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  • Steve Cortes: U.S. Colleges Training China’s Elites at America’s Expense

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    Steve Cortes joined the RCP Podcast on Friday to discuss his new report on record numbers of foreign nationals — especially from China — displacing students at American universities.

    “We don’t even know exactly, but at least 300,000 Chinese nationals are studying at universities in the United States,” Cortes said. “First, they’re taking opportunities from American young people at these really selective schools. There are a finite number of spots.”

    “But secondly, regarding China specifically, I think it’s a national security risk,” he said. “People who have this opportunity are generally from families with extremely close ties to the Chinese Communist Party. They’re the elites in China with the ability, money, and initiative to send their children to these elite schools.”

    “Most of these selective schools are at least 25% international. Some, like Columbia, are closer to half,” he said. “What I think is appalling as a taxpayer is that we Americans fund all of these schools, including the private ones. As a matter of fact, the private ones get more taxpayer money generally than the public universities do.”

    “I think it’s outrageous that in the middle of America, in Champagne, Illinois, there are 6,000 Chinese nationals who are going to absorb some of the best training in the country, some of the best tech knowledge in America, and then go back to Beijing and make our adversary stronger and more prosperous,” he said.

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    Steve Cortes, RCP on SiriusXM

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  • Charles Murray: Taking Religion Seriously, Why an Intentional Universe Makes Sense

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    Political scientist and author Charles Murray joined the RealClearPolitics podcast on Friday to talk about his new book, “Taking Religion Seriously,” a personal reflection on the nature of God, nature, and existence. Murray is known for his thought-provoking political books, including Losing Ground, The Bell Curve, and Coming Apart.

    “I am typical of tens of millions of people who are well-educated and successful professionally, and religion hasn’t been an important part of our lives,” Murray said. “And that was true of me from the time I went to college to 20 years ago.”

    “Subsequently, I have had a very haphazard change in my view of God in general and Christianity in particular. And I had to do it not by spiritual revelation but by more indirect means, and I thought this is a story worth telling—just to tell other people it can be done and it’s worthwhile,” he said.

    “This whole book is brought about because of my wife, who had exactly the same experience going to college that I did: we learned that smart people don’t believe that stuff anymore,” Murray said. “And then we had our first daughter, and my wife said to me, in what’s since become a fairly well-known line: I love her far more than evolution requires.”

    “Since I can’t enter into the kind of spiritual understandings that my wife can, I can do things like look at the physics of the Big Bang. I can look at the historicity of the Gospels,” he said. “You’ve had revisionists try to tell us you can’t even be sure there was anybody named Jesus, and if he did exist, he hasn’t said anything that’s been transmitted accurately. Well, there is a very substantial body of rigorous work that says otherwise.”

    On the Big Bang, he said: “Well, you’ve got three choices. You can believe that we’re the product of a one-in-a-trillion chance. You can believe there are multiverses out there, and there are a million universes. Or you can believe that there’s intention. And, as I say, what’s parsimonious? What’s plausible? The third of those alternatives is, to me, much more plausible than the other two.”

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    Charles Murray, RCP Podcast

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  • Eric Trump: Unlike Dems, We’ll Have a Primary Process to Choose the Next Leader of the MAGA Movement

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    Eric Trump spoke to Tom Bevan and Phil Wegmann on the RCP podcast on Wednesday about the future of the MAGA movement, New York and Zohran Mamdani, and his new book on the weaponization of government against his family: “Under Siege: My Family’s Fight To Save Our Nation”

    “I became the most subpoenaed person in American history for doing absolutely nothing wrong,” Eric Trump said. “They did everything they could to destroy our family. That’s why I called it Under Siege.”

    “They took him off the ballot in Colorado. They took him off Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. They indicted him 91 times. They kept us locked in a courtroom every single day. They de-banked our entire organization — Capital One, Bank of America, JP Morgan.”

    “This was the worst of government. It’s a great ending to the story that we won in a spectacular fashion. I couldn’t be more proud of that, but I had to write the story of the viciousness of politics.”

    “If my father wanted vengeance, he could have thrown Hillary Clinton in jail for deleting 33,000 emails, right, and a whole host of other things,” Eric Trump also said. “Did we ever raid Biden’s home? Did we raid Hunter’s? Did we put gag orders on him? Did we subpoena him 112 times? The difference between me and Hunter is that I’m actually a clean human being. I don’t have a laptop from hell. Did we ever make up a dirty dossier against Biden? No. So it’s not vengeance. If Comey lied, he’ll have his day in court.”

    “I would’ve told you eight years ago there wasn’t an heir apparent” to the MAGA movement, he said. “Unlike the Democrats, we’re actually going to have a process… JD Vance has a leg up being vice president: right age, temperament, he would have my vote, I love the guy. But we’re going to go through a process, and the people who are actually chosen by Republicans will be the person who stands on the ballot against the Democrats.”

    “If there’s one thing we can all agree on, my father will probably play a large role in that process,” he joked. “And frankly, as kind of the founder of the new Republican Party, he probably deserves to be a big part of that.”

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    Eric Trump, RCP Podcast

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