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The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
Chinese and Cuban Communists FUNDING Anti-Israel Protests
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Ben Ferguson
Welcome. It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you. Senator. It's amazing. The left has been obsessed for years about foreign interference in this country and obviously in elections, and they went with all the big Russia hoax with Donald Trump. But now we have a story with two major countries that are having significant influence in America right now, and no one's talking about it, much less cover it.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, Ben. That's right. And what we're going to talk about in today's podcast is something that, that you will not see on the news that is not getting covered anywhere, which is the direct involvement of communist China and communist Cuba in the anti Israel, anti Semitic, anti American protests that are happening across this country. And this is. Look, there have been two reports that have come out in the last week that are tracing the money from communist China, the activists from communist Cuba that are driving this. And again, the media is ignoring it. It's why this podcast matters, because we're going to cover and lay out the evidence that is going to trouble you deeply that America's enemies want this country ripped apart and they are funding the mayhem we are seeing on our college campuses. They are trying to destroy this country. And sadly, there are a whole lot of elected Democrats in Washington who are on board with that.
- [01:31]
Ben Ferguson
Yeah. And the worst part is they probably think they're getting a really good return on this investment. We're going to expose it all. There's something else I love about doing this show, and it is that we get to tell you about incredible organizations and groups that are doing amazing things. And one of those groups is preborn. If you take your hand and you put it over your heart, you can hear, you can feel your heartbeat telling you that you're alive. Well, it is the same for a preborn baby. Their heart begins to form at conception, and at just three weeks, it is already beating. At five weeks, a baby's heartbeat can be heard on an ultrasound. And that's where you come in. We partner with preborn because we need to help these precious babies. And every day, Preborn's network of clinic rescues 200 babies from abortions. Because when a mother with an unplanned pregnancy meets her baby on ultrasound and hears her baby's heartbeat, it is a divine encounter that doubles a baby's chance at life, meaning that mother is going to choose life. This is exactly why I want you to partner with preborn. For just $28, you. You could be the difference between the life or death of a child and all gifts are tax deductible. You can donate and it's easy by dialing £250 and just say the keyword baby. That's £250. Say the keyword baby. You can also donate securely@preborn.com verdict that's preborn.com verdict and if you want to just dial pound250 and say the keyword baby, it is that easy. You you can help save a baby's life today. Senator, let let's talk about the a bigger overview picture. We have known for quite some time, but it's really come out recently that there was a lot of money coming in from foreign nations that are adversaries of the US into college campuses. We now see what they were buying, which was they were buying influence over a generation. We see massive donations that went into the Biden Pen center, for example, directly from China. And now we're saying that it's not just buying influence to change hearts and minds of college students at the Ivy Leagues and other schools, but now they moved into direct activism with these campus protests, which seems to be phase two of their plan.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Ben that's exactly right. There's a major report that came out on Monday this week from ncri. NCRI is the Network Contagion Research Institute. This is the same group that put out the empirical studies of TikTok and how the Chinese Communist government was pushing communist propaganda on TikTok and it led to ultimately Congress passing the legislation forcing the Chinese Communist government either to sell TikTok or shut down in the US So NCRI rather is a serious organization that does serious research. The report they put out, I want to go into it in detail because it's getting very little coverage and it should get a lot of coverage. Here's how it begins. Quote this report analyzes the activities and foreign connections of the Shut it down for Palestine Sid4Pmovement since its formation in October 2023. It examines Sid4P's use of protests, direct action initiatives and sophisticated media campaigns to advance anti America and anti Israel narratives both online and offline. Additionally, it highlights the involvement of a network linked to the Chinese Communist Party that funds and supports both alternative anti establishment media organizations promoting anti American initiatives as well as seemingly grassroots activist movements such as including Sid4P. So here are the key takeaways and assessments. Number one Sid for P's emergence shut it down for Palestine is an anti capitalist, anti police and anti government protest movement that emerged after October 7, 2023. It functions as a hybrid online real world network for mobilizing frequent demonstrations as well as a gradually escalating direct action campaigns targeting critical infrastructure and public spaces. 2. SID4P's ties to CCP Linked entities, conveners or organizations operating under the SID4P umbrella are members of the Singham Network donor portfolio. The Singham Network is a global network, global web of nonprofits, fiscal sponsors and alternative news sources tied to Neville Roy Singham, a known conduit for CCP geopolitical influence. 3. SID4P's funding the Singham network exploits regulatory loopholes in the US nonprofit system to facilitate the flow of enormous sum of US dollars to organizations and movements that actively stoke social unrest at the grassroots level. 4. Alternative media and Social Media Strategy Alternative media outlets associated with the Singham Network have played a central role in online mobilization and cross platform social amplification for Sid4P and 5. Ties to extremist groups Sid4P has ties to extremist groups that embrace a violent single state resolution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict. At least one SID4P convener is linked to the extreme edge of pro Palestinian groups operating in the US that advance anti American and anti Jewish agendas.
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Ben Ferguson
This is next level and it's obviously being orchestrated at the highest levels within these governments. And it's not just China, it's also Cuba that is involved in this as well. And this seems to be part two of their master plan. China and, and I'm, I'm guessing on this one, but based on what we've seen from DIS disclosures on donations, probably is giving more money to American universities than any other nation would be my guess. And if they're not the top, they're probably one, two or three. I can't even imagine who would be above them. We see massive money coming into the Ivy Leagues, massive money that came in the Biden Penn center, the list goes on and on. But this is almost like okay, how, how do we infiltrate a country? How do we change the opinion of the people in that country? And then how do we literally have revolutions in that country? And they're doing it all in front of our very eyes and no one seems to be stopping it.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, that is right. And if you look at this report from ncri, it details how China is spending millions upwards of potentially $100 million funding these protests that are occurring on campuses that are shutting down bridges, that are shutting down airports. And you might think, okay, what does China care about Hamas? What does China care about Israel? And the truth of the matter is they don't. But they care about America. They care about tearing our country apart. They care about chaos and fomenting dissent and dissension that paralyzes our country. Let me read another portion from this report from the NCRI. On the evening of April 30, 2024, over 100 activists gathered at the People's Forum, a far left nonprofit in Manhattan that describes itself as a, quote, movement incubator for working class and marginalized communities to discuss the ongoing Gaza encampments on university campuses. The activists called on Columbia protesters to recreate the civil unrest associated with, quote, the summer of 2020. Remember the summer of love. Hours later, Columbia University's Hamilton hall was forcibly occupied and barricaded. After the hall was subsequently cleared by law enforcement, the New York Police Department reported finding industrial grade chains, gas masks, earplugs, helmets, goggles, hammers, knives and ropes. Following processing, the Washington Post reported, per NYPD, that more than 25% of the arrests at Columbia University and 60% at the city College of New York were not students. This is Communist China paying real money to disrupt America and to sow dissension. And by the way, this group of conveners I'll read another portion of the report. Sid4P was established and structured against the backdrop of increased Pope pro Palestinian activism starting October 2023 on on November 1, Sid4P officially registered its domain, shut it down for Palestine.org and launched its site by November 6. By November 9, Sid4P publicly listed seven core organizations referred to as conveners as well as numerous organizations referred to as endorsers, reflecting the confluence of far left and pro Palestinian radical activism. The official SID4P conveners include the following groups 1 the People's Forum, 2 Answer Coalition, 3 the International People's Assembly, 4 Al Aada, New York 5 the National Students for Justice in Palestine, NSJP 6 the Palestinian Youth Movement and 7 the Palestinian American Community Center, New Jersey. The seven conveners of SID4P can be divided into two distinct groupings based on ideological affiliation and fiscal sponsorship. The coalition's far left members, namely the People's Forum, IPA and ANSWER Coalition, demonstrate significant financial personnel and operational overlap. The remaining four conveners are all pro Palestinian activist organizations, with at least two NSJP and Al ADWA known to have ties to US Designated terrorist organizations. In addition to NSJP and al Awadah, among Sid4P's endorsers is Samuduan, which some Western intelligence services classify as a front for the pflp, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the United States, Germany and Israel.
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Ben Ferguson
So the question that everyone, I think, that's listening right now is asking is, how is this then legal? And if there's direct ties that are going back to terrorism, how is, again, this legal? And if foreign funds are coming in from our adversaries to pay and fund this, anarchists on college campuses, how is that legal? Is there anything that the government can do to say we're not going to allow this to happen and we're talking about the finances of this?
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, look, there should be an enormous amount. The Department of Justice should be investigating this. The FBI should be investigating this. We've got money coming from Communist China behind these protests, behind these anti American, anti Israel protests. We've got money coming from organizations that have close ties to designated terrorist organizations. And so whether it is Hamas and Hezbollah pushing this, whether it is affiliated allies of their pushing this, whether it is Iran pushing this, or whether it's Communist China pushing this, the FBI ought to be all over it. And I gotta tell you, Ben, my level of confidence that the FBI and the Department of Justice is even looking at this is incredibly low. Because sadly, this Biden Department of Justice is so politicized that they're much more interested in tracking down some little old lady on the national mall on January 6 who was waving an American flag and saying God bless America and finding every Facebook post she put 20 years ago than they are actually interested in finding Communist China spending millions of dollars trying to rip America apart.
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Ben Ferguson
And, Senator, look, education and quality education and going to a prestigious school was something that you worked incredibly hard for. But you now look at what's happened at our colleges, and I'm talking about at our, quote, best colleges. How much of now, what we're witnessing with them tolerating all of these protests the way that they did in the presence is because maybe they can't say no to the foreign cash and the amount of foreign cash and therefore foreign influence that's coming in from these same countries.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Look, the foreign cash is an enormous problem. And let me give you. Let's look at the Ivy League. So The Ivy League 8 colleges have historically been among the very best colleges in America. I want us to look at the percentage of foreign students in the Ivy League. So Brown University, what percent of foreign students do you think are at Brown?
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Ben Ferguson
It's gotta be 20% plus, I would guess 19%.
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Senator Ted Cruz
You're off by a point. Okay, how many students? 20. 98. Columbia University, what do you think the percentage is at Columbia?
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Ben Ferguson
25.
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Senator Ted Cruz
30, 38%. You want to know how many students that is? 14,088. 14,000 foreign students. Cornell University 26%. Dartmouth College 17%. Harvard University 22%. Princeton University, my alma mater, 23%. University of Pennsylvania 23%. Yale University 24%. We are talking about thousands and thousands and tens of thousands of foreign. Now, part of the reason the university is like this is because the foreign students all pay full freight. So it's a great money making endeavor. But why exactly are we educating people who among them and not all of the foreign students are that case? Look, my best friend in college, who you know well, David Panton was Jamaican. He was a foreign student. He came from Jamaica. He arrived at Princeton at 16. He was the best man at my wedding. He has been, other than Heidi, my best friend in life. He was a Fordham student. That was great. That's very different. A Jamaican kid who's talented and wants to go go get a good education. Or for that matter, my dad. 1957, coming as a student from Cuba to the University of Texas. He came on a student visa. He came fleeing oppression. He'd been in prison, he'd been tortured, but he was coming seeking freedom. That is very different from bringing in a bunch of radical, anti America, anti Israel radicals. Look, as far as I'm concerned, if you have a student on a student visa who gets out there and is burning an American flag and chanting death to America, you should deport him that day. We have no obligation to allow people to come on student visas, which is permissive. It is a choice. It is a discretionary choice if they are going to tear down this country. And part of the problem with, with the Ivy League schools is when you're looking at anywhere from 17% Dartmouth College at the low point to 38% Columbia University at the high point that are foreign students. You have a bunch of students who are not Americans. And far too many of them don't give a damn about America and are trying to tear America down.
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Ben Ferguson
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, that's exactly right. So just a couple of days ago, there was an op ed in the Wall Street Journal. It was entitled How Cuba Fuels the Campus Protest. Some of the outside agitators against Israel are Havana's fellow travelers. And I want to again focus on this because again, this has gotten very little attention other than this Journal article, very few other media outlets picked it up. But here's how it starts. There's a dog bites man quality to the news reports that recent campus chaos in support of Hamas is the work of well funded revolutionary groups out to destabilize the U.S. even less surprising is the charge that, quote, outside agitators, as New York Mayor Eric Adams has termed these groups share an ideology with the Cuban military dictatorship and in some cases have attained practical support from Havana. And it continues for decades. Cuba has spent enormous resources burrowing into America's educational, diplomatic and political circles in an effort to topple our democratic republic. This truth was obscured during the Obama administration when Ben Rhodes, struggling creative writer turned national security guru, shaped US Policy to Profess that Cuba is no longer a threat. Who can forget the photograph iconic for the American left of Raul Castro raising the army of a limp wristed President Obama in 2016? The article continues to describe a vocal advocate of the recent hate ins in New York is Manolo de los Santos. The New York post describes the 35 year old as, quote, the leader and de facto mouthpiece for the People's Forum. Remember we talked about the People's Forum a minute ago that China's helping fund as well a radical anti Israel group that encouraged the takeover of Hamilton hall at Columbia University. Born in the Dominican Republic, Mr. De los Santos moved to the US at five, but seems to have spent time in Cuba beginning in 2006. In May of 2023, Mr. De los Santos tweeted a photo of himself with Cuban dictator Miguel Diaz Canel on the island. He wrote that he was, quote, leaving Cuba after 10 days learning with its people and with Mr. Diaz Canel, quote, young people in the US have great tasks ahead of them, he explained. In September 2023, Mr. De los Santos was photographed with the Cuban dictator in New York during the week of the UN General assembly meeting. Quote, welcome, dear comrade, Mr. Delos Santos tweeted. So this guy's a communist. And here's. Here's what the Wall Street Journal continues to say. It isn't clear if Mr. Della Santos was on the Columbia campus, but hours before pro Hamas activists took over Hamilton hall, he gave a rousing speech to a volunteer meeting at the People's Forum offices in Manhattan where he, quote, urged the group to, quote, give Joe Biden a hot summer and, quote, make it untenable for the politics as usual to take place in this country. On May 7, Mr. De los Santos was detained by the New York Police Department for his role in a traffic blocking march. It wasn't his first brush with the law. The Post has reported that he was also arrested by the NYPD on January 27th during a day of pro Hamas activism. And the Journal concludes with the following. In a 2014 unclassified report, Cuban Intelligence Targeting of Academia, the FBI said that schools, colleges, universities and research institutes are a, quote, fertile environment for foreign intelligence. Quote, the Cuban intelligence services are known to actively target the US academic world for the purposes of recruiting agents in order to both obtain useful information and conduct influence activities. Well, you know what? We're seeing those influence activities every day on campuses across the country.
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Ben Ferguson
So is there anything that Congress can do? I mean, you're hearing this, everyone's hearing this. Now. You mentioned it earlier. Can you ask the FBI director, can you call on them to, to take action here and to look into this? Or is this just a, hey, they're on our side as the Democratic Party, the socialists and the Marxists and the communists within the Democratic Party. We don't care because we want their influence and we want their money.
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Senator Ted Cruz
So, yes, I've called on the Biden administration to do this. I've called on the irs. I've called on the FBI. Many, many of these organizations that are pushing these protests or 501s, which are supposed to be tax exempt. They're supposed to be not engaging in political activity. So I've called on the IRS to investigate that already. Look, in a sane world, the FBI would be examining this closely. We watched during the Trump presidency the whole Russia, Russia, Russia nonsense, which was totally made up. It was based on Hillary Clinton campaign oppo research. But it became the obsession, number one of the deep state and number two now of the Biden administration. And yet I have no indication that the Department of Justice is doing anything to examine this. I have no indication that the FBI, and by the way, the FBI ought to announce they are investigating this. If they were doing it, they shouldn't keep it a secret. They should make absolutely clear that what is happening on these campuses is deeply concerning and they're going to get to the bottom of who's funding it. But they're not doing that, and I don't believe they will because many of the funders, in addition to being the Chinese Communists and the Cuban Communists, many of the funders are also the top funders for the Democrat Party. And this Department of Justice operates as an adjunct to the White House. It is a Democrat enforcement bureau, which means I don't think they're going to go after the top funders of the Democrat Party because you know what their objective is? To reelect Joe Biden. And so stopping foreign communist governments from fomenting dissent, protecting Jewish students on campus, preventing our universities from being ripped apart, preventing airports from being shut down, preventing freeways from being shut down. Remember, these are the same people who, during the, quote, summer of Love, the deep state, didn't want to do anything. And so I don't believe the Biden administration is going to do a damn thing.
- [25:42]
Ben Ferguson
You mentioned something that we talked about and it jogged my memory from may have been two or three episodes ago where we were talking about it was very clear that the same people in this country that are funding Joe Biden's reelect for president are the Exact same people that are funding the campus rioters. And so you combine that, right, with now the foreign money. This is a hell of a lot of influence center over the United States of America and young people. And it's. Is it being orchestrated by the foreigners or is this being orchestrated by the Biden administration? In essence, yes.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Look, understand, this is not organic. This is not occurring spontaneously. This is highly organized. There's a reason why all of these activists have the same damn tents. Because the groups that are pushing this sent out links to the same Amazon link to buy the tents and they are being funded. They're being funded, number one, by radical leftists, they're being funded by anarchists, they're being funded by communists. And I don't use communists as a pejorative, as just an insult. I mean people who embrace communism. And as we're laying out here, it's not just American communists, of which there are sadly far too many, it is Chinese communists, the Chinese Communist Party, it is Cuban communist. And they see this as a vulnerability in America, a way to tear us apart. Look, you look at a place, we were talking about elite institutions. You look at a place like Duke University. Ben, how the hell is Jerry Seinfeld now too controversial of a speaker for campus leftist? We saw at Duke's commencement, oh, about 50 anti Semitic leftists storm out. And by the way, Seinfeld was not giving a speech about Israel. He was not. He happens to support Israel. They simply said, dammit, I will not listen to a Jew. I am such a bigot. If you invite a Jew to speak to me, I will walk out ostentatiously. You look at the recent graduation at Columbia where you had these nitwits walking up and ripping their diploma in half. And I mean, they are angry, they are bigoted on the left, being a bigot, hating Jews is accepted on the left. Now that is an acceptable bigotry.
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Ben Ferguson
I don't understand why these universities. And maybe it's just because I'm old school. And I think you would agree with me if back when I was in school, if you ripped up your diploma when you were walking across the stage, they probably would have just taken it away from you and said you didn't graduate.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Yeah, so it's an interesting question.
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Ben Ferguson
What are the consequences is what I'm saying.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Probably I will say, I'm not sure you could do that. You might actually have a breach of contract claim if you have actually paid your tuition and passed your classes. I'm not sure sure they could revoke your diploma at that point. But you know what they could certainly print on your transcript? Ben Ferguson is embarrassed to have graduated from Ole Miss and tore up his diploma. You should know that if you're thinking of hiring him. Yeah.
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Ben Ferguson
I mean, and yet all these universities seem to know it's going to happen.
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Senator Ted Cruz
And his tennis serve is like a little girl. Would that be bad if they wrote that on your transcript?
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Ben Ferguson
I would sue them for that. That. I would sue them for the other part. I don't know if I'd care, but I'd sue him for that, because I'd be like, that is a lie, and I'm going to get paid.
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Senator Ted Cruz
It's actually not accurate, Ben, because a little girl could serve and get it in.
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Ben Ferguson
Listen to you. Listen to you. All right, Next time we play, the sad thing is, I'm going to come back with a report here on Verdict.
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Senator Ted Cruz
The sad thing is I have such empty boast because you. You so utterly destroy me in tennis. It's not even close. But I'm. I'm talking smack. And. And. And on this, it is empty. I. I will readily admit.
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Ben Ferguson
But if you do this.
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Senator Ted Cruz
But you know what? I can. I can take you at hoops.
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Ben Ferguson
That's true. No, no, You've got game. I said the first time we played hoops, I was like, all right, he's got some game. Diaz was like, does he really have game? And I was like, for people that are listening, Diaz is our producer that does the show. And so Diaz, like, does he. Can he actually shoot? And I'm like, he actually can. He was like, really? I was like, yes. He actually scores, like, a lot.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Now. I will say, look, you've got size. You can post up on me one on one. If you actually turned around and put your ass towards the basket and backed up on me, I'm not sure I could push you out because you're a big guy.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah, no. In fact, we might need to make that happen. I don't know if I want to do it, like, now, because you do. I do end up breaking bones when I play, so, you know, I might. I might.
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Senator Ted Cruz
To be clear, whose bones it was.
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Ben Ferguson
Mine. Mine broke, dude.
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Senator Ted Cruz
I just. I just have to clarify that.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah. It took me out of tennis for the longest of, like, my whole life. I finally got to play today because of this. This stupid pinky that swells up. It is like the size of a baseball right now. I'm. I'm. I'm thinking workers comp here. At some point, that'll be my lawsuit. But final Question for you on, on what we just exposed. What is it that people need to do with this information? And, and is this just more of a, hey, if you've got a kid or a grandkid that is looking at where they're going to be, going to college is part of this. Pay attention to what they're doing to your kid's mind. And don't just assume that because your kid gets into, quote, a prestigious university, that's the right decision to send them there.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Look, that's a hard choice. And I will say parents, particularly parents with high school and college age kids, it's a really hard choice. My view has long been the that a kid should go to the best school they can get into. And it does open doors, it opens career doors. It's beneficial. I will say the more radicalized these places get, the less convinced I am. That makes sense. I will say. I saw an article recently talking about how many top high school graduates are now looking at schools in the South. By the way, it's easy. And we talked about this in a prior podcast. You know, it's easy to say, oh, all colleges are just crazy and this is just a problem across the country. No, that's not true. This is a problem in blue states. This is a problem at Columbia, at nyu, at Yale, at Harvard. This is a problem at Princeton. This is a problem at ucla. This is a problem at UC Berkeley. This is a problem at usc. This is a problem at University of Washington. This is a problem in blue states. Why is it a problem in blue states? Because you have Democrats who will not stand up against it, who will not protect Jewish students, who will not oppose anti Semitism, who will not lock up protesters, who will not stop pro Hamas protesters who will not stop threats of violence. These are the same people that were utterly powerless in the so called Summer of Love and let anarchists take over portions of major cities in America. These are the same people who allowed Black Lives Matter and antifa protesters to firebomb police cars, to loot stores to commit crimes. But we're not seeing this in red states. Look, you and I both live in Texas. At ut, there were protests. You know what they did? They sent in the police. And if you committed threats of violence, you got arrested. And miraculously you didn't have the garbage you had at these other schools. You look at places whether University of North Carolina or other Southern schools, they don't have the problems. Florida. Look, Florida and Texas. Listen, you and I both have a lot of very close Jewish friends. They're not living in fear in Texas. They're not living in fear in Florida. But you know what? They are living in fear in New York and New Jersey and Connecticut and California. And ideology has consequences. If you have leftists who embrace cultural Marxism, who believe Jews are oppressors, you know what? They're not going to oppress Jewish students. And that is, sadly, where today's radicalized Democrat Party is.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah, it is. And it's going to be interesting to see how much now, especially with a lot of people that graduated from universities, your alma mater and others, Columbia, taking a stand saying, I'm not giving you any more money. We've seen Robert Kraft and others say, we're not sending any more cash to you and many of these Ivy League universities. And so will that force them to take even more of this foreign money and the foreign influence that comes with it? That. That may be one of the shocking parts of this entire conversation that we're having right now.
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Senator Ted Cruz
I think that's right. I think there are a lot of alums who are deeply concerned about where the institution they went to school are. I think there are a lot of parents that are deeply worried about do they keep sending their students to these schools. I think there are already lawsuits and there are going to be a lot more lawsuits about breach of contract. You pay a school half million dollars and they shut down. They don't teach in person. They send people at home, they cancel your commencement. They say, oh, we're not actually going to do what you paid us to do is teach your kids. And by the way, we're not going to protect your students if your student happens to wear a yarmulke. You know what? They need to be prepared to be screamed at, cursed at, and to be physically threatened with violence. That is a, a violation of federal civil rights law. And by the way, where is the Biden administration? Why are they not enforcing federal civil rights law? Look, I look to Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican president, who, when you had a bunch of Democrat bigots, and I'll point out it was Democrat bigots in the 50s and 60s too, who were refusing to allow schools to be integrated. And they were, they were persecuting African American students. And these Democrat bigot politicians were doing that. And Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in the National Guard. What has Joe Biden done? Absolutely nothing. Because his sympathies. He wants the votes of the anti Semites who are protesting. And you know, he, his administration also seems to have zero concern about the Chinese Communist money and the, the Cuban Communist money. And supporters behind this.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah, we'll keep exposing it and make sure all of you that are listening share it. This podcast is easy to share. You hit that little forward button and put it up on social media. If you're on X or Instagram or Twitter or Parlor Getter, wherever you are, make sure you share it so other people hear what the media is refusing to cover right now. Don't forget, we do the show Monday, Wednesday, Friday and a week in Review on Saturdays. And on those in between days, you can also grab my podcast. I'll keep you up to date on what's happening in the political world. The Ben Ferguson Podcast on those in between days in the center. I will see you back here on Friday morning.