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Texas Democrats Flee State to Block GOP Redistricting Plan plus Banks Face Fines for Political Discrimination · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Over fifty Texas House Democrats, including sixty two members total
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  Speaker 1: in the lower chamber, have left Texas, traveling to Illinois,
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  Speaker 1: New York, and Massachusetts. Well, at least they're consistent up
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  Speaker 1: there being sanctuary states and cities. Why to deny quorum
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  Speaker 1: and block a GOP back congressional redistricting plan that would
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  Speaker 1: likely add up to five new Republican leaning US House seats,
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  Speaker 1: That is the claim by Democrats and why they're now
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  Speaker 1: fleeing the state now. This strategy mirrors previous walkouts in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one and in two thousand and three in Texas,
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  Speaker 1: where the quorum rules were used to slow down legislation.
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  Speaker 1: Governor Greg Abbott has now responded, issuing a three pm
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  Speaker 1: Monday ultimatum for Democrats to return or face serious consequences.
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  Speaker 1: He threatened to quote invoke a twenty twenty one Age
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  Speaker 1: opinion allowing courts to clear seats vacant due to intentional
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  Speaker 1: quote abandonment of office. He also could seek civil arrest
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  Speaker 1: warrants for absent members, valid only however, inside of Texas,
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  Speaker 1: which is why so many Democrats have fled to liberal states. Also,
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  Speaker 1: he can investigate potential felony charges. For fundraising to pay
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  Speaker 1: the five hundred dollars a day fines that are being
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  Speaker 1: imposed by the House rules. Now, the Texas House passed
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  Speaker 1: an eighty five to six vote authorizing the Sergeant in
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  Speaker 1: Arms to issue civil arrest warrants for those that were
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  Speaker 1: purposely absent. Now. Breaking quorum, by the way, is not
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  Speaker 1: a crime, making extradition impossible. Abbott cannot legally compel lawmakers
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  Speaker 1: to return from other states directly, is what is being
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  Speaker 1: said now by Politico. Declarations of vacancy would require individual
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  Speaker 1: court action in each lawmaker's district, potentially years of litigation,
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  Speaker 1: and would delay redistricting beyond the December twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: deadline for the twenty twenty six primaries. And that's exactly
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  Speaker 1: why Democrats are playing this game. Texas Democrats maintain they
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  Speaker 1: are quote standing up for democratic norms, not running away.
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  Speaker 1: You can decide how ridiculous they actually are in your
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  Speaker 1: own minds. But many of the representatives are now taking
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  Speaker 1: more heat. Why because they are prioritizing the Democrats' agenda
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  Speaker 1: over prioritizing flood relief. Yes, that was one of the
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  Speaker 1: issues on the table that they're now fleeing from. I'll
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  Speaker 1: give you just another example of also how many liberal
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  Speaker 1: cities are helping them and states. The Illinois governor Pritzker
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  Speaker 1: publicly back to the lawmakers' actions, calling them a courageous
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  Speaker 1: defense of democracy and saying welcome to Illinois. Democrats are
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  Speaker 1: characterizing the Governor of Texas Abbot's threats as quote smoking mirrors,
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  Speaker 1: pointing out that constitutional tools like quorum breaks are legitimate
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  Speaker 1: devices they say to use under Texas law. All Right,
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Abbott, the Text governor, he's not playing around at
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  Speaker 1: all with what the Democrats are doing. In fact, he
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  Speaker 1: gave them a three pm deadline to get back to
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  Speaker 1: the House chambers. The Democrats did not comply, And after
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  Speaker 1: that he sat down with Sean Hannity on his show
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  Speaker 1: on Fox News, and I want you to hear exactly
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  Speaker 1: what the governor had to say.
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  Speaker 2: Very latest from Austin is Texas Governor, Greg Abbott, Governor.
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  Speaker 2: When I look, I have a whole sheet here of
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  Speaker 2: every single Democratic state and it's just like the examples
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  Speaker 2: I put up there. They have jerry mandered their states
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  Speaker 2: left right, sideways. They're saying, well, they're going to do
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  Speaker 2: to their states what you're doing in Texas. They already
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  Speaker 2: did it in all of these blue states. Frankly, Republicans
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  Speaker 2: should have caught up a long time ago.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Sean, first of all, Texas is doing what we
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  Speaker 3: are allowed to by the law. And one reason why
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  Speaker 3: that law exists the way that it does is because
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats brought a lawsuit after our last redistricting and
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  Speaker 3: that decision, and that lawsuit came out last year, and
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  Speaker 3: that lawsuit recognized that coalition districts are not required, and
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  Speaker 3: so Texas has a right to readraw these lines to
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  Speaker 3: fully represent the desires of every voter in the state.
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  Speaker 3: But Sean, that misses the point here. The point here
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  Speaker 3: is that Democrats have done something that's very untexed. They've
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  Speaker 3: turned their backs on their fellow Texans. When it came
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  Speaker 3: to a fight, they turn and ran away. Not just
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  Speaker 3: from this redistricting fight, they ran away from dealing with
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  Speaker 3: the flooding issues that they are still echoing across the
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  Speaker 3: Curveville area. Families desperately need results from the state legislature
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  Speaker 3: in this thirty day special session that are not going
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  Speaker 3: to be delivered because Democrats are hanging out in Chicago
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  Speaker 3: and New York and other places.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, let me run through the states. California
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  Speaker 2: Republicans thirty nine percent of the House vote, but they
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  Speaker 2: only have seventeen percent of the seats. Connecticut Republicans forty
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  Speaker 2: percent of the House vote, zero seats, none zip Illinois
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four Republicans. They got a pretty respectable forty
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  Speaker 2: seven percent of the statewide vote, eighteen percent of House seats. Maryland,
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  Speaker 2: one of the bluest states, Trump gets thirty five percent,
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  Speaker 2: but they only have twelve percent of House seats. Massachusetts
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  Speaker 2: again zero seats. Nevada is even worse for Republicans win
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  Speaker 2: the state. They won the state House by ten points,
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  Speaker 2: walked away with one single House seat in the entire state.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. So this has been the practice of these
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  Speaker 2: states for the longest period of time. Now they want
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  Speaker 2: to attack you, and I'm thinking, Okay, what you're doing
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  Speaker 2: is exactly what they did.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and not even that sean To be honest, the
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  Speaker 3: Texas maps are not going to be as extreme as
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  Speaker 3: those other blue states that you talked about. But another thing,
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  Speaker 3: and that is what Texas is doing under these new maps.
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  Speaker 3: Four of the five new seats will be a majority
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  Speaker 3: Hispanic seats. One of the seats is going to restore
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  Speaker 3: the Barbara Jordan's seat over in the Houston area. And
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  Speaker 3: so these are seats where Democrats are having to come
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  Speaker 3: to grips with the reality, and that is they are
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  Speaker 3: now losing the votes of Hispanics and black voters in
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  Speaker 3: the state of Texas, and these districts are going to
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  Speaker 3: show that Hispanics in Blacks as well as others are
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  Speaker 3: voting for Republican and republic is their candadate of choice,
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  Speaker 3: and we will ensure that will be achieved at the
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  Speaker 3: congressional level. In the stead of Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Well, certainly it should be somewhat proportional to what the
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  Speaker 2: vote is. What is your response to Kathy Hockel who
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  Speaker 2: says that we are at war over Texas and the
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  Speaker 2: redistricting push that's going on in Texas.
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  Speaker 3: There's a bunch of crazy bluster. Democrats are freaking out
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  Speaker 3: because they are realizing Texas has the authority to redistrict
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  Speaker 3: and we're going to do so in a way that's
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  Speaker 3: going to lead to these additional seats that will vote
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  Speaker 3: Republican and they will be serving in Congress in the
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  Speaker 3: next session. And so Democrats are freaking out about it,
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  Speaker 3: engaging in rhetoric, but I don't think they have the
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  Speaker 3: capability of actually living up to it and doing anything
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  Speaker 3: about it. Texas will continue to fight for what is right,
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  Speaker 3: and that's exactly what we are doing.
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  Speaker 2: Is it a fair statement to say that Republicans in
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  Speaker 2: terms of the percentages and numbers that they have voted
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  Speaker 2: have been unfairly cheated out of their representa. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's a more fair statement.
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  Speaker 3: Well, a different way to say it, and that is
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  Speaker 3: at least in Texas about states, Yeah, and I'll talk
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  Speaker 3: about both. In Texas, we are going to ensure that
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  Speaker 3: voters are going to be able to vote for their
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  Speaker 3: candidate of choice. For example, I think Donald Trump won
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  Speaker 3: and all five of these seas that we will be
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  Speaker 3: making Republican seats. The same thing should apply in all
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  Speaker 3: those other states. Sean that you mentioned in your monologue
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  Speaker 3: where you pointed out the gross jurymandering in these blue
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  Speaker 3: states have rejected Republican candidates for office that should be
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  Speaker 3: serving those states, should be serving our country. It's the
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  Speaker 3: jerrymandering in the blue states that has started the politics
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  Speaker 3: in America.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. If you want to know who's actually jerrymandering in
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  Speaker 1: this country, it's clearly Democrats in all of the Democratic
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  Speaker 1: states that were mentioned there. In a major move to
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  Speaker 1: protect all Americans, the White House were now being told
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  Speaker 1: is preparing a new executive order that would find banks, small, medium,
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  Speaker 1: and the largest for dropping customers for political reasons. The
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  Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal is reporting on it now. The order
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  Speaker 1: directs bank regulators to investigate whether any financial institutions might
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  Speaker 1: have violated the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, antitrust laws, or
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  Speaker 1: consumer financial protection laws, the Journal reported, citing a draft
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  Speaker 1: text of the order. The order, which could be signed
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  Speaker 1: as early as this week, provides for monetary penalties, consent decrees,
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  Speaker 1: or other disciplinary measures against violators. The order also directs
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  Speaker 1: regulators to strike policies they have that might have contributed
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  Speaker 1: to banks dropping certain customers, and requires the Small Business
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  Speaker 1: Association to review the practices of banks that guarantee the
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  Speaker 1: agency's loans out This is a major move for protecting
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  Speaker 1: specifically conservatives that have been debanked by large banks and
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  Speaker 1: small banks alike. There are many in the Second Amendment
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  Speaker 1: community that have also been debanked as well. There are
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  Speaker 1: Christian organizations that have been debanked, missionary organizations that have
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  Speaker 1: been debanked, and Conservative organizations that have been debanked, especially
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  Speaker 1: during the Biden years. Now the President saying you can't
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  Speaker 1: do that. It's un American and we're not going to
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  Speaker 1: allow it to stand now. Reuters is also reporting at
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  Speaker 1: this hour that the White House is apparently working on
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  Speaker 1: this at a rapid pace because they believe it is
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  Speaker 1: time to hold banks accountable that targeted people specifically for
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  Speaker 1: their political beliefs. Now, after speaking with people at the
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  Speaker 1: White House late this afternoon, here's what I can also
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  Speaker 1: tell you. The White House, I've been told, is in
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  Speaker 1: fact preparing an executive order that would empower the regulators
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  Speaker 1: to penalize banks for quote, terminating customer relationships based on
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  Speaker 1: political beliefs. These penalties could include hefty fines, I'm being told,
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  Speaker 1: and also disciplinary actions. Now, financial regulators would be instructed
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  Speaker 1: to investigate potential breaches not only the Equal Credit Opportunity
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  Speaker 1: Act I mentioned earlier and antitrust laws, but also consumer
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  Speaker 1: protection regulations by banks accused of politically motivated actions against
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  Speaker 1: those who had bank accounts at their bank. The draft
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  Speaker 1: order also calls on policymakers to revoke existing internal bank
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  Speaker 1: policies that actually may have led to politically motivated account closures,
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  Speaker 1: and directs the Small Business Administration to review loan back
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  Speaker 1: practices that could involve similar issues as well. Now, although
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  Speaker 1: no banks are mentioned by name, the order appears tied
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  Speaker 1: to public criticism of major institutions such as JP, Morgan Chase,
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  Speaker 1: and Bank of America accused of severing ties with conservative clients,
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  Speaker 1: a charge that of course they strongly deny, and the
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  Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal has reported on this extensively recently. Now,
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  Speaker 1: according to others, the order could be signed, like I
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  Speaker 1: said this week, potentially spelling major trouble for big banks. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this move reflects Donald Trump's ongoing concern, especially from conservative circles,
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  Speaker 1: about political bias or debanking and financial services. It forms
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  Speaker 1: part of a broader regulatory agenda to ensure economic institutions
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  Speaker 1: remain neutral and customers aren't penalized for political beliefs. At
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, the President of the United
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  Speaker 1: States to America wants to make sure you're not targeted
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  Speaker 1: because you voted for him, and in the future, to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that no matter who you vote for, you're
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  Speaker 1: not targeted by a bank. Now, the order has not
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  Speaker 1: been officially issued yet, and there's a very good chance
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  Speaker 1: there will be changes that are made in the coming
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  Speaker 1: days and hours. Banks and regulators also are remaining relatively quiet,
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  Speaker 1: and the White House is saying they're willing to talk,
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  Speaker 1: but there's many that are scared what may be coming
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  Speaker 1: down the pipeline. And the big question is this which
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  Speaker 1: agencies are actually going to lead enforcement oversight I'm being
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  Speaker 1: told is likely going to be by federal banking regulators,
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  Speaker 1: the Department of Justice, and the SPA. Implementation details are
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  Speaker 1: going to work through the White House and the hours
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  Speaker 1: and days ahead at the end of the day. What
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  Speaker 1: does this mean, Well, it means that Donald Trump's looking
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  Speaker 1: out for conservatives that had been targeted solely because of
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  Speaker 1: our political beliefs, and that's exactly why so many Americans
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  Speaker 1: voted for him.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump has also talked a lot recently about many
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  Speaker 1: concerts being debanked At the World Economic Forum and Davos.
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  Speaker 1: Back in January, Trump addressed the CEOs of the largest
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  Speaker 1: US banks and made it clear he called out Bank
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  Speaker 1: of America CEO Brian Mornihan and indirectly JP Morgan's Jamie
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  Speaker 1: Diamond saying, quote, many concertis complained that the banks are
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  Speaker 1: not allowing them to do business. You've done a fantastic job,
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  Speaker 1: but I hope you start opening your banks to conservatives
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  Speaker 1: because what you're doing is wrong. He expressed concerns that
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  Speaker 1: consertives are being excluded from bank services, implying it may
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  Speaker 1: be politically motivated or regulator driven under the Biden administration,
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  Speaker 1: saying quote, I don't know if regulators mandated that because
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  Speaker 1: of Biden. Now, Trump's remarks revived a larger conservative narrative
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  Speaker 1: around the banking the claim that banks are systematically cutting
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  Speaker 1: off accounts that are tied to conservative values or industries
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  Speaker 1: like firearms, fossil fuels, and also crypto. His criticism prompted
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  Speaker 1: regulatory and legislative attention as well, including a Senate Banking
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  Speaker 1: Committee hearing back in February and scrutiny from state attorney generals.
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  Speaker 1: On top of that, conservative states and political actors also
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  Speaker 1: pressured banks like Bank of America JP, Morgan City Group,
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  Speaker 1: and Goldman Sachs to clarify their policies. Now, despite these claims,
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  Speaker 1: banks have repeatedly denied alleging any political bias. They assert
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  Speaker 1: account closures are quote tied to compliance with anti money
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  Speaker 1: laundering rules, risk policies, and regulatory mandates, not ideology. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the reason why the President used a high profile venue
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  Speaker 1: at the World Economic Forum was to amplify conservative concerns
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  Speaker 1: about access to financial services. The remarks underpin regulatory movement
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  Speaker 1: that we're now witnessing in real time and the White
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  Speaker 1: House Executive Order on Political based account Closures is another
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  Speaker 1: example of that. Look, the President of the United States
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  Speaker 1: of America set it clear when he was running. My
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  Speaker 1: job is to protect all Americans. And also, this is
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  Speaker 1: one of the reasons why he's advocating so much for crypto.
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  Speaker 1: As Donald Trump signed that crypto bill into law. Here's
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  Speaker 1: part of what change would that take.
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  Speaker 5: A listen a fed share far earlier than anyone expects,
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  Speaker 5: so too late's voice can be totally nullified.
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  Speaker 6: All right, And Trump today at the White House, he
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  Speaker 6: was having such a great time. He's ignoring some of
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  Speaker 6: the other controversies out there are the other noise on that.
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  Speaker 6: But he signs this major crypto bill into law. A
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  Speaker 6: lot of people thought it never could happen. He got
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  Speaker 6: the Republicans on board. This will make us, he says,
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  Speaker 6: competitive with China. Check it out.
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  Speaker 4: This afternoon, we take a giant step to cement the
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  Speaker 4: American dominance of global finance and crypto technology. And we
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  Speaker 4: want to have it not China, and China wasn't actually
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  Speaker 4: have they were watching this day.
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  Speaker 6: They like it.
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  Speaker 4: And we've got this, We've got Ai. We've got a
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  Speaker 4: lot of great ones happening.
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  Speaker 6: James, what do you think turned Trump on the crypto issue?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think President Trump recognizes that the rising economy
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  Speaker 5: of crypto does lift all boats. When Americans have access
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  Speaker 5: to other banks at a time when folks have been
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: rightly concerned about being dbanked, they have access to stable coins.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: That means that it's impossible for them to be thrown
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  Speaker 5: off for the wrong tweet about vaccine mandates, for standing
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  Speaker 5: up for the President's unbelievable economic agenda. And so the
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  Speaker 5: President recognizes that to compete with China, it isn't simply
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  Speaker 5: about giving Secretary headsapt all the resources he needs at
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  Speaker 5: the Defense Apartment. It also means working to enable ourselves
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  Speaker 5: to be economic powerhouses. Yes, and the real economy, Laura,
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  Speaker 5: but also in this new alternative age of artificial intelligence
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  Speaker 5: and of crypto.
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  Speaker 1: He's exactly right. This is why Donald Trump is pushing
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  Speaker 1: so hard for other avenues so that Americans cannot have
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  Speaker 1: to worry that banks have all the power over them
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: and their money. Cashpatel has now come out and is
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  Speaker 1: calling out the lying media after the discovery of quote
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  Speaker 1: secret burn bags. You notice there's a trend here with
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: the deep state and what we're now finding out after
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: a lot of man hours are being used to see
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: just how corrupt our government was under the previous administration,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: in fact, dating all the way back to when Barack
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Obama is in office, not just Joe Biden. Well now,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the FBI Director Cashpateel has challenged news media to own
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  Speaker 1: who is re laing about his discovery of a stash
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  Speaker 1: of classified documents connected to the Trump Russia collusion narrative
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  Speaker 1: that was weaponized against Donald Trump in his first term.
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  Speaker 1: The director's comments came in the wake of a recent
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  Speaker 1: report that burn bags filled with thousands of documents dating
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  Speaker 1: back to the Trump Russia probe were discovered in a
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  Speaker 1: room in the FBI headquarters. Posting this on x, the
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  Speaker 1: director invoked his role as senior counsel for the White
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  Speaker 1: House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence during the first Trump
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  Speaker 1: term and wrote this in twenty seventeen slash eighteen. I
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  Speaker 1: proved that still dossier was fictitious. Intelligence was weaponized by
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  Speaker 1: corrupt FBI officials to deceive a federal judge and unlawfully
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  Speaker 1: spy on the president on then presidential candate Donald Trump's campaign,
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  Speaker 1: all of it being paid for by his opponents. Now
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  Speaker 1: we know that dossier was paid for by Hillary Clinton's
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  Speaker 1: camp and they were fined for that. And we also
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  Speaker 1: know that it was paid for by the Democrat National Committee.
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  Speaker 1: They were also fined for it. So it is a
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  Speaker 1: fact that shouldn't even be up for any type of debate.
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  Speaker 1: He added, the media called me a quote liar. Patel continued, Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm the FBI director. We just uncovered burn bags, burn
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  Speaker 1: bag rooms filled with hidden Russia Gate files, including the
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  Speaker 1: Durham annex, and we have declassified them. Once again. I
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  Speaker 1: released the prior FBI's own documents and exposed the truth.
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  Speaker 1: The same media is calling me a liar again. He
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  Speaker 1: goes on to say, then came the challenge with Patel
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  Speaker 1: writing this quote. Maybe this FBI will release more documents
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  Speaker 1: directly from the FBI headquarters so we can see who's line.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't want to deprive the fake news of more bogus pulitzers.
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  Speaker 1: And then well, now Fox News is reported that one
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  Speaker 1: potentially explosive find is the quote classified annex to former
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  Speaker 1: Special Counsel John Durham's final report. It would include the
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  Speaker 1: underlying intelligence in that probe. The fine is yet another
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  Speaker 1: in the series of document revelations that point to a
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  Speaker 1: hidden agenda aimed at sabotaging Donald Trump's first term in
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  Speaker 1: office and honestly cutting it short. Now, documents also that
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  Speaker 1: were released, you may remember last month by the Office
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  Speaker 1: the Director of National Intelligence revealed quote overwhelming evidence that
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  Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration manufactured and politicized intelligence
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  Speaker 1: that created the Russia hoax. That is what Tulci Gabbard
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  Speaker 1: said at the time. While legacy media have largely ignored
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  Speaker 1: the revolutions, the materials cited by Betel are not going
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  Speaker 1: into their quote burn bags. The source told Fox News.
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  Speaker 1: The top intelligence and national security officials are now overseeing
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  Speaker 1: the to classification of the Durham annex. The materials will
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  Speaker 1: then be sent to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Senator Chuck Grassley,
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  Speaker 1: who will release the documents to the public now. Grassley
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  Speaker 1: has been seeking information connected to Durham's probe for some time.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty nineteen, for example, then Attorney General Bill Barr
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  Speaker 1: initiated the Durham probe to expose potential misconduct by the
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  Speaker 1: FBI in its effort to tie the Trump campaign to Russia.
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  Speaker 1: Durham concluded in his final report released in twenty thirteen
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  Speaker 1: that the FBI relied on uncorroborated intelligence and lacked a
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  Speaker 1: sufficient basis to l onto full investigation into the Trump
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  Speaker 1: campaign's alleged collusion with the United States Cold War adversary.
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  Speaker 1: So you look at what I just told you and
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  Speaker 1: this report that has come out. These are three major
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  Speaker 1: reports that are coming from the intelligence agencies, and what
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  Speaker 1: it's proving as Cashpitel again firing back at media critics
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  Speaker 1: after and covering these secret FBI burned bags with classified documents,
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  Speaker 1: is that this was done in a way that was nationwide.
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  Speaker 1: It was done in a way that was so egregious
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  Speaker 1: that the only way it could happen is if it
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  Speaker 1: was planned deliberately by the highest people in power. That's
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  Speaker 1: the only way this thing happens. Don't forget. Share this
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