Verdict with Ted Cruz - October 11, 2023


Massive War Crimes in Israel & the Radical Left Celebrates


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50 minutes

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156.39021

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7,889

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542

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

73


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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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00:00:05.500 Welcome, it is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz,
00:00:08.000 Ben Ferguson with you,
00:00:09.200 and we have a lot to talk about when it comes to Israel.
00:00:12.580 There are so many people asking questions
00:00:14.520 about Biden's response, also colleges in America
00:00:17.860 that are backing Hamas and Black Lives Matter
00:00:21.600 standing with them as well.
00:00:23.040 Plus, how many illegal immigrants
00:00:25.260 have come across the border
00:00:26.740 that are on the terrorist watch list?
00:00:28.240 We're looking at the border through a different perspective now
00:00:31.080 with what just happened in Israel.
00:00:33.140 Senator, let's first start with the president's response.
00:00:37.420 It was shocking to see him not talk about Iran,
00:00:40.240 not talk about the money going to Iran,
00:00:42.180 and not warning the terrorists
00:00:43.720 to not lay a finger on the Americans
00:00:45.820 they're holding hostage.
00:00:47.120 Your thoughts on what he said to the world today,
00:00:49.740 really what he was saying to the terrorists.
00:00:52.960 Well, let me start by just observing where we are.
00:00:55.620 We are five days into the most serious attack
00:00:59.620 on Israel in over 50 years.
00:01:01.600 We are seeing atrocities unfold every single day.
00:01:07.720 Saturday was the single biggest day
00:01:12.600 of mass murders of Jews since the Holocaust.
00:01:17.020 We've had over 900 Israelis murdered.
00:01:20.020 We've had thousands of Israelis injured.
00:01:23.860 We've had hundreds, potentially more Israelis
00:01:27.000 kidnapped and taken hostage.
00:01:29.180 And we are seeing atrocities, war crimes,
00:01:34.540 carried out each and every day.
00:01:37.260 You know, Monday night, I went to a synagogue in Houston
00:01:40.820 and attended a solidarity service.
00:01:44.020 As Jews throughout the Houston community came together,
00:01:47.760 we had about 2,000 people in Houston come together,
00:01:51.240 including people of other faith,
00:01:53.400 standing with Israel.
00:01:55.480 On Tuesday night, I went to a solidarity service
00:01:59.720 at a synagogue in Dallas.
00:02:01.560 Same thing, couple of thousand people
00:02:03.780 from Dallas coming together.
00:02:05.400 I've got to say, number one,
00:02:07.440 the pain and agony in the Jewish community
00:02:11.180 in particular is enormous.
00:02:13.520 The number of people I saw just weeping,
00:02:15.860 the number of American Jews who have family members
00:02:19.060 who live in Israel, who have family members
00:02:21.140 or friends who are there who have been scared
00:02:23.720 for what it meant.
00:02:25.900 At both of the services in Houston and Dallas
00:02:30.080 on Monday and Tuesday, they had Israelis
00:02:32.960 stand up and speak and tell their stories.
00:02:35.540 And I've got to say, their stories were powerful.
00:02:38.200 Talking about friends of theirs,
00:02:39.640 talking about the terror at the Dallas synagogue,
00:02:43.700 the Israeli talked about that she and her husband
00:02:46.800 and their three kids had lived in a kibbutz
00:02:49.760 just a couple of miles from the Gaza Strip.
00:02:53.000 And she described, with tears running down her face,
00:02:57.440 she was having a very hard time tell this story.
00:03:00.060 So she's been in the United States for about three months,
00:03:02.560 but they had lived in the kibbutz before that,
00:03:04.220 and she's spending a year fellowship
00:03:05.800 here in the United States.
00:03:06.980 She described how their friends began texting them
00:03:12.180 and on WhatsApp apps in utter terror.
00:03:16.420 She was a school teacher in Israel,
00:03:18.120 and she described how her students were texting her
00:03:20.720 as the terrorists were arriving,
00:03:22.820 and she was getting text after text after text
00:03:25.600 saying, they're here, they're knocking on the doors,
00:03:28.320 they're breaking the windows,
00:03:29.360 they're shooting down the doors.
00:03:30.860 She was listening to the terrorists attacking home by home by home.
00:03:41.280 It's worth understanding,
00:03:42.440 this is something that has not happened since the Nazis.
00:03:47.780 Death squads going house by house by house
00:03:53.040 and murdering every resident there simply because they're Jews.
00:04:00.000 It is horrific, and this is Israeli.
00:04:03.780 She described Tuesday night how her sixth grade students were texting her in terror,
00:04:10.740 and then in the midst of the text, they'd go silent,
00:04:13.040 how she had students of hers who were killed.
00:04:14.860 She described a good friend of hers who was a teacher
00:04:17.340 who had several children who was fleeing,
00:04:20.960 fleeing from the terrorists that were there to murder them,
00:04:23.860 and she described how her friend made a choice,
00:04:27.180 how her son was on one motorcycle,
00:04:30.200 and she and her two daughters were on another motorcycle,
00:04:32.560 and she pulled off and saved her two daughters
00:04:35.440 and watched her son captured
00:04:39.020 and kidnapped by the Hamas terrorists.
00:04:43.940 You remember the movie Sophie's Choice
00:04:45.500 where a mom is forced into the unspeakable,
00:04:48.540 the unimaginable decision of choosing between your children,
00:04:52.880 and I listened to this Israeli woman in tears describe her friend
00:04:57.160 who saved two of her children
00:04:59.740 but is filled with fear and agony
00:05:03.220 that the child she was not able to save
00:05:05.340 he's been kidnapped.
00:05:07.780 He's presumably been taken back to Gaza.
00:05:09.840 She doesn't know what he's experiencing.
00:05:13.640 Presumably horrible treatment.
00:05:15.880 This is happening.
00:05:17.360 This is horrific,
00:05:19.100 and it's happening.
00:05:20.720 We're seeing images.
00:05:21.860 We're seeing images of babies shot.
00:05:24.100 We're seeing images of babies beheaded.
00:05:26.320 We're seeing images.
00:05:27.400 There was an outdoor concert.
00:05:29.880 You had hundreds of Israelis there,
00:05:31.680 and they arrived and just began firing machine guns,
00:05:34.260 gunning them down in massive numbers,
00:05:37.240 chasing them down and killing them.
00:05:39.340 They began grabbing the women and the little girls
00:05:42.800 and raping them, violently raping them.
00:05:45.080 The image is that they are horrific.
00:05:48.300 This is evil.
00:05:49.920 There's no ambiguity about it.
00:05:53.580 There's no justification about it.
00:05:55.740 There's no, on the one hand, on the other hand,
00:05:59.280 anyone who rapes and murders children is evil.
00:06:03.340 These are barbarians.
00:06:05.880 Now, all of that is before I get to your question, Ben.
00:06:09.740 What did I think about what Biden said today?
00:06:11.640 Well, he finally got around to talking five days into this,
00:06:16.320 and he finally said today something that should have been said on Saturday,
00:06:21.280 which is America stands with Israel, period, full stop.
00:06:24.440 I'm glad he finally said that.
00:06:26.380 Why did it take five days?
00:06:28.560 Why did it take five days to say that?
00:06:30.680 Why, in the hours after this attack began,
00:06:33.580 did the Biden State Department tweet out,
00:06:36.000 urging Israel, do not engage in a military response,
00:06:39.060 stand down, violence solves nothing.
00:06:41.560 As you know, I blasted that tweet at three in the morning,
00:06:45.820 within minutes of when they sent it,
00:06:47.800 and within the hour, the State Department pulled it down.
00:06:51.020 But subsequently, Tony Blinken sent another tweet,
00:06:54.640 another tweet urging Israel not to engage in military retaliation
00:07:01.880 for what they're calling Israel's 9-11,
00:07:05.380 for the greatest murder of Israeli citizens,
00:07:08.240 and our State Department is saying, do nothing.
00:07:11.060 Again, I blasted that Biden State Department tweet,
00:07:13.360 and again, they deleted it very shortly thereafter.
00:07:17.240 So Biden, five days later,
00:07:19.020 says America stands with Israel.
00:07:21.940 That's good.
00:07:22.560 They finally got that sentence correct.
00:07:25.940 But I got to say,
00:07:27.140 his administration didn't stand with Israel on Saturday.
00:07:29.480 They didn't stand with Israel on Sunday,
00:07:30.980 or on Monday,
00:07:32.020 or finally on Tuesday,
00:07:33.240 they get the statement out.
00:07:34.340 But you know what they haven't done?
00:07:35.340 They haven't addressed Iran in the slightest.
00:07:38.640 Iran is who planned this.
00:07:39.860 Iran is who organized this.
00:07:41.120 Iran is who funded this.
00:07:42.520 They haven't addressed their own culpability
00:07:44.400 for sending the money that funded this.
00:07:47.300 They haven't said they're going to stop
00:07:49.160 sending the money to Iran.
00:07:51.420 Instead, they've given talking points.
00:07:53.620 America stands with Israel
00:07:55.760 without any substance behind it.
00:07:58.760 And meanwhile,
00:08:00.180 we have Democrat after Democrat in the House
00:08:03.560 attacking and undermining Israel.
00:08:06.940 It is horrific,
00:08:08.160 and I got to tell you,
00:08:09.380 the Jewish community in America is grieving.
00:08:14.200 The Jewish community across the globe is grieving,
00:08:16.880 but not just the Jewish community.
00:08:18.480 Christians are grieving.
00:08:20.100 Anyone with any sense of humanity,
00:08:23.180 when you have monsters murdering babies,
00:08:28.180 that's what we're seeing.
00:08:31.080 And even worse than that,
00:08:32.660 we're seeing monsters murdering babies,
00:08:34.940 and we're seeing leftist ideologues
00:08:37.420 rationalizing and justifying it.
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00:10:08.500 It is shocking to see the justification of it,
00:10:11.480 and it's also,
00:10:12.440 and I want to go back to a couple more questions
00:10:14.000 I have for you on Biden.
00:10:15.480 The fact that he didn't come out
00:10:17.080 and talk about sanctions,
00:10:18.240 and he refused to answer the question
00:10:19.760 about the 6 billion,
00:10:20.980 how is the 6 billion still on the table for Iran?
00:10:23.920 If we clearly know,
00:10:25.400 and his own spokespeople,
00:10:27.220 the State Department and others afterwards,
00:10:28.820 said,
00:10:29.060 yes,
00:10:29.820 we know that Iran
00:10:30.800 was involved
00:10:32.400 in at least the planning.
00:10:34.240 There apparently was a meeting
00:10:35.320 on Tuesday before this attack
00:10:36.920 in Beirut.
00:10:38.360 We know that Hamas
00:10:39.660 is supported financially
00:10:41.700 by Iran,
00:10:43.380 and the president
00:10:44.260 walked out of the room
00:10:45.320 and would not answer that statement.
00:10:47.140 Not only that,
00:10:47.900 when the White House press corps
00:10:49.420 pressed the White House
00:10:50.700 on this issue of
00:10:51.720 why will you not just say
00:10:53.180 the money's not going there,
00:10:54.800 they wouldn't give a direct answer,
00:10:56.600 and you've got to ask the question
00:10:57.680 at this point,
00:10:58.080 whose side are you on,
00:10:59.180 Mr. President?
00:11:01.340 Well,
00:11:02.420 look,
00:11:02.780 unfortunately,
00:11:03.500 for two and a half years,
00:11:04.960 the White House
00:11:05.640 has answered that question.
00:11:07.300 They're on the side
00:11:08.540 of Palestinian terrorists
00:11:09.980 and they're on the side of Iran.
00:11:11.720 Now, Ben,
00:11:12.340 let me say right now,
00:11:13.480 someone listening to that
00:11:14.500 may say,
00:11:15.020 that's extreme,
00:11:16.240 that's not where they are.
00:11:17.520 Let me back it up with facts.
00:11:19.540 Because people are asking
00:11:20.760 about the 6 billion,
00:11:21.800 I'm glad they're asking
00:11:22.960 about the 6 billion,
00:11:23.780 they should.
00:11:24.820 But there are four
00:11:25.980 separate buckets of cash,
00:11:28.240 that anyone reasonable
00:11:30.020 and rational should ask about,
00:11:31.920 because all four of them
00:11:33.300 have gone to fund
00:11:34.440 these atrocities.
00:11:35.920 Number one is the 6 billion dollars.
00:11:37.720 The Biden administration
00:11:38.480 spent 6 billion dollars
00:11:40.020 as ransom
00:11:41.160 to get five Americans
00:11:43.580 out of Iranian captivity.
00:11:44.880 Now, when that happened,
00:11:46.100 I pointed out
00:11:47.020 that they set the ransom
00:11:48.100 at 1.2 billion dollars
00:11:50.980 per American.
00:11:51.840 And what I said,
00:11:52.860 and what many others said,
00:11:54.260 is the result of this
00:11:56.700 will be
00:11:57.640 many more Americans
00:11:59.800 taken hostage,
00:12:00.640 and in particular,
00:12:02.180 Iran will take
00:12:03.520 many more Americans hostage.
00:12:05.020 Now, what I didn't realize
00:12:06.140 is that it would be
00:12:07.340 just a few weeks
00:12:08.480 until that happened.
00:12:09.540 One of the things
00:12:10.380 the White House
00:12:10.900 acknowledged
00:12:11.400 on Tuesday,
00:12:13.080 at least 14 American citizens
00:12:16.240 were killed by Hamas
00:12:17.700 in this attack,
00:12:19.100 and potentially upwards
00:12:21.240 of 20 Americans
00:12:22.980 were taken hostage.
00:12:24.320 So the Biden administration
00:12:25.600 demonstrates to Iran,
00:12:27.440 hey, if you take
00:12:28.160 Americans hostage,
00:12:29.200 we'll pay you billions
00:12:30.120 in ransom.
00:12:31.460 They released five
00:12:32.560 and they've now taken
00:12:33.460 upwards of 20.
00:12:34.680 20 at the price
00:12:36.220 the Biden administration
00:12:37.120 sent is 24 billion dollars.
00:12:39.880 I am very sorry
00:12:40.920 that prediction
00:12:41.580 proved accurate,
00:12:42.500 but it proved accurate
00:12:43.440 within weeks
00:12:44.540 and there were many others
00:12:45.300 saying the same thing.
00:12:46.700 That's bucket number one,
00:12:47.880 the 6 billion dollars.
00:12:48.740 That's the only thing
00:12:50.180 the media is talking about,
00:12:52.680 even a little bit.
00:12:53.980 But there are three other buckets
00:12:55.420 that are highly relevant.
00:12:57.200 The second bucket
00:12:58.380 is another 10 billion dollars.
00:12:59.900 That is 10 billion dollars
00:13:01.040 of money that was in Iraq
00:13:02.820 that the Biden administration
00:13:04.680 just a few weeks earlier
00:13:06.060 than the 6 billion
00:13:07.000 released 10 billion to Iran.
00:13:09.620 I believe the ransom
00:13:10.680 was actually 16 billion
00:13:12.160 rather than 6
00:13:13.080 because you have the 6
00:13:14.460 plus the 10
00:13:15.160 that they had released
00:13:15.900 a few weeks earlier.
00:13:16.840 That takes them
00:13:18.300 to 16 billion.
00:13:19.780 But that's not even
00:13:21.040 the majority of the money
00:13:22.200 Biden has sent to Iran.
00:13:24.720 Look, when Biden
00:13:25.980 became president,
00:13:27.480 he inherited a situation
00:13:28.980 where the Middle East
00:13:29.700 was at peace.
00:13:30.440 In fact, peace was
00:13:31.280 breaking out
00:13:32.580 between Israel
00:13:34.180 and Israel's Arab neighbors.
00:13:36.000 The Abraham Accords
00:13:36.840 had just been signed
00:13:37.860 and Iran
00:13:39.520 was on its knees.
00:13:41.440 Its economy was crippled
00:13:42.800 and the reason
00:13:43.400 its economy was crippled
00:13:44.540 is because the majority
00:13:46.200 of their revenue
00:13:46.920 comes from oil sales
00:13:48.280 and the Trump administration,
00:13:50.640 at my emphatic urging,
00:13:53.200 had enforced strict sanctions
00:13:55.640 against Iranian oil sales
00:13:57.260 and had crippled
00:13:58.180 their oil sales.
00:13:59.960 Well, Joe Biden came in
00:14:01.280 and immediately began
00:14:02.560 not enforcing
00:14:04.540 those sanctions on oil.
00:14:06.520 As a consequence,
00:14:08.260 for two and a half years,
00:14:10.120 Iran has been selling oil
00:14:11.620 like crazy.
00:14:12.660 Much of it they're selling
00:14:14.100 to China,
00:14:14.920 so it's aiding
00:14:15.640 two of our enemies.
00:14:16.980 It's aiding Iran and China.
00:14:18.820 They have earned
00:14:21.300 in excess of $40 billion
00:14:24.820 from selling oil
00:14:27.780 because Joe Biden
00:14:28.780 will not enforce
00:14:29.580 the sanctions against Iran.
00:14:32.400 Right now today,
00:14:33.780 Iran is selling
00:14:34.700 two million barrels
00:14:36.900 a day of oil.
00:14:39.100 And you know what
00:14:39.580 Joe Biden didn't say today?
00:14:40.660 He didn't say,
00:14:41.720 we're finally going
00:14:42.560 to enforce oil sanctions.
00:14:44.760 He didn't say that.
00:14:45.540 He didn't impose
00:14:46.060 any new sanctions.
00:14:46.880 He didn't enforce
00:14:47.400 any new sanctions.
00:14:48.560 So presumably tomorrow,
00:14:50.940 Iran will sell
00:14:51.980 two million barrels of oil.
00:14:53.500 Now, I got to say,
00:14:54.500 in the debate over the money,
00:14:56.120 people are saying
00:14:57.000 money is fungible,
00:14:57.860 money is fungible.
00:14:58.520 That's absolutely true.
00:14:59.540 That's part of the argument.
00:15:00.740 That's part of the argument
00:15:01.860 about the $6 billion
00:15:02.920 and the marionettes
00:15:05.420 who are defending
00:15:06.160 the White House,
00:15:07.100 they say,
00:15:07.360 well,
00:15:08.280 the $6 billion
00:15:09.080 could only be spent
00:15:10.360 on humanitarian purposes.
00:15:11.780 And it's absolutely true
00:15:12.720 that money is fungible.
00:15:13.660 So if you fill
00:15:14.260 $6 billion in one pot,
00:15:15.820 they can spend other money
00:15:16.960 on terrorism
00:15:18.000 and attacking Israel.
00:15:19.200 But that doesn't address
00:15:20.460 the $10 billion.
00:15:21.800 And it certainly
00:15:22.840 doesn't address
00:15:23.520 the $40 billion
00:15:24.440 in oil revenues,
00:15:25.820 which can be spent
00:15:26.660 on any damn thing
00:15:27.780 they want.
00:15:29.080 And there's actually,
00:15:30.500 Ben,
00:15:31.200 there's a fourth bucket
00:15:33.020 of money
00:15:33.420 that almost no one
00:15:34.560 in the press
00:15:35.040 is addressing,
00:15:36.180 which is the hundreds
00:15:38.000 of millions of dollars
00:15:39.640 that the Biden administration
00:15:43.200 has sent to Gaza.
00:15:47.160 And when they sent it to Gaza,
00:15:49.500 at the time,
00:15:51.160 I led a coalition
00:15:52.840 of 17 senators
00:15:56.200 urging the Biden administration,
00:15:58.740 do not send this to Gaza.
00:16:01.140 If you send it to Gaza,
00:16:02.580 it will go to Hamas
00:16:04.640 and Hamas
00:16:06.300 will use it
00:16:07.400 for terrorism.
00:16:08.380 17 senators
00:16:09.340 all together
00:16:09.980 joined me
00:16:10.740 in sending that letter.
00:16:12.360 Now,
00:16:12.880 on the other side,
00:16:15.420 in the House,
00:16:17.460 some 150 House members,
00:16:20.360 all Democrats,
00:16:22.120 wrote a letter
00:16:23.160 urging,
00:16:24.100 145 actually,
00:16:25.260 House Democrats,
00:16:26.660 sent a letter
00:16:27.600 urging that the money
00:16:29.020 be released
00:16:29.940 to Hamas.
00:16:30.960 That included,
00:16:31.600 among others,
00:16:32.040 Colin Allred from Texas,
00:16:33.720 145 Democrats,
00:16:35.740 sent that letter
00:16:36.740 urging
00:16:38.640 the Biden administration
00:16:40.680 to send hundreds
00:16:41.480 of millions
00:16:41.940 to Gaza.
00:16:43.140 Now,
00:16:43.320 what happened?
00:16:44.760 The Biden administration
00:16:46.280 assessed it,
00:16:47.020 and here is the amazing thing,
00:16:48.400 which again,
00:16:48.820 the media is not covering.
00:16:50.440 The Biden administration
00:16:51.940 knew for a fact
00:16:54.300 that the money
00:16:55.820 they were sending
00:16:56.520 to Gaza
00:16:57.080 would fund terrorism.
00:16:58.100 Let me read you
00:16:58.820 the quote
00:16:59.320 from the internal
00:17:00.800 Biden administration
00:17:01.760 document,
00:17:02.600 quote,
00:17:03.020 due to its overall strength
00:17:05.100 and level of control
00:17:06.200 over Gaza,
00:17:07.240 we assess
00:17:08.320 there is a high risk
00:17:09.800 Hamas
00:17:11.020 could potentially derive
00:17:13.080 indirect,
00:17:14.860 unintentional benefits
00:17:16.000 from U.S. assistance
00:17:17.020 to Gaza.
00:17:17.580 In other words,
00:17:18.480 this money,
00:17:19.680 there's a high risk
00:17:21.460 it'll be used
00:17:22.080 by Hamas
00:17:22.660 for terrorism,
00:17:23.300 and you know
00:17:23.700 what they did?
00:17:24.600 They didn't say,
00:17:25.420 oh,
00:17:25.620 we don't want
00:17:26.060 to fund terrorism,
00:17:27.000 we don't want
00:17:27.420 to fund death squads
00:17:29.120 murdering Israelis.
00:17:30.140 Instead,
00:17:30.500 they said,
00:17:30.880 no,
00:17:31.200 actually we do,
00:17:32.540 so they waived
00:17:33.800 the anti-terrorism
00:17:35.640 restrictions under U.S. law
00:17:37.160 and they sent
00:17:37.800 the money anyway,
00:17:39.660 and in the press conference
00:17:41.060 on Tuesday,
00:17:42.860 Joe Biden
00:17:43.460 did not address
00:17:44.400 one syllable
00:17:45.160 of one word
00:17:45.900 of anything I just said.
00:17:47.020 He didn't address
00:17:48.060 any of the four pots
00:17:49.480 of money
00:17:49.880 that in a very,
00:17:50.800 very real sense,
00:17:52.340 the death squads
00:17:53.440 and the worst attack
00:17:54.660 on Israel
00:17:55.120 in 50 years
00:17:56.080 was funded
00:17:57.300 by money
00:17:58.360 the Biden administration
00:17:59.560 chose to send
00:18:00.580 to Iran
00:18:01.300 and chose to send
00:18:02.720 to Hamas,
00:18:03.960 which is controlled
00:18:05.160 and funded by Iran.
00:18:07.340 By the way,
00:18:08.140 what you just mentioned
00:18:09.200 is exactly why
00:18:10.420 this podcast,
00:18:11.780 we do it,
00:18:12.480 is so that people
00:18:13.280 can take that,
00:18:14.240 that no one's covering,
00:18:15.520 and we said this yesterday,
00:18:16.860 you guys did an amazing job
00:18:18.140 or two days ago
00:18:18.940 at sharing this intel
00:18:21.040 everywhere you can.
00:18:22.600 If you're on social media
00:18:23.860 and you want
00:18:24.400 to have an impact,
00:18:25.860 please take this podcast
00:18:27.600 and share it
00:18:28.680 wherever you are
00:18:29.460 on social media
00:18:30.260 so that other people
00:18:31.400 hear about this.
00:18:32.260 And I want to go back
00:18:33.140 to the money
00:18:33.600 you just mentioned
00:18:34.340 for a second.
00:18:35.500 Scott Kirby,
00:18:37.220 who basically,
00:18:38.240 I guess,
00:18:38.560 is the de facto
00:18:39.140 president of the United States
00:18:39.900 of America
00:18:40.320 because he's the only one
00:18:41.120 that seems to be talking
00:18:42.020 from the White House
00:18:43.480 about any of these issues.
00:18:45.160 The president
00:18:45.660 won't take questions.
00:18:46.740 We don't see him.
00:18:47.580 They call a lid
00:18:48.340 at noon every day.
00:18:49.940 He claimed
00:18:50.780 on Fox News
00:18:52.160 that the,
00:18:53.380 quote,
00:18:53.440 Iran sanctions
00:18:54.280 are being enforced.
00:18:56.760 He got called out
00:18:57.680 for lying
00:18:58.340 by Brett Hume.
00:18:59.220 I want to play this
00:18:59.980 back and forth
00:19:00.640 because it talks about
00:19:01.740 the money
00:19:02.860 and the difference
00:19:04.120 and the exports
00:19:04.900 and how much money
00:19:06.000 Iran is making right now
00:19:07.240 because America
00:19:08.020 is not enforcing
00:19:09.360 these sanctions.
00:19:10.260 Listen.
00:19:11.780 I don't have any
00:19:12.540 policy decisions
00:19:13.360 with respect to that
00:19:14.260 to speak to you today,
00:19:15.480 Brett.
00:19:16.080 I think it's important
00:19:17.400 for people to remember
00:19:18.400 that not a single dinar
00:19:20.020 of those funds
00:19:22.860 has gone into Iran.
00:19:24.500 Not one.
00:19:25.280 Not any.
00:19:26.260 Nothing's been allocated
00:19:27.680 out of that fund.
00:19:28.680 Yeah, John,
00:19:29.200 we're going to run this
00:19:29.900 block.
00:19:30.220 Money is fungible.
00:19:31.220 You get $6 billion
00:19:32.000 over here
00:19:32.780 for humanitarian and food
00:19:34.540 so then you can move money
00:19:35.740 someplace else.
00:19:36.580 And then you have
00:19:37.500 the not enforcing sanctions
00:19:39.980 that allows Iran
00:19:41.120 to cash in
00:19:41.820 on its oil
00:19:42.700 around the world.
00:19:43.660 Brett,
00:19:43.920 with all due respect,
00:19:45.180 I just got to push back
00:19:46.100 on you there.
00:19:46.620 It's not that we're
00:19:47.300 not enforcing sanctions.
00:19:48.400 We have been enforcing them.
00:19:49.660 As a matter of fact,
00:19:50.540 we've added sanctions.
00:19:51.860 We've sanctioned
00:19:52.740 400 entities in Iran
00:19:54.440 just in the beginning
00:19:55.280 of this administration,
00:19:56.520 let alone the sanctions
00:19:57.420 that came before us.
00:19:58.560 And as for the fungibility,
00:20:00.060 again,
00:20:00.580 that money was never
00:20:01.720 going to be tapped
00:20:02.520 by the Iranian regime.
00:20:03.580 They were never
00:20:04.140 going to see it themselves.
00:20:05.160 It was always going to go
00:20:06.000 to vendors that we approved
00:20:07.680 to go to buy
00:20:08.700 humanitarian assistance
00:20:09.880 and medical and food
00:20:11.300 to get directly
00:20:12.480 to the Iranian people.
00:20:13.800 The regime was never
00:20:14.700 going to see that
00:20:15.440 or feel that
00:20:16.100 and they haven't
00:20:16.940 asked for it.
00:20:17.460 And the other thing
00:20:17.900 I'll say, Brett,
00:20:18.440 just before we get
00:20:19.020 off this topic.
00:20:19.680 No, no, John,
00:20:20.120 I want to just push back
00:20:21.140 on one thing.
00:20:22.000 You said that the sanctions
00:20:23.140 are being enforced.
00:20:25.420 The Iranian exports
00:20:26.360 of oil to China,
00:20:28.180 2020,
00:20:28.960 6.6 billion.
00:20:30.340 2021,
00:20:31.280 23.1 billion.
00:20:33.040 2022,
00:20:34.060 30 billion dollars.
00:20:36.320 So how is that
00:20:37.180 enforcing the sanctions
00:20:38.340 on Iran?
00:20:40.480 Senator,
00:20:41.020 I'll just stop there
00:20:41.700 and let you respond
00:20:42.460 to that.
00:20:42.700 They're lying
00:20:43.580 and he just got
00:20:44.660 called out for lying.
00:20:45.920 You go from 6.6 billion
00:20:47.780 in 2020
00:20:48.380 to now you're talking,
00:20:50.360 you know,
00:20:50.920 30 billion in 2023.
00:20:53.540 How is that enforcing
00:20:55.160 these sanctions?
00:20:55.900 The White House
00:20:56.460 is clearly looking
00:20:57.500 the other way.
00:20:58.780 Well, they are
00:20:59.380 and they're doing it
00:21:00.460 because the number one
00:21:01.820 foreign policy objective
00:21:03.200 of the Biden administration
00:21:04.620 remains,
00:21:05.540 I assume to this day,
00:21:08.120 reentering the disastrous
00:21:09.720 Obama-Iran nuclear deal.
00:21:11.640 It's their number one priority.
00:21:13.160 It's why they're undermining
00:21:14.940 the war in Ukraine.
00:21:16.120 It's why they are making
00:21:18.300 every other foreign policy
00:21:20.120 issue subservient
00:21:21.380 to flooding cash
00:21:23.120 into Iran.
00:21:24.160 And listen,
00:21:27.120 the numbers are clear.
00:21:29.260 Iran right now today
00:21:30.880 is selling 2 million barrels
00:21:33.980 of oil a day.
00:21:36.240 When Biden came into office,
00:21:38.380 they were selling
00:21:38.980 a tiny fraction of that
00:21:40.460 because the oil sanctions
00:21:41.760 had crippled their economy.
00:21:44.500 And this was not accidental.
00:21:45.940 It's a conscious decision.
00:21:47.140 And, you know,
00:21:47.440 John Kirby,
00:21:48.100 John Kirby is a retired
00:21:49.380 rear admiral from the Navy.
00:21:51.260 He's someone who devoted
00:21:52.920 his life to the military
00:21:54.160 and he's turned
00:21:55.060 into Baghdad Bob.
00:21:56.180 He's just willing
00:21:56.900 to go out
00:21:57.980 and lie
00:21:59.060 for the Biden administration.
00:22:01.100 When he is saying things
00:22:02.880 like we are enforcing sanctions,
00:22:04.420 he sounds like
00:22:05.220 Kareem Jean-Pierre.
00:22:06.340 And I got to say,
00:22:07.680 the willingness,
00:22:08.480 I actually find it sad
00:22:09.900 to see someone,
00:22:11.100 a career military man,
00:22:12.700 willing to sell
00:22:13.560 his integrity
00:22:14.120 down the river
00:22:14.860 by just lying
00:22:16.520 on behalf of an administration.
00:22:17.880 That's what he's doing.
00:22:19.260 Yeah, great point there.
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00:23:44.900 One other question
00:23:46.080 about the hostages.
00:23:47.360 I think there's still
00:23:48.540 disbelief right now
00:23:49.640 at the lack of intensity
00:23:51.100 from this administration
00:23:52.300 on words having meaning
00:23:54.780 and saying
00:23:55.340 to these hostages,
00:23:56.480 takers,
00:23:56.860 we will come after you
00:23:58.740 if you do not release
00:24:01.240 the American hostages.
00:24:02.500 Why is it that
00:24:03.380 this administration
00:24:04.020 refuses to say things
00:24:05.620 like that
00:24:06.080 to defend American lives?
00:24:07.540 Because they don't believe it.
00:24:08.940 Because this president
00:24:09.800 is so weak
00:24:10.620 that if you take
00:24:11.520 American hostages
00:24:12.400 he won't come after you.
00:24:13.920 Look,
00:24:14.840 Joe Biden has already
00:24:16.000 become Jimmy Carter
00:24:17.020 and even worse.
00:24:17.960 I gotta say,
00:24:18.700 I was a kid
00:24:19.440 when Jimmy Carter
00:24:20.620 was president.
00:24:21.380 I remember the hostage crisis
00:24:23.280 in 1979 and 1980
00:24:25.160 where American hostages
00:24:26.340 were held in Iran.
00:24:28.020 Same people doing it
00:24:29.200 for 444 days.
00:24:31.360 It brought down
00:24:32.200 the Jimmy Carter presidency.
00:24:33.940 I remember,
00:24:34.620 for example,
00:24:35.280 the TV show Nightline.
00:24:36.800 I don't know if you know this,
00:24:37.720 Ben,
00:24:37.780 but it was started
00:24:38.700 during the Iran hostage crisis
00:24:42.160 because every night
00:24:43.460 ABC,
00:24:44.240 this is back when we had
00:24:45.180 functioning journalism,
00:24:46.800 would cover
00:24:47.760 the hostage crisis
00:24:48.840 and Ted Koppel
00:24:49.740 started Nightline
00:24:50.780 to cover it
00:24:51.840 every single night,
00:24:52.880 the ongoing hostage crisis.
00:24:54.200 where's CNN
00:24:55.440 on the American hostage crisis?
00:24:57.620 Where's ABC?
00:24:58.860 They could relaunch Nightline.
00:25:01.240 Where's CBS,
00:25:02.420 NBC?
00:25:03.500 We have 20 American hostages
00:25:05.860 and did the American president say
00:25:07.540 if you hurt a hostage,
00:25:09.460 we will,
00:25:10.440 there will be massive repercussions?
00:25:12.220 Nope.
00:25:12.940 Nope.
00:25:13.280 Instead,
00:25:13.800 his State Department said,
00:25:15.080 stand down,
00:25:15.680 no military repercussions
00:25:16.840 whatsoever.
00:25:18.780 Apparently,
00:25:20.060 take a hostage
00:25:20.840 and we'll get out
00:25:22.960 our checkbook
00:25:23.560 and write billions
00:25:24.640 of dollars.
00:25:26.160 This weakness
00:25:27.360 is endangering America
00:25:30.220 and it's endangering
00:25:31.120 our allies.
00:25:32.580 Canadian women
00:25:33.460 are looking for more.
00:25:34.800 More out of themselves,
00:25:35.860 their businesses,
00:25:36.800 their elected leaders,
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00:26:03.220 I want to ask you quickly
00:26:04.540 about the media
00:26:05.260 because something you just said
00:26:06.420 reminded me of the media.
00:26:07.480 Are you shocked
00:26:08.700 by the amount
00:26:09.600 of anti-Semitism
00:26:11.840 we are witnessing
00:26:12.880 on TV right now
00:26:15.080 from people
00:26:16.960 that many respect,
00:26:18.520 journalists?
00:26:19.000 I want to give you an example.
00:26:19.960 Andrea Mitchell today
00:26:21.340 said this
00:26:22.420 about Hamas.
00:26:24.900 Historically,
00:26:25.520 the Palestinian Authority
00:26:26.520 has gotten weaker
00:26:27.260 and weaker
00:26:27.860 as Hamas
00:26:28.940 has gained strength
00:26:29.720 and popularity
00:26:30.280 because the Palestinian Authority
00:26:32.100 is weakened
00:26:32.700 by the Netanyahu's
00:26:33.800 government
00:26:34.140 settlement expansion
00:26:35.500 and by showing
00:26:36.980 that it has not
00:26:37.660 much authority.
00:26:39.900 I mean,
00:26:40.240 she keeps giving excuses
00:26:42.380 for why Hamas
00:26:44.280 is gaining strength
00:26:45.380 and says,
00:26:46.800 well,
00:26:47.040 it's because of this
00:26:47.980 or it's because of that
00:26:48.960 and she went on
00:26:49.800 to continue to say
00:26:50.880 even after that
00:26:52.060 that this is
00:26:53.500 because of the problem
00:26:55.700 that Israel created
00:26:56.880 and she's saying this
00:26:58.440 on TV
00:26:59.020 while she's also
00:27:00.680 putting out the propaganda
00:27:01.800 from the Palestinian
00:27:02.540 health ministry
00:27:03.200 that 830 innocent people
00:27:04.580 killed in Gaza,
00:27:05.360 another 4,250 injured,
00:27:07.560 many of them children
00:27:08.360 and she's selling this
00:27:10.020 to the American people
00:27:10.880 that there's,
00:27:11.480 well,
00:27:11.620 there's a both sides
00:27:12.600 quote argument here.
00:27:14.320 Israelis are not
00:27:15.820 beheading infant children.
00:27:18.740 They're not dragging women
00:27:20.020 through the streets
00:27:21.100 and raping them.
00:27:22.540 They're not throwing
00:27:23.420 dead bodies
00:27:24.100 in the back of the trucks
00:27:25.100 like we saw
00:27:25.860 during the Holocaust.
00:27:27.260 That is only the terrorists
00:27:28.920 on the side
00:27:29.700 of Hamas,
00:27:31.240 period.
00:27:31.560 The corporate media
00:27:33.760 hates Israel
00:27:35.280 and you have to understand
00:27:37.520 a very important part
00:27:38.740 of the strategy of Hamas.
00:27:40.660 They engage in this barbarism,
00:27:42.720 they engage in these attacks
00:27:44.020 and they know
00:27:44.820 the response from Israel
00:27:46.660 is going to be
00:27:47.320 a military strike.
00:27:48.540 I believe Benjamin Netanyahu
00:27:49.900 is going to take out Hamas.
00:27:52.640 I think he is going to
00:27:53.560 take out their military leadership,
00:27:55.260 take out their weapons,
00:27:56.180 take out their rockets,
00:27:57.440 take out their soldiers,
00:27:58.620 take out their terrorists.
00:27:59.540 He's going to eliminate Hamas.
00:28:01.560 That is going to be
00:28:02.600 a bloody war.
00:28:03.340 It is going to last
00:28:04.080 a minimum of weeks.
00:28:05.240 It may last months.
00:28:07.080 Hamas's strategy
00:28:08.240 as Israel engages
00:28:10.440 in that effort
00:28:11.680 to take out Hamas
00:28:12.760 is going to be
00:28:14.420 to count on the corporate media
00:28:16.220 to be their PR spokespeople.
00:28:18.780 So,
00:28:19.720 we're already hearing
00:28:21.000 just a few days
00:28:21.920 into this conflict
00:28:22.960 the Palestinian body counts.
00:28:26.100 What the corporate media
00:28:27.940 doesn't tell you
00:28:28.720 is the reason Palestinians
00:28:29.920 are dying
00:28:30.580 is because Hamas
00:28:31.560 wants them to die,
00:28:33.040 because Hamas
00:28:33.720 uses Palestinians
00:28:35.280 as human shields.
00:28:37.220 Israel is sending texts,
00:28:38.620 is sending warnings,
00:28:39.600 asking civilians,
00:28:40.800 get out of the way,
00:28:41.740 get out of harm's way.
00:28:43.240 We're going to strike
00:28:44.340 this location here.
00:28:45.560 It's a Hamas stronghold.
00:28:46.740 It's a headquarters.
00:28:47.640 It's where they have rockets.
00:28:49.000 Get out of the way.
00:28:50.180 Hamas is telling
00:28:51.040 the civilians,
00:28:51.900 stay there.
00:28:52.540 Why?
00:28:53.120 Because we want you dead.
00:28:55.100 You have to understand,
00:28:56.040 Hamas,
00:28:56.540 they want Palestinians dead
00:28:59.140 because a dead Palestinian
00:29:00.600 and even better,
00:29:01.400 a dead Palestinian mother
00:29:02.760 or child
00:29:03.460 is invaluable
00:29:05.440 to Hamas
00:29:06.320 as a propaganda tool
00:29:07.860 because they know
00:29:09.440 that the tweeting
00:29:10.760 numbskulls
00:29:12.000 in the media
00:29:13.620 will use that
00:29:15.180 to attack Israel
00:29:16.340 and will say
00:29:17.080 they are barbarians.
00:29:18.580 That is what
00:29:19.680 this is all about
00:29:20.580 and so you need
00:29:21.260 to get ready.
00:29:21.720 the New York Times.
00:29:23.480 The New York Times
00:29:24.760 will wage a PR war
00:29:26.760 against Israel.
00:29:27.820 It will portray
00:29:28.940 the Palestinians
00:29:30.660 as oppressed people
00:29:32.520 and these poor
00:29:33.920 Hamas terrorists
00:29:34.860 are just misunderstood.
00:29:36.380 Let me tell you,
00:29:37.160 when you are
00:29:37.940 beheading babies,
00:29:39.200 you're not misunderstood.
00:29:40.680 You're a monster
00:29:41.540 and you deserve
00:29:42.820 to be treated as such.
00:29:44.600 There was also
00:29:45.640 something else
00:29:46.360 that shocked me
00:29:47.360 and it happened
00:29:48.460 today on TV.
00:29:50.140 John Kirby
00:29:51.060 was asked a question
00:29:52.300 and this terrifies me
00:29:53.480 about our readiness
00:29:54.260 as a nation militarily.
00:29:56.240 He was asked
00:29:57.240 about the possibility
00:29:58.340 of a special operation
00:29:59.800 to rescue Americans
00:30:01.360 from Israel
00:30:02.940 and he answered
00:30:05.840 in a way
00:30:06.660 that I couldn't believe it.
00:30:07.960 Listen.
00:30:09.600 You ruling out
00:30:10.420 some kind of special operation
00:30:11.820 to rescue American citizens.
00:30:14.240 I'm not ruling any,
00:30:15.240 I'm not ruling anything
00:30:16.280 in or out, Brett.
00:30:17.320 We're not prepared
00:30:18.240 to do that at this time.
00:30:19.340 We just don't have
00:30:20.140 enough information
00:30:20.920 to get into policy
00:30:22.780 possibilities and options.
00:30:24.700 We obviously take
00:30:25.620 the safety and security
00:30:26.420 of Americans overseas
00:30:27.320 very seriously.
00:30:28.060 President Biden
00:30:28.580 has made that clear
00:30:29.320 and bringing home
00:30:30.320 now almost 40 Americans
00:30:31.900 that were wrongfully detained.
00:30:33.080 We'll certainly
00:30:33.800 act with that same sense
00:30:35.640 of alacrity
00:30:36.220 and urgency here
00:30:37.260 and seriousness.
00:30:38.800 But again,
00:30:39.400 we just don't have
00:30:40.260 we just don't have
00:30:41.020 the numbers that confirm.
00:30:42.180 We don't have
00:30:42.520 the information
00:30:43.040 to be able to talk
00:30:44.140 with any great specificity
00:30:45.640 about what the options
00:30:46.480 might be.
00:30:47.000 He just said there
00:30:48.900 to the world
00:30:49.900 and to the terrorists,
00:30:51.580 we're,
00:30:51.960 and I'm quoting exactly,
00:30:53.380 we're not prepared
00:30:54.380 to do that
00:30:55.380 at this time.
00:30:58.320 The Biden administration
00:30:59.880 is incapable
00:31:01.320 of projecting strength.
00:31:02.860 It's incapable
00:31:03.440 of standing up
00:31:04.260 to our enemies.
00:31:05.660 Biden's approach
00:31:06.560 from day one
00:31:07.480 is to every enemy
00:31:08.500 of America,
00:31:09.480 whether it is Iran,
00:31:11.000 whether it is North Korea,
00:31:12.340 whether it is Venezuela,
00:31:13.540 whether it is China,
00:31:14.380 whether it is Russia,
00:31:15.900 projecting weakness
00:31:17.140 and projecting appeasement.
00:31:19.440 So he cannot say
00:31:21.100 if you do not release Americans,
00:31:23.000 you will face
00:31:23.940 overwhelming consequences
00:31:25.600 to the military leaders
00:31:26.760 of Hamas.
00:31:27.720 Release the Americans
00:31:28.840 or you will die.
00:31:30.880 That's actually
00:31:31.540 what a commander-in-chief
00:31:32.560 who's defending Americans
00:31:33.560 would say.
00:31:34.320 By the way,
00:31:35.540 Benjamin Netanyahu,
00:31:36.560 who doesn't have time
00:31:37.820 for the nonsense
00:31:39.160 that the Biden White House
00:31:41.540 engages in,
00:31:42.780 that's exactly
00:31:43.440 what he's saying.
00:31:44.200 He is saying
00:31:44.960 they are going
00:31:45.640 to eradicate Hamas,
00:31:47.280 that they cannot live
00:31:48.520 with this terror threat,
00:31:50.080 with these monsters
00:31:51.920 targeting women
00:31:53.380 and children
00:31:53.980 and civilians.
00:31:54.640 They're not engaged
00:31:55.380 in war.
00:31:56.100 They're not attacking
00:31:56.840 military targets.
00:31:58.040 Hamas is not.
00:31:59.060 They are engaged
00:32:00.060 in terrorism
00:32:00.800 targeting babies.
00:32:02.020 Babies are not
00:32:02.780 military targets.
00:32:04.460 And unfortunately,
00:32:06.440 the Biden administration,
00:32:08.420 their weakness
00:32:09.460 causes our enemies
00:32:12.280 to be stronger,
00:32:13.240 to be more aggressive
00:32:14.200 because they say
00:32:15.300 this president
00:32:16.540 is a pushover
00:32:17.720 and the more hostages
00:32:19.020 we take,
00:32:19.680 the more billions
00:32:20.420 of dollars he'll give us
00:32:21.480 and then we'll use
00:32:22.400 those billions of dollars
00:32:23.360 to take even more hostages
00:32:24.620 and to kill
00:32:25.540 even more Jews.
00:32:26.720 That's what's going on here
00:32:28.060 and the Biden administration
00:32:29.880 bears direct culpability,
00:32:32.580 which is why
00:32:33.220 after Joe Biden
00:32:34.620 gave his statement,
00:32:35.360 he ran out of the room
00:32:36.300 and didn't answer
00:32:36.880 a single press question
00:32:38.360 because they cannot defend
00:32:40.560 their disgraceful policy.
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00:34:15.020 Let's talk about this
00:34:16.320 from an internal
00:34:18.460 and inside of the U.S. perspective
00:34:20.560 for a minute as well.
00:34:22.460 Colleges,
00:34:23.460 Harvard,
00:34:24.760 University of Pennsylvania,
00:34:27.020 Black Lives Matter,
00:34:28.760 standing with these terrorists,
00:34:30.560 you have federally elected leaders
00:34:33.660 around the country
00:34:35.100 that are standing
00:34:36.180 with these terrorists.
00:34:37.340 You have a Colorado
00:34:38.560 State Representative,
00:34:39.900 Tim Hernandez,
00:34:40.960 who said this today.
00:34:43.420 I think it's despicable
00:34:44.300 what they're protesting for.
00:34:45.620 Congratulations.
00:34:46.020 And what you are protesting for.
00:34:47.240 Congratulations.
00:34:47.940 And the fact that you can't condemn
00:34:49.040 women and children
00:34:49.780 and elderly people
00:34:50.560 being murdered in the streets.
00:34:52.740 What about it?
00:34:54.900 Do you condemn it?
00:34:56.160 I already said...
00:34:57.560 Why can't you say yes?
00:34:58.720 Because I already gave you my answer.
00:35:00.200 You didn't give an answer.
00:35:01.200 And I think anybody
00:35:02.020 who would watch this
00:35:02.820 would understand
00:35:03.660 what your actual position is here.
00:35:04.700 All three people
00:35:04.720 that are going to watch
00:35:05.260 your bull****
00:35:05.720 beat him, Russell.
00:35:07.040 This is a man
00:35:08.040 who's at a protest
00:35:09.240 against Israel,
00:35:11.160 who's been elected
00:35:11.920 to the state legislature.
00:35:13.640 You put that
00:35:14.440 and you combine that
00:35:15.360 with the squad, Senator.
00:35:16.820 I will give a little credit.
00:35:18.820 The White House,
00:35:19.660 at least today,
00:35:20.680 understood
00:35:21.320 that they needed
00:35:22.940 to stand up against
00:35:24.060 Omar and Tlaib
00:35:25.220 and others.
00:35:26.420 The White House press secretary
00:35:27.660 did say that
00:35:28.700 what they had said
00:35:29.760 was repugnant
00:35:30.700 and disgraceful.
00:35:31.980 There are statements
00:35:32.600 on Israel.
00:35:33.500 But you combine
00:35:34.620 these younger leaders
00:35:35.940 with what we're now witnessing
00:35:37.540 on college campuses
00:35:39.080 at Harvard,
00:35:40.720 at University of Penn,
00:35:42.080 it scares me
00:35:43.120 for this country.
00:35:44.920 There was a conversation
00:35:46.100 even about this
00:35:47.080 on CNBC.
00:35:49.160 Even CNBC
00:35:50.080 who deals with
00:35:50.620 financial issues
00:35:51.700 like what the hell
00:35:52.480 is going on
00:35:52.960 on college campuses
00:35:53.860 and this is what they said.
00:35:56.080 Let me ask you a question.
00:35:57.420 Let's say you're the president
00:35:58.440 of Harvard University.
00:36:00.040 Yeah.
00:36:00.260 If you've looked at
00:36:00.760 what's happening at Harvard,
00:36:01.600 there are students
00:36:02.260 who have gathered.
00:36:03.140 Mind-boggling.
00:36:03.680 Mind-boggling, right?
00:36:04.580 But students who are gathering
00:36:05.720 to support the Palestinians,
00:36:07.700 to support Hamas,
00:36:08.700 frankly.
00:36:09.480 Very, very, very specifically
00:36:10.940 to support Hamas
00:36:11.960 and what's happening.
00:36:14.000 What is the role
00:36:15.120 of the president
00:36:16.380 of a university
00:36:17.080 or, frankly,
00:36:17.800 the president of a company
00:36:18.880 when they have
00:36:21.020 either students
00:36:21.920 or employees
00:36:22.600 or others
00:36:23.440 who want to view
00:36:25.160 and express
00:36:25.920 that position,
00:36:28.180 which I find
00:36:29.500 disgraceful.
00:36:31.980 But I wonder
00:36:33.020 what the answer
00:36:35.400 is supposed to be.
00:36:36.080 So, look,
00:36:36.420 the first thing
00:36:37.100 that I would do
00:36:37.620 if I was president
00:36:38.120 of Harvard University,
00:36:38.920 I would say
00:36:39.240 we are clearly
00:36:39.720 not educating students.
00:36:41.020 For students to think
00:36:42.620 that, again,
00:36:44.460 you know,
00:36:45.980 murder at scale
00:36:48.000 is somehow legitimate,
00:36:49.840 that occupation
00:36:50.740 causes terror,
00:36:52.420 I mean,
00:36:52.960 there are no Israelis
00:36:53.960 in Gaza,
00:36:54.680 for goodness sakes.
00:36:55.720 It's a silly
00:36:56.440 turn of phrase.
00:36:57.920 But to your question,
00:36:59.020 what would I do?
00:36:59.560 Well, number one,
00:37:00.080 I would say
00:37:00.440 we need to revisit
00:37:01.140 our entire core education
00:37:03.120 because they're clearly
00:37:03.940 not teaching morals
00:37:04.740 or values.
00:37:05.320 That's number one.
00:37:06.220 And then number two,
00:37:07.100 the president of Harvard,
00:37:08.360 like the president
00:37:09.100 of UPenn,
00:37:10.040 like the president
00:37:10.500 of any of the
00:37:11.000 institutions,
00:37:11.640 needs to stand up
00:37:12.780 and speak out
00:37:13.240 and say this is
00:37:14.000 disgraceful and wrong.
00:37:15.220 But they're not
00:37:16.160 doing that, Senator.
00:37:17.100 They're not saying
00:37:17.900 it's wrong.
00:37:18.680 They're waiting days
00:37:19.520 to even respond
00:37:20.380 and it's only after
00:37:21.320 famous alumni
00:37:22.740 and donors
00:37:23.740 finally came down
00:37:24.900 on them to the point
00:37:25.440 where they're like,
00:37:25.800 you have to give
00:37:26.860 a statement
00:37:27.440 and they put out
00:37:28.140 a basic statement
00:37:29.120 on paper.
00:37:30.580 Well, let me say
00:37:31.500 the voice you were
00:37:32.320 just hearing there
00:37:33.020 was Jonathan Greenblatt.
00:37:34.240 He's the head
00:37:34.660 of the Anti-Defamation League
00:37:36.000 and I'm glad
00:37:36.580 he's speaking out.
00:37:37.440 He actually was speaking
00:37:38.420 clearly and effectively there.
00:37:40.820 The ADL has a long history
00:37:42.260 of calling out
00:37:42.900 anti-Semitism
00:37:43.560 in recent years.
00:37:45.440 It has been far too
00:37:46.440 willing to basically
00:37:47.540 act as a defender
00:37:48.520 for the Democrat Party
00:37:49.620 and as a partisan
00:37:50.360 and so I'm glad
00:37:52.000 they're standing up
00:37:52.880 and speaking with clarity
00:37:53.840 here.
00:37:54.200 It's important.
00:37:55.520 But look,
00:37:56.840 what happened at Harvard,
00:37:58.020 you have 35 student groups
00:38:00.360 that put out a statement.
00:38:01.360 I want you to understand
00:38:02.080 what they said.
00:38:02.700 I'm going to read you
00:38:03.420 from the joint statement
00:38:04.580 by Harvard-Palestine
00:38:06.520 solidarity groups
00:38:07.540 on the situation
00:38:08.380 in Palestine.
00:38:09.340 Note,
00:38:09.740 notice the situation
00:38:10.580 in Palestine,
00:38:11.220 not Israel.
00:38:11.720 They don't even acknowledge
00:38:12.400 Israel exists.
00:38:14.240 We,
00:38:15.060 the undersigned
00:38:15.720 student organizations,
00:38:16.740 hold the Israeli regime
00:38:18.700 entirely responsible
00:38:21.300 for all unfolding
00:38:24.280 violence.
00:38:26.660 That's the opening sentence.
00:38:28.880 It is Israel's fault
00:38:31.440 that Hamas terrorists
00:38:33.580 are murdering children.
00:38:35.280 It is Israel's fault
00:38:36.500 that Hamas terrorists
00:38:37.760 are raping women
00:38:38.720 and little girls
00:38:39.540 in the streets
00:38:40.180 and parading them
00:38:41.260 through the street.
00:38:42.220 It is Israel's fault
00:38:43.340 that they are kidnapping
00:38:44.660 toddlers
00:38:45.420 and holding them hostage.
00:38:46.820 It is Israel's fault
00:38:47.940 that they are using
00:38:48.940 those toddlers
00:38:49.640 as human shields.
00:38:50.940 They're using women
00:38:51.720 and men as human shields.
00:38:52.980 It is Israel's fault
00:38:54.080 that Hamas terrorists
00:38:55.320 are murdering civilians
00:38:56.920 indiscriminately,
00:38:57.840 walking,
00:38:58.260 house by house by house. And if you're a Jew, they murder you. What a ridiculous,
00:39:04.100 outrageous situation. And look, that statement they put out.
00:39:09.820 Initially, for the first couple of days, Harvard said nothing. It was the only statement from the
00:39:15.060 Harvard campus that that anyone seemed to be aware of. Then Harvard put out an initial statement
00:39:21.240 that was the most milquetoast, lukewarm statement of, well, we want to be a safe space for people
00:39:27.780 to have all sorts of views. You know, the pro-genocide mass murder view and the anti-genocide mass murder
00:39:33.740 view. No, I'm sorry. That's not a topic of reasonable debate. Beheading babies is always,
00:39:39.660 always, always wrong. Period. Full stop. Finally, on Tuesday, the president of Harvard was guilted into
00:39:47.480 condemning. We stand against Hamas's beheading babies. It took five days of getting pounded.
00:39:57.340 And I got to say, listen, I'm an alumnus of Harvard Law School. It is embarrassing that our
00:40:04.580 universities, the problem is they become petri dishes. They become incubators for radical left-wing
00:40:11.780 views. And other than a Hamas headquarters, there are few places with more vicious anti-Semitism and
00:40:21.220 hatred of Israel than America's elite universities today. You talk to Hillel students, you talk to
00:40:28.640 Jewish students on campuses, they're afraid. They're afraid of violence. They're afraid to wear a yarmulke.
00:40:33.720 They're afraid to be publicly identified as Jewish because they risk violence. They risk swastikas being
00:40:40.400 spray-painted on their student center. They risk attacks from the radical left. And the radical left more and more
00:40:50.100 embraces, cherishes, and nurtures anti-Semitism. And schools like Harvard, sadly, are the breeding grounds for
00:40:59.700 this hatred. And they can't figure it out enough to say genocide is bad. That should not be a controversial
00:41:07.520 proposition. Well, and even members in Congress, Rashid Tlaib, was asked directly to her face what
00:41:15.600 she thought about women being raped and babies getting their heads cut off. She wouldn't answer
00:41:21.580 the question. Take a listen to this.
00:41:23.580 I have cut off babies' heads and burned children alive. Do you support Israel's rights to defend
00:41:30.500 themselves against this mentality? We're just going to get up there. You can't comment about Hamas terrorists
00:41:36.300 chopping off babies' heads. You have nothing to say about Hamas terrorists chopping off babies' heads. Do you condone what
00:42:01.220 Hamas has done what Hamas has done? Chopping off babies' heads? Burning children alive? Raping wind in the street?
00:42:08.220 You have no comment about children's heads being chopped off?
00:42:20.220 I mean, Senator, that was, uh, whoever that reporter was, God bless her for continuing to ask a basic question. Children were burned alive, babies' heads were cut off.
00:42:43.220 And I gotta say, if you haven't seen the video of that clip, you ought to Google it and watch it.
00:42:50.220 Because watching the video is even more disturbing. So, Congresswoman Tlaib is walking down the hallways in Congress. So, the steps you hear the whole time are she's walking, she's walking, she's walking.
00:43:01.220 And this reporter just asked her, do you not have a comment on chopping babies' heads off? How hard is it for a Congresswoman to say, we should not chop the heads off babies?
00:43:13.220 We should not burn children alive. We should not rape women in the streets. That is not, in a normal, sane world, a controversial proposition.
00:43:21.220 And yet, her politics are so radical, she cannot bring herself to say that. She has, in front of her office, she has a Palestinian flag.
00:43:32.220 It's interesting, she has a Palestinian flag and she has a transgender flag, which is ironic because Hamas would murder anyone who's gay or transgender.
00:43:39.220 So, like, the two flags are utterly in conflict. But in today's modern left, that nobody bothers with intellectual coherence. They embrace their ideology and don't worry about it.
00:43:50.220 But I gotta say, it is stunning. Like, she walks a long, long way. In the end of that video, she gets on an elevator and the door closes.
00:43:59.220 And, you know, she asks, do Israeli lives matter? And by the way, Congresswoman Tlaib conspicuously avoids using the word Israel. She refers to Palestine.
00:44:09.720 Look, today's radical left in the Democrat Party does not acknowledge Israel's right to exist.
00:44:18.260 And I gotta say, it's not just Congresswoman Tlaib. It's Cori Bush. It's AOC. It is the hard left of the Democrat Party.
00:44:29.500 And by the way, it's the Biden State Department whose response initially to this was, Israel, stand down, do not engage in any military action following the worst attack on Israel in 50 years, following Israel's 9-11, do nothing.
00:44:46.360 That is, sadly, the view of today's radical left. And for the Democrats who don't agree with it, I hope that they find the courage to call out the members of their own party that are saying things that are disgraceful.
00:45:03.020 Black Lives Matter, they have also come out in support of these terrorists, standing with Hamas, standing with what they have done.
00:45:12.100 The same Black Lives Matter that received billions upon billions of dollars in free advertising from virtually every major league sport in this country.
00:45:20.320 They were given end zones and helmets, decals on helmets.
00:45:24.740 They were given the corners of TV time on different parts of fields to give them free press.
00:45:31.200 And now they're coming out supporting. And I bring that up to go to something else.
00:45:35.720 There was a Muslim man speaking to a large crowd today in Times Square of those that were supporting Hamas and the Palestinians.
00:45:44.520 And this Muslim man speaking in New York City said, this is the correct religion.
00:45:49.280 We will not stop until it enters every home.
00:45:52.540 Now, that is a concern that many people are worried about with terrorists coming across the border.
00:45:57.680 We have new numbers that have come out that deal with special interest aliens.
00:46:02.060 The apprehensions specifically from people coming from the Middle East.
00:46:06.440 We also have found out, Senator, that we've had more people that have been caught coming across the southern border illegally
00:46:13.120 that are on the terrorist watch list this year than the last five years combined.
00:46:19.400 When you witness what happened in Israel and you remember 9-11 and you look at this open border
00:46:26.460 and you look at these special interest aliens and you look at the number of people on the terrorist watch list
00:46:31.280 that have been caught five times more or more this year than the last five years combined,
00:46:38.460 there is a real concern now that something like what happened there could happen in America.
00:46:44.560 Well, listen, that's exactly right.
00:46:46.620 And if you look at the statistics from Customs and Border Patrol,
00:46:50.060 here are the people who have been apprehended crossing into the United States illegally over the last two years.
00:46:56.100 And this is just focusing on the special interest countries,
00:46:59.020 which are the countries where there is a high predominance of terrorism.
00:47:02.820 From Syria, 538.
00:47:06.360 From Yemen, 139.
00:47:08.420 From Iran, 659.
00:47:11.420 From Iraq, 123.
00:47:13.220 From Afghanistan, 6,386.
00:47:16.120 From Lebanon, 164.
00:47:18.280 From Egypt, 3,153.
00:47:21.020 From Pakistan, 1,613.
00:47:24.700 From Mauritania, 15,594.
00:47:28.720 From Uzbekistan, 13,624.
00:47:32.160 And from Turkey, 30,830.
00:47:36.020 And that is from October of 2021 to October of 2023.
00:47:40.960 Now, those are the numbers that have been caught.
00:47:43.720 That doesn't count the million-plus gotaways, the people who weren't caught.
00:47:49.280 And I got to say, as we look to next steps,
00:47:53.820 there is a real risk of escalation in Israel.
00:47:56.500 There's a real risk of additional terrorist attacks.
00:47:59.200 There's a real risk of Hezbollah in the north.
00:48:01.420 Hamas is primarily in the south in the Gaza Strip.
00:48:04.360 Hezbollah is north of Israel.
00:48:06.440 Hezbollah has not yet actively engaged in this war.
00:48:09.160 They may well begin raining rockets down on Israel, which would give Israel a two-front war.
00:48:14.340 There's a real risk of additional acts of terror,
00:48:16.800 but there is an enormous risk of acts of terror in the United States.
00:48:22.080 And when Joe Biden and the Democrats, and every congressional Democrat is complicit in this,
00:48:27.100 when they implemented their open border policies,
00:48:30.600 when they began letting terrorists into this country in massive numbers,
00:48:36.680 it is only a matter of time before we have another terrorist attack.
00:48:40.820 And I've got to say, in the midst of this war in Israel, the chances of that are rising dramatically.
00:48:48.140 And look, I pray to God it doesn't happen.
00:48:50.820 I pray to God it is not of the order of magnitude of September 11th.
00:48:53.820 But the Biden administration, if they have open borders,
00:48:57.800 if you were a terrorist and you wanted to murder Americans,
00:49:02.660 the Biden administration has made it blazingly obvious what you should do.
00:49:06.320 You should go to Mexico and cross illegally over the border because they'll let you.
00:49:10.600 They won't catch you.
00:49:11.460 You'll get to stay.
00:49:12.300 And then you can wage war and commit acts of terrorism.
00:49:15.140 And I think America is much, much less safe because of the intersection
00:49:20.720 between Joe Biden's weakness, number one,
00:49:24.600 Joe Biden's policy of funding enemies of America like Iran and like Hamas, number two,
00:49:30.820 and Joe Biden's open borders with all of the other Democrats,
00:49:34.500 their open borders, which are allowing hundreds, if not thousands of terrorists
00:49:39.860 and other criminals to flood into this country.
00:49:42.660 The chances of a serious terrorist attack, I think, have never been higher
00:49:47.900 since September 11th than they are right now today.
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