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Microlooting the Normalization of Crime plus The Reason behind the Comey Indicment · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 2: okay to have a nuclear weapon. We don't want to
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  Speaker 2: pope that says crime is okay in our city. I
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  Speaker 2: don't like it.
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  Speaker 2: He's a very liberal person and he's a.
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  Speaker 3: Man that doesn't believe is stopping crime.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 2: Good Sunday morning. Nice to have you with us on
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  Speaker 2: the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got two big
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  Speaker 2: stories for you. First up, Democrats are now justifying looting
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  Speaker 2: in this country. They're calling it micro looting and saying, well,
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  Speaker 2: big companies, they deserve to get things stolen from them.
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  Speaker 2: So what does this mean for the well complete breakdown
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  Speaker 2: of the law. We'll explain it. Also, James Comy, he's
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  Speaker 2: been indicted yet again. What's behind the latest indictment and
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  Speaker 2: what does this mean for him? We'll explain it all.
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  Speaker 2: It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 1: Story number one.
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  Speaker 2: I want to also bring up another really important story.
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  Speaker 2: We talk about the demise of civility in this country.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just the assassination attempts on President Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: We now have people advocating on the left for what
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  Speaker 2: they describe as micro looting. It is the progressive's defense
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  Speaker 2: of theft and it's literally undermining the moral order in
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  Speaker 2: this country. If you're wondering what the hot new trend
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  Speaker 2: is among Brooklyn progressives, and it's now gone viral, it's
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  Speaker 2: literally stealing from Whole Foods that according to a recent
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  Speaker 2: episode of The Opinions It's a New York Times podcast.
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  Speaker 2: This podcast they go into up micro looting, talking taking
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  Speaker 2: small things from big corporations and feeling justified. The full
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  Speaker 2: half hour discussion is something the late Tom Wolf could
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  Speaker 2: have written a satire. One of the hosts, who resides
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  Speaker 2: in a two point seven million West Hollywood mansion, and
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  Speaker 2: another one of the hosts who's family is sufficiently well
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  Speaker 2: off to run an a ledge human trafficking ring, present
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  Speaker 2: themselves as stalwart defenders of the poor and the down trot,
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  Speaker 2: engaged in radical actions against a violent system. You notice
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  Speaker 2: the same keywords they use against President Trump. Piker, one
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  Speaker 2: of the Hose, endorses stealing not just from Whole Foods,
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  Speaker 2: but also from other stores. Talantino says the other hosts
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  Speaker 2: blowing up pipelines is probably moral. Another hose does a
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  Speaker 2: lot of giggling, of course, in the process. It's unlikely
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  Speaker 2: that micro leading has much currency outside the circles in
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  Speaker 2: which these individuals run. More broadly, however, the endorsement of
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  Speaker 2: casual anti social behavior the City Journal Rights represents a
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  Speaker 2: genuine current on the American left of view that such
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  Speaker 2: conduct is permissible because it's really quote unquote the system
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  Speaker 2: that's unjust, so therefore you're justified in looting. That idea
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  Speaker 2: is likely to gain greater acceptance. We've seen it with
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  Speaker 2: lashmob looting of grocery stores and of males. It's worth
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  Speaker 2: saying clearly why it's wrong, and the fact that we're
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  Speaker 2: even having to do it now is even more shocking.
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  Speaker 2: But the radicals say, no, no, no, this is appropriate.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, they say it goes back to the sixties
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  Speaker 2: and the defense of louting and violence during twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 2: including NPR. Their interview with the author of a book
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  Speaker 2: called In Defense of Looting, shows you how far the
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  Speaker 2: propaganda has come. One of the hosts invoked that looting
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  Speaker 2: around the twenty twenty protests, which was. She says, such
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  Speaker 2: a huge talking point is made people so uncomfortable, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm curious, what do you think the root of that is?
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  Speaker 2: The idea that opposition of louting is confusing or in
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  Speaker 2: need of serious investigations not only ridiculous, but it's also alarming.
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  Speaker 2: The City Journal rights people just like looting because they
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  Speaker 2: would rather their stuff wasn't taken, especially by force. There's
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  Speaker 2: no deeper there there. Yet, many on the left and
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  Speaker 2: the friends believe that Americans have a barely suppressed taste
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  Speaker 2: for crime. Piker, for example, implies that many regard the
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  Speaker 2: murder of the United Health CEO. Yes, you can kill
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  Speaker 2: anybody you don't like. That's the left' mantra. Now, Brian
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  Speaker 2: Thompson was justified more than four or five more than
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  Speaker 2: four and five Actually do not see it that way,
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  Speaker 2: is what the polling data shows. But it's scary that
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  Speaker 2: one out of every five or one out of every
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  Speaker 2: four to five believe that you can kill the CEO
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  Speaker 2: of a company because you don't like them. This is
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  Speaker 2: the Democratic Party. This is what they believe. So whether
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  Speaker 2: it is this or let's just go back to they
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  Speaker 2: tried to kill President Trump hours ago and Democrats are
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  Speaker 2: out there saying this at the Fight Oligarchy rally. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: this is after, I want to be clear, the President's
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  Speaker 2: third assassination attempt. Here they are, in their own words.
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  Speaker 1: We need Democrats.
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  Speaker 4: We'll have the courage to stand up to the power
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  Speaker 4: brokers in our own party, let alone Trump and his guys.
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  Speaker 1: We don't back down. We don't back down.
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  Speaker 5: We don't back down.
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  Speaker 2: With all due respective, they go low, we don't go high.
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  Speaker 1: We take them to the mud.
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  Speaker 4: And choke them out.
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  Speaker 2: We take them to the mud and we choke them out.
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  Speaker 2: That is your Democratic candidate for the US Senate in Michigan,
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  Speaker 2: in Kalamazoo, Michigan. When they go low, we don't go high.
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  Speaker 2: We take them to the mud and choke them out.
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  Speaker 2: We kill them. So, whether it's Barack Obama claiming we
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  Speaker 2: don't know the White House correspondent Center Gumman's motives despite
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  Speaker 2: having a manifesto raving against Donald Trump, this is how
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  Speaker 2: they will try to rewrite everything. You think. That's the
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  Speaker 2: only one. Governor Roy Cooper, Democrat North Carolina, remember what
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  Speaker 2: he had to say.
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  Speaker 1: It a Biden.
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  Speaker 4: We are not going to let him because the position
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  Speaker 4: is already filled.
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  Speaker 1: We know that.
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump is an existential threat to our democracy and
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  Speaker 2: our nation, and we have to stop him. We are
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  Speaker 2: not We have to stop him. Donald Trump is an
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  Speaker 2: existential threat to our democracy in our nation. We have
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  Speaker 2: to stop him. Translation, go kill him. You had a
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  Speaker 2: room full of journalists that watched a radicalized member of
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  Speaker 2: their own audience act literally on their reporting. That is
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  Speaker 2: what we witnessed at the White House Correspondence dinner. And
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  Speaker 2: what do they have to say, Oh, well, never forget
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  Speaker 2: what they put on TV for a very long time.
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  Speaker 3: Sarcastic terrorism is right when a leader uses language that
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  Speaker 3: is more likely than not to radicalize.
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  Speaker 1: Democracy is on the ballot still, it's on the ballot.
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  Speaker 3: Democracy is on the ballot.
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  Speaker 5: Democracy is on the ballot.
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  Speaker 3: Democracy is on the ballot. Democracy is literally on the ballot.
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  Speaker 5: Democracy is on the ballot for this election.
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  Speaker 2: Vice President Harris has made very clear that democracy is
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  Speaker 2: on the ballot here.
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  Speaker 3: Democracy, of course, is, as the President likes to say,
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  Speaker 3: on the ballot. Terrorism experts call this stochastic terrorism, where
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  Speaker 3: somebody has been so demonized that it creates this heightened
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  Speaker 3: risk of loan of actors.
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump is turning this nation into Nazi Germany. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have a president, as you said, talking about exterminating
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  Speaker 2: right Latina. A reelection of Donald Trump put me in
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  Speaker 2: the end of democracy.
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  Speaker 4: This would be the end of America.
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  Speaker 3: An actual Trump led one of the empire is the
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  Speaker 3: end of democracy. Sypastic terrorism is a way of using
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  Speaker 3: language that is clearly meant to incite some percentage of
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  Speaker 3: the people listening for a violent purpose.
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  Speaker 4: What does that potentially do for unbalanced people out there?
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  Speaker 1: He is destructive to our democracy and he has to
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  Speaker 1: be He has to be eliminated.
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  Speaker 2: He has to be eliminated. That was a sitting member
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  Speaker 2: of Congress who said that. And then you have a
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  Speaker 2: room full of journalists who are there when one of
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  Speaker 2: their radicals that they created gave them the fuel, the ammunition.
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  Speaker 2: A guy who attended the No Kings protests in California,
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  Speaker 2: a guy who gave to Kamway Harris's campaign. This is
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  Speaker 2: who they are. They radicalized the people that killed Charlie Kirk.
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  Speaker 2: They radicalize the people that are trying to kill Nick Shirley.
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  Speaker 2: Nick Shirley went on TV exposing this, saying, I've had
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  Speaker 2: death threats. One of them was specific about the date
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  Speaker 2: it's supposed to be coming up soon the date they
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  Speaker 2: said they'd kill me. Last time I was in California,
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  Speaker 2: people were trying to dos my location live. So why
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  Speaker 2: did they go after Donald Trump? Because the leftist violence
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  Speaker 2: has been created by them? How do we get rid
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  Speaker 2: of looting by justifying the changing the name to saying
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  Speaker 2: that it's normal to steal from stores that have money?
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  Speaker 2: And what did the president do? He tried to bring
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  Speaker 2: the American people back together, while ABC News and their
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  Speaker 2: fake White House correspondent speech Jimmy Kimmel actually jokes about
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  Speaker 2: Trump's assassin and the room laughs. That is the media.
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  Speaker 1: Next story number two.
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  Speaker 2: Former FBI director James Comy has now been indicted by
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  Speaker 2: a federal grand jury for the second time in what
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  Speaker 2: is becoming one of the most politically charged legal battles
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  Speaker 2: in recent memory. Now, this latest indictment was handed down
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  Speaker 2: in North Carolina and its centers around a twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: five social media post a photo Comy shared showing seashells
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  Speaker 2: arranged to read eighty six forty seven. Prosecutors argue that
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  Speaker 2: phrase was a Now, prosecutors argue that that phrase was
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  Speaker 2: a clear threat against President Donald Trump because eighty six
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  Speaker 2: means to get rid of, and Trump is a forty
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  Speaker 2: seventh president. According to the US Department of Justice, Comy
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  Speaker 2: is now facing not one but two phony counts threatening
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  Speaker 2: the president and transmitting a threat in interstate commerce. Here's
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  Speaker 2: how it was announced on Fox News.
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  Speaker 4: Has indicted former FBI director James Comy for a second time.
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  Speaker 4: I've Justice corresponded David spot Scott the story.
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  Speaker 2: He's here in Washington.
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  Speaker 4: David, They're going to go at it again. John. They
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  Speaker 4: are going at it again, not even a year after
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  Speaker 4: they went at it after the first time. We're told
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  Speaker 4: this via several law enforcement sources. Were told this is
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  Speaker 4: related to an Instagram post from the former FBI director
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  Speaker 4: last year when he posted on the beach you may
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  Speaker 4: remember there was a formation of shells that said eighty
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  Speaker 4: six forty seven that were in that pairing of eighty
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  Speaker 4: six forty seven, and he said something along the lines
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  Speaker 4: of isn't this a curious formation that I just found
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  Speaker 4: while walking on the beach each Well. Critics to that
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  Speaker 4: post immediately pointed out that eighty six, at least in
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  Speaker 4: the restaurant world, means to get rid of or to
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  Speaker 4: kill something from a menu. Forty seven meeting the forty
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  Speaker 4: seventh President of the United States. So Komi did speak
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  Speaker 4: with the Secret Service, did speak with federal investigators at
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  Speaker 4: the time he was interviewed last spring or early last summer.
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  Speaker 4: Shortly after that happened. No charges were ever filed, But
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  Speaker 4: now it appears that he has been indicted. Today, we're
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  Speaker 4: working to learn more about the indictment. We're waiting to
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  Speaker 4: see if officials have anything to say on this. That
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  Speaker 4: is the post that you see right there, cool shell
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  Speaker 4: formation on my beach walk from former director.
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  Speaker 2: Now, this obviously is going to be very interesting, and
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  Speaker 2: what's also interesting is how the media is covering it.
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  Speaker 2: You heard how Fox is covering it, but listen to
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  Speaker 2: the difference when CNN brought it up on their program.
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  Speaker 5: We also know that there has been an investigation ongoing
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  Speaker 5: down in Florida around a broad swath of the Russia
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  Speaker 5: investigation many years ago, starting back in twenty sixteen, an
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  Speaker 5: investigation Comy had worked on until Donald Trump fired him
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  Speaker 5: as his FBI director. Could it be something related to that?
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  Speaker 5: A lot of questions here, But this is going to
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  Speaker 5: be a really interesting case moving forward because Komy had
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  Speaker 5: been indicted again and had been trying to make arguments
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  Speaker 5: in court the last time he faced charges in the fall,
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  Speaker 5: that he was being singled out for prosecution, that it
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  Speaker 5: was very unfair. You're very likely to see something like
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  Speaker 5: that again from his legal team, and I did try
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  Speaker 5: and reach out to them for more information. I have
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  Speaker 5: nothing back at this point on that front. We're still
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  Speaker 5: waiting borus.
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  Speaker 2: Now you also heard something very interesting there from CNN.
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  Speaker 2: They mentioned that there's also another investigation going on that
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  Speaker 2: deals with the Russia collusion investigation. Now, this was one
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  Speaker 2: of the most explosive political sagas in modern American history.
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  Speaker 2: And guess what, it's not over. In fact, it's back
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  Speaker 2: in the spotlight now in a major way. And you
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  Speaker 2: can hear CNN is trying to get ahead of it.
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  Speaker 2: And now it could also directly involve the former FBI
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  Speaker 2: director James Comy. Yet again, Now, let me just remind
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  Speaker 2: you of how all this got started. Back in twenty sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: the FBI launched what was known as Crossfire Hurricane. It
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  Speaker 2: was an investigation of whether Donald Trump campaign was coordinating
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  Speaker 2: with Russia. That probe ultimately led to the Special Counsel
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  Speaker 2: Robert Muller's investigation, which confirmed that Russia did interfere in
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  Speaker 2: the election, but did not establish a con criminal They
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  Speaker 2: claimed conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia. But now
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  Speaker 2: we're learning that the story doesn't end with the collusion
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  Speaker 2: hoax being declared a hoax. We now know that because
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  Speaker 2: of the Trump administration, they're saying, we're going to see
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  Speaker 2: exactly what happened here, because in twenty fifteen and into
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  Speaker 2: this yeardministration has reopened scrutiny into the origins of the
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  Speaker 2: Russian investigation, launching was effectively a new criminal probe into
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  Speaker 2: the investigators themselves that includes looking into figures we're being
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  Speaker 2: told like former CIA director John Brennan and yes, James Comy.
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  Speaker 2: According to the new reports, the FBI and the DOJ
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  Speaker 2: have begun examining whether Komy and others made not only
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  Speaker 2: false statements, but abused intelligence authorities and mishandled evidence during
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  Speaker 2: the origins of the original Russia investigation. At the same time,
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  Speaker 2: we now know newly declassified documents pushed by intelligence officials
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  Speaker 2: are also reigniting debate over whether there were efforts to
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  Speaker 2: shape or even influence the narrative, and that obviously is
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  Speaker 2: where things get complicated, and that's why the government is
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  Speaker 2: looking into all of this. US intelligence agencies concluded Russia
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  Speaker 2: did interfere in our elections, but they did not coordinate
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  Speaker 2: that interference with the Trump campaign. This is the biggest
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  Speaker 2: problem for James Kombe and others, and that's exactly why
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  Speaker 2: right now they're in now having to answer for their decisions.
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  Speaker 2: Because of course it was the FBI director James Komy
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  Speaker 2: who approved the key decisions early in the Russia investigation,
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  Speaker 2: and then he's the same guy that later briefed Congress
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  Speaker 2: about it. He was also, as you know, fired by
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  Speaker 2: President Trump in twenty seventeen, a move that helped trigger
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  Speaker 2: the mower probe in the first place. So you fast
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  Speaker 2: forward to right now. Kombe's now facing multiple legal challenges,
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  Speaker 2: including separate indictments unrelated to Russia. But at the same
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  Speaker 2: time he's also reported under scrutiny again for his role
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  Speaker 2: in that original investigation. It does mean that the chickens actually,
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  Speaker 2: for once, baby coming home to roost.
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