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Blue States Accused of Silencing Millions of Conservative Voters plus Blue City, Red Alert-LA’s Mayoral Race Faces Voter Fury · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Yesterday I played for you Kamala Harris and how she
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Speaker 1: wants to completely destroy the fundamentals of this country. She
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Speaker 1: wants to pack the Supreme Court, even kick justice off
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Speaker 1: the Supreme Court when they give rulings she doesn't like.
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Speaker 1: And then she wants to get rid of the electoral
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Speaker 1: College all together. Now you may be asking yourself this
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Speaker 1: question why all of this is coming because they didn't
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Speaker 1: get their way. Donald Trump won Conservatives one and when
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Speaker 1: you hate the other side and you don't respect the
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Speaker 1: law or the wishes of the citizens of this country,
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Speaker 1: well that's exactly what you would do, especially if you're
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Speaker 1: a communist and Marxists are a socialist. Stacy Abrams is
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Speaker 1: now coming out explaining why Democrats are so distraught over
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Speaker 1: the Scotus ruling against racially jerrymander districts. She also is
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Speaker 1: upset at the power that the Democratic Party is going
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Speaker 1: to lose. Now, before I play her comments, I just
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Speaker 1: want to go back and set the stage to how
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Speaker 1: we got to the point where we are right now.
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Speaker 1: Democrats have been acting like they're the victims of gerrymandering
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Speaker 1: for decades, but the reality is that's not true. Democrats
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Speaker 1: have actually been masters of gerrymandering, especially in deep blue
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Speaker 1: states where Republican voters are essentially a race from congressional
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Speaker 1: representation altogether. And if Americans want proof, just look at
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Speaker 1: the states where there are literally zero Republican members of
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Speaker 1: Congress in the US House representing the Conservatives in those
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Speaker 1: states right now. States include Connecticut zero republicans, Delaware zero republicans,
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Speaker 1: Hawaii zero republicans in Congress, Massachusetts zero republicans in Congress,
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Speaker 1: New Hampshire another zero, Rhode Island zero, Vermont zero, and
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Speaker 1: effectively Maine has no Republican representation in Congress whatsoever. Now,
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Speaker 1: if you just think about that for a second, that
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Speaker 1: is millions of Americans that have been disenfranchised living in
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Speaker 1: those states that vote Republican and presidential elections, governor races,
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Speaker 1: Senate races, and local elections. Yet somehow, when it comes
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Speaker 1: to congressional districts, Republicans are entirely wiped off the map
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Speaker 1: on purpose. In fact, this has been part of a
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Speaker 1: long term political strategy in blue states. Democrats perfected the
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Speaker 1: art of concentrating Republican voters into a few districts as
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Speaker 1: possible and then spreading them so thinly that they can
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Speaker 1: never actually win representation. Meanwhile, those same Democrats are going
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Speaker 1: on television every day now pretending that they are defenders
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Speaker 1: of quote, fair maps and democracy. Yeah, the hypocrisy is
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Speaker 1: quote unquote unbelievable, but it's really not if you've been
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Speaker 1: paying attention to what's been happening all over the country
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Speaker 1: for decades. Just take Massachusetts for example. Republicans routinely receive
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Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of votes statewide, yet Democrats hold every
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Speaker 1: single congressional seat. The same thing happens in Rhode Island,
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Speaker 1: the same thing happens in Connecticut, the same thing happens
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Speaker 1: in Hawaii. Republicans may as well not exist according to
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Speaker 1: the congressional representation. And this isn't just about geography. It's
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Speaker 1: also about power because congressional districts determine who controls the
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Speaker 1: House of Representatives. That determines who has the committee chairmanships,
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Speaker 1: who is in charge of the investigations or impeachments, who's
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Speaker 1: in charge of spending, border security, taxes, regulations, literally everything.
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Speaker 1: That's why the Democratic Party has been doing this, and
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Speaker 1: that's why now Republicans are fighting over the maps so aggressively.
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Speaker 1: But Here's what Democrats never want to admit. They were
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Speaker 1: perfectly fine with aggressive redistricting when they controlled the process,
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Speaker 1: and for decades, Democrats used urban political machines, court systems,
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Speaker 1: state legislatures, and activist groups to shape districts in their favor.
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Speaker 1: In many states, they created maps so lopsided that competitive
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Speaker 1: congressional races effectively disappeared altogether. Now suddenly, when Republicans fight
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Speaker 1: back in states like Texas and Florida or Tennessee, Democrats
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Speaker 1: scream from the hilltops and yell racism. The media narrative
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Speaker 1: is well always as saying, if Republicans redraw maps, it's
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Speaker 1: called an attack on democracy. But when Democrats literally implement
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Speaker 1: the same maps, it's called protecting representation and minorities. Americans
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Speaker 1: they're tired of the double standard, especially if you're a conservative.
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Speaker 1: And the numbers, by the way, they don't lie. Just
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Speaker 1: look at Illinois, one of the most aggressively jerrymandered states
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Speaker 1: in America. Republicans regularly receive forty five percent in statewide votes,
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Speaker 1: yet Democrats dominate the congressional delegation because the maps are
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Speaker 1: perfectly engineered to maximize democratic seats. Maryland became infamous for
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Speaker 1: bizarrely shaped districts designed specifically to weaken Republican voters. New
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Speaker 1: York Democrats openly laughed and attempted aggressive mid decade redistricting
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Speaker 1: to gain more congressional seats before the courts were forced
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Speaker 1: to step in, and California system may technically involve a commission,
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Speaker 1: but the end result is still a delegation overwhelmingly tilted
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Speaker 1: towards the left, towards Democrats. And state were millions and
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Speaker 1: that's not exaggeration. Millions of Republicans live and vote. And
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Speaker 1: here's the broader point Americans need to understand, Harry Mannering
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Speaker 1: is not some unique Republican phenomenon, if you even want
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Speaker 1: to call it that. It is a bipartisan political weapon.
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Speaker 1: Republicans are decades late to the game. The difference is
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Speaker 1: Republicans are finally fighting back and it's about time after
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Speaker 1: years of taking it on the chin watching Democrats dominate
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Speaker 1: the process. Even major media outlets are now forced to
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Speaker 1: admit that redistricting wars are escalating nationwide, both parties aggressively
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Speaker 1: pursuing partisan advantages ahead of the midterm elections. And let's
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Speaker 1: be honest about why this matters so much. Right now,
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Speaker 1: the margins in Congress are raizor thin. You've got a
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Speaker 1: handful of districts that can determine who becomes Speaker of
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Speaker 1: the House, which party controls investigations, whether tax cuts survive,
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Speaker 1: whether border security legislation passes, and whether Donald Trump's agenda
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Speaker 1: that America clearly voted for moves forward or gets buried. Now,
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Speaker 1: that's why Democrats are panicking. That's why people like stave
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Speaker 1: Cy Abrams are coming out on TV playing the race
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Speaker 1: card and also warning about what Republicans are about to
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Speaker 1: do and how it can be so damaging because they've
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Speaker 1: been the masters of it for years. Take a listen
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Speaker 1: to Stacy Abram on MS now talking about Mike Johnson
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Speaker 1: saying redistricting brings back fairness and what she now says
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Speaker 1: is the problem.
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Speaker 2: Stacy, could you talk a little bit about how this
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Speaker 2: ruling will affect black representation not only at the federal level,
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Speaker 2: but at the state level. I'm thinking state lawmakers, county commissions,
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Speaker 2: city councils. To what extent will this ruling affect representation
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Speaker 2: and the representation, particularly of voters of color at the
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Speaker 2: levels below the federal level.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely and that's why I think this is such an
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Speaker 3: important conversation to have at this moment. In a competitive
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Speaker 3: authoritarian nation, which is what America is now, democracy is
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Speaker 3: about ensuring that we have shared power and shared voices.
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Speaker 3: It does not guarantee you victory, but it guarantees you access. Authoritarianism,
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Speaker 3: especially competitive authoritarianism, attempts to diminish your ability to use
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Speaker 3: those same democratic institutions to your benefit. With these new maps,
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Speaker 3: we know that analysis by Fair Fight and Black Voters
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Speaker 3: Matters show that we could lose nineteen to twenty congressional seats,
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Speaker 3: but we could lose up to one hundred and ninety
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Speaker 3: one state legislative seats. And in the South, those state
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Speaker 3: legislators draw city council districts, county commission districts, school board districts,
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Speaker 3: and they draw state legislative lines. And so if you
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Speaker 3: want to know if your child is going to have
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Speaker 3: fair and equitable access to education, that will be diminished
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Speaker 3: if your families can't participate in elections and elect leaders
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Speaker 3: who value your education. If you want healthcare, in the South,
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Speaker 3: it's the state legislature that decides whether you have access
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Speaker 3: all of the things that disproportionately harm communities of color
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Speaker 3: will now be decided by people who disproportionately like and
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Speaker 3: vote against the needs of people of color. But what
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Speaker 3: we have to remember, and this is why I started
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Speaker 3: the Ten Steps campaign, this is a national fight. It
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Speaker 3: may start in the South, but as national implications, progress
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Speaker 3: that serves the most disproportionately harmed communities lifts everyone. But
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Speaker 3: if we do not do so, if we allow the
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Speaker 3: suppression of black and brown votes, we are harming their neighbors,
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Speaker 3: and we're harming the US. And that's why we cannot
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Speaker 3: allow the South to be left behind.
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Speaker 1: There it is the South cannot be left behind. The
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Speaker 1: same Democrats who've been jerrymannering for decades are now playing
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Speaker 1: the race card. So let's not be lectured by the
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Speaker 1: Democrats on fairness while they maintain states with zero Republican representation.
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Speaker 1: Don't pretend Parson maps are evil only when Republicans are
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Speaker 1: the ones drawing them now, and don't act like millions
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Speaker 1: of conservative voters in blue states somehow deserve no voice
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Speaker 1: in Congress, because that's exactly what they've been doing for
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Speaker 1: the last twenty plus years. The left, they spent decades
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Speaker 1: building political fortresses in blue states and accusing Republicans of
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Speaker 1: doing precisely the same thing elsewhere, And now the country's
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Speaker 1: waking up to it. At the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: this debate is really about political power, who has it,
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Speaker 1: who keeps it, and who controls Washington. And if Democrats
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Speaker 1: know that, if Republicans continue gaining ground with working class voters,
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Speaker 1: Hispanic voters, union households, suburban parents, and independents, then the
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Speaker 1: only way to maintain powers in some places is through
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Speaker 1: district maps designed to protect incumbents and lock in those advantages. Well,
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Speaker 1: now that seems to be all over and Republicans are
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Speaker 1: doing exactly what they should do, fighting back. Quick break,
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Speaker 1: Ben Ferguson Show more coming up. You remember those wildfires
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Speaker 1: that started in LA. Remember how the reservoirs were empty,
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Speaker 1: and remember the competence because of the leadership in LA,
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Speaker 1: including an incompetent fire chief, and the bickering and fighting
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Speaker 1: back and forth as houses.
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Speaker 4: Burned to the ground.
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Speaker 1: Well, you would think they would have learned from those
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Speaker 1: empty reservoirs. Apparently they've learned nothing at all, because some
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Speaker 1: of them are still bone dry as we speak, and
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Speaker 1: that's having a real impact on the election in LA.
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Speaker 1: The political liberal radical establishment in LA is facing a
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Speaker 1: nightmare scenario that they never thought was even possible. A
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Speaker 1: conservative outsider is surging in one of the bluest major
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Speaker 1: cities in America, and Democrats they're openly panicking, and now
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Speaker 1: they're worried they may lose control of the narrative and
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Speaker 1: a city that they've dominated for decades and destroyed with
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Speaker 1: crime and drugs and pretty much every other liberal idea
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Speaker 1: that's been a disaster. Now, let me also explain to
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Speaker 1: you exactly who's in this race. You have a guy
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Speaker 1: by the name of Spencer Pratt. He's a former reality
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Speaker 1: TV personality. By the way, LA makes a lot of those,
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Speaker 1: But they want you to think that that means he's
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Speaker 1: not a serious candidate. And how did he turn himself
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Speaker 1: into a political insurgent. Well, it's pretty simple. His house
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Speaker 1: burned down in those fires and that irritated him. Because
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Speaker 1: this race has become much bigger than just Los Angeles,
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Speaker 1: it's also getting a lot of attention. It's becoming a
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Speaker 1: national warning sign for Democrats who are mismanaging cities with
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Speaker 1: high crime and high poverty and failing schools. For years,
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Speaker 1: Democrats treated La like an untouchable political territory. It's a
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Speaker 1: city where progressive politics dominated nearly every institution, city hall,
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Speaker 1: the media, Hollywood, academia, activist organizations, and most local elections.
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Speaker 1: Republicans weren't even expect to compete seriously there anymore. Ever,
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Speaker 1: and then suddenly, according to recent polling, Praut has surge
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Speaker 1: in second place in the mayoral race, ahead of major
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Speaker 1: establishment back candidates and within striking distance of the woman
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Speaker 1: in charge of La, Karen Bass. This could be a
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Speaker 1: political earthquake. Democrats understand something very clearly. If a conservative
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Speaker 1: populis style candidate very much like Donald Trump could become
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Speaker 1: competitive in La, then no democratic run city in America
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Speaker 1: is truly safe anymore, especially after there's a major moment
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Speaker 1: like a wildfire or anarchy, riots or things like that.
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Speaker 1: And that's exactly why it's happening, because voters in La, well,
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Speaker 1: they've had enough of the politics and they're furious. What
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Speaker 1: are they angry over out of control homelessness, They're angry
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Speaker 1: over crime. They're also angry over the costs of living,
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Speaker 1: and they're furious over the failed leadership that very much
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Speaker 1: caused those wild fires to grow. They're furious over government
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Speaker 1: incompetence even after the fires happen, and they're especially furious
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Speaker 1: over the aftermath of realizing that the people that claim
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Speaker 1: they were going to be there to help them rebuild
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Speaker 1: have done.
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Speaker 4: Anything but do that.
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Speaker 1: In fact, they've showed no effort to follow up on
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Speaker 1: rebuilding a city that's been destroyed. The Palisade fires show
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Speaker 1: just how bad the democratic machine actually is, and that
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Speaker 1: is the issue that has now changed everything.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 1: Prout has aggressively positioned himself as the candidate of anger, frustration,
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Speaker 1: and revolt against city Hall. He's telling voters what many
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Speaker 1: residents already feel that the political class running LA has
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Speaker 1: not only failed the city, but has failed them. And
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Speaker 1: what's fascinating is how he's doing it. He's not running
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Speaker 1: like a traditional Republican either. He's running like a populist
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Speaker 1: who said enough is enough and are you with me?
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Speaker 1: His campaign style mirrors what we've seen nationally in outsider movements,
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Speaker 1: social media dominance, viral videos, anti establishment rhetoric, blunt language,
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Speaker 1: and direct at tax on city leadership. He's also had
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Speaker 1: a constant focus on quality of life and the failures
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Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party. He's talking about homeless encampments that
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Speaker 1: are out of control. He's talking about the federal crisis
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Speaker 1: and the dead bodies. He's talking about public safety and
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Speaker 1: how really no one feels safe in LA anymore. He's
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Speaker 1: also talking about urban decline, something Democrats don't want to admit.
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Speaker 1: And he talks about taxpayers feeling totally abandoned while the
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Speaker 1: political elite lecture them and take their money. Remember, LA
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Speaker 1: is insanely expensive to live on top of the out
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Speaker 1: of control taxation, and Democrats they're deeply uncomfortable because there
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Speaker 1: are issues where voters increasingly believe conservatives actually have an advantage.
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Speaker 4: That is the real story here.
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Speaker 1: Now, this race is exposing the widening disconnect between progressive activists,
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Speaker 1: you know, the Black Lives Matter movement that then turn
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Speaker 1: into abolish the police, that then turn into burn down cities. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and ordinary working class voters, many of them that were
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Speaker 1: Democrats who simply voted for them over and over again
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Speaker 1: until now. And this is what really should terrify Democrats nationally.
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Speaker 1: Pratt's support is not just coming from Republicans. Even Democrats
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Speaker 1: are supporting him. As Jesse Waters put on his show,
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Speaker 1: La is Thirsty, and they still don't have the water
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Speaker 1: they need to fight the next big fire.
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Speaker 4: As he described on his show.
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Speaker 5: You Know Who could use some water. La, nine months
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Speaker 5: after sixteen thousand homes burnt to a crisp, the reservoirs
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Speaker 5: are still drier than the Sahara.
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Speaker 4: The reservoir's empty right now.
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Speaker 3: It's literally just up on the hill and we're just
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Speaker 3: flying the drone.
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Speaker 4: Over the reservoir and it's bone dry.
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Speaker 6: Here's the best part. You can go up in my street.
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Speaker 6: This is the reservoir that they also drained when they
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Speaker 6: were fixing the other one. They said, let's drain this one.
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Speaker 4: There's actually two.
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Speaker 6: Reservoirs they were draining, the Palaces Zebra and the Santienez.
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Speaker 5: Two reservoirs both empty during peak fire season. Why well,
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Speaker 5: the city drained them to use for drinking water, not
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Speaker 5: for fighting fires. Now the repairs cost twenty mil, and
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Speaker 5: Bass doesn't have the cash. So La finds the money
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Speaker 5: for needles, crackpipes, hotels for illegals, but not twenty mil
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Speaker 5: to keep Malibu from turning into a brisket or the
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Speaker 5: taps from running dry prats breathing down pink pants, souoits
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Speaker 5: neck in the poles, but come up short.
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Speaker 4: Well, take in his trailer to Texas.
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Speaker 7: If care Basquets reelected or Nitia gets elected, I will
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Speaker 7: be done with trying to live in LA and I'll
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Speaker 7: go find somewhere that my kids will not have to
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Speaker 7: see naked zombies and I can have the last American
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Speaker 7: dreams somewhere. But I will not rebuild if these people
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Speaker 7: are in charge. Because what would I be putting money into.
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Speaker 5: Oh glad, you asked, Bence, Because maybe a set of
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Speaker 5: government grills for every tweaker on skid row, because Bess
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Speaker 5: wants to put the tooth fairy on city payroll.
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Speaker 4: Also on homelessness. At the pantry.
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Speaker 8: Earlier this week, you were talking about comprehensive health care
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Speaker 8: for the unhoused, and you talked about how many of
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Speaker 8: the unhoused, because of their meth use, lose their teeth.
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Speaker 8: That's right, Who would pay for the dental care for
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Speaker 8: the unhoused?
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Speaker 9: When I say comprehensive healthcare, it's actually what people can
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Speaker 9: get from medical. The problem is is that the linkage
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Speaker 9: isn't made with the people and the services in AX Well,
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Speaker 9: it's we already paid for it. It's already paid for
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Speaker 9: it's the linkage that hasn't happened.
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Speaker 5: Empty reservoirs, free teeth for methaddicts, barbecue bands, migrant breast,
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Speaker 5: i plants, no wonder, ballots are booming when we got.
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Speaker 6: Coffee and in the line, we have a ballot, get
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Speaker 6: your ballance in it. Thank you so much like.
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Speaker 10: Let's go.
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Speaker 5: Democrats tried to roast Pratt for crashing at the hotel
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Speaker 5: bel Air after they deep fried his house. Big mistake
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Speaker 5: because they just gave him a brand new title in.
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Speaker 4: What's Los Angeles.
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Speaker 6: Palisades in my backyards were membos of my day.
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Speaker 4: He's seeding humming.
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Speaker 6: Birds, relaxing all the wool, avoiding all the bones.
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Speaker 4: Outside of the school win.
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Speaker 6: A couple of boats in the World of No Good
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Speaker 6: started making trouble in my neighborhood.
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Speaker 4: I got in one little fire.
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Speaker 6: My mom got scared and said, you're moving in with
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Speaker 6: Harvey Levin and bel Air.
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Speaker 5: The Pratt Factor's red hot moms are storming the po
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Speaker 5: for the Prince.
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Speaker 10: If you're a mom and you have been listening to
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Speaker 10: what he's been saying, you should know that he is
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Speaker 10: advocating for the safety and security of our families and
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Speaker 10: specifically for mothers to be able to walk their gifts
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Speaker 10: to school into party.
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Speaker 4: And if you have any.
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Speaker 10: Voting power, please exercise that power, because moms should be
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Speaker 10: supporting Pratt.
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Speaker 5: Chelsea Handler didn't get an invite to the Pratt Party,
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Speaker 5: so she hopped on Insta and tried to crash it.
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Speaker 11: Watch if you're seeing this video, this is a reminder
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Speaker 11: that a straight white male former reality star that has
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Speaker 11: no previous experience in government should not be a legitimate
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Speaker 11: political candidate.
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Speaker 4: Have we learned anything yet?
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Speaker 5: The backlash has Spratt picking up allies by the hour
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Speaker 5: TMZ transitioned. They're telling the straight white lady to wise up?
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Speaker 4: What the hell is Chelsea Handler?
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Speaker 1: Straight white male?
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Speaker 4: That makes somebody disqualified?
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Speaker 2: What this is?
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Speaker 4: Her point was privileged right, Oh, you're not supposed to
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Speaker 4: about their straight white males. It's ridiculous. I mean, it's
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Speaker 4: ridiculous to say that. It is absurd to say, well,
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Speaker 4: this is white people hate the left right now? Well,
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Speaker 4: and George Washington, a straight white male.
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Speaker 5: Bass couldn't take on the straight white male by herself.
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Speaker 5: Pratt says she cooked up a back room deal with
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Speaker 5: Ramen the Noodle.
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Speaker 6: Guys Nythia Ramen is conspiring with Karen Bass. Remember when
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Speaker 6: Nitthia shocked everyone and jumped into the mayor's race in
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Speaker 6: the last minute, inexplicably, just days after endorsing Karen. Why
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Speaker 6: would she do that? Why is it Karen upset? Why
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Speaker 6: do they never attack each other? Because Karen saw that
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Speaker 6: I was a serious threat, she made Nythia jump in
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Speaker 6: the race to block me out from the number two slot.
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Speaker 5: M The ladies torched the city, got fleeced by fraudsters,
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Speaker 5: handed out needles to homeless chunkies, and then pointed their
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Speaker 5: fingers at Trump like the voters wouldn't notice.
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Speaker 4: Even other Democrats are like girls enough, But we can't
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Speaker 4: put everything on Donald Trump.
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Speaker 6: We have the highest homelessness in the United States of America,
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Speaker 6: the highest gas prices, the highest utilities, the highest home
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Speaker 6: prices people can't afford rent.
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Speaker 4: And those happened under Democratic policies.
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Speaker 1: So now you understand why not only is LA a
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Speaker 1: major race, but also the California governor candidate's race with
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Speaker 1: Steve Hilton, a Republican at eighteen point five percent, the
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Speaker 1: billionaire Democrat liberal Tom Steyer at sixteen percent, Chad Beyonco,
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Speaker 1: a Republican, at thirteen percent. Yes, two of the three
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Speaker 1: top leading California Gubernorro candidates are Republicans right now, because
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Speaker 1: it's not just La, it's literally the entire.
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Speaker 4: State they have destroyed.
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Speaker 1: And that's exactly why the Democratic Party is freaking out
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Speaker 1: right now, trying to figure out how do they hold
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Speaker 1: on to a place they never thought they could possibly lose.
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Speaker 1: Growing real concern now inside the intelligence and military circles
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Speaker 1: that Cuba is once again becoming a staging ground for
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Speaker 1: America's adversaries. And this time the concern is not Soviet
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Speaker 1: nuclear missiles. It's drones, a lot of them, Iranian drones
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Speaker 1: and Russian drones, and the possibility that hostile regimes are
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Speaker 1: quietly building a launch platform with striking distance of the
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Speaker 1: United States of America. Ninety miles for a drone is nothing,
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Speaker 1: and let's be clear, they can also fly very low.
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Speaker 1: You could describe it as under the radar. Now, there's
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Speaker 1: no clear public evidence that Cuba has launched any attacks
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Speaker 1: on the United States of America or that an imminent
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Speaker 1: strike is about to happen or even underway. But what
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Speaker 1: is raising alarm bells is the increasing military cooperation that
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Speaker 1: we have seen between Cuba, Iran, and Russia and even China.
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Speaker 1: Now you think about the three countries that hate the
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Speaker 1: United States the most. Iran chance death to America, Russia,
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Speaker 1: we know hates America, and China, yes, they hate America.
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Speaker 1: All of these nations openly talk about their hostility to
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Speaker 1: American power and American influence. And if you think the
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Speaker 1: sounds far fetched, remember history. Back in nineteen sixty two.
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Speaker 1: You basically have the same type of leadership in Cuba,
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Speaker 1: and the Cuban missile crisis brought America literally to the
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Speaker 1: brink of nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the
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Speaker 1: United States of America because Soviet weapons were placed on
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Speaker 1: that island. Today, the weapons are much smaller, they're a
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Speaker 1: lot cheaper, and they're harder to detect, and they're even
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Speaker 1: easier to get into a country. Modern drones have changed
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Speaker 1: warfare entirely. We've witnessed this on the battlefield in the
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Speaker 1: Middle East and especially between Ukraine and the Russia war.
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Speaker 1: Iran has become one of the world's leading exporters of
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Speaker 1: expensive but deadly drone technology. The Iranian drones, for example,
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Speaker 1: have been used extensively by the Russians in Ukraine.
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Speaker 4: That's how good they are.
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Speaker 1: And these drones are relatively cheap to produce, they're difficult
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Speaker 1: to intercept in large swarms, and they're capable of carrying
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Speaker 1: large explosives over long distances. Russia has used them to
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Speaker 1: terrorize civilian infrastructure, to attack power grids, and overwhelm the
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Speaker 1: air defenses in Ukraine. Now imagine that type of technology
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Speaker 1: position in Cuba. Imagine dozens or hundreds and hundreds of
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Speaker 1: drones stored in warehouses, hidden and shipping containers, or assembled
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Speaker 1: in covert facilities just miles from the United States of
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Speaker 1: America's homeland. Suddenly, this changes everything from a military standpoint.
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Speaker 1: Worn that drones don't need massive runways or obvious missile silos.
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Speaker 1: They can be launched from trucks, they can be launched
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Speaker 1: from fields, they can be launched from cargo ships or
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Speaker 1: improvised sites that you never detected beforehand. And a coordinated
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Speaker 1: swarm attack targets ports. It can target military bases, it
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Speaker 1: can target our fuel depots, our airports, or even civilian
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Speaker 1: infrastructure that could create chaos for Americans. It could also
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Speaker 1: attack our power grid. And that's exactly why intelligence officials
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Speaker 1: in the US are increasingly focused on this type of warfare.
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Speaker 1: America's enemies know they cannot defeat the US military head
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Speaker 1: to head, so instead, what they've all decided to do
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Speaker 1: is look for ways to exploit our vulnerabilities, create fear,
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Speaker 1: disrupt our economy, and undermine public confidence. And drones fit
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Speaker 1: that strategy perfectly. Over the past several years, Cuba has
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Speaker 1: dramatically deepened its ties not only with Russia. There's also
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Speaker 1: another very interesting data point. Over the last several years,
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Speaker 1: Cuba has dramatically deepened their ties with Moscow and Tehran.
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Speaker 1: Russian naval vessels have visited Cuba ports multiple times. Cuban
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Speaker 1: officials have met openly with Iranian leadership. Economic agreements have
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Speaker 1: been agreed to and signed. They've even signed intelligence cooperation,
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Speaker 1: and they've signed military coordination that have all expanded as
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Speaker 1: these countries aligned themselves against the United States of America. Now, Iran, meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: has aggressively expanded its influenced throughout Latin America. US officials
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Speaker 1: have repeatedly and openly worn that Iranian networks have been
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Speaker 1: operating in Venezuela, They're operating in Nicaragua and other parts
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Speaker 1: of the region. HESBLA linked operatives have reportly used parts
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Speaker 1: of Latin America for fundraising as well as logistics and
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Speaker 1: elicit finance operations for decades. Add drone technology into this
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Speaker 1: equation and suddenly the Western hemisphere starts looking a lot
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Speaker 1: more dangerous. And that brings us to Donald Trump's whole
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Speaker 1: promise to make sure that the Western hemisphere is safe.
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Speaker 1: And there's another layer, by the way of this story
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Speaker 1: that you need to understand as well.
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Speaker 4: That's the border crisis. For years, critics.
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Speaker 1: Have warned that an unsecured southern border creates vulnerabilities far
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Speaker 1: beyond illegal immigration. If hostile foreign actors wanted to move equipment, operatives, electronics,
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Speaker 1: or drone components into the United States of America, an
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Speaker 1: overwhelmed border system provided that opportunity. You now combine those
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Speaker 1: concerns of millions of people who we don't know who
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Speaker 1: they are, that are in this country right now with
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Speaker 1: aversaro regimes operating close to the US mainland, who could
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Speaker 1: even stage an attack that is coordinated from people within
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Speaker 1: the United States of America. Imagine what that could look like.
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Speaker 1: Military analysts have increasingly warned about what's known as gray
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Speaker 1: zone warfare that's actions deliberately designed to stay below the
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Speaker 1: threshold of open war while still damaging an enemy. Cyber attacks,
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Speaker 1: infrastructure sabotage, drone incursions, GPS interference, disinformation campaigns, as well
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Speaker 1: as economic disruption all on the table. In fact, many
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Speaker 1: of them have been used on the United States of
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Speaker 1: America by China and Russia. Now this is what has
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Speaker 1: been described to me as the battlefield of the future,
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Speaker 1: and America's enemies are watching this carefully. Russia has already
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Speaker 1: demonstrated how effective drone warfare can be in Ukraine. They've
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Speaker 1: actually really learned a lot and mastered the art. Iran
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Speaker 1: has shown how proxy groups aren't with drones can threaten
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Speaker 1: US troops and allies across to the Middle East. China
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Speaker 1: is also rapidly expanding its own drone and AI warfare capabilities.
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Speaker 1: The terrifying reality is that a drone doesn't need to
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Speaker 1: carry a massive explosive payload to cause major disruption. A
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Speaker 1: strike on an electrical substation, fuel pipeline, shipping port, or
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Speaker 1: crowded transportation hub could create panic as well as economic shockwaves,
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Speaker 1: which is exactly what Cuba, Russia, and China and Iran
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Speaker 1: would love to happen. So think about what happens when
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Speaker 1: small drones disrupt airports in Europe. Several years ago, all
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Speaker 1: the fights were grounded, the security systems were overwhelmed. Now
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Speaker 1: you do that type of coordinated attack using military grade systems,
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Speaker 1: and it's on a whole other level. Now, this is
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Speaker 1: why national security experts are now increasingly calling for stronger
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Speaker 1: homeland defend systems, specifically focused on undrone threats. It's something
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Speaker 1: the present has also agreed we need. Many American military
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Speaker 1: bases are still vulnerable to low flying drones. Ports and
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Speaker 1: civilian infrastructure often lack sophisticated counter drone systems, and local
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Speaker 1: law enforcement agencies are largely unprepared for mass drone instances
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Speaker 1: as well. Now, the Pentagon has spent billions preparing for
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Speaker 1: traditional warfare, but the next threat may not come from
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Speaker 1: bombers or missiles, but from swarms of inexpensive unmanned aircraft
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Speaker 1: launch very close to home. And Cuba's geographic position matters enormously.
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Speaker 1: From Havana to Key West, it's roughly ninety miles. That's it,
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Speaker 1: a relatively short flight for modern drone systems. Again, this
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Speaker 1: is all about looking at what could happen before it happens,
31:52
Speaker 1: because history teaches us something important. Major threats are often
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Speaker 1: ignored until it's too late. The four nine to eleven
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Speaker 1: war existed before Pearl Harbor. There were warning signs as well.
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Speaker 1: Before the Cuban missile crisis exploded into public view, Soviet
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Speaker 1: activity was already well underway, and in the modern air
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Speaker 1: the speed of warfare house accelerated dramatically. A drome swarm
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Speaker 1: launch from close proximity could give decision makers only minutes
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Speaker 1: to react, and that is why the American public should
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Speaker 1: be aware of this. We shouldn't panic, but we should
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Speaker 1: absolutely pay attention to the growing military cooperation between Cuba,
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Speaker 1: I ran in Russia, and the present clearly as demanding
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Speaker 1: stronger border security, serious homeland security defense investments, and aggressive
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Speaker 1: intelligence monitoring. Now, the real question is, if there is
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Speaker 1: a large stockpile of drones in Cuba, is it America's
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Speaker 1: job to make sure that we make those inoperable. I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if that's on the table right now,
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Speaker 1: and it's something we should all be taking a look
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