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Ted Cruz | U.S. Senator from Texas Speaks on Midterms, Possible 2028 Run, Saving College Sports & More · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Back here on Sid and Friends in the morning, this
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  Speaker 1: is one of my favorite people, not just politicians. He's
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  Speaker 1: a great guy. I just saw him in Dallas. He
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  Speaker 1: was doing Sean Hannity's show, and he.
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  Speaker 2: Put his hand to his heart. That was very nice, Ted.
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  Speaker 1: Ted Cruz, I hope will run for president in 2028.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to that conversation during this conversation. At the
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  Speaker 1: very least, he's one of our important Republican senators in
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  Speaker 1: the country from the great state of Texas where President
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  Speaker 1: Trump was just yesterday. Here he is back on Sid
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  Speaker 1: and Friends in the morning. Proud to call him a friend,
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  Speaker 1: Senator Ted Cruz. Ted, good morning, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 3: Sid, it's great to be with you. Thanks for having
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  Speaker 3: me on again.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's great to have you all the time. You
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  Speaker 1: really do a terrific job in the Senate and.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you think?
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  Speaker 1: You know, yesterday, the president in your state, you got
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  Speaker 1: that big race, Paxton versus that lunatic. Tallarico is a
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  Speaker 1: smart guy.
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  Speaker 2: He's not stupid.
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  Speaker 1: I get that. But he's got some crazy policies. What
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  Speaker 1: are your thoughts on Trump and that whole race in
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  Speaker 1: your state?
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  Speaker 3: Well, listen, Trump is on the road nonstop between now
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  Speaker 3: and Election Day. I'm really grateful. He's been now twice
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  Speaker 3: in Texas in the last few days. And he's crisscrossing
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  Speaker 3: the state and helping turn people out. And that is
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  Speaker 3: hugely helpful. This is an election that is 100% about turnout.
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  Speaker 3: And I got to say, I have never seen a
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  Speaker 3: midterm race where the stakes are higher than they are
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  Speaker 3: right now. What we have seen happen in the Democrat
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  Speaker 3: Party is extreme and it's dangerous. We are witnessing... The
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  Speaker 3: Green-Red Alliance. We are witnessing a Marxist and Islamist takeover,
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  Speaker 3: a hostile takeover of the Democrat Party. And look, sadly,
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  Speaker 3: you guys are right there on the front lines in
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  Speaker 3: New York with Comrade Mondami. And that poison is spreading
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  Speaker 3: across the country. And we've got to defeat it. And
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  Speaker 3: that's what these midterms are all about.
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  Speaker 1: I got to tell you, I was so proud of
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  Speaker 1: you specifically talking about the Red-Green Alliance in Dallas. I
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  Speaker 1: was waiting for nights, Ted, watching everybody speak. All Republicans
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  Speaker 1: are rooting for him.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody brought it up.
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  Speaker 1: You were the first politician to talk about this invasion,
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  Speaker 1: this radical Islam invasion.
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  Speaker 2: And I was clapping. I go, way to go, Ted.
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  Speaker 2: And you mentioned my guy here.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday was the three-year commemoration of October the 7th. I
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  Speaker 1: know how much you appreciate Israel and the Jewish people.
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  Speaker 1: We love you, okay? This creep, this mayor, sends out
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  Speaker 1: a statement.
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  Speaker 2: Ted, two sentences on Israel.
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  Speaker 3: Two.
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  Speaker 1: 80% of the text was sympathizing with the Palestinians.
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  Speaker 2: Why would you do that on all days? Do it
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  Speaker 2: the 8th. Do it the 6th. Do it 360 days
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  Speaker 2: a year.
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  Speaker 1: Why on October the 7th unless you can't stand Israel
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  Speaker 1: and the Jews?
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  Speaker 3: Well, Sid, as you know, there's an old saying, when
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  Speaker 3: they tell you who they are, believe them. Mandami hates Israel.
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  Speaker 3: He is a bigot, and he is an Islamist. His
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  Speaker 3: statement was disgusting. On October 7th, the worst one-day massacre
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  Speaker 3: of Jews since the Holocaust. And what does his statement say?
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  Speaker 3: And I'll read it to you. The suffering did not
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  Speaker 3: begin nor end that day. Instead, it continued through the
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  Speaker 3: Israeli government's devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it
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  Speaker 3: has killed more than 74,000 people. Palestinians, including more than 21,000 children. Now,
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  Speaker 3: there's a technical word for those words, and that's called
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  Speaker 3: a lie. And he is lying. He is repeating Hamas
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  Speaker 3: talking points. And he is doing so on the anniversary
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  Speaker 3: of the murder of over 1,200 civilians in Israel, the
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  Speaker 3: deliberate murder, and the rape of women and little girls.
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  Speaker 3: And it's repulsive every day when he cheers for the terrorists,
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  Speaker 3: but when he does so on October 7th, it's all
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  Speaker 3: the more repulsive.
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  Speaker 1: I was actually thrown out, physically removed. Very few people
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  Speaker 1: know this. They remember the gold star father, Ted, because
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  Speaker 1: he was on TV. I didn't make TV that night,
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  Speaker 1: but I was thrown out of Joe Biden's very last
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  Speaker 1: State of the Union because much like Mamdani, he started
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  Speaker 1: talking about this Hamas health ministry.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: He called it the Palestinian health ministry. Well, the Palestinian
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  Speaker 1: health ministry gets their numbers from Hamas. So I stood up, Ted,
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  Speaker 1: and I screamed, says who? Two words, says who? The
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  Speaker 1: Capitol Police Secret Service, they came storming in. The sergeant,
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  Speaker 1: the arms, whatever. She contemplated arresting me. They let me go.
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Anthony D'Esposito ought to walk me out of the building.
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  Speaker 1: But I was physically removed from the State of the
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  Speaker 1: Union for questioning Joe Biden for the same exact thing
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  Speaker 1: Mamdani did yesterday and all these Democrats do all the time.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Sid, the good news is that Joe Biden didn't
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  Speaker 3: know that you were there, and he didn't know he
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  Speaker 3: was there either. How did we go through that chapter? Seriously,
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  Speaker 3: how did we last four years with a commander-in-chief who
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  Speaker 3: could get lost in a walk-in closet? I mean, that's
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  Speaker 3: just– it's dangerous. And you know what? Every one of
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  Speaker 3: our enemies knew it. Russia knew it. China knew it.
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  Speaker 3: Hamas knew it. And the world got a lot more
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  Speaker 3: dangerous because you contrast Joe Biden to Donald Trump as
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  Speaker 3: a commander in chief. I'll tell you this, our enemies
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  Speaker 3: are scared of Donald Trump and America's safer when our
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  Speaker 3: enemies are scared of the commander in chief.
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  Speaker 1: 100% true. Ted Cruz right here, the amazing senator from
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  Speaker 1: the state of Texas. So look, you're right. Trump came
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  Speaker 1: in and he saved the day and thank God for that.
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  Speaker 1: But Ted, it's almost over. You know, he's got about
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  Speaker 1: two years to go and a lot of us already
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  Speaker 1: talking about the 2028 election. I think you know this already,
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  Speaker 1: but I was invited by J.D. Vance to come visit him.
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  Speaker 1: I've never met him. I've never talked to the guy, Ted.
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  Speaker 1: You and I are friends. I've never met this guy.
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  Speaker 1: I went to the White House about two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: I sat with J.D. Vance for about 30 minutes, and
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  Speaker 1: then I saw Trump, and the Oval Officer was great.
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  Speaker 1: But I wanted to get to know all the potential
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  Speaker 1: candidates and winners of for 2028 on my side.
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  Speaker 2: I know you.
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  Speaker 1: I know Marco Rubio. I love both of you guys, okay?
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  Speaker 1: But the truth is, you're welcome. When Trump leaves, I
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  Speaker 1: need good people to take over. You're one of those people.
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  Speaker 1: So you've been intimating, if not saying directly, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to run. You can do it again right here. Ted Cruz,
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  Speaker 1: you are running for president in 2028, yes?
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  Speaker 3: You know what, Sid? There will be plenty of time
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  Speaker 3: to focus on that after the midterm. I mean, where
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  Speaker 3: we are right now, we are in the final sprint.
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  Speaker 3: We're less than four weeks away. And so I am
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  Speaker 3: spending every waking moment crisscrossing the country, trying to turn
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  Speaker 3: people out. Because, listen, the Democrats, they want to take
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  Speaker 3: the Senate. They want to take the House. And they
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  Speaker 3: want to spend the next two years obstructing everything, fighting
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  Speaker 3: to return to open borders, fighting to release violent criminals
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  Speaker 3: onto our streets. fighting to push forward their radical transgender agenda,
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  Speaker 3: boys and girls sports, and sterilizing and mutilating kids. And
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  Speaker 3: they also want two years of all-out war on President Trump.
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  Speaker 3: They want to engage in an impeachment circus. They want
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  Speaker 3: to engage in relentless subpoenas and investigations. And they want
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  Speaker 3: to block every nomination. They want to block every cabinet member.
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  Speaker 3: They want to block every federal judge. That is profoundly dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: And look, the candidates they're running, the two most dangerous
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  Speaker 3: candidates in the country are James Tallarico in Texas and
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  Speaker 3: Abdul Al-Sayed in Michigan. Both of them are absolute radicals.
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  Speaker 3: And when Abdul Al-Sayed says in Michigan he has a, quote,
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  Speaker 3: obligation to follow Sharia law, he means it. And I'll
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  Speaker 3: tell you what, when James Tallarico in Texas pledges to, quote,
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  Speaker 3: dismantle capitalism, he means it. So listen, 28 matters. It's
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  Speaker 3: going to matter enormously that we continue the victories that
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  Speaker 3: President Trump and a Republican Congress has won these two years.
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  Speaker 3: But as the book of Ecclesiastes says, there is a
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  Speaker 3: time for every season. And now is the season for
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  Speaker 3: the midterms. And that's where I'm focused, and I think
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  Speaker 3: everyone needs to focus.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's fair. We need that. You're right. But, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you have had a little bit of back and forth
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  Speaker 2: with J.D. Vance already.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to get into it today. We'll wait
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  Speaker 1: until we're done with the midterms.
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  Speaker 2: But you have.
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  Speaker 3: You have.
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  Speaker 2: And let's be honest, okay?
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  Speaker 3: J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance's buddy is Tucker Carlson. And Tucker Carlson, last I checked,
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  Speaker 1: Ted Cruz, endorsed— this is unbelievable— Tucker Carlson endorsed— El-Sayed and you
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  Speaker 1: and Tucker Carlson have been at each other's throats. He's
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  Speaker 1: a real old life, by the way, real old life.
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  Speaker 2: At each other's throats for months. So there is a connection.
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  Speaker 3: J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Bantz, Tucker Carlson. They are on the side of the
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  Speaker 1: bad guys. I'm not okay with that.
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  Speaker 3: Look, Tucker Carlson is the most dangerous demagogue in America.
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  Speaker 3: And he is obsessed. He hates Israel. He hates Jews.
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  Speaker 3: Every week he does another show attacking Israel and attacking Jews.
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  Speaker 3: he hates Donald Trump. He's called Donald Trump the Antichrist.
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  Speaker 3: He wants him removed from office right now. And look,
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  Speaker 3: Tucker Carlson actually illustrates the Green-Red Alliance. He illustrates how,
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  Speaker 3: you know, anti-Semitism, hating Israel and hating Jews, it's the
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  Speaker 3: gateway drug to anti-capitalism and anti-Americanism, and it leads to Islamism.
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  Speaker 3: Tucker Carlson, as you said, he actually and officially endorsed
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  Speaker 3: Abdul Al-Sayed. He said, we want an Islamist. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: you know who the biggest donor to Abdul Al-Sayed's super
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  Speaker 3: PAC is? His father-in-law. who helped found a national charity
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  Speaker 3: that was an unindicted co-conspirator raising money for Hamas and terrorists.
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  Speaker 3: This guy is a Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated radical. And Tucker Carlson said,
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  Speaker 3: that's what we need. We need Sharia law in America.
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  Speaker 3: This last week, Tucker Carlson did a show where he
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  Speaker 3: argued that the world would have been better off if
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  Speaker 3: Adolf Hitler and the Nazis won World War II.
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  Speaker 2: The United Kingdom would have been better off. Wait, he
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  Speaker 2: actually said that?
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  Speaker 3: He did. He was interviewing a British politician, and he
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  Speaker 3: was asking him, well, how is the United Kingdom any
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  Speaker 3: better off for winning World War II? Would it have
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  Speaker 3: been better off if Germany won? This guy, he's lost it. Listen,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of elected politicians are scared to take on
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  Speaker 3: Tucker Carlson, where I'm not one of them. The man
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  Speaker 3: is spreading poison and he's deceiving young people. A lot
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  Speaker 3: of young people are suckling on this poison. And the
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  Speaker 3: only answer to that evil is to defeat it.
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  Speaker 2: Bottom line.
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  Speaker 1: Before we get to your new book here, Ted Cruz,
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  Speaker 1: I do want to bring up the war in Iran,
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  Speaker 1: because again, with yesterday being October the 7th and Having
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  Speaker 1: discussions I had the last couple of days with President
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  Speaker 1: Herzog and going to see Bibi at the UN. I
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  Speaker 1: sat there and watched the whole speech and talked to him.
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  Speaker 1: It was really magnificent. If you have any love for Israel,
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  Speaker 1: then you know, of course, that Iran was behind all
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  Speaker 1: of it. The Hamas invasion, the Houthis, the Hezbollah, all
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  Speaker 1: of it. And thank God President Trump showed the courage.
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  Speaker 1: People are all upset about the gas prices and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: prices are still up.
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  Speaker 2: That may hurt us. It may come November. That may
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  Speaker 2: be the downfall. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But how you can argue with what President Trump did
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  Speaker 1: going after this terror regime, which the last six, seven, eight,
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  Speaker 1: nine presidents all pretty much said they would do and
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  Speaker 1: didn't do it.
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  Speaker 2: How do you argue that, Ted?
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  Speaker 3: The Islamic regime in Iran has been at war with
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  Speaker 3: the United States for 47 years. the Islamic regime in Iran,
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  Speaker 3: the Ayatollah, when he chanced death to America. I believe him.
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  Speaker 3: Those are not empty words. That regime has murdered nearly 1,000 Americans.
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  Speaker 3: That regime hired two different squads of hitmen to try
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  Speaker 3: to murder President Trump. If they could, they would murder
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  Speaker 3: every one of us. That's who they are. And President
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  Speaker 3: Trump acted to protect America, to keep American lives safe.
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  Speaker 3: When he began this military conflict with Iran, every IRGC
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  Speaker 3: terrorist that we have taken out, that Israel has taken out,
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  Speaker 3: that America has taken out, that has made America safer.
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  Speaker 3: These lunatics want to murder us. And the reason the
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  Speaker 3: president acted so decisively is if the Ayatollah acquired a
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  Speaker 3: nuclear weapon, I believe the odds are unacceptably high that
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  Speaker 3: he would use it, and that he would use it
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  Speaker 3: perhaps in the skies of Tel Aviv, but perhaps also
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  Speaker 3: in the skies of New York or Los Angeles. When
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  Speaker 3: he says death to America, there's a reason the Ayatollah
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  Speaker 3: calls Israel the little Satan and America the great Satan.
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  Speaker 3: And you and I both lived through the horrors of
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  Speaker 3: 9-11 and And as horrific as the 3,000 people murdered
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  Speaker 3: that day was, a nuclear weapon in Manhattan could kill
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  Speaker 3: millions of Americans. And President Trump takes that deadly seriously,
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  Speaker 3: and he acted decisively. to keep us safe.
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  Speaker 1: Radical departure from this serious conversation. I'm best friends with
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  Speaker 1: the president of the Yankees, Randy Levine. He loves you,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, Ted. I know you're probably not.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't he a great guy?
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  Speaker 1: So he sat there with all you guys, you and
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  Speaker 1: Tiger Woods and Urban Meyer and Mike Johnson and Marco
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  Speaker 1: and the president. to try to help fix college sports,
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  Speaker 1: which is a mess. You got guys going from the
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  Speaker 1: NFL back to college football. I had a yell at
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  Speaker 1: Rick Scott last week. I love Rick Scott.
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  Speaker 2: I love Florida. I love Rick Scott.
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  Speaker 1: I go, Rick, what are you doing voting against that? Well,
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  Speaker 1: there's a couple of things I don't like. I go, Rick,
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  Speaker 1: we got to fix college sports. What are your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on that Protect College Sports Act?
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  Speaker 3: Look, it was an incredible victory we had in the Senate,
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  Speaker 3: a massive bipartisan victory. You and I both love sports.
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  Speaker 3: Sports are an amazing institution that bring Americans together. And
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  Speaker 3: in college sports in particular, there's no place on planet Earth,
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  Speaker 3: no other country has an institution like college sports. Do
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  Speaker 3: you know at any given time there are about 500,000
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  Speaker 3: college athletes in America? They don't have that in Europe.
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  Speaker 3: They don't have that in Latin America. They don't have
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  Speaker 3: that in Asia or Africa. It is only America that
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  Speaker 3: we have this institution that brings us together, but also
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  Speaker 3: is this unbelievable avenue for opportunity where over the years,
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  Speaker 3: millions of young men and women through sports get a
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  Speaker 3: chance to get a college education, get skills that set
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  Speaker 3: them up for success in life. And college sports right
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  Speaker 3: now is in crisis. It is absolute chaos. Every week,
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  Speaker 3: a different university is canceling women's sports, canceling Olympic sports.
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  Speaker 3: And if Congress doesn't act, we will see in the
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  Speaker 3: next several years hundreds of thousands of those roster slots
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  Speaker 3: and scholarship slots going away. That is a travesty that
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  Speaker 3: we can't allow to happen. So I was proud to
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  Speaker 3: author the Protect College Sports Act. It is landmark bipartisan
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  Speaker 3: legislation to bring order to the chaos. And to preserve
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  Speaker 3: and protect college sports so, A, we can cheer about it,
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  Speaker 3: but for the athletes, for the young men and women
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  Speaker 3: that are fighting for the American dream, we got to
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  Speaker 3: preserve it. And I'll tell you, the vote on the
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  Speaker 3: Senate floor, we got 77 senators voted for the Protect
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  Speaker 3: College Sports Act, a massive bipartisan win. Hell, you can't
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  Speaker 3: get 77 senators to agree what time of day it is.
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  Speaker 3: But we came together and got it done. And I'll
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  Speaker 3: tell you, the House, they're going to come back. They're
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  Speaker 3: going to pass this bill, and President Trump is going
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  Speaker 3: to sign it. And I'll tell you, Randy Levine, the
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  Speaker 3: president of the New York Yankees, every New Yorker ought
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  Speaker 3: to be proud because Randy, I told Randy he is
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  Speaker 3: a honey badger. He is relentless. I've been talking to
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  Speaker 3: him on the phone, and he has driven this. He
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  Speaker 3: chairs the College Sports Commission that President Trump appointed. And
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  Speaker 3: he has been relentless. I told him at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the day, I said, Randy, you've been so damn
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  Speaker 3: good on this. You're going to make me say nice
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  Speaker 3: things about the Yankees. And as a Houston guy, that's
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  Speaker 3: hard to do.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's funny.
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  Speaker 3: All right. I am going to tell you a fun
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  Speaker 3: story you'll appreciate. Back in 2022, when the Strohs were
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  Speaker 3: headed the ALCS, and at the time we didn't know
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  Speaker 3: if the Yankees or Cleveland were going to go to
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  Speaker 3: the ALCS. And my daughter, Catherine, is 15. She and
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  Speaker 3: I have gone to almost every single home playoff game
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  Speaker 3: for the Astros in the past decade, starting from when
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  Speaker 3: she was a little girl, seven years old. We go
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  Speaker 3: to the games together. So she calls me and she says, OK, Dad,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to the ALCS. It's the Yankees in Cleveland.
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  Speaker 3: Who do we want? And I said, well, the Yankees
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  Speaker 3: are better. So our chances of winning are probably better
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  Speaker 3: if Cleveland is in it. And Catherine said, forget that, Dad.
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  Speaker 3: If we're going to win, I want to beat the best.
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  Speaker 2: Love her. That's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: And I got to tell you, Sid, my heart was pounded.
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  Speaker 3: I said, I am proud of that girl. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: tell her that, but I was proud of her.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a great answer. Seriously, I love your daughter.
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  Speaker 1: That's what America used to be, right? Not everybody gets
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  Speaker 1: a trophy. Go out there and beat the best. What
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  Speaker 1: she said was great. No wonder she's Ted Cruz's daughter.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: So look, if the College Sports Act passed, maybe there
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: is hope yet for the Save America Act, yes?
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  Speaker 3: Amen, and we are fighting for it. I'm Talked with
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  Speaker 3: the president about it just yesterday, and I said, look,
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  Speaker 3: we ought to come back and push through. I hope
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  Speaker 3: we push through what's called a reconciliation bill after Election Day,
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  Speaker 3: a reconciliation bill we can do with just 50 votes
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  Speaker 3: in the Senate. And I am fighting really hard to
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  Speaker 3: use that tool to get it through. We've got to
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  Speaker 3: pass the Save America Act, and I'm fighting to make
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  Speaker 3: that happen.
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  Speaker 1: Last one, your new book about Justice Thomas, Ted Cruz.
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  Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by the Supreme Court, all these amazing justices.
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  Speaker 2: Tell my listeners all about that. It's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a big time bestseller.
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  Speaker 3: Well, brand new book. It's called Going Further, The Incomparable
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  Speaker 3: Clarence Thomas. And it is a biography of an extraordinary
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  Speaker 3: human being, an extraordinary Supreme Court justice. It tells his
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  Speaker 3: personal story of being born in abject poverty in rural Georgia.
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  Speaker 3: facing crushing racism and climbing to the very pinnacle of
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  Speaker 3: American law. It also traces his amazing ideological journey. When
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  Speaker 3: he was in college and law school, he was an
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  Speaker 3: angry left-wing radical. He wore camouflage pants and combat boots.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: He had a poster of Malcolm X on the wall.
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  Speaker 3: He would go to Black Panther rallies. He participated in
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  Speaker 3: a riot in Harvard Square. And he went from an
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  Speaker 3: angry left-wing radical to being one of the most important
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  Speaker 3: conservative thinkers in history. And not only that, right now today,
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  Speaker 3: Clarence Thomas is the second longest serving Supreme Court justice
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  Speaker 3: in American history. In less than two years, he will
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: become the longest serving justice in the history of our
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  Speaker 3: great nation. And what I do in this book is
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  Speaker 3: I take his 35 years of jurisprudence and I explain
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  Speaker 3: it in a way that is understandable, that you don't
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  Speaker 3: have to be a lawyer, you don't have to be
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: a constitutional law expert, but to understand the legacy this
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  Speaker 3: man has had. And I'll tell you, Sid, I wrote
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  Speaker 3: this book because in this time where we're divided, where
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: there's so much anger, we all need role models. We
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: need heroes. And I think if you're looking for a
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  Speaker 3: role model, you could not do better than Clarence Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: The book made it to number one on the New
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  Speaker 3: York Times bestseller list. When it came out, it skyrocketed
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  Speaker 3: to number one, and it's a fun read. It's an
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: interesting read. Going further, you can get it on Amazon,
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Barnes & Noble, wherever you get books. And I'd encourage folks,
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: buy it, but don't just buy a copy for yourself.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Buy a copy for your kids or your grandkids, because
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: this book, it's fun, you will laugh out loud, and
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: you will be inspired.
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  Speaker 2: God, you're amazing, Ted. You know that?
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  Speaker 1: You really are.
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  Speaker 2: You're inspiring. You're a great man yourself. Clarence Thomas is
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  Speaker 2: a good guy. Don't get me wrong. But you, you
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  Speaker 2: are a real superstar, Ted Cruz. I mean it.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you for giving me all this time today.
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  Speaker 1: And I look forward to wins in the Senate and
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  Speaker 1: the House in November. And then I look forward to
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: you making your announcement. Don't do it on Fox News
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: with Sean.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Don't do it.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Make your announcement that you're running for president right here
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  Speaker 1: with me, okay?
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  Speaker 3: You're a great American, Sid. I appreciate you.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you, too, Ted. Thank you so much. Take care.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: God bless. You, too.
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  Speaker 1: There he is, the amazing senator from the state of Texas.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: What a really terrific guy, Ted Cruz. Back on Sitting
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Friends in the Morning with Danny Dion and Bill O'Reilly
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: right after these words.
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• 22:17
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