The Angry, Bitter, Yelling 'GET-OFF-MY-LAWN' SOTU Speech

Published Mar 8, 2024, 9:00 AM
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It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you, Senator, I feel like the entire show tonight we should just scream at one another and yell in honor of the state of the union that you just walked out of. Are your ears okay?

Well, that they're not. I have a little bit of trauma. It is twelve seventeen in the morning, and I just spent a little bit over an hour sitting on the floor of the house being yelled at by a deranged old man.

It was an experience, and I'll.

Tell you what we're going to talk about that We're going to break down everything that happened. But we also have a very special feature tonight, and it is it is a happy twist of fate because I was not the only person in the chamber listening to that angry old man screaming, but an unemployed podcaster and radio host and former Marquee actor and book author turned out that he was desperately in need of some liquor and cigars and so sent me a text earlier tonight.

And so I'm actually.

Quite quite proud to welcome back to Verdict, my original co host and my dear friend Michael Knowles, Michael, welcome, Welcome.

Back, Senator. It's good to be back, Ben, it's good to be back. But you tricked me. You tricked me because I look, you're right, what do I do? I don't do verdict anymore. So I had a lot of time on my hands. I sauntered down to DC said, I got nothing better to do than listen to this old man yell at me for three hours, however long it took at the State of the Union. And I said, but you know what we'll make this night totally redeemed, is I will text my friend Senator Cruz and we'll have a nice cigar. And you said, absolutely, Michael, come on over and we'll have cigars. Right after we finished the podcast, and I said, all right, you got me. I already agreed, Okay, I'm in.

Yeah.

And this is how you and this is how we welcome you back. By the way, you went to this thing tonight as well, which was really just an hysterical State of the Union. If you're ever going to go to State of the Union, there's nothing better than saying you can remember for the rest of your life.

I was at the one that lasts an hour and.

Eight minutes, where it looked like Joe Biden might have been on some sort of drug and was screaming and talking very fast for at least the first forty five minutes of the speech. Then he went back to old Joe's stature and slowed it back down a little bit.

So you can tell your kids and grandkids about that.

Wait a second, damn, it was the time, actually an hour and eight minutes. It was, but it was because he talked, Hey, there's a problem. There's a problem with that, which is Roger Marshall sent a text to a bunch of us with all sorts of wagers, and one of them was an over under on the length, and his over under was seventy minutes. And I took the over, dammit, And so I was two minutes off.

You took it.

I was betting I was just up there in the peanut gallery, but I bet I knew he couldn't go thirty or even under forty because it would be a national news story. Biden can't make it. So I thought he had to go forty five. But I felt he couldn't go more than a minute over that. So I had it at forty six and I he totally blew me out of the water.

Say what you will.

It was a horrific speech, but it went a long time and he yelled the entire time.

I said, fifty five minutes. That was what I thought. I thought it'd be barely under an hour. But he was late, so you know, I guess that maybe got him a little bit more jacked up as he was late.

And is it true that he was late.

Did either of you guys see the protesters that apparently they stopped the streets, all the pro Palastadian protesters, and that's part of the reason why I was late.

Is that true?

I have no idea.

I know that's what people were saying, but it was strange. I've never seen at the State of the Union where like the President shows up thirty minutes late.

Yeah, I did not see protesters really. I mean, I guess I was in the Capitol complex relatively early, but I saw a handful of pro Ukraine protest And when I say a handful, I mean like half a dozen, and maybe some of the pro Palestine.

But you know that there were none that I saw at the Capitol. Maybe there were at the White House. Yeah, but they're not over at the Capitol that I saw.

Hey, when you get the doctors and they got to get you juiced uff for your night, it may take an extra twenty or thirty minutes. I want to break down this and talk about some of the highlights, obviously, and we're going to go through those, But first let me tell you about our friends over at the International Fellowship of Christian and Jews. We all know about the atroses that were committed by Hamas last October seventh, and we know right now how much pressure Israel is under from the rest of the world to have this ceasefire. The reality is the toll on the Israeli people is staggering.

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Yeah, listen, the whole thing was bizarre. I've been to twelve State of the Unions. This was the twelfth one. This was by far the worst I've ever seen and the strangest I've ever seen. So this was a campaign speech, but it was an exceptionally bad campaign speech. So Biden was angry, he was bitter, he was screaming, he was extreme, and he was completely out of touch. The entire speech reminded me of a grumpy old man standing on his front porch screaming at the kids.

Get off my front lawn. It was very odd.

I wanted your perspective on it, because You've been to so many of these now and I couldn't tell. Maybe it's just my first one and I didn't know. It did seem much angry, but there was something hollow about it, like as if he thought to prove that I'm alive, I have to be yelling the whole time. But but what was so odd was he was yelling and slurring his words, and it was the cadence was off, like it just seemed like, I don't know, a bad theatrical performance or something.

It is also interesting in that it reveals the political strategy of the political White House for this election, which is there were zero nods to the middle. This speech said Republicans across America, I don't want your votes, independence across America.

I don't want your votes.

That this was an effort to woo the squad, that this was an effort to appeal to bring back on the reservation Elizabeth Warren. And you know, look, she's spent a lot of time in reservation.

She knows it well.

You know, Bernie Sanders AOC and I don't know if they're scared with the whole Hamas thing.

That they've lost the crazy he left.

But look, I can tell you one of the things experiencing it, like I enjoy State of the Unions. They're fun, the pageantry, it's it feels like, you know, it's a moment of American history, and frankly, it's just pretty friggin wild to be like sitting on the floor listening to it. I mean, it's a neat thing almost always, and this is true whether you have I've been there for Obama doing it, I've been there for Trump doing it, and I've been there for Biden doing it. Almost always, you have multiple lines that are designed to get everyone on their feet and it's a different experience if it's your own party. It's like being in a Jane Fonda aerobics session. I mean, you're just up, down, up, down, up down. Every sentence you stand up wooh. But any president has multiple lines that are designed to unify everyone, to bring Congress to their feet. We're all standing together, and it was weird. Look, I stand at the beginning in a plaud and I will always do that because I respect the office, even if I don't like the job Biden is doing back the office he's holding. But then I sat down, and for the next hour, almost all of us stayed sitting the whole time. I do not recall any other speech that made so little effort to garner even a shred of support from the opposing part.

I couldn't figure out the calculus on that, because I agree, I think maybe I think I stood up for the hostage. We're going to bring our hostages back. I mean, that was the one I did. I did stand up for that. It was the hostages back, and that was it. I mean, otherwise I was seated. It made it a very easy night, But I just couldn't understand the calculus. If you're looking at the Poles. The Poles have been reliable at least for the Republican primary, and the Poles are putting Trump up right now in seven out of seven swing states, and nationally it looks like he's up five points. It could change. But if I'm Joe Biden, I don't need AOC and Aana Presley. They were on their feet, they were cheering. I don't need them right now. I really need those nicky Haley voters.

Really And I think what it was when I was watching it.

Obviously I was watching on TV, and I had a different perspective than you guys that were in the chamber. But when Biden entered the House Chamber and the dim start chanting four more years, to me, what it came across as was I've got to let the Democratic Party in machine know I'm not going anywhere. You're not going to replace me at the convention. I am the candidate. The entire speech, watching again on TV, came across as one hundred percent a partisan campaign speech, and it was like, if you think you're gonna get rid of me, you're wrong. You better get behind me. He clearly was going to the left. And I think it's the left, meaning the Democratic the elites, the Democratic higher ups that are thinking, how the hell do we run this guy? Can we get rid of him? Can we bring somebody else in? It was like, I'm here tonight and I'm not going anywhere.

Look, that's not crazy. I will say when when the Dems began four more years, that was weird too. I may be missed remembering, but I don't remember that ever happening before.

No, but I think it's like the Lady Doth protests too much in the sense that truly it's not even that I don't like the guy, and I thought he gave a bad speech, but I thought.

Four more years?

Who are you trying to convience here? You know, I don't think you could convince him of four more years.

So seven more months, yeah, yeah, ten more minutes, yeah, yeah, exactly.

I got thirty three minutes of doctor say it can make it right?

Right?

I mean, we know it.

It was a very partisan speech, and I want to get both of you guys reaction to I think what was the most awkward moment of the night from a TV standpoint, and that was when the President went directly after the Supreme Court justices that were sitting in front of him. It did not play well, I think to the American people, take a listen.

Francessor came to office determined to see wherever right overturn. He's the reason was overturned, and he brags about it.

That was my applause, Chaos.

Join us.

Tonight is Kate Cox, the wife and mother from Dallas. She's become pregnant again and had a fetus of a fatal condition. Her doctor told Kate that her own life and her ability to have Choo children in the future were at risk if she didn't act because Texas law banned her ability to act. Kate and her husband had to leave the state to get what she needed, but her family got through. Should have never happened as well. But it's happening in too many others. There are state laws banning the freedom to choose, criminalizing doctors, forcing survivors of rape and incest to leave their states to get the treatment they need. Many of you in this chamber and my predecessor are promising to pass the national ban on reproductive freedom. My god, what freedom else would you take away? Look, it's a decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, The Supreme Court majority wrote the following, and with all due respect, Justices, women are not without electoral power. Excuse me, electoral or political power. You're about to realize just how much you get.

Write it out, I mean center.

That was honestly one of the most shocking moments of any State of the Union I've ever seen. He looked straight down at them, and it came across that way on TV of you sitting beneath me. I'm coming after all of you, including you liberals, down there, and you better get your acted. I think a lot of it also is in a weird way, the anger and the disdain and he had when he was looking at them. At least how it came across on TV was part of the Nino decision I think for Donald Trump and Colorado this past week.

Yeah.

Look, it was a very strange moment, I will say when he said, with all due respect, A number of us, including me, laughed out loud at that because it was like, with all due respect, FU like it was not that there was no respect to do or otherwise. It was reminiscent in some ways of Barack Obama lecturing the Court about citizens United and justice. Alito famously mouthed not true, and actually Justice Alito doesn't go to the State of the Union anymore because of that. That was the last he went. But the temperature on this was three hundred degrees hotter, like it makes Obama's words about Citizens United feel almost quaint and antiquated. This was angry, it was bitter, it was threatening. And look what's also weird about it. Biden almost never smiled, like there was no effort to bring new voters into the fold. And even listen when he's talking about abortion, when he's talking about Kate Cox, Kate Cox's situation was tragic. He doesn't tell her story with empathy. He doesn't actually talk like a normal human being and the horror that any parent would have at finding out that that that that you had a child with a fatal birth defect. Instead he just screams about it, which was a very strange way. And it was the same He had one volume, he had one tempo, he had one affect through the entire speech, and and and it was and by the way he combined it all with massive dishonesty, where he's like, and you Republicans want to want to ban abortion across the country. Look, I am not aware of a single member of Congress that has a bill to ban abortion nationwide.

I'm not aware of a presidential candidate, actually a Republican presidential candidate. I mean, even to your point on dishonesty, Senator, obviously part of the Cox story is part of it is just quite tragic, and there's absolutely no nuance in the Democrats telling of it. But part of it is dishonest. When the Democrats say she was not permitted to have an abortion when her life was at risk, that's just a lie. There is no state in the country where if a woman's life is at risk, she can't undergo the medical treatment, some of which would involve an abortion, to deal with that.

So that Texas law is explicit allowing an exception for a medical emergency. But Biden would accept no nuance. It was a Manichean world where he was the self righteous avenger and everyone the Supreme Court, every Republican on earth, everyone who disagrees with his view were the evildoers to be vanquished.

It was very strange the focus on that. I mean, for a while, when I saw the guest list come out, I said, am I the only guest at the State of the Union.

Who isn't invited to promote abortion?

I thought, I understand the Democrats think they can really lean on that so much so that they're going to explicitly attack the Supreme Court during the State of the Union. But is that that's really the issue that Joe Biden wants to run on. It is front and center, and then screaming about Ukraine.

Ukraine was the top.

But there was even weird other moments in their center that were also I would say bizarre. Were you guys taking aback in the room? When he said the vaccine that saved us from COVID are now being used to beat cancer, and everybody that was watching it, I think at home, it was like, what in the world is the president talking about?

That all America and all Americans to make every sure everyone has a fair shot, we leave no one behind. The pandemic no longer controls our lives. The vaccines has saved us from COVID are now being used to beat cancer, turning set back into comeback.

That's what America does.

That's what America does.

By the way, when he said that, even Kamawa Harris's eyes got big and looked like I looked at him, like, wait, what the vaccine saved us us from COVID and now it's beating cancer.

By the way, Ben I will say, if he was telling the truth, if Joe Biden actually had cured cancer, you'd think he would have told us about it by now.

You would have led with it before Ukraine, you would hope.

Like, like, wouldn't you just start? Good evening, I want to start by saying we have cured cancer. That's the end of my speech, thank you, and the end of my campaign. I think I won reelection.

Actually that the COVID stuff, I guess might have been the most dishonest part of the speech, where because on some of it he's just lying, right, he's lying about abortion, he's lying about the border. But on the COVID stuff he uses partial truths to tell total lies, where he says, you know, are we've cut the deficit by a trillion dollars, Yeah, because the Democrats made us spend an insane amount of money justify by COVID. So yeah, sure tech, Oh we've created a bazillion new jobs. Yeah, you shut down a ton of businesses right on the premise of COVID, so yeah, like, technically, I guess that's true, but that it's just a false economic painting.

Well, and I also want to ask you, guys, is anybody looking forward to getting on Air Force one to go to Moscow.

I'm gonna get in trouble for saying that.

But if you want to get an Air Force woman and fly to Toronto, Berlin, Moscow, I mean, excuse me, and well even Moscow.

Probably even Moscow. Probably that's how he saved it.

I'm like, well, if you're taking all the money from oligarks at Moscow, I guess maybe we are going to fly on Air Force one to Moscow? Why not even though you're saying they're going to invade the world fifteen minutes earlier, and you better give all the money to Ukraine.

Look, it was it was out of touch. It was out of touch with the issues that I think people are wrestling with on an inflation I can tell you in Texas, I spent a lot of time listening to Texans when they pay their rent. Remember the the candidate in New York the rent is too damn high.

A good friend of mine, actually, well, okay, that like.

Mortgages when when you know a young couple goes out and they're gonna buy their first house, and they discover that a seven percent mortgage rate is very different from a two percent mortgage rate, and they can get half the house they used to be able to get when they go to the grocery store and suddenly there's.

A lot time.

But he's gonna give you four hundred dollars. Didn't he say that tonight in the State of the Union to help you buy that house. It's nono one hundred thousand from last year.

It was even better than that when he said the big savings. Forget about the price of groceries. There aren't enough chips in the bag of potato chips. But he says, don't worry, because I'm putting a cap the credit card late payments used to be thirty two dollars, and I'm gonna make it eight dollars, twenty four dollars in the pockets of every American. Reelect me. In twenty twenty four.

It was over and over again. He had new things he was going to give away. Look the four hundred dollars to everyone here. This will help you pay you more. I'm just gonna send you four hundred dollars. Mind you, your mortgage gone has gone up because we spent so much money and we drove inflation and drove it up, so we'll just pay you. And our answer the problem is we printed too much money and it caused inflation. My answer is we're gonna print even more money and that's going to help you deal with inflation. And like, did anyone on the White White House staff like like like take econ one oh one, like did they go for like one day?

Certainly not under the White House staff since the Obama years. They they usually get MFAs in creative writing, and somehow that's supposed to direct domestic and foreign policy.

By the way, I say, also, did you notice there was not only was it angry and bitter and extreme, but there was also very little beautiful about it. I mean sometimes State of the Unions have some poetry to it. I mean there's you think of Peggy Noonan writing for Ronald Reagan, and and and there is there are full moments in the State of the Union. And there were no beautiful moments tonight.

And I think it's because he was running for reelection. He was all about that I'm not going anywhere.

Even at the end of the speech though, because I totally agree with you, Ben, he was and I agree with you, Senator. You know, this is this rallying of the base. Maybe it was just to shore up the Democrats because he feels that Gavin Newsom's lurking in the corner. By the end, he started to lean in a little bit toward what could have been poetry, but it was so platitudinous, and also it was a self contradictory. So within the span of about three minutes, at the end of the speech, he says, we are still the United States of America. We have enduring values. We believe what we've always believed, these old enduring ideas, and then not two seconds later, he says, but we got to get rid of the old ideas. We need all the new ideas. And I said, wait a second, but you had two speech writers clearly with separate theses on this, and they don't work together.

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You did Hannity tonight, and there was one thing that Handy said that I thought was very interesting in his monologue. He was talking about the obsession with the White House, saying that the economy's strong and Bidenomics is working. I want you to hear what he had to say for everyone that missed it. It's very interesting.

Let's start with his lives on the economy.

Take a look, I heard it. Economy is on the brink now.

Our economy is literally the envy of the world. Fifteen million new jobs in just three years, a record, a record way.

Just keep going up. In flash, she keeps coming down.

Inflation has dropped from nine percent to three percent, the lowest in the world and tending lower.

The land he is and will be saw all right. Here is the truth. Here of the facts.

Since Biden took office, cumulative prices have risen over seventeen percent. Real hourly wages have only risen thirteen percent. Sixty percent of our fellow Americans, sadly, they are living paycheck to paycheck now costs across the board. They are surgery, groceries, are eating up more of the American people's paychecks, and they have in over thirty years. In fact, according to a recent study, Americans now need to make eleven four hundred dollars more to afford the same quality of life that they did in twenty twenty one. And his claims about job creation another lie. In reality, almost ten million of those jobs are just well backfield jobs or temporary jobs that were lost during the pandemic. And as we know now many of those other jobs were part time jobs going too many farm born workers.

That he's led it in this country on veted illegally.

I mean, Senator, you hear that montage. It's spot on. But this goes back to how tone death this White House seems to be. It's the economy, stupid. You walk out there and you the beginning of the stay of the Union was, I'm going to tell the American people you must give massive amounts of money Ukraine or you're an evil person. You better give me abortion on demand and help me allow me to kill more babies, or you're a terrible person. And I'm going to oh and on top of that, I'm going to attack the Supreme Court in front of me and basically say they're illegitimate. And then after forty something minutes, I might mention the number one issue for many Americans, which is border security.

It took him forty plus minutes to get to that.

Well, and before we turn to border security, which we obviously are going to talk about, let's pause for a second on inflation, and I'll say number one. Hannity referenced the study that's say it's over eleven thousand dollars a year to live the same standard of living you had in twenty twenty one, just three years ago before Joe Biden came to office. That works out to nearly one thousand dollars more a month. Wow, is what people are having to pay just to tread water, just to stay where they were in twenty twenty one. And I get to say, the moment where Biden seemed most out of touch on this issue was when he did his whole shrink flation thing, And it kind of felt like, you remember Andy Rooney, who'd be like, you ever notice when you have potato chips as many potato chips in the bag as they used to be.

Why is that it's a direct quote from the State of the Union.

It if you're trying not to seem like a crazy old man ranting, maybe don't sound like a crazy old man ranting. And on the other level, no kidding, Yes, we're aware what shrink inflation is and you caused it, Like there's no actual use of the cranium to say, well, what is causing those mean old corporations to put fewer potato chips in the bag. Do they just hate their customers and don't want them to eat potato chips? Or are they dealing with inflation and it costs more and more and more and they're trying to find ways to fight the inflation that you caused by printing trillions of dollars in money we didn't have. There's no awareness of that. There's just ranting, I don't like shrinkflation, So what are we gonna do? Pass Bob Casey's bill on shrinkflation? And we're all looking at each other going, what the hell does Casey have?

Like, like, what does Casey have a law?

We're going to count the chips in your bag and if you're below the chips, Joe Biden gives you four hundred dollars.

Like Hostito's Protection Act from Casey you know it. It reminded me of that meme of the guy who has the gun and he turns around and he shoots someone, and then he looks at the camera. He says, why did X, Y and Z do that? Right, and blames anything else, And it's Biden with the inflation. He has all this massive spending and then he says, why did the tostitos company do that? But if you had taken even economics one oh one in high school, you would say, look, the chip company has always had an incentive to maximize profits. The thing that has change is not that all of a sudden the potato chip company wants to make money. Clearly something else in the economic He's changed here between the last eight years or so.

By the way, when the economy is booming, think what big mean corporations do they sell megamega size even more chips, you know, the big gulp with enough to drink to have you on caffeine for the next thirteen weeks.

Like that, Also is the profit.

Motive if you're not dealing with crushing inflation and trying to figure out a way to make things work right.

All right, I gotta ask you guys about the heckling that happened. There was one person that heckled tonight. It's now being reported that that individual was a gold star father whose son, Lance Colonel Karen nick Koori, who was killed by a terrorist suicide bomber during Joe Biden's disastrous withdraw from Afghanistan. I usually am not a big fan of heckling. I don't think that's heckling once I learned the backstory. That was an angry father who saw a president that was rewriting history.

Yeah.

Look, we did not know the backstory when he yelled. We could tell he was yelling something about a marine company, but we couldn't tell the details in that room. Obviously, if his son lost his life, I wondered if it was if it was one of the Marines who was killed in Afghanistan, if that's what he was referring to, and apparently it was. Look, Joe Biden accepts no responsibility for anything, and instead his White House tries to whitewash every foreign policy disaster as an absolute success. And you know, when it comes to the thirteen servicemen and women who died in Afghanistan, that was completely unnecessary.

It was Biden's fault.

By the way, one of my favorite pods we ever did is when we focused on the testimony of the young marine who was there in Afghanistan and had the suicide bomber, had him identified him, was prepared to take him out, and the Biden White House wouldn't let him, and he was prevented from doing so, and those service men and women were killed.

You know, I'm seeing a news report now. I don't know if it's been verified or not, that the man who was yelling out about his son and the Marines was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor for interrupting Biden. And I didn't know it was a crime at all to interrupt the state of the Union. If it is, I imagine not a court in the land would ever convict him given the circumstances of what he did.

Have you seen the DC district courts? Well, fair enough.

I was saying, you'll have a much shot, and yeah, trust me, they'll go after them all the way.

Right. I forgot where we were broadcasting from right now.

It was putting you in the swamp, brother, You were right in the swamp.

But putting that particular instance aside it did seem to me that there was more heckling than usual. You've been to a dozen of these centators.

Yeah, Look, I mean there has been. The Democrats were doing lots of the four more years, which was weird. I don't recall I don't recall anyone doing that for Obama. I don't recall folks doing it for Trump. I may not be remembering it, but if it happened, I don't remember it, you know, I will say, Look, in recent years, I have not like. There are some House Republicans who heckled the president, and I got.

To say, I really dislike that.

I disagree passionately with Joe Biden, but I respect the office of the presidency and what it represents, and so even if I disagree with him, I just think it's not Look, a gold star father is a different circumstance, But for a member of Congress, I think heckling is is not not consistent with the decorum and respect that is owed, not just the presidency. By the way, did you notice what didn't happen at the beginning of the speech? Did you notice the Speaker of the House speak the House the speech up into shreds, and.

He didn't get to introduce him. Did you notice that as well? Usually you have him introduce He didn't do that. The President just walked up there, went straight to the to the podium and started talking. And the entire moment where you're supposed to introduce him that comes to the Speak of the House never happened.

It was It was very odd and look the heckling led to So I predicted before the speech that there were four words that that Biden would not say, Lake and Riley and Jeremy Caserras. Now, as it so happened, he kind of sort of said Lake.

And Riley, but he almost tried to.

But he did so in response to heckling someone calling out say her name, and there were many members of Congress wearing buttons and pins that said Lake and Riley, say her name.

And he said the wrong name.

He said Lincoln Riley, which the.

Head football coach at usc.

It and he had one of those buttons. So I think I think one of the members of Congress had given it to him.

Yes, I don't know if it was Congressman Andy Ogles who actually invited me tonight, or if it was Marjorie Taylor Green or what but there were a handful of the conservative congressman who had it, and what I heard from one of the members was that they handed it to the president. He leaned it, he said, oh, I like your button. But I don't think it was sarcastic. I think he legitimately had no idea what was going on and what it represented.

Well, look when the heckling happened, he responded, and he did sort of try to say her name, although he didn't get it right. But then look what he said. He said, you know, she was killed. I'm sorry she was killed, and he expressed sympathy for the parents. And I got to say that may have been the moment that pissed me off the most because listen, so Lake and Riley's parents were invited, and actually, you know, they were invited and they decided not to come. And I understand they are grieving the loss of their daughter, their home in Georgia, and the Georgia House member who invited them left the seat vacant in honor of Lake and Riley. And you know, frankly, they don't want Joe Biden's empathy. They don't want a Hallmark.

Card from him.

They want their daughter back and and what Joe Biden didn't do is take responsibility for his direct culpability. And let's walk through. Lake and Riley never should have been killed. The illegal immigrant who murdered her was caught. He was apprehended in Texas, in El Paso. He came illegally from Venezuela. We had him. And what should have happened is the Biden administration should have followed the law. They should have put him on a plane and flown him back to Venezuela. And if Joe Biden had done that, Lake and Riley would still be alive today.

But it wasn't.

Just l Pass was so so frustrating about this, all a totally preventable tragedy. Yes, they could have gotten him in New York. They did get him in New York. He committed a crime in New York they let him go.

He was arrested for endangering a child. But New York City, again run by Democrats, calls itself a sanctuary city, and they let him go. If Joe Biden had deported him, Lake and Riley would be alive. If New York City had kept it and jail, Lake and Riley would be a lot forget.

About New York City.

He ends up in Athens, Georgia, and he steals from a store. I forget which store. It was the Georgia authorities. I think he was cited with a misdemeanor for shoplifting. You had three distinct opportunities.

Three chances to get rid of him.

Three chances, three strikes, You're out, and a poor American student winds up dead because.

And by the way, let's be clear, Jeremy Cassaris is a two year old boy, a beautiful little boy who was murdered just weeks ago in Prince George's County in Virginia, about thirty miles from where Joe Biden was standing. And that little boy was murdered again by an illegal immigrant that Joe Biden let go. This is happening across the country. We're getting day after day stories of children raped by illegal immigrants. Joe Biden is let go. And he had zero acknowledgment of that, zero intention of changing anything. It was just crocodile tears of I'm so sorry about your daughter, without acknowledging it happened because of his policies, and he continues to do those policies which means there'll be another lake in Riley tomorrow and another set of parents that he again disingenuously apologizes well.

And the proof that the President doesn't seem to care about this issue is the fact that it took him forty minutes into an hour speech to even mention the border on his own. That's how far they buried the border issue in his State of the Union speech.

What I wondered when he was browbeating the Republicans for not voting for even more illegal immigration, which is what his border bill would have done, is is he just counting on the American people not realizing that he is dismantling the fence that the Texas border authorities are putting up, That it's not merely passivity that he's allowing.

Actually give you a little bit of correction on that he wants to dismantle it, but he hasn't actually done it.

He hasn't succeeded.

No, No, the razor wire is there, and they ended up Texas had gotten an injunction preventing the Biden administration from removing the razor wire, and that injunction got reversed. So the Biden administration is no longer prevented from removing the razor wire, but they have not done so.

They wanted to do it, they're prevented from doing it, they're then allowed to do it, but they got spooked by the politics off Yeah. Wow, Wow, that's actually encouraging that someone at the White House is saying, hold on that that really crazy thing that we were going to do. Maybe let's hold off, yeah for a few days.

Wow.

All right, before we end, I got to get you guys reaction to two different things, two clips from CNN. You guys were obviously in the chamber and you didn't get to see all the commentary. I want you to hear what CNN had to say about the state of the Union. This is clip one.

Listen.

He seemed like Walkowski, you talking about this area, he said, like Walkawowski and Grandtarino screaming at kids, get off my lawn, like an old guy screaming agains.

My guess is that when he got into the heart of his agenda, the things that you ridicule about the cost of food and you know, price gouging and so on.

I bet you that scored.

With a lot of people. I think that they the populist economic agenda is a powerful, powerful thing for him.

Look, there are parts of it.

I'm not sure that the attacks all landed exactly. They may have landed well in that room for sure, and they landed well with base voters for sure. I'm not sure where those swing voters that they landed as well, but I do think.

I mean, that's David Axrod, the former Obama you know, senior advisor, who's saying, you know, in response to one of the commenters saying, look it was it was like an old guy screaming to the kids get off my lawn.

It's what you said earlier. Center.

But they're saying CNN and he's even admitting, hey, there's a pretty good chance that didn't play well or land with independent voters.

Okay, Ben, you're really scaring me? Are you telling me that, unbeknownst to me, I was channeling David Axelrod on CNN.

Holy crap. I might have to just hang it all up right now. It's over.

I am off the rails, Michael right now.

Something we need to correct something.

And I got to say even worse, Axelrod's analogy is better. He threw out the whole grand Tarino like he took it one notch better. I am just thoroughly humiliated.

And not only that, you'll like this one.

So then there was another commentator on CNN who actually said this about the president's speech.

Listen, he talked about snickers and snack chips before he ever got to the border. He was obsessed with his political rival more than he was obsessed with the condition of the American people.

It was so weird.

This guy lectures us all on unity, the soul of the nation, and he gives the most partisan convention speech in place of a state of a Union that I've ever heard. It's the literal opposite of unity. It's so partisan. He's obsessed with taunting Republicans. It's not statesman life. Can let's say one thing on Israel?

I mean, that was Scott Jennings, a former col league of mine, who said that.

And he's right, by the way.

I mean, he did talk about snickers and snack chips before he ever got to the border.

It was his words. It was just weird.

I like his observation that Joe Biden thought he was at the DNC.

Maybe that's as simple as that.

You know, he thought he walked into the convention Whoosie Daisy had actually was a joint session for the state of the Union. But you know, the man doesn't remember his own name.

I will say one thing that also, that clip reminded me of It was odd how many times he referenced Trump. I cannot think of any state of the Union in my lifetime with that many references to your opponent, the forer president, the forer president, the former president. And you know he's like, you know, you know, I believe in in truth and happiness and love and puppy dogs and fairies, and my opponent believes in hate and suffering, in misery and dead puppies.

Like like it was just like, really, do a little defensive you would.

Say, campaign one I want.

I will tell you the list of things Biden didn't mention to say the Union. You guys ready for this. He did not mention US service members killed in Afghanistan. He did not mention US service members killed by Iranian backed proxies in the Middle East. He did not mention gas prices. He did not mention TikTok or China uh. He did not mention North Korea. He didn't mention Cuba. He didn't mention school choice. He didn't mention the classified doc scandal. He didn't mention Hunter Biden or the Biden corruption. He did not mention fossil fuels. He did not mention deporting illegals. He did not mention border wall, he did not mention the attacks on pregnancy centers, and he did not mention China's human rights abuses. Notice a lot of those connect with people that have given money the Biden crime family.

I'll leave it with that center your reaction.

Well, but do you have anything to say about how many chips are in a bag of chips?

I think you know, I think he did touch on that important subject.

Do you know the state of the Union may be in trouble, but the state of chips is really in trouble.

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