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275,000 Illegal Immigrants Purged from Social Security plus 91% of D.C. Residents Say Crime Is a Problem · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Speaking from the Oval Office during the ninetieth anniversary of
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  Speaker 1: the Social Security Act, President Trump stated that his administration
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  Speaker 1: has now successfully kicked nearly two hundred and seventy five
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  Speaker 1: thousand I legal immigrants off the Social Security system. He
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  Speaker 1: also mentioned having removed about two point four million names
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  Speaker 1: of individuals that were over one hundred and twenty years old.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the record state.
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  Speaker 1: The Social Security Administration has reportedly updated records for individuals
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  Speaker 1: no longer holding legal status, but details remain unclear on
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  Speaker 1: whether those individuals had been actively receiving benefits. President Trump
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  Speaker 1: framed this action as part of a broader effort to
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  Speaker 1: protect Social Security from fraud, waste, and abuse, contrasting it
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  Speaker 1: with the previous administration, which he claimed failed to address
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  Speaker 1: a massive issue. Here's the President, in his own words
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  Speaker 1: from the Oval Office making the announcement, kicked.
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  Speaker 3: Nearly two hundred and seventy five thousand illegal aliens off
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  Speaker 3: of the Social Security system. These are people, many of
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  Speaker 3: them have already left the country. And what that's doing
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  Speaker 3: is making the system strong. It's making it strong. Biden
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  Speaker 3: never kicked anybody off. Everybody joined. We cleared twelve point
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  Speaker 3: four million names listed in the Social Security database over
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty years of age.
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  Speaker 4: Think of the one hundred and.
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  Speaker 3: Thirty five thousand people listed who were over one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and sixty years old and in some cases getting payments.
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  Speaker 3: So somebody's getting those payments, and we're after that. Last month,
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  Speaker 3: I signed one big beautiful bill and allowed no tax
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  Speaker 3: on Social Security for our great seniors. Okay, so how's
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  Speaker 3: that not bad?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 3: No tax on social Security for our seniors. And to
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  Speaker 3: protect our benefits, we've already kicked nearly two hundred seventy
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  Speaker 3: five thousand illegal aliens off of the Social Security system.
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  Speaker 3: These are people, many of them have already left the country,
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  Speaker 3: and yet we were sending them checks all the time,
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  Speaker 3: and two hundred and seventy five thousand, and that number
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  Speaker 3: is now even larger than that. Frankness, its unbelievable job.
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  Speaker 3: And what that's doing is making the system strong. It's
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  Speaker 3: making it strong. Biden never kicked anybody off. Everybody joined,
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  Speaker 3: and we're carrying out historic deportations to remove many more
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  Speaker 3: illegals committing social security fraud. It's the social security fraud
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  Speaker 3: that was taking place at levels that nobody's ever seen.
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  Speaker 3: We cleared twelve point four million names listed in the
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  Speaker 3: Social Security database over one hundred and twenty years of age.
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  Speaker 4: Think of that.
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  Speaker 3: So we had twelve point four million names where they
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  Speaker 3: were over one hundred and twenty years old.
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  Speaker 2: Is that right?
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  Speaker 4: That's a hell of a statement.
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  Speaker 3: I have a feeling then that's I'm really gonna really
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  Speaker 3: didn't happen to it. So you have twelve point four
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  Speaker 3: million names listed in the Social Security datamas that were
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  Speaker 3: over one hundred and twenty years of age, meaning you
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  Speaker 3: were breaking records because I've never heard of anybody at
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty five. There were nearly one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and thirty five thousand people listed who were over one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and sixty years old and in some cases getting payments.
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  Speaker 3: So somebody's getting those payments and we're after that.
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  Speaker 1: I love how the President said there, we're looking into that.
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  Speaker 2: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: In translation, if you've been cashing these checks, the federal
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  Speaker 1: government is coming after you. Now, let's talk about what
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  Speaker 1: active benefit recipients mean. There is a confirmation now that
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  Speaker 1: there's many individuals that were simply outdated in their information
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  Speaker 1: but continued to receive the checks or were not alive
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  Speaker 1: The Social Security administration is now trying to figure out
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  Speaker 1: how how to deal with all of these individuals and
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  Speaker 1: the claims that two hundred and seventy five thousand people
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  Speaker 1: were actively removed from benefits, meaning they were actually receiving checks.
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  Speaker 1: Trump's announcement frames these individuals, many of them as quote,
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  Speaker 1: illegal immigrants, and that's another part of why the left
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  Speaker 1: any checks and reducing overpayment callback rates as well effects.
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  Speaker 2: On legal immigrants.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier in twenty twenty five, the administration said, Hey, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to do everything we can to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: those that are deserving of the benefits receive them. But
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  Speaker 1: what we're not going to do is hand out money
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  Speaker 1: to illegal immigrants and anyone that walks into a government office.
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  Speaker 1: Which makes total sense, and that is exactly why the
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  Speaker 1: President said, in his words, two hundred and seventy five
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  Speaker 1: thousand illegal aliens have been removed.
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  Speaker 3: Be if it's we've already kicked nearly two hundred and
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  Speaker 3: seventy five thousand illegal aliens off of the Social Security system.
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  Speaker 3: These are people, many of them have already left the country,
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  Speaker 3: and yet we were sending them checks all the time,
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  Speaker 3: and two hundred and seventy five thousand and that numbers
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  Speaker 3: now even larger than that. Frank, It's unbelievable. And what
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  Speaker 3: that's doing is making the system strong. It's making it strong.
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  Speaker 1: It's making the system strong. Now what does the president
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  Speaker 1: mean by that, Well, we all know that Social Security
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  Speaker 1: is going bankrupt. Why because there's more people that are
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  Speaker 1: getting money than are paying into it. Part of that
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  Speaker 1: is because of age expectancy. We continue, through modern medicine
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  Speaker 1: to extend life far longer than many people believe that. Well,
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  Speaker 1: seniors were going to live. Now, that's great news, right,
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  Speaker 1: because people are living longer. The problem is the system
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  Speaker 1: is set up in a way that is going to fail.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why the President's like, well, how do we
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  Speaker 1: fix that. Well, if you can get two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: seventy five thousand illegal aliens and remove them from receiving
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  Speaker 1: Social Security benefits, that's one massive step in the right direction. Now,
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  Speaker 1: on this ninety anniversary, one of the biggest things I
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  Speaker 1: think that's just interesting to me is how the media
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  Speaker 1: is now trying to cover Social Security acting like it's
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  Speaker 1: some amazing program. In reality, it's actually a disaster and
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  Speaker 1: has been for decades and decades. Just the rate of
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  Speaker 1: return alone is heinous and would never survive in the
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  Speaker 1: private sector. Yet this is what we do with our
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  Speaker 1: government dollars. There's a lot of money that's paid in,
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  Speaker 1: there's clearly a lot of waste, fraud and abuse. But
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  Speaker 1: it's one of those programs that the media always loves
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  Speaker 1: to tell you about that somehow are just like a
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  Speaker 1: great thing. So the Today's Show they decided to celebrate
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  Speaker 1: the ninetieth anniversary, and here's their jolly report.
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  Speaker 5: Today marks ninety years since the signing of the so
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  Speaker 5: Social Security Act never actually said it out loud, and
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  Speaker 5: all these decades later, sixty nine million Americans rely on
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  Speaker 5: those checks and that number is only going up. So
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  Speaker 5: we called on CNBC's senior Personal Finance correspondent Sharon Epperson
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  Speaker 5: to answer some of the big questions about Social Security.
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  Speaker 6: Social Security marked to say out now that I realize it,
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  Speaker 6: so good morning social Security.
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  Speaker 5: I know it can be complicated. I know I pay
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  Speaker 5: into it, I don't actually know what it is, so
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  Speaker 5: break it down for us.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's guaranteed income. It is an income stream financial
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  Speaker 6: protection for people who are retired, for their survivors and
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  Speaker 6: for disabled Americans. And a lot of people don't understand, well,
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  Speaker 6: how is it funded. It's funded by you by payroll
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  Speaker 6: taxes that you've put into it, and you're able to
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  Speaker 6: get these benefits for your lifetime after you start claiming
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  Speaker 6: them in retire The thing that people need to know
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  Speaker 6: is when to claim them, and what that is is
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  Speaker 6: your full retirement age. It's not the same as Medicare,
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  Speaker 6: and it may differ depending on what year you were born,
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  Speaker 6: So for most people it's between the ages of sixty
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  Speaker 6: six and sixty seven. You could take your retirement benefits
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  Speaker 6: early as well as early as age sixty two and
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  Speaker 6: as late as age seventy to get the maximum benefit.
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  Speaker 6: The other thing to keep in mind is this is
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  Speaker 6: guaranteed money, but it does increase over time based on
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  Speaker 6: the cost of living. So that cost of living increase
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  Speaker 6: this year is two and a half percent, it should
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  Speaker 6: go up next year.
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  Speaker 2: The COLA the cola and.
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  Speaker 7: This year there are some big changes.
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  Speaker 2: Can you walk us through those?
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  Speaker 6: So some of the big changes are the fact that
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  Speaker 6: there are no longer to be payper checks for your
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  Speaker 6: retirement checks direct deposit, direct deposit. You've got to enroll
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  Speaker 6: in that. Go to the Social Security website if you're
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  Speaker 6: not already enrolled there and make sure that you know.
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  Speaker 6: If you're turning sixty five this year, you were born
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  Speaker 6: in nineteen sixty, that does not mean you're at the
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  Speaker 6: full retirement age. You can't collect Social Secure at least
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  Speaker 6: not the full benefit. You have to wait till sixty seven.
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  Speaker 6: So this is the time to figure out does it
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  Speaker 6: make sense to take it now or take it later.
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  Speaker 6: There are calculators on the Social Security Administration website that
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  Speaker 6: you can go to. My favorite is going to the
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  Speaker 6: one that's my Social Security account because you get your
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  Speaker 6: earnings and you get to get an estimate of what
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  Speaker 6: it will look like sixty two all the way to
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  Speaker 6: seventy what's your monthly benefit will be.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it interesting how they're not telling you the reality
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  Speaker 1: of the situation. Now, let's just celebrate it. It's wonderful,
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  Speaker 1: it's amazing, there's no issues. Why are they doing this
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  Speaker 1: because they don't want to change anything. They don't want
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  Speaker 1: to admit that's a broken system. They don't want to
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  Speaker 1: emit there's waste fraud abuse that happened under the Biden administration,
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  Speaker 1: and they don't want to admit that many Americans are
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  Speaker 1: getting a terrible deal on the money that they're giving
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  Speaker 1: the government when it comes to return a rate on return.
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  Speaker 1: That is why Donald Trump and the Republicans are working
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  Speaker 1: so hard to bring this issue to light and show
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  Speaker 1: the Americans that it can be a lot better of
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  Speaker 1: a system than we currently have, and it's been broken
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  Speaker 1: for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: President Donald Trump on.
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  Speaker 1: Thursday accused the District of Columbia and its leaders of
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  Speaker 1: changing crime statistics on purpose to make it look like
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  Speaker 1: the city was actually getting safer, when in reality it
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  Speaker 1: was not. Trump, talking to reporters that White House said, sadly,
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  Speaker 1: what I guess the mayor did, or whoever it was,
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  Speaker 1: they asked that the numbers would be fudge so that
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  Speaker 1: it would show less crime than the actual fact of
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  Speaker 1: what was happening. Trump has been criticized by the way
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  Speaker 1: by the DC mayor Bowser and National Democratic Party leaders
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  Speaker 1: for deploying the National Guard troops to DC to help
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  Speaker 1: turn crime around and bring greater security to the capital area.
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  Speaker 1: Trump told reporters Thursday that we will have crime under
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  Speaker 1: control very shortly in DC.
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  Speaker 2: The President said he would fix.
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  Speaker 1: The DC crime problem just like he's done with the
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  Speaker 1: southern border, saying, the fact is it's worse than it's
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  Speaker 1: ever been, and we will have it just like we
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  Speaker 1: did at the ball where the borders are totally in
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  Speaker 1: great shape now the best ever, record setting shape. Will
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  Speaker 1: have the crime situation solved in DC very very soon. Now,
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  Speaker 1: why did the President make these accusations, Well, a DC
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  Speaker 1: police sergeant exposed her superiors for misclassifying crimes on purpose
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  Speaker 1: to make the stats look like crime was getting better.
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  Speaker 1: The city, by the way, just quietly settled her lawsuit.
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  Speaker 1: Records revealed in the suit from the police sergeant, and
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  Speaker 1: it showed the department's leadership directed subordinates to file theft
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  Speaker 1: and violent crimes as lower level offenses, quote unquote, And
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  Speaker 1: that's exactly why the District of Columbia quietly settled a
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  Speaker 1: lawsuit from that sergeant who accused the Metropolitan Police Department
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  Speaker 1: leaders of deliberately misclassifying offenses to deflate the district's crime statistics.
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  Speaker 1: Court records obtained by the Washington Freebeacon now show police
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  Speaker 1: Brass repeatedly told officers to downgrade theft cases, knife attacks,
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  Speaker 1: and violent assaults to lesser offenses, according to internal MPD emails, depositions,
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  Speaker 1: and phone called transcripts the Free Beacon reviewed now. The
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  Speaker 1: former MPD sergeant sued the department in twenty twenty, alleging
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  Speaker 1: that police leadership punished her for speaking out against the scheme.
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  Speaker 1: The woman, who joined the force after serving honorably in Iraq,
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  Speaker 1: accused the MPD brass of attempting to quote distort crime
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  Speaker 1: statistics by downgrading a number of felonies to misdemeanors so
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  Speaker 1: that there would be quote, fewer felonies in the statistics.
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  Speaker 1: She also provided records showing that police leaders explicitly instructed
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  Speaker 1: their subordinates to underclassify certain instances of theft to keep
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  Speaker 1: them out of the crime stats that the city reports
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  Speaker 1: to the the public. The lawsuit, as well as the
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  Speaker 1: city's decision to settle, calls into question the prevailing narrative
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  Speaker 1: presented in mainstream media outlets as President Donald Trump carries
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  Speaker 1: out the DC crime crackdown. For example, the New York Times,
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  Speaker 1: Washington Post, and Politico have all cited data for the
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  Speaker 1: Metropolitan Police Department to contend that DC crime is low
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  Speaker 1: and Trump's crackdown is unnecessary and just a political maneuver.
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  Speaker 1: The coverage did not mentioned, by the way, the whistleblower,
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  Speaker 1: nor did it disclose that a DC police commander is
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  Speaker 1: actually currently on leave after the city's police union accused
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  Speaker 1: him of manipulating crime stats to artificially lower them. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this also goes back to the second narrative. Democrats are
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  Speaker 1: claiming that DC is safe and people are not scared.
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  Speaker 2: That is also a huge lie.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, even on MSNBC admitted on Morning Joe that
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  Speaker 1: it's very clear that ninety one percent of people that
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  Speaker 1: live in Washington, the residence there, say that crime is
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  Speaker 1: a problem. Take a listen to Joe Scarborough being forced
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  Speaker 1: to tell you the truth on this one.
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  Speaker 8: The answer to this, this, this problem for Democrats is
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  Speaker 8: not everything's okay, there's nothing to.
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  Speaker 2: See here, move along, move along.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, Washington has dropped twenty four percent or whatever in crime. Well,
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  Speaker 8: let me give you some other numbers. The Washington Post
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  Speaker 8: took a poll in late April early May. Ninety one
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  Speaker 8: percent of Washington residents say crime is a problem. Ninety
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  Speaker 8: one percent fifty one percent, it is an extremely serious problem.
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  Speaker 8: And John Heilman, we've had people before put in racial terms,
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  Speaker 8: and this is I must say, this is one thing
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  Speaker 8: that I think Democrats have gotten so wrong about crime,
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  Speaker 8: so wrong about crime. Well, let me just read let
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  Speaker 8: me just read the Washington Post. Here there are stark
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  Speaker 8: divides among the lines of race and income in the poll,
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  Speaker 8: with black residents and lower income residents significantly more worried
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  Speaker 8: about crime than white residents and those with higher incomes,
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  Speaker 8: as they were last year. Black women are among the
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  Speaker 8: most concerned, with sixty five percent saying crime is a
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  Speaker 8: very or extremely serious issue, compared with eighty two percent
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  Speaker 8: who said the same thing last year.
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  Speaker 1: There it is folks morning, Joe Scarborough scorching Democrats on
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  Speaker 1: the DC crime denial. Ninety one percent of Washington resident
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  Speaker 1: say crime is a problem, with black residents and lower
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  Speaker 1: income residents significantly more worried about crime than white residents
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  Speaker 1: and those with higher incomes. So you have to ask
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  Speaker 1: yourself this question, why are Democrats so hell bent on
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  Speaker 1: stopping Donald Trump from making Washington, DC safer? It's because
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  Speaker 1: they don't want to lose control of their cities and
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  Speaker 1: they're afraid if he's successful in this, then other cities
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  Speaker 1: around the country will demand the same outcome, and Democrats
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  Speaker 1: don't actually want to fight crime at all. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough isn't the only person in the media that's
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  Speaker 1: had enough of the lie. An ABC anchor ditch the
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  Speaker 1: script and proves how dangerous DC actually is. This from
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  Speaker 1: ABC News Live. Listen carefully to the anchor.
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  Speaker 7: We've been talking so much about the numbers, and yeah,
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  Speaker 7: usually that's how you played Devil's Advocate as you talk about, oh, well,
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  Speaker 7: stats say crime is down. However, I can tell you
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  Speaker 7: firsthand here in downtown DCU where we work, right here
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  Speaker 7: around our bureau, just in the past six months, you know,
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  Speaker 7: there were two people shot. One person died literally two
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  Speaker 7: blocks down here from the bureau. It was within the
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  Speaker 7: last two years that I actually was jumped walking just
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  Speaker 7: two blocks down from here. And then just this morning
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  Speaker 7: one of my coworkers said her car was stolen a
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  Speaker 7: block away from the bureau. So we can talk about
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  Speaker 7: the numbers going down, but crime is happening every single
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  Speaker 7: day because we're all experiencing at firsthand while working and
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  Speaker 7: living down here.
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  Speaker 1: And yet Democrats and most of the media are still
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: refusing to admit what you just heard.
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  Speaker 2: This is the problem right now.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: CNN's Daniel Dale also declared a lot of quote deception
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: from President Trump on crime and wasthing DC, but then
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: goes on to admit that there's an actual crime problem,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: another example.
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  Speaker 2: Of the lies coming from the media.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Listen closely to his l Well, Trump's bad, but yeah,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: the numbers say that crime's bad.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: There was a lot of deception from the President there.
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  Speaker 4: So here's a reality check. There is no doubt that
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: DC has for decades been a high crime city. It
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: is among the US cities with the highest homicide rates,
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: though there are a bunch of other big cities that
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: are worse. And DC did indeed have a big crime
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: spike in twenty twenty three, which is the year the
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: President kept citing. But contrary to what the President said today,
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: even in twenty twenty three, DC did not have an
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: all time high in murder. It was way worse during
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: the crack crisis of the eighties and early nineties and
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: more presently, Dana, the President would just flat wrong when
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: he said it's getting worse now, not getting better. Crime
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: in DC, including murder, has fallen sharply since that twenty
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: twenty three spike. It fell in twenty twenty four, it's
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: fallen further in twenty twenty five. So let's look at
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: some of this data. In twenty twenty three, DC had
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: its most murders in more than two decades, two hundred
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: and seventy four. Of course, that's terrible, But it then
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: plunged to one hundred and eighty seven murders last year,
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: and it's falling again so far this year. Through July.
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  Speaker 4: According to figures compiled by crime data expert Jeff Asher,
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: DC has thirty four percent fewer murders than it did
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  Speaker 4: through the same period in that year twenty twenty three. Now,
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: how about violent crime more broadly, Well, that's also down
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: sharply in the last year and a half.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it amazing that CNN tells you that DC has
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: been quote for decades of high crime city.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, that's terrible.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: There were two hundred and thirenty four murders in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three, but there was a less than twenty twenty four.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: So let's not try to stop like the murder rate.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: It gets better than the worst case scenario. And then
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: he said, quote, we know crime is an issue in DC.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: He said, we know that every violent crime is a shame,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: a tragedy. And then he said, of course I'm not
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: excusing any of them, but I don't want Donald Trump
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: to fight crime because I don't want him to be
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: right that he can actually fix the problem. And that's
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: the media for you. They care more about hurting Trump
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: than saving lives in Washington, d C. In an election,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the most important thing for any candidate is being able
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: to connect with voters, and most of the time that
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: is through paid advertisements or emailing or text messaging or
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: social media posts that are boosted. It is extremely important
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: because without reaching the electorate, it's impossible to actually win
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: an election. So I want you to just imagine for
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: just a moment how influential different tech companies are. Like Google,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: for example, if they decided that they didn't want conservative
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: emails to make it to your actual email account. Instead,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: they decided to flag conservative emails to your spam account.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Now that would be an egregious abuse of power, right
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: you would think that's probably even maybe against the law,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: that you're not delivering the mail the right way, even
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: though it's an email knowing that you're trying to change
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: or al to the outcome of an election. Well guess
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: what Google caught flagging GOP fundraiser emails as quote unquote
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: suspicious and then sending them directly to spam. A new
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: memo is revealing. Now this is even more troubling because
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: if a candidate cannot raise money, they cannot compete in
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: an election, and many candidates will buy email lists to
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: solicit from conservative donors or liberal donors if you're a
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Democratic candidate money because without it, you cannot get elected.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Insert Google. Google was at it again, and the GOP
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: campaign donations could be a major casualty of it. The
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: search giant has been caught this summer flagging Republican fundraising
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: emails as dangerous spam. That means it kept them from
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: hitting Gmail users inboxes and yes, the majority of people
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: in this country actually use Gmail, while leaving similar solicitations
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: from Democratic emails untouched. A consulting firm is now warning
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: that despite repeatedly sparking headlines and even lawsuits in recent
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: years over allegedly partisan practices. Last year, for example, a
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: federal judge tossed a lawsuit filed by the Republican National Committee,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: they complained of biased email filtering. In twenty twenty three,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: the Federal Election Commission dismissed an RNC complaint alleging discrimination
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: in Gmail's spam filters as well. Nonetheless, Targeted Victory, whose
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: clients include the National Republican Central Committee Representative Steve Scalise.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Senator Marsha Blackburn, said it observed that the serious and
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: troubling trend was still going on. As recently as June
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: and July of this year, Gmail had been flagging emails
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: containing links to the fundraising platform when read, and in
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: many cases, sending them directly to spam. According to a
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: copy of the memo to clients exclusively obtained by The
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: New York Post, Targeted Victory by the Way conducted tests
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: in which emails containing links to the democratic fundraising platform
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Act Blue were delivered consistently without issue. The memo includes
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: video demonstrations of the firm's tests. If Gmail is allowed
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: to quietly suppress when red links while giving ActBlue a
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: free pass, it will continue to tilt the playing field
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: in ways that voters never see, but campaigns will fill
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: every single day, the memo states, Now the memo could
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: fuel new allegations of political bias yet again against Google,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: which was accused also by Elon Musk and March of
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: interfering to help Democrats thousands of times every election season.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Critics including Donald Trump, have accused Google of manipulating search
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: results specifically to hurt Republicans, and even of suppressing information
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: of the assassination attempt against Trump last year. The company,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: of course, toned any wrongdoing. When reached for comment on Wednesday,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Google spokesman said the company's email filter protections are in
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: place to keep our users safe. They look at a
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: variety of signals, like whether a user has previously marked
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: an email as spam and applied quote equally to all senders,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: regardless of political ideology. The Gmail Google statement says, well,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: guess what. In twenty twenty two, a study by the
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: North Carolina State University found that Gmail flagged fifty nine
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: percent more Republican fundraising emails as spam than Democratic ones
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: during the lead up to the twenty twenty presidential election.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: We observe that the spam filter algorithms of different email
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: services indeed exhibited biases towards different political affiliations. The researchers
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: said at the time. Targeted Victory said its first informed
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Google about the issue on June thirtieth, after receiving lots
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: of complaints from its clients. The company initially deflected by
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: blaming local settings for the email issues. According to the memo,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: so yet again, here we are, and this is what's
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: actually happening. We have big tech pushing the scales in
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: favor of the radical left and doing everything they can
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: to undermine even Donald Trump while he's president. This time,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: you may ask yourself, how do they really know that
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: there's a bias in this way? While the consulting firms
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: tests involve sending identical emails through Gmail, with the only
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: difference being that one contained a when read donattion link
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: and the other contained an act Blue link, So the
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: same exact wording, same exact email. The only difference was
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: a Democrat link and a Republican link to donate.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: In fact, the memo states quote, the only difference between
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: the two emails was the link ActBlue delivered to the
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: email accounts when Red got flagged.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: That is not a coincidence.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: This held true even for major accounts, including Donald Trump
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: and at least stephonic links compared to DNC links.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: After weeks of back.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: And forth with Google, the Coming support team acknowledge that
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: links to when Red were deemed suspicious and flagged with
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: a red warning banner alerting users that it was potentially
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: suspicious or unsafe to click on that. According to a
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: screenshot of a July twenty second email, this should alarm
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: every campaign and every election committee that relies on email
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: to connect with voters. The memo continue to state, So
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: here we are yet again in twenty twenty five, and
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: we have clearly this interaction with Google, clearly caught flagging
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: GOP fundraiser emails as suspicious and clearly tipping the scales
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: to the Democratic Party or Democratic Radical causes. So the
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: question now is what can Congress or the President do
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: to change this and make sure that it doesn't keep happening. Now,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: if you've got a Gmail account, you also have to
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: ask yourself this question, what emails are you not getting?
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: And if you do have a Gmail account, is it
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: time to move somewhere else? Remember, you're very valuable to Google.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: All of your search history and your Gmail account, it's
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: all tied to your data. That data is what makes
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: them hundreds of billions of dollars. And it's also the
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: same company that's influencing your search engine responses, which brings
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: me to another example of how radical they've become. I
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: want to take you back to January of twenty twenty three,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: the RNC file, the complaint that Google's spam filters were
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: biased against conservatives. Yes, that also happened, and it's pretty
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: clear that when you googled certain things, they wanted you
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: to see bad information on conservatives, and when you googled
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: certain things, they only wanted you to see good things
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: about the Democrats. So imagine you think you're googling something
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: and you're actually getting back in response, massive political bias.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: In its letter, the FEC side of Google's public statements
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: claiming that it's reason for spam filtering, including blocking malware,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: phishing attacks and scale. That was not the real problem
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: then either, which goes back to why are we even
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: in this situation? It is because big tech is doing
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: everything they can to tip the scales. Cato Institute, for example,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: talked about how if you just googled President Donald Trump,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: it would actually show you news about Kamala Harris. But
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: if you googled Kamala Harris, it didn't show you any
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: negative news about her and nothing about Donald Trump. Why
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: would they do that because they were trying to make
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: sure that Kamala Harris became the president, and they wanted
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: to make sure that Donald Trump was someone you didn't like.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: So here it is in black and white. You now
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: know that if you keep using Google, you're helping support
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: this bias. If you keep using Gmail, you are helping
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: them become rich, and you're supporting this bias. And if
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: you are using email right now, with Gmail, there's a
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: very good chance that important emails you may want to
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: see are being flagged or put into your spam on purpose,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: specifically so you do not see them. And more importantly,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: this is altering and changing the outcome of elections because
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: if every email the Democrats want to send shows up
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: in your inbox, if you're a liberal, and every Republican
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: email that Republicans want to see is going to spam.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: And it's all about fundraising, Who do you think is
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: going to raise more money? Email is steel one of
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: the top ways to raise money in political campaigns, and
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: it is obvious that Donald Trump knows, and so do
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: many other Republicans that this is now what Google is doing,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: and this is why we all need to be advocating
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: for Congress to get their hands dirty on this issue.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: And big tech shouldn't be picking winners and losers when
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: it comes to emails they're being sent to you. And
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: more importantly, they should have to be honest about what
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: they've already done, be transparent about what they've done. And
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: that's exactly what I hope Republicans are going to do
• 33:06
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• 33:09
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• 33:13
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