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Bombshell goes Nuclear as 197 subpoenas issued by the Biden administration · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: If you missed yesterday's show, you need to go back
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Speaker 1: and listen to the podcast, because what was a big
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Speaker 1: story then has now gone into a nuclear bomb today.
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Speaker 1: Senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican from Iowa, has now released
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Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety seven subpoenas that the Biden administration's
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Speaker 1: FBI used to seek testimony and documents related to hundreds
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Speaker 1: of Republicans and GOP entities as part of the bureau's
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Speaker 1: Arctic Frost probe, the prosecutor to former Special Council Jack
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Speaker 1: Smith's election investigation, which now is in essence a hit list,
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Speaker 1: a target list, a black book of influential conservatives and
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Speaker 1: members of Congress who they wanted to target. Arctic Frost
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Speaker 1: was the vehicle by which partisan FBI agent Chuck Grassey
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Speaker 1: said and DJ prosecutors could improperly investigate the entire Republican
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Speaker 1: political apparatus. I want you to hear exactly what Chuck
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Speaker 1: Grassey had to say at this press conference. It is shocking,
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Speaker 1: and now we know just how corrupt the Democratic Party
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Speaker 1: was under the Biden administration.
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Speaker 2: A little bit of history before I get to what
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Speaker 2: we're releasing today. I started the investigation into Arctic Frost
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Speaker 2: July twenty twenty two, based on whistleblower disclosures. Based on
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Speaker 2: these disclosures, we know that weaponize taxpayer funded agents and
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Speaker 2: prosecutors advanced the investigation. As Artic Frost advanced. Ninety two
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Speaker 2: Republican organizations or individuals were targeted, not just Trump, and
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Speaker 2: they were added to its scope and author of that
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Speaker 2: targeting list with special agent Washin Walter Jaredino. He's the
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Speaker 2: same weaponized agent who was involved in other cases against Republicans,
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Speaker 2: including Peter Navarro. We've learned Jack Smith secretly obtained phone
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Speaker 2: record data from at least eight senators and one Congressman.
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Speaker 2: I've recently been informed by Verizon that at least eleven
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Speaker 2: members with Verizon accounts were affected. That includes a hardline
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Speaker 2: for Senator Cruz's office and a staffer sell phone for
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Speaker 2: former Senator Leffler At and T inform me. They challenged
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Speaker 2: the legal basis for Jack Smith's efforts and Smith back down.
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Speaker 2: So today we're making public new records that I've attained
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Speaker 2: through legally protected whistleblower disclosures. One hundred and ninety seven
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Speaker 2: subpoenas were issued by Jack Smith. And his team. These
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Speaker 2: subpoenas were issued to thirty four individuals and one hundred
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Speaker 2: and sixty three businesses, including financial institutions, and one of
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Speaker 2: the points of contact on many of these subpoenas was
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Speaker 2: that person I previously named Special Agent, Walter gear Dino.
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Speaker 2: The subpoena requested records and communications related to over four
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Speaker 2: hundred and thirty individual and organizations, all of them appear
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Speaker 2: to be aimed at Republicans. A subpoena to Event Strategies
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Speaker 2: requested records relating to Turning Point USA and the Republican
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Speaker 2: Attorney General's Association. One subpoena to Apple sought records relating
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Speaker 2: to Trump and the January sixth prison choir. Earlier this year,
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Speaker 2: I obtained emails between and among J. P. Cooney, one
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Speaker 2: of Jack Smith's prosecutors. That email exchange was March twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty three about a partisan news article on January six
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Speaker 2: and this is what Cooney said in the email. Can
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Speaker 2: we do some work to nail down Trump's role in this,
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Speaker 2: perhaps with the same process on Ed Henry's LLCD.
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Speaker 1: You look at what Chuck Grassley is talking about here,
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Speaker 1: and it's truly incredible. What he's describing is the Democratic
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Speaker 1: Party saying we are going to use our DOJ the FBI,
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Speaker 1: thisa whoever we need to open up investigations and then
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Speaker 1: go out and attack our political enemies. Now, this is
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Speaker 1: a direct contradictory statement of facts to what Smith had
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Speaker 1: said publicly. This was clearly a phishing expedition. Grassley went
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Speaker 1: on to say, standing alongside Grassley center Ron Johnson, he
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Speaker 1: called the subpoenas nothing short of a Biden administration enemies list.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to Johnson in his own words.
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Speaker 3: I think it's important to note that the records that
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Speaker 3: we are now making public in and for personal transparency,
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Speaker 3: we're not obtained from the agency. They are obtained through
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Speaker 3: a whistleblower. So from our first point is we need
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Speaker 3: more whistle blowers. We need people men and women inside
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Speaker 3: these agencies who have integrity, who want to see the
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Speaker 3: integrity and credibility of the Department Justice of the FBI.
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Speaker 3: We stored come forward because right now I think cash
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Speaker 3: for tail Pam BONDI are overwhelmed by all the messages
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Speaker 3: they're trying to clean up. The agencies have been lost
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Speaker 3: a lot of personnel, people simply couldn't serve the Trump administration.
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Speaker 3: It's hard to hire people because of all the lawfare,
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Speaker 3: and they're still partisan actors burrowed in trying to sabotage
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Speaker 3: their efforts.
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Speaker 4: So we need whistleblowers.
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Speaker 3: The reason they come forward to Chairman Grassley is because
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Speaker 3: he's been such a champion of whistleblowers.
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Speaker 4: So again I thank him for that. What is revealed in.
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Speaker 3: Those seventeen hundred pages of documents, in those one hundred
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Speaker 3: and ninety seven subpoenas is nothing short of a Biden
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Speaker 3: administration enemies list. You know, I'm old enough to understand
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Speaker 3: how toxic a term that was under Richard Nixon. This
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Speaker 3: is far worse, far worse, orders the magnitude worse. People
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Speaker 3: need to understand how politicized the bidenministration turned all these agencies.
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Speaker 3: And again, the best way to describe President Biden's attitude
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Speaker 3: his exact quotes. He thought basically half America were domestic terrorists.
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Speaker 3: In September twenty twenty two, in front of Indpenn's Hall,
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Speaker 3: he said Donald Trump and the Magan Republicans represent an
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Speaker 3: extremism that threatens the very foundation of our republic. A
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Speaker 3: year later, in New York City. Donald Trump is mega
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Speaker 3: Republicans are determined to destroy American democracy. Now, nothing could
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Speaker 3: be further from the truth. That is a level of
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Speaker 3: paranoia that's actually astonishing. But the fact that thirty eight
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Speaker 3: Wisconsinites are on that enemy's list, I know most of
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Speaker 3: those individuals. They are god fearing, country loving law law,
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Speaker 3: law enforcement supporting people who want to see America succeed.
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Speaker 3: The fact that they are on a Biden administration enemies list,
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Speaker 3: we're targeted by that administration is outrageous.
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Speaker 4: It should shock every American.
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Speaker 3: And so I am calling on and I appreciate all
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Speaker 3: the members of the Juiciary Committee.
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Speaker 4: We need to get to the bottom of this. We
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Speaker 4: need to do everything we can to assist Director Patel and.
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Speaker 3: Ag Bondie in making sure that they have the staff
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Speaker 3: to take control of these agencies, that they're the heads
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Speaker 3: of them. I don't think they have the control. I
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Speaker 3: think they're being sabotaged within. But the American people need
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Speaker 3: to understand exactly what happened. And again I'm calling on
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Speaker 3: members of Juiciary Committee to help send a grassy in
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Speaker 3: myself get to the bottom of this. You can expose
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Speaker 3: this so this doesn't happen again in America.
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Speaker 4: This has to end.
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Speaker 1: You can hear Johnson there obviously very angry about what
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Speaker 1: he has witnessed and now the data that he has uncovered.
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Speaker 6: Arctic Frost is Joe Biden's Watergate Merrick Garland was a
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Speaker 6: fundamentally corrupt Attorney General. Jack Smith was a fundamentally corrupt prosecutor.
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Speaker 6: This was a political enemies list from the beginning, one
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Speaker 6: hundred and ninety seven subpoenas for four hundred and thirty
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Speaker 6: Republican entities and individuals. That is an absolute and egregious
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Speaker 6: abuse of power. The Biden Justice Department signed off on
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Speaker 6: issuing subpoenas for the phone records of at least nine
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Speaker 6: US senators, twenty percent of the Republicans in the United
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Speaker 6: States Senate where the target of this fishing expedition. They
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Speaker 6: did so in complete contravention of the constitution of separation
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Speaker 6: of powers, of the Speech and debate clause of free speech,
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Speaker 6: of basic rights of privacy. This is an executive who
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Speaker 6: believes it is justified spying on their opponents in the
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Speaker 6: legislature because they convinced themselves the ends justify the means.
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Speaker 6: I want to talk to you about one of those subpoenas.
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Speaker 6: One of those subpoenas went from Jack Smith to AT
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Speaker 6: and T seeking my cell phone communications. It went to
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Speaker 6: AT and T, and I actually want to commend AT
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Speaker 6: and T for doing the right thing. AT and T
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Speaker 6: is based in Texas. AT and T looked at that subpoena,
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Speaker 6: and they went to their legal council, and they said,
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Speaker 6: what should we do with that subpoena? And their legal
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Speaker 6: council said, you cannot comply because this is protected by
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Speaker 6: the speech and bait clause of the US Constitution. And
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Speaker 6: so AT and T declined to comply. Did not hand
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Speaker 6: over my cell phone records. Now, one might ask, ordinarily
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Speaker 6: a phone company being asked to hand over the phone
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Speaker 6: records of a sitting senator would notify that senator. Well,
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Speaker 6: there was a reason AT and T did not do so.
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Speaker 6: Accompanying the subpoena was an order which I have in
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Speaker 6: my hand right here, an order that was signed by
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Speaker 6: Judge James E.
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Speaker 7: Bosberg. Now, who is Boseburg?
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Speaker 6: Boseburg is that radical leftist judge who is out of control,
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Speaker 6: who has been issuing nationwide injunctions one after the other,
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Speaker 6: trying to stop President Trump from carrying out his mandate
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Speaker 6: from the voters. Judge Boseburg issued an order to the
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Speaker 6: US to AT and T and sign. That order prohibited
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Speaker 6: AT and T from informing me of this subpoena for
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Speaker 6: at least one year. And Judge Bosburg gave the basis
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Speaker 6: for that order. And I'm going to quote from the
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Speaker 6: order Judge Boseburg signed. The Court finds reasonable grounds to
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Speaker 6: believe that such disclosure will result in destruction of or
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Speaker 6: tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy
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Speaker 6: to the investigation. That's an order a judge sign. Now,
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Speaker 6: I can tell you right now there is precisely zero
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Speaker 6: evidence to conclude that I am likely to destroy or
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Speaker 6: tamper with evidence or to intimidate potential witnesses, zero evidentiary
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Speaker 6: basis for that. This order is an abusive power. This
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Speaker 6: order is a weaponized legal system.
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Speaker 7: My assumption we don't.
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Speaker 6: Have the subpoenas that were issued for the other senator,
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Speaker 6: but my assumption is Judge Boseburg printed these things out
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Speaker 6: like the placemats at Denny's, one after the other. We
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Speaker 6: don't know that for a fact, but I feel confident
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Speaker 6: that he concluded it's likely that Lindsey Graham would destroy evidence,
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Speaker 6: and Marsha Blackburn would destroy evidence, and Eric Schmidt would
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Speaker 6: destroy evidence, and Chuck Grassley would destroy evidence. If a
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Speaker 6: litigant makes a claim for which there is no factual basis,
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Speaker 6: that litigant is subject to sanctions in federal court. And
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Speaker 6: if a judge signs an order reaching a factual conclusion
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Speaker 6: for which there is zero evidence whatsoever, that judge is
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Speaker 6: abusing his power. I am right now calling on the
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Speaker 6: House of Representatives to impeach Judge Boseburg. Judge Boseburg put
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Speaker 6: his robe down, stood up, and said, sign me up
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Speaker 6: to be part of the partisan vendetta against twenty percent
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Speaker 6: of the Republicans in the Senate. That is a dare
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Speaker 6: election of duty and a violation of the judicial oath.
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Speaker 7: And I want to.
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Speaker 6: Thank Chairman Grassley and Chairman Johnson for pursuing this tenaciously
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Speaker 6: like a dog on a bone. We are going to
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Speaker 6: get the answers of every person who signed off on
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Speaker 6: this abuse of power, and mark my words, there will
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Speaker 6: be accountability for these zelots who wanted to corrupt the
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Speaker 6: Department of Justice and corrupt the judiciary in order to
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Speaker 6: try to attack their enemy's list. That is unconstitutional, it
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Speaker 6: is immoral, and it is wrong.
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Speaker 1: This is Biden's Watergate. I could not agree more with
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Speaker 1: Senator Cruz when he said that earlier. I couldn't agree
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Speaker 1: more with Senator Ron Johnson when he called the subpoenas
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Speaker 1: nothing short of Biden's administration's enemies list. These subpoenas were
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Speaker 1: non public for a reason. These subpoenas were confidential grand
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Speaker 1: jury material the Grassy said he obtained through whistle blower disclosures.
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Speaker 1: They were trying to hide this from the current administration.
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Speaker 1: The subpoena sought certain communications with media companies as well.
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Speaker 1: We've now learned that those media companies included Fox News Channel, CBS, Sinclair, Newsmax,
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Speaker 1: and with members of aids in Congress also being put
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Speaker 1: under the well phishing expedition. We also know they sought
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Speaker 1: sweeping financial information from conservative entities as well. Those conservative
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Speaker 1: entities they wanted to use the federal governments to silence them,
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Speaker 1: to shut them down. This was literally an enemy's list,
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Speaker 1: and it was all disguised by the Democratic Party in quiet,
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Speaker 1: privately to make sure that you and I never found it.
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Speaker 5: It was also designed.
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Speaker 1: To make sure that people like Senator Cruz could not
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Speaker 1: stop it when it was happening. And why did they
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Speaker 1: not want them to know about it? Why did they
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Speaker 1: lie and say that, well, these senators who they were
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Speaker 1: spying on could not be trusted that they might try
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Speaker 1: to intimidate witnesses with no evidence to back that up.
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Speaker 1: Because they knew if these senators found out about this,
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Speaker 1: they would have the legal grounds to stop the Biden
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Speaker 1: administration immediately. And that is exactly why they said, Okay,
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Speaker 1: we are done. We will do it in silence, we
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Speaker 1: will do it quietly. And they were betting on winning
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Speaker 1: the next election so they'd never be held accountable for
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Speaker 1: what they just did. And the massive abuse of power
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Speaker 1: that they were in charge of. This was not legal
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Speaker 1: in any way. This was corruption in every way. And
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Speaker 1: now Donald Trump's administration has exposed it because of great
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Speaker 1: men and women who have risked their careers as whistle
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Speaker 1: blowers trusting the system. One of the things you heard
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Speaker 1: there at the very beginning was Senator Grassley and Johnson
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Speaker 1: talking about we need more whistleblowers to come forward, and
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Speaker 1: whistleblowers that are witnessing now the protections they're receiving from
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Speaker 1: the Trump administration are probably a thousand times more likely
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Speaker 1: to come forward than they would have during the Biden
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Speaker 1: era when they could clearly see just how corrupt they
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Speaker 1: were as a administration. One final thing about this, I
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Speaker 1: expect there is going to be even more bombshells to
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Speaker 1: come forward, more corruption that will be unearthed. And as
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Speaker 1: all of this corruption continues to be exposed, the question
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Speaker 1: now is who will be held accountable for it. Will
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Speaker 1: keep you updated on that, I can promise you. I
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Speaker 1: want to get you an update on the government's shutdown
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Speaker 1: because it's important. This shutdown that at twelve oh one
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Speaker 1: am on October the first is now over a month long,
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Speaker 1: and there were different moments where there were well saying
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Speaker 1: people that thought the shutdown would end. There were many
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Speaker 1: that believe Democrats are holding out until last week's No
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Speaker 1: King's rally to then open the government. Their psychological behavior
21:21
Speaker 1: is well unhinged, and no one really knows what's going
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Speaker 1: to happen moving forward, even in the Democratic Party. But
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Speaker 1: we are now on track to become the longest government
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Speaker 1: shutdown in US history if it continues pass November fourth, Now,
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Speaker 1: the Senate has voted to reopen the government and Democrats
21:41
Speaker 1: continue to block them. According to reporting, the Senate has
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Speaker 1: rejected a bill to reopen the government, a stopgap continuing resolution,
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Speaker 1: a clean cr that has now happened yet again, the
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Speaker 1: procedial vote failing fifty one to forty five to advance
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Speaker 1: the bill, which needs sixty votes. That means Democrats have
22:03
Speaker 1: to come along to overcome the filibuster. We have also
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Speaker 1: seen Democrats now celebrating an essence Americans hurting. There have
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Speaker 1: even been some Democrats and Republicans that have agreed on
22:17
Speaker 1: allowing for snap benefits to continue. Yet Democrats want this
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Speaker 1: to be painful. Why because they're hoping the majority of
22:25
Speaker 1: Americans will be ignorant and just blame Donald Trump for everything. Well,
22:31
Speaker 1: that brings us to the data Sann's data guru, a
22:36
Speaker 1: guy by the name of Harry Hitten was caught off
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Speaker 1: guard to find what he described as a rare bright
22:42
Speaker 1: spot for Republicans during the government's shutdown. In fact, the
22:47
Speaker 1: polling numbers have improved for Donald Trump because the American
22:51
Speaker 1: people are not as stupid as the Democrats were hoping.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to what they had to say with
22:58
Speaker 1: their new poll that has come out and the shock
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Speaker 1: that actually Trump's numbers have improved and not gone down
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Speaker 1: during the shutdown.
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Speaker 8: One thing that might end a shutdown is political pain
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Speaker 8: if parties start to feel that it's hurting them. So
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Speaker 8: let's talk about that. Starting with Republicans. How is the
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Speaker 8: shutdown seem to have affected their political standing?
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Speaker 9: You might think, given that the Republicans are in charge
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Speaker 9: of both the House and the Senate, that a government
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Speaker 9: shutdown might actually hurt the Republican brand, but in fact
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Speaker 9: it hasn't.
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Speaker 7: If anything, it's been helped a little bit.
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Speaker 9: Take a look here the shift in net popularity versus
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Speaker 9: pre shutdown among the g When we're looking at the
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Speaker 9: Republican Party overall, that brand actually up two points. That's
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Speaker 9: within the margin vera. But clearly it hasn't dropped. Come
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Speaker 9: over this side of the screen. Look at the net
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Speaker 9: approval ratings for Republicans in Congress. It's actually up five
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Speaker 9: points since pre shutdown.
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Speaker 7: So what we're seeing here is the Republican brand in.
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Speaker 9: Congress has actually improved somewhat compared to where we were
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Speaker 9: pre shutdown, despite the fact the Republicans control. And that's
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Speaker 9: the mat that John Thune and Mike Johnson are looking
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Speaker 9: at is, hey, why should we give electorally speaking when.
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Speaker 7: Our brand has actually improved.
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Speaker 8: A little bit Now we say their position is getting
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Speaker 8: better with whom?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, with whom?
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Speaker 9: So I think it's two groups that it's so important
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Speaker 9: to keep an eye out on it, all right, change
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Speaker 9: in the Republican congresses net approval rating versus pre shutdown.
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Speaker 7: It's rallying the base, for sure.
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Speaker 9: Look at this, the net approval rating up twelve points
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Speaker 9: versus pre shutdown. But it's not just with the base,
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Speaker 9: it's also with the middle of the electorate. Look at
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Speaker 9: this among independents it's up eight points as well. So
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Speaker 9: we've got a situation here where Republicans with this shutdown
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Speaker 9: are actually rallying their base.
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Speaker 7: But it's also something.
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Speaker 9: That's not hurting them with the folks in the middle
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Speaker 9: of anything, it's helping them with folks in the mill.
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Speaker 9: And this is the type of math that if you're
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Speaker 9: Republicans you like to see, right, because something could rally
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Speaker 9: the base but alienate those in the middle, or something
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Speaker 9: could rally those in the middle but alienate the base.
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Speaker 7: But the truth is we're not seeing that.
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Speaker 9: What we're seeing is the Republican brand has actually gotten
24:50
Speaker 9: better among independents, and it's also gotten better among Republicans
24:53
Speaker 9: as well, that Republican brand.
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Speaker 7: When it comes to those in Congress.
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Speaker 9: So again, what's what's the electoral reason that Republicans would
24:59
Speaker 9: give in at this point?
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Speaker 8: And Democrats, of course, they have their eyes on the
25:02
Speaker 8: midterm elections. Yeah, we have elections one week from today,
25:05
Speaker 8: but what Democrats in Congress are mostly focused on or
25:08
Speaker 8: one year in one week from today from the mid term.
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Speaker 8: So how do Democrats how are they positioned right now?
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Speaker 7: Yeah?
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Speaker 9: So, I mean, look the general congressional ballot, which traditionally
25:16
Speaker 9: Democrats have done really well on. And if you look
25:18
Speaker 9: at this point back when Trump was present the first
25:20
Speaker 9: time around, Democrats are up eleven points. Look at where
25:22
Speaker 9: it is now. Democrats are head but they're actually only
25:25
Speaker 9: up three points. This is, in fact, the worst position
25:28
Speaker 9: Democrats have been on in a generic ballot at this
25:30
Speaker 9: point in mid term when there was a Republican president
25:32
Speaker 9: in the last twenty years. And this is no different
25:34
Speaker 9: from pre shutdown. So Republicans aren't losing on this metric either.
25:38
Speaker 9: They become more popular and they're actually in a pretty
25:40
Speaker 9: good position for them historically when it comes to.
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Speaker 7: The generic congressional ballot.
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Speaker 8: This is a concerning number for Democrats.
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Speaker 9: If you say, this is a concerning number for Democrats
25:46
Speaker 9: because it's considerably worse than they traditionally do in midterm
25:50
Speaker 9: elections when there's a Republican president.
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Speaker 1: Now, if Democrats were sane, they would hear these numbers
25:56
Speaker 1: from CNN and say, Okay, it's time to end the shutdown.
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Speaker 5: It's not going in our favor.
26:02
Speaker 1: But you have to understand that they want this shutdown
26:04
Speaker 1: to hurt they want small businesses to be destroyed. In fact,
26:08
Speaker 1: Small Business Administrator Kelly Lefler has said this on Fox
26:12
Speaker 1: Business with Larry Kudlow about what the intended effects of
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Speaker 1: the government shutdown for the Democrats may actually be, and
26:19
Speaker 1: it's to put you out of business.
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Speaker 10: Straight You're here to tell me I think that the
26:25
Speaker 10: shutdowns killing small businesses. But Pardner, this whole show is
26:29
Speaker 10: very bullished. The stock market is booming, the economy is
26:33
Speaker 10: growing in close to four percent. How bad can it
26:35
Speaker 10: be for small business? I mean, the shutdown thing, you
26:38
Speaker 10: know whatever. We should be pulling the trigger on those
26:42
Speaker 10: two point zero and reduce spending. But really, you'd think
26:46
Speaker 10: small business is really hurting now.
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Speaker 11: Well, look, Larry, prior to this shutdown, as of September,
26:52
Speaker 11: small business confidence hit a seven year high. Not since
26:55
Speaker 11: President Trump's first term had small business felt so confident
26:59
Speaker 11: in the economy. And that's all thanks to President Trump's
27:01
Speaker 11: economic agenda, which by the way, is a supply side
27:04
Speaker 11: agenda that I know you support. It's free and fair trade,
27:07
Speaker 11: it's low taxes, it's deregulation, it's access to capital. And
27:10
Speaker 11: because of their confidence in twenty twenty five, the fiscal
27:14
Speaker 11: year we just wrapped up twenty seven days ago, the
27:16
Speaker 11: SBA broke through a seventy two year lending record, surpassing
27:21
Speaker 11: forty five billion to eighty five thousand small businesses across
27:25
Speaker 11: this country because they believe in President Trump's economic agenda
27:29
Speaker 11: of drill baby, drill making sure that we have the
27:32
Speaker 11: supply chains we need and restoring American manufacturing. They were
27:36
Speaker 11: quite bullish heading into this shutdown. But look, this shutdown
27:39
Speaker 11: is having the intended effect by the Democrats. They want
27:42
Speaker 11: to hurt Main Street and that's what they're trying to
27:44
Speaker 11: do right now.
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Speaker 10: Well, you make a point. The National Federation of the
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Speaker 10: Independent Business Survey that may be what you're talking about.
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Speaker 10: It did drop. I mean, it was one hundred point
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Speaker 10: eight in August. The last reading is ninety eight point
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Speaker 10: eight in September a year ago was only ninety one
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Speaker 10: point five. But really, I mean, with all the things
28:06
Speaker 10: in the one big beautiful bill, and you're seeing a
28:08
Speaker 10: fabulous stock market. Now these are small businesses, they're not
28:11
Speaker 10: necessarily publicly owned businesses, but I you know, I think
28:15
Speaker 10: the future is very, very bright. You have tremendous tax
28:20
Speaker 10: incentives in that bill. Kelly Leffler, I mean, I want
28:24
Speaker 10: to shut down the end too, and I think the
28:26
Speaker 10: Democrats are all wrong, and we're going to make fun
28:28
Speaker 10: of it in the next segment. But the fact of
28:30
Speaker 10: the matter is the ecomomy's booming and the stock market
28:34
Speaker 10: is telling us that, and I you know, I want
28:36
Speaker 10: you to you're growing at four percent three point nine
28:40
Speaker 10: percent in the second and third quarters according to the
28:42
Speaker 10: Atlanta FED. That's pretty good, don't you think.
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Speaker 1: You listen to Kudler there and what he's saying, as
28:48
Speaker 1: the government shut down drags into a month and it
28:51
Speaker 1: could go to the longest shutdown in history, and yes,
28:54
Speaker 1: the government shutdown is having the intended effects by Democrats.
28:58
Speaker 1: They want to shut down in her small business owners.
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Speaker 1: They want you to not be able to pay for
29:03
Speaker 1: food if you're on food stamps. They want you to
29:06
Speaker 1: suffer so that then maybe you'll decide that somehow this shutdown,
29:10
Speaker 1: which is clearly the Democrat's fault and their plan, will
29:14
Speaker 1: then somehow turn to you blaming the Republicans for it.
29:20
Speaker 1: That is the key here for them. This is what
29:23
Speaker 1: they want to happen. They want you to just get
29:26
Speaker 1: so angry that you finally just say to Republicans, all right,
29:29
Speaker 1: screw it. Give the hostages the Democratic Party what they
29:34
Speaker 1: demand so that I get whatever relief I want right
29:39
Speaker 1: now now. One other thing about this government shutdown that
29:42
Speaker 1: I also think is an important point to make. The
29:45
Speaker 1: Republicans seem to be doing a much better job of
29:50
Speaker 1: explaining this shutdown, why it's happening, and who's behind it
29:56
Speaker 1: than they have done in the past. They seem to
29:58
Speaker 1: be much more focused on it, and the American people
30:02
Speaker 1: seem to understand it now better than they ever have before.
30:06
Speaker 1: A lot of this goes back to what's happening in
30:08
Speaker 1: this country. On another issue, law and order, the Republican
30:12
Speaker 1: Party has an incredible job explaining why law and order
30:17
Speaker 1: is important, why we should make sure that the men
30:21
Speaker 1: and women who are in this country illegally should be
30:24
Speaker 1: found and deported, and how many criminal aliens there are.
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Speaker 1: This subject right now is literally no different than that.
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Speaker 5: This subject is the same thing.
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Speaker 1: You have a Democratic Party that is holding Americans hostage
30:41
Speaker 1: because they lost their power, and when they lost their power,
30:44
Speaker 1: they decided this was the game plan. It is to
30:48
Speaker 1: hurt Americans and try to make you just beg for
30:52
Speaker 1: some sort of relief, even if that means a terrible
30:56
Speaker 1: deal overall for the future of this country and the
30:59
Speaker 1: American people. Which brings us to looking forward, how long
31:04
Speaker 1: will the shutdown last? Honestly, when you're dealing with these
31:08
Speaker 1: types of people that are holding you hostage, there's no
31:11
Speaker 1: way to tell. There's no way to know there's no
31:14
Speaker 1: way to know what they're going to do next, and
31:18
Speaker 1: if they're going to listen to you, the one thing
31:21
Speaker 1: I can tell you is it's time to start getting
31:23
Speaker 1: on the phone, calling your congressman, calling your senators and
31:28
Speaker 1: explaining to them, if they're Republicans, you stand with them,
31:31
Speaker 1: and if they're Democrats voting against reopening the government, that
31:35
Speaker 1: you're going to hold them accountable in the future. I
31:39
Speaker 1: do think the American people are understanding one thing right now.
31:42
Speaker 1: The Democratic Party is not listening to the American voters
31:46
Speaker 1: at all, and when they don't get their way, their
31:49
Speaker 1: goal and objective is to go rogue because they don't
31:53
Speaker 1: respect the laws or the will of the American people.
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