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The Left's Biggest Headaches Just Got Bigger · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump going to war with the local radical community
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  Speaker 1: in Washington, d C. Donald Trump saying he will not
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  Speaker 1: let communist DC mayoral candidate destroy the city. Now we're
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  Speaker 1: witnessing this happen around the country in places like La
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  Speaker 1: in New York City with Mundani and President Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: is now warning that he will not let the Democratic
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  Speaker 1: candidate for Washington d C mayor destroy the city with
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  Speaker 1: her policies. In a post on True Social Truth shared
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  Speaker 1: that George has stated that she wants to empty the prisons,
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  Speaker 1: turn the city into a sanctuary city, to protect criminal
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  Speaker 1: illegal aliens, and defund the police, among other things. Trump
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  Speaker 1: pointed out that many people, including him, had worked long
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  Speaker 1: and hard to clean up the nation's capital and make
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  Speaker 1: sure it is again a safe and prestigious community. He says, George,
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  Speaker 1: the communist, who is also certainly going to be elected
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  Speaker 1: mayor of d C, has stated that she wants to
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  Speaker 1: empty the prisons, make to see a sanctuary city, oppose ies,
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  Speaker 1: welcome criminal illegal aliens back into our beloved capital, and
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  Speaker 1: resist the anti crime crack down, as well as defund
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  Speaker 1: the police. He went on to say she also wants
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  Speaker 1: to expand cashless bail and so many other capital destroying,
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  Speaker 1: capital destroying things. Now, Trump continued to share what he
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  Speaker 1: would meet with George, and he said he called it communists,
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  Speaker 1: adding that he was warning that Washington, d c. Is
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  Speaker 1: a safe place in a prestigious community, saying many people,
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  Speaker 1: including myself, have worked long and hard to get it there,
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  Speaker 1: and we will not let it be destroyed by a
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  Speaker 1: communist adherent to who has no intention to make America
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  Speaker 1: make Washington great again.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: In response to Trump's post, Georgia Hita's statement that she
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  Speaker 1: would quote stand up to anyone who puts our city
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  Speaker 1: on its.
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  Speaker 2: And its residence in harms way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so apparently the president, she's saying, is putting Americans
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  Speaker 1: into harm's way. While most of these claims are incorrect,
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  Speaker 1: the fact is that the mayor of our nation's capital
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  Speaker 1: and the administration are going to be meeting with each other,
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  Speaker 1: is what George said. I'm willing to work with anyone,
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  Speaker 1: including the administration, to improve the lives of DC residents,
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  Speaker 1: and I will stand up to anyone who puts our
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  Speaker 1: city or its residence in trouble now. Again, Trump's post
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  Speaker 1: comes after he earned praise from even Democrats regarding construction
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  Speaker 1: landscaping projects throughout the city. Among the projects include the
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  Speaker 1: administration's restoration of monuments in the fountains such as the
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  Speaker 1: Meridian Hill Park and the fountain at Columbus Circle outside
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  Speaker 1: of DC's Union Station. Thank goodness, they're actually working again,
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  Speaker 1: something that has not happen and well, years and years
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  Speaker 1: and years. The Columbus Circle in their historic front to
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  Speaker 1: door to Washington, d C. Well it's now working again
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  Speaker 1: and beautiful. This is all a part of what the
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  Speaker 1: President of the United States of America has been wanting
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  Speaker 1: to do. Now.
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  Speaker 2: If you go back to August.
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  Speaker 1: Of twenty twenty five, there was a video that showed
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  Speaker 1: the city clearing a homeless encampment located near the Kenny Center.
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  Speaker 1: That came after Trump vowed to crack down on crime
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  Speaker 1: in the city. That move came days after President Trump
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  Speaker 1: said We're not doing this anymore.
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  Speaker 2: And then the.
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  Speaker 1: City he officially invoked Section eight or seven point forty
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  Speaker 1: of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, place in
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  Speaker 1: the DC Metro Police Department under the direct federal control.
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  Speaker 2: And then he.
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  Speaker 1: Activated the National Guard, which of course meant that liberals
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  Speaker 1: would lose their minds because he was actually trying to
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  Speaker 1: have a safer city. While George just said she will
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  Speaker 1: quote work with anyone, including the president, is also said
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  Speaker 1: there are limits to that cooperation, saying, we are not
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  Speaker 1: going to be able to stand up for our autonomy
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  Speaker 1: and fight for DC's statehood ultimately by just complying in advance.
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  Speaker 1: I have also been very clear that I will work
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  Speaker 1: with anyone, including the President, for the best interests of
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  Speaker 1: the residents. So the question is obviously out this, how
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  Speaker 1: can you be working for the interests of the citizens
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  Speaker 1: of DC if you're advocating for illegal immigrants. How can
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  Speaker 1: you say you're working for the citizens of Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 1: If you're wanting to let everyone out of jail? Again,
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  Speaker 1: those are her words, How are you going to work
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  Speaker 1: for the citizens again, a simple question of Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 1: If you're advocating for illegal immigrants to show up, putting
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  Speaker 1: them ahead of American citizens. And then she says she
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  Speaker 1: he's also going to advocate for, as she describes it, statehood.
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  Speaker 1: Another simple question, how are you going to advocate for
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  Speaker 1: statehood if you're going against the president of United States
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  Speaker 1: of America and really just pushing for your radical communist agenda.
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  Speaker 1: You look at the facts of what she's in favor of.
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  Speaker 1: It's really no different than Mindani, it's no different than
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  Speaker 1: Gavin Newsome, it's no different than so many of these
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  Speaker 1: radicals that we see day in and day out, and
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  Speaker 1: what they're running on now and what they're hoping is
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  Speaker 1: they can outlast the president of the United States of America.
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  Speaker 2: You can also look at the Soro stooges.
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  Speaker 1: George Soros and his son Alex have funnels staggering one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and three million into the midterms so far, and
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  Speaker 1: they're on track to shatters spending records. They're helping people
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  Speaker 1: like Representative Alam Omar and the main Senate nominee, Graham Platner,
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  Speaker 1: the mogul again spending more than one hundred.
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  Speaker 2: And three million already in the.
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  Speaker 1: Midterm elections, sending money to Senator Raphael Warnock and other
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  Speaker 1: radicals like Jay Paul. This is their entire guide. This
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  Speaker 1: is how they want to destroy this country, and they're
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  Speaker 1: using massive amounts of cash to actually do it now.
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  Speaker 1: The billionaire Democratic king maker Soros putting it one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and two point eight million in the midterm elections again
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  Speaker 1: so far, and with the November election still more than
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  Speaker 1: four months away. Soros is probably going to shatter his
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  Speaker 1: own record of one hundred and twenty eight million set
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  Speaker 1: during the last midterms four years ago. He's hoping that
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  Speaker 1: Americans will be disengaged and well. Money talks, and Soros's
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  Speaker 1: money says the most. It's all about him trying to
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  Speaker 1: destroy the United States of America. Soros has been described
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  Speaker 1: as a want to be bond villain responsible for the
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  Speaker 1: radical takeover the Democratic Party, and by the way, it's working.
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  Speaker 1: Only a fraction of this cycle's contributions seven hundred ninety
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  Speaker 1: three thousand, were made in the ninety five year old
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  Speaker 1: mega donor's actual name. Almost all the money one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and two million was funneled through the Democratic Political Action Committee,
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  Speaker 1: the super pac that source launched in twenty twenty, which
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  Speaker 1: acts as the family's main political arm. Yeah, it's pretty incredible. Again,
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  Speaker 1: Democrats say they hate rich people until they're begging them
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  Speaker 1: for more than one hundred million dollars. Now, of all
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  Speaker 1: the money he's given for the midterms, over half fifty
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  Speaker 1: two million actually came from George Soros through the private
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  Speaker 1: corporation under his name, and the other fifty million from
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  Speaker 1: fund for policy reform. That's a nonprofit is what they
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  Speaker 1: call it. Yeah, a nonprofit to just you know, get
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  Speaker 1: involved in politics. And clearly that's also working. Now this
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  Speaker 1: isn't This is without counting the family's main organization, known
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  Speaker 1: as Open Society Foundation, which funds efforts to decriminalize drugs,
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  Speaker 1: open the border, and abolish the police, and its lobbying wing,
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  Speaker 1: the Open Society Action Fund, which is even more obscure
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  Speaker 1: as it doesn't have to disclose their political spending because
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  Speaker 1: it's registered as a nonprofit claiming to do merely advocacy work. Now,
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  Speaker 1: on previous election cycles, the Open Society Action Funds cash
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  Speaker 1: flow went to the most extreme you know, the lefty stars.
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  Speaker 1: They created the squad, the AOCS, Elamo mar and all
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  Speaker 1: of this is again showing that George Soros and his son,
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  Speaker 1: they're doing everything they can to find the most radical candidates,
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  Speaker 1: like the DC mayor candidate and destroy our country literally
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  Speaker 1: from within. So pay attention because this is what the
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  Speaker 1: midterm elections are actually all about. One of the biggest
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  Speaker 1: stories happening in Washington right now isn't getting nearly the
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  Speaker 1: attention that it deserves because if the numbers being released
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  Speaker 1: by the Trump administration are holding up the way that
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  Speaker 1: it looks like we're talking about billions of taxpayer dollars
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  Speaker 1: and what officials describe as one of the largest government
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  Speaker 1: fraud problems in recent history.
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  Speaker 2: This past weekend, Health and Human.
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  Speaker 1: Services Secretary rfk Junior and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
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  Speaker 1: Services Administrator doctor Odds announced that more than one million
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  Speaker 1: Affordable Care Act marketplace enrollments do not have a social
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  Speaker 1: Security number on file. Let me say that again, one
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  Speaker 1: million people that signed up for Obamacare did not have
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  Speaker 1: a social Security number. They described that figure as a
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  Speaker 1: major warning sign for fraud and said it reflects years
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  Speaker 1: of weekend program integrity. Now, it's important to take note
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  Speaker 1: that not every enrollment lacking a social Security number has
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  Speaker 1: been proven fraudulent yet, but Secretary Kennedy and Oz argue
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  Speaker 1: that the absence of that information is automatically a significant
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  Speaker 1: and massive red flag that should have triggered much stronger
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  Speaker 1: verification years ago. According to the administration, investigators estimate that
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  Speaker 1: now Obamacare fraud an improper enrollment has been costing taxpayers
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  Speaker 1: roughly ten billion dollars every year during the past several years.
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  Speaker 1: That's money that officials state should have gone to eligible
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  Speaker 1: Americans instead of improper and fraudulent claims. Now, doctor Oz
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  Speaker 1: and RFK Junior put out this message to the American people,
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  Speaker 1: explaining the fraud that they are now witnessing and exposing.
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  Speaker 3: Healthcare fraud and corruption effect millions of Americans and maybe
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  Speaker 3: even you. The Obamacare marketplace is plagued by fraud in
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  Speaker 3: large part because the Biden administration dismantled basic program integrity
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  Speaker 3: guard rails, all part of some lawfare blocked common sense
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  Speaker 3: efforts to protect taxpayers. Today, doctor Oz and I are
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  Speaker 3: exposing one of the latest examples of fraud that we've uncovered.
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  Speaker 3: More than a million people enrolled in Obamacare with how
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  Speaker 3: was a social Security numbers on file? That is a
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  Speaker 3: glaring warning side of fraud. If even a single person
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  Speaker 3: was on Obamacare with no social Security number, we should
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  Speaker 3: have found out. Why are we paying people who we
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  Speaker 3: don't know if they actually exist?
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  Speaker 4: Shady insurance agents and other bad actors have been getting
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  Speaker 4: paid to enroll unsuspecting Americans and health plans they never
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  Speaker 4: signed up for. These rogue agents have been flooding into
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  Speaker 4: healthcare dot gov. That's the Obamacare marketplace. They submit applications
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  Speaker 4: for fake people, enroll stolen identities, all to collect millions
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  Speaker 4: of dollars improper fees from insurance companies for selling plans
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  Speaker 4: they never legitimately sold. Some of these agents refuse to
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  Speaker 4: follow basic rules like providing their client's Social Security number. That,
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  Speaker 4: my friends, is a huge red flag.
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  Speaker 3: These fraudsters deliberately picked plans with no premiums. No premiums
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  Speaker 3: means no bill. No bill means most people never know
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  Speaker 3: that they've been enrolled in a plan that you and
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  Speaker 3: I are paying for with our taxplayer dollars. The only
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  Speaker 3: people who benefit are the fraudsters.
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  Speaker 4: The Trump administration has zero tolerance for that. So here's
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  Speaker 4: what we're doing about it. And maybe we took swift
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  Speaker 4: action to block this fraudulent behavior directly on healthcare dot
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  Speaker 4: gom and to our marketplace call center. If an agent
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  Speaker 4: wants to be paid, they must follow the rules, no ifs,
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  Speaker 4: ands or butts. They are going to have to provide
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  Speaker 4: government verified information for their clients to be enrolled.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks to this aggressive enforcement strategy, we've already eliminited thousands
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  Speaker 3: of fraudulent policies and we're just getting started. We're also
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  Speaker 3: working with insurers to cancel every policy that should never
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  Speaker 3: have been an issue and recover every taxpayer dollar that
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  Speaker 3: was fraudulently paid out.
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  Speaker 4: We're also scaling up our enforcement efforts to prevent these
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  Speaker 4: bad actors from finding new ways to manipulate the system
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  Speaker 4: ahead of the open enrollment system this fall. Because we
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  Speaker 4: know the bad actors don't SIP. We stop when you
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  Speaker 4: cut off one vulnerable area. The Biden administration let healthcare
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  Speaker 4: frosters run wild. Thanks to President Trump, those days are over.
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  Speaker 3: To every unscrupulous insurance agent and fraudster exploiting the American people.
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  Speaker 3: Here's our message. If you steal from the American taxpayer,
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  Speaker 3: or if you defraud American families, HHS will find you
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  Speaker 3: and we will hold you accountable.
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  Speaker 4: If you're a froster, here's our advice to you. Do
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  Speaker 4: not walk away from us, run because we are going
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  Speaker 4: to find you.
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  Speaker 3: We're just getting started. This is the American people's health,
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  Speaker 3: this is the American people's money, and the Trump administration
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  Speaker 3: is committed to protecting both.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Now.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to just go back to the number
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  Speaker 1: and think about this real quick. They're saying roughly ten
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  Speaker 1: billion every year during the past several years. Ten billion dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's not pocket change. That's enough money to build schools,
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  Speaker 1: to repair our roads, hire thousands of law enforcement officers,
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  Speaker 1: which would be an amazing idea, or significantly even reduce
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  Speaker 1: the federal deficit, which apparently no one's been thinking about.
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  Speaker 1: But instead the administration argues much of it was lost
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  Speaker 1: and we're not going to get this money back because
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  Speaker 1: of oversight systems that weren't working as intended. Now, was
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  Speaker 1: that on purpose? There's a very good chance the answer
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  Speaker 1: is going to come out to me. Yes, the Democrat said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we want Obamacare to fill our friends coffers with cash
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  Speaker 1: and then they'll support us. Now, you may say that, Ben,
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  Speaker 1: that's a crazy idea. It's actually no different than the
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  Speaker 1: waste fraud abuse that we have witnessed first hand in Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: the waste fraud abuse that we've seen with Medicare and
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  Speaker 1: medicating in California, and honestly now basically in every state
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  Speaker 1: in America. The people that are doing the waste fraud
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  Speaker 1: and abuse, they know who to support. It's not Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: it is Democrats. They hate doach, They actually hate anyone
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  Speaker 1: it's fine to get rid of Well, they're free paychecks
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  Speaker 1: for doing nothing and screwing the American taxpayer. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: administration also says that during the previous administration, the Affordable
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  Speaker 1: Care Act enrollment surged dramatically. Again, it goes to the
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  Speaker 1: data point that I was mentioning just a second ago.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats weren't trying to stop this fraud. They were actively
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  Speaker 1: expanding it, for roughly ten million in rolies at the
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  Speaker 1: start of twenty twenty one to more than twenty two
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  Speaker 1: million in rollies by twenty twenty four. How did we
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  Speaker 1: go from ten million in rollies of twenty two million
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  Speaker 1: because they said, take off all the safeguards, take off
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  Speaker 1: the bumpers, and let this thing skyrocket out of control
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  Speaker 1: as long as we get some of the money back.
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  Speaker 2: Now, officials say.
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  Speaker 1: Some of that growth reflected expanded eligibility and subsidies, but
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  Speaker 1: they also contend that weakened verification procedures, meaning these were
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  Speaker 1: done on.
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  Speaker 2: Purpose, created opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: They knew for this system to be abused, and that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what happened. But they were designed for the systems
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  Speaker 1: to be abused. Now, among the alleged problems that they
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  Speaker 1: highlighted individuals receiving subsidies that they weren't entitled to, income
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  Speaker 1: being misstated to qualify for larger taxpayer subsidies. You also
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  Speaker 1: had duplicate enrollments, not a few thousands and thousands and
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  Speaker 1: thousands of duplicate enrollments, and that is just simple fraud.
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  Speaker 1: And what officials call phantom enrollments are also a big problem.
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  Speaker 1: That's where insurance brokers enroll people into plans without their
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  Speaker 1: knowledge in order to collect the commission from enrolling them
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  Speaker 1: in their plans. Why did Democrats allow that to happen
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  Speaker 1: so they could again get their friends rich and those
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  Speaker 1: friends support them when running for office. Now, doctor os
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  Speaker 1: s had some rogue agents even signed unsuspecting Americans up
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  Speaker 1: for those zero premium plans because then those customers might
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  Speaker 1: never realize that they'd even been enrolled at all, because
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  Speaker 1: they don't cost anything. And as doctor Oz explained, some
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  Speaker 1: applications were submitted without basic identifying information. Now what's basic
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  Speaker 1: identifying information? You know, things you would need to do
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  Speaker 1: to enroll, like so security numbers, which he described as
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  Speaker 1: a major warning sign. Democrats knew this was a problem,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't care. In fact, they go back to what
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  Speaker 1: I said a moment ago. They designed the system to
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  Speaker 1: be abused. Now the administration sets that has already removed
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  Speaker 1: nearly three million improper or fraudulent enrollments.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to just think about that.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody set in front of a computer three million times,
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  Speaker 1: and three million times they put in improper information, fraudulent enrollments,
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  Speaker 1: and then the dollars flowed instantly from the Affordable Care
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  Speaker 1: Act rolls three million people they've already said we've gotten
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  Speaker 1: rid of. That's unbelievable. They also believe millions of other
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  Speaker 1: question enrollments are now under review, so that number, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 2: Will go up.
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  Speaker 1: Officials also estimate that there's about two point six million
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  Speaker 1: improper phantom enrollments that are still being investigated. So the
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  Speaker 1: fraud could actually be upwards of six or seven million
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  Speaker 1: fraudulent enrollees into Obamacare, including more than one million they
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  Speaker 1: say without the Social Security numbers. So what's going to change, Well,
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  Speaker 1: you heard them lay it out. According to HHS, the
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  Speaker 1: in the CMS, they're restoring income verification requirements, they're tightening
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  Speaker 1: enrollment rules, they're checking for duplicate Medicaid enrollment. They're investigating
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  Speaker 1: fraudulent brokers and working with insurance companies to cancel policies
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  Speaker 1: that officials conclude should never have been issued in the
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  Speaker 1: first place. Secretary Kennedy put it bluntly, arguing that the
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  Speaker 1: Obamacare marketplace had become plagued with fraud because, in his view,
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  Speaker 1: important safeguards had been weakened deliberately. He asks the question
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  Speaker 1: that has become central by the way the administration's message,
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  Speaker 1: why are we paying people we don't know if they
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  Speaker 1: actually exist, they're healthcare bills.
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  Speaker 2: It makes no sense.
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  Speaker 1: Now, whether you support Obamacare you oppose it politically, there's
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  Speaker 1: one principle that almost everyone should be able to agree on.
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  Speaker 1: These government programs should be administered accurately. Taxpayer dollars should
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  Speaker 1: go only to people who qualify under the law.
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  Speaker 2: What a novel idea.
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  Speaker 1: If there are fraudulent enrollments, most Americans, I would hope,
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  Speaker 1: would agree they should be identified and then they should
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  Speaker 1: be removed, which is exactly what the bomb administration look
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  Speaker 1: the other way when the numbers were skyrocketing, and so
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  Speaker 1: did Joe Biden. Now, at the same time, it's also
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  Speaker 1: important I want to be clear that legitimate beneficiaries they
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  Speaker 1: get what they deserve, But there's too much fraud now,
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  Speaker 1: and the debate now shifts to Congress and to the
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  Speaker 1: watchdog agencies.
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  Speaker 2: The question now.
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  Speaker 1: Is can investigators document the full scope of these alleged
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  Speaker 1: proper payments and then can they recover the taxpayer money?
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately it's not very likely.
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  Speaker 1: And then how hard is it to really have stronger
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  Speaker 1: verification systems that prevent similar problems like this in other
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  Speaker 1: government programs? Can there be a safeguard or a system
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  Speaker 1: that actually works across the federal government? Because if the
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  Speaker 1: administration estimates are ultimately bore out to what we expect,
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  Speaker 1: we're not talking about isolated waste here, talking about billions
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  Speaker 1: and billions of taxpayer dollars and government programs that officials
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  Speaker 1: say we'll have no integrity and they need bare minimum
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  Speaker 1: massive reforms. And one thing is certain, this investigation is
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  Speaker 1: likely to become one of the most significant healthcare oversight
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  Speaker 1: stories we've ever seen. And you can also expect lawmakers
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  Speaker 1: on the left to look the other way. They don't
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  Speaker 1: want you to know about this problem, and they sure
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  Speaker 1: as hell don't want to fix it because they're the
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  Speaker 1: ones on the left who are getting the massive kickbacks from.
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  Speaker 2: All of this fraud.
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  Speaker 1: If you listen to the media, you would think that
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump has lost all support from the Republican Party
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  Speaker 1: because of the war in Iran.
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  Speaker 2: Well, guess what they're lying to you yet again.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, it is a massive story just how unified
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  Speaker 1: the Republican Party remains behind President Donald Trump, and the
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  Speaker 1: media is spending an enormous amount of time focusing on
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  Speaker 1: overall approval rating things. The more revealing political number is
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  Speaker 1: this support inside of the Republican Party is massive. President
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  Speaker 1: Trump is in an exceptionally strong territory. Several recent polls
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  Speaker 1: now show that Trump's approval among Republicans is actually around
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  Speaker 1: ninety percent, putting him ahead of where other twenty first
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  Speaker 1: century presidents stood with their own party at a similar
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  Speaker 1: point in their presidencies. Multiple polls comparing Republican and Democrat
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  Speaker 1: presidents over time have found Trump's Republican support is exceeding
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  Speaker 1: the levels seen for presidents like George W. Bush, Barack
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  Speaker 1: Obama on the Democrat side, and even Joe Biden within
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  Speaker 1: their own political coalitions. That is a staggering number, and
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  Speaker 1: of course the media is not talking about it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what does that actually mean? Well, it means this President
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  Speaker 1: Trump has now been one of the most scrutinized political
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  Speaker 1: figures in modern political history. And let's be clear, Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump has gone through not one but two presidential terms,
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  Speaker 1: multiple campaigns to get there. He's gone through impeachment proceedings
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  Speaker 1: multiple times, criminal prosecutions multiple times, civil lawsuits, and then
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  Speaker 1: the constant media attacks and then the countless political battles
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  Speaker 1: within the party and outside as well. And yet after
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  Speaker 1: all of that, Republican voters have not abandoned him. If anything,
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  Speaker 1: they become more consolidated, more loyal behind him. That is
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  Speaker 1: politically significant because party unity is often one of the
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  Speaker 1: most strongest predictors of a president's influence inside of Washington.
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  Speaker 1: When a president enjoys overwhelming support from his own voters,
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  Speaker 1: members of Congress have strong incentives to stay aligned with
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  Speaker 1: the president's agenda, even CNN having to admit this with
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  Speaker 1: their posters saying how shocking the numbers are compared to
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  Speaker 1: other demo crats.
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  Speaker 5: Republicans love Donald Trump more than any president's own party
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  Speaker 5: supporters loved him at this particular point. Just take a
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  Speaker 5: look here, okay, own party supporters twenty first century president's
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  Speaker 5: own party approval about at this point the second term,
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  Speaker 5: Bush was at seventy seven percent. Obama was at seventy
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  Speaker 5: seven percent. Look at this, eighty six percent of Republicans
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  Speaker 5: approve of the job that Donald Trump is doing at
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  Speaker 5: this point. That is higher than either Obama or Bush
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  Speaker 5: had within their own party at this point. Trump's magic
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  Speaker 5: touch has not seen the war off yet when it
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  Speaker 5: comes to the Republican base.
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  Speaker 2: And what kind of approval are we talking about here?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, so we're talking about overall approval here, how about
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  Speaker 5: the strongly approved, the strongly approved.
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  Speaker 2: Not just like but love love.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, We're gonna look at these same presidents again, strong
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  Speaker 5: approval among your own parties base, which is he Here's
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  Speaker 5: Trump is the only one who gets the majority at
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  Speaker 5: this point in their presidency. Obama was at forty eight percent,
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  Speaker 5: Bush was at forty seven percent. You see here, Trump
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  Speaker 5: at fifty three percent, not as high as overall writing,
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  Speaker 5: but still getting a majority of the Republican base at
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  Speaker 5: least in the average of polls to say that they
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  Speaker 5: still really, really really.
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  Speaker 1: Like him, ahead of Bush, ahead of Obama, ahead of Biden.
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  Speaker 1: And yet the media is telling you there's a massive
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  Speaker 1: revolt against Donald Trump from the right. Isn't it weird
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  Speaker 1: how they just lie to you about that? So what
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  Speaker 1: does this mean overall? Well, Republican lawmakers they understand that
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  Speaker 1: as long as Donald Trump's supporters are highly engaged and
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  Speaker 1: highly motivated and incredibly loyal, that gives the president considerable
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  Speaker 1: leverage when pushing for legislation and then also backing candidates
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  Speaker 1: and primaries or shaping the party's message heading into future elections.
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  Speaker 1: It's also important to separate two different measures here. Overall
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  Speaker 1: national approval measures well, that is how all Americans view
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  Speaker 1: the president. Those numbers are well naturally much lower because
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  Speaker 1: they include Democrats, Republicans, and independ and it's together and
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  Speaker 1: many times those national polls are also skewed. But recent
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  Speaker 1: national polls have shown Trump's overall approval is well below
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  Speaker 1: his Republican approval. That is normal, by the way, that's
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  Speaker 1: what a divided country looks like. But in the inside
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  Speaker 1: of the Republican Party itself, the people that elect you
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  Speaker 1: the story, it is completely different. Polling has consistently placed
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  Speaker 1: Republican approval around nine out of ten Republicans. That's how
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  Speaker 1: many approve of Trump's job performance and This includes polling
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  Speaker 1: that's been done after he made sure that Iran does
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  Speaker 1: not get a nuclear weapon and gas prices of spiked
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  Speaker 1: because of that war. Many of the surveys showing even
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  Speaker 1: higher support among Republicans who identify with the MAGU movement.
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  Speaker 1: So those that say it's time for Tuger Carlson isolationism.
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  Speaker 2: Well guess what it's not.
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  Speaker 1: And clearly the Republican Party trust the president over those
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  Speaker 1: that are saying abandon Israel, abandon going after Iran if
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  Speaker 1: they're getting a nuclear weapon. Now, presidents often see erosion
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  Speaker 1: within their own party as difficult policy fights accumulate international
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  Speaker 1: divisions over things like spending in foreign policy and immigration
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  Speaker 1: or economic issues. But what we're seeing here is Trump,
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  Speaker 1: even as he's taking on these tough issues, is avoiding
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  Speaker 1: this dynamic that has been well a staple in political history.
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  Speaker 1: He has the Republican voters behind him because they genuinely
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  Speaker 1: trust him. Now, this political coalition behind him is also
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: remarkably stable despite an extraordinary number of headline making events,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: and for Republicans that translates into confidence going into the
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: midterm elections, and Trump remains the party's dominant national figure.
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  Speaker 1: It's clear he's on the ballot for the midterms and
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  Speaker 1: wrapping himself in candidates that will push the America First
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  Speaker 1: agenda for Democrats. But it also presents a major strategic
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  Speaker 1: challenge because it means there's very little daylight between Trump
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  Speaker 1: and the Republican grassroots. Whether Republicans are discussing immigration or
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  Speaker 1: border security, or tax policy, or inflation, or energy or
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: energy production, or even judicial appointments, Donald Trump is continuing
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: to define much of the party's agenda. So the bottom
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  Speaker 1: line from all of this is pretty simple. National approval
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  Speaker 1: ratings tell one story about a polarized country. Republican approval
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  Speaker 1: ratings tell an entirely different story. And the second story
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  Speaker 1: is that Donald Trump continues to command one of the
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  Speaker 1: strongest levels of support from his own party of any
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  Speaker 1: president of the twenty first century. At this point in
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  Speaker 1: a presidency that is history breaking. The level of party
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: unity gives them significant political influence heading into the next
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: major legislative battles and the election cycle. So the next
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: time you hear the well media tell you there's some
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: sort of massive revolt against Trump from the right, just
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: know they're lying to you. They are straight up lying
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  Speaker 1: to you, and they know it, and they're happy to
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: lie to you for one reason, because they're doing anything
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: they can to try to undermine and attack the President
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  Speaker 1: of the United States of America so that the America
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  Speaker 1: First agenda will disappear. Thanks, as always for joining us
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