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DOGE brings Power to the People plus Mahmoud Khalil's Deportation & Trump's Tariff Triumph · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: One thing that Donald Trump promised was he was going
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Speaker 1: to give the power back to the people. Well, DOGE
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Speaker 1: is leading that effort, and the President is now saying
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Speaker 1: it is a top priority to make sure that you
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Speaker 1: can go to your government when there is a problem.
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Speaker 1: Americans apparently that are witnessing crippling federal regulations are now
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Speaker 1: going to be allowed to go directly to DOGE to
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Speaker 1: report the red tape issues. The Department of Government Efficiency
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Speaker 1: launching a new website where you or people you know
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Speaker 1: can directly report and suggest how to deregulate and the
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Speaker 1: policies within the federal government that are holding Americans back.
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Speaker 1: Quote your voice in federal decision making is important impacted
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Speaker 1: by an existing rule or regulation, Well, then share your
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Speaker 1: ideas for deregulation by completing this new DOGE form. Now,
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Speaker 1: this website is now live, and I want you to
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Speaker 1: know about it, and I want you to share it
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Speaker 1: wherever you can on social media. The website is Regulations
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Speaker 1: with an ass dot Gov. DOGE worked with the Government
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Speaker 1: Services Administration that is an independent agency tasked with helping
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Speaker 1: support the functioning of other federal agencies, as well as
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Speaker 1: the Office of Management and Budget, which is the federal
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Speaker 1: office frequently charged with overseeing deregulation efforts to launch the website,
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Speaker 1: and again that website is regulations dot gov quote. DOGE
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Speaker 1: is combining the administration's goals of adding transparency and slashing waste, fraud,
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Speaker 1: and abuse by offering the American people the unique opportunity
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Speaker 1: to recommend more deregulatory actions. This DOGE led effort highlighting
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Speaker 1: President Trump's top priority to put the people first and
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Speaker 1: the go government bureaucrats last. That is what the White
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Speaker 1: House spokesman said over the weekend. The website's main page
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Speaker 1: will direct users to a form where you can report
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Speaker 1: deregulatory suggestions, which provides users with more than a dozen
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Speaker 1: prompts regarding their issue. The prompts include describing which federal
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Speaker 1: agency has promoted a regulation at issue, if the regulation
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Speaker 1: is finalized or in the midst of the rulemaking process,
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Speaker 1: and justification for the deregulation, the history of how the
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Speaker 1: regulation operates, and the title and name of the agency's leader,
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Speaker 1: as well as other detailed information on the regulation. The
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Speaker 1: form prompts users also to provide their name, but the
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Speaker 1: box is not mandatory to complete before submission, meaning that
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Speaker 1: if you're, in essence, a whistleblower. They'll happily take your suggestion.
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Speaker 1: The person who submits a deregulatory suggestion could see the
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Speaker 1: Trump administration name the recession of the rule after the individual.
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Speaker 1: So if you would love to have your name official, well,
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Speaker 1: the Trump administration, if they take your advice, is going
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Speaker 1: to give you credit for it. Quote only answer, if
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Speaker 1: you would like the recession to be named after you
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Speaker 1: or your organization, Providing your name does not guarantee that
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Speaker 1: it will appear on any final agency action. And we
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Speaker 1: reserve the right to refrain from using names that are
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Speaker 1: inappropriate or offensive. This again going back to what Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump said, I'm putting Americans first and the bureaucrats last
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Speaker 1: in my administration, and it's another win for the American people.
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Speaker 1: I want to take a moment and talk to you
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Speaker 1: This is the reality in Israel. Parents taking their children
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Speaker 1: to school, falling to the ground on top of their
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Speaker 1: this also goes back to what Elon Musk has said.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, if you miss what Elon Musk
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Speaker 1: had to say to myself and Senator Cruz, go back
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Speaker 1: and listen to that podcast. It was a two part
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Speaker 1: series about what Doe is doing, and it was truly
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Speaker 1: incredible to hear exactly what Elon Musk has uncovered and
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Speaker 1: Elon Musk has railed against government regulation since the very beginning.
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Speaker 1: It was actually before the administration took office, when he
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Speaker 1: was helping Donald Trump win the White House. When he
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Speaker 1: joined President Trump's campaign in battleground Straits, he said, we
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Speaker 1: have a government that is not working for the people.
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Speaker 1: In a Pennsylvania rally ahead of the election, Musk recounted
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Speaker 1: how his company SpaceX was wrapped up in quote a
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Speaker 1: bunch of nutty stories related to government over regulation, including
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Speaker 1: studying the probability of the company's starship rocket hitting a
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Speaker 1: whale or shark, and facing lofty fines from the EPA
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Speaker 1: for dumping freshwater on the ground quote unquote. I'll tell you,
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Speaker 1: like a crazy thing, like we got fined one hundred
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Speaker 1: and forty thousand by the EPA for dumping freshwater on
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Speaker 1: the ground, drinking water. It's crazy. I'll just give you
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Speaker 1: an example of just how crazy it is. And we're like, well,
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Speaker 1: we're using water to cool the launch pad during launch.
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Speaker 1: You know, we're going to cool the launch pad so
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Speaker 1: it doesn't overheat, and an excess of caution, we actually
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Speaker 1: brought in drinking water, so clean, super clean water must
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Speaker 1: said to the audience of the time in Pennsylvania last year,
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Speaker 1: and the FAA said, no, you have to pay a
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Speaker 1: one hundred and forty thousand dollars fine. And we're like,
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Speaker 1: but Starbase is in a tropical thunderstorm area, skywater falls
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Speaker 1: all the time, must recounter referring to SpaceX headquarters in Texas.
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Speaker 1: Quote that is the same as the water we use.
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Speaker 1: So it's like, well, there's no harm to anything. And
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Speaker 1: they said, yeah, but we didn't have a permit. We're like,
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Speaker 1: you need a permit for fresh water must set at
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Speaker 1: the time. And these are the types of stories that
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Speaker 1: thou Musk and the President are looking from you, the
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Speaker 1: mere can people. You have to remember that Trump went
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Speaker 1: on a deregulation blitz targeting energy and climate regulations last
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Speaker 1: week in a series of executive orders aim to unleash
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Speaker 1: the power of coal energy in the US, including ending
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Speaker 1: a pause to coal leasing on federal lands, promoting coal
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Speaker 1: and coal technology exports, and encouraging the use of coal
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Speaker 1: to power artificial intelligence activities. Quote. President Trump knows that
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Speaker 1: the bureaucracy is built to regulate, not deregulate. The results
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Speaker 1: are an ever increasing number of regulations that stifle innovation
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Speaker 1: and limit American freedom. That is what the White House
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Speaker 1: said this week. At the end of the day, what
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Speaker 1: it's very clear is happening is the President saying, look,
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Speaker 1: we know there's so many things that are happening that
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Speaker 1: we may not know about because of so many government
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Speaker 1: regulations that we are asking you to help. We're giving
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Speaker 1: you a website that you can go to and you
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Speaker 1: can be the whistleblower to tell us what we can
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Speaker 1: do to help you. Never before in our government's history
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Speaker 1: have we had a place for men and women just
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Speaker 1: like you and I to go and then tell about
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Speaker 1: how a regulation is hurting you your business or a
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Speaker 1: industry that you're involved in. You've also never had a
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Speaker 1: president encourage the American people to stand up to its
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Speaker 1: own government and advocate for you, telling exactly what's happening
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Speaker 1: wherever you are now. Democrats are already criticizing the website,
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Speaker 1: calling it a ridiculous notion that the American people would
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Speaker 1: be able to understand what's actually happening and they won't
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Speaker 1: understand how important the regulations actually are. Well, let me
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Speaker 1: say this to the Democrats. The American people know good
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Speaker 1: and well what good businesses look like and what regulation
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Speaker 1: are doing to destroy their businesses, especially small businesses. And
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Speaker 1: as Elon must put it, it's time for the American
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Speaker 1: people to have a government that listens to them, that
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Speaker 1: works for them, that advocates for them, and that makes
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Speaker 1: it easier for them to succeed than to fail in business.
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Speaker 1: A major victory this week for the Trump administration who
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Speaker 1: said they were going to hold student protesters accountable if
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Speaker 1: they were standing up for terrorists, especially if they are
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Speaker 1: here from another country. Now, you may remember that the
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Speaker 1: Senate Democrats came out and said we stand with the
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Speaker 1: pro terrorists pro hamas Columbia graduate, a guy by the
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Speaker 1: name of Makmud Khalil. Why do they do it because, well,
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Speaker 1: the Democratic Party has no problem standing with people that
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Speaker 1: are advocating and supporting for the destruction of Israel and
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Speaker 1: those that advocate for actual terrorist organizations. This is not all.
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Speaker 1: We also found out that the Senate Judiciary Democrats went
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Speaker 1: all in in supporting him as a political decision. This
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Speaker 1: is the latest of six separate posts that they put
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Speaker 1: out on social media promoting his cause, declaring free Muhammad Khalil.
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Speaker 1: Well he was arrested, he was a leader of last
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Speaker 1: spring's pro Hamas protests, and just last week he participated
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Speaker 1: in the Barnard protests in which activists were handing out
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Speaker 1: Hamas propaganda booklets justifying the October seventh attacks. This again
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Speaker 1: was during the week when Democrats supported him. Now, it's
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Speaker 1: fair to debate where the line is between free speech
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Speaker 1: and due process, and there's no doubt that that is
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Speaker 1: an important conversation half But let's be clear, Democrats have
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Speaker 1: no problem looking the other way when it comes to
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Speaker 1: immigration laws, and they look the other way when it
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Speaker 1: comes to protecting Jewish students on campus as well, which
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Speaker 1: brings us to the victory that all of us should
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Speaker 1: be excited about. An immigration judge has now ruled that
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Speaker 1: Mood Khalil can be deported from the US due to
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Speaker 1: his involvement in leading last year's pro Palace Indian protests
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Speaker 1: at Columbia University. The judge coming out and this news
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Speaker 1: breaking on Fox where Democrats lost their minds yet again.
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Speaker 2: So decision that we have been waiting for. A judge
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Speaker 2: has just ruled that the Trump administration's effort to deport
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Speaker 2: Mahmoud Khalil can move forward. Correspondent Brook Taylor live right
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Speaker 2: near that courthouse in Jeana, Louisiana. Tell us what the
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Speaker 2: judge is saying in there?
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Speaker 3: Brook, Hi, Martha, Yeah, this has been long anticipated and
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Speaker 3: some major news. Just to first give you some perspective,
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Speaker 3: we're down the street from the Ice Detention Center. The
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Speaker 3: courtroom is inside of there. They didn't allow any phones
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Speaker 3: or cameras, so we're finding out this information from our
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Speaker 3: reporter who's over there down the street. She tells us,
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Speaker 3: as you just mentioned, the immigration judge has found Mahmoud
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Speaker 3: Khalil removed. Khalil's attorneys have until April twenty third to
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Speaker 3: file relief applications. I asked that reporter what the immigration
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Speaker 3: judge was able to say. She cited those d Jess
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Speaker 3: papers and said that the Secretary of State Marco Rubio
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Speaker 3: was able to meet that burden and again they have
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Speaker 3: decided that Macmood Khalil is removable. The next question, Martha,
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Speaker 3: of course's attorneys are going to fight this, but how
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Speaker 3: long that process is going to take right now for
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Speaker 3: him to be deported.
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Speaker 2: We'll send it back.
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Speaker 1: You hear that report. Democrats are angry because they wanted
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Speaker 1: to make sure that they could have as many of
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Speaker 1: these activists that have come into the United States of
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Speaker 1: America stand up for Terris and advocate for death and
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Speaker 1: destruction of the Jews all over the world. This judge
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Speaker 1: ruling on Friday that this thirty year old again can
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Speaker 1: be deported, saying the US government medits burden of proof
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Speaker 1: to remove him. Quote. I would like to quote what
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Speaker 1: you said last time, that there's nothing that's more important
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Speaker 1: to this court than due process rights and fundamental fairness.
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Speaker 1: That is what macmood told the court, saying, quote clearly
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Speaker 1: what we witnessed today, neither of these principles were presented
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Speaker 1: today or in the whole process.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 1: This is exactly why the Trump administration has sent me
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Speaker 1: to this court one thousand miles away from my family.
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Speaker 1: I just hope that the urgency that you deemed fit
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Speaker 1: for me are afforded to the hundreds of others who
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Speaker 1: have been here without hearings for months now. His attorneys
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Speaker 1: again have until April the twenty third to file relief applications.
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Speaker 1: During the hearing, the Department of Homeland Security attorneys also
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Speaker 1: spoke about how this individual misrepresented himself on his green
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Speaker 1: card application, lying to get into the US the Department
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Speaker 1: of Homeland Security. Attorneys said that the man was not
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Speaker 1: upfront about some of the organizations that he was involved with. Macmod,
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Speaker 1: they said, willfully failed to disclose his employment with a
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Speaker 1: Syrian office in the British Embassy in Beirut when he
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Speaker 1: applied for permanent US residency. Federal officials alleged that Mackmoud
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Speaker 1: was inadmissible at the time of his adjustment because of
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Speaker 1: fraud or willful misrepresentation of material facts in his status application.
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Speaker 1: In other words, the sky's a pathological liar to get
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Speaker 1: into the US is what they're accusing him of. The
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Speaker 1: agency also accused him of failing to disclose his work
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Speaker 1: for the United Nations Relief and Work Agency, specifically for
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Speaker 1: terrorist organizations. This ruling, no doubt will have major precedent
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Speaker 1: of the radicals are going to stop, they're not. Because
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Speaker 1: following the ruling, mcmood's immigration attorney called the decision quote
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Speaker 1: unjust as it is alarming, saying, quote, this is a
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Speaker 1: blatant violation of the First Amendment and a dangerous present
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Speaker 1: for anyone who believes in free speech and political expression.
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Speaker 1: Mac mood is currently in prison in Louisiana, a state
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Speaker 1: that detains over seven thousand people daily and serves as
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Speaker 1: the second largest hub for immigration attention in the US.
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Speaker 1: Louisiana's nine detention centers, eight of which are privately operated,
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Speaker 1: as attorney said, include the only ice facility in the
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Speaker 1: country directly connected to an airport, thus streamlining mass deportations
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Speaker 1: across the state. The Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christy
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Speaker 1: Noam also weighed in on the ruling, saying that the
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Speaker 1: Columbia University graduate quote hates America, saying this, it is
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Speaker 1: a privilege to be granted visa or a green card
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Speaker 1: to live and study in the United States of America.
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Speaker 1: When you advocate for violence, glorifying and supporting terrorists, and
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Speaker 1: relish the killing of Americans and harassed Jews, that privilege
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Speaker 1: should be revoked and you should not be in this country,
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Speaker 1: she said, and then she added good riddance now. On Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: his attorneys also ordered the federal government to quote provide
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Speaker 1: evidence by Wednesday justifying their attempt to deport Mike Mood.
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Speaker 1: The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, responded on behalf of
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Speaker 1: the government and roughly a one and a half page
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Speaker 1: letter sent to the court on Wednesday. He cited a
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Speaker 1: provision in the Immigration Nationality Act of nineteen fifty two
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Speaker 1: to justify the removal from the US. The provision allows
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Speaker 1: the Secretary of State to deport non citizens if the
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Speaker 1: Secretary determined their presence in the US quote would have
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Speaker 1: serious adverse foreign policy consequences. Rubio accused the man of
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Speaker 1: participating in anti Semitic protests and disruptive activities, which fosters
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Speaker 1: a hostile environment for Jewish students in the United States.
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Speaker 1: He said anti Semitic conduct and disruptive protests the United
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Speaker 1: States would severely undermine the significant foreign policy objective Rubio
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Speaker 1: stated in his letter. The attorneys for the individual have
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Speaker 1: and study at our universities, who are there actually attacking
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Speaker 1: tariff negotiations. This is a story that the media is
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Speaker 1: not going to want to tell you about because of
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Speaker 1: there were fifty countries that had lined up to negotiate
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Speaker 1: quiet on the story. We now have a new number,
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Speaker 1: and the Trump administration has told us that they are
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Speaker 1: now negotiating with one hundred and thirty countries on tariffs. Now,
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Speaker 1: talking with the n Asroeconomic Council Director Kevin Hassett. And
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Speaker 1: what do.
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Speaker 4: You say to small business owners or even big business
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Speaker 4: owners who say they're having difficulty making long term business
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Speaker 4: decisions because the country seems right now to be run
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Speaker 4: by capricious whim.
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Speaker 5: Oh, i'd think at all, it's run by Capriciu's whim.
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Speaker 5: The way that I would think about it is that
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Speaker 5: in the previous administration, you can sort of say, if
21:26
Speaker 5: you're thinking about it in the football analogy is that
21:28
Speaker 5: they were running out the clock. And what's going on
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Speaker 5: now and the Trump administration is across a wide array
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Speaker 5: of policy areas. We're in a two minute offense, and
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Speaker 5: the two minute offense is pushing, as you've seen, the
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Speaker 5: reconciliation build through so that we get tax relief for
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Speaker 5: America people, deregulation, and of course trade policy. Now, in
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Speaker 5: the trade policy, the whole point of the trade policy
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Speaker 5: is to address the national emergency that we're too dependent
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Speaker 5: on foreign products in the US, especially if we were
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Speaker 5: at a time of conflict, and we're doing something about that.
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Speaker 5: And the Reciprocal Act was basically, guys, if you come
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Speaker 5: to the table and negotiate us with us and treat
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Speaker 5: us the same way we treat you, then we'll you'll
22:09
Speaker 5: get your rate really low. And so right now one
22:11
Speaker 5: hundred and thirty countries, one hundred and thirty countries have
22:14
Speaker 5: responded and we're negotiating with them, and they've got their
22:17
Speaker 5: rate down to ten percent. And so really it's kind
22:20
Speaker 5: of almost a two world system. There's a process about
22:23
Speaker 5: China and that's very very nascent, if at all, and
22:27
Speaker 5: then the process for everybody else. So the process for
22:29
Speaker 5: everybody else is orderly. It's clear people are coming to
22:33
Speaker 5: town with great, great offers. We've got Japan, Korea, India.
22:38
Speaker 5: I was just talking to the Foreign Minister of India
22:42
Speaker 5: and everything is moving forward very quickly. And so I
22:45
Speaker 5: guess the bottom line is that the small business owner
22:49
Speaker 5: has experienced over the last few weeks the start of
22:51
Speaker 5: a process that's settling down really quite quickly. Gave one
22:54
Speaker 5: hundred and thirty countries are at ten percent now.
22:57
Speaker 1: So if you want to know if the administration is
22:59
Speaker 1: working hard to get these deals done, the answer is yes.
23:02
Speaker 1: And are there people that are coming to the table,
23:04
Speaker 1: The answer is yes. And are there a few?
23:06
Speaker 4: No?
23:06
Speaker 1: Are there some?
23:07
Speaker 4: No?
23:08
Speaker 1: Are there a lot? Man, Maybe you could go even
23:10
Speaker 1: beyond that, as I quote the administration, So right now
23:14
Speaker 1: there are one hundred and thirty countries. One hundred and
23:17
Speaker 1: thirty countries have responded and we're negotiating with them and
23:21
Speaker 1: they've got their rate down to ten percent. So really
23:24
Speaker 1: it's almost a two world system. There's a process. They
23:29
Speaker 1: said about countries that are not willing to come to
23:32
Speaker 1: the table, places like China, and those are going to
23:35
Speaker 1: be tough, but everyone else they seem to be wanting
23:39
Speaker 1: the best deal they can get with the American government,
23:41
Speaker 1: and that means it's an amazing deal for the American people.
23:45
Speaker 1: So don't buy into the fear mongering. Look at the
23:48
Speaker 1: actual results, and it's clear that there's one hundred and
23:52
Speaker 1: thirty countries that are dying to get a deal done
23:55
Speaker 1: with a Trump administration who is putting American workers and
23:59
Speaker 1: business first instead of last. Now that's not the only
24:03
Speaker 1: piece of good news. The President is also listening to
24:06
Speaker 1: his advisors, and now we know that there is going
24:09
Speaker 1: to be some exemptions on some important products that do
24:12
Speaker 1: affect Americans. Right now, smartphones, computers, and electronic devices are
24:18
Speaker 1: being exempt from the Trump administration's tariffs on China. The
24:23
Speaker 1: administration announcing that various electronic devices such as smartphones and
24:27
Speaker 1: computers will have the exemption from the tariffs that have
24:31
Speaker 1: been imposed on China. In a bulletin that was posted
24:34
Speaker 1: late Friday night by the US Customs and Border Protection Agency,
24:39
Speaker 1: it was revealed that certain products quote would be exempted
24:42
Speaker 1: from the tariffs. The tariff exemptions on certain products apply
24:46
Speaker 1: retroactively to April to fifth. According to Axios, the products
24:51
Speaker 1: would be exempt from recent applied tariffs, while other pre
24:55
Speaker 1: April second tariffs would still apply. The White House press
24:59
Speaker 1: singer tar Carolina Levin explained in a statement, the President
25:02
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has made it clear that the United States
25:05
Speaker 1: cannot rely on China to manufacture critical technologies semiconductors, chips, smartphones,
25:14
Speaker 1: and laptops, saying President Trump has made it clear America
25:17
Speaker 1: cannot rely on China to manufacture critical technologies such as
25:22
Speaker 1: those semiconductors, chips, smartphones, and laptops, and that's why the
25:27
Speaker 1: President has secured trillions of dollars in US investments from
25:31
Speaker 1: the largest tech companies in the world, including Apple, TSMC,
25:37
Speaker 1: and NA Video. CNBC also reported that the guidance for
25:41
Speaker 1: the USCBP includes exclusions for other electronic devices and components,
25:47
Speaker 1: including semiconductors, solar cells, flat panel TV display, flash drives,
25:53
Speaker 1: and memory cards. The White House Deputy Press Secretary explained
25:57
Speaker 1: that quote companies are hustling to will on shore. They're
26:01
Speaker 1: manufacturing the United States as soon as possible. The outlet
26:05
Speaker 1: explained that the top twenty product categories listed in the
26:09
Speaker 1: CBP guidelines are apparently exempt from the one hundred and
26:12
Speaker 1: twenty five percent tariffs that Trump is imposed on Chinese imports.
26:18
Speaker 1: The twenty product categories listed in the CBP guidelines are
26:22
Speaker 1: apparently exempt from the one to twenty five tariffs and
26:25
Speaker 1: the ten percent baseline tariff on imports from other countries.
26:29
Speaker 1: A twenty percent tariff on all Chinese goods remains in
26:33
Speaker 1: effect quote unquote and a presidential memorandum. Trump explained in
26:37
Speaker 1: the Executive Order fourteen two fifty seven that regulations imports
26:42
Speaker 1: with a reciprocal tariff to rectified trade practices that contribute
26:47
Speaker 1: to large and persistent annual United States good trade deficits.
26:52
Speaker 1: I declare national emergency arising from conditions reflected in large
26:56
Speaker 1: and persistent annual US goods trade deficit sits and imposed
27:01
Speaker 1: additional ad bellorum duties as I deem necessary and appropriate
27:07
Speaker 1: to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat, which has
27:11
Speaker 1: its source and whole our substantial part outside of the US.
27:16
Speaker 1: The national security and economic of the United States of
27:19
Speaker 1: America is what is stated in this executive order. Now
27:23
Speaker 1: here's what we know, the presence being clear that he's
27:27
Speaker 1: not going to allow China to get away with much
27:29
Speaker 1: of what they've been doing, but there are certain things
27:32
Speaker 1: that America does need in the near term as we
27:35
Speaker 1: start manufacturing in this country. This is also another example
27:39
Speaker 1: of the President listening to those around him and listening
27:43
Speaker 1: to the American people and industry that are saying, we
27:46
Speaker 1: love that you're fighting for us, but there may be
27:49
Speaker 1: some certain things will need some help on in the
27:51
Speaker 1: short term. And this is proof that the President is
27:54
Speaker 1: obviously putting Americans first. Yet again, We're going to cover
27:59
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