Yeah.

And when someone lied to him on Meet the Press, he had the receipts, and he would put up, for example, the tweet from El-Sayed's sister repeatedly saying, multiple tweets saying, "My family has long supported the Muslim Brotherhood, has long been affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood." She did none of that.

They, they would put up Abdul El-Sayed, his own multiple op-eds defending and, and advocating for the Muslim Brotherhood.

She didn't do that.

She simply said, the analogy I use is it was like asking Al Capone, "Are you a criminal?" "No, I'm not a criminal." "Okay, good.

NBC News is set." And so this podcast, w- we just fileted that.

We laid out, uh, on Wednesday's pod...

Yeah.

Right

... someone lied to him on Meet the Press, he had the receipts, and he would put up, for example, the tweet from El-Sayed's sister repeatedly saying, multiple tweets saying, "My family has long supported the Muslim Brotherhood, has long been affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood." She did none of that.

They, they would put up Abdul El-Sayed, his own multiple op-eds defending and, and advocating for the Muslim Brotherhood.

She didn't do that.

She simply said, the analogy I use is it was like asking Al Capone, "Are you a criminal?" "No, I'm not a criminal." "Okay, good.

NBC News is set." And so this podcast, w- we just filleted that.

We laid out, uh, on Wednesday's pod...

Yeah.

So hasn't your brand of conservatism been rejected by an electorate that appears to be more taken with Mr. Trump's populist message?

Well, Megan, you know, at the end of the day for the folks at home, this is not about the insults back and forth between the candidates.

This is not about what attacks we can throw at each other.

This is the people at home who are struggling.

Through seven years of Barack Obama, this is the single moms who are working two and three jobs 28, 29 hours a week because their hours have been forcibly reduced because of Obamacare.

This is the truck drivers and the steel workers and the mechanics with calluses on their hands who've seen their wages not grow year after year after year while the cost of living goes up.

This is all the young people coming out of school with student loans up to their eyeballs that aren't able to find a job.

If voters want Jeff Sessions-style immigration policies, isn't their choice rather clear?

... two million people of Asian origin now live in Texas, and, uh, th- they don't feel like they're being heard.

Yeah, look, I- w- we are seeing real progress.

So look, you've got different aspects of immigration.

You've got, number one, illegal immigration.

And- and we had four years of open borders under Joe Biden.

We had over 12 million people invade this country at the invitation of Joe Biden and the Democrats.

It was the worst illegal immigration in our nation's history.

... that two million people of Asian origin now live in Texas, and, uh, th- they don't feel like they're being heard.

Do you trust Mr. Trump to nominate conservative justices?

Well, Hugh, I agree with you that it, Justice Scalia's passing underscores the enormous gravity of this election.

Uh, Justice Scalia was someone I knew personally for 20 years, was privileged to be at his funeral this weekend, and with his passing, the Court is now hanging in the balance.

We are one liberal justice away from a five-justice radical leftist majority that would undermine our religious liberty, that would undermine the right to life, and that would fundamentally erase the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms from the Constitution.

Now, I think the voters of Texas, the voters across Super Tuesday are assessing everyone standing on this, this stage.

In the past, Republican presidents always promise to nominate strict constitutionalists.

So I'm certain if you took a survey, everyone would say they would do that.

I'm no fan of John Kerry.

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He, he was somebody that I knew for 20 years.

He was a brilliant man.

He was faithful to the Constitution.

He changed the arc of American legal history.

And I'll tell you, his passing tonight, our prayers are with his family, with his wife Maureen, who he adored, his nine children, his 36 grandkids.

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I apologized to him then and I do so now.

Ben, I'm sorry.

Let me tell you the facts of what occurred for those who are interested in knowing.

On Monday night, about six thirty PM, CNN reported that Ben was not going from Iowa to New Hampshire or South Carolina, rather he was, quote, "Taking a break from campaigning." They reported that on television.

CNN's political anchors, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash and Wolf Blitzer, said it was highly unusual and highly significant.

My political team saw CNN's report breaking news, and they forwarded that news to our volunteers.

What can you say to law enforcement right now to convince them that you understand the severity of this problem, and you're not just saying what people wanna hear days before the primary?

The bill you were amending allowed citizenship and legalization.

But, but Meghan, the bill was a thousand pages.

I introduced a series of amendments, each designed to fix problems in the bill.

The fact that each amendment didn't fix every problem didn't mean that I supported the rest of the bill.

And I'll tell you who supported my amendment.

Jeff Sessions, the strongest opponent of amnesty in the United States Congress, and he did so because taking citizenship off the table was important and it revealed the hypocrisy of the, the proponents of this bill who were looking for votes.

Listen, we can solve immigration.

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Do you want to try to close this topic once and for all tonight?

Well, Neil, I'm glad we are focusing on the important topics of the evening.

You know, back in September, my friend Donald said that he had had his lawyers look at this from every which way.

And there was no issue there.

There was nothing to this birther issue.

Now, since September, the Constitution hasn't changed.

But the poll numbers have.

So what is the answer, Senator Cruz, to stop mass shootings and violent crime up in 30 cities across the country?

He also threw out that there was, in essence, genocide that happened on the other side going after The terrorists in the West Bank, as he described it, in Gaza, that was the part that I think shocked so many.

Well, Mondami's statement was truly shameful, and it was released as an official public statement from the office of the mayor.

So I'm going to read you what exactly he put out.

Today, Mayor Zoran Kwame Mondami – by the way, I didn't know his middle name was Kwame, but they put it out.

Every time they refer to him, they refer to him as Mayor Zoran Kwame Mondami – released the following statement on the third anniversary of the October 7th attacks.

Quote, This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers.

It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7th.

But before we get to that, how amazing is Marine One?

That was the part that I think shocked so many.

Well, Mondami's statement was truly shameful and it was released as an official public statement from the office of the mayor.

And so I'm going to read you what exactly he put out today.

Mayor Zoran Kwame Mondami, by the way, I didn't know his middle name was Kwame, but they put it out every time they refer to him.

They refer to him as Mayor Zoran Kwame Mondami.

released the following statement on the third anniversary of the October 7th attacks.

Quote, This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers.

That is a key word he keeps saying.

That was the part that I think shocked so many.

Well, Mandani's statement was truly shameful, and, and it was released as an official public statement from the office of the mayor.

And so I'm going to read you what exactly he put out.

Today, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mandani-- By the way, I didn't know his middle name was Kwame, but they put it out.

E- every time they refer to him, they refer to him as Mayor Zohran Kwame Mandani.

... released the following statement on the third anniversary of the October 7th attacks.

Quote, "This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers.

They're the ones committing genocide." That is a key word he keeps saying.

... you are running for president in 2028, yes?

Uh, y- you know what, Sid, th- th- there will be plenty of time to focus on that after the midterms.

I mean, where we are right now, we're in the final sprint.

We're l- we're less than four weeks away, and, and so I am spending every waking moment crisscrossing the country, trying to turn people out because l- l- listen, the Democrats, they wanna take the Senate, they wanna take the House, and they wanna spend the next two years obstructing everything, fighting to return to open borders, fighting to release violent criminals onto our street, fighting to, to push forward their, their, their, their radical transgender agenda, boys and girls sports, and, and sterilizing and mutilating kids.

And they also want two years of all-out war on President Trump.

They want to engage in an impeachment circus, they want to engage in relentless subpoenas and investigations, and they wanna block every nomination.

They wanna block every cabinet member.

But how you can argue with what President Trump did going after this, this terror regime, which the last six, seven, eight, nine presidents all pretty much said they would do and didn't do it, how do you argue that, Ted?

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I mean, where we are right now, we are in the final sprint.

We're, we're less than four weeks away.

And, and so I am spending every waking moment crisscrossing the country, trying to turn people out.

But how you can argue with what President Trump did going after this, this terror regime, which the last six, seven, eight, nine presidents all pretty much said they would do and didn't do it, how do you argue that, Ted?

So let's remind them of exactly what happened back then.

Well, Nidal Hasan was a major in the army and he was stationed at Fort Hood in Texas.

And in 2009, he walked into Fort Hood and he murdered 14 innocent souls all shouting Allahu Akbar.

It was an act of radical Islamic terrorism.

It was obviously an act of radical Islamic terrorism.

And yet, to add insult to injury, Barack Obama was president at the time, and the Obama Department of Defense categorized this killing not as an act of terrorism, but as a, quote, act of workplace violence.

Now, there was a consequence to that.

And the left,

Senator, beyond any one city, that's his message.

Look, this is their nationwide agenda.

They want to bring socialism to you.

And by the way, what Comrade Mondami did there is what communists and socialists always do, which is they say they're fighting for the working man, which is what he said.

But then you look at their policies and their policies always, always, always hurt the working men.

And if you look at it, this is true in communist countries across the world, whether the Soviet Union or China or Cuba or Venezuela or Nicaragua or North Korea.

Whenever you have socialism implemented and socialism is the economic system of communism and whenever they implement their policies.

Is that in America or just around the world?

Yeah.

When they were launched, uh, the Treasury Department did not do auto-enrollment.

What it did instead is it, it...

Parents had to go and opt in and, and actually affirmatively open the account.

And so to date, about 7 million kids have opened an account, 7 million parents have opened the, the, the accounts for their kids.

Uh, but there are about 70 million kids in America under 18, and, and so I wrote the legislation for those to be automatically open for everyone.

And the lawyers at Treasury, the career lawyers, the deep state, they did not wanna do it, and they battled and battled and battled.

Yeah

Yeah.

When they were launched, uh, the Treasury Department did not do auto-enrollment.

What it did instead is it, it...

Parents had to go and opt in and, and actually affirmatively open the account.

And so to date, about 7 million kids have opened an account, 7 million parents have opened the, the, the accounts for their kids.

Uh, but there are about 70 million kids in America under 18.

And, and so I wrote the legislation for those to be automatically opened for everyone, and the lawyers at Treasury, the career lawyers, the deep state, they did not wanna do it, and they battled and battled and battled.

Yeah

But did you consider any other constraints on coaching buyouts given that that has been such a big conversation over the past year about money that, you know, schools, you know, need to come up with?

Oh, look, i- this is all part of the discussion of how to address this, and this bill was put together really forging a coalition.

And, and, and so it's a bipartisan compromise.

It, it, it reflects give and take on both parts.

You know, you know, I gotta say, Amanda, a lotta, lotta folks are expressing amazement, uh, that we got here, and, and, and this has been four years.

It's taken four years to get, to get here.

And, and going back to, to earlier this year when we introduced the bill, uh, at the time very few observers thought we could get bipartisan agreement and introduce the bill.

What conversations have you had in the House beyond the Speaker that might make you feel confident that enough House Republicans will sign on to the bill?

But does an exemption kind of feel like an undue reward for them, given that their sy- they, they kinda created their own messed up system to begin with?

Well, Big T, I, I don't think that's the case, because it doesn't provide a, a broad exemption.

What, what it does is it sets the rules, and then it gives the NCAA the authority to enforce them.

So, so, for example, as you guys know, the transfer portal is nuts.

Right? Right now you've got athletes transferring two, three, four times.

Uh, you get to the end of a season and half a team or more can leave, and, and that's, that's terrible for the athletes.

Y- you know, you look at student athletes who transfer multiple times, the chances of them graduating college plummets, that they don't end up getting a good education.

Do we know who's going to be on that board?

Mm.

The reason there are no rules is there used to be rules, and all of them got struck down, or virtually all of them got struck down in court under the federal antitrust laws.

Mm-hmm.

And the Court said pretty much any rule you put in place was a violation of federal law, and so we have now athletes going into the transfer portal two, three, four times.

You know, the end of a season, half the team or more can leave.

Mm.

Uh, you have tw- athletes playing seven, eight years.

Mm.

So, Senator Cruz, tell the folks about what this what this act does.

Well, I think President Trump is exactly right.

This bill is designed to bring some order to the chaos of college sports.

College sports is an incredible institution in America.

It's something at a time when we're so divided on so many topics that this brings us together.

We cheer for our alma mater.

We come together as one.

What is your message to both of those people?

So, Senator Cruz, tell the folks about what this what this act does.

Well, I think President Trump is exactly right.

This bill is designed to bring some order to the chaos of college sports.

College sports is an incredible institution in America.

It's something at a time when we're so divided on so many topics that this brings us together.

We cheer for our alma mater.

We come together as one.

What is your message to both of those people?

Senator, beyond

any one city, that's his message.

Look, this is their nationwide agenda.

They want to bring socialism to you.

And by the way, what Comrade Mondami did there is what communists and socialists always do, which is they say they're fighting for the working man, which is what he said.

But then you look at their policies and their policies always, always, always hurt the working men.

And if you look at it, this is true in communist countries across the world, whether the Soviet Union or China or Cuba or Venezuela or Nicaragua or North Korea.

And I wish this was more of a midterm issue because it's almost like it happened so quickly, him shutting down our southern border that people forgot like how bad it used to be.

So that was my number in my head before I read it.

Yeah, look, you were within 8% to 10% of the answer.

The answer is zero.

Goose eggs.

Not one.

Not a single member of the Princeton faculty.

And by the way, if you want to understand why the Democrat Party has gone crazy, why we're seeing a Marxist and Islamist take over of the Democrat Party, in one sentence, the answer to that is... that the center of gravity in the Democrat Party has moved from the union hall to the university faculty lounge.

what they're going to be teaching you and ask yourself, do I need to pay them to indoctrinate me? And