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Turns Out America First Is Still First among Voters plus Trey’s Law Lands in Congress · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about the election results that are
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Speaker 1: coming in from all across the country.
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Speaker 2: And there's no other way to say this.
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Speaker 1: It was a very big night for Republicans and for
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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump's political Maga movement across multiple states. Republican
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Speaker 1: candidates that were backed by President Trump, not only one,
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Speaker 1: they actually won convincingly. And the results show that the
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Speaker 1: America First Message that Democrats said was already going to
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Speaker 1: be a disaster is anything but a disaster. America First Message,
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Speaker 1: by the way, is not just surviving politically, it's literally
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Speaker 1: after this midterm primary, thriving with voters who are looking
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Speaker 1: for strong leadership, that are looking for secure borders, that
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Speaker 1: are looking for an economy that works for working families.
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Speaker 1: Now we saw some I call them rhinos, establishment people.
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Speaker 2: They're in serious trouble.
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Speaker 1: You can look at the Lone Star state where voters
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Speaker 1: served up I think the prerequisite of what we're going
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Speaker 1: to witness in the midterm elections. All Right, you had
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Speaker 1: Republicans and Democrats that decide who they want their canids
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Speaker 1: to be for the US Senate race there in Texas,
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Speaker 1: and this is a big one. You've got an establishment
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Speaker 1: I call him a bush Air, Republican Senator John Cornyn,
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Speaker 1: he's the incumbent from Texas.
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Speaker 2: An insane amount of money that was spent.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we're talking seventy plus million dollars fighting for
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Speaker 1: his life against the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, and
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Speaker 1: both of them also faced off against Representative Wesley Hunt
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Speaker 1: for the GOP primary nomination in Texas. The top two
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Speaker 1: vote getters, assuming none of them reach at least fifty percent,
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Speaker 1: which we've seen is now clear, right, then it turns
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Speaker 1: into a runoff.
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Speaker 2: Now that runoff, we know it's going to be.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be the incumbent Senator John Cornyn against
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Speaker 1: Ken Paxton. Wesley Hunt did not make it right because
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Speaker 1: he came in third. Now, pax has consistently pulled atop
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Speaker 1: the field from the very beginning, without spending hardly any
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Speaker 1: money compared to Cornyn. All right, Establishment Republicans in Washington.
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Speaker 1: Their narrative is that Paxson is a weaker general election
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Speaker 1: candidate and they worry that he may end up quote
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Speaker 1: opening Texas up to going blue for the first time
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Speaker 1: in generations, that a Democrat's gonna win. Paxson's seems like
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Speaker 1: that's that's a lie, that's the establishment, and not only
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Speaker 1: can he win, but he will win in November, and
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Speaker 1: if he gets the wins this runoff, like it's game
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Speaker 1: over because he's a Trump conservative candidate. Now, I think
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Speaker 1: that's pretty clear. That's where this is going to be heading.
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Speaker 1: And Cornyn had to spend so much money just to survive.
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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be very hard for Cornyan to
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Speaker 1: win in this in this runoff because people are like, dude,
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Speaker 1: did you win?
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Speaker 2: Like are you winning or are you buying it right?
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Speaker 1: When you're spending seventy plus million dollars to get you
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Speaker 1: there just to get into a runoff, there's a problem
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Speaker 1: that you have clearly with the voters when you are
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Speaker 1: the incumbent. The other thing AT's interesting is, huh, you
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Speaker 1: got a guy by the name of Dan Crenshaw. Dan
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Speaker 1: got obliterated on election night. He's another guy that was
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Speaker 1: not really with Trump. He's he's loud, he's obnoxious, he's
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Speaker 1: a you know, get the hell out of my way.
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Speaker 1: I'm better than you, I'm smart than you, I'm more
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Speaker 1: intelligent you. I served my country and you didn't kind
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Speaker 1: of guy. And that backfired in a big way. So
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Speaker 1: when you look across Texas. I think that tells you
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Speaker 1: a lot about what's happening all over the country. Republican
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Speaker 1: candidates that were backed by President Trump not only one,
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Speaker 1: they won convincingly, and the America First message is alive
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Speaker 1: in well. Race after race, candidates to align themselves with
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Speaker 1: Trump's agenda on energy, independence, law and order, and election
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 2: Now back to the election results real quick.
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Speaker 1: These results are being viewed by many analysts, all right
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Speaker 1: as a clear signal that the Republican base remains not
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Speaker 1: only energize, but the Donald Trump's influence inside the party
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Speaker 1: remains incredibly strong heading into the election cycle coming up.
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Speaker 1: This is exactly why the president is outpacing and out
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Speaker 1: fundraising the Democratic Party. It's the reason why his endorsement
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Speaker 1: means everything, and it's also the reason why this midterm
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Speaker 1: convention that he's planning is going to be significant. Now,
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Speaker 1: one of the most important trends for the night is turnout.
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Speaker 1: Republican voters who the media had said we're going to
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Speaker 1: stay home showed up, and not just showed up, but
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Speaker 1: showed up in large numbers, all right, particularly in suburban
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Speaker 1: and rural counties where Trump's message resonates strongly with those
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Speaker 1: hardworking Americans in many districts. By the way, Republican turnout
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Speaker 1: dramatically outpaced what Democrats were able to generate as well,
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Speaker 1: meaning there's an enthusiasm gap in these victories and the
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Speaker 1: night So that's big. Another key takeaway from these elections
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Speaker 1: is that the Republican candidate to embrace the Trump agenda
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Speaker 1: were able to consolidate support across the party all right,
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Speaker 1: instead of fractured primaries. Many of these racists saw voters
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Speaker 1: rally behind Canada to promise to continue the policies and
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Speaker 1: defending the Trump presidency, defending economic growth, lower taxes, strong
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Speaker 1: national defense, and putting America first on the global stage.
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Speaker 1: So for President Trump, tonight's results that he was witnessing
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Speaker 1: at the White House were another reminder that he's on
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Speaker 1: the ballot. He remains the most influential figure in the
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Speaker 1: Republican party period. His endorsement once again carried real weight
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Speaker 1: with voters, and many candidates openly credit Trump's backing as
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Speaker 1: a may factor in their victories, as they should politically speaking,
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Speaker 1: those that got sideways with the president. Cornyn is a
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Speaker 1: great example of that. In Texas, you know, Dan Crenshaw
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Speaker 1: is a perfect example of this. Their results, well, it's
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Speaker 1: in a clear message that if you're out there on
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Speaker 1: your own and you're fighting against Trump and claiming you're Republican,
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Speaker 1: it's not going to go well for you. Many of
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Speaker 1: the winning Republican candidates ran campaigns focus on issues, by
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Speaker 1: the way, that have dominated national debate, the same issues
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Speaker 1: that Donald Trump voted on, or i should say ran
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Speaker 1: on and you voted on in the presidential election. It
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Speaker 1: was inflation, it was crime, it was border security, cost
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Speaker 1: of living, and when conservative candidates talked about it, the
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Speaker 1: voter showed up and responded. Now the Republican strategists are
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Speaker 1: already pointing to these victories is proof that the political
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Speaker 1: map is not only shifting in their favor in the
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Speaker 1: states and districts, but the momentum that began during the
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Speaker 1: Trump presidency is actually continued to shape the party and
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Speaker 1: the electorate. And that is something that Republicans need to
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Speaker 1: pay attention to. A lot of times and primaries, you
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Speaker 1: have conservatives that will run to the right and then
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Speaker 1: they'll go back to the center for the general election.
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Speaker 1: That seems to be a bad strategy, all right, So
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Speaker 1: to recap this for you, I would say tonight's election
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Speaker 1: results show number one, a Republican party that's way more
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Speaker 1: energized than anybody wanted to admit. Okay, Number one, like
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Speaker 1: that is huge. They are energized. Number two, it's unified
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Speaker 1: the Republican Party around the America First Agenda aka Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump's agenda.
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Speaker 2: And three, and this is the most important one.
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Speaker 1: If you try to distance yourself from the political strength
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Speaker 1: to President Donald Trump, it's game over for you.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: If these results are any indication of what's coming moving
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Speaker 1: forward and the political battles ahead, it's going to be
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Speaker 1: fought on terrain that increasingly is favoring Republicans. That is
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Speaker 1: also the best part about this. Now there's also Democrats.
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Speaker 1: They got their own issues here, all right on the
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Speaker 1: Democrat side, And I'll give you a very quick synopsis
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Speaker 1: of this, all right. It's really shaping up to be
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Speaker 1: a battle between former President Barack Obama's pick in Texas,
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Speaker 1: for example, a guy that is running for Senate, James
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Speaker 1: Taller Rico, and then the former Vice President Kamala Harris's pick,
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Speaker 1: the black congress woman, Representative Jasmond Crockett, who you probably
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Speaker 1: know from TV you look at how different these two
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Speaker 1: candidates are. Okay, these two candidates are extremely different. The
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Speaker 1: Democratic Party is trying to decide are they going to
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Speaker 1: be radical extremists or are they going to try to
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Speaker 1: find candidates that don't come across as being so extreme.
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Speaker 1: I think that bodes well for Republicans candidates. The Republicans
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Speaker 1: that did well, they were running on the same message
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Speaker 1: no matter where they were in the country. The Democrats
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Speaker 1: were running on their message of Donald Trump, orange man bad,
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Speaker 1: everyone hates Donald Trump, donald Trump's the worst president of
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Speaker 1: the world, Donald Trump's a warmongerer.
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Speaker 2: And it did not work well in the primary it.
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Speaker 1: In fact, the Republicans showed up in a massive way
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Speaker 1: Democrats did not. Usually the party that's not in power
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Speaker 1: has the biggest day on election day. It's usually a
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Speaker 1: real big concern about what's going to happen in the future.
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Speaker 1: None of that was there this time, and that is
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Speaker 1: a huge moment for people to understand one thing here.
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump's still in charge of the agenda. Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: is still in charge of the party. Donald Trump's agenda
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Speaker 1: is how you get elected. And if you don't realize that, well,
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Speaker 1: then you're pretty much an idiot. We have a major
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Speaker 1: update for you on the rapidly escalating war with Iran,
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Speaker 1: and a lot has happened in just the last twenty
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Speaker 1: four hours. Over the past day, the United States and
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Speaker 1: Israel has continued their coordinated military campaign against Iranian military targets,
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Speaker 1: striking facilities connected to Iran's navy, to Iran's air force,
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Speaker 1: and to Iran's missile infrastructure. According to US military commanders,
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Speaker 1: thousands of targets have now been hit since the operation
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Speaker 1: began just days ago, and multiple Iranian ships and air
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Speaker 1: defense systems have also been destroyed.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: These strikes come after the dramatic opening phase of the
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Speaker 1: war that began late last week with a massive joint
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Speaker 1: operation against Iran's leadership and military command structure. In those
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Speaker 1: initial attacks, several of the senior Ranian officials were killed,
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Speaker 1: as you already know, including iran Supreme leader, and what
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Speaker 1: analysts say was one of the most common one at
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Speaker 1: quincial decapitation strikes in modern warfare. But Iran has been
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Speaker 1: firing back over the last several days. Tehran has launched
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Speaker 1: hundreds of ballistic missiles and thousands of drones at the
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Speaker 1: US and allied targets across the Middle East. Some of
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Speaker 1: those attacks of targeted American bases and facilities in the region,
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Speaker 1: including strikes near US installations in the Gulf, and attacks
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Speaker 1: against Allied nations as well. Tragically, the Pentagon confirmed now
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Speaker 1: that six American service members have been killed so far
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Speaker 1: in the conflict. Following an Iranian drone attack in Kuwait.
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Speaker 1: President Trump addressed the situation today, defending the military campaign
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Speaker 1: and explaining why the United States acted. President Trump in
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Speaker 1: his own words, and.
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Speaker 4: You could never, and I've always said that, you could
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Speaker 4: never have had two pieces in the Middle East if
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Speaker 4: Iran was allowed to go even beyond the nuclear if
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Speaker 4: Iran was allowed to have more.
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Speaker 3: They look at all the missiles.
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Speaker 4: They built, not have been now taken out by US,
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Speaker 4: and a lot have been expended. But they had thousands
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Speaker 4: of missiles in a fairly short period of time.
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Speaker 3: And I'll go two things.
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Speaker 4: The attack that we did known as Midnight Hammer.
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Speaker 3: Had we not done that, Iran would have had a
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Speaker 3: very powerful nuclear weapon within one month. We did it.
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Speaker 3: It was great timing. But you know, and you've been
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Speaker 3: able to see that too.
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Speaker 4: The other thing was Barack Hussein Obama made maybe the
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Speaker 4: worst deal I've ever seen, because he gave all power
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Speaker 4: in the Middle East to Iran. He went the exact
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Speaker 4: opposite way, and I terminated that. If I didn't terminate
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Speaker 4: that deal, they would be sitting with a massive nuclear
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Speaker 4: weapon three years ago, which would have been used already
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Speaker 4: on Israel at least and other countries also, and we
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Speaker 4: wouldn't be talking about it right now.
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Speaker 3: But if I didn't terminate the.
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Speaker 4: Deal that Obama made giving them everything, including plane loads
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Speaker 4: of cash.
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Speaker 3: Do you remember the airplane flew over there.
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Speaker 4: It was a Boeing seven fifty seven. It was two
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Speaker 4: of them loaded. They took out all the seats. It
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Speaker 4: was loaded with green cash, so much cash that you
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Speaker 4: could It was in Virginia.
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Speaker 3: Maryland and Washington, d C.
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Speaker 4: They got all the cash from all the banks they
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Speaker 4: put it, and they flew it to Iran.
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Speaker 3: I never knew a president had that power. I'm going
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Speaker 3: to maybe try it sometime.
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Speaker 4: If it's okay, I think I'm going to do it.
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Speaker 4: A fly it somewhere. Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
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Speaker 4: Two planes loaded from Florida, ceiling big planes Boeing seven
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Speaker 4: fifty sevens taken over there and given cash in addition
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Speaker 4: that he was giving them billions of dollars, but worse,
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Speaker 4: it was giving them the right to have the path
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Speaker 4: to a nuclear weapon. And that deal expired. A lot
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Speaker 4: of people said, oh, you terminated. Well, it was going
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Speaker 4: to be terminated any it because it expired. It gave
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Speaker 4: them the right to have top of the line nuclear
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Speaker 4: weapon if they had.
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Speaker 3: Because they're crazy.
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Speaker 4: They're crazy, just like the people on my right during
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Speaker 4: the State of the Union. I looked at them, I said,
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Speaker 4: you're crazy. These people are crazy, and if they had.
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Speaker 3: A nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 1: President Trump went on to explain even more about why
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Speaker 1: the United States had to act. Trump said the strikes
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Speaker 1: were not only necessary because Iran was preparing for a
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Speaker 1: major attack and then America moved first to stop it.
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Speaker 1: He told reporters at the US and Israel operations have
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Speaker 1: dealt a devastating blow to Iran's military capability, saying that
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Speaker 1: Iran's Navy, Air Force, radar systems and air defense systems
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Speaker 1: have largely been taken out. Here's President Trump more on that.
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Speaker 4: They no longer have air protection, they no longer have
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Speaker 4: any detection facilities at all left, and so they're going
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Speaker 4: to be in for a lot of hurt. These are
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Speaker 4: bad people. These are people that killed. I guess it's
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Speaker 4: thirty five thousand. It's coming out thirty five thousand over
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Speaker 4: the last three weeks protesters thirty five thousand violently killed.
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Speaker 4: So these are bad people. And the leader of the
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Speaker 4: pack is gone. And as you know, forty nine people
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Speaker 4: were taken out in the first hit, and I guess
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Speaker 4: there was another hit today on the new leadership and
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Speaker 4: it looks like that was pretty substantial also, So they're
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Speaker 4: getting hit very hard, and we'll see what happens.
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Speaker 3: A lot of people are coming forward.
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Speaker 4: A lot of the people you would least suspect want
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Speaker 4: to quit. They want to have immunity. They're asking for immunity,
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Speaker 4: and probably at some point they'll be dropping, as you
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Speaker 4: would say, laying down their guns.
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Speaker 3: We'll see what happens.
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Speaker 1: The President putting it bluntly, telling reporters that just about
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Speaker 1: everything's been knocked out when referring to RAN's military infrastructure now.
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Speaker 1: Trump also said the United States has the ability to
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Speaker 1: continue to the campaign for weeks if necessary, and warned
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Speaker 1: Iran that American forces will keep striking until the threat
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Speaker 1: is eliminated. The presidents also suggested that the end result
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Speaker 1: could be a political shift inside of Iran, saying that
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Speaker 1: ultimately the Iranian people may have to decide the future
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Speaker 1: leadership of their country once the regime's military power is broken.
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Speaker 1: Now on the left, they're using all of this trying
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Speaker 1: to attack Donald Trump and saying that what we're doing
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Speaker 1: in Iran is the wrong move. They're also saying that
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump is being walked like a little dog by Israel.
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Speaker 1: Marco Rubio asked that question on Capitol Hill. He had
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Speaker 1: a very blunt response to that.
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Speaker 2: Yesterday you told.
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Speaker 5: Us that Israel we're going to strike Iran, and that's
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Speaker 5: why we needed to get involved.
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Speaker 2: Today the President said that Iran wasn't a good Yeah,
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Speaker 2: your statement as fault. So that's not what I was
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Speaker 2: asked very specific. Were you there yesterday?
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Speaker 6: Yes, Okay, Chris, you the one that because somebody asked
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Speaker 6: me a question answered did we go in because of Israel?
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Speaker 6: And I said, you asked me from that follow up
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Speaker 6: and I said no, I told you this had to
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Speaker 6: happen anyway. The President made a decision, and the decision
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Speaker 6: he made was that Iran was not going to be
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Speaker 6: allowed to hide behind its ballistic missile program, that Iran
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Speaker 6: was not going to be allowed to hide behind its
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Speaker 6: ability to conduct these attacks.
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Speaker 3: That decision had been made.
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Speaker 6: The President systematically made a decision to systematically destroy this
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Speaker 6: terroristic capability that they had, and we carried that out.
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Speaker 2: I was very clear on that answer.
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Speaker 6: This was a question of timing of why this had
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Speaker 6: to happen as a joint operation, not the question of
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Speaker 6: the intent. Once the President made a decision that negotiations
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Speaker 6: were not going to work, that they were playing us
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Speaker 6: on the negotiations, and that this was a threat that
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Speaker 6: was untenable, the decision was made to strike them. That's
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Speaker 6: what I said yesterday, And you guys need to play
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Speaker 6: it him.
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Speaker 2: You're going to play these statements.
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Speaker 6: You need to play the whole statement, not slip it
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Speaker 6: to reach the narrative.
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Speaker 3: That you want to do.
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Speaker 1: All right, now, as the media narrative and the left
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Speaker 1: narrative is falling apart, there is a new strategy by
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Speaker 1: the left to really go after the United States of America.
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Speaker 1: In fact, I was on Piers Morgan Show. It is
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Speaker 1: now a clip that has gone viral as a radical
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Speaker 1: lefty who claims he's a riety. Dave Smith had this
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Speaker 1: to say about the attack on Iran.
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Speaker 2: And what he thinks of America. Listen carefully.
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Speaker 7: The IDF is the worst terrorist organization in the region.
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Speaker 7: Let's get real. The United States of America is arguably
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Speaker 7: the worst terrorist organization in the world. If you want
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Speaker 7: to look over the last twenty five years, how many
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Speaker 7: innocent civilians we've slaughtered. You're getting us You're getting us
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Speaker 7: into the Neocon Yeah, that's right, you're getting us into
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Speaker 7: the Neocon Seventh War, which they've been dying for the
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Speaker 7: last twenty five years.
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Speaker 2: I want to take down by the way.
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Speaker 7: No, Actually, if you love this country, if you're a
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Speaker 7: real patriot, you'd have.
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Speaker 2: To hate more than Iran. Yeah, yah, d C. D
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Speaker 2: C killed a lot more people.
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Speaker 1: So that's the new strategy from the left to claim
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Speaker 1: that America is the worst terrorist organization in the world,
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Speaker 1: killed a lot more people than anybody else, the Iranians.
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Speaker 1: That is how radical the left has now gone to
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Speaker 1: try to hurt Donald Trump and make sure they stand
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Speaker 1: up for the Ayatola or whoever the next guy is
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Speaker 1: in charge, that America is probably going to kill. So
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Speaker 1: here we are a few days in and already the
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Speaker 1: This is an incredibly important piece of legislation and it
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Speaker 2: It is called Trey's Law.
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Speaker 1: We did an interview with Elizabeth Phillips and Sener Cruz
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Speaker 1: hope that Trey's Law, and this is a law that's
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Speaker 8: This week I introduced legislation in the Senate called Trey's Law,
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Speaker 8: and it is designed to protect kids, kids who tragically
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Speaker 8: are the victims of sexual assault. And Trey's Law prohibits
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Speaker 8: non disclosure agreements binding children who have been victims of
23:26
Speaker 8: sexual assault. And this is a problem we are seeing nationwide,
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Speaker 8: a staggering statistic. A child in America is sexually abused
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Speaker 8: every nine minutes. Yeah, one in four girls in America
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Speaker 8: will be sexually abused before she turns eighteen. One in
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Speaker 8: six boys in America will be sexually abused before he
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Speaker 8: turns eighteen. And we have been seeing over and over
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Speaker 8: again when their violators are held accountable, when they're prosecuted,
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Speaker 8: and when there is civil litigation, that it is becoming
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Speaker 8: a routine for the violators to insist upon a non
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Speaker 8: disclosure agreement, a non disclosure agreement that binds the children
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Speaker 8: and forces them to be silent. And Trey's Law is
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Speaker 8: named for a Texan Trey Carlock, who horrifically was abused
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Speaker 8: at a summer camp in Missouri, abused over a number
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Speaker 8: of years, and his abuser was prosecuted as at abuser
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Speaker 8: is serving three consecutive life terms in prison, and in
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Speaker 8: the course of civil litigation, Trey was convinced to sign
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Speaker 8: a non disclosure agreement and that secret haunted him so
24:54
Speaker 8: much so that at twenty eight years old, he took
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Speaker 8: his own life. And that is a tragedy in his
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Speaker 8: life and his family's life, but it's a tragedy nationally.
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Speaker 8: And we have a guest on the podcast tonight who's
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Speaker 8: another text in Elizabeth Phillips. Elizabeth is Trey's sister, and
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Speaker 8: she has taken the grief and agony of losing her
25:21
Speaker 8: brother and of knowing what happened to him losing her brother.
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Speaker 8: It's one thing to lose a sibling in a car accident.
25:31
Speaker 8: My sister died of a drug overdose. It is always
25:35
Speaker 8: difficult to lose a family member that you love, but
25:39
Speaker 8: it is particularly gut wrenching, yeah, to lose a family
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Speaker 8: member who you know was the victim of abuse and
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Speaker 8: was haunted by that. And I will tell you, Elizabeth,
25:53
Speaker 8: she lives in Dallas, and she has devoted thousands of
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Speaker 8: hours to fight for Tray's Law. Tray's Law has been
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Speaker 8: adopted number of states, including Texas. Texas has adopted Trades
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Speaker 8: Law and at the state level. But today, with a
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Speaker 8: group of seven bipartisan co sponsors, I've introduced at the
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Speaker 8: federal level, and we're going to get passed at the
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Speaker 8: federal level. But I want to start Elizabeth, Welcome to Verdic.
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Speaker 8: We're glad to have you.
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Speaker 5: Thank you so much for not just the introduction of
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Speaker 5: Tray's Law to US Congress this morning, but for offering
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Speaker 5: this platform as well. And I agree, I hope it
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Speaker 5: goes viral. Every parent needs to understand how this system works,
26:36
Speaker 5: because I think there are a lot of assumptions that
26:39
Speaker 5: if your child is sexually abused, whether it be at
26:41
Speaker 5: a summer camp which was trade Story, or a school,
26:44
Speaker 5: or a faith based setting or sports setting, they're going
26:47
Speaker 5: to come forward immediately. But there's something called delayed disclosure.
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Speaker 5: Children that are victimized in this way don't come forward
26:53
Speaker 5: oftentimes for decades, if ever at all, and we need
26:58
Speaker 5: to be sure that we are part acting children and
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Speaker 5: their voices so that when they do come forward, survivors
27:03
Speaker 5: are heard, believed, and that we can respond with action
27:07
Speaker 5: to hold the bad actors accountable.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, so thank you for the conversation.
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Speaker 8: Well, thank you for being here. Let me ask you,
27:13
Speaker 8: could you just tell your brother's story to just just
27:16
Speaker 8: just share with our listeners and viewers. Tell folks who
27:19
Speaker 8: your brother was and what happened to him.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and thank you for going into some of that
27:24
Speaker 5: in your introduction, because it's honestly the hardest part for
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Speaker 5: me to talk about. I can go over stats and
27:29
Speaker 5: data about child sexual abuse and ways to prevent it
27:33
Speaker 5: all day long, but it's really hard for me to
27:36
Speaker 5: talk about Trey. And I didn't know that you also
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Speaker 5: lost a sibling, So I'm sorry for your loss and
27:42
Speaker 5: I'm sorry we can relate on that.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's not not a club anyone wants to.
27:47
Speaker 9: Be a member exactly.
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Speaker 5: But I think also we understand that you can grieve
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Speaker 5: it and move on, or you can grieve it and
27:59
Speaker 5: turn that pain into purpose. And I think what we
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Speaker 5: saw at the press conference this morning was payn turned
28:04
Speaker 5: into power. When there was a nineteen year old young
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Speaker 5: woman who came forward, it named her abuser for the
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Speaker 5: first time because her voice was protected under Trey's Law
28:12
Speaker 5: since that was passed and put into effect in Missouri
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Speaker 5: last August, and so that's what we're wanting to expand nationally.
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Speaker 5: This journey for me began because my brother died by
28:21
Speaker 5: suicide when he was twenty eight, not only due to
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Speaker 5: the child sexual abuse on what we now believe to
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Speaker 5: be trafficking at the hand of Cannicut camps based in
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Speaker 5: southwest Missouri. They had international mission trips, they were moving
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Speaker 5: kids across state lines. It was never fully investigated. The
28:38
Speaker 5: criminal case landed in Taney County, Missouri and the Sheriff's department,
28:41
Speaker 5: and at the time of my brother's perpetrator sentencing, there
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Speaker 5: were fifty seven known victims, but we now have had
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Speaker 5: many victims come forward since I started a website called
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Speaker 5: facts about Cannicut dot com with other survivor families to
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Speaker 5: get the facts out there to parents and warn the
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Speaker 5: public that this is much more widespread than what had
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Speaker 5: been reported upon massive cover up, which is not unusual
29:06
Speaker 5: in a lot of these situations because of NDAs. So
29:09
Speaker 5: that's what we're addressing with Trey's Law that's now been
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Speaker 5: introduced to Congress. Very bipartisan. You said, you know, no
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Speaker 5: one you've brought this to has said no to it.
29:18
Speaker 5: I mean it's something everyone should get behind and hopefully
29:21
Speaker 5: can get behind. You know, in Trey's story, he was
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Speaker 5: groomed and then abused by a camp director. So seven
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Speaker 5: to seventeen this was going on.
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Speaker 8: And so he was seven when he started going to
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Speaker 8: the camp.
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Speaker 5: When he started going to the camp, and that's when
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Speaker 5: the grooming began and then the sexual abuse began. And
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Speaker 5: then his perpetrator, who like you said, is now in
29:43
Speaker 5: prison for three life terms, confessed to his crimes and
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Speaker 5: was sentenced in twenty ten. But under the civil statute
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Speaker 5: limitations in Texas, Tray was forced to file his civil
29:52
Speaker 5: lawsuit by the age of twenty three. And just imagine,
29:56
Speaker 5: you know, go back to when you were twenty three,
29:58
Speaker 5: were you ready to go up against US system and
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Speaker 5: quote unquote ministry like Cannacock that has between thirty five
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Speaker 5: and forty five million in annual revenue. I mean, at
30:08
Speaker 5: twenty three, you're still a kid. We call them college kids, right,
30:10
Speaker 5: You're just trying to get through college and start a job,
30:13
Speaker 5: build a life. And if someone puts a settlement agreement
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Speaker 5: in front of you and says, sign on the dotted
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Speaker 5: line and this can all go away and you can
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Speaker 5: have restitution and some some money for your healing, for
30:27
Speaker 5: therapy or before lost income. You're probably going.
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Speaker 2: To do it and for closure.
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Speaker 9: And for healing and closure. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: And I say that because I have friends that worked
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Speaker 1: at Cannicock during the time period you're talking about. I
30:42
Speaker 1: also know people that were abused at Kennacock and this story.
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Speaker 1: When I saw we were doing it, it's I've lost
30:50
Speaker 1: friends who've committed suicide because it's sexual abuse. But Cannicok
30:54
Speaker 1: is a place where I went to a mess A
30:56
Speaker 1: lot of people I grew up with from Memphis, from Houston,
31:00
Speaker 1: they went to Cannacok. And the cover up word that
31:03
Speaker 1: you use there is I think one of the most
31:06
Speaker 1: sad parts about all this is there was so many
31:09
Speaker 1: of these NDAs center. I didn't realize it, like how
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Speaker 1: much this was going to just bring up in me.
31:15
Speaker 1: But when you know people that were abused there and
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Speaker 1: you set with them and you hear how the system
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Speaker 1: did not protect them, but I actually think made them
31:22
Speaker 1: a victim a second time over by the way that
31:25
Speaker 1: they use these NDAs. It is infuriating because you realize that,
31:29
Speaker 1: like everything in this situation, worked against them for years.
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Speaker 5: And that's what came in the Texas hearings. I was
31:37
Speaker 5: calling this institutional abuse on top of child sexual abuse.
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Speaker 9: So you're exactly right.
31:43
Speaker 5: And yes, Memphis is a huge market for CANNICCOK and
31:47
Speaker 5: Kids of Your America, which is another ministry and outside
31:51
Speaker 5: of Branson that Joe White still runs to this day,
31:53
Speaker 5: there's been no change in leadership. No one's been held
31:57
Speaker 5: accountable because of these crimes. And so we were asking
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Speaker 5: about my story and how we got to this point,
32:02
Speaker 5: and really it was because I learned more about my
32:07
Speaker 5: brother's trauma and his death than I knew in his
32:09
Speaker 5: life because of the NBA. So until treislaw went into
32:12
Speaker 5: effect in Texas September of twenty twenty five, I never
32:17
Speaker 5: saw what he signed. He wouldn't talk about it. He
32:19
Speaker 5: was so terrified, even in therapeutic settings, even trying to
32:22
Speaker 5: get sober in AA for example, he was worried CANNICCUK
32:26
Speaker 5: would come after him if he mentioned all of the
32:29
Speaker 5: people involved that knew about what Pete was doing and
32:32
Speaker 5: didn't report the crimes to the authorities. Or disciplined him internally,
32:38
Speaker 5: and that allowed this perpetrator to go on and abuse
32:42
Speaker 5: what we now know is hundreds of more victims.
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Speaker 9: And that's one perpetrator alone.
32:46
Speaker 5: So we've done Kannucok's job for them, and we've found
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Speaker 5: out that we now know of over ninety perpetrators with
32:53
Speaker 5: allegations against them affiliated with cannoncuk and its associated ministries
32:57
Speaker 5: and programs across the country and world.
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Speaker 9: Over ninety So.
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Speaker 2: The ninety how many have been held accountable?
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Speaker 3: Do?
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Speaker 1: I've got to know that number, because as I was
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Speaker 1: told about this several months ago, they said that not
33:11
Speaker 1: only are there still people in the ninety as you're
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Speaker 1: describe that are affiliated, there are some that are still
33:17
Speaker 1: in major leadership roles and around children.
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Speaker 5: Yes, so we're calling it out again, doing Canniccock's job
33:24
Speaker 5: for them. I think as parents we have an expectation
33:27
Speaker 5: that if a child molester or a sex offender is
33:31
Speaker 5: caught at an institution where your child was attending or enrolled,
33:36
Speaker 5: that you will be informed if they are ever charged
33:39
Speaker 5: with anything criminal. That is not what cannacuck has done.
33:43
Speaker 5: So we've done that job for them. So facts about
33:45
Speaker 5: Cannicuck dot com. We have a known Abuser's page where
33:48
Speaker 5: we name thirteen and might even be more now that
33:52
Speaker 5: have convictions that are yeah, they have criminal indictments, convictions
33:58
Speaker 5: or formal allegations in the media cooberated by multiple victims.
34:02
Speaker 5: And then the rest of the perpetrators in our database
34:06
Speaker 5: are just still out there living their lives, and a
34:09
Speaker 5: lot of them.
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Speaker 9: Have never been held accountable. We know who they are.
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Speaker 5: We've turned that database over to the authorities and we
34:17
Speaker 5: are hoping that the FBI or some sort of law
34:20
Speaker 5: enforcement agency takes action. But the normal thing to do
34:24
Speaker 5: when you're not covering up for pedophiles as an institution,
34:27
Speaker 5: using in das and continuing to promote pedophiles within your
34:32
Speaker 5: organization or moving them around to associated ministries, which is
34:36
Speaker 5: another thing Cannicuk has done. They have a year round
34:38
Speaker 5: ministry called k Life similar to a Young Life, which
34:41
Speaker 5: I think is better known. They will move someone that
34:43
Speaker 5: has allegations at the camp to a chapter of k
34:46
Speaker 5: Life where they go on to continue harming children.
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Speaker 9: So our known Abuser's.
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Speaker 5: Page is supposed to be a public facing database for
34:53
Speaker 5: when we know Cannoncuk affiliate has been convicted and dieted
34:58
Speaker 5: or formally alleged of child sexual abuse, and the rest
35:02
Speaker 5: of it will come to light over time as more
35:04
Speaker 5: and more victims come forward. The list continues to grow,
35:06
Speaker 5: and with exposure like this, we expect even more.
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