0:01

Welcome.

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It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben

0:04

Ferguson with you, Senator, we have got

0:06

a lot on this money to talk about,

0:08

and it's more than just the eclipse. There are new

0:10

warnings at the southern border about possible

0:13

terrace coming across as well.

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Well, that's right.

0:16

We should start with the fact that the eclipse

0:18

is going to be happening today, that it

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is by all accounts going

0:22

to be spectacular. It's right over the

0:24

middle of Texas, and so if you are anywhere

0:27

in the path of the eclipse, i'd encourage

0:29

you to go outside, take a few minutes to obviously don't

0:32

look directly in the sun, but you

0:34

can do the pinhole pinhole

0:37

effort with a piece of paper and take

0:39

your kids out there and see. We should

0:41

get for good chunk of Texas about

0:44

about four minutes of darkness right in the middle of the

0:46

day, and so that should be worthwhile

0:49

to go see. And actually, Ben, you're right

0:51

now in Kerrville, Texas, at

0:54

a ranch right in the prime

0:56

viewing spot. So I will

0:59

say today, as

1:01

Verdict is coming out, the sun will

1:03

be blotted out.

1:05

It will be and I said, rarely

1:07

in my life can I say that I went to the perfect

1:09

spot. If it's good enough for NASA, it's

1:11

gotta be good enough for me. So it's gonna be four

1:14

plus minutes of total darkness, they say, and

1:16

my kids are here.

1:17

It's gonna be fun in Curveville. They say.

1:19

The town of Curveville is gonna swell by over

1:22

five hundred thousand people just

1:24

to see this moment. While it's a lifetime experience.

1:27

Well, that is phenomenal. And I will say, We've

1:29

got a lot to talk about on the pod today. We've got,

1:31

first of all, the border continues to get worse

1:33

and worse and worse. We're seeing god aways increasing,

1:36

We're seeing people on the known terror list

1:39

increasing. That is combining

1:41

with the growing news of the

1:44

threats of a direct terror

1:46

attack because of the war in the Middle

1:48

East, because of Iran, because

1:50

of Hamas, because of Hesbola, because

1:53

of Palestinian Islamic jihad. The

1:56

risk of a terror attack here in the United States

1:58

keeps going up, and Joe Biden's open

2:00

border is making it worse and worse. We're

2:02

also going to talk about the new audit done

2:04

at the IRS when it turns out that well,

2:07

you know, all of Joe Biden and Janet Yellen's

2:09

promises not to audit the middle

2:11

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2:14

going after the middle class, which would be exactly

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what we told you on this podcast they were going to

2:19

do. And finally, we're going to talk about

2:21

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2:23

on Americans across the country on prices,

2:26

on day to day living, and how

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talk about the warning at the southern border.

4:37

The number of godaways has skyrocketed

4:39

center and this is as there

4:42

has been so much attention on the border, which

4:44

which again goes back to the point that you've said

4:46

over and over again, this administration created

4:49

this. They don't believe it's a problem. They believe

4:51

this is a way to change this country. It's an opportunity

4:53

for them to bring in new voters and change things

4:56

with the map in Congress, with a census. The

4:58

list of their person is

5:00

skyrocketing. Is more and more illegals

5:02

coming across the border. The problem

5:05

now is the number of people

5:07

that are on the terrorist watch list is

5:09

also skyrocketing that are coming across southern

5:11

border. As there's been concerns and warnings from

5:13

the FBI. You've been warning about

5:16

this for quite some time.

5:17

Yeah, if you.

5:19

Look at the number of suspects

5:21

on the terror watch list apprehended at the Southern

5:23

border for the entire four

5:25

years of the Trump administration, fiscal year

5:28

twenty seventeen to fiscal year twenty twenty

5:30

one, the total people

5:32

on the terror watch list apprehended was twenty

5:34

six over a total of four

5:37

years. Joe Biden came

5:39

in, opened up the border, and those numbers

5:41

have skyrocketed in the

5:43

last six months. In the

5:46

first half of fiscal year twenty twenty

5:48

four, sixty nine

5:50

suspects on the terror watch list have

5:53

been apprehended. That's in six months.

5:56

That that is more than ten a

5:58

month we had twenty six and four years,

6:00

and under Joe Biden, we have more

6:03

than ten known terrorist or

6:05

people on the terror watch list apprehended

6:08

every single month of

6:10

this fiscal year. You put that on

6:13

top of the really concerning

6:15

number, which is the known god aways. Known

6:18

god aways are people we've observed at

6:20

the border, we know are there, but they got away,

6:22

and they got away. Typically, the

6:24

god aways are much more likely to be serious

6:26

problems. They're more likely to be criminals. They're

6:29

more likely to be murderers or rapists or child

6:31

molesters. They're more likely to be gang members,

6:33

and they're more likely to be terrorist. If you're a terrorist,

6:36

you're not likely going to go turn yourself

6:38

in to the border patrol agents, which

6:40

is what millions of the legal immigrants Joe

6:42

Biden has led interdoing. Just in

6:44

the month of March, there were over

6:46

twenty thousand known

6:49

god aways. Just on Sunday

6:51

there were nine hundred and nineteen known

6:55

god aways. Those are people among

6:57

those nine hundred and nineteen. We don't know how many terrorists

6:59

are there, but we do know that if the terrorists

7:02

are coming, that's what they're going to be as

7:04

a gutaway.

7:04

And those numbers are coming from customs and border

7:07

patrols. So this is the own Biden administration's

7:09

numbers. They're telling you this. There

7:12

was also something else that Governor Abbott, a good

7:14

frint of yours, said on Fox News Channel. He was

7:16

asked about the Biden administration. Are

7:18

they changing, Are they doing anything different? I mean, in

7:21

reality, we know the Biden administration sues

7:23

Texas so that Texas can't protect

7:25

and defend itself and tries to rip down

7:28

the razor wire and the border security measures

7:30

they put up. But what he said about

7:32

this is the issue of the terrorists coming

7:34

across. He also said something else that's very interesting

7:36

that those on the tarists watch lists they

7:39

make more money for the smugglers than the cartel

7:41

members that are bringing them across. They're

7:43

willing to pay more to get across our

7:46

scar border. Take a listen to this from

7:48

Fox News.

7:49

The chief of the Border Patrol is saying exactly

7:51

one hundred and forty thousand got aways. If

7:54

we don't know who is coming into our country and

7:56

we don't know what their intent is, that is

7:59

a threat. Does President Biden?

8:00

Degree President absolutely

8:03

believes that along that border,

8:05

we do have significant national security

8:07

concerns that have to be met.

8:08

He also said that they're doing everything that they possibly

8:11

can.

8:11

But are you worried that we're in a September

8:13

tenth mentality on this issue.

8:16

Let's be clear, the Bid administration is

8:18

doing nothing to stop terrorists

8:21

from coming across the border. They are knowingly

8:24

allowing them in. And there's two categories

8:26

here. They're the terrorists who

8:29

are actually apprehended. The terrorists

8:31

apprehended are an all time record,

8:34

many multiples of those who came across

8:36

the border under the Trump administration. But

8:38

second you talked about the god aways,

8:41

well, the terrorists will pay

8:43

extra not to be caught. What

8:45

that means is the number that we've caught, which

8:47

is extraordinary. There's far more than

8:49

that who've gotten across the border. Remember

8:52

this. Also last month, the FBI

8:54

director talked about a potential

8:56

nine to eleven type terrorist attack

8:59

because of the terror who are coming across our border.

9:01

The chief job of the president of the United

9:03

States is national security. The

9:06

President Biden is failing at national security.

9:09

We are extraordinarily concerned

9:11

about a terrorist attack occurring

9:14

in Texas or elsewhere in the United States

9:16

because of the terrorists who are crossing

9:18

our border at will, unstopped by

9:20

the botom of you think ISIS is here today,

9:23

so I have no information that they are. However,

9:26

again, the FBI director

9:29

was talking last month about the possibility

9:31

that Isis could be coming here. Think about this concept.

9:34

It's ridiculous that anybody

9:36

has their shoes inspected at an airport

9:38

these days, when terrorists

9:40

can come right across the border

9:42

and sneak in and come here. Let me foreshadow

9:45

also another concern we're going to have really

9:48

soon that started kind of beginning right now, and

9:50

that's going to be drone wars. The

9:53

capability of the cartels about getting things

9:55

across the border through drones already

9:57

is extraordinary, and they're going to be more aggressive,

10:00

more sophisticated in the drawing attacks. We

10:02

can sustain a drawing attack anytime.

10:05

Senator, You've talked about this, the number

10:08

of drones that are coming across. We played

10:10

this audio on Verdict just a few

10:12

weeks ago, where where they were

10:14

before Congress. They were talking about tens of

10:16

thousands of drones that are coming across

10:19

into American airspace, some of them

10:21

dropping drugs and fetnyls, some of them spying

10:23

on Americans. They can also be used to target

10:26

and to kill people as well. We are seeing that in

10:28

the Middle East right now. We're seeing that the war

10:30

between Russia and Ukraine. And yet all

10:32

of this is happening. And we go back to one of

10:34

the things you said there, I mean, center, are we in a

10:36

September tenth mentality, which

10:39

is what you heard her say there on Fox, Because

10:41

I am terrified that the Biden

10:43

administration is absolutely in a September

10:45

tenth mindset.

10:47

I think there's no question about it. And the

10:49

risk of a major terrorist attack

10:51

in the United States is higher

10:53

today than it has been any

10:56

time since September eleventh, two thousand

10:58

and one. And on top top of

11:00

that, we have the news breaking this weekend.

11:02

USA Today reported the

11:04

US is on high alert for a potential

11:07

attack on Israel or on American

11:09

facilities in the Middle East, in retaliation

11:12

for an Israeli strike in Syria that killed

11:15

Iranian commanders. Two US

11:17

officials told USA Today. Iran

11:19

vowed revenge after suspected Israeli

11:22

warplanes bombed its embassy

11:24

in Damascus on Monday, killing

11:26

a top Iranian military commander, a

11:29

major escalation in Israel's

11:31

war with its regional adversaries. The

11:34

Biden administration is concerned about the possibility

11:36

Iranians might attack US bases

11:38

in Iraq and Syria, sources said, and

11:41

American forces were in a heightened

11:43

state of vigilance. Iran's

11:46

Revolutionary guards announced the death

11:48

of seven military advisers in

11:50

the Damascus strike, including Mohammad

11:53

Reza Zahidi, a

11:55

senior commander at its Kudz Force, an

11:57

elite foreign espionage

12:00

and paramilitary arm Iran

12:03

promised quote to take

12:05

a decisive response.

12:09

So we have Iran, the leading state

12:11

sponsor of terrorism,

12:13

promising a decisive response,

12:16

funding millions and millions of dollars

12:18

to fund Hamas terrorists, to

12:21

fund Hesbala terrorists, to

12:23

fund Palestinian Islamic jihad to

12:26

attack directly American

12:28

forces in the Middle East. And we have on top

12:30

of that Joe Biden and the Democrats.

12:33

And by the way, it's not just Joe Biden, it's every congressional

12:35

Democrat who has rubber stamped

12:37

these open border policies, who

12:39

have given the Iranians and Hamas

12:42

and Hezbollah a red carpet invitation

12:45

to come into this country. And by the way, you heard Greg

12:47

Gabbett talking about the drones.

12:50

Our drone vulnerability is enormous.

12:52

I mean, we had testimony of upwards

12:55

of twenty five thousand

12:58

drone incursions from the car tells

13:00

across our southern border. At

13:02

a time when Americans

13:05

are directly threatened with terror, Joe

13:07

Biden has given an

13:09

invitation to the

13:11

for the terrorists to come to America.

13:13

Yeah. Great point.

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Let's talk about what's also happening in those

14:42

warnings coming in the Middle East right now. We did

14:44

a show and I got to say to all the vertic listeners,

14:46

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14:48

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14:50

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14:55

wherever you are on social media. But there was a lot of

14:57

people that I think learned a lot from

14:59

the just quession that we had here and

15:01

look, you now look at what's going on the Middle East

15:03

and this threat from Iran. I think we should

15:06

all take it obviously, very seriously. I don't think

15:08

they're lying. I don't think they're they're they're

15:10

they're basically trying to bluff on this one.

15:13

And the concerns are significant,

15:15

But the real concern is

15:17

is America's lack of response

15:20

or saying to Iran, you better not screw

15:22

with us. And we've allowed

15:24

them for months and months

15:26

to attack us

15:28

interest in the Middle East without US

15:30

really retaliating, And that's part of the reason

15:32

why they're so bold right now, am I wrong?

15:35

You're not, And it's worse than that. Look, I mean

15:37

we just a couple of weeks ago. I forced

15:39

a vote on the Senate floor to block the

15:42

Biden administration from sending billions

15:44

of dollars to Iran, and

15:46

every single Senate Democrat but

15:49

won. Everyone but Bob Menendez voted

15:51

no. And Menendez did it right at the end. I think

15:53

he was mostly pissed at the other Democrats who

15:56

have demanded that he resign, and so

15:58

he voted with me. But every other Democrat

16:01

was happy to vote to send billions

16:04

to Iran. And by Iran has

16:06

launched over one hundred attacks

16:08

on US servicemen and women in

16:10

the last six months. Not only that. You

16:13

know, we just talked about the threat from

16:15

from Iran and the

16:17

escalation in the

16:20

in the in the threat, what

16:22

did the Biden administration do well

16:25

a US This is from NBC News

16:27

Now. A US intelligence assessment warns that Iran

16:30

could carry out an attack using

16:32

a swarm of drones

16:35

or land attack cruise missiles, and that Iran

16:37

could target an Israeli diplomatic

16:40

or consular facility in the region in

16:42

retaliation for the strike on Damascus.

16:44

According to two US officials familiar

16:46

with the assessment, Iran is

16:49

likely to respond before the end of Ramadan

16:51

next week, so there's a particularly

16:53

heightened alert right now. On

16:56

Friday, a tap aid

16:58

to Iranian President Ibrahim Rasi

17:00

said said Tehran sent a message

17:03

warning the United States not to get

17:05

involved in the fight between Israel and Iran.

17:07

Quote in a written message, the

17:09

Islamic Republic of Iran warns US

17:12

leadership not to get dragged in net

17:14

Yahu's trap for the US. Stay away

17:16

so you won't get hurt.

17:18

Is what.

17:18

Mohammed Jamshitti. Uh,

17:21

that's how what his name is posted

17:23

on x He wrote that in

17:25

response, the US

17:28

asked i Ran not to target American

17:30

facilities. A

17:32

spokesperson for the National Security Council said

17:34

reports that the US had asked Iran not to

17:37

target American facilities were simply

17:39

wrong and an Iranian spin. And

17:42

and here's here's a little bit more.

17:43

Quote.

17:44

We received a message from Iran following the strike

17:46

in Damascus. In response, we

17:49

made clear that we were not behind the strike. We also

17:51

warned Iran not to use the strike as a pretext

17:53

to further escalate in the region or

17:55

attack US facilities or personnel.

17:58

In the hours after the strike

18:01

in Damascus, that is, the Biden

18:04

administration reached out to Iran directly

18:06

to assure Tehrod that the US was

18:08

not involved and did not have advanced knowledge

18:11

of the strike. So, in other words, this is what the Biden

18:13

administration does in the middle of the war.

18:14

What do they do?

18:15

They call Iran and they're like, oh, we're sorry, We're sorry,

18:17

We're sorry.

18:18

Mind you.

18:18

Iran is funding Hamas, is effectively

18:20

waging war with Israel. And what is Biden

18:23

doing calling Iran and apologizing and

18:25

also allowing an

18:27

open border with an invitation for anyone

18:30

with ill intent to come into this country.

18:32

We also know that Iran, through their proxies have been

18:35

targeting American interests in the Middle

18:37

East, and yet we still call and say, hey, don't

18:39

worry, we weren't involved in this.

18:41

What message is that said to them?

18:42

They can do whatever they want in the Middle East and America won't

18:45

respond.

18:45

Now, sadly, that's exactly

18:47

the message that Joe Biden is sending

18:49

every day. Iran is discovering they

18:52

can attack Americans, they can murder Americans,

18:54

they can attack over and over and

18:56

over again, and the Biden administration not

18:59

only no response, the Biden administration's

19:01

response will be here have billions of dollars.

19:04

It is bizarre. It

19:07

ought to be an incredibly simple principle,

19:09

don't give money to people who want

19:11

to kill you. And I'll add an addendum

19:14

to that, who are actively trying

19:16

to kill you. And yet Biden and

19:18

the Democrats keeps shoveling cash more

19:21

and more to Iran. And by

19:23

the way, Iran is still

19:25

selling two million barrels a day

19:28

of oil because Joe Biden refuses to

19:30

enforce the oil sanctions that's funding

19:32

the regime.

19:34

I want you to explain this even more because

19:36

this is something I think many in

19:38

the media have refused to cover and tell

19:41

the truth about this. We have

19:43

sanctions right now, yes, are in

19:45

place on Iranian oil that

19:47

have been in place for quite some time.

19:50

And the only difference is this administration.

19:53

They have not officially lifted the sanctions.

19:56

The sanctions are technically still there in

19:58

name only, but we're allowing them to export

20:00

the oil. Is that the easiest

20:02

way to explain it to everyone listening.

20:04

No, that's exactly right, And let's

20:06

review the bidding Let's do a little bit of history

20:09

on Iranian oil sales.

20:11

So if you go back to the Trump administration, there

20:13

was a big battle in the Trump administration. Within

20:16

the administration about whether to pull out

20:18

of the Iran nuclear deal, the Obama

20:20

deal, which was a terrible deal. Both

20:23

the State Department and the Defense Department said

20:25

no, do not pull out of the deal. I

20:29

strongly disagreed. I went to President

20:31

Trump repeatedly, over and over and over again

20:34

and argued, this deal was catastrophic,

20:36

it was endangering America, it was bad,

20:38

and the President agreed with me. President

20:41

Trump overruled his own Secretary

20:43

of State, overruled his own Secretary

20:45

Defense. He pulled out of the Iran deal. Now,

20:49

once he pulled out of the deal, there

20:51

were still significant components

20:53

of the deal that remained in a place, and

20:56

the most significant was what was called

20:58

the oil waivers. The oil waivers

21:01

allowed Iran to sell oil

21:03

and that was the major source

21:05

of funding for the regime. I

21:08

began then arguing to President Trump,

21:11

we needed to end the oil waiver. There

21:13

was again a fight within the Trump administration

21:16

on this question. At this time, the

21:18

lines were a little bit different. You had State

21:21

arguing no, do not end the oil

21:23

waivers. You had Energy, the Department

21:26

of Energy saying yes, end the oil

21:28

waivers. This was Mike Pompeo

21:30

had just started a Secretary of State, and the

21:32

State Department was arguing, if we

21:34

end the oil waiver on Iran,

21:37

the effect will be that the price

21:39

of oil will skyrocket, the price of gasoline

21:41

will skyrocket. The Department

21:43

of Energy chimed in, and you would think that Apartment

21:46

of Energy has some expertise in energy.

21:50

They said, no, that's ridiculous. There's

21:52

plenty of global supply of oil. We can end the

21:54

oil waiver and it's not going to cause prices to

21:56

skyrocket. Again, I

21:58

leaned in vigorously. I

22:01

urged President Trump end the oil

22:03

waivers. State's wrong,

22:06

Energy's right. Well, President

22:08

Trump again agreed

22:10

with me, overruled his own secretary

22:13

of State. He ended the oil waivers. At

22:15

the time he did that, Iran

22:17

was selling roughly one million barrels

22:20

a day of oil, so that was their major revenue

22:22

source. We ended the oil

22:24

waivers, and we now know who

22:26

was right. Energy was right

22:28

and State was wrong. Because we ended the oil waivers

22:31

and the global price barely moved.

22:33

It had negligible impact on price,

22:35

There was plenty of supply. What

22:37

it did have an impact on is

22:40

it devastated the Iranian economy

22:43

and their oil sales dropped from one

22:45

million barrels a day to

22:47

about three hundred thousand barrels a day. And

22:50

so when Joe Biden came into office,

22:52

the Iranian economy was in shambles.

22:56

The effect of those oil sanctions

22:58

were crushing, and

23:01

all Joe Biden had to do was not

23:03

screw it up. But understand

23:06

that Biden and the Democrats, their number

23:08

one foreign policy objective is

23:10

getting a new nuclear

23:12

deal with Iran, and bizarrely

23:15

they prioritize this over everything.

23:17

So Biden almost immediately

23:21

stopped in forcing the oil sanctions,

23:24

just just kind of look the other way. And

23:26

so what happens is Iran has a

23:28

ghost fleet of tankers that

23:31

they send oil mostly to communists

23:33

China. China buys it and it funds Iran. Biden

23:36

came in, Iran is selling three

23:38

hundred thousand barrels a day. Today,

23:42

Iran is selling two million

23:45

barrels of oil a day. Wow,

23:48

more than double what they were doing before we

23:50

ended the oil waiver. And

23:53

they're using that that has been upwards

23:55

of eighty billion dollars that Joe

23:57

Biden has given a theocratic,

24:00

homicidal, genocidal maniac,

24:03

that is the Ayatola who pledges

24:06

death to America, and right now

24:08

he's pledging to retaliate directly.

24:11

And yet Joe Biden continues to

24:13

this day not to

24:16

enforce the oil sanctions.

24:18

Last question for you on this, why do you

24:20

believe he refuses to enforce them. Is

24:22

it just political ideology, Is it

24:25

he's compromised in some way, or is it

24:27

he's just completely ignorant to the

24:29

threat that Iran is to the world's stability,

24:31

including to Israel as

24:34

well as America.

24:35

I think the ideology of the Biden

24:37

White House and the Biden State Department in

24:40

many ways, this White House

24:42

doesn't have a foreign policy that

24:45

they have a domestic

24:47

policy writ large,

24:49

so they broadcast out to the

24:51

world. They divide the world into

24:54

blue countries and red countries.

24:57

And red countries are those

24:59

countries that wanted to be friends with America

25:02

when Donald Trump was president, and

25:05

blue countries are those countries that hated

25:07

America when Donald Trump was

25:09

president. And the entirety

25:11

of the Biden foreign policy is

25:14

to undermine, to alienate,

25:16

to weaken the

25:18

red countries, and to

25:22

acquiesce, to appease to

25:24

and send billions of dollars to the

25:27

blue country. So the reddest country of all

25:29

is Israel. It's why Biden systematically

25:31

undermines Israel. Other red countries

25:34

include the United Kingdom,

25:36

that include nations like

25:39

Brazil. When you had Bolsonara was very

25:41

pro pro America. What happened

25:43

the Biden administration undermined him and they

25:45

got Lula radical leftists to hate America.

25:48

Colombia was another red country. We had

25:50

a very strong pro American ally in

25:52

Ivon Duque. The Biden White

25:54

House undermined Duque. We ended up

25:56

with now an anti American leftist

25:59

Petro who again hates America.

26:02

Guatemala, Guatemala we had, we had

26:04

the president of Guatemala was strongly allied

26:07

with the United States. As soon as he left,

26:09

the Biden administration imposed sanctions

26:12

on the outgoing president of Guatemala.

26:14

Who are the blue countries, Well, there are lots of blue

26:16

countries. Uh, You've got China's

26:18

a blue country, Russia, Russia's a blue country.

26:21

North Korea is a blue country. Venezuela

26:24

is a blue country. But the bluest of all blue countries

26:27

is Iran. The

26:29

Biden administration that they they

26:31

view this it's almost like religious

26:35

their obsession with

26:37

a new nuclear deal with Iran,

26:39

and they're willing to bend over backwards

26:42

no matter what.

26:43

You know.

26:43

I'm reminded there was a political cartoon when

26:46

when John Kerry was Secretary of State

26:49

Obama was president, and it had

26:51

the Iyatolas saying death to America,

26:54

and it had John Kerry saying, can we

26:56

meet you halfway? That's the view

26:58

of this White House. They're naive, they're

27:01

ignorant, and they want to shove billions

27:04

of dollars to Iran even

27:06

while they're actively trying to murder Americans

27:09

and funding the war in Israel.

27:11

I want to talk to you about what you can do to help

27:13

people in Israel. Right now, we

27:16

all know about the atrocities that were committed

27:18

by Hamaslaks last October the seventh,

27:20

which kicked off a vicious war as

27:23

Israel is defending herself from terrorists

27:25

now on every side. The toll

27:27

on the Israeli people is real, it is

27:30

staggering, and it's massive. Hundreds

27:32

of thousands of Israelis have been forced from

27:34

their homes. Entire communities torn

27:36

apart, lives have been devastated

27:39

by death and destruction and war. The

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28:43

Senator. Let's talk about this shocking

28:46

new data that's come out, a warning

28:48

that came from you on this show,

28:51

and I want to play that in a moment, but I

28:53

want to get to the headline here. There

28:55

are two things right now that are worrying many

28:57

Americans. Number one, it's bid

28:59

nomics. It is a disaster right now.

29:02

We are seeing even top Biden

29:04

economic advisor bragged

29:06

about gas prices, which are up fifty

29:09

percent since Biden took office,

29:11

saying, quote, we are pleased that gas prices

29:14

have come down. Now the media is allowing them

29:16

to lie, and the American people

29:18

are not going to fall for this. I don't believe. But take

29:20

a listen to this. This is coming from the White House,

29:23

from the Biden team trying to convince

29:25

Americans that, hey, you're paying less

29:27

of the pump right now than ever.

29:29

You should be excited.

29:30

Oh important for American

29:32

families and a big focus

29:35

of President Biden. We are pleased

29:37

that gas prices have come down

29:39

by a dollar forty relative

29:41

to that peak that

29:43

was caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

29:46

But as you say, we are

29:48

watching carefully to

29:51

make sure that those gas prices that the pump

29:53

don't go up.

29:54

To Now, Senator, that's just a lie

29:57

that gas prices are not down.

30:00

Anyone that goes the pump knows this.

30:01

We also know now that grocery prices are

30:03

nearing forty percent higher than they were

30:05

in twenty nineteen. And

30:08

to add insult to injury, we're

30:10

now being told, on top of all of

30:12

that that's hurting the middle class, there's

30:14

now going to be more than ever IRS

30:17

agents that are targeting specifically

30:21

middle class Americans, with

30:23

more audits than ever before.

30:25

Well, that's exactly right.

30:26

First of all, in terms of prices, you know,

30:28

they're crowing about that that they

30:31

say gasoline prices are lower than

30:33

the worst they were under Biden, but

30:35

they're still up fifty one percent from

30:37

where they were under Trump. By the way,

30:40

overall prices are up eighteen point six

30:42

percent. Real average weekly earnings

30:44

are down four point two

30:46

percent. Real average weekly warnings

30:48

earnings were up eight point two percent under

30:51

Trump. And in the month of March zero

30:53

new manufacturing jobs were added. And so

30:56

look, the economy is hurting mightily.

30:59

And then you put on top of that the

31:01

IRS is doing actually

31:04

what we predicted on this podcast

31:06

is targeting the middle class. The Wall

31:08

Street Journal wrote that wrote

31:11

just a few days ago, quote the

31:13

internal Revenue Service got an audit of its own

31:15

in time for tax Day, and two irregularities

31:18

jump out. President Biden's plan

31:20

to hire a new army of tax collectors is

31:22

falling flat, and the agents

31:24

already at work are targeting

31:27

the middle class. Those are the two

31:29

findings of the IRS's watchdog, the Treasury

31:31

Inspector General for Tax Administration.

31:34

The most recent data suggests

31:36

the IRS is still focused on

31:39

the middle class. As of last

31:41

summer, sixty three

31:43

percent of new audits

31:46

targeted taxpayers with incomes

31:48

of less than two hundred

31:50

thousand dollars. Only

31:53

a small overall share reached

31:55

the very highest earners, while eighty

31:57

percent of the audits covered

32:00

earning less than one million dollars.

32:02

And as the Wall.

32:04

Street Journal urge, as you don't forget to save

32:06

those charitable giving receipts. This

32:09

is exactly opposite what

32:12

Joe Biden promised the American people.

32:14

But it's what we knew was going to happen. They

32:17

were going to use the new agents to

32:19

go after the middle class. That's exactly what they're

32:21

doing.

32:22

Let me just remind people of what you said on the

32:24

show, and this was quite some time ago. Here

32:26

is the warning when we said it here

32:28

early on that they're going to come after average

32:31

Americans, not just the elites, as they were claiming.

32:33

For Good Friday in Easter, the IRS

32:36

released the news. They did it as a news

32:38

dump going into the holiday because they

32:40

didn't want people to pay attention to it. That

32:43

they are right now hiring

32:45

the first thirty thousand of those employees.

32:48

Ten thousand of them are being hired in the

32:50

current fiscal year, and in fiscal

32:53

year twenty twenty four they're

32:55

planning to double that with twenty seven

32:57

thousand new hires. Now,

32:59

now, what does that need, Well,

33:02

let's go through a lot of different

33:04

elements. The long and short of it is, it

33:06

means a whole bunch more IRS employees

33:09

there to harass you, to harass citizens,

33:11

to rass small businesses, to harass

33:14

and target the political enemies of

33:16

the Biden White House.

33:18

But Senator, you look at that warning,

33:20

and you look at what you mentioned right

33:23

beforehand about prices that have skyrocketed,

33:26

the costs of goods and services are up, manufacturing

33:28

jobs that are down, and there

33:31

has to be a moment, I

33:33

would argue of reckoning with the average American

33:36

voter where they look at this administration, and

33:38

they sit there and they stare at you in the face. They say,

33:40

no, no, gas prices are good, and the American

33:43

people have to know, no, that's not true. When they say, oh

33:45

no, no, the price at the grocery store, they're.

33:47

Not that bad.

33:48

They've got to have a moment where they say, no,

33:50

no, no, we don't believe you anymore.

33:53

You travel a lot, you talk to a lot of people

33:55

on the state of Texas. I don't

33:57

believe that the American people are going to being boozled

34:00

by this much longer.

34:02

Yeah.

34:02

Look, I think the American people know that

34:04

that Bidenomics is a mess. And in

34:06

fact, you see the Biden White House backing

34:09

away from using that term Bidenomics

34:11

because they thought it was a good

34:13

thing and they discovered oh wait, people think it's a

34:15

terrible thing.

34:16

That that's it.

34:19

Listen to anyone who's paying the bills,

34:21

anyone who goes to the grocery store, anyone who

34:23

fills up their tank at the pump, anyone

34:25

who deals with health

34:27

care cost, electricity costs, rent,

34:30

mortgages. I'll tell you, young people, I think

34:33

one of the real most potent things is young

34:35

people buying their first

34:37

home a young married couple. They're

34:40

suddenly discovering they can get about half as

34:42

much house as they thought they could

34:44

get, because a few years ago, when you had mortgage

34:47

rates at at two and a half percent,

34:49

you could get actually a pretty big, pretty

34:51

you know, a nice three bedroom house, a backyard,

34:54

a swing And suddenly young

34:56

people are discovering, holy cow, what

34:59

I thought I could have Ford is now out of reach.

35:01

Yeah, you're absolutely right.

35:03

This is going to be a top issue certainly

35:05

going into this big election November.

35:07

And I hope that conservatives all

35:09

of the country just tell the truth, and I hope

35:11

that the media will start covering it. They're still covering

35:13

and you could hear it in those headlines. You can hear it in the

35:15

audio. They will allow them to lie on

35:18

national TV to your face about how great

35:20

things are when they know compared to where

35:22

they were in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, it is a

35:24

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