Trump Revokes Student Visas for Chinese Nationals, Transgender Athlete Policy Shift in CA, Take It Down Act Targeting Deepfakes Signed & ABA Barred from Judicial Nominations
Verdict with Ted Cruz
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🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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🇨🇳 Chinese Student Visas and Espionage
- The Trump administration announced plans to revoke student visas for Chinese nationals suspected of ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
- Emphasis on intellectual property theft and espionage concerns.
- Senator Cruz supports aggressive vetting of foreign students and recounts his past efforts to shut down Confucius Institutes in U.S. universities.
🏃♀️ California’s Transgender Athlete Policy Shift
- California revised its policy to protect biological female athletes in track and field.
- The change allows girls who were displaced by transgender athletes to still qualify for championships.
- Cruz and Ferguson interpret this as a retreat by the Left and a win for conservative values.
📱 Promotion of Patriot Mobile
- A segment promoting Patriot Mobile, a conservative Christian cell phone provider.
- Highlights its support for First and Second Amendment rights, veterans, and pro-life causes.
📜 Take It Down Act
- Senator Cruz discusses the Take It Down Act, recently signed into law by President Trump.
- The law criminalizes the distribution of non-consensual explicit images, including deepfakes.
- Inspired by real cases, including that of Elliston Barry, a teenage girl victimized by deepfake imagery.
- The law also mandates tech platforms to remove such content upon request.
⚖️ American Bar Association (ABA) and Judicial Nominations
- The Trump administration removed the ABA’s special role in vetting judicial nominees.
- Cruz criticizes the ABA as a biased, left-wing organization.
- Example given of a nominee unable to answer basic constitutional questions, yet rated “qualified” by the ABA.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:05.5 | Welcome. It is Verdict with Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. And we did a show that had some |
| 0:12.0 | really important topics in it a couple weeks ago. Unfortunately, that show was replaced as we |
| 0:17.9 | were covering the catastrophic flooding that happened in the hill country. |
| 0:21.9 | And we want to make sure that we gave you all the info on that and the relief efforts and |
| 0:25.8 | how you could help the people in Kerrville and the surrounding areas that were affected. |
| 0:30.8 | And we were talking about that show. |
| 0:33.4 | And it's an important one because it dealt with a lot of issues. |
| 0:37.0 | Number one, Trump revoking Chinese student visas. |
| 0:40.6 | You probably heard about that nowhere else. |
| 0:42.8 | Also, California reverses policies on transgender in sports. |
| 0:48.3 | How that happened. |
| 0:49.5 | The very important take it down act. |
| 0:52.4 | It was important to protect people from revenge and |
| 0:56.4 | people putting fake pictures of them online as well and finally the ABA won't have |
| 1:01.4 | any role in judicial selections this is massive so we decided we're gonna let |
| 1:07.5 | you hear that show that we never got to put out. So right now, here it is. |
| 1:13.1 | All right, so let's dive into this big first topic center, |
| 1:16.1 | and it deals with what you mentioned earlier. |
| 1:19.1 | China and Chinese student visas, |
| 1:21.9 | there was an interesting number that was thrown out earlier in the day on TV, |
| 1:26.3 | and I'm going to quote it. |
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