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Who Controls AI Could Control Global Truth plus Operation Riptide Rocks Cybercrime · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: All right, there's a new report out that NewsGuard and
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna explain what NewsGuard is for you in a second.
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  Speaker 1: But they want to empower AI censorship. And you may say,
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  Speaker 1: why do I care. It's a great question. There is
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  Speaker 1: an AI race that's happening right now in this country,
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  Speaker 1: and it's also to a race that's happening in the world.
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  Speaker 1: There are a couple different misconceptions on AI, and I
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  Speaker 1: want you to understand that a lot of this is
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  Speaker 1: actually coming from our adversaries.
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  Speaker 2: AI. You want to win on you want to control it.
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  Speaker 1: You want to be the victor, because if America doesn't win,
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  Speaker 1: guess who is going to be the victor. It is
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  Speaker 1: going to be China. And China will use AI to
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  Speaker 1: absolutely push their propaganda, not just on the United States
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  Speaker 1: of America, but people around the world. So if you
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  Speaker 1: ask AI a basic question about something, imagine the power
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  Speaker 1: you have if you slightly alter that answer with propaganda.
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  Speaker 1: Now it may be subtle propaganda, but over day and
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  Speaker 1: weeks and months, you could change it changed an entire
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  Speaker 1: generation because of the answers that AI is giving you
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  Speaker 1: on a multitude of issues. It could be on tax cuts,
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  Speaker 1: it could be on social media censorship, it could be
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  Speaker 1: on drugs, it could be on abortion. Like, the list
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  Speaker 1: of things that you could have influence on is absolutely massive.
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  Speaker 1: It could be, for example, on is socialism or communism
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  Speaker 1: or Marxism really that bad? Right, Well, you could make
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  Speaker 1: it seem like maybe it's not that bad, and you
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  Speaker 1: can do these types of things. Now, this is important
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  Speaker 1: for you to understand. There is a lot of propaganda
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  Speaker 1: that we've learned about that's actually coming in to the
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  Speaker 1: United States of America from our adversaries trying to get
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  Speaker 1: Americans to actually be against AI. How do we know this, Well,
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  Speaker 1: we've actually busted them paying for propaganda. I'll give you
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  Speaker 1: an example. There is a lot of pulling down of
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  Speaker 1: this shown because of propaganda coming in from China that
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  Speaker 1: many Americans are saying they don't want these AI supercenters
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  Speaker 1: in their neighborhoods. They don't want them built. They because
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  Speaker 1: they say it's gonna drain all their the natural resources,
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  Speaker 1: gonna suck up all the water, and it's gonna suck
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  Speaker 1: up all the electricity, and you're gonna have blackouts. Now
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  Speaker 1: that is actually in the old school technology could be
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  Speaker 1: accurate in the new technology that we're building in the
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  Speaker 1: United States of America that isn't accurate at all, like
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  Speaker 1: not even close to accurate. Let me explain now how
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  Speaker 1: these AI tech centers are being built.
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  Speaker 2: One.
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  Speaker 1: They're being built with what they call a closed loop
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  Speaker 1: cooling system. Now you may say, okay, Ben, why do
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  Speaker 1: I care. Well, if you don't have that, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be sucking up a ton of water and to keep
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  Speaker 1: these computer systems running cool. The closed loop system is
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  Speaker 1: a lot like these new gaming computers. I'm staring at
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  Speaker 1: one right now. It's got these cool led lights. It
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  Speaker 1: is a closed loop system. I have one water that
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  Speaker 1: cools my computer that I'm using right now to talk
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  Speaker 1: to you, and I don't ever have to add water
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  Speaker 1: to it. Okay, I don't have to add water to
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  Speaker 1: my computer ever. It's closed loop system and it's good
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  Speaker 1: to go. That is exactly how the AI centers are
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  Speaker 1: built now. So the idea that you're gonna run out
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  Speaker 1: of water is a lie now in the United States
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  Speaker 1: of America, And even more importantly than that, it's propaganda now.
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  Speaker 1: And it's also propaganda that a lot of Americans believe
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  Speaker 1: is true because they have seen so much propaganda actually
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  Speaker 1: on social media, uh via AI and other things from
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  Speaker 1: other countries who are trying to get America to not
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  Speaker 1: lead on AI, but to be afraid of it, saying,
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  Speaker 1: in other words, not in my backyard. That is number one.
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  Speaker 1: Now number two, the second biggest misconception is that you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna just like have this massive problem on your power grid.
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  Speaker 1: It because and let's be clear, all right, I want
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  Speaker 1: to be very very very very very very very clear
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  Speaker 1: about this AI and and these these AI data centers,
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  Speaker 1: they take a lot of power. Now here's the part
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  Speaker 1: that many people again don't understand. Google for example, they
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  Speaker 1: are building a new data center and they're a perfect
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  Speaker 1: example of this. It's going to be in West Memphis,
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  Speaker 1: that's across the river from Memphis, Tennessee. And the Google
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  Speaker 1: Data center is quote more than a building. It's a
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  Speaker 1: long term investment in our community, our workforce. Google says,
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  Speaker 1: in our future. This transformational project is helping position West
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  Speaker 1: Memphis is a leader innovation, helping build a future for
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  Speaker 1: generations to come. Now, there's a lot of jobs that happen.
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  Speaker 1: For example, when AI comes in ABC News reporting on this,
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  Speaker 1: the building, the infrastructure, all of it like this is
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  Speaker 1: incredible and good morning America got exclusive access in this
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  Speaker 1: inside of a Google data center. As communizationwide quote grapple
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  Speaker 1: with a rapid expansion of AI powered data centers. Now,
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  Speaker 1: is this going to just crush this small town of
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  Speaker 1: West Memphis.
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  Speaker 2: The answer is no.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, most of these these AI centers are building now.
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  Speaker 1: They're actually a net positive on the power grid because
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  Speaker 1: they build the infrastructure to add enough power that actually
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  Speaker 1: they're adding to the grid instead of just taking away
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  Speaker 1: from the grid. That is part of what the left,
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  Speaker 1: and again the Chinese and the Russians and others that
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  Speaker 1: hate this country they're lying to you about as well. Now,
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  Speaker 1: in the past years ago, you really did have these concerns,
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  Speaker 1: but not anymore. You don't need to have these fears now.
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  Speaker 1: So I put those two out there so that you
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  Speaker 1: understand that if an AI center is being built in
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  Speaker 1: your area, not only is it going to be closed
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  Speaker 1: loop system. That's a great thing, right because you don't
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  Speaker 1: have an issue with water, but most of them are
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  Speaker 1: net positive to your grid, building a better infrastructure and
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  Speaker 1: also a more reliable infrastructure for the community which they're
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  Speaker 1: being built in. Now, if you didn't do that, then yes,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people would be angry, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people be mad, a lot of people would say, I'm
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  Speaker 1: out for good reason, right, for good reason, you beck,
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  Speaker 1: I'm done. I'm out, like I'm done. We don't want
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  Speaker 1: this in our community. It's bad for our community. The
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  Speaker 1: list goes on on. So, now that you understand that,
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  Speaker 1: and I hope I put this into simple layman's terms,
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  Speaker 1: I now want you to understand how much more propaganda
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  Speaker 1: we're having to deal with. All right, there is a
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  Speaker 1: group called NewsGuard. They are a pro censorship group. They
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  Speaker 1: absolutely hate conservatives. I want to start with that, and
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  Speaker 1: they are working to train AI models to fight misinformation,
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  Speaker 1: they claim, while actually, and this is not a joke,
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  Speaker 1: rating Chinese state on media outlets is more reliable than
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  Speaker 1: America and the center right news outlets.
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  Speaker 2: According to a new report.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the Washington Free Beacon reported that NewsGuard again the
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  Speaker 1: pro censorship group, operating a blacklist against concervative media. I've
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  Speaker 1: been on that list before, and I don't know if Marquez.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a Fortune five hundred company, you cannot advertise
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  Speaker 1: on these conservative networks or shows. And it's their way
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  Speaker 1: of trying to bankrupt us and so NewsGuard basically went
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  Speaker 1: out there and what they did is they said, all right,
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  Speaker 1: all these conservatives, all these Fox shows, all these news
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  Speaker 1: talk guys, all these podcasts, you we put them on
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  Speaker 1: this blacklist. You can't advertise there, or we're gonna accuse
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  Speaker 1: you of being like a bigot raised as homophobes mfhobe.
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  Speaker 2: The list goes on and on. What did that do
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  Speaker 2: to my livelihood? It cost me.
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  Speaker 1: Probably fifty percent of the opportunities I would have had
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  Speaker 1: to make money. Let me say that again. Now, it's
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  Speaker 1: not just me, it's anyone that hit on the blacklist. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there are some shows that absolutely destroyed their entire base.
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  Speaker 1: It has been probably a decade since I had a
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  Speaker 1: fortune five hundred company advertised on any of my shows.
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  Speaker 2: Let that sync in.
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  Speaker 1: Why it is because of groups like this quote you
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  Speaker 1: know NewsGuard. Now they give it a grand like this.
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  Speaker 1: This is nothing more than a liberal propaganda machine. Now
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  Speaker 1: NewsGuard claims to rate the credibility of a news outlet
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  Speaker 1: based on likeliness that the outlet would spread miss or disinformation.
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  Speaker 1: That's not at all, it's how conservative are you. The
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  Speaker 1: organization then sells its data to advertisers that would then
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  Speaker 1: discourage said advertisers from placing ads on quote disfavored media
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  Speaker 1: aka anybody conservative. Ben Ferguson, Russell Limbau back in the
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  Speaker 1: day was their main target, Mark Levin, the great one.
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  Speaker 2: The list goes on and on.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I want to take a moment, and I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk to you about the incredible impact that
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  Speaker 1: you can have for the people of Israel right now.
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  Speaker 1: From America's revolutionary war to Israel's fight for survival in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen forty eight, both nations have faced moments that tested
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  Speaker 1: their courage, yet freedom endured. In October of nineteen eighty five,
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  Speaker 1: President Ronald Reagan delivered these remarks about America's commitment to
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  Speaker 1: stand with Israel.
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  Speaker 3: In our talks, we paid space attention to two issues,
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  Speaker 3: our commitment to Israel's security and well being and our
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  Speaker 3: shared desire to move forward together toward a just and
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  Speaker 3: lasting piece between Israel and all its Arab neighbors. A strong,
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  Speaker 3: secure Israel is a shared interest.
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  Speaker 1: As Americas celebrates its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, the
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  Speaker 1: International Fellowship of Christians and Jews reflects on the friendship
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  Speaker 1: between the United States and Israel, two democracies built on faith, Liberty,
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  Speaker 4: When you go online to flag pin IFCJ dot org.
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  Speaker 4: That's flag pin IFCJ dot org. Now, this is also
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  Speaker 4: what's interesting. Breitbart News reported that this group claim that
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  Speaker 4: the top ten outlets at most risk of spreading disinformation
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  Speaker 4: included center right outlets such as The Federalists and The
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  Speaker 4: New York Post, while those labeled at the least likely
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  Speaker 4: to spread disinformation included you ready for this, the hardcore
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  Speaker 4: leftist site who's been busted with countless misinformation campaigns, huffing
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  Speaker 4: him Post and then pro Publica, another hardcore leftist radical organization.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: NewsGuard reportedly encourage AI companies to use its data during
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  Speaker 1: these quote supervised learning process a technique that influences how
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  Speaker 1: AI models analyze information and coordinate AI outlet outputs with
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  Speaker 1: developer preferences.
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  Speaker 2: So what does this mean? In translation?
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  Speaker 1: NewsGuard is telling these AI companies, Hey, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: give you a list of where you should be getting
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  Speaker 1: your news and your information from. Okay, and you should
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  Speaker 1: go to that list. And then anyone that's on a
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  Speaker 1: conservative do not you know trust lists AI? You know
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  Speaker 1: Mark Levin ben ferguson Sean Hannity, Like the list goes
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  Speaker 1: on a Fox News channel, all of those you should
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  Speaker 1: not trust and don't trust them at all. And fact,
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  Speaker 1: while you're using AI, don't get information from these places.
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  Speaker 2: So what would that mean?
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  Speaker 1: It would mean exactly what these radical leftists extremists want.
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  Speaker 1: They want AI. There's controlled only by radical leftist propagandists.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: So think about how powerful that would be if every
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  Speaker 1: time you're using AI, you're only getting an approved list
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  Speaker 1: of Marxists, socialists and communist propaganda. Now do you understand
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  Speaker 1: not only how powerful that is, but also how damaging
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  Speaker 1: that could be to society?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Like, that's a lot, folks. And so the Free Beacon
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  Speaker 1: reported that NewsGuard would license its data in a machine
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  Speaker 1: readable form that would be ideal to train AI chatbots.
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  Speaker 1: That's like the technology that does this to then discourage
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  Speaker 1: this out of disinformation. In reality, that means to discourage
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  Speaker 1: the spread of conservative information Without tools like NewsGuard for AI,
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  Speaker 1: which can be used during supervised learning to train transformer models,
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  Speaker 1: AI language models risk become that quote great next or
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  Speaker 1: the next great misinformation super spreader. NewsGuard said in their
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  Speaker 1: news press release. The NewsGuard COO all right argue that
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  Speaker 1: NewsGuard does not market its data for AI model training. Really,
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  Speaker 1: that's interesting. The freebee caon then explain that the AAI
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  Speaker 1: model trained as on newsguards ratings may treat American news
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  Speaker 1: outlets as less reliable.
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  Speaker 2: Let me say this again.
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  Speaker 1: They're saying Newsguard's rating may actually treat and teach AI
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  Speaker 1: that American news outlets are less reliable than Chinese state
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  Speaker 1: owned media. Why would we say that? All right, let's
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  Speaker 1: go the data. The outlet sided Newsguard's rating of the
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  Speaker 1: China Daily. Now, the China Daily is a Chinese Communist
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  Speaker 1: Party state owned propaganda machine. They called a news outlet,
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  Speaker 1: it's propaganda. They received a score of forty four point
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  Speaker 1: five out of one hundred. That is more than twice
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  Speaker 1: the reliability, for example, of the rating given by Newsmax,
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  Speaker 1: which received a score of twenty. So in that scenario,
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  Speaker 1: what is that teaching AI? They're saying, Hey, we want
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  Speaker 1: you to get your information when you're putting together your
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  Speaker 1: answers or whatever you're working on.
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  Speaker 2: And we rate China Daily.
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  Speaker 1: Which is the CCPs state owned news propaganda, and we
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  Speaker 1: rate it almost twice as reliable more than twice as
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  Speaker 1: reliable as for example, Newsmax. NewsGuard said the China Daily
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  Speaker 1: does not publish false or egregiously misleading content at a
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  Speaker 1: significant level. In contrast, NewsGuard said that Newsmac has advanced
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  Speaker 1: false or egregiously misleading claims on health, US politics January
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  Speaker 1: sixth attacks on the US Capitol such that a visitor
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  Speaker 1: to the site risk being seriously quote unquote misled. Other
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  Speaker 1: center right outlets, such as the Federalists or One American
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  Speaker 1: News risk being quote significantly misled on important topics. Both
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  Speaker 1: outlets received a score of seventeen point five and twenty
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  Speaker 1: two point two, while the China Communist Party site received
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  Speaker 1: a forty four point five score. I look at all
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  Speaker 1: of this, and the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party
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  Speaker 1: scores a forty four to five, which is only five
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  Speaker 1: points below for example, the Daily Wire. Can you get
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  Speaker 1: your head around that? So you've got a quote watchdog
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  Speaker 1: group that has raised the credibility of news sources directly
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  Speaker 1: tied the Chinese Communist Party propaganda more reliable than conservative
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  Speaker 1: news outlets. This is exactly why I go back to
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  Speaker 1: what I said earlier. If we don't watch what they're
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  Speaker 1: doing with AI, and we don't control AI, and we
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  Speaker 1: we better make darn well sure that China doesn't win,
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  Speaker 1: because otherwise you're going to be getting your information the
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  Speaker 1: exact way that NewsGuard is claiming it needs.
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  Speaker 2: To be given to you.
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  Speaker 1: I think AI is going to have more influence over
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  Speaker 1: the world than any other technology, probably in my lifetime.
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  Speaker 1: And if we bow down and allow China to lead
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  Speaker 1: on this, we are screwed. And this is the the
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  Speaker 1: the amount of money that's being spent right now on
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  Speaker 1: misinformation to get Americans to somehow be against AI centers
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  Speaker 1: being in America is insane.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Luckily, their states are stepping up and they're saying no, no,
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  Speaker 1: we want you here, and they realize that this these
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  Speaker 1: these closed loop systems of water are non issue now.
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  Speaker 1: With water and the power is actually a positive gain,
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  Speaker 1: not a negative, because the infrastructure of these AI companies
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  Speaker 1: are putting in to make it where it's actually a
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  Speaker 1: positive for the community. Like that's really what matters here,
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  Speaker 1: and it's what we should all be extremely excited about.
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  Speaker 1: Like these are good things, not bad things, and so
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  Speaker 1: we need to do what we can to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that we understand that, like We've got to lead on these.
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  Speaker 1: You can't just bury your head in the sand and
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  Speaker 1: act like, oh AI somehow bad and we don't want
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  Speaker 1: to be involved, like this is going to run business.
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  Speaker 1: It is going to run I don't know anyone, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, in Washington, I don't know a single elect
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  Speaker 1: official doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: Use AA on a daily basis.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, I use AI every single day, countless
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  Speaker 1: times a day. The last thing I want is to
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  Speaker 1: get Chinese propaganda or liberal propaganda to my phone automatically.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine what I can do to an entire generation. All right,
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  Speaker 1: I want to take you back.
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  Speaker 2: In time for a moment.
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  Speaker 1: Remember down Trump when he was running for president, he said, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: if you like me, I'm gonna get rid of waste, fraud,
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  Speaker 1: and abuse. I'm going to clean house and the swamp
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  Speaker 1: and the deep state, and I'm going to find great
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  Speaker 1: Americans who actually serve the interest of the president's agenda,
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  Speaker 1: which you guys are voting for. Well, here's another example
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  Speaker 1: of that campaign promise paying off big time. The FBI
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  Speaker 1: has busted now several fraud schemes across the country in
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  Speaker 1: the last few weeks. The FBI Director Cash Battel said
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  Speaker 1: In the latest weekly update to the agency, Patel highlighted
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  Speaker 1: some of the results of Operation Riptide now that operation
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  Speaker 1: focused on criminal actors and the key services they rely on,
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  Speaker 1: as well as their infrastructure, their tools and their services,
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  Speaker 1: and their communication platforms and then their money. FBI Cleveland,
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  Speaker 1: for instance, disrupted a Chinese fishing platform link to the
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  Speaker 1: theft of millions of credit card numbers and nearly and
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  Speaker 1: this is the part that again this goes back to
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  Speaker 1: the Chinese and why you don't want to trust them
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  Speaker 1: with things like AI nearly one point nine billion dollars
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  Speaker 1: and losses worldwide. I didn't say one point nine million.
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  Speaker 1: I said one point nine billion dollars in losses worldwide.
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  Speaker 1: Cash protel has now revealed now as a result of
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  Speaker 1: these efforts of the FBI, just in Charlotte, they said,
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  Speaker 1: two individuals were convicted for operating a business email compromise
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  Speaker 1: scheme that stole twenty five million alone from US companies.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks to FBI Boston, our Cyber Division and international partners,
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  Speaker 1: we helped dismantle a VPN service used to buy ransomware
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  Speaker 1: groups around the world. He said, this exactly what Operation
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  Speaker 1: Riptide is about. Targeting the cyber criminal ecosystem at every level,
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  Speaker 1: and we're just getting started now. Fraudsters have also been
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  Speaker 1: targeted by the FBI. In Los Angeles, for instance, an
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  Speaker 1: Orange County man was arrested for carrying out a nearly
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  Speaker 1: one hundred million dollar bank fraud scheme. This, according to Patel,
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  Speaker 1: thanks to the FBI. Milwaukee, Wisconsin man also plead to
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  Speaker 1: go to to frauding nearly one hundred ninety investors out
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  Speaker 1: of more than fourteen million dollars. Then out of New Orleans,
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  Speaker 1: a texasman was indicted for running a four million dollar
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  Speaker 1: investment fraud scam. The victimized more than twenty people, he said,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: noting that a Texas couple had also been indicted for
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: stealing more than two point five million dollars from vulnerable
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: victims through a year long like fraud scheme, thinks, they
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: said to FBI Seattle. They also said that fraud scheme
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: was a psychic fraud scheme, so again praying on week,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Patel added, the FBI Pittsburgh also announced charges against an
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Ohio woman accused of embezzling more than four hundred and
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: sixty thousand dollars from a law firm that she was
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: working at as a pair legal Seven other individuals, for example,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: in Las Vegas, were arrested for exploiting coronavirus relief programs.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: You can also go all the way up to Alaska
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: where an individual there was sentenced to prison for defrauding
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: those programs as well. Now, the FBI also targeted violent
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: criminals taking illegal weapons off the streets. In Birmingham, for example,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: they had a Operation Safer Communities, resulted in thirty six
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: arrests and seizure of eleven firearms. Is part of Summer
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  Speaker 1: Heat two point zero, and after a separate seven week
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: enforcement effort, FBI Birmingham announced more than one hundred and
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: seventy arrests and confiscated an additional twenty two illegal firearms.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: By the way, Democrats should be excited about this because
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: they're the ones that hate guns the most, So you
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: would think they'd be like super pumped about this, right, No,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: of course not. They hate Caspertel, they hate Donald Trump,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: they hate law and order, and so that's exactly why
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: they're against this. Patel also revealed highlights from an FBI
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: littrock sting resulting in the arrest of thirty nine people.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: The seizure of thirty five firearms, large quantities of fentanyl
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: that could kill many Americans, as well as a lot
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: of other illegal drugs. You can go from Little Rock
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: to Portland. The FBI saw man sentence to prison for
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: assaulting a federal officer during a violent attack and an
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: immigration and Customs enforcement facility that was of course, you
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: know those protests that were paid for it, yet again
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: by the radical left. Patel also reminded agents that their
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: work is saving children, and multiple child predators were sentenced, convicted,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: and charged as a result of investigations by the FBI
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: in Tampa, then in Boston, Kansas City, and Baltimore. Quote
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: as of yesterday, for example, one member of seven hundred
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: and sixty four was sentenced to thirty years in prison.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: He says, always, we're going to keep getting after it
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: and I'll see you next week. Now, you look at
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: that weekly update, and that's the reason why I wanted
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: you to understand kind of how this works. This is
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: not like a six month update. This isn't a year
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: end of the year like update. This is the weekly update.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Next week's update will be completely different, with completely different information.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: I really really, really really really want you to think
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: about that. Okay, you have a FBI that is working
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: right now, by the way, exactly how it's supposed to.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: They're allowing the great men and women in uniform to
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: do their jobs. It is something that I think should
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: make all of us proud. And it's no longer using
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: the FBI for political purposes. You may remember we found
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: out the FBI was actually briefing and you go back
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: to politics here they were briefing and sending letters to
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: big tech for example Twitter under the prior administration on
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: what they wanted to be censored. And when you think
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: about that, they were out there spending their time sending
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: emails and finding things that were post online by people
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: like Mark and myself and saying, hey, we need you
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: to censor this information. There was question there were things,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: for example, put online like about ivermectin for example, and
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: then what was the government doing. They were then connecting
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: to Facebook or Meta to x and others and saying
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: and Instagram saying yeah, you guys need to take this down.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Like think about that.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: That was what law enforcement looked like under Biden Harris
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: and under Obama and then now look at it like
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: we're actually going after and taking people down that have
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: committed real, serious, heinous crimes. That is something that should
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: make all of us excited. And it's again goes back
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: to the promise that was made by the President nights
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: its America. We're gonna go after those that We're gonna
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: go out to the bad guys, like we're gonna go
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: after waste, We're gonna after fraud, We're gonna have to
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: go after abuse. We are going to go after these things.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: And that is exactly why we should be so excited
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: and proud of this. I also think this goes back
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: to what was it a couple of weeks ago when
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: mister berducedrumit signed I have real quick all right, good,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: I got time to play this. I want to go
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: back to the FBI Director Cash Battel, and he was
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: unveiling a new FBI Most Wanted list, but it was
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: not a normal most wanted wisk list. It was the
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: fraudsters list at a press conference in Ohio, yet again
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: showing that like, we're running this agency differently. And I
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: want you to listen to what Cash had to say.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: Uh, Operation Playground Therapy is what the FBI is here
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: to talk about today. As the Attorney General highlighted, literally
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: tens of millions of that was supposed to go to
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: kids was stolen allegedly by individuals who worked in government
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: and the private sector and thought they could fleece Americans
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: and our treasure, our children of the hard earned dollars,
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: the taxpayer dollars that we provide to support them in
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: their time of need.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: Well they got caught.
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: And not only did they get caught, so many others
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: got caught. Just take a look at some of the
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: vehicles that are here as part of their ill gotten
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: gains and proceeds. They didn't just take the money, they
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: paraded it around the country. And thanks to this team
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: here you are seeing what hard work, dedication to the
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: rule of law and true unified effort across all fronts
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: when no one wants the credit and everyone wants to
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: just do the work. These are the results that we're
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: here to talk about today. Importantly for the FBI, and
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: thanks to Vice President JD Vance's vision.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: He had an idea.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: He said, hey, you guys have a top ten most
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: wanted list for all gang bangers, terrorists, narco traffickers, murderers
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: and rapists around the world.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: How about.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: We have a top ten list for most wanted fraudsters. So,
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: mister Vice President, thanks to your vision, we're here to
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: deliver and you see it here today. It is live
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: officially on the FBI website. I want all Americans to
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: take a look at these most wanted individuals and look
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: at the amounts, the tens of millions and billions of
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: dollars in fraud that they have decimated our societies from.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: We rely on you. Our best form of information is
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: the American public. Take a look at this top ten
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: most wanted. Let us know any information. There is no
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: bad piece of information. The only bad piece of information
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: is the one you don't give us. So call one
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: eight hundred, call FBI or go to FBI dot gov
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: and help us apprehend more fraudsters. The last thing I
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: want to talk about is the work of the FBI
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: and the inneragency isn't just domestic. The fraudsters have created
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: programs overseas that have fleeced Americans of billions of dollars.
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: The FBI has led that charge against scam center compounds
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: stood up in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, freeing
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: thousands of traffic workers just in the last year. Under
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: the Trump Advance administration and the Fraud Initiative, we have
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: captured and freed eight billion dollars in fraud in scam
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: centers that were stood up by the CCP and other
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: adversaries in places like Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia and the
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: Middle East, and we're working with our interagency and partners
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: across the world to bring hundreds of individuals to justice.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: Just the other week in the Middle East, in Dubai,
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: we arrested three hundred individuals responsible for four billion dollars
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: in fraud. They prey on our senior citizens here from overseas,
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: and this administration has made it abundantly clear there is
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: no distance we won't travel to make sure we apprehend
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: each and every one of these individuals. The FBI is
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: leading the effort to scuttle these stam centers permanently, to
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: free the traffic workers, and most importantly, to also secure
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: our taxpayer dollars and make sure that this eight billion
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: in counting in scam center fraud that the FBI has
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: delivered on so far only continues to grow, and we're
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: going to keep doing it. I just want to thank
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: the Attorney General, the Interagency, partnerships here, state and local
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: set it over and over again. The FBI's best partners
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: are state and local law enforcement, and they're here today
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: and these are the results.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: You listen to the FBI director there and this most
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: wanted Fraudster's list. The millions and billions of fraud they're
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: taking place wouldn't have been nice if prior administrations were
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: doing this. Instead of protecting the fraudsters, we're actually going
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: after the fraudsters. Now, you've got to understand. One of
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the reasons why the Democrats look the other way was
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: actually very simple. They were getting kickbacks. You look at
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Minneapolis and what was happening there. There was massive kickbacks
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: that were coming over and over and over again, time
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: and time again. The people that were committing the fraud
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: were giving massive political donations to the governor Waltz and
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: to other elected officials you look.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: At just to fight over that.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Now, a federal judge on Monday blocked the Justice Department
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: from forcing the Minnesota Governor, Tim Waltz and other officials
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: to turnover records and its probe of democratic resistance to
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, calling the move retaliatory no
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: it's called transparency. This is what we are up against.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: We are up against this. And so when you have
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: a most Wanted Frauster's list, by the way, I hope
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: that somebody listening right now goes and looks at it.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Maybe they know somebody, maybe they can help. But this
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: is what accountability looks like. And it's exactly why I
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: and I think so many others voted for President Donald Trump.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: It also is why the midterms are so vitally important.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Make sure you share this podcast with your family or
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: friends wherever you are. I'll see you back here tomorrow.