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It is verdict with center, Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you, Senator fireworks on Capitol Hill. We're gonna start with that because it was a very big day for Pete Hedgseth. Democrats tried to derail him. It did not work well. The circuses in town.
Democrats were putting on a show today at the hearing for Pete hegg Seth. The good news is he will be confirmed. We're gonna break it down exactly what happened at his confirmation hearing yesterday. And this is the beginning of the confirmation hearings for the Trump cabinet. Tomorrow, we'll
have confirmation hearings. I'll participate in three. I'll participate in the confirmation hearing for Pam Bondy as Attorney General, the confirmation hearing from Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, and I'll be chairing the confirmation hearing for Sean Duffy, a Secretary of Transportation. We'll tell you what to expect on that, and then we're going to talk about one of the most shocking scandals that you've never heard of, and it is the child rape gang scandal in the United Kingdom.
Thousands upon thousands of children were raped over decades, systematically, repeatedly, and the British government, British prosecutors turned the other way because of political correctness and multiculturalism. The shocks that the facts are shocking, and the six o'clock news won't cover it. That's why you listen to Verdict to discover the real facts that you will not hear in the corporate media.
And finally, Joe Biden, on his way out, decided to give a gift to the communists in Qube, but he took them off the list of state sponsors of terrorism. It turns out if you're a leftist, you can try to kill anyone you want and the Democrats will love you.
All of that.
On today's Verdict, Yeah, it's the story on that one is truly shocking.
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to say he's unfit for office. It was to try to say, well, he's not what we traditionally have in this role in the past, and we must keep the status quo. And then it went to personal attacks on him as well.
None of it stuck.
Yeah, le le, let's start with the punchline. Pete hegseeth will be confirmed. He is going to be confirmed as the Secretary of Defense. I believe he will have at least fifty votes in the US Senate, and today's hearing is a big part of the reason why Democrats tried to come after him, and frankly, in the course of the hearing, I don't think they laid a glove on him very effectively. Now, listen, you and I had talked
about this before. We had predicted it was going to be a political circus, and there were clowns, there were dancing bears that were ballerinas and trapeze artists. They went after him, But.
It actually speaks volumes.
What did they choose to go after him on. They choose chose to go after him on political smears to personal smears, to drag him through the gutter, and based on a whole series of allegations that the press has covered breathlessly over and over and over again, almost all of which are anonymous allegations. So you don't have anyone coming forward being willing to say I was there, this
is what happened. They're all anonymous, given to left wing papers, and there's no evidence to back any of them up. And yet the Democrats, in any massive display of hypocrisy, just went after and they were They were mean, they were nasty, that they were personal. You know, look, you look at Pete Haigs's background. First of all, he went to Princeton and Harvard, which which I confess I'm kind
of partial to that particular comedy. I wonder why, by the way, I learned this today reading through his bio.
Do you know what he did at Princeton?
I do not.
He played on the basketball team.
Well, then the next question is why have you guys not played?
I found that out today. I'm but that's like twelve hours ago. Usually says you already get a game together in these cities. So I played hoops this afternoon. We play old guys against young guys. Pete is forty four, he's not not my age, but he still qualifies as an old guy. So I was already laughing, going, all right, I'm recruiting to me a ringer. He not only played on the Princeton basketball team, he played in March Madness.
Uh, he played played in the tournament.
I had no idea. That is a very cool piece of info there.
I learned it from Wikipedia today. So I have not talked to about it today because I learned it like three hours ago, and I was like, wow, that's really cool. But Princeident Harvard and then he served active duty military, deployed, deployed in combat, commanded troops in combat, was awarded the Bronze Star. Was is a decorated combat veteran. And and and then when when when he left active duty, uh, he led two veterans organizations advocating on behalf of veterans
advocating on behalf of active duty troops. Pete someone I've known a long time. He he is a strong leader. He is he is a principal leader. And and and what was really striking about the hearing all of the Democrats they hate him like they hate Donald Trump, and and every one of the Democrats on the committee is going to vote against him. But you could see the vitriol and hatred the fact that they had to go
to personal spears. What I think spoke volumes is they didn't talk at all about the job that he is going to do at the Department of Defense. And you and I talked about this on the podcast the day after Trump announced Pete hagg Seth, and we predicted on this pod. So they're going to have they're going to come after him, They're going.
To go crazy. It's going to be a political circus.
But my take on him the day it was announced is the same as my take on him now, which is Pete hagg Seth will be a change agent. That he was nominated and he's going to be confirmed to go to the Department of Defense and to bring DoD back to its core mission, to bring it back to supporting the warfighter, to bring it back to being ready and pair to defeat our enemies and to kill our enemies.
And we have seen the Department of Defense under Barack Obama initially and even more so Inner Joe Biden get mired into the games of political correctness and woke ideology and and and they're more interested in transgender soldiers than they are actually in defeating our enemies, and and and and by the way, one of the consequences of it, the military is suffering a recruitment crisis because it turns.
Out young men and women are not eager to.
Be part of some left wing political crusade. They are eager to be heroes defending America. And a prediction that I've made, I believe we will see recruiting and enlistment love numbers rise significantly when Pete Hegsith is confirmed to Secretary of Defense. Because young men and women, many of them in the South. You get a lot of people who enlist in the military from the South are going to say, that's what I want to be a part
of I want to focus on defending our nation. I thought Pete Hexas did a terrific job today.
One of the things that he said that I thought was also really interesting is he talked about how we hold the men and women that are in combat to insanely high standards. But he said, we have too many people that are in the bloated upper echelons of the bureaucracy of the Pentagon that get as he described it, these bigger roles even after big failures. And he said, if you lose a war, you shouldn't be able to
get a better job after you lose a war. And he said, we have way too many people that are on the payroll and in general roles, for example, when we don't need as many and when we won World War Two, he compared it to how many we have today. It is significant to see the idea, as you said, about being change in it where he's like, look, we need to put the fighters first, the soldiers first, and not le readership first all the time.
Well, and and he also talked a great deal about modernizing the military, developing weapons systems to fight tomorrow's war, not yesterday's war. And and and in particular that's going to involve all sorts of technology like drones and artificial intelligence and hypersonics and and and modernizing the military. Look, the job he's been nominated to is an insanely difficult job. It is there three million people in d O D. It's nine hundred billion dollars. Turning that battleship is not easy.
And and and and and I think I think Pete is up to the task. It's not gonna be an easy thing, you know. I want to focus on to give you an example of the sorts of things that democrats did not did not ask about, and we're not
concerned about it. I want to start by by his answer, uh, concerning Israel and and and Hamas and and this is when Tom Cotton was questioning him, and at the beginning of Pete Haggis testimony, you had a couple of protesters that stood up and screamed and disrupted, and so Cotton gave him a chance to respond to the protesters.
Give a listen to Cotton's question, a hexcess answer.
Big audience here. Many of them seem to be patriotic supporters of you, mister Heseath. Some of them seem to be liberal critics of you. I would note that it's only the liberal critics that have disrupted this hearing. As was my custom during the Biden administration, I want to give you a chance to respond to what they said about you. I think the first one accused you of being a Christian Zionist. I'm not really sure why that is a bad thing. I'm a Christian, I'm a Zionist.
Zionism is that the Jewish people deserve a homeland in the ancient Holy Land where they've lived since the dawn of history. Do you consider yourself a Christian Zionist.
Senator, I support. I'm a Christian, and I robustly support the state of Israel and it's existential defense and the way America comes alongside the great.
Thank you because another protester, and I think this one was a member of Code Paint, which by the way, is a Chinese communist front group these days, said that you support Israel's war in Gaza. I support Israel's existential war in Gaza. I assume, like me and President Trump, you support that war as well, don't.
You, Senator I do. I support Israel destroying and killing every last member of Hamas, and.
I love that aspect of his answer.
Look, there is a clarity to it.
I support Israel destroying and killing every last member of Hamas. That is exactly right. And yet you cannot imagine Joe Biden or anyone in the Biden administration uttering those words. Why because they don't support that. And in fact, at every stage on and after October seventh, the Biden administration has been urging Israel stop killing the terrorist, stop killing the terror and there's a reason the Democrats didn't want to talk about the job he was nominated to and
instead wanted to go to personal spheres. And it is that clarity. I also want to play another clip where he was talking about he was talking about the service members who were kicked out because of the COVID vaccine.
Yeah, this is a big flash point and a big question you and I have talked about for a long time, which is should the people that were kicked out get their jobs back?
Should they get back pay?
Well, he answered that, and give a listen to his answer.
We haven't even talked about COVID and the tens of thousands of service members who were kicked out because of an experimental vaccine. In President Trump's Defense department, they will be apologized to, They will be reinstituted, reinstituted with pay and rank.
Center.
This goes back to what you said a minute ago about you think that recruitment's going to go up.
Yep.
Part of that recruitment's going to be I think a lot of men women that were kicked out that are going to want to come back and serve under this type of leadership as well.
Yeah, look that is absolutely right.
And look at a time that we've got huge recruitment challenges, what did Joe Biden the Democrats do. They threw out tens of thousands of servicemen and women because they declined to get the COVID vaccine. It was asinine, it was irrational, it was arbitrary, and I believe the reason they did so is precisely because they recognized that many of them were conservatives, and it was an excuse to purge conservatives.
By the way, they did the same thing as the Department of Justice at the FBI as a border patrol. And this is an issue as you know that I've been leading the fight on in the Senate for the past several years. I led the fight successfully to end the vaccine mandate in the military, so it's no longer a current mandate. But I've introduced legislation, the Americans Act, that would mandate that those who were thrown out of the military be allowed back in, reinstated with backpay and rank,
and the Democrats have systematically blocked it. Pete hagg Seth just promised to do that. That is the right thing to do. I'll tell you I knew he was going to say that, because when I sat down and met with him, I asked him that very directly, and he made that commitment to me in our meeting, and I'm glad he now made it publicly at his confirmation hearing. And that's the sort of clarity that frankly, the Democrats
don't want at the Department of Defense. But that's also why he's going to be confirmed, and that's a very good thing.
Let's finally talk about accountability. One other thing he said that I think should make headlines. I don't think the media is going to cover it, but it should was his thoughts on the withdrawal in Afghanistan.
Here's what he said.
There's been no accountability for the disaster of the withdrawal in Afghanistan. And that's precisely why.
We're here today.
Is that leadership he's been unwilling to take accountability. It's the time to restore that to our most senior ranks.
I love how they were trying to cut him off when he was saying that Democrats did not want that out there.
Yeah, that was Jack Reid, who's the ranking member of the senior Democrat on the Armed Services Committee. He's interrupting excus no, no, don't get into that, and it is shocking. The disaster of Afghanistan was the first major foreign policy screw up of the Biden administration, and it foreshadowed all the other disasters because it told our enemies this commander in chief was weak and ineffective and it was embarrassing. And I'll tell you the servicemen and women I've talked
to who fought in Afghanistan, they're angry. They're angry at the disgrace and debacle of that withdrawal. And nobody lost their job, not as Secretary of Defense didn't lose his job, The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs didn't lose his job. To the best of my knowledge, no general lost his job, no civilian lost his job. Nobody did because in the Biden administration, no one gets fired ever, and there are no consequences.
And that needs to be assessed.
What were the mistakes that led to one of the most humiliating and disastrous military retreats in US military history that, at least to date, there's been zero accountability for.
So let's move to what people are going to see Wednesday, and that's going to be these three confirmation hearings that you're involved in, Bondi, Duffy, and Rubio. Let's start with Pam Bondy first. What can people expect and what should they be looking for?
So it'll be a circus too. Bondi will be one of the hotter ones. It won't be quite the circus that Haig Seth was, but it's going to be a show. We're going to have two days of hearings for Pam Bondy. Look, I don't think they're really going to go after her. They don't have a lot of shots at her personally. She's clearly qualified. She's she's a veteran prosecutor. She was she was the elected Attorney General of Florida. She's got a lot of experience. So I don't think they're really
going to go after her. But what they are going to do is go after Trump. They hate Trump, and so their attack for the next two days is going to be your Trump's lackey. And their attack is also
going to be you're going to weaponize the Department of Justice. Now, I'm confident that she's going to respond and say no, we're not We're going to follow the law and restore integrity to doj But I expect the attacks to be very much not attacking her directly, but using her to attack Trump, and I think she'll she'll respond very effectively. The other two. The Rubio hearing is going to be a love fest. Marco's going to be confirmed easily. It would not surprise me if Marco gets ninety five votes
or more. I think all the Republicans are going to vote for him, and I think most, if not all, the Democrats are going to vote for him, and so I think it will be.
Surely abnormal in the political times right now. It used to not be this way back in the day. You could actually get a lot of people through with this significant number of votes. So this is going to be maybe one of the abnormal ones that Trump puts up.
Right.
Yeah, Look, Secretary's of State, that sometimes happened. One of the very first votes I ever cast was was I was elected in twenty twelve. Twenty thirteen was the beginning of the second Obama term, and he nominated John Kerry to be Secretary of State. John was obviously a former senator and was known by everyone there. And Carrie was confirmed ninety seven to three, and I was one of
the three. And I got to tell you, when I cast my vote, I was a brand new baby freshman, still down in the little basement office that they stick brand new senators in, and when I cast the vote that there was an audible gasp in the well of the Senate because freshmen weren't supposed to do such a thing. And it was actually at the time people it was regarded as as like courageous, which I thought was bizarre. I'm like, John Kerry has been wrong on every foreign
policy issue every day of his life. Systematically, what a train wreck of a nomination. Now he proved to be a train wreck of a Secretary of State, and yet ninety seven of my colleagues happily voted for.
Well, let's go backwards just for a second.
What are these confirmation hearings look like beforehand? How does the decision be made if it's one day or two day? Because you mentioned Bonnie's over two days. And then let's go and explain to people how prep works for the candidate nominee for this, because I've actually gotten to be a part of that before and the prep and it's very interesting to see how you get ready for what you're about to.
Face, so it varies committee by committee, and that they typically follow precedent. So, for example, at the beginning of the heg Seth hearing, there was a back and forth skirmish where the Democrats wanted multiple rounds of questioning and Roger Wicker, who's the Republican chairman, said no, we're going to follow the same precedent we followed for Lloyd Austin, Biden's Secretary of Defense, which is one round of questioning, seven minute questions for each person. And that's what the
Senate Armed Service Committee had done. It's also what they did for Jim Mattis, who was Trump's first Secretary of Defense, and so so that's how that committee decided it. Uh the Attorney General and Judiciary, it's not unusual for that to be a two day hearing. I don't know some of it, as lawyers are long winded, I guess, but but that also has been the tradition of the committee that that that it takes considerable time. Each chairman decides
when to notice various hearings. So Sean Duffy, the third one that I'm going to participate in tomorrow, is nominated to be the Secretary of Transportation. He'll be confirmed. I think he'll be confirmed easily, and I think with bipartisan votes.
I also think that will be something of a love fest, because you've got a bunch of senators on the Commerce Committee, which I chair, who are all wanting the Secretary of Transportation to to spend highway funds and transportation funds in their states and and so they're they're particularly incentivized to be nice to him, and so I think that will be a pretty easy hearing to And look, one of the dynamics of being a senator, these are all going
on simultaneously. So I will start the day at nine thirty, which is when the Pambondi hearing gabbles in, and I'll be in my chair at nine thirty. And the reason is in judiciary, if you're in your chair at gavel, then you reserve your questioning order in order of seniority. And I'm pretty high up the list of seniority in judiciary, So that means if I'm in the chair at gavel, I get to be one of the first Republicans to
question her. If you're not in your chair at gavel, if you're anywhere else, and sometimes you can't be then you you basically speak last and and so I'll be in the chair at gavel, But then right after we gavel in, I'll leave because at ten I have to gavele in the confirmation hearing for Sean Duffy, and I'm charing that one. So I'll spend most of the day, most of the morning at least hiring the Duffy confirmation hearing in At some point i'll leave that hearing. I'll
go back to Judiciary and question Pambondi. At another point, I will leave the hearing and go to Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where I'll question Marco Rubio. I will not be at the chair at gavel for that because it gabbles in at ten also, and I've got to be charing Transportation then, so I'll drop in the Rubio hearing at some point closer to the end when i can get up. And that's part of being a senator. Sometimes you have multiple hearings and you have to run from
one committee room to the other. But all of those will happen tomorrow, and again all of those I believe will get confirmed. And my prediction is every one of the Trump cabinet members will be confirmed.
Wait, wait, wait, say that again. That's the most important thing.
I believe every one of the Trump cabinet members will be confirmed, all of them.
That is good news, That is very very good news.
I want to move to another story you mentioned earlier, and this is a story that on face value, it's something that's in the UK, and there's somebody would say, well, like, this is the UK, why does this matter to me? And I want to connect it to what has happened in this country because of our open borders and the number of miners that we have released in this country to non family members through the Biden Harris program, and when we go back to check on them, they are
nowhere to be found. There are tens of thousands of.
Children over three hundred thousand, not tens of thousands, over three hundred thousands that's in the United States that the Biden administration has lost, that they do not know where they are, that they came as unaccompanied miners and they were handed over to adults and they have no idea where they are, and many of them are no doubt being abused. And the corrupt corporate media could not care less,
The Democrats could not care less. I don't know a Democrat senator who's ever asked about the three hundred thousand children that this administration lost. They don't care about it. But look, I want to say, what's happened in the UK and is happening right now is horrifying and it's a real warning sign here. I want to start by reading from an article in the Free Press because it sums it up really effectively. It's entitled the biggest peacetime
crime and cover up in British history. The grooming and serial rape of thousands of English girls by men of mostly Pakistani Muslim background over several decades is the biggest peacetime crime in the history of modern Europe. It went on for many years, it is still going on, and there has been no justice for the vast majority of
the victims. British governments, both conservative and labor, hoped that they had buried the story after a few symbolic prosecutions in the twenty tens, and it looked like they had succeeded until Elon Musk read some of the court papers and tweeted his disgusted and bafflement on X over the new year. Britain now stands shamed before the world. The public's suppressed wrath is bubbling to the surface in petitions, calls for a public inquiry and demands for accountability. The
scandal is already reshaping British politics. It's not just about the heinous nature of the crimes. It's that every level of the British system is implicated in the cover up. Social workers were intimidated into silence. Local police ignored, excused, and even embedded pedophile rapist across dozens of cities. Senior police and Home Office officials deliberately avoided action in the
name of maintaining what they called quote community relations. Local councilors and members of Parliament rejected pleas for help from the parents of raped children. Charities, NGOs and labor MPs accused those who discussed the scandal of racism and islamophobia. The media mostly ignored or downplayed the biggest story of their lifetimes. Zealous in their incuriosity, much of Britain's media elite remained barnacled to the bubble of Westminster politics and
its self serving priorities. They did this to defend the failed model of multiculturalism and to avoid asking hard questions about failures of immigration policy and assimilation. They did this because they were afraid of being called racist or Islamophobic. They did this because Britain's traditional class snobbery had fused with the new snobbery of political correctness. All of which is why no one knows precisely how many thousands of young girls were raped in how many towns across Britain
since the nineteen seventies. What we do know is that the epicenter was in the post industrial mill towns of England's North and Midlands, where immigrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh settled in the nineteen sixties. White locals say the grooming and rapes began soon after. In Rotherdam, the run down Yorkshire city where the scandal first broke. Local police and counselors were notified about systematic grooming and sex abuse by
two thousand and one. The first convictions did not occur until twenty ten, when five men in Pakistani background were jailed for multiple offenses against girls as young as twelve years old. The breadth of what occurred is staggering, and the systematic willingness to look aside is truly horrific.
And let's be clear.
The reason why they look the other way you mentioned it is really from a pr standpoint. They wanted to have quote good relations and not have a stigma related to people that were coming from the Middle East that were there. So they said, all right, we'll just look the other way and that'll make it easier.
It's actually less Middle East than real primarily Pakistan Pakistan, and it's Pakistani Muslims and what we've seen, so we have seen since the nineteen seventies the grooming and serial
rape of thousands of children. And the issue is in particular relevant because Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, was England's Director of Public Prosecutions between twenty eight and twenty thirteen, and so he was actively involved in looking the other way and a right So let's break down a little bit of the facts of what happened, because the story sounds so extreme as to not be be credible. But the child sex rapes weren't just individual instances done by
rogue individuals. Rather, in nearly all the cases, there were groups of mostly Pakistani men that cooperated and conspired to groom and sexually abuse girls over decades, and they targeted mostly vulnerable girls poor orphans, children in care homes.
They raped the girls.
They passed them around network, so raping them one after the other after the other. Some of these child rapists had roles in local governments. The leader of one of the rape gangs in Oldham, individual named Shabir Ahmed, worked for the local council as a quote welfare rights officer and ran his gang from the council's welfare office. And let me give you some of the facts because they're just just horrifying. One of the victims, a girl named
Victoria Agaglia. Victoria was a fifteen year old teenager and she was subject to the governments round the clock caretaking, but she went missing nineteen times in three months, from up to two weeks at a time. Instead of trying to find her, the welfare worker simply messaged her saying when are you coming back?
Wow.
It turns out she was forced into a Pakistani sex ring by older women who raped her in exchange for cash, alcohol, and hard drugs. She was sometimes abused by up to twenty five men in a single night. Victoria wrote wrote a heartbreaking letter to the police documenting her abuse, but it was ignored and eventually ignored when she was found dead from a fatal dose of heroine given by an abuser, and she was repeatedly drugged and raped the night she
was killed. I'll give you another example, Charlene Downs in Blackpool. In two thousand and three, fourteen year old Charlene Downs disappeared. Police had a lead that Charlene's body had been dismembered and disposed of at a kebab shop in Blackpool. Police uncovered evidence that Charlene had been the victim of child sexual exploitation after being groomed by a gang. The criminals
have not been found and her body is missing. Twenty years later, Lucy Lowe in Telford, an individual named azar Ali Mahmood groomed Lucy Lowe from the age of twelve and impregnated her at fourteen. He burned her alive in her own home with her mother, her disabled sister, and her unborn second child, also fathered by Mahmood. Mehmood was jailed for life in two thousand and one for murder, not for the sex crimes.
For murder.
Reports indicated that South Asian men were targeting teenagers in Telford since the nineteen eighties.
I'll give you one other example. Sophie.
In Oldham in two thousand and six, a twelve year old girl named Sophie entered a police station and reported that she had just been molested in a graveyard by a man named Ali. A desk officer told her to come back with an adult when she was sober. Mind you, she was twelve. Two men accosted her in the police station, joined by a third. They raped her in their car. When they dumped her on the street, she asked a
man named Sarwar Ali for directions. He took her to his home, raped her, and gave her money for bus fare home. Sarwar Ali was arrested and remanded to prison over attack on Sophie. However, he was then released following a bail application to a judge, despite being an illegal immigrant in the United Kingdom. He subsequently failed to attend his appointment with the Immigration Service and is still at large. Then a man named Shaquille Chowdery pulled up in his
car and offered to take Sophie home. He abducted her, took her to a house, fed her alcohol. Soon after, he and four other men repeatedly raped her. Only Shaquille was convicted six years in prison. During his trial, Chowdery named two of the other men involved in the rapes of Sophie as part of his mitigation, but these were not followed up by police at the time. One of the men named by Chowtery was subsequently convicted in two thousand and nine of the attempted.
Murder of his wife.
This pattern happened over and over and over again, and the numbers are staggering. We are talking about thousands of girls systematically, repeatedly raped and the entire British government looked the other way for decades.
So sata the question that I'm sure everyone listening is thinking to themselves like, A, has anything changed now?
And B what should happen? The fact that now this is all out in the.
Open, Well, what has changed is Elon Musk has started tweeting about it, and Elon has over two hundred million followers, and it has drawn attention to it in a way that is really important, and it has become, thankfully a political crisis in the United Kingdom. But I want you to listen to Keir Starmer, this is just about a week ago addressing this crisis and and and listen to what he had to say, This is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
I'm when politicians and I mean politicians who government for many years a casual of our honesty, decency, truth and the rule of law, fooling for inquiries because they want to jump on a bandwagon of the far right, and that affects politics because a robust debate can only be based on the true facts.
So there you have it.
The sitting Prime Minister is saying that if you're concerned about the ongoing rape of thousands of girls in the United Kingdom and the complicity of government, he says, you're jumping on the bandwagon of the far right that continues to be the multiculturalism political correctness that he does not want to acknowledge. And by the way, he was the chief prosecutor for many of these years. He was the one who was directly involved in looking the other way,
so naturally he doesn't want an inquiry. Now I'll give you the response of Nigel Farrad one one of the leaders, and actually Nigel Farage we've had had on the on this podcast. He's been a guest on this podcast before. Nigel Farage obviously led the fight for Brexit in the United Kingdom, and and listen to Nigel Farage's response to what kier Starmer said.
Well, so much talk over the last few days about grooming gangs or should I say rape gangs, and Kirstarmer's today is saying that anyone is calling for a full public inquiry is jumping on the bandwagon of the far right, wrong prime minister. The vast majority of people in this country are absolutely mortified by what has gone on, but even worse the cover up we've had from the police,
social services and both Conservative and labor governments. The inquiries that have happened so far have been nothing more than a whitewash. There needs to be a full public inquiry. Let us find out the truth of the scale of this. I'm told that in up to fifty British towns these gang rapes were going on. I believe the public need the truth. We must have an inquiry.
Sanat.
You hear the frustration there from Nigel, But it also and this is where I say, let's bring it back to the US. I worry that we're going to have this same type of conversation yeap in the not too near distant future. About all the children that we've lost in this country.
So the answer to both needs to be the same, which is there needs to be an inquiry. That needs to be transparency. In the United Kingdom, you know, Nigel Farage mentioned that there their allegations of up to fifty towns where these rape gangs were ongoing for years and years. That's a staggering scale. So there needs to be full transparency, the opposite of a whitewasher, a cover up, but real transparence.
In the United States, the over three hundred thousand children that the Bide the administration lost, we need full transparency. We need to find those kids, those kids who are being abused right right now. We need to get them out of harm's way and sunlight and transparency is power power. But there also needs to be accountability for those who are culpable.
Amen to that.
Finally, I want to just get your reaction to a shocking headline that may not be as big.
Of a deal in just a few days as it could be, and.
That is Joe Biden waiting for the very last moment to remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terror. Why because he says, well, they haven't been involved in sponsoring terrorism in the last six months, So now they're all good.
Don't worry about him.
Your reaction to that, well, until today, Cuba was one of four designated state sponsors of terrorism. The four were North Korea, Iran, and Syria, and their designated pursuant to determination from the Secretary of State that those countries have quote repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism. Cuba was designated in twenty twenty one by the Trump administration.
The designation noted that quote for decades, the Cuban government has fed, housed, and provided medical care for murderers, bomb makers, and hijackers, while many Cubans go hungry, homeless, and without basic medicine, and the Biden administration today delisted them even though Cuba is today a sponsor of terrorism right now, So Cuba is right now refusing requests by Colombia to extradite ten members of the National Liberation Army after the
group claim responsibility for a twenty nineteen bombing of a Bogata police academy, killing twenty two people. Cuba also harbors several American fugitives wanted on or convicted of charges of political violence or murdering police officers. Cuba also supports fark terrorists and props up the Maduro regime in Venezuela. And all of those facts are are clear, they're indisputable. The Biden administration doesn't dispute them. Today's decision was just politics.
It was left wing politics of the very worst sort.
And thank goodness, Donald Trump will be here in just a few more days.
Forget, and I believe, and I believe this determination will be reversed next week. I fully expect next week. And in fact, I think one of Marco Rubio's very first acts when he is confirmed as Secretary of State, and my prediction is I think Marco will be confirmed on January twentieth, the same day that President Trump is torn into office. It would not surprise me if Marco on January TWENTIETHS lists Cuba again. So understand what this is. This is not going to be a fundamental shift in
US policy. This is just Biden saying screw you on the way out, and the Biden White House saying, number one, we stand with communists. We like the Cuban communist. You know, when we were in college, we had posters of Tchaegovar on the wall, and we find communists. We just think they're really cute and lovely, and it's consistent with their pattern of kissing up to communists across across the world. But number two, this is yet another manifestation of Biden
and Harris's and and and democrats contempt for democracy. In the closing hours, they're trying to do everything they can to make it difficult for the Trump administration, and and and and to just say screw you to the voters in November who gave a clear and unequivocal mandate, that there's an arrogance and contempt for the voters, that this is just just one of the most one of the latest and one of the most shocking manifestations of.
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