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Hunter Biden's Art Will Prove Influence Peddling Scheme · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: There is a showdown that is taking place literally at
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Speaker 1: the southern border. It is between the Republicans when it
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Speaker 1: comes to the issue of funding and Democrats who are
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Speaker 1: refusing to secure the border. The new Speaker of the House,
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Speaker 1: Speaker Johnson, went to the southern border, something that the
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Speaker 1: Democrats refused to do. Certainly that one main Democrat who
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Speaker 1: is supposed to be the border czar, the Vice President,
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Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. Now, I'm going to deal with all that
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Speaker 1: in a moment, but first there's something else that I
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Speaker 1: want you to know about that's just broken, and it
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Speaker 1: deals with Hunter Biden, his artwork and who's been buying
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Speaker 1: that artwork, and massive corruption that is now being exposed.
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Speaker 1: This is coming from the New York Sun. The headline
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Speaker 1: hunter Biden's art patron, her grand niece released from captivity,
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Speaker 1: will be key witness as GOP seeks to prove influence
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Speaker 1: pedaling scheme.
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Speaker 2: Now, let me explain that headline for you just a
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Speaker 2: little bit.
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Speaker 1: When there were Americans that were taken hostage on that
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Speaker 1: attack by Hamas on Israel, there were multiple Americans that
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Speaker 1: were taken. There was one American that was released right away.
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Speaker 1: The first American to be released, and we found out
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Speaker 1: that it was the grand niece of a investor, right,
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Speaker 1: someone who had bought Hunter Biden artwork and also had
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Speaker 1: direct ties to Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and the Biden
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Speaker 1: crime family.
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Speaker 2: The purchaser of paintings by Hunter Biden.
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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Hirsch also served as a senior fundraiser for the
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty presidential campaign of Joe Biden. She was rewarded
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Speaker 1: for that fundraising as a senior fundraiser with a seat
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Speaker 1: on the prestigious Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad. Now,
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Speaker 1: these types of seats are usually filled by different people
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Speaker 1: that work with a politician, raise money for a politician,
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Speaker 1: and do all these things for people to get elected.
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Speaker 2: And this is kind of their thank you and how
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Speaker 2: it works.
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Speaker 1: Now, let me get into this so you understand just
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Speaker 1: how shocking all these details are. So this prominent Democratic
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Speaker 1: Party donor, she knew how to play the game. She
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Speaker 1: understood that she needed to raise money for the presidential
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Speaker 1: campaign to get a prominent job, and then to get
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Speaker 1: other favors, she needed to purchase art.
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Speaker 2: From Hunter Biden.
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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Hirsch is expected now to be a key witness.
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Speaker 1: And this makes sense because the House Impeachman investigators in
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Speaker 1: the new year are saying they're going to try to
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Speaker 1: prove the existence of an influence peddling machine between the
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Speaker 1: bi of IT sector.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Elizabeth's lawyers previously told Congress, in response to a subpoena
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Speaker 1: from the Oversight Committee Chairman, Congressman James Comer, that she
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Speaker 1: could not tell FI because her grand niece had been
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Speaker 1: kidnapped by Hamas on October the seventh. The Child Fast
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Speaker 1: Forward was the very first American to be released in
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Speaker 1: late November during that brief cease fire and hostages for
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Speaker 1: prisoner exchange with Israel. So, bam, you buy artwork and
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Speaker 1: that's apparently what it costs to get your family member
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Speaker 1: out from being a hostage from Hamas. Pretty impressive, right,
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Speaker 1: great return on your investment. Not only that, but Elizabeth
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Speaker 1: is the heir to a garment and real estate mogul fortune.
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Speaker 1: She served as a finance committee member for both the
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Speaker 1: Clinton Hillary Clinton twenty sixteen campaign and as a senior
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Speaker 1: finance chair for the Biden twenty twenty campaign. She was
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Speaker 1: also a deputy finance chair for the day Democratic National Committee.
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Speaker 2: So she understands this game, folks.
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Speaker 1: She understands that to keep her influence, buying artwork from
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Speaker 1: Hunter Biden was a great way of doing it. In fact,
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Speaker 1: she was no different than what they were doing in Russia, Romania,
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Speaker 1: Ukraine and in communist China. You buy art or you
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Speaker 1: hire Hunter Biden for a job that he doesn't do,
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Speaker 1: and then you get access to the big guy.
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Speaker 2: Here's something else that you need to understand.
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Speaker 1: When she was unmasked as a patron of mister Biden's
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Speaker 1: lucrative career as a self trained artist, insider her again
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Speaker 1: first reported that Elizabeth had purchased up to a half
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Speaker 1: a million dollars worth of artwork from the first son,
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Speaker 1: who's powerful and impactful paintings. This is how they describe
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Speaker 1: them at the gallery range from photogenic to mix media
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Speaker 1: to the abstract now. According to the gallery, which marketed
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Speaker 1: this artwork at prices that many art experts have come
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Speaker 1: out publicly and said, we're insanely high for one someone
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Speaker 1: that was never in the business, and to a self
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Speaker 1: trained artist at the beginning of their career fetching a
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Speaker 1: half million dollars or more for artwork. This is what
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Speaker 1: the By the way, the United States government warned about
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Speaker 1: as a way to basically.
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Speaker 2: Clean money, to bribe people, to wash money.
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Speaker 1: Is because art is right worth what the the purchaser
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Speaker 1: is willing to pay.
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Speaker 2: It's all in the eye of the beholder.
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Speaker 1: And this is a way to clean money and launder
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Speaker 1: money is through artwork.
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Speaker 2: We've known this now for a long time. Also jewelry.
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Speaker 1: They, in fact, the IRS even warned of this being
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Speaker 1: a way to funnel money through jewelry and through artwork,
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Speaker 1: because who are you to say that Hunter Biden's piece
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Speaker 1: of art isn't worth actually half a million dollars? Well,
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Speaker 1: art experts say this is insane. So you go from
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Speaker 1: that to July of twenty twenty two. All right, So
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Speaker 1: rewind about a year and a half. The President of
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Speaker 1: the United States of America appointed this woman to the
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Speaker 1: prestigious Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad. It's
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Speaker 1: an American body chaired by television celebrity star Jones Okay,
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Speaker 1: that focuses on protecting Jewish heritage sites in Eastern Europe.
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Speaker 1: It's not clear if this woman appointment came before or
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Speaker 1: after the purchase of Hunter Biden's art, So the Committee
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Speaker 1: chairman leading the investigation, a good friend of the show,
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Speaker 1: James Comer, said, all right, we want to know when
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Speaker 1: the art was purchased. We have simple questions that we
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Speaker 1: like to raise, and we have committee concerns here and
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Speaker 1: this should not be hard to answer these questions. Now,
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Speaker 1: this is I think clear examples of the Biden's influence peddling.
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Speaker 1: That's exactly, by the way, what James Comer said, and
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Speaker 1: that's why Comber subpoenaed Elizabeth to appear before this deposition
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Speaker 1: before his committee after these reports disclosed that she was
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Speaker 1: one of mister Biden's biggest spending art patrons. Now, the
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Speaker 1: lawyers for Elizabeth, Jason Ebel, and a spokesman for the
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Speaker 1: House Oversight Committee, have not returned requests for comments from
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Speaker 1: The New York Sun on this quote. The facts remain
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Speaker 1: that Elizabeth emineity regarding her purchase of Hunter Biden's art
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Speaker 1: is no more, and her position on the prestigious commission
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Speaker 1: within the Biden administration raises the committee's concerns. That is
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Speaker 1: what mister Comer wrote to her lawyer on November ninth. Quote, today,
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Speaker 1: your client has refused to provide any other requested information
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Speaker 1: The committee therefore intends to question her, among other things,
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Speaker 1: about her purchase of Hunter Biden's artwork and her appointment
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Speaker 1: to the US Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad.
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Speaker 1: Now Democrats, of course, are coming out slamming mister Comer
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Speaker 1: for issuing the subpoena while the woman was under quote
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Speaker 1: duress because her then three year old grand niece had
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Speaker 1: been kidnapped by a Hamas after her parents were killed
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Speaker 1: in southern Israel on October the seventh. They said, this
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Speaker 1: is just flat out wrong and you shouldn't be getting
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Speaker 1: her to ask questions. Well, my question is this now,
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Speaker 1: can she answer questions? Can she answer questions this time?
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Speaker 1: Since her niece was the only American to get out
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Speaker 1: during that prisoner swap, the first American to get out
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Speaker 1: during that ceasefire in prisoner swap, that's the question we
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Speaker 1: should be asking. You also have mister Burgess, who is
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Speaker 1: I've been overseeing the sale of Hunter's paintings. We also
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Speaker 1: now know that he will be called to testify before
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Speaker 1: the House Oversight Committee as well. This on top of Elizabeth,
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Speaker 1: this Los Angeles real estate developer who paid big bucks
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Speaker 1: for Hunter's paintings and also facing new subpoenas will be
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Speaker 1: Hunter's business associates, Eric Squerren and a Chinese businessman, mister Yan.
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Speaker 1: Now let me go through this part so you understand
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Speaker 1: as the House Republicans are starting to connect these dots,
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Speaker 1: they're basically seeing one consistent theme. These are not art
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Speaker 1: collectors that are buying this artwork. These are people that
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Speaker 1: are buying access and are involved in democratic politics. Now
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Speaker 1: go back to Elizabeth what I said about her a
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Speaker 1: moment ago. She's a twenty sixteen megabundler for Hillary Clinton,
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Speaker 1: She's a bundler for the Democratic National Committee, She's a bundler,
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Speaker 1: mega donor and fundraiser for or Joe Biden in twenty twenty. Like,
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Speaker 1: this is not an art person. This is a political
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Speaker 1: person who's buying art that is directly connected to the
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Speaker 1: political world that she wants to exist in. So look
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Speaker 1: at George Burgess, who's been overseeing the sale of Hunter's paintings.
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Speaker 1: He should be called, by the way, to testify before
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Speaker 1: the House Oversight Committee. And the reason why is because
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Speaker 1: he knows who's buying all of this artwork. These four
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Speaker 1: new congressional summons come on the heels of two unprecedents
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Speaker 1: of poenis to Joe's family, including his son Hunter and
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Speaker 1: brother James.
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Speaker 2: And remember, Hunter Biden didn't.
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Speaker 1: Show up for that, right, he showed up to Capitol Hill,
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Speaker 1: he did the press conference, said he was a drug addict,
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Speaker 1: made some bad decisions with his money, but he done
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Speaker 1: nothing wrong, and leave him alone and stop harassing him.
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Speaker 2: YadA, YadA, YadA. That didn't work very well at Backfire.
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Speaker 1: There are new indictments against Hunter Biden that makes the
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Speaker 1: case against him even stronger for Republicans to accelerate their
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Speaker 1: impeachment probe into Joe Biden and his alleged links to
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Speaker 1: his family shitty business dealings. Now, I go back to
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Speaker 1: the same question I ask over and over again when
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Speaker 1: I'm when I'm doing you know this show and on
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Speaker 1: TV and on Fox today, there's a simple question we
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Speaker 1: should all ask. What was Hunter Biden selling? What was
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Speaker 1: the product? Is he an expert in art?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 2: Is he an expert in oil? No? Is he an
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Speaker 2: expert in gas?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 2: Is he an expert in foreign investments?
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Speaker 4: No?
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Speaker 2: Is he an expert in foreign banking?
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Speaker 5: No?
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Speaker 2: Is he an expert in China? No?
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Speaker 1: Is he an expert anything in Ukraine. No is he
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Speaker 1: an expert anything in Russia? No, anything expert anything in Romania?
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Speaker 4: No?
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Speaker 2: Does he even speak those languages from what we understand.
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Speaker 1: No, So what was the product that Hunter Biden was
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Speaker 1: being paid tens of millions of dollars to provide to
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Speaker 1: these bad actors? The product was his dad. That's the product.
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Speaker 1: James Comer understands this. James Comer, who is slammed the
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Speaker 1: Biden crime family for refusing to answer these questions. And
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Speaker 1: of course Democrats always play, you know, the what about
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Speaker 1: is and they're like, well, poor Elizabeth, you know, how
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Speaker 1: dare they a subpoena her while there's a three year
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Speaker 1: old child that's been uh you know, that's been taken hostage?
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Speaker 1: And somehow this is all the fault of Republicans, not Democrats.
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Speaker 1: Right Representative Dan Goldman, who's basically an acting attorney.
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Speaker 2: For the Biden crime family. He's a Democrat from New York.
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Speaker 1: He went on ax Twitter and said, Elizabeth three old
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Speaker 1: niece is currently.
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Speaker 2: Being held hostage by hamas Ya.
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Speaker 1: James Comer is spending his time subpoenaing a private subpoenaing
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Speaker 1: a private citizen as part of his wild goose chase,
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Speaker 1: rather than working to return her family from captivity. This
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Speaker 1: is a new low from House Republicans. Okay, A, she
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Speaker 1: was returned. B she was put clearly to the front
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Speaker 1: of the line over other Americans.
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Speaker 2: And see, you can do two things at once.
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Speaker 1: There is no reason why this should have been an
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Speaker 1: excuse for her.
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Speaker 2: Not to answer questions.
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Speaker 1: But even if you say it was inappropriate, wrong, let's
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Speaker 1: say I agree with that for a second hypothetically, which
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Speaker 1: I don't.
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Speaker 2: Let's say I do.
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Speaker 1: Now the three year old has been returned, then shouldn't
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Speaker 1: she have to answer these questions now? Now the committee,
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Speaker 1: by the way, is also and this is another aspect
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Speaker 1: of this. They're also requesting interviews with Americorp Health trustee
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Speaker 1: Carol Fox, a business associate, Joey Langston, a Ukrainian American
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Speaker 1: businessman and longtime donor to Joe Biden and an associate
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Speaker 1: of them of theirs as well. Jason galanis the House
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Speaker 1: Oversight Committee. They say, we're leaving no stone unturned as
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Speaker 1: we continue to investigate President Joe Biden's quote central role
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Speaker 1: in his family's domestic at international business dealings. Now in
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Speaker 1: July of twenty twenty two, eight months after Hunter's exhibition opened.
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Speaker 2: In New York.
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden then appointed, as I mentioned earlier, Elizabeth to
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Speaker 1: the Committee for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad.
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Speaker 2: It's not clear whether she had already purchased the artwork.
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Speaker 1: That's a question they should be able to answer, And
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Speaker 1: that's a question you shouldn't have to subpoena her to
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Speaker 1: get the answer, because if this is not nefarious, and
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Speaker 1: she's genuinely just an art collector, you would think that
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Speaker 1: the timing of that buying that art wouldn't matter. So
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Speaker 1: tell us when you bought that art. Now, the White House,
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Speaker 1: by the way, is involved heavily in this art. Let
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Speaker 1: me explain what I mean by that. The White House
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Speaker 1: announced that a team of lawyers had quote reviewed the
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Speaker 1: sales and kept purchasers anonymous from Hunter Biden as a
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Speaker 1: way to avoid potential conflicts of interest when buyers headed
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Speaker 1: hefty sale prices to the present Son. If anybody believes
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Speaker 1: that you're an idiot, swearin who's Hunter's longtime business partner
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Speaker 1: at Rosemont Seneca. We also found out during the same
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Speaker 1: time period visited the White House more than twenty seven
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Speaker 1: times during the Obama administration. So the lie that Joe
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Speaker 1: Biden was not involved in the Sun's business dealings, there's
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Speaker 1: twenty seven meetings that say that's not true. Now, membership
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Speaker 1: of the commission that this woman was appointed to is unpaid, right,
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Speaker 1: And it wasn't about the money.
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Speaker 2: It's about prestige.
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Speaker 1: It's filled by friends and close allies and fundraisers of
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Speaker 1: the President of the United States of America, much like ambassadorships.
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Speaker 1: So she is prominent in California Democratic circles. She's given
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Speaker 1: max donations the Biden campaign. Personally, she's donated the max
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Speaker 1: donations to the Democratic National Committee last year. Last year
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Speaker 1: she shows a fundraiser that was headlined by Vice President
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Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. And it's also not clear how much money
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Speaker 1: she actually paid for Hunter's art. Now we also have
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Speaker 1: found this out. One single purchaser spent eight hundred and
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Speaker 1: seventy five thousand on eleven of Hunter's paintings through though
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Speaker 1: the identity of that person is quote unclear.
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Speaker 2: The buyer apparently.
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Speaker 1: Does not reside in New York and is listed as
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Speaker 1: out of state in the purchasing documents obtained by Insider.
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Speaker 1: The gallery receives a forty to forty five percent commission
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Speaker 1: on the total one point three seven to nine million
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Speaker 1: in sales. Now, the new subpoena has come after Comer's
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Speaker 1: James Cummers slapped Hunter and James Biden with sipoenas as
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Speaker 1: part of the Republican impeachment investigation to the Biden family
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Speaker 1: business dealings. The committee has requested that Hunter Biden come
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Speaker 1: in on December thirteenth.
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Speaker 2: Obviously, he refused to appear.
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Speaker 1: And Hunter's attorney Ablow said in a statement the present
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Speaker 1: son would quote comply with a subpoena. He called it
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Speaker 1: a political stunt at the time and said, nevertheless, Hunter
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Speaker 1: is eager to have the opportunity in public form, in
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Speaker 1: a public forum and at the right time to discuss
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Speaker 1: these matters with the committee. Well we know now they said, no,
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Speaker 1: we want, we want a deposition from you, the same
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Speaker 1: type of deposition that you got out of Donald Trump's
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Speaker 1: children when he was the president.
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Speaker 2: Never forget that.
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Speaker 1: The Republicans need to put their head down on this
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Speaker 1: and they need to go full speed ahead and they
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Speaker 1: need to stop at nothing to get these answers.
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Speaker 2: This is important and it should be treated that way.
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Speaker 1: Now I want to move to the border as well,
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Speaker 1: because I want you to hear what Speaker Johnson said
17:43
Speaker 1: is he visited the border with a delegation a lot
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Speaker 1: of Republicans went down to the border, and he was
17:50
Speaker 1: asked a question by the media. This is that the
17:53
Speaker 1: border is completely out of control. There was more than
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Speaker 1: fifty thousand illegal immigrants that came across the southern border
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Speaker 1: this past weekend, the New Year's weekend, from the numbers
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Speaker 1: that we've received, And I want you to hear the
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Speaker 1: question that was asked of the speaker.
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Speaker 2: Listen carefully, Ali Radley here with a musation. I'm wondering.
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Speaker 6: We've seen over seven million people encounter under this administration.
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Speaker 6: Many of them have been released into our country with
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Speaker 6: notices to appear at DHS has even said that many
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Speaker 6: of them don't qualify for asylum. Just last month, we
18:23
Speaker 6: saw three hundred two thousand encounters, two hundred and forty
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Speaker 6: five thousand of them released with an NTA. Should a
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Speaker 6: Republican win of the election here coming up, would the
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Speaker 6: Republican Party be in.
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Speaker 7: Favor of mass deportations?
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Speaker 6: And what is that look like?
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Speaker 2: Are we going born a door?
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Speaker 6: Are you going into businesses. What would that look like
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Speaker 6: if the Republican Party support.
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Speaker 8: I can tell you it's a very complicated, complex issue
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Speaker 8: just finding those people you heard represented Van Dine say earlier. Tragically,
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Speaker 8: nearly one hundred thousand undocumented children who were unaccompanied who
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Speaker 8: came across the border unaccompanied minors have been lost into
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Speaker 8: the system. The administration has lost track of these children
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Speaker 8: after they've been released. These people are given a notice
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Speaker 8: to return for an immigration hearing. Sometimes it's four years
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Speaker 8: into the future. They don't show up. A very tiny
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Speaker 8: percentage show up. So the first problem would be even
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Speaker 8: identifying all these people. The point is the longer we wait,
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Speaker 8: the longer we delay the closure and security of this border,
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Speaker 8: the greater the crisis and the problem. We don't have
19:24
Speaker 8: a specific prescription yet that we're proposing because we haven't
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Speaker 8: gotten to that point. But I do believe in large
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Speaker 8: measure because of this issue, I do think that we're
19:32
Speaker 8: going to have a change in the White House. I
19:33
Speaker 8: think we're going to have a Republican president. I think
19:35
Speaker 8: we're going to win the Senate and we're going to
19:36
Speaker 8: expand the majority of the House.
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Speaker 3: Are not.
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Speaker 1: Now the question there if a Republican wins in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four with a GOPB and favorite mass deportation of
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Speaker 1: illegal immigrants.
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Speaker 2: He says, we haven't gotten to that point.
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Speaker 1: I think you should have answered that question said yes, absolutely.
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Speaker 1: There is no way that we're going to reward people
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Speaker 1: crumbing across our southern border by giving them the American
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Speaker 1: dream after they break our laws. Absolutely not. I don't
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Speaker 1: believe that. Now there is some good news here, and
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Speaker 1: that is this. We also know now that the Household
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Speaker 1: and Security Committee Chairman Mark Green has come out announcing
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Speaker 1: an impeachment hearing finally against my Orcis next week, saying
20:19
Speaker 1: the greatest domestic threat to the national security and the
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Speaker 1: safety the American people. As Secretary Alejandro Myorcis, he is right,
20:26
Speaker 1: by the way to say that that way. He's absolutely
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Speaker 1: right to call them out, and he should have done
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Speaker 1: it a long time ago.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: While as while this is happening all right, their Democrats
20:37
Speaker 1: are going in the opposite direction. California, starting January one,
20:43
Speaker 1: is now offering full health insurance to illegal immigrants in California.
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Speaker 1: This is insane. Now, let me remind you what California
20:55
Speaker 1: just did. California and Gavin Newsom actually had a ninety
20:59
Speaker 1: seven billion dollar budget surplus. Okay, so that's ninety seven
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Speaker 1: billion dollars that they overtax the people of Califlifornia. What
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Speaker 1: do they do once they saw they had a ninety
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Speaker 1: seven billion dollar budget surplus, they blew it immediately.
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Speaker 2: California.
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Speaker 1: Not only do they blow the ninety seven billion dollar surplus,
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Speaker 1: but they now have a sixty eight billion dollar budget deficit,
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Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty five billion dollar budget swing. And
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Speaker 1: there is not one single thing the California Democrats can
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Speaker 1: point to that is actually good for the American.
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Speaker 2: People or the citizens.
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Speaker 1: Instead, they're giving away health insurance to illegal immigrants that
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Speaker 1: are flooding across the border.
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Speaker 2: Listen to this from Fox Business.
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Speaker 5: We told you about California becoming the first state to
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Speaker 5: offer health insurance to all undocumented migrants.
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Speaker 2: Joining me now is the matter of alcohol.
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Speaker 4: In California is now? Billy, your honor.
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Speaker 2: Are the people in your city having to pay for this?
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Speaker 9: The people in Santego, Kenny are obviously having to pay
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Speaker 9: for this. I mean, we're seeing seventy thousand people come
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Speaker 9: across the border in the last three months. You know,
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Speaker 9: we're going to see seven hundred and fifty thousand people
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Speaker 9: be added to the health that roles through medical in
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Speaker 9: California alone. California is already almost eighty billion dollars in
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Speaker 9: the whole.
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Speaker 4: So this is definitely going to hurt everybody.
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Speaker 9: And you know, I want to talk about basic fairness,
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Speaker 9: I'm go.
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Speaker 4: Ahead, No, no, go ahead.
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Speaker 2: Do you want to talk about fanness?
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Speaker 4: I'm interested in that. Make your point, well, basic fairness.
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Speaker 9: California is so expensive, but San Diego Kenny, where I lives,
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Speaker 9: the most expensive place to live in the entire nation.
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Speaker 9: Our energy rates are the most expensive, our gas rates
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Speaker 9: are the most expensive. And now you're going to add
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Speaker 9: on the cost of paying for all this healthcare when
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Speaker 9: people that are working and that are citizens of America
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Speaker 9: and citizens of California are having a great difference difficulty
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Speaker 9: finding the money to pay for their health insurance and
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Speaker 9: even their home insurance. So it's California is a very
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Speaker 9: difficult place to live, and it's just going to make
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Speaker 9: it worse.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is going to make it a lot worse.
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Speaker 1: And they know this and they don't care because they're
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Speaker 1: putting illegal immigrants on purpose ahead of American citizens trying
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Speaker 1: to destroy that state and bankrupt that state. And the
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Speaker 1: reason why is because they want to fundamentally remake the
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Speaker 1: United States of America.
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Speaker 2: They don't like it. They don't like.
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Speaker 1: That people are successful here. They don't like that we
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Speaker 1: are a place that actually has laws. All right, now,
23:38
Speaker 1: the White House finally having to come out and defend
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Speaker 1: my archists, who is going to be I have this
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Speaker 1: impeachment inquiry for him clearly not doing his job, not
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Speaker 1: protecting this country, allowing for a wide open border with
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Speaker 1: seven million legal immigrants that come across, and more people
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Speaker 1: that were caught on the terrace watch list last year
23:55
Speaker 1: in the last five years combined. White House Press Secretary
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Speaker 1: had this to say when she was asked about the administration.
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Speaker 2: Do they stand behind him? I agree.
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Speaker 9: A House committee is moving ahead with impeachment proceedings against secretary.
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Speaker 4: In my orchis, there's a hearing schedule for next week.
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Speaker 2: So I'd just like to get the White.
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Speaker 3: House response, and also just to clarify, does the President
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Speaker 3: still have confidence in the secretary?
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Speaker 4: Absolutely?
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Speaker 10: The President has confidence in the secretary, I think, and
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Speaker 10: I've said this moments ago. I said it at the
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Speaker 10: top as well. We believe that what they're doing, the
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Speaker 10: House Republicans are doing with this impeachment in Crey is baseless.
24:33
Speaker 10: We believe that it's a political stunt, and we believe
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Speaker 10: there's not there's no time for that right now. There
24:38
Speaker 10: are things that the American people want us to get done,
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Speaker 10: and that's what they should focus on. And you know it,
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Speaker 10: it is unfortunate that this is where the House Republicans,
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Speaker 10: that's the road that they want to go down with
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Speaker 10: this impeachment proceeding. That is really unfortunate when the American
24:54
Speaker 10: people have been very clear they want us to see
24:57
Speaker 10: they want us to work in a bipartisan way to
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Speaker 10: get things to for them, and that's what the President wants.
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Speaker 2: And that's what the President wants. He wants to get
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Speaker 2: things done.
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Speaker 1: President also coming out lying at the White House, as
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Speaker 1: he's walking into the White House from another I guess vacation,
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Speaker 1: a reporter screams this question, quote, are you going to
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Speaker 1: do anything about the southern border? Mister President Joe Biden
25:22
Speaker 1: responds with what the reporter the southern border? Are you
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Speaker 1: going to do anything about it? The record number of migrants,
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Speaker 1: also known as the legal immigrants. Biden quote, we got
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Speaker 1: to do something. They ought to give me the money
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Speaker 1: I need to protect the border. That's just a lie.
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Speaker 1: He has the authority and the money to do what
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Speaker 1: he wants to do. Now, Democrats are hoping for a
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Speaker 1: showdown financially. Sources coming out saying the Senate border negotiators
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Speaker 1: are quote far from a deal. Democrats like Chuck Schumer
25:52
Speaker 1: love this. Here's what Schumer had to say on Capitol
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Speaker 1: Hill today when.
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Speaker 5: The House clings to HR two as the only solution,
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Speaker 5: which every Democrat has voted against, I believe both House
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Speaker 5: and Senate. I certainly every Senator voted, Every Democratic Senator
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Speaker 5: voted against it.
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Speaker 4: I think every Democratic Council.
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Speaker 5: Member voted against it as well, and if not, it
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Speaker 5: was almost every one. We're not going to get a
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Speaker 5: deal with, but I think that if we pass something
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Speaker 5: in the Senate.
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Speaker 4: Look, we're working hard to get that done. As I said,
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Speaker 4: it's hard, it's hard.
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Speaker 2: We're not going to get it done. We're far from
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Speaker 2: a deal, but we're going to get it done. We're
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Speaker 2: going to get it done.
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Speaker 1: Since when, right, I mean since when? That's the big
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Speaker 1: question here. CNN had a grand debate about this earlier
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Speaker 1: as well, is what are they doing. Is that House
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Speaker 1: Republicans at the headline says the bottom of the screens
26:43
Speaker 1: is House Republicans look to put Biden on defense with
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Speaker 1: a border visit.
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Speaker 2: Listen to this from and this is even CNN saying
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Speaker 2: this now.
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Speaker 3: And Priscilla, you talked to Biden officials all day long,
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Speaker 3: every day. They are very well aware of how big
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Speaker 3: of a problem. First and foremost, just the substance of
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Speaker 3: what we're talking about. And let's just set the table.
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Speaker 3: You heard ed talk about December. We don't have the
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Speaker 3: official numbers yet, but it looks like they are the
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Speaker 3: highest on record the number of migrants coming from the
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Speaker 3: Mexican border. Just in perspective, let's look at what we've
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Speaker 3: seen in the past. Twenty fourteen, thought it was pretty
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Speaker 3: high then, not even five hundred thousand, twenty nineteen, not
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Speaker 3: even a million, twenty twenty three, two point six million.
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Speaker 7: Here's what the bidensgistration is up against. Record migration across
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Speaker 7: the western hemisphere. They're right on that point. After the
27:37
Speaker 7: coronavirus pandemic, many thousands of people started moving north because
27:42
Speaker 7: the economies had downturned after the pandemic. But having covered
27:46
Speaker 7: this for a while, but Also, since the beginning of
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Speaker 7: the Biden administration, they never were able to quite dig
27:53
Speaker 7: out of the unaccompanied children surge of twenty twenty one.
27:57
Speaker 7: The President came in with this big, ambitious immigration agenda
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Speaker 7: and boom, right away we saw a surge of the
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Speaker 7: border and they had to scramble to respond to it.
28:05
Speaker 7: After those few months, they never were able to quite
28:09
Speaker 7: seize the message on the border anymore, and instead there
28:12
Speaker 7: were sort of these constant surges that kept coming up
28:15
Speaker 7: and kept putting them in this rapid response mode and
28:18
Speaker 7: they haven't really been able to come out of that time.
28:22
Speaker 7: And so in all of that, Republicans have been able
28:24
Speaker 7: to seize on it. Texas Governor Greg Abbott decided to
28:27
Speaker 7: send migrants to Democratic led cities and frankly, it kind
28:31
Speaker 7: of worked because all of those cities are slamming the
28:34
Speaker 7: White House. And it has started to almost change. And
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Speaker 7: I'm curious to hear David's slots on this. The Democratic
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Speaker 7: Party's position on immigration, and this is not the same
28:43
Speaker 7: party that it wasn't twenty twenty one when it comes
28:45
Speaker 7: to this outsue. They have started to move in a
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Speaker 7: more moderate direction.
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Speaker 1: They have started to move in a more moderate direction.
28:52
Speaker 1: Wait did you hear CNN just say, did it actually
28:55
Speaker 1: worked to move to make the border crisis issue a
28:58
Speaker 1: issue in every single sctuary city where Democrats said, oh,
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Speaker 1: we're welcoming as long as they're not here. Look at
29:03
Speaker 1: what's happening in New York City. Look at what's happening
29:06
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. Look at what's happening in Baltimore. Look
29:08
Speaker 1: at what's happening Washington, DC, and all over the country
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Speaker 1: these democratic run cities. Look at what is happening. It
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Speaker 1: is truly amazing. I love this. This is amazing to me.
29:19
Speaker 1: I want to make that is if we actually hold
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Speaker 1: the line here and don't flinch, we can actually get
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Speaker 1: some real reform. If we flinch, it's going to be
29:32
Speaker 1: game over. And Democrats think that Republicans are dumb enough
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Speaker 1: to flinch. They think we're gonna screw it up. That
29:40
Speaker 1: is their gut here, that's what they believe.
29:43
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