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Kash Patel Targets the Mystery Money Trail Behind Minnesota’s Chaos · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of Americans that are asking this
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Speaker 1: question about what's happening in Minnesota, and that is Hold
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Speaker 1: on a second. As we're talking about ICE and all
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Speaker 1: the attacks on ICE agents and the shootings, what happened
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Speaker 1: to the billions of dollars in fraud that was uncovered, Well,
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Speaker 1: we're looking into that. That's exactly what we know is
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Speaker 1: coming out of the FBI. But what the FBI Director
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Speaker 1: Cash Hotel also says is there's going to be a
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Speaker 1: full investigation into the active actions of the left wing
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Speaker 1: terrorist organizations that are doing much of this in Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: He said this earlier today on my good friend Benny
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Speaker 1: Johnson's show, Take a Listen.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so this is breaking news. So are you and
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Speaker 2: the FBI and perhaps other intelligence agencies are fully aware
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Speaker 2: of this coordinated effort to attack federal law enforcement, to
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Speaker 2: impede them and potentially insurrect and so there is now
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Speaker 2: an open investigation into the into these chats and into
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Speaker 2: this coordinated network. Yeah, some of them are, some of
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Speaker 2: them are fleeing. Some of them are very scared. Now
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Speaker 2: you can see their chats. They're they're very, very worried
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Speaker 2: now that they have been exposed, Well, they should be.
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Speaker 3: If they broke the law, you should be worried. It's
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Speaker 3: that simple. If you didn't break the law, there's really
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Speaker 3: nothing to worry about on that front. And so you know,
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Speaker 3: we're going to continue as I've said from day one.
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Speaker 3: We will protect law enforcement. We will make sure they
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Speaker 3: have the security and safety to do their jobs. We
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Speaker 3: will also ensure that civilians have the ultimate protection of
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Speaker 3: the First and Second Amendment. But it is my job
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Speaker 3: to adjudicate the difference when there is a breaking a
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Speaker 3: federal statute or state law in the furtherance of a
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Speaker 3: crime or violence against law enforcement officers, and that's when
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Speaker 3: we step in.
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Speaker 4: And that is when we step in. Now. He wasn't
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Speaker 4: done there.
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Speaker 1: He also talked about they've identified the funders behind the
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Speaker 1: left wing groups attacking ice in Minnesota and what does
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Speaker 1: that look like.
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Speaker 2: Ash you've been doing And I saw some announcements just
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Speaker 2: this morning, some major arrests of some of the left
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Speaker 2: wing terrorists who've been attacking law enforcement, attacking federal agents,
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Speaker 2: stealing rifles. I believe it was an FBI rifle or
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Speaker 2: a DOJ rifle in this January fourteenth attacking. Gives update
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Speaker 2: on that.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely. Look, we've always said that, you know, we are
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Speaker 3: going to defend absolutely your right to peacefully protest under
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Speaker 3: the First Amendment, and we're also always going to uphold
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Speaker 3: your right to bare arms in the Second Amendment. That's
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Speaker 3: never changed. We're going to equally protect all of those
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Speaker 3: The only thing we're not going to do is allow
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Speaker 3: any of those amendments to be violated when you pursue
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Speaker 3: a course of action of violence against law enforcement. It's
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Speaker 3: that simple. That position has never changed. So on January fourteenth,
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Speaker 3: you referenced a mob literally rioted and destroyed federal police vehicles.
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Speaker 3: Of course we jumped into action. We caught and arrested
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Speaker 3: four individuals responsible for breaking those vehicles apart and dismandling
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Speaker 3: them completely. But I have an update for you. In
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Speaker 3: that vehicle was firearms Stitmich, thankfully we recovered, but was
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Speaker 3: information about law enforcement, federal agents and their personal information.
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Speaker 3: Individuals use that personal information on the ground to issue
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Speaker 3: threats of life against not only FBI agents, but their
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Speaker 3: wives and their children. So just last night, the FBI
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Speaker 3: arrested one of the individuals responsible for making those threats
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Speaker 3: to federal law enforcement and We're gonna have more rest
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Speaker 3: on that same matter today and tomorrow. We're not done.
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Speaker 3: And that's the distinction. You want to go out there
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Speaker 3: and peacefully protests, have at it. You want to go
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Speaker 3: out there and use your secondment and right to bear arms. Okay,
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Speaker 3: no problem, But look at the situation in Minnesota. This
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Speaker 3: is not something that just happened overnight. They've been riding recklessly,
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Speaker 3: destroying federal vehicles, ramming federal agents, literally hitting them, striking them,
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Speaker 3: and as you just highlighted, using coordinated attacks to threaten
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Speaker 3: their families. None of that is lawful and none of
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Speaker 3: that will be tolerated. You do not get to touch
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Speaker 3: law enforcement. And we've got also investigations I'm going into
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Speaker 3: the funding of this. We've made actual, substantial progress. I
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Speaker 3: just can't publicize it yet, but we've actually found groups
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Speaker 3: and individuals responsible for funding it because it's not happening organically.
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Speaker 1: It's not happening organically. Now we also know the FBI
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Speaker 1: Director Cash Pattel spoke about the investigation underway in the
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Speaker 1: Minnesota shooting. There's a lot of people that are obsessed
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Speaker 1: over that most recent shooting, and this is what he
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Speaker 1: had to say. About the transparency aspect of that investigation.
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Speaker 6: Joing me now with more on the investigation is the
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Speaker 6: director of the FBI Cash Partel Director. Thanks sorry much
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Speaker 6: for being here this morning. And I know that this
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Speaker 6: is a DHS investigation, but there is outrage across the
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Speaker 6: country that there is another killing. Someone is dead at
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Speaker 6: the hands of border patrol. What can you tell us?
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Speaker 3: Great to be with you, Maria, and look Secretary No
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Speaker 3: stated perfectly. You do not get to attack law enforcement
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Speaker 3: officials in this country without any repercussions. You do not
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Speaker 3: get to do that in Minnesota, LA, or anywhere else.
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Speaker 3: And the interagency is leading the charge out there. We've
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Speaker 3: already arrested with the Interagency those that violated the Face
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Speaker 3: Act and impeded a priestful prayer in church. We've already
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Speaker 3: just last night arrested four more individuals involved in the
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Speaker 3: damage of government property that we saw the videos of online.
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Speaker 3: We've arrested in other individuals who've meant threats to law
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Speaker 3: enforcement online. So we are not messing around. It doesn't
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Speaker 3: have to be in person. If you threaten law enforcement
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Speaker 3: officials or civilians, we are going to come find you.
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Speaker 3: And as for this latest shooting. Yes, DHS and HSI
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Speaker 3: are the lead, and the FBI is processing the physical evidence.
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Speaker 3: So we're in possession of the firearm, which is going
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Speaker 3: to go to our laboratory. But as Secretary Nome said,
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Speaker 3: no one who wants to be peaceful shows up as
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Speaker 3: a protest with a firearm that is loaded with two
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Speaker 3: full magazines. That is not a peaceful protest. And you
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Speaker 3: do not get to touch law enforcement. You do that anywhere.
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Speaker 3: FBI is going to be following, leading the charge to
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Speaker 3: arrest those But.
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Speaker 6: How was he threatening border patrol? You've collected the evidence,
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Speaker 6: you said, right, you have the handgun in your possession,
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Speaker 6: that's right, And how was he using that handgun in
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Speaker 6: terms of threatening border patrol? What was the threat? He
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Speaker 6: had his camera right, he was filming it.
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Speaker 3: That's something that I let the DHS and the prosecutors
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Speaker 3: because they are the ones investigating that case. I don't
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Speaker 3: want to stylize that evidence, but I trust the men
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Speaker 3: and women on the ground, who are trained professionals, to
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Speaker 3: only use it when it's absolutely necessary. And I trust
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Speaker 3: Secretary of Nomes leadership and DHS and HSI to do
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Speaker 3: the right thing as they've always done in these scenarios.
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Speaker 6: Christyomes said that the individual approached US Border patrol officers
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Speaker 6: with a nine millimeters semi automatic handgun. Was the gun
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Speaker 6: visible or did Border patrol see the gun after they
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Speaker 6: shot him?
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Speaker 7: Again?
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Speaker 3: All the moose pieces of the investigators are being led
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Speaker 3: by DHS and HSI, and I don't want to comment
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Speaker 3: on their ongoing investigation.
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Speaker 6: I understand, But you have the evidence. What can you
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Speaker 6: tell us about the evidence you collected.
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Speaker 3: It's sent to our FBI laboratory where it'll be fingerpristed.
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Speaker 3: We'll use ballistics examination toolkits to see if any casings
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Speaker 3: were fired, and we'll examine all the casings that were
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Speaker 3: found on the scene.
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Speaker 4: How much.
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Speaker 6: Of this has to do with some of the rhetoric
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Speaker 6: in your view, Just two weeks ago, the Governor Tim
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Speaker 6: Waltz told residents to get their phones and start filming
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Speaker 6: whatever is happening, and when they see border patrol, listen
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Speaker 6: to this. This is just two weeks ago from Governor
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Speaker 6: Tim Walt's watch.
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Speaker 8: If you see these ICE agents in your neighborhood, take
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Speaker 8: out that phone and hit record. Help us create a
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Speaker 8: database of the atrocities against Minnesotan's not just to establish
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Speaker 8: a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution.
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Speaker 9: Your reaction.
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Speaker 3: I think that type of rhetoric is exactly what's leading
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Speaker 3: to violence against law enforcement. That is totally baseless and unnecessary.
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Speaker 3: And for the State CEO to do that against our
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Speaker 3: law enforcement communities disgusting and revolting, and it should be
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Speaker 3: examined thoroughly as to anyone who's involved in inciting this
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Speaker 3: type of violence. It is absolutely improper, unlawful and will
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Speaker 3: not be tolerated any type of violence against law enforcement.
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Speaker 6: But it's not stopping. People are mad at ice and
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Speaker 6: want border patrol to stop. You saw what's happening right
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Speaker 6: now in Minneapolis. People are protesting in the streets, pushing
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Speaker 6: border patrol out.
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Speaker 7: How will this end?
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Speaker 3: This will end thanks to President Trump's brilliant leadership to
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Speaker 3: always back the blue. Law enforcement will hold the day.
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Speaker 3: The constitution and the rule of law will hold the day.
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Speaker 3: It is a tough time right now, but I believe
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Speaker 3: that our law enforcement officials on the ground, DHS, FBI,
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Speaker 3: local police force across the country are moving in the
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Speaker 3: right direction, and we will call these riots and we
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Speaker 3: will prevail. That's what we always do.
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Speaker 1: You can hear Cash Mattel making it clear they're not
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Speaker 1: going to back down. They're going to do what the
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Speaker 1: law says. They're going to go after the worst, and
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Speaker 1: no matter what the Left tries to do, including the
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Speaker 1: governor as you heard there just two weeks ago in
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Speaker 1: an official address to the people in his state. I
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Speaker 1: want to be clear that was an official address, like
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Speaker 1: what you would see the equivalent from the Oval office.
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Speaker 1: It is truly incredible to watch a governor tell his
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Speaker 1: citizens to turn on law enforcement. If you want to
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Speaker 1: know how we got to where we are now, with
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Speaker 1: the anarchy and the chaos and the streets and people's
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Speaker 1: lives that have been lost, it is because of this rhetoric.
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Speaker 1: Now the President is saying two things. One, we're going
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Speaker 1: to look into the corruption of the fraud. We're opening
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Speaker 1: investigations where we believe there needs to be investigations and
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Speaker 1: there will be accountability for these actions. He also says
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Speaker 1: we're going to look into people like elam Omar, and
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Speaker 1: we're not just gonna sit back and act like what
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Speaker 1: they've done had nothing to do with corruption either. They're
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Speaker 1: going on a fact finding mission and if Democrats are
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Speaker 1: upset about that, The question that should be asked now
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Speaker 1: is what are they hiding. I think we should know
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Speaker 1: who's paying for all of this. It isn't all out
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Speaker 1: civil war. That's what the Democrats said they wanted in Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: But now Tim Waltz has called President Donald Trump. And
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Speaker 1: here's what we've been told about that conversation, Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: putting up on true social The Governor Tim Waltz called
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Speaker 1: me with a request to work together with respect to Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: It was a very good call, and we actually seem
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Speaker 1: to be on a similar wavelength. I told Governor Waltz
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Speaker 1: that I would have Tom Homan call him and that
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Speaker 1: what we're looking for are any and all criminals that
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Speaker 1: they have in their possession. This is exactly, by the way,
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Speaker 1: what hundreds of other cities do when they catch a
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Speaker 1: criminal it's an legal immigrant, and then they work with
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Speaker 1: federal authorities ice to make sure that they are taken
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Speaker 1: into custody. That's not what they do in sanctuary cities
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Speaker 1: or states like Minnesota.
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Speaker 4: Back to the President's.
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Speaker 1: Own words, the governor very respectfully understood that and I
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Speaker 1: will be speaking to him in the near future. He
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Speaker 1: was happy that Tom Homan was going to Minnesota, and
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Speaker 1: so am I We have such tremendous success in Washington,
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Speaker 1: d C. Memphis, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana and virtually
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Speaker 1: every other place we have touched, and even in Minnesota
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Speaker 1: crime is way down, but both Governor Waltz and I
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Speaker 1: want to make it better. Signed President Donald J.
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Speaker 4: Trump.
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Speaker 1: Now that wasn't all that the President had to say
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Speaker 1: on this issue. He also hours before that put out
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Speaker 1: this statement on true Social I'm sending Tom Homan to
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Speaker 1: Minnesota tonight. He has not been involved in the area,
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Speaker 1: but knows and likes many of the people there. Tom
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Speaker 1: is tough, but fair, and report directly to me. Separately,
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Speaker 1: a major investigation is going on with respect to the
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Speaker 1: massive twenty billion dollar plus welfare fraud that has taken
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Speaker 1: place in Minnesota and is at least partially responsible for
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Speaker 1: the violent, organized protests going on the streets. Additionally, the
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Speaker 1: DOJ and Congress are looking at Congresswoman Ilamo mar who
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Speaker 1: left Somalia with nothing and is now reportedly worth more
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Speaker 1: than forty four million dollars. Time will tell all. Thank
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Speaker 1: you for your attention this matter. President Donald J.
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Speaker 4: Trump.
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Speaker 1: Now you put that together with the White House Press
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Speaker 1: Secretary as she laid it out today from the podium
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Speaker 1: at the White House, exactly what the plan is and
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Speaker 1: what the President's had to say about moving forward and
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Speaker 1: keeping all Americans safe. The President wants law and order,
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Speaker 1: not anarchy and chaos, which is what Governor Wald and
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Speaker 1: Mayor Fry have given us. Take a listen.
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Speaker 10: It is President Trump's hope and wish in demand for
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Speaker 10: the resistance in chaos to end today.
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Speaker 9: That's why President Trump spoke with.
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Speaker 10: Governor Walls directly this morning, and he has outlined a
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Speaker 10: clear and simple path to restoring law and order in Minnesota.
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Speaker 10: Number One, Governor Waltz, Mayrefry and all Democrat leaders should
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Speaker 10: turn over all criminal illegal aliens currently incarcerated in their
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Speaker 10: prisons in jails to federal authorities, along with any illegal
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Speaker 10: aliens with active warrants or known criminal histories for immediate deportation.
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Speaker 10: Number two, State and local law enforcement must agree to
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Speaker 10: turn over all illegal aliens who are arrested by local police.
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Speaker 10: And then, thirdly, local police must assist federal law enforcement
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Speaker 10: in apprehending, in detaining illegal aliens who are wanted for crimes,
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Speaker 10: especially violent crimes. If Governor Walson Marefry implement these common sense,
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Speaker 10: cooperative measures that I will add have already been implamed
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Speaker 10: minted in nearly every single other state across the country.
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Speaker 10: Customs and border patrol will not be needed to support
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Speaker 10: ICE on the ground in Minnesota. ICE in local law
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Speaker 10: enforcement can peacefully work together, as they are effectively doing
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Speaker 10: in so many other states and jurisdictions. Additionally, President Trump
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Speaker 10: is calling on the United States Congress to immediately pass
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Speaker 10: legislation ending sanctuary cities once and for all. American cities
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Speaker 10: should be safe sanctuaries for law abiding citizens only, not
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Speaker 10: for dangerous illegal alien criminals who broke our nation's laws
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Speaker 10: and do not belong here.
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Speaker 9: We hope Governor Walls will.
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Speaker 10: Do the right thing and continue to work with President
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Speaker 10: Trump to keep the American people safe. Following their call
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Speaker 10: this morning, Americans overwhelmingly want exactly what President Trump is delivering,
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Speaker 10: strong borders in strict immigration enforcement against the worst illegal aliens,
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Speaker 10: of which there are still hundreds of thousands to deport
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Speaker 10: from the interior of our country. The most peaceful way
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Speaker 10: to carry out this vital public safety mission is for
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Speaker 10: Republicans and Democrats to do it together, and for state
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Speaker 10: and local law enforcement to work together with federal law enforcement.
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Speaker 9: We want to let cops be cops. You wouldn't know.
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Speaker 10: This continues to be a very popular policy position from
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Speaker 10: the biased media coverage over the course of the last
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Speaker 10: few days, but polling shows huge support for this exact thing.
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Speaker 9: President Trump is calling for.
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Speaker 10: More than eighty percent of Americans favored deporting illegal.
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Speaker 9: Aliens convicted of violent crimes.
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Speaker 10: A country unable to deport criminals who enter it illegally
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Speaker 10: is no country at all.
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Speaker 9: The Open Border's agenda.
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Speaker 10: Of Kamala Harris, Tim Walls and the Democrats was already
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Speaker 10: on the ballot on November fifth, twenty twenty four, and
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Speaker 10: it was resoundingly rejected. President Trump will never back down
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Speaker 10: from his promise to deport violent, criminal illegal aliens and
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Speaker 10: make America safe again.
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Speaker 4: Caroline Levit is absolutely right.
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Speaker 1: The President was elected to do exactly what he's been doing,
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Speaker 1: and that is getting the worst among us out of
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Speaker 1: this country that broke into this country illegally. And if
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Speaker 1: you go back to exactly what the White House put out,
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Speaker 1: they've made it clear and transparent what they are demanding.
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Speaker 1: Number One, that Governor Waltson, Mayor Fry and all the
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Speaker 1: Democratic leaders should turn over all criminal legal aliens currently
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Speaker 1: incarcerated in their prisons and jails to federal authorities, along
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Speaker 1: with any illegal aliens with active warrants or known criminal
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Speaker 1: histories for immediate deportation. They also demand that state local
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Speaker 1: law enforcement must agree to turn over all illegal aliens
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Speaker 1: arrested by local police. Now, again, this is all exactly
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Speaker 1: what the law is state you must do.
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Speaker 4: The president is not asking.
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Speaker 1: For anything outside of what the state of laws say
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Speaker 1: in this country. Number three, local police must assist federal
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Speaker 1: law enforcement and apprehending and detaining illegal aliens wanted for crimes.
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Speaker 1: Ice and local law enforcement can peace well, we work together,
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Speaker 1: as they are effectively doing in so many other states
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Speaker 1: and jurisdictions to remove violent criminals from American neighborhoods. There
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Speaker 1: are literally hundreds of cities in America where what you're
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Speaker 1: witnessing in Minnesota is not happening because law enforcement is
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Speaker 1: working together. That's what it's supposed to be. Many times
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Speaker 1: when you see tragedies where they say they say local
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Speaker 1: law enforcement and federal law enforcement are working together. Right, local,
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Speaker 1: state and federal working together, especially when you're dealing with criminals.
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Speaker 1: But these individuals like Governor Walton, mayor Fry, refuse to
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Speaker 1: do this. They put illegal immigrant criminals ahead of American citizens.
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Speaker 1: The other thing that the President said, Additionally, he's calling
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Speaker 1: on the United States Congress to immediately pass legislation ending
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Speaker 1: sanctuary cities once and for all, because he understands that
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Speaker 1: every time there's a safe haven for these types of criminals,
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Speaker 1: it cost Americans their lives. It allows them a safe
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Speaker 1: haven to set up corruption and also to set up
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Speaker 1: crime syndicates. It also allows for illegal immigrants to steal
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Speaker 1: from American taxpayers. We've witnessed all of that in Minneapolis
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Speaker 1: and the surrounding area. American cities, he said, should be
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Speaker 1: safe sanctuaries for law abiding citizens only, not for dangerous
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Speaker 1: illegal alien criminals who broke our laws and do not
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Speaker 1: belong here. He said this, we hope Governor Waltz will
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Speaker 1: do the right thing and work with President Trump and
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Speaker 1: his team to keep America and the American people safe.
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Speaker 1: So it is clear now the President United States of
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Speaker 1: America is saying, look, I am representing you. Americans overwhelmingly
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Speaker 1: did exactly that an election day. They wanted strong borders,
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Speaker 1: they wanted strict immigration enforcement against the worst criminal legal aliens,
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Speaker 1: of which there are still hundreds of thousands to deport
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Speaker 1: from the interior of our country. You wouldn't know it,
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Speaker 1: the President says, from the bias media coverage. The polls
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Speaker 1: show huge support for this very thing. More than eighty
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Speaker 1: percent of Americans favor deporting legal aliens convicted of violent crimes.
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Speaker 1: The most peaceful way to carry out this vital public
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Speaker 1: safety mission, the White House says, is for Republicans and
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Speaker 1: Democrats to do it together, and for local and state
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Speaker 1: law enforcement to work with federal law enforcement to get
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Speaker 1: it done together. President Trump also saying he will never
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Speaker 1: back down from the promise to deport all violent criminal
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Speaker 11: you fast forward to where we're at today, where countries
20:25
Speaker 11: are building stockpiles, corporations are building stockpiles. Strategy, for example,
20:29
Speaker 11: is pretty much its entire business models around this. It's
20:31
Speaker 11: a piece of diversification that every major player in the
20:35
Speaker 11: space and economics is looking at, and so should too,
20:37
Speaker 11: the individual sovereignty of the average American looking to put
20:40
Speaker 11: it inside of their retirement.
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Speaker 1: You guys actually have a really cool stat that you
20:43
Speaker 1: told me about at dinner, and that is that your
20:46
Speaker 1: clients seventy five percent were born before nineteen seventy six.
20:51
Speaker 1: So the idea that you may be missed out on this,
20:53
Speaker 1: or if you're a little older, it's a young man's
20:55
Speaker 1: game in crypto that is also just not true.
20:58
Speaker 11: That's definitely one of the myths I want to come
21:00
Speaker 11: to bunk with you and your audience isn't This isn't
21:03
Speaker 11: our grandfather's economy, and grandfathers are buying bitcoin and putting
21:07
Speaker 11: it inside their retirement for long term holdings, especially now
21:09
Speaker 11: that they're thinking about inheritance and handing some of these
21:11
Speaker 11: things down. But yeah, that was actually shocking to me.
21:14
Speaker 11: We've discovered that in twenty eighteen that seventy five percent
21:17
Speaker 11: of them were older than my parents' generation. And what
21:21
Speaker 11: we found from surveying all of them was this is
21:23
Speaker 11: something that they think is new age and that I
21:25
Speaker 11: think almost every American, especially older ones, has a genuine
21:28
Speaker 11: concern of watching what's happened to the US dollar over
21:31
Speaker 11: the last four or five decades. And there's always been
21:33
Speaker 11: gold and silver's a potential hedge, land, real estate, these
21:36
Speaker 11: scarce assets and bitcoin. While it may seem oh that's
21:39
Speaker 11: digital and it's different, it's scarce. There's only twenty one
21:42
Speaker 11: million assets bitcoin that will ever be mined. Nineteen and
21:45
Speaker 11: a half million have been mined so far, and you
21:48
Speaker 11: and I actually won't live our kids will probably live
21:50
Speaker 11: to see the last one get mined. This is something
21:52
Speaker 11: you know, we're in a world of abundance since I
21:54
Speaker 11: was born in nineteen eighty five. It's abundance. We just
21:56
Speaker 11: printed and printed and printed more. This is a moment
21:58
Speaker 11: in time where we may be able to revert back
21:59
Speaker 11: to scarcity, and there'll be a day we're just saying
22:02
Speaker 11: I have one Bitcoin will be life changing.
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Speaker 4: Chris.
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Speaker 1: I hope a lot of people that are watching this,
22:06
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22:25
Speaker 1: can do for your portfolio. Senate Democrats are now threatening
22:31
Speaker 1: to vote down key funding bills, particularly homeland security funding,
22:36
Speaker 1: unless changes are made. What does this mean another government
22:40
Speaker 1: shut down? The Whiteouts and Republicans are rejecting the democrats
22:44
Speaker 1: demands for what they say is decoupling homeland security funding,
22:49
Speaker 1: which increases the chances of a partial government shut down.
22:53
Speaker 4: Now.
22:54
Speaker 1: The Democrats opposition comes amid fallout from controversial actions, they
22:59
Speaker 1: say by federal immigration agents, but critics argue this decision
23:03
Speaker 1: is creating political chaos and uncertainty now in the budget
23:07
Speaker 1: process and the standoff over the DHS funding means essential
23:11
Speaker 1: agencies like the Pentagon and education programs could face lapses
23:17
Speaker 1: in funding if the Democrats choose to shut down the
23:22
Speaker 1: government yet again. Now, opponents argue Democrats are playing hardball
23:26
Speaker 1: politically rather than negotiating, which could also hurt their standing
23:30
Speaker 1: with the public, and we can trust in the government
23:33
Speaker 1: operations in general under their leadership. There's also a bigger
23:38
Speaker 1: part of this Democrats going all in to attack law
23:42
Speaker 1: and order, to attack law enforcement, and now wanting to
23:47
Speaker 1: deliberately defund law enforcement. Is this really the message they
23:51
Speaker 1: want to be sending to voters ahead of the midterms.
23:54
Speaker 1: Apparently they say yes. Now, how likely is it that
23:58
Speaker 1: we will have a government shut down? Senator Ted Cruz
24:01
Speaker 1: and I sat down and talked about exactly that, and
24:04
Speaker 1: here's what he said about his prediction of will we
24:07
Speaker 1: actually have another partial government shutdown? And what we're now
24:12
Speaker 1: witnessing is Democrats, I think, feel like this issue plays
24:18
Speaker 1: to their base, It engages their base, and they're now
24:22
Speaker 1: going to use it to justify another government shut down.
24:28
Speaker 4: This is my opinion.
24:29
Speaker 1: I want to get your thoughts on it because I
24:31
Speaker 1: think that we're headed there for this reason where they're like, hey,
24:35
Speaker 1: we have a justification now for what we want to
24:37
Speaker 1: get rid of ice. When we get rid of ice
24:39
Speaker 1: funding funding for them? Is that wor' showing the government
24:41
Speaker 1: down over? Are you seeing the way I'm seeing it
24:44
Speaker 1: now that this is where we're headed.
24:46
Speaker 7: Yes, But before we get the shut down, I want
24:48
Speaker 7: to point out because politically, it's more than just their base. Yes,
24:52
Speaker 7: it is true that these violent protests energize their base, drives, turnout,
24:57
Speaker 7: drives fundraising. The crazies get all the more excited the
25:01
Speaker 7: more violence the left foments. But it's about more than that.
25:05
Speaker 7: It's also about totally capturing the news cycle, taking the
25:10
Speaker 7: fraud and corruption out of the news cycle. That's a
25:13
Speaker 7: totally separate objective that is critically important to them. But
25:16
Speaker 7: there is a third one ben which is not the
25:19
Speaker 7: base of the Democrat Party, but rather moderate women soccer
25:24
Speaker 7: moms who may not be deeply politically engaged, and historically
25:30
Speaker 7: moderate suburban women have been a swing vote. If you
25:33
Speaker 7: look in the last decade, the two most predominant political
25:38
Speaker 7: movements we've seen is that we've seen number one, blue
25:41
Speaker 7: collar voters moving right. That's moved Midwestern states. States like
25:46
Speaker 7: Ohio have gotten a lot red. They used to be purple.
25:48
Speaker 7: Ohio's now read. But we've also seen suburban voters, particularly
25:52
Speaker 7: suburban women, moving left, and that's moved what used to
25:56
Speaker 7: be red states to purple. States like Georgia and Arizona,
26:00
Speaker 7: both of them. Just a few years ago they had
26:02
Speaker 7: four Republican senators from Georgia and Arizona. We now have
26:06
Speaker 7: four Democrat senators from Georgia and Arizona. The reason is
26:10
Speaker 7: suburban women in Atlanta and Phoenix move left. The Democrats
26:15
Speaker 7: of the media are seizing on this to tell stories
26:19
Speaker 7: and understand they're looking for not the person that is
26:22
Speaker 7: following every development, but just the person who's living their
26:26
Speaker 7: life and taking in what's happening and seeing a headline.
26:31
Speaker 7: You know, Ice shoots mother of three, Ice shoots ICU nurse,
26:38
Speaker 7: Ice apprehends five year old child. That story was everywhere,
26:42
Speaker 7: by the way, it's a total lie. It's absolutely false.
26:45
Speaker 7: In fact, what happened is Ice came to apprehend the father.
26:49
Speaker 7: The father ran off and abandoned the five year old child,
26:52
Speaker 7: and understandably, Ice was not going to leave a five
26:55
Speaker 7: year old child alone on the street in the middle.
26:58
Speaker 4: Of death outside.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they would leave alone period. But the
27:03
Speaker 1: argument that the left has made, I'm like, let me
27:04
Speaker 1: get this straight. You guys want the kid to be
27:06
Speaker 1: left alone just to wander the streets of a city
27:09
Speaker 1: and be alone.
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Speaker 4: That's insane.
27:11
Speaker 1: And then in the winter when they could freeze death,
27:13
Speaker 1: that's also insane.
27:14
Speaker 7: They by the way, they found the woman, the mother
27:16
Speaker 7: of the child. It is reported they found the mother
27:20
Speaker 7: of the child. They knocked on the door, tried to
27:21
Speaker 7: give the child back to her. She wouldn't take him.
27:24
Speaker 7: She closed the door and said, no, I won't take him.
27:27
Speaker 7: And so, look, the purpose of that story is not
27:30
Speaker 7: actually factual journalism. It is entirely about telling a story
27:35
Speaker 7: to pull on people's heartstrings and to cause suburban voters
27:41
Speaker 7: who are not paying close attention to say, oh, this
27:44
Speaker 7: has gone too far. If they're shooting moms and nurses
27:47
Speaker 7: and arresting little kids, clearly it's gone too far. This
27:51
Speaker 7: is a political campaign, and tragically it's a political campaign
27:55
Speaker 7: that is costing people's lives. But because look, the political
27:59
Speaker 7: campaign has had some real effect. It is it is
28:02
Speaker 7: having a fact We saw you know John Kasik speaking
28:07
Speaker 7: of suburban women. We saw John Kasik put out a
28:13
Speaker 7: whole video saying, you know, oh, oh, I'm just I'm
28:17
Speaker 7: hurting so much. We must stop, we must stop arresting illegals.
28:22
Speaker 6: You know.
28:22
Speaker 7: Unfortunately that's the target audience. And in the world of politics,
28:28
Speaker 7: we've got to realize that we've got to confront the
28:32
Speaker 7: bad stories with stories that are compelling, and it's where
28:35
Speaker 7: tone matters, and I would encourage Look, the administration is
28:39
Speaker 7: doing a fantastic job securing the border. Illegal crossings have
28:43
Speaker 7: dropped ninety nine percent. It's phenomenal. They're doing a terrific
28:47
Speaker 7: job going and arresting violent criminals, murderers and rapists and
28:51
Speaker 7: gang bangers, which is why we've seen the murder rate
28:55
Speaker 7: drop twenty percent. We covered that in the last podcast,
28:58
Speaker 7: that the murder rate has dropped twenty percent sent across
29:01
Speaker 7: the country. That's a massive success. What I think the
29:04
Speaker 7: administration could do better is the tone with which they're
29:08
Speaker 7: describing this. That immediately when an incident like this happens,
29:13
Speaker 7: they come out guns blazing that we took out a
29:17
Speaker 7: violent terrorist, hooray. And the problem is, particularly for someone
29:22
Speaker 7: not paying attention if you're being told this is a
29:25
Speaker 7: mom of three and there's no indication you know, she's
29:28
Speaker 7: not waving an ISIS flag or doesn't have a suicide
29:32
Speaker 7: vest around her. Yeah, escalating the rhetoric doesn't help, and
29:37
Speaker 7: it actually loses credibility. And so I would encourage the
29:41
Speaker 7: administration to be more measured, to recognize the tragedy and
29:45
Speaker 7: to say we don't want anyone anyone's lives to be lost.
29:49
Speaker 7: And the politicians who are pouring gasoline onto this fire,
29:55
Speaker 7: they need to stop.
29:56
Speaker 4: Yeah.
29:56
Speaker 1: I agree with you there, and I also think, look,
29:58
Speaker 1: facts matter. Blaming what happened is very important to five
30:02
Speaker 1: year old story is a perfect example. All the morning
30:05
Speaker 1: news shows, ABCNBCCBS, they led with that story and ran
30:08
Speaker 1: it into the ground that morning, that a five year
30:11
Speaker 1: old was detained by ice, and they didn't correct that story.
30:15
Speaker 1: Not only is the Democratic Party looking for an opportunity,
30:17
Speaker 1: so is the media and they now believe that like
30:21
Speaker 1: this civil war and hold this flag up is you
30:24
Speaker 1: know and planet is we as Democrats were willing to
30:26
Speaker 1: shut down the government to defund ice. That's going to
30:29
Speaker 1: be the premise, is what I've been told from from
30:32
Speaker 1: many in the media that I've talked to and some
30:34
Speaker 1: of my friends on the left, they're like, yeah, we're
30:36
Speaker 1: gonna shut down. We're justified this time, way more than
30:38
Speaker 1: we were last time. Last time we really weren't justified
30:41
Speaker 1: very much in shutting down the government, but we tried
30:43
Speaker 1: it anyway. Now they actually feel in bolden do you
30:46
Speaker 1: think a government shutdown is going to come?
30:48
Speaker 4: Yes or no?
30:49
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, okay, and it's going to be tied to
30:53
Speaker 1: this issue, right, yes, yes, a.
30:54
Speaker 7: One hundred percent. The last government shutdown, which was the
30:58
Speaker 7: longest government shutdown in USS, Chuck Schumer and the Democrats
31:01
Speaker 7: forced through really to show his radical base that he
31:05
Speaker 7: was fighting because he's scared of being primary by AOC.
31:09
Speaker 7: But they also did it to tee up the issue
31:11
Speaker 7: of health care and the cost of health insurance premiums.
31:14
Speaker 7: Mind you, the premiums have skyrocketed because of Obamacare, because
31:18
Speaker 7: of their policy. But they did the shutdown. It was
31:22
Speaker 7: entirely with an eye towards November that they say, look,
31:25
Speaker 7: we fought like crazy on health insurance, and the mean
31:28
Speaker 7: Republicans didn't give us what we wanted, which was fifty
31:31
Speaker 7: billion dollars in corporate welfare subsidies to giant health insurance companies,
31:35
Speaker 7: and that's why your health insurance has gone up. Now
31:38
Speaker 7: that's factually wrong, but it is a political narrative they're
31:43
Speaker 7: telling here. They are going to tell the narrative, we
31:48
Speaker 7: will not fund ICE under any circumstances, and we will
31:51
Speaker 7: shut the government down. And by the way, the media
31:54
Speaker 7: covered for them so much. Their base was so happy
31:58
Speaker 7: with the shutdown. I think if they perceive very few
32:01
Speaker 7: downsides to shutting the government down. Now, this shutdown that
32:06
Speaker 7: will happen on January thirtieth will be will likely be
32:09
Speaker 7: smaller than the previous one. And the reason is we've funded.
32:12
Speaker 1: Still explain explain whide because does that mean they're being
32:15
Speaker 1: more strategic in how they're doing it, or explain that.
32:19
Speaker 7: Now between the two we have passed some appropriations bills.
32:22
Speaker 7: So once appropriations bills are passed, those departments are funding,
32:27
Speaker 7: so AG that the Department of Agriculture is funded, and
32:30
Speaker 7: so everything that goes through AG is funded, CJS, Commerce,
32:35
Speaker 7: Justice and science that is funded. Energy is funded, water
32:38
Speaker 7: is funded, Interior environment, ledge branch, military construction in the VA,
32:45
Speaker 7: all of those are funded. So the shutdown will not
32:48
Speaker 7: impact any of those. So what would a shutdown impact?
32:52
Speaker 7: It would it would impact Defense, the Department of War,
32:55
Speaker 7: It would impact the Department of Labor, It would impact HHS,
32:59
Speaker 7: It would impact the Department of Education, It would impact
33:03
Speaker 7: the Department of Transportation and Housing in urban Development. It
33:06
Speaker 7: would impact the SEC, the FCC, the independent agencies, And
33:11
Speaker 7: it would impact DHS, the Department of Homeland Security, and
33:15
Speaker 7: ICE directly under that. And I think you're going to
33:18
Speaker 7: see the Democrats force a shut down. And actually you
33:21
Speaker 7: don't have to take my words for it. Here, let
33:24
Speaker 7: me read for you what Schumer tweeted out to the world.
33:27
Speaker 7: He said, quote, what's happening in Minnesota is appalling and
33:32
Speaker 7: unacceptable in any American city. Democrats sought common sense reforms
33:37
Speaker 7: in the Department of Homeland Security spending bill, but because
33:40
Speaker 7: of Republican's refusal to stand up to President Trump, the
33:44
Speaker 7: DHS bill is woefully inadequate to rein in the abuses
33:47
Speaker 7: of ICE. I will vote no. Senate Democrats will not
33:52
Speaker 7: provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if
33:56
Speaker 7: the DHS funding bill is included. Area is explicitly unequivocally
34:02
Speaker 7: threatening a shutdown. I think that's what we're gonna see,
34:05
Speaker 7: come James.
34:06
Speaker 4: And by the way, he's not the only one.
34:07
Speaker 1: So Elizabeth Warren was responding to another tweet.
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Speaker 4: I want to read it.
34:10
Speaker 1: It was just the tweet she was responding to to
34:13
Speaker 1: give it context. Says reminder, DHS legislation that funds ICE
34:17
Speaker 1: at current levels without policy restrictions is in the Senate
34:21
Speaker 1: and needs sixty votes to pass. Deadline is next Friday.
34:24
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren puts that out there with this and she says, quote,
34:28
Speaker 1: I'm a hell no, not a penny more for ICE.
34:31
Speaker 1: We should not fund this terror. So she's also jumping
34:36
Speaker 1: on board with this as well. And then there's other
34:38
Speaker 1: centers have come out and so this is why I
34:40
Speaker 1: say this isn't a one off. This is clearly a
34:43
Speaker 1: coordinated attack, is the best way I can describe it.
34:46
Speaker 7: Well, here's Chris Murphy on CNN, give a listen.
34:49
Speaker 5: I want to ask about what you're leader. Chuck Schumber says,
34:54
Speaker 5: the Democrats are going to vote against a government funding
34:56
Speaker 5: package that is before the Senate soon and it includes
35:00
Speaker 5: money for the Department of Homeland Security. How is that
35:03
Speaker 5: going to play out?
35:04
Speaker 8: Well, we can't vote to fund this lawless Department of
35:08
Speaker 8: Homeland Security.
35:09
Speaker 1: We can't fund this lawless Department of Homeland Security center.
35:13
Speaker 1: That's pretty bold words if you ask me by a
35:15
Speaker 1: center that clearly is like, hey, we're all on the
35:17
Speaker 1: same page.
35:17
Speaker 4: This is what we're doing. Now.
35:19
Speaker 7: Yeah, Look, that's the position of every Democrat. And understand
35:23
Speaker 7: this is the same position that is abolish ICE and
35:26
Speaker 7: abolish the police. They're saying they're going to refuse to
35:30
Speaker 7: fund the Department of Homeland Security, the department that is
35:34
Speaker 7: charged with keeping us safe, with securing our border, with
35:37
Speaker 7: protecting our families, and the Democrats are saying we won't
35:41
Speaker 7: fund it. So what will happen. I think there's a
35:45
Speaker 7: chance we see Congress put together an appropriations package that
35:48
Speaker 7: funds everything but DHS, that that might be that might pass.
35:54
Speaker 7: In terms of DHS. I think the Democrats are going
35:58
Speaker 7: to force a shutdown, and I think they want it
36:00
Speaker 7: to be extended and in order.
36:02
Speaker 4: This is not a short one.
36:04
Speaker 1: To be clear, you think they want this to be painful,
36:07
Speaker 1: almost like they're running in the midterms on this issue
36:09
Speaker 1: of ICE.
36:10
Speaker 7: I think they want to be able to tell their base,
36:13
Speaker 7: we are defunding ICE, we are abolishing ice, we are
36:17
Speaker 7: against law enforcement. We'rew the criminals. That's their messaging.
36:22
Speaker 4: Well, keep following this story.
36:23
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