Speaker 1: Welcome. It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz ben Ferguson
Speaker 1: with you, and we have a lot to talk about
Speaker 1: when it comes to Israel. There are so many people
Speaker 1: asking questions about Biden's response, Also colleges in America that
Speaker 1: are backing Hamas and Black Lives managers standing with them
Speaker 1: as well. Plus how many illegal immigrants have come across
Speaker 1: the border that are on the Terrace watch list. We're
Speaker 1: looking at the border through a different perspective now with
Speaker 1: what just happened in Israel. Senator, let's first start with
Speaker 1: the president's response. It was shocking to see him not
Speaker 1: talk about Iran, not talk about the money going to Iran,
Speaker 1: and not warning the terrorists to not lay a finger
Speaker 1: on the Americans they're holding hostage. Your thoughts on what
Speaker 1: he said to the world today, really what he was
Speaker 1: saying to the Territs.
Speaker 2: Well, let me start by just observing where we are.
Speaker 2: We are five days into the most serious attack on
Speaker 2: Israel in over fifty years. We are seeing atrocities unfold
Speaker 2: every single day. Saturday was the single biggest day of
Speaker 2: mass murders of Jews since the Holocaust. We've had over
Speaker 2: nine hundred Israelis murdered. We've had thousands of Israelis injured,
Speaker 2: We've had hundreds potentially more Israelis kidnapped and taken hostage.
Speaker 2: And we are seeing atrocities, war crimes carried out each
Speaker 2: and every day, you know. Monday night, I went to
Speaker 2: a synagogue in Houston and attended a solidarity service as
Speaker 2: Jews throughout the Houston community came together. We had about
Speaker 2: two thousand people in Houston come together, including people of
Speaker 2: other faith, standing with Israel. On Tuesday night, I went
Speaker 2: to a solidarity service at a synagogue in Dallas. Same thing,
Speaker 2: couple of thousand people from Dallas coming together. I've got
Speaker 2: to say, Number one, the pain and agony in the
Speaker 2: Jewish community in particular is enormous. The number of people
Speaker 2: I saw just weeping. The number of American Jews who
Speaker 2: have family members who live in Israel, who have family
Speaker 2: members or friends who were there who have been scared
Speaker 2: for what it meant. At both of the services in
Speaker 2: Houston and Dallas on Monday and Tuesday, they had Israelis
Speaker 2: stand up and speak and tell their stories. And I
Speaker 2: got to say their stories were powerful, talking about friends
Speaker 2: of theirs, talking about the terror at the Dallas Synagogue.
Speaker 2: The Israeli talked about that she and her husband and
Speaker 2: their three kids had lived at a kibbutz just a
Speaker 2: couple of miles from the Gaza Strip, and she described
Speaker 2: with tears running down her face, she was having a
Speaker 2: very hard time tell this story. So she's been in
Speaker 2: the United States for about three months, but they had
Speaker 2: lived in the kibbutz before that. She's spending a year
Speaker 2: fellowship here in the United States. She described how their
Speaker 2: friends began texting them and on WhatsApp apps in utter terror.
Speaker 2: She was a schoolteacher in Israel, and she described how
Speaker 2: her students were texting her as the terrorists were arriving,
Speaker 2: and she was getting text after text after text saying
Speaker 2: they're here. They're knocking on the doors, they're breaking the windows,
Speaker 2: they're shooting down the doors. She was listening to to
Speaker 2: the terrorists attacking home by home by home. It's worth
Speaker 2: understanding this is something that has not happened since the
Speaker 2: Nazis death squads going house by house by house and
Speaker 2: murdering every resident there simply because they're Jews. It is horrific,
Speaker 2: and this is Israeli. She discribed rived Tuesday night, her
Speaker 2: sixth grade students were texting her in terror and then
Speaker 2: in the midst of the text they'd go silent. How
Speaker 2: she had students of hers who were killed. She described
Speaker 2: a good friend of hers who was a teacher who
Speaker 2: had several children, who was fleeing, fleeing from the terrorists
Speaker 2: that were there to murder them. And she described how
Speaker 2: her friend made a choice, how her son was on
Speaker 2: one motorcycle and she and her two daughters were another motorcycle,
Speaker 2: and she pulled off and saved her two daughters and
Speaker 2: watched her son captured and kidnapped by the Hamas terrorists.
Speaker 2: You remember the movie Sophie's Choice, where a mom is
Speaker 2: forced into the unspeakable, the unimaginable decision of choosing between
Speaker 2: your children, And I listened to this Israeli woman in
Speaker 2: tears describe her friend who saved two of her children,
Speaker 2: but is filled with fear and agony that the child
Speaker 2: she was not able to save, he's been kidnapped. He's
Speaker 2: presumably been taken back to Gaza. She doesn't know what
Speaker 2: he's experiencing, presumably horrible treatment. This is happening, This is horrific,
Speaker 2: and it's happening. We're seeing images. We're seeing images of
Speaker 2: baby's shot, We're seeing images of babies beheaded, We're seeing images.
Speaker 2: There was an outdoor concert. You had hundreds of Israelis there,
Speaker 2: and they arrived and just began firing machine guns, gunning
Speaker 2: them down in massive numbers, chasing them down and killing them.
Speaker 2: They began grabbing the women and the little girls and
Speaker 2: raping them, violently raping them. The images that they are horrific.
Speaker 2: This is evil. There's no ambiguity about it. There's no
Speaker 2: justification about it. There's no On the one hand, on
Speaker 2: the other hand, anyone who rapes and murders children is evil.
Speaker 2: These are barbaras. Now all of that is before I
Speaker 2: get to your question, Ben, What did I think about
Speaker 2: what Biden said today? Well, he finally got around to
Speaker 2: talking five days into this, and he finally said today
Speaker 2: something that should have been said on Saturday, which is
Speaker 2: America stands with Israel, period, full stop. I'm glad he
Speaker 2: finally said that. Why did it take five days? Why
Speaker 2: did it take five days to say that? Why in
Speaker 2: the hours after this attack began, did the Biden State
Speaker 2: Department tweet out urging Israel do not engage in a
Speaker 2: military response. Stand down violence solves nothing. As you know,
Speaker 2: I blasted that tweet and three in the morning, at
Speaker 2: three in the morning, within minutes of when they sent it,
Speaker 2: and within the hour, the State Department pulled it down.
Speaker 2: But subsequently Tony Blinken sent another tweet, another tweet urging
Speaker 2: Israel not to engage in military retaliation for what they're
Speaker 2: calling Israel's nine eleves for the greatest murder of Israeli citizens,
Speaker 2: and our State Department is saying do nothing. Again. I
Speaker 2: blasted that Biden State Department tweet, and again they deleted
Speaker 2: it very shortly thereafter. So Biden five days later says
Speaker 2: America stands with Israel. That's good. They finally got that
Speaker 2: sentence correct. But I got to say, is administration didn't
Speaker 2: stand with Israel on Saturday. They didn't stand with Israel
Speaker 2: on Sunday, or on Monday or finally on Tuesday. They
Speaker 2: get the statement out. But you know what they haven't done.
Speaker 2: They haven't addressed Iran in the slightest Iran is who
Speaker 2: planned this, Irans who organized this, Irans who funded this.
Speaker 2: They haven't addressed their own culpability for sending the money
Speaker 2: that funded this. They haven't said they're going to stop
Speaker 2: sending the money to Iran. Instead, they've given talking points.
Speaker 2: America stands with Israel without any substance behind it, And meanwhile,
Speaker 2: we have democrat after democrat in the House attacking and
Speaker 2: undermining Israel. It is horrific. And I got to tell you,
Speaker 2: the Jewish community in America is grieving. The Jewish community
Speaker 2: across the globe is grieving, but not just the Jewish community.
Speaker 2: Christians are grieving. Anyone with any sense of humanity. When
Speaker 2: you have monsters murdering babies, that's what we're seeing. And
Speaker 2: even worse than that, we're seeing monsters murdering babies, and
Speaker 2: we're seeing leftist ideologues rationalizing and justifying it.
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Speaker 1: of it, and it's also and I want to go
Speaker 1: back to a couple more questions. I have for you
Speaker 1: on Biden, the fact that he didn't come out and
Speaker 1: talk about sanctions and refused to answer the question about
Speaker 1: the six billion. How is the six billion still on
Speaker 1: the table for Ran if we clearly know and his
Speaker 1: own spokespeople, the State Department others afterwards said yes, we
Speaker 1: know that Iran was involved in at least the planning.
Speaker 1: There apparently was a meeting on Tuesday before this attack
Speaker 1: in Beirut. We know that Hamas is supported financially by Iran.
Speaker 1: And the President walked out of the room and would
Speaker 1: not answer that statement. Not only that, when the White
Speaker 1: House Press Corps pressed the White House on this issue
Speaker 1: of why will you not just say the money's not
Speaker 1: going there, they wouldn't give a direct answer, and you
Speaker 1: got to ask the question at this point, whose side
Speaker 1: are you on, mister President.
Speaker 2: Well, look, unfortunately for two and a half year the
Speaker 2: White House has answered that question. They're on the side
Speaker 2: of Palestinian terrorists and they're on the side of Iran. Now, Ben,
Speaker 2: let me say right now, someone listening to that may
Speaker 2: say that's that's extreme, that's not where they are. Let
Speaker 2: me back it up with facts. Because people are asking
Speaker 2: about the six billion I'm glad they're asking about the
Speaker 2: six billion. They should, but there are four separate buckets
Speaker 2: of cash that anyone reasonable and rational should ask about,
Speaker 2: because all four of them have gone to fund these atrocities.
Speaker 2: Number one is the six billion dollars. The Biden administration
Speaker 2: spent six billion dollars as ransom to get five Americans
Speaker 2: out of Iranian captivity. Now, when that happened, I pointed
Speaker 2: out that they set the ransom at one point two
Speaker 2: billion dollars per American. And what I said, and what
Speaker 2: many others said, is the result of this will be
Speaker 2: many more Americans taken hostage, and in particular, Iran will
Speaker 2: take many more American hostage. Now, what I didn't realize
Speaker 2: is that it would be just a few weeks until
Speaker 2: that happened. One of the things the White House acknowledged
Speaker 2: on Tuesday, at least fourteen American citizens were killed by
Speaker 2: hamas in this attack, and potentially upwards of twenty Americans
Speaker 2: were taken hostage. So the Biden administration demonstrates to Iran, hey,
Speaker 2: if you take Americans hostage, we'll pay you billions in ransom.
Speaker 2: They released five, and they'd now taken upwards of twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: At the price the Biden administration sent is twenty four
Speaker 2: billion dollars. I am very sorry that prediction proved accurate,
Speaker 2: but it proved accurate within weeks, and there were many
Speaker 2: others saying the same thing. That's bucket number one, the
Speaker 2: six billion dollars. That's the only thing the media is
Speaker 2: talking about even a little bit. But there are three
Speaker 2: other buckets that are highly relevant. The second bucket is
Speaker 2: another ten billion dollars. That is ten billion dollars of
Speaker 2: money that was in Iraq that the Biden d administration
Speaker 2: just a few weeks earlier than the six billion released
Speaker 2: ten billion to Iran. I believe the ransom was actually
Speaker 2: sixteen billion rather than six because you have the six
Speaker 2: plus the ten that they had released a few weeks earlier.
Speaker 2: That takes them to sixteen billion. But that's not even
Speaker 2: the majority of the money Biden has sent to Iran. Look,
Speaker 2: when Biden became president, he inherited a situation where the
Speaker 2: Middle East was at peace. In fact, peace was breaking
Speaker 2: out between Israel and Israel's Arab neighbors. The Abraham Accords
Speaker 2: had just been signed, and Iran was on its knees.
Speaker 2: Its economy was crippled. And the reason its economy was
Speaker 2: crippled is because the majority of their revenue comes from
Speaker 2: oil sales, and the Trump administration, at my emphatic urging,
Speaker 2: had enforced strict sanctions against Iranian oil sales that had
Speaker 2: crippled their oil sales. Well, Joe Biden came in and
Speaker 2: immediately began not in force seeing those sanctions on oil.
Speaker 2: As a consequence, for two and a half years, Iran
Speaker 2: has been selling oil like crazy, much of it they're
Speaker 2: selling to China. So it's aiding two of our enemies.
Speaker 2: It's aiding Iran and China. They have earned in excess
Speaker 2: of forty billion dollars from selling oil because Joe Biden
Speaker 2: will not enforce the sanctions against Iran. Right now, today
Speaker 2: Iran is selling two million barrels a day of oil.
Speaker 2: And you know what Joe Biden didn't say today. He
Speaker 2: didn't say We're finally going to enforce oil sanctions. He
Speaker 2: didn't say that, he didn't pose any new sanctions, He
Speaker 2: didn't force any new sanctions. So presumably tomorrow Iran will
Speaker 2: sell two million barrels of oil. Now, I gotta say,
Speaker 2: in the debate over the money people are saying money
Speaker 2: is fungible. Money is fungible. That's absolutely true. That's part
Speaker 2: of the argument. That's part of the argument about the
Speaker 2: six billion dollars. And the Marionettes who are defending the
Speaker 2: White House, they say, well, the six billion dollars could
Speaker 2: only be spent on humanitarian purposes. And it's absolutely true
Speaker 2: that money's fungible. So if you fill six billion in
Speaker 2: one pot, they can spend other money on terrorism in
Speaker 2: attacking Israel. But that doesn't address the ten billion dollars,
Speaker 2: and it certainly doesn't address the forty billion dollars in
Speaker 2: oil revenues, which can be spent on any damn thing
Speaker 2: they want. And there's actually been There's a fourth bucket
Speaker 2: of money that almost no one in the press is addressing,
Speaker 2: which is the hundreds of millions of dollars that the
Speaker 2: Biden administration has sent to Gaza and when they send
Speaker 2: it to Gaza. At the time, I led a coalition
Speaker 2: of seventeen senators urging the Biden administration, do not send
Speaker 2: this to Gaza. If you send it to Gaza, it
Speaker 2: will go to ham and Hamas will use it for terrorism.
Speaker 2: Seventeen senators altogether joined me in sending that letter. Now,
Speaker 2: on the other side, in the House, some one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty House members, all Democrats, wrote a letter urging
Speaker 2: one hundred and forty five, actually, House Democrats sent a
Speaker 2: letter urging that the money be released to Hamas that included,
Speaker 2: among others, Colin All read from Texas. One hundred and
Speaker 2: forty five Democrats sent that letter urging the Biden administration
Speaker 2: to send hundreds of millions to Gaza. Now what happened.
Speaker 2: The Biden administration assessed, and here is the amazing thing,
Speaker 2: which again the media is not covering. The Biden administration
Speaker 2: knew for a fact that the money they were sending
Speaker 2: to Gaza would fund terrorism. Let me read you the
Speaker 2: quote from the internal Biden administration document. Quote, due to
Speaker 2: its all strength and level of control over Gaza, we
Speaker 2: assess there is a high risk HAMAS could potentially derive indirect,
Speaker 2: unintentional benefits from US assistance to Gaza. In other words,
Speaker 2: this money, there's a high risk it'll be used by
Speaker 2: Hamas for terrorism. And you know what they did. They
Speaker 2: didn't say, oh, we don't want to fund terrorism, we
Speaker 2: don't want to fund death squads murdering Israelis. Instead they
Speaker 2: said no, actually we do. So they waived the anti
Speaker 2: terrorism restrictions under US law and they sent the money anyway.
Speaker 2: And in the press conference on Tuesday, Joe Biden did
Speaker 2: not address one syllable of one word of anything I
Speaker 2: just said. He didn't address any of the four pots
Speaker 2: of money that, in a very very real sense, the
Speaker 2: death squads and the worst attack on Israel in fifty
Speaker 2: years was funded by money the Biden administration chose to
Speaker 2: send to Iran and chose to send to Hamas, which
Speaker 2: is controlled and funded by Iran.
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Speaker 1: I want to go back to the money you just
Speaker 1: mentioned for a second. Scott Kirby, who basically I guess
Speaker 1: is the de facto of President United States of America
Speaker 1: because he's the only one that seems to be talking
Speaker 1: from the White House about any of these issues. The
Speaker 1: President won't take questions. We don't see him. They call
Speaker 1: it at noon every day. He claimed on Fox News
Speaker 1: that the quote Iran sanctions are being enforced. He got
Speaker 1: called out for lying by Brett Hume. I want to
Speaker 1: play this back and forth because it talks about the
Speaker 1: money and the difference in the exports and how much
Speaker 1: money Iran is making right now because America is not
Speaker 1: enforcing these sanctions.
Speaker 4: Listen, I don't have any policy decisions with respect to
Speaker 4: that to speak to you today, Brett. I think it's
Speaker 4: important for people to remember that not a single dnar
Speaker 4: of that fun of those funds has gone into Iran,
Speaker 4: not one, not any nothing's been allocated out of that fund.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and we're gonna watch it block. Money's fungible. You
Speaker 5: get six billion dollars over here for humanitarian and food,
Speaker 5: so then you can move money someplace else, and then
Speaker 5: you have the not enforcing sanctions that allows Iran to
Speaker 5: cash in on it's oil around the world.
Speaker 6: Brett.
Speaker 4: Brett, with all due respect, I just got to push
Speaker 4: back on you there. It's not that we're not enforcing sanctions.
Speaker 4: We have been enforcing them. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 4: we've added sanctions. We've sanctioned four hundred entities in Iran
Speaker 4: just in the beginning of this administration, let alone the
Speaker 4: sanctions that came before us. And as for the fungibility, again,
Speaker 4: that money was never going to be tapped by the
Speaker 4: Iranian regime. They were never going to see it themselves.
Speaker 4: It was always going to go to vendors that we
Speaker 4: approved to go to buy humanitarian assistance and medical and
Speaker 4: food to get to the directly to the Iranian people.
Speaker 4: The regime was never going to see that or feel that,
Speaker 4: and they haven't asked for it. And the other thing
Speaker 4: I'll say right.
Speaker 5: Just before we get off this topic, No, John, I
Speaker 5: wanted to just push back on one thing. You said
Speaker 5: that the sanctions are being enforced the Iranian exports of
Speaker 5: oil to China twenty twenty six point six billion, twenty
Speaker 5: twenty one, twenty three point one billion, twenty twenty two
Speaker 5: to thirty billion dollars. So how is that enforcing the
Speaker 5: sanctions on Iran?
Speaker 1: I mean, Centat, I'll just stop there and let you
Speaker 1: respond to that. They're lying and he just got called
Speaker 1: out for lying. You go from six point six billion
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty to now you're talking, you know, thirty
Speaker 1: billion in twenty twenty three. How is that enforcing these sanctions?
Speaker 1: The White House is clearly looking the other way.
Speaker 2: Well, they are, and they're doing it because the number
Speaker 2: one foreign policy objective of the Biden administer station remains,
Speaker 2: I assume to this day, re entering the disastrous Obama
Speaker 2: Iran nuclear deal. It's their number one priority. It's why
Speaker 2: they're undermining the war in Ukraine. It's why they are
Speaker 2: making every other foreign policy issues subservient to flooding cash
Speaker 2: into Iran. And listen, the numbers are clear. Iran right
Speaker 2: now today is selling two million barrels of oil a day.
Speaker 2: When Biden came into office, they were selling a tiny
Speaker 2: fraction of that because the oil sanctions had crippled their economy.
Speaker 2: And this was not accidental. It's a conscious decision. And
Speaker 2: you know John Kirby. John Kirby is a retired rear
Speaker 2: admiral from the Navy. He's somewhat who devoted his life
Speaker 2: to the military, and he's turned into bagdad Bob. He's
Speaker 2: just willing to go out and lie for the Biden administration.
Speaker 2: It when he is saying things like we are enforcing sank,
Speaker 2: he sounds like Kareine Jean Pierre, And I got to
Speaker 2: say the willingness that I actually find it sad to
Speaker 2: see someone, a career military man, willing to sell his
Speaker 2: integrity down the river by just lying on behalf of an administration.
Speaker 2: That's what he's doing.
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Speaker 1: One other question about the hostages. I think there's still
Speaker 1: disbelief right now at the lack of intensity from this
Speaker 1: administration on words having meaning and saying to these hostages takers,
Speaker 1: we will come after you if you do not release
Speaker 1: the American hostage. Why is it that this administration weve
Speaker 1: uses to say things like that to defend American.
Speaker 2: Lives because they don't believe it, because this president is
Speaker 2: so weak that if you take American hostages, he won't
Speaker 2: come after you. Look, Joe Biden has already become Jimmy
Speaker 2: Carter and even worse, I got to say, I was
Speaker 2: a kid when Jimmy Carter was president. I remember the
Speaker 2: hostage crisis in nineteen seventy nine and nineteen eighty where
Speaker 2: American hostages were held in Iran, same people doing it
Speaker 2: for four hundred and forty four days. It brought down
Speaker 2: the Jimmy Carter presidency. I remember, for example, that the
Speaker 2: TV show Nightline. I don't know if you know this bend,
Speaker 2: but it was started during the Iran hostage crisis because
Speaker 2: every night ABC, this is back when we had functioning journalism,
Speaker 2: would cover the hostage crisis, and Ted Copple started Nightline
Speaker 2: to cover it every single night, the ongoing hostage crisis.
Speaker 2: Where's CNN on the American hostage crisis? Where's ABC that
Speaker 2: they could relaunch Nightline? Where's CBS, NBC? We have twenty
Speaker 2: American hostages. And do the American president say if you
Speaker 2: hurd a hostage, we will there will be massive repercussions. Nope, nope. Instead,
Speaker 2: his State Department said stand down, no military repercussions whatsoever. Apparently,
Speaker 2: take a hostage and you know, we'll get out our
Speaker 2: checkbook and write billions of dollars this weakness is endangering
Speaker 2: America and it's endangering our allies.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you quickly about the media, because
Speaker 1: something you just said reminded me of the media. Are
Speaker 1: you shocked by the amount of anti Semitism we are
Speaker 1: witnessing on TV right now from people that many respect journalists.
Speaker 1: I want to give you an example. Andrea Mitchell today
Speaker 1: said this about Hamas.
Speaker 3: Historically, the post in the authority has gotten weaker and
Speaker 3: weaker as Jimas has gained strength and popularity because the
Speaker 3: posting the authority is weakened by the nation's government settlement
Speaker 3: and by showing that it has not much much authority.
Speaker 1: I mean, she keeps giving excuses for why Hamas is
Speaker 1: gaining strength and says, well, it's because of this, or
Speaker 1: it's because of that, And she went on to continue
Speaker 1: to say even after that that this is because of
Speaker 1: the problem that Israel created. And she's saying this on
Speaker 1: TV while she's also putting out the propaganda from the
Speaker 1: Palacindian Health Ministry that eight hundred and thirty innocent people
Speaker 1: killed in Gaza another four thousand, two hundred fifty injured,
Speaker 1: many of them children, And she's selling this to the
Speaker 1: American people that there's well, there's a both sides quote
Speaker 1: argument here. Israelis are not beheading infant children, They're not
Speaker 1: dragging women through the streets and raping them. They're not
Speaker 1: throwing dead bodies in the back of the trucks like
Speaker 1: we saw during the Holocaust. That is only the terrorists
Speaker 1: on the side of Hamas. Period.
Speaker 2: The corporate media hates Israel, and you have to understand
Speaker 2: a very important part of the strategy of Hamas they
Speaker 2: engage in this barbarism, They engage in these attacks and
Speaker 2: they know the response from Israel is going to be
Speaker 2: a military strike. I believe Benjamin Etyah, who is going
Speaker 2: to take out Hamas. I think he is going to
Speaker 2: take out their military leadership, take out their weapons, take
Speaker 2: out their rockets, take out their soldiers, take out their terrorists.
Speaker 2: He's going to eliminate Hamas. That is going to be
Speaker 2: a bloody war. It is going to last a minimum
Speaker 2: of weeks, it may last months. Hamas's strategy, as Israel
Speaker 2: engages in that effort to take out Hamas, is going
Speaker 2: to be to count on the corporate media to be
Speaker 2: their pr spokespeople. So we're already hearing just a few
Speaker 2: days into this conflict, the Palestinian body counts. What the
Speaker 2: corporate media doesn't tell you is the reason Palestinians are
Speaker 2: dying is because Hamas wants them to die. Because Hamas
Speaker 2: uses Palestinians as human shields. Israel is sending text, is
Speaker 2: sending warnings asking civilians get out of the way, get
Speaker 2: out of harm's way. We're going to strike this location here.
Speaker 2: It's a Hamas stronghold, it's a headquarters, it's where they
Speaker 2: have rockets. Get out of the way. Hamas is telling
Speaker 2: the civilians stay there. Why, because we want you dead.
Speaker 2: You have to understand Hamas. They want Palestinians dead because
Speaker 2: a dead Palestinian, even better, a bit dead Palestinian mother
Speaker 2: or child, is invaluable to Hamas as a propaganda tool
Speaker 2: because they know that the tweeting numbskulls in the media
Speaker 2: will use that to attack Israel and will say they
Speaker 2: are barbarians. That is what this is all about. And
Speaker 2: so you need to get ready. The New York Times,
Speaker 2: the New York Times will wage a pr war against Israel.
Speaker 2: It will portray the Palestinians as oppressed people, and these
Speaker 2: poor Hamas terrorists are Smiths understood. Let me tell you,
Speaker 2: when you are beheading babies, you're not misunderstood. You're a monster,
Speaker 2: and you deserve to be treated as such.
Speaker 1: There was also something else that shocked me, and it
Speaker 1: happened today on TV. John Kirby was asked a question,
Speaker 1: and this terrifies me about our readiness as a nation militarily.
Speaker 1: He was asked about the possibility of a special operation
Speaker 1: to rescue Americans from Israel, and he answered in a
Speaker 1: way that I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 5: Listen, you ruling out some kind of special operation to
Speaker 5: rescue American citizens.
Speaker 4: I'm not ruling any I'm not ruling anything in or out.
Speaker 6: Brett.
Speaker 4: We're not prepared to do that at this time. We
Speaker 4: just don't have enough information to get into policy possibilities
Speaker 4: and options. We obviously take the safety and security of
Speaker 4: Americans overseas very seriously. President Biden has made that clear,
Speaker 4: and bringing home now almost forty Americans that were wrongfully detained,
Speaker 4: we'll certainly act with that same sense of alacrity and
Speaker 4: urgency here and seriousness. But again, we just don't have
Speaker 4: We just don't have the numbers that confirm. We don't
Speaker 4: have the information to be able to talk with any
Speaker 4: great specificity about what the options might be.
Speaker 1: He just said there to the world and to the
Speaker 1: terrorists we're in un quoting exactly, we're not prepared to
Speaker 1: do that at this time.
Speaker 2: The Biden administration is incapable of projecting strength. It's incapable
Speaker 2: of standing up to our enemies. Biden's approach from day
Speaker 2: one is to every enemy of America, whether it is Iran,
Speaker 2: whether it is North Korea, whether it is Venezuela, whether
Speaker 2: it is China, whether it is Russia, projecting weakness and
Speaker 2: projecting appeasement. So he cannot say, if you do not
Speaker 2: release Americans, you will face overwhelming consequences to the military
Speaker 2: leaders of AMAS. Release the Americans, or you will die.
Speaker 2: That's actually what a commander in chief who's defending Americans
Speaker 2: would say. By the way, Benjamin Netanyahu, who doesn't have
Speaker 2: time for the nonsense that the Biden White House engages in,
Speaker 2: that's exactly what he's saying. He is saying they are
Speaker 2: going to eradicate Hamas, that they cannot live with this
Speaker 2: terror threat, with these monsters targeting women and children and civilians.
Speaker 2: They're not engaged in war, they're not attacking military targets.
Speaker 2: Hamas is not. They are engaged in terrorism targeting babies.
Speaker 2: Babies are not military targets. And unfortunately the Biden administration,
Speaker 2: their weakness causes our enemies to be stronger, to be
Speaker 2: more aggressive, because they say this president is a pushover,
Speaker 2: and the more hostages we take, the more billions of
Speaker 2: dollars they'll give us, and then we'll use those billions
Speaker 2: of dollars to take even more hostages and to kill
Speaker 2: even more Jews. That's what's going on here, and the
Speaker 2: Biden administration bears direct culpability, which is why after Joe
Speaker 2: Biden gave a statement and he ran out of the
Speaker 2: room and didn't answer a single press question because they
Speaker 2: cannot defend their disgraceful policy.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about this from a a internal and inside
Speaker 1: of the US perspective for a minute as well. Colleges
Speaker 1: Harvard University of Pennsylvania, Black Lives Matter, standing with these terrorists.
Speaker 1: You have federally elected leaders around the country that are
Speaker 1: standing with these terrorists. You have a Colorado State Representative,
Speaker 1: Tim Hernandez who said this today.
Speaker 8: I think it's despicable what they're protesting for, protesting relations
Speaker 8: and the fact that you can't condemn women and children
Speaker 8: and elderly people being all over in the streets.
Speaker 2: What about it?
Speaker 8: Do you condemn it? I already said, why can't you
Speaker 8: say yes?
Speaker 3: Because I already gave you my answer if you didn't.
Speaker 8: Give an answer, and every I think anybody who watches
Speaker 8: would understand.
Speaker 1: This is a man who's at a protest against Israel,
Speaker 1: who's been elected to the state legislature. You put that,
Speaker 1: and you combine that with the squad Senator. I will
Speaker 1: give a little credit the White House at least today
Speaker 1: understood that they need to stand up against Omar and
Speaker 1: to leave and others.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: The White House Press Secretary did say that what they
Speaker 1: had said was repugnant and disgraceful their statements on Israel.
Speaker 1: But you combine these young leaders with what we're now
Speaker 1: witnessing on college campuses, is at Harvard at University of Penn.
Speaker 1: It scares me for this country. There was a conversation
Speaker 1: even about this on CNBC, even CNBC who deals with
Speaker 1: financial issues, like what the hell is going on on
Speaker 1: college campuses? And this is what they said.
Speaker 9: Let me ask you a question. Let's say you're the
Speaker 9: president of Harvard University. If you've looked at what's happening
Speaker 9: to Harvard, there are students who are mind boggling, right,
Speaker 9: but students who are gathering to support the Palestinians, to
Speaker 9: support Hamas, frankly, very very specifically to support Hamas and
Speaker 9: what's happening. What is the role of the president of
Speaker 9: a university or frankly the president of a company when
Speaker 9: they have either students or employees or others who want
Speaker 9: to view and express that position, which I find disgraceful,
Speaker 9: But I wonder.
Speaker 7: Well, I think what the you're supposed to look? The
Speaker 7: first thing that I would do if I was a
Speaker 7: president Harvard University, I would say, we are clearly not
Speaker 7: educating students for students to think that. Again, you know,
Speaker 7: murder at scale is somehow legitimate, that occupation causes terror.
Speaker 7: I mean, there are no Israelis in Gaza. For goodness sakes,
Speaker 7: it's a silly turn of phrase. But to your question,
Speaker 7: what would I do well? Number one, I would say
Speaker 7: we need to revisit our entire core education because they're
Speaker 7: clearly not teaching morals or values. That's number one. And
Speaker 7: then number two, the president of Harvard, like the president
Speaker 7: of U Penn, like the president's institutions, needs to stand
Speaker 7: up and speak out and say this is disgraceful and
Speaker 7: wrong students are.
Speaker 1: But they're not doing that, Senator, They're not saying it's wrong.
Speaker 1: They're waiting days to even respond. And it's only after
Speaker 1: famous alumni and donors finally came down them to the
Speaker 1: point where like you have to give a statement, and
Speaker 1: they put out a basic statement on paper.
Speaker 2: Well, let me say the voice you were just hearing
Speaker 2: there was Jonathan Greenblatt. He's the head of the Anti
Speaker 2: Day Information League, and I'm glad he's speaking out. He
Speaker 2: actually was speaking clearly and effectively there. The ADL has
Speaker 2: a long history of calling out anti Semitism, in recent
Speaker 2: years it has been far too willing to basically act
Speaker 2: as a defender for the Democrat Party and as a partisan,
Speaker 2: And so I'm glad they're standing up and speaking with clarity.
Speaker 2: Here it's important. But look what happened at Harvard. You
Speaker 2: have thirty five student groups that put out a statement.
Speaker 2: I want you to understand what they said. I'm going
Speaker 2: to read you from the joint statement by Harvard Palestine
Speaker 2: Solidarity Groups on the situation in Palestine. No, it's the
Speaker 2: situation of Palestine, not Israel. They don't even acknowledge Israel exists. We,
Speaker 2: the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible
Speaker 2: for all unfolding violence. That's the opening sentence. It is
Speaker 2: Israel's fault that Hamas terrorists are murdering children. It is
Speaker 2: Israel's fault that Hamas terrorists are raping women and little
Speaker 2: girls in the streets and parading them through the street.
Speaker 2: It is Israel's fault that they are kidnapping toddlers and
Speaker 2: holding them hostage. It is Israel's fault that they are
Speaker 2: using those toddlers as human shields. They're using women and
Speaker 2: men as human shields. It's Israel's fault that Hamas terrorists
Speaker 2: are murdering civilians indiscriminately, walking house by house by house,
Speaker 2: and if you're a Jew, they murder. You what a ridiculous,
Speaker 2: outrageous situation. And look that statement they put out. Initially,
Speaker 2: for the first couple of days, Harvard said nothing. It
Speaker 2: was the only statement from the Harvard campus that anyone
Speaker 2: seemed to be aware of. Then Harvard put out an
Speaker 2: initial statement that was the most milk toasted, lukewarm statement
Speaker 2: of well, we want to be a safe space for
Speaker 2: people to have all sorts of us, you know, the
Speaker 2: pro genocide mass murder view and the anti genocide mass
Speaker 2: murder view. No, I'm sorry that it's not a topic
Speaker 2: of reasonable debate. Beheading babies is always, always, always wrong, period,
Speaker 2: full stop. Finally, on Tuesday, the president of Harvard was
Speaker 2: guilted into condemning we stand against Hamas's beheading babies. It
Speaker 2: took five days of getting pounded. I got to say, listen,
Speaker 2: I'm an alumnus of Harvard Law School. It is embarrassing
Speaker 2: that our universities. The problem is they've become petri dishes.
Speaker 2: They become incubators for radical left wing views and other
Speaker 2: than a Hamas headquarters, there are a few places with
Speaker 2: more vicious anti semitism and hatred of Israel than America's
Speaker 2: elite universities today. You talk to Hillel's students, you talk
Speaker 2: to Jewish students on campuses. They're afraid. They're afraid of violence.
Speaker 2: They're afraid to wear a yamaka. They're afraid to be
Speaker 2: public identified as Jewish because they risk violence. They wish,
Speaker 2: they risk swastika's being spray painted on their student center,
Speaker 2: they risk attacks from the radical left. And the radical
Speaker 2: left more and more embraces, cherishes and nurtures anti Semitism,
Speaker 2: and schools like Harvard sadly are the breeding grounds for
Speaker 2: this hatred and they can't figure it out enough to stay.
Speaker 2: Genocide is bad. That should not be a controversial proposition.
Speaker 1: Well, and even members in Congress Rashid to leave was
Speaker 1: was asked directly to her face what she thought about
Speaker 1: women being raped and babies getting their heads cut off.
Speaker 1: She wouldn't answer the question. Take a listen to this.
Speaker 6: And burn children alive to deep support Israel's rights, to
Speaker 6: defend themselves in into reality. You can't comment and hamas
Speaker 6: terras chopping off baby's heads, Thomas, woman, do you have
Speaker 6: a comment and the MOA's terrors talking alms? You have
Speaker 6: a mother who say about ammas terror no baby heads.
Speaker 6: Do you condone what Hamas has done chopping off baby's heads,
Speaker 6: burning children? And why Ramy went through the street? Do
Speaker 6: you have no comment about children's heads being chopped off?
Speaker 6: Commssman Whimy, how the hellis did you climb outside your
Speaker 6: office if you do not even know what the mos
Speaker 6: terrors is about? To his root?
Speaker 4: Do is?
Speaker 6: Ramy?
Speaker 1: Why does not matter to you? I mean senator that
Speaker 1: was whoever that reporter was. God bless her for continuing
Speaker 1: to ask a basic question. Children will burned alive, baby's
Speaker 1: heads are cut off.
Speaker 2: And I gotta say, if you haven't seen the video
Speaker 2: of that clip, you got to google it and watch it,
Speaker 2: because watching the video is even more disturbing. So Congresswoman
Speaker 2: to leave is walking down the hallways in Congress, so
Speaker 2: the steps you hear the whole time, or she's walking,
Speaker 2: she's walking, she's walking in this reporter just asked her,
Speaker 2: do you not have a comment on chopping babies heads off?
Speaker 2: How hard is it for a congresswoman to say we
Speaker 2: should not chop the heads off babies, we should not
Speaker 2: burn children alive, we should not rape women in the streets.
Speaker 2: That is not in a normal, sane world a controversial proposition,
Speaker 2: and yet her politics are so radical she cannot bring
Speaker 2: herself to say that she has in front of her
Speaker 2: office she has a Palestinian flag. It's interesting she has
Speaker 2: a Palestinian flag and she has a transgender flag, which
Speaker 2: is ironic because Hamas would murder anyone who's gay or transgender.
Speaker 2: So like, the two flags are utterly in conflict. But
Speaker 2: in today's modern left that that nobody bothers with intellectual coherence.
Speaker 2: They embrace their ideology and don't worry about it. But
Speaker 2: but I gotta say, it is stunning, Like she walks
Speaker 2: a long, long way and the end of that video
Speaker 2: she gets on an elevator and the door closes, and
Speaker 2: and and and you know, she asked, do Israeli lives matter?
Speaker 2: And by the way, Congresswoman Talib conspicuously avoids using the
Speaker 2: word Israel. She refers to Palestine. Look, today's radical left
Speaker 2: in the Democrat Party does not acknowledge Israel's right to exist.
Speaker 2: And I gotta say, it's not just Congresswoman to leave.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's it's Corey Bush. It's AOC. It is
Speaker 2: the hard left of the Democrat Party. And by the way,
Speaker 2: it's the Biden State Department whose response initially to this
Speaker 2: was is real, stand down, do not engage in any
Speaker 2: military action following the worst attack on Israel in fifty years,
Speaker 2: following Israel's nine to eleven, do nothing. That is sadly
Speaker 2: the view of today's radical left. And for the Democrats
Speaker 2: who don't agree with it, I hope that they find
Speaker 2: the courage to call out the members of their own
Speaker 2: party that are saying things that are disgraceful.
Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter. They have also come out in support
Speaker 1: of these terrorists, standing with Hamas, standing with what they
Speaker 1: have done, the same Black Lives Matter that received billions
Speaker 1: upon billions of dollars in free advertising from virtually every
Speaker 1: major league sport in this country. They were given end
Speaker 1: zones and helmets and decals on helmets, they were given
Speaker 1: the corners of TV time on different parts of fields
Speaker 1: to give them free press. And now they're coming out
Speaker 1: supporting and I bring that up to go to some else.
Speaker 1: There was a muslimman speaking to a large crowd today
Speaker 1: in Times Square of those that were supporting Hamas and
Speaker 1: the Palestinians, and this musliman speing in New York City
Speaker 1: said this is the correct religion. We will not stop
Speaker 1: until it enters every home. Now, that is a concern
Speaker 1: that many people are worried about with terrorists coming across
Speaker 1: the border. We have new numbers that have come out
Speaker 1: that deal with special interest aliens, the apprehensions specifically from
Speaker 1: people coming from the Middle East. We also have found
Speaker 1: out center that we've had more people that have been
Speaker 1: caught coming across the southern border illegally that are on
Speaker 1: the Terrists watch list this year than the last five
Speaker 1: years combined. When you witness what happened in Israel, and
Speaker 1: you remember nine to eleven, and you look at this
Speaker 1: open border, and you look at these special interest aliens,
Speaker 1: and you look at the number of people on the
Speaker 1: terrast squatch lists that have been caught five times more
Speaker 1: than are more this year than the last five years combined.
Speaker 1: There is a real concern now that something like what
Speaker 1: happened there could happen in America.
Speaker 2: Well, listen, that's exactly right. And if you look at
Speaker 2: the statistics from Customs and Border Patrol, here are the
Speaker 2: people who've been apprehended crossing into the United States illegally
Speaker 2: over the last two years. And this is just focusing
Speaker 2: on the special interest countries, which are the countries where
Speaker 2: there is a high predominance of terrorism from Syria five
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty eight, from Yemen, one hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: nine from Iran, six hundred and fifty nine from Iraq,
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty three from Afghanistan, six thousand, three
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty six from Lebanon, one hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: four from Egypt, three thousand, one hundred and fifty three
Speaker 2: from Pakistan, one thousand, six hundred and thirteen from Mauritania,
Speaker 2: fifteen thousand, five hundred and ninety four, from Uzbekistan thirteen thousand,
Speaker 2: six hundred and twenty four and from Turkey thirty thousand,
Speaker 2: eight one hundred and thirty And that is from October
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty one to October of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: Now those are the numbers that have been caught. That
Speaker 2: doesn't count the million plus godaways, the people who weren't caught.
Speaker 2: And I got to say, as we look to next steps,
Speaker 2: there is a real risk of escalation in Israel. There's
Speaker 2: a real risk of additional terrorist attacks. There's a real
Speaker 2: risk of Hesbela in the North Hamas is primarily in
Speaker 2: the south in the Gaza Strip. Hesbela is north of Israel.
Speaker 2: Hesbela has not yet actively engaged in this war. They
Speaker 2: may well begin raining rockets down on Israel, which would
Speaker 2: give Israel a two front war. There's a real risk
Speaker 2: of additional acts of terror, But there is an enormous
Speaker 2: risk of acts of terror in the United States. And
Speaker 2: when Joe Biden and the Democrats and every congressional Democrat
Speaker 2: is complicit in this, when they implemented their open border policies,
Speaker 2: when they began letting terrorists into those countries into this
Speaker 2: country in massive numbers, it is only a matter of
Speaker 2: time before we have another terrorist attack. And I've got
Speaker 2: to say, in the midst of this war in Israel,
Speaker 2: the chances of that are rising dramatically. And look, I
Speaker 2: pray to God it doesn't happen. I pray to God.
Speaker 2: It is not of the order of magnitude of September eleventh.
Speaker 2: But the Biden administration, if they have open borders, if
Speaker 2: you were a terrorist and you wanted to murder Americans,
Speaker 2: the Biden administration has made it blazingly obvious what you
Speaker 2: should do. You should go to Mexico and cross illegally
Speaker 2: over the border because they'll let you, they won't catch you.
Speaker 2: You'll get to stay, and then you can wage war
Speaker 2: and commit acts of terrorism. And I think America is
Speaker 2: much much less safe because of the intersection between Joe
Speaker 2: Biden's weakness number one, Joe Biden's policy of funding enemies
Speaker 2: of America like Iran and like Amas number two, and
Speaker 2: Joe Biden's open borders with all of the other Democrats
Speaker 2: their open which are allowing hundreds, if not thousands of
Speaker 2: terrorists and other criminals to flood into this country. The
Speaker 2: chances of a serious terrorist attack, I think have never
Speaker 2: been higher since September eleventh than they are right now today.
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