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Inside Trump’s Memphis Crime Blitz plus How Big Insurance Is Squeezing Patients & Taxpayers · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Crime in America.
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  Speaker 2: It is dropping, and it's not happening by accident. It's
• 0:06
  Speaker 2: happening because, for the first time in years, there is
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  Speaker 2: a present in the White House who made one thing
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  Speaker 2: clear from day one. We're going to go back to policing.
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  Speaker 2: We are going to enforce the laws that we have
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  Speaker 2: on the books, and we're going to take our streets
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  Speaker 2: back so that all Americans can feel safe. Now, let's
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  Speaker 2: talk facts, because the numbers are truly incredible and they
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  Speaker 2: don't lie. Across the country, major cities are reporting double
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  Speaker 2: digit drops and violent crime in many liberal metro areas.
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  Speaker 2: Homicides are down significantly from their recent peaks, property crime
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  Speaker 2: stabilizing after years of spikes in some cities. We're seeing
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  Speaker 2: murder rates down ten to twenty percent year over year.
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  Speaker 2: Shootings are declining as targeted enforcement is ramped up under
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  Speaker 2: Trump's leadership, and law enforcement officials are pointing to some
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  Speaker 2: very specific things that are allowing for all this to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Number one, a shift in federal posture that all because
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  Speaker 2: of the president. Also a shift in priorities from federal
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement, and then the biggest part, a shift in
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  Speaker 2: leadership from the White House. All the way down. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let's be honest. This didn't start in a vacuum. For years,
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  Speaker 2: we were told police should be cut back, enforcement should
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  Speaker 2: be reduced, and criminals should be given more leniency and
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  Speaker 2: more second, third, fourth, fifth, and six chances. What happened
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  Speaker 2: under the Democrats' plan. Crime surged, cities became less safe,
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  Speaker 2: communities paid the price, and Americans lost their lives. Then
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  Speaker 2: President Trump came in and flipped the script. From day one,
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  Speaker 2: the Trump administration said we will always back the blue.
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  Speaker 2: That wasn't just a slow it literally became their policy.
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  Speaker 2: Federal support for local police departments has increased. Prosecutors were
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  Speaker 2: encouraged to pursue violent offenders aggressively, and repeat offenders were
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  Speaker 2: targeted instead of being released. And just as important, police
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  Speaker 2: morales started going back up in this country. When officers
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  Speaker 2: know the White House had their back, they got to
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  Speaker 2: do their jobs more efficiently, and criminals knew it now.
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  Speaker 2: Targeting the worst offenders was also part of the plan.
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  Speaker 2: It was another major shift going after the most dangerous
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  Speaker 2: criminals first, violent repeat offenders, gang members, drug traffickers, illegal
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  Speaker 2: immigrants with hardcore criminal records. That is where ice operations
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  Speaker 2: and federal partnerships came into play. Instead of ignoring the problem,
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  Speaker 2: the administration leaned in arresting thousands of high risk individuals,
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  Speaker 2: removing threats from communities, sending a message that lawlessness will
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  Speaker 2: not be tolerated. Now, Trump's message had always been simple
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  Speaker 2: law and order. He ran on it, and President Trump
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  Speaker 2: has been consistent saying we will not allow our cities
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  Speaker 2: to be taken over by crime. And he's emphasized that
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  Speaker 2: safety is not political, it's fundamental to a great country,
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  Speaker 2: saying every American deserves to live in a safe community.
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  Speaker 2: And that message is clearly resonating with many Americans who
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  Speaker 2: are living in really high crime neighborhoods. To law enforcement,
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  Speaker 2: the President said, hey, I got you, do your job.
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  Speaker 1: We support you.
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  Speaker 2: And to the criminals, the President said, the rules are
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  Speaker 2: being enforced again, so get ready because we're coming for you.
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  Speaker 2: So is it working. Yes, crime rates have dropped significantly.
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  Speaker 2: And if you want to look at one example of that,
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  Speaker 2: look at what the President did in Memphis, Tennessee on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: He said, we've fixed the Memphis crime problem. That obviously
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  Speaker 2: is my hometown. And President Trump declared on Monday that
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  Speaker 2: the crime problem has been solved through the Memphis Safe
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  Speaker 2: Task Force.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Trump's comments came during a Memphis Task Force roundtable where
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  Speaker 2: he highlighted high levels of crime in the city of
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  Speaker 2: the year he returned to the Oval office.
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  Speaker 1: Here's part of what the President had to say.
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  Speaker 3: But for years prior to our involvement, Memphis had become
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  Speaker 3: known for something else, being the murder capital of the USA.
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  Speaker 4: Then not a good title.
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  Speaker 3: It was averaging far more than one murder per day,
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  Speaker 3: with a crime rate higher than Columbia, Mexico City, or
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  Speaker 3: Baghdad in the year I shouldn't be saying this, say
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  Speaker 3: because but here's a good news. It's been fixed, all right.
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  Speaker 3: I hate to say this because it's so negative. That's
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  Speaker 3: so negative. In the year before I took off as
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  Speaker 3: Memphis so more than twelve thousand, five hundred violent assaults,
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  Speaker 3: four hundred and twenty nine rapes, and seven thousand, six
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  Speaker 3: hundred burglar is an armed Romine Roberts, and I mean
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  Speaker 3: it was and getting worse. This catastrophe was a result
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  Speaker 3: of years of local politicians, judges, and prosecutors who sided
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  Speaker 3: with violent criminals over law abiding citizens.
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  Speaker 2: Over law abiding citizens. It was an average far more
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  Speaker 2: than one murder per day. That is what the people
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  Speaker 2: at Memphis were dealing with, with a crime rate higher
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  Speaker 2: than Columbia, Mexico City, or even Baghdad. That's something that
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  Speaker 2: the media never wanted you to know.
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  Speaker 1: He said.
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  Speaker 2: Crime levels were the products of years of local politicians, judges,
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  Speaker 2: and prosecutors who sided with the violent criminals over the
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  Speaker 2: law abiding citizens. Fox thirteen Memphis report on March eighteenth
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  Speaker 2: that overall crime in the city is down forty three
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  Speaker 2: percent compared to the same period in twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: before Trump Institute did the task force. Meanwhile, the White
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  Speaker 2: House shared figures Monday underscoring the stark drop in specific
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  Speaker 2: crime categories. Motor vehicle thefts down sixty seven percent, robberies
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  Speaker 2: in Memphis down fifty one percent, sexual assaults down thirty
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  Speaker 2: eight percent, homicides are down thirty five percent, burglaries are
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  Speaker 2: down thirty two percent, and aggravated assaults are down thirty
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  Speaker 2: one percent. Now Trump announced back in September efforts to
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  Speaker 2: crack down on crime in Memphis on the heels of
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  Speaker 2: his immediate success in dealing with crime in Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 2: On September fifteenth, he signed a memo establishing the Memphis
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  Speaker 2: Task Force and what happened, well, it's truly incredible.
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  Speaker 1: The numbers don't lie.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what the President had to say from the Oval
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  Speaker 2: Office when he started this back in September.
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  Speaker 5: Today, at the request of Governor bis Lee of Tennessee,
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  Speaker 5: who's standing with us, as you know, I'm signing a
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  Speaker 5: Presidential memorandum to establish the Memphis Safe Task Force.
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  Speaker 4: And it's very important because of the crime that's going on,
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  Speaker 4: not only in Memphis in many cities that we're going
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  Speaker 4: to take care of all of them step by step,
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  Speaker 4: just like we did in DC. We have virtually no
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  Speaker 4: crime in DC right now, and we're going to keep
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  Speaker 4: it that way.
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  Speaker 5: So our nation's capital.
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  Speaker 6: We're going to keep it that way, or we're going
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  Speaker 6: to federalize it if we had to, but we don't
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  Speaker 6: have to anymore because it's in such great share. This
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  Speaker 6: task Force will be a replica of our extraordinarily successful
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  Speaker 6: efforts here, and you'll see it's a lot of the
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  Speaker 6: same thing. Although the numbers here are really something, they're
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  Speaker 6: really bad.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 6: We did send FBI in about four months ago to
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  Speaker 6: work and it brought some of the numbers down and
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  Speaker 6: they did a great job, and we're sending in the
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  Speaker 6: big force.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you got to ask yourself this question, why would
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  Speaker 2: the President United States of America do something like this
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  Speaker 2: in liberal cities, Because he truly believes that every American
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  Speaker 2: has the right to be safe. He said, it's very
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  Speaker 2: important because the crime that's going on not only in Memphis,
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  Speaker 2: in many cities, and we're going to take care of
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  Speaker 2: all of them step by step, just like we did
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  Speaker 2: in DC. Trump said all of this as he was
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  Speaker 2: standing by the Governor of Tennessee, Bill Lee, Senator Marsha Blackburn,
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  Speaker 2: and Bill Haggerty. Making it clear that we are moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: We have virtually no crime in DC right now, the
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  Speaker 2: President reminded the country, and we're going to keep it
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  Speaker 2: that way. He added, it's our nation's capital. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to keep it that way, or we're going to federalize
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  Speaker 2: it if we had to, but we don't have to
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  Speaker 2: anymore because it's in such great shape.
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  Speaker 1: Now. If you're an American.
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  Speaker 2: And it doesn't matter where you live right now, you
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  Speaker 2: should be proud of the President United States of America
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  Speaker 2: pulling this off so quickly. From a meeting in the
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  Speaker 2: Oval Office in September to massive reductions in crime come March.
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  Speaker 1: That is truly historic.
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  Speaker 2: Usually this is something politicians say take years or multiple
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  Speaker 2: election cycles. The President's doing it in a matter of months.
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  Speaker 2: Why because the President said to law enforcement, we have
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  Speaker 2: your back, do your job. And the President also made
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  Speaker 2: it clear we're not leaving. We're going to continue to
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  Speaker 2: be involved in Memphis and other cities, and there are
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  Speaker 2: more cities that we're going to be targeting soon. So
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  Speaker 2: Democrats can say all they want to that they hate
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  Speaker 2: President Trump, but the American people, it's pretty clear they're
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  Speaker 2: happy with what the President's doing right now.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back. It has the Ben Ferguson Show. It is
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  Speaker 1: nice to have you with us.
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  Speaker 2: There is a lot of waste fraud abuse that we
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  Speaker 2: know about that is in our government. We're witnessing a
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  Speaker 2: lot of it being exposed right now in California, in
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota and New York. We've seen it with a number
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  Speaker 2: of hospice offices that are in one little office building,
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  Speaker 2: for example in California. But there's also ways fraud abuse
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  Speaker 2: that is affecting you directly, and it deals with healthcare,
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  Speaker 2: health insurance in general. Joining me now to talk about
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  Speaker 2: that and it's an important issue for so many Americans
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  Speaker 2: with rising costs.
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  Speaker 1: Is Wendell Porter.
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  Speaker 2: He's a former healthcare executive and the executive editor of
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  Speaker 2: Healthcare Uncovered.
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  Speaker 1: Is on substack. You should check it out, Winde.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you taking some time to come on the
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  Speaker 2: show and let's talk about this now. There is a
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  Speaker 2: lot of frustration, and the presidents even talked about this
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  Speaker 2: with transparency and billing and things like that, but it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't seem to be getting better yet for the consumer.
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  Speaker 7: We need to go beyond that. And I think the
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  Speaker 7: president realizes that he's in the recent past, in the
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  Speaker 7: past few weeks, he's called insurance companies, big health insurance
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  Speaker 7: companies like the ones that I work for, Humana and
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  Speaker 7: Signa and a few others, big bad, money sucking companies.
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  Speaker 7: And he's exactly right. These companies are are anything but
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  Speaker 7: transparent in the way they do business, and as a consequence,
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  Speaker 7: they've been ripping off taxpayers for many years in many
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  Speaker 7: different ways. They have also grown to be these enormous corporations,
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  Speaker 7: these giant conglomerates that a lot of lawmakers that at
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  Speaker 7: both the state and federal levels, Republicans taking the lead
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  Speaker 7: but working with Democrats to address that and try to
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  Speaker 7: root out this fraud that's just so inherent in big
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  Speaker 7: insurance companies these days.
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  Speaker 2: It really is a big problem, as you mentioned. And
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  Speaker 2: the question now is what should Americans listening right now
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  Speaker 2: be advocating for. What should they be calling their Congress
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  Speaker 2: and their centers and saying, this is what I'm asking for,
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  Speaker 2: this is what we need, this is what we want.
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  Speaker 7: They should? They should if it's if we're focused on
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  Speaker 7: Washington One built in particular, that has been recently introduced
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  Speaker 7: by Senator Josh Hawley. The introduced it, believe or not
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  Speaker 7: with Elizabeth Warren. Would I think it's great, got big medicine.
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  Speaker 7: It would require these big conglomerates to be broken up.
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  Speaker 7: And it's something that Congressman Buddy Carter, a Republican pharmacist
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  Speaker 7: who's a member of Congress from South Georgia, has been
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  Speaker 7: advocating for breaking up United Health Group in particular. But
• 12:16
  Speaker 7: all these big companies United CVS, which owns Signa and
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  Speaker 7: also a Signal where I used to work, owns express Scripts,
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  Speaker 7: they're being targeted by and rightfully so, by lawmakers. And
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  Speaker 7: in Tennessee, I just wrote a piece this morning about
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  Speaker 7: a legislation that was introduced by a Republican from my
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  Speaker 7: hometown of Kingsport, Tennessee, that would require CVS to divest
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  Speaker 7: some of its holdings. That company not only owns nine thousand,
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  Speaker 7: more than nine thousand retail stores drug stores around the country,
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  Speaker 7: it also owns Etna, which is a big health insurance
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  Speaker 7: company and a big pharmacy benefit manager called care Mark.
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  Speaker 7: And it's got a lock on so much of what
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  Speaker 7: we spend on healthcare. And lawmakers, both, like I said,
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  Speaker 7: in National and other state capitals and in Washington are
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  Speaker 7: addressing that. And that's what I would have your listeners
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  Speaker 7: encourage them to do, is to call their lawmakers and
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  Speaker 7: support those those bills that will call for the breakup
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  Speaker 7: of these giant corporations.
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  Speaker 2: You know, one of the things that the President did
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  Speaker 2: recently was trump our Acts, and it was amazing how
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  Speaker 2: much he was able to lower the price of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: of these of these drugs that people need, many of
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  Speaker 2: them life saving drugs that they need, just by putting
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  Speaker 2: pressure in saying no, you're going to give us favored
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  Speaker 2: nation status. I feel like a lot of what you're
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  Speaker 2: talking about right now is just pure political will. If
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  Speaker 2: the American people know what to advocate for and refuse
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  Speaker 2: to accept the way things are being done now, then
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  Speaker 2: there can be real changes.
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  Speaker 1: Am I wrong?
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  Speaker 7: No, You're exactly right, And I'm seeing that develop seeing
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  Speaker 7: it for the first time. I think, as long as
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  Speaker 7: I've been working in politics and healthcare and business, more
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  Speaker 7: and more Americas waking up to realize how they're being
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  Speaker 7: ripped off, and how these big corporations are at the
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  Speaker 7: heart of are being ripped off and at the heart
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  Speaker 7: of waste, fraud and abuse. Encouraged. I'm optimistic because with
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  Speaker 7: more and more people are experiencing how they are not
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  Speaker 7: only being ripped off, but how these companies are refusing
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  Speaker 7: to approve coveries for procedures that their doctors says they need,
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  Speaker 7: but also the role that they play in ever increasing
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  Speaker 7: pharmaceutical prices. The President, as you noted, start trump RX,
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  Speaker 7: which is circumventing to a large extent the role that
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  Speaker 7: some of these companies, these big insurans are playing. But
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  Speaker 7: they have become these giant middlemen in the pharmacy supply chain,
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  Speaker 7: and they as they called pharmacy benefit managers, and they're
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  Speaker 7: sucking more money out of the pharmacy supply chain than
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  Speaker 7: even the drug makers are getting, and certainly more than
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  Speaker 7: pharmacists are getting. So I am seeing a lot of
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  Speaker 7: attention and I'm encouraged that we could see some action.
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  Speaker 2: Finally, for people that are listening right now, where can
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  Speaker 2: they get more information on this as it continues to
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  Speaker 2: unfold that they can also, you know, make phone calls
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  Speaker 2: and advocate for Obviously you're the executivector of Healthcare uncovered
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  Speaker 2: on sub sect, but where else are there great resources
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  Speaker 2: for them?
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  Speaker 7: One of my nonprofit organizations, a nonprofit I lead, is
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  Speaker 7: called the Center for Health and Democracy. You can check
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  Speaker 7: there for information. But like we were talking, I would
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  Speaker 7: really encourage people to get information about Josh Hawley's bill
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  Speaker 7: and look at what Buddy Carter is calling for on
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  Speaker 7: the House side to bust these companies up and call
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  Speaker 7: your member of Congress and encourage them to support this,
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  Speaker 7: both Democrats and Republicans, regardless of neo representation.
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  Speaker 1: It's really important. Wendll.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate your time to look forward to having you
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  Speaker 2: back here again soon, So thank you for what you're doing.
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  Speaker 2: Your leadership on this one's important one and it can
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: really change and help so many Americans out, there's no
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: doubt about that. It's a new year, twenty twenty six.
• 16:07
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• 16:11
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• 16:14
  Speaker 2: is it something that I should be invested in. It's
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  Speaker 2: a question I want to get answered for you today
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  Speaker 2: federal government has changed the rules. They're accepting cryptocurrency like
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  Speaker 2: it's a stock.
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• 16:44
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• 16:48
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• 16:54
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• 17:01
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• 17:04
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• 17:07
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  Speaker 8: it inside of their retirement.
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• 17:58
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• 18:03
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• 18:06
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  Speaker 1: Chris.
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  Speaker 2: I hope a lot of people that are watching this,
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  Speaker 2: can do for your portfolio. President Donald Trump said on
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday that Iran has made a major energy related concession
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  Speaker 2: to the United States, describing it as a positive development.
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  Speaker 2: Although he did not give direct details, Trump did suggest, however,
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  Speaker 2: the gift was related to the Strait of Hormuz, the
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  Speaker 2: old transit waterway that the United States has struggled to
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  Speaker 2: keep open. Quote, they gave us a present, and the
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  Speaker 2: President arrived today and it was a very big present,
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  Speaker 2: worth a tremendous amount of money, Trump told reporters in
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  Speaker 2: the Oval Office. It wasn't nuclear, it was oil and
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  Speaker 2: gas related, and it was a very nice thing they did.
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  Speaker 2: Trump reiterated that he felt the United States had already
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  Speaker 2: won the war, indicating that the War Secretary Pete Headset
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: was disappointed by how quickly the campaign had gone. Pete
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: didn't want it to be settled, he said, but did
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  Speaker 2: not give details. With a smile that only Trump can give,
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  Speaker 2: Trump said the United States was talking now to the
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  Speaker 2: right people in Iran in order to reach a deal
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: to end the hostilities, adding that the Iranians wanted to
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: reach a deal now very badly. Quote We're in negotiations
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  Speaker 2: right now over Iran. We are and no matter what
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  Speaker 2: other people say, they were wrong. The President obviously talking
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  Speaker 2: about the reporting coming from CNN that we weren't actually
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: negotiating with Iran, that has also blown up in their faces.
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  Speaker 2: They had to come out and correct that story on
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  Speaker 2: air today. The President also sang that Steve Whitkoff and
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Jared Kushner have been heavily involved in the talks all week.
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  Speaker 2: He said, wit Koff, Kushner, and the Vice President Jeddie
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Vance and the Secretary of State Marco Rubio have all
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: been involved in the negotiations. Now, Pakistan has said it
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: is willing to host talks between the United States and
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Iran as well to get this deal done quickly. The
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: President was also asked about what would have to be
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  Speaker 2: a part of this deal, and the President made it
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  Speaker 2: clear this is all about making sure Iran never has
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  Speaker 2: a nuclear weapons.
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  Speaker 8: The turning point to make you want to pursue a
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  Speaker 8: cease fire. A few days ago, you know, you said
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  Speaker 8: you wanted to continue bombing around. Now you want to
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  Speaker 8: pursue these talks.
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  Speaker 3: Was there something that they're talking to us and they're
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  Speaker 3: talking sense, And remember it all starts with they cannot
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  Speaker 3: have a nuclear weapon. Just you know, I said yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: they said, what are the top ten? I said, well,
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  Speaker 3: number one, two and three is they can't have a
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  Speaker 3: nuclear weapon, and they're not going to have a nuclear weapon.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: And we're talking about that. And I don't want to
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: say in advance, but they've agreed they will never have
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 1: They've agreed to them.
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  Speaker 2: That is obviously massive news. Again, he just said there
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: that a Ran has agreed to never have a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 2: The President was asked even more about the deal, and
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: he reiterated the same thing. He said, they want a deal.
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  Speaker 3: God, I can tell you they'd like to make a deal,
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  Speaker 3: and who wouldn't if you were there. Look, their navy's gone,
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: their air force is gone. Their communications are gone. That's
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: the biggest problem. It's very hard to communicate them between themselves.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: All of the anti aircraft is gone. Most of their
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: missiles are gone. We shot either shot them or they
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: shot them and don't have them anymore. They're down to
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: a trickle. Theyre pretty much everything they have is gone.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: I don't know, can you name one thing that's not gone,
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: or can you name one thing that's doing well. You know,
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: if you read the papers, you think we're tied. You
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: think we're in a tough battle, We are roaming free
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: over Tehran.
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  Speaker 2: Which brings us back to the big present that he says.
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  Speaker 2: It ran almost like a peace offering was willing to
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: give the US. This was something the present was clearly
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: excited about and is a real turning point in the negotiations.
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  Speaker 2: Here's more of the President explaining that.
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  Speaker 3: Because they're gonna make a deal, they're gonna make a deal.
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  Speaker 3: They did something yesterday that was amazing. Actually, they gave
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  Speaker 3: us a present and the president arrived today. It was
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of money.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: And I'm not going to tell you what that present is,
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: but it was a very significant prize and they gave
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: it to us and they said they were going to
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: give it. So that meant one thing to me, would
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: deal with the right people. No, it wasn't nuclear, It
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: was oil and gas related and it was a very
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: nice thing they did. But what it showed me is
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: that we're dealing with the right people because you know,
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: you don't know because the leadership was killed, all gone,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: COMMANI all gone, as the expression goes, the passed supreme
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: leader and then the new Supreme leader was racked up,
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: at a minimum, racked up pretty good, and everyone else
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: was gone, and then many of the people in the
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: third tier.
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  Speaker 2: Now, it really is incredible just how much disinformation is
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: out there in the world. CNN just confirming that their
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: own reporting is absolute well crap. After they spent nearly
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: the entire day yesterday accusing Trump of lying about the
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  Speaker 2: Iranian talks, they sent out wolf Blitzer to correct the record.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what they said.
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  Speaker 2: And don't worry, they only spent eighteen seconds fixing an
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  Speaker 2: entire day of propaganda yesterday.
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  Speaker 9: Are those important breaking news coming into the situation room.
• 24:28
  Speaker 9: We're now learning from a senior Iranian source that there
• 24:31
  Speaker 9: has been an outreach between the US and Iran. The
• 24:34
  Speaker 9: source tells CNN that this was initiated by Washington with
• 24:38
  Speaker 9: US now CNN military analyst retired to US Air Force
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  Speaker 9: Colonel Cedric Layton and CNN Global.
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  Speaker 2: Yet again, CNN having to admit that their network ran
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: full Iranian propaganda for virtually twenty four hours before now
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  Speaker 2: actually having to fix the misinformation, and they did it
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: in just eighteen seconds. Now, you may ask yourself, how
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: did a RAN finally move to the negotiating table.
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  Speaker 7: Well.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump talked about it a little bit earlier when
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: he said that we control all of the skies and
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: we control everything over Tehran. He also talked about just
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: how bad their military is compared to what we have.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: And here's a perfect example of it from the Oval
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  Speaker 2: Office with a question from the press.
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  Speaker 8: Are you urging your allies in the Gulf to be
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: more involved in your hop.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean a little bit, but more more NATO,
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: I think our golf allas have been pretty good, to
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: be honest with you. UAE's been hit so hard. He
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: got hit by fourteen hundred rockets shot him all out
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: of the year with our great with our great patriot missiles.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Think of it. They shot one hundred missiles at one
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: of our aircraft, Garizie Abraham Lincoln, one of the biggest
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: ships in the world actually, and out of one hundred
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: and one missiles shot, every single one of them was
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: knocked down in the sea.
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  Speaker 7: Think of that.
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  Speaker 1: Think of what that means.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: One hundred and one missiles, highly sophisticated, very fast missile
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: shot at of one hundred and one, all one hundred
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: and one was shot down. And now for the most part,
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Lie at the bottom of the sea. Pretty amazing, right,
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: pretty amazing. Our military is amazing, Pete. You know the
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: attack I'm talking about recently, one hundred and one shot.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: I said, wow, I saw that. You can see we
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: have sort of pretty good equipment that we see. It's
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: called the red line. Those red lines were thick, right,
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: I said, that's a lot. And then we saw them
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: one by one just get shot. And these guys that
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: do the shooting and the coolest cucumbers ever. You know,
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: most people, you don't have a lot of time when
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: a missile's going at twenty five hundred miles an hour,
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: I don't care how far away it is, you don't
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: have a lot of time. But I watched them. I
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: watched them sit down and think, great students mits, A
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  Speaker 3: lot of mits, A lot of guys like this and
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: not as much into the muscle as they are this
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  Speaker 3: one right here. And amazing to watch them perform under
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: great pressure because they have a matter of seconds to
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  Speaker 3: do it. If they don't do it properly, it's a
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: big problem, you know, because these were powerful. These were
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: very powerful missiles coming and so a lot of people choke.
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  Speaker 1: They don't choke.
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  Speaker 3: These guys don't choke. You're the best in the world.
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  Speaker 3: We have the best in the world.
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  Speaker 1: We have the best in the world.
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  Speaker 2: The President giving great news that there really is a
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: chance now that we may be getting close to the
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: end of the war with Iran, and of course the
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: liberal media hating every moment of what the President said
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: today from the Oval Office.
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  Speaker 1: Well, keep following this story.
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