Good Monday morning, so nice to have you with us here on Verdict, with Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you and Senator. It was a very big weekend when it came to news a horrific attack in Colorado, and also a lot going on with Ukraine and Russia.
Well.
Tragically, the radical anti American anti Israel left keeps getting worse, keeps getting more violence. We saw two weeks ago to Israeli supporters, people who worked in the Israeli consulate in Washington, d C. Murdered on the streets of DC, murdered by
a radical leftist who screamed free Palestine. And then just this weekend we saw five people in Colorado who were engaged in a pro Israel protest speaking up for the hostages, calling on Hamas to release the hostages, saying enough is enough, and a deranged lunatic fire bombed them through Molotov cocktails at them, lit them on fire. It was tragic at this point, little past.
Midnight Sunday night.
What we know right now is five people are reported to be injured too, with very serious injuries. And this is sadly the face of the angry anti American left and the angry anti Israel left. They are violent and far too often that they are committing acts of enormous violence and even murder. And this pattern the media apologizes for them, whitewashes that what they do covers up for them.
But Verdict is not going to do that.
We're going to give you the facts. We also have in Russia and Ukraine. An extraordinary moment, Ukraine strikes back. Ukraine launched on audacious drone attack on Russia. They took out more than forty Russian bombers deep inside Russian territory. It was it was an attack that was meticulously panned out. It is similar to Israel's attack on Hezbala with the pagers, and that it took enormous preparation to carry out and
it was remarkably effective. Hopefully this attack will accelerate ending the war in Ukraine and it may bring Russia to the bargaining table to say enough is enough.
Yeah, and that may, like you said, be one of the silver linings of this attack. And it took a long time for them to plant in preparation for it. We'll give you those details as well in a moment. Let me tell you real quick about Patriot Mobile. You've heard me talk about Patriot Mobile for a while, and you probably already know that. For years, they've stood in the gap for every American that believes that freedom is actually worth fighting for.
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free month of service. That's Patriot Mobile dot com slash verdict or nine seven to two Patriot. All right, Senaer, let's talk about the two narratives coming out of this attack in Colorado. There's many that are wanting this to just be some random attack and you know, kind of move on. They don't want you to know the facts. They don't want you to know how the person got into this country. They don't want you to know who let him in this country. They don't want you to
know he over state a visa. They don't want you to know he's a legal immigrant, and they don't want you to know that he was an anti Israel individual that was trying to or not trying setting elderly Jewish individuals who do this walk every week to remember the hostages being held by Hamas. They do this every week, and they and he deliberately was trying to set them on fire and kill them.
Well, and let's set the stage.
This is in Boulder, Colorado. It was a weekly event called Run for Their Lives and it was a weekly gathering of Jewish community leaders that that that was supporting the hostages that were taken on October seventh and calling for their release from from Hamas. So it was a peaceful protest. But I'll tell you what people knew. People knew that at the time of this this protest, there were going to be Jews there. There were going to
be Jews who supported Israel. And the hate of the anti Israel that left, the hate of the anti America anti Israel left is so great that simply knowing that there were Jews who were present somewhere, sadly in those radical circles. It has proven to be an invitation to violence. And in this instance, the man threw multiple bottles filled with flammable liquids that hit hit the ground, that exploded
in flames uh and and burned multiple people. Now you and I are are describing this at just after midnight Sunday night, and so the event is incredibly recent. So I want to give a caveat that. Inevitably, when you have a bad event, there there is a fog of war.
Some of the facts that.
Are being reported today will prove less than accurate. But on the face of this, it is obviously a terror attack. It is not complicated to figure out who the targets were. And yet I got to say, I want you to listen, and the FBI, to their credits, said right from the beginning, this is a targeted terror attack because they actually are
not ostriches with their heads plunged into the sand. I want you to contrast this with the words of the Bolder police chief UH, with which, if the topic weren't so serious, they almost sound like a Saturday night Live skit.
Give a listen. Was an actual protest going on when this occurred. Were a group of people gathered and for words.
Said that would indicate anything at all to do with that protests. So what I will tell you on Pearl Street, it's a walking pedestrian mall downtown here. There was a lot of people out a very beautiful day. There was a group of pro Israel people that were there in a peaceful demonstration. I wouldn't even call it a protest. I believe that happens frequently down here. They were there
in that area. We are looking and actively interviewing victims and witnesses to determine if that group was targeted or others, and we just don't have those answers yet. Those are things we helped to be able to provide you later this evening. FBI is already calling it a targeted terror attick. Would you also refer to it as a terror attack? So I've been in contact with our local FBI multiple times. We are in contact with them here. We are not calling it a terror attack at this point. Again, it's
way too early to speculate motive. I know there's a lot out there on social media, but I ask people just to give us a little bit of patience while we work through a really complex scene. A lot of witnesses were here. We've taken them to another location to debrief them and interview them. As you do that, I think the picture will become more clear, but it would be it would be irresponsible for me to speculate on motive this early on. We're only a couple hours into
the seams. Can you compre the description about him, because we know any picture running the media, I haven't seen it, and obviously I wasn't here when he was arrested. All I know is it's an adult male. We're working to identify that person. We're working to figure out where they're from. Uh and we're in contact with our federal partners as well as we figure that out.
It is amazing to hear the Boulder Police chief put it this way and clearly doing it, saying the FBI is the one that's overreacting, calling this a terrorist tack. Clearly, I'm not going with those guys over there. Cash, Mattel and Bongino come out very early on and saying, quote, it wouldn't be helpful, implying the FBI's like amateur hour at this moment.
Yeah, Look, this sadly is woke politics. If you have Jews who are standing and protesting favor of hostages in Israel, taken in October seventh, a weekly recurring event where everyone knows, and by the way, this police chief knows, there is vicious terrorism and anti Semitism directed at Jews, directed at supporters of Israel, and they threw molotov cocktails on them. That this is not subtle. This is not someone tripped
and accidentally hit them. This is not a random draft drive by shooting of two gangs we're shooting at each other and a stray bullet hit someone. I mean, this is multiple molotov cocktails directed at a very specific, concrete group of people. And so the FBI is obviously right in calling it terrorism. I mean this same knucklehead, By the way, it reminded me of at the tail end of the Biden administration when you had the deranged radical Islamic terrorists drive a car into a crowd in New Orleans.
He was flying an ISIS flag, and yet the local FBI person there said, well, we don't know that it's terrorism. You know what if a guy drives a jeep with an ISIS flag into a crowd and murders people, it's terrorism. You don't need a deep subtle analysis to tell. And let me give you another fact that miraculously the corporate media is omitting. Bill Malujin that the very best reporter
at Fox he reported tonight quote breaking. Three senior DHS sources tell Fox News that the Bolder terror suspect is an Egyptian national in the US illegally as a visa overstay who entered the US during the Biden administration. I'm told Mohammed Sabree Soloman arrived at lax on eight twenty seven, twenty two on a B one slash B two non immigrant visa with an authorized stay through two twenty six, twenty three, but he overstayed and never left.
I'm told on nine.
Two he filed some sort of claim with USCIS, potentially an asylum claim, and on three twenty nine, twenty three, USCIS under Biden gave him work authorization, which expired on three twenty eight, twenty five. Understand, assuming this reporting is right, this guy was an illegal immigrant who came from Egypt. He overstated his visa, which made him illegal, and the
Biden administration allowed him to stay. They allowed someone to stay who now is charged with and appears to have committed throwing molotov cocktails at at peaceful Jewish protesters standing up for hostages. It's also been reported one of the victims of this firebombing was a Holocaust survivor. This is the consequence of Joe Biden, the Democrat's open borders. When you let terrorists into the country. Shockingly, they emit acts of terrorism.
There's also another aspect of this that the media is refusing to touch, and that is the age of the people that were targeted by this individual.
They were elderly. Yeah, they were doing this every week.
They were committed to not forgetting those that are being held hostage. Right now, you just mentioned one of the Maholocaust survivor. It's being reported, and yet the media doesn't want to talk about how barbaric the attack is. That these are senior citizens seventies and eighties, who were targeted because they were obviously easier to target because of their age.
Well and listen, in the last two months, we've seen
elderly Jewish protesters firebombed with molotov cocktails. We've seen a young Jewish couple executed leaving a Jewish museum in DC, and as we talked about in a prior podcast that that couple had publicly said they meant at an event where I was speaking that they I don't believe I had met that young couple, but it reduced me to tears that they came to an event where I was giving a speech on foreign policy, and that's where the two of them met and got engaged, and tragically they
were murdered by a radical leftist who hates Israel, who hates Jews, and hates America, and and and gunned them down, and and and also within the last two months, we had yet another radical who tried to burn down the home of the governor of Pennsylvania who is Jewish, with
him and his family inside. These are multiple acts of grotesque violence directed at Jews, directed at Israel, and the corporate media will not cover it, and in fact, they treated it as Oh, isn't this cute When you have people at Harvard or m I t or Columbia calling for intifada, Well, the intifada is here. This is intifada. This is murdering people because they are Jews on the
streets that is into fada. And we saw this last week commencement speeches at both Harvard and MIT, people give radical anti Israel screeds because sadly our universities have welcomed and nurtured this incredible evil.
Well, let's talk about the also the response here from the administration, and you look at just how quickly you had clarity from those that are in charge. Cash Betel coming out and looking again at the facts, and the FBI director just straight up put it out there saying, we are aware of and fully investigating a targeted tear attack in Boulder, Colorado. Our agent and local law enforcement on the scene already, and we will share updates as
more information becomes available. He was short in his words, and and but letting it know this is a targeted attack. You move a couple hours ahead, Dan Bongino. He comes out and says, our leadership team on the ground and Boulder will be updating you shortly on the attack in Boulder. This act of terror is being investigated as an act of ideologically motivated violence based on the early information, the evidence, and witness accounts. We will speak clearly on these instants
when the facts warrant it. I find great peace in knowing, yes, we finally have two individuals here, they're saying, we're not playing politics.
We're going to tell you the truth.
Look, everyone knows what this is. It's not complicated. And there are times there's times when a crime occurs and you don't know why. I mean, sometimes someone's randomly shot on the street, and it could be a crime of passion. It could be a lover's quarrel, it could be a robbery gone awry, it could be a totally crazy person.
Like there are all sorts of There are crimes where it is difficult to ascertain what happened and you need to have an invest and that's true at every instance, but there are also crimes that are on the face of this. Anybody who's not a blithering idiot knows what this is. If you have elderly Jewish people walking along holding signs saying free the hostages and Gaza, and someone who is an illegal immigrant from Egypt throws a Molotov cocktail at them, or multiple Molotov cocktails at them and
lights them on fire, that is not subtle. That doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out what's going on there. When you have just two weeks ago, two Jewish people walking out of a Jewish museum in DC, and you have a radical leftist who screams free, free Palestine and guns them down, emptying the magazine into them, firing shots over and over and over again, and murdering them on the streets. That is not subtle or complicated. It It
is straightforward. And those who seek to deny it and say no, no, no, this is not intifada, this is not antiic, this is not targeted terrorism. This we don't know what this is. They're lying to you.
They know.
It's not that they don't know, it's that they don't want to say it because acknowledging what it is conflicts with their political ideology and their political agenda. And sadly that is true for the overwhelming majority of the corporate media.
You and I have also talked about this, and this brings in another aspect of this conversation, and it's the one that concerns me, honestly the most, and that is how many people came into this country during.
The last administration. Yes, yes, that are terrorists.
This was a terrorist that the last administration not only let in, but then allowed them to overstay and then rewarded them with the ability to take a job while here planning this type of attack. I am terrified of how many other terrorists we may be harboring right now that they let in. How concerned are you now seeing this play out the way?
It is?
Deeply, deeply concerned. I think the odds are overwhelming that there is more to come. You know, I got to say, during the Biden administration, you had Christopher Ray as the head of the FBI. I've known Chris for over twenty five years. Chris, I think made a lot of mistakes ashead of the FBI. I do not think he had
a good tenure. But the one thing he did do is he repeatedly went before Congress, particularly the last two years, and tried to wring the alarm, tried tried to scream from the mountaintops saying, are risks of a terror attack right now are higher than they've ever been. These open borders, Hesblahamas, Palestinian Islamic jihad, we are inviting terrorists into this country and Americans are going to die because of it. That
is tragically true. The Trump administration, I think, is doing a heroic job tracking down and trying to find these guys. But when you have over twelve million people that Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and all the Congressional Democrats invited into this country. You can't turn that around overnight. That takes time and the risks. The risks are that we will see unfortunately more terror attacks in the weeks and months to come as a result of the Democrats' open borders the last four years.
Final question, will there ever be accountability for those that willingly allowed this to happen in the Biden administration? Or my orcis I mean, I go back to the famous quote from him when he said the border is secure.
The border is secure.
We've all heard a million times that was a lie. Then it's a lie. Now this is what was coming in. Will there be any accountability or is it just Hey, that's what they did and it is what it is.
Look I hope so may Orcus may be the most dishonest individual to have ever served in the United States cabinet. He routinely lied. He lied before Congress, he lied before the American people. He'd go on TV every day and lie. It's actually a close battle between him and Kareem John Pierre at the White House Press Secretary, who also She actually embodies the opposite of a backhanded compliment. Years ago, when Bill Clinton was president, a backhanded compliment was said
of him that he's an unusually good liar. That probably was true. Well, I got to say, Kareem Jean Pierre and Alejandra Mayorcas are unusually bad liars, and sadly, it didn't stop them from lying. They lied constantly. Every time they open their mouths, they lied. But they were so bad at it that everyone knew they were lying. Even their cheerleaders knew they were lying. When Karane Jehan Pierre said people aren't walking across the border, it's simply not happening.
That doesn't happen. Everybody who had ever opened their eyes and turned on the television for ten seconds knew that that.
Was a lie.
She knew that that was a lie. Every reporter in the room knew that was a lie. Then again, the reporters at ABCNBCCBSC, and NMSNBC, Washington Post, New York Times, they did not report that it was a lie. The same is true with Alejandra Mayorcis. This was brazen. Understand the presence of terrorists, the presence of murderers and rapists and child molesters and Venezuelan gang members in this country. It is not accident, it is not unintentional. It is
the intended result of the Democrats' open borders. Now, it's not that they sat around saying we want more terrorists. It's that they said, all we care about is politics. If we let twelve million people here illegally, they will become Democrats. They will vote Democrats, they will register illegally.
They will keep us in power. And so if the price for Democrats to stay in power is more Americans being murdered, more women being raped, more children being brutalized, more terrorists committing acts of terror, I'm sorry to say the Democrats were more than happy to take that exchange.
I want to move to the other big story, and that is Ukraine claims a massive drone strike on Russia and literally the country from one side the other. They were hitting sites of Russian bombers and what was called a spider web operation. I want to make sure though, that people understand this was a response to an attack that took place at the hands of Russia, and putin that Donald Trump referred to him as a crazy man afterwards. So Let's give the background before we explain what happened.
Well, listen, the war has been ongoing for more than two years now. There's been massive casualties on both sides. Russia is the aggressor. Russia, Russia is the wrongdoer. Putin invaded Ukraine or another sovereign nation. Putin did so because Joe Biden was so incredibly weak, because he was ineffective commander in chief. Putin did so because Joe Biden waived the sanctions on nord Stream two, the pipeline that was designed to move natural gas directly from Russia to Germany.
I authored those sanctions, I passed them into law, and President Trump signed my sanctions legislation into law. Putin shut down Nordstream two literally the day Trump signed my sanctions legislation into law. Biden waived those sanctions, and Putin completed the pipeline and almost immediately invaded Ukraine. So the war has been ongoing and it is the cause.
The cause of.
It is Biden's weakness. Well, what happened today Ukraine? You know, I'll tell you. At the start of the war, I remember sitting in a classified briefing and it was a classified briefing with all one hundred senators, And we had in that briefing with the Secretary of State, with the Secretary of Defense, with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with the head of the CIA, the Director of National Intelligence. We had multiple players throughout the national
security apparatus. This is all during the Biden administration. Every single one of them briefed all of the senators. They said, this war will be over within a week. Russia will sweep in, they'll conquer the whole country. Ukraine will fall, and within a week Kiev will be a Russian city. Now that Intel, that national security assessment ben it wasn't slightly wrong, It wasn't a teeny bit wrong. It was
totally catastrophically one hundred and eighty degrees false. We're sitting here more than two years later, the war is ongoing and the Ukrainians keep shocking both the Russians and the American analysts who insists that they must lose, they must lose. This latest strike, it truly is audacious. So the Ukrainians hit more than forty Russian bombers inside Russian territory, and it was a total of forty one strategic Russian aircraft.
The name of the operation was Spiderweb and you can see online there's a video showing a drone attack at the Belaya air Base in Russia's Irkust region, which is in Siberia, nearly three thousand miles away from Ukraine. So understand this happened not by Ukraine but three thousand miles away. And the bombers they're under attack, their explosions, Smoke is rising from the scene and one source said quote, preliminary estimates indicate that enemy aviation has suffered over two billion
dollars in damage. Enemy strategic bombers are burning en mass in Russia. That is a major attack. It is an extraordinary attack. Now, that follows the night before Russia launched four hundred and seventy two drones according to the Ukrainian Air Force. Earlier on Sunday, Ukraine's army set a Russian missile strike killed at least twelve Ukrainian service members and injured sixty. So Russia has been very much it's the aggressor.
But this attack taking out major aircraft resources from Russia is a big victory for Ukraine.
It is a big, big victory.
They are obviously worried individuals, especially in that part of the world, that Russia will then now retalied in some massive way, and then therefore blaming Ukraine saying you should not have done this attack that took them a long
time to plan strategically. I want to get your response to that, because there does seem to be quite often that when Ukraine does something, the narrative becomes, well, they're the ones that will bring us to the brink of World War III, because now Russia is going to respond and it's actually their fault that they went over the top on this one.
Yeah.
Look, Russia has been the aggressor from the beginning. Ukraine is defending itself. I want to break down how they carry this out because it's actually this is the stuff of spy novels.
You know.
We talked about when Israel struck back against Hezbolah with first the pagers and then with the walkie talkies. That was an extraordinary story. This has similar aspects. It's like something out of Mission Impossible of the born identity and let me read from its historian, Reuters the specific facts. Here's what Reuters reported to attack Russian air bases Ukrainian
spies hid drones in wooden sheds. Ukrainian secret services were able to attack strategic bomber aircraft at Russian air bases on Sunday by hiding explosive laden drones inside the roofs of wooden sheds, according to a Ukrainian security official. Ukraine's domestic security agency, the SBU, acknowledged that it carried out the operation code named Spider's Web, and said that it caused considerable damage. The sheds were loaded onto trucks that
were driven to the perimeter of the air bases. The roof panels of the sheds were lifted off by a remotely activated mechanism, allowing the drones to fly out and begin their attack, the official set. The security official, who spoken on conditions of anonymity, said the strikes conducted on Sunday were on four air bases and that forty one Russian warplanes were hit. An SBU statement posted on the telegram messaging app estimated the damages caused by the assault
at seven billion dollars. And here's a quote. Thirty four percent of strategic cruise missile carriers at the main airfields of the Russian Federation were hit.
Wow, that is remarkable.
And it is the fact that they could carry it out in wooden sheds, that they could smuggle right next to the Russian airfield. That's a significant tactical and strategic victory.
So when you look at this, what is the best case scenario for this attack? Does it make Russia realize A They're vulnerable and B maybe we need to we need to go back to the table because as you heard President Trump say, he said Putin was crazy last week, a crazy man and refusing to actually stop this war. Instead he went on this big attack in Ukraine. Ukraine responds, Yeah.
Look, I think President Trump is deeply frustrated with Vlatimir Putin. Right now, President Trump wants this war to end. I believe this war will end. It will end this year. And one of the reasons it's going to end is I think the United States Congress is done sending money to Ukraine, that that at this point we have sent over one hundred billion dollars. Enough is enough.
This war needs to end.
So the blank checkbook that Joe Biden the Democrats gave that blank checkbook is done. Now what I believe is it needs to end in a negotiated settlement, and it should end in a way that is a clear and objectively discernible loss for Russia. Put is our enemy. Russia is our enemy, and we want we want our enemies to be weaker and not stronger. How this ends exactly, it's going to depend on Zelensky and Putin. Zelensky right now doesn't want to negotiate a piece. He's looking to
fight and defend his country. I understand that he just doesn't have an entitlement for us to pay for it. Putin Putin right now, Trump believe that if he leaned in, Putin would agree to come to the table and seek terms of peace. At least so far he hasn't. It is possible this devastating strike on Russia will change Russia's calculus.
That being said, look, one of the dangerous things about fighting a dictatorship is that Putin can inflict enormous pain and misery on the Russian citizenry and still stay in power. So I don't know how this resolves. I believe it will resolve at the end of the day. But right now Putin and Zelenski both seem like they want to keep fighting.
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