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Senator Hawley Targets Riot Funders in Expanding Federal Probe · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: If we weren't there, if we didn't bring in the
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  Speaker 1: National Good and the Marines, you would probably have a
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  Speaker 1: city that was burning to the ground, just like it
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  Speaker 1: was a number of months ago with the housing. You
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  Speaker 1: would have had a big problem there if we were
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  Speaker 1: In fact, the police chief said so much if you
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  Speaker 1: look at what his statements where he said, we're.
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  Speaker 2: Very lucky to have had that.
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  Speaker 1: If we weren't there, that city would have been burning
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  Speaker 1: to the ground. Was burning right now.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 2: Good Thursday morning.
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  Speaker 4: It is the forty seven Morning Update, and it's so
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  Speaker 4: nice to have you with us.
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  Speaker 2: And we've got two big stories for you.
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump speaking out when asked about will he be
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  Speaker 4: pulling back the military presence in la this after he
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  Speaker 4: has said he will send wherever he needs to the
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  Speaker 4: National Guard to protect American cities. We also have a
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  Speaker 4: very big report as well on where the money's coming from,
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  Speaker 4: and an official investigation has been launched in Congress by
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  Speaker 4: Senator Josh Hall. We'll give you the details of the organizations,
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  Speaker 4: and the scary part is some of your tax dollars
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  Speaker 4: were going to some of these groups. It's the forty
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  Speaker 4: seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 3: Story number one.
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  Speaker 4: Senater Josh Holly has not only launched an investigation to
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  Speaker 4: who's funding the LA riots, but we're getting breaking news
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  Speaker 4: right now that the list has expanded from what happened
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  Speaker 4: earlier in the day. Senator Josh Holly, who chairs a
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  Speaker 4: Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Crime and counter Terrorism, launching this
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  Speaker 4: new investigation into who is funding the Los Angeles riots
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  Speaker 4: and other riots that are now breaking out around the country.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what we knew earlier was this there.
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  Speaker 4: Was a target, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of
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  Speaker 4: Los Angeles. It's a non profit pro immigration group. The
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  Speaker 4: allegation was very clear they may have provided logistical support
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  Speaker 4: and financial resources to individuals involved in the protests and
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  Speaker 4: escalated it into riots, obviously on purpose. Now, the formal
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  Speaker 4: requests he sent to this group and the executive director
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  Speaker 4: demanded the preservation and the production of financial documents and
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  Speaker 4: donor lists, travel and coordination records, and documents related to
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  Speaker 4: protest planning from November fifth of twenty twenty four to
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  Speaker 4: the present. Well, here is now what has happened since
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  Speaker 4: that first letter, Holly's office has now come out saying
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  Speaker 4: we are launching investigation to other groups as well, not
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  Speaker 4: just the original one named. Who else is being added well,
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  Speaker 4: the Party for Socialism and Liberation out of San Francisco, California.
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  Speaker 4: The letter reads this way, to whom it may concern,
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  Speaker 4: I write, in my capacity is the chair of the
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  Speaker 4: Senate Subcommittee on Crime and counter Terrorism, regarding your organization's
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  Speaker 4: alleged role in financing and material support coordinated protests and
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  Speaker 4: riot that have engulfed Los Angeles in recent weeks. While
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  Speaker 4: peaceful protests is a cornerstone of American democracy, these demonstrations
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  Speaker 4: have escalated into lawless mob actions. They have obstructed federal
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  Speaker 4: law enforcement, endangered public safety, and disrupted the rule of law.
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  Speaker 4: This lawlessness is unacceptable and it must end. He also stated,
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  Speaker 4: this credible reporting now suggests that your organization, the Party
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  Speaker 4: for Socialism and Liberation, has provided logistical support and financial
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  Speaker 4: resources to individuals that are engaged in these disruptive actions.
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  Speaker 2: Let me be.
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  Speaker 4: Clear, bank rolling civil unrest is not protected speech. It
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  Speaker 4: is aiding in abetting criminal conduct. Accordingly, you must immediately
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  Speaker 4: cease and assist any further involvement in these organizations in
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  Speaker 4: the organization, funding, or promotion of these unlawful activities. Now
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  Speaker 4: there's a long list of things that Holly is asking for,
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  Speaker 4: including all internal communications including emails, text messages, chat logs,
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  Speaker 4: messaging apps, relate to the protests, relate to the planning,
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  Speaker 4: the coordination, or funding. He is also demanding that all
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  Speaker 4: financial documents related to the protests, the demonstrations, or mobilization
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  Speaker 4: efforts in LA are elsewhere in the country relating to
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  Speaker 4: immigration enforcement. He also said if there are any third
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  Speaker 4: party contacts or vendor agreements, including any arrangements with event organizers,
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  Speaker 4: transportation providers, security personnel, or communications consultants relating to immigration
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  Speaker 4: enforcement or the Los Angeles protests or similar protests elsewhere.
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  Speaker 4: He also asked for grant applications and funding proposals that
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  Speaker 4: relate to or reference immigration enforcement, as well as travel
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  Speaker 4: and lodging records for individuals or groups supported or reimbursed
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  Speaker 4: in connection with protests activities. He also said we must
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  Speaker 4: have media or pub relation strategies, including your talking points,
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  Speaker 4: press releases, and coordination with journalists or influencers related to
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  Speaker 4: immigration protests. And finally, the big one, yet again, the
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  Speaker 4: donor list. Josh Holly the chairman of the Subcommittee on
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  Speaker 4: Crime and counter Terrorism in the US Senate, said failure
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  Speaker 4: to comply will result in additional actions by the Subcommittee,
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  Speaker 4: including potential referral for criminal investigations. So that letter has
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  Speaker 4: now gone out to the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Well,
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  Speaker 4: Josh Holly isn't done there. He has now also sent
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  Speaker 4: a letter to Ron Gochez, spokesman for the Union Day
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  Speaker 4: del Barrio, demanding the exact same things that they demanded
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  Speaker 4: for the Party for Socialism and Liberation, as well as
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  Speaker 4: the earlier letter in the Day that went to the
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  Speaker 4: original group asking what do you know, when did you
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  Speaker 4: know it? And how long have you been funding it?
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  Speaker 4: With the Coalition for quote Humane Immigrant Rights. So that
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  Speaker 4: now brings me to Josh Holly and what do he
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  Speaker 4: had to say tonight on Fox News Channel when speaking
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  Speaker 4: with Jesse Waters take a listen.
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  Speaker 2: Senator Josh Holly joins us. Now all right.
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  Speaker 5: Senator Tolsy Gaberg has said that these riots in LA
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  Speaker 5: and all over the country are orchestrated. Can you tell
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  Speaker 5: us anything about that?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that's absolutely right, Jesse. These aren't spontaneous
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  Speaker 6: at all. They're about as authentic as Astro Turf. They
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  Speaker 6: are bought and paid for flash mobs, and I want
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  Speaker 6: to know who's doing the buying and the paying. That's
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  Speaker 6: why today I've launched an investigation. I've sent multiple investigative
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  Speaker 6: demands today to various groups out on social media claiming
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  Speaker 6: they are paying for this, they are organizing it, they
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  Speaker 6: are financing it. We've all seen the videos of vans
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  Speaker 6: driving up, handing out gas masks right before somebody blows
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  Speaker 6: up a car. It's time we found out where's the
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  Speaker 6: money coming from, Who's really behind this. I think the
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  Speaker 6: American people deserve answers.
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  Speaker 2: Senator Holly wasn't done there.
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  Speaker 4: He also talked about these riders, and he made it
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  Speaker 4: very clear that these rioters know who their ally is.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 5: When they're saying, don't believe what you see on TV
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  Speaker 5: and there's no violence at all, doesn't that kind of
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  Speaker 5: remind you of the Biden cover up, oh.
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  Speaker 6: One hundred percent, it's the same thing, don't believe you're
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  Speaker 6: lying eyes. Meanwhile, they're out there blowing up cars on
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  Speaker 6: the one oh one. They're assaulting cops, they're rushing federal buildings,
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  Speaker 6: they're burning down shops. It's all on television and we
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  Speaker 6: can see it with our own eyes. I'm just glad
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  Speaker 6: Trump isn't letting the city burn. I mean, Gavin Newsom
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  Speaker 6: would allow his state to burn for the second time
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  Speaker 6: in the year. And the worst part is somebody is
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  Speaker 6: paying for all of this and they're trying to spread it, Jesse,
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  Speaker 6: just like you reported, they're trying to spread it across
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  Speaker 6: the country, to Chicago, to Saint Louis, to Seattle, New York, everywhere.
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  Speaker 6: We got to figure out who is behind this. And
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  Speaker 6: by the way, why is the Democrat Party now basically
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  Speaker 6: an extended mental ward? I mean, what has happened to
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  Speaker 6: these people?
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  Speaker 4: They're nuts, They're nuts, He's right, But it's also the
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  Speaker 4: reality of what they're doing, what they're advocating for, and
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  Speaker 4: the flag that they're flying, you know, the Mexican flag.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 5: You notice that CNN never even interviews anybody at the riot.
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  Speaker 5: We have clips of them and you can see why
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  Speaker 5: Ciinan doesn't want to talk to them because they look insane.
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  Speaker 5: Your colleagues in the Senate do they support these people?
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  Speaker 5: Do they think this is good politically for the Democrat Party?
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  Speaker 6: Well, that's what they're acting like I mean, they're out
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  Speaker 6: there saying all peaceful protests.
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  Speaker 2: It's all peaceful.
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  Speaker 6: And by the way, this is Donald Trump's fault. And I'm like, really,
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  Speaker 6: Donald Trump's fault. Gee, I missed it when Donald Trump
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  Speaker 6: went and blew up a car on Highway one oh one.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't see him when he was assaulting cops. What
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  Speaker 6: I saw was a bunch of lunatics who were waving
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  Speaker 6: the Mexican flag and other flags while they burned our own.
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  Speaker 6: And by the way, Jesse, we ought to penalize people
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  Speaker 6: who burn the American flag while they're committing a crime.
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  Speaker 6: If you do that, you ought to have your prison
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  Speaker 6: sentence doubled. It's time to get serious with these people.
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  Speaker 6: It's a law and order time in America. No more
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  Speaker 6: of this nonsense.
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  Speaker 5: So it's like an extra what two years if you
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  Speaker 5: burn a flag and the commission of a felony.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, that's what I would do.
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  Speaker 6: If you want to go burn a flag while you're
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  Speaker 6: up there rioting, while you're a and cops while you're
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  Speaker 6: blowing up cars, yeah, fin go right ahead, spend double
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  Speaker 6: the amount of time in prison. That flag means something
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  Speaker 6: to Americans. If you think that you can just burn
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  Speaker 6: it and get away with it. It's time that we
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  Speaker 6: disabuse them of that notion. The other thing I'd say, Jesse,
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  Speaker 6: is if these protesters want to have a place to protest,
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  Speaker 6: how about a nice jail cell. And right after that,
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  Speaker 6: how about a one way ticket back to the country
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  Speaker 6: where they came from, never to see the United States again.
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  Speaker 4: One thing that's for sure, Senaer Josh Holly is making
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  Speaker 4: it clear that under Donald Trump's leadership and his leadership
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  Speaker 4: in the Senate, We're going to find out who's funding,
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  Speaker 4: who's organizing, and who's terrorizing the American people with these
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  Speaker 4: riots they're expanding all over the country.
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  Speaker 3: Now, story number two.
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  Speaker 4: President Trump not backing down and protecting la and any
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  Speaker 4: other city where these radical extremists are starting these riots.
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  Speaker 4: At Fort Bragg, Donald Trump addressed US troops and vowed
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  Speaker 4: deliberate Los Angeles, blasting the situation as third world lawlessness
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  Speaker 4: and accusing rioters of bearing foreign flags. He also defended
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  Speaker 4: the deployment of approximately four thousand National Guard troops and
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  Speaker 4: seven hundred marines, citing their role in protecting ice agents
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  Speaker 4: and federal buildings.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Trump also called the protesters animals, a foreign enemy, and
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  Speaker 4: paid trouble makers, which we'll have more on that story
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  Speaker 4: of where the money's coming from for all of these protests,
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  Speaker 4: asserting that somebody's paying them and we now have an
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  Speaker 4: investigation into that. He warned that he would invoke the
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  Speaker 4: Insurrection Act if protests reach other cities, claiming he would
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  Speaker 4: send troops everywhere to maintain order.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Trump has framed the unrest as part of a broader threat,
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  Speaker 4: describing it as a full blown assault on peace, on
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  Speaker 4: public order, and national sovereignty. He directly challenged California leaders,
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  Speaker 4: calling Governor Gavin Newsom new scum and saying they are
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  Speaker 4: afraid to act. Brump also insists his forceful response demonstrates
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  Speaker 4: decisive leadership and exactly what the American people voted for.
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  Speaker 6: Well.
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  Speaker 4: The President was also at the Kennedy Center walking the
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  Speaker 4: red carpet with his wife, the First Lady, and he
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  Speaker 4: was asked about some of these decisions.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen, So will you be pulling back on
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  Speaker 2: the military.
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  Speaker 1: Will you be pulling back on the military presence in
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles and in California soon?
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  Speaker 2: What's the barometer are you're using going to be?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely if we weren't there. If we didn't bring in
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  Speaker 1: the National good and the Marines, you would probably have
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  Speaker 1: a city that was burning to the ground, just like
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  Speaker 1: it was a number of months ago with the housing.
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  Speaker 1: You would have had a big problem there. We were,
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  Speaker 1: In fact, the police chief said so much if you
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  Speaker 1: look at what his statements where he said, we're very
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  Speaker 1: lucky to have had that. If we weren't there, that
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  Speaker 1: city would have been burning to the ground, would be
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  Speaker 1: burning right.
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  Speaker 2: Now to some unrest. What are you prepared to do
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  Speaker 2: about what if this turns well?
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  Speaker 5: The protests have spread out of sixteen cities across the US.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you're saying.
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  Speaker 4: Do I believe you?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so well.
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  Speaker 1: I got the I can tell you that what we have.
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  Speaker 1: What we have is a situation in Los Angeles that
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  Speaker 1: was caused by gross in confidence. They didn't have the
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  Speaker 1: police to handle it. The police were asking us to
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  Speaker 1: come in. They were very late. We had to go
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  Speaker 1: in to save a lot of ice officers, as you know,
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  Speaker 1: who were held up. They were pulled up in a
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  Speaker 1: building and they were being attacked, and the military went in.
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  Speaker 1: The National Guarden went in and got them. The police
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  Speaker 1: weren't able, unfortunately to move fast enough. But we moved
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  Speaker 1: fast enough. And while we were there, we stayed there
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  Speaker 1: and we stopped tremendous destruction and death. We stopped death.
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  Speaker 1: We stopped a lot. And if you look at them
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  Speaker 1: cutting up and breaking up the sidewalk and getting it
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  Speaker 1: and using it as a weapon. Did you see that
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  Speaker 1: with the curb where they're breaking up the curb, nice
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  Speaker 1: curb and they break it up with a hammer because
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  Speaker 1: they couldn't get the bricks in. You know, they got
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  Speaker 1: caught with the bricks we have. I'm under arrest. They
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  Speaker 1: were bringing brickson to throw at our.
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  Speaker 4: Police, bringing in bricks to throw at our police. Who
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  Speaker 4: paid for the bricks is the big question now that
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  Speaker 4: everyone is asking.
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  Speaker 2: But the President is also calling on leaders governors.
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  Speaker 4: To take the lead, take a stand and stop the anarchy.
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  Speaker 4: And guess what many conservative governors are doing exactly that.
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  Speaker 4: The governor of Texas, for example, Greg Abbott, has proactively
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  Speaker 4: deployed the National Guard to San Antonio ahead of planned
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  Speaker 4: anti ice demonstrations. Gavin Newsom, that's how it's done. Texas,
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  Speaker 4: the governor said, will not be under siege like California.
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  Speaker 4: And that's exactly the type of leadership that so many
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  Speaker 4: Americans are looking for.
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