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Democrats Escalate Race Rhetoric Over SAVE Act plus Iran puts Strait of Hormuz on Edge · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The Save Act fight is heating up in Washington right now,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to get you an update on exactly
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: where we are. Democrats right now are feeling the pressure
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  Speaker 1: because one thing is very clear, the American people are
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  Speaker 1: not divided on this issue the way that the politicians
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  Speaker 1: are in Washington, d C. The Save Act is actually
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  Speaker 1: something that's really simple. Proof of US citizenship to register
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  Speaker 1: to vote that is not controversial based on the poll numbers.
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  Speaker 1: Stronger verification systems using federal databases that is also not controversial,
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  Speaker 1: and enforcement measures to prevent non citizens illegal immigrants from
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  Speaker 1: voting that is also not controversial with the American voter. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this again has already passed the House, but is stalled
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  Speaker 1: in the Senate. That could be changing. Democrats are now
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  Speaker 1: in a full court press to try to stop the
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  Speaker 1: Save Act at all costs.
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  Speaker 2: It's real simple.
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  Speaker 1: They want to cheat in elections, and they don't want
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  Speaker 1: you to have to actually show an ID to cheat.
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  Speaker 1: They want you to be able to do mail in
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  Speaker 1: ballots for people that maybe even don't even know they're registered,
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  Speaker 1: or for people that have already died.
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  Speaker 2: Because cheating is their thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's what the Democratic Party is advocating for it's certainly
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  Speaker 1: not what the American people want. And if you criticize
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  Speaker 1: Democrats right now, they're going back to their old playbook.
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  Speaker 1: Representative Jim Cliburn saying this on CNN about the Save.
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  Speaker 3: Act, to say You Act, for instance, it's nothing of
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  Speaker 3: a throwback to those laws that were passed after reconstruction
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  Speaker 3: that made it impossible after the American get elected. And
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  Speaker 3: if to say a fact becomes law, it will reduced
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  Speaker 3: dramatically the number of African Americans are started a servant
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  Speaker 3: in the Congress, and I think what we need to
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  Speaker 3: do is spend our time working on saving this democracy
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  Speaker 3: that some people seem to want to throw it into the.
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  Speaker 1: Ditch, unchallenged by seeing n there that propaganda. Not only
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  Speaker 1: did the congressmen say that we're going back to Jim
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  Speaker 1: Crow laws where African Americans can't vote all because proof
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  Speaker 1: of US and citizenship to register to vote apparently is
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  Speaker 1: too much to ask of any American, especially African Americans.
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  Speaker 1: How condescending and racist is that coming from the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 1: But then he went a step further saying we wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have black people in Congress.
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  Speaker 2: So let me get this straight.
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  Speaker 1: You can fill out the paperwork to run for Congress,
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  Speaker 1: you can then get elected to Congress. But that same
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  Speaker 1: congress person you cannot expect them to show proof of
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  Speaker 1: US citizenship, the same citizenship they have to prove to
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  Speaker 1: be a member of Congress to register to vote. That
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  Speaker 1: is how lost and how far they're stretched in the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Party right now now. Republicans this week are pushing
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  Speaker 1: to pass the Save Act or attach it to must
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  Speaker 1: pass legislation. Democrats they're blocking it in the Senate, largely
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  Speaker 1: through the filibuster, meaning it needs sixty votes to move forward.
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  Speaker 1: This has turned the bill into one of the biggest
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  Speaker 1: political standoffs in DC, probably for the rest of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Now there's a lot of questions about what's going to
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  Speaker 1: happen moving forward. I want you to listen to what
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  Speaker 1: Mike Lee had to say on Fox News Channel. This
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  Speaker 1: is Senator Mike Lee talking to Laura Ingram explaining what
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  Speaker 1: we may have to do and what we don't have
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  Speaker 1: to do to get this passed.
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  Speaker 4: So again, he doesn't have the votes, doesn't have sixty votes.
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  Speaker 4: What do you need to change the rule here and
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  Speaker 4: enforce the talking filibuster?
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  Speaker 5: Do you need to change a rule no rule change
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  Speaker 5: is required. No rule change whatsoever is required. And I
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  Speaker 5: cannot emphasize this enough, Laura. This is entirely within the
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  Speaker 5: Senate rules. In fact, this has been something that has
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  Speaker 5: been part of the Senate's culture since seventeen eighty nine,
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  Speaker 5: since the moment the Senate was created and it sprang
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  Speaker 5: into existence. This is something that we can do without
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  Speaker 5: changing a single rule or a single precedent, and it's
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  Speaker 5: something that we must do in this instance. Look, the
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  Speaker 5: zombie filibuster, as I refer to it is the filibuster
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  Speaker 5: that we allow that allows people to have the benefits
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  Speaker 5: of the filibuster without doing anything. They could be asleep,
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  Speaker 5: they can be at a bar, they can be on
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  Speaker 5: some Caribbean island drinking drinks with umbrellas. And but that
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  Speaker 5: is not a procedure that we have to allow here,
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  Speaker 5: not on this bill, not where the fate of the
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  Speaker 5: Republic is on the line, not where the will and
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  Speaker 5: wish of eighty five percent of the American people are
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  Speaker 5: aligned with this.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to do it now. As of last week,
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  Speaker 2: I don't doubt.
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  Speaker 5: That he had doubts about his support for the Talking fellowbuster.
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  Speaker 2: It's still not too late.
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  Speaker 5: We can still do it, and we must do it.
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  Speaker 2: It's not too late, and we must do it.
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  Speaker 1: That, by the way, is exactly what the American people
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  Speaker 1: are saying, and also what Donald Trump is saying. President
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  Speaker 1: Trump has made this a top priority, the White House says,
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  Speaker 1: and he said passing the Save Act supersedes everything else.
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  Speaker 1: In an interview with ABC News, Trump even warned that
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  Speaker 1: he may refuse to sign other legislation until the Save
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  Speaker 1: Act is passed. His core message to the American people
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  Speaker 1: is simple. Only citizens should vote. Proof should be required
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  Speaker 1: an election. Integrity must be restored. Having just come back
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  Speaker 1: from Israel, I want to paint you a picture. It's midnight,
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  Speaker 1: sirens are blearing, and you have only seconds to grab
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  Speaker 1: your child and run.
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  Speaker 2: Now imagine your elderly. Your legs don't work like they
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  Speaker 2: used to.
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  Speaker 1: Getting downstairs feels impossible, and after all of that, you
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  Speaker 1: end up in a bomb shelter for hours, even days,
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  Speaker 1: because you can't make the trek again. This is what's
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  Speaker 1: happening across Israel as Operation Epic Fury continues. Children are
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  Speaker 1: being traumatized, families are just exhausted, and homes have been destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews
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  Speaker 1: is there on the ground bringing food, emergency equipment, care
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  Speaker 1: for those children, and help for the elderly, and supplying
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  Speaker 1: the bomb shelters and medical centers for critically needed essentials.
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  Speaker 1: If you've ever wondered what it looks like to stand
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  Speaker 1: for Israel and stand for good against evil, this is it.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why I'm asking to now please Act, give
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  Speaker 2: That's IFCJ dot org.
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  Speaker 1: Now I go back to the polling numbers, and that's
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  Speaker 1: where this gets really interesting. Now, what we know is
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  Speaker 1: the more the American people learn about the Save Act,
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  Speaker 1: the more they're actually in favor of it. Eighty three
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  Speaker 1: to eighty four percent of Americans support requiring photo ID
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  Speaker 1: two vote. That is the highest that we have on record.
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  Speaker 1: That also, by the way, in the breakdown includes seventy
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  Speaker 1: one percent of Democratic voters who say they want voter
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  Speaker 1: id to vote ninety five percent. By the way, Republicans
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  Speaker 1: say the same thing. When it comes to proof of citizenship,
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  Speaker 1: eighty three percent of American support requiring proof of citizenship
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  Speaker 1: to even register to vote. Around seventy five percent of
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  Speaker 1: Americans support proof of citizenship requirements in a newer poll,
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  Speaker 1: meaning the numbers are going up.
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  Speaker 2: The Save Act.
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  Speaker 1: The specific support for the Save Act, more than seven
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  Speaker 1: out of ten Americans say they support the Save Act overall,
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  Speaker 1: sixty nine percent of independent support it, and even roughly
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  Speaker 1: half of Democrats say they support the exact language in
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  Speaker 1: the Save Act. Now, there is a broader election integrity
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  Speaker 1: sentiment here as well. Eighty plus percent of voter say
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  Speaker 1: election security rules should be consistent nationwide. That's exactly what
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  Speaker 1: the Save Act does when it comes to our federal elections.
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  Speaker 1: And eighty percent support removing non citizens from the voter roles.
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  Speaker 1: The question I ask is who's in the twenty percent
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  Speaker 1: that don't want to remove non citizens from voter roles. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you look at the Democratic opposition in what they're
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  Speaker 1: saying right now, despite all the numbers, despite all the facts,
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  Speaker 1: despite everything I just told you, Democrats who are in
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  Speaker 1: office strongly say they' supposed this bill at all costs.
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  Speaker 1: You heard James Clyburn say it's a voter suppression of
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  Speaker 1: black people. They argue requiring documents will make it harder
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  Speaker 1: for low income Americans as well as seniors and of
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  Speaker 1: course minority voters playing the race card. They also say
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  Speaker 1: that this bill is unnecessary. They say non citizens voting
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  Speaker 1: is already illegal. Well, guess what it happens, and you
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  Speaker 1: can register to vote without showing proof of citizenship. That
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  Speaker 1: makes no sense at all. And they also say there's
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  Speaker 1: very little evidence to actually see that there's some sort
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  Speaker 1: of major scam going on. Yes, Democrats are admitting that
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  Speaker 1: there are some that are scamming the system. Now, there's
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  Speaker 1: been strong rhetoric from the leadership in the last twenty
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  Speaker 1: four hours. For example, Senator Chuck Schumer has called the
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  Speaker 1: bill Jim Crow two point zero. Yet again, other Democrats
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  Speaker 1: are arguing it could disenfranchise They say millions of Democrats especially,
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  Speaker 1: They say those without easy access to documents like passports
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  Speaker 1: or birth certificates. Another racist statement for the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 1: So here is where we move next. Republicans and John
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  Speaker 1: Thune are trying to figure out how do they get
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  Speaker 1: this to be voted on quickly. How do they make
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  Speaker 1: sure that this happens in a way where Republicans can win,
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  Speaker 1: the President can get it, and most importantly, the American
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  Speaker 1: people get what they demand, which is a free and
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  Speaker 1: fair election without illegal immigrants canceling out anyone's vote. President
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump struck a confident and really an aggressive tone
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  Speaker 1: today when speaking with reporters about the ongoing war with Iran,
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  Speaker 1: while also signaling some strategic shifts as well. He has
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  Speaker 1: called this plan a massive success. Trump emphasizing the US
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  Speaker 1: campaign is working, Highlighting the scale of operations. He said
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  Speaker 1: the US has had over seven thousand targets inside of Iran.
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  Speaker 1: He also claimed Iran's military capabilities had been obliterated and
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  Speaker 1: pointed to a ninety to ninety five percent reduction in
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  Speaker 1: missile and drone attacks coming out of Iran. His message
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  Speaker 1: to the American people in the world was this, the
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  Speaker 1: US is dominating militarily and weakening Iran fast the present
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  Speaker 1: in his own words, saying this about well Iran and
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  Speaker 1: their military.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you very much for being here.
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  Speaker 7: We have a wonderful group of very very smart, talented
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  Speaker 7: patriots at this table. Our powerful military campaign to end.
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  Speaker 7: The threats posed by the Iranian regime continued in full force.
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  Speaker 6: Over the past few days.
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  Speaker 7: They have been literally obliterated. The air force is gone,
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  Speaker 7: the navy is gone, many many ships have been sunk.
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  Speaker 7: Their war fighting ships, but I guess they didn't know
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  Speaker 7: how to use them, and anti aircraft is decimated, their
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  Speaker 7: radar is gone, and their leaders are gone.
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  Speaker 6: Other than that, they're doing quite well. They've been a terraff.
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  Speaker 7: For forty seven years and now I guess the world
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  Speaker 7: through the United States, with the help of Israel, is
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  Speaker 7: doing what should have been done many years ago. Should
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  Speaker 7: have been done many years ago. Since the beginning of
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  Speaker 7: the conflict, we've struck more than seven thousand targets across Iran,
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  Speaker 7: and these have been mostly commercial and military targets. We've
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  Speaker 7: achieved a ninety percent reduction in their ballistic missile launches
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  Speaker 7: and a ninety five percent reduction in drone attacks. The
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  Speaker 7: missiles are trickling in now at very low levels because.
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  Speaker 6: They don't have too many missiles left.
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  Speaker 7: We've also attacked the manufacturing plants where the places where
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  Speaker 7: they manufacture the missiles and the drones, and that's going
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  Speaker 7: on today. We just hit three of them today, it's
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  Speaker 7: getting very hard for them to manufacture. More than one
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  Speaker 7: hundred Iranian naval vessels have been sunk or destroyed over
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  Speaker 7: the last week and a half.
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  Speaker 6: It has to be some kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of a record now.
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  Speaker 1: After the President gave that generic update on where we
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  Speaker 1: are now with Iran, he also went into some of
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  Speaker 1: the core issues at hand. One of them is about
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  Speaker 1: the Strait of Horn moves the present talking about our
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  Speaker 1: allies and how important is they come and help on
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  Speaker 1: this issue to make sure that the oil disruption does
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  Speaker 1: not take place for an extended period of time, and
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  Speaker 1: that would mean securing the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 7: Muring their capacity to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait
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  Speaker 7: of Hormos. With more than thirty mine laying ships destroyed,
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  Speaker 7: we hit, to the best of our knowledge, all of
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  Speaker 7: their mind laying ships. Now they can put them on
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  Speaker 7: other types of ships, I guess, and drop them in,
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  Speaker 7: But we don't know that any have even been dropped in.
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  Speaker 7: We're not sure that any have been. That's a big
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  Speaker 7: negative for them. If they do it, it's a form
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  Speaker 7: of suicide. But we don't know that they have dropped any.
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  Speaker 7: But we've hit all thirty of their ships and destroyed them.
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  Speaker 6: They're all at the bottom of the sea.
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  Speaker 7: We strongly encourage other nations whose economies depend on the
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  Speaker 7: Strait far more than ours. You know, we get less
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  Speaker 7: than one percent of our oil from the Strait, and
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  Speaker 7: some countries get much more. Japan gets ninety five percent,
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  Speaker 7: China gets ninety percent, many of the Europeans.
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  Speaker 6: Get quite a bit.
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  Speaker 7: South Korea gets thirty five percent. So we want them
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  Speaker 7: to come and help us with the Strait. We have
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  Speaker 7: it in very good shape. The countries I said, we've
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  Speaker 7: already taken care of Iran, but now because of the
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  Speaker 7: fact that literally a single terrorist can put something in
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  Speaker 7: the water, or shoot something, or shoot a missile, a
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  Speaker 7: small missile, and it's fairly close range because it is
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  Speaker 7: a tight area, and which is one of the reasons
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  Speaker 7: they've always used that as a weapon. Iran has always
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  Speaker 7: used that as an economic weapon, and it's not going
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  Speaker 7: to be able to be used very long. Numerous countries
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  Speaker 7: have told me they're on the way. Some are very
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  Speaker 7: enthusiastic about it, and some are in summer countries that
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  Speaker 7: we've helped.
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  Speaker 6: For many, many years.
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  Speaker 7: We've protected them from horrible outside sources, and they weren't
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  Speaker 7: that enthusiastic, and the level of enthusiasm it matters to me.
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  Speaker 6: We have some.
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  Speaker 7: Countries where we have forty five thousand soldiers, great soldiers,
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  Speaker 7: protecting them from harm's way, and we have done a
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  Speaker 7: great job. And when we want to know, do you
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  Speaker 7: have any mind sweepers, well, would rather not get involved, Sir,
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  Speaker 7: I said, for you mean, for forty years, we're protecting you,
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  Speaker 7: and you don't want to get involved in something that
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  Speaker 7: is very minor, very few shots going to be taken,
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  Speaker 7: because they don't have many shots left.
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  Speaker 6: But they said, we'd rather not get involved.
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  Speaker 7: I just want the fake news media and everybody else
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  Speaker 7: to remember that that was said, because when I've been
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  Speaker 7: a big critic of all of the.
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  Speaker 6: Protecting of countries, because.
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  Speaker 7: I know that we'll protect them and if ever needed,
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  Speaker 7: if we haven't needed help, they won't be there for us.
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  Speaker 7: I've just known that for a long period of time,
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  Speaker 7: just like I knew about the Strait that it would
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  Speaker 7: be a weapon, which I predicted a long time ago,
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: predicted all of this stuff. You guys were very generous
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  Speaker 7: in that I predicted all of it.
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  Speaker 1: the Oval Office.
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  Speaker 1: He was also asked this question by Fox News Channel
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  Speaker 1: about the Democrats coming after him, saying that he didn't
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: realize that Iran would retaliate against the Gulf States.
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  Speaker 8: You were talking about Iran a couple times to day
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  Speaker 8: and what they did after epic theory began. He said,
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: they hit Culur, Saudi Arabia, Ua, Bahrain, pot. Nobody expected
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  Speaker 8: that we were shot. Are you surprised that nobody briefed
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  Speaker 8: you ahead of time that that might be their re telling?
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  Speaker 9: Nobody, nobody, no, no, no, no, the greatest express somebody
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  Speaker 9: thought they were going to hit.
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  Speaker 10: They were I wouldn't say.
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  Speaker 9: Friendly countries, they were like neutral that were They lived
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  Speaker 9: with them for years, Peter. They were going to take
• 19:38
  Speaker 9: over the Middle East. They were going to knock out
• 19:40
  Speaker 9: Israel with their nuclear weapon. But after we knocked out
• 19:43
  Speaker 9: their nuclear potential, their nuclear potential weapon. Uh, they started
• 19:49
  Speaker 9: building missiles, thousands of thousands of missiles, and they were
• 19:54
  Speaker 9: going to do it with missiles while they developed.
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  Speaker 10: These are sick people. Well they developed nuclear somehow.
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  Speaker 9: They were going to start at a different site because
• 20:02
  Speaker 9: that site was you saw the site, the mountain. They
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: were going to go into a certain area which we
• 20:07
  Speaker 9: know exactly where it is, and they were going to
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  Speaker 9: do that.
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  Speaker 10: And it's incredible what we've done. I'll tell you the
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  Speaker 10: job we've done.
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  Speaker 9: You know, if I didn't terminate Brook the Saint Obama's
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  Speaker 9: Iran nuclear deal, you would right now, well Israel would
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: be gone, it would be incinerated, and probably the Middle
• 20:28
  Speaker 9: East likewise.
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  Speaker 6: And remember they.
• 20:30
  Speaker 9: Got all of those missiles, and I heard they were
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: sending missiles to UAE.
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  Speaker 10: I said, that's strange.
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  Speaker 9: You know, UAE is like the banker for or In.
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: They're like the banker Qatar.
• 20:45
  Speaker 10: The neighbors they got along.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, so the.
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: Arabia all of a sudden, Kuwait, Kuwait is getting hit,
• 20:54
  Speaker 9: Bahrain is getting all these countries are getting hit.
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  Speaker 5: There was no.
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  Speaker 10: Expert that would say that is going to happen. It's
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  Speaker 10: not a question of like, gee, should you have known?
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  Speaker 10: And if we did know, big deal.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, we have to do what we have to do.
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  Speaker 10: But we hit them so hard like nobody's ever been hit.
• 21:12
  Speaker 10: We hit them very hard.
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  Speaker 9: And we've extinguished most of their missiles, We've extinguished most
• 21:18
  Speaker 9: of their drones. We've extinguished most of the places where
• 21:22
  Speaker 9: the missiles and the drones have built. We've fully extinguished
• 21:27
  Speaker 9: two layers of leadership, and probably.
• 21:30
  Speaker 10: A third if you believe some stories.
• 21:33
  Speaker 9: So we only have one thing to have a little
• 21:36
  Speaker 9: choke point, and they've used it very well for years,
• 21:40
  Speaker 9: but it doesn't work.
• 21:41
  Speaker 10: But I think this if some of these countries that
• 21:46
  Speaker 10: we've been good to for years, and.
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  Speaker 9: Maybe more important than that, some of these countries that
• 21:50
  Speaker 9: get ninety five percent of their energy from horm moves
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: the strength. There's a famous, wonderful, beautiful place. But you
• 22:04
  Speaker 9: wouldn't want to be necessarily sailing a boat there right now.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, you know why not?
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  Speaker 9: Because of them, because of us, Because we've taken out
• 22:12
  Speaker 9: their entire navy. We've taken out every one.
• 22:15
  Speaker 10: Of their drover they call it a drone layer, a
• 22:18
  Speaker 10: mind layer.
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: There's specific boats that are meant to put minds out.
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  Speaker 9: How would you like to have a nation that has
• 22:25
  Speaker 9: twenty two boats where their sole function? They're very different
• 22:30
  Speaker 9: looking boats. You wouldn't want one for your family. They're
• 22:32
  Speaker 9: not pretty. Their sole function is to lift a mind
• 22:36
  Speaker 9: into the water and drop it a certain number of
• 22:38
  Speaker 9: feet down.
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: But they had twenty two of them.
• 22:41
  Speaker 9: We've taken out all of them, but you can probably
• 22:44
  Speaker 9: you can probably drop them off.
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  Speaker 6: On the boats.
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  Speaker 2: So we don't even know.
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: By the way, we don't know that any minds have.
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: Even been dropped, but the thought that they would scarce
• 22:52
  Speaker 9: people that have billion dollar chips.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: It's very clear President Trump is focused on making sure
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: that are and can never hurt any of us as
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: long as he's in office. It's also very clear that
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the presidents not taking the bait on Democrats and what
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: they're trying to do. He's focused on taking out Iran's leadership,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: and each and every time they seem to name someone new,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: America seems to be able to take him out pretty quickly.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: It is official Democrats got exactly what they wanted. There
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: is a growing crisis at airports across the United States
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: of America today, and it's directly tied to a political
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: battle in Washington over the funding of ICE that is
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: holding literally America's airports and you if your traveler hostage.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Right now, more than fifty thousand Transportation Security Administration officers
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: are working without pay after Congress yet again failed to
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: pass a full funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: The shutdown began after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: over immigration enforcement and broader DHS spinning priorities and the
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: consequences they're immediate, according to federal officials. Today, TSA union
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: representatives are also confirming that more than three hundred TSA
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: officers have already quit since the shutdown began. Democrats knew
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: that this was going to happen. They designed this on purpose.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: About ten percent of TSA officers called out or failed
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: to report to work during the first weekend without full
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: pay as well. Normally, absentee rates are around two to
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: three percent, meaning absentees have quadrupled or more depending on
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: which airport you are going to. Some major airports have
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: reported more than twenty percent staffing shortages during peak travel
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: periods and its spring break for many Americans, and remember
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: TSA officers are considered essential person now, meaning they are
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: required to keep working even if they are not being paid.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: They will get back pay eventually.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Now, ABC News and others are forced to cover this
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: ongoing crisis, and as spring break surge, the strain has
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: gotten even worse.
• 25:18
  Speaker 11: The spring break travel crush underway, expected to be the
• 25:21
  Speaker 11: busiest ever as millions fill airports across the country. Early
• 25:25
  Speaker 11: this morning, security lines sneaking outside the airport in Austin, Texas,
• 25:30
  Speaker 11: the travel surge coming as sixty thousand TSA officers are
• 25:34
  Speaker 11: already feeling the squeeze, receiving their first zero dollar paycheck today.
• 25:39
  Speaker 11: With funding still halted for the Department of Homeland Security,
• 25:42
  Speaker 11: with no end in sight, morale is low.
• 25:45
  Speaker 10: Your bills are still going to keep coming, but you
• 25:47
  Speaker 10: have no.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Way to ban to ease the burden.
• 25:50
  Speaker 11: Food pantries opening up from JFK to Seattle, Denver's Airport
• 25:54
  Speaker 11: accepting food and gas card donations for its TSA officers.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: It hurts the pride you have to go and stand
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: in the lie, you know, to receive food and things
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: when the only thing you've done is show up like
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: you're supposed to.
• 26:08
  Speaker 11: Nearly a month into the shutdown, more than three hundred
• 26:11
  Speaker 11: TSA officers have quit callouts, more than doubling.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: President Trump demanding that these TSA agents receive their paychecks.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Democrats are saying, no, we want them to suffer because
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: we don't like ice agents that are actually not TSA
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: agents at the airport. This is what you call political revenge.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: And for many of these agents, by the way, the
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: financial pressure is immediate. The average frontline TSA officer that
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: you meet at the airport, their salary is roughly forty
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: five to sixty thousand per year, meaning missing even one
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: paycheck can create major financial stress for families trying to
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: pay rent, mortgages, groceries, as well as childcare. Now, Republicans
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: and President Trump had been leading the push to fund
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: the TSA. Republicans in Congress say the crisis is entirely avoidable.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: They have introduced legislation that would fully fund just the
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: TSA operations and the rest of the Department of Homeland Security,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: but Democrats, holding America hostage during springing Break, have refused
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: to advance the funding bill. They say, unless immigration enforcement
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: provisions are stripped out, this is all about political revenge.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: President Trump has repeatedly urged Congress to fund TSA and
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: border security immediately. Trump said a statement about the shutdown, quote,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: our TSA officers and border agents protect America every single day.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: They should never be forced to work without pay because
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: of politics in Washington. In another statement on the DHS
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: funding fight, Trump said today this quote, we must fund
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: homeland security, fully, fund TSA and secure our boyd Republicans
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: are ready to do that right now. Republican leaders argue
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: that air travel securities should not become a political bargaining chip,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: especially during periods of heightened global tension, and multiple terrorist
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: attacks have taken place in the United States of America
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: over the last ten days. At the same time, however,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: several prominent Democrats have previously called for dramatically reducing or
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: even eliminating the TSA.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Do you really want to fly on planes?
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Is the question all Americans should ask without going through security.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Who are the Democrats behind this idea? Example Number one
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Alexandra Cortes, known as AOC. She's previously supported proposals to
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: restructure or eliminate TSA as part of broader federal policing reforms.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Alamo mar another radical of the left, has also expressed
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: support for reducing federal security agency and redirecting resources towards
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: what she described as other priorities, meaning you could get
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: on a plane and not go through security. In twenty
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: twenty and twenty twenty one, there were multiple Progressive Democrats
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: that supported policy platforms that proposed abolishing or privatizing airport
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: security systems, arguing that the TSA was ineffective or overly intrusive,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: so therefore you should just be able to take anything
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: you want on an airplane. It's like, you know, the
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: honor system, until a terrorist decides to blow up a plane.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Those proposals are now reservicing again this week during the
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: current funding fight, with some progressive lawmakers arguing that DHS
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: agencies should be fundamentally restructured rather than simply funded. Now
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: the airlines are now getting into the game their warning
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: of security risks. Major airlines are now warning that the
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: situation could spiral if the shutdown continues.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: And then there's the travelers themselves. They're furious over the lines.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Just take a listen to NBC's local DC affiliate and
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: how they are now talking about the real story of
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: what has happened at the airports all because of the Democrats.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, so much concern about TSA checkpoint lines
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: all across the country.
• 30:24
  Speaker 9: Right now.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: We can show you what it looks like at Reagan
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: National Airport. Pretty good for the moment. Everything moving pretty
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: smoothly right now. But it's what's happening behind the scenes
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: here that's really starting to cause concern.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: TSA workers are about to miss their second paycheck of
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: this ongoing partial government shutdown. And that's on top of
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: what these workers went through during the longest government shutdown
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: ever in the fall, where many missed multiple paychecks as well, Adam.
• 30:55
  Speaker 12: And that's the stress part is what's really not being that.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: I think Joe Schucker is with the union that represents
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: TSA employees in the mid Atlantic. Now, TSA sources are
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: telling News Forward that it's gotten so bad that some
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: workers are sleeping in their cars outside of airports, including
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: Dallas International, because those workers can't pay rent or afford
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: gas to drive around.
• 31:20
  Speaker 12: I know that's a fact, no doubt. It's a stressful
• 31:23
  Speaker 12: enough job as it is. You're looking for bombs, you're
• 31:25
  Speaker 12: looking for weapons right now. You have the out of
• 31:28
  Speaker 12: stress of How am I going to feed my family tomorrow?
• 31:32
  Speaker 12: How am I going to put gas in my car?
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: A senior TSA official confirms and internal report to NBC
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: News that around three hundred officers have now quit and
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: many many more are calling out sick. That's part of
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: the issue that's been causing long lines at some TSA
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: checkpoints across the country.
• 31:49
  Speaker 12: At some point, officers going to hit a breaking point
• 31:53
  Speaker 12: and like I said, it's going to be a perfect storm.
• 31:55
  Speaker 12: We're heading in the spring break and the officers haven't
• 31:59
  Speaker 12: got paid into.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: When I asked him the solution, he said, simply, they
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: have to pay us.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Now you add all this in with what the airlines
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: are saying.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Executives from American Delta Southwest have now urged Congress directly
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: to resolve the crisis quickly. They warned that the continued
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: staffing shorges could increase security weight times, force checkpoint closures altogether,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: and caused major airport delays nationwide. During previous shutdowns, wait
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: times at some airport stretched to over two hours as
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: TSA staffing shorges grew. The numbers behind the crisis are
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: truly incredible. Fifty plus thousand TSA officers are now working officially.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Without any pay at all.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Eighty five thousand Department of Home and Security employees are
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: also affected. Three hundred plus TSA agents have already quit,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: and the absence rate from work is jumping day after
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: day from two all the way up to about ten percent.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Many airports are also seeing major shortages this morning as well,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: as I mentioned earlier, depending on how organized the workers become.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Some airports are reporting twenty percent staffing shortages TSA officers.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: They're not getting rich the average salaries I mentioned earlier
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: forty five to sixty thousand annually, and that's exactly why
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: many of them are sleeping in their cars at the airport.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: So this is the bottom line for President Trump. Airport
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: security should not be political. Airport security in the United
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: States is now caught in the middle of a political
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: fight only because of the Democrats. Republicans say they are
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: ready to pass the bill that would fully fund TSA immediately,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: and Democrats are saying no, they want open borders, they
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: want broader immigration concessions, meaning more legal immigrants in America
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: before they agree to give you homeland security funding. President
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Trump has also made it clear on another issue it's
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: time for you to call your congressman and your senator
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: and demand that our airports are taken off the political
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: chopping block.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: We'll keep following this story.
• 34:11
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• 34:13
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