World Cup Victory and FIFA Appeal

This is an IiHart podcast Guaranteed human. Welcome in is Verttic with Center Teed Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. It's nice to have you with us after a awesome Celebration of the United States of America with the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of this country. I love it. It was amazing. Senor, I know you were with family and friends. How was your fourth Well let me say I'm really proud to be now in our nation's two hundred and fifty first year We are the start of our second order millennium. And and you look back, this first two hundred and fifty years has been extraordinary. America has been, I believe the greatest country in the history of the world We have a lot to celebrate. on our Friday podcast, we did a deep dive into what makes America exceptional, what makes it extary And part of what we celebrate in the fourth of July is just the families that are the foundational building blocks of our nation. And so you know, Bad, I know you were with your family, with your kids, I was too U we had a great time. We had some We had some burgers and hot dogs. We watched watched fireworks and then we actually went and watched on TV The big fireworks show down in DC, the presresident's speech. I got to say it was the fireworks we watched were impressive in person But even more impressive was there was a massive thunderstorm And it was really quite striking looking at, we were looking at kind of little fireworks and then above it massive thunderbolts cracking through the sky and I joked to Heidi and the kids, although it was right. It's like, well, God's celebrating the two hundred fifty and his firework show is putting putting anything done by the hand of band to shame Do not if people didn't see your video that you posted of those fireworks, it I mean and I mean the ultimate fireworks of that lightning, you should go check it out on social because you actually put a video up there and it was you're almost understanding how cool it was Yeah and I just pulled out my phone and just filmed it because you could see the little bitty fireworks going off and then just the entire sky shaking as Thunder and lightning was cracking across. it was pretty spectacular being said. The DC fireworks display was something else. I mean, I guess they were saying it was the largest fireworks display in human history I gott to say I believe it. That thing went on for forty minutes and they just kept playing another song and another song. You know, the ordinance that was exploded, that was breathtaking. you know, it was fun seeing all those families They'd been rained out initially and they stayed there anyway and seeing those veterans, World War II veterans there. and especially seeing little kids. It was really fun to see the families They decided, let's go to DC. let's go to the mall Let's go cheer on our country. Let's watch fireworks and little kids after midnight, you know, five and six year olds just filled with joy and wonder and really justust celebrating America. That is a beautiful thing. I hope everyone listening. I hope you took the time Number one, to love on your family, to love on your kids, love on your spouse and your parents and those who you care for But number two to reflect what Why is it we lasted two hundred and fifty years? What is it that we've done that is different from other nations? This is a really good time to reflect, especially because We are here in a time of crisis. Look, you and I and the folks listening to this podcast, we love our country. But this is not a time of just kind of everything's hunky dory, nothing to worry about. Yppi Kae. There are massive threats facing America right now. We are facing an almost civil war of extreme radical activist views, much of that financed by foreign money that is trying to tear down everything that made America acceptal for the first two hundred and fifty years. We saw contrasting speeches between President Trump, and I think his reflection on American greatness was beautifully done But we saw before that, Comrade Mandami give a very different dark speech about his view of a communist and Islamist takeover of this country. and How many eers are going to determine which vision prevails Were you shocked by that speech because I watched the Mandani speech and for me, it was weird on two different points. One, it was just tone death. And I'm like, who really wants to hear this on the fourourth of July? That was the part that was just kind of shocking. I believe everything that he said in there he actually believes. I actually think he can't say in this country and thinks it's terrible and wants to completely dismantle it and turn into you know, Krad Mandania a communist country, I believe that part truly But but I I was trying to figure out like, Who is his audience? Is it those that suffer from Trump derangement syndrome? or was this more of a rallying cry? for other communists to come out of the woodworks and get involved in the Democratic Party because now this is the Democratic Party Yeah this was a call the young angry Communists, young angry leftists We are taking over the Democrat Party. We are taking over New York, we are taking over Colorado, We are taking over California. We are taking over the world. That was his message here. Give a listen to Mandami and what he had to say on the fourth of July. Yeah before we play that, I do want to also just take a moment and talk about how awesome the two hundred fiftieth anniversary is that we get to celebrate in America. It's a milestone that also is a time to reflect on the enduring relationship between the United States of America and Israel. They're our greatest ally. President John F. Kennedy once said Israel was not created in order to disappear Israel will endure and flourish. Now, those words they really capture the spirit of a young democracy determined to truly survive Two different nations, thousands of miles apart we are, yet we're united by the shared values of democracy, faith, freedom, and honestly resilience As America, and we fight against communism right now. We celebrate our two hundred and fifty years of independence The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, Well, they turn to God in prayer asking that his wisdom will guide elected officials and lead America and Israel to moral clarity and national unity. And that is where the really cool call to action comes in for you I When I go on TV, I wear a U S Israel flagpin. and so many have asked me about where can I get one? And I want to give you one for free right now All you have to do to get your free US Israeli flag pen is you can go online right now to flagpen Fcj. org That's flag pin IcJ. org flag pin IFcJ. org All right, I want to play for you what Senator Cruz mentioned a moment ago that this very dark, dark fourourth of July speech from Mandani, where by the way, his desk was backwards. If you didn't see that, it's hilarious. But here's Mandani in his own words Yes, we see America in a health insurance industry that exploits the sick But that is not all we see When we look for America. We see it too in the nurse who works a double shift and then stops on our way home to check on our ailing neighbor Yes, we see America in corporate landlords for whom negligence is a business model We see it too and the father who tucks his children into bed. beneath a ceiling stained with leeakks. who wakes before dawn to go to work. and still believes his country can do better by his family Yes, we see America, when we spend our tax dollars on bombs and bailouts, when we sell our elections for the highest bidder I mean that you hear that and it's like, wow, you really genuinely hate this country and it's scary what you want to do with it Well, and he's contrasting everything about America is bad, but then he says, you know, we care for the nurse, we care for the individual person. And this is the classic lie of the communist. the communist comes and says, we're for the little guy. We're for the poor, we're for the Dald Trump And yet what you have Every time you have communism, you get poverty and misery and suffering and death. You get more poor people. You get equality but you get a quality of misery and in fact, The only people that are not equal are the rulers. Iironically, you know, Mandami put out a decree, told told New Yorkers, turnurn your air conditioning up to seventy eight degrees because it's going to be hot this fourth of July And a watchdog group cave and checked on Mandami's offices. And of course, they were not up at seventy eight degrees. They were turned down to seventy two because what the communist decrees for you He never lived by his own rules You know, by the way, I was laughing. you were on vacation. I didn't send you the clip, but it exploded. I was on CNN on Abby Phips showh on Thursday night when they were celebrating Mandani saying to turn your your AC up to seventy eight. And and I I I just asked that, are you are you in favor of this? And they tried to, you know, like, yeah, well yeah, I was like, well, it's not seventy eight right now in this studio So so let's crank up I looked at everybody on set. all the liberals like, All right, let's crank it up in solidity with Mandani Like let's go to seventy eight and sweat. Let's go. If you guys are going to be all in favor this, why is it sixty seven in here right now instead of seventy eight? And it goes to the point you're making. They'll go on national TV and say that he's a hero for saying this, but they wouldn't even in New York City. We were in New York City. They would not put the studio at seventy eight degrees because they would never do that and have a sweaty show Fidel Castro was a billionaire Putin is a billionaire. Communist leaders aggregate all the money for themselves. They live like kings And they use the military with guns as enforcers. I want you to listen to another segment from Com Mandami's speech American exceptionalism American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free. is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the West, is why children in faraway lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here. And yet the irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were anything but Exceptional For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best. It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way worshippping the wrong gods angering the wrong people It sent peasants and serfs from slums and shedtles who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes let alone land It's sent immigrants from whom power was something someone else had We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer strronger more powerful than everyone else The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed. We may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, that work endures, and it belongs to us all It belongs too to our newest Americans, those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel, the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American too. You each hold a special power the power to determine what America means. Pful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal America, if you ask them, becomes less, the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us they insist should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit. how small they are. How weak How unorriigginal every moment in our past thoseose who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another Division is the oldest trick in politics and the cheapest time and again, including two hundred and fifty years ago Th those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress. You listen, again, this is a manifesto of why America is bad, why America should not apparently, I guess be celebrated on the fourth of July, why you should tamper down your excitement for the fireworks And and I do believe this is not a one off As we mentioned earlier This is the new Manifesto of the Democratic Party heading into the midterms As I listen to him talk, I think what a small and petty man Filled with hate, filled with ideology, filled with contempt just for you and me and this fellow Americans but for the very idea of America. You know his remarks there foundly dishonest. One thing he says is we are told that America is exceptional because we are richer or stronger or more powerful Boney, Who has ever said that? I've never heard any human being? articulate that sentence. That's what's known as a straw manan It's erecting a fake argument to then demolish it He is in fact inverting the causality We are not richer and stronger and more powerful. That is not why we are exceptional. Rather Because we are exceptional, that is why we have become richer and stronger and more powerful. He's completely misunderstanding the cause and effect. What is exceptional about America number one is that our rights come from God. And you know nowhere in that speech could Mandami bring himself to say that, that God has given the rights. He says, we're told people are not created equal Really, gosh, comrades, what is this holiday we are celebrating on the fourth of July? What was the document that John Hancock put his signature on? What did Thomas Jefferson write? We hold these trhs to be self evident All men are created equal, that they are endowed by the creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness He clims that America was built on the notion that we're not equal and he is spitting in the face of the declaration of the Constitution. Of course, He probably doesn't know that. He is counting on the people listening to it, deffinitely not to know that And his notion about the people that came here, because we were built by immigrants, we must let everyone in with no limits. Listen, my father was an immigrant who came from Cuba. America was a beacon of freedom for my family There's a right way to come. You come legally. And the argument that the leftists and the Marxists say is because we were built by immigrants, we have to open up our borders to every criminal, to every rapist, to every terrorist, that we could have no laws whatsoever whyide And I want to answer this question, but I want to ask it first, whyy in the speech does Comrade Mandami not reflect on What is it that makes people from every country on earth want to be in America? What do we have here that is different? You don't have other countries people coming coming to and it is because of the opportunity, the opportunity to A, have your rights protected life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and notably, We don't have a right to happiness We have a right to the pursuit, to the journey. None of us are guaranteed happiness, but the American dream is real and alive and it comes from, do you know what gives us the American dream? Capitalism, not communism. If you want communism, comomrade Mondami Go to Russia, Komrad Bandami, go to Cuba, Komrad Bandami, go to North Korea. Why do all the communist countries have such misery and suffering? And you know what they all also have zero human rights because those petty little despots and Mandami is so eager to use that power. When they get power, if you disagree, if you dare speak to the contrary, they will lock you up That is the history that is the legacy of communism Ben, it's been a while since I told the story that my grandmother told me of what happened in Cuba when Fidel Castro and the Communists took over So my grandmother was a sixth grade teacher in Cuba. and she taught sixth grade for many, many years. And she told me the story that when the commist took over Soldiers came into the classrooms and she described to me in particular what they did in a first grade classroom. They came in with machine guns And they told all of the kids in the classroom, they said, close your eyes Close your eyes and pray to Jesus. for Kendy And all the kids closeed their eyes. They prayed And there was no candy. They then told the kids, close your eyes and pray to Fidel Cestro. for Candy They closed their eyes and the soldiers quietly set a piece of candy on the desk of every child. That is communism It is based on lies, it is based on power. it is based on subjugation And Mandami noticed the only reason he says anyone should come to America. He tells the story of those racent immigrants. and he said, you come here to change it. This is what leftists are trying to do. Why did Joe Biden, did Kamala Harris and the Democrats log over twelve million illegals into this country because they want them to fundamentally usher in a takeover of this country by the Democrat Party, and by the way, the Chuck Schumers of the world think that means they get to be in power Mandami's laughing No, no, no, Chuck, Chuck, you are a useful idiot becausecause the people we brought into this country, we are going to use this not just to keep the Democrats in power, but the communists are right now seizing control of the Democrat Party. We're seeing it New York where Mandami back, America hating Bots and communists. and by the way, they didn't just win in New York. they also won in Colorado. They're winning all over the country. That is the base of the Democrat Party. and I don't think I don't think the Democrats in office have fully realized that the mob is coming for them, that Rub a spear will find that the guillotine falls on his head as well And this takeover, let me say to the Republicans who are celebrating, yay, the crazies are taking over the Democrat Party. That means it's easier for us to win Do not celebrate, do not celebrate because these lunatics can get into power. All right, I'm to give an example one of the people who just won the primary and took out a long time Democrat incumbent is a candidate named Milot Hiros is a communist and an Islamist And I want you to listen to what she says about what they are trying to do, what the communists are trying to do. giveive a listen. We are winning Coast to coast By the way, this is not a Saturdayight liives skit. that actually is what it sounded like in Denver as she unsees the thirty year incumbent as a full blown socialist and understand socialists, Democrat socialists is just their fake term for communists The economic system of communism is socialism and they're using they use the word Democrat simply to say they're taking over the Democrat Party and turning it into a communist Party to give you a sense of how America hating these radicals are Give a listen to what Mila Kirro says about september eleventh and the nearly three thousand Americans who were murdered in that horrific act of terrorism on U.S. soil. Give a listen D you believe that the nine hundred eleven terrorist attacks on America were the inevitable consequence of American foreign policy? Inevitable in the sense that we destabilized a lot of the Middle East that forced people to believe that another act of violence was the only response. And again, just like I said before, our responsibility is to getting rid of those conditions that lead to violence in the first place. And by the way, that was her PC answer. The reason why she was asked that question by that reporter Ahead of election day was they were trying to nailr her down on what she had said in the past that yeah, we deserved it. It's our fault. And that was her and her most paceC response try not to, you know, just look like she's a total crazy person in what she was saying. That's right. She had said America deserved nine hundred eleven. She's also been clear what she wants to do. She wants to abolish IC, which means we don't enforce our borders at all. We don't arrest criminally egal aliens. we don't arrest murdrs. rapist, child molesters, gang bangers And she wants to give full and immediate citizenship to every single illegal immigrant in America That would be, I don't know, twenty million do, thirty million. We don't have any we don't have anywhere near a reliable measure Why does she want to do that? Because she wants to elect a hundred other communists just like her. Give a listen to her laying out that political objective Abolishing IS is just one step, right? Democrats have been in power multiple times over the last few decades and did nothing to address the immigration reform. expenditures is increased spending. Exactly. Yeah. And so if we're, I think there has to be an immediate pathway for every single undocumented immigrant that's here in this country today that does not require them to shell out s of dollars to go through the process for it to take decades at a time to be able to get to citizenship, an immediate pathway to citizenship and I mean, I mean, not only is shes saying immediate pathway to citizenship, we're talking about amnesty and we're saying You abolish all ice and that is what she's going to do. And she believes Democratic Party must do. so you get rid of law enforcement. This is another example of the defund the police movement It is, you cannot enforce the law There are no borders any criminal, any gangbanger, any terrorist is welcome in this country, and she wants to make them an American citizen Heres Here's what she said her priorities in Congress are. She's been very explicit, G a listen N I mean, she's going to change things. That's for sure. And The simple reality is there is not a Democrat in Congress who is not terrified of the next candidate like her in their primary. I'm here to tell you right now Chuck Schumer cannot win a Democrat primary in the state of New York. And in fact, I'm going to predict Chuck Schumer won't run for reelection. that he's looking at this party and he realizes this party has left him. And by the way, he was complicit in all the policies that led to this takeover of the Democrat Party by the communists And Part of what we're seeing here is this is a shift. of where the heartbeat of the Democrat Party is. and it's moved from the university from the Union hall to the university faculty lounge instead of the Democrat Party being a blue collar stel worker type party, a working man party It is no longer and in fact, they hate blue collar workers understand these communists They are all many many of them have have vast resources. They have trust funds, they have inherited wealth. Many of them, they have college degrees. they sat around gazing at their navel and reading F C and reading Ms. and believing that these abstract theories work. And by the way, they rationalize a way to the extent they know anything the misery of suffering that communism has wrought across the world. They rationalize it away as, o, well, well they did it wrong there. Here we'll do it differently and it always ends up the same. is look as we start the two hundred and fifty first year I'm reminded of what Ben Franklin said as it came out theish off. And two things, one a woman asked him, what have you given us? And he said, a Republic man if you can keep it Secondly He described how the fair that Washington was sitting and The back of it had a sun carved into it. And Franklin described how he wondered each day if it was a rising sun or a setting sign. And at the end of the Constitutional Convention, he said, I can now tell you it is a rising sun and not a setting sun. If these forces of darkness If these America hating leftists that believe you have no rights, you have no free speech, you have no right to liberty, you have no right to defy the state. They want power over what you think, over what you say over your religious faith. They want power over your money. They want to control you. They want to look, that they want to destroy anyone who is successful. If they succeed in seizing power that rising sun more than two hundred years ago will have become a setting sun instead. And so the stakes we have that I'm energized. I'm energized You and I and everyone listening to this podcast, we get to fight at a time of consequence at a time when it matters, do we save the next two hundred fifty years? That's our task. Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more. And I will say, I'm glad that we've been so blunt in calling it out. I'm glad the president was so blunt in his speech on the fourth of July, calling out that communism is a threat to this country And it's something that we should really be focused on that they do not take over, that we do not allow them to take over. But but this is no longer a joke. This is no longer a sideid show. This is the Democratic Party Speaking of fun, by the way, I got to say, we got some really exciting news. One of our best players they got a red card in the last match And if you're not a soccer fan, there's a lot of people that are fair weather on this one and I'm totally fine. I'm one of those, but I cannot wait to watch Monday night America in their nexts in the knockout rounds. And it's going to be fun because one of our best players who got that red card, which makes you ineligible for the next game, it was overturned by FIFA. So he will be able to play. You can call this the fourth of July miracle, but I'm pumped because of it Look, I am too. It was great fun. I will admit I'm a fair weather soccer fan myself. I did play soccer in high school. I played basketball, football, and soccer and I enjoyed playing it. but I've not been a soccer fan who follows the sport closely as an adult, The World Cup has been fun. It's been fun at a time when there's so much America hating everywhere else, it's been fun seeing people come together and rooting for America. You know what's been fun also. Watching people from other countries come to America and discover how wonderful this country is. you know Freddy from Germany, I don't know if you've se what he's been tweeting. probably retweeted him twenty times as he's come and seen you know a buckies and he's like you know a waffle house. and he's like this country is incredible. Nobody told me how amazing this country is. That celebration is great. I will say our World Cup victory against Bosnia Herzegovina was fantastic, particularly When we got the red card, the red card knocked out one of our best players Then we had to play a man down with just ten man on the field Miraculously we not only held on but scored another goal and advanced to the round of sixteen, but the ordinary consequence of getting a red card as the player is out, not just for that game, but for the next game as well and end the player Bogan who' who scored a bunch of goals in this World Cup. He's been one of us if not our single best player losing him against Belgium was Belgium was going to hurt. And so I gott to admit that the story that broke today, so FIFA reversed their decision. And here's what Clay Travis put out, which I hope is true, and I have no reason to assume it's not. Clay Travis says sources. President Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Ludniick, and White House Task Force headad Andrew Giuliani, put together a team of elite lawyers from outside the government to challenge the flow belowum Rd card spepecifically, they challenge the use of slow motion instant replay to give the red card, which they argued violated FIFA rules. the president also conveyed to Johnny In Fantino, TVa's president that the appeal had been filed and he believed the red card penalty was excessed IEFA's independent commommittee reviewed the decision and agreed the penalty was incorrectly given rescinding it under their rule twenty seven authority. I am thrilled with that because I got to say watching that red card I was at a sports bar with a family watching it and we were enjoying some wings and shering. And And I might have yelled some expletives that I wasn't terribly proud of yelling in front of my kids when that red card came down because Look. I mean, if that's a red card it was a foul, sure. but if that's a red card, they throw half the players out of soccer in every game because he, you know, he yes, he hit a play they was not or another player. It was a play on the ball like Yes. Yes it was it was not done maliciously. They were playing hard And by the way, the the player went down, grabbed his ankle, was screaming and bailing. And then as soon as the red card issued, he jumped up and was fine. So so magically the agonizing pain went away this was the right decision, but I got to say the fact that Trump engaged directly, you know what I thought immediately What was that? I I'm still not tired of winning. Yeah. like you've ever Trump said, you're going we're going to win so much. you're going to get tired of winning. I'm not tired of winning and God bless the president. I looked at that and my response is USA, USA, USA and beat Belgium tonight. Yeah, it's going to be a fun game and we'll have a recap. I can promise you on Wednesday. Hope you had a great weekend and a great time with your family for the Jaws celebrating America and be safe if you're heading back home