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100 Days...Are You Tired of Winning Yet? · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome in his verdicous center. Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with
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Speaker 1: you and center. It is a big day at the
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Speaker 1: White House because it is the one hundredth day of
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Speaker 1: the Trump administration, and they were celebrating some very big
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Speaker 1: successes at the White House today.
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Speaker 2: Well, we are one hundred days in and I can
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Speaker 2: say with no hesitation, there has never been a first
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Speaker 2: hundred days of a president in the history of the
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Speaker 2: United States of America like the first hundred days of
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Speaker 2: Donald J.
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Speaker 3: Trump.
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Speaker 2: He has hit the ground running. It has been extraordinary.
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Speaker 2: I still have great fun turning to my Democrat colleagues
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Speaker 2: and just dead penning to them, well three years, nine
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Speaker 2: months ago, and they just start twitching that they like
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Speaker 2: genuinely that they can't handle it. He had a great
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Speaker 2: rally in Michigan today, going through the victories that we
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Speaker 2: have seen, and and listen just the energy, the vigor
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Speaker 2: they are moving on every front simultaneously. They are flowed
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Speaker 2: ut the zone. I don't know all of the metaphors
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Speaker 2: to use, but it is. It is shocking, all all
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Speaker 2: at once, and it's beautiful. I literally wake up every
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Speaker 2: day I grabbed my phone and I'm like, what did
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Speaker 2: they do today. It's fantastic, I want to say before
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Speaker 2: we dive into that, though, I do want to recognize
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Speaker 2: that it is also a sad day. It's a sad day,
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Speaker 2: and that the news just broke a few hours ago
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Speaker 2: that David Horowitz passed away. David Horowitz was an extraordinary
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Speaker 2: conservative leader. He's someone I got to know early in
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Speaker 2: my career. David had been a Marxist, he was a Leftist.
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Speaker 2: He was an open and radical Marxist, and he saw
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Speaker 2: the light and he understood the evil of the radical left.
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Speaker 2: David was unapologetic to call out and to call out
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Speaker 2: that the evil, the mendacity, the duplicity, and to speak
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Speaker 2: the truth. And he lived to Lady six. He died
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Speaker 2: after a long battle with cancer. And David is someone
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Speaker 2: who had an early impact in terms of my journey
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Speaker 2: as a conservative. And so I just just want to
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Speaker 2: say thank you to David Horowitz for the for the
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Speaker 2: life and legacy he left. He may he rest in peace.
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Speaker 2: He made a really positive difference in our country, he.
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Speaker 3: Really did, and he was so kind.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if people understand how much he tried
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Speaker 1: to inspire college kids and high school kids to get
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Speaker 1: involved in the process. And he also warned about the indoctrination,
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Speaker 1: even wrote books about it, about the indoctrination at the
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Speaker 1: college level. He sounded that alarm gosh, probably twenty years
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Speaker 1: ago in one of his books, and I wish more
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Speaker 1: people would have realized just how close he was to
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Speaker 1: what reality has become now.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Look, and he was doing this long before Turning Point,
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Speaker 2: long before the Trump movement, long before everything he was.
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Speaker 2: He organized, in fact, a right wing gathering which which
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Speaker 2: I went to a couple of times that that that
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Speaker 2: that was designed to be a counter to to Renaissance Weekend.
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Speaker 2: Renaissance Weekend was this lefty weekend where Democrats would go
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Speaker 2: to it and big rich lefties would go to it,
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Speaker 2: and the media would go to it, and they would
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Speaker 2: It was sort of a predecessor of Davos and and
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Speaker 2: David Horowitz organized a counter in like if the lefties
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Speaker 2: were going to have Renaissance Weekend, He's like, screw you.
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Speaker 2: He organized dark Age's Weekend and said we're just going
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Speaker 2: to revel in. And so I went went several times
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Speaker 2: to dark Age's Weekend, and it was a lot of
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Speaker 2: young conservatives and libertarians and and and the relationships there.
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Speaker 2: I went in my twenties to that and and made
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Speaker 2: friendships and got to know him and and I admired
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Speaker 2: just just just his fearless truth telling something you don't
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Speaker 2: see a lot of.
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Speaker 1: I'm waiting for what would you name your weekend, by
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Speaker 1: the way, if you were going to have one, like
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Speaker 1: I feel like this is something we need to know
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Speaker 1: from you. What would what would you name if it
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Speaker 1: is a Ted Cruz weekend?
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I might right now, I might name it the Houston
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Speaker 2: Rockets win the finals weekend. But I'm afraid that. I'm
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Speaker 2: afraid that weekend is not a twenty twenty five a weekend.
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Speaker 1: It's not on the Bingo card this year. Well played, though, sir,
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Speaker 1: well played.
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Speaker 3: You know what, we could win three in a row.
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Speaker 2: We've done it before.
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Speaker 3: See that's all I gotta do. I just gotta get
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Speaker 3: you a little feisty here. By the way.
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Speaker 2: Ninety five we came down in a hole. It's where
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Speaker 2: Houston got the nickname clutch City because we we were
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Speaker 2: down three games and we came back. Now, I'm not
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Speaker 2: sure Kim Olajuan is playing for the Rockets right now,
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Speaker 2: so it may be a later.
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Speaker 1: Year exactly, well, we'll see, Like you said, anything's possible
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Speaker 1: in sports. And I got to say to his family,
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Speaker 1: to Hortz family, just God bless you guys. You want
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Speaker 1: So in every presidency center, the one hundred day mark
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Speaker 1: is obviously a big moment.
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Speaker 3: If things are going well, you celebrate it. Things aren't going.
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Speaker 1: Well, the media likes to remind everybody how terrible it
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Speaker 1: actually is going and it's a disaster. This Presen's got
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Speaker 1: a lot of things in the column that are major victories,
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Speaker 1: and at the top of that list, I still think
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Speaker 1: it's clearly the border and just how quickly he was
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Speaker 1: able to secure the border.
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Speaker 3: The numbers are staggering.
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Speaker 1: That's got to be something that every voter can be
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Speaker 1: proud of that they voted for that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's extraordinary. And I got to say number one,
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Speaker 2: the volume of the crisis was massive. Under Joe Biden,
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Speaker 2: we had the worst illegal immigration in our nation's history.
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Speaker 2: We had over twelve million illegal immigrants coming into this country.
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Speaker 2: You remember my speech at the Republican National Convention this
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Speaker 2: past year. The theme of the speech was every damn day,
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Speaker 2: because every damn day, another American was being murdered, another
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Speaker 2: woman was being raped, and the child was being assaulted
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Speaker 2: by a criminal illegal alien released by Joe Biden and
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Speaker 2: Kamala Harrison, the Democrats, and over and over again, whether
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Speaker 2: you're talking about Joscelyn Hungaree or Laken Riley or Rachel Morin,
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Speaker 2: over and over again, the victims kept piling up, and
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Speaker 2: the Democrats insisted there was nothing they could do to
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Speaker 2: stop it. But it was of course a deliberate political
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Speaker 2: decision by them to allow this invasion because they looked
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Speaker 2: at every one of those of those illegals as a
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Speaker 2: future Democrat voter. And Donald Trump came in, and to
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Speaker 2: be clear, on this podcast, I predicted last year. I said, listen,
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Speaker 2: it's not going to take President Trump a year. It's
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Speaker 2: not going to take him six months to secure the border.
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Speaker 2: It is going to happen a matter of weeks or
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Speaker 2: even days, because what matters is a president who is
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Speaker 2: willing to enforce the law, and the most important determinant
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Speaker 2: of whether you secure the borders.
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Speaker 3: What happened.
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Speaker 2: What happens when you apprehend someone illegally, who's here illegally,
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Speaker 2: and if the answer is you put them on a
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Speaker 2: plane and you fly him home, well, just about everyone
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Speaker 2: who comes as a s phone, they call home, they say,
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Speaker 2: don't come, they're sending you back. If the answer is
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Speaker 2: you let them go again, they have a cell phone,
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Speaker 2: they call home and they say, come on up here,
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Speaker 2: get you get to stay. Trump came in and the
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Speaker 2: numbers have dropped over ninety nine point nine percent. That
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Speaker 2: is a staggering victory, and it's a victory that there
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Speaker 2: was a clear mandate for in the selection.
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Speaker 3: So let's talk about moving forward.
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Speaker 1: You have a lot of goals when you're the president
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Speaker 1: in the first hundred days, and then you have the
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Speaker 1: longer term things. It's it's pretty clear that some of
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Speaker 1: these things are going to take longer than one hundred days.
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Speaker 1: What he did at at the border is just incredible,
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Speaker 1: as you As you mentioned, the level of the problem
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Speaker 1: is so massive, and look, that's still going to be
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Speaker 1: a major issue moving forward. We've got a lot of
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Speaker 1: people to deport, a lot of criminals are still out
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Speaker 1: there that we're rounding up We saw some amazing numbers
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Speaker 1: over the weekend around the country with big operations to
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Speaker 1: grab criminals, a lot of them MS thirteen gang members,
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Speaker 1: et cetera. But then you also look at the other issues,
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Speaker 1: and that includes the economy, that includes tariffs.
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Speaker 3: I mean, there's still a lot to get done.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but let's not put words in President Trump's mouth.
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Speaker 2: Let's listen to a montage from the rally that he
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Speaker 2: held in Michigan to night celebrating the first hundred days. Here,
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Speaker 2: give a listen.
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Speaker 5: We're here tonight in the heartland of our nation to
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Speaker 5: celebrate the most successful first one hundred days of Eddy
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Speaker 5: administration in the.
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Speaker 3: History of our country.
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Speaker 6: And week by.
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Speaker 5: Week, we're ending illegal immigration, We're taking back our jobs
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Speaker 5: of protecting our great American auto workers and all of
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Speaker 5: our workers. Frankly, we're ending the inflation nightmare, the worst
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Speaker 5: that we've had probably in the history of our country.
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Speaker 5: Getting woke lunacy and transgender insanity the hell out of
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Speaker 5: our government. We're stopping the indoctrination of our children, slashing
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Speaker 5: billions and billions of dollars of Way East fraud and abuse,
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Speaker 5: and above all, we're saving the American dream We're making
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Speaker 5: America great again, and it's happening fast through. What the
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Speaker 5: world has witnessed in the past fourteen weeks is a
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Speaker 5: revolution of common sense.
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Speaker 6: That's all it is. Really.
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Speaker 5: We're conservative, your conservative, yeah, liberal.
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Speaker 6: Whatever the hell, you know what it's all About's.
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Speaker 5: About common sense when you think about it, We're for
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Speaker 5: common sense. We've set all time records for the lowest
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Speaker 5: number of illegal border crossings ever recorded.
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Speaker 6: Think of that, ever recorded. I'm proud to be the
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Speaker 6: president for the.
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Speaker 5: Workers and not the outsources, the president who stands up
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Speaker 5: for Main Street, not Wall Street. Our golden age has
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Speaker 5: only just begun. We are one people, one family, and
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Speaker 5: one glorious nation under God.
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Speaker 6: We will never give in.
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Speaker 5: We will never give up, we will never back down.
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Speaker 3: We will never ever surrender.
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Speaker 5: We will fight, fight, fight, and.
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Speaker 6: We will win, win, win.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I got to say, he is in his
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Speaker 1: element when he does these types of events.
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Speaker 2: This is what got by the way, Christ that there
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Speaker 2: has never been a phenomenon like Donald Trump at a
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Speaker 2: rally in the history of politics, and there never will
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Speaker 2: be again. Maybe the closest we've seen would be Huey Long.
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Speaker 2: Huey Long was before you and me. But but but
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Speaker 2: Huey Long could move a crowd in a way that
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Speaker 2: that that was extraordinary at a different era. But but
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Speaker 2: we're not going to see any politicians in the future
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Speaker 2: turning out twenty thirty thousand people to rallies. We're not
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Speaker 2: going to see Donald Trump is one of a kind.
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Speaker 2: And and and and there was one one clip in
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Speaker 2: particular that I really liked where he underlined the stakes
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Speaker 2: of this this this election. And listen, I don't know
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Speaker 2: about you, Ben, but but I really do feel like
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Speaker 2: this election, that the fate of the country was hanging
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Speaker 2: in the balance. That if we had lost, we had
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Speaker 2: a real risk of not just losing an election, yes
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Speaker 2: that's bad, but but but of losing the country, of
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Speaker 2: being in a place where you can never come back.
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Speaker 2: And that that was frightening. Here's how President Trump put
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Speaker 2: it about the stakes if the radical left had won
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four, give lesson if we had.
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Speaker 5: Not won the twenty twenty four election.
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Speaker 6: Oh does that sound good?
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Speaker 4: Right?
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Speaker 6: We won the twenty four all that.
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Speaker 5: The radical left Democrats would right now be importing the
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Speaker 5: next ten million invaders and giving amnesty to thirty or
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Speaker 5: forty million illegals, many of them criminals, many.
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Speaker 6: Of them frankly murderers.
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Speaker 5: And people of crime at the absolute highest level, real,
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Speaker 5: real bad people. It would only be a matter of
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Speaker 5: years or months until America itself became a failed third
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Speaker 5: world nation.
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Speaker 3: This is why he won.
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Speaker 1: This is exactly why he won, and why Sotio said,
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Speaker 1: we can't take another four year years of Joe Biden
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Speaker 1: in the Democratic Party.
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Speaker 2: So look, there was not a word of hyperbole to that,
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Speaker 2: and in fact, if anything, he understated it. So he said,
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Speaker 2: if the radical left Democrats had had won, they would
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Speaker 2: right now be importing the next ten million invaders. To
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Speaker 2: be honest, it'd be more than ten million. We saw
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Speaker 2: twelve million in four years under Joe Biden. If Kamala
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Speaker 2: Harris had been there, it would be even more. And
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Speaker 2: giving amnesty to thirty or forty million illegals, that's their objective.
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Speaker 2: It's why I mean, people ask me all the time,
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Speaker 2: you know, you know, I love in that montage where
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Speaker 2: he says this, this is common sense. You know, there
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Speaker 2: were times you and I are both conservatives. We're proud
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Speaker 2: to be conservatives, but you don't actually have to be
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Speaker 2: a conservative to reject the agenda of the radical left,
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Speaker 2: like crazy open borders. Let's say it, let in twelve
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Speaker 2: million illegals, let's let in gang members, let's let in murderers,
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Speaker 2: let's let in rapists, let's let in child molesters. That
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Speaker 2: is an extreme agenda.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 2: The idea that let's attack American energy and drive up
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Speaker 2: energy costs, that's an extreme agenda. The idea that let's
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Speaker 2: defund the police and put in place George Soros prosecutors
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Speaker 2: who let murderers and rapists go. That is an extreme agenda.
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Speaker 2: The idea that you go into schools and you indoctrinate
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Speaker 2: kids with radical transgender agenda, including sterilization and sex change
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Speaker 2: surgeries for young children. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris embrace sex
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Speaker 2: change surgeries, castrating little boys, sterilizing little girls. That's an
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Speaker 2: extreme agenda. You know, if you embrace boys competing against
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Speaker 2: girls in sports, men competing against women in sports, two
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Speaker 2: guys in the Olympics, beating the hell out of women
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Speaker 2: in so called women's boxing, all of that is extreme,
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Speaker 2: and it's set up for really a return to common sense.
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Speaker 2: And people ask me, well, why would the Democrats embrace this,
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Speaker 2: this open border agenda, and it was about political power.
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Speaker 2: That Okay, so we have to let in a bunch
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Speaker 2: of gang members, you know, they they, I guess assume
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Speaker 2: it's not going to be me that's murdered. It's not
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Speaker 2: going to be me that is raped or abused or
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Speaker 2: or or violently assaulted. And so if people have to die. Democrats,
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Speaker 2: they don't say the names of the victims. They don't
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Speaker 2: say the names of the murder victims, the rape victims.
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Speaker 2: They don't say the names of the children violently assaulted.
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Speaker 2: Uh And and they just that they wanted votes. And
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Speaker 2: and here's something else that that that President Trump said
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Speaker 2: at the rally where where he actually reprised my favorite
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Speaker 2: line from his State of the Union address this year,
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Speaker 2: where where he talked about how Joe Biden had said
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Speaker 2: just one year earlier that that he the only way
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Speaker 2: to secure the border is if Congress passed new legislation.
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Speaker 2: Get give a listen to what President Trump said.
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Speaker 5: For years, Joe Biden and the media told us that
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Speaker 5: stopping the flood of a legal immigration was absolutely impossible.
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Speaker 6: He said it was impossible. He didn't know what the
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Speaker 6: hell anybody was talking about.
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Speaker 5: He said it was impossible. That the president had no
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Speaker 5: power to stop what was needed in the.
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Speaker 6: Form of legislation.
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Speaker 5: He needed legislation, he had no power to get it.
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Speaker 5: But it turned out that all we needed was a
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Speaker 5: new president.
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Speaker 1: He's right, all we needed was a new president. And
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Speaker 1: they said that wouldn't even get it done. Well, guess what,
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Speaker 1: not only did he get it done, but even the
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Speaker 1: mainstream media now Senator is forced to report on just
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Speaker 1: how big of a victory that is for Trump at
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Speaker 1: the border. ABC News they put it this way in
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Speaker 1: their own interview with the President.
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Speaker 6: Here in the Oval office.
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Speaker 7: It's special, one hundred days into your second term. So
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Speaker 7: what's the one thing, just one thing that you think
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Speaker 7: is the most significant thing you've done so far in
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Speaker 7: these hundred days.
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Speaker 4: Well, I think maybe the border is the most significant
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Speaker 4: because our country was.
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Speaker 6: Really going bad.
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Speaker 4: They were allowing people to come in from prisons, as
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Speaker 4: you know, and you've heard me say it, but you've
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Speaker 4: heard a lot of people say at prisons, mental institutions,
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Speaker 4: gang members, murderers.
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Speaker 6: We had many murders eleven eight hundred and eighty eight.
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Speaker 6: They think some murdered more than one person.
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Speaker 4: So y had murderers coming in, You had everybody coming
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Speaker 4: in and not just South America, from all over the
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Speaker 4: world that were emptying their prisons into our country. And
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Speaker 4: now it's totally closed down. And you've seen just yesterday
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Speaker 4: they announced ninety nine point nine percent.
18:37
Speaker 6: Nobody thought that could happen.
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Speaker 4: Then it happened quickly, very quickly, and I think that's
18:41
Speaker 4: very significant. But we're doing other things that are very significant.
18:45
Speaker 4: Results will take a little bit longer because it's one
18:48
Speaker 4: of those you know, it's complicated. It's many years of
18:52
Speaker 4: trading abuse. We've been abused by other countries for years
18:55
Speaker 4: and years. They laughed at us, they thought we were
18:58
Speaker 4: stupid people.
18:59
Speaker 6: And we're fixing it.
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Speaker 4: And I think that's going to be very very important.
19:03
Speaker 6: But I have a lot of ground to cover.
19:05
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would really say that that the border is so.
19:08
Speaker 6: Important, you know, and we'll get there.
19:10
Speaker 7: The immigration is huge, and we're going to get there,
19:12
Speaker 7: but I want to start.
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Speaker 1: You hear him say the southern border is solely closed
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Speaker 1: down ninety nine point nine percent. I'll be honest with you,
19:20
Speaker 1: I don't even think Americans that voted for Donald Trump,
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Speaker 1: that believed in him, thought he could get this done
19:25
Speaker 1: this quick with those types of numbers.
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Speaker 2: The numbers are staggering. He said, nobody believed we could
19:30
Speaker 2: get there. I actually think that's wrong. I think Donald
19:32
Speaker 2: Trump believed he could get there. He knew he could
19:34
Speaker 2: get there. And I'll tell you, you and I we
19:36
Speaker 2: both predicted it that we would see the numbers absolutely plummet.
19:39
Speaker 2: Although it's a fair point, we said absolutely plummet. I
19:42
Speaker 2: don't think I said ninety nine point nine percent. I
19:46
Speaker 2: might have thought it'd be ninety percent or ninety five percent,
19:48
Speaker 2: but ninety nine point nine is. To be honest, Trump
19:53
Speaker 2: might even be surprised. It's that high. It's staggering, and
19:57
Speaker 2: it's an example of a commander in chief who actually
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Speaker 2: following law.
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Speaker 4: You know.
20:01
Speaker 2: I got to say that ABC interview was really striking
20:04
Speaker 2: that that there's a great exchange where the the ABC
20:10
Speaker 2: reporter comes after him and Trump just just body slams him.
20:14
Speaker 2: Here here, give a listen.
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Speaker 6: Do you think.
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Speaker 7: The reputation in the United States has gone down under
20:20
Speaker 7: your presidence?
20:21
Speaker 6: No, I think it's gone way up, and I think
20:23
Speaker 6: we're respected country again. We were left at all over
20:26
Speaker 6: the world. We had a.
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Speaker 4: President that couldn't walk up a flight of stairs, couldn't
20:30
Speaker 4: walk down a flight of stairs, couldn't walk across the
20:33
Speaker 4: stage without falling.
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Speaker 6: We had a president that was grossly incompetent.
20:37
Speaker 4: You knew it, I knew it, and everybody knew it,
20:39
Speaker 4: but you guys didn't want to.
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Speaker 6: Write it because you're fake news. All right, thank you.
20:43
Speaker 6: By the way, ABC is one of the worst. I
20:45
Speaker 6: have to be honest, Okay.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, I'm sorry. That's just amazing. He's looking at
20:50
Speaker 1: the main guy. He's like roasting them to their faces.
20:53
Speaker 1: He's like, by the way, ABC, yeah, you guys, by
20:55
Speaker 1: the way, one of the worst.
20:56
Speaker 3: He's like, thank you, we're going to wrap now. Thank you.
20:59
Speaker 2: Think we actually have to watch it watching the and
21:02
Speaker 2: I will say one of the things Trump doesn't get
21:04
Speaker 2: nearly enough credit for it is how damn funny he
21:07
Speaker 2: is where he's like, look, it's one thing if he
21:10
Speaker 2: could just say, look, Joe Biden was incompetent.
21:12
Speaker 3: But he's like, he.
21:13
Speaker 2: Couldn't walk up the stairs, he couldn't walk down the stairs.
21:16
Speaker 2: He falled, like you couldn't walk in the room. Like
21:18
Speaker 2: it's just it is funny, but it's true. And he's right,
21:22
Speaker 2: He's like, you knew it, I knew it. Everyone knew it,
21:25
Speaker 2: and yet you were lying about it, and nobody in
21:28
Speaker 2: the media. Have you seen a single maya culpa from
21:31
Speaker 2: anyone in the media saying we knew Joe Biden was
21:35
Speaker 2: mentally incompetent and we deliberately lied to the American people
21:38
Speaker 2: about it.
21:39
Speaker 1: Nobody's done that, no, no one has it all. One
21:42
Speaker 1: other thing I do have to say about all of
21:45
Speaker 1: this one hundred days is the speed at which this
21:49
Speaker 1: administration is working and how well this team is working
21:52
Speaker 1: in the White House is really impressive. You and I
21:55
Speaker 1: have been over there with dogs when we were interviewing
21:57
Speaker 1: Eglon Musk. I've been back last week as well. Out
22:00
Speaker 1: of the White House, this team around him is just
22:04
Speaker 1: incredible compared to what he had in twenty sixteen, and
22:07
Speaker 1: I think that's part of the reason why he's getting
22:09
Speaker 1: so much done.
22:09
Speaker 3: Would you agree with that? I fully agree.
22:11
Speaker 2: I think the cabinet is much stronger than the twenty
22:14
Speaker 2: sixteen or the twenty seventeen cabinet. I think in the
22:18
Speaker 2: first term he made some appointments that frankly did not
22:21
Speaker 2: serve him well. He put people in place who disagreed
22:23
Speaker 2: with him, who undermined him, and I think this second term.
22:28
Speaker 2: I think he learned. I think he learned during the
22:30
Speaker 2: four years of his first term as president. I think
22:33
Speaker 2: he learned during the four years he was out of office.
22:35
Speaker 2: I think he had a lot of time to think
22:36
Speaker 2: about if and when he came back what he would do.
22:40
Speaker 2: And I think he put in place change agents. And
22:44
Speaker 2: you know, there's another exchange in that ABC News interview
22:46
Speaker 2: that I really like where ABC News is defending illeal
22:52
Speaker 2: immigration and the open borders under the Democrats, and he
22:55
Speaker 2: just utterly calls them out here, give and listen to that.
22:58
Speaker 4: You're talking about you know this person sound This is
23:02
Speaker 4: a MS thirteen gang member, a tough cookie, been in
23:06
Speaker 4: lots of skirmishes, beat the hell out of his wife,
23:09
Speaker 4: and the wife was petrified.
23:10
Speaker 6: To even talk about him. Okay, this is not an innocent,
23:14
Speaker 6: wonderful gentleman. From now. I'm not saying he's a good guy.
23:17
Speaker 6: It's about the rule of law.
23:18
Speaker 7: The order from the Supreme Court stands here into our
23:21
Speaker 7: country illegally.
23:22
Speaker 6: You could.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I love it. He's not going to back down.
23:24
Speaker 1: He's not afraid of the guys in the press at all.
23:28
Speaker 2: And the Democrats. You want to talk about stepping into
23:30
Speaker 2: their trap. The Democrats have happily embraced we, the Democrat Party,
23:36
Speaker 2: are the party of illegal immigrants, We are the party
23:40
Speaker 2: of gang members. We are you know are pod two
23:43
Speaker 2: days ago if you didn't listen to it. Really is astonishing.
23:46
Speaker 2: They're two different Democrat judges in jail right now for
23:50
Speaker 2: obstructing justice, for blocking federal law enforcement for arresting illegal immigrants,
23:57
Speaker 2: and one of the two at a judge to Mexico,
24:01
Speaker 2: is charged with sheltering a trend de Aragua Venezuelan gang
24:06
Speaker 2: member in his home and destroying evidence. It's really shocking.
24:11
Speaker 2: So this gang member had a cell phone, and this
24:14
Speaker 2: Democrat judge took the cell phone, smashed it with a hammer,
24:17
Speaker 2: went and threw the cell phone away in a dumpster,
24:19
Speaker 2: all in an effort to cover up the evidence of
24:22
Speaker 2: this gang member's criminality. And one of the astonishing things
24:26
Speaker 2: that the Department of Justice has told us is that
24:29
Speaker 2: cell phone that the Democrat judge destroyed had pictures of
24:34
Speaker 2: two people who had been decapitated, two victims presumably of
24:38
Speaker 2: gang violence, who had their heads cut off and ben like,
24:43
Speaker 2: what does it say that today's Democrat Party what they're
24:46
Speaker 2: about is there for Venezuelan gang members who cut people's
24:49
Speaker 2: heads off.
24:51
Speaker 3: Literally.
24:52
Speaker 2: I don't know how you could be in a more
24:53
Speaker 2: radical position than where they are right now.
24:56
Speaker 1: I want to move on to another story that I
24:59
Speaker 1: hope everyone listening is going to help go viral, because
25:01
Speaker 1: it's a really important one and it's not when the
25:04
Speaker 1: media is covering at all. You actually called out a
25:07
Speaker 1: Princeton professor h for some pro Iran allegiances and saying
25:15
Speaker 1: I'm not backing down, which is awesome. You urge Princeton
25:18
Speaker 1: to take action. Explain this story for people that may
25:21
Speaker 1: not know it.
25:22
Speaker 2: So Princeton has on its faculty a senior official from
25:27
Speaker 2: the radical, viciously anti American, viciously anti Israel, anti Semitic, homicidal,
25:34
Speaker 2: murderous regime of Iran, and and Princeton happily ensconced him
25:39
Speaker 2: with the prestige of being a Princeton academic and and
25:44
Speaker 2: and so I've called on on Princeton, which, by the way,
25:47
Speaker 2: is where I went to college. I was Princeton class
25:49
Speaker 2: in ninety two. I loved my time at Princeton. It's
25:51
Speaker 2: an extraordinary school that that that sadly has has gone
25:54
Speaker 2: on the wrong track. I called upon Princeton to fire
25:59
Speaker 2: this guy, to dismiss him from the faculty. Look, there
26:01
Speaker 2: are Jewish students at Princeton who legitimately feel afraid. They
26:07
Speaker 2: feel afraid that you have a vicious bigot who has
26:13
Speaker 2: openly embraced the murderous Iranian regime. Let me give some
26:17
Speaker 2: of the specifics. As you might think, Okay, that can't
26:20
Speaker 2: be true. That sounds like hyperboles. So let's give give
26:23
Speaker 2: the specifics. Sayed Hosein Moussevian, who is was an official
26:29
Speaker 2: of Iran, and he's right now he's named a Middle
26:33
Speaker 2: East security a nuclear policy specialist at Princeton University. What
26:40
Speaker 2: I pointed out, I said, quote Musavian is closely linked
26:43
Speaker 2: to the Iranian regime and to the regimes campaigns of
26:46
Speaker 2: terrorism and murder. His present presence at Princeton makes students
26:49
Speaker 2: feel justifiably afraid for their safety. Princeton's decision to keep
26:53
Speaker 2: employing him show that. That shows that they care less
26:55
Speaker 2: about their students and more about providing a platform for
27:00
Speaker 2: pro regime and anti American propaganda. That kind of reckless
27:06
Speaker 2: institutional ideological bias is exactly why the Trump administration is
27:11
Speaker 2: reassessing federal funding at Princeton. And if you look at
27:16
Speaker 2: Massavian's record, so he's expressed support for Hamas, he's expressed
27:22
Speaker 2: support for Hesbola. They are both designated terrorists organizations. And
27:28
Speaker 2: he paid tribute to Iranian General Cassam Solomoni in twenty twenty,
27:34
Speaker 2: he attended the funeral of Solomoni. Now, Solomoni was the
27:38
Speaker 2: leading state funder of terrorism. Solomoni is directly responsible for
27:44
Speaker 2: the murder of over six hundred American military personnel in
27:49
Speaker 2: the Middle East, and he was planning terrorist attacks all
27:51
Speaker 2: over the world. And President Trump rightfully took Solomony out.
27:55
Speaker 2: By the way, I introduced a resolution in the Senate
27:57
Speaker 2: to pass the Senate with bipartisan support commending President Trump
28:01
Speaker 2: for taking General Solomoni out. Well, Mussavian went to his funeral.
28:05
Speaker 2: And not only that, but Musavian has also declined to
28:12
Speaker 2: renounce his support for Hamas, declined to renounce his support
28:15
Speaker 2: for Hesbela, and declined to renounce his support for Iran's fatwah,
28:20
Speaker 2: which is a religious decree to assassinate the British American
28:24
Speaker 2: writer Salman Rushdi. So this is someone who's on the
28:28
Speaker 2: Princeton faculty who is there. By the way, you know,
28:32
Speaker 2: when you had all of the anti Semitic and anti
28:34
Speaker 2: Israel protests on college campuses at Princeton, they had a
28:39
Speaker 2: Hesbela flag waving on the Princeton campus. It made me
28:42
Speaker 2: very sad for Miama Mater. And to be clear, Hesbela,
28:46
Speaker 2: in addition to waging war against Israel and killing countless
28:49
Speaker 2: civilians there, in nineteen eighty three, Hesbelah did a bombing
28:53
Speaker 2: murder two hundred and forty one US military members in Beirut.
28:57
Speaker 2: I will say a current Princeton's Maximilian Mayor, who I
29:01
Speaker 2: don't know, but he is the president of the Princeton
29:04
Speaker 2: Tigers for Israel and he's an undergraduate right now, he
29:08
Speaker 2: said quote. I commend Senator Cruz for raising urgent concerns
29:12
Speaker 2: about Princeton's employment of Mussavian, whose career has been defined
29:16
Speaker 2: by shilling for the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism.
29:20
Speaker 2: Credible reports linking Musavian to the oversight of Iranian dissident
29:24
Speaker 2: assassinations in Europe, along with his endorsement of the fatwah
29:29
Speaker 2: on Salomon Rushti, are deeply alarming. And you know what
29:32
Speaker 2: this is a professor at an Ivy League university.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
29:35
Speaker 1: Urging Princeon to take action and do the right thing
29:38
Speaker 1: here is so important, especially since some of these universities
29:40
Speaker 1: refuse to protect students that are especially those that are Jewish.
29:44
Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And Mussavian responded to me on Twitter today. He put
29:49
Speaker 2: out a long tweet. I'm not going to read all
29:50
Speaker 2: of it, but he said, Dear Senator Ted Cruz, yesterday
29:53
Speaker 2: April twenty eighth, in your interview with Fox News, you
29:55
Speaker 2: called for my dismissal from Princeton University and made baseless accusations.
30:00
Speaker 2: Invite you to a public debate so that while hearing
30:02
Speaker 2: responses to these claims, we can leave to the judgment
30:04
Speaker 2: of the American people. The time and place of the
30:06
Speaker 2: public debate will be entirely up to you. If you
30:08
Speaker 2: do not accept this offer, I ask you to read
30:10
Speaker 2: some of the books and articles I've written over my
30:12
Speaker 2: fifteen years of academic work at Princeton University. I will
30:15
Speaker 2: tell you I responded to that, and I declined his offer.
30:21
Speaker 2: I said, I try not to be in the room
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Speaker 2: with people linked to Iranian terrorists who have murdered dozens
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Speaker 2: of dissidents. Your books are unreadable and the only debate
30:32
Speaker 2: you should be having is with DHS agents, at the
30:35
Speaker 2: end of which you should be deported.
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Speaker 1: As my mother in law would say, Senator, you're making
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Speaker 1: good choices with that role of not being the room
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Speaker 1: with people like that.
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