Verdict with Ted Cruz: Longest Shutdown in History Continues, AI Tells us How to Destroy a Nation & "NO KINGS" Funding from Commie Billionaires Revealed
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0:00This is an iHeart Podcast.
0:02Guaranteed human. Welcome, it is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
0:07Hope you've had a fabulous weekend and we've got a lot to cover on this
0:11Monday, Senator, including a big update on the government shutdown.
0:15Where are we now? We are right now on day 44 of the longest government
0:19shutdown in US history. The Democrats are refusing to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
0:25They're refusing to fund ICE.
0:26They're refusing to fund Customs and Border Patrol.
0:28We're gonna break it down on where things are.
0:31The good news, thankfully, is the TSA is gonna be funded as of today, Monday.
0:36And that means lines are going down in airports, but the rest of the TSA
0:41is still facing a shutdown and the Democrats are showing no sign of budging.
0:45We're gonna give you the inside story on that.
0:47We're also gonna talk to you about the reason that happened, which is we're gonna
0:52step back and take a look at AI and ask AI a very simple question.
0:57How do you destroy a country?
0:59How do you destroy a country from inside without a war?
1:03And we're gonna see what AI tells us.
1:04And that, in turn, will lead us to the No Kings protest, which, spoiler alert,
1:10is one of the answers to how you destroy a country.
1:13This fake No Kings protest all across the country, funded by billionaires, communists, and left
1:19-wing activists, we're gonna break it down and we're gonna give you the receipts.
1:22Who is paying for this?
1:24And ask a simple question.
1:26What is their objective? All of that on today's verdict.
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3:11a promo code VERDICT. All right, sinners, so it's Monday.
3:14You actually flew. I was a commoner.
3:17I drove back from CPAC.
3:19You decided to go to the airport and fly.
3:22Are things getting better from what you saw, and where are we with this government
3:26shutdown? Because everybody is looking at the airports like it's the worst place in the
3:29world. You don't want to go.
3:31Yeah, the good news is, on Saturday, I was up in Dallas at CPAC.
3:35I flew back to Houston Saturday night.
3:38At DFW, there were essentially no lines.
3:41The TSA lines were empty.
3:43Houston, when I landed, the lines, I landed at Terminal A, and there were no
3:47lines in Houston at Bush.
3:49Now, Bush and Atlanta have been the two worst airports for the delays, and that's
3:54something, when this is all said and done, one of the things that I'm going
3:58to want to sit down on TSA and figure out why things were so much
4:01worse in Houston at Bush Airport than they were in other airports.
4:05But at least Saturday night, when we landed from Dallas, the line in Houston was
4:11way, way down. My daughter, Catherine, is landing at Bush Sunday night, tonight at 9
4:19p .m., so we'll see what the lines are when she lands.
4:21But the lines are going down.
4:23And she missed her flight, right?
4:24Didn't she miss the flight?
4:25She did. She waited four hours Thursday night in line at Bush, missed her flight,
4:32and then had to get up early Friday morning, waited another four hours, and then
4:36got on her flight. She's spending the weekend with a friend and then coming back
4:41tonight. Look, these delays have been infuriating.
4:46But, you know, if you go back and look at the last podcast we did,
4:49the podcast we did late, late Thursday night, we did the podcast at 3 in
4:54the morning, Thursday night, Friday morning.
4:56I'm still recovering, by the way, but keep going.
4:59It was an interesting example.
5:01And by the way, the reason we had done it so late is actually Thursday
5:06night I was speaking at a Faith and Freedom gathering in Pittsburgh.
5:10And it was great that you had probably 500 Christian activists who were fighting to
5:15save our country. It was a terrific evening.
5:17But when I finished the event, I needed to get back to D .C.
5:21And given how unreliable the airports were, we decided...
5:25to drive from pittsburgh back to dc and and so we left uh at about
5:329 p .m from pittsburgh ordinarily that's about a three -hour drive yeah it was
5:37raining the weather was not good so it took us five hours to get from
5:41pittsburgh back to dc i show up at our dc apartment just after 2 a
5:45.m and you and i sit down and did the podcast see i thought you
5:49were just trying to haze me that night because you knew how tired i was
5:51from the day of driving to dallas i was like i guess he's just messing
5:54with you so you really were in the car for five hours all right yeah
5:56i drove further than you did for the same reason because the airports with all
6:02the chaos it was just unreliable and i didn't want to have to count on
6:06that to get back so we decided to drive but but i will say as
6:09we were recording the podcast late thursday night early friday morning that's when the senate
6:14passed the bill that funded all of tsa or and funded all of dhs but
6:21carved out ice and carved out six billion dollars from cbp and and in fact
6:27in the middle of the pod i looked and said oh wow okay it just
6:29passed the senate and the reason i did that is that you had john thune
6:33who went to the floor at like 2 30 in the morning and called for
6:36a voice vote there are only half dozen senators on the floor that was an
6:39agreement both sides had reached to let it pass well we said at the time
6:44we weren't sure how things were going to play out and and friday that that
6:47illustrated to be the case because the house came back and house republicans were pissed
6:53they were really really angry like not even a little bit a lot like i
6:58was talking to some of them and they were like they they were like you
7:01guys think this is going to fly with us it won't so so explain that
7:04and where it is now yeah look they were volcanically mad and part of it
7:08is house republicans have not been dealing with senate democrats for the last 44 days
7:14and so house republicans views were it is ridiculous it is objectively insane to defund
7:23ice and to cut the funding for cbp and they're absolutely right it is it
7:28is reckless it is dangerous it is a lunatic policy that for the entire history
7:34of the republic never would have happened except right now yeah and and what i
7:38will say is senate democrats they are so angry they hate trump so much my
7:43view and we've been talking about this in the pod for two weeks i'm not
7:46surprised with where we ended up and i think it's where we will end up
7:50being because in my view i believe the democrats will never again vote to fund
7:55ice forever for a year with you for five years for 10 years that they
8:00are just a no and they do not care if they shut down law enforcement
8:05they want open borders they don't want criminals deported they don't want murderers deported they're
8:10just a hard no and so what i was arguing to my colleagues look this
8:14is an unbelievably dangerous and indefensible position it also happens to be reality they're not
8:20going to move so what i said is all right let's fund everything they'll go
8:23along with but i'm not saying surrender and in fact i'm saying let's go on
8:27offense let's fund everything they're willing to fund and then let's immediately take up a
8:32reconciliation bill we can we don't need democrat votes to do that and what i
8:36have argued to my colleagues is let's fund ice for 10 years 10 years is
8:41the maximum budget window you can do and i've urged let's not just do it
8:46at current levels let's up the funding by 10 so elizabeth warren and chuck schumer
8:51are right now crowing to the left ha ha we got everyone to defund ice
8:55look how successful we are i want to say stick it where the suns don't
9:00shine yeah the effect of your ridiculousness is you increased funding for ice by 10
9:06and got it funded for 10 years that's actually going on offense that's the case
9:12that i made to my colleagues by the way the white house was fully part
9:15of those negotiations and agreed which is why the senate did what it did but
9:19the house has not been banging into the reality that the democrats are just not
9:24going to move they don't care and so yeah i mean they're obsessed with defunding
9:30ice that is a victory for them as you describe it this is that there
9:33is no negotiating and you're you're right they want to destroy anybody that has a
9:38badge and the power and the authority they have for law and order this is
9:41the same party by the way that was defund the police and let everybody out
9:44of jail with prison reform and then they said well you want cashless bail for
9:48people based on how much money they have even if they've committed murder or they're
9:51rapists they wanted to completely undermine every part of law and order in this country
9:57and ice just falls right into that that's right and and the house republicans had
10:02a visceral emotional and completely understandable reaction of this is indefensible so they passed a
10:08bill that just funds everything yeah that bill unfortunately will go nowhere we voted on
10:14that bill i think eight separate times and the democrats voted it down every time
10:17so the effect of the house saying no tsa will be funded because the president
10:23signed an executive order to fund them but the effect of the house saying no
10:26is the coast guard is still not getting its paychecks fema's still not getting okay
10:30so so so give it a list so coast guard and fema coast guard there's
10:34a natural disaster saying terrible happens right now they they've got nothing coming right uh
10:41secret service the people that we asked if someone tries to kill the president put
10:45your body in front of the bullet and die for the president secret service is
10:49not getting their paycheck right now dhs the office Cyber terrorism, the offices that deal
10:56with bioterrorism, the people charged with preventing a terrorist attack are not getting paid.
11:02And it's why, in the face of just the Democrat insanity, and by the way,
11:08we've had four major terror attacks in the last three weeks, all from radical Islamic
11:12terrorists. So the idea that we're defunding the department that prevents terrorist attacks and fights
11:18against them, it is a level of recklessness that I've never seen.
11:23And so I get the House's reaction, but the consequences of saying we're not going
11:29to vote for the deal that the White House negotiated with Schumer, and understand, it
11:33was the White House that cut this deal.
11:35It was the White House that was the point, the negotiating point back and forth
11:39with Schumer. House Republicans were mad about it, but the consequence of that is Coast
11:44Guardsmen and Secret Service and FEMA are not getting their paycheck, and unless something significant
11:49changes, they're not going to get their paycheck for another two weeks.
11:53So we're not going to see lines at airports, but we're going to have Coast
11:57Guardsmen who are risking their lives to rescue people to stop drug smugglers and human
12:01smugglers, who don't know how they're going to pay their rent, don't know how they're
12:05going to pay their mortgage, who are going to food pantries to feed their kids,
12:09and not a Democrat cares.
12:11And so it's, the good news on ICE and CBP is we pre -funded both
12:18of those back last year when we did the big reconciliation bill.
12:22And by the way, thank goodness you guys did that.
12:24Was that preemptive because you had a feeling this could happen, or was that, you
12:27know, kind of dumb work?
12:28Yes. No, it was preemptive.
12:30We knew they were getting more and more extreme.
12:31I don't think we fully realized how bad it was.
12:34We had not yet focused on their just absolute refusal to fund ICE, and they
12:41don't care about the consequences.
12:43But we funded four years of ICE and CBP because we could see that that
12:46was going to be a problem, which means if the House had passed the bill
12:52that the White House had negotiated with Senate Democrats, the president would have signed it.
12:56He said he would signed it.
12:58And all of DHS except ICE and parts of CBP would be funded.
13:02And those parts of ICE and CBP were already funded.
13:05It's why the White House was willing to do it, because they're like, oh, we've
13:08got all the money we need for right now.
13:11So even though the Democrats' talking point is we defunded ICE, they wouldn't have taken
13:17a penny away from ICE.
13:18And we've already started the reconciliation process.
13:21We are going to fund ICE and CBP for the next 10 years.
13:25But right now, unfortunately, we just crossed.
13:28So 44 days is the longest government shutdown in American history.
13:32The old record was the Schumer shutdown right before Election Day last year.
13:36That was 43 days. So we've now crossed the line.
13:39And unless something dramatically changes, this will continue at least another two weeks.
13:45Yeah, another two weeks. And that's the part that I think so many Americans are
13:49frustrated about. But like you said, the lines, though, will go down during that next
13:52two -week period. Yes, but it may take some time.
13:56Remember, we've had about 500 TSA agents.
13:57That's what I was going to ask you.
13:59Yeah. So what are you being told?
14:01And have you talked to, you know, who's in charge, Transportation Secretary and others at
14:05Homeland Security? You've got Mark Waid there now.
14:08I mean, the idea that this is going to just get instantly fixed overnight, that's
14:11not reality. You mentioned it.
14:13500 -plus agents have quit.
14:15Yeah, they've quit. There are manpower shortages.
14:18Now, I will say I've been in multiple airports.
14:20There are ICE agents. One of the things President Trump did is put ICE agents
14:23in the airports. They're helping speed things along.
14:25You know, what I saw in the Houston airport, the Dallas airport, the D .C.
14:29airport, was as people were walking along, they were stopping and saying thank you to
14:34the ICE agents. It's causing some real problems for the Democratic agenda.
14:40By the way, I'm glad the president did it because it also humanizes ICE agents
14:44and shows that they're Americans just like you and I are who love their country
14:48and want to protect and defend their country and they're willing to serve.
14:52Can I make a point also that is an aside, but it's worth pausing and
14:56reflecting? Yeah. Do you remember 13 years ago when I was a brand new baby
15:03senator and one of the very first things I did was a 21 -hour filibuster
15:08against Obamacare the end of September 2013 and it led to an extended government shutdown.
15:14I was Harry Reid who forced the shutdown, but if you remember, the press demonized
15:20me for that shutdown. I mean, just relentlessly pounded the hell out of me.
15:24Yes. What I was trying to do regarding Obamacare in 2013 is what Chuck Schumer
15:32just did concerning ICE and CBP.
15:36It's a great point. The difference, there is a difference.
15:40When I led the fight against Obamacare, you know who led the fight against me?
15:44Who was that? Mitch McConnell and Republican leadership.
15:48Oh, yeah, you were an outsider then for sure.
15:50That's right. I remember they didn't like you very much.
15:53You are understating it by a billion suns.
15:57Okay. They hated your guts and they wished the Democrat would beat you basically at
16:01that point. I'm being honest.
16:02I'm not crazy. Undoubtedly right.
16:05And in fact, in 2013, we had more leverage.
16:09We had more official control than the Democrats do now.
16:12So in 2013, we had control of the House of Representatives and the Democrats had
16:18control of the Senate and the White House.
16:20Right now, the Democrats... None.
16:21They don't have the Senate.
16:22They don't have the House.
16:22They don't have the White House.
16:23So Republicans were in a stronger position in 2013 than Democrats are today, just in
16:30terms of the bodies they control.
16:32And what I argued, and in fact, if you look at 2013, I made the
16:35case to House Republicans fund all of the government, but do not fund Obamacare.
16:41And House Republicans agreed with me.
16:43They did exactly that. So I encouraged House conservatives to stand up.
16:47But millions of Americans picked up the phone and called their members of Congress.
16:51And House Republicans in 2013 stood strong, funded all of government, but not Obamacare.
16:56And when it went to the Senate, the case I made to my colleagues, I
16:59said, here's a crazy idea.
17:01How about Senate Republicans support House Republicans?
17:05And Mitch McConnell and Senate leadership not only did not do so, it was Republican
17:12leadership that went on TV pounding me and repeating Harry Reid's talking points.
17:18And I just want to say, look, the difference between today and then is Chuck
17:23Schumer and the Democrats stood together.
17:25You didn't have Chuck Schumer taking a flamethrower to Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
17:31You had him just standing united.
17:34And it showed what I argued in 2013 could have happened.
17:37And by the way, their argument was, how will Barack Obama possibly make any concessions
17:43on his signature legislative achievement, Obamacare?
17:47What was the singular issue Donald Trump was reelected on in 2024?
17:52It was securing the border.
17:53That's exactly what the Democrats were fighting on.
17:56And yet the White House was willing to make this deal.
17:59Now, to be clear, neither Trump nor I are giving up on supporting CBP and
18:04ICE and securing the border.
18:05But my point is, if you stand united, you can have leverage.
18:10And and that's the Democrats have shown exactly what my strategy was 13 years ago.
18:16It really is incredible. It's and like you said, it's a fight.
18:20There's still a lot of Americans that are frustrated.
18:22It's very frustrating, by the way, as a conservative to see how often Republicans get
18:27power. And then I feel like we kind of screw it up because we don't
18:29support each other the way that you just described it is spot on for that.
18:32It was a big part of the conversation this week at CPAC when I was
18:35there. It's like, why is there this divide right now when we when we're in
18:39power? But yet again, here we are having that same conversation.
18:43Let me ask this question.
18:45Why would the Democrats be doing this?
18:47What might they be trying to accomplish?
18:49And how can we figure that out?
18:50Yeah. All you got to do is just look at their playbook, which I think
18:55is literally to destroy this country from within.
18:57And it's a conversation I'm so glad we get to have here.
19:00So I was this weekend I was prepping.
19:03I was doing Kaylee McEnany's show.
19:05And then I was doing a good friend, Life, Liberty and Levin, Mark Levin's TV
19:08show. And so you prep hard for that because Mark's a dear friend of ours.
19:12And I was thinking about what the Democratic Party was doing, the No Kings rally
19:16that was happening. And I decided I was like, I'm going to ask AI, how
19:21do you destroy a country without a civil war, without war, without bombs, without shooting?
19:25What would you do? And what it sent back to me, literally sounds like the,
19:32if you had a mission statement of the Democratic Party of the United States of
19:36America, I sent it to you.
19:37Let's go through this a little bit, because it is a warning to every American.
19:41If you, when I say that I truly believe the Democratic Party hates this country
19:44and they want to destroy it and they have disdain for it.
19:47When you look at what AI says you do to destroy it, I didn't say
19:50America. I want to be clear about this.
19:52I said to destroy a country.
19:54Well, and then I'll say, look, I don't like to impugn the motives of others,
20:00but throughout the Biden administration, I have asked the question, this is before AI was
20:05commonplace. I asked the question, if you were trying to destroy America deliberately, if that
20:12were your stated objective, what would you do differently than what the Biden White House
20:17has done? That's another way of putting it.
20:19Well, we now have AI on our phones.
20:21And so you typed in, you asked, how would you destroy a country without going
20:25to war? And chat GPT came up with eight steps.
20:30Let's just go through what AI says.
20:31This is how you destroy a country.
20:33And chat GPT began with, history shows you don't need bombs or an invasion to
20:38weaken a country. Bad policy decisions, especially over time, can do real damage from within.
20:43Number one, economic mismanagement. Runaway spending, unsustainable debt, high inflation, or over -regulation can choke
20:54growth, weaken currency stability, and erode trust in institutions.
20:59We got three of the four, my friend.
21:01Three of the, I mean, three of the four literally are very, very clear there.
21:05Which one are we missing?
21:06Well, I mean, inflation isn't, is not the top of the list for me on
21:10that one, but I'm, but it was under Biden.
21:12I mean, we, we had incredibly high, like, look, it's the Democrat policies that led
21:17to every one of them.
21:18That is their economic policy.
21:20Yes. No, no, no. You were absolutely correct there.
21:22And I was really in my head, like, to where are we now?
21:24And I'm like, well, thank goodness we, we've lowered inflation a lot with, with, with
21:28Donald Trump being in office, but you're right.
21:29Their policy was runaway inflation under the Biden regime.
21:33And then what they call it with Biden inflation.
21:34They're like, that's not real.
21:35Uh, we, we've got a great economy, right?
21:37Yeah. So much for that.
21:38All right. Number two, breakdown of law and order.
21:42If laws aren't enforced consistently, whether on crime, borders or corruption, public confidence collapses and
21:53disorder can grow. Now, how is that anything but word for word what the Democrat
21:58open border policy, anti -law enforcement policy has been for the past decade?
22:03Yeah. And I mean, again, I go back to like people listening right now.
22:07This is what AI says.
22:08If you want to destroy a country from within, how you do it and everything
22:12in that category, the Democrats are doing at full speed, not like dabbling in it.
22:16It's full speed for them.
22:18Okay. Number three, weak or inconsistent leadership, frequent policy reversals, lack of clear direction, or
22:28prioritizing politics over governance can create instability and uncertainty.
22:35Look, we spent four years with a man with dementia as commander in chief with
22:39his finger on the nuclear button.
22:41And AI is telling us if you want to destroy a country, that's a great
22:45way to start. Yep. No doubt.
22:48All right. Number four, number four, erosion of institutions undermining courts, law enforcement, elections, or
22:59the military, either through politicization or loss of credibility can weaken the backbone of a
23:09country. By the way, let's go through this.
23:11Democrats put out a video, not that long ago, telling people in the military to
23:16go rogue against the president of the United States of America.
23:18We had a sitting member of one of your colleagues.
23:20Defy your commander's orders. Yes.
23:22Defy and put out a full video on it and defying it.
23:26They're accomplishing every single check there in that list of things that they said to
23:31do there. All right. Number five, cultural and social division.
23:37Policies or rhetoric that deepen divisions, racial, economic, political, can fracture national unity and make
23:46it hard to function cohesively.
23:49I mean, if that's not the Democratic Party, I don't know what is right now,
23:52right? Things like describing ICE as Nazis and Gestapo's, things like demanding that you dox
24:01law enforcement officers and go harass their families.
24:05By the way, last night, Heidi and I took Heidi out to date night in
24:07Houston, and a fellow came over to me who was a former Democrat elected judge
24:13in Houston. He's an older guy, and he came to me very earnestly, and he
24:17said, I think it is terrible.
24:18I think it is horrible, and I want to ask you to reconsider.
24:21He said, I think it is terrible, terrible that ICE wears masks, and we need
24:24to stop it right now, and I said, sir, I understand what you're saying, but
24:29I said, do you know why they're wearing masks?
24:31He's just like, no, and I said, they're wearing masks because the extreme left is
24:39doxing them and is urging radicals to go to their homes and threaten their wives
24:44and threaten their children. They're wearing masks, and I said, and by the way, this
24:48is not just some fringe.
24:50Hakeem Jeffries, the top Democrat in the House, said about ICE officers, we will unmask
24:56you, we will go to your home, we will find you, and he's like, well,
25:00I don't support that. I said, well, but with respect, it's your party that is
25:04doing it, and it is the elected leaders of your party that are calling for
25:08it, and the reason these officers are wearing masks, I don't like that they wear
25:12masks. I wish they didn't have to.
25:14If we didn't live in a world where they were facing a threat of violence
25:18against their children, that they wouldn't feel the need to wear masks to protect their
25:23families, and I got to say, this guy who I think was a very sincere,
25:27very liberal Democrat, engaged with not a word I was saying, he's like, well, they
25:31just need to stop now, and when I asked, like, how would you feel?
25:35What about your family? He had no response.
25:38Number six, education decline. If education systems fail to produce informed, skilled citizens, long -term
25:48competitiveness and civic understanding suffer.
25:51Yes, that is public education in America today.
25:55We have spent countless dollars on it.
25:57We are failing the majority of our kids in this country in public education.
26:00They're behind in reading, writing, and arithmetic.
26:01We're behind the rest of the world.
26:03We rank very low in the world, especially of civilized countries.
26:07We're one of the lowest in math.
26:09We're the lowest in reading.
26:11We're one of the lowest in science, for example, and this is the Democratic Party
26:15dumbing down this country, and again, AI says this is exactly how you have a
26:21country that you can completely destroy.
26:23And understand that the Democrats have had a near total monopoly on public education in
26:28the big inner cities for decades.
26:31They've had almost total control, and the result have been screamingly horribly bad.
26:36Now, the good news is we're pushing back.
26:38Texas passed the largest state school choice program in the country.
26:42As you know, I spent a lot of time and energy fighting for Texas to
26:45do that. And last year, with the reconciliation bill, we passed the biggest federal school
26:50choice bill in history. I wrote that provision.
26:53It's going to unleash tens of billions of dollars of scholarships to kids in need.
26:58But, you know, look, according to AI, if you want to destroy a country, do
27:03what has been done to our schools.
27:05Number seven, energy and infrastructure neglect.
27:11Weakening domestic energy production or failing to maintain infrastructure.
27:16energy space to stabilize, we do it if you've got your own business to protect
27:16personas, and can hurt national security and economic resilience.
27:21Now, I think that may actually be written into the DNC platform.
27:25Their objective is to weaken domestic energy production and fail to maintain infrastructure.
27:30Like, it is the entirety of what the Biden administration did 365 days for four
27:36years consecutively. Yes? Yes. Yes.
27:41All right, number eight. Dependence on adversaries.
27:46Relying heavily on rival nations for critical supply chains, energy, technology, manufacturing, can create strategic
27:56vulnerabilities. China, China, China, with a side of China.
28:00Yeah, and to be fair, this one I will not blame entirely on the Democrats.
28:04There are a lot of Republicans who bear some blame for making us so totally
28:08dependent on China. I've spent 14 years in the Senate fighting to delink our economy
28:13from China to move semiconductor manufacturing back to this country, to move pharmaceuticals back to
28:18this country, to move critical minerals back to this country.
28:21Both parties bear some fault in letting us become so dependent on China.
28:27But what's amazing about this, Ben, chat GPT is generally considered a lean, pretty left.
28:34You did not ask some right -wing source, criticize the Democrat agenda.
28:39And let me ask you a serious question.
28:40If you were a Democrat senator, let's say you're Chuck Schumer.
28:44I'm going to ask you to go through the mental anguish.
28:49Put yourself into his loafers.
28:51Yes. How would you respond to this?
28:54How would you, if you were willing to, and you don't just get to attack
28:58and yell, like, what substantive answer would you give to those eight things that are
29:04the essence of the Democrat agenda right now?
29:07Yeah, I don't know how, if he was answering it honestly, he'd be like, we
29:10stand for all these things.
29:11It just so happens it's exactly how chat GPT -AI tells us to destroy a
29:16nation. And I don't know how you would defend it, right?
29:19You could yell and you could pander and you could say it's Republicans.
29:23But that was the reason why, and I want to give a shout out because
29:25she's a good friend of ours.
29:26Kaylee let me go long, I think, in that segment to put this out there
29:30on Fox. She has a great weekend show and I want to say thank you
29:32to her because she's a great person, great, you and I know her well, but
29:36she was - Look at you trying to get invited back to guest host.
29:39I mean, look at you, like, kiss it up.
29:43Whoever knew - You usually don't let you read this on TV, right?
29:45They don't let you read this on TV.
29:46Whoever knew that Benjamin could be this charming.
29:50But I admit it because I was like, I'm going to take this risk and
29:54read on my phone. They don't like that on TV and they let it go
29:58and then it went viral and I'm glad it did because this is the warning
30:01from AI that this is the Democratic Party and what they're doing, which brings us,
30:06by the way, to the demise of this country in real time and their No
30:10Kings rally. This is something that this show, and Senator, you warned about the first
30:16time there was a No Kings rally.
30:17A quote from a Fox News article, I'm going to go back in time, says,
30:20quote, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican from Texas, was the first to sound the alarm on
30:24ties between Soros and the quote -unquote No Kings protest during an interview with Fox
30:30News' Sean Hannity. And you and I were talking about that on this show.
30:34Follow the money. Look who is behind this.
30:37The kingpins is how I describe them of the Democratic Party.
30:41The communists, the socialists, the Marxists, the billionaires, and multimillionaires, they are the kingpins of
30:48the party. They're funding all this.
30:50None of this is organic.
30:52All of this is manufactured BS, and the media wants you to believe this is
30:57organic and all this just randomly happens because people are angry.
31:01No, this is all orchestrated and paid for by Democratic kingpins in their party.
31:06Well, Ben, and I will say, this is the reason I think that people listen
31:10to Verdict or watch Verdict on YouTube, because we cover topics, and we give you
31:16information long before you can get it somewhere else, often years before.
31:21So go back to COVID.
31:23Within a couple of months of the COVID pandemic starting, on this podcast, we had
31:27two podcasts, one in March of 2021, one in April of 2020, laying out the
31:32facts that supported the conclusion that the COVID virus escaped from a Chinese government -owned
31:38lab, likely the Wuhan Institute for Virology.
31:40And I think the odds are overwhelming that COVID escaped from a Chinese government lab.
31:44And I think the odds are significant, greater than 50%, that the virus was in
31:49fact created in that lab through gain -of -function research, taking existing viruses and making
31:54them more lethal, making them more transmissible, making them more targeted to humans.
31:59It's less compelling than the lab leak basis, but I think it is greater than
32:0350%. We put that out years before that was publicly acknowledged by federal agencies.
32:10And at the time, social media, Facebook and Twitter were censoring those views.
32:15This podcast verdict was putting them out.
32:17Likewise, a year ago, this podcast put out with receipts that these No King rallies,
32:23they're not organic, they're not just rising up out of nowhere.
32:27They are funded, they are funded by George Soros, they're funded by left -wing billionaires,
32:32and they are communist, Marxist organizations.
32:36Now, this latest rally, it was striking.
32:38Number one, Bernie Sanders, I did enjoy it.
32:40Bernie Sanders hopped into his first -class seat to fly to his...
32:44King's rally to denounce the oligarchs as he's sitting up in first class.
32:49But if you look at – That's slumming it for him, by the way.
32:52It's usually a private jet.
32:53It's normally a private jet, so you're right.
32:55He was slumming it. Yeah, first class was really like with the proletariat.
33:01Yeah. But if you look at this latest rally, you had flags everywhere of hammer
33:08and sickle, the Soviet Union flags.
33:09You had people chanting about we need a communist revolution.
33:14Look, here's the latest story from Fox News.
33:16Quote, a network of about 500 groups with an estimated $3 billion in combined annual
33:22revenues is behind the coordinated nationwide No King's protest Saturday, including communist groups who are
33:29using the day to call for a, quote, revolution, according to a Fox Digital News
33:33investigation. According to a copy of the permit for the, quote, flagship march in St.
33:39Paul, Minnesota, Indivisible, a national well -heeled democratic political advocacy organization funded by billionaire George
33:46Soros, is the lead coordinator for the protest.
33:49But Fox News Digital has also identified key participation by a network of radical, socialist,
33:55and communist organizations funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American tech tycoon and avowed communist
34:02living in China. Over nearly a decade, Singham has financed a constellation of activist institutions
34:07that promote revolutionary socialist policies and frequently collaborate in protest campaigns, including the People's Forum
34:15in New York, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Answer Coalition, and Code Pink,
34:21whose founder, Jody Evans, is married to Singham.
34:23These groups work closely with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.
34:28They're all sending members to the protest, and one group said they plan to bring
34:33a message of revolution to the protest.
34:37This is who they are, and they're less and less bothering to hide it.
34:41Yeah, they really are. And look, if you listen to some of the speakers, one
34:45of those at the No Kings rally was the emcee in Minnesota.
34:49It was Liz Winstead. She said, finally, the quiet part, I guess you could describe
34:54out loud. I want to play this for everyone so they can hear, this is
34:58what you missed if you didn't go to one of the rallies.
35:00Take a listen. I want people to know that if you want to act like
35:04Minnesota, or you think, Minnesota's a model, what can I do?
35:08Well, you can check your ego about what you want to do, and listen to
35:13the leadership, and when they tell you what they need done, you do that.
35:20And you pay enough attention to the amazing organizers who've been on the ground, who
35:25actually have the information, who've already done the work, instead of starting your own.
35:30Oftentimes, you're like, who's doing it?
35:32It's like someone. You just need to learn who, and then you need to be
35:36the pack mule in the fight that they have been doing and organizing, because let
35:40me tell you what, what we need as pack mules, because there's brilliant minds and
35:44brilliant leaders in this community who oftentimes are putting up the folding chairs when they
35:49should be literally strategizing, because that's their strong suit.
35:52So be the people, be the folding chairs people, be the I'll bring donuts people
35:57for the brilliant minds who are actually making this train run.
36:05And on that note, I'm going to bring up some really brilliant minds.
36:09Like, I've never heard such a condescending way for an emcee to talk to the
36:14minions beneath you. We are the socialist communist dictators.
36:18You are the people that put the chairs up and bring the donuts.
36:21We don't need to be doing these basic jobs because we're so much smarter than
36:25you are. We need to be strategizing, so you need to shut up, sit down,
36:29and do what we tell you to do.
36:31I was glad that you said it, and the best part was there were people
36:35that cheered it. But this is who communists are.
36:38Fidel Castro was a billionaire.
36:41Vladimir Putin is a billionaire.
36:44Raul Castro is a billionaire.
36:47Communist dictators live the lives as kings.
36:51The irony of these idiot leftists waving signs that say no kings and then also
36:56waving signs that say we need a communist revolution.
37:00Every communist dictator lives better than any king has ever lived, and the people suffer
37:04in every instance, and I'll tell you that video, I really hope that video, that
37:11Pam Bondi is listening carefully, that Kash Patel is listening carefully, that Scott Besson at
37:15the Treasury Department is listening carefully.
37:18Follow the money. I have been advocating this since the day the second Trump administration
37:23started. These violent protests, whether it was the George Floyd, the Antifa and Black Lives
37:30Matter riots, whether it was the open border riots, whether it was the anti -Semitic
37:34riots on college campuses, whether it was the harassment of law enforcement in Minneapolis causing
37:39violent altercations, or whether it is these fake no kings rallies, they're all the same
37:45thing. Yep. It is all the same people paying for it, and right now the
37:51only people who've been arrested anywhere have been, as she said, the pack mules, the
37:56people just engaging in the little violence, and not the people writing millions of dollars
38:01of checks, the brilliant strategists who, you know what, they may well have typed into
38:06AI, how do you destroy a nation, and they are executing it precisely.
38:11Perfect. Perfectly. You're absolutely right.
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