WEBVTT - Insanity: Biden Boycotts Israel, Funds Hamas 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:01.600 Welcome. 0:00:01.680 --> 0:00:05.840 It is verdict with Senator Ted Kruz Ben Ferguson with you, Senator, 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:08.200 it is shocking to see but the president of the 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:11.639 United States of America is now treating Israel like they 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:15.840 are almost an adversary and actually protecting Hamas and where 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:20.080 they are now in other parts around Israel where they 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:22.400 can plan and orchestrate attacks against them. 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:25.560 We have truly gone through the looking glass. Up as down, 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:30.280 black as white, good as evil. The Biden administration's foreign 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:35.559 policy is exactly backwards from what any sane, rational American 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:39.519 foreign policy should be. Joe Biden, the Democrats are sending 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:42.760 money to Gaza that is going straight to Hamas. They 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:46.040 are sending money to Iran that is going straight to Hamas. 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:49.600 And in this past week, Joe Biden announced that he's 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.440 cutting off weapons to Israel. That Israel is now the 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:56.760 bad guy, and the Biden administration, the Biden White House, 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:00.240 is openly the enemy of Israel. It is stunning, It 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:03.360 is shocking. There is no precedent for it in history, 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.600 and it is profoundly dangerous. We're going to get into 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:07.600 it in great detail. 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.000 Yeah, it's so important, and so many of you have 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:12.400 been asking the question how can we help the people 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.280 in Israel. I want you to know about the International 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.480 Fellowship of Christians and Jews and a need that is 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:22.920 right now so important. You've seen the anti Israel protests 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:27.039 and demonstrations that have continued at college campuses. You've seen 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:32.479 so many people that are just absolutely anti Israel, not 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:36.000 just in Israel, but in this country. And as they 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:39.440 are facing these vile anti Semitic hate speech and harassment 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.960 and violence, there is a real need in Israel right now, 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:46.280 and that is for bomb shelters. Now is the time 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:49.760 that you can help protect the people in Israel, the 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:52.720 Jewish people who are up against these attacks of people 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.600 that are trying to literally kill them. I want you 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.920 to stand with the Jewish people by providing an emergency 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:03.320 bomb shelter or an emergency bomb shelter kit. That is 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:06.520 what the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is doing. 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.560 Last Sunday, they're over one hundred rockets from HESBLA that 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:14.480 were fired at northern Israel, and IFCJ supported soup kitchens 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.720 in the cities there that were directly hit by these 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:22.440 HESBLA attacks. The elderly and the most vulnerable that stay 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:26.080 behind are the most impacted when the sirens go off, 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:28.880 and that is why not only do they need food, 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.880 but they need a safe place to go. And that 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.720 is where your donation is a huge gift to the 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:37.640 people in need. Thanks to a matching challenge from a 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:41.960 generous IFCJ supporter, your gift will be doubled to impact 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.960 to help provide twice the support. All you have to 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:49.200 do is call one eight eight eight four eight eight IFCJ. 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:54.400 That's one eight eight eight for eight eight IFCJ, or 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:58.480 you can go online to SUPPORTIFCJ dot org to give 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:03.400 that's support IFCJ dot org to help the people in 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:08.600 Israel right now. Senator, this all started with a conversation 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:12.560 on CNN. The President was doing an exclusive interview on 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:16.320 that friendly network, and this is what he said about 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:17.800 what's happening right now. 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.760 In the warning to Israel, I made it clear. 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:24.120 That if they go into Rafa, they haven't gone on 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:28.160 Raffa yet, they go into Rafa, I'm not supplying the 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:31.040 weapons that have been used historically to deal with RAFA, 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.840 to deal with the cities, to deal with that problem. 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:36.920 We're going to continue to make sure because you're less 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.960 secure in terms of Iron Dome and they're ability to 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:42.240 respond to its tacks like came out of you. 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:45.760 And the least recently. 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:50.040 But it's just wrong. We're going to we're not going 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.880 to supply the weapons and the artillery shells use that 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.640 have been used, artillery shells as well, Yeah, artillery shells. 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:00.200 He calls Israel to fing themselves. It's just wrong. 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:03.720 And to be clear, Senator, for everyone that may not 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:08.760 understand this, the terrorists have moved into Rafa, They've moved 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:12.080 out of much of Gaza. This is now where they're regrouping. 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:15.560 And what the President just said was you cannot go 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:16.400 after them. 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:20.040 Well and understand also, this is the culmination of Joe Biden, 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:23.680 the Democrats lying to the American people week after week 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:27.279 after week. Just a few weeks ago, Congress passed the 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:31.240 foreign aid bill that Biden was pressing ferociously for. And 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:34.480 the lynchpin of that foreign aid bill was Israel Aid. 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.160 And the reason that Congress was told you got to 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.720 vote for it is Israel military aid. And it was 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:43.560 a big bipartisan vote. I voted no because number one, 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:47.480 I said that this is going to provide nine billion 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.920 dollars up to nine billion dollars that can go to Gaza, 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.400 that can go to Hamas and I'm not interested in 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:57.240 giving money to Hamas. Well, it turned out that the 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.880 first aid shipment that went to Gaza, guess what, Hamma 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:04.039 seized it. So literally the opening shipment, exactly what I 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:08.200 said would happen is what did happen. But the bait 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:11.520 and switch that the Biden White House convinced a bunch 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:14.320 of Republicans and even maybe some Democrats to vote for 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.599 this because it was military aid to Israel, because it 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.440 was artillery shells to Israel as they needed. And as 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:24.240 soon as Congress passes it, Biden comes along and says, nope, 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.520 I'm not going to send it. I'm not sending it 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:30.920 to Israel. It is astonishing. And i'll tell you Ben, 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.440 last week I joined a number of other senators. We 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:37.920 had a press conference on Capitol Hill. This Well, you 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.039 were fired up, by the way, as you should be. 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:43.520 You were angry, you were irritated, and it's got to 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:45.560 feel like you're one of the lone voices right now 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:46.640 that's standing with Israel. 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.360 Well, I don't want to say I told you so, 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:51.800 but I told you so. This is exactly what I 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.000 said Biden would do. Have a listen to what I 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:57.280 had said at the press conference. Well, security policy of 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:02.039 Joe Biden the Democrats is precisely backwards. For three and 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.440 a half years, Joe Biden the Democrats have undermined and 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:09.760 weakened our friends and allies, and they have sent billions 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:14.840 of dollars to our enemies. It is exactly opposite what 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:17.520 you would be doing if you were actually focused on 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:19.640 US national security interests. 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:22.560 Let's look at our enemies. 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:28.840 Tragically, Joe Biden has been the greatest friend the Ayatola 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:35.200 Kameni has ever had on planet Earth. Tragically, Joe Biden 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:40.120 has been the greatest friend Hamas and Hesbela that there 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:43.640 is on planet Earth. Now, those sound like extraordinary statements. 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:50.080 What are the facts Under the Biden presidency. This administration 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:55.800 has flowed more than one hundred billion dollars into Iran, 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:01.480 six billion dollars in ransom for five Americans, a policy 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.039 which many of us said at the time would only 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.160 lead to more Americans being taken hostage. And we saw 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:11.800 tragically on October seventh that proved exactly right. Ten billion 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:15.080 dollars in funds in Iraq, that the Biden administration wanted 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.840 to flow to the Ayatola and then over eighty billion 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:24.400 dollars in oil. When Joe Biden came into office, the 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:27.880 Trump administration, with the active support of all of US, 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:33.119 had vigorously imposed oil sanctions and had cut Iran's oil 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:36.600 exports from one million barrels a day down to about 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.920 three hundred thousand. The Iranian economy was in shambles, The 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:44.440 Ayatola was on his knees. Joe Biden came in like 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:50.360 the cavalry coming to the rescue and immediately stopped enforcing 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:51.240 oil sanctions. 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:51.920 And what happened. 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:55.640 Iran's oil sales went from three hundred thousand barrels today 0:07:56.520 --> 0:08:02.559 to now more than two million barrels a day. Every 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.000 one of those barrels is a gift from Joe Biden 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:11.360 and the Democrats. That is over eighty billion dollars. Mind you, 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:13.880 this is from the same administration that does everything they 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:19.600 can to kill oil and gas production in America while 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:24.880 allowing a theocratic iatola. Understand the Iotola chance with mobs, 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:28.400 chance death to America and death to Israel. And Joe 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:31.200 Biden has said, here's a hundred billion dollars. This seems 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:35.120 like a great idea. And what happened with that hundred 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:40.120 billion dollars, Well, ninety percent of Hamas's funding comes from Iran. 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:46.959 Ninety percent of Hesbela's funding comes from Iran. October seventh 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:50.040 was in a very real way funded by money given 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:54.400 by Joe Biden and the Democrats to Iran and Hamas 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.400 and hesbel And by the way, Biden also sent hundreds 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.599 of millions of dollars into Gaza. Even though many of 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:02.200 us said, if you send it to Gaza, it will 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.000 go to Hamas and be used for terrorism. 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:06.559 They knew that. They agreed with that. 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:10.520 The Biden administration concluded it was quote highly likely the 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:12.280 money would go to Hamas for terrorism. 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:13.040 You know what they did. 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:18.319 They waived the anti terrorism laws and said send it anyway. 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:19.800 Where are we now? 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.440 Where we are now is the Biden administration is sending 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:29.480 money right now to Gaza. Many of us said, if 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.360 you send the money to Gaza, it will be seized 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:31.960 by Hamas. 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:32.520 What happened. 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:36.120 The first shipment came in and boom immediately seized by Hamas, 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:41.920 exactly like we said, but they're combining it with blocking 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:46.880 weapons to Israel. The Biden White House has been the 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:51.920 most anti Israel administration this nation has ever seen. Literally 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:55.200 from day one, the Biden White House has been undermining 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:59.800 Israel at every step of the way. When October seventh happened, 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:05.680 when Hamas's death squads were murdering twelve hundred innocent civilians, 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.640 were raping women and little girls. While the attacks were happening, 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:11.920 the Biden State Department sent out a tweet at three 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:16.360 in the morning saying Israel must not retaliate, there should 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.000 be no military response. 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:20.640 That tweet was disgraceful. 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:22.680 I called it out at three in the morning and 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:26.480 they deleted the tweet within minutes. The next day, Tony 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:29.200 Blink and the Secretary of State sent another tweet said 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.040 I just talked with a Turkish foreign minister. We agreed 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:34.760 Israel must not retaliate, must. 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:35.520 Not strike back. 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.560 I called that tweet out again, they deleted it again. 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:41.680 Where are we today? 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.839 Well, yesterday Joe Biden said quote, I made it clear 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:49.800 if Israel goes into Rafa, I'm not supplying the weapons. 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.480 We're not going to supply the weapons in the artillery shells. 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.320 I will point out Joe Biden and the Democrats lied 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.400 to the American people on the supplemental funding. 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.480 Bill that was just voted. 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.520 They claimed it was to provide military funding to Israel. 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:06.480 We now know they were lying. 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:12.760 It was instead to give money to Gaza and Hamas 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:17.439 and everywhere else except Israel. We should have sent this 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:21.520 military aid six months ago. Six months ago, many of 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:24.200 us went to the Senate floor to force a vote 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.600 on emergency military aid in November, right after October seventh. 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:31.040 Every single Democrat voted no. It was a straight party 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:37.280 line vote. A final observation, what Joe Biden is doing 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:46.400 is not new. He has spent decades attacking and undermining Israel. Yes, 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.319 it is true the radical left wing of the Democrat Party, 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:51.920 the pro Hamas wing of the Democrat Party, is on 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:55.120 the rises on campuses, and the Democrats are terrified of them. 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:58.360 All of that is true. Yes, it is true. They're 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:01.480 terrified they're going to lose Michigan unless they give in 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:06.480 to the Prohamas wing of the Democrat Party. But understand, 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.640 these sentiments are not new for Joe Biden. In nineteen 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:13.760 eighty two, when, by the way, I was eleven years. 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:15.080 Old, young there you go. 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:18.360 Did in nineteen eighty two, Joe Biden was a senator 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:22.680 from Delaware and he confronted Israel's Prime Minister Menachan Begen 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:27.520 during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee testimony. And you know 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.880 what Joe Biden was doing in nineteen eighty two, same 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.600 damn thing he's doing in twenty twenty four. He threatened 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.920 to cut off aid to Israel in nineteen eighty two, 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:44.360 and Prime Minister Began responded as follows, quote, don't threaten 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:48.160 us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:53.679 I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:56.880 a proud Jew with three thousand, seven hundred years of 0:12:56.920 --> 0:13:00.760 civilized history. Nobody came to our our aid when we 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:05.280 were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.400 to our aid when we were striving to create our country. 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:13.760 We paid for it, we fought for it, we died 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:18.720 for it. We will stand by our principles, we will 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:23.480 defend them, and when necessary, we will die for them 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:28.119 again with or without your aid. 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:33.040 Senator, you obviously had a lot to say, and it 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.480 was important that it was said. And one of the 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.880 questions I have to ask you is it's pretty clear 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:43.280 that Joe Biden has changed he's now not just undermining Israel, 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:46.360 he's literally telling the terrorists this is how you beat them. 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.160 You go to populated areas and I won't give them 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.920 what they need to come get you, and I will 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:54.559 attack them in the process by saying you better stay 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:58.480 within your area, Israel, or you're going to lose America. 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:01.440 Even though twenty four hours before he said that there 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:04.360 was an ironclad relationship. Well, if you ask Israel, I 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.160 doubt they would say that it's iron clad. If this 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.559 is how you're treating our most important now I in 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:10.640 the Middle East. 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.600 Well, I actually don't think Joe Biden has changed much. 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.320 As I mentioned there, he was doing this in nineteen 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.160 eighty two when I was eleven. Were you even born 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.800 in eighty two? Men eighty one, I was one years old, 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:27.320 So you are a bouncing bundle of joy while Joe 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.520 Biden was trying to cut off aid to Israel even 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:33.760 back then. And look, I'm reminded of what Bob Gates, 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.600 who was the Secretary of Defense under Obama said. He said, 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:40.920 Joe Biden has been wrong on every foreign policy issue 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:46.120 for forty years. That's just the reality. Biden consistently give 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:49.320 us an enemy and Joe Biden wants to show weakness 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:53.400 to that enemy, appease that enemy, and send them billions 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.400 of dollars. I do not understand what goes through the 0:14:56.480 --> 0:15:00.400 mind of a leftist who, to use the classic phrase 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.880 from The Simpsons, is a cheese eating surrender monkey. Like 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:07.520 whenever someone is our enemy, the Ayatola give them billions, 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.520 Jusha give them billions, China give them billions, North Korea 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.840 give them billions. Venezuela give them billions. If you are 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:17.880 an enemy, Cuba, give them billions. If you're an enemy 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.800 of America, count on Joe Biden the Democrats to be 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:24.520 santi Claus and come with cash. If you're a friend, 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.840 count on to do what they're doing to Israel, sail 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:30.160 you and starve you. 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:32.360 So in other words, where you're saying is is Joe 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:35.600 Biden basically is a guy that's been anti Israel when 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:39.280 it really matters and when he politically needed to act 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.000 like he was pro Israel. I'll give a perfect example 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:46.720 of this PBS News Hour. Back in twenty nineteen, he 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:53.320 said that his own policy now was basically crazy and 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:57.160 was a deadly policy. Listen to what he said in 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:59.680 nineteen News. 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.520 This week, to the extent that some of the Democrats 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:07.640 are saying that if because of Israel's settlements policy that 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:11.640 they would look at cutting off military aid to Israel 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:12.560 as a result of. 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:16.600 That, it'd be a tragic mistake. I strongly opposed Israel's 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:20.920 settlement policy on the West Bank. I've made that clear 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:24.640 to BB when we're I was vice president, I've made 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:28.960 it crystal clear to the Israelis. But the idea that 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:35.160 we would cut off military aid to an ally, our 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:41.800 only true, true ally in the entire region, is absolutely preposterous, 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.400 just beyond my comprehension. Anyone would do that. 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:47.320 Well, that's what he just did. 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:48.960 Yeah, that's what he just said. 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:54.160 What he said was preposterous, beyond my comprehension. And let 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:55.800 me tell you something else he did, and this has 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.920 gotten almost no coverage, But do you know what he 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:02.120 did the day four he announced that he was going 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:03.360 to cut off aid Israel? 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:05.080 What was that? 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:13.639 He issued a sanctions waiver to allow arm sails to Cutter, 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:18.840 Lebanon and Iraq. Hamas Alah ally Cutter. Cutter is where 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:24.320 the Hamas leadership is headquartered. And there are right now 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:29.640 sanctions on weapons sales to countries that boycott Israel, and 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:35.400 the Biden administration very quietly waived those sanctions in order 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:39.119 in order for the administration to sell allies to Cutter 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:43.639 Lebanon in Iraq the day before they cut off arms 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:49.320 arms transfers to Israel. Now that has gotten virtually no coverage. 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:53.520 But how does that mean in practicality for people that 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:55.679 don't understand how big of a deal that actually is. 0:17:56.560 --> 0:18:00.639 Well, it is US law that if a country boycott Israel, 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:05.760 we cannot sell weapons to them. Many sanctioned laws are 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:09.440 written with a presidential waiver written into them. Well, what 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.720 Biden just did is waived that sanctioned law. By the way, 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.679 I mentioned before in that press conference, we have in 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:18.440 place anti terrorism laws that says, you say you can't 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:21.119 send money if it is likely that money will be 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:24.600 used for terrorism. The beginning of the Biden administration, there 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.080 was a dispute over whether or not to send hundreds 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.159 of millions of dollars to Gaza. I joined with a 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:33.240 total of nineteen senators urging the administration. 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:33.280 Don't do it. 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:36.240 And I said early on, if you send hundreds of 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:39.120 millions of dollars to Gaza, it will go to Hamas. 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:40.840 Why do I know that? Well, for one thing, Hamas 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.280 is the government of Gaza. They are the elected leadership 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:48.119 of Gaza. They control Gaza. There is a decade's long 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:51.639 history of aid going into Gaza being directly diverted by 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:55.000 Hamas and used for terrorism. Look that the international world 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:58.240 would send in things like money to rebuild schools, and 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:03.000 they take the concrete, they'd build underground tunnels from which 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:06.280 to conduct terror. That they'd send in water pipes so 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:10.000 you could put in fresh water and sewage, and Hamas 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:13.679 would seize the water pipes, cut it into portions, and 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:15.879 turn it into missiles. Use the water pipes, steal it 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:17.880 on both ends, cut it off, and turn it into 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:21.760 rockets to fire into Israel. Hamas's obsession is with murdering 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:26.359 as many Jews as possible. And so I urged the 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:29.280 Biden administration don't send money to Gaza. Trump had cut 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:30.920 it off. I'd urged Trump to cut it off, and 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.040 he did. When Biden came in, it was clear they 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:37.359 wanted to, and so I urged him not to. There 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:39.440 were a group of about one hundred and fifty House 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:44.000 Democrats on the other side that urged Biden to send 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:47.679 money to Gaza. This is early on, long before October seventh, 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:50.560 even though it was clear that money would be used 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:53.720 by Hamas for terrorism, And we now know how the 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:57.240 Biden administration resolved that question, which is they determined internally 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:02.360 that it was quote highly likely that any money they 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:05.120 sent would be used by Hamas and diverted for terrorism. Now, 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:07.200 normally that'd be the end of the inquiry. If it's 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:09.280 highly likely it's going to go to terrorism, US anti 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:11.320 terrorism law says you can't send it. 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:12.800 Game over. 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:16.560 Well, as I mentioned, most sanctions laws are written with 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:19.000 a presidential waiver. So what did they do. They waive 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:20.919 the anti terrorism laws and said, well, we don't care 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:23.360 if it's used for terrorism. This is our political agenda, 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:27.960 and so we're going to send the money anyway. And 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:31.360 that is exactly so. It was Tuesday of last week, 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:34.240 which is the day before Joe Biden threatened to withhold 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:38.679 weapons from Israel, that the State Department informed Congress that 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:42.000 it intends to bypass laws that bar the United States 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:49.000 from selling weapons to nations that boycott Israel. And just 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:53.080 look at the contrast, why do they want to send 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:59.080 money and weapons to nations that support Hamas, and they 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:04.480 want to cut off weapons to Israel that is fighting Hamas. 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:09.080 Give me a conclusion other than the obvious conclusion that 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:12.720 this administration and the Democrats, like, there's a phrase I 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:15.040 use in the press conference, the pro Hamas wing of 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:18.760 the Democrat Party. Ben pause for a second and say, 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:23.159 what upside down crazy ass world are we living in? 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:28.200 That there's a Prohamas wing of the Democrat Party, but by. 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:30.160 The way, is substantial and growing. 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:32.720 Yeah, And I don't want to engage in hyperbole. I 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:38.120 don't want to let like, normally, you know, respectable, normal 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:41.679 political party in the United States would support terrorists who 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:46.320 commit mass murder and rape and seek the genocide of 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:49.360 the Jewish people. You would think that that would be understandably, 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:55.840 you know, outside of the ordinary bounds of political discourse. 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:59.399 And yet there is a very real and growing Prohamas 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:01.639 wing of the Demosmocrat Party. And the sad thing is 0:22:02.320 --> 0:22:07.119 Joe Biden's policies. Name a person on planet Earth whose 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:11.879 policies have benefited Hamas more than Joe Biden. Let's be clear, 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:15.520 it's not Biden alone. It's easy to say, oh, Biden's 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:19.479 the problem. No, no, no, no, name a Democrat other than 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:24.280 John Fetterman who has shown even a tiny modicum of 0:22:24.400 --> 0:22:27.879 courage to call out the administration and say this is wrong. 0:22:28.680 --> 0:22:31.720 Stop sending money to Iran, stop sending money to Hamas, 0:22:32.320 --> 0:22:38.000 stop boycotting Israel. The entire Democratic caucus in the Senate 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:44.600 is terrified to cross the Biden White House and the 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:46.560 pro hamas contingent of the party. 0:22:47.119 --> 0:22:47.359 Yeah. 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:50.240 In Fetterman, as you mentioned, deserves a lot of credit 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:52.400 for standing up to his party because he's obviously out 0:22:52.400 --> 0:22:53.200 there by himself. 0:22:53.840 --> 0:22:58.000 Yes, undoubtedly. I don't know where that has come from. 0:22:58.040 --> 0:23:00.400 It is not something I predicted when he was elected, 0:23:01.280 --> 0:23:04.199 but I will give him credit. But the fact that 0:23:04.240 --> 0:23:07.359 he's standing up. One of the things that's striking is 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:08.840 just how alone he is. 0:23:09.440 --> 0:23:09.840 Yep that. 0:23:11.560 --> 0:23:15.560 Where is anybody else? And by the way, I do 0:23:15.640 --> 0:23:20.600 have to read a tweet because it's a tweet that 0:23:20.720 --> 0:23:24.320 is really quite remarkable. So this is a tweet that 0:23:24.440 --> 0:23:30.360 Joe Biden sent on October eighteenth, twenty nineteen. I want 0:23:30.359 --> 0:23:31.600 to read the tweet. Here's the tweet. 0:23:31.680 --> 0:23:32.080 Quote. 0:23:32.640 --> 0:23:38.640 President Trump withheld congressionally appropriated aid to Ukraine unless they 0:23:38.680 --> 0:23:42.480 granted him a political favor. It's the definition of quid 0:23:42.520 --> 0:23:47.120 pro quo. This is no joke. Trump continues to put 0:23:47.119 --> 0:23:50.800