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Economic Strangulation-$500M a Day Lost in Iran plus Court Slams Brakes-VA Vote Voided · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: President Donald Trump has extended the ceasefire with Iran indefinitely,
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  Speaker 1: and within hours of that decision, Iran attacked and seized
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  Speaker 1: multiple ships they claim in one of the most critical
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  Speaker 1: waterways in the world, the straight up Hormeus. This also
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  Speaker 1: comes as President Trump says it's possible that the Iranian
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  Speaker 1: talks could resume in the next thirty six to seventy
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  Speaker 1: two hours. That from the President on Wednesday, the Press
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  Speaker 1: Secretary also sang this at the White.
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  Speaker 2: House, the deal and does he believe that a deal
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  Speaker 2: can be struck while the US blockade is still in place?
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  Speaker 3: Great questions, and I will answer him.
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  Speaker 4: Let's level set on where we are. As you all
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  Speaker 4: saw yesterday, President Trump announced an extension of the ceasefire.
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  Speaker 4: He's maintaining and generously offering a bit of flexibility to
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  Speaker 4: a regime who has been completely tarnished because of Operation
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  Speaker 4: Epic Fury. There's obviously a lot of internal division. This
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  Speaker 4: is a battle between the pragmatists and the hardliners and
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  Speaker 4: Irun right now, and the President wants a unified response,
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  Speaker 4: and so as we await that response, there's a ceasefire
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  Speaker 4: with the military and pinetic strikes, but Operation Economic fury continues,
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  Speaker 4: and the effective and successful naval blockade continues as well
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  Speaker 4: of ships and vessels that are moving to and from
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  Speaker 4: Iranian port ports. We are completely strangling their economy through
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  Speaker 4: this blockade. They're losing five hundred million dollars a day.
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  Speaker 4: The carg island is completely full. They can't move oil
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  Speaker 4: in and out. They can't even pay their own people
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  Speaker 4: as a result of this economic leverage that President Trump
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  Speaker 4: has inflicted over them. So he's satisfied with that is.
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  Speaker 4: We await their response and we will see. The President
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  Speaker 4: has not set a firm deadline to receive an Iranian proposal,
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  Speaker 4: unlike some of the reporting I've seen today. Ultimately the
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  Speaker 4: timeline will be dictated by the commander in chief, in
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  Speaker 4: the President the United States.
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  Speaker 1: So the press saretary calling out the press there for
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  Speaker 1: some of their lives now. President Trump's comments came via
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  Speaker 1: messages to The New York Post, where he said sources
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  Speaker 1: and touted positive mediation efforts with Tehran, renewing the possibility
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  Speaker 1: of more peace talks within the next thirty six to
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  Speaker 1: seventy two hours. Asked about the possible breakthrough by the Post,
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  Speaker 1: Trump and a text message said it's possible.
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  Speaker 1: The report on Wednesday morning follows an earlier Axios report
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  Speaker 1: that Trump is willing to give the Iranians a three
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  Speaker 1: to five day window to put forth with a counter offer.
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  Speaker 1: The President also making it clear he's not backing down
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  Speaker 1: from the blockade. Trump is willing to give another three
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  Speaker 1: to five days of ceasefire to allow the Aradians to
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  Speaker 1: get there you know what together. A US source briefed
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  Speaker 1: on the matter told the news outlet it's not going
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  Speaker 1: to be open ended on President Trump announced he was
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  Speaker 1: extending the ceasefire late Tuesday afternoon, before the initial two
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  Speaker 1: weeks sease fire expired, but did not provide a timeline
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  Speaker 1: for its end, saying this based on the fact that
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  Speaker 1: the government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so,
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  Speaker 1: and upon the request a Field Marshall Assim Munir and
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  Speaker 1: the Prime Minister of Pakistan, we have been asked to
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  Speaker 1: hold our attack on the country of Iran until such
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  Speaker 1: time as their leaders and representatives can come up with
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  Speaker 1: a unified proposal. The President went on to say, I've
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  Speaker 1: therefore directed or military to continue the blockade and in
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  Speaker 1: all other respects remain ready and able, and will therefore
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  Speaker 1: extend the ceasefire until such time as their proposal has
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  Speaker 1: submitted and discussions are concluded one way or another. President
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump now Trump issued the announcement in the true
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  Speaker 1: social posts after top officials were at the White House
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday afternoon. Vice President JD. Van's planned trip to
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  Speaker 1: Islamabab for negotiations never materialized, and then on Wednesday, three
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  Speaker 1: container ships in the Strait of Hormuz came under attack,
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  Speaker 1: with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard claiming to have.
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  Speaker 3: Seized multiple ships.
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  Speaker 1: At the time of me recording this that has not
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  Speaker 1: actually been confirmed. And we also know that Iran lies
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  Speaker 1: a lot. They lied about having multiple ships that were
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  Speaker 1: able to sneak through the US blockade. We know now
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  Speaker 1: for a fact that didn't happen. So back to the
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  Speaker 1: three container ships that were attacked, well, at least three
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  Speaker 1: ships have been attacked in the straight of Warmus by Iran.
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  Speaker 1: The Royal Navy Office reported heavy damage to at least
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  Speaker 1: one and Tehran claiming ships had been seized and taken
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  Speaker 1: into Iranian waters in order to examine the cargo end
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  Speaker 1: quote documents. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard has opened fire on
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  Speaker 1: the three container ships attempting to transit the Straight of
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  Speaker 1: War Mouse, the maritime checkpoint at the mouth of the
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  Speaker 1: Persian Gulf as a strained ceasefire is challenged by two
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  Speaker 1: mutual blockades imposed by Iran in the United States attempt
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  Speaker 1: to deny each other access to critical trade and the waterway.
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  Speaker 1: Britain's Maritime Operation Center reported that in their early hours
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  Speaker 1: of Wednesday morning, the Greek owned Liberia flag container ship
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  Speaker 1: was approached by the RGC gunboat and fired on without warning.
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  Speaker 1: The attack caused heavy damage to the bridge, although no
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  Speaker 1: injuries fires aboard the environmental concerns were reported. All crew
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  Speaker 1: were reported safe. London State Media says it understands that
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  Speaker 1: the ship's master believed you had permission to transit the
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  Speaker 1: Straight of Horn moves and was running dark, the ship's
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  Speaker 1: AIS transponder being turned off to avoid attention, but was
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  Speaker 1: nevertheless attacked. Anyway, the UK mto report a second such
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  Speaker 1: incident involving another container ship, taking place just three hours later.
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  Speaker 1: The UAE owned Panama flagged ship was fired upon and
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  Speaker 1: brought to a stop. No serious damage was reporting. The
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  Speaker 1: crew are safe and accounted for, is what reports are
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  Speaker 1: now saying. A third ship was also to have been
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  Speaker 1: attacked as well, the BBC stating it was a megaship
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  Speaker 1: and it was owned and Panama flagged. It suffered damage
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  Speaker 1: the whole and accommodation after being held by the IRGC
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  Speaker 1: and instructed to drop anchor. The Times of London also
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  Speaker 1: say that these attacks were launched from small boats using
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  Speaker 1: infantry weapons, the ships having been hit with gunfire and
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  Speaker 1: rocket propelled grenade, suggesting that a little maritime policing could
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  Speaker 1: go a long way and preventing repeats of these instances.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Western reports note that two of the ships attacked today
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  Speaker 1: were fired on without warning. Iranian state media claims they
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  Speaker 1: opened fire after ships attempted a transit the Strait and
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  Speaker 1: ignored their orders they said to stop. A Tehran state
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  Speaker 1: media outlet has claimed the operation against these ships were
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  Speaker 1: noble and just, saying to the Zionist regime in the
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  Speaker 1: case of these ships, the Iranian mouthpiece asserted, attempting to
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  Speaker 1: secretly exsit the straight offom moves without a license. By
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  Speaker 1: committing repeated violations and tampering with navigation aid systems, it
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  Speaker 1: jeopardizes the maritime security and Iran will not stand for that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it was claimed. After being seized, the best are brought
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  Speaker 1: into Iranian waters in order to examine the cargo in documents. That, however,
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  Speaker 1: has not been confirmed by other reports. And the strike
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  Speaker 1: follows a warning by a Greek maritime risk management agency
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  Speaker 1: to ship owners to be aware of scammers posing as
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  Speaker 1: the Iranian government selling safe passage through the Strait of
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  Speaker 1: Hormuz with prices in cryptocurrency. It appears that at least
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  Speaker 1: one shipowner had fallen for such a scam in recent weeks,
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  Speaker 1: with an Indian owned oil tanker paying scammers for passage
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  Speaker 1: and then being attacked by the IRGC boats. Ultimately, so
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  Speaker 1: here we are another very interesting day when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to what's happening in the Middle East. The President holding
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  Speaker 1: back and saying he is going to extend the ceasefire.
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  Speaker 1: He clearly wants to get a deal done, but is
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  Speaker 1: not going to compromise with a ran on some basic issues.
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  Speaker 1: The voting measure did not comply with the Virginia Constitution,
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  Speaker 1: so therefore it cannot be enforced or certified by the
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  Speaker 1: Board of Elections. This coming less than twenty four hours
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  Speaker 1: after voters thought in Virginia they settled one of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest policy fights in America, redistricting by a razor thin margin.
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  Speaker 1: This happened, and the Virginia Court has voided last night's
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  Speaker 1: constitutional amendment referendum on redistricting, ruling the amendment process was
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  Speaker 1: not only unlawful, but they're now blocking the certification of
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  Speaker 1: the election results. Now let's go back to the vote itself,
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  Speaker 1: all right, so you understand how we got to this point,
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  Speaker 1: how quickly the Virginia courts got involved. The Virginia voters
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  Speaker 1: approved a measure that would temporarily hand power over congressional
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  Speaker 1: map drawing back to the state legislature instead of the
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  Speaker 1: bipartisan redistricting commission that voters approved not long ago in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Now you may ask yourself the question why
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  Speaker 1: does this matter? Well, because the legislature is controlled by
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats, and the new maps that they already drafted
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  Speaker 1: would shift Virginia from a closely divided delegation in Congress
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  Speaker 1: to something that looks like more of a ten to
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  Speaker 1: one advantage for Democrats. It's literally the definition of jerry mandering.
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  Speaker 1: So this wasn't just procedural. This could impact the control
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  Speaker 1: of the US House representatives and again, who would be
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  Speaker 1: the speaker, Would Republicans be in charge or would Democrats
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  Speaker 1: be in charge. That's why this had national implications nationwide
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  Speaker 1: because other states, the question was would they respond to
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  Speaker 1: what Virginia did to go back and try to counter
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  Speaker 1: their egregious redrawing of the maps to put ten Democrats
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  Speaker 1: only one Republican in Congress from the state of Virginia. Now,
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  Speaker 1: all of this was going on, and then came the
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  Speaker 1: court ruling. A Circuit court judge in Virginia ruled the
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  Speaker 1: entire referendum was not only invalid but also unconstitutional, effectively
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  Speaker 1: freezing the results and then blocking the new maps from
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  Speaker 1: taking effect. Why well, the judge cited big reasons, three
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  Speaker 1: key ones. Number one, they said it was a procedural violation.
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  Speaker 1: The lawsuit brought by the Republican National Committee argued that
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  Speaker 1: lawmakers didn't follow proper constitutional rule when putting this amendment
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  Speaker 1: on the ballot. That includes issues like timing, legislative process,
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  Speaker 1: and how the amendment was authorized. Then Number two, the
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  Speaker 1: misleading ballot language was another problem. The judge took issue
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  Speaker 1: with how the question was presented to voters, and clearly
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  Speaker 1: it was presented to confuse voters. In fact, the judge
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  Speaker 1: said in writing that not only was the question well
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  Speaker 1: a problem, but it may have been deliberately used the
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  Speaker 1: wording for confusing or misleading the voters, which can invalidate
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  Speaker 1: a referendum legally. And then the third thing that was
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  Speaker 1: cited by the judge. The argument was the amendment effectively
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  Speaker 1: overroaded Virginia's existing constitutional system for redistricting, the bipartisan commission
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  Speaker 1: voters had already approved. That raised serious legal concerns about
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  Speaker 1: whether the lawmakers can do what they did bypass the
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  Speaker 1: structure in mid decade, and that's not how it's supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be done.
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  Speaker 3: So, simply put, not only.
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  Speaker 1: The court get involved, but the Court didn't just disagree
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  Speaker 1: with the outcome. They said the process itself was flawed.
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  Speaker 1: So there were multiple reasons for the Virginia Court to
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  Speaker 1: get involved. So what does this mean right now? Number one,
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  Speaker 1: the vote is essentially on hold. Even though people voted
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  Speaker 1: all right, the results cannot be implemented until higher courts
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  Speaker 1: get involved or would overturn this ruling. The second point
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  Speaker 1: here is this, this is clearly I think, headed straight
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  Speaker 1: to the Virginia Supreme Court. The state's attorney general has
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  Speaker 1: already said they'll appeal, and the Supreme Court had already
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  Speaker 1: signaled and expected to weigh in on the voting matter
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  Speaker 1: as well. So this fight is, by the way, far
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  Speaker 1: from over. In fact, it's actually now just the beginning. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the current maps stay in place for now. That is
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  Speaker 1: good news if you don't want jerry mandering. Until the
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  Speaker 1: legal battle is resolved, Virginia will likely continue using its
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  Speaker 1: existing congressional districts, meaning that it is much more fair
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  Speaker 1: based on how the people vote in Virginia. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: bigger question is is this a victory against jerry mandering?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it depends entirely on your perspective. And this is
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  Speaker 1: where the politics of this really does get real nationwide.
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  Speaker 1: What Republicans did is they're calling this huge win in DC.
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  Speaker 1: I understand why they argue. The amendment was a partisan
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  Speaker 1: power grab, so we designed to redraw maps in a
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  Speaker 1: way that heavily favored Democrats. Now, in their view, the
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  Speaker 1: court just stopped an unconstitutional jerry mandering situation. We should
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  Speaker 1: celebrate that. Democrats, of course, are going to spend this
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  Speaker 1: and say the complete opposite what they argued, not only
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  Speaker 1: in court, but also they're going to argue at this
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  Speaker 1: Virginia Supreme Court when this case is heard, is that
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  Speaker 1: the voters made their voices heard and that the courts
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  Speaker 1: are now overriding democracy itself. Democrats are also out there
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  Speaker 1: online already saying that this was a move to counter
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  Speaker 1: aggressive redistricting in other states, So they're just doing what
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  Speaker 1: other people have already done. They're actually arguing this as
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  Speaker 1: somehow antijerrymandering, and that's absurd. So what do we have
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  Speaker 1: moving away from this. We've got a clean victory for
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  Speaker 1: fair maps. I think that states should be fair, they
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  Speaker 1: should represent the people. I don't like jerrymandering like this.
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  Speaker 1: It's also a ruling about the process, all right. So
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  Speaker 1: not a final decision is going to happen here, and
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be a part of the much bigger
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  Speaker 1: national fight where both parties are trying to gain an
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  Speaker 1: edge before the mid terms. Now Virginia is at this
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  Speaker 1: moment ground zero and the battleover who controls congressional maps.
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  Speaker 1: Is it the voters, is the courts? Is the combination
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  Speaker 1: of both? And if you're jerrymandering, does a court have
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  Speaker 1: a right to step in and stop it? Yes, the
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  Speaker 1: referendum pass barely. It was fifty one forty nine. Then
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  Speaker 1: immediately the judge voided it. And now the entire issue
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  Speaker 1: is headed to the state's highest court. And what is
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  Speaker 1: even more scary about this moment is if Democrats win this,
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  Speaker 1: they will change the total control of power in Congress,
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  Speaker 1: literally changing the balance of That is not, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: how redistricting is supposed to work. It is happening, but
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  Speaker 1: is not how it's supposed to work. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to take a listen to this, as it was reported
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  Speaker 1: from Fox News Channel earlier.
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  Speaker 5: Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger celebrating the win in yesterday's redistricting vote,
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  Speaker 5: voters narrowly approving a new pro Democrat congressional map and
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  Speaker 5: a controversial referendum that critics have slammed as a quote
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  Speaker 5: power grab. The outcome threatens the already very tight Republican
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  Speaker 5: House majority. Mark Meredith is live in Alexandria, Virginia with
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  Speaker 5: more on this and Mark, that vote ended up pretty narrow.
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  Speaker 6: Bill, It sure did a lot narrower than some people
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  Speaker 6: were expecting, and Virginia voters showed up in huge numbers
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  Speaker 6: to determine Tuesday's redistricting referendum. This morning, Democrats are celebrating
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  Speaker 6: the outcome, saying it's they're putting a check on President
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  Speaker 6: Trump's power, but Republicans say this is simply proof that
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  Speaker 6: Virginia has lost its way. More than three million people
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  Speaker 6: cast their ballot, and what you said was a nearly
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  Speaker 6: defined race. However, voters chose to give the legislature power
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  Speaker 6: to redraw congressional maps before November's midterms.
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  Speaker 3: The new map is.
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  Speaker 6: Expected to take Republicans down from five congressional districts to one.
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  Speaker 6: We heard from the chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee,
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  Speaker 6: who wrote, Democrats can't redraw reality. This close margin reinforces
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  Speaker 6: that Virginia is a purple state that shouldn't be represented
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  Speaker 6: by a severe partisan jerrymander. Democrats say they felt emboldened
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  Speaker 6: to act after Republicans in Texas redistricted two governor Abigail
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  Speaker 6: Spamberger and former President Obama. They were the ones leading
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  Speaker 6: the effort in the Commonwealth. We heard from the former
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  Speaker 6: President Obama saying Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm
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  Speaker 6: elections in their favor, but they haven't done it yet.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand
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  Speaker 6: up for our democracy.
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  Speaker 3: And fight back.
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  Speaker 6: So Tuesday's outcome means, yes, that Democrats have a better
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  Speaker 6: shot now at taking the House come November, but other
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: states are still weighing whether to redraw their maps. As
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  Speaker 6: Politico points out, pressure is now growing on Florida Governor
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  Speaker 6: Ron DeSantis to make up for Democrats gains with a
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  Speaker 6: gop led redistricting effort in his state as soon as
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  Speaker 6: next week.
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  Speaker 3: And while voters decided here.
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  Speaker 6: In Virginia, there is another X factor in all this bill.
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  Speaker 6: The Virginia State Supreme Court is still deciding whether or
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  Speaker 6: not this will all be able to stand. There were
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  Speaker 6: multiple challenges to this redistricting referendum, including how the language
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  Speaker 6: on the ballot was written, and we were waiting to
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  Speaker 6: see what the court may decide next.
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  Speaker 1: Now obviously we know what happened next. The Virginia Circuit
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  Speaker 1: Court ruled that the redistricting vote is unconstitutional. So now
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  Speaker 1: we wait for it to go to the Supreme Court
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  Speaker 1: at Virginia, and then we wait to see what happens
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  Speaker 1: around the country. But certainly it's going to be very
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  Speaker 1: interesting to see what happens moving forward. All Right, I
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  Speaker 1: want to just ask you a question real quick. How
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: mad would you be if you knew that your tax
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: dollars were being spent to import illegal immigrants. I'm asking
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: that question because we're now finding out that that is
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: exactly what happened in California. California Governor Gavin Newsom, we're
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  Speaker 1: now being told covertly spent not one million, not ten million,
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  Speaker 1: not even fifty million, not even one hundred million, not
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  Speaker 1: even five hundred million. He's spent one billion dollars importing
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  Speaker 1: four hundred thousand migrants from poor countries to serve the
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  Speaker 1: state's democratic political machine. This according to data provided by
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: the Manhattan Institute in New York.
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  Speaker 3: Let me just read for you from what we've learned.
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  Speaker 1: Quote, since Newsom took office, California has granted massive contracts
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  Speaker 1: to migrant related services.
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  Speaker 3: This is also what you could describe as a kickback to.
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  Speaker 1: His donors and supporters, more than two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: million dollars alone to the Catholic Charities, eighty five million
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  Speaker 1: to Jewish Family Services, twelve million to the Centro Legal
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  Speaker 1: de la Raza whatever that is, and twenty three million
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  Speaker 1: to the Immigration Institute of the Bay Area. That's just
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  Speaker 1: some of the biggest people that got checks.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: The funding is also in addition to California's share of
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  Speaker 1: massive and this is where your tax dollurs, no matter
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  Speaker 1: where you're listening right now, matter the most. They have
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  Speaker 1: a massive federal funding that's been directed that's your tax
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  Speaker 1: dours by then President Joe Biden's pro immigration border chief
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  Speaker 1: Alejandro Maiorcis. The state's democratic government also steered one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and ten million to the major Latino political machine known
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  Speaker 1: as the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles. That
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  Speaker 1: organization can be described as a one stop activist machine
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  Speaker 1: with the ability to not only produce and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: joking political propaganda, then engage in legal action, and most importantly,
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  Speaker 1: get people into the streets. The group coordinates the La
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  Speaker 1: Rapid Response Network, which also tracks ice raids and where
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  Speaker 1: ICE agents are, and then takes direct action they say
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  Speaker 1: to shut down detention centers.
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  Speaker 3: That's their own words.
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  Speaker 1: Now, during the wave of fake protests in LA, this
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  Speaker 1: organization and their activists agitated on social media, let us
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  Speaker 1: treat protests, and then they were the ones that called
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  Speaker 1: for what spread as the quote Summer of resistance. All
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  Speaker 1: of this was not organic. All of this was paid for,
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  Speaker 1: and much of it with your tax dollars. Now, at
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  Speaker 1: the height of the unrest, we're also learning this. The
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  Speaker 1: executive director of this Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los
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  Speaker 1: Angeles Angelica SLS spoke in a street protest telling crowds
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  Speaker 1: that ICE agents we're conducting a militarized siege against illegal migrants,
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  Speaker 1: saying quote, we are going to stop Trump's teror campaign
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  Speaker 1: against our community. We will not stop marching, we will
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  Speaker 1: not stop fighting. The article is titled quote how Gavin
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  Speaker 1: Newsom subsidized the Migrant invasion? Where all of this is
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  Speaker 1: being exposed. I hope you'll download it and read it again,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: put it into Google, How Gavin Newsom subsidize the Migrant Invasion.
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  Speaker 1: It also concluded in the report that the quote two
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  Speaker 1: million illegal migrants in California are pawns, merely instruments of
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  Speaker 1: activist class that would like to see America burn quote unquote.
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  Speaker 1: Now newsome support for the migration is better understood of
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  Speaker 1: the self serving operation of the California's Democratic political machine,
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  Speaker 1: and this is why the money was being spent the
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  Speaker 1: way that it was. They're using the plans that have
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  Speaker 1: been used in New York, New York City, in Boston,
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  Speaker 1: in Denver, in Minneapolis. California's Democratic machine once more low
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  Speaker 1: wage migrants, because the migrants serve as customers for the
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  Speaker 1: state's education and welfare agencies. In time, the multi ethnic
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  Speaker 1: migrant customers become clients and beneficiaries and then, most importantly
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  Speaker 1: to them, modern day slaves, dependents of the multi ethnic
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  Speaker 1: machine that the Democratic Party has set up. And then
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: they eventually will repay that machine, the Democrats, with their votes,
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  Speaker 1: and gradually they are expected to then get citizenship, right
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  Speaker 1: to be naturalized. It's all a part of the overall plan.
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  Speaker 1: But now we're witnessing just how much money it's costing you. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the process in California is not any different from what
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  Speaker 1: the Irish political machine that emerged in Chicago and Boston
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  Speaker 1: and New York during the late eighteen hundreds. Did you
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  Speaker 1: remember these saying history repeats itself. Well, it literally is
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  Speaker 1: right now in front of us in real time. You
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  Speaker 1: go back then and you study that story. New York's
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  Speaker 1: Timmani Hall, for example, gain power as many Irish migrants
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  Speaker 1: fled the famine, and then lost power when the Americans
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  Speaker 1: elected to Congress to block migration in the nineteen twenties. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Newsom's migrant clients also serve as business allies as well,
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  Speaker 1: because Democrats claim they want to quote living wage, but
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  Speaker 1: they want to pay a low wage worker instead of
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  Speaker 1: an American worker welfare aided customers. They're fine with that
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  Speaker 1: because also brings them new consumers. And these are also
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  Speaker 1: individuals that will rent their slums, you know, their apartments,
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  Speaker 1: because many of them are apartment sharing renters.
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  Speaker 3: Let me just give you one example.
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  Speaker 1: In March, missionlocal dot org reported that San Francisco had
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  Speaker 1: to inflate real estate values in the state. Why did
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  Speaker 1: this happen? Well, I'll give you another example of that.
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  Speaker 1: Camello forty three was looking for a place to live
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  Speaker 1: for almost six months after arriving the United States of
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  Speaker 1: America three years ago and more.
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  Speaker 3: In the article, it says they.
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  Speaker 1: Finally found his current room through a friend of friends
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  Speaker 1: of his nephew. Carmelo works at a neighborhood grocery store
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  Speaker 1: on sixteenth Street. He was stacking cabbages on the shelf
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  Speaker 1: and pulling bad looking mushrooms out of the ben as
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  Speaker 1: he spoke to the mission local about finding housing and
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  Speaker 1: paying rent in San Francisco. The undocumented immigrant, we called
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  Speaker 1: him an illegal immigrant, arrived three years ago from the Yucatan.
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  Speaker 1: He lives in an apartment with three others, his twenty
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  Speaker 1: five year old son and two of his nephews. They
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  Speaker 1: pay two nine hundred and fifty dollars total.
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  Speaker 3: Here we are.
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  Speaker 1: There isn't another, Camellos said in Spanish. One immigrant family
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  Speaker 1: from El Salvador cran not one, not two, not five,
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  Speaker 1: but fifteen people into a two bedroom unit in the
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  Speaker 1: Excelsior neighborhood during the pandemic. The migrants also serve the
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  Speaker 1: state's democratic leading prosperous class with low cost services such
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  Speaker 1: as manicures, gardening, and cheap car washes. I wish I
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  Speaker 1: was joking, but this is actually why the Democrats are
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  Speaker 1: taking advantage of them. Of course, the mass inflow of
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: wage cutting, rent spiking Democrat voting illegal immigrants also pushes
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  Speaker 1: ordinary hardworking Americans out of the Democrats' amnesty zones and
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: towards southern and Midwestern cities and states with lower taxes
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  Speaker 1: and family friendly laws. The elite's widespread use of illegal
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  Speaker 1: migration against ordinary Americans is often detected by the Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: and they're dubbed you guessed it, sanctuary cities. Now in
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: these cities, in these zones, Democrats and even some GOP
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  Speaker 1: politicians are barring police enforcement of popular migration related labor
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  Speaker 1: laws and also try to block the Democratic implementation of
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  Speaker 1: President Donald Trump's twenty twenty four popular mandate. This is
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  Speaker 1: how the Democrats are going to move forward. Take your money,
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  Speaker 1: as much of it as they can, and give it
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  Speaker 1: to illegal immigrants communists. Johan Mundani doubling down on sanctuary
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  Speaker 1: policies protecting criminal illegals.
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  Speaker 3: Just last week, he had this to say.
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  Speaker 7: First and foremost, I'm going to follow up with my
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  Speaker 7: team around what cuny policies are and what they need
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  Speaker 7: to be. I think we've seen a number of times
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  Speaker 7: where we are proud of the sanctuary city policies we
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  Speaker 7: have in New York, and we also want to be
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: clear that, and I'll say this as the mayor, I
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: do not want a future of the city where we
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: learn how to deal with ice. I believe that ICE
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  Speaker 7: should be abolished. And I've said this both publicly and privately,
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  Speaker 7: and I've even told the President directly that I believe
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: that ice ICE raids are cruel and inhumane, and I
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  Speaker 7: think that they don't do anything to serve in the
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: stated public interest.
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  Speaker 3: Of public safety.
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  Speaker 1: So there you have it. Follow the money. Time after time,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: this is what we are seeing. Democratic policies not only
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  Speaker 1: don't work, but even nearly fifty four thousand we're now
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: hearing Los Angeles County residence fled in a single year.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Why because they can't afford the rent, They can't afford
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  Speaker 1: to deal with a crime, and they can't afford to
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  Speaker 1: work for next to nothing, competing with illegal aliens and
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: what they're willing to make and live on top of
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: each other in the housing. Here's just one of how
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Fox Business described the massive excess not from California, but
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: fifty four thousand a year from Los Angeles County alone.
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  Speaker 8: The exodus continues. We've got shocking new figures showing Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 3: Losing tens of thousands.
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  Speaker 8: Of residents, one of the biggest population drops in the nation.
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  Speaker 8: Experts pointing to soaring costs, shrinking opportunity, and policy failures
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  Speaker 8: driving people out.
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  Speaker 9: Eventually that system collapses because the problem with socialism is
• 30:27
  Speaker 9: you run out of other people's money. So that system
• 30:31
  Speaker 9: collapses if enough people leave. And I know we're just
• 30:33
  Speaker 9: talking about la but then eventually these states, that system
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  Speaker 9: can't support itself because there isn't the tax space to
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  Speaker 9: support all of the public funds that you want.
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  Speaker 2: I hate to say it, but to your point, they
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  Speaker 2: make all these promises. If you heard what Zora Madami si,
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: it's going to be free this, free that, free this.
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  Speaker 2: I got to take care of everyone. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: tax the rich. Don't you worry about it? You stay
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: right where you are. Well, guess what, how's that working out?
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  Speaker 2: The state's not going to the state's not going to
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: raise income taxes on the wealthy. It's an election here,
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  Speaker 2: Kathy Holkle, she'll do it January if she gets re elected,
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: but she's not going to do it now. And so
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Mondomie's been forced to out raid the Reserve Fund. How
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: do people feel about that? So I hate to say it,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: but you really have. Elections matter, and you have to
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: pay attention whether or not you get involved in politics.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: You have to understand what's going on at politics. You
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: recognize the decision you make as consequences.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: And that decision is costing you literally more than one
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  Speaker 1: billion dollars to import four hundred thousand extra illegal immigrants
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  Speaker 1: in the California alone. This is how you destroy a
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: country from within, and Gavin Newsom is clearly going full
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  Speaker 1: speed ahead to replace you with an illegal immigrant. Make
• 31:45
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