← The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
BIDEN Gets Played By Saudis As The Biden Economy Takes Another Hit, plus FBI Shocks The Courtroom With FISA Warrant Admission
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Ben Ferguson
We've got a lot of big stuff today. I want to Talk about. Number one, the economy numbers came out. Consumer price index rose 8.2% in September. That compared with a year earlier. This is an administration that refuses to admit there's any problems with the economy at all. Then you've got another screw up on top of this, which is now. The Saudis have basically thrown our President Joe Biden under the bus with a quid pro quo, they say came over hat in hand, begged them to produce more oil. They pretty much laughed at him. And then they said, we're going to cut. He said, please don't cut until after the midterms. Just give me one more month. I want you to look at this clip and tell me what you think.
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Joe Biden
Let's get straight why I went, I didn't go to one about oil. I went about making sure that we made sure that we weren't going to walk away from the Middle east and what was going on. And by the way, today I just got off the telephone with the President of, I got off the phone with the prime Minister of Israel and the president of Lebanon. They've worked out a deal. They've been at war, declared war with one another for a long time. They've worked out a boundary relationship along the, in the eastern Mediterranean for oil and they're going to make an agreement that is historic. We also got overflights for Israeli planes over Saudi Arabia. We got movement in terms of how we would deal in the Middle east with aggression from Iran. But it wasn't, you know, there were eight other, there were eight other parties there. It wasn't about, it wasn't about oil.
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Ben Ferguson
All right, so he averted World War 4, right, because we're at War 3 right now from last week, his comments. And then he says, well, all right, we're sorry that gas prices are going to be high, but I didn't go over there to talk about oil production. They've clearly come out saying, yeah, you did and you begged us to stop at least until after the midterms. I think if I remember the media correctly, they used to call this a quid pro quo. And I'm pretty sure they tried to impeach a president of the United States of America for exactly what he just did with a foreign leader with Ukraine. His name was Donald Trump. Your thoughts?
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Ted Cruz
Look, every word Biden just said there is inaccurate. Most of it's a flat out lie. Let's start backwards. Let's start with the second thing he says there's an historic deal between Israel and Lebanon. Let me tell you what's going on there. Israel and Lebanon have been having a dispute over water rights where there are significant natural gas reserves. And Israel has been demanding for years that it deserves a percentage of it. What Biden just did is strong armed our friend and ally Israel to give 100% of the rights to that natural gas to Lebanon and to Hezbollah to give it to terrorists. And this is the Biden pattern. Screw your friends and help our enemies. And it is disgraceful that Biden is strong, arming Israel to undermine its own security, its own energy security, its own national security, to flood cash to terrorists who will then use that cash to build rockets to murder Israelis. Now, let's take the first part. He says, I went to Saudi Arabia, but it wasn't for oil. I'm reminded of two letters, the first of which is B, the second which is S. And since this is a family friendly show. Family friendly show. We'll leave it at the abbreviation. But how did lightning not strike him when he said that he went there to grovel on oil prices? And the stunning thing is what has happened subsequently, which is the Saudis put out a formal statement.
- [03:45]
Ben Ferguson
And this was amazing, by the way, because I think what it says is not only was Saudi Arabia not willing to quid pro quo and play games, they wanted to stick it to him and show the rest of the world, I think, really, how weak America is. Now that's bad for all of us. I've always said this. I always root for America on national defense and foreign policy to be strong. And what they're doing is literally mocking us and saying, your president's a liar in the process of putting this letter out.
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Ted Cruz
Well, and let me hit this point. But then I want to step back and give a little bit of a foreign policy framework for how we should be thinking about this. Sure. From Saudi Arabia's official. I'm holding like, this is the government of Saudi Arabia on letter.
- [04:28]
Ben Ferguson
It's a classified document, everybody.
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Ted Cruz
Just so you know, it is not classified. I did get it from Hillary Clinton's email server, but. All right, so here is one portion there says the government of the kingdom clarified through its continuous communication with the US Administration that all economic analysis indicate that postponing the OPEC decision for a month according to what has been suggested, would have had negative economic consequences. Now, what does that mean? Number one, it meant Biden was there begging for them to try to keep oil prices low. But number two, what is really damning, he wasn't There advocating on behalf of U.S. consumers. Hey, you know, mom is hurting right now when she takes the kids to school and fills up her minivan. Hey, working Americans are getting killed when they're paying 100, 150 bucks to fill up their truck. He didn't care about that at all. He said, can I have one month? Can I have, oh, let me pick a date till November 8. The thing to understand, Joe Biden and every Democrat in Congress, they want your gasoline prices not as high as they are now. They want them much, much higher. And what he was there was begging for a campaign contribution. Let's be clear what that was.
- [05:47]
Ben Ferguson
And the biggest one you can get your hands on, literally billions of dollars. This is People win losing the Democrats. He's over there saying, I need you to help me have something good on election day where at least we maybe hold the Senate or the House. Cuz he knows this is the last card he's got to play.
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Ted Cruz
And it's for one month. So he wants to deceive the American people. And the thing to understand, let me take it at a couple of different levels. Number one, Joe Biden, when he was campaigning for president, he repeatedly promised that he was going to shut down US Oil and gas production, shut down drilling on federal lands onshore, shut down drilling on federal lands offshore. And he's followed through with that. So you know, when Joe Biden was sworn in as president, the average price of gasoline was $2.09 a gallon. It spiked all the way up to $4.48 a gallon, more than doubling. It's now dropped slightly. The current average today is $3.91 a gallon. Now, if you look at what happened between 208 and where we are now, the first day in office, January 20, Biden shuts down the Keystone pipeline. Then on January 27, seven days later, Biden halts new oil and gas leases on federal land. Then on February 19, Biden rejoins the Paris Climate Agreement. And by the way, if you can see the, the chart here, you can see gas prices are going up at each decision. May 7, Biden takes 30% of land and makes it off limit to oil and gas. 30% of federal land boom gone, no longer in the market. Then on June 1, 2021, Biden halts drilling in Anwar, the incredibly petroleum rich section of Alaska. Then on June 30, Congress reverses Trump's natural gas regulations which made it easier to drill for natural gas. Then on October 7th, you can see the price came down.
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Ben Ferguson
It's still Going up the entire time. Every American's been filling this to the pump the entire time.
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Ted Cruz
October 7, Biden reverses Trump's NEPA regulations, which again made it easier to explore. On October 29, the interior begins imposing as a regulation the quote, social cost of carbon to make it more expensive for Americans to drill for oil and gas. Then on November 15, Biden issues a moratorium on oil drop drilling in Chaco Canyon. Then on February 25th is when Russia invades Ukraine. Now, if you happen to be watching, you can see from here to here, that entire increase was from the Biden regulatory policies. Now, to be sure, when Russia invaded Ukraine, it went up, gas prices went up some more, but it had gone up the vast bulk of that before that Russia invades Ukraine. But then what happens? On March 1, Biden begins releasing oil from the Strategic petroleum reserve. On March 21, the SEC, the Securities and Exchange Commission, proposes an anti oil rule to cut off equity financing for oil exploration. On May 12th of 2022, Biden cancels yet more lease sales. The effect of all of this, there are literally over 20 regulatory decisions they put in place designed to drive the cost of gasoline higher. And mark my words, if Joe Biden and Schumer and Pelosi get their way, gasoline is not going to be $4 a gallon. It's not going to be 5 or 6 or 7 as it is in California. It is going to be 10, and then it's going to be 12, and then it's going to Be 20.
- [09:29]
Ben Ferguson
I got to go back in history and you'll remember this, and I think people need understand, when he was the vice president, Barack Obama and his energy leaders in his administration said, quote, we need to get oil prices, gas price in America the same as they are in Europe, to force people into green and alternative energy, electric cars, solar, the list goes on and on. And when they said that back when Obama was present, that would have put American gas at $5 plus a gallon. My point being that was years ago now, a decade ago when this was said. And that was their policy because they sell by, you know, the leader over in Europe, not by the gallon. And if you did the math, then it was like $5.80 to $6 a gallon in Europe when they said that statement. That means what you're saying now is spot on. They want $8, $9, $10 a gallon gas and go to this election day. If you think it's bad now, it's going to be really bad because number one, they're shutting down the Extra millions of barrels up from the strategic oil reserves. They're. That's going to be cut off. And you have OPEC reducing their production by 2 million barrels a day. What does this look like for the average American? You understand this stuff better than anybody, especially when it comes to our strategic oil reserves, because we're going to have to actually now go on the marketplace and buy stuff.
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Ted Cruz
Yeah. So let me give you some amazing stats. So we have strategic petroleum reserves, and that's oil, not gasoline. Oil that we keep underground. And it's designed. If we go to war, if we're in a crisis and suddenly our energy is cut off, we don't want the American economy to shut down. And that's why Congress funded it and why we have it, so that America has this reservoir. When Biden was sworn into office, the Strategic petroleum reserve was 638,085,000 barrels of oil. That's a lot of oil. 638 million today. You know what it is?
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Ben Ferguson
What is it now?
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Ted Cruz
416 million barrels of oil. As of September 30, he has depleted the supply by 35%. Now, let me tell you something else amazing, all right? When Trump was president, remember, oil prices cratered. They went incredibly low. Trump proposed, hey, this is a great opportunity. Let's fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve dirt cheap with oil prices that are incredibly low. You know what happened? Democrats in Congress blocked it. They said, no, no, no, no. Do not buy oil cheap for the United States of America. We don't want it. And they blocked it. Chuck Schumer blocked it and filibustered it. Biden, as part of this deal with Saudi Arabia. Here's what he told Saudi Arabia. Hey, if you produce a bunch of oil between now and election day for one month, I will promise that if oil hits $75 a barrel, we'll fill the spro with it. In other words, he cut a deal. I'm going to go raid the US Taxpayers to pay the Saudis a crap ton of money in order to try to buy political deception. The thing to understand. Listen, the reason Biden and Schumer and every Democrat in Congress wants high gasoline prices is they think the American consumers are morons. They don't like the choices that people make. They don't like that. I don't know. What do you drive?
- [12:40]
Ben Ferguson
I have a four door Porsche Panamera.
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Ted Cruz
Okay? So I like to drive fast. Listen, you're not an elitist.
- [12:46]
Ben Ferguson
It's got 100,000 miles on it. But I'm a fast driver, okay?
- [12:48]
Ted Cruz
Ben, you're failing. I'm a very common man. Porsche driver. Look, I saw six Sixteen Candles. I saw the kid leaning on his Porsche.
- [12:58]
Ben Ferguson
So you don't. This is you and I getting to know each other. You'll laugh. I literally bought a Porsche 944 in high school and redid it for $2,800 and fell in love with it. Now, the car, when I bought it, the guy I bought it from was angry because he had a brand new German shepherd who ripped the seats up while he went to Kroger. And he pulled up and I taught tennis. And so I was literally 15, about to be 16 when it happened. And I love this car. He played for the Cowboys. It was his first car he ever bought in 1985, 86. And so it was his baby. And he came up, he was furious. He comes yelling at me. He's like, ferguson. He goes, how much money do you have? And I was like, on me? He was like, no, in your bank account. I was like, I have $3,800. He's like, Bring $2,800 to my house. It's yours. And I showed up, and the seats had just been ripped to shreds by a brand new.
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Ted Cruz
So was that your first car?
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Ben Ferguson
That was my second car. My first was a Honda Prelude with 187,000 miles on it that didn't have AC. And I paid $2,200 for that. And I was proud of it, my friend. So, see, I'm a commoner when it comes to cars.
- [13:56]
Ted Cruz
So back to Saudi Arabia. What Biden wants. Because they're mad that lots of Americans like suburbans, lots of Americans like pickup trucks, lots of Americans like minivans. They don't like the choices you're making.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah.
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Ted Cruz
And so their strategy is, let's make it so God awful painful that it's just miserable that you can't afford. You can't afford to go to work, you can't afford to take your kids to school, and they're gonna force you to get a little Prius and obey. And really what they'd like to do is take your car away and force you to be on some subway or train, some electric train somewhere, but they're gonna take her to you.
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Ben Ferguson
They want you to do public commuting.
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Ted Cruz
And mind you, they're gonna fly private jets while they try to make your life miserable and take away the car you choose. So this is all deliberate, but I gotta say, what Biden did here, I actually find really offensive that you go and Negotiate and say give me one month as a political stunt. Sure. And I mentioned I wanted to give some sort of broader political overview. So I've talked about in foreign policy, I divide the country, the world, into four different groups. We have friends, we have allies, we have friends, we have enemies, we have competitors. And then we have what I call problematic allies. Now what is a problematic ally? The main countries that fall into that are Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan. Now those three countries, all of them are allies. We want to be friends with them. It's important to be friends with them. They're geopolitical reasons, economic reasons, to be friends with them. But they've got real challenges. Their leadership is problematic, their human rights records are problematic. They do things to undermine U.S. interests. And so they're, they're allies with significant issues. Now the Saudis, you gotta understand what Biden has done. Biden and the Democrats hate the Saudis. Why do they hate the Saudis? Because they love Iran. It's bizarre. Biden's top foreign policy objective is to cut a nuclear deal with Iran. Saudi is Iran's major counterbalance. And so Iran. Look, I think we want to be friends and allies with the Saudis, principally because Saudi Arabia is a major countercheck to Iran. And Iran is led by an ayatollah who wants to murder us. And so I want Saudi Arabia strong.
- [16:17]
Ben Ferguson
One thing they're consistent on, it's death to America. Does it bother you? And it bothered me when I saw this letter come out from the Saudis from a standpoint that they played him.
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Ted Cruz
Yeah.
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Ben Ferguson
And he should have known going in that they were gonna play him. Does that concern you? That he's making decisions? Cuz it's obvious. They said, we're gonna play you and we're gonna mock you, we're gonna embarrass you. And that's exactly what they did. Because I don't like it when we lose, as I said earlier on the foreign stage, on something this important. But it wasn't just they said no to him, it's that they literally said we're gonna embarrass the United States of America in the process.
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Ted Cruz
When the commander in chief is weak, it's bad for America. And this commander in chief is the weakest we've ever seen. I mean, he's unfortunately a laughingstock. And ideologically, what this White House has decided to do. Literally. So foreign policy, they don't have a foreign policy. They view it as a projection of domestic policy. So they divide countries into red countries and blue countries.
- [17:19]
Ben Ferguson
Sure.
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Ted Cruz
And red countries are every country that was friends with us when Trump was president. And blue countries are every country that was enemies of us, so they view as red countries. Israel, so they screw Israel every chance they get. The United Kingdom, so they screw the UK every chance they get. Guatemala, Colombia, which used to have a pro American, strong free market presidency. What did they do? They went in and undermined it and ended up electing a leftist, anti American former terrorist to be the new leader of Colombia. India, the largest democracy on earth, pivoting very directly to the United States, enormously good for our interest. What is Biden doing threatening to sanction India? It is idiotic. Like every country we want to be leaning towards us, they're trying to drive away. And Saudi Arabia falls into that camp. And so they Biden on the campaign trail, promised, said, I'm going to make Saudi Arabia a pariah. He flew to Saudi Arabia, groveled before the leadership, but also insulted them and ridiculed them to their face. It's not surprising that when you go and you treat people like crap, this.
- [18:28]
Ben Ferguson
Is what you get.
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Ted Cruz
They reciprocate. And the flip side, you look at our enemies, you look at countries like Iran and North Korea and Venezuela and Cuba, Biden bends over backwards to give them billions of dollars. Now, let me give you a different story about Saudi Arabia. Trump is president, the economy is booming. But then we hit Covid. Global demand drops. And you may remember, oil prices plummeted.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah.
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Ted Cruz
In fact, they fell negative at one point.
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Ben Ferguson
Something we may never see in the rest of our lifetime. You couldn't give away oil during that moment in time. It was the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
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Ted Cruz
So at that time, the Saudis joined with Russia and they decided to flood the world market with oil to drive prices crushingly low. So I joined with 10 other senators in condemning the Saudis. And I actually got on the phone with a Saudi foreign minister and the Saudi ambassador and chewed them out. And the 11 of us were all pro oil and gas senators who are big believers in American energy independence. And look, the problem with what they were doing, why were they flooding the market? Because they wanted to bankrupt every American producer. They wanted to put America out of the business of oil and gas so they could corner the market and be the only producers left.
- [19:42]
Ben Ferguson
And so people understand in America there's a certain price. If you drop below that, you start basically losing money. And then if you go even lower than that, you start shutting down production in America. Exactly. Then when you start shutting down, it costs millions. Even to go back online and to start reproducing. And that's what OPEC was doing at the time that you're mentioning is they basically said, okay, we don't like this American energy independence policy of Donald Trump. We sure as hell don't like the fact that we're making less money because they're producing. And now we're committing, you know, we're competing. So if we flood the market, they'll start losing money, they'll shut down their production, they'll shut down everything, the domestic production in America, and then we'll eventually win. That's why you were yelling at them.
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Ted Cruz
Yes. And the way the economics work, if oil prices are between, say, $560 a barrel, or maybe $565 a barrel, U.S. producers, with the technology we have, can produce, can be profitable. And that's what produces $2 a gallon gasoline.
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Ben Ferguson
Right.
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Ted Cruz
Is at that level, everything's great in the world. It's America is the world's energy superpower. When oil is 50, 60, $65 a barrel. What the Saudis and Russians saw is when demand was plummeting, they wanted to crash the market to make everyone go bankrupt so they'd be the only ones left in the market. And I gotta tell you, I got on the phone and lit them up and I said, look, we have been the strongest friends of Saudi Arabia in the United States Senate. The Democrats already hate you. If you want to drive us away and be alone, you're in real trouble. And I'll tell you, Trump called them and chewed them out. And they changed course. They pulled back because they realized when.
- [21:20]
Ben Ferguson
He said, I'm gonna fight back, he wasn't bluffing.
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Ted Cruz
But when you treat people decently, when they behave badly, you can call them to account when you've done as Biden has done, which is undermine them from day one. Look, the Saudis are screwing Joe Biden. They want to screw Joe Biden. But let's be clear, he wasn't asking them do something the American people's interest and make gasoline affordable to people who are struggling. He was saying, give me 30 days of a fake artificial price drop because he thinks the voters are really stupid and that they won't notice that if gasoline drops 50 cents, his useful idiots will say, look, Joe Biden achieved this. And then the day after election day, get ready for 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, $10 a gallon gasoline.
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Ben Ferguson
This brings me back to another clip I want you to listen to. And that is the president saying he still believes that we're not Going to have this recession. Take a listen to this.
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Joe Biden
There's no guarantee that they're going to be. I don't think there will be a recession. If it is, it'll be a very slight recession that is will move down slightly.
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Ben Ferguson
I'm not rooting for a recession. Right. But you got to look at the facts. And the facts say, if you look at what we've always said the traditional definition of a recession is, Senator, we're in it right now. Everybody on Wall street saying we're in it right now. The only people that are acting like it's not happening are these idiots. And he's sitting there going, I don't think it's gonna happen. I mean, you know, we're in a recession. I think everybody else knows it.
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Ted Cruz
So look, you and I in college, we Both took Economics 101. When you take Econ 101, they give you the definition of a recession. The definition of a recession for as long as we've been alive, alive has never changed, is two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth. That defines a recession. We have had two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth. If we were dealing with the English language, if we were dealing with the planet Earth, everyone would say we are in a recession right now. The Biden White House realizes, wait a second, saying that Joe Biden became president, we went into a recession, that's kind of bad politically. So they brought a few economists together to literally redefine the word recession. They said no longer means that. They said recession now means whatever this panel of economists and the government says it does. And they haven't said this is a recession. And it is. George Orwell would be proud. They simply defined the word that it's not recession. It's happy, feel good, money, rabbits is what they call it. And so Biden says we're not in a recession. Why? Because I paid people to say we're not. Nevermind the facts. Look, you know, as you know, I'm doing this bus tour all across the country. And so I was doing a bunch of radio interviews yesterday. We're gonna be in Kansas City on Friday. And one of the hosts there said, well, what should the people of Missouri know about why they should vote Republican in November? I said, it ain't complicated.
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Ben Ferguson
It's pretty simple.
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Ted Cruz
Ask yourself the question, is your family better off now than they were before Biden became president? And for just about every family in America, the answer is not just no, it's hell no. Like every aspect of life, from inflation, the cost of everything has gone up crime, illegal immigration. The mess of it is across the board. And they know that. And what they're counting on is the dishonest corporate media to lie on their behalf and to accept we're not in a recession because Biden said they are. It's like Obi Wan Kenobi. These are not the droids you're looking for. And the corporate media is more than happy to echo that.
- [24:56]
Ben Ferguson
I think seniors are gonna be a really big issue in this election. I had a caller that called in the other day. He's on a fixed income. He only makes X number of dollars. He knows this planning for retirement is so important. And he said he met with his financial advisor the day he was six months away when Trump left office from retirement. They now told him the other day he's gonna have to work probably another five years. That is taking away someone's holy grail part of life retirement. And he said, I will show up. And he said this. He said, but, Ben, it's not just me. It is everybody I work with that's on a fixed income that are saying, we will show up in the midterms. And I know you've seen this on the road because you just took away five years of my life.
- [25:39]
Ted Cruz
Well, and let me say, that guy is pissed, and he's a right to be pissed, but he's actually lucky because he's still working. A group that's getting hit even harder are seniors have already retired. Let's say you've made a decision. You worked for 30, 40 years, you've saved, you've been responsible. You've got a 401k, you've got an Iraq, you've got retirement savings. Joe Biden and the Democrats take over and your 401k has dropped, what, 20%, 25%, 30%, maybe 40%, depending on how you were invested. So the nest egg that was going to keep you through your golden years is worth a ton less. And at the same time, every single one of your costs has skyrocketed. Whether it's electricity or health care or rent or mortgages or lumber or gasoline, everything has gone up. That combination. If you're 75 years old and retired and you're looking at your 401k saying, okay, how do we last another. I don't know, how long are we gonna live? 5, 10, 20 years? Those folks are scared and they're pissed. And despite Biden's best effort, they know who's responsible for it.
- [26:50]
Ben Ferguson
Senator, I wanna switch gears to another story that I think is a really important one and it came out of court this week. And I just want people, I want to make sure I get this right. The former are. The FBI offered former British spy Christopher Steele up to a million bucks if he could prove the claims of his infamous dossier, paid for by literally Hillary Clinton's campaign. And the Democratic National Committee was, you know, in their words, quote, original and legitimate. Now, he couldn't do it. And there's an interesting tweet I want you to look at here that I also thought was something that's important. The steel FBI meeting was on October 3, 2016. Now pay attention to these dates, everybody, because this is telling you how corrupt the FBI was at the highest levels. The FBI's first surveillance warrant on Carter Page to spy on him and by default, the Trump campaign was then filed on October 21st. This means that after the FBI offered Steele 1 million to prove his dossier was authentic. Right. He couldn't do it. The FBI still moved forward, filed a surveillance warrant based on the dossier anyway. And even cnn, they are even saying this in their own tweet. Shortly before the 2016 election, the FBI offered retired British spy Christopher STEELE up to 1 million to prove the explosive allegations in his dossier about Donald Trump. A senior FBI analyst didn't leak this, Senator. He testified it. I was in shock by this because they knew that this was a lie and they still used the lie to go spy on not only Carter Page, but the entire basically anyone he talked to in the Trump campaign.
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Ted Cruz
So there are a couple of things that are really stunning on this. Number one, the hard left wing partisans who burrowed into the career positions at the FBI, they hated Trump so much that they were willing to pay literally a million dollars. I mean, holy cow, a million bucks of tax dollar money, of tax dollar money to dig up dirt on him and Christopher Steele, this guy was dishonest. He was discredited. The FBI had previously fired him. As you know, my next book comes out next week. It is on this topic. The book is justice how the left has Weaponized the Legal System. By the way, please go to Amazon or wherever you buy your books and order Justice Corrupted. Pre order it right now. I describe in depth. We've got an entire chapter that goes into Christopher Steele, goes into the fact that Hillary Clinton and the DNC paid over a million dollars to create these lies, to create something with no basis whatsoever. The FBI knew it. Senior officials of the Department of Justice knew that this was being paid for by Hillary Clinton in the middle of a Presidential race, their oppo researcher. They basically turned the FBI into the oppo research team. For them to offer a million bucks for it is stunning. But then the second is that a lot of money.
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Ben Ferguson
And the reason why I'm asking is that a lot of money is we know we have FBI informants. Okay. But you know a lot more about this.
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Ted Cruz
I have never heard of an informant being offered a million bucks. That is.
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Ben Ferguson
That's what I want to know. Because it's almost like bribery, in my opinion. If that's an abnormal amount of money, it's like they're begging him to please give them something that can. That can credit verify his entire report that they knew was crap.
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Ted Cruz
So. So I'll confess. I don't know what the typical amounts that are given to informants are. That has not been. I've worked in law enforcement a lot, but I haven't worked in that aspect of law enforcement. That is a perfect topic for when we get a Republican majority in the House and Senate. I think the Senate Judiciary Committee needs to haul Christopher Wray's ass in front of the committee and force him to answer the question. I want to get a report on every single classified informant and what they paid him. They don't have to give the identities, but I want to know how much they're paying them. Because my Suspicion is that $1 million is wildly out of bounds, that it's not even close. If I'm wrong, if they're routinely given million dollar checks, that may be a different level of inquiry.
- [31:11]
Ben Ferguson
Yeah. Like how are you spending all this money? And we all are paying for it as taxpayers.
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Ted Cruz
Look, my suspicion is you're dealing with $1,000 or $5,000 or $10,000, and then suddenly they hire at the FBI Dr. Evil, who sticks his pinky in his mouth and goes, $1 million. Yeah. So that shows how committed they are. But then the second piece of the tweet that you laid out is the timeline that they offer Steele a million bucks to corroborate it. He can't. Cause it was all lies. And they nonetheless used the lies that they now know are lies because he would have taken his million bucks if he could corroborate it. And they go to the FISA court, a federal court, and they rely on those lies to get a warrant to wiretap Carter Page, who was an informal foreign policy advisor to the Trump campaign. Now, there's another element that's not included in this, but Michael Horowitz is the Inspector General of the Department of Justice. He's been there a long time. He did a long report on everything that they did wrong in this investigation and persecution of Donald Trump. And he outlined, I think it was 17 different major errors. Major, like everything they screwed up. But one of the most dramatic is, so they're looking at Carter Page and trying to determine whether to go after him. And so the FBI sends an email to the CIA and they ask, hey, was Carter Page a source for you? In other words, was he working for you? Now remember, the basis that they wanted to spy on Carter Page is he's talking to some really shady Russians right? Now, if he's talking to shady Russians on behalf of the CIA, if he's helping the US government by talking to shady Russians, then maybe we shouldn't be intercepting his communications and spying on him. Cuz he's actually being a patriot and helping America. So the FBI says to the CIA, is this guy a source for you? The CIA responds in writing, says, yes, Carter Page is a source for us. In other words, don't be surprised he's talking to shady Russians.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah. And leave him alone.
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Ted Cruz
Yeah, we want him to. He's helping America.
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Ben Ferguson
We're asking him to.
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Ted Cruz
So the assistant General Counsel at the FBI takes that email from the CIA, alters it and literally deletes the phrase was a source and changes it to was not a source. He reverses it 180 degrees to say the opposite of what the CIA said.
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Ben Ferguson
Just to keep the FISA warrant going.
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Ted Cruz
And then he submits that fraudulent document, that counterfeit document that he created, to a federal court, which is a criminal offense. I mean, that's how bad these guys wanted to get Donald Trump, that they were willing to create fraudulent documents. They knew Steele couldn't back it up. He didn't collect his million bucks. This was absolute politicization of the Department of Justice and the FBI.
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Ben Ferguson
You look at this and you look at the other story that came out, and I think it shows clearly a pattern. You have these two FBI agents that went to warn big tech Facebook about the story, the laptop story with Hunter Biden. We find out they gave donations during the same election cycle to Democrats and liberal Democrats. I know. And you ran for president, right? You have themes when you run. One of the themes that clearly caught on was drain the swamp. Right? That was a theme of Trump. That was a very good theme that worked well. Did you ever imagine though, that it was as bad as it is now? I don't think he could have imagined this. Knowing that you got people changing emails, knowing you Got people like Peter Strzok and Lisa Page out there doing what they were doing. Knowing that you're lying to the FISA court and now knowing that you gave him a million dollars, if he could just corroborate his claims, his own dossier. Then again, I have to go back to this was paid for and created by the Democrat National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign and Hillary Clinton's lawyers. No one's gotten in trouble for this.
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Ted Cruz
So this is what my book. Talk about. Talks about. My book starts with Richard Nixon. And Richard Nixon tried to use the machinery of government to go after his political enemies. He tried to use the Department of Justice, he tried to use the FBI, he tried to use the irs. And by and large, the system worked. By and large, the system pressed back. So the first chapter of the book, I do a deep dive into Nixon's corruption. And it's a little stunning. Look, you and I were not around when Nixon was doing this stuff. So doing the research for the book was fascinating. The degree to which these guys were killed, whole nother level. Nixon rightly resigned in disgrace. I am not a fan of Nixon. I think he was thoroughly corrupt. I think he was surrounded by thoroughly corrupt cronies. But the institutions of America pressed back and said, we're not a weapon to target your political enemies. We went through a period after Nixon where both Democrats and Republicans largely refrained from trying to do that. That the Watergate stink was enough, that everyone was nervous, and they by and large, didn't do it. Until a law professor from Chicago became president. Barack Obama, and the media had told him he could do no wrong. And so he began blatantly abusing government and abusing the institutions of government to go after his enemies. And the difference is, the IRS told Nixon no. Under Obama, they were perfectly happy to do it. They targeted conservatives, they targeted Tea Party groups.
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Ben Ferguson
Tea Party groups, yeah, that was. And people may forget that, but you had the IRS and people at. Was it Lois Lerner, Isn't that right? Yes.
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Ted Cruz
She was in charge of the.
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Ben Ferguson
Of the group that was within the CIA. Excuse me, within the IRS. That literally said tea party groups. 501 C3s. You want this? Watch this. We're coming after you. And they weaponized it.
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Ted Cruz
Pro life groups, pro Israel groups. Some of the terms that they said were warning signs for a group. Constitution, Patriot, Bill of Rights. Literally, if you're defending the Constitution and Bill of Rights, the IRS said that made you suspect we're going to target you. Now, the reason this connects back to what we were just saying is you were talking about how Biden sent the FBI agents to warn Big Tech who were Democratic donors. When the IRS scandal broke, Barack Obama held a press conference, and he said he was angry and the American people have a right to be angry. He flew faked indignance. Well, Eric Holder's attorney general put in charge of that investigation a longtime Democrat donor, a partisan Democrat who had given, I think, $6,000 to Obama and the DNC. She was in charge of it. I pressed Eric Holder. I called on them to appoint a special counsel who was not a major donor to the Democrats. And of course, what did she do? She buried the whole thing. They refused to do it. It was brazen. And Obama developed the pattern of, let's turn these institutions into our storm troopers. And in particular, when Obama left all of those partisans, they burrowed into the senior leadership positions below the political appointments, the career positions. They filled them with hard partisans. All of that has now metastasized under Joe Biden, and it is much worse than it's ever been.
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Ben Ferguson
If you want to know what the legacy is of Barack Obama, it is what we currently have. Yes, I think at these institutions, yes. And I give. I give my political adversaries credit when credit's due. He was a brilliant guy that understood I want to go around Congress, so I'll go through executive orders for anything I want to do. And if I get busted, I'm such a likable guy, I'll just walk out there and act like I'm upset or angry that this was happening. This should never happen in America.
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Ted Cruz
And the media will lie for people.
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Ben Ferguson
And they will lie and protect me, and they never call them out once for any of this. One of the other big lies, and this is an issue that I know you being obviously from Texas, was one. When you saw this lie about the Border Patrol agents who were on the horses and they were attacked. And we have a montage I want you to listen to of what the media did to these Border Patrol agents who were on horseback. And now there's more of the story that's come out. But first, let me remind everybody what the media was saying instantly, without knowing any background, without knowing anything from a picture, not a video, a picture. Here it is.
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Joe Biden
Images that make you think of how enslaved people were treated.
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Ted Cruz
Border agents using some kind of whips.
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Ben Ferguson
Around migrants at the border.
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Ted Cruz
At least one Border Patrol agent using a whip and was effectively trying to lasso some of the migrants, whipping. I don't care what anyone says. Yes, It's a rain. But nonetheless, there was whipping that happened. Border Patrol agents using reins against migrants.
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Ben Ferguson
They say that this looks like slavery.
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Ted Cruz
They say that this is cruel, that it's inhumane. I was not aware that whips, which come from the slave era, slavery era, were part of the package that we.
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Ben Ferguson
Issue to any sort of law enforcement in 2021.
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Ted Cruz
Seeing whips and being them corralled on horses was just a sickening and dehumanizing image. When you start whipping people with and you want to split hairs between reins.
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Ben Ferguson
And whips, you look at that. They didn't know if anyone had been whipped. They saw a picture. It was a lie. You tweeted out this week a very interesting tweet on this story, calling out Marcus still to this day for not defending these men that were doing their job. They weren't whipping anyone. And no one has apologized to them yet. And the government has still not really backed them up.
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Ted Cruz
Yeah, it's even worse than that. So you had Border Patrol agents who are in rough terrain and they're riding horses and they're using their reins. And it is a photograph of their using their reins to steer the horses. And they're not whipping anyone. They're not striking anyone. They're steering the horses with the reins. And that picture, number one, the useful idiots in the media all repeated the same talking point. Notice, almost word for word, whipping the migrants, whipping the migrants, whipping the migrants. That was the talking point.
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Ben Ferguson
And then immediately moved a race.
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Ted Cruz
And none of them cared about the truth or falsity of it. None of them cared what the truth was. Those Border Patrol agents were doing their jobs, trying to protect the country. But it gets even worse. So this week, it broke that Alejandro Mayorkas, who's the Homeland Security secretary, received that day an email from a subordinate that said the photographer who took the picture, the picture that everyone is claiming saying this is the Border Patrol agents whipping people, said, no, no, nobody whipped anyone. That's not what the picture shows. That's a misunderstanding. So he knew that day one, and a couple hours later, he went and did a press conference. We've got that press conference. Let's play it.
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Ben Ferguson
And I wanna play this because I want people to understand this. Look at his eyes. This was a preplanned moment. This was a moment where they could justify an open border. It was a moment where they could attack the people protecting the border. And it was a moment they could seize to say, look at these evil people down there in law enforcement. We don't back them. We don't stand behind them. You should never listen to anything they say about the fentanyl or anything else coming across the border or the death or destruction that's happening at the border or even inhumane conditions that were happening at the border. And you could see. And I call this the setup. And that's why I want to make sure I say, pay attention, everybody. Because he couldn't wait knowing that what he's about to say is a lie to push this political bs. Look, the width, the horse wit, sir.
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Joe Biden
That is something. That is something that horrified us all. And, you know, this morning I was on radio and the interviewer said that it was. It troubled very profoundly the black and the African American community. And I, I said one thing and, and this should be clear. Those are not the only communities that it horrified. Those are not the only communities that it concerned. Of course, that concern might be most acute given the history in this country and in other parts of the world, but all of America is horrified to see what those images suggest.
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Ben Ferguson
You expose this. He knew in the moment he was saying that, that everything he was saying was a lie. And he basically decided to take the full power of the White House podium to slander our Border Patrol agents and to turn them into the worst people in the world.
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Ted Cruz
So he had a choice. He's been given a very important responsibility. He's the Secretary of Homeland Security. He is one of the top. He and the Attorney General are the top two law enforcement officials in the United States of America. He has tens of thousands of law enforcement officers who report to him. The Border Patrol agents report, report to him. ICE reports to him. He had a choice. He could do what an honorable leader would do, which is defend your people, which is tell the truth. He knew at the time, he knew he'd been informed in writing that his agents were being slandered, that what all of the chattering voices in MSNBC was saying was a lie. He knew that that's not what the picture showed because he knew that the photographer who took it said they weren't whipping anyone. And anyone who was honorable, anyone who actually cared about your job, would support your men and women would tell the truth and frankly, would be indignant. Someone who had integrity would stand up and say, let me tell you about these Border Patrol agents. They risk their.
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Ben Ferguson
He's their boss.
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Ted Cruz
People need a boss.
- [44:47]
Ben Ferguson
He is literally their boss. And he's throwing his own employees under the bus.
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Ted Cruz
And he deliberately lied about it. That clip there, you are listening to someone who is lying, who knows he is Lying. And he's doing it for one reason, which is to curry favor with the Biden White House. He knows the Biden White House likes this story they like telling. Look, they can't defend their open borders and the chaos at the southern border. So the left has one card they play over and over again in the race card. And they want to say, well, look, anyone securing the border, they're just evil slaveholders whipping people, which they knew was a lie. But anyone they dislike, they call a Klansman. By the way, it's worth noting, just this week, the. What is it? The chairman or president of the Los Angeles City Council, a Democrat, a hard leftist, a big advocate of abolishing the police, resigned in disgrace because she and three others were caught on tape with virulently racist attacks attacking African Americans, attacking a white colleague of hers who had adopted an African American child, and adopting other Hispanics from Oaxaca and Mexico, saying they were dark skinned and ugly. And look, when it comes to virulent racism, to be fair, neither party has a monopoly on it. There are racists across the political spectrum. But the Democratic Party normalizes and welcomes this. And it is fitting when you're willing to do what Mayorkas is willing to do, there you are trafficking in deliberate lies and deception. And those officers, those borders.
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Ben Ferguson
Should he lose his job?
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Ted Cruz
Huh?
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Ben Ferguson
Should he lose his job?
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Ted Cruz
Absolutely, yes. And I believe one of the very first things we should do when we have a majority next year is that we should impeach him. Now, what does that mean for the House to impeach him? Takes a majority. We're going to have a majority in the House. I think that will happen. I actually have a pretty high level of confidence that within the first couple of months the House will impeach Mayorkas.
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Ben Ferguson
And that's a big deal because it doesn't happen very often.
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Ted Cruz
It is a big, big deal. And a reasonable person could say, well, why would you do that? Because impeaching, as you know, is bringing formal charges against an official that takes a majority. It then goes to the Senate to remove someone from office takes 2/3. Sadly, the Democrats with Donald Trump educated all of America about that. The chances that any Senate Democrat or that enough Senate Democrats would be willing to vote to remove Mayorkas are essentially zero. These guys, none of them care. Every one of them has voted in favor of open borders over and over and over and over and over again. There's not a single moderate on this issue. All of the Democrats are running pretending to be moderates, but every one of them when given a chance to vote votes in favor of open borders. So their not going to vote to remove Mayorkas. The reason we need to do this is we need to have a trial on the floor of the Senate and it needs to be an extended two week trial where we put on evidence systematically explaining the chaos, the suffering, the children abused, the women who were raped, the dead bodies, the fentanyl overdoses, all of the misery that is caused by our open borders. And the reason we need to do that is those same useful idiots that you just played on the media that are telling Democrat talking points, they refuse to report on what's actually happening on the border. That's how this administration gets away with it if you want.
- [48:23]
Ben Ferguson
So it's not even just about impeaching him. It's really about saying here's the reality of what's happening at the border, this is how bad it is. This is the human suffering.
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Ted Cruz
Yes. Right.
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Ben Ferguson
I go back to aoc, the kids in cages. Right. You know, well guess what, who bought and paid for them? The Obama Biden administration who used them for years. They're the ones that use them for years. You go back to that. But you look at all the suffering, you look at the human struggling, you look at the money tied to every human being. Every human being is worth money to these smugglers. Billions. And they use them billions the entire way.
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Ted Cruz
Billions. Yes, it is. And to be clear, when it comes to the cages, Obama built the cages and they are bigger and more inhumane under Joe Biden than they ever have been. And I've been to the pages, I've been to the cages under Barack Obama, I've been to the cages under Donald Trump and I've been to the cages under Joe Biden. The Democrats only go under Trump when it was Obama and Biden, they ignore it. Nothing to see here.
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Ben Ferguson
Personal side bet over under. Do you think the woman who's in charge of the border, Kamala Harris, will ever actually go to the border?
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Ted Cruz
No. And there's a reason, it's not even that she doesn't want to see it, although she doesn't want to see it. It's that she knows if she comes the TV cameras will follow her. That's the same reason Joe Biden hasn't been to the border. Because their strategy, it is so bad you cannot defend this. Like if you see, if you see the children suffering, if you see the disease, if you see the crime, this is modern day slavery. And so their only defense is make it disappear. And the way they make it disappear is with the complicity of every hack in the media who refuses to cover it. And the bizarre thing is, look, if you are someone who watches, let's say you watch CNN and you think you're a middle of the road person, you think I'm not a partisan Democrat, You've been on CNN a bunch, you know.
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Ben Ferguson
Worst seven years of my life. Yes, thank you for bringing that up. I'm still in therapy for it.
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Ted Cruz
Well, to be honest, they didn't used to be as horrible as they are. But if you watch CNN or MSNBC or for that matter, abc, cbs, NBC, you don't know that there's a border crisis. It doesn't exist.
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Ben Ferguson
I had a border patrol agent who said to me, he called into my show one night and he said, I never thought I'd see a third world country be created within the United States of America. And that's how he described at the border. He says it's a third world country, conditions, the living conditions, the humanitarian crisis, what they're interacting with that's coming across the border. It is, he said, of that scale.
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Ted Cruz
So I had dinner with some friends last night. Who? One of the folks. Her sister owns a ranch down in South Texas down by Eagle Pass. She said her sister's ranch has 1,000 illegal aliens crossing it every week. Every single week. 1,000.
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Ben Ferguson
Now, that's enough to declare a national disaster in New York City, by the way, at the hands of the mayor there.
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Ted Cruz
50 in Martha's Vineyard, right? They declared an emergency and brought in.
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Ben Ferguson
100, what was it? 120 National Guardsmen to deal with 50 people.
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Ted Cruz
Imagine being that ranch owner. 1,000 a week. I was talking with another ranch owner who has a farm down there who bought a farm and he wanted to grow organic crops. He can't grow organic crops because the USDA has a rule when you have illegal aliens crossing, you're not allowed to sell the produce you produce because their disease is carried. And so he can't grow on his land because the volume is just constant. He's asked the National Guard to come in. He's asked Texas to come in and build the wall there because he literally cannot grow anymore on his farm because the volume is so much that it is illegal to sell the produce that is grown there. And by the way, the refuse, he told me, like scattered their clothes and diapers and trash. I mean, just truckloads of garbage being brought. When you have 4.4 million people crossing the border illegally in a year and a half, the damage and devastation it brings. That's what we need to have a trial on the Senate floor is make people see that. I'll tell you something we need to show them. And this is. I'm gonna apologize. It's a little graphic, but it's true. When I was last at the southern border, I brought a group of. Or two times ago, actually, I brought a group of seven senators down there, and we met with border patrol and law enforcement, and they told me about a new phenomenon that they've just started seeing, which is that the human traffickers take women across the border into the United States and they rape them, and they then hang their undergarments in a tree. And what law enforcement and border patrol is finding is trees with 10, 20, 30 women's underwear hanging in it. They call them rape trees now. And the cartels are bragging. They're flaunting to the law enforcement. You cannot stop me while we commit these atrocities. That's what Joe Biden has done. That's what Kamala Harris has done, and that's what we need on the Senate floor, is for people to see the rape trees that are the result of open borders.
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Ben Ferguson
It's not just one tree. I want people to understand this multiple. This has now become a new thing. It's a way of giving the middle finger to America, to our leadership, to our border patrol, basically saying, you guys have no power over us, and this is how brazen we become.
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Ted Cruz
Exactly.
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Ben Ferguson
Lastly, and I want to get into a subject, but there's a issue that is happening, and it's in the medical community. And I want to play this video, and then I want you to explain this is an actual, real moment happening. I think it was University of Minnesota, Correct. Where you have medical students that are actually having to recite this. Listen carefully, folks, because this is what's happening in medical schools in this country. Our institution is located on Dakota land. Today, many indigenous people throughout the state.
- [54:44]
Ted Cruz
Call the Twin Cities home.
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Ben Ferguson
We commit to uprooting the legacy and perpetuation of structural violence deeply embedded within.
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Ted Cruz
The health care system.
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Ben Ferguson
We recognize inequities built by past and present traumas rooted in white supremacy, colonialism.
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Ted Cruz
The gender binary, ableism, and all forms of oppression.
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Ben Ferguson
Pledge to honor all indigenous ways of healing that have been historically marginalized by Western medicine. This may be the creepiest thing I've ever seen, but I also. You may be like me when you. When you do what you do for a living, you always have in the back of your head, when you're picking someone to take care of you medical. You want to make sure they're friendly. I watch that. And the fact that this is happening in somehow legal to have that be recited and to mandate that indoctrinate doctors this way after what we just saw with doctors being also their careers being threatened if they didn't do exactly what they were told to do with COVID 19. Can't do ivermectin, can't talk about this. You saw this and you tweeted about this because this is a moment that needs to be stopped now in America.
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Ted Cruz
So look, anyone who listens to that, or even worse, if you watch the video, and I encourage you watch the video. It looks like a cult. It looks like the Branch Davidians. You expect David Koresh to be at the front of it. They are. This is a medical school. University of Minnesota Medical School. This is all of their students or some subset of their students, I don't know which, but they're forced to stand up. They're all reading pieces of paper the school is doing like they're at church. Like they're at church. And they're giving a pledge. Now, a medical school is supposed to teach you how to be a doctor. It's supposed to teach you science. This is all politics. This is woke. Later in that pledge, they pledge their commitment to anti racism. We didn't play that segment, but that's a little bit later in their pledge. It is hardcore Marxist. So they pledge to be opposed to the gender binary, to fight against. In other words, every one of these ostensible doctors is pledging against the notion that there is such a thing as a woman and there's such a thing as a man. That. That is oppressive. And number one, what the hell are medical schools doing engaged in political indoctrination? Number two, this is not a private medical school. This is the University of Minnesota. This is paid for by Minnesota taxpayers who are paying to indoctrinate their doctors. You know what? If I go to a doctor, I'd like to know how to get better from whatever's ailing me. And you know this. We pledge to treat all indigenous forms the same as modern medicine. You know, if I've got cancer, I don't want them to tell me to smoke peyote. I want them to tell me how to cure the frigging cancer. And it is a top.
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Ben Ferguson
I also want people to understand this. This is a top medical school. This is not some, like, online university. This is at the highest levels. You add this into what just happened at Vanderbilt.
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Ted Cruz
So let me ask you something. Let's suppose instead of becoming a world famous podcaster, you decided you wanted to be a doctor. And let's suppose you studied hard, did well in the mcat, you got into the University of Minnesota Medical school. Good school.
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Ben Ferguson
It's a big deal.
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Ted Cruz
Imagine you're one of those students and you're standing there. What do you do?
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Ben Ferguson
Well, if it's your lifelong dream to be a doctor, and I understand this.
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Ted Cruz
And let's say you're two years into it or three years into your graduate.
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Ben Ferguson
What are you gonna raise your hand and say, I'm not doing this. You're gonna sit down and protest and get kicked out of medical school? And because they own you at that point, right? Your entire life's work is happening. They own you. You have to finish. And if you don't finish, what's your next career like? Yeah, you can be a whistleblower in a sense, but you're ruined. You're done.
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Ted Cruz
By the way, the guy leading that chant, the David Koresh, I was reading his background. He's got a medical degree from Yale. He's got a degree, I think, from Johns Hopkins. He did his residency at Harvard. I mean, it's a gold plated medical resume. And he is now a Marxist indoctrinator. Like, that's not medicine, that's not science. That is politics. And it's dishonest and bad politics. It is.
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Ben Ferguson
Is there any way to stop it? Because it's becoming real. And I'll end with this question because we had friends that just had a baby. She is going into the hospital with contractions. I mean, this is that scene out of the movie that everybody has, right? The water's broken. And they actually had to spend time as she's actually in doing contractions and filling out paperwork. And one of the things was, do you identify as a man or woman? She's pregnant, she's about to have a child. And it says, literally, they're asking her as they're checking her in, are you a man or a woman? I'm a woman. I'm pregnant. And these are the people you're supposed to trust with your life and your baby's life if there's any complications. This is the institution. So my point is they're winning. Because you're getting those questions asked, tells you they're winning. Vanderbilt. What happened there? They're winning this. They're winning. How do we. Is there a way to correct this?
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Ted Cruz
So look, you and I are both dads. I was there when both our girls were born. Can you imagine walking to the hospital with your wife nine months pregnant, in labor, and the doctor saying, sir, which one of you is giving birth? Right, Mr. Ferguson, can we put you up in stirrups?
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Ben Ferguson
A, no. And B, I want a different hospital.
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Ted Cruz
You people are nuts if you can't figure out which person has a baby. We got bigger problems here. So look, they're winning and they're not. The cultural Marxists have taken over the institutions of much of our society. University of Minnesota Medical School is apparently altogether lost. But here's the good news. Most of America has common sense. They've gone too far. I think there's a big pushback. By the way you look at this election, the Hispanic community is moving to Republicans in massive numbers. This kind of idiocy is a big part of it. You look at suburban women, moms, Virginia, that went from 10 points going for Joe Biden to a year later, electing a Republican governor. It was moms who were ticked off at this kind of garbage. So I do think. I think the left has gone. They've jumped the shark. They've gone so crazy that there is a large super majority of Americans that think it's nutty. If you say birthing people and not moms, you're a freak.
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Ben Ferguson
We're not compatible. We're not gonna be friends.
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Ted Cruz
Now, I will say I think there are a lot of people who think that's nutty, but a lot of them are scared to say it. I mean it. But now I think they're quietly going into the voting booth and they're pulling the lever the other direction. But it is the left operates by fear and intimidation and destruction. They go after you. So if you happen to believe that women exist. Look, J.K. rowling, who is a through and through leftist, has been utterly tarred and feathered because she actually believes women exist. And if you or I decided tomorrow I feel pretty, I'm a woman. She's like, well, dude, no, you're not. You can do that if you want. You know, dress. You can dress as a woman. You can go get a surgery and chop it all off. But that doesn't suddenly make you a woman. We could knock yourself out if that's what you want to do. But don't ask me to insist that there is nothing about women that has any meaning whatsoever. She is the idiot actors on Harry Potter. Don't invite her to Harry Potter reunions. Like, how stupid is that?
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Ben Ferguson
It's welcome to the insanity of the world right now, Senator. It's fun this is going to be a lot of fun for everyone. Listening, remind you and watching. We're doing this three days a week. Two of them are going to be audio only. One is going to be video as well. You can watch on YouTube. I ask people this all the time. Two things. Please share the podcast with your family and friends. If you're listening and you can see that little forward arrow, share it. Number two, write us a five star review because Lord knows the lefties love to write you one star reviews. So help us combat that and tell your family and friends and I'll see you in a couple days.