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New Poll Shows Americans WANT Mass Deportation of Illegal Immigrants · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm going to actually get to say this.
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Speaker 1: It's exciting news, and it's exciting for law and order
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Speaker 1: in this country. A new poll is out, and it
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Speaker 1: is a poll that says now that Americans are warming
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Speaker 1: to the idea of mass deportations. That's right. The shaf
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Speaker 1: of Americans who say they support mass deportations of undocumented
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Speaker 1: immigrants is now a majority, with fifty one percent now
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Speaker 1: saying they want mass deportation of illegal immigrants. What's even
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Speaker 1: more interesting than that is that forty five percent of
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Speaker 1: Latinos now say they want mass deportations. That number coming
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Speaker 1: up significantly also among African Americans. Forty percent of African
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Speaker 1: Americans now say they support mass deportation of illegal immigrants.
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Speaker 1: What's also interesting is the breakdown by generation. The boomers,
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Speaker 1: for example, sixty percent of Boomers say they're ready for
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Speaker 1: mass deportations of illegals. Gen X fifty three percent say
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Speaker 1: they're in favor of mass deportations, Millennials forty eight percent.
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Speaker 1: And the only people that are really not on board
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Speaker 1: at this point are gen Z, the young, woke liberal.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't even say democrats, socialists, and communists thirty five percent. Now,
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Speaker 1: let's go back to the general public. More than half
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Speaker 1: of Americans, including now, and this is the most important
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Speaker 1: part of this poll, forty two percent of Democrats say
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Speaker 1: that they support it. Now, how did the Democratic Party
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Speaker 1: move this quickly to forty two percent of Democrats saying
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Speaker 1: they're in favor of mass deportations of illegal immigrants. Well,
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Speaker 1: they're witnessing what's happening this country with the rising cost
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Speaker 1: of living, homes, apartments, and jobs being taken by illegal immigrants.
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Speaker 1: They're also witnessing something else, the violent, the fetnyl, the drugs,
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Speaker 1: and cartel and gang abuse of the people in this country.
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Speaker 1: And that's why you're seeing forty two percent of Democrats
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Speaker 1: now say they support mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. According
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Speaker 1: to this new Axio survey by the Harris Pole, thirty
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Speaker 1: percent of Democrats as well as forty six percent of
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Speaker 1: Republicans now say they'd in birthright citizenship as well. That
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Speaker 1: is something that's guaranteed under the fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.
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Speaker 1: So if you get across the border, you pop out
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Speaker 1: a baby, bam, you are a citizen of the United
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Speaker 1: States of America. Why does this matter, Well, It's pretty simple.
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Speaker 1: Americans are now open to former President Trump's harshest immigration policies,
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Speaker 1: spurred on by a record number of illegal border crossings
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Speaker 1: and relentless messaging of the problems that are happening now
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Speaker 1: all over the country as every state is basically now
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Speaker 1: become a border state. See before, the president's harshest immigration
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Speaker 1: plans were not well received by the majority of Americans
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Speaker 1: because they weren't having to live with the same consequences
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Speaker 1: that border states were having to live with. That is
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Speaker 1: now changed, and that's exactly why it is flipped. In fact,
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Speaker 1: they say President Biden is keenly aware the crisis threatens
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Speaker 1: his reelection. Internal discussions have also revealed quote he sought
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Speaker 1: to flip the script by accusing Trump of sabotaging Congress's
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Speaker 1: most conservative bipartisan immigration bill in decades, saying it's his
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Speaker 1: fault that we have an open border. The problem is
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Speaker 1: those lines are not working on the American people because
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Speaker 1: they saw what a secure border looked like under President Trump.
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Speaker 1: There's also something else that's changing, and we're seeing this
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Speaker 1: in the polling as well. It is the issue of
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Speaker 1: national security. Americans are very concerned now about a real
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Speaker 1: threat of and we've also seen this real threat of
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Speaker 1: terrorism and the idea that we could be hit. There
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Speaker 1: are warnings that are coming very very clearly now from
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Speaker 1: the FBI Director. The FBI director to that NBC interview,
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Speaker 1: an exclusive interview about terrorism in this country and the
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Speaker 1: threat of terrorism in this country. Here is what he
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Speaker 1: had to say. And Americans are listening.
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Speaker 2: From an FBI perspective, we are seeing a wide array
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Speaker 2: of very dangerous threats that emanate from the border. There
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Speaker 2: is a particular network that has where some of the
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Speaker 2: overseas facilitators of the smuggling network have ISIS ties that
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Speaker 2: we're very concerned about.
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Speaker 1: To be clear, the FBI director has just warned the
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Speaker 1: American people about ties to ISIS and the real threat
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Speaker 1: in this country. Now, that's not the only threat. He
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Speaker 1: also is talking about another threat, and that is coming
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Speaker 1: from China. He's very concerned about the Chinese nowtionals coming
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Speaker 1: across our southern border. That is also not the only
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Speaker 1: thing he's concerned about. He also said he's concerned about
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Speaker 1: the fetanyl that's coming across the southern border, the drugs
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Speaker 1: that are coming across, and the number one killer in
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Speaker 1: this country right now. The number one thing that's killing
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Speaker 1: people forty and under and they say that number is
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Speaker 1: going to jump now to forty five and under is fetanyl.
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Speaker 1: And where's that coming straight across the southern border. This
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Speaker 1: is a concern of the American people. The American people
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Speaker 1: are very concerned that this is going to affect their
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Speaker 1: family directly, because it's affecting many of their families and
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Speaker 1: their friends right and they're seeing people that are dying
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Speaker 1: from accidental overdoses. They call it drug poisoning, is the
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Speaker 1: way they describe it. And the reason why they call
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Speaker 1: it drug poisoning is because people are taking something that
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Speaker 1: they have no intent of dying from. They're not trying
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Speaker 1: to get high off of fetanyl, and they take too
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Speaker 1: much and they're referring to it as drug poisoning. Now,
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Speaker 1: let's go back. When you add that in to this
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Speaker 1: data that we now have from this poll, what we
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Speaker 1: also know is this, not only is President Biden concerned
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Speaker 1: about this, but the Democratic Party is trying to figure
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Speaker 1: out their messaging heading into this presidential election. So far,
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Speaker 1: when it comes to blame, Biden has failed to shift
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Speaker 1: the narrative. In fact, only thirty two percent of responding
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Speaker 1: says administration is most responsible for the crisis, outranking any
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Speaker 1: other political or structural factor. In other words, they're not
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Speaker 1: blaming the voter's Congress, they're not blaming Donald Trump, they're
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Speaker 1: not blaming Republicans. They're blaming Joe Biden because they clearly
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Speaker 1: understand that Joe Biden's a one that created this wide
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Speaker 1: open southern border that has terrorists and fetnol and everything
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Speaker 1: else coming across the border. There's also something else, voters
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Speaker 1: say that now they understand the record number borders, they understand.
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Speaker 1: In fact, nearly two thirds of Americans said legal immigration
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Speaker 1: is a quote real crisis, not a political driven media narrative.
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Speaker 1: So they're witnessing it, they're seeing it and they're understanding
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Speaker 1: what it's doing in their community's firsthand. Now that is
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Speaker 1: different than what it was four years ago. Now what
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Speaker 1: they're saying, quote, I was surprised at the public support
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Speaker 1: for large scale deportations. That's what Mark Penn, the chairman
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Speaker 1: of the Harris Pole and a former poster for President Clinton,
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Speaker 1: said in response to this news pole, saying, I'm surprised.
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Speaker 1: I'm not by the way now, I didn't think we
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Speaker 1: were going to get there this quickly. I thought people
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Speaker 1: were starting to turn, but they're turning a lot faster
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Speaker 1: than even I realized. And this is a blessing because
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Speaker 1: people are now understanding what wide open borders look like. Quote.
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Speaker 1: I think they're just sending a message to politicians, get
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Speaker 1: this under control, the poster said, calling it a warning
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Speaker 1: to Biden his administration, and that efforts to shift responsibility
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Speaker 1: for the issue to Trump is not going to work.
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Speaker 1: So that also tells me this. The Biden White House
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Speaker 1: has to be in freak out mode right now. And
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Speaker 1: the reason why they're in freakout mode is because their
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Speaker 1: simple plan, which was, well, this is Donald Trump's fault,
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Speaker 1: or this is the Republican's fault, or this is all
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Speaker 1: the problem of Republicans in Congress. We didn't create this crisis.
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Speaker 1: The American people, including Democrats, aren't buying it. A large
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Speaker 1: number of independents are not buying it, and we already
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Speaker 1: know that Republicans have not been buying it for quite
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Speaker 1: some time. I want to dive into this polling number
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Speaker 1: even more and get down to what I think the
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Speaker 1: other issues within this poll are going to tell us
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Speaker 1: come election day. Trump number one has vowed to carry out,
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Speaker 1: as he described his words, the largest domestic deportation operation
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Speaker 1: in American history, eyeing sweeping raids as well as detention
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Speaker 1: camps in a plan that would target millions and millions
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Speaker 1: of undocumented immigrants aka illegal immigrants. Now, Americans typically aren't
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Speaker 1: eager to deport immigrants who have put down roots in
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Speaker 1: the US, but this poll of six two hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifty one US adults suggested that the dynamic is changing
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Speaker 1: because of specifically two things. Rising fear about crime, drugs,
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Speaker 1: and violence. Donald Trump has been clear that those fears
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Speaker 1: are warranted. He is campaigning on it, making it very
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Speaker 1: clear that there is in fact a migrant crime wave.
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Speaker 1: No matter how much the Democratic Party of the news
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Speaker 1: tries to tell you that it is a false claim
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Speaker 1: claim that there's a migrant crime wave, we know it's
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Speaker 1: just not true. We also have more blunt language from
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump declaring that immigrants are quote poisoning the blood
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Speaker 1: of our country. Now, when he said that, what did
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Speaker 1: the left of the media do. They freaked out and
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Speaker 1: they're like, Oh, that's racist, that's that's racist. See, Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump's a racist, He's a racist. Well, guess what the
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Speaker 1: majority of Hispanic voters in this country agree with Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: When asked to identify the greatest concern around illegal immigration,
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Speaker 1: Americans most frequently cited increased crime rates, drugs, and violence
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Speaker 1: of the number one issue when it comes to legal
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Speaker 1: immigration twenty one percent, saying that is the main concern
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Speaker 1: for them. Then number two and a very close second
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Speaker 1: is this. It's the economy, stupid, right. It's the additional
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Speaker 1: cost to taxpayers, not only to take care of the immigrants,
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Speaker 1: but the rising costs for Americans who are now having
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Speaker 1: to compete with tens of millions of illegal immigrants for apartments,
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Speaker 1: for housing, for hotels, for basic jobs. The list goes
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Speaker 1: on and on, and then the third issue. And I
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Speaker 1: want you to understand how close all these are. So
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Speaker 1: the point I'm making is usually in a poll, if
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Speaker 1: you have one thing that people kind of say is
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Speaker 1: the number one reason, it's well above number two, and
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Speaker 1: usually it's way above number three. That is not the
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Speaker 1: case in this new poll. Number three on the list
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Speaker 1: just one point below the additional cost of taxpayers eighteen percent, right,
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Speaker 1: which was just three points below number one issue, which
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Speaker 1: was increased crime rates, drugs and violence at seventeen percent. Okay,
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Speaker 1: seventeen percent of voters said their greatest concern was the
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Speaker 1: quote risk of terrorism and national security. So again look
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Speaker 1: at the data increase crime, drugs, and violence. Voters that
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Speaker 1: identified that as are great concerned. Twenty one percent of
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Speaker 1: responding said that was it eighteen percent. Second place, the
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Speaker 1: additional cost of taxpayers, I mean, that's really close to
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Speaker 1: twenty one percent, and then the risk of terrorism and
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Speaker 1: national security issues at seventeen percent, right below eighteen percent
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Speaker 1: is in third place. Tells you that depending on basically
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Speaker 1: where you live, this is a big issue to you.
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Speaker 1: It just may be that the issue within the issue
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Speaker 1: is a little different. Let me break that down so
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Speaker 1: you understand my point. If you are in Texas, if
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Speaker 1: you're in New Mexico, if you're in Arizona, if you're
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Speaker 1: at a border state, you're probably going to be at drugs, crime,
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Speaker 1: and violence. Right. That's going to be a large part
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Speaker 1: of your response because it's so significant. You're also going
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Speaker 1: to respond to a lot of you that the risk
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Speaker 1: of terrorism and national security because you're seeing the violence
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Speaker 1: that's coming across the border, and you're hearing a lot
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Speaker 1: about those on the tariffs watch lists that are being
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Speaker 1: caught at record numbers. Now at number two. This is
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Speaker 1: I would argue Middle America to other places like New
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Speaker 1: York City or Baltimore, Detroit, or San Francisco. The list
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Speaker 1: goes on and on, more liberal places, not directly on
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Speaker 1: the border where the taxpayers right are starting to witness
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Speaker 1: what's happening with their tax dollars being used. Colorado, for example,
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Speaker 1: in Denver is a great point. They're having to divert
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Speaker 1: services because they're running out of money to take care
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Speaker 1: of the illegal immigrants that have overrun Denver. And so
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Speaker 1: if you're there, you're probably going to be in this
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Speaker 1: eighteen percent that say, hey, this is a real additional
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Speaker 1: cost to me as a taxpayer, and I don't like it.
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Speaker 1: So let's stand back for a second and look at
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Speaker 1: this from an election year issue. There are a lot
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Speaker 1: of Americans who believe that immigrants are receiving more and
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Speaker 1: welfare and benefits than they should, and that's a problem.
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Speaker 1: There are a lot of Americans that believe that illegal
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Speaker 1: immigrants are also a direct link to the spiking of
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Speaker 1: US crime rates. Now, these are the issues that Americans
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Speaker 1: are now turning on Biden on. You look at the
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Speaker 1: big picture here. The surveys still found Americans strongly support
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Speaker 1: immigration to America and this is the compassionate aspect of
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Speaker 1: America as long as it is done lawfully. That is
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Speaker 1: something that conservatives have been championing. That something that Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump has been championing. I'm in favor of legal immigration.
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Speaker 1: I am not in favor of people bum rushing the
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Speaker 1: southern border coming across and then I have to take
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Speaker 1: care of them. I'm not okay with that. And the
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Speaker 1: majority of Americans now are saying that they agree with
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Speaker 1: that idea. We want to support immigration as long as
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Speaker 1: it's lawful. Illegal immigration is what's giving people anxiety in
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Speaker 1: this country. We did not have that four years ago
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Speaker 1: when Donald Trump was running against Joe Biden. This is
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Speaker 1: completely flip flopped in the last three years three and
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Speaker 1: a half years. Also, fifty eight percent said they support
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Speaker 1: expanding legal pathways for orderly immigration. Forty six percent said
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Speaker 1: asylum seekers should be protected if their cases are legitimate. Again,
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Speaker 1: this goes back to the American people. We are compassionate
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Speaker 1: and loving and kind, but it doesn't mean you just
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Speaker 1: get to come in and break the law. By the
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Speaker 1: twenty million people, right, that's where we're saying no. Sixty
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Speaker 1: eight percent also in this poll said illegal immigration causes
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Speaker 1: major problems in communities, Yes, sixty eight percent. Only twenty
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Speaker 1: seven percent said the same about legal immigration. So again translation,
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Speaker 1: do it the right way and we're fine with it.
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Speaker 1: Do it the illegal way, We're not okay with it.
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Speaker 1: And sixty five percent of Americans think the US should
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Speaker 1: make it easier for anyone seeking a better life to
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Speaker 1: interlegally so they don't have to enter illegally. Now, that
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Speaker 1: is something that I think is an very important data
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Speaker 1: point for this upcoming election. The Republicans that are running
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Speaker 1: need to talk about this in a very compassionate way.
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Speaker 1: We need to say those that put themselves ahead of
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Speaker 1: others that are doing the right way should be deported,
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Speaker 1: They should not get to stay. And I think if
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Speaker 1: you frame it that way, we're going to have a
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Speaker 1: much better chance of getting moderates and undecided and Democrats
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Speaker 1: to come over to our way of thinking on this,
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Speaker 1: because it is compassionate to say, look, we don't want
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Speaker 1: anybody to come in this country I legally, who also
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Speaker 1: is jumping the line on those that are trying to
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Speaker 1: come in this country legally. That is a compassionate stance
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Speaker 1: that we as conservatives unfortunately have lost as a very
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Speaker 1: important point that needs to be made over and over again.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about this issue because it's obvious that the
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Speaker 1: majority of the American people are not saying no to immigration.
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Speaker 1: They're now saying no to illegal immigration. And that is
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Speaker 1: a very very very very very big difference. Okay, So
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Speaker 1: so that that right there at number one, just so
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Speaker 1: you understand it. Number two on this and another data
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Speaker 1: point that that people really need to understand. The trade
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Speaker 1: off here in this poll is people will take would
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Speaker 1: take expanded legal immigration if they saw there's a crackdown
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Speaker 1: on the border. Now what we've seen so far from
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden, that's out of the question. Because the Democratic
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Speaker 1: Party is trying to import voters, they're trying to fundamentally
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Speaker 1: change this country, and they believe that as many as
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Speaker 1: they can get across the border between now and whenever
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Speaker 1: the border is finally secured or closed, or however you
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Speaker 1: want to describe it, that they will they will at
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Speaker 1: some point just basically force that you're going to give
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Speaker 1: them amnesty. And what the American people are saying is no,
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Speaker 1: we're not going to just give up amnesty that quick.
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Speaker 1: We're not just gonna throw amnesty out there to twenty
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Speaker 1: plus million illegal immigrants have come to this country. So again,
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Speaker 1: if I'm advising any candidate, including Donald Trump, you have
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Speaker 1: to stand for law and order number one and number
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Speaker 1: two from this data, you have to have compassion and
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Speaker 1: say we are in favor of legal immigration. We are
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Speaker 1: advocates for legal immigration. We are not when it comes
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Speaker 1: to illegal immigrants flooding the border. All right, I want
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Speaker 1: to move to another important issue, and that is these
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Speaker 1: college campuses and the anti Semitic remarks that we're seeing
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Speaker 1: on college campuses. Elam Omar is supporting the pro genocide
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Speaker 1: students at Columbia. We've now been told that for the
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Speaker 1: rest of the of the this year, basically the calendar
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Speaker 1: year up until graduation, they're going online learning at Columbia
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Speaker 1: because the University of Colombia has lost total control of
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Speaker 1: their campus and is complete another chaos. Now we also
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Speaker 1: know who's behind paying for these violent and extremist events.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to have that for you in a second,
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Speaker 1: but I want you to hear what alamo Mar says
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Speaker 1: about the Jewish students at Columbia university. This is a
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Speaker 1: member of the United States Congress.
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Speaker 3: Listen carefully, how do you think this will translate to
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Speaker 3: the Jewish students who are facing anti summatism.
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Speaker 1: Here on campus. So I actually met a lot of.
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Speaker 4: Jewish students that are in the encampments, and I think
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Speaker 4: it is really unfortunate that people don't care about the
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Speaker 4: fact that all Jewish kids should be kept safe.
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Speaker 5: And that we should not have to tolerate anti semitism
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Speaker 5: or bigotry for all Jewish students, whether they are pro
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Speaker 5: genocide or anti genocide.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I think it's really unfortunate that people don't
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Speaker 1: care about the fact that all Jewish kids should be
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Speaker 1: kept safe. And then she says, I just got to
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Speaker 1: read this correctly. We should not have to tolerate anti
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Speaker 1: semitism or bigotry for all Jewish students, whether they are
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Speaker 1: pro genocide or anti genocide. So lalm Mar just said
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Speaker 1: that Jewish students at Columbia should be protected even if
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Speaker 1: they are pro genocide. Did you hear that. I actually
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Speaker 1: met a lot of Jewish students, she says, that are
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Speaker 1: in the encampments. I don't believe that, and I think
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Speaker 1: it's really unfortunate that people don't care about the fact
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Speaker 1: that all Jewish kids should be kept safe. So the
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Speaker 1: Jewish kids are in the encampment that are pro genocide
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Speaker 1: killing all Jews, and they're Jewish, she's claiming, she's saying, well,
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Speaker 1: they should be protected. This is a member of the
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Speaker 1: United States Congress who is out there saying this right now,
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Speaker 1: and she's walking around campus. Now. This is completely different
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Speaker 1: than what Mike Johnson had to say. Speaker of the
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Speaker 1: House went to Columbia University to look these radical anti
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Speaker 1: semits who want to go back to Hitler, the time
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Speaker 1: of Hitler in World War Two and get rid of
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Speaker 1: all the Jews. I'm glad that the Speaker of the
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Speaker 1: House went by the way he should have gone and
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Speaker 1: said very clearly, we are not going to stand for this.
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Speaker 1: These universities should be held accountable for what they are
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Speaker 1: doing right now. And what Johnson said at Columbia University,
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Speaker 1: and you can hear the kids in the background screaming
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Speaker 1: and yelling at him, is something that every elected official
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Speaker 1: should be saying. Unfortunately, it is not what is being
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Speaker 1: said at all in this country because of people like
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Speaker 1: Olama mar and others that are sitting there. Take a listen.
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Speaker 1: Let me say this very simply.
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Speaker 6: No American of any color or creed should ever have
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Speaker 6: to live under those kinds of threats. That is not
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Speaker 6: who we are in this country. Sadly, Columbia's administrators have
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Speaker 6: chosen to let the threats, the fear, and the intimidation
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Speaker 6: of the mob rule to overtake American principles like free
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Speaker 6: speech and the free free exchange of ideas and the
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Speaker 6: free exercise of religion. They have co opted First Amendment
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Speaker 6: arguments to protect genocide and to elevate the voices of
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Speaker 6: anti Semitism. They have proven themselves to be incapable of
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Speaker 6: achieving their basic responsibility, which is keeping students safe. We
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Speaker 6: just can't allow this kind of hatred and anti semitism
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Speaker 6: to flourish on our campuses, and it must be stopped
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Speaker 6: in its tracks. Those who are perpetrating this violence should
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Speaker 6: be arrested. And I'm here today. I am here today
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Speaker 6: joining my colleagues and calling on President Shaffik to resign
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Speaker 6: if she cannot immediately bring order to this chaos. A
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Speaker 6: Speaker of the House, I am committing today that the
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Speaker 6: Congress will not be silent as Jewish students are expected
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Speaker 6: to run for their lives and stay home from their classes,
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Speaker 6: hiding in fear. In the House of Representatives, We've already
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Speaker 6: acted to address anti.
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Speaker 1: Semitism on campuses.
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Speaker 6: We have passed a number of statutes to address this matter,
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Speaker 6: and we call upon the US Senate to act upon
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Speaker 6: our legislation.
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Speaker 1: Now, Johnson immediately taking massive heat for calling for a
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Speaker 1: president of the university that's lost total control of her campus,
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Speaker 1: that is not keeping Jewish students safe, and has also
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Speaker 1: been pretty clear that she's not a big fan of
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Speaker 1: the Jewish people. So when Johnson said this, he was
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Speaker 1: immediately challenged. Right, Aaron Burnett Overage CNN gets in the
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Speaker 1: speaker's face, Well, hold on, mister speaker, why do you
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Speaker 1: need to get involved in the removal of a president
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Speaker 1: of a private university? Listen to this.
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Speaker 3: Is there anything is Well could do that would be
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Speaker 3: over the line for you, because when you talk about
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Speaker 3: stamping it out, I mean many innocent children have died
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Speaker 3: and are dying at Israel's hands and the idea they have.
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Speaker 7: There have been civilians murdered, but that is not the
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Speaker 7: fault of Israel. It's the fault of the terrorists, the
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Speaker 7: Hamas operators and soldiers, the terrorists who have used these
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Speaker 7: people and put them into harm's way. Israel, I'm convinced,
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Speaker 7: is doing its very best to prevent civilian casualties. But
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Speaker 7: this is a war and they're fighting for their very existence,
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Speaker 7: and they are not the aggressors. It is the other side.
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Speaker 7: Some of the people here seem not to understand that,
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Speaker 7: and I think that's a real problem. We can debate
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Speaker 7: the merits of all these things, but what they're doing
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Speaker 7: here is intimidating Jewish students. That's the thing that is
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Speaker 7: so problematic, all right, So let.
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Speaker 3: Me ask you about that, because when it comes to that,
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Speaker 3: the NYPD, at least as of Monday, said they've not
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Speaker 3: received a single call from Columbia University of reports of
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Speaker 3: any physical harm.
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Speaker 7: Well, no physical harm, right, But you have to speak
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Speaker 7: to these Jewish students who are in their lives, who
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Speaker 7: are cowering in their apartments right now, who are not
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Speaker 7: coming to class. In fact, the administration recognized the threat
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Speaker 7: was so great they canceled classes. Now they've come out
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Speaker 7: with this hybrid idea. Well, if you're Jewish, maybe you
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Speaker 7: do want to stay at home. Maybe it'd be better
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Speaker 7: off for you. But it's so discriminatory, it's so wrong
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Speaker 7: in every way. The responsibility of a university administrator is
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Speaker 7: to keep peace on campus and ensure the safety of
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Speaker 7: students job number one. If they're uncapable of doing that,
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Speaker 7: then you need different leadership. I think this is time
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Speaker 7: for a really strong hand.
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Speaker 3: I'm trying to understand, though, why a Speaker of the House,
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Speaker 3: this is an issue you would want to get involved with.
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Speaker 3: It's a private university, it's an issue happening here. Why
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Speaker 3: is this something that you are choosing to get involved
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Speaker 3: in and calling for the removal of a president.
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Speaker 6: Of a private university.
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Speaker 7: Well, they receive federal funding as well, and Congress is
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Speaker 7: looking at all of these aspects to determine how they're
25:48
Speaker 7: using those funds. Is that appropriate if they can't fulfill
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Speaker 7: their basic obligations. I don't think the American taxpayers want
25:55
Speaker 7: to be funding this kind of thing. We know that
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Speaker 7: professors are engaging in this as well. Some of the
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Speaker 7: professors some have been supportive of the Jewish students, But
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Speaker 7: I believe it's a small subset for what I've told.
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Speaker 7: They've allowed this to go on, and it is not
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Speaker 7: okay with the American people. This isn't a part is
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Speaker 7: an issue. This is about right and wrong and we
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Speaker 7: got to call it for what it is.
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Speaker 3: And so when people talk about genocide and say that
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Speaker 3: Israel is engaging in genocide, do you think that that
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Speaker 3: is a legitimate conversation that they should be allowed to
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Speaker 3: have as part of First Amendment rights here?
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Speaker 7: Well, of course, Look, I was a First Amendment lawyer
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Speaker 7: for twenty years. I went to the courts and defended
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Speaker 7: our First Amendment freedoms, religious expression, the writer, free speech
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Speaker 7: on campus. I litigated those cases. Of course, the university
26:37
Speaker 7: is supposed to be the free marketplace of ideas. But
26:40
Speaker 7: when you shout down and physically threaten with intimidation and
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Speaker 7: threats of violence at the other side, that is not
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Speaker 7: a peaceful expression, peaceful exchange of ideas. That's something very different,
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Speaker 7: and that's what we're saying they need to get control
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Speaker 7: of when they camp out around the campus and they
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Speaker 7: prevent students from exercising their rights, that's the problem.
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Speaker 1: By the way, the way that he described that is
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Speaker 1: why he should be involved. Spot on. There's also one
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Speaker 1: other part of this, and it's about the funding, and
27:08
Speaker 1: we did a show earlier this week where I talked
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Speaker 1: about where some of the funding is coming from. But
27:12
Speaker 1: George Soros, we now know, is paying many of these
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Speaker 1: student radicals who are fueling this nationwide explosion of Israel
27:22
Speaker 1: hating protests. This now coming from the New York Posts.
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Speaker 1: George Soros and his hard left allies are paying agitators
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Speaker 1: who are fueling the explosion of radical anti Israel protests
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Speaker 1: at colleges across the country. The protests which began when
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Speaker 1: students took over Columbia University. And why did they pick
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Speaker 1: New York because all the national media is there and
27:46
Speaker 1: it was going to be easy to get free press.
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Speaker 1: Last week and then at Mushroom, nationwide copycat tent cities
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Speaker 1: have been set up at colleges including Harvard, Yale, Berkeley,
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Speaker 1: the Ohio State, Emrie University in Georgia, and all of
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Speaker 1: them organized by branches of a Soros funded Students for
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Speaker 1: Justice in Palestine known as SJP, and it's some students
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Speaker 1: have clashed with police. Now let me give you all
28:17
Speaker 1: of the different places where they're paid protesters. Okay, so
28:22
Speaker 1: you understand this is where they're paid mit Harvard, Emerson, Tufts, Yale, Cornell,
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Speaker 1: University of Rochester, University of Pittsburgh, Ohio State University, George
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Speaker 1: Washington University, Emory University, University of Texas at Dallas, University
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Speaker 1: of Texas at Austin, University of Minnesota, Northwestern cal Poly,
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Speaker 1: University of California USC. That is just to name a few,
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Speaker 1: and paid protesters are showing up at these universities now.
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Speaker 1: The SPJ parent organization has been funded by a network
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Speaker 1: of nonprofits ultimately funded by, among others, Ros, the billionaire
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Speaker 1: left wing investor. At three colleges, the protests are being
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Speaker 1: encouraged by paid radicals who are quote unquote fellows of
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Speaker 1: a Soros funded group called the US Campaign for Palestinian
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Speaker 1: Rights Now. This group provides up to seven eight hundred
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Speaker 1: dollars for its community based fellows and between two and
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Speaker 1: eighty to three thousand, six hundred and sixty dollars for
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Speaker 1: its campus based fellows in return for spending eight hours
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Speaker 1: a week organizing campaigns led by Palestinian organizations. If you
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Speaker 1: think all this is organic, you're wrong. This is all
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Speaker 1: being paid for by these radicals on the left. That
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Speaker 1: who's behind this, That's who's paying for it. Don't forget.
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