Biden in His Own Words

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six five five three two. The phone number is eight five five seven six eight one eight eight three. Or you can text the word cactus to six five five three two. Welcome back to Verdicts with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Knowles, Senator. There is a lot that I want to get to. To get to Martha's vineyard, I want to get to the Iranian President. But first I do not want us to be accused of creating a straw

man out of Joe Biden. Joe Biden just sat down with sixty minutes for an interview covering pretty much every topic under the sun, and I would like to get your reaction to Biden in his own words, since, as far as I can tell, the media will never push the man in any way and push back on his talking points. Well, unfortunately, his mental acuity is so diminished that that sixty minutes took one hundred and twenty minutes.

It's that it was a soft bare Yeah, I mean, how can you not did not go for that one? Look the press that they're not even the praetorian Guard, that they are his loyal propagandists, and they allow him to spin without challenge. But but but let's get to specifics. Okay, So first up, he takes on the issue of inflation. We know we've got forty year record high inflation. The inflation has kept up. Here is the spin that the

White House is putting on it the president. As you know, last Tuesday, the annual inflation rate came in at eight point three percent. The stock market nose dived, people are shocked by their grocery bills. What can you do better and faster? Well, first of all, let's put this in perspective. Inflation rate month to month was just an inch, hardly at all. You're not arguing that eight point three is good news. No, I'm not saying it is good news.

But it was eight point two or eight point two before. I mean, it's not. You may I can make it sound like all of a sudden, my god, it went to eight point two percent. It's the highest inflation rate, mister President in forty years. I got that. But guess what we are. We're in a position where for the last several months it hasn't spiked, it has just barely has been basically even Look, this is a process. This is a process. Is the economy going to get worse

before it gets better? No? I don't think so. Okay, so you saw actually more pushback than I've ever seen from the media there. It wasn't very much at all, But at least he saying, come on, man, you know, like me, throw me a bone here. It's obviously extremely high inflation. Biden says, no, the month over month has barely ticked up. What say you? So you're right, I'll give Scott Pelley some some credit. He did at least pushback some, which is more than than than the White

House press briefing typically does. But you know, Biden's argument is bizarre. He says, well, it's eight point three but it didn't get any worse. Yeah, I mean it's you know, I'm reminded of an analogy like like you're you're badly wounded and you're bleeding out a pint an hour, And his defense is, well, it didn't increase, it didn't go up to two pints an hour, like you're still bleeding

to death. Like eight point three percent annualized inflation means that families across this country are badly hurting, and it is continuing to be It's the highest inflation rate in forty years. And Biden has no solution for it. But it's worse than having no solution for it. He doesn't understand what caused it. There's only one thing that causes inflation.

That's government spending too much money, spending money it doesn't have, borrowing money it doesn't have, and printing money it doesn't have. Biden's solution is, spend more money they don't have, borrow more money they don't have, and print more money they don't have it that will produce more inflation. And Biden's answer as well, think how much worse it could be? Think how much worse it could be month over month? And I think I don't measure inflation month over month.

Nobody measures inflation month over month. We measure it, measure it year over year. And the fact is that goods cost eight and a half percent more in September of this year than they did in September of last year. And so even that shift of well, let's look at the month to month metric, I think, who cares about that metric. If it's jumped to this much in a year, that's really really bad. Well, and look, even that figure understates it in terms of what Americans are actually feeling.

You take gasoline, gasoline is still double what it was when Biden was elected. That ain't eight percent. That's double. That is hurting people. One hundred dollars gas bill is now not unusual to fill up your truck. You know, people are seeing one hundred and fifty dollars gas bills, particularly if you're you're unfortunate enough to live on the West coast. You know, you look at food bills that have skyrocketed. You look at you know, you look at electricity.

I mean my electricity bill. It's a lot more than eight percent what it was last year. I think a lot of the bills consumers are paying. Haven't just gone up a little bit, They've gone up a ton and people are hurting. So there's good news that Joe Biden gave him this interview. I'mid all the terrible economic news. He said, No, there's there's a glimmer of light here because the pandemic, you know, the pandemic from two and a half years ago that was supposed to end in

fifteen days. The pandemic, he says, is over. The president first Detroit Auto show in three years. Yeah, is the pandemic over. The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We're still doing a lot of work on it. It's what the pandemic is over. If you notice no one's wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape. And so I think it's changing, and I think this is a perfect example of it. Okay, one do you agree? And two, if you do agree,

that's good news. Right, that's something Biden can hang his hat on. Well, listen, he's right, the pandemic is over. I'll tell you who doesn't agree. The Biden White House. Within hours of this interview airing, the White House was immediately walking back no, no, no, no, no, we didn't mean the pandemic is over. Never mind what he actually said to the camera. Look, man, we have an administration.

They still have vaccine mandates in place that they're still trying to throw people out of the Army and the Navy, and the Air Force and the Marines because they haven't gotten vaccinated. They're trying to throw people out of the federal government. They're trying to throw FBI agents out there, trying to throw Border patrol agents out there, trying to throw professionals up and down the federal government out look.

The DC Public Schools have announced they're going to impose a vaccine mandate on the DC public schools that if a kid hasn't been vaccinated, that kid can't come to school. In the District of Columbia, only eighty percent of the kids have COVID vaccines, but only sixty percent of the African American kids, So the Democrats are literally trying to

throw forty percent of the African American kids out of school. Now, they delayed that rule because there was so much pushback from the parents that they're like, gosh, maybe it isn't a good idea to throw forty percent of the black kids out of the DC public schools. Maybe really bad things will happen from that. But these idiots, they're trying to impose these mandates. We saw just this week New York is firing teachers who haven't gotten the COVID vaccine.

We've seen nurses and doctors fired who haven't gotten the COVID vaccine. Yes, the pandemic is over, but these petty totalitarians. Let me ask you something, the US open, Why is it that we're putting a vaccine mandate to play tennis outside with world class athletes? Because these are petty totalitarian despots, And that answer illustrates We've all known that the pandemic was over for a long time, and yet you know what, Biden's administration is still appealing to impose the mask mandate

on airplanes. His doj is litigating it right now. It's only because a courageous federal judge says enough is enough, get rid of of the mask. And you know what, You've still got numbskulls on planes, not many, but a few that they're virtuous, so strong they will mask up till the end of time. So the disconnect I get because there have been many times when the Biden White House undercuts Joe Biden himself, which raises a lot of questions about who is running the White House. I get

the disconnect. But the question that I have is why why are they still pushing COVID? Is it ignorance? Is it neurosis? Are they really afraid of the Wuhan virus? Or is it a little more cynical and political than that. Do they see midterm elections coming up, specially elections that they don't seem very well situated for, and are they hoping to reinstitute some of the extraordinary quote unquote public health measures that seem to give them an electoral advantage

in twenty twenty. So I don't think it's the latter. Now, to be clear, you're going to see Democrats pushing mail in balloting because they think it elects Democrats, and it does elect Democrats. The more policies they put in place that increase the likely to fraud, the more likely Democrats are to win. So it's it doesn't have anything to do with COVID. It has to do with the fact they want to hold onto power. You know, it's interesting, it's getting in the mind of a leftist is not easy.

I think there's several things going on. I do think there are definitely some on the left that have sort of bought the fear porn, the like we're all gonna die. We must be masked, we must be quadruple vaxed, we must like like some of them that has been so beaten into them that it's hard for them. It's like they have Stockholm syndrome or something. Yeah, you know, it's like you see the self righteous lefty driving down the road in the car alone wearing a mask. You know,

you see people out in DC. I saw this was several months ago, but I saw like two older ladies with gray hairs who who They weren't wearing birkenstocks, but everything about them conveyed that they were people of the left. They had some in the closet, so they were. They were walking down the street no mask. They saw me and reached in their purses and put on their mask because their virtue had to be demonstrated in while I was on the sidewalk anywhere near them. It that is

a true thing for lefties. I think with lefty politicians it's a different thing. They like power that they like, having the authority to say you shut your business, you shut your school, you get a vaccine, like the vaccine mandate. It is an exercise of power. I will make you comply. You know, Joe Biden told Chicago fire half your police officers if they don't get the vaccine. It is it's it is the petty authoritarianism. But the pettiness is the point.

It's I have the power to control you. Now, on the flip side, I think the inflation component of it. Part of the reason that Biden says the pandemic is over is I think they're starting to get scared about November, and so he's trying to have some good news and saying the pandemic is over is him saying, look, see we solved COVID. By the way, you're fired if you don't get a vaccine. But see we solved COVID. Now.

I alluded earlier to the war in Ukraine, obviously a huge challenge for Biden because, in the words of Vladimir Zelenski, president of Ukraine, Biden largely was the cause of that of that war by dropping sanctions on Putin and by actually sort of inviting him to invade eastern Ukraine and saying there wouldn't really be consequences. So here's what Biden said in response to the breakout of the first major

war in Europe in seventy years. It has been barbaric when he's donned his attacks on civilian everything from civilian hospitals to two, you know, people's old age homes to neighborhoods for ordinary people, live, schools, schools. It's just outrageous. And so the price Ukrainian people are paying for this war is extremely high. But we're going to stay with them as long as they need our help. You're already north of fifteen billion dollars in terms of those commitments.

How far do you go as long as it takes ironclad commitment. Yes, as Ukraine succeeds on the battlefield, Vladimir Putin is becoming embarrassed and pushed into a corner. And I wonder, mister President, what you would say to him if he is considering using chemical or tactical nuclear weapons. Don't, don't don't. It will change the face of war unlike anything since World War Two, And the consequences of that

would be what what would the US response be? You think I would tell you if I knew exactly it would be. Of course, I'm not going to tell you. So there's a little bit of a slip he has at the end, which is he admits he doesn't know what the response of me, And he said, do you think I would tell you even if I did know? And certainly he's not going to be the one formulating

those strategies. But putting aside the blame game, which which we know you Zelenski blames Biden for the war, But putting aside the blame game for a second, what do you make of his answer, Yes, we will stick with Ukraine, Yes, there's no end to the support that we will give, and his deterrent speech a slight, slight bit of rhetoric against Putin. Look, he asked, what do you do? What do you say if Putin is going to drop a nuclear bomb in Europe? It's kind of a big question.

Biden's answer is dot dot d Okay, It's uncanny. It's like I've got Biden right in front of me. Okay, just just listening to that. Is there anyone on planet or Earth who that would deter from doing anything? Literally anything? A third grader who's beating up another third grader who heard someone going dude, dude, that third grader is getting punched in the nose like look. One of the responsibilities of the commander in chief is to deter our enemies.

Why did Putin invade Ukraine. One of the reasons was Biden's weakness waiving sanctions, But another week reason was Biden is so incredibly weak that every bad actor looks at the commander in chief and says, this guy ain't gonna stop nothing. And so you know, as you noted, he said, well, even if I knew what I was gonna do, I wouldn't do anything. Look. I pray Putin does not use nuclear weapons, but that statement right there increase the likelihood that he will. And we need a commander in chief.

I agree, you don't say exactly what the consequences are, but a commander in chief looks in the TV camera and says, using nuclear weapons in Europe would be an extraordinary escalation and the consequences would be devastating. It would be devastating to Putin to Russia, to the regime. Under no circumstances will the world sit by and watch a Russian dictator use a nuclear weapon. That's what a commander

in chief says, not some you know what. It reminds me of who's the little old guy in the Simpsons who's always getting killed? Like the little bald guy. I can't remember the name of that character that I forget his name too, but that's who Biden seemed like. Yet we need strength of the Oval office, that ain't it now?

I remember, after Biden's completely botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, you said on this show that the way in which America pulled out of Afghanistan makes an invasion of Ukraine by Russia much more likely, and an invasion of Taiwan by China much more likely. That's the next question that Joe Biden gets asked. Here's what he says about a potential Chinese further takeover of Taiwan. What should Chinese President She

know about your commitment to Taiwan. We agree with what we signed on to a long time ago, and there's one China policy, and Taiwan makes their own judgments about their independence. We are not moving. We're not encouraging them being independent. We're not that's their decision. But would US forces defend the island yes, if in fact there was an unprecedented attack. After our interview, white House official told

US US policy has not changed. Officially, the US will not say whether American forces would defend Taiwan, but the Commander in chief had a view of his own, so unlike Ukraine, to be clear, Sir, US forces, US men and women would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion. Yes, So it's amazing in that interview, how as Biden is sort of babbling his answer, the voiceover just takes there and says, yeah, okay, never mind what

he says. The White House actually he contradicts him. And so now you've got this disagreement yet again between Joe Biden and the White House. Whatever that means. You've got this question about what exactly America's policy view visa VI Taiwan is. There is this question of the one China policy again, whatever that is. That phrase has been taken to mean different things at different times over the decades. So two parts, One, what is Joe Biden slash the

White House actually saying here? And two do you think that their approach is the right policy to Taiwan? So look, nobody knows what the hell he's saying. I get to say, when Biden talks about foreign policy, I've never seen a president like this in my lifetime, where he screws it up every day. But like he just says things. This is a guy you wouldn't let handle the remote control of your television set. He doesn't understand what he's saying.

He doesn't know what he's saying. Look, that voiceover is weird. Think about it. Have you ever seen a president of the United States interviewed and his White House staff had to correct and retract what he said mid interview, not even afterwards, because they're like, oh crap. He just like fundamentally changed US policy towards China and Taiwan, and he doesn't know it. He is no aware of it. It's one thing. Look, a commander in chief has the prerogative

to change US foreign policy. That's part of what a president has an ability to do, at least in significant respect, although Congress plays a major role in that also. But watching that interview, listen, it's genuinely frightening because he doesn't appreciate any of that nuance. We have an obligation by statute to support Taiwan and to support Taiwan in the face of Chinese aggression. The word support has a lot

of flexibility. We have never passed legislation, We've never signed a treaty committing to send US servicemen and women to fight Chinese soldiers to defend Taiwan. We've committed to support them. But what constitutes support The statute deliberately doesn't define. And Biden is just cavalier and saying, yep, I'd send US soldiers to go fighting. You know, it's not like they're talking about fighting Grenada to fight the Chinese Red Army. That's kind of a big deal. Let's go to war.

And he does it with no appreciation of it. When the White House walks it back, it makes clear that the administration is incoherent on it. And this actually there are a lot of similarities to this discussion and the Ukraine Nordstream to discussion. This President and the Democrats don't understand the difference between deterrance and acting after the fact. The best way to protect Taiwan is prevent China from going in in the first place, and to do that

means you want deterrence. In terms of number one, massive and cataclysmics sanctions on China such that the penalty the Chinese would pay makes them think again, using levers of power we have that are not sending our sons and daughters to die, but secondly preparing and equipping the Taiwanese to defend themselves. You know, there's a phrase that is used by the military planners of that Taiwan should be

a porcupine. In other words, that like, if the Chinese try to invade, there should be a lot of spines that they should be really eager to put their tushy little dairy air on top of that means expediting armed sails to Taiwan. Now, and look, Taiwan is a wealthy country.

They have the money to pay for F sixteens, to pay for advanced weapons systems, to pay for equipment, so that if the Chinese military planners are assessing costs and benefit of invasion, the Taiwanese are really robustly available, prepared to repel an invasion. That's actually being smart and proactive on the front end. Biden's not doing nearly enough of that. And in fact, let me give you a very specific example.

So the people of Taiwan under Barack Obama the Chinese government got mad because the people of Taiwan were allowing the or the US government was allowing Taiwanese government officials to have a Taiwanese flag and allowing Taiwanese soldiers to wear Taiwanese military insignia. So the Obama administration passed a new regulation prohibiting taiwan from displaying their flag on US government property or from any Taiwanese soldier wearing a uniform.

It's bizarre. It's the only nation on earth that we don't let them wear their own military uniforms. That was inexplicit capitulation to the government of China when Trump became president. For the first three and a half years of the Trump presidency, unfortunately, the State Department kept that rule in place, and I spent three and a half years basically taking a two by four to the Trump State Department, to Rex Tillerson and then Mike Pompeo saying this is stupid.

We should allow our Taiwanese friends and allies to display their flag and their soldiers to wear their uniforms. Three and a half years, I beat them up. I beat Tillerson up on it, and then I beat Mike Pompeo up on it. Finally, in the latter half of the last year the Trump presidency, the State Department reversed its rules. Pat Pompeo agreed with me, reversed the policy and said, okay, Taiwan now can display their flags and wear their uniforms

on US government property. Biden came in when Tony blink In, the new Secretary of State, was coming in. I questioned him about this at his hearing, and he said that they would maintain the current policy, in other words, allow Taiwan to display their symbols of sovereignty. What happens b Lincoln gets confirmed. They flipped the policy. So now the Biden administration refuses to allow any symbols of sovereignty. Now.

I have passed into law now twice, my legislation, the Taiwan Symbols of Sovereignty legislation that would allow Taiwan to display their flag and display and the soldiers to wear their uniforms. The Biden administration stripped it out at the last minute of the legislation that that just passed. And there's another bill that's moving that Joe Biden is actively

lobbying removing it. I've been able to get both Republicans and Democrats in the Senate to agree with this legislation, and yet Biden is so committed to appeasing China that he's trying to pull it out. And so it's dangerous when there's this incoherence on policy on a matter as important and consequential as stopping and standing up to communist China and deferring Chinese aggression. And I think this Biden

interview just makes it worse. Will rather than answer any questions in sensible detail on his own foreign policy, Biden then turned the interview away from his own administration's views toward Donald Trump, suggesting that Donald Trump imperiled national security by keeping classified documents at Mara Lago, for which Biden then sent the FBI to go go knock down the doors of the presidents and now main political rival to

Joe Biden of his residence. Here's what Biden had to say, When you saw the photograph of the top secret documents laid out on the floor of Mara Lago, what did you think to yourself looking at that image, how that could possibly happen, How anyone could be that irresponsible? And I thought, what data was in there that may compromise sources and methods. By that, I mean names of people who helped, etc. And it's just totally irresponsible, And you

don't know what was in those documents. I have not asked for the specifics of those documents because I don't want to get myself in the middle of whether or not the Just Department should move or not move on certain actions they can take. I agreed, I would not tell them what to do, and not in fact engage in telling them how to prosecute or not. So one, was it really so shocking? I asked that somewhat sincerely, was it really so shocking the photograph that the FBI released?

I have my suspicions about it, but I'd like to know your answer. And then too, what do you make of Joe Biden saying, Look, I don't want to get involved here. I don't I don't want this investigation of Trump to look political. Look, every part of that answer was an absolute crock. Number one is it's shocking to see empty minilla folders. No, I've seen more frightening things in my life than that. You might get a papercut

from it. I guess that's shocking. It is a little terrifying, you know, it's a little rich saying Biden go on

about how horribly irresponsible it was without any acknowledgement. There was a certain person named Hillary Clinton who had tens of thousands of documents on a private email server that was subject to hacking, including potentially classified documents, in violation of law, and Biden was vice president in the administration that refused to prosecute her, that that gave her a hall pass and said never mind, and by you, by the way, this is a Hillary Clinton who also in

obstructing the investigation. They use hammers to shatter cell phones and destroy evidence. They they they use equipment to wipe drives cleaned to obstruct from the investigation. And so the blazing hypocrisy. And by the way, we've also talked about on this podcast, how every president after the presidency retains documents and there's a back and forth with getting the documents back in the archives, and it takes it takes months, and it takes years. And Obama I had thousands of

documents that still haven't been submitted back. And so that the weaponization and politicization over a document production question is I think quite absurd. But for me, the most priceless part of that exchange was the self righteous I would never put myself in whether my Department of Justice should go after him. What an utter cruck go to point

out two facts. Number One, when Joe Biden was Vice president on January fifth, he participated this is twenty seventeen, in an Oval office meeting with Barack Obama, where he suggested to the Department of Justice that they go after Michael Flynn, then Donald Trump's incoming national security advisor, under the Logan Act, because Michael Flynn, the incoming National Security Advisor,

had had a conversation with a foreign leader. Mind you, every national security advisor in the history of the country has had lots of conversations with foreign leaders, because that's their frigging job to have conversations with foreign leaders. But it was Biden who suggested go prosecute them, and who also signed off on and by the way, keep this

entire prosecution and persecution secret from the incoming president. So that is in writing Sally Yates, the Deputy Attorney General, her notes show it was Biden's idea to do this. So you want to talk about someone who's personally directed the weaponization of DJ against the Trump administration. Joe Biden's right at the top of that list, and secondly at president. As president, he has repeatedly called on you know, I think the Department of Justice needs to be tougher going

after Trump. He's calling for them publicly. You know, it's like the classic you know, who will rid me of this troublesome cleric. He's just calling out loud. And if only there's a Department of Justice or an FBI that might listen and send, say, fifty agents to raid the guy's house. But I don't know about it. I just publicly mused, wouldn't it be nice if they did it? What a crock Yeah, of course, of course. And to say this is not political is you know, Strand's credulity.

It's beyond the point of absurdity. And yet, and yet, there is a question about whether or not Biden will run in twenty twenty four. Biden thus far has said yes, I am running. Biden has filed the paperwork to run. You have said on this podcast, Biden's not going to run. He can't run. Biden for the first time, I think, when asked this question starts to open the door to not running in twenty twenty four. Were you committed to running again or are there certain conditions that have to

be right. Look, if I were to say to you, I'm running again, all of a sudden, the whole range of things come into play that I have requirements I have to change and move and do in terms of election, in terms of election loss. And it's much too early to make that kind of decision. I'm a great respecter of fate, and so what I'm doing is I'm doing my job. I'm going to do that job and within the time frame that makes sense. After this next election cycle here, going into next year, make a judgment of

what to do. You say that it's much too early to make that decision. I take it the decision has not been made in your own head. Look, my intentions, I said to begin with, is that I would run again. But it's just an intention. But is it a firm decision that I've run again? That remains to be seen. How would you say your mental focus is? Well, it's focused, I says, I think it's I haven't. Look, I have trouble even mentioning, even saying to myself my own head,

the number of years. I no more think of myself as being as old as I am than fly. I mean, it's just not I haven't observed anything in terms of there's not things I don't do now that I did before, whether it's physical or mental or anything else. Mister President, you are the oldest president ever. Pretty good shape, uh, which leads to my next question. You are more aware of this than anyone. Some people ask whether you are fit for the job. And when you hear that, I

wonder what you think. Watch me not great advice, I think if Joe Biden's trying to garner su board. But your take on that, senator reading between the lines, is the guy running in twenty twenty four? No, no way, All right, There of different elements of that, so let's unpack that. So, first of all, he starts out with latently false legal advice. And I recognize Joe Biden was never a very good lawyer, but he really showed that there. So he says, well, they're legal consequences if I say

I'm running. Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior is the incumbent President of the United States. He has filed paperwork with the fec as a candidate for president of the United States in the next election. He is, legally speaking, a candidate for president of the United States in the next election. He is raising money to run in the next election. Everything about that is triggered because he is an active candidate raising money for that election cycle. For the twenty

twenty four election. Nothing changes if he says yes or no. Now what Biden is mimicking. So Trump has said if I say I'm running, that triggers things. That's true, it does for Trump. Why because Trump is not the sitting president of the United States, and he is not a filed candidate. When you file for a candidate, that does trigger limitations. That does trigger a whole set of legal restrictions, all of which apply to Biden one way or the other.

So Biden's opening answer is just gobbledegook. But secondly, and here's where I'll be oddly defending Biden in this respect, I understand why he doesn't want to say no, I'm not running. I think the chances that he's running a zero. He's too old. He knows he's too old. The party would lose its mind if he ran. He's not up to doing the job now. The idea that he would run again when he's one hundred and forty two, it just it ain't gonna happen. But I understand why a

sitting president doesn't want to announce that. If you announce I'm not running, you turn yourself into a lame duck a year and a half into his term. That makes sense for him. It is reasonable and rational for him not to telegraph I ain't run it again. So I think that's what he's doing. But you know, one of the things that makes perfectly obvious that he is that he's not running again is the Democrats are all openly campaigning.

They're at least four the top tier of the Democrats are Kamala Harris, Pete Buddha Gedge, Elizabeth Warren, and Gavin Newson. All four of them are running right now. They're stabbing each other in the back, They're they're running around preening for the cameras that the primary is happening right now and they all know it. Um do you think any of them are doing particularly well or better than any

of the others. I think Kamala is doing lousy. I think she's had a spectacularly bad tenure as vice president. She came in as the prohibitive favorite. Like a year and a half ago, there was an argument that she would even clear the field potentially as the sitting vice president for the Democratic president who's African American, whose female. I mean that the Democrats are such bean counters and so ind identity politics that that on paper, you're like, wow,

can how could anyone even run against her? She's screwed things up so badly for so long that they're all sharpening their knives and they've decided to forget about it. Buddha Gedge was the earliest, so early on you had the Harris Buddha Jedge jabbing back and forth. The most recent entrant to the field is Newsome, whose ambition is just bursting off. He's you know, I think the most dangerous place in California right now might be between Gavin

Newsom and a TV camera and then Warren. So Warren doesn't get talked about that much, but to my mind, Warren is a dark horse in this field because she's still represents the id of the hardcore progressive socialist Marxist left, and that can be potent in a Democrat primary. So I think they're they're leaning in more and more. I will say the tail end of Biden, are you two old? And he says, just watch me like we have been dude, Like like, yeah, you shake hair, hands with the empty air,

you talk to the easter bunny. You get confused, like tying your shoes. That that that that's the problem. You screw up. You commit to to invading China, defend Taiwan just as a slip of the tongue that your own staff has to correct mid interview. That let me just engage an understatement does not suggest the maximum level of competence. Hmm. Very diplomatic speaking of Bidens who have made a mess

of things overseas. U he did address his son. The Hunter Biden issue has gotten worse and worse and worse. Something like twelve to seventeen percent of people who voted for Joe Biden twenty twenty later told polsters that had they known about Hunter Biden's crimes, had the Hunter Biden lapstop story not been suppressed by the entire big tech establishment,

they would not have voted for Joe Biden. This is clearly a big liability for him if the story can get out, not just about the hookers and the drugs, but also the business dealings, the trading of US influence. And so Biden was asked about Hunter. Here here's his answer, the President, if you run again, Republicans are most likely to go after your son Hunter once again. And I wonder what you would like to say about your son and whether any of his troubles have caused conflicts for

you or for the United States. I love my son. Number one, he fought an addiction problem, he overcame it, he wrote about it. And no, there's not a single thing that I've observed at all from that it would affect me or the United States relative to my son Hunter. Fair answer, Senator. Oh look, I understand why Biden gave that answer. That's an answer probably a lot of fathers would give. The real indictment is CBS that they took that answer. They just says, well, gosh, meaneasers are saying

mean things about your son. Anything you want to say, I love my son. Oh, okay, thank you, thank you. I appreciate that's hard hitting news. Okay, Like, look, the guy has videoed himself committing multiple felonies. When you have crack cocaine and you're with prostitutes waving a gun around that like violates so many laws it's difficult to to catalog this. Biden Department of Justice doesn't enforce the laws with respect to him, and that doesn't even begin to

touch the corruption the deals with Ukraine. Look, verdict started out talking about brisman impeachment. All of that now is ancient history. Getting paid eighty three thousand dollars a month by a Ukrainian natural gas company when you don't when you don't know anything about Ukraine or natural gas, that's reeks of corruption. I think this is really the point here, Senator, because you know, if Biden just gave the answer and said, look, I love my son, he's a drug addict, degenerate, but

hopefully he's cleaning up his life. I think people would move on if that last part wasn't and nothing whatsoever

affects the United States or my presidency or administration. And you think, well, putting you know, the drugs and the women and wine women in song aside, when you're when you're being paid off, when your son is getting a major payoff from a corrupt government, when you are you then the vice president or the point person on US relations with that government, to say nothing of Hunter Biden's

business dealings in China and elsewhere around the world. That actually does affect the United States, and that does affect your presidency. It very much does. And you look at China and Hunters investments, where you know, Joe Biden is now selling oil from our strategic petroleum reserve to China, including Chinese state owned companies that Hunter's firm was a major investor and shareholder in. That's a big damn deal. You know. The what it says in the laptop ten

percent for the big guy, meaning Joe Biden. On its face, that screams corruption. Merrick Garland and this politicized DJ won't investigate it. They won't, and what should have happened. They need to appoint a special counsel because there's no credibility of a fair and impartial investigation. And again I'm not going to fault Joe for trying to defend his son and trying to dismiss it. That's what any parent would do.

But there is a responsibility for a journalist actually to have facts, like the question isn't so supposed to be why are there so many Republican meanings. And that's basically what CBS's question was. I thought that was they ought to teach that question in journalism schools. Here's how to flunk the job of a journalist. Now, before we get to the mailbag, Senator, I do want a little bit of a palate cleanser here. We have been dealing with the leader of the free world, at least nominally our

own leader. I'd like to turn our attention to another American network TV interview with another world leader. That would be the Iranian president who was asked about his views on the Holocaust. Do you believe the Holocaust happened, that six million Jews were slaughtered massdia tarichi ye. Look, historical events should be investigated by researchers and historians. There are some signs that had happened. If so, they should allow it to be investigated and researched. So you're not sure,

I'm getting that. You're not sure. What about Israel's right to exist philistine? You see the people of Palestine or the reality This is the right of the people of Palestine who are forced to leave their houses in motherland. The Americans are supporting this false regime there to take root and be established. There not a ton of pushback from Leslie Stall there. What do you make of the Iranian president's remarks? So, I think that is utterly disgraceful

on multiple levels. Let's start off, Raissi is a mass murderer and a terrorist. He is directly responsible for enormous number of murders of tortures. He has been one of the most repressive figures in this horrific regime for years. He was appointed by the Ayatola to that position despite a horrific record of human rights abuses. Number Two, he was allowed by the Biden administration to come to the United States, come to New York, to the United Nations.

He should not have been. I've introduced legislation to block him from coming. We should not be allowing terrorists and mass murders into the United States. But the Biden administration, every enemy of a world, every enemy of America, they treat with weakness and appeasement. And this is yet another example.

Number three. It's particularly horrifying this interview right now. In recent days, the world was stunned with the news that a twenty two year old Iranian woman was captured the religious police in Iran and was beaten to death for the crime of not wearing a headscarf. She dared to go outside and she wasn't covering her face the way the Islamic radicals insist, and the religious police arrested her

and beat her to death. Within hours of that happening, an American journalist on CBS Leslie Stall is sitting there compliantly, bleeding like a sheep, wearing a headscarf. That's disgusting. Did she ask about what happened? No? And then the final bit to end with Ras engaging in Holocaust denial. Well, historians should debate and examine to see if there's evidence the Holocaust is one of, if not the most terrific event in all of human history. The systematic extermination of

six million Jews an attempted genocide. You don't think there's evidence, go to Auschwitz, go to the concentration camp, read the diary of Anne Frank, examine the horror, and to c CBS, oh okay, well that's that's of you. Yeah, oh okay, And and dece to sit there while this monster spews anti Semitic filth on CBS. There are not words to describe the abdication of responsibility. Leslie Stall should be ashamed, and CBS should be ashamed that they're willing to kiss

up to a monster and a tyrant. Not so much for a palett cleanser, you know, I guess the President of Iran generally is not not much of a palate cleanser. Before we go, I know it's a long episode, but I do want to get to some of our wonderful listeners in the mail bag question from Andrew were the Martha's Vineyard planes a good one time stunt or should GOP governors keep up the migrant buses and flights to left wing cities as a long term strategy? Keep it

up over and over and over again. As you know, I introduced legislation to do this a year ago. I've been calling on on Republicans to do this a year ago. I'm very glad Greg Abbott and Ron De Santis took my advice and carried it out. It was the right thing to do. It's totally transformed the debate. But rich leftist socialists lost their minds when fifty illegal immigrants showed up at Martha's Vineyard tomorrow. We had to send one hundred the next day we had to send two hundred

and five hundred and a thousand. The volume is so massive, and and listen the reason to do it. I mean, it has been amazing watching the media and all these blue check mark activists losing their minds and they're saying, oh, do Satis and Abbots are engaged in human trafficking. No, it's a humanitarian crisis. It is not human trafficking. To ask somebody, would you like to go to Martha's Vineyard,

I will fly you for free there. That's not called human trafficking, despite all the idiots saying it is also not cruel and inhumane to take someone to a billionaire's playground. Martha's Vineyard is. I've actually never been, so I don't really know what Martha's Vineyard is, but from everything I see, it's a really fancy place that I know. The Obamas have a twelve million dollar home there, so it's a bunch of rich people and it's presumably really during nice.

The reason to send them there is it's about the only thing that forces the corrupt corporate media to actually cover what's happening, and it also shows the utter hypocrisy we talked in the last podcast about how the county executive in Martha's Vineyard when I proposed this legislation, said they would welcome the illegal immigrants there. They wanted to be a haven for them. And I didn't know what

I was talking about. There was no border crisis. As soon as they showed up, Oh crap, they declared a crisis. But additionally, it forces the Democrats and the media to defend their incoherence. What did they do in Martha's Vineyard within twenty four hours? They put them on buses and shipped them away. Shipped them away to a military base. You know. AOC tweeted out said, shout out to the people of Massachusetts and the people of Martha's Vineyard for

demonstrating the very best of American values. And I did something I don't do often. I retweeted AOC, I said, look, well, what did Martha's Vineyard do? They deported them within twenty four hours. I agree, let's emulate Martha's Vineyard. But the very best of American values. I assumed that means Texas can do the same thing, and we put them on a bus and ship them back to where they came from.

Within twenty four hours. Can we get them out? Look, the volume is crushing, and all of these self righteous virtue signals are ignoring what is happening. This is human slavery. To see lefties saying it was crueling in humane to send them to Martha's vineyard. Now, you know what's crueling in humane. Hundreds of thousands of children being abused and sexually assaulted by human traffickers under Joe Biden. You know what's crueling in humane. Thousands upon thousands of women being

raped by human traffickers under Joe Biden. You know what's crueling in humane. Hundreds of immigrants abandoned to die in the desert. Pregnant ladies, old people, children dead in the desert week after week. You know what's crueling in humane. Fifty three illegal immigrants dead and attractor trailer of heat because of the human traffickers under Joe Biden. You know what's cruel in humane. Over one hundred thousand people dying of fentanol overdoses because of the chaos of Joe Biden's

open borders. You know what's crueling in humane. Thousands of teenage boys working for the cartels in every city in America. Because they owe thousands of dollars to the cartel. You know what's crueling in humane? Thousands of teenage girls in forced prostitution because they owe thousands of dollars to the cartel. And you know what's crueling in humane. A corrupt media that won't report on any of that, but they suddenly notice when Buffy's tea time is disturbed at Martha's Vineyard.

We ought to keep doing that every damn day till they've forced to cover the human slavery disaster that Joe Biden is responsible. Here here one hundred percent agree with the sentiment, I hope. I'm so glad that the governors, some of the Republican governors, have taken the advice we need a lot more of it. I totally agree we need a lot more of this show, by the way, but I unfortunately cannot stay. We've got to turn to our friend Liz Wheeler on the cloak room. Liz, what

will you be talking about? Hi, Michael High, Senator. I don't know about you, guys, but I feel super confident after hearing those videos in Biden's mental capacity, in his mental acuity, very confident in the fact that he's not actively harming the American people with his impractical and unwise policies. Yikes. Over on the cloak Room, we're going to talk about something kind of exciting that happened just a couple days ago.

The Fifth Circuit Court issued a ruling on Big Tech that might lead to a showdown at the Supreme Court. Big Tech, of course, famous for banning conservatives based on our viewpoints. The Fifth Circuit issued a ruling saying that corporations do not have a free wheeling right to censor speech. So we are going to discuss what exactly this means. Is it going to reach the Supreme Court, how is the Supreme Court going to rule, and what is the implication of this across the country, not just in the

state of Texas where the original law emanated from. So you can join us on the Cloakroom on Verdict Plus at Verdict with Ted Cruise dot Com slash plus. If you use my promo code, which is Cloakroom, then you can watch for free for the first month of your annual subscription that is Verdict with Ted Cruise dot Com slash Plus. I am going to self censor right now and take myself off of this show. So that you

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