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Ted Cruz: “Qatar is the number one foreign funder of U.S. universities.”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Let's just expose that for everybody right now. So you understand. And plus, Qatar has been interesting because it also deals with our friend Guy by the name of Tucker Carlson. Yeah. Look, Qatar is the number one foreign funder of U.S. universities. And, and to give more than China, by the way, which is something that, that is a point that a massive asterisk because China has also tried to buy a significant amount of influence in the US and our universities as well. (01:31–01:36)

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