Who We Are-Dems Abandon God & the Declaration of Independence plus Cartels in every Community in America

The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Debate on the Source of Rights
- The episode opens with criticism of Democratic Senator Tim Kaine, who argued in a Senate hearing that constitutional rights come from the government rather than from God.
- Cruz frames this as a radical departure from America’s founding principles, citing the Declaration of Independence and Thomas Jefferson’s writings.
- The discussion emphasizes that if rights come from government, they can be taken away, whereas God-given rights are “unalienable.”
Religion and the Democratic Party
- Cruz and Ferguson argue that the Democratic Party is increasingly hostile toward people of faith (Christian, Jewish, Catholic).
- They highlight responses from religious leaders, including Bishop Robert Barron, who strongly opposed Kaine’s remarks and defended the idea that rights come from God.
Border Security and the Cartels
- The podcast shifts to the issue of border security and drug cartels, especially the Sinaloa cartel.
- They cite a DEA operation in New England that arrested 171 cartel members in one week, seizing fentanyl and counterfeit pills.
- Cruz and Ferguson warn about the danger of fentanyl-laced pills, especially for young people, describing it as a national epidemic and the leading cause of death among Americans aged 18–45.
U.S. Government Action Against Cartels
- They discuss U.S. military and DEA efforts to combat cartels, including operations in Mexico, Venezuela, and the Caribbean.
- Cruz praises the government’s recent designation of cartels as terrorist organizations and the deployment of military assets to fight drug trafficking.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:05.3	Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you, and we've got a packed
0:11.2	show for you today. And also, I want to remind you that this show we do is a podcast three
0:17.5	days a week. So make sure that you download verdict with Ted Cruz wherever you
0:21.2	get your podcast so you don't miss a single episode.
0:24.7	The Democratic Party Senator is really starting to show their true colors in a proud way.
0:30.7	Their disdain for American values, American families, and for God is on full display now.
0:37.2	Now, we started to witness some of this when they were going after the Jewish people with
0:41.0	the war when Israel was attacked.
0:43.6	But Tim Cain testifies that the constitutional rights come from the government.
0:51.9	Let me say that again.
0:53.3	Come from the government, not from God. You had a very
0:59.2	interesting interaction with him, and this is something that should terrify all Americans, because now
1:04.5	this is where the Democratic Party truly is, to stain for God and family.
1:13.6	Well, every day the Democrat Party gets more and more radical.
1:18.9	They've now decided that God has no place in our nation and God has no place in our founding documents and that our rights, critically, do not come from God.
1:23.7	This is truly an extreme position.
1:26.1	Tim Cain and I went back and forth this week in the United States Senate on the foundations of our nation. We're going to get into that. We're also going to get into the threat that Joe Biden and the Democrats open borders posed to you, even if you don't live in a border state, you may think you live far, far away from the border. Well, four years of open borders has endangered every community,
1:50.1	every family. Up in New England, just this week, 171 Cinelloa cartel members were arrested.
1:59.9	New England is nowhere near the southern border, and yet the Mexican drug cartel members were arrested. New England is nowhere near the southern border, and yet the Mexican
2:04.0	drug cartels have penetrated communities all across the country. We're going to break that down as
2:08.3	well. Yeah, it's really important, and this is a big defining moment, I think, in this country,
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