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Speaker 1: Welcome.

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Speaker 2: It is a special Sunday edition of Verdict with Senator

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Speaker 2: Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you, and I want to

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Speaker 2: let you know Monday's podcast is going to be very important.

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Speaker 1: After Israel was attacked by Iran.

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Speaker 2: I also want to remind you of what Senator Cruz

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Speaker 2: and I predict it was going to happen when Democrats

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Speaker 2: and the Biden administration abandon Israel and said no to

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Speaker 2: giving them funding and what they needed. When it came

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Speaker 2: to arms, Democrats voting against this, which is truly shocking.

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Speaker 1: That is part one. The other part about this that

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Speaker 1: we were.

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Speaker 2: Going to cover on Monday, and it's going to be

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Speaker 2: very important, is the fact that there were warnings from

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Speaker 2: Senator Cruz and others, you cannot give money to the

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Speaker 2: number one state sponsored terrorism in the world, Iran, and

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Speaker 2: that is exactly what Obama did, and it's exactly what

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Speaker 2: Joe Biden has done. We freed up billions of dollars,

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Speaker 2: billions of dollars that we allowed Iran to get their

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Speaker 2: We've allowed Iran to get around those embargoes, to skirt

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Speaker 2: those embargoes, which is the part that is also extremely

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Speaker 2: shocking with everything that we're talking about today. So I'm

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Speaker 2: going to go back and I'm going to play for

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Speaker 2: you a podcast that we did that talked exactly about

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Speaker 2: Schumer and the Democrats blocking emergency funding for Israel. This

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Speaker 2: was the moment where Iran knew that they could attack Israel.

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Speaker 2: They realized that the president was weak and that the

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Speaker 2: President would not respond, and that the President was criticizing

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Speaker 2: Israel instead of criticizing Iran and Hamas and Hezbolah. This

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Speaker 2: again is an important pod that we did, and I

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Speaker 2: remind you you do not want to miss tomorrow Monday

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Speaker 2: Mornings as well. We will have all of the senator's

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Speaker 2: reaction to what just happened with Iran attacking Israel, not

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Speaker 2: through their proxies, directly attacking them. We'll have all of

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Speaker 2: that for you coming up up on Monday Mornings.

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Speaker 1: Pod.

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Speaker 2: Until then, take a listen to this podcast we did

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Speaker 2: about Chuck shim Er the Democrats blocking emergency funding to Israel,

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Speaker 2: which was the moment.

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Speaker 1: That I ran new that could get away with us.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk about this vote that happened where

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Speaker 2: every single Senate Democrat just voted to block aid to

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Speaker 1: This was shocking that every one of them said no.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's exactly right. Today was a Momenta stay and look.

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Speaker 3: I spent this afternoon down at the mall with the

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Speaker 3: March for Israel, and we had hundreds of thousands of

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Speaker 3: people from all over America descend on Washington and stand

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Speaker 3: spirit of unity. I mean, we've seen over the last month,

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Speaker 3: the nastiness we've seen, the vicious anti Semitism we've seen,

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Speaker 3: And the March for Israel was spectacular to be a

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Speaker 3: Senators decided, Okay, enough is enough. We are going to

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Speaker 3: force a vote on military aid to Israel right now.

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Speaker 3: So as you know what happened. The House of Representatives

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Speaker 3: and also more broadly, to their efforts to increase illegal immigration.

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Speaker 3: They call it, in a very Orwellian term, border security funding,

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Speaker 3: trying to tie is relaid to all of that. The

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Speaker 3: House of Representatives did the right thing, something we've called

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Speaker 3: for it free and clear. Now, when the House did that,

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Speaker 3: they decided to be fiscally responsible. They decided to pay

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Speaker 2: So now you mentioned the vote and the numbers here,

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Speaker 2: these numbers. It's very, very tight this vote. It was

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Speaker 1: It screws Israel.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is one of the most tone, tone

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Speaker 2: a nonpartisan way.

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Speaker 3: Look, this vote was a demonstration of what I describe

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Speaker 3: at great length in my brand new book Unwoke, How

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Speaker 3: to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America. By the way, if

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Speaker 3: you haven't bought it, gone to Amazon right now and

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Speaker 3: buy the book. Because this vote today was a manifestation

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Speaker 3: of that today's Democrats they don't give a damn about substance.

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Speaker 3: They care about power, and because the corrupt corporate media

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Speaker 3: from Kansas, good friend. He said, a bunch of us

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Speaker 3: that means is any sixteen senators can file a cloture petition,

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Speaker 3: So McConnell had repeatedly urged us do not use this

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Speaker 3: The House had passed emergency military aid for Israel and

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Speaker 3: He values harassing the political enemies of the White House

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you this question about this funding, because

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Speaker 2: this is a fight that we did not see everybody

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Speaker 3: So Democrats number one one recognized that all the Republicans

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Speaker 3: And this is why. Look, this is the point in

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Speaker 2: Right, don't call a vote if you don't know what

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Speaker 3: Look for me, it certainly was. I can't speak to

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Speaker 3: CNN has their back, they know that ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC.

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Speaker 3: They won't cover it, they won't report on it, they'll

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Speaker 3: ignore it, they'll bury it. And The New York Times

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Speaker 3: they're not going to cover it because they don't want

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Speaker 3: to cover it, because they're more interested in the left

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Speaker 3: wing partisan agenda than they are and actually covering the

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Speaker 3: news centa.

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Speaker 2: I want to move to another issue, and it deals

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Speaker 2: with Israel, but it's in a different capacity, and that

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Speaker 2: is the shock of anti Semitism on college campuses. MIT

446
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Speaker 2: now is facing backlash for not expelling anti Israel protesters

447
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Speaker 2: over their they what they refer to as visa issues.

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Speaker 2: They said they are originally threatened to expel these pro

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Speaker 2: Palace and in protesters, and then ow towards they're like, Okay,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna full we're gonna come back on this. We're

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Speaker 2: going to pull back on this, uh and say never mind,

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Speaker 2: because these people if we if we pull them from school,

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Speaker 2: it will have visa issues. Regardless of how extreme these

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Speaker 2: protesters were, this is shocking to see them coming back

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Speaker 2: from this. Yet that's exactly what now has happened at MIT.

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Speaker 3: Your reaction, well, listen, what happened at MIT was absolutely disgraceful.

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Speaker 3: MIT by any measure, is one of the finest educational

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Speaker 3: institutions on the face of the planet. It may be

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Speaker 3: the greatest scientific, technical uh university in the world. And

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Speaker 3: what has happened in the last several days is that

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Speaker 3: numerous Jewish students were forced to stay home from classes.

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Speaker 3: They could not attend classes. Why because anti Israel, anti

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Speaker 3: Semitic protesters threatened them, physically threatened them, and the students

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Speaker 3: said they felt that they felt unsafe. They that they

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Speaker 3: felt like going to class would endanger their personal safety.

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Speaker 3: Now that is insane and any normal university. If one

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Speaker 3: student threatens another student, threatens their safety and prevents them

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Speaker 3: from going to class, whoever makes that threat should be expelled.

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Speaker 3: If you are harassing Jewish students because you're an anti

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Speaker 3: Semite bigot, you should be expelled. And by the way,

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Speaker 3: to be clear, if someone was harassing Muslim students, and

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Speaker 3: preventing Muslim students from going to class. They should be expelled.

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Speaker 3: No student has a right to harass and threaten fellow students. Well,

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Speaker 3: what happened in mit Is is this harassment occurred and

475
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Speaker 3: Jewish students stayed home and the university administrators back to

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Speaker 3: wagh and refuse to take the natural step of expelling them.

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Speaker 3: Why because these rabbit anti Semitisms were there. Semites were

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Speaker 3: there on student visas and if they got expelled, they'd

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Speaker 3: get sent back home. And the university said, well, okay,

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Speaker 3: if if you were an American, we would punish you.

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Speaker 3: But because you're not an American, because you're a guest,

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Speaker 3: because we've welcomed you to our country to get an education,

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Speaker 3: you can conduct harassment and bigoting, bigoted, racist, threatened threatening

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Speaker 3: of other students, and we will just turn to blind

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Speaker 3: eye and give you a pat on the back.

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Speaker 1: It's CNN.

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Speaker 2: There truly seems to be a civil war inside of

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Speaker 2: CNN right now, because if you watch the morning show,

489
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Speaker 2: it's like all Hamas propaganda and anti Semitism. You watch

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Speaker 2: their primetime lineup at night, it goes right back to that.

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Speaker 2: There was a moment and I want to give credit

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Speaker 2: here to Jake Tapper. Jake Tapper had on an MIT

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Speaker 2: graduate student and let her tell her story to the world.

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Speaker 2: And I want you to hear what she had to say.

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Speaker 2: It was and I'm glad that he used his program

496
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Speaker 2: for good. You had the headline hate in America. MIT

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Speaker 2: students speaks out about anti Semitism on campus.

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Speaker 1: Listen to this.

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Speaker 4: As a Jewish student at MIT, do you feel safe

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Speaker 4: on campus? You know, honestly, Jake, in the past few weeks,

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Speaker 4: I have not felt safe on campus.

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Speaker 1: Why not?

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Speaker 4: So, you know, ever since October seventh, we've seen at

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Speaker 4: universities around the country that you know, the conflict that's

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Speaker 4: overseas has come to our home term, and we've had

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Speaker 4: a lot of rallies and events by an organization called

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Speaker 4: the Coalition Against Apartheid, which is the anti Israel group

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Speaker 4: on MIT's campus. And they, along with some local anti

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Speaker 4: Israel groups, have come to campus because MIT is an

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Speaker 4: open campus, which means that anybody can walk around and

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Speaker 4: you know, be on campus. So they together have done

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Speaker 4: protests on campus on the steps of Lobby seven, which

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Speaker 4: is the main entrance to MIT, and in front of

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Speaker 4: the Student Center.

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Speaker 1: And I mean people protest, but but what do they do?

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Speaker 1: What do they say that makes me feel unsafe?

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Speaker 4: So I guess part of it is the fact of

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Speaker 4: what they're saying. So when you're saying things like abalize

519
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Speaker 4: the end of Fada and use your two fists to

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Speaker 4: sacrifice everything for Palestine and one solution and to fada,

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Speaker 4: you know, we know what happened during the second ind

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Speaker 4: of Fada was suicide bombings and attacks against Israeli civilians

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Speaker 4: in Israel. But the other part of it is that

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Speaker 4: these people aren't just protesting outside and exercising the rights

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Speaker 4: for free speech, which I fully support as an American.

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Speaker 4: It's that they're going you know, they went to the

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Speaker 4: personal offices of a program that runs Israel internships on

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Speaker 4: MIT's campus, and they went to the offices of the

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Speaker 4: people who worked for this program, and they tried to

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Speaker 4: enter it. They were going from door to door trying

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Speaker 4: to unlock the doors, and the people who worked in

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Speaker 4: this office had no idea to what these students were

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Speaker 4: trying to do by trying to get into their office.

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Speaker 4: They were yelling. They were accusing them of apartheid, of

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Speaker 4: ethnic cleansing, of genocide, and it was a really frightening experience.

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Speaker 1: A really frightening experience.

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Speaker 2: You hear this student saying this, and yet this is

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Speaker 2: happening to them, and as you described a moment ago,

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Speaker 2: they said, if you keep doing this, we're going to

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Speaker 2: expel you. Then they said, oh, never mind, just kid,

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Speaker 2: you're just going to be in trouble, but you're not

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Speaker 2: going to get expelled because we don't want you to

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Speaker 2: lose your visa. That's in my Semitism and accepting this

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Speaker 2: type of abuse by these individuals.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's right. And let me quote from Fox News

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Speaker 3: had an article about this where they quoted conservative lawyer

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Speaker 3: Mari Maria Medvin and she said, quote, MIT is one

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Speaker 3: of the most prestigious universities in the US these days.

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Speaker 3: Foreigners make up about thirty percent of the MIT student body.

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Speaker 3: Jewish students, on the other hand, make up about six

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Speaker 3: percent of the MIT student body, a campus minority. So

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Speaker 3: think about it right now now. I will admit it

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Speaker 3: is somewhat concerning that thirty percent of the MI two

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Speaker 3: student body are foreigners, but especially if these are foreigners

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Speaker 3: that are vicious bigots, that are anti Semites, that are

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Speaker 3: willing to threaten her, harass and threaten physical violence against

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Speaker 3: their fellow students, their Jewish students, because they hate them

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Speaker 3: so much, they should be expelled. If you threaten physical

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Speaker 3: violence against the fellow student, if you block them from

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Speaker 3: going to class, that should be a no brainer reason

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Speaker 3: for expulsion. And the administrators. Look, why did the administrators

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Speaker 3: not expel them? And again this goes back to what

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Speaker 3: I talk about in my new book Unwoke. This is

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Speaker 3: cultural Marxism. The administrators, the cultural Marxist side with the

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Speaker 3: people they have decided are the victims, the Palestinians, over

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Speaker 3: the people. They have decided that they are the pressers,

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Speaker 3: the Jews. And so for the radical left, threats of

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Speaker 3: violence against Jews are okay, it is acceptable. And so

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Speaker 3: listen the fact that someone's on a student visa, they

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Speaker 3: ought to behave better, not worse. It shouldn't be the

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Speaker 3: case that Americans are held to stricter standards than foreigners

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Speaker 3: coming to study in our universities. And yet MIT says, well,

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Speaker 3: if we expelled you, you'd lose your student visa, So

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Speaker 3: we're not going to expel you. Please continue to harass

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Speaker 3: and threaten and threaten physical violence to our students, because

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Speaker 3: you know we the administrators don't give a damn about

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Speaker 3: the Jewish students because in the cultural Marxist world they're

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Speaker 3: the oppressors. So tech with them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, to the heck with them, And I will say

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Speaker 2: it's we better stand up for these students and the

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Speaker 2: fact and hold these and I hope donors, I really

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Speaker 2: do and the people that give to these universities are

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Speaker 2: paying it.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, these universities are doing yes, yes, yes, absolutely right.

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Speaker 3: It's one of the things that is freaking universities out

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Speaker 3: is that donors are cut are cutting off the cash,

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Speaker 3: and that is it's the one thing that's getting them attention.

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Speaker 3: And listen, I want to actually quote from one of

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Speaker 3: the best known poems. First, they came for the socialists,

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Speaker 3: and I did not speak out because I was not

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Speaker 3: a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and

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Speaker 3: I did not speak out because I was not a

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Speaker 3: trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I

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Speaker 3: did not speak out because I was not a Jew.

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Speaker 3: Then they came for me, and there was no one

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Speaker 3: left to speak out for me. Look, I think that

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Speaker 3: applies to our universities right now. If there's anyone at

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Speaker 3: a university, a student, a professor, an administrator who gives

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Speaker 3: a damn about equal rights, about protection, about stopping anti Semitism,

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Speaker 3: about stopping bigotry, about stopping hate. Speak out now. If

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Speaker 3: you're a donor and you write a check to these schools,

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Speaker 3: speak out now and say not one penny more until

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Speaker 3: you protect the students on our campus. You cannot give

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Speaker 3: in to the violent Marxist radicals and expect us to

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Speaker 3: continue to support these schools. This is a time for

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Speaker 3: choosing right.

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Speaker 1: Now, Senator.

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Speaker 2: Lastly, I want to play for you, and just so

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Speaker 2: people understand what's happening at MIT. This is just some

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Speaker 2: of the student videos have gone viral online. They're chanting

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Speaker 2: Infantada and the Jewish students are stuck inside, were physically

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Speaker 2: prevented from attending class by this hostile group of pro

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Speaker 2: Haamas and anti Israel MIT students that call themselves a CAAA.

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Speaker 2: Then another student came out and showed another video of

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Speaker 2: these massive protests, and this is what it sounded like, Senator.

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Speaker 2: They were doing this and they knew where many of

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Speaker 2: the Jewish students were when they went to these buildings

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Speaker 2: to protest, just to scare these Jewish students. I leave

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Speaker 2: everybody with that audio. And I want to get your

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Speaker 2: final words on this, because this is clearly organized, it's

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Speaker 2: being funded by someone.

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Speaker 1: Senator.

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Speaker 2: The MIT is what they refer to as an open

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Speaker 2: campus where outside groups can come in. This is orchestrated

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Speaker 2: by these extremists, anti Israel groups. Somebody has to be

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Speaker 2: paying for this, funding this, and then they are targeting

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Speaker 2: where the Jewish students are in these schools. And it's

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Speaker 2: not just MIT, this is happening on other college campuses.

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Speaker 3: So the Second Intifada in Israel was a series of

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Speaker 3: suicide bombings carried out by Palestinian the Sale and it resulted,

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Speaker 3: and it took place between nineteen eighty seven and nineteen

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Speaker 3: ninety three, and it had a combined casualty casualty figure

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Speaker 3: of roughly one thousand Israelis, three thousand Palestinians, and sixty

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Speaker 3: four foreign nationals. And so when these radicals are cheering

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Speaker 3: and chanting for another Intifada, they're calling for murdering more Jews, now,

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Speaker 3: mind you. On October seventh, we saw one thousand, two

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Speaker 3: hundred Israelis civilians targeted by Hamas death squads and murdered

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Speaker 3: because they are Israelis, and these protesters are chanting they

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Speaker 3: want another intefada. In other words, you haven't murdered enough Jews.

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Speaker 3: We want more Jews murdered. That's what they're chanting. And listen.

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Speaker 3: If you're a Jewish student at MIT or at another

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Speaker 3: one of these elite universities where these radical leftists have

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Speaker 3: taken over, it is understandable that you are afraid for

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Speaker 3: your own safety. This is disgraceful and every university that

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Speaker 3: allows this to happen is failing in their obligation to

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Speaker 3: keep their students safe. No student, everyone has a right

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Speaker 3: to free speech. No student has a right to threaten

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Speaker 3: physical violence against other students to prevent students from going

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Speaker 3: to class. And that's what these radicals are doing at

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Speaker 3: m I T and right now the mi T administration

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Speaker 3: is complicit in this terrorizing of Jewish students.

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Speaker 1: It's disgraceful.

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