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Ted Cruz: “The court didn't say the federal government has to tear down…”

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IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198

Published January 29, 2024 | Video Starts at 23:59

So where things stand right now, if Joe Biden orders the federal government to go tear down the wire, the federal government will not be violating an injunction. Now, The court didn't say the federal government has to tear down the wire. Bingo. Court didn't say the federal government should tear down the wire. The court also didn't say that Texas couldn't lay more wire. Yeah. Which is what they're doing. Right. (23:59–24:03)

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Asserts that the Supreme Court did not mandate the federal government to tear down the wire.

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“On Sunday, three US servicemen and women were murdered, 25 were injured in Jordan. It was a drone attack funded, directed by Iran.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 00:58-01:09
“Joe Biden's weakness produced this attack.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 01:31-01:36
“There have been over 170 attacks by Iranian proxies on US troops.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 01:56-02:06
“Joe Biden is responsible for flowing roughly $100 billion to the Iranian regime.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 02:41-02:49
“When Donald Trump was president, he killed Qassam Soleimani, the leader of the Iranian military responsible for the murder of hundreds of…”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 03:28-03:43
“Trump combined that with pulling out of the Obama Iran nuclear deal.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 04:06-04:11
“Joe Biden came in, he flowed $10 billion to Iran, he flowed $6 billion to Iran, and he stopped enforcing the oil sanctions that ended up…”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 06:02-06:17
“Today, Iran is selling 2 million barrels a day of oil.”
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“170 attacks and more will happen. Unless Biden is willing to defend us troops, I have very little faith that he will be.”
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“Iran is the world's largest state sponsored supporter of terrorism in the world, Hamas and Hezbollah.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 07:51-07:59
“About 90% of the [Hamas] budget comes directly from Iran.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 08:06-08:10
“We have reporting in the Wall Street Journal that says about 500 of the Hamas terrorists who carried out the October 7 attack traveled to…”
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“That's about 90% as well. Iran funds terrorists in the Middle east. They fund terrorists in South America and central America.”
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“Joe Biden continues to allow [Iran] to sell 2 million barrels of oil a day.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 10:41-10:47
“The Biden administration is talking about cutting off military weapons to Israel.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 11:15-11:20
“I've introduced legislation that would [dramatically enforce the oil sanctions].”
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“There's an entire fleet of ghost tankers that takes the iranian oil to China.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 12:11-12:17
“China is funding Iran.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 12:19-12:22
“Stop funding people who hate us, number one. And number two, if you kill us military or us civilians, pound the living crap out of them.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 12:52-13:03
“The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, my good friend, has declared an actual invasion, invoking the authority of article one, section ten.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 17:04-17:15
“Article one, section ten, is a prohibition on the state. It says, let me omit the kind of language in the middle. It says, no state shall…”
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“During the Obama administration, the Department of Justice sued Arizona. It went all the way to the Supreme Court. There was a case, Arizona…”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 18:02-18:17
“Illegal immigration was a problem under Barack Obama. It was a serious problem under Barack Obama. But I got to say, compared to now, it's…”
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“Barack Obama deported millions of people. If you remember, during the Obama administration, the left got very mad. They called him the…”
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“There's never been a president that utterly and completely defies us law and lets people go by massive numbers.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 19:43-19:53
“Under Obama, he would parole roughly 5000 illegal immigrants a year. Under Trump, it was a comparable number.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 20:00-20:08
“About 800,000 a year.”
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“They've made a decision, we are going to allow an invasion.”
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“The Biden administration is actively suing them, is actively attacking them, is trying to tear down the border, the wire to let cartels in…”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 20:41-20:55
“The Biden administration is now trying to attack us because of [building these barriers].”
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“Texas has laid the wire along the border, particularly in Eagle Pass, miles of it.”
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“The Biden administration wants to tear it down.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 22:28-22:32
“Texas filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration saying you can't tear it down.”
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“The Biden administration won in federal district court.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 22:37-22:40
“Texas appealed to the Fifth Circuit. The federal court of Appeals, Texas won in the Fifth Circuit.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 22:40-22:46
“The United States appealed that injunction to the Supreme Court.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 22:54-22:59
“The Supreme Court five four ruled in favor of the Biden administration.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 22:59-23:03
“There is no order that impacts Texas in any way, shape or form concerning this.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 23:30-23:37
“The court also didn't say that Texas couldn't lay more wire.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 24:05-24:11
“The Fifth Circuit has scheduled the oral argument in this case on the merits of the case on February 8.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 24:22-24:30
“February 8 is going to be a big oral argument day.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 24:36-24:40
“Whatever happens in the Fifth Circuit, that case is extremely likely to go back to the Supreme Court.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 24:40-24:47
“The five four decision from the Supreme Court on the injunction. It was the three liberals plus John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 25:01-25:10
“CBP officially reports 302,034 migrant encounters in December, the highest month ever recorded.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 29:17-29:27
“CBP also reports Border patrol arrested 19 people on the FBI terror watch list in December in one month, bringing the total to 50 arrests…”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 29:36-29:53
“Under Trump, the number of people on the terror watch list apprehended in an entire year were in the single digits. They were like zero. Two…”
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“The month of December is more than any single year under Donald Trump. It may be more. I don't have the totals in front of me. It may be…”
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“The Biden administration is actively complicit in an invasion of 10 million people into this country.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 30:57-31:03
“The border patrol is telling us they are extremely worried about Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists coming in to carry out a terror act.”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 31:07-31:15
“Joe Biden, by the way, just about every Washington Democrat, are on the side of the human traffickers are on the side of the terrorists…”
IRAN MURDERS U.S. TROOPS | Verdict Ep.198 | Uploaded January 29, 2024 | 31:33-31:40