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Immigrants Leaving Wages Rising plus Trump Puts ‘War’ Back in War on Drugs · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: It was a prediction that Donald Trump made when he
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Speaker 1: was running for president.
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Speaker 2: He said, if you elect me, guess what's going to happen.
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Speaker 1: There are going to be people that are going to
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Speaker 1: self deport because I'm in charge, and they're going to
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Speaker 1: realize that it's just not worth staying here. Wow, we
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Speaker 1: have actual law and order. Well that became a reality,
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Speaker 1: and the Associated Press is now running this headline, one
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Speaker 1: point two million immigrants are gone from the US labor
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Speaker 1: force under Donald Trump. Preliminary data is now confirming it's
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Speaker 1: tomato season. The article begins, and Lydia is harvesting on
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Speaker 1: farms in California's Central Valley. She is also anxious attention
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Speaker 1: from US Immigration and Customs enforcement could up in her
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Speaker 1: life for more than twenty three years after she illegally
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Speaker 1: crossed the US Mexico border as a teenager. The worry
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Speaker 1: is they will pull you over when you're driving and
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Speaker 1: ask for your papers, is what Lydia said the Associated
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Speaker 1: Press don't worry. She's not using her last name because
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Speaker 1: the APS will protect her. She went on to say,
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Speaker 1: we need to work, we need to feed our families,
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Speaker 1: and we need to pay our rent. Well, there's also
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Speaker 1: Americans that need the exact same thing, And what we're
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Speaker 1: witnessing is many Americans are saying we should put American
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Speaker 1: workers first. Well, here's the reality. More than one point
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Speaker 1: four million immigrants have disappeared from the labor force from
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Speaker 1: January through the end of July, according to the Census
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Speaker 1: Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research Center. That includes
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Speaker 1: people who are in the country illegally as well as
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Speaker 1: legal residents, but the majority are illegals. Immigrants make up
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Speaker 1: almost twenty percent is the claim of the US workforce,
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Speaker 1: and data shows forty five percent of workers are in farming, fishing,
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Speaker 1: forestry they are immigrants. According to the Pew Senior reyat
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Speaker 1: searcher Sephany Kramer, about thirty percent of all construction workers
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Speaker 1: are immigrants and twenty four percent of service workers or immigrants.
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Speaker 1: She went on to add the loss of immigrant workers
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Speaker 1: comes as the nation seeing the first decline and the
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Speaker 1: overall immigrant population after the number of people in the
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Speaker 1: US I legally reached an all time high they claim
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Speaker 1: of fourteen million in twenty twenty three. Many believe that
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Speaker 1: number is off by as many as ten to twelve million.
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Speaker 1: It's unclear how much of the decline we've seen since
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Speaker 1: January is due to voluntary departures to pursue other opportunities
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Speaker 1: and avoid deportation removals under reporting of other technical or
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Speaker 1: other technical issues. Kramer said, However, we don't believe that
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Speaker 1: the preliminary numbers indicate net negative migration are so far
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Speaker 1: off that the decline isn't real. So where they saying, yes,
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Speaker 1: it's real. People are leaving on their own. Trump campaign,
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Speaker 1: by the way, on the promise to deport millions of
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Speaker 1: immigrants working in the US illegally, and he said he
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Speaker 1: is focusing on deportation efforts also of dangerous criminals first.
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Speaker 1: But most people detained by ice have no quote, criminal convictions,
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Speaker 1: is what the left said. So they believe they should
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Speaker 1: all take away American jobs, which brings me to part
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Speaker 1: two of the story. Guess what's happening. Americans are actually
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Speaker 1: now making more money because of these self deportations.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 1: We are seeing a rise in pay which is helping
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Speaker 1: American families. The broader economic research is consistently finding that
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Speaker 1: right now we are seeing more Americans are making more
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Speaker 1: money than they did before. The National Employment Law Project
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Speaker 1: its study found that if eight point three million undocumented
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Speaker 1: immigrants were deported, the resulting economic impact could lead to
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Speaker 1: seven percent increase in pay instantly. The Baker Institute also
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Speaker 1: reports that pass mass deportations, they claimed lower wages and
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Speaker 1: cost job losses. But what we're witnessing right now is
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Speaker 1: the opposite of that, because the unemployment rate has actually
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Speaker 1: gone down over the same period of time, not up.
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Speaker 1: So what does it mean. It means that Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: and what he is saying is actually working. Quote average
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Speaker 1: hourly wages have not decreased as the left promise and
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Speaker 1: the media said, what's going to happen. In fact, they
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Speaker 1: have accelerated, rising by zero point four percent over the
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Speaker 1: last month. Yes, in May, for example, it went up
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Speaker 1: zero point four percent to thirty six twenty four in
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Speaker 1: May as businesses adjusted to a tighter labor supply as
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Speaker 1: many were self deporting. Now this also goes in the
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Speaker 1: face of the argument that there would be fewer jobs
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Speaker 1: Americans would take than Americans would do the jobs illegal
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Speaker 1: immigrants are doing. All of that has also now been
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Speaker 1: a lie. A labor economist of the Federal Reserve Bank
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Speaker 1: in Dallas said immigrants normally contribute at least fifty percent
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Speaker 1: of job growth in the US. But what we're seeing
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Speaker 1: now is Americans coming out of the woodwork for the
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Speaker 1: jobs that they couldn't get before because they were taken
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Speaker 1: by illegal immigrant labor.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 1: The influx across the border, from what we can tell,
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Speaker 1: is essentially stopped, and that's where we were getting millions
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Speaker 1: and millions of migrants over the.
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Speaker 2: Last four years.
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Speaker 1: That has a huge impact on the ability to quote
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Speaker 1: create jobs now. You can also go back to the
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Speaker 1: fear mongering story from the AP. Their subheadline was crops
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Speaker 1: did go to waste. Just across the border from Mexico
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Speaker 1: and Mcowan, Texas, corn and cotton fields are about ready
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Speaker 1: to harvest. Elizabeth Rodriguez worries there won't be enough workers
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Speaker 1: available to deal with the gens and other machinery once
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Speaker 1: the fields are cleared. They say immigration enforcement actions at
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Speaker 1: farms are hurting them, businesses and construction sites. They say
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Speaker 1: it's bring everything to a standstill. Rodriguez, by the way,
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Speaker 1: is the director of farm worker Advocacy for the National
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Speaker 1: farm Worker Ministry that loves illegal immigrant labor. So there
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Speaker 1: is two sides the story. Yes, it's not good for
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Speaker 1: illegal immigrants, right now. And yes, they're trying to fearmonger
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Speaker 1: you that you're not going to have anything on the shelves.
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Speaker 1: You may remember, by the way, that's the exact same
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Speaker 1: fear mongering they said when they said Donald Trump was
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Speaker 1: going to ruin our economy with a terrif fight that
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Speaker 1: he was willing to take to other countries that were
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Speaker 1: taking advantage of the United States of America. Well, guess
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Speaker 1: what they lied to you then, and they're lying to
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Speaker 1: you now. In fact, in May, during the peak of
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Speaker 1: our watermelon and cantalop season, it delayed it. A lot
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Speaker 1: of crops did go to waste, is the new claim
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Speaker 1: from the Associated Press. When asked to back it up.
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Speaker 1: What are we actually seeing, Well, not a lot of
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Speaker 1: data to back that up at all. In fact, there
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Speaker 1: were plenty of Americans that had no problem finding a
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Speaker 1: water melon, that's right. So what's gonna happen next. It
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Speaker 1: is clear that the President of the United States of
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Speaker 1: America is going after illegal immigrant laborers, and many of
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Speaker 1: them are saying it's just not worth it anymore.
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Speaker 2: Business is not good in.
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Speaker 1: America if you're an illegal immigrant, because Donald Trump is
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Speaker 1: actually enforcing the laws and most of the men and
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Speaker 1: women who work in the farms. For example, in California,
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Speaker 1: our contractor provided day laborers. There were days earlier this year,
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Speaker 1: they say, when crews would be smaller. One of those,
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Speaker 1: Lisa Tate, manages her family business that grows citrus fruits,
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Speaker 1: avocados and coffee on eight ranches and eight hundred acres.
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Speaker 1: And what did she say, Well, she's concerned. She said
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Speaker 1: there were days this year when the cruise were just smaller.
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Speaker 1: She's hesitant to place the blame on immigration policy, but
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Speaker 1: she fears that ice raids spread quickly.
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Speaker 2: So what is she actually doing. She knows what she's doing.
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Speaker 1: It's very clear that the labors that she is using
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Speaker 1: for day labor are probably you guessed it, illegal immigrants.
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Speaker 1: And dozens of area farm workers were arrested late this spring,
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Speaker 1: sending another message the present is not messing around.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 1: People are being taken out of the laundry mats off
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Speaker 1: the side of the road, Tait said. Lydia, the farm
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Speaker 1: worker who spoke to the AP by the way through
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Speaker 1: an interpreter, sent her biggest fear is being sent back
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Speaker 1: to Mexico. Now, at thirty six, she's married with three
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Speaker 1: school aged children who were born in the US. It's interesting,
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Speaker 1: by the way, she's been here for so long but
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Speaker 1: still has decided not to learn English.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I'll be able to bring my kids,
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Speaker 1: said Lydia. I'm also very concerned. I've had to start
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Speaker 1: from zero if I left. My whole life has been
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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump made it very clear when he was
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Speaker 1: running for president and backing it up now that if
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Speaker 1: you are in the drug trade, he considers you a
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Speaker 1: dangerous individual that is a member of a terrorist organization,
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Speaker 1: and he's not going to allow Americans to die at
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Speaker 1: the hands of fetnyl and other drugs that have been
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Speaker 1: pouring into this country. Now, lots of those drugs have
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Speaker 1: been stopped because we have secured the border, but the.
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Speaker 2: President says that's not enough.
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Speaker 1: And now we're seeing what is next on the present's agenda.
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Speaker 1: The United States has significantly ramped up its military presence
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Speaker 1: in the Southern Caribbean. We are now learning this started
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Speaker 1: in late August and now in two September, as the
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Speaker 1: US Navy has deployed around seven to eight warships, including
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Speaker 1: very large cruisers, amphibious assault vessels, and at least one
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Speaker 1: nuclear powered submarine. That's not all more than four thousand
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Speaker 1: US personnel, including about twenty two hundred Marines, are now
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Speaker 1: operating in the area. This build up includes surveillance aircraft
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Speaker 1: and even a US spy plane. We're being told the
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Speaker 1: stated objective is actually very clear combat drug cartels, and
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Speaker 1: the Trump administration has framed this deployment as part of
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Speaker 1: a broader campaign against Latin American drug trafficking and criminal networks.
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Speaker 1: Officials have labeled Venezuelan President Maduro as a narco trafficker,
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Speaker 1: boosting the reward for his capture now to fifty million dollars,
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Speaker 1: and designating his alleged cartel of the SUNS a terrorist organization.
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Speaker 1: Merdua's reaction has been fierce. He's armed and mobilized and defiant.
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Speaker 1: President Maduro taking strong countermeasures, deploying troops along the coast
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Speaker 1: and Columbia border. He's also called on citizens to join
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Speaker 1: civilian militias and warned he would quote constitutionally declare republic
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Speaker 1: in arms if the US forces attack. Maduro and other
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Speaker 1: Venezuelan officials are now accusing the US of using anti
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Speaker 1: drug rhetoric as a pretext for regime change and gunboat diplomacy.
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Speaker 1: Here's more about the move from Fox News call.
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Speaker 3: The US is deploying destroyers and thousands of marines towards
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Speaker 3: Venezuela as President Trump looks to crack down on Kurtels
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Speaker 3: and the Madudo regime. They could reportedly reach the country's
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Speaker 3: coast as soon as tomorrow. Here to discuss is dissident
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Speaker 3: project speaker and an immigrant from Venezuela, Jorgue Galitia, along
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Speaker 3: with frager U political commentator and Venezuelan political refugee Franklin Carmargo.
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Speaker 3: So great to have you both on. I'm going to
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Speaker 3: start with you, corde Ke. What is the reaction to
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Speaker 3: Venezuelan's I know you guys are in close contact with
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Speaker 3: people who are living there right now. Over seventy eighty
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Speaker 3: percent of the country voted for the opposition party against Madudo.
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Speaker 3: How are they feeling in this moment, knowing that these
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Speaker 3: destroyers are coming so close to the Venezuelan coast.
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Speaker 4: Well, first of all, Rachel, thank you for having me again.
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Speaker 5: I think how many people in Venezuela are extremely optimistic.
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Speaker 5: They cannot really be loud about it because they're facing
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Speaker 5: a terrible criminal regime.
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Speaker 2: Yah.
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Speaker 3: I spoke to one of the opposition activists who was
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Speaker 3: holed up in that embassy for over a year before
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Speaker 3: she was rescued, And I asked her and she said,
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Speaker 3: it's a silent euphoria. And so while they're quietly celebrating
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Speaker 3: what President Trump is doing right now in Venezuelan and
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Speaker 3: frankly for the whole Western hemisphere Franklin, meanwhile, Venezuelans who
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Speaker 3: are living abroad are putting out the most remarkable TikTok
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Speaker 3: Instagram videos I've ever seen. You're seeing the destroyers coming
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Speaker 3: into the ocean and the planes coming overhead and YMCA playing,
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Speaker 3: and just the euphoria from the dissident community who's abroad
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Speaker 3: is so palpable and thankful to the administration. Give us
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Speaker 3: more context to that.
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Speaker 6: Yes, the Venezuela and people recognizes that the Truma administration
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Speaker 6: is probably one of the biggest allies that freedom fighters
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Speaker 6: Venezuela freedom fighters have had over the last twenty five years.
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Speaker 6: Is someone who has read recognized that Maduro is not
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Speaker 6: just a threat to South America's not just a threat
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Speaker 6: to Venezuelans, but it's also a threat to the American people.
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Speaker 6: And I think it is the most important thing to
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Speaker 6: mention right now when we talk about Nicolas Maduru. When
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Speaker 6: we talk about the Venezuelan regime, we're not just talking
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Speaker 6: about a government that we dislike or a dictatorship, a
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Speaker 6: soft dictatorship. We're talking about a narco state, a government
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Speaker 6: that produced over twenty five percent of the entire cocaine
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Speaker 6: that is produced in the entire world. It's also a
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Speaker 6: regime that sent Trendoraga, the same criminal organization that killed,
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Speaker 6: for example, Lake in Riley, or that killed Joseline Noungarai.
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Speaker 6: So there is a need for the American people, for
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Speaker 6: the well being of the American people in the Western hemisphere,
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Speaker 6: to have a regime changed to stop to stop these cartels.
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Speaker 6: But Venezuelans recognized that Trump is an ally that the
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Speaker 6: US government is probably the biggest vote that we currently have.
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Speaker 1: Now you hear the stats there, and it's very clear
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Speaker 1: that not only is this in essence a failed state,
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Speaker 1: it's a state where the people rose up against Maduro
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Speaker 1: and he just clung to power anyway, And now we
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Speaker 1: know that he is nothing but a narco terrorist. It
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Speaker 1: is a terrorist organization that he's a part of, and
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Speaker 1: his money is coming directly from the cocaine that he
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Speaker 1: is delivering to the world. Yet Venezuela's president is now
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Speaker 1: accusing the United States of seeking regime change in his
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Speaker 1: country and the military deployment that has happened now, it
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Speaker 1: was authorized by President Trump in a simple effort to
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Speaker 1: disrupt drug cartel activity. It's part of the White Houses,
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Speaker 1: they described it his broader border policy. Maduro said the
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Speaker 1: build up is an intervention in his quote country's affairs,
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Speaker 1: saying this to the people, they are seeking regime change
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Speaker 1: through military threat, and that's where he also wants the
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Speaker 1: rest of the world to believe. Maduro added, quote Venezuela
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Speaker 1: is confronting the biggest threat that has ever seen on
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Speaker 1: our continent in the last one hundred years, and saying
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Speaker 1: a situation like this has never been seen. Maduro said
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Speaker 1: Venezuela won't bow to threats and that it was super prepared.
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Speaker 1: Now the Trump administration is accused again Madua of engaging
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Speaker 1: in drug trafficking, going so far as to announce that
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Speaker 1: fifty million dollar reward for information leading to his arrest
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Speaker 1: and his conviction. The fifty million dollars, that is not
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Speaker 1: a little amount of money when it comes to how
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Speaker 1: much we're willing to pay as a nation. This is
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Speaker 1: one of the biggest rewards we've ever had. Take a
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Speaker 1: listen to this from Fox as well.
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Speaker 5: People have wanted to do this for years.
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Speaker 7: President Trump putting war back in the War on drugs,
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Speaker 7: designating eight drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
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Speaker 4: It allows us to now target what they're operating and
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Speaker 4: to use other elements of American power, intelligence agencies, the
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Speaker 4: Department of Defense, whatever, yeah.
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Speaker 2: To target these groups.
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Speaker 4: If we have an opportunity to do it, we have
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Speaker 4: to start treating them as armed tear organizations, not simply
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Speaker 4: drug dealing organizations.
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Speaker 7: That changes the battlefield. Cartel members become enemy combatants and
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Speaker 7: allow the use of military assets. The question is how
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Speaker 7: the Navy intercepting ships carrying narcotics special operations targeting cartel
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Speaker 7: leaders or drone strikes on drug labs in Mexico.
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Speaker 2: Mexico probably doesn't want that. What do we have to do?
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Speaker 2: What's right?
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Speaker 7: Publicly, President Claudia Scheinbaum says Mexico will cooperate, but claims
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Speaker 7: the US plans no boots on the ground, nothing in it.
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Speaker 8: It has nothing to do with Mexican territory. It has
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Speaker 8: to do with their country. It does not involve our territory.
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Speaker 7: Yet most cocaine goes through Mexico, and it produces most
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Speaker 7: of the fentanyl that killed more than two hundred and
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Speaker 7: sixty five thousand Americans during President Biden's term.
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Speaker 8: These are armed organizations that have their own militaries. I
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Speaker 8: absolutely believe that we need to take action.
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Speaker 6: It's what type of action are we going to take.
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Speaker 7: But just because you don't hear about an operation doesn't
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Speaker 7: mean it didn't happen. Now, one of the name cartels
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Speaker 7: is the Venezuelan gang Trende a Agua. Last week, the
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Speaker 7: US slept a fifty million dollar bounty on President Nicholas Maduro,
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Speaker 7: accusing him of using it to help traffic narcotics into
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Speaker 7: the US.
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Speaker 1: Let's just stop there for a second and also just
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Speaker 1: recognize something that was said there. Under the Biden administration,
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Speaker 1: more than a quarter million Americans died from fetnol an
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Speaker 1: overdose from fetnol. You think about that number, and then
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Speaker 1: you think about these cartels. They've engaged in historic violence
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Speaker 1: and tear throughout our hemisphere and around the globe. They
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Speaker 1: have destabilized the economies and internal security of countries while
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Speaker 1: also flooding the United States with deadly drugs, violent criminals,
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Speaker 1: and vicious gangs.
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Speaker 2: That is what the Chief.
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Speaker 1: Pentagon spokesman, Sean Parnell said during a news conference this week.
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Speaker 1: He also said this it requires a whole of government
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Speaker 1: effort and through coordination with regional partners, the Department of
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Speaker 1: Defense will undoubtedly play an important role in meeting the
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Speaker 1: Presence objective to eliminate the ability of these cartels to
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Speaker 1: threaten the territory, safety and the security of the United
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Speaker 1: States and its people. As a matter of security and policy,
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Speaker 1: we do not speculate on future operations now. What is
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Speaker 1: very clear is the Presidence saying I'm not waiting around
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Speaker 1: for nations to act. I'm going to act now because
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Speaker 1: it's important that we protect and defend America's home lan
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Speaker 1: and make sure that while he's present, another quarter million
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Speaker 1: Americans don't lose their lives to FETNL overdoses, and that
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Speaker 1: doesn't count all of those that are killed by cartel
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Speaker 1: members and the violent gangs that are in America as well.
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Speaker 1: So the DC mayor has had a major chain of
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Speaker 1: her rhetoric when it comes to reversing what crime is
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Speaker 1: doing in her city. Yes, she's totally reversing course now
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Speaker 1: admitting that Donald Trump's federal crime crackdown is in fact working.
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Speaker 1: Mayor Bowser cited an eighty seven percent reduction in carjackings
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Speaker 1: during the twenty day federal law enforcement deployment. Just take
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Speaker 1: a listen to the conversation that was had on Fox
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Speaker 1: News Channel about what she said and also the data.
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Speaker 9: We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what
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Speaker 9: MPD has been able to do in this city. Well,
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Speaker 9: we know it's not working. Is a break and trust
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Speaker 9: between police and community, especially with new federal partners in
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Speaker 9: our community. We know having massed ice agents and the
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Speaker 9: community has not worked.
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Speaker 8: Okay, but let's listen to some residents here.
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Speaker 10: Navy Yard has kind of been a hot area before
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Speaker 10: all the you know, additional security. It was a little
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Speaker 10: dicey at times, especially at later times in the hour.
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Speaker 10: I would see fights break out whenever are just walking home.
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Speaker 10: But now it's a lot more quiet.
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Speaker 11: I'm welcome and I think it's a great idea. And
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Speaker 11: I have noticed that they have been cleaning some of
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Speaker 11: the graffiti off in some of the areas, like on
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Speaker 11: the highways and that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 8: What about the fallout of all this tough.
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Speaker 12: Well, we just had a poll come out yesterday ap
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Speaker 12: poles here eighty one percent of people think that crime
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Speaker 12: is a problem in major, major problem in urban areas.
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Speaker 12: Trump's approval rating on crime was fifty four percent in
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Speaker 12: that pole, and the Harvard Harris pole was fifty one percent,
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Speaker 12: his highest rating of any of the issues that they
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Speaker 12: questioned voters about. So, I think what you saw from
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Speaker 12: the mayor, which she said, is a bit surprising. I
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Speaker 12: think that's her responding to her constituents. She's hearing people
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Speaker 12: who were saying that, especially in the areas where crime
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Speaker 12: is the worst, that they feel safer and that's not
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Speaker 12: a bad thing. Democrats have managed to box themselves in
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Speaker 12: on another eighty twenty issue and are trying to find
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Speaker 12: a way out, and I think the mayor has recognized that,
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Speaker 12: and she's obviously in the middle of it.
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Speaker 1: Yet again, here Democrats on the wrong side of the issue.
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Speaker 1: This is an issue where the majority of Americans say
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Speaker 1: that they want to fill safe. In fact, for decades,
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Speaker 1: Democrats have been saying this, and now what is happening. Well,
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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump says, I'm with you. I want to
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Speaker 1: drive down crime in some of her most dangerous cities,
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Speaker 1: and Democrats are angry. Why they're coming down once again
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Speaker 1: on the wrong side of an issue that affects millions
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Speaker 1: of Americans. And the question you should ask yourself is this,
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Speaker 1: Why would the leaders of high crime cities like Washington,
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Speaker 1: DC or Chicago object to the President helping to make
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Speaker 1: their streets safer. I'll tell you why they're panicked. They're
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Speaker 1: panic that Donald trum is succeeding exposing them as inept,
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Speaker 1: as corrupt, as leaders that really just want to control cities,
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Speaker 1: even if it means they're filled with crime. For decades,
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Speaker 1: by the way, Democrats have been struggling to overcome the
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Speaker 1: accusations on the facts that they were soft on crime.
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Speaker 1: Go back to nineteen ninety four. Trying to combat that charge,
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Speaker 1: President Bill Clinton signed a law the most sweeping anti
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Speaker 1: crime bill at the time in history, and funded actually
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Speaker 1: the hiring of one hundred thousand new police officers. It
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Speaker 1: also authorized a construction of new prisons and introduced that
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Speaker 1: three strikes law mandating lengthy jail terms for repeat offenders. Now,
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Speaker 1: Democrats are furious. They are furious that crime is actually
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Speaker 1: going down in DC, and they're also even more angry
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Speaker 1: that the President said this about you know, the prospect
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Speaker 1: of places like Chicago getting some extra hell.
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Speaker 13: And after we do this, we'll go to another location
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Speaker 13: and we'll make it safe.
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Speaker 14: Al So we're going to make our country very safe.
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Speaker 14: We're going to make our cities very very safe. Chicago's
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Speaker 14: a mess. You have an incompetent mayor grossly incompetent. And
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Speaker 14: we'll straighten that one out probably next. That'll be our
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Speaker 14: next one after this, and it won't even be tough.
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Speaker 14: And the people in.
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Speaker 5: Chicago, mister Vice President, are screaming for us to come there.
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Speaker 5: They're wearing red hats, just like this one, but they're
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Speaker 5: wearing red hats. African American ladies, beautiful ladies, are saying, please,
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Speaker 5: President Trump, come to Chicago.
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Speaker 2: Please.
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Speaker 13: I did great with the black vote, as you know,
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Speaker 13: and they want something to happen.
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Speaker 5: So I think Chicago will be our next, and then
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Speaker 5: we'll help.
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Speaker 13: With New York, and we're going to help with and
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Speaker 13: I think, really, I think a lot of and a
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Speaker 13: lot of these people that you see on television, they are,
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Speaker 13: including the people in this audience. They'll say bad things
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Speaker 13: about me, and then they'll say thank you he's here
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Speaker 13: because half of them got mugged and they don't want
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Speaker 13: to get mugged again. But they're you know, they work
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Speaker 13: for a ladder, if they work for stupid people that
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Speaker 13: are radical left, and they're made to do things and
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Speaker 13: say things that they.
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Speaker 14: Don't want to be saying.
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Speaker 1: This goes back to the real problem. And if you
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Speaker 1: look at the present and what he's saying there, he's
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Speaker 1: absolutely right. You had Democrats that used to be in
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Speaker 1: favor of fighting crime and saving black lives. Now they're
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Speaker 1: soft on crime. Democrats' literal high water mark for cracking
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Speaker 1: down on crime was in nineteen ninety four. The party leaders,
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Speaker 1: including former President Joe Biden, are now at a point
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Speaker 1: where they apologize for being tough on crime. They literally
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Speaker 1: apologize for the nineteen ninety four crime bill it is
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Speaker 1: and then post George Floyd in that error. Democrats have
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Speaker 1: adopted policies as openly we want to defund the police,
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Speaker 1: we want to have no bail, we want to have
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Speaker 1: prison reform, we want to shut down prisons. And that
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Speaker 1: that's what made our cities, or especially the cities they
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Speaker 1: run liberal cities, so dangerous because they favored criminals over
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Speaker 1: their citizens. They also did this on the issue of
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Speaker 1: I legal immigration flooding these liberal cities with criminals. President
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Speaker 1: Trump saying, hey, I'm going to do this. I'm going
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Speaker 1: to save people's lives. We're going to reverse course on this.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to go wherever I can, and if I
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Speaker 1: can send troops, I'm going to do it for one reason,
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Speaker 1: to stop the violence and to stop the killing. And
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Speaker 1: what a Democrat say, You're a dictator and a tyrant
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Speaker 1: if you do it. So now you go back to
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Speaker 1: the mayor in DC. Why is the mayor in DC
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Speaker 1: saying what she's saying now because the citizens are telling
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Speaker 1: her that they're glad this is happening. You look at
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Speaker 1: Chicago's mayor, for example. He is the complete opposite of this. Right,
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Speaker 1: He's saying, well, President Trump, if you send the National Guard,
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Speaker 1: we're going to stand up to you in the Windy City.
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Speaker 1: The most flagrant violation of our constitution the twenty first centuries,
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Speaker 1: how I described on acts and then he boasted the
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Speaker 1: city of Chicago does not need a military occupation. Those
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Speaker 1: are his words. It actually does, by the way, one
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Speaker 1: headline from this summer sets it all quote at least
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Speaker 1: fifty five people's shot, eight fatally in the fourth of
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Speaker 1: July weekend. So Brandon Johnson's like, no, no, no, no, you
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Speaker 1: don't understand. I don't want any help. Well, you clearly
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Speaker 1: need it. You need the help big time. The mayor
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Speaker 1: in his own words, talking about crime. I want you
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Speaker 1: to hear what he had to say. Listen carefully.
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Speaker 8: Potentially next for more expanded deportation efforts, potentially military deployments.
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Speaker 8: But I'm wondering, in light of that, have you seen
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Speaker 8: anything to confirm that or what would be the process
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Speaker 8: for you while learning if that were to come to pass.
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Speaker 15: Thank you for the question. It's not like the federal
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Speaker 15: government has given us any heads up, right, there's no
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Speaker 15: communication from the federal government with our local police department.
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Speaker 15: It's quite problematic. This is why we're relaunching our New
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Speaker 15: York Rights Campaign. There's a great deal of resistance in
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Speaker 15: this city around a host of things from the Trump administration.
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Speaker 15: The fact that again that he's removing black history right,
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Speaker 15: that he's attacking the LGBTQ plus community as much as
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Speaker 15: we possibly can, whether it's in the courts, whether it's
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Speaker 15: in the streets. With policy, we're going to continue to
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Speaker 15: defend and center.
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Speaker 8: For working people. And just to follow up, would you know,
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Speaker 8: in like, is there a procedure or anything that the
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Speaker 8: federal government needs to notify you before something like that
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Speaker 8: were to happen, a National Guard deployment or marines or
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Speaker 8: something like that.
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Speaker 15: I think it's important that the president respects the Constitution.
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Speaker 15: And if you're asking me if this president is going
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Speaker 15: to work with city leaders, it's clear that he's not
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Speaker 15: interested in doing that. He's not even interested in working
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Speaker 15: with Congress, which this is where these issues should be
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Speaker 15: taken up. They have not moved on anything substantive at
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Speaker 15: the federal level. There's no effort for comprehensive immigration reform
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Speaker 15: that could help repair a broken system. There's no commitment
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Speaker 15: to help transform our economy. There's no commitment to invest
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Speaker 15: in our public education system. The only thing that we
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Speaker 15: received from this president is his ungoing attack against equity, diversity,
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Speaker 15: his ungoing attack against working people. Establishing policy that ultimately
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Speaker 15: protects the interests of the wealthy of this country is
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Speaker 15: the priority that he has carried out. Anything other than that,
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Speaker 15: he's been a miserable disappointment and failure.
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Speaker 2: Isn't it amazing?
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Speaker 1: That the President is actually lowering crime, and the Chicago
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Speaker 1: mayor is like, oh, he's just an evil guy that
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Speaker 1: likes the rich people and then goes on these tirades
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Speaker 1: that have nothing to do with protecting his citizens, and
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Speaker 1: the President says, I'm not waiting around any longer. I
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Speaker 1: am going to protect the citizens of the United States
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