Terror Attack in Colorado-Intifada Comes to America plus Ukraine Takes out 41 Russian Bombers in Clandestine Drone Attack
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Good Monday morning. So nice to have you with us here on Verdict with Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. And Senator, it was a very big weekend when it came to news, a horrific attack in Colorado, and also a lot going on with Ukraine and Russia. Well, tragically, the radical anti-American, anti-Israel left keeps getting worse, keeps getting more violence. We saw two weeks ago, two Israeli supporters, people who worked in the Israeli consulate in

in Washington, D.C., murdered on the streets of D.C., murdered by a radical leftist who screamed, free Palestine. And then just this weekend, we saw five people in Colorado who were engaged in a pro-Israel protest, speaking up for the hostages, calling on Hamas to release the hostages, saying, enough is enough. And a deranged lunatic,

firebombed them, threw Molotov cocktails at them, lit them on fire. It was tragic at this point. It's a little past midnight Sunday night. What we know right now is five people are reported to be injured, two with very serious injuries. And this is, sadly, the face of the angry anti-American left and the angry anti-Israel left. They are violent, and far too often they are committing acts of

enormous violence, and even murder. And this pattern, the media apologizes for them, whitewashes what they do, covers up for them, but Verdict is not going to do that. We're going to give you the facts. We also have

in Russia and Ukraine, an extraordinary moment. Ukraine strikes back. Ukraine launched an audacious drone attack on Russia. They took out more than 40 Russian bombers deep inside Russian territory. It was an attack that was meticulously panned out. It is similar

to Israel's attack on Hezbollah with the pagers, and that it took enormous preparation to carry out, and it was remarkably effective. Hopefully this attack will accelerate ending the war in Ukraine, and it may bring Russia to the bargaining table to say enough is enough.

Yeah, and that may, like you said, be one of the silver linings of this attack. And it took a long time for them to plan it in preparation for it. We'll give you those details as well in a moment. Let me tell you real quick about Patriot Mobile. You've heard me talk about Patriot Mobile for a while. And you probably already know that for years they've stood in the gap for every American that believes that freedom is actually worth fighting for.

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All right, Senator, let's talk about the two narratives coming out of this attack in Colorado. There's many that are wanting this to just be some random attack and, you know, kind of move on. They don't want you to know the facts. They don't want you to know how the person got into this country. They don't want you to know who let him in this country. They don't want you to know he overstayed a visa. They don't want you to know he's an illegal immigrant. They don't want you to know that he was an anti-Israel individual that was killed.

trying to, or not trying, setting elderly Jewish individuals who do this walk every week to remember the hostages being held by Hamas. They do this every week and he deliberately was trying to set them on fire and kill them.

Well, and let's set the stage. This is in Boulder, Colorado. It was a weekly event called Run for Their Lives, and it was a weekly gathering of Jewish community leaders that was supporting the hostages that were taken on October 7th and calling for their release from Hamas. So it was a peaceful protest, but I'll tell you what people knew. People knew that at the time of this protest, there were going to be Jews there. There were going to be Jews who supported Israel.

And the hate of the anti-Israel left, the hate of the anti-America, anti-Israel left is so great that simply knowing that there are Jews who are present somewhere, sadly in those radical circles, it has proven to be an invitation to violence. And in this instance, the man threw multiple bottles filled with flammable liquids that hit the ground. They exploded in flames.

and burned multiple people. Now, you and I are describing this just after midnight Sunday night, and so the event is incredibly recent. So I want to give a caveat that inevitably when you have a bad event, there is a fog of war. Some of the facts that are being reported today will prove less than accurate. But on the face of this, it is obviously a terror attack. It is not complicated to figure out who the targets were.

And yet I got to say, I want you to listen. And the FBI, to their credit, said right from the beginning, this is a targeted terror attack because they actually are not ostriches with their heads plunged into the sand. I want you to contrast this with the words of the Boulder police chief, which if the topic weren't so serious, they almost sound like a Saturday Night Live skit. Give a listen.

Was an actual protest going on when this occurred? Were a group of people gathered and were words said that would indicate this had anything at all to do with that protest? So what I will tell you on Pearl Street, it's a walking pedestrian mall downtown here. There was a lot of people out. A very beautiful day. There was a group of pro-Israel people that were there in a peaceful demonstration. I wouldn't even call it a protest. I believe that happens frequently down here.

They were there in that area. We are looking and actively interviewing victims and witnesses to determine if that group was targeted or others. And we just don't have those answers yet. Those are things we hope to be able to provide you later this evening. FBI is already calling it a targeted terror attack. Would you also refer to it as a terror attack? So I've been in contact with our local FBI multiple times. We are in contact with them here. We are not calling it a terror attack at this point. Again, it's way too early to speculate motive.

I know there's a lot out there on social media, but I ask people just to give us a little bit of patience while we work through a really complex scene. A lot of witnesses were here. We've taken them to another location to debrief them and interview them. As we do that, I think the picture will become more clear, but it would be irresponsible for me to speculate on motive this early on. We're only a couple hours into this thing. I'll go right here.

How about the suspect? Can you put here the description of him? Because we know any picture running in social media. I haven't seen it, and obviously I wasn't here when he was arrested. All I know is it's an adult male. We're working to identify that person. We're working to figure out where they're from, and we're in contact with our federal partners as well as we figure that out.

It is amazing to hear the Boulder police chief put it this way and clearly doing it saying the FBI is the one that's overreacting, calling this a terrorist attack. Clearly, I'm not going with those guys over there. Kash Patel and Bongino have come out very early on and saying, quote, it wouldn't be helpful, implying the FBI is like amateur hour at this moment. Yeah, look, this sadly is woke politics. If you have...

Jews who are standing and protesting in favor of hostages in Israel take in in October 7th, a weekly recurring event where everyone knows. And by the way, this police chief knows there is vicious terrorism and anti-Semitism directed at Jews, directed at supporters of Israel and Jews.

They threw Molotov cocktails on them. This is not subtle. This is not someone tripped and accidentally hit them. This is not a random drive-by shooting of two gangs were shooting at each other and a stray bullet hit someone. I mean, this is multiple Molotov cocktails directed at a very specific, concrete group of people. And so the FBI...

is obviously right in calling it terrorism. I mean, this same knucklehead, by the way, it reminded me of at the tail end of the Biden administration when you had the deranged radical Islamic terrorists drive a car into a crowd in New Orleans. He was flying an ISIS flag.

And yet the local FBI person there said, well, we don't know that it's terrorism. You know what? If a guy drives a Jeep with an ISIS flag into a crowd and murders people, it's terrorism. You don't need a deep, subtle analysis to tell. And let me give you another fact that miraculously the corporate media is omitting. Bill Malugin, the very best reporter at Fox, he reported tonight, quote, breaking news.

Three senior DHS sources tell Fox News that the Boulder terror suspect is an Egyptian national in the U.S. illegally as a visa overstay who entered the U.S. during the Biden administration. I'm told Mohammed Sabre Soliman arrived at LAX on 8-27-22 on a B1-B2 non-immigrant visa

with an authorized stay through 2-26-23. But he overstayed and never left. I'm told on 9-29-22, he filed some sort of claim with USCIS, potentially an asylum claim. And on 3-29-23, USCIS under Biden gave him work authorization to

which expired on 3-28-25. Understand, assuming this reporting is right...

This guy was an illegal immigrant who came from Egypt. He overstayed his visa, which made him illegal. And the Biden administration allowed him to stay. They allowed someone to stay who now is charged with and appears to have committed throwing Molotov cocktails at peaceful Jewish protesters standing up for hostages. It's also been reported one of the victims of this firebombing

was a Holocaust survivor. This is the consequence of Joe Biden and the Democrats open borders when you let terrorists into the country. Shockingly, they commit acts of terrorism. There's also another aspect of this that the media is refusing to touch, and that is the age of the people that were targeted by this individual. They were elderly. They were doing this every week. They were committed terrorists.

to not forgetting those that are being held hostage right now. You just mentioned one of the Holocaust survivors being reported. And yet the media doesn't want to talk about how barbaric the attack is, that these are senior citizens, 70s and 80s, who were targeted because they were obviously easier to target because of their age. Well, and listen, in the last two months,

We've seen elderly Jewish protesters firebombed with Molotov cocktails. We've seen a young Jewish couple executed, leaving a Jewish museum in D.C. And as we talked about in a prior podcast, that couple had publicly said they met in

at an event where I was speaking. I don't believe I had met that young couple, but it reduced me to tears that they came to an event where I was giving a speech on foreign policy, and that's where the two of them met and got engaged, and tragically they were murdered by a radical leftist who hates Israel, who hates Jews, and hates America, and gunned them down. And also within the last two months we had yet another radical

who tried to burn down the home of the governor of Pennsylvania, who is Jewish, with him and his family inside. These are multiple acts of grotesque violence directed at Jews, directed at Israel, and the corporate media will not cover it. And in fact, they treat it as, oh, isn't this cute?

When you have people at Harvard or MIT or Columbia calling for intifada. Well, the intifada is here. This is intifada. This is murdering people because they are Jews on the streets.

That is intifada, and we saw this last week, commencement speeches at both Harvard and MIT. People give radical anti-Israel screeds because, sadly, our universities have welcomed and nurtured this incredible evil.

Let's talk about also the response here from the administration. And you look at just how quickly you had clarity from those that are in charge. Kash Patel coming out and looking again at the facts. And the FBI director just straight up put it out there saying, we are aware of and fully investigating a targeted terror attack in Boulder, Colorado.

Our agents and local law enforcement are on the scene already, and we will share updates as more information becomes available. He was short...

in his words, but letting it know this is a targeted terror attack. You move a couple hours ahead. Dan Bongino, he comes out and says, our leadership team on the ground in Boulder will be updating you shortly on the attack in Boulder. This act of terror is being investigated as an act of ideologically motivated violence based on the early information, the evidence, and witness accounts. We will speak clearly on these incidents when the facts warrant it. I

I find great peace in knowing that we finally have two individuals here that are saying, we're not playing politics. We're going to tell you the truth. Look, everyone knows what this is. It's not complicated. And there are times, there's times when a crime occurs.

And you don't know why. I mean, sometimes someone's randomly shot on the street and it could be a crime of passion. It could be a lover's quarrel. It could be a robbery gone awry. It could be a totally crazy person like there are all sorts of there are crimes where it is difficult to ascertain what happened and you need to have an investigation. And that's true at every instance. But but there are also crimes that are on the face of this.

Anybody who's not a blithering idiot knows what this is. If you have elderly Jewish people walking along, holding signs saying, free the hostages in Gaza, and someone who is an illegal immigrant from Egypt throws a Molotov cocktail at them, or multiple Molotov cocktails at them, and lights them on fire, that is not subtle. That doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out what's going on there. When you have, just two weeks ago...

Two Jewish people walking out of a Jewish museum in D.C. and you have a radical leftist who screams free, free Palestine and guns them down, emptying the magazine into them, firing shots over and over and over again and murdering them on the streets. That is not subtle or complicated. It is straightforward. And those who seek to deny it.

and say, no, no, no, this is not Intifada, this is not anti-Semitic, this is not targeted terrorism, this, we don't know what this is. They're lying to you. They know. It's not that they don't know. It's that they don't want to say it because acknowledging what it is conflicts with their political ideology and their political agenda. And sadly, that is true for the

overwhelming majority of the corporate media. You and I have also talked about this, and this brings in another aspect of this conversation. And it's the one that concerns me honestly the most is

And that is how many people came into this country during the last administration. Yes, yes, yes. That are terrorists. This was a terrorist that the last administration not only let in, but then allowed them to overstay and then rewarded them with the ability to take a job while here planning this type of attack. I am terrified of how many other terrorists we may be harboring right now that they let in. How concerned are you now seeing this play out the way it is? Deep.

deeply, deeply concerned. I think the odds are overwhelming that there is more to come. You know, I got to say, during the Biden administration, you had Christopher Wray as the head of the FBI. I've known Chris for over 25 years. Chris, I think, made a lot of mistakes as head of the FBI. I do not think he had a good tenure. But

But the one thing he did do is he repeatedly went before Congress, particularly the last two years, and tried to ring the alarm, tried to scream from the mountaintops, saying our risks of a terror attack right now are higher than they've ever been. These open borders, Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad,

we are inviting terrorists into this country and Americans are going to die because of it. That is tragically true. The Trump administration, I think, is doing a heroic job tracking down and trying to find these guys. But when you have over 12 million people that Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and all the congressional Democrats invited into this country, you can't turn that around overnight. That takes time. And the risks are that we will see

Unfortunately, more terror attacks in the weeks and months to come as a result of the Democrats open borders the last four years. Final question. Will there ever be accountability for those that willingly allowed this to happen in the Biden administration or Mayorkas? I mean, I go back to the famous quote.

from him when he said the border is secure the border is secure we've all heard a million times that was a lie then it's a lie now this is what was coming in will there be any accountability or is it just hey that's what they did and it is what it is look I hope so Mayorkas may be the most dishonest individual to have ever served in the United States cabinet

He routinely lied. He lied before Congress. He lied before the American people. He'd go on TV every day and lie. It's actually a close battle between him and Corrine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, who also, she actually embodies the opposite of a backhanded compliment. Years ago, when Bill Clinton was president, a backhanded compliment was said of him that he's an unusually good liar. That probably was true.

Well, I got to say, Karine Jean-Pierre and Alejandro Mayorkas are unusually bad liars.

And sadly, it didn't stop them from lying. They lied constantly. Every time they opened their mouths, they lied. But they were so bad at it that everyone knew they were lying. Even their cheerleaders knew they were lying. When Karine Jean-Pierre said, people aren't walking across the border. It's simply not happening. That doesn't happen. Everybody who had ever opened their eyes and turned on the television for 10 seconds knew that that was a lie. She knew that that was a lie. Every reporter in the room knew that was a lie. Then again...

The reporters at ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, New York Times, they did not report that it was a lie. The same is true with Alejandro Mayorkas. This was brazen. Understand the presence...

of terrorists, the presence of murderers and rapists and child molesters and Venezuelan gang members in this country. It is not accident. It is not unintentional. It is the intended result of the Democrats' open borders. Now, it's not that they sat around saying, we want more terrorists. It's that they said...

All we care about is politics. If we let 12 million people here illegally, they will become Democrats, they will vote Democrat, they will register illegally, they will keep us in power. And so if the price for Democrats to stay in power is more Americans being murdered, more women being raped, more children being brutalized, more terrorists committing acts of terror, I'm sorry to say the Democrats were more than happy to take that exchange.

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I want to move to the other big story, and that is Ukraine claims a

drone strike on Russia and all across literally the country from one side, the other. They were hitting sites of Russian bombers in what was called a spider web operation. I want to make sure, though, that people understand this was a response to an attack that

that took place at the hands of Russia and Putin that Donald Trump referred to him as a crazy man afterwards. So let's give the background before we explain what happened.

Well, listen, the war has been ongoing for more than two years now. There's been massive casualties on both sides. Russia is the aggressor. Russia is the wrongdoer. Putin invaded Ukraine or another sovereign nation. Putin did so because Joe Biden was so incredibly weak because he was an ineffective commander in chief. Putin did so because Joe Biden was...

waived the sanctions on Nord Stream 2, the pipeline that was designed to move natural gas directly from Russia to Germany. I authored those sanctions. I passed them into law. And President Trump signed my sanctions legislation into law. Putin shut down Nord Stream 2 literally the day

Trump signed my sanctions legislation into law. Biden waived those sanctions and Putin completed the pipeline and almost immediately invaded Ukraine. So the war has been ongoing and it is the cause. The cause of it is Biden's weakness. Well, what happened today, Ukraine, you know, I'll tell you at the start of the war, I remember sitting in a classified briefing.

And it was a classified briefing with all 100 senators. And we had in that briefing with the Secretary of State, with the Secretary of Defense, with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with the head of the CIA, the Director of National Intelligence. We had multiple players throughout the national security apparatus. This is all during the Biden administration. Every single one of them briefed all of the senators. They said this war will be over within a week. Right.

Russia will sweep in, they'll conquer the whole country, Ukraine will fall, and within a week, Kyiv will be a Russian city. Now, that intel, that national security assessment, Ben, it wasn't slightly wrong. It wasn't a teeny bit wrong. It was totally, catastrophically, 180 degrees false. We're sitting here more than two years later, the war is ongoing, and the Ukrainians keep shocking both the Russians...

and the American analysts who insist that they must lose, they must lose. This latest strike, it truly is audacious. So the Ukrainians hit more than 40 Russian bombers inside Russian territory. And it was a total of 41 strategic Russian aircraft. The name of the operation was Spiderweb. And you can see online, there's a video.

showing a drone attack at the Belaya Air Base in Russia's Irkutsk region, which is in Siberia, nearly 3,000 miles away from Ukraine. So understand, this happened not by Ukraine, but 3,000 miles away. And the bombers, they're under attack. There are explosions. Smoke is rising from the scene.

And one source said, quote, preliminary estimates indicate that enemy aviation has suffered over $2 billion in damage. Enemy strategic bombers are burning en masse in Russia. That is a major attack. It is an extraordinary attack. Now, that follows the night before Russia launched 472 drones, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.

Earlier on Sunday, Ukraine's army said a Russian missile strike killed at least 12 Ukrainian service members and injured 60. So Russia has been very much the aggressor. But this attack, taking out major aircraft resources from Russia, is a big victory for Ukraine.

It is a big, big victory. There are obviously worried individuals, especially in that part of the world, that Russia will then now retaliate in some massive way and then therefore blaming Ukraine, saying you should not have done this attack.

that took them a long time to plan strategically. I want to get your response to that, because there does seem to be quite often that when Ukraine does something, the narrative becomes, well, they're the ones that are bringing us to the brink of World War Three, because now Russia is going to respond. And it's actually their fault that they went over the top on this one.

Yeah, look, Russia has been the aggressor from the beginning. Ukraine is defending itself. I want to break down how they carry this out, because it's actually this is the stuff of spy novels. You know, we talked about when Israel struck back against Hezbollah with with first the pagers and then with the walkie talkies. That was an extraordinary story.

This has similar aspects. It's like something out of Mission Impossible of the Bourne Identity. And let me read from, it's a story in Reuters, the specific facts. Here's what Reuters reported. To attack Russian air bases, Ukrainian spies hid drones in wooden sheds.

Ukrainian secret services were able to attack strategic bomber aircraft at Russian air bases on Sunday by hiding explosive-laden drones inside the roofs of wooden sheds, according to a Ukrainian security official. Ukraine's domestic security agency, the SBU, acknowledged that it carried out the operation, codenamed Spider's Web, and said it had caused considerable damage. The sheds were loaded onto trucks.

that were driven to the perimeter of the air bases. The roof panels of the sheds were lifted off by a remotely activated mechanism, allowing the drones to fly out and begin their attack, the officials said. The security official, who spoke on conditions of anonymity, said the strikes conducted on Sunday were on four air bases and that 41 Russian warplanes were hit.

An SBU statement posted on the Telegram messaging app estimated the damages caused by the assault at $7 billion. And here's a quote. 34% of strategic cruise missile carriers at the main airfields of the Russian Federation were hit. Wow.

That is remarkable. And it is the fact that they could carry it out in wooden sheds that they could smuggle right next to the Russian airfields. That's a significant tactical and strategic victory.

So when you look at this, what is the best case scenario for this attack? Does it make Russia realize, A, they're vulnerable, and B, maybe we need to go back to the table? Because as you heard President Trump say, he said Putin was crazy last week, a crazy man, and refusing to actually stop this war. Instead, he went on this big attack in Ukraine. Ukraine respawns.

Yeah, look, I think President Trump is deeply frustrated with Vladimir Putin right now. President Trump wants this war to end. I believe this war will end. It will end this year. And one of the reasons it's going to end is I think the United States Congress is done sending money to Ukraine.

that at this point we have sent over $100 billion, enough is enough, this war needs to end. So the blank checkbook that Joe Biden and the Democrats gave, that blank checkbook is done. Now, what I believe is it needs to end in a negotiated settlement, and it should end in a way that is a clear and objectively discernible loss for Russia. Putin is our enemy. Russia is our enemy. And we want...

We want our enemies to be weaker and not stronger. How this ends exactly, it's going to depend on Zelensky and Putin. Zelensky right now,

doesn't want to negotiate a peace. He's looking to fight and defend his country. I understand that. He just doesn't have an entitlement for us to pay for it. Putin, Putin right now, Trump believed that if he leaned in, Putin would agree to come to the table and seek terms of peace. At least so far he hasn't. It is possible this devastating strike on Russia will change Russia's calculus. That being said, look, one of the dangerous things about fighting a dictatorship is

is that Putin can inflict enormous pain and misery on the Russian citizenry and still stay in power. So I don't know how this resolves. I believe it will resolve at the end of the day. But right now, Putin and Zelensky both seem like they want to keep fighting.

Yeah, we're going to keep you updated on it. That I can promise you. Don't forget, we do this show Monday, Wednesday and Friday. So hit that subscribe or auto download button. Please share this podcast, especially if you would on social media. It helps us reach new listeners. And the senator and I will see you back here Wednesday morning.

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