Verdict with Ted Cruz - Schumer & the Dems BLOCK Emergency Funding for Israel plus Antisemitism at MIT Threatens Jewish Students' Safety

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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 1.00

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. 1.00

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, 1.00

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, 0.94

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, 1.00

00:09:15.820 oh, shit. 1.00

00:09:17.140 Like he knew this. 1.00

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. 1.00

00:10:07.440 They're like, oh, crap, oh, crap, oh, crap, oh, crap. 0.99

00:10:09.540 And so Raphael Warnock, the Democrat from Georgia, 0.99

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, 1.00

00:12:17.520 let's vote on this damn thing. 1.00

00:12:19.180 And over and over again, 1.00

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. 0.94

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.

00:14:19.600 And it was a moment of clarity.

00:14:22.140 And I think a moment of clarity

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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 0.83

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, 0.99

00:16:10.060 a spectacularly foolish vote 1.00

00:16:11.780 by Democrats. 0.99

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 0.96

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, 0.77

00:18:55.380 screw it,

00:18:55.680 I'm leaving the Senate, 0.92

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. 0.99

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 1.00

00:20:06.300 and so Democrats

00:20:07.040 can cast 1.00

00:20:07.880 spectacularly foolish 1.00

00:20:09.700 votes 1.00

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? 0.81

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 1.00

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. 0.97

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. 0.98

00:22:47.740 Are you okay 0.99

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

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00:23:37.060 they're not

00:23:37.540 going to

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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 0.83

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 0.98

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 0.99

00:27:55.020 harassing Jewish 1.00

00:27:56.520 students because you're 1.00

00:27:57.540 an anti-semite bigot 0.99

00:27:59.060 you should be expelled 0.85

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 1.00

00:28:04.460 and preventing Muslim 0.99

00:28:05.280 students from going to 0.93

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 0.93

00:28:29.000 anti-semitisms were

00:28:30.260 there was Semites were 1.00

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 0.69

00:28:35.780 university said well okay if 0.95

00:28:37.740 you were an American we 0.99

00:28:39.360 would punish you but 0.99

00:28:40.260 because you're not an 0.95

00:28:41.060 American because you're a 1.00

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 0.97

00:28:48.460 bigoted racist threaten 0.99

00:28:50.500 threatening of other 0.94

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 0.91

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 1.00

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 0.68

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 0.99

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 1.00

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 0.99

00:32:25.300 vicious bigots that are anti-semites 1.00

00:32:27.120 that are willing to threaten harass 0.99

00:32:28.800 and threaten physical violence

00:32:30.840 against their fellow students their 0.99

00:32:32.140 Jewish students because they hate 1.00

00:32:34.340 them so much they should be expelled 1.00

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 1.00

00:33:08.360 people they have decided the that they 0.97

00:33:10.000 are the oppressors the Jews and so for 1.00

00:33:12.840 the radical left threats of violence 0.99

00:33:15.680 against Jews are okay it is acceptable 1.00

00:33:18.960 and and and so listen the fact that

00:33:22.020 someone's on a student visa they ought 0.99

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 1.00

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 1.00

00:33:36.960 going to expel you please continue to 0.95

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 0.98

00:33:45.920 a damn about the Jewish students 1.00

00:33:47.280 because in the cultural Marxist world 1.00

00:33:49.600 they're the oppressors so to heck with 0.82

00:33:51.620 them yeah to the heck with them and I 0.54

00:33:53.680 will say it's we better stand up for 0.84

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 0.84

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 1.00

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

00:35:33.840 marxist radicals and expect us to continue to support these schools this is a time for choosing 0.99

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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 1.00

00:40:04.160 you're a jewish student at mit or at another one of these elite universities where these radical leftists 0.99

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 0.60

00:40:40.800 of jewish students it's disgraceful senator it's always a pleasure especially on on shows like this 1.00

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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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