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Merrick Garland Names Special Counsel on Trump, Still No Special Counsel on Hunter Biden · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: A special counsel. It's official will now be investigating Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: This after just two days ago, Republicans announced that they
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  Speaker 1: would be investigating Joe Biden and the Biden crime family.
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  Speaker 1: And what did Joe Biden say in response? Watch this?
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden is completely weaponized the Department of Justice now
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  Speaker 1: to officially attack is a political opponent. Three days ago,
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  Speaker 1: Trump announced that he was running for president, and now
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  Speaker 1: we have a special counsel. You want to know what
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  Speaker 1: Trump de arrangement syndrome looks like? This is it? Eric
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  Speaker 1: Trump put it this way when he sent out a
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  Speaker 1: tweet saying, interesting that just two days ago, the day
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  Speaker 1: after my father announced his president to run, and a
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  Speaker 1: day after the House launches investigations to the Biden family corruption,
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  Speaker 1: Biden in parentheses, his likely challenger announce as a special
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  Speaker 1: counsel to prosecute him. Referring to his father, Eric Trump says,
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  Speaker 1: this is communism, but I'm sure this wasn't planned. American
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  Speaker 1: political corruption at its finest. This right after Nancy Pelosi
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  Speaker 1: decides to step down, and you have to wonder how
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  Speaker 1: much was she involved in this parting gift. Now the
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  Speaker 1: Attorney General Garland announce this new special counsel to investigate Trump,
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  Speaker 1: not to investigate the president of the United States of America,
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  Speaker 1: or to investigate the president's son and their business dealings
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  Speaker 1: with all of the corruption that we heard from the
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  Speaker 1: Republicans and the evidence against him. No, no, no, we
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't do that, would we Instead what we will do,
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  Speaker 1: And it's very clear this is the future of the
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  Speaker 1: Republican or excuse me, the future of the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 1: They want to lock up their political opponents and they're
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  Speaker 1: using the government to do it. Merrick Garland is officially
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  Speaker 1: named a special counsel, as there is still no special
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  Speaker 1: counsel on the Hunter Biden corruption. Here is what Merrick Garland,
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  Speaker 1: the Attorney General, had to say about this special council appointment.
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  Speaker 1: Clearly revenge. The Department of Justice has long recognized that
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  Speaker 1: in certain extraordinary cases, it is in the public interest
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  Speaker 1: to appoint a special prosecutor to independently manage an investigation
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  Speaker 1: and prosecution. Based on recent developments, including the former president's
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  Speaker 1: announcement that he is a candidate for president in the
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  Speaker 1: next election and the sitting president stated intention to be
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  Speaker 1: a candidate as well, I have concluded that it is
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  Speaker 1: in the public interest to appoint a special council such
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  Speaker 1: an appointment. Let's just stop there. So the president decides
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  Speaker 1: to run, and therefore you decide that you're going to
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  Speaker 1: a point a special prosecutor. Because he decided to run,
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  Speaker 1: and because your boss is going to be who he's
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  Speaker 1: running against, and because you've lost the House, this is
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  Speaker 1: now an important moment you think for a special counsel
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  Speaker 1: to be named. Now we also know who the guy
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  Speaker 1: is who's a special counsel. He talks about that, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get into that for a minute in
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  Speaker 1: a minute, but I wanted you to hear the crutch
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  Speaker 1: of the timing of this. And he's basically saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: since Donald Trump has decided, after the American people in
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  Speaker 1: his opinion right voted him out, since he has decided
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  Speaker 1: to run again, we must step in and we must
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  Speaker 1: stop him. That's what he's telling you. That's what he's
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  Speaker 1: saying here. It's that we must step in and we
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  Speaker 1: must hold him accountable. Really, that's how we're going to
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  Speaker 1: do this. Now. Apparently, folks, apparently, now I'll let you
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  Speaker 1: hear in its entiretyam, because I want you to hear
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  Speaker 1: the entire announcement. But I wanted to play for you
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  Speaker 1: that point that we pulled out there, because that's the
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  Speaker 1: mindset you need to understand as you hear this announcement.
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  Speaker 1: This is an attorney general saying, how dare you run
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  Speaker 1: for president again? And since you decide to do that,
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  Speaker 1: we will bury you and make sure that you cannot
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  Speaker 1: get elected to be president again. We're going to bury
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  Speaker 1: you with a special counsel. Good afternoon. I'm here today
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  Speaker 1: to announce the appointment of a special council in connection
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  Speaker 1: with two ongoing criminal investigations that have received significant public attention.
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  Speaker 1: The first, as ascribed in court filings in the District
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  Speaker 1: of Columbia, is the investigation into whether any person or
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  Speaker 1: entity unlawfully interfered with the transfer of power following the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty presidential election or the certification of the Electoral
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  Speaker 1: College vote held honor about January six, twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: The second is the ongoing investigation involving classified documents and
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  Speaker 1: other presidential records, as well as the possible obstruction of
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  Speaker 1: that investigation, referenced and described in court filings an appending
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  Speaker 1: matter in the Southern District of Florida. I am joined
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  Speaker 1: today by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, US Attorney for
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  Speaker 1: the District of Columbia, Matthew Graves, an Assistant Attorney General
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  Speaker 1: for the Criminal Vision, Kenneth Polyte, Assistant Attorney General for
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  Speaker 1: National Security. Matthew Olsen could not be here. He is
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  Speaker 1: currently in Germany representing the Department at the G seven
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  Speaker 1: Home Affairs and Security Ministerial. US Attorney Graves has been
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  Speaker 1: ably leading the investigations into the events leading up to
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  Speaker 1: and on January sixth. He and dozens of assistant US
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  Speaker 1: Attorneys and other prosecutors have taken on the monumental task
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  Speaker 1: of conducting over nine hundred prosecutions in defense of our
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  Speaker 1: democratic institutions. Criminal Division prosecutors, under the able leadership of
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  Speaker 1: Assistant Attorney General Polite, have played a significant role in
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  Speaker 1: those prosecutions. Assistant Attorney General Olson has been ably leading
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  Speaker 1: the team responsible for investigating the matter involving classified documents
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  Speaker 1: and other presidential records, as well as the possible obstruction
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  Speaker 1: of that investigation. All of the career prosecutors assigned to
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  Speaker 1: these matters are conducting their work in the best traditions
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  Speaker 1: of the Department of Justice. I also want to recognize
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  Speaker 1: the efforts of the many FBI agents and other law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement personnel who are assigned to these matters. They are
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  Speaker 1: working courageously and steadfastly and are serving our nation honorably.
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  Speaker 1: I am grateful to them. We all are. Let's be clear,
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  Speaker 1: if you're investigating the former president of the United States America,
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  Speaker 1: you're a patriot. You're doing God's work. You are doing
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  Speaker 1: the work that is desperately needed to be done. How
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  Speaker 1: about Hunter Biden and James Biden and Joe Biden. How
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  Speaker 1: about the fact that you have fifty different nations that
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  Speaker 1: he was trying to sell out American interest to that
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  Speaker 1: could be compromising the president of the United States of
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  Speaker 1: America right now, You're not going to look into that.
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  Speaker 1: How about all the whistleblowers that have come forward and
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  Speaker 1: said that there is a massive problem at the Department
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  Speaker 1: of Justice and the FBI, that there is incredible amounts
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  Speaker 1: of nefarious activities and cover ups. You're not going to
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  Speaker 1: look into that either. Apparently not. We don't look into
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  Speaker 1: those types of things, now, do we. No, Instead, we
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  Speaker 1: decide to go after our political enemies. I dare you
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  Speaker 1: to announce your running for president, Donald Trump That's what
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  Speaker 1: they were saying. I dare you, I dare you go
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  Speaker 1: for it? Watch what happens? Oh you did it? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Well now now it's game on. Now we're coming after
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  Speaker 1: you like never before. Now we're going to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that you are buried in this legal fiasco forever. And
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  Speaker 1: if you think that we're gonna let you have another
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  Speaker 1: legitimate shot at the White House, you're wrong. We'll never
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  Speaker 1: let you have that legitimate shot at the White House.
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  Speaker 1: You have better sit there and shut up and beg
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  Speaker 1: for mercy. And the people that are investigating you, Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 1: what are they? They're patriots. They're defending democracy. That is
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  Speaker 1: the message from the Attorney General of the United States
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  Speaker 1: of America. This is what communist countries do, and you're
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  Speaker 1: watching it happen right here. Now here's the other thing.
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  Speaker 1: If this was so important and you knew who was
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  Speaker 1: going to have the job, why didn't you do it
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  Speaker 1: before election day? Mister Attorney general? Why did you wait
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  Speaker 1: till a couple of days after the president, former President
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump announces that he is running. I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: exactly why. Because they knew if they did it before
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  Speaker 1: the election, there would be a red wave. They're not stupid.
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  Speaker 1: They would know what people and how people would have
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  Speaker 1: reacted if this would have happened and broke right before election,
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  Speaker 1: they would have said, oh, okay, so we live in
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  Speaker 1: a country that's supposed to be about the people and
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  Speaker 1: now you guys have turned into a dictatorship and communist country.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you're moving for. Yeah, we're going to fight
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  Speaker 1: back on election day. That's why they held it, and
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  Speaker 1: that's why they waited. Who have they named Jack L.
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  Speaker 1: Smith's special counsel in this televised press statement. Here's more
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  Speaker 1: of the announcement. Apartment of Justice has long recognized that
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  Speaker 1: in certain extraordinary cases, it is in the public interest
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  Speaker 1: to appoint a special prosecutor to independently manage an investigation
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  Speaker 1: and prosecution. Based on recent developments, including the former president's
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  Speaker 1: announcement that he is a candidate for president in the
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  Speaker 1: next election and the sitting presidents stated intention to be
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  Speaker 1: a candidate as well, I have concluded that it is
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  Speaker 1: in the public interest to appoint a special council. Such
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  Speaker 1: an appointment underscores the Department's commitment to both independence and
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  Speaker 1: accountability in particularly sensitive matters. It also allows prosecutors and
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  Speaker 1: agents to continue their work expeditiously and to make decisions
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  Speaker 1: indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. The
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  Speaker 1: Special Council will conduct parts of the first investigation I
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  Speaker 1: just mentioned, the investigation into whether any person or entity
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  Speaker 1: unlawfully interfered with the transfer of power following the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty presidential election or with the certification of Electoral College
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  Speaker 1: vote held to Honor about January sixth. This does not
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  Speaker 1: include prosecutions that are currently pending in the District of Columbia,
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  Speaker 1: or future investigations and prosecutions of individuals for offenses committed
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  Speaker 1: while they were physically present on the Capitol grounds on
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  Speaker 1: January sixth. Those investigations and prosecutions will remain under the
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  Speaker 1: authority of the U S Attorney for the District of Columbia.
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  Speaker 1: The Special Council will also conduct the investigation involving classified
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  Speaker 1: documents and other presidential records, as well as the possible
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  Speaker 1: obstruction of that investigation. Today I signed an order appointing
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  Speaker 1: Jack Smith to serve as Special Council. The order authorizes
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  Speaker 1: him to continue the ongoing investigation into both of the
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  Speaker 1: matters that I have just described and to prosecute any
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  Speaker 1: federal crimes that may arise from those investigations. Mister Smith
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  Speaker 1: is a veteran career prosecutor. He began his prosecutorial career
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety four as an assistant attorney with the
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  Speaker 1: New York County DA's office. In nineteen ninety nine, he
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  Speaker 1: became an assistant US attorney for the Eastern District of
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  Speaker 1: New York, where, over the course of nine years, he
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  Speaker 1: prosecuted matters ranging from gang murders of police officers to
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  Speaker 1: civil rights violations. From two thousand and eight to two ten,
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  Speaker 1: he served with the International Criminal Court, where he supervised
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  Speaker 1: war crimes investigations. In twenty ten, mister Smith returned to
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  Speaker 1: the Justice Department to serve as Chief of the Public
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  Speaker 1: Integrity Section, where he led a team of more than
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  Speaker 1: thirty prosecutors who handled public corruption and election crimes cases
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  Speaker 1: across the United States. I'm still in shock as I
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  Speaker 1: listened to this, because you have an Attorney General, a
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  Speaker 1: guy that still angries on the Supreme Court, who is
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  Speaker 1: clearly taking orders from an unhinged Biden administration. You know,
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  Speaker 1: all of the things they said that Donald Trump was
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  Speaker 1: going to do. They was going to weaponize the DOJ,
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  Speaker 1: who was going to weaponize the FBI, who was going
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  Speaker 1: to weaponize the White House? He was gonna go after
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  Speaker 1: his political enemies. Have you noticed that that's exactly what
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats have actually been doing all along? Have you
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  Speaker 1: noticed that every single thing that they said that they
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  Speaker 1: were going to do, that that Trump was going to do,
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  Speaker 1: is literally now what they have been doing the entire
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  Speaker 1: time they've had power, and even when they didn't have power,
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  Speaker 1: they were doing everything they could to undermine the president
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  Speaker 1: of the United States of America. Let's never ever forget, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's never ever forget that this White House was the
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  Speaker 1: same White House that worked with Hillary Clinton, that worked
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  Speaker 1: with a deep state. They worked with Nancy Pelosi to
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  Speaker 1: impeache Donald Trump, not once, but twice on false pretenses,
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  Speaker 1: knowing that it wasn't true. You had an FBI, a CIA,
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  Speaker 1: a DOJ that all knew that the evidence being used
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  Speaker 1: in peach Donald Trump the first time, and that was
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  Speaker 1: being used to overthrow the will of the people who
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  Speaker 1: elected Donald Trump in a free and fair election. They
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  Speaker 1: were willing to overthrow a country with bad information information
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  Speaker 1: they knew was created a thin air from the Democratic
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  Speaker 1: National Committee, they paid for it and started Hillary Clinton's campaign.
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  Speaker 1: At any point, any one of them could have stood
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  Speaker 1: up and said, all this information from this Russian collusion
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  Speaker 1: still dossier is total crap. We know it's crap. We've
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  Speaker 1: done assessment of this. They could have leaked it to
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  Speaker 1: the press. They could have said that this was crap
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  Speaker 1: and it would have stopped. But they chose not to.
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  Speaker 1: And now those people who are still in power, that
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  Speaker 1: are still dug in at the DOJ and the FBI
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  Speaker 1: are now coming back to get their revenge onhn Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 1: how dare you run for president again after we got
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  Speaker 1: rid of you the last time? How dare you think
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  Speaker 1: that you could come back and have a free and
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  Speaker 1: fair election. In fact, we're going to bury you. We
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  Speaker 1: don't care about actual corruption. We don't care about what
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  Speaker 1: just happened with people losing billions of dollars in the
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  Speaker 1: cryptocurrency scheme that just happened where this guy just oh
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  Speaker 1: so happened to be the second largest donor to the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Party in the midterm elections. We don't care about that, right,
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  Speaker 1: we don't care. That's not what we care about. We
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  Speaker 1: don't care about the fact that the Federman campaign lied.
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  Speaker 1: His advisors are now admitting, okay, well, the Center will
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  Speaker 1: not be able to answer questions in a usual way.
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  Speaker 1: We don't care about the fact that the the Bankman
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  Speaker 1: Freed brothers have led joint efforts to raise money for
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  Speaker 1: the Democratic Party, and they donated thirty eight million to
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  Speaker 1: political campaigns and groups during the midterm elections, and twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven million went to a pack, a liberal pack, so
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  Speaker 1: that they wouldn't have to worry about regulation. Now these
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  Speaker 1: people have lost their money. This ponzi scheme that just
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  Speaker 1: went down with this you know, insane cryptocurrency exchange. It
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  Speaker 1: was unregulated because the Democrats are getting paid off by
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  Speaker 1: these brothers, were getting paid off by the CEO. You
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  Speaker 1: want to know why they let it happen, because they
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  Speaker 1: don't care they were getting paid and then it collapses
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  Speaker 1: and files for bankruptcy just days after the election. Democrats said,
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  Speaker 1: all right, we'll let you funnel money, will let you
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  Speaker 1: steal money, will let you do all these corrupt things
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  Speaker 1: as long as you give us a cut. And that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what they did, and he made it till after
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  Speaker 1: the election. You understand now that this is that we're
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  Speaker 1: not the freest country in the world. When this type
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  Speaker 1: of stuff can be pulled off, we are no longer
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  Speaker 1: the freest or the greatest country in the world. This
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  Speaker 1: is our government turning against the people in this country.
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  Speaker 1: Now the White House is laughing about this at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Secretary acting like this is somehow independent of them, refusing,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, to also say if Joe Biden was
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  Speaker 1: involved in Hunter Biden's foreign business deals. After the Republicans
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  Speaker 1: have said they are, they are investigating what they believe
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  Speaker 1: are true crimes. Take a listen. The top Republican on
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  Speaker 1: the House Oversight Committee, Congressman Comer, has said that he's
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  Speaker 1: investigating the president's involvement in his son Hunter's foreign business dealings. One,
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  Speaker 1: looking for your reaction to that, and then on the
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  Speaker 1: merits of the allegations, can you address whether the President
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  Speaker 1: was involved in any of his son, Hunter or his
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  Speaker 1: brother's foreign business dealings. So look, you know, um, there's
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  Speaker 1: kind of on brand thinking here because um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Congressional Republicans ran up saying that they were going to
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  Speaker 1: fight inflation. They said they were going to make that
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  Speaker 1: a priority. They were very clear about that these past
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  Speaker 1: several months. And instead, what they're doing is they're focusing, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they're focusing. They're making their type priority. They
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  Speaker 1: get the majority, and their type priorities. Actually not focusing
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  Speaker 1: on the American families, but fol seeing on the president's family.
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  Speaker 1: They're not coming up with solutions and how we're going
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  Speaker 1: to lower costs for American families. They're not coming up
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  Speaker 1: with solutions. How we dealing with issues that matter the most.
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  Speaker 1: There's your White House. We're not going to answer that question.
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  Speaker 1: Now you want to know about this special prosecutor. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk about that as well, No problem, because we're
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  Speaker 1: the White House. Right, we'll give you a classic White
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  Speaker 1: House answer because we think it's important that you understand.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this administration we're not politicizing the DJ No,
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  Speaker 1: not at all. It just happens that the guy we're
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  Speaker 1: running against the president, it's going to be under investigation
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  Speaker 1: the entire time. But President Trump reacted to this News
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  Speaker 1: in an interview. In calling this the quote worst politicization
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  Speaker 1: of justice, he said that this was an unfair and
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  Speaker 1: political decision. I'm wondering if you have a response to that. Look,
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  Speaker 1: I will say this, and I've said this many times before,
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  Speaker 1: we do not politicize the Department of Justice. That is
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  Speaker 1: something that the President said during the campaign. That is
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  Speaker 1: something that the President said that in his early days
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  Speaker 1: of being in the White House, and that continues to
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  Speaker 1: be true. We were not involved in this particular issue.
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  Speaker 1: We are not involved in Let me just say that
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  Speaker 1: more broadly, we're not involving criminal investigations that are done
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  Speaker 1: independently by the Department of Justice. We were not given
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  Speaker 1: advanced notice. Again, I would refer you to Department of
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  Speaker 1: Justice on any questions on this. But this is not
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  Speaker 1: an administration that the President has been very clear that
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  Speaker 1: will politicize the Department of Justice. Anybody would actually believe that,
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  Speaker 1: because I don't. I don't believe that Merrick Garland decided
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  Speaker 1: two days after Donald Trump announces these running two days
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  Speaker 1: after that, all of a sudden, this is going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe. I don't believe for a moment that
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  Speaker 1: this is what's going to happen now. Donald Trump has
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  Speaker 1: made it clear what he thinks about this. We have
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  Speaker 1: some breaking information that is just coming through New react
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  Speaker 1: from the former president to the fact that there is
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  Speaker 1: now a special counsel investigation launched by Attorney General Merrick
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  Speaker 1: Garland into two cases with regard to the former president
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump. He tells Fox News that he won't partake, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 1: it is not even believable that they're allowed to do this.
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  Speaker 1: This is the worst politicalization of justice in our history.
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  Speaker 1: Garland has appointed Jack Smith to determine if criminal charges
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  Speaker 1: should be filed against the former president connection with January
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  Speaker 1: sixth or the documents that were found during the raid
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  Speaker 1: at Marlago. I do want to take a step back
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  Speaker 1: and realize what has happened to this country because of
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats. Now we have now made it where running
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  Speaker 1: for president can cost you your life, can cost you
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  Speaker 1: your career, can cost you financially everything. Running for president
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  Speaker 1: can now have your home as a former president aided
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  Speaker 1: by the FBI. That's what Democrats have done. The same
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  Speaker 1: Democrats that say they want to bring us together. Remember
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  Speaker 1: when there was a guy by the name of Barack
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  Speaker 1: Obama ran on hope and Jane. Remember that. Now, look
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  Speaker 1: at where we are Steve Scalise talking about all of this, saying,
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  Speaker 1: just look at the dramatic lack of oversight, specifically of
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  Speaker 1: the Biden administration. Look at the agenda of this last
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  Speaker 1: mid term election. The Republicans ran on a very specific agenda,
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  Speaker 1: and now look at what the Democrats are doing to
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  Speaker 1: fight back. For now, House Republicans have begun plotting there
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  Speaker 1: and next moves after clinching a narrow majority, including launching
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  Speaker 1: probes and to President Biden and his son Hunter's business dealings.
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  Speaker 1: But while there appears to be troubling evidence involving Hunter
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  Speaker 1: are worth investigating, other members of the Republican Party are
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  Speaker 1: urging the party to focus solely on passing legislation that
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  Speaker 1: will address americans most pressing concerns. For where aheaded here,
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  Speaker 1: let's bring in Louisiana Republican Congressman Steve Scalaesi is the
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  Speaker 1: House Minority whip of the incoming House majority. Leader Congress.
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  Speaker 1: Been good to talk to you. So the first order
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  Speaker 1: of business, almost out of the gate after achieving the
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  Speaker 1: majority here in the House, was that the members of
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  Speaker 1: the Oversight Committee come out and said, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: start launching investigations first and foremost of Joe Biden into
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  Speaker 1: whether or not he benefited and knew about his son,
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  Speaker 1: Hunter Biden's business dealings. Obviously, that is the job of
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  Speaker 1: the Oversight Committee, But do you believe that is the
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  Speaker 1: best thing for Republicans to be doing out of the
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  Speaker 1: gate when you take back control. Well, John at Sandrew,
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  Speaker 1: it's great to be with you. And if you go look,
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  Speaker 1: we ran on a very specific agenda in this last
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  Speaker 1: mid term election. We talked about getting the economy back
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  Speaker 1: on track, addressing inflation, but we also talked about oversight,
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  Speaker 1: robust oversight that has been lacking dramatically for the last
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  Speaker 1: two years. You haven't seen any oversight into the Biden
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  Speaker 1: administration's very questionable actions on so many fronts, this being
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  Speaker 1: one and there's a lot of others. And we said
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  Speaker 1: we would do both. You don't just do one. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna pass the policy, We're gonna have oversight, and it
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  Speaker 1: can all go on at the same time, starting on
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  Speaker 1: January third, and we've been making preparations and in fact,
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  Speaker 1: if you saw that press conference with Jamie Comer and
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  Speaker 1: his Oversight Committee. These are questions they've been asking for months,
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  Speaker 1: and the Biden administration has been stonewallingham. They should have
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: been answering those questions months ago. But there will be
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: subpoena power starting in January and we'll be able to
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: get those answers. So it's not anything new again. We
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  Speaker 1: ran on this. This was one of the top planks
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  Speaker 1: in our agenda, both addressing inflation, the border crisis, so
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  Speaker 1: many other crisis energy, but also doing oversight that has
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: been dramatically lacking for the last two years. Republicans are
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: investigating things that need to be investigating oversight. What the
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Democrats are doing is they're saying, no, you will not
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: come after us, and if you do investigate us, even
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: if we've committed very, very big financial crimes like Hunter Biden,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Joe Biden, and James Biden have done, we will make
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: sure that you never ever think about doing it again. Now,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: I do believe that this probably in a weird way,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: help Donald Trump initially in the polls, but if they
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: go to indict him, which I have no reason to
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: believe at this point now that they won't, I have
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: no reason to believe that this special prosecutor hasn't already
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  Speaker 1: made up his mind and his decision, and I have
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  Speaker 1: no reason to believe that this wasn't done to make
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: sure that there will be enough people concerned or worried
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: in the mid terms that he would be indicted that
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: people will not vote for him, They'll go to somebody else,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: and that's exactly what the Democrats are planning on doing.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: This also undermines a grand debate in the Republican primary
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: if someone like Rhonda Santis decides to run, because it's
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: gonna undermine it, and it's gonna undermine that debate that
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: they should have, because there's gonna be people saying, well,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Rohnda Santi is just an opportunist. He's just running because
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump is being persecuted right now and there will
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: be a civil war. Democrats also are hoping that that
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: will happen because somebody's going to lose, whether it's Ronda
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  Speaker 1: Santists or Donald Trump, and then they hope that those
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: supporters of their candidate, whether it be Trump or to Santists,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: for example, will stay home on in the general election
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: day and that will guarantee the Democrats win. Yet again,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: you have to understand Democrats are very smart. They are
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: always a step ahead of Republicans. It looks like certainly
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: seems that way. They understand how angry people can get.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: They understand how to make Republicans not turn out to vote,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: and how to make Democrats turn out to vote. They
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: get it, folks, They understand it, and that's exactly why
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: they were taking this risk now only after election day.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Let me just end by saying that this is war.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats have declared war on our constitution. They've declared war
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  Speaker 1: on Donald Trump. They declared war on any conservative that
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: wants to run for office. They've said, we'll lock you up.
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  Speaker 1: Will not just ruin your life, but we will lock
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  Speaker 1: you up, we will put you into financial ruin, and
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: we will destroy you if you are not one of us.
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  Speaker 1: That's the truth of what they have just done. Never
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: forget how far off the rails we have gone in
• 28:25
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