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Take It Down Passed to STOP Deepfake & Revenge Porn plus Maryland Man AUDIO Shows Wife Beating & Human Trafficking · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome in his verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson
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  Speaker 1: with you on this Friday morning, It's so nice to
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  Speaker 1: have you with us. And Senator we have got some
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  Speaker 1: very big legislation that you've been fighting hard on. The
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  Speaker 1: White House got on board and worked with you, and
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe it, but this is something that's actually
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  Speaker 1: bipartisan happening in Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the Take It Down Act has now passed the
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  Speaker 2: United States Senator's past the House, and it is headed
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  Speaker 2: to President Trump's desk to be signed into law. This
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  Speaker 2: is legislation that protects kids, protects women online from revenge porn,
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  Speaker 2: from deep fakes that are targeting more and more kids.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to break all that down, explain how that
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  Speaker 2: came to pass. We also have yet more facts about
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  Speaker 2: the Maryland Man. The Maryland Man that the Democrats have
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  Speaker 2: decided is their poster child. It is who they stand for.
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  Speaker 2: It is the illegal alien MS thirteen member who now
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  Speaker 2: we have growing evidence was also active in human trafficking.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to break that evidence down as well. And finally,
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  Speaker 2: dough Elon Musk is laying out yet more shocking revelations.
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  Speaker 2: Doges uncovering. We're gonna we're gonna go through all those
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Centri, this is something you've been working on for
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  Speaker 1: quite some time. The President got involved with this, the
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  Speaker 1: first Lady got involved with this, and this is bipartisan
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  Speaker 1: in nature, which is great to factually see Congress seation
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  Speaker 1: thing on a bipartisan level. And this is gonna protect people,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of young women and girls especially who have
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  Speaker 1: been in essence blackmail by xes that wanted to put
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  Speaker 1: out things that should never be on the Internet with
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  Speaker 1: them in it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is unfortunately a growing problem. It is a
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  Speaker 2: massive problem, and there are two big manifestations of it.
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  Speaker 2: Number one are real images, non consential intimate images where
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  Speaker 2: say you have a boyfriend and girlfriend and they take
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  Speaker 2: explicit pictures of each other, that take explicit videos of
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  Speaker 2: each other, and then they have an ugly breakup and
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  Speaker 2: one or the other is pissed off and they say,
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  Speaker 2: all right, I'm gonna stick it to you. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: put these pictures, I'm gonna put these videos out online
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  Speaker 2: and the whole world is going to see you. And
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  Speaker 2: I got to say that is wrong. It is a
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  Speaker 2: grotesque violation of your rights of your privacy, and it's
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  Speaker 2: a problem we're seeing growing more and more. There's a
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  Speaker 2: new iteration of it that is a product of technology,
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  Speaker 2: which is now with artificial intelligence, you can create deep fakes,
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  Speaker 2: where you can create images or videos of real people
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  Speaker 2: that appear to be real and they're entirely fake. And
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  Speaker 2: we are seeing the prevalence of deep fake non consensual
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  Speaker 2: intimate images. It has grown three thousand percent last year.
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  Speaker 2: Over ninety percent of the victims are either women or
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  Speaker 2: teenage girls. And I'll tell you how this issue first
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  Speaker 2: came to my attention. It came from a Texas girl
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  Speaker 2: who was targeted by this, a girl named Elliston Barry
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  Speaker 2: who last year she's fifteen. Now, last year she was fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: She was in ninth grade, and she woke up one
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  Speaker 2: Monday morning and her phone started blowing up and all
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  Speaker 2: of her friends let her know that a classmate of hers,
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  Speaker 2: a boy in her class, had taken what was a
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  Speaker 2: perfectly innocent picture of her on social media and used
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  Speaker 2: an AI app online to create deep fakes, and he
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  Speaker 2: created what appeared to be naked pictures of her. Now
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  Speaker 2: they weren't, but you couldn't tell from looking at him,
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  Speaker 2: and then he sent them to every one of her classmates.
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  Speaker 2: So this poor girl, Look, it's hard to be a teenager.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to be a teenage girl. But if you
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  Speaker 2: could imagine the nightmare of every one of your classmates
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  Speaker 2: thinking they're looking at naked pictures of you. She woke up,
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  Speaker 2: she was in tears. It was horrifying, and what happened.
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  Speaker 2: She's a Texan, So she and her mother, Anna called
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  Speaker 2: my office and complained to me. They said, look, can
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  Speaker 2: you help us. You're our senator, can you help us?
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  Speaker 2: And I got to say my team did a great
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  Speaker 2: job that they elevated it to me and put this
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  Speaker 2: in front of me and said, look is in this horrible?
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  Speaker 2: What happened to this girl? And we actually drafted legislation
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  Speaker 2: to address this problem because as we looked at it,
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  Speaker 2: it was becoming more and more common. And the Take
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  Speaker 2: It Down Act that I wrote it does two things.
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  Speaker 2: Number one, it makes it a crime, a federal felony
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  Speaker 2: to post non consensual intimate images, either real images or
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  Speaker 2: deep fakes that made through AI.
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  Speaker 1: Clear that's where this has real teeth. You just said
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  Speaker 1: it is a felony.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, a felony with jail time. And a number of states,
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  Speaker 2: including Texas, have criminalized revenge porn, but a lot of
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  Speaker 2: those states they don't address deep fakes because deep fakes
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  Speaker 2: are new, and so it's a hole in the law.
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  Speaker 2: So part of what Elliston discovered in Texas is there
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  Speaker 2: was nothing she could do about it. This kid could
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  Speaker 2: send out these pictures and there was no consequence at all.
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  Speaker 2: So number one, it makes it a crime, But number two,
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  Speaker 2: there is a persistent problem that the tech platfor won't
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  Speaker 2: take this garbage down. And in fact, when I introduced
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  Speaker 2: the legislation, Ellison or mom came to DC. I sat
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  Speaker 2: down with him in my office and when they sat
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  Speaker 2: down with me, I asked them. I said, okay, what
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  Speaker 2: happened to the pictures? And this was nine months after
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  Speaker 2: the incident had happened, and they expressed enormous frustration. They
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  Speaker 2: said Snapchat would not take them down. Elliston's mom had
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  Speaker 2: called them and emailed them and repeatedly tried to get
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  Speaker 2: them taken down. Nothing complete. Heisman stiff arm I got
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  Speaker 2: to tell you, Ben. I turned to my team and
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  Speaker 2: I said, I want you to get the CEO of
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  Speaker 2: Snapchat on the phone today. I want those pictures down
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  Speaker 2: today within two hours, ben they pulled them down. Now
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  Speaker 2: you know what, It should not take a sitting US
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  Speaker 2: senator making a phone call to get pictures like that
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  Speaker 2: taken down. And so what we did we rode into
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  Speaker 2: the law a legal obligation on the tech platforms part
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  Speaker 2: that once the victim notifies them that they have to
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  Speaker 2: take the pictures of the videos down immediately. I did
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  Speaker 2: this legislation with Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat in the Senate.
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  Speaker 2: We passed it through the Senate one hundred to nothing.
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  Speaker 2: We did it in the last Congress, but unfortunately the
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  Speaker 2: House didn't get it passed. So this Congress we passed
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  Speaker 2: it again. And then one thing that was really terrific,
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  Speaker 2: the First Lady Milania Trump, got actively involved. She came
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  Speaker 2: to Capitol Hill, she pushed for the bill. She sat
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  Speaker 2: down at a roundtable with Elliston with other victims of
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  Speaker 2: this growing problem, and the First Lady leaned in and said,
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  Speaker 2: to the House, take this up and get it done.
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  Speaker 2: And this past week the House did. They passed it,
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  Speaker 2: passed it overwhelmingly, and so now it is headed to
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  Speaker 2: the president's President Trump talked about this bill in the
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  Speaker 2: State of the Union. He told the House, get it done.
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  Speaker 2: I want to sign it. It's now going to be
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  Speaker 2: signed in the law, and it's going to protect women,
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  Speaker 2: teenage girls, teenage boys all across the country from this
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  Speaker 2: kind of victimization.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where everyone should be proud because not
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  Speaker 1: only as you mentioned, mandatory takedown, you got a forty
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  Speaker 1: eight hours of notification by the victim or their representatives,
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  Speaker 1: but the penalty violators face up to two years in
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  Speaker 1: prison for offenses involving adults, up to three years if
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  Speaker 1: a victim is a minor, and this is going to
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  Speaker 1: send a very queer message you cannot do this anymore.
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  Speaker 1: And if you do, you're.
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  Speaker 2: A real consequences. Yeah, and there are real consequences, and
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  Speaker 2: I will tell you the take it down aspect. What
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  Speaker 2: we did is we borrowed from another piece of legislation
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  Speaker 2: that's already federal law called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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  Speaker 2: So if you tweet out, let's say, a song from
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  Speaker 2: the Lion King, it'll get pulled down within hours because
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  Speaker 2: you can't tweet out copyrighted material. So we use that
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  Speaker 2: same mechanism to notice and takedown mechanism, and we applied
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  Speaker 2: it to these non consensual intimate images. So every tech
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  Speaker 2: platform has an office that knows how to respond to this.
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  Speaker 2: This protects every victim, and I'll tell you at our roundtable,
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  Speaker 2: one of the victims was a South Carolina state legislator.
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  Speaker 2: His son was targeted and it was a sextortion scam
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  Speaker 2: and they threatened to release the pictures, and I got
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  Speaker 2: to say, his son took his own life. Sometimes the
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  Speaker 2: consequences are incredibly tragic, and so this bill protects every
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  Speaker 2: potential victim.
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  Speaker 1: Center We've got some breaking news, and I hope everyone
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  Speaker 1: listening is taking notes on what we're about to tell
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  Speaker 1: you and what you're gonna hear. This is yet again
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  Speaker 1: another bombshell blowing up in the face of Democrats who
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  Speaker 1: tried to turn a terrorist, an MS thirteen gang member
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  Speaker 1: into just a Maryland man, a Maryland father, and they're
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  Speaker 1: demanding a come back to America. They've flown down, using taxpayers'
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  Speaker 1: money to head down to meet with him since he's
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  Speaker 1: been deported, and they're demanding he come back. Now we
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  Speaker 1: have audio that's saying who he really is.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the Democrats made a really astonishing choice to go
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  Speaker 2: all in in support of letting more illegal immigrants into
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  Speaker 2: this country back into this country, and in particular defending
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  Speaker 2: MS thirteen gang members and wife beaters, people who commit
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  Speaker 2: domestic violence. It really is an astonishing decision that the Democrats. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you have Chris van Holland, the Senator from Maryland who
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  Speaker 2: flew down to El Salvador and basically played foot see
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  Speaker 2: with this guy. You have House Democrats going down there.
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  Speaker 2: You have Corey Booker doing a sit in on the
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  Speaker 2: steps of the Capitol, all in defense of what they
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  Speaker 2: say is this poorly targeted, poor defenseless Maryland Man. Well,
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  Speaker 2: facts are stubborn things. I want you to listen to
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  Speaker 2: this audio. This is the quote Maryland Man's wife testifying
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty in court being a protective order, and
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  Speaker 2: listen to what she says about this this individual who
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats are now trying to turn into mother Teresa.
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  Speaker 2: Give a listen.
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  Speaker 3: I came to fill out a protective order. I think
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  Speaker 3: it was in December, but I didn't show up to
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  Speaker 3: the court because his family like washed my brain, telling
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  Speaker 3: me that his dad was sick and not to do it.
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  Speaker 3: So it's still I didn't do anything. But after that
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  Speaker 3: it was like I would call the police. I have
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  Speaker 3: a lot of police reports. And I kept trying to
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  Speaker 3: get to the door basement to try to open the door,
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  Speaker 3: and then like he pushed me. So then when I
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  Speaker 3: was able to go outside to get a phone, I
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  Speaker 3: called out one from a disconnected phone. Now, they took
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  Speaker 3: a long time to get to the house. It was
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  Speaker 3: probably like twenty thirty minutes. So I saw a neighbor
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  Speaker 3: walking his dog and I opened the door and I
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  Speaker 3: was like help. And then when he heard me, like
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  Speaker 3: he grabbed me from my hair and then he slapped me.
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  Speaker 3: And then the neighbor he didn't know what to do,
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  Speaker 3: he didn't know what to react. I have pictures of
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  Speaker 3: their evidence, like all the bruises. Because even on Wednesday
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  Speaker 3: he hit me like around like three in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: He would just wake up and like hit me. And
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  Speaker 3: then last Saturday, for my daughter's birthday party, before I
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  Speaker 3: went to my daughter's birthday party, he slammed me three times.
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  Speaker 3: And then last week I did call the police. My
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  Speaker 3: sister called the police because he hit me in front
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  Speaker 3: of my sister.
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  Speaker 1: I listen to that senator and it makes me angry.
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  Speaker 1: It makes me so sad for not only her but
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  Speaker 1: also for the kids involved, because if you've ever known
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  Speaker 1: someone that's gone through abuse like this, you never forget
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  Speaker 1: what their stories sound like. And the part there that
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  Speaker 1: she said, I quote have a lot of police reports.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, this was a repeated problem. According to his
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  Speaker 2: wife's testimony in court, he repeatedly engaged in violence. He
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  Speaker 2: punched her, he slapped her, He did so in front
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  Speaker 2: of their kids, he did so in front of her sister.
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  Speaker 2: That's what her testimony was. And understand, this is who
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats are elevating and saying it is a travesty
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  Speaker 2: of justice that this violent wife beater is no longer
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  Speaker 2: in this country now, mind you, despite his beating up
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  Speaker 2: his wife, despite his being illegally in this country, despite
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  Speaker 2: his being allegedly and two courts concluded an MS thirteen
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  Speaker 2: gang member, the Democrats are all in and defending him.
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  Speaker 2: And there's another piece of audio I want you to
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  Speaker 2: listen to. And this is a piece of audio from
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, so just a couple of years ago,
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  Speaker 2: and there was a traffic stop and he was stopped
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  Speaker 2: driving a vehicle with eight people in the back end.
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  Speaker 2: And I want you to listen to the police officers
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  Speaker 2: in the traffic stop and what their assessment was, what
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  Speaker 2: was going on. Give a listen to this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're gonna hear some road noise of cars passing by,
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  Speaker 1: just so you know what that is, and you will
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  Speaker 1: hear this these police officers on body camera. Listen carefully.
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  Speaker 2: You got right, you know what you got here?
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: He's hauling these people for money, is what he's doing.
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  Speaker 2: But sometimes they coil mingled opener, but.
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  Speaker 3: Scruggling. There's eight people in the know, that's what an
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  Speaker 3: extra seats. Yeah, yeah, so he's getting.
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  Speaker 1: Paid all these people, probably to Maryland, I would say
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  Speaker 1: about my guess, well, matches up with the Maryland dad thing. Right,
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  Speaker 1: the Maryland man. They're like, oh, by the way, this
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  Speaker 1: car has been retrofitted to add an entire another row
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  Speaker 1: of seats. They've never seen a car this model with
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  Speaker 1: this many seats in it. There's another example of the
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  Speaker 1: human smuggling.
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  Speaker 2: Look, look, this is Maryland man. He's hauling them to Maryland.
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  Speaker 2: The police officer's immediate reaction, you know what this guy
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  Speaker 2: is doing. He's hauling these people for money. Eight people.
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  Speaker 2: They added an extra row of seats, so you've got
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  Speaker 2: an illegal alien wife beater, who's an MS thirteen gang
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  Speaker 2: member and who is actively engaged in human trafficking. This
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  Speaker 2: is the poster child for the Democrats. This is who
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  Speaker 2: they've decided to go all in on, saying, we want
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  Speaker 2: this person back in America and we want more people
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  Speaker 2: like him. And I got to say, we've also seen
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  Speaker 2: a fairly amazing thing with the Democrats in the media
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  Speaker 2: going crazy about an interview that President Trump did in
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  Speaker 2: the Oval office with ABC News, and in particular, President
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  Speaker 2: Trump asserted that he had MS thirteen tattooed on his knuckles,
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  Speaker 2: and the media has been having a field day saying, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: that's a lie, it's photoshopped. It's not true. So you
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  Speaker 2: can go and look at the pictures, go look online
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  Speaker 2: what he has tattooed on his knuckles. He's got tattoos
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  Speaker 2: on each of the four knuckles of his fingers he has.
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  Speaker 2: The first tattoo is a marijuana leaf. Now marijuana leaf
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  Speaker 2: stands for m second tattoo is of a smiley face.
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  Speaker 2: The smiley face stands for s. The third tattoo on
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  Speaker 2: his middle finger is of a cross, and the cross
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  Speaker 2: the up and down stands for one and the fourth
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  Speaker 2: tattoo on his index finger is of a skull, which
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  Speaker 2: is the same shape as the number three. Now what
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  Speaker 2: he actually has is those four tattoos, and what the
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  Speaker 2: White House tweeted out was a picture of those four tattoos,
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  Speaker 2: and then it rode above them. Above the marijuana leaf,
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  Speaker 2: it wrote an M because that's what the marijuana leaf
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  Speaker 2: stands for. Above the smiley face, it wrote an S
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  Speaker 2: because that's what the smiley face stands for. Above the cross,
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  Speaker 2: it wrote a one because that's what the cross stands for.
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  Speaker 2: And above the skull, it wrote a three because that's
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  Speaker 2: what the skull stands for. So the four symbols are
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  Speaker 2: of MS thirteen. Now the Democrats and the corporate media
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  Speaker 2: are clutching their pearls, going, no, it didn't actually have
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  Speaker 2: the MS thirteen. That was a photoshop. Well, yes, but
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  Speaker 2: what it did have is clearly symbolizing MS thirteen, And
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  Speaker 2: they don't want people to know that, because it is
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  Speaker 2: fairly amazing that a Keen Jeffries, the Democrat Leader in
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  Speaker 2: the House, Chuck Schumer, Chris van holland the Democrats in
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  Speaker 2: both the Senate and House have decided MS thirteen gang members.
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  Speaker 2: That's who we defend. That's who we're backing up.
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  Speaker 1: You also look at this individual and the new DEA
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  Speaker 1: nominee said that this guy's tattoos consists with MS thirteen membership,
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  Speaker 1: again blowing the narrative out of the water from the
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  Speaker 1: left that these tattoos are meaningless, they have nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with MS thirteen. The guy who does this for
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  Speaker 1: a living is like, yes, we see this all the time. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: this is what it looks like when you have these
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  Speaker 1: tattoos on your knuckle. Yes, this is what these gang
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  Speaker 1: members do. And then you go back to what we're
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  Speaker 1: now finding out in this record and the traffic stop here,
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  Speaker 1: and also from new reporting from basically in essence a
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  Speaker 1: whistleblower that is saying that not only was this guy
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  Speaker 1: attacking his wife and running human trafficking, but we also
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  Speaker 1: know from these court filings that have come out that
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  Speaker 1: his wife has said that she was afraid because he
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  Speaker 1: said he was going to kill her. So this is
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  Speaker 1: a guy that is threatening to kill his wife based
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  Speaker 1: on what we're seeing from the court documents, and he's
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  Speaker 1: an individual that is out there that should never have
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  Speaker 1: been in this country and he should be gone. And
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  Speaker 1: so when you look at this. I truly am amazed
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  Speaker 1: that the Democratic Party is saying, we don't care about
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  Speaker 1: American citizens. We don't come to your aid, we don't
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  Speaker 1: come to your comfort when these people commit crimes against you. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: we want to go find the ones that have been deported
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  Speaker 1: and bring him back to America. How in the hell
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  Speaker 1: do do they think the American people are going to
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  Speaker 1: stay with him on this issue, Senator.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, it's where they are. And I got to
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  Speaker 2: say this week, I got in a Twitter battle with
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  Speaker 2: the Keem Jeffries, the head of the Democrats in the House.
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  Speaker 2: I tweeted out, I said, Akim, allowing your members to
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  Speaker 2: fly to Al Salvador on the taxpayer's dime to play
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  Speaker 2: footsie with violent gang members was obviously astonishingly bad politics.
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  Speaker 2: Please keep it up. And I got to say, a
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Kiem Jeffries, he got really angry and he's like, and
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: he tweeted back, this is from someone who abandoned his
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: state during the historic winter storm to vacation in kang Kun.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: No one takes you seriously at this point. And that's
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Leader Jeffries to you, Edward. Well, sorry, Hakeem, Leader Jeffries
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: is not what I call you. But it's okay. I
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: just tweeted back at him, It's okay, Hakeem, I'm very sorry.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: I beat your friend's ass. And I sent out a
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: picture because Colin all read the Democrat ran against me
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: last time was buddies with Keem Jeffries, and he lost
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: by nine points in a million votes. And look, it
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: showed who the Democrats are right now. They support illegal
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: immigrants and wife beaters and gang members.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Center. I want to talk about what we just found
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: out with DOGE, and I think it's an important point
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: to reset because we saw a lot of oppress about
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: DOAGE early on. We've now moved on to other topics,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: or I say the media has moved on to other topics.
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  Speaker 1: It does not mean that Elon Musk and the DOGE
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: staff have stopped doing their job. In fact, they are
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: still finding incredible amounts of waste, fraud, and abuse, and
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: they sat down with Jesse Waters at Fox to kind
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: of give an update of like, hey, here we are.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: It was also a very cool interview because what we're
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: witnessing is Elon Musk showing these do gooders that he
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: has brought in they can be making a lot more
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: money in the private sector. There are a lot of young,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: brilliant minds that are finding all of this information and
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: digging and digging in our government, and he's letting them
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: tell the stories of what they're finding. I love this
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: management style from him.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I got to say, every week they are new
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: bombshells that are coming out from DOGE of just astonishing waste,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: fraud and abuse. And so this latest interview that the
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Elon did with Jesse Waters, he laid out, for example,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: that the Institute of Peace had a one hundred and
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: thirty thousand dollars contract with a former member of the Taliban. Now,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: now just let that sink in for a minute. One
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: hundred and thirty grand to a former member of the Taliban,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: and that is from the quote Institute a Peace. Nothing
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: like paying a terrorist if you're the Institute of Peace.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: And by the way, that same institute a piece deleted
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: one terabyte of accounting records when DOGE entered their headquarters,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: so they came in. I got to tell you, if
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: you're prosecuting criminal conduct at a court of law and
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: a defendant destroys evidence, deletes data on their computer, burns papers,
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: burns receipts, burns photographs that can be taken as evidence
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  Speaker 2: of guilt, the fact that you are deleting evidence. But
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: here give a listen to the description of what they
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: found about from the Institute a piece.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so it was by far the least peaceful agency
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: that we've worked with. Ironically, of course, Additionally, we found
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: that they were spending money on things like private jets,
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: and they even had a one hundred and thirty thousand
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: dollars contract with a former member of the Taliban.
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  Speaker 3: This is this isreal.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: We don't encounter that in those agencies.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: What was the money going to the Taliban for?
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: So it was a contractor. They received one hundred and
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: thirty thousand dollars for generic services. And to Elon's point,
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: there was not actually a clear description of what the
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: contractor services were for. But was it for opium unclear?
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Or weapons?
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Or not for a broad oh yeah, And you.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: Naturally have to ask the question how did we get here?
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: Like when the country was founded, there were only four agencies.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: Today there are over four hundred, so there's been a
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: one hundred x increase in the number of agencies since
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: the founding of the nation. And thanks to President Trump,
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: He's now signed two executive orders to start to reduce
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: the number of agencies in the government, and the Institute
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Apiece was one of them, which is why our team
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: went into try and understand what was going on. And
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: that's when we found all the craziness, like the weapons
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: and their armory. We found the payments to the Taliban.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah, that.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: The evidence, right. So just a few hours after we
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: got into their headquarters, we found that their chief accountant
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: had actually deleted over a terabyte of accounting records from
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: several leaders. So you'd have to ask the question, well,
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: why would somebody do that if the Doch team fortunately
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: was able to recover that data with the help of
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: a few great employees at the Institute a Peace And
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: I think the most troubling thing was they received fifty
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: five million dollars a year from Congress, and any money
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: that went unspent, instead of returning that to Congress, they
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: would sweep it into a private bank account which had
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: no Congressional oversight, and that's what they would use to
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: find things like events at their headquarters and the private jets.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: And so I think it's a great example because most
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: Americans don't know what's going on at a lot of
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: these smaller agencies. And this is a i think the
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: most extreme case of some of the wasteful spend that
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: we're finding.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: So the agencies are hiding money from you, they're sending
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: it to the Taliban. They have loaded weapons in the department.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: Buildings at the Institute of Peace.
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: At the Institute of Peace, that's right. So this is
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: a cover up. When you guys roll in this one
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: cover up, they delete a vast amount of financial information.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: That's really a definition of a cover up. Isn't that
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: illegal to delete evidence? Yes, shred documents.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: It's certainly illegal to delete accounting records that that Congress
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: would certainly want to know where the congressionally appropriated funds
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: are going from taxpayers when you.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: Catch them going Hillary style on their computers, do you
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: refer this to the Department of Justice?
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: In this case, we did refer the evidence in the
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: accounting example to the FBI and DJ We're proud to
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: do that. So yes we did, because.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: This and says show I mean, let's just go back
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: to what you said center a moment ago and dive
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: into this a little bit more. If this is that
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: type of activity in this type of cover up and
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: referring this to the DJ What would the next step
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: be on that? And then also what can Congress do
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: if anything, knowing now what they've just told you.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Look, I got to say almost every word of that
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: is shocking. That they gave one hundred and thirty grand
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: to Afre, a member of the Taliban. That's astonishing. That
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: they spent taxpayer money on private jets. That's astonishing that
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: the Institute of Peace had an armory with a whole
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: bunch of weapons. Now let me repeat that the Institute
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: of Peace apparently felt the need to be packing. And
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: when does showed up, they started to leading their accounting records,
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: which screams guilt. By the way, when when President Trump
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: did the interview with ABC News in the Oval, one
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: of the things ABC News says is, well, there have
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: been no referrals to the Apartment of Justice, and President
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Trump quite rightly says, how do you know that? Well,
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: this is one. It turns out there have been multiple
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: referrals to the Apartment of Justice for fraud. It's just
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: ABC News doesn't want people to know that. Here, I
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: want you to listen to another clip. This is another
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: clip where the Department of Education had a four billion
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: dollar COVID fund that let government employees draw down. They
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: used it for things like parties and to rent out
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: venues like Caesar's Palace. Give a listen.
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, there was a four billion dollar COVID fund in
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: the Department of Education and there was no receipts required,
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: so people be just drawed down on it. And when
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: people looked into it, this wasn't just this was before us.
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: They found that money was being used to rent out
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: Caesar's Palace for parties, rent out stadiums, et cetera. And
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: so the one change that DOGE made with our education
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: is we had the simple requirement that if you draw
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: down money, you must first upload a receipt. That was
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: the only change that was made. You must upload your receipt.
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: And upon doing so, Yes, nobody drew down any money anymore.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Yes, but we didn't say that we'd check the receipt.
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: You could send a fake receipt, you could send a
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: picture of your.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Dog, anything, anything, anything.
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: But as soon as we asked for anything at all,
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: that something, the requests.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Were like, oh, we don't need it anymore. That's interesting.
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: They were renting Caesar's Palace.
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: Yes, they were like basically partying on the tax payer money.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Basically partying on the taxpayer's money. Okay, it sounds criminal.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Let me just ask, like, like the man on the street,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: did you think the Department of Education was spending your money,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: your tax payer money to rent out Caesar's palace. That
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: is the very definition of waste, fraud and abuse. Four
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: billion dollars in a COVID slush fund with zero receipts required.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Let me just say thank god for President Trump and
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Elon Musk and Doge uncovering this revealing it because it
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: is completely indefensible. And by the way, the Democrats, just
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: like they've decided they're all in for illegal immigrants and
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: gang members and violent criminals and white theaters, they're also
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: all in for this kind of waste, fraud and abuse,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: including running out Caesar's Palace with your tax payer money.
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