Welcome, it is verdict with Ted Cruz, the weekend review, Ben Ferguson with you, and we had some very big stories that you may have missed that we talked about this week.

First up, USAID, the abuse that has been found out of our government tax dollars going to corrupt organizations, even to terrorists, is now all being exposed because of Elon Musk and Doge.

So what have we found out? We'll give you a list in just a moment.

Also, what are the needs of Israel? Well, Benjamin Netanyahu sat down with Senator Ted Cruz for about two hours talking about exactly what's

happening in Israel and what they need from us. We'll break all that down for you as well.

And finally, it's going to be a new day at the FBI if Cash Patel can get the votes needed this week.

So what did he have to say to Senator Cruz? We have that for you.

It is the weekend review, and it starts right now. People that listen to the show and conservatives

out there said, okay, let's let everybody know where your tax dollars is going after Elon Musk and

Doge yet again blowing the whistle. They're going to, I mean, they've got to be exhausted because they're finding so much waste,

fraud, and abuse in our government.

And a perfect example of this is USAID and some of the abuse that they found, walk us through it.

Well, I got to say, Elon Musk is doing a fantastic job. He is working

around the clock at Doge and really focused on reigning in government spending and raining in

the absolute abuse, the abuse that you would never see in a private company. But yet in government

is commonplace and is a result of politicians funding their own political hobby horse, their own political pet project.

And so I've got to say, one of the areas that Doge and the new White House has done is freeze funding at USAID.

And Democrats in the media have been losing their minds over this, have been lighting their hair on fire.

In fact, a bunch of Democrats went to the USAID offices to storm the offices this week, which was really pretty ridiculous.

But they're really, they're very, very upset about it.

They're not upset, by the way, about the abuse of the money and the fraud at all.

They're just, they're just upset that they've lost their power, right?

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