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Dear Liberals, "HELL NO YOU CAN'T HAVE MY GAS STOVE!", PLUS MORE on Special Counsel Robert Hur · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Gas stoves. Yeah, they're controversial. Now. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you know this, but Democrats believe that you shouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: allowed to have one. Biden's consumers safety official has had
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  Speaker 1: to come out now and claim that he does not
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  Speaker 1: want to ban gas stoves after promoting it as a
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  Speaker 1: real possibility because of the backlash, saying also, he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: want to do it. However, okay, however, you're ready, it
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  Speaker 1: may be a necessity. The Biden administration is officially considering
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  Speaker 1: a ban on gas stoves in the US over concerns
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  Speaker 1: about alleged harmful quote air pollutants released from the appliances.
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  Speaker 1: According to a report, if you believe that I've got
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  Speaker 1: some really good stuff to sell you, the far reaching
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  Speaker 1: administration made this discovery quote by the US Consumer Product
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  Speaker 1: Safety Commission and their commissioner, who stated that gas stove
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  Speaker 1: appliances are a quote hidden hazard quote unquote. Any option
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  Speaker 1: is on the table quote products that can't be made
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  Speaker 1: safe can be banned. He stated that the agency was
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  Speaker 1: considering placing at mission standards on appliances if they can
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  Speaker 1: not ban the manufacturing or import of gas stoves. Bloomberg
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  Speaker 1: reported yesterday they went on to say that they had
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  Speaker 1: received significant backlash over the idea due to the approximately
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  Speaker 1: forty percent of the Americans who use gas stoves in
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  Speaker 1: their homes and the bureaucratic effort it would take to
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  Speaker 1: apply those changes could be tough. Representative Gary Palmer, a
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  Speaker 1: Republican from Alabama, said, over forty million American households use
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  Speaker 1: gas stoves. This type of power should never have been
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  Speaker 1: given to an unelected bureaucrat or bureaucrats in its time
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  Speaker 1: for it to end. He tweeted this in response to
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  Speaker 1: the idea from the Biden administration. After receiving heat from
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  Speaker 1: Palmer and others on social media, the Agency commissioner backtracked
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  Speaker 1: on the consideration, saying, quote, to be clear, the CPSC
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  Speaker 1: isn't coming for anyone's gas stoves. Regulations apply to new products.
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  Speaker 1: The Biden officials set in response, thanks for your interest.
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  Speaker 1: For Americans to choose quote to switch from gas to electric,
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  Speaker 1: there is support available. Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act,
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  Speaker 1: which includes an eight hundred and forty dollar rebate. So
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  Speaker 1: now we're bribing you to get off of fossil fuels.
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  Speaker 1: Now you understand what this is really all about. The
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  Speaker 1: Bloomberg Reports cited studies that indicate gas stoves emit toxins
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  Speaker 1: such as nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and fine particles at
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  Speaker 1: levels that are linked to respiratory illness, cardiovascular problems, cancer,
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  Speaker 1: and other health conditions. The studies were from the Instuite
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  Speaker 1: of Policy Integrity and the American Chemical Society. Recent peer
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  Speaker 1: review research also showed the twelve percent of childhood asthma
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  Speaker 1: case in the US were linked to gas stoves. The
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  Speaker 1: outlet noted Washington based trade group representing various gas manufacturers
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  Speaker 1: such as Whirlpool, is opposed to a nationwide ban on
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  Speaker 1: gas stoves, noting that any type of cooking stove or
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  Speaker 1: appliance will produce harmful at missions, they said, it's not
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  Speaker 1: the gas stove that's the problem. It's ventilation is really
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  Speaker 1: where the discussion should be. Rather than banning one particular
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  Speaker 1: type of technology, banning one type of cooking appliance is
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  Speaker 1: not going to address the concern about overall indoor air
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  Speaker 1: quality quote unquote. We may need some behavioral change. We
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  Speaker 1: may need people to turn on their hoods when cooking.
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  Speaker 1: Near the end of December, multiple Democrat represents and senator
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  Speaker 1: sent a letter to the chairman asking the agency to
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  Speaker 1: take action against gas stoves, setting black, Latino and low
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  Speaker 1: income households experienced disproportionate air pollution compared to other households.
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  Speaker 1: The letter, turning it into a racial issue, was sent
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  Speaker 1: by Corey Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Don Bayer, Ted lu and
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  Speaker 1: multiple other Democrat congressional members. I mean, I still have
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  Speaker 1: a hard time figuring this kind of crap out, I
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  Speaker 1: really do. It's just shocking to me that this is
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  Speaker 1: what they are working on. Like, they're really working on this.
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  Speaker 1: They spent time on this, they spent hours, They had
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  Speaker 1: meetings in washing in DC about all right, let's all
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  Speaker 1: sign on to this letter demanding this. It's just sad.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, for me, I'm really just shocked by it
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  Speaker 1: because I understand politics really well. I don't understand where
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  Speaker 1: they thought this was an upside. And then I realize
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  Speaker 1: I'm not dealing with rational people. They're trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out a way to ban fossil fuels, a natural gas
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  Speaker 1: coming to your house. If they can get rid of
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  Speaker 1: all those lines, that's a quote victory for them, right,
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  Speaker 1: Like this is a this is a big victory for them. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is a ventilation issue if anything, And there are still,
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  Speaker 1: as they said, things that air quality, things that get
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  Speaker 1: in the air, even if you are cooking on electricity,
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  Speaker 1: if you're burning something to smoke, if you are cooking
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  Speaker 1: on high heat. Right, the particles that go in the
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  Speaker 1: air from the pan, that go from the food while
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  Speaker 1: you're cooking, the oil or the butter that you're using,
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  Speaker 1: it's a ventilation issue. But they they didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: do that, right, They didn't want to talk about it
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  Speaker 1: from that perspective. They want to use it as an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to say, in America again, its supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: the freest country in the world, We're gonna ban your
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  Speaker 1: gas stove. A lot of people started putting up memes
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  Speaker 1: of their gas stove saying, my gas stove identifies as
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  Speaker 1: electric or come and take it now. I would laugh
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  Speaker 1: at this story two years ago. I probably wouldn't even
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  Speaker 1: spend the time talking about it. I might mention it
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  Speaker 1: as a in the you know, a bunch of idiots
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  Speaker 1: in Washington said this today. Right, I might do that, okay,
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  Speaker 1: but I sure as hell wouldn't spend ten minutes on it.
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  Speaker 1: But now I know what can happen because of the
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  Speaker 1: COVID lockdowns. I understand that people lost their jobs over
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  Speaker 1: not getting vaccinated. I understand that the entire country was
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  Speaker 1: shut down. I understand they shut down schools for years, businesses.
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  Speaker 1: They said you couldn't eat six feet apart from each other, right, remember,
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  Speaker 1: you couldn't eat with people from another household that didn't
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  Speaker 1: live with you. I mean, the insanity of the COVID
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  Speaker 1: regulations were truly out of control, and the things that
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  Speaker 1: they put on people that people complied with. Now, it's like,
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  Speaker 1: when this kind of stuff happens, you have to talk
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  Speaker 1: about it, and you have to rally the troops, and
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  Speaker 1: you have to explain why it's so crazy, because otherwise
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  Speaker 1: I do believe that things like this will a hundred
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  Speaker 1: percent come to reality. Or one day you're gonna wake up,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna be touring a house, or your stove's gonna
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  Speaker 1: go out and you're not gonna be able to buy
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  Speaker 1: a gas stove. Now you go back to the money,
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  Speaker 1: and it's always about following the money. They're like, well,
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  Speaker 1: there's an eight hundred and what was eight and forty
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  Speaker 1: dollars eight hundred and fifty dollar you know, moment here
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  Speaker 1: that you know, they said, well, you can't get your
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  Speaker 1: money in a rebate, so you'll put an electric I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is the President, Joe Biden's Consumer Product Safety Commissioner
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  Speaker 1: telling you that the reality is you just need to
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  Speaker 1: do this, and you need to do it, and if
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  Speaker 1: you don't do it, it's gonna you know, people are
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  Speaker 1: gonna die. That's what they're now always going with. I'll
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  Speaker 1: never give up my gas stove. Ronnie Jackson, Congressman said,
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  Speaker 1: if the Many Acts and the White House come to
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  Speaker 1: for my stove, they can pry it for my cold
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  Speaker 1: dead hands, come and take it. He tweeted, gas stoves
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  Speaker 1: for me, for me, but not for thee or. Another
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  Speaker 1: popular account lives of TikTok sharing photos of Democrats with
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  Speaker 1: gas stoves in their homes. One of them is Kamala Harris.
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  Speaker 1: Another one with them was Joe Biden cooking over gas.
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  Speaker 1: Another one is AOC cooking it with gas, and another
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  Speaker 1: one was Elizabeth Warren cooking with gas. All of these idiots,
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  Speaker 1: but hey for them, right, it's all about quote safety.
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  Speaker 1: To be clear, I'm not looking to ban gas stoves, right,
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  Speaker 1: I just am trying to get this air quality where
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  Speaker 1: it needs to be. The President does not support banning
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  Speaker 1: gas stoves, and the Consumer Products Safety Commission, which is independent,
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  Speaker 1: it is not banning gas stoves, the White House Press
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  Speaker 1: Secretary said during the Daily White House Press Briefing on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: after massive backlash, Usually they'll say these things. They'll float
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  Speaker 1: it and they won't stop, They'll keep going. That's how
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  Speaker 1: this usually works. This was, as I would describe it,
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  Speaker 1: phase one, right, I mean, I mean, really, that's what
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  Speaker 1: this is. This is phase one, and then they'll go
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  Speaker 1: into phase two. That's how this works. They float it,
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  Speaker 1: they kind of get a pulse. Then they figure out
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  Speaker 1: what people's reaction is, they figure out what people how
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  Speaker 1: they're going to respond to it. They then decide how
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  Speaker 1: they're going to really respond to it with the next phase.
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  Speaker 1: This is not going to end today. As my point,
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  Speaker 1: this is the beginning. If there's anything I know about Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: they play the long game. We've got new news on
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  Speaker 1: the documents. Foul o, my o, my, were these some
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  Speaker 1: pretty interesting documents, these documents, and as I mentioned yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: we have a special counsel that is going to be
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  Speaker 1: investigating the handling of these classified documents. By then, the
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  Speaker 1: Vice President Joe Biden. The Attorney General Garland assigned a
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  Speaker 1: special council to investigate it because now we have three
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  Speaker 1: locations that we know of where these documents were. The
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  Speaker 1: Attorney General announced his decision Thursday to appoint that special
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  Speaker 1: council to investigate Joe Biden after these classified documents from
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  Speaker 1: his time as the vice president and Barack Obama's administration
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  Speaker 1: were found in his possession, which he's not allowed to have.
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  Speaker 1: Garland said, I concluded that under the Special Council regulations,
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  Speaker 1: it was in the public interest to appoint a special counsel.
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  Speaker 1: He announced. The former years Attorney for Maryland, Robert Her,
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  Speaker 1: appointed by former President Trump to investigate Biden, is the man.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Her has a long and distinguished career as a prosecutor,
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  Speaker 1: Garland said, adding that I want sure that mister Her
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  Speaker 1: receives all the resources he needs to conduct his work.
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  Speaker 1: The Attorney General laid out the timeline for the Justice
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  Speaker 1: Department's handling of the investigation, revealing that the investigation was
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  Speaker 1: well underway before it was reported on Tuesday. Garland recounted
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  Speaker 1: that he was first notified a Biden's possession of classified
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  Speaker 1: documents on the evening of November the fourth, which were
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  Speaker 1: found by his quote lawyer in his office at Penn
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  Speaker 1: Biden Center. I don't buy that for a second. It's
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  Speaker 1: before the election. Man. In't amazing how that didn't leak out.
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  Speaker 1: On November the ninth, Garland revealed the FBI began an
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  Speaker 1: investigation as to whether classified information was found in Biden's
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  Speaker 1: possession had been illegally mishandled. Man. I sure did wait
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  Speaker 1: till the election day for that, didn't they. Garland also
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  Speaker 1: said that on November the fourteenth, wow, just right after
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  Speaker 1: the election, he assigned the US attorney to conduct an
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  Speaker 1: initial investigation of the present for the documents found at
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  Speaker 1: the Penn Biden Center. He also revealed that Joe Biden's
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  Speaker 1: attorney then notified them on December the twentieth, right before Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: about the classified documents found in his garage. Then the
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  Speaker 1: FBI was sent to secure those documents. President Joe Biden's counsel,
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  Speaker 1: Richards Saber set in a statement that Biden's possession of
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  Speaker 1: the classified documents was quote a mistake quote unquote, and
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  Speaker 1: that the documents were inadvertently misplaced quote unquote. We have
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  Speaker 1: cooperated fully with the Justice Department throughout its review, and
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  Speaker 1: we will continue to cooperate with the special counsel. He wrote.
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  Speaker 1: Now they're trying to say in their defense as well,
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  Speaker 1: we've done it right. That's what they're now saying. All right,
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  Speaker 1: we've done it right. We did all of it right. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so you need to give us like some credit for
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  Speaker 1: us doing it right. You should be proud of us
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  Speaker 1: for doing it right. We did this amazing thing. We
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  Speaker 1: did these documents the right way. There is no right
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  Speaker 1: way to do this, Okay, when you're not supposed to
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  Speaker 1: have classified documents and you've had them for years. If
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  Speaker 1: that is what you're now saying, your defense is, that's
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  Speaker 1: a bad defense. Now, the interesting point about the special
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  Speaker 1: Counsel Robert Herm is that we now know that he
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  Speaker 1: worked with Rob Rosenstein. The special counsel. You heard that
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  Speaker 1: he was appointed by Trump really doesn't mean anything, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: so you understand and center Ted Cruz and I talked
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  Speaker 1: about this yesterday. Donald Trump did not do a very
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  Speaker 1: good job of vetting the people he gave power to.
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  Speaker 1: A great example of that as Rob Rosenstein, who was
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  Speaker 1: actually given his power by Donald Trump, and then he
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  Speaker 1: became like the perfect deep state James Comey s guy,
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  Speaker 1: so he didn't take and his team didn't do adequate
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  Speaker 1: dives on the people before they gave them power, and
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  Speaker 1: that came back to bite them in the rear end,
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  Speaker 1: like for their entire presidency. So just because you hear
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  Speaker 1: that this special counsel Robert Hrr worked with Rod Rosenstein,
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  Speaker 1: does not with Donald Trump or was appointed by Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 1: you really shouldn't take a big sigh of relief from that,
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  Speaker 1: because again Rod Rosenstein, one of the worst deep staters ever,
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  Speaker 1: was given his power by Donald Trump and this guy
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  Speaker 1: worked for him. Now Robert Herr, appointed by Garland, also
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  Speaker 1: tells me that maybe he's you know, right of maybe
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  Speaker 1: left of center. Where Garland was not going to give
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  Speaker 1: you a hardcore conservative prosecutor, he did need to check
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  Speaker 1: a box so he could say, hey, look, I picked
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  Speaker 1: a guy that Trump picked. So everybody calmed down. But
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  Speaker 1: Garland's probe and a President Joe Biden's mishandling of the
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  Speaker 1: classified information, he had no choice because he just did
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  Speaker 1: this a Trump and it was among those at the
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  Speaker 1: Justice Department who had knowledge about the Russian hoax perpetrated
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  Speaker 1: on former President Donald Trump that we do know about
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  Speaker 1: Robert Herr. In fact, according to a Justice Department document,
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  Speaker 1: Listening carefully, her is a former DOJ official who quote handled,
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  Speaker 1: participated in, or had personal knowledge of the FBI's relationship
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  Speaker 1: and communications with Christopher Steele, who authored the infamous Steele
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  Speaker 1: dossier that paved the way for the Russian hoax and
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  Speaker 1: the impeachment of Donald Trump. This is the own Justice
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  Speaker 1: Department document that names her as one of those who handled,
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  Speaker 1: participated in, or had personal knowledge of the FBI's relationship
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  Speaker 1: and communication with Chris Steele. Robert Herr was also among
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  Speaker 1: those that not only were involved in that, but apparently
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  Speaker 1: we're involved in where the investigation went. So to recap
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  Speaker 1: for you, this newly appointed special Counsel, Robert Herr was
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  Speaker 1: a former Trump appointee. That's what Democrats want you to know.
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  Speaker 1: A US attorney, you also worked for Deputy Attorney General
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  Speaker 1: Rod Rosenstein during Robert Mueller's investigation, and also worked now
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  Speaker 1: under the FBI Director Ray at the DOJ. So if
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  Speaker 1: you think this guy is, you know, one of us,
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  Speaker 1: probably not. Her began his career by clerking for the
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  Speaker 1: late Chief Justice Rinquist after graduating from Harvard and Stanford.
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  Speaker 1: Her was then hired as the principal Associate Deputy Attorney General,
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  Speaker 1: serving as the top aide to Rod Rosenstein, the mastermind
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  Speaker 1: behind impeachment of Donald Trump and the investigation the Russian Doskier.
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  Speaker 1: When they knew the entire time they were investigating it
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  Speaker 1: that it was user generated from the Democratic National Committee
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  Speaker 1: and Hillary Clinton's campaign, they knew it was a lie.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't real. So he served as the top aide
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  Speaker 1: to Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General under President Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Before that, he'd also been special assistant to Christopher Ray,
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  Speaker 1: who was leading to Justice Department's criminal investigation at the time,
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  Speaker 1: and went on to become the FBI director. All of this,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, according to Washington Post liberal newspaper, Rosenstein
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  Speaker 1: announced her appointment press release, praising him as having experience
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  Speaker 1: and judgment that will advance our effort to deter crime,
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  Speaker 1: promote the rule of law, and ensure equal justice for everyone.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty eighteen, two years into his presidency, Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: nominated her to lead the Maryland unanimously confirmed by the
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  Speaker 1: Senate in March of that year. Under her direction at
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  Speaker 1: the Maryland US Attorney's Office, he brought and resolved charges
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  Speaker 1: for corruption and are fraught against dozens of elected officials,
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  Speaker 1: public officeholders, and public employees. Again this according to the
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  Speaker 1: Justice Department's press release. During her service the Maryland US
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  Speaker 1: Attorney's Office was reportedly one of the busiest in the nation.
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  Speaker 1: He prosecuted a case of a former National Security Agency
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  Speaker 1: contractor who allegedly stole classified information from the federal government.
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  Speaker 1: The theft was reportedly the largest of classified documents in
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  Speaker 1: US history, So he has a lot of you know,
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  Speaker 1: experience with classified doubt document cases. And just in February
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  Speaker 1: of last year, her to part of the US Attorney's
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  Speaker 1: Office and joined the Global legal office of Gibson, Dunn
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  Speaker 1: and Crutcher, which handles white collar crime issues and regulatory matters.
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  Speaker 1: The law firm employees eighteen hundred lawyers and twenty offices
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  Speaker 1: of major cities throughout the United States of America, Europe,
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  Speaker 1: and the Middle East, Asia South Africa. Its website states
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  Speaker 1: HER's appointment as a special prosecutor on Thursday comes as
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  Speaker 1: Republicans have slam Biden's double standard of justice. Two weeks
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  Speaker 1: after Biden's classified documents were unearthed at the Penn Biden center,
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  Speaker 1: Garland named special council to investigate Trump, not Biden. So
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  Speaker 1: again they named a special prosecutor to investigate Trump, two
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  Speaker 1: weeks after they knew that these documents have been found
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  Speaker 1: at the University of Penn. So if you don't think
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  Speaker 1: the game's rigged and fixed, you're an idiot. The Attorney General,
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  Speaker 1: Merrick Garland, who knew about it, actually named a special
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  Speaker 1: counsel not to investigate Biden, but to investigate Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Garland now forced into a corner. He was forced into
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  Speaker 1: a corner as he made the announcement. Now a lot
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  Speaker 1: of you did not get to hear that announcement, and
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  Speaker 1: I want to play it for you, and you can
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  Speaker 1: hear just in the voice of Garland. It was basically
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  Speaker 1: like a hostage video. This happened yesterday mid morning round
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  Speaker 1: what time was it, rounds noon, eleven forty five, And
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  Speaker 1: this is the official announcement coming from the Department of Justice.
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  Speaker 1: No questions asked afterwards. So you understand and listen carefully
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  Speaker 1: of the timeline. And here they could have disclosed as
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  Speaker 1: to you before the midterm elections, and they deliberately chose
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  Speaker 1: not to because they knew that it could effect the elections.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen again the announcement from Garland appointing Robert
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  Speaker 1: her as a special counsel for the Biden documents. Now
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  Speaker 1: three different locations that we know of where these documents
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  Speaker 1: have been found. I'm here today to announce the appointment
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  Speaker 1: of Robert Her as a special council pursuing a Department
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  Speaker 1: of Justice regulations governing such matters. In keeping with those regulations,
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  Speaker 1: I have today notified the designated members of each House
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  Speaker 1: of Congress of the appointment. I'm joined today by John Lausch,
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  Speaker 1: the US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, who
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  Speaker 1: conducted the initial investigation into the matter that I will
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  Speaker 1: describe today. On the evening of November fourth, twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: the National Archives Office of Inspector General contacted a prosecutor
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  Speaker 1: at the Department of Justice. It informed him that the
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  Speaker 1: White House had notified the Archives that documents bearing classification
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  Speaker 1: markings were identified at the office of the Penn Biden
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  Speaker 1: Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, located in Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 1: That office was not authorized for storage or classified at documents.
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  Speaker 1: The prosecutor was also advised that those documents had been
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  Speaker 1: secured in an archives facility. On November ninth, the FBI
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  Speaker 1: commenced an assessment consistent with standard protocols to understand whether
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  Speaker 1: classified information had been mishandled in violation of federal law.
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  Speaker 1: On November fourteenth, pursuant to Section six hundred point two
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  Speaker 1: B of the Special Council Regulations, I assigned US Attorney
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  Speaker 1: Laosche to conduct an initial investigation to inform my decision
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  Speaker 1: whether to appoint a special counsel. Mister Laosche has served
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  Speaker 1: as the US attorney in Chicago since twenty seventeen. Before that,
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  Speaker 1: he spent more than a decade as an assistant US
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  Speaker 1: attorney in that same office. I selected him to conduct
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  Speaker 1: the initial investigation because I was confident his experience would
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  Speaker 1: ensure that it would be done professionally and expeditiously. On
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  Speaker 1: December twentieth, President Biden's personal counsel informed mister Laoch that
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  Speaker 1: additional documents bearing classification markings were identified in the garage
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  Speaker 1: of the President's private residence in Wilmington, Delaware. President Biden's
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  Speaker 1: counsel informed mister Looch that those documents were among other
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  Speaker 1: records from the period of the President's service as Vice President.
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  Speaker 1: The FBI went to the location and secured those documents.
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  Speaker 1: On January fifth, twenty twenty three, mister Lousch brief me
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  Speaker 1: on the results of his initial investigation and advised me
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  Speaker 1: that further investigation by a special counsel was warranted. Based
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  Speaker 1: on mister Lousch's initial investigation, I concluded that under the
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  Speaker 1: special Council regulations, it was in the public interests to
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  Speaker 1: appoint a special council. In the days since, while mister
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  Speaker 1: Lousch continued the investigation, the Department identified mister her for
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  Speaker 1: appointment as special counsel. This morning, President Biden's Personal council
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  Speaker 1: called mister Loosch and stated that an additional document bearing
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  Speaker 1: classification markings was identified at the President's personal residence in Wilmington, Delaware.
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  Speaker 1: When I first contacted mister Lousch about this matter, he
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  Speaker 1: said he could lead the initial investigation, but would be
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  Speaker 1: unable to accept any longer term assignment because he would
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  Speaker 1: be leaving the Department in early twenty twenty three for
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  Speaker 1: the private sector. US Attorney Lausch and his team of
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  Speaker 1: prosecutors and agents have conducted this initial investigation with professionalism
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  Speaker 1: and speed. I am grateful to them. Earlier today, I
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  Speaker 1: signed an order appointing Robert Herr a Special Council for
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  Speaker 1: the matter I just described. The document authorizes him to
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  Speaker 1: investigate whether any person or entity violated the law in
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  Speaker 1: connection with this matter. The Special Council will not be
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  Speaker 1: subject to the day to day supervision of any official
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  Speaker 1: of the Department, but he must comply with the regulations, procedures,
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  Speaker 1: and policies of the Department. Mister Herr has a long
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  Speaker 1: and distinguished career as a prosecutor. In two thousand and three,
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  Speaker 1: he joined the Department's Criminal Division, or he worked on
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  Speaker 1: counter terrorism, corporate fraud, and appellate matters. From two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and seven until twenty fourteen, mister Hurr served as an
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  Speaker 1: Assistant US Attorney for the District of Maryland, where he
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  Speaker 1: prosecuted matters ranging from violent crime to financial fraud. In
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, mister Hurr rejoined the Department as the Principal
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  Speaker 1: Associate Deputy Attorney General. In twenty eighteen, he was nominated
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  Speaker 1: and confirmed to serve as a US Attorney for the
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  Speaker 1: District of Maryland. As US attorney, he supervised some of
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  Speaker 1: the departments more important national security, public corruption, and other
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  Speaker 1: high profile matters. I will ensure that mister Hurr receives
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  Speaker 1: all the resources he needs to conduct his work. As
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  Speaker 1: I have said before, I strongly believe that the normal
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  Speaker 1: processes of this Department can handle all investigations with integrity,
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  Speaker 1: but under the regulations, the extraordinary circumstances here require the
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  Speaker 1: appointment of a special counsel for this matter. This appointment
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  Speaker 1: underscores for the public the Department's commitment to both independence
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  Speaker 1: and accountability and particularly sensitive matters, and to making decisions
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  Speaker 1: indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. I
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  Speaker 1: am confident that mister Herr will carry out his responsibility
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  Speaker 1: in an even handed and urgent manner and in an
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  Speaker 1: accordance with the highest traditions of this department. Thank you all.
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  Speaker 1: The President about this investigation service nothing. He didn't answer
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  Speaker 1: that question, Have you ever spoken to president about this investigation?
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  Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you answer that question because you don't want
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  Speaker 1: people to know the answer, which is I'm sure that
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  Speaker 1: he absolutely has spoken to the President about this. The
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  Speaker 1: media also doing their job really well. I mean, they're
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  Speaker 1: doing one hell of a job. The media has been
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  Speaker 1: just really focused on explaining that there is a friends
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  Speaker 1: between Donald Trump and Joe Biden and these documents that
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump did it wrong, Joe Biden did it right,
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  Speaker 1: and they're falling all over themselves to sell you this crap.
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  Speaker 1: Listen from MSNBC just this morning. You're baker. We've been
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  Speaker 1: pointing that out this morning and all week, just cataloging
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  Speaker 1: the differences in these two cases. Chief among the differences
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  Speaker 1: being that the Biden white House appears to have immediately
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  Speaker 1: handed these documents over to the National Archives when they
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  Speaker 1: were discovered, rather than obstructing the way Donald Trump and
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  Speaker 1: his aids did. But as you talk to your sources
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  Speaker 1: in and around the White House, first of all, why
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  Speaker 1: did it take so long for the public to learn
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  Speaker 1: about this. It was only a media report that discovered this.
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  Speaker 1: And how big of a problem do they view this
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  Speaker 1: to be? Yeah, I think that's right. Look at very
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  Speaker 1: different than the Trump case. There does not appear, as
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  Speaker 1: everybody has said, to be a willful obstruction in the
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  Speaker 1: same way that we have been talking about in mar Lago.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't mean there aren't important questions, and you're right
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  Speaker 1: to raise one of them. They discover these first documents
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  Speaker 1: on November. The second I was six days or the
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  Speaker 1: midterm elections. They did not tell the public about it.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't tell the public about it, as Christian reported,
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  Speaker 1: until this week, when they had no choice because the
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  Speaker 1: media was going to report. In fact, when the media
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  Speaker 1: reported on the first batch of documents on Monday, the
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  Speaker 1: White House confirmed it, but didn't mention that they had
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  Speaker 1: already by that point found a second batch of documents.
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  Speaker 1: They only acknowledged that when there was a new media
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  Speaker 1: reporting on that. So they'll tell you that. The reason
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  Speaker 1: why is they didn't want to sort of put this
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  Speaker 1: out in piece meal. They didn't want to be litigating
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  Speaker 1: this in the press while there was still a question
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  Speaker 1: about whether they would be a special counsel. They had
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  Speaker 1: hoped that perhaps Jack Laus, the US Tourney who was
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  Speaker 1: considering this matter for Mary Carlow, would not recommend a
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  Speaker 1: special counsel, and so they didn't want to make it
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  Speaker 1: a public issue. But that raised is still a lot
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  Speaker 1: of questions because obviously, when you talk about transparency, two
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  Speaker 1: months went by when they didn't say anything, particularly before
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  Speaker 1: mid term, they knew it would have been damaging and
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  Speaker 1: Democrats had to come out. I mean the way that
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  Speaker 1: they will just lie to your face. White House say
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  Speaker 1: anything on Biden documents because they knew it would have
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  Speaker 1: been damaging for Dems in the mid terms. They tell
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  Speaker 1: you that, all right, Well they lied to you for
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  Speaker 1: that and they didn't say anything. It's amazing. No one
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  Speaker 1: leaked this, right, No one leaked this. That's insane. We
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  Speaker 1: now know that NBC News is saying, all right, multiple
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  Speaker 1: people have been interviewed by the FBI, like this is
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  Speaker 1: a big deal. Well, Andrew, we're learning. My colleague Mike
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  Speaker 1: Memily and I are reporting that as part of this
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  Speaker 1: Justice Apartment review of the classified documents in President Biden's possession,
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  Speaker 1: they've interviewed multiple Biden staffers, those who worked for him
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  Speaker 1: in those closing days of his time as vice president,
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  Speaker 1: including Kathy Chung, who had served as executive assistant to
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  Speaker 1: the President, who's described to us as somebody who would
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  Speaker 1: have had a key role in packing up those boxes
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  Speaker 1: in those final days of President Biden's term as vice president. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what we're told is that those who have been interviewed
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  Speaker 1: they did so when they were asked to be interviewed
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  Speaker 1: by federal law enforcement, that they agreed to do so quickly.
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  Speaker 1: And that those who were involved in packing up the
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  Speaker 1: former vice presidents now president's vice presidential office were not
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  Speaker 1: they were just putting things in boxes, that there was
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  Speaker 1: no intent here, that they weren't looking and seeing what
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  Speaker 1: exactly was in these papers, that they weren't intentionally putting
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  Speaker 1: classified documents among commingled with the president's political and personal documents.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, everything's fine, right, Like we know that the
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  Speaker 1: FBI's interviewed multiple people, but look, all of it adds up.
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  Speaker 1: He's just a really nice guy and these people just
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  Speaker 1: made a genuine mistake and really thing, really, everything is
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  Speaker 1: okay here, nothing's wrong. How many of you are going
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  Speaker 1: to just buy this and say, yep, it is different
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  Speaker 1: because they keep telling you it's different. Donald Trump's the
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  Speaker 1: worst person in the world. Donald Trump's the way he
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  Speaker 1: did it as completely the opposite of how we did it,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what the media is selling. You. Please share
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  Speaker 1: this with your fa ami and friends and I'll see
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  Speaker 1: you back here tomorrow.