← The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
Illegal Immigrants Terrorize Texas Woman in Her Home. plus Kamala Bombs on 60 Minutes
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Ben Ferguson
Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. Senator, we are getting really close to election day. And the issue that Democrats don't want to talk about is what has happened with the lack of border security, really, with wide open borders, whether it's people on the terrorist watch list coming across, whether it's criminals coming across that have been convicted of heinous crimes. But we now have another example in Texas, and it's horrifying.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, it is. It happened in Dallas, Texas, where a woman was terrified by four Venezuelan illegal immigrants who broke into their home, they beat her, they pistol whipped her. It is a horrifying story and it is an example of what is unfolding every single day as a result of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris open borders. We're also seeing, we're seeing child rapists being released, illegal immigrants. And the human cost of illegal immigration becomes more and more real every day. We're gonna break that down on the show. We're also gonna talk about Kamala Harris's disastrous series of media interviews. She's decided, apparently, that Joe Biden's basement wasn't working out for her. And so she went on 60 Minutes, she went on the View, and I think train wreck does not even begin to capture how badly it went. We're going to break that down for you as well.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah, it was a train wreck. And we've got the audio clips. Even as they tried to fix the interview to make it look better on 60 minutes, they still didn't accomplish that. That's coming back to Biter as well. And we're going to play that original audio for you compared to their edits coming up in just a moment. I want to tell you real quick about chalk. If you're a guy and you feel like you've lost that edge, you're not alone. The problem is men's testosterone levels are off a cliff, historically at an all time low. By the way, that's exactly what liberals, the elite, they want. They want a weak and docile underclass. 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 started taking chalk male vitality stack a little over a year ago. I wanted to get back in shape. I wanted to lose weight. I wanted to not just, you know, always feel fatigued or tired. And if you're sick and tired of feeling tired and sitting on the couch, then you got to check out what Chalk can do for you. It's manufactured right here in the US Of A. Chalk's natural herbal supplements are clinically proven to have game changing effects on your energy, your focus and your mood. And it's helped me lose now over £70 in the last year. So use the promo code Ben and you're going to get a massive discount on any subscription for life. All you got to do is go to chalk choq.com use the code BEN for lifetime savings on any subscription. Limited time offer. Subscriptions are cancelable at any time and boost your testosterone levels up to 20% over 90 days. That choq.com promo code Ben and you'll save right now big on your first order and well, forever actually. All right, center. I want to play this clip for people and I hope that this is one of those clips that people will share on social media. This is exactly why we do this podcast to give people this information. And this alleged migrant gang has been arrested after a SWAT standoff. And and we find out about the heinous crimes that were committed by them against this woman in Dallas. Listen to the details. Run down this story. Brooke, what you find out.
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Brooke
Bill the details in this case, let me tell you, are just horrifying. This woman says she was held at gunpoint inside of her own home by these four guys. She says they tied her up, they threatened to cut her fingers off and beat her with a pistol. We now know that these four men who were charged are illegal migrants from Venezuela. This woman lives alone. She's in her 50s, just pulled in her garage in the upscale Briarwood neighborhood of Dallas. Police say the four suspects of approached her, forced her inside at gunpoint, ransacked her home, stole money and jewelry. According to police records, the suspects only spoke Spanish and communicated through Google Translate. Luckily, police say she was not hurt when they left. She managed to free herself, ran to a Neighbor's home and called 91 1. Police matched a fingerprint to one of the suspects, Manuel Hernandez. Hernandez, who named the others involved. All four charged with aggravated robbery and have ICE detainers. ICE tells Fox News that all four from Venezuela. And according to records, Hernandez told investigators they're involved in a criminal streaking. Now ICE would only give me the immigration history of Manuel Hernandez and it's worth noting because in March he illegally entered the US From El Paso and he has been arrested at least twice before this. Just months after illegally coming into the US he pled guilty to a dwi. Despite the conviction, he was released right back into the U.S. it was very.
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Unnamed Reporter
Concerning because it's a very, it's a nice part of Dallas and a quiet part. We welcome people who are not, who come here legally, but people who are not here illegal or are not coming in legally. We have to wonder about why they.
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Brooke
Were able to get here in the.
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Unnamed Reporter
First place and this far north.
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Brooke
And meanwhile, over in San Antonio, authorities cracking down on the Venezuelan streaking trend Aragua. Multiple agencies going door to door raiding the Palacia apartment complex after reports of drug and human trafficking. Sixteen Venezuelans there arrested and HSI identified four as TDA members. Now the aggravated robbery back here live in Dallas has neighbors really concerned. A lot of them tell me that's put them on high alert because the scam scary part they say is this is a reminder that it could happen to anyone anywhere.
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Ben Ferguson
Senator, I know people that live in this neighborhood and when the story broke, I got text messages about it. They couldn't believe that this happened to a 50 year old woman and that was the target that she was treated this way. And yet, you know, some people say, hey, it isn't a problem until it's on my street or in my neighborhood. This is now happening everywhere. And yet we find these people, we catch them committing crimes and the Biden administration refuses to deport them over and over again.
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Senator Ted Cruz
That's exactly right. And this happened in an ordinary neighborhood in Dallas. I also was getting texts about it before the news broke publicly. I was hearing about it from people in Dallas that were hearing what had happened and were horrified. And I gotta say it is really dumb luck these guys were caught. That one guy left his fingerprint behind. If there hadn't been a fingerprint, in all likelihood these guys, we would have never known who they were other than the description of them. Now the first one who was arrested, he told the Dallas police that the other men were part of the el antitren criminal street gang in Venezuela, which is a different gang than the Trend Aragua gang which has been really an enormous problem and committing multiple crimes. Including by the way, we now have reports that at least one of the two illegal immigrants who raped and murdered Jocelyn Nungaree was a member of the Trendurague gang. So you've got two different gangs in Venezuela and presumably more. But these are two different reports, two crimes, both horrific. The one in Houston, what happened to Jocelyn is one of the most horrific things. That beautiful little girl was grabbed at night, was raped, was murdered, strangled and then just thrown in a bayou. Thrown in a bayou, under a bridge, discarded in a way that is horrible. And by the way, Jocelyn's murderers, they were apprehended and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris released them the very same day. Now, as you know, I've gotten to know Jocelyn's mom, Alexis is an incredibly brave young woman. I've gotten to know Jocelyn's grandfather. And the agony, the pain they have gone through is horrific. And we're seeing this day after day after day. You look in Dallas, this crime, I gotta say, it's got people throughout Dallas, across Texas, across the country incredibly concerned. This woman was just driving home when four armed men showed up with guns, forced their way into her home, tied her up, beat her, pistol, whipped her with their handguns, threatened to cut off her fingers, and then robbed her. Robbed about $75,000 from the house. This is the very real consequences of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's open borders.
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Ben Ferguson
One of the questions that you, you got to ask about that story as well is how did they get these guns right there? They can't buy them in a store. They. There's no loophole on a background check, Senator. All of the gun laws we have in this country. And wait, all these criminals, all these gang members able to get these guns. I'm being a little bit sarcastic, but it's also at the same time a very real question.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Yeah, look, illegal immigrants are not eligible to legally purchase a firearm in the United States and certainly Venezuelan gang members are not. But inevitably, these criminals acquire guns illegally. And it's an amazing thing, Ben, the Democrats in Congress, they never seem to be worried when it's criminals getting guns illegally. What they're worried about is law abiding citizens having weapons to protect their homes. The criminals and how they get guns. That's a question they never ask. And by the way, let's be clear. It is Joe Biden and Kamala Harris that are releasing these criminals into America. And I gotta say, look, as, as, as on top of the story out of Dallas, on top of the horrific story of Jocelyn, we got another story that broke this week. I just want to read you the headline. Quote, illegal immigrant previously charged with raping 8 year old girl arrested after erroneous release. And listen to the facts of this because it just, it's going to blow you away. Quote, a Honduran illegal immigrant who was previously charged with raping an 8 year old girl in Baton Rouge, Louisiana was arrested after he was released erroneously from local custody in 2019. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement New Orleans office announced on Monday that 28 year old Carlos Vasquez was captured and arrested on a work site in Baton Rouge on Wednesday. ICE said Vasquez entered the US Illegally as a gotaway in an unknown time and he was released erroneously from local custody after he was convicted of sex crimes in 2019. ICE added that Vasquez had remained at large. On April 27, 2017, ERO Baton Rouge filed a detainer on Vasquez with East Baton Rouge Parish Jail after his arrest for indecent behavior with juveniles, first degree rape and oral sexual battery of an eight year old girl. Two years later, on November 18, 2019, I said Vasquez was convicted of the amended charge of sexual battery and was sentenced to six months in prison with credit for time served. On the same date, the court accepted his guilty plea to the charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and fined him $500 and court costs of $235, placing him on supervised probation for a period of one year. However, on the same day, the Franklin Franklin Parish Detention center erroneously released him from custody without notifying ERO Baton Rouge. Vasquez is now in federal custody, according to ice. Last month, data provided to lawmakers by ICE said that tens of thousands of illegal immigrants with sex offenses and homicide convictions could be loose on the streets. This is an in fact, it continues, the agency provided the data Representative Tony Gonzalez about national data for illegal immigrants with criminal charges or convictions. The Data as of July 2024 is broken down by those in detention and those who are not in detention, which is known as the non detained docket. The non detained docket includes illegal immigrants who have final orders of removal or are going through removal but are not detained in ICE custody. There are currently how many do you think are an ICE's non detained document docket?
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Ben Ferguson
Knowing this administration, there's no telling more than 7 million.
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Senator Ted Cruz
More than 7 million. More than 7,000,000. And of those there are 425,431 convicted criminals and 222,141 with pending criminal charges.
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Ben Ferguson
It almost seems like they created a crisis center so they wouldn't have to deal with the 7 million because they'd say, well, no one can deal with 7 million. Right? We just keep run letting them run through the system. At some point we'll just admit the system's overloaded and then we'll just, you know, kind of hand out amnesty like it's candy.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, let's start with 13,099. Those are the criminally convicted murderers. Those are the people with homicide convictions who are Illegal immigrants who are currently released. Every one of those could be picked up and deported. And why have Joe Biden and Kamala Harris not done that?
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Ben Ferguson
I think it's pretty clear they have no intent of protecting us from these heinous criminals that are committing these crimes that we just mentioned. It's part of their master plan to completely re overhaul and redo America.
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Senator Ted Cruz
And by the way, I will say, you know, you know, it's interesting when you do media interviews. I unfortunately do a lot of media interviews and I've seen left wing reporters get really angry and in fact yell at me. I had one reporter yell at me, how dare you say that the Democrats are doing this for political advantage? And I'll respond to them and say, well, give me another reason. Give me any other reason. 13,099 convicted murderers who are illegal aliens. Every one of them could be removed from America. I challenge you. Give me any other justification for not going and picking them up and getting them hell out of this country. I don't have one. I don't know one. And the real answer, I believe the only answer is they look at 11 and a half million illegal immigrants and they see them all or the bulk of them as future Democrat voters. And so if there has to be suffering, if people have to die, sadly, Democrats are willing to look the other way. And that sounds profoundly cynical. And as I said, I've had reporters yell at me that they just don't believe it, but then nobody can proffer any alternative explanation.
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Ben Ferguson
Kamala Harris was, by the way, also asked on the View, would you have done anything differently than President Biden during the past four years? Obviously, this would include the wide open southern border, the illegal immigrants that are coming across, those that are rapists, that are convicted rapists. And the numbers you just mentioned, the convicted murderers, those that have been accused by the way of heinous crimes. I haven't actually had a court date yet in their home country and fled the country to get away from those accusations. And she was asked the question on the View in New York about it. Listen, well, if anything, would you have.
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Unnamed Reporter
Done something differently than President Biden during the past four years? There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of, and I've been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact.
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Ben Ferguson
That is the ad that Donald Trump should run in every swing state in America between now and Election Day, because.
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Senator Ted Cruz
She is, as far as I'm concerned, you play that clip and then right after it, the words, I'm Donald Trump and I Approve this message.
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Ben Ferguson
I mean, that's it.
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Senator Ted Cruz
That actually may be the truest words Kamala Harris has ever spoken. There is nothing she would do differently, except, you know what? She might even do it worse. Because I will say, listen, I think Biden is basically, at this point, a puppet. I think it is sad, the condition he's in. I think Kamala's a true believer. I'm not even sure how you would do it worse than Biden has. But if it is possible to. I think Kamala intends to, if she ever gets in that position.
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Ben Ferguson
When you hear her say what she says, and she also said, look, I was involved in all this. She's basically implying that she's been a de facto president of the United States of America. So how can she now run away from her record, specifically on this immigration issue? This is, for me, the whole ball game. This is the election.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, there's also an arrogance to that answer. You know, it's like, have you ever made a mistake? I can't think of any mistake I've ever made. I mean, that, you know, the idea. No, no, no. Everything we've done is perfect. Well, gosh, Kamala, how about the disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan? How about 13 dead servicemen and women? You wish that was different. No, no, that doesn't come to mind. How about all of the people who've been murdered, raped, the children, assaulted by illegal immigrants you've released? No, that's not a mistake either. Okay, inflation. You stood up at a rally and talked about how the cost of everything has skyrocketed. Was that a mistake? How about giving $100 billion to Iran? That a mistake? Like, nothing comes to mind. There's a lack of introspection. She's actually not. You know, you think about it, after four years in the White House, I mean, almost anyone would say, gosh, there's some things we should have done better, we should have done different. There's some lessons learned, but not commonly. There are no lessons learned. No, no, we did everything right. The only thing is we just need to stay in power forever. I mean, that it sums up the arrogance, the lack of accountability that I think captures today's left.
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Ben Ferguson
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Senator Ted Cruz
Yeah. And let's start with the question she gets asked on immigration and whether it was a mistake for Biden to go soft on the border, whether it was a mistake to quadruple the number of illegal immigrants. And she refuses to answer. She dodges over and over again. And it really is, I think it's the same as the View answer, but it's even more revealing because she so stubbornly dug into. No. Everything we did with our open borders was exactly right.
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Unnamed Interviewer
I've been covering the border for years, and so I know this is not a problem that started with your administration.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Correct.
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Unnamed Interviewer
But there was an historic flood of undocumented immigrants coming across the border the first three years of your administration. As a matter of fact, arrivals quadrupled from the last year of President Trump. Was it a mistake to loosen the immigration policies as much as you did?
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Unnamed Reporter
It's a lot long standing problem and solutions are at hand. And from day one, literally, we have been offering solutions.
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Unnamed Interviewer
What I was asking was, was it a mistake to kind of allow that flood to happen in the first place?
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Unnamed Reporter
I think the policies that we have been proposing are about fixing a problem, not promoting a problem. Okay.
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Unnamed Interviewer
But the numbers did quadruple and the.
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Unnamed Reporter
Numbers today because of what we have done, we have cut the flow of illegal immigration by half. We have the flow of fentanyl by half. But we need Congress to be able to act to actually fix the problem.
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Ben Ferguson
So it's all your fault, Senator. It's all Congress's fault. It's not the fault of the president and the vice president. United States of America. That's what they go back to.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, of course she ignores the fact that without Congress acting. And by the way, when Trump was president, we very much wanted Congress to act. We fought to have Congress pass tough border legislation. And the Democrats, including Kamala Harris, blocked it. They didn't want tough border legislation. They opposed it at every stage. So, for example, I introduced Kate's Law. Kate's Law is named for Kate Steinle. Kate Steinle was a beautiful 28 year old woman in California and she was. Tragically, she was murdered. She was murdered. She was standing on a pier in California, on a California beach. And an illegal immigrant who had been deported repeatedly, who had been convicted of multiple crimes over and over and over again. He'd been in and out of jail repeatedly. He'd been deported and he kept coming back. He fired a gun and the bullet hit her in the chest and pierced her heart. And Kate Steinle fell on that pier. She was with her father. I've met Kate Steinle's father. His daughter died in his arms. She bled out as he was holding her. Her last words to her father were, help me, daddy. You and I are both dads. I cannot imagine.
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Ben Ferguson
That's haunting. That's the only way I can describe it.
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Senator Ted Cruz
A greater nightmare and the powerlessness you feel. One thing as a dad you want to be able to do is protect your child. And Kate's Law is imminently common sense legislation that says aggravated felons who repeatedly enter the country illegally should face mandatory minimum prison sentences. Upwards of 80% of Texans, upwards of 80% of Americans agree with Kate's Law. I'm the author of it. I fought for it for years. Twice I forced a vote on the Senate floor on Kate's Law. Do you know what happened when we voted on Kate's Law?
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Ben Ferguson
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the Democrats said, nah, we're good.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Every single Democrat, including Kamala Harris, voted no just to Kate. Slow. Just saying. The worst of the worst, the aggravated felons, their view was no, we will not even focus on the criminals, even focus on the bad guys. In the wake of Jocelyn Nungaree's murder, I introduced the justice for Jocelyn act to mandate that the administration keep in detention illegal immigrants when they have them and not release them into the public. You know what? Not a single Democrat has supported justice for Jocelyn. This is a pattern over and over again. So Kamala, in that interview, she doesn't address the fact that the reason Congress hasn't passed tougher border legislation is because she has opposed it along with every other member of her party, both in the Senate. And virtually every Democrat in the House. She also hasn't addressed the rather obvious fact which was asked in that question in 60 minutes. Well, gosh, Donald Trump, even when you, the Democrats blocked border legislation, was able to achieve the lowest rate of illegal immigration in 45 years, was able to achieve incredible success. And I worked hand in hand with President Trump to do that. She didn't address the fact, well, how was Trump able to do it without legislation passing? And by the way, how did you, madam, borders are turn us into go from the lowest rate of illegal immigration in 45 years to the worst rate of illegal immigration in our nation's history? And the answer is that unilaterally Joe Biden and Kamala Harris decided we're going to ignore federal law. You know, she says, gus, Congress needs to pass the law. You know what? It is current federal law that when illegal aliens are in custody, they should be detained and they should be deported. If you look at the federal statutes, they use the word shall repeatedly, shall be deported. That is a mandatory obligation from Congress. And I gotta say that this is something to understand. The problem at the border is not a money problem. Would it help to have more Border Patrol agents? Sure. But you and I have had on, on this, this podcast the president of the Border Patrol union who's told us, we don't need more money, we don't need more agents. We take them, but we don't need them. What they need is policy. And what caused this crisis was the decision of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to implement catch and release simply to release illegal immigrants. As with Jocelyn's murderers, on the day day they are apprehended, just let them go. And we've never had a president in more than 200 years of this country's history who just defies the law, says, I don't care what's written in the United States code, I am going to do what I well want to, and I want to release eleven and a half million illegal immigrants. That's what we've had. She is responsible for it, and she cannot admit responsibility. And by the way, to be clear, if, God forbid, she wins in November, she intends to continue doing the same damn thing.
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Ben Ferguson
She tried to redo, by the way, on her question of what she would do different. This was when she decided to go on Stephen Colbert last night. And here's what she said when she was asked about, hey, would you be any different than Joe Biden? Now, I, I'm, I have a theory, Senator. I think they said, can you re Ask that question, because our other answers.
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Senator Ted Cruz
That was entirely staged. The campaign realized, oh, my goodness, this was a disaster of an answer. You've just given Trump their lead campaign commercial heading into the election. So let's tee up and give a different answer. And of course, Stephen Colbert. You know, I'm actually surprised he wasn't wearing, like, a cheerleader, like, miniskirt and pom poms, because it is not complicated who he's rooting for. But go ahead and play the clip. Polling shows that a lot of people, especially independent voters, really want this to be a change election and that they tend to break for you in terms of thinking about change. You are a member of the president administration under a Harris administration. What would the major changes be and what would stay the same?
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Unnamed Reporter
Sure. Well, I mean, I'm obviously not Joe Biden. Biden. And so that would be one change in terms of. But also, I think it's important to say with, you know, 28 days to go, I'm not Donald Trump. And so when we think about the significance of what this next generation of leadership looks like, try to be elected President, it is about, frankly, I love the American people, and I believe in our country. I. I love that it is our character in nature to be an ambitious people. You know, we have aspirations, we have dreams, we are. We have incredible work ethic. And I just believe that we can create and build upon the success we've achieved in a way that we continue to grow opportunity and in that way grow the strength of our nation. So, for example, my economic policies, I. I think of it and I've named it as creating an opportunity economy. So it's about things like investing in small businesses. I love our small businesses.
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Ben Ferguson
I love this part where she, like, I created it like, out of thin air, Senator. I created it. I've created and I named it like it's a puppy. I've named it like. She didn't give any answer there. Right. It's just, she just love the American people. And we have ambition, quote, unquote.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Look, that answer, it's actually screamingly funny and at the same time, screamingly terrifying. So Colbert's tried. He's like, look, people desperately want change. The entire fiction of your campaign is you're the change candidate, except for the fact that you're the incumbent administration and every other vice president in history who's run for election has run on continuity. Continue the successes. Well, you know that the successes are very few and that the record is a train wreck. So you want change because people aren't happy with your disastrous record. So what would you change now? That actually, to call that a softball is an insult to softballs. That's a T ball. That's a giant kickball.
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Ben Ferguson
It's a setup, though. Like, we need to just be intellectually honest about this. Like, this is a clear, we need a redo. We're gonna use Trump.
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Senator Ted Cruz
I don't know if her campaign is just miserably incompetent or she is or both, but for a setup, that may be the worst answer I've ever heard because she talks. I mean, the phrase word salad is used a lot, but she says, well, the change is I'm not Joe Biden, okay? And I'm not Donald Trump. That's the whole change. And then I love. What else is the change? The next thing she says, I love America.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Oh my goodness. So your position is Joe Biden doesn't love America. That's the change. She literally says, I love America. That's the change. Unlike those evil mean bastards that aren't me.
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Ben Ferguson
Well, and the other thing is they try to humanize her. She cracked open a beer with Stephen Colbert and that got like a full segment on cnn, which was hysterical. And then you go back to what she actually says and the Vice President of the United States of America said, and I want you to listen for this. The American dream right now is really elusive. Is she trying to write another ad for Donald Trump?
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Unnamed Reporter
Listen, the American dream right now is really elusive for far too many people in terms of even aspiring to own a home. It's too expensive. We don't have enough housing. We have a housing shortage. So part of my plan is to work with the private sector, with builders and developers, to build 3 million more homes by the end of my first term and to give first time home buyers a $25,000 down payment assistance so they can just get their foot in the door to homeownership, which is the fastest and the most efficient way for people to build intergenerational wealth. These are the ways that I think about how we build up our country in a way that is about supporting the middle class. I come from the middle class. I'm never going to forget where I come from.
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Ben Ferguson
I love it. Middle class is apparently really tough for her. If you know her history, you kind of got to roll your eyes at that. But this idea, she says, everything's bad right now. Far too many people in turns even aspiring to own a house because there's not enough houses. Well, why is that? Because the illegal immigrants you've allowed into this country by the tens of millions.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, of course, Colbert pressed back with that, right?
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Ben Ferguson
No, no, no, he did not. They just, they just decided to drink a beer instead. Because that's how you do an interview now when it's somebody that no one's voted for and we're just, you know, less than 30 days away from election day. Right.
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Senator Ted Cruz
You know, by the way, I will say I think it is fitting that that was a comedy show because if you recall, in her debate with Donald Trump, the opening question was elections come down to the question, are you better off now than you were four years ago? And so, Madam Vice President, are the American people better off now than they were four years ago? And her answer was, I came from the middle class. Like it's become a punchline because it was such a non sequitur. She's unable to say yes because the record is a disaster. And so she just, she has this talking point and the fact that at a comedy show she goes back to why come from the middle class. Apparently some focus group somewhere told her that was a good thing to say and she doesn't have anything else to say.
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Ben Ferguson
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Unnamed Interviewer
Do we have a real close ally in Prime Minister Netanyahu?
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Unnamed Reporter
I think with all due respect, the better question is do we have an important alliance between the American people and the Israeli people? And the answer to that question is yes.
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Ben Ferguson
So she throws our relationship with a leader that was elected by the people in Israel, Netanyahu, under the bus. And she clearly is saying there is separation between me and Netanyahu and Israel. She had to make that, that comment, I think in her mind to keep the radicals that are anti Jewish, anti Semites who support Hezbollah and Hamas on her side. That's why she was so, I think, careful with her words there to say he's not my guy. I mean, I'm fine with Israel, but not him.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, look, she clearly hates Benjamin Netanyahu and that's true of this entire White House. It's true of Joe Biden. It's true of most of the Democrats. And remember, Kamala Harris, as the sitting vice president, boycotted Netanyahu's speech to a joint session of Congress. I was there sitting on the floor of the House. Prime Minister Netanyahu gave an extraordinary address. And you know the vice president, you know, the old line is it's a job that's not worth a bucket of spit. But among the very few responsibilities of the vice president are to sit and preside on a joint session of Congress, to sit your rear end down in that chair while someone addresses a joint session of Congress. Well, she loathes Prime Minister Netanyahu so much. She refused to attend. And so her answer, does she consider Netanyahu an ally? No. And frankly, she can barely bring herself to describe Israel as an ally. Listen, there is a growing pro Hamas wing of the Democrat Party, and Kamala Harris clearly wants their vote. She wants the votes in Dearborn, Michigan. She wants the votes of the radicals, the anti Semites on college campuses. And I gotta say. And we should wrap up on this. I want to play the answer she gave when asked about Israel on 60 Minutes. The actual answer she gave. And then I want us to play what 60 Minutes aired because we mentioned before the phrase word salad. This word salad answer is truly remarkable. And so let's play initially what she said in the actual interview. And then we'll go to what they.
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Ben Ferguson
Aired and then the 60 Minute fabulous edit. That's the only way to describe it. They knew it was bad, so let's fix it. Here it is.
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Unnamed Interviewer
But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.
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Unnamed Reporter
Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.
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Brooke
But it's.
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Ben Ferguson
Now, that is the original answer. All right, so it was 27 seconds long.
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Senator Ted Cruz
So they tweeted that out before the interview aired. So it was public in the Twitter, Twitterverse. And people were vicious in mocking it because it's so lacking in content, it doesn't say anything. So here's what CNN, what 60 Minutes actually aired.
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Unnamed Interviewer
But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.
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Unnamed Reporter
We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.
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Ben Ferguson
That's a completely different answer.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Holy cow. Like, listen, that's not 60 minutes. That's like 57 minutes. And. And it makes you wonder, what else did they edit out? What other answers did she give that the 60 minute producers buried their head in their hands and said, oh, no, if people see this, they're not gonna vote for her. And we need her to vote for. Now, look, I'm gonna be mixed in my commentary on 60 Minutes because I will say, at least they asked the question on quadrupling the number of illegal immigrants. That was important. And her refusal to answer it was important, so they didn't edit that out. But on Israel, they just couldn't stomach letting her answer stand on its own merits. And they tried to help her out, and they actually got caught. Which I gotta say, I think has done real damage to their credibility going forward.
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Ben Ferguson
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