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It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you and Senator there is a viral video of a invasion selling word I know to use it at the southern border that now everyone is seeing of illegal immigrants breaking through razor wire.
Well, that's right.
Every day and every week the border crisis continues to get worse and worse and worse. We now have video of hundreds of illegal immigrants storming the National Guard, pushing them aside, pushing them down. It is an active and aggressive invasion. On top of that, we now have congressional testimony that the human traffickers, the Mexican drug cartels, have an air force twenty five thousand drones. We're going to
get into all of that. We're also going to talk about the New York Attorney General's jihad against Donald Trump, her absurd efforts to try to collect a half billion dollars from Trump and now to do so and to deny him the right to appeal. It's an absolute travesty.
And finally, we're going to talk about an investigation that has been opened in the House of Representatives as to whether the IRS is using artificial intelligence to surveil you to go after your personal and private financial information.
All of that. In this episode, I.
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it as an invasion of our southern border. And the worst part is you can clearly tell that the people that are on the American side in uniform don't have the ability from our government to stand their ground and fight back as they are overrun by illegal immigrants that come through a very clear barrier invading America. If you haven't seen the video, go look at it to on mynd social media.
It's on yours.
But when you saw this center, I mean, this is all encompassing of just how bad the problem is.
Right now, that's exactly right, Ben, what happened this week in our Passa. We had over one hundred illegal immigrants who.
Not broke through.
Razor wire that the state of Texas had erected, and you had National guardsmen that were standing there guarding it, trying to secure our border, and and just this mob. They were simply outnumbered, and it was a mass that just runs over them, is knocking them down, and it's it's a surge that is happening. That is I don't know what you call it other than an invasion. That's what this is. And the infuriating thing is this is what Joe Biden and congressional Democrats want to have happen.
And you watch this video. You see the National guardsmen trying to put their hands up, trying to hold them back, but there's simply too many of them, and they overwhelmed them with their mass coming into this country. And this is happening. As I said, it keeps getting worse and worse and worse. El Paso's migrant dashboard showed that on Thursday, seven hundred and forty three people had been released from custody and into the United States. That's on Thursday in
El Paso, seven hundred and forty three. It also showed between two thousand and two thousand, five hundred people held in border control custody each and every night. This is in one city on the border, and that same thing is happening all across the two thousand miles of our southern border.
This is I think a psychological thing now too. And I want to talk to you about this because you know when younger people started these flash mobs and stores and they realize, Hey, no one's going to stop us in San Francisco, or in Baltimore and Washington, DC, or New York City. We can just get into large groups and we're going to win because no one's going to arrest us. You look at these illegal immigrants, and I
think it's very clear they figured it out. This president, the United States of America is not trying to stop you. And you can control the border and do whatever you want to do. Who's going to stop you?
Look that that is exactly right. And it's not even that this president's not going to stop you. He's going to help you. He wants them to come illegally. He looks at every one of them and sees, there's another Democrat voter. There's another Democrat voter, there's another Democrat vote. Let's be clear, Joe Biden wants to flip the state of Texas right now to be a blue state. He wants to flip every eight right now to be a
blue state. And so he is happy for as many of these people who are coming illegally to vote illegally as possible, and even if they don't, he's confident that in time, if the Democrats ever get control, they will grant amnesty and voting rights to all of these illegals. And Biden assumes, and I don't think his assumption is crazy, that these illegal immigrants are going to vote for other Democrats to continue the open border.
You combine this story, and I do think it's it's it reminds me of those flashpoint moments, and unfortunately, we're seeing these center I think more and more often, those illegal immigrants that attacked the men in New York City and got released from jail, and we're flicking off really not just the cameras, they're flicking off.
America, and the whole world sees there's no consequence to it. That New York City, you beat up cops, they let you go. Bail, no cash, no bail. Hey you know. I mean, look, I don't know. If you're a New York cop had how do you keep doing your job?
And look the Border patrol agents. I mean when I talk to Border Patrol agents, when I talk to New York cops, I make a point to thank them and tell them we're grateful for what they're doing, because there is a heroism and a patriotism to do your job in the face of political imbeciles who make it almost impossible for you to do your job.
And see, I worry too that the Biden administration and the Department of Homeland Security and my orcas are probably not that upset with what just happened, because what they're going to see from this is, Hey, they figured it out how to beat Texas because they're at Warwick, Texas at the same time, are they not?
Sadly they are Joe Biden.
And this is true of just about every Democrat in the Senate, just about every Democrat in the House.
Given a choice between where do you side.
Do you side with illegal immigrants, do you side with the violent criminals they're being released into this country, or do you side with the American people who are being the victims of crimes at the hands of this invading mob. The Democrats have made the decision where with the cartels? Where with the mob? And this White House is furious that Texas is fighting back.
You combine this story and this is more of a I think, a symbolic moment with this other shocking testimony. Air Force general has come forward before Congress and revealed an alarming number of drones crossing into the US airspace at the southern border. It's an air Force. This came up during a hearing with one of your colleagues, Senator Ted Budd who is a freshman senator who is there asking basic questions about what's going on with all these
drones coming across the southern border. I want to play this and then get your reaction.
It's my understanding there's been a lot of drone incursions along our southern border. How many drone incursions have we had and what are they doing? Senator? The number of incursions was something that was alarming to me as as I took command last month. I don't know the actual number. I don't think any of it's in the thousands. I have talked to Customs and Border Protection, who are responsible for the uas incursions and in the border along with
dj and they put the number at thousands. Over what period of time is that thousands? I would say in the probably over a month. We could probably have over a thousand a month. General, Do they, in your view represent homeland defense threat?
Senator?
They alarmed me from the being the person responsible for homeland defense. I haven't seen any of them manifest in a threat to the level of national defense. But I see the potential only growing.
I see the potential only growing. You dig into this a little bit more, and this has obviously been something that they didn't want to get out.
They didn't want us to know about this.
And then an article comes out in the New York Post about other testimony that's already happened. They've got a whole damn air force down there at the southern border, and this is the cartels that have this.
Well, that's right.
So that was the testimony of Air Force General Gregory Guillot, who is the commander of Norad, so a very senior Air Force general. He's just taken over the command of Norrad and also US Northern Command, and he's looking at
the number that is coming in. He just testified over one thousand a month, and we likewise had last month testimony from the Rio Grand Valley sector chief Border Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez, who told the House Oversight Committee that in her sector alone, So this is just the Rio Grand Valley sector, there head in more than ten thousand drone incursions and more than twenty five thousand drone sightings in the last year. Now think about that for a second.
Twenty five thousand drone sightings in a year. That's in one sector in the Rio Grand Valley. We've got testimonies the cartels. You said they have an air force. That's not hyperbole. You are looking at thousands, if not tens of thousands of drones. Now right now, they're principally using these drones for surveillance. They're going over, they're seeing where
the Border Patrol agents are. And by the way, I've been out on the boats with the Border Patrol and the Rio Grand River and they carry with them guns to shoot down the drones. But it's very hard to shoot down a drone. And when you've got thousands upon thousands, they're simply is not enough to take down the number of drones they're able to just send them, and they base have not only do they have operational control of our southern border. And understand, this is very much like
like like like military warfare. Nobody crosses the border without the cartels taking them across. And and literally, if you're down in Mexico and you decide, hey, I'm just going to try to swim the river come across, they will kill you right like it is. You are taking your life in your own hands if you try to cross without them. So they have complete operational control south of the border. And now with their air force of drones,
they have surveillance north of the border. And and and Joe Biden and the Democrats are happily just facilitating this, doing nothing to stop it. And and and as the General testified the head of Norad, right now, they're using these drones for surveillance, but what's to stop them from using them for for direct hostile activity. We are literally being invaded by multi billion dollar global criminal cartels on a daily basis.
You look at this drone and we hear the word drone, and we think, okay, fun little object you fly around, take pictures. We see them when you sell your house and they come out and they take drone shots of your home and everything else to show your lot in your backyard.
You gotta I.
Think some people may not understand the sophistication of these drones for surveillance, for moving drugs fetanyl. The number one killer people forty nine under in this country is fetnyl overdoses, the human smuggling, the sex trafficking, and also, I mean drones are being used in warfare in the Middle East. A lot of our soldiers are being attacked by drones.
Now it's a new way to attack. We're seeing an Afghant, We're seeing it also in Ukraine and Russia, where drone attacks are are very It's a very big new technology in warfare. And that's the reason why I think we need people to understand how serious it is to have an army of this many drones that you can be using for this many nefarious reasons.
Well, look, that's absolutely right.
Drones today are used regularly as a weapon of war. They're used for surveillance. They can be very effective for surveillance. They're also used and you rightly noted another way the cartels are using it right now, which is to transport drugs that you can put fetanol, you can put meth, you can put cocaine or heroine. You can put it on a drone, use the drone to fly across the river and then to land to go to someone from the cartel that is in the United States to receive
those drugs. And so the cartels are using that as well as a means of drug delivery. But there's also on top of that, they can be used as an offensive weapon.
They can be used.
We see drones in combat theaters that have weapons mounted on them. We see drones. Drones can also will be used to spread a biological agent, a chemical agent. And there's a reason that the commander of NORAD said, this is very alarming. When you're dealing with thousands and thousands of drones routinely coming across our border. It only takes one that is manned by a terrorist to potentially murder
people on the American side of the border. And the point is, under Joe Biden, we're not even trying to stop this. The federal government is not trying to prevent these drone incursions. They're simply saying, much as they did with the Chinese by balloons, they're simply saying if you want to invade us, hey, come on in.
Yeah.
And not only that, if you want to just rush the border with a couple hundred people, go ahead and do that. We will not give the authority for America to protect and defend its borders there either. Let me talk to you about your retirement for a moment. Is the money you've been saving for retirement going to be enough?
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You mentioned something in the last statement that you made that I want you to expand on a little bit here, and that is you have this official testimony to Congress. It's one thousand plus drones a month. You go back to that article that you read earlier with the with the testimony on the House side saying they've got basically an air force, and not only do they have an
air force, but it's one that is the quote. The adversaries have seventeen times the number of drones, twice the amount of flight hours, and unlimited funding to grow their operations.
Is what Chavez.
The Rio Grand Valley sector chief testified the House Oversight Committee, and there doesn't seem to be a plan. Is there anything that will change this administration stance to have a plan. I mean, they're at war with us. How are we not going to respond? And at what point will this administration respond? Or are we just basically sol until election day?
Yeah, Joe Biden is not going to change. He doesn't want to change. He is stug in.
He views this as as the path to Democrats staying in power. And look, if he was going to change, he would have done it already. The only answer is we've got to win in November because these people are destroying our country in front of our eyes.
Senator, while they're trying to destroy our country and not going after the people that are breaking in There's one thing that is very clear, and that is public enemy number one of this administration, the Democrats, is Donald Trump. We now are saying them trying to break Trump financially. I would assume that you would agree this is certainly a level of election interference at shocking. But let's talk
about the money now. The ag James who said vote for me and I'll go after Trump is now asked the court to deny Donald Trump's four hundred and fifty four million dollar bond appeal. This is unprecedented in American society. This is what would happen in communist countries, yet it's happening right now in America.
Well, we are seeing across the country Democrat prosecutors abusing the justice system to try to number one, destroy Donald Trump, but to try to number two subvert democracy. They are terrified that the voters in November will vote to re elect Donald Trump, and so they want to abuse their power to stop the voters from doing that. What Letitia James has done. She ran for Attorney General promising I'm going to get Trump, and I'll say, at least so far,
she's delivered on that promise. She went after him with everything she had in a fraud case that is under a New York statute that is really a ridiculous statute because she alleged fraud with no victims. She alleged that he had borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars from sophisticated banks like Deutschebank. And Deutschebank didn't lose money, in fact, they made money on the loans. Trump repaid the loans and Deutschbach said they were thrilled to make the loans
and would happily make them again. And the argument was that he valued his real estate more than it was worth. Deutschbach Bank is not some like poor little old lady who's a vulnerable consumer. They're a multi billion dollar global bank. They valued the real estate on their own damn thing. You know, if I come in and tell tell my mortgage company, hey, my home is worth ten million dollars, They're gonna send their own appraiser to go figure out
what my home is worth. They're going to laugh at me. So an alleged offense with no victim, no injury, and no harm. The judgment with interest is four hundred and fifty four million dollars half a billion dollars. And then New York has a provision that you see in a number of states that to appeal that you've got to put the four hundred and fifty four million dollars in cash either liquid, so either cash or securities liquid, or you have to have a bond that covers that amount.
And so Trump went and tried to get a bond, and he went to thirty different surety companies, and all of them turned him down, and he filed an affidavit. So he's raised an issue on appeal to say, look, you can't require me to put up a half billion dollars just to be able to appeal. And Leticia James just opposed that and said, oh yeah, he doesn't put that money up. We're coming to take his property. So understand what she wants to do. And she wants to
do this as soon as potentially next week. She wants to show up and physically seize his properties, literally go and seize properties that he has in New York or elsewhere. It could literally come down to her trying to essentially put a padlock on Trump Tower. And I say that not really with hyperbole, because this is a political jahad for her, So I think she will look for the
most visible political way to attack her opponent. And here's here's what Trump's lawyers told the New York Appellate Court. The attorneys wrote that quote, it is not possible under the circumstances presented. They said, the underwriters insisted on cash or other liquid assets instead of real estate as collateral.
So Trump has lots of real estate. But apparently the o of writers said no, it's got to be cash or liquid, and he didn't have a half billion dollars sitting around, and they insisted on cash to cover one hundred and twenty percent of the judgment, which is five hundred and fifty seven million dollars. An insurance broker Gary Giuletti wrote in a sworn statement that quote a bond of this size is rarely, if ever.
Seen, and.
Letitia James responded, well, no, no, that's not true. There have been billion dollar bonds before, yes, for massive public corporations.
But Trump's business is not a public corporation.
It is a private company, and to get a half billion dollar bond is incredibly difficult, and so understand the impact. If Trump is not able to post this bond. The effect would be to deny him the right to even appeal the absurd partisan decision from the district court. I
got to say, this is such a profound abuse. Now, that doesn't mean Trump would be out of option, because if the New York courts insist you got to put up a half billion dollars in order to appeal this decision, I am confident that Trump will appeal that, and potentially appeal that all the way to the U. S. Supreme
Court and the U. S. Supreme Court. He would have multiple arguments, constitutional arguments, including the Constitution prohibits denying an individual, depriving an individual of property without due process of law. And there would be an argument that this is such an excessive bond that it constitutes a violation of due process. He would also have an argument under the Eighth Amendment. The Eighth Amendment specifies excessive bail shall not be required,
nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. Now, the Eighth Amendment typically applies in a criminal context, but given the magnitude here, I would expect him to make both an Eighth Amendment argument and a due process argument, and it is entirely possible that would prevail ultimately. But what New York is doing, what the New York Attorney General is doing, is the conduct of a banana Republic.
Kevin O'Leary, who many you will know from Shark Tank, not the most political guy. He talked about the business fallout of this and asking where are the adults in the room, because we can't let this stand in the United States of America. Here's part of what he said, which I thought was really interesting.
But more importantly, the message about the American brand. You think about America, the reason this is the number one economy on Earth is that we have laws, and we have due process, and we have property rights. It attracts foreign capital from all around the world. All of that
is being shaken to the core here. The concept of seizing assets in thirty days on a bond number that's never been issued, No insurance bond companies ever issued anything near this, so it chance that was going to happen, and only giving thirty days notice in time, that's a really bad message. And I think New Yorker should think well past Trump, whether he's president or not, or whether this Attorney's General is gone in four years or not,
it's irrelevant. This is case setting against the American brand. The most stable country on earth anywhere to put capital work over a long period of time, particularly in real estate, is the United States of America.
This is an.
Assault on what we believe to be core and I find it extraordinary. I think it's very troubling. It has absolutely nothing to do with Donald Trump at this point, in my view, and it is completely bipartisan. This is an attack on America. And I don't know how you can look at it any other way. And as an investor, and I know plenty of investors are completely disturbed by this, but I mean, no one is going to put any money to work in New York in these amounts until
this thing settles down. The whole world is watching, and everybody's waiting for one thing we haven't got yet. Adult supervision.
Where is it?
Where are the adults in this crazy narrative? Certainly there's got to be adult supervision at some point. And I understand, you know the war going on here and all the political YadA YadA, Wolf Wolf Wolf, but we need an adult in the room.
Now.
This is the United States of America under.
Siege, under siege. I mean, he's not joking around. He says, where are the adults center? I'm going to ask you this, where are the adults? At what point do the adults get a hold of this?
Well, at this point, it's not clear to me that there are any adults left in New York. There certainly are not among politicians. I don't know of a single Democrat politician who has spoken out against this abuse. Certainly Chuck Schumer hasn't Governor hasn't. The mayor of New York City hasn't. Leticia James is auditioning to be governor. She's clearly ambitious. She views this as the path to success
in the Democrat Party in New York. And I got to say, look, I think they rationalize in their own mind, this is a special rule just for Donald Trump. We hate Trump so much. They think Trump is the devil, and so this applies just to Trump. But this precedent
can apply to anyone. If simply claiming that you overstated the value of your real estate gives the Attorney General the justification to seize hundreds of millions or billions of dollars, what real estate developer in their right mind would would continue to do business. Every real estate developer, just as a starting point is subject to this kind of shakedown.
And if you don't think that Letitia James or the next ambitious Attorney General will use that power, then you're smoking something, because look, it is arbitrary, it's unreviewable, and by the way, if you can't get a bond to appeal it, there is no appellate review. So it's the ability to shake it down. And so if she wants
to negotiate a settlement. Suppose she comes in. That gives this politician the ability to terrorize businesses, to terrorize foreign corporations, anyone that they decide we don't like.
It.
Essentially empowers the politicians to terrorize individuals and companies and force them to comply with whatever their demand is, or else we will seize your assets and you can't even appeal it. And yet, why is not a single Democrat in New York worried about this or speaking out about it? You know, it's astonishing.
Yeah, and it's not just if you think it's only going to be Donald Trump, you may be wrong. Which brings us to our final story, and that deals with the IRS. Jordan has announced he's opened up an investigation accusations the IRS is using AI to spy on tax payers. I would love to say I'm surprised by this, senator, but we've seen the IRS go after conservative groups and Tea party groups and others in the past, and no one really got in trouble for that, So why would it be any different this time?
Well, that's exactly right.
So we have a pair of letters that was sent to the Treasury Secretary into the Attorney General. One was sent by Jim Jordan, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and another one was sent by Harriet Hageman from Wyoming, and it is examining whether the IRS is using artificial
intelligence to surveil American taxpayers. And in the letters that they describe how the IRS put out a press release in twenty twenty three saying that artificial intelligence quote will he help i r S compliance teams better detect tax cheating, identify emerging compliance threats, and improve case selection tools to
avoid burdening taxpayers with needless no change audits. And the letter from Jordan and Hageman continues quote, However, recent reporting alleges that the IRS's use of AI has also included actively monitoring American citizens bank accounts en mass and without
legal process. And they cite a report from from James O'Keeffe and and the video footage from James O'Keefe UH captures an individual named Alex Mina, who's an IRS official work working in the agency's Criminal Investigations Unit, who admits and and and this is a quote I'm going to
quote for the letter. Quote video footage obtained by an investigated media outlet appears to cap thus Alex Mina, an IRS official working in the agency's Criminal Investigations Unit, admitting that the IRS has a new system that uses AI to target potential abusers by examining all returns, bank statements, and related financial information for potential for fraud, and Mina asserted that the new AI system has the ability to access and monitor all the information from all the companies
in the world.
I mean the amount of power that the IRS has not just to spy on people, but to come after people for their political viewpoints. And everybody's like, oh, it never has happened. They don't do that. We know that from tea party groups in the past. This is going to be very interesting. If Jim Jordan opening these investigations, what comes to this. We will keep you updated on it. Don't forget we did this show Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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