Verdict with Ted Cruz - April 27, 2024


Biden Ignores Antisemitism, NPR CEO has Issues w Free Speech & WH Terrified of Losing Young Voters Week In Review


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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ben Fergus Ferguson (D-Massachusetts) join me to discuss the latest in anti-Semitism on college campuses, including the White House's tepid response to the anti-Semitic protests at Yale and Columbia University.

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
00:00:02.500 Guaranteed human.
00:00:04.300 Welcome.
00:00:05.120 It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.
00:00:07.300 Weekend Review.
00:00:08.720 Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:10.020 And these are the stories that you may have missed that we talked about this past week.
00:00:14.120 First up, Biden responds to anti-Semitism by basically not condemning it at all.
00:00:20.460 Why is the White House playing it this way?
00:00:22.480 We'll explain it.
00:00:23.400 Also, the new NPR CEO has major issues with truth and says that the First Amendment really gets in the way.
00:00:33.400 Why are your tax dollars going to fund her radical agenda? 0.99
00:00:36.480 We'll break that down for you as well.
00:00:38.880 And finally, Democrats are scared.
00:00:41.720 They're terrified.
00:00:42.620 The youth vote isn't coming in to do what they did last time.
00:00:47.260 And now they're having to take a radical stance against Israel to try to get young voters back on their team.
00:00:55.140 It's the Weekend Review, and it starts right now.
00:00:58.880 We've been covering anti-Semitism on college campuses and exposing what's been happening.
00:01:04.600 But now we're getting to see the White House, specifically the President of the United States of America, 0.97
00:01:09.420 is just pathetic, and that word doesn't seem strong enough, but a pathetic response to anti-Semitism on college campuses. 0.96
00:01:18.940 I want to play this for you from a reporter to the President of the United States of America and get your reaction to it. 0.99
00:01:26.180 Listen to this.
00:01:26.960 And the anti-Semitic protests on college campuses.
00:01:30.520 I condemn the anti-Semitic protests.
00:01:32.640 That's why I've set up a program to deal with that.
00:01:35.320 I also condemn those who don't understand what's going on with the Palestinians and how they're being moved.
00:01:41.960 Should the Columbia University President resign?
00:01:45.000 I didn't know that.
00:01:46.420 I'll have to find out more about it.
00:01:48.720 I love that they asked, should she resign?
00:01:50.780 He goes, I didn't know that.
00:01:51.760 I'll have to find out more about that.
00:01:53.260 But he condemns people that are anti-Semitic and then says, I also condemn those that don't know about the Palestinians.
00:02:01.120 Like, what in the hell is the President doing here, sir?
00:02:03.200 Well, look, he said he didn't know that.
00:02:06.320 And I actually believe that's some of the most honest words that he said.
00:02:09.920 I think he has no idea what's going on.
00:02:12.000 He's not aware of what's going on.
00:02:13.320 And in particular, he's professing ignorance as to what's happening at Columbia, what's happening at Yale.
00:02:19.360 And it is utterly disgraceful. 0.98
00:02:21.820 But you know who's not ignorant? 0.99
00:02:23.220 I mean, I agree he's oblivious. 0.99
00:02:25.080 But who's not ignorant are the other Democrats who are supporting this.
00:02:28.880 And I want you to listen to – so there was an event, a Climate Corps event, where AOC was speaking right next to Joe Biden.
00:02:39.900 And he was right there.
00:02:41.420 And AOC had something to say on this that I want everyone to listen and hear.
00:02:45.700 Here's AOC addressing Columbia and Yale.
00:02:48.960 It is especially important that we remember the power of young people shaping this country today of all days as we once again witness the leadership of those peaceful student-led protests on campuses like Columbia, Yale, Berkeley, and many others.
00:03:06.680 Really? Because a group of Yale Students Center formed a human chain to block a Jewish student from entering the university yesterday.
00:03:16.420 And if you know history, this was a chilling act of anti-Semitism that echoed 1939 when Nazis blocked Jewish students from entering Vienna University simply because they were Jews.
00:03:29.380 No, that's absolutely right.
00:03:59.360 That is not peaceful.
00:04:00.820 Threats of violence and calling from the murder of your former students is not remotely peaceful.
00:04:06.720 But understand, AOC, this is a sitting member of Congress.
00:04:10.640 She's singling out Columbia and Yale.
00:04:13.800 She's praising what's happening at Columbia and Yale.
00:04:16.720 Understand, she supports this vicious anti-Semitism.
00:04:21.180 And there is Joe Biden happily sitting there.
00:04:24.240 In fact, he said at the same event that he's learned that when AOC speaks, you've got to listen to her.
00:04:30.960 Well, you know, that is unfortunately today's Democrat Party, which is the White House is utterly tepid, unwilling to condemn specifically what is happening at Columbia and Yale.
00:04:43.100 And the radicals in their party explicitly endorse it and celebrate it.
00:04:49.560 You mentioned the radicals of the Democratic Party.
00:04:52.360 You and I have said this for a long time.
00:04:54.000 When they tell you what they believe in, believe them.
00:04:57.280 I'll give you an example of this.
00:04:59.640 A group of Columbia University professors actually held a rally Monday.
00:05:04.740 These are the professors who are indoctrinating the kids to hate Jews and hate Israel.
00:05:09.740 They held a rally to express solidarity with the anti-Semitic students that had been suspended for holding unauthorized protests on campus.
00:05:20.260 And not only that, but when you go back and look at what these leaders, these universities believe, whether it's, you know, Claudine Gay, who we've exposed on the show multiple times.
00:05:31.740 But at an event just two months after 9-11, Columbia University's current president remarked, and this was two months after 9-11, that terrorism is a, quote, form of protesting.
00:05:47.740 When they tell you who they are, believe them, listen to this.
00:05:51.740 So it's not, you'll always have individuals who will have extreme views.
00:05:55.780 But what's really troubling in the region is that there's actually quite a broad base of society which has some sympathy for the terrorists.
00:06:03.320 Not so much because they approve of their methods, but it's a form of protesting against a system which is not delivering for them on the economic or the political front.
00:06:11.220 I mean, that's no wonder that this university is totally, it just lost its mind and is, and we're watching this anti-Semitism.
00:06:21.100 If that's what you're saying in public two months after 9-11, then imagine how many children you've been able to indoctrinate college students to believe that the Jews are Israel and that you should feel sympathy for Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS, Al-Qaeda.
00:06:33.220 The list goes on and on.
00:06:34.220 Well, and when she says there's a broad base of society that has sympathy for these terrorists, she's revealing a lot about the world in which she lives, about Ivy League universities, about our elite universities, about our academic system, about the left.
00:06:50.560 Everyone she associates with falls into that crowd when they look at the terrorists.
00:06:57.240 And understand, we're not talking about terrorists in the abstract.
00:06:59.900 We're talking about Hamas and what they did on October 7th, murdering 1,200 Israelis, murdering some 30 Americans, raping women and little girls, committing atrocities that the world has not seen since the Nazis.
00:07:14.980 And in today's leftist academy, using the president of Colombia's own word, they have some sympathy for that.
00:07:24.240 No, there is no sympathy.
00:07:26.120 Terrorism is not a form of protest.
00:07:28.480 Terrorism is a horrific form of violence that targets civilians, that targets women and children, that commits murder, an act of cruelty.
00:07:35.980 And that's exactly what Hamas did, and it's the reason these college campuses are allowing these anti-Semitic protests to go on, these threats against Jewish students to go on. 0.80
00:07:51.180 It's the reason Jewish students are being advised by the Orthodox rabbi at Colombia to stay home because Colombia will not protect your physical safety.
00:08:01.760 And the reason is, the president of Colombia, the administrators of Colombia, they explicitly side with the radicals and with the terrorists. 0.87
00:08:12.980 And it is shameful and it's sick.
00:08:15.740 Finally, on this, we're going to do a deep dive about the dark money that is clearly backing and orchestrating these not only events, but the shutting down of roads and bridges and supporting what's happening on these college campuses being anti-Semitic.
00:08:32.380 But there is one caveat, and this should be talked about.
00:08:37.400 And like I said, we're going to give you a lot more on this in another episode.
00:08:40.320 But we've now found out that the NFL, the National Football League, funded a left-wing group bailing out anti-Israel bridge blockers.
00:08:51.280 And this is, again, how the left just holds these companies and these organizations hostage.
00:08:57.140 Like, you better give us money.
00:08:58.160 We need some money to bail out some people.
00:08:59.480 And they just do it.
00:09:00.380 Well, and look, we talked about in the wake of October 7th how Black Lives Matter, how the Chicago chapter put out a tweet praising Hamas, saying we stand with Palestine, and having a picture of a paraglider.
00:09:15.640 Remember, it was the paragliders that came in that the Hamas terrorists used to murder young people in Israel.
00:09:21.280 And the cultural Marxist, they support each other.
00:09:25.740 And we're seeing that, look, on Columbia, it's not just the students that are facing threats of violence.
00:09:32.440 It's the faculty, too.
00:09:34.140 So a Columbia professor, Shai Davidai, wanted to go, and we talked about this on Monday's pod, that he intended to go and be right among these protesters and stand up for Israel.
00:09:47.620 And what Columbia did, they revoked his pass to campus.
00:09:51.720 They zeroed out his access and blocked him.
00:09:54.840 This is the administration of Columbia.
00:09:56.640 They decided between a professor on their faculty, who happened to be Jewish, or the anti-Semitic protesters who are threatening violence, that the problem was the professor who dared to be Jewish.
00:10:11.500 You know, one of the things that this professor, Davidai, tweeted out, he said, quote, to all the journalists, I promise I will try to get back to each and every one of you.
00:10:21.160 In the meantime, I want you to consider this.
00:10:23.980 To the best of my knowledge, the last time that a professor was denied access to their own university for being Jewish was Nazi Germany.
00:10:33.580 Well, actually, that's not accurate because we covered on this podcast how USC did that to a USC professor where they ordered him to stay at home and teach from home for precisely the same reason, because anti-Israel protesters were threatening violence and they decided not to protect him, but instead to stand with the protesters.
00:10:54.000 Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, you can go back and listen to the full podcast from earlier this week.
00:11:00.500 Canadian women are looking for more, more out of themselves, their businesses, their elected leaders, and the world around them. 0.98
00:11:07.600 And that's why we're thrilled to introduce the Honest Talk podcast.
00:11:11.320 I'm Jennifer Stewart.
00:11:12.500 And I'm Catherine Clark.
00:11:13.740 And in this podcast, we interview Canada's most inspiring women.
00:11:17.500 Entrepreneurs, artists, athletes, politicians, and newsmakers, all at different stages of their journey.
00:11:23.220 So if you're looking to connect, then we hope you'll join us.
00:11:26.220 Listen to the Honest Talk podcast on iHeartRadio or wherever you listen to your podcasts.
00:11:30.500 Now on to story number two.
00:11:34.440 Senator, if you are at NPR, can you imagine if you are a lefty, how much freedom I think it would make you feel like you had to then go out there and continue to push propaganda on the American people if this is your CEO?
00:11:47.900 I mean, it's a license to basically go all in on liberal propaganda at the taxpayer's expense.
00:11:57.400 No, that is exactly right.
00:11:59.980 And I've got to say, listen, as you know, I'm the ranking member on the Senate Committee of Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
00:12:07.040 And part of my responsibility in that role, we've got jurisdiction over about 40 percent of the U.S. economy.
00:12:13.020 And part of my responsibility is oversight.
00:12:16.140 And I can tell you that I am actively engaging in oversight right now, calling on NPR to explain, to explain why they're willing to put in place a hard left wing activist, not a neutral journalist, but someone who is biased, who is an active supporter of censorship to violence, to silence the views she disagrees with.
00:12:42.700 And that's why NPR believes that that is an appropriate leader for their institution.
00:12:49.480 Yeah, that's a really great point.
00:12:51.520 And listen, don't necessarily take our words for it.
00:12:54.920 I want you to listen to Catherine Maher in her own words, because it's going to show just how radical she is.
00:12:59.760 And I want to play a couple of clips.
00:13:01.460 Let's start with her explaining that, in her view, the number one challenge that she faces is the First Amendment of the Constitution.
00:13:08.140 Let's play that clip.
00:13:09.400 The number one challenge here that we see is, of course, the First Amendment in the United States is a fairly robust protection of rights.
00:13:20.120 And that is a protection of rights both for platforms, which I actually think is very important that platforms have those rights to be able to regulate what kind of content they want on their sites.
00:13:28.480 But it also means that it is a little bit tricky to really address some of the real challenges of where does bad information come from and sort of the influence peddlers who have made a real market economy around it.
00:13:41.320 I mean, it's amazing, Senator.
00:13:42.980 This is the woman running NPR.
00:13:44.520 And I guess this is almost like the best thing you can put on your resume, right?
00:13:47.380 You're like, hey, I think the First Amendment's a real problem.
00:13:49.480 It's like, perfect.
00:13:50.280 We'd love to hire you at NPR.
00:13:51.780 Yeah, and she actually says, well, the First Amendment is really important for platforms, but then what she describes as their First Amendment right is for their ability to censor and silence things they disagree with.
00:14:02.920 So to her mind, what she cares about is the ability, if there's a view that is right of center, as far as she's concerned, the First Amendment is all about silencing those views.
00:14:13.100 There can be no dissent.
00:14:14.720 All right, I want you to listen to another clip.
00:14:16.600 This is a TED Talk where she's discussing truth when she was at Wikipedia.
00:14:21.740 And somehow she has a different view of truth than I think you and I might have.
00:14:25.600 Give a listen.
00:14:26.020 But the hard things, the places where we are prone to disagreement, say politics and religion, well, as it turns out, not only does Wikipedia's model work there, it actually works really well.
00:14:39.120 Because in our normal lives, these contentious conversations tend to erupt over disagreement about what the truth actually is.
00:14:48.460 But the people who write these articles, they're not focused on the truth.
00:14:53.960 They're focused on something else.
00:14:55.240 Which is the best of what we can know right now.
00:14:59.740 And after seven years of working with these brilliant folks, I've come to believe that they are on to something.
00:15:06.700 That perhaps for our most tricky disagreements, seeking the truth and seeking to convince others of the truth might not be the right place to start.
00:15:18.740 In fact, our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that's getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done.
00:15:30.140 Now, that is not to say that the truth doesn't exist, nor is it to say that the truth isn't important.
00:15:38.880 Clearly, the search for the truth has led us to do great things, to learn great things.
00:15:46.580 But I think if I were to really ask you to think about this, one of the things that we could all acknowledge is that part of the reason we have such glorious chronicles to the human experience and all forms of culture is because we acknowledge there are many different truths.
00:16:05.720 And so in the spirit of that, I'm certain that the truth exists for you and probably for the person sitting next to you.
00:16:14.280 But this may not be the same truth.
00:16:17.840 This is because the truth of the matter is very often for many people what happens when we merge facts about the world with our beliefs about the world.
00:16:28.820 So we all have different truths.
00:16:30.920 They're based on things like where we come from, how we were raised and how other people perceive us. 0.99
00:16:38.280 What utter garbage. 0.99
00:16:40.820 Like every word of that. 0.99
00:16:42.300 You want an indictment of the modern left. 1.00
00:16:44.120 You want an indictment of the idiocy of media. 1.00
00:16:46.400 You want an indictment of the academic world. 1.00
00:16:48.600 You want an indictment of big tech. 0.99
00:16:50.280 Good God, what utter garbage. 0.99
00:16:52.220 Truth doesn't exist. 0.99
00:16:53.320 George Orwell is spinning in his grave and laughing at the same time.
00:16:57.720 Two plus two doesn't equal four.
00:16:59.060 It equals five because we say it is.
00:17:00.940 There is no truth.
00:17:02.040 Listen to that quote.
00:17:03.420 Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that's getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done.
00:17:09.180 But don't worry.
00:17:10.160 This is only for things that don't matter.
00:17:11.880 The contentious issues.
00:17:12.940 What does she identify?
00:17:14.120 Politics and religion.
00:17:15.400 When it comes to politics and religion, look, Jesus Christ said, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
00:17:20.340 But no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:17:21.780 Don't have reverence for truth.
00:17:23.120 We're not interested in that.
00:17:24.560 We are interested in set aside a truth.
00:17:27.460 That can be your truth.
00:17:28.460 My truth.
00:17:29.020 Everyone has a truth.
00:17:30.180 Maybe for you, two plus two is five. 1.00
00:17:32.580 What utter garbage. 0.99
00:17:35.300 You know what a journalist is supposed to be interested in? 1.00
00:17:37.320 The truth.
00:17:38.080 Now, do you have perfect truth?
00:17:39.380 No.
00:17:39.600 Do you have perfect knowledge?
00:17:40.760 No.
00:17:41.100 But you should get damn close to it.
00:17:43.340 You should be trying to get to the truth.
00:17:45.360 Remember what journalists used to learn?
00:17:46.940 Who, what, when, where, how, why?
00:17:48.360 Like, what happened?
00:17:49.440 What are the facts?
00:17:50.180 Well, no, no, no, not according to her.
00:17:52.120 According to her, there are no facts.
00:17:54.260 There is no truth.
00:17:55.120 It's your truth.
00:17:55.820 It's my truth.
00:17:56.460 And my truth, from Catherine Maher's perspective, is, is a left-wing partisan, whatever the orthodoxy is.
00:18:02.760 And we will silence views that disagree.
00:18:06.340 And the First Amendment is a pesky, pesky barrier.
00:18:10.120 All right, I want to play one more clip.
00:18:11.880 Yeah.
00:18:12.580 One more clip where she's describing what she did at Wikipedia.
00:18:17.420 Listen to this third clip.
00:18:18.440 I started by talking about the idea of free and open as some of our founding principles,
00:18:23.980 sort of free and open source, coming from the idea of the open source community.
00:18:28.220 Well, I have come to the opinion and the perspective that free and open was a way of looking at the
00:18:34.320 world that was inherently limited relative to what we were trying to achieve.
00:18:38.460 Free and open has the best of intentionality.
00:18:40.980 But in the end, what free and open often ended up doing, particularly in the case of Wikipedia,
00:18:45.260 was really recapitulating many of the same power structures and dynamics that exist offline prior to the advent of the Internet.
00:18:53.440 And so what we ended up seeing was Wikipedia really rebuilt this idea of knowledge as a whole around what the Western canon.
00:19:01.200 You see the exclusion of communities, of languages, because of the ways in which Wikipedia is based on reliable sources.
00:19:09.160 The idea of a written tradition is something that is particular to many.
00:19:14.960 I mean, sorry, the idea of a written tradition, which is particular to some cultures and not to others.
00:19:19.400 The ways in which we ascribe notability often really comes from sort of this white male Westernized construct around who matters in societies and who is elevated and whose voices.
00:19:32.320 And so some of these ideas of sort of this radical openness really did not end up with the intention,
00:19:38.500 really did not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can be.
00:19:42.560 I mean, that that just is brilliant right there.
00:19:46.900 God bless.
00:19:48.160 So, look, she's explaining at Wikipedia. 0.93
00:19:51.020 They deliberately abandoned a, quote, free and open approach.
00:19:54.820 By the way, she's telling you what she's going to do at NPR.
00:19:57.380 NPR is not going to be free and open, according to her, because she doesn't believe in free and open.
00:20:02.140 Why?
00:20:03.300 Because free and open, number one, she says, well, that advantages cultures that believe in the written word.
00:20:10.740 Because, you know, what good has book learning ever done anyone?
00:20:14.520 Well, heck, you're forgetting those cultures that don't believe in that fancy learning stuff. 0.97
00:20:20.180 Like, what utter garbage. 0.98
00:20:22.120 I'm sorry. 0.97
00:20:22.820 I thought actually a journalistic outfit should actually reflect, celebrate the best of education, of learning, of what we know.
00:20:34.140 But she says, no, no, no, no.
00:20:35.120 Now, if it's actually free and open, it will recapitulate a white male westernized construct. 0.65
00:20:44.500 Let me ask you something, Ben.
00:20:45.560 What the hell does that mean?
00:20:46.980 Seriously.
00:20:47.720 Those are the words Marxists use.
00:20:49.680 And typically, the more syllables they use when they get polysyllabic, the less they're making any sense.
00:20:57.420 So, explain to me the phrase, recapitulate a white male westernized construct that does not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can mean.
00:21:09.940 Those words have no content other than, I want the power to silence things I don't like.
00:21:15.800 Am I wrong?
00:21:16.660 No, you're right.
00:21:17.420 And my question goes back to this for you.
00:21:19.720 It used to be, at NPR and others, they would at least fake it, like they're biased.
00:21:25.680 Now, it's just flat out open.
00:21:27.820 And they're doing it with our tax dollars.
00:21:29.560 Is there ever going to be a day of reckoning where NPR finds out, hey, good luck, do your own thing, because we're not going to pay for this propaganda anymore?
00:21:39.480 Look, if NPR cares at all about journalistic integrity, if they care at all about continuing to receive taxpayer funds, they should terminate Catherine Maher immediately.
00:21:48.480 Her job should be done.
00:21:49.580 They should not have a rabid left-wing partisan who hates the First Amendment, who views it as an inconvenience, who wants to censor conservatives, who is actively, explicitly, and unabashedly opposed to free and open communication, who doesn't believe in truth, who believes truth is an impediment to what she's doing.
00:22:05.980 That is not a journalist in any way.
00:22:07.980 She ought to go and join Emily's List.
00:22:09.680 She ought to go and join the DNC.
00:22:11.260 She ought to go run for Congress and become a henchman to Nancy Pelosi. 1.00
00:22:14.840 She should not actually be running a news organization, especially not a news organization funded by the taxpayers.
00:22:22.340 And if we have, to be honest, if you had a Democrat who had a shred of integrity, they would say, of course, this is not appropriate for her to run NPR.
00:22:31.800 The chances of that happening are zero.
00:22:33.600 But I can tell you I'm going to be pushing for accountability and I'm going to be pushing for oversight of NPR because it is brazenly shameless for them to put someone so wildly unqualified in that position.
00:22:46.340 As before, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic, you can go back and download the podcast from early this week to hear the entire thing.
00:22:56.100 Canadian women are looking for more, more out of themselves, their businesses, their elected leaders, and the world around them. 0.98
00:23:02.460 And that's why we're thrilled to introduce the Honest Talk podcast.
00:23:06.300 I'm Jennifer Stewart.
00:23:07.380 And I'm Catherine Clark.
00:23:08.320 And in this podcast, we interview Canada's most inspiring women, entrepreneurs, artists, athletes, politicians, and newsmakers, all at different stages of their journey.
00:23:18.100 So if you're looking to connect, then we hope you'll join us.
00:23:21.340 Listen to the Honest Talk podcast on iHeartRadio or wherever you listen to your podcasts.
00:23:27.060 I want to get back to the big story, number three of the week you may have missed.
00:23:31.120 And younger voters, which Joe Biden desperately needs, those 35 and under, he's at risk of them not showing up.
00:23:40.560 The ones that voted for him last time, if they don't show up this time, can cost them the election.
00:23:45.860 We've seen a lot of pandering.
00:23:47.440 We've seen yet another round of, hey, I'm going to pay off your student loans, and I don't care how many millions or billions it costs.
00:23:53.400 We're going to buy votes that way.
00:23:55.200 We also see him coming out and not making the big statements defending Israel because the young people have been indoctrinated.
00:24:02.620 And this goes back to what we're witnessing on college campuses.
00:24:05.200 They've been indoctrinated to hate Israel.
00:24:08.360 And so that's why I think we've seen the president not say anything in a real way publicly.
00:24:13.340 In fact, he's talked about what they've leaked from the White House.
00:24:17.080 Let's talk about the leaks over the last two weeks.
00:24:19.040 They claim that the first lady told Joe Biden to stop it, stop it now, referring to Israel's attacks on the terrorists.
00:24:27.260 And that was leaked by senior staff.
00:24:29.460 Obviously, there's real leaks that are shocking.
00:24:32.820 And then there's leaks that you do on purpose to get a news cycle.
00:24:35.620 That was clearly a purposeful leak.
00:24:38.040 And then we also had it coming out of the White House that apparently the president, in essence, told Israel, hey, your Iron Dome worked.
00:24:45.460 Take the win.
00:24:46.620 Right.
00:24:46.820 Don't retaliate against against the people attacking you.
00:24:51.000 Just be excited that you got the win.
00:24:53.180 If that's the messaging from the White House when it comes to actual war, then it's very clear this is all orchestrated as well.
00:25:01.400 Yeah.
00:25:02.180 Understand it's not just Israel that the angry left hates.
00:25:08.760 I want you to play a video of what happened at Yale this weekend.
00:25:14.440 And it's going to be hard to tell from the audio.
00:25:16.720 But after you listen to the audio, I'm going to explain what you just listened to.
00:25:20.180 But but but play that audio, Ben.
00:25:21.440 Senator, I wish people could see that video, because if you witness it, it's up on your on your Twitter right now.
00:25:41.260 It will make you enraged at what they're cheering.
00:25:43.620 Yeah, you really need to see this video.
00:25:46.400 So this occurred on the Yale campus and they're chanting Viva Viva Palestina.
00:25:51.160 But what they're doing is they're pulling down the American flag from a flagpole.
00:25:58.060 And by the way, the the image of the students, strikingly, the students, the Yale students that are there, if any of them are Palestinian, they don't appear to be.
00:26:07.220 And and and there is in in the foreground of the image, there is this young blonde kid who appears to be just your typical woke leftist American.
00:26:20.300 Oh, he's got short blonde hair and he's wearing a Palestinian scarf.
00:26:24.200 And as the American flag goes down, he thrusts his fist in the air and the cheering you hear is when the flag goes all the way down and hits the ground.
00:26:35.720 These are Yale students cheering the American flag being torn down.
00:26:41.060 Play the audio again and understand the cheering is when the American flag hits the ground.
00:26:45.600 Play the audio again, Ben.
00:26:47.160 Viva Viva Palestina!
00:26:54.200 You also see people that are smiling and in essence, laughing, Senator, like they can't believe this is happening on their campus and enjoying the moment.
00:27:06.180 They've been camping out there.
00:27:07.780 But this is at Yale.
00:27:09.240 And if you see this at Yale and you realize Yale is allowing this to happen, the question is, why on earth would you send your kid to Yale and go half million dollars or more into debt or have to pay that money for your kids to be indoctrinated?
00:27:23.680 And at a place that is clearly not coming down hard on these actions.
00:27:28.860 Now, look, that is exactly right.
00:27:31.500 And it's because the Yale administrators are terrified to engage with against the left because they support the views of the left.
00:27:42.720 I'll tell you something else that was tweeted.
00:27:45.360 There's a story in the Free Beacon.
00:27:47.360 The dean of students of Northwestern attended a protest targeting the campus Jewish community center.
00:27:56.660 So the dean of students went to a rally where protesters said the school, quote, weaponizes anti-Semitism to silence pro-Palestinian activism.
00:28:06.720 And let me read you that article.
00:28:08.160 The dean of students at Northwestern University attended an anti-Israel protest this week targeting Hillel, the school's Jewish student community center, to defend the demonstrators, quote, right to free speech.
00:28:19.500 Dean of students Mona Dugo said she showed up at the rally on Monday to support anti-Israel's activists, quote, right to protest and to protect the right to free speech, according to the Daily Northwestern.
00:28:30.860 Protest organizers demanded that the university end its relationship with Hillel, a 100-year-old nonprofit group that operates Jewish community centers on campuses around the world, including Northwestern.
00:28:44.080 The protest took place during Northwestern's Admitted Students Day, which seeks to introduce incoming students to campus life.
00:28:51.700 So imagine you're a Jewish student coming, going, oh, great. 0.99
00:28:54.260 This is a welcoming place for me.
00:28:55.740 Quote, Hillel is one of the many places in which this university is complicit in infusing Jewishness with Zionism, said one protest organizer in a speech at the rally.
00:29:10.220 A leaflet handed out by protesters accused Northwestern of, quote, funneling Jewish students into Hillel, the Zionist foundation for Jewish life.
00:29:19.860 It also claimed the school, quote, weaponizes claims of anti-Semitism on campus to silence pro-Palestinian activism.
00:29:29.160 This is the dean of students.
00:29:30.820 Now, I will say, after this became public, Northwestern, at least to their credit, they put out a statement claiming the dean of students goes to every protest to make sure there's not violence.
00:29:42.920 Maybe.
00:29:44.060 It sure doesn't sound like that from the article that was printed in the campus paper.
00:29:48.700 But I'm at least glad they're feeling the need to try to explain it.
00:29:52.660 I suppose that is marginally better than saying, yep, that's where we stand.
00:29:58.620 It's American college campuses, and it's all coming and being organized, as you mentioned earlier, by the left.
00:30:06.340 And if you look at this, you go back to what you said at the beginning about how important it is to follow the money.
00:30:11.560 Why is it that when it comes to these issues, and I'm going to answer my own question here, but it's like the media doesn't exist when it comes to investigative reporting.
00:30:22.460 I would assume the media could figure it out pretty darn quickly, Senator, who's paying for this, who's organizing it, who's behind it, where the money is originating from.
00:30:34.640 Not a single story is being written about it, though.
00:30:37.120 No, because they don't care, because the media is ultimately supportive of these goals.
00:30:44.180 They're not covering it.
00:30:45.820 By the way, I will give some credit, and this is something painful for me to do, but I'm going to give a little bit of credit to CNN.
00:30:51.140 You know who's been most vocal speaking out on this?
00:30:53.840 CNN has had a lot of coverage.
00:30:55.420 You're correct, especially this past weekend.
00:30:57.320 And Jake Tapper in particular, and listen, I've been very critical of Jake.
00:31:01.460 You and I both know Jake very well.
00:31:03.720 But on this issue, Jake Tapper has been the single most outspoken major media figure, and I'm going to give him credit for that, because his colleagues and his colleagues at other networks and newspapers should do the same.
00:31:17.120 Senator, last question for you on this one.
00:31:19.780 If we do find out that these organizations that are backing and clearly growing these anti-Semitic protests are directly connected to Democratic donors, Democratic Party, what are the chances that the media covers it?
00:31:38.440 Or what do you bet we're the only ones people hear about it from?
00:31:41.320 Zero.
00:31:42.080 The media won't cover that.
00:31:43.360 They have no interest in it whatsoever.
00:31:44.640 They have no interest in who's promoting this, who's funding it, who's paying people.
00:31:50.320 Listen, Ben, as you know, I have had anti-Israel pro-Hamas protesters at my home every Saturday morning for over three months now.
00:32:00.240 It's the same group of about 15 people.
00:32:02.560 They're clearly being paid by somebody.
00:32:04.760 Nobody cares who's paying them.
00:32:06.160 Somebody is paying them to – and they're doing this at the homes of other people as well, other elected officials as well.
00:32:13.500 This is a concerted effort.
00:32:15.640 But do you know where this ends up?
00:32:18.320 Where is that?
00:32:19.360 If you want to see where this ends up, take a look at Europe.
00:32:22.020 Sadly, Europe has for a long time, for centuries, been on the cutting edge of anti-Semitism.
00:32:29.600 And you can look to Europe to see perhaps the next step of where these college campuses are.
00:32:34.420 This weekend, the London police threatened to arrest a man for being, quote, openly Jewish.
00:32:44.760 And I want to read from a post that Jonathan Turley put up this weekend.
00:32:48.560 Quote, the London police are under fire this week for threatening to arrest a man wearing a kippah near a pro-Palestinian march.
00:32:56.800 Officers informed Gideon Falter, head of the campaign against anti-Semitism watchdog, that he was, quote, antagonizing the protesters by being, quote, openly Jewish near such a march.
00:33:11.700 He was told that if he tried to cross the street while being, quote, openly Jewish, he would be arrested for breach of the peace.
00:33:22.980 In the video, police officer, one police officer said, quote, you are quite openly Jewish.
00:33:30.080 This is a pro-Palestinian march.
00:33:32.440 I'm not accusing you of anything, but I'm worried about the reaction to your presence.
00:33:37.500 Another officer then adds later, quote, you will be escorted out of this area so you can go about your business, go where you want freely.
00:33:44.780 Or if you choose to remain here because you are causing a breach of peace with all these other people, you will be arrested.
00:33:55.840 Now, I want you to pause and reflect on that.
00:33:58.800 In London, it is now an arrestable offense, according to police, to be openly Jewish, to wear a yarmulke.
00:34:07.360 America, you're the one, if you are simply Jewish and acknowledge your Jewish heritage and don't hide it, that is grounds for being arrested in London. 0.84
00:34:20.240 That's where this heads.
00:34:21.920 That is the fruit of the cultural Marxist leftist ideology.
00:34:26.880 That is the fruit of the anti-Semitism infusing our universities.
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