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Public Opinion Blows a Hole Through Immigration Spin plus Trump Calls Missing Scientists ‘Serious Stuff’ · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: President Trump has authorized the United States Navy to destroy
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  Speaker 1: any Iranian fast boats that attempt to put mines in
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  Speaker 1: to shoot and kill. Our commanders have clear rules of engagement.
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  Speaker 1: If Iran is putting mines in the water or otherwise
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  Speaker 1: threatening American commercial shipping or American forces, we will shoot
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  Speaker 1: to destroy, no hesitation, just like the drug boats in
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Saturday morning.
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  Speaker 4: It's nice to have you with us on the forty
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  Speaker 4: seven Morning Update, and we've got two big stories for you.
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  Speaker 4: First up, new polling data is out on what Americans
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  Speaker 4: think about deporting all illegal immigrants in this country, and
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  Speaker 4: the data may shock you.
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  Speaker 3: I'll have that in just a moment.
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  Speaker 4: Also, we break down this new story that the FBI
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  Speaker 4: is now looking into mysterious deaths of top levels scientists
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  Speaker 4: in this country all over the country. So what is
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  Speaker 4: That's Compassion dot Com. It's the forty seven Morning Update
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  Speaker 4: and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 4: There is a very interesting new poll that has just
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  Speaker 4: come out and it says something that now I want
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  Speaker 4: your take on. Nearly one third of registered voters now
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  Speaker 4: say all illegal immigrants should be deported. Yes, nearly one
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  Speaker 4: third of registered voters say that every single illegal immigrant
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  Speaker 4: in the United States America should be deported. This is
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  Speaker 4: a new survey from the Economists and you gov found now.
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  Speaker 4: The survey first ass respondents this which comes closest to
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  Speaker 4: your view about illegal immigrants who are living in the US. Overall,
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  Speaker 4: forty three percent of registered voters expressed the belief that
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  Speaker 4: they should be allowed to stay in the US and
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  Speaker 4: eventually apply for citizenship. That number is followed by about
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  Speaker 4: forty percent percent who say they should be deported. Only
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  Speaker 4: seven percent said they should be allowed to stay in
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  Speaker 4: the US but not become citizens.
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  Speaker 3: Now here's the interesting part.
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  Speaker 4: Survey then asked respondents to identify which illegal immigrants they
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  Speaker 4: believe should be deported, and nearly one third of registered
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  Speaker 4: voters thirty one percent said all illegal immigrants should be deported.
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  Speaker 4: A majority of registered voters sixty percent, agreed that illegal
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  Speaker 4: aliens convicted of serious crimes should be removed from the country,
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  Speaker 4: followed by nineteen percent who believe illegal immigrants convicted of
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  Speaker 4: minor crimes should be deported as well. Only three percent
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  Speaker 4: believe that illegal aliens who have lived in the US
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  Speaker 4: for many years without committing any crime should be deported.
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  Speaker 4: Now also something else, just three percent believe illegal immigrants
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  Speaker 4: who came to the US as children should be deported.
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  Speaker 4: There's a sharp difference in opinion on party lines. That's
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  Speaker 4: not surprising at all. Most Republicans fifty seven percent believe
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  Speaker 4: all legal immigrants should be deported. Twenty four percent of
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  Speaker 4: Independence and seven percent of Democrats agree. Now, most Democrats
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  Speaker 4: and Independence eighty one percent and sixty three percent, respectively
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  Speaker 4: believe illegal immigrants convicted of serious crimes should be deported. Now,
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  Speaker 4: the survey was taken and it was a very good sample.
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  Speaker 4: This survey comes as the Department of Homeland Security continues
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  Speaker 4: to highlight arrests of dangerous criminal legal aliens across the country.
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  Speaker 4: Their crimes include crimes against children. Jose rivera Orta, a
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  Speaker 4: criminal legal alien from Cuba, for example, was arrested by
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  Speaker 4: Ice and was convicted for lewd battery.
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  Speaker 3: On a child in Miami Dade County, Florida.
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  Speaker 4: Another arrests, Jacob Pablo Ramirez, hailing from Guatemala, was convicted
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  Speaker 4: for attempted statutory rape of a child in Dublin County,
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  Speaker 4: North Carolina. Other crimes include voluntary manslaughter, robbery, an aggravate
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  Speaker 4: assault with a deadly weapon. In fact, just yesterday, ICE
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  Speaker 4: arrested some truly sick individuals, including murderers, pedophiles, sexual predators,
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  Speaker 4: and violent thugs. That coming from the DHS Secretary Mark Waynemullen,
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  Speaker 4: he said in a statement a coming the April fourteenth
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  Speaker 4: press release, highlighting the fact that nearly seventy percent of
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  Speaker 4: all ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted
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  Speaker 4: of a crime in the United States of America. Now,
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  Speaker 4: this poll number is interesting because if you listen to
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  Speaker 4: the left, you listen to the media, they make you
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  Speaker 4: think that the president is completely out to lunch and
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  Speaker 4: that he's crazy to think that Americans want illegal immigrants
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  Speaker 4: to be deported. Well, guess what, they're wrong, And yeah,
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  Speaker 4: they put out a ton of propaganda on this exact issue.
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  Speaker 4: But that also is interesting from another perspective, is that
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  Speaker 4: propaganda working as well as they thought it was going to.
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  Speaker 3: The reality is probably not.
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  Speaker 4: Americans understand the crimes are being committed against them. They
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  Speaker 4: understand what it's doing to their communities, and that is
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  Speaker 4: exactly why the President of the United States of America
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  Speaker 4: continues to stay steadfast on this issue. It's also a
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  Speaker 4: reason why Republicans should listen up and watch closely to
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  Speaker 4: this data, especially going into the midterm elections. So here
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  Speaker 4: we are another moment where the media lied about what
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  Speaker 4: the American people want. The media lie about where the
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  Speaker 4: president was with the American people. And yes, many of
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  Speaker 4: them are still supporting the president and they believe that immigration,
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  Speaker 4: specifically illegal immigrants should not get to stay.
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  Speaker 3: Instead, they should be deported. Next story number two, I
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  Speaker 3: want to give you.
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  Speaker 4: An update on a story we talked about several days ago,
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  Speaker 4: and that is there are some missing US scientists. Now,
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  Speaker 4: this is a story that has taken on a life
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  Speaker 4: of its own as many on the Internet are freaking
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  Speaker 4: out and conspiracy theories are running rampant. This doesn't mean
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  Speaker 4: that there may not actually be some truth to this story.
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  Speaker 4: In general, we now are learning that the FBI is
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  Speaker 4: leading the investigation into the deaths or disappearances of scientists
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  Speaker 4: and staffers who worked at sensitive nuclear or space technology laboratories.
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  Speaker 4: Federal authorities have stepped in to determine whether any connections
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  Speaker 4: exist among at least ten different cases now involving individuals
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  Speaker 4: that are directly tied to what is described as high
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  Speaker 4: level research facilities. Now, these facilities include places like NASA's
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  Speaker 4: Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Loews Alamos National Laboratory. In
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  Speaker 4: a statement, the FBI confirmed that it is spearheading the
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  Speaker 4: effort in coordination with the Department of Energy, the Department
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  Speaker 4: of War and State, as well as local law enforcement agencies.
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  Speaker 4: All this coming now from CBS News Now. This move
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  Speaker 4: signals a heightened federal response after growing concerns over a
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  Speaker 4: pattern that some officials have described as eyebrow raising. President
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump has also weighed in on this, calling the
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  Speaker 4: situation pretty serious stuff and indicating the administration is monitoring developments.
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  Speaker 4: Trump also hoped that the cases are coincidental, but emphasized
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  Speaker 4: the need for answers, noting that some of them were
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  Speaker 4: very important people, referring to the scientists. The incident, which
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  Speaker 4: spans now several years, includes a mix of disappearances, homicides,
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  Speaker 4: and then unexplained deaths.
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  Speaker 3: Among the most high profile.
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  Speaker 4: Cases is the disappearance of a retired Air Force Major General,
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  Speaker 4: William Neil McCaslin in New Mexico earlier this year. Mcastlin,
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  Speaker 4: who previously led the airport's research laboratory, vanished after leaving
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  Speaker 4: his home without his phone or personal devices. Sparking major
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  Speaker 4: speculation online. Other cases also include a NASA affiliated aerospace
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  Speaker 4: engineer who disappeared while hiking in California, and multiple deaths
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  Speaker 4: involving scientists in Massachusetts and California to add on to
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  Speaker 4: the list. Now, look some of these cases of clear explanation,
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  Speaker 4: such as criminal acts and personal circumstances, and that's where
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  Speaker 4: the Internet doesn't want to look at those actual facts.
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  Speaker 4: Now there is truth that some of these are unresolved.
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  Speaker 4: Despite all the online speculation, experts now and investigators have
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  Speaker 4: cautioned against jumping to any conclusions. Officials familiar with the
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  Speaker 4: cases say there is currently no confirmly connecting any of
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  Speaker 4: these incidences, and some point to the large workforce across
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  Speaker 4: these facilities as a factor, saying, quote, people do just
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  Speaker 4: die is what one former Energy Department official noted, citing
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  Speaker 4: health issues, accidents, and other causes. Still, there is enough
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  Speaker 4: concern about potential foreign involvement that now some Republican lawmakers
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  Speaker 4: have even suggested adversaries such as China, Russia, or Iran
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  Speaker 4: could see value in targeting US scientific expertise, particularly amid
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  Speaker 4: heightened global tensions and the ongoing conflict in Iran Representative
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  Speaker 4: Eric Burlason, a Republican, said he would not be surprised
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  Speaker 4: if foreign actors were involved, noting that several of the
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  Speaker 4: individuals worked on sense of national security projects.
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  Speaker 3: The FBI expanded.
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  Speaker 4: Role follows increased public attention fueled in part by the
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  Speaker 4: social media speculation and then demands for transparency.
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  Speaker 3: So where are we now well?
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  Speaker 4: The House Oversight Committee has now launched its own probe,
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  Speaker 4: seeking briefings from multiple federal agencies. At the same time,
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  Speaker 4: agencies such as NASA have also said that there is
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  Speaker 4: no evidence in their mind of national security threat tied
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  Speaker 4: to the cases. Underscoring the uncertainties surrounding all of this,
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  Speaker 4: and as investigators continue their work, one thing is clear.
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  Speaker 4: The Trump administration is pledging what they described is a
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  Speaker 4: thorough review, and officials are promising that no stone quote
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  Speaker 4: unquote will be unturned. The FBI says they are determined
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  Speaker 4: to check and see if the incidents are isolated tragedies
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  Speaker 4: are part of a bigger and broader concern from foreign
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  Speaker 4: countries that may be trying to take out our scientists
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  Speaker 4: or our leaders in multiple different sectors. That's the reason
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  Speaker 4: why the President said this is worth looking at.
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