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It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.

1:42

We can review Ben Ferguson

1:44

with you. And these are the stories that you

1:46

may have missed that we talked about this past

1:48

week. First up, Biden

1:50

responds to anti-Semitism by basically

1:52

not condemning it at all.

1:55

Why Is the White House playing it this way? We'll explain

1:57

it. Also, the new... Npr,

2:01

Ceo. Has major

2:03

issues with truth. And. Says

2:05

it's First Amendment really gets in the

2:07

way. Why? Your tax hours going

2:09

to find her radical agenda will break

2:11

that down for you as well. And.

2:14

Finally, Democrats are scared. They're

2:16

terrified. The youth vote. Isn't.

2:19

Coming in. To. Do what they

2:21

did last time. And. Now they're having

2:23

to take a radical stance against Israel.

2:26

To. Try to get young voters. Back.

2:28

On their team. Is the

2:30

weekend we do and it starts right

2:33

now. We've been covering

2:35

anti semitism on college campuses and

2:37

exposing what's been happening. or but

2:39

now we're getting to see the

2:41

White House specifically. The present Nine

2:44

States of America is just pathetic,

2:46

and that were doesn't seem strong

2:48

enough. But. A pathetic response to

2:50

anti semitism on college campuses. I

2:52

want to play this for you

2:54

from a reporter ought to the

2:57

present the United States of America

2:59

and get your reaction to with

3:01

Listen to this. Move

3:10

them. Around.

3:15

Learn. How

3:20

to know that? Also on are now more

3:22

than. That. Love that the

3:24

ask should resigning as I didn't know that. I'll

3:27

have to find out more about that, but he

3:29

condemns. The. People that

3:31

are anti semitic and then says elsa condemn

3:33

those that don't know about the Palestinians like

3:35

what the hell was the present doing here

3:38

sir who were lucky he said he didn't

3:40

know that and and and I actually believe

3:42

that some of the most honest words that

3:44

he said. I think he has no idea

3:46

what's going on, is not aware of what's

3:49

going on and in particular he's he's processing

3:51

ignorance. As. to what's happening at columbia

3:53

what's happening a yale and it is utterly

3:55

disgraceful and but you know who's not ignorant

3:57

i mean i i agree he oblivious But

4:00

who's not ignorant or the other Democrats who

4:02

are supporting this and I want you to

4:04

listen to So

4:06

there was an event a

4:09

climate core event where AOC Was

4:12

speaking right next to Joe Biden and he

4:14

was right there and and and

4:16

AOC had something to say on this that

4:19

I want Everyone everyone to listen in here.

4:21

Here's AOC addressing Colombian

4:23

Yale It

4:25

is especially important that we remember the

4:28

power of young people shaping this country

4:30

today of all days as we one

4:33

once again witness the leadership

4:35

of those Peaceful student-led protests

4:37

on campus. It's like Columbia Yale

4:40

Berkeley and many others Really

4:42

because a group of Yale student

4:44

center formed a human chain To

4:47

block a Jewish student from entering the

4:50

university yesterday And

4:52

if you know history this

4:54

was a chilling act of

4:56

anti-Semitism that echoed 1939

4:59

when Nazis black Jewish students were

5:01

entering Vienna University simply because they

5:03

were Jews Now that

5:05

that's absolutely right and you and you also

5:07

had a Jewish student at Yale Who

5:10

was poked in the eye with a flag and

5:12

had to seek medical treatment? Because

5:15

of that and and and and to

5:17

say when you have threats of Murder

5:20

and violence and death when you have

5:22

as you had it at Columbia a

5:26

student saying that

5:28

that Hamas should murder the

5:30

Jewish students on

5:32

that campus That is

5:34

not peaceful threats of violence and calling

5:37

from the murder of your former students

5:40

is not remotely Peaceful but understand AOC.

5:42

This is a sitting member of Congress

5:45

She's singling out Columbia and Yale She's

5:49

praising what's happening at Columbia

5:51

and Yale understand. She supports

5:54

this vicious Anti-Semitism and there

5:56

is Joe Biden happily sitting

5:58

there. In fact, he said at the

6:00

same event that he's learned that when

6:02

AOC speaks, you got to listen to

6:04

her. Well, that

6:07

is unfortunately today's Democrat

6:10

Party, which is the

6:12

White House is utterly tepid, unwilling

6:14

to condemn specifically what is happening

6:16

at Columbia and Yale, and

6:20

the radicals in their party explicitly

6:22

endorse it and celebrate it. You

6:25

mentioned the radicals of the Democratic Party. You and I

6:27

have said this for a long time when they tell

6:29

you what they believe in, believe

6:31

them. I'll give you an

6:34

example of this. A group of Columbia

6:36

University professors actually held a rally Monday.

6:38

These are the professors who are

6:41

indoctrinating the kids to hate Jews

6:43

and hate Israel. They held a rally

6:46

to express solidarity with

6:48

the anti-Semitic students that

6:51

had been suspended for holding unauthorized

6:54

protests on campus. Not

6:56

only that, but when you

6:58

go back and look at what these

7:00

leaders, these universities believe, whether it's Claudine

7:03

Gay, who we've exposed on the show

7:06

multiple times, but at an

7:08

event just two months after 9-11,

7:11

Columbia University's current president

7:14

remarked, and this was two months

7:16

after 9-11, that terrorism

7:19

is a, quote, a form

7:21

of protesting. When

7:23

they tell you who they are, believe them, listen

7:26

to this. So it's not, you'll

7:28

always have individuals who will have extreme views,

7:31

but what's really troubling in the region is

7:33

that there's actually quite a broad base of

7:35

society which has some sympathy for the terrorists,

7:37

not so much because they approve of their

7:40

methods, but it's a form of

7:42

protesting against a system which is not delivering for

7:44

them on the economic or the political front. I

7:47

mean, that's no wonder that this

7:49

university has totally, it just lost

7:51

its mind and we're watching this

7:53

anti-Semitism. If that's what you're saying

7:56

in public two months after 9-11,

7:59

then imagine how many children you've been able

8:01

to indoctrinate college students to believe that the

8:03

Jews are Israel and that you should feel

8:05

sympathy for Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, the list

8:08

goes on and on. Well

8:10

and when she says there's a broad

8:12

base of society that has sympathy for

8:14

these terrorists, she's revealing

8:16

a lot about the world in which she

8:19

lives, about Ivy League

8:21

universities, about our elite universities, about

8:23

our academic system, about the left.

8:26

Everyone she associates with falls

8:29

into that crowd. When they

8:31

look at the terrorists and understand we're not

8:33

talking about terrorists in the abstract, we're talking

8:35

about Hamas and what they did on October

8:38

7th, murdering 1,200 Israelis, murdering some 30

8:42

Americans, raping women and little

8:44

girls, committing atrocities that the

8:46

world has not seen since

8:49

the Nazis. And

8:51

in today's leftist

8:53

academy, using

8:56

the president of Columbia's own word, they

8:58

have some sympathy for that. No, there

9:00

is no sympathy. Terrorism is not a

9:03

form of protest. Terrorism is a horrific

9:05

form of violence that targets civilians, that

9:07

targets women and children, that commits murder

9:10

and act of cruelty and that's exactly

9:12

what Hamas

9:14

did and it's what

9:16

it's the reason these

9:18

college campuses are allowing

9:20

these anti-Semitic protests to

9:23

go on, these threats against Jewish

9:25

students to go on. It's the

9:27

reason Jewish students are being advised

9:29

by the Orthodox Rabbi at Columbia

9:32

to stay home because

9:34

Columbia will not protect your physical

9:36

safety and the reason is the

9:38

president of Columbia, the administrators of Columbia,

9:41

they explicitly side

9:45

with the radicals and with the

9:47

terrorists and it is shameful

9:49

and it's sick. Finally

9:52

on this, we're going to do a deep dive about

9:54

the dark money that is clearly

9:56

backing and orchestrating

9:58

these not only events

10:00

but the shutting down of roads

10:02

and bridges and supporting what's happening

10:05

on these college campuses being anti-Semitic.

10:08

But there is one caveat and this should

10:10

be talked about. And like I said, we're

10:12

going to give you a lot more on

10:14

this in another episode. But

10:16

we've now found out that the

10:18

NFL, the National Football League funded

10:20

a left wing group bailing out

10:23

anti-Israel bridge blockers.

10:26

And this is again how the left just hold

10:28

these companies and these organization hostage like, you better

10:31

give us money, we need some money, we bail

10:33

out some people and they just do it. Well,

10:36

and look, we talked about in the

10:38

wake of October 7th how Black Lives

10:41

Matter, how the Chicago chapter put out

10:43

a tweet praising Hamas

10:45

saying we stand with Palestine and having

10:48

a picture of a

10:50

paraglider. Remember it was the paragliders that came

10:52

in that the Hamas terrorists used to murder

10:54

young people in Israel and

10:56

the cultural Marxist, they

10:59

support each other. And

11:01

we're seeing that, look, on

11:04

Columbia, it's not just the students that

11:06

are facing threats of violence, it's the faculty

11:08

too. So a

11:10

Columbia professor, Shai Davidai,

11:14

wanted to go and we talked

11:16

about this on Monday's pod that

11:18

he intended to go and be right among

11:20

these protesters and stand up for Israel. What

11:23

Columbia did, they revoked his pass

11:25

to campus. They zeroed out his

11:28

access and blocked him. This

11:30

is the administration of Columbia they decided

11:33

between a professor on their faculty

11:35

who happened to be Jewish or

11:40

the anti-Semitic protesters who are threatening

11:42

violence that the problem was the

11:44

professor who dared to be Jewish.

11:47

One of the things that this professor

11:49

Davidai tweeted out, he said, quote,

11:52

to all the journalists, I promise I will try to get

11:54

back to each and every one of you. In

11:56

the meantime, I want you to consider this to

11:59

the best of my knowledge. the

12:01

last time that a professor was denied

12:03

access to their own university for

12:06

being Jewish was

12:08

Nazi Germany. Well, actually that's not

12:10

accurate because we covered on this

12:12

podcast how USC did that to

12:14

a USC professor where they

12:16

ordered him to stay at

12:18

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12:21

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12:23

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12:25

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And a story number two. Center.

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If you are at Npr can you imagine

15:00

if you are left the Lf the how

15:02

much freedom I think it would make you

15:04

feel like you had. To. Then

15:06

go out there and contain to

15:08

push propaganda on the American people

15:11

of this is your see our

15:13

me lead to licensed it to

15:15

basically go all then on liberal

15:17

propaganda at the taxpayer's expense. Now

15:20

that that that is exactly right and

15:23

and and I've gotta say listen as

15:25

you know and the ranking Member on

15:27

the Senate Committee Of Commerce, Science and

15:29

Transportation and part of my responsibility in

15:32

that role we've We've got jurisdiction over

15:34

about forty percent of the Us economy

15:36

and and part of my responsibility is

15:38

oversight. And I could tell you that

15:41

that that I am actively engaging in

15:43

oversight right now are calling on Npr

15:45

to explain to explain why they're willing

15:47

to put in place a hard left

15:50

wing. Activists: Not a neutral

15:52

journalists but someone who is. Biased.

15:56

Who Who Who Is. ah

15:58

up the who is an active supporter

16:00

of censorship to silence

16:02

the view she disagrees

16:04

with, why NPR believes

16:07

that that is

16:09

an appropriate leader for their institution. Yeah,

16:12

that's a really great point. And

16:15

listen, don't necessarily take our words for it.

16:18

I want you to listen to Catherine Marr in her own

16:20

words because it's going to show just how radical she is,

16:22

and I want to play a couple clips. Let's

16:24

start with her explaining that in her view,

16:27

the number one challenge that she faces is

16:29

the First Amendment of the Constitution. Let's play

16:31

that clip. The number

16:33

one challenge here that we

16:35

see is, of course, the

16:37

First Amendment in the United

16:39

States is a fairly robust

16:41

protection of rights, and

16:43

that is a protection of rights both for platforms, which

16:45

I actually think is very important that platforms have those

16:48

rights to be able to regulate what kind of content

16:50

they want on their site. But it

16:52

also means that it is a little bit tricky to

16:54

really address some of the real challenges

16:56

of where does that information come from,

16:59

and some of the influence peddlers who

17:01

have made a real market economy around

17:03

it. I mean, it's amazing, Senator.

17:05

This is the woman running NPR, and I guess this

17:07

is almost like the best thing you can put on

17:10

your resume, right? You're like, hey, I think the First

17:12

Amendment's a real problem. It's like, perfect. We'd love to

17:14

hire you at NPR. Yeah, and she actually says, well,

17:17

the First Amendment is really important for platforms,

17:19

but then what she describes as their First

17:21

Amendment right is for their ability

17:23

to censor and silence things they disagree with.

17:26

So to her mind, what she cares about

17:28

is the ability, if there's a view that

17:30

is right as center, as far

17:32

as she's concerned, the First Amendment is all

17:34

about silencing those views. There can

17:36

be no dissent. All right, I want you to listen to

17:39

another clip. This is a TED Talk where

17:41

she's discussing truth when she was at

17:43

Wikipedia, and somehow she has a

17:45

different view of truth than I think you and I

17:47

might have. Give a listen. But the

17:49

hard things, the places where we are

17:52

prone to disagreement, say politics and

17:54

religion, well, as it turns

17:56

out, not only does Wikipedia's model work there,

17:58

it's also a very important it actually works

18:00

really well. Because in

18:03

our normal lives, these contentious

18:05

conversations tend to erupt or

18:07

a disagreement about what the

18:09

truth actually is. But

18:12

the people who write these articles,

18:14

they're not focused on the truth.

18:16

They're focused on something else, which

18:19

is the best of what we can know right

18:21

now. And after

18:23

seven years of working with these

18:25

brilliant folks, I've come

18:28

to believe that they are on

18:30

to something, that perhaps for our

18:32

most tricky disagreements, seeking

18:34

the truth and seeking

18:36

to convince others of the truth might

18:39

not be the right place to start. In

18:42

fact, a reference for the

18:45

truth might be a

18:47

distraction that's getting in the way

18:49

of finding common ground

18:51

and getting things done. Now,

18:55

that is not to say that the

18:57

truth doesn't exist, nor is

18:59

it to say that the truth isn't important. Clearly,

19:02

the search for the truth has led

19:04

us to do great things,

19:07

to learn great things. But

19:12

I think if I were to really ask you to

19:14

think about this, one

19:16

of the things that we could all acknowledge is

19:18

that part of the reason we

19:20

have such glorious chronicles to the

19:22

human experience and all forms of

19:24

culture is because we acknowledge

19:27

there are many different truths. And

19:29

so in the spirit of that, I'm

19:32

certain that the truth exists for you and

19:35

probably for the person sitting next to you. But

19:38

this may not be the same truth. This

19:41

is because the truth of the matter

19:44

is very often for many people,

19:46

what happens when we merge facts about

19:48

the world with our beliefs about the

19:51

world. So we all have

19:53

different truths. They're based on things like

19:55

where we come from, how we

19:57

were raised and how other people perceive

19:59

us. What I

20:01

mean... What utter garbage. Like

20:04

every word of that, you want an indictment of

20:06

the modern left. You want an indictment of the

20:08

idiocy of media. You want an indictment of the

20:10

academic world. You want an indictment

20:12

of big tech. Good God, what utter

20:15

garbage. Truth doesn't exist. George Orwell is

20:18

spinning in his grave and laughing at the same time. 2

20:20

plus 2 doesn't equal 4. It equals 5 because

20:22

we say it is. There is no truth. Listen

20:24

to that quote. Our reverence for

20:27

the truth might be a distraction that's getting

20:29

in the way of finding common ground and

20:31

getting things done. But don't worry. This

20:33

is only for things that don't matter. The

20:35

contentious issues. What does she identify? Politics and

20:37

religion. When it comes to politics and religion,

20:40

look, Jesus Christ said I am the way, the truth, and the life.

20:42

But no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't

20:44

have reverence for truth. We're not interested in that.

20:47

We are interested in set aside a truth

20:49

that can be your truth, my truth, everyone

20:51

has a truth. Maybe for you, 2 plus

20:53

2 is 5. What

20:57

utter garbage. You know what a journalist is

20:59

supposed to be interested in? The truth. Now, do you

21:01

have perfect truth? No. Do you

21:03

have perfect knowledge? No. But you should

21:05

get damn close to it. You should be trying to get to

21:07

the truth. Remember what journalists used to learn? Who,

21:10

what, when, where, how, why? Like what happened? What

21:12

are the facts? Well, no, no, no. Not according

21:14

to her. According to her, there

21:16

are no facts. There is no truth. It's your

21:18

truth. It's my truth. From

21:20

Catherine Mars perspective, it is a

21:22

left-wing partisan whatever the orthodoxy is.

21:25

And we will silence views that

21:27

disagree. And the

21:30

first amendment is a pesky, pesky barrier. All right.

21:33

I want to play one more clip. Yeah. One

21:35

more clip where she's describing

21:38

what she did at Wikipedia. Listen to

21:40

this third clip. I

21:42

started by talking about the idea of free and

21:44

open as some of our founding principles sort

21:47

of free and open source coming from the

21:49

idea of the open source community. Well, I

21:52

have come to the opinion and the perspective

21:54

that free and open was a way of

21:56

looking at the world that was inherently limited

21:58

relative to what we were talking about. that

22:00

we're trying to achieve. Free and Open has

22:02

the best of intentionality, but in the end,

22:04

what Free and Open often ended up doing,

22:06

particularly in the case of Wikipedia, was really

22:09

recapitulating many of the same power

22:11

structures and dynamics that exist offline

22:13

prior to the advent of the

22:15

internet. And so what we ended

22:17

up seeing was Wikipedia really rebuilt

22:20

this idea of knowledge as a

22:22

whole around what the Western canon,

22:24

we see the exclusion of communities,

22:26

of languages, because of the ways

22:28

in which Wikipedia is based on

22:30

reliable sources, the idea of a

22:32

written tradition, and something that

22:34

is particular to many, I

22:38

mean, sorry, the idea of a written

22:40

tradition, which is particular to some cultures

22:42

and not to others, the ways in

22:44

which we describe notability often really comes

22:46

from sort of this white, male, Westernized

22:49

construct around who matters in societies and

22:52

who is elevated in whose voices. And

22:54

so some of these ideas of, of

22:57

this radical openness really did not end

22:59

up with the intention, really

23:01

did not end up living into the intentionality of

23:04

what openness can be. I

23:07

mean, that just is brilliant right there. God

23:10

bless. So look, she's explaining

23:12

at Wikipedia, they deliberately

23:14

abandoned a quote, Free and Open approach. By

23:16

the way, she's telling you what she's gonna

23:18

do at NPR. NPR is not going to

23:21

be Free and Open, according to her, because

23:23

she doesn't believe in Free and Open. Why?

23:26

Because Free and Open, number one, she says,

23:28

well, that advantages cultures

23:30

that believe in the written

23:32

word, because you know, what

23:35

good has book learning ever done anyone? Well,

23:37

heck, you're forgetting those

23:40

cultures that don't believe in that

23:42

fancy learning stuff. Like what utter

23:44

garbage, I'm sorry, I thought actually,

23:47

a journalistic outfit should actually

23:51

reflect, celebrate the

23:53

best of education, of learning, of

23:55

what we know, but she says, no, no, no,

23:57

no. If it's

23:59

actually. free and open, it will recapitulate

24:04

a white male westernized construct. Let

24:07

me ask you something, Ben. What the hell does that mean? Seriously,

24:10

those are the words Marxist use, and

24:13

typically the more

24:15

syllables they use when they get

24:17

polysyllabic, the less they're

24:19

making any sense. So explain to me

24:21

the phrase, recapitulate

24:23

a white male westernized

24:26

construct that does not

24:28

end up living into the intentionality of

24:30

what openness can mean. Those

24:33

words have no content other

24:35

than, I want the power to silence things I

24:38

don't like. Am I wrong?

24:40

No, you're right. And my question goes back to this

24:42

for you. It used to be

24:44

at NPR and others, they would at least

24:46

fake it like they're biased. Now

24:48

it's just flat out open, and

24:50

they're doing it with our tax towers. Is

24:53

there ever going to be a day of

24:55

reckoning where NPR finds out, hey, good

24:57

luck. Do your own thing because we're

25:00

not going to pay for this propaganda

25:02

anymore? Look, if NPR cares at all

25:04

about journalistic integrity, if they care at

25:06

all about continuing to receive taxpayer funds,

25:09

they should terminate Catherine Marr immediately. Her

25:11

job should be done. They should not have

25:13

a rabid left-wing partisan who hates the First

25:16

Amendment, who views it as an inconvenience, who

25:18

wants to censor conservatives, who is actively, explicitly,

25:20

and unabashedly opposed to free and open communication,

25:22

who doesn't believe in truth, who believes truth

25:25

is an impediment to what she's doing. That

25:27

is not a journalist in any way. She

25:29

ought to go and join Emily's list. She

25:31

ought to go and join the DNC. She

25:34

ought to go run for Congress and become

25:36

a henchman to Nancy Pelosi. She

25:38

should not actually be running a

25:40

news organization, especially not a news

25:42

organization funded by the taxpayers. And

25:45

if we have, to be honest,

25:48

if you had a Democrat who had a shred

25:50

of integrity, they would say, of

25:52

course, this is not appropriate for her to run

25:54

NPR. The chances of that happening are zero. But

25:57

I can tell you, I'm going to be pushing for accountability, and I'm

25:59

going to be... pushing for oversight of

26:01

NPR because it is brazenly

26:03

shameless for them to

26:06

put someone so wildly unqualified in

26:08

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29:03

wanna get back to the big story, number three of

29:05

the week you may have missed. Younger

29:07

voters, which Joe Biden desperately needs,

29:09

those 35 and under, he's

29:14

at risk of them not showing up. The

29:16

ones that voted for him last time, if they don't

29:19

show up this time, can cost in the election. We've

29:21

seen a lot of pandering. We've seen yet

29:24

another round of, hey, I'm gonna pay off

29:26

your student loans, and I don't care how

29:28

many millions or billions it costs. We're gonna

29:30

buy votes that way. We also see him

29:32

coming out and not making the big

29:34

statements to fitting Israel because the young people

29:36

have been indoctrinated, and this goes back to

29:38

what we're witnessing on college campuses. They've

29:41

been indoctrinated to hate Israel. And

29:44

so that's why I think we've seen the

29:46

president not say anything in a real way

29:48

publicly. In fact, he's talked about what they've

29:50

leaked from the White House. Let's talk about

29:52

the leaks over the last two weeks. They

29:55

claim that the First Lady told Joe

29:58

Biden to stop it. Stop it now. referring

30:00

to Israel's attacks on the terrorists

30:02

and that was leaked by senior

30:04

staff. Obviously there's real leaks

30:06

that are shocking and then

30:08

there's leaks that you do on purpose to get

30:10

a new cycle. That was clearly a purposeful leak.

30:13

And then we also had it coming out of the White

30:16

House that apparently the president in

30:18

essence told Israel, hey, your

30:20

eye and dome worked, take

30:22

the win, right? Don't retaliate

30:24

against the people attacking you.

30:27

Just be excited that you got the win. If

30:29

that's the messaging from the White House when

30:32

it comes to actual war, then it's

30:34

very clear this is all orchestrated as

30:36

well. Yeah, understand

30:38

it's not just Israel

30:40

that the angry

30:43

left hates. I

30:45

want you to play a video

30:47

of what happened at Yale this weekend

30:49

and it's going to be hard to tell from the audio

30:52

but after you listen to the audio I'm going to explain

30:54

what you just listened to. But

30:56

play that audio then. I

31:11

wish people could see that video because if

31:13

you witness it, it's up on your Twitter

31:16

right now, it will make you enraged

31:18

at what they're cheering. Yeah, you really

31:20

need to see this video. So this

31:22

occurred on the Yale campus and

31:24

they're chanting Viva Viva, Palestine. But

31:27

what they're doing is

31:29

they're pulling down the American flag

31:32

from a flagpole. And

31:34

by the way, the image of the students

31:37

strikingly, the students, the Yale students that are

31:39

there, if any of them

31:41

are Palestinian, they don't appear to be. And

31:45

there is in the foreground of

31:47

the image, there is this young

31:49

blonde kid who

31:51

appears to be just your

31:53

typical woke leftist American. They've

31:55

got short blonde hair and

31:58

he's wearing a Palestinian scarf. And

32:01

as the American flag goes down, he

32:03

thrusts his fist in the air. And

32:05

the cheering you hear is

32:08

when the flag goes all the way

32:10

down and hits the ground. These are

32:13

Yale students cheering the American flag being

32:15

torn down. Play the

32:17

audio again and understand the cheering is when the

32:19

American flag hits the ground. Play the audio again,

32:21

Ben. You

32:33

also see people that are smiling and

32:35

in essence laughing, Senator, like they can't

32:37

believe this is happening on their campus.

32:40

Yes. And enjoying the moment they've been camping

32:42

out there. But this is at

32:44

Yale. And if you see this at Yale

32:46

and you realize Yale is allowing this to

32:48

happen, the question is, why

32:51

on earth would you send your kid to

32:53

Yale and go half a million dollars or

32:55

more into debt or have to pay that

32:57

money for your kids to be indoctrinated at

33:00

a place that is clearly not coming down

33:02

hard on these actions? Look,

33:05

that is exactly right. And it's because

33:08

the Yale administrators are

33:10

terrified to

33:12

engage against the left

33:15

because they support the views of

33:17

the left. I'll tell you something else that was

33:19

tweeted. There's a story

33:21

in the free beacon. The Dean

33:24

of Students of Northwestern

33:27

attended a protest targeting the

33:30

campus Jewish community center. So

33:32

the Dean of Students went

33:34

to a rally where protesters

33:37

said the school, quote, weaponizes

33:39

anti-Semitism to silence pro-Palestinian activism.

33:42

And let me read you that article. The

33:45

Dean of Students at Northwestern University attended

33:47

an anti-Israel protest this week targeting Hillel,

33:49

the school's Jewish student community center, to

33:52

defend the demonstrators' quote, right to free

33:54

speech. Dean of Students Mona

33:56

Dugo said she showed up at the rally

33:58

on Monday to support anti-Israel. Israel's activist,

34:01

quote, right to protest and to protect

34:03

the right to free speech, according to

34:05

the Daily Northwestern. Protest

34:08

organizers demanded that the university end

34:10

its relationship with Hillel, a 100-year-old

34:13

nonprofit group that operates Jewish community

34:16

centers on campuses around the world,

34:18

including Northwestern. The protest

34:20

took place during Northwestern's admitted

34:22

Students Day, which seeks to

34:25

introduce incoming students to campus life. So imagine

34:27

your Jewish students coming, going, oh great, this

34:29

is a welcoming place for me. Quote,

34:32

Hillel is one of the many places

34:35

in which this university is complicit in

34:38

infusing Jewishness with

34:41

Zionism, said one protest

34:43

organizer in a speech at the rally.

34:46

A leaflet handed out by protesters accused

34:48

Northwestern of, quote, funneling

34:50

Jewish students into Hillel, the

34:53

Zionist foundation for Jewish life.

34:56

It also claimed the school,

34:58

quote, weaponizes claims of anti-Semitism

35:01

on campus to silence pro-Palestinian

35:03

activism. This is

35:05

the Dean of Students. Now, I will say, after

35:08

this became public, Northwestern, at least

35:10

to their credit, they put out

35:12

a statement claiming the

35:14

Dean of Students goes to every protest

35:16

to make sure there's not violence. Maybe.

35:20

It sure doesn't sound like that from the

35:22

article that was printed in the campus

35:24

paper, but I'm at least glad

35:26

they're feeling the need to try to explain it.

35:28

I suppose that is marginally better than

35:31

saying, yep, that's where we stand. It's

35:35

American college campuses, and it's all

35:37

coming and being organized, as you

35:39

mentioned earlier, by the left.

35:42

And if you look at this, you go back to what

35:44

you said at the beginning about how important it is to

35:46

follow the money. Why is it

35:48

that when it comes to these

35:50

issues, and I'm going to answer my own

35:52

question here, but it's

35:55

like the media doesn't exist when it

35:57

comes to investigative reporting. I

35:59

would assume that media could figure it

36:01

out pretty darn quickly, Senator. Who's

36:03

paying for this? Who's organizing

36:05

it? Who's behind it? Where

36:08

the money is originating from? Not

36:10

a single story is being written about it, though. No,

36:14

because they don't care, because the

36:16

media is ultimately supportive of

36:19

these goals. They're not covering it. By the way, I

36:21

will give some credit, and this is something painful for

36:23

me to do, but I'm going to give a little

36:25

bit of credit to CNN. You know who's been most

36:27

vocal speaking out on this? CNN

36:29

has had a lot of coverage. You're correct,

36:32

especially this past weekend. And Jake Tapper in

36:34

particular. And listen, I've been very critical of

36:36

Jake. You and I both know Jake very

36:38

well. But on this issue,

36:40

Jake Tapper has been the single most

36:42

outspoken major media figure, and I'm going

36:45

to give him credit for that, because

36:47

his colleagues and his colleagues at other

36:49

networks and newspapers should do the same.

36:53

Senator, last question for you on this

36:55

one. If we do find out that

36:58

these organizations that are backing

37:00

and clearly growing these

37:04

anti-Semitic protests are

37:07

directly connected to Democratic donors, Democratic

37:09

party, what are

37:12

the chances that the media covers it? Or what do you

37:14

bet where the only ones people hear about it from? Zero.

37:17

The media won't cover that. They have no interest

37:19

in it whatsoever. They have no interest in

37:22

who's promoting this, who's funding it,

37:24

who's paying people. Listen, Ben, as

37:28

you know, I have had anti-Israel

37:30

pro-Hamas protesters at my home every

37:33

Saturday morning for over three months now.

37:36

It's the same group of about 15 people.

37:38

They're clearly being paid by somebody. Nobody

37:40

cares who's paying them. Somebody is paying them

37:43

to, and they're doing this at the

37:45

homes of other people as well, other

37:47

elected officials as well. This

37:50

is a concerted effort. But do you know where

37:52

this ends up? Where

37:54

is that? If you want to see where

37:56

this ends up, take a look at Europe. Sadly, Europe

37:58

has four agencies. long time

38:01

for centuries been on

38:03

the cutting edge of anti-Semitism. And you

38:05

can look to Europe to see perhaps

38:07

the next step of where these college campuses

38:09

are this weekend. The

38:12

London police threatened

38:14

to arrest a man for

38:17

being, quote, openly

38:19

Jewish. And

38:21

I want to read from a post that Jonathan

38:23

Turley put up this weekend, quote, the London

38:25

police are under fire this week for threatening to

38:27

arrest a man wearing a Kepa

38:29

near a pro-Palestinian march.

38:33

Officers informed Gideon Falter, head of

38:36

the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism watchdog, that

38:39

he was, quote, antagonizing the

38:41

protesters by being,

38:44

quote, openly Jewish near

38:46

such a march. He

38:48

was told that if he tried to

38:50

cross the street while

38:53

being, quote, openly Jewish,

38:56

he would be arrested for breach of the peace.

38:59

In the video, police officer, one police

39:02

officer said, quote, you

39:04

are quite openly Jewish. This

39:06

is a pro-Palestinian march. I'm

39:08

not accusing you of anything, but I'm worried

39:10

about the reaction to your presence. Another

39:13

officer then adds later, quote, you

39:16

will be escorted out of this area so you

39:18

can go about your business, go where you want

39:20

freely. Or if you choose

39:22

to remain here because you

39:24

are causing a breach of peace with

39:26

all these other people, you

39:29

will be arrested. I

39:32

want you to pause and reflect on that.

39:34

In London, it

39:36

is now an arrestable offense, according

39:39

to police, to be

39:41

openly Jewish, to wear a yarmulke. You're

39:45

the one, if you are simply

39:47

Jewish and acknowledge your Jewish heritage

39:49

and don't

39:51

hide it, that

39:53

is grounds for being arrested in London.

39:56

That's where this heads. That is

39:58

the fruit of the culture. neutral Marxist

40:00

leftist ideology that is

40:03

the fruit of the

40:05

anti-Semitism infusing our

40:07

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