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Welcome, it is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you, and we have got a lot to talk about on today's show, including some very exciting news for people of the Catholic Faith Center around the world, but really also in America with history being made. The Pope is from the United States of America.

Well, it's an extraordinary week. A great deal is happening. We have white smoke at the Vatican. We have a new pope. The pope is American. We're going to talk about that. We're going to break that down. We're also going to talk about Bernie Sanders and the left being exposed as utter and complete hypocrites flying on private jets and explaining it's really the only choice for people like them.

We're also going to break down Joe Biden. Joe Biden went on TV. We discovered he's come out of hiding. He went on TV. And what little sense he makes, he's blaming the loss in 2024 on racism, on sexism, on everything except his disastrous record and his policies that simply don't work. And finally...

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Yeah, it's really incredible. And let's start with what we mentioned a moment ago with the Pope. It's a historic development. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago has been elected as the 267th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. This marks the first time an American has ascended to the papacy. And I've got a lot of friends that are Catholic Christians.

They were beyond thrilled about this announcement that was made following the appearance of that white smoke you mentioned from the Sistine Chapel signaling the successful conclusion of the conclave. This is a big moment for the U.S. Well, it is, and it's a big moment for the world. You have over a billion faithful Catholics across the globe and worldwide.

A new pope is a moment of history, a moment of great import, certainly in the Catholic faith, but also great import across the world. And for the pope to be an American, that's a big deal for our country. That's never happened. You know, I

I was reading Nostradamus apparently predicted that we would see that the next pope would be Italian. It turns out that prediction was not accurate, but I guess you can't fault Nostradamus for not foreseeing America. But instead, we have a pope. You know, we'll know many more details on the pope as time goes forward, but we know several things just from the early reporting.

We know that this is according to the New York Times, quote, as bishop in Chiclayo, a city in northwestern Peru, he opposed a government plan to add teachings on gender in schools. The promotion of gender ideology is confusing because it seeks to create genders that don't exist, he told local news media. New York Times also reported that, quote,

In a 2012 address to bishops, he lamented that Western news media and popular culture fostered sympathy for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the gospel. And he told the Vatican's official news website last year that, quote, "...the bishop is not supposed to be a little prince sitting in his kingdom."

Rather, he said, a church leader is called to be authentically to be humble, to be close to the people he serves, to walk with them, to suffer with them. And I certainly hope and pray that God's blessings will be on him and that he will convey God's love to the Catholic Church and to the world.

Yeah, it really is cool. The president of United States of America, Donald Trump, also coming out with a statement. Here is what he had to say as well. They have already spoken to us and we'll see what happens. But again, to have the vote from the United States of America, that's a great honor. That's a great honor. I'm going to wake him.

I'm watching and they said he's from America. I said, that's great. I love the candor there. He's like, I'm watching it. And this is the part about selecting the Pope that is really, I think, one of those moments. I was in the airport when it was happening and

And everybody was watching it like it was almost like a World Series or a moment in history where you remember kind of where you were. And every TV, people around it. And then the smoke came up, the white smoke. And people were clapping loudly.

and excitement over this. And it's kind of cool, Senator, that you've got a president that finds out the same way everyone else does, no insider information, you're watching, you wait, and it's old school in that way with a lot of history. Yeah, no, that's right. And I'll say, you and I have to be a little bit careful because we're two Southern Baptists discussing the selection of the Pope within the Catholic Church, and for faithful Catholics,

They believe that God has ordained the Pope, and I do believe God raises up leaders across the world in all sorts of contexts, and so it is a moment of great spiritual import to faithful Catholics, but it's also a moment of great consequence to the country. You know, you look back at Pope John Paul, and you and I, we

We remember the Reagan presidency and the leadership that President Reagan had and that Margaret Thatcher had and that Pope John Paul had. The three of them quite literally changed the world and defeated the Soviet Union. And so the pope is someone who is listened to everywhere.

and I hope that this American pope, I wish him all the best. I'm proud that he's an American, and we will learn more about who he is, what his passions are, what his beliefs are. All of that will come in the days and weeks and months ahead, but

An American pope is really something quite extraordinary. Yeah, it really is. And it's going to also be very interesting to see, as those words that you read earlier, how big of an impact this pope could have. And being a leader and not just, as he described it, sitting there.

but actually leading on some of these issues. There is a lot, I think, of hope now for many that a new pope will mean that, yeah, there are some strong stances that can be taken on different issues and can lead around the world. You talk about Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, the pope. I mean, it was somewhat described, I think, in history unorthodox for the pope to get that involved in the way that he did. Yet,

That was the type of leader that people wanted at the time. And I think that's part of the reason why every time there's a new pope, there's a moment of excitement of, okay, what could we see now? And if you have someone like this pope from America that's on the record on some of these issues, there is some excitement around what could he lead on and how could that impact the world?

Well, and we've seen that as a cardinal that he has been on social media and he's been critical of Donald Trump and critical of J.D. Vance. And I hope as Pope he does not use the papacy to advocate, for example, for open borders and for the

the kinds of disasters that we saw over the last four years, but that's going to be a choice that he's going to make, and it's going to have real consequences, what he chooses to speak out on, what he chooses to focus on. It's going to have a consequence for Catholics across the world, but it'll have a consequence for discussion and world leaders across the world as well.

Senator, I want to move to Bernie Sanders. It was one of those oof moments this week. Called out for his hypocrisy on his fighting oligarchy tour. Now, this is a tour that he and AOC famously jet-setted, I'm not exaggerating, around the country to speak to the big crowds as they're trying to lead the Democratic Party. Nothing says a communist or a socialist like taking a private jet but telling others you can't do the same thing.

He was asked about it. It didn't go very well. No, it did not. And I got to say, there are moments when the left, it becomes impossible to satirize them because they are a living Saturday Night Live sketch. Like at this point, they're simply parody. So Bernie Sanders is in the middle, as you said, of a fighting oligarchy tour. So he is standing up to the man, to those terrible rich people. So rich, bad, oligarchs, bad. That's his message. Remember, he's a socialist.

And to do his fighting oligarchy tour, he's got to be on a private jet everywhere. And mind you, he and AOC, what are they most known for other than being socialist nutcases? Well, the Green New Deal saying that carbon emissions are going to destroy us all. And so if you don't stop your carbon emission, you're destroying humanity. Well, I got to say, Bernie went on Fox and Brett Baier asked him about it. And here, give a listen to his answer.

Alyssa Slotkin, Senator from Michigan, she said you shouldn't be using oligarch, it's over people's head. You've gotten criticized from other people. Free Beacon says Bernie Sanders spent $221,000 on private jets fighting the oligarchy tour paid for by friends of Bernie Sanders. That you've spent millions of dollars in campaign funds on private jet travel over the years. How do you push back on both of those things? When's the last time you saw Donald Trump during a campaign mode

at National Airport. No, no, no. It doesn't. But he's also not fighting the oligarchy. No. You run a campaign and you do three or four or five rallies in a week. The only way you can get around to talk to 30,000 people. Think I'm going to be sitting on a waiting line at United waiting, you know, while 30,000 people are waiting? That's the only way you can get around. No apologies for that. That's what campaign travel is about. We've done it in the past. We're going to do it in the future. And you think that this is hitting a mark. You think it's scratching...

the itch that voters want to hear from? I think at a time when the people on top are doing phenomenally well, when seniors, working class people are struggling, people want to hear action to stand up to the people who have the wealth and the power and create an economy that works for all of us, not just the people on top.

Look, I got to say, no apologies. The oligarchs, they do not apologize to the peasants they're lying to. By the way, he did flat out lie right there on Fox News. He says, you can't do three or four rallies in a week flying on commercial airlines in United. Well, you know what? I fly United every single week. I'm doing it back and forth and back and forth. And I've done a heck of a lot more than three or four rallies flying United or Southwest Airlines.

And in fact, in just a few minutes, I'm headed to the airport and I'm going to stand in line. I'm going to fly Delta this time. And it is the entitlement. No apologies. I'm standing up to the oligarchs in my private jet. And no acknowledgement that Bernie Sanders has the carbon footprint of a small town.

Mind you, the Green New Deal, they want to restrict your life because of carbon emissions. He could have flown commercial and not emitted all that carbon, but it's not worth it. And you know who did the exact same thing? John Kerry, another wealthy hypocrite who flew on a private jet up to Iceland, and this is ironic, to accept a climate award. Give a listen to John Kerry explaining why he flew a private jet to Iceland.

On that issue, pollution, I understand that you came here with a private jet. Is that an environmental way to travel? If you offset your carbon, it's the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle.

I negotiated the Paris Accords for the United States. I've been involved in this fight for years. I negotiated with President Xi to bring President Xi to the table so we could get Paris. And I believe the time it takes me to get somewhere – I can't sail across the ocean; I have to fly to meet with people and get things done. But what I'm doing almost full time is working to win the battle of climate change.

And in the end, if I offset and contribute my life to do this, I'm not going to be put on the defensive.

I love that. I'm not going to be put on the defensive. And he acts like his only other option to see the world or travel the world for these meetings, as he describes, is to get on a boat. He was on a private plane. 99.99% of people that fly around the world fly on a commercial plane. He was asked about being on a private jet. And he acted like, well, there's no other option for a guy like me. It's either a boat or a private jet. No, there's commercial planes you could get on like normal people every day.

Well, and listen to the smug entitlement. It's the only choice for someone like me. That's what he said. It's the only choice for someone like me, just like Bernie Sanders. I will not apologize. And the utter hypocrisy.

with the green new deal with the Paris climate accords, what they are trying to do is restrict your life. They're trying to, they're trying to ban airplanes. They're trying to, to, to ban the internal combustion engine. They're trying to drive up your electricity bills. They're trying to make your life harder and they're utter and complete hypocrites. The reason they're doing it is they say, if we keep admitting carbon, we're all going to die. The oceans are going to rise. And,

And humanity is going to be extinct. It's going to be extinct in 12 years. By the way, have you noticed, Ben, it's always 12 years? 40 years ago, the world was going to end in 12 years. 30 years ago, the world was going to end in 12 years. 20 years ago, the world was going to end in 12 years. John Kerry said the North Pole would be gone. The ice on the North Pole would be gone. There's actually more ice on the North Pole now. But it doesn't matter. They are lying when they say they believe this because if they believed it,

They wouldn't get on a private jet to do their fighting oligarchy tour. They wouldn't get on a private jet to go to Iceland to get an award for apparently fighting for the climate. That hypocrisy is through and through. It is who they are.

And it demonstrates that they don't believe the words they're saying. Well, and Al Gore, this guy's made a lot of money selling this lie that the world was going to end. He has made money. It is documented. It's well documented. And Kerry, again, well, I can buy my way out of my sins.

Yeah, he said I buy an offset. And by the way, you've got a lot of left wing Democrats making money on the offset scam, which is a way they can excuse. You know, both John Kerry and Bernie Sanders remind me of an old commercial from when we were kids of the fellow who rolls down the window of the Rolls Royce and says, pardon me, sir, might you have some gray poupon? That is John Kerry and that is Bernie Sanders.

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Senator, we got to talk about Joe Biden for a second. He has come out of hiding. He's actually doing more interviews now than when he was running for president. And he's apparently writing a book and making money doing speeches. He's all in now.

Well, Joe Biden came out of the hole he was hiding in and he saw his shadow. So I don't know if that means that spring is going to last another six weeks. I'm not sure what that means. But he decided when he came out of hiding to go on Fox News, to go on BBC, to go on ABC's The View. So he was just making the rounds. On Fox News, he was asked if he left the race too late to stop Trump, if his delay...

cost the Democrats the race. And unsurprisingly, he said, I don't think it would have mattered. So of course, he exonerated himself completely. He bears none of the fault for the loss. But that wasn't nearly as ridiculous as what he said on BBC. So on BBC, listen to why Joe Biden said that he stepped away from the race. Give a listen. Should you have withdrawn earlier, given someone else a bigger chance? I don't think it would have...

We left at a time when we had a good candidate. She was fully funded. And what happened was I had become what we had set out to do. No one thought we could do. I had become so successful on our agenda, it was hard to say, no, I'm going to stop now.

I mean, I didn't think it could get any worse. But yet here we are. And this is still the de facto leader of the Democratic Party saying it was so successful. It was hard to just stop. And people had a hard time with that.

Yeah, that clearly explains everything. That's clearly the reason he dropped out of the race, because he was so successful. It's clearly the reason Trump won, because Joe Biden was so successful. It's clearly the reason we had a landslide election across the country. And understand, there was no ambiguity in this election. Of the seven swing states, Donald Trump won all seven. He won the popular vote. Republicans won the House. Republicans won the Senate. It was an absolute repudiation of the train wreck of

That was Joe Biden, the Democrats extreme agenda. And yet he's living in this world where, well, it was just because I was so successful that, you know, I mean, you know, of course he was so successful. And listen on The View.

than when he's downplaying President Trump's victory in 2024. Give a listen to what Biden had to say on The View. Mr. President, you had previously said that you thought that you would have won. Since then, Donald Trump won all the battleground states and made inroads with almost every major demographic, from working class voters to Hispanic men to black men. Knowing what you know now, do you think you would have beat him? Yeah, he still got seven million fewer votes. Yes. A lot of people didn't show up.

Number one. Number two, they're very close in those toss-up states. It wasn't a slam dunk. Look, every time I've been on the show, which I've been fortunate to be on more than once, thanks for having me, is that you guys don't focus on as much, and I think it's good, on polling numbers, but

Let me put it this way. He's had the worst 100 days any president's ever had. Yeah, that's a fact. And I would not say honesty's been a strong point. Yeah, yeah. Well, Mr. President,

I mean, I don't even know what that answer was. The one thing that was funny in there, Senator, is the fact that he's like, I love that you guys don't look at poll numbers because the poll numbers would say it's the complete opposite of what I'm saying right now. Yet he goes back to polls and says, oh, well, I had more votes than he did and it wasn't a slam dunk. When you win all of the swing states, that is literally the definition of a political slam dunk that every candidate deserves.

dreams about when they're running for president.

Yeah, and look, you know, his comment about The View. Oh, I love going on The View. I go on it all the time. You know, as you know, I've been on The View three different times. They won't have me back. The last three books I wrote for each of the last, well, for rather two of the last three books, I went on The View. And for my last one, they said, no, thanks. We don't want you back. We don't want you back because it went so badly for them because they are screaming left-wing harpies who are fundamentally dishonest

And so it's a great place. So when when when Biden says it's the worst first hundred days in history and everyone there applauds, oh, yes. Oh, yes. Beautiful, Joe. It's the worst one. You know what they didn't discuss? They didn't discuss that illegal border crossings are down ninety nine point nine percent because that that would actually be a fact. And Joe Biden doesn't discuss facts, although I will say this.

Joe Biden did make a concession on The View and he made a concession that his debate performance was a train wreck. That is indisputable. But give a listen to what he had to say about it. You know what freaked everybody out was that debate. Yeah, it wasn't a great night. It was a bad night. Terrible. And everybody lost their mind.

Because, of course, no one has ever had a bad night when they were. Nobody tries to have a bad night. Sometimes it happens. So this is this is what started both sides with this. Oh, he can't do this. This needs to stop. Why do you think that caught fire? Why do you think people bought into it, especially the Democrats? Well, first of all, we still were winning primaries. We're still doing everything.

The Democratic Party at large didn't buy into it, but the Democratic leadership and some of the very significant contributors did, even though we raised enormous... Like, when I left the race, Kamala had hundreds of millions of dollars. She had the best organized campaign. Every state was organized, et cetera. But, you know, what happens is that it took on a life... And I had a very...

I'm going to say something outrageous. I've lost many debates in my life. I've been pretty good at doing that. I was sick. I was... No excuse. It's an explanation. And I had a bad, bad night. And...

And I had, anyway, I'm on camera. Did you immediately know you had had a bad night? Yeah, I did. But even after that, the poll station will be down by two points. And Hannah, you know, Joe came on, I went onto the stage after the debate. I mean, we all saw it. It was terrible. And so Joe looked at me and he said, I, well, I'll use screwed up. He said, I, he didn't say that. Yeah.

And I said, yeah. We all know Joe Biden. We know what he said. And I said, yeah, you did, Joe. But we have hundreds of people waiting for us. Put your shoulders back. Walk out there. You know, be who you are. And we were not going to let 90 minutes of a debate define his presidency and all those years of service. It's very interesting how they brought out the former first lady to answer the question that actually went to him. And she jumped in.

You know, if your wife has to jump in and say, you're not incompetent, you're not mentally diminished, that tells you something if your wife has to step in and take that question for you. But the words he said accurately, he said, I had a bad, bad night. And you and I did this podcast verdict. We did it that night. We did it right after the debate. We put out a special podcast. And you and I predicted that night.

that that was the most consequential presidential debate in the history of the country. And the reason we predicted that

Is we said Joe Biden is going to drop out of this race. He will not be the nominee because of this debate. So he's suggesting, gosh, I had a bad debate, but everyone was fine. The Democrat Party was fine. Really, I seem to recall George Clooney writing, saying he went to a fundraiser and was so incoherent that you couldn't understand what he was saying. But, you know, Biden Biden does respond later on in the view when when when there are reports that.

questioning his cognitive abilities and and listen to what he says on that yeah um mr president since you left office there have been a number of books that have come out um deeply sourced from democratic sources that claim in your final year there was a dramatic decline in your cognitive abilities um in the in the final year of your presidency what is your response to these allegations or are these sources wrong they are wrong there's nothing to sustain that

Number one. Number two, you know, think of what we're left with. We're left with a circumstance where we had an insurrection when I started. The nonsense of civil war. We had a circumstance where we were in a position that we, well, the pandemic, because of the incompetence of the last outfit, ended up over a million people dying. A million people dying.

We're also in a situation where we found ourselves unable to deal with a lot of just basic issues, which I won't go into in the interest of time.

And so we went to work and we got it done. Well, what he got done was the most disastrous presidency in history. And his mental decline wasn't just the last year. It was the entire presidency. They kept him hidden. I'll tell you, Republican senators, the White House didn't let us talk to him all four years. And that's a big part of the reason his mental decline and his disastrous record that he lost. And Donald Trump is once again the president. So

Senator, in our final segment, I want to talk about something that is shocking. This is exactly why we do this show, why we do a podcast three days a week. And what you're about to hear right now, I hope that you will share it

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16. I know my mom has to come in with me. Does she have to be in there the whole time? Like, how does that work? Because I don't know if I'm comfortable with that. At some point of the appointment, maybe she doesn't have to be in the adjoining room with you. You said I could do it virtually? Yeah, you could do it virtually. So what would that look like? So I just talk to a doctor and then they'd be able to prescribe me? Yeah. If it's virtual, you'll still meet with the doctor and then...

I don't need any like therapy or anything first, like you don't need any record of that.

Not that I know of. I don't need any sort of, like, records of having gone to therapy or anything like that, right? Yeah, so unless you have TRICARE insurance, it would not be required. There's nothing that I need before, right? Like, I don't need to, like, have records of meeting with a therapist or anything, right? Because my parents definitely aren't going to let me do that. Um, no. I just decided last week, and so I kind of want to get in as soon as possible. Do you have any...

Okay.

Oh, perfect. Okay. So I can get the hormones the same day. Some pharmacies do take a little bit to get it together. But yeah, if not the same day, then more than likely the very next day. Perfect. Thank you for calling. Bye. You have a great day. I mean, you hear that, Senator, and it makes you so angry because what you're hearing is the underworld of, hey, we don't need parents.

We don't need parents. We don't need doctors. We don't need evidence. And by the way, the defenders of this mutilation, and then these are also the folks that defend surgeries where you're actually physically sterilizing little boys or little girls, the

The defenders of this, they say, oh, it's the result of long therapy and a medical condition. It's very clear. Planned Parenthood doesn't give a flip what your medical condition is. That's not their business. They're in the business of selling. They're in the business of selling abortions, which is their main business. But they're also in the business of selling sterilizing kids because, look,

Cross-sex hormones, and that includes testosterone or estrogen given to the opposite gender, they're meant to alter the body to show characteristics of the opposite gender. And they can alter the body's natural makeup. They can alter the functions of the body. But they can also result in numerous side effects, including permanent infertility.

And Lila Rose, who's the president of Live Action and a tremendous warrior standing for life, here's what Lila Rose said. She said that the investigation exposes, quote, a chilling reality that Planned Parenthood is fast-tracking vulnerable children into irreversible hormone treatments with almost no medical oversight. These dangerous drugs can sterilize,

stunt growth, and leave lifelong scars. This is not health care. It is child abuse, and it must be stopped. It really is incredible. The last question I have to ask you on this is, after this type of information comes out, is there any role that Congress can play in getting involved now that we see this so clearly?

Absolutely. And every year Planned Parenthood gets more than $700 million in federal taxpayer dollars. That needs to end. We need to defund Planned Parenthood. You shouldn't be forced to pay for the sterilization of kids. You shouldn't be forced to pay for abortions all over the country. And so I hope...

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