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New Plan to Reclaim Farmland from Chinese Control plus Trump Sends Tariff Ultimatums to Global Partners · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: You may have heard about the story of a lot
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Speaker 1: of farmland that's been bought up by companies directly connected
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Speaker 1: with the Chinese Communist Party the CCP. It was a
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Speaker 1: real warning sign that we witnessed when Biden was in
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Speaker 1: office and allowing the Chinese to come in and buy
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Speaker 1: up a lot of land that I and any others
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Speaker 1: believe shouldn't happen. Now, there were some states that took
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Speaker 1: some action. A great example of that is in Arkansas.
0:29
Speaker 1: Sarah Huckabee Sanders did legislation in that state that was
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Speaker 1: forcing the sale by many of these organizations companies LLCs
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Speaker 1: that really had direct ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
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Speaker 1: There are also concerns about Chinese buying up land close
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Speaker 1: to air bases, another major problem.
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Speaker 2: Well, now we have some.
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Speaker 1: Action that is going to happen at the federal level,
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Speaker 1: something that should have been done under the Biden regime,
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Speaker 1: but they were compromised by the CCP. We know about
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Speaker 1: the money coming into the Biden crime family. And some
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Speaker 1: of this newest information that we've gotten has come from
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Speaker 1: Brook Rawlins announcing that the USDA National Farm Security Action
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Speaker 1: Plan is going to become a reality. What does it
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Speaker 1: mean it is going to promote agricultural prosperity and strengthen
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Speaker 1: US food supplies. The Secretary of Agriculture revealing that the
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Speaker 1: United States Department of Agriculture rolling out this new security
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Speaker 1: action plan, and they said, we've got to make sure
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Speaker 1: that it strengthens the US domestic food supply.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: During this virtual pen and pad event on Monday evening
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Speaker 1: ahead of a press conference, Rawins explained seven key action items.
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Speaker 1: One of the key action items focus on securing and
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Speaker 1: protecting American farmland.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: I want you to hear part of what she had
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Speaker 1: to say in her own words about why the seems
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Speaker 1: to happen now for all Americans.
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Speaker 3: Perhaps the most important. The first of the seven is
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Speaker 3: securing and protecting American farmland ownership, actively engaging at every
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Speaker 3: level of government to take swift legislative and executive action
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Speaker 3: to ban the purchase of American farmland by Chinese nationals
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Speaker 3: and other foreign adversaries. Standing on the shoulders of great governors,
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Speaker 3: three of whom are standing behind me, who have already
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Speaker 3: been leading the way on this issue, and at the
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Speaker 3: federal government level, working to do everything within everything within
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Speaker 3: our ability, including presidential authorities, to claw back what has
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Speaker 3: already been purchased by China and other foreign adversaries. Additionally,
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Speaker 3: working with the Treasury of the Secretary of the Treasury,
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Speaker 3: along with our Defense Department on memorandums to ensure that
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Speaker 3: moving forward, there is a much more intentional look at
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Speaker 3: who is buying what in this country and from where
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Speaker 3: they are in the world. Also enhancing our agricultural supply
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Speaker 3: chain resilience. Also protecting our US nutrition safety net from
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Speaker 3: fraud and foreign exploitation.
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Speaker 2: Number four.
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Speaker 3: Defending agricultural research and innovation. No more sweetheart deals and
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Speaker 3: secret packs with countries that do not have our best
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Speaker 3: interests in mind. Number five making sure that America First
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Speaker 3: is in every USDA program, from farm loans to food safety.
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Speaker 3: We have already canceled seven active agreements with entities in
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Speaker 3: foreign countries of concern and will continue to cancel additional
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Speaker 3: agreements moving forward. I signed a memo today today, thank you,
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Speaker 3: which immediately removes seventy seventy citizens from countries of concerns
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Speaker 3: that currently are affiliated with the USDA through contracts or
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Speaker 3: research arrangements, and we are working to issue regulatory action
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Speaker 3: to remove over five hundred and fifty entities from foreign
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Speaker 3: countries of concern from our preferred catalog. Number six safeguarding
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Speaker 3: plant and animal health, working to make sure that we
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Speaker 3: know what is coming in and how to control animal diseases.
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Speaker 3: And number seven, protecting critical infrastructure from our farms and
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Speaker 3: our food and our supply chains. Again, along with so
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Speaker 3: many partners across this government here in Washington and across
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Speaker 3: our states.
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Speaker 1: This is obviously long overdue. It's a very important initiative
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Speaker 1: here because it is going to get rid of She
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Speaker 1: mentioned rooting out fraud, rooting out abuse, and rooting out
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Speaker 1: foreign adversaries that are posing a real threat. She says
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Speaker 1: to US Nutrition Safety Net and food stamp programs as well.
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Speaker 2: She said, not only are we going to secure protect
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Speaker 2: the American.
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Speaker 1: Farmland, but within number one, and that's the number one
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Speaker 1: thing of the top seven, we all.
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Speaker 2: Know that land owned by.
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Speaker 1: Foreign nationals compose a threat to national security and future
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Speaker 1: economic prosperity too much American land, notice how you use
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Speaker 1: the word American land is owned by nationals of adversarial countries.
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Speaker 1: think about the breakdown of what this is, we're talking
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Speaker 1: about two hundred and sixty five thousand acres in the
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Speaker 1: United States of America alone that are owned by Chinese nationals. Now,
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Speaker 1: you got to ask yourself, why are Chinese nationals This
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Speaker 1: is not Americans. This is Chinese nationals who have direct
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Speaker 1: ties to China, many of them directly the CCP. Why
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Speaker 1: are they buying up two hundred and fifty thousand acres
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Speaker 1: of land in the United States of America? And why
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Speaker 1: is so much of the two hundred sixty five thousand
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Speaker 1: acres located near critical US military basis? Now this isn't
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Speaker 1: like just like a reserve base, Okay, And I'm not
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Speaker 1: saying those aren't important, But my point is these acres
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Speaker 1: that they're buying up.
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Speaker 2: Are very very very very very.
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Speaker 1: Clearly being bought I think for surveillance reasons. Why would
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Speaker 1: you go in buy farmland right next to a critical
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Speaker 1: US military base and not just one bases? Plural is
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Speaker 1: the way that it's been described. Two hundred and sixty
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Speaker 1: five thousand acres is massive. By the way, just put
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Speaker 1: in perspective, do you know how much land traditionally you
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Speaker 1: have to have to be able to like have a
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Speaker 1: farm and to hunt on your land ten acres? Think
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Speaker 1: about how many American farms that is ten acres is
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Speaker 1: the minimum for you to basically be able to do
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Speaker 1: what you want to do and have your kind of
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Speaker 1: land freedom.
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Speaker 2: As it's described. They bought up two.
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Speaker 1: Hundred and sixty five thousand eight just own not by
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Speaker 1: internationals in general, just owned by Chinese nationals, and many
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Speaker 1: of those acres are right next to our military basis.
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Speaker 1: Now you may ask yourself a question, all right, why
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Speaker 1: would they want to buy a plan next to a
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Speaker 1: military basis?
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Speaker 2: A great question.
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Speaker 1: China, it does an amazing job when it comes to
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Speaker 1: using drones.
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Speaker 2: This is one of the concerns now.
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Speaker 1: They're drones on all of their drones just so you understand,
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Speaker 1: coming in from the CCP look like the drones that
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Speaker 1: you and I would buy or use. For example, you've
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Speaker 1: seen a lot of them on TV recently with search
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Speaker 1: and rescue in what's happening in Texas. The drone technology
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Speaker 1: that China has, they have birds, okay, drones that look
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Speaker 1: like birds that would be flying over and you would
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Speaker 1: have no idea that it is filming military operations, you know,
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Speaker 1: basically taking a cad drawing of military bases, seeing when
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Speaker 1: certain groups of individuals and certain million military organizations are
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Speaker 1: leaving or coming and going. That could be a tell
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Speaker 1: to what's about to happen militarily next around the world.
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Speaker 1: Sealed Team exercises a great example of this. They have
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Speaker 1: drones that are that are not big like we traditionally have.
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Speaker 1: They now have drones that literally fly like a bird
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Speaker 1: and they get and they use it for surveillance.
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Speaker 2: It's incredible. So this is such a.
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Speaker 1: Smart move by the Trump administration and it is a
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Speaker 1: real threat to us. When she said the second pillar
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Speaker 1: is enhancing the resilience of agricultural supply chain, it's another thing.
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Speaker 1: If you take people's food away from them, or you
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Speaker 1: take away their ability to protect themselves from others being
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Speaker 1: able to, you know, spoil their food, come after food,
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Speaker 1: poison their food. There's a lot of ways that you
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Speaker 1: can use food to come after people. That is another problem.
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Speaker 1: So this is just a couple different examples of what
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Speaker 1: is happening right now and a couple of different examples
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Speaker 1: of why it's so important that we get this legislation
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Speaker 1: done and we start it now and we do this quickly.
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Speaker 1: So job well done the Trump administration on this one.
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Speaker 1: And I wanted to make sure I brought it to
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Speaker 1: your attention. I want to move now to another issue
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Speaker 1: that's really important. It also deals with our safety and
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Speaker 1: national security, and it's one of those issues that is
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Speaker 1: actually the issue of tariffs. The President having a cabinet
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Speaker 1: meeting at the White House and making it very clear
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Speaker 1: that he is getting tough and staying tough on tariffs.
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Speaker 2: I'll give you a great example.
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Speaker 1: South Africa is now facing a thirty percent US tariff
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Speaker 1: hike plus a ten percent surcharge for anti American.
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Speaker 2: Policies, and he's not messing around.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to give you more details on that part
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Speaker 1: in a second, but before we get to that, I
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Speaker 1: want you to hear the President in his own words
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Speaker 1: at the cabinet meeting at the White House. And here's
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Speaker 1: what he said about the letters that we've been sitting
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Speaker 1: out in the past on tariffs and what we're doing now.
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Speaker 5: Big bills.
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Speaker 1: What happened to ninety trade deals in ninety days.
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Speaker 5: Oh, we've spoken to everybody. We know everything. We've been
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Speaker 5: told them. I told you, I told you, we'll make
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Speaker 5: some deals. But for the most part, we're going to
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Speaker 5: send a letter. We're going to say, welcome to the
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Speaker 5: United States, if you'd like to participate in the greatest,
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Speaker 5: most successful country. Ever, I mean, we're doing better than
12:23
Speaker 5: ever we have I don't think, and you're going to
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Speaker 5: see these numbers. So we've never had numbers like this,
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Speaker 5: We've never had investment like this. We have more than ninety,
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Speaker 5: We're going to have much more than ninety, but most
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Speaker 5: of those are going to be sent a letter. This
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Speaker 5: is exactly what I said. Now, we've made a deal
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Speaker 5: with the United Kingdom, we've made a deal with China,
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Speaker 5: we've made a deal, we're close to making a deal
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Speaker 5: with India. Others we met with and we don't think
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Speaker 5: we're going to be able to make a deal, so
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Speaker 5: we just send them a letter. If you want to,
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Speaker 5: if you want to play ball, you have to This
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Speaker 5: is what you have to pay. So we as far
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Speaker 5: as I'm concerned, we're done with sending out letters to
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Speaker 5: various countries telling of how much tariffs they have to pay.
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Speaker 5: Some will maybe adjust a little bit depending if they
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Speaker 5: have a you know, cause we're not going to be
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Speaker 5: unfair about it.
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Speaker 2: And actually it's a small.
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Speaker 5: Fraction compared to what we should be getting. We should
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Speaker 5: be we could be asking for much more, but for
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Speaker 5: the sake of relationships that we've had with a lot
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Speaker 5: of really good countries. We're doing the way I do it,
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Speaker 5: but we could be getting a lot more. We could
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Speaker 5: ask for a lot more than what we're asking for, Josh.
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Speaker 3: Because we're sending the letters to follow on the head
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Speaker 3: and ask earlier, and your counties has deals.
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Speaker 5: By saying here's the terift rate, I'm saying here it
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Speaker 5: is congratulations, welcome to the United States. I hope you
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Speaker 5: make a lot of money, and you're going to pay
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Speaker 5: us money. They were ripping us. They were charging us
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Speaker 5: tariffs at levels that nobody's ever seen before. We have
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Speaker 5: some countries who are charging two hundred percent tariffs and
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Speaker 5: making it impossible to do business. And what the tariffs
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Speaker 5: are doing is they're driving people in and companies in
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Speaker 5: into the United States. That's why we're built all of
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Speaker 5: the work that you see happening in this country right now,
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Speaker 5: and it's at a record level, all the factories, all
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Speaker 5: of the AI institutions that are being built.
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Speaker 2: It's largely because.
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Speaker 5: Well I think it's because of November fifth, the good election,
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Speaker 5: and I think it's because of the taffs. Thank you
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Speaker 5: all very much, thank you, thank you.
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Speaker 1: So the President laying out where we're going moving forward,
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Speaker 1: which brings me back to what I said about South
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Speaker 1: Africa and is now one of fourteen countries that have
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Speaker 1: been slapped with large tariff increases by President Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: on Monday as a quote punitive measure for lack of
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Speaker 1: progress in negotiations, and now they're facing a thirty percent duty.
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Speaker 1: In addition, South Africa as one of the Bricks countries,
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Speaker 1: which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, among others,
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Speaker 1: they could face an additional ten percent for anti American
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Speaker 1: policies now. Donald Trump, to be clear, had suspended the
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Speaker 1: imposition of the tariffs that he announced in April until
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Speaker 1: July ninth, but began sending letters this week to countries,
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Speaker 1: including close trading partners, that he felt that there had
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Speaker 1: not been enough that had gotten done. USA Today reporting
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Speaker 1: it this way, saying, quote President Donald Trump revealed new
15:16
Speaker 1: tariff rates on fourteen countries and extended until August one
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Speaker 1: to pause on higher rates that was due to expire
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Speaker 1: July ninth, and separate July seventh letters to each targeted country.
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Speaker 1: Trump said he will impose twenty five percent tariffs on
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Speaker 1: goods from Malaysia Tunisia, Kazakhstan thirty percent tariff rates on
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Speaker 1: imports from South Africa and forty percent tariffs from Mirmar
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Speaker 1: and Laos. Now, products from Cambodia and Thailand will receive
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Speaker 1: thirty six percent tariffs, while Serbia and Bangladesh will face
15:51
Speaker 1: a rate of thirty five percent. Trump and the Indonesian
15:56
Speaker 1: partners would have a They say imports would have a
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Speaker 1: thirty two percent tariff and goods from Bosnia would also.
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Speaker 2: Be tariff at thirty percent.
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Speaker 1: Now, Trump's message to South Africa was posted on his
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Speaker 1: true social side, along with letters to other leaders in
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Speaker 1: other countries. Now, the South African government and the South
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Speaker 1: African media had largely been complementary of the President in
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Speaker 1: South Africa's contentious White House meeting in May, but they
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Speaker 1: overlooked the fact that the president came without any compromise
16:27
Speaker 1: to offer, and then he left without achieving any agreements,
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Speaker 1: which is now putting their trade at real risk. Now
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Speaker 1: South Africa has tweaked the US on foreign policy issues,
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Speaker 1: recently signing a book of condolence at the Iranian embassy
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Speaker 1: after the US bomb the country's nuclear site. Again, that's
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Speaker 1: why the president said, oh, and we're going to slap
16:52
Speaker 1: you with that additional ten percent anti American policies tariff,
16:57
Speaker 1: because clearly you're trying to undermine this country. Now, I
17:00
Speaker 1: tell you all of that to go back to how
17:03
Speaker 1: quickly things can change. Trump has also come out within
17:07
Speaker 1: the last couple hours and said that the US is
17:10
Speaker 1: actually close to making a deal with protectionist India. President
17:17
Speaker 1: Trump telling reporters this administration is close to finalizing a
17:20
Speaker 1: trade deal with India. India heads it's bets last week
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Speaker 1: by notifying the World Trade Organization Knows the WTO that
17:27
Speaker 1: it could impose up to seven hundred and twenty four
17:31
Speaker 1: million in retaliatory tariffs against American goods if a trade
17:35
Speaker 1: deal is not reached, so that would be significant. We
17:39
Speaker 1: are doing better than ever, is what Trump said to
17:42
Speaker 1: reporters while meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister net Yai
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Speaker 1: with the White House, saying, quote, We've never had numbers
17:48
Speaker 1: like this, We've never had investment like this.
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Speaker 2: Referring to bring jobs back.
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Speaker 1: To America, Trump said his administration now has more than
17:56
Speaker 1: ninety trade proposals that are on the table, saying, quote,
17:59
Speaker 1: now made a deal with the United Kingdom. We've made
18:02
Speaker 1: a deal with China, We're getting close to making a
18:05
Speaker 1: deal with India. Others we meet with and we don't
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Speaker 1: think are going to be able to make a deal, Well,
18:12
Speaker 1: then guess what.
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Speaker 2: We just sent them a letter.
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Speaker 1: The letter in question, Trump said, would cordially invite nations
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Speaker 1: that did not make a deal to continue doing business
18:22
Speaker 1: with the greatest, most successful country ever, provided that they
18:26
Speaker 1: are willing to pay much higher tariffs. We're sending out
18:29
Speaker 1: the letters of these various countries telling them how much
18:32
Speaker 1: tariffs they have to pay. Some will maybe adjust a
18:35
Speaker 1: little bit, depending if they have a cause. He went
18:39
Speaker 1: on to explain, We're not going to be unfair about it,
18:42
Speaker 1: and actually it's a small fraction compared to what we
18:45
Speaker 1: should be getting.
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Speaker 2: We should be we could be asking for much more.
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Speaker 1: The President went on to say, Now, the list of
18:51
Speaker 1: countries that have received those sorry we couldn't make a
18:54
Speaker 1: deal with tariff letters, the White House is saying is Thailand, Miramar, Bangladesh,
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Speaker 1: South Africa, South Korea, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, and Japan.
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Speaker 2: The new tariffs that are scheduled to.
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Speaker 1: Take effect now August one, so there's still a little
19:08
Speaker 1: time for these countries to avoid the higher levels by
19:11
Speaker 1: changing their trade policies with the US. Now, if they
19:14
Speaker 1: do not make a deal those fourteen countries, the White
19:17
Speaker 1: House says, we'll face from twenty five percent for Japan
19:21
Speaker 1: and South Africa up to forty percent for mermar and Laos,
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Speaker 1: and the President saying again, we're going to be very busy.
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Speaker 2: Over the next seventy two hours.
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Speaker 1: We're going to be sending the letters out to our
19:32
Speaker 1: trading partners, saying that if you don't move things along,
19:35
Speaker 1: then on August one, you're going to be well boomeranging
19:38
Speaker 1: back to your April to second tariff levels. So I
19:41
Speaker 1: think we're going to see a lot of deals very quickly,
19:44
Speaker 1: is what the Treasury Secretary Scott Bissent said as well today. Now,
19:48
Speaker 1: the Indian negotiating team, which returned from Washington on Friday
19:52
Speaker 1: after a week of meetings with their US counterparts, reportedly
19:56
Speaker 1: sought a quote mini trade deal that would be good
19:59
Speaker 1: enough to hold Tarif at bay for a bit longer
20:01
Speaker 1: until the quote more delicate issues can be worked out. India,
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Speaker 1: which saw twenty five percent tariffs impose on passenger vehicles,
20:10
Speaker 1: light trucks, and auto parts in March, wrote a letter
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Speaker 1: as I said a moment ago to the WTO, claiming
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Speaker 1: that the Trump tariffs violated They said the nineteen ninety
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Speaker 1: four trade agreement at the heart of the World Trade
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Speaker 1: Organization India.
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Speaker 2: By the way, calculate, the US.
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Speaker 1: Tariffs would affect nearly two point nine billion worth of
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Speaker 1: imports the United States for a total of seven hundred
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Speaker 1: and twenty three point seventy five million in tariffs.
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Speaker 2: So New Delhi.
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Speaker 1: Would impose, they say, an equivalent amount of duty collected
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Speaker 1: from products originating in the United States of America as
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Speaker 1: their retaliatory tariff.
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Speaker 2: What does this mean?
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Speaker 1: Simply put one thing, the presence not backing down and
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Speaker 1: make it clear you better get a deal done quickly
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Speaker 1: or face the consequences. I want to move on to
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Speaker 1: something else, and that is what's happening right now in La.
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Speaker 1: It has not been reported on much because of the
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Speaker 1: devastation of the flooding in Texas, and our thoughts and
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Speaker 1: prayers are still with so many in Texas As. Many
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Speaker 1: are planning funerals now, they're still looking for the bodies
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Speaker 1: of those that have been lost, and it is just
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Speaker 1: absolutely tragic. If you miss what I had to say
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Speaker 1: on this yesterday, go back and listen to that show.
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Speaker 1: But there's another story that's important, and that is the
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Speaker 1: anti ice protests that have taken over in LA taken
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Speaker 1: over the Los Angeles Bridge, and the ACLU is now
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Speaker 1: filing a lawsuit. I want you to hear this coming
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Speaker 1: from Fox News about what's happening there now.
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Speaker 4: Taking over the Sixth Street Bridge one of several rallies
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Speaker 4: in a citywide day of action against immigration raids.
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Speaker 5: This bridge has been the entry point fu Boil Heights
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Speaker 5: to kidnap community members and take them who knows where.
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Speaker 2: So that was an inspiration.
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Speaker 4: CHP standing by the freeway off ramps. The group's staying
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Speaker 4: on the bridge for a while, but eventually moving on
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Speaker 4: to Royal Heights in Koreatown. Meanwhile, Blessings at another rally,
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Speaker 4: the coalition of groups including the Tenants Union, marching peacefully
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Speaker 4: with the message.
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Speaker 5: We're here to support the Jornalletos A vendors and all
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Speaker 5: the immigrants in Los Angeles and making sure.
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Speaker 2: That we retake these streets. We protect each other.
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Speaker 5: This is the only way that we find we're finding
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Speaker 5: our safety. So we're making community, We're reaching out to
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Speaker 5: our neighbors and protecting each other.
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Speaker 1: Now you can hear these protests becoming a reality. And
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Speaker 1: then things got worse with the Los Angeles radical Democratic
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Speaker 1: mayor Karen Bass sparking controversy on social media this week
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Speaker 1: after she attempted to interfere with ICE agents conducting immigration raids,
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Speaker 1: calling it outrageous and quote Unamerican. Yes, the LA mayor
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Speaker 1: are saying it's un American if you don't let people
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Speaker 1: that break in this country, and many of them that
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Speaker 1: are criminals stay. Now, she has been a vocal opponent
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Speaker 1: of immigration raids in her city, appeared at the scene
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Speaker 1: and demonstrated to well anyone that would film her on
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Speaker 1: camera because she's one of those psycho narcissists. She also
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Speaker 1: demanded to speak with ICE leadership when the agents were
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Speaker 1: conducting an operation at MacArthur Park on Monday, saying they
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Speaker 1: need to leave.
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Speaker 2: They need to leave right now.
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Speaker 1: They need to leave because this is unacceptable, is what
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Speaker 1: Bass said on the scene.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Bass claimed on social media there were children playing at
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Speaker 1: the park, which is well known in the area as
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Speaker 1: a hotbed of homelessness.
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Speaker 2: And crime, even during daylight hours.
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Speaker 1: Minutes before, by the way, there were more than twenty
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Speaker 1: kids playing. She claimed, then the military came through. The
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Speaker 1: second I heard about this, I went to the park
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Speaker 1: to speak to the person charge to tell them it
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Speaker 1: need to end.
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Speaker 2: Now, absolutely outrageous.
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Speaker 1: Well Bass's action, sparking immediate pushback from critics online, saying this,
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Speaker 1: if only Karen Bass worked as hard for the fire
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Speaker 1: victims in LA as she does for criminal illegals. That's
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Speaker 1: what Dara Isa, who represents California's forty eighth congressional district,
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Speaker 1: said on X.
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Speaker 2: Another one saying it this way.
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Speaker 1: Democrats aren't used to seeing the law being enforced. That's
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Speaker 1: what the communications director for the Florida Republican AG saying
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Speaker 1: on X. But luckily Karen was able to speak to
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Speaker 1: the manager, mocking her going into that park losing her
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Speaker 1: mind for the cameras. Now, the federal government would not
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Speaker 1: have to deploy against foreign invaders if you would just
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Speaker 1: stop harboring them, is what GOP represented Mike Collins said.
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Speaker 1: And here's another one. If you did your job, these
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Speaker 1: guys wouldn't need to do theirs.
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Speaker 6: Now.
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Speaker 1: MacArthur Park is a vile, filthy, drug infesseig gang blankole
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Speaker 1: worthy of Karen Mass is what actor James Woods said,
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Speaker 1: saying the Kammie Loser would be happier in Cuba.
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Speaker 2: So this is where we are.
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Speaker 1: Democrats are supporting those that are criminals over Americans right now.
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Speaker 1: Her city, by the way, has managed to issue like
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Speaker 1: ten rebuilding permits for the victims of the Palisades fire.
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Speaker 1: But what is she doing instead of helping those Americans. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: she's focused like a laser on protecting MS thirteen gang members.
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Speaker 1: That's another example of just how radical the left has become.
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Speaker 1: And in addition to social media fallout, the border patrol
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Speaker 1: chief also saying to Fox News that he was the
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Speaker 1: official that Bass spoke to on the phone at the
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Speaker 1: scene when she demanded the ray to stop saying this.
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Speaker 2: I don't work for Kiaren Bass.
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Speaker 1: Better get used to us now because this is going
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Speaker 1: to be very normal. We will go anywhere anytime we
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Speaker 1: want in Los Angeles. Another example of the Trump administration
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Speaker 1: doing what they promised to voters, getting the worst criminals
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Speaker 1: that are legal immigrants out of this country.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Finally, one other update I want to give you about
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Speaker 1: what has been happening in Texas. A mother is now
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Speaker 1: crediting a Brave Camp counselors for her two sons escaping
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Speaker 1: the Texas flooding. It's an incredible story of the lives
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Speaker 1: that been saved, and I want you to hear what
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Speaker 1: she had to say on Fox News Channel.
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Speaker 7: Let's bring in Kelly Raybon, whose two boys escaped the
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Speaker 7: flooding from another camp about six miles north of Camp
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Speaker 7: Missed It. Kelly, thank you for being with us camp.
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Speaker 7: You're probably still shaking.
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Speaker 4: From all of this.
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Speaker 7: I can't even imagine what this was like. So give
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Speaker 7: us a sense of this story. As you started to
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Speaker 7: understand that something was going on on the river along
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Speaker 7: where all of these camps are.
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Speaker 6: So on July fourth, we received a text that was
26:51
Speaker 6: sent out to all of the parents that said that
26:54
Speaker 6: they had sustained high waters overnight, but you know that
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Speaker 6: they were trying to keep the campers safe as best
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Speaker 6: as possible. And at that point, you know, you think, okay, well,
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Speaker 6: maybe there's just a lot of rain. But once I
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Speaker 6: turned on the news, and I live in Houston and
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Speaker 6: so that's four hours away from me, so I had
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Speaker 6: to I had to really work to find more information out.
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Speaker 6: But once I saw this statement from Camp Mystic that
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Speaker 6: you know, if you're if your daughter is okay, if
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Speaker 6: you've not been notified yet, I thought, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 6: this is far more serious than that initial text message
27:34
Speaker 6: would have led me to believe. And then within a
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Speaker 6: couple of hours I decided I needed to get in
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Speaker 6: the car and go, you know, a mom on a
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Speaker 6: mission to get to my kids.
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Speaker 7: So I know your sons talked about it. Tell us
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Speaker 7: how old your boys are and their names. I know
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Speaker 7: that you know they've had en off of talking about this.
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Speaker 7: I completely understand. But can you tell us what they
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Speaker 7: said about what happened and what they remember.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 6: So, Brandon, my nine year old, this was his third
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Speaker 6: year to attend Camp la Hunt and Brock just now
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Speaker 6: seven year olds turned seven two weeks ago. This was
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Speaker 6: his first time to attend camp, and they'd only been
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Speaker 6: there for one full day at this point. They arrived
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Speaker 6: late Wednesday afternoon, so one full day there, and you
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Speaker 6: know what they said was as the water in Brock's cabin,
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Speaker 6: he was in one of three cabins that ended up,
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Speaker 6: you know, underwater and flooding, and as the water started
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Speaker 6: to come in his brave camp counselors, who were really
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Speaker 6: just kids themselves, college kids, they encouraged the boys to
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Speaker 6: get on the first bunk, and then to get on
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Speaker 6: the second bunk, and before you know it, they were
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Speaker 6: lifting the little boys up to the rafters to keep
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Speaker 6: them out of harm's way, as the windows were breaking,
28:55
Speaker 6: as the door was coming off, as a wall was
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Speaker 6: coming down. I just can't imagine how terrifying this was.
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Speaker 6: And it was happening, you know, as there was as
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Speaker 6: it was dark, no power. You know, you're so unfamiliar
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Speaker 6: in this situation. How do you ever prepare for that?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, we're looking at these charts. It rose twenty five
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Speaker 7: feet in one hour in the area of Camp Mystic.
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Speaker 7: So how high were they on the top? How high
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Speaker 7: was the water in the cabin? And then did they
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Speaker 7: how did they get out of there?
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Speaker 6: So my seven year old rock he said that the
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Speaker 6: water was probably he estimated about three plus feet in
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Speaker 6: his cabin. Now, you know, he is still in a
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Speaker 6: state of shock and kind of slowly processing what all
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Speaker 6: he remembers, but he remembers it being at least high
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Speaker 6: enough to break the window out. And the camp director,
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Speaker 6: Scott bravely came at the end to get them out
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Speaker 6: of the cabins, pulling them down from the afters and
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Speaker 6: taking them to safety. Brydon, meanwhile, was in a higher
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Speaker 6: elevated cabin and so his cabin, while it didn't receive
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Speaker 6: any water, it took in a bunch of boys who
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Speaker 6: were in flooded cabins and then you know, they were
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Speaker 6: just left to kind of they didn't know what was
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Speaker 6: going on. They just entertained each other all day long
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Speaker 6: as best they could.
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Speaker 7: So what are your thoughts on this whole thing? You know,
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Speaker 7: would you send them back to camp given what happened?
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Speaker 7: How do you feel about it?
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Speaker 6: I need to think it through, but I can tell
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Speaker 6: you that Braydon, my older one with you know, two
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Speaker 6: summers of camp under his belt, says in a heartat
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Speaker 6: he would go back, and he really hopes. One of
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Speaker 6: the reasons why they were, you know, have been talking
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Speaker 6: about it and were comfortable with me talking about it
30:48
Speaker 6: is because they wanted to represent the pride that they
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Speaker 6: have in camp, law Hunter. And I remember as a
30:55
Speaker 6: child the hill country camps that I attended. What a
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Speaker 6: difference is made for me? And so, I mean, this
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Speaker 6: is a massive tragedy, but as with tragedies, hopefully we
31:08
Speaker 6: learn major, major lessons from this. And so, you know,
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Speaker 6: I'm just so hopeful that we can really take a
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Speaker 6: hard look at at what went wrong and why.
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Speaker 1: God bless our first responders and all those that are
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Speaker 1: helping those in Texas right now.
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Speaker 2: And we appreciate you listening every day. We'll see you
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Speaker 2: back here tomorrow.