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- 0:01Speaker 1: Welcome in as Verdict with Center, Ted Kruz, Ben Ferguson
- 0:04Speaker 1: with you, Senator, We're gonna get to do political strategy
- 0:07Speaker 1: today on the show, which I actually love. So this
- 0:10Speaker 1: is like one of my favorites because of the insanity
- 0:12Speaker 1: and a race that actually matters for control of the Senate.
- 0:16Speaker 1: We're going to dive into that. Plus Joe Biden's on
- 0:18Speaker 1: like this rewrite history tour as well.
- 0:21Speaker 2: Well.
- 0:22Speaker 3: We're gonna cover the continued fiery crash of the Nazi
- 0:28Speaker 3: communist in Maine. Graham Platter, it seems every day when
- 0:33Speaker 3: you think there cannot be anything worse about this guy,
- 0:36Speaker 3: there are no more skeletons in the closet. It turns
- 0:38Speaker 3: out that closet is in fact a cemetery. It is
- 0:42Speaker 3: a graveyard, and there are so many skeletons there there
- 0:46Speaker 3: are more to come. We're gonna break down why they're
- 0:49Speaker 3: coming right now, why they're coming right now so quickly,
- 0:52Speaker 3: and is something sinister afoot. We're gonna break that down
- 0:56Speaker 3: in detail. We're also going to talk to you about
- 0:58Speaker 3: a shocking story about UNRA, the un relief agency that
- 1:04Speaker 3: has employed hundreds and maybe even thousands of hamas terrorists.
- 1:11Speaker 3: New breaking news there that is going to make you
- 1:14Speaker 3: you didn't think well of the United Nations when you
- 1:16Speaker 3: started listening to this podcast. I promise you at the
- 1:18Speaker 3: end of it, you're gonna think even worse.
- 1:21Speaker 2: You know what.
- 1:21Speaker 3: It occurs to me now, Graham Platner would make a
- 1:25Speaker 3: fantastic employee at UNRA. He would fit right in amen
- 1:28Speaker 3: that they would understand his anti American leftist vitriol. It
- 1:33Speaker 3: would be a perfect mesh. And then there's Jill Biden.
- 1:36Speaker 3: Jill Biden is going on TV and just kind of
- 1:40Speaker 3: crashing and burning just you know, she's trying to defend
- 1:43Speaker 3: her husband. She is failing miserably in that. And at
- 1:46Speaker 3: the end of the day, what she's doing I don't
- 1:48Speaker 3: think she intends to, but she is indicting the entire
- 1:51Speaker 3: Democrat Party and all of the media for being willing,
- 1:55Speaker 3: enthusiastic partisan liars. We're gonna bring you all of that today.
- 2:00Speaker 1: Yeah, it really is an incredible story. We've got the
- 2:02Speaker 1: receipts for you with the audio. Let me also talk
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- 3:52Speaker 1: United for Life. All right, Senator, So before we get
- 3:55Speaker 1: into politics of political theory and how to run campaigns,
- 4:00Speaker 1: he do have some even more breaking news on this
- 4:02Speaker 1: disaster of a candidate. As you said, the skeletons keep
- 4:05Speaker 1: coming out of the closet.
- 4:07Speaker 3: Well, the latest that just broke. Here's how the Wall
- 4:10Speaker 3: Street Journal covered it. Graham Plattner's wife flagged sexually explicit
- 4:14Speaker 3: texts to his Senate campaign. The wife of the main
- 4:17Speaker 3: Senate Democrat candidate last year last year told the campaign
- 4:21Speaker 3: about texts she had found between Platner and other women
- 4:27Speaker 3: and noticed women is plural. Days after Graham Plattner announced
- 4:31Speaker 3: his main Senate bid, his wife informed the campaign about
- 4:33Speaker 3: a potential political problem she had previously discovered on the
- 4:36Speaker 3: quote oyster farmer's phone boy, He's doing some oyster farming
- 4:41Speaker 3: sexually explicit texts with several women, According to the people
- 4:45Speaker 3: familiar with the matter. Amy Gertner, who married Platner in
- 4:48Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, told the campaign about messages she had
- 4:51Speaker 3: found early in their marriage in the spring of twenty
- 4:53Speaker 3: twenty five. So this is a guy who can stick
- 4:55Speaker 3: with something. I mean, he lasted almost eighteen months before
- 4:59Speaker 3: he's caught sexual texting other women women not his wife.
- 5:03Speaker 3: In late August, as some aids were conducting opposition research
- 5:07Speaker 3: on their own candidate. And by the way, that's a
- 5:08Speaker 3: standard thing you do in politics, is when you are
- 5:11Speaker 3: preparing to launch a campaign, one of the first thing
- 5:13Speaker 3: you do is hire your own team to do oppo
- 5:17Speaker 3: research on you so that you know what they're going
- 5:19Speaker 3: to come and attack you with Gershner disclosed the text
- 5:22Speaker 3: to a campaign AID to make sure they didn't pose
- 5:25Speaker 3: a risk to her husband's naissance campaign. The campaign had
- 5:29Speaker 3: been preparing for a major rally over Labor Day weekend
- 5:31Speaker 3: last year with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who likes to
- 5:34Speaker 3: hang out with Nazi communists who are sexual harassers and
- 5:38Speaker 3: cheating on their wives. That's not actually in the journal story.
- 5:41Speaker 3: That's just kind of reading between the lines. But who
- 5:45Speaker 3: was And this is getting back to the story. Set
- 5:47Speaker 3: to officially endorse Platner at the event, Aids ultimately decided
- 5:50Speaker 3: that the text were a private matter.
- 5:53Speaker 2: Let me read that again.
- 5:54Speaker 3: Aids ultimately decided the text were a private matter. You
- 5:58Speaker 3: remember when that private matter of private matters drove Eric's
- 6:02Speaker 3: swallwell out of the California gubernatorial race. YEA, their private
- 6:06Speaker 3: matter until they're not. That was being handled by the
- 6:10Speaker 3: couple in marriage counseling. A campaign official said the rally
- 6:13Speaker 3: preceded as planned, with thousands in attendance. In a statement
- 6:17Speaker 3: provided by Platner's campaign, Gertner said she believed she was
- 6:21Speaker 3: confiding in an age she considered a friend. I know
- 6:25Speaker 3: who Graham is. I know the man I'm married and
- 6:27Speaker 3: the husband he has been to me in the best
- 6:29Speaker 3: and worst days of my life. This hasn't changed, and
- 6:31Speaker 3: it won't. The previously unreported deliberations last year over sexually
- 6:35Speaker 3: explicit text discovered on Platner's phone come as the veteran
- 6:39Speaker 3: has exploded onto the national political scenes, kindling Democratic hopes
- 6:44Speaker 3: that they can unseat Republican Susan Collins and gain control
- 6:47Speaker 3: of the Senate. All right, now, that's bat yeah, but
- 6:52Speaker 3: surely there couldn't be worse. Well, there is, and stop
- 6:56Speaker 3: calling me Shirley also breaking. Graham Platner has an active
- 7:01Speaker 3: profile on a messaging app called and I'm not making
- 7:05Speaker 3: this up predators Paradise, uh.
- 7:09Speaker 1: Active profile just so everybody understands, that means that means
- 7:12Speaker 1: like he currently being used.
- 7:14Speaker 3: Yes, And if you read the Daily Wire, Graham Plattner,
- 7:18Speaker 3: who setate campaign has been marred with scandal from the outset,
- 7:21Speaker 3: maintains an active account on a platform notorious for enabling
- 7:27Speaker 3: sexual predators. The main Democrat who seeking done seed, incumbent
- 7:31Speaker 3: Senator Susan Collins, is a registered user on Kick, a
- 7:35Speaker 3: Daily Wire review found now Kick is already known as
- 7:40Speaker 3: a hotbed for child pornography, kidnapping, and sexual abuse.
- 7:46Speaker 1: And by the way, to be queer, there was four
- 7:48Speaker 1: months before apparently he joined a major expose I think
- 7:52Speaker 1: it was The New York Times about what you just
- 7:54Speaker 1: said in this site being used by these things. So
- 7:58Speaker 1: if you googled, you would know that you're about to
- 8:00Speaker 1: join a site that is known for child pornography and
- 8:04Speaker 1: other things like that, and it's like, oh yeah, let's
- 8:07Speaker 1: sign up for that. Four months after that massive expos
- 8:10Speaker 1: came out.
- 8:10Speaker 3: You know, bet, I will say this seriously, I'm beginning
- 8:13Speaker 3: to wonder whether we're about to have something enter popular
- 8:16Speaker 3: culture which is a new euphemism of oyster farming. You know,
- 8:20Speaker 3: what is my scoundrel husband doing. Oh he's oyster farming.
- 8:25Speaker 3: I mean, this guy has a potential to like set
- 8:28Speaker 3: a term that is going to last well beyond the
- 8:30Speaker 3: main Senate race. And if Saturday Night Live actually did comedy,
- 8:35Speaker 3: they would have an entire skin on oyster farming like
- 8:38Speaker 3: it fries.
- 8:39Speaker 2: Out for it.
- 8:40Speaker 3: And here's the bizarre thing they just might you know
- 8:43Speaker 3: I mentioned before Eric Swalwell, And let's talk a little strategy.
- 8:47Speaker 3: Let's talk about why this information is coming out right now.
- 8:53Speaker 1: By the way, it's not coming from Republicans. That's the
- 8:55Speaker 1: point that Number one we need to make this is
- 8:57Speaker 1: Democrats that we're in his campaign, who have now outed him, yes,
- 9:01Speaker 1: publicly on this. And this goes back to comparing contrast
- 9:05Speaker 1: Eric Swalwell. When Democrats thought Eric swall was no longer useful,
- 9:10Speaker 1: they're the ones that released all the info to destroy him,
- 9:13Speaker 1: not Republicans going after him. Let's be clear, we're seeing
- 9:16Speaker 1: this now play out his dejavou weeks later.
- 9:19Speaker 3: Yeah, look, there's a real time parallel. And if you
- 9:22Speaker 3: look at it, this story that Plattner's wife came with
- 9:27Speaker 3: the sexually explicit texts to the campaign staff, you know
- 9:30Speaker 3: who knew about that, the campaign staff. That's the source
- 9:35Speaker 3: of this story in all likelihood. And so you've got
- 9:39Speaker 3: Democrats going after their own nominee, and it is reminiscent
- 9:44Speaker 3: of Look, Eric Swalwell. I didn't know the guy, but
- 9:48Speaker 3: from everything that has been said, it was widely known
- 9:51Speaker 3: among his colleagues that the guy was a complete predator,
- 9:54Speaker 3: that the guy was sexually harassing, sexually assaulting women, was
- 9:58Speaker 3: out partying. What was was like Bluto and animal House,
- 10:02Speaker 3: living his life.
- 10:03Speaker 2: And Democrats didn't care.
- 10:08Speaker 3: They didn't care at all because he was an attack
- 10:11Speaker 3: dog and so he could be a sexual predator if
- 10:13Speaker 3: he's attacking Donald Trump. They're happy with whatever he's doing.
- 10:18Speaker 3: They didn't care until they realized they had a problem
- 10:22Speaker 3: in the California gubernatorial race. And by the way, look Swallwell,
- 10:26Speaker 3: it appears that other House members knew. There may be
- 10:29Speaker 3: some Democrats senators right now who knew when they were
- 10:32Speaker 3: in the House with him. There were lots and lots
- 10:34Speaker 3: of staffers who knew. There presumably were reporters who knew.
- 10:37Speaker 3: Because these reporters and members and staffers are all very
- 10:41Speaker 3: tight with each other, and they all kept it silent
- 10:45Speaker 3: until the instant there was a political benefit to getting
- 10:47Speaker 3: rid of him, and boom, it was a matter of
- 10:50Speaker 3: hours and he was gone. I got to say, when
- 10:54Speaker 3: the story was just that Platner was a communist, Democrats
- 10:59Speaker 3: were fine. Mary Sanders campaign with him. Elizabeth Warren said,
- 11:02Speaker 3: he's my guy. When the story was just he was
- 11:05Speaker 3: a communist with a Nazi tattoo of a total comp
- 11:08Speaker 3: the symbol of the SS they used on the death camps. Amazingly,
- 11:12Speaker 3: Democrats were fine. They went out and campaigned with him,
- 11:15Speaker 3: said I'm proud to stand with him. That's who they were.
- 11:19Speaker 3: But as the stories got worse and worse and worse,
- 11:23Speaker 3: you do have to wonder who is it that's trying
- 11:27Speaker 3: to push Platner out. Is it Republicans trying to smack
- 11:30Speaker 3: him in the general election, or is it instead Democrats
- 11:36Speaker 3: who want to jettison him. And in particular, if you
- 11:40Speaker 3: look at the main law, under main law, a candidate
- 11:44Speaker 3: who wins the June ninth primary and subsequently withdraws by
- 11:49Speaker 3: five pm on July thirteenth, So there's a narrow window.
- 11:53Speaker 2: We have just over a minute.
- 11:54Speaker 4: By the way, make sure you mark your calendar for
- 11:56Speaker 4: that date. That date matters.
- 11:57Speaker 3: July thirteenth may be replaced by a nominee selected by
- 12:03Speaker 3: party officials. Any replacement candidate must be chosen no later
- 12:08Speaker 3: than five pm on July twenty seventh. The timeline would
- 12:13Speaker 3: give Democrats just fourteen days to settle on a replacement
- 12:16Speaker 3: candidate and prepare for the general election campaign. So I
- 12:21Speaker 3: doubt Platner is on board with this. But by the way,
- 12:24Speaker 3: Swalwell wasn't on board with his defenestration. I mean he
- 12:27Speaker 3: was forcibly ejected and did not have a vote the matter.
- 12:32Speaker 3: I am quite sure Platner is not liking his oyster
- 12:36Speaker 3: farming being exposed to all of all of Maine and
- 12:39Speaker 3: all of this country. But you have at least some
- 12:42Speaker 3: Democrats who are saying, gosh, this guy is becoming a liability.
- 12:47Speaker 3: And listen, these guys are ruthless. I think we need
- 12:51Speaker 3: to be quite aware that this could well be a
- 12:54Speaker 3: Democrat on Democrat violence effort to remove Platner, and they're
- 12:59Speaker 3: objective is to get Platner to withdraw by July thirteenth.
- 13:04Speaker 1: Yeah, you look at just how quick this came out,
- 13:09Speaker 1: and Democrats are really good at planning stories and building momentum.
- 13:13Speaker 4: It's exactly the playbook they did with Swawell.
- 13:15Speaker 1: By the way, it's also what Democrats said to Bernie
- 13:17Speaker 1: Sanders when they were making sure he didn't get the nomination.
- 13:20Speaker 1: If you go back, there's some parallels here when they're like,
- 13:22Speaker 1: we're not gonna support you, We're gonna pull the funding,
- 13:24Speaker 1: we're gonna pull our everybody from you, and they will
- 13:27Speaker 1: destroy you. I mean, this is a party that they
- 13:30Speaker 1: always decide who their guy is and if they don't
- 13:33Speaker 1: like you, and that included Bernie Sanders when he was
- 13:35Speaker 1: running for president, they were gonna make sure he didn't
- 13:38Speaker 1: get anywhere close to the nomination. Now you look at
- 13:40Speaker 1: it this way, and I wonder this question center. Did
- 13:44Speaker 1: Republicans maybe misplay this a little bit because there was
- 13:47Speaker 1: such shocking news that then we started pushing out there.
- 13:50Speaker 4: Should we have looked.
- 13:51Speaker 1: At that date earlier on and been like, maybe we
- 13:53Speaker 1: should just be quiet for a while, and then on
- 13:55Speaker 1: the thirteenth that's when we hammer his candidacy.
- 13:58Speaker 3: Look, I will say this Chuck Schumer and Democrat leadership
- 14:03Speaker 3: wanted a different candidate. Schumer recruited to the race, Jadet Mills,
- 14:07Speaker 3: the Democrat governor from sort of traditional Washington playbook. She
- 14:12Speaker 3: was by far the most attractive Democrat candidate. The problem is,
- 14:18Speaker 3: the base of the Democrat Party today is batcrap crazy
- 14:21Speaker 3: that they've lost their ever loving mind, and so a
- 14:25Speaker 3: safe and somewhat boring choice of a city Democrat governor
- 14:29Speaker 3: that was far less interesting than a Nazi communist. That's
- 14:33Speaker 3: where their base is like. Understand, being a Nazi communist
- 14:37Speaker 3: is not a negative in the Democrat Party today. It
- 14:40Speaker 3: is a plus because the people who are fueling these
- 14:43Speaker 3: campaigns are themselves self described communists, and far too many
- 14:47Speaker 3: of them are Nazi communists. That dynamic, yes, very much
- 14:51Speaker 3: so well.
- 14:52Speaker 1: And the Democratic Party now has become as a party
- 14:55Speaker 1: very much anti Semitic. I mean, nationwide, we're seeing activists
- 14:59Speaker 1: and candidate and leaders who truly hate Jewish people, whether
- 15:03Speaker 1: they're in Israel or in the United States of America
- 15:04Speaker 1: anywhere else in the world.
- 15:05Speaker 4: That's become norm for them.
- 15:07Speaker 3: So it would not surprise me at all if this
- 15:10Speaker 3: is Chuck Schumer and Chuck Schumer's minions planting these stories
- 15:14Speaker 3: because because he wanted a different candidate, and I think
- 15:19Speaker 3: they see blood in the water and they're going after Platnir.
- 15:22Speaker 3: I will say this entire episode has really revealed how
- 15:28Speaker 3: utterly and completely morally bankrupt the Democrat Party is, because
- 15:31Speaker 3: as every one of these stories broke, no Democrats senator
- 15:36Speaker 3: abandoned him. The only one who did was John Fetterman,
- 15:38Speaker 3: and Fetterman, to his credit, did the right thing. But
- 15:41Speaker 3: that makes the other forty six look all the more
- 15:44Speaker 3: hypocritical because they are.
- 15:46Speaker 1: Got big main people coming to stand on stage with him,
- 15:49Speaker 1: Like that's what's incredible, Like he's not canceling campaign events,
- 15:53Speaker 1: but you actually have what I would refer to as
- 15:57Speaker 1: is your top one percent list of Democratic lawmakers that
- 16:00Speaker 1: you want to be seen on stage with if you're
- 16:02Speaker 1: running a Democratic campaign. It's the equivalent of having you
- 16:05Speaker 1: center go to a Republican campaign, like it's on the
- 16:07Speaker 1: short list of people you want to you want to
- 16:09Speaker 1: campaign with. They're not backing out as standing by him
- 16:13Speaker 1: so far.
- 16:14Speaker 3: Just today I saw a tweet from Roe Conna, the
- 16:17Speaker 3: very very rich, very very liberal democrat from Silicon Valley
- 16:20Speaker 3: member of Congress. He said, how proud he is to
- 16:23Speaker 3: be going to Maine to campaign with Graham Platner. This
- 16:26Speaker 3: is where their base is. And and and by the way,
- 16:28Speaker 3: these people don't care that the guy's misogynists, that he's racist,
- 16:32Speaker 3: that he's anti Semitic. They don't care that he's he
- 16:35Speaker 3: he has said that he wished that federal uh felt
- 16:38Speaker 3: fellow veterans died. And and they don't care that that
- 16:43Speaker 3: that he's now a registered user on on a site
- 16:48Speaker 3: that is filled with sexual predators and child pornography. None
- 16:51Speaker 3: of that matters. He's on their team, so they stick
- 16:55Speaker 3: with him no matter what. And by the way, I'll
- 16:58Speaker 3: draw a contrast because you know some might say, oh,
- 17:01Speaker 3: come on, both sides do that. Well, no, that's not true.
- 17:04Speaker 3: If you remember back a few cycles ago when Roy
- 17:06Speaker 3: Moore was the nominee in Alabama, the Republican nominee, and
- 17:10Speaker 3: once he was the nominee, many of us were willing
- 17:12Speaker 3: to support him. And then the stories came out about serious,
- 17:16Speaker 3: credible allegations of his engaging in sexual assault of underage girls,
- 17:22Speaker 3: and I and a number of other people his answers
- 17:24Speaker 3: were thoroughly unsatisfactory. He could not conclusively respond to those allegations,
- 17:31Speaker 3: and I at a number of others said all right,
- 17:33Speaker 3: we're done now. It resulted in a Democrat winning that seat,
- 17:36Speaker 3: so that was from a partisan perspective, not a good thing.
- 17:39Speaker 3: But are there no Democrats that they're fond of a
- 17:44Speaker 3: phrase of country over party? Does any Democrat actually believe
- 17:49Speaker 3: country over party? Or are they just willing to do
- 17:53Speaker 3: anything in pursuit of power.
- 17:55Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great question, final one on this. If
- 17:58Speaker 1: you are Susan Collins right now looking at this, I
- 18:00Speaker 1: think it's pretty clear that you want to you'd want
- 18:02Speaker 1: to run against this guy. Partner you that much better
- 18:06Speaker 1: person for you to run against. And let's say they
- 18:08Speaker 1: do a replacement. Is she looking at the thirteenth date
- 18:12Speaker 1: and saying, please, let us get there as fast as
- 18:15Speaker 1: we can with this guy.
- 18:16Speaker 2: Look, I don't know.
- 18:17Speaker 3: I haven't talked to Susan about that, but but the
- 18:20Speaker 3: speed with which it's coming out and the source of
- 18:24Speaker 3: it that it is Democrats who are going after this
- 18:27Speaker 3: guy raises very real suspicions that they're at least some
- 18:31Speaker 3: in the party. And I suspect Schumer's front and center
- 18:33Speaker 3: who have decided let let's let let's cut our losses
- 18:38Speaker 3: with this guy and throw them overboard.
- 18:40Speaker 2: And you know his.
- 18:41Speaker 4: Torture prediction for the thirteenth. You think they will.
- 18:44Speaker 2: I think there's a very good chance.
- 18:47Speaker 4: I want to move to Andra right now.
- 18:49Speaker 1: And we've talked about under on the show before, but
- 18:51Speaker 1: we have new news on this, and I want to
- 18:53Speaker 1: get the headline for people say, understand, uh, just how
- 18:57Speaker 1: big of anitious is, even if it's not being covered
- 19:00Speaker 1: by the media.
- 19:01Speaker 4: That's why we did a show.
- 19:02Speaker 1: The Washington Free Beacon came out with an article it's
- 19:05Speaker 1: his exclusive US probe of embattled You and Gaza Relief
- 19:08Speaker 1: Agency now expands to one thousand, five hundred plus staffers
- 19:15Speaker 1: suspected with direct ties to Hamas. Now that would be
- 19:18Speaker 1: direct ties to a terrorist organization. Senat, We've been warning
- 19:22Speaker 1: about this for a long time. There's the presence that
- 19:24Speaker 1: talked about how worthless in many ways the United Nations
- 19:28Speaker 1: can be, certainly in the Middle East. This is another
- 19:30Speaker 1: example of this. We know that Hamas had worked with
- 19:32Speaker 1: the United Nations people on the ground. Food had been stolen,
- 19:35Speaker 1: Countless dollars of eight have been stolen and given to terrorists.
- 19:39Speaker 1: And now you see the compromising of UN staff of
- 19:42Speaker 1: up to one thousand, five hundred plus people. I wish
- 19:46Speaker 1: I could say I'm surprised by this.
- 19:48Speaker 4: I am not.
- 19:49Speaker 1: But what does this story say about what America's role
- 19:52Speaker 1: should be moving forward?
- 19:53Speaker 2: Look?
- 19:54Speaker 3: For a long time, I've called for UNRA to be
- 19:56Speaker 3: completely defunded, to be shut down. UNRA is so so
- 20:00Speaker 3: bad it makes the UN itself seem like a pro America,
- 20:04Speaker 3: fantastic organization with integrity, part of the UN.
- 20:08Speaker 2: But it is.
- 20:09Speaker 3: It is the most corrupt part. Here's what was reported
- 20:14Speaker 3: the story by Adam Credo, the Federal investigation and his
- 20:18Speaker 3: staff of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. The
- 20:20Speaker 3: UN Gaza relief organization that has been closely linked to
- 20:24Speaker 3: Hamas will soon encompass at least one thy five hundred
- 20:28Speaker 3: unrelinked individuals suspected of terror ties. This unprecedented dragonet, reported
- 20:34Speaker 3: here for the first time by the Washington Free Beacon,
- 20:37Speaker 3: exposes an AID group brimming with Hamas operatives and is
- 20:42Speaker 3: generating momentum in Congress and the Trump administration for harsher
- 20:45Speaker 3: sanctions on the embattled AID group. According to congressional staffers
- 20:49Speaker 3: briefed on the matter. The punitive matters up for consideration
- 20:52Speaker 3: include stripping UNRA of its diplomatic immunity under US law,
- 20:56Speaker 3: which would open it up to legal action from terror victims,
- 21:00Speaker 3: and fully designating the AID organization as a foreign terrorist organization.
- 21:04Speaker 3: According to three Trump administration officials and other sources tracking
- 21:08Speaker 3: the matter in Congress, these discussions have accelerated since The
- 21:12Speaker 3: Free Beacon first reported in April that UNRUN other un
- 21:14Speaker 3: agencies are stonewalling a federal probe into their ties to HAMAS.
- 21:20Speaker 3: The US Agency for International Development Inspector General's Office, a
- 21:24Speaker 3: law enforcement agency separate from the largely defunct USAID, has
- 21:28Speaker 3: spent months independently unearthing evidence that multiple UNRE employees participated
- 21:35Speaker 3: in hamas's October seventh terror attack. Let me repeat that again,
- 21:40Speaker 3: participating multiple UNRA employees participated in hamas's October seventh terror attack.
- 21:49Speaker 3: The probe will soon expand to at least one thousand,
- 21:51Speaker 3: five hundred suspected militants with UNRA ties, the article continues.
- 21:56Speaker 3: Senators Ted Cruz and Bill Haggerty, influential members of the
- 22:00Speaker 3: Senate Foreign Relations Committee, nice of them to say that
- 22:03Speaker 3: both told the Free Beacon, I mean they could have said,
- 22:06Speaker 3: you know, lousy members.
- 22:07Speaker 4: I think those two random guys in the Senate.
- 22:10Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you were two guys we ran into on
- 22:12Speaker 3: the street. So that's nice of them to say. Both
- 22:15Speaker 3: told the Free Beacon that it's time to move beyond
- 22:17Speaker 3: merely freezing unrestfunding, particularly as the USAID Inspector General continues
- 22:22Speaker 3: to unearth evidence of Hamas complicity. Quote, either they come
- 22:26Speaker 3: clean or I expect growing momentum for designating them for
- 22:29Speaker 3: the support they give to terrorists crew said Haggarty called
- 22:33Speaker 3: it quote appalling that the other UN agencies today are
- 22:36Speaker 3: still stonewalling the Trump administration's ongoing investigations, adding that quote,
- 22:42Speaker 3: if UN agencies refuse to show basic transparency and accountability,
- 22:47Speaker 3: then the Executive Branch and Congress must respond appropriately. That's
- 22:51Speaker 3: a big deal. And it's a big deal that both
- 22:53Speaker 3: the UN and and and UNRE in particular are still
- 22:56Speaker 3: stonewalling and refusing to accept any accountability.
- 22:59Speaker 4: What's so Yeah, it is.
- 23:02Speaker 1: One other thing on this is the fact that it's
- 23:04Speaker 1: so widespread. There is no way that the United Nations
- 23:08Speaker 1: didn't know about this. There was no way that UNDRA
- 23:11Speaker 1: and the leadership didn't know about this. And we're not
- 23:13Speaker 1: talking about fifteen talking about more than one thousand, five
- 23:15Speaker 1: hundred would direct tie a terrorist organization. What does that
- 23:18Speaker 1: say about the President's standpoint on not just under but
- 23:21Speaker 1: also on the UN in general. Because I don't believe
- 23:25Speaker 1: for a moment that the UN doesn't know this.
- 23:28Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about how pervasive it is.
- 23:30Speaker 3: So so, Ben, how many employees do you think there
- 23:33Speaker 3: are an UNRA.
- 23:35Speaker 4: That's a great question. I have no clue.
- 23:36Speaker 1: I mean, i'd say ten thousand, just because it's a
- 23:38Speaker 1: bloated agency.
- 23:40Speaker 2: Yeah, I had no idea.
- 23:42Speaker 3: And so as we were preparing for the POD, I
- 23:44Speaker 3: pulled out my Google and I typed in how many
- 23:47Speaker 3: staff are there at UNRA? And Google came back and said,
- 23:51Speaker 3: there are approximately thirty thousand staff in Iran. We now
- 23:56Speaker 3: have an investigation into more than fifteen hundred of them
- 24:00Speaker 3: for direct ties to Hamas. That's five percent of the agency.
- 24:05Speaker 3: That's not one isolated person, fifteen hundred out of thirty
- 24:09Speaker 3: thousand suspected of being HAMAS terrorist or directly linked to
- 24:13Speaker 3: AMAS terrorists. That is a big damn deal. That is
- 24:18Speaker 3: an agency that needs to shut down, needs to be padlocked,
- 24:22Speaker 3: needs to be ended. The idea that the United Nations,
- 24:26Speaker 3: much less the United States, would be providing funding that's
- 24:29Speaker 3: going directly to Hamas terrorists. That is insanity. It needs
- 24:33Speaker 3: to stop.
- 24:34Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with you there.
- 24:35Speaker 1: I want to move finally on to Joe Biden and
- 24:37Speaker 1: you want to talk about a dumpster fire of interviews.
- 24:39Speaker 1: Joe Biden's out there. I was like, is she i
- 24:42Speaker 1: Witley was searching. I'm like, is she promoting a book?
- 24:44Speaker 1: And does she write about autobiography? She's out there doing
- 24:47Speaker 1: all these interviews, trying to rewrite history, but also wants
- 24:51Speaker 1: you to feel sorry for her and her husband, saying
- 24:53Speaker 1: that his bad night, she was terrified he was having
- 24:56Speaker 1: a stroke. The only problem is after she thought he
- 24:58Speaker 1: maybe having a stroke in that debate with Donald Trump,
- 25:01Speaker 1: she had no problem taking him to campaign event and
- 25:03Speaker 1: then to a waffle house and said on TV with
- 25:05Speaker 1: him standing there, I'm so proud of you did such
- 25:07Speaker 1: a great job tonight. It's either I'm like, all right,
- 25:09Speaker 1: well it's a senior abuse or your pathological liar, or both.
- 25:13Speaker 2: Well.
- 25:14Speaker 3: You and I did an emergency podcast the night of
- 25:17Speaker 3: that debate. We did it immediately as the debate concluded,
- 25:20Speaker 3: and we told verdict. Listeners, at the time, you've just
- 25:23Speaker 3: watched the single most consequential presidential debate in American history.
- 25:26Speaker 3: And the reason is and you and I predicted that
- 25:29Speaker 3: night as the debate ended, this debate will change the
- 25:33Speaker 3: names on the ballot in November. This debate was such
- 25:35Speaker 3: a disaster, such a train wreck. The Democrats will do
- 25:39Speaker 3: what we're worried they're going to do with Graham Plattner,
- 25:41Speaker 3: which is pull them off and put someone else on.
- 25:44Speaker 3: The Democrats are really Republicans are lousy at this. By
- 25:46Speaker 3: the way, Republicans almost never managed to do this. The
- 25:49Speaker 3: Democrats are ruthlessly efficient. And we saw that debate, we
- 25:54Speaker 3: saw it went badly. But it turns out apparently Jill
- 25:58Speaker 3: Biden thought it went't even worse worse than we did.
- 26:00Speaker 3: Give a listen to what she said. She thought when
- 26:03Speaker 3: she was watching the debate.
- 26:05Speaker 5: You horrified as you saw it on Hold, I wasn't horrified.
- 26:09Speaker 5: I was frightened because I had never ever seen Joe
- 26:15Speaker 5: like that before or since, never since, yes.
- 26:20Speaker 2: Or he's never seen never.
- 26:22Speaker 5: No, what happened, I don't know what happened. I mean
- 26:26Speaker 5: when I as I watched it, I thought, oh my God,
- 26:28Speaker 5: he's having a stroke and it scared me to death.
- 26:32Speaker 1: Senator, if you think that your spouse is having a stroke, A,
- 26:38Speaker 1: why would you leave him on stage? B? Why would
- 26:41Speaker 1: you then take to a campaign event afterwards? And C
- 26:45Speaker 1: why would you then go to waffle house instead of
- 26:47Speaker 1: to a doctor?
- 26:48Speaker 4: And d uh?
- 26:49Speaker 1: If this is the worst it ever was, and the
- 26:52Speaker 1: whole world saw that exact moment, It's never been anywhere
- 26:54Speaker 1: close before. After you're either a pathological liar A or B.
- 26:58Speaker 1: You're either a pathology a coiar who's crazy? You pick
- 27:01Speaker 1: which one you want to be.
- 27:04Speaker 3: Look, Ben, this is an area where where I think
- 27:07Speaker 3: the American people have a great sense of intuition of
- 27:11Speaker 3: judging whether someone's speaking the truth or lying. You asked
- 27:14Speaker 3: the right question, what would you do if you believed
- 27:18Speaker 3: your spouse, your spouse of many decades, was having a stroke?
- 27:22Speaker 3: And the answer every one of us would give the
- 27:25Speaker 3: answer you would give the answer I would give. The
- 27:26Speaker 3: answer everyone would give is you take your doctor your
- 27:30Speaker 3: spouse to the hospital.
- 27:31Speaker 4: Immediately, regardless of what they're doing, regardless.
- 27:34Speaker 3: Of what think they're having a stroke. And look, maybe
- 27:37Speaker 3: you don't rush out and pull them off National TV.
- 27:40Speaker 3: I don't know about that, but at a minimum, So
- 27:42Speaker 3: suppose you just just just you're scared, but you don't
- 27:45Speaker 3: as soon as it was over, how do you not say,
- 27:48Speaker 3: we're going to the emergency room. We're gonna go okay,
- 27:50Speaker 3: you don't want a big public public bru haha, all right,
- 27:54Speaker 3: get a doctor when you're watching it, he's having a stroke.
- 27:56Speaker 3: Get a doctor here right now. The instant he steps
- 27:59Speaker 3: off stage.
- 27:59Speaker 2: I want to being.
- 28:00Speaker 3: Examined like that. Anyone who is watching their spouse and
- 28:05Speaker 3: thinks they're having a stroke would do that. She didn't
- 28:09Speaker 3: do that. She went to the campaign party. She cheered
- 28:11Speaker 3: and celebrated. I'm actually not critical like you're giving. You're
- 28:17Speaker 3: giving harsh criticism because she said he did great. Look,
- 28:20Speaker 3: she's a campaign spouse. Every campaign spouse is gonna say that.
- 28:25Speaker 3: I'm understanding of that. If I do a terrible job
- 28:29Speaker 3: at a debate, I don't really want Heidi to go, wow,
- 28:31Speaker 3: he really crapped the bed like that.
- 28:35Speaker 4: I understand that.
- 28:36Speaker 1: But my point is that the pathological laying aspect of this,
- 28:40Speaker 1: I don't believe for a second that she's telling the truth.
- 28:42Speaker 1: And she says it's the worst it's ever been it
- 28:44Speaker 1: only happened that one time. It happened to be the
- 28:45Speaker 1: one and a half hours it was on national television
- 28:48Speaker 1: during a presidential debate. I don't believe her. Number one
- 28:51Speaker 1: and number two. If you are I mean center, let's
- 28:56Speaker 1: let's go to a debate night with you. If I thought,
- 28:58Speaker 1: as one of your friends, that you're having a stroke
- 29:01Speaker 1: and you could make it till the end, I would
- 29:03Speaker 1: immediately do what you just said. And I'm not your spouse,
- 29:06Speaker 1: and I think your team would. But second of all,
- 29:08Speaker 1: I think you'd also if you thought there was a
- 29:10Speaker 1: medical issue there, you probably would actually let people know,
- 29:14Speaker 1: because they did. Remember, they may have excuse they lied
- 29:16Speaker 1: and said he had a cold, like if you thought
- 29:18Speaker 1: something was bad, that's your alibi to get out of
- 29:21Speaker 1: a terrible debate. Which is why I think they didn't
- 29:23Speaker 1: actually say it is because this was the cognitive normal
- 29:26Speaker 1: for him. And so I think it's another part of
- 29:29Speaker 1: the pathological lyeing of the Democratic Party in the cover
- 29:31Speaker 1: up is that they're like, no, no, no, this is
- 29:33Speaker 1: she says. One time, I think, no, it wasn't. This
- 29:35Speaker 1: is the guy that wasn't running the country. Somebody else
- 29:37Speaker 1: was in the White House. And then they glied and
- 29:39Speaker 1: covered it up. And now she's saying it only happened
- 29:42Speaker 1: one time. I don't believe her for a moment.
- 29:44Speaker 2: Well.
- 29:44Speaker 3: And in fact, listen to a reporter ask asking her
- 29:49Speaker 3: about whether this had been going on for a long time.
- 29:51Speaker 2: Give a listen.
- 29:52Speaker 5: Did you ever see signs that he was falling into
- 29:56Speaker 5: cognitive declimb?
- 29:58Speaker 4: No? No, no, true, no. I mean that's just totally insane.
- 30:05Speaker 4: Everyone saw it.
- 30:07Speaker 1: There was examples that you could actually give that were
- 30:09Speaker 1: caught on tape. And then I go back to what
- 30:12Speaker 1: she said, It was the worst I ever saw. I
- 30:13Speaker 1: thought he was having a stroke, but I didn't do
- 30:15Speaker 1: anything when he was having a stroke, and I never
- 30:17Speaker 1: saw anything like this ever. Again, this is why I
- 30:19Speaker 1: think so many Americans have distrust for politicians, and why
- 30:23Speaker 1: you should even be asking more questions now about who
- 30:25Speaker 1: the hell was running the country.
- 30:26Speaker 4: Was it Joe Biden? I don't know.
- 30:29Speaker 3: And by the way, I'll say again, I am I
- 30:32Speaker 3: am more forgiving of of Jill Biden of the spouse.
- 30:36Speaker 2: Uh.
- 30:36Speaker 3: But every Democrat aide knew that he was in massive
- 30:40Speaker 3: mental decline, that that that he was not capable of
- 30:43Speaker 3: doing the job. Every reporter knew that ABC new, that
- 30:47Speaker 3: CBS knew, that NBC new that CNN knew that MSNBC
- 30:51Speaker 3: new that.
- 30:51Speaker 2: They all knew that.
- 30:53Speaker 4: And where were these it was going on?
- 30:56Speaker 3: But every Democrat senator, every Democrat House member, they all
- 31:00Speaker 3: knew that. The four years Joe Biden was president. Do
- 31:02Speaker 3: you know how many times I spoke with him in
- 31:04Speaker 3: person in those four years?
- 31:06Speaker 4: I'm going to guess one or zero.
- 31:08Speaker 2: Zero, not a single time.
- 31:10Speaker 3: That is weird. It is a regular part of the
- 31:14Speaker 3: job of being a senator to talk to the president.
- 31:16Speaker 3: When Obama was president, I talked to him regularly. When
- 31:18Speaker 3: Trump is president, I talk to him sometimes every week
- 31:21Speaker 3: or sometimes even every day. You know, last time I
- 31:24Speaker 3: talked to Trump was three days ago.
- 31:26Speaker 2: It is weird.
- 31:27Speaker 3: And by the way, it was not just me. Almost
- 31:30Speaker 3: every single Republican senator did not speak to him at
- 31:34Speaker 3: all during his presidency. We would sit around at lunch
- 31:37Speaker 3: and talk about how weird it was that the White
- 31:40Speaker 3: House would not let us talk to the president. And understand,
- 31:44Speaker 3: we all knew him. Joe was a man of the
- 31:46Speaker 3: Senate for forty plus years, so every one of us
- 31:49Speaker 3: had a personal relationship with Joe Biden and the fact
- 31:53Speaker 3: that they wouldn't let him speak to us was a
- 31:56Speaker 3: screaming alarm bell that his medal could pass. City has
- 32:00Speaker 3: diminished so much that they couldn't let us see it.
- 32:03Speaker 3: And it's why the debate was so high risk, because
- 32:06Speaker 3: there you had the TV cameras going and you couldn't
- 32:08Speaker 3: have an aid step in and save him. But well,
- 32:12Speaker 3: by the way, what did the Biden staffs say about
- 32:15Speaker 3: Jill Biden's comments about thinking he was having a stroke? Well,
- 32:19Speaker 3: an axious reporter said, quote ex Biden aids simply don't
- 32:24Speaker 3: believe Jill Biden.
- 32:27Speaker 4: And there's your sign. Well, there's your sign.
- 32:30Speaker 3: No kidding, but I'll tell you And this story links
- 32:34Speaker 3: back to the story we started with number one. Democrats
- 32:39Speaker 3: in the party and the media do not care about
- 32:42Speaker 3: anything other than power. That sounds too harsh, but they
- 32:46Speaker 3: were willing to have for four years and potentially for
- 32:49Speaker 3: eight years, someone who was senile, who was unable to
- 32:53Speaker 3: put together coherent thoughts as the commander in chief. Understand
- 32:58Speaker 3: Joe Biden could have pushed a launched our nukes, an
- 33:02Speaker 3: annihilated mankind from the face of the planet. And yet
- 33:06Speaker 3: Democrats say, you know what if he's there, we get
- 33:10Speaker 3: to run things. So you know, what does it matter
- 33:12Speaker 3: if our enemies look at the commander in chief and
- 33:14Speaker 3: think he's an adult old man who can't operate the
- 33:18Speaker 3: TV remote control that level of cynicism. Frankly, it's the
- 33:22Speaker 3: same thought process that says, what does it matter if
- 33:26Speaker 3: someone is a commi nazi, misogynist, racist, What does it matter?
- 33:32Speaker 3: My party gets to stay in power, So that's good
- 33:34Speaker 3: by me.
- 33:36Speaker 2: There is.
- 33:38Speaker 3: Look, I think it is number one we keep. And
- 33:43Speaker 3: by the way, swallwell, they were fine, someone's a repeat
- 33:46Speaker 3: sexual predator. They were great with him until there was
- 33:50Speaker 3: a political problem, and then with all three they immediately
- 33:54Speaker 3: jettisoned them and throw them out the back. I'm going
- 34:00Speaker 3: to try to be restrained and say that is not
- 34:03Speaker 3: the behavior of a party that gives a damn about principle.
- 34:08Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, great point.
- 34:10Speaker 1: Finally, Senator, we have some breaking news as we are recording,
- 34:14Speaker 1: and they're saying it's a regime rift. I'm going to
- 34:16Speaker 1: read this headline for you. Iran's president reportedly submits resignation
- 34:21Speaker 1: letter amid claims of deepening internal divisions. What does this mean?
- 34:27Speaker 1: And that's all we have at this moment. I wish
- 34:29Speaker 1: we had more, we don't. That's what we have at
- 34:31Speaker 1: this moment. Some of this by the time you listen
- 34:33Speaker 1: to it may have changed, but right now, that's what
- 34:36Speaker 1: we've got, so.
- 34:37Speaker 3: We don't know. We're recording this on Sunday. The news
- 34:40Speaker 3: is breaking. I expected the next pod we'll discuss more
- 34:42Speaker 3: about it. But Iran's president resigning strikes me as a
- 34:47Speaker 3: good thing. I have always said that a critical objective
- 34:50Speaker 3: here should be regime collapse. The president resigning is a
- 34:53Speaker 3: step in the right direction. Now, sitting here today, I
- 34:57Speaker 3: don't know that whether that means the hardliners are prevailing,
- 35:00Speaker 3: or whether that means voices of sanity are prevailing. We'll
- 35:03Speaker 3: learn more, we'll talk more. But as you know, I
- 35:06Speaker 3: spoke with the President this week, spent about twenty minutes
- 35:09Speaker 3: on the phone with him, talking predominantly about Iran, and
- 35:12Speaker 3: what I urged the President was hold the line, hold
- 35:15Speaker 3: the line, stand strong, no nukes, no nukes, no nukes,
- 35:18Speaker 3: and the President adamantly agreed with me. We were on
- 35:21Speaker 3: exactly the same page. So I'm hopeful this is a
- 35:24Speaker 3: good development. But it's too early to tell. We will
- 35:27Speaker 3: tell you more when we know more about it.
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