Verdict with Ted Cruz - Biden Allows Iran to Attack Israel after Dems Blocked Emergency Funding

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00:00:04.540 Welcome.

00:00:05.260 It is a special Sunday edition of Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:10.840 And I want to let you know, Monday's podcast is going to be very important after Israel

00:00:15.020 was attacked by Iran.

00:00:17.840 I also want to remind you of what Senator Cruz and I predicted was going to happen when

00:00:23.620 Democrats and the Biden administration abandoned Israel and said no to giving them funding

00:00:29.860 and what they needed when it came to arms.

00:00:31.940 Democrats voting against this, which is truly shocking.

00:00:35.200 That is part one.

00:00:36.880 The other part about this that we're going to cover on Monday, and it's going to be very

00:00:41.300 important, is the fact that there were warnings from Senator Cruz and others.

00:00:46.300 You cannot give money to the number one state sponsor of terrorism in the world, Iran.

00:00:51.480 And that is exactly what Obama did.

00:00:53.620 And it's exactly what Joe Biden has done.

00:00:56.760 We freed up billions of dollars, billions of dollars that we allowed Iran to get their 1.00

00:01:03.200 hands on.

00:01:03.860 We also talked about the Iranian oil embargo.

00:01:07.300 We've allowed Iran to get around those embargoes, to skirt those embargoes, which is the part that 0.93

00:01:13.640 is also extremely shocking with everything that we're talking about today.

00:01:17.820 So I'm going to go back and I'm going to play for you a podcast that we did that talked exactly

00:01:23.580 about Schumer and the Democrats blocking emergency funding for Israel.

00:01:27.740 This was the moment where Iran knew that they could attack Israel. 0.98

00:01:32.280 They realized that the president was weak and that the president would not respond and that

00:01:37.520 the president was criticizing Israel instead of criticizing Iran and Hamas and Hezbollah.

00:01:44.860 This, again, is an important pod that we did.

00:01:48.720 And I remind you, you do not want to miss tomorrow, Monday mornings as well.

00:01:53.160 We will have all of the center's reaction to what just happened with Iran attacking Israel,

00:01:59.040 not through their proxies, directly attacking them.

00:02:01.800 We'll have all of that for you coming up on Monday mornings pod.

00:02:06.240 Until then, take a listen to this podcast we did about Chuck Schumer, the Democrats blocking

00:02:12.280 emergency funding to Israel, which was the moment that Iran knew they could get away with this. 0.79

00:02:17.380 I want to talk about this vote that happened where every single Senate Democrat just voted

00:02:25.920 to block aid to Israel on a day when 200,000 plus came to the steps of the Capitol to support

00:02:35.120 Israel. This was shocking that every one of them said no.

00:02:39.520 Well, that's exactly right. Today was a momentous day.

00:02:42.920 And look, I spent this afternoon down at the mall with the March for Israel,

00:02:49.520 and we had hundreds of thousands of people from all over America descend on Washington

00:02:55.920 and stand together for Israel. And it was inspirational.

00:02:58.660 I spent a lot of time down there just hugging people and encouraging them and taking pictures

00:03:04.240 and saying thank you and the spirit of unity. I mean, we've seen over the last month,

00:03:10.920 the nastiness we've seen, the vicious anti-Semitism we've seen, the hatred for Israel we've seen

00:03:16.820 has been really horrifying. And the March for Israel was spectacular to be a part of.

00:03:23.380 And then after that, I came back to Capitol Hill and a group of us, a group of senators decided,

00:03:30.960 okay, enough is enough. We are going to force a vote on military aid to Israel right now.

00:03:39.620 So as you know, what happened, the House of Representatives took up and passed a clean

00:03:46.720 Israel aid bill, $14 billion in emergency military aid for Israel.

00:03:54.440 The Biden White House wants to tie that military aid to Ukraine and also more broadly to their efforts

00:04:02.620 to increase illegal immigration. They call it in a very Orwellian term, border security funding,

00:04:09.160 but it's designed not to secure the border at all. Instead, to increase illegal immigration,

00:04:14.920 to accelerate the time for processing, to spend more money to putting illegal immigrants on trains 0.99

00:04:21.560 and planes and buses to send them to every city in America. And so the Biden White House is cynically

00:04:30.620 trying to tie Israel aid to all of that. The House of Representatives did the right thing, 0.95

00:04:35.080 something we've called for on this podcast. Break Israel funding off and vote for it free and clear. 1.00

00:04:41.680 Now, when the House did that, they decided to be fiscally responsible. They decided to pay for it.

00:04:47.020 I think that's the right thing to do. And so the way they paid for the $14 billion is rescinding funding

00:04:53.980 that the Democrats had previously passed into law to hire 87,000 new IRS agents designed to harass

00:05:02.520 small businesses, harass middle class families to be used as an army to go after the enemies of this

00:05:10.100 administration. So you mentioned that you mentioned that the vote and the numbers here, there's some

00:05:17.200 people that are going to be looking at these numbers. It's very, very tight. This vote, it was

00:05:20.760 obviously a party line vote. How on earth is it that not a single Democrat would come over and stand

00:05:26.460 with Israel on this? Or was this just a, hey, we, we, as a democratic party, we always vote together,

00:05:31.960 even if it screws Israel. I mean, this is one of the most tone death, tone death votes I've ever

00:05:37.520 witnessed while there's literally 200,000 plus people on the mall standing with Israel in a

00:05:43.140 nonpartisan way. Look, this vote was a demonstration of what I describe at great length in my brand new

00:05:50.380 book, Unwoke, How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America. By the way, if you haven't bought it,

00:05:55.080 go on to Amazon right now and buy the book because this vote today was a manifestation of that.

00:06:01.060 Today's Democrats, they don't give a damn about substance. They, they care about power. 0.83

00:06:06.260 And because the corrupt corporate media will not report on what they say, they are not accountable

00:06:12.840 for what they do. So, so here's what happens. This, this is one of the moments where this podcast is

00:06:17.500 unusual because I want to bring you inside the procedural maneuvering in the Senate in a way that,

00:06:23.440 frankly, there's no other news source that provides that. So I came back from the march

00:06:29.000 for Israel about 4 p.m. on the Capitol. And I got a text as I was driving back to the Capitol

00:06:34.800 from Roger Marshall, Roger Marshall, Republican from Kansas, good friend. He said, a bunch of us

00:06:40.460 are meeting to try to force a vote on Israel funding right now. So I deviated. I was going to

00:06:45.640 go to my office. I deviated to go to the Senate floor. I was there with other conservatives,

00:06:50.640 people like Mike Lee, who is my closest friend in the Senate, a number of others. And we were

00:06:55.220 strategizing about how we can force a vote. And in particular, there's a procedural method

00:07:00.440 called filing a rogue cloture petition. And, and what that means is any 16 senators can file a cloture

00:07:11.100 petition, which is a petition to force a vote on something and can basically hijack the Senate floor

00:07:17.920 from the Senate majority leader. And it is a procedural mechanism that is very, very rarely

00:07:23.660 used because both Schumer and McConnell hate it. So McConnell had repeatedly urged us, do not use

00:07:32.980 this mechanism because the majority leader should be able to control the entire agenda. And it's a

00:07:38.580 mistake to let the minority hijack the agenda. Well, look, I understand that procedural point. It's

00:07:43.880 not crazy as a day-to-day operation of the Senate, but here the house had passed emergency military aid

00:07:52.780 for Israel and Chuck Schumer had announced, we will not vote on it. He would block the Senate from voting

00:08:00.100 on it. It was literally Schumer was single-handedly preventing a vote on emergency military aid for

00:08:05.460 Israel. And it's because he wants, number one, he's not willing to give up the funding for the army

00:08:12.180 of 87,000 new IRS agents. He values harassing the political enemies of the White House more

00:08:18.000 than military aid for Israel. And number two, he wants to tie it to all the political priorities

00:08:23.620 of Democrats and hold that military aid hostage. Let me ask you this question about about this funding,

00:08:29.960 because this is a fight that we did not see. Everybody jumped on the yes bandwagon when it came

00:08:36.560 to military aid for Ukraine. Democrats had no problem jumping on that as well. And you didn't

00:08:43.800 have to figure out a way to try to bring this vote up. How do, what is the logic when you're talking to

00:08:49.840 Democrats, your colleagues in the Senate, how can they be so hell-bent and gung-ho on unlimited funding

00:08:56.280 for Ukraine, but no on something as simple as defending our actual ally, Israel?

00:09:02.140 So Democrats, number one, recognize that all the Republicans strongly support military aid

00:09:08.040 for Israel. So they see that cynically as a political opportunity. Good. This is something 0.99

00:09:13.600 Republicans want. Let's hold it hostage. But number two, listen, Democrats are worried about

00:09:19.160 their left flank. They're getting blasted by the anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, radical, anti-Semitic left,

00:09:26.740 the squad. And so they're all nervous. And so what ended up happening, it's why Schumer didn't want to

00:09:31.780 vote. He didn't want to force Democrats to vote on it. And he felt like he had exquisite power.

00:09:36.900 Now, Schumer screwed up. The majority leader can prevent what we did today. The way the majority

00:09:43.120 leader prevents what we did today is he files a pending motion to proceed to something. And under

00:09:49.040 the Senate procedural rules, that pending motion to proceed to some bill blocks another motion to

00:09:55.320 proceed to a bill. And so that's something when Senate Republicans had a majority, Mitch McConnell did

00:10:00.500 every day. He did that to block the Democrats from doing what we did. Well, Schumer was lazy. He

00:10:05.220 didn't do that. So the floor was wide open. And so what happened is a group of us, we had 11 Senate

00:10:11.160 Republicans. We met off the floor of the Senate. You needed 11 to force a voice vote. And so we

00:10:16.340 gathered there on the side of the Senate and we're talking about, OK, we're going to force this. And

00:10:21.020 we're doing this surreptitiously. This is like 4 p.m. Tuesday afternoon. We then all went to the

00:10:26.840 Senate cloakroom and we were waiting. And actually, John Kennedy was giving an extended speech.

00:10:31.800 And we wanted Roger Marshall as the one who had the idea initially to go forward. So Mike Lee and

00:10:36.460 I and others were backing Roger. And we needed to get the floor because the Senate Democrats were

00:10:42.840 starting to get wind of what we were trying to do. And at one point, Chuck Schumer's lead floor aide on

00:10:50.280 the Senate, his sort of lead staffer, he came and stuck his head in the Republican cloakroom.

00:10:56.920 And he looks around and he sees 11 of us sitting there and he kind of looks around and he doesn't 0.99

00:11:01.660 quite say this out loud, but everything is in his expression goes, oh, shit. Like he knew this. 0.99

00:11:09.000 He had figured out what we were trying to do. And so we went actually, Rand Paul was part of the group.

00:11:14.160 Rand went down to John Kennedy, was giving a speech in another matter. And Rand interrupted him. He's like,

00:11:18.680 John Kennedy's on C-SPAN, giving a speech. And Rand said, John, we really need you to stop right now.

00:11:23.820 It's an emergency. Please stop. And John didn't even know what we were doing, but he's like, okay.

00:11:28.660 So he stops. Roger Marshall goes down and he gets recognized. So getting recognized,

00:11:33.920 once you're recognized, you have the floor, you have power. And so Roger goes down and he moves to

00:11:39.920 proceed to the House bill. So the House bill is what they passed. It is $14 billion in emergency

00:11:47.300 military funding for Israel, paid for by rescinding the IRS additional funding for 87,000 agents.

00:11:54.180 Once he did that, the Democrats are in panic. They're like, oh, crap, oh, crap, oh, crap, oh, crap. 0.99

00:11:58.680 And so Raphael Warnock, the Democrat from Georgia, he was down there. 0.99

00:12:03.360 Now procedurally, once Roger moves to proceed to the bill, he has relinquished the floor. It's a jump

00:12:10.220 ball at that point because to move to proceed to it, the presiding officer instructs the clerk to read

00:12:16.660 the title of the bill. So Roger no longer has the floor. Can I ask you a cynical question real

00:12:21.580 quick? Yes. How many senators have no idea how this works, what you're describing right now?

00:12:27.660 About 90. Okay. That's the reason why this story is amazing to me because I'm like, I bet you the

00:12:33.760 majority of the senators that you serve with don't know the rules of the Senate and how this would

00:12:39.900 work. No, no. It's only a handful of senators that understand the rules. So Roger moves.

00:12:44.340 When he makes the motion, he's relinquished the floor. And so what happened then,

00:12:48.800 as soon as the clerk has read the title of the bill, Roger says, Mr. President, the presiding

00:12:54.260 officer was Senator Welch from Vermont. He was there. Roger calls out Mr. President,

00:12:59.360 but Raphael Warnock, liberal Democrat from Georgia, calls out Mr. President as well. Now,

00:13:03.060 the presiding officer, when you got multiple people asking to be recognized, has the option to pick who

00:13:08.120 to decide? And so because he's a Democrat, Welch recognizes Warnock. Warnock stands up and says,

00:13:15.580 I suggest the absence of a quorum. Now, what that means, this is getting in the weeds, but this is

00:13:21.440 one of the cool things about this podcast. It takes you inside the Senate. Under the Senate rules,

00:13:27.040 when any senator suggests the absence of a quorum, there is a mandatory quorum call. What it means is

00:13:32.560 there are not enough senators on the floor right now to conduct business. It is a way to freeze the

00:13:39.720 Senate, to lock it in paralysis, because once you're in a quorum call, you can do nothing else.

00:13:47.780 And so Warnock pushed us into a quorum call. At that point, we're there, and there are more than 11

00:13:54.660 of us that are there. We proceeded over the next hour periodically, one after the other, we'd grab the

00:13:59.840 microphone. We'd stand up and say, Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to vitiate the quorum call.

00:14:04.980 That's a way to say, end the quorum call, let's vote on this damn thing. And over and over again, 0.99

00:14:09.720 we did this like 30 times. Democrats would object. They'd say, I object, I object, I object. Now,

00:14:15.000 you can do that forever. You can keep, they could keep us in a quorum call, but it meant

00:14:19.560 they were stuck. And so we were brainstorming, okay, how can they avoid a vote? We went up to them and

00:14:26.060 said, look, what we want is a roll call vote where every senator has to go on record. Do you support

00:14:32.640 funding for Israel or do you oppose funding for Israel? After about two hours, and I cannot overstate

00:14:39.180 Ben, how upset Chuck Schumer was, how upset the Democrats were, we blindsided them. They did not

00:14:45.980 expect this. This hit them out of nowhere. And then they finally said, screw it. We're going to force

00:14:52.060 through the votes. So we voted and it was a straight party line vote. So understand every

00:15:00.080 single Democrat voted against emergency military funding for Israel. Chuck Schumer, who calls him

00:15:09.560 the defender of Israel, that's what he calls himself, voted against emergency military funding

00:15:14.640 for Israel. Um, John Tester, who's running for reelection in Montana, voted against emergency

00:15:21.940 funding for Israel. Sherrod Brown, who's running for reelection in Ohio, voted against emergency

00:15:27.640 funding for Israel. Bob Casey, who's running for reelection in Pennsylvania, voted against emergency

00:15:34.460 funding for Israel. Jackie Rosen, who's running for reelection in Nevada, voted against emergency

00:15:41.420 funding for israel tammy baldwin who's running for re-election in wisconsin voted against emergency

00:15:48.080 funding for israel and the amazing thing has been it was a straight party line vote which means

00:15:52.440 every single one of those democrats i named was the deciding vote literally if one democrat had

00:15:59.660 with us this was a 50 vote threshold so one democrat could have passed this but every

00:16:06.660 democrat voted no and it was a moment of clarity and i think a moment of clarity that will come

00:16:13.660 down to the election next year where the democrats have made clear that partisan politics matters more

00:16:20.480 to them than standing with israel right now senator you mentioned that any one democrat could have moved

00:16:27.320 the pendulum here and funded israel uh and if you don't have to name names per se but are you shocked

00:16:34.020 i mean there are some democrats that that i truly believe are quote friends of israel um i i am

00:16:41.360 shocked that not one of them did the right thing here and and truly stood with israel they they they

00:16:47.800 just said no party over even israel and and what is referred to is emergency funding meaning they need

00:16:54.860 it now look this was i think a spectacularly foolish vote by democrats i mean you had kirsten cinema was the

00:17:01.400 deciding vote against emergency aid to israel bob benendez who right now is in the midst of uh of a

00:17:07.900 very serious indictment and a serious scandal but he's on the ballot in november he was the deciding vote

00:17:13.700 against emergency aid to israel dick blumenthal ben cardin uh all sorts of democrats who who hold

00:17:21.400 themselves out as defenders of israel every one of them literally one of them could say you know what

00:17:27.260 we need emergency aid to israel now and i don't care what my party leadership says i'm not going to do

00:17:32.720 it but they decided they cracked the whip and i'll tell you on the flip side listen it was not easy

00:17:39.620 to hold every republican so i was down on the senate floor for about two and a half hours this afternoon

00:17:44.600 and i was whipping republicans and listen republican leadership was pissed i i cannot overstate how angry

00:17:51.900 they were and the reason is it is is our leadership said listen if you do this when republicans have the

00:17:59.360 majority democrats will use this tool to try to hijack the floor and that's a reasonable procedural

00:18:05.340 point i get that it's not crazy that being said i think the crisis in israel is so dire the position

00:18:12.700 of the democrats is so indefensible that it made sense to force and so we did it but when we're voting

00:18:18.240 on it there were a number of republicans close to leadership who delayed their vote and delayed

00:18:24.580 their vote and delayed their vote and and i was talking to them personally and i was saying please

00:18:29.240 please vote to do the right thing because if we entered up with a vote where you had all the

00:18:34.860 democrats and two or three or five republicans it would totally blur the distinction they could say

00:18:40.820 there's a bipartisan vote against this procedural game that's what the democrats would say 1.00

00:18:46.300 and so i was begging republicans please this is something i get you don't like the procedural

00:18:53.000 mechanism that we forced this vote but we did once we did let's actually be united and and and

00:19:00.480 be team players and miraculously look it was close and i was talking to staffers i was talking to

00:19:07.320 members i was lobbying i was on the in the well of the senate working vote by vote by vote we got

00:19:13.720 every single republican hundred percent that was a big deal because it means that each and every

00:19:20.260 democrat there is not a democrat in the senate who was not the deciding vote on this motion and that

00:19:25.520 is a big deal for clarity and and i want to underscore something ben you asked a minute ago why would

00:19:32.080 democrats do this and and and part of me was shocked by the way joe manchin is not running for

00:19:36.760 re-election he voted against military funding for israel he could have been the deciding vote but he

00:19:41.380 figured i guess screw it i'm leaving the senate who cares um part of the reason democrats do this 0.68

00:19:48.300 while we're voting i looked up in the senate gallery there were four reporters up in the senate gallery

00:19:53.720 uh we'll see how many headlines are published about senate democrats block military funding for

00:20:03.960 israel but my guess is very very few we went out and tried to talk to reporters i i didn't see the

00:20:10.000 six o'clock news tonight so i don't know this for a fact but i'd be willing to bet you a hundred

00:20:15.320 dollars right now and i'm cheap i don't bet a hundred dollars on many things that's right i'd bet

00:20:20.680 you a hundred dollars that none of the major networks covered that senate democrats tonight

00:20:25.600 blocked funding for israel and this is why look this is the point in my book on woke which you ought

00:20:31.020 to go online and buy right now this is why i focus so much on the corrupt corporate media

00:20:36.880 because the corrupt corporate media they're not covering news they are partisan advocates they don't

00:20:45.180 want aid to israel to pass they are cheering for hamas many of the corrupt corporate media are openly 0.74

00:20:51.520 cheering for hamas and so democrats can cast spectacularly foolish votes and know their constituents

00:20:58.860 will never know about it dick blumenthal democrat from connecticut he holds himself out as one of 0.73

00:21:03.920 the leading defenders of israel well he is absolutely certain when he goes to connecticut

00:21:08.880 none of his voters will know that he was the deciding vote that blocked emergency military aid to israel

00:21:15.720 why because the corrupt corporate media won't tell them you senator have said this several times and

00:21:23.020 it's a very accurate statement you say if lawyers never ask a question of somebody if they don't already

00:21:27.800 know the answer that that rule applies i think to taking things to the fore of the senate for a vote

00:21:34.120 right don't call a vote if you don't know what the outcome's gonna be uh and yet it this today seems

00:21:39.860 to be one of those incredibly authentic moments was it inspired because of the 200 000 plus that came to

00:21:46.740 capitol hill to stand with israel and that's where this kind of started where it was like you know what

00:21:51.220 we got to do something today and and and let's just see if we can get it done and no we haven't called

00:21:57.040 everybody beforehand and this is an organic moment in the senate look for me it certainly was i can't

00:22:03.960 speak to the other republican senators but i came literally from the march on washington i was down there

00:22:09.740 hugging and supporting so many so many incredible heroes and jewish americans who came from all over the

00:22:15.980 country to come to the mall to stand in solidarity and i came back and and i heard several of my

00:22:21.540 colleagues were thinking of this and i was like absolutely let's go to the floor right now let's

00:22:25.960 do it and so i leaned in aggressively and and i gotta say it was striking number one the absolute panic

00:22:32.680 among senate democrats was striking but sadly the panic among senate republican leadership they didn't

00:22:38.280 like that we did this either but i think it provided an absolute moment of clarity and let me be clear

00:22:43.600 what i hoped would happen is that we would vote to provide the military aid to israel by the way if

00:22:51.360 one democrat if even one if bob casey if if jackie rosen if john tester if sherrod brown if even one

00:22:59.420 democrat had voted with us this bill would have passed and we would have sent it to joe biden's desk

00:23:06.220 tonight so joe biden could have signed it this evening and sent 14 billion dollars to israel

00:23:14.320 tuesday night wow i didn't know if that would happen i actually wasn't sure they could hold their votes

00:23:22.180 and part of the reason they locked up the floor in a quorum call for a couple hours is i assume they

00:23:27.440 were whipping their votes they called the people that they thought were wobbly votes they said okay

00:23:31.660 schumer wants you to vote to screw israel are you okay with that and i think every democrat said yep

00:23:37.380 good by me i'm good by that and and and it just i gotta say if the shoe were on the other foot if it

00:23:44.340 were republican leadership asking republicans to cast a vote like that i wouldn't do it and a whole bunch

00:23:49.760 of us wouldn't and yet the democrats this is where i cannot overstate the impact of the corrupt

00:23:56.720 corporate media part of the reason republicans wouldn't do it is our voters will know if we cast

00:24:01.840 a terrible vote yeah it would literally cost several senators their job the next election

00:24:07.420 the democrats feel utterly and completely immune they know that cnn has their back they know that

00:24:14.480 abc nbc cbs msnbc they won't cover it they won't report on it they'll ignore it they'll bury it

00:24:21.680 and the new york times they're not going to cover it because they don't want to cover it because

00:24:27.680 they're more interested in the left-wing partisan agenda than they are in actually covering the news

00:24:34.760 senator i want to move to another issue and it deals with israel but it's in a different capacity

00:24:40.040 and that is the shock of anti-semitism on college campuses mit now is facing backlash for not expelling

00:24:50.040 anti-israel protesters over their they what they refer to as visa issues they said they they

00:24:58.500 originally threatened to expel these pro-palestinian protesters and then afterwards they're like okay

00:25:05.400 we're gonna full we're gonna come back on this we're gonna pull back on this uh and say never mind

00:25:11.340 because these people if we if we pull them from school it will it will have visa issues uh regardless

00:25:17.420 of how extreme these protesters were this is shocking to see them coming back from this

00:25:24.240 yet that's exactly what now has happened at mit your reaction well listen what happened at mit was

00:25:31.000 absolutely disgraceful mit by any measure is one of the finest educational institutions on the face of

00:25:37.340 the planet it may be the greatest scientific technical uh university in the world and what has

00:25:45.280 happened in the last several days is that numerous jewish students were forced to stay home from

00:25:51.260 classes they could not attend classes why because anti-israel anti-semitic protesters threatened them

00:25:58.040 physically threatened them and the students said they felt that they felt unsafe they they felt like

00:26:03.340 going to class would endanger their personal safety now that is insane and and any normal university if

00:26:12.540 if one student threatens another student threatens their safety and prevents them from going to class

00:26:18.120 whoever makes that threat should be expelled if you are harassing jewish students because you're an 0.93

00:26:24.200 anti-semit bigot you should be expelled and by the way to be clear if someone was harassing muslim 0.77

00:26:30.620 students and preventing muslim students from going to class they should be expelled no student has a right 1.00

00:26:36.620 to harass and threaten fellow students well what happened at mit is is this harassment occurred and

00:26:43.880 jewish students stayed home and the university administrators backed away and refused to take

00:26:51.120 the natural step of expelling them why because these rabid anti-semitisms were there with semites 0.99

00:26:57.780 were there on student visas and if they got expelled they'd get sent back home and the university said well

00:27:03.100 okay if you were an american we would punish you but because you're not an american because you're a

00:27:08.540 guest because we've welcomed you to our country to get an education you can conduct harassment and 0.98

00:27:14.400 bigotting bigoted racist threaten threatening of other students and and we will just turn a blind eye and

00:27:20.660 give you a pat on the back it's cnn there there truly seems to be a civil war inside of cnn right now 0.95

00:27:25.960 because if you watch the morning show it's like all uh hamas propaganda and anti-semitism you watch their 0.68

00:27:32.360 primetime lineup at night it goes right back to that there was a moment and i i i want to give

00:27:38.020 credit here um to jake tapper jake tapper had on an mit graduate student and let her tell her story to

00:27:46.520 the world and i want you to hear what she had to say it was and i'm glad that he used his program

00:27:52.680 for good he had the headline hate in america mit student speaks out about anti-semitism on campus

00:27:59.000 listen to this um as a jewish student at mit do you feel safe on campus you know honestly jake in

00:28:06.160 the past few weeks i have not felt safe on campus why not so you know ever since october 7th we've

00:28:13.260 seen at universities around the country that you know the conflict that's overseas has come to our

00:28:19.100 home turf and uh we've had a lot of rallies and events by an organization called the coalition

00:28:25.860 against apartheid which is the anti-israel group on mit's campus and um they along with

00:28:32.760 some local anti-israel groups have come to campus because mit is an open campus which means that

00:28:39.040 anybody can walk around and you know be on campus so they together have done protests on campus on the

00:28:46.140 steps of lobby 7 which is the main entrance to mit and in front of the student center and i mean people

00:28:52.400 protest but but what do they do what do they say that makes you feel unsafe so i guess part of it

00:29:00.780 is the fact of what they're saying so when you're saying things like globalize the entifada use your

00:29:06.360 two fists to sacrifice everything for palestine and one solution entifada you know we know what

00:29:12.760 happened during the second entifada it was suicide bombings and attacks against israeli civilians in

00:29:17.680 israel but the other part of it is that these people aren't just protesting outside and exercising

00:29:23.300 the right to free speech which i fully support as an american it's that they're going you know they

00:29:27.660 went to the personal offices of a program that runs israel internships on mit's campus and they

00:29:34.140 went to the offices of the people who work for this program and they tried to enter they were going

00:29:37.860 from door to door trying to unlock the doors and the people who worked in this office had no idea to

00:29:43.040 what these students were trying to do by trying to get into their office they were yelling they were

00:29:46.560 accusing them of apartheid of ethnic cleansing of genocide and it was a really frightening experience

00:29:51.340 a really frightening experience you hear this student saying this and yet there this is happening

00:29:58.480 to them as you described a moment ago they said if you keep doing this we're going to expel you then

00:30:03.080 they said oh never mind just kidding uh you're just going to be in trouble but you're not going to get

00:30:06.760 expelled because we don't want you to lose your visa that's in my semitism are and accepting this type 1.00

00:30:11.620 of abuse by these individuals well that's right and let me quote from fox news had an article about

00:30:18.680 this where they quoted conservative lawyer marina maria medvin and she said quote mit is one of the

00:30:25.420 most prestigious universities in the u.s these days foreigners make up about 30 percent of the mit student

00:30:32.980 body jewish students on the other hand make up about six percent of the mit student body a campus

00:30:41.400 minority so think about it right now now i i will admit um it is somewhat concerning that 30 percent of 0.80

00:30:47.180 the mit student body are foreigners but especially if these are foreigners that are vicious bigots that 0.95

00:30:52.740 are anti-semites that are willing to threaten harass and threaten physical violence against their fellow 0.99

00:30:58.120 students their jewish students because they hate them so much they should be expelled if you threaten 0.84

00:31:05.120 physical violence against a fellow student if you block them from from going to class that should be a 1.00

00:31:11.940 no-brainer reason for expulsion and and and the administrators look why did the administrators not

00:31:19.660 expel them and and again this goes back to what i talk about in my new book unwoke this is cultural

00:31:25.980 marxism the administrators the cultural marxists side with the people they have decided are the

00:31:32.400 victims the palestinians over the people they have decided the that they are the oppressors the jews 0.99

00:31:38.060 and so for the radical left threats of violence against jews are okay it is acceptable and and and so

00:31:46.700 listen the fact that someone's on a student visa they ought to behave better not worse it shouldn't be the

00:31:52.640 case that americans are held to stricter standards than foreigners coming to study in our universities

00:31:58.000 and yet mit says well if we expelled you you'd lose your student visa so we're not going to expel you

00:32:04.240 please continue to harass and threaten and threaten physical violence to our students because you know 0.52

00:32:10.320 we the administrators don't give a damn about the jewish students because in the cultural marxist 0.99

00:32:15.840 world they're the oppressors so to heck with them yeah to the heck with them and i i will say it's 0.99

00:32:21.340 we better stand up for these students and the fat and and hold these and i hope donors i really do and 0.79

00:32:27.840 the people that give to these universities are paying attention to what these universities are doing

00:32:32.000 yes yes yes absolutely right it's one of the things that is freaking universities out is that donors are cut

00:32:39.400 are cutting off the cash and that is it's the one thing that's getting them attention and and and

00:32:50.200 listen i i want to actually quote from one of the best known poems

00:32:57.080 first they came for the socialists and i did not speak out because i was not a socialist

00:33:05.080 then they came for the trade unionists and i did not speak out because i was not a trade unionist

00:33:13.180 then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me look i think that applies to our

00:33:30.100 universities right now if there's anyone at a university a student a professor an administrator

00:33:37.140 who gives a damn about equal rights about protection about stopping anti-semitism about

00:33:44.060 stopping bigotry about stopping hate speak out now if you're a donor and you write a check to these

00:33:51.240 schools speak out now and say not one penny more until you protect the students on our campus you

00:33:58.480 cannot give in to the violent marxist radicals and expect us to continue to support these schools 1.00

00:34:06.280 this is a time for choosing right now senator lastly i want to play for you and just so people

00:34:13.380 understand what's happening at mit this is just some of the student videos have gone viral online

00:34:19.080 they're chanting infatada uh and the jewish students are stuck inside were physically prevented from

00:34:43.140 attending class by this hostile group of pro hamas and anti-israel mit students that call themselves

00:34:49.060 the caa then then another student uh came out and showed another video of these massive protests

00:34:56.300 and this is what it sounded like

00:34:57.800 senator they were doing this and they knew where many of the jewish students were when they went to

00:35:16.720 these buildings to protest just to scare these jewish students i i i leave everybody with that audio

00:35:25.420 uh and and i want to get your final words on this because this is clearly organized it's being funded by

00:35:32.080 someone senator there the mit is what they refer to as an open campus where outside groups can come in

00:35:38.760 this is orchestrated by these extremist anti-israel groups somebody has to be paying for this funding

00:35:47.120 this and then they are targeting where the jewish students are in these schools and it's not just mit this is

00:35:54.120 happening on other college campuses so the second intifada in israel was a series of suicide

00:36:01.960 bobbings carried out by palestinian assailants and it resulted it took place between 1987 and 1993

00:36:08.700 and it had a combined casualty casualty figure of roughly 1 000 israelis

00:36:16.200 3 000 palestinians and 64 foreign nationals and so when when when these radicals are cheering

00:36:26.280 and chanting for another intifada they're calling for murdering more jews now mind you on october 7th

00:36:33.140 we saw saw 1200 israelis civilians targeted by hamas death squads and murdered because they are

00:36:41.040 israelis and these protesters are chanting they want another intifada in other words you haven't

00:36:46.280 murdered enough jews we want more jews murdered that's what they're chanting and and listen if you're 1.00

00:36:52.100 a jewish student at mit or at another one of these elite universities where these radical leftists have 0.99

00:36:57.480 taken over it is understandable that you are afraid for your own safety this is disgraceful

00:37:03.540 and every university that allows this to happen is failing in their obligation to keep their students

00:37:09.940 safe no student everyone has a right to free speech no student has a right to threaten physical

00:37:15.740 violence against other students to prevent students from going to class and that's what these radicals

00:37:21.680 are doing at mit and right now the mit administration is complicit in this terrorizing

00:37:28.560 of jewish students it's disgraceful senator it's always a pleasure especially on on shows like this 1.00

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