Ted Cruz and Ben Ferguson discuss new intel on the FBI and how it ties into the Russia hoax. Also, a new report points to Harvard University having direct ties to the Chinese Communist Party. And finally, Democrats go on the record with official votes becoming more anti-Israel than we ve ever seen before.
00:00:07.620Week in Review. Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:09.540And here are the major stories that you may have missed that we talked about this week.
00:00:13.100First up, new intel on the FBI and how involved they actually were in creating the Russia hoax.
00:00:21.340We'll explain that to you in just a moment.
00:00:23.400Also, in a new bombshell report, Harvard University having direct ties to the Chinese Communist Party and the money they're funneling in is truly incredible.
00:00:34.660And finally, Democrats go on the record with official votes, becoming more anti-Israel than we've ever seen before.
00:00:43.980It's the Week in Review, and it starts right now.
00:00:47.600I want to move to the other topic that we mentioned earlier, and that deals with the FBI right now.
00:00:52.580And new intel that's coming out, and I've got to say, a lot of people are going to be shocked by it.
00:04:32.660I got to tell you, I'm told that Sandler, I've invited him to come play hoops with me, and he said yes.
00:04:38.280So, hadn't happened yet, but I'm actually really psyched, because Sandler and I are almost exactly the same age, and he's a serious ball player.
00:04:46.400And as you know, I play hoops twice a week.
00:04:49.940By the way, really, do I say count me in for that game?
00:05:43.000So this is the part that laughs when you do radio, like I did three hours a day.
00:05:47.860My producer, Diaz, who does this show as well, when that would happen, the worst part is he's just laughing at me through the glass on the other side of the wall because it's live and there's nothing he can do to fix it.
00:06:24.860You have reported on this story with alarming fesificity.
00:06:27.860And let me read from the Fox News story.
00:06:31.840Quote, U.S. intelligence has credible foreign sources indicating that the FBI would play a role in spreading the salacious Trump-Russia collusion narrative before the Bureau ever launched its controversial crossfire hurricane probe, sources familiar with the intel told Fox News Digital.
00:06:49.580CIA Director John Ratcliffe is expected to declassify the underlying intelligence, including a classified annex related to former special counsel John Durham's investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe.
00:07:05.360A source familiar with the contents of the classified annex told Fox News Digital that while it may not have been exactly clear in the moment what the intelligent collection meant, with the benefit of hindsight, it predicted the FBI's move with alarming specificity.
00:07:23.080And it goes on to say, Bingo, there's your quote.
00:07:28.060Quote, ultimately, the release of the classified annex will lend more credibility to the assertion that there was a coordinated plan inside the U.S. government to help the Clinton campaign stir up controversy connecting Trump to Russia.
00:07:42.640The source, who was granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive intelligence matters that have not yet been made public, told Fox News Digital, quote, mere days after this intelligence was collected, the FBI launched crossfire hurricane, the source said, quote, it is really hard to see how Brennan, Clapper and Comey are going to be able to explain this away.
00:08:07.620You put that in perspective, and I think it's fair to say at this point, everything we were hearing during the back of the day on this, it was all just straight up government propaganda and the media was 100 percent in on it.
00:08:22.760Well, it was not just government propaganda.
00:08:25.180It was driven by the Hillary Clinton campaign.
00:08:28.500It was opposition research that they paid for.
00:08:31.100And then they gave to the Obama administration to launder it.
00:08:36.060They laundered it through the Department of Justice.
00:08:38.780And it was the federal government attacking Donald Trump because they did not want Donald Trump to be president.
00:08:46.140And the degree to which the government was complicit in partisan politics, but not just partisan politics, partisan politics that was false, that was a lie.
00:09:02.240It was concocted through the Hillary Clinton campaign.
00:09:06.520It was laundered through the FBI and the Department of Justice.
00:09:10.260And it was a lie that was a political attack job.
00:09:13.860And I want to commend John Ratcliffe, the head of the CIA, a good friend of mine, for making this public, for drawing accountability and truth to what occurred.
00:09:27.540What do you think is going to come from this?
00:09:29.660Because there's so many, I think, disgruntled and frustrated Americans that hear those things like, all right, we're now getting more and more confirmation this happened.
00:09:36.560Will there be any real accountability and does this move us closer to that?
00:09:42.300So I hope so that there needs to be accountability.
00:09:45.180And I will say you have Tulsi Gabbard, who released her bombshell information about the degree of the complicity of the administration.
00:09:57.400And if you didn't hear our podcast last week on this, you should listen to the podcast on Tulsi Gabbard's bombshell information.
00:10:09.320I also had, when I was having drinks with the Army Secretary, I also had drinks with the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.
00:10:15.660And so I was urging DOJ, follow the facts and prosecute anyone who is complicit.
00:10:21.720There are challenges because some of the people who were involved in this, their criminal conduct was before the statute of limitations expired.
00:10:29.840And so it is harder to prosecute someone who committed criminal conduct after the statute of limitations has expired.
00:10:37.220Andrew McCabe, who was the Deputy Director of the FBI, he testified before Congress.
00:11:53.100Senator, I want to move to this new report that's come out.
00:11:56.560And it is something that we have been really, like, raising the flag on, saying, pay attention to this.
00:12:04.140Be careful where you send your kids to college.
00:12:06.680Be careful that they're going to be indoctrinated to hate America.
00:12:09.560And be careful where you send your kids because there's a lot of money that's coming in from countries that are trying to undermine America and hate America.
00:12:19.260We're now seeing more of this at Harvard.
00:12:23.640With Harvard's ties now directly to the Chinese Communist Party elites, that has been revealed on a level we haven't seen before.
00:12:32.940And it's even more shocking of where Harvard's getting their cash.
00:12:36.980And look, China is not doing this because they like Harvard.
00:12:40.300They're clearly doing it for influence.
00:12:44.740And, you know, some have criticized the Trump administration going after Harvard University.
00:12:49.860Harvard is the most influential university on the face of the planet.
00:12:54.340And it also, many universities in America have been in bed with the Chinese Communist Party.
00:13:00.380The Chinese government spends millions of dollars trying to get influence and trying to brainwash our students, trying to control our universities.
00:13:10.340And far too many universities have been really eager to participate in that.
00:13:14.040And Harvard has been right at the front of the list.
00:13:16.300Well, this week, the House of Representatives has an investigation, and they sent a letter to the president of Harvard.
00:13:21.640This is a letter from John Moulinard, who is the chairman of the Select Committee on the CCP in the House.
00:13:27.100It's from Tim Wahlberg, who is the chairman of the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
00:13:31.460And it's from Elise Stefanik, who is the chairwoman of House Republican Leadership.
00:13:41.300During our investigation, multiple whistleblowers told us that
00:13:58.180Harvard has maintained close, formal relationships directly with Chinese Communist Party entities.
00:14:05.600Specifically, whistleblower information revealed ties between Harvard and the Central Organization Department of the Central Committee of the CCP,
00:14:14.860as well as certain Chinese government entities.
00:14:18.080The CCP Organization Department is one of the most powerful bodies within the Communist Party.
00:14:22.300It is responsible for the regimented training program centered on Xi Jinping thought provided to the party elites and controls the placement of CCP members in key leadership positions.
00:14:36.860The whistleblowers also revealed that Harvard cultivates ties with elite CCP members.
00:14:42.200For example, whistleblowers revealed that the Harvard Kennedy School hosts a formal partnership with the Chinese Executive Leadership Academy, Pudong,
00:14:52.180which is controlled by the CCP Organization Department.
00:14:55.980Under that partnership, the rising CCP elite, who are being prepared for senior Communist Party leadership positions,
00:15:02.940participate in training at Harvard in the United States.
00:15:07.820Additional publicly available information indicates that some of these relationships have been in place for at least a decade.
00:15:16.280In 2016, a high-ranking member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences stated that Chinese, quote,
00:15:22.040party and government cadres participate in education and training run by the CCP Organization Department.
00:15:29.980The Chinese government sends some cadres abroad to the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
00:15:37.060This is shocking, and it certainly appears from this investigation,
00:15:43.520and they request all documents related to any engagement between Harvard and the CCP and the government of China,
00:15:50.020and a list of all money that has come from China and the Chinese government.
00:15:54.680And my prediction is Harvard is going to fight tooth and nail not to turn this over,
00:15:58.820because they don't want people to know just how eager they have been to be in bed with the Communists running the Chinese government.
00:16:08.780Can we also just be very clear, like, China doesn't do this because they like higher education,
00:16:13.460or they're just trying to get, let's say, their students in.
00:16:16.360That would be like the most G-rated version of a story that you could tell.
00:16:20.140They're doing this to buy genuine influence at the highest levels in academia in America,
00:16:26.040and also this could have major consequences for the U.S. when it comes to national security or spies
00:16:33.760and countless other infiltration activities that they're a part of all the time.
00:18:04.720And listen, the Harvard faculty is hard left.
00:18:07.860One point I've said many times is that when I was a student at Harvard Law School, there were more professors who were communists than there were who were Republicans.
00:18:20.100There were at least a dozen professors who openly said they were Marxists, that they were followers of the teachings of Karl Marx and followers of, you know, Karl Marx is the father of communism.
00:18:31.860When I was a student there, there was only one professor who openly identified as Republican.
00:18:37.000That was Charles Freed, and by the way, Charles Freed, the lone Republican on the faculty, voted for Barack Obama.
00:18:44.160So their lone Republican voted for Obama as well.
00:18:47.460That was the range of thought 30 years ago, and it is much, much worse now.
00:18:53.420As you know, my most recent book is entitled Unwoke, How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America.
00:18:59.960And the opening chapter talks about cultural Marxism, how it grew at Harvard University.
00:19:07.360It spread to universities throughout this country.
00:19:09.500It spread to K-12 education, to journalism, to big business, to big tech, to entertainment.
00:19:14.360And sadly, you know, I call the universities the Wuhan lab of the woke virus because they're where it was created, they're where it mutated, and they're where it spread.
00:19:26.700And Harvard was ground zero for that spread.
00:19:42.920One of the very first pieces of legislation that I passed 13 years ago was legislation that banned Defense Department money from going to universities that have Confucius Institutes.
00:19:54.620Confucius Institutes were paid for by the Chinese Communist government.
00:19:58.480They were at universities all over the country.
00:20:19.960And look, the Trump administration is trying hard to expose this and to stop it.
00:20:26.180And I salute the president for doing that.
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00:21:08.160I want to get back to the big story, number three of the week you may have missed.
00:21:12.400I want to get to this other big issue, and that is Democrats are not just abandoning Israel.
00:21:18.780They are straight up anti-Israel, and they're showing it now as they're voting.
00:21:24.300A record number of Senate Democrats are voting to block weapons sales to Israel.
00:21:30.240They're doing it in numbers we've never seen before.
00:21:33.540And this on top of the fact that the New York Times has had to basically correct the claim about a viral photo of a starving Gaza boy they blamed on Israel.
00:21:46.700And they didn't correct it like in the paper.
00:21:49.180They did it on X on their PR account that, like, no one follows.
00:21:53.980This is now how bad it's gotten, not only in the media, but also in D.C.
00:21:58.180Well, you know, when I arrived in the Senate 13 years ago, there was meaningful bipartisan support for Israel.
00:22:05.080It was one of the issues that you could see Republicans and Democrats come together.
00:22:10.3402013, when I got here, was the beginning of the second term of Barack Obama,
00:22:14.680and Barack Obama began to turn the Democrat Party against Israel.
00:22:18.580That turn accelerated dramatically during the Biden administration, and Joe Biden ended up being the most anti-Israel president and the most anti-Israel administration we've ever seen.
00:22:29.800Joe Biden, in the midst of a war that Israel was in, cut off weapons, froze weapons to Israel,
00:22:36.520and did so specifically to prevent Israel from killing terrorists, Hamas terrorists,
00:22:41.700who had attacked Israel viciously in one of the most horrific terrorist attacks in world history, October 7th,
00:22:48.800where Hamas murdered over 1,200 civilians, targeted civilians directly, raped and murdered women and little girls.
00:22:57.380And the Democrats, looking at the aftermath of this, more and more of them decided they stand with Hamas.
00:23:04.940And sadly, there is a real and growing pro-Hamas contingent of the Democrat Party today.
00:23:12.940This week, Bernie Sanders brought a resolution trying to block weapons sales to Israel.
00:23:18.680Now, Bernie Sanders has been rabidly anti-Israel for a long time.
00:23:22.700Most left-wing socialists and Marxists are.
00:23:25.940But Bernie Sanders' resolutions trying to cut off Israel usually failed, and usually failed with a big, big vote.
00:23:32.540Well, this week, the Senate rejected it again, and we rejected it by a vote of 70 to 27.
00:23:38.080But there were 27 votes in favor of Bernie Sanders' resolution.
00:23:43.420There are only 47 Democrats in the Senate.
00:23:46.300That means more than half of the Senate Democrats voted to cut off funding for Israel.
00:24:09.860And it is a disturbing pattern where, when faced with a choice, do we support Hamas or do we support Israel, more and more Democrats, they're afraid of the AOCs, they're afraid of the Ilhan Omars, they're afraid of the Rashida Tlaibs in the House, the pro-Hamas squad.
00:24:30.520And they're also afraid of the radical protesters on college campuses.
00:24:34.440Understand, those protesters are funded by George Soros.
00:24:37.340They're funded by the same people who fund the Democrat Party.
00:24:40.100And more and more elected Democrats have decided that they will not anger the pro-Hamas radicals.
00:24:47.720And so I've got to say, it is sad to see.
00:24:50.820Let me ask you a question, by the way.
00:24:54.120Did you mention, yeah, and let me ask you this.
00:24:56.720So, look, we know that there's more people on the House side, so you'll get some, you know, fringe groups on the House side on the Democratic Party.
00:25:05.760Even, like, more hardcore conservatives we've seen in the past with conservative caucuses, you can see numbers move there.
00:25:12.680The Senate's kind of been, like, the place of elder statesmen, and, like, there's certain issues that you kind of just see that, like, hey, we're going to be the adults in the room.
00:25:23.740I think that's the scariest part of these votes I'm witnessing now is this has moved from the House and the radicals there that you kind of expect it through the AOC and her group, right?
00:25:35.640You expect it, but now it's moved into the Senate chamber, and that is really, I think, telling about the anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party.
00:25:54.240And, by the way, it happened at the exact same time that we saw three governments worldwide, governments of U.S. allies, but that are led by leftists.
00:26:03.220The government of the United Kingdom, the government of France, and the government of Canada all came out in favor of recognizing an independent Palestinian state.
00:26:13.320And I want you to think about the message that the U.K. and France and Canada are saying.
00:26:17.820They're saying to Hamas, your terrorism worked.
00:26:20.700They're saying to Hamas, we're glad you murdered 1,200 innocent civilians.
00:26:24.880We're glad you raped women and little girls.
00:26:27.300By the way, they're also saying to Hamas, we're glad you continue to keep hostages to this day.
00:26:46.520And Donald Trump, by contrast, put out a tweet this week, and he said Hamas could end the suffering right now by stopping fighting and releasing the hostages.
00:27:53.820The New York Times was forced to correct it, and I think they did it in such a disgusting way because they issued their statement sharing how they, quote,
00:28:05.040originally didn't include this boy's pre-existing health condition, but they didn't really do it in the newspaper, like, on the front page the same way they did the picture.
00:28:16.140They corrected the story by going to the New York Times' PR Twitter, not even the New York Times' Twitter account, the New York Times' PR account that virtually no one's going to see.
00:28:29.220Yeah, look, this was not a picture that they just had as a kind of side note in a small story.
00:28:36.340This is a picture the New York Times put on the front page.
00:28:39.260It occupies more than half of the front page above the fold.
00:28:44.680It is a massive picture, and it's a horrible picture.
00:28:53.460It's an 18-month-old child, which they said he was starving.
00:28:59.900He faced life-threatening malnutrition, and they blamed that on Israel, and they used it to push Hamas' propaganda.
00:29:07.480After they did that, the New York Times was forced to issue a correction, and they did the correction, as you noted, on Twitter, where no one would see it.
00:29:17.220And their correction says that what they didn't tell people—here's what their statement was.
00:29:22.500Quote, children in Gaza are malnourished and starving, as New York reporters and others have documented.
00:29:26.260We recently ran a story about Gaza's most vulnerable civilians, including Mohamed Zakir al-Mataqwa, who is about 18 months old and suffers from severe malnutrition.
00:29:37.500We have since learned new information, including from the hospital that is treating him and his medical records, and have updated our story to add context about his pre-existing health problems.
00:29:46.540This additional detail gives readers greater understanding of his situation.
00:29:52.020Our reporters and photographers continue to report from Gaza, bravely, sensitively, and at personal risk, so that our readers can see firsthand the consequences of the war.
00:30:03.120That's their fairly ridiculous retraction, where they admit they're lying to you.
00:30:06.560Now, here's what they didn't tell us, that Mohamed's mother indicated that her son suffers from, quote, a muscle disorder, through which he receives specialized nutrition and physical therapy.
00:30:19.860And another journalist reported that the young boy has, quote, cerebral palsy, hypoxemia, and was born with a serious genetic order.
00:30:30.980So they showed a child who's very sick, but he's not very sick from starvation.
00:30:36.180He's very sick from other medical conditions.
00:30:38.960And the New York Times happily plays the role of Hamas's propagandists.
00:30:44.760And sadly, Senate Democrats are cheering on that false propaganda.
00:30:49.720Interestingly enough, the pattern of this is exactly the same as the pattern of Hillary Clinton signing off on the false Russia story.
00:30:57.900It is take a lie, count on the corporate media to spread that lie, count on Democrat politicians to spread that lie, and count on friendly governments to spread that lie as well.
00:31:09.280And everyone involved knows they are lying, but their political agenda, in this instance, they hate Israel, they want to undermine Israel, and they want to elevate Hamas.
00:31:20.000And sadly, that more and more Senate Democrats are falling into that camp.
00:31:23.340As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
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00:31:39.580And we will see you back here on Monday morning.