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Mortgage Mayhem? Blame Biden plus FIFA Overturns Red Card After Trump Push · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: There was a very quiet story that dropped while so
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  Speaker 1: And it's a story that is actually extremely important because
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  Speaker 1: it is highlighting what we all knew was happening in
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  Speaker 1: this country when there was wide open borders under Joe
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  Speaker 1: Biden and the massive influx of illegal immigrants into this country. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Biden administration triggered higher home prices and massive increase in
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  Speaker 1: would saying a moment ago about how much money it's
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  Speaker 1: costing you. Yes, with a surge in home prices in rent.
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  Speaker 1: This paper, published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas,
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  Speaker 1: combed immigration court records with government administrative data to measure
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  Speaker 1: how the unprecedented wave of I legal immigration between twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one and twenty twenty four affected local labor and
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  Speaker 1: housing markets. Now, the author's caution the study is just preliminary,
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  Speaker 1: meaning things could actually even get worse. But they circulated
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  Speaker 1: it for professional comment. And what we found is exactly
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  Speaker 1: what you should have expected. A one percent increase an
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  Speaker 1: unauthorized workers relative to a local labor force that actually
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  Speaker 1: corresponds with roughly a one percent increase in overall employment,
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  Speaker 1: and with no evidence that the migration surge reduced average
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  Speaker 1: wages the same one percent increase they said he was
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  Speaker 1: associated with roughly a two point two percent rise and
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  Speaker 1: home prices and a one point four percent increase in
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  Speaker 1: rent alone.
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  Speaker 2: That's a big number.
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  Speaker 1: Researchers found little evidence that home building expanded enough to
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  Speaker 1: meet the added demand of illegal immigrants coming across the border,
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  Speaker 1: and they concluded that the influx acted as a housing
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  Speaker 1: demand shock in the markets where supply was already tight.
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  Speaker 2: The economists estimate.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what matters to you, unauthorized immigrant workers
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  Speaker 1: and that flow into America accounted for roughly thirty percent
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  Speaker 1: of employment growth, roughly thirty percent of the home price
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  Speaker 1: growth as well. So you were paying thirty percent more
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  Speaker 1: for your home under Biden's time in office because you
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  Speaker 1: were competing with illegal immigrants and the house market. Now
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  Speaker 1: you may say, why I wasn't actually trying to buy
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  Speaker 1: a house. Okay, maybe you're a renter. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: that number about twenty percent of rent growth in the
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  Speaker 1: average metropolitan area between March twenty twenty one and March
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  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four. So what that means is a
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  Speaker 1: massive increase in your rent by twenty percent or more
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  Speaker 1: depending on where you lived. Now, these estimates apply to
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  Speaker 1: the average metro area studied, meaning than in areas that
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  Speaker 1: are closer to the border or sanctuary cities or states,
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  Speaker 1: your housing growth costs may be far beyond thirty percent,
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  Speaker 1: and your rent average may have gone up well over
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  Speaker 1: twenty percent as well. This, in fact, was one of
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  Speaker 1: the biggest sole drivers of housing and apartment and rental
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  Speaker 1: properties skyrocketing during the three years.
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  Speaker 2: The paper described.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty twenty one through twenty twenty four as quote an
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  Speaker 1: on precedented boom in illegal immigration. Citing Congressional Budget Office estimates,
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  Speaker 1: the authors said unauthorized immigration added roughly at least seven
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  Speaker 1: million people of the US population before slowing sharply in
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  Speaker 1: mid twenty twenty four as President Donald Trump got back
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  Speaker 1: into the White House. So if you think that open
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  Speaker 1: borders don't cost you, well, all you have to do
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  Speaker 1: is now look at home prices. And the authors, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, also warned of something else. They believe these
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  Speaker 1: home prices will not come down. So if you're hoping
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  Speaker 1: that the thirty percents just going to come right back
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  Speaker 1: at you, it's not. And if you think your rent
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  Speaker 1: prices are going to drop by twenty percent in the
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  Speaker 1: near future, apparently they're.
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  Speaker 2: Not as well.
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  Speaker 1: Even though illegal immigrants have not been coming across the
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  Speaker 1: border at record rates. Many that are already here have
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  Speaker 1: pushed the markets through the roof. And those who are
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  Speaker 1: taking your payments, they're not looking to give you back
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  Speaker 1: money at all. As you get ready to probably watch
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  Speaker 1: the World Cup game, America got some very big and
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  Speaker 1: exciting news. Donald Trump actually got involved and asked FIFA
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  Speaker 1: to review the red card that took out America's top score.
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  Speaker 1: And now we know that that suspension has been overturned.
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  Speaker 1: When the news broke, this is what it sounded like
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  Speaker 1: on Fox News Channel.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's a major break for the US men's national team.
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  Speaker 3: Its top scorer, fuller In Balligan is back in the
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  Speaker 3: lineup for tomorrow's World Cup showdown with Belgium. FIFA has
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  Speaker 3: reversed his one game ban, and President Trump might have
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  Speaker 3: helped make it happen. Madison Scrpano has the latest on this.
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  Speaker 2: Madison.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, John, Yeah, we are just learning in the last
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  Speaker 4: hour that President Trump actually called the FIFA president, according
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  Speaker 4: to sources, asking them to review Balligan's suspension.
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  Speaker 1: Now sources have now confirmed outside of Fox News even
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  Speaker 1: the New York Times, and on Sunday, the president of
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  Speaker 1: the United States of America. I love Donald Trump for this,
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  Speaker 1: called the FIFA president, asking that the organization review the
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  Speaker 1: highly suspicious red card against America's top score, which suspended
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  Speaker 1: him for not only thirty minutes against Bosnia, but what
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  Speaker 1: have also suspended him for a whole extra game against Belgium,
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  Speaker 1: meaning he would be ineligible to play tonight now quote
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  Speaker 1: It's unknown what exactly Trump said to the FIFA president,
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  Speaker 1: who the forty fifth and forty seventh president has called
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  Speaker 1: a great leader in sports and also a friend. We
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  Speaker 1: know that America's top score, who had three goals in
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  Speaker 1: the World Cup, including one prior to his red card
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  Speaker 1: in round of thirty two match, has now been cleared
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  Speaker 1: to play. In a stunning twist of events now where
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  Speaker 1: our top scorer we'll be able to play against Belgium
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  Speaker 1: on Monday. His red card technically still stands. Suspension will
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  Speaker 1: be for a probationary period for a year. Trump, of
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  Speaker 1: course celebrating this decision and a true social post on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: saying this, thank you to FIFA for doing what was
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  Speaker 1: right and reversing a great injustice. Now, according to the Atlantic,
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  Speaker 1: part of FIVA's disciplinary code states that the quote judicial
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  Speaker 1: body may decide to fully or partially suspend the implementation
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  Speaker 1: of a disciplinary measure.
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  Speaker 2: Quote.
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  Speaker 1: If the person benefiting from a suspended sanction commits another
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  Speaker 1: infringement of a similar nature and gravity during the probational period,
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  Speaker 1: the suspension shall be revoked by the Judicial body and
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  Speaker 1: the sanction enforced without prejudice to any additional sanction I
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  Speaker 1: pose for the new infringement, the rule added. Now, US
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  Speaker 1: Soccer accept the decision, adding that they were pleased to
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  Speaker 1: know that their top scorer will be able to compete
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  Speaker 1: on Monday, saying we accept a decision of the Disciplinary
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  Speaker 1: Committee and are pleased that he's eligible to compete tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Our full attention is now focused on the Round of
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  Speaker 1: sixteen match against Belgium and Seattle, and we look forward
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  Speaker 1: to the continued support of our amazing fans. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: Royal Belgian Football Association released a strongly worded statement against
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  Speaker 1: the FIFA ruling. So if you wanted a little drama
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  Speaker 1: ahead of the match, well here's what they said. In
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  Speaker 1: order to safeguard the legitimate rights of all participating teams
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  Speaker 1: and to protect the fundamental principles of fair play in
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  Speaker 1: our sports, both at this FIFA World Cup and at
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  Speaker 1: future editions of the tournament, the RBFA is investigating all
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  Speaker 1: potential options. The statement said, meaning, well, they're hoping they
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  Speaker 1: put a stop to this somehow or some way. My
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  Speaker 1: good friend Klay Travis, who you know from Alt Kick,
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  Speaker 1: had this to say about the entire story on Fox A.
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  Speaker 2: Travis, how did it look to you, Clay?
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  Speaker 3: Was that intentional or just, you know, an accidental.
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  Speaker 4: Stepping Look, the penalty of a red card was excessive.
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  Speaker 4: Remember Valligan had to come out in the second half
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  Speaker 4: and miss most of the second half of this game,
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  Speaker 4: which could have, given the fact that the US was
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  Speaker 4: playing a man down, led to a defeat. Instead, US
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  Speaker 4: scored a late goal I think in the eighty second minute,
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  Speaker 4: pulled away to win to nothing. Everyone who is a
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  Speaker 4: fan of soccer, and we're watching this play right now
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  Speaker 4: in slow motion, which is what FIFA did on their
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  Speaker 4: review in real time, It's clear that it's accidental. The
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  Speaker 4: player that was stepped on was able to finish the game.
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  Speaker 4: It's not as if we had a significant penalty.
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  Speaker 2: For the other side here either.
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  Speaker 4: I believe based on conversations that I have had that
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  Speaker 4: President Trump talked to Gianni and Fonte, the head of FIFA,
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  Speaker 4: who has had a great relationship with said, as many
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  Speaker 4: sports fans did, Hey, this red card was unjustified. This
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  Speaker 4: was way too draconian of a punishment relative to what occurred.
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  Speaker 4: And FIFA went back and looked at their rule book.
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  Speaker 4: And one of the things about FIFA is their rule
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  Speaker 4: book basically allows them to do anything. And under FIFA
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  Speaker 4: Rule twenty seven and I'm reading they have the ability
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  Speaker 4: to suspension of implementation of disciplinary measures. That is the
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  Speaker 4: authority under which this red card has been lifted. I
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  Speaker 4: think it's the right result. The punishment was too significant.
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  Speaker 4: There had already been the punishment of not being able
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  Speaker 4: to finish the game, and so I think FIFA got.
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  Speaker 2: To the right result here.
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  Speaker 4: If you're curious, hey, what is the impact of one player.
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  Speaker 4: The odds market on this game was roughly fifty to fifty.
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  Speaker 4: The US has moved into a little bit more of
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  Speaker 4: a slight favorite than they were before with Baaligan's ability
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  Speaker 4: to play. It certainly makes the US a better attacking team.
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  Speaker 2: And I believe.
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  Speaker 4: Again this is one of those situations where the end
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  Speaker 4: result was the correct one. I think President Trump helped
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  Speaker 4: us get there. I think Infante, the head of FIFA,
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  Speaker 4: recognized this was an injustice and the wrong ruling had occurred.
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  Speaker 2: Game on.
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  Speaker 4: Belgium has its best players, US has its best players.
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  Speaker 2: Game is going to be tomorrow night on Fox.
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  Speaker 4: Gets your US gear, your Pom pom's ready, Let's go
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  Speaker 4: kick Belgium's ass.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's gonna be one to watch.
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  Speaker 3: The President gave a little nudge or maybe an after
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  Speaker 3: nudge when he posted this on truth Social He writes,
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  Speaker 3: thank you to FIFA for doing what was right and
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  Speaker 3: reversing a great injustice. President Donald J. Trump, So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: clearly he was paying attention and somebody got the message.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 4: Look, I mean I think FIFA had the ability to
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  Speaker 4: make a change here, and I think President Trump deserves credit.
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  Speaker 4: I think Gianni and Fonte deserves credit.
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  Speaker 2: Look, it was going to be a stain on this.
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  Speaker 4: Game if the US, given the un fairness of this penalty,
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  Speaker 4: was not able to play with the full comportment of
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  Speaker 4: its players. And let's remember, in the three games where
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  Speaker 4: the US has started all of its starters that were.
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  Speaker 2: Eligible to play.
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  Speaker 4: Pulisic was injured obviously in the first game in that
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  Speaker 4: big win over Paraguay. US has outscored opponents eight to one.
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  Speaker 4: This has been one of the best attacking teams that
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  Speaker 4: we've ever scored, ever seen. Scored ten goals through the
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  Speaker 4: first four games. It's the most dynamic, fun team. I'm
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  Speaker 4: hoping that we're going to be able to see country
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  Speaker 4: Roads played tomorrow night in Seattle. It should be an
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  Speaker 4: electric environment there. Belgium is walking into a tough road crowd.
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  Speaker 1: You got to absolutely love that you have a president
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  Speaker 1: of the United States of America that is all behind
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  Speaker 1: the World Cup being in this country, but also is
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  Speaker 1: going and protecting his team, his best player, his biggest score.
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  Speaker 1: This is why I love President Donald Trump. Now Piers Morgan,
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  Speaker 1: and he's got a team he wants to win.
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  Speaker 2: It's England.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, they beat Mexico, and that's also a
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  Speaker 1: story in itself. But he put it out there this
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  Speaker 1: way as saying about Donald Trump calling the FEVA president
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  Speaker 1: asking review the red card suspension. Quote, this will be
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  Speaker 1: the biggest story and potential scandal of the World Cup. Look,
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  Speaker 1: I think this is awesome. I love that we have
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  Speaker 1: a president that's willing to do this. I love that
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  Speaker 1: we have a president that's willing to get involved in
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  Speaker 1: this way and say yeah, I'll pick up the phone.
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  Speaker 1: This matters, This is a big deal, This is something
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  Speaker 1: that we should be celebrating. And anyone that thinks that
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  Speaker 1: the president should have done this, I'm sorry. I just
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  Speaker 1: want to be clear. I think you're a total and
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  Speaker 1: utter idiot. So let me just say congratulations a team Usay,
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  Speaker 1: what a great victory and what a great time for
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  Speaker 1: a president to step in and to say, hey, would
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  Speaker 1: you review this thing?
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  Speaker 2: Would you review it? Would you look at it? And
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  Speaker 2: what did you see?
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  Speaker 1: It is amazing all the way around, which again makes
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  Speaker 1: this game even more fun to watch. So congratulations to
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  Speaker 1: the President and the Team USA. I cannot wait to
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  Speaker 1: watch this game later tonight. Go USA Go. As America
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: celebrated its two hundred and fiftieth birthday the country, we
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  Speaker 2: It was incredible.
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  Speaker 2: He described what he called it.
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  Speaker 1: New quote Golden Age of America and repeatedly urge Americans
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  Speaker 5: For two hundred and fifty years, the United States of
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  Speaker 5: America has been the hope, the promise, the light, and
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  Speaker 5: the glory among all of the nations of the world.
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  Speaker 2: All over the world, they try and be like us.
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  Speaker 5: will always be this or even better.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to be better.
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  Speaker 5: Here on our National Mall, we're celebrating freedom's triumph over tyranny,
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  Speaker 5: liberty's conquest over.
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  Speaker 2: And the enduring.
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  Speaker 5: Victory of the American spirit. From the July fourth seventeen
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  Speaker 5: seventy six to July fourth.
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  Speaker 2: That's big dates, two big ones.
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  Speaker 5: And tonight our country is stronger, freer, richer, safer, and
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  Speaker 5: prouder than ever before.
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  Speaker 2: Now the President wasn't done there.
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  Speaker 1: He celebrated America, but he also talked about the real
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  Speaker 1: number one threat to the United States of America.
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  Speaker 2: As he said this.
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  Speaker 5: Across the generations, Americans have fought, bled and died not
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  Speaker 5: just to secure those rights, but to expand them to
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  Speaker 5: citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed. Because we
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  Speaker 5: are one people.
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  Speaker 2: We are one family. You showed that tonight with.
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  Speaker 5: One flag, And as our Declaration of Independence tells us,
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  Speaker 5: we are all made in the image of one almighty God.
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  Speaker 5: And a communist will never say that.
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  Speaker 2: That's for sure. Now.
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  Speaker 1: The President wasn't done there. He also talked about how
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  Speaker 1: he believes that America will never become a communist country
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  Speaker 1: as long as we understand exactly what makes us so great.
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  Speaker 5: As they said last night at the beautiful Mount Rushmore,
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: what a beautiful place where Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore
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  Speaker 5: Roosevelt loomed over my shoulder as I spoke. America will
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  Speaker 5: never be a communist country. Won't happen. Communism is a
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  Speaker 5: loser and it always will be. The communist system is
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  Speaker 5: the opposite of the American system, and the communist system
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  Speaker 5: has never worked. Our warriors did not fight communism on
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  Speaker 5: battlefields across the world only to have that metace rear
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  Speaker 5: its ugly head right.
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  Speaker 2: Back here in America.
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  Speaker 5: We're not going to let it happen. We like to
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  Speaker 5: stop a threat like that immediately and before it begins.
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  Speaker 5: Just like a cancer, you got to cut it out.
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  Speaker 2: You got to cut it out fast.
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  Speaker 1: Now you may ask yourself, why did the President make
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  Speaker 1: sure he talked about this on America's two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fiftieth anniversary celebration. Well, it's pretty simple because on the
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  Speaker 1: other side, the Democratic Party had their message to America
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  Speaker 1: and it was delivered by New York City Mayor Mundani,
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  Speaker 1: who used America's two hundred and fiftieth to address the focus.
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  Speaker 1: He says on all of America's shortcomings, criticizing immigration enforcement,
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  Speaker 1: wanting to obvious abowish ice and have open borders. Then
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  Speaker 1: he had a tax on what he described as oigarchs
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  Speaker 1: and systems of supremacy, and then argued that America must
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  Speaker 1: continue confronting its flaws rather than simply celebrating America and
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  Speaker 1: its achievements. Now, whether you agree with that man or not,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: it's pretty messed up. On the day, on the anniversary
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  Speaker 1: of America or two or ind idiot birthday, that this
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  Speaker 1: is what he had to say to the American people.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 6: American exceptionalism. American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us makes
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  Speaker 6: our freedom a little more free. Is how we dug
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  Speaker 6: the Erie Canal and irrigated the West. Is why children
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  Speaker 6: in far away lands grow up dreaming of one day
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  Speaker 6: moving here. And yet the irony is that the story
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: of America has so often been written by those who
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: were told by others with power and influence and wealth
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  Speaker 6: that they were anything but exceptional. For generation after generation,
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: we have been told that when the world has sent
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: its people to our shores, it has not sent its best.
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  Speaker 6: It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way,
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: worshiping the wrong gods, angering the wrong people. It sent
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: peasants and serfs from slums and cheddeles who were treated
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land.
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: It sent immigrants from whom power was something someone else had.
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  Speaker 6: We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger,
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  Speaker 6: more powerful than everyone else. The truth, my friends, is
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: that America is exceptional because here nothing is fixed into place.
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on
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  Speaker 6: the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first
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  Speaker 6: enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. That work endures, and
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: it belongs to us all. It belongs to to our
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: newest Americans, those standing here with me today, all of
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I too
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: felt what you feel, the joy of no longer being
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  Speaker 6: just a New Yorker, but an American too. You each
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: hold a special power, the power to determine what America means.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view,
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: or allowed freedom, where not all are created equal. America,
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: if you ask them becomes less the more people it welcomes. America,
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  Speaker 6: they will tell you, belongs only to those with the
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: allowed to visit. How small they are, how weak, how unoriginal.
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: At every moment in our past, those who led through
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: oldest trick in politics and the cheapest, But time and again,
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: including two hundred and fifty years ago, though those forces
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress.
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  Speaker 1: It truly is amazing to watch the Democratic leader sit
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  Speaker 1: there on America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday and focus
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  Speaker 1: on every reason why he wants you to hate the
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  Speaker 1: United States of America, Why he wants you to feel
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  Speaker 1: like America must be undone, that America is so flawed
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  Speaker 1: it's impossible to celebrate any of its achievements or accomplishments. Now,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: President Trump's speech was very clear it was one design
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: to inspire all of us to have confidence, and his
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: central argument was that America's actually were celebrating because of
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: what generations after generations of Americans have built together, and
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: also because the country still has limitless potential. He pointed
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: to the military the specific achievements that they've accomplished fighting
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: literal wars around the world and winning them to save humanity.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: He talked about how incredible America's economic uppportunity is for
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: all Americans and American history, and what we've just done
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  Speaker 1: over the last two hundred and fifty years is the
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: reason for great optimism and celebration. But then you look
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: at Mindani, he took almost the opposite approach. Rather than
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: making the anniversary primarily about national celebration, he framed it
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: as an opportunity to attack and to talk about any injustice,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: any issue that he disagreed with America on or the president.
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  Speaker 1: Immigration was a great example. Another one was how he
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: was attacking anyone that had become wealthy and worked hard.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: And then of course he says, in America has much
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: work that needs to be done, and really we shouldn't
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: just be sitting here and celebrating. And that's why this
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: has truly become an incredible political moment. I couldn't have
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: guessed this ten years ago, or even five years ago
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: that on America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday that the
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Democratic Party would trash a country while America was looking
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: for someone to defend it to celebrate it. It's two
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: very completely different narratives about America itself. One that says
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: America is fundamentally an extraordinary nation that deserves gratitude, pride,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: and celebration while also continuing to improve, and the other
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: says America's founding ideals are well flawed and that they
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: should basically be all undone and that you shouldn't be
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: proud on this Independence day.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: And even Vice President J. D.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Vance appeared to reference that divide when he said Americans
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: shouldn't allow small but loud voices to define the country
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  Speaker 1: only by its flaws, arguing instead that the nation should
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: face the future with confidence and pride.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: It's also worth noting that.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Critics and supporters interpret these speeches very differently. Of course,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: supporters of Mindani and there's a growing number of Americans
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: that like him, They actually argue he was expressing a
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: quote patriotic belief that America honors its founding principles by
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: striving to improve and include more people aka open borders.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: But when you look at these two speeches, it was
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: pretty clear who the real leader was. President Trump asked
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Americans to celebrate what has been accomplished and believes that
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: the future is brighter than ever before. And the other
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: one they challenged Americans to focus on all the bad
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: things that they want you to say America therefore needs
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: to be destroyed because of them. In that contrasts well,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: that may end up being remembered as one of the
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: defining political moments of not only America's two undidieth birthday,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: but also heading into the midterm and the next presidential election.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Thanks as always for joining us on the show Don't Forget.
• 28:55
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• 28:59
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• 29:01
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