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Verdict with Ted Cruz: Biden Spied On 20% of GOP Senators, IMPEACH Judge Boasberg, Dems Losing Shutdown & Bill Gates Flips on Climate Change
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Ben Ferguson
Welcome. It is verdict with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you and it's so nice to have you with us around the country, wherever you are, listening on radio stations all over. And we have got a lot to talk about in today's show including the fact that center, it wasn't just enough that they want to spy on your cell phone records. They decided, screw it, we'll just tap like federal lines in your office.
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Senator Ted Cruz
The Biden administration has been caught spying on now nine U.S. senators. 20% of the Republicans in the Senate, Jack Smith, issued subpoenas to spy on and to get, get our cell phone records. I was one of the nine. We now know also that Judge Boasberg, who is this left wing radical judge who keeps issuing national injunctions against President Trump, signed at least an order to me concerning me ordering at and T not to tell me that that DOJ was trying to get my phone records because the judge concluded with zero basis that I was likely to destroy evidence and to tamper with witnesses. It is an absolute disgrace. We're going to break it down. We're going to talk about the accountability that needs to flow from this. We're also going to talk about the shutdown that keeps on going and going and going. Day 31 in the Schumer shutdown with no end in sight. We're going to talk about where the shutdown stands. And finally, an extraordinary story. Bill Gates reverses his position on climate change. He's been telling the world we're all going to die. Now he's saying, never mind, it's all going to be fine. All of that we've got on today's pod.
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Ben Ferguson
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Senator Ted Cruz
You know, that's exactly right. We now know that that Jack Smith issued 197 different subpoenas targeting more than 400 Republicans, targeting nine US senators, targeting a House member, targeting Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA targeting the Republican Attorney General's association, systematically going after, in a widespread basis, a fishing expedition, attacking his political opponents on the Senate side. So the senators who had subpoenas issued against them were Marsha Blackburn, Lindsey Graham, Bill Hagerty, Josh Hawley, Ron Johnson, Cynthia Lummis, Dan Sullivan and Tommy Tuberville. And then yours truly. For the first eight, their cell phones were all with Verizon. And Jack Smith sent the subpoena to Verizon and Verizon complied and gave their cell phone records to the Department of Justice. My cell phone was with AT&T. AT&T got a subpoena for my cell phone records. And. And AT&T did not comply. Their legal counsel concluded that the speech and debate clause of the Constitution protected my communications and they did not comply. And that we now know. And just this Week, I did a press conference with the other Republican senators talking about this issue. I want you to listen to. This is me describing just the scope of how serious and grave this is. Arctic Frost is Joe Biden's Watergate. Merrick Garland was a fundamentally corrupt Attorney General. Jack Smith was a fundamentally corrupt prosecutor. This was a political enemies list from the beginning. 197 subpoenas for 430 Republican entities and individuals. That is an absolute and egregious abuse of power.
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Ben Ferguson
Is there any scenario there, Senator, where you look at this and you hear them and you think they could have, even for a moment, thought they were doing legitimate work? I mean, when you. When you think about the scope of this, for people that are listening, this just seems like they said, rules be damned, laws be damned. We're going to spy on 20% of the Republican senators. That is bigger than Watergate. And then all these other organizations that we think are helping conservative movements were to spy on them, too. Like, what were they even looking for?
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Senator Ted Cruz
Look, I think Jack Smith is a partisan zealot. I think Merrick Garland is a partisan zealot. I think they eagerly weaponize the Department of Justice. Jack Smith was appointed as the special prosecutor to go after President Trump three days after President Trump announced his 2024 campaign. So this all happened two years after January 6th. I don't think it would have happened in. If Donald Trump had decided. I'm not running in 2024. I don't think Jack Smith is ever appointed. I don't think these prosecutions happened. The reason they happen is Donald Trump announced he was running in 2024, and immediately, with three days later, Jack Smith was appointed. And this was about target our political enemies. Let's go after them. I think Merrick Garland presided over the most partisan Department of Justice this country has ever seen. And. And I think Merrick Garland is still seething with rage. Remember Merrick Garland? Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court to fill the seat when Antonin Scalia passed away. And in 2016. Yeah, yeah, in 2016. It was the spring of 2016, and we decided we're going to keep the seat vacant and let the voters decide in November of 2016 who's going to fill it. And of course, that ended up being filled by Neil Gorsuch instead of Merrick Garland. I think Merrick Garland seethes with resentment, and he used that resentment to fuel. Let's go after the Republicans. Let's target them. Let's target Donald Trump. Let's turn the Department of Justice into an arm of the dnc. And I think Kamala Harris and the Democrats were all eagerly on board with that.
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Ben Ferguson
There was a strategy here. And if they didn't trust you to know that you were being subpoenaed, your records are being subpoenaed, and other conservatives were not going to be told as well. You mentioned that earlier. They said, no, no, we can't trust Senator Cruz. And I'm assuming that was just a blanket across the board thing because everyone knew how corrupt this was and they would fight back instantly, I'm sure. But was this the spy to see who's working with who? Because if you didn't know it was happening, it may not be as much about intimidation as it was connecting dots. Or was it to try to find so they could charge them with criminally? Explain the logic here behind Jack Smith.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Yeah, this was a fishing expedition. They were sweeping broadly. They were just trying to find evidence of wrongdoing and going as broadly as they could. And I gotta say, I used to work at the Department of Justice. I was an Associate deputy attorney general back in 2001 when George W. Bush was president. The idea that you would authorize subpoenas for nine U.S. senators, for 20% of the Republicans in the Senate, or for that matter, for 20% of the Democrats, that you would do the opposing party, there has never been a Department of justice that wouldn't like that, would be willing to do that. That is an extraordinary step and it's a sign of just how corrupt these folks got. But it's not just the prosecutors, it's not just Jack Smith. They had, I think, an extreme partisan judge, Judge Boasberg, who has been one of the worst actors when it comes to issuing these nationwide injunctions. We've talked about him before, and the order he signed concerning the subpoena directed at my phone records, I believe was an absolute corruption of his judicial oath. And here's what I called for. I called for him to be impeached.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah. There was a great clip. And you're going to hear Senator Grassley talking to the press conference and then your comments also you made on Newsmax about it. Take a listen. That includes a hard line for Senator Cruz's office and a staffer cell phone.
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Senator Ted Cruz
For former Senator Lefler.
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Ben Ferguson
So they tried to subpoena Verizon to tap the. Off the office phone in your. In your office.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, to get the phone records. And they also subpoenaed AT&T to get my cell phone records. And I'll tell you at and T did the right thing. They refused to comply with the subpoena. Their legal counsel concluded that it was protected by the speech and debate clause of the Constitution. But you know, one of the things that is amazing, along with that subpoena they sent to AT&T, they also included an order from Judge Boasberg, who's one of these left wing radical judges who's issuing nationwide injunctions. Judge Boasberg ordered AT and T do not tell Cruz we are subpoenaing his. His cell phone records.
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Ben Ferguson
Why?
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Senator Ted Cruz
And he makes a conclusion. He says, because I conclude if he's informed, Cruz will destroy or tamper with evidence and intimidate wit. That is utterly without factual basis. It is a complete abuse of judicial power. And I've called on the House of Representatives to impeach Judge Boasberg. The Constitution, when Judge Boasberg decided to become a partizan warrior and be part of the most egregious abuse of power. This is Richard. This is Joe Biden's Watergate. And I believe the House should impeach Judge Boasberg. And I also think we are going to get to the bottom of every partizan who signed off on, on surveilling and spying on 20% of the Republicans in the Senate. That's what Joe Biden and their DOJ did.
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Ben Ferguson
You. You just put that number into perspective, Senator. I mean, 20% is unbelievable. And you talked about the House taking this up. Is there a real chance that they're going to do this?
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Senator Ted Cruz
I think there is. And it's going to be a decision for the speaker, for Mike Johnson and for Jim Jordan, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee. But I think they will. And let me actually read from the order that Judge Boasberg signed. He signed an order where he says, quote, the court finds reasonable grounds to believe that such disclosure. In other words, if AT&T told me that they were subpoenaing my phone records, that such disclosure will result in destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy to the investigation. Now, that statement, and by the way, I have no reason to think that that was unique to me. My assumption, although we have not seen the subpoenas for the other eight senators, my assumption is that Judge Boasberg signed it for all nine of us, that he was printing them out like placemats at Denny, if you're a Republican senator, that's all he needs to know to conclude. And let me read again what he signed. The court finds reasonable grounds to believe that such disclosure will result in Destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy to the investigation. And let me say, if DOJ came and represented that to the judge, that is sanctionable. There's no factual basis. That's the sort of order you put in if you're issuing a subpoena for the Mafia, for the mob, for a drug cartel. Right. Not simply the fact that, well, it's a senator of the opposing party. So, so, so, so we're going to represent to you that they're going to destroy evidence. I believe it. That, that the judge had absolutely zero basis to conclude that there was no evidence of that. I don't know if DOJ made that representation or not, but the judge. There was no hearing on it. There was. We certainly didn't know about it. It is utterly absurd to say that nine senators are going to go destroy evidence and tamper with witnesses. And he signed that. And when he signed that, he was no longer being a judge, he was being a partisan. It is clear this man hates Republicans and is willing to act on his partisan animus. And I think that is why the House should impeach him and the Senate should, should convict him.
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Ben Ferguson
Two questions. Quickly. One, do you think that there are maybe other senators out there that we don't know about? And two, a lot of this information we've been getting is because of people that are coming forward, whistleblowers. How important are they going to be moving forward? Because if this is what they were doing in this scenario, I can't imagine what else was going on that we don't know about. There could be other spying expeditions that were taking place on House members on a completely different set of issues.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, look, we know 430 Republicans were the targets of these subpoenas. There may be more. You're right. It's whistleblowers who have come forward with this. We wouldn't know without the whistleblowers. And I'll tell you an interesting little factoid. Shaun Davis of the Federalist reported. He said Arctic Frost, the code name used for this operation, was not a randomly generated code name, which is how these, these operations generally get their name.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah, that's important.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Arctic Frost is a cultivar of orange that thrives in Florida, but can also withstand cold weather. The cold name, the code name, was deliberately chosen by corrupt federal agents because the entire purpose was to take down Donald Trump, the orange man who lives in Florida. This was corrupted. It was political targeting.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, that's exactly right. This is backfiring badly on the Democrats. But before we dive into that, I want to tell you a fun story that you'll like. So my press secretary was down in New Orleans and she took an Uber to go to her hotel. And the Uber driver was a guy, a fellow named Dax. And they struck up a conversation and she mentioned that she worked for me. And he said, I listened to Verdict every week. I listened to it on the radio here in New Orleans. And he told her, well, like, what time, what time it aired. And he was a regular listener. That was very cool. And so everyone who's listening on the radio, everyone who's listening to the podcast, I just wanted to say thank you. We're doing this to give you information you can't get anywhere else. And to Dax, if you're listening, thank you especially for listening. We're glad to have you and appreciate you. It is, isn't that cool?
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Ben Ferguson
It's awesome. That's the best. Like when you have an Uber or Lyft driver, it's like, oh, yeah, I listen everybody. Those are, that, that is what I envision as we do the show is people like that working hard, providing for their families. And they just want to know someone's fighting for them.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Absolutely. Look, today is Halloween. It's 31 days into the shutdown and the Democrats have not budged an inch. 31 days. The federal government is, is closed. The non essential functions are shut down. We're seeing thousands upon thousands of federal workers who are not getting paychecks. Let's take airports. Airports. Right now there are 50,000 TSA agents who are going into work and they're not getting a paycheck. They've missed their last paycheck. There are 14,000 air traffic controllers. They're going into work. They're not getting a paycheck. And you know what we're seeing? We're seeing as a result of that, more and more delays, more and more ground stops. Ground stops in Houston, ground stops in LA, ground stops in D.C. they want that. You know, one, one senior Democrat aide told Politico that, that the Schumer shutdown will keep going. He said, quote, until planes start falling from the sky. That's what they're looking for. Tomorrow, Saturday, November 1, 41 million people are not going to get the food stamps they would have otherwise gotten. Now, now 40, it's actually 42 million. Now, set aside the fact that the number of people on food stamps has done doubled in the last five years. That is a major problem and it is a failure of the policies of the Biden administration. But there are 42 million people who were expecting Saturday morning to get their food stamps and they're not going to get it. And they're not going to get it because the Democrats are voting. You don't get food stamps. Air traffic controllers, you don't, you don't get paid. TSA agents, you don't get paid. FBI agents, you don't get paid. Customs and border patrol, you don't get paid. Ice, you don't get paid. General federal worker, you don't get paid. And by the way, the Democrat congressmen and senators, almost all of them are taking their own paychecks. The members of Congress. I'm not, I said I wouldn't take my paycheck as long as the government shut down. But most of the Democrats are happily depositing their own money.
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Ben Ferguson
Let's be very clear to people listening, just like Dax down there in New Orleans. There have been moments where Republicans have said, hey, let's at least take for example, not giving people their food stamps off the table. And Democrats have still said, no, we won't do that bipartisan piece with you. We've said the same thing for FAA and military. They are, they want this people to suffer. They've had the opportunity to have in essence, a carve out and they've chosen no every time because they want people to suffer. Period.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Now that's right. And I'll tell you, the media knows that this is a partisan shutdown here. Give a listen to Jake Tapper. Now, Jake Tapper is hardly a conserv. But, but, but even he on CNN is calling BS to, to the Democrats talking points. Give a listen.
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Ben Ferguson
Should the Democratic senators from New Mexico, your home state, vote to open the government so that these snap funds are not at risk?
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Congresswoman
Let me be clear. The administration is choosing to starve American children with money that they already have appropriate.
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Ben Ferguson
I'm not applauding this. I'm not applauding their White House.
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Congresswoman
Well, this is a choice by the White House.
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Ben Ferguson
This is also, Congressman, this is also a choice by Senate Democrats to not vote to open the government. Yes, it is. I understand why they're doing it. They're doing it because they want Medicaid funds restored. They're doing it because they want Obamacare premiums to be extended past the end of the year.
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Congresswoman
I understand the reason I Let me just be clear. The money for contingency plans is sitting there. That is why the states are suing. The White House is withholding funds.
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Ben Ferguson
Two to three weeks worth of SNAP funds. Yeah.
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Congresswoman
Yeah.
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Congresswoman
Deal to you, but it is a.
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Ben Ferguson
Big deal to me.
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Congresswoman
The grandparents for. For grant is a big deal. Literally are feeding their children.
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Ben Ferguson
My point is that it's a short term solution.
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Congresswoman
Those accounts, it's a short term. At the end of the day, people need to be able to feed their families. And Saturday is when those funds feel so strongly. Fighting.
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Ben Ferguson
Congresswoman, why not ask the Senate Democrats from New Mexico to vote to open the government so that the SNAP fund.
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Congresswoman
I am here in the House of Representatives, it is shut down. I am fighting to get the government reopened. I am fighting to get funding put back into SNAP that is already existent. And I am fighting for the American people. I am here. But show me a single Republican that is here. Not a single one is here to make sure that Americans are fed on SAP Saturday. That is why I am here.
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Ben Ferguson
I love how right there, and it just made me laugh how even Jake Tapper is like, you're totally full of crap. Like, you can say this all you want to, but they put it together. You guys keep saying no. And she's like, I'm here. They're all gone. By the way, I'm sure there was a Republican Congress person.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Of course there were. But, yeah, look, Jake Tapper, as he put it, he says, this is a choice by Senate Democrats to not vote to open the government. And she says, no, it is not. And he says, yes, it is. And We've done this 13 times. I voted repeatedly this week to open the government if you want the food stamps to go out. The Democrats had it in their power to do that. All they had to do was vote yes to fund the government. And they had multiple opportunities. And the Democrats all voted no. Or all but three, I think, voted no. The reason the Democrats have been able to force this shutdown is in order to move a funding bill in the senate. It takes 60 votes. There are only 53 Republicans. Republicans. We, we are voting to open the government. We're voting over and over and over again. And 13 times the Democrats have voted. Shut it down, shut it down, shut it down. And this is the stupidest shutdown we have ever seen because the Democrats really are just trying to show off to their partisan base that they hate Donald Trump. The reason you're having a shutdown, the reason people are not being paid the reason your flights are being delayed, the reason food stamps are not going out tomorrow is because the Democrats are trying to Chuck Schumer in particular, is trying to prove to the activists marching in the no Kings radical in the no Kings rallies, that he really, really, really hates Donald Trump. They're going to end up caving. But I'll tell you what my prediction is. They won't cave before next Tuesday because Tuesday's Election Day in Virginia and New Jersey. And bizarrely enough, they think their base is energized by the Democrats shutting down the government.
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Ben Ferguson
All right, so this one is just one of those segments that I'm just gonna enjoy. Bill Gates is a guy that was like, the world's gonna end, Senator, and we're all gonna, you know, die of heat. And global warming's real and I'm investing in things and the government should be doing the same. And now he's like, all right, screw it, it's not going to happen. It reminds me, I think it was Newsweek back in the 80s where they said we were all going to freeze to death from like Arctic freezing of the entire globe. Now that that went away too. So they got it wrong in the 80s and now Bill Gates is admitting and Al Gore, remember we were supposed to be dead like after 10 years. That was like 10 years ago when he made his prediction that we're all going to die of global warming. None of it's actually happened. And so now Bill Gates, like, all right, screw it, I was wrong, I guess.
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Senator Ted Cruz
So it wasn't 10 years, it was 12 years. And for some reason, for the apocalyptic left, the world is always ending in 12 years. And that's been true for about two decades now. They've been saying 12 years from now, we're all going to die. 12 years from now, we're all going to die. And I got to say, Bill Gates was willing to be as hysterical as Greta, the European teenager who shut down the German economy, because they listened to a teenager and said, hey, why don't we shut down all of our nuclear power plants? And then they suddenly realized they couldn't power their country. And ironically enough, instead, they're now opening coal plants and polluting a lot more. So the apocalypse, the world is ending because of climate change. Well, look, all right, don't necessarily believe me. Let me just read what Bill Gates has done. So this is from Daily Wire. Microsoft co founder Bill Gates has done an about face on climate change alarmism recently, saying that there are more pressing matters people should be worrying about. Instead, the 70 year old tech billionaire, who has been an outspoken environmental activist for years, said as much in a memo published Tuesday titled three Tough Truths About Climate. Here's what he wrote. Climate change, disease and Poverty are all major problems. We should deal with them in proportion to the suffering they cause. The businessman admittedly that the Earth's temperature is not the most important factor for improving life on the planet and said the, quote, doomsday view of climate change is wrong. Let me, let me read that again. Bill Gates said the doomsday view of climate change is wrong. Here's what he wrote. Quote, although climate change will have serious consequences, particularly for people in the poorest countries, it will not lead to humanity's demise. Shocking that Bill Gates said that. And, and, and here he goes on.
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Ben Ferguson
To say, quote, does that mean, does that mean he can fly on his private jets now and like, take a nap? Not be like having to buy carbon credits or get on his yacht? I'm just conf. I want to be, I want to be cleared here. What does this free him up to do?
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Senator Ted Cruz
Oh, no, no. The carbon credit scam is definitely still on. But, but he's going to keep flying on his jet. And remember, by the way, John Kerry, the zealot, when he discussed his private plane, he said, you know, he flies private because he says, really, for someone like me, it's the only reasonable way to travel. Yes, like the utter hypocrisy. But here's what Gates wrote. This is a chance to refocus on the metric that should count even more than emissions and temperature change. Improving lives. Our chief goal should be to prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions who live in the world's poorest countries. And he added, quote, although climate change will hurt poor people more than anyone else, for the vast majority of them, it will not be the only or even the biggest threat to their welfare. And he wrote this 17 page analysis ahead of next month's United Nations Climate Change conference in Brazil, hoping to shift funding away from climate initiatives towards other endeavors that he now believes are more important. Look, I don't know about you, but I'm not tired of winning. I mean, this is. Climate change was an exception.
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Ben Ferguson
So it was all a scam to make a bunch of money? Is that what we can kind of get to here? It was just about follow the money.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Money and power. There's a lot of money. A lot of money about it. Power. Look, look for Democrats. If you are a socialist, if you are a communist, if you are Comrade Mandani, I assume he's a climate change nut. I don't actually know that, but I know he's a communist. And climate change was the excuse for communist deceit's control of our Government. And that today's Democrat Party, it was a great. We're all going to die unless you let me, the Democrat politician, control the energy and business and your life and regulate every aspect of your life. The fact that Bill Gates is making this change, it really shows the momentum is moving and people are engaged in just common sense is coming back.
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Ben Ferguson
Well, and not only common sense, but like you look at a lot of these solar farms, they're like being dormant right now. Like they're just shutting them down because they just can't work. They're not working. And the pollution that comes actually from the turbines and all the other things are actually saying it's like having a real negative effect on the environment. Shocker there. And then we also found out that like a pension fund in California lost like 70 plus percent of the investment that they went in green alternative energy that just came out. So like they screwed countless hardworking, even liberals in California with this crap.
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Senator Ted Cruz
And a point to understand the climate change radicals have consistently hurt the environment. They are bad on the environment. If the only thing you care about, if you wake up every morning praying to Mother Earth, if that's your only voting issue, you should vote against Democrats. Why? Let's take for example, Germany. The Greens forced nuclear power plants to be closed. The result is today Germany is relying more on coal, which is much, much worse for the environment. And what country leads the world every year in the reduction of carbon emissions?
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Ben Ferguson
Which one?
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Senator Ted Cruz
That would be the United States of America. Do you know why?
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Ben Ferguson
Why is that?
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Senator Ted Cruz
Look, this is a question, actually I pose when I'm, when I'm on a college campus, when I'm talking to college kids and they're Bernie Sanders supporters and they're freaked out about the climate. I'll ask him a question. I'll say, tell me what human being has done the most to reduce climate in our lifetimes? And inevitably they have no idea. There is an objectively right answer. The right answer to this is George Mitchell. Now who is George Mitchell? George Mitchell was a Texas oil man. He was the son of a Greek goat herder. And George Mitchell is the man most responsible for pioneering fracking. And he did it in the Barnett Shale, under Fort Worth and Dallas. Fracking unlocked the shale revolution which resulted in massive production of natural gas, much of it in Texas, although also in Pennsylvania and Ohio and other states across the country. And the reason the United States every year leads the world in the reduction of carbon emissions is because at a wide scale level, we are replacing coal powered electricity generation with natural gas powered electricity generation and that pollutes much, much less. It emits much less carbon. And the Greens and the radical Dems have opposed that at every step. By the way, do you know what country leads the world in pollution?
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Ben Ferguson
What's that?
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Senator Ted Cruz
That would be Communist China, which pollutes massively. And yet the Biden administration bear hugged them with all they had.
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Ben Ferguson
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Senator Ted Cruz
Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy? You're a good boy. That's right.
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Ben Ferguson
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