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Video ‘Rises to Level of Sedition' plus Trump’s Health Report Shames Critics and the WH’s One-Week Ultimatum to Maduro · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: The big story that I want to start with today
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Speaker 1: is one that should make many of you frustrated, and
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Speaker 1: that is the Democrat I'm going to call them the
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Speaker 1: Seditious Six. They were trying to create a revolt within
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Speaker 1: the United States Armed Forces against President Donald Trump. This
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Speaker 1: now coming from Brian mass the Republican from Florida. He's
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Speaker 1: also the chairman of the House Florida Fairs Committee. He
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Speaker 1: said the propaganda video from the so called Seditious Six
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Speaker 1: Capitol Hill lawmakers was clearly intentionally an effort to create
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Speaker 1: a revolt within the US Armed Forces. According to the congressman,
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Speaker 1: such an indiscretion rises to the level of sedition under
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Speaker 1: the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Now, he went on
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Speaker 1: Trey Goudi, one of his former colleagues, in Congress's show
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Speaker 1: on Fox News Channel, and I want you to hear
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Speaker 1: what he had to say, not only about this, but
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Speaker 1: about the attack on our men and women in uniform
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Speaker 1: that came days after the Seditious Six, dehumanizing our men
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Speaker 1: and women in uniform, our National guardsmen, and trying to
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Speaker 1: mass being asked the question by Trey Gouty about the
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Speaker 1: shooting in DC and the National Guardsman and then the
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Speaker 1: Traditions six and what their intent truly was.
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Speaker 2: I want to ask you your reaction to the passing
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Speaker 2: of one soldier and the grievous injury to another, leaving
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Speaker 2: your home to protect to other people. I know this
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Speaker 2: impacted you.
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Speaker 3: Specialist Beckstrum gave her life and service to this country.
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Speaker 3: I think we all know that there's nothing that we
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Speaker 3: as a nation can do to repay when a service
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Speaker 3: member is killed in action. But I think we all
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Speaker 3: know there's more that we can do. I've spoken to
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Speaker 3: leadership in the House and I've asked them very specifically,
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Speaker 3: we need to start the tradition that any member of
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Speaker 3: the military killed in action, that we extend that they
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Speaker 3: be give in the opportunity to lie in state.
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Speaker 4: Beneath the dome of our capital.
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Speaker 3: I think that's truly how we show as a nation
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Speaker 3: that we are a grateful nation.
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Speaker 2: Agreed, let me continue with that, and then I promise
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Speaker 2: I'm going to ask you about Ukraine. Arizona Senator Mark
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Speaker 2: Kelly said he had quote given too much to this
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Speaker 2: country to be silenced by bullies who care more about
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Speaker 2: their own power than prosecuting the constitution. Chairman, there are
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Speaker 2: few people still alive who gain more to this country
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Speaker 2: than you did. Do you feel bullied or forced to
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Speaker 2: violate the Constitution.
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Speaker 4: In no way, shape or form.
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Speaker 3: I also just returned from the golf where I was
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Speaker 3: speaking to many many service members down there. I can't
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Speaker 3: say how many, but many service members down there. They
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Speaker 3: couldn't be more proud than to be serving under the
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Speaker 3: Trump administration. Heard from countless of them that had President
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Speaker 3: Trump not one, they were going to exit the military,
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Speaker 3: whether retirement or just get out. They couldn't be more
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Speaker 3: proud to be serving there.
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Speaker 4: As you bring it to.
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Speaker 3: Kelly, despicable other members that did those videos about not
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Speaker 3: adhering to illegal orders despicable members because not one of
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Speaker 3: them was out there saying listen, I'm worried about you
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Speaker 3: as a service member that if you do this action,
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Speaker 3: you may end up in Fort Levenworth, making big rocks
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Speaker 3: into little rocks. None of them gave any examples of that.
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Speaker 3: They wanted one thing and one thing alone. They were
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Speaker 3: trying to create revolt within the United States Armed Forces,
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Speaker 3: which absolutely rises to the level under UCMJ for sedition.
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Speaker 2: Chairman. Wouldn't that be covered your basic training? I mean,
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Speaker 2: why do we need that cringe worthy video.
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Speaker 3: Every member of the military knows that they are responsible
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Speaker 3: for their actions, whether it's something that they decide to
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Speaker 3: do on their own in the heat of combat or
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Speaker 3: whether it is an order that is directed to them.
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Speaker 3: They are well aware that they are responsible for those actions.
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Speaker 3: And again, these individuals that made those that video, they
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Speaker 3: are despicable for what they did in trying to create
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Speaker 3: that revolt within our armed forces, where the job is
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Speaker 3: always and as we solve for Thanksgiving, it's frequently dead
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Speaker 3: that it cost the lives of our service member and
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Speaker 3: that's where they're trying to so despicable.
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Speaker 1: It is very clear that this was done to try
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Speaker 1: to create a revolt within the United States Armed Forces
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Speaker 1: that as he described, it absolutely rises to the level
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Speaker 1: under the UCMJ for sedition. Now the question becomes will
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Speaker 1: there be accountability for this. We also know that the
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Speaker 1: White House is having to play defense as Democrats are
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Speaker 1: coming after Donald Trump with another scandal. This time they're
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Speaker 1: saying that Donald Trump is not healthy, that he's not okay,
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Speaker 1: that something is wrong with Donald Trump. Donald Trump yet
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Speaker 1: again playing chess while the other side's playing checkers, and
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Speaker 1: the White House has come out as all this is
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Speaker 1: going on and said, yeah, we're going to release the
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Speaker 1: perfect Trump MRI result. So I'm not joking. This is
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Speaker 1: now a thing shaming Democrats who spread health trouble rumors
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Speaker 1: the White House releasing the results of President Trump's latest
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Speaker 1: MRI after failed vice presidential candidate Tim Waltz as well
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Speaker 1: as members of the establishment media called for the release
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Speaker 1: of an MRI. The same media that looked you straight
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Speaker 1: in the face and said there was no cognitive decline
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Speaker 1: of Joe Biden. So the establishment media, they jump on board.
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Speaker 1: They've been obsessed about Donald Trump, obsessed about the results.
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Speaker 1: After Trump revealed in October that he had an MRI,
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Speaker 1: which he says at the time came back perfect. This
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Speaker 1: has been a sticking point then for the left. Then
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Speaker 1: you had Governor Waltz even used it as a retort
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Speaker 1: after Trump referred to him as seriously and i'm quoting
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Speaker 1: retarded for his immigration policies in Minneapolis, Saint Paul and
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Speaker 1: the entire state for that matter. The speculation and then
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Speaker 1: went rampant as the left said, let's jump on this
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Speaker 1: and let's say that Donald Trump is trying to hide
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Speaker 1: something white else. Press Secretary Carolina Levitt sang during Monday's
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Speaker 1: press briefing that the team was released in results. As
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Speaker 1: she spoke and she read part of the summary from
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Speaker 1: Trump's physician, as she described the insanity of the left, sang,
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Speaker 1: quote I'll read it for you, and then you'll get
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Speaker 1: it physically as well. Reading from the summary, which explained
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Speaker 1: that Trump got the MRI because men in his age
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Speaker 1: group benefit from a thorough evaluation of cardiovascor and abdomamental health.
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Speaker 1: In all, the Commander in Chief's cardiovascor image was perfectly
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Speaker 1: normal quote unquote, and his cardiovascor system shows excellent health.
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Speaker 1: His abdominal imaging also was described as quote perfectly normal.
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Speaker 1: As part of the President's comprehensive executive physical advance, imaging
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Speaker 1: was performed because men his age group benefit from a
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Speaker 1: thorough evaluation of the cardiovascal and abdominal health. The purpose
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Speaker 1: of this imaging is preventative to identify any issues early,
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Speaker 1: confirm overall health, and ensure the present maintains long term
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Speaker 1: vitality and function, something we all could have wished for
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Speaker 1: from Joe Biden. President Trump's cardiovascar image was perfectly normal,
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Speaker 1: no evidence of ulterial narrowing, impairing blood flow, or abnoralities
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Speaker 1: in his heart or major vessels. The heart chambers are
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Speaker 1: normal in size, the vessel walls appear smooth and healthy,
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Speaker 1: and there are no signs of inflation or clotting. Over All,
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Speaker 1: his cardiovascular system shows excellent health. His abdominal imaging is
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Speaker 1: also perfectly normal. All major organs appear very healthy and
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Speaker 1: well perfused. Everything evaluated is functioning within normal limits with
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Speaker 1: no acute or chronic concerns. Quote. This level of detailed
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Speaker 1: assessment is standard for an executive physical at President Trump's age,
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Speaker 1: and confirm that he remained an excellent overall health. The
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Speaker 1: summary ads now. This release again comes days after Democrats,
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Speaker 1: led by Waltz emerges, one of the latest Democrats to
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Speaker 1: call for the MRI results after Trump insulted him. In
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Speaker 1: a recent True social post, Trump said, hundreds of thousands
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Speaker 1: of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once
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Speaker 1: great state of Minnesota. Somali and gangs are roving the
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Speaker 1: streets looking for prey, as our wonderful people stay locked
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Speaker 1: in their apartments and houses, hoping against hope that they
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Speaker 1: will be left alone, Trump said, before calling the Democratic
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Speaker 1: governor by name, saying, quote, this seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota,
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Speaker 1: Tim Waltz says nothing either. Through fear and competence or both,
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Speaker 1: while the worst congressman slash woman in the country, Elamo
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Speaker 1: mar always wrapped in her swaddling hijab. He continued on.
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Speaker 1: Of course, the left lost their minds with the presence tweet,
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Speaker 1: rather than defend his actual position, by the way, with substance,
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Speaker 1: what did Waltz respond with? Release the MRII results, which
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Speaker 1: is exactly what Donald Trump and the White House did. Now,
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Speaker 1: Waltz finds himself knee deep in controversy after hundreds, by
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Speaker 1: the way of state government workers have now come forward
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Speaker 1: accusing him of being responsible for a massive fraud in Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: I want to bring you to another important story that
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Speaker 1: deals with Governor of Minnesota Waltz. Hundreds of Minnesota government
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Speaker 1: workers have now accused the state's leftist radical governor, former
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Speaker 1: VP kenn At Tim Walls, of being responsible for the
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Speaker 1: biggest fraud case in the state's history. What is Tim
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Speaker 1: Waltz saying about it? Oh, well, he's saying Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: is insane and he wants his MRI release. Switch the
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Speaker 1: President did now. The statement came from over four hundred
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Speaker 1: individuals in the Minnesota Department of Health and Human Services employees,
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Speaker 1: and the group claimed that it alerted Governor Tim Waltz,
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Speaker 1: the Democrat in charge, to the fraud in the early
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Speaker 1: stages of its discovery, but he allegedly retaliated against the whistleblowers.
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Speaker 1: The statement they put out said this, Tim Waltz is
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Speaker 1: one hundred percent responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We
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Speaker 1: let Tim Waltz know of fraud early on, hoping for
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Speaker 1: a partnership and stopping fraud, but no, we got the
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Speaker 1: opposite response. Governor Waltz systematically retaliated against the whistleblowers, using
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Speaker 1: monitoring threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports.
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Speaker 1: Instead of partnership, we got the full weight of retaliation
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Speaker 1: by Tim Waltz, certain DFL members and an indifferent mainstream media.
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Speaker 1: It's scary, isolating, and left us wondering who can we
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Speaker 1: turn to. In addition to retaliating against whistleblowers, Tim Waltz
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Speaker 1: disempowered the Office of Legislative Auditor, allowing agencies to disregard
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Speaker 1: their audit findings and their guidance. Media and politicians supporting
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Speaker 1: Tim Waltz or the DFL agenda attacked the whistleblowers who
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Speaker 1: are trying to raise red flags on the fraudulent activities.
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Speaker 1: The New York Times even has a headline now that
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Speaker 1: says how fraud swamp Minnesota's social services system on Tim
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Speaker 1: Waltz's watch. Prosecutors say members of the Somali diaspora, a
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Speaker 1: group with growing political power, were largely responsible. President Trump
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Speaker 1: has drawn national intention to the scandal amid his crackdown
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Speaker 1: on immigration. Now, again, what I just read you is
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Speaker 1: from the actual New York Times. Not only that, but
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Speaker 1: a damninge on Tim waltz failure to stop the fraud
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Speaker 1: consuming Minnesota. Quote. No one was doing anything about the
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Speaker 1: red flags. It was like someone was stealing money from
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Speaker 1: the cookie jar and they kept refilling it. That is
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Speaker 1: again a line from the New York Times article. Now,
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Speaker 1: Somali's in Minnesota allegedly took millions and millions and millions
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Speaker 1: of dollars in state medicaid autism care programs. We talked
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Speaker 1: about this recently on the show, and then they sent
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Speaker 1: it to their native country and it's terrorist organizations. Again,
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Speaker 1: something that you knew about weeks ago if you listen
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Speaker 1: to this show. Breitbart News even report in July that
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Speaker 1: nearly one hundred autism clinics in Minnesota were being investigated
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Speaker 1: for fraudulently billing medicaid for treatment of children supposedly diagnosed
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Speaker 1: with autism, most of it in connection with the rampantly
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Speaker 1: corrupt Somali community around Minneapolis, but the fraud is far
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Speaker 1: more widespread, with far more money involved than was previously reported,
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Speaker 1: all of which has been something that the Governor, Tim
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Speaker 1: Waltz knew about. The House Majority whip Tom Emmer, a
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Speaker 1: Republican from Minnesota, has since called for an investigation to
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Speaker 1: the millions of taxpayer dollars state taxpayer money literally going
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Speaker 1: directly to a terrorist group linked to Al Qaeda known
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Speaker 1: as al Shabab, again something we expose on this show.
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Speaker 1: And despite the evidence of fraud, State Democrats have continued
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Speaker 1: to support the Somali community why because they need their
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Speaker 1: votes now. In its post on x on Saturday, the
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Speaker 1: Minnesota DHS continued criticizing the governor, stating quote Fundamentally, Tim
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Speaker 1: Waltz is dishonest, lax ethics and integrity, has poor leadership abilities,
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Speaker 1: and has never taken any accountability for his role in
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Speaker 1: this fraud where tax dours went directly to terrorists, which
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Speaker 1: brings us to the media halfway covering this. NBC News
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Speaker 1: on Meet the Press had Tim Waltz on on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: and I want you to listen to how softbally they
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Speaker 1: were with him, and how they let Tim Waltz in essence,
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Speaker 1: not answer the question and somehow go back to attacking
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump when the fraud that has taken place in
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Speaker 1: a state was helping terrorists organizations.
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Speaker 5: Listen carefully, well, speaking of the Somali community, President Trump
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Speaker 5: is targeting them and your state and party, citing fraud
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Speaker 5: is the reason for his crackdown. Dozens of people of
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Speaker 5: East African descent have been charged, convicted, and sentenced for
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Speaker 5: stealing more than a billion dollars in taxpayer money from
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Speaker 5: government programs during COVID. As you know, Governor, that is
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Speaker 5: more than Minnesota spends each year to run its Department
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Speaker 5: of Corrections. So I want to give you a chance
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Speaker 5: to respond to this. Do you take responsibility for failing
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Speaker 5: to stop this fraud in your state?
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Speaker 6: Well, certainly I take responsible. If we're putting people in jail.
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Speaker 6: Governors don't get to just talk theoretically.
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Speaker 4: We have to solve problems.
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Speaker 6: And I will note it's not just Somali's Minnesota is
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Speaker 6: a generous state. Minnesota's a prosperous days, a well run
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Speaker 6: state or triple A bond rated. But that attracts criminals.
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Speaker 6: Those people are going to jail. We're doing everything we can,
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Speaker 6: but to demonize an entire community on the actions of
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Speaker 6: a few, it's lazy. And as you heard Senator Kelly say,
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Speaker 6: this president has cut a lot of inspector generals. He's
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Speaker 6: cut programs that could help us tackle us on.
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Speaker 4: So we are we'll take it on. We'll put folks
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Speaker 4: in jail.
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Speaker 6: I don't care what your nationality is, I don't care
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Speaker 6: who your religion is, your color, if you're committing crimes.
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Speaker 6: These are programs that were meant to serve students with autism,
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Speaker 6: to housing, and to making sure people had enough to eat.
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Speaker 6: There's a reason Minnesota ranks as the top lowest childhood poverty,
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Speaker 6: best place for children to live. People are taking advantage
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Speaker 6: that they're going to prison. That is totally disconnected with
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Speaker 6: demonizing an entire group of people who came here fleeing
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Speaker 6: civil war and created a vibrant community that makes Minnesota
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Speaker 6: in this country better.
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Speaker 4: But that's Donald Trump deflec demonies.
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Speaker 6: Come up with no solutions he's not going to help
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Speaker 6: fix anything on fraud. My god, there's a big difference
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Speaker 6: between fraud and corruption, and corruption is something he knows
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Speaker 6: about well.
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Speaker 4: The governor.
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Speaker 1: You notice she didn't interdrupt him one time. She let
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Speaker 1: him put out the lives and the propaganda. He talks
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Speaker 1: about people getting arrested when he was the one allowing
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Speaker 1: the money and the whistleblowers were targeted. Four hundred workers
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Speaker 1: have now come out against the governor. Why did he
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Speaker 1: not act? It's very clear he needs the Somali votes.
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Speaker 1: The Democratic Party has sold their soul to the Somali
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Speaker 1: voting block in Minnesota, and it's a large voting block,
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Speaker 1: make no mistake about it. And so he was willing
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Speaker 1: to look the other way while the fraud was happening
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Speaker 1: because he thought it was worse politically. What's scary is
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Speaker 1: that guy was very close to becoming the vice president
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Speaker 1: of the United States of America. And what's even more
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Speaker 1: damning about what I just told you is the fact
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Speaker 1: that they knew where the money was going. It was
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Speaker 1: going to terrorists, The money was leaving the country. The
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Speaker 1: number of students that had autism and smally community was
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Speaker 1: absolutely insane. Compared to the rest of the world. The
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Speaker 1: statistics showed that there was a huge fraud. Everyone knew
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Speaker 1: that there was a huge fraud. More than four hundred
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Speaker 1: people that also, by the way, knew. This was not
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Speaker 1: a political thing. It was clearly a national security issue
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Speaker 1: and an issue of just corruption in a community that
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Speaker 1: the Democrats said, no, no, no, we need them, we need
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Speaker 1: their votes. So here we are Democrats saying, hey, we
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Speaker 1: actually think somehow you're about person. Mister President, you're on hedge.
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Speaker 1: We demand your MRI. That's their response to corruption and
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Speaker 1: fraud in Minnesota. Well, the President released it and says,
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Speaker 1: now it's your turn to answer questions. I'm just fine.
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Speaker 1: The question now is who will go to jail and
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Speaker 1: will there be any accountability at all for any of
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Speaker 1: those involved, that includes the governor in this investigation. We'll
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Speaker 1: keep you updated on it that, I can promise you.
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Speaker 1: President Trump on November the twenty first, had a fifteen
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Speaker 1: minute phone call with Venezuela and President Nicholas Maduro. You
19:41
Speaker 1: may not know this because the holidays and the media
19:44
Speaker 1: really didn't report it much. Well, we now know what
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Speaker 1: was said during that phone call. The President told Maduro
19:52
Speaker 1: he had one week to leave Venezuela with his family.
19:57
Speaker 1: Trump said he could go to a destination of his
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Speaker 1: choice and would be given a US guaranteed safe exit
20:05
Speaker 1: for himself in close relatives if he complied. The ultimatum
20:11
Speaker 1: has been summarized publicly as leave now, or faced the
20:15
Speaker 1: consequences and the flee of the country, or in essence,
20:19
Speaker 1: faced military action. Maduro's response in the call is a
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Speaker 1: little bit different. Reuters reported that Maduro pushed for full
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Speaker 1: amnesty in exchange for leaving legal immunity and lifting of
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Speaker 1: sanctions for himself, as family, and more than one hundred
20:38
Speaker 1: officials dropping US and international cases, including at the ICC.
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Speaker 1: Trump rejected those demands and did not agree to any
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Speaker 1: broad amnesty package. But what Trump offered compared to what
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Speaker 1: he refused, is what really we should be talking about.
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Speaker 1: The President giving a real olive branch, giving safe passage
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Speaker 1: for Maduro and his immediate family if he steps down
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Speaker 1: and leaves quickly. What was refused is the amnesty and
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Speaker 1: lifting the sanctions on Maduro and over one hundred officials
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Speaker 1: accused of corruption, human rights abuses, and drug trafficking. Maduro's
21:19
Speaker 1: idea that his vice president could run an interim government,
21:23
Speaker 1: while he exit was also floated. Well, now we know
21:28
Speaker 1: that there was an ultimatum, and the ultimatum has now passed.
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Speaker 1: Multiple reports say the one week window ran out technically
21:37
Speaker 1: on Friday, November the twenty eighth. On Saturday. What we
21:42
Speaker 1: know is airspace move after the deadline. After that deadline passed,
21:48
Speaker 1: it was announced that Venezuelan airspace was closed and warned
21:52
Speaker 1: all airlines, pilots, drug traffickers and people to treat the
21:56
Speaker 1: airspace over and around Venezuela as closed completely. That coming
22:02
Speaker 1: from the US government, then there's been the public fallout.
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Speaker 1: Maduro disappeared from public view for a few days. He
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Speaker 1: then reappeared in Caracas on the thirtieth, giving a defiant speech,
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Speaker 1: claiming then as well as economy is indestructible and leading
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Speaker 1: pro government chance, the reality is that's not the case
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Speaker 1: on the ground. Trump also confirmed he spoke with Maduro,
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Speaker 1: but does not publicly spell out what the call actually
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Speaker 1: had in details, and most specifics came from leagues to
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Speaker 1: Reuters and the Miami Herald as well. Then something else
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Speaker 1: happened December first and into the night of the second.
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Speaker 1: What we know is there's been major pressure and military
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Speaker 1: as a real possibility. We also know that a large
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Speaker 1: US naval presence in the Caribbean and nearby waters has
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Speaker 1: been going on as part of a month long pressure campaign.
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Speaker 1: Members of Congress characterize this as the Panama two point zero,
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Speaker 1: saying Trump is taking the last responsible steps before a
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Speaker 1: potential operation to Alice Maduro, hoping that he is gone
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Speaker 1: by Christmas. As the latest reporting coming from the New
23:17
Speaker 1: York Post, which brings me to the bigger question. There
23:22
Speaker 1: are many Americans that do not want to invade. They
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Speaker 1: don't want this to turn into some sort of war.
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Speaker 1: But there's also the national security aspect of this. I
23:33
Speaker 1: went on Newsmax to talk about this earlier, the politics
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Speaker 1: of this and what it means when it comes to
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Speaker 1: the American people. I want you to take a listen
23:43
Speaker 1: to what I had to say on Finnerity Show about
23:45
Speaker 1: exactly that.
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Speaker 7: Americans want to happen here. Do they want regime change
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Speaker 7: in Venezuela or do they think Donald Trump should be
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Speaker 7: focused on, you know, being the affordability president and being
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Speaker 7: focused on domestic issues here.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Look, I think that's important.
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Speaker 1: But I think if you understand the number of people
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Speaker 1: that are dying from fetanyl overdoses, and how much of
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Speaker 1: that's coming through Venezuela. It's actually the top of the list.
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Speaker 1: If you look at just the numbers we have from
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, you had about one hundred and five
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Speaker 1: thousand overdoses in this country. Seventy four thousand of those
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Speaker 1: were from fetanyl. So this is what is killing Americans.
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Speaker 1: The number one killer of people forty three and under
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Speaker 1: in this country right now is overdose from fetanyl. So
24:27
Speaker 1: this is killing countless Americans each and every day. That's
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Speaker 1: why it matters, and if the present talks about it
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Speaker 1: that way, not just a regime change, but I'm trying
24:36
Speaker 1: to say the lives of people that have no intent
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Speaker 1: of overdosing and dying from fetanol. It's kinding a lot
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Speaker 1: of kids on college campuses, high school kids, and kids
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Speaker 1: out of college. It's the number one killer of young people.
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Speaker 1: That's how you frame it to the American people, and
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Speaker 1: I think that's why the present understands this is a
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Speaker 1: national security threat to us.
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Speaker 8: It is a threat to our.
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Speaker 1: Young people and it has to stop.
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Speaker 4: And he's giving him a chance to get out.
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Speaker 1: This is not have to get ugly. You can flee
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Speaker 1: your country, but we're not going to lie to keep
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Speaker 1: killing Americans at record rates.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, death sentence though if he does flee, right general.
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Speaker 8: Pretty much that's what I see happening in his future regardless.
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Speaker 8: But you know, to what Ben's saying is, since nineteen
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Speaker 8: eighty we've had over one point five million deaths from
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Speaker 8: the illicit drug trade. And what President Trump is going
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Speaker 8: after is the whole, the whole shebang here, Rob He's
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Speaker 8: tapping into the cartels which go to every illicit activity
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Speaker 8: on this planet, shadow banking, illegal banking, all the money laundering,
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Speaker 8: all the trafficking, and on and on and on.
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Speaker 7: General, just quickly, though United States is not of a
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Speaker 7: great record with regime change, think about Haiti, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan,
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Speaker 7: the Sudan. It creates a power vacuum. Who takes over
25:42
Speaker 7: in Venezuela. What happens after that, Well, you've.
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Speaker 8: Got a lot of billionaires there who are going to
25:47
Speaker 8: go into a period of chaos because they're going to
25:49
Speaker 8: lose a lot of assets with our strikes. Cuba is
25:51
Speaker 8: probably going to go into chaos, but the danger will
25:54
Speaker 8: be here on Main Street because that's where the terrorists hesblah.
25:58
Speaker 8: The cartel members. They're on every main street in America.
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Speaker 8: So we have to be alert, keep our head on
26:03
Speaker 8: a swivel, and back up our first responders.
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Speaker 7: And as far as we know, Maduro is still in
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Speaker 7: power right now in Venezuela. Ben By the way, I
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Speaker 7: think this is a domestic issue. I completely agree with you.
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Speaker 7: At one point, under Joe Biden all time high three hundred,
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Speaker 7: the number was two eighty seven overdose deats per day
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Speaker 7: in this country. A lot of that was coming from Venezuela,
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Speaker 7: a lot from China. No one ever brings up China.
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Speaker 1: This is a political question, it's also a national security question,
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Speaker 1: and I think it's pretty clear the President the United
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Speaker 1: States of America is making his case to all Americans.
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Speaker 1: This isn't about regime change as much as it is
26:38
Speaker 1: about stopping the terraces from flooding this country with drugs.
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Speaker 1: I think the presidents also sending a very clear message
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Speaker 1: to other countries around the world, you better stop funneling
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Speaker 1: drugs into the United States of America. This is also
26:54
Speaker 1: clearly a point that the President's trying to make to
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Speaker 1: Mexico that you could be next. Do not mess with us.
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Speaker 1: Stop allowing for the drugs to flow into your country
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Speaker 1: and then into the United States of America. I think
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Speaker 1: it's finally trying to send a message as well to
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Speaker 1: the cartels in Mexico that if you continue to send
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Speaker 1: your drugs into this country, we may come after you
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Speaker 1: in Mexico the same exact way that we went after
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Speaker 1: Maduro in Venezuela. So is it worth it? I think
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Speaker 1: the answer is overwhelmingly yes. Is this really about regime
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Speaker 1: change in general? No, this is about safety of Americans.
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Speaker 1: The number one as I mentioned there in that conversation
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Speaker 1: killer of young people in this country, those under the
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Speaker 1: age of forty, is overdose three hundred a day on
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Speaker 1: average in this country are being killed because of people
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Speaker 1: like Maduro who are flooding this country with pills laced
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Speaker 1: with fetnyl. This is the reason why the President's doing it,
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Speaker 1: and I think most Americans, once they understand this complex issue,
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Speaker 1: will continue to support and back the President, whether it's
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Speaker 1: going after these drugs smuggling boats, or making it clear
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Speaker 1: to people like Maduro that you cannot keep the power
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Speaker 1: you have if you're flooding the United States of America
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Speaker 1: with drugs that are killing Americans in the process. Don't
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