Our conversation continues as we explore the murky waters of foreign influence on American academic institutions. Discover how billions of dollars from countries like Qatar and China are pouring into universities and what that means for the intellectual climate on campuses around the U.S. Are these donations shaping a new form of soft power, and could it be seen as a national security issue? We bring you the facts and ask the hard questions.
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So a, I’m not saying this, a teaching assistant charged after allegedly using a fecal spray at a high school. They’re claiming damages to the AC system. So it’s like, yeah. He had this spray. He was a teaching assistant who was arrested. He used this spray. poo spray to create a foul odor at a South Carolina high school. 32-year-old teaching assistant allegedly sprayed it to imitate fecal matter while at school multiple times. He acquired it online. People apparently had to seek medical attention and had respiratory issues. And then they had to spend $55,000 to inspect its AC and look at damages. So he’s charged with disturbing schools and malicious property. Okay, here’s the big thing. Why? Why did he do it? I need to know this because I’ve seen videos on Instagram where they spray them into this inflatable costumes and then everybody laughs. Yeah, so they said that they’re still investigating the situation, but it’s been two days, so you can’t. Come on. Why? They said it really disrupted. None of the articles I’m seeing, I guess, was he doing it to be a jerk? I don’t know.
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When I was a kid, we used to… Play with that stuff.
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Did you send anyone to the hospital?
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No, nobody was whining.
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A Florida man shot a bear that was, a lot of bear stories, hiding in his shower. It was an actual bear animal. A central Florida man came face to face with a home intruder, but it was a bear. It was in his shower. It was hiding in his shower. And he literally said that he thought there was an intruder in his bathroom. He was panicking. His dogs were barking. The bear ran into the bathroom and got into the shower and was literally hiding there. And he thought it took him a second to figure out what was happening, but he shot the bear. And unfortunately, the bear did not make it. Florida Fish and Wildlife, they said, be vigilant, don’t leave food out, etc., etc. But, I mean, the bear was in his shower, went into his house and hid his shower. This is not like a case of camping. He was, again, the nice one. But I was thinking about all of this in context with the… pressure that foreign money plays into all of these colleges and universities across the country. Did you know that the biggest funder to American universities is Qatar? Billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars they have given. And it’s interesting because if you look at where all the money, which I’m looking at now, if you look at where all they give their money is, It’s very interesting that that’s where all like, for instance, you know, the protests where they were going after all the Jewish students. It’s kind of interesting that those were the universities where they got the most money from Qatar. I’m just saying it just could be Kane. I’m sure a total coincidence. It’s and there are a lot of things that have been written about this. And it’s not just Qatar. China is as well. But Qatar is the biggest donor of two American universities. And so allow that. to kind of sit in your head for a little bit when you are wondering why is it that all of this stuff, like with the anti-Semitic protests, where they actually were targeting people for being Jewish, they weren’t like, well, we disagree with the Israeli government. They can’t even tell you how it’s structured. They just were mad because of, to Jews, that’s it. But, Think about how that really got kicked off and why it seems like it was expedited to this point. And then look at all the money that these these companies or these countries have been pouring in. China and Qatar, they’ve poured just over the past few years. It’s been like twenty nine billion. $29 billion. Foreign donors have given as much to American universities just like in the last handful of years as they did in the last, like in the last four years, they’ve given as much as they did in the last four decades. So take four decades and condense it down into four years. There is an absolute amount I mean, an explosion of foreign money on campuses. Qatar is the largest source. And all of these donations to these campuses, all of this started to get reported like in the 80s. They have given over $6 billion. China’s $2.3 billion. The Saudis are like way below. But I mean, Qatar is the largest source of all of this foreign money to these campuses. Now, the second largest source of foreign funding is China. So I told you that Qatar, 6.3 billion and counting. China is 5.6 billion and counting. And just like you saw with Qatar, the donations from China have exploded over the past several years. And Again, the universities where you saw all of the upheaval, where you couldn’t even have TPUSA go on campus hardly, the Harvards, the Columbias. Oh, guess who? Those are the ones that get the most money from China and Qatar. In fact, every single one of these universities where you that you have seen in the headlines where the students are like writing or they’re they’re protesting to the extent where it’s not safe for conservative speakers to even leave the campus and they have to hide in janitorial closets. Those are all the campuses that have received tons. Those are all the universities that have tons of Qatari and Chinese money. Oh, it’s a fact. The receipts are out. Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Stanford, Columbia, Harvard, lots of them. Why? Because it’s soft power. It’s to build soft power. They’re expanding their influence. If you don’t think it’s a NatSec issue, I’ll remind you every single revolution started in academia. You could even argue French Revolution started in academia. The color revolution in China started in academia. Russia, academia. Germany in the 30s, academia. Started on college campuses. Every single time. Because you have minds that are easily influenced. And there is a huge effort to continue that trend here in the United States. That’s why you’ve been seeing an increase in all of this stuff on college campuses, because there are absolutely outside sources that are funding it. They like the division. They like the hostility spreading on college campuses. And just like in every other nation where this has happened, it goes from there. So now it becomes a national security issue. I had someone say, well, it really isn’t. Tell that to China. Because their communist revolution started in their campuses and took over their entire country. And now look. Tell that to 1930s Germany. Tell it to Russia with the Bolsheviks. I mean, dare I go on? It’s without exception. So these… This influence is… I mean, and the Qataris, they’re all ramping up their donations. We’re going to talk a little bit about this to Stephen Yates as well. But it’s interesting to note the Free Press had a piece where Harvard didn’t comply with Section 117 of the Higher Education Act. They were trying to not disclose all of this foreign financial funding. That seems sketch to the point where it wasn’t just like an over – it wasn’t just like someone just – forgot accidentally it wasn’t just mere oversight it was purposeful and that this is one of the things that the administration is doing they are looking at these connections between foreign money and the uh increasing violence and etc that’s happening on college campuses It’s not just the Soros stuff. It’s these foreign countries that would like to sow division. It’s very Sun Tzu. If you can sow division within your opponent, you don’t even need to do anything because your opponent will divide in half and fight itself. That’s exactly the design. It’s a soft power move. And that’s why it’s a national security issue. I don’t even know why I mean, and this is just me just speculating, but why are these universities allowed to accept money from foreign governments? Why? It’s not like Harvard needs it. Their endowment is billions of dollars. Why are they accepting or allowed to accept money from foreign governments? I’m not even talking about, oh, here’s a charitable group. in United Arab Emirates. We’re going to donate. No, no, no. It’s like literally the Qatari government. Why are universities allowed to accept money from foreign governments? And you know that they come with strings attached. This is a giant question. And then Berkeley, for instance, remember Berkeley, where you had all of those riots and protests and all this stuff break out. Kane, if you had to guess how much money they had that they got recently with a partnership with the communist Chinese government, literally from China’s government, how much would you guess?
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I would say a hundred million or more.
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Double it.
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Seriously.
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Double it and then go up a little bit.
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Yeah. Good Lord.
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Yeah. Yeah. Here’s the funny thing. Berkeley refused to report it. The Daily Beast, actually, I can’t even believe I’m citing the Daily Beast, which is what the world’s come to. They had their headline. This was from May of 23. Berkeley’s $220 million mistake exposed in a massive deal with China. So they were trying to get ahead of it and frame it as a mistake. But the people that were investigating the failure to disclose, they didn’t really think it was a mistake because they found other purposeful, questionably purposeful omissions. Interesting, yes. So there’s a lot of questions to be asked here. And all of this comes together. I was thinking about all of this over this weekend, especially now that people are talking about approaching campus debates and campus events differently in light of security. That I think that right there is the front line. Those college campuses are the front line. And I’m just, you know, I’m curious. I’d be curious to look at money going into that Utah Valley College. Go and look and see all of these universities where the students have gotten more and more agitated and progressive. And it completely corresponds with the massive amount of donations that they get from foreign governments. I’m just saying there is enough there to not only beg the question, but pose a legitimate one. Not even assuming the premise is true. Now you can actually question whether or not it is. It’s not even begging the question anymore. It’s a legit question. This administration is going to have to get around this. It’s our friends over at All Family Pharmacy. It’s a great website to use if you want to get your everyday medications, everything that you need, or maybe emergency stuff, maybe antibiotics, maybe you need to get, you know, ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine or whatever it is that you need. I’ve used it for anti-nausea meds. They have Latisse ladies for your eyelashes. I mean, they got everything. You can get everything in like two to four days or overnight in a pinch. And there’s no gatekeepers. You get your doctor’s prescription, you get your meds, everything is sent to you No hassle. It’s super easy and affordable. And the medicines that they have on their website, the ones that they offer, these are all made with precursors inputs. It’s all from the USA. So you’re not getting any kind of foreign made medications, which I think everybody’s questioning anything coming from China at this point. It’s affordable, and you can get the stuff that gatekeepers try to block you from, and you can also get everything else shipped straight to your door. You choose your medication, not insurance or risk-averse physicians. Take your medical freedom back. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana and use code Dana10 today. That’s allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana, code Dana10.
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A bear has attacked a 90-year-old woman in what, well, it did it in a grocery store as well, which is kind of insane. Well, Dollar General store. A 90-year-old woman, a black bear, tore through, this was in New Jersey, and went on a rampage. They had to euthanize it after it attacked. I thought, you never know when you hear bear now and rainbows. I just never know anymore. But they, some of it was caught on video. I just, she had scratches on her legs, like thankfully she wasn’t mauled. The bear looks crazy, I gotta say, bear looks crazy. They said that they had a 65 year old that was recording everything that was happening. And apparently you can hear another man say, get the blank away from me. Of course, it’s in New Jersey. I just love that he’s going to cuss at the bear and make the bear go away. You know, it’s like Democrats. You’re going to cuss and make people agree with your policies. Anyway, everybody’s okay, thankfully. But, well, she was injured. But nobody else. They euthanized the bear. Okay, so a disabled man. This is an insane story. This is horrifying, actually. A disabled man ended up. self-driving robot delivery cart cut off cut him off in traffic and reversed into him he was on a mobility scooter so it was a food delivery robot and apparently there’s video that captured it the man who has cerebral palsy was on his way home from a procedure and a serve robotics cart crashed into his mobility scooter that he uses for long distances it’s like all over instagram And it literally was almost like it was doing it like it was a jerk. It looked on purpose. I’m sorry this looked on purpose. He screamed as he was trying to zigzag on the sidewalk to avoid the robot’s jolting impact. But it literally cut in front of him and then slammed on its brakes. I watched this. dude i’m sorry this robot tried to kill him this robot legit tried to kill this guy don’t tell me that they don’t do that because one of them committed suicide one of the robots did remember he’s in washington where this little security robot was like i’m done with life and rolled itself into a fountain i’m not that actually happened totally happened oh it’s i don’t know americans have had they have so much car debt apparently could start a 2008 like recession although i think we’re already there If I’m being honest, what do you mean start? The soaring cost of cars and insurance, a lot of people are pushed to the financial brink. And now drivers apparently owe $1.6 trillion in car loans. It’s a bigger burden than federal student loan debt or credit cards. It’s up 20% since 2020. And the squeeze is showing up in a lot of missed car payments, delinquencies, defaults, repossessions, things like that. So it’s pretty, pretty wild. But we’re already there. Let’s see. And apparently, oh, DFW had that’s an old one. That’s because it’s not really in practice anymore. But there have been there was a cyber attack on European airports. Heathrow Heathrow operates like there’s a cyber attack on it anyway, every given day. I mean, I’ve never been to a crazier airport in my life. But apparently they had a lot of problems all over the weekend. Canada, all over Europe as well. The Dublin airport was evacuated because of safety concerns. The check-in and boarding. Of course, you know, imagine Irish people not being able to go in and get on their planes. It might get fighty as we move our partners. who helped bring you the program, Caltech, the PR57. It’s a 5.7 rotary barrel pistol, 40% lighter than the next 5.7. The top-loading design replaces traditional mags with stripper clips. You get a slimmer carry profile at 20 plus 1 capacity as well. Super lightweight because of the rotary barrel design and because of the way it loads. It’s also super affordable with an MSRP of only $399. Made in America, family-owned, based in Florida. It is the PR57, chambered in 5.7. Concealable 5-7, here it is. It’s from Kel-Tec, K-E-L-T-E-C, weapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We’re at the bottom of the second hour. The story of Tom Holman, we were talking a little bit about this earlier. I immediately was just like, hmm, don’t know if I believe this. Why? And the story is he was accused of being involved in some kind of in a sting. They got him accepting $50,000 in cash to get some government contracts and basically to produce some government contracts. That’s kind of that’s what the accusation is. And it sounds stupid. Here’s why it sounds stupid. You’re Tom Homan. You are. You know you’re going to have a significant role in the president’s administration, correct? You know you’re going to have a sizable role in the next admin. Why would you accept a bribe? And yes, this is a lot of money to us, but not to D.C. and people who play in that pit. You’re going to take $50,000 in cash and wreck your whole professional life and your chances coming up in the next admin for $50,000 in cash that you can’t even live for a year off of. Seriously? I mean, you could, but I’m sure he’s got, you know what I mean? That’s not a lot to wreck your whole life and your whole body of work and your whole reputation and to sell out. That’s number one. Number two, you’re Tom Homan. You’re not stupid enough to accept cash just in your hands from people. That’s not how this is done. How the hell do people think this is done? My gosh, come on. Sometimes the media is very, very stupid. All I’m saying is if I’m going to take a bribe, I’m going to do Bitcoin. I’m doing crypto. At the very least, I’m going to have somebody, oh, well, look, I just got this hotel room to stay the night and there’s this cash under the bed that I had no idea was prearranged to be left here. That’s what I’m doing. You know what I’m saying? I’m not going to be like, yeah, I would like to take the $50,000 in my hands. Now, thank you. No. This is so stupid. Here’s your receipt. Yes, here’s your receipt. Put bribe in the memo. That’s not how this is done. And it’s Tom Homan. Again, I think that everybody’s got a currency, and that’s not one of his. Now, the White House just addressed it through their spokesperson, if we can get this ready. They just addressed it and pretty much said the same thing, although in a more curt fashion. Listen.
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Thanks, Caroline. So to the Holman investigation, I mean, can you just speak to, did the president ask the Justice Department to close the case? And does Holman have to return the $50,000? Well, Mr. Holman never took the $50,000 that you’re referring to. So you should get your facts straight, number one. This was another example of the weaponization of the Biden Department of Justice against one of President Trump’s strongest and most vocal supporters in the midst of a presidential campaign. You had FBI agents going undercover to try and entrap one of the president’s top allies and supporters, someone who they knew very well would be taking a government position months later. Mr. absolutely nothing wrong. And even the president’s Department of Justice, even Kash Patel’s FBI looked into this just to make sure they had a number of different prosecutors and FBI agents who looked into this. They found zero evidence of illegal activity or criminal wrongdoing in the White House and the president stand by Tom Homan 100% because he did absolutely nothing wrong. And he is a brave public servant who has done a phenomenal job in helping the president shut down the border.
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Well, there you go. So it’s a bunk. So can we stop with this dumb story? He didn’t do it. I mean, you’re you’re relying on people who have lied to you repeatedly and they’re like, no, no, no. This time we’re true. This time is true. Swear Z’s. It just doesn’t make sense. I was reading my friend, Andy McCarthy. And he was talking about his incredulity with regards to this, you know, like meeting covertly recorded on video, 50,000 in cash, you know, all of this stuff. That’s what they’re, but they’ve, you know, they, the report they said was the Justice Department apparently assessed it and was like, there’s no there there. What are you guys talking about? It originated under previous admin. OK, so the Biden administration started it. Now, he does have the caveat that it actually began. Where is this? You pull this up because he had a great piece. It actually began. They were FBI was it started in Texas. A suspect the FBI was investigating in Texas was overheard claiming that Holman was soliciting payments, et cetera, et cetera. And Andy was saying that, well, what’s reported sounds bad, but it can’t just be the FBI. It started in Texas. Well, it can’t just be them. It absolutely can’t. They’re still running that op in Texas. You see what I’m saying? So that doesn’t make any sense. And The Trump administration, as I said, assessed and was like, there’s no there there. He was like in the private sector. Again, you have to remember this originated. The investigation originated under the Biden administration. And it began when Tom Homan and can remind everybody, when did Tom Homan actually take his position in the administration? It wasn’t during the Biden administration.
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Wasn’t until after Trump was inaugurated.
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Can I ask you a question?
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Mm hmm.
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what is the point of bribing someone? Let’s play this out for a second.
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All right. To gain special favor because they have a position that could be advantageous to what you want.
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Okay. But that last part, they have a position that could be advantageous to what you want. At that point in time, when this investigation under the Biden administration began, did, did Tom Homan have that position? He sure did not. He didn’t. So why the hell would you be bribing someone who is in no position to deliver a
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It’s almost like it was a setup.
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That’s weird. Wait, no way. You mean to tell me that the same FBI that had some wayward agents that literally were able to get a wiretap on a private citizen over his politics because they went around the proper operating procedure with a FISA court, that that same entity that worked in collusion with all of them, that we can’t trust them on this? What? Much shock. So surprised. I can’t believe it, guys. So I just think if I’m going to bribe somebody, I’m going to make sure that they are worthy of being bribed. If you can’t, if you’re not even in the position to do anything for me, why am I going to bribe you? You know what? This is stupid. But it is the Biden administration, King.
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Think about it. It’s all that they couldn’t run on any sort of accomplishments that Biden had over the four years. So their only thing and by the way, their only thing for the longest time that I can remember is just media smears. That’s literally all it is.
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Yeah. So I don’t know. Congress may determine that they they would look into it or not. I don’t know. But I would imagine that when it is. I mean, a home and did get an admin job where they did not. He did not have to go through the Senate confirmation process. instead of just outright nominating him for a cabinet post. I don’t, the only, and that just might be timing. I don’t know. It also might be a way for him to just, you know, try to people out the different positions in different departments with people that had his back. I mean, it could be a number of things. But the left is saying, well, you know, he didn’t have that Senate confirmation process, so that’s evidence. Of what? Of not having a Senate confirmation process? Yeah, you’re correct. He was appointed into this admin job. Is it confirmation that he was involved in a bribery scheme? No. It wasn’t. I really wish that they would look at the crimes that exist instead of making up things that don’t exist.
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