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Harvard's Funding Cut Off plus The Fight for Kilmar Garcia's Release · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Saving you money.
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Speaker 2: It is a promise that Donald Trump said he was
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Speaker 2: going to make good on when it came to government waste, fraud,
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Speaker 2: and abuse. We know what DOJE has been doing, but
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Speaker 2: we now have found out other ways that the President
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Speaker 2: is helping make Americans more money.
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Speaker 1: And this is.
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Speaker 2: Coming from the EPA administrator, Leeves Zelden. He said in
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Speaker 2: an interview that he is quote shocked by how much
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Speaker 2: money we are able to save with quote the largest
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Speaker 2: deregulatory action ever slashing quote trillions of dollars in deregulation.
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Speaker 2: The Environmental Protection Agency chief. Zelden spoke during a roundtable
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Speaker 2: with Breitbart News editor in chief about what all is
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Speaker 2: happening and the agency's efforts to slash government waste, fraud,
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Speaker 2: and abuse. The EPA administrator, a former congressman, has now
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Speaker 2: moved to cancel over twenty two billion in contracts, is
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Speaker 2: part of President Donald Trump's initiative to eliminate diversity, equity
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Speaker 2: and Inclusion policies known as DEI. He also has said
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Speaker 2: that they are canceling environmental justice grants and canceling other
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Speaker 2: government spending that is basically just straight up waste and fraud.
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Speaker 2: Zelden emphasized the degree to which the administration has been
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Speaker 2: able to make significant savings by cutting Zelden said, the
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Speaker 2: agency's annual operating budget is ten billion dollars, while they
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Speaker 2: have been able to cut twenty two billion in grants alone. Yes,
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Speaker 2: twenty two billion in grants now, the leader of the
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Speaker 2: agency said, quote, one month ago, we announced that it
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Speaker 2: amounts to the largest deregulatory action the history of the
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Speaker 2: United States of America. One agency will do more deregulation
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five than entire federal government wide deregulatory
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Speaker 2: efforts ever of any administration. He went on to say,
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Speaker 2: we're going to have trillions of dollars of deregulation just
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Speaker 2: in the EPA, just in twenty twenty five. We're going
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Speaker 2: to do all this while creating jobs, including in the
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Speaker 2: auto sector. We're going to make it easier to buy
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Speaker 2: a home, make it easier to be able to heat
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Speaker 2: your home. This is the mandate. This is the term mandate.
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Speaker 2: This is what people voted for last November, and we're
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Speaker 2: going to follow through to get it done. He went
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Speaker 2: on to say, So, if you're asking what is the
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Speaker 2: future of these terms like environmental justice or climate change.
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Speaker 2: We're going back to the basics, to the core mission
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Speaker 2: at EPA. It is protecting human health and the environment,
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Speaker 2: and we are going to power the great American comeback now.
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Speaker 2: Zelden announced in mid March that he would move to
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Speaker 2: clear hundreds of backlog cases to clean up, saying that
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Speaker 2: the Biden administration focused on partisan ideological pursuits rather than
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Speaker 2: the agency's core mission, saying, we're going to go back
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Speaker 2: to those basics, and the core mission at the EPA
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Speaker 2: is protecting you the environment, and we're going to make
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Speaker 2: sure that we do that. Pillar Wani said is clean
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Speaker 2: air and water for all Americans, to unleash energy dominance.
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Speaker 2: He said, it's important that we make sure that the
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Speaker 2: American people understand that the government is on their side.
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Speaker 2: Zelden also made it clear that the total goal of
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Speaker 2: his job and his department is to make it easier
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Speaker 2: for Americans to succeed in business while also giving us
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Speaker 2: protection for the basics at the core of the EPA,
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Speaker 2: not a partisan political green ideology or green religion. And
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Speaker 2: this is exactly what the American people voted for when
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Speaker 2: they said we want Donald Trump back in the White House,
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Speaker 2: and they're getting it now. Zelden also is getting in
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Speaker 2: on the other major issue today, and that is political
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Speaker 2: violence that has been mainstreamed against conservatives. You may not
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Speaker 2: remember this, but Zelden was actually a victim of political
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Speaker 2: violence when he was running for office in New York.
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Speaker 2: He spoke with Laura Ingram about exactly how bad it's
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Speaker 2: gotten in this country because of the Democrats that are
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Speaker 2: advocating for this.
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Speaker 3: And that's the angle joining me now, EPA Administrator Lee Zelden.
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Speaker 3: He's also been the target of political violence in recent years.
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Speaker 3: In twenty twenty two, during his own New York gubernatorial campaign,
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Speaker 3: a man with a sharp object climbed up on stage
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Speaker 3: while Zelden was speaking, and Lee quickly grabbed his arm
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Speaker 3: and others jumped in to subdue the man. Fortunately no
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Speaker 3: one was hurt.
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Speaker 4: It's a close.
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Speaker 3: Call, and last November, a pipe bomb threat was sent
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Speaker 3: to his home with a pro Palestinian themed message, mister administrator,
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Speaker 3: it's good to see you tonight your reaction to the
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Speaker 3: ramp up of this violence, and we should say tonight
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Speaker 3: that we're learning that Congressoman Nancy Mace was threatened by
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Speaker 3: another man arrested for threatening the president Sean Monper of Butler,
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Speaker 3: Pennsylvania allegedly said he wanted to put a bullet in
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Speaker 3: her skull. Your reaction to all this tonight.
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Speaker 4: This needs to be treated as the fringe. And there
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Speaker 4: are people who are in politics who have individuals across
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Speaker 4: the country who follow them, and these people in office
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Speaker 4: have been following those people instead of leading them. This
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Speaker 4: comes from the fringe. It needs to be treated from
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Speaker 4: the fringe, and it needs to be treated with your tolerance.
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Speaker 4: There's a lot of clickbait. You played the clip by
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Speaker 4: Taylor Lorenz and maybe she gets more following. People who
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Speaker 4: might be followers of this assassin might now start following
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Speaker 4: Taylor Lorenz. Feeds into it and it normalizes it. And
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Speaker 4: we shouldn't be trying to make assassinations great again in
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Speaker 4: this country. It should be something that's identified as a
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Speaker 4: ten crazy on the matrix. And whether it's coming from
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Speaker 4: the right or the left, if you're a leader in government,
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Speaker 4: if you're a leader at all, you should be leading
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Speaker 4: those people who follow you as opposed to being led
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Speaker 4: by them. And the last thing I would say on
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Speaker 4: this is there's an attempt right now to try to
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Speaker 4: figure out how to oppose President Trump and the right.
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Speaker 4: The people who are out of power right now, and
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Speaker 4: they're flailing. They can't figure out the right names to call,
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Speaker 4: the right tactics to use, and they're getting more and
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Speaker 4: more extreme. There's not a more important moment than right
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Speaker 4: now for these Democrats who are out of power to
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Speaker 4: be sending that message that this is from the fringe,
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Speaker 4: zero tolerance. It won't be normalized. And if you are
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Speaker 4: following me, that leader, you make it very clear that
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Speaker 4: this is not welcome in this society in this moment.
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Speaker 4: They need to find a tactic where we are debating
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Speaker 4: instead of promoting political violence.
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Speaker 2: Well, you listen to Zelden there, and he's absolutely right.
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Speaker 2: He said, we shouldn't be trying to make assassinations great
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Speaker 2: again in this country. This is fringe behavior and it
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Speaker 2: needs to be treated with zero tolerance. You look it
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Speaker 2: out radical the left has become. They're now actually getting
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Speaker 2: together to go and stand up for illegal immigrants that
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Speaker 2: are members of terrorist organizations. I wish I was joking,
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Speaker 2: Unfortunately I'm not. And when you hear the President of
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Speaker 2: the United States of America talking about how important it.
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Speaker 1: Is for us to go back to the basics.
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Speaker 2: That is also something that Leads Elden is advocating for.
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Speaker 2: Here he is talking and saying it with a clear
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Speaker 2: voice as an individual that has been a victim of
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Speaker 2: political violence, and he's saying, where are the Democrats now?
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Speaker 2: Why are they not standing up? Why are they not
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Speaker 2: telling their followers that this is wrong? And I'm going
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Speaker 2: to answer the question because they don't believe that they're
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Speaker 2: crossing any line. These are the same democrats that called
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump Adolf Hitler. These are the same democrats that
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Speaker 2: advocate for Jewish students to be attacked on college campuses.
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Speaker 2: These are the same democrats that backed the cities that
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Speaker 2: were under the summer of rage with Black Lives Matter.
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Speaker 2: These are the same democrats that when you were burning
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Speaker 2: down police stations and killing innocent people, they were advocating
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Speaker 2: for those that were arrested to bail them out. And
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Speaker 2: we're telling you please give more. That is the Democratic
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Speaker 2: Party today And what Leaves Elden is saying there, and
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Speaker 2: it's unfortunate, but the media has mainstream this. The political
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Speaker 2: violence is normal. The political violence is something that we
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Speaker 2: should all be just standing here and saying, yeah, we
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Speaker 2: have no problem with you know, not getting your way
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Speaker 2: and deciding that we're going to do these types of
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Speaker 2: political violence and anarchy. It's wrong and it's going to
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Speaker 2: cost people their lives because Democrats refuse to stop and
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Speaker 2: act like statesmen, and instead what they're doing is they're
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Speaker 2: advocating for the craziest among us to act out.
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Speaker 1: So this is not a joke.
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Speaker 2: Democrats right now are going all in and quote intensifying
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Speaker 2: their efforts to secure the release of Kilmar Albrego Garcia.
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Speaker 2: He is that man from Maryland who was deported to
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Speaker 2: Al Salvador and currently being detained in the country's high
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Speaker 2: security terrorism confinement center. Senator Chris Evan Holland as leading
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Speaker 2: the way with Democrats who think somehow this is going
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Speaker 2: to be a winning issue with the American people. He
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Speaker 2: has announced plans to travel to El Salvador for what
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Speaker 2: is It's nothing but a photo op because we just
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Speaker 2: heard from the president of El Salvador and he's like,
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Speaker 2: we're not releasing him, and why is he going to
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Speaker 2: quote advocate for the man's release, stating is intent to
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Speaker 2: meet with the Salvadorian officials and visit the attention facility
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Speaker 2: to quote check on Garcia. As well being Now. I
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Speaker 2: am glad to know that they know where he is
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Speaker 2: because in another photo op, his wife said, we don't
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Speaker 2: know where he is, hours after the senator said we're
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Speaker 2: going to see him in the prison. Take a listen
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Speaker 2: to the propaganda from MSNBC is they have also decided
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Speaker 2: to go all in to back the.
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Speaker 1: Illegal immigrant over the American people.
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Speaker 3: The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia just spoke outside of
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Speaker 3: a courthouse in Maryland ahead of a hearing about his
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Speaker 3: wrongful deportation, his mistaken deportation to El.
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Speaker 5: Salvador today, twenty four days of after his disappearance, and
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Speaker 5: I stand before you filled with spirit that refuses to
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Speaker 5: bring down. I will not stop fighting until I see
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Speaker 5: my husband alive. Kill maar if you can hear me,
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Speaker 5: Stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are
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Speaker 5: asking when would you come home, and I pray for
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Speaker 5: the day I tell them the time and date that
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Speaker 5: you'll return. As we continue through Holy Week, my heart
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Speaker 5: aches for my husband, who should have been here leading
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Speaker 5: our Easter prayers. Instead, I find myself leading with the
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Speaker 5: Trump administration and the Buquet administration to stop playing political
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Speaker 5: games with the life of killmar.
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Speaker 2: Now, this is clearly propaganda. You heard the wife there
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Speaker 2: say today is thirty four days of after his disappearance.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know where he is.
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Speaker 2: He hasn't actually been disappeared, because he was arrested, and
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Speaker 2: you know where he has been sent and they're center
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Speaker 2: saying they're going to check on him. Now, if you
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Speaker 2: think that Democrats are going to give up on this,
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Speaker 2: you are wrong. Even the Trump borders are talking about
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Speaker 2: how all of this went down and how El Salvador
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Speaker 2: he's saying, look, they can give him back if they
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Speaker 2: want to. It's pretty clear that the l Salvador president
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Speaker 2: said we're not sending him back because why he's our citizen.
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Speaker 6: Tom, how do you respond to these democratic lawmakers, including
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Speaker 6: Van Holland, who say they're going to now ask for
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Speaker 6: a meeting with the president there in El Salvador. They're
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Speaker 6: going to travel there and demand his release.
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Speaker 7: Well, good luck with that, Carol. Evan's exactly right. Every
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Speaker 7: time I read a story about this, it's Maryland father,
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Speaker 7: Maryland father. They don't mention he's a member of MS thirteen,
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Speaker 7: doesn't a terrorists one most violent gangs in the world.
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Speaker 7: They don't mention he's MS thirteen member. They don't mention
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Speaker 7: he's an Al Salvadoran citizen being held by the country
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Speaker 7: of Al Salvador. Al Salvador makes that decision. Now, the
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Speaker 7: court said we gotta facilitate, will facilitate, but L Salvador
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Speaker 7: has full authority on this again, a terrorist trat. Now, Now,
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Speaker 7: if somehow he comes back and that happens, he's going
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Speaker 7: to be detained and removed again. He's an MS thirteen
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Speaker 7: gang member. Based on our intelligence and Al Salvador's intelligence,
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Speaker 7: he will be detained and he will be deported. And
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Speaker 7: what's the sense of bringing someone back to simply go
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Speaker 7: and face deportation again. He's a public safety tread, he's
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Speaker 7: a gang member, he's a designated terrorist. We should not
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Speaker 7: be bringing any of those people back to the United States.
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Speaker 7: That's my opinion.
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Speaker 2: Isn't it amazing that the wife doesn't tell you that
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Speaker 2: her husband is a member of the MS thirteen gang,
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Speaker 2: which is also a terrorist organization. Isn't an amazing that
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Speaker 2: MSNBC also refuses to tell you why he was actually
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Speaker 2: deported from this country. Senator Kennedy, however, was on MSNBC
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Speaker 2: just kidding. No, he wasn't he was on Fox News Channel,
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Speaker 2: where the same people are.
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Speaker 1: He was asked about this entire issue. Take a listen.
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Speaker 8: I think the President's right. If you're in our country illegally,
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Speaker 8: you're a criminal. Illegal immigration is illegal.
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Speaker 9: Duh.
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Speaker 8: And I think they're a plenty of laws which President
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Speaker 8: Biden ignored that allow us to deport you. I mean,
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Speaker 8: to me, it's just straightforward, and people who oppose that approach,
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Speaker 8: it seems to me, are not being intellectually honest. They
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Speaker 8: just ought to go ahead and admit they support open borders.
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Speaker 2: Senator Kennedy is absolutely right, He said the same way
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Speaker 2: I would have. The President is right, and if you're
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Speaker 2: in this country illegally, you're a criminal, Illegal immigration is illegal.
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Speaker 1: Duh.
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Speaker 2: And I think there's a plenty of laws which President
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Speaker 2: Biden ignored that allowed us to deport you. That is
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Speaker 2: exactly why we are seeing law and order now. And
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Speaker 2: we're also seeing the Democrats choosing sides. They are not
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Speaker 2: in favor of keeping you safe. They are not in
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Speaker 2: the people that aren't even citizens of this country that
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Speaker 1: Now, let me also just.
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Speaker 2: Give you a little bit more background, just so you
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Speaker 2: know about Garcia. He apparently has lived in the US
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Speaker 2: since two thousand and five, when he came into this
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Speaker 2: country illegally. He was also at some point granted protection
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Speaker 2: from deportation back in twenty nineteen due to quote threats
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Speaker 2: from gangs in El Salvador. He was then deported in
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Speaker 2: March of twenty twenty five, despite lack of any criminal record.
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Speaker 2: His family says, well, that's not true. He broke into America.
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Speaker 2: He was here illegally. He was then sent with other
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Speaker 2: deportees alleged to have gang affiliations to El Salvador. The
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Speaker 2: Trump administration is defending the deportation, citing the Alien Enemies
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Speaker 2: Act of seventeen ninety eight and asserting that Garcia's ties
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Speaker 2: to MS thirteen, a terrorist organization, are more than enough
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Speaker 2: with him also breaking this country to send him to
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Speaker 2: El Salvador. El Salvador's president has also said the exact
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Speaker 2: same thing. I'm not releasing Garcia. He says, this isn't
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Speaker 2: gonna happen. He says, this is a person who is
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Speaker 2: actually as citizen of his country, and so why would
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Speaker 2: he then send him back to America.
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Speaker 8: Now.
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Speaker 2: The situation has obviously sparked a lot of fake outrage
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Speaker 2: from the liberal media and the left about human rights
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Speaker 2: concerns and the treatment of quote deportees. Human rights organizations
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Speaker 2: have reporter that detainees in a Salvador prisons, including the
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Speaker 2: prison where he is being held, face harsher conditions than
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Speaker 2: in America. Well, let's be clear, if you don't want
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Speaker 2: to go to El Salvador's prison, maybe you shouldn't break
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Speaker 2: into the United States of America. Now, as for the Democrats,
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Speaker 2: they're trying to do anything they can to stand up
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Speaker 2: to Trump and Democratic leaders now including Representative Maxwell Frost,
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Speaker 2: a Democrat from Florida, another one from Arizona, they're now
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Speaker 2: expressing support for Van Hollins's initiative and are considering joining
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Speaker 2: the delegation the Democrats are putting together to El Salvador.
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Speaker 2: They say it's important that they quote stand up for
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Speaker 2: the rule of law. To be clear, all the people
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Speaker 2: they're standing up for broke American laws by breaking into America.
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Speaker 2: And they also said that we must ensure the safety
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Speaker 2: and the rights of individuals like Garcia. Well, to be clear,
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Speaker 2: it should be their actual country of origin that should
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Speaker 2: be looking into that, the United States of America, and
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Speaker 2: if other countries are concerned about their citizens being in
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Speaker 2: that prison, that is their job. But clearly the people
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Speaker 2: they're going to check on they're not Americans. Which brings
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Speaker 2: us to the bigger question, why are they spending all
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Speaker 2: of this time and money defending people who are not
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Speaker 2: actually United States of America citizens. Why are they going
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Speaker 2: down They're doing more than even their own host countries
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Speaker 2: are doing for these individuals. Well, I can answer that question, unfortunately,
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Speaker 2: and the answer is actually very simple. The answer is
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Speaker 2: the Democratic Party is willing to go all in to
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Speaker 2: protect and defend I legal immigrants, including those that are
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Speaker 2: in terrorist organizations, as long as it means one day
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Speaker 2: they become American citizens and they vote for Democrats. This
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Speaker 2: is no different than what we talked about months ago.
20:56
Speaker 2: It's the great replacement theory. If you want to get
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Speaker 2: get rid of conservatives and Americans, then what do you do.
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Speaker 2: You import new voters, give them citizenship, and they'll vote
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Speaker 2: for you forever. And that's how you fundamentally change the
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Speaker 2: United States of America. I don't expect this fight, by
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Speaker 2: the way, to end anytime soon, and it's going to
21:17
Speaker 2: be shocking to see how many more Democrats come out
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Speaker 2: and put illegal immigrants that are in gangs and terrorist
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Speaker 2: organizations ahead of you and I Americans. In a major move,
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Speaker 2: the Trump administration has just frozen two point two billion
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Speaker 2: in grants to Harvard University after the elite university announced
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Speaker 2: it would not comply with demands for reform to stop
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Speaker 2: anti semitism and other forms of discrimination.
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Speaker 1: Harvard University revealed.
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Speaker 2: That it will not comply with the Trump administration's quote
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Speaker 2: list of demands for the university to make changes to
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Speaker 2: its policies regarding hiring, governance, students, admission, and anti semitism.
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Speaker 2: In a letter issued on Monday, lawyers for the university
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Speaker 2: criticize an earlier letter from the Trump administration as quote,
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Speaker 2: disregarding Harvard's efforts to make changes to its campus use
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Speaker 2: policies to address and combat hate and bias on campus,
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Speaker 2: and enhance campus safety and security measures, among other efforts.
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Speaker 2: The university added that the demands from the administration invade
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Speaker 2: university freedom long recognized by the Supreme Court. Now, the
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Speaker 2: requests from the Trump administration were actually very simple. They
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Speaker 2: asked for Harvard to quote, adopt and implement merit based
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Speaker 2: hiring policies and cease all performances based on race, color, religion, sex,
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Speaker 2: or national origin throughout its hiring, promotion, compensation the related
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Speaker 2: practices among faculty staff in leadership by August twenty twenty five. Quote,
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Speaker 2: the university must reform its recruitment, its screening, and admissions
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Speaker 2: of international students to prevent admitting students hostile to the
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Speaker 2: American values and institutions inscribed in the US Constitution and
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Speaker 2: Declaration of Independence. Including students supportive of terrorism or anti
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Speaker 2: Semitism is one of the other things that was written
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Speaker 2: by the administration. Nine response the Trump administration to Harvard
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Speaker 2: saying we're not playing ball well, they now suspended some
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Speaker 2: two point two billion of the nearly nine billion in
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Speaker 2: federal grants that are at risk. The Harvard Crimson, the
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Speaker 2: university student run newspaper, reported this way, saying, quote the
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Speaker 2: Trump administration paused two point two billion and multi year
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Speaker 2: grants and sixty million and multi year contracts to Harvard
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Speaker 2: over its decision earlier today to reject the White House's
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Speaker 2: demand a dramatic escalation in its crusade and the university. Now,
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Speaker 2: if you want to know what the White House says
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Speaker 2: about this, take a listen to Caroline Levitt speaking the
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Speaker 2: media on this issue.
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Speaker 9: When it comes to Harvard, the President's position on this
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Speaker 9: is grounded in common sense, in the basic principle that
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Speaker 9: Jewish American students or students of any faith should not
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Speaker 9: be illegally harassed and targeted on our nation's college campuses,
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Speaker 9: and we unfortunately saw that illegal discrimination take place on
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Speaker 9: the campus of Harvard. There are countless examples to prove it,
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Speaker 9: particularly with the stunning confession by then Harvard president Claudine
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Speaker 9: Gay who said that bullying and harassment depended on the context.
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Speaker 9: The President at that time made it clear to the
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Speaker 9: American public he was not going to tolerate illegal harassment
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Speaker 9: and anti Semitism taking place in violations of federal law.
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Speaker 9: So the President made it clear to Harvard follow federal law,
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Speaker 9: no longer break Title six, which was passed by Congress
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Speaker 9: to ensure no student can be discriminated against on the
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Speaker 9: basis of race, and you will receive federal funding. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 9: Harvard has not taken the President or the administration's demands seriously.
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Speaker 9: All the President is asking, don't break federal law and
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Speaker 9: then you can have your federal funding. I think the
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Speaker 9: President is also begging a good question. More than two
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Speaker 9: billion dollars out the door to Harvard, when they have
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Speaker 9: a more than fifty billion dollar endowment, Why are the
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Speaker 9: American taxpayers subsidizing in university that has billions of dollars
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Speaker 9: in the bank already, and we certainly should not be
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Speaker 9: funding a place where such grave anti semitism exists.
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Speaker 2: At the end of the day, it is very clear
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Speaker 2: that Trump administration is saying, we're going to save you money,
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Speaker 2: and we're also going to make sure that places like
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Speaker 2: Harvard have to follow the federal law, and if they don't,
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Speaker 2: there's going to be consequences.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: I also sat down with sitter Ted Cruz, who's been
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Speaker 2: a big advocate for making sure that these universities.
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Speaker 1: Are not given our tax dollars if.
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Speaker 2: They are advocating supporting these radicals on college campuses. Here
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Speaker 2: is what Senator Cruz had to say on his podcast that.
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Speaker 1: I co host. Take a listen.
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Speaker 2: So when you look at this fight, I do think
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Speaker 2: one of the very interesting parts of all of this
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Speaker 2: that we're talking about is now Americans are really waking
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Speaker 2: up and realizing like where their money has been going,
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Speaker 2: how much of it is going. And you're right, there's
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Speaker 2: some of this as research, and that's the thing we
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Speaker 2: can be proud of, and that's a good thing. But
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Speaker 2: a lot of this is going to indoctrinating kids with
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Speaker 2: radical leftist ideals. And that's part of the reason why
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Speaker 2: I think they need this money, right They want the
26:31
Speaker 2: money for that reason. They've been doing a great job
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Speaker 2: of doing that for the last several decades. So if
26:36
Speaker 2: the money does dry up at places like Harvard and
26:40
Speaker 2: then we start to see more questions being asked about
26:43
Speaker 2: other money, not only could this change universities in a
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Speaker 2: positive way, I think, for free speech and not having
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Speaker 2: one set of views that are indoctrinated, but it could
26:52
Speaker 2: also save the taxpayers a hell of a lot of money,
26:54
Speaker 2: because it's not just Harvard that's getting cash.
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Speaker 10: Oh yeah, but Harvard is the perfect test subjet. And
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Speaker 10: our universities right now have become in doctrination labs. They've
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Speaker 10: become places that enforce rigid orthodoxy. And if you say
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Speaker 10: something that is contrary to the radical leftist view, you
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Speaker 10: risk being disciplined, you risk being having your grades, and
27:17
Speaker 10: you also risk just not being admitted. And look, some
27:20
Speaker 10: of the question comes down to a very simple what
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Speaker 10: is it that the administration was requesting? Because if the
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Speaker 10: administration was demanding, Harvard must teach in every class that
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Speaker 10: Donald Trump is the greatest president who have ever lived.
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Speaker 10: I would agree with Harvard that no university could give
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Speaker 10: in to a government demand about a specific position like that,
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Speaker 10: particularly if it's one they disagree with. But that's not
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Speaker 10: what the Trump administration said. And I have in front
27:48
Speaker 10: of me the letter that the Trump administration said. It's
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Speaker 10: five pages. I'm not going to read it all, but
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Speaker 10: I'm going to read some of the portions of it.
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Speaker 10: So it is addressed both to Alan Garber, who is
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Speaker 10: the president of Harvard University, and A Penny Prisker, who
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Speaker 10: is the lead member of the Harvard Corporation. Penny Pritzker,
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Speaker 10: by the way, was a cabinet member under Barack Obama.
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Speaker 10: And the Harvard Corporation runs all of Harvard, and it's
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Speaker 10: this privately held corporation of all Democrats that run Harvard
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Speaker 10: as this left wing bastion. Here's how the letter begins,
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Speaker 10: Dear doctor Garber, the United States has invested in Harvard
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Speaker 10: University's operation because of the value to the country of
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Speaker 10: scholarly discovery and academic excellence. But an investment is not
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Speaker 10: an entitlement. It depends on Harvard upholding federal civil rights law,
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Speaker 10: and it only makes sense if Harvard fosters the kind
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Speaker 10: of environment that produces intellectual creativity and scholarly rigor, both
28:42
Speaker 10: of which are antithetical to ideological capture. Harvard has in
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Speaker 10: recent years failed to live up to both the intellectual
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Speaker 10: and civil rights conditions that justify federal investment, but we
28:54
Speaker 10: appreciate your expression of commitment to repairing those failures and
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Speaker 10: welcome your collaboration in restoring the university to its promise.
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Speaker 10: We therefore present the below provisions as the basis for
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Speaker 10: an agreement in principle that will maintain Harvard's financial relationship
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Speaker 10: with the federal government. Here's the first governance and leadership reforms.
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Speaker 10: By August twenty twenty five, Harvard must make meaningful governance
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Speaker 10: reform and restructuring to make possible major change consistent with
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Speaker 10: this letter, including fostering clear lines of authority and accountability.
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Speaker 10: Apparently that was objectionable, empowering tenured professors and senior leadership,
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Speaker 10: and from among the tenured professorate and senior leadership exclusively
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Speaker 10: those most devoted to the scholarly mission of the university
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Speaker 10: and committed to the changes indicated in this letter. Reducing
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Speaker 10: the power held by students and untenured faculty, reducing the
29:48
Speaker 10: power held by faculty, whether tenured or untenured, at administrators
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Speaker 10: more committed to activism than scholarship. Now, again, this is
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Speaker 10: something Harvard found unacceptable. We're willing to focus on scholarship
30:01
Speaker 10: instead of activism. Note that's a violation of what we
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Speaker 10: want to do. And reducing forms of governance bloat, duplication,
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Speaker 10: or decentralization that interfere with the possibility of reforms indicating
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Speaker 10: this letter. So that's the first one. Apparently something was
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Speaker 10: objectionable about that. What's the next one? Merit based hiring reform.
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Speaker 10: By August twenty twenty five, the university must adopt and
30:24
Speaker 10: implement merit based hiring policies and ceased all preferences based
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Speaker 10: on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin throughout its hiring, promotion, compensation,
30:34
Speaker 10: and related practices among faculty, staff, and leadership. Now, mind you,
30:38
Speaker 10: that is existing federal civil rights law. You cannot discriminate
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Speaker 10: against based on race, and yet for Harvard that is
30:47
Speaker 10: it is outrageous. Of course they want to discriminate based
30:51
Speaker 10: on race. It's an ideological commitment. What's the next one,
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Speaker 10: Merit based admissions reform. By August twenty twenty five, the
30:57
Speaker 10: university must adopt and implement merit based admission policies and
31:01
Speaker 10: ceased all preferences based on race, color, national origin, or
31:04
Speaker 10: proxies thereof, throughout its undergraduate program, each graduate program, individual,
31:08
Speaker 10: each of its professional schools, and other programs. Again, the
31:13
Speaker 10: idea of actually admitting students based on merit rather than
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Speaker 10: discriminating based on race, which minds you, discriminating based on
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Speaker 10: race as illegal under federal civil rights law, to Harvard,
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Speaker 10: is anathema. What's the next one? International admissions reform. By
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Speaker 10: August twenty twenty five, the university must reform its recruitment, screening,
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Speaker 10: and admission of international students to prevent admitting students hostile
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Speaker 10: to the American values and institutions inscribed in the US
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Speaker 10: Constitution and Declaration of Independence, including students supportive of terrorism
31:50
Speaker 10: or anti Semitism. Again, apparently, that is outrageous and unacceptable.
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Speaker 10: The next one viewpoint diversity and admission and hiring. By
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Speaker 10: August twenty twenty five, the university shall commission an external
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Speaker 10: party which will satisfy the federal government as to its
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Speaker 10: competence and good faith to audit the student body, faculty, staff,
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Speaker 10: and leadership for viewpoint diversity, such that each department, field,
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Speaker 10: or teaching unit must be individually viewpoint diverse. Now, notably,
32:19
Speaker 10: they're not saying higher conservatives, They're not saying higher Trump supporters.
32:24
Speaker 10: They're saying, you cannot have a faculty that is universally
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Speaker 10: orthodox and indoctrinating that all have the same view that
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Speaker 10: the left loves to prattle on about diversity as our strength.
32:38
Speaker 10: And by diversity they mean we must all be leftist
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Speaker 10: to believe the same thing, but saith though with different
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Speaker 10: skin colors. Now, I actually think diversity means having different ideas,
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Speaker 10: confronting ideas you disagree with. Look I go through these
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Speaker 10: to give an example. I think each of those demands
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Speaker 10: are very reasonable. They're saying, comply with federal law being
32:59
Speaker 10: in institution that actually does what you say, what you
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Speaker 10: claim to be doing, and yet Harvard is outraged. How
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Speaker 10: dare you hold us to the terms of federal law.
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Speaker 10: We cannot comply with that.
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