← The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
Communists Gather in a Newly-Clean San Francisco plus Even More Corruption Evidence on Joe Biden
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Ted Cruz
Welcome. It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. And Senator, let's start with the big news that is the red carpet welcome to the communists from China. Xi Jinping, he came to America and boy, did we clean up the world for him in San Francisco and literally gave him a red carpet welcoming. This is the present. Told Ping it's time. It's, it's good to see you again. And he also said something else that was incredibly shocking and I want to get your take on it. He said this at the table at their first meeting, sitting to his left was Janet Yellen. Sitting to his right was Anthony Blinken. At that table, you had John Kerry down at one end as well. It was the full Biden, you know, red carpet welcome. And here's what he said.
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Ben Ferguson
We also have a responsibility to our.
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Ted Cruz
People and the work in the world.
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Ben Ferguson
To work together when we see it in our interest to do so.
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Ted Cruz
Okay? We also have a responsibility to our people and to the world to work together. Is that true?
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Ben Ferguson
No, of course it's not. And listen, this was a sad meeting. It was a meeting of capitulation. This was by any measure, it was a meeting of the world's most powerful communist and the President of China.
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Ted Cruz
You look at them meeting and you see this happening and us rolling out the red carpet for him. Look at the past here. And let's just go through some of these. Since he's taken office, Biden allowed a Chinese spy balloon to survey our entire country knowing what it was doing spying on us, and refused to shoot it down till after it already completed its mission. Biden resumed funding for the World Health Organization despite China's significant influence. And then just to put it in perspective, Biden bought 1.3 billion, not million, but billion dollars in Chinese made Covid tests and then gave them to Americans. On top of the fact that Biden let China build secret spying facilities in nearby countries that could survey America. And that's just the beginning of the list that's been all for China. Nothing to protect America.
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Ben Ferguson
Well, listen, there's a fundamental problem which is Joe Biden and the Democrat Party are structurally pro China. And the reason for this, and I explained this at length in my brand new book, which is on Amazon right now and bookstores right now. Go buy it. But in the book I explained the reason the Democrat Party is so indebted to China is every one of their major stakeholders. Big business, big tech, big Hollywood, big universities, all of them are in bed with China. And so Joe Biden, Joe Biden has spent literally 50 years in Washington as an apologist for the Chinese Communists, defending them, saying, come on, man, they're our friends. They're not our enemies, they're our friends. He's been saying that for 50 years. So look, you mentioned a minute ago, Ben, the Chinese spy balloon. The Chinese spy balloon, number one. We would never have known about that if some intrepid ranchers in Montana hadn't looked up and seen the damn thing in the sky. That's the only reason we know about it. It was literally a couple of guys in Montana that had telescopes that said, what the hell is that? And they tweeted about it. And suddenly the Biden administration's like, oh, crap. The Chinese are surveilling our military installations, are engaging in espionage over the United States. Now, mind you, they didn't shoot it down when it entered US Airspace. They allowed it to cross US Airspace. They allowed it to hover over US Military installations. They allowed it to engage in ongoing espionage and surveillance. And it was only after it had crossed the entire continental United States that it crossed in the Atlantic Ocean. Then they shot it down after its mission was over, after it had broadcast all of the espionage back to China. Then they shot it down as a PR move. And then it got really ridiculous. If you remember, the Biden administration proceeded to shoot several other things down, including what appears to be a weather balloon launched by a bunch of high school students in Illinois. So we spent presumably $100,000 missile to knock down a hundred dollar balloon. That's the Biden administration. And the reason is, look, this was about politics and pr. It was not about standing up to China. And so when Biden went to San Francisco, he does not have an objective of defending our nation from our most significant enemy. One of the things I discuss in the book on woke is how when I arrived in the Senate 11 years ago, I was arguing then that China poses the greatest geopolitical threat to the United States for the next century. That this is a massive battle and we need to come together and understand China is waging a thousand year war. Their objective is complete geopolitical domination. And right now, the Biden administration not only is not opposed to that, they're supporting that. They're emphatically in bed with China and we need to get serious. And by the way, when I got here in, in 2013, my view was a wild minority view. All of the Democrats disagreed with me and most of the Republicans disagreed with me. They, frankly, they looked at China, they saw nothing but dollar signs. As far as the eye could see, they just saw lots and lots of money. And at this point, we have seen China, number one, engage in systematic murder, torture, they have concentration camps with over 1 million Uyghurs in slave labor. They engage in espionage, they engage in theft at a global level in a way that's never been happened before. Look, espionage and theft has always been part of human relationship, but we've never had a nation state with trillions of dollars of GDP investing in stealing the intellectual property of the United States. That is a new dynamic. And none of that even takes into account China's incredible culpability with the COVID virus. I believe the overwhelming weight of the evidence suggests that the COVID virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. And I think the majority of the evidence, I don't think it is as compelling, but I think it is more likely than not that the virus was manufactured by the Chinese government in that lab, that they took existing coronaviruses, that they modified them using gain of function research. They made them more transmissible, they made them more deadly, they made them more dangerous for humans. And then it was released from the Wuhan Institute for Virology. That means. And then after that happens, it is undisputed that China covered it up. They disappeared the whistleblowers, they disappeared the doctors. They hid the break of COVID 19. And on any level, China bears enormous culpability for the millions of deaths that came from COVID from the trillions of dollars of economic damage that came from COVID And you know what? Joe Biden didn't say a damn word about any of that when he sat down with Xi in San Francisco.
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Ted Cruz
Yeah, one of the things when he sat down with them is this idea. And you could see it in the Democrats. They were really pushing this idea center that we needed a grand reset with China. We need to open back up relations where we're talking with them or their military is talking with our military. And this is all about a grand reset. Did we really need a grand reset with China?
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Ben Ferguson
Look, grand reset is the favorite approach of the Democrats. You'll recall Hillary Clinton, when she was Secretary of State, she engaged in a, quote, grand reset with Russia. In fact, she went over and she met with Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia with a big red button. It was very theatrical. But their idea was mean. Old Republicans viewed Russia as our enemy. We now know Russia is our friend. By the way, remember the debate in 2012? You and I both watched it between Obama and Mitt Romney, where Mitt Romney was saying in 2012 that he saw Russia as an enormous geopolitical threat. You remember what Barack Obama said in response to that?
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Ted Cruz
Yeah. He said, the Cold War is over. They're calling for the talking points back and calm down.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah. He looked at Mitten. He said, the 1980s are calling. They want their talking points back.
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Ted Cruz
Yeah.
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Ben Ferguson
And it was this smug liberal sense that Russia's now our friend and we're gonna have a grand reset with Russia. Mind you, we're in the middle of frigging war in Ukraine that Biden caused because of his weakness. They now describe Putin as the modern day Hitler. And yet these imbeciles did a grand reset a decade ago. That's the Democrat Party. So now their grand reset is with China. And never mind that China is unambiguously hostile to America. They want to defeat America. They want to displace us as the world's economic superpower. They want to displace us militarily. They want to dominate the United States of America. And yet Democrats say that is hunky dory. We are all in with communist China.
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Ted Cruz
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Ben Ferguson
Look, on Taiwan, Xi has got to feel incredibly encouraged. He looks at Joe Biden, number one. Any enemy of America that sits down with Joe Biden recognizes this man is too old. His mental capacity is not there. He is not an effective commander in chief. There is a reason the world has gone to hell in a handbasket. Think about it. Two and a half years ago, Joe Biden came into the White House. He inherited peace and prosperity. The world was in very good shape. We now have two simultaneous wars. We have the biggest war in Europe since World War II, and simultaneously the worst war in the Middle east in 50 years. That's what happens when the US commander in chief is weak and ineffective and nobody is afraid of him. Nobody thinks he's credible, nobody thinks he will follow through on anything. And Xi is looking at that, saying, there has never been a better time in the history of the universe for China to invade Taiwan than right now, today. And the fact that Joe Biden welcomed Xi to China and basically bends down and kisses his ass, that, you know, it's something on foreign policy that is counterintuitive, where people think strength, some people in the media, Democrats, think strength. Make it more likely you go to war. It's actually the exact opposite. Weakness makes war most likely. I hate war. I am someone who is extremely, extremely reluctant to send US Servicemen and women into combat. Yesterday I had the great privilege. I sat down with about 20, 25 West Point cadets who came to visit me in my office, something I've done several years in a row. And I love meeting with these young men and women who signed up to defend our nation. They're incredible scholars and leaders and athletes. They have character. And we talked. We had a good hour, hour and a half conversation, but we talked about, among other things, foreign policy. And I said, look, I consider myself a non interventionist hawk. I think you should be very reluctant to send US Servicemen and women into harm's way. But the way you prevent war is you're strong enough that nobody wants to screw with You, Joe Biden is embodying the opposite of that, which is he is so weak, he's so ineffective that every enemy of America is emboldened. I've joked before, there is a reason nobody studies at the Neville Chamberlain School of Foreign Affairs. Appeasement doesn't work. Just this week, Biden announced billions more for Iran. Iran funds Hamas, trains the Hamas terrorists, sends them into Israel, commits horrific acts of terror. And what has Biden said here? Have a few billion more. Yeah, that is truly stunning. And so she is looking at this, saying, hey, I don't think she has a tiniest bit of concern about what Biden would do if he invaded Taiwan and China. Invading Taiwan would be absolutely catastrophic for the U.S. economy and U.S. national security because, among other things, we are profoundly dependent upon Taiwan and China for advanced semiconductors. Advanced semiconductors are used in just about every electronics we use, from our cell phones to our cars, to our trucks, to our planes, to our military weapons, to missiles. And just about every device of modern life uses advanced semiconductors. And if China invades Taiwan, the US economy and the US military is in a stranglehold to China. And I gotta say, every time Biden shows weakness to China, the chances of that go up dramatically.
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Ted Cruz
Let's talk about the possibility of the Bidens being compromised. If you look at the list and this list, I do want to go through it because I think it's really important. It doesn't sound like this is a list that a normal president would allow to happen under his watch. I mentioned a few of these earlier, but I want to start at the very beginning. Again, Biden allowed the Chinese spy balloon to have surveillance of our entire country. He resumed the funding for the World Health Organization. Despite China's massive influence, Biden brought $1.3 billion, bought 1.3 billion in Chinese made Covid tests, and then gave them to the Americans with our tax dollars. He let China build these secret spying facilities in nearby countries. He reversed in order to limit the Chinese Spyware app to TikTok. That was honestly shocking. He missed the deadline to declassify intel on the Wuhan lab. And I want to also ask you specifically about that in a moment. So let's put an asterisk by that. Biden also told a room of Democrat donors, don't worry about China. Biden said repeatedly, the US does not want to decouple from China. And Biden admitted he doesn't want to contain China either, especially when it comes to the issue of Taiwan. Biden ignored Chinese hackers breaching the email accounts of senior U.S. government officials and did not basically go after China or warn them, any capacity that wasn't meaningful. And then Biden declared he's not concerned about China yet again. Now, you put all that together under the last two and a half years of this man's presidency, and you. And then you put it side by side with the business dealings, the Biden crime family, directly with these people in China. And these companies connect the Chinese Communist Party and those that are even connected to the Chinese intelligence apparatus, the spying apparatus of the Chinese Communist Party. Is some of this actually as simplistic as it looks, that, hey, this guy may be compromised by the Chinese?
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Ben Ferguson
So, look, I think it's both. There is serious evidence of corruption from Communist China that millions of dollars flowed to Hunter Biden, to Joe Biden, to the Biden crime family. That is an enormous problem and it does compromise the president. I believe there also is a second component that, again, millions of dollars flowed to University of Pennsylvania to create the Biden center there when Biden was there to get a cushy job post vice presidency. Again, I think that compromises President Biden, but the truth of the matter is, I think he'd do all of this garbage if he hadn't made a penny from China. Because I think ideologically he is pro China. I think ideologically he is in bed with China. And so he is someone who has been wrong on every foreign policy issue of the last 50 years. He's systematically and consistently wrong. When he sees an enemy, his instinct is appease the enemy. When he sees someone who hates America, his instinct is, be nice to them, Give them what they want. And let me say something else about this meeting in San Francisco. So we're watching Biden meeting with Xi in San Francisco. I gotta say, Ben, I am pissed at how they treated this meeting and in particular that they cleaned up the San Francisco streets. They cleaned up the homeless people, they cleaned up the criminals, they cleaned up the drug users. So a week ago, the San Francisco public streets were filled with homeless people that were filled with criminals. They were filled with drug users injecting drugs just sitting in broad daylight. They were filled with people dead, defecating in the streets. In fact, there's an app in San Francisco called Poop Finder to report human feces on public streets.
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Ted Cruz
You literally, by the way, can't make that up. That's unbelievable.
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Ben Ferguson
It's the bizarre reality we live in. And Democrat politicians have been telling the people of San Francisco for years there's nothing we can do about it. We can't fix homelessness. We can't fix crime. We can't fix drug use. We. We are helpless. Well, you know what? Suddenly the President of China shows up and holy crap, they clear all these people off the streets. They clean up. They literally clean up the shit. Like, that is not hyperbole. They clean up the streets. They make them spick and span. They're sparkling. And I gotta say, let me ask you something, Ben. Let's assume you're a San Francisco resident. Let's assume, okay, you live in San Francisco, so you're a lefty, you're a liberal Democrat, but you've been living with this. This crime, this homelessness, this drug use. Your kids have been watching this filth, and you've been told, we can't fix it, we can't fix it, we can't fix it. And then suddenly the head of the Communist Party of China shows up and boom, it's all magically fixed. How would you not be pissed off? Why exactly is it that the Democrats will do this for Xi out of China, but will not do it for the Americans who live in San Francisco? What does this say about the broken policies, the woke policies of the radical left? How it all is a crock? They know how to fix these things. They're just not willing to.
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Ted Cruz
And they can fix it in a matter of days, by the way. Days, they were able to clean up an entire city. That's impressive.
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Ben Ferguson
And by the way, there's a pattern. So this is not the first time this has happened. When Joe Biden came to El Paso for his vaunted trip to the border.
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Ted Cruz
Yeah, yeah.
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Ben Ferguson
There were illegal aliens all over the streets. It's a crisis. The city is being swarmed by illegal immigration. But when Joe Biden came, they removed all the illegal immigrants from the street. And in fact, the Biden White House said Biden did not see a single illegal immigrant. And there's a cynicism to this, which is. And this is something we've talked about a lot that I've talked about in my new book, Unwoke, which. Which is the Cultural Marxists, their policies are wildly unpopular. Normal people do not support open borders, don't support abolishing the police. They don't support rampant crime. So for the Cultural Marxist, for the radical extreme in the Democrat Party, they focus on indoctrination and political messaging. And so when Joe Biden goes to El Paso, it's a photo op. It's a photo op to show, hey, everything's fine. When Joe Biden and Xi goes to San Francisco. It's a photo op to say, hey, everything's fine. And then once the TV cameras leave, the people are stuck with the disastrous failure of the left wing policies.
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Ted Cruz
Yeah. You mentioned Gavin Newsom talking about this cleanup and he had maybe one of the dumbest lines that we've heard. This is what he said about defending the timing of the San Francisco cleanup as the governor. Listen to this.
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Ben Ferguson
I know folks say, oh, they're just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming into town. That's true because it's true. But it's also true for months and months and months prior to apec, we've been having different conversations.
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Ted Cruz
We've been having different conversations. It's true because it's true. Yes, it's true. We're cleaning the place up for the two are coming to town. It's true.
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Ben Ferguson
To be clear, Gavin Newsom used to be mayor of San Francisco.
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Ted Cruz
Yeah.
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Ben Ferguson
This problem he created, he owns this now. He's got dreams of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue sparkling in his eyes. So he's realizing, huh, this is kind of a problem, let's see if we can clean it up. So he kind of likes that, that pr, but understand it is all pr, that there's no one, as far as I can tell, that's a Democrat politician that actually cares about the quality of life of the residents of san of San Francisco, that doesn't matter. There's a reason that people who live in San Francisco are fleeing the city because it's unbearable. And the absolute insult for them to say, yeah, you people who pay taxes here, you're not important enough for us to solve these problems. But when the head of China comes, hot diggity dam, we can fix it overnight.
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Ted Cruz
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Ben Ferguson
So it was 10:30 at night and it was a vote on the continuing resolution. So it was the continuing resolution that the House passed that keeps government funded through January. And so we had a vote late at night that we all came down there. We were down in the Senate at 11:30 at night casting votes.
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Ted Cruz
It just, I love that aspect of it. But there's also something else I was going to say that's the second part of just pulling back the curtain a little bit. So you and I obviously spent a lot of time together. And this goes back to the Gavin Newsom point you were just making. And I'm laughing because I'm doing Fox News Channel. Just a normal interview that I do. I don't, I don't, I didn't see your schedule. And they tell me, they said, hey, you may be a minute or two late. We have another guest on who's going to be on. And I look up and it's you, which was hilarious because I was waiting to talk about this Newsome issue and cleaning up San Francisco, which was just really a funny moment because everybody in the control room was laughing. They're like, all right, it's verdict. And then it's verdict, but they're not together, which was pretty funny. But one of the things that I said on there.
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Ben Ferguson
And by the way, Ben, you're being nice because what you said that the Fox producer told you is the guest in front of you, you may be late because the guest in front of you tends to go long. And I don't know they said it, but what they implied is he's kind of a blowhard and he likes to yabber.
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Ted Cruz
He likes to talk a lot. And. Yeah, exactly. Like, hey, the guests we have on before you, sometimes it goes a little long, so you might be about five minutes late. And then I look up on the screen and I'm like, I'm always waiting on this guy. It was a hilarious moment. And everybody was laughing.
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Ben Ferguson
Look, look, Benjamin. Senators are known for our brevity. We're tight, we're pithy, we limit. We're like Chinese fortune cookies. We keep it all within one very short sentence.
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Ted Cruz
I love it. I love it. But it was what? I took a picture of the screen, if you guys want to look, it's on my Instagram. And I'm putting pointing at me in the corner because they say up next, it's my picture in the bottom right. And then you're talking there. And it was just. I was like, this is what I want to frame in the office.
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Ben Ferguson
But by the way, I want our verdict listeners to know. So Ben saw that, and he texts me and says, I bet I can talk about the podcast more than you do. Now, I don't see this until I'm done with the media hit. And as it so happened, on the media hit, I was talking about my new book on Woke. So I didn't mention the podcast. I talked about the podcast a lot, but I mentioned it zero times. So when I see it, see his text, he's on, and I finished, I'm like, okay, you win, because I'm at zero. So. So falling down. You're going to beat Mike.
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Ted Cruz
Yeah. And the best part was, it was I knew that I was going to win that one because I had one of the longest verdict plugs ever. I was like, you know, it's interesting, Senator Cruz, who was just on a moment ago, we were chatting about this on our podcast Verdict with Ted Cruz. And even the host, Elizabeth, she's so sweet. She's grinning from ear to ear. Cause she gets it. She understands how funny it is. And it was just one of those great moments. But one of the things that we were talking about on there, I was on Talking about this exclusive issue about cleaning up San Francisco. And I said, and I gotta say.
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Ben Ferguson
Ben, this pisses me off. And let me ask you, I don't mean to derail you, but do you think your typical lefty voter in San Francisco is pissed off about this?
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Ted Cruz
I would assume probably not normally, but they may have hit their breaking point. Like, are you kidding me? We've been living with this. And they've been talking about turning tourism drastically. We saw a man that was cleaning off the. His front steps, remember? And they turned him in the worst person in the world because he sprayed with water. Homeless people, they're outside defecating in front of a store, and it was costing him his business. And so I do think there's a moment where people have had enough. And I think this hypocrisy may resonate with some of the people in San Francisco enough to change leadership. Let's be honest. Probably not.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah, you were saying. Sorry. No, I just. So I was literally at dinner with a number of folks in D.C. and we were debating this question, and one guy I was having dinner with said, well, you know, maybe the lefties are saying, well, gosh, what happened to the homeless people? Where are they now? Are they okay? Are they safe? We need to take care of them more. Maybe they're worried about that. And I'm like, look, I try to understand the perspective of people who disagree with me, but I have to confess, I'm not the best person on earth to really get in the mind of a San Francisco left wing. That. That's just. I have it hard. It's hard for me to really grasp how they view this and think it's okay. And so I don't know if when they see it cleaned up, they react like, holy crap, why didn't you do this a year ago? If you could do this? Why did you allow this to continue? Or if they just say, well, I mean, one of the things I responded, I said, look, today's Democrat Party is so command and control. They follow orders that maybe the folks there are like, well, nope, no, no, this is okay. This made sense for this meeting. But generally speaking, we can't fix it. And this meeting was important. I don't know if they're willing to just be told that by their political overlords.
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Ted Cruz
Well, and the point that I made, I said, for lefties who always to give themselves these massive hugs of, we are the people of compassion and love and understanding, where's the compassion and the love and the outrage from the left of the Fact that you just took homeless people and took all their belongings and threw them in the trash and told them find somewhere else to be homeless. Where is the compassion for those homeless people just because of a communist leader that by the way is running concentration camps and slave labor and child labor. You want to clean up a city so you, you then treat these homeless people in such a inhumane way because they're in your way. Where is the, where's the outrage from the compassionate left? Because I have not seen that so far.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah, I haven't seen any of that at all. And part of it is they don't criticize their own. I mean, they have message discipline. Whatever the message is of the day, they're all on board with the same thing.
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Ted Cruz
Last question on this I want to ask you. And it deals with the investigation of the Bidens. You look at the money, we're getting more information about these checks that are going to the President. And you see this president bow down, as you describe it, kissing the aws of, of this, of this Chinese Communist leader. But, but you look at the house.
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Ben Ferguson
I'm glad, glad you spelled that for our listeners. They didn't know what it was. You know, we, we have a lot of elementary school children that listen to this.
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Ted Cruz
Okay, just for you, Senator. Just because you had to go vote in the middle of the show, kissing his ass. There we go. You got me on the record there. That's right.
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Ben Ferguson
I like that I'm a negative influence on you, Ben.
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Ted Cruz
I'm a team player here. Team player. But you look at this, these checks. Joe Biden received a $40,000 check and laundered Chinese money from the account of his brother James Biden, his sister in law Sarah Biden in the form of a personal check. We know that because the check number is 6142. We have a copy of it. It was made on September 3, 2017. Of course it said loan reimbursement. That's not the first check, by the way. That's the second check that has come in. Hunter Biden also wired another $150,000. The Line Hall Group, a company owned by President Biden's brother John James and sister in law Sarah on August 28 of 17. And then guess what happened. Sarah Biden withdrew 50,000 in cash from the Lionhall Group. And later the same day, she deposited it into her and Jane Biden, James Biden's personal checking account. And then they write the check to Joe Biden for the, quote, loan repayment. That, that, I mean, we're at over $200,000 now. And we also know that the money trail began in July of 2017 when Hunter Biden demanded payment from his Chinese commun. You know, friend, this, this associate who's linked there on July 30th, Hunter Biden. Let's. Let's just read that famous text, right? That WhatsApp text. I'm sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand. And now means tonight. And Z, if I get a call or a text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person knows and my ability forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I'm sitting here waiting for the call with my father. And what happened after that? Hundreds of thousands of dollars came into their account within days. And the FBI stopped the investigation to see if Joe Biden was, in fact, through gps, was sitting next to Hunter Biden or in the same place on this date. You put that together and you see what's happening now with China and America. I think James Comer's onto something here and it seems like there's a lot more that's about to come out on this.
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Ben Ferguson
Well, the evidence is getting worse and worse. We now know that at least $240,000 went straight to Joe Biden. Remember the Democrats were saying over and over again, no direct evidence of Joe Biden's involvement. This is all Hunter. Hunter's corrupt, but Joe is innocent. Well, 240 grand. And he labels all these checks loan repayment. There's no evidence as to what the loans were. Was there a loan that is, on its face, highly suspicious? We also know now that the House, that James Comer. The subpoenas have escalated. They're now subpoenaing Hunter Biden. They're subpoenaing James Biden. They're subpoenaing the inner circle of business associates around Joe Biden. Among other things. They also issued a subpoena to former White House counsel Dana Remus to appear for a deposition concerning Biden's mishandling of classified documents. This is ratcheting up, by the way. Also, Special Counsel David Weiss admitted that he wasn't granted special attorney authority in the Hunter Biden investigation. And even though he asked for it, but then he said, well, he didn't interpret that decision as a, quote, denial in any way, shape or form, which is utterly incoherent. You ask for, can I have special attorney authority? You're told no. And then he says, well, but that wasn't a denial. What else is it? And so I have to say I think the investigation is getting more and more serious and the evidence is getting worse and worse for Joe and for Hunter.
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Ted Cruz
What a show tonight. Senator, you can't make it up. We do half a show, go vote, come right back, we got it done. And it's always a pleasure to chat with you. Don't forget, we do this show Monday, Wednesday and Friday. So hit that follow if you're on Apple subscriber auto download button, wherever you listen. You can also say to Siri or Alexa, hey, play Verdict with Ted Cruz and it will play it for you the most recent episode, which is really cool. A lot of people like that. Also, we do a weekend recap for things you may have missed later in the pods on Saturday. So make sure you grab our Saturday weekend podcast as well.
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Ben Ferguson
By the way, Ben, let me ask you a question.
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Ted Cruz
Yeah.
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Ben Ferguson
If you ask Siri, play me the best episode ever of Verdict with Ted Cruz. What does it play?
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Ted Cruz
I have absolutely no idea what is.
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Ben Ferguson
Nor do I. I have no idea. I just, as you were saying that I, I, I don't use Siri. My daughters use Siri, but I don't use Siri. But I'm just, just sort of wondering.
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Ted Cruz
You should, you should ask them. I guarantee you they'll give you an answer. Right?
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Ben Ferguson
I may not want to hear the answer.
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Ted Cruz
I love it. On those in between days, if you want to ask Siri to play the Ben Ferguson podcast, I'll keep you up to date on breaking news in my podcast as well. On those in between days, it's always, it's fun. This is a fun show tonight. Thank you. Center. Get some sleep. I mean that sincerely. Look at our clock right now. It's after way after midnight and we will see you back here in a couple of days.