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Congress Eyes Obama Subpoena Over Alleged Russia Hoax Plot plus Trump’s Major Tariff Wins · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

0:01
Speaker 1: House Speaker Mike Johnson revealing that Congress in fact may
0:07
Speaker 1: issue a subpoena to former President Barack Obama over allegations
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Speaker 1: of a coordinated plot against President Donald Trump involving Russia
0:18
Speaker 1: during the twenty sixteen presidential election. Now Johnson confirmed during
0:23
Speaker 1: an interview with reporter David Brody that he is considering
0:28
Speaker 1: the move amid concerns about the integrity of the nation's
0:31
Speaker 1: intelligence processes and the alleged misuse of federal power. Johnson
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Speaker 1: making it clear that he is not going to be
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Speaker 1: intimidated by the fact that we're referring to Barack Obama,
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Speaker 1: a former president who could have done something so egregious.
0:49
Speaker 1: And yes, we now have a response from Barack Obama,
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Speaker 1: which I'm going to have for you in a moment.
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Speaker 1: I want to play for you this interview that he
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Speaker 1: had and the lead up coming from CBN Christian Broadcasting Network.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to what they have in their exclusive
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Speaker 1: reporting on this.
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Speaker 3: Director of National Intelligence claim she has proof that the
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Speaker 3: Obama administration manufactured evidence in an effort to discredit and
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Speaker 3: weaken President Trump in his first term.
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Speaker 4: House Speaker Mike Johnson tells CBA News that Tulsa Gabbert's
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Speaker 4: revelation is quote deeply problematic. He spoke about that issue
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Speaker 4: as well as the Epstein files in this exclusive interview
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Speaker 4: with our chief political analyst David Brody.
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Speaker 5: Although news during Donald Trump's second term has been coming
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Speaker 5: fast and furious, this latest bombshell is downright startling. Director
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Speaker 5: of National Intelligence Tulsea Gabbard declassifying documents showing what she
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Speaker 5: labels overwhelming evidence of former President Barack Obama and his
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Speaker 5: national security team basically creating intelligence about Russia attempting to
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Speaker 5: influence the twenty sixteen election.
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Speaker 6: There's no question in my mind that this intelligence community
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Speaker 6: assessment that President Obama ordered be published, which contained a
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Speaker 6: manufactured intelligence document. It's worse than even politicization of intelligence.
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Speaker 6: It was manufactured intelligence that sought to achieve President Obama
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Speaker 6: and his team's objective, which was undermining President Trump's presidency
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Speaker 6: and subverting the will of the American people.
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Speaker 5: Gabbard called the act treasonous conspiracy. Speaker of the House
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Speaker 5: Mike Johnson is troubled too well.
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Speaker 7: I don't know how to summarize it in by way
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Speaker 7: of description and a snappy phrase, but I will tell
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Speaker 7: you it is deeply problematic. We recognize that the people
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Speaker 7: who are being called out now were involved in a scheme.
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Speaker 7: We knew that it was a shameless, false set of accusations,
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Speaker 7: and yet they perpetuated the lie on the American people,
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Speaker 7: and they looked right into the camera and just lined clearly,
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Speaker 7: and they knew what they were up to the whole time.
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Speaker 8: So there must be accountability for that. You say, there
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Speaker 8: must be accountability. The dog will work on the criminal
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Speaker 8: aspect of this. What's the role of the House here specifically?
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Speaker 8: I mean, people want to see subpoenas, they want to
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Speaker 8: see depositions, they want to see whether it be Brennan Clapper,
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Speaker 8: potentially the president of the former president of the United States.
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Speaker 8: Are you willing to go down that route because a
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Speaker 8: lot of people want to see some of these folks
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Speaker 8: questioned under oath?
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Speaker 2: Of course.
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Speaker 7: Look, I think we have a responsibility to follow the
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Speaker 7: truth where it leads, and I do expect that whether
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Speaker 7: there's a special council appointed which some are suggesting, and
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Speaker 7: or in conjunction with the House investigations, that we will
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Speaker 7: get the answers. There will be accountability to the extent
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Speaker 7: that we're able to do that. Referring people to the
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Speaker 7: DOJ for prosecution in any other measure that is appropriate.
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Speaker 7: As we begin to uncover more of the facts, does it.
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Speaker 8: Get tricky at all with the former president President Obama
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Speaker 8: looking at what his role on this is and bringing
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Speaker 8: him in for some sort of deposition.
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Speaker 7: Potential supereny, Well, listen, I mean I can't. We have
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Speaker 7: no concern about that. If it's uncomfortable for him, he
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Speaker 7: shouldn't have been involved in overseeing this, which is what
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Speaker 7: it appears to us has happened.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: This goes back to the initial point that has been
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Speaker 1: made official documents revealing that Obama fabricated the Russian hoax
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Speaker 1: plot to sabotage Donald Trump's presidency. And this is what
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Speaker 1: you need to understand. This was not just political drama.
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Speaker 1: It was a coordinated setup. They told Obama the Russia
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Speaker 1: link was just a hoax, and he still created a
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Speaker 1: plan to tie Trump to Russia, knowing it was a
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Speaker 1: lie that it was false. Director of National Intelligence Tolcy
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Speaker 1: Gabber saying, quote their goal was to plot against Trump,
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Speaker 1: President Trump and subvert the will of the American people,
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Speaker 1: and they almost got away with it for years. By
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Speaker 1: the way, They lied to our nation. They said that
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump was quote, a foreign agent. That was a
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Speaker 1: lie and they knew it. They said the twenty sixteen
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Speaker 1: election was stolen. That was also a lie and they
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Speaker 1: knew it. They said that there was not only collusion,
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Speaker 1: but there was also going to be problems with a
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Speaker 1: compromised president. That was also a lie and they knew it.
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Speaker 1: It was all fake. It was all media backed. The
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Speaker 1: media were the ones that had to sell the story,
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Speaker 1: and they were happy to sell a story that many
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Speaker 1: in the media also knew was a hoax, and they
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Speaker 1: said it was the truth. They said it was the facts.
8:01
Speaker 1: And why did they do this? Because they hated Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump as much as the Democrats did, so they worked together.
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Speaker 1: You want to know who colluded, the media with the
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Speaker 1: Democratic Party and it was all designed to stop one
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Speaker 1: man and the people who voted for him, Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: It was happening to stop him before it even began.
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Speaker 2: But that was only the start.
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Speaker 1: Not only did they manufacture this, but then when they
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Speaker 1: were asked questions about it, they then lied to you.
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Speaker 1: You want to know what else they lied to you
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Speaker 1: about as well. Let's go through the list. The media
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Speaker 1: and the Democratic Party lied to you about COVID. The
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Speaker 1: media and the Democratic Party lied to you about Ukraine.
8:47
Speaker 1: The media and the Democratic Party lied to you about
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Speaker 1: censorship online and social media. The media and the Democratic
8:57
Speaker 1: Party lied to you about Bidenflation, saying it wasn't real
9:01
Speaker 1: and that things were better than they actually were. They
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Speaker 1: lied to you about jobs reports, adding hundreds of thousands
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Speaker 1: of jobs that never existed right before the election, and
9:12
Speaker 1: they even lied to you about the elections. The list
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Speaker 1: keeps growing and growing, and yet you're now still being
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Speaker 1: told to quote, trust the process, to obey, to comply,
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Speaker 1: to sit there and be quiet, to not question people
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Speaker 1: in power in the Democratic Party. They also lied to
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Speaker 1: you about the health of Joe Biden. They lied to
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Speaker 1: you about his cognitive decline, They lied to you about
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Speaker 1: the auto pen and now they're lying to you about
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Speaker 1: what they did at the very beginning. So the question
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Speaker 1: we should all be asking is this, how bad is
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Speaker 1: the truth? Well we ever really know, well it is
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Speaker 1: real and what's manufactured by the media and by the
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Speaker 1: Democratic Party. I doubt we'll ever know that in politics.
10:04
Speaker 1: I doubt we'll ever know it in media. In fact,
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Speaker 1: I doubt we'll even know about it the honest truth
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Speaker 1: when it comes.
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Speaker 2: To public policy.
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Speaker 1: But one thing that I am certain about is this
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Speaker 1: the system our government and what the Democrats have set up,
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Speaker 1: is not designed to help you or protect you. It
10:24
Speaker 1: is designed to control you. And it's clear you cannot
10:29
Speaker 1: rely on the media to uncover the lies of the
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Speaker 1: Democratic Party. That is another big wake up call in
10:36
Speaker 1: all of this. Now, as for the President of the
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Speaker 1: United States of America, Donald Trump, while all this is
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Speaker 1: going on, he's still fighting for the American people. He's
10:48
Speaker 1: still going out there and doing what he promised he
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Speaker 1: was going to do in the election. And that's exactly
10:54
Speaker 1: why we need more people like Speaker Johnson who are
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Speaker 1: willing to hold those accountable that use the power the
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Speaker 1: way the Obama and the Bidens did it. I want
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Speaker 1: to get you another update on a big story, and
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Speaker 1: it deals with the success that the President is having
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Speaker 1: on the issue of tariffs. Now, remember Democrats said it
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Speaker 1: was going to all be doom and gloom when it
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Speaker 1: came to tariffs, but we're now starting to see major
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Speaker 1: successes and deals that are being made that are great
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Speaker 1: for America. A great example of this is the US
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Speaker 1: Japan Trade Deal, tariff reductions are actually in place. President
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Speaker 1: Trump announcing a deal with Japan, setting a fifteen percent
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Speaker 1: tariff on Japanese automobile exports to the US, down from
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Speaker 1: the previously threatened twenty five percent. What did we get
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Speaker 1: in return? Investment commitment for American workers. Japan is now
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Speaker 1: committing to approximately five hundred and fifty billion in US investments,
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Speaker 1: loans and guarantees ease.
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Speaker 2: What does this mean, Well, it means an.
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Speaker 1: Issue of market success, because in return, the US gains
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Speaker 1: increase entry into Japanese markets for autos, rice, agricultural products
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Speaker 1: through Japan's main quotas, and tariffs on US rice, steel,
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Speaker 1: and aluminum fifty percent tariffs remain untouched now. The market
12:23
Speaker 1: reactions also showed big gains in the US. Shares of
12:28
Speaker 1: Toyota also up eleven percent, Honda up nine percent in
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Speaker 1: these surges, while Japan's currency also, the Nikyi, rose sharply
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Speaker 1: on the news. Then you look at Indonesia and the
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Speaker 1: deal there. Tariff rates the US set at nineteen percent
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Speaker 1: reciprocal tariffs on Indonesian imports. Initially, the President said he
12:50
Speaker 1: threatened up to thirty two percent. We now have a change,
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Speaker 1: and here's the trade offs. Indonesia will remove export restrictions
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Speaker 1: on critic minerals and impose zero tariffs on ninety nine
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Speaker 1: percent of US goods.
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Speaker 2: It will also.
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Speaker 1: Open markets for US aircraft, agricultural goods, energy, pharmaceutical as
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Speaker 1: well as vehicles, something that will again massively help American
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Speaker 1: workers and American jobs. Then you move to the Philippine.
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Speaker 1: The tariff right there similarly at nineteen percent reciprocal tariff
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Speaker 1: on Philippine exports to the US, while US exports to
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Speaker 1: the Philippines will now face zero percent tariffs. What does
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Speaker 1: this mean? Well, the announcement at the White House meeting
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Speaker 1: with the President Marcos Junior and Philippine officials are now
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Speaker 1: saying that the specifics of this deal will be good
13:47
Speaker 1: for both countries now. Earlier deals include a twenty percent
13:51
Speaker 1: terror proposal with Vietnam that it was announced earlier in July,
13:56
Speaker 1: with additional terms about the trans shipment on illegally transship
14:01
Speaker 1: goods also coming to a head. A UK deal at
14:05
Speaker 1: the G seven summit in June lowered tariffs on auto's
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Speaker 1: and aerospace. India and Canada and the European Union talks
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Speaker 1: are still ongoing and it looks like the President says,
14:17
Speaker 1: they are getting closer to a deal ahead of the
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Speaker 1: August first deadline. Now, all of these talks, especially the India,
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Speaker 1: Canada and EU bilateral agreements, are part of Trump's broader
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Speaker 1: Liberation Day tear IF initiative, which faced legal challenges and
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Speaker 1: the left losing their minds saying that we were going
14:35
Speaker 1: to have empty shelves. That didn't happen in the US.
14:38
Speaker 1: They said that prices were going to skyrocket. That also
14:42
Speaker 1: did not happen. They said it was going to tank
14:44
Speaker 1: the economy. That also did not happen. And what was
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Speaker 1: the main theme that I gave you in all of
14:52
Speaker 1: these deals as even the headlines and foreign countries are
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Speaker 1: reading US strikes trade deal with Philippines in Donie as
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Speaker 1: tariff deadlines near. A major win for President Trump and
15:05
Speaker 1: the US was how another headline put it overseas and
15:09
Speaker 1: when they announced these latest two new trade agreements with
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Speaker 1: the Philippines in Indonesia and secured expanded market access, the
15:16
Speaker 1: White House said for American goods while imposing that nineteen
15:19
Speaker 1: percent tariff on imports from both Southeast Asian nations, what
15:23
Speaker 1: the President said was, it is very clear it's time
15:26
Speaker 1: for US to not be in such a bad position
15:30
Speaker 1: with other countries. In the first announcement, Trump said the
15:34
Speaker 1: Philippines had agreed to eliminate all tariffs on American exports,
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Speaker 1: calling the country quote open market with the United States
15:42
Speaker 1: and zero tariffs. He added that Philippine exports the US
15:46
Speaker 1: would be subject to a nineteen percent tariff, and said
15:49
Speaker 1: the two countries had agreed to expand military cooperation as
15:53
Speaker 1: well because of the tariff agreements, saying, quote, it was
15:57
Speaker 1: a beautiful visit. That's what President t I'm set on
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Speaker 1: true social when the president of the country was in America,
16:04
Speaker 1: saying I highly respect his country, and he respects America.
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Speaker 1: He is also very good and tough negotiator. Then later
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Speaker 1: on the same day, Tuesday, mister Trump unveiled a similar
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Speaker 1: agreement with Indonesia, saying the country would remove that ninety
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Speaker 1: nine percent of its tariff barriers on American industrial, tech,
16:23
Speaker 1: and agricultural products. What does the President say about that
16:27
Speaker 1: this deal is a huge win for our automakers, our
16:31
Speaker 1: tech companies, our workers, our farmers, are ranchers, and our manufacturers.
16:38
Speaker 1: So if you look at this story, there's a pretty
16:40
Speaker 1: good chance right now that the media will not tell
16:43
Speaker 1: you about it. By the way, the governments in Molina
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Speaker 1: and Jakarta have yet to confirm the details of their agreements,
16:51
Speaker 1: but US trade representatis have also said the deal is
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Speaker 1: getting very close to being done and to put in
16:59
Speaker 1: perspective about how how big of an impact this could
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Speaker 1: have on American jobs. Indonesia exported twenty eight point three
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Speaker 1: billion in goods to the US last year. The Philippines,
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Speaker 1: for example, exported fourteen point one billion, according to trade data.
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Speaker 1: The new tariff rate substantially higher than previous most favored
17:18
Speaker 1: nation levels. Raiz wrote questions about how both nations weighed
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Speaker 1: the trade off of maintaining US market access amid broader
17:26
Speaker 1: economic and strategic negotiations. Now when you hear that, this
17:31
Speaker 1: is the takeaway, This is clearly good for America and
17:35
Speaker 1: American workers. And if they're worried in other countries that
17:38
Speaker 1: their sweetheart deals are going away and now they're going
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Speaker 1: to have to operate differently, that's probably even better news
17:45
Speaker 1: for America and American workers. And having access finally to
17:49
Speaker 1: all of these other countries without being blocked. This is
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Speaker 1: what the President promised, He said, the only way that
17:58
Speaker 1: we are going to be able to row as a
18:02
Speaker 1: nation and grow manufacturing and make sure that America was
18:06
Speaker 1: doing what it needed to do again to protect itself.
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Speaker 1: Also on the issue of national security, by actually doing
18:13
Speaker 1: things and making things in America.
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Speaker 2: This fulfills all of that.
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Speaker 1: The President United States of America also sitting a clear
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Speaker 1: message to others right now, others that haven't not gotten
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Speaker 1: their deals done, you better hurry up and do it.
18:32
Speaker 1: You better hurry up and make sure you get your
18:35
Speaker 1: deals done. And if you want a good deal and
18:38
Speaker 1: a fair deal for your country, then you better get
18:41
Speaker 1: on board right now.
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Speaker 2: All right, I want to.
18:45
Speaker 1: Get into another big issue, and this is one that
18:49
Speaker 1: should make every American angry. Democrats have always said in
18:54
Speaker 1: the left have always said, never let a crisis go
18:57
Speaker 1: to waste. What about wildfires that fall into that category. Well,
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Speaker 1: here's the latest on a new shocking allegation that the
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Speaker 1: California wildfire relief known as fire Aid, the money that's
19:12
Speaker 1: come in has virtually disappeared and has not reached the victims.
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Speaker 1: The leader of the fire Aid campaign, coordinated by the
19:21
Speaker 1: Annenberg Foundation, reportedly raised over one hundred million dollars for
19:28
Speaker 1: men and women just like you that was supposed to
19:31
Speaker 1: go to the wildfire survivors. Well, no direct payments have
19:38
Speaker 1: reportedly reached individuals who lost homes in the Southern California fires. Instead,
19:45
Speaker 1: all the funds were distributed to nonprofits. Many critics say
19:51
Speaker 1: that lack direct ties to the survivors at all. Journalists
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Speaker 1: and fire supervisor by the name of Sue Pecou highlight
20:03
Speaker 1: of the issue after talking with numerous displaced residents. She
20:08
Speaker 1: told the local Fox eleven affiliate, the fire aid money
20:13
Speaker 1: is not helping the people, It's helping nonprofits, many of
20:17
Speaker 1: which have executives who are getting a six figure salary.
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Speaker 1: The California Republican Party has now called for a forensic audit.
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Speaker 1: Why is the left being quiet? Maybe they're the ones
20:31
Speaker 1: that are running all the nonprofits. The California Republican Party stated, quote,
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Speaker 1: fire victims lost everything, but not a single dollar from
20:41
Speaker 1: the one hundred million reached them.
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Speaker 2: This is what corruption looks like.
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Speaker 1: Foxes eleven reporting triggered an inquiry finally from the California
20:52
Speaker 1: Attorney General's office regarding the nonprofit disbursement structure. But the
20:58
Speaker 1: lack of transparency is what really people are angry about.
21:03
Speaker 1: In large donor fund and recovery efforts just like this one,
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Speaker 1: where so many are concerned about the government's failure.
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Speaker 2: You want to pitch in, and then you find.
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Speaker 1: Out your dollars are not reaching the people that are
21:18
Speaker 1: actually in need. So the question now is what is next.
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Speaker 1: Number One, we need a forensic audit. There are growing
21:26
Speaker 1: calls at both legislative and party levels for a full
21:30
Speaker 1: audit of the fire aid fund distributions. There's also demands
21:35
Speaker 1: for the Attorney General review. The AG's office may investigate
21:39
Speaker 1: whether donor intent was violated and if oversight laws were
21:44
Speaker 1: actually broken. And then there's the real question, can Democrats
21:49
Speaker 1: get their heads out of that we're in in California
21:52
Speaker 1: and actually have legislative reform. The scandal should drive those
21:57
Speaker 1: changes quickly to ensure future disaster funds go directly to
22:01
Speaker 1: individuals and not channel to people in nonprofits who are
22:07
Speaker 1: in theory just getting rich off of other people's pain.
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Speaker 1: I want you to take a listen to what Jesse
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Speaker 1: Waters had to say on his show on Fox News
22:17
Speaker 1: Channel with Steve Hilton about the money and where it's
22:21
Speaker 1: actually going.
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Speaker 9: Podcasters and NAACP leaders, how they spent the money and
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Speaker 9: we still haven't heard back. Out of the seventy five
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Speaker 9: million dollars distributed, only one million went to the LA
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Speaker 9: Fire Department Foundation. Zero dollars went directly to the victims.
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Speaker 9: Fire Aid says this was all by design.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 9: Fire Aid does not have the capability to make direct
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Speaker 9: payments to individuals, and that was never the plan. We've
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Speaker 9: partnered directly with trusted local nonprofits. Each dollar was intended
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Speaker 9: for the community, So this was the plan all along.
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Speaker 9: Collect the money, feed it into a liberal nonprofit machine,
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Speaker 9: and just hope for the best. Sound familiar. This is
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Speaker 9: like la usaid Elin, I hope you're watching Steve Hilton's here.
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Speaker 9: Is this how California always operates?
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Speaker 2: Steve Yes, I mean, Jesse.
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Speaker 10: This is basically like it's like a parody of California
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Speaker 10: corruption and craziness, except it's all true.
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Speaker 2: I've got a couple more for you, Jesse.
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Speaker 10: One of the organizations that they gave money to it's
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Speaker 10: in Sonoma County, which is like nowhere near LA And
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Speaker 10: another one says that it spends its money on multi
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Speaker 10: generational power building. We don't need power building in Los Angeles.
23:45
Speaker 10: We need house building, but they're not doing that. They're
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Speaker 10: not doing any of the things that they promised. Gavin
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Speaker 10: Newsom in January promised a marshall plan to rebuild LA.
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Speaker 10: I did a press conference just a few days ago,
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Speaker 10: the six month anniversary the fires, standing outside a pile
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Speaker 10: of rubble and debris where he couldn't even clear the
24:04
Speaker 10: sidewalk in six months. It's a total joke. And the
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Speaker 10: thing is that when they say that they're going to
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Speaker 10: do something, this is why it's so true. And what
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Speaker 10: you said is exactly right. Everything in California is like this.
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Speaker 10: They don't care about the actual results. They just say
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Speaker 10: some grand thing make themselves feel good, have good intentions,
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Speaker 10: but the results don't matter. You see it with homelessness,
24:27
Speaker 10: where billions of dollars are spent, but in the end
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Speaker 10: the problem just gets worse. You see news and bragging
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Speaker 10: about where the fourth biggest economy world. Yeah, we have
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Speaker 10: the highest unemployment in the country, the highest poverty rate
24:38
Speaker 10: in the country. The results are always a disaster with
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Speaker 10: these people.
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Speaker 9: If none of the money really gets to any of
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Speaker 9: these fire victims and it's just fleeesed by the nonprofits,
24:48
Speaker 9: should there be a criminal investigation.
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Speaker 10: Definitely. I mean the people who gave money. The people
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Speaker 10: who went to those concerts and donated, they acted in
24:58
Speaker 10: good faith. I remember people of friends with mine and
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Speaker 10: when they had real compassion, people of faith. They've been
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Speaker 10: ripped off, they've been cheated. I mean, there needs to
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Speaker 10: be a criminal investigation.
25:07
Speaker 9: What about Lady got about Stevie Wonder? I mean, these
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Speaker 9: guys spent all night singing, dancing, and they thought they
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Speaker 9: were gonna give one hundred million dollars to the people
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Speaker 9: of southern California. Why aren't they speaking out well?
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Speaker 10: Because in the end, this is the Democrat machine, isn't it.
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Speaker 10: The activists and the politicians and the do gooders and
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Speaker 10: the nonprofits, they're all in. The celebrities, they're all in
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Speaker 10: the same kind of swamp of good intentions but terrible results.
25:34
Speaker 10: But I think next year, so I'm running for Governor Jesse,
25:37
Speaker 10: We're going to change this in California. People are sick
25:40
Speaker 10: of this nonsense. And this is a real wake up call. Actually,
25:43
Speaker 10: this fire Aid story, it's so shocking to exploit people's
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Speaker 10: good intentions and rip them off and siphon the money
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Speaker 10: off to the same old political nonprofits and activists, lefty
25:54
Speaker 10: groups fighting ice and immigration, enforcement by the Trump administration.
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Speaker 10: That's not why people get money.
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Speaker 2: They want to help people.
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Speaker 10: And now they've been really revealed, the people in charge
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Speaker 10: in California and in LA for what they really are.
26:07
Speaker 10: And now I think it's a wake up call.
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Speaker 9: Well maybe you're going to be the wake up call,
26:10
Speaker 9: because how many wake up calls does California need after this?
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Speaker 2: That is a fat point.
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Speaker 9: Steve Villen, good to see him.
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Speaker 1: You look at Steve, who's running for governor by the way,
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Speaker 1: in California, and he's absolutely right.
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Speaker 2: In the end, this is the democratic machine, isn't it right.
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Speaker 1: The activists and the politicians and the do gooders and
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Speaker 1: the nonprofits, they're all in. The celebrities, they're all in
26:33
Speaker 1: the same kind of swamp of good intentions right with
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Speaker 1: another disastrous result. And so you see that they all
26:42
Speaker 1: take care of one another. They do the big events,
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Speaker 1: they raise one hundred million, Not a single one of
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Speaker 1: the victims who lost everything is received a check.
26:53
Speaker 2: When people decide.
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Speaker 1: To give, they give because they want to help people directly.
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Speaker 1: This is one of the problems that makes me so
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Speaker 1: angry because I actually feel bad for other nonprofit organizations
27:11
Speaker 1: that actually do the work because now people are gonna
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Speaker 1: be less likely to give it them the next time
27:17
Speaker 1: there's a massive disaster, right, Like, you hear this story
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Speaker 1: of a hundred million dollars and nobody's actually getting the help.
27:29
Speaker 1: And when you hear that and you think about the
27:34
Speaker 1: hurt and the pain and the people that lost everything,
27:38
Speaker 1: and then none of the money that was raised and
27:41
Speaker 1: all these people that were involved is actually going directly them.
27:43
Speaker 1: Then said, they're just filling the pockets of these nonprofits
27:46
Speaker 1: and liberal woke groups and they're clearly just taking the money.
27:50
Speaker 2: And unfortunately they're taking advantage of it.
27:54
Speaker 1: They're taking advantage of the loss by of everything by
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Speaker 1: the people that were affecting these fires. And I'm sure
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that I mean, think about
28:04
Speaker 1: one hundred million. Think about how many houses. If you
28:08
Speaker 1: picked one hundred homeowners that lost everything, gave them each
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Speaker 1: a million dollars, think about what that could do. And
28:14
Speaker 1: that's a hundred homes. That's one hundred plus families. Imagine
28:20
Speaker 1: if you just gave them a quarter of a million
28:23
Speaker 1: to try to get back on their feet, how many
28:25
Speaker 1: that's four hundred people that lost everything that could have
28:30
Speaker 1: been affected and said like no, no, no.
28:32
Speaker 2: We don't do that here. That's all we do, absolutely not.
28:37
Speaker 2: What do we do here? It's saying completely different than that.
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Speaker 1: We raise the money and then we give it to
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Speaker 1: nonprofits and then once we give it that, you know,
28:46
Speaker 1: give it to the not like give it to the nonprofits.
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Speaker 2: And what happens.
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Speaker 1: We're good, everything's fine, Everything is fine. We got our cash.
28:56
Speaker 1: Other people's lives are hurt and we don't care. This
29:01
Speaker 1: is the really, really really sad part of all of this. Anyway,
29:05
Speaker 1: I hope they do a big investigation. Let me just
29:07
Speaker 1: say that, I hope.
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Speaker 2: People go to jail for this.
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Speaker 1: This is corruption in stealing at a level that I
29:13
Speaker 1: think everybody should be just infuriated.
29:17
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