Ted Cruz
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Apple News Today
What the Supreme Court's birthright-citizenship case is really about
Well, listen, I'm not a fan of Qatar. I think they have a really disturbing pattern of funding theocratic lunatics who want to murder us, funding Hamas and Hezbollah. And that's a real problem. I also think the plane poses significant espionage and surveillance problems. So we'll see how this issue plays out. But I certainly have concerns.
PBD Podcast
Trump's Biden Bombshell: Pardons Are VOID & VACANT | PBD Podcast | Ep. 562
By the way, I've got to ask, how come your robots look so much like the creepy robots for my robot? Was that intentional or just... I was hoping he was going to say, yeah, just to mess with you.
PBD Podcast
Trump's Biden Bombshell: Pardons Are VOID & VACANT | PBD Podcast | Ep. 562
Now, if AI will be smarter than any person, how many jobs go away because of that? And what do people do if you've got millions of people that are losing their jobs like that? A lot of people are understandably freaked out about that.
PBD Podcast
Trump's Biden Bombshell: Pardons Are VOID & VACANT | PBD Podcast | Ep. 562
So why is that? Why are goods and services free in an AI world or close to free?
PBD Podcast
Trump's Biden Bombshell: Pardons Are VOID & VACANT | PBD Podcast | Ep. 562
Is Skynet real? Like you get the apocalyptic visions of AI. How real is the prospect of killer robots annihilating humanity?
PBD Podcast
Trump's Biden Bombshell: Pardons Are VOID & VACANT | PBD Podcast | Ep. 562
On what time frame?
PBD Podcast
Trump's Biden Bombshell: Pardons Are VOID & VACANT | PBD Podcast | Ep. 562
So soon, like you see a world where that's possible.
PBD Podcast
Trump's Biden Bombshell: Pardons Are VOID & VACANT | PBD Podcast | Ep. 562
We took this word and we made it into poetry.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2173 - FALLOUT: Stock Market Drops, Trump Pushes On
If the result is our trading partners jack up their tariffs and we have high tariffs everywhere, I think that is a bad outcome for America. Tariffs are a tax on consumers, and I'm not a fan of jacking up taxes on American consumers. So my hope is these tariffs are short-lived and they serve as leverage to lower tariffs across the globe.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Vacation Getaways
I think what we need to do is we may need to make it a lot less fun to be here, unfortunately.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Vacation Getaways
water and electricity senator ted cruz he is now facing a whole lot of questions after he was spotted on a plane traveling to cancun mexico in the midst of this unfolding crisis in his home state of texas if you go on social media you will see social media users posting multiple pictures of the senator and his family in the houston airport waiting to board their flight ted cruz no man you gotta be me dude
The Dan Bongino Show
Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
I'm trying to get a yes or no. I'm not trying to get a speech. Is there a difference between women and men?
The Dan Bongino Show
Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
Let me ask you this question then. Why do women's sports exist? If you can't define a difference between women and men, why not abolish women's sports and just tell little girls to swim with little boys and see who wins?
The Dan Bongino Show
Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
Robinson, please answer the question I'm asking you. Absolutely. Why do women's sports exist?
The Dan Bongino Show
Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
But why have a separate category for women? If there's no difference between women and men, why to have women's sports?
The Dan Bongino Show
Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
Mr. Chairman, I would like to enter into the record an article from Duke Law called Comparing Athletic Performances for the Best Elite Women to Boys and Men. And it goes through examining in 2017 the top records for women in the world. in various track and field events. So, for example, in the 100 meter, the top record for women in the world was 10.71 seconds.
The Dan Bongino Show
Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
Now, that record for the number one woman in the world in 2017 was in the year 2017 broken by 124 boys under 18 In that same year, the record for the number one competing woman in the 100-meter dash in the world was broken by a total of 2,474 men. Yes. You get it? You get the theme?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
Mark, great to be with you. Thanks for having me.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
Look, I very much hope he's on path one. Frankly, there are voices within the administration that are advocating for both directions. And there's a real difference of opinion within the administration on that front.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
I think President Trump has an historic opportunity, an opportunity to use the leverage, and he's got leverage no other president has had, because he has credibly threatened these tariffs. Suddenly our trading partners desperately want to cut deals and want to dramatically reduce the tariffs they charge on US goods and services in exchange for President Trump lifting the tariffs he's announced.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
If we sit here, Mark, 30 days, 60 days, 90 days from now, and the outcome is that tariffs worldwide have gone down massively, that is an incredible and an historic victory for the United States. It's very much the path that I am urging the president to go down. There's another path and there's some vocal people in the administration advocating it that don't see the tariffs as leverage.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
They don't see them as means to an end. They see the tariffs as the end and they want them to be a permanent feature of our economic system. The United States having very, very high tariffs, our trading partners all having very high retaliatory tariffs. I think that would be a terrible outcome. I think that would be terrible for my home state of Texas. I think it would be terrible for the country.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
And I'll tell you candidly, I don't know which path we're going to go down. I am trying very hard and I'm repeatedly urging the president go down path number one, but he's got voices that are urging path number two as well. And so I think that uncertainty is going to persist for some time.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
Look, I think if we see high tariffs in perpetuity, you see a lot of businesses, their costs go up dramatically. I think you'd see businesses going out of business. I think you'd see prices going up significantly. I think there's a real risk of going into a recession, all of which is a terrible outcome. I don't want to see that happen. But I want to underscore, you know, it's interesting.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
There's been a fair amount of press coverage saying, oh, Cruz is critical of the Trump tariffs. Let me be very clear. I think Trump has an opportunity to do something that no other president in our lifetimes has done, which is to have real leverage to finally get our trading partners to lower the barriers they have to U.S. goods and services.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
President Trump is exactly right that there are lots of countries across this globe that trade ridiculously unfairly with us. that we opened up our market wide open to them, and they put huge barriers that stop us from selling our goods and services in their country. And listen, it's not complicated what President Trump's negotiating strategy is.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
He often will walk up, smack someone in the head, but with a two by four, and then negotiate from there. And with the tariffs he's announced, he's done the smack. Now, what I've been urging him to do is cut the deals. Come and cut the deals. get the other countries to dramatically lower their barriers.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
And I will say it will be a rich irony if Donald J. Trump ends up being the greatest free trade president of our lifetimes. But I think that's entirely possible if he ends up negotiating some phenomenal deals. I hope that's the path we go down.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
Look, I think we will see significant spending cuts. How broad they are, I don't know. I do think too much has been given. to the level and the budget resolution of the House versus the Senate. I think at the end of the day, what matters is what's actually in the reconciliation package that passes.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
I can tell you in the Senate, there are a number of us who are arguing that we've got to rein back from the massive excesses that COVID produce, that the COVID pandemic became an excuse to increase federal spending by about 40%. It was a massive spending binge. And Washington being Washington, when the pandemic was over, the spending didn't stop. And what we're doing I think is irresponsible.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
I think we need to see real leadership reining it in. I think we're seeing the president, in particular Elon Musk and Doge, showing real leadership saying, hey, we can rein back a lot of this waste, fraud, and abuse. But where it falls exactly, it's going to come down committee by committee in the Senate and House. And so we'll see. I'm going to be pressing a number of us for doing more.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
And the question is going to be, what gets 50 votes in the Senate and what gets 218 votes in the House?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
So listen, I am not laying out specific cuts that I'm advocating. And in the Senate, different people are focusing on different aspects of what they're leaning in on. So on that particular issue, the person who's probably been most vocal on that has been Ron Johnson. Ron Johnson, every week at lunch, lays out, goes back to, for example, the 2019 budget.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
And what Ron Johnson is advocating is rather than start with where we are currently and cut, He says, let's go back to the 2019 budget before the pandemic and let's plus it up for population and inflation, and let's hold Social Security and Medicare harmless, but reduce everything else from there.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
I think that's a sensible way to do it, building it up from where we were rather than cutting where we are. That being said, I'll tell you, you got 53 Republican senators, so different senators focus on different aspects of reconciliation. I'm focusing on lots of different aspects of reconciliation.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
one of which that I'm focusing on is spectrum and making more electromagnetic spectrum available to the private sector. Why is that? Because my number one priority is jobs, and there are very few policies that can produce more jobs in the private sector than freeing up spectrum for investment. I think it's critical that America win the race to 5G and 6G.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
And what's interesting is by auctioning off spectrum, not only am I not spending money, But a spectrum auction generates about $100 billion in real revenue to the federal government from auctioning off that spectrum, plus the billions of investment in the hundreds of thousands of new jobs. So that's been a big priority of mine is fighting for spectrum to be in reconciliation.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
I'm also fighting for multiple different elements to be included in reconciliation, including no taxes on tips, which is my legislation. including eliminating the CFPB, zeroing out its budget and the regulations that the CFPB puts in place, I think are incredibly harmful to job creation. And two other things that I'm fighting to include are school choice.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
I have legislation that creates a federal tax credit for contributions to scholarship granting organizations in the states and also looking at creating investment accounts for children when they are born. All of those are elements that are part of the discussion. The line by line spending cuts, I'm going to support as big and bold a spending cuts as we can do.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
But in terms of creating the line by line, I've let others focus on that, whereas I'm focused on the issues I just laid out.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
How real is the prospect of killer robots annihilating humanity?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
On what time frame?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
So soon? You see a world where that's possible...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
Well, I was subdued, but to be clear, teasing out the question, what's the chance that we're all going to die? And to have, as you point out, one of the most brilliant men who ever lived, say, 10 to 20 percent in five to 10 years, that I sort of figured I'd let those words carry the weight on their own.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
Yeah, look, it's the worst part of the job is the price that your family pays. So our girls right now, they're 14 and 17. We've got two teenage girls at home, eighth grade and 11th grade. And my typical schedule, we live in Houston. So Heidi and the girls are in Houston. They go to school in Houston. And the usual schedule is that I fly to D.C. Monday mornings.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
And I'm here Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. And then usually I fly home Thursday nights. Fridays, I'll do day trips across Texas. Saturdays, I'll often do day trips across Texas. And then I try to keep Sundays as a down day for the family. That's rough. It means you miss a whole lot of things. You miss a lot of volleyball games. You miss a lot of dance performances.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
That's a really difficult aspect of it. It's also tough on the girls. Look, any kid, any person wants to be known for who they are. And one of the realities in the heavily polarized world we're in is, listen, politics is very different from how it used to be. Right now, the two sides, they hate each other's guts. And there is an anger and vitriol that I really think is unfortunate.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
I wish we learned to get along with each other and not hate the other side the way it is now. But You know, I'll give you an illustration. 2017, the 2017 World Series. So I went to games three, four, and five in Houston. Game three, I took my dad. Really cool to take your dad to a World Series. We had season tickets to the Astros when I was a kid, so I got to take my dad to that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
Game four, I took Heidi. By the way, that was a complete waste. Heidi is not in the baseball at all. She asked me if the Astros were going to score a touchdown. I turned to her. I said, okay, sweetheart, I'm offended that you're in this stadium right now, that you're taking the seat of a real baseball fan. But game five, I took Catherine, my youngest daughter.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
Now, Catherine, it was the day after she had turned seven. And it was game five. You may remember the game that went to one thirty in the morning. It's still the greatest game in the history of the Houston Astros. What's interesting, Mark, is that game. I had no security. It was just me and Catherine.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
The two of us were dancing and hugging, and it was 1.30 in the morning, and I told her, sweetheart, you don't appreciate this now, but you'll tell your grandkids you were at this game. I think about that now. Yeah. I go to a lot of games, but now I always have a security detail with me because just the nature of the threat profile, you can't go to a game like that without security.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
2017, barely even thought about it. That's an illustration. And unfortunately, that puts a real price on the kids. By far the worst part of the job.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
To win a general election. Okay, that's a different, you know, obviously you've got an iterative process. In a primary, I'll say this. I think if we had, if in 2024 there had been an open primary, I think the top four on the Democrats would have been Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigieg.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
And I think in an open primary, I actually think in 24, Elizabeth Warren would have won that. I think Elizabeth Warren right now is the id of the Democrat Party.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
Oh, look, someone who is more moderate or reasonable. So you look at names like a Mark Kelly or a Josh Shapiro or an Andy Beshear. I think they could be formidable in a general. I don't know that they have a prayer of winning a Democrat primary. Gavin Newsom is clearly incandescently ambitious. So he is going to try to morph into whatever he thinks the Democrat primary base wants.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
I don't know that it's impossible that AOC gets the nomination in 2028. I do think the id of the Democrat Party continues to be far left. So I don't see them going towards an attractive general election candidate right now. I think the crazies are still driving the train.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Fox News in Complete Panic as Trump Screws Them
Listen, what President Trump and Elon Musk are doing is they are trying to rein in the out of control spending. And in terms of the constitution, there is a long history of presidents exercising a power called impoundment. As you know, I do a podcast every week called Verdict with Ted Cruz. Yesterday's podcast does a deep dive explaining what Trump and Elon are doing.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Fox News in Complete Panic as Trump Screws Them
But you look at impoundment, Thomas Jefferson first exercised impoundment in 1801. And I think the Trump administration is teeing up a legal challenge to bring back impoundment, to turn around spending and debt. And that's a very good thing for American taxpayers.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
When you text verdict to 24005, what you'll get back is a link, a link to subscribe to the podcast. Now, if you're under 40, you know what I'm talking about. And if you're not, ask your kids or ask your grandkids. Although I'll say, if you're at CPAC, you're pretty hip and connected. So you may know as well if you're here at CPAC. And subscribe doesn't mean it costs you money to quote your dad.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
Oh, my father points out that my dad is 85, and he said when he hears subscribe, he thinks it's a magazine subscription. There's no charge.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
It just magically appears in your phone early in the morning on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and we bring in guests like the Attorney General of the United States, and we focus on what is happening, the victories that President Trump is winning, and the news that the corporate media won't cover.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
So let me ask you, come into DOJ, you've got a mission. You've got a mission to restore integrity to the department, to end the weaponization and politicization. How do you do that? How do you get that done?
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
So, Pam, the media are going crazy about New York Mayor Eric Adams and the charges that were dismissed against him.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
Tell us what the story is, what happened there, and why were the charges dismissed?
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
Great guy.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
Running the EPA now.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
Virtually shoveling cash out the windows.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
The consistent thread of the cabinet nominees is that you're all change agents. You all came in with a mission. Listen, there has never been a first month of any presidency in the history of the United States of America like the last 30 days. That's right. Amen.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
And I'll tell you, I have had great joy turning to my Democrat colleagues in the Senate and just deadpanning, well, three years and 11 months to go. And they literally start twitching. They have facial tics that they cannot suppress.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
But Pam, one of the things that people like about this podcast that we try to do is we try to bring people behind the scenes to actually understand what's going on behind closed doors. So tell us about... Your first day as Attorney General, you're confirmed. And like day one, when you get sworn in, just walk everyone through what day one of being Attorney General of the United States is like.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
Let me ask you something. In the 15 days you've been there, how many DOJ employees have said something to the effect of, thank God?
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
I believe you. Look, I spent four years hearing from AUSAs, assistant U.S. attorneys, hearing from FBI agents, hearing from men and women who believe in the rule of law and were horrified. at the politicization of the FBI and the DOJ. And so I know for a lot of good, honorable men and women who've devoted their careers to defending the Constitution, there's a lot of gratitude
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
You know, when you look at weaponization and politicization, part of it is using it to attack your political opponents. And we've seen four years of that under Joe Biden. Another part of it is turning the other way at your political allies and refusing to enforce the law against them.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
And I think one of the most egregious examples we've seen over the last two years is the rising anti-Semitism on college campuses. The violent protesters and rioters, many of whom are not students, are not affiliated with the universities, and they are threatening students
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
You look at Columbia University, the Orthodox rabbi there sent out an email to the Jewish students on campus and said, do not come to campus because the university cannot and will not keep you safe. And the Biden Justice Department did nothing. They investigated nobody. They didn't follow the money. They didn't indict anyone. They didn't prosecute anyone.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
And they did not enforce Title VI of the civil rights laws, which say that if you are tolerating harassment on the basis of ethnicity or religion, that you will have your federal funds cut off. How is the Department of Justice different today and what will your approach be to anti-Semitism and threats of violence directed against Jewish students on campus or any other students on campus?
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
Well, it is great to be back with CPAC, and I gotta say, CPAC this year, there is energy, there's excitement. It turns out winning doesn't suck. It does not. And we have a guest. We have the Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
It is refreshingly simple to have an attorney general who has the approach that you're going to follow the law and enforce the law. And that, sadly, has been missing for the last four years.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
It should not be complicated. Let me ask you, what keeps you up at night? What scares you in the first two weeks in this job?
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
And you are on the front line of defending the president and Elon Musk and Doge and all the effort they're doing. And every day we are seeing Democrat attorneys general and Democrat interest groups suing the president, suing Elon Musk, suing the federal government. And the Department of Justice is on the front lines. And sadly...
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
We're seeing left-wing activist judges, individual district court judges, issuing nationwide injunctions. Tell us about what it's like defending against those lawsuits. And give us your thoughts on the authority of one radical district judge to try to run the executive branch and issue a nationwide injunction.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
that they can get back to doing their job.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
Well, Pam, let me say you and I have been friends a long time. I am thrilled with the job you're doing. I'm thrilled. I was thrilled when the president announced your nomination. And let me say on behalf of 31 million Texans and Americans across this country, thank you. Thank you for stepping forward and answering the call. Thank you for pouring your heart out.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
into defending this nation, into keeping my kids safe, keeping Ben's kids safe, keeping all of our kids safe. And thank you for remaining faithful to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and restoring integrity to the Department of Justice. It is desperately needed, and you're doing a hell of a job.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
So let's talk about one of the most lawless aspects of the last four years, which was the open borders that we saw and the 12 million illegal immigrants that have come into this country.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
You've had just two weeks, but you've hit the ground running, going after the criminals, going after the murderers, going after the rapists, going after the child molesters, going after the Venezuelan gang members. Tell us, number one, What you're doing as Attorney General that is making a real difference, that is already making America safer.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
And number two, I understand you have some breaking news concerning my home state of Texas, which I'm particularly proud to hear.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
Well, Pam, I will tell you that there is some good karma to being on this podcast at CPAC with someone named J.D. Vance. He's done all right for himself.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
Well, and I will say a number of people in the room gasped at a term you use, which unfortunately is a real term, rape tree. And it's something that we're seeing, we've been seeing for the last four years in Texas. We've seen it in Arizona that the cartels will go and violently rape women. They'll violently rape teenage girls, young girls, and then they will hang their underwear in the tree.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
And you'll find a tree down on the southern border with 10, 20 pairs of underwear as they're mocking law enforcement, saying we can do whatever we want. And for four years, the Biden Justice Department, they just they just turned a blind eye and they facilitated it. You know, you talked about the kids. So they had a policy. If you arrive with a kid, it's essentially a get out of jail free card.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
And so you started seeing a phenomenon that we've never seen in immigration before. which is single young men showing up with little kids.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
Now, that's not a normal pattern of migration, but we started seeing military-age men showing up with little boys and little girls, many of whom are physically and sexually assaulted in transit, and the same kid the cartels would recycle over and over and over again to bring in gang members, to bring in criminals. Now, let me ask this.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
What is most effective stopping the invasion at the southern border?
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
So, welcome.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
How concerned are you right now about the 12 million illegal aliens who came in under Joe Biden, and about the risk of terrorism of Hamas, of Hezbollah, of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the risk of terrorism targeting Americans across this country?
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
You have been Attorney General 15 days.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
I mean, the numbers every day. Mm-hmm. And I've got to say, so already in the first two weeks, you've sued New York, you've sued Chicago. You can clap for that. These sanctuary cities that are fighting, and I've got to say, Massachusetts in particular, actually in our last podcast we talked about this, how Massachusetts continues to this day to have violent child rapists, illegal immigrants,
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
I believe you. And by the way, you just got some help. An hour ago, the Senate just finished confirming.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
who they release on the streets and they refuse to notify ICE. They refuse. These are illegal immigrants who could be deported immediately. And the Massachusetts officials take criminals who violently rape little kids. Let me ask you, what is your message to a mayor, to a local official who wants to defy federal immigration law?
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
So let me ask you, two weeks into it, You've been at DOJ. What's your assessment? Is it as bad as you thought it would be? Is it better? Is it worse?
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
I talked to him on the ride over here. He is going to do fantastic. He sure is. All right, let's start. 15 days. You've come into what I think is the single most important cabinet position in this administration. Because we went through four years of Biden weaponizing the Department of Justice, using it to attack his enemies and to support his friends.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
You've spent your professional life as a prosecutor.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
How important is it to you to go after bad guys and to get bad guys off the street and keep people safe?
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
So one of the most shocking statistics from the prior administration is the number 300,000. 300,000 children. that the prior administration had in custody and that they lost, that they do not know where they are. We know that many of those children are being abused right now.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
Tell me about the efforts you and Homeland Security and the Trump administration, the efforts you are doing to find those children and to get them out of harm's way.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
Well, it's a lot more than one.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
And it is thousands and ultimately more. So I want to say something to the folks here at CPAC. which is, as many of y'all know, Ben and I do this podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz. We do it three days a week. We do it Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. We've got roughly a million unique listeners all over the country.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Attorney General Pam Bondi-Exclusive One-on-One LIVE Interview at CPAC
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