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Harris Steals a Gratuity from Trump, Media Trashes Musk Interview w DT & a Palestinian Bomb Enthusiast at the Border Week In Review · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: What a week. Welcome it is Verdict with Ted Cruz
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Speaker 1: the Week in Review, Ben Ferguson with you as always,
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Speaker 1: and there were some major stories this week that you
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Speaker 1: may have missed that we talked about that I want
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Speaker 1: to make sure you heard exactly what happened here on Verdict.
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Speaker 1: First up, Kamala decides to steal intellectual property from Donald Trump,
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Speaker 1: you know, like his ideas, and act like they're her own,
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Speaker 1: this time claiming that she is the one that is
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Speaker 1: going to not tax tips, even though it was actually
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Speaker 1: her idea, and she broke the tie in the Senate
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Speaker 1: with her vote to actually have the irs go after
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Speaker 1: people that were not reporting quote all of their taxes
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Speaker 1: on their tips. Up next, the media continues its massive
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Speaker 1: billion dollar in kind donation to Kamala Harris by smearing
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Speaker 1: this week Donald Trump and Elon Musk because they couldn't
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Speaker 1: control the interview they did. Yeah, they sat down, had
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Speaker 1: a nice conversation and the media lost their minds over it.
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Speaker 1: And finally, more terrorists on the watch list coming across
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Speaker 1: our southern border. This time the borders are didn't stop
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Speaker 1: a Palestinian bomb maker and then she acts like nothing's wrong.
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Speaker 1: It's the Weekend Review, and it starts right now. Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump seized on something that was very authentic and organic.
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Speaker 1: He was out in Vegas. He was having a conversation
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Speaker 1: with people in the service industry. He had an idea,
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Speaker 1: apparently wrote it on a napkin. We shouldn't tax tips,
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Speaker 1: help people survive, help people make a living. And he
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Speaker 1: said it at a rally and it just work and
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Speaker 1: it stuck and people loved it because he was a
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Speaker 1: guy looking out for the little guy. He was advocating
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Speaker 1: for these hard working people that rely on tips as
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Speaker 1: part of their income, and it obviously played well with
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Speaker 1: many people in this country. Fast forward to a few
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Speaker 1: days ago. Kama here says the same thing.
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Speaker 2: Well, and let me give a little more narrative on that.
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Speaker 2: So Trump announced it at the Vegas rally. And and
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Speaker 2: I think the next week he was in DC and
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Speaker 2: I had lunch with him. He had lunch with all
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Speaker 2: the Republican senators. He was actually telling us the backstory
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Speaker 2: of it, and and and he said, well, you know,
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Speaker 2: this was not an idea that came from a bunch
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Speaker 2: of policy experts that had a bunch of white papers.
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Speaker 2: He said, he was in Vegas, right before the rally,
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Speaker 2: and he said he was having I think lunch or dinner.
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Speaker 2: I think it was lunch. And he said, there was
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Speaker 2: a waitress who came up who complained about the really
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Speaker 2: oppressive enforcement from Joe Biden Kamala Harris of their efforts
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Speaker 2: to tax tips, and how it was really burdened some
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Speaker 2: of the record keeping and it was really hard and
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Speaker 2: and and Trump says, at dinner, pulled out a piece
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Speaker 2: of paper and just wrote down, no taxes on tips.
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Speaker 2: And then he said he went to the rally and
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Speaker 2: he just said it, and he said, and they went wild,
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Speaker 2: They went wild. I got to say, there are moments
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Speaker 2: I think of political genie, and I think that was
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Speaker 2: one of them. So the next week I introduced legislation
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Speaker 2: in the Senate to exempt tips from taxes because I
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Speaker 2: heard that idea, and it's exactly right. And the reason
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Speaker 2: I introduced legislation, there are a lot of reasons, but
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Speaker 2: one right at the heart is for over a decade,
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Speaker 2: for as long as I've been in the Senate, I
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Speaker 2: have been advocating that the Republican Party, we should be
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Speaker 2: a blue collar party. We should be the party of
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Speaker 2: waiters and waitresses. We should be the party of bartenders.
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Speaker 2: We should be the party of hairdressers and nail salon
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Speaker 2: workers and taxi cab drivers and and and everyone who
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Speaker 2: has callouses on their hands because they're working hard. And
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Speaker 2: it is a policy. The contrast is night and day.
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Speaker 2: That's who we should be fighting for. And you know
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Speaker 2: it's striking. I introduced that legislation. It's got a number
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Speaker 2: of co sponsors. You know who also joined it. Here's
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Speaker 2: that both Democrat senators from Nevada, really Jackie rosen Uh
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Speaker 2: and Catherine Cortez Masto both joined my legislation because about
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Speaker 2: twenty five percent of the workers in Nevada are tipped workers.
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Speaker 2: And I got to say my reaction when I heard
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Speaker 2: him make that proposal, I said, Donald Trump will carry
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Speaker 2: Nevada on that policy issue. By the way, the culinary
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Speaker 2: union has come out emphatically in support of Trump's proposal,
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Speaker 2: emphatically in support of my legislation exempting tips from taxes.
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Speaker 2: And so this week here's Kamala Harris. I want you
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Speaker 2: to give a listen, first to Trump in Nevada announcing
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Speaker 2: the policy proposal, and then Kamala just shamelessly copying him.
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Speaker 2: Give a listen.
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Speaker 3: Because when I get to office, we are going to
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Speaker 3: not charge taxes on tips people making.
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Speaker 2: Tips, eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's just straight up stealing, but I do so.
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Speaker 2: June ninth is when Trump said it. August tenth is
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Speaker 2: when she said it, and she didn't have the dignity
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Speaker 2: to say, you know, I actually would have respected it
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Speaker 2: more as she says, Look, there are lots of areas
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Speaker 2: where I disagree with Donald Trump. I'm a left wing
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Speaker 2: Democrat kook. He's not. However, he had an idea that's
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Speaker 2: a really good one, and I'm here to tell you
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Speaker 2: right now I would do the same that I could respect.
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Speaker 2: But she doesn't acknowledge it, and and the irony is
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Speaker 2: she also doesn't acknowledge what prompted it, which is that
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Speaker 2: her administration, the Biden Harris administration, she was the tie
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Speaker 2: breaking vote on the legislation that provided millions for the
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Speaker 2: I R S to go after waiters and waitresses and
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Speaker 2: and and and and everyone who's who's making tips, and
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Speaker 2: to enforce it vigorously and and to hammer on them.
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Speaker 2: And yet she doesn't acknowledge any of that. This is gaslighting.
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Speaker 2: One on one.
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Speaker 1: This is why, by the way, I love doing the show.
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Speaker 1: And I will say to everybody that right now listening
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Speaker 1: or watching, this is when I ask you share it.
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Speaker 1: And here's why. Know when the media is going to
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Speaker 1: tell you this in February, because what you're just said
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Speaker 1: is not something ten years ago. And then she had
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Speaker 1: a change of heart. Okay, it's not like it was
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Speaker 1: a polic ten years ago and there was some magive
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Speaker 1: effects came out of it that you didn't realize, and
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Speaker 1: then you're like, hey, look that was a long time ago,
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Speaker 1: decade ago. In February of twenty twenty three, it came
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Speaker 1: to light that Biden's IRS planned to crack down on
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Speaker 1: the service industries reporting on tips. The Service Industry Tip
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Speaker 1: Compliance Agreement Program was to be a voluntary tip reporting
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Speaker 1: system in which the IRS and the service industry companies cooperated,
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Speaker 1: which is where they would crack down on the actual workers.
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Speaker 1: The program was meant to quote improve tip reporting compliance,
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Speaker 1: reduce administrative burdens, and provide more transparency and certainty to
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Speaker 1: tax payers again going after the little guy here, and
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Speaker 1: the program feature included quote monitoring of employer compliance based
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Speaker 1: on actual annual tip revenue, So big brother watching you
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Speaker 1: and charge tip data from an employer's point of sales system,
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Speaker 1: so now the computer's tracking you. And allowance for adjustments
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Speaker 1: and tipping practices from year to year to protect the
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Speaker 1: employer from getting in trouble by turning in in essence
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Speaker 1: their employees. And who did this Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.
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Speaker 1: And now she's out there saying I want you to
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Speaker 1: not have to pay taxes on your tips, when again,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three February wasn't that long ago.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, this is a standard practice and pattern
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Speaker 2: of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris siding with the big guy,
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Speaker 2: siding with giant corporations, whether it's big tech or giant
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Speaker 2: corporations against the little guy. You know, there was an
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Speaker 2: interesting story the same lunch where Trump was telling the
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Speaker 2: backstory of this proposal. The day before the lunch, uh,
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Speaker 2: Trump and Lindsey Graham had played golf, and Lindsey told everyone,
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Speaker 2: he said, look, the two of us were playing golf,
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Speaker 2: and they're both big golfers, and you know, look, your
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Speaker 2: son is one of the best golfers in the world.
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Speaker 2: But Lindsey described how midway through the golf game. He said,
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Speaker 2: their two caddies came up and hugged Donald Trump because
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Speaker 2: he had just made the proposal of no taxes on tips.
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Speaker 2: And listen, golf caddies like barbers, like bartenders. There there
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Speaker 2: were all sorts of professions where a big chunk of
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Speaker 2: their revenue and many of them were just barely making
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Speaker 2: ends meet. They're just starting to climb the economic ladder,
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Speaker 2: and they literally came and hugged him for that proposal.
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Speaker 2: And so Kamala Harris is now trying to pretend, look,
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Speaker 2: I'm glad she's supporting my legislation. I got to say,
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Speaker 2: this is a first. I do not believe Kamala Harris
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Speaker 2: has ever before publicly endorsed legislation that I filed the
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Speaker 2: lead author of. Now, she didn't mention it was my legislation.
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Speaker 2: She didn't mention it was Trump's idea. And to be clear,
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Speaker 2: I took the idea from Trump. It was his idea,
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Speaker 2: and you ran with it. I just had the sense
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Speaker 2: of saying, that's a damn good idea, let's do it.
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Speaker 2: And so I went and put pen to paper to
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Speaker 2: actually draft it to make it happen. But I readily
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Speaker 2: credit it was Trump's idea. Kamala could not be bothered
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Speaker 2: to acknowledge anything other than pretending this has always been
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Speaker 2: her view.
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Speaker 1: Finally, Senator, there's also something else that's been happening over
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Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, and that is the media
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Speaker 1: is trying to make Harris and her running mate look
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Speaker 1: like they're moderates, like they're not extremists, they're not radicals,
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Speaker 1: even though their entire history says that's exactly what they are.
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Speaker 2: Look, I want you to listen to two clips that
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Speaker 2: really sums up just how extreme they are. The first
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Speaker 2: is from Tim Waltz and he's talking about his fellow
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Speaker 2: Minnesota Ilhan Omar. And to be clear, Ilhan Omar is
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Speaker 2: one of the founding members of the Squad. She is
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Speaker 2: a radical anti she hates Israel. She is extreme. Listen
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Speaker 2: to what Tim Waltz thinks about her.
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Speaker 4: Something I'll never get tired of saying. I think all
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Speaker 4: of you, Congresswoman Omar, wonderful.
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Speaker 5: And that's up.
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Speaker 4: When I'm having a tough day, or I'm out on
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Speaker 4: about mile five of my run and I'm feeling kind
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Speaker 4: of down and the world's pressing on me, I think
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Speaker 4: ilhan Omar is a congresswoman and it just brightens you up.
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Speaker 4: So thank you.
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Speaker 1: I just wonder like mile three is he's sitting there
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Speaker 1: thinking about that's the same congressman that said that the
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Speaker 1: terrorists that attacked us on nine eleven were some people
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Speaker 1: that did some things.
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Speaker 2: Look, ilhan Omar is a congresswoman, and that's something that
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Speaker 2: just brightens you up. That's what he said. This is
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Speaker 2: everyone will acknowledge one of the most radical and extreme
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Speaker 2: is zealous, and that brightens his day. That tells you
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Speaker 2: who he is. Now, if you think that's bad, I
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Speaker 2: got something worse. Do you like Christmas?
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Speaker 1: Love Christmas?
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Speaker 2: Okay, well you're not Kamala Harris. Give a listen to Kamala.
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Speaker 5: When we all sing happy tunes and sing Merry Christmas
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Speaker 5: and wish each other merry Christmas, these children are not
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Speaker 5: going to have a merry Christmas. How dare we speak
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Speaker 5: merry Christmas? How dare we?
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Speaker 1: I haven't seen somebody get that crazy about hating Christmas
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Speaker 1: in a long time.
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Speaker 2: And understand what she's saying. They're in context. She's talking
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Speaker 2: about illegal immigrants, and she's saying illegal immigrants are having
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Speaker 2: a lousy time. So how dare we say Merry Christmas
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Speaker 2: when illegal immigrants? I mean it is. This is a
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Speaker 2: woman whose entire career has been siding with criminals and
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Speaker 2: with illegal immigrants, and in her mind even saying Marry
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Speaker 2: Christmas is unacceptable as long as there is one illegal
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Speaker 2: immigrant who was not backs basking in luxury.
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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. We've
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Speaker 1: seen this happen now multiple times over the last couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks. We saw them say that jd Vance is weird,
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Speaker 1: right and everybody we played that montage of the media
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Speaker 1: saying it over and over again every outlet. Then we
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Speaker 1: had this the same montage with Kamwa Harris's campaign, except
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Speaker 1: it was positive news for her that she's surging, surging, surging.
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Speaker 1: Everybody use that word over the weekend. Clearly it's coming
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Speaker 1: I think from the Hairs campaign. And now you have
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Speaker 1: the same headlines written fifty different ways of Sunday with
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Speaker 1: this conversation between Trump and must It wasn't true and
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Speaker 1: a lie? How is this not an in kind donation?
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Speaker 1: The Hairs campaign.
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Speaker 2: Look, I think it's worse than that. It's not even
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Speaker 2: an inkind donation. They are the Harris campaign. Understand, there
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Speaker 2: is a political strategy, a decision that has been made
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Speaker 2: to hide Kamala Harris to locker in the basement. I
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Speaker 2: don't know if she's in the same basement with Joe
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Speaker 2: Biden or not. But she does no media interviews. It's
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Speaker 2: been three weeks that she's been the presumptive nominee. She
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Speaker 2: hasn't done a single media interview. She doesn't answer questions,
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Speaker 2: she reads from a teleprompter, and she doesn't add lib
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Speaker 2: on anything. And the reason they're doing that, what is
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Speaker 2: their campaign? Their campaign is the media. Those headlines, they
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Speaker 2: are the media. And I want to play in particular
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Speaker 2: one excerpt from CNN because it reveals just the lengths
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Speaker 2: they will go to lie. So play initially how CNN
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Speaker 2: covered a small segment of the Trump elon Musk interview. Play.
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Speaker 5: I want to play one exchange that was kind of classic. Well,
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Speaker 5: there were a lot of changes that were exchanges that
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Speaker 5: were classic Donald Trump. This one really stuck out to.
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Speaker 6: Us and Naishaki were bombed. But now that they're like
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Speaker 6: full cities again, so it's likely not that's something that
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Speaker 6: you know, it's scarious people think basically, So.
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Speaker 5: That was more Elon Musk than Donald Trump talking about
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Speaker 5: sort of suggesting that what happened almost eighty years ago,
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Speaker 5: I think eighty years ago next year, the bombing of
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Speaker 5: Hiroshima Nagasaki. Now it's okay, kind of trying to blow
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Speaker 5: off the impact of that.
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Speaker 2: So let me say a couple of things. Number one,
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Speaker 2: let's let's start with with CNN's perspective that that apparently
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Speaker 2: they think America winning World War Two was a bad thing,
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Speaker 2: and and and that are bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They're
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Speaker 2: they're not crediting that that saved enormous number of lives
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Speaker 2: and then the war, World War two would have gone
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Speaker 2: on for much much longer without those bombs. CNN takes
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Speaker 2: it as a given that America was in the wrong.
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Speaker 2: That is horrible. But but that being said, Look, if
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Speaker 2: you didn't listen to the Elon Musk Trump interview, if
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Speaker 2: you just heard that little segment, if all you get
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Speaker 2: your news from is CNN, I understand you're being a
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Speaker 2: little startled, going, huh, that's weird. Trump is like going
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Speaker 2: out of his way, so to say, hey, no big
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Speaker 2: deal that that that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked, that
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Speaker 2: that's a wonderful thing. That the natural inference from that
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Speaker 2: little segment is apparently Trump, if he's president, is going
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Speaker 2: to nuke other cities. That's that. That's it's not not
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Speaker 2: a big deal, no problem, Let's just let's just drop
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Speaker 2: Adam bombs all over the world. That's that's clearly where
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Speaker 2: where CNN wants your inference to go. Now, I want
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Speaker 2: you to listen to the full conversation in context, because
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Speaker 2: it is wildly different from the little segment CNN played.
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Speaker 2: Listen to the full conversation in context.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, actually there's the there's the bad side of nuclear
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Speaker 6: which is a nuclear war, very bad side, but there
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Speaker 6: is also I think nuclear electricity is underrated and it's
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Speaker 6: actually you know, people have the sphere of nuclear nuclear
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Speaker 6: electricity generation, but but it's actually one of the safest
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Speaker 6: forms of electricity generation. It's it's just a huge misunderstanding.
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Speaker 6: And if you look at the injuries and desks, you know,
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Speaker 6: caused by say, I mean, I'm not going to pick
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Speaker 6: on a call money if it's just any kind of
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Speaker 6: mining operation, and this is certain number of injuries desk
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Speaker 6: per year, and you compare that to nuclear, nuclear is
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Speaker 6: actually way better. So it's it's underrated as a as
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Speaker 6: an electricity source, and I think it's it's something that's
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Speaker 6: worth reconsidering. But there's so much regulation that people can't
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Speaker 6: get it done so that you know.
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Speaker 3: Maybe they'll happen to The name is is a rough name.
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Speaker 3: There are some areas likely, like when you see what
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Speaker 3: happened writing to rebrand it, we'll have to give it
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Speaker 3: a good name. We'll name it after you or something.
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Speaker 3: You know, No, it has hey, it has the branding problem.
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Speaker 3: You know when you see what happened does have a
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Speaker 3: branding problem. When you see what happened in Japan where
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Speaker 3: they say you won't be able to go in the
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Speaker 3: land for about three thousand years, did you ever see that?
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Speaker 3: And in Russia where they had the problem where they
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Speaker 3: you know, there's a lot of bad things happened and
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Speaker 3: they have a problem and they say that in two
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Speaker 3: thousand years people will start to occupy the land again.
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Speaker 3: You know, you realize it's pretty bad, but you're right
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Speaker 3: about it.
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Speaker 6: It's basically it's actually not that bad. So so like
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Speaker 6: after Pokushima happened in Japan, Like people were asking me
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Speaker 6: in California, you know, are we worried about like a
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Speaker 6: nuclear cloud coming from Japan. I'm like, no, that's crazy,
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Speaker 6: it's it's actually, it's not even dangerous in Pokushima. I
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Speaker 6: actually flew there and and and ate locally grown vegetables
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Speaker 6: on TV to prove it. And I donated a solar
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Speaker 6: water treatment a solar power system for a water treatment plant.
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Speaker 6: And yeah, but you haven't been.
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Speaker 3: Failing so well lately, and I'm worried about it.
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Speaker 5: No, No, but I'm only.
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Speaker 6: Getting on mine.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 6: It's it's like, you know, here Wishment and Knightshuck were bombed,
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Speaker 6: but now that they're like full cities again. So it's
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Speaker 6: sadly not that's something that you know, it's not as
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Speaker 6: scary as people think.
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Speaker 1: Basically, not even close to how SINN presented their conversation
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Speaker 1: and clearly edited to make it seem like that Elon
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Speaker 1: Musk and Donald Trump were basically insane, when if you
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Speaker 1: put the conversation in context the way that we just
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Speaker 1: played it right unedited, you know, now Scenan just straight
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Speaker 1: up lied to you. They said, hey, find something in
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Speaker 1: there and we'll just make crap up and tell everybody
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Speaker 1: that this guy's unhinged. By the way, he wasn't slurring
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Speaker 1: his words there. I think everybody heard Donald Trump, and
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Speaker 1: he sounded just like Donald Trump always sounds well.
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Speaker 2: And the whole conversation was about nuclear power, and the
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Speaker 2: point they were saying is that nuclear power is very reliable,
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Speaker 2: that it is safe, that that you have fewer fatalities,
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Speaker 2: fewer accidents than other sources of power generation. That if
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Speaker 2: you care about the environment, nuclear power has by far
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Speaker 2: the least emissions, the least carbon emissions, the least pollution,
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Speaker 2: and that point is absolutely right and the left, and
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Speaker 2: it's one of the points you know, the radical left,
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Speaker 2: the climate alarmists, they talk about carbon emissions, but then
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Speaker 2: they're rapidly anti nuclear because they give in to alarmist fear.
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Speaker 2: And in that point Elon Musk was making the context
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Speaker 2: that even when you have cities, he said, first of
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Speaker 2: all Fukushima, where they had a nuclear accident in Japan. Yes,
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Speaker 2: it was an unfortunate accident, but the fallout has not
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Speaker 2: been that severe. They also were talking about Chernobyl in Russia.
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Speaker 2: But the point he made about Hiroshima and Nagasaki is
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Speaker 2: even there. They are now people living, and it's come through.
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Speaker 2: He's obviously not advocating for nuking cities. He's saying that
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Speaker 2: the risks of nuclear power generation are overstated by alarmists.
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Speaker 2: Now CNN knows that they listen to the same interview
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Speaker 2: you and I listen to, But they are being deliberately
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Speaker 2: dishonest when they cut out that little tiny snippet, and
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Speaker 2: I notice they only played what like fifteen twenty seconds
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Speaker 2: of it. They cut out that tiny snippet with the
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Speaker 2: deliberate purpose of creating a false and misleading impression because
20:23
Speaker 2: they're not engaged in news. They are propagandists. And it's
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Speaker 2: the same thing the Kamala Harris campaign would have done,
20:30
Speaker 2: because CNN, like the rest of the corporate media, is
20:33
Speaker 2: effectively the communication arm of the Kamala Harris campaign.
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Speaker 1: Senator, finally, let me ask you, and if you put
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Speaker 1: all of this show into contexts, especially if you look
20:45
Speaker 1: at what they're having to do to lie about this
20:48
Speaker 1: conversation with Musk and Trump, is this just what we
20:51
Speaker 1: can expect from now until eternity with the media when
20:55
Speaker 1: they lose control. They have am out down. They lie
20:58
Speaker 1: to you about whether it's jd Vance, or they lie
21:01
Speaker 1: to you about Kamwa Harrison what she actually does the
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Speaker 1: border and she's not the borders are, or they lie
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Speaker 1: about President Trump's soaring his words and saying, hey, that
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Speaker 1: worked with Joe Biden getting him out of the race.
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Speaker 1: Maybe we can attack Donald Trump the same way. Is
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Speaker 1: this the reality of the world we now live in?
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Speaker 2: So I don't think it is. And we are seeing
21:21
Speaker 2: in America across the world massive disintermediation. The mediators, the
21:27
Speaker 2: middlemen are being removed from the transmission of ideas. We
21:31
Speaker 2: saw that powerfully this week with Elon Musk and Donald
21:34
Speaker 2: Trump going directly to a billion people on x without
21:38
Speaker 2: the reporters being able to block it. But we see
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Speaker 2: that on this podcast. Listen, Why do you and I
21:44
Speaker 2: do the podcast often at eleven o'clock at night or
21:48
Speaker 2: midnight or even one or two in the morning. Why
21:51
Speaker 2: do we do it three days a week. We do
21:53
Speaker 2: it because if your only source of news is the
21:56
Speaker 2: corporate media, if you only watch CNN or MSNBC, RA, ABCNBCCBS,
22:01
Speaker 2: you do not know what is happening. They are lying
22:04
Speaker 2: to you. And the reason this podcast, we've got roughly
22:08
Speaker 2: a million unique listeners, is because people find it valuable.
22:11
Speaker 2: We give you facts that CNN will never air. We
22:17
Speaker 2: play the full segment of what Elon and Trump said
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Speaker 2: about here Shima and Nagasaki instead of their dishonestly edited
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Speaker 2: snippet that was designed to mislead you and lie to you.
22:30
Speaker 2: And this podcast goes right around the corporate media, and
22:34
Speaker 2: in fact, just about every podcast we put out drives
22:39
Speaker 2: stories in the corporate media. That is going to accelerate.
22:42
Speaker 2: People are going to podcast, people are going to social media,
22:45
Speaker 2: people are going to x. Elon's buying Twitter remains I
22:51
Speaker 2: think the single most important step for free speech in decades,
22:56
Speaker 2: and I think that's only gonna accelerate. And you're gonna
22:58
Speaker 2: see a panic as the corporate media they want a
23:02
Speaker 2: monopoly on what we know, what we hear, what we understand,
23:06
Speaker 2: and they're losing their monopoly. So I predict more and
23:10
Speaker 2: more frantic panic, but also more and more power to
23:15
Speaker 2: the people, which is a very good thing.
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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 podcast from earlier this week to hear the
23:25
Speaker 1: entire thing. I want to get back to the big
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Speaker 1: story number three of the week you may have missed.
23:31
Speaker 1: I want to switch to another topic, Senator, we mentioned earlier,
23:34
Speaker 1: and this is another cautionary tell a warning, and the
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Speaker 1: borders are doesn't seem to give a crap. A Palestinian
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Speaker 1: on the terror watch list was arrested on the southern
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Speaker 1: US border.
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Speaker 2: That's exactly right. It's an individual named Omar Shahida who
23:55
Speaker 2: is accused of explosives and arms used and was caught
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Speaker 2: in sant Resa, New Mexico. Amar Shajeda is a Palestinian
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Speaker 2: from Juday and Samaria, and he is on the terror
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Speaker 2: watch list for alleged prior use of explosives at arms.
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Speaker 2: He was arrested. The New York Post reported, and let
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Speaker 2: me read from the memo that has been leaked showing
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Speaker 2: the arrest notification of the suspected Palestinian terrorist. The arrest
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Speaker 2: notification says, on August twelfth, twenty twenty four, Border Patrol
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Speaker 2: agents assigned to the Sanatresa Border Patrol Station encountered a
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Speaker 2: person with a terror screening data sent record At approximately
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Speaker 2: one ten am. Agents apprehended a group of seven individuals
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Speaker 2: who illegally entered the United States from Mexico near Santa Theresa,
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Speaker 2: New Mexico. During processing, research revealed that Omar nowaf Issa
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Speaker 2: Shaheda was a possible match to a terror watch list record.
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Speaker 2: Border patrol agents at the National Targeting Center generated an
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Speaker 2: NTC event. Jeta was confirmed to be a positive match
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Speaker 2: and his watch listed as a Category fifteen used explosives
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Speaker 2: slash arms. Global appis revealed that Scheheda traveled from Madrid,
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Speaker 2: Spain to Bogota, Columbia on a flight with a connecting
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Speaker 2: flight to Panama City, and that Shijeda arrived in San Salvador,
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Speaker 2: El Salvador on a flight and Shaheeda is currently being held.
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Speaker 2: He was encountered as a single adult. Now this is
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Speaker 2: a pattern. Weeks earlier, three other suspected Palestinian terrorists were
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Speaker 2: caught at the California border. Those and we talked about
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Speaker 2: that those three on this podcast previously. One of them
25:51
Speaker 2: had a photo on their phone including pictures of a
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Speaker 2: masked man holding an AK forty seven rifle Kamala Harris.
25:59
Speaker 2: The borders are responsible for an open border that continues
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Speaker 2: to be a magnet inviting terrorists to come into this
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Speaker 2: country and and and in fact, an alert UH that
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Speaker 2: was issued by the Border Patrol said, quote individuals inspired
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Speaker 2: by or reacting to the current Israel Hamas conflict may
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Speaker 2: attempt to travel to or from the area of hostilities
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Speaker 2: in the Middle East via circuitous transit across the southwest border.
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Speaker 2: This is what Kamala Harris's open border is doing to us.
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Speaker 1: You you look at this and you put it together
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Speaker 1: with the fact that they say she's not the borders are,
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Speaker 1: and then she says, oh, I'm doing everything I can
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Speaker 1: to protect you at the border. It doesn't match up.
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Speaker 1: It's just lie after lie after lie after lie. And
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Speaker 1: you look at these these gang leaders that are arrested.
26:58
Speaker 1: You look at there that are being assaulted. Unfortunately, now
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Speaker 1: it's on a weekly basis. We also know, and I
27:04
Speaker 1: think we should just remind people that the system is
27:08
Speaker 1: so broken now that the administration has just been busted
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Speaker 1: handing kids over to non family members, okay, non family
27:17
Speaker 1: members a lost track. Within a month, a third of
27:20
Speaker 1: the kids are hand over to their quote sponsors who
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Speaker 1: are non family members, with no response and no follow
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Speaker 1: up from the federal government. So, in other words, a
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Speaker 1: handed child over to a non family member. They call
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Speaker 1: thirty days later to check in. No one answers, no
27:35
Speaker 1: one's talking to them, and they can't find the kid.
27:38
Speaker 1: And that's apparently happening with at least a third of
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Speaker 1: the kids that they're bringing into this country. That is
27:43
Speaker 1: pure evil.
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Speaker 2: It is pure evil. And I'll tell you that The
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Speaker 2: New York Times is even reporting on this, and they're
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Speaker 2: reporting Javier Bessera, who is the Secretary of Health and
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Speaker 2: Human Services. He has no background in healthcare, he has
27:57
Speaker 2: no background. He's not a physician, he doesn't know anything
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Speaker 2: about healthcare. But what he is is a radical left
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Speaker 2: wing lawyer who was the Attorney General of California. And
28:06
Speaker 2: that's who Joe Biden Kamala Harris wanted in charge of HHS,
28:09
Speaker 2: and AHHS is the one that that that that deals
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Speaker 2: with with unaccompanied miners. And we've seen an explosion of
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Speaker 2: unaccompanied miners coming into this country because Joe Biden Kamala
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Speaker 2: Harris opened up the border and it ended up with
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Speaker 2: a lot of little boys and a lot of little
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Speaker 2: girls being trafficked in by human traffickers, being abused, many
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Speaker 2: of them physically, many of them sexually. But then when
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Speaker 2: they get here. Uh, the Biden administration had a problem,
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Speaker 2: and they had a problem because they wanted to avoid
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Speaker 2: kids in cages. They had made a huge deal of
28:42
Speaker 2: it under Donald Trump. Never mind that that that the
28:45
Speaker 2: the actual cages were built by Barack Obama. But they
28:51
Speaker 2: wanted to avoid the bad optics of having kids in
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Speaker 2: cages under under Joe Biden. So what they did is
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Speaker 2: they began really these sing young people and releasing them
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Speaker 2: to adults who who couldn't pass basic background checks. And
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Speaker 2: when people in the system said, wait, we don't know
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Speaker 2: who these adults are. We don't know if they're bad people.
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Speaker 2: We don't know if they're looking for kids to work
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Speaker 2: in child labor and slave labor. We don't know if
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Speaker 2: they're violent. We don't know if they want to abuse
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Speaker 2: the kids. You know, what have you hear? Bessera said,
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Speaker 2: shut up and release them faster. And so let me
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Speaker 2: read from the Wall Street Journal. This is an article
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Speaker 2: on July eighth and the Wall Street Journal in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty one, when the new Biden administration was struggling to
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Speaker 2: cope with a sudden influx of unaccompanied migrant children at
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Speaker 2: the US Mexico border. The government repeatedly overrode the concerns
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Speaker 2: of lower level workers who warned about placing them in
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Speaker 2: certain households. Documents and interviews show, quote, it does not
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Speaker 2: appear safe for the minor to be released to a
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Speaker 2: home environment that was not fully assessed. A case worker
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Speaker 2: wrote about a child slated to live in a hostile
29:56
Speaker 2: like home in Florida with at least three adults. A
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Speaker 2: few days later, unofficial dismissed the recommendation to reject the
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Speaker 2: proposed guardian. According to internal government memos, at another facility
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Speaker 2: in Pomona, California, about thirty miles east of Los Angeles,
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Speaker 2: more than one hundred children that summer were sent to
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Speaker 2: temporary guardians who were issued denials early in the process
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Speaker 2: by case coordinators. According to a review of internal government
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Speaker 2: data that tracks on accompanied children, emails and other communications
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Speaker 2: and interviews with caseworkers, about two dozen more denials were
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Speaker 2: overturned because of clerical errors or issues such as missing
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Speaker 2: fingerprints that were resolved. Record show, but many of the
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Speaker 2: others were approved with scant details explaining why, and stunningly,
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Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal couldn't determine what happened to the
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Speaker 2: children after they left the facility. Joe Biden and Kamala
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Speaker 2: Harris have lost over eighty thousand children that came as
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Speaker 2: unaccompanied miters to this country. They don't know where they are,
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Speaker 2: they don't know who has them, they don't know what
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Speaker 2: has happened to the kids. And you know what, Kamala
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Speaker 2: Harris has zero interest in finding the answer to that.
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Speaker 2: She will never talk about it. Mind you, she was
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Speaker 2: the borders are, she still is, and yet losing eighty
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Speaker 2: thousand children apparently doesn't concern her at all.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and there doesn't seem to be accountability for this either.
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Speaker 1: Is there anything that Congress can do now? Knowing what
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Speaker 1: we just learned in that report.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot Congress can do, but in the Senate,
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Speaker 2: the Senate will do none of it. And the reason
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Speaker 2: is the Democrats, who are in the majority of the
31:42
Speaker 2: Senate do not care. I've raised this issue repeatedly in
31:46
Speaker 2: the Judiciary Committee. You know what, Democrats in charge Judiciary.
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Speaker 2: We have not had a single hearing in four years
31:53
Speaker 2: on the crisis at our southern border. We've had multiple
31:56
Speaker 2: hearings on the Democrats desire to grant amnesty to illegal aliens.
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Speaker 2: We have not had a hearing in judiciary on the
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Speaker 2: eighty thousand kids that Joe Biden Kamala Harris has lost
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Speaker 2: because the Democrats want to cover it up and listen,
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Speaker 2: we know that some significant number of those individuals are
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Speaker 2: in child labor work sites, are being abused, or being
32:21
Speaker 2: physically abused, or being sexually abused. If you look for example,
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go back to the Wall Street Journal article
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Speaker 2: that says, following an internal investigation, the Inspector General for
32:32
Speaker 2: the US Department of Health and Human Services, which oversaw
32:36
Speaker 2: a network of shelters caring for an accompanied minors, found
32:39
Speaker 2: gaps in the process to screen temporary guardians. It's said
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Speaker 2: in February that sixteen percent sixteen percent of records for
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Speaker 2: children who were released to sponsors in March and April
32:51
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one lacked evidence that a required safety check
32:56
Speaker 2: was conducted. Quote. Although well intentioned, the these sites were
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Speaker 2: unregulated and unsafed, said Neiha Desai, the senior director of
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Speaker 2: Immigration at the National Center for Youth Law. There was
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Speaker 2: enormous pressure placed on the sites to rapidly release children
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Speaker 2: from custody, and the Biden Harris administration pressed them to
33:18
Speaker 2: release at these emergency shelters. Case workers were told to
33:21
Speaker 2: discharge children within ten to fourteen days, and so they
33:28
Speaker 2: released kids without knowing if the people they were giving
33:31
Speaker 2: them too were dangerous, without knowing what was happening, and
33:35
Speaker 2: yet tragically the result is many kids suffered horrific mistreatment.
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