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Ukraine Drones Russia, Chinese Nationals Caught for alleged Agri-Terror & the Real Threat of Terrorists in America Week In Review

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  1. Colorado Terror Attack:

    • Discussion of an Egyptian national accused of a hate-motivated firebombing attack in Boulder.
    • Criticism of immigration policies that allegedly allowed the suspect to remain in the U.S. despite overstaying a visa.
  2. Immigration and Border Security:

    • Claims that millions of undocumented immigrants have entered the U.S. under the Biden administration.
    • Allegations that “gotaways” include dangerous individuals such as terrorists and criminals.
  3. Muslim Brotherhood Designation:

    • Advocacy for designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
    • Accusations that the group supports Hamas and Hezbollah and poses a threat to U.S. national security.
  4. Chinese Espionage and Agroterrorism:

    • Allegations that two Chinese nationals smuggled a dangerous agricultural pathogen into the U.S.
    • Concerns about Chinese influence in American universities and research institutions.
  5. Campus Antisemitism and Radicalism:

    • A case involving a Columbia University protester with alleged ties to Hamas.
    • Broader concerns about antisemitism and radical activism on college campuses.
  6. Political Commentary:

    • Strong criticism of Democratic leaders and policies.
    • Praise for Trump-era policies and calls for stricter immigration and national security measures.

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Speaker 1

Welcome in his verdict with Center Ted Cruz Weekend Review, Ben Ferguson with you, and here are the major stories that we talked about this week that you may have missed. First up, Ukraine drone strike on Russia, how it was done, It was truly incredible, and what does it mean moving forward? Also, two Chinese nationals with biopathogens snuck them into the US, and we're going to do research at the University of Michigan. How many more could there be in this country just

like them? And what does this mean for China and America? That explained as well. And finally, the real threat of other terrorists being here in the US after the Colorado attack. So how big of a threat was Biden's open borders and how many terrorists could be lying in Wait, it's the weekend review and it starts right now. I want to move to the other big story, and that is Ukraine claims a massive drone strike on Russia and all

across literally the country from one side the other. They were hitting sites of Russian bombers and what was called a spider web operation. I want to make sure though that people understand this was a response to an attack that took place at the hands of Russia and Putin that Donald Trump referred to him as a crazy man afterwards. So let's give the background before we explain what happened.

Speaker 2

Well, Listen, the war has been ongoing for more than two years now. There's been massive casualties on both sides. Russia is the aggressor Russia. Russia is the wrongdoer. Putin invaded Ukraine or another sovereign nation. Putin did so because Joe Biden was so incredibly weak, because he was ineffective commander in chief. Putin did so because Joe Biden waived the sanctions on nord Stream two, the pipeline that designed

to move natural gas directly from Russia to Germany. I authored those sanctions, I passed them into law, and President Trump signed my sanctions legislation into law. Putin shut down Nordstream two literally the day Trump signed my sanctions legislation into law. Biden waived those sanctions, and Putin completed the pipeline and almost immediately invaded Ukraine. So the war has been ongoing and it is the cause. The cause of

it is Biden's weakness. Well, what happened today Ukraine? You know I'll tell you at the start of the war, I remember sitting in a classified briefing, and it was a classified briefing with all one hundred senators. And we had in that briefing with the Secretary of State, with the Secretary of Defense, with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with the head of the CIA, the Director of National Intelligence. We had multiple players throughout the

national security apparatus. This is all during the Biden administration. Every single one of them briefed all of the senators. They said, this war will be over within a week. Russia will sweep in, they'll conquer the whole country. Ukraine will fall, and within a week Kiev will be a Russian city. Now that intel, that national security assessment ben it wasn't slightly wrong, It wasn't a teeny bit wrong. It was totally catastrophically one hundred and eighty degrees false.

We're sitting here more than two years later, the war is ongoing, and the Ukrainians keep shocking both the Russians and the American analysts who insists that they must lose. They must lose this latest strike, it truly is audacious. So the Ukrainians hit more than forty Russian bombers inside Russian territory, and it was a total of forty one

strategic Russian aircraft. The name of the operation was Spiderweb and you can see online there's a video showing a drone attack at the Belaya Air Base in Russia's Irkust region, which is in Siberia, nearly three thousand miles away from Ukraine. So understand this happened not by Ukraine but three thousand

miles away. And the bombers they're under attack, their explosions, Smoke is rising from the scene and one source said quote preliminary estimates indicate that enemy aviation has suffered over two billion dollars in damage. Enemy strategic bombers are burning en mass in Russia. That is a major attack. It is an extraordinary attack. Now that follows the night before Russia launched four hundred and seventy two drones according to

the Ukrainian Air Force. Earlier on Sunday, Ukraine's army set a Russian missile strike killed at least twelve Ukrainian service members and injured sixty. So Russia has been very much the aggressor. But this attack taking out major aircraft resources from Russia is a big victory for Ukraine.

Speaker 1

It is a big, big victory. They are obviously worried individuals, especially in that part of the world, that Russia will then now retalied in some massive way and then therefore blaming Ukraine saying you should not have done this attack

that took them a long time to plan strategically. I want to get your response to that, because there does seem to be quite often that when Ukraine does something, the narrative becomes, well, they're the ones that will bring us to the brink of World War III, because now Russia is going to respond and it's actually their fault that they went over the top on this one.

Speaker 2

Yeah. Look, Russia has been the aggressor from the beginning. Ukraine is defending itself. I want to break down how they carry this out because it's actually this is the stuff of spy novels. Know. We talked about when Israel struck back against Hezbolah with with first the pagers and then with the walkie talkies. That was an extraordinary story. This has similar aspects. It's like something out of Mission Impossible of the born identity. And let me read from

its historian Reuters the specific facts. Here's what Reuters reported to attack Russian air bases. Ukrainian spies hid drones in wooden sheds. Ukrainian secret services were able to attack strategic bomber aircraft at Russian air bases on Sunday by hiding explosive laden drones inside the roofs of wooden sheds, according to a Ukrainian security official. Ukraine's domestic security agency, the SBU, acknowledged that it carried out the operation code named Spider's Web,

and said that had caused considerable damage. The sheds were loaded onto trucks that were driven to the perimeter of the air base. The roof panels of the sheds were lifted off by a remotely activated mechanism, allowing the drones to fly out and begin their attack. The official set. The security official, has spoken on conditions of anonymity, said the strikes conducted on Sunday were on four air bases

and that forty one Russian warplanes were hit. An SBU statement posted on the telegram messaging app estimated the damages caused by the assault at seven billion dollars and here's a quote. Thirty four percent of strategic cruise missile carriers at the main airfields of the Russian Federation were hit. Wow, that is remarkable. And it is the fact that they could carry it out in wooden sheds, that they could

smuggle right next to the Russian airfield. That's a significant tactical and strategic victory.

Speaker 1

So when you look at this, what is the best case scenario for this attack? Does it make Russia realize A they're vulnerable and B maybe we need to go back to the table because as you heard President Trump say, he said Putin was crazy last week, a crazy man and refusing to actually stop this war. Instead he went on this big attack in Ukraine.

Speaker 2

Ukraine responds, Yeah, Look, I think President Trump is deeply frustrated with Vlatimir Putin right now. President Trump wants this war to end. I believe this war will end. It will end this year. And one of the reasons it's going to end is I think the United States Congress is done sending money to Ukraine that at this point we have sent over one hundred billion dollars. Enough is enough. This war needs to end. So the blank checkbook that

Joe Biden the Democrats gave that blank checkbook is done. Now, what I believe is it needs to end in a negotiated settlement, and it should end in a way that is a clear and objectively discerned loss for Russia. Putin is our enemy. Russia is our enemy, and we want we want our enemies to be weaker and not stronger. How this ends exactly, it's going to depend on Zelensky and Putin. Zelensky right now doesn't want to negotiate a piece.

He's looking to fight and defend his country. I understand that he just doesn't have an entitlement for us to pay for it. Putin Putin right now, Trump believe that if he leaned in, Putin would agree to come to the table and seek terms of peace. At least so far he hasn't. It is possible this devastating strike on Russia will change Russia's calculus. That being said, look, one of the dangerous things about fighting a dictatorship is that Putin can inflict enormous pain and misery on the Russian

citizenry and still stay in power. So I don't know how this resolves. I believe it will resolve at the end of the day. But right now, Putin and Zelenski both seem like they want to keep fighting.

Speaker 1

Now I 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, Senator, let's move to this. Really, I would say very shocking and scary news that not one, but two Chinese nationals have been charged by US federal authorities for allegedly smuggling a dangerous agricultural pathogen into the United States of America.

It is basically, in Layman's terms, a fungus that poses a significant threat to crops such as wheat, barley, and rice. It could cause massive disease and an essence famine on our agriculture in this country. And this was brought into this country, and it just screams of another example of why you don't trust China and why we have to watch them and protect ourselves. It reminds, I think a

lot of people of COVID nineteen. But this could literally recavoc on our entire national security from a basic we need food to live strategy. If it was weaponized against.

Speaker 2

Us, well, this is a story. Unfortunately, you're not going to watch on the corporate media, ABCNBCCBS, they're not going to cover it. But China is our enemy, and China is I think the greatest geopolitical threat we have for the next one hundred years. We saw with COVID the incredible threats of a pathogen, of a virus that that that that can can do enormous damage, can destroy trillions

of dollars, can can take massive toll in human life. Well, this story and I just want to read to you a tweet from the director of the FBI, Cash Betel. Here's what the FBI director said, quote new I can confirm that the FBI arrested a Chinese national within the United States who allegedly smuggled a dangerous bio biological pathogen

into the country. The individual, Young Quinn Jian, is alleged to have smuggled a dangerous fungus called Fusarium gramminarium, which is an agro terrorism agent, into the US to research at the University of Michigan where she works. This fungus can cause a disease called head blight, a disease of wheat, barley, maize, and rice, causing significant health issues in both humans and livestock. It is responsible for billions of dollars in economic losses

worldwide each year. Evidence also indicates Jian had expressed loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party and had received funding from the Chinese government for similar work on this pathogen in China. Jian's boyfriend, Zunya Liu, also charged in the complaint, works at a Chinese university where he conducts research on the

same pathogen. Liu is alleged to a first liede that admitted to also smuggling fusarium gran grannarium into America through the Detroit Metropolitan Airport so that he too could conduct research at the University of Michigan. Both individuals have been charged with conspiracy, smuggling goods into the United States, false statements,

and visa fraud. This case is a sobering reminder that the CCP is working around the clock to deploy operatives and researchers to infiltrate American institutions and target our food supply, which would have grave consequences, putting American lives, lives, and our economy at serious risk. Your FBI will continue working tirelessly to be on guard against it.

Speaker 1

You go through this and let's unpack it and just go back a little bit to pain. I think the broader picture, we've seen China financially infiltrate our colleges, our best colleges. We have seen them by influence. We saw this hell with the Biden Institute. For goodness sakes, we have witnessed the number of Chinese students that we allow to come into this country, be trained here, have access

to R and D here. And then we've witnessed what our government did under Fauci with the amount of money we were sending to China that was doing a lot of this type of research and other things. And we shouldn't be surprised that this is happening now. But this

again goes back to the vulnerability. If China is sending you money and sending millions of dollars to American universities, and then we see this type of research and the access at these research and suits like the University of Michigan, et cetera, why isn't there a massive red flag on every dollar now coming in from China? After seeing yet again the Chinese are enemy and they cannot be trusted.

Speaker 2

There's no doubt there should be. And listen, when I was first elected to the Senate thirteen years ago. I was saying then that China is the greatest threat we have for the next one hundred years. I got to tell you, Ben, at the time that was a very lonely view in the United States Senate. Every Democrat disagreed with me, and most of the Republicans did too. They all looked to China and they saw nothing but dollar signs as far as the eye could see. Now COVID

changed that for a lot of people. They realized the mendacity, the duplicity, the damage China causes. China engages in widespread murder of its citizens, torture of its citizens. It had over a million wigures in concentration camps, modern day human slavery, organ harvesting. But they also engage in massive propaganda, massive espionage against the United States, massive theft of intellectual property. They are engaged in a global battle for world domination.

They're objective, which they've told us. They're very explicit. Their objective is to be the dominant world power and to displace America, and we need to combat them on the global stage. China is engaged in Africa, in Latin America, and the Middle East and Asia, every part of the world. China is trying to become the dominant world power. They are waging a thousand year war. And when it comes to the danger of pathogens, look you look at COVID COVID.

It was clear within the first couple of months of this pandemic that the evidence strongly suggested that the virus escape from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China. We now know that the corporate media suppressed that story, that Facebook suppressed that story at the explicit request of

doctor Fauci. I will tell you this podcast Verdict with Ted Cruz in March and in April of twenty twenty, when COVID was first starting, we laid out the evidence that this came from China, from the Wuhan Institute of Virology before you could get it practically anywhere else. China bears enormous responsibility for what happened with COVID. I think the evidence is overwhelming that COVID escaped from a Chinese

government lab. I think the evidence is significant that COVID was actually invented in a Chinese government lab, that they took natural viruses and they altered them using gaina function research. And that's not as compelling as the fact that it escaped from a government lab. But I think there's a lot of evidence of that. By the way, there are multiple federal agencies that are now explicitly concluded that COVID likely escaped from a Chinese government lab. When COVID escaped,

the Chinese government covered it up. They suppressed the evidence, they destroyed the samples, They did everything they could to prevent others from understanding the source of this virus and also to frustrate efforts to stop the spread of this pandemic. Now, put that in the context of this story, a dangerous agro terrorism fungus that could do massive damage to crops, to livestock, to human beings in the United States being smuggled in by not one but two Chinese nationals being

paid by the Chinese Communist Party. Look, it is not difficult to imagine a pathogen like that being released in the United States and doing enormous damage. And that's the sort of threat our government we need to be vigilant against when it comes to communist China.

Speaker 1

Well, and it goes back to again some of this evidence that Apparently they've been discussing the plan to smuggle these biological materials since at least twenty twenty two. The electronic devices contained documents expressing the Chinese Communist Party the CZP, and detailing research funded by the Chinese government. So the story just keeps repeating itself. It is over and over

again when we see these things happen. It's directly tied tied to the Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese Communist government, and we should not be surprised as is happening. Will there be any reaction or anything that Congress can do on this very quickly?

Speaker 2

Well, listen, this has been an area I've been legislating for a long time. So, for example, one of the very first bills I passed into law dealt with Confucius institutes. Confucius institutes were formed on US universities all across the country, hundreds of them, and they were funded by the Chinese

Communist Party. They conducted espionage and propaganda. I introduced legislation to cut off federal funding the universities that have Confucius institutes, passed it into law, and as a result, we've shut down most of the Confucians institutes across the country. So we can fight this, but we need to be vigilant and we need to.

Speaker 1

Fight as before. If you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic, you can go back and dow the podcast 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. I want to also get to this other big issue, and that is out in Colorado and the terror attack there.

We've got a significant update on this individual and also real concerns and honesty now coming from the administration about the real threat of other terrorists that may be in this country that were led into this country by the Biden and Harris administration.

Speaker 2

Well, it turns out that four years of open borders over twelve million people to come into this country illegally. That was a really bad policy and even worse, Look, there were ten million people who were apprehended by the Biden administration. They let them go. That is problematic on many many fronts, But the most disturbing number is two million. They're roughly two million god aways. Those are people that crossed the border. We know cross the border, but yet

they escaped detection. And those god aways are much much more likely to be criminals. They're much more likely to be murders, rapists, child molesters, terrorists, gang members. And if you look at this, this radical who attacked and firebombed the peaceful Jewish protesters in Boulder, Colorado, this was a guy who never should have been in this country to begin with. He came in on a tourist visa, over stated, and this was a radical Islamist. And I want to

read to you a tweet from Bill Malusion. Now, regular listeners of this podcast know Bill Malusian is the best reporter in America. He reports for Fox News and he's been detailing what's going on at the border. Here's what Bill Malusion tweeted, breaking new details on Colorado terror attack

suspect as Feds charged him with federal hate crime. According to federal court filings obtained by Fox News, Egyptian illegal alien Mohammed Solomon admitted in an interview that he wanted to kill all quote Zionist people, and he had been planning the attack for a year, and that he would

conduct the attack again if he could. He allegedly told investigators that he waited to carry out the attack until his daughter graduated high school, and that he specifically targeted the quote Zionist group in Boulder after learning about them from an online search. It was premeditated, as he allegedly admitted he knew they would gather on Sunday at one pm, he arrived and waited for them. Additionally, investigators found a black container with fourteen more molotov cocktails near the spot

he was arrested in. Inside his vehicle, investigators found paperwork with the words Israel, Palestine, and USAID. This man was admitted into the country via a tourist visa during the Biden administration. He overstayed, filed an asylum request, and was granted work authorization by the Biden administration, which expired at the end of March of this year. So I understand this guy came into this country, he overstated his visa, and yet the Biden administration said, hey, look a radical

Islamic terrorist we want you to say. It was not hard to figure out from his social media who this guy was. But the Biden administration, they were not focused on defending this nation. They were not focused on stopping terrorists from coming into this country. Instead, they made a political decision. I get asked all the time, Ben, why would Democrats open up the borders? It clearly hurt them in the flat last election. Why would they do this?

And I believe it was entirely about power. They viewed twelve million illegal immigrants, they said, listen, every one of these we think are going to vote for Democrats. We want them in here. Some portion of them will vote illegally. The rest of them, they believed, if they stayed in power, they'd grant amnesty and make them all voters. And if they have to bring in Muslim Brotherhood terrorists who were murdering people, sadly, the Democrats were willing to do that.

Speaker 1

This is the part that I really think we do need to make it clear, not just now but in the future. The Democratic Party, and you alluded to this in your comments there. Their plan they knew was going to have disastrous consequences from a national security standpoint. They were willing to play Russian Roulette with that open border. And they were warned and they saw the people that were on the terrorists watch list, Senator, and they didn't care because it was their overall plan to flood the

country with the legal immigrants and fundamentally changes country. They knew this plan would allow for people that are terrorists, some of them on the terrorists watch lists at the time, to get into this country, and they still continued to have the open border policy because they basically said, Hey, it's part of our bigger plan, and there's going to be collateral damage from this, so be it.

Speaker 2

And listen when I say this, this sounds harsh, and you sort of think of a listener who's not terribly political and they're like, wait, the Democrats couldn't really want more terrorists in this country. But at the end of the day, that was the inevitable consequence of the policies

they put in place. When you allow twelve million people to cross the border illegally, and by the way, the Biden Border control the border patrol, they instructed their agents be on the lookout for hesbela Hamas Palestinian Islamic Jehad terrorists coming across this border. Look, we have radical Zealots who have declared Jahad and America who have demanded of their terrorists murder as many Americans as you can and

murder as many Jews and Israelis as you can. And in the face of those very real and clear national security threats, the fact that the Biden administration and the Democrats, it wasn't just Joe Biden, it wasn't just Kamala Harris, it was every single Democrat in the Senate, every single

Democrat in the House. Because they voted in favor of open borders over and over and over again, they knew that some of the people coming were just like this radical and listen, I've reintroduced this week legislation to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. The Muslim Brotherhood.

Speaker 1

This is something you've been sounding the alarm on for quite some time. I want to be very clear about that.

Speaker 2

So I've been fighting for this legislation for more than a decade. The Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization. It is in countries throughout the Middle East. It is in Egypt, it is in cutter it is all across the Middle East. And the Muslim Brotherhood openly aggressively they support hamas, they support Hesbela. They are a terrorist organization and by the way, to be clear, in Egypt they're an actual place political party. Look, we had Mohammed Morsei, who was the leader of Egypt,

who was a Muslim Brotherhood radical. Now now thankfully Mohammed Morsey was defeated, and he was defeated by Alcesi, who is fighting against the Muslim Brotherhood. Look, look, if you look at the Arabs who are dealing with this, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Jihadis, they believe in using violence, using murder to force people to embrace their radical Islamus view.

And yet these are these are the radicals that are fighting that that are murdering Israelis, and that are murdering Americans, and and and this is exactly the radicals that this lunatic in Boulder, Colorado was embracing, and that Joe Biden, the Democrats were letting end of this country.

Speaker 1

Final question on the on the the designate of Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization. Is this finally going to be the moment where you think there's a decent chance that this can become reality or there's still going to be Democrats at all costs that say we are going to defend this.

Speaker 2

So I hope so. So right now today the Muslim Brotherhood is designated as a terrorist organization in Saudi Arabia, They're designated in the United Arab Emirates, They're designated in Egypt, in Syria and Bahrain. But the United States has yet to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. When you have a group that actively encourages the waging of jahad, the murdering of innocence, they are a terrorist organization. And so I pressed, I pressed the entire first Trump term

for the Muslim Brotherhood to be designated. We did not succeed. I think we will succeed this administration. I think President Trump is going to do this and I'm going to be keep designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization because that is who they are, and we saw the horrific and potentially deadly consequences this week in Boulder, Colorado.

Speaker 1

As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Center Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you don't forget to deal with my podcast, and you can listen to my podcast every other day you're not listening to Verdict, or each day when you listen to Verdict afterwards, I'd love to have you as a listener to again the Ben Ferguson podcasts, and we will see you back here on Monday morning.

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