Welcome. It is Verdict with Ted Cruz Weekend Review, Ben Ferguson with you. These are the big stories that you may have missed that we talked about this week. First up, a major report the media is not talking about. It involves the president's brother, Jim Biden, and he may have been making more money than anyone selling access to his brother, even more than Hunter Biden. So who is paying him and whether they get in returned will break it all down for you. Also, you know what's happened on college campuses. You've seen the protesters, So who's paying them? It's clearly organized, and how much are they getting paid. We've got the financials and we'll have that for you in a moment. And finally, new legislation it's bipart of san that Senator Cruz wants you to know about that deals with keeping your kids safe and your grandkids safe on social media. It is Verdict. We can review and it starts right now. Sinaer. One of the reasons why I just I love doing this show with you is we get to talk about it issues that the media is not covering. The last one's a great example, but there's also one that needs to have everyone listening, share on social media, and that is this new report out that it wasn't just Hunter Biden that was getting in on the action of selling access to daddy. Jim Biden was getting in on the action and actually may have been a bigger offender based on what we're finding out. Jim Biden is now being accused of being in business with Katari officials, the actual government and Hunter Biden. Yeah, he leverages ties to his dad. We've seen that. But Politico has a new report out that says that Joe Biden's brother was winning business deals with business partners that were directly linked and tied to foreign governments, those that were actually tied to terrorism. According to the outlet, Jim Biden, the President's brother, was in business with Katari officials to fund his healthcare venture. That would be quote some of the closest known link between a Biden relative and a foreign government.
Well that's exactly right. This was a bombshell report that came out three days ago in Politico. The title of the report is quote fund manager indicates Jim Biden was in business with Katari officials, and Politico explains, quote new details about Jim Biden's foreign fundraising efforts are spilling out into a Kentucky bankruptcy court, where recent testimony indicates that President Joe Biden's brother partnered with the Katari government officials in his quest to find money for a US healthcare venture. The sworn testimony by fund manager Michael LeWitt, a former business partner of Jim Biden's, a test that two companies that facilitated the efforts were part owned by members of the Katari government. One company named in the testimony partnered directly with Jim Biden the multi year fundraising efforts. The second company provided financial backing for a series of loans that a hospital chain paid Jim Biden to rank. According to documents and testimony LeWitt submitted in the course of the federal bankruptcy proceedings. If substantiated, the alleged arrangements would constitute some of the closest known financial links between a relative of President Joe Biden and a foreign government.
It's also about following the money. Yes, we're hearing now that this money that was coming in was not just going to Jim Biden, but it was also going into the pocket of the now president of the United States of America, this testimony that came out in this bankruptcy, these documents, and now this individual that did business with the Bidens. He said, Look, at first, there was a bridge loan to amer Corps that coincided with a payment from America Corps directly to Jim Biden. The report says Biden said in testimony in February that the roughly six one hundred thousand dollars payments that he received from Americrps around the time where his role was in arranging quote loans and many other services quote unquote, and then in March of twenty eighteen, Jim Biden transferred two hundred thousand dollars of the payments in question to then his brother Joe Biden.
Well, look, that is exactly right, and you needn't understand, Cutter has some of the most problematic foreign policy of any country on Earth. And so this is you know, it's amazing the Biden crime family. In that phrase, I got to say a while ago it sounded like hyperbole. It no longer sounds like hyperbole because the entire Biden family is engaged in a business where they only do business with our enemies. They somehow never seem to do business with Canada. They never do business with the United Kingdom. They never do business with France or Spain or Japan. They only do business with Russia. They do business with Ukraine. They do business with communist China. Let me read from this political art article because it lays out quote. In June of twenty seventeen, Cutter's neighbors, led by Saudi Arabia, ganged up and cut diplomatic ties with the country, citing its alleged support for terrorism. The ensuing financial and physical blockade through the country, a peninsula that juts out from Saudi Arabia into the Persian Gulf, into a sustained crisis. In response, the country's rulers began showering well connected Westerners with gifts and financial benefits, sometimes in the form of investment funding. The Qatari influence offensive strengthened the country's ties to the US and Europe, but also led to corruption scandals, including the European parliaments sprawling Cuttergate fiasco. Around the time of the blockade, Jim Biden was embarking into a foray into the healthcare business, in which he worked closely with the truck hospital chain, AmeriCorps. And by the way, when Jim Biden was raising money, he pitched himself very directly as so. For example, here's what Jim Biden said in a draft letter to official at Cutters sovn Wealth Fund. He said, quote, my family could provide a wealth of introductions and business opportunities at the highest level that I believe would be worthy of the interest of his excellency on behalf of the Biden family. I welcome your interest here. That's how he was pitching it, and it resulted in payments of roughly six hundred thousand dollars from AmeriCorps that he received, and Jim Biden transferred two hundred thousand dollars of those payments directly to Joe Biden. Now understand who Cutter is. Also, do you know where the leaders of a MOSS live? Where's the Cutter?
There?
You go that they live as billionaire as they live in incredibly lush, opulent apartments, They fly private jets. Cutter gives them sanctuary, Cutter supports them, Cutter protects them. This is the same Hamas that carried out October seventh. This is the same Hamas that murders Israelis and murders murders Americans, and yet the Biden administration consistently refuses to sanctioned Cutter, refuses to stand up to Cutter, and suddenly we discover that the Biden family has been bought and paid for.
By the way, can you go back and read that one line, because I do think it's an important one.
Holy, let me read a different line, which is Jim Biden presented a presentation on behalf of AMERICRPS, saying that AMERICARPS was seeking thirty million dollars in financing to acquire hospitals. Do you know how the presentation described Jim Biden.
I'm gonna guess Joe Biden brother.
It described him as totally separate person with no connection to the vice president of the president. No, no, that actually is not correct. I'm gonna read you what it said. This is a quote Jim Biden quote, brother and campaign finance chair of former Vice President Joe Biden. So it ain't complicated. Why do you want to give him money because he's Joe's brother. And by the way, the money you give him, he'll give to Joe. Why is this not on the six o'clock news Ben.
Because it indicts the president United States of America and a paid a play scheme that would bring down I would argue any other presidency look.
In any normal sense, that would be right. But if you look at at this these documents, these documents are being ignored by the media. So, for example, Lewett wrote to Jim Biden to express confidence that his funds would be repaid immediately for its loans to AmeriCorps with money from Dubai. According to an email that emerged the bankruptcy litigation, quote, nothing else changes in terms of what I will be doing re AmeriCorps since I will be just as responsible for the Dubai dollar dollar dollar three dollar signs with the added worry of being driven around the desert.
L Ol. Wow. I mean I'm sitting here and I say wow, and I mean it rarely am I speechless, But I go back to that sense. I wanted you to read again where the pitch is to his excellency. I mean they're saying, hey, do business with us. You guys need access. You're in trouble. This is how you get the Biden family on your team again. It's just going to cost you millions of dollars in quote business.
Yet, let's speak clear the entire pitch. It was not about Jim Biden's financial acumen. It's not about what he knew about healthcare. As far as we can tell, he didn't know a damn thing about healthcare. Here's what he wrote. I'm going to read it again. The draft letter from Jim Biden read, in part, quote my family. It's not even me my family, And who's my family mean? He means his brother. It's just like Hunter Biden when he says my father. They're all talking about Papa Joe. My family could provide a wealth of introduction and business opportunities at the highest level that I believe would be worthy of the interest of his excellency. And his excellency are both capitalized on behalf of the Biden family. I welcome your interest here.
Yeah, meaning I'm speaking on behalf of my brother.
Just like Hunter Biden said, I'm sitting here next to my father to the Chinese Communist. If you do not give me five million dollar dollars right now, my father will retaliate. It wasn't just Hunter, it was Jim. It was the entire family. And I want to underscore why didn't they do business with the French, or the British or any friends. The Japanese, the Canadians know. It was only enemies of America. It was only countries that provide comfort and shelter to Hamas and terrorists to murder Americans. That was their business strategy is find people who hate America, find countries who are enemies of America, but who need favors from Joe Biden, and go get hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars from them.
Yeah, and this comes, by the way, two weeks after James Biden it came out in court documents as well apparently secretly negotiated one hundred and forty million dollars settlement deal in twenty twelve between a US company and the Saudi Arabian government quote due to his relationship with then Vice President Joe Biden. Court documents revealed, and no one talked about that story either on the nightly news. As you mentioned a moment ago.
Look, it reminds me of mel Brooks's movie History of the World Part one, where he says repeatedly, it's good to be the.
King, It's good to be the king.
That's how the Biden family sadly approaches government.
Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, you can go back and listen to the full podcast from earlier this week. Now onto story number two, Let's go back and look at the hierarchy of this, just to put it in perspective. In the hours after the attack on Israel, you had to call out the United States government. Yeah, the Biden administration repeatedly, and I want you to go through that quickly in a second, but you had to call them out for basically holding Israel to a standard they're not holding hamas to which is if Israel responds and protects itself and anyone dies that they're somehow evil. You then have a White House that's doubled down on that. You then have people like Alamo mar and others in the Senate and the Democratic Party that have done the same exact thing. You then have that trickle down to the presidents of these universities. And we saw them go before Congress and none of them, by the way, got fired. Some of them aren't presidents anymore, but they still got their six figure salaries, are still in doctrinate kids on campus. None of them didn't lost their access to the university, which they've taken away from even some Jewish professors this week. So then that trickles down into the base professors, which we just played a moment ago, which then trickles down to the students that can hate Jews, and then it trickles down into the outside non students who are the protesters that are there. And yet you could fix all of this the way that we've seen in Texas this week, the way we've seen it in Florida this week, where these protesters come out in those universities in those states and they said, we're not putting up with this crap. So this is all being done and organized and allow by the universities, by law enforcement, by Democrats who are locally elected, and they could stop it all in a matter of days, but they're saying no, No, let's keep going and let's keep this growing.
I want to read something that was tweeted by Carol Markowitz. Now. Now Carol Markowitz is a columnist at the New York Post, and she said something online that I think was really quite powerful. She said, quote, a lot of Jewish friends, especially those who are finally awake after October seventh, say things like, quote how is this America? Or quote it's so scary that this Jew hatred is happening everywhere, But it's very much not America. And it's absolutely not happening everywhere. In South Florida, Jews wear the dinner plate Megan David's and no one says one word. In rural Michigan churches put pray for Israel on the signs outside. I'm not naive. Obviously Jew haters can and do live anywhere. But they're only thriving, open, proud in blue areas. And I'm not going to let people ignore that. A lot of liberal Jews are trying to parse things right now. They imagine that they are still of the left, but just on this one tiny little thing, their right to exist, they disagree. No, my friends, it's a house of cards and you're pulling the one from the very bottom. The whole left ideology is corrupt, and you're going to have to face it. You can't spread the blame around. The hatred, the rage, the violence, the dehumanization is all coming from one side. Yours a second example. It is an op ed that was written in JNS. It was written by Jonathan Berniski. It's entitled Jewish Democrats Wake Up, and it says at the outset quote, the antisemitic right is a fringe phenomenon, while the anti Semitic left is mainstream, powerful and shaping America's future. And I'm just going to read the beginning of this because it's really quite powerful.
Quote.
This is addressed to you, my fellow Jews, since most of you are Democrats. You've heard from liberal colleagues that Tucker Carlson, whose show you've never watched, has been flirting with anti Semites. You've been told by liberal friends that Candice Owens, whose show you've never watched, has been picking fights with Ben Shapiro, whose show you've never watched. From CNN and MSNBC. You know that a pack of guys with citronal a tiki torches march through Charlottesville while shouting the Jews will not replace us. And that's why you've convinced yourself that there are far more anti Semites on the right than there are on the left. I wish to pose several questions. How many of the thousands of individuals who got gathered in Times Square on October eighth, twenty twenty three, and chanted resistance is justified and glory to our martyrs are registered Republican voters and planned to cast their ballots for Donald Trump. How many of the individuals who barricaded Jewish students inside Cooper Union's library on October twenty fifth, twenty twenty three, pounded on the doors and carried signs that read Zionism, hands off our universities are registered Republicans and planned to cast their ballots for Donald Trump. How many of the thousands of individuals who rallied in Manhattan on December twenty fifth, twenty twenty three and carried banners emblazoned with the words quote by any means necessary and quote resistance until return are registered Republicans and planned to cast their ballots for Donald Trump. How many of the thousands on thousands of individuals who assembled at Columbia University on February second and shouted Globe Belies, the Intifada, and death to the Zionist State are registered Republican voters and planned to cast ballots for Donald Trump. How many of the individuals who amassed in Dearborn, Michigan, on April fifth and yelled death to America and death to Israel are registered Republicans and planned to cast their ballots for Donald Trump. How many of the thousands of individuals who blocked traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge and other cities on April fifteenth and carried the flag of Hesbela are registered Republicans and planned to cast their ballots for Donald Trump. How many of the hundreds of thousands of individuals who have participated in the thousands of anti Zionists and Prohamas protests across the country since October seventh are registered Republicans and planned to cast their ballots for Donald Trump? And then he answers it. He said, the answer to every question posed above is close to zero, if not none, He goes on. Yet, we've been told by reporters and commentators at August publications and news networks, leaders of esteem nonprofits, academics at prestigious colleges and universities, and career civil servants at major three letter federal government agencies that anti Semitism is solely a problem of the right. Yes, fringe right wing anti Semites are a problem. They should be considered a threat, but they are on the fringe. And because these fringe elements continue to be the near exclusive target of the less so called quote quote fight against anti Semitism, it's more imparent than ever that our elites are purposely engaged in a partisan game. This next paragraph is the most important paragraph in the op ed. Right wing anti Semites are kuks and grifters. Left wing anti semites are college professors, newspaper editors, Hollywood stars, a growing number of Democratic members of Congress, and quite a few Biden administration officials. They have immense cultural and political influence, and they are decisively shaping the future of America. I don't know how you can dispute one word that was written there, and that is a point that explains why these universities are sick, why these college students are being fed poison, why the administrators are afraid to stand up to the bigoted lies, why Democrat politicians are celebrating the bigoted lies. AOC and ilhanum Omar are going and cheering on the anti Semites, and why even so called mainstream Democrat politicians like Joe Biden stand happily by while the squad cheers on the anti semis.
Senator, last question, I want to ask you about what's happening on college campuses. Is we talked about following the money and we now know who's behind it. Isn't there an obligation now for people that went to these universities to stand up and say, not only do we think at Columbia the president should resign, but you're not getting another dime for me until we see significant changes. You look at Robert Kraft, the Patriots owner. He really came out and did some interviews. He didn't just stop the flow of money and their buildings and named after him at Columbia, he has been a massive donor. He said they're not getting another dime of my money. And he didn't just say it, He went out and explained it and challenged others to do the same thing. We need people to do that. Yes, all over the country in a big way.
Absolutely yes. And you look at Robert with Columbia. You look at Bill Ackman with Harvard. Bill Ackman played a pivotal role in Claudine Gay stepping down. You look at Mark Rowan with Penn Mark played a pivotal role. These are all very very successful leaders in business who've been massive, massive, multimillion dollar donors to these universities who've taken leading roles speaking out and saying what is happening is disgraceful, the anti semitism, the radicalism that you were allowing, the DEI oppression. And by the way, this anti semitism is the fruit of DEI, the introversy.
They don't know what de I stands for.
Explain, it is diversity, equity and inclusion, and it is the vehicle within the universities where they teach this nonsense. They teach this racism, They teach that Jews are oppressors and Palestinians are victims. Look, here's an illustration and let's play this as our final clip. Ilhan Omar talking about the protest. Give a listen. How do you think this will translate to the Jewish students who are facing anti semitism here on campus.
So I actually met a lot of Jewish students that are in the encampments, and I think it is really unfortunate that people don't care about the fact that all Jewish kids should be kept safe and that we should not have to tolerate anti semitism or bigotry for all Jewish students, whether they are progenocide or anti genocide?
What utter garbage. Whether they are pro genocide or anti genocide, Understand what she's saying. If you're not protesting in favor of Hamas, then you are a pro genocide Jew. Now, Israel is not remotely committing genocide. In fact, they go to extraordinary lengths to avoid civilian casualties. They are killing terrorists. Do you know who is trying to commit genocide?
Hamas? Hamas.
When they entered on October seventh, they were only murdering Jews. They were looking for Jews. They were murdering them because they are Jews. That is genocide when you are trying to wipe out a people.
Market attacks the other day, they weren't targeting anyone building. They were just targeting any part of Israel.
Any Jew. Like we started off with a Columbia organizer. He wants to kill Zionis, by which he means Jews. She's saying, and this is where the left it is Orwellian, they turn things upside down. You know who is pro genocide Hamas, the same Hamas she supports, the same Hamas the protesters support. You know who is anti genocide?
Israel?
Israel has tried to save the lives of civilians. Hamas is also ironically pro Palestinian genocide. Why because they put Palestinian civilians in harm's way and they want them to die because they know the useful idiots will use the deaths of those Palestinian civilians to attack Israel. That is the sad reality of cultural Marxism. This is the fruits of this poison that has taken over our institutions.
As before, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic, you can go back and dow the podcasts from earlier this week to hear the entire thing. I want to get back to the big story number three of the week you may have missed. Finally, Senator, I want to get into something else. It's a very important piece of legislation that you're working on, and I have actually seen a little bit of this be talked about on social There are some people that don't actually think they understand the intent of what we're trying to accomplish when it comes to protecting kids on social media. So explain why this legislation is something that parents really need to know about.
Well, this is legislation I introduced this week, and it's bipartisan legislation. I teamed up with Brian Schotz, who's a Democrat from Hawaii, and the bill is called the Kids Off Social Media Act, and it does several things. Number one, it prohibits children under the thirteen from accessing social media. So kids, there's no reason for an eight or nine year old to be on TikTok or to be on social media. And there are a lot of harmful things. I'll tell you. Listen, you and I are both parents, and any parent who is dealing with I'm dealing with teenagers. Your kids are not teenagers yet, but if you blink, they will be. Any parent dealing with teenagers or adolescents, how to deal with phones and social media is one of the greatest challenges because phones are really a portal for kids to access all sorts of harmful content. And so this bill says, if you're under thirteen, you can't be on social media. And then it says for kids younger than seventeen, big tech companies are prohibited from using algorithmic boosting to send messages to them. So we know right now. There's been a lot of testimony in the Senate that big tech companies send messages to our kids, to our teenagers that are really harm that they send messages that undermine their body image, They send messages that encourage self harm. They send messaging that that increases suicidal ideation, They send messaging that that increases increases their feelings of depression and anxiety. They send messages encouraging dangerous behavior. They send messaging pushing radical beliefs, things like Prohamas beliefs. And so this bill says, if you're under seventeen, big tech cannot target using algorithm boosting to send messages that are addicting and and and that are harmful. And then the bill also includes a separate bill that I had introduced previously, and I introduced it with John Fetterman. It was also bipartisan and and my separate bill was called the Eyes on the Board Bill, and the Eyes on the Board Bill, which is now part of this bill, says that any school that receives federal funds has to block social media on campus. And the basic idea is, while our kids are in school, they ought to be listening to teacher, they ought to be doing school work. They don't need to be posting on Instagram while they're in school. For older kids, they can do that when they get home, but at school they ought to be focused on the school work.
Yeah, they should be. And this is legislation that you mention is bipartisan. Here, what does it look like the chances of this moving forward since it is a bipartisan piece of legislation.
So I'm actually quite optimistic. We are likely to have a markup in the Senate Commerce Committee next week. I'm the ranking member, the senior Republican on the Commerce Committee, and I think it is very likely to pass the Commerce Committee with overwhelming bipartisan support. I think there's a good chance it'll pass unanimously, and I think there is a good prospect of this bill being passed into law. There are two other bills called Kosa and Kappa that are both dealing with things like online predators targeting kids, and I think there's a real possibility of all three of these bills being put together and brought to the Senate floor, and I'm hopeful we can pass all three of them.
We'll keep you updated on it. It's so important, especially preventing children under thirteen from having access these social media sites. And also, as you mentioned, programming those algorithms for teens younger than seventeen. This is really important. Job well done, and we'll keep everybody updated on how this looks moving forward.
Well, that's right, and you look, I'll say something also as a parent, I mean, I mean, these are hard issues and one of the things I talk to a lot of parents, I don't know a parent who disagrees on this issue. And that's true, right or left, that's true regardless of politics. We're all worried about our kids. I mean, it's really it's hard to be a teenager right now. The pressures on our kids. You and I didn't have these kind of pressures when we were teenagers. It's really tough is what is all of the influences that are pounding our kids. And it's hard to be a parent right now. And one of the challenges because some people say, well, parents ought to just restrict this. Look, it is a hard dynamic when you're kids, when every student in their class is on the social media platform, when that's how the kids communicate, when that's how they schedule play dates, when that's how they interact, No parent wants to socially ostracize their kids, and so a lot of parents will talk to each other and say, I wish they were all off of it, but I'm not willing to have my kid the only one that's not able to interact with their peers and have a social life. And that's one of the reasons why, you know, it's interesting in the Senate the folks that are coming together and supporting this bill. So myself and Brian Shotts, and and and we've all also got Katie Britt. We're all about the same age. We're all in our forties or fifties, we all have kids the same age. I have to say the senators are there in their seventies or eighties. They don't quite get this issue in the same way that if you're a parent, you're dealing with it.
And so I'm.
Hopeful that that that we'll see some real bipartisan agreement that we ought to enhance the tools parents have to keep their kids safe.
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