Welcome to verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you. Senator, nice to be with you today,

except we're in different places on this episode for people that are like, wait, why aren't they in the same room?

I had to fly back to my hometown of Memphis to check on my dad who was in the hospital. He is doing okay,

but that's why we're remote today. And Senator, it's going to be with you, as always. Ben, great to be with you. A lot going on in the world and hope your dad continues to do better.

He is doing well, thank goodness. Let's start in on this big issue and that is,

we have a game plan now from the President of the United States of America to fix the problems at the border. And he's decided that if we just use woke terminology,

all the issues at the border are going to go away. Let's just let you get your initial reaction

to some of these terminologies the president's decided to use while visiting where apparently

the president in Mexico. This is what their master plan is.

Yeah, look, it's even worse than that. So in the last few days, Joe Biden, there's good news and bad

news. Joe Biden has done more in the last few days on our southern border than he has the entirety

of his presidency. That's the good news. The bad news is everything he's done is bad. He flew down to the southern border.

He went to El Paso, not the Rio Grande Valley, which is the epicenter of the disaster.

Before he arrived in El Paso, there had been illegal immigrants sleeping on the streets. The mayor had declared it an emergency.

So what did they do? They cleaned all the illegal immigrants off the street before Joe Biden arrived because they wanted to set it up like a TV set and clear everyone out. When he got there, this is an

amazing thing Corrine Jean-Pierre said from the White House podium. She said Biden did not meet or

speak to or see a single illegal immigrant when he was there. Now, Ben, that is frigging

hard. I have been to the border many, many times. We've had 5.3 million people cross illegally

under Joe Biden's presidency. For him to go to the border and not see a single illegal immigrant,

I guarantee you that was political staffers

working overtime saying make sure you don't show some little girl who was sexually assaulted

by the traffickers. Make sure you don't show some impoverished person who went through a horrific

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