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My Guest Ted Cruz Unloads On Biden Agenda with new Book · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: So this is going to be really fun for me.
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  Speaker 1: As many of you know, Senator Ted Cruz and I
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  Speaker 1: do a podcast Verdict with Ted Cruz three days a week.
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  Speaker 1: But he is my guest on my podcast, The Ben
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  Speaker 1: Ferguson Podcasts about his new book that is out. It
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  Speaker 1: is a book, Unwoke, that is about what is destroying
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  Speaker 1: this country and he calls out the Biden administration on
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  Speaker 1: border security, he calls out the left on what they're
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  Speaker 1: doing on college campuses. He talks about what happened with
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  Speaker 1: COVID and the lockdowns. It's an amazing book and so
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  Speaker 1: it's a pleasure to have senter Ted Cruz as my guest,
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  Speaker 1: my co host on my podcast right now. Senator, it's
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  Speaker 1: a pleasure to have you on live on this show.
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  Speaker 1: You are on book promo tour in New York City
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  Speaker 1: this morning. You are on a Levin Life Liberty and Levin,
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  Speaker 1: and we love having you obviously to talk about this book.
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  Speaker 1: For people that are looking for a great Christmas gift,
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  Speaker 1: grab the book if you just want to read a
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  Speaker 1: book book.
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  Speaker 2: And I love how they describe it online.
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  Speaker 1: It says Ted Cruz delivers a realistic battle plan for
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  Speaker 1: defeating the woke assault on America. That's what inspired you
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  Speaker 1: to write this book is really a battle plan of Okay,
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  Speaker 1: the left has gone crazy. We have many that are
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  Speaker 1: taking over not just government agencies, but our universities are schools.
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to go into Marxism and socialism. How do
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  Speaker 1: we get back from the brink of that? And that's
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  Speaker 1: what inspired you to write a book that's three hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty three pages long. It is a thick book,
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  Speaker 1: one of the thickest ones you've ever written.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Ben, that's right, good morning. It's great to be
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  Speaker 3: with you. It's great to be with you in a
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  Speaker 3: venue other than a verdict, which which you and I
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  Speaker 3: do three days a week, and we both we both
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  Speaker 3: have these conversations a lot. Look the book on Woke,
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  Speaker 3: I wrote because the world has gone insane, and every
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  Speaker 3: one of us knows that we're watching the radical extremes,
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  Speaker 3: the extreme left that has seized every major institution in America.
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  Speaker 3: And so I wrote this book to do a couple
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  Speaker 3: of things. Number One, to explain how and why that happened.
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  Speaker 3: What on earth? Who would have envisioned a world where
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  Speaker 3: corporate America, big business becomes the economic enforcer for the
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  Speaker 3: hard left, where big tech censors what you do say online,
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  Speaker 3: Where where NFL players refuse to stand for the national anthem,
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  Speaker 3: where they teach five and six year olds in schools
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  Speaker 3: that that little boys can become girls and little girls
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  Speaker 3: can become boys. This is extreme, and it's not an act.
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  Speaker 3: How it happens. And then number two, it lays out
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  Speaker 3: a battle plan for how we fight back, how we
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  Speaker 3: defeat the cultural Marxism in America, and and it lays
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  Speaker 3: out specific concrete steps we can take to take our
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  Speaker 3: country back, because if we don't do it, we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: lose our nation. And we've got to pull it back.
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  Speaker 1: From the extreme you mentioned taking our country back and
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  Speaker 1: pulling us back. There was some very encouraging poll numbers
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  Speaker 1: that came out this morning, and I want to get
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  Speaker 1: your reaction this because it's obviously great news. If you're
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  Speaker 1: a conservative, your favorite Capitol Hill reporter, I save this
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  Speaker 1: just for you. Senator Manny Raju had this bleak report
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  Speaker 1: this morning about how bad the new poll numbers are
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  Speaker 1: for Democrats, specifically Joe Biden listened.
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  Speaker 4: One year from today, America will be going to the
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  Speaker 4: polls to choose a President, and there are alarm bells
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  Speaker 4: going off inside the White House this morning. There are
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  Speaker 4: three big polls out about the race for the White House,
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  Speaker 4: and none of it is good for Joe Biden. Race
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  Speaker 4: for president is decided state by state, not nationally, so
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  Speaker 4: this morning we want to focus on a series of
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  Speaker 4: battleground state polls for The New York Times. In Nevada,
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  Speaker 4: Trump leaves by ten, leads by six in Georgia, five
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  Speaker 4: in Arizona, five in Michigan, and four in Pennsylvania. Biden
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  Speaker 4: has just a narrow two point in Wisconsin. Now, Biden
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  Speaker 4: won all six of those states in twenty twenty and
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  Speaker 4: likely needs to win at least four of them to
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  Speaker 4: be re elected. And if you dig a little deeper
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  Speaker 4: into the poll, things look even bleaker. Voters in these
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  Speaker 4: six states save Biden's policies have hurt them personally, and
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  Speaker 4: those numbers are flipped when you ask about Trump. Most
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  Speaker 4: Saint Trump's policies have helped them personally. And then there
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  Speaker 4: are huge cracks in the coalition that won Biden the
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  Speaker 4: White House in twenty twenty. Yes, he's leading among those demographics,
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  Speaker 4: but not by nearly as much as he needs to
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  Speaker 4: be he's ahead of Trump among young voters in these
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  Speaker 4: battleground states by one point. Trump wins twenty two percent
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  Speaker 4: of black voters, which would be a historically huge measure
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  Speaker 4: for a Republican, and the margins are small for Biden
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  Speaker 4: among Hispanics and suburban voters.
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  Speaker 1: Now, sentater, you hear that, and it's just like rapture
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  Speaker 1: alert number one, Manu Raju actually giving you poll numbers
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  Speaker 1: telling you alarm bells are going off inside the White
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  Speaker 1: House this morning. One year way, this is I think
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  Speaker 1: massive numbers, not just for for Trump, but for conservative ideas, saying,
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  Speaker 1: all right, we went to this socialism and that's what
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  Speaker 1: the Biden administration has been doing, and we went to
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  Speaker 1: this extreme woke agenda and now it's turning American families.
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  Speaker 1: These numbers are spelled horrific news for Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, that's exactly right. I have several thoughts. Number one,
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  Speaker 3: it's kind of amusing listening to see an inn put
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  Speaker 3: against reporter on air where he's practically crying he's so
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  Speaker 3: unhappy with those poll numbers because it is bad news. Listen,
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  Speaker 3: the Biden agenda is a train wreck. It is a mess.
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  Speaker 3: That the classic question for any election is are you
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  Speaker 3: better off than you were four years ago? And for
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  Speaker 3: almost any voter in the United Statess, the answer is
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  Speaker 3: hell no, Like for everyone between inflation and crime and
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  Speaker 3: chaos at our southern border, not to mention two wars
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  Speaker 3: across the globe at America at greater jeopardy than we've
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  Speaker 3: ever seen in our lifetimes, the answer unless you are
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  Speaker 3: a an international drug dealer or human trafficker, in which
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  Speaker 3: case the answer is yes, your life is much better
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  Speaker 3: today than it was four years ago, and you ought
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  Speaker 3: to vote for Joe Biden. You're not a citizen, but
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  Speaker 3: who cares. He wants illegals to vote, so that's fine.
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  Speaker 3: But unless you're a drug cartel, the answer for everyone
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  Speaker 3: else is no. Everything else has gotten crappier. And so
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  Speaker 3: I think those poll numbers show that the Biden record
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  Speaker 3: is a train wreck and people want to get back
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  Speaker 3: to common sense policies that work. I also think those
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  Speaker 3: poll numbers are sending off alarm bells. We saw David
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  Speaker 3: Axelrod Barack Obama's right hand publicly urging Biden to drop
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  Speaker 3: out of the race. I think Dems are panicking, and Ben,
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  Speaker 3: you and I broke the news three months ago on
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  Speaker 3: an episode of our podcast Verdict with Ted Cruz that
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  Speaker 3: the odds keep rising every day that the Democrats will
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  Speaker 3: jettison Joe Biden and try to parachute in Michelle Obama
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  Speaker 3: at the last minute. And I got to say, with
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  Speaker 3: these poll numbers and an axl Rod coming out public,
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  Speaker 3: those odds continue to rise every day.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's dive into that, because this is I
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  Speaker 1: think part of what you talk about in your book
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  Speaker 1: is the Democratic Party has gotten so extreme. They're coming
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  Speaker 1: after parents, They're coming after your kids at universities and
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  Speaker 1: public schools. They tried to push this transgenderism down our
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  Speaker 1: throats and say, if you don't agree with it, we'll
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  Speaker 1: try to ruin your business, ruin your family, ruin any
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  Speaker 1: you know, school, or anybody that disagrees with us, We'll
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  Speaker 1: try to kick you out of office. You've got Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: that's all in on this. And then you go back
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  Speaker 1: to what you just mentioned. This is a moment where
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  Speaker 1: Democrats do you think they believe maybe they went too
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  Speaker 1: far and they got a dial it back and they've
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  Speaker 1: lost the country because they put all this and implement
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  Speaker 1: it and now it's such a disaster on the average
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  Speaker 1: American family. And if they do parachute in Michelle Obama,
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  Speaker 1: to be clear, she's just as bad, if not worse,
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  Speaker 1: than Joe Biden. She's a woke person. She's a Marxist
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  Speaker 1: as socialist. However you want to describe her with policies,
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  Speaker 1: that's what Obama is as well. But if they parachute
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  Speaker 1: her in, it's about likability, right, She'll come out as
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  Speaker 1: a mom, She'll say she once this for the country,
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  Speaker 1: and they parachute her into the convention and she doesn't
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  Speaker 1: even have to talk policies. It's just likability, like hey
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  Speaker 1: do you like Oprah? Do you not like Oprah? It's like,
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  Speaker 1: hey do you like miche Obama? Do you not like
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  Speaker 1: Michelle Obamba? And then it's only what three month campaign?
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  Speaker 1: It would be a scary yet brilliant move.
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  Speaker 3: It would be a very scary move. And listen, to
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  Speaker 3: be clear, you know you asked our Dems getting nervous
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  Speaker 3: they've gone too far left. I got to say, as
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  Speaker 3: they are, I see no evidence of it. The Democrats
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  Speaker 3: I serve with in the Senate, they're still much more
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  Speaker 3: afraid of being primary from the left than they are
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  Speaker 3: of losing the general election, and it's because the media
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  Speaker 3: has been corrupted. So this book Unwoke What exams how
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  Speaker 3: this happened. And it starts with the universities, because Marxists
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  Speaker 3: always start by going after our kids. The first chapter
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  Speaker 3: in the book is entitled Universities the Wuhan Lab, the
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  Speaker 3: Wuhan Lab of the woke virus. And that is because
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  Speaker 3: universities are where the woke virus was created. It's where
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  Speaker 3: it mutated, it's where it spread. And the cultural Marxists,
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  Speaker 3: beginning in the sixties and seventies, began seizing the universities
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  Speaker 3: and raising up these campus radicals. But from there it
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  Speaker 3: spread to every other institution. So each chapter of the
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  Speaker 3: book focuses on a different American institution that the cultural
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  Speaker 3: Marxists have seen. So it goes from the universities to
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  Speaker 3: K through twelve education, to journalism to big business, to
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  Speaker 3: big tech, to entertainment including movies and TV and music
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  Speaker 3: and sports, to science. Every one of these one after
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  Speaker 3: the other after the other. The cultural Marxist succeeds. And
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  Speaker 3: and so you ask, are the Democrats worried they've gone
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  Speaker 3: too far left? I don't think they are, because journalism
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  Speaker 3: has been corrupted, So CNN no longer views its role
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  Speaker 3: as being an actual journalist, as reporting on both sides.
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  Speaker 3: They are instead explicitly propaganda's. They are provda. They are
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  Speaker 3: advocating a view which is the left wing of the
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  Speaker 3: Democrat Party. And and so Democrats are incentivized to go
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  Speaker 3: hard left because they will never be called out out
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  Speaker 3: by the corporate media for doing it. And and so
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  Speaker 3: what this book lays out our strategies to fight back,
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  Speaker 3: how we can turn it around.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about this election coming up. What do
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  Speaker 1: you think the top issue is going to be for
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  Speaker 1: the average American nationwide or the top two? Is it
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  Speaker 1: going to be the economy stupid? Is it going to
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  Speaker 1: be this this agenda that in the in the extreme
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  Speaker 1: of the socialism or is it going to be like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: cognitive decline of Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 3: So, look, we're a year out, and so it's always
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  Speaker 3: hard to predict with certainty where things will be in
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  Speaker 3: a year because there will be events in the world
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  Speaker 3: that we can't predict right now. But the question in
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  Speaker 3: every election is are you better off now than you
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  Speaker 3: were four years ago? And perennially the top issue there
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  Speaker 3: is the economy, and inflation out of control, the cost
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  Speaker 3: of living. People are hurting hard. It's more expensive to
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  Speaker 3: put food on your table. It's more expensive to run
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  Speaker 3: the air conditioning and heat. It's much more expensive to
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  Speaker 3: fill your car truck with gas. That is impacting people
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  Speaker 3: in a very real sense. There's also safety and security.
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  Speaker 3: Crime is skyrocketed. Everywhere. People feel unsafe. They feel unsafe
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  Speaker 3: for their kids. Their kids are under assault. The chaos
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  Speaker 3: of illegal immigration has become real and personal. Eight million
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  Speaker 3: people crossing illegally into this country. They're now flooding every city.
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  Speaker 3: When you've got the Democrat Mayor of New York saying
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  Speaker 3: illegal immigration is destroying New York City, you know it
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  Speaker 3: has gotten bad. And then on foreign policy, Look, where
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  Speaker 3: foreign policy really matters is when people again don't feel
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  Speaker 3: safe and secure, when they feel like their families are threatened.
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  Speaker 3: Think about it. Three years ago, Joe Biden inherited peace
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  Speaker 3: and prosperity. In just under three years, with Joe Biden's
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  Speaker 3: weak and ineffective leadership, we now have the largest land
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  Speaker 3: war in Europe since World War Two and the worst
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  Speaker 3: attack on Israel in fifty years. We've got war in
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  Speaker 3: the Middle East, and by the way campus radicals on
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  Speaker 3: campus threatening Jewish students with violence. Anyone looking at the
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  Speaker 3: world says, this is a mess. And I think all
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  Speaker 3: of those are going to be major issues come November.
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  Speaker 1: Let's also talk about this, what's happening in Israel. And
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  Speaker 1: I want to get into this because there's been this,
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  Speaker 1: I would argue woke ideology that you don't stand with Israel.
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  Speaker 1: It's now become seeming a part of bigger part of
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  Speaker 1: the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously the squad.
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  Speaker 1: I never could have imagined a day that innocent people
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  Speaker 1: could be butchered this way, babies beheaded, infants beheaded, put
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  Speaker 1: in ovens by hamas. And yet there's a significant portion
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  Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party that you serve with in Congress
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  Speaker 1: that are behind them. Is that part of the unwoke agenda?
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  Speaker 1: Are the woke agenda the Democratic Party that you're warning
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  Speaker 1: about in the book.
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  Speaker 3: It very much is, you know, you know, a couple
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  Speaker 3: of weeks ago, I was sitting down with a very
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  Speaker 3: successful tech entrepreneur who's historically been quite left a center,
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  Speaker 3: and he was expressing enormous dismay at the extreme anti
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  Speaker 3: semitism and hatred of Israel that is manifesting number one
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  Speaker 3: in the Democrat Party in Congress with the squad and
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  Speaker 3: the viciousness we're seeing, but number two on college campuses.
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  Speaker 3: And he was saying, where do this comfort? And I
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  Speaker 3: explained it, you know, really in terms of the book Unwoke.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it describes so Marxism, which derives obviously from
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  Speaker 3: the teachings of Karl Marx. He frames the world in
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  Speaker 3: terms of an inevitable conflict, and Marx broke it down
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  Speaker 3: on socioeconomic terms. It's a conflict between the oppressors and
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  Speaker 3: the victims. The oppressors, in Marx's worldview are the owners
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  Speaker 3: of capital and the victims of the proletariat, the workers.
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  Speaker 3: And Marxist solution is a violent overthrow, a revolution of
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  Speaker 3: the proletariat, the workers, seizing the capital and the means
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  Speaker 3: of production, and relying on government to take it forcibly
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  Speaker 3: from from the oppressors and give it to the victims.
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  Speaker 3: That's plain vanilla Marxism. That's who who burrowed into college
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  Speaker 3: campuses starting in the sixties and seventies. What the cultural
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  Speaker 3: Marxist have done is taken that Marxist worldview and they've
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  Speaker 3: applied it to cultures so everything is an inevitable battle
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  Speaker 3: between oppressors and victims. And their solution to everything is
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  Speaker 3: force is if you do not comply, they will make
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  Speaker 3: you comply. They will attack and undermine the oppressors and
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  Speaker 3: forcibly benefit the victims. And I explain. Look, the reason
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  Speaker 3: the left is so viciously anti Semitic is in the
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  Speaker 3: cultural Marxist worldview, Jews are coded as oppressors. When these
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  Speaker 3: Marxists look at Israel, they see the Israelis as oppressors
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  Speaker 3: and the Palestinians are coded as victims. And once you
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  Speaker 3: start with that worldview, the only acceptable leftist perspective is
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  Speaker 3: that you should have a violent revolution of the victims,
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  Speaker 3: the Palestinians against the oppressors and forcibly take from the
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  Speaker 3: oppressors and redistribute to the victims. And that's why so
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  Speaker 3: many on the left are not condemning the horrific attacks
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  Speaker 3: and atrocities from Hamas because they're cheering them on. Look.
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  Speaker 3: Rashida Talib, a member of Congress member of the Squad,
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  Speaker 3: tweeted out the racist slogan of Amas from the river
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  Speaker 3: to the sea. Now what that means is from the
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  Speaker 3: Jordan River all the way to the sea. It means
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  Speaker 3: annihilate all of Israel, kill every Jew. It is a
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  Speaker 3: call to genocide. And that's what an elected, current sitting
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  Speaker 3: Democrat member of Congress is saying to the world.
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  Speaker 1: horrific consequences of this woke ideology is the kumbaiism, which is, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we don't really need to have border security. That's somehow inhumane.
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  Speaker 1: We don't really need to have laws when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to legal immigration, because you know, who are we to
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  Speaker 1: should or shouldn't come into this country and we should
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  Speaker 1: just be loving and open and welcoming. We're a sanctuary city.
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  Speaker 1: We love every illegal immigrant. Come to New York City,
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  Speaker 1: come to San Francisco, come to La You had people
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  Speaker 1: and we will love you and accept you. In this
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  Speaker 1: woke kumbaiism, it's not just a disaster on our economy.
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  Speaker 1: It's a disaster now from a national security standpoint.
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  Speaker 2: And you witnessed.
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  Speaker 1: The atrocities that are happening because of this woke agenda.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's exactly right. I was down on our southern
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  Speaker 3: border two weeks ago and I went out on midnight
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  Speaker 3: patrol with the border patrol agents, and within minutes you
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  Speaker 3: encounter groups of illegal aliens. We encountered one group that
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  Speaker 3: had about twenty or twenty five, mostly women and children.
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  Speaker 3: It had young teenagers, it had me. There was a
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  Speaker 3: thirteen year old girl who was unaccompanied. She had no
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  Speaker 3: family members with her. There was a fifteen year old
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  Speaker 3: boy who was unaccompanied. There was a sixteen year old
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  Speaker 3: girl who was unaccompanied. They all said they were coming
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  Speaker 3: to America to meet their too, and Teo is of
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  Speaker 3: course Spanish for uncle. And yet when you question them
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  Speaker 3: about their TEO, they're like, oh, no, no, no, my to
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  Speaker 3: doesn't know I'm coming. They just had a phone number,
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  Speaker 3: and tragically, the more we talked to them and the
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  Speaker 3: more it became clear that these uncles were made up
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  Speaker 3: and that these kids, these kids are being trafficked. And
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  Speaker 3: I got to say it was particularly horrific. There was
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  Speaker 3: a ten year old girl with an adult man who
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  Speaker 3: said he was her father, and she said he was
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  Speaker 3: her father, and it was obvious he was not her father.
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  Speaker 3: She was terrified. The look of terror in her face
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  Speaker 3: was haunting. And he had his arm around her, but
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  Speaker 3: not in a gentle caress like a father, but firmly
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  Speaker 3: holding her right where she was so she couldn't move.
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  Speaker 3: And this is a pattern we're saying a lot. You know,
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  Speaker 3: under the Trump administration, when an adult man would show
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  Speaker 3: up with a child and can't claim to be the
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  Speaker 3: father of the child, they would DNA test them both
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  Speaker 3: and they found about thirty percent of them were not
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  Speaker 3: related at all. And because the policies favor of family
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  Speaker 3: coming in, the cartels literally rent children to adult men
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  Speaker 3: who want to come ilegally into this country because they
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  Speaker 3: had processed faster. Well. One of the very first things
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  Speaker 3: Joe Biden did when he came in is stopped the
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  Speaker 3: DNA testing and give me any reasonable, irrational justification for
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: stopping the testing, and what was sick that little girl.
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  Speaker 3: All of these kids very likely had been abused in
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  Speaker 3: the travel to the United States when they were being
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  Speaker 3: trafficked by human traffickers and vicious drug cartels. But many
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  Speaker 3: of these kids were headed for a life where they
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  Speaker 3: can we're going to get continue to be in sex slavery.
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  Speaker 3: And I got to say the border patrol is frustrated
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  Speaker 3: because the Biden administration won't let them do anything about it.
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  Speaker 3: They're required to just pross them, process them, and let
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: them go. And the numbers are now utterly indefensible. And
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  Speaker 3: I got to tell you the radical left does not care.
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  Speaker 1: You also talk about not just this idea that they
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  Speaker 1: want an open border, but they want to fundamentally change
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  Speaker 1: this country through illegal immigration. And yes, Joe Biden refuses
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: to really go down there look at the border. Democrats
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  Speaker 1: refuse to go down there because I think if they
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: saw it, there has to be a moment there where
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: you say, Okay, this policy is wrong. It's being exploited.
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  Speaker 1: They're making money off of human trafficking. And talk about
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: the wristbands and what you see and the trees where
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  Speaker 1: they literally like prizes. They throw the underwear of young
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  Speaker 1: girls up in these trees just to taunt the US
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  Speaker 1: border patrol.
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  Speaker 3: Look, those are both realities. If you go down to
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  Speaker 3: the southern border, you see colored wristbands just laying in
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  Speaker 3: the grass by the river. Because virtually every illegal alien
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: comes into this country. Where's one of those colored wristbands.
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  Speaker 3: The color corresponds to how many thousands of dollars they
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  Speaker 3: owe the cartels, because it is big business trafficking human beings,
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  Speaker 3: and these cartels have become massively wealthy as a result
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  Speaker 3: of Biden's open borders, and when they arrived, most of
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: the people here still owe thousands of dollars to the cartels.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: And so the teenage boys get sent to every city
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: in America and they're working for the cartels and committing
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: crimes in your city. Wherever you are. You might think
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: you're not in a border city, Well you are, because
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: the Biden administration is sending illegal immigrants to every city
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  Speaker 3: in America, and the boys are often committing crimes in
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: those cities to pay off their debts to the cartels.
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  Speaker 3: And the girls, thousands upon thousands of the girls find
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  Speaker 3: themselves trapped in sex slavery, and it's a living hell.
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  Speaker 3: They're putting the forced prostitution until they can pay back
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  Speaker 3: what they owe, and this is often thirteen, fourteen, fifteen
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: year old girls. It is truly this is modern day slavery.
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  Speaker 3: Then when I look at these wristbands, I see leg
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  Speaker 3: irons from the days of slavery, and the Left does
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: not care. Look, what the book Unwoke explains is that
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Mark's sister about power, and it walks through If you
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: look at communist countries across the world, they routinely produce
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: death and suffering and torture and concentration camps and misery
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: and poverty, and the left doesn't care. These open borders
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: are about Democrats flooding this country with what they view
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: will be future Democrat voters. And if a bunch of
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: children have to be sexually assaulted, if women have to
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: be rate, if people have to die, if one hundred
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: thousand people have to die of drug overdoses, to the
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: cultural Marxist, that's a perfectly acceptable cost, because what matters
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: to them is power. But the beauty of the beauty
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: of this book is it explains what their kryptonite is,
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: which is they can't defend their policies. The policies are
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: wildly unpopular. They rely on censorship and silence and hiding it.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: It's why Joe Biden, Tamala Harris don't go to the border.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: You can't defend what's happening there. They rely on control,
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: which means things like your show, Ben, things like our
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: podcast Verdict. It means things like Elon Musk buying Twitter.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Finding ways to shine a light and tell the truth
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: is one of the critical ways we defeat the cultural.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Marxist Final question for you, and this is something that
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: is near and dear to your heart, especially something in
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the book on Woke How to Defeat Culture Marxism in America.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: You talk about the attack on our court system by
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: the left and also so our Supreme Court, and have
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: a very significant warning about that.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: Well, that's right. Look, the last wants to destroy our
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Supreme Court. It's the one institution at the national level
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: as they don't control. They have a smear campaign against
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: Justice Thomas in particular. And actually, Ben, you're in my
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: episode of Verdict today, the brand new podcast that came
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: out today. We discuss the smear campaign from the Democrats
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: trying to destroy Justice Thomas and that fundamentally is an
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: assault on the Bill of Rights and our constitutional rights.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: But I'll tell you something and let's send us some
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: good news, which is the book Unwoke. It is officially
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: released tomorrow and it is already on the Amazon bestseller list.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: It is number one and number two and number three
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: for political bestseller, so it's the top three, the hardcovers
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: number one, the audio books number two, the kindle versions
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: number three, So that is encouraging. People want to know
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: what the hell is happening and how do we defeat it.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: But overall, in terms of all books, not just politics,
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: we're number four. So we just beat Barbara streisand today
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: she's right below us.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: I love that, I'll tell you.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, Britney Spears is still above us at number one,
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: and so Ben, we need to fix that. I actually
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: have my team going out and buying me some butcher
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: knives because I'm gonna start dancing with knives. We gotta
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: beat Brittany. And so let me just ask your listeners,
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: go right now to Amazon and buy Unwoke. How to
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Defeat Cultural Marxism in America, because this is about empowering
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: you to know how to turn our country back. And
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: I'll say one last thing. The book is also a
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: fun read. It's filled with stories. It's not some abstract
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: academic treatise. It is real and practical and it tells
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: you what's happening and how we win.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: It's an incredible book. Grab it wherever you can.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Amazon, as you said, it comes out on Tuesday, officially
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• 27:02
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  Speaker 2: Center. It's a pleasure. It's fun to have this.
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• 27:29
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• 27:36
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