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2:58Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

3:01It's nice to have you with us.

3:02We've got some big breaking news.

3:04We're just going to start right away with it.

3:05Senator, I'm going to let you take it away for the announcement.

3:08Look, in an extraordinary story, Chuck Schumer has apologized to the American people.

3:14He said he's sorry. He is sorry that the Democrat Party has embraced open borders.

3:20He's sorry they allowed an invasion of this country.

3:22He said he's sorry they're a bunch of jihadist -loving lunatics who've defunded the Department

3:27of Homeland Security. And he said he's very, very sorry.

3:31To every TSA agent, he didn't pay.

3:34To every Coast Guardsman, he's still not paying.

3:37To every Secret Service agent, he's not paying.

3:40To every DHS officer, he's not paying.

3:42To every FEMA official responsible for disasters, he has said he's sorry.

3:48And he said, look, the reason is he's just cheap and scared and he cares

3:56about power. Is he going to get bonuses, though?

3:58I mean, that's what I want to know.

4:00Does they get their bonuses for showing up?

4:02He will give them all the Maduro cocaine they can take.

4:06I like it. I knew there was a catch here.

4:08Now, look, the only problem with this breaking news is the calendar date.

4:13Yes, yes, that'll do it.

4:15And sadly, it is April Fool's.

4:18The chances of that happening are as likely as pigs flying, as the moon turning

4:26to green cheese, as Chuck Schumer turning away from a camera.

4:30All of those are equally likely.

4:32It's more likely you're going to shave your beard today.

4:35No, no, it's not. No, okay, it's not.

4:38That thing is really there to stay, right?

4:40I just want to be real clear about that.

4:41You know, look, it would be impressive, Ben, if you could grow a beard.

4:45You know what? I did it once for that.

4:46Was it No Shave November?

4:48Remember that? And they asked me once on TV.

4:51Is anything visible? It was a little...

4:54There is one picture on the internet.

4:56It's kind of hillbilly -esque.

4:58Is it patchy? What all comes in?

4:59It looked like I could have sold drugs on the side of the road.

5:02And so a producer called me one day and said, we're just curious if that

5:07beard is going to be gone by Sunday when I was doing a show.

5:10It's like, I'll take the hint.

5:11I'll shave it off by Sunday, yes.

5:14It made it look like I was homeless and seriously in need of guidance in

5:19life. So that picture is out on the internet, though, I will say.

5:23You know, the sad thing, Ben, about that whole...

5:25whole diatribe i went on on april fools and what schumer apologized for yeah there's

5:31not a word i said that was false i mean the real april fools joke

5:35is the hundred the other 364 days a year when he refuses to do that

5:40because that is the democrat party position it is it is astonishing and so today

5:46we're going to talk about we're going to talk about radical islamic terrorism and how

5:50the democrats have coddled it how they've embraced it how they've exposed us how they've

5:55endangered us and we're going to talk about it in a number of instances we're

5:58going to talk about it concerning michigan and the michigan terror attack that we now

6:03know was inspired explicitly by hezbollah we're going to talk about it in new york

6:08city in kamran mandami apparently believing it is the responsibility of the mayor of new

6:13york city to defend the ayatollah and to defend the islamist regime in iran and

6:19then we're going to talk about it in terms of a radical left -wing senate

6:23candidate in michigan uh who explained just how many michiganders are sad so very very

6:29sad that the ayatollah the same ayatollah who chants death to america that he's no

6:34longer with us and finally we're going to talk about something that somehow is not

6:39an april fools joke but the washington post this week came out and said especially

6:45with the war in iran it underscores how the democrats green new deal energy agenda

6:50is hurting america profoundly and that's actually not an april fools joke it is that's

6:56reality that's real you can't make that part up we've got a lot to cover

7:00today there are so many of you guys uh that i just want to say

7:03thank you that have really gotten into uh standing up for the people in israel

7:07and there are a lot of people that are under attack in israel there is

7:10a lot of people that are hurting there are a lot of people that are

7:13in need and the international fellowship of christians and jews they are on the front

7:17lines right now helping people including holocaust survivors who are homebound giving them food and

7:24medical care within their home and they need our help now more than ever before

7:29a sacred season is approaching passover when we remember god's deliverance the night he brought

7:35his people out of bondage and into freedom this year many of god's people will

7:40observe in darkness under the shadow of war across israel red alert sirens pierce the

7:47air families run to shelters with seconds to spare elderly men and women fear they'll

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9:03right center so let's get to the this first big story here and and this

9:07is one of the ones that concerns me so much about what is happening in

9:12this country right now we've also seen this happen in europe and we are now

9:16seeing that there are more attacks we're seeing churches that are being burned around the

9:20world and we're now seeing uh this synagogue attacker that attacked on behalf of hezbollah

9:26uh it happened right here in michigan we know a lot more now than we

9:30before yeah you remember when this story broke when when the man drove his truck

9:35uh into the synagogue that was also a school there there were over a hundred

9:38kids there he was trying to kill as many young children as he could and

9:42and the media coverage they referred to him as michigan man it was it was

9:47reminiscent of maryland man the guy who was the ms13 gangbanger and human trafficker that

9:53was just a maryland man who for some reason was deported no one could imagine

9:57why well here it was michigan man and then they had all this sympathetic coverage

10:01michigan man was was upset that his brother had been killed in the middle east

10:06what they didn't mention is his brother was a commander for hezbollah and so he

10:11was a terrorist so hezbollah terrorist in america unhappy that a different hezbollah terrorist had

10:17been killed and so he tried to kill as many children as many jews as

10:22possible here are the details uh the attack earlier this month this is from cnn

10:27on a synagogue in west bloomfield michigan was a quote hezbollah inspired act of terrorism

10:33purposely targeting the jewish community and the largest jewish temple in michigan the fbi said

10:40to news conference on monday the assailant iman gazali was a naturalized u .s citizen

10:46from lebanon's now put a pin in that that we need to change our vetting

10:50for naturalized citizens yeah yeah He rammed a pickup truck into the synagogue on March

10:5712th as more than 100 children were attending school inside.

11:03After waiting in the synagogue's parking lot for more than two hours, authorities said, Ghazali

11:07drove the truck far into the building, hitting a security officer before the vehicle became

11:12wedged in a hallway. Security officers for the synagogue began exchanging gunfire with Ghazali, who

11:20eventually shot and killed himself inside the truck.

11:23During the chaos, the truck's engine compartment caught fire and caused extensive damage to the

11:29building. The truck was filled with over $2 ,000 of commercial -grade fireworks and about

11:3835 gallons of gasoline, which he used to enhance the explosion.

11:43No one else was killed.

11:45One of the temple's lead security officers was injured after being hit by the vehicle.

11:50Had he lived, he would have been charged with providing material support to Hezbollah, the

11:55Iranian -backed terrorist group in Lebanon, said Jerome Gorgon, the U .S.

11:59attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.

12:01Gorgon added that Ghazali was inspired by Hezbollah propaganda to carry out the attack.

12:08Quote, this man acted under Hezbollah's direction and control.

12:14He intended to kill others, not just himself.

12:18In the days after the attack, U .S.

12:20officials said Ghazali was located in federal government databases as having connections to, quote, known

12:27or suspected terrorists associated with Hezbollah.

12:29Stopped there for a second.

12:31So they searched the databases.

12:32The databases showed that he had connections to known or suspected terrorists.

12:36Then why the hell was this guy letting the country in the first place?

12:39Why did they allow him in?

12:40Why did they naturalize him as a citizen?

12:42I have a feeling that information in the databases didn't magically appear in the last

12:4715 months. It's been there a long time.

12:49It's just prior administrations didn't care.

12:51We need to get to the bottom of that.

12:53A week prior to the attack, members of Ghazali's family in Lebanon, including two brothers,

13:00were killed in an Israeli airstrike as the U .S.

13:03and Israel entered its second week of conflict with Iran.

13:06Now, this is where the media clutched their pearls.

13:08Well, his brother was killed, so naturally when your brother's killed, what you do is

13:12try to murder 100 kids.

13:13That's the normal reaction to that.

13:16But then here's the killer paragraph that follows.

13:19The Israeli military said one of the brothers, Ibrahim Mohamed Ghazali, was a Hezbollah commander

13:27in charge of managing weapons operations in the Iranian proxy group's BADR unit.

13:34Ghazali began planning for the attack days earlier, the FBI said, with his plans intensifying

13:40on March 9th. A review of Ghazali's online activity dating to January.

13:46January, January was before the war in Iran started, showed repeated searches for pro -Hezbollah

13:53and Iranian news outlets, as well as videos related to gunfire and ammunition.

13:57Beginning March 9th, the FBI said he closely followed speeches and live coverage involving Hezbollah

14:03Secretary General Naim Qasem, along with reporting about an Iranian fatwa, a religious ruling concerning

14:12Islamic law, calling for total jihad against the U .S.

14:15military. He also researched Jewish cultural education and religious centers throughout the Detroit metro area,

14:23viewing multiple pages of upcoming events at Temple Israel, and searched specific terms and phrases

14:29such as, quote, the largest gathering of Israelis in Michigan, Orthodox synagogues, and Israelis near

14:37me. That day, after two people declined to sell him a weapon, Ghazali bought an

14:43AR -15 style rifle, 10 magazines, and about 300 rounds of ammunition at a gun

14:48store in Dearborn Heights, Runyon said.

14:51Now, it's interesting that two stores declined to sell it to him, and yet the

14:54one in Dearborn was willing to.

14:56I think that's something else.

14:57You've owned a gun store.

14:58I was going to say, that is a massive red flag.

15:01Like, if you turn down somebody and there's two stores, they clearly, like, were doing

15:07their jobs, by the way, gun stores.

15:10So tell us, as someone who's owned a gun store, like this guy goes in

15:13and says, I want to buy an AR, why would a gun store say no?

15:18Yeah, there's a couple of reasons.

15:19One, you profile, and you can see if someone seems angry or agitated.

15:23You can also, you're supposed to be looking to see if an individual you think

15:28is doing a straw purchase, which means they're buying for someone else illegally.

15:32You'll see that happen a lot of times with wives that will come in.

15:35Their husband would be a felon or someone that's disqualified from owning a weapon, or

15:39a friend will come in.

15:41You'll see people that walk in the store.

15:42They'll look at a gun.

15:44They'll take a picture of it.

15:45They'll leave, and then literally 30 seconds later, a minute later, someone comes in and

15:48tries to buy the exact gun that you just showed to someone else.

15:51Like, there's multiple things that you look for here.

15:54But then there's also conversations.

15:56If you see that someone comes in, and by the way, if you believe that

16:00they're drunk or high or on some sort of drug, you can refuse.

16:03And if you just have a really bad feeling, if something doesn't feel right, you

16:08can say, I'm not going to sell you a gun, and you have the right

16:11as a store owner to do that.

16:12But when you hear that two gun stores did this.

16:16That says a lot. Yeah, that says a lot, because something there I would love

16:20to see and go. back and and and here because i'm sure there's going to

16:24be an interview what was it and then where the authorities alerted to this and

16:28yet a third store was able to sell them the gun they didn't check in

16:30on that afterwards that also is very concerning yeah the the story continues he practiced

16:35shooting the new weapon the next day and bought the fireworks an order of dozens

16:40of water containers arrived on the 11th day before the attack and he immediately started

16:45filling them with gasoline making four trips to gas stations so he would not arouse

16:49suspicion he also bought two torch lighters which authorities believed he used to set his

16:54truck on fire on the day of the attack ghazali sent his sister who authorities

16:59believe lives in lebanon numerous videos and messages quote affirming his hezbollah inspired ideology 10

17:08minutes before he drove his truck into the synagogue ghazali sent his sister two videos

17:12in arabic indicating that he was at the largest gathering of israelis in the state

17:17of michigan had booby trapped his car and would forcibly enter and start shooting people

17:23the fbi said god willing i will kill as many of them as i possibly

17:28can ghazali recorded himself saying according to runyon look these are the kind of threats

17:34we're facing by the way this podcast covered when the iranian fatwa went out and

17:41we we have covered at length the radical islamic terrorists that the biden administration allowed

17:47to flood into this country and the lack of vetting and and tragically all of

17:53this happened at the same time we had the department of homeland security shut down

17:57because the democrats have defunded it and i'm sorry to say this guy is not

18:02the last radical islamic terrorist left in the country and yet senate democrats do not

18:08seem to care at all well let's go back in time just a little bit

18:11to remind people this was part of what president trump had had said we need

18:15to do which was to go back into vet yes can you give an update

18:19on that and is some of that vetting stopped because of dhs lack of funding

18:23and and and all these fights and the government shutdowns that have happened well some

18:27some of that vetting would be happening at the state department some of it would

18:30be happening at dhs and and so i don't know the status of that vetting

18:35we have not gotten a report we obviously have a brand new secretary of homeland

18:39security mark wayne mullen by the way i will point out every democrat but two

18:44voted against confirming him so their position is they don't want a secretary of dhs

18:48and by the way they all like mark wayne he was a colleague in the

18:51senate they knew him he was well liked on both sides of the aisle it

18:54was not personal they wouldn't vote to confirm bugs bugs bunny as head of dhs

19:00their party is the open borders party anyone who is focused on securing the border

19:06today's democrats oppose yeah no doubt and then and then you you look at this

19:11story and you go immediately to new york i i am really concerned about what

19:15we're seeing in new york yes you and i have talked about this mondani i

19:19think is is a bigger threat to this country than just a threat to the

19:21people in new york city uh let's talk about the breaking news there as well

19:25yeah very much agree give a listen to what mondani had to say about about

19:31the war in iran and about the ayatollah in particular give a listen i think

19:36we're seeing the fact that in the face of americans facing a historic affordability crisis

19:41that we have the pursuit of something that has already cost 23 billion dollars thus

19:47far the kind of money that could transform working class americans live whether through investments

19:53in medicare or teachers or even elimination of student debt for tens of thousands of

19:59americans and all of that being thrown aside for the pursuit of yet another regime

20:03change war and it's a war that should be opposed on every single ground not

20:07just procedural but also moral but also political and also a war that should be

20:12opposed on the grounds of the fact that it is being financed by the very

20:16money that could make it easier to keep calling this city this country home and

20:22yet there is a blindness to that fact all while we're being told that this

20:26is this is not what we're seeing with our own eyes all right senator let's

20:30just go to the moral spot there when he said that i'm like what world

20:33is he living in morally then explain the terrorism hezbollah hamas and all the other

20:38sponsors of terrorism all the dead bodies and all the americans have been killed by

20:41iran he says there's no moral compass for this war to even begin with i

20:46i would say sit down with families who've lost loved ones and are placing you

20:51know flowers at tombstones on memorial day and tell them this this political garbage look

20:56iran has killed nearly 1 000 americans over the last 47 years they're the number

21:01one state funder of terrorism in the world they get provide 90 of the funding

21:05for hamas hezbollah and the houthis they hired hit men to kill president trump and

21:11the ayatollah who who mandami is grieving right there regularly would lead mobs chanting death

21:18to america and and yet mandami's loyalties apparently death to america is not a sentiment

21:24that that he has significant disagreement with he thinks it is immoral he thinks it

21:30is wrong it should be opposed on every front taking out a regime that is

21:35killing americans and and look this is the heart of today's democrat party mandami and

21:42aoc and ilhan omar the radical marxist islamist jihadist America -hating commie left.

21:50By the way, I love that he begins with $23 billion.

21:54Can you believe they spent that much?

21:56Never in his life has Mondami seen government spending that he opposes, except if it's

22:02taking out an Islamist leader who is murdering Americans.

22:06That's the one instance in which government spending he is opposed to.

22:10And every other instance, this man...

22:11How much of the government spending in New York City was for illegal immigrants that

22:15they were housing in four -star and five -star and three -star hotels?

22:18Can we just remember how much money they've wasted?

22:21By the way, it could have gone to the people of New York that are

22:24suffering. Instead, they said, no, no, no.

22:26We want to pay out billions to illegal immigrants and make their lives more comfortable

22:30after they broke our laws.

22:32Well, and we played a couple of weeks ago on verdict.

22:36Kathy Hochul, the New York governor, pleading with rich New Yorkers who had fled the

22:40state, please come back. Please come back to New York.

22:43But not promising to make it any better.

22:45Say, we want to tax the hell out of you.

22:47We want to take your money.

22:48But we have really lavish social spending programs.

22:51And if you don't come back, we won't have the money to pay for them.

22:55And it really is funny.

22:56I'm trying to figure out who is the one rich guy who fled New York

23:01and hears, hey, come back so we can take your money and give it away

23:04because we know what to do with it better than you.

23:06Who's the one audience member who hears that?

23:09I don't know. But Mondami isn't even saying that.

23:11He's happy for them to flee his city.

23:13And look, I fear with this kind of environment, number one, I fear for the

23:19NYPD, their ability to do their job with a mayor who now opposes their enforcing

23:25the law and protecting New Yorkers.

23:26But number two, his coddling, his embrace of Islamist America haters is not good.

23:36New York suffered the very worst terror attack our country's ever seen on 9 -11.

23:41DC did as well. But having a mayor who is now rooting for the death

23:49to America crowd, that is a deeply, deeply, deeply concerning development.

23:54It's a new year, 2026.

23:57You've probably heard the name Bitcoin and cryptocurrency.

24:00So the question so many people have is, is it safe?

24:03And is it something that I should be invested in?

24:06It's a question I want to get answered for you today.

24:09And joining me now to talk about that is the co -founder of Bitcoin IRA,

24:12Chris Klein. Chris, I appreciate you being here.

24:15And it is pretty cool to see what's happening in the crypto space.

24:19It has become normal. It now can be a part of your IRA.

24:22The federal government has changed the rules.

24:25They're accepting cryptocurrency like it's a stock.

24:28Yes, absolutely. And it's, it's really driven itself into a mainstream space.

24:32I remember a decade ago when we first started Bitcoin IRA and everybody was like,

24:36are you crazy kid? You're putting Bitcoin in retirement accounts.

24:40Is this even possible? And you fast forward to where we're at today, where countries

24:43are building stockpiles, corporations are building stockpiles.

24:46Strategy, for example, is pretty much its entire business models around this.

24:50It's a piece of diversification that every major player in the space and economics is

24:55looking at. And so should too, the individual sovereignty of the average American looking to

24:59put it inside of their retirement.

25:00You guys actually have a really cool stat that you told me about at dinner.

25:03And that is that your clients, 75 % were born before 1976.

25:09So the idea that you may be missed out on this, or if you're a

25:12little older, it's a young man's game in crypto.

25:15That is also just not true.

25:17Sure. That's definitely one of the myths I wanted to come debunk with you and

25:20your audiences. This isn't, uh, this isn't our grandfather's economy and grandfathers are buying Bitcoin

25:25and putting it inside of their retirement for long -term holdings, especially now that they're

25:28thinking about inheritance and handing some of these things down.

25:31But yeah, that was actually shocking to me.

25:33We discovered that in 2018, that 75 % of them were older than my parents'

25:38generation. And what we found from surveying all of them was this is something that

25:42they think is new age.

25:43And that I think almost every American, especially older ones has a genuine concern of

25:48watching what's happened to the U S dollar over the last four or five decades.

25:51And there's always been gold and silver as a potential hedge land, real estate, these

25:55scarce assets in Bitcoin. While it may seem all that's digital and it's, it's different.

26:00It's scarce. There's only 21 million assets of Bitcoin that will ever be mined.

26:0419 and a half million have been mined so far.

26:06Uh, and you and I actually won't live.

26:08Our kids will probably live to see the last one get mined.

26:10This is something, you know, we're in a world of abundance since I was born

26:13in 1985. It's abundance. We just printed and printed and printed more.

26:16This is a moment in time where we may be able to revert back to

26:18scarcity and there'll be a day.

26:20We're just saying, I have one Bitcoin will be life -changing.

26:23Chris, I hope a lot of people that are watching this, you guys will go

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26:46A sacred season is approaching Passover.

26:49When we remember God's deliverance, the night he brought his people out of bondage and

26:55into freedom. This year, many of God's people will observe in darkness under the shadow

27:00of war. Across Israel, red alert sirens pierce the air.

27:05Families run to shelters with seconds to spare.

27:09Elderly men and women fear they'll be left behind.

27:12And parents are comforting their frightened children as explosions...

27:16shake the night. Sleeplessness and uncertainty have become daily life in Israel, and Passover reminds

27:23us that God hears the cries of his people and answers with love and compassion.

27:29And that's why the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is on the ground in

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30:59If you think Mandani is like a one -off, you're wrong.

31:02And if you want proof of it and how concerned you should all be over

31:05these types of individuals, let's take a look at the Michigan Senate candidate that avoids

31:11discussing Iran because, quote, there's a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad that

31:17we took out the Ayatollah.

31:19Like, this is not just Mandani, folks.

31:21This is the Democratic Party growing very quickly in this.

31:25Yeah, look, some listeners, particularly listeners who are skeptical, when I said Mandani was sad

31:31the Ayatollah was killed, might have said, gosh, that's too harsh.

31:35He's not really. That's putting too much.

31:38Well, Mandani is part of a broader movement of America -hating Islamists who are taking

31:44over the Democrat Party. And in Michigan, you've got a candidate for U .S.

31:48Senate, a guy named Abdul El -Sayed.

31:51And interestingly enough, he was caught on tape strategizing what to say about the Iran

31:59war. And I'll tell you what, how about I don't put words in his mouth,

32:03Ben doesn't put words in his mouth.

32:05Let's listen to the words that came out of his own mouth.

32:07Give a listen. So, this is going to destabilize reason.

32:11I also want to remind you guys that there are a lot of people in

32:14Dearborn who are sad today.

32:16So, like, I just don't want to comment on Mandani at all.

32:21Like, I don't think it's worth even touching that.

32:26Doesn't even want to touch this butcher and killer and murder of Americans because there's

32:32a lot of people that he wants to vote for him in Dearborn that are

32:34sad today. And by the way, you hear his staffers.

32:38Uh -huh. Uh -huh. Oh, yeah.

32:39Yeah. I mean, they all know that.

32:40This is no secret. Why are the people in Dearborn sad.

32:46They're sad for the same reason Mondani is sad, because far too many of them

32:51are Islamists who cheer for the Islamists who want to kill Americans.

32:56And, you know, this Michigan Senate candidate, you know, talk about cynical.

33:02Listen to his strategy. Rather than talk about U .S.

33:04national security, rather than talk about killing terrorists, rather than talk about keeping America safe,

33:09what do you think he wants to do instead?

33:11Well, again, don't take my word for it.

33:13Give a listen to his strategy rather than address U .S.

33:16national security. And I'm just going to go straight to pedophilia, frankly.

33:20As a pedophile president, I decide that he doesn't like the front page news, so

33:24he decides to take us into another war.

33:26There was a time when you all were talking about America first.

33:29It seems to be to be America last.

33:31There it is. Like, we're just going to make up stuff, lie about the president

33:35and do this. And that'll be our pivot from us actually having to talk about

33:39what's happening in Iran, because I don't want to upset the Islamists that support, you

33:44know, support the Ayatollah. By the way, quick question.

33:48What painting did Jeffrey Epstein have hanging in his living room in New York City?

33:52It was Bill Clinton in a blue dress.

33:54Isn't that right? And red pumps.

33:57He literally had a painting of Bill Clinton on his wall.

34:00He was an original friend of Bill.

34:02Bill Clinton practically had his own seat on the Lita Express.

34:06And yet the Democrats just scream, okay, let's just call Trump a pedophile.

34:10It's pure. But the cynicism of it, the cynicism of it is only works because

34:18the media is corrupt. Listen to what else this Democrat Senate candidate had to say.

34:22Like, we have the moral high ground here.

34:24I think the more we stay out of, like, they're going to try and bait

34:27us into saying, yeah, but isn't it justified now that they took him out?

34:30Right. And I just think that's what we need to prep for.

34:33We got to prep for it.

34:35We got to prep for taking out a murderous terrorist in Iran that says he

34:40wants to blow up and kill innocent Americans, who already has, and Israel.

34:44And they're like, we got to prep for this, guys.

34:46This is a big PR nightmare for us.

34:48What are we going to do now?

34:50Well, there is one other Democrat strategy.

34:52One, they scream pedophile and attack Trump.

34:54But there's a second Democrat strategy, because if they don't want to actually talk about

34:58protecting America and killing terrorists, what they do instead is their old refuge.

35:04Well, again, listen rather than let me characterize it.

35:08I mean, talking about doing this and Israel's issue always just makes me a little

35:14nervous. I know. I figured as much.

35:17I can shade away from it, but if I'm going to take the shot, I

35:22can't just allude to it.

35:23I've got to take the whole shot, which means that I'm going to say, look,

35:27you've got a pack backed Congress people who now don't want to empower Congress to

35:33step up and enforce its own prerogative.

35:36Ask yourself who that benefits and why.

35:38Ask yourself how powerful that force is in our politics if they won't even stand

35:42up to a president who's making illegal and unjustified war.

35:45Yeah. Making illegal war in order to distract us, you know.

35:51Yeah. Yeah. I think that I think it's that shot is fine.

35:55I just think that it should always be coupled with the affordability argument.

35:58Like, I think the danger here is just getting too caught up in the like

36:02high level politics of it and not not spending enough time with the people in

36:07Michigan. I mean, this is going to come up with what's her name with Welch.

36:12Yes, it will. She's going to be hot on this and she's going to she's

36:15going to debate me into the Israel stuff.

36:19And if I'm going to take the shot, I got to set it.

36:21I got to set up the whole shot.

36:22That's the thing. You know what I mean?

36:24Like, look, I'm running against an AIPAC backed Democratic congresswoman.

36:29And you know what her statement was?

36:31We're perfectly OK with this war.

36:33She should have asked us first.

36:35It's amazing how much sustain he has, by the way, for Jewish people in Israel.

36:39Right. Like just you can hear it there in his voice.

36:40He's like, look, we're going to do his strategy.

36:43Simple attack Israel, attack the Jews like that is his strategy.

36:46And you know what? In Dearborn, the same people who, as he put it, are,

36:51quote, sad that the Ayatollah who chanted death to America is no longer able to

36:57pay terrorists to kill Americans.

36:59Those are the same people that when you attack Israel and attack Jews, they get

37:03excited and vote for you.

37:04And you know what's really terrifying?

37:07That may be a winning strategy in a Democrat primary in Michigan.

37:10It obviously was a winning strategy in a Democrat primary in New York City.

37:14It was a winning strategy for Ilhan Omar.

37:17It was a winning strategy for AOC.

37:19It was a winning strategy for Rashida Tlaib.

37:22This is the base of the Democrat Party.

37:24And if you have any serious question about how do you protect America against radical

37:30Islamic terrorists who want to kill us, like the Hezbollah terrorist in Michigan that we

37:37started this podcast talking about, today's Democrat Party has nothing to say about it.

37:43Nothing. I want to move to this last story.

37:46It is April 1st, April Fool's.

37:48But this story is not a joke.

37:50We're not Babylon being, you hear, Senator.

37:52This is actually a real story that has come out.

37:56And it's amazing. From the Washington Post, talking about the Iran conflict, showing why energy

38:02dominance is so important. You can't make this up.

38:08I mean, wow. So this is a real story.

38:11Real editorial in the Washington Post, and it's an editorial from the paper itself.

38:15It's not a guest columnist.

38:17It is entitled, Three Cautionary Tales from the Iran Energy Shock.

38:23Never confuse good intentions with good planning.

38:26And here's what the Washington Post editorial board has to say.

38:30Roughly 28 million tons of liquefied natural gas have disappeared from global markets since the

38:35closure of the Strait of Hormuz and damage to Qatar's export terminals.

38:40Analysts predict the shortfall could last years.

38:43While every energy importer will feel the pinch, not every one of them will feel

38:48it equally. Germany, Taiwan, and California are cautionary tales.

38:55All three have had their politics shaped by green movements, and all three are more

39:01vulnerable for it. When environmentalists came to power, they forced the premature retirement of nuclear

39:07reactors, coal plants, and oil refineries.

39:11They calculated that the planet's needs demanded it, and that global markets would fill the

39:16gap. All three polities are now frantically reversing course, but energy sources can't be rebuilt

39:24overnight. Germany's Green Party was founded in 1980 as an anti -nuclear movement.

39:30When it first entered coalition government in 1998, its price of admission was nuclear phase

39:37-out. It re -entered government in 2021, in time to oversee the shuttering of Germany's

39:43last three reactors in 2023.

39:46The Greens also pioneered the phasing out of the country's coal plants.

39:50That Germany sits atop 35 billion tons, billion tons of lignite, did not enter into

40:00their calculations. Germany bet big on solar and wind, but intermittent renewables can't ensure a

40:07consistent supply. That left LNG filling the gap.

40:11Last week, Energy Minister Katharina Reich called the nuclear shutdown, quote, a huge mistake.

40:19With spot prices for LNG sharply up, the government is now looking at restoring coal

40:26plants it retired. In the past, Germany has imported nuclear -generated electricity from France when

40:34squeezed. So notice, the Green Party, the effect of them is to go back to

40:38coal generation and to increase pollution.

40:41All right, let's continue and see what the Washington Post has to say about Taiwan.

40:46Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party codified anti -nuclear dogma into its founding charter in 1986.

40:55Its arch -rival, the nationalist and at the time authoritarian Kuomintang, wisely built nuclear power

41:03plants as part of a breakneck industrialization program.

41:08When the DPP won power in 2016, it legislated a, quote, nuclear -free homeland and

41:16began retiring the country's coal plants.

41:19Phasing out coal made sense.

41:21Replacing nuclear with LNG, much less so.

41:25Like Germany, Taiwan can't rely solely on renewables.

41:30Taiwan has virtually no domestic fossil fuels.

41:34And without nuclear, it has to import 97 % of its energy by sea.

41:42Last week, the DPP reversed course and announced plans to restart the reactors.

41:48All right, how about the People's Republic of California, led by Comrade Gavin Newsom?

41:54In California, environmental regulations have achieved something remarkable.

42:00They have severed the state's gasoline market from the rest of the country.

42:05Unique fuel blend mandates mean no other state's gasoline is compatible with California's.

42:12Other onerous regulations, emission fines, profit caps, drilling restrictions, have driven refiners out.

42:20And there are no inbound pipelines for crude or refined products.

42:28Now, gas is approaching $6 a gallon.

42:33Yep. With no domestic replacement, California became dependent on gasoline imports from Asian refineries, which

42:42are now cutting shipments because the Strait of Hormuz is closed.

42:47As Chevron's refining chief, Andy Waltz, recently put it, quote, The California intent to offshore

42:54carbon to other nations has offshored their security of supply.

42:59Chevron has warned that it could leave California entirely within a decade unless regulations change.

43:06By the way, Chevron was a California company.

43:08They moved to Texas in the last year because the California loonies drove them out.

43:13And here's what The Washington Post closes with.

43:17The error in Germany, Taiwan, and California was confusing good intentions with good planning and

43:26assuming a stable global energy market would always be there to paper over the difference.

43:31The Iran war shows it won't.

43:34The government's best situated to weather this energy shock are not.

43:39the greenest, but the ones that treated energy as a national security interest and diversified

43:45their supply responsibly. I'm going to say something I don't know that I've ever said

43:50before. I agree wholeheartedly with The Washington Post.

43:54Yeah, you and I both on that one.

43:56It's a great way to end the show.

43:57Don't forget. And it's not an April Fool's.

43:59It's not an April Fool's.

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