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Judge's Shocking Ties to Violent Gang, Trump talks to Major Retailers & DOE gets DOGE'd · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: You remember the Bunny with Joe Biden. Remember you remember
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  Speaker 1: when the when the Bunny took Joe Biden out.
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  Speaker 2: He's not gonna take He's not taking Trump out anyway.
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  Speaker 2: That was a good That was a beautiful moment when
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  Speaker 2: the Buddy saved Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome, It is the forty seven Morning Update. Ben Ferguson
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  Speaker 2: with you, and here are three big stories that you
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  Speaker 2: may have missed that we talked about this week. First up,
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  Speaker 2: there is a radical judge. It was busted actually harboring
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  Speaker 2: people that are considered terrorists from these hardcore criminal gangs.
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  Speaker 2: What happened to him. We'll have that story for you
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  Speaker 2: in just a moment. Also, Donald Trump decided to meet
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  Speaker 2: with retail CEOs about tariffs and what was the takeaway
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  Speaker 2: deals are starting to get very close to getting done.
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  Speaker 2: And finally, Linna McMahon joins us from the Treaty Room
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  Speaker 2: at the White House to talk about waste at the
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  Speaker 2: Department of Education and working with DOE. Is the forty
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  Speaker 2: seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 3: Story number one, there's a pretty.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting trend that is happening now with the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 2: They are now in love with terrists, terrorists that are
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  Speaker 2: in radical gangs in this country, and they're doing everything
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  Speaker 2: they can to protect them, and say the American people,
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  Speaker 2: we've seen this from congressmen and sentators that are running
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  Speaker 2: down to meet with MS thirteen gang members held in Venezuela,
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  Speaker 2: for example. And now we may know a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more about just how corrupt the Democratic Party is, how
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  Speaker 2: compromised they are by these gangs that have been declared
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  Speaker 2: terrorists organizations look to the New headline. A Democratic judge
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  Speaker 2: in New Mexico has been forced to resign from his
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  Speaker 2: bench after immigration agents arrested a alleged trend diiragu gang
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  Speaker 2: member living in his home. The illegal alien entered into
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  Speaker 2: the US in Alpaso, Texas, before being released on an
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  Speaker 2: immigrantion parole. Due to overcrowding, he eventually moved. We've now
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  Speaker 2: learned to New Mexico well. Federal prosecutors in the District
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  Speaker 2: of New Mexico alleged at the twenty three year old
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  Speaker 2: was illegally in possession of a firearm and has direct
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  Speaker 2: ties to the hyper violent Venezuelan gang. Earlier this year,
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  Speaker 2: President Donald Trump in the US State Department declared the
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  Speaker 2: gang to be a foreign terrorist organization. Police arrested Lopez
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  Speaker 2: while executing a search warrant on February the twenty eighth
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  Speaker 2: at the home of don On, a County, New Mexico
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  Speaker 2: magistrate judge and his wife. The Albuquerque Journal is reporting now.
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  Speaker 2: The report follows a detention hearing where prosecutors claim the
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  Speaker 2: illegal alien is a flight risk and an alleged trende
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  Speaker 2: Aragua gang member Kanu. A former police officer, allowed the
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  Speaker 2: gang member to file a request for immigration relief using
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  Speaker 2: the judge's residential address. This isn't a Now, that's not all.
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  Speaker 2: We also now in court exhibits have seen pictures that
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  Speaker 2: were posted on social media of the foreign national with
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  Speaker 2: the judge. Yes, they're good friends. Court records obtained revealed
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  Speaker 2: that Lopez, a Venezuelan national, entered the United States illegally
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  Speaker 2: an Eagle Pass during the peak of the Biden border
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  Speaker 2: crisis in December of twenty twenty three, and then due
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  Speaker 2: to overcrowding in the Eagle Passed attention facility, he was
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  Speaker 2: released three days later. Social media posts obtained by the
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  Speaker 2: US Attorney's Office for the District of New Mexico show
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  Speaker 2: Lopez and other illegal aliens at a shooting range. They
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  Speaker 2: appeared to be in possession of multiple firearms at a
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  Speaker 2: large quantity of handguns and rifle ammunition. In one image,
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  Speaker 2: the man is also holding an AR fifteen style rifle
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  Speaker 2: in one hand and a semi automatic pistol in the other.
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  Speaker 2: A video shows the Venezuelan migrant in possession of another
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  Speaker 2: AR fifteen equipped with a suppressor. He fired the rifle
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  Speaker 2: until empty and then reloaded it with a new magazine,
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  Speaker 2: which he continued to fire. The prosecutor stated now the
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  Speaker 2: photos and videos show Lopez displaying the Trendeo Raga gang tattoos.
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  Speaker 2: The United States government recently declared this violent gang to
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  Speaker 2: be a quote transnational criminal organization. As well, Investigators found
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  Speaker 2: additional firearms in a neighboring home owned by Nancy Kano's
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  Speaker 2: daughter that would be the judge's daughter. Lopez was seen
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  Speaker 2: in possession of several of these firearms. Investigators report that
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  Speaker 2: the Venezuelan national move to Olpasso after being released by
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  Speaker 2: border patrol agents. There he roomed with five other people,
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  Speaker 2: court document state, and while living there, Lopez met Nancy
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  Speaker 2: Kano and began doing construction and handy man jobs. Kano
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  Speaker 2: extended an offer for the illegal alien to live in
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  Speaker 2: the casida behind her home. Now, other images from Lopez's
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  Speaker 2: cell phone obtained by bright Bart News show graphic images
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  Speaker 2: of multiple decapitated and mutually bodies. Let me say that again.
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  Speaker 2: Other images from Lopez's phone obtained by Breitbart News show
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  Speaker 2: graphic images of multiple decapitated and mutilated bodies. Lopez is
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  Speaker 2: currently in the Donna Ana County Detention Center, where he's
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  Speaker 2: charged with being an illegal alien in possession of firearms. Now,
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  Speaker 2: it's not clear if Judge Conno or his wife Nancy
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  Speaker 2: will be charged with harboring an illegal alien or providing
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  Speaker 2: material support to a foreign terrorist organization. But if you
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  Speaker 2: want to know whose side the left is on, well
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  Speaker 2: just take a look at this new Mexico Democratic judge
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  Speaker 2: and what did it cost him when he was busted
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  Speaker 2: for all this? I only I just had to resign
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  Speaker 2: after Ice arrested the gang member in his home.
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  Speaker 3: Next story number two.
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  Speaker 2: Monday was a very big day at the White House,
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  Speaker 2: not just because it was the Easter egg role, but
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump also met with major US retailers to discuss tariffs.
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  Speaker 2: This time, the President set down with major retailers including Walmart,
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  Speaker 2: Home Depot, Lows, and Target to discuss the broad based
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  Speaker 2: tariffs likely to raise the cost of everyday goods that
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  Speaker 2: they import. Now, big US chains like Walmart and Target
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  Speaker 2: they rely heavily on imported goods, and tariffs, including the
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and forty five percent levies on China, are expected.
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  Speaker 2: They claim to add strain on Americans already burdened by
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  Speaker 2: prolonged inflation. That is, obviously their talking point is they
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  Speaker 2: want everything to go back to cheap Chinese goods, regardless
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  Speaker 2: of what it means for American workers. Now, this meeting
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  Speaker 2: was important and it adds to what we have seen
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  Speaker 2: over the last several weeks as prominent CEOs of express
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  Speaker 2: support for President Donald Trump's economic policies, highlighting potential benefits
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  Speaker 2: for their industries as well in the long term. The
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  Speaker 2: CEO of JP Morgan Chase has acknowledged the strategic use
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  Speaker 2: of tariffs as economic tools, stating that if they are
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  Speaker 2: slightly inflammatory but beneficial for national security, then it's acceptable.
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  Speaker 2: The CEO of Goldman Sachs know that the business community
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  Speaker 2: understands the administration's engagement and appreciates the efforts to involve
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  Speaker 2: them in policy discussions, which is exactly why the President
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  Speaker 2: decided to bring in companies like Low's and Walmart and
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  Speaker 2: Home Depot and Target. The CEO of Bank of America
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  Speaker 2: also highlighted that favorable regulatory changes under Trump's administration could
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  Speaker 2: provide companies with the certainty to be more aggressive as
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  Speaker 2: interest rates decrease. Additionally, as you know, tech leaders like
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  Speaker 2: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos have showed interest
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  Speaker 2: in engaging with Trump's administration, drawing to his pro growth
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  Speaker 2: agenda and favorable economic policies such as tax cuts and
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  Speaker 2: major issues of deregulation. Now, these developments indicate a trend
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  Speaker 2: among corporate leaders to align with President Trump's economic policies,
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  Speaker 2: focusing on potential benefits such as tax reductions, deregulation, and
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  Speaker 2: increase capital investment. Now, as for these new companies that
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  Speaker 2: have come to the table like Walmart and Home Depot,
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  Speaker 2: one of the things the President has made clear things
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  Speaker 2: are going to change. It may not be what's best
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  Speaker 2: for your company in the short term, but it's what's
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  Speaker 2: best for Americans. In the long term, including American workers.
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  Speaker 2: He's also making it clear to these companies that Liberation
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  Speaker 2: Day included allowing American workers to get back into manufacturing.
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  Speaker 2: And that's exactly what the message need to be to
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  Speaker 2: so many of these companies that were relying on cheap
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  Speaker 2: goods and cheap labor in China. Trump's tariff policies have
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  Speaker 2: obviously sent ripples across numerous industries around the world, and
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  Speaker 2: the President said that was all part of the strategy. Now,
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  Speaker 2: US stocks are going up and down as many are expecting,
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  Speaker 2: with year treasury notes and the US dollar also coming
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  Speaker 2: under some pressure. The present made it clear this is
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  Speaker 2: short term for a massive shift in how this country
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  Speaker 2: works when it comes to importing goods from countries, especially
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  Speaker 2: that are adversaries to the United States of America. And
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  Speaker 2: having these important conversations the White House clearly means that
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  Speaker 2: the conversation is moving forward and getting closer to resolution.
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  Speaker 3: And here is story number three.
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  Speaker 2: What was the biggest waste of tax dollars that you've
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  Speaker 2: uncovered at DOGE And let's start there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I can tell you know what they First of all,
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  Speaker 1: let me say I welcomed the DOGE group that came
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  Speaker 1: in and has been looking at a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: wasteful spending that has been going on. I think one
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  Speaker 1: of the things that jumped out at me was that
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  Speaker 1: we had about six hundred million dollars that we were
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  Speaker 1: spending on teacher training programs. Now that's a hundred million,
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  Speaker 1: So now that sounds, you know, incredibly like a good
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  Speaker 1: amount of money to be spending on a good thing
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  Speaker 1: to train our teachers. But what we really were finding
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  Speaker 1: was that most of the programs at that point were
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  Speaker 1: really focused on DEI training, yeah, and not on what
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  Speaker 1: excuse me, you would typically be looking at, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for teacher training. And so we took back that money
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  Speaker 1: and we shut down that kind of training program. So
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  Speaker 1: that was one that just jumped out at me.
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  Speaker 2: So is it fair to say the Department of Education?
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  Speaker 2: And I have a sister, she's in an inner city
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  Speaker 2: school and she's doing the best that she can. My
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  Speaker 2: mom was a teacher, my aunt was a principal. Like
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  Speaker 2: I come from that world. But what is sad to
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  Speaker 2: me is it seems like the Department of Education has
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  Speaker 2: basically decided we're going to indoctrinate kids instead of educate kids,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to do it in a way with
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  Speaker 2: using taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate them and what we believe
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  Speaker 2: in instead of reading, writing, and arithmetic. How far off
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  Speaker 2: am I on that from a national standpoint.
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  Speaker 1: You know, far off on that at all. And what
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  Speaker 1: we have really seen, I mean, think about this, Ben.
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  Speaker 1: The Department of Education was established in nineteen eighty and
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  Speaker 1: since that time, we have spent over three trillion dollars
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  Speaker 1: in education, and our performance scores have continued to go down.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I don't I don't say there haven't
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  Speaker 1: been things that have been tried. I mean, the Bush
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  Speaker 1: administration tried no Child Left Behind. Yeah, Barack Obama tried
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  Speaker 1: race to the top. But we're failing in the mission
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  Speaker 1: of teaching our our students. And I think the reason
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  Speaker 1: for that is we have gotten away from basics. We've
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  Speaker 1: gotten away from teaching reading and teaching arithmetic. And so
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  Speaker 1: what we're finding in schools that are showing improvement in
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  Speaker 1: scores is that they have returned to the science of reading,
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  Speaker 1: teaching phonics, teaching repetitive you know, just memorization like in
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  Speaker 1: mathematics for your times table and things like that, and
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  Speaker 1: then building upon that base. You know, up through third
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  Speaker 1: grade you are learning to read, and after third grade
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  Speaker 1: you're reading to learn, and if you can't read, you
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  Speaker 1: know going to be able to learn. So we found
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of the fall off, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: in education is because we're not teaching the basics, and
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  Speaker 1: so a little return to that basics is great. Now
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  Speaker 1: a lot of other things it can be introduced that
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  Speaker 1: can be helpful, like AI Yes, because they're.
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  Speaker 2: How far behind are we on technology? Oh, just because
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  Speaker 2: it seems like we're back twenty years ago and all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden, now are thirty years ago in technology
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  Speaker 2: and we're having these kids go out in the world.
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  Speaker 2: I laughed the other day I was talking to a
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  Speaker 2: group of students and the students said that at they're
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  Speaker 2: high school, they were still teaching them to do photography
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  Speaker 2: and develop film. And You're like, for what reason that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't happen anymore?
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to use Is that going to be
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  Speaker 1: their major when they go off? Right a career path
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  Speaker 1: that they want to be on, If it's a career
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  Speaker 1: path they want to be on them off for that right.
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  Speaker 2: However, it's digital Now pictures are digital, and they're like
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  Speaker 2: the teacher has been there and said, well, this is
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  Speaker 2: how we've always done it. That was a response to students.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, we're paying that salary to someone who's literally
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  Speaker 2: saying I refuse to move forward.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I just think that just goes to the
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  Speaker 1: bigger problem of how I think education is not in
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  Speaker 1: touch with the communities. It's not in touch with the
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  Speaker 1: industries that we need. And that's what we need to
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  Speaker 1: make sure of that we are educating our students for
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  Speaker 1: you know, for their for their livelihood. What you know,
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  Speaker 1: what what does industry need? What does the community need?
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  Speaker 1: You'll hear most universities say that we want to make
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  Speaker 1: sure we can keep students in the community when we're
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  Speaker 1: when we're training them. But if you don't understand what
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  Speaker 1: the community, what industry, what business needs, or what technology needs,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera, you can't construct a proper curriculum to fill
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  Speaker 1: you know, that need, and you'll find we won't be successful.
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