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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome its verdict with Ted Cruz Week in Review, Ben
Ferguson with you, and these are the stories that you
may have missed that we talked about this past week.
First up, Republicans move for accountability on the border crisis,
specifically with my Orcis. Also, the White House has one
terrible message for Israel and they have continued to allow
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them to hang out to drive. We'll have the latest
on that. And finally, how do the Democrats actually stop
the impeachment inquiry into my Orcus in the Senate? Senator
Cruz explains all of that. It's the Week in Review
and it starts right now. There's also the fact that
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I think a lot of people believe, and I think
you would agree with this, that there has been zero
accountability for Secretary my orchis just flat out lying to Congress.
This is something that he said, and I want to
get your take.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Adhere to the oath to which I have sworn, and
I have abided by the law each and every step
of the way.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
That's not true, is it.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
That's a lie. It's an absolute lie. And actually there's
a whole provision of these articles of impeachment that lay
out how may Orcus has repeatedly lied to Congress. Now, now,
it's interesting. One of the things that the articles of
impeachment also lay out is that, Okay, so the Democrats
are going to take the position, this is a policy
difference that that that Okay, the Biden administration just they
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won't quite say it, but believes it open borders. So
they're going to let people go. But it's not impeachable.
It's it's it's it's not an offense. What is interesting
is that was not the position of the Biden Justice Department.
So you had litigation in front of the court where
Texas sued the Biden administration trying to get the court
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to say, the Biden administration is refusing to refusing to
follow immigration law. And I'm going to read from the
Articles of impeachment the dissenting justice in that case noted quote.
The court holds that Texas lacks standing to challenge a
federal policy that inflicts substantial harm on the state and
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its residents by releasing illegalaliens with criminal convictions for serious crimes.
In order to reach that conclusion, the court holds that
the only limit on the power of the president to
disobey a law like the important provisions, at issue is
Congress's power to employ the weapons of inner branch warfare.
As the descending justice explained, quote, Congress may wield what
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the Solicitor General described as political tools, which presumably mean
such things as impeachment and removal. Indeed, during oral arguments,
the justice, who authored a majority opinion stated to the
Solicitor General, quote, I think your position is instead of
judicial review, Congress has to resort to shutting down the
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government or impeachment or dramatic steps. That is what the
Biden Justice Department argued, is that impeachment is the remedy
when a president a cabinet member refuses to follow the law,
defies the law. The Biden Justice Department argued that in
front of the US Supreme Court. And yet you know
what today, the Democrats are going to say, no, impeachment's
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not the remedy. If you have an executive who defies
the law, it doesn't matter. We're going to rubber stamp
it and we're not even going to hold a trial.
And by the way, every Democrat will tell the reporters
there was no evidence of a high crime and misdemeanor. Now,
of course they'll say there was no evidence because they're
about to vote to block all the evidence, so they
don't hear any evidence, so then they can say we
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didn't hear any evidence. And the reason they didn't hear
any evidence is because they're going to refuse to hear
any evidence. And why are they going to refuse to
hear any evidence, Because they don't want the American people
to hear the evidence.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
And part of what they don't want them to hear
is the reality of what it's like up there on
the streets. Bill Malusian did some great reporting yesterday on
Fox News Channel about Elite Ice unit is tracking down
migrant criminals, specifically child rapists. This is while Mayorkas stared
at Congress and said the border is secure, the border
is secure. He said that to Congress he was lying.
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Take a list of this from Fox.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
A short time later, I took down their final target,
a Brazilian gang member also charged with child rape. Just
this morning today, four accused child rapists and one MS
thirteen gang member. Those are the kind of people you're
going after, that's every day up here in Boston. If
those are the public safety threats that we really want
to get off the street. It was a great day
for the teams.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
That's five public safety threats that are on in the community,
gonna go ahead.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
And victimize anyone else.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
And I says, all of those arrests you just saw
happen because local authorities ignored their detainer request to keep
these guys in custody due to sanctuary policies. I says,
all of those suspects will remain in federal custody until
their local charges are resolved. Then Ice will seek into
port every single one of them.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Four alleged child rapists arrested in the morning, and they
said they're doing this every day, and local law enforcement
is not working with them because local municipalities have said
we're sanctuary cities. So these child rapists are that should
have been held by local authorities or not. And yet
this administration says, no, no, no, we're following the law. Everything's fine.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Every single week, the Biden administration is releasing thousands upon
thousands of illegal aliens. That includes murderers, that includes rapists,
that includes child molesters. Every single week we are seeing
another horrific crime committed by an illegal alien released by
Joe Biden and the Democrats. Week after week after week,
Whether it was Laken Riley and Georgia and the horrific
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murder that occurred from an illegal alien that Joe Biden
the Democrats released, Whether it was Jeremy Cassaris, a beautiful
two year old boy and Prince George's County, Maryland, just
a few miles from where I am right now in DC,
murdered by Neeli galalien that Joe Biden released, Or whether
it was a fifteen year old girl in Boston, Massachusetts,
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severely disabled who was raped by an illigal alien that
not only did Biden released, he flew from Haiti to America.
So we've covered on this podcast how three hundred and
twenty thousand illegal immigrants were flown into America by the
Biden administration. He literally imported in a child rapist who's
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now been arrested for raping the severely disabled fifteen year
old teenager. This is happening week after week after week.
This is why the Democrats don't argue on the other side.
What's the counter argument of, No, it's good a two
year old boy is murdered. No, it's good that we
have teenage girls being raped. That there is no counter argument.
So their counter argument is see no evil. Their counter
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argument is John Tester running from the Senate floor and
hiding in the cloak room because he doesn't want to
listen to what's happening. Why because he intends to vote
today to say no trial, no evidence. I don't want
to know. I do not care about the people dying.
I'm a Democrat. I want Democrats to be in power.
Ten point four million illegal immigrants meets more Democrat voters.
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So if people have to die for me to stay
in power as a Democrat, I'm okay with that. I
got to say, Look, it is difficult for me not
to get really angry about this because as a Texan,
I see I've looked in the eyes when you get
down to the border, as I have over and over again,
and you look in the eyes of these little children
have been brutalized. It makes you angry that these people. Tomorrow,
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more children will be brutalized, Tomorrow, more women will be raped,
and not a one of these Democrats cares, not a
one of them will do anything to change it. And
they'll tell you, oh I care, but if you cared,
you would change it. And not a one one of
that is willing to do that.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I want to go back in time and this is
my orcus in front of the White House, and then
I'm going to compare it to what Schumer said last week.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Do you believe that right now there is a crisis
at the border?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I think that the answer is no. I think there
is a challenge at the border that we are managing,
and we have our resources dedicated to managing it.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
That was Mark's first twenty twenty one Secretary of my
ork Is insisting there's no crisis of the border, despite
that millions of illegal immigrants coming across and literally thousands
of illegal crossings per day. Then you go to last week,
Chuck Schumer making it clear this is a policy now
of the Democratic Party to have an open border collage.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Say you're going to offer.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
A motion to dismiss the impeachment charges on Thursday. Are
you at all concerned that if some Democrats and tough
Races both for that you can come back to Falston Campaigndro.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Look, we're going to try and resolve this issue as
quickly as possible. Impeachment did never be used to settle
policy disagreements.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Leadership never be used to settle policy disagreements. This is
the policy of the Democratic Party. And my archistslied to
your face in March of twenty twenty one saying that
there's no crisis the border, and in their mind from
a policy viewpoint center, I think it's abundantly clear. Now
they're on the record saying a wide open southern border
and millions of illegals coming across is not a is
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not a crisis, it's just a policy disagreement, and it's.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
The policy they support. And Schumer repeated those those two
lines at the press conference about four more times that said,
we're going to try to get rid of us as
quickly as possible, and impeachment should never be used for
policy dispute. What's interesting, he didn't have a third line.
He was reading those talking points. He was being very precise.
He's not defending, he's not saying, hey, this is a
good policy. I agree with the policy the Biden administration.
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I think it's great we have an open border. I
think it's terrific that we're releasing murderers. I think it's
terrific that we're releasing rapists. I think it's terrific we're
releasing child molesters. We're releasing drunk drive. I think it's
terrific that one hundred thousand people have died of drug
overdose every year and we keep allowing more and more.
I think it's terrific that in twenty eighteen, the Mexican
drug cartels made five hundred million dollars from human trafficking.
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In twenty twenty two they made thirteen billion dollars. I
think it's fabulous that we, the Democrats, have produced a
two six hundred percent increase in the revenue for the
Mexican drug cartels. The biggest friends the human traffickers have
ever had in the history of humanity have been Joe
Biden and Alejandro Majorcis. That is the simple reality, and
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none of that does Chuck Schumer say. Instead says, hey,
this is just a policy dispute.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
They the other side believes in securing the border, and
we want this country invaded.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
It is the policy of the Democratic Party. And it's sad,
but we're witnessing the demise of this country, our borders
and our laws at the hands of these people, and
it is their America will come back.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Though America will come back, are not witnessing the demise.
We're witnessing the attempted demise, and I believe in this country.
I think we will come back. I think millions of
Americans are looking this and saying, Holy crap, this is horrific,
this is inhuman, this is wrong. That's why this trial
is so important is there are a lot of people that
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still don't know what's happening. They don't understand. If you
watch CNN every day, God help you, but you have
no idea because the media or propagandists. That's why this
trial is important. But I think people's eyes are opening
up now.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
If you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
you can go back and listen to the full podcast
from earlier this week. Now onto story number two. So
you look at all of that, and then you see
this that just came out from the National Security Council
statement on Iranian attacks on Israel, and I'm quoting it
says President Biden has been clear. Our support for Israel's
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security is iron The US will stand with the people
of Israel and support their defense against these threats from Iran. Okay, senter,
If that's true, then they have to give them what
they need this week. Am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Well, if there was anything like coherence and logic, then yes.
And Number one I'm going to predict right now, Chuck
Schumer is going to do everything he can to block
a vote on emergency military aid to Israel. I've called
on it, I forced her already once. My guess is
that he will put in place parliamentary tools to prevent
us from using the same technique again. And I think
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the House, we've seen the Speaker of the House and
the Majority Leader both say that they're going to vote
out an emergency military aid bill this week, so we'll
get another one that comes over to us. And my
prediction is the Democrats won't back it. They don't want
to send military aid to Israel. And part of the
problem is they've got a crisis in their caucus. And
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their crisis is that the radicals, the teleibs and omars,
they more and more represent the mainstream of the Democrat Party.
And so Schumer is terrified of Michigan, Biden is terrified
of Michigan. They're terrified of the radicals, and so they
may put out statements, but remember this is the same
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Chuck Schumer that not long ago stood on the Senate
floor and demanded that Israel's elected Prime minister be thrown
out of office. He decided that Israel, alone, among all
our allies, was not allowed to elect their leaders every
other country. You know, Schumer hasn't called for the leader
of Iran to step down. He hasn't called for the
leader of Hamas or China, or Rushier of Venezuela or
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North Korea. If you're an enemy of America, nope, Chuck
Schumer and the Democrats, they're giving you money. But if
you're our ally, what will Schumer say? How dare you
be in office? We need an appeaser.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Just like us.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
You just mentioned I was going to go there that
the Senate majority of leader said he should step down.
There's been a lot of people in the media have
been really attacking him, saying that he is a warmonger,
that he's that he's a killer, that he should not
be the president, he should not be in charge. I
don't believe we're going to see any of that stop.
But at least in the Middle East right now and
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specifically in Israel, how important is his leadership.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
It's extraordinarily important. I will say. I'm blessed to know
Prime Minister Netanyah, who very well. I think he is
a remarkable man. When he came and addressed a joint
session of Congress, and that this was during the Obama administration,
it was on the verge of Obama pushing through the
Iran nuclear deal at the time, and this was a
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decade ago. Multiple Democrats boycotted the speech. They refused to
listen to him speak. The Democrats hatred for Benjamin Netanyah,
who is nothing new, and understand that when he was
re elected Prime Minister Joe Biden made clear he was
not welcome in the White House, that he would not
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be invited in the White House. He could not come
to the White House. This is long before October seventh,
This is long before the war in Gaza. They hate
Natan Yaho, but understand they undermine every Israeli government. They
have done so from the very first days of this administration.
But net Yahoo, they have a particular loathing too, because
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he actually understands the gravity of the threat he is facing.
He understands that when the Ayahtola says death to Israel,
he's not playing around. He actually means it. When he
says death to America. He's not playing around, he actually
means it. And listen, I've been blessed. In twelve years
in the Senate, I've met many world leaders. That's one
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of the most incredible parts of the jobs. You get
to sit down with people that are leading our friends,
leading other countries, leading our competitors. There is no world
leader who is impressed me more. There's no world leader
who frankly is taking my breath away more than Benjamin
Netanyaho because he has a seriousness of purpose. He is
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the only world leader for whom I have used the
adjective Churchillian. In my office in DC, I have three busts.
I have a bust of Ronald Reagan, I have a
bust of Churchill, and I have a bust of doctor
Martin Luther King Jr. And I have those three busts
because they are all men who had extraordinary vision. They
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faced remarkable challenges. They saw a world that was better
than the world they were living in, and their vision
helped bring the world to a better place with extraordinary
courage and clarity. And I have to tell you, I
think net and Yah who has that same courage and clarity.
Now it is not my role to tell the people
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of Israel who their prime minister should be. So when
net Yaho was prime minister, when I started in the Senate,
I dealt with him because he was the leader, the
elected leader of Israel. When the people of Israel elected
Enough Tolly Bettett, I dealt with him. Whomever the people
of Israel elect, I will deal with the elected leader.
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But the people of Israel re elected Benjamin Netanyah who
and I respect the choice of the people of Israel.
There is an arrogance in Democrat foreign policy, but also
in some Republican foreign policy, that they think they can
meddle in the internal politics of foreign nations and especially
our friends and allies, that they can do what Chuck
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Schumer did, which is tell the people of Israel Tis Tisk,
you have no business electing net Yah who throw him
out now? And they treat them like the voters, the
people of Israel like the red haired step children. It
is ridiculous. It's much like. Look, there have been long
debates in Washington about a two state solution, and that
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they're Every Democrat says we must have a two state solution.
Many Republicans say we must have a two state solution.
My view on that is that's a decision for the
people of Israel to make. They care acutely about their security.
If the people of Israel just decide that a two
state solution is workable, I respect that decision. If they
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decide it's not because the terrorists with whom they are dealing,
the Hamas and Hesbela, will not accept Israel's right to
exist and will wage war on them, I respect that
decision as well, and so I will say when it
comes to Prime Minister net and Yahoo, it's the choice
of the people of Israel that he should be their leader.
I respect their choice. But at the same time, I
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think he is a leader who understands the seriousness of
these threats and is not cowed by the aggression of
Hamas or Hesbela, or Iran or anyone else. He is
bound and determined to protect the people of Israel.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
As before, if you want to hear the rest of
this conversation on this topic, you can go back and
dow the podcast from earlier this week to hear the
entire thing. I want to get back to the big
story number three of the week you may have missed. Finally, Senator,
What exactly did Democrats do yesterday on impeachment? Just so
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people understand how they pulled this off.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Well, at one pm yesterday we convened on the Senate floor.
This is pursuant to the Senate rules. When we enter impeachment.
We were all sworn in, and then we all signed
the oath book, one at a time. We signed the
oath Book. And what is supposed to happen next is
that we adopt a resolution laying out a trial schedule
of how the House managers are going to present their case.
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But instead what happened is Chuck Schumer rose on a
constitutional point of order, and a constitutional point of order
as you stand and say, what is on the floor
violates the constitution. And he raised a constitutional point of
order and he said at Article one, the first article
sent over by the House does not allege a high
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crime or misdemeanor. And so what happened next is we
voted on whether Article one alleged a high crime or misdemeanor.
High crime and misdemeanor is what you need to be
able to impeach someone. Now, Article one focused on Alejandro
Majorcus's defiance of federal law that that that that he
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he was refusing to follow explicit and clear federal law,
federal law that that says that that illegal immigrants shall
be detained, that that illegal immigrants with criminal conviction shall
be detained and shall be deported, over and over again.
Immigration law is mandatory. It says shall shall, shall shall,
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and he's defying it at a level it's never happened before.
It's not that he's bad at his job. It's that
he is utterly flouting and defiedying federal law. And that
that's the first article of impeachment. And they argued, well,
actually they didn't argue. They just made a motion that
it's not a high crime or misdemeanor. They presented no argument,
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They did not give a legal argument, they did not
write a brief, they did not present an argument. And
I was the person who raised the lead objection to that. Now,
under the impeachment rules, you can't debate on the Senate floor.
You're supposed to be silent because you're jurors.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I'm just saying, why is that? But that makes sense
because you're juror not a lawyer. I guess presenting right.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Right, And so I made a motion for us to
move into executive session. If we move into executive session,
we throw the reporters out. We turned the TV cameras off.
But then we can debate it. And I said, look,
you're you're making a major legal point. You presented no argument,
and what you're saying is quality is fundamentally wrong. And
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I'll tell you the amazing thing is the idea that
refusing to follow the law, defying the law is not
a high crime and misdemeanor is not impeachable. It is
contrary to the original understanding the Constitution. Joseph Story, who
was a Supreme Court justice, one of the leading constitutional
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scholars right at the very beginning of our country, and
his commentaries in the Constitution are widely cited for understanding
what the founding generation believed the Constitution to mean. And
he talked about, he wrote at length about high crimes
and misdemeanors, and he gave lots of examples, including the
Lord Admiral refusing to protect the high seas, and he said,
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that is a high crime or misdemeanor, and that is
virtually analogous, very closely analogous to the head of Homeland
Security refusing to secure the border. It's the same principle
of allowing lawless piracy to threat and an invade America.
So Joseph's story and the founding generation understood this to
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be a high crime and misdemeanor. And amazingly enough, Ben
the Biden Justice Department argued in front of the US
Supreme Court that impeachment was the remedy for the Biden
administration refusing to follow the law. So in Texas versus
the United States, Texas sued the Biden administration for refusing
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to secure the border, and the Supreme Court ended up
agreeing with the Biden administration and saying, well, Texas can't
sue and the Biden doj The Solicitor General for Biden argued, look,
if you have a cabinet member who's refusing to follow
the law, Congress has remedies, including impeachment, and so I
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stood up and said listen. The Biden Department of Justice
argued last year this was impeachable. It didn't matter. Every
single Democrat, all of them. And by the way, Eve
in the so called moderates, Joe Manchin and Cirsten Cinema,
they voted also Nope, not a high crimer misdemeanor. And
as a result, because they had to have a majority,
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the point of order carried. They got fifty one votes
for it, and so the first article was thrown out,
and then they did it again on the second one.
And I'll tell you the second one is even more astonishing.
So as a result of the first vote, it is
now the position of Democrats that any cabinet member can
refuse to follow the law and defy the law and
utterly ignore the law, and you can't impeach him for it.
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I mean, that's an astonishing and dangerous proposition in Democrat
looney land. But the second article of impeachment was for
breach of trust, and it focused on majorcas repeatedly lying
to Congress under oath about what was happening at the border.
And again Chuck Schumer rose on a point of order
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and said, this is not a high crime or misdemeanor. Now,
mind you there saying lying under oath to Congress is
not impeachable. It is a felony. It is a felony
that you can serve jail time for. And it's worth
remembering Bill Clinton was impeached for perjury. The House impeached
him and what did the Senate do? They didn't throw
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it out, they didn't dismiss it. The House managers presented
the case, the conducted a trial, and ultimately the Senate
acquitted him. But they did their duty to hold a trial.
And actually before that, there's someone I'm sure you've never
heard of, a guy named Walter Nixon. You know who
Walter Nixon was?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Who is that?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Walter Nixon was a federal judge. He was a federal
judge actually from Mississippi. You're an all miss grad. He
was a federal judge from Mississippi. But he was not
a good guy, and he was convicted of perjury before
a grand jury. And you know what happened. The Congress
impeached him, the House impeached him, the Senate convicted him,
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and he was removed as a federal judge for perjury.
So even though it was clear, there was clear precedent
that yes, perjury, lying under oath is a high crime
or misdemeanor, it is impeachable, every single Senate Democrat voted
that it's not a high crime or misdemeanor. So now apparently,
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again in Democrat Wonderland, lying to Congress is AOK, and
understand this was not about the Constitution. They didn't care.
They had no arguments as to why the Constitution said this.
This was about power, and this was about protecting their
political backsides because they're terrified of the American people hearing
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what is happening at the border, the fentanyl, the deaths,
the rapes, the children being abused. They do not want
that evidence before the American people. And I'll say this
is a final point to wrap up. Do you want
to see proof of why this is all political and
why the Democrats did what they did? Yes, you know what,
you know what, you know what ms you know what,
MSNBC and CNN covered all day yesterday Trump twenty four seven,
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the Trump trial, Storey Daniels ooh smut lying processly like
apparently there was no impeachment proceeding in the Senate. Nothing happened,
there's no border crisis. The only thing they would cover
is is the attack on Trump.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
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Welcome its verdict with Ted Cruz Week in Review, Ben
Ferguson with you, and these are the stories that you
may have missed that we talked about this past week.
First up, Republicans move for accountability on the border crisis,
specifically with my Orcis. Also, the White House has one
terrible message for Israel and they have continued to allow
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them to hang out to drive. We'll have the latest
on that. And finally, how do the Democrats actually stop
the impeachment inquiry into my Orcus in the Senate? Senator
Cruz explains all of that. It's the Week in Review
and it starts right now. There's also the fact that
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I think a lot of people believe, and I think
you would agree with this, that there has been zero
accountability for Secretary my orchis just flat out lying to Congress.
This is something that he said, and I want to
get your take.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Adhere to the oath to which I have sworn, and
I have abided by the law each and every step
of the way.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
That's not true, is it.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
That's a lie. It's an absolute lie. And actually there's
a whole provision of these articles of impeachment that lay
out how may Orcus has repeatedly lied to Congress. Now, now,
it's interesting. One of the things that the articles of
impeachment also lay out is that, Okay, so the Democrats
are going to take the position, this is a policy
difference that that that Okay, the Biden administration just they
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won't quite say it, but believes it open borders. So
they're going to let people go. But it's not impeachable.
It's it's it's it's not an offense. What is interesting
is that was not the position of the Biden Justice Department.
So you had litigation in front of the court where
Texas sued the Biden administration trying to get the court
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to say, the Biden administration is refusing to refusing to
follow immigration law. And I'm going to read from the
Articles of impeachment the dissenting justice in that case noted quote.
The court holds that Texas lacks standing to challenge a
federal policy that inflicts substantial harm on the state and
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its residents by releasing illegalaliens with criminal convictions for serious crimes.
In order to reach that conclusion, the court holds that
the only limit on the power of the president to
disobey a law like the important provisions, at issue is
Congress's power to employ the weapons of inner branch warfare.
As the descending justice explained, quote, Congress may wield what
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the Solicitor General described as political tools, which presumably mean
such things as impeachment and removal. Indeed, during oral arguments,
the justice, who authored a majority opinion stated to the
Solicitor General, quote, I think your position is instead of
judicial review, Congress has to resort to shutting down the
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government or impeachment or dramatic steps. That is what the
Biden Justice Department argued, is that impeachment is the remedy
when a president a cabinet member refuses to follow the law,
defies the law. The Biden Justice Department argued that in
front of the US Supreme Court. And yet you know
what today, the Democrats are going to say, no, impeachment's
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not the remedy. If you have an executive who defies
the law, it doesn't matter. We're going to rubber stamp
it and we're not even going to hold a trial.
And by the way, every Democrat will tell the reporters
there was no evidence of a high crime and misdemeanor. Now,
of course they'll say there was no evidence because they're
about to vote to block all the evidence, so they
don't hear any evidence, so then they can say we
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didn't hear any evidence. And the reason they didn't hear
any evidence is because they're going to refuse to hear
any evidence. And why are they going to refuse to
hear any evidence, Because they don't want the American people
to hear the evidence.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
And part of what they don't want them to hear
is the reality of what it's like up there on
the streets. Bill Malusian did some great reporting yesterday on
Fox News Channel about Elite Ice unit is tracking down
migrant criminals, specifically child rapists. This is while Mayorkas stared
at Congress and said the border is secure, the border
is secure. He said that to Congress he was lying.
(04:19):
Take a list of this from Fox.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
A short time later, I took down their final target,
a Brazilian gang member also charged with child rape. Just
this morning today, four accused child rapists and one MS
thirteen gang member. Those are the kind of people you're
going after, that's every day up here in Boston. If
those are the public safety threats that we really want
to get off the street. It was a great day
for the teams.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
That's five public safety threats that are on in the community,
gonna go ahead.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
And victimize anyone else.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
And I says, all of those arrests you just saw
happen because local authorities ignored their detainer request to keep
these guys in custody due to sanctuary policies. I says,
all of those suspects will remain in federal custody until
their local charges are resolved. Then Ice will seek into
port every single one of them.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Four alleged child rapists arrested in the morning, and they
said they're doing this every day, and local law enforcement
is not working with them because local municipalities have said
we're sanctuary cities. So these child rapists are that should
have been held by local authorities or not. And yet
this administration says, no, no, no, we're following the law. Everything's fine.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Every single week, the Biden administration is releasing thousands upon
thousands of illegal aliens. That includes murderers, that includes rapists,
that includes child molesters. Every single week we are seeing
another horrific crime committed by an illegal alien released by
Joe Biden and the Democrats. Week after week after week,
Whether it was Laken Riley and Georgia and the horrific
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murder that occurred from an illegal alien that Joe Biden
the Democrats released, Whether it was Jeremy Cassaris, a beautiful
two year old boy and Prince George's County, Maryland, just
a few miles from where I am right now in DC,
murdered by Neeli galalien that Joe Biden released, Or whether
it was a fifteen year old girl in Boston, Massachusetts,
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severely disabled who was raped by an illigal alien that
not only did Biden released, he flew from Haiti to America.
So we've covered on this podcast how three hundred and
twenty thousand illegal immigrants were flown into America by the
Biden administration. He literally imported in a child rapist who's
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now been arrested for raping the severely disabled fifteen year
old teenager. This is happening week after week after week.
This is why the Democrats don't argue on the other side.
What's the counter argument of, No, it's good a two
year old boy is murdered. No, it's good that we
have teenage girls being raped. That there is no counter argument.
So their counter argument is see no evil. Their counter
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argument is John Tester running from the Senate floor and
hiding in the cloak room because he doesn't want to
listen to what's happening. Why because he intends to vote
today to say no trial, no evidence. I don't want
to know. I do not care about the people dying.
I'm a Democrat. I want Democrats to be in power.
Ten point four million illegal immigrants meets more Democrat voters.
(07:23):
So if people have to die for me to stay
in power as a Democrat, I'm okay with that. I
got to say, Look, it is difficult for me not
to get really angry about this because as a Texan,
I see I've looked in the eyes when you get
down to the border, as I have over and over again,
and you look in the eyes of these little children
have been brutalized. It makes you angry that these people. Tomorrow,
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more children will be brutalized, Tomorrow, more women will be raped,
and not a one of these Democrats cares, not a
one of them will do anything to change it. And
they'll tell you, oh I care, but if you cared,
you would change it. And not a one one of
that is willing to do that.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I want to go back in time and this is
my orcus in front of the White House, and then
I'm going to compare it to what Schumer said last week.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Do you believe that right now there is a crisis
at the border?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I think that the answer is no. I think there
is a challenge at the border that we are managing,
and we have our resources dedicated to managing it.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
That was Mark's first twenty twenty one Secretary of my
ork Is insisting there's no crisis of the border, despite
that millions of illegal immigrants coming across and literally thousands
of illegal crossings per day. Then you go to last week,
Chuck Schumer making it clear this is a policy now
of the Democratic Party to have an open border collage.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Say you're going to offer.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
A motion to dismiss the impeachment charges on Thursday. Are
you at all concerned that if some Democrats and tough
Races both for that you can come back to Falston Campaigndro.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Look, we're going to try and resolve this issue as
quickly as possible. Impeachment did never be used to settle
policy disagreements.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Leadership never be used to settle policy disagreements. This is
the policy of the Democratic Party. And my archistslied to
your face in March of twenty twenty one saying that
there's no crisis the border, and in their mind from
a policy viewpoint center, I think it's abundantly clear. Now
they're on the record saying a wide open southern border
and millions of illegals coming across is not a is
(09:26):
not a crisis, it's just a policy disagreement, and it's.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
The policy they support. And Schumer repeated those those two
lines at the press conference about four more times that said,
we're going to try to get rid of us as
quickly as possible, and impeachment should never be used for
policy dispute. What's interesting, he didn't have a third line.
He was reading those talking points. He was being very precise.
He's not defending, he's not saying, hey, this is a
good policy. I agree with the policy the Biden administration.
(09:51):
I think it's great we have an open border. I
think it's terrific that we're releasing murderers. I think it's
terrific that we're releasing rapists. I think it's terrific we're
releasing child molesters. We're releasing drunk drive. I think it's
terrific that one hundred thousand people have died of drug
overdose every year and we keep allowing more and more.
I think it's terrific that in twenty eighteen, the Mexican
drug cartels made five hundred million dollars from human trafficking.
(10:12):
In twenty twenty two they made thirteen billion dollars. I
think it's fabulous that we, the Democrats, have produced a
two six hundred percent increase in the revenue for the
Mexican drug cartels. The biggest friends the human traffickers have
ever had in the history of humanity have been Joe
Biden and Alejandro Majorcis. That is the simple reality, and
(10:35):
none of that does Chuck Schumer say. Instead says, hey,
this is just a policy dispute.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
They the other side believes in securing the border, and
we want this country invaded.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
It is the policy of the Democratic Party. And it's sad,
but we're witnessing the demise of this country, our borders
and our laws at the hands of these people, and
it is their America will come back.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Though America will come back, are not witnessing the demise.
We're witnessing the attempted demise, and I believe in this country.
I think we will come back. I think millions of
Americans are looking this and saying, Holy crap, this is horrific,
this is inhuman, this is wrong. That's why this trial
is so important is there are a lot of people that
(11:19):
still don't know what's happening. They don't understand. If you
watch CNN every day, God help you, but you have
no idea because the media or propagandists. That's why this
trial is important. But I think people's eyes are opening
up now.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
If you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
you can go back and listen to the full podcast
from earlier this week. Now onto story number two. So
you look at all of that, and then you see
this that just came out from the National Security Council
statement on Iranian attacks on Israel, and I'm quoting it
says President Biden has been clear. Our support for Israel's
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security is iron The US will stand with the people
of Israel and support their defense against these threats from Iran. Okay, senter,
If that's true, then they have to give them what
they need this week. Am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Well, if there was anything like coherence and logic, then yes.
And Number one I'm going to predict right now, Chuck
Schumer is going to do everything he can to block
a vote on emergency military aid to Israel. I've called
on it, I forced her already once. My guess is
that he will put in place parliamentary tools to prevent
us from using the same technique again. And I think
(12:38):
the House, we've seen the Speaker of the House and
the Majority Leader both say that they're going to vote
out an emergency military aid bill this week, so we'll
get another one that comes over to us. And my
prediction is the Democrats won't back it. They don't want
to send military aid to Israel. And part of the
problem is they've got a crisis in their caucus. And
(12:58):
their crisis is that the radicals, the teleibs and omars,
they more and more represent the mainstream of the Democrat Party.
And so Schumer is terrified of Michigan, Biden is terrified
of Michigan. They're terrified of the radicals, and so they
may put out statements, but remember this is the same
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Chuck Schumer that not long ago stood on the Senate
floor and demanded that Israel's elected Prime minister be thrown
out of office. He decided that Israel, alone, among all
our allies, was not allowed to elect their leaders every
other country. You know, Schumer hasn't called for the leader
of Iran to step down. He hasn't called for the
leader of Hamas or China, or Rushier of Venezuela or
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North Korea. If you're an enemy of America, nope, Chuck
Schumer and the Democrats, they're giving you money. But if
you're our ally, what will Schumer say? How dare you
be in office? We need an appeaser.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Just like us.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
You just mentioned I was going to go there that
the Senate majority of leader said he should step down.
There's been a lot of people in the media have
been really attacking him, saying that he is a warmonger,
that he's that he's a killer, that he should not
be the president, he should not be in charge. I
don't believe we're going to see any of that stop.
But at least in the Middle East right now and
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specifically in Israel, how important is his leadership.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
It's extraordinarily important. I will say. I'm blessed to know
Prime Minister Netanyah, who very well. I think he is
a remarkable man. When he came and addressed a joint
session of Congress, and that this was during the Obama administration,
it was on the verge of Obama pushing through the
Iran nuclear deal at the time, and this was a
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decade ago. Multiple Democrats boycotted the speech. They refused to
listen to him speak. The Democrats hatred for Benjamin Netanyah,
who is nothing new, and understand that when he was
re elected Prime Minister Joe Biden made clear he was
not welcome in the White House, that he would not
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be invited in the White House. He could not come
to the White House. This is long before October seventh,
This is long before the war in Gaza. They hate
Natan Yaho, but understand they undermine every Israeli government. They
have done so from the very first days of this administration.
But net Yahoo, they have a particular loathing too, because
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he actually understands the gravity of the threat he is facing.
He understands that when the Ayahtola says death to Israel,
he's not playing around. He actually means it. When he
says death to America. He's not playing around, he actually
means it. And listen, I've been blessed. In twelve years
in the Senate, I've met many world leaders. That's one
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of the most incredible parts of the jobs. You get
to sit down with people that are leading our friends,
leading other countries, leading our competitors. There is no world
leader who is impressed me more. There's no world leader
who frankly is taking my breath away more than Benjamin
Netanyaho because he has a seriousness of purpose. He is
(16:06):
the only world leader for whom I have used the
adjective Churchillian. In my office in DC, I have three busts.
I have a bust of Ronald Reagan, I have a
bust of Churchill, and I have a bust of doctor
Martin Luther King Jr. And I have those three busts
because they are all men who had extraordinary vision. They
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faced remarkable challenges. They saw a world that was better
than the world they were living in, and their vision
helped bring the world to a better place with extraordinary
courage and clarity. And I have to tell you, I
think net and Yah who has that same courage and clarity.
Now it is not my role to tell the people
(16:51):
of Israel who their prime minister should be. So when
net Yaho was prime minister, when I started in the Senate,
I dealt with him because he was the leader, the
elected leader of Israel. When the people of Israel elected
Enough Tolly Bettett, I dealt with him. Whomever the people
of Israel elect, I will deal with the elected leader.
(17:12):
But the people of Israel re elected Benjamin Netanyah who
and I respect the choice of the people of Israel.
There is an arrogance in Democrat foreign policy, but also
in some Republican foreign policy, that they think they can
meddle in the internal politics of foreign nations and especially
our friends and allies, that they can do what Chuck
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Schumer did, which is tell the people of Israel Tis Tisk,
you have no business electing net Yah who throw him
out now? And they treat them like the voters, the
people of Israel like the red haired step children. It
is ridiculous. It's much like. Look, there have been long
debates in Washington about a two state solution, and that
(17:55):
they're Every Democrat says we must have a two state solution.
Many Republicans say we must have a two state solution.
My view on that is that's a decision for the
people of Israel to make. They care acutely about their security.
If the people of Israel just decide that a two
state solution is workable, I respect that decision. If they
(18:16):
decide it's not because the terrorists with whom they are dealing,
the Hamas and Hesbela, will not accept Israel's right to
exist and will wage war on them, I respect that
decision as well, and so I will say when it
comes to Prime Minister net and Yahoo, it's the choice
of the people of Israel that he should be their leader.
I respect their choice. But at the same time, I
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think he is a leader who understands the seriousness of
these threats and is not cowed by the aggression of
Hamas or Hesbela, or Iran or anyone else. He is
bound and determined to protect the people of Israel.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
As before, if you want to hear the rest of
this conversation on this topic, you can go back and
dow the podcast from earlier this week to hear the
entire thing. I want to get back to the big
story number three of the week you may have missed. Finally, Senator,
What exactly did Democrats do yesterday on impeachment? Just so
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people understand how they pulled this off.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Well, at one pm yesterday we convened on the Senate floor.
This is pursuant to the Senate rules. When we enter impeachment.
We were all sworn in, and then we all signed
the oath book, one at a time. We signed the
oath Book. And what is supposed to happen next is
that we adopt a resolution laying out a trial schedule
of how the House managers are going to present their case.
(19:42):
But instead what happened is Chuck Schumer rose on a
constitutional point of order, and a constitutional point of order
as you stand and say, what is on the floor
violates the constitution. And he raised a constitutional point of
order and he said at Article one, the first article
sent over by the House does not allege a high
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crime or misdemeanor. And so what happened next is we
voted on whether Article one alleged a high crime or misdemeanor.
High crime and misdemeanor is what you need to be
able to impeach someone. Now, Article one focused on Alejandro
Majorcus's defiance of federal law that that that that he
(20:27):
he was refusing to follow explicit and clear federal law,
federal law that that says that that illegal immigrants shall
be detained, that that illegal immigrants with criminal conviction shall
be detained and shall be deported, over and over again.
Immigration law is mandatory. It says shall shall, shall shall,
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and he's defying it at a level it's never happened before.
It's not that he's bad at his job. It's that
he is utterly flouting and defiedying federal law. And that
that's the first article of impeachment. And they argued, well,
actually they didn't argue. They just made a motion that
it's not a high crime or misdemeanor. They presented no argument,
(21:11):
They did not give a legal argument, they did not
write a brief, they did not present an argument. And
I was the person who raised the lead objection to that. Now,
under the impeachment rules, you can't debate on the Senate floor.
You're supposed to be silent because you're jurors.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I'm just saying, why is that? But that makes sense
because you're juror not a lawyer. I guess presenting right.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Right, And so I made a motion for us to
move into executive session. If we move into executive session,
we throw the reporters out. We turned the TV cameras off.
But then we can debate it. And I said, look,
you're you're making a major legal point. You presented no argument,
and what you're saying is quality is fundamentally wrong. And
(21:59):
I'll tell you the amazing thing is the idea that
refusing to follow the law, defying the law is not
a high crime and misdemeanor is not impeachable. It is
contrary to the original understanding the Constitution. Joseph Story, who
was a Supreme Court justice, one of the leading constitutional
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scholars right at the very beginning of our country, and
his commentaries in the Constitution are widely cited for understanding
what the founding generation believed the Constitution to mean. And
he talked about, he wrote at length about high crimes
and misdemeanors, and he gave lots of examples, including the
Lord Admiral refusing to protect the high seas, and he said,
(22:43):
that is a high crime or misdemeanor, and that is
virtually analogous, very closely analogous to the head of Homeland
Security refusing to secure the border. It's the same principle
of allowing lawless piracy to threat and an invade America.
So Joseph's story and the founding generation understood this to
(23:05):
be a high crime and misdemeanor. And amazingly enough, Ben
the Biden Justice Department argued in front of the US
Supreme Court that impeachment was the remedy for the Biden
administration refusing to follow the law. So in Texas versus
the United States, Texas sued the Biden administration for refusing
(23:27):
to secure the border, and the Supreme Court ended up
agreeing with the Biden administration and saying, well, Texas can't
sue and the Biden doj The Solicitor General for Biden argued, look,
if you have a cabinet member who's refusing to follow
the law, Congress has remedies, including impeachment, and so I
(23:49):
stood up and said listen. The Biden Department of Justice
argued last year this was impeachable. It didn't matter. Every
single Democrat, all of them. And by the way, Eve
in the so called moderates, Joe Manchin and Cirsten Cinema,
they voted also Nope, not a high crimer misdemeanor. And
as a result, because they had to have a majority,
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the point of order carried. They got fifty one votes
for it, and so the first article was thrown out,
and then they did it again on the second one.
And I'll tell you the second one is even more astonishing.
So as a result of the first vote, it is
now the position of Democrats that any cabinet member can
refuse to follow the law and defy the law and
utterly ignore the law, and you can't impeach him for it.
(24:33):
I mean, that's an astonishing and dangerous proposition in Democrat
looney land. But the second article of impeachment was for
breach of trust, and it focused on majorcas repeatedly lying
to Congress under oath about what was happening at the border.
And again Chuck Schumer rose on a point of order
(24:55):
and said, this is not a high crime or misdemeanor. Now,
mind you there saying lying under oath to Congress is
not impeachable. It is a felony. It is a felony
that you can serve jail time for. And it's worth
remembering Bill Clinton was impeached for perjury. The House impeached
him and what did the Senate do? They didn't throw
(25:16):
it out, they didn't dismiss it. The House managers presented
the case, the conducted a trial, and ultimately the Senate
acquitted him. But they did their duty to hold a trial.
And actually before that, there's someone I'm sure you've never
heard of, a guy named Walter Nixon. You know who
Walter Nixon was?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Who is that?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Walter Nixon was a federal judge. He was a federal
judge actually from Mississippi. You're an all miss grad. He
was a federal judge from Mississippi. But he was not
a good guy, and he was convicted of perjury before
a grand jury. And you know what happened. The Congress
impeached him, the House impeached him, the Senate convicted him,
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and he was removed as a federal judge for perjury.
So even though it was clear, there was clear precedent
that yes, perjury, lying under oath is a high crime
or misdemeanor, it is impeachable, every single Senate Democrat voted
that it's not a high crime or misdemeanor. So now apparently,
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again in Democrat Wonderland, lying to Congress is AOK, and
understand this was not about the Constitution. They didn't care.
They had no arguments as to why the Constitution said this.
This was about power, and this was about protecting their
political backsides because they're terrified of the American people hearing
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what is happening at the border, the fentanyl, the deaths,
the rapes, the children being abused. They do not want
that evidence before the American people. And I'll say this
is a final point to wrap up. Do you want
to see proof of why this is all political and
why the Democrats did what they did? Yes, you know what,
you know what, you know what ms you know what,
MSNBC and CNN covered all day yesterday Trump twenty four seven,
(27:09):
the Trump trial, Storey Daniels ooh smut lying processly like
apparently there was no impeachment proceeding in the Senate. Nothing happened,
there's no border crisis. The only thing they would cover
is is the attack on Trump.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Center,
Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you don't forget to dial
with my podcast and you can listen to my podcast
every other day. You're not listening to Verdict or each
day when you listen to Verdict afterwards, I'd love to
have you as a listener to again Ben Ferguson Podcasts,
and we will see you back here on Monday morning.
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