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Hegseth on Signalgate "NO War Plans!" plus PBS & NPR Under Fire for Media Bias · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Well, if there's one scandal the media wants you to
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Speaker 1: go all in on, it is clearly that they believe
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Speaker 1: that Pete Headsets should no longer be in charge at
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Speaker 1: the DoD and that others should be fired because there
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Speaker 1: was a journalist that was inadvertently put on a text thread.
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Speaker 1: They're also changing the definition of what you know classified
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Speaker 1: information actually is.
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Speaker 2: They claimed it was war plans.
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Speaker 1: Now they're also changing yet again what that actually means. Now,
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Speaker 1: Pete Headgset has come out saying no units and no
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Speaker 1: locations were shared on the signal chat. Fighting back about
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Speaker 1: what is actually going on the media, he did say,
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Speaker 1: change the definition of the lead Signal Group chat to
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Speaker 1: quote unquote attack plans because they know it's not war
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Speaker 1: plans again, saying no units, no locations, no routes, no
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Speaker 1: flight pass, no sources, no methods, and no classified information. Now,
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Speaker 1: he got off a plane in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he
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Speaker 1: was visiting obviously the bases of military facilities there, and
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Speaker 1: here is what he'd had to say to the media.
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Speaker 3: Beautiful, Dave, when we're on the road talking to the
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Speaker 3: troops and actually in real time re establishing deterrence. You see,
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Speaker 3: that's what President Trump has charged the Defense Department with
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Speaker 3: doing reviving the warrior ethos, rebuilding the military, which we're
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Speaker 3: doing in real time, and re establishing deterrence. And that's
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Speaker 3: why we're heading out into the Indo Pacific to talk
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Speaker 3: to our allies and partners and meet with the troops
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Speaker 3: and anybody that knows me.
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Speaker 4: For years and knows President Trump knows how much we
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Speaker 4: love the warriors. That's what it's about the men and
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Speaker 4: women who serve, who.
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Speaker 5: Do the tough, difficult, gritty, dirty work that most Americans
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Speaker 5: will never know about. But we have the privilege of
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Speaker 5: seeing and understanding the courage and skill of what they do.
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Speaker 4: I'm going to go see that for the next couple
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Speaker 4: of days.
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Speaker 3: We also have seen it on full display and what's
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Speaker 3: been done to the who the terrorists and what they're
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Speaker 3: trying to do close freedom of navigation, So you see,
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Speaker 3: under the Biden administration, we let our troops and our
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Speaker 3: ships and both warships and commercial ships get shot at
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Speaker 3: to no consequence.
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Speaker 4: What does that look like. That looks like weakness.
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Speaker 3: And what President Trump has said is peace through strength
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Speaker 3: is back.
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Speaker 4: We will re establish deterrence.
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Speaker 3: That's not acceptable and our ongoing campaign against the Houthis
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Speaker 3: has been devastatingly effective. Now, as I said to this
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Speaker 3: group a couple of times on this trip, now, as
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Speaker 3: we moved to the Indo Pacific.
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Speaker 4: To do our job, which is what we're here to do,
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Speaker 4: nobody's texting war plans.
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Speaker 5: Well.
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Speaker 4: I noticed this morning out came something that doesn't look
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Speaker 4: like war plans. And as a matter of.
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Speaker 3: Fact, they even change the title to attack.
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Speaker 4: Plans because they know it's not war plans.
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Speaker 3: There's no units, no locations, no routes, no flight paths,
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Speaker 3: no sources, no methods, no classified information.
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Speaker 4: You know who sees war plans.
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Speaker 3: I see them every single day.
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Speaker 4: I looked at them this morning. I looked at attack
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Speaker 4: plans this morning. You know who does attack plans and
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Speaker 4: war plans. Men like that Admiral right there, Caparo for the.
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Speaker 3: Indo Pacific, or Eric Carilla, our general in Sentcom.
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Speaker 4: They do attack plans and war plans, and.
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Speaker 3: Thank god we have those leaders who do it and
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Speaker 3: do it well, and our enemies know it. My job,
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Speaker 3: as it's said at top of that, everybody's seen it now,
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Speaker 3: Team Update is to provide updates in real time general
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Speaker 3: updates in real time keep everybody informed.
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Speaker 4: That's what I did. That's my job.
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Speaker 3: The warfighters will take the fight to the enemy, and
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Speaker 3: I love what they do. And with President Trump's leadership,
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Speaker 3: our enemies are on notice. We will have peace through strength,
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Speaker 3: and we'll keep putting our troops first.
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Speaker 4: Thank you very much. We're heading off.
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Speaker 2: They so there it is.
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Speaker 1: You can hear him saying no units, no locations, no routes,
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Speaker 1: no flight pass, no sources, no methods, no classified information.
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Speaker 1: Never let a crisis go to waste, though, that's the
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Speaker 1: Democratic Party motto. And they're now saying, well, we don't
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Speaker 1: care what you actually say. We know for damn sure
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Speaker 1: this is classified information. Senator Mark Warner going on CNN
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Speaker 1: doing exactly that, trying to turn this into some sort
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Speaker 1: of quote signal gate where people's heads roll.
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Speaker 6: All right, Senator, let's turn back to what, of course,
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Speaker 6: I know you have been focused on over the last
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Speaker 6: forty eight hours since we learned about this group chat.
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Speaker 6: It's like more than forty eight hours now. You heard
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Speaker 6: what Trump administration officials have been saying across the board
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Speaker 6: that there was no classified information that was in this chat.
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Speaker 6: Are they lying to the American people?
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Speaker 7: I don't think they're telling the truth and it doesn't
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Speaker 7: pass the smell test. Let me give you the two
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Speaker 7: pieces of this that are so obvious.
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Speaker 8: The policy dispute.
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Speaker 7: Between the vice president and the president and the back
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Speaker 7: and forth. That's the kind of information that intelligence services
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Speaker 7: literally Russia or China would kill for having that kind
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Speaker 7: of exposure to private conversations. Second, but even more trying,
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Speaker 7: the idea that the specific plans of when an attack
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Speaker 7: was going to be launched against the Hooties and the
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Speaker 7: ramification to them.
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Speaker 8: There is no way.
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Speaker 7: In hell, but that's not classified information, and anybody who
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Speaker 7: denies that.
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Speaker 8: Is either ignorant or trying to obscate. And let me
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Speaker 8: just bring it home.
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Speaker 7: I mean, we've got the USS Truman is the aircraft
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Speaker 7: carrier that's deployed in that region. It deploys from Norfolk, Virginia.
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Speaker 7: We've had outreach from family members who say, my son
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Speaker 7: or daughter safe flying in that region. If that information
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Speaker 7: had been given to the Hooties and they could have
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Speaker 7: turned their defensive mechanisms they have shot down American planes
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Speaker 7: or drones in the past, you know, we could.
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Speaker 8: Have had a tragedy here.
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Speaker 7: The mission in terms of the bombing was successful, granted,
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Speaker 7: but the idea that we would put American soldiers in
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Speaker 7: harm's way because this crowd was so careless and so
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Speaker 7: sloppy that they didn't communicate this on a secure channel
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Speaker 7: is jaw dropping.
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Speaker 8: And again, let's be clear, this is not the first time.
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Speaker 7: Two weeks into this administration they inadvertently revealed the identities
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Speaker 7: of about two hundred new CIA agents. How many of
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Speaker 7: those agents going to be able to be posted a
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Speaker 7: broad We've seen them, the Doge boys post.
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Speaker 8: A series of properties they thought the government should sell. Well,
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Speaker 8: one of those happened to be a classified sites.
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Speaker 7: Almost daily there's information that leaks out either from ignorant
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Speaker 7: rants or malfeasons from.
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Speaker 8: Those guys that don't always.
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Speaker 7: Make the news but are about violating Americans privacy rights.
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Speaker 7: So this administration's careless, sloppy towards the classified and frankly,
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Speaker 7: Americans private information is ranking.
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Speaker 1: Competence there it is, So it's just total incompetence, it's ignorance,
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Speaker 1: it's it is just something that no one can deny.
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Speaker 2: Now again, you go back to the reality.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure everybody agrees that it's not a good thing
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Speaker 1: to have a scumbag journalist on this text message threat,
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Speaker 1: but at the same time, was or classified information that
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Speaker 1: was shared. The answer is no, In fact, it was
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Speaker 1: real time information, which meant in essence that what you're
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Speaker 1: hearing about is going to be almost old news by
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Speaker 1: the time this journalist gets it, because it's like, hey,
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Speaker 1: here's where we are.
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Speaker 2: This is what we just did.
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Speaker 1: You look at the text messages again, which a scumbag
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Speaker 1: reporter has put out there for the world to see.
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Speaker 1: And I'm actually glad he did it, because after you
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Speaker 1: read it, you're actually like, that's it, Like, this is
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Speaker 1: where we are, and this is why, like you guys
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Speaker 1: are freaking out and losing your minds over this, We
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Speaker 1: understand it, but.
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Speaker 2: This is all there is to see here. And the
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Speaker 2: answer is yes.
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Speaker 1: Now, am I glad that this happened early on and
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Speaker 1: that hopefully it don't never happen again. Yes, but I
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Speaker 1: also know human beings do, in fact make mistakes. Are
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Speaker 1: you allowed to use signal this app with this type
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Speaker 1: of information? We also know from the CIA director that yes,
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Speaker 1: you are in fact allowed to use it. So here's
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Speaker 1: what I'll tell you. The Democrats are trying to get
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Speaker 1: something to stick right now. However they have to do it,
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Speaker 1: They're going to try to keep doing it.
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Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer today he.
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Speaker 1: Was out there attacking Donald Trump and Elon Musk, saying
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Speaker 1: they're eroding the American dream. The Senate Dems on the
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Speaker 1: Trump administration trying to make real changes that will make
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Speaker 1: an impact for all Americans on the issue of security,
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Speaker 1: yet again lying about that, going out there and saying
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Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is eroding the American dream.
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Speaker 2: Here Schumer, in his own words.
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Speaker 9: Trump and Musk are just eroding the American dream. They're
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Speaker 9: rigging the system for billionaires while stealing from the elderly,
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Speaker 9: from the disabled to cut taxes for their billionaire club.
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Speaker 1: So there it is right. Everybody else is evil. We're
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Speaker 1: the brilliant ones. Even though we've lost Americans. They're not
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Speaker 1: paying attention to us. They don't think that we're making sense.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter we everyone else is evil. So
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Speaker 1: they're going to keep doing this. This is part of
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Speaker 1: what you need to understand. They are going to keep
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Speaker 1: doing this over and over and over again, hoping that
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Speaker 1: something will actually stick.
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Speaker 2: That is the plan, all right.
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Speaker 1: I want to move now to another big issue, and
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Speaker 1: that is the real chance that PBS and NPR could
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Speaker 1: be defunded because of the just total corruption and extreme
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Speaker 1: bias from these two organizations, and it's costing you hundreds
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Speaker 1: of millions of dollars a year. Marjorie Taylor Green blasted PBS,
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Speaker 1: for example, for what they're putting to try to indoctrinate
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Speaker 1: your kids on public broadcasting. All right, so this is
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Speaker 1: your tax dollars going for this.
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Speaker 2: This was all during the.
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Speaker 1: Government Efficiency Subcommittee hearing at the Rayburn Office building where
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Speaker 1: now they're looking at PBS and NPR. This exchange between
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Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green blasting PBS for their programming where it
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Speaker 1: features a drag queen on a kid's show. Let me
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Speaker 1: say that again, a drag queen they featured on a
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Speaker 1: kids show, clearly trying to indoctrinate kids with the LGBTQ
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Speaker 1: plus IA, A dot whatever the hell they want to
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Speaker 1: identify them, the he she whatever it is, you know,
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Speaker 1: pro programming. They want to get this in your kid's
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Speaker 1: minds at a very early age. I want you to
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Speaker 1: hear what she had to say in the back and forth.
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Speaker 10: PBS News is not just left leaning, but it is
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Speaker 10: actively uses taxpayer funds to push some of the most
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Speaker 10: radical left positions, like featuring a drag queen on the
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Speaker 10: show Let's Learn, a show targeted toward young children ages
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Speaker 10: three to eight years old. I want you to know
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Speaker 10: I grew up watching children's programming on PBS, and as
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Speaker 10: a mother who raised three children, I felt confident that
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Speaker 10: I could leave the room while my own children were
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Speaker 10: watching children's programming on PBS. But I can tell you
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Speaker 10: right now, Ms Kirger, specifically, as a mother, if I
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Speaker 10: had walked in my living room or one of my
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Speaker 10: children's bedrooms and seeing this child predator and this monster
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Speaker 10: targeting my children, I would become unglued. And that is
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Speaker 10: how most parents feel all over this country. This is
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Speaker 10: not the only example of them sexualizing and grooming children.
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Speaker 10: They've been doing it for over the last decade. In
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Speaker 10: twenty fifteen, PBS produce Frontline put out a documentary Growing
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Speaker 10: Up Trans that takes viewers on an intimate and eye
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Speaker 10: opening journey inside the struggles and choices facing transgender kids
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Speaker 10: and their families. This means that PBS is one of
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Speaker 10: the founders of the trans child abuse industry, all while
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Speaker 10: taking taxpayer money. Brainwashing and transing children is an issue
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Speaker 10: so hated by parents across the country that it was
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Speaker 10: a driving force in the landslide Republican and Trump victory
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Speaker 10: in the twenty twenty four election cycle and presidential race.
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Speaker 10: The news that these entities produced is either resented or
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Speaker 10: increasingly tuned out and turned off by most of the
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Speaker 10: hard working Americans who are forced to pay for it.
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Speaker 10: They no longer view NPR and PBS as trusted news sources.
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Speaker 10: As a matter of fact, with these people, they're a threat.
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Speaker 1: So let me just be clear about what Margley Taylor
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Speaker 1: Green is saying here. If you're in the private sector
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Speaker 1: and you're a broadcast company and you want to put
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Speaker 1: drag queens in infant and children programming, knock yourself out.
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Speaker 2: That's your right. You can do that.
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Speaker 1: My tax hours shouldn't go to that at PBS. And
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Speaker 1: PBS again, is not the only place that isn't insanely
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Speaker 1: biased in being run by the radical left. I'll give
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Speaker 1: you another example of where your tax hours are going.
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Speaker 2: MPR.
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Speaker 1: That's a taxpayer funded arm of the Democratic National Committee.
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Speaker 1: That's what they are at state sponsored media. You want
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Speaker 1: to know how biased they are, well, one Republican Congressman
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Speaker 1: exposed it all while talking to the CEO, the president
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Speaker 1: of MPR, and I want you to listen to what
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Speaker 1: he said to her face.
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Speaker 11: The former senior business editor friend PR, how long you
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Speaker 11: work at MPR. I believe he was there just over
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Speaker 11: twenty five years?
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Speaker 12: Twenty five years award winning journalists? Do you win any awards?
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Speaker 12: Are time to anybody?
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Speaker 10: Award?
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Speaker 13: That's pretty important, isn't it? That is a pretty distinguished
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Speaker 13: journalist right certainly? And I wrote, he wrote a long
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Speaker 13: story about what you do at MPR is MPR.
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Speaker 12: Biased, Congressman.
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Speaker 11: I have never seen any instance of never of pro
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Speaker 11: political bias determining editorial decisions.
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Speaker 13: Now, well, mister Berliner in his story A couple last
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Speaker 13: year wrote, I've in the DC area editorial positions at MPR.
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Speaker 13: He said he found eighty seven registered Democrats, zero Republicans.
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Speaker 12: Is that accurate?
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Speaker 11: We do not track the numbers or the voter registration,
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Speaker 11: but I find that was.
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Speaker 13: Award winning journalists who worked twenty five years at MPR.
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Speaker 13: Mister Berlinner was he lying when he wrote that?
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Speaker 11: I am not presuming such. I just don't have We
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Speaker 11: don't track that information about our journalist eighty seven to zero,
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Speaker 11: and you're not biased. I think that is concerning. If
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Speaker 11: those numbers are accurate, it's concerned.
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Speaker 13: I mean, it wasn't forty four, forty three, wasn't sixty
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Speaker 13: twenty seven, It wasn't seventy seventeen, It wasn't even eighty
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Speaker 13: to seven. It was eighty seven Democrats zero Republicans. And
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Speaker 13: you say MPR is not biased. How about the big
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Speaker 13: stories over the last few years. According to mister Berlinner again,
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Speaker 13: he wrote on the Trump Russia story, he wrote, at MPR,
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Speaker 13: we hitched our wagon to Trump's most visible antagonists, representative
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Speaker 13: Adam Shipp. They said the interviewing twenty five times that accurate.
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Speaker 12: I was not there at the time, but those numbers
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Speaker 12: sound accurate. Those sound accurate.
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Speaker 13: But then he said, when the Muller report came out,
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Speaker 13: and they said Mueller said, Robert Muller said he found
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Speaker 13: no evidence of collusion. He said, Russia Gate faded from
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Speaker 13: our programming.
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Speaker 12: Is that accurate? Again, I was not there at the time.
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Speaker 12: I couldn't say. You couldn't say I was not at
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Speaker 12: unpeer at the time. You didn't prepare for that.
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Speaker 13: You knew we were going to ask you about this
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Speaker 13: guy didn't you. It's come up like six thousand times
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Speaker 13: already into hearing.
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Speaker 12: I just wouldn't say whether it faded from our coverage.
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Speaker 12: How about this story.
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Speaker 13: October twenty twenty, New York Post had the Hunter Biden
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Speaker 13: laptop story, and one of those editors, I guess one
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Speaker 13: of those eighty seven Democrat editors said this, we don't
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Speaker 13: want to waste our time on stories that are not
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Speaker 13: really stories. We don't want to waste the listeners and readers'
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Speaker 13: times on stories that are just pure distractions. With that
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Speaker 13: a pure distraction story.
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Speaker 11: Our current editorial leadership believes that that was a mistake,
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Speaker 11: as do I.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, the whole country knows that was a mistake.
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Speaker 13: Definitely impacted the election, or I think it certainly impacted
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Speaker 13: the election.
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Speaker 12: How about the COVID origin story.
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Speaker 13: That's pretty big story too, right, mister Berliner said, we
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Speaker 13: became fervent members of the team natural Origin, even declaring
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Speaker 13: that the lab leak was debunked by scientists. Turns out,
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Speaker 13: though the lab leak is what most people think actually
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Speaker 13: caused the COVID virus.
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Speaker 12: Sorry, sorry, sorry question there there is.
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Speaker 13: You guys were zero for three on the three the
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Speaker 13: three of the biggest stories in the last five years,
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Speaker 13: you guys were zero for three, and yet you maintain
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Speaker 13: that MPR.
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Speaker 12: Is not biased.
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Speaker 11: Congressman, I do not believe we are politically biased. To know,
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Speaker 11: we are a non partisan organization.
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Speaker 13: Non partisan organization, nonpartisan organization.
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Speaker 2: Let's just go back to the numbers there.
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Speaker 1: MPR has eighty seven editoral positions, all of them filled
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Speaker 1: by registered Democrats in DC, so not even independents like
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Speaker 1: you can't even get in these editoral positions as an independent,
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Speaker 1: as a like I'm not registered as a Republican or
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Speaker 1: a Dimocrat because by the way, I'd be.
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Speaker 2: Fine with some of those. Nope, can't have any of those.
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Speaker 1: So you got any seven editorial positions, None of them
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Speaker 1: go to independence, none of them go to register Republicans.
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Speaker 2: You guys are out for three on the big stories.
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Speaker 1: You clearly were pushing out them shift left and right
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Speaker 1: in Russia, Russia, Russia. You clearly are taxpayer funded arm of.
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Speaker 2: The Democratic National Committee. Everybody knows it.
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Speaker 1: And this lady who's in charge like, oh no, no,
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Speaker 1: we're not, we're not by we are we are just
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Speaker 1: we are not biased at all. We don't do bias.
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Speaker 1: We are not biased. There's nothing bias about us. We're
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Speaker 1: just we are just totally normal. We are a completely
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Speaker 1: non biased organization. We are a non political organization.
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Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? Are you? Are you kidding me?
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Speaker 1: This is what they're doing now, and I hope that
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Speaker 1: they will defund gosh, I hope they will defund the
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Speaker 1: MPR n pvious.
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Speaker 2: By the way, they can both.
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Speaker 1: Make it, I think on their own, and if they can't,
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Speaker 1: then they probably shouldn't be in business. And just be
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Speaker 1: honest about who you are. Hey, no Republicans allowed. We
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Speaker 1: got eighty seven editorial people that are democrats. Is a
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Speaker 1: democratic communist organization. Come on in and if you're gonna
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Speaker 1: be that, then be intellectually honest about it. But don't
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Speaker 1: take my damn tax hours to push your state sponsored media.
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Speaker 1: There was one thing a moment ago that I played
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Speaker 1: for you, and I want to go back to it
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Speaker 1: because it was you heard it there and Jim Jordan's
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Speaker 1: questioning he mentioned NPR branding the hunter Byden laptop story
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Speaker 1: is a waste of time. I want to go to
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Speaker 1: Representative Fallen and I watched this hearing so that you guys,
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Speaker 1: I know many of you didn't, but I wanted to
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Speaker 1: pull these highlights in there, and I want you to
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Speaker 1: hear the back and forth on this issue. Specifically, this
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Speaker 1: is Representative Fallen questioning the NPR CEO, and listen to
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Speaker 1: how quickly she stops basically answering the questions with everything,
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Speaker 1: like with facts or anything that It's like, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure, I don't know, I don't know, I
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Speaker 1: don't know.
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Speaker 2: Listen, missus Kerger.
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Speaker 14: In twenty twenty three, when PBS had a program Washington
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Speaker 14: Week with the Atlantic, and when President Biden's mental acuity
19:57
Speaker 14: was questioned, one of the reporters claimed the GUP was lying.
20:00
Speaker 14: Another reporter, Jeffrey Goldberg, who's been in the news of late,
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Speaker 14: described Biden as quote mentally acute. Were you aware if
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Speaker 14: there were any discending opinions on that program that day?
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Speaker 12: I don't know from that day there were not.
20:13
Speaker 14: But fortunately there was a debate, and I believe June
20:17
Speaker 14: of twenty twenty four where the American people in the
20:19
Speaker 14: world found out just who was lying the Democrats, Jeffrey
20:22
Speaker 14: Goldberg and PBS. Miss Marr, I'm sure you're aware that
20:26
Speaker 14: Hunter Biden had a laptop. I am sure, yes, okay,
20:30
Speaker 14: And there were many stories written about said laptop, yes, sir.
20:33
Speaker 14: And in twenty twenty, unfortunately, and PR's managing editor for
20:36
Speaker 14: News refused to cover the story and he branded it
20:38
Speaker 14: a quote waste of time, not a real story, and
20:41
Speaker 14: a distraction. And instead of, unfortunately of NPR investigating, they
20:46
Speaker 14: ran a puff piece that led with experts say attack
20:50
Speaker 14: on Hunter Biden addiction deepened stigma for millions. It's an
20:55
Speaker 14: unfortunate that MPR ignored the Hunter Biden laptop story. But
20:59
Speaker 14: y'all did talk quite a bit about the debunked Russia collusion.
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Speaker 14: Do you know how many times NPR interviewed Adam Schiff about.
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Speaker 11: Congressman I would love to say that we actually believe
21:08
Speaker 11: we made a mistake on the Hunter Biden left.
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Speaker 12: Ok. That's sorry and I appreciate that. Thank you.
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Speaker 14: How many times did y'all interview Adam Schiff about the
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Speaker 14: Russia collusion?
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Speaker 12: I'm sorry, sorry, I don't have that number.
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Speaker 14: It was twenty five times. You know how many times
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Speaker 14: MPR interviewed Chairman of this committee Oversight Committee, Jamiekomer, about
21:23
Speaker 14: the Biden impeachment inquiry, the Hunter Biden tax evasion, and
21:27
Speaker 14: Elysia business seelings of the Biden family.
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Speaker 12: I'm sorry, sorry, I don't know.
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Speaker 14: I believe that's zero, So it's twenty five to zero,
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Speaker 14: Miss Kerger. You're aware there's a political spectrum goes all
21:36
Speaker 14: the way from the far right to the far left
21:38
Speaker 14: and everywhere in between. Would it trouble you to hear
21:41
Speaker 14: that for six months? There was an analysis done on
21:44
Speaker 14: PBS's News Hour from June to November of twenty twenty
21:47
Speaker 14: three where they found that far right was that term
21:51
Speaker 14: was used one hundred and sixty two times and far
21:53
Speaker 14: left was only used six times. Do you find that troubling?
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Speaker 11: I don't know the study that you're referring to, and
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Speaker 11: I'd love I'd be very interested in seeing it and
22:02
Speaker 11: understanding how they came up with those number.
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Speaker 14: Media Research Center did a six month analysis, and it's
22:07
Speaker 14: not how you find it you say far right, it's terms.
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Speaker 14: They use the term far right one hundred and sixty
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Speaker 14: two times, far left six times. That's a ninety six
22:16
Speaker 14: to four percent skew. You're also aware that you covered
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Speaker 14: the GOP and Democratic National Conventions in twenty twenty four. Yes,
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Speaker 14: we did, okay, Interestingly, seventy two percent of the coverage
22:26
Speaker 14: of the GOP convention was negative. Eighty eight percent of
22:29
Speaker 14: the Democratic Convention was positive. Shouldn't be surprising when you
22:33
Speaker 14: have anchors like I'm the noat who described the Republican
22:37
Speaker 14: rhetoric as quote outright racism end quote, echoing white supremacy,
22:44
Speaker 14: mis mayor NPR. You believe your reporters are fair. You
22:49
Speaker 14: said you're fair, and they're working at it.
22:51
Speaker 15: I believe that they work to be every day sir.
22:52
Speaker 15: They're non biased. And yet you have the voter registration issue.
22:57
Speaker 15: I mean, we're all human beings. We're all going to
22:59
Speaker 15: see through the world through a certain lens.
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Speaker 14: And are you aware of any Republicans, any registered Republicans
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Speaker 14: in your newsroom?
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Speaker 11: I couldn't say registered, but I know we have conservatives
23:09
Speaker 11: in our newsroom.
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Speaker 14: Yes, Okay, So the recent registration when it was looked
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Speaker 14: at eighty seven Democrats and zero Republicans.
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Speaker 12: Register, I found that very concerntive.
23:19
Speaker 14: Yeah, I would not even forty to thirty or fifty
23:21
Speaker 14: to twenty eighty seven to zero. But it shouldn't be
23:24
Speaker 14: surprising when their own CEO says things like I'm so
23:26
Speaker 14: done with Late States capitalism or cause the President of
23:29
Speaker 14: the United States a deranged racist sociopath, or that America's
23:33
Speaker 14: addicted to white supremacy. So billions have gone into both
23:36
Speaker 14: of your coffers over the last several decades. And I
23:41
Speaker 14: understand why Democrats on this committee are going to viciously
23:43
Speaker 14: and vehemently defend you all because you become a propaganda
23:48
Speaker 14: wing of the Democratic Party. Sixty seven percent of your
23:52
Speaker 14: viewers and listeners identify as Democrat, with only twelve percent conservative,
23:57
Speaker 14: and you've become a sandbox for leftists propag and is
24:00
Speaker 14: to frolic on taxpayer diamond no more. And when you
24:03
Speaker 14: said in the beginning you're going to promote a symphony
24:06
Speaker 14: of ideological viewpoints, yeah you do. If you're left leaning
24:09
Speaker 14: left far.
24:09
Speaker 15: Left there remarkably watch and stay, you'll back.
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Speaker 1: You look at how this is all just coming out,
24:17
Speaker 1: and it's a breath of fresh air now to see
24:20
Speaker 1: these individuals have to answer questions that they've never had
24:27
Speaker 1: to answer before. They're having to answer these questions because
24:35
Speaker 1: their funding is about to run out. There are consequence
24:40
Speaker 1: for an election, and so they show up only because
24:43
Speaker 1: they have to, because they're afraid they're going to lose
24:45
Speaker 1: the money and if they lose the money, then what happens,
24:47
Speaker 1: and what happens their power and their influence and their
24:49
Speaker 1: state sponsored media, and it's over. It's game over. This
24:54
Speaker 1: is incredible. You look at again. I go back to
24:57
Speaker 1: the message thread for a second. We started the show
24:59
Speaker 1: with Jeff Goldberg and this whole thing and the Atlantic
25:04
Speaker 1: and everything else. John Ratcliffe, the CIA director, this is
25:09
Speaker 1: what he said about it today, and it just goes
25:11
Speaker 1: back to like, we're not afraid to have these conversations.
25:14
Speaker 1: We're not afraid to talk about saying. And by the way, Democrats,
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Speaker 1: it's amazing. If they wouldn't have overplayed their hand on
25:21
Speaker 1: this signal conversation and they wouldn't have said it was
25:24
Speaker 1: classified information, they wouldn't have said it was war plans,
25:27
Speaker 1: and they wouldn't have lied so much to build the
25:29
Speaker 1: story up. They may have actually gotten more traction out
25:32
Speaker 1: of it. But now they lied so much about it
25:35
Speaker 1: and said things that just aren't true. That is in
25:38
Speaker 1: these text threads, it is actually taking away from the
25:42
Speaker 1: story because they're so thirsty to end someone's career, they're
25:46
Speaker 1: so thirsty to try to destroy people. By Pete Headseth
25:51
Speaker 1: listen to the CIA director talking about this member he
25:55
Speaker 1: was on this threat.
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Speaker 2: Okay, it's on this signal threat. Listen to what he said.
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Speaker 16: You know, there's so much Let's talk about this Atlantic
26:02
Speaker 16: article and about things that were said and that could
26:06
Speaker 16: have happened, instead of a focus on what did happen.
26:09
Speaker 16: So my responsibility as CIA director, one of its responsibilities
26:13
Speaker 16: is to kill terrorists, and that's exactly what I did
26:17
Speaker 16: along with President Trump's excellent national security team. That's what
26:22
Speaker 16: we should be focused on with regard to that article.
26:25
Speaker 16: I also would appreciate the opportunity to relay the fact
26:29
Speaker 16: that yesterday I spent four hours answering questions from senators.
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Speaker 12: As a result of that article that.
26:35
Speaker 16: Were intimating that I transmitted classified information because there were
26:40
Speaker 16: hidden messages. Those messages were revealed today and revealed that
26:44
Speaker 16: I did not transmit classified information, and that the reporter,
26:49
Speaker 16: who I don't know, I think, intentionally intended it to
26:52
Speaker 16: indicate that that reporter also indicated that I had released
26:57
Speaker 16: the name of an undercover CIA operative in that signal channel.
27:02
Speaker 16: In fact, I had released the name of my chief
27:04
Speaker 16: of staff, who is not operating undercover.
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Speaker 12: That was deliberately false.
27:10
Speaker 16: And misleading, and I appreciate the opportunity to reflect that
27:15
Speaker 16: my answers haven't changed. I used an appropriate channel to
27:18
Speaker 16: communicate sensitive information it was permissible to do so. I
27:22
Speaker 16: didn't transfer any classified information. And at the end of
27:28
Speaker 16: the day, what is most important is that the mission
27:32
Speaker 16: was a remarkable success. Is what everyone should be focused
27:36
Speaker 16: on here, because that's what did happen, not what possibly
27:39
Speaker 16: could have happened.
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Speaker 1: I love John Ratcliffe for this job because he's so smart.
27:46
Speaker 2: I've known him for years. He's one of the smartest
27:49
Speaker 2: guys I know. And the way that he just.
27:51
Speaker 1: Responds there making it very clear that you guys are
27:56
Speaker 1: talking about all these things it didn't happen, all these
27:59
Speaker 1: scenarios that didn't happen. You're doing all of these things
28:04
Speaker 1: saying all of these things that did not actually happen.
28:10
Speaker 1: You're over playing your hand by the way the White
28:15
Speaker 1: House pressinger Terry Caroline Levitt exposing Senator.
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Speaker 2: Warner I played him earlier and his fake outrage.
28:23
Speaker 1: She blasted him for using signal to set up a
28:26
Speaker 1: contact with a disgraced Steel DOSSI, a author as there said,
28:30
Speaker 1: no one should be using signal.
28:32
Speaker 2: The White House throwing facts out today.
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Speaker 17: Listen, and here's just one example of how bad faith
28:38
Speaker 17: the Democrat's criticisms are. Democrat Senator Mark Warner is hysterical
28:43
Speaker 17: over the use of Signal, which is an approved acryptid
28:46
Speaker 17: app in the killing of who they terrorists, But Senator
28:49
Speaker 17: Warner himself used signal to work with a lobbyist for
28:53
Speaker 17: a Russian oligarch to connect with it, to connect the
28:57
Speaker 17: disgraced Steele dossier author who's he arded the Russia hoax,
29:01
Speaker 17: which Jeffrey Goldberg later reported on how ironic. We're not
29:05
Speaker 17: going to lose focus of the bottom line, which is
29:08
Speaker 17: that Joe Biden's weakness enabled and emboldened hoothy terrorists, and
29:11
Speaker 17: President Trump's strength and resolve eliminated those terrorists.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I love the way that she also describes it there.
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Speaker 1: Not only is Warner like a scumbag and full of
29:22
Speaker 1: blank for actually using signal to set up a contact
29:26
Speaker 1: with a disgrace still D'SCIA author, but they also don't
29:30
Speaker 1: care that, oh, by the way, we were actually killing
29:33
Speaker 1: terrorists that you guys should have killed when you were
29:36
Speaker 1: in charge, but refused to kill. So if you want
29:39
Speaker 1: to know who's side they're on, if you want to
29:41
Speaker 1: know it side they are on. This is what you
29:43
Speaker 1: need to know, Like, this is it.
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