Dems RAGE against the Deniers, Another Pro-Hamas Campus Protester Deported & Foreign Money Floods our Universities Week In Review
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Ted Cruz and Ben Ferguson discuss the big stories of the week in politics. First up, Democrats continue to threaten conservatives with violence if you disagree with them. Is this basically the Democratic political playbook? We break it down for you. Also, Donald Trump is making good on a promise that if you are a pro-Hamas terrorist on a college campus, well, there's a very good chance you're going to get deported. And finally, foreign cash is pouring into universities. We ll break that down.
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And here are the big stories that you may have missed that we talked about this week.
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First up, Democrats continue to threaten conservatives with violence if you disagree with them.
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So is this basically the Democrat political playbook?
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Also, Donald Trump making good on a promise that if you are a pro-Hamas terrorist protester on a college campus,
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well, there's a very good chance you're going to get deported.
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And finally, foreign cash is pouring into universities.
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So what is the payback and why are these universities willing to take so much money from shady countries?
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It's the Week in Review and it starts right now.
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It's been directed towards Elon Musk, threats against Elon Musk.
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Threats now are expanding to Tesla dealerships.
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We're finding incendiary devices, bombs in dealerships, for example, in Austin, Texas.
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And then there's people now that are threatening you.
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This seems to be the Democratic Party's playbook now.
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If there's someone we don't like, we go after them.
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And we saw that the rhetoric literally almost cost Donald Trump his life in that first assassination attempt that actually got him.
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And now they don't seem to be backing down at all.
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Well, the Democrats today are the party of rage.
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And I will say there's a House member in Texas, Jasmine Crockett, who this week has been a rough week for her.
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She has denigrated and mocked Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, because he is in a wheelchair, because he has a disability.
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And it really does show who today's Democrats are.
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And I want you to listen to what she said first about me and then about Greg Abbott.
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Just in case the slow people listening decide to clip this up later, I just want to say that I have never promoted violence whatsoever.
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And I think towards the end, he started to punch a little harder.
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I mean, like this dude has to be knocked over the head like hard.
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Like there is no niceties with him like at all.
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I hear that and I just shake my head, Senator, because, of course, when the fire is of the spotlight is on her, she's like, oh, I've never called for violence.
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Look, I got to admit, I've never met this woman, Jasmine Crockett.
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She seems to be the darling of the radical left because she calls for crazy things.
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I will tell you, look, I've been in the Senate 13 years.
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I jump out of bed every day excited because I get to fight for Texas.
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I will tell you one of the downsides of this job.
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I have literally hundreds of death threats against me.
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There are a lot of people that come up and encourage.
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But, man, some of the things that people say, and I've had the threats not like you've had threats, but it's like part of the business now, which is the worst part about it, is that if you're in politics and you're conservative, there are people that want you to die and come after you.
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But you and I, we went to a game and people were screaming the F-bomb in front of your daughter who was with us.
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And it's like there is no just like you're a dad in that moment.
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I'm a dad when I'm out with my son and someone gets in my face to the H-E-B and starts screaming exos at me in the cereal aisle.
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And yet it seems to be getting worse, not better.
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Yeah, look, there are a lot of people that are just unhinged and filled with hate.
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And I'll tell you, look, I'll give you an encouragement.
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Listen, the folks that listen to Verdict, you guys are amazing.
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You're incredibly engaged and you're passionate and you're fighting to save this country.
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I will tell you, when I travel around, the ratio of positive to negative comments, it is more than 90% positive.
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So it's encouraging when I'm out at an airport, when I'm out at a shopping mall, people say nice things.
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There are regularly people who don't and people on the left.
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Now, I got to say, many of them on the left, when they say something negative, they'll like screw up their courage.
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It's like, wow, you spent a long time thinking about that.
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And my standard response, and unfortunately it happens often enough that I have to have a standard response.
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And, you know, there's a principle in the Bible that if you repay hatred with kindness, that it is like piling hot coals on their heads.
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Like, when they say F you, my response is God bless you.
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And there was one time in Houston where this, like, liberal woman screamed F you, and I said, God bless you.
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Like, she almost had an aneurysm when I said that.
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And I will say just a couple of days ago I had a young woman who was screaming F you, and I did say something to the effect of, you're very charming, your mother, but must be very proud.
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Oh, she just stormed off, and I'm sure as she was driving home, she's thought of 50 different responses, but she didn't say any of them.
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She's just like, yeah, I randomly scream F you at people at the airport.
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But, listen, when you have people on the left encouraging, listen, Jasmine is saying you need to hit them in the head and hit them really hard.
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I'll be honest, Ben, I really hope someone doesn't hit me in the head really hard.
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Like, I would prefer not to have my brains bashed in.
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This is the part where I think it's a bigger issue that concerns me.
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It's the dog whistles that come from the leadership of the Democratic Party.
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And by the way, Donald Trump was, you had two assassins who tried to kill him.
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We've got Democrats who are firebombing Tesla and radical leftists, and no Democrat is condemning it.
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These are the same people that had Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots.
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We had, at the baseball practice, we had a radical leftist, a Bernie Sanders supporter, who came and said, he asked someone, hey, are those Republicans there?
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They said yes, and he came with a rifle and shot people.
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And it was pure happenstance that Steve Scalise, who was a member of House leadership, was there because he had a security detail.
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And that security detail shot and killed this radical leftist.
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If, let's say Scalise had been 10 minutes late that morning, let's say he'd been delayed, he'd been taking his kids to school, he'd been doing something else, and he was delayed.
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That radical leftist would have murdered over a dozen House members and two U.S. senators.
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We came incredibly close to a massacre because of the active solicitation of violence.
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I don't want anyone to engage in violence against leftists.
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I'm not calling for this nutcase Jasmine Crockett to face any violence.
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And I want you to play what she said like a day or two later, attacking Greg Abbott, because it is equally noxious.
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Y'all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there.
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And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot-ass mess, honey.
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It's like, one, what do you think is going to come of that?
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The other thing is the backdrop behind her is she's literally speaking at the Human Rights Campaign.
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And that's what she's preaching, and people are laughing and clapping as she's on stage for, again, Human Rights Campaign.
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But, by the way, do you know why Greg Abbott is in a wheelchair?
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If I remember the story correctly, he was running at the park, and a random tree limb fell on his head and paralyzed him.
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And I'll tell you, I worked for him five and a half years.
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Like, when I first went to work for him, he would tell a joke.
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He'd get up and say, okay, I know what you're thinking.
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How slow was that guy running to get hit by a tree?
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And, like, the first time he jokes about it, you're not sure what to say.
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And he would tell jokes about it, and you could be like, okay, I mean, I guess if you can joke about it, I can laugh about it.
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But, you know, it was tragic, and he's been paralyzed for 20-plus, maybe 30-plus years, a long time, in a wheelchair.
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And she's sitting there at supposedly the Human Rights Campaign.
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Now, it's a leftist radical group that is obsessed with LGBT.
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But they're cheering, yes, Governor Hot Wheels, he's disabled in a wheelchair.
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I mean, that is nasty and hateful, and it's who today's Democrat Party is.
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Senator, I want to move to the other story that you mentioned earlier.
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And this goes in the category of promises made, promises kept for Donald Trump.
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Another pro-Hamas protester is in serious trouble after his actions on a college campus.
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This is making liberal heads explode, but this is exactly what the president said he was going to do, and he's making good on that promise yet again.
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Well, and this is something we discussed in the podcast you and I did at CPAC when we interviewed Pam Bondi.
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And we talked about the fact that the Trump administration is going to go after these radical, anti-Semitic, anti-American, anti-Israel protesters.
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And if you threaten violence against fellow students or if you are attacking America, you have no entitlement to be allowed into this country.
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You're seeing Democrats who have suddenly discovered free speech.
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Mind you, when it comes to Americans speaking, they don't give a damn about free speech.
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When it comes to big tech censoring you, they don't care about free speech.
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American citizens have no First Amendment rights in the Democrats' bizarre lexicon.
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But if you are a vicious anti-Semite, if you hate America, if you hate Israel and you're not an American, well, then suddenly they think you're protected.
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So the latest radical who had his visa revoked is a student at Cornell, and he's an individual named Momodo Tal.
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Now, Momodo Tal, according to the Washington Free Beacon, is a graduate student who has called for the destruction of the United States, has celebrated the October 7th attacks by Hamas, and has said that he takes his, quote, cue from the armed resistance in Palestine.
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He is a British and Gambian dual national, so he's not an American.
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And he began studying in Cornell in 2022 on an F-1 student visa.
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And Tal received an email from the Department of Justice that said, ICE invites Mr. Tal and his counsel to appear in person at the HSI office in Syracuse at a mutually agreeable time for personal service of the notice to appear and for Mr. Tal to surrender to ICE custody.
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He engaged in lawfare and went and filed a lawsuit seeking to block it.
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Tal has said, number one, he's called on fellow student protesters to take their cues from the armed resistance in Palestine.
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He has also said, quote, we are in solidarity with the armed resistance in Palestine from the river to the sea.
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He also said just just after October 7th, hours after, he said, quote, the dialect demands that whenever wherever you have oppression, you will find those who are fighting against it.
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Now, the dialect, look, this guy is a communist.
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We talked about how cultural Marxism, they divide the world into oppressors and victims.
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And they actively cheer on the violent revolution of the so-called victims against the so-called oppressors.
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This is as women and little girls are being raped, as 1,200 civilians are being murdered.
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The dialect demands that wherever you have oppression, you will find those who are fighting against it.
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When he applied for his student visa, he wrote, quote, and this is on Twitter.
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The end of the U.S. empire in our lifetime, inshallah.
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Months later, the idiots in the Biden administration gave him his student visa.
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I don't know what that means, but I'm guessing it is not nice.
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Shortly thereafter, he tweeted, my hatred of the U.S. empire knows no bound.
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Again, I don't know what that means, but I'm guessing again, it is celebrating against America.
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One other thing he posted, quote, when the enemy is U.S. imperialism, then absolutely anyone
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This anti-American, anti-Semitic radical who hates America needs to get the hell out of our country.
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He has no entitlement to be here, and we have no obligation.
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We have no constitutional obligation, and we certainly have no moral obligation to say,
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hey, people who hate America, people who say, quote,
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anyone who calls the U.S. an enemy is my friend.
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If that's true, get your ass out of this country.
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We don't need you here threatening Americans.
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It really is about threatening Americans and threatening kids on college campuses,
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and we've seen anti-Semitism, for example, that has just skyrocketed on college campuses,
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A lot of these agitators and protesters are acting in groups and pre-planning this around
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the country, and that has to be very concerning, I think, not only for college students, but
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especially for students that are Jewish, but really concerning for, I think, everyday Americans
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understand that we've been allowing these people in, and this is what they're doing.
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We are actually living in an effing alternative reality, although he did not abbreviate effing.
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Zionists living comfortably in the U.S. and Zionist Jewish students at Ivy League institutions
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are claiming to be unsafe, scared, and somehow everyone is calling for their genocide.
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Whilst in 4K, we are witnessing a genocide of the Palestinian people, and many of these
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same folks who claim to feel scared are cheering on the actions of the IOF, BFFR, I don't know
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Every single Zionist is a sick, sick individual, and there can be no path forward except for the
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complete eradication of Zionism, materially and mentally.
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Zionists are indeed the chosen people, chosen for hell.
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Now understand one game that anti-Semites play, which is many times they use the word
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And they just think it's like, oh, I'm pretending to be slightly less bigoted by calling it Zionists.
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Look, they consider, and he actually at one point says Zionist slash Jewish students, this
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is an anti-Semite who hates Jews and who is calling for the complete eradication of Zionism,
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by which he means the complete eradication of Jews.
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And you know what was happening after the Trump administration moved to deport this radical?
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And by the way, have you heard a single Democrat in the Senate speak out in favor of revoking his
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You had left-wing activists on Cornell protesting his deportation on Thursday, and they were
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chanting, hands off, Momodoo, waving signs opposing mass deportation.
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Listen, any reporter, every reporter ought to ask the Democrats, do you believe we have
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to give student visas to people who say they're enemies of America and hate America?
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And I have yet to see a Democrat explain why they cheer on pro-Hamas radicals.
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But I got to say, let's say you're a moderate Democrat, but not swept up in the sort of Trump
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derangement syndrome anger, you got to ask why Washington Democrats, when they look at October
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7th, when they look at the radicals on campuses, why the Democrats say we stand with Hamas and we
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That's got to make you wonder what the heck has happened to the Democrat Party.
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As before, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic, you can go back
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and download the podcast from earlier this week to hear the entire thing.
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I want to get back to the big story number three of the week you may have missed, which
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And this is one where we have, I think, led on exposing the amount of foreign money that's
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We also exposed it with the Biden crime family and the amount of foreign dollars coming in
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to the Biden Institute, for example, and other universities.
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And we've witnessed the amount of money coming in to a point where you say,
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I think now you're looking at a bigger issue, which is what are they actually getting in
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return for the staggering amounts of foreign money that's pouring these universities?
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Is this trying to control the next generation of American minds?
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But when you look at this new report from a nonprofit and a non-person government watchdog
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group, they're sounding the alarm saying this amount of money coming in is not just from
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This money is coming in, is coming in for something big.
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So there's a story in Fox News entitled, quote, new report sounds alarm on staggering amount
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of foreign money pouring into U.S. universities.
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The report says that $795 million has gone from foreign adversaries to American universities.
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Quote, a new report from a nonprofit and nonpartisan government watchdog is shedding light on the
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tens of billions of dollars, tens of billions that have poured into U.S. universities in
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recent years, including $20 billion to some of the most prestigious universities in the
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The report produced by Americans for Public Trust and released this week found that $60
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billion, again, $60 billion in foreign gifts and contracts were funneled into American colleges
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and universities, including $20 billion alone to elite schools like Harvard, Yale, and others.
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Within that total, $795 million came from nations that are longstanding adversaries to the United
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States, including China, Russia, Venezuela, and Yemen.
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I can tell you I've introduced legislation to require at a minimum that universities report
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every dollar of foreign money they receive so that we have scrutiny.
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And I'll tell you, Ben, one of the very first pieces of legislation I ever passed when I was a
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brand new baby senator 13 years ago was dealing with this issue of foreign money flooding into
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And China had been funding these things called Confucius Institutes.
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Confucius Institutes were institutes on American college campuses that taught Mandarin, that taught
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Chinese language, and they were used, number one, as hubs of espionage, where China would send spies to
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engage in espionage in the United States, and number two, as tools of propaganda, where they would push
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propaganda that was favorable to the Chinese communist government.
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And when I was a brand new baby senator, I introduced legislation that banned any money from the
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federal Department of Defense going to a university that had a Confucius Institute.
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And at the time I introduced it, we had a Democrat Senate.
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When I got elected, Harry Reid was the majority leader.
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And Ben, I'll tell you, I got bipartisan support.
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And the legislation I passed resulted in more than 20 Confucius Institutes across the country
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What should the government response be moving forward?
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And is it time to actually look at these universities and ask questions or have regulations about
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money coming in from foreign countries, especially those that are adversaries of the United States
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But the Wild Wild West that we're looking at right now from this report and $60 billion in
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foreign gifts and contracts are funneled into American colleges and universities like that.
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$20 billion alone to Harvard, Yale, and other elite schools.
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And if they're buying the minds of American students or influence or even what worries me
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the most is stealing intellectual property or spying on America and future leaders, this
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They're doing this to steal intellectual property.
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And so many of our universities, especially our elite universities, have eagerly jumped in
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Look, you and I discussed early on in the wake of October 7th when the anti-Semitic protests
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If you look at the universities with the highest percentage of foreign students, it almost
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perfectly maps to the universities with the most, the most virulent, the most nasty anti-Semitic
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Universities like Columbia and NYU are at the very top of the list.
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And when you let in a bunch of foreign students, now look, universities like foreign students
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But why are American universities in the business of educating foreigners, especially foreigners
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But not only that, but they're pushing this to drive a political agenda.
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As I mentioned, I've introduced legislation to require transparency.
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If a university is getting money from a foreign country, we need to know about it.
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And I'll tell you, the legislation I'm introducing puts punitive tax penalties.
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If you get money from a country that is an enemy of America, in my view, the federal government
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ought to put penalties in place where you end up being taxed more than you get.
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We don't need the enemies of America funding our universities and actively undermining our
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We need leaders who are willing to stand up for America first.
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If you look at the money that came in, a perfect example of this is within that total, I gave
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you the 20 billion alone going to those elite schools.
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795 million came from nations that are longstanding adversaries of the U.S., including China, Russia,
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Is it also time to look at certain countries and say you can't have donations coming in
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If Iran is funding your university, you're doing something fundamentally wrong.
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As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
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Don't forget to download my podcast and you can listen to my podcast every other day.
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