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Trump Intensifies Counter-Terrorism Efforts to Keep Americans Safe Around the World · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: When Donald Trump was running for office, he made it
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  Speaker 1: very clear that one of his big promises was going
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  Speaker 1: to be to protect Americans from terrorists around the world.
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump paying off on that.
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  Speaker 1: Over the past week, President Donald Trump has intensified counter
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  Speaker 1: terrorism efforts both domestically and internationally. Here's a summary of
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  Speaker 1: just the latest developments that you may have missed. Airstrikes
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  Speaker 1: were ordered on March to fifteenth. President Trump authorized large
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  Speaker 1: airstrikes targeting Aramback Houthi rebels in Yemen's capital. This action
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  Speaker 1: was in response to the hoothy threat to the US
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  Speaker 1: shipping assets in the Red Sea. The offensive aims to
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  Speaker 1: protect American interests and ensure navigational.
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  Speaker 2: Freedom for our ships in the region.
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  Speaker 1: The strike resulted in over thirty deaths and more than
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  Speaker 1: one hundred injured. The Houthi leader vowed to continue attacks
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  Speaker 1: on American shipping in the US if US operations persist
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  Speaker 1: quote unquote. Iran's foreign minister also criticized the US actions,
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  Speaker 1: urging an end to Yemeny's civilian casualties. As he described it,
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  Speaker 1: even though, as you and I both know, Iran's foreign
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  Speaker 1: minister has sanctioned an incredible number of deaths of civilians
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  Speaker 1: in their attacks and backing of Hesblat and Hamas and going.
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  Speaker 2: After the Jews in Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Following by the way the air strikes, US warships intercepted
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  Speaker 1: and destroyed approximately twelve drones that were launched by the
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  Speaker 1: Houthis targeting the US Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier. This
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  Speaker 1: marks a significant escalation in hostilities, with the Huthis claiming
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  Speaker 1: the use of the ballistic and cruise missiles along side
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  Speaker 1: drones in their assault. Then the President said, that's not
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  Speaker 1: all I'm dealing with them.
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  Speaker 2: Let me say it again.
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  Speaker 1: The President then said, that's not all I'm doing to
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  Speaker 1: protect you, the American people. Domestic counter terrorism measures also
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  Speaker 1: happened the arrest of an activist on March the tenth,
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  Speaker 1: The Palasinian activists Muhammad Khalil, known for leading the pro
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  Speaker 1: Palestinian protests at Columbia University, was arrested by ICE agents
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  Speaker 1: and the arrest was filmed by his wife. President Trump
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  Speaker 1: praised the arrests, labeling it the first of many to come,
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  Speaker 1: quote unquote. He also accused activists like this individual of
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  Speaker 1: being paid agitators involved in anti American and anti Semitic activities.
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  Speaker 1: This move sparked criticism from quote free speech advocates and
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  Speaker 1: New York City leaders who deemed it unconstitutional. Guess what,
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  Speaker 1: it is absolutely constitutional what the President has done. Then
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  Speaker 1: the President also decided to do something else, the designation
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  Speaker 1: of domestic acts as terrorism. In response to recent vandalism
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  Speaker 1: that has happened against Tesla dealerships, President Trump announced that
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  Speaker 1: such acts would be labeled as domestic terrorism. He emphasized
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  Speaker 1: that perpetrators would face severe consequences, underscoring his support for
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  Speaker 1: the Tesla CEO, who we set down with in our interview,
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk. Now, the present smart to do this because
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  Speaker 1: what's happening now is radical leftists in this country, anarchists, Marxists,
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  Speaker 1: and socialists. What they have decided to do is go
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  Speaker 1: after Tesla users. They're attacking people in their cars, They're
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  Speaker 1: keying cars, they're destroying cars or setting Tesla charging stations
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  Speaker 1: on fire. They're going after Tesla dealerships and doing incredible
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  Speaker 1: damage to the dealerships, all because Elon Musk is going
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  Speaker 1: after waste, fraud and abuse. We also had the President
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  Speaker 1: doing something else that was pretty amazing, and it comes
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  Speaker 1: to the issue of leadership appointments, Joe Kent's nomination. In
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  Speaker 1: early February of twenty twenty five, President Trump's nominated Joe Kent,
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  Speaker 1: a former Army Special Forces soldier and two time congressional
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  Speaker 1: candidate from Washington State, to lead the National counter Terrorism Center.
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  Speaker 1: Kent's extensive military background is expected to influence the administration's
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  Speaker 1: counter terrorism strategies. So again he's leading, for example by
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  Speaker 1: the people that he's picking. And then there was also
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  Speaker 1: some counter terrorism operations that took place in Africa. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: there were airstrikes in Somalia. The US conducted air strikes
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  Speaker 1: against Islamic State militants hiding in caves in Somalia. The operation,
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  Speaker 1: the first of its kind since President Trump's returned to office,
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  Speaker 1: targeted key ISIS operatives and aim to disrupt their operations
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  Speaker 1: in the region. We also know about the capture of
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  Speaker 1: a terrorist behind the Abby Gate bombing. The apprehension was
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  Speaker 1: announced on March the fourth, when President Trump announced the
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  Speaker 1: capture of the terrorists responsible for that bombing during the
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  Speaker 1: Afghan withdrawal in August of twenty twenty one that results
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  Speaker 1: in the deaths of thirteen American service members. The individual
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  Speaker 1: is currently en route to face American justice, with the
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  Speaker 1: operation highlighting cooperation between US agencies as well as the
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  Speaker 1: Pakistani government. Now, what does all this say put together?
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  Speaker 1: Very simply, it says this, Donald Trump is back in
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  Speaker 1: office with a robust and multi facet approach by his
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  Speaker 1: administration addressing terrorism threats both domestically and internationally. And this
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  Speaker 1: is just over the past week. Look at the headlines.
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  Speaker 1: US shares photos of Trump watching deadly strike against the
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  Speaker 1: Houthi rebels as it revealed US informed Russia of the attack.
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  Speaker 1: Another headline, US military shoots down Houthy drones is Trump
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  Speaker 1: strikes against counter against terrorism groups continue US here strikes.
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  Speaker 1: Another headline reads took out multiple Hooty terror leaders. Trump says,
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  Speaker 1: as Yemen reports thirty one killed. So, whether it is
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  Speaker 1: at home or abroad, what we are witnessing right.
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  Speaker 2: Now is law and order.
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  Speaker 1: Law and order that is clearly now a major part,
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  Speaker 1: I mean a major part of this entire government approach
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  Speaker 1: to putting America first. The President of the United States
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  Speaker 1: of America is putting America first.
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  Speaker 2: And that's incredible, and that's all you can ask for.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the voters asked, That's what the voters wanted,
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  Speaker 1: they wanted this to happen. They voted for it to happen,
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  Speaker 1: and it was amazing. The reason why the American people
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  Speaker 1: right now are clearly behind Donald Trump is for the
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  Speaker 1: simple reason that they actually understand.
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  Speaker 2: That this president is keeping us safe.
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  Speaker 1: The media, by the way, they are like losing their
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  Speaker 1: minds because they don't know how to cover this president
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  Speaker 1: in a way that can hurt him right now, because
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  Speaker 1: the American people clearly are responding. I mean, look at
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  Speaker 1: the video that was put out by Donald Trump of
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  Speaker 1: all these gang members being sent out of the country
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  Speaker 1: on these flights. Like I mean, Donald Trump said, these
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  Speaker 1: are monsters that were sent into our country by crooked
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden, the radical left Democrats. How there they thank
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  Speaker 1: you to El Salvador and in particular President of El
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  Speaker 1: Salvador for understanding of this horrible situation which was allowed
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  Speaker 1: to happen to the United States because of incompetent democratic leadership.
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  Speaker 2: We will not forget.
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  Speaker 1: And he put to the video of all of these
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  Speaker 1: hardened criminals, like hardened criminals, and it's amazing. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: we've got a response now for the White House Press
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  Speaker 1: Secretary Caroline Levitt, responding to allegations of the Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: quote violated of federal court order by not turning the
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  Speaker 1: deportation flights around that we're going to El Salvador.
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  Speaker 2: Here is what she said. Quote.
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  Speaker 1: The administration did not refuse to comply with a court order.
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  Speaker 1: The order, which had no lawful basis, was issued after
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  Speaker 1: terrorists TDA aliens had already been removed from US territory.
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  Speaker 1: The written order and the administration's actions do not conflict. Moreover,
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  Speaker 1: as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear, federal courts
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  Speaker 1: generally have no jurisdiction over the presence conduct of foreign affairs.
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  Speaker 2: His authorities under the.
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  Speaker 1: Alien Enemies Act and his core Article two powers to
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  Speaker 1: remove foreign alien terrorists from the US soil and repel
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  Speaker 1: a declared invasion.
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  Speaker 2: A single judge in a single city.
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  Speaker 1: Cannot direct the movement of an aircraft carrier full of
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  Speaker 1: foreign alien terrorists who were physically expelled from US soil
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  Speaker 1: quote unquote. So that is what the White House Press
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  Speaker 1: Secretary has just said. Now there's something else that you
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  Speaker 1: need to know, and this is this new number that
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  Speaker 1: I love Trump is his highest approval rating ever, period,
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  Speaker 1: full stop.
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  Speaker 2: More Americans say the US is on the right track than.
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  Speaker 1: Any time in twenty years, so the last two decades.
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  Speaker 2: That is where we are.
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  Speaker 1: The New York Posts coming out with his new poll numbers,
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  Speaker 1: and let me just explain to you how they put it.
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  Speaker 1: They said Trump ties for highest approval he's ever had.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of a big deal, highest approve rating he's
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  Speaker 1: ever had. Three months into his second term, President Trump
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  Speaker 1: hit the highest approval rating he's ever had as.
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  Speaker 2: A commander in chief.
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  Speaker 1: While more Americans say the country is on the right
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  Speaker 1: track than at any point since two thousand and four,
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  Speaker 1: the new poll found go back to two thousand and four.
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  Speaker 1: That was when that was in the year when George
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  Speaker 1: Bush was reelected. That's a long time ago, folks. That's
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  Speaker 1: the good news. According to an NBC News poll released
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, This is NBC News. The bad news is
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  Speaker 1: that Trump still has not won over a majority of Americans.
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  Speaker 2: Fifty four percent.
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  Speaker 1: They say they disapproved of his handling of the economy,
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  Speaker 1: the first time he's lost the majority on that issue
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  Speaker 1: in the NBC polled. That's what they say. Now, I've
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  Speaker 1: love to look at this data and see exactly how
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  Speaker 1: they're getting it, and do they go after more hardcore
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  Speaker 1: liberals than an actual voting block that would represent America.
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  Speaker 2: But we can deal with at in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Even so, the survey found that voters generally filled Trump
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  Speaker 1: is bringing the right kind of change on the key issues,
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  Speaker 1: even tariffs. More Americans support his changes to trade policy
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  Speaker 1: than oppose it.
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  Speaker 2: According to NBC News.
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  Speaker 1: That despite the side market selloff last week as Wall
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  Speaker 1: Street grappled the Trump's decision earlier this month to slap
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  Speaker 1: twenty five percent across the board tariffs on Canadian and
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  Speaker 1: Mexico goods, as well as twenty percent tariffs on China,
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  Speaker 1: on many other key issues, voters felt the same way,
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  Speaker 1: with Trump's actions.
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  Speaker 2: On the border being the most popular.
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  Speaker 1: Fifty eight percent said it was a positive change on
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  Speaker 1: government cuts. Forty seven percent said his changes were good,
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  Speaker 1: compared to twenty one percent who opposed it. Again, these
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  Speaker 1: are major numbers. On many other key issues, voters felt
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  Speaker 1: the same way, with Trump's actions on the border being
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  Speaker 1: the most popular, fifty six percent said it's a positive
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  Speaker 1: change on government Cutt's forty seven percent says changes were
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  Speaker 1: good compared to twenty nine percent who opposed it.
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  Speaker 2: Even on the handling of the Ukraine War and NATO policies.
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  Speaker 1: He has received a significant pushback on mainly for the
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  Speaker 1: media and the press. More respondents said his actions were
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  Speaker 1: good forty one percent and forty percent that opposed his actions.
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  Speaker 2: Now, this is again coming from.
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  Speaker 1: NBC News and using their polls are very slanted against
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump. I go back to the basic issues here.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump is hitting on the issues. Caroline Levitt, White
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  Speaker 1: House Press Secretary, on Sunday Morning Futures talking about invoking
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  Speaker 1: the Alien Enemies Act against these gang members who have
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  Speaker 1: invaded our country, which the presidents saying we're going after
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  Speaker 1: into pouring them to El Salvador.
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  Speaker 2: Listen.
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  Speaker 3: In just one month, President Trump has used his executive
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  Speaker 3: authority to secure our other border. It proves that everybody
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  Speaker 3: who claimed we needed a border bill was wrong. We
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  Speaker 3: just needed a new president who actually cared about securing
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  Speaker 3: our homeland and enforcing our immigration laws. You mentioned daily
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  Speaker 3: Godaway's seventy seven. That's an astronomical decrease from the previous administration.
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  Speaker 3: There's been a ninety nine percent decrease of illegal migrants
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  Speaker 3: crossing through the Darien Gap. If you talk to border
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  Speaker 3: patrol agents and ICE agents. They will tell you the
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  Speaker 3: camaraderie in these agencies is at an all time high
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  Speaker 3: because they are actually being allowed to do their jobs.
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  Speaker 3: In breaking news, this morning, Maria, the President signed a
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  Speaker 3: proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act against trendy Aragua members
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  Speaker 3: who have invaded our country. These are the most violent,
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  Speaker 3: heinoused criminal monsters you could ever imagine. They have taken
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  Speaker 3: the lives of innocent American women like Jocelyn Nungray and
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  Speaker 3: Lake and Riley. And the President invoked this authority to
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  Speaker 3: deport nearly three hundred of them who are now in
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  Speaker 3: El Salvador, where they will be behind bars where they belong,
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  Speaker 3: rather than roaming freely in American communities.
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  Speaker 2: This is a massive win.
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  Speaker 3: For the American public and it is going to save lives.
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  Speaker 2: It is going to save lives.
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  Speaker 1: This is exactly why the President of United States of America,
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  Speaker 1: exactly why he has so much support.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm faced the nation.
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  Speaker 1: This morning, Senator Marco Rubia was asked a simple question
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  Speaker 1: by a hardcore leftist. Her name is Brettan. She's the
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  Speaker 1: host there, and I want you to hear what she said.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the reason why the media is just
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  Speaker 1: losing the American people.
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  Speaker 4: Is there any evidence of a link to terrorism or
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  Speaker 4: is it just his her point of view?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they take over, I mean do not. I mean
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  Speaker 5: you should watch the news. These guys take over entire buildings,
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  Speaker 5: shut down.
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  Speaker 4: I'm asking about justification for the revocation of his visa.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, they're referencing this student that was arrested
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  Speaker 1: and green card taken away? Who did all these protests
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  Speaker 1: on the college campuses? And I love how Mark Rubia
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  Speaker 1: looks as like, did you should watch the news?
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna back it up. Listen to that.
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  Speaker 1: He's talking to CBS. He's like, are you guys stupid?
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  Speaker 1: Are you stupid?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: They take over, I mean do not. I mean you
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  Speaker 5: should watch the news. These guys take over entire buildings, college,
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  Speaker 5: they shut down.
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  Speaker 4: Justification for the revocation of his visa? Was there any evident?
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  Speaker 5: So was the negotiator on it, negotiating on behalf of
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  Speaker 5: people that took over a campus, that vandalized buildings, negotiating
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  Speaker 5: over what that's a crime in and of itself that
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  Speaker 5: they're involved in, being the negotiator of the spokesperson this
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  Speaker 5: that and the other.
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  Speaker 2: We don't want it.
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  Speaker 5: We don't need these people in our country.
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  Speaker 2: That we don't need these people in our country. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Now you look at all the President Trump is doing
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  Speaker 1: and all the things that we're talking about here, and
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  Speaker 1: it goes back to what Donald Trump said in an
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  Speaker 1: interview recently. He said, simply put, we didn't need a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of new laws. We just needed a new president.
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  Speaker 1: He's not wrong. You secure the border and days after
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  Speaker 1: becoming president there was no new laws passed.
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  Speaker 2: We have ninety nine percent.
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  Speaker 6: Improvement from Biden and that was his better you know,
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  Speaker 6: he started around the election working a little bit harder
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  Speaker 6: and they got a little bit better. Was horrible still,
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  Speaker 6: So we're comparing it to his best time, comparing it
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  Speaker 6: to the worst time. It's like it's not even you
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  Speaker 6: can't calculate it. How much better. So we have now
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  Speaker 6: the best border we've ever had, and we did that in.
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  Speaker 2: A period of five weeks.
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  Speaker 6: Pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, does that.
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  Speaker 7: Imply that we don't need to add a bunch of
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  Speaker 7: money and forces. In fact, maybe you could draw down
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  Speaker 7: or reappoint the force and manpower that's down there, and
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  Speaker 7: we don't need new laws and new money.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you don't need very many new laws because I
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  Speaker 6: did it without new laws. I did it twice without
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  Speaker 6: new laws. I had the best border ever. And now
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  Speaker 6: I think we're going to beat those numbers. Actually think
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  Speaker 6: these numbers, i'd be slightly better, and we're going to
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  Speaker 6: get them better yet. And I said during the speech
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  Speaker 6: on Tuesday night, I said that you didn't need anything,
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  Speaker 6: you just needed a new president for that. I said,
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  Speaker 6: close the border, and they closed the border. He could
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  Speaker 6: have done the same thing. I think he wanted open borders.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know if he did, but somebody into it
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  Speaker 6: ran the operation. Nobody really knows who was running it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's incredible, isn't it it? I mean, really,
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  Speaker 1: it really is incredible. The president, what he's been able
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  Speaker 1: to do so quickly, Like this is not hard. It's
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  Speaker 1: just it's it's a simple issue of enforcing what's happening.
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  Speaker 2: Like you just enforce the laws. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: You enforce the laws that are on the books. And
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  Speaker 1: when you enforce those laws the way that he's clearly
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  Speaker 1: doing it now, then what happens. It's a huge victory
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  Speaker 1: for everyone. Again, it's not harror. And you notice how
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  Speaker 1: like just calm and collected the president is when he's
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  Speaker 1: talking about it like we didn't need a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: different things. We need a new leadership. We need something
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  Speaker 1: that actually did the job and and and said we're
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  Speaker 1: going to stand up.
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  Speaker 2: For the American people.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to put the American people's safety and security
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  Speaker 1: first instead of putting it last. That's what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to do differently. And when you hear the President talk
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  Speaker 1: about the way that he has and you look at
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  Speaker 1: the results that we're talking about here, like the results
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  Speaker 1: that we're talking about here are incredible.
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  Speaker 2: National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.
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  Speaker 1: Talked about just the US launching the air strike that
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  Speaker 1: these are ramback Hooti rebels and Yemen. And again the
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  Speaker 1: media is angry that Donald Trump is taking out terrorists,
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  Speaker 1: and listen to what he said.
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  Speaker 8: The difference is these were not kind of ten prick
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  Speaker 8: back and forth what ultimately proved to be effeckless attacks.
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  Speaker 8: This was an overwhelming response that actually targeted multiple hoothy
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  Speaker 8: leaders and took them out. And the difference here is
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  Speaker 8: one going after the Hoothy leadership and two holding Iran responsible.
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  Speaker 8: It is Iran that has repeatedly funded, resourced, trained, and
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  Speaker 8: helped The Hoothy's target not only US warships but global commerce,
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  Speaker 8: and has helped the houthis shut down two of the
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  Speaker 8: world's most strategic sea lanes.
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  Speaker 2: We have Martha.
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  Speaker 8: Seventy percent of global shipping is now diverting around Southern Africa,
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  Speaker 8: adding to the cost of goods, disrupting global economies, adding
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  Speaker 8: to or shutting off supplies to the United States. President
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  Speaker 8: Trump is founded unacceptable. What we inherited was a terrible situation,
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  Speaker 8: and this is one of what will be a sustained
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  Speaker 8: effort to right that wrong and to reopen global commerce.
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  Speaker 1: This is the reason why the president has the highest
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  Speaker 1: approval rating of any president since two thousand and four.
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  Speaker 1: You go back to Marco Rubio and what he said
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  Speaker 1: about the same thing. Why are we going after these
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  Speaker 1: terrorists this way? By the way, this isn't preemptive, This
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  Speaker 1: isn't reaction too. And the media doesn't want you to
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  Speaker 1: understand that. They want you to think, oh, Donald Trump's
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: just going rogue.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to Rubio.
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  Speaker 5: Well, first of all, the problem here is that this
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  Speaker 5: is a very important shipping lane, and in the last
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  Speaker 5: year and a half, last eighteen months, to who thieves
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  Speaker 5: have struck or attacked one hundred and seventy four naval
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  Speaker 5: vessels of the United States, attacking the US Navy directly
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  Speaker 5: one hundred and seventy four times, and one hundred and
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  Speaker 5: forty five times they've attacked commercial shipping. So we basically
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  Speaker 5: have a band of pirates, you know, with guided precision
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  Speaker 5: anti ship weaponry and of addacting a toll system and
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  Speaker 5: one of the most important shipping lanes in the world.
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  Speaker 5: That's just not sustainable. We are not going to have
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  Speaker 5: these people controlling which ships can go through and which
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: ones cannot. And so your question is how long will
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: this go on? It will go on until they no
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  Speaker 5: longer have the capability to do that.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what does US intelligence tell us at this point?
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  Speaker 4: Because the US had been conducting strikes for some time
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  Speaker 4: but has not stopped the hoo thies. So what's going
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  Speaker 4: to be different right now? Do you have more fidelity
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  Speaker 4: in the intelligence that would make this more successful.
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  Speaker 5: Well, those strikes were a retaliation strike, so they launched
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  Speaker 5: one missile, we hit the missile launcher, or we sent
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  Speaker 5: something to do. This is not a message, This is
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: not a one off. This is an effort to deny
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  Speaker 5: them the ability to continue to constrict and control shipping.
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  Speaker 2: And this is not going to happen.
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  Speaker 5: We're not going to have these guys, these people with
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  Speaker 5: weapons able to tell us where our ships can go,
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  Speaker 5: where the ships of all the world can go. By
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  Speaker 5: the way, it's not just the US we're doing the
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  Speaker 5: world of favor. We're doing the entire world of favor
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  Speaker 5: by getting rid of these guys and their ability to
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  Speaker 5: strike global shipping. That's the mission here, and it will
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: continue until that's carried out. That never happened before. The
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Biden administration didn't do that. All the Biden administration would
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: do is they would respond to an attack. These guys
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: would launch one rocket, We'd hit the rocket launcher.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 5: This is an effort to take away their ability to
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  Speaker 5: control global shipping in that part of the world.
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  Speaker 2: That's just not going to happen anymore.
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  Speaker 5: And it could be well continue until that's finished.
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  Speaker 4: It could involve ground raids.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: Well, those are military decisions to be made, but I've
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: heard no talk of ground raids. I don't think there's
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: a necessity for it right now. I can tell you
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: that as of last night, some of the key people
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: involved in those missile launches are no longer with US,
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  Speaker 5: and I can tell you that some of the facilities
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: that they use are no longer existing and that will continue. Look,
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: it's bottom line, an easy way to understand it. Okay,
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: these guys are able to control what ships can go
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  Speaker 5: through there. They've attacked the US Navy one hundred and
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  Speaker 5: seventy four times. They've attacked the United States Navy. We're
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: not going to have people sitting around with the missiles
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: attacking the US Navy. It's not going to happen, not
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: under President Trump.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Not under President Trump where all this is about, Not
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: under President Trump. And you go on the issue of
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: border security, Trump, you just need a new president. Listen
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: to Donald Trump in a new interview that he did
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: talking about how America is getting ripped off. This goes
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: back to again Donald Trump saying, I'm putting America first.
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  Speaker 6: Well, we as a country have been ripped off for
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  Speaker 6: years and years, decades and decades, and you've covered it
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: on your show. I've seen it. To Canada is a
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: disaster for US. We lose close to two hundred billion
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: dollars with Canada. Nobody did anything. Nobody said that with
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: Canada that they charge our farmers think of this. They
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: they have for dairy products, some dairy products two hundred
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: and seventy percent tariff.
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: Nobody knows that, nobody to trink that down to like
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: common terms. So our farmers may have a product such
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: as what and we sell it to Canada.
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: So we want to sell milk into Canada, and they
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: throw a two hundred and seventy percent price increase on
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: the milk, which means we don't have much of a market,
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: which means we don't sell milk in Canada. It's almost
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: it's called the monetary tariff. But they have a lot
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: of non monetary tariffs too, that's things unrelated to you know,
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: they'll have a standard that they'll say you didn't meet
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: or something that's called the non monitory.
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  Speaker 7: So you put a tariff on what, for example, to
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: try to counter the milk tariff.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I can put a tariff on anything, but in
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: the case of Canada, I put it on steel and aluminum.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: We they want to sell their stuff to us.
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: We have a lot of tariffs that we're going to
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: be putting on. It really hits on April second, and
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: actually we've been very consistent. I think a lot of Oh,
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: people are loving what I'm doing. The real business people
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: are loving it. We're going to make America rich again.
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: But we're going to have tariffs on automobiles. We're going
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: to have tariffs or on steel. We're going to have
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: tariffs on aluminum and copper and many, many different things.
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: And they're going to be very consistent, and I've been
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: very consistent. I did give General Motors and are Big
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: Three actually a month of relief because they would have
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: had a very unfair disadvantage over other car makers, which
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: I didn't want. So I did that. And I think
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: there was something I did from the fact that you know,
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: I want to take care of our car companies, but
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: you have and you've been reading about it and seeing it.
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: We have companies moving into the United States at levels
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: that has never been seen before. We have many many
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: car factories going up.
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  Speaker 7: If I understand it correctly, the benefits that would come
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  Speaker 7: from some of that may largely be down the road,
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: which well.
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  Speaker 6: No, I think immediately, Look, when you're building those plants,
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: a lot of money comes in from those plants. You know,
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: you're using companies, subcontractors, contractors, concrete companies and steel companies
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: and you can see it initially, but you can see
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: it more down the road when they open up.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: I love how they try it. Well, this may not
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: happen right away. No, no, it actually will actually will
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: happen right away. This is what winning sounds like. This
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: is what putting America first looks like. This is what
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: having a present that cares about America more than other countries.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: How many of you.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Knew what he just said there about the milk the
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: tariffs they put on milk, so it's impossible for us
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: to sell milk to Canada because the tariff on it
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: is so insane. When you hear that, he says, we're
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: getting ripped off by them. Like when you explain it
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: the way that he is explaining it, it's incredibly simple
• 26:41
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• 26:42
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