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Trump Sets the Table for Peace with Putin plus Schiff Accused of Leaking Classified Intel · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on US
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  Speaker 1: Soul together, first time a leader from Russia has been
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  Speaker 1: the US since nineteen eighty eight, and they shared a
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  Speaker 1: handshake on the Tarmact Joint Base Richardson in Alaska before
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  Speaker 1: departying together in Donald Trump's presidential limousine, known as the Beast,
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  Speaker 1: for the high stakes meeting to discuss the war in Ukraine. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the two men were smiling when they shook hands for
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  Speaker 1: the camera. Trump arrived in Alaska at about ten twenty
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  Speaker 1: am local time, while Putin's plane landed around ten point fifty.
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  Speaker 1: The two leaders descended their respective planes and walked a
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  Speaker 1: red carpet. Now. The President also was asked on his plane,
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  Speaker 1: Air Force one, on the way to Alaska about what
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  Speaker 1: his expectations were for the summit. This is what he
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  Speaker 1: had to say to Brett Baer on Fox News Channel
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  Speaker 1: in an excerpt.
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  Speaker 2: What are your expectations?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, is the goal of this meeting in Alaska
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  Speaker 3: to walk away with his.
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  Speaker 4: So when you talk about deals, it's all I do
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  Speaker 4: my whole life. I do deals.
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  Speaker 5: You never know, you don't like to have too many expectations.
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  Speaker 5: You want it because you have to weave and Bob
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  Speaker 5: and you don't know what's going to happen, but we're
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  Speaker 5: going to go and find out. I'd like to see
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  Speaker 5: a ceasefire. I wouldn't be thrilled if I didn't get it.
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  Speaker 5: But everyone says you're not going to get the seat fire.
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  Speaker 5: It'll take place on the second meeting. The second meeting
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  Speaker 5: is going to be very but I'm not going to
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  Speaker 5: be happy with that, So we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to be.
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  Speaker 5: I won't be happy if I walk away without some
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  Speaker 5: form of a ceasefire.
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  Speaker 4: Now I say this, and I've said it from the beginning.
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  Speaker 4: This is really setting the table today.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to have another meeting if things work out,
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  Speaker 5: which will be very soon, or we're not going to
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  Speaker 5: have any more meetings at all, maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Ever, or we're not going to have any meetings in
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  Speaker 1: the future, like ever at all, maybe never the present,
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  Speaker 1: making it quick, or what this meeting needs to look like,
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  Speaker 1: and what he believes success will look like in a meeting.
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  Speaker 1: The President also saying, look, if he's not there to
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  Speaker 1: actually work a deal, then we are not going to
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  Speaker 1: waste our time. He would be willing to walk away
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  Speaker 1: from a deal if it is or from Vladimir Putin
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  Speaker 1: if it is not serious. Trump also said this about
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  Speaker 1: is it fair for him to negotiate on behalf of Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen, So if you were to paint a
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  Speaker 1: picture of what perfect looks like coming out of Alaska today,
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  Speaker 1: what does that look like in your mind?
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  Speaker 4: Look, it's not for me to negotiate a deal.
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  Speaker 5: For Ukraine, but I can certainly set the table to
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  Speaker 5: negotiate the deal. And our next meeting will have President
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  Speaker 5: Zelenski and President Putin.
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  Speaker 4: And probably me.
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  Speaker 5: I'd like to focus on doing our country, but you know,
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  Speaker 5: I get these interruptions.
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  Speaker 4: I've solved six wars in six.
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  Speaker 5: Months when you think about it, and that's from Pakistan
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  Speaker 5: to India that was going to be a terrible one.
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  Speaker 5: Planes being shot down that was getting ready to flare,
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  Speaker 5: and then nuclear powers.
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  Speaker 1: As you heard President Trump say, it's not for me
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  Speaker 1: to negotiate a deal for Ukraine, but I can certainly
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  Speaker 1: set the table to negotiate that deal. And that's exactly
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  Speaker 1: one of the presidents, meaning face to face with Vladimir Putin.
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  Speaker 2: Now, don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: The media is doing what the media always does, trying
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  Speaker 1: to undermine the President of the United States of America.
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  Speaker 2: NBC News MSNBC.
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  Speaker 1: This is what they had to say as the two
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  Speaker 1: world leaders met on the red carpet. Now you've got
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  Speaker 1: to understand this is a simple handshake that they've witnessed
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  Speaker 1: at MSNBC. And what did John Brennan say, Well, listen carefully, doctor.
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  Speaker 6: Brennan, what are your thoughts when you see Trump touched Putin.
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  Speaker 6: I've counted at least four times, you know, an arm
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  Speaker 6: on the shoulder, a hand on a hand. I can't
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  Speaker 6: imagine touching somebody like that after knowing about and seeing
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  Speaker 6: recording like Ali Bell, she's out of boot chat your
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  Speaker 6: thoughts well.
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  Speaker 7: As Ali's interview demonstrated, there are so many individual stories
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  Speaker 7: about just the horrendous suffering that the Ukrainian people have
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  Speaker 7: gone through.
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  Speaker 4: But it's the scale of the suffering.
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  Speaker 7: Putin is responsible for well over one million deaths Ukrainians
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  Speaker 7: and Russians, probably three or four times as many wounded
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  Speaker 7: and maimed. The scale of the atrocities and his targeting,
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  Speaker 7: intentional targeting of civilians makes I think that image of
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  Speaker 7: the red carpet greeting from the President United States, particularly odious.
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  Speaker 7: It is really quite something that an international pariah who
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  Speaker 7: has been responsible for so much destruction over the past
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  Speaker 7: several years is welcomed.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 7: I know that we need to be able to bring
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  Speaker 7: the fighting Ukraine to an end, and unfortunately, you know,
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  Speaker 7: the only present we have right now is Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 7: And so I do believe that both Donald Trump and
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  Speaker 7: Lami Putin do not want this meeting to be an
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  Speaker 7: abject failure. I think they both have a stake and
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  Speaker 7: seeing something come out of it. But I do detect
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  Speaker 7: Donald Trump's nervousness. I think he does have some butterflies
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  Speaker 7: in his stomach because he knows that he has long
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  Speaker 7: over committed what he can do in terms of bringing
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  Speaker 7: this war to a close.
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  Speaker 1: You listen to John Brennan there, it's amazing. I do
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  Speaker 1: detect Donald Trump's nervousness. This is the President of smiling,
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  Speaker 1: coming off of Air Force One, getting on a red
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  Speaker 1: carpet meeting Vladimir Putin, shaking hands for the cameras, and
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  Speaker 1: he said, but I think he does have some butterflies
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  Speaker 1: in his stomach. Obviously, John Brennan doesn't know what the
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  Speaker 1: hell he's talking about, or anybody else for that matter
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  Speaker 1: who is watching this happen in real time. No, the
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  Speaker 1: President did not seem nervous at all. No, the president
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  Speaker 1: you would have no idea if he had butterflies in
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  Speaker 1: his stomach. By the way, the two leaders have met
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  Speaker 1: multiple times before. This is not some crazy thing that's happening.
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  Speaker 1: And yet what is the media doing everything they can
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  Speaker 1: to tear down the president? What does the president's goal here?
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  Speaker 1: The President's goal is very simple, to get a deal
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  Speaker 1: to save lives, to stop a war, to stop a
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  Speaker 1: war that's been going on for years, and to stop
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  Speaker 1: the senseless killing of young men, women and children in
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  Speaker 1: both of these countries, all because of Vladimir Putin. He's
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  Speaker 1: also trying to do it quickly. Why would we want
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  Speaker 1: to drag this on? And what is the media doing
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  Speaker 1: telling you every reason why they think Donald Trump will
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  Speaker 1: be a failure at this summit, and even criticizing the
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  Speaker 1: President United Sisma saying I don't even know how he
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  Speaker 1: can touch this man. How can he touch this man
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  Speaker 1: that has done such evil? The President United States of America.
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  Speaker 1: Guess what has to put those types of feelings aside
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  Speaker 1: when you're trying to negotiate peace between two nations, and
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  Speaker 1: so yes, Donald Trump is going to shake the hand
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  Speaker 1: of Ladimir Putin. Yes, he put his hand on his
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  Speaker 1: shoulder as well. Yes, you don't want to go in
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  Speaker 1: this meeting hating each other if you want to get
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  Speaker 1: a deal done. This is what I would describe as
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  Speaker 1: the literally art of the deal. So here we are,
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  Speaker 1: the two men are meeting as we speak. Hopefully they're
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  Speaker 1: getting something done in a positive way. Hopefully they'll get
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  Speaker 1: a deal done that makes sense for everyone involved. And
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  Speaker 1: hopefully they'll get to a point where they can go
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  Speaker 1: to Zelenski and say, Okay, this is what it's looking like.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start the negotiations. And by the way, working towards
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  Speaker 1: a ceasefire quickly is another huge part of this conversation.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, NBCMSNBCS aren't the only ones that
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  Speaker 1: are doing this. Turn it over to see it in
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  Speaker 1: former Obama Chief of Staff Rob Emmanuel saying this about
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  Speaker 1: the Alaska summit yet again, hoping it's a failure.
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  Speaker 8: When cease fire, whatever happens, there will be a tabulation
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  Speaker 8: of the win loss here, both body count, economically, strategically,
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  Speaker 8: what's happened to Russia. That's why slightly the red carpet.
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  Speaker 8: They are cheering back muscle because the isolation and this
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  Speaker 8: was a freebie, a total freebie without literally you cannot
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  Speaker 8: where's America's scorecard from kind of how you measure this.
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  Speaker 8: That's why I worry about President Tump putting his own
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  Speaker 8: personal interests ahead of America's national security.
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  Speaker 1: Interest Ram Emmanuel, I worry about President Trump putting his
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  Speaker 1: own personal interests ahead of America's national security interests? Are
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  Speaker 1: you kidding me? This is now what he's saying. Let's
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  Speaker 1: also talk about the reality. The reality is the US
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  Speaker 1: economy is strong. Russia is not. And that's part of
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  Speaker 1: the reason why this summit is probably happening, because Russia's
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  Speaker 1: in a major hole right now when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: their cash flow. Let me just give you some examples
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  Speaker 1: of what's happening right now. Russia is running literally out
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  Speaker 1: of cash. It is in a severe stagnation or stagflation,
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  Speaker 1: depending on how you want to describe it. Potatoes are
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  Speaker 1: up sixty two percent, butter up thirty breught up eighteen
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  Speaker 1: percent of interest rates to the high eighteen percent stagflation.
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  Speaker 1: Russia is losing at least three hundred million a day
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  Speaker 1: on its war in Ukraine. That war is eating up
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  Speaker 1: about forty percent of the Russian government spending. Let that
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  Speaker 1: sink in and you understand what advantage we have. In
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  Speaker 1: a bombshell report, a democratic whistleblower has come forward, a
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  Speaker 1: long time staffer on the House Intelligence Committee and told
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  Speaker 1: the FBI back in December of twenty seventeen, during Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump's first year in office, that then Representative Adam Schiff
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  Speaker 1: authorized the leaking of classified information during the Russia Gate
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  Speaker 1: investigation to discredit President Donald Trump, believing that he would
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  Speaker 1: be appointed CIA director under a potential Hillary Clinton presidency.
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  Speaker 1: In meetings, Adam Shift allegedly stated the leaks would be
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  Speaker 1: used to indict President Trump. When the whistleblower objected, others
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  Speaker 1: reportedly reassured him that they would not quote be caught.
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  Speaker 1: The whistleblower described a system where sense of material was
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  Speaker 1: funneled to Shift and then selectively leaked to the press.
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  Speaker 1: One document allegedly seen by a small group including Shift
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  Speaker 1: and Representative Eric Swalwell, you remember the congressman that was
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  Speaker 1: literally sleeping with a Chinese spy, was leaked almost verbatim
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  Speaker 1: within a day. The whistle blower labeled these actions unethical
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  Speaker 1: and potentially treasonous, and sought FBI involvement, though the Department
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  Speaker 1: of Justice reportedly declined to pursue the investigation further. The
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  Speaker 1: White House Press secretary calling the report a bombshell, signing
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  Speaker 1: the newly released FBI documentation about the whistleblower's account. Here's
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  Speaker 1: more of what Caroline Levitt had to say when she
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  Speaker 1: was asked about it in the White House Briefing Room BEKA.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks Caroline.
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  Speaker 9: My question involves Russia Gate.
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  Speaker 10: A whistleblower alleges that the Congressman Adam Shift approved leaking
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  Speaker 10: classified information to smear President Trump's.
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  Speaker 4: Image during the Russia g scandal.
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  Speaker 10: As a president planned to investigate Adam Shift.
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  Speaker 11: And what would accountability look like if more information.
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  Speaker 10: Confirms the support The President has already said he wants
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  Speaker 10: to see Adam Schiff held accountable for the countless lies
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  Speaker 10: he told the American people in relation to the Russia
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  Speaker 10: Gate scandal. I brought Tulsey Gabbert out to this podium
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  Speaker 10: to talk to you about all of that, and this
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  Speaker 10: administration is taking accountability very seriously. As for this new
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  Speaker 10: FBI whistleblower report, I understand cash Pattel last Night declassified
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  Speaker 10: a three h two FBI document showing that a whistleblower
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  Speaker 10: who is a Democrat, a career intelligence officer who worked
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  Speaker 10: for Democrats on the House Intel Committee for more than
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  Speaker 10: a decade, repeatedly warned the FBI in twenty seventeen that
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  Speaker 10: then Rep. Adams shiff had approved leaking classified information to
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  Speaker 10: smear then President Donald Trump over the rush Agate scandal.
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  Speaker 10: This is obviously a bombshell whistleblower report. Hopefully more people
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  Speaker 10: in this room will cover it as such. And I
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  Speaker 10: have a quote from the FBI Director for all of you.
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  Speaker 10: He has said this for years to certain officials use
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  Speaker 10: their positions to selectively leak classified information to shape political narratives.
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  Speaker 10: It was all done with one purpose, to weaponize intelligence
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  Speaker 10: and law enforcement for political gain. Those abuses eroded public
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  Speaker 10: trust in our institutions. The FBI will now lead the charge,
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  Speaker 10: with our partners at DOJ and Congress will have the
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  Speaker 10: chance to uncover how political power may have been weaponized
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  Speaker 10: and to restore accountability. That's what the administration is focused on,
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  Speaker 10: and hopefully we'll see some more media reports on this
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  Speaker 10: whistleblower allegation. If this were first, if this were if
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  Speaker 10: this were allegations against the President or any of these
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  Speaker 10: cabinet officials, I'm sure everyone in this room would cover
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  Speaker 10: it as such.
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  Speaker 1: Carolyn Levitt, by the way, is absolutely right. The media
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  Speaker 1: is not covering the story. Thank goodness, we're covering it.
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  Speaker 1: And also they had a very interesting way of covering
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  Speaker 1: this at Fox News on Brett Baar's show, I want
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  Speaker 1: you to hear the latest of what he had to
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  Speaker 1: say from Washington other store.
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  Speaker 3: We're following tonight. California Senator Adam Schiff is being accused
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  Speaker 3: by a fellow Democrat of leaking classified information relating to
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  Speaker 3: the Russia Gate scandal. Shiff's office is denying those claims.
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  Speaker 3: Senior Congressional correspondent Chad Program has all the details this
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  Speaker 3: evening from Capitol Hill.
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  Speaker 2: Treasonous and illegal.
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  Speaker 12: That's how a Democratic whistleblower characterized Adam Schiff, accusing him
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  Speaker 12: of green lighting the leak of classified information to undercut
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  Speaker 12: President Trump during the twenty seventeen Russia Gate investigation.
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  Speaker 10: The President has already said he wants to see Adam
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  Speaker 10: Shiff held accountable for the count lies he told the
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  Speaker 10: American people in relation to the Russia Gates scandal.
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  Speaker 12: The whistleblower was a veteran House Intelligence Committee staffer. The
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  Speaker 12: FBI summary obtained by Fox says Schiff told Aids he
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  Speaker 12: would quote leak classified information which was derogatory to the
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  Speaker 12: president in hopes of scoring an indictment for the commander
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  Speaker 12: in chief.
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  Speaker 2: It's beyond unseemly.
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  Speaker 13: This was just an egregious breach and a really a
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  Speaker 13: reprehensible act on the part of Adam.
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  Speaker 12: Schiff's office calls this baseless smears, saying the whistleblower was
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  Speaker 12: quote not reliable, not credible, and was fired. Schiff was
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  Speaker 12: the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee as it
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  Speaker 12: probed possible twenty sixteen election interference.
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  Speaker 14: If the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it aided
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  Speaker 14: or abetted the Russians, it would not only be a
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  Speaker 14: serious crime, it would also represent one of the most
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  Speaker 14: shocking betrayals of democracy in history.
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  Speaker 12: Schiff, who led the democrats first impeachment of President Trump,
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  Speaker 12: now faces an unrelated criminal investigation for alleged mortgage fraud.
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  Speaker 5: Now it looks like Adam Schiff really did a bad thing.
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  Speaker 12: They have them, Democrats say the GOP is trying to
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  Speaker 12: shift the.
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  Speaker 2: Narrative look This is a nonsense.
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  Speaker 13: This is an effort to change the subject away from
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  Speaker 13: the Epstein files.
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  Speaker 12: The FBI summary indicates that Schiff hope Hillary Clinton would
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  Speaker 12: win in twenty sixteen. Shiff aspired to run the CIA.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine if Adam Schiff was running the CIA
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  Speaker 1: what he would have done knowing that apparently he was
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  Speaker 1: leaking this type of classified information totally to take down
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  Speaker 1: the present of the United States of America. So when
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  Speaker 1: you look back over this issue moving forward, yes there
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  Speaker 1: should be accountability. There are some saying, Wow, this shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be an issue of accountability. Let's just move on from it.
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  Speaker 1: If you're saying that, I think you're insane. Because these
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  Speaker 1: people went totally outside of the time and time again
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  Speaker 1: they abuse their power to try to overthrow the will
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  Speaker 1: of the people. And that's exactly why the White House
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  Speaker 1: reacted to this democratic whistleblower as a bombshell, and it's
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  Speaker 1: also the reason why the media in general is not
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  Speaker 1: covering it. Jonathan Turley, breaking down the latest allegations against
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  Speaker 1: Adam Shift, had this to say about it.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 11: Welcome back Democrat Senator Adam Shift. He's known to shift
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  Speaker 11: the narrative, particularly on the Russia collusion hoax.
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  Speaker 13: This is about his clear evidence you could find of
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  Speaker 13: intent by the campaign to collude with the Russians. He
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  Speaker 13: may be the first president in quite some time to
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  Speaker 13: face the real prospect of jail time. The Russians offered help,
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  Speaker 13: the campaign accepted help, The Russians gave help, and the
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  Speaker 13: President made full.
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  Speaker 2: Use of that help.
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  Speaker 13: The evidence is now overwhelming and unequivocal.
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  Speaker 11: There is reporting almost testifying as to evidence linking dot
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  Speaker 11: Trump to Russia. Newly released FBI memos, By the Way,
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  Speaker 11: obtained by Fox show a Democrat whistleblower who's accusing Adam
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  Speaker 11: Schiff of green lighting a leak of classified information in
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  Speaker 11: order to damage Trump during the Russia Gate investigation.
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  Speaker 2: The source recalled the following. In the meeting, Shifts.
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  Speaker 11: Stated the group would leak classified information which was derogatory
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  Speaker 11: to President of the United States Donald J.
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  Speaker 2: Trump.
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  Speaker 11: Shifts stated the information would be used to indict President Trump.
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  Speaker 11: Someone stated this would be illegal, and upon hearing his concerns,
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  Speaker 11: an unnamed member of the meeting reassured that certain someone
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  Speaker 11: they would not be caught leaking classified information.
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  Speaker 2: No weather ever going to get caught woots.
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  Speaker 11: FBI Director Cash Pattel posted, we found it. We declassified it.
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  Speaker 11: Now Congress can see how classified info was leaked to
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  Speaker 11: shape political narratives and decide if our institutions were weaponized
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  Speaker 11: against the am Mayamerican people. Shift is saying, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 11: Wait a minute, Wait a minute, wit a minute. I'm
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  Speaker 11: not guilty of leaking classified information. Those baseless smears are
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  Speaker 11: based on allegations that were found to be not reliable,
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  Speaker 11: not credible, and uncnstantiated from a disgruntled former staffer who
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  Speaker 11: was fired by the House Intel Committee for cause in
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  Speaker 11: twenty seventeen, including for harassment and potentially compromising activity on
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  Speaker 11: official travel for the committee. You want me to think
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  Speaker 11: about official travel for the Committe when I'm sitting here
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  Speaker 11: concerned about you leaking classified information? Joining me now, George
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  Speaker 11: Washington University law professor and Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley,
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  Speaker 11: Professor's great to see you here today. Leaking classified information.
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  Speaker 11: That's a potentially very serious charge, is it not.
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  Speaker 15: It doesn't get much more serious than that. The Chairman
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  Speaker 15: of the House Intel Committee doesn't have declassification authority over
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  Speaker 15: these types of documents. They are made available to Congress
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  Speaker 15: under very tightly controlled rules. This has been a source
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  Speaker 15: of tension for years, and members of both parties have
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  Speaker 15: gone out of their way to assure that this material
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  Speaker 15: would be closely held and not weaponized. Shift was viewed
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  Speaker 15: it is one of the most political chairs of that
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  Speaker 15: committee in its history, and this is an truly chilling
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  Speaker 15: account if true. Now, when I first read it, frankly,
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  Speaker 15: I was taken aback because it's perfectly moronic to commit
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  Speaker 15: such a felony with a planning conference meeting with staff.
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  Speaker 15: That's not usually how things are leaked in Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 15: What makes this different, will is that this was a
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  Speaker 15: statement made to FBI agents. The person who made this
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  Speaker 15: statement was no doubt aware that lyning to FBI agents
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  Speaker 15: is not just a crime, but a crime that was
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  Speaker 15: repeatedly prosecuted during prior administrations, including the Obama and Biden administrations.
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  Speaker 15: So making this statement puts you at risk. That's why
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  Speaker 15: someone's lying here, and someone's a fellon.
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  Speaker 1: The question now is do you believe Adam Schiff or
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  Speaker 1: is Adam Schiff the felon and maybe the liar all
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  Speaker 1: at the same time. We're going to keep covering this one.
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  Speaker 1: I can promise you that it is Democrats' biggest fear.
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  Speaker 1: Law and order returning state by state and states now
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  Speaker 1: working with the Trump administration and ICE officials. Specifically, we
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  Speaker 1: now have three states that have signed a new agreement
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  Speaker 1: with ICE for quote expanded immigration enforcement operations. These three
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  Speaker 1: states include West Virginia, South Dakota, and Arkansas, all signing
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  Speaker 1: the agreements with the Department of Homeland Securities, US Immigration
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  Speaker 1: and Customs Enforcement to specifically, they say, ramp up immigration
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  Speaker 1: enforcement within their jurisdictions. West Virginia was the first one one.
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  Speaker 1: The governor there, Patrick Morsey, announce a robust collaboration under
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  Speaker 1: Section two eight seven G of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
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  Speaker 1: This agreement enlists the West Virginia State Police, Corrections and
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  Speaker 1: Rehabilitation Division and the National Guard to assist ICE in
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  Speaker 1: immigration enforcement. Translation, if you're an a legal immigrant, you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to be in West Virginia right now now.
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  Speaker 1: Under this task force structure, officers can quote interrogate anyone
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  Speaker 1: suspected of being an undocumented immigrant. Number two process immigration
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  Speaker 1: violations for individuals already rested for other offenses. Three conduct
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  Speaker 1: warrantless arrests if an individual is seen and suspected to
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  Speaker 1: be a flight risk pending a warrant, four serve immigration warrants,
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  Speaker 1: administer oas, collect fingerprints and gas their evidence, and five
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  Speaker 1: issue immigration detainers and hold individuals in correctional facilities before
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  Speaker 1: transferring them to ICE custy under federal supervision. You look
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  Speaker 1: at what has happened in South Dakota. The governor there,
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  Speaker 1: as part of his quote Operation Prairie Thunder, a public
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  Speaker 1: safety initiative, will now have the South Dakota Highway Patrols
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  Speaker 1: support ICE, with the rest announcing it today. The National
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  Speaker 1: Guard assists with the processing and administrative tasks as well,
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  Speaker 1: and the Department of Corrections will help transport detainees, identify
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  Speaker 1: undocumented individuals within state prisons and parole them into ICE custody.
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  Speaker 1: You then move to Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, former
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  Speaker 1: White House pre Secretary under Donald Trump, signing the Defense
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  Speaker 1: Against Criminal Illegals Act, which definitively increases penalties for undocumented
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  Speaker 1: immigrants can to violent crimes, again saying to legal immigrants,
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to be in Arkansas. It also, with
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  Speaker 1: this new agreement allows sheriffs to apply for the two
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  Speaker 1: eight seven G authority to serve immigration warrants on those
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  Speaker 1: already in custody, and Sarah Huckebee Center's announcing this enables
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  Speaker 1: the Arkansas State Police to stop individuals in public inquire
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  Speaker 1: about immigration status and potentially arrest suspected undocumented immigrants. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you think they're doing this lighthearted, you're wrong. For example,
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  Speaker 1: in Arkansas, there is training required, a forty hour online
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  Speaker 1: course covering scope immigration law, civil rights, cross cultural issues,
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  Speaker 1: as well as liability. Doing this in a responsible way.
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  Speaker 1: Now you may be asking what is ICE two to
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  Speaker 1: eight seven G program. Well, let me explain to you
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  Speaker 1: the broader context of how this is being used by
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  Speaker 1: the Trump administration. The program enables state and local officers
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  Speaker 1: after ICE provided training, to carry out certain immigration enforcement
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  Speaker 1: duties under ICE supervision. That is why there's a collaboration
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  Speaker 1: here and why they are having to sign on to
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  Speaker 1: the program.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: As of August thirteenth, ICE has executed eight hundred and
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  Speaker 1: ninety seven agreements across forty states, including various models such
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  Speaker 1: as jail enforcement, warrant service, and task force operations.
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  Speaker 2: The Trump administration has.
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  Speaker 1: Significantly accelerated these partnerships, growing from around one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: thirty five to over seven hundred agreements in early twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five alone.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, the left.
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  Speaker 1: Is going insane, warning that the surge is a risk
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  Speaker 1: to quote civil rights community trust and invites, they say,
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  Speaker 1: racial profiling, even though none of these programs have anything
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  Speaker 1: to do with that. Now, you also may be asking yourself,
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  Speaker 1: why am I not quoting the president right now when
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you about this initiative. Well, the President clearly
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  Speaker 1: is playing chess on the issue. In fact, the White
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  Speaker 1: House has had no public statement or reaction regarding these
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  Speaker 1: specific agreements with West Virginia, South Dakota, and Arkansas, mainly
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  Speaker 1: because they want this to be clearly seen as state
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  Speaker 1: led that these governors are opting in. And that is
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  Speaker 1: exactly why the administration is being so successful in getting
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  Speaker 1: this done with so many different agreements, because they're not grandstanding.
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  Speaker 1: They're just trying to fight crime, and it's clearly working.
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  Speaker 1: I want you also take a listen to West Virginia's
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  Speaker 1: governor responding to the Trump administration's position on immigration enforcement
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  Speaker 1: and entering into this agreement and what he says it's
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  Speaker 1: going to do for his state, and also why so
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: many other states should get involved.
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  Speaker 9: We always thought that when you're talking about Biden border disorder,
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  Speaker 9: which is what occurred for four years, the best way
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  Speaker 9: to deal with it is to have a partnership between
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  Speaker 9: the states and the federal government. Now you're seeing that
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  Speaker 9: with the Trump administration, which is incredible. So West Virginia
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  Speaker 9: has actually entered into the two eighty seven g program,
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  Speaker 9: and so we're working hand in hand with ICE to
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  Speaker 9: identify illegal aliens and make sure that they can get deported.
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  Speaker 9: And this is really important to do because, as President
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  Speaker 9: Trump said yesterday, when you actually remove a lot of
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  Speaker 9: these illegal aliens from the system, you're going to see
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  Speaker 9: a reduction in crime. That there are a number of
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  Speaker 9: people we found it even in West Virginia, murderers, attempted murder,
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  Speaker 9: sexual assaults, all different types of crime. None of the
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  Speaker 9: states need it.
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  Speaker 4: Now we have a.
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  Speaker 9: Partnership with the Trump administration.
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  Speaker 4: And it's fabulous.
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  Speaker 9: I know that I've talked to a Homeland Security Secretary,
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  Speaker 9: Christy Nome. I've praised her for her or we're trying
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  Speaker 9: to work together with them because it takes states working
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  Speaker 9: with the government to make sure that we're kind of
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  Speaker 9: reasserting our position and stopping all the horrific consequences of
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  Speaker 9: what happened with the illegal immigrants coming in. I know
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  Speaker 9: in West Virginia we really felt the impact of that
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  Speaker 9: through the massive amount of death that flowed from fetanyl
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  Speaker 9: that flooded into our state, originally from China, went through
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  Speaker 9: the Mexican drug cartels, made its way into the US.
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  Speaker 9: I think you're seeing a very different and a much
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  Speaker 9: more successful approach, and I'm glad that our state is
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  Speaker 9: a part of that.
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  Speaker 1: One of the most important things that was said there
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  Speaker 1: by the West Virginia governor was how he said West
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  Speaker 1: Virginia had quote become an effective border state due to
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  Speaker 1: the massive fetno problem caused by illegal immigration. The fetno
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  Speaker 1: outbreak in West Virginia has been catastrophic, especially on young people.
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  Speaker 1: This is one of the reasons why the governor said
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  Speaker 1: he's so eager to work with ICE because of how
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  Speaker 1: many lives he believes he's going to be able to save. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the National Guard and the State police will have quote
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  Speaker 1: task force authority, and that is going to be huge
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  Speaker 1: and going after the drug traffickers. Why it gives them
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  Speaker 1: the authority to interrogate any person they believe to be
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  Speaker 1: an illegal immigrant as to his right to remain in
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  Speaker 1: the US now under the supervision or direction of the
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  Speaker 1: federal government, meaning ICE agents officers will also be able
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  Speaker 1: to process immigration related violations for those arrested for state
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  Speaker 1: or federal offenses. This is going to allow the governor
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  Speaker 1: and his team to actually be able to do what
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  Speaker 1: they need to do. It also allows for them to
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  Speaker 1: have quote, warrantless arrests of any illegal immigrant in the
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  Speaker 1: officer's presence or view if that person is believed to
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  Speaker 1: be a flight risk in the interim of obtaining a warrant.
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  Speaker 1: So the governor they are authorizing this state law enforcement
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  Speaker 1: to serve immigration warrants, administer os, and collect evidence for
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  Speaker 1: required alien processing. This will allow for fingerprinting and suspect
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  Speaker 1: interviews to be done.
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  Speaker 2: Now. This is also going to have a.
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  Speaker 1: Huge impact just on the psyche of illegal immigrants and
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  Speaker 1: cartel members in West Virginia because now they understand that
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  Speaker 1: virtually anyone in law enforcement now can do the job
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  Speaker 1: they need to do to find out who they are
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  Speaker 1: and stop them, something that was not happening under the
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  Speaker 1: Biden regime. And that's why the President's being pretty quiet
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  Speaker 1: about this because it's happening in real time and he's
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  Speaker 1: letting the governors lead in these states. Don't forget Share
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