Verdict with Ted Cruz - May 15, 2024


Chinese and Cuban Communists FUNDING Anti-Israel Protests


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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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00:00:05.360 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.
00:00:08.120 Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:09.700 Senator, it's amazing the left has been obsessed for years
00:00:13.320 about foreign interference in this country
00:00:16.320 and obviously in elections,
00:00:17.860 and they went with all the big Russia hoax with Donald Trump.
00:00:21.220 But now we have a story with two major countries
00:00:25.560 that are having significant influence in America right now,
00:00:30.460 and no one's talking about it, much less cover it.
00:00:34.320 Well, Ben, that's right.
00:00:35.200 And what we're going to talk about in today's podcast
00:00:36.900 is something that you will not see on the news
00:00:39.400 that is not getting covered anywhere,
00:00:40.720 which is the direct involvement of communist China
00:00:45.460 and communist Cuba
00:00:47.580 in the anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, anti-American protests
00:00:52.360 that are happening across this country.
00:00:53.940 And this is, look, there have been two reports
00:00:59.160 that have come out in the last week
00:01:00.420 that are tracing the money from communist China,
00:01:03.760 the activists from communist Cuba
00:01:05.840 that are driving this.
00:01:07.360 And again, the media is ignoring it.
00:01:10.780 It's why this podcast matters,
00:01:12.420 because we're going to cover and lay out the evidence
00:01:15.440 that is going to trouble you deeply
00:01:17.300 that America's enemies want this country ripped apart,
00:01:21.260 and they are funding the mayhem we are seeing
00:01:24.500 on our college campuses.
00:01:25.620 They are trying to destroy this country.
00:01:28.080 And sadly, there are a whole lot of elected Democrats
00:01:30.640 in Washington who are on board with that.
00:01:35.180 Yeah, and the worst part is they probably think
00:01:36.680 they're getting a really good return on this investment.
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00:03:22.200 Senator, let's talk about
00:03:24.300 a bigger overview picture.
00:03:27.880 We have known for quite some time,
00:03:30.300 but it's really come out recently,
00:03:32.200 that there was a lot of money coming in
00:03:34.280 from foreign nations
00:03:35.360 that are adversaries of the U.S.
00:03:36.720 into college campuses.
00:03:38.600 We now see what they were buying,
00:03:40.880 which was they were buying influence
00:03:42.760 over a generation.
00:03:44.300 We see massive donations
00:03:45.680 that went into the Biden-Penn Center,
00:03:47.480 for example,
00:03:47.980 directly from China.
00:03:49.500 And now we're saying
00:03:50.600 that it's not just buying influence
00:03:52.340 to change hearts and minds
00:03:54.200 of college students
00:03:55.180 at the Ivy Leagues
00:03:56.140 and other schools,
00:03:56.960 but now they've moved
00:03:58.280 into direct activism
00:03:59.960 with these campus protests,
00:04:02.480 which seems to be
00:04:03.500 phase two of their plan.
00:04:05.380 Ben, that's exactly right.
00:04:07.080 There's a major report
00:04:08.360 that came out on Monday this week
00:04:09.760 from NCRI.
00:04:11.500 NCRI is the Network Contagion
00:04:13.540 Research Institute.
00:04:15.140 This is the same group
00:04:16.140 that put out
00:04:16.820 the empirical studies of TikTok
00:04:18.780 and how the Chinese
00:04:19.760 communist government
00:04:20.600 was pushing communist propaganda
00:04:23.120 on TikTok.
00:04:23.900 And it led to ultimately
00:04:24.880 Congress passing the legislation
00:04:26.520 forcing the Chinese
00:04:28.540 communist government
00:04:29.320 either to sell TikTok
00:04:30.340 or shut down in the U.S.
00:04:31.760 So NCRI is a serious organization
00:04:35.780 that does serious research.
00:04:37.700 The report they put out,
00:04:39.140 I want to go into it in detail
00:04:40.860 because it's getting
00:04:41.700 very little coverage
00:04:42.940 and it should get
00:04:44.100 a lot of coverage.
00:04:45.460 Here's how it begins.
00:04:46.680 Quote,
00:04:47.760 This report analyzes
00:04:48.840 the activities
00:04:49.420 and foreign connections
00:04:50.300 of the Shut It Down
00:04:51.240 for Palestine,
00:04:52.160 SID4P movement
00:04:55.360 since its formation
00:04:56.300 in October 2023.
00:04:57.360 It examines SID4P's
00:05:00.560 use of protests,
00:05:01.880 direct action initiatives,
00:05:03.100 and sophisticated media campaigns
00:05:04.520 to advance anti-America
00:05:06.660 and anti-Israel narratives
00:05:08.940 both online and offline.
00:05:11.380 Additionally,
00:05:12.240 it highlights the involvement
00:05:13.560 of a network linked
00:05:14.460 to the Chinese Communist Party
00:05:15.860 that funds and supports
00:05:18.800 both alternative
00:05:20.120 anti-establishment media organizations
00:05:22.040 promoting anti-American initiatives
00:05:23.780 as well as seemingly
00:05:25.680 grassroots activist movements
00:05:27.740 such as and including
00:05:29.520 SID4P.
00:05:32.060 So, here are the key takeaways
00:05:33.520 and assessments.
00:05:35.100 Number one,
00:05:35.700 SID4P's emergence.
00:05:38.760 Shut It Down for Palestine
00:05:39.980 is an anti-capitalist,
00:05:41.980 anti-police,
00:05:43.260 and anti-government
00:05:44.160 protest movement
00:05:44.960 that emerged
00:05:46.120 after October 7, 2023.
00:05:48.120 It functions as a hybrid
00:05:49.300 online real-world network
00:05:50.960 for mobilizing frequent demonstrations
00:05:53.940 as well as a gradually escalating
00:05:57.800 direct action campaigns
00:05:59.480 targeting critical infrastructure
00:06:01.260 and public spaces.
00:06:04.240 Two,
00:06:05.480 SID4P's ties
00:06:07.080 to CCP-linked entities,
00:06:10.120 conveners,
00:06:10.980 or organizations operating
00:06:12.220 under the SID4P umbrella,
00:06:15.540 are members of the
00:06:16.700 Singham Network donor portfolio.
00:06:19.740 The Singham Network
00:06:20.600 is a global network,
00:06:21.980 global web of non-profits,
00:06:23.440 fiscal sponsors,
00:06:24.840 and alternative news sources
00:06:26.260 tied to Neville Roy Singham,
00:06:29.280 a known conduit
00:06:30.540 for CCP geopolitical influence.
00:06:34.200 Three,
00:06:35.240 SID4P's funding.
00:06:37.540 The Singham Network
00:06:38.380 exploits regulatory loopholes
00:06:40.520 in the U.S. nonprofit system
00:06:42.320 to facilitate the flow
00:06:43.640 of enormous sum of U.S. dollars
00:06:46.620 to organizations and movements
00:06:48.460 that actively stoke
00:06:49.980 social unrest
00:06:51.320 at the grassroots level.
00:06:52.480 Four,
00:06:54.380 alternative media
00:06:55.660 and social media strategy.
00:06:57.860 Alternative media outlets
00:06:59.120 associated with
00:06:59.880 the Singham Network
00:07:00.540 have played a central role
00:07:01.940 in online mobilization
00:07:03.500 and cross-platform
00:07:04.800 social amplification
00:07:06.020 for SID4P.
00:07:07.820 And five,
00:07:09.360 ties to extremist groups.
00:07:10.680 SID4P has ties
00:07:13.920 to extremist groups
00:07:14.920 that embrace
00:07:15.500 a violent single-state resolution
00:07:17.620 to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
00:07:20.440 At least one SID4P convener
00:07:22.940 is linked to the extreme edge
00:07:25.440 of pro-Palestinian groups
00:07:27.600 operating in the U.S.
00:07:28.900 that advance anti-American
00:07:30.460 and anti-Jewish agendas.
00:07:32.740 This is next level
00:07:35.740 and it's obviously
00:07:37.240 being orchestrated
00:07:38.280 at the highest levels
00:07:39.240 within these governments.
00:07:40.840 And it's not just China.
00:07:42.860 It's also Cuba
00:07:44.680 that is involved
00:07:46.340 in this as well.
00:07:47.400 And this seems to be
00:07:48.580 part two of their master plan.
00:07:51.060 China,
00:07:51.740 and I'm guessing on this one,
00:07:53.520 but based on what we've seen
00:07:55.260 from disclosures
00:07:56.640 on donations,
00:07:57.800 probably is giving
00:07:58.920 more money
00:07:59.520 to American universities
00:08:01.280 than any other nation
00:08:03.080 would be my guess.
00:08:04.180 And if they're not the top,
00:08:05.240 they're probably
00:08:05.840 one, two, or three.
00:08:07.680 I can't even imagine
00:08:08.760 who would be above them.
00:08:09.760 We see massive money
00:08:10.840 coming into the Ivy Leagues,
00:08:12.160 massive money
00:08:12.740 that came into
00:08:13.180 the Biden-Penn Center.
00:08:14.340 The list goes on and on.
00:08:16.240 But this is almost like,
00:08:17.520 okay,
00:08:17.980 how do we infiltrate a country?
00:08:19.900 How do we change
00:08:20.880 the opinion
00:08:21.460 of the people
00:08:22.520 in that country?
00:08:23.840 And then how do we
00:08:24.980 literally have revolutions
00:08:27.160 in that country?
00:08:28.520 And they're doing it all
00:08:29.900 in front of our very eyes
00:08:30.900 and no one seems
00:08:31.700 to be stopping it.
00:08:33.060 Well, that is right.
00:08:35.100 And if you look
00:08:36.140 at this report
00:08:36.900 from NCRI,
00:08:38.680 it details how China
00:08:40.260 is spending millions,
00:08:41.880 upwards of potentially
00:08:43.060 $100 million,
00:08:44.920 funding these protests
00:08:46.760 that are occurring
00:08:47.400 on campuses,
00:08:48.240 that are shutting down bridges,
00:08:49.380 that are shutting down airports.
00:08:51.100 And you might think,
00:08:52.560 okay,
00:08:52.740 what does China care
00:08:53.940 about Hamas?
00:08:55.560 What does China care
00:08:56.460 about Israel?
00:08:57.080 And the truth
00:08:57.960 of the matter
00:08:58.360 is they don't,
00:08:59.060 but they care about America.
00:09:00.280 They care about
00:09:00.820 tearing our country apart.
00:09:02.080 They care about chaos
00:09:03.280 and fomenting dissent
00:09:06.060 and dissension
00:09:06.880 that paralyzes our country.
00:09:09.120 Let me read another portion
00:09:10.260 from this report
00:09:11.060 from the NCRI.
00:09:12.120 Quote,
00:09:12.760 On the evening
00:09:13.620 of April 30th, 2024,
00:09:15.900 over 100 activists
00:09:17.240 gathered at the People's Forum,
00:09:19.440 a far-left nonprofit
00:09:20.660 in Manhattan
00:09:21.240 that describes itself
00:09:22.460 as a, quote,
00:09:23.200 movement incubator
00:09:24.160 for working class
00:09:25.520 in marginalized communities
00:09:26.780 to discuss
00:09:28.180 the ongoing Gaza encampments
00:09:29.840 on university campuses.
00:09:31.880 The activists
00:09:32.520 called on Columbia protesters
00:09:33.980 to recreate
00:09:34.800 the civil unrest
00:09:35.960 associated with,
00:09:37.920 quote,
00:09:38.340 the summer of 2020.
00:09:39.980 Remember,
00:09:40.240 the summer of love.
00:09:41.900 Hours later,
00:09:43.440 Columbia University's
00:09:44.740 Hamilton Hall
00:09:45.360 was forcibly occupied
00:09:46.860 and barricaded.
00:09:48.400 After the hall
00:09:49.340 was subsequently cleared
00:09:50.400 by law enforcement,
00:09:51.400 the New York Police Department
00:09:52.540 reported finding
00:09:53.540 industrial-grade chains,
00:09:56.580 gas masks,
00:09:57.720 earplugs,
00:09:58.580 helmets,
00:09:59.300 goggles,
00:10:00.300 hammers,
00:10:00.980 knives,
00:10:01.520 and ropes.
00:10:02.900 Following processing,
00:10:04.280 the Washington Post reported,
00:10:05.700 per NYPD,
00:10:07.320 that more than 25%
00:10:09.020 of the arrests
00:10:09.600 at Columbia University
00:10:10.660 and 60%
00:10:11.780 at the City College
00:10:13.080 of New York
00:10:13.800 were not students.
00:10:17.200 This is
00:10:18.080 communist China
00:10:19.080 paying real money
00:10:20.880 to disrupt America
00:10:24.200 and to sow dissension.
00:10:25.560 And by the way,
00:10:27.000 this group of conveners,
00:10:29.420 I'll read another portion
00:10:30.800 of the report,
00:10:31.420 SID 4P
00:10:32.680 was established
00:10:33.320 and structured
00:10:33.840 against the backdrop
00:10:34.680 of increased
00:10:35.280 pro-Palestinian activism
00:10:36.940 starting October 2023.
00:10:39.200 On November 1st,
00:10:41.380 SID 4P
00:10:42.380 officially registered
00:10:43.320 its domain,
00:10:44.020 shut it down
00:10:45.060 for Palestine.org
00:10:46.300 and launched its site
00:10:47.340 by November 6th.
00:10:48.700 By November 9th,
00:10:50.280 SID 4P
00:10:51.180 publicly lists
00:10:51.980 its seven core organizations
00:10:53.780 referred to as conveners,
00:10:55.900 as well as
00:10:56.760 numerous organizations
00:10:57.800 referred to as endorsers.
00:11:00.020 Reflecting the confluence
00:11:01.260 of far-left
00:11:02.080 and pro-Palestinian
00:11:03.100 radical activism,
00:11:04.600 the official
00:11:05.180 SID 4P conveners
00:11:06.740 include the following groups.
00:11:08.080 One,
00:11:08.420 the People's Forum.
00:11:09.320 Two,
00:11:09.620 Answer Coalition.
00:11:11.040 Three,
00:11:11.520 the International People's Assembly.
00:11:13.200 Four,
00:11:13.520 Al-Adha,
00:11:14.840 New York.
00:11:15.780 Five,
00:11:16.320 the National Students
00:11:17.200 for Justice in Palestine,
00:11:18.880 NSJP.
00:11:20.300 Six,
00:11:20.920 the Palestinian Youth Movement.
00:11:22.340 And seven,
00:11:22.800 the Palestinian American
00:11:23.920 Community Center,
00:11:24.900 New Jersey.
00:11:26.060 The seven conveners
00:11:27.320 of SID 4P
00:11:28.900 can be divided
00:11:29.580 into two distinct groupings
00:11:30.960 based on ideological affiliation
00:11:32.620 and fiscal sponsorship.
00:11:34.160 The coalition's
00:11:35.240 far-left members,
00:11:36.180 namely the People's Forum,
00:11:37.300 IPA,
00:11:37.700 and Answer Coalition,
00:11:39.380 demonstrate significant
00:11:40.640 financial personnel
00:11:41.780 and operational overlap.
00:11:43.520 The remaining four conveners
00:11:45.540 are all pro-Palestinian
00:11:46.780 activist organizations
00:11:47.900 with at least two,
00:11:49.460 NSJP and Al-Adwa,
00:11:51.680 known to have ties
00:11:53.540 to U.S.-designated
00:11:54.940 terrorist organizations.
00:11:56.200 In addition to NSJP
00:11:59.360 and Al-Adha,
00:12:01.300 among SID 4P's endorsers
00:12:04.420 is Samuduwan,
00:12:07.240 which some Western
00:12:08.280 intelligence services
00:12:09.500 classify
00:12:10.080 as a front
00:12:11.740 for the PFLP,
00:12:13.360 the Popular Front
00:12:14.120 for the Liberation of Palestine,
00:12:15.440 which is designated
00:12:17.140 as a foreign terrorist organization
00:12:19.360 by the United States,
00:12:21.740 Germany,
00:12:22.080 and Israel.
00:12:23.700 So the question
00:12:24.760 that everyone
00:12:25.620 I think that's listening
00:12:26.580 right now is asking
00:12:27.320 is how is this then legal?
00:12:29.420 And if there's direct ties
00:12:30.620 that are going back
00:12:31.460 to terrorism,
00:12:32.600 how is, again,
00:12:33.600 this legal?
00:12:34.860 And if foreign funds
00:12:36.280 are coming in
00:12:36.840 from our adversaries
00:12:37.920 to pay
00:12:40.040 and fund
00:12:40.980 this anarchists
00:12:42.460 on college campuses,
00:12:44.220 how is that legal?
00:12:45.700 Is there anything
00:12:46.500 that the government
00:12:47.120 can do to say
00:12:47.920 we're not going to
00:12:48.800 allow this to happen
00:12:49.620 and we're talking
00:12:50.160 about the finances
00:12:51.240 of this?
00:12:52.620 Well, look,
00:12:53.020 there should be
00:12:53.460 an enormous amount.
00:12:54.700 The Department of Justice
00:12:55.720 should be investigating this.
00:12:57.100 The FBI should be
00:12:58.120 investigating this.
00:12:59.020 We've got money
00:12:59.600 coming from Communist China
00:13:01.000 behind these protests,
00:13:02.700 behind these anti-American,
00:13:03.960 anti-Israel protests.
00:13:05.420 We've got money
00:13:06.220 coming from organizations
00:13:07.460 that have close ties
00:13:08.800 to designated
00:13:09.780 terrorist organizations.
00:13:11.720 And so whether it is
00:13:12.620 Hamas and Hezbollah
00:13:13.520 pushing this,
00:13:14.360 whether it is
00:13:14.940 affiliated allies
00:13:16.280 of theirs pushing this,
00:13:17.520 whether it is Iran
00:13:18.240 pushing this,
00:13:18.960 or whether it is
00:13:19.820 Communist China
00:13:20.540 pushing this,
00:13:21.560 the FBI ought to be
00:13:22.760 all over it.
00:13:23.360 And I've got to tell you,
00:13:24.120 Ben,
00:13:24.740 my level of confidence
00:13:26.340 that the FBI
00:13:27.120 and the Department of Justice
00:13:28.060 is even looking at this
00:13:29.660 is incredibly low.
00:13:31.580 Because, sadly,
00:13:33.300 this Biden Department
00:13:34.260 of Justice
00:13:34.840 is so politicized
00:13:37.780 that they're much more
00:13:39.700 interested in tracking
00:13:40.980 down some little old lady
00:13:42.860 on the National Mall
00:13:43.780 on January 6th
00:13:44.820 who was waving
00:13:45.320 an American flag
00:13:46.180 and saying,
00:13:46.680 God bless America,
00:13:47.620 and finding
00:13:48.620 every Facebook post
00:13:49.680 she put 20 years ago
00:13:51.060 than they are
00:13:51.880 actually interested
00:13:52.640 in finding
00:13:53.200 Communist China
00:13:54.020 spending millions
00:13:54.860 of dollars
00:13:55.260 trying to rip
00:13:55.840 America apart.
00:13:57.360 And, Senator,
00:13:58.180 look,
00:13:58.600 education
00:13:59.700 and quality education
00:14:01.160 and going to
00:14:02.700 a prestigious school
00:14:05.220 was something
00:14:06.420 that you worked
00:14:07.220 incredibly hard for.
00:14:08.900 But you now look
00:14:10.160 at what's happened
00:14:12.080 at our colleges,
00:14:13.480 and I'm talking about
00:14:14.200 at our, quote,
00:14:15.000 best colleges.
00:14:16.740 How much of now
00:14:18.620 what we're witnessing
00:14:20.020 with them tolerating
00:14:21.480 all of these protests
00:14:23.280 the way that they did
00:14:24.080 in the present
00:14:24.520 is because maybe
00:14:25.960 they can't say no
00:14:27.360 to the foreign cash
00:14:29.000 and the amount
00:14:29.580 of foreign cash
00:14:30.440 and therefore foreign influence
00:14:32.320 that's coming in
00:14:33.040 from these same countries.
00:14:35.060 Look,
00:14:35.580 the foreign cash
00:14:36.600 is an enormous problem.
00:14:39.040 And let me give you,
00:14:40.340 let's look at the Ivy League.
00:14:41.780 So the Ivy League,
00:14:43.240 eight colleges,
00:14:44.060 have historically been
00:14:45.180 among the very best
00:14:46.240 colleges in America.
00:14:48.140 I want us to look
00:14:49.400 at the percentage
00:14:50.100 of foreign students
00:14:51.100 in the Ivy League.
00:14:52.640 So Brown University,
00:14:53.720 what percent of foreign students
00:14:54.760 do you think are at Brown?
00:14:55.800 It's got to be
00:14:56.520 20% plus,
00:14:57.940 I would guess.
00:14:59.460 19%.
00:14:59.860 You're off by a point.
00:15:00.740 Wow, okay.
00:15:01.700 How many students?
00:15:02.800 2,098.
00:15:04.400 Columbia University,
00:15:05.480 what do you think
00:15:05.780 the percentage is at Columbia?
00:15:07.680 25?
00:15:08.540 30?
00:15:08.860 38%.
00:15:11.560 You want to know
00:15:11.960 how many students that is?
00:15:13.100 14,088.
00:15:15.080 14,000 foreign students.
00:15:17.700 Cornell University,
00:15:18.780 26%.
00:15:19.900 Dartmouth College,
00:15:21.440 17%.
00:15:22.420 Harvard University,
00:15:23.500 22%.
00:15:24.400 Princeton University,
00:15:26.040 my alma mater,
00:15:26.760 23%.
00:15:27.760 University of Pennsylvania,
00:15:28.940 23%.
00:15:29.800 Yale University,
00:15:31.140 24%.
00:15:32.100 We are talking about
00:15:33.460 thousands and thousands
00:15:34.720 and tens of thousands
00:15:36.140 of foreign students.
00:15:37.440 Now,
00:15:37.620 part of the reason
00:15:38.840 the university is like this
00:15:40.040 is because the foreign students
00:15:42.240 all pay full freight.
00:15:43.280 So it's a great
00:15:43.960 money-making endeavor,
00:15:45.140 but why exactly
00:15:46.060 are we educating people
00:15:47.440 who among them,
00:15:48.880 and not all of the foreign students
00:15:50.300 are that case?
00:15:51.680 Look,
00:15:52.400 my best friend in college,
00:15:54.280 who you know well,
00:15:55.720 David Panton,
00:15:56.760 was Jamaican.
00:15:57.160 He was a foreign student.
00:15:58.260 He came from Jamaica.
00:15:59.180 He arrived at Princeton
00:16:00.040 at 16.
00:16:01.300 He was the best man
00:16:02.440 at my wedding.
00:16:02.900 He has been,
00:16:03.960 other than Heidi,
00:16:04.580 my best friend in life.
00:16:05.700 He was a foreign student.
00:16:06.540 That was great.
00:16:08.040 That's very different.
00:16:09.280 A Jamaican kid
00:16:10.280 who's talented
00:16:11.160 and wants to go
00:16:12.140 get a good education,
00:16:13.720 or for that matter,
00:16:15.000 my dad in 1957
00:16:16.620 coming as a student
00:16:17.820 from Cuba
00:16:18.400 to the University of Texas.
00:16:19.840 He came on a student visa.
00:16:21.540 He came fleeing oppression.
00:16:22.900 He'd been in prison.
00:16:23.640 He'd been tortured,
00:16:24.260 but he was coming
00:16:25.120 seeking freedom.
00:16:26.280 That is very different
00:16:27.760 from bringing in
00:16:29.300 a bunch of radical,
00:16:31.380 anti-America,
00:16:32.700 anti-Israel
00:16:33.840 radicals.
00:16:34.840 Look,
00:16:36.700 as far as I'm concerned,
00:16:38.760 if you have
00:16:39.880 a student
00:16:40.580 on a student visa
00:16:41.620 who gets out there
00:16:42.480 and is burning
00:16:42.960 an American flag
00:16:43.900 and chanting
00:16:44.420 death to America,
00:16:45.680 you should deport him
00:16:46.640 that day.
00:16:47.420 We have no obligation
00:16:49.040 to allow people
00:16:50.700 to come on student visas,
00:16:51.880 which is permissive.
00:16:52.980 It is a choice.
00:16:54.320 It is a discretionary choice
00:16:55.780 if they are going
00:16:57.120 to tear down this country.
00:16:58.300 And part of the problem
00:16:59.340 with the Ivy League schools
00:17:00.860 is when you're looking
00:17:01.760 at anywhere
00:17:02.320 from 17%,
00:17:04.520 Dartmouth College
00:17:05.540 at the low point,
00:17:07.020 to 38%,
00:17:08.620 Columbia University
00:17:09.580 at the high point,
00:17:10.520 that are foreign students,
00:17:11.940 you have a bunch
00:17:12.620 of students
00:17:13.060 who are not Americans
00:17:14.060 and far too many
00:17:15.020 of them don't give a damn
00:17:16.340 about America
00:17:16.940 and are trying
00:17:17.380 to tear America down.
00:17:19.040 Yeah,
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00:17:34.020 or the year before that.
00:17:35.520 And if you are getting
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00:17:37.480 or at retirement,
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00:17:39.580 to preserve the wealth
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00:18:58.360 Senator,
00:18:58.620 we've talked a lot
00:18:59.420 about China
00:19:00.140 in this report
00:19:01.100 but there's also
00:19:02.420 another warning
00:19:03.740 that has come out
00:19:04.540 and this time
00:19:05.540 and you just mentioned it,
00:19:06.800 your dad fled from Cuba.
00:19:08.680 There was a
00:19:09.220 Wall Street Journal report
00:19:10.480 that has come out
00:19:11.260 about how Cuba
00:19:12.380 is also fueling
00:19:13.800 the campus protests.
00:19:15.440 They're getting in on this
00:19:16.680 and look,
00:19:17.160 let's be honest,
00:19:17.940 they don't have
00:19:18.560 as much money to spend
00:19:19.840 as China
00:19:21.000 and yet they see this
00:19:22.780 as that valuable
00:19:23.940 for disruption
00:19:24.860 in America.
00:19:26.180 Well,
00:19:26.700 that's exactly right.
00:19:27.700 So,
00:19:27.860 just a couple of days ago
00:19:28.880 there was an op-ed
00:19:29.720 in the Wall Street Journal.
00:19:30.720 It was entitled
00:19:31.300 How Cuba Fuels
00:19:32.420 the Campus Protests.
00:19:34.080 Some of the outside
00:19:34.820 agitators against Israel
00:19:36.120 are Havana's fellow travelers.
00:19:38.320 And I want to again
00:19:39.720 focus on this
00:19:40.420 because again,
00:19:41.000 this has gotten
00:19:41.520 very little attention
00:19:42.340 other than this journal article,
00:19:43.660 very few other media outlets
00:19:44.800 have picked it up.
00:19:46.040 But,
00:19:46.660 here's how it starts.
00:19:48.520 There's a dog bites man quality
00:19:50.160 to the news reports
00:19:51.100 that recent campus chaos
00:19:52.320 in support of Hamas
00:19:53.280 is the work of
00:19:53.980 well-funded revolutionary groups
00:19:55.640 out to destabilize the U.S.
00:19:58.820 Even less surprising
00:19:59.840 is the charge
00:20:00.640 that,
00:20:01.180 quote,
00:20:01.260 outside agitators
00:20:02.280 as New York Mayor
00:20:03.180 Eric Adams
00:20:03.880 has termed these groups,
00:20:05.240 share an ideology
00:20:06.160 with the Cuban military
00:20:07.320 dictatorship
00:20:07.940 and in some cases
00:20:09.420 have attained
00:20:10.660 practical support
00:20:11.880 from Havana.
00:20:13.780 And it continues,
00:20:15.200 for decades,
00:20:16.660 Cuba has spent
00:20:17.480 enormous resources
00:20:18.920 burrowing into
00:20:19.840 America's educational,
00:20:21.200 diplomatic,
00:20:21.700 and political circles
00:20:22.640 in an effort
00:20:23.700 to topple
00:20:24.480 our democratic republic.
00:20:26.140 This truth was obscured
00:20:27.660 during the Obama administration
00:20:28.840 when Ben Rhodes,
00:20:30.340 struggling creative writer
00:20:31.640 turned national security guru,
00:20:33.820 shaped U.S. policy
00:20:34.860 to profess that Cuba
00:20:35.820 is no longer a threat.
00:20:37.480 Who can forget
00:20:38.760 the photograph
00:20:39.380 iconic for the American left
00:20:41.240 of Raul Castro
00:20:42.260 raising the arm
00:20:43.320 of a limp-wristed
00:20:44.720 President Obama
00:20:45.620 in 2016?
00:20:47.180 The article continues
00:20:48.440 to describe
00:20:49.280 a vocal advocate
00:20:52.280 of the recent
00:20:53.720 hate-ins in New York
00:20:55.180 is Manolo
00:20:56.660 de los Santos.
00:20:58.740 The New York Post
00:20:59.660 describes the 35-year-old
00:21:01.260 as, quote,
00:21:01.800 the leader and de facto
00:21:02.800 mouthpiece
00:21:03.500 for the People's Forum.
00:21:05.000 Remember,
00:21:05.180 we talked about
00:21:05.700 the People's Forum
00:21:06.260 a minute ago
00:21:06.740 that China is helping
00:21:07.480 fund as well.
00:21:08.660 A radical anti-Israel group
00:21:10.400 that encouraged
00:21:10.980 the takeover
00:21:11.600 of Hamilton Hall
00:21:12.380 at Columbia University.
00:21:14.300 Born in the Dominican Republic,
00:21:15.600 Mr. de los Santos
00:21:16.400 moved to the U.S. at 5,
00:21:17.820 but seems to have spent
00:21:18.700 time in Cuba
00:21:19.500 beginning in 2006.
00:21:21.400 In May of 2023,
00:21:23.180 Mr. de los Santos
00:21:24.120 tweeted a photo
00:21:24.920 of himself
00:21:25.560 with Cuban dictator
00:21:26.520 Miguel Diaz-Canel
00:21:27.640 on the island.
00:21:29.500 He wrote that he was,
00:21:30.640 quote,
00:21:30.720 leaving Cuba
00:21:31.240 after 10 days
00:21:32.140 learning with his people
00:21:33.720 and with Mr. Diaz-Canel.
00:21:35.560 Quote,
00:21:36.200 young people in the U.S.
00:21:37.180 have great tasks
00:21:38.100 ahead of them,
00:21:38.660 he explained.
00:21:39.320 In September 2023,
00:21:41.200 Mr. de los Santos
00:21:42.100 was photographed
00:21:42.980 with the Cuban dictator
00:21:44.620 in New York
00:21:45.320 during the week
00:21:46.080 of the U.N.
00:21:46.780 General Assembly meeting.
00:21:48.360 Quote,
00:21:49.300 welcome,
00:21:50.300 dear comrade,
00:21:51.440 Mr. de los Santos
00:21:52.400 tweeted.
00:21:52.880 So this guy's a communist.
00:21:54.740 And here's what
00:21:56.160 the Wall Street Journal
00:21:56.840 continues to say.
00:21:57.680 It isn't clear
00:21:58.300 if Mr. de los Santos
00:21:59.220 was on the Columbia campus.
00:22:01.040 But hours before
00:22:02.900 pro-Hamas activists
00:22:04.220 took over Hamilton Hall,
00:22:06.240 he gave a rousing speech
00:22:07.800 to a volunteer meeting
00:22:08.920 at the People's Forum offices
00:22:10.360 in Manhattan
00:22:11.200 where he,
00:22:12.660 urged the group
00:22:14.440 to,
00:22:15.080 give Joe Biden
00:22:16.180 a hot summer
00:22:16.880 and,
00:22:17.300 make it untenable
00:22:18.140 for the politics as usual
00:22:19.600 to take place
00:22:20.160 in this country.
00:22:21.420 On May 7th,
00:22:22.480 Mr. de los Santos
00:22:23.300 was detained
00:22:24.100 by the New York
00:22:25.360 Police Department
00:22:26.180 for his role
00:22:26.940 in a traffic blocking march.
00:22:29.140 It wasn't his first brush
00:22:30.280 with the law.
00:22:30.880 The Post has reported
00:22:31.660 that he was also arrested
00:22:32.640 by the NYPD
00:22:33.520 on January 27th
00:22:35.400 during a day
00:22:36.020 of pro-Hamas activism.
00:22:38.200 And the journal
00:22:40.060 concludes with the following.
00:22:41.820 In a 2014
00:22:42.700 unclassified report,
00:22:45.060 Cuban intelligence
00:22:46.360 targeting of academia.
00:22:48.820 The FBI said
00:22:50.000 that schools,
00:22:51.320 colleges,
00:22:52.080 universities,
00:22:52.620 and research institutes
00:22:54.460 are a,
00:22:56.080 quote,
00:22:56.380 fertile environment
00:22:57.700 for foreign intelligence.
00:22:59.660 Quote,
00:23:00.780 the Cuban intelligence services
00:23:03.140 are known
00:23:04.500 to actively target
00:23:06.040 the U.S. academic world
00:23:07.640 for the purposes
00:23:08.920 of recruiting agents
00:23:10.220 in order to both
00:23:11.860 obtain useful information
00:23:13.520 and conduct
00:23:15.220 influence activities.
00:23:17.020 Well,
00:23:17.180 you know what?
00:23:17.860 We're seeing those
00:23:18.800 influence activities
00:23:19.960 every day
00:23:21.480 on campuses
00:23:22.180 across the country.
00:23:23.020 Canadian women
00:23:24.500 are looking for more.
00:23:25.880 More out of themselves,
00:23:26.900 their businesses,
00:23:27.820 their elected leaders,
00:23:28.780 and the world around them.
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00:23:54.720 So is there anything
00:23:56.300 that Congress can do?
00:23:58.140 I mean,
00:23:58.540 you're hearing this.
00:24:00.380 Everyone's hearing this now.
00:24:01.820 You mentioned it earlier.
00:24:03.080 Can you ask the FBI director?
00:24:05.280 Can you call on them
00:24:06.620 to take action here
00:24:09.040 and to look into this?
00:24:10.200 Or is this just a,
00:24:11.440 hey,
00:24:12.100 they're on our side
00:24:13.380 as the Democratic Party,
00:24:15.700 the socialists
00:24:16.680 and the Marxists
00:24:17.360 and the communists
00:24:17.920 within the Democratic Party.
00:24:19.200 We don't care
00:24:20.500 because we want
00:24:21.560 their influence
00:24:22.200 and we want their money.
00:24:23.900 So yes,
00:24:24.580 I've called on
00:24:25.220 the Biden administration
00:24:25.960 to do this.
00:24:26.780 I've called on the IRS.
00:24:28.040 I've called on the FBI.
00:24:29.940 Many of these organizations
00:24:32.340 that are pushing
00:24:33.000 these protests
00:24:33.760 are 501c3s,
00:24:35.020 which are supposed
00:24:35.480 to be tax exempt.
00:24:36.440 They're supposed to be
00:24:37.000 not engaging
00:24:37.560 in political activity.
00:24:38.480 So I've called on the IRS
00:24:39.620 to investigate that already.
00:24:42.240 Look,
00:24:42.720 in a sane world,
00:24:43.760 the FBI would be
00:24:44.680 examining this closely.
00:24:46.680 We watched
00:24:47.260 during the Trump presidency
00:24:48.480 the whole Russia,
00:24:49.340 Russia,
00:24:49.520 Russia nonsense,
00:24:50.300 which was totally made up.
00:24:52.220 It was based on
00:24:52.880 Hillary Clinton campaign
00:24:54.100 oppo research,
00:24:55.200 but it became
00:24:57.480 the obsession,
00:24:59.180 number one,
00:24:59.720 of the deep state
00:25:00.480 and number two now
00:25:01.460 of the Biden administration.
00:25:02.680 And yet,
00:25:03.300 I have no indication
00:25:05.800 that the Department of Justice
00:25:07.440 is doing anything
00:25:08.480 to examine this.
00:25:09.480 I have no indication
00:25:10.240 that the FBI,
00:25:10.860 and by the way,
00:25:11.580 the FBI ought to announce
00:25:12.800 they are investigating this.
00:25:14.540 If they were doing it,
00:25:15.780 they shouldn't keep it a secret.
00:25:16.800 They should make absolutely clear
00:25:18.760 that what is happening
00:25:20.340 on these campuses
00:25:21.200 is deeply concerning,
00:25:22.480 and they're going to get
00:25:23.020 to the bottom
00:25:23.540 of who's funding it.
00:25:24.720 But they're not doing that,
00:25:26.140 and I don't believe they will,
00:25:27.680 because many of the funders,
00:25:30.320 in addition to being
00:25:31.220 the Chinese communists
00:25:32.280 and the Cuban communists,
00:25:33.360 many of the funders
00:25:34.200 are also the top funders
00:25:35.620 for the Democrat Party.
00:25:36.940 And this Department of Justice
00:25:38.920 operates as an adjunct
00:25:41.280 to the White House.
00:25:42.060 It is a Democrat Enforcement Bureau,
00:25:44.480 which means I don't think
00:25:45.980 they're going to go after
00:25:46.820 the top funders
00:25:47.620 of the Democrat Party,
00:25:48.540 because you know
00:25:49.100 what their objective is?
00:25:50.300 To re-elect Joe Biden.
00:25:51.940 And so,
00:25:52.820 stopping foreign communist governments
00:25:55.240 from fomenting dissent,
00:25:57.140 protecting Jewish students
00:25:58.420 on campus,
00:25:59.360 preventing our universities
00:26:00.580 from being ripped apart,
00:26:02.240 preventing airports
00:26:03.800 from being shut down,
00:26:05.020 preventing freeways
00:26:05.960 from being shut down.
00:26:06.840 Remember,
00:26:07.200 these are the same people
00:26:08.260 who during the, quote,
00:26:09.220 summer of love,
00:26:10.040 the deep state
00:26:10.760 didn't want to do anything.
00:26:13.600 And so,
00:26:14.060 I don't believe
00:26:14.480 the Biden administration
00:26:15.300 is going to do a damn thing.
00:26:17.100 You mentioned something
00:26:18.520 that we talked about,
00:26:19.620 and it jogged my memory
00:26:20.520 from,
00:26:21.080 it may have been
00:26:21.700 two or three episodes ago,
00:26:23.140 where we were talking about
00:26:24.680 it was very clear
00:26:25.620 that the same people
00:26:26.960 in this country
00:26:28.000 that are funding
00:26:29.640 Joe Biden's re-elect
00:26:30.940 for president
00:26:31.620 are the exact same people
00:26:33.420 that are funding
00:26:34.160 the campus rioters.
00:26:37.120 And so,
00:26:37.700 you combine that,
00:26:39.380 right,
00:26:39.660 with now the foreign money.
00:26:41.580 This is a hell of a lot
00:26:43.240 of influence,
00:26:44.300 Senator,
00:26:44.560 over the United States
00:26:45.620 of America
00:26:46.100 and young people.
00:26:47.500 And it's,
00:26:48.260 is it being orchestrated
00:26:49.260 by the foreigners
00:26:50.280 or is this being orchestrated
00:26:52.180 by the Biden administration
00:26:53.340 in essence?
00:26:54.680 Yes.
00:26:55.780 Look,
00:26:56.180 understand,
00:26:57.060 this is not organic.
00:26:58.300 This is not occurring spontaneously.
00:26:59.780 This is highly organized.
00:27:01.700 There's a reason
00:27:02.840 why all of these activists
00:27:04.860 have the same damn tents.
00:27:06.460 because the groups
00:27:08.440 that are pushing this
00:27:09.300 sent out links
00:27:10.080 to the same Amazon link
00:27:11.300 to buy the tents.
00:27:12.840 And they are being funded.
00:27:14.440 They're being funded,
00:27:15.260 number one,
00:27:15.700 by radical leftists.
00:27:16.660 They're being funded
00:27:17.300 by anarchists.
00:27:18.260 They're being funded
00:27:18.940 by communists.
00:27:20.200 And I don't use communists
00:27:21.780 as a pejorative,
00:27:22.840 as just an insult.
00:27:23.860 I mean people
00:27:24.500 who embrace communism.
00:27:25.740 And as we're laying out here,
00:27:28.800 it's not just
00:27:29.520 American communists
00:27:30.580 of which there are sadly
00:27:31.660 far too many.
00:27:32.780 It is Chinese communists,
00:27:34.360 the Chinese Communist Party.
00:27:35.720 It is Cuban communists.
00:27:37.240 And they see this
00:27:38.840 as a vulnerability
00:27:39.900 in America,
00:27:41.660 a way to tear us apart.
00:27:44.200 Look,
00:27:45.460 you look at a place,
00:27:46.340 we're talking about
00:27:46.880 elite institutions,
00:27:47.680 you look at a place
00:27:48.240 like Duke University.
00:27:50.360 Ben,
00:27:50.760 how the hell
00:27:51.740 is Jerry Seinfeld
00:27:53.220 now too controversial
00:27:55.680 of a speaker
00:27:56.440 for campus leftists?
00:27:57.600 We saw at Duke's commencement,
00:27:59.960 oh,
00:28:00.340 about 50
00:28:01.240 anti-Semitic leftists
00:28:03.680 storm out.
00:28:04.660 And by the way,
00:28:05.740 Seinfeld was not giving
00:28:06.760 a speech about Israel.
00:28:07.800 He was not talking,
00:28:08.440 he happens to support Israel.
00:28:10.280 They simply said,
00:28:11.560 damn it,
00:28:11.920 I will not listen to a Jew.
00:28:13.940 I am such a bigot.
00:28:15.600 If you invite a Jew
00:28:16.660 to speak to me,
00:28:17.300 I will walk out ostentatiously.
00:28:19.440 You look at the
00:28:20.320 recent graduation
00:28:21.260 at Columbia
00:28:21.820 where you had these nitwits
00:28:22.920 walking up
00:28:23.520 and ripping their diploma
00:28:24.620 in half.
00:28:26.040 And I mean,
00:28:26.940 they are angry,
00:28:28.920 they are bigoted
00:28:29.780 on the left,
00:28:30.820 being a bigot.
00:28:32.660 Hating Jews
00:28:33.440 is accepted
00:28:34.220 on the left now.
00:28:35.140 That is an acceptable
00:28:36.180 bigotry.
00:28:37.740 See,
00:28:38.160 I don't understand
00:28:38.680 why these universities,
00:28:39.780 and maybe it's just
00:28:40.620 because I'm old school
00:28:41.580 and I think you
00:28:42.740 would agree with me,
00:28:44.720 if back when I
00:28:46.280 was in school,
00:28:47.140 if you ripped up
00:28:48.100 your diploma
00:28:48.740 when you were walking
00:28:49.580 across the stage,
00:28:51.080 they probably would have
00:28:52.100 just taken away from you
00:28:53.160 and said,
00:28:53.400 you didn't graduate.
00:28:55.580 Yeah,
00:28:56.000 so it's an interesting question.
00:28:57.520 I mean,
00:28:57.620 there have been real consequences
00:28:58.260 is what I'm saying.
00:29:00.100 Probably.
00:29:00.780 I will say,
00:29:01.760 I'm not sure
00:29:02.660 you could do that.
00:29:03.580 You might actually
00:29:04.160 have a breach
00:29:04.600 of contract claim
00:29:05.560 if you have actually
00:29:06.600 paid your tuition
00:29:07.380 and passed your classes.
00:29:08.480 I'm not sure
00:29:09.100 they could revoke
00:29:09.800 your diploma
00:29:10.260 at that point.
00:29:11.780 But you know what?
00:29:13.500 They could certainly
00:29:14.640 print on your transcript
00:29:16.360 Ben Ferguson
00:29:18.240 is embarrassed
00:29:19.080 to have graduated
00:29:20.040 from Ole Miss
00:29:20.840 and tore up his diploma.
00:29:22.160 You should know that
00:29:22.920 if you're thinking
00:29:23.480 of hiring him.
00:29:24.860 Yeah.
00:29:25.740 I mean,
00:29:26.120 and yet all these universities
00:29:27.960 seem to know
00:29:28.760 it's going to happen.
00:29:29.980 And his tennis serve
00:29:31.060 is like a little girl.
00:29:33.640 Would that be bad
00:29:34.500 if they wrote that
00:29:35.160 on your transcript?
00:29:35.620 I would sue them for that.
00:29:37.160 That I would sue them for.
00:29:38.360 The other part,
00:29:38.980 I don't know if I'd care,
00:29:39.920 but I'd sue them for that
00:29:40.800 because I'd be like,
00:29:41.220 that is a lie
00:29:41.760 and I'm going to get paid.
00:29:43.140 It's actually not accurate,
00:29:44.520 Ben,
00:29:44.620 because a little girl
00:29:45.360 could serve and get it in.
00:29:46.860 Listen to you.
00:29:47.660 Listen to you.
00:29:48.260 All right.
00:29:49.100 Next time we play.
00:29:50.820 The sad thing is...
00:29:52.220 I'm going to come back
00:29:52.880 with a report here
00:29:53.620 on verdict.
00:29:54.400 The sad thing is
00:29:55.540 I have such empty boast
00:29:56.920 because you so utterly
00:29:59.040 destroy me in tennis.
00:30:00.120 It's not even close.
00:30:01.900 But I'm talking smack
00:30:03.360 and on this it is empty.
00:30:05.100 I will readily admit.
00:30:07.420 But if you do this...
00:30:08.520 But you know what?
00:30:09.560 I can take you at hoops.
00:30:11.480 That's true.
00:30:12.260 No, no.
00:30:12.660 You've got game.
00:30:13.380 I said the first time
00:30:15.120 we played him.
00:30:15.780 So I was like,
00:30:16.160 all right,
00:30:16.340 he's got some game.
00:30:17.260 Diaz was like,
00:30:17.700 does he really have game?
00:30:18.720 And I was like,
00:30:19.500 for people that are listening,
00:30:20.540 Diaz is our producer
00:30:21.340 that does the show.
00:30:22.620 And so Diaz was like,
00:30:23.480 can he actually shoot?
00:30:24.860 And I'm like,
00:30:25.160 he actually can.
00:30:26.360 He was like,
00:30:26.780 really?
00:30:27.160 I was like,
00:30:27.360 yes,
00:30:27.600 he actually scores
00:30:28.360 like a lot.
00:30:29.880 Now I will say,
00:30:31.020 look,
00:30:31.220 you've got size.
00:30:32.120 You can post up on me
00:30:33.240 one-on-one.
00:30:34.440 If you actually turned around
00:30:36.160 and put your ass
00:30:36.960 towards the basket
00:30:37.700 and backed up on me,
00:30:38.760 I'm not sure
00:30:39.440 I could push you out
00:30:40.320 because you're a big guy.
00:30:42.060 Yeah,
00:30:42.340 no,
00:30:42.680 in fact,
00:30:43.280 we might need to make that happen.
00:30:44.540 I don't know if I want to do it
00:30:45.480 like now
00:30:45.900 because I do end up
00:30:47.660 breaking bones when I play.
00:30:49.160 So, you know,
00:30:49.980 I might heal a little bit.
00:30:51.460 To be clear,
00:30:52.200 whose bones?
00:30:54.140 It was mine.
00:30:55.280 Mine broke, dude.
00:30:56.720 Mine broke.
00:30:56.960 I just have to clarify that.
00:30:59.080 Yeah,
00:30:59.340 it took me out of tennis
00:31:00.420 for the longest
00:31:01.020 of like my whole life.
00:31:02.220 I finally got to play today
00:31:03.600 because of this stupid pinky
00:31:05.460 that swells up.
00:31:06.300 It is like the size
00:31:07.160 of a baseball right now.
00:31:08.400 I'm thinking workers comp here
00:31:09.960 at some point.
00:31:10.540 That'll be my lawsuit.
00:31:12.560 But final question for you
00:31:14.360 on what we just exposed.
00:31:17.320 What is it that people
00:31:18.860 need to do
00:31:19.880 with this information?
00:31:21.440 And is this just more of a,
00:31:23.300 hey,
00:31:24.080 if you've got a kid
00:31:25.800 or a grandkid
00:31:27.020 that is looking at
00:31:27.960 where they're going
00:31:28.380 to be going to college,
00:31:29.680 is part of this,
00:31:30.800 pay attention
00:31:31.740 to what they're doing
00:31:32.720 to your kid's mind
00:31:33.680 and don't just assume
00:31:35.260 that because your kid
00:31:36.100 gets into, quote,
00:31:36.860 a prestigious university
00:31:37.820 that it's the right decision
00:31:38.940 to send them there?
00:31:40.540 Look, that's a hard choice.
00:31:42.340 And I will say parents,
00:31:44.000 particularly parents
00:31:44.800 with high school
00:31:45.840 and college age kids,
00:31:47.060 it's a really hard choice.
00:31:48.640 My view has long been
00:31:50.520 that a kid should go
00:31:52.960 to the best school
00:31:53.680 they can get into.
00:31:54.580 And it does open doors.
00:31:55.840 It opens career doors.
00:31:57.080 It's beneficial.
00:31:58.240 I will say,
00:31:59.220 the more radicalized
00:32:00.300 these places get,
00:32:01.400 the less convinced I am
00:32:03.180 that makes sense.
00:32:04.340 I will say I saw
00:32:05.440 an article recently
00:32:06.340 talking about
00:32:07.040 how many top
00:32:08.380 high school graduates
00:32:09.200 are now looking
00:32:10.160 at schools in the South.
00:32:12.640 By the way,
00:32:14.140 you know,
00:32:14.640 it's easy,
00:32:15.480 and we talked about this
00:32:16.420 in a prior podcast,
00:32:18.020 you know,
00:32:18.260 it's easy to say,
00:32:19.140 oh, all colleges
00:32:20.120 are just crazy
00:32:21.140 and this is just
00:32:22.280 a problem across the country.
00:32:24.240 No, that's not true.
00:32:25.500 This is a problem
00:32:26.440 in blue states.
00:32:27.800 This is a problem
00:32:28.740 at Columbia,
00:32:30.360 at NYU,
00:32:31.140 at Yale,
00:32:31.660 at Harvard.
00:32:32.560 This is a problem
00:32:33.380 at Princeton.
00:32:34.060 This is a problem
00:32:34.600 at UCLA.
00:32:35.500 This is a problem
00:32:36.100 at UC Berkeley.
00:32:37.140 This is a problem
00:32:37.660 at USC.
00:32:38.420 This is a problem
00:32:38.840 at the University
00:32:39.300 of Washington.
00:32:40.580 This is a problem
00:32:41.400 in blue states.
00:32:42.260 Why is it a problem
00:32:42.960 in blue states?
00:32:43.620 Because you have Democrats
00:32:44.460 who will not stand up against it,
00:32:45.800 who will not protect
00:32:46.560 Jewish students,
00:32:47.160 who will not oppose
00:32:47.940 anti-Semitism,
00:32:48.860 who will not lock up
00:32:50.220 protesters,
00:32:50.880 who will not stop
00:32:51.760 pro-Hamas protesters,
00:32:53.780 who will not stop
00:32:54.500 threats of violence.
00:32:55.280 These are the same people
00:32:56.440 that were utterly powerless
00:32:57.740 in the so-called
00:32:58.840 summer of love
00:32:59.660 and let anarchists
00:33:00.500 take over portions
00:33:01.360 of major cities
00:33:02.220 in America.
00:33:03.120 These are the same people
00:33:04.200 who allowed
00:33:04.980 Black Lives Matter
00:33:06.060 and Antifa protesters
00:33:07.200 to firebomb police cars,
00:33:08.940 to loot stores,
00:33:09.880 to commit crimes.
00:33:11.900 We're not seeing this
00:33:13.280 in red states.
00:33:14.300 Look,
00:33:14.680 you and I both live
00:33:16.240 in Texas.
00:33:16.840 At UT,
00:33:17.380 there were protests.
00:33:18.120 You know what they did?
00:33:19.120 They sent in the police
00:33:20.220 and if you committed
00:33:21.280 threats of violence,
00:33:22.080 you got arrested.
00:33:22.800 And miraculously,
00:33:24.460 you didn't have
00:33:25.540 the garbage you had
00:33:26.460 at these other schools.
00:33:27.300 You look at places,
00:33:28.940 whether University of North Carolina
00:33:30.820 or other southern schools,
00:33:31.920 they don't have the problems.
00:33:32.880 Florida?
00:33:33.720 Look,
00:33:34.060 Florida and Texas,
00:33:35.440 listen,
00:33:36.020 you and I both have
00:33:36.880 a lot of very close
00:33:38.000 Jewish friends.
00:33:39.880 They're not living
00:33:40.780 in fear in Texas.
00:33:41.900 They're not living
00:33:42.440 in fear in Florida.
00:33:44.200 But you know what?
00:33:44.860 They are living in fear
00:33:45.940 in New York
00:33:46.540 and New Jersey
00:33:47.140 and Connecticut
00:33:47.700 and California.
00:33:49.140 And ideology
00:33:50.540 has consequences.
00:33:52.720 If you have leftists
00:33:54.200 who embrace
00:33:54.960 cultural Marxism
00:33:56.100 who believe Jews
00:33:57.100 are oppressors,
00:33:58.000 you know what?
00:33:58.680 They're not going
00:33:59.140 to oppress Jewish students.
00:34:00.380 And that is,
00:34:01.260 that is sadly
00:34:02.940 where today's
00:34:05.260 radicalized Democrat Party is.
00:34:07.380 Yeah,
00:34:07.520 it is.
00:34:08.000 And it's going to be
00:34:08.580 interesting to see
00:34:09.300 how much now,
00:34:10.780 especially with a lot
00:34:12.020 of people that graduated
00:34:13.000 from universities,
00:34:14.360 your alma mater
00:34:15.260 and others at Columbia
00:34:16.500 taking a stand
00:34:17.200 and saying,
00:34:17.480 I'm not giving you
00:34:18.440 any more money.
00:34:19.240 We've seen Robert Kraft
00:34:20.340 and others say,
00:34:20.960 we're not sending
00:34:21.580 any more cash to you
00:34:23.340 and many of these
00:34:24.680 Ivy League universities.
00:34:26.260 And so will that force them
00:34:27.820 to take even more
00:34:29.020 of this foreign money
00:34:30.140 and the foreign influence
00:34:31.340 that comes with it?
00:34:32.580 That may be one
00:34:33.800 of the shocking parts
00:34:35.260 of this entire conversation
00:34:37.260 that we're having right now.
00:34:38.880 I think that's right.
00:34:39.800 I think there are
00:34:40.300 a lot of alums
00:34:41.040 who are deeply concerned
00:34:43.180 about where the institutions
00:34:44.480 they went to school are.
00:34:45.460 I think there are
00:34:45.780 a lot of parents
00:34:46.400 that are deeply worried
00:34:47.400 about do they keep
00:34:48.920 sending their students
00:34:49.860 to these schools?
00:34:50.600 I think there are
00:34:51.680 already lawsuits
00:34:52.400 and there are going to be
00:34:52.960 a lot more lawsuits
00:34:53.900 about breach of contract.
00:34:55.080 You pay a school
00:34:56.120 a half million dollars
00:34:57.160 and they shut down,
00:34:58.460 they don't teach in person,
00:34:59.480 they send people at home,
00:35:00.480 they cancel your commencement,
00:35:01.920 they say,
00:35:02.300 oh, we're not actually
00:35:03.040 going to do
00:35:03.500 what you paid us to do,
00:35:04.540 which is teach your kids.
00:35:05.740 And by the way,
00:35:06.260 we're not going to
00:35:06.720 protect your students.
00:35:07.520 If your student
00:35:08.140 happens to wear a yarmulke,
00:35:09.680 you know what?
00:35:10.200 They need to be prepared
00:35:11.020 to be screamed at,
00:35:11.920 cursed at,
00:35:12.400 and be physically threatened
00:35:13.460 with violence.
00:35:14.640 That is, A,
00:35:15.680 a violation
00:35:16.280 of federal civil rights law.
00:35:17.540 And by the way,
00:35:18.280 where is
00:35:19.320 the Biden administration?
00:35:20.680 Why are they not
00:35:21.400 enforcing federal
00:35:22.780 civil rights law?
00:35:24.000 Look, I looked
00:35:25.060 at Dwight D. Eisenhower,
00:35:26.320 Republican president,
00:35:27.320 who when you had
00:35:28.040 a bunch of Democrat
00:35:29.200 bigots,
00:35:29.680 and I'll point out,
00:35:30.380 it was Democrat
00:35:31.020 bigots in the 50s
00:35:31.980 and 60s too,
00:35:33.240 who were refusing
00:35:34.020 to allow schools
00:35:34.920 to be integrated,
00:35:35.740 and they were persecuting
00:35:36.900 African American students,
00:35:38.020 and these Democrat
00:35:38.880 bigot politicians
00:35:39.880 were doing that,
00:35:41.380 and Dwight D. Eisenhower
00:35:42.200 sent in the National Guard.
00:35:43.500 What has Joe Biden done?
00:35:45.340 Absolutely nothing,
00:35:47.240 because his sympathies,
00:35:50.020 he wants the votes
00:35:51.600 of the anti-Semites
00:35:53.700 who are protesting,
00:35:55.220 and, you know,
00:35:56.040 his administration
00:35:57.420 also seems to have
00:35:58.480 zero concern
00:35:59.540 about the Chinese
00:36:00.860 communist money
00:36:01.640 and the Cuban
00:36:02.500 communist money
00:36:03.320 and supporters behind this.
00:36:04.920 Yeah, well,
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