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Illegals Are SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT of Arrests in NYC plus NY Governor's Aide Arrested for being a Chinese Spy & Gold Star Families Denounce Kamala · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Center, Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with
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  Speaker 2: you Center. I am actually shocked by the first story
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  Speaker 2: because I can't even believe the headline and it deals
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  Speaker 2: with the number of people that are rested in New
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  Speaker 2: York City, like in the city, and the percentage of
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  Speaker 2: them that are illegal immigrants.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even believe it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this is a stunning story from the New York Post.
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  Speaker 3: It says that of the people arrested in Midtown, New York,
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  Speaker 3: fully seventy five percent of them seventy five three fourths
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  Speaker 3: are illegal immigrants. It's truly stunning. We're going to break
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  Speaker 3: that down because it will make you understand the very
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  Speaker 3: real world consequences of this invasion at our southern border.
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  Speaker 3: There's another story out of New York that is equally stunning,
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  Speaker 3: which is the New York Democratic governor had as one
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  Speaker 3: of her top officials or dep chief of staff a
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  Speaker 3: Chinese spy. A Chinese spy allegedly who was just indicted
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  Speaker 3: by the Biden Justice Department. The FBI came and searched
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  Speaker 3: her house. Her husband was also indicted for being a
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  Speaker 3: Chinese spy. This is the number two person in the
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  Speaker 3: New York Democratic Governor's office. We're going to break that
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  Speaker 2: with the headline, migrants flooding New York City's justice system,
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  Speaker 2: making up to seventy five percent arrests in Midtown as
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  Speaker 2: pathetic sanctuary city laws handcuff the police, and even the
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  Speaker 2: mayor now is admitting, yeah, we can't do anything to
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  Speaker 2: stop this.
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  Speaker 1: They own our city now.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and this article is so shocking.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's worth just going over in some depth
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  Speaker 3: because almost every every sentence.
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  Speaker 4: Of it is going to blow you away.
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  Speaker 3: So it begins for New York Post quote Jefferson Maldonado,
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  Speaker 3: a thirty one year old migrant from Ecuador, has been
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  Speaker 3: arrested in New York City five times since arriving in
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  Speaker 3: the US earlier this year. His latest bust was for
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  Speaker 3: stealing a pair of pants and a beer from the
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  Speaker 3: target near Harold Square. Asked why he committed the crime,
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  Speaker 3: the migrant thief said, quote, I wanted to change my
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  Speaker 3: clothes and think. I wanted to sit down and think
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  Speaker 3: about my life, about what to do, because this is
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  Speaker 3: not a normal world. He was just one of five
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  Speaker 3: migrants in a Manhattan courtroom for arraignment on one night
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  Speaker 3: last week. Across New York, recently arrived migrants are flooding
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  Speaker 3: the criminal justice system at far higher rates than public
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  Speaker 3: officials have acknowledged. Police sources shared with The Post a
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  Speaker 3: staggering estimate that as many as seventy five percent of
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  Speaker 3: the people they've interesting in Midtown Manhattan in recent months
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  Speaker 3: for crimes like assault, robbery, and domestic violence are migrants.
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  Speaker 3: In parts of Queens, the figure is more than sixty percent.
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  Speaker 3: Sources their estimate. On any given day, Big Apple criminal
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  Speaker 3: court dockets are packed with asylum seekers who have run
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  Speaker 3: a foul of the law. The problem is made much
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  Speaker 3: worse by sanctuary city laws that mean New York cops
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  Speaker 3: aren't allowed to work with ICE on cases in which
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  Speaker 3: they believe suspects are in the country illegally. Additionally, the
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  Speaker 3: NYPD says it is barred from tracking the immigration status
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  Speaker 3: of offenders that this makes it almost impossible for authorities
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  Speaker 3: to get their arms around the problem. Experts and sources
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  Speaker 3: on the ground say, quote, New York City eliminated a
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  Speaker 3: lot of tools to get rid of violent criminals.
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  Speaker 4: What a mess.
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  Speaker 3: Jim Quinn, a veteran former prosecutor at the Courans District
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  Speaker 3: Attorney's Office, told the Post quote the sanctuary city law
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  Speaker 3: is pathetic. It's disgusting. It's crazy, making matters worse. Police
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  Speaker 3: sources say word has gotten out in the shelters about
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  Speaker 3: the city's lacks bail guidelines, meaning migrants know they're going
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  Speaker 3: to get kicked back onto the street quickly after they're napped.
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  Speaker 3: A City Hall spokesman pointed to Mayor Eric Adams's previous
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  Speaker 3: cause for the city council to change the sanctuary city laws.
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  Speaker 4: Let me jump in.
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  Speaker 3: That's a Democrat mayor begging the city council please stop
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  Speaker 3: making us a sanctuary city. Here's how the post article continues.
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  Speaker 3: Last week, Adams said, quote, right now, we don't have
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  Speaker 3: the authorization to be able to go and coordinate with ICE.
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  Speaker 3: We have to follow the law. The mayor's office also
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  Speaker 3: said the city is working with the Midtown Improvement Coalition
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  Speaker 3: to better police the neighborhood. An NYPD spokesperson said overall
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  Speaker 3: crime time is down so far this year compared to
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  Speaker 3: last year, and added quote New Yorkers can count on
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  Speaker 3: the NYPD's ongoing vigilance in every neighborhood. Kumbai ya the
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  Speaker 3: kumba Ya.
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  Speaker 4: I added.
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  Speaker 3: However, the spokesperson also noted quote police officers are prohibited
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  Speaker 3: from asking about the immigration status of crime victims, witnesses,
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  Speaker 3: or suspects, and therefore the NYPD doesn't track data pertaining
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  Speaker 3: to immigration statuses. As a result, the only people who
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  Speaker 3: have a full understanding of the scale of the problem
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  Speaker 3: are the police officers and the court workers who see
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  Speaker 3: it day in day out. Quote, I would say about
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  Speaker 3: seventy five percent of the arrests in Midtown Manhattan are migrants,
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  Speaker 3: mostly for robberies, assaults, domestic incidents, and selling counterfeit items.
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  Speaker 3: A Midtown officer said he said the figure is an
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  Speaker 3: estimate because quote, you can't be one hundred percent sure
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  Speaker 3: they're migrants unless you arrest them in a shelter. They're
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  Speaker 3: dumb enough to give you a shelter address. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: the shelters means places that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
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  Speaker 3: are sending them deliberately sending in illegal immigrants to New
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  Speaker 3: York City. Back to the post quote, Another Manhattan cop
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  Speaker 3: said that excluding petty larcenies at drug stores, the number
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  Speaker 3: of local ere at rest involving migrants is quote easily
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  Speaker 3: seventy five percent, noting that most who get caught shoplifting
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  Speaker 3: go for the more pricey branded goods.
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  Speaker 4: Quote.
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  Speaker 3: They can't be bothered with lower end stores. They like
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  Speaker 3: Lululemon and sunglasses, hut he said, adding that migrants are
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  Speaker 3: behind quote most of the pickpocketing and phone and chain
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  Speaker 3: snatches the NYPD is encountering. The problem is visible in
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  Speaker 3: Queen's courts too.
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  Speaker 4: Quote.
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  Speaker 3: There are days we have so many migrant cases, we
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  Speaker 3: have to call in for extra Spanish interpreters, a law
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  Speaker 3: enforcement officer at the Queen's Criminal Court House told the Post.
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  Speaker 3: Another court officer said, quote, come on, mondays, almost every
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  Speaker 3: case is a migrant. While many of the crimes are
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  Speaker 3: domestic incidents or petty thefts, others are far more heinous,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes involving gang violence or vicious sexual assaults. Venezuelan migrant
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  Speaker 3: Urlex Daniel Guzman Quintero was arrested in Queen's Criminal Court
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  Speaker 3: on August twenty eighth, accused of a deplorable act of
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  Speaker 3: sexual abuse against his girlfriend, in which he choked her
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  Speaker 3: and held a knife to her head. Court documents allege
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  Speaker 3: it all happened in front of her child. That same day,
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  Speaker 3: migrant de Onesio Moran Flores was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal
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  Speaker 3: Court for allegedly raping his five year old daughter. He
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  Speaker 3: was ordered held on a one hundred and fifty thousand
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  Speaker 3: dollars bail. Meanwhile, trend Der ag Aragua, the vicious venezuel
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  Speaker 3: Yilan prison gang wreaking armed havoc around the country, has
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  Speaker 3: set up shop in New York City and is already
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  Speaker 3: tied to hundreds of crimes, including the shootings of two
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  Speaker 3: NYPD cops who were trying to arrest a member in June.
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  Speaker 3: The very same pack of thugs has been arming up
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  Speaker 3: to facilitate further terrorizing the city, smuggling guns into citywren
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  Speaker 3: shelters in food delivery bags to evade metal detectors.
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  Speaker 4: Quote.
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  Speaker 3: Most of the people we arrest are professionals. These aren't
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  Speaker 3: their first crime crimes, one law enforcement source said. The
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  Speaker 3: cops added that the Biden Harris administrations lacks border policies,
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  Speaker 3: combined with sanctuary city laws, have allowed the problem to fester.
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  Speaker 4: Quote.
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  Speaker 3: Crime would be down significantly if there was a wall
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  Speaker 3: and we could account for everyone who comes into this country,
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  Speaker 3: the source grumbled. And more importantly, throw them out if
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  Speaker 3: they commit a crime. Some migrants have become recurring guests
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  Speaker 3: of city jails and courtrooms and are often back on
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  Speaker 3: the street to reoffend as quickly as they were captured. Quote.
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  Speaker 3: They don't care if they get arrested. They laugh if
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  Speaker 3: they get sent to Rikers where they come from, they
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  Speaker 3: get tortured in jail, a Bronx cop said. He added
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  Speaker 3: that while most people arrested in the boroughs or migrants,
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  Speaker 3: it's impossible to say they entered the country during the
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  Speaker 3: massive way that began in spring of twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 3: About sixty four thousand migrants remain in the city's shelter
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  Speaker 3: and social service system. This is what actually Migrant arrest
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  Speaker 3: numbers in Queens don't fare much better than for Manhattan.
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  Speaker 3: A Kappa estimated that more than sixty percent of the
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  Speaker 3: people arrested in Jackson Heights or migrants whose offenses involve
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  Speaker 3: such crimes.
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  Speaker 4: As robbery, grand larceny, and assault.
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  Speaker 3: Quote Roosevelt Avenue and ninety first Street looks like a
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  Speaker 3: scene from Casablanca.
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  Speaker 4: With all the vendors. You can buy.
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  Speaker 3: Food, clothes, toys, electronics, toys, and get your car washed,
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  Speaker 3: The NYPD source says of the mass scale, open air
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  Speaker 3: bizarre that has sprung up along the sidewalks, the area
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  Speaker 3: has become a Third World country, and it seems like
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  Speaker 3: city hall doesn't care about the taxpayers who live and
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  Speaker 3: work here, he said. Elmhurst, particularly the area along Roosevelt Avenue,
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  Speaker 3: has experienced a nearly twenty two percent uptick in crime
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  Speaker 3: compared to last year, much of it migrant related, putting
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  Speaker 3: it in the second worst place for the worst increase
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  Speaker 3: of crime citywide, trailing only Central Park in Manhattan. Goes
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  Speaker 3: on to say, the number of prostitutes have doubled in
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  Speaker 3: the last two months. They're starting to act like they
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  Speaker 3: are part of the community. Now we see them every day.
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  Speaker 3: It's like the same people wearing the same outfits. It's
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  Speaker 3: really strange. This is shocking. Seventy five percent.
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  Speaker 2: You look at the number, and, like you said, it's shocking.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost you would say, it doesn't even seem like
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  Speaker 2: that's real or possible. But then when you hear what
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  Speaker 2: they're saying in the court system, you hear what the
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  Speaker 2: whistleblowers are saying, you hear what the mayor says. Then
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  Speaker 2: you find out that twenty twenty five percent of the
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  Speaker 2: people in the hotels are legal immigrants in New York City.
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  Speaker 1: It all makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: But once you realize that you can commit crime center
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  Speaker 2: and just get let out as fast as you're caught,
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  Speaker 2: there's no downside.
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  Speaker 4: A revolving question.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because you're not even an American citizen.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, I don't care about your laws, I don't
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  Speaker 2: care about your tickets, I don't care about your court system.
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  Speaker 3: If there are no consequences, you go and steal pants
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  Speaker 3: because you want a new pair of pants. You go
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  Speaker 3: and steal French fries because you want some French fries.
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  Speaker 3: You go and rob people because you want their money.
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  Speaker 3: If there's no consequence, why, if you're a criminal, would
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  Speaker 3: you not keep committing crimes.
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  Speaker 2: So this goes back to the other bigger crimes that
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  Speaker 2: are also being committed in the country. You see these
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  Speaker 2: apartment complexes that have been taken over by different gang
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  Speaker 2: members from different countries. We've seen the warnings that have
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  Speaker 2: been coming out. Places like Venezuela have allowed some of
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  Speaker 2: their worst criminals out of their jails as long as
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  Speaker 2: they get out of the country AKA come to America.
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  Speaker 2: Early on, when Donald Trump and others talked about it,
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  Speaker 2: they were, Oh, it's conspiracy theory. You can't prove that.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're seeing them set up shopping the United States
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  Speaker 2: of America and they're making a hell of a lot
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  Speaker 2: of money doing this, sir.
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  Speaker 3: They are, And you know, the message has gone out.
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  Speaker 3: So one of the things the New York Post talks
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  Speaker 3: about is the city. PBA president Patrick Hendry decried the
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  Speaker 3: out of control lawlessness taking root across the city, and
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  Speaker 3: he said, quote, our justice system is already failing to
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  Speaker 3: protect New Yorkers and hold lawbreakers accountable regardless of where
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  Speaker 3: they come from. But now word has gotten out that
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  Speaker 3: you can come to New York to commit crimes and
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  Speaker 3: attack police officers and be out the next day. That
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  Speaker 3: message needs to change in order to keep dangerous people
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  Speaker 3: off our city streets.
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  Speaker 2: You also have a here team, and I'm talking about
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  Speaker 2: specifically their presidential team, that is trying to change her
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  Speaker 2: and separate her from being the borders are to hey,
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  Speaker 2: I want a secure border and I want there to
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  Speaker 2: be a wall. Can they pull off that Jedi mind trick?
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  Speaker 2: Knowing now what we know? And I say that as
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  Speaker 2: there is also another interesting moment today as Pelosi is
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  Speaker 2: quote firing back about the funding for migrants to buy houses.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to listen to this from Fox as
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  Speaker 2: they're saying, yeah, we're going to underwrite them in California.
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  Speaker 5: So the former Speaker of the House telling Americans to
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  Speaker 5: keep on dreaming. Nancy Pelosi backs funding for illegal immigrants
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  Speaker 5: to buy a home, specifically after a bill was passed
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  Speaker 5: in California despite millions of taxpayers struggling to reach that
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  Speaker 5: goal themselves. The congresswoman standing by that with Bill Maher
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  Speaker 5: on Friday night.
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  Speaker 6: What I would like to do is move them to
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  Speaker 6: document it. One of the best things that we can
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  Speaker 6: do for our economy is to comprehensive immigration reform.
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  Speaker 5: That's kind of a different place than the Democratic Party
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  Speaker 5: used to be on immigration, is it not?
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  Speaker 6: Well, let me just say immigration had always been a
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  Speaker 6: bipartisan issue.
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  Speaker 1: I refer you to that non free houses.
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  Speaker 4: Good final line.
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  Speaker 1: Two things here.
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  Speaker 2: One, I'm becoming more of a fan of Bill Maher
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  Speaker 2: than ever before center because he's even like, come on,
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  Speaker 2: like free homes, are you kidding me? Like, there's no
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  Speaker 2: such thing as a free lunch, There's no such thing
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  Speaker 2: as a free home. Somebody's got to pay for it.
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  Speaker 2: It's clearly the taxpayers. But this is how you entice
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  Speaker 2: people to run across the border, because if you go
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  Speaker 2: to the right place, whether it's New York City or California,
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  Speaker 2: come on in is many of you that want to
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to create a situation where you're going
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  Speaker 2: to take significant amount of cash from American citizens and
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna give it to the people that broke the law.
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  Speaker 2: That is beyond a broken system.
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  Speaker 3: Well, listen, we've talked about Bill Maher before or Bill
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  Speaker 3: Maher is an old school liberal, and he's asking a
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  Speaker 3: very real question. When did Democrats decide that they like
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  Speaker 3: illegal immigrants more than American citizens, that they're willing to
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  Speaker 3: give illegal immigrants money and benefits and free homes which
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  Speaker 3: they don't give to American citizens. And by the way,
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  Speaker 3: when did would Democrats decide they like illegal immigrants more
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  Speaker 3: than African Americans who've been born here and grew up here,
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  Speaker 3: and many of whom are struggling because you know that
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  Speaker 3: that same law is not providing African Americans with free
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  Speaker 3: homes and and and I think Bill Maher is also saying,
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  Speaker 3: or I think he has said at other times, when
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  Speaker 3: did Democrats decide they like criminals more than the victims
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  Speaker 3: of chrime? That combination is truly a compilation of how
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  Speaker 3: radicalized the Democrat Party has been, and California is the
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  Speaker 3: foreshadowing of where all of this goes. Look, I'll tell
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  Speaker 3: you I crisscrossed the state of Texas campaigning.
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  Speaker 4: I'm out on the road all day long.
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  Speaker 3: All across Texas, and as I'm doing so literally every day,
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  Speaker 3: Ben I encounter at least one person who comes up
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  Speaker 3: to me and says, today, I had a couple come
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  Speaker 3: up to me and say, we're from California. We couldn't
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: stand the insanity there. We had to get out. We're
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: so glad we're in Texas. It is literally every day
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: I have Californians who moved to Texas who say almost
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: word for word the same thing, and it's because they
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: can't stand the nuttiness that is driving them out of
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: their state.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is driving them out. And the scary part
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: is I just hope they don't bring all these liberal
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: values to different places they're going.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: That's the concern. It's like what it may, but don't
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: do that.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I get that concern, but listen, I break
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: the migrants that this is the US citizen of migrants
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: that are coming into Texas into two groups. Number one
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: are the people that are fleeing blue states because they
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: can't stand it and they want to come to Texas.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: And I think the data show that those are more
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: conservative than the media and Texas voter. I call them
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: refugees for freedom. They're awesome. They come to Texas, they
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: buy a pickup truck, they get a hat and boots
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: and a shotgun, and they're awesome. Those guys we want.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: There's another subset, and this is where the internal migration
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: is more complicated, which is a company moves to Texas
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: and it transfers all its employees, and the employees didn't
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: necessarily decide they wanted out, They didn't decide they want
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: to be in Texas. They just stick with their job.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: And I think the data suggests that those employees tend
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: to vote exactly like where they came from. And so
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: a state like Florida in some ways is fortunate because
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: it's got overwhelmingly Category one people fleeing blue states and
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: coming for freedom. So Florida's getting redder and redder. Texas
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: is really a victim of our own success because we're
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: such an attractive place to do business that we've got
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: companies coming week after week after week, and so we've
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: got hundreds of thousands of employees being transferred to Texas,
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: and so we have both categories, and so assessing what
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: the impact is on Texas as complicated.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah it is, and it's it's like you said, complicated.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: That's a great way of putting it. And by the way,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: I just want to be clear, center. I care about
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: safety and security, and you know that I'm only going
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: to offer this up as a sacrificial lamb here. There's
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: there's rumor that you might actually get to see the
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: US Open in New York. There's rumor, And look, I
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: don't want Heidi to not be in a safe place.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: So if she doesn't feel comfortable and you need a
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: stand in, just know I will go with you to
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: the Open. I want to make that very clear. Okay,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: it's just not because I like tennis or anything like that.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: I just want to let you know it's safety.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Look, Ben, you're very nice, you're very charming, but Heidi's
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: a hell of a lot hotter than you are.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: So sorry you are not to copy my wife as
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: my dates.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: That's a good time, but it just ain't working and
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: you need to work on your southern charm.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: It was a solid sell. That was the best sales
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: pitch I could come up with.
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: There.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: You just make sure she under if she gets a
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: call for anything, it's about safety. I'm all about safety, okay,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: all about safety here. Now, by the way, this isn't
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: the only problem New York's having right now.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: I legal immigration.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: They've got another problem coming out of the Governor's office.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Chinese agent was embedded in not one, but two New
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: York governor administrations. There seems to be a hell of
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: a lot of Chinese agents that are hanging out with Democrats,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: whether it's drivers of top Democrats and the Senate or
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: congressmen that are cuddling up for a couple of years
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: with Chinese spies.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: And now we've got one in the governor's mansion.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Really, and let's be clear, the first person you referenced
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: was Diane Feinstein, whose driver was a Chinese spy. The
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: second person you mentioned was Eric Swaalwell, who was tickling
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: the toes beneath the sheets with Fang Fang, a Chinese spy.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: And now we have the news breaking this week that
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: the former deputy chief of staff to current New York
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Governor Democrat Kathy Hokeel, and a staffer also to the
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: previous New York Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo, was arrested along
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: with her husband, and the sixty four page indictment accuses
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Linda Son and her husband, Christopher, who of laundering and
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: splurging their gains working for the Chinese government, and purchasing
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: a four million dollar Manhasset mansion, a two million dollars
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: second home in a Honolulu high rise, and luxury cars,
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: including a twenty twenty four Ferrari Roma. And this was
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: the FBI searched their home. At several points, Son allegedly
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: bragged to Chinese consulate officials about effectively blocking CUOMO and
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: HOCOL from meeting with or publicly even mentioning Taiwan, including
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: when Taiwan sent two hundred thousand mass to New York
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: City during the COVID pandemic, they still didn't mention it.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: And here's what the indictment says, quote the defendant Linda
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Sun received substantial economic and other benefits from representatives of
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: the PRC government and the CCP, including the facilitation of
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: millions of dollars of transactions for the PRC based business
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: activities of Son's husband, the defendant, Chris Who. The two
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: of them were released on bonds one point five million
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: for Sun, five hundred thousand for Who. And it is
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: truly stunning. It makes you wonder how many other Democrats
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: have Chinese spy working in senior positions in New York
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: In California, elsewhere.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Why are the bonds so low there? I mean, that's
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: the first thing that just pops the red flag. It's like, look,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: if you're accusing them of getting millions of dollars from
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: the Chinese Communist Party, I think you know they're going
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: to be able to come up with the money needed
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: to get out of jail. If it's a million and
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: a half million, right, like, it's ten percent of that,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: they clearly have the cash to do that. Why would
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: you let spies out for that little amount of cash,
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: especially if you've infiltrated at the highest levels in state
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: government in New York.
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Look, I don't know if DJ considers them a flight risk.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: If they're Chinese spies, you would think that that would
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: almost inherently be a flight risk that they would go
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: back to China. You know, I have kind of a
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: mixed reaction given what we see Democrat judges doing all
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: the time. You know, in Boston, the Haitian illegal immigrant
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden flew from Haiti to
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Boston and released, who raped a fifteen year old girl
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: with severe mental disabilities. He was released on a five
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: hundred dollars bond so given that that left wing Democrats
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: think five hundred dollars is sufficient for raping a child
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: at one level, one point five million actually at least
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: sounds like a real bond unless they end up fleeing
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: to China never being prosecuted. And I would certainly be
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: concerned about that given the allegations.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: I went to play for you New York Governor Deputy
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: A Linda Soon demanding quote equity in the US, and
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: this tells you, I think also why the Chinese Commings
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Party is like, hey, we can get in with these people.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: It's not hard. You just speak their language.
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: Eight. I think, you know, when people say diversity and inclusion,
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: I think everybody agrees or most people generally agree that
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: it's a good thing, right, But I think right now
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: we also need to bring in the word at would
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: be right diversities when you say that there's you know,
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: many different types of people with different backgrounds, and they're all,
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: you know, invited to the table. Inclusion is when you know,
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: we include all of their ideas. But equity is when
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: we make sure that all of the people who are
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: at the table have equal access to making sure that
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: their ideas and their thoughts are heard, and unfortunately, I
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: think some of the statistics that you quoted is that
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: we don't have that much leadership or representations.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, you hear this and I play it because
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: it's like, oh, they figured it out. Speak these people's language.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: They'll welcome you into the fray. Apparently we don't do
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: any vetting anymore. If you're in the Democratic Party, just
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: talk the talk and come on in. Who cares if
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: you've got ties to tire terrorists like hamas Er, or
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: connections the Chinese Commis Party, or you're just a straight
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: up spy.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: You said what we wanted to hear. You're in the
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: you're in the fam.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Well, and apparently equity and inclusion don't include, dude, anyone
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: from Taiwan. They don't include any criticism of the Chinese
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Communist Party. The indictment describes where she texted one Chinese
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: official said quote, I almost had a heart attack when
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: we referred to Taiwan as a country in a twenty
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: twenty October twenty twenty press release the indict and then
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: she said, thankfully, I had the press team correct it immediately.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: But on the other hand, she successfully got Andrew Cuomo
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: to publicly thank quote PRC official one who's named in
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: the indictment and appears to be Console General Huangping on
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: social media for helping give one million surgical maps mass
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: to New York essential workers. So at another point, Sun
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: gets praises from a Chinese official after she claims to
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: have blocked a speech writer from having Governor Hokel mentioned
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: the plight of the wigers. There are over one million
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: wiguers who are in concentration camps in China. And this
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Chinese spy was saying, no, no, no, Madame Democrat, don't
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: mention the concentration camps.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: We don't say that.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: And and she messaged her Chinese handler that the relationship
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: between the US and China quote turned sour because of
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: people like the speech writer. And this is and by
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: the way, do you know what the official's personal chef prepared.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: For the spies?
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: What was that the Chinese Communist officials personal shift had
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: prepared quote Nanjing style salted ducks that were delivered to
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: sons parents. Unsurprisingly, both Hokul and Cuomo are desperately running
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: away from this alleged Chinese spy. But it's striking. So
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: so here are the quotes that they that they gave
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: the New York Post.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: Once.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: This is a spokesperson from from Governor Hockel's office. Quote,
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: we terminated her employment in March of twenty twenty three
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: after discovering evidence of misconduct, immediately reported her actions to
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: law enforcement, and have assisted law enforcement throughout this process.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: Now that suggests in March of twenty twenty three they
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: may have known she was a Chinese spy. Then what
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: was the evidence of misconduct? What was it that led
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: to her firing? And you know, boy, they're desperately trying
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: to run away. But actually, cuomo spokesperson is even funny.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: So Cuomo's spokesperson basically puts all the blame on Hokl
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: And here's here's what Cuomo spokesperson says. Quote, while ms
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: Son was promoted to deputy chief of staff in the
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: subsequent administration, during our time, she worked in a handful
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: of agencies, when what was one of many can be
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: the liaisons who had little to no interaction with the governor.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: In other words, look, we don't know about our successor,
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: and she may have been paling around with a Chinese spy,
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: but you know the governor he now, mind you they
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: didn't say, Yeah, he sexually harassed every woman who came
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: near him, but apparently she didn't meet that threshold, so
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: he did not. He did little, He had little to
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: no interaction with with with with her.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: It's all Hocal's fault. One thing I've learned from this story.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: If there's two ways to get a Ferrari center, one
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: you just work really really hard and save and save
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: and save, and maybe one day you're lucky enough, or
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: you can just work for the Chinese Communist Party and
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: get one real fasts.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: It just depends on how quick you want to get
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: to the car.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: I think it's fair to say there are more than
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: two ways to get a Ferrari, but we don't need
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: to detail all of the ways to get a Ferrari.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: Those are at least two of them, at least two.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Farewell played fair point, all right, So moving on from
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: that one, let me talk to you real quick about
• 32:02
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• 32:06
  Speaker 2: approaching the one year anniversary of the horrific Commas attacks
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: on Israel, and still the Holy Land continues to be
• 32:12
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• 32:21
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• 34:11
  Speaker 2: another story, and it may be one of the most pathetic,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: vile attacks that we have seen from the Harris campaign
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: so far, and it was a fake story, a fictitious
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: story that was clearly I think drawn up a play
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: by the Harris campaign to hey, let's make people not
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: like Donald Trump. Let's attack Donald Trump for standing at
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Arlington Cemetery with the family members of those that lost
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: loved ones on the pullout from Afghanistan, on that arbitrary
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: date that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris wanted to say
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: we ended America's longest roar, we don't care and when
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: we're pulling out, who dies or how many people that
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: helped America are left behind to be attacked and tortured
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: by the terrorists were literally taking orders from a Taliban
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: at the very end. And Afghanistan gold Star family members
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: have come forward united in an incredible way, and I
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: think it's sad that they had to come forward. They
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: just wanted to honor their loved ones that gave the
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: ultimate sacrifice for their country. They asked Donald Trump to
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: come and be with them. The Harris campaign accused Donald
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Trump in a direct tweet that Kamlayers put out of
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: using this as a basically a publicity stunt, and these
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: gold Star families came forward and said, no, that's not true.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: We're not going to let you do this to Donald Trump.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: We're not going to allow the media to do this
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: and drag him through the mud. He was our guest.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: We asked him to come. This was not a publissy's stunt.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: And not only that, they said, he knows our family members' names.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: That's more than we can say for you, Kama, who
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: have not talked to us, don't know our kids' names,
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: and have not reached out.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Well, I have to say this whole thing has been
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: utterly disgraceful how Kamala Harris and her campaign has handed
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: handled it. It started with Donald Trump went to Arlington
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: Memorial Cemetery to honor the thirteen servicemen and women who
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: were murdered who were murdered in Afghanistan. He went and
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: lay a wreath at their tombs to honor their death.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: And he did so at the invitation of the gold
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: Star families who wanted him there. They also invited Kamala Harris.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: Kamala Harris declined to come. Kamala Harris was in DC,
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: she was at a residence, she was just a few
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: miles away, but she was not willing to come to
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: Arlington Cemetery to acknowledge their deaths. And to be clear,
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: that's consistent with the pattern of Kamala Harris and Joe
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: Biden of ignoring these thirteen fallist servicemen and women. In fact,
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Joe Biden claimed that no servicemen and women had fallen
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: under under his presidency, which is just a brazen lie.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: And so instead of look, Kamala kan't defend the absolute incompetence,
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: the disaster that was the withdrawal from Afghanistan. So she
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: wants to change the subject, and so she immediately blasted
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: Trump because while he was there, he took photographs with
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: the families of the fallen servicemen and women, and he
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: did so at their request. And she tried to say,
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: this is a political stunt because he took photographs with
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: the families. Now, to be clear, the families asked him
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: to take photographs. I guess in her view, you should
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: tell the grieving mother of a soldier who was killed, no,
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: I'm not willing to take a picture with you. That
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: would have been insane. In response, families of seven of
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: the thirteen fallen servicemen and women put out a joint statement.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: And this joint statement powerful doesn't begin to cover. Let
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: me just read it. It's not very long quote. The
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: families of the brave service members who were tragically killed
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: in the Abbey Gate bombing are appalled by Vice President
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: Kamala Harris's recent attempts to politicize President Trump's visit to
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: the Arlington National Cemetery. President Trump was invited by US
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: the Gold Star Families to attend the solemn ceremonies commemorating
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: the three year anniversary of our children's death. He was
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: there to honor their sacrifice. Yet Vice President Harris has
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: disgracefully twisted this sacred moment into a political ploy. Vice
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: President Harris bears responsibility for the deaths of our sons
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: and daughters. Let me read that again. Vice President Harris
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: bears responsibility for the deaths of our sons and daughters.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Her administration's catastrophic mishandling of the Afghanistan withdraw directly led
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: to the murder of thirteen service members, including our children.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: Despite our multiple requests for a meeting to discuss the
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: loss of our loved ones, Vice President Harris has repeatedly
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: ignored us, showing a complete lack of empathy and accountability.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: This refusal to face the consequences of her administration's decisions
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  Speaker 3: is a deep betrayal to us as gold Star families.
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: President Trump, on the other hand, has been the only
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: commander in chief to consistently recognize the heroism of our children.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: His attendance at Arlington was not for political gain, but
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: to stand with us, to grieve with us, and to
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: honor the legacy of those who gave everything for this nation.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: His leadership during his time in office was strong, and
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: we have no doubt that if he were still commander
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: in chief, our children would be alive today. Vice President
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: Harris has proven herself unfit to serve as commander in chief.
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  Speaker 3: Her actions, both in the failure of the Afghanistan withdrawal
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: and in her disgraceful politicization of this anniversary have shown
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: that she lacks the judgment, compassion, and leadership required for
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: the position. We will continue to hold her accountable for
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: the role she played in the deaths of our children,
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  Speaker 3: and we will not stand by as she disrespects their memory.
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  Speaker 3: America deserves better, Our children deserved better.
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  Speaker 2: You see these families come together, and this is not
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: a fight they asked for.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: This was not publicity they asked for. This was not
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: a moment they asked for.
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  Speaker 2: These gold Star families have also now come out saying
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: that Kama's attack on Trump made us a target for
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: a lot of hate. They weren't wanting this hate and
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: all because when you're the vice president, your words have power.
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  Speaker 2: And when you have Vice President Harris, who's the leading
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: candidate right for the Democratic Private by the way, no
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: one's ever voted for, but she's the nominee attacking and
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Trump accusing him of playing politics by going to a
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: cemetery to honor the thirteen fallen service members who lost
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: their lives as a result as you just read there
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  Speaker 2: Biden's administration's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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  Speaker 1: But they say, yes, this.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: Has made us a target of a lot of hate
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: because now people are hating them for defending Trump, saying oh, well,
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: they're just Trump supporters, you know, the heck with them,
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: and attacking them on social media, all because they were
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: trying to honor the memory of their sons and daughters,
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: their husbands and their wives, their family members that were killed.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: And Vice President Harris, I think it's important to read
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: part of what she put out on x which started
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: all of this, and clearly this is my opinion. I
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: want to know what you think about the senator. I
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: think this was written by a campaign staff who said,
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: let's start this thing. And she said quote as Vice President,
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: I've had the privilege of visiting Arlington National Cemetery several times.
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  Speaker 2: It is a solemn place, a place where we come
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: together to honor American heroes who have made the ultimate
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: sacrifice in service of this nation. It is not a
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: place for politics. And yet, as we reported this week,
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump's team chose to film a video there, resulting
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: in an altercation with staff that apparently never happened. Let
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: me be clear, she writes to former president, disrespected sacred ground,
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: all for the sake of a political stunt. So a
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: woman who says this is not supposed to be about
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: politics literally makes it a political stunt on her behalf
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: to try to make people hate Donald Trump, which then
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: in turn brought in these families, and now they're hating
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: on them as well.
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: Look, this was just a cynical attempt from the Kamala
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: Harris campaign to shift the attention to one of the
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: most egregious and catastrophic foreign policy failures of Joe Biden
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: and her leadership. And this is a failure that led
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: directly to the deaths of thirteen servicemen and women. And
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: let me make claire, that joint statement that I read
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: a minute ago, it didn't just come from one or
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: two family members. It came from Misty Fioka, who is
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: the sister of Sergeant Nicole Elg. It came from Cheryl Jules,
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: who is the aunt of Sergeant Nicole Elg. It came
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: from Christy Shamblin, who is the mother in law of
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: Sergeant Nicole Elg. It came from Mark Schmitz, who is
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: the father of Lance Corporal Jared M.
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: Schmidz.
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: It came from Jacqueline Schmidz, who is the stepmother of
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: Lance Corporal Jared M.
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  Speaker 4: Schmidz.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: It came from Hermit Lopez, who was the father of
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: Corporal Hunter Lopez. It came from from Jim McCullum, who
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: is the father of Lance Corporal Riley J.
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: McCullum.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: It came from Steve Nicooey, who is the father of
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: Lance Corporal Kareem M.
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  Speaker 4: Nicoy.
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: It came from Coral Doolittle, who is the mother of
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: Corporal Humberto A. Sanchez. It came from Darren Hoover, who
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: is the father of Staff's Sergeant Darren T.
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: Hoover.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: And it came from Kelly Barnett, who is the mother
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: of Staff's Sergeant Darren T.
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: Hoover.
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  Speaker 3: Now you want to talk about people who have moral gravity,
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: They've given the ultimate sacrifice of their own children who died,
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: and yet you know what they also have said. So
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: Christy Shamblin, who was one of the people who signed it.
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: She is the mother in law of Sergeant Nicole lg
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: She has said that Kamala Harris's behavior show that she
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: believes quote, service members are disposable, and it is striking.
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: Here's what she said. She said, quote, I think it
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: shows that she believes our service members are disposable. And
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: that's exactly the feeling that we've got from the White
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: House is that our heroes, our children, my daughter in
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: law was disposable and replaceable and not important, and I
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: can't live with that. It's not acceptable. Our service members
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: are the most important people in our society. And Nakoui,
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: another one of the gold Star Family members, said, not
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: hearing from Harris is quote just typical from this whole administration.
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: You know, they want to sweep this under the rug,
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: never talk about it again, never honest. For them to
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: honor and recognize the sacrifice of our children would force
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: them to recognize that there was a mistake, and so
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: they won't bring it up. You know, they'll keep it
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: under the rug, and we're I'm pretty much used to it,
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: but I'm gonna I'm gonna fight it, you know, I'm
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: gonna call that out every step of the way. And
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: McCullum added that Harris utterly ignored them, never gave them
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: a call. And here's what McCullum said, quote complete lack
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: thereof to just abandon the thirteen, to never reach out,
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: No condolences, no I'm sorry, no explanation, just absolutely ignore
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: us and basically shut us up. She's lacking character, she
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: has no respect.
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: Wow.
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