Well, happy New Year's. It is nice to have you with us on Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you. And we are going to have a lot of fun on this show and on Friday's show is we are going to go through some of the biggest predictions over
the last year and some of these even go back further but we found it information now that proves that we were right on the show of things that you're not going to hear anywhere else predictions big predictions that we made right here this will be a two part series so today new year's day you're going to get part one
And then part two on Friday and in no particular order of importance, we're going to do our top ten, but we're not ranking them as one through tenas in the biggest. These are just ten predictions in general. And so with that being said, let me first say to you, Senator, Happy New Year.
Well, happy new year. I hope everyone had a wonderful New Year's Eve. I hope everyone is excited and ready for 2025. I'll say last night, Heidi and I and both our girls, we were at Mar-a-Lago with President Trump. I will tell you, it was a wild evening and incredible evening. We'll talk on a future podcast about everything that happened New Year's Eve, but it was a great way to celebrate not just the end of the year, but to celebrate a fantastic
election, a new administration coming in, a new Congress coming in, change that is in the air. And at a time of celebration, it's also a time to reflect on this podcast and on what we do. And in particular, one of the things we do on this podcast that a lot of people don't do
is we make predictions. I stick my neck out and make predictions about what's going to happen, make clear, explicit predictions. And I have to say over the run of verdict, we have a remarkable record of those predictions proving correct over and over and over again. And many of the predictions we make on this podcast
very few if anybody else is saying you're certainly not getting it in the new york times you're certainly not getting at the washington post rbc nbc cbs or cnn or msnbc uh... and so we're gonna go through ten predictions that on this podcast we have made that it proven correct
uh... and and the principal going forward if you want to know what's gonna happen next what's gonna happen in twenty twenty five what's gonna happen twenty twenty six what's gonna happen going forward well listen to verdict because we're gonna keep making predictions and and and so far uh... our batting record is is is pretty damn good uh... in including some predictions
that the time we made them were widely, widely ridiculed and deemed crazy tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theories and now they are indisputably correct.
And let's go back and let's start with one that's way back. And now we have a lot more confirmation to say, yet again, we were right. I want to go back to March the 10th of 2020. March 10th, 2020, get that in your head. We're in 2025 now, January 1st.
And you said that in fact, COVID-19, you believe was coming from a lab that this wasn't some man, this wasn't some organic thing. This was clearly a man made. And if you said that, by the way, on social media, you were shut down. You were put into what we referred to as social media jail. Your reach was limited. You couldn't run ads. It changed in 2020.
In 2020, Facebook and Twitter and Google, they were all actively suppressing saying that COVID was a man-made virus, that it was not something that had just naturally leapt from an animal to the human population, but rather that it escaped from a lab. It was suppressed. We now know that Facebook, that Dr. Fauci was communicating with Mark Zuckerberg, asking him to suppress it. And yet somehow, starting back in March of 2020,
This show was laying out the facts and for our loyal listeners and viewers, they were hearing the facts about COVID right at the very beginning. Give a listen, March 10th, 2020. This was just a bad case of bat soup that people ate something they shouldn't have eaten and that's how it spread. Others have pointed to this strange coincidence that there is a virus testing laboratory in Wuhan. Do we have any sense of the true origins of the virus?
Well, we don't know for sure. I've asked medical experts, and they've said based on the sequencing of the genomes, it does not appear to be artificially created, that it appears to be a virus that has occurred in nature. You're right that a lot of people have focused on the Wuhan Virology Institute that is located right there, and indeed they've got researchers there that are studying coronavirus and studying bats.
that that raises some obvious questions uh... at at the same time it's it's very interesting it do you remember back uh... last fall when when the houston rockets when there are more the general manager tweeted out about hong kong he said stand with hong kong stand for liberty right and and and the n b a went crazy and trying to went crazy and and the n b a apologize profusely i have to admit it's kind of the same thing that anyone suggests will will gosh you know there are
thousands hundreds of thousands of cities all across the world it just so happens this outbreak is there right where this virology lab is and the collective media acts with this outrage of okay take your take your tin hat off how dare you even ask that question you know it it
It's obviously a question that people are going to inquire. Look, the first step needs to be stopping this virus, stopping the disease and protecting human life right now. But there are certainly going to be questions following up if there is any connection or not. And that seems at least a reasonable question to ask.
you listen up and again we're going back now to twenty twenty for that you were spot on and that was something that the media and social media said made you a conspiracy theorists yeah and and and listen that there are two predictions that that that came out that we were we were laying out number one that that
COVID did not occur just naturally, did not occur in a wet market from someone eating bats soup, but rather that it escaped from a lab. And number two, that in particular, it came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. And look, early on, you're dealing with limited information. I was trying to do my best to walk through that limited information. By the way, I got to say in that clip, Ben, you sound kind of funny there. You don't have much of a sunshine. You sound kind of like a yaly. It's a little weird.
I've always, you know, wanted to know what I'd sound like if I went to the Ivy Leagues, and now I know. Compliments of Michael Knowles for making that happen, right? And for long time, verdict listeners, Michael Knowles, my dear friend, Ben's dear friend, was my co-host for the first couple of years, and so that was Michael and me back then before Ben came on board.
That was in March, March 10th of 2020. Let's go forward a month later to April. To April, we had a little more information. I want you to listen to verdict laying out the evidence that this virus, not just escaped from a lab, but escaped from the Wuhan Institute for Neurology in Wuhan, China. Give a listen.
I want to turn for a moment from the economy into the virus itself and I want to take just a slight victory lap because I remember on this very show senator on March 10th over a month ago, you suggested that there was very likely a link between the Wuhan Institute of Virology
and this virus that just so coincidentally happened to occur within a couple miles of that institute during that time the mainstream media said this was crazy this was a conspiracy theory there is no evidence of it now we are getting multiple reports all saying that the virus came from the lab
uh... my question here is not uh... my point is not just to take a victory lap my question is did the u.s. government know that the wuhan institute of virology was conducting this sort of dangerous research and if we did know why didn't we stop it absolutely yes the u.s. government do
And, in fact, when you and I brought this up on March 10th, over a month ago, you're right, it was treated as tin foil hat, conspiracy theory, nut jobbery. Well, it turns out there wasn't just one, there were two labs within miles of where this outbreak occurred, that we're studying coronaviruses from bats
and that there were internal state department wires before this pandemic, raising concerns about the security in those labs and that an accidental virus could escape and cause a global pandemic. But I'll tell you it's worse than that. And let me give you some breaking news right now, which is the U.S. government
was funding the Chinese research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Your taxpayer dollars and my taxpayer dollars, and let me give you specifics that we just got today. Today, an inquiring of the National Institutes of Health, did any of your money go
to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The answer is yes. And here's what they told us in writing today. They said in fiscal year 2019, the funding for the Wuhan Institute for Virology was $76,000 and the $301, 76,301. Now, what did it go to? And I'm repeating what NIH
has told me in writing it went to. It was part of an overall $3.7 million funding program that went to six years in sites in China, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Myanmar. And here's what they were studying. These are NIH's words.
The project included studying viral diversity in animal parentheses, bats, reservoirs, surveying people that live in high-risk communities for evidence of bat coronavirus infection.
and conducting laboratory experiments to analyze and predict which newly discovered viruses pose the greatest threats to human health center it's pretty clear and that's part two of this prediction you were right as well
Yeah, look, and we now know this, like what we were predicting then, that was crazy fringe theory, has now all been confirmed. Let's fast forward to February 2023, February 2023, the Washington Post reported, FBI director said COVID-19 quote, most likely originated from lab incident, that's the FBI's position now. June of 2023, the New York Post reported, New York Post reported quote,
US taxpayers supported research in three Chinese labs that included risky gain of function experiments with coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The National Institutes of Health, NIH, and the US Agency for International Development, USAID, provided $2,168,345 in grant funding to the Chinese research institutions between 2014 and 2021, according to the Government Accountability Office.
The report shows $1,413,720 in subgrants allocated by the Manhattan-based Eco-Health Alliance went to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where hazardous research was conducted on bat coronaviruses. July of 2023, Reuters reported, quote,
U.S. suspends federal funding to Wuhan lab over noncompliance. December 2024, Fox News, COVID most likely leaked from Wuhan lab, social distancing not based on science select committee fines. And then finally, December 26th of 2024, just a few days ago,
The Wall Street Journal wrote the bombshell story that we did an entire podcast on entitled Behind Closed Doors, the spy world scientist who argued COVID was a lab leak. Well, there were scientists arguing that behind closed doors, but there was also the verdict podcast making the argument laying out the facts right at the very beginning. And I got to say on COVID, we were proved exactly right.
Final question on this prediction looking forward. Do you think we're going to learn a lot more about Fauci, the cover up, and COVID when Donald Trump is inaugurated after January 20th?
So I do, and I am urging the incoming Trump administration to engage in full transparency. That's a discussion I have had with Pam Bondi at the Department of Justice. That's a discussion I've had with with Cash Patel, who will be going to the FBI. It's a discussion I will have next week with RFK Jr, who will be coming in as HHS secretary. Every one of them, I am urging, use full transparency, make it public, let the public know.
And I'm gonna keep pressing them to do that. And I think they're gonna follow through. We're gonna know a lot more. That is a very good thing.
let's move on to a another prediction this may be one of the my favorite predictions that we've ever made here on the show because when we said it we got a lot of pushback uh... and there are a lot of people that said what we were saying was just absurd we had our ten full hats on again and they were people that were angry over this and that was the big prediction
uh... that you made that joe biden would not be the twenty twenty four democratic nominee
well that's right and and i made two related predictions number one early on i said i believe joe biden would not be the democrat nominee would not be on the ballot in twenty twenty four uh... i also predicted i said the only people there were when people were later talking about replacing him with gavin new summer gretchen wittmer some other people as a note that will never happen
uh... the democrat party is a a bean-counting party next in line is kamala harris and the democrat party cannot cannot cannot push her aside cannot push an african-american woman aside for a white guy like yavin nousam their their their party would spontaneously combust if they tried to do that so i said the only people who could replace joe biden are kamala harris
or michael obama and i did lay out that i thought michael obama if i were a democrat i would much prefer michael obama to kamala harris because kamala harris is the whole world is seen is a lousy candidate so if you're a democrat who wants to win and you're stuck with kamala harris there's only one human being who can push kamala hot kamala harris aside that is michael obama now what i think happened
uh... i think they tried with michelle i think michelle said no and so prediction number one that joe biden would not be the nominee that came one hundred percent correct prediction number two that he would be replaced either by kamala harris or michelle obama that came came true as well although i did think michelle obama had had a very real possibility so let's listen
This first excerpt is from September 18th, 2023. So more than a year, a year and three months ago where I laid out this possibility and give a listen. So here's the scenario that I think is perhaps most likely and most dangerous. In August of 2024, the Democrat Kingmakers, Jettison Joe Biden,
and parachute in michelle obama and i want you to pause and reflect on how i'm pausing and i'm reflecting as we said and so is everybody else listening right now
I view this as a very serious danger. I'm smiling right now because it terrifies me and I also could totally see this happening. So Michelle Obama, number one, you don't infuriate African American women, which is a critical part of the constituency that Democrats are relying on to win. But number two, you avoid the problem. If you pick from any of the four, the other three are pissed.
because they're all to some extent peers their rivals they're all jab and knives at each other michelle obama because she was first lady has the ability to kind of parachute in above all four and say hey we're not picking among any of you you guys can all fight it out next time you're all going to be on the same level where coming this is the obama saving the day and i think in terms of a solution
that unifies democrats there ain't nothing like that i also think michelle is not all that eager to run for president but to parachute in in august of twenty four a couple of months before the presidency and suddenly wake up in the president not a bad day not a bad day it's not a bad gig at all now would she do it i don't know i'd i've met michelle but i don't know her personally in any meaningful way i don't know if she would do it i do think
barack obama is already running the biden administration i think he is already the puppet master behind this by the white house i don't think by joe biden is the decision maker and so when i see the media turning on joe biden right now i think the odds of michelle obama parachuting in in august of twenty twenty four have risen dramatically and that ought to scare the hell at it anyone who who
is unhappy about the direction this country is going and doesn't want us to go even crazier in an even worse direction and even worse direction well and there you could you heard in september of twenty twenty three making the prediction that joe biden would be jettisoned and by the way at the time that happened very few people were making that prediction we put that podcast out it drove a lot of news that were headlines that were people that were were shocked
when I laid out that Biden was not capable, that his mental capacity had diminished, that he was not gonna be the nominee, that the Democrats realized it, that they were gonna jettison him, that the media ridiculed it. You go forward to February of 2024, I went on Maria Bartiromo, I said, I think Obama's driving the train, which is also what I said back in September of 2023. John Harwood, who you know was the
former journalist for the Wall Street Journal and for NBC and who's a hard leftist, a vicious leftist, he retweeted by comments on Maria Baderamo and his entire commentary was, quote, impossibly stupid conversation. So that was his learned journalistic view, is that it was impossibly stupid to say that.
I will tell you, just in November of this year, I retweeted Harwood's shot at me and I just said, want to know why nobody trusts the media? Just nine months ago, a fake quote journalist claimed it was quote, impossibly stupid to observe that Joe Biden was not mentally competent to be president. Now, everybody admits it.
What say you, John J. Harwood? Of course, Harwood didn't respond at all. He ignored it. All right, let's go forward though. Not only did we lay it out in September of 2023, but then fast forward to the debate.
the debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. That was on June 28, 2024. You and I recorded a verdict podcast immediately after the debate. We went live, recorded it that night, and give a listen to what the verdict podcast said the night of the debate.
Senator Cruz, I didn't think it could actually be this bad. It was worse than even, I think, either of us could have imagined. And now the Democratic Party is screaming, replace the president. Well, you and I are sitting here. It is 10, 17 p.m. Texas time. It is 11, 17 p.m. East Coast time, the night of the debate, the debate just ended. And I have to say, we have just witnessed what I believe is the most consequential presidential debate in US history.
sometimes debate change debates change things sometimes they don't i believe to bite tonight's debate change things fundamentally and i believe the odds have now sky rocketed i believe the odds are north of eighty percent that the democrat party will remove joe biden from the ticket and replace him and i believe they are likely to replace joe biden with michelle obama because biden did so disastrously badly tonight that democrats across the country are in
utter free fall and complete panic. We're going to break all that down tonight. Yeah. And by the way, this is a prediction that you made on the show back in September of 2023 that the Democratic Kingmakers could bring in Michelle Obama will break all that down. Senator yet another prediction there. Again, you go back and look at the night you made it right at that debate and you said there's no way he's going to be on the ticket and it was absolutely correct.
Well, to be fair, what I said was the odds were north of 80 percent that he would be pulled off the ticket. That prediction that Joe Biden would be removed from the ticket, which by the way is unprecedented and was almost universally ridiculed in the media, that prediction came 100 percent true.
I also articulated there were only two people who could replace him, Kamala Harris or Michelle Obama. I believe Michelle Obama was more likely. The Michelle Obama thing did not come to pass, but the Kamala Harris thing did. And in fact, I predicted that the Democrat Kingmakers would jettison Biden in August of 2024.
They in fact did so on July 21st of 2024. So I was 10 days off in terms of predicting it. And by the way, to be clear, I predicted that way back in September of 2023. So over a year earlier, I predicted within 10 days when they would throw Biden off the ballot. And I'm going to make actually a brand new prediction here. I'm going to predict that in the next year or two, we are going to get confirmation.
that there was serious outreach to Michelle Obama to see if she was willing to replace Joe Biden on the ballot and that Michelle Obama said no. I don't know that, but my instinct, my judgment tells me that happened and we'll see in the next year or two if that gets confirmed. We'll have a subsequent podcast. If that gets confirmed publicly, we'll go back and revisit it regardless
Prediction number three, Joe Biden will not be the nominee. Check true. Prediction number four, Joe Biden will be replaced by either Kamala Harris or Michelle Obama. Check true. So that's four predictions. Let's move on to prediction number five.
Number five is another big one here and that is the prediction that Joe Biden would pardon death row inmates. You said that it was going to happen and it did. Plus the even more I would say disgusting
deal that was given out to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9-11, to spare his life. The mastermind of 9-11 and a man that was also before even 9-11 involved in many other terrorist attacks that killed women and children and the elderly, innocent bystanders that he did around the world.
well and this is a prediction that that we made on august 18th twenty twenty three uh... give a listen to what we said back in august of twenty three well i'm going to make a prediction as well which which is that these are not the only mass murderers that i think this administration is going to refuse to follow federal law and impose the death but i'm going to make a prediction right now which is joe biden before he leaves the white house
will commute the sentence of every federal prisoner on death row that he will do it for every one of them and that includes it includes the the white supremacist and not see
who murdered nine african-americans at the mother a manual a m e church in charleston south carolina in a horrific hate crime he's on federal death row it includes the boston bomber who murdered innocent people by exploding a bomb at the boston marathon one of the two brothers is still alive he's on death row and and my prediction right now
is joe biden intends to spare every one of these mass murderers every one of them many of them are racist bigoted homicidal lunatics and and and i think we're gonna see him commute all of their sentences before he leaves the white house well if you want if you won't take out the mastermind nine eleven and you won't give him the death penalty is there anyone that you'll give it to i i mean it doesn't it it it doesn't get any worse than this
it doesn't and yet that's exactly what he's done well so my prediction again in august of twenty three is that that that he would he would remove the death penalty would commute the death penalty for the federal death rope prisoners that has come to pass now to be clear this prediction proves slightly off i predicted that he would commute the sentence of every single federal death row prisoner
He instead commuted the sentence of 37 out of the 40 federal death row inmates. And so there were three he did not. And interestingly enough, the three he did not are the three that I identified in August of 2023. So the three he did not
were the murderer at the tree of life synagogue uh... in pittsburgh the murderer at the mother-in-manual church in charleston south carolina and the boston marathon bomber and those three are the only three he did not now i identified those three because they're the most horribly egregious they're the most famous and infamous that that they are they are two of the three at least are vicious unrepent racists
And so I have to say, my prediction, it was not 100% right. It was 92.5% right because instead of commuting 40 death sentences, Biden commuted 37 out of 40. And he left the three most egregious and famous ones off the table. Why? Because they knew that the press was so utterly corrupt.
uh... that bit without those three that they would get almost no criticism for it that would you would just go uh... uh... under the carpet not really be be seen and i have to say he i i under estimated the incredible cynicism
And I got to say, nonetheless, that that is a profound disrespect for the rule of law. Among those that Biden did commute the sentences was a Nazi, an Aryan Brotherhood racist. You know, Joe Biden stepped forward and said, hey, we're the Democrat Party. We're here for Nazis and Klansman. I mean it, but
92.5% prediction correct. And sadly, another element of this prediction just became confirmed moments ago. So this episode, we were talking about the plans to spare the life of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9-11.
and this podcast put enormous public pressure on the White House. The White House, Green John Pierre, was asked about it, and the heat became so much that they backed off of it.
Well sadly the news just broke that they're going back to trying to spare Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. They're trying to do it literally on the way out the door and the contempt that Joe Biden this entire White House has for the voters. They are trying to break everything on the way out the door. They're trying to frustrate Donald Trump every way they can. They are such vicious partisans that there is no
No respect for the Constitution, for the rule of law, no respect for the voters. They don't care what the voters said in November. They are trying to literally break everything on the way out the door. And I got to say it is grotesque.
It really is. We're going to have part two of our predictions. We will continue this on Friday morning. So make sure you hit that like, subscribe, auto download button, and we will keep giving you hard hitting predictions. So you know what's actually going to be happening in this new year. It is going to be a very fun one, especially with Trump in office, Republicans control the House and Senate.
And we're going to have a lot of predictions for you. So make sure that subscribe or auto download button. And on Friday, we'll have part two of this. Also, don't forget, grab my podcast, the Ben Ferguson podcast on those in between days. And I'll keep you updated on the latest breaking news as well. And we'll see you back here Friday morning.
