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FBI’s Role in Russia Hoax, Beijing’s Ivy League Infiltration & Democrats Back Hamas Week In Review · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome. It is Verdict with Ted Cruz week in Review,
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  Speaker 1: Ben Ferguson with you, and here are the major stories
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  Speaker 1: that you may have missed that we talked about this week.
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  Speaker 1: First up, new intel on the FBI and how involved
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  Speaker 1: they actually were in creating the Russia hoax. We'll explain
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  Speaker 1: that to you in just a moment. Also, in a
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  Speaker 1: new bombshell report, Harvard University having direct ties to the
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  Speaker 1: Chinese Communist Party and the money they're funneling in is
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  Speaker 1: truly incredible. And finally, Democrats go on the record with
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  Speaker 1: official votes becoming more anti Israel than we've ever seen before.
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  Speaker 1: It's the weekend review and it starts right now. I
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  Speaker 1: want to move to the other topic that we mentioned earlier,
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  Speaker 1: and that deals with the FBI right now and new
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  Speaker 1: intel that's coming out, and I got to say a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people are going to be shocked by it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not surprised at all by this, and I want
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  Speaker 1: to get your take on now what we're learning about
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  Speaker 1: the FBI with the Russia Russia Russia hoax and the
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  Speaker 1: controversial Trump Russia actions predicted with alarming accuracy by foreign actors.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you look at this coming out now, and
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  Speaker 1: it's just a joke. How incredible this whole I call
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  Speaker 1: it a play. It was a movie. It's a script,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody was playing on the script that they knew
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  Speaker 1: was a lie.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. But I want to take a minute and
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  Speaker 2: sort of pull the curtain back for our listeners. So
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  Speaker 2: we do this podcast, and we do this podcast sometimes
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  Speaker 2: late at night, so it is twelve to fifty five am.
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  Speaker 2: So look, men is half asleep. To be honest, he's
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  Speaker 2: been asleep for two hours and we woke him to
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  Speaker 2: do this. So the headline of this story says that
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  Speaker 2: it was predicted with alarming specificity. Yes, that's true, and
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  Speaker 2: I want you all to know. We recorded this, and
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  Speaker 2: this is one of the advantages doing a podcast. When
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  Speaker 2: you record it and screw it up, you can just
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  Speaker 2: stop and rewind and do it again. We recorded it
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  Speaker 2: and twice Benjamin was unable to say the words specificity.
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  Speaker 1: He tried a tough ones specific I can't say it now.
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  Speaker 2: See, And I will confess I kept making it harder
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  Speaker 2: because I kept saying fescipicity and.
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  Speaker 1: I can say that word, no problem, right, that that
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  Speaker 1: one's easy.
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  Speaker 2: So finally, after after twice crashing and burning on saying specificity.
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  Speaker 2: He just said with alarming accuracy. By the way, the
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  Speaker 2: quote is not accuracy, it's specificity.
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  Speaker 1: But but I didn't say quote unquote. See I covered
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  Speaker 1: myself there.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't say the word quote. But I just wanted
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  Speaker 2: our listeners to know that that that, like the specificity.
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  Speaker 1: With meal at one am, that is accurate.
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  Speaker 2: Not one am. It's twelve fifty seven. You got three
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  Speaker 2: minutes till one am. All right, So let's cover the
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  Speaker 2: under But but this is the important stuff to understand. Look,
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  Speaker 2: these these are real human beings. I'm in my DC apartment.
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  Speaker 2: You're in a hotel room, I think, is that right now?
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm in a house in Pinehurst, North Carolina. So
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  Speaker 1: that's where the World Championships is.
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  Speaker 2: Look that that that's pretty fancy and sishi. And you've
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  Speaker 2: got to be up at like six thirty is tea time?
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  Speaker 2: Is that right?
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  Speaker 1: It's it's a six eighteen or something absurd.
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  Speaker 2: Six eighteen all right, Benjamin. While you're at tea time,
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  Speaker 2: I will be fast asleep, I.
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  Speaker 1: Believe you, and you'll be dreaming about the alarming specifificity
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  Speaker 1: the word I can you still can't say it.
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  Speaker 2: Come on specificity, Just say it once specificity.
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  Speaker 1: There we go, there we go.
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  Speaker 2: Look at that. By the way, you know what I
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  Speaker 2: did Monday on the on the flight to DC.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, say that again?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what I did Monday on the flight
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  Speaker 2: to DC?
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  Speaker 1: What did you do?
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  Speaker 2: I watched Happy Gilmore two. Have you seen that?
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  Speaker 1: It's so good? It is so good. I love when
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  Speaker 1: they don't screw when they don't screw up a sequel
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  Speaker 1: like Top Gun Maverick. They killed it right, Happy gil More.
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  Speaker 1: It's been happy to.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe better than Happy Gilmore, like really good.
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  Speaker 1: And and by the way, did you see it coming?
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  Speaker 1: Because I did not when hold on spoiler word if
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  Speaker 1: you haven't been watched it yet, turned down for five seconds?
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  Speaker 1: When that when he killed his wife with the golf ball?
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  Speaker 1: Did I did not see that coming? Did you?
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  Speaker 2: I did not see that coming either. I I will say,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, as a complete aside, I've gotten to
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  Speaker 2: know Adam Sandler's producer. You know, he's a big hoops player.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta tell you. I'm told that Sandler. I've invited
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  Speaker 2: him come play hoops with with me and he said yes,
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  Speaker 2: So hadn't happened yet, But I'm actually really psyched because
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  Speaker 2: Sandler and I are almost exactly the same age, and
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  Speaker 2: he's a serious ballplayer. And as you know, I play
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  Speaker 2: hoops twice a week.
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  Speaker 1: I do. I say, count me in for that game.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to be there for that game.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, don't injure Adam Sandler, Like he is a national
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  Speaker 2: comedic treasure. And I will say, I've played hoops with you.
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  Speaker 2: The last time I played hoops with you broke your finger.
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  Speaker 1: You're a large I'm not worried about him. I'm worried
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  Speaker 1: about me.
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  Speaker 2: And you throw your body around pretty physically, which I admire.
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm like, screw it. If you can't take the heat,
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  Speaker 2: get out of the kitchen. But I'm just saying, don't
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  Speaker 2: injure Adam Sandler.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. That'd be one heck of a headline, right.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's get back. We actually had a story
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  Speaker 2: to do, but I just had to I had to
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  Speaker 2: call you out because you like magically edited out. You're
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  Speaker 2: screwing up the word and yeah, so I just had
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  Speaker 2: to like bring our listeners in and say, you know,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes the magic of podcast is not exactly what you think.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, you know, I'm ready go for it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready good, go ahead, say what you're gonna say.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, I was gonna say. So this is the
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  Speaker 1: part that laugh when you when you do radio like
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  Speaker 1: I did three three hours a day my producer Diaz,
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  Speaker 1: who does this show as well, when that would happen.
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  Speaker 1: The worst part is he's just laughing at me through
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  Speaker 1: the glass on the other side of the wall because
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  Speaker 1: it's live and there's nothing you can do to fix it,
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  Speaker 1: and so he just laughs in my face. So now
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  Speaker 1: this is like my weird revenge because for how many
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  Speaker 1: years have we worked here Diez twelve, thirteen, fourteen, I
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  Speaker 1: don't even know how many it is. He just used
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  Speaker 1: to just laugh at me, and now he actually has
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  Speaker 1: to go back and fix it. So I'm like, the
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  Speaker 1: jokes on you, buddy, the jokes on you. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: when it's live, there's nothing you can do about it.
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  Speaker 1: So with all that specificity, the word I can't say
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  Speaker 1: is still denying. For some reason, let's get back to
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  Speaker 1: the event.
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  Speaker 2: I still have reported on this story with alarming fesipicity,
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  Speaker 2: And let me read from the Fox News story quote,
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  Speaker 2: US intelligence has credible foreign sources indicating that the FBI
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  Speaker 2: would play a role in spreading the salacious Trump Russia
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  Speaker 2: collusion narrative before the bureau ever launched its controversial Crossfire
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  Speaker 2: Hurricane probe, sources familiar with the intel told Fox News
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  Speaker 2: Digital see I director John Ratcliffe is expected to declassify
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  Speaker 2: the underlying intelligence, including a classified annex related to former
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  Speaker 2: Special Counsel John Durham's investigation into the origins of the
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  Speaker 2: Trump Russia probe. A source familiar with the contents of
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  Speaker 2: the class Fight annex told Fox News Digital that while
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  Speaker 2: it may not have been exactly clear in the moment
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  Speaker 2: what the intelligent collection meant, with the benefit of hindsight,
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  Speaker 2: it predicted the FBI's move with alarming specificity, and it
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  Speaker 2: goes on to.
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  Speaker 1: Say, there's your quote.
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  Speaker 2: There you go quote. Ultimately, the release of the classifight
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  Speaker 2: annex will lend more credibility to the assertion that there
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  Speaker 2: was a coordinated plan inside the US government to help
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  Speaker 2: the Clinton campaign stir up controversy connecting Trump to Russia.
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  Speaker 2: The source who was granted anonymity to discussed the sense
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  Speaker 2: of intelligence matters that have not yet been made public,
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  Speaker 2: told Fox News Digital Quote mere days after this intelligence
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  Speaker 2: was collected the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane. The source said, quote,
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  Speaker 2: it is really hard to see how Brennan, Clapper and
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  Speaker 2: Comy are going to be able to explain this away.
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  Speaker 1: You put that in perspective, and I think it's fair
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  Speaker 1: to say at this point, everything we were hearing during
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  Speaker 1: the back of the day on this it was all
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  Speaker 1: just straight up government propaganda and the media was one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent in on it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it was not just government propaganda. It was driven
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  Speaker 2: by the Hillary Clinton campaign. It was opposition research that
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  Speaker 2: they paid for and then they gave to the Obama
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  Speaker 2: administration to launder it. They laundered it through the FBI,
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  Speaker 2: They laundered it through the Department of Justice, and in
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  Speaker 2: it was the federal government attacking Donald Trump because they
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  Speaker 2: did not want Donald Donald Trump to be president. And
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  Speaker 2: the degree to which the government was complicit in partisan politics,
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  Speaker 2: but not just partisan politics, partisan politics. That was false.
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  Speaker 2: That was a lie. This was made up. The Russia
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  Speaker 2: hoax was a hoax. It was concocted through the Hillary
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  Speaker 2: Clinton campaign. It was laundered through the FBI and the
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  Speaker 2: Department of Justice, and it was a lie. That was
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  Speaker 2: a political attack job. And I want to commend John Ratcliffe,
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  Speaker 2: the head of CIA, a good friend of mine, for
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  Speaker 2: making this public, for drawing accountability and truth to what occurred.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think is going to come from this?
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  Speaker 1: Because there's so many I think just gruntled and frustrated
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  Speaker 1: Americans that hear those things and like, all right, we're
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  Speaker 1: now getting more and more confirmation this happened. Will there
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  Speaker 1: be any real accountability? And does this move us closer
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  Speaker 1: to that? So?
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  Speaker 2: I hope so that there needs to be accountability. And
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  Speaker 2: I will say, you have Tulca Gabbard who released her
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  Speaker 2: bombshell information about the degree of the complicity of the administration,
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  Speaker 2: And if you didn't hear our podcast last week on this,
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  Speaker 2: you should listen to the podcast on Tulsi Gabbert's bombshell information.
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  Speaker 2: I hope there is accountability. I call on on the
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  Speaker 2: Department of Justice. I also had when I was having
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  Speaker 2: drinks with the Army Secretary, I also had drinks with
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  Speaker 2: the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, and so
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  Speaker 2: I was urging DOJ follow the facts and prosecute anyone
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  Speaker 2: who is complicit. There are challenges because some of the
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  Speaker 2: people who were involved in this, their criminal conduct was
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  Speaker 2: before the statute of limitations expired, and so it is
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  Speaker 2: harder to prosecute someone who committed criminal conduct after the
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  Speaker 2: statute limitations has expired. Andrew McCabe, who was the Deputy
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  Speaker 2: Director of the FBI, he testified before Congress. He testified falsely,
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  Speaker 2: and the statute of limitations has not yet expired on
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  Speaker 2: his testimony. So if I were to predict the single
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  Speaker 2: most likely person in the Obama administration of face prosecution,
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  Speaker 2: it would be Andrew McCabe, because there's still a window
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  Speaker 2: where he lied to Congress and it's within the statute limitations.
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  Speaker 1: Really incredible. We're going to keep you update on all this.
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  Speaker 1: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two, Senator,
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  Speaker 1: I want to move to this new report that's come out,
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  Speaker 1: and it is something that we have been really like
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  Speaker 1: raising the flag on saying pay attention to this, be
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  Speaker 1: careful where you send your kids to college, Be careful
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  Speaker 1: that they're going to be indoctrinated to hate America, and
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  Speaker 1: be careful where you send your kids because there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money that's coming in from countries that are
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  Speaker 1: trying to undermine America and hate America. We're now seeing
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  Speaker 1: more of this at Harvard, with Harvard's ties now directly
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  Speaker 1: to the Chinese Communist Party elites. That has been revealed
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  Speaker 1: on a level we haven't seen before, and it's even
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  Speaker 1: more shocking of where Harvard's getting their cash. And look,
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  Speaker 1: China is not doing this because they like Harvard. They're
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  Speaker 1: clearly doing it for.
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  Speaker 2: Influence, unquestionably, and you know, some have criticized the Trump
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  Speaker 2: administration going after Harvard University. Harvard is the most influential
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  Speaker 2: university on the face of the planet, and it also
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  Speaker 2: many universities in America have been in bed with the
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  Speaker 2: Chinese Communist Party. The Chinese government spends millions of dollars
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  Speaker 2: trying to get influence and trying to brainwash our students,
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  Speaker 2: trying to control our universities, and far too many universities
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  Speaker 2: have been really eager to participate in that, and Harvard
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  Speaker 2: has been right at the front of the list. Well
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  Speaker 2: this week that the House of Representatives has an investigation
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  Speaker 2: and they sent a letter to the President of Harvard.
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  Speaker 2: This is a letter from John Mullinar, who is the
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  Speaker 2: chairman of the Select Committee on the CCP in the House.
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  Speaker 2: It's from Tim Wahlberg, who's the chairman of the House
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  Speaker 2: Committee on Education and Workforce. And it's from Elie Steffonic,
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  Speaker 2: who's the chairwoman of House Republican Leadership. And here's what
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  Speaker 2: the letter says. It's addressed to the President of Harvard University,
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  Speaker 2: Alan Garber, and it says, Dear President Garber, the Select
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  Speaker 2: Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and the Committee on
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  Speaker 2: Education and Workforce have identified new evidence related to Harvard
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  Speaker 2: University's connections to the Chinese Communist Party and request additional information.
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  Speaker 2: During our investigation, multiple whistleblowers told us that Harvard has
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  Speaker 2: maintained close formal relationships directly with Chinese Communist Party entities. Specifically,
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  Speaker 2: whistleblower information revealed ties between Harvard and the Central Organization
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  Speaker 2: Department of the Central Committee of the CCP, as well
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  Speaker 2: as certain Chinese government entities. The CCP Organization Department is
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  Speaker 2: one of the most powerful bodies within the Communist Party.
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  Speaker 2: It is responsible for the regimated, regimented training program centered
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  Speaker 2: on Shijingping thought provided to the party elites, and controls
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  Speaker 2: the placement of CCP members in keilh leadership positions. The
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  Speaker 2: whistleblowers also revealed that Harvard cultivates ties with elite CCP members.
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  Speaker 2: For example, whistleblowers reveal that the Harvard Kennedy School hosts
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  Speaker 2: a formal partnership with the Chinese Executive Leadership Academy Poodong,
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  Speaker 2: which is controlled by the CCP Organization Department. Under that partnership,
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  Speaker 2: the rising CCP elite, who are being prepared for senior
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  Speaker 2: Communist Party leadership positions, participate in training at Harvard in
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  Speaker 2: the United States. Additional publicly available information indicates that some
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  Speaker 2: of these relationships have been in place for at least
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  Speaker 2: a decade. In twenty sixteen, a high ranking member of
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  Speaker 2: the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences stated that Chinese Quote
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  Speaker 2: Party and government cadres participate in education and training run
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  Speaker 2: by the CCP Organization Department. The Chinese government sends some
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  Speaker 2: cadres ABA abroad to the John F. Kennedy School of
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  Speaker 2: Governm at Harvard University. This is shocking and it certainly
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  Speaker 2: appears from this investigation. And they request all documents related
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  Speaker 2: to any engagement between Harvard and the CCP and the
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  Speaker 2: government of China, and a list of all money that
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  Speaker 2: has come from China and the Chinese government. And my
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  Speaker 2: prediction is Harvard is going to fight tooth and nail
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  Speaker 2: not to turn this over because they don't want people
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  Speaker 2: to know just how eager they have been to be
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  Speaker 2: in bed with the communists running the Chinese government.
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  Speaker 1: Can we also just be very queer, like China doesn't
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  Speaker 1: do this because they like higher education or they're just
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  Speaker 1: trying to get let's say they're students in That would
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  Speaker 1: be like the most g rated version of the story
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  Speaker 1: that you could tell. They're doing this to buy genuine
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  Speaker 1: influence at the highest levels in academia and America. And
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  Speaker 1: also this could have major consequences for the US when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to national security or spies and countless other
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  Speaker 1: infiltration activities that they're part of all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Look, that's exactly right. You look at Harvard trains many
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  Speaker 2: of our nation's elite. For example, I just typed in
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  Speaker 2: a a quick list on on on Ai how many
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  Speaker 2: senators went to Harvard, and Ai promptly gave me an answer.
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  Speaker 2: There are currently twelve Senators who are Harvard alumni. And
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  Speaker 2: I will admit sadly that it came back and says
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  Speaker 2: the list includes individuals like Ted Cruz, Tim Kane, Jack Reed,
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  Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer, and Mitt Romney. So so I'm a little
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  Speaker 2: embarrassed to be the first name on that list. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: But that is part of the reason that that that
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  Speaker 2: that Harvard puts that that Harvard, that China puts that
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  Speaker 2: money into Harvard, into Columbia, into elite universities across this country,
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  Speaker 2: is they want to train America's leaders. They want to
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  Speaker 2: train members of Congress, they want to train members of
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  Speaker 2: the executive branch, they want to train federal judges. They
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  Speaker 2: want to train the foreign pologies apparatus uh and and
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  Speaker 2: and they are trying to train them uh and and
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  Speaker 2: they're trying into propaganda as they use this for brainwashing,
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  Speaker 2: they use this for espionage. And and far too many
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  Speaker 2: of our universities have been so eager to take the
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  Speaker 2: money that that that they have welcomed Chinese communists with
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  Speaker 2: open arms.
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  Speaker 1: When you look at where they are right now and
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  Speaker 1: you look at Harvard. Is this just about the money,
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  Speaker 1: do you think? Or is this also about the fact
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  Speaker 1: that Harvard has no problem agreeing on a lot of
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  Speaker 1: issues with China.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's both and and listen, the Harvard faculty is
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  Speaker 2: is hard left. One one point I've said many times
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  Speaker 2: is that when I was a student at Harvard Law School,
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  Speaker 2: there were more professors who were Communists than there were
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  Speaker 2: who were Republicans. And that's not hyperbole. That there were
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  Speaker 2: at least a dozen professors who openly said they were Marxists,
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  Speaker 2: that they were followers of the teachers teachings of Karl
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  Speaker 2: Marx and and followers of you know, Karl Marx is
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  Speaker 2: the father of communism. That when I was a student,
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  Speaker 2: there there was only one professor who owned openly identified
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  Speaker 2: as Republican. That was Charles Freed. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: Charles Freed, the loan Republican on the faculty voted for
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  Speaker 2: Barack Obama, so so their loan Republican voted for Obama
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  Speaker 2: as well. That that was the range of thought thirty
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  Speaker 2: years ago, and it is much much worse now, as
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: you know, my most recent book is entitled Unwoke, How
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America, And the opening chapter
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: talks about cultural Marxism, how it it grew at Harvard University,
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: it spread to universities throughout this country. It spread to
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: K through twelve, education, to journalism, to big business, to
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: big tech, to entertainment. Uh and and and sadly, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I called the universities the Wuhan lab of the Woke
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  Speaker 2: virus because they're where it was created, They're where it mutated,
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  Speaker 2: and they're where it spread. And and and Harvard was
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: it was ground zero uh for that spread.
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  Speaker 1: Final question on this, will Congress be able to really
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  Speaker 1: anything on this issue to stop this type of money
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  Speaker 1: coming into these universities? Look?
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  Speaker 2: I hope.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: One of the very first pieces of legislation that I
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  Speaker 2: passed thirteen years ago was legislation that banned Defense Department
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: money from going to universities that have Confucius institutes. Confucius
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: institutes were paid for by the Chinese Communist government. They
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: were at universities all over the country. I got that through,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: I got that passed and signed into law. I actually
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: got bipartisan support for it. And as a result, dozens
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: of Confucius institutes shut down all over the country. So
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: we can make a real impact. I've got more legislation
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  Speaker 2: to require transparency of foreign money going to universities. We
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: ought to know about it. And look, the Trump administration
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: is trying hard to expose this and to stop it,
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  Speaker 2: and I salute the President for doing that.
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  Speaker 1: As before, if you want to hear the rest of
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: this conversation on this topic, you can go back and
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: dow the podcasts from earlier this week to here the
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: entire thing. I want to get back to the big
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: story number three of the week you may have missed.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: I want to get to this other big issue, and
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: that is Democrats are not just abandoning Israel. They are
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: straight up anti Israel, and they're showing it now as
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: they're voting. A record number of Senate Democrats are going
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: to block weapons sales to Israel. They're doing it numbers
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  Speaker 1: we've never seen before. And this on top of the
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: fact that The New York Times has had to basically
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: correct the claim about a viral photo of a starving
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Gaza boy they blamed on Israel and actually wasn't true
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: at all, and they didn't correct it like in the paper.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: They did it on X on their PR account that
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: no one follows this is now how bad it's gotten
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  Speaker 1: not only in the media but also in DC.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, when I arrived in the Senate thirteen
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: years ago, there was meaningful bipartisan support for Israel. It
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: was one of the issues that you see Republicans and
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  Speaker 2: Democrats come together. Twenty thirteen, when I got here was
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of the second term of Barack Obama, and
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Barack Obama began to turn the Democrat Party against Israel.
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  Speaker 2: That turn accelerated dramatically during the Biden administration, and Joe
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Biden ended up being the most anti Israel president and
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  Speaker 2: the most anti Israel administration we've ever seen. Joe Biden,
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  Speaker 2: in the midst of a war that Israel was in,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: cut off weapons, froze weapons to Israel, and did so
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: specifically to prevent Israel from killing terrorists Hamas, terrorists who
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: had attacked Israel viciously in one of the most horrific
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: terrorist attack in world history October seventh, where Hamas murdered
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: over twelve hundred civilians, targeted civilians, directly, raped and murdered women,
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: and little girls, and the Democrats, looking at the aftermath
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: of this, more and more of them decided they stand
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: with Hamas, and sadly, there is a real and growing
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  Speaker 2: pro Hamas contingent of the Democrat Party today. This week
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  Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders brought a resolution trying to block weapons sales
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  Speaker 2: to Israel. Now, Bernie Sanders has been rabidly anti Israel
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  Speaker 2: for a long time. Most left wing socialists and Marxist are,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: but Bernie Sanders resolutions trying to cut off Israel usually failed,
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  Speaker 2: and usually failed with a big, big vote. Well, this
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: week the Senate rejected it again, and we rejected it
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  Speaker 2: by a vote of seventy to twenty seven. But there
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: were twenty seven votes in favor of Bernie Sanders's resolution.
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  Speaker 2: There are only forty seven Democrats in the Senate. That
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: means more than half of the Senate Democrats voted to
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: cut off funding for Israel. That is a dramatic shift.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, if you compare it to in April,
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: we had a similar vote and only fifteen Democrats voted
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: for it. In November of twenty twenty four, eighteen Democrats
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: voted for it, So moving up to twenty seven is
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: a major shift, and and and it is a disturbing
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: pattern where when faced with a choice, do we support
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Hamas or do we support Israel, more and more Democrats
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: they're afraid of the AOC's, they're afraid of the Ilhan Omars,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: they're afraid of the Rashida Talib's in the House, the
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: the pro Hamas squad, and they're also afraid of the
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: radical protesters on college campuses. Understand, those protesters are funded
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: by George Soros. They're funded by the same people who
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: fund the Democrat Party. And more and more elected Democrats
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: have decided that that that they will not anger the
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: pro Hamas radicals and and and so I've got to
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: say it is sad to see. Uh, but let me
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: ask you a question.
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  Speaker 1: By the way you mentioned yeah, well, and let me
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: ask you this. So, look, we know that there's more
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: people on the House side, so you'll get some you know,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: fringe groups in the House side on the Democratic Party. Uh,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: even like more hardcore conservacy in the past with conservative caucuses,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: you can see numbers move there. The Senate's kind of
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: been like the place of elder statesmen, and like there's
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: certain issues that you kind of just see that like, hey,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: we're going to be the adults in the room. I
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: think that's the scariest part of these votes I'm witnessing
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: now is this has moved from the House and the
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: radicals there that you kind of expected through that the
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: AOC and her group, right, you expect it. But now
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: it's moved into the Senate Chamber. And that is really
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I think telling about the anti semitism of the Democratic Party.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Am I wrong?
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: More than half of the Senate Democrats voted to cut
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: off military funding for Israel. That's a milestone that's never
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: happened before. And by the way, it happened at the
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: exact same time that we saw three governments worldwide, governments
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: of US allies but that are led by leftists, the
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: government of the United Kingdom, the Government France, and the
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: government of Canada all came out in favor of recognizing
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: an independent Palestinian state. And I want you to think
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: about the message that the UK and France and Canada
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: are saying. They're saying to Hamas, your terrorism worked. They're
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: saying to Hamas, We're glad you murdered twelve hundred innocent civilians.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: We're glad you raped women and little girls. By the way,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: they're also saying to Hamas, we're glad you continue to
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: keep hostages to this day. You do not release the hostages.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: They're saying to Hamas, we're glad you're responsible for starving
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  Speaker 2: Palestinians and Gaza. Understand that the human suffering in Gaza
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: is the direct result of Hamas. Hamas could end this
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: right now. And Donald Trump, by contrast, put out a
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: tweet this week and he said Hamas could end the
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: suffering right now by stopping fighting and releasing the hostages.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: They don't want to, and in fact, Hamas is actively negotiating,
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: you know what, they're negotiating for cut off food aid
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  Speaker 2: for Palestinians in Gaza. We Hamas want to control all
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: the food because it's one of the ways we keep
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: in power is by starving anyone who opposes us. That
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: is who the United Kingdom and France and the Canadian
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  Speaker 2: government is supporting. And that is also sadly who now
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  Speaker 2: a majority of Senate Democrats are supporting.
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  Speaker 1: You also look at the media, and there's a second
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: part of this conversation. The New York Times has had
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: to roll back acclaim they put it out there of
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: a viral photo of a starving Gaza boy. It was propaganda.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: It was clearly propaganda from the terrorists and those that
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: want you to somehow believe that Israel's starving kids. It
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: did not happen that way at all. The New York
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Times was forced to correct it, and I think they
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: did it in such a just a disgusting way because
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: they issued their statement sharing how they quote originally didn't
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: include dude, this boy's pre existing health condition, But they
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: didn't really do it in the newspaper like on the
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: front page, where the same way they did the picture.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: The damage has already been done. They corrected the story
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: by going to the New York Times p R Twitter,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: not even the New York Times Twitter account, the New
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: York Times pr account that virtually no one's gonna see.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, this was not a picture that that they
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: just had as a kind of side note in a
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: small story. This is a picture the New York Times
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: put on the front page. It occupies more than half
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: of the front page, above the fold. It is a
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: massive picture, and it's a horrible picture. It's a picture
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: of a little boy. He appears to be starving his
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: spine is sticking out. I mean, it's a very disturbing.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: It's an eighteen month old child, which which they they
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: said he was starving, He faced life threatening malnutrition, and
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: they blamed that on Israel and they used it to
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: put USh Hamas's propaganda. After they did that, the New
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: York Times was forced to issue a correction. And they
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: did the correction, as you noted on Twitter, where no
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: one would see it. And their correction says that what
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: they didn't tell people. Here's what their statement was. Quote.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Children in Gaza are malnourished and starving, as New York
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: reporters and others have documented. We recently ran a story
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: about Gaza's most vulnerable civilians, including Mohammad Zakira al Mataqua,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: who is about eighteen months old and suffers from severe malnutrition.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: We have since learned new information, including from the hospital
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: that has treated him and his medical records, and have
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: updated our story to add context about his pre existing
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: health problems. This additional detail gives readers greater understanding of
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: his situation. Our reporters and photographers continue to report from
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Gaza bravely, sensitively, and at personal risk, so that our
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: readers can see firsthand the consequences of the war. That's
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: their fairly ridiculous retraction where they admit their lying to you.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Now here's what they didn't tell us. That Muhamma's mother
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: indicated that her son suffers from quote a muscle disorder
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: through which he received specialized nutrition and physical therapy. And
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: another journalist reported the young boy has quote cerebral palsy
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: hypo exemia and was born with a serious genetic order.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: So they showed a child who's very sick, but he's
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: not very sick from starvation, he's very sick from other
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: medical conditions. And The New York Times happily plays the
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: role of Hamas's propagandists, and sadly senate Democrats are cheering
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: on that false propaganda. Interestingly enough, the pattern of this
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: is exactly the same as the pattern of Hillary Clinton
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: signing off on the false Russia story. It is take
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: a lie, count on the corporate media to spread that lie,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: count on Democrat politicians to spread that and not lie,
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: and count on friendly governments to spread that lie as well.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: And everyone involves knows they are lying, but their political
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: agenda in this instance they hate Israel. They want to
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: undermine Israel and they want to elevate Hamas and sadly
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: that more and more senate Democrats are falling into that camp.
• 30:17
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