♪ ♪ >> hello america, i'm mark levin this is "life, liberty and levin." on sunday. with our great friend senator ted cruz, how are you. >> great. mark: how is your reelection race going, you have a tough one. >> we have a very tough fight, i'm running for reelection in 2024, and chuck schumer made clear i'm his number one target in country, last time i ran in 2018, they out spend me 3-1. they flooded cash into texas. they more than doubled democrat turn out in texas. and i ended up winning by barely 3 points, 2. 6%. and so, my likely opponent is a very liberal democrat congressman, has voted 100% with nancy pelosi. he is hard left. but she raising money like raze -- he is raising money like crazy, faster than beto o'rourke did 6 years ago. so, we'll face over 100 million dollars coming in against us. and the challenge, it is simple. if you are a left wing partisan, after donald trump, there is no body in the country you want to beat more than me, these guys and in new york, and challenging and cha -- or in chicago or in san francisco, they are giving cash. we'll raise the money, my web site tedcruz.org. we're working our tail off. mark: you have done something important. you have taken the time as a senator, to communicate with the american people. about what is going on in this country. not only o tv and radio and your own podcast but a new book, what is amazing about your book. "unwoke: how to defeat cultural marxism in america." that is the nut of the matter. i went through your book it is inturp. superb. you see what is happening in our street, they are all into this. there seems to be an overlay between this marxist ideology, and this islamist ideology. >> i think we're seeing it play out in real-time with the war in israel. that we're seeing our institutions and the universities and the journalism and government, all acting under capture and control of the hard left of the radical marxists. you know with the book, i sat down to write it you know many of us had the reaction what the hell is going on. the world has gone crazy, we have seen is virtually every major institution in our nation has been sized by the radical left, i sat down in in book, to explain, how did that happen? why did that happen? and what do we do to fix it? how do we fight back. it starts with universities. and i describe universities as the wuhan lab of the woke virus. universities of where it started where it was created where it mutated. and where it spread, and sadly harvard university, where i went to law school, is ground zero for this. it started back in the '60s and '70s with plain jane vanilla marxists, people who adhered to karl max, who viewed world add economically determined, with a struggle between the opoppressors and the victims, for him it was a socioeconomic frame. and the solution was a violent over throw to forcibly seize the means of production from the owners of capital. and u.s. government to redistribute it to the victims instead. what happened this was economic. initially but the activities it then shifted f to cultural arenas they applied the same lens to race, then we got critical race theory, same idea, marxist battle, based on ration, they believe that america is racist. the answer is to use government force and violence to take from the oppressors and give to the victims, they also use the same frame on gender and gender ideology extremes they have embraced there you look at in israel. about a week ago i was sitting with a very successful tech entrepreneur from silicon valley. who historically been quite left. and he was really disturbed and confused why universities right now are so obviously viciously anti-israel,-anti-semitic, why a significant tun chunk of democrat party, the squad, far left is anti-semitism, i asked why i said in their world view, a marxist world view jews are coded as t the oppressors, thethe g bad guys and palestinians are the victims, right now, violent over throw that includes murder of civilians and horrible atrocities but to the marxist this is justified if you are murdering the team you have deemed to be the oppressors, we have seen the interconnection, for example black lives matter. black lives matter as you know is a marxist organization, founded by trained marxist organizers, and they are anti-israel, black lives matter put you on a tweet with image of a paraglider saying we stand with palestinians, they came in and murdered hundreds of teenagers and young people, just attending'ing a concert in israel, this ask if y -- if you have the hard left marxist world view it explains the 19-year-old idiot at a college camp us campus who is cheering for death squads and not women or children that are being slaughtered. mark: what acur accounts for you, cover this in the book, "unwoke: how to defeat cultural marxism in america," amazon.com. any major bookstore. this is exclusive first interview, the book comes out tuesday. senator cruz, what do you make of the this administration though? you have joe biden, who is now turned to israel. he is make public statements, so their enemies and our ebb enemies can hear, he wants them to appease, a syst temporary humanitarian ceasefire means they lose, they have surround the enemy, they are doing all they can to avoid civilians, he lectures them publicly is this not because it is politics he is worried about his vote in michigan and arizona there is enough of a population of arabs and muslims there, they are turning against him, he would throw israel over the c cliff to get reelected. am i misleading this. >> i don't think it is driven by muslim votes in the democrat party, i think this des driven by an we white liberals who -- angry white liberal whose hate israel and are marxists and antisemites you look at foreign policy of biden administration it is continuing every mistake of obama administration but worse. what is joe biden done? in the little under 3 years, he has flowed nearly 100 billion dollars into iran, iran is leading state sponsor of terror, and the patron of hamas and hezbollah, provides over 90% of the funding for hamas. not only, that but the biden administration is sent hundreds of millions to gaza that went straight to hamas and in a very literal sense, funding the death squads that are murdering israeli and americans this was n not only worse attack on israel in 50 years but one of worst terrorist attackses on american history, 31 americans were murdered. roughly a dozen americans are hostages still. and the biden administrationed immediate response, that plays out on october 7. in early morning hours of the october 7about 3 in the morning biden state department sends out a tweet saying we condemn hamas' attack but violence solves nothing there should be no retaliatory strikes no one should trike back this is as monsters are targeting civilians going house-to-house, murdering everyone in the house, simply because they are jews, and u.s. state department said do not retaliate. what an asinine statement. at 3 in the morning my team and i saw that. we responded at 3 in morning and said this is disgraceful, everyone that wrote this or signed off on it should be fired, they deleted that tweet within an hour. the next day, tony blinken secretary of state sent a tweet, said he just met with turkey foreign minister they agreed to work together to push for a seeing ceasefire for israel, i denounced that, this is ridiculous, the word ceasefire is code word for -- terrorists are not ceasing anything they will cease when they murdered everyone -- jew . when u.s. state department says ceasefire they say, ddon't defend yourself, don't defeat hamas don't kill the terrorists just sit there helpless and let them kill innocent civilians. again, blinken the state department i did deleted that tweet, tony blinken flew to israel and demanded what he called a humanitarian pause. which i will commend the word smiths for coming up with a different word for ceasefire. and the position of the biden administration seems to be please stop trying to kill the terrorists we're rooting for the bad guys and you are too effective at killing them, this is infuriating and they combine it with they still want to send money to these guys, one of the first things that joe biden said, we need to send 100 million dollars to gaza. gaza is controlled by hamas. by the way these leftists on college campuses they talk about this as occupied territory. look israel is not in gaza they don't control gaza, they left the gaza strip. you want it, it is yours, we're gone, only thing we'll do is put up a wall to make sure that lunatics who want to kill us don't come over and kill us. but, the palestinians control the gaza strip 100%, it is ruled by hamas. now. they live in misery and poverty, why? because they are a theocratic death cult that has a hatred for jews, they take all of the money and they use it to wage war, they take the water pipes they rip them up and chop them into rockets, to fire rockets at israel they would rather mu murder jews than provide water for palestinian babies that dynamic you look at the college campuses where they are protesting, they don't know, that they don't know, that they don't care. and the biden administration response is send money to gaza anyway, even though we know it will go to terrorists. >> let me circle back, the book, "unwoke: how to defeat cultural marxism in america." these are the entrails of what happened as a result of decades of indoctrination, bring washing -- brain washing leftism, is islamism and talk about this in the book, the whole history. and what we should do about it the squad, you can't accuse them of being white liberals. they come here, some are first generation some are second. our borders are open, people coming in we don't know who they are by the millions. they caught some on the terrorist watch list, that means some terrorists got through, they caught some. but they will not catch them all, that system is not perfect. you have a president of united states, that is arming the enemy, iran. president of united states is selling israel to stand down even though they are fighting the enemy for us and them, if a president of united states has border wide open, and with drug cartels coming in and my question to you is for after the break. joe biden and blinken talk about concern for citizenry. todo they show concern for th thoi thousands of people dying in united states from fentanyl, and iran that rose up and the spigots turn on when trump leave they are slaughtering their own people? they keep talking about their concern for citizenry is that kind of what you are saying they twist the language and uses language to promote an agenda which is inhumane. i want your point on this, as soon as we return. we'll be right back. icy hot. ice works fast. ♪ heat makes it last. feel the power of contrast therapy. ♪ so you can rise from pain. icy hot. so... i know you and george were struggling with the possibility of having to move. how's that going? we found a way to make bathing safer with a kohler walk-in bath. a kohler walk-in bath provides a secure, spa-like bathing experience in the comfort of your own home. a kohler walk-in bath has one of the lowest step-ins of any walk-in bath for easy entry and exit. it features textured surfaces, convenient handrails for more stability, and a wide door for easier mobility. kohler® walk-in baths include two hydrotherapies— whirlpool jets and our patented bubblemassage to help soothe sore muscles in your feet, legs, and back. a kohler-certified installer will install everything quickly and conveniently in as little as a day. they made us feel completely comfortable in our home. and, yes, it's affordable. i wish we would have looked into it sooner. think i might look into one myself. stay in the home and life you've built for years to come. call... to receive $1,500 off your kohler® walk-in bath. and take advantage of our low monthly payment financing. mark: welcome back america. we're talking with senator ted cruz his brand-new fantastic book. "unwoke: how to defeat cultural marxism in america." covers all that is going on today, my question, does that administration demonstrate about its own actions here, concern about citizens? >> the opposite, they are interested in power, power and ideology that is consistent with cultural marxism about using culture to enforce through force and power their ar orthodox, you asked about the border, what is happening at the southern border is a catastrophe that has no precedent in t history of our nation, i was out midnight patrol,. within an hour you encounter illegal immigrants, we encountered a group of 20-25 mostly women and children, there was a 13-year-old girl, she was unacompany mid, no family member and a 13-year-old boy with no family members, a 16 year old girl, she was unaccompanied. they all said they were going to see their teos, spanish for uncle. we asked does your tio no you are coming no, we have a number we are to c call them, they are being trafficked, a 10-year-old girl said she was traveling with her father who was '40, who was not her father. he had his arm around her but not a gentle ka car -- cares. almost b like a head lock. we asked about her mother, she looked at the man, like saying what do and we say on this it was horrifying. they dna test about 30% it was a lie, 30% had no biological relationship. joe biden came in and ended the dna testing, they don't want to know and cartels are renting children. you asked do they care are they compassionate no. i was looking at these kids and i was physically sick. i was looking at teenagers, i have a 13-year-old daughter, i was there, just passed midnight, i was looking at that 13-year-old girl and thinking my god, you are about -- you will be trapped in sex slavery and border patrol agents cannot do anything about it because joe biden and kamala harris and alejandro mayorkas don't want them to do anything about it this is evil, like the argument that democrat compassion on immigration is insane, then you overlay the war in israel, the risk of a terror attack today in united states of america is great they were it has been any day since 9/11. and you mentioned the people that have been apprehended on terror watch list, more were apprehended than previous decade combined last year. but than you is not the number that worries me. the number that worries me is 2 million, we had 8 million people cross illegally under joe biden, 2 million of got aways. 6 million of them, majority of them, were like this group we encountered that night, they go they look for border patrol and turn themselves in. the two million got-aways people they spot, they identify, we see home. but they get away. the got-aways are much more likely to be criminals to be murderers and rapists and child molester and gang members ms-13 or terrorists, couple weeks ago san diego office put outo a written mem hmemo, be on guard for hamas and hezbollah terrorists crossing our border, if you are a terrorist, you are not turning yourself in to the border pat patrol. and you know just a week ago, head of fbi of the testifying in the house, he said he was concerned about risk of hamas carrying out a terror attack here, that scares the hell out of me, and fbi, i talk about it. the weaponnization of the department of justice in fbi, fbi and doj have been saying for years, greatest risk of violence in america is homegrown terrorism and white supremacists, nazis and com klansmen are idiots but we're not seeing a rising surge here. this is made up in the fever dreams of the left. and they ignore global jihadists that have declared a mission of murdering americans. and the fact that the head of fbi chris wray, we both know, suddenly said to the house, there is a real risk of hamas carrying out a terror attack here, made hme think, holy cow, what does he know how that we didn't know, something has changed, 3 weeks ago he was not willing to say this publicly, and now he is, that has me very worried they have information that an attack economy imminent. mark: on this point, when we come back, the commander in chief, president of united states, doesn't discuss this. >> nope. >> does not even think about it. president of united states said he is concerned about hostages, americans. we have00 eds of edpeople in afghanistan we don't know what happened to them, that is result of his conduct, you never hear about them, he pays 6 billion, i'm not engaging in idea talk about what there means that iran getting it or not, they wanted it they got it weeks before when took place with hamas, so he increases the price and the motivation for hostages and now he is blaming israel needs to back up on to get them out, no, hamas wants money. don't forget, "unwoke: how to defeat cultural marxism in america." this is a big time book. i predict it will be one of the big bookings of the year. grab your copy, first exclusive interview, you can get on amazon.com right now and major bookstore starting tuesday, can 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"unwoke: how to defeat cultural marxi sm in america." >> what do you in the book is you identify, then you give the background. and explain how it presents itself today and what do about it i want to hit you on this we have been talking citizens, no more important citizen to a parent is their child, there is a war on children and a c war on separating parents and children that is real marxism. it is going on, you write about this. >> marxists always start with the kids. and so, i opened book by telling the story of my father. you know my dad. my father was born in cuba, grew up in cuba. he fought in the cuban revolution alongside fi ffidel castro, my dad today refers to revolution, we were a bunch of 14 and 15-year-old boys who didn't know any better. my father ended up buying imprisoned and tortured and he fled cuba and and came to america, i tell about my grandmother, she was a 6 grade teacher, she loved type ofs 6 grade and -- teaching 6 grade and communist start with little children, my grandmother told me how castro's soldiers would come into the kindergarten and first grade and tell the children there, close your eyes. pray to god, and ask for candy. and kids d do t that -- they would open your eyes there would be no candy, they would say close your eyes and pray to fidel castro for candy and the soldiers would quietly put a piece candy everyone child's desk, marxism understands if you destroy every other allegiance to god, family other than to the state that is how they get power, reason that cultural marxists go after our kids teaching critical race theory, teaching that this transgender radical ideology, you know using oriolian terms like je gender affirming care they min mean gender sterile izing. it starts in virginia you had a little girl who was sexual assaulted by a boy wearing a skirt in a bi girl's rest room, the school covered it up, they arrested the father of the girl, the sexual tr predator was transferred to another school and that boy in a skirt sexual assaulted another little girl that sparked a moment where moms in virginia got pissed off. and it resulted in in 2020, virginia voted for joe biden by 10 points, one year later glen youngkin was elected, the moms were fed up, what is this garbage you are doing to our children, you look at school boards, i get involved in a lot of school board races, parents say enough is enough we want to take radicals out of our schools that is an change chamchampommier else was victory -- examples victory that working over and over. mark: as you point out. a hundred years ago there was ramski, an italian communist, he said marx got some right but a lot wrong. it will be top down, we need takeover the culture to get into all aspects of it it will be slower but it will be permanent. this is one of the reasons your book is so important. you saying, he is wrong. it not permanent if we open our dye eyes and address who the enemy is and confront them it top down, i want to you, is this what happened to the united states of america? this marxism? we'll be right back. ♪ limu emu & doug ♪ [bell ringing] and doug says, “you can customize and save hundreds and is crushed by a baby grand piano. are you replacing me? with this guy? customize and save with liberty bibberty. he doesn't even have a mustache! oh, look! a bibu. 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"unwoke: how to defeat cultural marxism in america." that is part of the key of the book. how to defeat it. let's talk about it while talking about gramsci and top down not bottom up and middle out, we see this right now. >> what the marxist referred to this is long slow march through institutions. mark: you have a chapter on that. >> how they captured them, i start with university to k-12. then a chapter on journalism, they have captured corporate media and a chapter on big business andbig tech and on government. i have a chapter on entertainment. hollywood, movies, tv, music video games sports. a chapter to science, that has been politicized. then final chapter is on china. a nexus that interconnects it. let's talk big business, we seen how giant corporations have become the economic enforcement arm for the radical left, they punish their enemies, they enforce ooobedience. they cancel you if you disagree, they use force, you will obey or they will use force and make you obey in the book i talk a lot about bud light and target, i don't think that we've seen a company destroy a brand so unnecessarily, bud light was the number one selling beer in america. they then decided in their woke their customers were a bunch of ignorant rubes and they should be transgender instead of good ol' boys. enjoying a beer on a friday night. and the reaction was insinstant. we just finished baseball play-offs in world series. astros played rangers, i always drink bud light. but i looked around stadium there was not a single fan drinking a bud light, nobody, they were still on the shelves, they were full. and they dropped from number one selling beer to out of the top 10, they lost tens of billions of dollars, shortly after that, you had target. target set up these giant gay pride displays in front of the stores that were aggressively marketing lgbtq to little kids, they included -- bail bathing suits for little boys that were marketed as tuck-friendly, so they could tuck their gender out of the way and pretend they were little girls, that happened in l on -- moms got pissed, why are you trying to tell my 3-year-old boy, he should be a girl, i came to get de t -- detergent not to have you lecture he, target lost billions, single best thing we know that conversations between the senior executives. they were saying, we don't want to be bud light, that is fantastic. the only way you take corporate america back, is you change the cost benefit analysis, the cost of being woke have to exceed the benefits of being woke, and bud light and target showed that real consequences. i will give are another one, as you know i do a podcast every week, verdict with ted cruz, monday, wednesday and friday, we've been covering israel and hamas. i did a podcast episode that was black lives matter is hamas, i laid out that one of the founders of black lives matter for years called for the d disv disv destruction of the state of israel, then i went through companies that gave million to black lives matter, apple and amazon and coca-cola, do they support that. that podcast came out october 18, the next day coca-cola deleted from their web site the reference to the 500 thousand dollar they gave black lives matter, they did that immediately in response to the p podcast. if you want to take corporate america back we have to make the cost the down side for the next sea sweep. thinking of doing that stu stupidity. >> the book is "unwoke: how to defeat cultural marxism in america." yes or no. has mitt romney now denounced black lives matter. >> i have not seen it, he has denounced every republican he could find but not a word about black lives matter. mark: i have not heard a damn thing. we'll be right back. i'm sholeh, and i lost 75 pounds with golo. i went from a size 20 to a size 6. before golo, nothing seemed to work. i was exercising for over an hour every day. it was really discouraging. but golo's so easy, the weight just falls off. mark: welcome back america. the book is "unwoke: how to defeat cultural marxism in america." >> by senator ted cruz, fantastic book, at amazon.com. and major bookstore starting tuesday. senator cruz, you write about china. china sees biden and the democrat party, they see our media, what do they see? >> it is really striking how china is intertwined in all of this cultural marxist takeover of our institutions. today's democrat party is structurally pro china, they are major take holders big business, big tech, b big -- universities big hollywood, they are all in bed with china, i talk about for example how hollywood allows china to censor its movies, a great movie, story freddie mercury. they released it in china they erased references to freddie mercury being gay, because the chinese communist did not like that, you are saying virtue signaling, hollywood types are happy to say, nope not gay, how do you tell freddie mercury story without including he was gay it is important. you look at top gun 2. original movie, mavericks had a jacket that had a series of flags on this including taiwanese flag and japanese flag, they came it out, they took off the flags they didn't want to piss off the chinese censers, i samed them until they put them back, you are telling me that mavericks is afraid of chinese communist? and we can fight back against it one thing i talk about is legislation that i authored in past, script act, if any hollywood, they can't assess u.s. government access to make their movies they can't use planes and helicopters and equipment they use. we could fight back. >> there was day when american corporations were patriotic. it difficult do see that today, there is one-off here and there one. china one more connection in democrat party, they have a connection to white house? >> a very big connection. the krupg corruption that flowed through hunter biden to joe biden is huge, the biden family business was selling favors from dad i, hunter biden has no marketable skills. he has a law degree but never practiced law. what he sold was favors from daddy and he made tens of millions of dollars, as did the family, family krungt. corr. mark: and democrats defend it and they defend china, brilliant point about how china is interlocked with so many aspects of democrat party. "unwoke: how to defeat cultural marxism in america." i encourage you to get your copy, preorder it anywhere, any major bookstore starting tuesday. we'll be right back. mark: welcome back america, any final thoughts senator? >> there is reason to be optimistic and there is a reason the left uses force to jam this down our throats. the ideas are wildly unpopular they do not make sense. there are a lot more of us than there are them. we are winning big victories in school boards, were winning big teresa exposing the advice, were winning big victories of bud light and target we are on the offense and truth is on our side. this book is but your show is about and what my podcast in your podcast are about which is truth and light how we take america back and i'm convinced we will do that. >> a great book, woke how to defeat marxism in america. we go hour after hour after hour but we can't, here's the book i encourage you to get it. it's a pleasure sedative. thank you for coming. see you next time on "life liberty and levin". ♪. trey: good evening and thank you for joining us i