monday's pod that he
was going to emphasize. It emphasized promises, made promises, kept
the victories we've seen in the first month and a
half of the presidency. But I got to say all
of that was overshadowed in many ways by the utterly
(01:36):
disgraceful behavior of the Democrats. It was something I've never
seen before. It was shocking, it was disrespectful, it was defiant,
it was delusional.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
We're gonna break it all down.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
We're gonna break down the best parts of the speech,
the best things President Trump had to say, and we're
going to talk about what it indicates that today's Democrat
party stands for nothing, applat for nothing, does not cheer
on America. It is something never before seen at a
State of the Union address.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
We're going to break it down on what it means.
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the show? You mentioned in a second ago, and and you,
I know, probably had a mental list in your in
your head. In there in the room, I was making
notes on my phone and putting them out on X
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of all the things that Democratic lawmakers couldn't stand up
to honor. It's a long list.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah, but look, let's start with the very beginning of
the night. The very beginning of the night is when
the president walks onto the the floor of the Senate
and he's introduced the President of the United States.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
And not a.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Single Democrat stood, not a single Democrat applauded. Now, Ben listen,
I've been to thirteen State of the Union addresses. I've
gone to everyone since I got elected to the Senate,
and I actually loved going to the State of the Union.
There's a pageantry to it, there's something amazing. It's more
fun when your guys in office. It's more fun when
you get to cheer on your own party. But I
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go go when the Democrats are in office. And I
got to tell you, every single time Joe Biden walked in,
every single time Barack Obama walked in, I stood up,
and I applauded, not because I agreed with their agendas.
Their agendas were disgraceful and disastrous, but because I respect
the office a president of the United States, and I
(05:50):
respect the American people. And I have never once seen
the opposing party refused to applaud.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
For the president.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Understand what a break with tradition that is. Even in
past years, the Democrats applauded at the outset for the
President of the United States until tonight and and the
entire night. I guess I'm actually grumpy with the Democrats
because they've they've stolen my favorite game to play at
the State of the Union, so I can't.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
By the way, I know this game, and that's why
i'm laughing right now, because it was a great game
you created years ago.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah, and we've talked about it in the pod before.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
So the State of the Union address, Look, if your
party's in power, it's you know, I joke, it's it's
like I actually was. I was sitting with Dave McCormick,
the New Center from Pennsylvania, who's you know, an our
Army veteran, and I said, all right, Dave, this is
gonna be like pt in the army, get ready for
Jane Fonda aerobics. You're gonna pop up and down and
up and down, and imagine the Trump the President's wearing
(06:51):
leg warmers, and you're just gonna be doing nothing but
every four words, standing up and applauding.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
And that's what we did.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I got to say, you know, my my my thighs
are killing me from from from from just doing squats
all night.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
But I want to see the stats, by the way,
on your R ring. I want to know what's the
what's the calorie burn during a state the longest stay
of the Union ever with Donald Trump speaking, Now, that's
real intel I need.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
So I so, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I could look at it in a second, And I
don't know if they count as steps because we're not moving.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
We're just standing and sitting and standing in citting and
standing in city.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
But what I like doing during the State of the
Union is watching the opposing party and picking out like
a couple of senators or House members and typically the
more moderate ones, and watching them agonize over what to
applaud or what to stand for it. In the past,
you know, i'd look at like a Joe mansion and
you know he he would be you know, America is great,
(07:44):
and you'd see a few Democrats applaud for that, even
stand we support the troops, and they'd kind of agonize, Oh, okay,
I guess I could support the troops. But then they'd
go back and forth. Tonight they stood for nothing. So
they stood that. They did not stand for Joscelyn Nungery's mother,
(08:09):
the twelve year old beautiful girl raped and murdered in
Texas by illegal immigrants. They would not stand for Alexis.
They did not stand for Lake and Riley's mother and sister.
They did not stand for a thirteen year old kid
surviving brain cancer. Like how do you not like Like, Okay,
(08:31):
I'm a crazy partisan who hates Trump, but okay, thirteen
year old kids surviving brain cancer wants to be a
cop like us. Like literally every single State of the
Union address that has been given from the beginning of time,
every person on the floor would have stood for the
thirteen year old kid or survive brain cancer. Zero Democrats stood.
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I looked at them. They didn't still that.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I was an emotional in there because I was watching
it and I got choked up watching and there was
a lot of people that were texting me like, dude,
I'm crying right now because when you see a little
kid and how big his eyes got. You may not
have been able to see it from the floor because
they zoomed in, but when they said we're gonna make
you an agent, his eyes got so big. He clearly
(09:17):
didn't know what was going to happen. His dad didn't
know either, and it was just one of those get
a lump in your throat, choke up moments.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
So I will say it was emotional, but it was true.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
When you were in the chamber, we couldn't see the
kid's facial expressions.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
It was just too far away that you couldn't see it.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
So I saw his facial expressions for the first time
about a half hour ago when I did Hannity and
Sean played the close up and so I could see,
you know, I mean, I saw the kid and it
was beautiful and we were cheering and like when you
know Trump made him an honorary Secret Service agent.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
That was really cool.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
But you're right, the close up of his facial expressions
was was really powerful. And he's a Texan. DJ Daniel
is a Texan. You had Alexis Nungrie. It was a
Texan but it was amazing. Look, the Democrats did not stand.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
They didn't stand for cutting taxes. They didn't stand for
no taxes on tips.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
They didn't stand for automakers building new manufacturing plants in America.
They didn't stand for steel workers. That I mean, they
didn't stand for border patrol agents. It was they didn't
stand for a kid going to West Point whose father
was a police officer killed in the line of duty,
(10:31):
and the President admitted him to West Point stat in
the middle of the speech, which was a pretty amazing
moment too, Like I it was.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
But but I will.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Say this is actually a There was one thing the
entire night they stood and clapped for.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
You know what it was?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
What was that they stood and clapped for giving hundreds
of billions of dollars to Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I knew there was a moment there and but the
pant when the feet I saw you could hear the
room get louder. But I wasn't sure if they were
standing for it. And so that was the moment.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
So not everyone stood, but a number of them stood,
A number of them pulled out Ukrainian flags none of
them had American flags, but a number of them pulled
out Ukrainian flags, And I got to say, look, you
could have disagreements about the war on Ukraine, but what
the hell does it say about Democrats that they will
cheer for Ukraine but not for America.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
You go back to what you said about those emotional moments.
There was also moments in there that were good for
the American people, Yes, and just policies. I mean, you
can't clap for tax cuts, you can't clap for a
secure border, which was something by the way they said
that they were in favor of. Remember when they were like,
well it's us that we're in favor of it. Us
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still workers, they couldn't clap for. They couldn't quap for,
you know, the I go back to the West Point
for a moment. That was another emotional moment where you've
got a young man that's getting into West Point who
had a tragedy in his family life, and they wouldn't
stand for that. The capture of terrorists, by the way,
that one actually.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Was responsible for murdering service thirteen servicemen and women in Afghanistan.
Capturing the terrorists, and they're not happy to capture the
terrorist people.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Look, can we.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Play that clip because it's an important one. Just this
is what the President said. It's not hard to clap
for this or stand for this. It should be like
a universal everyone stand moment to.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
The country tonight and please to announce that we have
just apprehended the top terrorists responsible for that atrocity, and
he is right now on his way here to face
the swift sword of American justice.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I mean that that was, by the way, breaking news
in n nine point nine percent of the people I'm
assuming in the room.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Sure to me, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
To you, okay, So I was wondering if you guys
knew that before, because it seemed like that everybody was
kind of caught off guard, like that was new to everyone.
And yet the president says it. You can hear half
the rumor up the other affic. No, no, no terrorists
that kills Americans that we're bringing back to America.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Nope, that's under Donald Trump. Can't and listen. I was
looking over at the Democrats and repeatedly turning to the
folks around me, just saying, what the hell is wrong
with these people? Look like it is? How do you
not cheer for that. And I think the answer is
they're so filled with hate. This is now the party
of hate and rage. And they hate Donald Trump. They
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Haye Deal on Musk and and they're just and they
hate the voters that elected Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
And so.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
There always were points.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Listen in Democrats State of the Union addresses, there have
been a number of things that I applauded for. If
they say something that I agree with, I happily applaud
for if they, you know, anytime they talk about supporting
the troops, by the way, at a State of the Union.
So the Supreme Court never never applauds other than they
applaud at the beginning. So the Supreme Court applauds traditionally
at the President of the United States when he's introduced,
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and that's typically the only thing they applaud for. The
Joint Chiefs, they usually do the same thing. They'll applaud
at the introduction of the President of the United States.
But I'll tell you the Joint Chiefs. They applauded at
the kid when he was admitted to West Point. And
it was I noticed that the General's applauding, and yet
not a Democrat would and I got to say, Ben,
there was a lot in this speech to applaud for.
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As I said, I think this is the best speech
President Trump has ever given, and so I was happy
and enthusiastically applauding. Now, if you did not have two
hours to listen to the speech tonight, if you didn't
actually watch it, we've tried to help you out in
this podcast. So we have a montage where we've selected
some of the key moments of the speech. And it's
a little over three minutes, so it's not very long.
(14:43):
So if you didn't have two hours, here's three minutes
that sums up the best moments from President Trump's State
of the Union address tonight.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I returned to.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
This chamber tonight to report that America's momentum is back,
our spirit is back, prior is back, our confidence is back,
and the American dream is surging bigger and better than
ever before.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
How we have ended.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Weaponized government where as an example, a sitting president is
allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent like me.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
How did that work out?
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Not to go? Not Within hours of taking the oath
of office, I declared a national emergency on our southern
border and I deployed the US military and border patrol
to repel the invasion of our country, and what a
job they've done. As a result, illegal border crossings last
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month were by far the lowest ever recorded ever. To
unshackle our economy, I have directed that for every one
new regulation, ten old relations must be eliminated, just like
I did in my very successful first day, and I
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have stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech
in America.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
It's back.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
We've ended the tyranny of so called diversity, equity, and
inclusion policies all across the entire federal government, and indeed
the private sector and our military and our country will
be worked no longer. I also signed an executive order
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to ban men from playing in women's sports, and in
the near future, I want to do what has not
been done in twenty four years, balance the federal budget.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
We're going to balance it.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
One point three million people from ages one hundred and
fifty to one hundred and fifty nine and over one
hundred and thirty thousand people according to the Social Security databases.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Our age over one hundred.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
And sixty years old. We have a healthier country than
I thought bobbying, including to finish one thousand and thirty
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nine people between the ages of two hundred and twenty
and two hundred and twenty nine, one person between the
age of two hundred and forty and two hundred and
forty nine, and one person is listed at three hundred
and sixty years of age, more than one hundred years,
more than one hundred years older than our country. But
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we're going to find out where that money's going, and
it's not going to be pretty.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I mean this speech to go back to what you
said at the beginning. Number one, it did not feel long,
and there's an art when you're speech writing that you
want to be done before people are ready for you
to be done. Yeah, this speech did not seem long.
I want to know what it felt like when you
were in the chamber. Number one. But two, like the
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President came in and just brought the heat, and I
think the American people are going to respond to this.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
So look, I thought it was a terrific speech. As
I said, it was optimistic, it was positive, it was
focused on results, the results that the President has been
producing and Republicans have been producing in just over forty days.
I mean, I mean it really is incredible. It was
also a funny speech like that, that whole litany going
through that the people on social Security, over one hundred
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and twenty and over two hundred.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Years and over three hundred years old.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Every line of it was funny. He had a whole
litany he went through Doge and the wasteful spending. That
was just hysterical. And by the way, we're cracking up laughing.
All the Republicans, no Democrat laughed like even on the
funny lines as he goes through. They support every bit
of waste possible. And just across the board. Now in
(19:33):
terms of the length, so this was the longest State
of the Union in history. And I'll tell you so,
I was sitting I was sitting with Tommy Tubberville from Alabama.
I was sitting with Josh Holly from Missouri, and I
was sitting with Dave McCormick from Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
So how does that work? How do you decide you
sit with it? Is it just happened organically or you
guys now hang out?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
No, no, no, you just kind of we all all
the senators gather on the Senate floor and then we
walk from the Senate floor over the House floor across
the Capitol, and we walk in together, and the House
saves the front seats for the Senate, and so they
actually give give the best seats to the Senate, which
is nice, nice of the House to do. And so
there are a whole bunch of seats I presume one
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hundred seats that are kept in the front, and they
have little placards on the seats that say reserved for
a senator. But other than leadership like John Thune and
the elected leadership, they have seats that are reserved specifically
for them. But for everyone else, it's just senator, and
you can sit wherever you want. And so just as
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you walk in, you take the open seats. So it's
a little bit happenstance. But as we were preparing, we
actually had a friendly wager.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
On how long the speech was going to go.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
So I bet that it was going to go ninety
three minutes, So an hour and thirty three minutes. Josh Holly,
who was sitting next to me, bet it was going
to go an hour and thirty seven minutes.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Okay, just plan a little bit of prices.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Right, little price is right.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Tommy Tubberville and and Uh, Dave McCormick both bet an
hour and forty minutes, so we were all in the
same neighborhood. And actually the one who won was Holly
So so it was in fact an hour and thirty
eight minutes. So I was five minutes off, but Josh
was only one minute off, and if he'd got another minute,
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McCormick and Tubberville would have won. But but but it
was so it was interesting that that that those were
the four of our.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
How did you guys picked that number? By the way,
it was it did you see enough beforehand or excerpts
or themes you know, or original gut.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
We had not seen a text of it at all.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
It's just knowing Donald Trump and having been the State
of the Union addresses before. Look, I mean, we knew
it was going to be about an hour and a half,
maybe a little bit more, and.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
So that uh uh, we we knew he had a
lot to say.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
It was not going to be a short speech, and
and uh, but it didn't feel long, You're right, I
mean it was there was storytelling in it. It was funny,
it was relating powerful moments. And then as I said,
the antics of the Democrats really look including sadly Al Green,
congressman from from your in my hometown Houston, who stood
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up and just made a complete ass of himself.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
And I was going to ask you on that one,
because it played on TV like it was very clearly
pre planned and for mere they don't know him. This
is the guy that he's now called for turning to
impeach a third time. He led impeachment first second, that's
like his thing, and so as soon as the president's elected,
it's like, oh, yeah, yeah, we got impeach this guy,
and we're going to call for impeachment. It played on
(22:44):
TV like it was one hundred percent pre planned by
him to do that, or maybe even Democratic Party. I
don't know if they were involved with this is just
his own brainchild. What was it like being there though?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
So look, I think everyone was shocked, shocked and not chocked.
We expected the Democrats to misbehave and engage in antics.
I didn't expect that they would refuse to applaud for anything,
and I've never seen There have been a couple of
instances where House members have have called out like like,
have you know Joe Wilson famously said said when Obamacare,
(23:19):
said when Obama said, I think it was on Obamacare.
If you want your health in church, you can keep it.
And Joe Wilson famously called out, you lie. And that
was a big deal that that one congressman called out
two words was a big deal that people still talk
about a decade later.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
So, by the way, the media totally freaked out the
entire night afterwards, like I can't believe they do this.
He shouldn't be in Congress, she resign, I mean, And
then tonight nothing from the mainstream media on this one.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
And look, he stood up, he interrupted the speech. And
by the way, I don't know, could you hear what
he was saying. I know we could not.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Just I thought it very interesting that it looked like
Speaker Johnson ready in cases happened because he looked down
to read the words he was reading about the rules.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
So what he was saying, it's interesting what he got
mad at. He got mad when Trump said I've got
a mandate from the election, and Al Green stood up
and he was yelling, saying, you don't have a mandate,
you do not have a mandate, and it was the
Democrats are in absolute denial. They're in denial that the
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election happened. Look, the facts are straightforward.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Trump.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Of the seven swing states, he won all seven. He
won the popular vote in this country, something that Republicans
haven't done for twenty years. He won a Republican House
and a Republican Senate. Any way you look at it,
that's a mandate. And yet that's what al Green was
screaming about. And he kept on screaming and interrupting the president.
(24:49):
The president finally had to stop. I mean, he was
standing right in the middle and just screaming and trying
to yell over the President, and the Speaker gaveled him
down and said, listen, if you don't maintain decorum, the
sergeant at arms will remove you. And al Green kept
on yelling, and so the sergeant at arms removed him.
Uh and and by the way, the Speaker said tonight
(25:10):
on Hannity that al Green is likely going to be
censured by the House of Representatives, which which I think
is unsurprising because if you if you disturb an official
proceeding like that, that's that's the natural remedy.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Senator I want to go back to one other point
that that we mentioned earlier, but I think it's important
to kind of expand on it. And it was a
shocking moment of just either completely out of touch or
this Democratic Party, I guess you could just say, is
in a sense just completely lost. You had not a
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single Democrat appod Peyton McNabb, who suffered brain damage after
a volleyball spiked by a trans person, a man that
acting like a woman, ended her hopes of a cop career.
That's how significant the injury was, and it made her retire,
and also it took potentially like a scout, changed her
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life forever, and they couldn't even clap for her.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
No, not a Democrat clapped for not one.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
And by the way, just this past week, every single
Democrat in the Senate voted against protecting girls from boys
competing in sports, every one of them. And you know,
in the campaign listen, in my reelection campaign, Colin all
Read claims, I don't support boys playing in girl sports. Well,
(26:37):
every Senate and except the fact that he voted for it,
over and over and over again. Every single Senate Democrat
when they're on reelection campaigns, they tell the voters I
don't support boys and girls sports, and yet every single
one of them just voted for it, and not a
one of them applauded. I mean, it's the simple reality
of how extreme their party is.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Now.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I will tell you one thing that that was particularly
meaningful to me was all the Texans whom President Trump
honored a night, including Alexis Nungary, the mom of Joscelyn.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Alexis was going to be my guest tonight. Every senator
gets one guest, and I had invited Alexis. She was
coming up as my guest, and then the President invited her.
So she went and she was sitting with Malania Trump.
I was really grateful for the for her being invited
by the President to come there. And then right next
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to Malania Trump was Elliston Barry. And Elliston Berry is
someone also another Texan who was the inspiration for the
Take It Down Act. So, Elliston Barry is a fifteen
year old girl from North Texas from Aledo who when
she was fourteen and a freshman in high school, a boy,
a classmate of hers, took an innocent social media picture
(27:53):
of her and used artificial intelligence to create a deep
fake kid image of her that appeared to be real
but it was fake, and then sent it to her
class bates and she was the inspiration for my legislation
to Take It Down Act, which which passed the Senate unanimously.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
And by the way, how many times have you been
involved in legislation that was passed unanimously in your in
your career in the Senate.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
A lot of times.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I've passed one hundred and one different pieces of legislation
into law. A number of them were unanimous the Senate
off And if you do the work, you can bring
people together and pass something. And actually, just yesterday, the
first Lady, Milania Trump came to the Capitol first time
she has this first lady the second term, supporting the
Take It Down Act, and we did a round table,
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which we're we're gonna talk about significantly more on Friday's pod,
but we did a round table where Milania Trump heard
from Elliston Berry, heard from other victims of non consensual
intimate images, and called on the House to pass the
Take It Down Act. And President Trump tonight called in
the House past the day to Take It Down Act.
So I was really glad. The two people directly next
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to to Blania Trump to her left were two Texans,
Elliston Berry and Alexis Nungary and and that made me
very happy.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
That may have been one of the best parts of
the night. Let's talk about what this looks like moving forward.
I think the President's speech is going to play very
well with the American people. I think it's going to
help with momentum moving forward. I also do think that
the American people and the way they were watching this
on TV, saw the the shocking moments when they wouldn't
(29:37):
stand for children that were, you know, murdered by illegal immigrants,
their families, police officers, dyeing in the lie of doooney duty.
It was on the list. I mean, you look at
all of this, bringing an American hostit home from Russia,
by the way, they wuldn't stand for that. That was
another moment we left at earlier. Were you shocked by
that as well?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Well?
Speaker 2 (29:57):
And you and I covered Mark Fogel coming back. We
covered that on the podcast when it happened. That was
one of the multiple times I turned to the folks
around me and I'm like, what the hell is wrong
with these people, Like, like, how do you not this
is not partisan? This is not I get that they
don't cheer for, you know, conservative ideas because they're all
(30:20):
wacko lefties. But how do you not cheer for things
that are just unambiguously good. And it's today's Democrat party,
it's a commodation. They become the party of hate and
rage and they're in denial. They don't know how to
respond to this election other than to fume and glare.
(30:41):
And I got to say, if you're an elected Democrat,
how do you think this is a good message to
the American people? We hate everyone and everything that's the
Democrats like.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
I don't get that.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
No, I don't either. So what happens now?
Speaker 3 (30:57):
This is my prediction.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I think the presence proval rating is going to stay
solid and in certain categories, support on certain issues will
actually rise coming out of this State of the Union.
I think this is going to continue the momentum on
on things like Doge and even in some of the
issues that we're talking about that are in tough ones,
whether it's dealing with Mexico and cartels or tariffs or
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Canada and fetanol. The list goes on and on. I
think same thing on Ukraine funding. I think this could
catapult him to even greater near term success. That's a
lot of political capital that obviously you want your prediction.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Look, I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
I think the American people are going to be happy
with this speech. They're going to be happy with the results.
The American people are happy with successes for America. And
we're getting on the border, seeing illegal immigrations and illegal
boarding crossings drop over ninety percent. That's an unambiguous victory.
On energy, Seeing energy production going up, seeing regulations being repealed,
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seeing wasteful spending being eliminated, those are unambiguous victories. In
terms of jobs, he went through the investments, the investments
on new investments, whether from Oracle or Apple, or car
companies bringing new factories here. Those are big wins. Those
are the sorts of things. Those are the sorts of things. Frankly,
when Joe Biden talked about if he you know, he
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had Democrats and their speeches would talk about a new factory,
and you know what, the Republicans would all stand and cheer, because, hey,
a new factory in America is a good thing, and
we even if we don't support many, if not most,
of Biden and Obama's policies, we cheer for the American people.
I think that the President's message was really strong, but
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I also think the contrast with the Democrats made it
even stronger.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
And so.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
I think this was a good night for America, but
not a good night for today's Democrat party.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Great point. It's always fun to get to do a
joint pod. So wherever you're listening right now, makes you
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(33:23):
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