Welcome. It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you and

Senator we have got a lot to talk about including later in the show we are going to

get a live on the ground update from Israel of what's happening in Israel right now.

Something very important that I want to point out,

so make sure you stick around for that.

Also, before we get to that, there was a shocking news story that came out, and I'm still trying to get my head around it

Senator terrorists that have been caught illegally crossing the border in this

country were released and allowed to roam free for nearly a year because

apparently we don't have time to check backgrounds of terrorists that we are

allowing to go free in this country and the Biden administration is like oh yeah that happens and oh by the

way there's a hell of a lot of terrorists on the terrorist watch list that are being caught now every single month in this country.

Well that's exactly right. I've said a number of times that I believe the risks of a major terrorist attack right now are greater than they have been at any time since September 11th.

And this story that broke this week further underscores that.

So the story that broke was an internal federal memo that indicated that a terrorist was apprehended

by the Biden administration at the southern border and they released him into the country. They released him into the country for a year and this

individual who was a member of the Somali terror group al-Shabaab was released shortly after being caught illegally crossing the southern border near San Yasidro, California.

And that was on March 13, 2023.

And the Daily Collard News Foundation published this.

They have a memo from the federal government that's been released.

And the Terrorist Screening Center initially, quote quote deemed him a mismatch so in other words they said okay this is the guy is not a terrorist after running him through the terror watch list

However on January 18th, 2024, so just a few days ago, the Terrorist Screening Center made a

redetermination that the individual was in fact a, quote, confirmed member of al-Shabaab and was involved in the use,

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