March 26, 2025 • 35 mins
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Signal Gate Controversy:
- The episode starts with a discussion about a controversy involving the Signal app, where a journalist was inadvertently added to a text thread about military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen.
- The media used this incident to criticize President Trump and his national security team.
- Senator Cruz defends the actions taken by the Trump administration, emphasizing the successful military strike and the importance of defending American interests.
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Democratic Party Criticism:
- The podcast criticizes the Democratic Party, describing it as increasingly angry and violent.
- They discuss how the party's focus on hatred for Donald Trump is not a successful electoral strategy.
- Axios is cited, stating that the Democratic Party is in its deepest hole in fifty years.
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Patriot Mobile Promotion:
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Violence and Threats:
- The podcast discusses threats and violence from the Democratic Party, including threats against Elon Musk and Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
- Senator Cruz shares his experiences with death threats and public confrontations.
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Media Coverage and Public Perception:
- The episode touches on media coverage and public perception, with Senator Cruz defending the Trump administration's actions and criticizing the media's portrayal.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome its verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you.
It's nice to have you with us on this Wednesday morning.
And there's a big controversy and a big story that
the media has just I mean, they've gone all in
on that deals with conversations that were had center on
the Signal app. A lot of people in government use it.
I use this app. It's encrypted, that's why they use it.
(00:23):
And a journalist it was inadvertently put on apparently one
of those text message threads.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Well, the media are a flutter with what they're calling
Signal Gate, which is this text thread on the app
Signal and it was about the military strikes against the
Huthis who have been attacking shipping shipping in the Suez Canal,
and inadvertently the National Security Advisor added this journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg,
(00:57):
who then wrote an article and I got to say,
it's an astonishing article. The media are going crazy and
they're using it as an excuse to attack President Trump,
to attack his national security team. Now we're going to
break down what exactly was going on there, What did
they do anything wrong? Were they talking about? What happened?
Why does it matter. We're going to break it all down.
(01:17):
We're also going to talk about what has happened to
the Democrat Party. They're getting angrier and angrier and angrier,
and they are embracing violence every day, they're calling for violence.
They are the Party of Rage. And finally, we're going
to talk about the media coverage about how the Democrats
are in a quote deep dark hole. That's not me,
(01:42):
that's Axios, one of the most mainstream corporate media outlets
there is, that says the Democrats are in the deepest
hole in fifty years. We're going to break that down.
How when a party decides it doesn't stand for anything,
When a party gets so radical that it abandons the voters,
When a party is formed only around one idea, which
(02:05):
is hatred for Donald J. Trump, that turns out not
to be a successful electoral strategy. We're going to talk
about that as well.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, the gig seems to be up certainly the American
voters on that. And there's some polling data will also
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So Senator. When this story broke, it was very clear
the media thought this was the moment where they could
turn the tables on Donald Trump as administer. I think
there was even some dreams of maybe someone gets fired
(04:04):
sixty days into this administration, the cabinet because of this
journalist report that I got on a text thread with
all these important people in Trump administration world. And now
I'm going to tell you what I saw.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Well, look what happened is there was a text thread
and it was using the app called Signal. Now, Signal
is an encrypted app. A lot of people in government
use it. You use it, I use it, a lot
of journalists use it. It's a way to communicate an
encrypted way that it is less likely to be intercepted.
(04:38):
And that there was a group chat that was created
by President Trump's national security advisor, Michael Waltz about the
upcoming strikes against the Houthis and Yemen, and bizarrely included
in the group was a journalist named Jeffrey Goldberg who
was at The Atlantic magazine. And jeff Beffrey Goldberg is
(05:00):
a liberal. He's a well known journalist, and it I
have no good explanation for why Jeffrey Goldberg was added.
He's the editor in chief of The Atlantic, and it
was a screw up, and and and let's start with that.
It was clearly a screw up. It was embarrassing. It
it's sort of comparable to a butt dial. You know, Look,
(05:23):
I've inadvertently sent texts to the wrong person. I'm sure
you have. In this instance, it was clear it was
a mistake. He was not meant to be added to
this group, and suddenly, bizarrely he is getting text about
an upcoming military strike. So that was bad. At the
end of the day. Though, what is striking, although although
(05:44):
you're seeing the sharks circle and trying to attack the
president of the National Security Team, is the underlying substance
of what's being discussed is actually quite good. So the
substance of what's being discussed. The Huthies are radical Islamic terrorists.
They're based in Yemen, and they are funded by Iran.
(06:04):
They are Iran proxies, and they have been for months,
for years attacking shipping in and around the Suez Canal,
and they've been shutting down a massive amount of shipping
at the Suez Canal and that has had a real
consequence to Americans. So listen, when you go to the
(06:26):
grocery store, when you go to the department store, you
are paying significantly higher prices because the Huthis have been
shutting down shipping through the Suez Canal, which makes shipping
and transportation cost much much higher. And I got to say,
for four years, Joe Biden, the Democrats, they didn't do
a damn thing. They let radical Islamic terrorists engage in
(06:52):
acts of terrorism and shut down shipping, slow down shipping.
And what has happened in the first two months of
the Trump administration is President Trump gave an instruction to
his team. He said, open up the shipping lanes. Let's
go after the Houthies. And by the way, we carried
out a military strike hit the Houthis and did real damage.
(07:15):
And so this entire text chain is the national security
leadership of the Trump administration talking about this upcoming strike,
and the strike was a massive success. So on substance,
we got to be thrilled. We actually have a commander
in chief who's standing up for America, who's defending American shipping,
(07:35):
is defending American interests, who's fighting terrorists who hate America.
All of that is a massive contrast from what happened
under Joe Biden. What was the mistake? The mistake was
inadvertently they added this journalist who then wrote this sort
of breathless bombshell story about I was on this text
about the war plans, and again it was a screw up.
(07:58):
It was embarrassing, but the under lying substance every one
of us ought to be really happy about.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
You mentioned that this was one of those moments that, look,
the press wanted to go ballistic on. There was also
really I think a smart move by the White House
to have no problem having a conversation about this. The
President didn't run away from it. There was no no comment,
there was much. There was a lot of like openness
and conversation, like, hey, we're more than happy to talk
(08:27):
about this. I actually think the American people appreciate that,
because usually when they're screw ups, Amen, everybody just disappears
from you know, accountability or even answering questions or saying
we can't talk about this time or it deals with
classified there's always a million excuses. The president didn't use
any of those, like let's talk about it and he
did it in front of the journalists, in front of
(08:48):
this entire cabinet as well.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, so let me make a couple comments on this.
Number One, During four years of Biden's presidency, he hit
hid from the press, he didn't press conferences, he didn't
take questions, and it's not complicated why his mental condition
was so deteriorated that nobody trust him to take questions.
Donald Trump is taking questions. It seems like every day
(09:13):
he's answering hard questions. And so today at the White
House he was asked about reporters about what happened here,
and we're going to play a segment, and this is
a lengthy segment, but it's worth listening to because the
president explains what's going on. I think his answers here
are terrific and it's worth really listening to what he says.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
So give a listen, mister president, are you going to
change in you to practices that your national security officials used?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Acker reporter was inaffortently added to a group chat about
attacks on Evan.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Well, I think it's a question I've been asked now
and I've given it a few answers, and they've all
been the same. We have an amazing group or national
security now is stronger than it's ever been. We have
I've had a very very successful numerous attacks.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
In that area.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
These are people that shoot down ships. Not only are
ships ships all over the world. They're shooting down right
out of the water and damaging them badly or they're
going down. They're also shooting anything that happens to be
flying in the area.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
We hit them very, very hard.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
There was no classified information as I understand it.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
They used a.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
App, if you want to call it an app that
a lot of people use, a lot of people in
government use, a lot of people in the big aus.
And I think I'll ask Mike, Mike is here. Do
you want to respond to theness?
Speaker 7 (10:37):
Yes, mister President, you asked about lessons. I think there's
a lot of the lessons. There's a lot of journalists
in this city who have made big names for themselves
making up lies about this president, whether it's the Russia
hoax or making up lies about gold Star families. And
this one in particular, i've never met.
Speaker 8 (10:55):
Don't know, never communicated with, And we are and we
are looking into and reviewing how the heck he got
into this room but I'll tell you what the world
owes President Trump of favor.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
Under Biden, global.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
Shipping was shut down, penprick attacks months between them, are
destroyers being fired upon dozens of times. President Trump took
decisive active action with his national security team, took out
the head missileer, knocked out missiles, knocked out headquarters, knocked
out communication sites, and for once, as we hear, as
(11:29):
you all hear from every one of our allies, thank
god for American leadership again, thank God for American strength,
your health. And we had a national security team that
was coordinating these efforts. As Director Ratcliffe testified today, his
(11:50):
first day on the job, he was introduced to this
app on his government systems at the CIA and at
the State Department and otherwise. So look this journalist, mister President.
Once the world talking about more hoaxes in this kind
of nonsense, rather than the freedom that you're enabling. And
a key part of our sovereignty is open sea lanes
(12:12):
and knocking the crop out of terrorists, which is exactly
what your team. And Pete Hexat, a good friend and
fellow veteran, is leading the charge on.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
And it's an honor orful excuse me. We had a
very very successful evening, and we've had numerous successful evenings
and days in that area. The Hoodies are absolutely on
the run. The worst of them had been killed. This
should have been done a long time ago by Biden.
But Biden was an incompetent president. He couldn't do anything.
(12:41):
He get in nowhere where it was going. He had
no clue. This guy had no clue. This should have
been done a long time ago. As they shoot missiles
at chips, randomly shoot missiles at chips, and they make
their own missiles. You know, this is not an incompetent
group of people. They make their own missiles. They get
the missiles also from Iran. It's an offshoot of Iran,
(13:02):
another offshoot. You have Hamas, you have Hesbula, you have
the Hoodies. You got a lot of stuff going on
with Iran, and we set a letter to Iran. You're
gonna have to be speaking to us one way or
the other pretty soon because we can't let this happen.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
But that's an app that a lot of people use.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
And somebody got on, I mean happened to know the
guy's in total sleevesberg.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
The Atlantic.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
The Atlantic is a failed magazine does very very poorly.
Nobody gives a damn about it. This gives it a
little bit of a shot. And I will tell you
this that they've made up more stories and they're just
a failing magazine.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
The public understands that he's a very good man.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
That man is a very good man right there that
you criticize so strong, he's a very good man and
he will continue to do good job. In addition to him,
we had very good people in that meeting, and those
people have done a very very effective job.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
And you're can see it, and it goes on. By
the way, it's going to go.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
On, and I think the hoodies wish that it didn't happen,
But that's what it's all about. We have to create
a safe country, a safe world, and that's what we're doing.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Security put it for.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
A spand rem president of senior officials using signal or
the use of signal to communicate from senior officials.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
I don't know anything about signal.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
I wasn't involved in this, but I just turn about
it and I hear it's used by a lot of groups.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
It's used by the media a lot.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
It's used by a lot of the military, and I
think successfully, but sometimes somebody can get onto those things.
That's one of the prices you pay when you're not
sitting in the situation room with no phones on, which
is always the best, frankly, but you know, you you
the best is to be there. In fact, oftentimes I've
been in the infectious Last week, I was in the
(14:57):
situation room with something very important and we had a
couple of people hooked up by line, and I said,
cancel the line, sorry, fellas. What you do is we'll
tell you all about the meeting, because I know people
do get on those lines, whether it's signal or anything else.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Yeah, are you going to change any procedures as a
result of this.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Well, I mean, look, we look at everything, and you know,
they've made a big deal out of this because we've
had two perfect months.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
We're bringing we are bringing in business.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
We have another one announced tomorrow, a big one, very big,
like in the history of our country.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
And I think probably a lot of people are saying
it's They started by saying it was the greatest first
month that a president has ever had, and I think
that's true. And now they say it's the best second month,
and they had to find something and this certainly we'll
look at this, But the main thing was nothing happened.
The attack was totally successful. It was I guess from
(15:53):
what I understand, took place during and it wasn't classified information.
So this was not class of now butch classified information.
It's probably a little bit different. But I always say
you have to learn from every experience. I think it
was very unfair the way they attacked Michael. He's a
good person. The person that was on just happens to
(16:15):
be a Slees bag. So maybe that's just coincidence.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
I don't know. I love it.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Maybe he's just you know, it's leeves bag. You can't
make it up.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Well, look, I got to say I love President Trump's
answer to this because he's very candid, he's very real.
He admits it was a screw up. It was a
mess up to add the journalist. But one of the
things that's most important is he strongly defends Mike Waltz.
Mike Waltz is Donald Trump's national security advisor. Mike is
a friend to mine. He's a very good man. Mike
(16:45):
is a veteran. He was in Special Forces he received
four Bronze Stars while serving combat tours in Afghanistan and
the Middle East and Africa. And he's smart, he's serious.
And I got to say, there are people who hate
President Trump that are trying to use this mess up
to attack Mike Waltz. And I was really glad the
(17:06):
President stood strongly with Mike Waltz. He's doing a very
good job. I had dinner with Mike just a few
weeks ago. He is a smart, serious leader focused on
defending this nation from our enemies. I also like that
the President focused on the underlying substance. Look, what we
(17:27):
did was a great victory for America. Joe Biden had
let four years go by of the who he's attacking,
American shipping companies, hurting American interests. And President Trump he's
been in office just over two months and he's already
standing up, taking out terrorists, fighting for American interests. That
is a huge, substant victory. I want to make another point.
(17:51):
There are some observers that are looking at the Trump
administration and her writing story saying the Trump administration is isaists.
They're not willing to engage and defend American interests. That
is wrong. Donald Trump is not an isolationist. America first
is not an isolationist philosophy. If you look at the
(18:14):
first term of President Trump, he took out General Solomoni
from Iran. That was incredibly important. General Solomoni had murdered
over six hundred American servicemen and women. He fought and
was vigorous taking out enemies of America. And it's worth
noting in the first few months of Trump's first term
(18:35):
he took out ISIS. ISIS had a caliphate larger than
the state of Indiana, and he utterly decimated and destroyed ISIS.
So Donald Trump his record, he is not an isolationist.
And this is a good illustration of this. The Huthies
are a proxy of Iran. They were attacking America. Joe
(18:55):
Biden was too weak to fight back, and Donald Trump,
in his first two months is already fighting back. And
the media wants to change the subject from the substance
of protecting America to attacks on the administration. I'm very glad.
I'm really happy with the President's defense of Mike Waltz
and the president's substance of defense of his policy defending America.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
You mentioned attacks. I want to move to this other subject,
and it deals unfortunately with the issue of actual attacks
and violence coming from the Democratic Party and the crazies
within it, threatening violence not only against you, but many others,
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And then there's people now they're threatening you. This seems
to be the Democratic Party's playbook. Now, if there's someone
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assassination attempt that actually got him. And now they don't
seem to be backing down at all.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Well, the Democrats today are the party of rage, the
party of anger. And I will say there's a house
member in Texas, Jasmine Crockett, who this week has been
a rough week for she has been unhinged. She has
called for violence against me. She has denigrated and mocked
Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, because he is in
(22:41):
a wheel wheelchair, because he has a disability. And it
really does show who today's Democrats are. And I want
you to listen to what she said first about me
and then about Greg Abbott. Give a listen, just in case.
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The slow people listening decide to click this up later.
I just want to say that I have never promoted
violence whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I think that you punch.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I think you punch.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I think you're okay with you okay with punching.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
You know, I think, and I love Colin, and I
think towards the end he started to punch a little harder.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
But like it's sad ruse.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
I mean, like this dude has to be knocks over
the head like hard, right, Like there is no niceties
with him, like at all, Like you go clean off
on him, right.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I hear that, and I just shake my head center
Because of course, when the fire is of the spotlight
is on her, she's like, oh, I've never called for violence,
And then you play the clip right there, it's very
clear what she's saying.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Look, I gotta admit I've never met this woman, Jasmine Crockett.
I don't know her. She's a new congresswoman from Texas.
She seems really angry, she seems really radical. She seems
to be the darling of the radical left because she
calls for crazy things I will tell you, Look, I've
been this Senate thirteen years. One of it's an incredible privilege.
(24:15):
I'm blessed. I jump out of bed every day excited
because I get to fight for Texas, I get to
fight for America. I will tell you one of the
downsides of this job. I have literally hundreds of death
threats against me.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
And by the way, I'm going to be clear, you
and I we spend a lot of time together. We travel.
There are a lot of people that come up and encourage.
But man, some of the things that people say. And
I've had the threats, not like you've had threats, but
it's like part of the business now. Which is the
worst part about it is that if you're in politics
and you're conservative, there are people that want you to
(24:51):
die and come after you. But you and I we
went to a game and people are screaming the F
bomb in front of your daughter who was with thus,
And there was several times that happened, and it's like
there is no just like, you're a dad in that moment,
you're a father. I'm a dad when I'm out my
son and someone get to my face to the HGB
(25:11):
and start screaming exers at me in a cereal io.
It's like, what is wrong with these people? And yet
it seems to be getting.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Worse not better. Yeah, look, there are a lot of
people that are just unhinged and filled with hate. And
I'll tell you, look, I'll vivian encouragement. Listen, the folks
that listen to verdict, you guys are amazing. I'm so
grateful for you. You're incredibly engaged and you're passionate, and
you're fighting to save this country. I will tell you,
(25:37):
when I travel around, the ratio of positive to negative comments,
it is more than ninety percent positive. It's probably ninety
five percent or even ninety eight percent positive. So it's encouraging.
When I'm out at airport, when I'm out at a
shopping mall, people say nice things. They say thank you,
they say that I appreciate you, and that's gratifying that
(25:59):
that makes me. There are regularly people who don't and
and people on the left. Now, I got to say
many of them on the left, when they say something negative,
they'll like screw up their courage that they'll run up
and they'll go f you and they'll just like yell
at me, and it's very funny. It's like, Wow, you
(26:21):
spent a long time thinking about that, and that was
the best you could come up with. That was very clever.
And my standard response, and unfortunately it happens often enough
that I have to have a standard response. My standard
response is I say God bless you. And I got
to tell you, it infuriates them. And you know, there's
(26:43):
a principle in the Bible that if you repay hatred
with kindness, that it is like piling hot coals on
their heads. So I'll say God bless you, and I'll smile,
I'll be very happy, like when they say f you
have my response is God bless you. And there was
one time in Houston where this this like liberal woman
(27:05):
screamed F you and I said God bless you. And
she's like, I don't want your God's love and I
said that's okay, Jesus loves you anyway. And it drove
her nuts, like like she almost had an aneurysm when
I said that. And I try to be smiling and
show a contrast. And I will say, just a couple
(27:29):
of days ago, I had a young woman who was
screaming F you, and I did say something to the
effect of your very charming, your mother, but it must
be very proud. How'd that turn out?
Speaker 6 (27:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
She just stormed off. And I'm sure as she was
driving home she's thought of fifty different responses, but she
didn't say any of them. She's just like, yeah, I
randomly scream f you at people at the airport. I'm
a great person. But listen when you have people on
the left, and listen, Jasmine is saying you need to
(28:02):
hit him in the head and hit him really hard.
I'll be honest, Ben, I really hope someone doesn't hit
me in the head really hard, like like I would
prefer not to have my brains bashed in.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
This is the part where I think it's a bigger
issue that concerns me. It's the dog whistles that come
from the leaders. Hit by the way Democratic Party, Donald
Trump push in your face.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
You had two assassins who tried to kill him. Yeah,
we've got Democrats who are firebombing Tesla and radical leftists
and no Democrat is condemning it. They are calling for violence.
These are the same people that had Antifa and Black
Lives Matter riots and and and so the threat of
violence is very real. We had at the at the
(28:43):
baseball practice, we had a radical leftist, a Bernie Sanders supporter,
who came and said, he asked someone, Hey, are those
Republicans there? They said yes, and he came with a
rifle and shot people and and had It was pure
happenstance that Steve Scalise, who was a member of House Leadership,
was there because he had a security detail, and that
(29:04):
security detail shot and killed this radical leftist. If let's
say Scalice had been ten minutes late that morning, let's
say he'd been delayed, he'd been taking his kids to school,
he'd been doing something else, and he was delayed, that
radical leftist would have murdered over a dozen House members
and two US senators. We came incredibly close to a
(29:28):
massacre because of the active solicitation of violence. And let
me be clear, this is on one side the leftist
calling for violence. I categorically opposed violence. I don't want
anyone to engage in violence against leftists. I'm not calling
for this nutcase Jasmine Crockett to face the violence. No, no, no, Now,
(29:50):
I think her views are anathema and I want you
to play what she said like a day or two later,
attacking Greg Abbott because it is equally noxious. Listen to this.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
We in these hot ass Texas streets, Honey, y'all know
we got governor hot wheels down there, Come on now,
and the only.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Thing hot about him is that he is a.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Hot ass mess honey.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
So so yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Yes, I mean you listen to that. It's like, one,
what do you think is going to come of that?
The other thing is the backdrop behind her is she's
literally speaking at the Human Rights Campaign and that's what
she's preaching and people are laughing and clapping as she's
on stage four again.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
But by the way, baby, do you do you know
why Greg Abbott is in a wheelchair?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah? It was, if I remember the story correctly, he
was running at the park and a random tree limb
fell on his head and paralyzed.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
It broke us back. And I'll tell you I worked
for him five and a half years. Greg Abbott is
a dear friend. He's been a boss, a mentor, and
he would tell a joke, Like when I first went
to work for him, he would tell a joke. He'd
get up and say, Okay, I know what you're thinking.
How slow was that guy running to get hit by
a tree? And like the first time he jokes about it,
(31:18):
you're not sure what to say, Like, wait, am I
allowed to laugh about it? And he would, he would
tell jokes about it, and you could be like, Okay,
I mean, I guess if you can joke about it,
I can laugh about it. But you know, it was tragic.
And he's been paralyzed for twenty plus maybe thirty plus years,
a long time in a wheelchair. And she's sitting there
(31:39):
at supposedly the Human Rights Campaign. Now it's a leftist
radical group that is obsessed with LGBT. I mean, that's
really what they exist. But they're cheering, yes, Governor hot wheels,
he's disabled in a wheelchair?
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Ha ha.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
What the hell's wrong with these people? I mean that
is that is nasty and hateful and it's who's today's
Democrat party is.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah, it really is, which brings me to a final
thing I want to talk about with you, and this
is one of those. It seems like this used to
be more effective dividing the country. That's what I think Crockett,
for example, loves to do. We divide and then hopefully
(32:27):
I can conquer by division, and that doesn't seem to
be working now with the American people. That's why it
seems like the president I think truly has a majority
support on virtually every issue that he's talking about right now,
an overwhelming support sixty five seventy five percent approval ratings
(32:47):
in certain categories. Because the Democratic Party does seem to
be floundering, and I'm talking about the entire party. I
think part of that is because the Democratic Party isn't
really a Democratic party anymore. They're Marxists and socialists and
communists masquerading around and so now people are looking at
him for what they are.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
And Ben, You're not the only person making that point.
I'm not the only person making that point. Just this week,
there was an article in Axios and Axios may be
the sort of most insidery Washington d C. Swampy media
outlet there is, and the lead reporters there, Jim Vanderheind
Mike Allen. They write a column that is really worth
(33:30):
reading because it's astonishing. It is entitled behind the Curtain
DEM's dark, deep Hole, and here's what they write. They say,
top Democrats tell us their party is in its deepest
toll in nearly fifty years, and they fear things could
actually get worse, and they lay out a series of
(33:53):
bullet points. The party has its lowest favorability ever, no
popular national leader to help improve it, insufficient numbers to
stop most legislation in Congress, a durable minority on the
Supreme Court, dwindling influence over the media ecosystem with right
(34:15):
wing with right leaning podcasters like Ted Cruz and Ben Ferguson,
I may be adding that to which I say, and
social media accounts ascendant, and that clearly is about verdict
with Ted Cruz and all of our incredible listeners. Another bulletpoint,
young voters are growing dramatically more conservative. A bad twenty
(34:40):
twenty six map for Senate races. Democratic Senate retirements could
make it harder for the party to flip the House.
With members tempted by statewide races. There are only three
House Republicans in districts former Vice President Harris I in
(35:00):
twenty twenty four, a dim signed for a Democratic surge.
There were twenty three eight years ago in seats Hillary
Clinton won, and thanks to the number of people fleeing
blue states, the math for a DEM to win the
presidency will just get harder in twenty thirty. Amen. Amen, Amen,
(35:28):
Amen to that.
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Welcome its verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you.
It's nice to have you with us on this Wednesday morning.
And there's a big controversy and a big story that
the media has just I mean, they've gone all in
on that deals with conversations that were had center on
the Signal app. A lot of people in government use it.
I use this app. It's encrypted, that's why they use it.
(00:23):
And a journalist it was inadvertently put on apparently one
of those text message threads.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Well, the media are a flutter with what they're calling
Signal Gate, which is this text thread on the app
Signal and it was about the military strikes against the
Huthis who have been attacking shipping shipping in the Suez Canal,
and inadvertently the National Security Advisor added this journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg,
(00:57):
who then wrote an article and I got to say,
it's an astonishing article. The media are going crazy and
they're using it as an excuse to attack President Trump,
to attack his national security team. Now we're going to
break down what exactly was going on there, What did
they do anything wrong? Were they talking about? What happened?
Why does it matter. We're going to break it all down.
(01:17):
We're also going to talk about what has happened to
the Democrat Party. They're getting angrier and angrier and angrier,
and they are embracing violence every day, they're calling for violence.
They are the Party of Rage. And finally, we're going
to talk about the media coverage about how the Democrats
are in a quote deep dark hole. That's not me,
(01:42):
that's Axios, one of the most mainstream corporate media outlets
there is, that says the Democrats are in the deepest
hole in fifty years. We're going to break that down.
How when a party decides it doesn't stand for anything,
When a party gets so radical that it abandons the voters,
When a party is formed only around one idea, which
(02:05):
is hatred for Donald J. Trump, that turns out not
to be a successful electoral strategy. We're going to talk
about that as well.
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So Senator. When this story broke, it was very clear
the media thought this was the moment where they could
turn the tables on Donald Trump as administer. I think
there was even some dreams of maybe someone gets fired
(04:04):
sixty days into this administration, the cabinet because of this
journalist report that I got on a text thread with
all these important people in Trump administration world. And now
I'm going to tell you what I saw.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Well, look what happened is there was a text thread
and it was using the app called Signal. Now, Signal
is an encrypted app. A lot of people in government
use it. You use it, I use it, a lot
of journalists use it. It's a way to communicate an
encrypted way that it is less likely to be intercepted.
(04:38):
And that there was a group chat that was created
by President Trump's national security advisor, Michael Waltz about the
upcoming strikes against the Houthis and Yemen, and bizarrely included
in the group was a journalist named Jeffrey Goldberg who
was at The Atlantic magazine. And jeff Beffrey Goldberg is
(05:00):
a liberal. He's a well known journalist, and it I
have no good explanation for why Jeffrey Goldberg was added.
He's the editor in chief of The Atlantic, and it
was a screw up, and and and let's start with that.
It was clearly a screw up. It was embarrassing. It
it's sort of comparable to a butt dial. You know, Look,
(05:23):
I've inadvertently sent texts to the wrong person. I'm sure
you have. In this instance, it was clear it was
a mistake. He was not meant to be added to
this group, and suddenly, bizarrely he is getting text about
an upcoming military strike. So that was bad. At the
end of the day. Though, what is striking, although although
(05:44):
you're seeing the sharks circle and trying to attack the
president of the National Security Team, is the underlying substance
of what's being discussed is actually quite good. So the
substance of what's being discussed. The Huthies are radical Islamic terrorists.
They're based in Yemen, and they are funded by Iran.
(06:04):
They are Iran proxies, and they have been for months,
for years attacking shipping in and around the Suez Canal,
and they've been shutting down a massive amount of shipping
at the Suez Canal and that has had a real
consequence to Americans. So listen, when you go to the
(06:26):
grocery store, when you go to the department store, you
are paying significantly higher prices because the Huthis have been
shutting down shipping through the Suez Canal, which makes shipping
and transportation cost much much higher. And I got to say,
for four years, Joe Biden, the Democrats, they didn't do
a damn thing. They let radical Islamic terrorists engage in
(06:52):
acts of terrorism and shut down shipping, slow down shipping.
And what has happened in the first two months of
the Trump administration is President Trump gave an instruction to
his team. He said, open up the shipping lanes. Let's
go after the Houthies. And by the way, we carried
out a military strike hit the Houthis and did real damage.
(07:15):
And so this entire text chain is the national security
leadership of the Trump administration talking about this upcoming strike,
and the strike was a massive success. So on substance,
we got to be thrilled. We actually have a commander
in chief who's standing up for America, who's defending American shipping,
(07:35):
is defending American interests, who's fighting terrorists who hate America.
All of that is a massive contrast from what happened
under Joe Biden. What was the mistake? The mistake was
inadvertently they added this journalist who then wrote this sort
of breathless bombshell story about I was on this text
about the war plans, and again it was a screw up.
(07:58):
It was embarrassing, but the under lying substance every one
of us ought to be really happy about.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
You mentioned that this was one of those moments that, look,
the press wanted to go ballistic on. There was also
really I think a smart move by the White House
to have no problem having a conversation about this. The
President didn't run away from it. There was no no comment,
there was much. There was a lot of like openness
and conversation, like, hey, we're more than happy to talk
(08:27):
about this. I actually think the American people appreciate that,
because usually when they're screw ups, Amen, everybody just disappears
from you know, accountability or even answering questions or saying
we can't talk about this time or it deals with
classified there's always a million excuses. The president didn't use
any of those, like let's talk about it and he
did it in front of the journalists, in front of
(08:48):
this entire cabinet as well.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, so let me make a couple comments on this.
Number One, During four years of Biden's presidency, he hit
hid from the press, he didn't press conferences, he didn't
take questions, and it's not complicated why his mental condition
was so deteriorated that nobody trust him to take questions.
Donald Trump is taking questions. It seems like every day
(09:13):
he's answering hard questions. And so today at the White
House he was asked about reporters about what happened here,
and we're going to play a segment, and this is
a lengthy segment, but it's worth listening to because the
president explains what's going on. I think his answers here
are terrific and it's worth really listening to what he says.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
So give a listen, mister president, are you going to
change in you to practices that your national security officials used?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Acker reporter was inaffortently added to a group chat about
attacks on Evan.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Well, I think it's a question I've been asked now
and I've given it a few answers, and they've all
been the same. We have an amazing group or national
security now is stronger than it's ever been. We have
I've had a very very successful numerous attacks.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
In that area.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
These are people that shoot down ships. Not only are
ships ships all over the world. They're shooting down right
out of the water and damaging them badly or they're
going down. They're also shooting anything that happens to be
flying in the area.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
We hit them very, very hard.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
There was no classified information as I understand it.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
They used a.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
App, if you want to call it an app that
a lot of people use, a lot of people in
government use, a lot of people in the big aus.
And I think I'll ask Mike, Mike is here. Do
you want to respond to theness?
Speaker 7 (10:37):
Yes, mister President, you asked about lessons. I think there's
a lot of the lessons. There's a lot of journalists
in this city who have made big names for themselves
making up lies about this president, whether it's the Russia
hoax or making up lies about gold Star families. And
this one in particular, i've never met.
Speaker 8 (10:55):
Don't know, never communicated with, And we are and we
are looking into and reviewing how the heck he got
into this room but I'll tell you what the world
owes President Trump of favor.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
Under Biden, global.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
Shipping was shut down, penprick attacks months between them, are
destroyers being fired upon dozens of times. President Trump took
decisive active action with his national security team, took out
the head missileer, knocked out missiles, knocked out headquarters, knocked
out communication sites, and for once, as we hear, as
(11:29):
you all hear from every one of our allies, thank
god for American leadership again, thank God for American strength,
your health. And we had a national security team that
was coordinating these efforts. As Director Ratcliffe testified today, his
(11:50):
first day on the job, he was introduced to this
app on his government systems at the CIA and at
the State Department and otherwise. So look this journalist, mister President.
Once the world talking about more hoaxes in this kind
of nonsense, rather than the freedom that you're enabling. And
a key part of our sovereignty is open sea lanes
(12:12):
and knocking the crop out of terrorists, which is exactly
what your team. And Pete Hexat, a good friend and
fellow veteran, is leading the charge on.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
And it's an honor orful excuse me. We had a
very very successful evening, and we've had numerous successful evenings
and days in that area. The Hoodies are absolutely on
the run. The worst of them had been killed. This
should have been done a long time ago by Biden.
But Biden was an incompetent president. He couldn't do anything.
(12:41):
He get in nowhere where it was going. He had
no clue. This guy had no clue. This should have
been done a long time ago. As they shoot missiles
at chips, randomly shoot missiles at chips, and they make
their own missiles. You know, this is not an incompetent
group of people. They make their own missiles. They get
the missiles also from Iran. It's an offshoot of Iran,
(13:02):
another offshoot. You have Hamas, you have Hesbula, you have
the Hoodies. You got a lot of stuff going on
with Iran, and we set a letter to Iran. You're
gonna have to be speaking to us one way or
the other pretty soon because we can't let this happen.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
But that's an app that a lot of people use.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
And somebody got on, I mean happened to know the
guy's in total sleevesberg.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
The Atlantic.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
The Atlantic is a failed magazine does very very poorly.
Nobody gives a damn about it. This gives it a
little bit of a shot. And I will tell you
this that they've made up more stories and they're just
a failing magazine.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
The public understands that he's a very good man.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
That man is a very good man right there that
you criticize so strong, he's a very good man and
he will continue to do good job. In addition to him,
we had very good people in that meeting, and those
people have done a very very effective job.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
And you're can see it, and it goes on. By
the way, it's going to go.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
On, and I think the hoodies wish that it didn't happen,
But that's what it's all about. We have to create
a safe country, a safe world, and that's what we're doing.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Security put it for.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
A spand rem president of senior officials using signal or
the use of signal to communicate from senior officials.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
I don't know anything about signal.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
I wasn't involved in this, but I just turn about
it and I hear it's used by a lot of groups.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
It's used by the media a lot.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
It's used by a lot of the military, and I
think successfully, but sometimes somebody can get onto those things.
That's one of the prices you pay when you're not
sitting in the situation room with no phones on, which
is always the best, frankly, but you know, you you
the best is to be there. In fact, oftentimes I've
been in the infectious Last week, I was in the
(14:57):
situation room with something very important and we had a
couple of people hooked up by line, and I said,
cancel the line, sorry, fellas. What you do is we'll
tell you all about the meeting, because I know people
do get on those lines, whether it's signal or anything else.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Yeah, are you going to change any procedures as a
result of this.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Well, I mean, look, we look at everything, and you know,
they've made a big deal out of this because we've
had two perfect months.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
We're bringing we are bringing in business.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
We have another one announced tomorrow, a big one, very big,
like in the history of our country.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
And I think probably a lot of people are saying
it's They started by saying it was the greatest first
month that a president has ever had, and I think
that's true. And now they say it's the best second month,
and they had to find something and this certainly we'll
look at this, But the main thing was nothing happened.
The attack was totally successful. It was I guess from
(15:53):
what I understand, took place during and it wasn't classified information.
So this was not class of now butch classified information.
It's probably a little bit different. But I always say
you have to learn from every experience. I think it
was very unfair the way they attacked Michael. He's a
good person. The person that was on just happens to
(16:15):
be a Slees bag. So maybe that's just coincidence.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
I don't know. I love it.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Maybe he's just you know, it's leeves bag. You can't
make it up.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Well, look, I got to say I love President Trump's
answer to this because he's very candid, he's very real.
He admits it was a screw up. It was a
mess up to add the journalist. But one of the
things that's most important is he strongly defends Mike Waltz.
Mike Waltz is Donald Trump's national security advisor. Mike is
a friend to mine. He's a very good man. Mike
(16:45):
is a veteran. He was in Special Forces he received
four Bronze Stars while serving combat tours in Afghanistan and
the Middle East and Africa. And he's smart, he's serious.
And I got to say, there are people who hate
President Trump that are trying to use this mess up
to attack Mike Waltz. And I was really glad the
(17:06):
President stood strongly with Mike Waltz. He's doing a very
good job. I had dinner with Mike just a few
weeks ago. He is a smart, serious leader focused on
defending this nation from our enemies. I also like that
the President focused on the underlying substance. Look, what we
(17:27):
did was a great victory for America. Joe Biden had
let four years go by of the who he's attacking,
American shipping companies, hurting American interests. And President Trump he's
been in office just over two months and he's already
standing up, taking out terrorists, fighting for American interests. That
is a huge, substant victory. I want to make another point.
(17:51):
There are some observers that are looking at the Trump
administration and her writing story saying the Trump administration is isaists.
They're not willing to engage and defend American interests. That
is wrong. Donald Trump is not an isolationist. America first
is not an isolationist philosophy. If you look at the
(18:14):
first term of President Trump, he took out General Solomoni
from Iran. That was incredibly important. General Solomoni had murdered
over six hundred American servicemen and women. He fought and
was vigorous taking out enemies of America. And it's worth
noting in the first few months of Trump's first term
(18:35):
he took out ISIS. ISIS had a caliphate larger than
the state of Indiana, and he utterly decimated and destroyed ISIS.
So Donald Trump his record, he is not an isolationist.
And this is a good illustration of this. The Huthies
are a proxy of Iran. They were attacking America. Joe
(18:55):
Biden was too weak to fight back, and Donald Trump,
in his first two months is already fighting back. And
the media wants to change the subject from the substance
of protecting America to attacks on the administration. I'm very glad.
I'm really happy with the President's defense of Mike Waltz
and the president's substance of defense of his policy defending America.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
You mentioned attacks. I want to move to this other subject,
and it deals unfortunately with the issue of actual attacks
and violence coming from the Democratic Party and the crazies
within it, threatening violence not only against you, but many others,
and even mocking Texas Governor Greg Abbott. And I want
(19:40):
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so center there, there's been a lot of violence. We've
witnessed this. It's been directed towards Elon Musk. Threats against
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Elon Musk threats now are expanding to Tesla dealerships. We're
finding in sinerary devices, bombs and dealership for example in Austin, Texas.
And then there's people now they're threatening you. This seems
to be the Democratic Party's playbook. Now, if there's someone
we don't like, we go out after them, We go
after their businesses. We tried to destroy what they built,
We try to financially ruin him. All of this, what
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they did to Donald Trump, and we saw that the
rhetoric literally almost cost Donald Trump's life in that first
assassination attempt that actually got him. And now they don't
seem to be backing down at all.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Well, the Democrats today are the party of rage, the
party of anger. And I will say there's a house
member in Texas, Jasmine Crockett, who this week has been
a rough week for she has been unhinged. She has
called for violence against me. She has denigrated and mocked
Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, because he is in
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a wheel wheelchair, because he has a disability. And it
really does show who today's Democrats are. And I want
you to listen to what she said first about me
and then about Greg Abbott. Give a listen, just in case.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
The slow people listening decide to click this up later.
I just want to say that I have never promoted
violence whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I think that you punch.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I think you punch.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I think you're okay with you okay with punching.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
You know, I think, and I love Colin, and I
think towards the end he started to punch a little harder.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
But like it's sad ruse.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
I mean, like this dude has to be knocks over
the head like hard, right, Like there is no niceties
with him, like at all, Like you go clean off
on him, right.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I hear that, and I just shake my head center
Because of course, when the fire is of the spotlight
is on her, she's like, oh, I've never called for violence,
And then you play the clip right there, it's very
clear what she's saying.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Look, I gotta admit I've never met this woman, Jasmine Crockett.
I don't know her. She's a new congresswoman from Texas.
She seems really angry, she seems really radical. She seems
to be the darling of the radical left because she
calls for crazy things I will tell you, Look, I've
been this Senate thirteen years. One of it's an incredible privilege.
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I'm blessed. I jump out of bed every day excited
because I get to fight for Texas, I get to
fight for America. I will tell you one of the
downsides of this job. I have literally hundreds of death
threats against me.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
And by the way, I'm going to be clear, you
and I we spend a lot of time together. We travel.
There are a lot of people that come up and encourage.
But man, some of the things that people say. And
I've had the threats, not like you've had threats, but
it's like part of the business now. Which is the
worst part about it is that if you're in politics
and you're conservative, there are people that want you to
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die and come after you. But you and I we
went to a game and people are screaming the F
bomb in front of your daughter who was with thus,
And there was several times that happened, and it's like
there is no just like, you're a dad in that moment,
you're a father. I'm a dad when I'm out my
son and someone get to my face to the HGB
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and start screaming exers at me in a cereal io.
It's like, what is wrong with these people? And yet
it seems to be getting.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Worse not better. Yeah, look, there are a lot of
people that are just unhinged and filled with hate. And
I'll tell you, look, I'll vivian encouragement. Listen, the folks
that listen to verdict, you guys are amazing. I'm so
grateful for you. You're incredibly engaged and you're passionate, and
you're fighting to save this country. I will tell you,
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when I travel around, the ratio of positive to negative comments,
it is more than ninety percent positive. It's probably ninety
five percent or even ninety eight percent positive. So it's encouraging.
When I'm out at airport, when I'm out at a
shopping mall, people say nice things. They say thank you,
they say that I appreciate you, and that's gratifying that
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that makes me. There are regularly people who don't and
and people on the left. Now, I got to say
many of them on the left, when they say something negative,
they'll like screw up their courage that they'll run up
and they'll go f you and they'll just like yell
at me, and it's very funny. It's like, Wow, you
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spent a long time thinking about that, and that was
the best you could come up with. That was very clever.
And my standard response, and unfortunately it happens often enough
that I have to have a standard response. My standard
response is I say God bless you. And I got
to tell you, it infuriates them. And you know, there's
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a principle in the Bible that if you repay hatred
with kindness, that it is like piling hot coals on
their heads. So I'll say God bless you, and I'll smile,
I'll be very happy, like when they say f you
have my response is God bless you. And there was
one time in Houston where this this like liberal woman
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screamed F you and I said God bless you. And
she's like, I don't want your God's love and I
said that's okay, Jesus loves you anyway. And it drove
her nuts, like like she almost had an aneurysm when
I said that. And I try to be smiling and
show a contrast. And I will say, just a couple
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of days ago, I had a young woman who was
screaming F you, and I did say something to the
effect of your very charming, your mother, but it must
be very proud. How'd that turn out?
Speaker 6 (27:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
She just stormed off. And I'm sure as she was
driving home she's thought of fifty different responses, but she
didn't say any of them. She's just like, yeah, I
randomly scream f you at people at the airport. I'm
a great person. But listen when you have people on
the left, and listen, Jasmine is saying you need to
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hit him in the head and hit him really hard.
I'll be honest, Ben, I really hope someone doesn't hit
me in the head really hard, like like I would
prefer not to have my brains bashed in.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
This is the part where I think it's a bigger
issue that concerns me. It's the dog whistles that come
from the leaders. Hit by the way Democratic Party, Donald
Trump push in your face.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
You had two assassins who tried to kill him. Yeah,
we've got Democrats who are firebombing Tesla and radical leftists
and no Democrat is condemning it. They are calling for violence.
These are the same people that had Antifa and Black
Lives Matter riots and and and so the threat of
violence is very real. We had at the at the
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baseball practice, we had a radical leftist, a Bernie Sanders supporter,
who came and said, he asked someone, Hey, are those
Republicans there? They said yes, and he came with a
rifle and shot people and and had It was pure
happenstance that Steve Scalise, who was a member of House Leadership,
was there because he had a security detail, and that
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security detail shot and killed this radical leftist. If let's
say Scalice had been ten minutes late that morning, let's
say he'd been delayed, he'd been taking his kids to school,
he'd been doing something else, and he was delayed, that
radical leftist would have murdered over a dozen House members
and two US senators. We came incredibly close to a
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massacre because of the active solicitation of violence. And let
me be clear, this is on one side the leftist
calling for violence. I categorically opposed violence. I don't want
anyone to engage in violence against leftists. I'm not calling
for this nutcase Jasmine Crockett to face the violence. No, no, no, Now,
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I think her views are anathema and I want you
to play what she said like a day or two later,
attacking Greg Abbott because it is equally noxious. Listen to this.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
We in these hot ass Texas streets, Honey, y'all know
we got governor hot wheels down there, Come on now,
and the only.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Thing hot about him is that he is a.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Hot ass mess honey.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
So so yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Yes, I mean you listen to that. It's like, one,
what do you think is going to come of that?
The other thing is the backdrop behind her is she's
literally speaking at the Human Rights Campaign and that's what
she's preaching and people are laughing and clapping as she's
on stage four again.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
But by the way, baby, do you do you know
why Greg Abbott is in a wheelchair?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah? It was, if I remember the story correctly, he
was running at the park and a random tree limb
fell on his head and paralyzed.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
It broke us back. And I'll tell you I worked
for him five and a half years. Greg Abbott is
a dear friend. He's been a boss, a mentor, and
he would tell a joke, Like when I first went
to work for him, he would tell a joke. He'd
get up and say, Okay, I know what you're thinking.
How slow was that guy running to get hit by
a tree? And like the first time he jokes about it,
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you're not sure what to say, Like, wait, am I
allowed to laugh about it? And he would, he would
tell jokes about it, and you could be like, Okay,
I mean, I guess if you can joke about it,
I can laugh about it. But you know, it was tragic.
And he's been paralyzed for twenty plus maybe thirty plus years,
a long time in a wheelchair. And she's sitting there
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at supposedly the Human Rights Campaign. Now it's a leftist
radical group that is obsessed with LGBT. I mean, that's
really what they exist. But they're cheering, yes, Governor hot wheels,
he's disabled in a wheelchair?
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Ha ha.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
What the hell's wrong with these people? I mean that
is that is nasty and hateful and it's who's today's
Democrat party is.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah, it really is, which brings me to a final
thing I want to talk about with you, and this
is one of those. It seems like this used to
be more effective dividing the country. That's what I think Crockett,
for example, loves to do. We divide and then hopefully
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I can conquer by division, and that doesn't seem to
be working now with the American people. That's why it
seems like the president I think truly has a majority
support on virtually every issue that he's talking about right now,
an overwhelming support sixty five seventy five percent approval ratings
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in certain categories. Because the Democratic Party does seem to
be floundering, and I'm talking about the entire party. I
think part of that is because the Democratic Party isn't
really a Democratic party anymore. They're Marxists and socialists and
communists masquerading around and so now people are looking at
him for what they are.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
And Ben, You're not the only person making that point.
I'm not the only person making that point. Just this week,
there was an article in Axios and Axios may be
the sort of most insidery Washington d C. Swampy media
outlet there is, and the lead reporters there, Jim Vanderheind
Mike Allen. They write a column that is really worth
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reading because it's astonishing. It is entitled behind the Curtain
DEM's dark, deep Hole, and here's what they write. They say,
top Democrats tell us their party is in its deepest
toll in nearly fifty years, and they fear things could
actually get worse, and they lay out a series of
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bullet points. The party has its lowest favorability ever, no
popular national leader to help improve it, insufficient numbers to
stop most legislation in Congress, a durable minority on the
Supreme Court, dwindling influence over the media ecosystem with right
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wing with right leaning podcasters like Ted Cruz and Ben Ferguson,
I may be adding that to which I say, and
social media accounts ascendant, and that clearly is about verdict
with Ted Cruz and all of our incredible listeners. Another bulletpoint,
young voters are growing dramatically more conservative. A bad twenty
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twenty six map for Senate races. Democratic Senate retirements could
make it harder for the party to flip the House.
With members tempted by statewide races. There are only three
House Republicans in districts former Vice President Harris I in
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twenty twenty four, a dim signed for a Democratic surge.
There were twenty three eight years ago in seats Hillary
Clinton won, and thanks to the number of people fleeing
blue states, the math for a DEM to win the
presidency will just get harder in twenty thirty. Amen. Amen, Amen,
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Amen to that.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
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