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Medicaid Meltdown, Are Tax Dollars Funding Illegal Healthcare? plus 5th Amendment Silence Fuels Autopen Cover-Up · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: There has been a question that many Republicans have been asking,
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  Speaker 1: how many illegal immigrants are actually receiving access to Medicaid benefits. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you ask the Democratic Party, they will tell you
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  Speaker 1: that there isn't a single illegal immigrant that is receiving
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  Speaker 1: Medicaid benefits. Insert a brilliant move by Texas Representative Wesley Hunt.
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  Speaker 1: He's now demanding data from the New York governor over
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  Speaker 1: how many of the states estimated six hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 1: thousand legal immigrants are actually receiving access to those Medicaid
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  Speaker 1: benefits that Democrats say, well, it's not happening at all. Hunt,
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  Speaker 1: a Republican, decided to just straight up ask the question
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  Speaker 1: directly to the governor on Monday, raising questions about how
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  Speaker 1: the Empire State has leveraged waivers to actually allow its
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  Speaker 1: Medicaid program to operate differently from federal standards and mandates.
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  Speaker 1: Governor Hochel is required to report this information to the
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  Speaker 1: federal government. So the question is simple, will she comply
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  Speaker 1: or continue to harbor lawbreakers while putting the healthcare of
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  Speaker 1: law abiding citizens at risk? Hunt said in a statement
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  Speaker 1: with them now. There is an estimated one point four
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  Speaker 1: million people quote whose citizenship, nationality, or satisfactory immigration status
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  Speaker 1: is not quote verified and they are potentially being covered
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  Speaker 1: by Medicaid programs in various states that coming now from
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  Speaker 1: the Congressional Budget Office. I'll have more on that in
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  Speaker 1: a moment. But one study from the liberal leaning Fiscal
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  Speaker 1: Policy Institute, cited by Congressman Hunt, found that there are
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  Speaker 1: some six hundred and seventy thousand illegal immigrants in the
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  Speaker 1: Empire State. In fact, it is now about five percent
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  Speaker 1: of the population. New York has benefited from Section one
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  Speaker 1: one one five waivers, which allows it to experiment and
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  Speaker 1: deviate from federal standards in its implementation of Medicaid, a
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  Speaker 1: program that provides health insurance to seventy million low income Americans,
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  Speaker 1: and now the question is how many illegals. A spokesperson
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  Speaker 1: for the governor quickly fired back at Congressman Hunt and
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  Speaker 1: argued that he should have focused on opposing the One
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  Speaker 1: Big Beautiful Bill Act over its Medicaid reforms instead of
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  Speaker 1: targeting New York, saying this, if Representative Hunt were truly
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  Speaker 1: concerned about the health and well being of his constituents,
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  Speaker 1: he should have directed his focus to voting against the
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  Speaker 1: Big Ugly Bill, which will invoke irreparable damage to Medicaid
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  Speaker 1: programs nationwide, including in his home state of Texas. Yet again.
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  Speaker 1: You may notice that the spokesperson for the governor did
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  Speaker 1: not answer the question how many illegal immigrants are receiving benefits?
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  Speaker 1: This is just another pitiful attempt. The governor's office went
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  Speaker 1: on to say to divert attention from Republican actions to
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  Speaker 1: eliminate healthcare for one point five million New Yorkers and
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  Speaker 1: deny food security access to millions of seniors and children.
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  Speaker 1: You'll notice in that statement, yet again the governor of
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  Speaker 1: New York refusing to answer the question how many illegal
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  Speaker 1: immigrants are taking government benefits. Now, state officials have told
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  Speaker 1: the New York Posts that, quote, most undocumented individuals are
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  Speaker 1: not eligible for full medicaid coverage. Now notice the words
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  Speaker 1: they used, most undocumented individuals are not eligible for quote
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  Speaker 1: full medicaid coverage. By the way, that statement would also
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  Speaker 1: be true for most American citizens are not eligible for
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  Speaker 1: full Medicaid coverage, and that the small group that is
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  Speaker 1: enrolled in the state's program has not benefited they claim
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  Speaker 1: from federal dollars. Now, New York also claimed that spending
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  Speaker 1: was unrelated to the one one, one five waivers. Well,
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  Speaker 1: then why would the New York not answer the simple
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  Speaker 1: question that was put to her by Wesley Hunt. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Hunt noted that the Biden administration had rejected the use
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  Speaker 1: of those waivers for states like South Carolina, Arizona, and
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  Speaker 1: other states. The Texas Republican stress that the waivers were
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  Speaker 1: not intended to allow illegal immigrants to benefit American tax
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  Speaker 1: dollars going for their healthcare coverage. Now, the Biden administration
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  Speaker 1: allowed and even encouraged the use of these one one,
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  Speaker 1: one five waivers to extend Medicaid to undocumented immigrants, something
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  Speaker 1: that Democrats are now claiming never happened, and despite federal
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  Speaker 1: law actually prohibiting them from receiving these benefits, Hunt wrote
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  Speaker 1: in a letter to Hochel on Monday. Now. Back in February,
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  Speaker 1: President Trump also signed an executive order the Director's Administration
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  Speaker 1: to ensure and a maximum extent possible, that quote no
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  Speaker 1: taxpayer funded benefits go to unqualified aliens. That order pointed
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  Speaker 1: to existing law, such as the Personal Responsibility and Work
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  Speaker 1: Opportunity Reconciliation Act of nineteen ninety six, which generally blocks
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  Speaker 1: illegal immigrants from getting federal benefits from taxpayers. The Texas
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  Speaker 1: Republican also cited concerns about New York's green light law
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  Speaker 1: which permits all state residents, regardless of immigration status, to
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  Speaker 1: get driver's licenses. Now, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit
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  Speaker 1: against that law, arguing that it handstring's federal enforcement of
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  Speaker 1: immigration law. Hunt argued it could help illegal immigrants get
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  Speaker 1: access to tax payer funded benefits using the driver's license
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  Speaker 1: to gain that access, and to address these concerns, Hunt
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  Speaker 1: now demanded that HOCHE will conduct a review of its
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  Speaker 1: medicaid enrollment base on social Security numbers and release those
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  Speaker 1: findings to the public, saying this, we deserve transparency, accountability,
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  Speaker 1: and adherence to law in the administration of public health programs.
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  Speaker 1: Policies to divert limited resources away from lawful recipients American
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  Speaker 1: citizens not only violates federal standards, they also destroy public
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  Speaker 1: trust and threaten the sustainability of programs designed to serve
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  Speaker 1: our most vulnerable American citizens. Now, Hunt has also drawn
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  Speaker 1: speculation over recent weeks that he may vie for Senator
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  Speaker 1: John Cornyn's seat in the Senate in Texas in the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six midterms, and this could very well be
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  Speaker 1: one of those points that he would campaign on. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let me say one other thing about this. We deserve answers.
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  Speaker 1: The American people, as taxpayers, deserve to know where their
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  Speaker 1: money is going and if it is being diverted to
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  Speaker 1: six hundred and seventy thousand legal immigrants in the Empire state. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: about four and a half percent of its population. One
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  Speaker 1: other thing that I think is also a point that
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  Speaker 1: needs to be made. You notice that Democrats did not
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  Speaker 1: deny in any of the statements coming from the governor's
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  Speaker 1: office that illegal immigrants are receiving benefits, and they word
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  Speaker 1: it carefully to say, well, some may, but most aren't,
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  Speaker 1: and most aren't receiving full benefits. Well, that also goes
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  Speaker 1: for the same with the Americans is in base that
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  Speaker 1: are eligible for Medicaid benefits as well. It is supposed
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  Speaker 1: to help the weakest, the least, the poorest, and those
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  Speaker 1: that are the most in need. Yet many Americans do
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  Speaker 1: not qualify for full benefits. So why are we giving
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  Speaker 1: those benefits to illegal immigrants? That's the question every American
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  Speaker 1: should be asking. It is official, the White House now
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  Speaker 1: confirming they are opening the autopen Biden investigation. Yes, you
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  Speaker 1: can smile. We may actually get some answers about just
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  Speaker 1: how bad the cognitive decline of Joe Biden was and
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  Speaker 1: who was actually running the White House. It was clearly
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  Speaker 1: an auto pen and somebody was directing that autopen to
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  Speaker 1: do things and sign things and give out pardons, and
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't the sitting President Joe Biden. The White House
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  Speaker 1: Council's Office has officially opened this investigation on former President
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden's White House abuse of the presidential autopen to
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  Speaker 1: sign those pardons, executive orders, and other laws and actions,
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  Speaker 1: potentially without the former president's knowledge. This is, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: one of the biggest political scandals in all of American history.
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  Speaker 1: Sources confirming the opening of the investigation within the Trump
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  Speaker 1: White House and the Press Secretary Caroline Levitt issued a
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  Speaker 1: statement that the administration is quote committed to finding the answers.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden was the worst, the most incompetent, and s
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  Speaker 1: now president in our country's history, is what Caroline Levitt
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  Speaker 1: wrote in a statement responding to the press request for
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  Speaker 1: a comment. It has been widely reported that Joe Biden
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  Speaker 1: handed the power of the presidency to an autopen that
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  Speaker 1: was controlled by unelected leftist staffers who were allowed to
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  Speaker 1: make terrible decisions that destroyed our country. The Trump White
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  Speaker 1: House is committed to finding the answers to many outstanding
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  Speaker 1: questions the American people still have about how business in
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  Speaker 1: the Biden White House was conducted. Levitt's statement added President
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  Speaker 1: Trump also had something to say at the White House
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  Speaker 1: in an unrelated sitting in the Oval Office. Here's what
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  Speaker 1: he had to say about this scandal as well.
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  Speaker 2: Whoever operated the autopen had a policy which is, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, I think the biggest scandal. That's the scandal
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  Speaker 2: they should be talking about, not Jeffrey Epstein. The scandal
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  Speaker 2: you should be talking about is the Autopen because I
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  Speaker 2: think it's the biggest scandal one of them in American has.
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  Speaker 1: Now, let's talk about what the investigation is going to
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  Speaker 1: look like. I'm being told that this investigation will include
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  Speaker 1: the review of tens of thousands of documents turned over
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  Speaker 1: to the National Archives as well as Records Administration, and
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  Speaker 1: those documents, as The New York Times first reported early
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend, will potentially provide direct evidence of whether
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  Speaker 1: Biden was aware of the actions that were being signed
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  Speaker 1: by the auto pen that would be his signature. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Biden potentially absolved as senior officials that acted on his
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  Speaker 1: behalf by autopen by telling The Times in a blanket
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  Speaker 1: statement that could whitewash complicity, saying, quote, I conscientiously made
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  Speaker 1: all those decisions, is what Biden's staff said to The Times.
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  Speaker 1: I made every decision quote unquote is Biden's quote. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the American people, you can decide to believe Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 1: But I think it's pretty clear that White House is
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  Speaker 1: not going to take the former president at his word.
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  Speaker 1: Which brings me to another story, a very important one
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  Speaker 1: as well. There's a guy by the name of Anthony Bernal.
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  Speaker 1: He is the former chief of staff for the first
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  Speaker 1: Lady Jill Biden often dubbed her work husband. He was
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  Speaker 1: before Congress and invoked his Fifth Amendment right during a
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  Speaker 1: deposition by the House over Site Committee. In fact, he
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  Speaker 1: refused to answer any questions related to President Joe Biden's
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  Speaker 1: cognitive fitness, whether he was ever asked to lie about
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  Speaker 1: the president's health or about the use of the presidential
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  Speaker 1: auto pen. Now he is the second former aide to
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  Speaker 1: do so, following the president's physician, doctor Kevin O'Connor. Oversight
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  Speaker 1: Committee chairman James Comer emphasized the seriousness of this ref fusal,
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  Speaker 1: saying it raises concerns that unelected staff may have assumed
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  Speaker 1: presidential level decision making responsibilities. Now, doctor Kevin O'Connor, who
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  Speaker 1: also pled the fifth, Biden's longtime White House physician, invoked
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  Speaker 1: it the same way at a closed door deposition before
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  Speaker 1: the same committee. The committee pressed him on whether he
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  Speaker 1: was ever instructed to misrepresent Biden's health or believe the
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  Speaker 1: president to be unfit to serve. He would not answer
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  Speaker 1: that question. Now, Republicans have obviously highlighted this as an
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  Speaker 1: extraordinary cover up and suggestive of a concealed cover up
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: that was planned by top level people in the White House.
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  Speaker 1: The Democrats would have been involved, and the doctor's legal
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  Speaker 1: team stress that exercising the right does not imply wrongdoing.
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  Speaker 1: It simply protects self incrimination. So here's the bigger picture.
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  Speaker 1: House Oversight Committee, led by James Comer, is actively investigating
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  Speaker 1: the allegations that Biden's health issues were so secretive, were
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  Speaker 1: so concealed that aids may have used the autopen to
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  Speaker 1: sign official documents, possibly circumventing presidential authority, and they may
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  Speaker 1: have signed documents that Joe Biden never intended to sign,
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  Speaker 1: didn't even know existed. And invoke policy decisions that he
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  Speaker 1: didn't even know about. Representative Jasmine Crockett, Democrat from Texas,
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  Speaker 1: a Committee democrat, has defended President Biden, asserting that occasional
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  Speaker 1: verbal missteps are not quote, evidence of cognitive failure. The
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  Speaker 1: investigation into Biden's cognitive fitness and potential misuse of the
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  Speaker 1: autopen is clearly intensifying, with Bernald and O'Connor both invoking
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  Speaker 1: their Fifth Amendment rights. House Republicans view this as evidence
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  Speaker 1: of internal concealment, while Democrats are maintaining the lie, saying
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  Speaker 1: this is no big deal at all and it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: prove any wrongdoing. Now, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: this is going to come down to what the White
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  Speaker 1: House finds, what they see in the records. And I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be shocked to see more people invoke the Fit
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  Speaker 1: Amendment so they don't incriminate themselves or lie under oath
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  Speaker 1: to Congress. By the way, the man in charge of
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  Speaker 1: all of this is James Comer. I mentioned him earlier
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  Speaker 1: and I want you to hear what he had to
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  Speaker 1: say about what's at stake in the investigation to Biden's
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  Speaker 1: auto pen use. On Fox News Channel, it was Sean Hannity.
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  Speaker 3: PSI Committee Chairman James Comer, Fox News legal analyst Greg Jarrett.
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  Speaker 3: Those are pretty simple questions to answer. But we all
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  Speaker 3: know that Joe was a cognitive mess and correct me
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  Speaker 3: if I'm wrong, Congressman. But if the answer was I
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  Speaker 3: never saw the decline, I would believe anybody that says
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  Speaker 3: that is lying. So probably he was good advice of
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  Speaker 3: counsel to say, plead the fifth.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, you plead the fifth to avoid self incrimination.
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  Speaker 4: If he said under oath that Joe Biden was not
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  Speaker 4: in mental decline, then there's a very good likelihood that
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  Speaker 4: he's lying, and he knows he's lying, and that can
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  Speaker 4: be proven in a court of law that he's lying.
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  Speaker 4: That's why they're pleading the fifth. We asked the doctor
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  Speaker 4: simple questions, were you ever told to lie about Joe
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  Speaker 4: Biden's health? And he pled the fifth. Look, this isn't
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  Speaker 4: getting any better for the Bidens. This isn't going to
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  Speaker 4: go away for the Bidens. What's at stake here, Sean,
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  Speaker 4: is all of these executive orders and all of these
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  Speaker 4: pardons that were signed using an autopen There's no evidence
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  Speaker 4: that Joe Biden knew anything about these executive orders and pardons,
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  Speaker 4: and there's no evidence that he was even capable of
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  Speaker 4: understanding what the pardons and executive orders would have been
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  Speaker 4: if he had been involved in the decision making process.
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  Speaker 4: So it's unfortunately that Joe Biden's chief of staff and
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  Speaker 4: who she often referred to as her work husband, Anthony Bernald,
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  Speaker 4: had an opportunity today to go in and tell the
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  Speaker 4: truth and defend the Biden and say, yeah, he's in
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  Speaker 4: great health. No, no one ever lied about his health.
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  Speaker 4: But instead of saying that he pled the Fifth Amendment.
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  Speaker 3: How damning was the information in the New York Times
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  Speaker 3: piece where they acknowledged that Joe Biden laid out standards
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  Speaker 3: and conditions and parameters for his staff to issue either
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  Speaker 3: a commutation or a pardon.
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  Speaker 4: Very damaging. Look, he incriminated himself there. That's not the
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  Speaker 4: way the parton process is supposed to work. The pardon
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  Speaker 4: process isast the last tool in the toolbox in the
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  Speaker 4: checks and balances of the justice system. You're supposed to
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  Speaker 4: have a pardon issued by the President United say that
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  Speaker 4: he's reviewed and that he signed with an ink pen.
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  Speaker 4: And Joe Biden's admitted in the New York Times article.
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  Speaker 4: He didn't know about a lot of those pardon He
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  Speaker 4: just delegated it to staff. No, that's that's not the
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  Speaker 4: way it works. And we think that's what was going
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  Speaker 4: on with the autoped on the majority of the pardons
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  Speaker 4: and many of the executive orders. And if that's the case,
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  Speaker 4: then those executive orders and those pardons, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 4: can be ruled void in a court of law.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let me ask you from a legal standpoint,
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  Speaker 3: would this render any partner commutation if Joe Biden only
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  Speaker 3: laid out parameters or circumstances under which his staff could
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  Speaker 3: use the autopen to issue a commutation or a pardon
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  Speaker 3: with that render them invalid in your view legally, Greg Jarrett.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, absolutely. If unelected people commandeered Biden's presidency usurped his authority,
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  Speaker 5: it's not just wrongful and scandalous conduct, Sean, but it
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  Speaker 5: crosses the line into criminality if they fraudulently executed documents
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  Speaker 5: in his name without his knowledge or consent by essentially
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  Speaker 5: hijacking the autopen. Biden recently admitted unwittingly that he did
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  Speaker 5: not approve each individual pardons, chief of staff signed off
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  Speaker 5: on them and actually sent final approval in writing. Well,
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  Speaker 5: under law, a president cannot delegate that decision of when
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  Speaker 5: to use the autopen. And yet we heard from White
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  Speaker 5: House aid near A Tannon reportedly testifying she had no
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  Speaker 5: idea who in Biden's inner circle gave her permission to
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  Speaker 5: use the autopen. It wasn't Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 1: She rarely saw him.
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  Speaker 5: So any document that he did not directly approve for
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  Speaker 5: signature is null and void. It's invalid, and not only that,
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  Speaker 5: its potential fraud and forgery. And if there is this
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  Speaker 5: underlying plot to hide Biden's mental condition so that others
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  Speaker 5: could arrogate his power in that way, that's a conspiracy crime.
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  Speaker 5: So it's no wonder two people have already taken the
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  Speaker 5: Fifth they know they're facing some legal jeopardy here.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Last question, Congressman Comber, do you plan on calling Jill
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  Speaker 3: and Joe Biden in as witnesses?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think the odds of calling in Jill Biden
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  Speaker 4: increased significantly today. We had her chief of staff and
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  Speaker 4: her self proclaimed work husband there for what we planned
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  Speaker 1: Sean, It's very clear James Comer is saying there's a
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  Speaker 1: real quick to the NEC Director Kevin Hassett on the
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  Speaker 1: Federal reserves. Uh well, money coming in. You know when
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  Speaker 1: the President said He's gonna make America a lot of money. Uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: save a lot of money. Take a listen to this.
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  Speaker 6: This is the most expensive project in DC history, two
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  Speaker 6: and a half billion dollars with a seven hundred billion
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  Speaker 6: dollar cost overrud To put that in perspective, the cost
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  Speaker 6: over run for this Federal Reserve project is about the
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  Speaker 6: same size as the second biggest building overhaul in American history,
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  Speaker 6: which was the FBI building. And so the FED has
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  Speaker 6: a lot to answer for. And the bottom line is
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  Speaker 6: the bottom line is that there's a key statutory problem.
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  Speaker 6: In nineteen thirteen, when we founded the FED, the US
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  Speaker 6: was under a gold standard, So it was never envisioned,
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  Speaker 6: never envisioned by the people that voted for the construction
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  Speaker 6: of the FED that we cur see that the FED
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  Speaker 6: could print money and toss with around willy nilly because
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  Speaker 6: they had to have the gold to do what they're
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  Speaker 6: little head and they're unbounded right now.
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  Speaker 1: This is I love this the NEC director on the
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  Speaker 1: Federal Reserve's palace like office renovation. This is the most
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  Speaker 1: expensive project in DC history, two point five billion with
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: a seven hundred million dollar cost overrun. And he said
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  Speaker 1: the FED has a lot to answer for. I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: agree with him more. Why the hell are we paying
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  Speaker 1: for this? What is the point right of this now?
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  Speaker 1: This is also as we're trying to cut spending. House
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  Speaker 1: Speaker Johnson referring to the Big Beautiful Bill this morning
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  Speaker 1: saying this on Fox News.
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  Speaker 7: The Big Beautiful Bill was a landmark achievement. America First
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  Speaker 7: is no longer just an agenda. It's now the law
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  Speaker 7: of the land. And to your point, the big investment
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  Speaker 7: there was in border security and national defense. The bill
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  Speaker 7: did a lot of things, but this is really important.
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  Speaker 7: So this money will go to help us ensure the
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  Speaker 7: policy of peace through strength. We have to invest appropriately
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  Speaker 7: and smartly in our military industrial base. Right now, it's
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  Speaker 7: a dangerous world where our adversaries are China, Russia, around
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  Speaker 7: North Korea. They've united together in so many ways, and
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  Speaker 7: we're showing everybody around the world, like that little clip
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  Speaker 7: you just showed from a Prime minister that in Yahoo,
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  Speaker 7: that America is back and that strength is what is
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  Speaker 7: going to maintain the peace. So these investments are important.
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  Speaker 7: It's in naval vessels and ships, in our new kind
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  Speaker 7: of warfare. And by the way, there's an investment here
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  Speaker 7: in the Golden Dome which will help us have real
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  Speaker 7: security in our homeland. So lots of things here very strategic.
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  Speaker 7: We're spending the money efficiently and effectively. That's what the
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  Speaker 7: American people demand to deserve.
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  Speaker 1: You compare that to this new building that is a palace,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: right and it is a palace that is being built
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  Speaker 1: for bureaucrats in DC. Seven one hundred million dollars overall.
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  Speaker 1: It's absurd. It is the most most insane thing that
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  Speaker 1: I've ever seen. Seven hundred million, not seventy million, seven
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  Speaker 1: hundred million dollar costs overrun for the Federal Reserve's new
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: palace office space. This is where government just says, here's
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  Speaker 1: a middle finger to you, the American people, And who
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: do they leave behind hard working Americans. That's exactly who
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: gets left behind. I'll give you another example, Senator John
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Barrasso talking about the Big Beautiful Bill on TV and
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: what this bill does for American ranchers. He's from Wyoming.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Listen to what he said about American ranchers.
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  Speaker 8: Well, the ranchers in Wyoming are very happy with what
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: President Trump has done in terms of beef. I was
• 28:36
  Speaker 8: at the Wyoming Fair last night hearing lots of people
• 28:39
  Speaker 8: very happy with this bill that we just passed. But remember,
• 28:43
  Speaker 8: Republicans ran for office to make this country safer and
• 28:47
  Speaker 8: more prosperous, and tariffs are just one part of our
• 28:51
  Speaker 8: comprehensive economic plan to do that. So we're six months
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: into this administration, and let's take a look at the
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: things that voters are most concerned about, and we're in
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  Speaker 8: the right direction on all of those. Inflation is down,
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: gas prices are the lowest in four years. What we've
• 29:07
  Speaker 8: seen is the flow of illegal immigrants that the border
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: has dropped to a trickle. We have passed and made
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: permanent the largest tax cuts in American history. An American
• 29:17
  Speaker 8: strength at home and abroad has.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Been seen all around the world.
• 29:21
  Speaker 8: So we have gotten America back on track, and you know,
• 29:23
  Speaker 8: the Democrats have been fighting us every step along the way.
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  Speaker 1: Christian, I wonder why American Why the Democratic parties against ranchers? Right?
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, why are they so against American workers,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: an American industry and American manufacturing. Why is it They're
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: obsessed with defending, for example, illegal immigrants, and they're out
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: there defending those that are taking advantage of child labor,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: for example in this ice raid of this pot farm
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: where Gavin Newsom's defending the illegal immigran and the pot
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: growers who are using children, underage children for laborers. Secretary
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: known by the Way, was on NBC Meet the Press
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  Speaker 1: and she had this to say about what's going on
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  Speaker 1: in La right now. As La is like no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: Ice agents, you get out of our city. We don't
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: want you here. You're not welcome here. We stay with
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: the illegal immigrants.
• 30:20
  Speaker 9: Federal judge in Los Angeles temporarily blocked ice raids in
• 30:23
  Speaker 9: southern California, saying that federal agents cannot target people without
• 30:28
  Speaker 9: reasonable suspicion and using factors like skin color, the language
• 30:32
  Speaker 9: that people speak. Will you comply with the judge's order?
• 30:36
  Speaker 10: Absolutely? But we've never done that. We've never done that.
• 30:40
  Speaker 10: What we have always done is built a case and
• 30:42
  Speaker 10: done investigative work and who we go after and who
• 30:44
  Speaker 10: we target. And so this judge is ridiculous and the
• 30:48
  Speaker 10: fact that he put forward a decision like this, we
• 30:50
  Speaker 10: will appeal it and we will win it, because over
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  Speaker 10: and over again, when our ice officers are out there
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  Speaker 10: getting the worst of the worst off of our streets,
• 30:58
  Speaker 10: they're using the investigative backgrounds and information that they have
• 31:01
  Speaker 10: from either criminal records or what they have for charges
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  Speaker 10: or individuals who are breaking our federal laws that need
• 31:07
  Speaker 10: to be brought to justice.
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  Speaker 9: Federal judge in lawsons, I.
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  Speaker 1: Mean, I love this right, Like they just make it
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: up as they go. They're like, well, this judge, and
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: this is an activist judge temporarily blocking what he describes
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: as indiscriminate ice deep operations. They're not going out there
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: and deciding to go after people because of the color skin,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: like Christian Nomes absolutely right. And let's also remind you
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: what was going on during the Biden administration, right when
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: the Biden administration was in charge. What were they doing.
• 31:38
  Speaker 10: Listen would have said that back during the Biden administration,
• 31:41
  Speaker 10: and back when Democrats were in the White House and
• 31:44
  Speaker 10: they were piling people on top of each other on
• 31:46
  Speaker 10: cement floors and literally didn't have two feet to move.
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: They never did that.
• 31:50
  Speaker 10: And that's why this politics has to end. We took
• 31:54
  Speaker 10: cameras in there. We will take cameras in there and
• 31:56
  Speaker 10: show people what these facilities look like, because if you
• 31:59
  Speaker 10: compare them to what happened under the Biden administration and
• 32:02
  Speaker 10: under the Obama administration, these centers are at the highest levels,
• 32:06
  Speaker 10: and they're even higher than what our federal prison standards
• 32:09
  Speaker 10: are or state or local.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Off and on again, they go back and they're like
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: they forget that it was, you know, the Democrats that
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: put quote kids in cages. And yet NBC continues to
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: fight back, continues to say, well, you guys are just
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: round up a bunch of innocent people that just happened
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: to be here illegally. That's not true. Christ you know,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: I'm saying the record straight on that as well. For
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: the administration.
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  Speaker 10: Listen, people have heard the President say over and over
• 32:33
  Speaker 10: again about how important it is that we continue to
• 32:35
  Speaker 10: go after the worst of the worst. This week, we've
• 32:38
  Speaker 10: got murderers off the street rapist child pedophiles. If you
• 32:41
  Speaker 10: look at that marijuana grove facility that we recently just
• 32:44
  Speaker 10: did an operation on, over three hundred and nineteen individuals
• 32:48
  Speaker 10: were brought into custody and fourteen unaccompanied children. That are children.
• 32:52
  Speaker 10: That means that they don't have their parents with them,
• 32:55
  Speaker 10: They're working in a facility where they could be exploited, trafficked,
• 32:58
  Speaker 10: maybe sex trafficked. And then we've got individuals there who
• 33:01
  Speaker 10: are working at the same facility who are creating, distributing,
• 33:06
  Speaker 10: and taking advantage of children for child pornography. So this
• 33:11
  Speaker 10: is something that President Trump has taken seriously as protecting
• 33:14
  Speaker 10: people have heard the President sale.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is another example. If you look at
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: the marijuana grow facility that we recently just did an
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: operation on, over three hundred and nineteen individuals were brought
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: into custy and fourteen of them were unaccompanied children. I mean,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: where's the outrage from the left about having kids that
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: are working at a weed farm. Isn't that endangering children?
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  Speaker 8: Right?
• 33:37
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