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Jack Smith’s Investigation Goes Full Telenovela plus Epstein Investigation Hits Fever Pitch as Hillary takes Hot Seat · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: At least ten FBI employees who worked on former Special
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  Speaker 1: counsel Jack Smith's investigation to President Donald Trump's retention of
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  Speaker 1: classified records after he left the White House in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one were fired on Wednesday. Multiple sources are now
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  Speaker 1: confirming the firings came after Reuters reported that the FBI
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  Speaker 1: had subpoena records of phone calls that were made by
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  Speaker 1: the FBI Director Cash Patel and White House Chief of
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  Speaker 1: Staff Susie Wilde's when they were still both private citizens
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  Speaker 1: as part of Smith's probe into Donald Trump. The Biden
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  Speaker 1: FBI secretly obtained Susie Wilde's phone records, including from when
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  Speaker 1: she was Trump's campaign manager, and they even record a
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  Speaker 1: phone call she had with her lawyer. Yes, it is
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  Speaker 1: an insane story now. Patel said the collection of phone
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  Speaker 1: records extended into Wilde's time as Trump's co campaign manager.
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  Speaker 1: He did not say when exactly the record collection began
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  Speaker 1: or when it ended. The FBI discovered the phone records
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  Speaker 1: and files categorized as prohibited quote unquote, which makes them
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  Speaker 1: difficult to discover on the bureau's computer system. Patel said
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  Speaker 1: he recently ended the FBI's ability to categorize files as prohibited.
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  Speaker 1: Smith's investigative techniques have previously drawn shock from GOP leaders,
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  Speaker 1: including the seizure of phone records of US senators and
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  Speaker 1: other Republican officials during Smith's probe into alleged efforts to
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  Speaker 1: overturn the twenty twenty presidential election. Reuters also could not
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  Speaker 1: establish when records the FBI obtained or who approved those subpoenas.
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  Speaker 1: The news agency also couldn't ascertain of Pateller Wiles themselves
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  Speaker 1: were actually under investigation, and if so, why now. Both
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  Speaker 1: were close to Dultry during that period as he built
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  Speaker 1: towards and ultimately launched his twenty twenty four campaign to
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  Speaker 1: reclaim his presidency. Both Patel and Susy Wilde's were known
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  Speaker 1: to have been interviewed by investigators as part of Smith's
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  Speaker 1: investigation into Trump's retention of classified documents following his first
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  Speaker 1: term and that raid at mar Lago in twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: For example, the FBI recorded a phone call we're now
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  Speaker 1: being told between Wiles and her attorney. According to two
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  Speaker 1: FBI officials, wiles attorneys was aware that the call was
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  Speaker 1: being recorded and consented to it, but Susie was not
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  Speaker 1: a spokesman for Smith to decline a comment on Ptel's allegations.
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  Speaker 1: As well, Biden and former Attorney General Merrit Garland and
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  Speaker 1: former FBI Director Chris Ray, who oversaw the Bureau during
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  Speaker 1: Smith's investigations, did not respond to any of the requests
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  Speaker 1: for comment from the media. Garland a pointed Smith as
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  Speaker 1: his special counsel. Everyone buried the lead. Here is what
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  Speaker 1: one person said on X It's not just that the
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  Speaker 1: FBI subpoena Cash and Susie's phone records. The FBI recorded
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  Speaker 1: a phone call between Wiles and her attorney. Even worse,
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  Speaker 1: the lawyer knew the FBI recorded the conversation and didn't
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  Speaker 1: tell his own client, Susie Wilds. I want you to
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  Speaker 1: take a listen to this from Fox News Channel with
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  Speaker 1: Brett Baer. As they were reporting more on the story.
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  Speaker 2: The FBI director Cash Motel out with an allegation that
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  Speaker 2: the prior FBI obtained his phone records, and not only
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  Speaker 2: his What can tell us about that, Brett?
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  Speaker 3: This has been breaking in the last hour or so.
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  Speaker 3: We are told that, according to Cash Matel, the FBI director,
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  Speaker 3: the prior bureau leadership obtained his phone records and phone
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  Speaker 3: records to current White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles
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  Speaker 3: back in twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three, eventually
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  Speaker 3: led into the Jacksmith Special Council investigation into then former
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  Speaker 3: President Donald Trump. Were told that some of these records
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  Speaker 3: are just toll records, which don't have specific information other
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  Speaker 3: than times and dates. They don't have the actual content
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  Speaker 3: of calls. But two sources in the FBI say that
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  Speaker 3: Susie Wiles's attorney agreed to be recorded by FBI agents
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  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty three. She did not agree. We've reached
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  Speaker 3: out to her for comment. FBI Director Pateel, in a
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  Speaker 3: statement to Fox News calls this outrageous and deeply disturbing.
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  Speaker 3: And I will add Brett that we are told at
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  Speaker 3: least ten bureau employees have been fired just today over
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  Speaker 3: this incident, with more potentially to come.
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  Speaker 1: You listen to the ten that were fired, and that
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  Speaker 1: is a start, is what many would describe it as.
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  Speaker 1: But then there's the bigger question. What happens when the
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  Speaker 1: justice system collides with politics? What happens when millions of
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  Speaker 1: Americans start to believe that prosecutors are no longer neutral? Refereence,
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  Speaker 1: but active participants in a political war. Over the last
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  Speaker 1: several years, we have watched the unprecedented targeting the President
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump, the investigations, the indictments, the subpoenas, the grand juries,
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  Speaker 1: all led by Jack Smith and appointed by the Attorney
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  Speaker 1: General Merick Garland. All of this under President Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 1: Now here's what the shock factor comes in for many Americans,
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  Speaker 1: because the simple question is was there even wrongdoing? Well,
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  Speaker 1: the question many Americans are now asking is how did
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  Speaker 1: the federal government cross this line? Jack Smith, he was
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  Speaker 1: appointed in November of twenty twenty two, it was clear
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  Speaker 1: it was a witch hunt. He was there to oversee
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  Speaker 1: the political targeting the President Trump. They then decide to
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  Speaker 1: go after him for documents at mar Lago. From the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: critics argue that this was not simply a legal review,
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  Speaker 1: but more of an aggressive, politically motivated prosecution of the
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  Speaker 1: leading candidate to challenge Joe Biden in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: Was the motive to cover for Joe Biden's cognitive decline
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  Speaker 1: and make sure he didn't have to get into a
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  Speaker 1: tough election with Donald Trump. That is for well different
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  Speaker 1: people to decide, but to be clear, federal prosecutors and
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  Speaker 1: investigators do have the authority to collect evidence when pursuing
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  Speaker 1: a criminal investigation. The question is was it actually a
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  Speaker 1: criminal investigation or was it just a political one. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the more we're finding out, it's pretty clear it was
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  Speaker 1: all politics and not actually a political investigation. The President
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  Speaker 1: of United States of America making it clear he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: going to back down. And it's also shocking how much
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  Speaker 1: abuse of power there was at the highest levels. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you think it's just Donald Trump that this is
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  Speaker 1: happening too when it comes to surveillance, you would also
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  Speaker 1: be wrong. In a shocking news event today, the woman
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  Speaker 1: who's in charge of the Department of Homeland Security, Christy no,
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  Speaker 1: came out and said that she found spyware on her
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  Speaker 1: phone that was put there by the Department of Homeland
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  Speaker 1: Security employees. Take a listen to this.
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  Speaker 4: Came into this office. It was you know, Elon and
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  Speaker 4: his team were extremely helpful to me. They helped me
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  Speaker 4: identify that that some of my own employees in my
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  Speaker 4: department had downloaded software on my phone and my laptop
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  Speaker 4: to spy on me stop to record our meetings. Wow,
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  Speaker 4: they had done that to several of the politicals. Wow,
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  Speaker 4: And so we ended up bringing in people And that
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  Speaker 4: was something that if you didn't have those technology experts
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  Speaker 4: here in the department looking at all of our laptops
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  Speaker 4: and our phones and recognizing that kind of software, it
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  Speaker 4: would still be happening.
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  Speaker 5: Today's what happened to the individual that was you know,
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  Speaker 5: had your phone that was being spied on. What happened
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  Speaker 5: to those individuals?
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  Speaker 4: Fired fire, brought in polygraft, fired, yes, many of them
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  Speaker 4: out of that arm of the department that are in
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  Speaker 4: charge of security on laptops phones. Also, you know, we
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  Speaker 4: had to sweep my office on a regular basis to
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  Speaker 4: make sure that there's not listening devices in it. It's
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  Speaker 4: very it was very prevalent. And I think that what
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  Speaker 4: happened at this department was individuals had gotten away with
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  Speaker 4: for years spying on people who were politically appointed and
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  Speaker 4: trying to stop an administration that was coming in and
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  Speaker 4: trying to fix this country and keep us safe.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you listen to what Christy Noome just
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  Speaker 1: said there, I mean it is shocking but also not surprising.
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  Speaker 1: This administration weaponized everything that they could possibly weaponize. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: anything that could weaponize to go after their political opponents.
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  Speaker 1: But think about just how corrupt this is. You have
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  Speaker 1: the woman that's coming in who's in charge the Department
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  Speaker 1: of Home and Security, and her own employees are putting
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  Speaker 1: spyware to spy on their boss on her phone as
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  Speaker 1: the woman in charge of the Department of Homeland Security.
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  Speaker 1: How does no one go to jail for this stuff?
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  Speaker 1: That's the question that every American is asking right now,
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  Speaker 1: and it's also a question that the president should be asking,
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  Speaker 1: and that is when do we start arresting people for
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  Speaker 1: doing these types of things. It's certainly something to think about.
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  Speaker 1: We've got new data out about the performance of Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump as president of United States of America and the
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  Speaker 1: State of the Union address, and the numbers, well, they're
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  Speaker 1: exactly what I expected. Donald Trump's post Stay of the
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  Speaker 1: Union approval rating has now jumped to fifty one percent.
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  Speaker 1: That isn't a poll taken entirely after the president's triumphant
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  Speaker 1: Stay of the Union on Tuesday night. The new survey
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  Speaker 1: that came out was more than a thousand likely voters
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  Speaker 1: between February the twenty fourth and the twenty six and
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  Speaker 1: had found that forty seven point one percent of those
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  Speaker 1: polled strongly approved of the job of the president was
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  Speaker 1: doing well. Three point seven percent said they approved. Trump's
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  Speaker 1: disapproval ratings sits at forty eight percent, not surprising because
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  Speaker 1: we're a very divided country. The number, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: is made up of thirty nine point one percent who
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  Speaker 1: strongly disapprove of President Trump and what he's doing. That's
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  Speaker 1: your radical left, the socialist, Marxist and communists will eight
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  Speaker 1: point five percent merely disapproved. Now, this poll is one
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  Speaker 1: that is significant because it shows that the present obviously
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  Speaker 1: did what he needed to do at that speech, talking
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  Speaker 1: to Americans and making sure that he feels like Americans
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  Speaker 1: have pride in their country. Part of what the President
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  Speaker 1: talked about.
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  Speaker 5: Two hundred and fifty years is a long time in
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  Speaker 5: the life of a nation, But in other sense, it's
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  Speaker 5: really a mere moment in the eye of history. Two
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  Speaker 5: of the gentlemen we met in the gallery this evening
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  Speaker 5: took their first breaths one century ago. One hundred years
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  Speaker 5: before that, on July fourth, eighteen twenty six, the author
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  Speaker 5: of the Declaration of Independence, brilliant Thomas Jefferson, to his
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  Speaker 5: last breath, just a single long human lifespan separates the
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  Speaker 5: giants who declared and won our independence from the heroes
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  Speaker 5: who stand among us tonight. Everything our nation has done,
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  Speaker 5: everything we have achieved, has been the work of those
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  Speaker 5: few great lifetimes. In those brief chapters, Americans built this
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  Speaker 5: nation from thirteen humble colonies into the pinnacle of human
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  Speaker 5: civilization and human freedom, the strongest, wealthiest, most powerful, most
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  Speaker 5: successful nation in all of history. Americans ventured out across
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  Speaker 5: the daunting and dangerous we carved, passed through an unforgiving wilderness,
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  Speaker 5: settled a boundless frontier, and tamed the beautiful but very
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  Speaker 5: very dangerous wild West. From empty marshes and wide open plains,
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  Speaker 5: we raised up the world's greatest cities. Together, we mastered
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  Speaker 5: the world's mightiest industries and shattered histories monstrous tyrannies, and
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  Speaker 5: we liberated millions from the chains of fascism, communism, oppression,
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  Speaker 5: and terror. Americans lifted humanity into the skies on the
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  Speaker 5: wings of aluminium and steel. And then we launched mankind
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  Speaker 5: into the stars on rockets. Powered by sheer American will
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  Speaker 5: and unyielding American pride. We wired that lobe with our ingenuity.
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  Speaker 5: We captivated the planet with American culture, and now we
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  Speaker 5: are pioneering the next great American breakthrough that will change
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  Speaker 5: the entire world. All of this and so much more
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  Speaker 5: is the enduring legacy, unmatched glory of the hard working
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  Speaker 5: patriots who built and defended this country, and who still
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  Speaker 5: carry the hopes and freedoms on all of humanity's backs.
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  Speaker 5: For years, they were forgotten, betrayed, and cast aside. But
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  Speaker 5: that great betrayal is over and they will never be
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  Speaker 5: forgotten again. Because when the world needs courage, daring, vision
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  Speaker 5: and inspiration, it is still turning to America. And when
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  Speaker 5: God needs a nation to work his miracles, he knows
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  Speaker 5: exactly who to ask. There is no challenge Americans cannot overcome,
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  Speaker 5: no frontier too vast for us to conquer, no dream
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  Speaker 5: too bold for us to chase, no horizon to distant
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  Speaker 5: for us to claim. For our destiny is written by
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  Speaker 5: the hand of Providence, and these first two hundred and
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  Speaker 5: fifty years were just the beginning. From the rugged border
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  Speaker 5: towns of Texas to the heartland villages of Michigan, from
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  Speaker 5: the sun kissed shores of Florida to the endless fields
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  Speaker 5: of the Dakotas, and from the historic streets of Philadelphia
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  Speaker 5: to right here in our nation's capital, Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 5: The Golden Age of America is upon us. The revolution
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  Speaker 5: that began in seventeen seventy six has not ended. It
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  Speaker 5: still continues because the flame of liberty and independence still
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  Speaker 5: burns in the heart of every American patriot. And our
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  Speaker 5: future will be bigger, better, brighter, bolder, and more glorious
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  Speaker 5: than ever before. Thank you, God bless you, and God
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  Speaker 5: bless America.
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  Speaker 1: That type of messaging during the City Union that made
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  Speaker 1: so many Americans remember exactly why they voted for Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump in the first place. The President talking about so
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  Speaker 1: many of his successes and what is happening right now
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  Speaker 1: with no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, getting
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: rid of regulations that will over the costs of cars,
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: for example, all major things the President is talking about.
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  Speaker 1: He also spent time talking about how important it is
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  Speaker 1: that Americans aren't having to compete with massive corporations for housing,
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  Speaker 1: standing up for so many Americans, and the way that
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: President Trump talked about it was clear he was putting
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  Speaker 1: Americans first ahead of corporations who were buying up so
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  Speaker 1: many houses and making it unaffordable for many Americans to
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  Speaker 1: get in the home buying process for the very first time.
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  Speaker 1: Just take a listen to President Trump talking about this
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  Speaker 1: issue at the City of the Union.
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  Speaker 5: Make that band permanent because homes for people, really, that's
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  Speaker 5: what we want. We want homes for people, not for corporations.
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  Speaker 5: Corporations are doing just fine. Racel, thank you very much,
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  Speaker 5: Good luck with you home. You'll get one there.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this wasn't just a line that the President wanted
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  Speaker 1: to deliver and the say of the Union to check
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  Speaker 1: a box. This is on. The President is actually working
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  Speaker 1: very hard on The President saying this at the World
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  Speaker 1: Economic Forum back at the end of January.
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  Speaker 6: Home ownership has always been a symbol of health and
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  Speaker 6: vigor of American society. But that goal fell out of
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  Speaker 6: reach for millions and millions of people in the Biden
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  Speaker 6: ear because interest rates went up so high. Today, I'm
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  Speaker 6: taking action to bring back this bedrock of the American dream.
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  Speaker 6: In recent years, Wall Street giants and institutional investment firms,
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  Speaker 6: many of you are here. Many of you are good
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  Speaker 6: friends of mine, many of you are supporters. Sorry to
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  Speaker 6: do this, I'm so sorry, but you've driven up housing
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  Speaker 6: prices by purchasing hundreds of thousands of single family homes,
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  Speaker 6: and it's been a great investment for them, often as
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  Speaker 6: much as ten percent of houses on the market.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 6: The crazy thing is a person can't get depreciation on
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  Speaker 6: the house, but when a corporation buys it, they get depreciation. Okay,
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  Speaker 6: that's something we're going to have to think about too.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know if too many people think about that.
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  Speaker 6: You buy a corporation, they buy five hundred houses, they
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  Speaker 6: buy hundreds of thousands, they buy five hundred houses, they
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  Speaker 6: can take depreciation. A person sweats and works and buys
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  Speaker 6: one house, they can't. But homes are built for people,
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  Speaker 6: not for corporations. In America will not become a nation
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  Speaker 6: of renters. We're not going to do that. That's why
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  Speaker 6: I have signed and executive order banning large institutional investors
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  Speaker 6: from buying single family homes. It's just not fair to
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  Speaker 6: the public. They're not able to buy a house, and
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  Speaker 6: I'm calling on Congress to pass that band into permanent law.
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  Speaker 6: I think they will.
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  Speaker 1: It's clear the President Trump has made this a priority
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  Speaker 1: for the midterm elections. It's exactly why he's campaigning on
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  Speaker 1: this issue, and it's exactly why by the way, his
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  Speaker 1: approval rating went up in a significant way after the
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  Speaker 1: State of the Union because not only is President Trump
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  Speaker 1: saying we want to put Americans first, He's also saying
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  Speaker 1: his time to stop having Congress make it harder on
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  Speaker 1: you to buy a home. Donald Trump putting out a
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  Speaker 1: true social tweet saying quote, for a very long time,
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  Speaker 1: buying and owning a home was considered a pinnacle of
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  Speaker 1: the American dream. It was the reward for working hard
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  Speaker 1: and doing the right thing. But now, because of the
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  Speaker 1: record high inflation caused by Joe Biden and the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: in Congress, the American dream is increasingly out of reach
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  Speaker 1: for far too many people, especially younger Americans. It is
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  Speaker 1: for that reason and much more, that I am immediately
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  Speaker 1: taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more
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  Speaker 1: single family homes, and I will be calling on Congress
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  Speaker 1: to codify it people live in homes, not corporations. I
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  Speaker 1: will discuss this topic, including further housing and affordability proposals,
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  Speaker 1: and more, at my speech in Davos in two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: And then he did it again in the State of
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  Speaker 1: the Union. Trump also going after the US housing market
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  Speaker 1: and talking exactly about why these corporations need to be watched.
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  Speaker 1: A great example of this is after President Trump announces
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  Speaker 1: banning single family home purchases by institutional investors. Within minutes,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Blackstone Stock erased as much as seventeen billion dollars because
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: people realize that the presence onto what's happening with his
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  Speaker 1: institutional investors and now calling on Congress to ban investment
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  Speaker 1: firms buying homes is exactly what the American people needed.
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  Speaker 1: They needed to make sure they can take care of
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  Speaker 1: themselves and become first time home buyers. That's why this
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  Speaker 1: is such an important conversation and again why I think
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: so many Americans are like Donald Trump is my president.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: I'm proud of him, and he's standing up for all
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  Speaker 1: of us and trying to make it easier for us
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  Speaker 1: to live in the greatest country in the world today.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Mark's a major political moment. The former First Lady, the
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  Speaker 1: former Senator, and the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
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  Speaker 1: did sit under oath before the Republican led House Oversight
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  Speaker 1: Committee as part of an ongoing congressional investigation to Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Epstein and his network. One of the highest profile figures
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  Speaker 1: to ever testify in this probe. The deposition was part
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: of a broader, months long House Republican effort to examine
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's activities, the Justice Department's handling over the related files,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: and the connections Epstein maintained with powerful people for many years. Now,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: let me just remind you of where we are right now,
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  Speaker 1: before we got to Hillary Clinton. Since the release of
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein files, we have seen Prince Andrew arrested, Ambassador
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  Speaker 1: Peter Mendelson arrested, Bill and Hillary Clinton now being grilled
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  Speaker 1: under oath. Bill Gates has now had to cancel events
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  Speaker 1: and confess to some of his indiscretions of the past.
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  Speaker 1: Even Obama's lawyer resigned from Goldman Sachs. Thomas Pritzker resigned
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  Speaker 1: Larry Summers resigned from Harvard, the former Norway Prime minister
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  Speaker 1: attempted suicide after an investigation was announced, and Peter Attilla
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: You notice we really didn't talk about anyone being arrested
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  Speaker 1: in the United States of America, But at least we're
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  Speaker 1: starting to get some answers to what's happening, especially with
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  Speaker 1: Hillary Quinton, and what did she actually have to say
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  Speaker 1: under oath. I'm gonna tell you, but before we get
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  Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton, she testified under oath. Finally, she appeared for
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  Speaker 1: more than six hours in a closed door deposition before
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  Speaker 1: the House Oversight Committee in her hometown of Champaqua, New York.
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  Speaker 1: This is among the first times a former First Lady
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  Speaker 1: and a former presidential nominee as been compelled to testify
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  Speaker 1: directly in an investigation tied to Jeffrey Epstein's activities. According
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  Speaker 1: to multiple news outlets reporting on today's session, Clinton said
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  Speaker 1: she has no information about Epstein's or his associate Maxwell's
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  Speaker 1: criminal activities. She repeated that she never met Jeffrey Epstein
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  Speaker 1: and could not recall ever encountering him. She insisted she
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  Speaker 1: had no involvement with Epstein or Maxwell's crimes, and that
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  Speaker 1: she never visited his properties or traveled on his plane. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this marks Clinton's strongest and most detailed public response under
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  Speaker 1: oath regarding Jeffrey Epstein. So let's talk about what she denied.
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  Speaker 1: Clinton emphasized repeatedly that she had no knowledge of Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: criminal behavior while it was happening. She didn't quote recall
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  Speaker 1: ever meeting Epstein personally, despite Epstein's files containing various high
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  Speaker 1: profile names She also defended her record on combating human
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  Speaker 1: trafficking and criticized parts of the committee's line of questioning.
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  Speaker 1: The deposition was briefly paused after a photo from inside
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  Speaker 1: the session was also leaked by a GOP lawmaker that
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  Speaker 1: violates House rules for closed hearings. Afterwards, Clinton Democrats called
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  Speaker 1: for the full video and transcript to be made public
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  Speaker 1: to ensure transparency and accuracy. Republicans say they want answers
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  Speaker 1: about Epstein's rise, his connections, and how federal agencies handled
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  Speaker 1: aspects of the case, including why some files were withheld
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  Speaker 1: or redacted. Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, argue that hearing has
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  Speaker 1: become quote political, and that this should focus on transparency
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  Speaker 1: rather than a partisan attack. Here's the other thing that's
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: very interesting about what's next. Former present that Bill Clinton,
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  Speaker 1: who is also scheduled to testify on Friday, we'll be
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  Speaker 1: asked similar questions. That makes this a two day key
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  Speaker 1: moment in Congress's investigation into Epstein's work. I also want
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  Speaker 1: you to hear Hillary Clinton out in front of the
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  Speaker 1: cameras when she was asked about why was it that
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell was at her daughter's wedding in twenty ten, if
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: she doesn't know anything about these people. Not only does
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  Speaker 1: she answer the question quickly, but they immediately into the
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  Speaker 1: press conference after the question was asked.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, James, she's time using And I asked why was
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  Speaker 4: Colleen Maxwell twice? I thought at Chelsea Clinton's wedding in
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  Speaker 4: two thousand and ten, she'd already been mentioned in a
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: civil lawsuit by for Junior Jewfree Before that, Jeffrey Epstein's
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  Speaker 4: already been convicted.
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  Speaker 7: Before that, she came as the plus one, the guest
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  Speaker 7: of someone who was invited.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard it, Thank you all, And just like that,
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  Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton walks away from the microphone. One thing that
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: is for sure about all of this is at least
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: conservatives are actually covering the issue and conservative media. Hillary
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  Speaker 1: Clinton having this day under oath saying she never met
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein could be a massive development. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to hear part of what was said on Fox News
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  Speaker 1: with Jesse Waters.
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  Speaker 8: Fox, Who's alert the Epstein scandals rocking Chapaquah. Today, Hillary
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  Speaker 8: went under oath and was grilled about the Clinton's relationship
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  Speaker 8: with the dead pedophile. She testified behind closed doors, but
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: the deposition was being recorded. At any minute, we could
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  Speaker 8: get the tapes. When it wrapped, Hillary came out and
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  Speaker 8: said this.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know how many times I had to say
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  Speaker 7: I did not know Jeffrey Hepstein. I never went to
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  Speaker 7: his island, I never went to his homes, I never
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  Speaker 7: went to his offices. So it's on the record numerous times.
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  Speaker 8: Now we're into her testimony. It went off the rails.
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  Speaker 8: A photo of Hillary was leaked from inside. All hell
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  Speaker 8: broke loose and Crooked's team stormed out.
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  Speaker 9: Hearing just went off the record for a moment because
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  Speaker 9: it seems that some of you may have seen that
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  Speaker 9: there were some photographs share on social media, which is
• 28:27
  Speaker 9: against Chamber of rules that were read at the top
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  Speaker 9: of the meeting. So the hearing has been paused briefly
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  Speaker 9: while they figure out where the photo came from.
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  Speaker 8: Congresswoman Lauren Bobert texted the pick to the press, and
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  Speaker 8: Hillary complained it was against the rules. I don't think
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  Speaker 8: she liked how she looked.
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  Speaker 7: We had a bit of a challenge in the beginning
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  Speaker 7: because we had agreed upon rules based on the fact
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  Speaker 7: it was going to be a closed hearing at their demand,
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  Speaker 7: and one of the members violated that rule, which was
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  Speaker 7: very upsetting because it suggested that they might violate other
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  Speaker 7: of our agreements.
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  Speaker 8: Hillary made a fauster to chew up clock because she
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  Speaker 8: didn't want to be there. She testified that she never
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  Speaker 8: met Epstein, even though he'd been to the White House
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  Speaker 8: sixteen times. It was supposed to be a co presidency,
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: remember a two for one deal. Hillary moved to her
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  Speaker 8: office into the West Wing. But Hillary doesn't remember.
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  Speaker 5: The number of times that she said I don't know,
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  Speaker 5: you'll have to ask my husband was more than a dozen.
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  Speaker 4: And I'll put it like that.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe they didn't meet.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe they did.
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  Speaker 8: But Bill does a lot of things when Hillary's not looking.
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  Speaker 8: But this email's interesting. In the Epstein file, someone emailed
• 29:51
  Speaker 8: the sex offender quote. I know you are close with Hillary,
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  Speaker 8: but if she gets the nomination and you vote for her,
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  Speaker 8: I'll effing kill you. Did Hillary meet Epstein?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe not, but we do know.
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  Speaker 7: This my new Gallaine Maxwell casually as an acquaintance. But
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: whatever they asked me, I did my very best to respond.
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  Speaker 1: Best to respond responding by saying, you'll have to ask
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  Speaker 1: my husband. One thing's for sure. Hillary Clinton clearly was
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  Speaker 1: willing to throw Bill Clinton.
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  Speaker 5: Under the bus.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Now it's Bill Clinton's turn to answer the questions, and
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: his answers are going to be very different because there's
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: multiple photos of him in hot tubs and swimming pools
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  Speaker 1: and on planes and getting massages from women that were
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: right there with Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell. So that will
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: be part two and honestly probably a much bigger part
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: of all of this, and we're going to have all
• 30:53
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