riots have overtaken the country. Lawlessness abounds and the genius Democrat policy proposal

for dealing with all of it is to defund the police. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Knowles. We are in Washington, D.C. Senator, you invited me here on our last episode. You said we could have a Stogey together if I just made it out to the East Coast. So I fly out to basically the rubble of Washington, D.C. I actually couldn't even get to my hotel room last night in my car because the National Guard was stationed all around it.

What has happened to this place since the last time I was here?

Well, it's gone nuts. And on top of that, in D.C., they don't even let you smoke a cigar.

That's the worst part of all.

Look, the crazy Democrats have banned cigars.

But here's the good news. If you did actually light one up, I'm not sure they have the police

officers to come arrest you. They don't. And it seems if the Democrats get their way, then we're

going to have even fewer police officers after that. You know, you have spent a good bit of your

career in law enforcement. What's your take on this? Because it's,

it's at the most local level. The Minneapolis City Council voted overwhelmingly veto-proof majority

to abolish and dismantle their police department. And you're seeing Democrats at the federal level

taking up anti-police legislation as well. So let me try to understate it. This is stark raving nuts. This is

insane. Like, like, did you see the Minneapolis mayor, the poor lefty guy who's trying to like,

okay, what do you want me to say? I'll say whatever you want. They're like, okay, well,

you abolish the whole police department. He's like, wait, wait, wait, wait a second.

Like, they really have lost their mind. Now, mind you, Comrade de Blasio, like, good by me, we're

caught in the cops. Like, your city is literally on fire. Right. Right. And their solution is abolished the police departments. By the way,

these are the same morons that want to abolish ICE. Yeah. You know, they're just like, okay,

let's get rid of everybody charged with protecting us. That is assonide, and it would end up

killing a whole lot of people.

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