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US Gaza Take Over & Ukraine Admits 100billion Missing in US Aid · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: How many of you are worried about biological men and
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  Speaker 1: boys competing against women and girls in sports. That's almost
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  Speaker 1: the entire that is the entire route.
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  Speaker 2: It's so crazy.
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  Speaker 1: How do you stop it?
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  Speaker 2: If you just ban it, President bans it, you just
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  Speaker 2: don't let it happen.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 4: Good Wednesday morning, Ben Ferguson with you, and here are
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  Speaker 4: the big stories that we're covering this morning on the
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  Speaker 4: forty seven Morning Update. First up, Donald Trump shocks the
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  Speaker 4: world by announcing at the White House that the US
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  Speaker 4: will take over Gaza quote, we will own it and
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  Speaker 4: make it the riviera of the Mid East. I have
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  Speaker 4: the details on this for you in just a moment.
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  Speaker 4: Also one of the reasons why I love doing this show,
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  Speaker 4: we get to give you news that's going to happen.
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  Speaker 4: And I've been told that Donald Trump is going to
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  Speaker 4: sign an executive order banning trans athletes from women's sports.
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  Speaker 4: One of his promises to protect women in sports on
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  Speaker 4: the campaign trail is going to becoming a reality quite
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  Speaker 4: possibly today. And finally, Zelenski, now, is I guess becoming
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  Speaker 4: a whistleblower now? Claiming that less than half the money
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  Speaker 4: that the US has sent has ever actually showed up.
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  Speaker 4: It's a forty seven morning update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 3: Story number one.
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  Speaker 4: It may go down in history is the biggest announcement
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  Speaker 4: that Donald Trump has ever made, that the US will
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  Speaker 4: take over Gaza and we will own it, becoming the
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  Speaker 4: riviera of the Mid East. The world's people, the President declaring,
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  Speaker 4: will live there. Now. To be clear, this wasn't an
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  Speaker 4: off the cuff remark. These remarks made by President Trump
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  Speaker 4: were made in prepared remarks that he was reading from
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  Speaker 4: this meaning it was very obvious this was a well
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  Speaker 4: thought out plan kept secret by the Trump administration without
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  Speaker 4: a single person leaking it to the press. The President
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  Speaker 4: making it clear to the world that America still has
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  Speaker 4: a role to play in the Middle East. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 2: The only reason the Palestinians want to go back to
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  Speaker 2: Gaza is they have no alternative. It's right now a
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  Speaker 2: demolition site. This is just a demolition site. Virtually every
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  Speaker 2: building is down. They're living under fallen concrete. That's very
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  Speaker 2: dangerous and very precarious. They instead can occupy all of
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  Speaker 2: a beautiful area with homes and safety and they can
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  Speaker 2: live out their lives in peace and harmony instead of
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  Speaker 2: having to go back and do it again. The US
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  Speaker 2: will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do
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  Speaker 2: a job with it too. We'll own it and be
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  Speaker 2: responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and
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  Speaker 2: other weapons on the site. Level the site and get
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  Speaker 2: rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out, create an
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  Speaker 2: economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and
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  Speaker 2: housing for the people of the area. Do a real
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  Speaker 2: job to something different. Just can't go back. If you
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  Speaker 2: go back, it's going to end up the same way
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  Speaker 2: it has for a hundred years.
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  Speaker 4: That is what the present said, as net who was
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  Speaker 4: staring on Now the big question is Netnah Who's response
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  Speaker 4: to this? Was this something he was prepared for. Well,
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  Speaker 4: BB made it clear that he said this could quote
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  Speaker 4: change history. Now, let me give you more details on
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  Speaker 4: exactly what this means. Donald Trump saying the US will
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  Speaker 4: take over the Gaza Strip and we will do this job.
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  Speaker 4: You're going to love it. He says, We're going to
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  Speaker 4: be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous bombs and
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  Speaker 4: other weapons on the site. We're going to get rid
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  Speaker 4: of the destroyed buildings and create an economic development that
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  Speaker 4: will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing. Now this
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  Speaker 4: surprise announcement came as the President spoke with Netan Yahoo,
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  Speaker 4: the first foreign leader to visit Trump since his inauguration
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  Speaker 4: last month. Now, Trump had previously said that he would
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  Speaker 4: also like to see most or all of the Palestinian
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  Speaker 4: population of Gaza moved to another Arab or Muslim country.
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  Speaker 4: The idea of actually taking over Gaza and establishing a
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  Speaker 4: US presence well was both unexpected and completely new. Trump
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  Speaker 4: added that the US would develop Gaza economically, sending troops
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  Speaker 4: also if necessary, and making major investments. He called the
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  Speaker 4: potential of Gaza quote unquote unbelievable, but said that Palestinian
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  Speaker 4: control of Gaza will never work. He added, you have
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  Speaker 4: to learn from history. We have an opportunity to do
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  Speaker 4: something phenomenal the riviera of the Middle East. He said
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  Speaker 4: that he envisioned the world's people living there, adding I
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  Speaker 4: think you'll make Gaza into an international, unbelievable place. I
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  Speaker 4: think the potential in the Gaza strip is unbelievable, and
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  Speaker 4: I think the entire world, representatives from all over the
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  Speaker 4: world will be there. A reporter also attacked Donald Trump, saying, well,
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  Speaker 4: what right does the US have to take over Gaza,
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  Speaker 4: calling it, by the way, inaccurately sovereign territory. Just to
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  Speaker 4: put in perspective, there is no Palestinian state right now
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  Speaker 4: and no sovereign power in the territory. But hey, let's
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  Speaker 4: not get facts get in the way of a good
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  Speaker 4: angry press briefing reporter right Well, Trump did not reply directly,
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  Speaker 4: but said that a mayor control of Gaza would increase
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  Speaker 4: stability in the region as the various nations pursue piece together.
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  Speaker 4: Netan Yahoo, who had never publicly advocated for anything like
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  Speaker 4: what Trump proposed at the White House, said the idea
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  Speaker 4: was quote unquote something that could change history and that
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  Speaker 4: it was worth considering now.
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  Speaker 3: Story number two.
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  Speaker 4: Back during the presidential campaign trail, Donald Trump sat down
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  Speaker 4: with Harris Faulkner for a town hall. A very important
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  Speaker 4: issue was the issue of well, how to deal with
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  Speaker 4: men acting like women taking over women's sports, And the
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  Speaker 4: President pledged that he was going to make it a
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  Speaker 4: real issue if you gave him his vote. Now, let
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  Speaker 4: me remind you what Harris Faulkner said and what the
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  Speaker 4: president said at the time. This was back in October
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  Speaker 4: October the sixteenth, to be exact, right in the heat
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  Speaker 4: of the presidential election cycle.
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  Speaker 1: How many of you are worried about biological men and
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  Speaker 1: boys competing against women and girls in sports. To show me,
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  Speaker 1: that's almost the entire That is the entire room. And
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  Speaker 1: I know you have a question that you do.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, excuse me, it's so crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Your question, your name and your hometown.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Linda and I'm from Milton, Georgia. My
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  Speaker 2: question is, how do you plan on addressing the transgender
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  Speaker 2: issue in women's sports. It's such an easy question, and
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  Speaker 2: everybody in the room and you know that answer. We're
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  Speaker 2: not going to let it happen. You look, just yesterday
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  Speaker 2: they had a volleyball metch Did you see that where
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  Speaker 2: a person that transitioned. Okay, we have to be very
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  Speaker 2: careful because this can terminate your political career if you
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  Speaker 2: say it's slightly offer right, but transitioned from man to female.
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  Speaker 2: It was on a volleyball, and I saw the slam.
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  Speaker 2: It was a slam. I never saw a ball hit
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  Speaker 2: so hard hit the girl on the head. But other people,
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  Speaker 2: even a volleyball they've been permanently. I mean they've been
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  Speaker 2: really hurt badly. Women playing men. But you don't have
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  Speaker 2: to do the volleyball. We stop it. We stop it,
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  Speaker 2: We absolutely stop it. You can't have it. It's a
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  Speaker 2: man playing in the game, I mean physically from a
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  Speaker 2: muscular say, even if it was a little bit less,
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  Speaker 2: maybe they do well sor it's a pest and drugs
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  Speaker 2: and everything else. Look at what's happened in swimming. Look
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  Speaker 2: at the records.
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  Speaker 1: How do you stop it? Do you go to the
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  Speaker 1: sports leagues? Do you go to the Olympics? You just
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  Speaker 1: ban it?
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  Speaker 2: The president bans it. You just don't let it happen.
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  Speaker 4: The audience goes wild. Now the question is could the
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  Speaker 4: present pay off on this. I'm now being told from
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  Speaker 4: those around the president that Donald Trump plans as early
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  Speaker 4: as today to sign an executive order banning trans athletes
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  Speaker 4: from women's sports. Just like he said in that interview,
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  Speaker 4: President Trump is set to sign this executive order that
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  Speaker 4: would ban transgender athletes from playing in girls and women's
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  Speaker 4: sports and schools that accept federal funding. Now, the presidents
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  Speaker 4: expect to sign the order as early as I mentioned today,
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  Speaker 4: to coincide with National Girl and Women in Sports Day. Now,
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  Speaker 4: let me break down for you what this could actually accomplish.
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  Speaker 4: To be clear, President does not have the authority to
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  Speaker 4: place an outright nationwide ban on transgendered athletes playing as females. However,
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  Speaker 4: the executive Order and the Executive Branch does control federal
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  Speaker 4: funding as it pertains a Title nine So it's likely
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  Speaker 4: that this order will direct Title nine rules to be rewritten,
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  Speaker 4: and they would be rewritten to exclude trans athletes from
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  Speaker 4: playing as females or risk a cutoff of the federal
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  Speaker 4: funds that clearly are controlled by the US government. Now,
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  Speaker 4: in a signal, the NCAA president Charlie Baker already signaled
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  Speaker 4: that if Title nine rules are changed, his college sports
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  Speaker 4: organization would quote quickly move to adhere to the letter
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  Speaker 4: of such changes, saying, quote we're a national governing body
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  Speaker 4: and we follow federal law, Baker said before Congress in December.
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  Speaker 4: He also urged lawmakers at the time to provide quote
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  Speaker 4: clarity on the issue. This is exactly why Donald Trump
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  Speaker 4: is probably going to write it this way, making it
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  Speaker 4: that he was going to address the issue of transgendent
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  Speaker 4: athletes if he were to win the White House and
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  Speaker 4: now paying off on it. But most importantly what this
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  Speaker 4: will do is this will protect young women and there
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  Speaker 4: is a mandate. Polls show that Trump has strong support
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  Speaker 4: among voters. In fact, a recent poll found that sixty
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  Speaker 4: percent oppose the extreme left wing Democratic transgender agenda, and
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  Speaker 4: another poll found that seventy five percent of parents oppose
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  Speaker 4: the harmful transagenda in schools. This is exactly why so
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  Speaker 4: many mothers voted for Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: And lastly's story number three.
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  Speaker 4: If you've ever studied Ukraine, you know that the country
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  Speaker 4: is insanely corrupt. The leadership's corrupt, the oligarchs are corrupt,
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  Speaker 4: and when you send money to Ukraine it disappears very quickly.
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  Speaker 4: It's also saying something that even people in Russia say, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we know our country is corrupt, but you've seen nothing
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  Speaker 4: until you've seen Ukraine. Well, just how bad is it?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 4: Zelensky is now claiming the Ukraine received quote less than
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  Speaker 4: half of usaid and they don't know where all the
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  Speaker 4: money went. Yes, Ukrainian President Zelensky has said that his
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  Speaker 4: country has only received around seventy eight billion in aid
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  Speaker 4: from the United States, despite America authorizing around a one
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  Speaker 4: hundred and seventy five billion to quote support the war
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  Speaker 4: torn country, meaning one hundred billion dollars is missing now.
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  Speaker 4: In an interview with the Associated Press published Zolensky said
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  Speaker 4: he doesn't know where most of the money the United
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  Speaker 4: States allocated under the Biden administration the Ukraine has gone.
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  Speaker 4: When I hear both in the past and even now
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  Speaker 4: from the US that America has provided Ukraine with hundreds
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  Speaker 4: of billions, as the president of a nation at war,
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  Speaker 4: I can tell you we've received no more than seventy
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  Speaker 4: five billion, he said. We're talking about tangible things because
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  Speaker 4: this aid didn't come as cash, but rather as weapons,
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  Speaker 4: which amount to a seventy billion dollars. But when it's
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  Speaker 4: said that Ukraine received two hundred billion to support the
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  Speaker 4: army during the war, that's not true. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: where all that money went, Zelenski admitted. So they got
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  Speaker 4: the money, but now it's missing. Perhaps it's true on paper,
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  Speaker 4: He went on to say, with hundreds of different programs,
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  Speaker 4: I won't argue, and we're immensely grateful for everything, but
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  Speaker 4: in reality, we received about seventy six billion. It's significant aid,
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  Speaker 4: but it's not two one hundred billion. The Ukrainian leader
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  Speaker 4: suggested that perhaps the additional funds went to humanitarian programs,
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  Speaker 4: which he said he was uninformed about except for knowing
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  Speaker 4: of their existence. Now, the question that you're obviously asking
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  Speaker 4: yourself right now is, Okay, did the money even leave America?
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  Speaker 4: And if it did leave America, who has it now? Well,
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  Speaker 4: there have been long noted concerns in Washington over sending
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  Speaker 4: billions of dollars to Ukraine given its corruption issues. In
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty three, Transparency International ranked Ukraine as the second
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  Speaker 4: most corrupt European nation, only behind Russia, with a score
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  Speaker 4: of thirty three out of one hundred. In fact, the
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  Speaker 4: Oversight Committee in the US House of Representatives found that
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  Speaker 4: Ukrainian government officials allegedly engaged in bribery, used government vehicles
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  Speaker 4: for personal use, and purchase inflated food supplies for Ukrainian forces,
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  Speaker 4: padding their own pockets. Now, despite previously downplaying the widespread
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  Speaker 4: corruption in the former Soviet state, The New York Times
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  Speaker 4: even reported in twenty twenty three that unnamed Ukrainian officials
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  Speaker 4: admitted US taxpayer money intended for military contracts had quote
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  Speaker 4: failed to produce weaponry or ammunition, and that some money
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  Speaker 4: has well just vanished. Moral of the story, it's probably
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  Speaker 4: time for Elon Musk and his team to take a
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  Speaker 4: look at Ukraine.
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