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Work for Welfare plus China’s Silent Infiltration on the American Food Supply · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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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 Wednesday morning. It's so nice to have you on
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  Speaker 3: the forty seven Morning Update. And here are two very
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  Speaker 3: big stories that we have for you this morning. First up,
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  Speaker 3: Republicans are saying it's time for accountability when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to taking advantage of government programs, including food stamps and
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  Speaker 3: also medical health care. Why is it the Democrats are
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  Speaker 3: now attacking Republicans after they used to be in favor
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  Speaker 3: of this type of accountability. And how many lazy people
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  Speaker 3: are taking all of our tax dollars. Well, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to break that down for you in just a moment.
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  Speaker 3: And also in a shocking story, Chinese national so now
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  Speaker 3: been charged with smuggling agro terrorism weapons into the US
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  Speaker 3: and doing research at American universities. It could cost us
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  Speaker 3: billions of dollars and as threat to all of our agriculture.
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  Speaker 3: I have the details of what the Trump administration is
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  Speaker 3: doing to stop it in just a second. It's the
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  Speaker 3: forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: When Donald Trump ran for president, he promised the American
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  Speaker 3: people accountability, especially with waste, fraud and abuse. We know
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  Speaker 3: what has been uncovered just through DOGE, but there's also
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  Speaker 3: another type of accountability the President talked about, and that
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  Speaker 3: is making sure that people aren't taking advantage of American
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  Speaker 3: government programs because they're just being lazy. A great example
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  Speaker 3: of this is the issue of work requirements for food stamps.
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  Speaker 3: Republican lawmakers, back by former President Donald Trump, are now
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  Speaker 3: advancing legislation to impose stricter work requirements on federal assistant
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  Speaker 3: programs that also include Medicaid and SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition
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  Speaker 3: Assistance program also known as food stamps. The initiative is
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  Speaker 3: part of the One Big Beautiful Bill, a comprehensive tax
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  Speaker 3: and spending reform package that passed the House on May
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  Speaker 3: the twenty second. The bill aims to offset four point
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  Speaker 3: five trillion in tax cuts by reducing federal spending, including
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  Speaker 3: significant cuts to medicaid fraud and snap fraud. Also allowing
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  Speaker 3: for work requirements so that you can't just be lazy
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  Speaker 3: taking advantage of the American taxpayer. Now, Republicans have been
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  Speaker 3: very clear about this. They have argued that these work
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  Speaker 3: requirements promote self sufficiency and reduce fraud. House Speaker Mike
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  Speaker 3: Johnson has emphasized that the changes are designed to ensure
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  Speaker 3: that able bodied American adults without dependence contribute to the workforce.
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  Speaker 3: A study by the American Enterprise Institute found that non
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  Speaker 3: disabled Medicaid recipients without children spend on average four point
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  Speaker 3: two hours daily watching TV or playing video games, supporting
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  Speaker 3: the GOP's stance on encouraging employment among this group. Now,
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  Speaker 3: there's some hypocrisy that I'm going to expose for you
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  Speaker 3: right now when it comes to the left, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to play for you a montage of Democrats once
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  Speaker 3: championing the welfare work requirements that they now are claiming
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  Speaker 3: are quote abusive. Now, if you'll make sure that you
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  Speaker 3: information When I put it out, now would be the
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  Speaker 3: time to do it now, Democrats are strongly opposing now
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  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty five the work requirements they're arguing that
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  Speaker 3: they quote would disproportionately affect vulnerable populations, including caregivers, individuals
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  Speaker 3: with intermediate employment, and those with health issues not classified
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  Speaker 3: as disabilities.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Former President Barack Obama even criticized the bills, sitting it
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  Speaker 3: could strip healthcare coverage, he claimed from millions of Americans,
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  Speaker 3: including seven point six million losing Medicaid and three point
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  Speaker 3: one million losing marketplace insurance. Critics are also saying that
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  Speaker 3: similar work requirements in states like Arkansas and Georgia have
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  Speaker 3: led to significant coverage losses without substantial gains and employment. Well, so,
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  Speaker 3: why is it now that Democrats are obsessed with helping
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  Speaker 3: people commit fraud and also just being lazy, Especially when
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  Speaker 3: you go back and listen to what they've said in
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  Speaker 3: the past, It's pretty simple. They're trying to buy votes
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  Speaker 3: now of people they believe are willing to vote for
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  Speaker 3: them as long as they don't make them work and
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  Speaker 3: take care of themselves or act like adults. So let
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  Speaker 3: me just remind the Democrats of their hypocrisy. Here's the
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  Speaker 3: mond tize that we put together to remind them of
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  Speaker 3: their own words. Even Bill Clinton got in on the action.
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  Speaker 5: Nearly thirty years ago, Robert Kennedy said, work is the
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  Speaker 5: meaning of what this country is all about. We needed
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  Speaker 5: as individuals, we need to sense it in our fellow citizens,
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  Speaker 5: and we need it as a society and as a people.
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  Speaker 5: He was right then, and it's right now. From now on,
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  Speaker 5: our nation's answer to this great social challenge will no
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  Speaker 5: longer be an ever ending cycle of welfare. It will
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  Speaker 5: be the dignity, the power, and the ethic of work.
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  Speaker 5: Today we are taking an historic chance to make welfare
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  Speaker 5: what it was meant to be, a second chance, not
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  Speaker 5: a way of life. This bill will help people to
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  Speaker 5: go to work, so they can stop drawing a welfare
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  Speaker 5: check and start drawing a paycheck. It is now clearly
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  Speaker 5: better to go to work than to stay on welfare,
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  Speaker 5: clearly better because of actions taken by the Congress in
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  Speaker 5: this session. It is clearly better to end the terrible,
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  Speaker 5: almost physical isolation of huge numbers of poor people in
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  Speaker 5: their children from the rest of mainstream America.
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  Speaker 6: We have to do that.
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  Speaker 3: Today.
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  Speaker 5: We are ending welfare as we know it, But I
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  Speaker 5: hope this day will be remembered not for what it ended,
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  Speaker 5: but for what it began. A new day that offers hope,
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  Speaker 5: honors responsibility, rewards work, and changes the terms of the debate.
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  Speaker 7: For too many. Welfare has been a way of life
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  Speaker 7: for too long. It has condemned too many on welfare
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  Speaker 7: to a lifetime at the margins of our society. Today
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  Speaker 7: we start to change all that.
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  Speaker 6: Anyone who wants to receive welfare must sign an individual
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  Speaker 6: responsibility contract so that they're forced to agree upfront to
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  Speaker 6: the conditions placed on receiving the benefit, and so that
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  Speaker 6: they will have a plan from day one on how
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  Speaker 6: to get themselves off of welfare. Put them to work
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  Speaker 6: and make them want to go to work, and make
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  Speaker 6: it reasonable for them.
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  Speaker 8: To go to work.
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  Speaker 6: Be mandatory work requirement for anyone receiving welfare.
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  Speaker 9: They actually have charged and run ads saying that President
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  Speaker 9: Obama wants to weaken the work requirements in the welfare
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  Speaker 9: reform bill that moved millions of people from welfare to work.
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  Speaker 9: Oh wait, the requirement was for more work, not less.
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  Speaker 9: I am telling you the claim that President Obama weaken
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  Speaker 9: welfare reforms work requirement is just not true.
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  Speaker 1: Best anti poverty program as a job which confers not
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  Speaker 1: just income, but structure and dignity and a sense of
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  Speaker 1: connection to community.
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  Speaker 3: Total and utter hypocrisy from the left. Now, as the
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  Speaker 3: bill moves to the Senate, it faces resistance from both
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  Speaker 3: Democrat and Republican holdouts who are concerned about the potential
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  Speaker 3: impact on their constituents, and they also claim the national debt.
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  Speaker 3: The reality is, this plan spearheaded by Donald Trump is
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  Speaker 3: one that's long overdue and one that virtually every major
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  Speaker 3: leader in the Democratic Party in the past has supported.
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  Speaker 3: So why are they not supporting it now? Solely because
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  Speaker 3: they're trying to buy votes and allow people to take
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  Speaker 3: advantage of you, the taxpayer.
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  Speaker 2: Now. Story number two.
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  Speaker 3: Is it's a story that you may only have heard
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  Speaker 3: about if you lived in Detroit and we're watching the
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  Speaker 3: local news. Chinese nationals now charge was smuggling agro terrorism
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  Speaker 3: weapon into the United States of America. The question you
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  Speaker 3: should be asking yourself is this, why would the Chinese
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  Speaker 3: do this?
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  Speaker 8: And the second.
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  Speaker 3: Question you should be asking yourself is why is the
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  Speaker 3: media not warning you about what just happened. Now, these
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  Speaker 3: two Chinese nationals have been charged with conspiracy, fraud, and
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  Speaker 3: smuggling a deadly biopathogen into the United States of America,
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  Speaker 3: And as I said a moment ago, if you weren't
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  Speaker 3: in Detroit, you probably didn't know that this threat to
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  Speaker 3: our entire nation even happen. How did the Detroit Channel
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  Speaker 3: seven News cover it, Well, here's what they had to
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  Speaker 3: say about the pathogen coming through their airport.
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  Speaker 10: Now to two Chinese nationals with ties to the University
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  Speaker 10: of Michigan facing federal charges, accused of smuggling a dangerous
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  Speaker 10: biological agent through Detroit Metro Airport.
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  Speaker 11: Thirty three year old Yin qing gn and her boyfriend
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  Speaker 11: Xi Yung Lu are charged with conspiracy, smuggling, making false
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  Speaker 11: statements to investigators, and visa fraud.
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  Speaker 10: Here's why this COUDE had been such a big deal.
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  Speaker 10: Federal prosecutors calling the pathogen a potential agro terrorism weapon
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  Speaker 10: that could be used for targeting crops like wheat, barley, corn,
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  Speaker 10: and rice.
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  Speaker 11: Seven News Detroit reporter Frozjavid was in federal court and
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  Speaker 11: has more.
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  Speaker 4: On Tuesday, thirty three year old un Chingjion made her
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  Speaker 4: initial appearance at the federal courthouse in downtown Detroit. Right
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  Speaker 4: behind me in front of Magistrate Judge Kimberly Altman Jian,
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  Speaker 4: a postdoc research fellow at the University of Michigan from China,
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  Speaker 4: has been charged with smuggling a biological pathogen that has
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  Speaker 4: been described as a potential agricultural terrorism weapon that is
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  Speaker 4: kind of scary.
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  Speaker 1: You kind of just don't understand why something like this
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  Speaker 1: would happen.
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  Speaker 8: U of M students Camilla Webb and ton Vi Deega
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  Speaker 8: are trying to wrap their heads around how it all happened.
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  Speaker 8: This twenty five page federal complaint outlines how the alleged
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  Speaker 8: crime transpired at Detroit Metro Airport. On July twenty seventh,
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  Speaker 8: twenty twenty four, US Customs and Border Protection officers detained
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  Speaker 8: Jeon's thirty four year old boyfriend, Lunyong Leo, also a
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  Speaker 8: Chinese national, for carrying Fusarium gramminarium of plant based pathogen.
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  Speaker 8: The complaint describes this fungus as capable of producing microtoxins
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  Speaker 8: that adversely affects crops, humans, and animals, causing billions of
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  Speaker 8: dollars in economic losses globally each year. During the investigation,
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  Speaker 8: Leo initially denied possessing the pathogen, but later admitted to
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  Speaker 8: bringing it into the country for research at the University
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  Speaker 8: of Michigan, where Jeon worked in the lab.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of shocking that our resources are being used
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  Speaker 1: for something like this.
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  Speaker 8: A joint investigation by the FBI and CBP reviewed electronic
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  Speaker 8: communications between Leo and Jeon. Evidence showed discussions on shipping
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  Speaker 8: biological materials and research activities at the lab prior to
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  Speaker 8: Leo's arrival. Additionally, electronic records indicate Genas involvement in previous
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  Speaker 8: smuggling activities.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would have never expected something like that to
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  Speaker 4: happen at our school.
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  Speaker 8: Investigators also found evidence linking Jion to the Chinese Communist
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  Speaker 8: Party and receiving funding for her postdoctoral work from a
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  Speaker 8: foundation largely supported by the Chinese government.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Gion is being held in federal custody until Thursday,
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  Speaker 4: June fifth. That's when Magistrate Judge Altman will decide on
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  Speaker 4: Jion's detention or bond at the next hearing. Meanwhile, Gion's boyfriend, Leo,
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  Speaker 4: was denied entry into the US and was sent back.
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  Speaker 8: To China on the day of the incident.
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  Speaker 4: From downtown, I'm Pada's job seven US Detroit.
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  Speaker 3: Why is it that you're not hearing about this nationwide.
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  Speaker 3: Why is it that a story this big, that could
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  Speaker 3: have this big of an impact on our lives in
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  Speaker 3: America is just being covered up by the mainstream media.
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  Speaker 3: Thank goodness. The FBI director Cash Pttel put out a
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  Speaker 3: lengthy statement bringing all this information to the public's saying
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  Speaker 3: quote new I can confirm that the FBI arrested a
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  Speaker 3: Chinese national within the United States who allegedly smuggled a
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  Speaker 3: dangerous biological pathogen into the country. The individual is alleged
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  Speaker 3: to have smuggled a dangerous fungus, which is a agro
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  Speaker 3: terrorism agent, into the US to research at the University
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  Speaker 3: of Michigan, where she works. This fungus can cause a
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  Speaker 3: disease called head light, a disease of wheat, barley, and rice,
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  Speaker 3: causing significant health issues in both humans and livestock. It
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  Speaker 3: is responsible for billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide
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  Speaker 3: each year. Evidence also indicates Jelina had expressed loyal to
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  Speaker 3: the Chinese Communist Party and had received funding from the
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  Speaker 3: Chinese government for similar work on the pathogen in China.
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  Speaker 3: Now the FBI director also talks about her boyfriend, also
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  Speaker 3: charged the complaint, working at a Chinese university where he
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  Speaker 3: conducts research on the same pathogen. They also say that
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  Speaker 3: he lied and then admitted that he also smuggled this
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  Speaker 3: pathogen into America through the Detroit Metropolitan Airport so that
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  Speaker 3: he could also conduct research at the University of Michigan. Now,
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  Speaker 3: both these individuals have been charged with conspiracy, smuggling goods
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  Speaker 3: in the United States, false statements, and also visa fraud. Now,
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  Speaker 3: then the FBI director says, this this case is a
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  Speaker 3: sobering reminder. Chinese Communist Party is working around the clock
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  Speaker 3: to deploy operatives and researchers to infiltrate American institutions and
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  Speaker 3: target our food supply, which would have grave consequences, putting
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  Speaker 3: American lives and also our economy at serious risk. Your
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  Speaker 3: FBI will continue working tirelessly to be on guard against it.
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  Speaker 3: This is exactly why the American people voted for Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 3: because he was going to put people in charge like
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  Speaker 3: Caspittel to tell you what's actually happening. Now, it's sad
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  Speaker 3: that only people into de Troit know the whole story
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