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Autopen Bombshell was VP Harris actually POTUS plus Falsified Economic Data means Inherited a “Massive Mess" · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: That's not my signature and it's not the way I speak,
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  Speaker 1: and anybody that's covered me for a long time, no,
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  Speaker 1: that's not my language. It's nonsense. And frankly, you're wasting
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  Speaker 1: the great success of DC and about two hundred other
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Wednesday morning.
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  Speaker 4: It's so nice to have you with us on the
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  Speaker 4: forty seven Morning Update, and we've got.
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  Speaker 3: Two major stories for you.
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  Speaker 4: Bombshell documents are now blowing wide open the Biden auto
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  Speaker 4: pin scandal, and it's now putting a spotlight on who
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  Speaker 4: may have been rund the country in the last year.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't the president, it could have been the Vice president,
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  Speaker 4: Kamala Harris.
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  Speaker 3: How do we know this.
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  Speaker 4: Because the White House lawyers were talking about it in
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  Speaker 4: emails that we now have. I'll give you all those
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  Speaker 4: shocking details in just a moment. Also, we're finding out
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  Speaker 4: just how bad the economy actually was under Joe Biden
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  Speaker 4: and the people in charge of this statistics on job
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  Speaker 4: numbers while they were lying in a partisan way that
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  Speaker 4: we never have seen before, creating out of thin air,
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  Speaker 4: literally millions of jobs that they knew were never filled.
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  Speaker 4: But before we get to those stories, I want to
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  Speaker 4: take a moment and I want to talk to you
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  Speaker 4: real quick about what you can do to help the
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  Speaker 4: people in Israel. It was nearly two years ago that
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  Speaker 4: the terrorists murdered more than twelve hundred innocent Israelis and
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  Speaker 4: they took two hundred and fifty hostages. Today it seems
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  Speaker 4: as if the cries of the dead and dying have
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  Speaker 4: And the most brutal attack on Jewish people happened. It
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  Speaker 3: It is called Flags of Fellowship.
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  Speaker 4: It's being organized by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
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  Speaker 4: On October fifth, you can stand with Israel and the
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  Speaker 4: will prayerfully plant an Israeli flag in honor and solidarity
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  Speaker 4: with the victims of October the seventh, twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 4: part of this movement as well. And that's what I
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  Speaker 4: world knows there are lots of people of faith in
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  Speaker 3: They're going to stand with them.
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  Speaker 4: You can get more information about how you can join
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  Speaker 4: do to get involved with Flags of Fellowship movement is
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  Speaker 4: go to IFCJ dot org. That's IFCJ dot org. Stand
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  Speaker 4: with Israel on October the fifth. It's just a few
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  Speaker 4: weeks away, and if your church you think would want
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  Speaker 4: special Sunday at IFCJ dot org. That's if CJ dot org.
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  Speaker 4: It's the forty seven morning update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 4: New documents are blowing open the Biden autopen scandal and
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  Speaker 4: now putting a serious spotlight on Kamala Harris. There are
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  Speaker 4: newly uncovered internal documents that are shedding light on what
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  Speaker 4: was going on at the White House on former President
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  Speaker 4: Joe Biden's use so the auto pen and alleged outsourcing
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  Speaker 4: quote unquote of decision making during his final year in office.
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  Speaker 4: The former president has insisted that he personally made all
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  Speaker 4: decisions regarding the pardon executive orders and calling claims the
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  Speaker 4: contrary quote ridiculous and false. But the memos tell a
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  Speaker 4: different story. The internal memos and emails indicate that critical decisions,
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  Speaker 4: including clemencies, were quietly delegated to others, others who were
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  Speaker 4: not elected officials, Others who were not the President of
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  Speaker 4: the United States of America. Now one of the others
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  Speaker 4: includes former Vice President Kamala Harris, and it remains unclear
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  Speaker 4: whether Biden formally approves certain decisions. Multiple outlets are now
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  Speaker 4: confirming this. Biden aides initially insisted that he personally signed
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  Speaker 4: by hand any official presidential actions, but by the end
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  Speaker 4: of his term, the standard had been abandoned. According to
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  Speaker 4: an internal memo obtained by Just the News, based on
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  Speaker 4: precedent from the Obama Biden administration, regarding which documents generally
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  Speaker 4: are hand signed by the president, are recommend is that
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  Speaker 4: as a general rule, you quote unquote personally approve and
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  Speaker 4: hand sign all decisions that require presidential actions. That is
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  Speaker 4: what it says on a February twenty twenty one draft
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  Speaker 4: memo distributed to top White House officials. Now, by February
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  Speaker 4: of twenty twenty four, authorization for clemency actions increasingly relied
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  Speaker 4: on the vice president's approval, not the actual president of
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  Speaker 4: the United States of America. That according to a draft
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  Speaker 4: memo circulated by the White House Counsel's office, Yes, that
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  Speaker 4: would be the White House's lawyers quote. Given the President's schedule,
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  Speaker 4: it can often take days or weeks for the President
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  Speaker 4: to review and approve the clemency package, the lawyer's memo read.
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  Speaker 4: The Chief of Staff's office has been helpful in getting
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  Speaker 4: the paper in front of him for his review, he
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  Speaker 4: previously asked the White House Council discussed the candidates with him,
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  Speaker 4: although in the last round, the vice presidential approval was
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  Speaker 4: sufficient to obtain his approval. The lawyers noted so again
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  Speaker 4: in writing, the lawyers at Biden's White House were saying,
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  Speaker 4: He's not running the show, it's the Vice president and others. Now,
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  Speaker 4: the Trump White House concluded that this memo shows the
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  Speaker 4: former president was effectively outsourcing clemency decision to Harris during
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  Speaker 4: his final year, and, by the way, to put it
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  Speaker 4: in perspective, during his four years in the White House,
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  Speaker 4: Biden granted an unprecedented four thousand, two hundred and forty
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  Speaker 4: five acts of clemency, more than any previous president on record.
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  Speaker 4: All of Biden's pardons from December to January, including those
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  Speaker 4: of his family members as well as doctor Anthony Fauci
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  Speaker 4: and General Martin Milly, were reportedly signed not by the President,
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  Speaker 4: but signed by auto pen. In fact, there was only
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  Speaker 4: one preemptive pardon, one pardon that was signed by the president,
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  Speaker 4: and that was for his son Hunter.
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  Speaker 3: Biden.
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  Speaker 4: Internal emails casts even furthered out on whether Biden approved
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  Speaker 4: the commutations of more than two thousand, five hundred inmates
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  Speaker 4: jailed for crack cocaine offenses in January. The New York
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  Speaker 4: Post is now reporting, so what do we have more
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  Speaker 4: evidence that the President of the United States of America,
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  Speaker 4: Joe Biden, was not calling the shots and was not
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  Speaker 4: actually even deciding who was getting pardons or clemency, which
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  Speaker 4: brings up the bigger question are these pardons and clemency
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  Speaker 4: actually legal? Now that is a question this administration is
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  Speaker 4: obviously looking into.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Story number two, I want you to listen.
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  Speaker 4: Very carefully to the numbers I'm about to give you,
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  Speaker 4: and I want you to understand just how big the
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  Speaker 4: lies were to act like the economy actually wasn't in
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  Speaker 4: terrible shape when Democrats were in charge and they were
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  Speaker 4: running for reelection, they just made up hundreds of thousands
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  Speaker 4: of jobs.
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  Speaker 3: We just got these new.
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  Speaker 4: Numbers in that there was almost a million, nine hundred
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  Speaker 4: eleven thousand fewer jobs were created between April of twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty four and March of twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: The Bureau of Labor Statistics is saying that isn't just
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  Speaker 3: a revision.
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  Speaker 4: That is a revision that is on a level that
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  Speaker 4: clearly is straight up fraud.
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  Speaker 3: You don't get these numbers this wrong.
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  Speaker 4: Look at polling when they have a margin of air
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  Speaker 4: of plus or minus three percent, or if it's a
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  Speaker 4: bad pull four percent. If it's a horrific poll five percent,
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  Speaker 4: you're telling me the federal government sucks so bad at
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  Speaker 4: counting jobs same people, by the way, they're supposed to
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  Speaker 4: be collecting taxes on these jobs, that they got it
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  Speaker 4: wrong by nine hundred and eleven thousand jobs.
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  Speaker 3: The answer is obviously no. What does this mean.
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  Speaker 4: It means the labor market was weak, extremely weak, well
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  Speaker 4: before the tariffs kicked in. The job market was frozen
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  Speaker 4: in twenty twenty four as well. In fact, the average
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  Speaker 4: job gain revision showed just one hundred and forty seven
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  Speaker 4: thousand jobs per month. That is an average job gain
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  Speaker 4: after revisions of seventy one thousand a month. Now, this
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  Speaker 4: annual quote revision process is normal. What's not normal is
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  Speaker 4: how big they're missing these numbers. The Bureau of Labor
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  Speaker 4: Statistics does it every year, and they apparently just lie
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  Speaker 4: when Democrats are in office.
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  Speaker 3: I'll give you an example.
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  Speaker 4: Last August, right in the heat of the election, the
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  Speaker 4: labor the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported negative eight hundred
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  Speaker 4: and eighteen thousand fewer jobs. Yes, these were large, massive
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  Speaker 4: corruption revisions, is how I describe it. Why did this happen?
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  Speaker 4: It happened because they wanted to say the economy isn't
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  Speaker 4: as bad as it really was when Joe Biden was
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  Speaker 4: running for reelection. So the takeaway, and this is what
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  Speaker 4: I want you to really understand. Number one, Donald Trump
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  Speaker 4: clearly inherited a massive mess. It is a absolute scandal
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  Speaker 4: of gigantic proportions that our government was lying to the
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  Speaker 4: American people trying to make you feel like things are
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  Speaker 4: better than they actually are. Caroline Levitt, the White House
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  Speaker 4: pre Secretary, said it this way.
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  Speaker 3: Quote Today the Bureau of Laboratistics.
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  Speaker 4: Released the largest downward revision on record in history. I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to say that again, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
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  Speaker 4: released the largest downward revision on record ever. Why did
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  Speaker 4: this happen because they wanted Joe Biden to win? Carolin
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  Speaker 4: Levitt said, it provides more understanding online. President Donald Trump
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  Speaker 4: took action to address concerns about reporting accuracy at the Bureau,
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  Speaker 4: with Levitt saying it proves that President Trump was right.
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  Speaker 4: Biden's economy was a disaster and the Bureau of Labor
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  Speaker 4: Statistics is straight up broken. The White House added quote,
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  Speaker 4: this is exactly why we need new leadership to restore
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  Speaker 4: trust and confidence in the death on behalf of the
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  Speaker 4: financial markets, on behalf of businesses, policymakers, and families that
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  Speaker 4: rely on this data to make major decisions. Now, the
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  Speaker 4: White House on August first released a list of errors
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  Speaker 4: and missions by the Bureau of Laboratistics.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, this is like their entire job, which.
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  Speaker 4: Is accused of inaccuracies and also now in competency. And
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  Speaker 4: the White House also pointing a finger at Commissioner Erica
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  Speaker 4: Mickin Tarfer, who was appointed to the role by former
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  Speaker 4: President Joe Biden. Among those examples, was not only them
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  Speaker 4: issuing another massive revision of these jobs, more than eight
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  Speaker 4: hundred thousand were overestimated and what was the second largest
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  Speaker 4: downward revision for the BLS as well.
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  Speaker 3: And so this means two in a row.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, two years in a row they were lying to
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  Speaker 4: you about how bad the numbers were, or they were
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  Speaker 4: just making up literally almost two million jobs that didn't exist. Now,
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump fired Erica just hours after the release of
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  Speaker 4: the July jobs which showed weaker than expected job growth
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  Speaker 4: and significant downward revisions for May and June. That's when
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  Speaker 4: the Left was like, you can't do this as a
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  Speaker 4: nonpartisan Well, it is partisan, clearly. It was because she
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  Speaker 4: created two million jobs out of thin air to help
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  Speaker 4: Joe Biden and the Democrats. The Labor Secretary, by the way,
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  Speaker 4: posting on Tuesday that the negative drop of numbers from
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  Speaker 4: the Bureau of Labor Satistics reveals a quote problem, saying
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  Speaker 4: today's massive downward revision gives the American people even more
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  Speaker 4: reason to doubt the integrity of data being published by
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  Speaker 4: our government. It's imperative for the data to remain accurate, impartial,
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  Speaker 4: and never altered for political gain. Now, within two weeks
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  Speaker 4: of firing the individual who's overseeing this insanity, Trump also
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  Speaker 4: named Heritage Foundation chief economists and Tony to lead the Bureau.
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  Speaker 4: His nomination is also waiting Senate confirmation, something that I
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  Speaker 4: think clearly should be done as soon as possible. Which
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  Speaker 4: brings me to Steven Moore, former Trump campaign senior economic advisor.
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  Speaker 4: You may know him from Fox News and Fox Business.
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  Speaker 4: I want you to hear what he had to say
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  Speaker 4: about the far fewer jobs added than expected in August,
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  Speaker 4: and also when he says about the job report revisions
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  Speaker 4: in general.
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  Speaker 5: The week optimistic, We're going to see a rate cut
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  Speaker 5: next week after we got the key jobs report for August,
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  Speaker 5: the first one since President Trump fired the Commissioner of
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  Speaker 5: the Bureau of Labor Statistics last month. There were questions
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  Speaker 5: over the accuracy of the data, the report.
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  Speaker 3: Showing much fewer.
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  Speaker 5: Jobs added in August than expected, only twenty two thousand
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  Speaker 5: versus the estimate of seventy five thousand, and the unemployment
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  Speaker 5: rate now at its highest level since October of twenty
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  Speaker 5: twenty one. We also got revisions showing twenty one thousand
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  Speaker 5: fewer jobs created in June and July than previously reported.
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  Speaker 5: For more on this and what it means for the
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  Speaker 5: Fed's next move, I'm joining my Committee to Unleash Prosperity
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  Speaker 5: co founder Steve Moore. Steve, it's great to see you
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  Speaker 5: talk to me about your thoughts on this job's report.
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  Speaker 5: Pretty big miss on the estimate.
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  Speaker 6: Well sure, wise, but you know, it's interesting. I think
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  Speaker 6: one of the takeaways from this report is how increasingly
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  Speaker 6: unreliable these jobs numbers are. And you know, we talk,
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  Speaker 6: you and I and Maria talk about this every first
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  Speaker 6: Friday of every month, and we're seeing these gyrations in
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  Speaker 6: the numbers. And also one of the things that hasn't
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  Speaker 6: been really widely reported is that there's two surveys. One
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  Speaker 6: survey had a big increase in jobs by I think
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  Speaker 6: I don't remember the exact number, close to three hundred thousand,
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  Speaker 6: whereas the one that's reported the headline number was what
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  Speaker 6: twenty eight thousand. So we need to clean up these numbers, Cheryl,
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  Speaker 6: because it's we make so many economic decisions based on
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  Speaker 6: these jobs numbers. And I've been doing this for thirty
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  Speaker 6: five years. I think, look at the re estimates. They
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  Speaker 6: keep changing the numbers every month.
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  Speaker 4: I would ask you something, but by the way, you
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  Speaker 4: listen to what Steve Moore says. He's saying, and it's true,
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  Speaker 4: so many people make business decisions off of this data
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  Speaker 4: and information. By the way, that's why this data is
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  Speaker 4: supposed to be done by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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  Speaker 4: It's supposed to be non biased in the way that
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  Speaker 4: it is done. And we have a very clear problem
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  Speaker 4: here where there has been a massive politicization of these
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  Speaker 4: numbers to try to help out democrats when they're running
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  Speaker 4: for office. They created two million jobs that they knew
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  Speaker 4: weren't there, just so the economy would look like it's
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  Speaker 4: better than it actually is now. Also, I think the
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  Speaker 4: American people understood how bad it was, and so they like,
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  Speaker 4: that's why they voted for Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: But it had to be really bad for them to
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  Speaker 3: see it.
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  Speaker 4: And so this is again one of the examples of
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  Speaker 4: the massive lies of the left, and it's something that
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  Speaker 4: absolutely should okay, it's something that should never ever, ever
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  Speaker 4: ever happen, period, full stop. This is why Trump is
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  Speaker 4: going after this, this is why there needs to be reformed.
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  Speaker 3: It is truly insane.
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