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Dems RAGE against the Deniers, Another Pro-Hamas Campus Protester Deported & Foreign Money Floods our Universities Week In Review · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome.
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Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Ted Cruz, the Week in Review,
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Speaker 2: Ben Ferguson with you, and here are the big stories
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Speaker 2: that you may have missed that we talked about this week.
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Speaker 2: First up, Democrats continue to threaten conservatives with violence if
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Speaker 2: you disagree with them. So is this basically the Democrat
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Speaker 2: political playbook? We break it down for you. Also, Donald
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Speaker 2: Trump making good on a promise that if you are
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Speaker 2: a pro Hamas terrorist protester on a college campus, well
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Speaker 2: there's a very good chance you're going to get deported.
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Speaker 2: And finally, foreign cash is pouring into universities, So what
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Speaker 2: is the payback and why are these universities willing to
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Speaker 2: take so much money from shady countries. We'll break it
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Speaker 2: down for you. It's the Week in Review and it
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Speaker 2: starts right now. All right, so center, there's been a
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Speaker 2: lot of violence. We've witnessed this. It's been directed towards
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Speaker 2: Elon Musk. Threats against Elon Musk, threats now are expanding
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Speaker 2: to Tesla dealers were finding in scenerary devices bombs and
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Speaker 2: dealership for example in Austin, Texas. And then there's people
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Speaker 2: now they're threatening you. This seems to be the Democratic
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Speaker 2: party's playbook. Now, if there's someone we don't like, we
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Speaker 2: go after them, We go after their businesses, We try
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Speaker 2: to destroy what they built, We try to financially ruin him.
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Speaker 2: All of this what they did to Donald Trump. And
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Speaker 2: we saw that the rhetoric literally almost cost Donald Trump's
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Speaker 2: life in that first assassination attempt that actually got him.
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Speaker 2: And now they don't seem to be backing down at all.
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Speaker 1: Well, the Democrats today are the party of rage, the
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Speaker 1: party of anger. And I will say there's a house
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Speaker 1: member in Texas, Jasmine Crockett, who this week has been
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Speaker 1: a rough week for she has been unhinged. She has
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Speaker 1: called for violence against me. She has denigrated and mocked
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Speaker 1: Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, because he is in
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Speaker 1: a wheel wheelchair, because he has a disability. And it
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Speaker 1: really does show who today's Democrats are. And I want
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Speaker 1: you to listen to what she said, first about me
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Speaker 1: and then about Greg Abbott.
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Speaker 3: Give a listen, just in case the slow people listening
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Speaker 3: decide to click this up later. I just want to
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Speaker 3: say that I have never promoted violence whatsoever. I think
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Speaker 3: that you punch, I think you punch. I think you're
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Speaker 3: okay with you okay with punching, you know, I think,
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Speaker 3: and I love Colin, and I think towards the end
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Speaker 3: he started to punch a little harder. But like it's
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Speaker 3: sad grouse. I mean, like this dude has to be
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Speaker 3: knocks over the head like hard, right, Like there is
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Speaker 3: no niceties with him, like at all, Like you you
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Speaker 3: go clean off on him, right.
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Speaker 2: I hear that, and I just shake my head center
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Speaker 2: because of course, when the fire is of the spotlight
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Speaker 2: is on her, she's like, oh, I've never called for violence,
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Speaker 2: and then you play the clip right there, it's very
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Speaker 2: clear what she's saying.
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Speaker 1: Look, I gotta admit I've never met the woman, Jasmine Crockett.
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Speaker 1: I don't know her. She's a new congresswoman from Texas.
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Speaker 1: She seems really angry, she seems really radical. She seems
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Speaker 1: to be the darling of the radical left because she
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Speaker 1: calls for crazy things. I will tell you, Look, I've
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Speaker 1: been this senate thirteen years. One of it's an incredible privilege.
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Speaker 1: I'm blessed. I jump out of bed every day excited
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Speaker 1: because I get to fight for Texas, I get to
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Speaker 1: fight for America. I will tell you. One of the
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Speaker 1: downsides of this job. I have literally hundreds of death
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Speaker 1: threats against me.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, I'm going to be quar you
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Speaker 2: and I we spend a lot of time together, we travel.
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Speaker 2: There are a lot of people that come up and encourage.
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Speaker 2: But man, some of these things that people say. And
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Speaker 2: I've had the threats, not like you've had threats, but
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Speaker 2: it's like part of the business now. Which is the
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Speaker 2: worst part about it is that if you're in politics
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Speaker 2: and you're conservative, there are people that want you to
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Speaker 2: die and come atter you. But you and I we
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Speaker 2: went to a game and people were screaming the F
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Speaker 2: bomb in front of your daughter who was with us,
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Speaker 2: And there was several times that happened, and it's like
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Speaker 2: there is no just like you're a dad in that moment,
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Speaker 2: you're a father. I'm a dad. When I'm out my
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Speaker 2: son and someone gets to my face of the HGB
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Speaker 2: and start screaming exers at me in a cerial io,
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Speaker 2: It's like, what is wrong with these people? And yet
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Speaker 2: it seems to be getting worse, not better.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, look, there are a lot of people that are
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Speaker 1: just unhinged and filled with hate. And I'll tell you look,
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Speaker 1: Hevian encouragement listen. The folks that listen to verdict, you
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Speaker 1: guys are amazing. I'm so grateful for you. You're incredibly
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Speaker 1: engaged and you're passionate, and you're fighting to save this country.
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Speaker 1: I will tell you, when I travel around, the ratio
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Speaker 1: of positive to negative comments, it is more than ninety
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Speaker 1: percent positive. It's probably ninety five percent or even ninety
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Speaker 1: eight percent positive. So it's encouraging. When I'm out at air,
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Speaker 1: when I'm out at a shopping mall, people say nice things.
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Speaker 1: They say thank you, they say that I appreciate you,
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Speaker 1: and that's gratifying that that makes me happy. There are
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Speaker 1: regularly people who don't, and people on the left. Now,
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Speaker 1: I got to say, many of them on the left,
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Speaker 1: when they say something negative, they'll like screw up their
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Speaker 1: courage that they'll run up and they'll go f you
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Speaker 1: and they'll just you like yell at me. And it's
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Speaker 1: very funny. It's like, wow, you spent a long time
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Speaker 1: thinking about that. That was the best you could come
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Speaker 1: up with. That was very clever. And my standard response,
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Speaker 1: and unfortunately it happens often enough that I have to
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Speaker 1: have a standard response. My standard response is I say God,
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Speaker 1: bless you. And I got to tell you, it infuriates them.
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Speaker 1: And you know, there's a principle in the Bible that
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Speaker 1: if you repay hatred with kindness, that it is like
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Speaker 1: piling hot coals on their heads. So I'll say God
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Speaker 1: bless you, and I'll smile, I'll be very happy. Like
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Speaker 1: when they say f you, my response is God bless you.
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Speaker 1: And there was one time in Houston where this this
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Speaker 1: like liberal woman screamed f you and I said God
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Speaker 1: bless you. And she's like, I don't want your God's
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Speaker 1: love and I said that's okay, Jesus loves you anyway.
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Speaker 1: And it drove her nuts, like like she almost had
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Speaker 1: an aneurysm when I said that. And I try to
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Speaker 1: be smiling and show a contrast. And I will say,
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Speaker 1: just a couple of days ago, I had a young
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Speaker 1: woman who was screaming F you, and I did say
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Speaker 1: something to the effect of your very charming, your mother,
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Speaker 1: but it must be very proud. How'd that turn out?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 1: She just stormed off. And I'm sure as she was
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Speaker 1: driving home she's thought of fifty different responses, but she
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Speaker 1: didn't say any of them. She's just like, yeah, I
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Speaker 1: randomly scream a few at people at the airport. I'm
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Speaker 1: a great person, but listen, when you have people on
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Speaker 1: the left encouraging listen, Jasmine is saying you need to
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Speaker 1: hit him in the head and hit him really hard.
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Speaker 1: I'll be honest, Ben, I really hope someone doesn't hit
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Speaker 1: me in the head really hard, like I would prefer
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Speaker 1: not to have my brain smashed in.
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Speaker 2: This is the part where I think it's a bigger
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Speaker 2: issue that concerns me. It's the dog whistles that come
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Speaker 2: from the leadership.
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Speaker 4: By the way, Democratic Party, Donald trumpsh in your face.
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Speaker 4: You had two assassins who tried to kill him. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: We've got Democrats who are fire bombing Tesla and radical
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Speaker 4: leftists and no Democrat is condemning it. They are calling
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Speaker 4: for violence. These are the same people that had Antifa
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Speaker 4: and Black Lives Matter riots and and so the threat
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Speaker 4: of violence is very real. We had at the at
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Speaker 4: the baseball practice, we had a radical leftist, a Bernie
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Speaker 4: Sanders supporter, who came and said he asked someone, hey,
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Speaker 4: are those Republicans there? They said yes, he came with
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Speaker 4: a rifle and shot people and and had it was
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Speaker 4: pure happenstance that Steve Scalise, who was a member of
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Speaker 4: House Leadership.
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Speaker 1: Was there because he had a security detail, and that
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Speaker 1: security detail shot and killed this radical leftist. If let's
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Speaker 1: say Scalise had been ten minutes late that morning, let's
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Speaker 1: say he'd been delayed, he'd been taking his kids to school,
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Speaker 1: he'd been doing something else, and he was delayed, that
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Speaker 1: radical leftist would have murdered over a dozen House members
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Speaker 1: and two US senators. We came incredibly close to a
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Speaker 1: massacre because of the active solicitation of violence. And let
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Speaker 1: me be clear, this is on one side the leftist
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Speaker 1: calling for violence. I categorically opposed violence. I don't want
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Speaker 1: anyone to engage in violence against leftists. I'm not calling
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Speaker 1: for this nutcase Jasmine Crockett to face the violence. No, no, no, now.
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Speaker 1: I think her views are anathema and wan you to
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Speaker 1: play what she said like a day or two later
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Speaker 1: attacking Greg Abbott, because it is equally not just listen
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Speaker 1: to this.
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Speaker 3: We in these hot ass Texas streets, Honey, y'all know
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Speaker 3: we got govinal hot wheels down there. Come on now,
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Speaker 3: and the only thing hot about him is that he
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Speaker 3: is a hot ass mess. Honey, So so yes, yes, yes.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I mean you listen to that. It's like, one,
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Speaker 2: what do you think is going to come of that?
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Speaker 2: The other thing is the backdrop behind her is she's
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Speaker 2: literally speaking at the Human Rights Campaign and that's what
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Speaker 2: she's preaching and people are laughing and clapping as she's
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Speaker 2: on stage four again.
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Speaker 1: But by the way, it can't be do you do
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Speaker 1: you know why Greg Abbott is in a wheelchair?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: It was, if I remember the story correctly, he was
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Speaker 2: running at the park in a random tree limb. I
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Speaker 2: fell on his head and paralyzed.
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Speaker 1: It broke his back. And I'll tell you I worked
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Speaker 1: for him five and a half years. Gray Abbott is
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Speaker 1: a dear friend. He's been a boss, a mentor, and
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Speaker 1: he would tell a joke, Like when I first went
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Speaker 1: to work for him, he would tell a joke. He'd
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Speaker 1: get up and say, Okay, I know what you're thinking,
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Speaker 1: how slow was that guy running to get hit by
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Speaker 1: a tree? And like the first time he jokes about it,
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Speaker 1: you're not sure what to say, like, wait, am I
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Speaker 1: allowed to laugh about it? And he would he would
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Speaker 1: tell jokes about it, and you could be like, okay,
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Speaker 1: I mean I guess if you can joke about it.
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Speaker 1: I can laugh about it, but you know it was tragic.
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Speaker 1: And he's been paralyzed for twenty plus maybe thirty plus years,
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Speaker 1: a long time in a wheelchair, and she's sitting there
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Speaker 1: at supposedly the Human Rights Campaign. Now it's a leftist,
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Speaker 1: radical group that is obsessed with LGBT. I mean, that's
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Speaker 1: really what they exist. But they're cheering, yes, Governor hot wheels,
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Speaker 1: he's disabled to a wheelchair, ha ha. What the hell's
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Speaker 1: wrong with these people? I mean that is that is
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Speaker 1: nasty and hateful and it's whose today's Democrat Party is.
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Speaker 2: Now. If you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
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Speaker 2: you can go back and listen to the full podcast
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Speaker 2: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two, Senator,
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Speaker 2: I want to move to the other story that you
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Speaker 2: mentioned earlier, and this goes in the category of promises
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Speaker 2: made promises cap for Donald Trump. Another pro Haamas protester
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Speaker 2: is in serious trouble after his actions on a college campus.
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Speaker 2: This is making liberal heads explode. But that's exactly what
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Speaker 2: the President said he was going to do, and he's
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Speaker 2: making good on that promise yet again.
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Speaker 1: Well, and this is something we discussed in the podcast
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Speaker 1: You and I did at Seapack while we interviewed Pam Bondi,
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Speaker 1: and we talked about the fact that the Trump administration
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Speaker 1: is going to go after these radical anti Semitic, anti American,
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Speaker 1: anti is protesters and if you threaten violence against fellow
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Speaker 1: students or if you are attacking America, you have no
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Speaker 1: entitlement to be allowed into this country. And it's interesting
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Speaker 1: you're seeing Democrats who are have suddenly discovered free speech.
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Speaker 1: Mind you, when it comes to Americans speaking, they don't
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Speaker 1: give a damn about free speech. When it comes to
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Speaker 1: big tech censoring you, they don't care about free speech.
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Speaker 1: American citizens have no First Amendment rights, and the Democrats
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Speaker 1: bizarre lexicon. But if you are a vicious anti Semite,
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Speaker 1: if you hate America, if you hate Israel, and you're
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Speaker 1: not an American, well then suddenly they think you're protected.
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Speaker 1: And it is insane. So the latest radical who had
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Speaker 1: his visa revoked is a student at Cornell and he's
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Speaker 1: an individual named Momodo Tal. Now Momodo Tal, according to
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Speaker 1: the Washington Free Beacon, is a graduate student who has
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Speaker 1: called for the destruction of the United States, has celebrated
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Speaker 1: the October seventh attacks by a Hamas and has said
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Speaker 1: that he takes his quote c from the armed resistance
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Speaker 1: in Palestine. Now, who is Mammado Tal. He is a
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Speaker 1: British and Gambian dual national, so he's not an American.
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Speaker 1: And he began studying in Cornell twenty twenty two on
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Speaker 1: an F one student visa. That student visa has been revoked.
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Speaker 1: Good and Tall received an email from the Department of
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Speaker 1: Justice that said ICE invites mister Tall and his counsel
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Speaker 1: to appear in person at the HSI office in Syracuse
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Speaker 1: at a mutually agreeable time for personal service of the
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Speaker 1: notice to appear and for mister Tall to surrender to
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Speaker 1: ICE custody. And of course what did Tall do? He
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Speaker 1: engaged in law far and wet and filed a lawsuits
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Speaker 1: seeking to block it. Now what has Tall said? Tall
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Speaker 1: has said, Number one, He's called on fellow student protesters
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Speaker 1: to take their cues from the arm resistance in Palestine,
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Speaker 1: armed by the way, not just resistance, armed resistance. He
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Speaker 1: has also said, quote, we are in solidarity with the
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Speaker 1: arm resistance in Palestine from the river to the sea.
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Speaker 1: He also said just after October seventh, hours after he
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Speaker 1: said quote. The dialect demands that whenever, wherever you have oppression,
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Speaker 1: you will find those who are fighting against it. Glory
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Speaker 1: to the resistance. Now the dialect. Look, this guy is
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Speaker 1: a communist, he's a Marxist. We talked about how cultural
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Speaker 1: Marxism they divide the world into oppressors and victims, and
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Speaker 1: they actively cheer on the violent revolution of the so
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Speaker 1: called victims against the so called oppressors. Now this is
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Speaker 1: ours after October seventh. This is as women and little
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Speaker 1: girls are being raped, as twelve hundred civilians are being murdered.
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Speaker 1: And here is what he's saying. The dialect demands that
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Speaker 1: wherever you have oppression, you will find those who are
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Speaker 1: fighting against it. Glory to the resistance. That's not all
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Speaker 1: he said. When he applied for his student visa, he wrote, quote,
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Speaker 1: and this is on Twitter, the end of the US
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Speaker 1: Empire in our lifetime in Shalla. Months later, the idiots
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Speaker 1: and the Biden administration gave him his student visa, and
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Speaker 1: he wrote, student visa issued. We are going to America,
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Speaker 1: baby alham di lula. I don't know what that means,
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Speaker 1: but I'm guessing it is not nice. Shortly thereafter, he tweeted,
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Speaker 1: my hatred of the US empire knows no bound walahai.
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Speaker 4: Again.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what that means, but I'm guessing again
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Speaker 1: it is celebrating against America. Hit one other thing, he
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Speaker 1: posted quote when the enemy is US imperialism, then absolutely
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Speaker 1: anyone the US calls an enemy is my friend. Let
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Speaker 1: me be clear, this anti American, anti Semitic radical who
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Speaker 1: hates America needs to get the hell out of our country.
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Speaker 1: He has no entitlement to be here, and we have
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Speaker 1: no obligation. We have no legal obligation, We have no
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Speaker 1: constitutional obligation, and we certainly have no moral obligation to say, hey,
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Speaker 1: people who hate America, people who say quote anyone who
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Speaker 1: calls the US an enemy is my friend. You know what,
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Speaker 1: if that's true, get your ass out of this country.
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Speaker 1: We don't need you here threatening Americans.
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Speaker 2: It really is about threatening Americans and threatening kids on
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Speaker 2: college campuses. And we've seen anti semitism, for example, that
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Speaker 2: is just skyrocket on college campuses, and a lot of
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Speaker 2: this is well organized. We continue to see that a
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Speaker 2: lot of these agitators and protesters are acting in groups
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Speaker 2: and pre planning this around the country, and that has
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Speaker 2: to be very concerning. I think not only for college students,
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Speaker 2: but especially for students that are Jewish, but really concerning
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Speaker 2: for I think everyday Americans understand that we've been allowing
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Speaker 2: these people in and this is what they're doing.
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Speaker 1: And understand the threats. Let me read you another tweet
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Speaker 1: that he sent quote, we are actually living in an
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Speaker 1: effing alternative reality, although he did not abbreviate fing Zionists
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Speaker 1: living comfortably in the US and Zionist Jewish students at
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Speaker 1: Ivy League institutions are claiming to be unsafe, scared, and
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Speaker 1: somehow everyone is calling for their genocide, whilst in four
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Speaker 1: K we are witnessing a genocide of the Palestinian people,
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Speaker 1: and many of these same folks who claim to feel
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Speaker 1: scared are cheering on the action of the IOF BFFR.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. Every single Zionist is
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Speaker 1: a sick, sick individual, and there can be no path
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Speaker 1: forward except for the complete eradication of Zionism materially and mentally.
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Speaker 1: And then he tweets a little bit later, Zionists are
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Speaker 1: indeed the chosen people chosen for Hell. Now understand one
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Speaker 1: game that anti Semites play which is many times they
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Speaker 1: use the word Zionist when what they mean is Jew
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Speaker 1: and they just think it's It's like, oh, I'm pretending
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Speaker 1: to be slightly less bigoted by calling it Zionists. Look,
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Speaker 1: they consider an any Actually, at one point says Zionist
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Speaker 1: slash Jewish students. This is an anti Semite who hates
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Speaker 1: Jews and who is calling for the complete eradication of Zionism,
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Speaker 1: by which he means the pleat eradication of Jews. And
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Speaker 1: he says they are the chosen people, they are chosen
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Speaker 1: for Hell. This is a bigot who hates America. And
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Speaker 1: you know what was happening after the Trump administration moved
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Speaker 1: to deport this radical leftists were protesting in support of him.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, have you heard a single Democrat
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Speaker 1: in the Senate speak out in favor of revoking his visa. No,
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Speaker 1: you had left wing activists on Cornell protesting his deportation
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Speaker 1: on Thursday and they were chanting hands off MoMA do
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Speaker 1: waving signs opposing mass deportation. Listen, any reporter, every reporter
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Speaker 1: ought to asked the democrats, do you believe we have
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Speaker 1: to give student visas to people who say their enemies
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Speaker 1: of America and hate America. It's there's no legal basis
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Speaker 1: for that. And I have yet to see a Democrat
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Speaker 1: explain why they cheer on pro Hamas radicals. But I
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Speaker 1: got to say, let's say you're a moderate Democrat but
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Speaker 1: not swept up in the sort of Trump derangement syndrome anger.
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Speaker 1: You got to ask why Washington Democrats when they look
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Speaker 1: at October seventh, when they look at the radicals on campuses,
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Speaker 1: why the Democrats say we stand with Hamas and we
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Speaker 1: stand with the pro Hamas protesters. That's got to make
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Speaker 1: you wonder what the heck has happened to the Democrat
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Speaker 1: Party as before.
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Speaker 2: If you want to hear the rest of this conversation
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Speaker 2: on this topic, you can go back and dow the
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Speaker 2: podcast from earlier this week to hear the entire thing.
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Speaker 2: I want to get back to the big story number
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Speaker 2: three of the week you may have missed, which brings
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Speaker 2: me to story number three, and this is one where
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Speaker 2: we have I think led on exposing the amount of
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Speaker 2: foreign money that's been pouring into universities. We also exposed
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Speaker 2: it with a Biden crime family and the amount of
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Speaker 2: foreign dours coming in to the Biden Institute, for example,
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Speaker 2: and other universities. And we've witnessed the amount of money
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Speaker 2: coming in to a point where you say, this doesn't
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Speaker 2: make sense economically. This is my opinion. I think now
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Speaker 2: you're looking at a bigger issue, which is what are
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Speaker 2: they actually getting in return for the staggering amounts of
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Speaker 2: foreign money that's pouring these universities. Is this covert ops
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Speaker 2: by foreign nations? Is this trying to control the next
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Speaker 2: generation of American minds? Is this about spying? What is it?
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Speaker 2: But when you look at this new report from a
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Speaker 2: nonprofit and a non person government watchdog group, they're sounding
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Speaker 2: the alarm saying this amount of money coming in is
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Speaker 2: not just from do gooders. This money's coming in, It's
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Speaker 2: coming in for something big center. What is that?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, look, this is not covert, It is overt, is open,
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Speaker 1: is out and breezen. So the historian Fox News entitled
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Speaker 1: quote new report sounds alarm on staggering amount of foreign
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Speaker 1: money pouring into US universities. The report says that seven
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Speaker 1: hundred and ninety five million dollars has gone from foreign
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Speaker 1: adversaries to American universities. And here's what the article says,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to quote a little bit of it. Quote.
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Speaker 1: A new report from a nonprofit and nonpartisan government watchdog
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Speaker 1: is shedding light on the tens of billions of dollars
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Speaker 1: tens of billions that have poured into US universities in
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Speaker 1: recent years, including twenty billion dollars to some of the
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Speaker 1: most prestigious universities in the country. The report, produced by
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Speaker 1: Americans for Public Trust and released this week, found that
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Speaker 1: sixty billion dollars again, sixty billion dollars in foreign gifts
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Speaker 1: and contracts were funneled into American colleges and universities, including
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Speaker 1: twenty billion dollars alone to elite sks like Harvard, Yale,
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Speaker 1: and others. Within that total, seven hundred and ninety five
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Speaker 1: million dollars came from nations that are long standing adversaries
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Speaker 1: to the United States, including China, Russia, Venezuela, and Yemen.
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Speaker 1: This is shocking, It is fundamental corruption. I can tell
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Speaker 1: you I've introduced legislation to require to minimum that universities
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Speaker 1: report every dollar of foreign money they receive so that
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Speaker 1: we have scrutiny. And I'll tell you, Ben, one of
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Speaker 1: the very first pieces of legislation ever passed when I
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Speaker 1: was a brand new baby centator thirteen years ago, was
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Speaker 1: dealing with this issue of foreign money flooding into universities,
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Speaker 1: and China had been funding these things called Confucius Institutes
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Speaker 1: confuseds insitutes were institutes on American college campuses that taught Mandarin,
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Speaker 1: that taught the Chinese language, and they were used number
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Speaker 1: one as hubs of espionage where China would send spies
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Speaker 1: to engage in espionage in the United States, and number
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Speaker 1: two two as tools of propaganda, where they would push
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Speaker 1: propaganda that was favorable to the Chinese communist government. And
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Speaker 1: when I was a brand new baby senator, I introduced
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Speaker 1: legislation that banned any money from the Federal Department of
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Speaker 1: Defense going to university that had a Confucius Institute. And
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Speaker 1: at the time they introduced it, we had a Democrat Senate.
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Speaker 1: When I got elected Harry Reid as majority leader, the
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Speaker 1: Democrats were in the majority. I was on the Senate
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Speaker 1: Armed Services Committee. I introduced this amendment, and Ben I'll
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Speaker 1: tell you I got bipartisan support. I got Democrats to
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Speaker 1: support me and Republicans. We passed it into law, and
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Speaker 1: the legislation I passed resulted in more than twenty Confucius
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Speaker 1: institutes across the country being shut down. This was a
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Speaker 1: problem back in twenty thirteen, I got to say, in
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, it's much much worse.
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Speaker 2: So what is the government's response now? What should the
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Speaker 2: government response be moving forward? And is it time to
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Speaker 2: actually look at these universities and ask questions or have
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Speaker 2: regulations about money coming in from foreign countries, especially those
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Speaker 2: that are adversaries of the United States of America. I
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Speaker 2: don't like government overreach, I want to make that clear.
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Speaker 2: But the wild wild West that we're we're looking at
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Speaker 2: right now from this report and sixty billion and foreign
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Speaker 2: gifts and contracts are funneled to American colleges and universities
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Speaker 2: like that, they're getting something in return. Twenty billion a
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Speaker 2: loan to Harvard, Yale and other elite schools, they're getting
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Speaker 2: something in return. And if they're buying the minds of
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Speaker 2: American students or influence or even what worries me the
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Speaker 2: most is stealing intellectual property or spying on America and
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Speaker 2: future leaders. This scares the hell out of me. So
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Speaker 2: what should the government's response be?
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, all of the above. So they're doing
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Speaker 1: this to buy influence. They're doing this to push propaganda,
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Speaker 1: They're doing this to engage at espionage, they're doing this
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Speaker 1: to steal intellectual property, and so many of our universities,
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Speaker 1: especially our elite universities, have eagerly jumped in bed with them. Look,
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Speaker 1: you and I discussed early on in the wake of
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Speaker 1: October seventh, when the anti Semitic protests were breaking out,
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Speaker 1: if you look at the universities with the highest percentage
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Speaker 1: of foreign students, it almost perfectly maps to the universities
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Speaker 1: with the most the most virulent, the most nasty anti
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Speaker 1: Semitic protests. Universities like Columbian NYU are at the very
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Speaker 1: top of the list. And when you let in a
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Speaker 1: bunch of foreign students. Now, look, universities like foreign students
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Speaker 1: because they pay full tuition, they pay full freight. They're
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Speaker 1: cash cows. But why are American universities and in the
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Speaker 1: business of educating foreigners, especially foreigners who hate American or
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Speaker 1: undermining America. I don't see a reason for that. But
26:54
Speaker 1: not only that, but they're pushing this to drive a
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Speaker 1: political agenda. And so what should we do? Number One,
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Speaker 1: we need transparency. As I mentioned, I've introduced legislation to
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Speaker 1: require transparency. If a university is getting money from a
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Speaker 1: foreign country, we need to know about it, how much
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Speaker 1: from which country? And I'll tell you the legislation I'm
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Speaker 1: introducing puts putative tax penalties if you get money from
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Speaker 1: a country that is an enemy of America. In my
27:21
Speaker 1: view of the federal government ought to put penalties in
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Speaker 1: place where you end up being taxed more than you get.
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Speaker 1: We don't need the enemies of America funding our universities
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Speaker 1: and actively undermining our education. We need leaders who are
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Speaker 1: willing to stand up for America first, and I think
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Speaker 1: that's incredibly important.
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Speaker 2: If you look at the money that came in a
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Speaker 2: perfect example of this is within that total I gave
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Speaker 2: you the twenty billion alone going to those elite schools,
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Speaker 2: seven hundred and ninety five million came from nations that
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Speaker 2: are long standing advisaris in the US, including China, Russia, Venezuela,
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Speaker 2: and Yemen. Is it also time to look at certain
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Speaker 2: countries and say you can't have donations coming in from there.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and we ought to penalize the hell out of it.
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Speaker 1: If it Ran is funding your university, you're doing something
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Speaker 1: fundamentally wrong.
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