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Pritzker "Nothing to see here" on Chicago Crime, the Clean DC Act & Narcos in New England Week In Review · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome in is Verdict with Ted Cruz Weekend Review, Ben
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  Speaker 1: Ferguson with you, and these are the stories that you
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  Speaker 1: may have missed that we talked about this past week.
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  Speaker 1: First up, Democrats, including the governor of Illinois. They're going
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  Speaker 1: all in to defend their criminals and their cities that
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  Speaker 1: are ruining it. So what is behind this logic? We're
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  Speaker 1: going to break it down for you. Also, DC's getting
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  Speaker 1: cleaned up and now we have the Clean DC Act,
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  Speaker 1: and why other cities mayow to look at the exact
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  Speaker 1: same blueprint. And finally, one hundred and seventeen narco terrace
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  Speaker 1: caught in New England, all of them a part of
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  Speaker 1: one major narcos gang. It's a week in review and
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  Speaker 1: it starts right now, which centater brings us to part
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  Speaker 1: two of this conversation. Let's bring it back home. JD.
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  Speaker 1: Pritzker is a interesting man. He's got a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: He's a governor, and he thinks he's succeeding at fighting crime.
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  Speaker 1: But getting illegal immigrant killers and rapists off our streets
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  Speaker 1: is quote unquote dangerous, he says. And now it is
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  Speaker 1: apparently anti American. Tie that into your trip to Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you want to talk about to people the
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  Speaker 1: kid gotten together and had one heck of a lunch.
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  Speaker 1: The people you met with with JD, they'd be like
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  Speaker 1: kumbayayeing this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 1: JB.
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  Speaker 3: Pritzker, he is a billionaire, like many Democrat billionaires. He
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  Speaker 3: did not make his money. He inherited it. He inherited
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  Speaker 3: a vast fortune. And he's now the governor of Illinois
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  Speaker 3: and presiding over a state where the people are fleeing,
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  Speaker 3: a state where crime is out of control, where left
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  Speaker 3: wing policies are are an absolute disaster, and it's striking.
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  Speaker 3: He has the same reality denying vision. Gavin Newsom has
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  Speaker 3: the same thing in California where they both You know,
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  Speaker 3: it reminds me of that meme of the dumpster burning
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  Speaker 3: in the background and saying, you know, everything's fine here.
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  Speaker 3: That that is today's demoics just telling you don't believe
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  Speaker 3: you're lying eyes. Just make sure to duck the bullets
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  Speaker 3: when you're in your living room. But everything other than
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  Speaker 3: that is great.
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  Speaker 1: JB.
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  Speaker 3: Pritzer says he's succeeding at fighting violent crime in Chicago,
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  Speaker 3: and you're right, it is reminiscent of these Mexican government
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  Speaker 3: leaders who said they're handling it just fine. Look at
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  Speaker 3: the great progress they're making, and you look at the
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  Speaker 3: cartels who are murdering Mexicans with impunity and who are
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  Speaker 3: committing vast numbers of crime in the United States here
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  Speaker 3: give a listen to JB. Prisker, Governor Illinois.
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  Speaker 4: What we won't do, however, is engage in what is
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  Speaker 4: a federal effort. That is to say, they have their
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  Speaker 4: job immigration. We have our job, which is to fight
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  Speaker 4: violent crime on the streets of our city. And by
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  Speaker 4: the way, we're succeeding at that job. But when they
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  Speaker 4: bring people in and don't coordinate with us, they're going
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  Speaker 4: to cause enormous problems.
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  Speaker 1: So going to cause enormous problems they're center. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if that doesn't sound like a threat, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what is.
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  Speaker 5: So.
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  Speaker 3: Pritzker claims he is succeeding at fighting violent crime in Chicago.
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  Speaker 3: Chicago has had the most murders of any American city
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  Speaker 3: for thirteen consecutive years thirteen years in a row. Chicago
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  Speaker 3: is number one. Chicago's murder rate is three times higher
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  Speaker 3: than Los Angeles. It is five times higher than New
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  Speaker 3: York City. It is two times higher than Islamabad, that
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  Speaker 3: it is fifteen times higher than Delhi. And the answer
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  Speaker 3: to a billionaire Democrat who is surrounded by police officers
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  Speaker 3: at all times, so he's not worried about being mugged
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  Speaker 3: on the streets of Chicago. That's not a threat he's facing.
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  Speaker 3: He says, we've got the highest murder rate in America.
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  Speaker 3: We're succeeding. This is Democrats success, you know. But he
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  Speaker 3: goes even further. He expresses great dismay that if President
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  Speaker 3: Trump is successful in turning around crime in Chicago, that
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  Speaker 3: would be a bad thing. Listen to the second clip.
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  Speaker 4: So this is dangerous. They shouldn't be doing it. It's
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  Speaker 4: anti American American, and I would tell her to maybe
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  Speaker 4: check herself for what does she really believe?
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  Speaker 1: Nothing says we're fighting crime like threatening the woman who's
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  Speaker 1: out there in Department of Homescurity Secretary Nome and saying
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  Speaker 1: you need to check yourself right and saying it's dangerous
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  Speaker 1: and un American and anti American to go after a
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  Speaker 1: legal American killers and rapists.
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  Speaker 3: It's stunning. The Democrats are becoming more and more open
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  Speaker 3: that if they have a conflict between a murderer and
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  Speaker 3: a victim, if they have a conflict between a Venezuelan
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  Speaker 3: gang member and an innocent American citizen, if they have
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  Speaker 3: a conflict between a rapist and a single mom, if
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  Speaker 3: they have a conflict between a violent sexual predator and
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  Speaker 3: your children, the Democrats will pick the criminal every single time.
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  Speaker 3: They're not even pretending anymore to go after those criminals.
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  Speaker 3: Democrat Governor Pritzker says is dangerous, anti American and un American,
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  Speaker 3: and I think the American people are getting fed up.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there was a new poll from ap slash
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  Speaker 3: NRC that found that a large majority of Americans sixty
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  Speaker 3: eight percent, see crime as a major problem in large cities,
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  Speaker 3: and the approach of the Democrat Party is they're not
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  Speaker 3: going to do anything about it. In fact, the highest
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  Speaker 3: murder rate in the US they describe as a success.
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  Speaker 3: And what it is, it's reminiscent of the leadership in
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  Speaker 3: Al Salvador when they had the highest murder rate in
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  Speaker 3: the world, and they describe what they were doing as
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  Speaker 3: a success. And the only answer is new political leadership
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  Speaker 3: that actually says keeping our citizens safe is our number
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  Speaker 3: one priority and we're going to do so. We've seen
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  Speaker 3: what happens when President Trump does so in the United
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  Speaker 3: States and the border is immediately secured. We had a
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  Speaker 3: ninety nine percent decrease in illegal crossings. We saw what
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  Speaker 3: happened with President bucell in El Salvador, where they had
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  Speaker 3: a ninety eight percent drop in homicides. Ironically, we saw
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  Speaker 3: what happened in San Francisco, and she came to San
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  Speaker 3: Francisco and Gavin Newsom immediately cleaned up San Francisco, removed
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  Speaker 3: the homeless people, took the junkies off the street, and
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  Speaker 3: cleaned up the human feces off the street, all of
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  Speaker 3: which demonstrates they know how to do so. If they
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  Speaker 3: could do so on Monday, they could do so on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
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  Speaker 3: Saturday and Sunday. The reason they don't, the reason the
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  Speaker 3: crime persists, the reason your family is threatened, is because
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats politically, their ideology, they think it's better to
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  Speaker 3: side with the criminals than it is with you and
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  Speaker 3: that I don't get that, but that's where we are,
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  Speaker 3: and I do think it's part of the reason we
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  Speaker 3: see today's Democrat party getting more and more extreme and
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  Speaker 3: appealing to a smaller and smaller sliver of our society.
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  Speaker 1: Final question on this, I believe now that the Democratic
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  Speaker 1: Party is in such shambles that they don't even know
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  Speaker 1: how to get out of this. There is no real leader.
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  Speaker 1: We're being told Obama's coming back and going to like
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  Speaker 1: quote start mentoring people in the Democratic Party. That's how
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  Speaker 1: desperate they are. The same guy that's the godfather, as
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  Speaker 1: I described it on Laura Ingram's show on Fox Friday Night,
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  Speaker 1: as the godfather of this type of insandi and anarchy.
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  Speaker 1: He's the that created the aocs of the party and
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  Speaker 1: gave them power. And so you look at the Democratic
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  Speaker 1: Party now. I don't want to be over confident, but
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  Speaker 1: what I do want to say is I feel like
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  Speaker 1: these midterms may actually be a big opportunity for Republican
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  Speaker 1: candidates coming up. Usually you give up seats when you
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  Speaker 1: have all three branches in the midterms. There's a chance
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  Speaker 1: this could actually work out for concernis, as you mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: because the voters are so sick and tired of the
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  Speaker 1: left not keeping them safe. It's not even about the economy,
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  Speaker 1: It's about safety.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I hope so Ben, I'll confess I'm significantly more
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  Speaker 3: worried than you. We've got cross cutting forces for the midterms.
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  Speaker 3: On the positive side, for Republicans, the Democrats have gotten
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  Speaker 3: so extreme, so whack job out there that it seems
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  Speaker 3: like they took a list of a dozen eighty twenty
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  Speaker 3: issues and they said, let's take the twenty percent side
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  Speaker 3: of all of them. And in some instances they've even
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  Speaker 3: taken ninety ten issues and said, let's appeal to the
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  Speaker 3: smallest liver of America we can. Generally speaking, that is
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  Speaker 3: a really bad political strategy, so that augurs in our favor.
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  Speaker 3: On the other side, we have a real enthusiasm gap,
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  Speaker 3: and this worries me about the midterms, which is an
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  Speaker 3: awful lot of Americans are really happy with the success
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  Speaker 3: we've seen in the first eight months of twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: President Trump has been winning major victories. The danger is
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  Speaker 3: that when people are happy, when they're seeing success, they're complacent,
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  Speaker 3: they stay home. I'll tell you what. The left is
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  Speaker 3: not complacent. They are in rage. They are out raising
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  Speaker 3: Republicans three to one. They hate Donald Trump. And we
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  Speaker 3: saw we just saw a special election in Iowa state
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  Speaker 3: senator seat that Trump had won that district by eleven points.
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  Speaker 3: They just elected a Democrat state senator in that district
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  Speaker 3: that I believe was an enthusiasm gap. That the left
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  Speaker 3: is motivated by rage and hate, and that means that
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  Speaker 3: they are definitely showing up. And it's our job to
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  Speaker 3: make sure that that the common sense majority of this
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  Speaker 3: country is not complacent but realizes if we don't show
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  Speaker 3: up to defend what we've got, that that's how you
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  Speaker 3: get these whack jobs elected in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
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  Speaker 1: you can go back and listen to the full podcast
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  Speaker 1: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two. All Right, Senaer,
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  Speaker 1: I want to bring it back home to something, and
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  Speaker 1: you talk about cleaning things up. That's what President Trump
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  Speaker 1: has said he's going to do with the terrorists, uh
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  Speaker 1: and those that are bringing drugs in this country. But
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  Speaker 1: he's also doing big things in different cities. And now
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  Speaker 1: you have introduced the Clean DC Act. Explain to us
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  Speaker 1: what this is.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the principle is very much the same as we
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  Speaker 3: were talking about in foreign policy with the terrorists, which
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  Speaker 3: is when you react with weakness, the result is domestically,
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  Speaker 3: you get more and more crime. When you react with weakness, abroad.
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  Speaker 3: The result is internationally, you get more and more terrorism
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  Speaker 3: and more and more enemies attacking. The converse is true
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  Speaker 3: when you react with strength with regard to crime. When
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  Speaker 3: you lock up murderers and rapists and child molesters, you
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  Speaker 3: get fewer violent crimes number one because of deterrence. Number two,
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  Speaker 3: because of prevention, you get the bad guys off the street.
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  Speaker 3: In DC, the murder rate has consistently been one of
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  Speaker 3: the highest in the entire country. Among large cities. It
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  Speaker 3: is twenty seven homicides per one hundred thousand residents each year.
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  Speaker 3: That is higher than Bogota, Columbia, DC. Not only that,
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  Speaker 3: but if you look at at vehicle theft, vehicle theft
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  Speaker 3: is eight hundred and forty two per one hundred thousand residents,
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  Speaker 3: which is three times the national average, and carjackings have
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  Speaker 3: tripled in recent years. I'll tell you actually, one time
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  Speaker 3: I was filming several years ago, I was filming Verdict.
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  Speaker 3: It was a little past midnight, and we had our
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  Speaker 3: truck warked on the street. I was in the studio
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  Speaker 3: filming it. The truck was broken into and my briefcase
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  Speaker 3: was stolen on the streets of d C. If you
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  Speaker 3: look at d C, which is our nation's capital. You've
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  Speaker 3: got elected representatives and staff from all fifty states, from
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  Speaker 3: all over the country. We had earlier this year we
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  Speaker 3: had a staffer from the White House from DOGE who
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  Speaker 3: was violently assaulted in d C, beaten up by ten
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  Speaker 3: juvenile offenders. We had we hadn't in recent years. We
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  Speaker 3: had a staffer for rand Paul who was stabbed in
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  Speaker 3: the middle of the afternoon on d C Street. We
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  Speaker 3: had a former official in the first Trump administration who
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  Speaker 3: was shot and killed at five o'clock in the afternoon,
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  Speaker 3: parked in his car on d C Street. The violence
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  Speaker 3: is out of control, and it was made worse by
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  Speaker 3: a twenty twenty two law. Twenty twenty two law in
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  Speaker 3: the wake of the George Floyd killing in the Black
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  Speaker 3: Lives Matter protest, when when anti police fervor was driving
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  Speaker 3: the left crazy, the DC City Council and the DC
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  Speaker 3: Mayor came in and they passed a law that lessened
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  Speaker 3: the penalties for violent crimes almost entirely across the board.
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  Speaker 3: They lessened the penalty for murder, they lessened the penalty
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  Speaker 3: for carjacking, they lessened the penalty for violent assault, and
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  Speaker 3: the effect, understandably was those crimes all increased. If you
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  Speaker 3: lessen the penalty for violent crime, the crimes increase. And
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  Speaker 3: this is the thing that the left doesn't understand. We
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  Speaker 3: saw a Democrat Congressman Henry Quaar from Texas, who was
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  Speaker 3: carjacked in his car at about eight or nine o'clock
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  Speaker 3: at night. He was coming home with his dinner and
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  Speaker 3: he was carjacked outside an apartment building that, if I
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  Speaker 3: remember correctly, five other congressmen lived in. That's how bad
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  Speaker 3: it was. Now, I will tell you in the past Congress,
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  Speaker 3: Congress took up legislation to reverse that twenty twenty two law.
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  Speaker 3: It passed the House, and it passed the Senate, and
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  Speaker 3: then Joe Biden vetoed it. Joe Biden decided, all right,
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  Speaker 3: we're not going to let this go into effect. Well,
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  Speaker 3: i've it or again. Legislation that is called the Clean
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  Speaker 3: d C Act, and the Clean d C Act is
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  Speaker 3: very simple. It is designed to repeal the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: two law lessening the penalty for violent crimes. And the
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  Speaker 3: Clean d C Act we're pushing for a vote. I
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  Speaker 3: think the House may vote on it as soon as
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  Speaker 3: the next week or two I'll tell you the Clean
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  Speaker 3: d C Act. It's supported by the DC Police Union,
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  Speaker 3: it's supported by the Fraternal Order of the Police, and
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  Speaker 3: it's a good opportunity. I think every member of Congress,
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  Speaker 3: every Democrat, every House member, needs to decide, Okay, where
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  Speaker 3: do you stand? Do you stand with the violent criminals?
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  Speaker 3: Do you stand with the murderers, do you stand with
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  Speaker 3: a rapist? Will you do you stand with the carjackers?
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  Speaker 3: Or do you stand with the citizens of America? That
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  Speaker 3: ought to be an easy vote, although sadly I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to predict I think an awful lot of Democrats are
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  Speaker 3: going to vote with criminals.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It really does tell you where the Democrats mindset
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  Speaker 1: is right now, where they can't even agree that criminals
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  Speaker 1: should be held accountable. And it also just tells you
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  Speaker 1: about how sinister they are, which brings us to our
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  Speaker 1: final story. The idea that because the president wasn't seen
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  Speaker 1: like twenty four to seven, totally different than Joe Biden
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  Speaker 1: when he was president, by the way, but somehow he
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  Speaker 1: was dead was a trend on social media and Democrats
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  Speaker 1: were celebrating it.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: It really was bizarre. The left was losing their mind
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  Speaker 3: because a couple of days, President Trump hadn't done a
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  Speaker 3: public event, and so suddenly the left, they were so excited,
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  Speaker 3: they were so excited that, oh, this means Trump is
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  Speaker 3: really sick. He's in the hospital, he's at a stroke,
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  Speaker 3: he's dead. You know, Andrew Yang, you remember the Democratic
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  Speaker 3: ran for president. He tweeted out, quote, I would be
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  Speaker 3: pumped to have a president whose physical vitality or mental
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  Speaker 3: fitness wasn't an ongoing issue or concern. It's like, what,
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  Speaker 3: where the hell were the Democrats during the last four
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  Speaker 3: years of Joe Biden. The man was almost publicly in
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  Speaker 3: a coma for four years. He was drooling and coloring
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  Speaker 3: with crayons. And the Democrats are like, nothing to see here, No, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: it's perfectly fine. Yes, we have a White House staffer
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  Speaker 3: we dress as a giant Easter bunny to lead him away,
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  Speaker 3: to keep him out of trouble. But there's nothing to
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  Speaker 3: see here. And I got to say so. So today
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  Speaker 3: President Trump was asked about this by Peter Doucy, and
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  Speaker 3: in fact, Peter Deucy asked about the stories that he'd
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  Speaker 3: been dead. Listen to the exchange between Peter Doucy and
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  Speaker 3: President Trump about a big viral social media trend over
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  Speaker 3: the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: How did you find out over the weekend that you
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  Speaker 1: were dead?
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  Speaker 2: Do you see that? No, people didn't see him for
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  Speaker 2: a couple of days.
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  Speaker 4: One point three million user engagements as of Saturday morning
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  Speaker 4: about your demise.
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  Speaker 2: Really, I didn't see that, you know, I have heard
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  Speaker 2: it's sort of crazy.
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  Speaker 6: But last week I did numerous news conferences, all successful.
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  Speaker 2: They went very well, like this is going very well.
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  Speaker 6: And then I didn't do any for two days, and
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  Speaker 6: they said there must be something wrong with him.
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  Speaker 2: Biden wouldn't do him for months.
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  Speaker 6: You wouldn't see him, and nobody ever said there was
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  Speaker 6: ever anything wrong with him, and we know he wasn't
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  Speaker 6: in the greatest of shape.
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  Speaker 2: No, I heard that. I get reports, now you knew.
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  Speaker 6: I did an interview that lasted for about an hour
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  Speaker 6: and a half with somebody and everybody, So that was
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  Speaker 6: on one of your competitors. I did numerous shows and
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  Speaker 6: also did a number of truths, long truth so I
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  Speaker 6: think pretty poignant truth now.
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  Speaker 2: I was very active over the weekend.
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  Speaker 6: They also went out to visit some people at the
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  Speaker 6: club that I own pretty nearby on the Potomac River,
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  Speaker 6: and now I've been very active actually over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't hear that one. That's pretty serious. Well, it's
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  Speaker 2: fake news, you.
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  Speaker 6: Know, it's just so it's so fake. That's why the
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  Speaker 6: media has so little credibility. I knew that you were saying, like,
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  Speaker 6: is he okay, how's he feeling?
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  Speaker 2: What's wrong?
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  Speaker 6: I said, just left. And it's also sort of a
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  Speaker 6: longer weekend. You know, it's Labor Day weekend, so I
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  Speaker 6: would say a lot of people. No, I was very
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  Speaker 6: active this Labor Day. I had heard that, but I
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  Speaker 6: didn't hear to that extent.
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  Speaker 1: I love how the president just trolls the media on
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  Speaker 1: this one, like, yeah, you guys are a bunch of scumbags,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not surprised that this is what you did.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, look, it was absurd. I mean, this president,
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  Speaker 3: you can disagree with him on substance, you can disagree
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  Speaker 3: with him on style, but the man has enormous energy.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, if you look at the first seven months
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: of this administration, I think there's been no administration or
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: a lifetime that has had more velocity and volume and action.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: And it has been incredible. And this president he is
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: going this weekend. Actually, President Trump called me. I talked
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: to him this weekend. He was in great spirits.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: We were talking talking Jim while he was dead but alive.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: Oh yes, breaking, yeah, yeah. And oddly enough, I didn't
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: have a Ouiji board. I didn't have to do a seance,
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: and he was kind of and it was we were
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: not talking about are you are right? He was key
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: called me on an issue that he and I had
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: been working on, so he had a substance of conversation.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: You know, today the President announced that there was going
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: to be a White House address at two o'clock and
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: I got to say, Twitter went crazy with anticipation, and
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: I think people expected them to announce. Okay, President Trump
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: is dead. He's entered a permanent vegetative state. He's resigning,
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: like like the left was. They were beside themselves, but
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: particularly egregious. I want you to listen to Tim Waltz.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Tim Waltz is the governor of Minnesota. He's a weird dude,
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: and and you'll remember, for like twelve seconds, he was
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Kamala Harris's vice presidential nominee. Give a listen to what
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Tim Waltz had to say about President Trump and his
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: hopes that the President was dead to get.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: Up in the morning and you doom scroll through things.
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: And although I will say this, the last few days
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: you woke up thinking there might be news, just saying,
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: just saying there will be news sometime, just so you
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: know there will be new.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's sick. And that's the guy who ran
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: for vice president of the Democratic Party.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Let me say that is sick. And I have never
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: wished death upon Joe Biden or Barack Obama or Hillary
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Clinton or any of the Democrat leaders the president of
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: the United States, whether you agree with them or not.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: What the hell is wrong with these people where they
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: say they wake up every day hoping, please, please, please,
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: let me see that he is dead. You know, there
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: used to be a notion. Listen, when Barack Obama was president.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: I disagreed with a lot of the policies that he implemented.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: I think they did a lot of damage, a lot
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: of harm to this country. But I wish success on him.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: I wanted America to succeed. You know, we talked about
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: earlier this year President Trump's State of the Union address.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: I've been to thirteen State of the Union addresses. Every
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: single one begins the same way with the sergeant at
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: arm calling out the President of the United States, and
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: twelve of the thirteen I've been to, every House member
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: and senator stand and applauds. And that's true, whether it's
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: a Democrat or Republican, whether it's your party of the
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: other party, you respect the office. And so when Barack
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Obama walked onto the floor of the House, I stood
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: and applauded for him. When Joe Biden walked on the
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: floor of the House, I stood and applauded for him.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: This year, when Trump walked under the floor, every single
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Democrat I saw states sitting and would not applaud. And
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: there's something really wrong when you were openly cheering for
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: the President of the United States to die and the
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: people laughing, and I suspect there were reporters there, and
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: there were also leftist activists, the people laughing and cheering.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: There's something just fundamentally wrong about that.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: As before, if you want to hear the rest of
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: this conversation on this topic, you can go back and
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: dow the podcasts from earlier this week to hear the
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: entire thing. I want to get back to the big
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: story number three of the week. You may have missed.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I want to also move on to the other story
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: that is one that is not getting a lot of coverage,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: and it's really important. It's why I love doing this
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: show with you. The cinelo At Cartel is now in
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: essence in every single major city in America. They have
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: set up a massive network. They are making billions and
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: billions of dollars poisoning and killing Americans, human trafficking, sex trafficking,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: child trafficking. The list goes on and on. Anything that's illegal,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: they've got their tentacles in it. And you may think
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: that you're far away from the border, so this isn't
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: actually in your city, or your big city or your
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: area of the country. Great example of that is New England.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: If you're a New England listening to us right now,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: you're priving an AD's not near as bad as like
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: where we are in Houston at the moment. Well, guess
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: what you'd be wrong. A hundred and seventy one cinelo
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: At cartel members were arrested in New England. The DEA
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: has now announced.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: That was in a single week. In a single week,
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: one hundred and seventy one settle low of cartel members
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: arrested in Boston. The arrest also led to the seizure
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: of more than twenty two thousand counterfeit pills, fentanyl, powder,
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: and packaging branded with the Sineloa cartel logo, and the
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: DEA Agent in charge for the New England Field Division said,
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: the Cineloa cartel is quote public enemy number one in
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: New England. That's what the Democrats open border policies have done.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: And listen to a local news story covering this arrest
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: of one hundred and seventy one Cineloa cartel members in Boston.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: Give a listen.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And by the way, ask yourself this question, America,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: why did you not hear about this on the national news.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: This is Boston twenty five news covering it there.
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: The Federal Drug Enforcement Administration says a week long cartel
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: crackdown led to nearly two hundred arrests just in New England.
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: The DEA says they were all members of the Cineloa cartel,
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: the largest drug cartel in the world. Twenty five investigates
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: went one on one with the DEA special Agent in
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: charge of out their recent operation. He says the vast
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: Sineloa network has deep roots in New.
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: England, there are public Enemy number one.
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: Jared Fourge, the special Agent in charge of DEA's New
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: England Field Division, says last week the DEA set out
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: to arrest as many members of the Mexico base Sinaloa
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: cartel as possible. New England saw the highest number of
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: regional arrests at one seventy one, with forty nine in Massachusetts,
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: thirty three in New Hampshire. Connecticut saw the most at
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: sixty four. Do you think people would be surprised to
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: learn how many members of that cartel are operating, probably
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: in plain sight, in their communities.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Sure so.
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: Sineloa cartel in every single state across America, more than
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: forty countries around the world, and obviously they're at every
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: state throughout New England.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: What's their number one product they push?
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Is it the pills.
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: So we see fetanoh powder, and we see counterfeit pills,
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: pills that are made to look like legitimate pills, notably
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: M thirty.
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: S M thirty pills are counterfeit oxy codone. But Forge
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: says they're also increasingly seeing counterfeit stimulant pills made to
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: look like adderall Foge showed us some of the more
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: than twenty two thousand pills and other drug sees during
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: the operation, like signature purple fentanyl and some drug packaging
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: even displaying the Sinaloa cartel stamp.
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: I'm a DEA agent. I cannot tell the difference between
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: a fake one and a real one. So we need
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: to remind parents, schools, caregivers, everybody in the community.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Have those conversations with each other, Have them with your kids.
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: Forge says. The cartel targets unsuspecting young people online through
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: common social media apps. Many have no idea they're buying
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: potentially deadly counterfeit pills. One hundred and seventy one arrests
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: throughout New England.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Does that make a dent where the DEA.
• 24:50
  Speaker 8: We're not going after low level retailed drug traffickers. We
• 24:53
  Speaker 8: are going after drug trafficking organizations the networks.
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: How do you disrupt that something that is so large,
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: so vast, and seemingly so powerful.
• 25:03
  Speaker 8: Right, it's an ongoing battle, one that we cannot we
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: can't afford to give up. Right it's the Cineloa cartel
• 25:09
  Speaker 8: is a threat to public safety, our public health, and
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: our national security as a country.
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: This year, the Centers for Disease Control reported while drug
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: overdose deaths are declining, overdose is the leading cause of
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: death for young people ages eighteen to forty five Centator.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: You hear that report, it should be national news. It's not.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Thank goodness, we're doing the show to make it national.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: But this is concerning because it's not just in New England.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: This is in every major city in America. They've set
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: up shop.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Well, CNN won't cover it, MSNBC won't, but cover it.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: I'm glad the local news covered it, and it is
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: critically important. The cartels Public enemy number one in New England,
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: brought to you by the Democrats is the Cineloa cartel.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: And you know it was striking what they were arrested with.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: They were arrested with with, among other things, counterfeit pills,
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: pills like adderall and and those are designed to be
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: sold to your kids. Ben, you and I are both parents.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: I will tell you it is terrifying being the parents
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: of young kids today. Your kids are younger than mine. Ben,
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: My girls are teenagers. And you know, I think back
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: when you and I were teenagers. You go out to party,
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: there may be some kids in high school. They might
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: be drinking. Maybe someone would would would smoke some marijuana,
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: but the odds were that you were not going to
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: die going to a party when you and I were kids.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: What is terrifying now is that kids go to a
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: party and someone says, here, hey, try a pill. It's
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: it's it's an adderall it's it's it's a riddle, and
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: it's something they think is fairly innocuous. And the kid
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: takes one pill and it is a counterfeit pill that
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: has fentanyl, and the child drops dead. And that is
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: happening at a scale that is truly terrifying. In twenty
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: twenty three, more than one hundred thousand Americans died of
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: over seventy percent of those we're fentanyl, and overdose is
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: the wrong word for those. Those are poisonings, because you know,
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: you think of an overdose. If you have a junkie
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: on the street who's shooting up heroin, he shoots up
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: a little bit too much heroin, that's a tragedy. But
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: there are a series of decisions that put the person
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: in that situation. This circumstance is much more frightening because
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: it can be one tiny mistaken decision made by a
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: fourteen year old. That ends that child's life, and that
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: is the result. Open borders are endangering our families in
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: a very fundamental way.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: It's an epidemic. And what's interesting is when you do
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: research on this, Senator, one of the things that's the
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: most shocking about it is a lot of police forces
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: are actually running out of their narcan, which is what
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: you can give to try to save someone's life when
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: they overdose. They're yearly supply, they're eating through it in
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: two to three months into the year, and they're having
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: to go to their city council and their board of aldermen,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the county commissioners, depending on where what type of government
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: they have, and they're having to beg them for more
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: money because they're running through the budget for what they
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: need to save people's lives. That's how big of an
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: epidemic it has become. And again it's the number one
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: killer of young people in this country. That is something
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: that needs to be said over and over again and
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: it's something that we must stop well.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: And and police officers and first responders they often wear gloves.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: They're very frightened because if they inadvertently touch fentanyl, a
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: tiny amount can kill them. The level that this is
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: deadly is truly unprecedented. And you know, I'll say, I
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: want to share an illustration that a DA agent told
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: me a number of years ago, which we were sitting,
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: sitting and doing a round table with a DA agent
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: and with a mom who had lost lost her child
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: to fentanyl poisoning. And here's what the DA agent did
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: is he handed out everyone sweetened low packets of the
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: sweetener you put in your tea or coffee. And he said, okay,
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: tear open the sweetened low packet and he said empty
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: all the sweet and low under the table, So we
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: all did that. He then said, stick your pinky, your
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: little finger into the empty packet. So we did that
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: and he said pull it out. And you pull it out,
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: you have a handful of tiny little grains with sweet
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: and low that are on your finger. And he said,
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: that is enough fentanyl to kill you. And it's a
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: very effective illustration, I'll tell you. With both of our
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: teenage girls, I sat them down in the kitchen, I
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: hand them to them packets of sweet and low and
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: I had them do exactly that illustration. And if you
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: are a parent, if you are a grandparent, have this
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: conversation with your kids or your grandkids, because look, hopefully
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: your kids will not make catastrophically wrong decisions, but in
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: this circumstance, one small decision that seems easy. Hey, it's
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: a friend of theirs that as you know, hey, hey
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: try this pill. We're all at a party, and they
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: don't think they are risking their lives. I don't know
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: a parent who is not terrified about the risks that
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: their kids will make one wrong choice and it will
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: cost them their entire life.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it really is scary, There's no doubt about it.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: And this is part of the reason why I think
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: the President is also as you wrap up this last week,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: going after these drug cartels and saying we're going to
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: use the full force of our government to go after
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: them since we've declared them terrorist organizations because they're killing Americans.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Look, obviously, the US military took out at Trenduragua Narco
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: terrorist boat off the shores of Venezuela just this past week.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: As you know, last week I was in Mexico meeting
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: with senior government officials in Mexico and making clear to
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: them the United States is going after these cartels and
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: we're going to do so, either with or without you. Yet,
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: you know, listening to the story of one hundred and
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: seventy one Sineloa cartel members arrested New England reminded me
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: of the MS thirteen cartel member that I spoke with
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: down in El Salvador. I went to the SEACOT, the
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: maximum security terrorist prison. And if you didn't listen to
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: our podcast last week, I mean encourage every one of
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: you go back and listen to last week's podcast, or
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: I take you inside this prison, this maximum security prison
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: built for forty thousand gang members, mass murderers, and terrorists.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: And I met with one MS thirteen gang member who
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: lived in Texas many years. He spoke perfectly fluent English.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: He became an MS thirteen member when he was thirteen
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: years old, living in Falls Church, Virginia. That's the level
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: at which these gangs have penetrated our society. And by
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: the way, the only way you become a member of
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: MS thirteen is you have to murder someone. So at
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: age thirteen, he murdered someone to become a member of
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: this gang. When I asked him why he did it,
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: he said all of his friends were doing the same
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: thing that he was hanging out with other thirteen year
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: olds who were joining the same gang. And this is
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: now a forty two year old man who's spending the
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: rest of his life in a maximum security prison because
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: of the multiple murders he committed. That is not in Columbia,
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: that's not deep in Mexico City. That was Falls Church, Virginia,
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: and later he moved to Dallas, Texas. We've heard New England.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: This is public enemy number one. You and I and
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: our families. We want the border secured. And I'm grateful
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: that we have a president commander in chief who says
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: we're going to stop the human trafficking, We're going to
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: stop the drug trafficking. We are securing the border. That's
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: an incredible success and it's incredibly important.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're absolutely right about that. And also Reuters is
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: now reporting and this is just showing I think the
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: president's commitment to fighting these narco terras. Ruters is now
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: saying the US is deploying stealth fighter jets to the
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Caribbean for drug fight as the tensions of Venezuela continued
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: to rise. They're saying Axios is saying that ten f
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: thirty five jets are being dispatched also to Puerto Rico
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: to support the drug war there. And this is on
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: top of it them Ben Ben.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: When I was down at the Panama Canal, I actually
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: saw the USS Lake Erie that was transiting from the
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: Pacific to the Caribbean specifically to participate in the war
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: on drugs. This is a missileship with enormous capacity. I
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: don't know if this was the particular ship that took
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: out the trend Uragua, but I went and toured the ship,
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: met many of the sailors on board. We are moving
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: major assets to take on the cartels and to defeat
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: the cartels.
• 33:50
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• 33:53
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