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USAID-Who was on the Take? plus Nat Guard on the Border & Zelenskyy "Where's the MONEY?!" · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Now I'd like to see that, and it's a ridiculous
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  Speaker 1: war would have never started if I were president, that
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  Speaker 1: war would have never started. Putin would not have started
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  Speaker 1: that war if I were president. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't have had October seventh if I was president either,
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  Speaker 1: that miss would not have started.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Saturday morning to you, Ben Ferguson with you, and
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  Speaker 3: these are some of the stories that you may have
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  Speaker 3: missed that we talked about this week on the forty
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  Speaker 3: seven Morning Update. First up, Donald Trump goes to war
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  Speaker 3: with us AID, saying it turned out to be a
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  Speaker 3: radical left lunatic filled organization wasting taxpayer dollars. It has
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  Speaker 3: now been in essence shut down and the lunatics have
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  Speaker 3: been not allowed back in the building. I'll have the
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  Speaker 3: details on that in just a moment. Up next, the
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  Speaker 3: National Guard has been granted authority to make immigration arrests
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  Speaker 3: in Texas. What does this mean and how is it
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  Speaker 3: going to change the game and fighting illegal immigrants. We'll
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  Speaker 3: have that as well. And finally, Zelenski, now, is I
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  Speaker 3: guess becoming a whistleblower now? Claiming that less than half
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  Speaker 3: the money that the US has sent has ever actually
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  Speaker 3: showed up. It's a forty seven morning up date and
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  Speaker 3: it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: When Donald Trump was running for the presidency the second time,
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  Speaker 3: he made a very clear promise the American people he
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  Speaker 3: was going to go into this government and save your
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  Speaker 3: tax hours from fraud, waste, and abuse. Well, apparently an
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  Speaker 3: awful lot of our tax dours have been going to
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  Speaker 3: all of those categories when it comes to us AID,
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  Speaker 3: A program that Donald Trump actually liked when he was
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  Speaker 3: president back in twenty sixteen. So what do they find
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  Speaker 3: this time after it was radicalized by the Biden Harris administration.
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  Speaker 4: The first trim the USA was something that you liked
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  Speaker 4: in some respect.
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  Speaker 1: I love the concept. Yeah that's the program. Sure, I
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  Speaker 1: love the concept. But they turned out to be radical
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  Speaker 1: left lunatics and the concept of it is good, but
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  Speaker 1: it's all about the people.
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  Speaker 3: President Donald Trump making it clear USA turned out to
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  Speaker 3: be radical left lunatics. So what did he do? In response?
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  Speaker 3: USAID staffers were told to stay out of the DC
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  Speaker 3: headquarters after Elon Musk said that Trump agreed to shut
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  Speaker 3: it down, calling it just a ball of worms. The
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  Speaker 3: workers received an email Monday telling them to stay out
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  Speaker 3: of the agency's DC headquarters. Now Staffords or the US
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  Speaker 3: Agency for International Development were actually ordered quote it the
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  Speaker 3: direction of agency leadership to work remotely except for personnel
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  Speaker 3: with essential on site and building maintenance functions individually contracted
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  Speaker 3: by senior leadership. This according to an agency wide email
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  Speaker 3: that was sent out. Further guidance will be forthcoming, is
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  Speaker 3: what the email said at the end. Now you may
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  Speaker 3: ask yourself why such a massive reaction from the White House. Well,
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  Speaker 3: the media, of course said this was an overreaction, and
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  Speaker 3: Democrats went to USA and storm the building almost like
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  Speaker 3: it was an insurrection. Well, they brought receipts at the
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  Speaker 3: White House, as the White House Press secretary let the
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  Speaker 3: American people know exactly why they decided it's time to
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  Speaker 3: shut it all down.
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  Speaker 4: And here's the reason why Elon Musk and others have
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  Speaker 4: been taking a look, because if you look at the
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  Speaker 4: waste and abuse that has run through USAID over the
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  Speaker 4: past several years, these are some of the insane priorities
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  Speaker 4: that that organization has been spending money on one point
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  Speaker 4: five million dollars to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces, seventy
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  Speaker 4: thousand for a production of a Dei musical in Ireland,
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  Speaker 4: forty seven thousand for a transgender opera in Colombia, thirty
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  Speaker 4: two thousand for a transgender comic book in Peru. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know about you, but as an American taxpayer, I
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  Speaker 4: don't want my dollars going towards this crap, and I
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  Speaker 4: know the American people don't either. And that's exactly what
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  Speaker 4: Elon Musk has been tasked by President Trump to do
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  Speaker 4: to get the fraud, waste and abuse out of our
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  Speaker 4: federal government.
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  Speaker 3: And that, my friends, is what you call bringing the receipts.
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  Speaker 3: The list of just some of the waste and abuse
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  Speaker 3: at USAID that DOGE had been working on eliminating. That
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  Speaker 3: list is just some highlights. They apparently are finding even
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  Speaker 3: more abuse of your tax dollars being used for the
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  Speaker 3: most ridiculous things. You could imagine that forty seven thousand
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  Speaker 3: for a transgender opera in Colombia. No one, whether Republican
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  Speaker 3: or Democrats, should be in favor of that. Thirty two
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  Speaker 3: thousand for transgender comic books in Peru. None of our
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  Speaker 3: money should be going to comic books. In Peru ever period,
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  Speaker 3: and the one point five million to advance DEI in
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  Speaker 3: Serbia's workplaces. The real question now people should be asking
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  Speaker 3: is who was on the take when the money went
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  Speaker 3: to these different countries. Where did the money actually end up?
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  Speaker 3: Did seventy thousand actually really go production of a DEI
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  Speaker 3: musical in Ireland or with someone just taking that money,
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  Speaker 3: funneling that money that I have a feeling is what
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  Speaker 3: Elon Musk is going to dig into next. But let
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  Speaker 3: me say this, It's clear that Trump administration is not
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  Speaker 3: just stopping with DEI. They're not just stopping with USAID.
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  Speaker 3: They're not stopping with anywhere in the government where they
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  Speaker 3: see waste and abuse and the abuse of our tax
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  Speaker 3: dollars that we work so hard for being sent all
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  Speaker 3: over the world.
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  Speaker 2: Now, story number two.
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  Speaker 3: There's nothing more exciting than getting to tell you about
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  Speaker 3: major breaking news and trends that will probably expand outside
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  Speaker 3: of an original story. Well, that is one of those
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  Speaker 3: stories you're about to hear right now, and that is
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  Speaker 3: this news. The Texas National Guard has now been granted
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  Speaker 3: authority to make immigration arrests. In a memo of understanding
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  Speaker 3: between the Customs and Border Protection known as the CBP
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  Speaker 3: and the State of Texas. Texas will immediately grant the
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  Speaker 3: Texas National Guard soldiers. The memorandum, which has not yet
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  Speaker 3: been disseminated to all Texas border sectors, will allow the
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  Speaker 3: soldiers were being told to perform roving patrols and exercise
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  Speaker 3: all the duties of an immigration agent so long as
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  Speaker 3: a US immigration officer or border patrol agent accompanies them.
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  Speaker 3: What does this mean? They are going to imbed US
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  Speaker 3: Customs Enforcement, immigration officers or border patrol agents within the
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  Speaker 3: National Guard, and everyone with them will have the same
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  Speaker 3: authority to arrest. This is going to change the entire
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  Speaker 3: game at the southern border in Texas. According to the
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  Speaker 3: memo of understanding, the ratio of soldiers to immigration officers
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  Speaker 3: is preliminarily listed as one officer to four soldiers. The
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  Speaker 3: title eight United States Code Arrest authority was granted to
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  Speaker 3: multiple federal law enforcement agencies just days after President Trump's
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  Speaker 3: inauguration on January the twenty third, The Department of Homeland
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  Speaker 3: Security also authorized federal law enforcement agents to quote, investigate,
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  Speaker 3: determine the location, of, and apprehend migrants in an illegal status.
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  Speaker 3: The details of that memorandum obtained and released in a
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  Speaker 3: recent news report by CBS News are similar to the
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  Speaker 3: memo of understanding reviewed also now by Breitbart Texas. The
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  Speaker 3: duties of the Texas National Guard soldiers are law enforcement related,
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  Speaker 3: generally reserved for agents assigned to specific agencies under the
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  Speaker 3: Department of Homeland Security. Now, this latest granting of immigration
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  Speaker 3: arrest authority, what it means for boots on the ground
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  Speaker 3: is this, This is going to add at least three
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  Speaker 3: thousand Texas Army National Guard soldiers to the number of ATF,
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  Speaker 3: FBI and United States Reputy marshalls who are now assisting
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  Speaker 3: the Department of Homeland Security and enforcing federal immigration law.
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  Speaker 3: Simply put, the President clearly is finding ways and his
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  Speaker 3: staff around him to allow for a maximum number of
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  Speaker 3: people to go to the southern border in Texas to
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  Speaker 3: get the southern border back under control. This is going
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  Speaker 3: to be a game changer. I would also expect, based
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  Speaker 3: on sources that I've talked to around the White House,
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  Speaker 3: that you're going to see this same plan rolled out
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  Speaker 3: in other border states as well. Moral of the story,
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  Speaker 3: if you earn an a legal immigrant, you better watch
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  Speaker 3: your back in Texas and very soon other states around
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  Speaker 3: the country.
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  Speaker 2: And lastly, story number three.
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  Speaker 3: If you've ever studied Ukraine, you know that the country
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  Speaker 3: is insanely corrupt. The leadership's corrupt, the oligarchs are corrupt,
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  Speaker 3: and when you send money to Ukraine, it disappears very quickly.
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  Speaker 3: It's also saying something that even people in Russia say, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we know our country is corrupt, but you've seen nothing
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  Speaker 3: until you've seen Ukraine. Well, just how bad is it? Well,
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  Speaker 3: Zolensky is now claiming the Ukraine received quote less than
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  Speaker 3: half of usaid and they don't know where all the
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  Speaker 3: money went. Yes, Ukrainian President Zelensky has said that his
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  Speaker 3: country has only received around seventy eight billion in aid
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  Speaker 3: from the United States, despite America authorizing around a one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and seventy five billion to quote support the war
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  Speaker 3: torn country, meaning one hundred billion dollars is missing now.
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  Speaker 3: In an interview with the Associated Press published Zolensky said
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't know where most of the money the United
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  Speaker 3: States allocated under the Biden administration the Ukraine has gone.
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  Speaker 3: When I hear both in the past and even now
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  Speaker 3: from the US that America has provided Ukraine with hundreds
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  Speaker 3: of billions as the president of a nation at war,
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  Speaker 3: I can tell you we've received no more than seventy
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  Speaker 3: five billion, he said. We're talking about tangible things because
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  Speaker 3: this a didn't come as cash, but rather as weapons,
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  Speaker 3: which amount to about seventy billion dollars. But when it's
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  Speaker 3: said that Ukraine received two hundred billion to support the
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  Speaker 3: army during the war, that's not true. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: where all that money went, Zelenski admitted. So they got
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  Speaker 3: the money, but now it's missing. Perhaps it's true on paper,
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  Speaker 3: he went on to say, with hundreds of different programs,
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  Speaker 3: I won't argue, and we're immensely grateful for everything. But
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  Speaker 3: in reality, we received about seventy six billion. It's significant aid,
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  Speaker 3: but it's not two one hundred billion. The Ukrainian leader
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  Speaker 3: suggested that perhaps the additional funds went to humanitarian programs,
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  Speaker 3: which he said he was uninformed about except for knowing
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  Speaker 3: of their existence. Now, the question that you're obviously asking
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  Speaker 3: yourself right now is, okay, did the money even leave America,
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  Speaker 3: And if it did leave America, who has it now? Well,
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  Speaker 3: there have been long noted concerns in Washington over sending
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  Speaker 3: billions of dollars to Ukraine. Given its corruption issues. In
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, Transparency International ranked Ukraine as the second
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  Speaker 3: most corrupt European nation, only behind Russia, with a score
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  Speaker 3: of thirty three out of one hundred. In fact, the
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  Speaker 3: Oversight Committee in the US House of Representatives found that
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  Speaker 3: Ukrainian government officials allegedly engaged in bribery, used government vehicles
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  Speaker 3: for personal use, and purchase inflated food supplies for Ukrainian forces,
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  Speaker 3: padding their own pockets. Now, despite previously downplaying the widespread
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  Speaker 3: corruption in the former Soviet state, The New York Times
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  Speaker 3: even reported in twenty twenty three that unnamed Ukrainian officials
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  Speaker 3: admitted US taxpayer money intended for military contracts had quote
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  Speaker 3: failed to produce weaponry or ammunition, and that some money
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  Speaker 3: has well just vanished. Borrow the story. It's probably time
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  Speaker 3: for Elon Musk and his team to take a look
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  Speaker 3: at Ukraine.
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