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Poll Numbers a BIG WIN for Trump, Where did $4.7TRILL GO & AG Pam Bondi on 'Getting Along' in the Trump Admin Week In Review · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome and his verdict with Center Ted Cruz. The Week
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Speaker 1: in Review, Ben Ferguson with you. We had some big
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Speaker 1: stories that you may have missed that we talked about
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Speaker 1: this week. First up, poll numbers helping Donald Trump get
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Speaker 1: his agenda done. Just how big are the poll numbers
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Speaker 1: for the president and what does it mean about the
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Speaker 1: media who's still coming after him? Will break that down
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Speaker 1: for you. Also, Doe just come out and found four
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Speaker 1: point seven trillion in untraceable spending. Was it done deliberately
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Speaker 1: by the government so no one would know where your
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Speaker 1: tax dollars are going. Will break that down for you
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Speaker 1: as well. And finally, Pam Bondi, the Attorney General of
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Speaker 1: the United States of America, joins us, talking about the
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Speaker 1: relationship she has with other people in the administration and
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Speaker 1: just how important it is that they are friends and
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Speaker 1: working together. It's the weekend Review and it starts right now.
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Speaker 1: When I was at the Bush administration, we were on
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Speaker 1: the campaign. If you had a poll on something we
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Speaker 1: wanted that was above fifty three percent, that was like
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Speaker 1: a home run. If you were at fifty five percent
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Speaker 1: or above, it was like a mandate. I have not
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Speaker 1: seen sixty percent polls like these in decades have you
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Speaker 1: on these types of issues?
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Speaker 2: And to see ABC reporting on it and you're right,
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Speaker 2: Jonathan carl is very dismayed to be reporting on it.
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Speaker 2: He's shaking his head. But a king Jefferies looks like
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Speaker 2: he's filming a hostage video. He's just terrified. Why are
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Speaker 2: you asking me this? Because he doesn't want to say no,
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Speaker 2: I don't agree with Trump on anything, because when you're
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Speaker 2: on the wrong side of a bunch of sixty forty issues,
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Speaker 2: that's a recipe to lose elections. But he doesn't want
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Speaker 2: to say yes, I agree with Trump on anything because
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Speaker 2: his base hates Trump so much they'll lose their mind
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Speaker 2: and go nuts. So all he can say is, well,
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Speaker 2: it's just the beginning. I hope things will go wrong
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Speaker 2: and then then we can celebrate the things are going wrong.
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Speaker 3: It is astounding, astonishing.
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Speaker 1: I should say that this is now where we are,
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Speaker 1: but this turns into what I call a man date,
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Speaker 1: a supermandate, and it just means keep going Trump, keep going.
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Speaker 3: Republicans.
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Speaker 1: What does this do to some of your colleagues who
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Speaker 1: maybe didn't want to go along with some of these
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Speaker 1: types of things when they see these poll numbers. Is
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Speaker 1: this going to make it easier to get things done
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Speaker 1: in Congress as well? I would hope so.
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Speaker 2: Well, it certainly should. And by the way, I'll tell
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Speaker 2: you historically, for the last four years, every Democrat voted
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Speaker 2: on the wrong side of these issues. On the question
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Speaker 2: of are there two sexes male and female? Every single
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Speaker 2: Democrat the Senate voted no over and over and over again.
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Speaker 2: On the question of deporting illegals, every Democrat and the
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Speaker 2: Senate voted no over and over and over again. On
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Speaker 2: the question of more oil and gas exploration, virtually every Democrat,
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Speaker 2: actually Joe Manchin would vote yes occasionally, Joe Manchin isn't
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Speaker 2: there anymore. So every Democrat that remains in the Senate
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Speaker 2: has voted no over and over and over again. On
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Speaker 2: the question of declaring an emergency on the Southern border, again,
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Speaker 2: every Democrat voted no. And so the Democrat Party, listen,
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Speaker 2: you're in a crisis. If you're on the wrong side
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Speaker 2: of sixty forty issues across the board. Well, that's how
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Speaker 2: you get the kind of election we had November. That's
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Speaker 2: how you get a president elected with more than three
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Speaker 2: hundred electoral votes. That's how you get a president who
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Speaker 2: of the seven swing states wins all seven. That's how
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Speaker 2: you get a Republican Senate and a Republican House. Because
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Speaker 2: the Democrats on the issues, they're not listening to the
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Speaker 2: American people. They're listening to the crazy fringe. And I
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Speaker 2: don't see a whole lot of indication that they're moving.
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Speaker 2: You know, It's a fascinating question, is are there Democrats
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Speaker 2: in the party who say, gosh, we've gotten so far
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Speaker 2: out of the mainstream, we're really we're really listening to
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Speaker 2: just a fringe. Let's get back to the middle. They're
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Speaker 2: one or two people saying that. But I got to say,
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Speaker 2: all right, I want you to listen to James Carville.
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Speaker 2: James Carvill is a Democrat through and through. Listen to
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Speaker 2: what James Carville had to say about his party just
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Speaker 2: just completely getting so extreme that they leave the American
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Speaker 2: people behind. He's really upset about it. Here are the
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Speaker 2: words Carville is quoted online is saying, we don't have
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Speaker 2: the audio, but we have the words. And look, I'll
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Speaker 2: give a warning. Carvill's language as always colorful that it
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Speaker 2: is here, but here's how he's quoted quote, I dedicated
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Speaker 2: the best years of my f and life to this party,
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Speaker 2: only to see it taken over by a bunch of
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Speaker 2: stupid mf ers. Everything's gone to s By the way,
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Speaker 2: he did not abbreviate any of those And if you
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Speaker 2: look at the tweet that is particularly circulating online, it
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Speaker 2: says Carvill is especially livid following the DNC leadership election,
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Speaker 2: reportedly saying quote, who are these people This David hog
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Speaker 2: guy and that other sissy referring to Malcolm Canyata come
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Speaker 2: out of the gd left field? Well there goes the
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Speaker 2: mail vote forever. Thanks guys, We're ft and we deserve it.
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Speaker 2: That's James Carville's assessment of where the Democrat Party is right.
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Speaker 1: Now based on the poll numbers that we're seeing. He's
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Speaker 1: not far off, by the way from reality. I mean,
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Speaker 1: if he's an honest broker, I've known James for years,
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Speaker 1: you have as well, like he's This is the assessment.
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Speaker 1: I think he's spot on with where the Democratic Party is.
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Speaker 1: And they still don't seem to understand where that This
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Speaker 1: is how far they are away from the American people.
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Speaker 1: That's a blessing disguise for us.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that they are not listening to reality. But look
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Speaker 2: let's look at the facts. Let's take the facts, all right.
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Speaker 2: Here's a headline from the New York Post just a
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Speaker 2: couple of days ago. Quote, illegal border crossings hit record
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Speaker 2: low after Trump's swift crackdown and could be on track
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Speaker 2: for levels not seen in sixty years. Wow, the numbers
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Speaker 2: are stunning. So far in February, about three hundred and
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Speaker 2: fifty nine illegal migrants per day have been caught across
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Speaker 2: the entire southern border, down more than ninety percent nine
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Speaker 2: zero from February twenty twenty four. According to leaked Customs
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Speaker 2: and Border Protection data, that puts the US on track
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Speaker 2: to have the lowest monthly border crossings in at least
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Speaker 2: twenty five years. If the trend continues, the number of
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Speaker 2: illegal migrants coming into the US could hit a level
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Speaker 2: not seen since nineteen sixty eight, nearly sixty years ago.
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Speaker 2: Here's a quote from Mark Krian, who runs the Center
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Speaker 2: for Immigration Studies. It's the lowest the US has seen
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Speaker 2: quote in almost a lifetime.
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Speaker 3: Quote.
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Speaker 2: If you kind of break down the numbers, divide them
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Speaker 2: by three sixty five, we hadn't add numbers this low
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Speaker 2: since the nineteen sixties, So we're talking sixty year lows
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Speaker 2: if it's sustained. Obviously, the CPP data shows that just
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Speaker 2: three nine hundred and fifty three illegal migrants have been
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Speaker 2: caught this month through February eleventh. If that trend continues
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Speaker 2: through the month, that would put the February boarding crossings
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Speaker 2: at roughly ten thousand, which is a number that hasn't
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Speaker 2: been seen since CPBB began tracking month to month data
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Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety nine, ten thousand. Under Biden, we were
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Speaker 2: getting ten thousand a day. We're on track for that
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Speaker 2: to be the total monthly traffic. And that's just in
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Speaker 2: the very first month.
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Speaker 3: It's a momentum thing, now right.
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Speaker 1: I mean you've got to feel that, I'm sure on
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Speaker 1: Capitol Hill, which is we've just gotten started. The American
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Speaker 1: people are behind us, and we're recruiting a bigger audience
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Speaker 1: that's cheering this on each and every day.
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Speaker 2: Well, look this election, President Trump and Republicans in the
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Speaker 2: Senate and House promised the American people real results. And
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Speaker 2: you look at what was promised. Number one, we promised
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Speaker 2: we are going to secure the border. And remember repeatedly
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Speaker 2: Joe Biden said, first of all, he said the Border
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Speaker 2: of Security, said it over and over and over again.
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Speaker 2: People knew that was a lie, and then he said, well,
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Speaker 2: it's impossible to fix it. Look, I want you it's
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Speaker 2: up to Congress. I want you to listen to this
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Speaker 2: clip from the National Border Patrol Council Vice President talking
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Speaker 2: about Biden lying to the American people on this topic.
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Speaker 3: Give a listen.
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Speaker 4: You know, it's interesting because down on the southern border
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Speaker 4: there has also been a dramatic reduction in the number
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Speaker 4: of people who are coming across the border.
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Speaker 3: I want to put up call for number four here.
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Speaker 4: This is a senior DHS official talking about that Chris
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Speaker 4: delivering consequences has results. Illegal crossings are down, god aways
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Speaker 4: are down, criminal prosecutions are on the rise. Daily reports
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Speaker 4: of large groups in Mexico, Guatemala turning back south and
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Speaker 4: surrendering to authorities requested to go home. And we have
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Speaker 4: only just begun policy matters. President Biden told us repeatedly
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Speaker 4: Chris that he had basically done all he could and
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Speaker 4: that it was up to Congress to do more. What's
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Speaker 4: happened in the last two and a half weeks would
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Speaker 4: seem to suggest that Biden was just gaslighting everybody.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it's unfortunate. I think, yeah, I don't know.
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Speaker 5: I don't know who he thought he was fooling. I mean,
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Speaker 5: Dunchure wasn't us. We knew what was going on the
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Speaker 5: whole time. And you're right, the apprehension numbers have slown
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Speaker 5: to a crawl.
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Speaker 6: Last night.
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Speaker 5: I was actually working the river and you have the
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Speaker 5: Mexican military patrolling their northern border, so that slows down
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Speaker 5: a lot of traffic coming our way. So things have
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Speaker 5: changed a great deal. And this president has proven that
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Speaker 5: he's a man of his word and can get it done.
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Speaker 5: He actually gave President Biden, then President Biden, the road
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Speaker 5: map to do it.
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Speaker 6: He just failed to have failed to do it there.
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Speaker 3: It is failed to do it right. That's what it
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Speaker 3: boils down to.
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Speaker 2: Well, and it was deliberate, it was a decision. And listen,
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Speaker 2: Biden knew he was lying to the American people. Kamala
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Speaker 2: Harris knew she was lying to the American people. Kareem
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Speaker 2: John Pierre knew she was lying to the American people.
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Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer knew he was lying to the American people.
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Speaker 2: Every Democrat in the Senate, in the House, they knew
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Speaker 2: they were lying to the American people. And it's because
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Speaker 2: they elevated politics ab of their basic job of representing
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Speaker 2: their constituents and protecting them. And listen, reasonable people can disagree, say,
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Speaker 2: on the right level of legal immigration. Some people might
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Speaker 2: say we should allow more legal immigration. Other people might
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Speaker 2: say we should allow less. That that's a discussion reasonable
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Speaker 2: and rational people can have. Let me ask you something seriously, Ben,
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Speaker 2: Imagine for a second you're a Democrat strategist. So imagine
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Speaker 2: you're a transgender witch and you are are a complete lunatic,
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Speaker 2: and you have no reason even so you presumably want
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Speaker 2: your team to win. I mean, one would think that
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Speaker 2: would be sort of the basics if you're running a campaign. Sure,
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Speaker 2: explain to me how a political party gets so far
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Speaker 2: away from common sense in the American people that they decide,
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Speaker 2: let's release multiple child rapists that raping kids. You know,
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Speaker 2: so apparently our constituents want child rapists in our community.
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Speaker 2: And if you think, okay, come on, Ted, that's a
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Speaker 2: little extreme. The Democrats are not doing this. I want
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Speaker 2: you to listen about Bill Malugin. Bill Malugin is the
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Speaker 2: best immigration reporter in the countries with Fox News. I
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Speaker 2: want you to listen to this clip because this is
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Speaker 2: exactly what the Democrat Party has been doing.
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Speaker 7: Give a listen, well, Dana, It's hard to believe there
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Speaker 7: are any jurisdictions out there that wouldn't cooperate with ICE
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Speaker 7: when it comes to illegal aliens charged with forcibly raping children.
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Speaker 7: But in Massachusetts it's just routine. Take a look at
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Speaker 7: this case. ICE Boston just announcing they arrested this Guatemala
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Speaker 7: illegal alien charge in Massachusetts with three counts of aggravated
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Speaker 7: child rape and three counts of forcible rape of a child.
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Speaker 7: So the question is why was he on the streets
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Speaker 7: right well, I says their detainer request on him was
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Speaker 7: ignored by the Essex County Superior Court due to sanctuary policy.
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Speaker 3: The locals released.
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Speaker 7: Him into the community on bail without any notice to ICE.
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Speaker 7: In a statement, the director of ICE Boston says, in
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Speaker 7: part quote host Day Fernando Perez has been charged with
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Speaker 7: some horrific crimes against the minor in our commonwealth. He
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Speaker 7: is exactly the type of alien we are targeting with
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Speaker 7: our worst first policy. He posts a significant danger to
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Speaker 7: the children of Massachusetts and we will not tolerate such
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Speaker 7: a threat to our community. ICE Boston also announcing the
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Speaker 7: arrest of this Turkish illegal alien charged in Massachusetts with
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Speaker 7: a sultant battery against an intellectually disabled person and witness intimidation.
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Speaker 7: But I says their detainer on him was also ignored
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Speaker 7: by the sanctuary city of Somerville. He had also been
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Speaker 7: released into the public elsewhere around the US. I Seattle
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Speaker 7: arrested this Salvadoran illegal alien wanted in his home country
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Speaker 7: for aggravated homicide. Here in Los Angeles, ICE arrested this
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Speaker 7: Guatemalan illegal alien charged with sexual assault and rape with
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Speaker 7: a gun. And in Colorado, the DEA announced their top
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Speaker 7: ten arrests of illegal immigrants in recent days, including several
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Speaker 7: affiliated with Trendy Aragua and others with egregious crimes like kidnapping,
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Speaker 7: child sexual assault, and fentanyl trafficking and Dana. I was
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Speaker 7: talking to a law enforcement source in Massachusetts about the
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Speaker 7: child rape case that I reference, and I asked, like,
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Speaker 7: there's got to be some sort of a catch here, right,
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Speaker 7: forget about cooperating with ICE. How does somebody charge with
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Speaker 7: so many counts of aggravated forcible child rape even get
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Speaker 7: released on bail in the first place. The response I
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Speaker 7: got was quote welcome to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. We'll
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Speaker 7: send it back to you.
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Speaker 6: Well, they're finally on their way out, thanks Bill.
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Speaker 1: Welcome the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. That's how much they hate
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump. They don't care about these rapists running around
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Speaker 1: among us.
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Speaker 2: It really is shocking. And understand what is being reported there,
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Speaker 2: which is that in Massachusetts, but also you're seeing it
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Speaker 2: in Seattle. Also you're seeing it in Colorado and across
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Speaker 2: the country. You have Democrats who have people who are
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Speaker 2: violent child rapists, who are violently, horribly raping little children.
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Speaker 2: And number one, these Democrats are releasing these child rapists. Now,
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Speaker 2: these child rapists are illegal immigrants. They could be deported,
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Speaker 2: but their politics of we want as many illegal immigrants
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Speaker 2: as possible is more important than any sort of common
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Speaker 2: sense of let's stop, let's stop horrible crimes against vulnerable kids.
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Speaker 2: You know, there's a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche in Beyond
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Speaker 2: Good and Evil which I think is really on point here.
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Speaker 2: And it is quote there is a point in the
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Speaker 2: history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and
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Speaker 2: tender that, among other things, it sides even with those
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Speaker 2: who harm it, criminals, and it does this quite seriously
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Speaker 2: and honestly, punishing somehow seems unfair to it. And it
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Speaker 2: is certain that imagining punishment and being supposed to punish
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Speaker 2: hurts it, arouses fear in it. Is it not enough
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Speaker 2: to render him undangerous? Why still punish? Punishing itself is terrible?
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Speaker 2: With this question heard, morality, the morality of timidity draws
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Speaker 2: its ultimate consequence.
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Speaker 1: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
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Speaker 1: you can go back and listen to the full podcast
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Speaker 1: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two, Senata,
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Speaker 1: I want to move on to Doge, and I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's just mind blowing at this point how much money
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Speaker 1: is being uncovered that is involved in waste, fraud and
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Speaker 1: abuse within our government. And then there's this new headline
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Speaker 1: that came out of the White House, and that is
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Speaker 1: a bombshell that there has been four point seven trillion
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Speaker 1: dollars that has been spent that is untraceable in the
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Speaker 1: way that the payments went out from the Treasury Department.
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Speaker 3: Explain that to America.
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Speaker 2: Well, let me read from our article in Fox News.
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Speaker 2: Doze says it found nearly untraceable budget line atoms responsible
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Speaker 2: for four point seven trillion in payments. The Trump administration's
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Speaker 2: Doze discovered an identification code linking US Treasury payments to
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Speaker 2: a budget line ATOM, which accounts for nearly four point
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Speaker 2: seven trillion dollars in payments, which was oftentimes left blank.
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Speaker 2: The Treasury Access Symbol TAS is an identification code linking
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Speaker 2: a Treasury payment to a budget line ATOM standard financial process,
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Speaker 2: Doze wrote in post on X. In the federal government,
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Speaker 2: the TAS field was optional for four point seven trillion
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Speaker 2: dollars in payments and was often left blank, making traceability
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Speaker 2: almost impossible. As of Saturday, this is now a required field,
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Speaker 2: increasing insight into where money is actually going. So understand
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Speaker 2: four point seven trillion dollars. Listen, A million dollars is
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Speaker 2: a lot of money. A billion dollars is a crap
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Speaker 2: ton more, it's actually a thousand times more. A trillion
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Speaker 2: dollars is a thousand thousand times more than a million dollars,
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Speaker 2: and four point seven trillion is even in federal government
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Speaker 2: spending a massive amount. The point here is the money
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Speaker 2: that has been coming from the federal government has been
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Speaker 2: massively wasted, and there has been no accountability, and the
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Speaker 2: entire governmental system is reacting in pain and horror and
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Speaker 2: agony that Donald Trump and Elon Musker bringing finally accountability
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Speaker 2: to it.
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Speaker 1: You look at the four point seven trillion. Is this
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Speaker 1: done on purpose? For this exact reason? If you don't
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Speaker 1: know where the money's going, you can't trace the money,
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Speaker 1: then you can't ask questions.
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Speaker 2: Oh look, yes, and no. I had an old boss
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Speaker 2: of mind, my very first boss, who said this was
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Speaker 2: actually quite profound. He said, never blame on malice. What
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Speaker 2: can be explained with incompetence. Look, that explains a lot
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Speaker 2: of government. There is massive waste, There is massive politicization
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Speaker 2: and weaponization. If you're spending your own money, you care
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Speaker 2: about it, then you care about your own money. If
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Speaker 2: you're spending someone else's money, you don't care about it.
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Speaker 2: And that problem in government is there's a culture of
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Speaker 2: endemic waste that is enormously problematic. And you combine that
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Speaker 2: with a politicization that there's a it doesn't matter I'm
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Speaker 2: spending someone else's money, I don't care, and I'm going
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Speaker 2: to spend it to promote transgender witches in some far
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Speaker 2: off country. That's what we've seen and that's what Trump
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Speaker 2: and are exposing.
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Speaker 1: You talk about what all they're exposing outside the four
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Speaker 1: point seven trillion in payments that we can't trace, let's
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Speaker 1: talk about illegal immigrants receiving benefits. And the media, by
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Speaker 1: the way, they're going to defend everything they can, even
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Speaker 1: if it's indefensible.
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Speaker 3: A great example of.
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Speaker 2: That, man, let me ask you this, is there one
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Speaker 2: Democrat you know who has criticized one single example of
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Speaker 2: massive waste abuse and fraud. And by the way, by
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Speaker 2: one democrat. I don't mean James Carvell. We talked about
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Speaker 2: that two days ago. I don't mean a consult I
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Speaker 2: mean one elected democrat. I can tell you in the
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Speaker 2: US Senate, I don't know of a single one, do you.
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Speaker 3: No, not a single one.
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Speaker 1: And you would think at some point they could, they
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Speaker 1: would come out and go, yeah, this is good for Americans,
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Speaker 1: it's good for my district, it's good for the taxpayers.
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Speaker 1: I represent that we're not going to spend money on X,
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Speaker 1: Y or Z. None of these egregious items that we've
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Speaker 1: listed on the show. Uh, And we've done a really
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Speaker 1: good job of keeping pep up today where were the
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Speaker 1: money's going? None of them have been criticized by the
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Speaker 1: Democrats and the media. Again, they are just hell bent
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Speaker 1: on saying Donald Trump bad, Elon Musk bad, Doge bad.
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Speaker 3: Here's a great example.
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Speaker 2: Listen to this exchange with Stephen Miller, because it is.
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Speaker 2: It is hysterical. By the way, tonight I saw Stephen.
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Speaker 2: I was at a party, so Howard Luddick was just
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Speaker 2: confirmed as Commerce Secretary.
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Speaker 3: He had a party at his house.
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Speaker 2: I saw Stephen this evening and I told him, great
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Speaker 2: job on CNN. Listen to this exchange, because she really is.
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Speaker 2: It's nutty. And I gotta say CNN has become a
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Speaker 2: clown show. It's not even it's not even real journalism.
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Speaker 2: It's just silly. But listen to this back and forth.
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Speaker 8: You mentioned yesterday and you mentioned again here illegal immigrants
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Speaker 8: who are getting child tax credits. If are you looking
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Speaker 8: for that information in the IRS data?
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Speaker 9: Anytime a crime is committed, of course there should be
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Speaker 9: an investigation. Is it your position that of somebody who
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Speaker 9: is data, the federal government will find every illegal alien
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Speaker 9: who is stealing American tax payer dollars and that is
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Speaker 9: what Americans spend. I don't even fath that.
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Speaker 8: It's a simple question. In the IRS data share that with.
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Speaker 9: IRS investigators find illegal aliens stealing tax payer money. Of
21:24
Speaker 9: course it'll be referred to ICE. Of course, it'll be
21:26
Speaker 9: referred to Homeland security investigations. Of course it will be Surely,
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Speaker 9: your position is not that we should let illegal aliens
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Speaker 9: steal taxpayer dollars. You want to talk about something to
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Speaker 9: be upset about, that's it. What do you think the
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Speaker 9: millions of illegal aliens who have also stolen social security?
21:43
Speaker 9: Illegal aliens in mass have fake Social Security numbers, they
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Speaker 9: have fake identities.
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Speaker 3: Those are felonies.
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Speaker 9: Why should there be an entire class in this country
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Speaker 9: that is immunized from criminal prosecution and arrest for committing
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Speaker 9: felonies felony, theft of taxpayer information, tell any, theft of
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Speaker 9: social security, felony, theft of identity. These are all crimes.
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Speaker 9: And yes they will be investigated. Yes they'll be prosecuted,
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Speaker 9: and yes he will be deported. And you know what,
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Speaker 9: Americans will get jobs, Americans will Americans will get housing.
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Speaker 8: Even if they got a child, if they got a credit,
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Speaker 8: a child tax credit, and they will be referred you're
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Speaker 8: saying to ICE for that and you would expect deported
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Speaker 8: for that?
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Speaker 7: Is that?
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Speaker 8: Is that the position of the administration.
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Speaker 9: If it is found that a crime has been committed,
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Speaker 9: they'll be referred if the If it is justifies the prosecution,
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Speaker 9: they'll be prosecuted. If it justifies a deportation, they will
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Speaker 9: be deported. This will be based on existing IRIS protocols
22:43
Speaker 9: and procedures for criminal investigation and fraud.
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Speaker 8: All right.
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Speaker 9: Difference is that no one is given immunity anymore, no
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Speaker 9: one is given permission to break the law anymore, because
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Speaker 9: this is not a country, this is not a sovereign territory.
22:57
Speaker 9: If legal aliens can freely still billions with a beat,
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Speaker 9: billions of taxpayer dollars, and I would have to imagine
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Speaker 9: that that CNN, which is endlessly talked about the importance
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Speaker 9: of democracy and the rule of law, would say that
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Speaker 9: no class in this country should be above the law,
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Speaker 9: least of all illegal aliens who've trespassed on our territory.
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Speaker 8: Stephen, I'm just asking. I wanted to get your position
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Speaker 8: on some things this. We're not taking a position here.
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Speaker 8: We wanted to get some answers to some questions. There
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Speaker 8: are so many questions that need to be answer.
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Speaker 9: In fact, indifferent or unbiased on these questions.
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Speaker 8: But thank you, Steven Miller, Thank you so much for
23:32
Speaker 8: your time. Really appreciate it, and we'll be right by.
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Speaker 3: Thank you. It's amazing.
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Speaker 1: It's like, oh, we don't take positions here, And I
23:37
Speaker 1: love how grids he grids and laughs in her face,
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Speaker 1: like are you kidding me? Everybody watching right now knows
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Speaker 1: exactly what you're doing, and you're trying to act like
23:45
Speaker 1: we're doing something wrong when in fact we're saving taxpayers dollars.
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Speaker 2: What Miller is saying is exactly right. The federal government
23:52
Speaker 2: should enforce the law. If you have illegal aliens who
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Speaker 2: are stealing from the taxpayers, they should be prosecuted. And
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Speaker 2: the bizarre our position CNN is taking is well, if
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Speaker 2: the IRS knows that you're illegally stealing from the taxpayers,
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Speaker 2: the IRS shouldn't tell that to the rest of the
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Speaker 2: federal government. You should protect the illegal aliens who are
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Speaker 2: stealing from the taxpayers. That's a weird proposition. Why is
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Speaker 2: the IRS separate from dj separate from DHS, separate from ICE,
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Speaker 2: separate from all of the different federal agencies. And CNN
24:26
Speaker 2: is so vested in saying, we want millions of illegal
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Speaker 2: aliens here and we want there to be no consequences,
24:33
Speaker 2: so their continuing to engage in fraud, to work illegally,
24:38
Speaker 2: to draw so security payments, to draw government payments fraudulently.
24:43
Speaker 2: That is CNN's position. And I got to say, I'm
24:46
Speaker 2: going credit Steven Miller for calling out CNN for they're
24:51
Speaker 2: not engaged in news. They have a position on this.
24:54
Speaker 2: They don't want the law enforced. And I got to say,
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Speaker 2: I think the American people do as before.
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Speaker 1: If you want to hear the rest of this conversation
25:02
Speaker 1: on this topic, you can go back and down the
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Speaker 1: podcasts from earlier this week to hear the entire thing.
25:08
Speaker 1: I want to get back to the big story number
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Speaker 1: three of the week.
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Speaker 3: You may have missed.
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Speaker 10: How important are those relationships that you say, Hey, I
25:15
Speaker 10: trust excuse me, I trust you. I trust you, I
25:18
Speaker 10: trust you.
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Speaker 6: I got your back. Let's go to work, vital and
25:21
Speaker 6: crucial and Mike Watson, Christy We're on the phone with
25:24
Speaker 6: each other all the time. And to change the topic
25:27
Speaker 6: just a little bit, just to give you an example,
25:30
Speaker 6: Leez Eldon a dear friend of mine. On President's Day,
25:32
Speaker 6: Ronnie now EPA. Leez Elden, great administrative of EPA. I'm
25:37
Speaker 6: on the phone hours with Scott Bessen, our Secretary of
25:40
Speaker 6: Treasury and Leezelden, and you know we've seen thanks to
25:44
Speaker 6: Elon Musk, my buddy's great work, and it's been reported.
25:48
Speaker 6: Look what they're doing at Yeah, I'm changing the subject
25:50
Speaker 6: a little bit, but they're giving out billions of dollars
25:55
Speaker 6: after Joe Biden lost the election, trying to push this
25:59
Speaker 6: money out the door.
26:01
Speaker 2: Is actually shoveling cash out the windows.
26:04
Speaker 6: As I said, gold bars, Let's throw all the gold
26:06
Speaker 6: bars off the ship.
26:08
Speaker 2: Yep.
26:08
Speaker 6: And we're stopping them. We're stopping them in real time.
26:11
Speaker 6: We're going after them. But it's because we all pick
26:15
Speaker 6: up the phone and we talked directly to each other,
26:17
Speaker 6: so we're able to work together. Talk to Marco Rubio
26:21
Speaker 6: and look at them in like Steve Whitcoff out there, Grinnell,
26:24
Speaker 6: what they're doing working with Marco and Mike Watson, all
26:28
Speaker 6: the great the people that they're saving around the world.
26:31
Speaker 6: And that's thanks to one man, Donald Trump. He put
26:34
Speaker 6: all of us in these positions.
26:36
Speaker 2: Well, and in the consistent nine spread of the cabinet
26:41
Speaker 2: nominees is that you're all change agents. You all came
26:45
Speaker 2: in with the mission and it is Listen, there has
26:48
Speaker 2: never been a first month of any presidency in the
26:51
Speaker 2: history of the United States of America, like the last
26:55
Speaker 2: thirty days.
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Speaker 10: Amen.
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Speaker 2: And I'll tell you I have had great joy turning
27:04
Speaker 2: to my Democrat colleagues in the Senate and just dead panning,
27:07
Speaker 2: well three years and eleven months ago, and they literally
27:13
Speaker 2: start twitching, like you get they have facial tics that
27:18
Speaker 2: they cannot suppress.
27:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, but all right, Pam.
27:21
Speaker 2: One of the things that people like about this podcast
27:24
Speaker 2: that we try to do is we try to bring
27:27
Speaker 2: people behind the scenes to actually understand what's going on
27:31
Speaker 2: behind closed doors. So tell us about your first day
27:36
Speaker 2: as Attorney General. You're confirmed and like day one when
27:41
Speaker 2: you get sworn in, just just walk everyone through what
27:43
Speaker 2: day one of being Attorney General in the United States is, Like, you.
27:48
Speaker 6: Go NonStop And I jokingly said it felt like fifteen
27:51
Speaker 6: years because you're working seven days a week NonStop. You're
27:55
Speaker 6: when we're all working with each other. Everything we do
27:59
Speaker 6: it overlaps, and especially with Department of Justice, especially too,
28:02
Speaker 6: with all this money going out the USA and all
28:04
Speaker 6: of these agencies, and we're going to be helping all
28:06
Speaker 6: these agencies. But you just hit the ground running literally
28:12
Speaker 6: and don't look back. I don't look at what time
28:15
Speaker 6: of day it is. It's I don't think I've slept
28:18
Speaker 6: in fifteen days. But you don't want to. And then
28:21
Speaker 6: when when you find out about this human trafficking ring
28:24
Speaker 6: that was just broken up, it's just that's why we're
28:27
Speaker 6: all doing what we're doing, and you just keep going forward.
28:31
Speaker 6: And our directive, our directive from our boss is so easy,
28:37
Speaker 6: especially on my end, make America safe. And so you
28:41
Speaker 6: just don't, Senator, you don't even big my heart is saying, no,
28:45
Speaker 6: is I forget to eat? You forget what time it
28:47
Speaker 6: is and at six o'clock at night, And why do
28:49
Speaker 6: I have a headache because I haven't eaten today? But
28:51
Speaker 6: you're going non stop and it's not me. It's an
28:55
Speaker 6: entire team. I've got Chad myself, I've got Aim Well,
28:57
Speaker 6: I've got Todd Blanch thank goodness coming in, and we've
28:59
Speaker 6: got cash Fortell now, so they better look out.
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Speaker 10: How nice is it to have a boss by the
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Speaker 10: guy and guy by the name of Donald J. Trump
29:10
Speaker 10: who just lets you do your job exactly. I mean,
29:13
Speaker 10: there's a lot of presents in the past that have
29:15
Speaker 10: really tried to keep their thumb on people. It seems
29:18
Speaker 10: like he's saying, go and go, get it done, and
29:22
Speaker 10: call me when you need me.
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Speaker 6: He has trusted all of us and all of our
29:26
Speaker 6: various capacities and all the different roles we have, whether
29:29
Speaker 6: it's education or or agriculture, you know, all the cabinet labor,
29:35
Speaker 6: all of the different cabinet secretaries, just to go out
29:38
Speaker 6: and do the best we can. And and you know,
29:41
Speaker 6: we want to make all of you proud, and we
29:44
Speaker 6: want to fulfill his directive to make our country great.
29:47
Speaker 6: That me ensured didn't need that job. He's a good
29:50
Speaker 6: friend of mine and I love during my confirmation hearing
29:53
Speaker 6: when they try they get on me because they say
29:55
Speaker 6: I'm friends with Donald Trump. Yes, I know, I'm not
29:58
Speaker 6: friends with them. I'm good friends with him, and I'm
30:00
Speaker 6: very proud to work for him.
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Speaker 2: You know, when you look at weaponization and politicization, part
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Speaker 2: of it is using it to attack your political opponents,
30:14
Speaker 2: and we've seen four years of that under Joe Biden.
30:17
Speaker 2: Another part of it is turning the other way at
30:20
Speaker 2: your political allies and refusing to enforce the law against them.
30:24
Speaker 2: And I think one of the most egregious examples we've
30:27
Speaker 2: seen over the last two years is the rising anti
30:31
Speaker 2: semitism on college campus. I mean the violent protesters and rioters,
30:36
Speaker 2: many of whom are not students, are not affiliated with
30:39
Speaker 2: the universities, and they are threatening students. You look at
30:43
Speaker 2: Columbia University. The Orthodox rabbi there sent out an email
30:47
Speaker 2: to the Jewish students on campus and said, do not
30:50
Speaker 2: come to campus because the university cannot and will not
30:55
Speaker 2: keep you safe. And the Biden Justice Department did nothing.
31:01
Speaker 2: They investigated nobody, they didn't follow the money, they didn't
31:04
Speaker 2: indict anyone, they didn't prosecute anyone, and they did not
31:08
Speaker 2: enforce Title six of the Civil Rights Laws, which say
31:12
Speaker 2: that if you are tolerating harassment on the basis of
31:16
Speaker 2: ethnicity or religion, that you will have your federal funds
31:20
Speaker 2: cut off. How is the Department of Justice different today
31:25
Speaker 2: and what will your approach be to anti semitism and
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Speaker 2: threats of violence directed against Jewish students on campus or
31:33
Speaker 2: any other students on campus.
31:35
Speaker 6: We have an October seventh task force that we started,
31:39
Speaker 6: and we will protect you. When I was just a
31:41
Speaker 6: citizen before I had this job, what you said, I'm
31:44
Speaker 6: watching these these aren't peaceful protests. We all believe in
31:48
Speaker 6: peaceful protests. Oh, I'm sorry, unless you're a liberal and
31:52
Speaker 6: you don't want a parent to quietly pray outside an
31:55
Speaker 6: abortion clinic, or you're a character or a parent at
32:00
Speaker 6: a school board, they're going to call you a domestic securisty.
32:04
Speaker 6: But I'm screaming up my TV watching these violent protests,
32:07
Speaker 6: you know, the last since October seventh. You're watching this happen,
32:11
Speaker 6: and all of our students deserve to be safe. First
32:14
Speaker 6: of all, these these students from who are here on visas,
32:18
Speaker 6: who are who are threatening our American students need to
32:21
Speaker 6: be kicked out of this country.
32:23
Speaker 2: Amen. It is refreshingly simple to have an attorney general
32:41
Speaker 2: who has the approach that you're going to follow the
32:44
Speaker 2: law and enforce the law, and that sadly has been missing,
32:49
Speaker 2: uh for the last four years.
32:52
Speaker 6: It's pretty basic, isn't it.
32:54
Speaker 2: It should not be complicated. Let me ask you what
33:01
Speaker 2: keeps you up at night? What scares you? In the
33:04
Speaker 2: first two weeks in this job.
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Speaker 6: Pretty much everything. I don't sleep at night anymore. Of course,
33:12
Speaker 6: everything we talked about, the drugs, the cartels, the great
33:15
Speaker 6: Maybe I'll get a little sleep tonight based on the
33:17
Speaker 6: arrest that we're just made, the children that are being trafficked,
33:21
Speaker 6: things that have been so personal to me since I
33:23
Speaker 6: was a state prosecutor and then since I was state
33:25
Speaker 6: attorney general. Now you just get to help people on
33:28
Speaker 6: a bigger level, which is pretty pretty cool to get
33:30
Speaker 6: to do that. But most recently it's really been what
33:36
Speaker 6: Elon has been uncovering and the USA, the waste at EPA,
33:44
Speaker 6: this money, trillions of dollars they believe just being handed out,
33:49
Speaker 6: which is most likely making a round trip and going
33:53
Speaker 6: to terrorist organization.
33:54
Speaker 2: And you are on the front line of defending the
33:57
Speaker 2: president and Elon Moskin do all the effort they're doing.
34:01
Speaker 2: And every day we are seeing Democrat attorneys general and
34:05
Speaker 2: Democrat interest groups suing the president, suing Elon Musk, suing
34:10
Speaker 2: the federal government and the Department of Justices on the
34:12
Speaker 2: front lines, and sadly, we're seeing left wing activist judges,
34:17
Speaker 2: individual district court judges issuing nationwide injunctions. Tell us about
34:25
Speaker 2: what it's like defending against those lawsuits, and give us
34:28
Speaker 2: your thoughts on the authority of one radical district judge
34:33
Speaker 2: to try to run the executive branch and issue a
34:36
Speaker 2: nationwide injunction.
34:37
Speaker 6: Two words, we're winning, but yeah, so you've got you've
34:42
Speaker 6: got one. I like that answer, one unelected district judge
34:46
Speaker 6: trying to tell President Trump, who was elected overwhelmingly by
34:51
Speaker 6: the American people, where federal funds can go. We're winning
34:57
Speaker 6: even in liberal courts. By the way, I'm senator, we're
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Speaker 6: winning as always.
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