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America First: Trump's Latest Moves in the War on Terror · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: When Donald Trump was running for office, he made it
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  Speaker 1: very clear one of his big promises was going to
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  Speaker 1: be to protect Americans from terrorists around the world. Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump paying off on that. Over the past week, President
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump has intensified counter terrorism efforts both domestically and internationally.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a summary of just the latest developments that you
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  Speaker 1: may have missed. Airstrikes were ordered on March the fifteenth.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump authorized large airstrikes targeting Aramback Houthi rebels in
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  Speaker 1: Yemen's capital.
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  Speaker 2: This action was in response.
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  Speaker 1: To the hoothy threat to the US shipping assets in
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sea. The offensive aims to protect American interests
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  Speaker 1: and ensure navigational.
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  Speaker 2: Freedom for our ships in the region.
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  Speaker 1: The strike resulted in over thirty deaths and more than
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  Speaker 1: one hundred injured. The Huthi leader vowed to continue attacks
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  Speaker 1: on American shipping in the US if US operations persist
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  Speaker 1: quote unquote. Iran's foreign minister also criticized the US actions,
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  Speaker 1: urging an end to Yemeny's civilian casualties. As he described it,
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  Speaker 1: even though, as you and I both know, Iran's foreign
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  Speaker 1: minister has sanctioned an incredible number of deaths of civilians
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  Speaker 1: in their attacks and backing of Hesblat and Hamas and going.
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  Speaker 2: After the Jews in Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Following by the way the air strikes, US warships intercepted
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  Speaker 1: and destroyed approximately twelve drones that were launched by the
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  Speaker 1: Houthies targeting the US Harry S.
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  Speaker 2: Truman aircraft carrier.
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  Speaker 1: This marks a significant escalation in hostilities, with a Huthis
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  Speaker 1: claiming the use of the ballistic and cruise missiles along
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  Speaker 1: side drones in their assault. Then the President said, that's
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  Speaker 1: not all I'm dealing with them. Let me say it again.
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  Speaker 1: The President then said, that's not all I'm doing to
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  Speaker 1: protect you, the American people. Domestic counter terrorism measures also happened.
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  Speaker 1: The arrest of an activist march to tenth the Palasinian activists.
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  Speaker 2: Muhammad Khalil, known.
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  Speaker 1: For leading the pro Palestinian protests at Columbia University, was
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  Speaker 1: arrested by ICE agents and the arrest was filmed by
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  Speaker 1: his wife. President Trump praised the arrests, labeling it the
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  Speaker 1: first of many to come, quote unquote. He also accused
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  Speaker 1: activists like this individual of being paid agitators involved in
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  Speaker 1: anti American and anti Semitic activities.
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  Speaker 2: This move sparked criticism from quote.
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  Speaker 1: Free speech advocates and New York's City leaders, who deemed
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  Speaker 1: it unconstitutional. Guess what, it is absolutely constitutional what the
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  Speaker 1: President has done. Then the President also decided to do
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  Speaker 1: something else, the designation of domestic acts as terrorism. In
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  Speaker 1: response to recent vandalism that has happened against Tesla dealerships,
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  Speaker 1: President Trump announced that such acts would be labeled as
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  Speaker 1: domestic terrorism. He emphasized that perpetrators would face severe consequences,
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  Speaker 1: underscoring his support for the Tesla CEO, who we set
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  Speaker 1: down with in our interview, Elon Musk. Now, the present
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  Speaker 1: smart to do this because what's happening now is radical
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  Speaker 1: leftists in this country, anarchists, Marxists and socialists. What they
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  Speaker 1: have decided to do is go after Tesla users. They're
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  Speaker 1: attacking people in their cars, They're keying cars, they're destroying
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  Speaker 1: cars or setting Tesla charging stations on fire. They're going
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  Speaker 1: after Tesla dealerships and doing incredible damage to the dealerships,
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  Speaker 1: all because Elon Musk is going after waste, fraud and abuse.
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  Speaker 1: We also had the President doing something else that was
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  Speaker 1: pretty amazing, and it comes to the issue of leadership.
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  Speaker 1: Appointments Joe Kent's nomination. In early February of twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: President Trump's nominated Joe Kent, a former Army Special Forces
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  Speaker 1: soldier and two time congressional candidate from Washington State, to
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  Speaker 1: lead the National counter Terrorism Center. Kent's extensive military background
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  Speaker 1: is expected to influence the administration's counter terrorism strategies. So
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  Speaker 1: again he's leading, for example by the people that he's picking.
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  Speaker 1: And then there was also some counter terrorism operations that
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  Speaker 1: took place in Africa. In fact, there were airstrikes in Somalia.
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  Speaker 1: The US conducted air strikes against Islamic State militants hiding
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  Speaker 1: in caves in Somalia. The operation, the first of its
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  Speaker 1: kind since President Trump's returned to office, targeted key ISIS
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  Speaker 1: operatives and aim to disrupt their operations.
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  Speaker 2: In the region.
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  Speaker 1: We also know about the capture of a terrorist behind
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  Speaker 1: the Abby Gate bombing. The apprehension was announced on March fourth,
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  Speaker 1: when President Trump announced the capture of the terrorists responsible
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  Speaker 1: for that bombing during the Afghan withdrawal in August of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one that results in the deaths of thirteen
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  Speaker 1: American service members. The individual is currently en route to
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  Speaker 1: face American justice with the operation highlighting cooperation between US
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  Speaker 1: agencies as well as the Pakistani government. Now, what does
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  Speaker 1: all this say put together? Very simply, it says this,
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump is back in office with a robust and
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  Speaker 1: multi facet approach by his administration addressing terrorism threats both
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  Speaker 1: domestically and internationally. And this is just over the past week.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the headlines. US shares photos of Trump watching
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  Speaker 1: deadly strike against the Houthi rebels as it revealed US
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  Speaker 1: informed Russia of the attack. Another headline, US military shoots
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  Speaker 1: down Houthy drones is Trump strikes against counter against terrorism
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  Speaker 1: groups continue US air strikes. Another headline reads took out
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  Speaker 1: multiple Hooty terror leaders. Trump says, as Yemen reports thirty
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  Speaker 1: one killed. So, whether it is at home or abroad,
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  Speaker 1: what we are witnessing right now is.
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  Speaker 2: Law and order.
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  Speaker 1: Law and order that is clearly now a major part,
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  Speaker 1: I mean a major part of this entire government approach
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  Speaker 1: to putting America first. The President of the United States
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  Speaker 1: of America is putting America first. And that's incredible, and
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  Speaker 1: that's all you can ask for. That's what the voters asked,
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  Speaker 1: That's what the voters wanted. They wanted this to happen,
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  Speaker 1: They voted for it to happen, and it was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: The reason why the American people right now are clearly
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  Speaker 1: behind Donald Trump is for the simple reason that they
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  Speaker 1: actually understand that this president is keeping us safe. The media,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, they are like losing their minds because.
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  Speaker 2: They don't know how to cover.
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  Speaker 1: This president in a way that can hurt him right now,
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  Speaker 1: because the American people clearly are responding. I mean, look
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  Speaker 1: at the video that was put out by Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: of all these gang members being sent out of the
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  Speaker 1: country on these flights. Like I mean, Donald Trump said,
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  Speaker 1: these are monsters that were sent into our country by
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  Speaker 1: crooked Joe Biden, the radical left Democrats. How dare they
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  Speaker 1: thank you to El Salvador and in particular President of
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  Speaker 1: l Salvador for understanding of this horrible situation which was
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  Speaker 1: allowed to happen to the United States because of incompetent
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  Speaker 1: democratic leadership.
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  Speaker 2: We will not forget.
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  Speaker 1: And he put to the video of all of these
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  Speaker 1: hardened criminals, like hardened criminals.
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  Speaker 2: And it's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, we've got a response now from the
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  Speaker 1: White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt responding to allegations of
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  Speaker 1: the Trump administration quote violated a federal court order by
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  Speaker 1: not turning the deportation flights around.
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  Speaker 2: That we're going to El Salvador. Here is what she said. Quote.
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  Speaker 1: The administration did not refuse to comply with a court order.
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  Speaker 1: The order, which had no lawful basis, was issued after
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  Speaker 1: terrorists TDA aliens.
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  Speaker 2: Had already been removed from US territory.
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  Speaker 1: The written order and the administration's actions do not conflict. Moreover,
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  Speaker 1: as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear, federal courts
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  Speaker 1: generally have no jurisdiction over the presence conduct.
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  Speaker 2: Of foreign affairs.
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  Speaker 1: His authorities under the Alien Enemies Act and his core
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  Speaker 1: Article two powers to remove foreign alien terrorists from the
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  Speaker 1: US soil and repel a declared invasion. A single judge
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  Speaker 1: in a single city cannot direct the movement of an
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  Speaker 1: aircraft carrier full of foreign alien terrists who were physically
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  Speaker 1: expelled from US soil quote unquote. So that is what
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  Speaker 1: the White House Press Secretary has just said. Now there's
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  Speaker 1: something else that you need to know, and this is
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  Speaker 1: this new number that I love Trump is his highest
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  Speaker 1: approval rating ever period, full stop. More Americans say the
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  Speaker 1: US is on the right track than any time in
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  Speaker 1: twenty years, so the last two decades.
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  Speaker 2: That is where we are.
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  Speaker 1: The New York Posts coming out with his new poll numbers,
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  Speaker 1: and let me just explain to you how they put it.
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  Speaker 1: They said Trump ties for highest approval he's ever had.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of a big deal, highest a prove rating
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  Speaker 1: he's ever had. Three months into his second term, President
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  Speaker 1: Trump hit the highest approval rating.
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  Speaker 2: He's ever had as a commander in chief.
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  Speaker 1: While more Americans say the country is on the right
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  Speaker 1: track than at any point since two thousand and.
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  Speaker 2: Four, the new poll found go back to two thousand
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  Speaker 2: and four.
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  Speaker 1: That was when that was in the year when George
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  Speaker 1: Bush was reelected. That's a long time ago, folks. That's
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  Speaker 1: the good news. According to an NBC News poll released
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, This is NBC News. The bad news is
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  Speaker 1: that Trump still has not won over a majority of Americans.
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  Speaker 2: Fifty four percent.
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  Speaker 1: They say they disapprove of his handling of the economy,
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  Speaker 1: the first time he's lost the majority on that issue
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  Speaker 1: in the NBC poll.
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  Speaker 2: That's what they say.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I'd love to look at this data and see
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  Speaker 1: exactly how they're getting it and do they go after
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  Speaker 1: more hardcore liberals than an actual voting block that would
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  Speaker 1: represent America.
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  Speaker 2: But we can deal with that in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Even so, the survey found that voters generally filled Trump
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  Speaker 1: is bringing the right kind of change on the key issues,
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  Speaker 1: even tariffs. More American support his changes to trade policy
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  Speaker 1: than oppose it. According to NBC News that despite the
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  Speaker 1: stick market selloff last week as Wall Street grappled the
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  Speaker 1: Trump's decision earlier this month to slap twenty five percent
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  Speaker 1: across the board tariffs on Canadian and Mexico goods, as
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  Speaker 1: well as twenty percent tariffs on China, on many other
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  Speaker 1: key issues, voters felt the same way, with Trump's actions
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  Speaker 1: on the.
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  Speaker 2: Border being the most popular.
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  Speaker 1: Fifty eight percent said it was a positive change on
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  Speaker 1: government cuts. Forty seven percent said his changes were good,
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  Speaker 1: compared to twenty one percent who opposed it.
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  Speaker 2: Again, these are major numbers.
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  Speaker 1: On many other key issues, voters felt the same way,
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  Speaker 1: with Trump's actions on the border being the most popular,
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  Speaker 1: fifty six percent said it's a positive change on government
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  Speaker 1: Cutt's forty seven percent says changes were good compared to
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine percent who opposed it.
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  Speaker 2: Even on the handling of the Ukraine War.
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  Speaker 1: In NATO policies have received a significant pushback.
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  Speaker 2: On mainly for the media and the press.
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  Speaker 1: More respondents said his actions were good forty one percent
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  Speaker 1: and forty percent that opposed his actions.
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  Speaker 2: Now, this is again coming from.
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  Speaker 1: NBC News and using their polls are very slanted against
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump. I go back to the basic issues here.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump is hitting on the issues. Caroline Levitt, White
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  Speaker 1: House Press Secretary on Sunday Morning Futures talking about invoking
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  Speaker 1: the Alien Enemies Act against these gang members who have
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  Speaker 1: invaded our country, which the presidents saying we're going after
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  Speaker 1: into pouring them to El Salvador.
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  Speaker 2: Listen.
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  Speaker 3: In just one month, President Trump has used his executive
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  Speaker 3: authority to secure our southern border. It proves that everybody
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  Speaker 3: who claimed we needed a border bill was wrong. We
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  Speaker 3: just needed a new president who actually cared about securing
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  Speaker 3: our homeland and enforcing our immigration laws. You mentioned daily
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  Speaker 3: Godaway's seventy seven. That's an astronomical decrease from the previous administration.
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  Speaker 3: There's been a ninety nine percent decrease of illegal migrants
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  Speaker 3: crossing through the Darien Gap. If you talk to border
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  Speaker 3: patrol agents and Ice agents. They will tell you the
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  Speaker 3: camaraderie in these agencies is at an all time high
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  Speaker 3: because they are actually being allowed to do their jobs.
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  Speaker 3: In breaking news, this morning, Maria, the President signed a
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  Speaker 3: proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act against Trendy Aragua members
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  Speaker 3: who have invaded our country. These are the most violent,
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  Speaker 3: heinoused criminal monsters you could ever imagine. They have taken
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  Speaker 3: the lives of innocent American women like Joscelyn Nungray and
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  Speaker 3: Lake and Riley. And the President invoked this authority to
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  Speaker 3: deport nearly three hundred of them who are now in
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  Speaker 3: El Salvador, where they will be behind bars where they belong,
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  Speaker 3: rather than roaming freely in American communities. This is a
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  Speaker 3: massive win for the American public and it is going
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  Speaker 3: to save lives.
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  Speaker 2: It is going to save lives.
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  Speaker 1: This is exactly why the President of United States of America,
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  Speaker 1: exactly why he has so much support.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm faced the nation.
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  Speaker 1: This morning, Senator Marco Rubia was asked a simple question
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  Speaker 1: by a hardcore leftist. Her name is Brittan. She's the
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  Speaker 1: host there, and I want you to hear what she said.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the reason why the media is just
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  Speaker 1: losing the American people.
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  Speaker 4: Is there any evidence of a link to terrorism or
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  Speaker 4: is it just his r point of view?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they take over, I mean do not. I mean
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  Speaker 5: you should watch the news. These guys take over entire buildings,
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  Speaker 5: shut down.
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  Speaker 4: I'm asking about justification for the revocation of his visa.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, they're referencing this student that was arrested
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  Speaker 1: and green card taken away? Who did all these protests
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  Speaker 1: on the college campuses. And I love how Mark Rubia
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  Speaker 1: looks as like, h did you you should watch the news.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna back it up. Listen to that.
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  Speaker 1: He's talking to CBS. He's like, are you guys stupid?
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  Speaker 1: Are you stupid?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: They take over, I mean do not. I mean you
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  Speaker 5: should watch the news. These guys take over entire buildings,
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  Speaker 5: they shut down.
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  Speaker 4: Justification for the revocation of his visa? Was there any evident?
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  Speaker 5: So was the negotiator on it, negotiating on behalf of
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  Speaker 5: people that took over a campus, that vandalized buildings, negotiating
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  Speaker 5: over what that's a crime in and of itself that
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  Speaker 5: they're involved in, being the negotiator of the spokesperson this
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  Speaker 5: that and the other.
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  Speaker 2: We don't want it.
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  Speaker 5: We don't need these people in our country.
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  Speaker 2: That we don't need these people in our country. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Now you look at all the President Trump is doing
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  Speaker 1: and all the things that we're talking about here, and
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  Speaker 1: it goes back to what Donald Trump said in an
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  Speaker 1: interview recently. He said, simply put, we didn't need a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of new laws.
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  Speaker 2: We just needed a new president. He's not wrong.
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  Speaker 1: You secure the border in days after becoming president. There
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  Speaker 1: was a new laws passed.
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  Speaker 6: We have ninety nine percent improvement from Biden and that
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  Speaker 6: was his better y. You know, he started around the
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  Speaker 6: election working a little bit harder and they got a
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  Speaker 6: little bit better. Was horrible still, so we're comparing it
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  Speaker 6: to his best time, comparing it to the worst time.
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  Speaker 6: It's like it's not even you can't calculate it. How
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  Speaker 6: much better? So we have now the best border we've
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  Speaker 6: ever had, and we did that in.
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  Speaker 2: A period of five weeks. Pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 7: Actually, does that imply that we don't need to add
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  Speaker 7: a bunch of money and forces. In fact, maybe you
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  Speaker 7: could draw down or reappoint the force and manpower that's
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  Speaker 7: down there, and we don't need new laws and new money.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you don't need very many new laws because I
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  Speaker 6: did it without new laws. I did it twice without
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  Speaker 6: new laws. I had the best border ever. And now
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  Speaker 6: I think we're going to beat those numbers. Actually think
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  Speaker 6: these numbers might be slightly better, and we're going to
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  Speaker 6: get them better yet. And I said during the speech
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  Speaker 6: on Tuesday night, I said that you didn't need anything,
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  Speaker 6: you just needed a new president for that. I said,
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  Speaker 6: close the border, and they closed the border. He could
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  Speaker 6: have done the same thing. I think he wanted open borders.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know if he did, but somebody in there
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  Speaker 6: that ran the operation. Nobody really knows who was running it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's incredible, isn't it it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, really, it really is incredible.
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  Speaker 1: The president, what he's been able to do so quickly,
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  Speaker 1: Like this is not hard. It's just it's it's a
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  Speaker 1: simple issue of enforcing what's happening, Like you just enforce
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  Speaker 1: the laws.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. You enforce the laws that are on the books.
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  Speaker 1: And when you enforce those laws the way that he's
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  Speaker 1: clearly doing it now, then what happens. It's a huge
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  Speaker 1: victory for everyone. Again, it's not horror. And you notice
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  Speaker 1: how just calm and collected the president is when he's
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  Speaker 1: talking about it like we didn't need a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: different things.
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  Speaker 2: We need a new leadership.
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  Speaker 1: We need someone that actually did the job and and
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  Speaker 1: said we're going to stand up.
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  Speaker 2: For the American people.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to put the American people's safety and security
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  Speaker 1: first instead of putting it last. That's what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to do differently. And when you hear the President talk
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  Speaker 1: about the way that he has and you look at
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  Speaker 1: the results that we're talking about here, like the results
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  Speaker 1: that we're talking about here are incredible. National Security Advisor
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  Speaker 1: Mike Waltz talked about just the US launching these air
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  Speaker 1: strike that these are ramback Hooti rebels and Yemen, and
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  Speaker 1: again the media is angry that Donald Trump is taking
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  Speaker 1: out terrists, and listen to what he said.
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  Speaker 8: The difference is these were not kind of pen prick
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  Speaker 8: back and forth what ultimately proved to be effeckless attacks.
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  Speaker 8: This was an overwhelming response that actually targeted multiple hoothy
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  Speaker 8: leaders and took them out. And the difference here is
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  Speaker 8: one going after the hoo the leadership, and two holding
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  Speaker 8: Iran responsible. It is Iran that has repeatedly funded, resourced, trained,
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  Speaker 8: and helped the Hoothy's target not only US warships but
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  Speaker 8: global commerce, and has helped the houthis shut down two
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  Speaker 8: of the world's most strategic sea lanes.
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  Speaker 2: We have Martha.
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  Speaker 8: Seventy percent of global shipping is now diverting around Southern Africa,
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  Speaker 8: adding to the cost of goods, disrupting global economies, adding
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  Speaker 8: to or shutting off supplies to the United States. President
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  Speaker 8: Trump has founded unacceptable. What we inherited was a terrible situation,
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  Speaker 8: and this is one of what we'll be be a
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  Speaker 8: sustained effort to right that wrong and to reopen global commerce.
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  Speaker 1: This is the reason why the president has the highest
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  Speaker 1: approval rating of any president since two thousand and four.
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  Speaker 1: You go back to Marco Rubio and what he said
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  Speaker 1: about the same thing. Why are we going after these
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  Speaker 1: terrorists this way? By the way, this isn't preemptive, This
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  Speaker 1: isn't reaction too. And the media doesn't want you to
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  Speaker 1: understand it. They want you to think, oh, Donald Trump's
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  Speaker 1: just going rogue. Listen to Rubio.
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  Speaker 5: Well, first of all, the problem here is that this
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  Speaker 5: is a very important shipping lane, and in the last
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  Speaker 5: year and a half, last eighteen months, to who thies
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  Speaker 5: have struck or attacked one hundred and seventy four naval
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  Speaker 5: vessels of the United States, attacking the US Navy directly
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  Speaker 5: one hundred and seventy four times, and one hundred and
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  Speaker 5: forty five times they've attacked commercial shipping. So we basically
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  Speaker 5: have a band of pirates, you know, with guided precision
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  Speaker 5: anti ship weaponry and attracting a toll system and one
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  Speaker 5: of the most important shipping lanes in the world. That's
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  Speaker 5: just not sustainable. We are not going to have these
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  Speaker 5: people controlling which ships can go through and which ones cannot.
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  Speaker 5: And so your question is how long will this go on?
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  Speaker 5: It will go on until they no longer have the
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  Speaker 5: capability to do that.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what does US intelligence tell us at this point?
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  Speaker 4: Because the US had been conducting strikes for some time
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  Speaker 4: but has not stopped the hoo thies. So what's going
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  Speaker 4: to be different right now? Do you have more fidelity
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  Speaker 4: in the intelligence that would make this more successful.
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  Speaker 5: Well, those strikes were a retaliation strike, so they launched
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  Speaker 5: one missile, we hit the missile launcher, or we sent
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  Speaker 5: something to do. This is not a message, This is
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  Speaker 5: not a one off. This is an effort to deny
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  Speaker 5: them the ability to continue to constrict and control shipping.
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  Speaker 2: And this is not going to happen. We're not going to.
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  Speaker 5: Have these guys, these people with weapons able to tell
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  Speaker 5: us where our ships can go, where the ships of
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  Speaker 5: all the world can go. By the way, it's not
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  Speaker 5: just the US we're doing the world of favor. We're
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  Speaker 5: doing the entire world of favor by getting rid of
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  Speaker 5: these guys and their ability to strike global shipping. That's
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  Speaker 5: the mission here, and it will continue until that's carried out.
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  Speaker 5: That never happened before. The Biden administration didn't do that.
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  Speaker 5: All the Biden administration would do is they would respond
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  Speaker 5: to an attack. These guys would launch one rocket, We'd hit.
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  Speaker 2: The rocket launcher. That's it.
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  Speaker 5: This is an effort to take away their ability to
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  Speaker 5: control global shipping in that part of the world.
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  Speaker 2: That's just not going to happen anymore.
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  Speaker 5: And it could will continue until that's finished.
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  Speaker 4: It could involve ground raids.
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  Speaker 5: Well, those are military decisions to be made, but I've
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  Speaker 5: heard no talk of ground raids. I don't think there's
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  Speaker 5: a necessity for it right now. I can tell you
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  Speaker 5: that as of last night, some of the key people
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  Speaker 5: involved in those missile launches are no longer with US,
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  Speaker 5: and I can tell you that some of the facilities
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  Speaker 5: that they use are no longer existing and that will continue. Look,
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  Speaker 5: it's bottom line, an easy way to understand it. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: these guys are able to control what ships can go
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  Speaker 5: through there. They've attacked the US Navy one hundred and
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  Speaker 5: seventy four times. They've attacked the United States Navy. We're
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  Speaker 5: not going to have people sitting around with the missiles
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  Speaker 5: attacking the US Navy. It's not going to happen, not
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  Speaker 5: under President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Not under President Trump. What all this is about, Not
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  Speaker 1: under President Trump. And you go on the issue of
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  Speaker 1: border security, Trump, you just need a new president. Listen
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  Speaker 1: to Donald Trump in a new interview that he did
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  Speaker 1: talking about how America is getting ripped off. This goes
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  Speaker 1: back to again Donald Trump saying, I'm putting America first.
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  Speaker 6: Well, we as a country have been ripped off for
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  Speaker 6: years and years, decades and decades, and you've covered it
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  Speaker 6: on your show. I've seen it. Canada is a disaster
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  Speaker 6: for US. We lose close to two hundred billion dollars
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  Speaker 6: with Canada. Nobody did anything. Nobody says that with Canada
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  Speaker 6: that they charge our farmers think of this. They have
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  Speaker 6: for dairy products, some dairy products two hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 6: percent tariff. Nobody knows that.
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  Speaker 7: Nobody to trink that down to like common terms. So
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  Speaker 7: our farmers may have a product such as what and
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  Speaker 7: we sell it to Canada, and we want to.
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  Speaker 6: Sell milk into Canada, and they throw a two hundred
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  Speaker 6: and seventy percent price increase on the milk.
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  Speaker 7: Which means we don't have much of a market, which
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  Speaker 7: means we don't sell milk in Canada.
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  Speaker 6: It's almost it's called the monetary tariff. But they have
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  Speaker 6: a lot of non monetary tariffs too. There's things unrelated
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  Speaker 6: to you know, they'll have a standard that they'll say
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  Speaker 6: you didn't meet or something that's called the non monitory.
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  Speaker 7: So you put a tariff on what, for example, to
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  Speaker 7: try to counter the milk tariff.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I can put a tariff on anything, but in
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  Speaker 6: a case of Canada, I put it on steel and aluminum.
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  Speaker 7: They want to sell their stuff to us.
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  Speaker 6: We have a lot of tariffs that we're going to
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  Speaker 6: be putting on. It really hits on April second, and
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  Speaker 6: actually we've been very consistent. I think a lot of
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  Speaker 6: oh people are loving what I'm doing. The real business
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  Speaker 6: people are loving it. We're going to make America rich again.
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  Speaker 6: But we're going to have tariffs on automobiles. We're gonna
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  Speaker 6: have tariffs or on steel. We're going to have tariffs
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  Speaker 6: on aluminum and copper and many, many different things. And
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  Speaker 6: they're going to be very consistent, and I've been very consistent.
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  Speaker 6: I did give General Motors and are Big Three actually
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  Speaker 6: a month of relief because they would have had a
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  Speaker 6: very unfair disadvantage over other car makers, which I didn't want.
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  Speaker 2: So I did that.
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  Speaker 6: And I think there was something I did from the
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  Speaker 6: fact that you know, I want to take care of
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  Speaker 6: our car companies, but you have and you've been reading
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  Speaker 6: about it and seeing it. We have companies moving into
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  Speaker 6: the United States at levels that has never been seen before.
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  Speaker 6: We have many many car factories going up.
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  Speaker 7: If I understand it correctly, the benefits that would come
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  Speaker 7: from some of that may largely be down the road.
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  Speaker 6: Well, no, I think immediately, Look, when you're building those plants,
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: a lot of money comes in from those plants. You know,
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: you're using companies, subcontractors, contractors, concrete companies, and steel companies,
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  Speaker 6: and you can see it initially, but you're going to
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: see it more down the road when they open up.
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  Speaker 1: I love how they try it. Well, this may not
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: happen right away. No, no, it actually will actually will
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: happen right away. This is what winning sounds like. This
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: is what putting America first looks like. This is what
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: having a present that cares about America more than other countries.
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  Speaker 2: How many of you.
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  Speaker 1: Knew what he just said there about the milk the
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  Speaker 1: tariffs they put on milk, so it's impossible for us
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  Speaker 1: to sell milk to Canada because the tariff on it
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  Speaker 1: is so insane. When you hear that, he says, we're
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: getting ripped off by them. Like when you explain it
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: the way that he is explaining it, it's incredibly simple
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  Speaker 1: and easy.
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