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Follow DEI not Science, What the Law Says about Immigrant Asylum in America & Israel Erases Sinwar Week In Review · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome. It is Verdict with Center Ted Cruz, the week
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  Speaker 1: in Review, Ben Ferguson with you, and we had some
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  Speaker 1: major stories that if you missed them this week, you
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  Speaker 1: want to make sure you know about them now. First up,
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  Speaker 1: Biden Harris diverted billions from actual science research to DEI activities.
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  Speaker 1: Where did it go and how did they get away
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  Speaker 1: with it? We break that down for you. Also, what
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  Speaker 1: does the actual law say about asylum seekers coming into
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  Speaker 1: this country? Now they know how to play the system,
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  Speaker 1: but are we supposed to let everyone stay who crosses
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  Speaker 1: the southern border? The answer is no, But what does
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  Speaker 1: the law say? And well, are the people in the
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  Speaker 1: White House breaking the law? We'll explain that for you
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  Speaker 1: as well. And finally, a major victory as Israel killed
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  Speaker 1: Hamasa's mastermind behind the October seventh attack. How did they
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  Speaker 1: pull it off? We explain it all. It's the Weekend
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  Speaker 1: Review and it starts right now. I want to move
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  Speaker 1: to another subject real quick. And this is the reason
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  Speaker 1: why we do this podcast is we get to bring
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  Speaker 1: you information that is not being covered and this is important.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: There was a investigation that you guys put together in
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  Speaker 1: Washington that revealed and you were the leader on this
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  Speaker 1: how the Biden Harris administration diverted billions of dollars from
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  Speaker 1: scientific research to DEI activists. And for people that are listening,
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  Speaker 1: let's start with this, remind them what DEI stands for.
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  Speaker 1: And then this story that is broken.
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  Speaker 2: Well, DEI is diversity, equity and inclusion, and it is
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  Speaker 2: the catchphrase of the woke left. And let me just
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  Speaker 2: give you, give you the headline. Before Biden took office
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty, less than one percent of the grants
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  Speaker 2: from the National Science Foundation were related to AID. Today
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  Speaker 2: that number is greater than ten percent. So there has
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  Speaker 2: been a massive, massive shift. Now what does that mean. Well,
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  Speaker 2: this past week I put out a report. So as
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm the ranking member on the Senate Committee
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  Speaker 2: of Commerce, Science, and Transportation. That means I'm the senior
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  Speaker 2: Republican on the Commerce Committee. The Commerce Committee has jurisdiction
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  Speaker 2: over about forty percent of the US economy, including science
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  Speaker 2: and including the National Science Foundation. So my team engaged
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  Speaker 2: in a systematic study and we put out a report
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  Speaker 2: examining how the National Science Foundation has increasingly politicized the
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  Speaker 2: use of taxpayer dollars meant for scientific research, and the
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  Speaker 2: report shows that in its first week, the Biden Harris
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  Speaker 2: administration mandated that all taxpayer funded scientific research and development
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  Speaker 2: must incorporate diversity, equity and inclusion DEI values. In response
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  Speaker 2: to this directive, the National Science Foundation allocated over two
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  Speaker 2: point zero five billion dollars over two billion dollars to
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  Speaker 2: thousands of research projects that promoted neo Marxist perspectives or
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  Speaker 2: DEI tenants, and taxpayer dollars supported these very questionable scientific
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  Speaker 2: studies used by researchers to drive extreme ideologies in the
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  Speaker 2: classrooms and on their campuses. And here are the top
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  Speaker 2: line numbers. Our analysis identified three thousand, four hundred and
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  Speaker 2: eighty three grants, over ten percent of all National Science
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  Speaker 2: Foundation grants during the Biden Harris administration that went to
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  Speaker 2: questionable projects promoting DEI or pushing neo Marxist perspectives about
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  Speaker 2: enduring class struggle, and our investigation grouped these grants into
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  Speaker 2: five categories status, social justice, gender, race, and environmental justice.
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  Speaker 2: So let me get let me give you some of
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  Speaker 2: the examples. So you're in Vosugi, who is an associate
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  Speaker 2: professor of Learning Sciences at Northwestern University and a co
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  Speaker 2: Principal Investigator for a one million, thirty four thousand, seven
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty one dollars NSF grant award in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty three for a project titled quote Reimagining Educator learning
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  Speaker 2: Pathways through story Work for racial Equity in STEM and
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  Speaker 2: Vosugi credits Marxist traditions for her decision to teach quilt
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  Speaker 2: children quote the meaning of genocide and apartheid after Hamas's
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  Speaker 2: attack against israel I give you another example. In twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty three, NSF awarded Georgia Institute Technologies Kelly Cross ninety
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  Speaker 2: nine thousand, seven hundred and ninety one dollars to quote
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  Speaker 2: disrupt racialized privilege in the STEM classroom by acknowledging quote
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  Speaker 2: whiteness and white supremacy are deeply ingrained in the past, present,
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  Speaker 2: and future of US higher education. Cross sought to quote
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  Speaker 2: subvert these toxic systems to create a more equitable education
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  Speaker 2: system and to quote initiate a national conversation about addressing
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  Speaker 2: racial inequity and white supremacy in the STEM profession and classroom.
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  Speaker 2: This is what your taxpayers tax dollars are going towards.
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  Speaker 1: How does this happen? Where they can divert this type
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  Speaker 1: of funding at this level is the question I think
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  Speaker 1: most taxpayers would want to ask immediately. Like, I can
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  Speaker 1: understand skimming somebody here there, but diverting billions from scientific
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  Speaker 1: research to di two billion dollars, yeah, two billion dollars
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  Speaker 1: to DII activists. That's not where your tax dours are
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  Speaker 1: supposed to go. And by the way, I think you
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  Speaker 1: and I agree on this, I wouldn't want these funds
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  Speaker 1: diverted to a conservative activist group either.
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  Speaker 2: No, this is meant to be a science. This is
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  Speaker 2: meant to be saving people's lives. Let me give you
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  Speaker 2: another example. In twenty twenty two, NSF awarded San Jose
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  Speaker 2: State University four hundred and one thousand, seven hundred and
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  Speaker 2: forty four dollars for an ongoing project to quote transform
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  Speaker 2: science teaching and learning through empowering teachers and students as
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  Speaker 2: climate justice action researchers and change agents. The project is
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  Speaker 2: meant to foster quote the development of a hub for
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  Speaker 2: justice centered science education and will produce school based materials
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  Speaker 2: in professional development activities that examine the interwoven nature of
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  Speaker 2: climate justice and racial justice. Now, who was in charge
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  Speaker 2: of this?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 2: The principal investigator was Tammy Visentainer, who sees her classroom
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  Speaker 2: as a venue for social activism. In April twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: Vicentainer wrote that her course quote for aspiring middle and
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  Speaker 2: high school teachers centers racial justice in science education, and
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  Speaker 2: at the end of her course, she showed her student's
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  Speaker 2: photos of Israel ramp dropping pamphlets inside the Gaza strip
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  Speaker 2: to warn residents to move out of the way of
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  Speaker 2: incoming rocket fire. Vis Attainer, who claimed that Hamasa's October
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  Speaker 2: terror attack needed to be contextualized, explain that the photos
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  Speaker 2: quote creates spaces that engage complexity in promotion of shared
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  Speaker 2: dignity and humanity to build bridges across differences. But she
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  Speaker 2: didn't explain what the hell they had to do with science,
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  Speaker 2: which is what a National Science Foundation grant is supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be about.
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  Speaker 1: Send her final question on this story that you obviously
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  Speaker 1: have broken, and it's a big one. When these types
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  Speaker 1: of stories break, usually in the past, you'd have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of media that would cover it. You'd have other
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  Speaker 1: colleagues that would come in and say they want to
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  Speaker 1: make sure this is stopped, or or have rules and
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  Speaker 1: regulations that would help stop it right away. When you
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  Speaker 1: came out with this report, did any of the major
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  Speaker 1: media outlets call and say, hey, we want this info
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  Speaker 1: that you're exposing, or do they just look the other way?
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  Speaker 2: Well, there were a handful of stories, but they were
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  Speaker 2: principally in conservative outlets because the actual corporate media doesn't
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  Speaker 2: cover news. This news is inconvenient. The fact that Kamala
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  Speaker 2: Harris and Joe Biden are funneling billions that's meant to
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  Speaker 2: go to science, that's meant to save lives, that's meant
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  Speaker 2: to promote like basic research, they're funneling it instead to
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  Speaker 2: aggressively ideological left wing activists, zelots. They're using it to
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  Speaker 2: corrupt students, to corrupt universities, to corrupt K through twelve education.
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  Speaker 2: That is a message that the media does not want
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  Speaker 2: to cover. They will actively do everything they can to suppress, because, look,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what's the big deal to stealing billions of
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  Speaker 2: dollars a tax paramney to fund Marxists poisoning the minds
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  Speaker 2: of our kids. The next thing you're going, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to say it's a big deal that a
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  Speaker 2: handful of apartment complexes are taken over by Venezuelan gangs.
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  Speaker 1: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
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  Speaker 1: you can go back and listen to the full podcast
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  Speaker 1: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two. This
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  Speaker 1: is something that I think many Americans don't understand about
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  Speaker 1: those that seeking asylum, and explain that more the law.
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  Speaker 1: What it says, because this is part of the abuse
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  Speaker 1: by the left is they make you think that if
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  Speaker 1: anyone in the world is in essence not happy with
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  Speaker 1: the conditions of where they are in their life, or
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  Speaker 1: what they're living, where they're living, or who's in charge
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  Speaker 1: of a country, that that therefore means they should immediately
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  Speaker 1: go to the front of the line and come straight
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  Speaker 1: into American We should take care of them. And you
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  Speaker 1: just says that it's really important you don't just allow
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  Speaker 1: people to come in into this country because they don't
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  Speaker 1: like their quote economic conditions.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly right what US law is as we have asylum.
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  Speaker 2: We offer people asylum, but to qualify for asylum, you
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  Speaker 2: have to demonstrate a quote credible fear of political persecution.
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  Speaker 2: If you're in say a communist country, and you can
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  Speaker 2: demonstrate the government if they capture you, they're going to
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  Speaker 2: torture you, they're going to kill you. That's typically the
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  Speaker 2: kind of showing you've got to demonstrate to qualify for asylum.
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  Speaker 2: It's explicitly political persecution. And one of the reason is, look,
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  Speaker 2: there're seven to eight billion people on planet Earth, that
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  Speaker 2: there are billions of people living in poverty. Our nation
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  Speaker 2: has about three hundred and thirty million Americans. We don't
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  Speaker 2: have the capacity, we don't have the ability to provide
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  Speaker 2: for billions of people flooding in who are simply in
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  Speaker 2: poverty and would like to live better, particularly when you
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  Speaker 2: combine it with the democrats welfare state, because understand, Kamala
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  Speaker 2: Harris doesn't just provide open border. She says, you get
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  Speaker 2: here and we'll give you welfare, we'll give you free healthcare,
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  Speaker 2: we will give you money. And so frankly, look, I
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  Speaker 2: understand why the people come to this country. If you're
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  Speaker 2: living in poverty and you get to come to America
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  Speaker 2: and these idiots in the government are going to give
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  Speaker 2: you free everything, why wouldn't you come? But that is
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  Speaker 2: not US law. Economic need poverty does not qualify for asylum,
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  Speaker 2: and the Democrats don't care. They're not even pretending this
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  Speaker 2: meets US law. So what they do, here's the game.
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  Speaker 2: You show up. And by the way, just about every
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  Speaker 2: one of these these illegal immigrants is trained by the
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  Speaker 2: traffickers to say, I'm claiming asylum. Now, the Biden administration
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  Speaker 2: knows that when their claim is adjudicated, that fewer than
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  Speaker 2: ten percent will meet the standards for asylum. That almost
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  Speaker 2: none of them have any credible fear. They're simply poor
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  Speaker 2: and they want a better life and they want handouts.
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  Speaker 2: But what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are doing is
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  Speaker 2: they say, Okay, we'll take you for asylum. We'll set
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  Speaker 2: you a court date three, four, five, ten years in
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  Speaker 2: the future, and in the meantime, we'll let you go.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to America. And by the way, a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: them are never seen again. That policy is called catch
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  Speaker 2: and release. That when people are apprehended, they let him go.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, how did the murderer who killed Lake
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  Speaker 2: and Riley get to Georgia because of catch and release?
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  Speaker 2: Because Joe Biden Kamala Harris apprehended him and let him go.
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  Speaker 2: How did the murderer who killed Rachel Morin get to
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  Speaker 2: suburban Maryland because of catch and release? Joe Biden Kamala
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  Speaker 2: Harris apprehended him and let him go. How did the
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  Speaker 2: two murderers and rapists who raped and murdered Joscelyn Nunger
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  Speaker 2: get to Houston, Texas because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
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  Speaker 2: did catch and release. They caught him, they cut both
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  Speaker 2: of them, they had them in custody, and they released them.
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  Speaker 2: There is no credible argument with these criminals that eat
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  Speaker 2: the standards of asylum, But Kamala Harris doesn't care.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I think there's even something else that's just
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  Speaker 1: a personal example that we've talked about in the past
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  Speaker 1: on the show. It is the beginning of your last book.
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  Speaker 1: Your dad was a poster child for someone that would
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  Speaker 1: deserve and need asylum in the US because of political persecution,
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  Speaker 1: the genuine fear of death when he fled Cuba. Let's
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  Speaker 1: just take a moment and let people understand how far
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  Speaker 1: that pendulum has swung since your dad was a political
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  Speaker 1: refugee basically in the US. I think I'm describing that correctly.
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  Speaker 2: My father was a political refugee. Actually came initially on
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  Speaker 2: a student visa, so he was admitted to the University
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  Speaker 2: of Texas. He came in nineteen fifty seven, and so
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  Speaker 2: he studied at UT. He got a degree in UT
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  Speaker 2: graduated in sixty one with a degree in math, and
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  Speaker 2: at that point Castro had taken over and had begun
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  Speaker 2: persecuting dissonance. My aunt might Theo Sonia, I was with
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  Speaker 2: both my father and my Theosnia this evening. My Theo
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  Speaker 2: Sonia fought in the counter revolution against Castro. Might Theos
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  Speaker 2: Sonia was in prison. She was tortured by Castro, and
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  Speaker 2: so my family, my father was granted asylum status because
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  Speaker 2: why if he came back to Cuba, they'd murder him.
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  Speaker 2: My Thea Sonia got out of Cuba and she was
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  Speaker 2: granted asylum status because again the government, they had a
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  Speaker 2: credible fear, they met the legal standard we see from
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  Speaker 2: communist countries that persecute dictators. That's what the asylum laws
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  Speaker 2: were made for, is if you can demonstrate if I
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  Speaker 2: go back to my country, the government will imprison me,
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  Speaker 2: torture me, kill me. That's why we have asylum laws.
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  Speaker 2: The claim was not just I'm in poverty and I
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  Speaker 2: would like to live in America. And the reason our
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  Speaker 2: laws don't grant a special status to that is they're
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  Speaker 2: literally billions of people that fall into that category, and
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  Speaker 2: we do not have the capacity. And I want to
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  Speaker 2: make a point here, Ben, because you know, sometimes people
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  Speaker 2: on the left say, oh gosh, we're just so compassionate
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to immigration. Understand, there is no country
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  Speaker 2: on planet Earth that is more compassionate, that is more
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  Speaker 2: generous when it came come to immigration. In the United
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  Speaker 2: States of America, every year we let in more than
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  Speaker 2: one million legal immigrants. There's no other country that's doing that.
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  Speaker 2: You can't do that in France, you can't do that.
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  Speaker 2: In Britain. You can't do that in Australia. You can't
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  Speaker 2: do that in Japan. Name your country. None of them
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  Speaker 2: do what America does. So we are we welcome immigrants.
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  Speaker 2: But there's a right way to come. You come legally,
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  Speaker 2: you follow the rules, you wait in line. That's the
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  Speaker 2: way the system is meant to go. And it goes
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  Speaker 2: back to our first story, Bill Clinton, if they'd been
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  Speaker 2: properly vetted, you know what, if you're trying to come
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  Speaker 2: in legally, if you're a member of Venezuelan gang, if
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  Speaker 2: you're a murderer, if you're a rapist, if you're a
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  Speaker 2: child molester. You're not going to get in legally when
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  Speaker 2: you're vetted, which is why these open borders are causing
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  Speaker 2: such devastations and they are making American families much much
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  Speaker 2: less safe.
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  Speaker 1: Final question on this, and it's an important one. I
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  Speaker 1: think the American people are really understanding the game here,
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  Speaker 1: and they're understanding that these my caravans that are coming
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  Speaker 1: and they're running here in case Trump gets elected. They
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  Speaker 1: even understand this election is either about a wide open
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  Speaker 1: border that continues in mass amnesty or law and order
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  Speaker 1: in a secure border with Donald Trump. If the illegal
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  Speaker 1: immigrants that are rushing to get in here before Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump would take office, that's that's clearly they're right that
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  Speaker 1: they're saying this, right, they're the ones they're telling us this.
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  Speaker 1: Then then then shouldn't every American take a look at
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  Speaker 1: that and realize just the difference, uh of of the
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  Speaker 1: perspective from an illegal immigrant senator If this is what
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  Speaker 1: they're doing right now ahead of time to understand like
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  Speaker 1: there's two policies here, they're two very different and and
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  Speaker 1: no matter what Harris says, no matter what Walla says,
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  Speaker 1: the illegal immigrants know that they are good for business,
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  Speaker 1: that's good for human trafficking, sex trafficking, drug trafficking. The
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  Speaker 1: list goes on and on, and Donald Trump is gonna
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  Speaker 1: shut it down. The party's over. I think that's an
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  Speaker 1: incredibly important point that needs to be made. These illegal
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  Speaker 1: immigrants get it.
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  Speaker 2: They do. And you know another number that everyone should
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  Speaker 2: know is two thousand, six hundred percent. Do you know
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  Speaker 2: what twenty six hundred percent is.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess the amount of illegal immigration that's gone
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  Speaker 1: up since they got into office.
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  Speaker 2: No, now, it's actually a different stat than that. So
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  Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen, the Mexican drug cartels were earning roughly
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  Speaker 2: five hundred million dollars in revenue from human trafficking. Now, look,
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  Speaker 2: five hundred million dollars a lot of money. Do you
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  Speaker 2: know how much they made last year? I hell of
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  Speaker 2: a lot more than that, thirteen billion dollars. And those
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  Speaker 2: stats are from the New York Times. That is a
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  Speaker 2: two thousand, six hundred percent increase, Joe Biden and Kamala
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  Speaker 2: Harris said, been incredibly good. In fact, I've joked, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the standard test for any presidential election is are you
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  Speaker 2: better off now than you were four years ago? And
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  Speaker 2: I've joked, unless you're a Mexican drug lord. And by
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  Speaker 2: the way, if you are a Mexican drug lord, you
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  Speaker 2: should definitely vote for Kamala Harris because she's made you
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  Speaker 2: billions and billions of dollars. You would be an idiot
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  Speaker 2: if you're a Mexican drug lord not to vote for
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  Speaker 2: Kamala Harris. But if you're not for just about everyone else,
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  Speaker 2: life has gotten a lot worse. That number is staggery,
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  Speaker 2: and one of the consequences of it is Joe Biden
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  Speaker 2: and Kamala Harris have devastated the nation of Mexico. Mexico
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  Speaker 2: is a wonderful nation. In Texas, it is our immediate
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  Speaker 2: southern neighbor. Texas and Mexican culture. There's enormous overlap. I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you twenty thirty years ago, you go to South Texas,
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  Speaker 2: people would cross the border back and forth. If you
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  Speaker 2: were in Laredo, you'd go down in Nueva Laredo, you'd
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  Speaker 2: have dinner at a Mexican restaurant, you come back and forth.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there was this this cross border culture that
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  Speaker 2: was wonderful. Nobody does that anymore, like because the violence,
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  Speaker 2: the cartels, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have made the
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  Speaker 2: drug cartels the most powerful economic force in Mexico, and
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  Speaker 2: they are vicious, utterly amorl criminals. There are I met
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  Speaker 2: with the mayor of a border town in Mexico who
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  Speaker 2: told me in his town alone, there had been more
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  Speaker 2: than three thousand disappearances, just people who disappear who the
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  Speaker 2: cartels kidnap, they murder, and they're found just in pits
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  Speaker 2: of dead bodies. That's what Biden and Harris have done
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  Speaker 2: to Mexico is they have undermined public safety to a level.
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  Speaker 2: They have turned these cartels into superpowers. And it is
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  Speaker 2: tragic what's happening to Mexico, but it's also tragic what's
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  Speaker 2: happening to America.
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  Speaker 1: As before, if you want to hear the rest of
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  Speaker 1: this conversation on this topic, you can go back and
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  Speaker 1: dow the podcas Ask from earlier this week to hear
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  Speaker 1: the entire thing. I want to get back to the
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  Speaker 1: big story number three of the week. You may have missed,
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  Speaker 1: but I want to move to this other issue because
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  Speaker 1: I think it's really important, and it is the breaking
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  Speaker 1: news out of Israel that Israel has killed the October
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  Speaker 1: seventh mastermind It is interesting it took them about a
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  Speaker 1: year to do that. It's something that we in this
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  Speaker 1: country have still not accomplished. Since nine to eleven, the
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  Speaker 1: mastermind of nine to eleven, Khalid Sheik Muhammad, has still
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  Speaker 1: not been executed, even though we have him in our custody.
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  Speaker 1: Many Democrats have tried to give him a plea deal
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  Speaker 1: to save his life, which was a major point that
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  Speaker 1: we talked about. And we're able to at least stop
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  Speaker 1: that deal from taking place because of so many listeners
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  Speaker 1: that were outraged by the decision by the Biden Harris
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  Speaker 1: administration to give him a deal as the mastermind of
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  Speaker 1: nine to eleven. Israel said, yeah, we're not going to
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  Speaker 1: do that. We're not going to do that at all.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, what we're going to do is we're going
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  Speaker 1: to kill the leader of Hamas that planned this attack.
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  Speaker 1: And they did it today and told the world, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're not messing around. We're taking out everybody that was
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  Speaker 1: involved in this attack on innocent civilians and those that
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  Speaker 1: took hostages.
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  Speaker 2: Look that that is exactly right. And I will say
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  Speaker 2: this is a very very good day for Israel. It's
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  Speaker 2: a very good day for America. The Hamas leader Sinhoar
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  Speaker 2: hated America, was responsible for American deaths, and it's a
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  Speaker 2: good day for justice. And here I want you to
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  Speaker 2: listen to the coverage when the Israeli foreign minister confirms
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  Speaker 2: that the Hamas leader is dead. Give a listen, does.
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  Speaker 4: A Fox News alert. Reuters is now reporting that Israel's
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  Speaker 4: foreign minister has just confirmed the death of Hamas leader
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  Speaker 4: Yaya Sinhwar. Ya Ya Sinhwar was responsible and the mastermind
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  Speaker 4: between the vicious October seventh attack that was the deadliest
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  Speaker 4: attack on Jews since the Holocaust. And Reuters is reporting
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  Speaker 4: at Israeli conficials who were analyzing his dental records that
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  Speaker 4: he is in fact dead. We go to Trey yankst
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  Speaker 4: and Haifa Israel with more on this developing story. Trade.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, guys, good afternoon. According to reports, the leader of Hamas,
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  Speaker 3: Yakya Sinoar, is dead. We cannot independently confirm this, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to.
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  Speaker 2: Tell you why.
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  Speaker 3: There are two things ongoing at the moment. Israeli officials
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  Speaker 3: are using dental records and they are using DNA to
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  Speaker 3: try to match Jakya Sinoar's DNA to DNA. The Israelis
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  Speaker 3: have in their file the dental records match, but we
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  Speaker 3: are waiting to report until the DNA test comes back.
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  Speaker 3: Just given how high profile this figure is. But again,
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  Speaker 3: according to reports attributed to Israel's Foreign Minister Israel Katz,
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  Speaker 3: Yakya Sinhwar is dead. This follows in Israeli operation in
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  Speaker 3: southern Gaza today, reportedly in the city of Rafa, Gaza's
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  Speaker 3: third life largest city that sits next to the Egyptian border.
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  Speaker 3: This was not a planned intelligence operation, according to officials,
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  Speaker 3: but rather a ground patrol that intercepted movement in southern Gaza. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 3: Israeli forces reportedly fired on that movement and among the
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  Speaker 3: cell of Hamas militants was the leader, yak Ya Sinoir
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  Speaker 3: now Sinoar is a man who has been at the
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  Speaker 3: top of the Israeli target list since October seventh. He
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  Speaker 3: is one of three masterminds behind the massacre, along with
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  Speaker 3: Mohammed death, a man who was killed in an Israeli
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  Speaker 3: airstrike earlier this year, and Ismael Khania, a man who
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  Speaker 3: was killed in an explosion in the Iranian capital of
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  Speaker 3: Tehran over the summer. So now that this is confirmed,
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  Speaker 3: the three masterminds behind the massacre are dead now. Sinowar
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  Speaker 3: spent twenty two years in an Israeli prison. He was
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  Speaker 3: released back in twenty eleven as part of a prisoner
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  Speaker 3: swap deal for one single Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit. Shalit
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  Speaker 3: was exchanged for more than a thousand Palestinian prisoners now.
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  Speaker 3: When Sinoir went back to Gaza, he was appointed to
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  Speaker 3: a defense minister level position among Hamas's Al Klassam Brigades,
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  Speaker 3: the military wing of Hamas, and then ultimately later took
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  Speaker 3: over as the leader of Hamas inside Gaza. The last
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  Speaker 3: time that I saw Sinoir was in twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 3: The month was May and he was giving a rally
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  Speaker 3: where an infamous photo of him was taken holding a
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  Speaker 3: Palestinian child who was dressed as a member of the
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  Speaker 3: Al Klassan Brigades. Sinwar is someone who has devoted his
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  Speaker 3: life to killing Israelis, despite the fact that the Israelis
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  Speaker 3: actually saved his life during brain surgery on him in
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  Speaker 3: the early two thousands. While he was still in prison,
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  Speaker 3: and following the October seventh massacre, he had been hiding
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  Speaker 3: in the tunnel network beneath Gaza. Some of the Israeli
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  Speaker 3: hostages who were released as part of the November Seas
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  Speaker 3: fire deal back in twenty twenty three reported meeting him
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  Speaker 3: in the tunnels beneath Gaza City.
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  Speaker 4: And so this is.
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  Speaker 3: Significant news and an indication that the Israelis will continue
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  Speaker 3: to pick off the remaining Hamas leaders that exist still
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  Speaker 3: inside Gaza. They have destroyed the battalions within the Gaza Strip,
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  Speaker 3: but the question remains what does this mean for the
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  Speaker 3: remaining Israeli hostages inside Gaza. One hundred and one of
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  Speaker 3: them are there, around half of them are estimated to
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  Speaker 3: be alive. And Israeli sources are texting now they are
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  Speaker 3: talking about this news that is taking place. We do
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  Speaker 3: expect to hear from Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Nettan Yahou
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  Speaker 3: later tonight Israel time. And the Israelis, according to this source,
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  Speaker 3: are in communication with their American counterparts to discuss the
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  Speaker 3: operation that took place today. Again, according to our reporting,
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  Speaker 3: this was not a planned operation, but rather one that
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  Speaker 3: took place after movement was identified inside the Gaza Strip. Again,
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  Speaker 3: the latest information that we have attributable to reports. We
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  Speaker 3: are waiting for DNA evidence is that Jakio Sinoar, the
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  Speaker 3: leader of Hamas, is dead.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, I mean, this is incredible news. And I loved
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  Speaker 1: how steadfast and who has been Yes.
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  Speaker 2: So two observations Number one on yet another issue, Kamala
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  Speaker 2: Harris was wrong. Remember, Kamala Harris has been opposing Israel,
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  Speaker 2: continuing to fight to eliminate Hamas. Harris was explicit urging Israel,
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  Speaker 2: opposing Israel going on the offensive in Rafa, and she
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  Speaker 2: claimed to be an expert. She claimed to know that
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  Speaker 2: nothing could be accomplished, and what happened today proved that wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to listen to a flashback of Kamala
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  Speaker 2: in March of twenty twenty four when she's claiming to
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  Speaker 2: know that going into Rafa is going to be a mistake.
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  Speaker 5: We have been clear in multiple conversations and in every
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  Speaker 5: way that any major military operation in Rafa would be
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  Speaker 5: a huge mistake. Let me tell you something. I have
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  Speaker 5: studied the maps. There's nowhere for those folks to go.
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  Speaker 5: And we're looking at about a million and a half
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  Speaker 5: people in Rafa who are there because they were told
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  Speaker 5: to go there, most of them. And so we've been
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  Speaker 5: very clear that it would be a mistake to move
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  Speaker 5: into Rafa with any type of military operation, a mistake.
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  Speaker 5: But would there be consequences if he does move forward?
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  Speaker 5: But we're going to take it one step at a time.
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  Speaker 5: But we've been very clear in terms of our perspective
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  Speaker 5: on whether or not that should happen.
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  Speaker 3: Are you ruling out that there would be consequences from
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  Speaker 3: the United States?
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  Speaker 5: I am ruling out nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Well, once again, Kamala Harris was wrong. She was wrong.
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  Speaker 2: She was threatening Israel with consequences. And to be clear,
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  Speaker 2: she and Joe Biden cut off critical weapons to Israel
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  Speaker 2: and have been pressuring and undermining Israel at every stage
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  Speaker 2: since October seventh and long before that. She was categorically wrong.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll tell you the real consequences. The consequences were
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  Speaker 2: for Sinoar And this is the final point that I
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  Speaker 2: want to wrap up the podcast with. You know, it
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  Speaker 2: was twelve years ago that I was elected to the
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  Speaker 2: Senate and when I came into the Senate at the time,
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  Speaker 2: I resolved to be the leading defender of Israel in
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  Speaker 2: the Senate. And I got to tell you a lot
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  Speaker 2: of times people ask me, how on earth did it
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  Speaker 2: come to pass that a Cuban Texan Southern Baptist would
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  Speaker 2: end up the leading defender of Israel in the United
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  Speaker 2: States Senate. And there are a lot of reasons, but
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  Speaker 2: one of the fundamental reasons that I've described this before
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  Speaker 2: is I was a little kid when the nteby Rate happened.
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  Speaker 2: I was I think five years old, and listen, I
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  Speaker 2: didn't understand in detail what happened in the Ntebe raid,
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  Speaker 2: but it made an impression on me as a child.
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  Speaker 2: And my understanding of the ntevy Rate at the time
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  Speaker 2: was the people of Israel were saying, if you take
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  Speaker 2: our citizens hostage, our citizens might die, but you are
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  Speaker 2: going to die. And I got to say, ben as
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  Speaker 2: a five year old, that struck me as a very
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  Speaker 2: techan foreign policy. There was a clarity to that. And
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  Speaker 2: I got to say, the three masterminds of October seventh,
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  Speaker 2: including Sinwar, the head of hamas well, they've gone to
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  Speaker 2: meet their seventy two virgins, and I think they're disappointed
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  Speaker 2: with what they found. And there is an absolute seriousness
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  Speaker 2: with which Benjamin Netanyaho in the Nation of Israel takes
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  Speaker 2: protecting themselves, protecting their citizens, protecting their safety defeating Hamas,
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  Speaker 2: defeating Hezbola, and that is good for America, good for Israel,
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  Speaker 2: good for the world, and cause for celebration.
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