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Democrat Created TSA Shortage Triggers Nationwide Airport Crisis · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: So the discussions took place yesterday. They went it to
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  Speaker 1: yesterday evening. They want very much to make a deal.
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  Speaker 1: We'd like to make a deal too. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: get together today by probably phone, because it's very hard
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  Speaker 1: to find a country. It's very hard for them to
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  Speaker 1: get out, I guess. But we'll at some point very
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  Speaker 1: soon meet. We're doing a five day period. We'll see
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  Speaker 1: how that goes, and if it goes well, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: end up with settling this.
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  Speaker 2: Otherwise we just keep bombing our little hearts out.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 4: Good Tuesday morning. Nice to have you with us on
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  Speaker 4: the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got one very
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  Speaker 4: big story for you. TSA lines we're out of control,
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  Speaker 4: but Donald Trump is stepping in, sending ice agents to
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  Speaker 4: hit major airports and suddenly the wait times are falling.
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  Speaker 4: So why is the media so angry about this? And
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  Speaker 4: how long could it continue?
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  Speaker 3: On?
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  Speaker 4: Democrats said they're going to hold the America hostage no
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  Speaker 4: matter what. I've got the details on it. It's the
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  Speaker 4: forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now. Story
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  Speaker 4: number one for weeks Americans have been dealing with a
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  Speaker 4: travel nightmare. We're talking about two, three, four and even
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  Speaker 4: five hour wait times at airports, four hour lines, and
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  Speaker 4: international hubs like Houston and entire terminals completely backed up
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  Speaker 4: with people outside waiting for hours, families missing flights, loved
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  Speaker 4: ones missing funerals, and now unable to reach family dealing
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  Speaker 4: with medical emergencies. At one point this weekend at Bush's Airport,
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  Speaker 4: line stretched more than four hours. Only a fraction of
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  Speaker 4: the checkpoints were even open. And the question, obviously is why.
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  Speaker 4: Because Democrats in Washington are holding the Department of Home
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  Speaker 4: in Security funding hostage even though you paid your taxes.
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  Speaker 4: That is leaving the TEA the ESA agents working without pay,
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  Speaker 4: calling out in massive numbers and just flat out quitting
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  Speaker 4: because they've got to find another job where they can
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  Speaker 4: depend on the paycheck actually showing up. In fact, we
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  Speaker 4: now know that more than three thousand, four hundred TSA
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  Speaker 4: agents have called out nationwide, and well over four hundred
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  Speaker 4: agents have already turned in their resignation saying they've moved on.
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  Speaker 4: Now that's not a small problem. That's a system breakdown
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  Speaker 4: in real time, all done by design by the Democrats
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  Speaker 4: to continue to hold America hostage, which brings us to
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  Speaker 4: President Donald Trump. He just told Republicans in Congress to
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  Speaker 4: refuse any DHS deal with the Democrats without voter ID
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  Speaker 4: and citizenship being attached. That's playing hardball. The President speaking
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  Speaker 4: in Memphis, tennesseee it at a Make America Safe Again event,
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  Speaker 4: he had this to say to the American people about
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  Speaker 4: what they're experiencing at the airports.
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  Speaker 1: So if disruptions at major airports nationwide last weekend, I'm
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  Speaker 1: again demanding the Democrats in Congress immediately end their disgraceful
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  Speaker 1: shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security and the restore
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  Speaker 1: the full funding for airport security.
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  Speaker 2: And the TSA.
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  Speaker 1: They are holding it up because they want to take
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  Speaker 1: care of legal immigrants coming into our country.
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  Speaker 2: They want to take care of.
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  Speaker 1: Criminals that are in sanctuary cities.
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  Speaker 2: They want to take care.
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  Speaker 1: Of transgender for everybody, literally the utilization of our children,
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  Speaker 1: men in women's sports. But what they don't want to
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  Speaker 1: do is give us anything to do with citizenship for
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  Speaker 1: voting or voter ID. Can you imagine we're the only
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  Speaker 1: country that doesn't do voter ida.
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  Speaker 2: Every country does voter ID.
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  Speaker 1: You know, brought to my attention today that we're the
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  Speaker 1: only country that does mail in voting. Mail in voting
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  Speaker 1: means mail and cheating. I call it mail and cheating,
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  Speaker 1: and we got to do something about it all. And
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  Speaker 1: it's part of homeland security. And I'm suggesting strongly to
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  Speaker 1: the Republican Party, don't make any deal on anything. The
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  Speaker 1: most important thing we can have is what's called the
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  Speaker 1: Save America Act. Don't make any deal on anything unless
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  Speaker 1: you include voter ID and you have to be a
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  Speaker 1: citizen to vote. You have to show citizenship to vote,
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  Speaker 1: very easy to do. It's very insulting when they say
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  Speaker 1: people can't do it because they don't know how to
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  Speaker 1: do it. Anybody that can't do it, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: a very insulting thing to say. The Democrats are fully
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  Speaker 1: to blame with the struggle.
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  Speaker 4: Of as he said there, Democrats are fully to blame
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  Speaker 4: for what we're witnessing right now now. President Trump also
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  Speaker 4: ordered ICE agents deploy the major airports across the country,
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  Speaker 4: and the message from his administration was crystal clear. President
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  Speaker 4: Trump is using every tool available to help American travelers,
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  Speaker 4: while politicians are arguing Trump is putting people on the
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  Speaker 4: ground and what is ICE doing and why does it matter. Well, no,
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  Speaker 4: let's be very clear about that, because the media will
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  Speaker 4: not explain it honestly to you at all. ICE agents
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  Speaker 4: are not replacing TSA. They are managing crowds, checking IDs,
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  Speaker 4: controlling lines, and securing exits. And that matters because it
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  Speaker 4: frees up the TSA agents who are still showing up
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  Speaker 4: without pay to focus on screening, which is the real bottleneck.
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  Speaker 4: This is about efficiency, This is about stabilizing a crisis fast.
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  Speaker 4: The President understands how important air travel is to our economy.
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  Speaker 4: The Democrats are holding billions of dollars each and every
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  Speaker 4: hour hostage when it comes to work that is not
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  Speaker 4: being done, meetings that are not taking place, and people
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  Speaker 4: that cannot travel all because of the Democratic Party putting
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  Speaker 4: illegal immigrants first and the fact that they want to
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  Speaker 4: hold Americans hostage. Now, this is where it's getting interesting,
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  Speaker 4: and this is what the headlines won't emphasize enough. After
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  Speaker 4: days of total chaos, airports like Houston, Minneapolis, Chicago and
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  Speaker 4: others are already seeing wait times drop significantly in some terminals,
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  Speaker 4: from hours down to minutes in certain checkpoints. That's not
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  Speaker 4: an accident. That's what happens when leadership shows up. But
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  Speaker 4: let's be honest, this is still a real crisis. This
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  Speaker 4: is a band aid, and now it's going to get
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  Speaker 4: even worse as Democrats are doing everything they can to
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  Speaker 4: try to make the problem go back to hours and
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  Speaker 4: hours of wait times. I'm not going to sugarcoat this
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  Speaker 4: because you deserve the truth. This is not fixed yet
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  Speaker 4: at all. Across the country. Some airports are still seeing
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  Speaker 4: multi hour delays. Absentee rates are hitting forty plus percent
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  Speaker 4: in some locations. Staffing is still stretched very thin. And
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  Speaker 4: here's the key difference. Before President Trump got involved with ICE,
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  Speaker 4: it was chaos and no response. Now, at least there's
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  Speaker 4: a plan, action and early results. Trump is calling out
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  Speaker 4: the real problem. And President Trump is not mincing words
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  Speaker 4: about who caused this. He said it directly, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 4: Democrats are endangering the USA by holding back the money
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  Speaker 4: for the TSA. That is the fight. This isn't just
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  Speaker 4: about airport lines. This is about DHS funding. It's now
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  Speaker 4: about the Save Act, It's about border security, it's about
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  Speaker 4: election integrity. And Trump is saying we are not going
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  Speaker 4: back to business as usual, we are not funding the
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  Speaker 4: system without fixing it. This is true leadership under pressure,
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  Speaker 4: and let me translate it for the liberals this way.
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  Speaker 4: When the system started breaking, when the Americans were stuck
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  Speaker 4: in lines, when TSA agents were overwhelmed, Trump didn't wait
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  Speaker 4: for permission. He moved resources immediately when they were already
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  Speaker 4: funding ICE agents, and they put them where the crisis
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  Speaker 4: was happening. That is the decisive leadership that so many
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  Speaker 4: Americans voted for. So here's the bottom line right now. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: this crisis is very real. Yes it was caused by
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  Speaker 4: a funding fight in Washington, but also the Trump administration
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  Speaker 4: is actively responding. ICE deployment is already helping relieve the pressure.
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  Speaker 4: And this is the first real step towards stabilizing a
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  Speaker 4: system that clearly was out of control. And the message
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  Speaker 4: from the White House couldn't be clear. They say this,
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  Speaker 4: we will use every tool we have to protect Americans
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  Speaker 4: and keep this country moving. And what are the Democrats saying.
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  Speaker 4: They're not talking, they're not trying to work on a deal.
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  Speaker 4: They wanted this to happen, and more importantly, they wanted
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  Speaker 4: to hold you hostage in a ligne for hours on
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  Speaker 4: in as the President said earlier today as he was
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  Speaker 4: getting on Air Force One He made it clear the
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  Speaker 4: TSA agents are heroes and something has to be done differently.
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  Speaker 1: Er longer you had a ten thousand dollar bonus.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, last year you gave a ten thousand dollar bonus
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  Speaker 3: because UK workers who kept showing up the work during
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  Speaker 3: the touchdowns. Will you do that again?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it could happen. It's amazing. There's such people that
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  Speaker 1: are really really loyal and great and it's not easy
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  Speaker 1: for them.
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  Speaker 2: And this is all closed by the Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: I said, just so you know, all this money was approved,
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  Speaker 1: everything was approved.
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  Speaker 2: This is done. The Democrat went.
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  Speaker 1: In and they want to have radical left lunatics come
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  Speaker 1: into our country. They want to have drug dealers, they
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  Speaker 1: want to have murderers come into our country. They want
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  Speaker 1: to have open borders, and we're not letting it happen.
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  Speaker 2: That's what this is all about.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want voter ID, they don't want proof of citizenship,
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  Speaker 1: they don't want mail in ballots.
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  Speaker 2: They're so corrupted. What they want. The only thing they
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  Speaker 2: want is mail in ballots.
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  Speaker 1: So we also added, as you know, into.
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  Speaker 2: The Save America Act.
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  Speaker 1: It it's called Save America's not the Save agg But
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  Speaker 1: we added no transgender mutilization.
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  Speaker 2: Of our children and no men in women's sports.
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  Speaker 4: President Trump not losing focus on the issues, over and
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  Speaker 4: over again saying the same thing, and also saying the
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  Speaker 4: TSA agents that are showing up that have been harmed
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  Speaker 4: by the Democrats, they're heroes and it could happen again.
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  Speaker 4: Another ten thousand dollars bonus for those men and women
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  Speaker 4: who show up to do a job even though the
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  Speaker 4: Democrats refuse to pay them.
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