Verdict with Ted Cruz - November 15, 2023


Schumer & the Dems BLOCK Emergency Funding for Israel plus Antisemitism at MIT Threatens Jewish Students' Safety


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41 minutes

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165.95396

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6,882

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299

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

37


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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00:00:05.440 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.
00:00:08.020 Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:09.180 Senator, we had planned on doing a deep dive today,
00:00:11.660 and we'd promised many people on Monday's pod
00:00:14.140 that we were going to get into some of the Biden crime family subpoenas
00:00:17.660 and what had happened.
00:00:18.640 We are going to push that to Friday purposely
00:00:22.200 because we're expecting some new breaking news on that.
00:00:24.800 And also, in light of what has happened in the Senate today,
00:00:27.780 I want to talk about this vote that happened
00:00:32.560 where every single Senate Democrat just voted to block aid to Israel
00:00:39.160 on a day when 200,000-plus came to the steps of the Capitol to support Israel.
00:00:46.660 This was shocking that every one of them said no.
00:00:50.380 Well, that's exactly right.
00:00:51.900 Today was a momentous day.
00:00:53.220 And, look, I spent this afternoon down at the mall with the March for Israel,
00:01:00.360 and we had hundreds of thousands of people from all over America
00:01:04.920 descend on Washington and stand together for Israel,
00:01:08.500 and it was inspirational.
00:01:09.680 I spent a lot of time down there just hugging people
00:01:12.700 and encouraging them and taking pictures and saying thank you,
00:01:16.520 and the spirit of unity.
00:01:18.320 I mean, we've seen over the last month the nastiness we've seen,
00:01:23.560 the vicious anti-Semitism we've seen,
00:01:25.540 the hatred for Israel we've seen has been really horrifying.
00:01:29.760 And the March for Israel was spectacular to be a part of.
00:01:34.680 And then after that, I came back to Capitol Hill,
00:01:38.100 and a group of us, a group of senators decided,
00:01:41.660 okay, enough is enough.
00:01:44.400 We are going to force a vote on military aid to Israel right now.
00:01:50.460 So, as you know, what happened,
00:01:53.680 the House of Representatives took up and passed a clean Israel aid bill,
00:02:00.060 $14 billion in emergency military aid for Israel.
00:02:03.740 The Biden White House wants to tie that military aid to Ukraine
00:02:10.140 and also more broadly to their efforts to increase illegal immigration.
00:02:16.240 They call it, in a very Orwellian term, border security funding,
00:02:20.140 but it's designed not to secure the border at all.
00:02:23.060 Instead, to increase illegal immigration,
00:02:25.940 to accelerate the time for processing,
00:02:28.020 to spend more money to putting illegal immigrants on trains and planes and buses
00:02:34.940 to send them to every city in America.
00:02:38.160 And so, the Biden White House is cynically trying to tie Israel aid to all of that.
00:02:44.300 The House of Representatives did the right thing,
00:02:46.000 something we've called for on this podcast.
00:02:48.240 Break Israel funding off and vote for it free and clear.
00:02:52.520 Now, when the House did that,
00:02:54.740 they decided to be fiscally responsible.
00:02:56.760 They decided to pay for it.
00:02:57.840 I think that's the right thing to do.
00:02:59.820 And so, the way they paid for the $14 billion
00:03:02.260 is rescinding funding that the Democrats had previously passed into law
00:03:07.680 to hire 87,000 new IRS agents
00:03:11.380 designed to harass small businesses,
00:03:14.860 harass middle-class families,
00:03:16.580 to be used as an army to go after the enemies of this administration.
00:03:22.820 So, go ahead.
00:03:24.400 You mentioned the vote and the numbers here.
00:03:27.640 There's some people that are going to be looking at these numbers.
00:03:29.680 It's very, very tight, this vote.
00:03:31.400 It was obviously a party-line vote.
00:03:33.720 How on earth is it that not a single Democrat would come over and stand with Israel on this?
00:03:38.360 Or was this just a,
00:03:39.500 hey, we as a Democratic Party,
00:03:41.700 we always vote together,
00:03:42.880 even if it screws Israel?
00:03:44.120 I mean, this is one of the most tone-deaf votes I've ever witnessed,
00:03:49.080 while there's literally 200,000-plus people on the mall standing with Israel in a nonpartisan way.
00:03:55.380 Look, this vote was a demonstration of what I describe at great length in my brand new book,
00:04:02.080 Unwoke, How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America.
00:04:04.560 By the way, if you haven't bought it,
00:04:06.300 go on to Amazon right now and buy the book,
00:04:08.480 because this vote today was a manifestation of that.
00:04:11.920 Today's Democrats, they don't give a damn about substance.
00:04:14.720 They care about power.
00:04:16.240 And because the corrupt corporate media will not report on what they say,
00:04:22.200 they are not accountable for what they do.
00:04:24.540 So here's what happens.
00:04:25.600 This is one of the moments where this podcast is unusual,
00:04:28.760 because I want to bring you inside the procedural maneuvering in the Senate
00:04:33.640 in a way that, frankly, there's no other news source that provides that.
00:04:37.980 So I came back from the march for Israel,
00:04:41.760 about 4 p.m. on the Capitol,
00:04:43.280 and I got a text as I was driving back to the Capitol,
00:04:46.380 from Roger Marshall, Roger Marshall, Republican from Kansas, good friend.
00:04:50.380 He said, a bunch of us are meeting to try to force a vote on Israel funding right now.
00:04:54.960 So I deviated.
00:04:56.160 I was going to go to my office.
00:04:57.200 I deviated to go to the Senate floor.
00:04:59.680 I was there with other conservatives,
00:05:01.720 people like Mike Lee, who is my closest friend in the Senate,
00:05:04.820 a number of others,
00:05:05.680 and we were strategizing about how we can force a vote.
00:05:08.720 And in particular, there's a procedural method
00:05:11.280 called filing a rogue cloture petition.
00:05:15.120 And what that means is any 16 senators can file a cloture petition,
00:05:22.340 which is a petition to force a vote on something,
00:05:25.280 and can basically hijack the Senate floor from the Senate majority leader.
00:05:30.540 And it is a procedural mechanism that is very, very rarely used,
00:05:35.180 because both Schumer and McConnell hate it.
00:05:41.000 So McConnell had repeatedly urged us,
00:05:43.240 do not use this mechanism,
00:05:44.540 because the majority leader should be able to control the entire agenda,
00:05:48.760 and it's a mistake to let the minority hijack the agenda.
00:05:52.220 Well, look, I understand that procedural point.
00:05:54.520 It's not crazy as a day-to-day operation of the Senate.
00:05:58.140 But here, the House had passed emergency military aid for Israel,
00:06:04.680 and Chuck Schumer had announced,
00:06:07.280 we will not vote on it.
00:06:08.660 He would block the Senate from voting on it.
00:06:11.300 It was literally, Schumer was single-handedly
00:06:13.360 preventing a vote on emergency military aid for Israel.
00:06:16.560 And it's because he wants, number one,
00:06:20.080 he's not willing to give up the funding
00:06:22.100 for the army of 87,000 new IRS agents.
00:06:25.380 He values harassing the political enemies of the White House
00:06:28.420 more than military aid for Israel.
00:06:30.760 And number two, he wants to tie it
00:06:33.060 to all the political priorities of Democrats
00:06:35.020 and hold that military aid hostage.
00:06:38.160 Let me ask you this question about this funding,
00:06:40.960 because this is a fight that we did not see.
00:06:44.280 Everybody jumped on the yes bandwagon
00:06:46.940 when it came to military aid for Ukraine.
00:06:50.340 Democrats had no problem jumping on that as well.
00:06:53.600 And you didn't have to figure out a way
00:06:55.880 to try to bring this vote up.
00:06:57.720 What is the logic when you're talking to Democrats,
00:07:01.720 your colleagues in the Senate?
00:07:03.140 How can they be so hell-bent and gung-ho
00:07:05.960 on unlimited funding for Ukraine,
00:07:08.460 but no on something as simple
00:07:10.720 as defending our actual ally, Israel?
00:07:12.960 So Democrats, number one,
00:07:15.500 recognize that all the Republicans
00:07:16.960 strongly support military aid for Israel.
00:07:20.160 So they see that cynically as a political opportunity.
00:07:23.280 Good, this is something Republicans want.
00:07:26.180 Let's hold it hostage.
00:07:27.840 But number two, listen,
00:07:29.080 Democrats are worried about their left flank.
00:07:30.760 They're getting blasted by the anti-Israel,
00:07:34.180 anti-Zionist, radical, anti-Semitic left,
00:07:37.580 the squad.
00:07:38.400 And so they're all nervous.
00:07:40.000 And so what ended up happening,
00:07:41.400 it's why Schumer didn't want to vote.
00:07:42.860 He didn't want to force Democrats to vote on it.
00:07:45.060 And he felt like he had exquisite power.
00:07:47.740 Now, Schumer screwed up.
00:07:50.280 The majority leader can prevent what we did today.
00:07:53.020 The way the majority leader prevents what we did today
00:07:55.520 is he files a pending motion to proceed to something.
00:07:59.600 And under the Senate procedural rules,
00:08:01.480 that pending motion to proceed to some bill
00:08:04.000 blocks another motion to proceed to a bill.
00:08:06.880 And so that's something when Senate Republicans had a majority,
00:08:10.620 Mitch McConnell did every day.
00:08:11.820 He did that to block the Democrats from doing what we did.
00:08:14.980 Well, Schumer was lazy.
00:08:15.960 He didn't do that.
00:08:16.680 So the floor was wide open.
00:08:18.460 And so what happened is a group of us,
00:08:21.040 we had 11 Senate Republicans.
00:08:22.620 We met off the floor of the Senate.
00:08:24.140 You needed 11 to force a voice vote.
00:08:26.840 And so we gathered there on the side of the Senate
00:08:28.620 and we're talking about,
00:08:30.920 okay, we're going to force this.
00:08:31.800 And we're doing this surreptitiously.
00:08:33.000 This is like 4 p.m. Tuesday afternoon.
00:08:36.160 We then all went to the Senate cloakroom
00:08:38.440 and we were waiting.
00:08:39.580 And actually, John Kennedy was giving an extended speech.
00:08:42.640 And we wanted Roger Marshall as the one
00:08:44.700 who had the idea initially to go forward.
00:08:46.440 So Mike Lee and I and others were backing Roger.
00:08:49.540 And we needed to get the floor
00:08:51.020 because the Senate Democrats were starting to get wind
00:08:54.540 of what we were trying to do.
00:08:55.980 And at one point, Chuck Schumer's lead floor aide on the Senate,
00:09:01.500 his sort of lead staffer,
00:09:03.320 he came and stuck his head in the Republican cloakroom.
00:09:07.760 And he looks around and he sees 11 of us sitting there.
00:09:10.460 And he kind of looks around
00:09:11.860 and he doesn't quite say this out loud,
00:09:13.640 but everything in his expression goes,
00:09:15.820 oh, shit.
00:09:17.140 Like he knew this.
00:09:19.860 He had figured out what we were trying to do.
00:09:22.380 And so we went, actually, Rand Paul was part of the group.
00:09:25.040 Rand went down to John Kennedy.
00:09:26.280 He was giving a speech in another matter.
00:09:27.820 And Rand interrupted him.
00:09:29.180 And he's like, John Kennedy's on C-SPAN giving a speech.
00:09:31.560 And Rand said, John, we really need you to stop right now.
00:09:34.660 It's an emergency.
00:09:35.440 Please stop.
00:09:36.500 And John didn't even know what we were doing,
00:09:38.140 but he's like, okay.
00:09:39.500 So he stops.
00:09:41.220 Roger Marshall goes down and he gets recognized.
00:09:43.220 So getting recognized, once you're recognized,
00:09:45.580 you have the floor.
00:09:46.640 You have power.
00:09:48.480 And so Roger goes down
00:09:49.780 and he moves to proceed to the House bill.
00:09:53.180 So the House bill is what they passed.
00:09:56.060 It is $14 billion in emergency military funding for Israel
00:09:59.540 paid for by rescinding the IRS additional funding
00:10:02.820 for 87,000 agents.
00:10:05.020 Once he did that, the Democrats are in panic.
00:10:07.440 They're like, oh, crap, oh, crap, oh, crap, oh, crap.
00:10:09.540 And so Raphael Warnock, the Democrat from Georgia,
00:10:12.360 he was down there.
00:10:14.180 Now, procedurally, once Roger moves to proceed to the bill,
00:10:18.280 he has relinquished the floor.
00:10:20.480 It's a jump ball at that point
00:10:21.900 because to move to proceed to it,
00:10:24.280 the presiding officer instructs the clerk
00:10:26.620 to read the title of the bill.
00:10:28.360 So Roger no longer has the floor.
00:10:30.620 Can I ask you a cynical question real quick?
00:10:32.700 Yes.
00:10:33.000 How many senators have no idea how this works,
00:10:36.680 what you're describing right now?
00:10:38.520 About 90.
00:10:39.940 Okay.
00:10:41.180 That's the reason why this story is amazing to me
00:10:43.420 because I'm like,
00:10:43.920 I bet you the majority of the senators
00:10:45.780 that you serve with
00:10:47.660 don't know the rules of the Senate
00:10:50.040 and how this would work.
00:10:50.980 No, no, it's only a handful of senators
00:10:53.300 that understand the rules.
00:10:54.320 So Roger moves.
00:10:55.800 When he makes the motion,
00:10:57.220 he's relinquished the floor.
00:10:58.560 And so what happened then,
00:11:00.080 as soon as the clerk has read the title of the bill,
00:11:03.100 Roger says, Mr. President,
00:11:04.560 the presiding officer was Senator Welch from Vermont.
00:11:07.740 He was there.
00:11:08.840 Roger calls out Mr. President,
00:11:10.200 but Raphael Warnock,
00:11:11.260 liberal Democrat from Georgia,
00:11:12.460 calls out Mr. President as well.
00:11:13.780 Now, the presiding officer,
00:11:14.820 when you've got multiple people asking me to recognize,
00:11:17.420 has the option to pick who to decide.
00:11:19.480 And so, because he's a Democrat,
00:11:21.060 Welch recognizes Warnock.
00:11:24.120 Warnock stands up and says,
00:11:26.440 I suggest the absence of a quorum.
00:11:29.100 Now, what that means,
00:11:30.480 this is getting in the weeds,
00:11:31.860 but this is one of the cool things about this podcast.
00:11:34.120 It takes you inside the Senate.
00:11:36.640 Under the Senate rules,
00:11:37.960 when any senator suggests the absence of a quorum,
00:11:40.520 there is a mandatory quorum call.
00:11:42.520 What it means is,
00:11:43.860 there are not enough senators on the floor right now
00:11:46.420 to conduct business.
00:11:47.740 It is a way to freeze the Senate,
00:11:50.960 to lock it in paralysis,
00:11:53.060 because once you're in a quorum call,
00:11:55.580 you can do nothing else.
00:11:58.600 And so,
00:12:00.260 Warnock pushed us into a quorum call.
00:12:02.860 At that point,
00:12:03.960 we're there,
00:12:04.620 and there are more than 11 of us that are there.
00:12:06.760 We proceeded over the next hour,
00:12:08.760 periodically,
00:12:09.440 one after the other,
00:12:10.200 we'd grab the microphone,
00:12:11.100 we'd stand up and say,
00:12:12.200 Mr. President,
00:12:12.740 I ask unanimous consent to vitiate the quorum call.
00:12:15.820 That's a way to say,
00:12:16.820 end the quorum call,
00:12:17.520 let's vote on this damn thing.
00:12:19.180 And over and over again,
00:12:20.580 we did this like 30 times,
00:12:22.540 Democrats would object.
00:12:23.620 They'd say,
00:12:23.940 I object,
00:12:24.400 I object,
00:12:24.900 I object.
00:12:25.620 Now,
00:12:25.840 you can do that forever.
00:12:27.560 You can keep,
00:12:28.600 they could keep us in a quorum call,
00:12:30.000 but it meant they were stuck.
00:12:32.020 And so,
00:12:32.440 we were brainstorming,
00:12:33.620 okay,
00:12:34.220 how can they avoid a vote?
00:12:36.200 We went up to them and said,
00:12:37.060 look,
00:12:37.240 what we want is a roll call vote
00:12:39.200 where every senator has to go on record.
00:12:42.160 Do you support funding for Israel
00:12:45.000 or do you oppose funding for Israel?
00:12:47.240 After about two hours,
00:12:48.760 and I cannot overstate Ben,
00:12:50.680 how upset Chuck Schumer was,
00:12:52.880 how upset the Democrats were,
00:12:54.600 we blindsided them.
00:12:56.060 They did not expect this.
00:12:57.640 This hit them out of nowhere.
00:12:59.360 And then they finally said,
00:13:00.900 screw it.
00:13:02.100 We're going to force through the vote.
00:13:03.600 So we voted.
00:13:05.380 And it was a straight party line vote.
00:13:08.620 So understand,
00:13:09.420 every single Democrat
00:13:12.900 voted against emergency military funding
00:13:16.720 for Israel.
00:13:18.060 Chuck Schumer,
00:13:19.380 who calls him the defender of Israel,
00:13:21.780 that's what he calls himself,
00:13:23.540 voted against emergency military funding
00:13:25.480 for Israel.
00:13:28.120 John Tester,
00:13:29.360 who's running for re-election in Montana,
00:13:31.620 voted against emergency funding for Israel.
00:13:34.180 Sherrod Brown,
00:13:34.960 who's running for re-election in Ohio,
00:13:37.460 voted against emergency funding for Israel.
00:13:39.900 Bob Casey,
00:13:40.740 who's running for re-election in Pennsylvania,
00:13:44.220 voted against emergency funding for Israel.
00:13:46.720 Jackie Rosen,
00:13:47.880 who's running for re-election in Nevada,
00:13:50.660 voted against emergency funding for Israel.
00:13:53.940 Tammy Baldwin,
00:13:54.980 who's running for re-election in Wisconsin,
00:13:57.740 voted against emergency funding for Israel.
00:13:59.900 And the amazing thing has been,
00:14:00.980 it was a straight party line vote,
00:14:02.640 which means every single one of those Democrats I named
00:14:05.340 was the deciding vote.
00:14:08.660 Literally,
00:14:09.140 if one Democrat had voted with us,
00:14:11.480 this was a 50-vote threshold.
00:14:13.260 So one Democrat could have passed this.
00:14:16.480 But every Democrat voted no.
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00:15:36.020 Senator,
00:15:36.560 you mentioned that any one Democrat
00:15:39.200 could have moved the pendulum here
00:15:41.560 and funded Israel.
00:15:42.920 And if you don't have to name names per se,
00:15:46.020 but are you shocked?
00:15:47.360 I mean,
00:15:47.540 there are some Democrats that I truly believe
00:15:50.880 are, quote,
00:15:51.480 friends of Israel.
00:15:53.440 I am shocked that not one of them
00:15:56.100 did the right thing here
00:15:57.440 and truly stood with Israel.
00:15:59.740 They just said,
00:16:01.600 no,
00:16:01.920 party over even Israel
00:16:03.980 and what is referred to
00:16:05.400 is emergency funding,
00:16:07.300 meaning they need it now.
00:16:08.800 Look,
00:16:09.300 this was,
00:16:09.840 I think,
00:16:10.060 a spectacularly foolish vote
00:16:11.780 by Democrats.
00:16:13.080 I mean,
00:16:13.260 you had Kyrsten Sinema
00:16:14.280 was the deciding vote
00:16:15.380 against emergency aid to Israel.
00:16:17.860 Bob Menendez,
00:16:18.840 who right now
00:16:19.580 is in the midst
00:16:20.240 of a very serious indictment
00:16:22.340 and a serious scandal,
00:16:24.100 but he's on the ballot in November.
00:16:25.780 He was the deciding vote
00:16:26.960 against emergency aid to Israel.
00:16:29.600 Dick Blumenthal,
00:16:30.440 Ben Cardin,
00:16:31.580 all sorts of Democrats
00:16:33.080 who hold themselves out
00:16:35.560 as defenders of Israel.
00:16:36.760 Every one of them,
00:16:37.840 literally one of them,
00:16:39.460 could say,
00:16:39.980 you know what?
00:16:40.720 We need emergency aid to Israel now
00:16:42.620 and I don't care
00:16:43.760 what my party leadership says.
00:16:45.160 I'm not going to do it.
00:16:46.120 But they decided,
00:16:47.340 they cracked the whip.
00:16:49.000 And I'll tell you,
00:16:49.680 on the flip side,
00:16:51.420 listen,
00:16:51.780 it was not easy
00:16:52.880 to hold every Republican.
00:16:55.040 So I was down
00:16:55.680 on the Senate floor
00:16:56.300 for about two and a half hours
00:16:57.300 this afternoon
00:16:57.860 and I was whipping Republicans.
00:17:00.080 And listen,
00:17:00.520 Republican leadership
00:17:01.280 was pissed.
00:17:03.140 I cannot overstate
00:17:04.600 how angry they were.
00:17:05.980 And the reason is,
00:17:07.740 is our leadership said,
00:17:09.600 listen,
00:17:09.880 if you do this,
00:17:11.420 when Republicans
00:17:12.180 have the majority,
00:17:13.000 Democrats will use this tool
00:17:15.500 to try to hijack the floor.
00:17:16.880 And that's a reasonable
00:17:18.100 procedural point.
00:17:18.980 I get that.
00:17:19.880 It's not crazy.
00:17:21.580 That being said,
00:17:22.660 I think the crisis in Israel
00:17:24.100 is so dire,
00:17:25.360 the position of the Democrats
00:17:26.660 is so indefensible
00:17:27.700 that it made sense to force it.
00:17:29.560 And so we did it.
00:17:30.480 But when we're voting on it,
00:17:32.100 there were a number
00:17:33.380 of Republicans
00:17:34.080 close to leadership
00:17:35.040 who delayed their vote
00:17:37.080 and delayed their vote
00:17:38.300 and delayed their vote.
00:17:39.300 And I was talking
00:17:40.540 to them personally
00:17:41.240 and I was saying,
00:17:41.980 please,
00:17:43.100 please vote
00:17:44.180 to do the right thing.
00:17:45.380 Because if we ended up
00:17:46.460 with a vote
00:17:46.940 where you had all the Democrats
00:17:48.540 and two or three
00:17:49.540 or five Republicans,
00:17:50.500 it would totally
00:17:52.360 blur the distinction.
00:17:53.660 They could say,
00:17:54.160 there's a bipartisan vote
00:17:55.460 against this procedural game.
00:17:58.200 That's what the Democrats
00:17:59.020 would say.
00:18:00.520 And so I was begging Republicans,
00:18:02.340 please,
00:18:02.740 this is something I get.
00:18:04.760 You don't like
00:18:05.640 the procedural mechanism
00:18:06.800 that we forced this vote,
00:18:07.880 but we did.
00:18:08.900 Once we did,
00:18:10.220 let's actually be united
00:18:11.940 and be team players
00:18:15.960 and miraculously,
00:18:17.700 look,
00:18:17.940 it was close
00:18:18.760 and I was talking
00:18:19.480 to staffers,
00:18:20.080 I was talking to members,
00:18:20.940 I was lobbying,
00:18:21.720 I was in the well
00:18:22.520 of the Senate
00:18:22.980 working vote
00:18:24.640 by vote by vote.
00:18:26.400 We got every single Republican,
00:18:28.680 100%.
00:18:29.320 That was a big deal
00:18:30.720 because it means
00:18:31.860 that each and every Democrat,
00:18:34.040 there is not a Democrat
00:18:34.960 in the Senate
00:18:35.520 who was not
00:18:36.700 the deciding vote
00:18:37.620 on this motion
00:18:38.280 and that is a big deal
00:18:39.680 for clarity
00:18:40.280 and I want to underscore
00:18:41.960 something, Ben.
00:18:43.740 You asked a minute ago
00:18:44.920 why would Democrats do this
00:18:46.260 and part of me
00:18:47.460 was shocked.
00:18:48.400 By the way,
00:18:48.880 Joe Manchin
00:18:49.340 who's not running
00:18:49.840 for re-election,
00:18:50.820 he voted against
00:18:51.500 military funding
00:18:52.300 for Israel.
00:18:53.160 He could have been
00:18:53.640 the deciding vote
00:18:54.380 but he figured,
00:18:55.020 I guess,
00:18:55.380 screw it,
00:18:55.680 I'm leaving the Senate,
00:18:56.420 so who cares?
00:18:59.440 Part of the reason
00:19:00.440 Democrats do this,
00:19:02.420 while we were voting,
00:19:03.380 I looked up
00:19:03.880 in the Senate gallery,
00:19:04.800 there were four reporters
00:19:05.980 up in the Senate gallery.
00:19:08.460 We'll see
00:19:09.240 how many headlines
00:19:10.860 are published
00:19:12.740 about Senate Democrats
00:19:15.520 block military funding
00:19:16.920 for Israel
00:19:17.560 but my guess is
00:19:18.500 very, very few.
00:19:19.680 We went out
00:19:20.280 and tried to talk
00:19:20.900 to reporters.
00:19:21.920 I didn't see
00:19:23.100 the 6 o'clock news tonight
00:19:24.280 so I don't know this
00:19:25.180 for a fact
00:19:25.800 but I'd be willing
00:19:27.100 to bet you
00:19:27.820 $100 right now
00:19:29.460 and I'm cheap,
00:19:30.400 I don't bet $100
00:19:30.960 on many things.
00:19:32.260 That's right.
00:19:33.480 I'd bet you $100
00:19:34.360 that none of the
00:19:35.660 major networks
00:19:36.520 covered
00:19:37.340 that Senate Democrats
00:19:38.460 tonight blocked
00:19:39.300 funding for Israel
00:19:40.160 and this is why,
00:19:41.800 look,
00:19:42.000 this is the point
00:19:42.620 in my book
00:19:43.160 Unwoke
00:19:43.680 which you ought
00:19:44.280 to go online
00:19:44.980 and buy right now,
00:19:46.640 this is why
00:19:47.580 I focus so much
00:19:48.900 on the corrupt
00:19:49.420 corporate media
00:19:50.140 because the corrupt
00:19:52.140 corporate media,
00:19:53.080 they're not covering news.
00:19:55.420 They are partisan advocates.
00:19:57.680 They don't want
00:19:58.960 aid to Israel
00:20:00.740 to pass.
00:20:01.300 They are cheering
00:20:02.060 for Hamas.
00:20:02.860 Many of the corrupt
00:20:03.440 corporate media
00:20:04.040 are openly
00:20:04.760 cheering for Hamas
00:20:06.300 and so Democrats
00:20:07.040 can cast
00:20:07.880 spectacularly foolish
00:20:09.700 votes
00:20:10.180 and know
00:20:11.360 their constituents
00:20:12.100 will never know
00:20:12.860 about it.
00:20:13.260 Dick Blumenthal,
00:20:14.100 Democrat from Connecticut,
00:20:15.460 he holds himself
00:20:16.340 out as one of the
00:20:17.320 leading defenders
00:20:17.980 of Israel.
00:20:19.100 Well,
00:20:19.500 he is absolutely
00:20:20.520 certain when he
00:20:21.320 goes to Connecticut,
00:20:22.600 none of his voters
00:20:23.540 will know that he
00:20:24.380 was the deciding vote
00:20:25.760 that blocked
00:20:26.860 emergency military
00:20:28.020 aid to Israel.
00:20:29.180 Why?
00:20:30.100 Because the corrupt
00:20:31.000 corporate media
00:20:31.660 won't tell them.
00:20:33.820 You,
00:20:34.540 Senator,
00:20:34.860 have said this
00:20:35.440 several times
00:20:36.100 and it's a very
00:20:36.940 accurate statement.
00:20:37.800 You say,
00:20:38.420 lawyers never ask
00:20:39.580 a question of somebody
00:20:40.520 if they don't already
00:20:41.060 know the answer.
00:20:42.680 That rule applies,
00:20:44.360 I think,
00:20:44.780 to taking things
00:20:45.860 to the fore
00:20:46.240 of the Senate
00:20:46.580 for a vote,
00:20:47.460 right?
00:20:47.720 Don't call a vote
00:20:48.560 if you don't know
00:20:49.160 what the outcome
00:20:49.760 is going to be.
00:20:51.180 And yet,
00:20:51.820 this today
00:20:52.720 seems to be
00:20:53.380 one of those
00:20:53.760 incredibly authentic
00:20:55.040 moments.
00:20:56.180 Was it inspired
00:20:57.320 because of the
00:20:58.320 200,000 plus
00:20:59.380 that came to
00:21:00.000 Capitol Hill
00:21:00.460 to stand with Israel
00:21:01.500 and that's where
00:21:02.780 this kind of started
00:21:03.640 where it was like,
00:21:04.100 you know what,
00:21:04.480 we got to do
00:21:05.160 something today
00:21:06.140 and let's just see
00:21:08.340 if we can get it done
00:21:09.100 and no,
00:21:09.640 we haven't called
00:21:10.300 everybody beforehand
00:21:11.240 and this is an
00:21:12.700 organic moment
00:21:13.680 in the Senate.
00:21:14.760 Look,
00:21:15.520 for me,
00:21:15.980 it certainly was.
00:21:16.820 I can't speak
00:21:17.480 to the other
00:21:17.980 Republican senators,
00:21:18.780 but I came
00:21:19.840 literally from
00:21:21.060 the March on Washington.
00:21:22.040 I was down there
00:21:23.000 hugging and supporting
00:21:24.000 so many,
00:21:24.740 so many incredible
00:21:26.400 heroes and Jewish
00:21:27.740 Americans who came
00:21:28.540 from all over the
00:21:29.240 country to come
00:21:30.400 to the mall
00:21:30.900 to stand in solidarity
00:21:31.860 and I came back
00:21:32.980 and I heard
00:21:34.260 several of my
00:21:34.800 colleagues were
00:21:35.260 thinking of this
00:21:35.920 and I was like,
00:21:36.460 absolutely,
00:21:37.340 let's go to the
00:21:38.160 floor right now,
00:21:38.960 let's do it
00:21:39.520 and so I leaned
00:21:40.300 in aggressively
00:21:41.660 and I got to say
00:21:42.760 it was striking.
00:21:43.540 Number one,
00:21:44.580 the absolute panic
00:21:45.920 among Senate Democrats
00:21:46.920 was striking,
00:21:47.860 but sadly,
00:21:48.860 the panic among
00:21:49.680 Senate Republican
00:21:50.400 leadership,
00:21:51.020 they didn't like
00:21:51.780 that we did this
00:21:52.480 either,
00:21:53.300 but I think it
00:21:54.140 provided an absolute
00:21:55.300 moment of clarity
00:21:56.080 and let me be clear,
00:21:56.840 what I hoped
00:21:58.340 would happen
00:21:59.020 is that we would
00:22:00.880 vote to provide
00:22:01.940 the military aid
00:22:03.640 to Israel.
00:22:04.080 By the way,
00:22:04.520 if one Democrat,
00:22:05.540 if even one,
00:22:06.520 if Bob Casey,
00:22:07.880 if Jackie Rosen,
00:22:09.660 if John Tester,
00:22:11.180 if Sherrod Brown,
00:22:11.860 if even one Democrat
00:22:13.180 had voted with us,
00:22:15.460 this bill would have
00:22:17.000 passed and we would
00:22:17.860 have sent it to
00:22:18.460 Joe Biden's desk
00:22:19.480 tonight.
00:22:20.760 So Joe Biden
00:22:21.880 could have signed
00:22:22.560 it this evening
00:22:23.820 and sent $14
00:22:25.100 billion to
00:22:26.820 to Israel
00:22:27.580 Tuesday night.
00:22:29.580 Wow.
00:22:30.280 I didn't know
00:22:31.080 if that would happen.
00:22:31.880 I actually wasn't
00:22:32.960 sure they could
00:22:34.760 hold their votes
00:22:35.440 and part of the
00:22:35.980 reason they locked
00:22:37.380 up the floor
00:22:37.920 in a quorum call
00:22:38.700 for a couple hours
00:22:39.520 is I assume
00:22:40.540 they were whipping
00:22:41.060 their votes.
00:22:41.660 They called the
00:22:42.220 people that they
00:22:42.780 thought were
00:22:43.160 wobbly votes.
00:22:43.940 They said,
00:22:44.620 okay,
00:22:45.080 Schumer wants you
00:22:45.900 to vote to
00:22:46.740 screw Israel.
00:22:47.740 Are you okay
00:22:48.560 with that?
00:22:49.040 And I think
00:22:49.500 every Democrat
00:22:50.060 said,
00:22:50.480 yep,
00:22:50.840 good by me.
00:22:51.440 I'm good by
00:22:51.880 that.
00:22:52.920 And it just,
00:22:54.660 I got to say,
00:22:55.520 if the shoe
00:22:56.520 were on the
00:22:56.900 other foot,
00:22:57.380 if it were
00:22:57.720 Republican
00:22:58.140 leadership asking
00:22:58.980 Republicans to
00:22:59.740 cast a vote
00:23:00.200 like that,
00:23:00.920 I wouldn't do
00:23:02.200 it and a whole
00:23:02.680 bunch of us
00:23:03.320 wouldn't.
00:23:04.200 And yet the
00:23:04.740 Democrats,
00:23:06.100 this is where
00:23:07.360 I cannot
00:23:07.960 overstate the
00:23:08.920 impact of the
00:23:09.720 corrupt corporate
00:23:10.360 media.
00:23:10.760 Part of the
00:23:11.100 reason Republicans
00:23:11.780 wouldn't do
00:23:12.260 it is our
00:23:13.480 voters will
00:23:14.060 know if we
00:23:14.780 cast a terrible
00:23:15.520 vote.
00:23:16.380 Yeah,
00:23:16.560 it would literally
00:23:17.760 cost several
00:23:18.660 senators their
00:23:19.280 job the next
00:23:20.220 election.
00:23:21.080 The Democrats
00:23:22.120 feel utterly
00:23:23.440 and completely
00:23:24.260 immune.
00:23:24.780 They know
00:23:25.600 that CNN
00:23:26.240 has their
00:23:26.800 back.
00:23:27.200 They know
00:23:27.580 that ABC,
00:23:28.360 NBC,
00:23:28.880 CBS,
00:23:29.800 MSNBC,
00:23:30.520 they won't
00:23:31.440 cover it.
00:23:32.080 They won't
00:23:32.380 report on it.
00:23:33.160 They'll ignore
00:23:33.760 it.
00:23:34.060 They'll bury
00:23:34.640 it.
00:23:35.380 And the
00:23:35.760 New York
00:23:36.120 Times,
00:23:37.060 they're not
00:23:37.540 going to
00:23:37.780 cover it
00:23:38.160 because they
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00:23:39.460 to cover
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00:26:07.200 Senator I want to
00:26:09.500 move to another
00:26:10.200 issue and it deals
00:26:11.160 with Israel but it's
00:26:12.480 in a different
00:26:12.900 capacity and that
00:26:14.740 is the shock of
00:26:15.640 anti-Semitism on
00:26:17.220 college campuses
00:26:18.660 MIT now is facing
00:26:20.820 backlash for not
00:26:22.740 expelling anti-Israel
00:26:24.940 protesters over
00:26:26.540 their they what they
00:26:27.740 refer to as visa
00:26:29.580 issues they said
00:26:31.480 they they originally
00:26:32.980 threatened to
00:26:34.280 expel these pro
00:26:35.260 Palestinian protesters
00:26:36.500 and then afterwards
00:26:38.040 they're like okay
00:26:38.880 we're gonna full we're
00:26:39.880 gonna come back on
00:26:40.800 this we're gonna pull
00:26:42.160 back on this and
00:26:43.840 say never mind
00:26:44.820 because these people
00:26:45.980 if we if we pull
00:26:46.960 them from school it
00:26:47.860 will it will have
00:26:48.600 visa issues regardless
00:26:50.880 of how extreme these
00:26:52.460 protesters were this
00:26:54.460 is shocking to see
00:26:56.020 them coming back
00:26:57.160 from this yet that's
00:26:58.780 exactly what now has
00:27:00.000 happened at MIT your
00:27:01.120 reaction well listen
00:27:02.960 what happened at MIT
00:27:04.100 was absolutely
00:27:04.840 disgraceful MIT by any
00:27:06.980 measure is one of the
00:27:08.220 finest educational
00:27:09.660 institutions on the
00:27:10.500 face of the planet it
00:27:11.380 may be the greatest
00:27:12.540 scientific technical
00:27:14.520 university in the
00:27:16.900 world and what has
00:27:18.740 happened in the last
00:27:19.520 several days is that
00:27:20.880 numerous Jewish
00:27:21.920 students were forced
00:27:23.640 to stay home from
00:27:24.720 classes they could not
00:27:25.920 attend classes why
00:27:27.120 because anti-Israel
00:27:29.100 anti-semitic protesters
00:27:30.660 threaten them
00:27:31.500 physically threaten
00:27:32.580 them and the students
00:27:33.760 said they felt that they
00:27:34.920 felt unsafe they they
00:27:36.140 they felt like going to
00:27:37.320 class would endanger
00:27:39.220 their personal safety
00:27:40.500 now that is insane
00:27:42.800 and and any normal
00:27:44.980 university if if one
00:27:46.600 student threatens another
00:27:48.020 student threatens their
00:27:49.040 safety and prevents
00:27:50.580 them from going to
00:27:51.220 class whoever makes that
00:27:52.680 threat should be
00:27:53.440 expelled if you are
00:27:55.020 harassing Jewish
00:27:56.520 students because you're
00:27:57.540 an anti-semite bigot
00:27:59.060 you should be expelled
00:28:00.900 and by the way to be
00:28:01.640 clear if someone was
00:28:03.200 harassing Muslim students
00:28:04.460 and preventing Muslim
00:28:05.280 students from going to
00:28:06.540 class they should be
00:28:08.060 expelled no student has
00:28:09.620 a right to harass and
00:28:11.260 threaten fellow students
00:28:12.280 well what happened in
00:28:13.080 MIT is is this harassment
00:28:16.580 occurred and Jewish
00:28:17.700 students stayed home and
00:28:19.840 the university
00:28:20.520 administrators backed
00:28:22.640 away and refused to
00:28:24.320 take the natural step of
00:28:25.640 expelling them why
00:28:26.740 because these rabid
00:28:29.000 anti-semitisms were
00:28:30.260 there was Semites were
00:28:31.800 there on student visas and
00:28:33.180 if they got expelled they'd
00:28:34.600 get sent back home and the
00:28:35.780 university said well okay if
00:28:37.740 you were an American we
00:28:39.360 would punish you but
00:28:40.260 because you're not an
00:28:41.060 American because you're a
00:28:42.020 guest because we've
00:28:43.160 welcomed you to our
00:28:43.960 country to get an
00:28:44.540 education you can conduct
00:28:46.620 harassment and bigotting
00:28:48.460 bigoted racist threaten
00:28:50.500 threatening of other
00:28:51.680 students and and we will
00:28:52.820 just turn a blind eye and
00:28:54.140 give you a pat on the back
00:28:55.060 it's CNN there there truly
00:28:56.760 seems to be a civil war
00:28:58.120 inside of CNN right now
00:28:59.420 because if you watch the
00:29:00.340 morning show it's like all
00:29:01.800 Hamas propaganda and
00:29:04.220 anti-semitism you watch
00:29:05.660 their prime time line up
00:29:06.680 at night it goes right
00:29:07.680 back to that there was a
00:29:09.760 moment and I I want to
00:29:11.340 give credit here to Jake
00:29:13.520 Tapper Jake Tapper had on
00:29:15.540 an MIT graduate student and
00:29:18.200 let her tell her story to
00:29:19.980 the world and I want you to
00:29:21.300 hear what she had to say it
00:29:23.420 was and I'm glad that he
00:29:25.040 used his program for good he
00:29:27.340 had the headline hate in
00:29:28.380 America MIT student speaks
00:29:30.300 out about anti-semitism on
00:29:32.040 campus listen to this as a
00:29:34.200 Jewish student at MIT do you
00:29:36.700 feel safe on campus you know
00:29:38.560 honestly Jake in the past few
00:29:40.220 weeks I have not felt safe on
00:29:41.600 campus why not so you know
00:29:44.860 ever since October 7th we've
00:29:46.720 seen at universities around
00:29:48.960 the country that you know the
00:29:50.420 conflict that's overseas has
00:29:51.820 come to our home turf and we've
00:29:55.120 had a lot of rallies and events
00:29:57.280 by an organization called the
00:29:58.920 coalition against apartheid
00:30:00.280 which is the anti-israel group
00:30:01.560 on MIT's campus and they along
00:30:05.800 with some local anti-israel groups
00:30:09.040 have come to campus because MIT is
00:30:10.940 an open campus which means that
00:30:12.500 anybody can walk around and you
00:30:14.800 know be on campus so they
00:30:17.020 together have done protests on
00:30:18.900 campus on the steps of lobby 7
00:30:20.600 which is the main entrance to MIT
00:30:22.240 and in front of the student center
00:30:23.900 and I mean people protest but but
00:30:27.180 what do they do what do they say
00:30:29.520 that makes you feel unsafe so I
00:30:32.660 guess part of it is the fact of
00:30:35.260 what they're saying so when you're
00:30:36.880 saying things like globalize the
00:30:38.320 entifada use your two fists to
00:30:40.500 sacrifice everything for Palestine
00:30:42.120 and one solution entifada you know
00:30:45.420 we know what happened during the
00:30:46.940 second entifada it was suicide
00:30:48.800 bombings and attacks against
00:30:50.060 Israeli civilians in Israel but the
00:30:52.360 other part of it is that these
00:30:53.920 people aren't just protesting
00:30:55.280 outside and exercising their
00:30:56.940 right to free speech which I
00:30:57.880 fully support as an American
00:30:59.040 it's that they're going you know
00:31:00.980 they went to the personal offices
00:31:03.180 of a program that runs Israel
00:31:05.360 internships on MIT's campus and
00:31:07.500 they went to the offices of the
00:31:08.560 people who work for this program
00:31:09.660 and they tried to enter they were
00:31:11.080 going from door to door trying to
00:31:12.300 unlock the doors and the people
00:31:14.140 who worked in this office had no
00:31:15.920 idea to what these students were
00:31:17.600 trying to do by trying to get
00:31:18.580 into their office they were
00:31:19.540 yelling they were accusing them
00:31:20.540 of apartheid of ethnic cleansing of
00:31:22.000 genocide and it was a really
00:31:23.860 frightening experience a really
00:31:25.920 frightening experience you hear
00:31:27.720 this student saying this and yet
00:31:30.280 there this is happening to them as
00:31:32.460 you described a moment ago they
00:31:34.240 said if you keep doing this we're
00:31:35.740 going to expel you then they said
00:31:36.820 oh never mind just kidding you're
00:31:38.520 just going to be in trouble but
00:31:39.620 you're not going to get expelled
00:31:40.560 because we don't want you to lose
00:31:41.460 your visa that's in my
00:31:42.920 semitism are and accepting this
00:31:44.760 type of abuse by these individuals
00:31:47.700 well that's right and let me quote
00:31:50.200 from Fox News had an article about
00:31:52.140 this where they quoted conservative
00:31:53.800 lawyer Marina Maria Medvin and she
00:31:56.460 said quote MIT is one of the most
00:31:59.080 prestigious universities in the US
00:32:00.880 these days foreigners make up about
00:32:04.060 30 percent of the MIT student body
00:32:06.860 Jewish students on the other hand
00:32:09.500 make up about 6 percent of the MIT
00:32:12.820 student body a campus minority so
00:32:15.660 think about it right now now I will
00:32:17.500 admit it is somewhat concerning that
00:32:20.020 30 percent of the MIT student body
00:32:21.760 are foreigners but especially if
00:32:24.060 these are foreigners that are
00:32:25.300 vicious bigots that are anti-semites
00:32:27.120 that are willing to threaten harass
00:32:28.800 and threaten physical violence
00:32:30.840 against their fellow students their
00:32:32.140 Jewish students because they hate
00:32:34.340 them so much they should be expelled
00:32:37.500 if you threaten physical violence
00:32:39.540 against a fellow student if you block
00:32:42.300 them from from going to class that
00:32:44.660 should be a no-brainer reason for
00:32:48.680 expulsion and and the administrators
00:32:51.100 look why did the administrators not
00:32:53.140 expel them and again this goes back to
00:32:55.980 what I talk about in my new book on
00:32:57.920 woke this is cultural Marxism the
00:33:00.880 administrators the cultural Marxists
00:33:02.880 side with the people they have decided
00:33:05.560 are the victims the Palestinians over the
00:33:08.360 people they have decided the that they
00:33:10.000 are the oppressors the Jews and so for
00:33:12.840 the radical left threats of violence
00:33:15.680 against Jews are okay it is acceptable
00:33:18.960 and and and so listen the fact that
00:33:22.020 someone's on a student visa they ought
00:33:23.540 to behave better not worse it shouldn't
00:33:25.780 be the case that Americans are held to
00:33:28.020 stricter standards than foreigners
00:33:29.380 coming to study in our universities and
00:33:31.720 yet MIT says well if we expelled you
00:33:34.580 you'd lose your student visa so we're not
00:33:36.960 going to expel you please continue to
00:33:38.960 harass and threaten and threaten physical
00:33:41.280 violence to our students because you
00:33:43.600 know we the administrators don't give
00:33:45.920 a damn about the Jewish students
00:33:47.280 because in the cultural Marxist world
00:33:49.600 they're the oppressors so to heck with
00:33:51.620 them yeah to the heck with them and I
00:33:53.680 will say it's we better stand up for
00:33:56.140 these students and the fat and and hold
00:33:58.580 these and I hope donors I really do and
00:34:01.300 the people that give to these universities
00:34:03.120 are paying yes yes yes universities are
00:34:05.120 doing yes yes yes absolutely right it's
00:34:08.200 one of the things that is freaking
00:34:09.600 universities out is that donors are cut
00:34:12.860 are cutting off the cash and that is
00:34:18.440 it's the one thing that's getting them
00:34:20.980 attention and and and listen I want to
00:34:24.740 actually quote from one of the best
00:34:29.400 known poems first they came for the
00:34:33.680 socialists and I did not speak out
00:34:36.260 because I was not a socialist then they
00:34:40.300 came for the trade unionists and I did
00:34:42.640 not speak out because I was not a trade
00:34:46.040 unionist then they came for the Jews and
00:34:50.420 I did not speak out because I was not a
00:34:54.360 Jew then they came for me and there was
00:34:58.800 no one left to speak out for me look i think that applies to our universities right now if there's
00:35:05.480 anyone at a university a student a professor an administrator who gives a damn about equal rights
00:35:14.560 about protection about stopping anti-semitism about stopping bigotry about stopping hate
00:35:19.560 speak out now if you're a donor and you write a check to these schools speak out now and say
00:35:26.400 not one penny more until you protect the students on our campus you cannot give in to the violent
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00:37:24.040 to play for you and just so people understand what's happening at mit this is just some of
00:37:29.120 the student videos have gone viral online
00:37:31.360 they're chanting infatada uh and the jewish students are stuck inside were physically
00:37:54.700 prevented from attending class by this hostile group of pro-hamas and anti-israel mit students
00:38:00.560 that call themselves the caa then then another student uh came out and showed another video
00:38:07.120 of these massive protests and this is what it sounded like
00:38:10.040 senator they were doing this and they knew where many of the jewish students were when they went to
00:38:28.960 these buildings to protest just to scare these jewish students i i i leave everybody with that audio
00:38:37.640 uh and and i want to get your final words on this because this is clearly organized it's being
00:38:43.560 funded by someone senator there the mit is what they refer to as an open campus where outside groups can
00:38:50.520 come in this is orchestrated by these extremists anti-israel groups somebody has to be paying for this
00:38:58.520 funding this and then they are targeting where the jewish students are in these schools and it's not
00:39:05.340 just mit this is happening on other college campuses so the second intifada in israel was a series of
00:39:13.720 suicide bobbings carried out by palestinian assailants and it resulted it took place between
00:39:19.400 1987 and 1993 and it had a combined casualty casualty figure of roughly 1 000 israelis
00:39:28.460 3 000 palestinians and 64 foreign nationals and so when when when these radicals are cheering and
00:39:39.000 chanting for another intifada they're calling for murdering more jews now mind you on october 7th
00:39:45.180 we saw saw 1200 israelis civilians targeted by hamas death squads and murdered because they are
00:39:53.280 israelis and these protesters are chanting they want another intifada in other words you haven't
00:39:58.520 murdered enough jews we want more jews murdered that's what they're chanting and and listen if
00:40:04.160 you're a jewish student at mit or at another one of these elite universities where these radical leftists
00:40:09.600 have taken over it is understandable that you are afraid for your own safety this is disgraceful
00:40:15.780 and every university that allows this to happen is failing in their obligation to keep their
00:40:21.800 students safe no student everyone has a right to free speech no student has a right to threaten
00:40:27.440 physical violence against other students to prevent students from going to class and that's what these
00:40:33.420 radicals are doing at mit and right now the mit administration is complicit in this terrorizing
00:40:40.800 of jewish students it's disgraceful senator it's always a pleasure especially on on shows like this
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