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From Evil, Good: How October 7 Produced Extraordinary Moral Clarity & a Seriousness of Purpose to Defeat Hamas · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome. It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson
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  Speaker 1: with you and Senator this week has been truly a
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  Speaker 1: crazy week. It's been a crazy two weeks with these
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  Speaker 1: two hurricanes that hit the people of Florida, not once,
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  Speaker 1: but twice. Our thoughts and prayers go out to them
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  Speaker 1: and the recovery efforts that are down happening in Florida
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  Speaker 1: right now. And I think we should obviously take a
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  Speaker 1: moment and just say we are praying for the people
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  Speaker 1: of Florida, We are with you right now and all
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  Speaker 1: of those have been affected by these last two hurricanes.
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  Speaker 1: But there was also something else that happened that was
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  Speaker 1: extremely important, and it got overshadowed because of the weather, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: and that was the one year anniversary of the attack
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  Speaker 1: on the people of Israel.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly right, and let's start by saying to
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  Speaker 2: the people of North Carolina that are still suffering from Helene.
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  Speaker 2: And Helene was a horrific hurricane. There was enormous death
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  Speaker 2: suffering from Hurricane Milton, and I know there are there.
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  Speaker 2: nine people have lost their lives. There has been massive suffering.
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  Speaker 2: I will say you and I are both Texans. Texas
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  Speaker 2: understands full well the misery of hurricanes. We faced hurricane
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  Speaker 2: after hurricane, we face suffering and death. And I just
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  Speaker 2: want to say we are praying for the people of
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  Speaker 2: North Carolina and Florida and everyone in harms Way, but
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  Speaker 2: especially those two states which which bore the brunt of
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  Speaker 2: these two hurricanes.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: We are praying for the first responders we know are
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  Speaker 2: still rescuing people in harms Way and and and and
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  Speaker 2: for the federal relief efforts from from FEMA and and
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  Speaker 2: HUD and the Small Business Administration. There are enormous resources
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  Speaker 2: that become available to those who were hurting. And I
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  Speaker 2: will say, having come through Hurricane Harvey, which devastated Houston,
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  Speaker 2: you're in my hometown, in the entire Gulf Coast, and Rita,
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  Speaker 2: a Nike, and all all of the different hurricanes Texas
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  Speaker 2: has faced. Our prayers are with the people who are
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  Speaker 2: suffering from these two hurricanes. This podcast, we wanted to
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  Speaker 2: do something different, which is this past week was the
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  Speaker 2: one year anniversary of October seventh and October seventh was
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  Speaker 2: truly a horrific day. I believe it's an historic day.
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  Speaker 2: I believe one hundred years from now we will be
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  Speaker 2: talking about the horrors and evils of October seventh, and
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  Speaker 2: so on October seventh in Dallas, I gave a speech
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  Speaker 2: memorializing and recognizing what happened on October seventh, but also
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  Speaker 2: acknowledging the positive benefits that ironically came in the wake
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  Speaker 2: of October seventh and that have made a real difference.
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  Speaker 2: So in this podcast, rather than talk about the news
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  Speaker 2: of the day, which which is important and we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: about again on Monday, we wanted to give you an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to hear the remarks that I gave on October seventh,
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  Speaker 2: because I think they're important. And so that's what's about
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  Speaker 2: to follow.
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  Speaker 1: let's play this important speech. Uh, just to put into
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  Speaker 1: perspective what has happened over the last year since the
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  Speaker 1: horrific attack on the people in Israel.
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  Speaker 2: God bless Texas and God bless the state of Israel.
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  Speaker 2: We're here today on a solemn occasion.
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  Speaker 3: We're here today to remember one year ago the horror
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  Speaker 3: that the world saw unfold.
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  Speaker 2: On October seventh, three hundred and sixty five days ago,
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  Speaker 2: genocideal Hamas terrorists entered southern Israel. They went from kibbutz
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  Speaker 2: to kibbutz and from home to home, murdering virtually everyone
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  Speaker 2: they found, deliberately targeting civilians, targeting the elderly, targeting women,
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  Speaker 2: targeting children, and even toddlers and infants. And they murdered
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  Speaker 2: them for one reason, because they were wish. October seventh
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  Speaker 2: is the single worse mass murder of Jews in a
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  Speaker 2: day since the Holocaust. Eleven hundred and ninety five people
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  Speaker 2: were murdered on October seventh. Two hundred and fifty one
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  Speaker 2: people were taken hostage.
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  Speaker 3: On October seventh.
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  Speaker 2: We saw terrorists using rape as a deliberate tool of terror,
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  Speaker 2: raping women, raping young girls. I will tell you I
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  Speaker 2: have had the horrible displeasure of watching videos of what
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  Speaker 2: unfolded on that day. Videos from security cameras in Israel,
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  Speaker 2: videos from body cameras and cell phones that the Hamas
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  Speaker 2: terrorists took. Understand what they did that day. They were
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  Speaker 2: not hiding, they were proud of. They were there to
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  Speaker 2: murder and rape, and their only regret of the day
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  Speaker 2: is that they did not murder more. When you watch
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  Speaker 2: those videos, I spent nearly an hour watching videos in
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  Speaker 2: the Senate. Roughly half of the US Senate came to
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  Speaker 2: watch it. I saw in those videos one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: thirty seven people being murdered. I will tell you it
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  Speaker 2: makes you violently sick. It's not like watching a Hollywood
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  Speaker 2: shoot them up or to make believe these are real
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  Speaker 2: people being murdered for racist and genocidal purposes. It was
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  Speaker 2: striking also listening to the Hamas terrorists, to the utter dehumanization.
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  Speaker 3: Of Jews.
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  Speaker 2: You saw them severing the heads of Jews, you saw
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  Speaker 2: them mutilating the bodies. You saw them referring repeatedly to
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  Speaker 2: the Jews they were murdering, not as he and not
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  Speaker 2: as she, but as it, as something less than human.
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  Speaker 2: One of the most chilling aspects of watching those videos
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  Speaker 2: was listening to an intercepted phone call of one of
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  Speaker 2: the Hamas terrorists calling home to his parents, and he
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  Speaker 2: was thrilled. He was overjoyed to report how many Jews
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  Speaker 2: he had murdered that day. And his father cries out
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  Speaker 2: in great celebration. And what does he say, Call your mother,
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  Speaker 2: Tell your mother about this wonderful act you have done
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  Speaker 2: in the wake of the Holocaust. Never forget and never
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  Speaker 2: again was said many times. It should be said the
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  Speaker 2: same for October seventh. Now October seventh was Nazi ends
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  Speaker 2: carried out using Nazi purposes. Will say, though, as horrific
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  Speaker 2: as what happened on that day was, we also know
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  Speaker 2: that God is a good God.
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  Speaker 3: The Book of.
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  Speaker 2: Genesis, after Joseph has been sold into slavery by his brothers,
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  Speaker 2: years later, he encounters his brothers again, and his brothers
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  Speaker 2: are terrified for what they have done to their brother
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  Speaker 2: and Joseph says to them in the Book of Genesis,
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  Speaker 2: what you have intended for evil, God intended for good.
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  Speaker 2: And I will say, as horrific as evil as what
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  Speaker 2: happened on October seventh was, there have been at least
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  Speaker 2: two seriously important and profoundly beneficial consequences that have unfolded
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  Speaker 2: in the year that followed October seventh. Number one was clarity.
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  Speaker 2: Clarity is important with what is unfolding in Israel. In
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  Speaker 2: my view, there are no shades of gray, there is
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  Speaker 2: no ambiguity. This is a contest between good and evil.
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  Speaker 2: This is a contest between civilization and barbarism.
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  Speaker 3: And that clarity is important.
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  Speaker 2: It's important in Israel, it's important in Europe, it's important
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  Speaker 2: in America. And I'll tell you it's important in the
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  Speaker 2: political sphere. Now listen, this is by design not a
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  Speaker 2: political event, But I will say this October seventh and
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  Speaker 2: each day that followed is an opportun tunity for everyone
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  Speaker 2: holding elected office to.
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  Speaker 3: Make a choice where do you stand?
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  Speaker 2: And everyone in a position of leadership can decide do
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  Speaker 2: you stand with Israel or do you stand with the terrorists?
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  Speaker 2: Well as for me and my house, we will stand
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  Speaker 2: with Israel. That clarity is profoundly important throughout elected offices.
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  Speaker 2: I will tell you in Congress there are too many
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  Speaker 2: of my colleagues that cannot figure out which side of
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  Speaker 2: that divide.
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  Speaker 3: We should stand on.
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  Speaker 2: There are too many of my colleagues whose immediate response
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  Speaker 2: following these horrors, we need a cease fire. Now, I
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  Speaker 2: will tell you. On the night of October seventh, at
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  Speaker 2: three in the morning, the State Department sent out a
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  Speaker 2: tweet from the Office of Palestinian Affairs, and it said
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  Speaker 2: Israel must not respond, there must be no military response whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: My team and I saw that at three in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: and we responded on Twitter immediately and said this is disgraceful.
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  Speaker 2: Whoever wrote it should be fired and it should be
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  Speaker 2: deleted immediately. Within minutes, the State Department deleted the tweet.
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  Speaker 2: The next day, October eighth, we discovered that the tweet
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  Speaker 2: was not an anomaly sent by some low level staffer,
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  Speaker 2: because Tony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, on October eighth,
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  Speaker 2: sent out a tweet and said, I have just finished
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  Speaker 2: speaking with the Turkish Foreign Minister and we have agreed
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  Speaker 2: that Israel must not retaliate and there must be no
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  Speaker 2: military response whatsoever. Again, I responded and said this is
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  Speaker 2: utterly disgraceful and should be deleted.
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  Speaker 3: Again, they deleted it within minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Every day since then, elected officials have had a choice,
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  Speaker 2: where are you, Who are you? Who do you stand with?
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  Speaker 2: Some have risen to the occasion, and others have not.
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  Speaker 2: There's also been clarity on college campuses. I know that
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  Speaker 2: every one of us here has been utterly horrified that
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  Speaker 2: October seventh has revealed the vicious anti semitism on so
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  Speaker 2: many of our campuses. And I point out to you
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  Speaker 2: that I will use the word revealed on purpose, because
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  Speaker 2: nobody with any sense could possibly maintain that that anti
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  Speaker 2: semitism wasn't there on October sixth, but a whole lot
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  Speaker 2: of people had difficulty seeing it. And we've seen across
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  Speaker 2: our country, we've seen viciously anti Israel, anti Semitic protests,
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  Speaker 2: many of which are unequivocally Prohamas. Columbia University one of
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  Speaker 2: the first places these protests started. It got so bad
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  Speaker 2: that the Orthodox Rabbi at Columbia sent an email to
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  Speaker 2: two hundred seventy Jewish students at Columbia advising the Jews
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  Speaker 2: who are students there, stay home, do not come to class,
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  Speaker 2: do not come to campus, because Columbia University cannot and
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  Speaker 2: will not protect your safety. I got to say that
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  Speaker 2: is utterly and completely disgraceful. If you watch the videos
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  Speaker 2: of those protests, you listen to what they're chanting. Protesters
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  Speaker 2: at Columbia were chanting, among other things, we love Hamas.
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  Speaker 2: To understand the viciousness of it. Some Columbia students were
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  Speaker 2: bravely standing up waiving American flags in Israeli flags Jewish
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  Speaker 2: students who had the courage to face the mob. There
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  Speaker 2: was a picture on Twitter of a woman wearing a mask,
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  Speaker 2: because these protesters are oh so brave. They hide and
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  Speaker 2: are terrified for the world to know who they are.
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  Speaker 2: But she was wearing a mask and holding up a sign,
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  Speaker 2: a cardboard sign that she had hand lettered. The sign
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  Speaker 2: said al Cassam's next targets, with an arrow pointing at
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  Speaker 2: the Jewish students behind her. Al Casam is the military
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  Speaker 2: arm of Hamas. I'm going to tell you something amazing.
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  Speaker 2: The Internet being what it is, the mask did not
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  Speaker 2: serve to hide this young woman's identity. She was not Palestinian.
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  Speaker 2: She was a young blonde girl from Atlanta, Georgia. Those
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  Speaker 2: parents are multi millionaires and they set her off to
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  Speaker 2: the Ivy League to go learn something. And she was
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  Speaker 2: taught that it is perfectly acceptable and even praiseworthy to
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  Speaker 2: call for the murder of your fellow students because they
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  Speaker 2: are Jews. If you don't understand the poison that is
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  Speaker 2: being taught to our students. It was powerfully, powerfully illustrated
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  Speaker 2: the University of Washington. The protesters chanted to Jews, go
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  Speaker 2: back to the ovens.
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  Speaker 3: This is not ambiguous.
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  Speaker 2: And I will tell you I was visiting with a
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  Speaker 2: friend of mine on the left, very successful tech entrepreneur.
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  Speaker 2: He's been a democrat his entire life, and he expressed
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  Speaker 2: from frustration, bewilderment, where is this vicious anti Semitism coming from?
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  Speaker 2: And I told him it is the consequence of the
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  Speaker 2: poison that has been poured into the minds of our
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  Speaker 2: children at so called elite universities now for many years.
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  Speaker 2: This is the fruits of cultural Marxism. This is the
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  Speaker 2: fruits of a leftist ideology that divides the world into
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  Speaker 2: two categories, oppressors and victims. And for the modern day leftists,
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  Speaker 2: they have defined Palestinians as victims.
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  Speaker 3: And Jews as oppressers.
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  Speaker 2: And I want you to note that I didn't say Israelis.
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  Speaker 2: I said Jews, because the target of their enmity is
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  Speaker 2: not just those who live in Israel, but any Jew
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  Speaker 2: anywhere on the face of the planet.
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  Speaker 3: And to the academic Marxist.
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  Speaker 2: Once you have someone defined as an oppressor and as
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  Speaker 2: a victim, our children are taught to favor the violent
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  Speaker 2: revolutionary overthrow by the victims of the so called oppressors,
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  Speaker 2: to cheer on the violence, to celebrate it. If you
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  Speaker 2: don't understand that, take a look on October eighth at
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  Speaker 2: the Chicago chapter of Black Lives Matter that tweeted out
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  Speaker 2: a meme said we stand with Palestine, and in the
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  Speaker 2: meme was an image of a paraglider. Now understand, they
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  Speaker 2: were not saying we think geopolitically, we ought to approach
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  Speaker 2: it to state solution. The paragliders, as you know, is
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  Speaker 2: how the Hamas terrorists came to the music festival to
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  Speaker 2: murder young people. And the Chicago chapter of Black Lives
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  Speaker 2: Matter was not being ambiguous on where they stand. They
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  Speaker 2: stand with Hamas because they were murdering Jews. That clarity
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  Speaker 2: is important. And I will say some commentators have said, well,
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  Speaker 2: it is terrible that this is happening all over the country,
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  Speaker 2: and I have to say, in the interest of accuracy,
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  Speaker 2: that facts matter. It is not happening all over the country.
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  Speaker 2: It is happening in bright blue states where the elected
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  Speaker 2: officials agree with the protesters. It's happening in New York.
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  Speaker 2: It's happening in Pennsylvania. It's happening New Jersey, happening in Illinois.
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  Speaker 2: It's happening in Washington State. It's happening in Connecticut. It's
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  Speaker 2: happening in Massachusetts. It's happening in California. You know where
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  Speaker 2: it's not happening. It's not happening in Florida. You know
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  Speaker 2: where it's not happening. It's not happening in Texas. In Texas,
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  Speaker 2: we saw protesters at the University of Texas and within
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  Speaker 2: hours the police arrived and arrested them.
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  Speaker 3: I talked about clarity.
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  Speaker 2: This is an opportunity for everyone in leadership, every elected official,
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  Speaker 2: every university president, every dean of a faculty, every professor,
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  Speaker 2: to say where you stand. But I'll tell you what
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  Speaker 2: the answer should be, which is that no one has
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  Speaker 2: the right to threaten the safety of another student. And
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: if you threaten an harass another student because they are Jewish,
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  Speaker 2: you should be arrested, you should be prosecuted, you should
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  Speaker 2: be expelled, and if you're a foreign student, you should
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  Speaker 2: be deported.
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  Speaker 2: At MIT, Jewish students reported that they were afraid to
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  Speaker 2: go to class because of threats of violence. The president
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  Speaker 2: the Jewish students because if we discipline them, they'll lose
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  Speaker 2: their student visa and be deported. You need to understand
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  Speaker 2: the ideological rot.
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  Speaker 3: That has infused so much of.
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  Speaker 2: Our elite academy. And by the way, it's been a
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  Speaker 2: year since October seventh, have you noticed the protests on
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  Speaker 2: the campus. They're not springing up organically, They're not spontaneous.
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  Speaker 2: Am I the only one who's noticed that the tents
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  Speaker 2: all match? There is real money funding these anti Israel,
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  Speaker 2: anti Semitic, anti American protests, and that money is coming
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  Speaker 2: from Iran, That money is coming from Cutter, and that
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  Speaker 2: money is coming from prominent leftists in this country who
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  Speaker 2: are also funding prominent politicians in this country. I want
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  Speaker 2: to ask you, in a year, has there been a
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  Speaker 2: single investigation by the Department of Justice or the FBI
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: to follow the money. Under Title six of our Civil
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Rights Law, a university cannot create an environ that is
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: threatening to the safety of a student based on race
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: or ethnicity. Has there been a single university in America
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: who's had their federal funding cut off because they refused
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: to protect Jewish students on campus? Answers, No, not one.
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  Speaker 2: That's not an accident. We need a Department of Justice
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  Speaker 2: that stands with our students.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, I.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Will note the protesters that were arrested in the University
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: of Texas, roughly half of them had no connection to
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: ut They weren't students there. They just came in to
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: agitate and threatened violence. The same was true at Columbia,
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: the same was true at fordom that when people have
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: been arrested, about half of them are either radical Islamist
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: or Marxists or just anti American.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Paid violent thugs.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Clarity matters, and by the way, I will say that
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: clarity is not entirely delineated on partisan bases. I will
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: say one of the most astonishing things to me has
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: been the courage my colleague John Fetterman has shown on
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: this topic. I'll confess when Senator Fetterman was elected from Pennsylvania,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: I had no reason to anticipate that he would show
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: that kind of courage. But he has been astonishing. And
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: I will say when giving a commencement address, when he
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: removed his hood from Harvard University as a fellow Harvard grad,
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: I was proud that he was willing to stand up
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: to the shameful behavior of his and mi alma mater.
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  Speaker 2: Clarity is an opportunity for everyone on each and every
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: day to decide where do I stand. There is a
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: second enormously beneficial outcome of the horror and evil that
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: was October seventh, which is that Israel has stated its
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: commitment to utterly and completely eliminate Hamas and now eliminate Hesbelah.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: And I have to say, eliminating Hamas and eliminating Hesbela
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: is unquestionably in the national security interest of Israel and
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: unquestionably in the national security in interest of America, and
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: US policy should very simply be we stand unequivocally with
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Israel for as long as it takes. I listened to
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: colleagues of mine in the Senate, in the House for
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: their only response to what happens at Israel is we
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: need a cease fire.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: What is it that leads American politicians to say our
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: view should be please, please, please stop killing the terrorists.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: When I got on Southwest Airlines this morning and flew
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: from Houston to Dallas to come here today, a woman
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: standing in the line came up to me and said, please,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: we need to cease fire now on the one year
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: and of nursery of October seventh. I'll tell you, month
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: after month after month, every Saturday morning at seven am,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: I had anti Israel, antisemitic protesters in my front lawn, screaming, yelling,
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: ringing cowbells, blowing whistles, screaming expletives at the top of
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: their lungs, waking up my daughters, waking up my neighbors
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: and their young children, week after week after week. And
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you when I encounter, as I do with
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: some regularity, people on airplanes who will yell at me,
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: we need to cease fire now, and I ask them, really,
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: tell me, why is it that you side with genocidal
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: maniacs carrying out Nazi ends? How do you look at
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: what happened and say the murderers and rapists are the
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: ones we stand with. But part of it is a
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: lot of people are lied to. They don't know the
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: truth they are being told. The victims, in our definition
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: are the good and the oppressors are the evil. That's
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: why that clarity needs to continue. I will say, if
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: you look at Israel's distribution of pagers, I've got to
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: say that is one of the most extraordinary intelligence and
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: military operations I have ever seen when I saw it
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: on the news. When I read about it, it read
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: like a James Bond novel. If I don't know if
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: any of y'all are fans of the show, Fouta Fouda
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: is phenomenal. If you tried to write it in a
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: plot of Fouta, they wouldn't publish it because they would
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: have said, this is ridiculous. And I will say what
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: is what was truly elegant about it is the people
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: who received the pagers were decided by the leadership of Hesbela.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: The leaders of Hesbela said, all right, you are enough
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: of a genocidal murderer that I want you on page.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: They selected every person.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: And then they got their page.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: And then a few days later they said, let's go
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: to walkie talkies, and the walkie talkies blew up. And
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: then at the head of hesbel has said, let's go
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: to a basement bunker and meet in person. And then
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: the basement bunker blew up. And if you want to
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: understand where someone stands, look to their reaction to that.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you, I think it is beautiful that
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: psychopathic terrorists are terrified now to pick up the phone
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: and pick up the pager and go meet with another terrorist.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: That is unequivocally good for Israel. In America, we are
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: saying forces across the globe arrayed against the people of Israel.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: And I will tell you in particular, if you want
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: to prevent another October seventh, if you want to save
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: innocent lives in Israel and America, then you've got to
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: start by focusing on the nation of Iran.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: Iran is the head of the stake.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: I will say, in the last four years, the US
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: government has funneled over one hundred billion dollars to Iran.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: We all know about the six billion that got the
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: most attention. That was six billion in ransom for five Americans,
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: and many others at the time said that's a terrible policy.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: It will only encourage more Americans to be taken hostage.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: It effectively puts a bounty of one point two billion
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: per hostage. Tragically, when we said that, I didn't realize
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: it would be just a couple of months before we
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: would see more Americans taken hostage. Some of you may
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: also know about the ten billion in funds that were
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: frozen in Iraq from electricity receipts that the administration unfroze
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: to flow to Iran. Both of those, however, pale in
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: comparison to the real source of revenue. Iran derives the
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: bulk of its revenue from oil and gas sales. When
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris came into office four years ago.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Iran was at the time selling roughly three hundred thousand
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: barrels of oil a day. That was a consequence of
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: the previous administration vigorously enforcing oil sanctions. I had spent
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: hundreds of hours urging President Trump to vigorously enforce oil
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: sanctions on Iran. He did so, and their oil sales
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: plummeted from a million barrels a day to three hundred
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: thousand in January of twenty twenty one. The Iranian economy
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: was in shambles, the Iranian regime was teetering and near collapse,
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: and the current administration came in and immediately stopped enforcing
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: those oil sanctions. What are the consequences of that? Iran's
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: oil sales went from three hundred thousand barrels a day
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: where they were in January of twenty twenty one.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: Do you know what they are today?
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Roughly two million barrels of oil a day, primarily sold
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: to communist China. What is the delta between three hundred
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: thousand barrels a day and two million barrels a day?
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: It is more than eighty billion dollars that came in
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: like a lifeline to save the regime. I told you
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: this is a battle between good and evil. The Ayatola
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Kamehni is unambiguously evil. He leads mobs in chants of
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: death to Israel and death to America. Now, if history
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: teaches anything it is that when somebody tells you they
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: want to kill you believe them. And you need to
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: understand this is not just a threat to Israel. There
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: is a reason the Ayahtola refers to Israel as the
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: little Satan and America is the great Satan. The enemies
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: of Israel are enemies of America. Those who hate Jews
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: hate Christians. And I have to say, if any sanity
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: comes from the aftermath of October seventh, it is that
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: we should agree to come together and cut off all
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: of the funds for Iran. Two statistics that are important
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: to know. Over ninety percent of the funding for Hamas
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: comes from Iran. Over ninety percent of the funding for
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: Hesbola comes from Iran. If you are giving one hundred
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: million dollars to Iran, you are giving the money to
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: the terrorists who are committing these atrocities. I got to say,
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: regardless of your politics, it should not be a complicated
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: proposition to say, do not give money to people who
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: want to murder you. And yet somehow in Washington that's
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: deemed a controversial statement. Look, I want to thank all
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: of y'all for being here. I want to thank the
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: unity we see. It's easy if you look at the
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: viciousness on a campus to think that's where America is.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: And one message, I'm glad we have reporters here. I'm
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: glad we have TV cameras here. If there's one message
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: that I want people to hear, it's that the people
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: of Texas stand with the State of Israel, and the
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: people of a Maria, Erica stand with the State of Israel.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: May justice prevail, May Israel prevail.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: May God continue to bless the people of Israel and
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: the people of America, and may God's mercy and blessings
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: be upon all of us.
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