The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Wed, 12 Feb 2025
When you care about Ukraine’s borders more than your own, things tend to fall apart. Texas AG Ken Paxton on how John Cornyn and other negligent buffoons allowed drug cartels to take over the state. (00:00) Donald Trump vs. The Mexican Drug Cartels (3:40) How George Soros Controls Our Politicians (11:04) Why Soros, Obama, and Establishment Washington Wants to Destroy the US (17:49) Ken Paxton's Legal War to Save the Border Wall (19:54) John Cornyn Is a Puppet of the Left (30:02) Why Paxton Is Blacklisted From Fox News Paid partnerships with: PureTalk: Get an iPhone 14 or Samsung Galaxy for $0 https://PureTalk.com/Tucker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What challenges does Texas face with immigration?
Thank you for coming on, Mr. Attorney General. Glad to be here. So, the most pressing problem, I think it's fair to say, as an outsider in Texas is immigration. It's totally changed your state in every way. Do you expect that the new administration and the executive orders in the first couple of days are going to have a material effect, a noticeable effect?
I know they are, just because I saw what happened four years ago, or eight years ago, when Trump came into office. I mean, I went through, I've been in politics since Bush was in office, and And I've seen how Republicans and Democrats have dealt with immigration. They have not dealt with it effectively because they have not enforced federal law.
Trump was the first president to use the force of our federal laws, which are good and designed to protect us, whether it was Romania, Mexico, or whether it was Title 42, or it was stopping catch release, basic common sense things like building a wall. Those things work. They just absolutely work.
And just what he's done in the first couple of days is significant in changing where Biden was taking us.
So one of the things you pointed out off camera was his executive order designating the drug cartels as terror organizations is significant.
Yes. We as states don't have much authority to stop illegal immigration, but the federal government has that authority. And by, by designating these, these cartels as terrorist organization, now the military, our military force can be used to against them rather than just using, you know, border patrol and, and leaving the states subject to the cartels, you know, crimes.
You do wonder about the power of the drug cartels. They've, you know, a lot of the weapons we have sent to Ukraine have been sold by the Ukrainian military onto the black market. That's a fact. A lot, up to half. And a lot of them have been purchased by the drug cartels you see in Mexico.
Pitched battles, military engagements between the cartels and the Mexican military where they're very well armed. Are you worried about that happening in Texas?
Absolutely. I think the Biden administration has indirectly funded the cartels. They have encouraged by saying no deportations on day one of his administration. they've encouraged illegal immigration, and that's a profit center for the cartels. They make $8,000 to $12,000 a person. If you just do the numbers on 14 million, that's a lot of money. They're making billions every month.
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Chapter 2: How is George Soros influencing local politics?
Like you could do that in a state like Texas, right?
Or California. Well, here's one of the biggest problems we have. We have it in Texas. We have it in other parts of the country. George Soros has figured this out. He's gone in and elected DAs in Democratic counties. Austin, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio. So 70% of our population controlled by Soros DAs. He went in and knocked off Democratic DAs.
Because we can't get elected Republicans in those areas. So he went and knocked off DAs who were actually prosecuting and replaced them with Soros DAs. Now, our legislature could fix that. They haven't. They could come in and say, AG, you have concurrent jurisdiction to go after these crimes. But because they haven't done that, crime is proliferating in all of our cities.
Financial crimes, other types of crimes, because they will not prosecute crimes. And so the cartels have an open invitation. So do other cartels from other countries. So if you go out to our financial crime unit in Tyler, they will tell you about all these crime groups coming in from other countries because they know they can get away with it. And our legislature so far has not fixed that.
Why, okay, then the question of motive arises. Like, why wouldn't you want to stop crime in your state?
That's a very good question. I find that DAs have, they have more power in Texas than any elected official I've ever seen because they're not accountable to anybody. If they commit a crime, no one can prosecute them. If it's a state crime, they'd have to prosecute themselves. And they can allow any crimes in their area. And they can go after, in Texas, it is so easy to get an indictment.
You just walk in, you can tell the grand jury anything you want to. You can lie. Once you have the indictment, you've got it. There's no getting out of it. And so I think a lot of our politicians are afraid of their DAs, even if they're liberal Democrats.
But if we don't get control of this in our state, in other states, and give somebody like the Attorney General, I'm not going to be there forever, give that authority so that there's another way to prosecute when the Soros DAs, and Soros has figured it out, but the Republicans have not.
I mean, it's so obvious just in your, you know, 45 second explanation that, you know, it makes sense. So is it that they haven't figured it out or do they have a higher loyalty?
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Chapter 3: Why is the Texas legal system under scrutiny?
So you really think, I mean, I'm sorry to be so naive, but I grew up in this country and we didn't have things like this that I was aware of in 1985. But you think that members of the Texas legislature are afraid they'll be indicted if they push back against the DAs?
I think there is a fear and there is this lobby of it. These DAs have so much power. Otherwise, why would they allow Soros to control the major cities And it's obvious that they're not prosecuting crimes. They won't even prosecute shoplifting. If you have a free ride, as long as you take $750 a day in Dallas County, whatever the number is, and you go to different stores, you can do that every day.
And the DA there said, we will not prosecute you.
But why would you want that unless you were trying to destroy a civilization?
Soros, that's exactly what he wants to do. There's no political goal here. It's just destabilization. Right. And it's so easy. It is literally so easy to do that. And he also, I believe, got control of our Court of Criminal Appeals, which is our highest court. We have a bifurcated system in Texas. We have the Texas Supreme Court. That's the final appeal in civil.
and the Court of Criminal Appeals, but no one knew who they were. And suddenly they strike down a law that directed me to prosecute voter fraud. And they took it away just by saying, oh, it's unconstitutional because you're in the executive branch and separation of power says you can't be in court. How insane is that?
So I've had to go run three, I'm trying to take that court back, but right now I can't even prosecute voter fraud, which opens us up to unfair elections in Texas, which I was prosecuting plenty of voter fraud before that happened.
so who who's supposed to prosecute voter fraud the soros da's so that's where we're at in texas so that's why i ran this is a nine-member court six-year terms they waited till two days after the filing deadline to announce their decision this is a 1951 statute that has thousands of cases of precedent and they came up with this insane idea that it was unconstitutional for the attorney general to be in court because i'm in the executive branch
If that's true, every AG in the country is violating the Constitution. So that was a rationale. I had to wait two years. I recruited three people to take out the three people that were up. So we've replaced three. We've got one good one on there, but we're still down 5-4. So until we fix those things in Texas, we're at risk.
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Chapter 4: What are the allegations against John Cornyn?
It is a pretty straightforward infrastructure project, but they hate it. It's some kind of symbol of, I don't know, racism or whatever, but it's not. It protects us from exactly what we've had.
So why not pass a law that says anyone, any elected official who opposes the building of a border wall is prohibited from putting a lock on the front door of his house?
Well, that would affect a lot of Republicans. I mean, my own senator would have trouble with that. John Cornyn, because he's been against the border wall saying it wouldn't work. But we all know that walls do work. They do work. And I've seen it. I've seen how it works.
Why would John Cornyn be opposed to a border wall protecting his own state?
I don't understand it. I've seen quotes from him. I've seen video clips from him over and over how it's not enough. It doesn't work. It's a bad idea. He is opposed to the border wall.
But he's, I mean, boy, he's helped appropriate billions and billions and billions of dollars for border security in other countries.
I know. It's really odd that he thinks it works other places, but it doesn't work in Texas. And he's sort of mocked it and said it doesn't work.
I'd love to hear him mock Israel's border walls. Do you think he will?
No.
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Chapter 5: How is Fox News allegedly blacklisting Ken Paxton?
Chapter 6: What is the status of the border wall legal battle?
Well, I mean, we kind of know what Bush believes. I mean, his family's out there campaigning for Planned Parenthood, voting for Kamala Harris. I was with him two days ago and Obama at the inaugurations right next to them, across from him. I watched him, you know, pal around with, you know, he's friends with Obama. That's his world. Right. That's his world. That's all well known.
But what's pretty distressing was running mate endorsed Kamala Harris and his sad little daughter campaigned for Kamala Harris. So that whole world is now they're all Democrats. But John Cornyn is still an elected statewide elected official in Texas. He's a puppet of the left, obviously. How does that continue to happen?
So I think it's because. People weren't as aware of what the Bushes did and what he's done, but they've become more aware because of people like you and others who have outed that. So he's never had a real problem. He had four people running against him. None of them had money. Nobody had ever run before. No one even knew who they were. It was all fake.
And he claims, you know, you got 76% of them. Of course, he had nobody running against him that I could tell you who it was. And I'm pretty involved in politics. So somebody needs to run against him this time because he has been there for what, 16 years, just in that position, count his AG, that's four years. He was Texas Supreme Court Justice.
And before that, he's been doing this a long time and he's gotten away with this. It's about time that he be held accountable because I can't think of a single thing that he's done for Texas that's good. He has no acclaim for doing things good for Texas or our country.
No, he's helped Zelensky, and that's pretty much it. So how – okay, so what's the process? The guy – I mean, I've never met anyone who likes John Cornyn, never met anyone who thought he's achieved anything, never met anyone who thinks he's smart, he's pompous, he's quite a self-righteous little guy. So I think he's very unpopular with every person I've ever met in my life, and yet –
All things being equal, he gets reelected. So how do you stop something like that?
So I'll give you an example of what you're just saying. So right after I beat George P. Bush, who he came out and endorsed, of course, and then he made disparaging comments about me being an embarrassment to Texas. And he made some comment about me being part of Russia propaganda campaign. Oh, you're a Russian propagandist? Oh, I don't know how that happened. I'm in Texas.
I became part of the Russian propaganda because I criticized him on Ukraine. He said that you were a Russian propagandist?
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Chapter 7: Why is Ken Paxton critical of the Biden administration?
loyal american you or or john cornyn look i'm who's more focused on the fortunes of his own country and his own people you or john cornyn who obviously doesn't care at all didn't say anything as his own state was invaded and lectures us endlessly so tool the intel agency's lecturing us about ukraine but you're the disloyal american it's actually like you shouldn't say things like that it's not talking it's crazy it is and so justice the crazy thing we have a texas republican convention shortly after the election where i win by 38 points because george b bush
which is a pretty significant margin in a primary. So we have the convention, there's 12,000 Republicans there. He and his wife walk up on stage and for 10 straight minutes, he doesn't say a word, he gets booed. For the 20 minutes that he's speaking, he never adjusts his speech. He gets booed the entire 20 minutes. He gets booed 30 minutes straight.
i'm standing waiting to go on stage i walk away because i'm afraid of what i might say after he said these things public to me i go up and get a standing ovation so there is the people of texas know john cornyn and i don't think he'll survive another primary so how do you stop this cycle So I think in Texas it's very doable because people realize now who John Cornyn is.
We have a primary next – not this March, but the next March. So somebody needs to run against him in that primary.
So in a year, basically in a year and two months, you have a primary.
Yep. So that primary – Ooh, it's imminent. It's coming. Yeah, absolutely. So he's – I don't think he's long for this Senate world.
So, well, I'm sure he's got such an enormous reservoir of skills and talent that he'll thrive in the private sector. Doing what? I don't know if he's ever been there. He couldn't start my truck on a cold day. He has no idea. He has no skills. But anyway, sorry, I'm being too mean, but it's all true. How do you beat him in a primary?
So, I mean, I don't know. I'm running for sure. I'm looking at it probably in the next few months. I'll be talking to people around the state. But, I mean, I've run two primaries against George P. Bush and another guy, Dan Branch, who was one of George W.
's close friends. I knew Dan Branch, yeah.
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Chapter 8: How does Ken Paxton plan to challenge political adversaries?
How many times? Yeah. Gosh, I mean, we had 106 cases. We won over 75% of our cases, but several months that we, I can't even keep track of it. 106. A lot.
We went there a lot. You sued him 106 times. So I'm kind of thinking, since this is politics, that that may have had a role in your impeachment. I have no doubt.
You know how I know they were there? I'm convinced that the Biden administration went to the House, Texas House, with the Democrats, said we want him impeached. And then Biden sent two lawyers from the Department of Justice to help the General Investigating Committee, which was five-member committee, three Republicans, two Democrats. They had four lawyers.
Two of them came from the Justice Department. Just randomly showed up to help. Was the Biden administration involved? I don't have proof, but I'm not stupid.
That's unbelievable. So do you expect that Karl Rove will be involved in this primary?
Oh, absolutely. He will do whatever he can to stop. He does whatever he can to stop conservatives in Texas in general. Not just in Texas, nationally. His fundraising, everything he's got to help Republicans, he goes into primaries to get Republicans, to take out conservatives. He is not there raising money to go after Democrats. He's there to go after Republicans.
What do you think he's doing? I mean, it's amazing the number of Republicans who are mobilizing against Trump's nominees, particularly Bobby Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard. He must be having, I don't know this, but do you think Carl has a hand in any of that?
I would not surprise me at all. Wouldn't surprise me at all. Not at all. And the reason they want to go after those two is because they're effective. Oh, of course. They're courageous. Of course. And they're going to change America if they're given the opportunity.
That's exactly right. And they're, you know, so sad to see some Republicans who I know well mobilizing against Bobby Kennedy and they're saying we're doing it because he's pro-choice and... Well, I'm vehemently, passionately pro-life. I have always been. I will always be. But these are all people who are themselves pro-choice, who supported plenty of pro-choice nominees. And it's not about that.
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