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DC Police Chief accused of ‘Cooking the Books’ on Crime plus Trump Classifies Fentanyl as a WMD · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 2: Good Tuesday morning. It's so nice to have you with
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  Speaker 2: two big stories for you that are not being covered
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  Speaker 2: by the mainstream media. First up, the United States Attorney
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  Speaker 2: for the District of Columbia, Judge Janine, said that her
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  Speaker 2: office has an investigation into the Metropolitan Police Department of
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  Speaker 2: DC and it has revealed widespread misclassification, deliberately of crime
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  Speaker 2: stats that made Washington, DC's crime levels appear lower than
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  Speaker 2: they actually were. How did they do it and how
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  Speaker 3: Story number one.
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  Speaker 2: What's easier than actually fighting crime? Well, if you're a Democrat, apparently,
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  Speaker 2: line about the crime stats to make it look like
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  Speaker 2: you're fighting crime is more important than actually saving American lives.
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  Speaker 2: We now know that is exactly what was happening in Washington, DC.
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  Speaker 2: The US Attorney judge Andine said that DC authorities were
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  Speaker 2: literally artificially deflating crime stats to manipulate the numbers to
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  Speaker 2: make it look like DC was safer than it actually was.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia,
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  Speaker 2: saying that her office is investigation into the Metropolitan Police
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  Speaker 2: Department revealed widespread miss classification of crime reports that made
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  Speaker 2: DC crime levels appear lower than they actually were, meaning
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  Speaker 2: fewer victims. The US Attorney for the District of Columbia
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  Speaker 2: revealed in a statement posted to her official ex account
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  Speaker 2: that in August of twenty twenty five, the United States
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  Speaker 2: Attorney's Office in DC began an investigation into the Metropolitan
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  Speaker 2: Police Department's reported deflation of crime statistics. The need for
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  Speaker 2: accurate information to fight crime, she went on to say,
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  Speaker 2: is essential, but that wasn't what Democrats were doing at
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  Speaker 2: all in DC. They just wanted to lie to the
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  Speaker 2: people while crime was out of control, saying it's not
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  Speaker 2: a as bad as you think it is. She went
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  Speaker 2: on to say this after review of almost six thousand
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  Speaker 2: reports and the interview of over fifty witnesses, it is
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  Speaker 2: evident that a significant number of reports had straight up
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  Speaker 2: been misclassified, making crime appear artificially lower than reality. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the uncovering of these manipulated crime stystics make clear that
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  Speaker 2: President Trump has reduced crime even more than originally thought.
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  Speaker 2: Since crimes were actually higher than reported, his crime fighting
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  Speaker 2: efforts have delivered even more safety to the people of
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  Speaker 2: the District of Columbia. Judge Janine concluded that quote, while
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  Speaker 2: the conduct did not rise to the level of a
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  Speaker 2: criminal charge, it is up to the MPD to take
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  Speaker 2: steps to internally address these underlying issues. Even more about
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  Speaker 2: this has broken since then, and the jow Dropping report
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  Speaker 2: has just come out from the House just to confirm
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  Speaker 2: what we all knew. The left wing DC police chief
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  Speaker 2: falsified crime statistics, cooking the books to make her city
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  Speaker 2: seem much safer than it actually was. Take a listen
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  Speaker 2: to this from.
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  Speaker 4: Fox Led a House Overside Committee now releasing a report
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  Speaker 4: accusing the outgoing DC police chief manipulating data to artificially
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  Speaker 4: lower crime statistics. Bill Malusian looking at the numbers, He's
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  Speaker 4: live on the Hill with this Bill. What you find out? Bill,
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  Speaker 4: Good morning to you.
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  Speaker 5: Those House Overside Committee Republicans say the bottom line of
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  Speaker 5: what their investigation found is that the outgoing DC Police
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  Speaker 5: chief was essentially cooking the books on crime data and
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  Speaker 5: trying to make the city seem a whole lot safer
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  Speaker 5: than it really was. Now, those House Republicans say what
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  Speaker 5: their investigation consisted of was interviewing all seven commanders of
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  Speaker 5: DC Metro Police's patrol districts, including a former commander who
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  Speaker 5: is currently suspended for allegedly ten mpering with crime stats
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  Speaker 5: in his own district. And these are some of the
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  Speaker 5: conclusions they've made in their report. They alleged that DC
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  Speaker 5: Metro Police Chief Pamela Smith pressured commanders to report lower
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  Speaker 5: crime stats by any means necessary. The commanders testified that
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  Speaker 5: Chief Smith even pushed them to pursue lesser charges that
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  Speaker 5: aren't publicly reported, even for serious crimes, and she required
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  Speaker 5: certain crimes to be reviewed by her office now. The
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  Speaker 5: report also says police commanders testified that Chief Smith punished
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  Speaker 5: them and retaliated against them if they tried to report
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  Speaker 5: accurate rising crime data, even braiding them in meetings and
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  Speaker 5: individually to pressure them into reporting those lower crime figures. Now.
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  Speaker 5: In a statement on the report, House Overside Committee Chairman
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  Speaker 5: James Comer says, in part quote, Chief Pamela Smith coerced
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  Speaker 5: staff to report artificially low crime data and cultivated a
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  Speaker 5: culture of fear to achieve her agenda.
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  Speaker 2: A culture of fear to attempt to attain her agenda.
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  Speaker 2: Pola Chief rigged the data. She didn't actually fight crime.
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  Speaker 2: She just lied about the crime stats, pressuring the commanders
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  Speaker 2: to report lower crime statistics, push them to pursue lesser
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  Speaker 2: charges for serious crimes. Required certain crimes to actually be
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  Speaker 2: reviewed by her office, not because she was afraid of
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  Speaker 2: what was happening on the streets in the district of Columbia. No no, no,
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  Speaker 2: no no, so that she could misclassify them so it
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't seem as dangerous and retaliated and punished individuals if
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  Speaker 2: they reported crimes accurately. You look at this data and
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  Speaker 2: you hear what I just played for you. It is
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  Speaker 2: shocking to know that this was how things are being run.
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  Speaker 2: We found out even more from Fox News Channel about
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  Speaker 2: all of this in a later report in the afternoon
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  Speaker 2: take at.
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  Speaker 6: All right and moments ago. US Attorney Janin Piro here
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  Speaker 6: in Washington, d C. Responding to allegations the DC crime
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  Speaker 6: data was manipulated by the outgoing police Chief Pamela Smith.
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  Speaker 6: That claim coming from a new House Oversight Committee report
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  Speaker 6: our Congressional correspondent Bill Malojia and with the latest on
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  Speaker 6: Capitol Hill, Bill well John.
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  Speaker 5: Republicans on the House Oversight Committee say their investigation concluded
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  Speaker 5: that this outgoing DC police chief was trying to make
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  Speaker 5: the city seem a whole lot safer than it really was,
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  Speaker 5: and she was doing it by allegedly cooking the books
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  Speaker 5: on crime statistics. So the Republicans on the committee say
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  Speaker 5: their investigation consisted of interviewing seven different DC Metro Police
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  Speaker 5: commanders who represent all of the patrol districts out here.
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  Speaker 5: That included a former commander who's currently suspended for allegedly
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  Speaker 5: tampering with crime stats in his own district. And these
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  Speaker 5: are some of the conclusions they've made in their report.
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  Speaker 5: Number one, they alleged that DC Metro Police Chief Pamela
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  Speaker 5: Smith pressured commit to report lower crime stats by any
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  Speaker 5: means necessary. Commanders testified that Chief Smith pushed them to
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  Speaker 5: pursue lesser charges that aren't publicly reported, even for serious crimes,
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  Speaker 5: and she also required certain crimes to be reviewed by
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  Speaker 5: her office. In a statement on this report. House Overside
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  Speaker 5: Committee Chairman James Comer says, in part quote, Chief Pamela
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  Speaker 5: Smith coerced staff to report artificially low crime data and
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  Speaker 5: cultivated a culture of fear to achieve her agenda. Chief
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  Speaker 5: Smith's decision to mislead the public by manipulating crime stats
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  Speaker 5: is dangerous and undermined trust in both local leadership and
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  Speaker 5: law enforcement. Meanwhile, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser was asked to
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  Speaker 5: respond to the House Overside Committee Republicans' findings earlier this morning.
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  Speaker 5: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see any evidence of that if the claim is,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't think anybody is demonstrated that the police
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  Speaker 1: chief directed anybody to change numbers when those when the
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  Speaker 1: committee provides me their backup information, which they haven't, and
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  Speaker 1: the committee provided the report to the Washington Post before
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  Speaker 1: they provided it to us. Highly unusual when you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about an audit of numbers.
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  Speaker 5: And John just moments ago, the US Attorney here in
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  Speaker 5: d C, Janine Piro, responded to this report. She put
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  Speaker 5: out a statement on X which essentially says that yes,
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  Speaker 5: these crime stats were manipulated, and the manipulation of that
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  Speaker 5: data shows that President Trump has reduced crime here in
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  Speaker 5: DC a whole lot more than initially thought. She went
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  Speaker 5: on to say that what happened here with the crime
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  Speaker 5: stats does not rise to the level of any criminal
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  Speaker 5: charges or a crime, but that the DC Police Department
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  Speaker 5: has to change their practices moving forward. Well, send it
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  Speaker 5: back to.
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  Speaker 6: You, yeah, I another Before everything changed in this summer, we
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  Speaker 6: were all hearing, well, the crime is down in DC,
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  Speaker 6: and none of us said anything to peg that toos.
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  Speaker 2: None of us had any of that to peg it to.
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  Speaker 2: So the DC Police chief manipulating the crime data, artificially
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  Speaker 2: lowering the crime stats, and coerced staff to report low
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  Speaker 2: data and cultivated a culture of fear to achieve her agenda,
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  Speaker 2: and didn't punish the criminals. She punished the DC police
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  Speaker 2: officers to pursue lesser charges for serious crimes. This is
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  Speaker 2: the Democratic Party and it's exactly why Donald Trump won
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  Speaker 2: the election. It's also exactly why he's fighting crime all
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  Speaker 2: over the country and sending in the National Guard, because
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  Speaker 2: even in cities where Democrats claim crime was dropping, they
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  Speaker 2: were flat out lying and cooking the books.
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  Speaker 3: Now story number two, President.
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  Speaker 2: Trump has made it very clear that he believes that
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  Speaker 2: Fetnolm is a national security threat. It is killing in
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  Speaker 2: essence a plane of Americans every single day. No one
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  Speaker 2: in this country would stand for a plane crash every day,
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  Speaker 2: of innocent Americans crashing to the ground. But that's the
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  Speaker 2: equivalent of what is happening at the hands of narcotra.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump is moving forward with an idea of classifying
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  Speaker 2: fetanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. That's right, President
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  Speaker 2: Trump saying on Monday that he was classifying fetanyl as
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  Speaker 2: a weapon of mass destruction, ramping up his administration's campaign
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  Speaker 2: against drug cartels in Latin America. Quote, no bomb does
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  Speaker 2: what this is doing. Two hundred to three hundred thousand
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  Speaker 2: people die every year that we know of. Trump set
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  Speaker 2: at the signing of an executive order that places fetanol
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  Speaker 2: in the same category as nuclear and chemical weapons. In
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, the Sentence for Disease Control and Prevention
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  Speaker 2: report an estimated total of about eighty thousand overdose deaths
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  Speaker 2: in the country, with some forty eight thousand of those
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  Speaker 2: due to synthetic opioids. The executive order set ilicit fetanyl
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  Speaker 2: is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic and
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  Speaker 2: that it threatens our national security and fuel is lawlessness
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  Speaker 2: in our hemisphere and at our borders. The FETANL classification
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  Speaker 2: ties in with the Trump administration's war against alleged narco terraces,
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  Speaker 2: which has included a military campaign targeting drug smuggling boats
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  Speaker 2: with strikes that have left nearly ninety people dead since
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  Speaker 2: early September. While Trump argues that destroying each of the
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  Speaker 2: more than twenty intercepted vessels saves twenty five thousand American lives,
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  Speaker 2: the left is furious that the president would actually go
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  Speaker 2: after boats carrying cocaine and fetnyl and other synthetic opioids
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  Speaker 2: driving the overdose crisis. Leave it to the Democratic Party
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  Speaker 2: to defend the terrorists instead of protecting American citizens. Trump
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  Speaker 2: is a coming to strikes with a massive military build
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  Speaker 2: up as well in the Caribbean that includes the world's
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  Speaker 2: largest aircraft carrier and a slew of other warships, while
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  Speaker 2: a string of US military aircraft have flown along Venezuela's
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  Speaker 2: co in recent weeks.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 2: While Trump and his administration say the target of the
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  Speaker 2: military build up is drug trafficking, Venezuela as radical narco
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  Speaker 2: terrorist leader Maduro, is accusing Washington of using narcotics smuggling
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  Speaker 2: as a pretext for what he says is regime change
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  Speaker 2: in Caracas. The United States has sought to link the
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  Speaker 2: two issues, and Donald Trump is leading on it, accusing
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  Speaker 2: Maduro of leading the alleged Cartel of the Sons, which
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  Speaker 2: is declared to narco terrorist organization, and now offering a
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  Speaker 2: fifty million dollar reward for information leading to Maduro's capture.
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  Speaker 2: So this is yet again another campaign promise that has
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  Speaker 2: now turned into reality. President Trump said he was going
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  Speaker 2: to do everything he could to keep Americans safe from fetnol,
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  Speaker 2: and this is one step forward in classifying the drug
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  Speaker 2: in a way that now allows him even more authority
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  Speaker 2: to go after those that are selling it, those that
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  Speaker 2: are shipping it, and those that are producing it.
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