Welcome. It is vernict with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you, and we have got a lot to talk about on today's show, including some very exciting news for people of the Catholic Faith Center around the world, but really also in America with history being made. The Pope is from the United States of America.
Well, it's an extraordinary week. A great deal is happening. We have white smoke at the Vatican, we have a new pope. The Pope is American. We're going to talk about that. We're going to break that down. We're also going to talk about Bernie Sanders and the Left being exposed as utter and complete hypocrites flying on private jets and explaining it's really the only choice for people like them. We're also going to break down Joe Biden. Joe Biden went on TV. We discovered he's come out of hiding.
He went on TV and what little sense he makes. He's blaming the loss in twenty twenty four on racism, on sexism, on every thing except his disastrous record and his policies that simply don't work. And finally, we're going to tell you about an unbelievable story about planned parenthood being caught in a sting, in an undercover operation prescribing sex change hormones to minors. It is horrific. They are caught red handed, and we're going to give you all the facts.
Yeah, it's really incredible. And let's start with what we mentioned a moment ago with the pope. It's a historic development. Cardinal Robert Francis Privos of Chicago has been elected as the two hundred and sixty seventh Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. This marks the first time an American has ascended to the papacy. And I've got a lot of
friends that are Catholic. They were beyond thrilled about this announcement that was made following the appearance of that white smoke you mentioned from the assisting chapels signaling the successful conclusion of the conclave. This is a big moment for the US.
Well, it is, and it's a big moment for the world. You have over a billion faithful Catholics across across the globe and and uh, a new pope is a moment of history, a moment of of of great import certainly in the Catholic faith, but but but also great import across the world, and and and for the pope to be an American, that's that's a big deal for our country, that that that's never happened. You know. I was reading Nostra Damas apparently predicted that that that that that we
would see that the next pope would be Italian. It turns out that that prediction was not accurate. But I guess you can't fault in Nostra Damas uh for for not foreseeing America.
Uh.
But uh, instead we have a pope. You know, we will know many more details on the pope as as time goes goes forward. But but we know several things just from the early reporting. Uh, we know that that this is according to the New York Times quote. As bishop in in chick Layo, a city in northwestern Peru, he opposed a government planned had teachings on gender and schools. The promotion of gender ideology is confusing because it seeks to create genders that don't exist, he told local news media.
New York Times also reported that quote in twenty In a twenty twelve addressed to bishops, he lamented that Western news media and popular culture fostered sympathy for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the Gospel. And and he told the Vatican's official news website last year that quote, the bishop is not supposed to be a little prince
sitting in his kingdom. Rather, he said, a church leader is called to be authentic, authentically, to be humble, to be close to the people he serves, to walk with them, to suffer with them. And and and uh, I certainly hope and pray that that that that God's blessings will be on him, and and and and the and that he will that that he will convey God's love to the Catholic Church and and to the world.
Yeah, it really is cool. The president night Night said America Donald Trump also coming out with a statement. Here is what he had to say as well, Well, they.
Have already spoken to us, and we'll see what happens.
But again, to have the vote from the United States.
Of America, that's a great honor. That's a great honor.
Watching it.
And they said he's from.
America, and I said, that's great.
I love the candidate is like I'm watching it. And and this is the part about selecting the pope that is really I think one of those moments. I was in the airport when it was happening, and everybody was watching it like it was almost like a world series or or or a a a moment in history where you you remember kind of where you were and every TV people around it. And then the smoke came up, the white smoke, and people were clapping an excitement over this.
And it's kind of cool center that you've got got a president that finds out the same way everyone else does, no insider information your watch and you wait, uh and and it's old school in that way with a lot of history.
Yeah, no, that's that's right. And I'll say you you and I have to be a little bit careful because we're two Southern Baptists discussing the selection of the pope within the Catholic Church. And and for faithful, faithful Catholics, uh that they believe that that God has ordained the pope and and and I do believe God raises up leaders across the world and in all sorts of all sorts of context, and and so it is a moment
of great spiritual import to to to faithful Catholics. But it's also a moment of great consequence to the country. You know, you look back at Pope John Paul, and and and and you and I we remember the Reagan presidency and and the leadership that President Reagan had, and that Margaret Thatcher had, and that Pope John Paul had. The three of them quite literally changed the world and defeated the Soviet Union, and and and and so the pope is someone who has listened to everywhere. And and
I hope that this American Pope. I wish him all the best. I'm proud that he's an American. Uh. And and we will learn more about his who he is, what his passions are, what his beliefs are. All of that will will come in the days and weeks and months ahead. But but an American pope is really something quite extraordinary.
Yeah, it really is. And it's going to also be very interesting to see as as those words that you read earlier, how big of an impact this pope could have and being a leader and not just as he described it sitting there, uh, but actually leading on some of these issues. There is a lot I think of hope now for many that a new pope will mean that. Yeah, there are some strong stances that can be taken on different issues and can lead around the world. You talk
about Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and the pope. I mean it was it was somewhat described, I think in history and orthodox for the pope to get that involved in the way that he did. Yet that was the type of leader that people wanted at the time. And I think that's part of the reason why every time there's a new pope, there's a there's a moment of
excitement of Okay, what could we see now? And if you have someone like this pope from America that's on the record on some of these issues, there is some excitement around what could he lead on and how could that impact the world.
Well, and we've seen that that that as a cardinal, that that that he has been on social media, and he's been been critical of Donald Trump and critical of JD. Vance And and I hope as as pope he does not does does not use use the papacy to advocate, for example, for open borders and and and for the the kinds of disasters that we saw over the last four years. But but that's going to be a choice
that he's gonna make. It it's gonna have real consequences what he chooses to speak out on, what he chooses to focus on it. It's it's going to have a consequence for Catholics across the world, but it will have a consequence for discussion and world leaders across the world as well.
Senator, I want to move to Bernie Sanders. It was one of those oof moments this week, called out for his hypocrisy on his fighting Oligarchy tour. Now this is a tour that he and AOC famously jet said it, I'm not exaggerating around the country to speak to the big crowds as they're trying to lead the Democratic Party. Nothing says a communist or a socialist like taking a private jet, but telling others you can't do the same thing. He was asked about it. It didn't go very well.
No, it did not. And I got to say there are moments when when the left it becomes impossible to satirize them because they are a living Saturday Night Live sketch. Look like at this point they're simply parody. So Bernie Sanders is in the middle, as you said, of a fighting oligarchy tour. So he is standing up to the man to those terrible rich people, so rich bad. Oligarch's bad. That's his message. Remember he's a socialist, and to do his fighting oligarchy tour, he's got to be on a
private jet everywhere. And mind you, he and AOC, what are they most known for other than being socialists nutcases? Well, the Green New Deal saying that carbon emissions are going to destroy us all and so if you don't stop your carbon emission, you're destroying humanity. Well, I gotta say. Bernie went on on Fox and Brett Behar asked him about it, and here give a listen to his answer.
Alyssa Slockin senator from Michigan, she said, you should be using oligarch. It's over people's head. You've gotten criticized from other people. Free Beacon says Bernie Sanders spent two hundred and twenty one thousand on private jets fighting the aligarchy tour, paid for by friends of Bernie Sanders. That you've spent millions of dollars in campaign funds on private jet travel over the years. How do you push back on both of those things?
When the last time you saw Donald Trump during a campaign mode at National Airport, No.
No, No, it doesn't.
But he's also not fighting the alligarchy.
No.
And you run a campaign and you do three or four or five rallies in a week, the only way you can get around to talk to thirty thousand people. I think I'm going to be sitting on a waiting line at United waiting. You know what, thirty thousand people are waiting. That's the only way you can get around. No apologies for that. That's what campaign travel is about. We've done it in the past, We're going to do it in the future.
And you think that this is hitting a mark, You think it's it's scratching the itch that voters want to hear from.
I think at a time when the people on top of doing phenomenally well, when seniors, working class people are struggling, people want to hear action to stand up to the people who have the wealth and the power and create an economy that works for all of us, not just the people on top.
Look, I gotta say, no apologies the oligarchs. They do not apologize to the peasants they're lying to. By the way, he did flat out lie right there on Fox News. He says, you can't do three or four rallies in a week flying on commercial airlines and United, well, you know what, I fly United every single week. I'm doing it back and forth and back and forth, and I've done a heck of a lot more than three or
four rallies flying United or Southwest. And in fact, in just a few minutes, I'm headed to the airport and I'm gonna stand in line. I'm gonna fly Delta this time, and it is the entitlement. No apologies, I'm standing up to the oligarchs in my private jet, and no acknowledgment that Bernie Sanders has the carbon footprint of a small town. Mind you, the Green New Deal. They want to restrict
your life because of carbon emissions. He could have flown commercial and not emitted all that carbon, but it's not worth it. Who did the exact same thing, John Kerry, another wealthy hypocrite who flew on a private jet up to Iceland. And this is ironic to accept a climate award. Give a listen to John Kerry explaining why he flew a private jet to Iceland.
On that issue pollution. I understand that you came here with the private jet. Is that an environmental way to travel?
If you offset your carbon It's the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle. I negotiated the Paris Cords for the United States. I've been involved in this fight for years. I negotiated with the President Sheet to bring President Sheet to the table so we could get Paris. And I believe the time it takes me to get somewhere, I can't sail across the ocean. I have to fly to meet with
people and get things done. But what I'm doing almost full time is working to win the battle of climate change. In the end, if I offset and contribute my life to do this, I'm not going to be put on the defensive.
I love that I'm not going to be put on the defensive. And he acts like his only other option to see the world or travel the world for these meetings, as he describes, to get on a boat. He was on a private plane. Ninety nine point nine to nine percent of people that fly around the world fly on a commercial plane. He was asked about being on a private jet, and he acted like, well, there's no other option for a guy like me. It's either a boat
or or a private jet. No, there's commercial planes, you could get on like normal people every.
Day well and listen to the smug entitlement. It's the only choice for someone like me, That's what he said. It's the only choice for someone like me, Just like Bernie Sanders. I will not apologize. And the utter hypocrisy with the Green New Deal, with the Paris Climate of courds, what they are trying to do is restrict your life. They're trying to they're trying to ban airplane, they're trying to ban the internal combustion engine. They're trying to drive
up your electricity bills. They're trying to make your life harder. And their utter and complete hypocrites. The reason they're doing it is they say, if we keep admitting carbon, we're all gonna die. The oceans are gonna rise, and humanity is gonna be extinct. It's going to be extinct in twelve years. By the way, have you noticed been it's always twelve years, forty years ago. The world was going to end in twelve years. Thirty years ago, the world
was going to end in twelve years. Twenty years ago. The world was going to end in twelve years. John Carey said said the North Pole would be gone, the ice on the North Pole would be gone. There's actually more ice on the North Pole now. But it doesn't matter. They are lying when they say they believe this, because if they believed it, they wouldn't get on a private jet to do their fighting oligarchy tour. They wouldn't get in a private jet to go to Iceland to get
an award for apparently fighting for the climate. That hypocrisy is through and through. It is who they are and and it demonstrates that they don't leave the words they're saying.
Well, in al Gore, this guy's made a lot of money selling this lie that the world was going to end. He has made money. It is documented. It's well documented. And Carrie again, well, I buy my way out of my sins.
Yeah, he said. By the way, you've got a lot of left wing Democrats making money on the offset scam, which is a way they can excuse you know, both John Kerry and and Bernie Sanders remind me of an old commercial from when we were kids of the fellow who rolls down the window of the rolls Royce and says, pardon me, sir, might you have some great pupon That is John Carey and that is Bernie Sanders, Senator.
We got to talk about Joe Biden for a second. He has come out of hiding. He's actually doing more interviews now than when he was running for president.
Uh.
And and he's he's apparently writing a book and making money doing speeches. He's all in now.
Well, well, Joe Biden came out of the hole he was hiding in and he saw his shadows. So I don't know if that means that that spring is going to last another six weeks. I'm not sure what that means. But but but he decided to when he came out of hiding, uh, to go on Fox News, to go on BBC, to go on ABC's The View. So he
was just just making the rounds. On Fox News, he was asked if if he left the race too late to stop Trump, if if his delay cost the Democrats the race, and and unsurprisingly he said, I don't think it would have mattered. So so of course he he exonerated himself completely be he bears none of the fault for the loss. But but that wasn't nearly as ridiculous as as what he said on BBC. So on BBC, listen to why Joe Biden said that he stepped away from the race.
Give a listen, should you have withdrawn earlier given someone else a big a job?
I I don't. I don't think it would have.
Mattered.
We left it a time when we were we had a good candidate, she's fully funded. And what happened was I had become what we had set out to do no one thought we could do, and become so successful our agenda it was hard to say now, I'm gonna stop now.
I mean, I didn't think it could get any worse. But yet here we are, and this is still the de facto leader of the Democratic Party saying it was so successful it was hard to just stop. And and people had a hard time with that.
Yeah, that that clearly explains everything. That's clearly the reason he dropped out of the race because because he was so successful. Uh, it's clearly the reason h Trump won because Joe Biden was was so successful. It's clearly the reason we had a landslide election across the country. And understand, there was no ambiguity in this election. Of the seven swing states, Donald Trump won all seven. He won the popular vote, Republicans won the House, Republicans won the Senate.
It was an absolute repudiation of the train wreck that was Joe Biden, the Democrat's extreme agenda. And yet he's living in this world where well, it was just because I was so successful that you know, I mean, you know, of course he was so successful. And listen on the View. Then then when he's down playing President Trump's victory in twenty twenty four, give a listen to what Biden had to say on the View.
Mister President, you had previously said that you thought that you would have won. Since then, Donald Trump won all the battleground states and made in roads with almost every major demographic, from working class voters to Hispanic men to black men. Knowing what you know, now, do you think you would have beat him?
Yeah, he's still got seven million fewer votes. Yes, okay, a lot of people didn't show up number one, number one, number two, they're very close, and those those toss up states, it was it wasn't a slam dunk. And so look, you know, every time I've been on the show, which you've been forced, I've been fortunately beyond more than once. Thanks for having me. Is that we talk. You guys, don't focus on as much. And I think it's good on polling numbers, but uh, thankful this way, he's had
the worst hundred days any presents ever had. Yeah, that's and I would not say, honest, he's been a strong point.
Yeah, yeah, well mister, I mean, I don't even know what that answer was. The one thing that was funny in their center is the fact that he's like, I love that you guys don't look at poll numbers, because the poll numbers would say it's the complete opposite of what I'm saying right now. Yeah, he goes back to polls and says, oh, well, I had more votes than he did, and it wasn't a slam dunk when you
win all of the swing states. That is literally the definition of a political slam dunk that every candidate dreams about when they're running for president.
Yeah, and look, you know his comment about the view, Oh, I love going on the view. I go on it all the time, you know, as you know, I've been on the view three different times. They won't have me back the last three books I wrote for each each of the last well for rather two of the last three books, I went on the view, and for my last one they said no, thanks, we don't want you back. We don't want you back because it went so badly for them, because they are screaming left wing harpies who
are fundamentally dishonest, and so it's a great place. So when when Biden says it's the worst first hundred days in history, and everyone there applauds, oh, yes, oh yes, beautiful, Joe, it's the worst one. You know what they didn't discuss. They didn't discuss the illegal order crossings are down ninety nine point nine percent because that would actually be a fact,
and Joe Biden doesn't discuss facts. Although I will say this, Joe Biden did make a concession on the view, and he made a concession that his debate performance was a train wreck. That is indisputable. But give a listen to what he had to say about it.
You know what freaked everybody out was that debate.
It wasn't a great night. It was a bad night, and everybody lost their mind because of course, no one has.
Ever had a bad night when they were Nobody tries to have a bad night.
Sometimes it happens.
So this is what started both sides with this, Oh he can't do this, This needs to stop.
Why do you think that caught fire? Why do you think people bought into it, especially the Democrats.
Well, first of all, we still were when in primary. We're still doing everything. The Democratic Party at large didn't buy into it, but the Democratic leadership and some of the very u significant contributors did, even though we raised enormously, Like when I left the race, Kama had one hundreds of millions of dollars. She had the best organized through or campaign, every organization, every state was organized, et cetera.
But you know what what happens is that it h it took on a life, and I had a very I'm going to say something out raised. I've a lot lost many debates in my life. I've been pretty good at doing that. I was sick. I was no excuse, but I was. And I had a bad, bad night, and and I had.
Anyway, you immediately know you had a bad night.
Yeah I did. But even after that, the post this showed me down by two points and.
Had you know, Joe came on. I went on to the stage after the debate. I mean, we all saw it. It was terrible, and so Joe looked at me and he said, I, well, I'll.
Use screwed up.
He said, I you didn't say that, and I said.
You all know Joe Biden, we know where he started.
And I said, yeah, you did, Joe, but we have hundreds of people waiting for us. Put your shoulders back, walk out there. You know, be who you are, and we were not going to let ninety minutes of a debate define his presidency and all those years of service.
It's very interesting how they brought out the former first lady to answer the question that actually went to him, and she jumped in.
You know, if your wife has to jump in and say you're not incompetent, You're you're not mentally diminished, that tells you something. If your wife has to step in and take that question for you. But the words he said accurately, he said, I had a bad, bad night, and you and I did this podcast verdict. We did it that night. We did it right after the debate. We put out a special podcast, and you and I predicted that night that that that was the most consequential
presidential debate in the history of the country. And the reason we predicted that is we said Joe Biden is going to drop out of this race. He will not be the nominee because of this debate. So he's suggesting, gosh, I had a bad debate, but everyone was fine. The Democrat Party was fine. Really. I seem to recall George Clooney writing saying he went to a fundraiser and was so incoherent that you couldn't understand what he was saying.
But you know, Biden. Biden does response respond later on in the view when when when there are reports questioning his cognitive abilities and and and listen to what he says on that.
Yeah, mister president, since you left office, there have been a number of books that have come out deeply sourced from democratic sources that claim in your final year there was a dramatic decline in your cognitive abilities in the in the final year of your presidency.
What is your.
Response to these allegations or are these sources wrong?
They are wrong. There's nothing to sustain that number one. Number two, you know, think of what we were left with. We left for the circumstance where we had an insurrection and I started not census civil war. We had a circumstance where we were in a position that we well the pandemic because of the incompetence of the last outfit, end up over a million people dying, million people dying. And we're also in a situation where we found ourselves unable to deal with a lot of just basic issues
and I won't go into them in interested time. And so we went to work and we got it done.
Well. What he got done was the most disaster disastrous presidency in history, and his mental decline wasn't just the last year, it was the entire presidency. They kept him hidden. I'll tell you Republican Senators, the White House didn't let us talk to him all four years, and that it's a big part of the reason his mental decline and his disastrous record that he lost and Donald Trump is once again the president, Senator.
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one deals with shocking expose on Planned Parenthood. They have now been exposed for prescribing hormones to minors in an undercover investigation.
Well that's right. Planned Parenthood was caught in a sting and undercover phone calls were made by the pro life activist group Live Action, and it showed that the Planned Parenthood clinics across multiple states offer cross sex hormone treetents to miners as young as seventeen with very little parental supervision and very little medical supervision. Live Action did an undercover investigation in which a woman posed as a sixteen year old miner and she called dozens of Planned Parenthood
locations seeking what she called gender affirming care. At least seven different facilities said sure, they would provide cross sex hormones at the first appointment, So not after a long consultation, just immediately, first appointment, Come on in, we'll give you those hormones. Several instances, Planned Parenthood told the caller she could choose to meet with the provider virtually and have access to the cross sex hormones the very same day.
And this is after being told the person is is a minor and that they had just begun considering trying to medically change their sex in Minneso and an Oregon. Facilities there said they could schedule the minor within days or even on the very same day. This is what planned Parenthood is doing. Five different facilities stated that no prior therapy, zero, no mental health clearance, and no prior documentation was needed to obtain cross sex hormones. And understand
these hormones can do irreparable damage to children. They can sterilize children, they can permanently harm a child, and Planned Parenthood is a multi billion dollar business that is more than happy to sterilize your child without you even knowing about it.
By the way, we've got this audio and I want to play this coming from live action where you describe them trying to schedule this, and I want people to listen to it. And again, this is when we ask for you to help get this out. No one's covering this in the media. This is why we ask you to grab the podcast and share it so that others can hear this. Right now.
It's a calling plan parent.
Thank you for your planned parents you had greater or thank you.
For calling plan Parenthead Minnesota, North Dakota, Vo Dakota Hello, get.
Up for calling plan parents time.
My name is Sophia. I'm just trying to schedule some gender firming care. I really just want to be able to get some testostero to start my journey.
So we just have for start my booking here in Michelle appointment that you can come in to see one of our providers.
Are you or a he?
No, I'm sixteen?
You're good being here?
Then sixteen and kill.
That you're okay to do it for minors?
Yeah, you can legally get hormones under eighteen? How old are you?
Sixteen? I know my mom has to come in with me, and does she have to be in there the whole time?
Like?
How does that work? Because I don't know if I'm comfortable with that.
At some point that the appointment, maybe he doesn't have to be in the intermitting room with you.
You said I could do it virtually, yeah, pualy, So what would that look like? So I just talked to a doctor and then they'd be able to prescribe me.
Yeah, if it's virtual, you'll still meet with the doctor and then go over like all menitary information at the end, they will then be for superviving hormone that would then be ripped out like your local harmity.
I don't need any like therapy or anything first, Like, you don't need any record of that, no that I know of it. I don't need any sort of like records of having gone to therapy or anything like that.
Right, Yeah, so unless you have trifarent hear and it would not be required.
There's nothing that I need before, right, Like I don't need to like have records of meeting with a therapist or anything, right because my parents definitely aren't to let me do that. I just decided last week, and so I kind of want to get in as soon as possible. Do you have any pointments available soon?
Yeah?
It depends on a location too, but we usually do have availability for like the next week of whatever you call it.
Do you think that if I came in, went over everything with doctor and they could send them prescription that.
Day, Yes, I think they could be able to The provider is going to send the prescription to your pharmacy the same day of your appointment.
Oh perfect, Okay, so I can get the hormones the same day.
You think a little bit to get it together, But yeah, if not the same thing and more than likely the very next thing perfect thank you for calling great day.
I mean, you hear that, Senator, and it makes you so angry because what you're hearing.
Is the underworld of Hey, we don't need parents, we don't need parents, we don't need doctors, we don't need evidence. And by the way, the defenders of this mutilation and then these are also the folks that defend surgeries where you're you're actually physically sterilizing little boys or little girls. The defenders of this they say, oh, it's the result of a long you know, therapy and a metic condition. It's very clear Planned parenthood doesn't give a flip what
your medical condition is. That's not their business. They're in the business of selling. They're in the business of selling abortions, which is their main business, but they're also in the business of selling sterilizing kids. Because look cross sex hormones and that that includes testosterone or estrogen given to the
opposite gender. They're meant to alter the body to show characteristics of the opposite gender, and they can alter the body's natural makeup, they can alter the functions of the body, but they can also result in in numerous side effects, including permanent infertility, and Lila Rose, who's the president of Live Action and a tremendous warrior standing for life. Here
here's what Lila Rose said. She said that the investigation exposes quote a chilling reality that Planned Parenthood is fast tracking vulnerable children in the irreversible hormone treatments with almost no medical oversight. These dangerous drugs can sterilize, stunt growth and leave lifelong scars. This is not healthcare, it is child abuse, and it must be stopped.
It really is incredible. The last question I have to ask you on this is after this type of information comes out, is there any role that Congress can play in getting involved? Now that we see this so clearly?
Absolutely, and every year Planned Parenthood gets more than seven hundred million dollars in federal tax payer dollars. That needs to end. We need to defund plant parenthood. You shouldn't be forced to pay for the sterilization of kids. You shouldn't be forced to pay for abortions all over the country. And so I hope we will see leadership in Congress. I'm certainly fighting the defund Planned Parenthood, and I hope we get it done this year.
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