Joe Wilson Warns ‘War Criminal Putin’ Or The CCP Could Be Funding US Universities

4 months ago

On Tuesday, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) questioned DOE Secretary Miquel Cardona on the funding of U.S. high education institutions durign a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing.

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00:00 Thank you, Mr. Courtney.

00:01 Mr. Wilson, you're recognized for five minutes.

00:04 Thank you, Madam Chairman.

00:05 And, Ms. Secretary, I, my wife's a teacher.

00:08 I just have such a high regard for the education profession.

00:12 That's why I want it to be local.

00:14 I believe in local elected school boards.

00:16 I did not favor the creation of the Department of Education.

00:20 Every effort of devolution back to the states,

00:23 we've got a great Superintendent, Ellen Weaver,

00:25 in my home state of South Carolina.

00:28 Every way to send it back to elected school boards

00:31 is what should be done.

00:32 Every school district is different.

00:34 And every community is different within the school districts.

00:37 And so the federal government just cannot possibly

00:40 understand or address the issues properly.

00:43 With that in mind, another issue, of course,

00:45 that you've just referenced,

00:46 with Section 117 of the Higher Education Act

00:49 requires institutions of higher education

00:52 that receive federal financial assistance

00:55 to disclose semi-annually

00:57 to the U.S. Department of Education

00:58 any gifts received and any contracts

01:01 with a foreign source that alone or combined

01:04 are valued at $250,000 or more in a calendar year.

01:08 Your administration has decided to move

01:10 this Section 117 enforcement

01:12 to the Federal Student Office of Federal Student Aid,

01:16 which has already overworked.

01:18 What is the status of these reports?

01:21 And this is really critical

01:22 because we've got dictatorships today,

01:25 whether it be war criminal Putin,

01:27 it could be the Chinese Communist Party,

01:29 it could be, we know, the regime in Tehran.

01:34 All are trying to, through disinformation,

01:37 destroy our country.

01:39 And so what's being done to try to stop any disinformation?

01:44 Thank you for that question, Congressman.

01:46 And first of all, happy Teacher Appreciation Week

01:48 to your wife and to all the teachers across the country.

01:53 You know, Section 117 is a very important section

01:55 and we take the responsibility

01:58 of communicating gifts very seriously.

02:00 We've reported close to 39,000 foreign gifts

02:05 worth $21 billion already.

02:08 We believe that transparency is critical.

02:11 And having it move under FSA

02:13 allows us to do that more succinctly.

02:16 As you know, we're a member

02:17 of the FBI's National Counterintelligence Task Force.

02:21 We communicate regularly to ensure

02:22 that the law enforcement armed or the investigation arms

02:26 are informed with information that we have.

02:29 So that system is working well,

02:30 and I agree with you that we need to protect our schools

02:33 from foreign influence.

02:34 And you don't have to do this right now,

02:36 but I would like a question, I would like, for the record,

02:40 if you could get back with me,

02:41 as to what is the status

02:42 of maintaining these quarterly reports?

02:44 Okay.

02:45 This is just critically important

02:46 because it's so sad at Yale, Stanford, and Harvard,

02:51 and in particular, there have been countless examples

02:53 of raging anti-Semitism on the campus.

02:56 These schools also had Section 117 investigations

02:59 under the Trump administration.

03:01 Your department has opened Title VI

03:04 of the Civil Rights Act's investigations

03:06 into these schools in the last few months.

03:08 And we again see dictatorships trying to impact

03:12 the American people as they're trying to promote

03:15 their totalitarian, authoritarian view of the world.

03:19 And we've just got to be prepared.

03:21 And are you coordinating the Open 117 investigations

03:24 with the Open Title VI investigations?

03:28 Thank you for that question.

03:30 We have, as you know, a significant increase

03:33 in Title VI investigations.

03:35 Since October 7th attacks alone,

03:38 over 100 new cases that we have,

03:41 which is why we're asking for an increase

03:44 to make sure that we have enough investigators

03:46 to move on these cases.

03:47 We take into account,

03:49 depending on the investigation request,

03:53 we take into account many different factors.

03:55 So while not speaking generically,

03:58 I can tell you that our Office for Civil Rights

04:00 does take into account different factors

04:02 when requests come in for investigation.

04:05 Well, I'm really greatly concerned.

04:07 The FBI, Commissioner Ray, Director Ray,

04:12 has warned that an attack is imminent here,

04:16 or attacks are imminent across our country,

04:18 and they can be facilitated

04:20 by not acting against these anti-Semites who,

04:23 hey, from the river to the sea,

04:26 that's just a code for murder of the people of Israel.

04:31 And we know that the Hamas covenant of August 18, 1988

04:36 provides Section 7,

04:38 that you chase every Jew behind a rock and tree

04:40 until you find the last Jew,

04:43 and then with the last Jew behind a rock, you...

04:46 (chanting)

04:54 And let...

04:56 (chanting)

04:58 And let me restate and make clear,

05:01 because all of God's children should know,

05:04 and that is that Section 7 of the Hamas covenant

05:07 calls for chasing every Jew behind a rock or tree

05:11 until you find the last Jew behind a rock and you kill him.

05:15 And so it should be known by all Americans,

05:18 and this should not be misunderstood.

05:20 With that, I yield back.

05:22 -Thank you, Mr. Wilson.

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