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Washington’s Zombie Economy-Dead People, Live Checks, Zero Accountability · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Vice President j.
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  Speaker 2: D Vance has just dropped a statistic that should stop
• 0:06
  Speaker 2: every one of us, as a taxpayer, dead in our tracks.
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: According to the Trump administration, now roughly one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: eighty six thousand people have been listed as deceased. They're dead,
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: but they were still receiving government benefits, costing you millions
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: and millions of dollars. That is nearly two hundred thousand
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  Speaker 2: ghost recipients in the system, people who are legally dead,
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: but somehow they had checks that kept going out that
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: were being cashed, Meaning that somebody is taking advantage of
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  Speaker 2: a dead person's benefits and it's costing you, as a taxpayer,
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  Speaker 2: the money. And if that doesn't, by the way, perfectly
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  Speaker 2: sum up the dysfunction in DC, I don't know what does.
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  Speaker 2: Because two hundred thousand people getting benefits also goes back
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  Speaker 2: to the political issue at the voting booth every year.
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  Speaker 2: We have talked about dead people voting before on this show.
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  Speaker 2: If you can get benefits from the federal government for
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  Speaker 2: years on end while you're dead, why would I not
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  Speaker 2: think that you can get someone to vote on your
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  Speaker 2: behalf while you're dead as well. Now, this isn't just
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  Speaker 2: about numbers on a spreadsheet. And I'm going to get
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  Speaker 2: back to the voting issue in a moment, But this
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  Speaker 2: is about how a federal government has become so corrupt
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  Speaker 2: or bloated or both, and so outdated and so poorly
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  Speaker 2: managed that billions of taxpayer dollars are disappearing through fraud, waste,
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  Speaker 2: and abuse, as well as incompetence. While you and I,
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  Speaker 2: as hard working Americans, we are the ones that are
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  Speaker 2: being punished. We know what the issue is with affordability
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  Speaker 2: right now. We know where groceries are, we know what's
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  Speaker 2: happened with rent in this country. We know it's happened
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  Speaker 2: with gas prices. We know what's happened with health insurance call.
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  Speaker 2: Even though we've got a Bambacare, the American people are
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  Speaker 2: told every single day that there's no money to secure
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  Speaker 2: the border, there's no mind to fix those security there's
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  Speaker 2: no money to strength the medicare. There's no money to
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  Speaker 2: reduce the national debt. There's no money to help our
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  Speaker 2: men and women in uniform and our veterans. Right but
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  Speaker 2: somehow there's always money that's flowing to dead people and
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  Speaker 2: into these fraudulent government programs, duplicate payments.
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  Speaker 1: We also found out we're going out to.
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  Speaker 2: Multiple dead people. Fake identities have been set up. That's
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  Speaker 2: something else that they're now raising the alarm on. And
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  Speaker 2: the government system that apparently can't even determine whether someone
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  Speaker 2: is alive or dead. We're supposed to trust on election
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  Speaker 2: day to only have people that are alive actually voting.
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  Speaker 2: Now jd Vance is doing the right thing right now
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  Speaker 2: shining a spotlight on this. There is some paperwork errors
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  Speaker 2: that were deliberate and on purpose. That is where the
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  Speaker 2: larger pattern is happening in this country. All over the country,
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  Speaker 2: we have a fraud crisis. Washington elites have ignored it
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  Speaker 2: on purpose for years because it's worked to their advantage.
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  Speaker 2: And many of the people that are committing this fraud
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  Speaker 2: are actually giving political donations back to the people that
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  Speaker 2: look the other way, and that would be the Democratic Party. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the federal government loses staggering amounts of money every year.
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  Speaker 2: We're now being told to improper payments. Now we're not
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  Speaker 2: talking about a few million dollars, which by the way,
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  Speaker 2: should make you angry as a taxpayer. We're talking about
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  Speaker 2: numbers so large that most Americans can't even conceptionalize the
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  Speaker 2: amount of cash we're talking about here. Estimates now from
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  Speaker 2: the Inspector General's Office and the oversight agencies are now
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  Speaker 2: showing hundreds of billions of dollars in improper payments across
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  Speaker 2: federal agencies over the last.
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  Speaker 1: Couple of years.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to say the number again, and this is
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  Speaker 2: where it's hard for you and I understand it.
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  Speaker 1: Hundreds of billions of dollars.
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  Speaker 2: This includes a document says fraudulent unemployment claims, fake COVID
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  Speaker 2: release applications, medicate abuse at numbers you can't even understand,
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  Speaker 2: Medicare abuse, and scams again at a level you can't
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  Speaker 2: even understand. So security over payments, massive food stamp fraud,
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  Speaker 2: especially in the Smalley community, and of illegal immigrants. Identity
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  Speaker 2: theft schemes where you're stealing the identity of dead people
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  Speaker 2: and then getting money organize criminal networks exploiting whak government systems,
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  Speaker 2: they also say, is becoming extremely expensive. And this is
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  Speaker 2: the part that should really make all of us mad.
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  Speaker 2: What these documents also not just show, but they prove,
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  Speaker 2: is that Washington knew these systems were vulnerable, they knew
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  Speaker 2: that they were broken, and they knew that people taking
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  Speaker 2: advantage of it, and they didn't care to stop it.
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  Speaker 1: All right now.
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  Speaker 2: During the pandemic for COVID, for example, criminals including international
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  Speaker 2: fraud rings, the documents say, exploited relief programs at levels
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  Speaker 2: never seen before in many states. Inmates even filed people
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  Speaker 2: in jail, filed for unemployment overseas, scammers stole identities.
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  Speaker 1: Organized gangs, they now.
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  Speaker 2: Say, targeted COVID aid programs because the safeguards were so
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  Speaker 2: weak or even nonexistent. Taxpayer money, they say, was flowing
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  Speaker 2: out the door as fast as bureaucrats could approve the applications.
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  Speaker 2: And now we're learning that in some cases, dead individuals
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  Speaker 2: are still in twenty twenty six receiving benefits that were
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  Speaker 2: set up then. Now the big question that we should
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  Speaker 2: ask is this How in the hell does this happen?
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  Speaker 2: And the most technologically advanced nation on earth, Yes, that
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  Speaker 2: would be us. How does a government the tracks Americans
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  Speaker 2: through the IRS, tracks every financial transaction imaginable, tracks employment records,
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  Speaker 2: tracks banking data, hell Trasata, tracks tax filings and immigration records,
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  Speaker 2: somehow failed to identify dead beneficiaries. It's one answer. They
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to track the dead beneficiaries. They knew that
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  Speaker 2: fray was happening. And the answer is real simple. Bureaucracy
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  Speaker 2: was on display without any accountability because the people that
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  Speaker 2: helped set this up new the kickbacks would keep coming. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the federal government has become so large that no one
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  Speaker 2: seems responsible when something like this goes wrong. Agencies immediately
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  Speaker 2: point the finger and pass blame somewhere else. Contractors blame
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  Speaker 2: the outdated systems. Politicians promise reforms during election years and
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  Speaker 2: then move on and do nothing until the next headline hits.
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  Speaker 2: And then all of this is happening, and guess what
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  Speaker 2: you and I are paying the bill. Now, let me
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  Speaker 2: tell you something else that Americans are also sick of.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the double standard here, because if you owe
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  Speaker 2: the IRS money, they'll find you fast. You miss a
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  Speaker 2: tax payment, you'll get letters, penalties, audits, interest charges. But
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  Speaker 2: when the government loses billions of fraud, everyone shrugs it
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  Speaker 2: off and says, well, these are just things that happen,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll figure it out eventually.
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  Speaker 1: No, this is not something that just happens.
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  Speaker 2: This is set up at scale, and this is just
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  Speaker 2: one of the reasons why public trust in our government
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  Speaker 2: has collapsed. Americans are seeing these stories and they're concluding
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  Speaker 2: that the system is deliberately, i think now fundamentally broken
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  Speaker 2: on purpose. Because let's be honest, if Washington won to
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  Speaker 2: fix as they could, but Washington right now apparently can't
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  Speaker 2: even stop payments to people who are debt. So how
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  Speaker 2: can Americans trust them to run massive entitlement programs. How
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  Speaker 2: can we trust them to run healthcare systems, immigration systems,
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  Speaker 2: a trillion dollars spending package for example. Odd, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: is a problem that is not victimless. It is affecting
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  Speaker 2: every American taxpayer, whether you're a Republican, a Democrat, or
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  Speaker 2: an independent. The fraud problem is the real issue. Is
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  Speaker 2: it set up to work this way on purpose? Well,
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  Speaker 2: based on what we're seeing now, the answer is yes.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's taken from all of us. Right, it's taken
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  Speaker 2: from the truck driver paying fuel taxes. It's taken from
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  Speaker 2: the waitress that was working overtime. Thank goodness, the president
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  Speaker 2: has no extra tax on overtime. Now it's taken from
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  Speaker 2: small business owners paying their taxes, who are, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: struggling to make payroll. It's taken from seniors who actually
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  Speaker 2: depend on these programs to be there for them. Instead,
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  Speaker 2: their money is being taken and given to other Now
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  Speaker 2: we're also having to borrow money to pay for the
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  Speaker 2: interest on the money we're borrowing because we are running
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  Speaker 2: trillion dollar deficits. Fraud not only drains the resources from
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  Speaker 2: all of us, but then we're not even hell helping
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  Speaker 2: the people were designed to help with the program at
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  Speaker 2: the very beginning of its stated mission. Now the scale
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  Speaker 2: of abuse, the White House says, so it goes far
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  Speaker 2: beyond the deceased recipients. Just look at Medicare fraud alone.
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  Speaker 2: We've now learned that criminal enterprises have used fake clinics,
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  Speaker 2: fraudulent billing schemes, phantom patience, and identity theft operations to
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  Speaker 2: steal billions and billions from the taxpayers. In some cases,
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  Speaker 2: organized crime groups set up entire fake medical networks simply
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  Speaker 2: to build the government for services that were never rendered.
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  Speaker 2: Then there's welfare fraud, countless examples of people gaming the
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  Speaker 2: system and the assistance programs through false income reporting, fake
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  Speaker 2: dependence meaning kids that you don't even have, duplicate identities,
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  Speaker 2: fraudulent eligibility claims, and some states have repeatedly admitted their
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  Speaker 2: verification systems are not only outdated, but they've declared their
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  Speaker 2: own systems are quote ineffective to stop fraud.
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  Speaker 1: So why on earth would you keep doing the system
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  Speaker 1: that way?
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  Speaker 2: And then all of us, well, we're being told we
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  Speaker 2: got to pay more taxes. Washington's answer to mismanagement, it
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  Speaker 2: seems to always be the same, spend more money, more
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  Speaker 2: money for agencies, more money for oversight, more money for consultants,
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  Speaker 2: more money for programs. But they're not actually fixing the problem.
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  Speaker 2: And the final question that all of you should be asking,
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  Speaker 2: and the one I'm asking right now, is this, When
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  Speaker 2: was the last time someone.
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  Speaker 1: Got fired over these failures?
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  Speaker 2: When was the last time someone went to prison over
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  Speaker 2: this type of fraud? When was the last time a
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  Speaker 2: political leader was held responsible?
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  Speaker 1: Well, no one is, and that's why JD.
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  Speaker 2: Vance is doing what he's doing right now, and what
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  Speaker 2: the White House is doing right now. There is enormous
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  Speaker 2: amounts of money that is being wasted by our government
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  Speaker 2: while ordinary citizens are demanded by our government to work harder,
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  Speaker 2: pay more, and shut up and don't.
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  Speaker 1: Ask any questions. That's unfair.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, every improper payment is intentional fraud. Some,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, are set up and done in a
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  Speaker 2: way that is egregious, all because the government refuses to
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  Speaker 2: have databases that actually work for us. So you look
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  Speaker 2: at this now, and what we see is a president
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  Speaker 2: of the United States of America empowering the vice president
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  Speaker 2: to go out there and aggressively address fraud. Because cleaning
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  Speaker 2: it up requires real reforms. It requires modernizing systems, It
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  Speaker 2: requires cross checking databases, It requires enforcing work enforcement where appropriate.
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  Speaker 2: It requires verifying citizenship yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And eligibility to work.
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  Speaker 2: It also requires stronger audits and then stronger prosecutions. It
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  Speaker 2: requires admitting that government expands without oversight creates opportunities for
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  Speaker 2: massive abuse of fraud. So as you look at what
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  Speaker 2: the President's trying to do, it's clear the president the
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  Speaker 2: vice presidents say We're tired of hearing elites lecture us
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  Speaker 2: saying every time we show them fraud, it's oh, somehow misinformation.
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  Speaker 2: Because back to the beginning of the story, you have
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty six thousand deceased individuals, almost two
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  Speaker 2: hundred thousand that are receiving benefits from the government right now.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a minor accounting issue. That's billions and billions
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  Speaker 2: of dollars in deliberate fraud, and the American people they're
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  Speaker 2: being forced to pay for this fraud. So what's going
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  Speaker 2: to happen next, I don't know, But what I do
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  Speaker 2: know is this, we need to be encouraging this White
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  Speaker 2: House to not back down, to allow Jdvans to do
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  Speaker 2: his job, and to make sure that this fraud finally
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  Speaker 2: stops before it bankrupts this country all together. We are
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  Speaker 2: now getting new information that the President United States of
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  Speaker 2: America certainly is not just focused on Iran, but the
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  Speaker 2: President now has a new agenda item it is counter
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  Speaker 2: terrorism strategy that is going to be aggressive in its
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  Speaker 2: response as well as border security and hemispheric safety. So
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  Speaker 2: what does that actually mean. Well, the new White House
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  Speaker 2: counter Terrorism Strategy document is now looking to seize the
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  Speaker 2: initiative from terrorists as well as criminal cartels by taking
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  Speaker 2: aggressive action against tostile regimes, keeping America's borders secure to
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  Speaker 2: minimize threats at home, and also they say, to push
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  Speaker 2: malign foreign influence out of our western hemisphere.
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  Speaker 1: Quote.
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  Speaker 2: Our new US counter terrorism strategy is a return to
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  Speaker 2: common sense and peace through strength, the President said, and
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  Speaker 2: is forward to the plan, as I said after our
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  Speaker 2: first successful counter terrorism mission just days after I was
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  Speaker 2: sworn back into office, if you hurt Americans or planning
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  Speaker 2: to hurt Americans, we will find you and we will
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  Speaker 2: kill you, the president, not backing down now. Trump's introduction
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  Speaker 2: and the rest of the document were highly critical of
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  Speaker 2: the counter terrorism strategies that we've had in the past.
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  Speaker 2: They've been pursued by the way, by both Republican and Democrats,
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  Speaker 2: and Trump said he returned to the White House in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five to find four years of weakness, failure, surrender,
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  Speaker 2: and humiliation under the last Biden administration. Now, the body
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  Speaker 2: of the White House counter Terrorism Strategy Document made it
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  Speaker 2: very clear that it faulted the Biden administration for perverting
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  Speaker 2: national security into an endless crusade against its domestic political
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  Speaker 2: enemies that would obviously be Donald Trump and other conservatives
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  Speaker 2: that destroyed public confidence in the honesty and accountability of
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  Speaker 2: American security agencies. The document also blasted the Democratic president
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  Speaker 2: Joe Biden and Barack Obama ignoring what is described as
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  Speaker 2: a growing threat of criminal cartels, appeasing hostile powers and
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  Speaker 2: ways that made further hostility look profitable, and above all,
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  Speaker 2: for throwing the borders open to admit everything from vicious
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  Speaker 2: criminals to hostile foreign operatives, including those on the Terrorists
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  Speaker 2: Watch List. Not to be clear, this wasn't all partisan,
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  Speaker 2: because the Trump team also criticized the Bush administration for
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  Speaker 2: failing to confront the dangers of Islam head on, giving
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  Speaker 2: a hostile ideology plenty of time to put down roots
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  Speaker 2: on American soil. Now, both Democrat and Republican administrations have
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  Speaker 2: clearly been slow, not only to condemn or counter jihadi
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  Speaker 2: purges against Christians in the Middle East and Africa, and
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  Speaker 2: the Trump administration saying that indifference not only was brutal
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  Speaker 2: to the persecuted Christians, but it was also dangerous for
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  Speaker 2: the entire world because it allowed Jihadis to consolidate their
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  Speaker 2: grip on territory as well as sees money and resources
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  Speaker 2: to continue to operate and grow and to begin dismantling
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  Speaker 2: the weakened governments of Africa as well. So this new
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  Speaker 2: counter terrorism strategy number one, it recognizes the threats close
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  Speaker 2: to the American homeland and says those are the most
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  Speaker 2: immediate and dangerous. It prioritizes neutralization of hemispheric terror threats
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  Speaker 2: by incapacitating cartel operations. Let me say that again, incapacitating
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  Speaker 2: cartel operations until these groups are incapable of bringing their drugs,
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  Speaker 2: their members, and their trafficking victims into the United States
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  Speaker 2: of America. Now, let's just stop there and break that down.
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  Speaker 2: When you look at what the President just used in
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  Speaker 2: his words in the White House saying he's ready to
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  Speaker 2: incapacitate cartel operations. That means going after their drug operations,
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  Speaker 2: That means going after their drug houses, that means going
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  Speaker 2: after their manufacturing houses. Many of those, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: are in Mexico. And then he says we're not stopping
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  Speaker 2: until these cartels are incapable of bringing their drugs. He
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  Speaker 2: noticed that he uses drugs first, then their cartel members second,
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  Speaker 2: and their trafficked victims into the US. So what the
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  Speaker 2: President is doing is declaring war on the drug cartels
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  Speaker 2: and declaring war not only in their drugs, but also
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  Speaker 2: their members.
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  Speaker 1: Quote.
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  Speaker 2: At the same time, we will continue to find and
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  Speaker 2: remove the cartel and gang members who were let into
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  Speaker 2: our country under the Biden administration, while using foreign terrorist
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  Speaker 2: organization designations to strangle the commercial and logistical connections of
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  Speaker 2: their organizations, the Trump White.
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  Speaker 1: House has vowed. Now.
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  Speaker 2: The White House also held up its strikes against cartel
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  Speaker 2: drug boats and the capture of narco terrorist dictator Nicholas
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  Speaker 2: Maduro of Venezuela as examples of its aggressive approach to
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  Speaker 2: hemispheric security. The doc noted that maritime drug smuggling has
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  Speaker 2: decreased by more than ninety percent since the drug boat
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  Speaker 2: strikes began, and some of those smuggling and financial networks
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  Speaker 2: are also used by Islamic terris Now, the White House
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  Speaker 2: argued that making its determination to achieve hemispheric security clear
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  Speaker 2: and demonstrating America's ability to act decisively towards that goal
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  Speaker 2: is crucial to bring America's neighborhoods into the Western hemisphere
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  Speaker 2: and bringing them on board. So the President is now
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  Speaker 2: saying clearly, we're moving on to step two.
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  Speaker 1: Phase two.
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  Speaker 2: We are going after the drug dealers, the drug cartel members,
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  Speaker 2: the leadership, and where they're making their drugs. Now, much
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  Speaker 2: of this criticism is directed to prior administrations, concerned that
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: the mixed signals sent by a combination of lofty pronouncements
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  Speaker 2: and tepid action as security threats in Latin America will
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  Speaker 2: allowed defester for years on end.
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  Speaker 1: The White House says, in.
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  Speaker 2: Contrast, what the President was saying today is he's now
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  Speaker 2: making it clear that not only is his determination to
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  Speaker 2: secure the hemisphere against terrorism and organize crime crystal clear,
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  Speaker 2: but doing it in a way that only kinetic action
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  Speaker 2: meaning they're going to use guns, folks, and assertive prosecutions
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  Speaker 2: can do it. Now, this new strategy also has a
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  Speaker 2: second priority, and that is this the targeting and destruction
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  Speaker 2: of the top five Islamic ear groups that have the
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  Speaker 2: intent and the capabilities to execute external operations against the
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  Speaker 2: United States of America. That is also in this document
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  Speaker 2: from the White House. Now, these groups would include al Qaeda,
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  Speaker 2: the Islamic State and their most aggressive subgroups such as
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  Speaker 2: Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula or isis. The White
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  Speaker 2: House argued the importance of including the International Muslim Brotherhood
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  Speaker 2: as a tear organization as well, a step the Trump
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  Speaker 2: administration took in January of this year. And then the
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  Speaker 2: third priority of this new CT strategy was to depoliticize
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  Speaker 2: security agencies that were weaponized under the Biden Obama administrations.
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  Speaker 2: They want to take action against the growing threat of
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  Speaker 2: violent left extremist groups in this country, whose bloody handiwork
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  Speaker 2: included the assassination of Charlie Kirk by a radical who
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  Speaker 2: espoused extreme transgender ideology. Again, this is in the White
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  Speaker 2: House's document. In addition, it says to cartels and Islamic
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  Speaker 2: tear groups, our national CT activities will also prioritize the
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  Speaker 2: rapid identification and then neutralization of violent secular political groups
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  Speaker 2: whose ideology is anti American, radically pro transgender and anarchists.
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  Speaker 2: The document said some of these groups have ties to
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  Speaker 2: dangerous international organizations. The documents specifically mentioned the left wing
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  Speaker 2: terror group an Tifa as a priority now of the
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  Speaker 2: White House to target that is massive now. The fourth
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  Speaker 2: priority of this strategy singled out a special strategic category
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  Speaker 2: all on its own, and that was the combat what
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  Speaker 2: they described as non state acquisition and use of weapons
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  Speaker 2: of mass destruction, especially the terrorists use of nuclear or
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  Speaker 2: radiological devices. The strategy document placed the current operation against
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  Speaker 2: Iran specifically into that category, since Iran is a state actor,
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  Speaker 2: but the proxy groups it might furnish with nuclear weapons
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  Speaker 2: are not. The White House vowing to ensure that the
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  Speaker 2: regime in Tehran is no longer a threat to the
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  Speaker 2: United States of America, either directly or through many of
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  Speaker 2: its tentacles. Hamas hesblog irakshi At militias, and the Houthi
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  Speaker 2: terrace of Yemen, who must never again, they say, be
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  Speaker 2: allowed to hold strategic waterways set as the Strait of
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  Speaker 2: Vermuz or the Red Sea Hostage.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: This CT strategy presented the destruction of the Islamic state
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  Speaker 2: the Caliphate during the first Trump administration, and they used
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  Speaker 2: as an example of the swift and decisive action the
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  Speaker 2: Obama administration envisioned. The isis Caliphate is a generational threat
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  Speaker 2: to be slowly degraded over years and decades. The President
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  Speaker 2: Trump unleashed the greatest fighting force in the world that
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  Speaker 2: we've ever seen, and within a matter of weeks, the
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  Speaker 2: jihadi insurgency which controlled vast territories across Iraq and Syria,
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  Speaker 2: well they were gone. Isis then fell back to Africa,
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  Speaker 2: and that is leaving governments like Nigeria and Somalia with
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  Speaker 2: solid control over mere fractions of their own territory. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the Trump twenty twenty six strategy, they say, in vision
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  Speaker 2: tackling these threats by rebuilding bilateral CT relations with African
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  Speaker 2: governments who had been ignored or insulted, they say, by
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  Speaker 2: the Biden era neocolonial policies focused on globalist, left wing
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  Speaker 2: cultural issues. Now, this was a blunt acknowledgment of the
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  Speaker 2: uncomfortable truth that some African nations have grown reluctant to
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  Speaker 2: partner with America or Europe on security issues because they
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  Speaker 2: fear agendas like homosexual and transgender rights will be forced
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  Speaker 2: upon them. Some of those nations prefer to partner with
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  Speaker 2: Russia China as a result, and the results have been
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  Speaker 2: disastrous for Africa and world security. So the Trump White
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  Speaker 2: House has proposed reversing the dynamics by marrying CT cooperation
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  Speaker 2: with the stabilitizing effort and effect of heightened trade and
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  Speaker 2: commercial relations, as witnessed by President Trump's historic peace deal
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  Speaker 2: between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo an example,
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  Speaker 2: security is a prerequisite, he says, for prosperity. So here
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  Speaker 2: we are common sense and realism. That is the major
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  Speaker 2: theme of this new strategy laid out by the White House,
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  Speaker 2: especially on the delicate subject of expecting allies like the
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  Speaker 2: Europeans began shouldering more of the burden of their own security.
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  Speaker 2: The document blasted the European governments for creating a permissive
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  Speaker 2: operating environment for plotting against Europeans and Americans by allowing
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  Speaker 2: a conglomerate of nefarious actors like Al Qaeda, ISIS, cartels,
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  Speaker 2: and state actors to exploit Europe's wheak borders and diminish
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  Speaker 2: CT resources, saying this it is unacceptable that wealthy NATO
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  Speaker 2: allies can serve as financial, logistical and recruitment hubs for terrorists.
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  Speaker 2: The document bluntly declares unfettered mass immigration has been the
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  Speaker 2: transmission belt for terrorists.
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  Speaker 1: That warned Europe can be strong again if.
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  Speaker 2: It rediscovers traditional principles of freedom of speech, has honest
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  Speaker 2: conversations about Islamism, devote sufficient resources to mitigate terrorism and
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  Speaker 2: cartel threats within its nations, and then get serious about
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  Speaker 2: global threat intelligence.
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  Speaker 1: Finally saying this, it.
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  Speaker 2: Is clear to all the well organized hostile groups that
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  Speaker 2: have exploited the open borders and related globalist ideals. The
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  Speaker 2: more these alien cultures grow and the longer current European
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  Speaker 2: policies persist, the more terrorism is guaranteed. This is the
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  Speaker 2: new ringing of the alarm bell that no prior administration
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  Speaker 2: of either party would have been willing to touch since
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  Speaker 2: September the eleventh of two thousand and one. But what
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  Speaker 2: the White House has just laid out is an America
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  Speaker 2: First counter terrorism strategy that they say will bring security
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  Speaker 2: not only to the US but across the world by
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  Speaker 2: setting successful examples of border security and threat detection that
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  Speaker 2: allied nations can follow. The Trump administration and the White
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  Speaker 2: House say, America First and only is an expression of
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  Speaker 2: what we need, but it's common sense and honesty that
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  Speaker 2: would guide and inspire the rest of the civilized world.
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  Speaker 2: This now is the new priority of the President, clearly
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  Speaker 2: thinking far beyond what's happening right now in Iran.
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