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Insanity: Biden Boycotts Israel, Funds Hamas · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: It is verdict with Senator Ted Kruz Ben Ferguson with you, Senator,
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  Speaker 2: it is shocking to see but the president of the
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  Speaker 2: United States of America is now treating Israel like they
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  Speaker 2: are almost an adversary and actually protecting Hamas and where
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  Speaker 2: they are now in other parts around Israel where they
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  Speaker 2: can plan and orchestrate attacks against them.
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  Speaker 3: We have truly gone through the looking glass. Up as down,
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  Speaker 3: black as white, good as evil. The Biden administration's foreign
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  Speaker 3: policy is exactly backwards from what any sane, rational American
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  Speaker 3: foreign policy should be. Joe Biden, the Democrats are sending
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  Speaker 3: money to Gaza that is going straight to Hamas. They
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  Speaker 3: are sending money to Iran that is going straight to Hamas.
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  Speaker 3: And in this past week, Joe Biden announced that he's
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  Speaker 3: cutting off weapons to Israel. That Israel is now the
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  Speaker 3: bad guy, and the Biden administration, the Biden White House,
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  Speaker 3: is openly the enemy of Israel. It is stunning, It
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  Speaker 3: is shocking. There is no precedent for it in history,
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  Speaker 3: and it is profoundly dangerous. We're going to get into
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  Speaker 3: it in great detail.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so important, and so many of you have
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  Speaker 2: been asking the question how can we help the people
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  Speaker 2: in Israel. I want you to know about the International
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  Speaker 2: Fellowship of Christians and Jews and a need that is
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  Speaker 2: right now so important. You've seen the anti Israel protests
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  Speaker 2: and demonstrations that have continued at college campuses. You've seen
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  Speaker 2: so many people that are just absolutely anti Israel, not
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  Speaker 2: just in Israel, but in this country. And as they
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  Speaker 2: are facing these vile anti Semitic hate speech and harassment
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  Speaker 2: and violence, there is a real need in Israel right now,
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  Speaker 2: and that is for bomb shelters. Now is the time
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  Speaker 2: Jewish people who are up against these attacks of people
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  Speaker 2: that are trying to literally kill them. I want you
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  Speaker 2: to stand with the Jewish people by providing an emergency
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  Speaker 2: bomb shelter or an emergency bomb shelter kit. That is
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  Speaker 2: Israel right now. Senator, this all started with a conversation
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  Speaker 2: on CNN. The President was doing an exclusive interview on
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  Speaker 2: that friendly network, and this is what he said about
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  Speaker 2: what's happening right now.
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  Speaker 1: In the warning to Israel, I made it clear.
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  Speaker 4: That if they go into Rafa, they haven't gone on
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  Speaker 4: Raffa yet, they go into Rafa, I'm not supplying the
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  Speaker 4: weapons that have been used historically to deal with RAFA,
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  Speaker 4: to deal with the cities, to deal with that problem.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to continue to make sure because you're less
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  Speaker 4: secure in terms of Iron Dome and they're ability to
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  Speaker 4: respond to its tacks like came out of you.
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  Speaker 5: And the least recently.
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  Speaker 4: But it's just wrong. We're going to we're not going
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  Speaker 4: to supply the weapons and the artillery shells use that
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  Speaker 4: have been used, artillery shells as well, Yeah, artillery shells.
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  Speaker 1: He calls Israel to fing themselves. It's just wrong.
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  Speaker 2: And to be clear, Senator, for everyone that may not
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  Speaker 2: understand this, the terrorists have moved into Rafa, They've moved
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  Speaker 2: out of much of Gaza. This is now where they're regrouping.
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  Speaker 2: And what the President just said was you cannot go
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  Speaker 2: after them.
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  Speaker 3: Well and understand also, this is the culmination of Joe Biden,
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats lying to the American people week after week
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  Speaker 3: after week. Just a few weeks ago, Congress passed the
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  Speaker 3: foreign aid bill that Biden was pressing ferociously for. And
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  Speaker 3: the lynchpin of that foreign aid bill was Israel Aid.
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  Speaker 3: And the reason that Congress was told you got to
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  Speaker 3: vote for it is Israel military aid. And it was
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  Speaker 3: a big bipartisan vote. I voted no because number one,
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  Speaker 3: I said that this is going to provide nine billion
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  Speaker 3: dollars up to nine billion dollars that can go to Gaza,
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  Speaker 3: that can go to Hamas and I'm not interested in
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  Speaker 3: giving money to Hamas. Well, it turned out that the
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  Speaker 3: first aid shipment that went to Gaza, guess what, Hamma
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  Speaker 3: seized it. So literally the opening shipment, exactly what I
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  Speaker 3: said would happen is what did happen. But the bait
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  Speaker 3: and switch that the Biden White House convinced a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of Republicans and even maybe some Democrats to vote for
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  Speaker 3: this because it was military aid to Israel, because it
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  Speaker 3: was artillery shells to Israel as they needed. And as
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  Speaker 3: soon as Congress passes it, Biden comes along and says, nope,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to send it. I'm not sending it
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  Speaker 3: to Israel. It is astonishing. And i'll tell you Ben,
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  Speaker 3: last week I joined a number of other senators. We
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  Speaker 3: had a press conference on Capitol Hill. This Well, you
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  Speaker 3: were fired up, by the way, as you should be.
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  Speaker 2: You were angry, you were irritated, and it's got to
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  Speaker 2: feel like you're one of the lone voices right now
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  Speaker 2: that's standing with Israel.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't want to say I told you so,
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  Speaker 3: but I told you so. This is exactly what I
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  Speaker 3: said Biden would do. Have a listen to what I
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  Speaker 3: had said at the press conference. Well, security policy of
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  Speaker 3: Joe Biden the Democrats is precisely backwards. For three and
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  Speaker 3: a half years, Joe Biden the Democrats have undermined and
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  Speaker 3: weakened our friends and allies, and they have sent billions
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  Speaker 3: of dollars to our enemies. It is exactly opposite what
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  Speaker 3: you would be doing if you were actually focused on
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  Speaker 3: US national security interests.
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  Speaker 6: Let's look at our enemies.
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  Speaker 3: Tragically, Joe Biden has been the greatest friend the Ayatola
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  Speaker 3: Kameni has ever had on planet Earth. Tragically, Joe Biden
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  Speaker 3: has been the greatest friend Hamas and Hesbela that there
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  Speaker 3: is on planet Earth. Now, those sound like extraordinary statements.
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  Speaker 3: What are the facts Under the Biden presidency. This administration
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  Speaker 3: has flowed more than one hundred billion dollars into Iran,
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  Speaker 3: six billion dollars in ransom for five Americans, a policy
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  Speaker 3: which many of us said at the time would only
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  Speaker 3: lead to more Americans being taken hostage. And we saw
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  Speaker 3: tragically on October seventh that proved exactly right. Ten billion
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  Speaker 3: dollars in funds in Iraq, that the Biden administration wanted
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  Speaker 3: to flow to the Ayatola and then over eighty billion
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  Speaker 3: dollars in oil. When Joe Biden came into office, the
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  Speaker 3: Trump administration, with the active support of all of US,
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  Speaker 3: had vigorously imposed oil sanctions and had cut Iran's oil
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  Speaker 3: exports from one million barrels a day down to about
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  Speaker 3: three hundred thousand. The Iranian economy was in shambles, The
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  Speaker 3: Ayatola was on his knees. Joe Biden came in like
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  Speaker 3: the cavalry coming to the rescue and immediately stopped enforcing
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  Speaker 3: oil sanctions.
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  Speaker 6: And what happened.
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  Speaker 3: Iran's oil sales went from three hundred thousand barrels today
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  Speaker 3: to now more than two million barrels a day. Every
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  Speaker 3: one of those barrels is a gift from Joe Biden
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  Speaker 3: and the Democrats. That is over eighty billion dollars. Mind you,
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  Speaker 3: this is from the same administration that does everything they
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  Speaker 3: can to kill oil and gas production in America while
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  Speaker 3: allowing a theocratic iatola. Understand the Iotola chance with mobs,
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  Speaker 3: chance death to America and death to Israel. And Joe
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  Speaker 3: Biden has said, here's a hundred billion dollars. This seems
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  Speaker 3: like a great idea. And what happened with that hundred
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  Speaker 3: billion dollars, Well, ninety percent of Hamas's funding comes from Iran.
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  Speaker 3: Ninety percent of Hesbela's funding comes from Iran. October seventh
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  Speaker 3: was in a very real way funded by money given
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  Speaker 3: by Joe Biden and the Democrats to Iran and Hamas
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  Speaker 3: and hesbel And by the way, Biden also sent hundreds
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  Speaker 3: of millions of dollars into Gaza. Even though many of
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  Speaker 3: us said, if you send it to Gaza, it will
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  Speaker 3: go to Hamas and be used for terrorism.
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  Speaker 6: They knew that. They agreed with that.
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  Speaker 3: The Biden administration concluded it was quote highly likely the
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  Speaker 3: money would go to Hamas for terrorism.
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  Speaker 6: You know what they did.
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  Speaker 3: They waived the anti terrorism laws and said send it anyway.
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  Speaker 6: Where are we now?
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  Speaker 3: Where we are now is the Biden administration is sending
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  Speaker 3: money right now to Gaza. Many of us said, if
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  Speaker 3: you send the money to Gaza, it will be seized
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  Speaker 3: by Hamas.
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  Speaker 6: What happened.
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  Speaker 3: The first shipment came in and boom immediately seized by Hamas,
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  Speaker 3: exactly like we said, but they're combining it with blocking
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  Speaker 3: weapons to Israel. The Biden White House has been the
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  Speaker 3: most anti Israel administration this nation has ever seen. Literally
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  Speaker 3: from day one, the Biden White House has been undermining
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  Speaker 3: Israel at every step of the way. When October seventh happened,
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  Speaker 3: when Hamas's death squads were murdering twelve hundred innocent civilians,
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  Speaker 3: were raping women and little girls. While the attacks were happening,
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  Speaker 3: the Biden State Department sent out a tweet at three
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  Speaker 3: in the morning saying Israel must not retaliate, there should
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  Speaker 3: be no military response.
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  Speaker 6: That tweet was disgraceful.
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  Speaker 3: I called it out at three in the morning and
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  Speaker 3: they deleted the tweet within minutes. The next day, Tony
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  Speaker 3: Blink and the Secretary of State sent another tweet said
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  Speaker 3: I just talked with a Turkish foreign minister. We agreed
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  Speaker 3: Israel must not retaliate, must.
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  Speaker 6: Not strike back.
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  Speaker 3: I called that tweet out again, they deleted it again.
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  Speaker 6: Where are we today?
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  Speaker 3: Well, yesterday Joe Biden said quote, I made it clear
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  Speaker 3: if Israel goes into Rafa, I'm not supplying the weapons.
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  Speaker 3: We're not going to supply the weapons in the artillery shells.
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  Speaker 3: I will point out Joe Biden and the Democrats lied
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  Speaker 3: to the American people on the supplemental funding.
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  Speaker 6: Bill that was just voted.
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  Speaker 3: They claimed it was to provide military funding to Israel.
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  Speaker 6: We now know they were lying.
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  Speaker 3: It was instead to give money to Gaza and Hamas
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  Speaker 3: and everywhere else except Israel. We should have sent this
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  Speaker 3: military aid six months ago. Six months ago, many of
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  Speaker 3: us went to the Senate floor to force a vote
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  Speaker 3: on emergency military aid in November, right after October seventh.
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  Speaker 3: Every single Democrat voted no. It was a straight party
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  Speaker 3: line vote. A final observation, what Joe Biden is doing
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  Speaker 3: is not new. He has spent decades attacking and undermining Israel. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: it is true the radical left wing of the Democrat Party,
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  Speaker 3: the pro Hamas wing of the Democrat Party, is on
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  Speaker 3: the rises on campuses, and the Democrats are terrified of them.
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  Speaker 3: All of that is true. Yes, it is true. They're
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  Speaker 3: terrified they're going to lose Michigan unless they give in
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  Speaker 3: to the Prohamas wing of the Democrat Party. But understand,
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  Speaker 3: these sentiments are not new for Joe Biden. In nineteen
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  Speaker 3: eighty two, when, by the way, I was eleven years.
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  Speaker 6: Old, young there you go.
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  Speaker 3: Did in nineteen eighty two, Joe Biden was a senator
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  Speaker 3: from Delaware and he confronted Israel's Prime Minister Menachan Begen
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  Speaker 3: during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee testimony. And you know
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  Speaker 3: what Joe Biden was doing in nineteen eighty two, same
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  Speaker 3: damn thing he's doing in twenty twenty four. He threatened
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  Speaker 3: to cut off aid to Israel in nineteen eighty two,
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  Speaker 3: and Prime Minister Began responded as follows, quote, don't threaten
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  Speaker 3: us with cutting off your aid. It will not work.
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  Speaker 3: I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am
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  Speaker 3: a proud Jew with three thousand, seven hundred years of
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  Speaker 3: civilized history. Nobody came to our our aid when we
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  Speaker 3: were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came
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  Speaker 3: to our aid when we were striving to create our country.
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  Speaker 3: We paid for it, we fought for it, we died
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  Speaker 3: for it. We will stand by our principles, we will
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  Speaker 3: defend them, and when necessary, we will die for them
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  Speaker 3: again with or without your aid.
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  Speaker 2: Senator, you obviously had a lot to say, and it
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  Speaker 2: was important that it was said. And one of the
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  Speaker 2: questions I have to ask you is it's pretty clear
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  Speaker 2: that Joe Biden has changed he's now not just undermining Israel,
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  Speaker 2: he's literally telling the terrorists this is how you beat them.
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  Speaker 2: You go to populated areas and I won't give them
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  Speaker 2: what they need to come get you, and I will
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  Speaker 2: attack them in the process by saying you better stay
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  Speaker 2: within your area, Israel, or you're going to lose America.
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  Speaker 2: Even though twenty four hours before he said that there
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  Speaker 2: was an ironclad relationship. Well, if you ask Israel, I
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  Speaker 2: doubt they would say that it's iron clad. If this
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  Speaker 2: is how you're treating our most important now I in
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  Speaker 2: the Middle East.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I actually don't think Joe Biden has changed much.
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  Speaker 3: As I mentioned there, he was doing this in nineteen
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  Speaker 3: eighty two when I was eleven. Were you even born
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  Speaker 3: in eighty two? Men eighty one, I was one years old,
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  Speaker 3: So you are a bouncing bundle of joy while Joe
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  Speaker 3: Biden was trying to cut off aid to Israel even
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  Speaker 3: back then. And look, I'm reminded of what Bob Gates,
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  Speaker 3: who was the Secretary of Defense under Obama said. He said,
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  Speaker 3: Joe Biden has been wrong on every foreign policy issue
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  Speaker 3: for forty years. That's just the reality. Biden consistently give
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  Speaker 3: us an enemy and Joe Biden wants to show weakness
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  Speaker 3: to that enemy, appease that enemy, and send them billions
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  Speaker 3: of dollars. I do not understand what goes through the
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  Speaker 3: mind of a leftist who, to use the classic phrase
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  Speaker 3: from The Simpsons, is a cheese eating surrender monkey. Like
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  Speaker 3: whenever someone is our enemy, the Ayatola give them billions,
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  Speaker 3: Jusha give them billions, China give them billions, North Korea
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  Speaker 3: give them billions. Venezuela give them billions. If you are
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  Speaker 3: an enemy, Cuba, give them billions. If you're an enemy
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  Speaker 3: of America, count on Joe Biden the Democrats to be
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  Speaker 3: santi Claus and come with cash. If you're a friend,
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  Speaker 3: count on to do what they're doing to Israel, sail
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  Speaker 3: you and starve you.
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  Speaker 2: So in other words, where you're saying is is Joe
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  Speaker 2: Biden basically is a guy that's been anti Israel when
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  Speaker 2: it really matters and when he politically needed to act
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  Speaker 2: like he was pro Israel. I'll give a perfect example
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  Speaker 2: of this PBS News Hour. Back in twenty nineteen, he
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  Speaker 2: said that his own policy now was basically crazy and
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  Speaker 2: was a deadly policy. Listen to what he said in
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  Speaker 2: nineteen News.
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  Speaker 7: This week, to the extent that some of the Democrats
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  Speaker 7: are saying that if because of Israel's settlements policy that
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  Speaker 7: they would look at cutting off military aid to Israel
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  Speaker 7: as a result of.
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  Speaker 5: That, it'd be a tragic mistake. I strongly opposed Israel's
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  Speaker 5: settlement policy on the West Bank. I've made that clear
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  Speaker 5: to BB when we're I was vice president, I've made
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  Speaker 5: it crystal clear to the Israelis. But the idea that
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  Speaker 5: we would cut off military aid to an ally, our
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  Speaker 5: only true, true ally in the entire region, is absolutely preposterous,
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  Speaker 5: just beyond my comprehension. Anyone would do that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's what he just did.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what he just said.
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  Speaker 3: What he said was preposterous, beyond my comprehension. And let
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  Speaker 3: me tell you something else he did, and this has
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  Speaker 3: gotten almost no coverage, But do you know what he
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  Speaker 3: did the day four he announced that he was going
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  Speaker 3: to cut off aid Israel?
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  Speaker 1: What was that?
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  Speaker 3: He issued a sanctions waiver to allow arm sails to Cutter,
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  Speaker 3: Lebanon and Iraq. Hamas Alah ally Cutter. Cutter is where
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  Speaker 3: the Hamas leadership is headquartered. And there are right now
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  Speaker 3: sanctions on weapons sales to countries that boycott Israel, and
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  Speaker 3: the Biden administration very quietly waived those sanctions in order
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  Speaker 3: in order for the administration to sell allies to Cutter
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  Speaker 3: Lebanon in Iraq the day before they cut off arms
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  Speaker 3: arms transfers to Israel. Now that has gotten virtually no coverage.
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  Speaker 2: But how does that mean in practicality for people that
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  Speaker 2: don't understand how big of a deal that actually is.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it is US law that if a country boycott Israel,
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  Speaker 3: we cannot sell weapons to them. Many sanctioned laws are
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  Speaker 3: written with a presidential waiver written into them. Well, what
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  Speaker 3: Biden just did is waived that sanctioned law. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: I mentioned before in that press conference, we have in
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  Speaker 3: place anti terrorism laws that says, you say you can't
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  Speaker 3: send money if it is likely that money will be
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  Speaker 3: used for terrorism. The beginning of the Biden administration, there
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  Speaker 3: was a dispute over whether or not to send hundreds
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  Speaker 3: of millions of dollars to Gaza. I joined with a
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  Speaker 3: total of nineteen senators urging the administration.
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  Speaker 1: Don't do it.
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  Speaker 3: And I said early on, if you send hundreds of
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  Speaker 3: millions of dollars to Gaza, it will go to Hamas.
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  Speaker 3: Why do I know that? Well, for one thing, Hamas
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  Speaker 3: is the government of Gaza. They are the elected leadership
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  Speaker 3: of Gaza. They control Gaza. There is a decade's long
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  Speaker 3: history of aid going into Gaza being directly diverted by
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  Speaker 3: Hamas and used for terrorism. Look that the international world
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  Speaker 3: would send in things like money to rebuild schools, and
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  Speaker 3: they take the concrete, they'd build underground tunnels from which
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  Speaker 3: to conduct terror. That they'd send in water pipes so
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  Speaker 3: you could put in fresh water and sewage, and Hamas
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  Speaker 3: would seize the water pipes, cut it into portions, and
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  Speaker 3: turn it into missiles. Use the water pipes, steal it
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  Speaker 3: on both ends, cut it off, and turn it into
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  Speaker 3: rockets to fire into Israel. Hamas's obsession is with murdering
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  Speaker 3: as many Jews as possible. And so I urged the
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  Speaker 3: Biden administration don't send money to Gaza. Trump had cut
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  Speaker 3: it off. I'd urged Trump to cut it off, and
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  Speaker 3: he did. When Biden came in, it was clear they
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  Speaker 3: wanted to, and so I urged him not to. There
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  Speaker 3: were a group of about one hundred and fifty House
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  Speaker 3: Democrats on the other side that urged Biden to send
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  Speaker 3: money to Gaza. This is early on, long before October seventh,
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  Speaker 3: even though it was clear that money would be used
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  Speaker 3: by Hamas for terrorism, And we now know how the
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  Speaker 3: Biden administration resolved that question, which is they determined internally
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: that it was quote highly likely that any money they
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: sent would be used by Hamas and diverted for terrorism. Now,
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: normally that'd be the end of the inquiry. If it's
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: highly likely it's going to go to terrorism, US anti
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: terrorism law says you can't send it.
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: Game over.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Well, as I mentioned, most sanctions laws are written with
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: a presidential waiver. So what did they do. They waive
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: the anti terrorism laws and said, well, we don't care
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: if it's used for terrorism. This is our political agenda,
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: and so we're going to send the money anyway. And
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: that is exactly so. It was Tuesday of last week,
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: which is the day before Joe Biden threatened to withhold
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: weapons from Israel, that the State Department informed Congress that
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: it intends to bypass laws that bar the United States
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: from selling weapons to nations that boycott Israel. And just
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: look at the contrast, why do they want to send
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: money and weapons to nations that support Hamas, and they
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: want to cut off weapons to Israel that is fighting Hamas.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Give me a conclusion other than the obvious conclusion that
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: this administration and the Democrats, like, there's a phrase I
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: use in the press conference, the pro Hamas wing of
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: the Democrat Party. Ben pause for a second and say,
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: what upside down crazy ass world are we living in?
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: That there's a Prohamas wing of the Democrat Party, but by.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: The way, is substantial and growing.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I don't want to engage in hyperbole. I
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: don't want to let like, normally, you know, respectable, normal
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: political party in the United States would support terrorists who
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: commit mass murder and rape and seek the genocide of
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: the Jewish people. You would think that that would be understandably,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: you know, outside of the ordinary bounds of political discourse.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: And yet there is a very real and growing Prohamas
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: wing of the Demosmocrat Party. And the sad thing is
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Joe Biden's policies. Name a person on planet Earth whose
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: policies have benefited Hamas more than Joe Biden. Let's be clear,
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: it's not Biden alone. It's easy to say, oh, Biden's
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: the problem. No, no, no, no, name a Democrat other than
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: John Fetterman who has shown even a tiny modicum of
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: courage to call out the administration and say this is wrong.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Stop sending money to Iran, stop sending money to Hamas,
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: stop boycotting Israel. The entire Democratic caucus in the Senate
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: is terrified to cross the Biden White House and the
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: pro hamas contingent of the party.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: In Fetterman, as you mentioned, deserves a lot of credit
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: for standing up to his party because he's obviously out
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: there by himself.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Yes, undoubtedly. I don't know where that has come from.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: It is not something I predicted when he was elected,
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: but I will give him credit. But the fact that
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: he's standing up. One of the things that's striking is
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: just how alone he is.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Yep that.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Where is anybody else? And by the way, I do
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: have to read a tweet because it's a tweet that
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: is really quite remarkable. So this is a tweet that
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Joe Biden sent on October eighteenth, twenty nineteen. I want
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: to read the tweet. Here's the tweet.
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: Quote.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: President Trump withheld congressionally appropriated aid to Ukraine unless they
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: granted him a political favor. It's the definition of quid
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: pro quo. This is no joke. Trump continues to put
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: his own personal political interest ahead of the national interest.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: He must be impeached. Now, that is precisely what Joe
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Biden has just done. In fact, I want to reread
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: that tweet, and all I'm going to do is I'm
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: going to replace the word Trump with the word Biden,
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: and I'm going to replace the word Ukraine with the
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: word Israel. Other than that, every word of this is
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: exactly what Joe Biden tweeted in twenty nineteen. Listen, President
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Biden withheld congressionally appropriated aid to Israel unless they granted
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: him a political favor. It's the definition of quid pro quo.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: This is no joke. Biden continues to put his own
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: personal political interests ahead of the national interest. He must
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: be impeached.
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  Speaker 2: what we've learned, and this actually came out in the
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  Speaker 2: Washington Post. The US apparently offers Israeli Israel intelligence and
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  Speaker 2: supplies an effort to avoid the RAFA invasion. Now this
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: is I think maybe a quid pro quo. Is that
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: how you would describe it?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I would say it's even worse than that. So
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: this is an article that came out in the Washington Post.
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  Speaker 3: So that was published to a lot of places, and
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: it was on May eleventh. The title of the article
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: is what you just said, US sites intelligence offers Israel
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: supplies to limit RAFA operation. Let me read to the
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: first couple of paragraphs, because it really is stunning news
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: when you understand quote, the Biden administration, working urgently to
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: stave off of full scale Israeli invasion of Rafa, is
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: offering Israel valuable assistance in an effort to persuade it
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: to hold back, including sensitive intelligence to help the Israeli
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: military pinpoint the location of Hamas leaders and find the
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: group's hidden tunnels, according to four people familiar with the
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: US offers. Now I want you to pause and understand
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: what that means. It means the Biden administration is saying
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: that right now they know where senior Hamas leaders are,
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: and right now they are not telling Israel where the
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: senior Hamas leaders are. That also means that Biden is saying,
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: right now, the administration knows where Hamasa's hidden tunnels are,
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: and right now they are not telling Israel where the
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: hidden tunnels are. Now, I mentioned before that there is
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: a pro Hamas wing of the administration. What in the
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: hell Hamas murder twelve hundred israelis it is US policy
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: that Hamasa terrorists, by the way, they murdered over thirty Americans.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: And what this White House knows where the senior leaders
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: are and it's like, Nope, no, we're not going to
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: tell you. We're not going to tell you, Like, how
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: the hell is that possible? And now they're saying, well,
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: if you don't invade Rafa and go out after Hamas,
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: we'll tell you where the leadership is. That is truly stunning.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Isn't that the same thing that they were implying by
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: the way that Donald Trump they accused him and impeach him,
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: like the quid pro quo with Ukraine, member, I'll go
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: after the Bidens, even though that's not actually what it was.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: It was. The real quid pro quo back then was
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Joe Biden withholding a billion dollars from Ukraine until they
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: fired the prosecutor that was going after the company where
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: his son was getting paid and he was getting the
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: other kicked.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Look, look, Ben, I don't care. I don't care about
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: the quid pro quo. I don't care even about the
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: analogies to the Trump impeachment. Everyone knew at the time
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: that was a partisan exercise by Democrats because they hated Trump.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Had nothing to do with Ukraine, had nothing to do
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: with quid pro quo. It just had to do with
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: Orange Man bat It had to do with Trump derangement syndrome.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: We will weaponize impeachment to go after Trump. By the way,
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: it's the same thing that has led one, two, three
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: four Democrat prosecutions of Trump in the past year. It's
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: what led to the ridiculous circus playing out in the
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: New York trial court, just like the last ridiculous circus
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: that played out in a different New York trial court,
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: the one the the the civil trial that resulted in
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: a half billion dollar judgment against Trump, the current one
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: where Democrats are are living their their fantasy. This is
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: fantasy poured. And by the way, I don't mean in
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: terms of actual a porn star discussing salacious details. That's
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: actually the least pornographic thing for for leftists, they're just
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: loving seeing Trump dragged through the mud because they hate
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: his guts and so and so. I am less concerned
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: about the quid pro quot stuff than I am about
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: the simple reality. Given a choice between Israel and Hamas,
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: Joe Biden and today's Democrats over and over and over again,
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: choose Hamas. That is astonishing, It is idiotic, It is unprecedented,
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: it is dangerous, it is indefensible, and there are no
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: democrats defending it. Every Democrat ought to be asked, why,
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: given the choice between Israel and Hamas, do you choose
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: to give money and weapons to Hamas and blockade weapons
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: to Israel.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Well, let's go back quickly to you guys getting notified
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: about the president deciding to change this and to basically
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: go around the sanctions. So if I've got the list correct,
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: there's these newests. Hey, we're going to allow for these
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: weapons to be sold to places that are basically hate Israel.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: We have a ran that we have a little sanctions
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: on a RAN right now that we're not imposing, and
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: we have a president. This is coming also from the
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: New York Times Peter Baker that Biden privately threatened to
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: rethink its support for the war in a private call
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: with Netanyahu back in February. That would be two months
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: before doing so publicly. So lying to the American people
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: are misleading them. The White House didn't put it into
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: the readout of the call because they purposely were trying
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: to I would argue, cover up or avoid quote a
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: public blow up.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: And the New York Times has got this now.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: Now, look that's exactly right. This administration from the beginning
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: from January twentieth, twenty twenty one. They have been systematically
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: undermining Israel. And by the way, some Democrats will say,
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: well it's Net and Yahoo they hate. Look, there's a
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: unity government Israel. The entire War Cabinet supports going into Rafa.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: That Rafa is where the Hamas terrorists are, and Israel
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: is committed. We're going to destroy Hamas. The Biden administration
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: of the Democrats have decided they're going to use the
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: full force of the American government to try to protect
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: Tumas from Israel.
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  Speaker 2: Final question I have for you is this, if you
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  Speaker 2: to not protect yourself. You have a country that's supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be your ally, that they're heavily dependent on for
• 35:06
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  Speaker 2: you look at our withdrawal from Afghanistan, and then you
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  Speaker 2: look at what's happening in Russia Ukraine. If you're an
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  Speaker 2: ally of America right now, do you feel like you're
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  Speaker 2: and if you do, there will be major consequences that
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  Speaker 2: seems to be completely gone now in the world.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, I think every ally of America is questioning
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: how valuable is that with Joe Biden as president, being
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: an ally of America, you can't count on this administration.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: Let's take, for example, a country like Saudi Arabia. Listen,
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: I think if if Donald Trump had served a second term,
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Saudi Arabia would have joined the Abraham Accords. They were
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: very close to they were ready to do so. And
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: Biden came in and he immediately began undermining our allies,
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: including Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Arabia still has not joined
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: the Abraham Accords. And I think.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Explained the Abraham Accords th that are made not understand exactly.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: So the Abraham Accords were historic peace deals that Donald
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: Trump and his administration negotiated, and they were peace steals.
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  Speaker 3: They were peace accords between Israel and several Arab countries,
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  Speaker 3: since we'd seen peace between the Arabs and the Israelis,
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• 36:58
  Speaker 3: They were called the Abraham Accords with Israel. Now, I
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  Speaker 3: will say it was very sad when the Abraham Accords
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: were signed. Do you know how many Democrat senators showed
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: up with signing.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: I'm going to guess between zero and five zero. There
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: you go.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: By the way, when we opened our embassy in Jerusalem
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: in Israel, I was there, flew to Israel, I was
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  Speaker 3: there at Jerusalem. The day we opened the embassy happened
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: to be the seventieth anniversary of the creation of the
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: modern state of Israel. Do you know how many Democrats
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: were there, either senators or House members the day we
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: opened our embassy in Jerusalem. I'm going to go with
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: zero zero, not a one. Now, Joe Lieberman was there,
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: so you could say he was a former Democrat senator.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: But to be clear, the Democrats drove him out of
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: the party. And then last time he was reelected, he
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: was reelected as an independent because they'd beaten him in
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: the Democrat primary. So he had been a Democrat, but
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: he didn't lose his mind and decide that he hated Israel,
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: and so that was the closest we have. And by
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: the way, the defense that some Democrats gave as to
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: why they didn't go to the opening of the embassy
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: in Jerusalem, which by the way, many many Democrat senators
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: had claimed they supported for years. The defense they did
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: they gave as well. Trump didn't invite us.
• 38:12
  Speaker 6: You know what.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Trump didn't invite me either when they opened. When they
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: were opening the embassy, I said, I'm going. And by
• 38:20
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• 38:22
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• 38:24
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• 38:26
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• 38:29
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• 38:32
  Speaker 3: I flew down there. Mike Lee flew down there with me.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Lindsey Graham was down there, Dean Heller was there, there
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: were several Republican senators. I proposed to Mike, Katie, you
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: want to go to Israel for the opening the embassy
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: said absolutely, let's go, and we flew down. The reason
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: no Democrats were there is they didn't want to be there.
• 38:49
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• 38:51
  Speaker 3: Abraham Accords. And the point is the value of being
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  Speaker 3: an ally to America when Joe Biden and theffeckless Democrats
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  Speaker 3: are in charge is much much less than it used
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  Speaker 3: to be, and that's tragic. It should be really valuable
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  Speaker 3: if you're the government of Taiwan right now, you got
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  Speaker 3: And those are some big Chinese missiles and big, big
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  Speaker 3: Chinese amphibious vehicles that are looming on the horizon.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Great point, and it's shocking to see this administration doing
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