On this bonus episode of Verdict with Ted Cruz:
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Government Shutdown Narrative
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Democrats blamed for deliberately causing the shutdown for political reasons.
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Framed as Chuck Schumer’s attempt to appeal to progressive factions like AOC.
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House Republicans passed a “clean CR” (continuing resolution) to keep government funding stable, but Democrats rejected it.
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Healthcare for Illegal Immigrants
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Democrats WANT taxpayer-funded healthcare for undocumented immigrants.
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Cited past Democratic presidential debate where all candidates raised hands in support of coverage for undocumented immigrants.
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References to California and New York already providing state-level healthcare to undocumented immigrants.
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Argument that Democrats are gaslighting the public by denying this stance.
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Crime in “Blue Cities”
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Senate Judiciary Committee hearing highlighted as focusing on rising crime rates in Democrat-led cities.
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Claims that progressive DAs, often linked to George Soros funding, refuse to prosecute violent criminals.
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Examples cited: New York, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Milwaukee DA cases.
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Pattern described of criminals repeatedly being released and reoffending.
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Defund the Police & Bail Reform
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Criticism of Democratic-led efforts to defund or reduce police funding (examples: Minneapolis, New York, Austin).
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Soros-backed DAs accused of eliminating cash bail, downgrading felonies, and prioritizing criminals over victims.
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Proposed Solutions
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Sen. Cruz mentions his “Clean DC Act,” aimed at reversing soft-on-crime laws in Washington, D.C.
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Advocates stronger penalties and more police support.
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Credits Trump with using the National Guard to reduce crime in DC.
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Left-Wing Violence
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Democratic rhetoric is causing violent outcomes (e.g., BLM riots, anti-Semitic incidents, ICE facility attacks).
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Claims left-wing activists celebrate violence while conservatives condemn it.
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Mentions assassination attempts (Trump, Justice Kavanaugh) and murder of Charlie Kirk as examples of left-inspired violence.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It is Verdict with Center, Ted Kruz, Ben Ferguson with
you as well. We are right in the middle of
a government shut down that Democrats were yearning for.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
It's the Schumer shut down.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
But there's also a lot of misinformation or as I
like to call it, lies that are coming out of
this shutdown, and things that Democrats are accusing Republicans are
that just aren't true, and we're going to cover that
today as well.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Well. The Schumer shutdown continues. The federal government is partially
shut down. Between seventeen and eighteen percent of the federal
government is closed. It's going to stay closed as long
as the Democrats continue their temper tantrum. But at the
same time, we're also getting a bit of a history lesson.
Seventy six years ago, George Orwell wrote the classic book
nineteen eighty four about the oppressive totalitarian government he perceived
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of the future, and also about Orwellian doublespeak. And I
got to say, Chuck Schumer and the Democrats in Congress
are doing an illustration of this now. They are gaslighting
the American people. They are attempting to argue things that
are simply false. In particular, to shift from a book
to a movie like Casablanca. They are shocked, shocked to
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find there's gambling, and they're shocked shocked to find that
anyone is saying that they want free, taxpayer provided health
care for illegal aliens. Well, the nice thing about this
podcast is is that we bring the receipts. So we're
going to lay out the actual facts because the Democrats
are gaslighting, the media is gaslighting, and the facts are
clear that this is the Schumer shutdown and it's going
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to end when they cave. We're also going to talk
about a hearing that was in the Senate Judiciary Committee
this past week focused on rising crime and the horrific
murder rates and crime rates in blue cities and the
Democrat policies of releasing violent criminals that endanger their citizens.
Democrats have decided they are all in not in support
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of protecting innocent families, but rather in support of the
murderers and rapists and child molesters that Soros DA's are
releasing onto the streets. We're going to break those facts
down as well, and finally, we're going to talk about
the continued pattern of left wing ideologically motivated violence whether
it is attacks on ICE agents and ICE facilities, or
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whether it is yet another horrific anti Semitic attack in
Great Britain. Over and over again we see the extreme
rhetoric from the left has deadly real world consequences. All
of that on today's podcast.
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so let's just give a quick overview of the shutdown,
real quick center for people that are just joining us.
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This shutdown was premeditated. It was well thought out and
organized by the left. And this is all because Chuck
Schumer need to say, hey, crazy, he's in the Democratic Party.
I promise I'm crazy. Please AOC don't primary me, and
you don't get rid of me as being your leader.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Well, I'm not sure I would say it was well
thought out, but it was certainly premeditied. And you're right.
You put your finger on the reason, which is Chuck
Schumer and the Democrats have a political crisis. And the
political crisis actually has nothing to do with government funding.
It has to do with the rise of the extreme
left in the Democrat Party and Schumer. Several months ago,
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Schumer worked with Republicans to keep the government open and
that was the responsible thing to do, and so of
course the crazy left wing fringe got furious and they
almost cost him his job. And in fact it's striking
Democrat Senate candidates all across the country are being asked,
do you support Chuck Schumer to be leader of the
Democrat Party, And to a person, not a one of
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them is saying yes. Nobody's saying yes. It's that bad.
AOC is breathing down his neck, he's looking over his
left shoulder at her. And so this shut down is
really Schumer beating his chest and saying, see, I hate
Donald Trump too. I can shut the whole federal government down,
aren't I tough?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Now?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
What's interesting he doesn't have an exit ramp. He doesn't
have a plan to end this. This is just a
temper tantrum. And amazingly, almost all the Democrats are standing
with him, all but three. The first couple of times
we voted, all but three Democrats voted shut the government down. Now,
the ostensible policy demand they're making is they want free,
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taxpayer provided health care for illegal aliens. Although the amazing
thing I mentioned nineteen eighty four a minute ago, they
are engaged in doublespeak where Democrats are going on TV
and saying no, no, no, we don't want free health care
for illegals. That's not remotely what this is about. And
the media CNN, boy, they are spinning so fast that
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they are like windmills in a tornado. They're spinning so fast.
So I'm going to give you three compelling reasons to
demonstrate that they are utterly full of crap when they
are lying to you. Reason number one, the actual text
of the Democrats CR. Now, what's a CR. A CR
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is a continuing resolution. It is legislation that keeps funding
for the government going. The House representatives controlled by Republicans
past what's called a clean CR. That means all the
House did is say the funding that we had a
couple of days ago keeps on going tomorrow. We fund
everything at exactly the same levels. We change nothing, We
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just keep the lights on. We don't shut the government down.
We keep going. That's what the House passed. Now, when
Joe Biden was president, do you know how many times
Republicans worked with Democrats to pass a clean CR and
keep the government open for Joe Biden?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
More than a dozen if I remember correctly.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Thirteen thirteen times the House is passed a clean CR
the Senate. We voted repeatedly on the clean CR. If
the Democrats voted yes, boom, the government would stay open.
What they've done instead is they have not a clean CR.
They have a CR that keeps government open. But it
also repeals major portions of the One Big Beautiful Bill
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and in particular provides for healthcare free taxpayer healthcare for illegals. Now,
let me read you the text from the Democrat CR.
On page fifty six of the Democrat R. It says,
Subtitle B of Title seven of the Act, titled an
Act to Provide for Reconciliation pursuant to Title two of
h Conreds fourteen Public Law one nineteen twenty one, is repealed,
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and any law or regulation referred to in such subtitles
shall be applied as if such subtitle and the amendments
made by such subtitle had not been enacted. In no
event shall payment be made to a state under this
section for medical assistance furnished to an individual unless such
individual is a a resident of one of the fifty States,
the District of Columbia, or a territory of the United States,
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and b either a citizen or national of the United States,
or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residency. That's the
language they're repealing. It says you have to be a
US citizen or a legal immigrant to be eligible for medicaid.
That's the language they want to repeal. I'll tell you
what else they want to repeal. They want to repeal
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section seven to one to one zero nine, entitled Alien
Medicaid Eligibility. That's further language that makes clear that illegal
aliens are not eligible for Medicaid. They also want to
eliminate section seven one two oh one, limiting medicaid coverage
of certain individuals. They want to eliminate section seventy one
to three to OZHO three, requiring verification of eligibility for
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premium tax credit. All of that is what they're trying
to get rid of. That's number one on the express
terms of what they're doing. Here's a second point. Every
time you see a Democrat or anyone from the corporate
media aligning to you and say Democrats don't want to
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prove free health care free illegals, I want you to
remember the debate in the presidential election with all the
Democrat candidates. Now, for those of you watching on YouTube,
you're about to see it. But if you're not watching
on YouTube, just listen and we'll describe what happens here.
Give a listen and give a watch.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Raise your handed government, if your government plan would provide
coverage for undocumented immigrants.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
That's everybody center everyday for those of.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
You all just listening, listening on radio or listening on podcasts.
Every single Democrat candidate, every one of them, raise their hand.
Poor Joe Biden, he looks around, he's a little sort
of scared, and he's the last one whose hands shakily
goes up when he realizes, uh oh, my party is
now all crazy people. This is what we have to say.
So just I promise you, if you turn on the TV,
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you're going to see Democrats lying to you saying we
don't want health care free illegals. All of them. There
was not a single candidate for president who disagreed. That
is the position of the party across the board. But
here's argument number three. If they didn't want free health
care for illegals, why are they shutting down the government
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that they say right now? Well, existing law prohibits providing
health care to illegals, and they're deliberately lying to you.
If that's true, why would they want to repeal the
language from the Reconciliation bill that blocked illegals from getting
the benefits. The reason they're going all in, the reason
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they're willing to shut the entire federal government down, is
they've made the decision that their party is all about
open borders and free stuff for everyone, especially illegals. I
don't understand why. I genuinely don't understand why today's Democrats
have decided they care more about helping illegal immigrants in
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this country and in some instances, violent criminals and gangbangers,
then they do American taxpayers. Then they do American citizens
who go and work hard, provide for their family, pay taxes.
And apparently they do all of that in order to
give free health care to illegals. And by the way,
remember this also, you know, because they admit it, both
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California and New York provide free health care to illegals.
Gavin Newsom campaigned on this. He was very proud of
saying We're going to give free health care to illegals.
And here's one of the games that Senate Democrats are
playing is California says it pays for the health care
for illegals with state funds, but money is fungible, and
so the federal government is flowing money into California, they
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use it, they fill one bucket with it, and they
use state money for the illegals. But it all goes
to the same effect. That is why the Democrats are
willing to force a government shutdown, and they have forced
to government shut down because the eligibility requirements of the
One Big Beautiful Bill have real teeth to them, and
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the Democrats are panicking about it. If they had no teeth,
if this wasn't happening, why would they throw this gigantic fight.
It makes no sense. And the Democrats know this.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah, I think they certainly do as well.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
And this goes back to why I think it's shocking
Democrats are still digging in on this shutdown center, and
that is because the American people are not behind this.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
They don't support it.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Even almost fifty percent of Democrats it's upper forties now
of Democrats say they're not in favor of this shutdown.
So this really does go back to what you and
I were talking about a moment ago. This is all
Chuck Schumer's shutting down the US government to try to
save his own political future.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Look, that is exactly right. And if you're not inclined
to believe me, if you're not inclined to believe Ben,
take a listen to Chris Cuomo fact checking the Democrat
lies on.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
This is not true.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
The Republican partisan spending bill that they introduced is not clean. Well,
first of all, let's be clear, it's not a clean bill.
It's a dirty bill. Well, that's all a lie. It's
not a clean continuing resolution.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Listen, I like how keem Jeffries. I think he's got
an amazing future. He's got better fights than this. This
is a clean CR. What does that mean? By the way,
continuing resolution instead of passing a real budget like they should,
this just says, hey, remember the last one, let's just
continue at those levels again, all right. Now. That may
mean that certain people who should get less won't, certain
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people who need more won't, But a clean CR means
that this is an extension from the last set of
in this case, Biden's spending levels. Okay, that's what a
clean CR is. This is a clean CR. Wait a minute,
Cuomo disagrees with Jeffries. Jeffries must be right. Don't take
my word, take the word. I'm a nonpartisan committee for
a responsible federal budget. They say this is about as
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clean ACR as you could get. Okay, again, it's a
continuation of a March stopgap measure.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
This is literally going and saying we're going to keep
Joe Biden's budget. Like that's the easiest way I can
describe this and understand.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
That is Chris Cuomo. That is former CNN primetime star.
That is loud, vocal Democrat Chris Cuomo saying, Hakeem Jeffries,
the Democrat leader in the House, is lying to you
because you know what he is. He's gas lighting. And
kudos to Chris Cuomo for having the guts to speak
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the truth. I wish his old colleagues at CNN could
follow suit.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
All right, I want to move to something else, and
that's really important. The Senate Judiciary is having a big
hearing and it deals with blue city chaos, democratic run cities.
The report that's out now is pretty cool. Are the
top twenty most crime ridden cities. Eighteen of them are
controlled by left wing hard court Democrats, and you guys
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are now looking into this, So what does this actually mean.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Well, this week the Judiciary Committee held a hearing on
out of control crime in Democrat cities, and it really
is horrific the policies. It turns out, when you let
violent criminals go, when you undermine the police, when you
put in place prosecutors who won't prosecute crime, you get
more crime. This summer, the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley's
the chairman, put out a report that showed that the
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Biden Department of Justice sent taxpayer funded grants to Soros
backed soft on crime and goos. And in particular, here's
what the report said. Under the Biden Harris administration, the
Vera Institute was awarded millions of taxpayer dollars to prop
up left wing district attorneys who would then partner with
the Vera Institute to implement Soros backed progressive policies. These
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policies included prioritizing violent criminals over victims and declining to
fully prosecute felony charges including assault, kidnapping, rape, and murder.
And here's some of the key findings from the report.
In New York, New York County DA Alvin Bragg partnered
with the VERA Institute and declined to prosecute certain misdemeanor felonies,
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actively working to downgrade felony charges to misdemeanors, and refused
to detain criminals before their trials. Meanwhile, Bragg attempted to
prosecute President Donald Trump for federal campaign finance violations. In
the year twenty twenty five, there were over forty eight
thousand individuals arrested for misdemeanors in New York County WOW,
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but only three thousand of them were detained. Forty eight
thousand arrested, three thousand detained. In Georgia, Athens, DA Debor
Gonzalez partnered with the vere Institute and pledged to protect
illegal immigrant defendants and release criminals on bonds that do
not require the posting of money. In Wisconsin, Milwaukee DA
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John Chisholm partnered with VERI Institute to implement progressive, soft
on crime policies and reportedly told the Milwaukee Sentinel Journey quote,
is there going to be an individual I divert or
who I put into a treatment program who's going to
go out and kill somebody? You bet? That is the
Soros DA bragging he's going to release criminals who murder people,
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and in twenty twenty, the Milwaukee DA's office released a
criminal twice before he ultimately drove an suv through a
Christmas parade, killing six and injuring sixty two others. This
pattern is happening over and over and over again. What
is amazing is the Democrats are not learning. They're not saying, gosh,
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maybe we should stop siding with the criminals. Instead, they're
doubling down.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
They're doubling down. And you see these stories that pop up.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
And there was one dad that went before Congress to
testify about his daughter and just how many times the
man that killed his daughter, that took his daughter's life
had been arrested and released. And if you didn't hear that,
people should go listen to it because I think it's
really important. But we're seeing this happen where criminals are
being caught and released dozens of times, like dozens of
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Time Center and they're just like, yeah, so what they
go out and then they kill somebody, like Okay, maybe
we should have guess locked that guy up.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
My bad. It's insane.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Well, and here was a portion of the hearing this week,
Give a listen prosecute violet criminals. Innocent victims die right
here in Washington, d C. In twenty twelve, murders in
DC totaled fewer than one hundred. By twenty twenty three,
murders had nearly tripled, two hundred and seventy four lives
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taken in a single year. These are the real world
consequences of Democrat crime policies that let murderers go.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
And the policy, to be clear center is a simple one.
Das were instructed when they took money basically from Sorus.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
They're bought and paid for by Soros.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
And what they were instructed to do was to have
prison reform and bail reform.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
They wanted people out of the prisons.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
They didn't want Peo to go to prisons, they didn't
want people to be held in prison because of bail,
and so that is part of what they're advocating for here.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
It's comprehensive and it's at every stage. It's a left
wing agenda that wants to number one, abolish the police,
wants to defund the police. And by the way, that's
not just empty rhetoric. If you look at jurisdictions across
the country in Minneapolis, they slashed funding for the police department.
In New York City, the NYPD, they cut over a
billion dollars from the NYPD's budget. In Austin, Texas, our
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home state, one hundred and fifty million dollars cut from
the police department. So that's one way they do it
is they attack the police directly to wanting to e
they abolish or defund the police. But secondly they go
after DA's and George Soros has spent tens of millions
of dollars funding DA campaigns for radicals who've gotten elected
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in many major cities across the country. And when they
get in, they refuse to prosecute violent criminals. They downgrade
felonies to misdemeanors, they abolish cash bail. So they catch
a murderer, they let them go. They catch a violent criminal,
they let them go. Here's another portion from the hearing.
You know, it's clear from this hearing the Democrat talking
points have come out. Both Senator Padilla and Senator Booker
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spent a great deal of time talking about quote red
states as a reason they were talking about red states
because unfortunately, most red states had blue cities and that's
where the crime is. If you want to look at
in twenty twenty three the large cities with the most
homicides per one hundred thousand people, Number one was New Orleans, Louisiana.
Number two was Memphis, Tennessee. Number three was Saint Louis City.
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Number four was Baltimore City. Number five was Washington, DC.
Democrat crime policies kill people. Soros das who let murderers
out of jail kill people.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
So when you look at this being exposed the way
that you guys are doing it, what is going to
be the mechanism that can obviously help stop this from happening?
And how can Congress use that leverage?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Well, there are lots of things we can do. One
is what President Trump has done, which is he sent
the National Guard to Washington, DC. And the result of
that is the crime rates of plummet. The plummeted. The
murder rates have dropped fifty eight percent. Now you would
think rational people, If Democrats were rational people, they'd be celebrating, Wow,
the murder rate has plummeted. That means people are alive
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because the National Guard is they're stopping murders, but they're not.
They're furious and I'll tell you. In the wake of
George Floyd dying, the DC City Council passed a soft
on crime package of legislation that lessened the penalty for
violent crime across the board, that tied the police hands
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and made it much much harder to prosecute crime. And
the result was crime rose dramatically, carjacking and violent crime
rose dramatically. I've introduced legislation in the Senate called the
Clean DC Act. The Clean DC Act reverses those twenty
twenty two laws. It reinstates tougher penalties on violent crimes,
and it allows the police to actually go after the
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violent criminals. At the hearing, the head of the DC
Police Union testified and he explicitly asked the Senate to
pass my legislation. Pass the Clean DC Act. Give a
listen to the head of the DC Police Officers Union.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
That is why we also support the Clean DC Act.
It begins the process of undoing harmful legislation, restoring balance,
and rebuilding MPD strength. This is not just a DC issue.
Other cities that embrace the same policies are now facing
the same consequences. The lesson is clear. When leaders attack
police communities suffer when lawmakers strip away tools and protect actions,
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criminals thrive. If this is not corrected, the crisis will
deepen here and nationwide. Urge Congress to act, support the
Clean DC Act, roll backfield legislation, and work with law
enforcement instead of against US officers want nothing more than
to protect their communities, but they cannot do it alone. Again,
I thank you for the opportunity to testify, and I
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welcome any questions the committee may have.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
One of the things Centaer I like about where you
guys are going with this is that this is not
going to be a short term thing. This is actual
reform you are advocating for to make sure that these
cities don't go back to these liberal policies where innocent
people are dying every single day.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Now, that's exactly right. And the first obligation, the first
obligation the president, the commander in chief has is to
protect this nation, to keep us safe. The first obligation
really every elected official should put front and center is
protecting the health and safety of the men and women
you're elected to represent. And you know it is striking
just we talked about a minute ago with the shutdown
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where the Democrats are engaged in gaslighting. You heard in
the segment I was talking about what both Corey Booker
and Alex Padilla said in that hearing where they both
had talking points almost exactly the same, where they said, well,
you know, there are bad crime stats in a bunch
of red states, and they went through a bunch of
red states, and then they're right, there are red states
where the crime stats are problematic. My response, which they
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have no refutation to, is that is entirely driven by
the blue cities and those red states that are governed
by left wing Democrat mayors and left wing Democrat DA's
who refuse to prosecute violent crime. And so yes, look, Memphis,
Tennessee was number two on the list. Now Tennessee is
a red state. But you know, God help you if
you live in Memphis when you have local officials who
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will not prosecute the bad guys. And that that's true
in Baltimore, that's true in New Orleans, that's true in Washington, DC.
And rather than address it and admit it and fix it,
the Democrats are trying to distract people by engaging in
dishonest rhetoric.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
The left wing crimes cistics center are brutal BLM protests.
For example, twenty twenty, there are over ten thousand demonstrations
and cause one to two billion and ensured property damage.
According to Axios, this is the most expensive civil disorder
in US history. There were also nineteen Americans into the
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conservative numbers, who died directly caused by the demonstrations, And
that's another data point that the left in the media
does not want to talk about. But if you look
at this and you see what the Democrats have done
to our cities, and the fact that this has all
been i think bought and paid for, funneled money going
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into these groups that are advocating for this type of
organized violence. That's the other thing that scares the hell
out of me.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Well, and I want to draw a linkage between each
of the stories we're talking about today, which is that
we see left wing policies that undermine law enforcement, that
seek to abolish or defund the police, that put Soros
prosecutors in office, that release violent criminals, and you see
the result being more and more violent crime. You then
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see democrats engaging rhetoric to obfuscate, to hide that, to
pretend it's not happening. But you also see the left
engaging in increasingly angry rhetoric demonizing their opponents. And if
you look at ideologically motivated crime, the vast majority of
it violence that is ideologically motivated, the overwhelming majority is
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on the left. As you mentioned, the BLM riots all
across the country, American cities burned all across the country,
not just that. You look at the anti Semitic, anti
Israel campus protests. Those were leftists, those were anarchists, those
were Jihadis, those were communists. All across the country. Over
two thousand and three hundered anti Semitic incidents reported on campuses,
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which is, by the way, the highest ever recorded. That
was in twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five. The
La riots this year twenty twenty five, seventeen people injured,
a state of emergency in La County. The city reports
nineteen point seven million cost as of mid June.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Of course, President Trump the target of two assassination attempts. Tragically,
our friend Charlie Kirk successfully murdered in a horrific assassination.
This pattern that the murderer who flew from California to
Maryland and to murdered Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Thankfully he was
arrested by the police before he could carry out that
(28:39):
heinous act. And by the way, you go back to
twenty seventeen when a gunman came to Washington, d C.
Looking for elected Republicans to murder, went to the congressional
baseball practice and opened fire, hitting multiple elected Republicans, nearly
killing Steve Scalise. Had the bullet been an inch one
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side of the other, Steve, a good friend, would have
been killed that day. Instead, he was injured badly. Thankfully
he survived. This pattern is happening over and over and
over again, and there's a direct connection between the demonization.
Look when Charlie Kirk was murdered, far too many on
the left celebrated, cheered it on. When Luigi the nutcase
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murdered the CEO of health insurance company, supposedly respected members
of the media celebrated leftister getting his face tattooed on them.
They celebrate violence, and this week we saw two more
instances happen. We saw number one Immigration and Customs enforcement
agents targeted in two separate car attacks during enforcement actions
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in Chicago this past week. Two different car attacks. It
turns out that when Democrats demonize Ice, when they call
him Nazis, as the Democrats have done over and over
and over again. Our last podcast played a whole clip
of Democrats calling Ice and law enforcement Nazis and gestapos.
That turnout, when you use that kind of language, there
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are lunatics who listen to it and move to violence.
As you know, I was on the ground in Dallas,
uh and and was on site within minutes of the
sniper attack at the ICE facility in Dallas by a
deranged leftist who wrote who wrote wrote his his left
wing agenda on the shellcasings, emulating what Charlie Kirk's murder
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had done. This pattern is happening over and over and
over again, and I got to say it's Bet Bennett's disturbing.
I don't see I don't see many Democrats modulating their rhetoric.
Gavin Niterson just this week called Steve Miller, the deputy
White House Chief of Staff, a fascist, using the same
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language that that that motivated, among others, the murderers of
Charlie Kirk. And they keep doubling and doubling down and
doubling down, and they know more ICE agents are going
to be targeted. They know more police are going to
be targeted. And I want to be clear about something
because some will say, well, gosh, there are crazies on
the right who commit violence, and that's true, but if
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you look at ideologically motivated violence, the crazies on the
right who commit violence are usually just mentally deranged people. So,
or to put it a little different, liberals can be
the victims of violence as well. So Nancy Pelosi's husband
was attacked by a deranged, mentally ill person with a hammer.
Now that was tragic, but I would not describe that
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as ideologically motivated violence. He was simply a victim of
a mentally ill person engaging in an active violence, and
that's horrific. And there's a difference. You and I didn't
celebrate that. Nobody. Violence is never, never, never, right. And
the difference is the left celebrates it far too often,
encourages it on the front end, celebrates it on the
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back end where it whereas any principal conservative I know
it will condemn violence across the board say do not
engage in violence. And compare the difference of the reaction
when George Floyd died and you had violent riots and
fires across the country. Compared to when Charlie Kirk was murdered,
and you had candlelight vigils and prayer vigils, and the
violence was from the leftist attacking people praying and holding
(32:23):
up candles.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yeah, well, and not only that, you even had Democrats
this week attacking Jeffries talking about those that went to
the Republican Convention as being like extremists.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
I mean, they're not dialing this.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Supervillains. Supervillains is what he called the inauguration.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Yeah, yeah, excuse me, the inauguration. Yeah, he talked about
the inauguration. He said that there was a super villain convention.
And that is them not downplaying this. That is him
ratching it up, knowing that we just left Charlie Kirk's
funeral from being at.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
And the hate on the left. It is directed at conservatives,
it is directed at capitalism, it is directed at American
but it's also viciously antisemitic and on Young Yong Gapour
in Manchester, a a Syrian Assyrian ironically, uh with the
(33:14):
name wait wait for it, what was the name? What
was the name of this murder? His name is Jahad
al Shami and and he he targeted worshippers at a
synagogue on Young Kapoor Uh. This pattern is happening over
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and over and over again, and it's wrong and we
need to stand against it.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I am into that. Don't forget.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
It is Verdict with Center, Ted Kruz, Ben Ferguson with
you as well. We are right in the middle of
a government shut down that Democrats were yearning for.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
It's the Schumer shut down.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
But there's also a lot of misinformation or as I
like to call it, lies that are coming out of
this shutdown, and things that Democrats are accusing Republicans are
that just aren't true, and we're going to cover that
today as well.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Well. The Schumer shutdown continues. The federal government is partially
shut down. Between seventeen and eighteen percent of the federal
government is closed. It's going to stay closed as long
as the Democrats continue their temper tantrum. But at the
same time, we're also getting a bit of a history lesson.
Seventy six years ago, George Orwell wrote the classic book
nineteen eighty four about the oppressive totalitarian government he perceived
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of the future, and also about Orwellian doublespeak. And I
got to say, Chuck Schumer and the Democrats in Congress
are doing an illustration of this now. They are gaslighting
the American people. They are attempting to argue things that
are simply false. In particular, to shift from a book
to a movie like Casablanca. They are shocked, shocked to
(01:13):
find there's gambling, and they're shocked shocked to find that
anyone is saying that they want free, taxpayer provided health
care for illegal aliens. Well, the nice thing about this
podcast is is that we bring the receipts. So we're
going to lay out the actual facts because the Democrats
are gaslighting, the media is gaslighting, and the facts are
clear that this is the Schumer shutdown and it's going
(01:35):
to end when they cave. We're also going to talk
about a hearing that was in the Senate Judiciary Committee
this past week focused on rising crime and the horrific
murder rates and crime rates in blue cities and the
Democrat policies of releasing violent criminals that endanger their citizens.
Democrats have decided they are all in not in support
(01:56):
of protecting innocent families, but rather in support of the
murderers and rapists and child molesters that Soros DA's are
releasing onto the streets. We're going to break those facts
down as well, and finally, we're going to talk about
the continued pattern of left wing ideologically motivated violence whether
it is attacks on ICE agents and ICE facilities, or
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whether it is yet another horrific anti Semitic attack in
Great Britain. Over and over again we see the extreme
rhetoric from the left has deadly real world consequences. All
of that on today's podcast.
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real quick center for people that are just joining us.
(04:45):
This shutdown was premeditated. It was well thought out and
organized by the left. And this is all because Chuck
Schumer need to say, hey, crazy, he's in the Democratic Party.
I promise I'm crazy. Please AOC don't primary me, and
you don't get rid of me as being your leader.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Well, I'm not sure I would say it was well
thought out, but it was certainly premeditied. And you're right.
You put your finger on the reason, which is Chuck
Schumer and the Democrats have a political crisis. And the
political crisis actually has nothing to do with government funding.
It has to do with the rise of the extreme
left in the Democrat Party and Schumer. Several months ago,
(05:23):
Schumer worked with Republicans to keep the government open and
that was the responsible thing to do, and so of
course the crazy left wing fringe got furious and they
almost cost him his job. And in fact it's striking
Democrat Senate candidates all across the country are being asked,
do you support Chuck Schumer to be leader of the
Democrat Party, And to a person, not a one of
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them is saying yes. Nobody's saying yes. It's that bad.
AOC is breathing down his neck, he's looking over his
left shoulder at her. And so this shut down is
really Schumer beating his chest and saying, see, I hate
Donald Trump too. I can shut the whole federal government down,
aren't I tough?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Now?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
What's interesting he doesn't have an exit ramp. He doesn't
have a plan to end this. This is just a
temper tantrum. And amazingly, almost all the Democrats are standing
with him, all but three. The first couple of times
we voted, all but three Democrats voted shut the government down. Now,
the ostensible policy demand they're making is they want free,
(06:24):
taxpayer provided health care for illegal aliens. Although the amazing
thing I mentioned nineteen eighty four a minute ago, they
are engaged in doublespeak where Democrats are going on TV
and saying no, no, no, we don't want free health care
for illegals. That's not remotely what this is about. And
the media CNN, boy, they are spinning so fast that
(06:46):
they are like windmills in a tornado. They're spinning so fast.
So I'm going to give you three compelling reasons to
demonstrate that they are utterly full of crap when they
are lying to you. Reason number one, the actual text
of the Democrats CR. Now, what's a CR. A CR
(07:07):
is a continuing resolution. It is legislation that keeps funding
for the government going. The House representatives controlled by Republicans
past what's called a clean CR. That means all the
House did is say the funding that we had a
couple of days ago keeps on going tomorrow. We fund
everything at exactly the same levels. We change nothing, We
(07:30):
just keep the lights on. We don't shut the government down.
We keep going. That's what the House passed. Now, when
Joe Biden was president, do you know how many times
Republicans worked with Democrats to pass a clean CR and
keep the government open for Joe Biden?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
More than a dozen if I remember correctly.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Thirteen thirteen times the House is passed a clean CR
the Senate. We voted repeatedly on the clean CR. If
the Democrats voted yes, boom, the government would stay open.
What they've done instead is they have not a clean CR.
They have a CR that keeps government open. But it
also repeals major portions of the One Big Beautiful Bill
(08:11):
and in particular provides for healthcare free taxpayer healthcare for illegals. Now,
let me read you the text from the Democrat CR.
On page fifty six of the Democrat R. It says,
Subtitle B of Title seven of the Act, titled an
Act to Provide for Reconciliation pursuant to Title two of
h Conreds fourteen Public Law one nineteen twenty one, is repealed,
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and any law or regulation referred to in such subtitles
shall be applied as if such subtitle and the amendments
made by such subtitle had not been enacted. In no
event shall payment be made to a state under this
section for medical assistance furnished to an individual unless such
individual is a a resident of one of the fifty States,
the District of Columbia, or a territory of the United States,
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and b either a citizen or national of the United States,
or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residency. That's the
language they're repealing. It says you have to be a
US citizen or a legal immigrant to be eligible for medicaid.
That's the language they want to repeal. I'll tell you
what else they want to repeal. They want to repeal
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section seven to one to one zero nine, entitled Alien
Medicaid Eligibility. That's further language that makes clear that illegal
aliens are not eligible for Medicaid. They also want to
eliminate section seven one two oh one, limiting medicaid coverage
of certain individuals. They want to eliminate section seventy one
to three to OZHO three, requiring verification of eligibility for
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premium tax credit. All of that is what they're trying
to get rid of. That's number one on the express
terms of what they're doing. Here's a second point. Every
time you see a Democrat or anyone from the corporate
media aligning to you and say Democrats don't want to
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prove free health care free illegals, I want you to
remember the debate in the presidential election with all the
Democrat candidates. Now, for those of you watching on YouTube,
you're about to see it. But if you're not watching
on YouTube, just listen and we'll describe what happens here.
Give a listen and give a watch.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Raise your handed government, if your government plan would provide
coverage for undocumented immigrants.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
That's everybody center everyday for those of.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
You all just listening, listening on radio or listening on podcasts.
Every single Democrat candidate, every one of them, raise their hand.
Poor Joe Biden, he looks around, he's a little sort
of scared, and he's the last one whose hands shakily
goes up when he realizes, uh oh, my party is
now all crazy people. This is what we have to say.
So just I promise you, if you turn on the TV,
(10:53):
you're going to see Democrats lying to you saying we
don't want health care free illegals. All of them. There
was not a single candidate for president who disagreed. That
is the position of the party across the board. But
here's argument number three. If they didn't want free health
care for illegals, why are they shutting down the government
(11:18):
that they say right now? Well, existing law prohibits providing
health care to illegals, and they're deliberately lying to you.
If that's true, why would they want to repeal the
language from the Reconciliation bill that blocked illegals from getting
the benefits. The reason they're going all in, the reason
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they're willing to shut the entire federal government down, is
they've made the decision that their party is all about
open borders and free stuff for everyone, especially illegals. I
don't understand why. I genuinely don't understand why today's Democrats
have decided they care more about helping illegal immigrants in
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this country and in some instances, violent criminals and gangbangers,
then they do American taxpayers. Then they do American citizens
who go and work hard, provide for their family, pay taxes.
And apparently they do all of that in order to
give free health care to illegals. And by the way,
remember this also, you know, because they admit it, both
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California and New York provide free health care to illegals.
Gavin Newsom campaigned on this. He was very proud of
saying We're going to give free health care to illegals.
And here's one of the games that Senate Democrats are
playing is California says it pays for the health care
for illegals with state funds, but money is fungible, and
so the federal government is flowing money into California, they
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use it, they fill one bucket with it, and they
use state money for the illegals. But it all goes
to the same effect. That is why the Democrats are
willing to force a government shutdown, and they have forced
to government shut down because the eligibility requirements of the
One Big Beautiful Bill have real teeth to them, and
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the Democrats are panicking about it. If they had no teeth,
if this wasn't happening, why would they throw this gigantic fight.
It makes no sense. And the Democrats know this.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah, I think they certainly do as well.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
And this goes back to why I think it's shocking
Democrats are still digging in on this shutdown center, and
that is because the American people are not behind this.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
They don't support it.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Even almost fifty percent of Democrats it's upper forties now
of Democrats say they're not in favor of this shutdown.
So this really does go back to what you and
I were talking about a moment ago. This is all
Chuck Schumer's shutting down the US government to try to
save his own political future.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Look, that is exactly right. And if you're not inclined
to believe me, if you're not inclined to believe Ben,
take a listen to Chris Cuomo fact checking the Democrat
lies on.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
This is not true.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
The Republican partisan spending bill that they introduced is not clean. Well,
first of all, let's be clear, it's not a clean bill.
It's a dirty bill. Well, that's all a lie. It's
not a clean continuing resolution.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Listen, I like how keem Jeffries. I think he's got
an amazing future. He's got better fights than this. This
is a clean CR. What does that mean? By the way,
continuing resolution instead of passing a real budget like they should,
this just says, hey, remember the last one, let's just
continue at those levels again, all right. Now. That may
mean that certain people who should get less won't, certain
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people who need more won't, But a clean CR means
that this is an extension from the last set of
in this case, Biden's spending levels. Okay, that's what a
clean CR is. This is a clean CR. Wait a minute,
Cuomo disagrees with Jeffries. Jeffries must be right. Don't take
my word, take the word. I'm a nonpartisan committee for
a responsible federal budget. They say this is about as
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clean ACR as you could get. Okay, again, it's a
continuation of a March stopgap measure.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
This is literally going and saying we're going to keep
Joe Biden's budget. Like that's the easiest way I can
describe this and understand.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
That is Chris Cuomo. That is former CNN primetime star.
That is loud, vocal Democrat Chris Cuomo saying, Hakeem Jeffries,
the Democrat leader in the House, is lying to you
because you know what he is. He's gas lighting. And
kudos to Chris Cuomo for having the guts to speak
(15:42):
the truth. I wish his old colleagues at CNN could
follow suit.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
All right, I want to move to something else, and
that's really important. The Senate Judiciary is having a big
hearing and it deals with blue city chaos, democratic run cities.
The report that's out now is pretty cool. Are the
top twenty most crime ridden cities. Eighteen of them are
controlled by left wing hard court Democrats, and you guys
(16:09):
are now looking into this, So what does this actually mean.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Well, this week the Judiciary Committee held a hearing on
out of control crime in Democrat cities, and it really
is horrific the policies. It turns out, when you let
violent criminals go, when you undermine the police, when you
put in place prosecutors who won't prosecute crime, you get
more crime. This summer, the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley's
the chairman, put out a report that showed that the
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Biden Department of Justice sent taxpayer funded grants to Soros
backed soft on crime and goos. And in particular, here's
what the report said. Under the Biden Harris administration, the
Vera Institute was awarded millions of taxpayer dollars to prop
up left wing district attorneys who would then partner with
the Vera Institute to implement Soros backed progressive policies. These
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policies included prioritizing violent criminals over victims and declining to
fully prosecute felony charges including assault, kidnapping, rape, and murder.
And here's some of the key findings from the report.
In New York, New York County DA Alvin Bragg partnered
with the VERA Institute and declined to prosecute certain misdemeanor felonies,
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actively working to downgrade felony charges to misdemeanors, and refused
to detain criminals before their trials. Meanwhile, Bragg attempted to
prosecute President Donald Trump for federal campaign finance violations. In
the year twenty twenty five, there were over forty eight
thousand individuals arrested for misdemeanors in New York County WOW,
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but only three thousand of them were detained. Forty eight
thousand arrested, three thousand detained. In Georgia, Athens, DA Debor
Gonzalez partnered with the vere Institute and pledged to protect
illegal immigrant defendants and release criminals on bonds that do
not require the posting of money. In Wisconsin, Milwaukee DA
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John Chisholm partnered with VERI Institute to implement progressive, soft
on crime policies and reportedly told the Milwaukee Sentinel Journey quote,
is there going to be an individual I divert or
who I put into a treatment program who's going to
go out and kill somebody? You bet? That is the
Soros DA bragging he's going to release criminals who murder people,
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and in twenty twenty, the Milwaukee DA's office released a
criminal twice before he ultimately drove an suv through a
Christmas parade, killing six and injuring sixty two others. This
pattern is happening over and over and over again. What
is amazing is the Democrats are not learning. They're not saying, gosh,
(18:53):
maybe we should stop siding with the criminals. Instead, they're
doubling down.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
They're doubling down. And you see these stories that pop up.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
And there was one dad that went before Congress to
testify about his daughter and just how many times the
man that killed his daughter, that took his daughter's life
had been arrested and released. And if you didn't hear that,
people should go listen to it because I think it's
really important. But we're seeing this happen where criminals are
being caught and released dozens of times, like dozens of
(19:25):
Time Center and they're just like, yeah, so what they
go out and then they kill somebody, like Okay, maybe
we should have guess locked that guy up.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
My bad. It's insane.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Well, and here was a portion of the hearing this week,
Give a listen prosecute violet criminals. Innocent victims die right
here in Washington, d C. In twenty twelve, murders in
DC totaled fewer than one hundred. By twenty twenty three,
murders had nearly tripled, two hundred and seventy four lives
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taken in a single year. These are the real world
consequences of Democrat crime policies that let murderers go.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
And the policy, to be clear center is a simple one.
Das were instructed when they took money basically from Sorus.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
They're bought and paid for by Soros.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
And what they were instructed to do was to have
prison reform and bail reform.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
They wanted people out of the prisons.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
They didn't want Peo to go to prisons, they didn't
want people to be held in prison because of bail,
and so that is part of what they're advocating for here.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
It's comprehensive and it's at every stage. It's a left
wing agenda that wants to number one, abolish the police,
wants to defund the police. And by the way, that's
not just empty rhetoric. If you look at jurisdictions across
the country in Minneapolis, they slashed funding for the police department.
In New York City, the NYPD, they cut over a
billion dollars from the NYPD's budget. In Austin, Texas, our
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home state, one hundred and fifty million dollars cut from
the police department. So that's one way they do it
is they attack the police directly to wanting to e
they abolish or defund the police. But secondly they go
after DA's and George Soros has spent tens of millions
of dollars funding DA campaigns for radicals who've gotten elected
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in many major cities across the country. And when they
get in, they refuse to prosecute violent criminals. They downgrade
felonies to misdemeanors, they abolish cash bail. So they catch
a murderer, they let them go. They catch a violent criminal,
they let them go. Here's another portion from the hearing.
You know, it's clear from this hearing the Democrat talking
points have come out. Both Senator Padilla and Senator Booker
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spent a great deal of time talking about quote red
states as a reason they were talking about red states
because unfortunately, most red states had blue cities and that's
where the crime is. If you want to look at
in twenty twenty three the large cities with the most
homicides per one hundred thousand people, Number one was New Orleans, Louisiana.
Number two was Memphis, Tennessee. Number three was Saint Louis City.
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Number four was Baltimore City. Number five was Washington, DC.
Democrat crime policies kill people. Soros das who let murderers
out of jail kill people.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
So when you look at this being exposed the way
that you guys are doing it, what is going to
be the mechanism that can obviously help stop this from happening?
And how can Congress use that leverage?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Well, there are lots of things we can do. One
is what President Trump has done, which is he sent
the National Guard to Washington, DC. And the result of
that is the crime rates of plummet. The plummeted. The
murder rates have dropped fifty eight percent. Now you would
think rational people, If Democrats were rational people, they'd be celebrating, Wow,
the murder rate has plummeted. That means people are alive
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because the National Guard is they're stopping murders, but they're not.
They're furious and I'll tell you. In the wake of
George Floyd dying, the DC City Council passed a soft
on crime package of legislation that lessened the penalty for
violent crime across the board, that tied the police hands
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and made it much much harder to prosecute crime. And
the result was crime rose dramatically, carjacking and violent crime
rose dramatically. I've introduced legislation in the Senate called the
Clean DC Act. The Clean DC Act reverses those twenty
twenty two laws. It reinstates tougher penalties on violent crimes,
and it allows the police to actually go after the
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violent criminals. At the hearing, the head of the DC
Police Union testified and he explicitly asked the Senate to
pass my legislation. Pass the Clean DC Act. Give a
listen to the head of the DC Police Officers Union.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
That is why we also support the Clean DC Act.
It begins the process of undoing harmful legislation, restoring balance,
and rebuilding MPD strength. This is not just a DC issue.
Other cities that embrace the same policies are now facing
the same consequences. The lesson is clear. When leaders attack
police communities suffer when lawmakers strip away tools and protect actions,
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criminals thrive. If this is not corrected, the crisis will
deepen here and nationwide. Urge Congress to act, support the
Clean DC Act, roll backfield legislation, and work with law
enforcement instead of against US officers want nothing more than
to protect their communities, but they cannot do it alone. Again,
I thank you for the opportunity to testify, and I
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welcome any questions the committee may have.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
One of the things Centaer I like about where you
guys are going with this is that this is not
going to be a short term thing. This is actual
reform you are advocating for to make sure that these
cities don't go back to these liberal policies where innocent
people are dying every single day.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Now, that's exactly right. And the first obligation, the first
obligation the president, the commander in chief has is to
protect this nation, to keep us safe. The first obligation
really every elected official should put front and center is
protecting the health and safety of the men and women
you're elected to represent. And you know it is striking
just we talked about a minute ago with the shutdown
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where the Democrats are engaged in gaslighting. You heard in
the segment I was talking about what both Corey Booker
and Alex Padilla said in that hearing where they both
had talking points almost exactly the same, where they said, well,
you know, there are bad crime stats in a bunch
of red states, and they went through a bunch of
red states, and then they're right, there are red states
where the crime stats are problematic. My response, which they
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have no refutation to, is that is entirely driven by
the blue cities and those red states that are governed
by left wing Democrat mayors and left wing Democrat DA's
who refuse to prosecute violent crime. And so yes, look, Memphis,
Tennessee was number two on the list. Now Tennessee is
a red state. But you know, God help you if
you live in Memphis when you have local officials who
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will not prosecute the bad guys. And that that's true
in Baltimore, that's true in New Orleans, that's true in Washington, DC.
And rather than address it and admit it and fix it,
the Democrats are trying to distract people by engaging in
dishonest rhetoric.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
The left wing crimes cistics center are brutal BLM protests.
For example, twenty twenty, there are over ten thousand demonstrations
and cause one to two billion and ensured property damage.
According to Axios, this is the most expensive civil disorder
in US history. There were also nineteen Americans into the
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conservative numbers, who died directly caused by the demonstrations, And
that's another data point that the left in the media
does not want to talk about. But if you look
at this and you see what the Democrats have done
to our cities, and the fact that this has all
been i think bought and paid for, funneled money going
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into these groups that are advocating for this type of
organized violence. That's the other thing that scares the hell
out of me.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Well, and I want to draw a linkage between each
of the stories we're talking about today, which is that
we see left wing policies that undermine law enforcement, that
seek to abolish or defund the police, that put Soros
prosecutors in office, that release violent criminals, and you see
the result being more and more violent crime. You then
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see democrats engaging rhetoric to obfuscate, to hide that, to
pretend it's not happening. But you also see the left
engaging in increasingly angry rhetoric demonizing their opponents. And if
you look at ideologically motivated crime, the vast majority of
it violence that is ideologically motivated, the overwhelming majority is
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on the left. As you mentioned, the BLM riots all
across the country, American cities burned all across the country,
not just that. You look at the anti Semitic, anti
Israel campus protests. Those were leftists, those were anarchists, those
were Jihadis, those were communists. All across the country. Over
two thousand and three hundered anti Semitic incidents reported on campuses,
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which is, by the way, the highest ever recorded. That
was in twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five. The
La riots this year twenty twenty five, seventeen people injured,
a state of emergency in La County. The city reports
nineteen point seven million cost as of mid June.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Of course, President Trump the target of two assassination attempts. Tragically,
our friend Charlie Kirk successfully murdered in a horrific assassination.
This pattern that the murderer who flew from California to
Maryland and to murdered Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Thankfully he was
arrested by the police before he could carry out that
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heinous act. And by the way, you go back to
twenty seventeen when a gunman came to Washington, d C.
Looking for elected Republicans to murder, went to the congressional
baseball practice and opened fire, hitting multiple elected Republicans, nearly
killing Steve Scalise. Had the bullet been an inch one
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side of the other, Steve, a good friend, would have
been killed that day. Instead, he was injured badly. Thankfully
he survived. This pattern is happening over and over and
over again, and there's a direct connection between the demonization.
Look when Charlie Kirk was murdered, far too many on
the left celebrated, cheered it on. When Luigi the nutcase
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murdered the CEO of health insurance company, supposedly respected members
of the media celebrated leftister getting his face tattooed on them.
They celebrate violence, and this week we saw two more
instances happen. We saw number one Immigration and Customs enforcement
agents targeted in two separate car attacks during enforcement actions
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in Chicago this past week. Two different car attacks. It
turns out that when Democrats demonize Ice, when they call
him Nazis, as the Democrats have done over and over
and over again. Our last podcast played a whole clip
of Democrats calling Ice and law enforcement Nazis and gestapos.
That turnout, when you use that kind of language, there
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are lunatics who listen to it and move to violence.
As you know, I was on the ground in Dallas,
uh and and was on site within minutes of the
sniper attack at the ICE facility in Dallas by a
deranged leftist who wrote who wrote wrote his his left
wing agenda on the shellcasings, emulating what Charlie Kirk's murder
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had done. This pattern is happening over and over and
over again, and I got to say it's Bet Bennett's disturbing.
I don't see I don't see many Democrats modulating their rhetoric.
Gavin Niterson just this week called Steve Miller, the deputy
White House Chief of Staff, a fascist, using the same
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language that that that motivated, among others, the murderers of
Charlie Kirk. And they keep doubling and doubling down and
doubling down, and they know more ICE agents are going
to be targeted. They know more police are going to
be targeted. And I want to be clear about something
because some will say, well, gosh, there are crazies on
the right who commit violence, and that's true, but if
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you look at ideologically motivated violence, the crazies on the
right who commit violence are usually just mentally deranged people. So,
or to put it a little different, liberals can be
the victims of violence as well. So Nancy Pelosi's husband
was attacked by a deranged, mentally ill person with a hammer.
Now that was tragic, but I would not describe that
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as ideologically motivated violence. He was simply a victim of
a mentally ill person engaging in an active violence, and
that's horrific. And there's a difference. You and I didn't
celebrate that. Nobody. Violence is never, never, never, right. And
the difference is the left celebrates it far too often,
encourages it on the front end, celebrates it on the
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back end where it whereas any principal conservative I know
it will condemn violence across the board say do not
engage in violence. And compare the difference of the reaction
when George Floyd died and you had violent riots and
fires across the country. Compared to when Charlie Kirk was murdered,
and you had candlelight vigils and prayer vigils, and the
violence was from the leftist attacking people praying and holding
(32:23):
up candles.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yeah, well, and not only that, you even had Democrats
this week attacking Jeffries talking about those that went to
the Republican Convention as being like extremists.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
I mean, they're not dialing this.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Supervillains. Supervillains is what he called the inauguration.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Yeah, yeah, excuse me, the inauguration. Yeah, he talked about
the inauguration. He said that there was a super villain convention.
And that is them not downplaying this. That is him
ratching it up, knowing that we just left Charlie Kirk's
funeral from being at.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
And the hate on the left. It is directed at conservatives,
it is directed at capitalism, it is directed at American
but it's also viciously antisemitic and on Young Yong Gapour
in Manchester, a a Syrian Assyrian ironically, uh with the
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name wait wait for it, what was the name? What
was the name of this murder? His name is Jahad
al Shami and and he he targeted worshippers at a
synagogue on Young Kapoor Uh. This pattern is happening over
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and over and over again, and it's wrong and we
need to stand against it.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I am into that. Don't forget.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
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