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Tucker Carlson’s Airport Drama Collapses plus Why Liberals want to Dismantle Homeland Security · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson. He has been a guy that's been all
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  Speaker 1: about attacking Israel and doing everything he can to have
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: on the white supremacists and those that hate Jews on
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  Speaker 1: his show. We've been called out quite a few times
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  Speaker 1: by the ambassador from the United States of America to is
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  Speaker 1: Mike Huckabee. And then there was a challenge, why don't
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  Speaker 1: you actually come to Israel in interview me as Tuger,
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: Carlson had new claims that Christians were being persecuted at
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  Speaker 1: Israel like never before. Well, that's where we get into
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  Speaker 1: the new crazy part of the story. Now, Carlson did
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  Speaker 1: travel to Israel, but wouldn't even leave the airport for
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  Speaker 1: the interview, and it stemmed all from his criticism of
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  Speaker 1: Mike Kuckabee and Christians, who he says are looking the
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  Speaker 1: other way with what Israel really is doing. Well after
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  Speaker 1: the interview, which had not gone public, Carlson publicly claimed
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  Speaker 1: that Israeli airport security had confiscated his passport and those
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  Speaker 1: of his team. He also said as executive producer, was
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  Speaker 1: taken into a side room and questioned. He portrayed the
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: encounter as a arbitrary detention or interrogation by Israeli officials,
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  Speaker 1: and he described the experience as bizarre before leaving Israel,
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  Speaker 1: acting like he was finally safe, that he was out
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  Speaker 1: of the country. Well, there's receipts of what actually happened
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  Speaker 1: video that has now gone public of anything but what
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  Speaker 1: Tucker's Carlson described happening. In fact, the US Embassy in
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem said his depiction was inaccurate. It said it Carlson
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  Speaker 1: as team received the same passport and security questions that
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  Speaker 1: all visitors undergo when entering and exiting Israel. According to
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  Speaker 1: the embassy, its only involvement was coordinating Carlson's plane landing
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  Speaker 1: and not anything to do with custody or interrogation. Huckabee
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  Speaker 1: echoed this routine passport checks happened to travelers all the time,
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  Speaker 1: including himself, and nothing out of the ordinary occurred. Now,
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  Speaker 1: to be clear, I also have been in Israel recently,
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  Speaker 1: and if Tucker Carlson was detained by Israel, then well
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  Speaker 1: I guess I was as well, because the exact same
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  Speaker 1: thing that happened to Tucker on video happened to me
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  Speaker 1: when I was coming into the country and also when
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  Speaker 1: I was leaving the country. No US official described the
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  Speaker 1: incident as a diplomatic incident, which is exactly what Tucker
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  Speaker 1: said it was, or harassment, and there was no formal
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  Speaker 1: protests lodged by the US government.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Israel's official response was also consistent. Israeli airport authority issued
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  Speaker 1: a statement making it clear that Carlson and his entourage
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  Speaker 1: were not detained, delayed, or in tear. They said security
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  Speaker 1: asked routine questions like any traveler, but did so in
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  Speaker 1: a VIP lounge to preserve privacy, not for punitive reasons.
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  Speaker 1: Former Israeli Prime Minister Bennett publicly land blasted Carlson, saying
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  Speaker 1: he hadn't even left the airport terminal, and that's when
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  Speaker 1: the video really started to clear everything up about the
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  Speaker 1: lies from Carlson. Shortly after Carlson's statements circulated, video footage
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  Speaker 1: and photos from the airport began circulating, showing him smiling
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  Speaker 1: in the terminal, signing documents, even posing for selfie photos,
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  Speaker 1: and hugging and interacting with airport staff. The footage strongly
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  Speaker 1: contradicts his narrative of a coercive or adversarial detention and
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  Speaker 1: showed a much more ordinary experience.
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  Speaker 2: At the airport.
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  Speaker 1: Officials underscored that there was no evidence of custody abuse
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  Speaker 1: or punitive measures, only standard routine procedures. Now critics and
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  Speaker 1: reporters also noted Carlson's versions appeared to be exaggerated. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: they were leaked to a former colleague of his, an
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  Speaker 1: ally that worked at The Daily Mail, and in that
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  Speaker 1: reporting it was exaggerated since all the documentations showed normal
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  Speaker 1: airport interactions. Some commentators, of course, mock Carlson for remaining
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  Speaker 1: inside the airport rather than exploring Israel during his very
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  Speaker 1: brief visit. The episode's adds to ongoing controversy around Carlson's
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  Speaker 1: coverage of Israel as well as the Middle East, including
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  Speaker 1: previous criticisms alleging bias anti Israel, rhetoric and contentious interviews.
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  Speaker 1: Now you can make your own decisions about what you
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  Speaker 1: think about what Carlson actually did. There is a part
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  Speaker 1: of this is well straight up humor. There's a comedian
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  Speaker 1: online that decided to put out a well a video,
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  Speaker 1: a humorous montage of what he thought Tucker Carlson would
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  Speaker 1: have said in response to the questions that were asked
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  Speaker 1: of him at the airport. And I want you to
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  Speaker 1: take a listen to how one man well mock Tucker
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  Speaker 1: Carlson in a brilliant way.
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  Speaker 3: Back some of the PACKFOLI, y'all, I don't even know
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  Speaker 3: what that means. Actually, I mean, I certainly I packed
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  Speaker 3: some things. I certainly packed a lot of things, like
• 5:30
  Speaker 3: a lot, and I probably overpackedic I always tend to
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  Speaker 3: overpack it and bring everything, and I'm sure other people
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  Speaker 3: packed for me too.
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  Speaker 4: So what do we have to ask to make sure
• 5:39
  Speaker 4: you don't no one put the weapon or something you
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  Speaker 4: don't know?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm proud of owning guns. I own lots of guns.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna apologize for that. Like at all I
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  Speaker 2: owned guns.
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  Speaker 3: You'll have one here, So I'm not gonna apologize for that, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: but did you I'm not gonna do it.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Okay. What do you do for work?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? I'm a journalist. I'm a journalist and a commentator.
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  Speaker 3: I talk to people, I have conversations with people journalists. Okay,
• 6:01
  Speaker 3: do you ever lie?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: All the time? I lie every day, lie every day,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll continue to do it. I'm sure I'll continue
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  Speaker 2: to do that. And I hate it. I hate that
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  Speaker 2: I do that, but I'm certain that I do do it.
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  Speaker 5: You're lying right now about your intentions.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and I'm very honest about that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very honest about that.
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  Speaker 5: You're honest that you're lying.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you with a major network, No, we're independent.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, And who is funding you?
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  Speaker 2: I'd rather not say that's some of your business? So
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  Speaker 2: your business at all, it's a secretctually, and I don't
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  Speaker 2: have to disclose that.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: You travel to the Middle East at all in the
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  Speaker 4: last six months, I have Okay, yes, where you go?
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  Speaker 4: Which places you travel well? And why do you go there?
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  Speaker 5: Oh? No, let's go.
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  Speaker 2: I went to places. They were nice. I just I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to. I want to.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to talk to people and see people, have
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  Speaker 3: conversations with people.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, any of the people you talk to have any
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  Speaker 4: connections to a radical terror organizations?
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  Speaker 3: I mean really, I mean, last I checked, they were
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  Speaker 3: all political organizations. What any of those regimes were political organizations?
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  Speaker 2: Last at checks?
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  Speaker 5: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: These funny dude, Are you Jewish?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not Jewish. I certainly there's nothing wrong with being Jewish.
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  Speaker 3: Some of my favorite people are Jewish, like really like
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  Speaker 3: some of my very absolutely favorite people are Jewish. Some
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  Speaker 3: of my least favorite people are Christian Zionists.
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  Speaker 2: I hate them.
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm appalled by them, actually, like really like really
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  Speaker 3: a pol But I'm not gonna apologize for who I am.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a white person, I'm a Christian, I'm a man,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm not gonna apologize for that period.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, okay, a couple more questions. Where are you from? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I came from Maine.
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  Speaker 5: What is main?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I live across from my parents' graves.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, okay, from Maine. What's the population?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? I see what you did?
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  Speaker 5: And so what brings you to Israel?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm here to interview Ambassador Mike Huckabee.
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  Speaker 5: You'll know Ambassador Mike Huckabee very well. Actually I know
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  Speaker 5: a lot from where you know him.
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  Speaker 3: And I also have no idea who he is, like
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  Speaker 3: at all, Like I barely even know who that is.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know who he is. And so I'm
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  Speaker 2: here interviewing.
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  Speaker 5: So you don't know him? Why you don't know him?
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  Speaker 5: And moving? Okay? Anyone give you a gift or something
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  Speaker 5: to take to his old with you?
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  Speaker 2: I mean I got a house from Qatar.
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  Speaker 3: While you get that they're an ally. Last night, Chuck
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  Speaker 3: they're an ally. They're like one of our closest allies.
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  Speaker 5: Actually, okay, we're gonna need your passport please.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you need to see my passport? Is because
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  Speaker 2: I'm a Christian.
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  Speaker 5: What's you're saying?
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  Speaker 2: Did you just spin at me?
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  Speaker 5: Man?
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  Speaker 2: Did you just spin it me?
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  Speaker 5: We need your passport, your passport please?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm surely not going to give you my passport.
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  Speaker 2: I would never do that, like at all.
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  Speaker 5: This is thank you to the supervisor.
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  Speaker 2: They're detaining me off.
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  Speaker 5: This is just like the demon.
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  Speaker 2: This is just like the demon.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes humor can actually just well make everything makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: And I gotta be honest with you, that might be
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  Speaker 1: the most accurate way I have seen Tiger Carlson truly
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  Speaker 1: and interpreted. I'll let you decide what you think on
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  Speaker 1: this issue, but one thing's for sure. Democrats, we are
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  Speaker 1: now learning, are looking not only to dismantle ICE, but
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  Speaker 1: also the entire Department of Homeland Security. Remarks now coming
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  Speaker 1: from Representative the Lam Omar signal that the National Democrats
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  Speaker 1: as a party are pursuing sweeping changes that extend far
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  Speaker 1: beyond their calls to quote abolish ICE. During a town hall,
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  Speaker 1: Omar said, Democrats are not only discussing eliminating immigration and
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  Speaker 1: customs enforcement, but are also engaged in conversations about dismantling
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  Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security altogether. Quote. What I will
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  Speaker 1: say is that there is an easier conversation happening today
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  Speaker 1: than six seven years ago when I got to Congress
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  Speaker 1: about what we need to do with ICE, which is
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  Speaker 1: to abolish it, Omar told attendees in Golden Valley, Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: Up she added, there's a lot of conversation about what
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  Speaker 1: the dismantlement of the Department of Homeland Security should look
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  Speaker 1: like now. Omar's remarks come as Democrats continue to protests
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  Speaker 1: federal immigration enforcement operations directed under President Donald Trump. ICE,
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  Speaker 1: which was established in two thousand and three under the DHS,
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  Speaker 1: has carried out immigration enforcement actions for more than two decades.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Thursday mark the sixth day of a federal shutdown forced
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  Speaker 1: by Congressional Democrats over their new demands to get rid
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  Speaker 1: of ICE, or, at the bare minimum, as they describe it,
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  Speaker 1: reform it, which actually means shut it down.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats are pushing for, they say, a series of major
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: new restrictions on ICE operations. What does that include? Banning
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: agents from wearing face masks and requiring judicial warrants before
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  Speaker 1: making any arrest all. They are also calling for a
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  Speaker 1: mandate that ICE agents wear body cameras, something that Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration is already moving towards, but of course they want
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  Speaker 1: to seem like there's fake outrage. In fact, ICE agents
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: have been requesting the body cameras to prove their innocence
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: in many of the accusations that are coming from the
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  Speaker 1: radical left now. In addition, Democrats are seeking to prohibit
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  Speaker 1: immigration enforcement actions at what they describe as sensitive locations,
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  Speaker 1: meaning they'll become safe havens for actual criminals. What are
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: these places? Hospitals, schools, and polling sites? Just so you know,
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  Speaker 1: with American individuals that have broken laws, as an American citizen,
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: you can be arrested right now at a hospital, or
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: a school, or at a polling site. So why would
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  Speaker 1: we give special care to illegal immigrants? Is the question
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  Speaker 1: every American should be asking now. One on Earth's side
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: point about the insanity of them saying that you can't
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: arrest illegal immigrants at polling sites. Republicans, they're laughing at that,
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: noting that non citizens, by the way, are literally prohibited
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  Speaker 1: from voting in US elections under federal law. So why
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: are Democrats so angry and wanting to demand that our
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: laws would make it impossible for law enforcement too, You
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: guessed it, arrest illegal immigrants at polling sites. Is it
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  Speaker 1: because they want them to vote? Or know that some
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: of them already are voting right now now? In recent weeks,
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  Speaker 1: several Democratic leaders have strongly condemned ICE operations, including Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: Governor Tim Waltz, a Democrat who lost to twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: four election to Trump and Vice President j d Vance.
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  Speaker 1: He now warned that federal enforcement efforts could expand nationwide,
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: therefore we must defund them. He also had this warning
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  Speaker 1: to America quote to Americans who are watching this, if
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: you're in Portland, or you're in LA, or you're in Chicago,
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: or you're wherever they're coming next. Now, to be clear,
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: for me, that's a good thing if we're sending law
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: enforcement to clean up cities that are filled with tons
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: of criminals. Yet again, the Democrats showing whose side they're
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: actually on now. Republicans have urged that ICE enforcement actions
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  Speaker 1: are not only lawful operations carried out by federal authorities,
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: but they are needed to protect American citizens, and the
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: crime statistics have shown where ICE agents have been out
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: in major enforcement actions, we've seen the crimes drastically drop
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  Speaker 1: in those areas. Of course, critics of Democratic proposals say
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: dismantling ICE or DHS more broadly would significantly not only
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  Speaker 1: reshape national security of the home land, but it would
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  Speaker 1: allow for criminals to run a mock DHS by the
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  Speaker 1: way overseas. Twenty two agencies focusing on national security and
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: public safety. Major components include Customs and Border Protection known
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  Speaker 1: as CVP. If you get rid of Homeland Security, you
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: would get rid of that. You'd also get rid of
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: obviously immigration, customs enforcement, ICE agents, and the TSA. So yes,
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: Democrats want to shut down the same people that keep
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: you safe when flying on airplanes. They also want to
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: get rid of FEMA, that is also yet again under
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: the Department of homeand Security. So the next time there's
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: a national disaster, guess what, Yeah, no one from the
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  Speaker 1: federal government would be there to help you if the
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: Democrats get their way. Oh and if you're at sea,
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: or you're a drug dealer, or maybe some other country
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: that's looking to do harm, don't worry. Democrats also say yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that includes the US Coast Guard.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: Sinking on a boat, tough luck for you. Democrats say
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  Speaker 1: no more. And if you are caring about our president
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: and others around him and other cabinet members, well you
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  Speaker 1: would like the Secrets Service protection. If Democrats get their
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  Speaker 1: way shutting down the Department of homean security, that would
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  Speaker 1: include the Secret Service. And finally, maybe this is what
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  Speaker 1: it's really all about for them. US Citizenship and Immigration
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  Speaker 1: services under the USCIS, Yes, you've probably dealt with them
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  Speaker 1: if you've ever had to get a passport or other
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  Speaker 1: things like that, well, Democrats also apparently say nah, let's
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: get rid of that as well. So to be clear,
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: in the midterm elections, Democrats are saying exactly what they believe.
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  Speaker 1: They hate this country. They hate secure borders, they hate
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: law and order, they hate FEMA, they hate the Coastguard,
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: they hate the Secret Service, and they hate the people
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: they help US citizens and Immigration services as well, and
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  Speaker 1: they want to abolish all of it just because they
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: don't like ice actions. This is what the midterms are
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: going to be about. And thank goodness, Donald Trump has
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: made it clear as he had a campaign rally for
• 15:57
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  Speaker 1: i'd say, a war of words between Donald Trump and
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Barack Obama. Now that's happened before, but over the issue
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: of little green men aliens, that is something I never
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  Speaker 1: thought i'd be talking about. But Barack Obama went on
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  Speaker 1: a podcast this week and he was asked a question
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: about aliens, and here's what he had to say.
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  Speaker 5: Are aliens real?
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  Speaker 6: They're real, but I haven't seen him, and they're not
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  Speaker 6: being kept in.
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  Speaker 2: Fifty one.
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  Speaker 6: There's no underground facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy. And
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  Speaker 6: they hit it from the President of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Now, that comment turned into a much bigger issue on
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: social media and online, as many were freaking out that
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: is now hiding from US aliens. Now, Donald Trump was
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  Speaker 1: asked about this, and I want you to hear what
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: he had to say. He wasn't laughing near as much
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  Speaker 1: as Barack Obama was. And here's what he said.
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  Speaker 8: No discrimination.
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  Speaker 9: Something to get a lot of attention this week, Barack
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  Speaker 9: Obama said that aliens are real. Have you seen any
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  Speaker 9: evidence of non human visitors to pork Well?
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  Speaker 8: He gave class of my information he's not supposed to
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  Speaker 8: be doing.
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  Speaker 2: That are real.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I don't know if they're real or not. I
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  Speaker 8: can tell you he gave classified information he's not supposed
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: to be doing that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he made it big for sake.
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: He took it out a class of my information. No,
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: I don't. I don't have an opinion on it. I
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: never talked about it. A lot of people do, a
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: lot of people believe it. Do you believe it?
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  Speaker 9: Peter, Well, if the press it can declassify anything that
• 20:38
  Speaker 9: he wants, Tom.
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: I may get him out of trouble by declassifying.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: We know illegal aliens really?
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: Yeah, illegal, only illegals? What else?
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Only illegals?
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: What else?
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: Now?
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: The President said that, which then caused Barack Obama to
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: backtrack very quickly on what he had said on that podcast.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Barack Obama came out and posted on Instagram clarifying that
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: he saw no evidence during his presidency that aliens had
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: made contact with Earth. His point was that statistically, life
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: elsewhere in the universe is likely given in its vastness,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: but there's no proof of visits here. Well, then Donald
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Trump decided to do what well, Donald Trump always does.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: He likes to let the American people know exactly what's
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: going on and doesn't think that there should be a
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: lot of secrets from you. So President Donald Trump said
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: on Thursday that he will direct the Pentagon Chief Headseth
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: and other relevant agencies to begin the process of identifying
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: and releasing government files related to aliens and extraterrestrial life,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: as well as unidentified aerial phenomena known as youaps and
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: unidentified flying objects you know them as UFOs. Trump on
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  Speaker 1: true socials said, based on the tremendous interest shown, I
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: will be directing the Secretary of War and the other
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: relevant departments and agencies to begin the process of identifying
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: and releasing government files related to aliens and extraterrestrial life,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: as well as unidentified aerial phenomenon, unidentified flying objects, and
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: any and all other information connected to these highly complex,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: but extremely interesting and important matters the present. Then putting
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: in all caps, God bless America. One thing is for sure.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Barack Obama saying that aliens are real and then trying
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: to take it back, well, it may not fly, and
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: the President of the United States of America wants you
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: to know about anything and everything that is flying. I
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: have to say the best part of this story is
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: the transparent and see the President of the United States
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: of America saying, you know what you the American people
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: deserve to know what we know and we shouldn't be
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: hiding it from you when it comes to the UFOs.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: This also is what many Americans have been demanding on
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: other issues, just like the Epstein files, and the President
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: of the United States of America time and time again
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: is saying, Okay, if the American people want to see it,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: I am more than happy to let you see what's
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: actually happening within your government. Wouldn't it be amazing if
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: the guy by the name of Barack Obama would have
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: done the same thing for eight years when he was
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: in office. He now gives you the teasers as he
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: has no power to actually disclose anything. And even if
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: it means that he was, you know doing is what
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: the President said, giving you classified information. That's not his
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: job then or now. And so the President's doing it
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: the lawful way, the right way, and saying to the government,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: go ahead and do what you need to do to
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: let the American people see it exactly what's going on.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: We'll keep following this story. I can promise you that.
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