Welcome, it is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you and Senator, it is a big fight right now for this country and what's going to happen early on on border security. There are concerns that there's going to be a major surge of illegal immigrants coming across the border. And there's also the reality that there's still serious crimes that are happening, including some high profile trials that are going on right now.
well right now the lake and riley trial is unfolding and and there was no issue more front and center in this election than the invasion of our southern border and lake and riley as much as anybody came to signify what the stakes are and and and the tragic circumstances that unfolded in georgia with lake and riley that they
horrified the country, and we're seeing the testimony of exactly what happened. That's going to end. That is going to end on January 20th. We are days away from the border being secured. We're going to talk about Lake and Riley. We're going to talk about what's going to happen to finally, finally, finally secure the border.
we're also saying ironically the democrats shamelessly trying to steal an election in pennsylvania i say ironically because the democrats prattled on for two years about how the the party that's defending democracy and yet they are right now in pennsylvania trying to steal the senate race they are defying the orders of the state supreme court we're gonna walk through that as well and finally we're gonna talk about the democrats in the wake of the election
They have a solution. They have an answer for how to solve their problems with the voters. And their answer is censorship. They want to silence any criticism. They want to ensure that no one can ever disagree with them. We're going to break that down too.
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senator let's start with this trial as the audio from this trial uh... came out uh... i was sitting in your city on set it out numbered right when they went live and the nine one one uh...
Paul as well as the body cam audio from the officer was stunning. It was shocking. It made me angry. It made everybody on set just furious and so sad that Lake and Riley fought for 18 minutes to try to save her life. This is a situation that never should have happened because this person should have never been in the United States of America. And it was because of the Biden Harris policies that this monster was able to take her life.
Well, that's exactly right. And it was heartbreaking as as Lake and Riley's mom wept in court listening to the 911 call, 18 minutes, 18 minutes that that Lake and Riley fought. She fought, she fought to avoid being raped. She fought for her life and tragically at the end, this, this monster, this murderer bashed her head in with a rock and it's horrific and it's preventable.
what what is so so infuriating is that this should never have happened and and and i want you to i i want you to listen to to to bill malusion from fox reporting on the opening statements of the trial at that that really laid out the tragedy of what unfolded
Dana, it was really hard to listen to that opening statement from the prosecutor. The condition that Lake and Riley's body was found in the fact that her Garmin watch tracked the very moment her heart stopped. I can only imagine being her family. I think this just shows why we as a network made it such a priority to cover the border so much these last few years. These mass catch and release policies, they have consequences.
real-world consequences that affect real people. Particularly when it comes to the mass catch and release of Venezuelan men. How many live shots were we doing together in 2022, 2023, hundreds of them in Eagle Pass, in El Paso?
watching these lines of hundreds upon hundreds of Venezuelan men just walking into the country single file every day not running not hiding very nonchalant because they knew they were going to be released into the country with a court they potentially
years away. And the problem with that is you can't vet Venezuelan men. Venezuela does not cooperate with the US. We have no database, no records to run their names against. So what you're listening to right now with this horrible case with Lake and Riley, unfortunately, it's not even an isolated incident.
What happened just a few months later, Jocelyn Nungary was murdered in Houston. A 12-year-old girl allegedly sexually assaulted and murdered at the hands of two Venezuelan illegal aliens who had been caught and released at the Texas border just weeks prior. Sound familiar?
Unfortunately, it's been happening all over the country, whether it's Trende Aragua, setting up footholds across the country, migrant crime happening in different cities across the country. The idea that what happens at the border stays at the border ended a long time ago. You look at Rachel Morin.
She was murdered in Maryland. You look at Lake and Riley that happened in Georgia. Jocelyn Nungary was in Houston. These catch and release policies affect the entire country and say what you want about Donald Trump and the way he campaigns, but at his rallies, he wasn't bringing celebrities up on stage. Who was he bringing up? Jocelyn Nungary's mom, Rachel Morin's mom, real people who suffered horrible, horrible, horrible consequences as a result of these catch and release policies. Listen to that view.
Bill Volusian, it is interesting to imagine that you actually could have been standing right there or if Jenkins could have been reporting to us on live shots as we watched people just stream across and it's certainly possible that we were down there when he crossed over and before he came to New York. Bill Volusian, thank you so much.
The question that some of you will have after hearing that, Senator, is how much longer is this going to happen? Because we're even hearing reports of surges of illegal immigrants that may be trying to get across before Donald Trump takes office. And this is because they still refuse to act at the White House.
well Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, they want every illegal alien possible to come into this country between now and January 20th, because they look at every one of them as a future Democrat voter. And, you know, the trial of Lake and Riley's murderer, where they played the 911 call.
They went through the timeline and one of the things, Lake and Riley, she wasn't killed at two in the morning. She was killed just after 9 a.m. She left her home jogging on the University of Georgia campus at 9.03 a.m. She was seen at 9.05 a.m. jogging with her cell phone in her hand.
And then at 9.11 AM, she called 911 while running. And there was a minute-long recording where you can hear a male voice.
and the jury heard the operator repeating herself saying clark county nine one one hello clark county nine one one can anyone hear me the call ended at nine twelve a.m. and if you can imagine riley's mom listen to that in court the suspect it didn't didn't even his face didn't move he had no reaction as he'd listen to what happened
And the prosecution laid out that this murderer was, quote, hunting for females on the campus when he came upon Riley. And here's what the prosecutor said to the jury. She said, quote, when Lake and Riley refused to be his rape victim, he bashed her skull in with a rock repeatedly.
The evidence will show that Laken fought. She fought for her life. She fought for her dignity. And in that fight, she caused this defendant to leave forensic evidence behind. She also marked her killer for the entire world to see. I've got to say, the tragedy of what happened
to Lake and Riley, the tragedy of what happened to Jocelyn Nungary, the tragedy of what happened to Rachel Moran, the tragedy of what has happened over and over and over again. All of this was preventable, but we can at least take solace that we will see crimes like this begin to be prevented on January 20th.
You mentioned January the 20th and obviously that's coming soon, not soon enough.
But is there no change of your colleagues that realize what this election was about in DC where they say, hey guys, maybe we wanna get ahead of this. Maybe we really, really misread this with the American people. Maybe we should start now and not just allow for these open borders or is this just the official policy of the Democratic Party that we are always open borders no matter what?
so i don't know uh... it is not been very long since election day we were back in session last week so i was there with the democrats senators i'll tell you they're just kind of a little shell shocked uh... i i think they're stunned by the election results we we'll see if they change i'll tell you what up what i am urging i i would like to see us in january when we get the new new congress sworn in i'd like to see
one of the very first bills that we vote on be the justice for jostlin act that that that the law that i've introduced that mandates that when illegal immigrants are detained that they be kept in detention that they not be released as long as their detention facilities there for them i'd like to see that vote early on and put every democrat on record and we'll see maybe they look at these election results and and say okay we've got a change
Or maybe they don't. Maybe they dig in and say, we don't care and we're going to keep doing the same thing over and over again. But I think we ought to force them in January. Go on record. Have you listened to a word the voters said or are you just, are you just stuck on open borders? No matter who dies, no matter who suffers, no matter who the victims are.
Part of the story, and I think it's important for people to understand, Lake and Riley's murderer, entered the country illegally back in 2022. There's a timeline, and we knew that this person was in the country illegally, and yet we kept allowing him to come back. Listen.
she i want to just remind everybody how did hose a bear get here and how did we get to this point so in september of twenty twenty two he crossed illegally on the west side of texas in el Paso he makes his way all the way to new york and that was in september twenty twenty three
As we've seen a pattern arrested in New York City then, but let go makes his way down to Georgia. And in October 2023, he was cited for shoplifting. Okay, that's crime, but he's let go again. And in February of 2024, this is when he is, this is the date where he is charged with the killing of Lake and Riley. So I was just looking the bigger picture, Shannon. Well, under President Trump, these are the types of numbers you're looking at for ice removals of illegal immigrants who
For whatever reason we're in the country illegally, but also criminals that were in the country illegally, then you look at the Biden administration and those are the numbers. And that's one of the reasons you see this number, Shannon, which I think is amazing. Immigration being the most important issue, either overall and in Georgia, 20%, 18%. But look at the difference. In 2020, it was 3%, 4%. So something happened. I think we all know what it was, which is the change from Biden to Trump on border policy.
There it is, Biden and Trump on border policy. That's what changed. And understand that timeline, Ben, three times this murder. And by the way, you will notice I will not say his name. I will not say the names of any of these bastards. I'll say the names of the victims, but these bastards deserve to be forgotten. They deserve to be prosecuted and executed and utterly forgotten because they are evil, what they have done to these victims. But this monster three times was apprehended.
three times he was let go the first time he was apprehended was in twenty twenty two in el Paso, Texas and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and the democrats let him go had they followed the law then had they put him on a plane and they flown him back to Venezuela had they kept him in detention lake and riley would be alive the second time he was arrested and let go was in new york again new york democratic prosecutors he was charged with endangering the safety of a child
But let go again. The third time he was arrested and let go was in Georgia. Again, Democrat prosecutors over and over and over again, there is a pattern. And the good news, people wonder, well, well, how does this change so quickly? Why does January 20th matter so much?
Well, look, on January 20th, we're not going to build any new wall on January 20th. We're not going to likely hire any new Border Patrol agents. So you wonder what can change so quickly and what can change so quickly is a simple policy decision. On January 20th, I am absolutely certain that Donald Trump will instruct the Border Patrol catch and release ends now.
If you apprehend someone, you detain them and we deport them. And the thing to understand, not only does that mean the first step in the timeline of the Lake and Riley murderer ends because they never let them go in 2022. But it also means the numbers plummet because everyone who comes, they have cell phones, they call their friends, they're called their family. So on January 20th, and by the way,
People are going to know this on January 10th. They're going to know this is what Trump's going to do. So it's not even going to take the phone calls. It's going to take, uh oh, there's a new sheriff in town and we will see Mark my words by January and February of next year. We will see the numbers plummet massively.
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center. I want to move to Pennsylvania. And this has become a really big issue, especially on Sunday as this race has tightened. And there are a lot of people that are just straight up saying now at this point, the Democrats are trying to steal an election in Pennsylvania.
They're looking at the Democrats trying to violate the rule of law and undermine the electoral process as the new accusation. Because of the ballots, they're now allowing to, in essence, be counted. This seems very confusing, but also the game plan that you would expect from the Democrats right now.
well understand right now the democrats are actively trying to steal an election in pennsylvania dave mccormack has won that senate race he's won the a p s called the race bob kasey the incumbent democrat is lost bob kasey doesn't want to concede apparently bob kasey and chuk schumer or election deniers they don't like the results they brought in a guy named mark elias mark elias is the top democrat
uh... litigation attorney for elections in the country bought a mark elias's job is to try to steal elections to try to try to get illegal votes in to try to get democrats to win no matter what and i'm gonna do something that i that i rarely will do on on on verdict
I'm just going to read from the New York Times. The New York Times is not a paper that I respected. It often is profoundly dishonest. But when the Democrats are too extreme for the New York Times, that tells you something. Here's an article from the New York Times, the headline quote.
In Pennsylvania, the election litigation continues with a twist. As a Senate recount plays out, at least four counties are ignoring an order from the state Supreme Court that undated or misdated mail ballots cannot be counted.
and the article begins in an election defined in part by a tsunami of litigation before the polls even open few states are as much legal haggling over which ballot should count as pennsylvania the polls of long since closed yet a new round of litigation is flooding the recount battle between senator bob kacia democrat and a mccormick is republican challenger who currently leads by around twenty one thousand votes a margin rarely overtaken by a simple recount the landscape however is different
In at least four counties, Bucks, Philadelphia, Center and Montgomery, local election officials are acting in open defiance of a ruling from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that arrived weeks before the election.
the court found that mail ballots that are missing the date on the outer envelope or that have the wrong date cannot be counted for this election the bucks county election commission felt differently it's a pretty stupid thing to not count someone's votes simply because they didn't date an envelope for a ballot said robert harvey jr the chairman of the board in a democrat who's desperately trying to steal the election that that last part is me editorializing
during a meeting on Tuesday where the board voted two to one to count 405 ballots with date errors on the envelope. He added that election officials know when ballots were printed for voters, making the outer envelope date requirement meaningless. The law needs to be changed, Mr. Harvey said.
The commissioners were advised that they were likely to be sued no matter how they ruled. So we're going to get sued either way. I'd rather be on the side of counting ballots than not counting them, Mr. Harvey said. So you have four counties that are battling the state Supreme Court that are refusing to follow the state Supreme Court. You've got Bucks, Philadelphia, Montgomery, and center.
and the commissioners lisa dilly who's one of the democratic commissioners on the philadelphia board said before her vote that she felt a local city court had ruled in the ballots that that the ballot should count and that the state supreme court did not reject that decision and so in an interview
Seth Blustein, the Republican commissioner on the county commission, reiterated that the state Supreme Court had already settled the issue. Quote, even though the commissioners and the boards of elections have some discretion in how they vote, when you have something as explicit as an order from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, we need to follow that.
And what is amazing, if you listen to one of the Democrat members of the Bucks County Board, Diane, Diane M. Ellis Marsagalia. Here's what Ms. Ellis Marsagalia said. She's a Democrat on the Bucks County Board, quote,
I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn't matter anymore in this country. People violate laws any time they want. So for me, if I violate this law, it's because I want a court to pay attention. There's nothing more important than counting votes. So you've got Democrats in Pennsylvania.
openly defying the law you've got the state supreme court by the way the state supreme court of democrats the state supreme court is issued an order as to what ballots you can legally count and what ballots you can't and these local democrats are pissed
because under that result the republican is one and so their view is we're gonna keep illegally counting ballots and keep illegally counting ballots until the democrat wins in the instant the democrat wins we're done it is shocking and it is happening in plane daylight and mind you that's not me saying that that's new york times
So how do you, and this is where people lost, I think, just total faith in the system, if the court has said you can't do this and they're like, yeah, that's good. We'll do it anyway. What is the recourse? And is there a real chance they could actually succeed in stealing this election? Because as you said it, and I agree with you, this is active, an active campaign by Democrats to steal an election. They know they lost.
well look there's litigation and i can tell you the mccormett campaign that that they have hired serious lawyers there engage in litigation they're fighting back and and hopefully the courts will stop this but i'll tell you what it's not just the new york times do you know the democrats have lost
they've lost the washington post so here's the washington post editorial board quote democrats thumb their nose at the rule of law in pennsylvania elections need rules and they must be applied equally and consistently this is the washington post editorial board no friend a republicans quote
Before the November 5 election, Pennsylvania's Supreme Court ruled that provisional ballots must be signed in two required places and that mail-in votes must be dated. Yet elected Democrat officials in Philadelphia and three other counties, Buck, Senator and Montgomery, voted this week to defy these and other court decisions
at the request of lawyers for democratic senator bob kasey who trails geo p challenger dave mccormick by about twenty four thousand votes with almost all of the roughly seven million ballots cast having been counted
These democrats decision will almost certainly be overturned on appeal, but the mere attempt to defy judicial rulings is corrosive to democracy and invites similar behavior in future elections.
that this is the washington post who's pointing out and by the way understand you've got elected democrats in in in pennsylvania who are voting openly we are going to ignore the pennsylvania supreme court because we want the democrats to win and why are they doing this because bob kasey the democrat went to them and said ignore the supreme court it's more important that i the democrat win then that you follow the law
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Center, finally, there's one other issue that I want to hit, and it's an important one. And it deals with the left's increased calls for censorship post-election. Media leads are fuming over their inability to force feed narratives to the American people. They're also angry that the media seems to be losing their power, the potency, whether it's Saturday Night Live or the late shows or CNN or MSNBC, their ratings are down.
And so now they're saying, well, we just need to censor everybody and just take it all down from the internet, anything we don't like. Well, the Democrats, they're not actually looking introspectively and saying, gosh, maybe we're wrong on the issues. Maybe the fact that over 70% of Americans thought we were on the wrong track. Maybe that's a problem. Maybe we shouldn't have had an open border and let this country be invaded. Maybe we shouldn't have spent money like drunken sailors and caused inflation that hurt
working families across this country. Maybe, maybe, maybe we shouldn't have waged a war on energy that hurt everyone who's struggling to make ends meet. Maybe we shouldn't have undermined our friends and allies and we shouldn't have appeased our enemies. Maybe we shouldn't have given a hundred billion dollars to Iran that funds terrorists and Hamas and Hezbollah and causes a war. Maybe we shouldn't have transformed peace and prosperity into war across the globe, but maybe we shouldn't have
turn the other way and in fact secretly cheered on anti-Semitic protesters that threatened students maybe our policies are wrong that would be a rational and sensible thing for Democrats to do so they're not doing that instead they're saying hmm maybe if people just didn't know what we were doing maybe if they couldn't say what we were doing maybe if they couldn't criticize what we're doing yeah that's how we'd win so Jen Psaki
Joe Biden's former press secretary, Jen Psaki, went on a podcast and she said this quote, one of the things that's changed ever since I got involved in politics is just the rise of the percentage of people who get their information off of platforms that have no fact checking mechanism and no accountability for having disinformation spread. Quote, local TV is held to a higher standard of accountability than social media platforms in terms of accurate information on their platforms. That is crazy. Quote,
Laws have to change. I don't even know the entire answer to it, but it seems to me to be a core issue. And in particular, she focused on Trump appearing on Joe Rogan, the fact that he could go directly in front of the voters. And here's what she says, quote, I don't think Joe Rogan deserves 100% of the credit for Donald Trump being elected.
but it was a misunderstanding of kind uh... of kind of also how people are getting their information and under valley valuing of some of those platforms that trump was doing this is sadly where the democrats are understand she's not saying we the democrats need to communicate better she's not saying we the democrats need to change our policy she's saying we need to change the laws to make it illegal
for that SOB Joe Rogan to say things we don't like. We need to change the laws to make it illegal for anyone to post on X, what the actual facts are of what we, the Democrats are doing. If we can silence everyone, then we stay in power forever. That is dangerous as hell. Yeah. Listen to Jen Psaki when she was doing this, uh, this podcast and what she said.
and no accountability for having disinformation spread, right? And as you know well, and I mean, when I when I got started in Democratic politics, you know, most of it was like local TV ads. That was what it was about. Obviously, national TV, local print.
Those local TV is held to a higher standard of accountability than social media platforms in terms of having accurate information on their platforms. That is crazy. And so it is, how does it change? How is it, how are people held to account? Laws have to change. Laws have to change, Senator. I guess we seem to start locking up anybody that says something we don't like.
uh... that's sadly is where the democrats are and and listen we we talked before during the election how how this campaign with common Harrison Tim waltz was the most anti-free speech campaign since john atoms who had signed the alien and sedition acts and and and it really is historic and and dangerous
i'm glad that the american people repudiated that assault on free speech and yet i don't hear anyone in the democrat party defending free speech and sadly i i think they're gonna double down on the answer is more censorship so no one dares criticize us
Yeah, I agree with you there. Don't forget we do this show Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Make sure you hit that subscribe or auto download button right now so you don't miss an episode. And on those in between days, grab my podcast as well, the Ben Ferguson podcast. And I'll keep you up to date on the latest breaking news. And the Senate, I will see you back here on Wednesday morning.
