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Texas Floods, Biden Doc PLEADS THE FIFTH, Leftists Try to Murder ICE Agents plus FBI Investigates Brennan & Comey · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you.
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  Speaker 2: It's so nice to have you with us across the country.
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  Speaker 2: And Senator let's just start with obviously the most important story,
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  Speaker 2: and that has been coming out of Texas. You have
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  Speaker 2: spent a lot of time in Kerr County and Kerrville.
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  Speaker 2: You're also coming back with President Trump from Marshington, d C.
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  Speaker 2: To tour the devastation with him as well. And our
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  Speaker 2: thoughts are and prayers are still with so many people
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  Speaker 2: affected by this incredible, horrific flooding.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we are one week out from these catastrophic floods
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  Speaker 3: and the damage in Texas. There are not words that
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  Speaker 3: can describe it. I can tell you I've spent this
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  Speaker 3: entire week dealing with the devastation, dealing with the little
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  Speaker 3: girls who were lost to Camp Mystic, talking with parents
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  Speaker 3: who lost their daughters, talking with families who are grieving,
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  Speaker 3: talking with first responders. As you noted on Friday, I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to be flying on Air Force One with President
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  Speaker 3: Trump down to Texas to see firsthand the flooding damage,
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  Speaker 3: to visit with first responders on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to break that down.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to tell you what is happening, What is
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  Speaker 3: the latest on the Texas floods. I will tell you
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  Speaker 3: it remains seeing firsthand what happened at Can't Mystic remains
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  Speaker 3: the most horrible thing I've ever seen. We're going to
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  Speaker 3: talk about that. We're also going to talk about President
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  Speaker 3: Biden's doctor testified on Capitol Hill and did something really remarkable.
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  Speaker 3: You would think about President's doctor. That'll be straightforward, that'll
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  Speaker 3: be easy. Well, no, the doctor pled the fifth refuse
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  Speaker 3: to answer questions. He said, if I give an answer,
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  Speaker 3: that will incriminate me in criminal conduct. We're going to
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  Speaker 3: break that down for you. We're also going to talk
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  Speaker 3: about the rising wave of terrorism directed at ICE, left
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  Speaker 3: wing radicals who are firing weapons trying to kill ICE agents.
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  Speaker 3: It is a phenomenon that is fueled by the radical
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  Speaker 3: rhetoric from the Democrats, from the media. We're going to
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  Speaker 3: do a deep dive on that. And finally, the FBI
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  Speaker 3: announced an investigation into John Brennan, the former head of
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  Speaker 3: the CIA. We're going to talk about why the FBI
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  Speaker 3: is investigating him and what that means. All of that
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  Speaker 3: in today's podcast.
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  Speaker 2: so let's go back to the earlier This week, you
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  Speaker 2: were at Campmistic and you're gonna be heading back there
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  Speaker 2: in just a few hours with the President of the
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  Speaker 2: United States of America. And I got to say it
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  Speaker 2: is so tragic. I know family members tomorrow they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be going to funerals in Houston of some of the
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  Speaker 2: girls that lost their lives that can't mystic And we
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  Speaker 2: were sitting tonight and talking about just how hard this
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  Speaker 2: is for families. But there has been an unbelievable amount
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  Speaker 2: of outpouring of supporting love from around the country helping
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  Speaker 2: those in Texas, and that is one of the miracles
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  Speaker 2: that has come out of this.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're one week out now from these catastrophic floods.
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  Speaker 3: It was a week ago on July fourth, in the
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  Speaker 3: early hours of the morning, that the floodwaters rose and
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  Speaker 3: the Guadalupe River, who is ordinarily a calm, peaceful, beautiful river,
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  Speaker 3: a river that people loved to vacation on, the canoe
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  Speaker 3: to swim. One point eight trillion gallons of rainwater fell
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  Speaker 3: on that river, and in less than an hour the
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  Speaker 3: river rose thirty feet and it carried out utter devastation.
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  Speaker 3: As we are sitting here one week into it, one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and nineteen people are confirmed dead, and there are
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  Speaker 3: roughly two hundred people that are missing that they're still
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  Speaker 3: searching for. And one of the challenges if you look
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  Speaker 3: at Kirk County in central Texas, it is a vacation spot.
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  Speaker 3: It is, I think, and this is widely agreed, the
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  Speaker 3: most beautiful part of Texas the hill Country. There's the
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  Speaker 3: reason it's called the hill country. It's beautiful rolling hills,
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  Speaker 3: it's canyons, it is beautiful, gorgeous rivers, and so people
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  Speaker 3: come there. And on the fourth of July weekend you
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  Speaker 3: had thousands of thousands of people who came from all
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  Speaker 3: over Texas to vacation. They were in RV's, they were
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  Speaker 3: in vacation homes right along the river. One of the
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  Speaker 3: challenges is the local authorities don't know everyone that was there.
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  Speaker 3: Many of them were from out of town. They were
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  Speaker 3: from across Texas, across the country. The RV camps. We
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  Speaker 3: saw RV after RV swept into the water, the vacation cabins.
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  Speaker 3: Many of the cabins are right on the river. The
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  Speaker 3: thirty foot wall of water ripped cabins off of their
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  Speaker 3: foundations and took them into the water. And so we
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  Speaker 3: don't know everyone who is missing. But and the story
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  Speaker 3: that has captured the heart of really the country and
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  Speaker 3: the world is Camp Mystic. Camp Mystic is a Texas institution.
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  Speaker 3: It is one hundred years old. It was founded in
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  Speaker 3: nineteen twenty six, and for a century, Texas girls have
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  Speaker 3: gone to Camp Mystic and they make the best friends
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  Speaker 3: of the lifetimes when you go to a closing ceremony
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  Speaker 3: at Camp Mystic. In the other summer camps that are
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  Speaker 3: in the Hill Country, the closing ceremonies are typically one
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  Speaker 3: to two days, and you see literally you see grandmothers
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  Speaker 3: and moms and little girls, three generations of women and
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  Speaker 3: girls who have been to these camps. And it is
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  Speaker 3: a beautiful, wonderful tradition. And right now the extent of
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  Speaker 3: the agony, I really cannot overstate it. Every city in Houston,
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  Speaker 3: in Dallas, in Fort Worth, in Austin, in San Antonio,
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  Speaker 3: all across the state, in West Texas, in the Rio
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  Speaker 3: Grande Valley, in East Texas, Texans, their little girls go there.
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  Speaker 3: As you know, my daughters have gone to camp in
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  Speaker 3: the Hill Country for a decade. My wife Heidi picked
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  Speaker 3: up Catherine a week before these floods from her summer camp,
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  Speaker 3: just a couple of miles away from Camp Mystic. And
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  Speaker 3: so they look. If you go to my home in Houston,
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  Speaker 3: on in my front yard, the tree, we have a
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  Speaker 3: green ribbon around the tree mourning the girls lost and Mystic.
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  Speaker 3: Just about every single home on my street has a
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  Speaker 3: green ribbon around the trees mourning the girls lost in
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  Speaker 3: can't Mystic. Texas is suffering, but we will come through this,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll come through this because we're coming together, and
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  Speaker 3: it is inspirational to see Texans coming together, and we
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  Speaker 3: will overcome this.
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  Speaker 2: This is one of those stories that I'm so glad
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  Speaker 2: we get to shine light on it. Joe Biden's former
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  Speaker 2: doctor when he was the president refuse senator to answer
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  Speaker 2: questions and the House Oversight probe and to basically like
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  Speaker 2: who is running the country? Who was in charge the
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  Speaker 2: auto pen Joe Biden may not have known what he
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  Speaker 2: was even doing.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this was really astonishing this week. You know, ordinarily,
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  Speaker 3: if the president's doctor is testifying, the president's doctor is
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  Speaker 3: speaking at a press conference, it's kind of a nothing burger.
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  Speaker 3: The president's doctor lays out, here's what happened when we
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  Speaker 3: engaged in investigation. And by the way, there's no notion
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  Speaker 3: that presidents have a right to privacy to have if
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  Speaker 3: the president has cancer, if the president has dementia, the
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  Speaker 3: president's doctor is supposed to tell the American people the
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  Speaker 3: American people have a right to know if there's a
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  Speaker 3: serious health condition affecting the president. Well, instead of answering
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  Speaker 3: reasonable questions, the president's doctor, doctor Kevin O'Connor, sat in
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  Speaker 3: front of the House of Representatives and he pleaded the fifth.
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  Speaker 3: He said, I'm not answering anything. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 3: answer if I lied to the American people, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: going to answer if I lied to Congress. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: going to answer anything. Now, typically when people plead the fifth,
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  Speaker 3: they're doing it to avoid incriminating themselves in criminal conduct.
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  Speaker 3: That is an astonishing thing. It would be one thing
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  Speaker 3: if he said, I'm not going to give the precise
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  Speaker 3: diagnosis that I gave to Joe Biden about particular health
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  Speaker 3: maladies he had. That's that is That's not an unreasonable
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  Speaker 3: thing to say. I don't think you should say that,
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  Speaker 3: because I actually think the president's doctor has an obligation
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  Speaker 3: to the American people to be candid. But if he
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  Speaker 3: wanted to say that, that would be one thing he's
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  Speaker 3: saying he refused to answer. Were you asked to lie
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  Speaker 3: to the American people? I want you to listen to
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  Speaker 3: some of the cross examination because his answers are astonishing.
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  Speaker 3: And you mentioned the question who was running the country?
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  Speaker 3: I have heard literally over the last four years hundreds
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  Speaker 3: of times people have asked me who was running the country.
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  Speaker 3: And I got to tell you. If the president's doctor
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  Speaker 3: has to plead the Fifth to avoid saying were you
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  Speaker 3: lying to the American people? That really raises incredible questions
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  Speaker 3: about the degree of duplicity, the degree of lying to
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  Speaker 3: the American people that occurred for the last four years.
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  Speaker 3: Here give a listen to this exchange with Joe Biden's doctor.
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  Speaker 4: Doctor O'Connor, were you ever told to lie about the
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  Speaker 4: president's health?
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  Speaker 5: Of the advice the.
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  Speaker 6: Council, I must expectfully declined to answer the physician based
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  Speaker 6: privilege and in reliance somebody right under the fifth mand
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  Speaker 6: of the Constitution. I am not a lawyer who must
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  Speaker 6: follow my lawyer's advice.
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  Speaker 7: In this matter.
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  Speaker 2: Simple eighteen seconds, right, Hey, I can't even answer the
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  Speaker 2: question if I was told to lie about the president's condition.
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  Speaker 1: That is shocking coming from a doctor.
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  Speaker 3: It's shocking and it's lawless. The Fifth Amendment does not
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  Speaker 3: protect There's nothing in the patient doctor privilege that protects
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  Speaker 3: that bars you from answering the question, were you ever
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  Speaker 3: told a lie that has nothing to do with the
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  Speaker 3: president's condition? Were you ever told a lie? By the way,
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  Speaker 3: I think virtually every president's doctor. That would be an
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  Speaker 3: easy question, because a president's doctor. Ronnie Jackson, who is
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  Speaker 3: now a member of Congress from Texas, he was the
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  Speaker 3: president's doctor. He was President Bush's doctor, is President Obama's doctor,
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  Speaker 3: is President Trump's doctor. He is gone on TV and said, hey,
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  Speaker 3: were you ever asked to lie?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 3: I was the president's doctor, So I gave I told
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  Speaker 3: the truth to the American people. The degree to which
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  Speaker 3: that is a confession of deliberate dishonesty, And it's not
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  Speaker 3: just on the part of the doctor. Look, the doctor
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  Speaker 3: was complicit. The obvious reason he's pleading the fifth is
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  Speaker 3: because the answer is yes, he was lying. He was
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  Speaker 3: lying to the American people. But it wasn't just the
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  Speaker 3: doctor that knew that. It was the White House staff,
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  Speaker 3: It was the chief of staff, it was the senior staff,
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  Speaker 3: it was Joe Biden, it was everyone around Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 3: His mental diminishment was massive. And so when the doctor
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  Speaker 3: was trundled out to the American people to say he's
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  Speaker 3: sharp as attack. He was lying, and everyone knew he
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  Speaker 3: was lying, and yet he's right now refusing to admit this.
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  Speaker 3: I want you to listen to this other exchange from
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  Speaker 3: the hearing this week.
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  Speaker 4: Doctor O'Connor. Before we begin, I would like to go
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  Speaker 4: over the ground rules for this deposition. The Committee will
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  Speaker 4: conduct today's deposition in accordance with the House of Representatives
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  Speaker 4: regulations for the use of deposition authority, which were furnished
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  Speaker 4: to your council. This regulation is incorporated into the Rules
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  Speaker 4: of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at Rule fifteen,
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  Speaker 4: which was also furnished here a council. The questioning will
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  Speaker 4: proceed in rounds. The majority will ask questions for an hour,
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  Speaker 4: and then the minority will have an opportunity to ask
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  Speaker 4: questions for an hour if they choose. There will be
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  Speaker 4: one staff council perside asking the questions during each round.
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  Speaker 4: To the extent members have questions for the witness, they
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  Speaker 4: will be propounded during their size respective rounds.
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  Speaker 7: Do you understand the advice of Castle, I must respectfully
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  Speaker 7: decline to answer based on the physician patient privilege and
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  Speaker 7: reliance on my rank under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.
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  Speaker 7: I am not a lawyer, and I must follow my
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  Speaker 7: lawyer's advice in this matter.
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  Speaker 8: So, gentlemen, we intend to assert both privileges with regard
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  Speaker 8: to any questions that would be asked at this deposition.
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  Speaker 8: And doctor O'Connor will not answer any questions.
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  Speaker 6: Can we go off your record?
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  Speaker 7: For one tire?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you hear that and then they go off
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  Speaker 1: the record.
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  Speaker 2: This is just a doctor that clearly can't answer a
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  Speaker 2: single question, I guess truthfully because it puts them in
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  Speaker 2: such a bad light as a doctor. Why wouldn't you
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  Speaker 2: want to clear your own name as a doctor saying no,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't lie and make up things. I didn't lie
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  Speaker 2: the American people. I didn't lie on behalf of the
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  Speaker 2: President of United States of America. Wouldn't you want to
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  Speaker 2: clear your good name if you're a doctor?
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  Speaker 3: Of course, the reason he didn't say that is because
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  Speaker 3: he's a liar. That the only reason you plead the
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  Speaker 3: fifth when you're asked, were you asked to lie to
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  Speaker 3: the American people? That should not be a complicated question.
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  Speaker 3: Any doctor, by the way, any public official, ought to
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  Speaker 3: be able to answer that no, that I am not
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  Speaker 3: lying to the American people. I did not lie to
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  Speaker 3: the American people. The fact that he's refusing to answer
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  Speaker 3: any question. And by the way, I think the House
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  Speaker 3: of Representatives is going to seriously consider granting this doctor immunity.
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  Speaker 3: Now why is that important? Because if they grant the
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  Speaker 3: doctor immunity, it means they can force them to testify.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have a right to a Fifth Amendment privilege.
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  Speaker 3: If you have immunity. That Fifth Amendment privilege only protects
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  Speaker 3: you from testifying if you face the jeopardy of criminal prosecution.
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  Speaker 1: It's a that immunity though, like, does you have to
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  Speaker 1: agree to that? He does not. They can grant immunity.
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  Speaker 1: Now you got to talk.
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  Speaker 3: They can grant him immunity. They can drag him in
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  Speaker 3: front and if he refuses to testify, they can hold
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  Speaker 3: him in contempt and put him in jail. Wow, you
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  Speaker 3: don't once you are no longer facing criminal prosecution. The
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  Speaker 3: Fifth Amendment does not give you the right to refuse
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  Speaker 3: to answer questions. I think there's a very real possibility
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  Speaker 3: that's what the House is going to do.
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  Speaker 2: Senator, I want to move to another big story, and
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  Speaker 2: that is the rising threat that has just become oh
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  Speaker 2: so real. Uh, with federal law enforcement, and there was
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  Speaker 2: a shooter that ambushed Texas Border Patrol agents. Words from
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  Speaker 2: elected officials, in my opinion, have major influence, but also consequence.
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  Speaker 2: We have seen time and time again right now Democrats
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  Speaker 2: coming out and saying that I certain evil stand up
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  Speaker 2: to IE fight Ice. These are words coming from so
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  Speaker 2: many Democrats that are actually elected to office.
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  Speaker 3: Well, listen, as you noted, words have consequence, and we
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  Speaker 3: have seen an awful lot of democrats. We have seen
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  Speaker 3: the corporate media denounce ICE, called them Nazis, call them
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  Speaker 3: them goose stepping fascists. And unfortunately, that rhetoric fuels a rage.
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  Speaker 3: It fuels a rage that we have seen manifesting in
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  Speaker 3: violence over and over again, leftists engaging in active violence
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  Speaker 3: against ICE agents. So, just a few days ago, an
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  Speaker 3: active shooter opened fire on ICE agents in McCallen, Texas.
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  Speaker 3: And here here's the story from Fox News. Active shooter
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  Speaker 3: killed an attempt to ambush Border Patrol agents in Texas.
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  Speaker 3: One McCallan police officer wounded but in stable condition following
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  Speaker 3: a parent planned ambush at Rio Grande Valley facility. And
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  Speaker 3: here's what the article says. An active shooter armed with
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  Speaker 3: tactical gear and a rifle opened fire upon Border Patrol
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  Speaker 3: agents is they arrived at a Border Patrol annex facility
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  Speaker 3: in McAllen, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley on Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Law enforcement sources say agents and local police returned fire
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  Speaker 3: and killed the gunman. No federal agents were hit, but
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  Speaker 3: one McCallen police officer was struck. Law enforcement sources say
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  Speaker 3: the officer is in stable condition.
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  Speaker 1: Quote.
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  Speaker 3: This morning, an individual open fire at the entrance of
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  Speaker 3: the United States Border Patrol Sector Annex in McCallen, Texas.
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  Speaker 3: Both Border patrol agents and local police helped neutralize the
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  Speaker 3: shooter to the Department of Homeland Security said to statement
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  Speaker 3: of Fox News. This is an ongoing investigation led by
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  Speaker 3: the FBI. More information will be shared as it becomes available.
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  Speaker 3: Now I'll tell you I have walked into and out
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  Speaker 3: of that Border patrol facility in McAllen, Texas multiple times.
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  Speaker 3: The fact that you have violent criminals, and this is
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  Speaker 3: a criminal who lost his life because he showed up
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  Speaker 3: and wanted to shoot at law enforcement officials. He was
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  Speaker 3: doing so. We don't know this conclusively, but we can
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  Speaker 3: certainly infer that he was doing so because he's been
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  Speaker 3: listening to the extreme rhetoric that these are Nazis, and
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: so he was like, you know what, if you've got Nazis,
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: let's kill the Nazis. That is the consequence of the
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  Speaker 3: unhinged and deranged rhetoric on the left.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, you talk about that rhetoric, let's give actual quotes.
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  Speaker 2: House Minority Leader Kim Jeffries of New York said employed
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  Speaker 2: people to quote fight the Trump administration in the streets
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: quote unquote. He also declared ICE agents quote will be
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  Speaker 2: unsuccessful and protecting their identities no matter what it takes,
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  Speaker 2: advocating for docsing and putting their families at risk.
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  Speaker 1: Ice agents.
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  Speaker 2: Representative Jay Paul of Washington called ICE agents quote unquote
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  Speaker 2: deranged and said it is quote inspiring to obstruct immigration enforcement.
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  Speaker 2: Representative mc iver of New Jersey, who was arrested in
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: charged with forcibly impeding and interfering with federal officers outside
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  Speaker 2: Night's attention facility, incited her supporters to quote shut down
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  Speaker 2: the city because we are at war quote unquote, and
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: even the former vice presidential candidate of the Minnesota Governor
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  Speaker 2: Tim Waltz, getting in on the action, called Ice agents
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  Speaker 2: the modern day gestapo. Chicago's mayor this past week, Johnson
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: accused the ICE agents of being quote unquote the secret
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: police and quote terrorizing our communities. And you add in
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Eric Swawell of California, he said it was quote his
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: priority to ensure ICE agents quote are no longer faceless,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: comparing them to some eighteen hundreds bank robbers or some
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  Speaker 2: KGB officers in Russia. Words have consequences, and this is
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: the rhetoric coming from some of your colleagues in DC.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and not only do they have consequences with the
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: arm shooter who was killed in McCallan, Texas, but in
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: North Texas, eleven people were arrested for plotting to ambush
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  Speaker 3: to kill ICE correction officers. And I want to read
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: from this story from the Daily Wire. Quote Eleven people
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  Speaker 3: have been arrested in what law enforcement officers described as
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: a quote planned ambush of corrections officers at an ICE
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: detention facility in Alvarado, Texas on July fourth. One Alvarado
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  Speaker 3: police officer was shot in the neck during the attack
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  Speaker 3: and is expected to survive.
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  Speaker 1: Quote.
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  Speaker 3: Early reports indicate that more than a dozen massed individuals
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  Speaker 3: dressed in black arrived at the Prairie Land Ice Detention
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  Speaker 3: facility late Friday night and vandalized vehicles and security cameras
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: in the parking lots. CBS News reported the individuals launched
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: fireworks in an apparent effort to lure law enforcement. On
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: July fifth, Deputy Attorney General Tom Blanche posted on x
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: quote we are closely monitoring the attacks on DHS facilities
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  Speaker 3: in Prairieland, Texas and Portland, Oregon, and are coordinating with
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: USAOs and our law enforcement partners. The Department has zero
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: tolerance for assaults on federal officers or property and will
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: bring the full weight of the law against those responsible.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: On Monday, Acting US Attorney Nancy Larson stated, We're here
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  Speaker 3: to tell you that late at night on July fourth,
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  Speaker 3: Friday night, at approximately ten thirty seven pm, at Prairieland
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Ice Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, ten to twelve individuals
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: dressed in black military style clothing began shooting fireworks and
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: engaging in acts of vandalism at the facility that was
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: part of an organized attack. Today, my office has charged
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: ten individuals with three counts of attempted murder of a
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: federal officer. Each of the ten are also charged with
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: three counts of discharging a firearm in relation to a
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: crime of violence. Each of these defendants faces a mandatory
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: prison term of ten years and up to life in prison.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: An additional co conspirator was charged with obstruction of justice
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: and conspiracy for attempting to conceal and destroy evidence in
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: relation to the attack, and faces up to ten years
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: in prison. And she continued, quote, let's discuss the incident.
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  Speaker 3: It was a planned ambush with the intent to kill
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: ICE corrections officers. Make no mistake. This was not a
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: so called peaceful protest. It was indeed an ambush. This
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: is the violence we are seeing. And it turns out
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: when you call law enforcement officers federal law enforcement officers
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: that are keeping us safe, when you call them Nazis,
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: when you call them gestapo lunatics on the left hear that,
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: and sadly, we are saying over and over again, they
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: are acting and their acting with violence.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: You look at even on Tuesday you had Democrat Center
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Padilla of California and Corey Booker New Jersey. They introduced
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: that legislation to require ICE officers to quote display clearly
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: visible IDs and not wear masks no matter what during
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: their enforcement operations, accusing quote the trum administration of alarming
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: immigration enforcement tactics that have terrorized communities across California and
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: the nation. And we know what the left has done here.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: They want to dock these ICE agents. They're family members.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: They've been putting their kids even online and posting. People
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: been posting their home addresses, hoping that basically people go
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: after the ICE agents who are just doing their jobs.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: That's how sick these people are.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Well listen, there's a simple choice. There's a choice for
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Americans all across the country. Who do you stand with?
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Do you stand with cops? Do you stand with law
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: enforcement agents? Do you stand with the man and women
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: who risk their lives to keep us safe? You and
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: I both stand with them? Or, as the Democrats have chosen,
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: do you stand with illegal immigrants? Do you stand with murderers?
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Do you stand with rapists? Do you stand with child molesters?
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Do you stand with Venezuelan gang members who are engaged
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: in human trafficking? Sadly, the Democrats and inexplicably they've decided
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: to stand with the criminals and not law enforcement. And
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: we're seeing the consequences.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: SATA, I want to get into this and get your
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: reaction to the FBI launching an investigation into John Brennan
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: into James Comey over the Trump Russia probe. I think
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: we need to go back and just remind people of
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: what they were peddling that they knew was false. Basically,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: in my opinion, it was a coup attempt against the
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: American people who chose Donald Trump in sixteen to be
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: their president. They didn't like it, and like, no worries,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: you know, we'll do what the least of page Peter
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Strucks were doing. Right, We'll fix it. We'll take care
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: of it after the fact, after he gets sworn in,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: and we're gonna go after him and we're gonna undermine him.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: We're gonna get Hi impeached, and that'll be all fine.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Well, I got to say, this is an astonishing story.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: John Brennan was the head of the James Comy was
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: the head of the FBI. Both of them are right
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: now under active criminal investigations. Here's what Fox News has reported.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: Quote former CIA director John Brennan and former FBI director
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: James Comy are under criminal investigation for potential wrongdoing. Related
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: to the Trump Russia probe, including allegedly making false statements
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: to Congress. Justice Department sources told Fox News Digital. CIA
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: director John Ratcliffe referred evidence of wrongdoing by Brennan to
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: FBI director Cash Ptel for potential prosecution. DOJ sources told
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Fox News Digital. The sources said the referral was received,
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: and told Fox News did Digital that a criminal investigation
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: into Brennan was opened and is underway. DOJ sources declined
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: to provide further details. It is unclear at this point
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: if the investigation spans beyond his alleged false statements to Congress.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: As for Comy, DOJ sources told Fox News Digital that
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: an investigation of the former director is underway, but could
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: not share details of what specifically is being probed. The
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: full scope of the criminal investigations is Brennan and Comy
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: is unclear, but two sources described the FBI's view of
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: the duo's interactions as a quote conspiracy, which could open
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: up a wide range of potential prosecutorial options. The FBI
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: and the CIA declined comment.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: I mean this is massive on so many different levels.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: And John Brennan, by the way, he went on TV
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: on MSNBC, And it was pretty funny because it was
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: like he was just playing dumb and it was like,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: I don't even know why they would be investigating me.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know what they would be looking at.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: I don't understand how this is even even a thing
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: in his own words. And in fact, I'm going to
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: play it because I want you to hear it. I
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: want to get your reaction. Here's John Brennan MSNBC after
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: finding out that he's a target of an investigator.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: Really, if there is an investigation that people will be questioned.
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: I would be questioned about it. But again I've had
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: no contact from them. But again I testified in front
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: of many many congressional committees in the House and the
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: Senate over the years, and I continue to explain exactly
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: what we did during this process, why we tried to
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: make sure we stay true to our intelligence responsibilities and
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: that we were not going to do anything at all
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: to try to interfere in that election. And again, it
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: was a challenging time, but also one I think that
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: the people who actually worked this, both in terms of
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: trying to collect intelligence prior to the election and then
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: the ones who put together the intelli assessment. They really,
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: I think showed the best of what the intelligence community
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: and what CIA is made of.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: So again I am.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: Clueless about what it is exactly that they may be
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: investigating before.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: That may be the fastest center I've ever heard John
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Brennan speak on TV ever, and I've watched them a
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: lot over the years.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: That seemed like a very nervous man to me.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Well, let me give a little more background on who
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: John Brennan is. He was the director of the CIA
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: from twenty thirteen to twenty seventeen under Barack Obama. Now,
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: in nineteen seventy six, John Brennan was a young man.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Nineteen seventy six, You were not alive.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Is that right?
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: Ben?
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: I was not.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: No, Now you're enough of a political student and scholar.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Let me ask you. Who were the presidential candidates in
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: nineteen seventy six?
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Jimmy Carter, Yeah, all right, and on the Republican side.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I love when you play these games with me. Dan
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: was Reagan seventy six as well?
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: No, no, he so Reagan ran, but he lost.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: It was Ford. It was Ford.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Ford was the incumbent president's remember Richard Nixon had been president.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: He resigned, so Ford was the incumbent President Reagan primary
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Ford but he lost in that primary. So the general
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: election was Gerald Ford versus Jimmy Carter. Now, let me
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: ask you, all right, in that election, who would you
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: vote for?
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna probably go the Republican there, not Jimmy Carter.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Look, although I will say, and by the way, do
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: you know this is my first political memory. I'm about
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: ten years older than you are. My first political memory
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: is when I was five years old, nineteen seventy six,
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: and my mother voted for Jimmy Carter. My mother is
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: a strong conservative. She just thought Gerald Ford was an idiot.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: And I remember my father, my father, who's an immigrant
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: from Quba. He was not yet a US citizen. He
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: is today, but he was not in seventy six. And
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: my father was furious because he felt like my mom
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: had the family's vote and she voted for Jimmy Carter.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: It's funny.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: My mom is ninety now and she's incredible and a
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: wonderful conservative and incredible person. But when I bring this up,
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: she's like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I didn't know. Jimmy
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Carter was an absolute disaster. He was a left wing wacko.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: He was the worst president this country had ever seen
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: until Joe Biden. Joe Biden managed to be worse than
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: Jimmy Carter. Now, how is this relevant to John Well?
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: John Brennan was in college at the time. He was
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: faced with a choice between Gerald Ford and ultra left
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: wing crazy Jimmy Carter. What do you think, John Brennan did.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I'm ready give me, give me the punch line here.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: He cast his vote for a guy named Gus Hall.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: Do you know who Gus Hall was?
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: I do not.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: He was the presidential candidate for the Communist Party USA.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: And there's your sign.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: So John Brennan decided Jimmy Carter is two right wing
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: for him, and he voted for someone who I'm not
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: calling him a communist. He was the nominee of the
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: Communist Party. And John Brennan said, I want America governed
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: by a communist president. That's who Barack Obama put in
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: charge of the CIA, and that's who who was played
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: an integral role in orchestrating the whole Russia Gate fraud.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: And and and it's just it's important to understand just
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: how extreme and radical this guy is.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: I got to tell you.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: I don't know, to be honest, I don't know anybody
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: else in public life who thought Jimmy Carter was too conservative.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: John Brennan is literally to the left of every Democrat Senator,
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: every Democrat House member, every single person I've ever encountered
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: in public life. The lefty loons all voted for Jimmy
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: Carter except for John Brennan, who said, Nope, we need
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: a full on communist.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: That's who this guy is.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Final question on this, how concerned do you think these
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: two individuals should be about this investigation or is this
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: one of those moments where you say, Okay, yeah, there's investigation,
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: but I don't have to worry because nothing ever really
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: happens to us when when we're the elites.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Well, listen, the greatest exposure they have is for lying
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: to Congress, because lying to Congress you are under oath,
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: and lying under oath that carries a prison sentence that
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: carries up to five years in prison. James Clapper, who
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: was the Director of National Intelligence under Barack Obama, I
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: think the evidence is very clear that he lied to Congress,
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: whether John Brennan did, whether James Comy did. I think
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: this investigation will reveal. It will depend upon There's no
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: doubt they were terrible heads of the CIA and the FBI.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Whether they committed criminal conduct or not, I think that
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: that is the purpose of this investigation. But I got
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: to say, it is a big damn deal that the
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: former head of the FBI and the former head of
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: the CIA are being criminally investigated for felony conduct. That's
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: what's happening right now.
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