← The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
Brazil BANS X, Foreshadowing the Censorship Dems Want in America, plus Mexico is BUSSING Illegal Immigrants to our Southern Border
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Ben Ferguson
Welcome. It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you. Senator, I hope you had a fabulous Labor Day weekend with your family. And some truly shocking news coming out of Brazil that deals with freedom of speech. That should be a warning to the entire world.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, that's exactly right. We have seen Brazil, the largest country in Latin America, really descend into totalitarianism. And Brazil is rivaling Venezuela for the oppression we're seeing. And what has happened in the past few days is Brazil has banned X from the entire country. They banned X after attempting to engage in widespread censorship. They're terrified of their citizens speaking and they're going after a major American company, a major American social media company. And I'll tell you, Elon Musk is fighting back. Elon, it is an extraordinary threat to free speech. But it's also chilling because Brazil is doing it. With the encouragement of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and American Democrats, we're gonna break that down. There was also a story that broke over the last couple of days that is really shocking, which is that Mexico, the Mexican government announced that they're gonna start providing bus rides with police and military escorts to illegal immigrants heading towards the US border. It is astonishing. And again, this is with the encouragement of Kamala Harris and congressional Democrats. We're gonna explain that to you as well.
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Ben Ferguson
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, totalitarianism, very simply, is the government having control over your life, having total control over your life, having the power of censorship, the power of arbitrary imprisonment, the power to lock you up, to confiscate your property, to do whatever they wish with you. And sadly, we've seen in many communist nations, communist nations are almost invariably totalitarian nations. And we see that whether it was the Soviet Union and the Gulag where they locked up anyone who dared stand up against the government, or whether it was Mao and communist China or whether it was communist Vietnam or communist Cuba, totalitarian governments or oppressive governments where the government has total power over you. And in Brazil. Let me explain what's going on. I'm going to give some context because just seeing the headlines, it's hard to know what's happening. So let me give some background. So in 2022, there were elections in Brazil, and Brazil's electoral court granted a man named Alexander Demaraes, who is the nation's election chief and he's a Supreme Court justice. They gave him the authority to issue unilateral orders for the removal of online content deemed false or misleading. And this was in the context where Lula, the radical leftist who Joe Biden and Kamala Harris loved, was running against conservative President Bolsonaro. And these orders were used to target the supporters of President Bolsonaro. As a court Justice Demores had ordered investigations into Bolsonaro and had jailed some of the president's supporters. So this is a battle between what is now the previous president and the current oppressive regime. Demores has very strong support from from the leftist president today, Lula da Silva. In 2022, Bolsonaro won and his supporters attacked Brazil's federal government buildings in the capital in Brasilia. After the attack, the Morris ordered several social media platforms, including X, to block specific accounts that he said had been involved in the planning, saying that the companies would be fined if they failed to comply. Over time, demora ordered more and more X accounts to be blocked, getting court orders to do so. Over time, X refused to comply and Elon Musk began publicly criticizing Dimora's. Dmora then opened a full investigation into Elon Musk and into X, focused on, quote, the dissemination of defamatory fake news and obstruction, incitement and criminal organization was very unhappy that that X and Elon Musk were standing up to his orders. After months of non compliance by X, Dimora's threatened to arrest the company's Brazilian attorney and staff over the continuing defiance of the law. And in response, Elon Musk closed X's office in Brazil and eliminated all the staff. However, Brazilian law requires that any company doing business in Brazil must have legal representation in the country. Therefore, on August 28, Dimora's ordered X to hire a new attorney to represent it in Brazil within 24 hours. And understand, this attorney that's being ordered to be hired once he's hired, the more AS intends to throw the attorney in jail. That's what this is all about. And if X did not hire a new attorney, the site would be blocked. Elon Musk refused to hire an attorney just to have the guy thrown in jail and Dimora's ordered x blocked. On August 30, Dimora's ordered Internet service providers to block access to X and threatened a daily fine of about $9,000 per day for users who bypass the ban through virtual private networks. And Demora's also froze Starlink's finances in Brazil. Starlink is SpaceX's satellite Internet business. To enforce the suspension against X, Demores directed the National Telecommunications Agency to take action. The order will remain into effect until the platform complies with the decisions of the Supreme Federal Court and pays accumulated fines totaling about $3.3 million and appoints a representative in Brazil. Dmora's had also instructed both Apple and Google to remove both X and VPN applications from their virtual stores. But he reversed this decision the same day, citing concerns about potential, quote, unnecessary disruption. So where we are right now, there is no X in Brazil. And this judge is. Is continuing to try to censor any criticism or any disagreement.
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Ben Ferguson
The most shocking part is the fact that they're saying, not just, hey, we're going to kick you out and we're going to shut it down. You can't use it, but they're saying $8,900 a day if you do use it in Brazil. That is an insane. Well, it's insane amount of cash in America, but it's really an unbeliev amount of money in Brazil.
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Senator Ted Cruz
And understand that's not directed at Elon Musk. That's directed at an individual Brazilian. They're saying, if you just are a citizen of Brazil and you go on to X, they will find you almost $9,000 a day.
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Ben Ferguson
I go to the back to the bigger picture here, and that is the warning. And it feels like we're seeing a surge in this type of activity around the world. Is that because when people do things like this and governments do things like this and leaders do things like this, others like, well, they're doing it. So, yeah, maybe I'll take that play out of the playbook because it doesn't seem like we're heading the right direction here.
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Senator Ted Cruz
You're exactly right. And listen, this podcast is dedicated to many things, but front and center is the US Constitution and free speech. And we had a pod a couple of weeks ago that focused on the United Kingdom throwing a British citizen in jail, sentencing him to jail for 20 months for a Facebook post. This is a pattern we're seeing across the globe of government power being used to censor and silence views they don't like. And, and. And this is being done. Look, this is the instinct we see in America with Joe Biden, with Kamala Harris, and with congressional Democrats pressuring. We discussed on this podcast a few episodes ago Mark Zuckerberg's letter explaining that the Biden White House had pressured him to censor views they don't like. This is a pattern, and it's a very dangerous pattern. And the more we see leftists getting away with abusing government power to silence dissent, the worse it gets because it encourages everyone else. And this is ultimately a threat to free speech in America. Let me point out, among other things, X is an American company. Where is the administration? Where is. Why is Joe Biden not denounced this atrocious violation of free speech? Why is Kamala Harris been utterly silent? Why has the entirety of the executive branch been silent and the Reason is they're happy. They want X banned. And I gotta say, I think Kamala Harris wishes she could ban X here because the left today, you know, Ben, there was a time when Democrats defended free speech. Today, more and more Democrats are very happy trying to silence anyone who disagrees with them.
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Ben Ferguson
You also look at just this story and the again, it's a wake up call, I think, as we describe it here. And Michael Sullenberger had this to say about the world taking this giant leap into forward into totalitarianism in Brazil. And I want to play part of that because I think it's important what he had to say.
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Michael Shellenberger
It's Mike Shellenberger for Public the world took a giant leap forward into totalitarianism yesterday as the Brazilian government blocked X formerly Twitter, and threatened to fine its citizens $8,900 per day if they use it. Brazil's the sixth largest nation by population in the world and and it now joins North Korea, China and Iran in the list of countries that have banned x. It's the 12th largest economy in the world and a superpower of the global South. It doesn't matter whether or not you care about Brazil. Its totalitarianism is at risk of spreading around the world. And yet neither Joe Biden nor Vice President Kamala Harris, nor anyone else in the US Government has denounced the censorship. That's probably because Biden, Harris and the Democrats all support the censorship and have been directly funding it for years. Now, of course, there is authentic demand for censorship from within Brazil. And it is ultimately up to the Brazilian people to reverse its nation's descent into totalitarianism. Brazil's powerful government funded news media corporations have been urging censorship in part because it benefits President Lula's ruling Workers Party and them directly. It's now up to Senate President Rodrigo Pacheco to impeach the Supreme Court justice turned dictator, Alexandra Jimoraes. At the same time, the Biden administration and Democrats have played an influential role in instigating the censorship in Brazil. The FBI went to Brazil and gave its Supreme Court justices advice on how to censor its population. The US government has been funding many of the NGOs in Brazil that have been demanding censorship since the election of a populist president there in 2018. And when I testified before Congress in May of this year, the Democrats on the committee and their witness all defended Brazil's censorship. And Pacheco yesterday affirmed his support for Moraes. The US Government, after the election of the populist President Jair Bolsonaro in 2018, funded these pro censorship organizations which have been demanding censorship. Maurice yesterday openly defended censorship to prevent extremist populist groups from coming to power, as the United States found. Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr noted yesterday. That's a direct violation of the Brazilian Constitution, which explicitly protects political speech. As such, the totalitarian takeover of Brazil is a model for what the Democrats and the legacy news media want for the whole world. Pro censorship scholars at Stanford and Harvard, Democrats in Congress and the US News media have long recognized that the First Amendment is an obstacle to their plans. And so they have supported censorship efforts by nations around the world with weaker free speech protections, like Brazil, Britain, Australia and the European Union. They're looking for them to censor and even block X. We need to grow our global free speech movement because if we don't stop the spread of totalitarianism over there, it will make it harder for us to stop it over here. I urge my Brazilian friends to stay on X. Everyone knows that it would be extremely difficult for Marais to to enforce his insane decree, much less fairly and equally. Proof of this comes from the fact that the Brazilian government and the ruling Workers Party are still using X, which means that they are also using VPNs to illegally evade their own ban. Brazil is thus not just a dictatorship, but a lawless one. Its leaders are behaving like the hypocritical pigs in George Orwell's Animal Farm. Now, the good news is that Brazilian politicians, including Senator Eduardo Girau, Congressman Marcel Von Houten, and Vice Governor of Minas Gerais, Matteo Simoines, are all resisting the ban and posting on X. I never imagined myself practicing and propagating civil disobedience, said Simoines. But censorship cannot be tolerated, ever.
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Ben Ferguson
Senator. There's a lot to unpack there and there's a lot of accusations which obviously I think are backed up in facts, that this administration not only is like sending our government officials down to Brazil, but we're advocating in supporting this type of reaction from the people in government in Brazil. That right there on its face is just total insanity.
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Senator Ted Cruz
It is. And part of the reason why I'm glad we played that clip from Shellenberger. You know, Shellenberger is an independent journalist. He's been very vocal and effective, taking on some of the extremes of the radical left on the Green New Deal climate alarmist. But also he was integral in highlighting the Twitter files. And he was one of the individuals who went into great detail when Elon Musk opened up how Twitter had been actively censoring speech and doing so at the behest of the US Government, Shellenberger did a very effective job laying that out chapter and verse. And I wanted us to play that because I think he did a very effective job of tying what's happening in Brazil. People might say, well, look, I don't live in Brazil. Why do I care? Well, number one, Brazil is a very important country. It is the largest country in Latin America. This is our hemisphere. It impacts the United States significantly. What happens in, in, in Central and South America. But, but secondly is, is the interconnection. This is foreshadowing where the American left wants to go. Some of the facts that, that Shellenberger laid out. The FBI went to Brazil and coached the Brazilian government on how to censor their opponents.
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Ben Ferguson
That's stunning, which is insane. And that would be our tax dollars that are paying for that trip.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, not only that, but our tax dollars are funding NGOs, non governmental organizations that are pushing for censorship. The modern left has decided censorship is a good thing. And by the way, they only censor those they disagree with. They don't censor leftists, they don't censor Marxists, they don't censor communists, they don't censor those on the left. They censor anyone who stands up to oppression and, and understand this also in the broader context. So Bolsonaro, when he was president of Brazil, Brazil made a hard pivot towards the United States. He wanted to be friends with the United States. I went and I had dinner with Bolsonaro. He came to the United States, came to Texas. At dinner with him in Dallas, he pivoted very much, wanting Brazil to be an ally of America, for us to do more trade and commerce with him, for them to stand with us on foreign policy, that's unequivocally good. And Joe Biden and Kamala Harris came into office and they hated him because Bolsonaro was close to Trump. And anyone who was nice to Trump, they hated. If you like Trump, they hate you. And it's bizarre. They define their entire foreign policy, by the way, whether you liked or hated Trump. Iran hated Trump, so they love Iran. Bolsonaro loved Trump, so they hated. They, they hated him. But the Biden Harris administration undermined Bolsonaro, constantly, did everything they could to effectively cheer on Lula. And we now have a radical leftist who hates America as the President of Brazil. He's engaging in totalitarian censorship and the Biden White House, I believe, is cheering him on.
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Ben Ferguson
When you look at the idea of where this goes next, usually when governments do this, there's one of two things that happen. Either A, the people bow down in their afraid and they're fearful and that can be an option, or there is a major pushback here. But it's also how other countries react. So you mentioned earlier that, that you're shocked that Biden Harris. Maybe not shocked, but it's, it's, it's certainly something they should be doing, speaking out against this and they're not. How much cover is that giving Brazil now knowing that, hey, we're advising him on this now they're doing it and we're making sure that basically the world doesn't even act like this is a bad day at all in Brazil for freedom of speech.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Yeah, no, that is, that is exactly right. And listen, all of this is field testing what the left wants to do in America. Now in America they've got that little pesky problem of the First Amendment, but understand their desire. And it's why Big Tech was run by hardcore leftist that fit their agenda perfectly. And Elon Musk's buying Twitter completely scrambled those plans. Because as long as you had monopolists controlling Big Tech willing to do the government's bidding, that was a very effective censorship regime. Now they are looking at these other countries and seeing what happens. And, and do not think if this succeeds in Brazil that we are far away. If, God forbid, Kamala Harris is the president next year, I would expect a Harris administration to move against X, to go and punish and go after we've already seen Biden and Harris willing to use the federal government to punish their political enemies. Now they're getting a roadmap for how to do that. In particular in the aid of censorship and the aid of silencing anyone who disagrees with their politics.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah, I really hope that there will be some members in the media here that will try to at least stand up for freedom of speech and ask for clarification from this administration. I'm not holding my breath though as I say that that's the sad part about where we are today. The 2024 election is upon us and the war on masculinity in America today is more blatant than ever. And I want you to know that now is the time to choose strength and vitality over weakness and complacency. The problem, if you're a guy, is this. Men's testosterone levels are off a cliff historically at an all time low. And isn't that what the liberal elites want? A weak and docile underclass? Well, thankfully the patriots at chalk choq are here to help real American men take back their right to proudly maximize their masculinity by boosting testosterone levels up to 20% over 90 days. Now, I've been taking Choc's male vitality stack for over a year now. I am now almost 70 pounds lighter than I was. Lost some serious weight. And I got to give major credit to Chalk for helping me with that goal. It's manufactured right here in the US Of A. Choc's natural herbal supplements are clinically proven to have game changing effects on your energy, your focus and your mood. So if you're ready to maximize your masculinity today, go to chalk choq.com you're going to use the code Ben for a massive discount on any subscription for life. Choq.com use the code BEN for lifetime savings on any subscription. Limited time offer. And the best part is this, subscriptions are cancelable at any time. So what are you waiting on? Go to chalk, choq.com, check out the mail vitality stack and use that promo code Ben for a massive discount on any subscription right now. Senator, we have had so much news that's been breaking and we've been covering it on the show, but there is a story that it combines with a story from a little over a week ago. And there was an announcement that happened about a week ago that the US Government, specifically under Biden and Harris, have decided to expand access to the Customs and Border Patrol one application into Southern Mexico. So in other words, we're expanding a program to bring more immigrants into the United States of America. This happening while Kamala is also making a move to accelerate the overall invasion at our southern border, at the same time trying to act like she's in favor of building a wall.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Understand, Joe Biden wants more illegal immigrants in America. Kamala Harris wants more illegal immigrants in America. Just about every single congressional Democrat in the Senate and the House, they want more illegal immigrants in America. They are actively encouraging, facilitating and accelerating the invasion at our southern border. They look at the 11 and a half million illegal immigrants that they have invited into this country and they view them as future Democrat voters. Even so, even with all of that, the story that broke this week. But and by the way, I'm sure you didn't see this on cnn, I'm sure you didn't see this on abc, NBC or cbs. But let me read a headline, and the headline actually is from the ap quote, mexico offers escorted rides north from southern Mexico for migrants with U.S. asylum appointments. And here's the article, Mexico will offer escorted bus rides from southern Mexico to the US Border for non Mexican migrants who have received a United States asylum appointment. The government announced Saturday. The National Immigration Institute said the buses will leave from the southern cities of Villa Hermosa and Tapachula. It appeared to be an attempt to make applying for asylum appointments from southern Mexico more attractive to migrants who otherwise would push north to Mexico City or the border. And here's the nut graph. The announcement came one week after the US government expanded access to the CBP1 application in Southern Mexico. Access to the app, which allows asylum seekers to register and await an appointment, had previously been restricted to central and northern Mexico. So now the government of Mexico is actively aiding and assisting the human traffickers. They will provide bus rides throughout Mexico, along with armed escorts from police and soldiers to bring illegal immigrants to the border to invade this country. And they're doing this because Kamala Harris wants them to do this. This is right after, by the way, Kamala Harris is claiming she's gonna secure the border, but they just change the CBP1 app to invite even more illegal aliens. They want 11 and a half million to be 20 million, to be 30 million, to be 40 million, because in their view, if that happens, Democrats win every election forever and ever.
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Ben Ferguson
You also look at this, you know, idea that Kamala Harris now is trying to be tougher on the border, advocating for policies that Donald Trump has had. This is just look at what they actually do. Look at what they're actually saying, and then you understand the game plan. In fact, I think part of what Mexico's response here is, hey, they're hedging their bets, are they not, that Donald Trump could win, and then we could actually have go back to the border conditions we had when he was the president. So let's really accelerate and get as many people across the border as we can. That seems to be their prerogative. But it also seems that their number one person that's working to facilitate this is the Biden Harris administration by expanding this program. And they're going, hey, you expand it, and we'll pay for the busing, we'll pay for the escorts, we'll pay for the trip. This doesn't happen without the two countries working hand in hand. Am I wrong?
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Senator Ted Cruz
They both have mutual interest. Amlo. The president of Mexico wants as much illegal immigration as possible to go into America, and Kamala Harris wants as much illegal immigration as possible to go into America, both for the same reason, which is to fundamentally shift the policies of the United States of America and to move them dramatically to the left.
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Ben Ferguson
Let's also remind people of what Kamala Harris said during the 2020 presidential debate. This was technically in 2019. Take a listen.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Being incarcerated for a couple of days is traumatic, much less the weeks, months, and years that we're seeing that happen. And so part of my plan is also a reduction of that. And then also again, what we need to do about taking, demilitarizing our schools and taking police officers out of schools. We need to deal with the reality and speak the truth about the inequities around school discipline.
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Ben Ferguson
I mean, this is a woman, and I play this because I think it's an important point. She says she wants to pull officers out of our schools. She wants to, you know, have a wide open southern border. She doesn't believe that illegal immigrants are criminals. This is a defund. The police woman who says wide open borders, no law and order anywhere. Whether it's our schools or the border or, or illegals coming across, it doesn't matter. This is what she's in favor of.
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Senator Ted Cruz
And by the way, it is difficult to imagine a policy that would endanger children more than pulling police officers out of schools. Look, you and I are both parents. We certainly don't want our kids like we would like police officers protecting our children, protecting schools, keeping kids safe. The number one way you prevent someone from committing an act of violence is you have a police officer there to protect them. And yet, to the radical left, if we just take all the cops away, then suddenly give peace a chance, violence goes away. That's. That's truly radical.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah. Over the holiday weekend, there was also a story, and it's sad because it had to be broken basically outside the US with the Daily Mail, of a migrant gang that took over an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado. These. This is Venezuelan migrant gang that took over the apartment complex. It's. It's interesting that it was Venezuelan migrant gang that did this. And the video that we witnessed that went viral on social media, them knocking on doors with guns. These are people that aren't supposed to have guns. And then if you go back just a few weeks ago, there was warnings that in Venezuela they had started to empty out some of their prisons as long as the people they were letting out decide to go to America. So, hey, we'll let you out of our system being a drain on us, but you can't stay in Venezuela. You gotta go to another country. And sure enough, there are consequences for allowing the members of society that are in prison in another country to come to America and think that they're gonna be law abiding citizens. The Daily Mail helped expose a lot of this.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, Maduro I believe is absolutely doing that. He is deliberately sending criminals to the United States. He's sending murderers and rapists and child molesters. He's sending gang members and it's the same thing Fidel Castro did in the Mariel boat lift coming from Cuba where he emptied out his jails and and he emptied out his lunatic asylums and he sent dangerous people to the United States. These are enemies of America that want to undermine America. The question you have to ask yourself is why is Kamala Harris aligned with them? Why does Kamala Harris, when they send Venezuelan murderers to America and the Biden Harris administration has them in custody, why does Kamala Harris release the murderers? And I think there's no more important question in this election than that question.
- [32:26]
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News Reporter
Group of migrants tried to board a school bus this morning while it was traveling to a school. The superintendent for the Humul Del Zura Union School District informed parents of that incident earlier today. It happened at one of the stops on the school district's bus route that heads to Oak Grove Middle School and Humul Primary. Meanwhile, yesterday afternoon in a similar area along another route, the superintendent says that a group of migrants tried to stop another bus. Border Patrol, CHP and the sheriff's office have now been informed of these incidents. The superintendent says that for the safety of everyone, if a driver sees a group of migrants at a bus stop, they will drive past it on and move on to the next.
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Ben Ferguson
This is a story that should be national news. It's sad that we're the ones that are having to turn it into national news center. But I don't want to live in a world where we got to have armed guards on every school bus because illegal immigrants might try to take over a school bus for whatever their nefarious reason may be.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Look, our families are in danger because Kamala Harris and Joe Biden and congressional Democrats have chosen to allow violent criminals into this country. Eleven and a half million people. It is a profound threat to public safety. I mean, at some point, you can't make it up. Trying to kidnap school buses full of school kids. That is, it underscores the level of the threat and it also underscores, look, as you noted, the national media completely ignores the threat.
- [36:52]
Ben Ferguson
They don't talk about it. They don't want to publicize it, and they don't want people to know. This is the world that many are having to live in. I encourage people every time. And I'll say it again. Share this podcast. Let other people know these news stories. Share them with your family and your friends. Don't forget, the Senator and I do the show Monday, Wednesday and Friday. So make sure you hit that subscribe or auto download button right now. And on those in between days, I will keep you up to date on the latest breaking news. Grab my podcast, the Ben Ferguson Podcast as well. Well, and you can listen on those in between days and the Senator and I will see you back here on Wednesday morning.