BONUS: Verdict with Ted Cruz: FAFO: Columbia Loses $400M in federal funds & Antisemitic Organizer Getting Deported
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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🗓️ 11 March 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The Trump administration has canceled $400 million in grants to Columbia University, and ICE has arrested the Palestinian activist who helped lead the recent antisemitic protests.
Don’t miss this episode of Verdict, where Sen. Ted Cruz takes listeners inside the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on antisemitism. This episode also explores the ideological roots of antisemitism on college campuses, tracing them back to cultural Marxism and leftist ideologies.
Plus, Sen. Ted Cruz and Ben Ferguson tackle these key questions:
- Are there consequences for free speech?
- What would have happened to Columbia University and the pro-Hamas protest leader if Kamala Harris were president?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you as always. Happy Monday. And Senator, |
| 0:07.2 | it is a prediction that you predicted a few weeks ago. And it's dealing with Columbia University, |
| 0:14.6 | but it's also dealing with students that are anti-Israel, anti-Semitic. And now Donald Trump is paying off on one of his promises. |
| 0:23.6 | You know, there's a phrase that's gone viral online. It's F-A-F-O. And I got to say there are a whole |
| 0:29.9 | lot of anti-Israel anti-Semitic radicals that are finding out what that means. And there are also a lot of |
| 0:35.7 | Ivy League administrators and professors who are finding out |
| 0:39.4 | what it means. You and I, we interviewed on this podcast, Pam Bondi, the Attorney General in front of |
| 0:44.8 | CPAC. We interviewed live. And I predicted in that interview, I said, the Trump administration |
| 0:50.3 | is going to go after universities that allow these radical anti-Israel pro-Hamas anti-Semitic protests, |
| 0:58.3 | and they're going to go after them on a couple of fronts. |
| 1:01.1 | Number one, it is existing federal law under Title VI of the civil rights laws |
| 1:05.7 | that you cannot create an environment that is hostile that is discriminating against people based on ethnicity or faith. |
| 1:12.6 | And when you have universities like Columbia and much of the rest of the Ivy League that are allowing Jewish students to be afraid for their lives. |
| 1:21.6 | The Columbia Orthodox rabbi in the midst of the very worst protest after October 7th, sent out an email to the Jewish |
| 1:29.2 | students on campus and said, do not come into campus, you are not safe. |
| 1:35.3 | Columbia will not protect you. |
| 1:37.5 | And what you and I predicted on this podcast with Attorney General Pambandi is the Trump Department |
| 1:43.6 | of Justice is going to come after these |
| 1:45.5 | universities and cut off their funds. And I said, you know what? First in line is Columbia University |
| 1:51.4 | because they've been the most brazen about it. And I predicted second that we are going to see |
| 1:57.4 | these anti-Semitic protesters who are foreigners. We're going to see their visas revoked and we're going to see these anti-Semitic protesters who are foreigners, we're going to see their visas revoked, |
| 2:04.2 | and we're going to see them deported. Well, all of that is happening right now. This past week, |
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