Welcome in as Verdic with Center, Ted Kruz Ben Ferguson with you.

And there are certain shows when we get ready and we're getting everything in line before the show, you just say, yeah, this is an important one.

We've got two big topics we're going to be talking about, including the big backfire by Democrats.

Yeah.

So today is day six of the Schumer shutdown, and I got to say it is not going well for Democrats.

Democrats are panicking.

The American people recognize that they have shut the government down in an act of petulance, in an act of Chuck Schumer trying to cover his left wing with the crazy activists and his party and the Democrats don't have it out, and it's not going well.

The American people get the joke.

We're going to break that down and tell you how this is going to end, and it is going to end, and spoiler alert, it's going to end with complete and total capitulation from the Democrats, which is part of why Schumer and the Democrats are panicking because they don't see an alternative to that.

Secondly, we're going to talk about a story from this past week that, to be honest, just pisses me off, really made me angry when it broke.

Which is the deranged killer who went from California to Maryland to murder Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

He was sentenced this WEEKDJ sought thirty years for an attempted murderer of a Supreme Court justice, a very reasonable sentence.

A Biden left wing judge instead deviated downwards twenty two years, sentenced him to just eight years.

Why because the murderer is transgender, and so it's okay apparently from the left wing's view, if you are trying to assassinate a sitting Supreme Court justice, if you happen to be transgender, there woke politics trumps any sense of law and order or justice.

It's an outrageous story.

We're going to give you all the details.

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Josh, this next one is incredibly sad, and I want you to talk about the father that was involved with a shooting.

Absolutely so.

In this particular case, sixteen year old girl was coming home late one night, about three am in the morning, entering through the garage.

Unfortunately, the father hears the noise in the garage, grabts his gun, goes out there, sees a dark figure walking through the garage, points that gun fires only that point, realizing that he had just killed his sixteen year old daughter.

This is an illustration of where guns in homes, if not used properly, can have dire dire consequences.

In this case, one bullet killed two lives and the lives of many others in that family.

It was incredibly tragic and unfortunately we see this situation dozens and dozens of times every year throughout the US.

Yeah, that's one of the questions that I think some people ask us, like, is this just a one off occurrence?

It would never happen to me.

Unfortunately, as you mentioned, this happens a lot more often than people realize.

Absolutely.

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All right, so, Senator, let's take a moment and update people on where we are with this government shut down.

I was literally at church on Sunday and I had countless people walk up and they're like, dude, how long is this going to last?

When's this going to end?

Is this going to be a really long term shutdown or is this going to be something that's going to get resolved pretty quickly.

So let's talk about you and Washington.

Last week there were votes and movement, but it did not move enough to make the government go back to actually working for the American people.

When you left EC, what was a temperature and you said, now, Democrats, you feel like are actually freaking out.

Yeah.

Look, I and every other Republican has voted repeatedly to open up the government.

The House of Representatives has passed a clean CR a clean continuing resolution that keeps the government open, and it's the Democrats who keep voting it down.

And we're going to this week, We're going to be back in.

We'll be in Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, maybe Friday.

Every day we will vote to open the government.

Right now.

If the Democrats don't change, every day, the Democrats will vote to keep the government shut down.

And the challenge is they don't have an off ramp that they're trying to make up all sorts of things to say, we're going to shut the government down because.

Of X, because of Y.

They're claiming it's all about that they really, really, really want to give health care to illeial aliens.

Actually, ironically, they're not claiming that that's in the language of the bill they keep voting for.

So every Democrat keeps voting for a bill that would provide government provided health care for illegals, and then they're going on TV saying what us, No, no, no, we don't want health care for illegals.

Who's ever heard of such a thing?

That's not possibly what we want.

So there's a level of incoherence in terms of what they're ask is.

But there's a reason for that.

They don't actually.

Have a real ask.

What they have is a political problem for Chuck Schumer.

When he last kept the government open, he came very close to losing his job.

The radical left wing rose up, they were furious.

I got to say, Bennett is astonishing.

Every single Democrat Senate candidate in the country who has been asked, do you support Chuck Schumer to remain the Democrat leader in the Senate?

Not one, not a single incumbent, not a single challenger has said yep, he's our leader.

They're all running terrified.

And so you want to know why there's a shutdown because Schumer needs to beat his chest.

Now, at some point he'll stop beating his chest and the government will reopen.

But just this week, CBS did a poll and I got to say, the Democrats' numbers are near an all time low.

The democrats favorability rating is at thirty four percent, sixty six percent unfavorable, and it really is striking.

So CBS, now this is not a right wing poll, this is CBS.

CBS asked what words describe the Democrat Party?

What do you think the number one word was.

I'm going to guess it wasn't like inspirational, like hope and change.

Back in the day when Obama is around week there you go.

Week week was sixty four percent of Americans polled said the Democrat Party is weak.

What do you think the number two word was, I'm going to go with not strong, extreme forty six percent set extreme, so we can extreme are the top two words.

Now after that, you've got reasonable, reasonable is it forty four percent?

Strong?

You actually asked about strong, what percent do you think, say the Democrat Party is strong?

I mean, if I had a guess, I'd say thirty five percent.

Twenty seven.

Wow, so even lower than I thought, because thirty five was not like a good number.

By the way, and by the way, effective, What percent do you think say the Democrat Party is effective?

I'm going to say if based on what you just said a moment ago, twenty.

Five percent, twenty six There you go.

Okay, go, So all right, think for a minute.

You are running the Democrat Party Senate campaign, the Democrat Party House campaign.

Your message right now?

Two thirds of Americans think we're weak.

Half of Americans think we're extreme.

We've got a full quarter of Americans who think we're strong and effective.

So we're telling you quarter of Americans we are strong and effective.

Everyone else, you know, we're full of crap.

That is the definition of a political crisis.

You want to know why my colleagues are nervous.

Look, I this past week I sent out a meme.

So you may have seen, in fact, I know you've seen.

Ben President Trump sent out a meme of a Keem Jeffries wearing a sombrero with a big handlebar mustache.

By by the way so good and hilarious and just funny and people need to calm down.

But of course Democrats start screaming racism right away.

Look it was funniest crap.

It was AI.

So it had Chuck Schumer saying, all right, nobody's voting for Democrats because they know our bs.

But I have to admit I doubled over laughing, and look, it's obviously AI.

Nobody thinks.

The real Yeah, it's Schumer actually said we the Democrats are are full of crap, Like it's obvious they're lying.

But what people have gone nuts about is a Keem Jeffries is there.

They're saying, Okay, nobody votes for us.

Everyone hates us.

So we've decided to go all in on free healthcare, free illegals because maybe the illegals, they don't speak English, so maybe they'll support us at least for a while, so they discover how horrible we are, and then they won't support us either.

That's a paraphrase of what Schumer says in the video.

And you have a Keem Jeffries at a sumber and a big mustachio next to them, and I have to admit, my team we took a video.

There are forty four Democrats who keep voting to shut the government down.

So we took pictures of all forty four of those Democrat senators and we used a little bit of AI and we stuck sombreros and big old mustaches on them, and we put it out, and we put it out.

Actually, I want to play the tune, and we're not going to play the whole thing, but I want to play the tune that we put it out to because it's it's very neutral and non political.

Give a listen to the song that we put out.

And mind you, while you're listening to this song, you have a cascade of forty four Democrat senators with sombreros and big handlebar mustaches.

Give a listener.

And November, Count Tho is never gonna be me, And November's gonna make the goodry better than you can remember.

Count Moo is never gonna be me.

In November.

When the inside do the Magarino shake it Up Montreila campaign.

Now they all love me because.

I'm Dante and never going American wants me.

Votes for me, don't just be on himself the ferred tum this sweep.

Votes for me, don't just be on himself.

The ferre dumbness sweep como is never gonna be me and no gonna make the goodry better than you can remember.

All right.

I gotta say you know that Donald Trump loves this kind of stuff.

I cannot wait to see what he says to you when you guys hang out next.

Uh oh, look, it's hysterical and you gotta envision if if you haven't watched it online.

While the song is playing, we just got image after image of Democrats.

So we have Chris van Holland sitting down with the m S thirteen having a dakery with a giant sombrero and a heinelbar mustache.

We just just have fun with it.

By the way, I will say the Macarena so as you know, my communications director's named Makarena Martinez.

She's fantastic, really really good.

But I was talking to like several of the young staffers in my office and I said, you know, there's only one member of our staff who has been the title of a number one song worldwide, and like the twenty two year olds in my office had no idea what I.

Was talking about.

Isn't then amazing?

You're aging us right now.

Yeah, like it's it's for all of so this pod has a lot of younger listeners.

There was a song what twenty years ago, twenty five, long time again, long longer than that maybe, Yeah, that was the makarena, and there there was a dance.

I will say, if you've never seen it, there's an image you don't want to see of Hillary Clinton dancing the macarena and it is just it will it will make you feel like the gift of Homer Simpson wanting to pour bleach in your eyes.

You do not want to see Hillary.

Trust me, do not google Hillary Clinton dancing the macarena.

You will never be the same.

That was that at the Democratic Convention.

I'm having a flashback right now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't remember trying to be cool right and it just completely backfired.

It was horrible.

Now, I will tell you.

When I sent out this this video of all the Democrats, Tim Kane, Democrat from Virginia, who Tim and I are friends, but he like popped me back on Twitter.

He's like, hey, did you buy those sombreros and can kun, which I was.

I immediately responded yes I did.

And by the way, Tim instead of making m dumb jokes about can kun, how about we reopened the government since half of your friggin state Virginia works for the government and you've taken away all their paychecks and and he didn't like that.

So I will say on the Senate floor, I was giving Tim a little bit of grief for that, and he was kind of He's like, did you like my cancun joke?

And I'm like, yeah, but I'd like it better if you opened the government.

If you opened the government, So all right, look into your crystal ball based on what DC was like in the mood when you laugh and going back in there on Monday, do you think that we will get the government reopened this week or do you think that Schumer does still dig in Now?

I think they cave this week, And I want to play for you.

So last week Schumer was on the Senate floor, and I want to paint the picture.

He's giving a speech for one of the multiple times the Democrats are voting to shut the government down, and they know the polling is going terribly and so Schumer got up and his line he said, well, okay, they're polls that Republicans are talking about but those are biased Republican polls.

And he says, well, it's the New York Times, but it's biased.

And I got to say.

I was standing ten feet away from Schumer, and I and every other Republican just cracked up laughing because he's like claiming the New York Time is a biased right wing publication, and it was spontaneous.

We did not organize this.

We just like doubled over laughing, and Schumer he stammered, he stopped.

He's like, uh uh, well, I mean it was Look who knew Schumer could be so funny.

I want you to play The video is better, but I want you to play the audio Schumer saying this and the spontaneous reaction appeals of laughter on the Senate floor.

Now I want to know the leader is going to show a poll that says that Democrats will be blamed for the shutdown.

There are many more polls that show Republicans are blamed.

The question in that poll is biased, biased in the New York Times, but it's biased.

If you turned the court, that's true.

I don't always believe the New York Times.

You can be sure of that.

Neither do you.

Okay, it's amazing, by the way, like you're here and there.

It's kind of like he realized he stepped in it.

And even if he really was, like I'm standing ten feet from him and all of us wet.

Like, okay, the microphone on the Senate floor, when you're speaking, you have a little microphone on your lapel.

Nobody else's micd That gives you a sense of how loud the laughter was that that's all coming through Schumer's mic and we were just doubled over laughing.

And you watch his expression, He's like, oh, oh, oh, wait, okay, okay, that's really dumb.

Oh crap, uh yeah, Okay.

The New York Times is a right wing biased publication.

Yeah, maybe that's not like.

This is why my prediction is the shutdown will end this week, because I think the Democrats, as much as Schumer feels he's in trouble with the left wing, I think a lot of the Democrats say, we're on fire, we don't have a win, this is not going well.

There's a combination of two things.

One, an awful lot of Americans the government shutdown, or they don't care it doesn't impact their lives.

That is the nightmare for any big government Democrat is if the government shuts down and nobody notices, and look, during government shutdown, eighty three percent of the government keeps functioning.

So the military functions, law enforcement functions, the FBI functions, border patrol functions, ice functions, so security, medicare, Medicaid, all of that function, The A benefits continue, and so it is a nightmare if your entire political career is built on telling the American people the most important thing in your life is the federal government.

If the government shuts down and everyone yawns and goes about their life, that's a disaster.

But a second disaster is to the extent people are focused.

So listen, if you're going to DC this week and you wanted to go to the Smithsonian and goes to see the Air and Space Museum, you can't because the Democrats shut down the Smithsonian.

They shut down Yellowstone National Park and all the national parks, and so people are going to get pissed off gradually over time.

But I think the vast majority of people are blaming the Democrats, saying why are they shutting this down?

And so I think the pressure on Schumer.

Look, look, Schumer is a little bit like a quark in a rushing river, where he's just responding to the pressures pushing him left and right.

So he's getting the pressures from the crazy left wingers that are saying shut it down forever because we hate Trump.

But I think a number of his members, particularly members who are on the ballot in twenty twenty six, are going to say, all right, enough of this nonsense, let's reopen the government.

My prediction is this week the Democrats give in.

I want to move to another topic that we mentioned earlier, and that is there is a lot of quiet outrage for people that have been paying attention to the Brett Kavanaugh assassination scandal.

You have a quote transgender man who planned to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh only receiving eight years for that crime.

There are a lot of people that are upset and angry about it.

I'm one of them.

I think you are as well, and somehow, I guess being transgender now has allows free to have less accountability for your actions.

Explain this one.

Yeah, I have to admit this story makes me incredibly angry.

When I saw it I read the news story this week, I was literally yelling out loud as I was reading my phone.

Heidi and I and our daughter Caroline.

We were in New York this weekend.

I was with a half dozen NYPD cops and I got admit I vented to the cops who were all pissed about this.

So, the man who planned to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Cavan on twenty twenty two, he flew from California to Maryland.

He arrived there, he had with him.

He had a knife, he had a gun, he had duct tape, he had zip ties, and he had planned to murder not just Brett Kavanaugh, but a total of three Supreme Court justices.

He was deranged, and he was caught on the street right outside Justice Kavanaugh's home.

And by the way, he was also threatening Justice Kavanaugh's wife and their two daughters.

Well, this guy was prosecuted quite rightily, and the Department of Justice asked for thirty years, which is a pretty reasonable sentence for someone trying to kill a Supreme Court justice.

Well, this left wing judge, her name is Deborah Boardman.

She's a Joe Biden appointee to the Maryland Federal Court.

She made a twenty two year downward departure.

So instead of thirty years.

She sentenced him to eight years, and her reasoning was essentially, instead of thirty years, you get eight Why because you're transgender.

Here's what Judge Boardman said, quote, under the law, I must consider the sentencing guidelines.

The guidelines in this case are three hundred and sixty months to life.

It's important to understand the Spring Court stands on guidelines.

They used to be mandatory, but in a case called Booker, the Supreme Court held they were advisory.

The judge acknowledge that quote this case did involve domestic terrorism, but she undid most of the terrorism enhancement created by the Sentencing Commission and said, quote, I have not seen evidence that the sentencing Commission relied on evidence that it would reduce recidivism.

The sentencing took more than seven hours, and she discussed at length her justification for the light sentence.

Here's what she said, Miss Rosky, of course she calls the man a woman because she's a leftist.

Miss Roski came out to herself, to herself like this is a private like just to the quiet night, I've decided I'm a woman.

Mis Rosky came out to herself as transgender.

In twenty twenty kept it a secret.

Miss Roski's sister came out as gay two years prior, but miss Rosky saw their parents struggle to recognize her sexuality with their religious beliefs.

By the way it is, it is not subtle or implied.

The judge thinks.

Religious beliefs on this are horrible and terrible, and you are bad if you have religious beliefs concerning sexuality.

The judge continues, quote, I am heartened that this terrible infraction has helped the Roski family accept their daughter, by which she means Nicholas Rosky for who she is.

So you have someone attempting to murder as sitting Supreme Court justice, and the federal district judge who's sentencing the attempted murderer says, I'm heartened.

The great thing about this is the parents are now accepting of their psychopathic, murderous son that thinks he's a daughter.

The mother of the murderer told the judge on Friday that quote, I have attended p flag meetings and learned about the LGBTQ plus community.

I am committed to going on this journey with Sophie, by which she means her son Nicholas, she was frustrated with what was going on in the world, and we weren't a safe place to process it.

And by the way, the Daily Wire in their story, the next sentence says, as his mother wept, Nicholas Rosky also choked up his Adam's apple, bobbing up and down.

Now here's what the judge continued saying.

Quote, any prison time is punishment for her.

The length doesn't need to be particularly long.

Unduly harsh conditions make a difference too.

She will be.

Imprisoned in a male facility even though she is a transgender prisoner, pursuant to an executive order from the President.

Before the executive order, that wasn't the case.

In other words, this judge really wanted to send this dude to a woman's prison, where, after attempting to murder a sitting Supreme Court justice, he could assault women who were incarcerated.

This is I want to be clear, this is lunacy.

This is nuts.

I have to admit.

I literally yelled and cursed out loud.

Listen.

Number one, Brett Kavanaugh's a friend.

I've literally known Brett Kavanaugh for thirty years.

His wife Ashley, Heidi and I were with Ashley on the two thousand George W.

Bush campaign.

She's a West Texas girl.

She's a wonderful woman.

They have two daughters who went through an utter nightmare going through his confirmation hearing.

Night after night after night.

The Kavanaugh House, along with the house of every Supreme Court justice, had angry, violent left wing protesters out front, screaming, violating federal law.

It is a crime to protest at the home of a justice seeking to change the decision of an opinion, and yet the Biden Justice Department refused to enforce that law.

They would not prosecute those felonies, and the heated rhetoric.

Look, this is very much like what we're seeing with Ice, where Democrat rhetoric gets the lunatics and their party energized to go commit crimes of violence.

I want to be clear, violence is never, ever, ever justified.

So I'm not advocating violence against any Democrat.

I'm not advocating violence again any left wing judges or justices.

Violence is wrong, And by the way, when it comes to politically motivated violence, it is almost exclusively a left wing phenomenon.

Look, when George Floyd died, we saw riots and American cities on fire being burned to the ground.

We saw police cars being firebomb We saw people being murdered when Charlie Kirk was murdered.

We saw prayer vigils across the countries.

People went went out and lit candles and prayed and sang together.

And we did see violence, but not from the people supporting Charlie Kirk.

Instead from the same the same left wing violent activists who were attacking the people in prayer vigils.

There is a difference.

And and and I have to say this judge, this judge is demonstrated she is utterly unfit to be a federal judge.

I think the House of Representatives should seriously contemplate in peaching this judge.

And and I don't way does that happen for what you're describing right now, because everybody listening is to me, like a hold on a second.

If this is the case, then why don't we do it?

Does it happen?

How many votes do you need to do it?

How does that work?

Yeah, it's happened a number of times.

There and multiple federal judges who've been impeached and removed from office.

Typically they are impeached after committing a crime, something like committing accepting bribes.

So Alsei Hastings, for example, was a federal judge who was convicted of accepting bribes as a judge, he was removed from office.

And then he turned around and ran for Congress as a Democrat and got elected as a congressman.

So he was a Democrat congressman who had been impeached and removed from office for being a federal judge taking bribes.

So that I'm going to let you draw all the inferences you want.

Those facts are objective.

It is not easy to impeach a judge, although under the Constitution, to impeach a judge it takes a majority vote in the House of Representatives.

And I actually think in this instance, a judge who thinks someone trying to murder a Supreme Court justice because he disagrees with a decision the Supreme Court justice is rendering that is a fundamental assault on our judicial system, on the rule of law, on the basic protection of rights all of us have.

And if you are such a zealot, such a partisan ideologue, that you will not follow the sentencing guidelines, you will not acknowledge this is terrorism, and instead you say, you know what, this person's transgender.

And my ideology is such that I love transgenders, and so instead of thirty years, I'm going to give this person eight years.

And by the way, I really think this man should be in a woman's prison.

But that mean mean president won't let me do that, I believe.

And I don't know this woman at all.

I don't know this judge, but just how she conducted herself in this proceeding to me, demonstrates she is completely unfit to be a federal judge.

I would urge the House Representatives take up impeachment and I would love to have a trial in the Senate.

Do we want judges who refuse to enforce the criminal law for psychopathic murderers who are trying to Supreme court justices.

I think the obvious anstion does tell you this.

No Democrat wants to defend the other side.

Well, and look, it's not brand with the American people right now.

They want law and order.

They want law and order, and they want justice when the bad guys are caught, which is there seems to be a pendulum switch that's happening right now, Thank goodness, in this country on that.

I think that's right.

The American people are second sick and tired of Democrats letting criminals go, letting violent murderers go, letting rapists go, letting pedophiles go.

They're sick and tired of the Democrats siding with illegal immigrants over the American people.

It's why we saw the election result in twenty twenty four.

But that being said, listen, the corporate media is all in twenty four hours a day trying to paint the Trump administration's efforts to keep our communities safe, to lock up bad guys, to apprehend and deport murderers and gang bangers and criminals.

What they're trying to say is they're deporting innocent moms who are harmless.

And the propaganda effort from the media and the Democrats, it is real, and it is dangerous, and if you're not paying close attention, it's easy to believe that propaganda.

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