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The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
Biden's Donors FUNDING Pro-Hamas Protests, plus ISIS in America
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Ben Ferguson
Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you, Senator. We now know that the Democratic Party, the same people that are funding Joe Biden's reelection are the same ones funding all the anarchy on college campuses.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, that's exactly right. We've had major breaking news about the funding sources that are behind these pro Hamas, anti Semitic protests. And the protests on college campuses, they're not organic, they're not spontaneous. They were paid for, they were planned, they were organized. This was carefully put together. We're gonna break it all down and all of the evidence of what's behind it. We're also gonna talk about the shocking news that the Biden administration released into this country an individual who is likely an ISIS terrorist. And that ISIS terrorist was living in the United States for roughly two years because Joe Biden and this administration released him. And we're gonna end with a brief foray into modern monetary theory. You're gonna learn the great insights of the Biden White House.
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Ben Ferguson
There's two big stories that have just broken one of them, Wall Street Journal, about the organizing and the planning. And then there's also about the money and it Shocker, right? Democrats who are giving money to Joe Biden's campaign for president are the same people giving money to the anarchy on college campuses. And now we know all of it.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, that's exactly right. And let me stop and say it is striking that the corporate media is covering this now. So verdict. We have been covering for two weeks now following the money. Where is the money coming from behind these protests? And the corporate media has largely ignored that until this weekend. This weekend, Politico wrote a major story highlighting the money behind these pro Hamas protests and linking it in particular, that the people who are writing the checks are the same people that are writing big, big checks to Joe Biden. Same people writing big, big checks to Democrats across the country. So who are they? Well, number one, George Soros. And we talked about George Soros a lot. Two of the main organizers behind the protests are a group called Jewish Voices for Peace. And if not now, are the two groups. Jewish Voices for Peace describes itself as anti Zionist. So in other words, they're anti Israel.
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Ben Ferguson
Right.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Both are supported by the Tides Foundation. The Tides foundation is really a nexus of all sorts of horrible evil, racist, leftist, communist, Marxist garbage. That's the Tides Foundation. And the Tides foundation was seeded by George Soros and also by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. So Bill Gates steps in, joining with George Soros, saying, let's fund these anti Semites. The Tides foundation has given nearly $500,000 to Jewish Voices for Peace over the last five years. But not just them. Rockefeller. David Rockefeller Jr. Who sits on the board of the Rockef Rockefeller Brothers Fund, gave $300,000 to the Tides Foundation. So that's another one. David Rockefeller, you've got Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, you've got George Soros, and then yet another one. And other groups involved are backed by the foundation, funded by Susan and Nick Pritzker, billionaires, huge Democrat donors. Susan and Nick Pritzker gave $6,600 to the Biden Victory Fund just a few months ago and gave more than $300,000 during the 2020 Joe Biden campaign. These are the blue blooded royalty, the billionaires who fund the Democrat Party, who fund Joe Biden. And they are the cash behind these anti American zealots who hate Israel and who hate Jews and are physically violently harassing Jews right now. Paid for by the donors of the Democrat Party.
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Ben Ferguson
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Senator Ted Cruz
Because this is who they are. They hate Israel. This is the left wing of the Democrat Party. It is profoundly anti Israel and sadly it is profoundly anti Semitic. To be clear, the people who are chanting at these protests, they're not just targeting Israel, they're targeting all Jews. Look, we saw horrifically at the University of Washington the radicals chanting to Jews go back to the ovens. I mean that is horrific. That is who they are.
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Ben Ferguson
And you notice the media didn't cover that.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, of course not. But what is fascinating also you know what the media is also not covering?
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Ben Ferguson
What's that?
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Senator Ted Cruz
Will any Democrats give the money back? Every Democrat who's cashed a check from George Soros, every Democrat who's cashed a check from Bill Gates or Melinda Gates, every Democrat who's cashed a check from Rockefeller or who's cashed a check from Pritzker. And by the way, you are talking about in all likelihood hundreds or thousands of Democrats. We're talking millions of dollars. This is their bankroll. Will the Democrats give the money back? And if they won't, is it because they support what their billionaire donors are saying? I'll tell you, you want a sense of how remarkable this moment is? Even CNN is being forced to cover it. Take a look at Jake Tapper asking about this bombshell Politico report.
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Ben Ferguson
Politico has a story out this morning noting that a lot of the multimillionaires and billionaires funding the most explicitly anti Israel groups, ones that think Israel has no right to exist, that are active on campuses, that these groups are funded by big Biden donors, the Pritzkers, the Gates's, George Soros, David Rockefeller Jr. Should they stop funding these groups?
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Senator Ted Cruz
Are they causing unrest for the American people? Well, let me say this. I think that everybody, as the president has said, needs to kind of get focused in on the very core principles of what our Constitution allows and what our Constitution protects. And that is this. Everybody has a right to protest, but they have to protest peacefully. If they're protesting violently, that has to end. There's no place for that. There's no place for anti Semitism, there's.
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Ben Ferguson
No place for Islamophobia there's something interesting in there. Jake Tapper names all those names. You notice he doesn't look down at a piece of paper of all these donors. He doesn't go to something on the screen to go, let's put these names out there. He knows all of these Democratic donors by name, by memory, because they are the Democratic Party.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, and understand, that was for those of y'all that are listening to audio. That was Jake Tapper on, on CNN, on State of the Union, their Sunday show. And he's asking Mitch Landrieu, who's one of the national co chairs of the Biden campaign. So he's there as a surrogate, as a spokesman for the Biden presidential campaign, and he says, why are your donors funding this? And listen to the dodge. Look, people go on TV often to spin, but that spin was really transparent. What's he saying? Well, people have a free speech, right?
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Okay, you're right. You know what? The Nazis have a free speech, right. The Klan has a free speech, Right. Does that mean that the Biden campaign is happy being funded by the Nazis and the Klan? Do you find what they are saying horrible and noxious and bigoted and wrong? And are you in disagreement with it enough to say, I will not accept money from the people who are bankrolling this anti Semitic garbage? Not a word of that from the Biden campaign. And by the way, how many senators, how many House members have taken money from these same people? And to the best of my knowledge, none of them have returned a penny. And none of them plan to because they're certain the media will give them a free pass and they can keep cashing the checks. Not only that, I promise you, Democrats nationally are counting on George Soros to keep giving them millions right up through election day. And the fact that he's funding these protests on campus, that doesn't bother them at all?
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah. Not only was the money organized and clearly they knew they had a bankroll to do what they're accomplishing right now. This other Bombshell article talks about the organization, the planning, which is incredibly eerie to what we just witnessed in Israel as well with organizing and planning of the attacks there.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Yeah. Now, so this came out in the Wall Street Journal this weekend. So we had two big stories. Wall Street Journal reported that the anti Israel, anti Jewish protests on campuses were the results of months of training and planning and encouragement by longtime activists and left wing groups. And for example, let's take Columbia University Wall Street Journal reports in the weeks and months leading up to the encampment and occupation. Student organizers began consulting with groups like the National Students for Justice in Palestine, Veterans of campus protests, and former Black Panthers. These organizers researched past protests over Colombia's expansion into Harlem, went to a community meeting on gentrification and development, and studied parallels with the fight over land between Palestinians and Israelis. They also held a Resistance 101 training event at Columbia back in March. Now, the administration barred the event twice, but Columbia students held it anyway, virtually, and the Columbia president suspended several of those students for doing so. But that didn't stop what they were planning. And to give you a sense, so the National Students for justice in Palestine NSJP has been around for more roughly two decades and has more than 300 chapters across the United States. And understand who these people are. Nsjp, on their posts on X, routinely refers to police officers as pigs. So that's who they are. They're not hiding who they are. And they also provide, quote, friendly advice to students protesting on social media. So take a look. This is the first of two different posts.
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Ben Ferguson
One hell of a list of friendly advice, right?
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Senator Ted Cruz
Some friendly advice. They include things like wear comfortable clothes, you feel comfortable moving in running shoes and layers for the weather, Bring water, an energy bar, and a bandana in case of surveillance. And then they provide what they call a diversity of tactics, which they say, quote, everyone is free to support the causes they see fit. We don't police each other's actions or snitch on each other to pigs or to the media. That's their very kind advice. At the same time, we take care not to endanger others with our actions. Now, here's their second bit of friendly advice they put up and they say, among other things in the second post, they encourage people to take to the streets and to stay together because according to them, quote, pigs will work to split us apart, force us onto the sidewalk, kettle us, and snatch people. And they go on to say, quote, if someone is arrested, don't linger too long or pigs will kettle the march, free the comrade, or else get their name and birth date for jail support and, and keep it moving.
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Ben Ferguson
This is a lot like Black Lives Matter when they were like, hey, you get arrested, don't worry, we're going to bail you out. We've got funds for this. We plan for you guys to get arrested. We'll get you out as fast as you can. And the protesters know this?
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, they do. And in fact, here take a look at one protester talking about the risk of being arrested.
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C
What will you guys do when the.
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Ben Ferguson
Police come right in here and, you know, end up maybe handcuffing people and arresting them.
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Senator Ted Cruz
We'll do what we always done. We'll get arrested just like the criminals in the subway. They always right back out in 24 hours.
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C
24 hours in new York City.
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Ben Ferguson
That's right. That's about. That's about correct. I mean, at least they're honest. They're like, we're not afraid of getting arrested. We know we're out in 24 hours.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Now, understand what he said also there. We'll do what we always do. This is not his first rodeo.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah.
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Senator Ted Cruz
And one of the things. There's another piece of stunning news that broke, which is about half of the protesters on these encampments are not affiliated with the universities in any way, shape or form. So let me give you some of the stats. Columbian City College of New York. An estimated 134 out of 282 demonstrators arrested last Tuesday had zero affiliation with the two New York colleges. So about half. City College of New York, 102 of the 173 arrested were unaffiliated with the campus. University of Texas at Austin. 45. Of the 79 arrested last Monday, 56% had no affiliation with the school. And here's some of the examples of non student protesters found on these campuses. New York city internal medicine, Dr. Fernando Bobas, 42 years old, not a student. Known anti Israel protester Jesse Pape, 47 years old. Booked on two counts of assault after protesting at City College in New York. Previously arrested at a pro Palestinian rally outside of Columbia in February.
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Ben Ferguson
24 hours, you're out.
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Senator Ted Cruz
James Carlson, 40 years old. Arrested at Columbia on burglary charge. Previously involved in protests that blocked local bridges and tunnels. So understand, this is organized, this is planned. And about half the people there are not students, but instead are our agitators. Our protesters are radicals. Our Marxists are anarchists. I don't know what they are, but it ain't good. And they're not students in the school.
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Ben Ferguson
And we're getting paid.
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Senator Ted Cruz
They're clearly getting paid. And who are they getting paid by? Well, we just walked through who they're getting paid by. Joe Biden's top donors.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah.
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Senator Ted Cruz
So the Biden campaign is funding the radicals to come onto campus to disrupt the campus. And let me actually. Okay, this is actually an amazing article. Saturday, May 4, in the free Press. It's entitled the Micro Intifada. How American protesters are being trained in militancy and students participating in the Gaza solidarity encampments at Universities across the country are being taught to become militants, according to nine manuals obtained by the Free Press. Many of the manuals, which are being shared via phone group chats with students across the country, encourage, quote, militancy and instruct protesters to break laws, seize buildings, vandalize them, and then use tactics to evade police detection and arrest. One guide called the quote de Arrest Primer teaches protesters to physically resist arrest or in some cases, to assault police officers or throw projectiles at them to protect fellow comrades. Let's be clear, these are communists. They call each other comrade from arrest. Quote, each de arrest is a micro intifada which can spread and inspire others till we may finally shake off this noxious ruling order altogether. The noxious ruling order let's be clear, they're communists and anarchists who Joe Biden's top donors are funding. Another manual, it's entitled the Do It Yourself Occupation Guide contains detailed drawings on how to break into buildings using tools like crowbars, clamps, metal cables, chains, bolt cutters and a miniature saw known as an angle grinder. And here you can see right here it says entering the building first thing listed. It has a nice little painting.
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Ben Ferguson
Now again, this is one of the manuals. You're reading directly from the manual.
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Senator Ted Cruz
I'm reading from the manual entering the building Angle grinder. Use an angle grinder to cut through locks, bolts and chains. Cordless models are obviously preferable, reliable and capable, but also noisy and time consuming. Second thing they say to bring bolt cutters. Use bolt cutters to clip padlocks, lock boxes and fencing. The 18 inch length will perform most tasks well and fit discreetly in a backpack or a messenger bag. Some bolt cutters can fold down to smaller size crowbar. And by the way, it has a helpful drawing of a crowbar in case you're just really dumb.
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Ben Ferguson
First time they've ever worked, so it makes sense.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Use the straight straightener end of a crowbar to pry open windows and doors, such as in the hand over hand method. Use the slightly angled part as your fulcrum, pushing it against the window frame or door jamb. Use the U shaped end of the crowbar to remove the cylinder from a deadbolt. Use the curve as your fulcrum, pushing it against the door. Do not pry towards your face because you guys are morons and one of you is gonna take out an eye. Yeah, that part I ad libbed, but it really should say that.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Use the weight of your body instead of the strength of your arms. Instructions show how to barricade Doors with heavy furniture, a shield against police using trash cans, rope, sheets of cardboard.
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Ben Ferguson
By the way, did you see those trash cans shields this week? Did you see those? They were using one university. There are plastic pieces of a trash can. They go running at the police with them. And I'm like, this is amazing to watch. It's literally Rubbermaid trash can shields.
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Senator Ted Cruz
So. You ever read the Darwin Awards?
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Ben Ferguson
Yes.
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Senator Ted Cruz
There is some point at which these spoiled, nurtured little Communists living off of daddy's trust funds who don't understand what happens. Those are Darwin Awards waiting to happen.
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Ben Ferguson
Couldn't agree more.
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Senator Ted Cruz
There's a drawing here on removing a deadbolt cylinder. And we saw that this is, in fact, exactly what they're doing on the campuses. And I want you to watch now how they're doing this. I want you to watch this video. This is a video that was on X that a citizen journalist filmed at ucla, and watch the radicals implementing what they have been trained, what they have been taught, what they have been instructed. Watch this.
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D
Sorry, I didn't hear you. Can you repeat that? By what statute? By what California statute? Okay, so who's making those and enforcing those? SJP is telling me what I can and can't do.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Stop. All right, now, I want you to watch several things. Number one, Soy boy here is wearing his UCLA hoodie.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Big old sunglasses and a mask because, you know, he believes in what he's fighting for so much. Dear God. He doesn't want anyone to know. Number two, you have a citizen journalist coming on, coming onto, like, the square at ucla. It opened like there's. This is not.
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Ben Ferguson
This is private property for these guys. Just take over.
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Senator Ted Cruz
And he says, you're not allowed to film to be here. And the guy quite rightly says, well, why not? And he says, by the rules of sjp. Remember, we went into sjp. That's the group that George Soros is funding, that Bill and Melinda Gates are funding, that all of these Biden donors are funding. The rules of sjp. And who are they? They just declare. Look, you don't have the ability to declare yourself. I am the police. I will set the rules. This is. It's actually the same strategy. You remember the Chaz and the Chaz?
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Ben Ferguson
Chaz and Chaz. Yeah, yeah.
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Senator Ted Cruz
It happened in Seattle, the autonomous zone where these little Marxists say, I'm a warlord and I declare the rules, so just watch. And they're claiming authority. They do not have Watch to be in the encampment.
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D
You have to follow. So you Guys. Purchased this land from ucla. Lydia, get over here right now. Purchased this land from your cla security. Lydia, do you hear what I just said? You need to stay next to me cuz these punk ass security guards is in my face.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Over here.
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Ben Ferguson
That you can leave.
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D
Oh, for real?
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Senator Ted Cruz
No, right here.
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D
Oh, this way.
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Ben Ferguson
No, this way.
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D
Oh, come on. Lydia, get over here.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Please head this way.
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D
Get over here, Lydia.
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E
Can you please just head this way, sir?
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D
No, I'd rather head this way, sir.
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Ben Ferguson
You're.
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Senator Ted Cruz
You're causing commotion. We're trying to keep it peaceful.
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D
I'd rather head this way, thanks.
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Senator Ted Cruz
We're trying to keep it peaceful here.
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D
So am I. I'm a very peaceful.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Can you please just.
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D
No, I'd rather.
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Senator Ted Cruz
You're not following everyone, right?
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D
I'm not going to follow anything you're saying, bro. I don't even know you. You didn't even introduce yourself to me. You're wearing sunglasses and a mask. You look like you're about to go rob a bank, bro. I don't have to listen to nothing you're saying, bro. Look like you're about to look like you're about to hand a note to a bank teller and tell them, give.
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C
Me all the money.
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Senator Ted Cruz
I'm going to have to ask you.
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D
To leave and I'm going to have to answer and say no, I don't.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Have to go anyway.
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D
You're going to wait for a lead and do what mommy says, okay? You're going to do what she told you to do because you're a good soldier. So follow orders, you know what I'm saying? And do what you were told. Because we're over here documenting right now. So sjp. Fjp. The only JP I know is JP from Milwaukee. You know what I'm saying? JP from Milwaukee. That's about it. I know JP from Milwaukee. That's about it. Listen to your mommy. She said masks on. Mask up, kids. Mommy says put mask on.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Hey guys, make sure your masks are on.
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Ben Ferguson
There's someone filming over here.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Mask.
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D
It's an emergency. Masks on immediately. Mask up emergency.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Thank you guys.
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D
Thank you for cooperating with SJP orders.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah, I do have to give them credit at least. They're wearing masks to cover their faces from people knowing who they are. Not just from like some crazy Covid world that they're living in.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Only half of them are knuckleheads enough that they think it's Covid.
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Ben Ferguson
Fair point.
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Senator Ted Cruz
But it is clear as the woman is calling out, oh, there's someone filming Put your masks on. Look, when you wear a mask to hide who you are, it is as he says, it's like a bank robber. That is in fact what criminals do. And you know when the guy says, I'm going to have to ask you to leave. You know what someone says that if, say it's a private establishment, if you're at a restaurant, the proprietor can come and say, excuse me, sir, I'm gonna have to ask you to leave. Because they have legal authority to ask you to vacate the premises. These clowns have no legal authority to ask anyone to vacate the premises. He has exactly as much right to be on that. That plaza as they do. It's an open plaza. But you know what? UCLA is ceding that authority to them is letting them physically block him, stand in his way. There are multiple videos there. There was a video of a Jewish student trying to go on campus at mit, which we may show in another podcast, where they physically block him and prevent him from doing so because he is Jewish. And again, the MIT administration is complicit with it. Finally, an MIT police officer accompanies him on there, but only after he repeatedly asserts his rights. What do you mean that they can tell me, no, because you're Jewish, you're not allowed to be there. They are claiming authority they don't have. But the UCLA administrators, like the Columbia administrators, like the NYU administrators, like the administrators at mit, and so many of these other schools are allowing them. They are allowing them.
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Ben Ferguson
I do think one side note. Isn't it funny how every time when they take over, they set up a little border for Democrats that are anti border? They sure do love borders around their encampments and rules and regulations and laws. And you can't film here, you can't do this. But in the whole country, they're like, no, no, no, Just keep coming in over the border as much as you want to. Let me tell you about our friends over at Blackout Coffee real quick. If you are like me and you're just sick and tired of giving your mind to woke organizations, you probably know when I'm talking about coffee. There's a lot of leftist coffee companies out there. That's one of the reasons why I switched to Blackout Coffee. Because it is a premium cup of coffee from an amazing American company you're going to love. Now, Blackout Coffee is 100% committed to Conservative values, from sourcing the beans to the roasting process, customer support in shipping. They embody true American values, and they accept no compromise on taste or quality. If You've never tried blackout coffee and you want to start your day every morning with a premium cup of coffee, then you gotta try them by going to blackout coffee.com verdict now I'm going to save you 20% off your first order just by using the promo code Verdict at checkout blackout coffee.com verdict. Use the coupon code verdict for 20% off your first order. Be awake, not woke. And get a premium cup of amazing conservative coffee every single day. That's Blackout Coffee.com verdict promo code verdict. Senator, I want to move to another story that also is a very concerning story. We've talked about this and have been exposing not just the number of legal immigrants coming across the southern border, but specifically terrorists that are coming across our northern and southern border that are on the terrorist watch list. And there are now news concerns because of a man directly tied to ISIS that was roaming the country for a couple of years.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Yeah, I've been saying for a long time now that we are at a greater risk of a major terrorist attack right now than we have been anytime since September 11th. That our open border is an invitation for terrorists to come and murder Americans. And we just had a really chilling report about an individual who is reported to be affiliated with isis, who the Biden administration apprehended and then just let go. And he was allowed to live in America for two years. Now the facts are this is an individual, a 33 year old named Javakir Atoev who crossed the border into Arizona. And he was apprehended by border patrol. But when he was apprehended by border Patrol, Joe Biden released him, let him go, said, we got him, let's let him go. Then in May of 2023, so this was February 22, he came in in May of 2023, Uzbekistan put out an international notice that this individual was wanted in his home country for his alleged affiliation with ISIS. So that's in 2023. Then in March of 2024. So a year goes by after Uzbekistan said, hey, watch out for this guy. We have evidence that he's affiliated with ISIS. Nothing happens for a year. Then March of 2024, the US government is reviewing his application for asylum. So they're preparing to grant him asylum and they discover Uzbekistan's notice. Then nearly a year later, he was living in Maryland at the time in Baltimore. And it wasn't until April 17, 2024 that ICE finally arrested him in Baltimore. He's currently in custody in Pennsylvania awaiting trial in immigration court. So from 2022, February of 2022 when he crossed illegally in this country. Until April of 2024 when he was finally arrested, the Biden administration was complicit in an individual who is reported to be directly tied to ISIS being released in America. And by the way, if you don't trust what I'm saying on it, here's NBC News tonight.
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C
Among the record wave of migrants crossing the southern border, a suspected ISIS member who lived freely in the U.S. for nearly two years. Two U.S. officials tell NBC News 33 year old Jacobir Atoev of Uzbekistan crossed into Arizona in February 2022 where he was apprehended and vetted by both Customs and border protection and ICE. He was not on the US terror watch list and he was released into the US those sources tell us. Then in May 2023, Uzbekistan put out an international alert saying that Atayev was affiliated with ISIS and wanted there. But it took nearly a year for US Officials to figure out the suspected ISIS member was living freely here in the U.S. u.S. Officials tell us DHS made the alarming discovery after reviewing a toy of application for asylum. Shortly after DHS connected the dots, ICE arrested him here in Baltimore just two weeks ago. Former Homeland Security officials tell us his case raises red flags about the vetting process for migrants after they cross the border.
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Ben Ferguson
There's two things that worry me and I want your take on this. Number one, it's almost like the media is worried the same way you are that there's a real chance of a major terrorist attack. We've seen warnings from Director Wray at the FBI and others who are saying they're concerned even about attacks that would mimic what we saw against the people in Israel. But it's also like they're trying to normalize the idea that, yeah, there's a lot of terrorists in America and if something does happen, it's like, yeah, we knew this, we covered it, we talked about it. Maybe you shouldn't be as outraged.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, if you want to be outraged, listen to what Chris Wray, the administrator of the FBI is saying about the risk we have of a terror attack right now in the United States.
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Ben Ferguson
From an FBI perspective, we are seeing a wide array of very dangerous threats that emanate from the border. There is a particular network that has where some of the overseas facilitators of the smuggling network have ISIS ties that we're very concerned about and that we've been spending enormous amount of effort with our partners investigating. Ray said a keyword there coming across the border. Yeah, like he's telling you how they're doing it. So if he knows this, and that means I'm sure he's given the same briefing he just gave America to the President. United States of America. Why would you not then close the border if this is what you know is coming across the border? And my second question is after 9 11. I remember like we learned very quickly how they, that the terrorists were able to use certain loopholes and things to get into America. And we, we squeezed down those instantly. I'm worried that even if they, if there is a terrorist attack, they're still gonna keep the border open.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Look, Joe Biden doesn't care. Kamala Harris doesn't care. Chuck Schumer doesn't care. Nancy Pelosi doesn't care. I've been fighting for years to secure the border. And every Democrat is on record over and over and over again, I forced a boat on HR2 which would actually end, catch and release, secure the border, stop these terrorists from coming in. And every Democrat in the Senate, all of them, there are no moderates on this issue. All of them party line, vote. Open borders, Open borders. Open borders. Every Democrat in the Senate voted to throw out the impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas to hear no evidence. They don't want to hear the evidence. They're like an ostrich plunging their head in the sand. Do not tell them about the terrorists coming into this country because they don't care about who came in yesterday and they don't care about who's gonna come in tomorrow.
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Ben Ferguson
Let's talk about the numbers because that's the other part of this warning. It's not 1 or 2 or 10 or 15 or 20 that are on the terrorist watch list that we know have come across the southern border. It's an alarming number in the hundreds.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Yeah, look, when Trump was president, the number of people that were apprehended on the terror watch list coming into the country was every year in the low single digits was one or two was a very small number. In fiscal year 2023, 169 people on the terror watch list were apprehended at our southern border. 169 this fiscal year. We're only halfway through. We already have nearly 100 who've been apprehended at the southern border again that.
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Ben Ferguson
Are on the terrorist watch list.
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Senator Ted Cruz
On the terror watch list. And by the way, that's the southern border, the northern border. The stats, 630 terror suspects were encountered at the northern border in the last two fiscal years.
- [34:32]
Ben Ferguson
The New York Post breaking that aspect of the story. So it's not just, as you mentioned, the southern border, it's the northern border, which is another problem, which is by all accounts is even more, I guess, open, easier to come across.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Many believe it's much larger. And if you are a terrorist, if you are heeding Iran's call for global jihad against America, if you're heeding Hamas's call for global jihad against America, if you're heeding Hezbollah's call for global jihad against America, if you're heeding Palestinian Islamic Jihad's call for global jihad against America, if you're heeding ISIS's call for global jihad against America, it's not complicated. You come across the border in a place where there's not a lot of border security, where you can be one of the nearly 2 million gotaways. These are just the people who've encountered the numbers are even more concerning of the gotaways and the Democrats, at the end of the day, they are willfully complicit in an open door policy to terrorists who want to harm Americans.
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Ben Ferguson
You've been there when Ray's been testifying and you know Ray, the FBI director, Do Democrats ask any tough questions of him? Like, hey, we know how many are on the watch list that we've gotten, right, that were on the watch list. But do they even care about the gotaways? Or is it if I don't ask, then it doesn't exist and then I don't have to be held politically accountable for it.
- [35:59]
Senator Ted Cruz
Democrats will not ask a single question about illegal immigration. They will not ask a single question about gotaways. They will not ask a single question about the children being brutalized by human traffickers. They will not ask a single question about the women being sexually assaulted by human traffickers. Their approach is just hide from the issue. They don't have a defense, so they ask totally. You know what they'll ask about? White supremacists. They'll get all worked up about white supremacists. Mind you, they're not concerned at all about the anti Semites on college campuses. Well, maybe it's because the people funding the anti Semites are also funding those same Democrats campaigns.
- [36:42]
Ben Ferguson
Let's talk about the political fallout of this. If heaven forbid, there's an attack is part of the Democrats defense. They think that the American people are too stupid to connect these dots. I mean, you see the report from NBC News. You see Christopher Wray out there warning you. You have a president that knows about it. Do they just assume that the media is going to carry water for them that there is attack. There will be no accountability for the people that allowed for the open border policy which allowed them to come into this country. I would be terrified if I was a Democrat running for reelection, knowing this is a real possibility and the FBI directors warning you, you would think you'd want to say something on the record that says, hey, we got to get this under control.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Ben, I honestly don't know. Because they don't defend themselves. They don't present an argument. They don't present any alternative. Listen, they count on the corporate media to cover for them, to hide what they're doing. And I think many of them are naive. For them, it is all politics.
- [37:35]
Ben Ferguson
So it's not about safety or security of your family or their family or our family.
- [37:39]
Senator Ted Cruz
11 million illegal immigrants and they say these are future Democrat voters. And what we care about is staying in power. And if people have to die, so be it. Because they know people are dying every single day. People are dying because of this open border. And the Democrats will do nothing to change it. It's who they are.
- [37:59]
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Senator Ted Cruz
All right, I want to close on a lighter note.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Which is I don't know how many listeners of verdict are PhD students in economics, but there's a theory called modern monetary theory, and it's a bunch of gobbledygook that is designed to basically justify big spending liberals just printing money like there's no tomorrow. And it's all sorts of fancy verbiage to explain it doesn't matter how much money you can print, you can just spend into oblivion. Everything will be fine. We can afford free everything for everybody. Well, I want you to listen, and I'm going to present this without further commentary. I want you to listen to Jared Bernstein, who is the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Biden White House. So he is the top economist for Joe Biden explaining what modern monetary theory is. And I want you just to understand this is the genius behind bidenomics. Take a look.
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E
The US government can't go bankrupt because we can print our own money.
- [41:22]
Ben Ferguson
It obviously begs the question, why exactly.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Are we borrowing in a currency that we print ourselves? I'm waiting for someone to stand up.
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C
And say, why do we borrow our.
- [41:32]
Ben Ferguson
Own currency in the first place?
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Senator Ted Cruz
Like you said, they print the dollar. So why.
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D
Why does the government even borrow.
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E
Well, the. So the. I mean, again, some of this stuff gets. Some of the language that. The. Some of the language and concepts are just confusing. I mean, the government definitely prints money and it definitely lends that money, which is why the government definitely prints money and then it lends that money by selling bonds. Is that what they do? Yeah, they sell bonds. Yeah, they sell bonds. Right. Because they sell bonds and people buy the bonds and lend them the money. Yeah. So a lot of times, at least to my year with mmt, the language and the concepts can be kind of unnecessarily confusing. But there is no question that the government prints money and then it uses that money to. So, yeah, I guess I'm just. I can't really talk. I don't I don't get it. I don't know what they're talking about, like, because it's like the government clearly prints money. It does it all the time, and it clearly borrows. Otherwise we wouldn't be having this debt and deficit conversation. So I don't think there's anything confusing there.
- [42:58]
Ben Ferguson
Wherever he went to college, I really think they should take back their diploma. And this is the guy who's the top economic guy at the White House.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, let me just say every economic policy of Joe Biden has flowed directly from the genius and wisdom you just heard displayed.
- [43:16]
Ben Ferguson
Spending a trillion dollars in this country and our government every 100 days. There's Bidenomics for you. Don't forget that we do the show Monday, Wednesday and Fridays. Make sure you hit that subscribe auto download button and share it on social media. Also, we do a show like this that's on YouTube. You can share that video as well on social media, wherever you are. And make sure on those in between days, if you want to keep up with what's going on in the world, grab my podcast as well, the Ben Ferguson Podcast. Download it. It's free. Wherever you get your podcasts and the Senator, I will see you back here in a couple of days.