🕵️ FBI & Russia Investigation
- Discussion centers on new intelligence suggesting the FBI played a role in spreading the Trump-Russia collusion narrative before launching the Crossfire Hurricane probe.
- The hosts claim this was a coordinated effort involving the Clinton campaign, the Obama administration, and various intelligence agencies.
- Praise is given to John Ratcliffe for declassifying related documents.
- Andrew McCabe is mentioned as a likely candidate for prosecution due to alleged false testimony.
🎓 Harvard & Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
- The podcast shifts to concerns about foreign influence in U.S. universities, particularly Harvard’s alleged ties to the CCP.
- Whistleblower claims suggest Harvard has formal relationships with CCP entities and trains rising Chinese elites.
- The hosts argue this poses national security risks and accuse Harvard of being ideologically aligned with China.
- Reference is made to legislation aimed at banning Defense Department funding for universities with Confucius Institutes.
🇮🇱 Israel & U.S. Politics
- The hosts criticize Senate Democrats for increasingly opposing military aid to Israel.
- Bernie Sanders’ resolution to block weapons sales to Israel is discussed, with 27 Democrats voting in favor.
- The shift is portrayed as a rise in pro-Hamas sentiment within the Democratic Party.
- The podcast also condemns international governments (UK, France, Canada) for supporting Palestinian statehood post-October 7 attacks.
📰 Media Critique: The New York Times
- The hosts accuse the NYT of spreading Hamas propaganda via a misleading photo of a malnourished Gaza child.
- They claim the child’s condition was due to pre-existing health issues, not starvation caused by Israel.
- The NYT’s correction is criticized for being buried on a little-seen PR Twitter account.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome. It is Verdict with Ted Cruz week in Review,
Ben Ferguson with you, and here are the major stories
that you may have missed that we talked about this week.
First up, new intel on the FBI and how involved
they actually were in creating the Russia hoax. We'll explain
that to you in just a moment. Also, in a
new bombshell report, Harvard University having direct ties to the
(00:24):
Chinese Communist Party and the money they're funneling in is
truly incredible. And finally, Democrats go on the record with
official votes becoming more anti Israel than we've ever seen before.
It's the weekend review and it starts right now. I
want to move to the other topic that we mentioned earlier,
(00:45):
and that deals with the FBI right now and new
intel that's coming out, and I got to say a
lot of people are going to be shocked by it.
I'm not surprised at all by this, and I want
to get your take on now what we're learning about
the FBI with the Russia Russia Russia hoax and the
controversial Trump Russia actions predicted with alarming accuracy by foreign actors.
(01:11):
I mean, you look at this coming out now, and
it's just a joke. How incredible this whole I call
it a play. It was a movie. It's a script,
and everybody was playing on the script that they knew
was a lie.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
That's right. But I want to take a minute and
sort of pull the curtain back for our listeners. So
we do this podcast, and we do this podcast sometimes
late at night, so it is twelve to fifty five am.
So look, men is half asleep. To be honest, he's
been asleep for two hours and we woke him to
do this. So the headline of this story says that
(01:44):
it was predicted with alarming specificity. Yes, that's true, and
I want you all to know. We recorded this, and
this is one of the advantages doing a podcast. When
you record it and screw it up, you can just
stop and rewind and do it again. We recorded it
and twice Benjamin was unable to say the words specificity.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
He tried a tough ones specific I can't say it now.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
See, And I will confess I kept making it harder
because I kept saying fescipicity and.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I can say that word, no problem, right, that that
one's easy.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So finally, after after twice crashing and burning on saying specificity.
He just said with alarming accuracy. By the way, the
quote is not accuracy, it's specificity.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
But but I didn't say quote unquote. See I covered
myself there.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
You didn't say the word quote. But I just wanted
our listeners to know that that that, like the specificity.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
With meal at one am, that is accurate.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Not one am. It's twelve fifty seven. You got three
minutes till one am. All right, So let's cover the
under But but this is the important stuff to understand. Look,
these these are real human beings. I'm in my DC apartment.
You're in a hotel room, I think, is that right now?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I'm I'm in a house in Pinehurst, North Carolina. So
that's where the World Championships is.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Look that that that's pretty fancy and sishi. And you've
got to be up at like six thirty is tea time?
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
It's it's a six eighteen or something absurd.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Six eighteen all right, Benjamin. While you're at tea time,
I will be fast asleep, I.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Believe you, and you'll be dreaming about the alarming specifificity
the word I can you still can't say it.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Come on specificity, Just say it once specificity.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
There we go, there we go.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Look at that. By the way, you know what I
did Monday on the on the flight to DC.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Wait, say that again?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Do you know what I did Monday on the flight
to DC?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
What did you do?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I watched Happy Gilmore two. Have you seen that?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
It's so good? It is so good. I love when
they don't screw when they don't screw up a sequel
like Top Gun Maverick. They killed it right, Happy gil More.
It's been happy to.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Maybe better than Happy Gilmore, like really good.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And and by the way, did you see it coming?
Because I did not when hold on spoiler word if
you haven't been watched it yet, turned down for five seconds?
When that when he killed his wife with the golf ball?
Did I did not see that coming? Did you?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I did not see that coming either. I I will say,
by the way, as a complete aside, I've gotten to
know Adam Sandler's producer. You know, he's a big hoops player.
I gotta tell you. I'm told that Sandler. I've invited
him come play hoops with with me and he said yes,
So hadn't happened yet, But I'm actually really psyched because
(04:38):
Sandler and I are almost exactly the same age, and
he's a serious ballplayer. And as you know, I play
hoops twice a week.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I do. I say, count me in for that game.
I'd like to be there for that game.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Okay, don't injure Adam Sandler, Like he is a national
comedic treasure. And I will say, I've played hoops with you.
The last time I played hoops with you broke your finger.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You're a large I'm not worried about him. I'm worried
about me.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And you throw your body around pretty physically, which I admire.
Like I'm like, screw it. If you can't take the heat,
get out of the kitchen. But I'm just saying, don't
injure Adam Sandler.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
There you go. That'd be one heck of a headline, right.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
All right, let's get back. We actually had a story
to do, but I just had to I had to
call you out because you like magically edited out. You're
screwing up the word and yeah, so I just had
to like bring our listeners in and say, you know,
sometimes the magic of podcast is not exactly what you think.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
All right, Yeah, you know, I'm ready go for it.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I'm ready good, go ahead, say what you're gonna say.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
No, no, I was gonna say. So this is the
part that laugh when you when you do radio like
I did three three hours a day my producer Diaz,
who does this show as well, when that would happen.
The worst part is he's just laughing at me through
the glass on the other side of the wall because
it's live and there's nothing you can do to fix it,
and so he just laughs in my face. So now
this is like my weird revenge because for how many
(06:00):
years have we worked here Diez twelve, thirteen, fourteen, I
don't even know how many it is. He just used
to just laugh at me, and now he actually has
to go back and fix it. So I'm like, the
jokes on you, buddy, the jokes on you. So yeah,
when it's live, there's nothing you can do about it.
So with all that specificity, the word I can't say
is still denying. For some reason, let's get back to
the event.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I still have reported on this story with alarming fesipicity,
And let me read from the Fox News story quote,
US intelligence has credible foreign sources indicating that the FBI
would play a role in spreading the salacious Trump Russia
collusion narrative before the bureau ever launched its controversial Crossfire
(06:41):
Hurricane probe, sources familiar with the intel told Fox News
Digital see I director John Ratcliffe is expected to declassify
the underlying intelligence, including a classified annex related to former
Special Counsel John Durham's investigation into the origins of the
Trump Russia probe. A source familiar with the contents of
(07:03):
the class Fight annex told Fox News Digital that while
it may not have been exactly clear in the moment
what the intelligent collection meant, with the benefit of hindsight,
it predicted the FBI's move with alarming specificity, and it
goes on to.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Say, there's your quote.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
There you go quote. Ultimately, the release of the classifight
annex will lend more credibility to the assertion that there
was a coordinated plan inside the US government to help
the Clinton campaign stir up controversy connecting Trump to Russia.
The source who was granted anonymity to discussed the sense
of intelligence matters that have not yet been made public,
(07:43):
told Fox News Digital Quote mere days after this intelligence
was collected the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane. The source said, quote,
it is really hard to see how Brennan, Clapper and
Comy are going to be able to explain this away.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
You put that in perspective, and I think it's fair
to say at this point, everything we were hearing during
the back of the day on this it was all
just straight up government propaganda and the media was one
hundred percent in on it.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Well, it was not just government propaganda. It was driven
by the Hillary Clinton campaign. It was opposition research that
they paid for and then they gave to the Obama
administration to launder it. They laundered it through the FBI,
They laundered it through the Department of Justice, and in
it was the federal government attacking Donald Trump because they
did not want Donald Donald Trump to be president. And
(08:42):
the degree to which the government was complicit in partisan politics,
but not just partisan politics, partisan politics. That was false.
That was a lie. This was made up. The Russia
hoax was a hoax. It was concocted through the Hillary
Clinton campaign. It was laundered through the FBI and the
(09:04):
Department of Justice, and it was a lie. That was
a political attack job. And I want to commend John Ratcliffe,
the head of CIA, a good friend of mine, for
making this public, for drawing accountability and truth to what occurred.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
What do you think is going to come from this?
Because there's so many I think just gruntled and frustrated
Americans that hear those things and like, all right, we're
now getting more and more confirmation this happened. Will there
be any real accountability? And does this move us closer
to that? So?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I hope so that there needs to be accountability. And
I will say, you have Tulca Gabbard who released her
bombshell information about the degree of the complicity of the administration,
And if you didn't hear our podcast last week on this,
you should listen to the podcast on Tulsi Gabbert's bombshell information.
(10:00):
I hope there is accountability. I call on on the
Department of Justice. I also had when I was having
drinks with the Army Secretary, I also had drinks with
the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, and so
I was urging DOJ follow the facts and prosecute anyone
who is complicit. There are challenges because some of the
people who were involved in this, their criminal conduct was
(10:23):
before the statute of limitations expired, and so it is
harder to prosecute someone who committed criminal conduct after the
statute limitations has expired. Andrew McCabe, who was the Deputy
Director of the FBI, he testified before Congress. He testified falsely,
and the statute of limitations has not yet expired on
his testimony. So if I were to predict the single
(10:44):
most likely person in the Obama administration of face prosecution,
it would be Andrew McCabe, because there's still a window
where he lied to Congress and it's within the statute limitations.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Really incredible. We're going to keep you update on all this.
Don't forget to hit that subscribe or auto day. I
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see you back here in a couple of days. Now,
if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
you can go back and listen to the full podcast
from earlier this week. Now onto story number two, Senator,
(11:18):
I want to move to this new report that's come out,
and it is something that we have been really like
raising the flag on saying pay attention to this, be
careful where you send your kids to college, Be careful
that they're going to be indoctrinated to hate America, and
be careful where you send your kids because there's a
(11:38):
lot of money that's coming in from countries that are
trying to undermine America and hate America. We're now seeing
more of this at Harvard, with Harvard's ties now directly
to the Chinese Communist Party elites. That has been revealed
on a level we haven't seen before, and it's even
(11:58):
more shocking of where Harvard's getting their cash. And look,
China is not doing this because they like Harvard. They're
clearly doing it for.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Influence, unquestionably, and you know, some have criticized the Trump
administration going after Harvard University. Harvard is the most influential
university on the face of the planet, and it also
many universities in America have been in bed with the
Chinese Communist Party. The Chinese government spends millions of dollars
(12:29):
trying to get influence and trying to brainwash our students,
trying to control our universities, and far too many universities
have been really eager to participate in that, and Harvard
has been right at the front of the list. Well
this week that the House of Representatives has an investigation
and they sent a letter to the President of Harvard.
This is a letter from John Mullinar, who is the
chairman of the Select Committee on the CCP in the House.
(12:52):
It's from Tim Wahlberg, who's the chairman of the House
Committee on Education and Workforce. And it's from Elie Steffonic,
who's the chairwoman of House Republican Leadership. And here's what
the letter says. It's addressed to the President of Harvard University,
Alan Garber, and it says, Dear President Garber, the Select
Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and the Committee on
Education and Workforce have identified new evidence related to Harvard
(13:13):
University's connections to the Chinese Communist Party and request additional information.
During our investigation, multiple whistleblowers told us that Harvard has
maintained close formal relationships directly with Chinese Communist Party entities. Specifically,
whistleblower information revealed ties between Harvard and the Central Organization
(13:36):
Department of the Central Committee of the CCP, as well
as certain Chinese government entities. The CCP Organization Department is
one of the most powerful bodies within the Communist Party.
It is responsible for the regimated, regimented training program centered
on Shijingping thought provided to the party elites, and controls
(13:57):
the placement of CCP members in keilh leadership positions. The
whistleblowers also revealed that Harvard cultivates ties with elite CCP members.
For example, whistleblowers reveal that the Harvard Kennedy School hosts
a formal partnership with the Chinese Executive Leadership Academy Poodong,
which is controlled by the CCP Organization Department. Under that partnership,
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the rising CCP elite, who are being prepared for senior
Communist Party leadership positions, participate in training at Harvard in
the United States. Additional publicly available information indicates that some
of these relationships have been in place for at least
a decade. In twenty sixteen, a high ranking member of
(14:42):
the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences stated that Chinese Quote
Party and government cadres participate in education and training run
by the CCP Organization Department. The Chinese government sends some
cadres ABA abroad to the John F. Kennedy School of
Governm at Harvard University. This is shocking and it certainly
(15:06):
appears from this investigation. And they request all documents related
to any engagement between Harvard and the CCP and the
government of China, and a list of all money that
has come from China and the Chinese government. And my
prediction is Harvard is going to fight tooth and nail
not to turn this over because they don't want people
to know just how eager they have been to be
(15:29):
in bed with the communists running the Chinese government.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Can we also just be very queer, like China doesn't
do this because they like higher education or they're just
trying to get let's say they're students in That would
be like the most g rated version of the story
that you could tell. They're doing this to buy genuine
influence at the highest levels in academia and America. And
also this could have major consequences for the US when
(15:55):
it comes to national security or spies and countless other
infiltration activities that they're part of all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Look, that's exactly right. You look at Harvard trains many
of our nation's elite. For example, I just typed in
a a quick list on on on Ai how many
senators went to Harvard, and Ai promptly gave me an answer.
There are currently twelve Senators who are Harvard alumni. And
I will admit sadly that it came back and says
(16:25):
the list includes individuals like Ted Cruz, Tim Kane, Jack Reed,
Chuck Schumer, and Mitt Romney. So so I'm a little
embarrassed to be the first name on that list. Uh.
But that is part of the reason that that that
that Harvard puts that that Harvard, that China puts that
money into Harvard, into Columbia, into elite universities across this country,
(16:46):
is they want to train America's leaders. They want to
train members of Congress, they want to train members of
the executive branch, they want to train federal judges. They
want to train the foreign pologies apparatus uh and and
and they are trying to train them uh and and
they're trying into propaganda as they use this for brainwashing,
they use this for espionage. And and far too many
(17:07):
of our universities have been so eager to take the
money that that that they have welcomed Chinese communists with
open arms.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
When you look at where they are right now and
you look at Harvard. Is this just about the money,
do you think? Or is this also about the fact
that Harvard has no problem agreeing on a lot of
issues with China.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Well, it's both and and listen, the Harvard faculty is
is hard left. One one point I've said many times
is that when I was a student at Harvard Law School,
there were more professors who were Communists than there were
who were Republicans. And that's not hyperbole. That there were
at least a dozen professors who openly said they were Marxists,
(17:49):
that they were followers of the teachers teachings of Karl
Marx and and followers of you know, Karl Marx is
the father of communism. That when I was a student,
there there was only one professor who owned openly identified
as Republican. That was Charles Freed. And by the way,
Charles Freed, the loan Republican on the faculty voted for
Barack Obama, so so their loan Republican voted for Obama
(18:11):
as well. That that was the range of thought thirty
years ago, and it is much much worse now, as
you know, my most recent book is entitled Unwoke, How
to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America, And the opening chapter
talks about cultural Marxism, how it it grew at Harvard University,
(18:32):
it spread to universities throughout this country. It spread to
K through twelve, education, to journalism, to big business, to
big tech, to entertainment. Uh and and and sadly, you know,
I called the universities the Wuhan lab of the Woke
virus because they're where it was created, They're where it mutated,
and they're where it spread. And and and Harvard was
(18:53):
it was ground zero uh for that spread.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Final question on this, will Congress be able to really
anything on this issue to stop this type of money
coming into these universities? Look?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I hope.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
So.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
One of the very first pieces of legislation that I
passed thirteen years ago was legislation that banned Defense Department
money from going to universities that have Confucius institutes. Confucius
institutes were paid for by the Chinese Communist government. They
were at universities all over the country. I got that through,
I got that passed and signed into law. I actually
(19:28):
got bipartisan support for it. And as a result, dozens
of Confucius institutes shut down all over the country. So
we can make a real impact. I've got more legislation
to require transparency of foreign money going to universities. We
ought to know about it. And look, the Trump administration
is trying hard to expose this and to stop it,
(19:50):
and I salute the President for doing that.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
As before, if you want to hear the rest of
this conversation on this topic, you can go back and
dow the podcasts from earlier this week to here the
entire thing. I want to get back to the big
story number three of the week you may have missed.
I want to get to this other big issue, and
that is Democrats are not just abandoning Israel. They are
(20:13):
straight up anti Israel, and they're showing it now as
they're voting. A record number of Senate Democrats are going
to block weapons sales to Israel. They're doing it numbers
we've never seen before. And this on top of the
fact that The New York Times has had to basically
correct the claim about a viral photo of a starving
(20:36):
Gaza boy they blamed on Israel and actually wasn't true
at all, and they didn't correct it like in the paper.
They did it on X on their PR account that
no one follows this is now how bad it's gotten
not only in the media but also in DC.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Well, you know, when I arrived in the Senate thirteen
years ago, there was meaningful bipartisan support for Israel. It
was one of the issues that you see Republicans and
Democrats come together. Twenty thirteen, when I got here was
the beginning of the second term of Barack Obama, and
Barack Obama began to turn the Democrat Party against Israel.
(21:13):
That turn accelerated dramatically during the Biden administration, and Joe
Biden ended up being the most anti Israel president and
the most anti Israel administration we've ever seen. Joe Biden,
in the midst of a war that Israel was in,
cut off weapons, froze weapons to Israel, and did so
specifically to prevent Israel from killing terrorists Hamas, terrorists who
(21:35):
had attacked Israel viciously in one of the most horrific
terrorist attack in world history October seventh, where Hamas murdered
over twelve hundred civilians, targeted civilians, directly, raped and murdered women,
and little girls, and the Democrats, looking at the aftermath
of this, more and more of them decided they stand
(21:58):
with Hamas, and sadly, there is a real and growing
pro Hamas contingent of the Democrat Party today. This week
Bernie Sanders brought a resolution trying to block weapons sales
to Israel. Now, Bernie Sanders has been rabidly anti Israel
for a long time. Most left wing socialists and Marxist are,
(22:20):
but Bernie Sanders resolutions trying to cut off Israel usually failed,
and usually failed with a big, big vote. Well, this
week the Senate rejected it again, and we rejected it
by a vote of seventy to twenty seven. But there
were twenty seven votes in favor of Bernie Sanders's resolution.
There are only forty seven Democrats in the Senate. That
(22:40):
means more than half of the Senate Democrats voted to
cut off funding for Israel. That is a dramatic shift.
And by the way, if you compare it to in April,
we had a similar vote and only fifteen Democrats voted
for it. In November of twenty twenty four, eighteen Democrats
voted for it, So moving up to twenty seven is
(23:02):
a major shift, and and and it is a disturbing
pattern where when faced with a choice, do we support
Hamas or do we support Israel, more and more Democrats
they're afraid of the AOC's, they're afraid of the Ilhan Omars,
they're afraid of the Rashida Talib's in the House, the
(23:22):
the pro Hamas squad, and they're also afraid of the
radical protesters on college campuses. Understand, those protesters are funded
by George Soros. They're funded by the same people who
fund the Democrat Party. And more and more elected Democrats
have decided that that that they will not anger the
pro Hamas radicals and and and so I've got to
(23:42):
say it is sad to see. Uh, but let me
ask you a question.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
By the way you mentioned yeah, well, and let me
ask you this. So, look, we know that there's more
people on the House side, so you'll get some you know,
fringe groups in the House side on the Democratic Party. Uh,
even like more hardcore conservacy in the past with conservative caucuses,
you can see numbers move there. The Senate's kind of
(24:08):
been like the place of elder statesmen, and like there's
certain issues that you kind of just see that like, hey,
we're going to be the adults in the room. I
think that's the scariest part of these votes I'm witnessing
now is this has moved from the House and the
radicals there that you kind of expected through that the
AOC and her group, right, you expect it. But now
(24:31):
it's moved into the Senate Chamber. And that is really
I think telling about the anti semitism of the Democratic Party.
Am I wrong?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
More than half of the Senate Democrats voted to cut
off military funding for Israel. That's a milestone that's never
happened before. And by the way, it happened at the
exact same time that we saw three governments worldwide, governments
of US allies but that are led by leftists, the
government of the United Kingdom, the Government France, and the
(25:00):
government of Canada all came out in favor of recognizing
an independent Palestinian state. And I want you to think
about the message that the UK and France and Canada
are saying. They're saying to Hamas, your terrorism worked. They're
saying to Hamas, We're glad you murdered twelve hundred innocent civilians.
We're glad you raped women and little girls. By the way,
(25:21):
they're also saying to Hamas, we're glad you continue to
keep hostages to this day. You do not release the hostages.
They're saying to Hamas, we're glad you're responsible for starving
Palestinians and Gaza. Understand that the human suffering in Gaza
is the direct result of Hamas. Hamas could end this
right now. And Donald Trump, by contrast, put out a
(25:42):
tweet this week and he said Hamas could end the
suffering right now by stopping fighting and releasing the hostages.
They don't want to, and in fact, Hamas is actively negotiating,
you know what, they're negotiating for cut off food aid
for Palestinians in Gaza. We Hamas want to control all
(26:02):
the food because it's one of the ways we keep
in power is by starving anyone who opposes us. That
is who the United Kingdom and France and the Canadian
government is supporting. And that is also sadly who now
a majority of Senate Democrats are supporting.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
You also look at the media, and there's a second
part of this conversation. The New York Times has had
to roll back acclaim they put it out there of
a viral photo of a starving Gaza boy. It was propaganda.
It was clearly propaganda from the terrorists and those that
want you to somehow believe that Israel's starving kids. It
(26:45):
did not happen that way at all. The New York
Times was forced to correct it, and I think they
did it in such a just a disgusting way because
they issued their statement sharing how they quote originally didn't
include dude, this boy's pre existing health condition, But they
didn't really do it in the newspaper like on the
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front page, where the same way they did the picture.
The damage has already been done. They corrected the story
by going to the New York Times p R Twitter,
not even the New York Times Twitter account, the New
York Times pr account that virtually no one's gonna see.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Yeah, look, this was not a picture that that they
just had as a kind of side note in a
small story. This is a picture the New York Times
put on the front page. It occupies more than half
of the front page, above the fold. It is a
massive picture, and it's a horrible picture. It's a picture
of a little boy. He appears to be starving his
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spine is sticking out. I mean, it's a very disturbing.
It's an eighteen month old child, which which they they
said he was starving, He faced life threatening malnutrition, and
they blamed that on Israel and they used it to
put USh Hamas's propaganda. After they did that, the New
(28:05):
York Times was forced to issue a correction. And they
did the correction, as you noted on Twitter, where no
one would see it. And their correction says that what
they didn't tell people. Here's what their statement was. Quote.
Children in Gaza are malnourished and starving, as New York
reporters and others have documented. We recently ran a story
about Gaza's most vulnerable civilians, including Mohammad Zakira al Mataqua,
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who is about eighteen months old and suffers from severe malnutrition.
We have since learned new information, including from the hospital
that has treated him and his medical records, and have
updated our story to add context about his pre existing
health problems. This additional detail gives readers greater understanding of
his situation. Our reporters and photographers continue to report from
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Gaza bravely, sensitively, and at personal risk, so that our
readers can see firsthand the consequences of the war. That's
their fairly ridiculous retraction where they admit their lying to you.
Now here's what they didn't tell us. That Muhamma's mother
indicated that her son suffers from quote a muscle disorder
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through which he received specialized nutrition and physical therapy. And
another journalist reported the young boy has quote cerebral palsy
hypo exemia and was born with a serious genetic order.
So they showed a child who's very sick, but he's
not very sick from starvation, he's very sick from other
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medical conditions. And The New York Times happily plays the
role of Hamas's propagandists, and sadly senate Democrats are cheering
on that false propaganda. Interestingly enough, the pattern of this
is exactly the same as the pattern of Hillary Clinton
signing off on the false Russia story. It is take
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a lie, count on the corporate media to spread that lie,
count on Democrat politicians to spread that and not lie,
and count on friendly governments to spread that lie as well.
And everyone involves knows they are lying, but their political
agenda in this instance they hate Israel. They want to
undermine Israel and they want to elevate Hamas and sadly
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that more and more senate Democrats are falling into that camp.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
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Welcome. It is Verdict with Ted Cruz week in Review,
Ben Ferguson with you, and here are the major stories
that you may have missed that we talked about this week.
First up, new intel on the FBI and how involved
they actually were in creating the Russia hoax. We'll explain
that to you in just a moment. Also, in a
new bombshell report, Harvard University having direct ties to the
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Chinese Communist Party and the money they're funneling in is
truly incredible. And finally, Democrats go on the record with
official votes becoming more anti Israel than we've ever seen before.
It's the weekend review and it starts right now. I
want to move to the other topic that we mentioned earlier,
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and that deals with the FBI right now and new
intel that's coming out, and I got to say a
lot of people are going to be shocked by it.
I'm not surprised at all by this, and I want
to get your take on now what we're learning about
the FBI with the Russia Russia Russia hoax and the
controversial Trump Russia actions predicted with alarming accuracy by foreign actors.
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I mean, you look at this coming out now, and
it's just a joke. How incredible this whole I call
it a play. It was a movie. It's a script,
and everybody was playing on the script that they knew
was a lie.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
That's right. But I want to take a minute and
sort of pull the curtain back for our listeners. So
we do this podcast, and we do this podcast sometimes
late at night, so it is twelve to fifty five am.
So look, men is half asleep. To be honest, he's
been asleep for two hours and we woke him to
do this. So the headline of this story says that
(01:44):
it was predicted with alarming specificity. Yes, that's true, and
I want you all to know. We recorded this, and
this is one of the advantages doing a podcast. When
you record it and screw it up, you can just
stop and rewind and do it again. We recorded it
and twice Benjamin was unable to say the words specificity.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
He tried a tough ones specific I can't say it now.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
See, And I will confess I kept making it harder
because I kept saying fescipicity and.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I can say that word, no problem, right, that that
one's easy.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So finally, after after twice crashing and burning on saying specificity.
He just said with alarming accuracy. By the way, the
quote is not accuracy, it's specificity.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
But but I didn't say quote unquote. See I covered
myself there.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
You didn't say the word quote. But I just wanted
our listeners to know that that that, like the specificity.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
With meal at one am, that is accurate.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Not one am. It's twelve fifty seven. You got three
minutes till one am. All right, So let's cover the
under But but this is the important stuff to understand. Look,
these these are real human beings. I'm in my DC apartment.
You're in a hotel room, I think, is that right now?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I'm I'm in a house in Pinehurst, North Carolina. So
that's where the World Championships is.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Look that that that's pretty fancy and sishi. And you've
got to be up at like six thirty is tea time?
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
It's it's a six eighteen or something absurd.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Six eighteen all right, Benjamin. While you're at tea time,
I will be fast asleep, I.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Believe you, and you'll be dreaming about the alarming specifificity
the word I can you still can't say it.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Come on specificity, Just say it once specificity.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
There we go, there we go.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Look at that. By the way, you know what I
did Monday on the on the flight to DC.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Wait, say that again?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Do you know what I did Monday on the flight
to DC?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
What did you do?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I watched Happy Gilmore two. Have you seen that?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
It's so good? It is so good. I love when
they don't screw when they don't screw up a sequel
like Top Gun Maverick. They killed it right, Happy gil More.
It's been happy to.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Maybe better than Happy Gilmore, like really good.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And and by the way, did you see it coming?
Because I did not when hold on spoiler word if
you haven't been watched it yet, turned down for five seconds?
When that when he killed his wife with the golf ball?
Did I did not see that coming? Did you?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I did not see that coming either. I I will say,
by the way, as a complete aside, I've gotten to
know Adam Sandler's producer. You know, he's a big hoops player.
I gotta tell you. I'm told that Sandler. I've invited
him come play hoops with with me and he said yes,
So hadn't happened yet, But I'm actually really psyched because
(04:38):
Sandler and I are almost exactly the same age, and
he's a serious ballplayer. And as you know, I play
hoops twice a week.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I do. I say, count me in for that game.
I'd like to be there for that game.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Okay, don't injure Adam Sandler, Like he is a national
comedic treasure. And I will say, I've played hoops with you.
The last time I played hoops with you broke your finger.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You're a large I'm not worried about him. I'm worried
about me.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And you throw your body around pretty physically, which I admire.
Like I'm like, screw it. If you can't take the heat,
get out of the kitchen. But I'm just saying, don't
injure Adam Sandler.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
There you go. That'd be one heck of a headline, right.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
All right, let's get back. We actually had a story
to do, but I just had to I had to
call you out because you like magically edited out. You're
screwing up the word and yeah, so I just had
to like bring our listeners in and say, you know,
sometimes the magic of podcast is not exactly what you think.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
All right, Yeah, you know, I'm ready go for it.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I'm ready good, go ahead, say what you're gonna say.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
No, no, I was gonna say. So this is the
part that laugh when you when you do radio like
I did three three hours a day my producer Diaz,
who does this show as well, when that would happen.
The worst part is he's just laughing at me through
the glass on the other side of the wall because
it's live and there's nothing you can do to fix it,
and so he just laughs in my face. So now
this is like my weird revenge because for how many
(06:00):
years have we worked here Diez twelve, thirteen, fourteen, I
don't even know how many it is. He just used
to just laugh at me, and now he actually has
to go back and fix it. So I'm like, the
jokes on you, buddy, the jokes on you. So yeah,
when it's live, there's nothing you can do about it.
So with all that specificity, the word I can't say
is still denying. For some reason, let's get back to
the event.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I still have reported on this story with alarming fesipicity,
And let me read from the Fox News story quote,
US intelligence has credible foreign sources indicating that the FBI
would play a role in spreading the salacious Trump Russia
collusion narrative before the bureau ever launched its controversial Crossfire
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Hurricane probe, sources familiar with the intel told Fox News
Digital see I director John Ratcliffe is expected to declassify
the underlying intelligence, including a classified annex related to former
Special Counsel John Durham's investigation into the origins of the
Trump Russia probe. A source familiar with the contents of
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the class Fight annex told Fox News Digital that while
it may not have been exactly clear in the moment
what the intelligent collection meant, with the benefit of hindsight,
it predicted the FBI's move with alarming specificity, and it
goes on to.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Say, there's your quote.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
There you go quote. Ultimately, the release of the classifight
annex will lend more credibility to the assertion that there
was a coordinated plan inside the US government to help
the Clinton campaign stir up controversy connecting Trump to Russia.
The source who was granted anonymity to discussed the sense
of intelligence matters that have not yet been made public,
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told Fox News Digital Quote mere days after this intelligence
was collected the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane. The source said, quote,
it is really hard to see how Brennan, Clapper and
Comy are going to be able to explain this away.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
You put that in perspective, and I think it's fair
to say at this point, everything we were hearing during
the back of the day on this it was all
just straight up government propaganda and the media was one
hundred percent in on it.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Well, it was not just government propaganda. It was driven
by the Hillary Clinton campaign. It was opposition research that
they paid for and then they gave to the Obama
administration to launder it. They laundered it through the FBI,
They laundered it through the Department of Justice, and in
it was the federal government attacking Donald Trump because they
did not want Donald Donald Trump to be president. And
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the degree to which the government was complicit in partisan politics,
but not just partisan politics, partisan politics. That was false.
That was a lie. This was made up. The Russia
hoax was a hoax. It was concocted through the Hillary
Clinton campaign. It was laundered through the FBI and the
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Department of Justice, and it was a lie. That was
a political attack job. And I want to commend John Ratcliffe,
the head of CIA, a good friend of mine, for
making this public, for drawing accountability and truth to what occurred.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
What do you think is going to come from this?
Because there's so many I think just gruntled and frustrated
Americans that hear those things and like, all right, we're
now getting more and more confirmation this happened. Will there
be any real accountability? And does this move us closer
to that? So?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I hope so that there needs to be accountability. And
I will say, you have Tulca Gabbard who released her
bombshell information about the degree of the complicity of the administration,
And if you didn't hear our podcast last week on this,
you should listen to the podcast on Tulsi Gabbert's bombshell information.
(10:00):
I hope there is accountability. I call on on the
Department of Justice. I also had when I was having
drinks with the Army Secretary, I also had drinks with
the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, and so
I was urging DOJ follow the facts and prosecute anyone
who is complicit. There are challenges because some of the
people who were involved in this, their criminal conduct was
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before the statute of limitations expired, and so it is
harder to prosecute someone who committed criminal conduct after the
statute limitations has expired. Andrew McCabe, who was the Deputy
Director of the FBI, he testified before Congress. He testified falsely,
and the statute of limitations has not yet expired on
his testimony. So if I were to predict the single
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most likely person in the Obama administration of face prosecution,
it would be Andrew McCabe, because there's still a window
where he lied to Congress and it's within the statute limitations.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Really incredible. We're going to keep you update on all this.
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if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
you can go back and listen to the full podcast
from earlier this week. Now onto story number two, Senator,
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I want to move to this new report that's come out,
and it is something that we have been really like
raising the flag on saying pay attention to this, be
careful where you send your kids to college, Be careful
that they're going to be indoctrinated to hate America, and
be careful where you send your kids because there's a
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lot of money that's coming in from countries that are
trying to undermine America and hate America. We're now seeing
more of this at Harvard, with Harvard's ties now directly
to the Chinese Communist Party elites. That has been revealed
on a level we haven't seen before, and it's even
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more shocking of where Harvard's getting their cash. And look,
China is not doing this because they like Harvard. They're
clearly doing it for.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Influence, unquestionably, and you know, some have criticized the Trump
administration going after Harvard University. Harvard is the most influential
university on the face of the planet, and it also
many universities in America have been in bed with the
Chinese Communist Party. The Chinese government spends millions of dollars
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trying to get influence and trying to brainwash our students,
trying to control our universities, and far too many universities
have been really eager to participate in that, and Harvard
has been right at the front of the list. Well
this week that the House of Representatives has an investigation
and they sent a letter to the President of Harvard.
This is a letter from John Mullinar, who is the
chairman of the Select Committee on the CCP in the House.
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It's from Tim Wahlberg, who's the chairman of the House
Committee on Education and Workforce. And it's from Elie Steffonic,
who's the chairwoman of House Republican Leadership. And here's what
the letter says. It's addressed to the President of Harvard University,
Alan Garber, and it says, Dear President Garber, the Select
Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and the Committee on
Education and Workforce have identified new evidence related to Harvard
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University's connections to the Chinese Communist Party and request additional information.
During our investigation, multiple whistleblowers told us that Harvard has
maintained close formal relationships directly with Chinese Communist Party entities. Specifically,
whistleblower information revealed ties between Harvard and the Central Organization
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Department of the Central Committee of the CCP, as well
as certain Chinese government entities. The CCP Organization Department is
one of the most powerful bodies within the Communist Party.
It is responsible for the regimated, regimented training program centered
on Shijingping thought provided to the party elites, and controls
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the placement of CCP members in keilh leadership positions. The
whistleblowers also revealed that Harvard cultivates ties with elite CCP members.
For example, whistleblowers reveal that the Harvard Kennedy School hosts
a formal partnership with the Chinese Executive Leadership Academy Poodong,
which is controlled by the CCP Organization Department. Under that partnership,
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the rising CCP elite, who are being prepared for senior
Communist Party leadership positions, participate in training at Harvard in
the United States. Additional publicly available information indicates that some
of these relationships have been in place for at least
a decade. In twenty sixteen, a high ranking member of
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the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences stated that Chinese Quote
Party and government cadres participate in education and training run
by the CCP Organization Department. The Chinese government sends some
cadres ABA abroad to the John F. Kennedy School of
Governm at Harvard University. This is shocking and it certainly
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appears from this investigation. And they request all documents related
to any engagement between Harvard and the CCP and the
government of China, and a list of all money that
has come from China and the Chinese government. And my
prediction is Harvard is going to fight tooth and nail
not to turn this over because they don't want people
to know just how eager they have been to be
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in bed with the communists running the Chinese government.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Can we also just be very queer, like China doesn't
do this because they like higher education or they're just
trying to get let's say they're students in That would
be like the most g rated version of the story
that you could tell. They're doing this to buy genuine
influence at the highest levels in academia and America. And
also this could have major consequences for the US when
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it comes to national security or spies and countless other
infiltration activities that they're part of all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Look, that's exactly right. You look at Harvard trains many
of our nation's elite. For example, I just typed in
a a quick list on on on Ai how many
senators went to Harvard, and Ai promptly gave me an answer.
There are currently twelve Senators who are Harvard alumni. And
I will admit sadly that it came back and says
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the list includes individuals like Ted Cruz, Tim Kane, Jack Reed,
Chuck Schumer, and Mitt Romney. So so I'm a little
embarrassed to be the first name on that list. Uh.
But that is part of the reason that that that
that Harvard puts that that Harvard, that China puts that
money into Harvard, into Columbia, into elite universities across this country,
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is they want to train America's leaders. They want to
train members of Congress, they want to train members of
the executive branch, they want to train federal judges. They
want to train the foreign pologies apparatus uh and and
and they are trying to train them uh and and
they're trying into propaganda as they use this for brainwashing,
they use this for espionage. And and far too many
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of our universities have been so eager to take the
money that that that they have welcomed Chinese communists with
open arms.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
When you look at where they are right now and
you look at Harvard. Is this just about the money,
do you think? Or is this also about the fact
that Harvard has no problem agreeing on a lot of
issues with China.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Well, it's both and and listen, the Harvard faculty is
is hard left. One one point I've said many times
is that when I was a student at Harvard Law School,
there were more professors who were Communists than there were
who were Republicans. And that's not hyperbole. That there were
at least a dozen professors who openly said they were Marxists,
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that they were followers of the teachers teachings of Karl
Marx and and followers of you know, Karl Marx is
the father of communism. That when I was a student,
there there was only one professor who owned openly identified
as Republican. That was Charles Freed. And by the way,
Charles Freed, the loan Republican on the faculty voted for
Barack Obama, so so their loan Republican voted for Obama
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as well. That that was the range of thought thirty
years ago, and it is much much worse now, as
you know, my most recent book is entitled Unwoke, How
to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America, And the opening chapter
talks about cultural Marxism, how it it grew at Harvard University,
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it spread to universities throughout this country. It spread to
K through twelve, education, to journalism, to big business, to
big tech, to entertainment. Uh and and and sadly, you know,
I called the universities the Wuhan lab of the Woke
virus because they're where it was created, They're where it mutated,
and they're where it spread. And and and Harvard was
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it was ground zero uh for that spread.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Final question on this, will Congress be able to really
anything on this issue to stop this type of money
coming into these universities? Look?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I hope.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
So.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
One of the very first pieces of legislation that I
passed thirteen years ago was legislation that banned Defense Department
money from going to universities that have Confucius institutes. Confucius
institutes were paid for by the Chinese Communist government. They
were at universities all over the country. I got that through,
I got that passed and signed into law. I actually
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got bipartisan support for it. And as a result, dozens
of Confucius institutes shut down all over the country. So
we can make a real impact. I've got more legislation
to require transparency of foreign money going to universities. We
ought to know about it. And look, the Trump administration
is trying hard to expose this and to stop it,
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and I salute the President for doing that.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
As before, if you want to hear the rest of
this conversation on this topic, you can go back and
dow the podcasts from earlier this week to here the
entire thing. I want to get back to the big
story number three of the week you may have missed.
I want to get to this other big issue, and
that is Democrats are not just abandoning Israel. They are
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straight up anti Israel, and they're showing it now as
they're voting. A record number of Senate Democrats are going
to block weapons sales to Israel. They're doing it numbers
we've never seen before. And this on top of the
fact that The New York Times has had to basically
correct the claim about a viral photo of a starving
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Gaza boy they blamed on Israel and actually wasn't true
at all, and they didn't correct it like in the paper.
They did it on X on their PR account that
no one follows this is now how bad it's gotten
not only in the media but also in DC.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Well, you know, when I arrived in the Senate thirteen
years ago, there was meaningful bipartisan support for Israel. It
was one of the issues that you see Republicans and
Democrats come together. Twenty thirteen, when I got here was
the beginning of the second term of Barack Obama, and
Barack Obama began to turn the Democrat Party against Israel.
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That turn accelerated dramatically during the Biden administration, and Joe
Biden ended up being the most anti Israel president and
the most anti Israel administration we've ever seen. Joe Biden,
in the midst of a war that Israel was in,
cut off weapons, froze weapons to Israel, and did so
specifically to prevent Israel from killing terrorists Hamas, terrorists who
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had attacked Israel viciously in one of the most horrific
terrorist attack in world history October seventh, where Hamas murdered
over twelve hundred civilians, targeted civilians, directly, raped and murdered women,
and little girls, and the Democrats, looking at the aftermath
of this, more and more of them decided they stand
(21:58):
with Hamas, and sadly, there is a real and growing
pro Hamas contingent of the Democrat Party today. This week
Bernie Sanders brought a resolution trying to block weapons sales
to Israel. Now, Bernie Sanders has been rabidly anti Israel
for a long time. Most left wing socialists and Marxist are,
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but Bernie Sanders resolutions trying to cut off Israel usually failed,
and usually failed with a big, big vote. Well, this
week the Senate rejected it again, and we rejected it
by a vote of seventy to twenty seven. But there
were twenty seven votes in favor of Bernie Sanders's resolution.
There are only forty seven Democrats in the Senate. That
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means more than half of the Senate Democrats voted to
cut off funding for Israel. That is a dramatic shift.
And by the way, if you compare it to in April,
we had a similar vote and only fifteen Democrats voted
for it. In November of twenty twenty four, eighteen Democrats
voted for it, So moving up to twenty seven is
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a major shift, and and and it is a disturbing
pattern where when faced with a choice, do we support
Hamas or do we support Israel, more and more Democrats
they're afraid of the AOC's, they're afraid of the Ilhan Omars,
they're afraid of the Rashida Talib's in the House, the
(23:22):
the pro Hamas squad, and they're also afraid of the
radical protesters on college campuses. Understand, those protesters are funded
by George Soros. They're funded by the same people who
fund the Democrat Party. And more and more elected Democrats
have decided that that that they will not anger the
pro Hamas radicals and and and so I've got to
(23:42):
say it is sad to see. Uh, but let me
ask you a question.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
By the way you mentioned yeah, well, and let me
ask you this. So, look, we know that there's more
people on the House side, so you'll get some you know,
fringe groups in the House side on the Democratic Party. Uh,
even like more hardcore conservacy in the past with conservative caucuses,
you can see numbers move there. The Senate's kind of
(24:08):
been like the place of elder statesmen, and like there's
certain issues that you kind of just see that like, hey,
we're going to be the adults in the room. I
think that's the scariest part of these votes I'm witnessing
now is this has moved from the House and the
radicals there that you kind of expected through that the
AOC and her group, right, you expect it. But now
(24:31):
it's moved into the Senate Chamber. And that is really
I think telling about the anti semitism of the Democratic Party.
Am I wrong?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
More than half of the Senate Democrats voted to cut
off military funding for Israel. That's a milestone that's never
happened before. And by the way, it happened at the
exact same time that we saw three governments worldwide, governments
of US allies but that are led by leftists, the
government of the United Kingdom, the Government France, and the
(25:00):
government of Canada all came out in favor of recognizing
an independent Palestinian state. And I want you to think
about the message that the UK and France and Canada
are saying. They're saying to Hamas, your terrorism worked. They're
saying to Hamas, We're glad you murdered twelve hundred innocent civilians.
We're glad you raped women and little girls. By the way,
(25:21):
they're also saying to Hamas, we're glad you continue to
keep hostages to this day. You do not release the hostages.
They're saying to Hamas, we're glad you're responsible for starving
Palestinians and Gaza. Understand that the human suffering in Gaza
is the direct result of Hamas. Hamas could end this
right now. And Donald Trump, by contrast, put out a
(25:42):
tweet this week and he said Hamas could end the
suffering right now by stopping fighting and releasing the hostages.
They don't want to, and in fact, Hamas is actively negotiating,
you know what, they're negotiating for cut off food aid
for Palestinians in Gaza. We Hamas want to control all
(26:02):
the food because it's one of the ways we keep
in power is by starving anyone who opposes us. That
is who the United Kingdom and France and the Canadian
government is supporting. And that is also sadly who now
a majority of Senate Democrats are supporting.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
You also look at the media, and there's a second
part of this conversation. The New York Times has had
to roll back acclaim they put it out there of
a viral photo of a starving Gaza boy. It was propaganda.
It was clearly propaganda from the terrorists and those that
want you to somehow believe that Israel's starving kids. It
(26:45):
did not happen that way at all. The New York
Times was forced to correct it, and I think they
did it in such a just a disgusting way because
they issued their statement sharing how they quote originally didn't
include dude, this boy's pre existing health condition, But they
didn't really do it in the newspaper like on the
(27:06):
front page, where the same way they did the picture.
The damage has already been done. They corrected the story
by going to the New York Times p R Twitter,
not even the New York Times Twitter account, the New
York Times pr account that virtually no one's gonna see.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Yeah, look, this was not a picture that that they
just had as a kind of side note in a
small story. This is a picture the New York Times
put on the front page. It occupies more than half
of the front page, above the fold. It is a
massive picture, and it's a horrible picture. It's a picture
of a little boy. He appears to be starving his
(27:44):
spine is sticking out. I mean, it's a very disturbing.
It's an eighteen month old child, which which they they
said he was starving, He faced life threatening malnutrition, and
they blamed that on Israel and they used it to
put USh Hamas's propaganda. After they did that, the New
(28:05):
York Times was forced to issue a correction. And they
did the correction, as you noted on Twitter, where no
one would see it. And their correction says that what
they didn't tell people. Here's what their statement was. Quote.
Children in Gaza are malnourished and starving, as New York
reporters and others have documented. We recently ran a story
about Gaza's most vulnerable civilians, including Mohammad Zakira al Mataqua,
(28:26):
who is about eighteen months old and suffers from severe malnutrition.
We have since learned new information, including from the hospital
that has treated him and his medical records, and have
updated our story to add context about his pre existing
health problems. This additional detail gives readers greater understanding of
his situation. Our reporters and photographers continue to report from
(28:48):
Gaza bravely, sensitively, and at personal risk, so that our
readers can see firsthand the consequences of the war. That's
their fairly ridiculous retraction where they admit their lying to you.
Now here's what they didn't tell us. That Muhamma's mother
indicated that her son suffers from quote a muscle disorder
(29:09):
through which he received specialized nutrition and physical therapy. And
another journalist reported the young boy has quote cerebral palsy
hypo exemia and was born with a serious genetic order.
So they showed a child who's very sick, but he's
not very sick from starvation, he's very sick from other
(29:31):
medical conditions. And The New York Times happily plays the
role of Hamas's propagandists, and sadly senate Democrats are cheering
on that false propaganda. Interestingly enough, the pattern of this
is exactly the same as the pattern of Hillary Clinton
signing off on the false Russia story. It is take
(29:53):
a lie, count on the corporate media to spread that lie,
count on Democrat politicians to spread that and not lie,
and count on friendly governments to spread that lie as well.
And everyone involves knows they are lying, but their political
agenda in this instance they hate Israel. They want to
undermine Israel and they want to elevate Hamas and sadly
(30:14):
that more and more senate Democrats are falling into that camp.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
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