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Government Shutdown Showdown plus Trump goes after the Department of Education · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: A government shutdown is now likely after Chuck Schumer says
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  Speaker 1: that Senate Democrats will block a GOP funding bill. The
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  Speaker 1: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson making it very clear
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  Speaker 1: that the same Democrats who've always said we can never
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  Speaker 1: shut down the government and it hurts Americans and poor
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  Speaker 1: people and the world is going to end now that
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump is in charge, they've decided, Nah, I'm we'll
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  Speaker 1: just throw that all out the window and go with
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  Speaker 1: the government shutdown just to try to hurt Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Take a list, and to the Speaker in his own words.
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  Speaker 2: They're planning to vote down the simple bill. They are
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  Speaker 2: going to try to shut the government down. Every House
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  Speaker 2: Democrat will participate on this. It looks like that would
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  Speaker 2: be a shame if it's true. I hope some of
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  Speaker 2: them will have a moment of clarity themselves and do
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  Speaker 2: the right thing. But it looks like they're going to
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  Speaker 2: try to shut down the government. It's a striking new
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  Speaker 2: posture for Democrats who have always said this has been
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  Speaker 2: apoplectic about the prospect of government shutdowns.
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  Speaker 1: So just think for a second about what the Speaker
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  Speaker 1: just said. It's very clear that Democrats are solely doing
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  Speaker 1: this for political reasons, and they want America to suffer.
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  Speaker 1: They want Americans to suffer because they want you to
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  Speaker 1: blame Donald Trump for any inconvenience or real pain that
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  Speaker 1: comes from a government shut down. You can also look
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  Speaker 1: at it this way. They're advocating for tanking the American
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  Speaker 1: economy because they don't actually care about Americans. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: listen to the Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer in his
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  Speaker 1: own words about why they're doing it.
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  Speaker 3: Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but Republicans
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  Speaker 3: chose a partisan path, drafting their Continuing Resolution without any input,
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  Speaker 3: any input from Congressional Democrats. Because of that, Republicans do
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  Speaker 3: not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture
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  Speaker 3: on the House. We are our caucus is unified on
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  Speaker 3: a clean April eleventh cr that will keep the government
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  Speaker 3: open and give Congress time to negotiate bi parties in
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  Speaker 3: legislation that can pass. We should vote on that. I hope,
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  Speaker 3: I hope our Republican colleagues will join us to avoid
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  Speaker 3: a shutdown.
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  Speaker 1: On Friday. Translation, Chuck Schumer is saying, we the Democratic Party,
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  Speaker 1: are holding Congress and the American people hostage because of that,
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  Speaker 1: as he said, Republicans do not have the votes in
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  Speaker 1: the Senate to vote quoture on the House Continuing the Resolution,
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  Speaker 1: So now it is a government shutdown that will be
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  Speaker 1: created solely by the Democrats, with Republicans holding a fifty
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  Speaker 1: three to forty seven advantage in the Senate. Chuck Schumer
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  Speaker 1: also understands that, guess what, you don't always work together
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  Speaker 1: with the other side, because when the American people voted
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  Speaker 1: in Donald Trump and gave the Senate back to the
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  Speaker 1: Republicans and the House control in the hands of the Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't ask Donald Trump to quote compromise with Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: They said to Donald Trump, go to Washington, save us money,
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  Speaker 1: and go with a mandate to do what we're sending
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  Speaker 1: you there to do. Now, the question is how long
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  Speaker 1: could this last? Only the Democrats can answer that question,
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  Speaker 1: as they're holding all of us hostage now. Before Schumer's announcement,
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  Speaker 1: the only Senate Democrat to openly back the House GOP
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  Speaker 1: Continuing Resolution with Senator John Fetterman, Democrat from Pennsylvania, And
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  Speaker 1: you also had Senator John Ossoff, a Democrat from Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: and Agnes King, an independent from Maine, as well as
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  Speaker 1: Mark Kelly, a Democrat from Arizona, and Reuben Gallio, a
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  Speaker 1: Democrat from Arizona, had signaled openness to supporting the cr
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  Speaker 1: in other words, actually working together. Liberal activists said no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: you're not going to do that. We want to shut
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  Speaker 1: it all down, and the activists pointed out that the
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  Speaker 1: current spending fight was the last big chance quote for
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  Speaker 1: Democrats to extract concessions from Republicans until this fall when
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  Speaker 1: the fiscal year twenty twenty six appropriations process begins. So yes,
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  Speaker 1: there are Democrats that are demanding more pork burrel projects
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  Speaker 1: in essence for them to give the vote seeded for
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  Speaker 1: this to continue, in other words, for the government not
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  Speaker 1: to shut down. AOC said this. Everyone needs to call
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  Speaker 1: their Democratics center right now. They are starting to cave,
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  Speaker 1: is what she said on x Now. Before the Senate
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  Speaker 1: convened for Wednesday's business, Democrats uddled during a caucus lunch
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  Speaker 1: to plot the next steps forward, and clearly the left
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  Speaker 1: that has taken hardcore control of the Democratic Party prevailed
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  Speaker 1: at lunch. Quote at least for now, I don't see
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  Speaker 1: the votes based on my reading of the end of
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  Speaker 1: the meeting, That is what Senator Chris Van Holland, a Democrat,
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  Speaker 1: told reporters walking out of that lunch meeting. I don't
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  Speaker 1: see the votes there right now for passing their House
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  Speaker 1: Republican r also painting the bill as exclusively a Republican bill. Quote.
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  Speaker 1: I've gone back and forth on this thing three times
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  Speaker 1: because it is two horrible choices. That's what Senator John Hickenlooper,
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  Speaker 1: a Democrat from Colorado, admitted to reporters before the lunch meeting.
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  Speaker 1: If you shut down the government, the president is the
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  Speaker 1: person who decides what is essential. He also said this,
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  Speaker 1: he decides what part of the government stays open, So
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  Speaker 1: you were actually giving him even more power. The Democrat
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  Speaker 1: from Colorado went on to say. On the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the argument, a senior Senate Democrat aide told The
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  Speaker 1: New York Post that some members quote warrior shutdown leaves
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk alone in the candy store, referring to the
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  Speaker 1: Department of Government Efficiencies cost cutting efforts. You know it,
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  Speaker 1: as Doge. It wouldn't be your grandfather shut down, the
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  Speaker 1: source added, following must aggressive action to reduce the federal
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  Speaker 1: workforce and trim billions of dollars in wasteful spending programs.
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  Speaker 1: They're now saying they're afraid this may be too big
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  Speaker 1: of a gift for Elon Musk. Many Democrats, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: on Capitol have privately hoped that House Republicans were going
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  Speaker 1: to fail to pass their resolution Tuesday night and be
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  Speaker 1: left in a position to take the political fall. Well,
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  Speaker 1: guess what, Republicans united. It's amazing. I will say that
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  Speaker 1: Democrats are actually realizing now that Republicans are together on
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump's agenda in plan, and every hour that passes
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  Speaker 1: only puts them on an island where it is obvious
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  Speaker 1: they have no plan, and the headlines are quote, will
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  Speaker 1: Democrats shut down the government? That is what one senior
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  Speaker 1: Senate Republican aid said to The New York Post. Another
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  Speaker 1: GOP advisor contended that if the CR fails to clear
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  Speaker 1: the Senate by late Friday, this will be a Democrat
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  Speaker 1: engineered shutdown and everybody in the country will know it.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, this is exactly why I tell you
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  Speaker 1: to share this podcast so people understand the backstory that's
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  Speaker 1: actually happening in DC. The CR that Republicans passed through
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  Speaker 1: the House largely keeps government funding levels steady with a
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  Speaker 1: slight six billion dollar boost to defense and a roughly
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  Speaker 1: ten billion increase to immigration and Customs enforcement known as
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  Speaker 1: ICE to offset the cost. By the way, the CR
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  Speaker 1: cuts back on about thirteen billion in non defense discretionary spending.
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  Speaker 1: Only one House Democrat Representative, Jared Golden, a Democrat from
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  Speaker 1: Maine who holds one of the most fiercely competitive seats,
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  Speaker 1: voted in favor of the CR when it came up
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  Speaker 1: in the lower chamber. Quote the CR is not perfect,
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  Speaker 1: the democrat said, but a shutdown would be worse. Even
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  Speaker 1: a brief shutdown would introduce even more chaos and uncertainty
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  Speaker 1: at a time when our country can ill afford it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that democrat is not being heard by anyone else, apparently
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  Speaker 1: in his party in Washington. So what should you expect.
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  Speaker 1: The reality is, there's a very good chance we're going
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  Speaker 1: to have a government shutdown, and it could actually last
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  Speaker 1: more than just twenty four or forty eight hours. Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump ran on a issue that actually saw incredible engagement
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  Speaker 1: in the presidential election cycle. It was the issue of education.
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  Speaker 1: American schools are failing. In fact, we are the lowest
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  Speaker 1: in many categories, with the rest of the world in
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  Speaker 1: reading and writing and arithmetic. There are quite a few
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  Speaker 1: failing schools virtually everywhere you go in the country, and
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  Speaker 1: public education has been a disaster. We've continued to throw
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  Speaker 1: more money at it, and we've seen no increase on
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  Speaker 1: test scores or a return on our investment where students
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  Speaker 1: are getting better at the basics like reading, writing, and arithmetic.
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  Speaker 1: The President has made it clear he believes that the
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  Speaker 1: federal Department of Education is a disaster, something that you
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  Speaker 1: cannot fix. Now, let's be clear, the President's not said
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  Speaker 1: that we can't fix education and he believes it should
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  Speaker 1: be going back to the States. Well, the President was
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  Speaker 1: in an Oval Office meeting and the conversation came up
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  Speaker 1: about education. And here's what the President said.
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  Speaker 4: They're not doing a good job. And if you take
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  Speaker 4: a look at take a look at our education process,
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  Speaker 4: and if you look at the charts, because they have
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  Speaker 4: numerous charts where they do the top forty, we're at
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  Speaker 4: number thirty seven, thirty eight, thirty nine, and forty. And
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  Speaker 4: recently they hit during Biden's last few days, they hit less,
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  Speaker 4: so they were number forty. And yet we're number one
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  Speaker 4: in costs for people. So it's pretty bad, but we
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  Speaker 4: have a we have a dream, and you know what
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  Speaker 4: the dream is. We're going to move the Department of Education.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to move education into the states so that
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  Speaker 4: the states, instead of bureaucrats working in Washington, so that
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  Speaker 4: the states can run education.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this goes back to a basic promise that Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump had made during the campaign. He believes that on
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  Speaker 1: the local and state level, they can run education in
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  Speaker 1: a much more efficient way than the federal government can
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  Speaker 1: with all of the corruption in Washington, d c. Which
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  Speaker 1: brings me to something else. Linda McMahon, the Education Secretary,
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  Speaker 1: has now come out and had a major round of layoffs,
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  Speaker 1: gutting the Civil Rights Office as well. The Education department
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  Speaker 1: Civil Rights branch is losing nearly half of its staff,
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  Speaker 1: and the Trump administration's layoff round one effectively gutting an
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  Speaker 1: office that already faced a backlog of thousands of complaints
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  Speaker 1: from students and families, they say from across the nation.
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  Speaker 1: Among a total of more than oney three hundred layoffice
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  Speaker 1: that were announced this week, two and forty in the
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  Speaker 1: Department's Office for Civil Rights were in that group that,
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  Speaker 1: according to a LISS obtained and verified by the Associated Press.
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  Speaker 1: Seven of the Civil Rights Agency's twelve regional offices were
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  Speaker 1: entirely laid off, including Busy Hobbs in New York, Chicago,
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  Speaker 1: and Dallas, despite assurances that the department's work will continue unaffected.
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  Speaker 1: Huge numbers of cases Democrats now say appear to quote
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  Speaker 1: unquote being limbo. Insert fearmongering right here. What democrats do
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  Speaker 1: well now. The Trump administration has not said how it
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  Speaker 1: will proceed with these cases being handled by its staff
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  Speaker 1: and many of those around them that have been eliminated.
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  Speaker 1: The cases will involve families trying to get school services
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  Speaker 1: for students with disabilities, and that is something that Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration has said is important. We also know, though, that
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  Speaker 1: the entire Department of Education is well bloated, and it's
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  Speaker 1: time to dismantle it piece by piece so that the
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  Speaker 1: President of United States of America can then hand control
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  Speaker 1: back to the States. It's exactly what he said about
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  Speaker 1: Martin Luther King and his dream now, which is to
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  Speaker 1: give every kid a quality education and an education they
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  Speaker 1: can be proud of, and an education that has a
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  Speaker 1: return on our investment, and an education that prepares kids
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  Speaker 1: for college and the future. We have far too many
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  Speaker 1: public schools in America, and the presidents made this clear
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  Speaker 1: that are handing out basically worthless pieces of paper after
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  Speaker 1: you quote graduate the twelfth grade, even though you're not
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  Speaker 1: reading at that level, writing at that level, or doing
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  Speaker 1: math and science at that level. So for Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 1: this is another step in that promise from his campaign
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  Speaker 1: and a step that many parents will be happy about
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  Speaker 1: in states when they actually get back control of their
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  Speaker 1: public school system. Now back to the fear mongering for
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  Speaker 1: just a second. Some staffers who remain said there's no
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  Speaker 1: way quote to pick up all of their fired colleagues
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  Speaker 1: cases In the Civil Rights Division, many were already struggling
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  Speaker 1: to keep pace with their own case loads. With fewer
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  Speaker 1: than three hundred workers, families likely will be waiting on
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  Speaker 1: resolutions for years to come. They said, quote, I fear
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  Speaker 1: they won't get all their calls, answers, their complaints won't move.
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  Speaker 1: That's what a senior civil rights attorney for the Office
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  Speaker 1: for Civil Rights said, saying, quote I truly don't understand
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  Speaker 1: how a handful of offices could handle the entire country
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  Speaker 1: Department officials and says that the cuts will quote not
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  Speaker 1: affect the Civil rights investigations. The reductions were quote strategic decisions,
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  Speaker 1: is what the spokesperson, Madison Breiderman said in a statement.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, this goes back to DOGE. Yes, you
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  Speaker 1: can have an efficient government without all of the people
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  Speaker 1: that actually have all of these ridiculous jobs. The layoffs,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, are part of a dramatic downsizing directed
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  Speaker 1: by President Donald Trump as he moves to reduce the footprint,
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  Speaker 1: he says, of the overall federal government. Now, Trump is
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  Speaker 1: pushed for a full shutdown of the Department of Education,
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  Speaker 1: calling it well a con job and saying its power
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  Speaker 1: should be turned over to the States. On Wednesday, he
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  Speaker 1: told reporters many agency employees don't work at all. Responding
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  Speaker 1: to the layoffs, he said his administration is keeping the
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  Speaker 1: best ones and the ones that don't work well, you're fired.
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  Speaker 1: After the cuts, the Office for Civil Rights will only
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  Speaker 1: have workers in Washington and five regional offices, which traditionally
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  Speaker 1: take the lead on investigating complaints and mediating resolutions with
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  Speaker 1: schools and colleges. Buildings are being closed and staff is
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  Speaker 1: being laid off in Dallas, Chicago, New York, Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia,
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  Speaker 1: and San Francisco, and many lawyers at the New York
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  Speaker 1: City Office were juggling eighty or more cases. They now
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  Speaker 1: claim in One staff member said, we're all in tears.
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  Speaker 1: We can't believe this is actually happening now. So many
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  Speaker 1: of these people that are losing their jobs are well,
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  Speaker 1: of course, they're crying foul because they believe that they're
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  Speaker 1: being persecuted because of their work in public education. The
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration again making it very clear it's time to
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  Speaker 1: get our public education system back to the States, and
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  Speaker 1: if the federal government is in the way of kids
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  Speaker 1: getting a good education, then we should get the hell
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  Speaker 1: out of the way. One other thing that I think
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  Speaker 1: is interesting about all of these layoffs is this, even
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  Speaker 1: before the layoffs, the Civil Rights Office had been losing staff,
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  Speaker 1: even as complaints rose to quote record levels. The workforce
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  Speaker 1: had fallen below six hundred staffers even before Trump took office,
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  Speaker 1: and they faced nearly twenty three thousand complaints filed last
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  Speaker 1: year alone under Biden Harris. That is more than ever before.
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  Speaker 1: Ask yourself, why were there so many complaints? Could it
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  Speaker 1: be that now it's actually in the interest of anyone
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  Speaker 1: who's disgruntled to just claim a civil rights complain and
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  Speaker 1: see what you get out of it. Well, apparently that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what they were doing the final year of the
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  Speaker 1: Biden and Harris administration. Now, Trump finally is also ordered
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  Speaker 1: a freeze on most cases when they arrived at the
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  Speaker 1: department adding quote Democrats say to the quote backlog. And
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  Speaker 1: when the Education Secretary of Lena McMahon lifted the freeze
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  Speaker 1: last week, there were more than twenty thousand pending cases.
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  Speaker 1: So you look at what Donald Trump just did. He's saying,
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  Speaker 1: you can fear mongrel you want, it doesn't really matter.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back and has the Ben Ferguson Show. It's nice
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  Speaker 1: to have you with us. I want to take you
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  Speaker 1: back to twenty sixteen. It was the very first time
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  Speaker 1: that the media and Democrats used Russia to try to
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  Speaker 1: attack Donald Trump. You may remember the Russian collusion, Russia Ussia,
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  Speaker 1: Russia hoax, as Donald Trump has said countless times with
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  Speaker 1: good reason. Well, now the Democratic Party is trying to
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  Speaker 1: use Russia again to undermine Donald Trump and his popularity,
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  Speaker 1: all because he wants to see a ridiculous war be
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  Speaker 1: ended between Russia and Ukraine. They're trying to drive a
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  Speaker 1: wedge between the president and the American people claiming that
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump favors Vladimir Putin and that there's some sort
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  Speaker 1: of shady, corrupt business going on between the two men,
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  Speaker 1: which we all know is obviously a massive lie, a
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  Speaker 1: lie that's been orchestrated by the Democratic Party. Well, there's
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  Speaker 1: a new story that you probably haven't heard about, and
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  Speaker 1: I hope you'll take this show and share it everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: because what I'm about to tell you is something that
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  Speaker 1: literally no one is covering. Donald Trump has threatened devastating
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  Speaker 1: financial penalties now for Russia. I didn't say Ukraine. I
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  Speaker 1: said for Russia and Vladimir Putin. President Trump on Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: threatened the quote devastating financial penalties for Russia if the
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  Speaker 1: president Vladimir Putin does not agree to a ceasefire with
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine that Ukraine has agreed to. Quote, there are things
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  Speaker 1: that wouldn't be pleasant. In a financial sense, I can
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  Speaker 1: do things financially that would be very bad for Russia.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to do that because I want to
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  Speaker 1: get peace. That is what Donald Trump told reporters in
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  Speaker 1: the Oval Office. Quote in a financial sense, yes, we
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  Speaker 1: could do things that would be very bad for Russia.
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  Speaker 1: That would be devastating for Russia. But I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to do that because I want to see peace, and
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  Speaker 1: we're getting close to maybe getting something done. We got
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine done, and as you know, Ukraine might have been
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  Speaker 1: the more difficult party here. You were here a week
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: ago when some interesting things happen. Referring to the Zolensky
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  Speaker 1: meeting in the Oval Office, Trump went on to say,
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  Speaker 1: I had somebody who didn't seem to want peace. Now
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  Speaker 1: he's agreed to peace. Trump also said people are going
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  Speaker 1: to Russia right now as we speak, and hopefully we
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  Speaker 1: can get a ceasefire from Russia. If we do, I
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  Speaker 1: think that would be eighty percent of the way to
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  Speaker 1: getting this horrible bloodbath to end. So the question that
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  Speaker 1: all of us should be looking at and asking now
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  Speaker 1: is this, why is the media not reporting this story?
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  Speaker 1: Number one and number two? A president is trying to
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  Speaker 1: bring peace. Why aren't they celebrating this? Why is the
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  Speaker 1: world media not celebrating this? And why is it that
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  Speaker 1: this isn't the number one leading story on every news
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  Speaker 1: channel right now that the President got Zelensky to agreeded
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  Speaker 1: to peace after one week of him being in the
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  Speaker 1: White House angry and yelling and arguing with Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: And then the other question is this, why aren't democrats
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  Speaker 1: if you really want to talk about Russian collusion? Why,
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  Speaker 1: and this may be the most important part, why are
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  Speaker 1: they not demanding peace from Vladimir Putin? Why are world
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  Speaker 1: leaders not demanding peace from Vladimir Putin? Let's be clear,
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  Speaker 1: there is now an official deal on the table. Why
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  Speaker 1: is it that foreign leaders aren't walking out in front
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  Speaker 1: of microphones and demanding the Vladimir Putin agreed to the
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  Speaker 1: ceasefire deal which Zolensky and Ukraine have agreed to, And
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  Speaker 1: why aren't any of them talking about how quickly this
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  Speaker 1: deal was done by Donald Trump? Now, look, I expect
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: the media to hate Donald Trump. I expect many world
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  Speaker 1: leaders to well be jealous of him. But this should
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  Speaker 1: be bigger than that. This is a saving countless lives
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  Speaker 1: and so many families that have been destroyed in Russia
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  Speaker 1: and Ukraine in a senseless war from the very beginning.
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  Speaker 1: This is what leaders do. They lead. And the sad
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  Speaker 1: thing is apparently in this country right now with our media.
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  Speaker 1: If his name is Donald Trump and he does something
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  Speaker 1: incredible like work for a piece to deal, they will
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  Speaker 1: at best say something negative about him, or maybe just
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  Speaker 1: not tell you the story at all. When the radical
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  Speaker 1: left tells you who they are, believe them. When the
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  Speaker 1: radical left tells you what they believe in, believe them.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: When the radical left shows up and does something that
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  Speaker 1: seems absolutely psychotic and crazy, understand that that is actually
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  Speaker 1: what they believe. For far too long, what we have
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  Speaker 1: been seeing is that we try to apologize on behalf
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  Speaker 1: of the crazies on the left. We try to apologize,
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  Speaker 1: which I say, no, they didn't really mean that. We
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  Speaker 1: let them get away with it. We're constantly trying to
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  Speaker 1: say that what we're witnessing, what we're saying, is somehow
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  Speaker 1: not real, because we say, there's no way that could
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  Speaker 1: actually be real, Like there's no way that someone could
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  Speaker 1: actually believe that. Which brings me to my bigger point,
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  Speaker 1: and I've been saying this for quite some time. The
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Party is dead. The Democratic Party is actually filled
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  Speaker 1: with a bunch of socialists, a bunch of communists, and
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of Marxists. That is exactly who the Democratic
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  Speaker 1: Party is. Finally, some of them are actually telling the
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  Speaker 1: truth about who they are. And I'm glad because I
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  Speaker 1: have said that the Democratic Party is it is dead.
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  Speaker 1: But they've had to lie and to see voters for
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: several years now because they knew that a may Erica
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  Speaker 1: really wasn't ready for the Democratic Party to die and
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  Speaker 1: for them to just go to the next phase, which
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  Speaker 1: was to decide that you're a socialists and Marxists are
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  Speaker 1: a communists. And so the Democratic Party is actually filled
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  Speaker 1: with candidates that are those things. Now, let me be clear,
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  Speaker 1: some of them believe in multiple different areas of socialism
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  Speaker 1: and Marxism communism. Some are just straight up declared socialists,
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  Speaker 1: others are just declared communists, others are just declared Marxists.
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  Speaker 1: But the majority of the candidates right now in the
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Democratic Party fall into those categories. You look at the
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  Speaker 1: joint address to Congress the other night by Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 1: and you look at the left and whether it's those
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: that were disrupting early on, whether it's those that had
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: their signs and their boards up, those aren't Democrats. The
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Democratic Party has died. Those are socialists and Marxists running
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: as Democrats who got elected as Democrats because it's palatable. Well,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: fast forward to twenty twenty five, and now we're getting closer,
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  Speaker 1: I think to reality There's two things that I've learned
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  Speaker 1: from this last election with Donald Trump that I think
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: really explain a lot. One of them is it is
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  Speaker 1: very clear now that Democrats have not learned a damn
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  Speaker 1: thing from their lost They just haven't. Okay, they've learned nothing,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely nothing from the brutal beat down and the loss
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  Speaker 1: that they took in this last election. That's point number one,
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  Speaker 1: because if they did, they wouldn't be acting this way,
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  Speaker 1: and if they did, they'd actually be going backwards and going, Okay,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: we need to reassess. We've gotten way too crazy, we
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: are way too extreme, and it's time for us to
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  Speaker 1: bring it back to being Democrats, not being socialist, Marxist
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  Speaker 1: and communists. Now that has not happened. They have learned
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  Speaker 1: nothing thing. Okay, like I'm gonna say that again, they
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  Speaker 1: have learned nothing from this last election. So let's let's
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  Speaker 1: be very very, very very clear about that second point.
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  Speaker 1: There are some that are now just saying I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: admit who I am. I'm just gonna be good with it.
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  Speaker 1: The example I'm gonna give you right now comes out
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  Speaker 1: of New York City, Socialist New York City mayoral candidate
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  Speaker 1: once to hike corporate taxes to pay for loads of freebies.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm glad he's admitting, like I'm not, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: really a democrat. I'm a straight up socialist. Like that's
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  Speaker 1: who I am. And this socialist mayoral candate, his name
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  Speaker 1: is Zoran Mandandi Mondani excuse me, wants to raise corporate
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  Speaker 1: taxes to pay for billions of dollars of freebies for
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: New York, he told The New York Post and exclusive
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: sit down interview. The Queen's state assemblyman is a thirty
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  Speaker 1: three year old set. His plans for his socialist utopia
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  Speaker 1: involves subsidizing free transit and free childcare. How's he going
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  Speaker 1: to pay for it? With higher tax on corporations in
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  Speaker 1: New York City and establishing city run food stores as well,
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  Speaker 1: so the government will be in charge of your food
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: supply chain in New York City. That's not all he
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: wants to do. He also wants to hurt people that
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  Speaker 1: own property. How we do that very simply by freezing rent.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to freeze that rent for millions of New
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  Speaker 1: Yorkers and create a new safety plan, as he describes it,
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  Speaker 1: for the city. The out of nowhere candidate who has
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: been surging so pay attention in recent polls, said his
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  Speaker 1: campaign has a quote relentless focus on making New York
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  Speaker 1: City more affordable through a sizeable expansion of government. So
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: big government is back, which he says lies in direct
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: contrast to the competitor, a guy who you'll remember is
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: the former governor of New York who resigned in disgrace,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo. We have a north Star, referring to his
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  Speaker 1: campaign's economic agenda that is all driven by the belief
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  Speaker 1: that working class New Yorkers cannot afford to worry about
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: anything beyond costs, because it's cost that is pushing them
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  Speaker 1: out of the city that they love, stating that one
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  Speaker 1: in four New Yorkers lives now in poverty. Now, what
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: is this actually about. He's doing the math, and he's
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: understanding that there's a chance that he could win an
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: election solely based on the issue of class warfare. So
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: you get the people that are struggling in New York,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: and you get them angry, and you tell them that
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: it's the rich people that are their problem and it's
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: all their fault. You get people that can't afford to
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: live in the city, and you tell them that it's
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: it's the fault of the rich landlords, that they can't
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  Speaker 1: live there anymore and they're and that their rent should
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  Speaker 1: be frozen indefinitely forever, and that the rent is You
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  Speaker 1: may remember the candidate who ran one time in this country.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was the one that the rent is
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  Speaker 1: too damn high guy, And people loved it because he
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: was telling you, like, I'm going to help you stop
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  Speaker 1: having to pay high prices. So it is a straight
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: up move, for lack of a better way of putting it,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: it is a move to say, if you are poor,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: vote for me, and I will take from the ridge.
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  Speaker 1: This is a robin hood campaign. It's one of the
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: oldest campaign strategies in history. You find enough poor people
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: and you play off of them, and you tell them
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: that their life would be better if you just voted
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  Speaker 1: for me, because I'm going to go to all those
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: evil rich people and I'm going to take what they
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: have and I'm going to make your life better by
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: going after them. Quote. That is all driven by the
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: belief that working class New Yorkers can not afford to
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: worry about anything beyond cost because it's costs. It's pushing
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: them out of the city that they love. So there
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: it is. If you are being left behind, it it's
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: not your fault, it's someone else's fault. And if you
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: vote for me, I'm going to steal from the rich
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: this Robinhood campaign and give to the poor. He's done
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: the math, folks. There's a hell of a lot of
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: people in New York that are in fact paycheck to paycheck.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that quote. Whether it's the cost
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: of rent, childcare, or metro card groceries, New Yorkers are
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: on the brink. He says. I'm on a bashful that
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: I lean to the left, and I plan to advocate
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: and raise corporate tax rates as much as those surrounding states,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: and I'm going to go after them because they deserve
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: to pay more. Not even fair, We're not even We're
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: past fair share. Okay, we're now saying everyone else's it's
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: everyone else's fault that you're not living the life that
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: you want to live. So vote for me. I'll steal
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  Speaker 1: from the rich and I'll give it back to you.
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