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FBI Calls Cathloc School Shooting a Hate Crime as Democrats Push Gun Control · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: There is one thing we are getting from the Trump
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Speaker 1: administration when it comes to the shooting in Minneapolis. It
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Speaker 1: is clarity. The FBI director Caspittel saying the shooting is
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Speaker 1: now being investigated as a hate crime targeting Catholics. This
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Speaker 1: is something we did not get from the prior administration.
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Speaker 1: The FBI director used a post on x to make
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Speaker 1: it clear that the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting will be
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Speaker 1: investigated as a hate crime, specifically targeting Catholics. It was
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Speaker 1: reported that the alleged shooter changed his name from Robert
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Speaker 1: to Robin at seventeen years of age. Fox News correspondent
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Speaker 1: Brooke Taylor reported that his mother signed off on the
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Speaker 1: suspected shooter's name changed from Robert to Robin. Yet again,
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Speaker 1: another transgendered individual shooting up a school. Police indicated the
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Speaker 1: alleged shooter used a pistol, a rifle, and a shotgun
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Speaker 1: to carry out his attack on the church Wednesday morning.
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Speaker 1: From inside the church, he shot through windows, striking children
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Speaker 1: as they sat in the pews during mass. As you
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Speaker 1: know at this point when I am recording this, two
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Speaker 1: children have been killed, seventeen other individuals have been wounded.
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Speaker 1: Patel putting it on x saying updates on the shooting
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Speaker 1: in Minneapolis. The FBI is investigating. Shooting is an active
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Speaker 1: domestic terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics. There are two fatalities,
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Speaker 1: an eight year old and a ten year old, in
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Speaker 1: addition to fourteen children and three adults that were injured.
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Speaker 1: He went on to say after that quote, the shooter
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Speaker 1: has been identified is Robin Westman, a male born as
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Speaker 1: Robert Westman. The FBI will continue to provide updates on
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Speaker 1: our ongoing investigation with the public as we are able.
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Speaker 1: Now even CNN is having to admit that this was
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Speaker 1: a radical. Here is more of what they said about
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Speaker 1: the shooter.
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Speaker 2: Breaking news, admiration for mass shooters, hatred of multiple groups,
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Speaker 2: no sympathy for any victim. It is just some of
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Speaker 2: what the shooter in today's Catholic school massacre which he
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Speaker 2: murdered two children, reveals and videos posted online. Videos that
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Speaker 2: police are scouring through right now for clues and answers
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Speaker 2: about the shooter, who has been identified as a twenty
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Speaker 2: three year old named Robin Westman. Brian Todd has the
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Speaker 2: latest on what we know about the shooter.
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Speaker 3: The coward that shot these victims took his own life
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Speaker 3: in the rear of the church. That coward has been
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Speaker 3: identified as twenty three year old Robin Westman.
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Speaker 4: Westman seems to have left a series of online videos
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Speaker 4: which describe an obsession with school shootings and even named
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Speaker 4: other mass shooters, such as the twenty twelve Sandy Hook gunman,
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Speaker 4: the Columbine gunman, and the man who attacked the Tree
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Speaker 4: of Life Synagogue in twenty eighteen.
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Speaker 5: Here's my note to my family.
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Speaker 4: The video also shows written statements and several guns painted
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Speaker 4: with slurs. In another clip, the speaker simply reads aloud
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Speaker 4: from a closed dryer, manual.
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Speaker 5: Dryer safety, Your safety and the safety of others are
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Speaker 5: very important.
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Speaker 4: Police say they also found a litany of writings.
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Speaker 3: We're also aware of a manifesto that the shooter had
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Speaker 3: time to be released on YouTube. This manifesto appeared to
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Speaker 3: show him at the scene and included some disturbing writings.
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Speaker 3: That content has since been taken down with the assistance
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Speaker 3: of the FBI, and it now remains under active review
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Speaker 3: by our investigators.
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Speaker 4: Apparently part of the plan that the shooter seemed to
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Speaker 4: illustrate in those same videos on YouTube, a photo of
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Speaker 4: a slab of wood. An actual slab of wood was
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Speaker 4: found at the scene, blocking a door from the outside.
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Speaker 6: For the exit.
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Speaker 5: Pop it through the hands.
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Speaker 4: According to social media posts, the shooter's mother worked at
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Speaker 4: the school from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty one, and
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Speaker 4: the shooter graduated from the school in twenty seventeen. The shooter,
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Speaker 4: now known as twenty three year old Robin Westman, identified
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Speaker 4: as a female and changed their name legally to Robin
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Speaker 4: from Robert in twenty twenty. The agency is investigating this
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Speaker 4: as an act of domestic terrorism and as a hate
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Speaker 4: crime targeting Catholics. Police Chief Brian O'Haras says, officials there
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Speaker 4: have not yet established enough of a motive to charge
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Speaker 4: it or to investigate it yet as a hate crime.
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Speaker 1: Aaron, that is the part that's the most shocking. You
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Speaker 1: now have two very different narratives. You have clearly leadership
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Speaker 1: and cashpiteal in the Trump administration calling this what it is,
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Speaker 1: and then you have local liberal police who are saying, no,
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Speaker 1: we don't have enough to actually look at this as
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Speaker 1: a hate crime yet. The question I would ask is
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Speaker 1: when will you have enough? As the Minneapolis police chief,
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Speaker 1: describing the attack on the mass as quote evil, noting
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Speaker 1: that the worship service was marking the first week of
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Speaker 1: school for children that are attending the Catholic school. He
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Speaker 1: described the shooting as a deliberate act of violence against
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Speaker 1: innocent children and other people worshiping, but won't call it
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Speaker 1: a hate crime yet. If you want to know what's
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Speaker 1: wrong in this country, this is a perfect example of it. Democrats,
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Speaker 1: even when evil is steering them in the face, will
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Speaker 1: refuse time and time again to call it exactly that.
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Speaker 1: If there's one thing that is happening right now, it
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Speaker 1: is that Democrats are using this to push for gun control.
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Speaker 1: Amy Klobuchar said, I have long supported assault weapons ban,
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Speaker 1: even before she knows what guns were even used. Many
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Speaker 1: others are also saying the same thing. Former White House
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Speaker 1: pressing or Tarry Jensaki breaking down in tears on MSNBC,
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Speaker 1: and then the Minnesota mayor are saying, why is it
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Speaker 1: that you can buy a gun virtually every month if
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Speaker 1: you want to too, again blaming the gun instead of
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Speaker 1: the transgendered person who they decided to say that their
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Speaker 1: mental health issues were normal and decided that you know,
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Speaker 1: we're never going to help them with their mental health
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Speaker 1: We're just going to try to normalize it. Former FBI
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Speaker 1: profiler said the shooter's parents, well, they're ones to blame
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Speaker 1: as well, saying you help them change their name. At seventeen,
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Speaker 1: that's probably when the fuse was lit. Take a listen
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Speaker 1: to a little bit more of what the FBI profiler
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Speaker 1: had to say about the shooter on Ingram Show on Fox.
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Speaker 6: Scrawl across that manifesto, James, what can you tell us
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Speaker 6: You've seen the photos.
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Speaker 1: There are various photos.
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Speaker 6: Of him circulating on the internet.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, and we're just a few weeks away from the
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Speaker 7: thirtieth anniversary of the publication of the unibombers Manifesto in
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Speaker 7: the Washington Post, and now we have Back then, it
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Speaker 7: took a whole lot of protocols to go through to
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Speaker 7: get it in the newspaper, according including from the UNI
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Speaker 7: bomber himself. Nowadays, you do these things, You plan these
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Speaker 7: mass murders, and you put it on YouTube, you know,
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Speaker 7: twenty minutes or the day before while you're singing along
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Speaker 7: to Annie, and then you know, RM songs and other
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Speaker 7: factors like that to make it so disgusting. This person, obviously,
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Speaker 7: he makes Travis Bickle, the taxi driver character look like
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Speaker 7: a piker. He is all over the place. I can't
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Speaker 7: believe there are not siblings. I think he had six
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Speaker 7: siblings parents who somehow did not see this, that there
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Speaker 7: wasn't psychological or behavioral leakage in one way or the other.
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Speaker 7: I'm not sure where he was living, with whom he
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Speaker 7: was living, but someone had to see this, And I
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Speaker 7: think we should look at laws in this country that
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Speaker 7: perhaps if you have a family connection who does something
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Speaker 7: like this and you didn't report it, you can help
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Speaker 7: them get guns, you help them change their name. At seventeen,
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Speaker 7: that's probably when the fuse was lit for this guy
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Speaker 7: to do what he did. You know, five six years.
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Speaker 1: Later now our Democrats worried about any of what was
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Speaker 1: just mentioned there. No, are they trying to stop the
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Speaker 1: next shooting before it happens. No, what they are trying
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Speaker 1: to do is use this opportunity to then say that
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Speaker 1: you cannot own a firearm. That is the entire conversation
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Speaker 1: and what it focused around on MSNBC virtually all day
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Speaker 1: and all night.
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Speaker 5: Doctors and nurses, everyone that helped.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I saw some of the stories coming out about
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Speaker 6: that heroism and just incredible courage under tremendously insane circumstances.
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Speaker 6: There is something so perverse about the fact that these
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Speaker 6: kids drill for this, and yet it seems that that
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Speaker 6: preparation maybe was useful in this moment.
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Speaker 5: Yes, so they knew to get under the pews, they
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Speaker 5: knew what to do. And my friend's daughter was just,
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Speaker 5: you know, seventh eighth grader. She actually saw two of
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Speaker 5: her friends shot, one and the stomach, one in the neck,
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Speaker 5: and then when she got out, she had to tell
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Speaker 5: one of their parents what had happened to their own kid.
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Speaker 5: So these kids did extraordinary things, but they never should
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Speaker 5: have been put in that position in the first place.
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Speaker 5: This was a mad man. He was an all purpose
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Speaker 5: hater by the way, hated groups, left, right, you name it.
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Speaker 5: There's no way to pin an ideology on this, and
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Speaker 5: I think people should remember this as the facts come
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Speaker 5: out about this manifesto. But what I learned from this
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Speaker 5: once again is that guns and we're a proud hunting state.
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Speaker 5: There's a lot of law abiding gun owners in Minnesota.
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Speaker 5: But there's got to be more we can do here.
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Speaker 5: I've long supported an assault weapon band. It won't help
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Speaker 5: in every case, but it would helped in Uvaldi, it
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Speaker 5: would have helped in Buffalo. We don't know if it
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Speaker 5: would have helped here, or background checks or some kind
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Speaker 5: of triggers when someone suddenly buys a number of guns
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Speaker 5: or better backgrounds. This just we're not doing enough. And
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Speaker 5: these kids, no matter how many drills they have, they
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Speaker 5: shouldn't be expected to do that for us.
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Speaker 1: Isn't it amazing how the left will sit there and
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Speaker 1: use kids dying do then push for a genda. Itdel
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Speaker 1: that She even admits, we don't know if it would
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Speaker 1: have helped here at all, but I'm going to push
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Speaker 1: the political agenda anyway. This is where we are. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: Democrats see something that's happened and they immediately go for
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Speaker 1: one thing, your right to protect and defend yourself instantly.
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Speaker 1: A Minnesota church school shooting has happened yet again, and
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Speaker 1: yet again, the suspect was a transgendered person. The suspect
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Speaker 1: identified as a female and changed the name at seventeen
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Speaker 1: years old. A senior administration official has now confirmed that
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Speaker 1: the alleged shooter at the Minneapolis Catholic school changed from
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Speaker 1: a male name to a female name at seventeen years
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Speaker 1: of age and now identified as a female. A document
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Speaker 1: post on social media confirmed as authentic by the officials,
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Speaker 1: said they described the name change occurring in twenty twenty,
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Speaker 1: when the alleged shooter was a minor and required parental
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Speaker 1: sign off on the change. Fox News correspondent Brooke Taylor
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Speaker 1: reported that his mother signed off on the name change
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Speaker 1: from Robert to Robin. It has also been reported that
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Speaker 1: police indicated the alleged shooter used a pistol, a rifle,
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Speaker 1: and a shotgun to carry out the attack on the
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Speaker 1: school Wednesday morning. From outside the church, he shot through windows,
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Speaker 1: striking children as they sat in pews during mass. Two
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Speaker 1: children were killed and seventeen other individuals were wounded. We
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Speaker 1: hope that those numbers do not change, but they could
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Speaker 1: by the time you hear this. The shooter then took
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Speaker 1: his own life. We also know that this is a trend.
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Speaker 1: You had a transgender identifying woman that shot and killed
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Speaker 1: six innocent children at a Nashville Christian school back on
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Speaker 1: March twenty seventh of twenty twenty three. She had originally
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Speaker 1: planned to shoot up another school, but didn't why she
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Speaker 1: abandoned the plan to avoid looking racist, and there was
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Speaker 1: another school that had quote too much security. Now, there's
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Speaker 1: more on this when it comes to transgender issue. We're
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Speaker 1: going to talk about this in a moment, but there's
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Speaker 1: a bigger part of the story that you need to
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Speaker 1: know about right now, and it is a part of
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Speaker 1: the story that will not be covered by the media.
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Speaker 1: I want to take you back to two years ago.
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Speaker 1: Two years before the shooter opened fire on the students
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Speaker 1: attending daily mass in Minneapolis, the leaders of independent Catholic
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Speaker 1: schools in Minnesota begged the governor former VP candidate Tim
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Speaker 1: Waltz for help securing their schools. The funding by Tim
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Speaker 1: was never authorized. Where was funding going taxpayer dollars to
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Speaker 1: illegal immigrants. It was going to massive amounts of government
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Speaker 1: aid to illegal immigrants in his community, But protecting the kids, no,
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Speaker 1: that was something he would not do. Their letter asked
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Speaker 1: Waltz for help to secure nonprofit, non public and religious schools.
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Speaker 1: It came one week after a trans identifying shooter killed
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Speaker 1: three children and three adults in Nashville at the Covenant
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Speaker 1: Christian School. So there was a reason why they were
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Speaker 1: asking for the money, they said, after seeing that they
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Speaker 1: knew they were vulnerable and they needed help from the governor. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: in April of twenty twenty three, and again, I hope
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Speaker 1: all this information I'm giving you you will share wherever
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Speaker 1: you can on social media, because the media is going
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Speaker 1: to whitewash this and act like none of this ever happened.
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Speaker 1: In April of twenty twenty three, the same month the
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Speaker 1: letter was sent, Walt signed legislation establishing Minnesota as a
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Speaker 1: quote trans refuge quote unquote, promising to protect seeking gender
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Speaker 1: affirming care that according to Outfront Minnesota and the news reports,
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Speaker 1: we now know that the shooter, Robin Slash Robert Westman,
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Speaker 1: is a trans identifying man the reports now state who
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Speaker 1: identified as a woman and legally changed his name in
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Speaker 1: Minnesota with his mother's sign off, which brings us back
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Speaker 1: to the other basic point. Over and over again, we
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Speaker 1: are seeing trans individuals who have gone through some sort
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Speaker 1: of transition, who are being supported by their families, who
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Speaker 1: still are dealing with major mental health issues, and as
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Speaker 1: long as we keep acting like it is not a
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Speaker 1: mental health issue, this is going to continue to happen.
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Speaker 1: It is absolutely and utterly insane for us to sit
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Speaker 1: here and advocate and support people who believe that they
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Speaker 1: are trapped in another sex, body than what they are
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Speaker 1: to normalize it. It is a mental health issue, and
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that in a mean, disparaging or angry way.
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Speaker 1: I genuinely feel sorry for anyone who believes that they
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Speaker 1: are trapped in another person's body, another sex, or the
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Speaker 1: wrong sex and what they are. But let me also
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Speaker 1: say this very clearly, there is a real threat to
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Speaker 1: all of our kids now because we have at least
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Speaker 1: part of the country has tried to normalize mental health
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Speaker 1: issues and acting like there is nothing wrong when someone
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Speaker 1: says they're trapped and the wrong sexual body, the wrong sex.
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Speaker 1: And the longer that we continue down this road, the
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Speaker 1: longer we act like this as normal, when everyone knows
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Speaker 1: that it is not normal, we are going to continue
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Speaker 1: to see these types of things happen. I want you
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Speaker 1: to think about the place you have to be in
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Speaker 1: to be this young and to want to go kill
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Speaker 1: innocent children, shooting them while they're at mass I want
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Speaker 1: you to think about how radical and extreme you have
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Speaker 1: to be in your head to then kill yourself, to
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Speaker 1: turn the gun on yourself. This is a mental health issue,
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Speaker 1: and the problem now is the radical left is tried
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Speaker 1: to normalize it. Instead of giving people the help that
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Speaker 1: they need. Instead, they're saying no, no, let's encourage and
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Speaker 1: advocate and support an individual who's clearly dealing with a
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Speaker 1: major mental health issue. And that is the problem. This
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Speaker 1: is exactly why we must as a nation stand up
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Speaker 1: to this and say no, we are not going to
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Speaker 1: normalize it, and we're not going to act like you're
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Speaker 1: a bad person if you say what I'm saying right now.
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Speaker 1: We need to call it out because we are not
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Speaker 1: doing anybody any favors and we're not actually helping people
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Speaker 1: when we try to normalize a real mental health condition. Finally,
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Speaker 1: let me also say this, this is why the President
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Speaker 1: United States of America I'm proud of for leading on
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Speaker 1: protecting women's sports. He is not normalizing a dude acting
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Speaker 1: like a chick in women's sports. Women's sports should be
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Speaker 1: for women, men's sports should be for men. And if
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Speaker 1: you want to start a messed up trans league, I
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Speaker 1: mean it when I say this, knock yourself out, do it.
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Speaker 1: But do not open up sports to the opposite sex
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Speaker 1: and act like that is fair. The radical left, unfortunately
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Speaker 1: has lost their mind. They're not defending women's sports. They
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Speaker 1: are not doing what they need to do to protect women,
17:41
Speaker 1: and the President is doing it through legislation as well.
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Speaker 1: And all of us should be advocating and supporting women
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Speaker 1: and protecting women, protecting them in the locker rooms, protecting
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Speaker 1: them in sports, protecting them when it comes to scholarships,
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Speaker 1: protecting it when it comes to going to the Olympics.
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Speaker 1: And this is another example of the culture war we
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Speaker 1: are in right now in this country. There are sane
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Speaker 1: people like you and I that believe that this is insanity,
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Speaker 1: and the media and the radical left have been pushing
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Speaker 1: this other narrative, this totally insane narrative, for far too long,
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Speaker 1: and all of us, I believe, have an obligation and
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Speaker 1: a duty to refuse to accept this is some sort
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Speaker 1: of great idea. Now, let me also say this, what
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Speaker 1: I just told you is not being talked about anywhere.
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Speaker 1: I really want you to take the podcast and I
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Speaker 1: after they were asked for protection, putting illegal immigrants ahead
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Speaker 1: in their businesses. According to the revised government data, gross
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Speaker 1: domestic product rose at three point three percent annualized rate
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Speaker 1: in the second quarter. That is up from the Commerce
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Speaker 1: Department's initial three point zero percent estimate and above the
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Speaker 1: three point one percent pace that economists had forecasts. So
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Speaker 1: they beat not one, but two expectations. The acceleration followed
22:30
Speaker 1: modest growth in the first quarter. We're being told as well.
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Speaker 1: Now the upward revision reflects household spending more on a
22:39
Speaker 1: couple different things number one healthcare, two pharmaceuticals, and three
22:43
Speaker 1: something completely different than that, dining out. So what does
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Speaker 1: that mean. It means people feel comfortable and confident in
22:53
Speaker 1: their income right now now. It also shared us something
22:57
Speaker 1: else with businesses, small businesses, mid sized businesses, and large businesses.
23:03
Speaker 1: Companies boosted purchases of number one equipment that tells you
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Speaker 1: they feel good about a growing business structure and intellectual property,
23:13
Speaker 1: meaning that they're also these businesses are willing to invest
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Speaker 1: in future expensive intelligence right intellectual property. Business investment was
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Speaker 1: driven by quote stronger outlays on software, on research and development,
23:30
Speaker 1: including things like light trucks and commercial structures, so people
23:35
Speaker 1: are expanding. You don't do these things unless you have
23:39
Speaker 1: confidence in an economy. We also know that the media
23:43
Speaker 1: lied to you about Trump's trade wars and the tariffs.
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Speaker 1: All of this was happening when they said that things
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Speaker 1: were going to be stopped, that there was going to
23:52
Speaker 1: be a retraction in the economy because of the instability
23:56
Speaker 1: and the insanity as they described it of Donald Trump's
23:59
Speaker 1: trade wars. Guess what they lied to you again. In fact,
24:04
Speaker 1: trade flows also contributed to the growth, so they just
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Speaker 1: lied with pure propaganda that was anti Trump. Imports, which
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Speaker 1: subtract from GDP calculations, declined after surging in the first
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Speaker 1: quarter ahead of the new tariffs on some goods. We
24:20
Speaker 1: also know the export slip but not enough to offset
24:24
Speaker 1: the boom and the booze from fewer foreign goods flowing
24:28
Speaker 1: into the country, which is exactly what Donald Trump predicted.
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Speaker 1: A key gauge by the way of underlying domestic demand
24:36
Speaker 1: and the real final sales to private domestic purchasers, which
24:40
Speaker 1: is an important category, excludes trade inventories and government spinning
24:47
Speaker 1: also rose, so this is like genuine private sector nothing
24:50
Speaker 1: to do with the government. It rose at one point
24:53
Speaker 1: nine percent rate, up from one point two percent in
24:56
Speaker 1: the earlier estimate. So every virtual metric of what the
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Speaker 1: expectations were, the Trump administration blew them out of the water. Now,
25:06
Speaker 1: price pressures remained in check. What does that mean? Personal consumption,
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Speaker 1: expenditure and the price index the Federal reserves preferred inflation
25:14
Speaker 1: gauge increase at a two point zero percent annual rate
25:19
Speaker 1: that was matching the Central Bank's target. Core prices, which
25:23
Speaker 1: exclude violatile food and energy costs, advanced at a two
25:27
Speaker 1: point five percent pace as well. Government spending, by the way,
25:32
Speaker 1: was also revised. I never get to say this lower.
25:36
Speaker 1: Let me just say that again. Government spending was revised lower.
25:41
Speaker 1: Why it was driven by reduced state and local outlays
25:44
Speaker 1: which tempered some of their well, you know, hey spending.
25:49
Speaker 1: That is amazing. The income side, also of national accounts
25:53
Speaker 1: painted a similar robust picture. Real gross domestic income climbed
25:59
Speaker 1: at a four point eight percent rate. Our corporate profits
26:03
Speaker 1: rebounded after declining in the first quarter. The Commerce Department
26:07
Speaker 1: is scheduled by the WAY to release its third and
26:11
Speaker 1: final estimate of second quarter GDP, along with annual benchmark
26:16
Speaker 1: revisions to historic data, on September twenty fifth. So let
26:21
Speaker 1: me just recap for you. This is massive growth for
26:26
Speaker 1: our economy that Donald Trump promised.
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Speaker 7: You have.
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Speaker 1: The US economy's real GDP for the second quarter of
26:32
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five revised upward to three point three percent
26:36
Speaker 1: annualized growth. The media lied to you, and they told
26:39
Speaker 1: you this would not happen. The initial estimate was three
26:43
Speaker 1: point zero percent. They believed you weren't going to get there.
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Speaker 1: They lied. This marks a significant rebound from the negative
26:52
Speaker 1: zero point five percent contraction in quarter one of twenty
26:56
Speaker 1: twenty five. And again the media said that this was
26:58
Speaker 1: a disaster of Trump's and the trade war, and it
27:02
Speaker 1: was going to be just horrific, and you were going
27:04
Speaker 1: to not be able to find things on the shelves,
27:05
Speaker 1: and that you weren't going to be able to find
27:07
Speaker 1: a job, and that no one was going to be
27:08
Speaker 1: hiring and no one's going to be manufacturing. All of
27:11
Speaker 1: that was a lie. The uptick in Q two performance again,
27:17
Speaker 1: why did it happen? Driven by stronger business investments so
27:21
Speaker 1: people have confidence something that the media said was not there.
27:25
Speaker 1: And consumer spending something that they said wouldn't happen. Another lie.
27:30
Speaker 1: It also was a drop. We had a drop in imports.
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Speaker 1: What does that mean? That's better for American workers. That
27:37
Speaker 1: means that we are we are more stable and we're
27:40
Speaker 1: not depending on so much foreign trade. And then, by
27:44
Speaker 1: the way, we all said money that came in that
27:47
Speaker 1: paid down our debt because of all the tariffs the
27:50
Speaker 1: present has put in, we now know that it could
27:52
Speaker 1: be more than a half a trillion dollars. It's collected
27:54
Speaker 1: by the US government this year alone. The measure of
27:58
Speaker 1: real final sales to private domestic purchasers, which includes consumer
28:02
Speaker 1: spending and business investment, that was revised up to one
28:06
Speaker 1: point nine percent from the prior estimate of one point two. Again,
28:10
Speaker 1: the media and the Democrats lied to you. So let's
28:13
Speaker 1: break it down to consumer spending. Donald Trump promised you
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Speaker 1: that you were going to feel confident and you were
28:18
Speaker 1: going to want to be in the game and expand
28:21
Speaker 1: your businesses. Well, real personal consumption expenditures grew one point
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Speaker 1: two percent in Q two. That is an incredible growth
28:30
Speaker 1: based on what they said was coming, which was a disaster.
28:34
Speaker 1: Let me give you another example of this. Monthly data
28:36
Speaker 1: for June alone showed a zero point three percent rise
28:41
Speaker 1: in consumer spending. That is consistent, it is stable, and
28:45
Speaker 1: it was an expansion that the economists and the media
28:49
Speaker 1: and the left said was not going to happen. Again,
28:52
Speaker 1: another lie on a quarter over quarter basis. For example,
28:57
Speaker 1: real consumer spending increase from zero point five percent in
29:01
Speaker 1: Q one to one point six percent in Q two. Again,
29:04
Speaker 1: that is an explosion of spending. And why did this happen?
29:08
Speaker 1: Because people have faith in Donald Trump's policies. So let's
29:13
Speaker 1: deal with corporate profits and business investment because that's going
29:16
Speaker 1: to drive income for Americans. Corporate profits rebounded in quarter
29:22
Speaker 1: two with a gain of you ready for this, thank you,
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, sixty five point five billion. Let me explain
29:31
Speaker 1: how big of a of a fix this is. In
29:34
Speaker 1: the prior quarter Q one, there was a ninety point
29:38
Speaker 1: six billion dollar decline. So not only did we wipe
29:41
Speaker 1: out the ninety point six billion dollar decline in Q one,
29:44
Speaker 1: we added sixty five point five billion to that. That
29:47
Speaker 1: is insane. Business investments contributed meaningfully to the GDP rebound,
29:53
Speaker 1: showing growth and equipment in structures, intellectual property AI related investments,
29:59
Speaker 1: and life vehicles, meaning that these are companies that are
30:02
Speaker 1: saying it's time to buy a new fleet of vehicles.
30:04
Speaker 1: That's something that you do not do if you are
30:07
Speaker 1: unsure about the economy. Let me also just be very clear,
30:12
Speaker 1: all of these games were happening while the media was
30:14
Speaker 1: hammering Trump. The Democrats were hammering Trump's Trump policies and
30:20
Speaker 1: saying that the tariffs were going to be a disaster. Yes,
30:25
Speaker 1: the fight on tariffs was happening. Interest rates, by the way,
30:28
Speaker 1: have remained high. The President's been arguing over that with
30:31
Speaker 1: a FED chair saying you got to bring them down.
30:34
Speaker 1: They said that was going to dampen future investment and growth.
30:37
Speaker 1: Part of the reason why people thought that the FED
30:39
Speaker 1: chairman was doing it to not help Donald Trump but
30:42
Speaker 1: to hurt him. So with a tariff war and with
30:44
Speaker 1: high interest rates, you still have all the data that
30:48
Speaker 1: I just gave you, So Yes, the US economy saw
30:52
Speaker 1: a massive bounce back in Q two with GDP growth
30:56
Speaker 1: driven by improved private consumption and investment because of Trump's
31:01
Speaker 1: policies that was contrary to the idea of spending going
31:04
Speaker 1: through the roof right that the left was like, will
31:08
Speaker 1: never happen. So they were lying to you. Now did
31:11
Speaker 1: they know they were lying to you? Yes? Were the
31:13
Speaker 1: economic indicators there? Yes, the economic indicators were in fact there,
31:19
Speaker 1: and it showed that this was a real thing that
31:22
Speaker 1: was going to happen. And they didn't want it to happen.
31:24
Speaker 1: They wanted to undermine the president. They wanted to undermine you,
31:28
Speaker 1: the American worker. They wanted this to be a failure.
31:32
Speaker 1: The failure didn't happen because the President of United States
31:35
Speaker 1: of America said, I'm not flinching. I'm going to fix
31:38
Speaker 1: the problem with the trade war. I'm going to stop
31:40
Speaker 1: allowing countries to take advantage of us. I'm going to
31:42
Speaker 1: bring in income in a way that you haven't seen
31:45
Speaker 1: before with tariffs, and I'm not backing down. And that
31:49
Speaker 1: is exactly what the President of the United States of
31:51
Speaker 1: America did. Job well done, President Trump. And the most
31:55
Speaker 1: important thing is this is great news for every American
32:01
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