Biden Lied About Laptop from Hell, Catch and Release but w Terrorists at the Border plus Trump Luncheon-What's Next w GOP Week In Review

is letting them go. Now we have multiple terrorists that are connected with isis K who have been arrested in this country. And finally, Donald Trump has closed door meetings with House Republicans and the GOP in the Senate, and what they have planned next if he wins, is going to be huge for this country. We'll break all that down for you. It's the weekend Review and it starts right now. Oh, let's forget this. Let's remind people why

that letter was so important. It was before a president of debate and they needed to get out of jail free.

it he didn't ask his son. Those are the two options. So he was lying, and he was he was lying because it helped him politically. And and the person who organized that letter was Tony Blincoln. The reward for doing that b Lincoln becomes the US Secretary of State. That's how important it was.

I doubt it.

She's not going to do that. None of them are. And by the way, the people who have signed this letter, they're not coming back and admitting, Okay, I was completely full of crap and I lied to the American people right before an election, and it influenced the election profoundly.

both sides sat down and met with him. We met in in the historic Talleyrand Hotel, which is this beautiful hotel in Paris that actually the US government now owns. It's no longer a hotel, and it is where the Marshall Plan was signed. And so there's a big room that has gold, you know, gold on the ceiling. It's very elaborate and and it it's a historic, historic meeting space.

So that's where we met and it was a good discussion. Look, Zelensky was there with several of his aides and he was describing what is happening, and he was you know, he is a a wartime leader and listen there that there are some there are some who are big critics of Zelensky. I don't put myself in that camp. I think he is trying to defend his nation from an invasion, and an invasion from Russian Vladimir Putin is a bad guy.

And so Zelensky is doing what what you would hope any leader when his country is at war is doing, which is trying to defend his country and trying to get help wherever you can get it. And so he's coming in and he's asking for American help. Uh and and he's laying out his goals in the war. And so he laid them out, and then then each of us had the opportunity to ask ask questions. My principal question I asked him, I said, how would you define victory?

What does victory mean? And what is the path to getting there? Look, I want Russia to lose the difficulty, and I got to say that question that I asked. He didn't really answer me on how he would define victory. He has another context, define victory as as Ukraine winning back essentially every square inch of territory that Russia has taken. I understand why Zelensky would say that's victory. If if

you were Zelenski, you'd probably say the same thing. But but that doesn't mean it is in the United States's interest to demand every square inch of territory be taken back. The reason we have an interest in this war is that we want we do not want our enemy Russia to win and get stronger, uh and and instead we want Russia to be weaker so that they're less able to pose a threat to America. They're also, by the way, very very significant resources, in particular rare earth minerals in

Ukraine that are critical for the economy going forward. One of the reasons Russia's invading Ukraine is is to get a stranglehold on those rare earth minerals. We don't want putin to have those those those that would not be

good for America. Uh and and and so. But but you know what was really striking Ben is in the meeting with Zelensky and we all so had a classified meeting with senior leaders of the Pentagon talking about details of what exactly is happening in the war, where the battles are, where the victories are, where the losses are. And it was a very interesting and worthwhile briefing, but the question of what does victory mean? This administration is not asking that question. No Democrat in that room is

asking that question. What is victory? And I got to say it really, you know, when it struck me is we went out to lunch two days ago at a little Paris cafe in between meetings, and we're sitting there at lunch talking and I was most of the senators there at the lunch table were Democrats, and they were all talking about Vietnam. And it struck me looking around the table that they're all baby boomers, They're all children of Vietnam. They all kind of got their start in

politics protesting against Vietnam. And look for you and me, I mean, neither of us were alive when Vietnam was a thing. You weren't alive at all. And I was like two when the Vietnam War ended, so I have no memories. Vietnam did not impact my awareness of the world. It was done by the time I was learning about the world. And so I got to say a lot of the boomers, particularly the Democrat boomers, they took the wrong lesson from Vietnam. And I think there are lots

of lessons to take from Vietnam. But one of the central ones is that you should have a clear, defined objective that you know what it is that is directly related to your national security that is achievable. You should have a plan to achieve it, and then you should get the hell out. And Vietnam, we just let it go on and on and on and be a quagmire and just kept pouring money and American soldiers and lives into it without a clear objective that we were willing

to use overwhelming force to accomplish. This administration has no objective. They can't articulate one. They're not even asking that question. That is infuriating.

perspective terrorists. Those that are on the terrorists watch list, hundreds that have been caught a lot of gotaways that have not been caught, and even when terrorists are getting caught, we're letting them go. This is the second story of this happening, and now we have multiple arrests of isis K coming across our southern border. Here is how CBS News broke the story.

allowed to remain in the country. CBS News has learned further investigation uncovered the men had possible ties to isis K, the terror group which claimed responsibility for an attack at a Moscow concert hall that killed more than one hundred and forty people earlier this year.

And I've been saying for a long time we are at a greater risk of a major terrorist attack in the United States right now than we have been any time since September eleventh, and let's go. So the first outlet to break this story was the New York Post, and the New York Post announced that these people had been arrested, and they were arrested in the coordinated sting operation that occurred in three cities, Los Angeles, New York,

and Philadelphia. Two ICE sources confirmed to the Posts that they arrested six people from Tajikistan over the last week after the FBI contacted the agency to warn them. Two others who were part of the same group, were also arrested after being under surveillance for several months by the multi agency Joint Terrorism Task Force. Part of the investigation featured a wire tap which revealed one of the now arrested individuals was talking about bombs. And here's a quote

quote remember the Boston marathon bombing. I'm afraid something like that might happen again or worse, one of the sources told the Post. The subject the target was the subject to the wire tap was previously released by federal authorities at the southern border with a court date next year, but it has since emerged that he has potential ties

to ISIS. And by the way, it is worth noting who is isis K. So isis K IS is a splinter group, but it is the group that carried out the terror attack that that we just saw, the terror attack that that happened in the concert hall in Moscow, and that was carried out by terrorists from Czech Tajikistan. So the same country these folks are from the same

terror group isis K. And remember what they did. They killed one hundred and forty five people in that Moscow terror terror attack, And so the Biden administration has an open border. It is effectively a red carpet. If you're a terrorist, come to America and we, the idiot Democrats, will let you in if we catch you. And by the way, they catch all these guys because and what happens they turn around and let them go. How many

terrorists are Joe Biden the Democrats gonna let go? And by the way, is anyone in the news covering this, is anyone asking Joe by this? Is anyone asking any other Democrat? You know, I've got fifty one Democrat colleagues. How many of them in Capitol Hill are being asked? Why does your party keep releasing terrorists into America? And why are you endangering the lives of American families across this country?

security threats because we're being overrun at the border. NBC News at the time, and we played this, and I just think it's important to remind them it's not just these eight isis K But go back just to April eleventh, NBC.

And I want to point out also, you know, we had a couple of months ago, we had the impeachment of Alejandro Mayorcis, and it came over to the Senate, and I and many others on the Republican side wanted to lay out the facts that this administration that may Orcus's lawless refusal to follow federal federal immigration law, on his his releasing of millions and millions and millions, over eleven million illegal immigrants that have come into this country,

and are Joe Biden that a major threat from that are the terrorists that they keep releasing over and over and over again. And it's worth noting Ben every single Democrat voted not to hear the case, to throw it out, to dismiss it at the outset. They didn't want to hear the evidence of terrorists being released in the country. They didn't want to allow the house house managers to present that evidence. They didn't want the American people to

hear that evidence, and we are on borrowed time. It is not complicated that if you continue to invite terrorists from all over the world, whether Hamas or Hesbel or Palestinian Islamic Jahad or isis K or anybody else. If you invite terrorists from all over the world come into this country, if when you catch them you release them and allow them to continue planning terror attacks, it is only a matter of time before tragically Americans are going to die.

southern border as president? And clearly you should know now from all of these warnings that this policy is a disaster and there are multiple terrorists that are already in this country that we don't know where they are.

I sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee. In three and a half years of Biden's presidency, we have had zero hearings on the risk of terrorism from illegal immigrants coming into this country that Joe Biden and the Democrats they don't want to hear it, Which means as long as Chuck Schumer is the majority leader, and the Democrats have control over the Senate. The Senate is not going to

do anything, and they're forty nine of us. We can jump up and down and yell, but forty nine cannot out vote fifty one and so fundamentally, the Senate will do nothing as a matter of law to hold Joe Biden to the Democrats accountable, and the media will do nothing. It's why you and I do this podcast because the only solution is the ballot box is throwing Joe Biden the Democrats out of office. And then listen in January in a Trump administration that we're going to secure the

damn border. But you've got to have a president willing to follow the law, and Joe Biden refuses to follow the law as before.

was a very interesting moment on Capitol Hill. Donald Trump came and met with a lot of the Republican leadership a lot of your colleagues were there, and the initial reports that came out were saying it was a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of excitement from the Republican leaders that were there.

it started. We're all sitting sitting in a room. It started with him talking for about twenty twenty five minutes, and then we did a whole series of Q and A where probably about a dozen of us asked him questions and he commented on those. And then we went out and we did a press conference where we stood we all stood behind him, and he stood up and gave the press conference and listen, I gotta say the biggest thing about the lunch that struck me was the

unity in the room. Look, the media likes to talk about divisions and the Republican Party, and there are certainly some, but today I didn't see any of that. Today. Everyone in the room was focused on winning in November and turning the country around. And Trump was in great spirits. You know. One of the things I asked him after the meeting. I came up and spent a couple of minutes talking with him. I just asked, how are you doing. I mean, it's been this bs you're dealing with with

these New York convictions, their utter garbage. But listen, it's not fun to be convicted of felonies. I mean it's been He's been through hell. And so just as a personal level, I was asking him how he was doing, and he said he was doing fine, and it seemed real and genuine. I mean, he was not down in the dumps, He was not discouraged. In fact, was he was really in good spirits. He was optimistic, and his message to everyone is listen, let's stand together. And he

emphasized several things. Number one, he emphasized the border, that we've got to secure the border, that it is insane that we have open borders, that it's an invitation to terrorists, and he's exactly right. If and when Trump wins, we will secure the border in the first month or two of the next Trump administration. And I can say that because we know how to do it. We did it before, and we'll do it again. He also talked a lot about inflation and energy in particular, and he pointed out

quite rightly that energy is foundational to inflation. One of the reasons that prices have gone up on just about everything is that energy prices of skyrocketed because the Biden administration has been waging war on American energy and we are an energy powerhouse where the number one producer of oil in the world, where the number one producer of natural gas in the world, and the Biden administration is doing everything they can to stifle that. And Trump was

very clear that we're going to reverse that. We will reverse that fast early next year, and that's going to have a real impact on energy prices and inflation across the board. We also talked about national security and in particular how insane it is that the Biden administration has flowed one hundred billion dollars to Iran and if and when Trump wins, that's going to end as well.

in the House. That's in its side. What you seem to be describing this time is if Donald Trump is elected and Republicans have control of the House the Senate, it's game on from the from January tewod there's not going to be you know, let's get to know each other time and have some meetings and maybe come over the White House like there's an agenda and it's ready to go for the American people.

the Senate Republicans. I think that's great. He was talking at lunch yesterday. He said, you know, it's amazing that the media treats it as a news story that the

House and Senator talking to each other. And the reason he came over and talked to us is is he said, he's focused on his end, very much on developing the agenda and the plans to hit the ground running if and when we win in November, if we come in to January of next year with a Republican president, a Republican Senate, Republican House, we got an enormous amount to accomplish, and the Speaker, to his credit, is very focused on

the first one hundred days. What can we accomplish, what can we do to change the path of the country. I encouraged him to dig in on that. In fact, I shared with a speaker and with everyone else in the room. You know a lot of the senators that are there now were not there back in twenty seventeen when Trump first became president.

very glad the Speaker is trying to think proactively. And I described I described something that I did back in the summer of twenty eighteen. So summer of twenty eighteen, we did a lunch with all the Senate Republicans and

I prepared a PowerPoint. It was about fifty pages long, and I spoke to my colleagues probably the better part of an hour, and the title of the PowerPoint was carpe dim And what I did in the PowerPoint is I looked in the past, in previous instances when one party controlled the White House, the House, and the Senate. It happens pretty rarely. When the Democrats do it, they fundamentally transformed the country. So in the last century, the first time they did it, they passed the New Deal.

The second time they did it, they passed the Great Society. The third time they did it, they passed Obamacare and Dodd Frank And now for the last two years we've seen they've spent us into an absolute inflation and recession home. And on the other hand, Republicans, when we have unified control,

we tend to do small and piddling things. So what I argued in the PowerPoint is at the time I presented it was August of twenty eighteen, I said, listen, any rational political observer recognizes that there's a very real chance that we will lose at least one House of Congress in November. And I said to my colleagues, particularly the guys who were the sophomores, who were the people who had been elected two years earlier, And I said, look for you, guys, we have one hundred and eighty

three days till the next Congress. For many of you, if we do not pass things now, you will never again have another chance to pass anything into law. And so I put together a spreadsheet. It was about fifty different bills all of the bills had been written by different Republican senators. Some I had written, but most of them were my colleagues. And all of the bills were bills that had a reasonable prospect of garnering fifty one votes.

They weren't fringe things that would get ten or twelve votes. They were all things that would easily get forty five Republicans and that had a real shot at getting fifty. And what I argued is, I said, listen, this is going to sound radical to you, Ben, we should do something, we should not do nothing. Amazingly enough, that argument proved unpersuasive. Mitch McConnell said, well, so the principal avenue that if you look, the biggest legislative victory of the Trump years

was the twenty seventeen tax cuts. We pass that using what's called budget reconciliation. Budget reconciliation is a process under a bill called the Budget Act in nineteen seventy five. The budget piece is not terribly consequential. What's consequential is, under the terms of the statute, you have an up down vote at fifty votes and it can't be filibustered. So it's one of the most important exceptions to the filibuster we could have. If you look at the Democrats,

they did three budget reconciliations. It's how they passed almost all of their agenda that put us in this hole. When the Republicans had the majority, we did only one budget reconciliation. We did not do a single one in twenty eighteen, which, frankly, Ben is indefensible, and so I made the case of the Speaker and my colleagues. Let's not make that mistake again. Let's hit the ground running as always.