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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you, Senator,
we have got a lot on this money to talk about,
and it's more than just the eclipse. There are new
warnings at the southern border about possible terrace coming across
as well.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Well, that's right.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
We should start with the fact that the eclipse is
going to be happening today, that it is by all
accounts going to be spectacular. It's right over the middle
of Texas, and so if you are anywhere in the
path of the eclipse, i'd encourage you to go outside,
take a few minutes to obviously don't look directly in
the sun, but you can do the pinhole pinhole effort
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with a piece of paper and take your kids out
there and see. We should get for good chunk of
Texas about about four minutes of darkness right in the
middle of the day, and so that should be worthwhile
to go see. And actually, Ben, you're right now in Kerrville, Texas,
at a ranch right in the prime viewing spot. So
(00:58):
I will say today, as Verdict is coming out, the
sun will be blotted out.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It will be and I said, rarely in my life
can I say that I went to the perfect spot.
If it's good enough for NASA, it's gotta be good
enough for me. So it's gonna be four plus minutes
of total darkness, they say, and my kids are here.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
It's gonna be fun in Curveville. They say.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
The town of Curveville is gonna swell by over five
hundred thousand people just to see this moment. While it's
a lifetime experience. Well, that is phenomenal. And I will say,
We've got a lot to talk about on the pod today.
We've got, first of all, the border continues to get
worse and worse and worse. We're seeing god aways increasing,
We're seeing people on the known terror list increasing. That
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is combining with the growing news of the threats of
a direct terror attack because of the war in the
Middle East, because of Iran, because of Hamas, because of Hesbola,
because of Palestinian Islamic jihad. The risk of a terror
attack here in the United States keeps going up, and
Joe Biden's open border is making it worse and worse.
(02:02):
We're also going to talk about the new audit done
at the IRS when it turns out that well, you know,
all of Joe Biden and Janet Yellen's promises not to
audit the middle class, turns out they were lying. They
are in fact going after the middle class, which would
be exactly what we told you on this podcast they
were going to do. And finally, we're going to talk
about the impact the economy is having on Americans across
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the country on prices, on day to day living, and
how despite the White House trying to spin baby spin,
Bidenomics is proving to be a disaster for most Americans.
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Let's talk about the warning at the southern border. The
number of godaways has skyrocketed center and this is as
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there has been so much attention on the border, which
which again goes back to the point that you've said
over and over again, this administration created this. They don't
believe it's a problem. They believe this is a way
to change this country. It's an opportunity for them to
bring in new voters and change things with the map
in Congress, with a census. The list of their person
is skyrocketing. Is more and more illegals coming across the border.
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The problem now is the number of people that are
on the terrorist watch list is also skyrocketing that are
coming across southern border. As there's been concerns and warnings
from the FBI. You've been warning about this for quite
some time.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah, if you.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Look at the number of suspects on the terror watch
list apprehended at the Southern border for the entire four
years of the Trump administration, fiscal year twenty seventeen to
fiscal year twenty twenty one, the total people on the
terror watch list apprehended was twenty six over a total
of four years. Joe Biden came in, opened up the border,
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and those numbers have skyrocketed in the last six months.
In the first half of fiscal year twenty twenty four,
sixty nine suspects on the terror watch list have been apprehended.
That's in six months. That that is more than ten
a month we had twenty six and four years, and
under Joe Biden, we have more than ten known terrorist
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or people on the terror watch list apprehended every single
month of this fiscal year. You put that on top
of the really concerning number, which is the known god aways.
Known god aways are people we've observed at the border,
we know are there, but they got away, and they
got away. Typically, the god aways are much more likely
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to be serious problems. They're more likely to be criminals.
They're more likely to be murderers or rapists or child molesters.
They're more likely to be gang members, and they're more
likely to be terrorist. If you're a terrorist, you're not
likely going to go turn yourself in to the border
patrol agents, which is what millions of the legal immigrants
Joe Biden has led interdoing. Just in the month of March,
there were over twenty thousand known god aways. Just on
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Sunday there were nine hundred and nineteen known god aways.
Those are people among those nine hundred and nineteen. We
don't know how many terrorists are there, but we do
know that if the terrorists are coming, that's what they're
going to be as a gutaway.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
And those numbers are coming from customs and border patrols.
So this is the own Biden administration's numbers. They're telling
you this. There was also something else that Governor Abbott,
a good frint of yours, said on Fox News Channel.
He was asked about the Biden administration. Are they changing,
Are they doing anything different? I mean, in reality, we
know the Biden administration sues Texas so that Texas can't
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protect and defend itself and tries to rip down the
razor wire and the border security measures they put up.
But what he said about this is the issue of
the terrorists coming across. He also said something else that's
very interesting that those on the tarists watch lists they
make more money for the smugglers than the cartel members
that are bringing them across. They're willing to pay more
to get across our scar border. Take a listen to
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this from Fox News.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
The chief of the Border Patrol is saying exactly one
hundred and forty thousand got aways. If we don't know
who is coming into our country and we don't know
what their intent is, that is a threat. Does President Biden?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Degree President absolutely believes that along that border, we do
have significant national security concerns that have to be met.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
He also said that they're doing everything that they possibly can.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
But are you worried that we're in a September tenth
mentality on this issue. Let's be clear, the Bid administration
is doing nothing to stop terrorists from coming across the border.
They are knowingly allowing them in. And there's two categories here.
They're the terrorists who are actually apprehended. The terrorists apprehended
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are an all time record, many multiples of those who
came across the border under the Trump administration. But second
you talked about the god aways, well, the terrorists will
pay extra not to be caught. What that means is
the number that we've caught, which is extraordinary. There's far
more than that who've gotten across the border. Remember this.
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Also last month, the FBI director talked about a potential
nine to eleven type terrorist attack because of the terror
who are coming across our border. The chief job of
the president of the United States is national security. The
President Biden is failing at national security. We are extraordinarily
concerned about a terrorist attack occurring in Texas or elsewhere
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in the United States because of the terrorists who are
crossing our border at will, unstopped by the botom of
you think ISIS is here today, so I have no
information that they are. However, again, the FBI director was
talking last month about the possibility that Isis could be
coming here. Think about this concept. It's ridiculous that anybody
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has their shoes inspected at an airport these days, when
terrorists can come right across the border and sneak in
and come here. Let me foreshadow also another concern we're
going to have really soon that started kind of beginning
right now, and that's going to be drone wars. The
capability of the cartels about getting things across the border
through drones already is extraordinary, and they're going to be
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more aggressive, more sophisticated in the drawing attacks. We can
sustain a drawing attack anytime.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Senator, You've talked about this, the number of drones that
are coming across. We played this audio on Verdict just
a few weeks ago, where where they were before Congress.
They were talking about tens of thousands of drones that
are coming across into American airspace, some of them dropping
drugs and fetnyls, some of them spying on Americans. They
can also be used to target and to kill people
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as well. We are seeing that in the Middle East
right now. We're seeing that the war between Russia and Ukraine.
And yet all of this is happening. And we go
back to one of the things you said there, I mean, center,
are we in a September tenth mentality, which is what
you heard her say there on Fox, Because I am
terrified that the Biden administration is absolutely in a September
tenth mindset.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
I think there's no question about it. And the risk
of a major terrorist attack in the United States is
higher today than it has been any time since September eleventh,
two thousand and one. And on top top of that,
we have the news breaking this weekend. USA Today reported
the US is on high alert for a potential attack
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on Israel or on American facilities in the Middle East,
in retaliation for an Israeli strike in Syria that killed
Iranian commanders. Two US officials told USA Today. Iran vowed
revenge after suspected Israeli warplanes bombed its embassy in Damascus
on Monday, killing a top Iranian military commander, a major
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escalation in Israel's war with its regional adversaries. The Biden
administration is concerned about the possibility Iranians might attack US
bases in Iraq and Syria, sources said, and American forces
were in a heightened state of vigilance. Iran's Revolutionary guards
announced the death of seven military advisers in the Damascus strike,
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including Mohammad Reza Zahidi, a senior commander at its Kudz Force,
an elite foreign espionage and paramilitary arm Iran promised quote
to take a decisive response. So we have Iran, the
leading state sponsor of terrorism, promising a decisive response, funding
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millions and millions of dollars to fund Hamas terrorists, to
fund Hesbala terrorists, to fund Palestinian Islamic jihad to attack
directly American forces in the Middle East. And we have
on top of that Joe Biden and the Democrats. And
by the way, it's not just Joe Biden, it's every
congressional Democrat who has rubber stamped these open border policies,
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who have given the Iranians and Hamas and Hezbollah a
red carpet invitation to come into this country. And by
the way, you heard Greg Gabbett talking about the drones.
Our drone vulnerability is enormous. I mean, we had testimony
of upwards of twenty five thousand drone incursions from the
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car tells across our southern border. At a time when
Americans are directly threatened with terror, Joe Biden has given
an invitation to the for the terrorists to come to America.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah. Great point.
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also happening in those warnings coming in the Middle East
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right now. We did a show and I got to
say to all the vertic listeners, you guys were amazing
and spreading that show on social media. If you missed it,
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on in Israel. You can grab it and share that
wherever you are on social media. But there was a
lot of people that I think learned a lot from
the just quession that we had here and look, you
now look at what's going on the Middle East and
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this threat from Iran. I think we should all take
it obviously, very seriously. I don't think they're lying. I
don't think they're they're they're they're basically trying to bluff
on this one. And the concerns are significant, But the
real concern is is America's lack of response or saying
to Iran, you better not screw with us. And we've
allowed them for months and months to attack us interest
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in the Middle East without US really retaliating, And that's
part of the reason why they're so bold right now,
am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (15:35):
You're not, And it's worse than that. Look, I mean
we just a couple of weeks ago. I forced a
vote on the Senate floor to block the Biden administration
from sending billions of dollars to Iran, and every single
Senate Democrat but won. Everyone but Bob Menendez voted no.
And Menendez did it right at the end. I think
he was mostly pissed at the other Democrats who have
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demanded that he resign, and so he voted with me.
But every other Democrat was happy to vote to send
billions to Iran. And by Iran has launched over one
hundred attacks on US servicemen and women in the last
six months. Not only that. You know, we just talked
about the threat from from Iran and the escalation in
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the in the in the threat, what did the Biden
administration do well a US This is from NBC News Now.
A US intelligence assessment warns that Iran could carry out
an attack using a swarm of drones or land attack
cruise missiles, and that Iran could target an Israeli diplomatic
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or consular facility in the region in retaliation for the
strike on Damascus. According to two US officials familiar with
the assessment, Iran is likely to respond before the end
of Ramadan next week, so there's a particularly heightened alert
right now. On Friday, a tap aid to Iranian President
Ibrahim Rasi said said Tehran sent a message warning the
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United States not to get involved in the fight between
Israel and Iran. Quote in a written message, the Islamic
Republic of Iran warns US leadership not to get dragged
in net Yahu's trap for the US. Stay away so
you won't get hurt.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Is what.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Mohammed Jamshitti. Uh, that's how what his name is posted
on x He wrote that in response, the US asked
i Ran not to target American facilities. A spokesperson for
the National Security Council said reports that the US had
asked Iran not to target American facilities were simply wrong
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and an Iranian spin. And and here's here's a little
bit more.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
We received a message from Iran following the strike in Damascus.
In response, we made clear that we were not behind
the strike. We also warned Iran not to use the
strike as a pretext to further escalate in the region
or attack US facilities or personnel. In the hours after
the strike in Damascus, that is, the Biden administration reached
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out to Iran directly to assure Tehrod that the US
was not involved and did not have advanced knowledge of
the strike. So, in other words, this is what the
Biden administration does in the middle of the war.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
What do they do?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
They call Iran and they're like, oh, we're sorry, We're sorry,
We're sorry.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Mind you.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Iran is funding Hamas, is effectively waging war with Israel.
And what is Biden doing calling Iran and apologizing and
also allowing an open border with an invitation for anyone
with ill intent to come into this country.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
We also know that Iran, through their proxies have been
targeting American interests in the Middle East, and yet we
still call and say, hey, don't worry, we weren't involved
in this.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
What message is that said to them?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
They can do whatever they want in the Middle East
and America won't respond.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Now, sadly, that's exactly the message that Joe Biden is
sending every day. Iran is discovering they can attack Americans,
they can murder Americans, they can attack over and over
and over again, and the Biden administration not only no response,
the Biden administration's response will be here have billions of dollars.
It is bizarre. It ought to be an incredibly simple principle,
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don't give money to people who want to kill you.
And I'll add an addendum to that, who are actively
trying to kill you. And yet Biden and the Democrats
keeps shoveling cash more and more to Iran. And by
the way, Iran is still selling two million barrels a
day of oil because Joe Biden refuses to enforce the
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oil sanctions that's funding the regime.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I want you to explain this even more because this
is something I think many in the media have refused
to cover and tell the truth about this. We have
sanctions right now, yes, are in place on Iranian oil
that have been in place for quite some time. And
the only difference is this administration. They have not officially
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lifted the sanctions. The sanctions are technically still there in
name only, but we're allowing them to export the oil.
Is that the easiest way to explain it to everyone listening.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
No, that's exactly right, And let's review the bidding Let's
do a little bit of history on Iranian oil sales.
So if you go back to the Trump administration, there
was a big battle in the Trump administration. Within the
administration about whether to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal,
the Obama deal, which was a terrible deal. Both the
State Department and the Defense Department said no, do not
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pull out of the deal. I strongly disagreed. I went
to President Trump repeatedly, over and over and over again
and argued, this deal was catastrophic, it was endangering America,
it was bad, and the President agreed with me. President
Trump overruled his own Secretary of State, overruled his own
Secretary Defense. He pulled out of the Iran deal. Now,
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once he pulled out of the deal, there were still
significant components of the deal that remained in a place,
and the most significant was what was called the oil waivers.
The oil waivers allowed Iran to sell oil and that
was the major source of funding for the regime. I
began then arguing to President Trump, we needed to end
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the oil waiver. There was again a fight within the
Trump administration on this question. At this time, the lines
were a little bit different. You had State arguing no,
do not end the oil waivers. You had Energy, the
Department of Energy saying yes, end the oil waivers. This
was Mike Pompeo had just started a Secretary of State,
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and the State Department was arguing, if we end the
oil waiver on Iran, the effect will be that the
price of oil will skyrocket, the price of gasoline will skyrocket.
The Department of Energy chimed in, and you would think
that Apartment of Energy has some expertise in energy. They said, no,
that's ridiculous. There's plenty of global supply of oil. We
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can end the oil waiver and it's not going to
cause prices to skyrocket. Again, I leaned in vigorously. I
urged President Trump end the oil waivers. State's wrong, Energy's right. Well,
President Trump again agreed with me, overruled his own secretary
of State. He ended the oil waivers. At the time
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he did that, Iran was selling roughly one million barrels
a day of oil, so that was their major revenue source.
We ended the oil waivers, and we now know who
was right. Energy was right and State was wrong. Because
we ended the oil waivers and the global price barely moved.
It had negligible impact on price, There was plenty of supply.
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What it did have an impact on is it devastated
the Iranian economy and their oil sales dropped from one
million barrels a day to about three hundred thousand barrels
a day. And so when Joe Biden came into office,
the Iranian economy was in shambles. The effect of those
oil sanctions were crushing, and all Joe Biden had to
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do was not screw it up. But understand that Biden
and the Democrats, their number one foreign policy objective is
getting a new nuclear deal with Iran, and bizarrely they
prioritize this over everything. So Biden almost immediately stopped in
forcing the oil sanctions, just just kind of look the
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other way. And so what happens is Iran has a
ghost fleet of tankers that they send oil mostly to
communists China. China buys it and it funds Iran. Biden
came in, Iran is selling three hundred thousand barrels a day. Today,
Iran is selling two million barrels of oil a day. Wow,
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more than double what they were doing before we ended
the oil waiver. And they're using that that has been
upwards of eighty billion dollars that Joe Biden has given
a theocratic, homicidal, genocidal maniac, that is the Ayatola who
pledges death to America, and right now he's pledging to
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retaliate directly. And yet Joe Biden continues to this day
not to enforce the oil sanctions.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Last question for you on this, why do you believe
he refuses to enforce them. Is it just political ideology,
Is it he's compromised in some way, or is it
he's just completely ignorant to the threat that Iran is
to the world's stability, including to Israel as well as America.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I think the ideology of the Biden White House and
the Biden State Department in many ways, this White House
doesn't have a foreign policy that they have a domestic
policy writ large, so they broadcast out to the world.
They divide the world into blue countries and red countries.
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And red countries are those countries that wanted to be
friends with America when Donald Trump was president, and blue
countries are those countries that hated America when Donald Trump
was president. And the entirety of the Biden foreign policy
is to undermine, to alienate, to weaken the red countries,
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and to acquiesce, to appease to and send billions of
dollars to the blue country. So the reddest country of
all is Israel. It's why Biden systematically undermines Israel. Other
red countries include the United Kingdom, that include nations like Brazil.
When you had Bolsonara was very pro pro America. What
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happened the Biden administration undermined him and they got Lula
radical leftists to hate America. Colombia was another red country.
We had a very strong pro American ally in Ivon Duque.
The Biden White House undermined Duque. We ended up with
now an anti American leftist Petro who again hates America. Guatemala,
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Guatemala we had, we had the president of Guatemala was
strongly allied with the United States. As soon as he left,
the Biden administration imposed sanctions on the outgoing president of Guatemala.
Who are the blue countries, Well, there are lots of
blue countries. Uh, You've got China's a blue country, Russia,
Russia's a blue country. North Korea is a blue country.
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Venezuela is a blue country. But the bluest of all
blue countries is Iran. The Biden administration that they they
view this it's almost like religious their obsession with a
new nuclear deal with Iran, and they're willing to bend
over backwards no matter what.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
You know.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
I'm reminded there was a political cartoon when when John
Kerry was Secretary of State Obama was president, and it
had the Iyatolas saying death to America, and it had
John Kerry saying, can we meet you halfway? That's the
view of this White House. They're naive, they're ignorant, and
they want to shove billions of dollars to Iran even
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while they're actively trying to murder Americans and funding the
war in Israel.
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you and God bless Senator. Let's talk about this shocking
new data that's come out, a warning that came from
you on this show, and I want to play that
in a moment, but I want to get to the
headline here. There are two things right now that are
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worrying many Americans. Number one, it's bid nomics. It is
a disaster right now. We are seeing even top Biden
economic advisor bragged about gas prices, which are up fifty
percent since Biden took office, saying, quote, we are pleased
that gas prices have come down. Now the media is
allowing them to lie, and the American people are not
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going to fall for this. I don't believe. But take
a listen to this. This is coming from the White House,
from the Biden team trying to convince Americans that, hey,
you're paying less of the pump right now than ever.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
You should be excited.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Oh important for American families and a big focus of
President Biden. We are pleased that gas prices have come
down by a dollar forty relative to that peak that
was caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But as you say,
we are watching carefully to make sure that those gas
(29:52):
prices that the pump don't go up.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
To Now, Senator, that's just a lie that gas prices
are not down.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Anyone that goes the pump knows this.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
We also know now that grocery prices are nearing forty
percent higher than they were in twenty nineteen. And to
add insult to injury, we're now being told, on top
of all of that that's hurting the middle class, there's
now going to be more than ever IRS agents that
are targeting specifically middle class Americans, with more audits than
(30:23):
ever before.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Well, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
First of all, in terms of prices, you know, they're
crowing about that that they say gasoline prices are lower
than the worst they were under Biden, but they're still
up fifty one percent from where they were under Trump.
By the way, overall prices are up eighteen point six percent.
Real average weekly earnings are down four point two percent.
(30:47):
Real average weekly warnings earnings were up eight point two
percent under Trump. And in the month of March zero
new manufacturing jobs were added. And so look, the economy
is hurting mightily. And then you put on top of
that the IRS is doing actually what we predicted on
this podcast is targeting the middle class. The Wall Street
(31:09):
Journal wrote that wrote just a few days ago, quote
the internal Revenue Service got an audit of its own
in time for tax Day, and two irregularities jump out.
President Biden's plan to hire a new army of tax
collectors is falling flat, and the agents already at work
are targeting the middle class. Those are the two findings
(31:30):
of the IRS's watchdog, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
The most recent data suggests the IRS is still focused
on the middle class. As of last summer, sixty three
percent of new audits targeted taxpayers with incomes of less
than two hundred thousand dollars. Only a small overall share
(31:54):
reached the very highest earners, while eighty percent of the
audits covered earning less than one million dollars.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
And as the Wall.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Street Journal urge, as you don't forget to save those
charitable giving receipts. This is exactly opposite what Joe Biden
promised the American people. But it's what we knew was
going to happen. They were going to use the new
agents to go after the middle class. That's exactly what
they're doing.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Let me just remind people of what you said on
the show, and this was quite some time ago. Here
is the warning when we said it here early on
that they're going to come after average Americans, not just
the elites, as they were claiming.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
For Good Friday in Easter, the IRS released the news.
They did it as a news dump going into the
holiday because they didn't want people to pay attention to it.
That they are right now hiring the first thirty thousand
of those employees. Ten thousand of them are being hired
in the current fiscal year, and in fiscal year twenty
twenty four they're planning to double that with twenty seven
(32:57):
thousand new hires. Now, now, what does that need, Well,
let's go through a lot of different elements. The long
and short of it is, it means a whole bunch
more IRS employees there to harass you, to harass citizens,
to rass small businesses, to harass and target the political
enemies of the Biden White House.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
But Senator, you look at that warning, and you look
at what you mentioned right beforehand about prices that have skyrocketed,
the costs of goods and services are up, manufacturing jobs
that are down, and there has to be a moment,
I would argue of reckoning with the average American voter
where they look at this administration, and they sit there
(33:39):
and they stare at you in the face. They say, no, no,
gas prices are good, and the American people have to know, no,
that's not true. When they say, oh no, no, the
price at the grocery store, they're.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Not that bad.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
They've got to have a moment where they say, no, no, no,
we don't believe you anymore. You travel a lot, you
talk to a lot of people on the state of Texas.
I don't believe that the American people are going to
being boozled by this much longer.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Look, I think the American people know that that Bidenomics
is a mess. And in fact, you see the Biden
White House backing away from using that term Bidenomics because
they thought it was a good thing and they discovered
oh wait, people think it's a terrible thing.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
That that's it.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Listen to anyone who's paying the bills, anyone who goes
to the grocery store, anyone who fills up their tank
at the pump, anyone who deals with health care cost,
electricity costs, rent, mortgages. I'll tell you, young people, I
think one of the real most potent things is young
people buying their first home a young married couple. They're
(34:40):
suddenly discovering they can get about half as much house
as they thought they could get, because a few years ago,
when you had mortgage rates at at two and a
half percent, you could get actually a pretty big, pretty
you know, a nice three bedroom house, a backyard, a
swing And suddenly young people are discovering, holy cow, what
I thought I could have Ford is now out of reach.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Yeah, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
This is going to be a top issue certainly going
into this big election November. And I hope that conservatives
all of the country just tell the truth, and I
hope that the media will start covering it. They're still
covering and you could hear it in those headlines. You
can hear it in the audio. They will allow them
to lie on national TV to your face about how
great things are when they know compared to where they
were in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, it is a disaster.
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Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you, Senator,
we have got a lot on this money to talk about,
and it's more than just the eclipse. There are new
warnings at the southern border about possible terrace coming across
as well.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Well, that's right.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
We should start with the fact that the eclipse is
going to be happening today, that it is by all
accounts going to be spectacular. It's right over the middle
of Texas, and so if you are anywhere in the
path of the eclipse, i'd encourage you to go outside,
take a few minutes to obviously don't look directly in
the sun, but you can do the pinhole pinhole effort
(00:38):
with a piece of paper and take your kids out
there and see. We should get for good chunk of
Texas about about four minutes of darkness right in the
middle of the day, and so that should be worthwhile
to go see. And actually, Ben, you're right now in Kerrville, Texas,
at a ranch right in the prime viewing spot. So
(00:58):
I will say today, as Verdict is coming out, the
sun will be blotted out.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It will be and I said, rarely in my life
can I say that I went to the perfect spot.
If it's good enough for NASA, it's gotta be good
enough for me. So it's gonna be four plus minutes
of total darkness, they say, and my kids are here.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
It's gonna be fun in Curveville. They say.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
The town of Curveville is gonna swell by over five
hundred thousand people just to see this moment. While it's
a lifetime experience. Well, that is phenomenal. And I will say,
We've got a lot to talk about on the pod today.
We've got, first of all, the border continues to get
worse and worse and worse. We're seeing god aways increasing,
We're seeing people on the known terror list increasing. That
(01:40):
is combining with the growing news of the threats of
a direct terror attack because of the war in the
Middle East, because of Iran, because of Hamas, because of Hesbola,
because of Palestinian Islamic jihad. The risk of a terror
attack here in the United States keeps going up, and
Joe Biden's open border is making it worse and worse.
(02:02):
We're also going to talk about the new audit done
at the IRS when it turns out that well, you know,
all of Joe Biden and Janet Yellen's promises not to
audit the middle class, turns out they were lying. They
are in fact going after the middle class, which would
be exactly what we told you on this podcast they
were going to do. And finally, we're going to talk
about the impact the economy is having on Americans across
(02:24):
the country on prices, on day to day living, and
how despite the White House trying to spin baby spin,
Bidenomics is proving to be a disaster for most Americans.
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Let's talk about the warning at the southern border. The
number of godaways has skyrocketed center and this is as
(04:41):
there has been so much attention on the border, which
which again goes back to the point that you've said
over and over again, this administration created this. They don't
believe it's a problem. They believe this is a way
to change this country. It's an opportunity for them to
bring in new voters and change things with the map
in Congress, with a census. The list of their person
is skyrocketing. Is more and more illegals coming across the border.
(05:04):
The problem now is the number of people that are
on the terrorist watch list is also skyrocketing that are
coming across southern border. As there's been concerns and warnings
from the FBI. You've been warning about this for quite
some time.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah, if you.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Look at the number of suspects on the terror watch
list apprehended at the Southern border for the entire four
years of the Trump administration, fiscal year twenty seventeen to
fiscal year twenty twenty one, the total people on the
terror watch list apprehended was twenty six over a total
of four years. Joe Biden came in, opened up the border,
(05:40):
and those numbers have skyrocketed in the last six months.
In the first half of fiscal year twenty twenty four,
sixty nine suspects on the terror watch list have been apprehended.
That's in six months. That that is more than ten
a month we had twenty six and four years, and
under Joe Biden, we have more than ten known terrorist
(06:05):
or people on the terror watch list apprehended every single
month of this fiscal year. You put that on top
of the really concerning number, which is the known god aways.
Known god aways are people we've observed at the border,
we know are there, but they got away, and they
got away. Typically, the god aways are much more likely
(06:26):
to be serious problems. They're more likely to be criminals.
They're more likely to be murderers or rapists or child molesters.
They're more likely to be gang members, and they're more
likely to be terrorist. If you're a terrorist, you're not
likely going to go turn yourself in to the border
patrol agents, which is what millions of the legal immigrants
Joe Biden has led interdoing. Just in the month of March,
there were over twenty thousand known god aways. Just on
(06:51):
Sunday there were nine hundred and nineteen known god aways.
Those are people among those nine hundred and nineteen. We
don't know how many terrorists are there, but we do
know that if the terrorists are coming, that's what they're
going to be as a gutaway.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
And those numbers are coming from customs and border patrols.
So this is the own Biden administration's numbers. They're telling
you this. There was also something else that Governor Abbott,
a good frint of yours, said on Fox News Channel.
He was asked about the Biden administration. Are they changing,
Are they doing anything different? I mean, in reality, we
know the Biden administration sues Texas so that Texas can't
(07:25):
protect and defend itself and tries to rip down the
razor wire and the border security measures they put up.
But what he said about this is the issue of
the terrorists coming across. He also said something else that's
very interesting that those on the tarists watch lists they
make more money for the smugglers than the cartel members
that are bringing them across. They're willing to pay more
to get across our scar border. Take a listen to
(07:47):
this from Fox News.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
The chief of the Border Patrol is saying exactly one
hundred and forty thousand got aways. If we don't know
who is coming into our country and we don't know
what their intent is, that is a threat. Does President Biden?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Degree President absolutely believes that along that border, we do
have significant national security concerns that have to be met.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
He also said that they're doing everything that they possibly can.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
But are you worried that we're in a September tenth
mentality on this issue. Let's be clear, the Bid administration
is doing nothing to stop terrorists from coming across the border.
They are knowingly allowing them in. And there's two categories here.
They're the terrorists who are actually apprehended. The terrorists apprehended
(08:31):
are an all time record, many multiples of those who
came across the border under the Trump administration. But second
you talked about the god aways, well, the terrorists will
pay extra not to be caught. What that means is
the number that we've caught, which is extraordinary. There's far
more than that who've gotten across the border. Remember this.
(08:52):
Also last month, the FBI director talked about a potential
nine to eleven type terrorist attack because of the terror
who are coming across our border. The chief job of
the president of the United States is national security. The
President Biden is failing at national security. We are extraordinarily
concerned about a terrorist attack occurring in Texas or elsewhere
(09:15):
in the United States because of the terrorists who are
crossing our border at will, unstopped by the botom of
you think ISIS is here today, so I have no
information that they are. However, again, the FBI director was
talking last month about the possibility that Isis could be
coming here. Think about this concept. It's ridiculous that anybody
(09:36):
has their shoes inspected at an airport these days, when
terrorists can come right across the border and sneak in
and come here. Let me foreshadow also another concern we're
going to have really soon that started kind of beginning
right now, and that's going to be drone wars. The
capability of the cartels about getting things across the border
through drones already is extraordinary, and they're going to be
(09:59):
more aggressive, more sophisticated in the drawing attacks. We can
sustain a drawing attack anytime.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Senator, You've talked about this, the number of drones that
are coming across. We played this audio on Verdict just
a few weeks ago, where where they were before Congress.
They were talking about tens of thousands of drones that
are coming across into American airspace, some of them dropping
drugs and fetnyls, some of them spying on Americans. They
can also be used to target and to kill people
(10:26):
as well. We are seeing that in the Middle East
right now. We're seeing that the war between Russia and Ukraine.
And yet all of this is happening. And we go
back to one of the things you said there, I mean, center,
are we in a September tenth mentality, which is what
you heard her say there on Fox, Because I am
terrified that the Biden administration is absolutely in a September
tenth mindset.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
I think there's no question about it. And the risk
of a major terrorist attack in the United States is
higher today than it has been any time since September eleventh,
two thousand and one. And on top top of that,
we have the news breaking this weekend. USA Today reported
the US is on high alert for a potential attack
(11:07):
on Israel or on American facilities in the Middle East,
in retaliation for an Israeli strike in Syria that killed
Iranian commanders. Two US officials told USA Today. Iran vowed
revenge after suspected Israeli warplanes bombed its embassy in Damascus
on Monday, killing a top Iranian military commander, a major
(11:29):
escalation in Israel's war with its regional adversaries. The Biden
administration is concerned about the possibility Iranians might attack US
bases in Iraq and Syria, sources said, and American forces
were in a heightened state of vigilance. Iran's Revolutionary guards
announced the death of seven military advisers in the Damascus strike,
(11:52):
including Mohammad Reza Zahidi, a senior commander at its Kudz Force,
an elite foreign espionage and paramilitary arm Iran promised quote
to take a decisive response. So we have Iran, the
leading state sponsor of terrorism, promising a decisive response, funding
(12:16):
millions and millions of dollars to fund Hamas terrorists, to
fund Hesbala terrorists, to fund Palestinian Islamic jihad to attack
directly American forces in the Middle East. And we have
on top of that Joe Biden and the Democrats. And
by the way, it's not just Joe Biden, it's every
congressional Democrat who has rubber stamped these open border policies,
(12:39):
who have given the Iranians and Hamas and Hezbollah a
red carpet invitation to come into this country. And by
the way, you heard Greg Gabbett talking about the drones.
Our drone vulnerability is enormous. I mean, we had testimony
of upwards of twenty five thousand drone incursions from the
(12:59):
car tells across our southern border. At a time when
Americans are directly threatened with terror, Joe Biden has given
an invitation to the for the terrorists to come to America.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah. Great point.
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also happening in those warnings coming in the Middle East
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right now. We did a show and I got to
say to all the vertic listeners, you guys were amazing
and spreading that show on social media. If you missed it,
we did an entire episode on Israel and what's going
on in Israel. You can grab it and share that
wherever you are on social media. But there was a
lot of people that I think learned a lot from
the just quession that we had here and look, you
now look at what's going on the Middle East and
(15:04):
this threat from Iran. I think we should all take
it obviously, very seriously. I don't think they're lying. I
don't think they're they're they're they're basically trying to bluff
on this one. And the concerns are significant, But the
real concern is is America's lack of response or saying
to Iran, you better not screw with us. And we've
allowed them for months and months to attack us interest
(15:29):
in the Middle East without US really retaliating, And that's
part of the reason why they're so bold right now,
am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (15:35):
You're not, And it's worse than that. Look, I mean
we just a couple of weeks ago. I forced a
vote on the Senate floor to block the Biden administration
from sending billions of dollars to Iran, and every single
Senate Democrat but won. Everyone but Bob Menendez voted no.
And Menendez did it right at the end. I think
he was mostly pissed at the other Democrats who have
(15:56):
demanded that he resign, and so he voted with me.
But every other Democrat was happy to vote to send
billions to Iran. And by Iran has launched over one
hundred attacks on US servicemen and women in the last
six months. Not only that. You know, we just talked
about the threat from from Iran and the escalation in
(16:19):
the in the in the threat, what did the Biden
administration do well a US This is from NBC News Now.
A US intelligence assessment warns that Iran could carry out
an attack using a swarm of drones or land attack
cruise missiles, and that Iran could target an Israeli diplomatic
(16:40):
or consular facility in the region in retaliation for the
strike on Damascus. According to two US officials familiar with
the assessment, Iran is likely to respond before the end
of Ramadan next week, so there's a particularly heightened alert
right now. On Friday, a tap aid to Iranian President
Ibrahim Rasi said said Tehran sent a message warning the
(17:03):
United States not to get involved in the fight between
Israel and Iran. Quote in a written message, the Islamic
Republic of Iran warns US leadership not to get dragged
in net Yahu's trap for the US. Stay away so
you won't get hurt.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Is what.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Mohammed Jamshitti. Uh, that's how what his name is posted
on x He wrote that in response, the US asked
i Ran not to target American facilities. A spokesperson for
the National Security Council said reports that the US had
asked Iran not to target American facilities were simply wrong
(17:39):
and an Iranian spin. And and here's here's a little
bit more.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
We received a message from Iran following the strike in Damascus.
In response, we made clear that we were not behind
the strike. We also warned Iran not to use the
strike as a pretext to further escalate in the region
or attack US facilities or personnel. In the hours after
the strike in Damascus, that is, the Biden administration reached
(18:05):
out to Iran directly to assure Tehrod that the US
was not involved and did not have advanced knowledge of
the strike. So, in other words, this is what the
Biden administration does in the middle of the war.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
What do they do?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
They call Iran and they're like, oh, we're sorry, We're sorry,
We're sorry.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Mind you.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Iran is funding Hamas, is effectively waging war with Israel.
And what is Biden doing calling Iran and apologizing and
also allowing an open border with an invitation for anyone
with ill intent to come into this country.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
We also know that Iran, through their proxies have been
targeting American interests in the Middle East, and yet we
still call and say, hey, don't worry, we weren't involved
in this.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
What message is that said to them?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
They can do whatever they want in the Middle East
and America won't respond.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Now, sadly, that's exactly the message that Joe Biden is
sending every day. Iran is discovering they can attack Americans,
they can murder Americans, they can attack over and over
and over again, and the Biden administration not only no response,
the Biden administration's response will be here have billions of dollars.
It is bizarre. It ought to be an incredibly simple principle,
(19:09):
don't give money to people who want to kill you.
And I'll add an addendum to that, who are actively
trying to kill you. And yet Biden and the Democrats
keeps shoveling cash more and more to Iran. And by
the way, Iran is still selling two million barrels a
day of oil because Joe Biden refuses to enforce the
(19:30):
oil sanctions that's funding the regime.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I want you to explain this even more because this
is something I think many in the media have refused
to cover and tell the truth about this. We have
sanctions right now, yes, are in place on Iranian oil
that have been in place for quite some time. And
the only difference is this administration. They have not officially
(19:54):
lifted the sanctions. The sanctions are technically still there in
name only, but we're allowing them to export the oil.
Is that the easiest way to explain it to everyone listening.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
No, that's exactly right, And let's review the bidding Let's
do a little bit of history on Iranian oil sales.
So if you go back to the Trump administration, there
was a big battle in the Trump administration. Within the
administration about whether to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal,
the Obama deal, which was a terrible deal. Both the
State Department and the Defense Department said no, do not
(20:26):
pull out of the deal. I strongly disagreed. I went
to President Trump repeatedly, over and over and over again
and argued, this deal was catastrophic, it was endangering America,
it was bad, and the President agreed with me. President
Trump overruled his own Secretary of State, overruled his own
Secretary Defense. He pulled out of the Iran deal. Now,
(20:49):
once he pulled out of the deal, there were still
significant components of the deal that remained in a place,
and the most significant was what was called the oil waivers.
The oil waivers allowed Iran to sell oil and that
was the major source of funding for the regime. I
began then arguing to President Trump, we needed to end
(21:12):
the oil waiver. There was again a fight within the
Trump administration on this question. At this time, the lines
were a little bit different. You had State arguing no,
do not end the oil waivers. You had Energy, the
Department of Energy saying yes, end the oil waivers. This
was Mike Pompeo had just started a Secretary of State,
(21:32):
and the State Department was arguing, if we end the
oil waiver on Iran, the effect will be that the
price of oil will skyrocket, the price of gasoline will skyrocket.
The Department of Energy chimed in, and you would think
that Apartment of Energy has some expertise in energy. They said, no,
that's ridiculous. There's plenty of global supply of oil. We
(21:53):
can end the oil waiver and it's not going to
cause prices to skyrocket. Again, I leaned in vigorously. I
urged President Trump end the oil waivers. State's wrong, Energy's right. Well,
President Trump again agreed with me, overruled his own secretary
of State. He ended the oil waivers. At the time
(22:15):
he did that, Iran was selling roughly one million barrels
a day of oil, so that was their major revenue source.
We ended the oil waivers, and we now know who
was right. Energy was right and State was wrong. Because
we ended the oil waivers and the global price barely moved.
It had negligible impact on price, There was plenty of supply.
(22:37):
What it did have an impact on is it devastated
the Iranian economy and their oil sales dropped from one
million barrels a day to about three hundred thousand barrels
a day. And so when Joe Biden came into office,
the Iranian economy was in shambles. The effect of those
oil sanctions were crushing, and all Joe Biden had to
(23:02):
do was not screw it up. But understand that Biden
and the Democrats, their number one foreign policy objective is
getting a new nuclear deal with Iran, and bizarrely they
prioritize this over everything. So Biden almost immediately stopped in
forcing the oil sanctions, just just kind of look the
(23:25):
other way. And so what happens is Iran has a
ghost fleet of tankers that they send oil mostly to
communists China. China buys it and it funds Iran. Biden
came in, Iran is selling three hundred thousand barrels a day. Today,
Iran is selling two million barrels of oil a day. Wow,
(23:48):
more than double what they were doing before we ended
the oil waiver. And they're using that that has been
upwards of eighty billion dollars that Joe Biden has given
a theocratic, homicidal, genocidal maniac, that is the Ayatola who
pledges death to America, and right now he's pledging to
(24:09):
retaliate directly. And yet Joe Biden continues to this day
not to enforce the oil sanctions.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Last question for you on this, why do you believe
he refuses to enforce them. Is it just political ideology,
Is it he's compromised in some way, or is it
he's just completely ignorant to the threat that Iran is
to the world's stability, including to Israel as well as America.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I think the ideology of the Biden White House and
the Biden State Department in many ways, this White House
doesn't have a foreign policy that they have a domestic
policy writ large, so they broadcast out to the world.
They divide the world into blue countries and red countries.
(24:57):
And red countries are those countries that wanted to be
friends with America when Donald Trump was president, and blue
countries are those countries that hated America when Donald Trump
was president. And the entirety of the Biden foreign policy
is to undermine, to alienate, to weaken the red countries,
(25:20):
and to acquiesce, to appease to and send billions of
dollars to the blue country. So the reddest country of
all is Israel. It's why Biden systematically undermines Israel. Other
red countries include the United Kingdom, that include nations like Brazil.
When you had Bolsonara was very pro pro America. What
(25:43):
happened the Biden administration undermined him and they got Lula
radical leftists to hate America. Colombia was another red country.
We had a very strong pro American ally in Ivon Duque.
The Biden White House undermined Duque. We ended up with
now an anti American leftist Petro who again hates America. Guatemala,
(26:03):
Guatemala we had, we had the president of Guatemala was
strongly allied with the United States. As soon as he left,
the Biden administration imposed sanctions on the outgoing president of Guatemala.
Who are the blue countries, Well, there are lots of
blue countries. Uh, You've got China's a blue country, Russia,
Russia's a blue country. North Korea is a blue country.
(26:23):
Venezuela is a blue country. But the bluest of all
blue countries is Iran. The Biden administration that they they
view this it's almost like religious their obsession with a
new nuclear deal with Iran, and they're willing to bend
over backwards no matter what.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
You know.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
I'm reminded there was a political cartoon when when John
Kerry was Secretary of State Obama was president, and it
had the Iyatolas saying death to America, and it had
John Kerry saying, can we meet you halfway? That's the
view of this White House. They're naive, they're ignorant, and
they want to shove billions of dollars to Iran even
(27:06):
while they're actively trying to murder Americans and funding the
war in Israel.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
I want to talk to you about what you can
do to help people in Israel. Right now, we all
know about the atrocities that were committed by Hamaslaks last
October the seventh, which kicked off a vicious war as
Israel is defending herself from terrorists now on every side.
The toll on the Israeli people is real, it is staggering,
and it's massive. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been
(27:34):
forced from their homes. Entire communities torn apart, lives have
been devastated by death and destruction and war. The International
Fellowship of Christian and Jews, known as IFCJ, is right
there in the middle of it. Each and every day
they are distributing right now critical essentials like food, medicine,
(27:54):
and emergency supplies for hundreds of thousands of suffering Jews
that have been displaced. The need is great and that's
why I am partnering with IFCJ today and I want
you to get involved in help. I want you to
visit support IFCJ dot org to help. Every donation is
(28:15):
urgently need to help the people of Israel. A lot
of people have said, how can I help? This is
how you can help to give the International Fellowship of
Christian and Jews. All you have to do is go
to support IFCJ dot org and give as generously as
you can, because your gift will be matched to double
in impact and help provide twice the support right now. Again,
(28:36):
that's support IFCJ dot org. Support IFCJ dot org. Thank
you and God bless Senator. Let's talk about this shocking
new data that's come out, a warning that came from
you on this show, and I want to play that
in a moment, but I want to get to the
headline here. There are two things right now that are
(28:56):
worrying many Americans. Number one, it's bid nomics. It is
a disaster right now. We are seeing even top Biden
economic advisor bragged about gas prices, which are up fifty
percent since Biden took office, saying, quote, we are pleased
that gas prices have come down. Now the media is
allowing them to lie, and the American people are not
(29:19):
going to fall for this. I don't believe. But take
a listen to this. This is coming from the White House,
from the Biden team trying to convince Americans that, hey,
you're paying less of the pump right now than ever.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
You should be excited.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Oh important for American families and a big focus of
President Biden. We are pleased that gas prices have come
down by a dollar forty relative to that peak that
was caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But as you say,
we are watching carefully to make sure that those gas
(29:52):
prices that the pump don't go up.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
To Now, Senator, that's just a lie that gas prices
are not down.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Anyone that goes the pump knows this.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
We also know now that grocery prices are nearing forty
percent higher than they were in twenty nineteen. And to
add insult to injury, we're now being told, on top
of all of that that's hurting the middle class, there's
now going to be more than ever IRS agents that
are targeting specifically middle class Americans, with more audits than
(30:23):
ever before.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Well, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
First of all, in terms of prices, you know, they're
crowing about that that they say gasoline prices are lower
than the worst they were under Biden, but they're still
up fifty one percent from where they were under Trump.
By the way, overall prices are up eighteen point six percent.
Real average weekly earnings are down four point two percent.
(30:47):
Real average weekly warnings earnings were up eight point two
percent under Trump. And in the month of March zero
new manufacturing jobs were added. And so look, the economy
is hurting mightily. And then you put on top of
that the IRS is doing actually what we predicted on
this podcast is targeting the middle class. The Wall Street
(31:09):
Journal wrote that wrote just a few days ago, quote
the internal Revenue Service got an audit of its own
in time for tax Day, and two irregularities jump out.
President Biden's plan to hire a new army of tax
collectors is falling flat, and the agents already at work
are targeting the middle class. Those are the two findings
(31:30):
of the IRS's watchdog, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
The most recent data suggests the IRS is still focused
on the middle class. As of last summer, sixty three
percent of new audits targeted taxpayers with incomes of less
than two hundred thousand dollars. Only a small overall share
(31:54):
reached the very highest earners, while eighty percent of the
audits covered earning less than one million dollars.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
And as the Wall.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Street Journal urge, as you don't forget to save those
charitable giving receipts. This is exactly opposite what Joe Biden
promised the American people. But it's what we knew was
going to happen. They were going to use the new
agents to go after the middle class. That's exactly what
they're doing.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Let me just remind people of what you said on
the show, and this was quite some time ago. Here
is the warning when we said it here early on
that they're going to come after average Americans, not just
the elites, as they were claiming.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
For Good Friday in Easter, the IRS released the news.
They did it as a news dump going into the
holiday because they didn't want people to pay attention to it.
That they are right now hiring the first thirty thousand
of those employees. Ten thousand of them are being hired
in the current fiscal year, and in fiscal year twenty
twenty four they're planning to double that with twenty seven
(32:57):
thousand new hires. Now, now, what does that need, Well,
let's go through a lot of different elements. The long
and short of it is, it means a whole bunch
more IRS employees there to harass you, to harass citizens,
to rass small businesses, to harass and target the political
enemies of the Biden White House.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
But Senator, you look at that warning, and you look
at what you mentioned right beforehand about prices that have skyrocketed,
the costs of goods and services are up, manufacturing jobs
that are down, and there has to be a moment,
I would argue of reckoning with the average American voter
where they look at this administration, and they sit there
(33:39):
and they stare at you in the face. They say, no, no,
gas prices are good, and the American people have to know, no,
that's not true. When they say, oh no, no, the
price at the grocery store, they're.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Not that bad.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
They've got to have a moment where they say, no, no, no,
we don't believe you anymore. You travel a lot, you
talk to a lot of people on the state of Texas.
I don't believe that the American people are going to
being boozled by this much longer.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Look, I think the American people know that that Bidenomics
is a mess. And in fact, you see the Biden
White House backing away from using that term Bidenomics because
they thought it was a good thing and they discovered
oh wait, people think it's a terrible thing.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
That that's it.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Listen to anyone who's paying the bills, anyone who goes
to the grocery store, anyone who fills up their tank
at the pump, anyone who deals with health care cost,
electricity costs, rent, mortgages. I'll tell you, young people, I
think one of the real most potent things is young
people buying their first home a young married couple. They're
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suddenly discovering they can get about half as much house
as they thought they could get, because a few years ago,
when you had mortgage rates at at two and a
half percent, you could get actually a pretty big, pretty
you know, a nice three bedroom house, a backyard, a
swing And suddenly young people are discovering, holy cow, what
I thought I could have Ford is now out of reach.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Yeah, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
This is going to be a top issue certainly going
into this big election November. And I hope that conservatives
all of the country just tell the truth, and I
hope that the media will start covering it. They're still
covering and you could hear it in those headlines. You
can hear it in the audio. They will allow them
to lie on national TV to your face about how
great things are when they know compared to where they
were in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, it is a disaster.
(35:25):
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