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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
It is a special Sunday edition of Verdict with Senator
Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you, and I want to
let you know Monday's podcast is going to be very important.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
After Israel was attacked by Iran.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I also want to remind you of what Senator Cruz
and I predict it was going to happen when Democrats
and the Biden administration abandon Israel and said no to
giving them funding and what they needed. When it came
to arms, Democrats voting against this, which is truly shocking.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
That is part one. The other part about this that
we were.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Going to cover on Monday, and it's going to be
very important, is the fact that there were warnings from
Senator Cruz and others, you cannot give money to the
number one state sponsored terrorism in the world, Iran, and
that is exactly what Obama did, and it's exactly what
Joe Biden has done. We freed up billions of dollars,
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billions of dollars that we allowed Iran to get their
hands on. We also talked about the Iranian oil embargo.
We've allowed Iran to get around those embargoes, to skirt
those embargoes, which is the part that is also extremely
shocking with everything that we're talking about today. So I'm
going to go back and I'm going to play for
you a podcast that we did that talked exactly about
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Schumer and the Democrats blocking emergency funding for Israel. This
was the moment where Iran knew that they could attack Israel.
They realized that the president was weak and that the
President would not respond, and that the President was criticizing
Israel instead of criticizing Iran and Hamas and Hezbolah. This
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again is an important pod that we did, and I
remind you you do not want to miss tomorrow Monday
Mornings as well. We will have all of the senator's
reaction to what just happened with Iran attacking Israel, not
through their proxies, directly attacking them. We'll have all of
that for you coming up up on Monday Mornings.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Pod.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Until then, take a listen to this podcast we did
about Chuck shim Er the Democrats blocking emergency funding to Israel,
which was the moment.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
That I ran new that could get away with us.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I want to talk about this vote that happened where
every single Senate Democrat just voted to block aid to
Israel on a day when two hundred thousand plus came
to the steps of the capital to support Israel.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
This was shocking that every one of them said no.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well, that's exactly right. Today was a Momenta stay and look.
I spent this afternoon down at the mall with the
March for Israel, and we had hundreds of thousands of
people from all over America descend on Washington and stand
together for Israel, and it was inspirational. I spent a
lot of time down there just hugging people and encouraging
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them and taking pictures and saying thank you and the
spirit of unity. I mean, we've seen over the last month,
the nastiness we've seen, the vicious anti Semitism we've seen,
the hatred for Israel we've seen has been really horrifying.
And the March for Israel was spectacular to be a
part of. And then after that I came back to
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Capitol Hill and a group of us, a group of
Senators decided, Okay, enough is enough. We are going to
force a vote on military aid to Israel right now.
So as you know what happened. The House of Representatives
took up and passed a clean Israel aid bill fourteen
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billion dollars in emergency military aid for Israel. The Biden
White House wants to tie that military aid to Ukraine
and also more broadly, to their efforts to increase illegal immigration.
They call it, in a very Orwellian term, border security funding,
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but it's designed not to secure the border at all,
instead to increase illegal immigration, to accelerate the time for processing,
to spend more money to putting illegal immigrants on trains
and planes and buses to send them to every city
in America. And so the Biden White House is cynically
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trying to tie is relaid to all of that. The
House of Representatives did the right thing, something we've called
for on this podcast. Break Israel funding off and vote
for it free and clear. Now, when the House did that,
they decided to be fiscally responsible. They decided to pay
for it. I think that's the right thing to do.
And so the way they paid for the fourteen billion
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dollars is rescinding funding that the Democrats had previously passed
into law to hire eighty seven thousand new IRS agents
designed to harass small businesses middle class families to be
used as an army to go after the enemies of
this administration.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
So now you mentioned the vote and the numbers here,
there's some people that are going to be looking at
these numbers. It's very, very tight this vote. It was
obviously a party line vote. How on earth is it
that not a single Democrat would come over and stand
with Israel on this or was this just a hey,
we as a democratic party, we always vote together even if.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It screws Israel.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I mean, this is one of the most tone, tone
death votes I've ever witnessed, while there's literally two hundred
thousand plus people on the mall standing with Israel in
a nonpartisan way.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Look, this vote was a demonstration of what I describe
at great length in my brand new book Unwoke, How
to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America. By the way, if
you haven't bought it, gone to Amazon right now and
buy the book. Because this vote today was a manifestation
of that today's Democrats they don't give a damn about substance.
They care about power, and because the corrupt corporate media
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will not report on what they say, they are not
accountable for what they do. So here's what happens This
is one of the moments where this podcast is unusual
because I want to bring you inside the procedural maneuvering
in the Senate in a way that frankly, there's no
other news source that provides that. So I came back
from the march for Israel about four pm on the
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Capitol and I got a text as I was driving
back to the Capital from Roger Marshall, Roger Marshall, Republican
from Kansas, good friend. He said, a bunch of us
are meeting to try to force a vote on Israel
funding right now. So I deviated. I was going to
go to my office. I deviated to go to the
Senate floor. I was there with other Conservatives, people like
Mike Lee, who is my closest friend in the Senate,
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a number of others, and we were strategizing about how
we can force a vote, and in particular, there's a
procedural method called filing a rogue cloture petition, and what
that means is any sixteen senators can file a cloture petition,
which is a petition to force a vote on something
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and can basically hijack the Senate floor from the Senate
Majority leader and it is a procedural mechanism that is very,
very rarely used because both Schumer and McConnell hate it.
So McConnell had repeatedly urged us do not use this
mechanism because the majority leader should be able to control
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the entire agenda and it's a mistake to let the
minority hijack the agenda. Well, look, I understand that procedural point.
It's not crazy as a day to day operation of
the Senate.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
But here.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
The House had passed emergency military aid for Israel and
Chuck Schumer had announced we will not vote on it.
He would block the Senate from voting on it. It
was literally Schumer was single handedly preventing a vote on
emergence see military aid for Israel. And it's because he
wants Number one, he's not willing to give up the
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funding for the army of eighty seven thousand new IRS agents.
He values harassing the political enemies of the White House
more than military aid for Israel. And number two, he
wants to tie it to all the political priorities of
Democrats and hold that military aid hostage.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Let me ask you this question about this funding, because
this is a fight that we did not see everybody
jumped on the S bandwagon. When it came to military
aid for Ukraine, Democrats had no problem jumping on that
as well, And you didn't have to figure out a
way to try to bring this vote up. Do what
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is the logic when you're talking to Democrats, your colleagues
and the Senate. How can they be so hell bent
and gung ho on unlimited funding for Ukraine but no
on something as simple as defending our actual ally Israel.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
So Democrats number one one recognized that all the Republicans
strongly support military aid for Israel. So they see that
cynically as a political opportunity. Good, this is something where
Republicans want, Republicans want, let's hold it hostage. But number two, listen,
Democrats are worried about their left flank. They're getting blasted
by the anti Israel, anti Zionist, radical, anti Semitic left
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the squad, and so they're all nervous. And so what
ended up happening is why Schumer didn't want to vote.
He didn't want to force Democrats to vote on it,
and he felt like he had exquisite power. Now Schumer
screwed up the majority leader can prevent what we did today.
The way the majority leader prevents what we did today
is he files a pending motion to proceed to something,
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and under the Senate procedural rules, that pending motion to
proceed to some bill blocks another motion to proceed to
a bill. And so that's something when Senate Republicans had
a majority, Mitch McConnell did every day. He did that
to block the Democrats from doing what we did. Schumer
was lazy, he didn't do that. So the floor was
wide open. And so what happened is a group of us,
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we had eleven Senate Republicans, we met off the floor
of the Senate. You needed eleven to force a voice vote,
and so we gathered there on the side of the
Senate and we're talking about, Okay, we're going to force this,
and we're doing this surreptitiously. This is like four pm
Tuesday afternoon. We then all went to the Senate cloak
room and we were waiting and actually John Kennedy was
giving an extended speech and we wanted Roger Marshall as
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the one who had the idea initially to go forward.
So Mike Lee and I and others were backing Roger,
and we needed to get the floor because the Senate
Democrats were starting to get wind of what we were
trying to do. And at one point, Chuck Schumer's lead
floor aid on the Senate, his sort of lead staffer.
He came and stuck his head in the Republican cloak
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room and he looks around and he sees eleven of
us sitting there and he kind of looks around and
he doesn't quite say this out loud, but everything is
in his express goes oh shit.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Like he knew this.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
He had figured out what we were trying to do,
and so we went Actually, Ran Paula was part of
the group. Rand went down to John Kennedy was giving
a speech in another matter, and Ran interrupted him. He's like,
John Kennedy's on c SPAN giving a speech and Rand said, John,
we really need you to stop right now. It's an emergency.
Please stop. And John didn't even know what we were doing,
but he's like, uh, okay, so he stops. Roger Marshall
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goes down and he gets recognized. So getting recognized, once
you're recognized, you have the floor, you have power. And
so Roger goes down and he moves to proceed to
the House bill. So the House bill is what they passed.
It is fourteen billion dollars in emergency military funding for Israel,
paid for by rescinding the IRS additional funding for eighty
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seven thousand agents. Once he did that, the Democrats are
in panic. They're like, oh, crappo, crapple, crapple, crap. And
so Raphael Warnock, the Democrat from Georgia, he was down
there now. Procedurally, once Roger moves to proceed to the bill,
he has relinquished the floor. It's a jump ball at
that point because to move to proceed to it, the
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presiding officer instructs the clerk to read the title of
the bill. So Roger no longer has the floor.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Can I ask you a cynical question real quick? Yes,
how many senators have no idea how this works? What
you're describing right now?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I become ab out ninety Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I was just That's the reason why this story is
amazing to me, because I'm like, I bet you the
majority of the senators that you serve with don't know
this is the rules of the Senate and how this
would work.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
No, No, it's only a handful of senators that understand
the rules. So Roger moves. When he makes the motion,
he's relinquished the floor. And so what happened. Then, as
soon as the clerk has read the title of the bill,
Roger says, mister President, the presiding officer was Senator Welch
from Vermont. He was there. Roger calls out mister president.
But Raphael Warnock, liberal Democrat from Georgia, calls out mister
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President as well. Now, the presiding officer, when you got
momultiple people asking me recognized has the option to pick
who to decide. And so because he's an Democrat, Welch
recognizes Warnock. Warnock stands up and says, I suggest the
absence of a quorum. Now what that means This is
getting in the weeds. But this is one of the
cool things about this podcast. It takes you inside the Senate.
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Under the Senate rules, when any senator suggests the absence
of a quorum, there is a mandatory quorum call. What
it means is there are not enough senators on the
floor right now to conduct business. It is a way
to freeze the Senate, to lock it in paralysis. Because
once you're in a quorum call, you can do nothing else.
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And so Warnock pushed us into a quorum call. At
that point, we're there, and there are more than eleven
of us that are there. We proceeded over the next
hour periodically, one after the other. We'd grab the microphone.
We'd stand up and say, mister President, I ask unanimous
consent to vitiate the quorum call. That's a way to say,
end the quorum call. Let's vote on the stamp thing,
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and over and over you We did this like thirty times.
Democrats would object. They'd say object, I object, I object.
Now you can do that forever. You can keep They
could keep us in a quorum call. But it meant
they were stuck, and so we were brainstorming, Okay, how
can they avoid a vote. We went up to him
and said, look, what we want is a roll call
vote where every senator has to go on record do
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you support funding for Israel or do you oppose funding
for Israel. After about two hours and I cannot overstate
ben how upset Chuck Schumer was, how upset the Democrats were.
We blindsided them. They did not expect this. This hit
them out of nowhere. And then they finally said, screw it,
We're going to force through the vote. So we voted,
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and it was a straight party line vote. So understand,
every single Democrat voted against emergency military funding for Israel.
Chuck Schumer, who calls him the defender of Israel, that's
what he calls himself, voted against emergency military funding for Israel.
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John Tester, who's running for reelection in Montana, voted against
emergency funding for Israel. Shared Brown, who's running for reelection
in Ohio, voted against emergency funding for Israel. Bob Casey,
who's running for reelection in Pennsylvania, voted against emergency funding
for Israel. Jackie Rosen, who's running for reelection in Nevada,
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voted against emergency funding for Israel. Tammy Baldwin who's running
for reelection in Wisconsin, voted against emergency funding for Israel.
And the amazing thing has been it was a straight
party line vote, which means every single one of those
Democrats I named was the deciding vote. Literally, if one
Democrat had voted with us, this was a fifty vote threshold,
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so one Democrat could have pass this, but every Democrat
voted no. And it was a moment of clarity, and
I think a moment of clarity that will come down
to the election next year where the Democrats have made
clear that partisan politics matters more to them than standing
with Israel.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Right now, Sena, you mentioned that any one Democrat could
have moved the pendulum here and funded Israel. And if
you don't have to name names per se, but are
you shocked. I mean, there are some Democrats that I
truly believe are quote friends of Israel. I am shocked
at not one of them did the right thing here
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and truly stood with Israel. They just said no party
over even Israel. And what is referred to is emergency funding,
meaning they need it.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Now.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Look, this was I think a spectacularly foolish vote by Democrats.
I mean, you had Kirsen Cinema was the deciding vote
against emergency aid to Israel. Bob Menendez, who right now
is in the midst of a very serious indictment and
a serious scandal, but he's on the ballot November. He
was the deciding vote against emergency aid to Israel. Dick Blumenthal,
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Ben Carden, all sorts of Democrats who hold themselves out
as defenders of Israel, every one of them. Literally one
of them could say, you know what, we need emergency
A to Israel now. And I don't care what my
party leadership says. I'm not going to do it. But
they decided they cracked the whip, and I'll tell you
on the flip side. Listen, it was not easy to
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hold every Republican. So I was down on the Senate
floor for about two and a half hours this afternoon
and I was whipping Republicans and listen, Republican leadership was pissed.
I cannot overstate how angry they were. And the reason
is it is our leadership said, listen, if you do
this when Republicans have the majority, Democrats will use this
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tool to try to hijack the floor. And that's a
reasonable procedural point.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I get that.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
It's not crazy. That being said, I think the crisis
in Israel is so dire, the position of the Democrats
is so indefensible that it made sense to force and
so we did it. But when we're voting on it,
there were a number of Republicans close to leadership who
delayed their vote and delayed their vote and delay their vote,
and I was talking to them personally and I was saying, please,
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please vote to do the right thing, because if we
ended up with a vote where you had all the
Democrats and two or three or five Republicans, it would
totally blur the distinction. They could say there's a bipartisan
vote against this procedural game. That's what the Democrats would say.
And so I was begging Republicans, please, this is something
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I get. You don't like the procedural mechanism that we
forced this vote.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
But we did.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Once we did, let's actually be united and be team players.
And miraculously, look, it was close. And I was talking staffers,
I was talking to members, I was lobbying, I was
on the in the well of the Senate, working vote
by vote by vote. We got every single Republican one
hundred percent. That was a big deal because it means
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that each and every Democrat. There is not a Democrat
in the Senate who was not the deciding vote on
this motion. And that is a big deal for clarity.
And I want to underscore something Ben you asked a
minute ago, why would Democrats do this? And part of
me was shocked by the way. Joe Manchett is not
running for reelection. He voted against military funding for Israel.
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He could have been the deciding vote, but he figured,
I guess, screw it, I'm leaving the Senates. Who cares
part of the reason Democrats do this while we're voting.
I looked up in the Senate gallery. There were four
reporters up in the Senate Gallery. We'll see how many
headlines are published about Senate Democrats block military funding for Israel,
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But my guess is very, very few. We went out
and tried to talk to reporters. I didn't see the
six o'clock news tonight, so I don't know this for
a fact, but I'd be willing to bet you one
hundred dollars right now. And I'm cheap. I don't bet
one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
On many things, that's right.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I bet you one hundred dollars that none of the
major networks covered that Senate Democrats tonight blocked funding for Israel.
And this is why. Look, this is the point in
my book Unwoke, which you ought to go online and
buy right now. This is why I focus so much
on the corrupt corporate media. Because the corrupt corporate media,
they're not covering news. They are partisan advocates. They don't
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want aid to Israel to pass. They are cheering for Hamas.
Many of the corrupt corporate media are openly cheering for Hamas.
And so Democrats can cast spectacularly foolish votes and know
their constituents will never know about it. Dick Blumenthal, Democrat
from Connecticut, he holds himself out as one of the
leading defenders of Israel. Well, he is absolutely certain when
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he goes to Connecticut none of his voters will know
that he was the deciding vote that blocked emergency military
aid to Israel. Why because the corrupt corporate media won't
tell them.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
You, Senator, have said this several times, and it's a
very accurate statement. You say, if lawyers never asked a
question of somebody, if they don't already know the answer,
that rule applies, I think to taking things to the
for the Senate.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
For a vote.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Right, don't call a vote if you don't know what
the outcome is gonna be. And yet this today seems
to be one of those incredibly authentic moments. Was it
inspired because of the two hundred thousand plus that came
to Capitol Hill to stand with Israel? And that's where
this kind of started where it was like, you know what,
we got to do something today, and let's just see
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if we can get it done. And know we haven't
called everybody beforehand, and this is an organic moment in
the Senate.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Look for me, it certainly was. I can't speak to
the other Republican senators, but I came literally from the
march on Washington. I was down there hugging and supporting
so many incredible heroes and Jewish Americans who came from
all over the country to come to the mall to
stand in solidarity. And I came back and I heard
several of my colleagues were thinking of this, and I
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was like, absolutely, let's go to the floor right now,
let's do it. And so I leaned in aggressively, and
I got to say it was striking. Number one, the
absolute panic among Senate Democrats was striking, but sadly the
panic among Senate Republican leadership. They didn't like that we
did this either, but I think it provided an absolute
moment of clarity. And let me be clear, what I
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hoped would happen is that we would vote to provide
the military aide Israel. By the way, if one Democrat,
If even one if Bob Casey, if Jackie Rosen, if
John Tester is Shared Brown, if even one Democrat had
voted with us, this bill would have passed and we
would have sent it to Joe Biden's desk tonight. So
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Joe Biden could have signed it this evening and sent
fourteen billion dollars to Israel Tuesday night.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I didn't know if that would happen. I actually wasn't
sure they could hold their votes. And part of the
reason they locked up the Florida quorum call for a
couple hours is I assumed they were whipping their votes.
They called the people that they thought were wobbly votes,
they said, okay, Schumer wants you to vote to screw Israel.
Are you okay with that? And I think every Democrat
said yep, good bye me, I'm good by that. And
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it just I got to say, if the shoe were
on the other foot, if it were Republican leadership asking
Republicans to cast a vote like that, I wouldn't do it,
and a whole bunch of us wouldn't. And yet the Democrats.
This is where I cannot overstate the impact of the
corrupt corporate media. Part of the reason Republicans wouldn't do
it is our voters will know if we cast a
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terrible vote.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yeah, it costs several senators their job the next election.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
The Democrats feel utterly and completely immune. They know that
CNN has their back, they know that ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC.
They won't cover it, they won't report on it, they'll
ignore it, they'll bury it. And The New York Times
they're not going to cover it because they don't want
to cover it, because they're more interested in the left
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wing partisan agenda than they are and actually covering the
news centa.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I want to move to another issue, and it deals
with Israel, but it's in a different capacity, and that
is the shock of anti Semitism on college campuses. MIT
now is facing backlash for not expelling anti Israel protesters
over their they what they refer to as visa issues.
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They said they are originally threatened to expel these pro
Palace and in protesters, and then ow towards they're like, Okay,
we're gonna full we're gonna come back on this. We're
going to pull back on this, uh and say never mind,
because these people if we if we pull them from school,
it will have visa issues. Regardless of how extreme these
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protesters were, this is shocking to see them coming back
from this. Yet that's exactly what now has happened at MIT.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Your reaction, well, listen, what happened at MIT was absolutely disgraceful.
MIT by any measure, is one of the finest educational
institutions on the face of the planet. It may be
the greatest scientific, technical uh university in the world. And
what has happened in the last several days is that
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numerous Jewish students were forced to stay home from classes.
They could not attend classes. Why because anti Israel, anti
Semitic protesters threatened them, physically threatened them, and the students
said they felt that they felt unsafe. They that they
felt like going to class would endanger their personal safety.
Now that is insane and any normal university. If one
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student threatens another student, threatens their safety and prevents them
from going to class, whoever makes that threat should be expelled.
If you are harassing Jewish students because you're an anti
Semite bigot, you should be expelled. And by the way,
to be clear, if someone was harassing Muslim students, and
preventing Muslim students from going to class. They should be expelled.
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No student has a right to harass and threaten fellow students. Well,
what happened in mit Is is this harassment occurred and
Jewish students stayed home and the university administrators back to
wagh and refuse to take the natural step of expelling them.
Why because these rabbit anti Semitisms were there. Semites were
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there on student visas and if they got expelled, they'd
get sent back home. And the university said, well, okay,
if if you were an American, we would punish you.
But because you're not an American, because you're a guest,
because we've welcomed you to our country to get an education,
you can conduct harassment and bigoting, bigoted, racist, threatened threatening
of other students, and we will just turn to blind
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eye and give you a pat on the back.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
It's CNN.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
There truly seems to be a civil war inside of
CNN right now, because if you watch the morning show,
it's like all Hamas propaganda and anti Semitism. You watch
their primetime lineup at night, it goes right back to that.
There was a moment and I want to give credit
here to Jake Tapper. Jake Tapper had on an MIT
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graduate student and let her tell her story to the world.
And I want you to hear what she had to say.
It was and I'm glad that he used his program
for good. You had the headline hate in America. MIT
students speaks out about anti Semitism on campus.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Listen to this.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
As a Jewish student at MIT, do you feel safe
on campus? You know, honestly, Jake, in the past few weeks,
I have not felt safe on campus.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (28:05):
So, you know, ever since October seventh, we've seen at
universities around the country that you know, the conflict that's
overseas has come to our home term, and we've had
a lot of rallies and events by an organization called
the Coalition Against Apartheid, which is the anti Israel group
on MIT's campus. And they, along with some local anti
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Israel groups, have come to campus because MIT is an
open campus, which means that anybody can walk around and
you know, be on campus. So they together have done
protests on campus on the steps of Lobby seven, which
is the main entrance to MIT, and in front of
the Student Center.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
And I mean people protest, but but what do they do?
What do they say that makes me feel unsafe?
Speaker 4 (28:54):
So I guess part of it is the fact of
what they're saying. So when you're saying things like abalize
the end of Fada and use your two fists to
sacrifice everything for Palestine and one solution and to fada,
you know, we know what happened during the second ind
of Fada was suicide bombings and attacks against Israeli civilians
in Israel. But the other part of it is that
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these people aren't just protesting outside and exercising the rights
for free speech, which I fully support as an American.
It's that they're going you know, they went to the
personal offices of a program that runs Israel internships on
MIT's campus, and they went to the offices of the
people who worked for this program, and they tried to
enter it. They were going from door to door trying
to unlock the doors, and the people who worked in
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this office had no idea to what these students were
trying to do by trying to get into their office.
They were yelling. They were accusing them of apartheid, of
ethnic cleansing, of genocide, and it was a really frightening experience.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
A really frightening experience.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
You hear this student saying this, and yet this is
happening to them, and as you described a moment ago,
they said, if you keep doing this, we're going to
expel you. Then they said, oh, never mind, just kid,
you're just going to be in trouble, but you're not
going to get expelled because we don't want you to
lose your visa. That's in my Semitism and accepting this
type of abuse by these individuals.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Well, that's right. And let me quote from Fox News
had an article about this where they quoted conservative lawyer
Mari Maria Medvin and she said, quote, MIT is one
of the most prestigious universities in the US these days.
Foreigners make up about thirty percent of the MIT student body.
Jewish students, on the other hand, make up about six
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percent of the MIT student body, a campus minority. So
think about it right now now. I will admit it
is somewhat concerning that thirty percent of the MI two
student body are foreigners, but especially if these are foreigners
that are vicious bigots, that are anti Semites, that are
willing to threaten her, harass and threaten physical violence against
their fellow students, their Jewish students, because they hate them
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so much, they should be expelled. If you threaten physical
violence against the fellow student, if you block them from
going to class, that should be a no brainer reason
for expulsion. And the administrators. Look, why did the administrators
not expel them? And again this goes back to what
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I talk about in my new book Unwoke. This is
cultural Marxism. The administrators, the cultural Marxist side with the
people they have decided are the victims, the Palestinians, over
the people. They have decided that they are the pressers,
the Jews. And so for the radical left, threats of
violence against Jews are okay, it is acceptable. And so
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listen the fact that someone's on a student visa, they
ought to behave better, not worse. It shouldn't be the
case that Americans are held to stricter standards than foreigners
coming to study in our universities. And yet MIT says, well,
if we expelled you, you'd lose your student visa, So
we're not going to expel you. Please continue to harass
and threaten and threaten physical violence to our students, because
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you know we the administrators don't give a damn about
the Jewish students because in the cultural Marxist world they're
the oppressors. So tech with them.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yeah, to the heck with them, And I will say
it's we better stand up for these students and the
fact and hold these and I hope donors, I really
do and the people that give to these universities are
paying it.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Yes, yes, these universities are doing yes, yes, yes, absolutely right.
It's one of the things that is freaking universities out
is that donors are cut are cutting off the cash,
and that is it's the one thing that's getting them attention.
And listen, I want to actually quote from one of
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the best known poems. First, they came for the socialists,
and I did not speak out because I was not
a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and
I did not speak out because I was not a
trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I
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did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me, and there was no one
left to speak out for me. Look, I think that
applies to our universities right now. If there's anyone at
a university, a student, a professor, an administrator who gives
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a damn about equal rights, about protection, about stopping anti Semitism,
about stopping bigotry, about stopping hate. Speak out now. If
you're a donor and you write a check to these schools,
speak out now and say not one penny more until
you protect the students on our campus. You cannot give
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in to the violent Marxist radicals and expect us to
continue to support these schools. This is a time for
choosing right.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Now, Senator.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Lastly, I want to play for you, and just so
people understand what's happening at MIT. This is just some
of the student videos have gone viral online. They're chanting
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Infantada and the Jewish students are stuck inside, were physically
prevented from attending class by this hostile group of pro
Haamas and anti Israel MIT students that call themselves a CAAA.
Then another student came out and showed another video of
these massive protests, and this is what it sounded like, Senator.
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They were doing this and they knew where many of
the Jewish students were when they went to these buildings
to protest, just to scare these Jewish students. I leave
everybody with that audio. And I want to get your
final words on this, because this is clearly organized, it's
being funded by someone.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Senator.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
The MIT is what they refer to as an open
campus where outside groups can come in. This is orchestrated
by these extremists, anti Israel groups. Somebody has to be
paying for this, funding this, and then they are targeting
where the Jewish students are in these schools. And it's
not just MIT, this is happening on other college campuses.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
So the Second Intifada in Israel was a series of
suicide bombings carried out by Palestinian the Sale and it resulted,
and it took place between nineteen eighty seven and nineteen
ninety three, and it had a combined casualty casualty figure
of roughly one thousand Israelis, three thousand Palestinians, and sixty
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four foreign nationals. And so when these radicals are cheering
and chanting for another Intifada, they're calling for murdering more Jews, now,
mind you. On October seventh, we saw one thousand, two
hundred Israelis civilians targeted by Hamas death squads and murdered
because they are Israelis, and these protesters are chanting they
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want another intefada. In other words, you haven't murdered enough Jews.
We want more Jews murdered. That's what they're chanting. And listen.
If you're a Jewish student at MIT or at another
one of these elite universities where these radical leftists have
taken over, it is understandable that you are afraid for
your own safety. This is disgraceful and every university that
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allows this to happen is failing in their obligation to
keep their students safe. No student, everyone has a right
to free speech. No student has a right to threaten
physical violence against other students to prevent students from going
to class. And that's what these radicals are doing at
m I T and right now the mi T administration
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is complicit in this terrorizing of Jewish students.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
It's disgraceful.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
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Speaker 2 (38:03):
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Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
It is a special Sunday edition of Verdict with Senator
Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you, and I want to
let you know Monday's podcast is going to be very important.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
After Israel was attacked by Iran.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I also want to remind you of what Senator Cruz
and I predict it was going to happen when Democrats
and the Biden administration abandon Israel and said no to
giving them funding and what they needed. When it came
to arms, Democrats voting against this, which is truly shocking.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
That is part one. The other part about this that
we were.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Going to cover on Monday, and it's going to be
very important, is the fact that there were warnings from
Senator Cruz and others, you cannot give money to the
number one state sponsored terrorism in the world, Iran, and
that is exactly what Obama did, and it's exactly what
Joe Biden has done. We freed up billions of dollars,
(00:55):
billions of dollars that we allowed Iran to get their
hands on. We also talked about the Iranian oil embargo.
We've allowed Iran to get around those embargoes, to skirt
those embargoes, which is the part that is also extremely
shocking with everything that we're talking about today. So I'm
going to go back and I'm going to play for
you a podcast that we did that talked exactly about
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Schumer and the Democrats blocking emergency funding for Israel. This
was the moment where Iran knew that they could attack Israel.
They realized that the president was weak and that the
President would not respond, and that the President was criticizing
Israel instead of criticizing Iran and Hamas and Hezbolah. This
(01:41):
again is an important pod that we did, and I
remind you you do not want to miss tomorrow Monday
Mornings as well. We will have all of the senator's
reaction to what just happened with Iran attacking Israel, not
through their proxies, directly attacking them. We'll have all of
that for you coming up up on Monday Mornings.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Pod.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Until then, take a listen to this podcast we did
about Chuck shim Er the Democrats blocking emergency funding to Israel,
which was the moment.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
That I ran new that could get away with us.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I want to talk about this vote that happened where
every single Senate Democrat just voted to block aid to
Israel on a day when two hundred thousand plus came
to the steps of the capital to support Israel.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
This was shocking that every one of them said no.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well, that's exactly right. Today was a Momenta stay and look.
I spent this afternoon down at the mall with the
March for Israel, and we had hundreds of thousands of
people from all over America descend on Washington and stand
together for Israel, and it was inspirational. I spent a
lot of time down there just hugging people and encouraging
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them and taking pictures and saying thank you and the
spirit of unity. I mean, we've seen over the last month,
the nastiness we've seen, the vicious anti Semitism we've seen,
the hatred for Israel we've seen has been really horrifying.
And the March for Israel was spectacular to be a
part of. And then after that I came back to
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Capitol Hill and a group of us, a group of
Senators decided, Okay, enough is enough. We are going to
force a vote on military aid to Israel right now.
So as you know what happened. The House of Representatives
took up and passed a clean Israel aid bill fourteen
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billion dollars in emergency military aid for Israel. The Biden
White House wants to tie that military aid to Ukraine
and also more broadly, to their efforts to increase illegal immigration.
They call it, in a very Orwellian term, border security funding,
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but it's designed not to secure the border at all,
instead to increase illegal immigration, to accelerate the time for processing,
to spend more money to putting illegal immigrants on trains
and planes and buses to send them to every city
in America. And so the Biden White House is cynically
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trying to tie is relaid to all of that. The
House of Representatives did the right thing, something we've called
for on this podcast. Break Israel funding off and vote
for it free and clear. Now, when the House did that,
they decided to be fiscally responsible. They decided to pay
for it. I think that's the right thing to do.
And so the way they paid for the fourteen billion
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dollars is rescinding funding that the Democrats had previously passed
into law to hire eighty seven thousand new IRS agents
designed to harass small businesses middle class families to be
used as an army to go after the enemies of
this administration.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
So now you mentioned the vote and the numbers here,
there's some people that are going to be looking at
these numbers. It's very, very tight this vote. It was
obviously a party line vote. How on earth is it
that not a single Democrat would come over and stand
with Israel on this or was this just a hey,
we as a democratic party, we always vote together even if.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It screws Israel.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I mean, this is one of the most tone, tone
death votes I've ever witnessed, while there's literally two hundred
thousand plus people on the mall standing with Israel in
a nonpartisan way.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Look, this vote was a demonstration of what I describe
at great length in my brand new book Unwoke, How
to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America. By the way, if
you haven't bought it, gone to Amazon right now and
buy the book. Because this vote today was a manifestation
of that today's Democrats they don't give a damn about substance.
They care about power, and because the corrupt corporate media
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will not report on what they say, they are not
accountable for what they do. So here's what happens This
is one of the moments where this podcast is unusual
because I want to bring you inside the procedural maneuvering
in the Senate in a way that frankly, there's no
other news source that provides that. So I came back
from the march for Israel about four pm on the
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Capitol and I got a text as I was driving
back to the Capital from Roger Marshall, Roger Marshall, Republican
from Kansas, good friend. He said, a bunch of us
are meeting to try to force a vote on Israel
funding right now. So I deviated. I was going to
go to my office. I deviated to go to the
Senate floor. I was there with other Conservatives, people like
Mike Lee, who is my closest friend in the Senate,
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a number of others, and we were strategizing about how
we can force a vote, and in particular, there's a
procedural method called filing a rogue cloture petition, and what
that means is any sixteen senators can file a cloture petition,
which is a petition to force a vote on something
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and can basically hijack the Senate floor from the Senate
Majority leader and it is a procedural mechanism that is very,
very rarely used because both Schumer and McConnell hate it.
So McConnell had repeatedly urged us do not use this
mechanism because the majority leader should be able to control
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the entire agenda and it's a mistake to let the
minority hijack the agenda. Well, look, I understand that procedural point.
It's not crazy as a day to day operation of
the Senate.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
But here.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
The House had passed emergency military aid for Israel and
Chuck Schumer had announced we will not vote on it.
He would block the Senate from voting on it. It
was literally Schumer was single handedly preventing a vote on
emergence see military aid for Israel. And it's because he
wants Number one, he's not willing to give up the
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funding for the army of eighty seven thousand new IRS agents.
He values harassing the political enemies of the White House
more than military aid for Israel. And number two, he
wants to tie it to all the political priorities of
Democrats and hold that military aid hostage.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Let me ask you this question about this funding, because
this is a fight that we did not see everybody
jumped on the S bandwagon. When it came to military
aid for Ukraine, Democrats had no problem jumping on that
as well, And you didn't have to figure out a
way to try to bring this vote up. Do what
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is the logic when you're talking to Democrats, your colleagues
and the Senate. How can they be so hell bent
and gung ho on unlimited funding for Ukraine but no
on something as simple as defending our actual ally Israel.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
So Democrats number one one recognized that all the Republicans
strongly support military aid for Israel. So they see that
cynically as a political opportunity. Good, this is something where
Republicans want, Republicans want, let's hold it hostage. But number two, listen,
Democrats are worried about their left flank. They're getting blasted
by the anti Israel, anti Zionist, radical, anti Semitic left
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the squad, and so they're all nervous. And so what
ended up happening is why Schumer didn't want to vote.
He didn't want to force Democrats to vote on it,
and he felt like he had exquisite power. Now Schumer
screwed up the majority leader can prevent what we did today.
The way the majority leader prevents what we did today
is he files a pending motion to proceed to something,
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and under the Senate procedural rules, that pending motion to
proceed to some bill blocks another motion to proceed to
a bill. And so that's something when Senate Republicans had
a majority, Mitch McConnell did every day. He did that
to block the Democrats from doing what we did. Schumer
was lazy, he didn't do that. So the floor was
wide open. And so what happened is a group of us,
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we had eleven Senate Republicans, we met off the floor
of the Senate. You needed eleven to force a voice vote,
and so we gathered there on the side of the
Senate and we're talking about, Okay, we're going to force this,
and we're doing this surreptitiously. This is like four pm
Tuesday afternoon. We then all went to the Senate cloak
room and we were waiting and actually John Kennedy was
giving an extended speech and we wanted Roger Marshall as
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the one who had the idea initially to go forward.
So Mike Lee and I and others were backing Roger,
and we needed to get the floor because the Senate
Democrats were starting to get wind of what we were
trying to do. And at one point, Chuck Schumer's lead
floor aid on the Senate, his sort of lead staffer.
He came and stuck his head in the Republican cloak
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room and he looks around and he sees eleven of
us sitting there and he kind of looks around and
he doesn't quite say this out loud, but everything is
in his express goes oh shit.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Like he knew this.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
He had figured out what we were trying to do,
and so we went Actually, Ran Paula was part of
the group. Rand went down to John Kennedy was giving
a speech in another matter, and Ran interrupted him. He's like,
John Kennedy's on c SPAN giving a speech and Rand said, John,
we really need you to stop right now. It's an emergency.
Please stop. And John didn't even know what we were doing,
but he's like, uh, okay, so he stops. Roger Marshall
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goes down and he gets recognized. So getting recognized, once
you're recognized, you have the floor, you have power. And
so Roger goes down and he moves to proceed to
the House bill. So the House bill is what they passed.
It is fourteen billion dollars in emergency military funding for Israel,
paid for by rescinding the IRS additional funding for eighty
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seven thousand agents. Once he did that, the Democrats are
in panic. They're like, oh, crappo, crapple, crapple, crap. And
so Raphael Warnock, the Democrat from Georgia, he was down
there now. Procedurally, once Roger moves to proceed to the bill,
he has relinquished the floor. It's a jump ball at
that point because to move to proceed to it, the
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presiding officer instructs the clerk to read the title of
the bill. So Roger no longer has the floor.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Can I ask you a cynical question real quick? Yes,
how many senators have no idea how this works? What
you're describing right now?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I become ab out ninety Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I was just That's the reason why this story is
amazing to me, because I'm like, I bet you the
majority of the senators that you serve with don't know
this is the rules of the Senate and how this
would work.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
No, No, it's only a handful of senators that understand
the rules. So Roger moves. When he makes the motion,
he's relinquished the floor. And so what happened. Then, as
soon as the clerk has read the title of the bill,
Roger says, mister President, the presiding officer was Senator Welch
from Vermont. He was there. Roger calls out mister president.
But Raphael Warnock, liberal Democrat from Georgia, calls out mister
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President as well. Now, the presiding officer, when you got
momultiple people asking me recognized has the option to pick
who to decide. And so because he's an Democrat, Welch
recognizes Warnock. Warnock stands up and says, I suggest the
absence of a quorum. Now what that means This is
getting in the weeds. But this is one of the
cool things about this podcast. It takes you inside the Senate.
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Under the Senate rules, when any senator suggests the absence
of a quorum, there is a mandatory quorum call. What
it means is there are not enough senators on the
floor right now to conduct business. It is a way
to freeze the Senate, to lock it in paralysis. Because
once you're in a quorum call, you can do nothing else.
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And so Warnock pushed us into a quorum call. At
that point, we're there, and there are more than eleven
of us that are there. We proceeded over the next
hour periodically, one after the other. We'd grab the microphone.
We'd stand up and say, mister President, I ask unanimous
consent to vitiate the quorum call. That's a way to say,
end the quorum call. Let's vote on the stamp thing,
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and over and over you We did this like thirty times.
Democrats would object. They'd say object, I object, I object.
Now you can do that forever. You can keep They
could keep us in a quorum call. But it meant
they were stuck, and so we were brainstorming, Okay, how
can they avoid a vote. We went up to him
and said, look, what we want is a roll call
vote where every senator has to go on record do
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you support funding for Israel or do you oppose funding
for Israel. After about two hours and I cannot overstate
ben how upset Chuck Schumer was, how upset the Democrats were.
We blindsided them. They did not expect this. This hit
them out of nowhere. And then they finally said, screw it,
We're going to force through the vote. So we voted,
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and it was a straight party line vote. So understand,
every single Democrat voted against emergency military funding for Israel.
Chuck Schumer, who calls him the defender of Israel, that's
what he calls himself, voted against emergency military funding for Israel.
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John Tester, who's running for reelection in Montana, voted against
emergency funding for Israel. Shared Brown, who's running for reelection
in Ohio, voted against emergency funding for Israel. Bob Casey,
who's running for reelection in Pennsylvania, voted against emergency funding
for Israel. Jackie Rosen, who's running for reelection in Nevada,
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voted against emergency funding for Israel. Tammy Baldwin who's running
for reelection in Wisconsin, voted against emergency funding for Israel.
And the amazing thing has been it was a straight
party line vote, which means every single one of those
Democrats I named was the deciding vote. Literally, if one
Democrat had voted with us, this was a fifty vote threshold,
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so one Democrat could have pass this, but every Democrat
voted no. And it was a moment of clarity, and
I think a moment of clarity that will come down
to the election next year where the Democrats have made
clear that partisan politics matters more to them than standing
with Israel.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Right now, Sena, you mentioned that any one Democrat could
have moved the pendulum here and funded Israel. And if
you don't have to name names per se, but are
you shocked. I mean, there are some Democrats that I
truly believe are quote friends of Israel. I am shocked
at not one of them did the right thing here
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and truly stood with Israel. They just said no party
over even Israel. And what is referred to is emergency funding,
meaning they need it.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Now.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Look, this was I think a spectacularly foolish vote by Democrats.
I mean, you had Kirsen Cinema was the deciding vote
against emergency aid to Israel. Bob Menendez, who right now
is in the midst of a very serious indictment and
a serious scandal, but he's on the ballot November. He
was the deciding vote against emergency aid to Israel. Dick Blumenthal,
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Ben Carden, all sorts of Democrats who hold themselves out
as defenders of Israel, every one of them. Literally one
of them could say, you know what, we need emergency
A to Israel now. And I don't care what my
party leadership says. I'm not going to do it. But
they decided they cracked the whip, and I'll tell you
on the flip side. Listen, it was not easy to
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hold every Republican. So I was down on the Senate
floor for about two and a half hours this afternoon
and I was whipping Republicans and listen, Republican leadership was pissed.
I cannot overstate how angry they were. And the reason
is it is our leadership said, listen, if you do
this when Republicans have the majority, Democrats will use this
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tool to try to hijack the floor. And that's a
reasonable procedural point.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I get that.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
It's not crazy. That being said, I think the crisis
in Israel is so dire, the position of the Democrats
is so indefensible that it made sense to force and
so we did it. But when we're voting on it,
there were a number of Republicans close to leadership who
delayed their vote and delayed their vote and delay their vote,
and I was talking to them personally and I was saying, please,
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please vote to do the right thing, because if we
ended up with a vote where you had all the
Democrats and two or three or five Republicans, it would
totally blur the distinction. They could say there's a bipartisan
vote against this procedural game. That's what the Democrats would say.
And so I was begging Republicans, please, this is something
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I get. You don't like the procedural mechanism that we
forced this vote.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
But we did.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Once we did, let's actually be united and be team players.
And miraculously, look, it was close. And I was talking staffers,
I was talking to members, I was lobbying, I was
on the in the well of the Senate, working vote
by vote by vote. We got every single Republican one
hundred percent. That was a big deal because it means
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that each and every Democrat. There is not a Democrat
in the Senate who was not the deciding vote on
this motion. And that is a big deal for clarity.
And I want to underscore something Ben you asked a
minute ago, why would Democrats do this? And part of
me was shocked by the way. Joe Manchett is not
running for reelection. He voted against military funding for Israel.
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He could have been the deciding vote, but he figured,
I guess, screw it, I'm leaving the Senates. Who cares
part of the reason Democrats do this while we're voting.
I looked up in the Senate gallery. There were four
reporters up in the Senate Gallery. We'll see how many
headlines are published about Senate Democrats block military funding for Israel,
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But my guess is very, very few. We went out
and tried to talk to reporters. I didn't see the
six o'clock news tonight, so I don't know this for
a fact, but I'd be willing to bet you one
hundred dollars right now. And I'm cheap. I don't bet
one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
On many things, that's right.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I bet you one hundred dollars that none of the
major networks covered that Senate Democrats tonight blocked funding for Israel.
And this is why. Look, this is the point in
my book Unwoke, which you ought to go online and
buy right now. This is why I focus so much
on the corrupt corporate media. Because the corrupt corporate media,
they're not covering news. They are partisan advocates. They don't
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want aid to Israel to pass. They are cheering for Hamas.
Many of the corrupt corporate media are openly cheering for Hamas.
And so Democrats can cast spectacularly foolish votes and know
their constituents will never know about it. Dick Blumenthal, Democrat
from Connecticut, he holds himself out as one of the
leading defenders of Israel. Well, he is absolutely certain when
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he goes to Connecticut none of his voters will know
that he was the deciding vote that blocked emergency military
aid to Israel. Why because the corrupt corporate media won't
tell them.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
You, Senator, have said this several times, and it's a
very accurate statement. You say, if lawyers never asked a
question of somebody, if they don't already know the answer,
that rule applies, I think to taking things to the
for the Senate.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
For a vote.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Right, don't call a vote if you don't know what
the outcome is gonna be. And yet this today seems
to be one of those incredibly authentic moments. Was it
inspired because of the two hundred thousand plus that came
to Capitol Hill to stand with Israel? And that's where
this kind of started where it was like, you know what,
we got to do something today, and let's just see
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if we can get it done. And know we haven't
called everybody beforehand, and this is an organic moment in
the Senate.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Look for me, it certainly was. I can't speak to
the other Republican senators, but I came literally from the
march on Washington. I was down there hugging and supporting
so many incredible heroes and Jewish Americans who came from
all over the country to come to the mall to
stand in solidarity. And I came back and I heard
several of my colleagues were thinking of this, and I
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was like, absolutely, let's go to the floor right now,
let's do it. And so I leaned in aggressively, and
I got to say it was striking. Number one, the
absolute panic among Senate Democrats was striking, but sadly the
panic among Senate Republican leadership. They didn't like that we
did this either, but I think it provided an absolute
moment of clarity. And let me be clear, what I
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hoped would happen is that we would vote to provide
the military aide Israel. By the way, if one Democrat,
If even one if Bob Casey, if Jackie Rosen, if
John Tester is Shared Brown, if even one Democrat had
voted with us, this bill would have passed and we
would have sent it to Joe Biden's desk tonight. So
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Joe Biden could have signed it this evening and sent
fourteen billion dollars to Israel Tuesday night.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I didn't know if that would happen. I actually wasn't
sure they could hold their votes. And part of the
reason they locked up the Florida quorum call for a
couple hours is I assumed they were whipping their votes.
They called the people that they thought were wobbly votes,
they said, okay, Schumer wants you to vote to screw Israel.
Are you okay with that? And I think every Democrat
said yep, good bye me, I'm good by that. And
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it just I got to say, if the shoe were
on the other foot, if it were Republican leadership asking
Republicans to cast a vote like that, I wouldn't do it,
and a whole bunch of us wouldn't. And yet the Democrats.
This is where I cannot overstate the impact of the
corrupt corporate media. Part of the reason Republicans wouldn't do
it is our voters will know if we cast a
(23:57):
terrible vote.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yeah, it costs several senators their job the next election.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
The Democrats feel utterly and completely immune. They know that
CNN has their back, they know that ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC.
They won't cover it, they won't report on it, they'll
ignore it, they'll bury it. And The New York Times
they're not going to cover it because they don't want
to cover it, because they're more interested in the left
(24:25):
wing partisan agenda than they are and actually covering the
news centa.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I want to move to another issue, and it deals
with Israel, but it's in a different capacity, and that
is the shock of anti Semitism on college campuses. MIT
now is facing backlash for not expelling anti Israel protesters
over their they what they refer to as visa issues.
(24:53):
They said they are originally threatened to expel these pro
Palace and in protesters, and then ow towards they're like, Okay,
we're gonna full we're gonna come back on this. We're
going to pull back on this, uh and say never mind,
because these people if we if we pull them from school,
it will have visa issues. Regardless of how extreme these
(25:14):
protesters were, this is shocking to see them coming back
from this. Yet that's exactly what now has happened at MIT.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Your reaction, well, listen, what happened at MIT was absolutely disgraceful.
MIT by any measure, is one of the finest educational
institutions on the face of the planet. It may be
the greatest scientific, technical uh university in the world. And
what has happened in the last several days is that
(25:43):
numerous Jewish students were forced to stay home from classes.
They could not attend classes. Why because anti Israel, anti
Semitic protesters threatened them, physically threatened them, and the students
said they felt that they felt unsafe. They that they
felt like going to class would endanger their personal safety.
Now that is insane and any normal university. If one
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student threatens another student, threatens their safety and prevents them
from going to class, whoever makes that threat should be expelled.
If you are harassing Jewish students because you're an anti
Semite bigot, you should be expelled. And by the way,
to be clear, if someone was harassing Muslim students, and
preventing Muslim students from going to class. They should be expelled.
(26:30):
No student has a right to harass and threaten fellow students. Well,
what happened in mit Is is this harassment occurred and
Jewish students stayed home and the university administrators back to
wagh and refuse to take the natural step of expelling them.
Why because these rabbit anti Semitisms were there. Semites were
(26:54):
there on student visas and if they got expelled, they'd
get sent back home. And the university said, well, okay,
if if you were an American, we would punish you.
But because you're not an American, because you're a guest,
because we've welcomed you to our country to get an education,
you can conduct harassment and bigoting, bigoted, racist, threatened threatening
of other students, and we will just turn to blind
(27:15):
eye and give you a pat on the back.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
It's CNN.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
There truly seems to be a civil war inside of
CNN right now, because if you watch the morning show,
it's like all Hamas propaganda and anti Semitism. You watch
their primetime lineup at night, it goes right back to that.
There was a moment and I want to give credit
here to Jake Tapper. Jake Tapper had on an MIT
(27:38):
graduate student and let her tell her story to the world.
And I want you to hear what she had to say.
It was and I'm glad that he used his program
for good. You had the headline hate in America. MIT
students speaks out about anti Semitism on campus.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Listen to this.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
As a Jewish student at MIT, do you feel safe
on campus? You know, honestly, Jake, in the past few weeks,
I have not felt safe on campus.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (28:05):
So, you know, ever since October seventh, we've seen at
universities around the country that you know, the conflict that's
overseas has come to our home term, and we've had
a lot of rallies and events by an organization called
the Coalition Against Apartheid, which is the anti Israel group
on MIT's campus. And they, along with some local anti
(28:30):
Israel groups, have come to campus because MIT is an
open campus, which means that anybody can walk around and
you know, be on campus. So they together have done
protests on campus on the steps of Lobby seven, which
is the main entrance to MIT, and in front of
the Student Center.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
And I mean people protest, but but what do they do?
What do they say that makes me feel unsafe?
Speaker 4 (28:54):
So I guess part of it is the fact of
what they're saying. So when you're saying things like abalize
the end of Fada and use your two fists to
sacrifice everything for Palestine and one solution and to fada,
you know, we know what happened during the second ind
of Fada was suicide bombings and attacks against Israeli civilians
in Israel. But the other part of it is that
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these people aren't just protesting outside and exercising the rights
for free speech, which I fully support as an American.
It's that they're going you know, they went to the
personal offices of a program that runs Israel internships on
MIT's campus, and they went to the offices of the
people who worked for this program, and they tried to
enter it. They were going from door to door trying
to unlock the doors, and the people who worked in
(29:36):
this office had no idea to what these students were
trying to do by trying to get into their office.
They were yelling. They were accusing them of apartheid, of
ethnic cleansing, of genocide, and it was a really frightening experience.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
A really frightening experience.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
You hear this student saying this, and yet this is
happening to them, and as you described a moment ago,
they said, if you keep doing this, we're going to
expel you. Then they said, oh, never mind, just kid,
you're just going to be in trouble, but you're not
going to get expelled because we don't want you to
lose your visa. That's in my Semitism and accepting this
type of abuse by these individuals.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Well, that's right. And let me quote from Fox News
had an article about this where they quoted conservative lawyer
Mari Maria Medvin and she said, quote, MIT is one
of the most prestigious universities in the US these days.
Foreigners make up about thirty percent of the MIT student body.
Jewish students, on the other hand, make up about six
(30:33):
percent of the MIT student body, a campus minority. So
think about it right now now. I will admit it
is somewhat concerning that thirty percent of the MI two
student body are foreigners, but especially if these are foreigners
that are vicious bigots, that are anti Semites, that are
willing to threaten her, harass and threaten physical violence against
their fellow students, their Jewish students, because they hate them
(30:56):
so much, they should be expelled. If you threaten physical
violence against the fellow student, if you block them from
going to class, that should be a no brainer reason
for expulsion. And the administrators. Look, why did the administrators
not expel them? And again this goes back to what
(31:18):
I talk about in my new book Unwoke. This is
cultural Marxism. The administrators, the cultural Marxist side with the
people they have decided are the victims, the Palestinians, over
the people. They have decided that they are the pressers,
the Jews. And so for the radical left, threats of
violence against Jews are okay, it is acceptable. And so
(31:42):
listen the fact that someone's on a student visa, they
ought to behave better, not worse. It shouldn't be the
case that Americans are held to stricter standards than foreigners
coming to study in our universities. And yet MIT says, well,
if we expelled you, you'd lose your student visa, So
we're not going to expel you. Please continue to harass
and threaten and threaten physical violence to our students, because
(32:05):
you know we the administrators don't give a damn about
the Jewish students because in the cultural Marxist world they're
the oppressors. So tech with them.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yeah, to the heck with them, And I will say
it's we better stand up for these students and the
fact and hold these and I hope donors, I really
do and the people that give to these universities are
paying it.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Yes, yes, these universities are doing yes, yes, yes, absolutely right.
It's one of the things that is freaking universities out
is that donors are cut are cutting off the cash,
and that is it's the one thing that's getting them attention.
And listen, I want to actually quote from one of
(32:51):
the best known poems. First, they came for the socialists,
and I did not speak out because I was not
a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and
I did not speak out because I was not a
trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I
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did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me, and there was no one
left to speak out for me. Look, I think that
applies to our universities right now. If there's anyone at
a university, a student, a professor, an administrator who gives
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a damn about equal rights, about protection, about stopping anti Semitism,
about stopping bigotry, about stopping hate. Speak out now. If
you're a donor and you write a check to these schools,
speak out now and say not one penny more until
you protect the students on our campus. You cannot give
(33:55):
in to the violent Marxist radicals and expect us to
continue to support these schools. This is a time for
choosing right.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Now, Senator.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Lastly, I want to play for you, and just so
people understand what's happening at MIT. This is just some
of the student videos have gone viral online. They're chanting
(34:33):
Infantada and the Jewish students are stuck inside, were physically
prevented from attending class by this hostile group of pro
Haamas and anti Israel MIT students that call themselves a CAAA.
Then another student came out and showed another video of
these massive protests, and this is what it sounded like, Senator.
(35:07):
They were doing this and they knew where many of
the Jewish students were when they went to these buildings
to protest, just to scare these Jewish students. I leave
everybody with that audio. And I want to get your
final words on this, because this is clearly organized, it's
being funded by someone.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Senator.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
The MIT is what they refer to as an open
campus where outside groups can come in. This is orchestrated
by these extremists, anti Israel groups. Somebody has to be
paying for this, funding this, and then they are targeting
where the Jewish students are in these schools. And it's
not just MIT, this is happening on other college campuses.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
So the Second Intifada in Israel was a series of
suicide bombings carried out by Palestinian the Sale and it resulted,
and it took place between nineteen eighty seven and nineteen
ninety three, and it had a combined casualty casualty figure
of roughly one thousand Israelis, three thousand Palestinians, and sixty
(36:16):
four foreign nationals. And so when these radicals are cheering
and chanting for another Intifada, they're calling for murdering more Jews, now,
mind you. On October seventh, we saw one thousand, two
hundred Israelis civilians targeted by Hamas death squads and murdered
because they are Israelis, and these protesters are chanting they
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want another intefada. In other words, you haven't murdered enough Jews.
We want more Jews murdered. That's what they're chanting. And listen.
If you're a Jewish student at MIT or at another
one of these elite universities where these radical leftists have
taken over, it is understandable that you are afraid for
your own safety. This is disgraceful and every university that
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allows this to happen is failing in their obligation to
keep their students safe. No student, everyone has a right
to free speech. No student has a right to threaten
physical violence against other students to prevent students from going
to class. And that's what these radicals are doing at
m I T and right now the mi T administration
(37:21):
is complicit in this terrorizing of Jewish students.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
It's disgraceful.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Senator, It's always a pleasure, especially on shows like this
that I think are so important. I would ask all
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Speaker 1 (37:53):
Unwoke.
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It is out right now, and there's so much that
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about in this book.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
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As well, The Centaer and I will see you back
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