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Bold Moves to Protect Our Children plus Historic Bust Against Drug Cartels · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: You got to ask yourself this question as I'm about
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Speaker 1: to tell you this story, what the hell was the
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Speaker 1: federal government doing for the last four years when it
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Speaker 1: came to the issue of protecting our children from sexual abuse,
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Speaker 1: sex trafficking and pornography. I say that because of Operation
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Speaker 1: Restore Justice. Now, the Attorney General Pambondi and the FBI
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Speaker 1: Director Cashptel announced the results of Operation Restore Justice. It
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Speaker 1: is a nationwide initiative targeting child sex predators. Now over
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Speaker 1: a five day period, the operation has led to the
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Speaker 1: arrest of two hundred and five individuals and the most
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Speaker 1: shocking part of all, the rescue of one hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifteen children that were being abused on a daily and
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Speaker 1: even hourly basis.
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Speaker 2: The scope of the operation.
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Speaker 1: Involved all fifty five FBI filled offices. The Department of
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Speaker 1: Justice's Child Exportation Section, and the US Attorney's offices nationwide
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Speaker 1: were also involved. You had notable arrests that I'm going
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Speaker 1: to go through in a moment, but I want to
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Speaker 1: play for you what the Attorney General Pambondi and the
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Speaker 1: FBI Director Cash Battel had to say at this announcement.
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Speaker 1: As they are furious that this world was allowed to
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Speaker 1: continue not really having to worry about the federal government
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Speaker 1: coming in and stopping them. Under the last administration.
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Speaker 3: Computer and target our young children every single day. Our
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Speaker 3: law enforcement, our prosecutors sit there and deal with this
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Speaker 3: every day to kick these monsters off the street. Director
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Speaker 3: Patel and I almost daily in our meetings talk about
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Speaker 3: these cases and what it does to our officers and
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Speaker 3: our prosecutors, but also how many lives are being saved
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Speaker 3: and how many children are being.
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Speaker 4: Helped by this.
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Speaker 3: Director Pateel is going to get into the specific cases
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Speaker 3: with you in a minute, but what I will tell
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Speaker 3: you is these depraved human beings, if convicted, will face
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Speaker 3: the maximum penalty in prison some life. We will find you,
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Speaker 3: We will arrest you, and we will charge you. If
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Speaker 3: you are online targeting a child, you will not escape us.
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Speaker 3: The FBI and the Department of Justice will come after
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Speaker 3: you and we will prosecute you. Parents, you have to
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Speaker 3: know this is so serious. Your child has no right
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Speaker 3: to privacy on the internet none. You have to monitor
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Speaker 3: what your kids are doing, whether they're playing games on
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Speaker 3: the internet, on social media, any other websites that children
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Speaker 3: teenagers frequent. An online predator can find them. I always
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Speaker 3: say it's from instant message to instant nightmare.
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Speaker 4: Parents.
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Speaker 3: They're talking to your kids like their other children, and
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Speaker 3: they're not.
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Speaker 4: They're predators.
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Speaker 3: They pose as children, They get them sometimes to post
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Speaker 3: explicit pictures of themselves after they talk to them, and
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Speaker 3: then in some cases they even try to blackmail the children.
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Speaker 3: The suicide rate among teens ages fourteen to seventeen has
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Speaker 3: increased as a result of this as well, because teens
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Speaker 3: are taking advantage of and they're manipulated online by child predators.
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Speaker 3: So all of you being here today and covering this
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Speaker 3: is so important because parents need to know you've got
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Speaker 3: to talk to your kids. They think they're talking to
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Speaker 3: other children, but most of the time they're not.
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Speaker 4: Director Patel, thank.
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Speaker 5: You first and foremost to the Department of Justice, under
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Speaker 5: General Bondi's leadership and all its components. Because of your courage,
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Speaker 5: we are here today protecting are most vulnerable our children.
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Speaker 5: Thank you, General Bondi. Thank you to so many of
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Speaker 5: your colleagues here today that do this work tirelessly day
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Speaker 5: in and day out and never get a moment's thanks.
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Speaker 2: We should acknowledge all of them today.
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Speaker 5: As the FBI Director, I'm humbled to leave some of
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Speaker 5: the greatest men and women in law enforcement. And I
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Speaker 5: want to thank our fifty five field offices, our ninety
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Speaker 5: plus United States Attorney's offices, ours Section, our crim Division
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Speaker 5: here at the Department of Justice, and our field offices
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Speaker 5: throughout the country, with lawyers and prosecutors and agents working
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Speaker 5: tirelessly on some of the harshest criminality we've ever seen.
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Speaker 5: They don't take breaks because our children deserve a free
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Speaker 5: and open society. I also want to just take a
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Speaker 5: moment to emphasize the priority of this Department of Justice
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Speaker 5: and this FBI our children. If you harm our children,
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Speaker 5: you will be given no sanctuary. There is no place
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Speaker 5: we will not come to hunt you down, there is
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Speaker 5: no place will not look for you, and there is
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Speaker 5: no cage we will not put you in should you
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Speaker 5: do harm to our children. The prioritization of this administration
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Speaker 5: in general, BONDI, has made it abundantly clear to child
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Speaker 5: predators you will be hunted down and you will be prosecuted.
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Speaker 5: And that is a refreshing thing to hear for the
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Speaker 5: men and women who do this work tirelessly, and it's
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Speaker 5: also an acknowledgement of the safety that we look forward
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Speaker 5: to bringing America. As the Attorney General mentioned, there are
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Speaker 5: a couple of cases worth highlighting. People in places of
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Speaker 5: public trust have violated not only the law, but that
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Speaker 5: public trust, to include teachers, law enforcement personnel, and other
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Speaker 5: professionals that we look to safeguard our children have not
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Speaker 5: only violated the law, but violated the trust. In Minneapolis,
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Speaker 5: defended Jeremy Francis Plonsky, a Minneapolis State trooper and former
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Speaker 5: Army Reserved this was arrested for producing child sexual abuse
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Speaker 5: material while in uniform. Not anymore. In Norfolk, Virginia, defendant
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Speaker 5: Jose Alexis Valdez Sosa, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, again
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Speaker 5: allegedly arrested for transporting a minor across state lines.
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Speaker 2: No more.
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Speaker 5: Another example right here in Washington, d C. And the
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Speaker 5: Metropolitan Police Department officer Lynn Wood Barnhill, a former already
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Speaker 5: convicted sex offender, was arrested again for exploiting more victims,
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Speaker 5: more children while on supervise release. These are just three
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Speaker 5: examples that show you the extent and the depravity of
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Speaker 5: these horrific crimes, and we need to team up together
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Speaker 5: with the American public to find the rest I want
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Speaker 5: to give a special thanks to the National Center for
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Speaker 5: Missing and Exploited Children for the tireless work they do
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Speaker 5: in partnering with us. And again I want to thank
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Speaker 5: the Department of Justice and all these folks here and Pam,
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Speaker 5: thank you for never wavering to defend our children.
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Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you Director Patel.
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Speaker 3: And this ranges from we of cases from California to
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Speaker 3: New York to Florida, our entire country and just in
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Speaker 3: one week again, one hundred and fifteen victims, victims, we
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Speaker 3: have two hundred and five offenders have been charged in
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Speaker 3: one week thanks to the FBI. So think what's happening
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Speaker 3: throughout this country. Children are being taken advantage of and
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Speaker 3: we have to stop it. Thank you for covering this
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Speaker 3: very important topic today.
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Speaker 1: Thank you short sweet and to the point by the
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Speaker 1: Attorney General there. This operation is part of Project's Safe Childhood.
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Speaker 2: It is a DOJ initiative launched in.
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Speaker 1: Six to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse. The DOJ
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Speaker 1: collaborating with the National Center for Missing Exploited Children and
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Speaker 1: is now encouraging the public to report suspected exploitation through
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Speaker 1: the established hotlines and online reporting tools. As you heard
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Speaker 1: there Some of those that were abusing these children included
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Speaker 1: a Minnesota state trooper and an Army reservist that we're
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Speaker 1: arrested for allegedly producing child sexual abuse material while in uniform.
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Speaker 1: That former Metropolitan Police Department officer in Washington, DC, previously
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Speaker 1: convicted of sex offenses charged with exploiting additional victims while.
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Speaker 2: On supervised release.
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Speaker 1: An undocumented individual from Mexico arrested in Virginia for allegedly
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Speaker 1: transporting a minor across state lines for sexual purposes. The
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Speaker 1: question that we should all be asking is where the
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Speaker 1: hell is our government protecting these kids during the last
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Speaker 1: administration and why is it now a political issue where
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Speaker 1: Republicans are in favor of this and Democrats look the
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Speaker 1: other way. One thing I know for sure, I'm glad
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Speaker 1: that Pamboni and Casptel are doing this, and it's saving
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Speaker 1: people's lives and saving people from countless abuses.
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Speaker 2: Did you know that, just.
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Speaker 1: Like here in the US, Israel has their own Independence
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Speaker 1: Day In case you missed it this year, Israel's Independence
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Speaker 1: for the people of Israel, freedom is nothing more than
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Speaker 1: International Fellowship of Christians and Jews for ongoing help to
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Speaker 1: impoverished families don't fall through the cracks. That's why your
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Speaker 1: if CJ dot org. Now, Pamboni is not just focusing,
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Speaker 1: as we mentioned a moment ago, on going after these
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Speaker 1: people that are that are abusing children and the sex
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Speaker 1: trafficking and taking down people that are involved in it.
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Speaker 1: She's also doing a lot to save people's lives when
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Speaker 1: it comes to Fetanyl. The Attorney General, in a separate
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Speaker 1: press conference talking about the Cineloa cartel that's one of
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Speaker 1: the largest drug trafficking cartels in the world. They were
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Speaker 1: behind the largest fetanyl seizure in US history. A cell
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Speaker 1: of the Cineloa cartel operated in four major US cities
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Speaker 1: and the cartel conducted a large scale drug distribution operation
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Speaker 1: throughout the western part of the country that led federal
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Speaker 1: authorities to the largest fetanyl seizure to date. This was
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Speaker 1: shocking to see how much fetanyl was actually seized and
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Speaker 1: how many people's lives could have been taken. And because
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Speaker 1: of this, Pambondi announcing this seizure in the largest one
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Speaker 1: in US history, and here is what she had to
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Speaker 1: say about it.
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Speaker 3: So I wanted all of these amazing, amazing agents and
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Speaker 3: prosecutors up here on stage because they have made the
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Speaker 3: largest fentanyl bust in our nation's history. And we're very
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Speaker 3: proud to announce today a historic Sineloa cartel arrest and
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Speaker 3: it marks the most significant victory in our nation's fight
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Speaker 3: against fentanyl and drug trafficking to date. This multi agency operation,
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Speaker 3: led by DEA, with our local, state, tribal, and federal partners,
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Speaker 3: targeted one of the largest and most dangerous drug trafficking
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Speaker 3: and foreign terrorist organizations in our country. DEA seized eleven
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Speaker 3: point five kilos of fentanyl, including an astounding approximately three
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Speaker 3: million fentanyl pills, the largest seizure in our nation's history.
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Speaker 3: These are the pills in the bags right there, the
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Speaker 3: main bottom right.
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Speaker 4: The head of.
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Speaker 3: This organization, Sinaloa organization, here in the country illegally. Six
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Speaker 3: of these guys and women here in the country illegally.
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Speaker 3: His name is Alberto Salazar Amaya. He is the leader
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Speaker 3: and he was living in Salem, Oregon with him.
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Speaker 4: They got millions.
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Speaker 3: Of dollars cash, cars, but the drugs were.
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Speaker 4: In Albuquerque, Phoenix, and Utah.
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Speaker 3: That's how insulated these drug dealer cartel leaders make themselves.
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Speaker 3: This was an incredible operation and that's why I wanted
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Speaker 3: all of you here behind me. It took months and
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Speaker 3: months of work investigation leading up to smaller buys, smaller
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Speaker 3: cases to get this massive amount of drugs and guns
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Speaker 3: off our streets. Five million dollars approximately in cash, thirty
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Speaker 3: five kilos of metha amphetamine, thirty five kilos of math,
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Speaker 3: seven point five kilos of cocaine, four point five kilos
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Speaker 3: of heroin, forty nine rifles and pistols, all shown in
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Speaker 3: the pictures, and then of course the three million pills.
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Speaker 3: These pills were stamped as oxy codone. Let that sink
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Speaker 3: in three million pills going on our streets. Three million
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Speaker 3: pills the streets of our country laced with fentanyl labeled
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Speaker 3: as oxycodone, and they were in all different strengths of
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Speaker 3: all within them. This operation was made possible by over
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Speaker 3: fifty five thousand hours of law enforcement investigation. And this
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Speaker 3: is a really dangerous job that these DEA agents face
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Speaker 3: every day. But they are getting very dangerous drugs off
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Speaker 3: of our streets each day. They are flooding our cities
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Speaker 3: with a weapon of mass destruction, fentanyl. And when we
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Speaker 3: catch you, like all of these individuals, if convicted, we
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Speaker 3: will put you behind bars. There will be no negotiating,
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Speaker 3: and we will lock you up for as long as
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Speaker 3: humanly possible.
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Speaker 4: We will not negotiate with.
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Speaker 3: Those who are killing our family members, including brothers, sisters, daughters, sons, parents, friends.
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Speaker 3: Everyone in this room, I guarantee you knows someone who
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Speaker 3: has been afflicted with drug addiction, and many who have
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Speaker 3: known someone who has lost a loved one because of
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Speaker 3: this trash on our streets. The precursors are made in China,
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Speaker 3: it was sent to Mexico and came right in our country.
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Speaker 4: And again six.
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Speaker 3: Of these individuals were here illegally. That won't shock you,
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Speaker 3: and we're running a massive, massive drug operation. This kind
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Speaker 3: of success doesn't happen without extraordinary leadership.
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Speaker 4: And I want to personally.
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Speaker 3: Thank my friend DEA Principal Deputy Administrator, Rob Murphy, DEA
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Speaker 3: Al Paso Division Chief Agent in charge, Omar Arirello. I'm
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Speaker 3: killing your name, Omar, Omar Okay. And US attorney was
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Speaker 3: Ryan Ryan Ellison. I also want to thank again the
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Speaker 3: brave men and women of law enforcement. Last week I
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Speaker 3: joined them at a DEA laboratory and we went there
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Speaker 3: and it was truly remarkable what we saw how quickly
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Speaker 3: these cartels can manufacture and make fentanyl powder and put
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Speaker 3: it into these pills.
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Speaker 4: But people need to know. Parents need to know, kids
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Speaker 4: need to know. This fentanyl, this bus. These three million
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Speaker 4: pills were oxycodone.
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Speaker 3: They put this in xanax, they put this in adderall.
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Speaker 3: They put this in Molli, the date drug or the
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Speaker 3: party drug, something called Molli. They put it in cocaine
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Speaker 3: and they put it in marijuana, and.
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Speaker 4: It is to get you so highly addicted that you
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Speaker 4: can't get off it.
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Speaker 3: Seventy five thousand Americans are dying each year because of fentanyl,
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Speaker 3: seventy five thousand. And that's why this is so important today.
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Speaker 3: You've got to spread the word.
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Speaker 4: If you know.
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Speaker 3: Anyone who is taking any recreational drugs, they need to
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Speaker 3: be extremely careful because there is a very high.
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Speaker 4: Likelihood it could be laced with fentanyl.
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Speaker 3: And that's one of the reasons seventy five thousand Americans
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Speaker 3: are losing their lives each day. It is the number
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Speaker 3: one cause of death for individuals between eighteen and thirty
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Speaker 3: four in our country.
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Speaker 2: You listen to Pam there and you can hear it
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Speaker 2: in her voice.
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Speaker 1: She is pleading with Americans to understand, you've got to
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Speaker 1: warn your kids, You've got to warn your grandkids. You've
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Speaker 1: got to warn anybody that you know that is abusing drugs.
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Speaker 1: These pills, as she mentioned, were stamped as a pill
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Speaker 1: that you would receive from a pharmacy, and so there
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Speaker 1: are many people that.
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Speaker 2: Buy these pills. Adderall is a great example.
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Speaker 1: A lot of these overdoses come when kids will get
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Speaker 1: Adderall on the black market to keep them alert when
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Speaker 1: studying for finals.
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Speaker 2: In college.
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Speaker 1: We see kids that die from fetnyl overdoses from the
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Speaker 1: IVY leagues all the way down and even in high
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Speaker 1: school ring finals because you're trying to stay awake, you're
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Speaker 1: cramming for your exams. Adderall is known to keep you up,
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Speaker 1: help you get focused. I know a lot of people
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Speaker 1: that did not have a prescription for ad all when
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Speaker 1: I was in college from two thousand and four that
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Speaker 1: would borrow an adderall from a friend that had a prescription. Well,
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Speaker 1: what's happened is there's the black market for it now,
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Speaker 1: and so there's like, hey, I need a couple adderalls
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Speaker 1: for finals, and then they end up taking it and
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Speaker 1: then they're dead because it's actually a lace with fetanyl.
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Speaker 2: Now, the amount of feedenanyl that can kill you.
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Speaker 1: The best way I've heard described is if you if
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Speaker 1: you put your finger in an empty Sweet.
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Speaker 2: And Low package or an equal package.
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Speaker 1: And you pull it out, and a little bit of
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Speaker 1: like residue that is left in that packet after you
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Speaker 1: poured out that the Sweet and Low packet or the
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Speaker 1: equal package splendid packet, that little.
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Speaker 2: Bit of residue is enough to kill you.
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Speaker 1: So when they make these pills, some of them have
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Speaker 1: more fetnyl in them than others. They don't care. They
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Speaker 1: want to maximize the production as quickly. They're not a
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Speaker 1: fat lab. They're not trying to keep you safe. They're
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Speaker 1: trying to get you addicted and some of you die.
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Speaker 1: That's just the cost of doing business. We've got to
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Speaker 1: make sure we do a better job of telling people
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Speaker 1: about this. There's another story that's really important, and it
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Speaker 1: shows you the consequences for the Biden Administration's actions after
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Speaker 1: the attack on Israel by the terrorists. And you may
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Speaker 1: remember that there was a Gaza peer that the US
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Speaker 1: military was sent to build. This peer is a disaster,
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Speaker 1: and there's a new Department of Defense report that has
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Speaker 1: come out saying that it risked countless lives. In fact,
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Speaker 1: sixty two American soldiers were injured, tens of millions of
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Speaker 1: dollars wasted building Biden's failed Gaza peer. The Biden administration's
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Speaker 1: quote humanitarian mission, which was a mission many opposed. I
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Speaker 1: was one of them, to build the offshore pece and
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Speaker 1: floating causeway for quote aid delivery to Gaza, which that
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Speaker 1: much of that aid was being stolen by the terrorists.
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Speaker 1: Was more dangerous and costly than the Pentagon had publicly acknowledged.
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Speaker 2: They covered it up.
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Speaker 1: It resulted in sixty two injuries to American soldiers tens
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Speaker 1: of millions of dollars in equipment damage. According to this
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Speaker 1: new report that has come out from the Department Defense
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Speaker 1: Inspector General. The report reveals the questionable value of a
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Speaker 1: mission that costs some two hundred and thirty million. I
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Speaker 1: want to say that again, two hundred and thirty million.
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Speaker 1: It did not, by the way, accomplish any of its goals,
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Speaker 1: as the PEER was functional for only about twenty days.
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Speaker 2: This coming now.
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Speaker 1: From the Washington Post that's now telling you the truth
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Speaker 1: after lying and covering it up, this story to protect
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden and the White House and Kamala Harris with
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Speaker 1: their reelection bid. Now, Biden gave his approval for the
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Speaker 1: plan despite warnings from within the American government that rough
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Speaker 1: waves in this part of the world could make the
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Speaker 1: mission difficult or even impossible to achieve. They didn't care.
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Speaker 1: They wanted to make sure that they were anti Israel
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Speaker 1: no matter what. The Inspector General report found that not
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Speaker 1: only were there more than two dozen watercraft and other
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Speaker 1: equipment that had major damage, that caused about thirty one
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Speaker 1: million in repairs of maintenance costs alone, but also the
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Speaker 1: Army and Navy did not meet the readiness standards for
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Speaker 1: both the equipment and the units required to carry out
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Speaker 1: the mission.
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Speaker 2: What does that mean?
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Speaker 1: They put a bunch of DEI and transgendered crap in
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Speaker 1: our military ahead of military readiness. So to be clear,
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Speaker 1: we had one peer that we need to get built
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Speaker 1: and we couldn't do it safely. We had thirty one
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Speaker 1: million in repairs and maintenance costs from damage. The thing
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Speaker 1: was only opened for twenty days and had a lot
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Speaker 1: of American military personnel that were seriously injured dealing with
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Speaker 1: this failure. Now, in addition, according to the report, they
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Speaker 1: did not quote organize, they did not train, they did
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Speaker 1: not equip their forces to meet Common Joint standards quote unquote. Again,
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Speaker 1: when you have a military that is more concerned about
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Speaker 1: bringing transgendered soldiers than they do about military readiness, which
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Speaker 1: is exactly what the Biden administration wanted to do every day,
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Speaker 1: this is what you get when you actually have a
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Speaker 1: real mission. In addition, according to the report, they did
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Speaker 1: not organize, train, and equipped their forces to meet the
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Speaker 1: Common Joint standards, on top of the fact that the
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Speaker 1: Transportation Command, which oversees coordination of military assets quote, also
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Speaker 1: fell short of standards in basic planning and exercises. All
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Speaker 1: of this, according to the Inspector General's report from the DoD,
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Speaker 1: Biden announced the peer mission, by the way to twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four at the State of the Union address as
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Speaker 1: a proposed solution to delivered what he described as aid
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Speaker 1: directly to gods that without having to rely on Israel
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Speaker 1: land route. So, in other words, Israel is our ally,
23:15
Speaker 1: we don't like Israel, We're gonna go against Israel. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna have Israel and basically say you're somehow the bad
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Speaker 1: guys if you respond to the Tarist attack. Remember, in
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Speaker 1: the hours after that attack, the White House said for
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Speaker 1: them not to respond militarily and to stand down from
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Speaker 1: defending themselves.
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Speaker 2: Now, we'll never forgive.
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Speaker 1: The Biden administration for that, but that was who they are, right,
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Speaker 1: That's what they believe. They hate Israel, they hate the Jews,
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Speaker 1: and they were going to stand with the terrorists and
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Speaker 1: the terarist sympathizers. Now, in addition, according to this report,
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Speaker 1: when the President announces the State Union Address, it was
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Speaker 1: to send a clear signal.
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Speaker 2: That we don't trust Israel as well.
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Speaker 1: Now, after several failed attempts, the peer mission was ultimately
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Speaker 1: abandoned a few months later in June. The Daily Caller
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Speaker 1: quietly reported at the time, and no one else really
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Speaker 1: was talking about it because the administration was like, well,
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Speaker 1: we got the headline to say the Union, right, we
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Speaker 1: made it clear we're not standing with Israel, so we're
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Speaker 1: kind of good here.
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Speaker 2: We're fine.
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Speaker 1: The Inspector General report also said that for years the
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Speaker 1: Army and Navy had divested watercraft and underfunded sea lift programs,
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Speaker 1: leading to the quote degraded readiness. So translation, if you
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Speaker 1: know what hit the fan and we were in any
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Speaker 1: type of rough waters or seas where we would need
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Speaker 1: to have something like this built.
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Speaker 2: We were screwed.
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Speaker 1: We weren't going to get it done, and it was
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Speaker 1: going to put American soldiers' lives at risk because part
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Speaker 1: of the reason why you have this readiness is actually
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Speaker 1: not for humanitarian aid. It's actually for making sure that
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Speaker 1: you have readiness with our troops if we need to
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Speaker 1: get basic supplies them like food, water, artillery, military equipment.
25:04
Speaker 1: The list goes on and on of the things that
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Speaker 1: you might need this bridge for military personnel getting in
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Speaker 1: staging areas. What we found out was we basically are
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Speaker 1: completely unprepared for this.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: This also goes back to what I said on the
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Speaker 1: show yesterday with Pete Edseth, making it abundantly clear now
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Speaker 1: that we are not going to screw around with military readiness.
25:27
Speaker 1: And this is why that Supreme Court ruling was such
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Speaker 1: a big deal that we don't have to deal with
25:31
Speaker 1: all the trends issues in the military. It's not this
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Speaker 1: is not the place and military readiness should in fact
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Speaker 1: be take present over this woke ideology.
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Speaker 2: And we know that we're in a bad spot.
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Speaker 1: Like that part is very very clear, Like we're in
25:46
Speaker 1: a really bad spot. Everybody knows it, everybody understands it,
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Speaker 1: and we're correcting it.
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Speaker 2: This is just another example.
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Speaker 1: Of just how weak our military got under the Biden regime.
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Speaker 1: They didn't want it to be strong. They wanted America
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Speaker 1: to be weak. They didn't want us to be ready.
26:04
Speaker 1: They wanted us to use I guess you just say,
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Speaker 1: for straight up propaganda. Like it was all about the propaganda,
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Speaker 1: and that was the main thing that they wanted to do,
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Speaker 1: was to turn the military into this experiment where it's like, hey,
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Speaker 1: let's see what happens when you put a bunch of
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Speaker 1: trainees in the military, and how that's going to work
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Speaker 1: out for us.
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Speaker 2: Well, we know what.
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Speaker 1: A disaster it became. But there were real lives that
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Speaker 1: were affected. Look at all of the people, the six
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Speaker 1: to two soldiers that were injured because they were sent
26:38
Speaker 1: in to rough seas to do an impossible job that
26:42
Speaker 1: we weren't ready and or trained for it. Now, could
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Speaker 1: we have done this in general? Yes, I think we
26:47
Speaker 1: could have if we were ready and trained for it.
26:50
Speaker 1: But we were not ready and we were not trained
26:53
Speaker 1: for it. That's the problem. And we didn't have the
26:56
Speaker 1: resources we needed to do it safely. It was a disaster,
26:59
Speaker 1: and they scrapped it, and they knew on the front end.
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Speaker 1: And that's the other part about this that scares, honestly
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Speaker 1: the hell out, I mean, is the fact that the
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Speaker 1: administration under the Biden regime was told like, hey, we're
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Speaker 1: not ready for this.
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Speaker 2: Hey, we're in a bad spot with this.
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Speaker 1: Hey you don't want to do this, Like this is
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Speaker 1: not good, this is not something that you want to do,
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Speaker 1: and we're not prepared for this. We're not trained for
27:25
Speaker 1: they didn't care, Folks like they just didn't give a crap.
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Speaker 1: They genuinely just said, we don't care. And I think
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Speaker 1: that's the most shocking part of all with this conversation
27:37
Speaker 1: is how little they were willing to listen.
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Speaker 2: It was all a pr move. They wanted to give
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Speaker 2: the middle finger to.
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Speaker 1: Israel, and they were willing to risk American lives and
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Speaker 1: safety to do it in an impossible situation where a
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Speaker 1: peer that honestly should have never have been built.
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Speaker 2: Now, this Inspector General report is going.
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Speaker 1: To only I think, add to the anger and the frustration.
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Speaker 2: I think there's two ways of looking at this, I
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Speaker 2: really do.
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Speaker 1: I think the anger and the frustration here by many
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Speaker 1: in our military should be high. I think there should
28:14
Speaker 1: be hell to pay for this by those that made
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Speaker 1: this decision and those that decided to just play politics.
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Speaker 1: Questions should be asked, there should be investigations. Not because
28:25
Speaker 1: I want to get even, but because I don't want
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Speaker 1: people in our military that basically use the military for
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Speaker 1: their own political reasons.
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Speaker 2: That's the big problem I have here with this.
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