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Biden made up Job Numbers to Win an Election plus Sen Blackburn on Drug Price Drop · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: All right, So here's a story I gotta throw on
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  Speaker 1: your radar screen, and it is one that is going
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  Speaker 1: to yet again show you how corrupt the state sponsored
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  Speaker 1: media was it trying to fix the last election by
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  Speaker 1: straight up.
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  Speaker 2: Lying to you.
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  Speaker 1: New numbers from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics are
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  Speaker 1: now showing eight hundred thousand jobs from last year that
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  Speaker 1: the Biden administration claim they created never even existed. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: the Biden administration routinely lied about job creation and then
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  Speaker 1: would quietly revise them down time and time again. Later on,
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  Speaker 1: the Biden administration and the media lied to all of
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  Speaker 1: our faces.
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  Speaker 2: And if you don't.
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  Speaker 1: Believe me, let me remind you what Joe Biden said
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  Speaker 1: the White House right before election day.
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  Speaker 3: Asking for doing this, mister President.
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  Speaker 4: Two questions the first Florida Senator, Marco Rubio described.
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  Speaker 5: Today's job support is having faith numbers.
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  Speaker 4: What do you make of that?
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  Speaker 5: And how worried argue that many Americans are hearing that
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  Speaker 5: the job's numbers aren't real.
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  Speaker 6: Look, I'm gonna be very careful here. If you notice
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  Speaker 6: anything the mega Republicans don't like they call fake anything.
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  Speaker 6: The job numbers are. What the job numbers are, they're real,
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  Speaker 6: They're since here what we are. And by the way,
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  Speaker 6: just look at how the EU talks about us, how
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  Speaker 6: they like to have an economy like ours. Just talk
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  Speaker 6: about the rest of the world looks at us and
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  Speaker 6: what we're doing. So well, I don't want to get
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  Speaker 6: them going.
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  Speaker 1: Now the President says that, and then the question we
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  Speaker 1: all have to ask is, Okay, well, how big was
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  Speaker 1: the lie? All right, well, let's look at now the
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  Speaker 1: new data Labor Department is now admitting publicly hundreds and
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of Biden jobs were actually fake, like
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  Speaker 1: they just made up numbers to make you think the
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  Speaker 1: economy was doing better than it actually was. The Biden administration,
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  Speaker 1: for example, claimed to have added almost four hundred thousand
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  Speaker 1: jobs from July through September of last year, but new
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  Speaker 1: data released this week suggests none of those jobs ever existed.
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  Speaker 1: Despite constantly gas lighting by the mainstream media, Americans knew
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  Speaker 1: the economy was in poor shape, and these latest numbers
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  Speaker 1: are proving it. Month after month, the government being counters
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  Speaker 1: under former President Biden's published overly optimistic estimates for everything
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  Speaker 1: from job growth to the size of the economy, only
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  Speaker 1: to have those numbers routinely and quietly revised down.
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  Speaker 2: Later every month.
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  Speaker 1: The Bureau of Labor Statistics as the BLS produces estimates
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  Speaker 1: for the number of non farm payrolls in the country,
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  Speaker 1: as well as revisions for the last two months estimates
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  Speaker 1: under Biden. Listen carefully, okay, these revisions were abnormal in
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  Speaker 1: magnitude and direction, being revised down with unusual frequency. In
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  Speaker 1: other words, they knew they were lying to you, and
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  Speaker 1: they knew that the media would never tell you the truth.
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  Speaker 1: While these monthly job reports are compiled from a survey
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  Speaker 1: of over six hundred thousand businesses, of which fewer than
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  Speaker 1: two hundred thousand are surveyed each month, but also the
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  Speaker 1: BLS also publishes much much more comprehensive quarterly data called
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  Speaker 1: Business Employment Dynamics that come from a census of over
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  Speaker 1: twelve million businesses. Now that's over seventeen times a sample
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  Speaker 1: size of the monthly jobs reports survey. Now, this is
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  Speaker 1: obviously a more act curate database, and it was just
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  Speaker 1: released by the BLS for the third quarter of last year,
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  Speaker 1: which ran from the start of July through the end
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  Speaker 1: of September. So guess what we found out in massive
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  Speaker 1: stark contrast to the monthly jobs reports before election day
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  Speaker 1: showing an increase of four in one thousand jobs during
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  Speaker 1: the third quarter, these numbers and these new numbers show
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  Speaker 1: a decline of one thousand private sector jobs, meaning they
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  Speaker 1: literally created four hundred thousand jobs that never existed, just
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  Speaker 1: to try to win the election you want to talk about,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and I go back to Democrats obsession with
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  Speaker 1: Russian collusion and Ford interference in our elections. We didn't
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  Speaker 1: have foreign interference in our election. We had the actual
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  Speaker 1: government of Joe Biden that said we're going to influence
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  Speaker 1: the election outcome by telling Americans that four inue thousand
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  Speaker 1: jobs were created out of thin air that never were
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  Speaker 1: and we knew it wasn't. Now, to be clear, the
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  Speaker 1: monthly job reports and the data do not measure exactly
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  Speaker 1: the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, the BED data, for example.
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  Speaker 1: We were talking about a moment ago, and the BLS
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  Speaker 1: also published another data set called the Quarterly Census of
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  Speaker 1: Employment and Wages. This is where it gets really good, folks.
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  Speaker 1: Each of these reports excludes certain categories of jobs or
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  Speaker 1: industries like railroad, government, self employment, agriculture, etc. That means
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  Speaker 1: there can be relatively small deviations between these labor market
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  Speaker 1: X estimates in the short run, but they trend very
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  Speaker 1: well together over time. In fact, the more comprehensively quarterly
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  Speaker 1: data are used to reevaluate the monthly jobs reports once
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  Speaker 1: a year in a process called the annual benchmark. All right,
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  Speaker 1: So you ready, This benchmark just twelve months of job
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  Speaker 1: data to make them as accurate as possible, and always
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  Speaker 1: covers a period from March of one year to March
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  Speaker 1: to the following year, the fiscal year. In early twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, the BOS published the annual benchmark figures for
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  Speaker 1: the period from March twenty three to March twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: All right, The results are staggering, a drop of six
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand non farm payroll jobs, so to be clear.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, the monthly reports had overestimated the number
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  Speaker 1: of jobs during those twelve months of the election year
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  Speaker 1: to favor Joe Biden and Kamwa Harris, and were revised
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  Speaker 1: down now by six hundred thousand jobs. They made up
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  Speaker 1: six hundred thousand jobs that didn't exist. And that's on
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  Speaker 1: top of the individual monthly reports already being revised down
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  Speaker 1: throughout the year long period in question.
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  Speaker 2: So the downward revision of the.
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  Speaker 1: Biden Harris Air jobs data are, by the way, set
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  Speaker 1: to continue from March through June of last year. The economy,
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  Speaker 1: they want you to believe, added three hundred ninety eight
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  Speaker 1: thousand non farm payrolls according to the monthly report Sorts.
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  Speaker 2: Yet the BED data shows.
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  Speaker 1: A net loss of one hundred and sixty three thousand
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  Speaker 1: private sector jobs for the exact same period.
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  Speaker 2: So add those numbers in you ready.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of adding almost eight hundred thousand jobs during the
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  Speaker 1: middle of last year, the economy actually shrunk in the
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  Speaker 1: job market, shedding more than one hundred and sixty thousand jobs.
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  Speaker 2: How did no on when the media cover this? How
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  Speaker 2: is it they were able to get away with this?
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  Speaker 1: Now the next annual benchmark will probably be a retroactive
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  Speaker 1: reduction of jobs under Biden that exceeds this year's a
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  Speaker 1: large downward revision.
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  Speaker 2: We're also being warned.
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  Speaker 1: So for four years, the Biden administration and the psychopaths
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  Speaker 1: and our government and those in the state sponsored media
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  Speaker 1: kept telling you that we had the strongest economy in history.
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  Speaker 1: Remember when Joe Biden said over and over again, that's
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  Speaker 1: why I played them earlier. Then they had statistics that
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  Speaker 1: were paraded on the news to convince Americans not to
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  Speaker 1: believe their lying eyes or their empty wallets. Voters, luckily
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  Speaker 1: weren't fooled, at least not enough of them. That's why
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  Speaker 1: they gave President Donald Trump an overwhelming victory in November.
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  Speaker 1: He captured not only electoral collegey, including every single swing state,
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  Speaker 1: but he also got the popular vote as well. And
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  Speaker 1: the latest economic data vindicated the American people's judgment that
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  Speaker 1: no number of platitudes from government bureaucrats or deceptive headlines
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  Speaker 1: could fool families and believing their finances were in good
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  Speaker 1: shape before November when they knew they really weren't. For example,
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  Speaker 1: economic rhetoric couldn't paper over the reality that quote credit
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  Speaker 1: card debt exploded to well over one point two trillion
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  Speaker 1: from Americans being unable to make ends meet in the
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  Speaker 1: Biden economy. Trump was elected to fix our finances and
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  Speaker 1: that's why he won, which were much worse.
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  Speaker 2: Than Biden or the media would ever admit.
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  Speaker 1: So this was all a massive lie, and now we
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  Speaker 1: have the data to prove it. Now, I wonder how
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  Speaker 1: many people are going to go out there and write
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  Speaker 1: stories and like just be honest, Like hey, we lie
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  Speaker 1: to you, guys, or hey, they lied to you. The
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  Speaker 1: government lied to you. Like it's really bad. Like I
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  Speaker 1: doubt anybody will, by the way, I doubt any of
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  Speaker 1: them will. That's my gut here. I doubt any of
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  Speaker 1: them will. The Saudi Crown Prince is now saying he
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  Speaker 1: is working to increase Saudi investments in the US to
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  Speaker 1: not one billion, not one hundred billion, but one trillion dollars.
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  Speaker 1: The President United States of America making this historic trip,
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  Speaker 1: saying it's time for us to work with our allies,
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  Speaker 1: and he says it's time for the US to remove
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  Speaker 1: sanctions on Syria as well.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Syrians have endured brutal and crippling sanctions over the past
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  Speaker 1: fourteen years. It's time to end them, is what President
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  Speaker 1: Trump announced while in Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 2: Quote.
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  Speaker 1: I will be ordering the secession of sanctions against Syrian
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  Speaker 1: order to give them a chance at greatness. That is
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  Speaker 1: what the President said during the press conference. Trump said
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  Speaker 1: Syrians have seen so much misery and death during a
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  Speaker 1: years long civil war. He also agreed to end the
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  Speaker 1: sanctions against Syria at the urging of the Saudi Crown
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  Speaker 1: Prince and the Turkish President because there needs to be quote,
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  Speaker 1: more stability in the region now. The sanctions targeted the
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  Speaker 1: Hassad regime and served as an important function, Trump said,
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  Speaker 1: but now it's time for Syria to shine. Obviously, as
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  Speaker 1: Issad has fled the country and is now taking up
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  Speaker 1: safe haven in Russia. The US designated Syria as a
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  Speaker 1: state sponsor of terrorism in nineteen seventy nine, imposed sanctions
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  Speaker 1: on the nation in two thousand and four and in
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  Speaker 1: twenty eleven following the former Syrian president Assad's efforts to
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  Speaker 1: end anti government protests. Sanctions imposed by the United States
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  Speaker 1: deprived Syria of access to global financial systems and added
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  Speaker 1: sanctions against this is the Asad regime. While the Syrian
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  Speaker 1: civil war raged for several years now. The Biden administration
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  Speaker 1: in November sanctioned a Syrian conglomerate after accusing it of
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  Speaker 1: using ul revenue to fund a Rand's Islamic Revolutionary Guard
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  Speaker 1: and COUD forces, as well as Huthi militants for attacking
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  Speaker 1: US forces in the Middle East. Syria has endured civil war,
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  Speaker 1: terrorism attacks, and secretary in warfare that included the Islamic
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  Speaker 1: State taking control of parts of the nation in twenty
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  Speaker 1: fourteen and beyond Western Powers. Afterwards, undertook a bombing campaign
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  Speaker 1: to eliminate ISIS and restore full power to quote Syria.
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  Speaker 1: Assad regime lost power in December when a militia took
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  Speaker 1: control of the Syrian capital of Damascus and other parts
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  Speaker 1: of the country. This happened mainly because the money wasn't
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  Speaker 1: flowing in anymore from Russia. They couldn't handle it because
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  Speaker 1: of their war they'd started and their invasion of Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: Now Syria's new president he was a former member of
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  Speaker 1: al Qaeda who says he has reformed his ways just
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  Speaker 1: so you know. Yes, it's complicated in the Middle East,
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  Speaker 1: and the fall of Assage regime prompted the easing of
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  Speaker 1: some US sanctions, but not all of them. The US
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, will meet with Syria's new
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  Speaker 1: foreign minister in Turkey later this week. Trump also said
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  Speaker 1: to work out details. This announcement marks the president's first
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  Speaker 1: of four days in the Middle East. He's also scheduled
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  Speaker 1: to visit the United air of Emirates and Qatar. Now
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  Speaker 1: back to what the President had to say at this visit.
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  Speaker 1: At the stop on this this Middle East tour, Trump
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  Speaker 1: also talked about Iran and saying that Iran can have
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  Speaker 1: a much brighter future, but we will never allow them
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  Speaker 1: to threaten.
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  Speaker 2: America and or our allies.
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  Speaker 1: He said this, making it clear as he's in the
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  Speaker 1: Middle East, We're not screwing around.
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  Speaker 7: But with that set Aaran can have a much brighter future,
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  Speaker 7: but will never allow America and its allies to be
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  Speaker 7: threatened with terrorism or nuclear attack. The choices there is
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  Speaker 7: to make. We really want them to be a successful country.
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  Speaker 7: We want them to be a wonderful, safe, great country,
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  Speaker 7: but they cannot have a nuclear weapon. This is an
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  Speaker 7: offer that will not last forever. The time is right
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  Speaker 7: now for them to choose.
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  Speaker 2: Right now.
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  Speaker 7: We don't have a lot of time to wait.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have a lot of time to wait.
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  Speaker 1: That is part of the warning, clearly the President wanted
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  Speaker 1: to make clear as he was doing this visit in
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  Speaker 1: the Middle East.
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  Speaker 2: The President also talked about our enemies.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, there are enemies around the world, and certainly there
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  Speaker 1: are enemies in the Middle East. The President saying this
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  Speaker 1: that the US Saudi Investment Forum in Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 7: Yet I'm here today not merely to condemn the past chaos.
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  Speaker 7: Iran's leaders but to offer them a new path, and
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  Speaker 7: a much better path toward a far better and more
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  Speaker 7: hopeful future. As I've shown repeatedly, I am willing to
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  Speaker 7: end past conflicts and forge new partnerships for better and
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  Speaker 7: more stable world, even of our differences may be very profound,
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  Speaker 7: which obviously they are in the case of Iran. I
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  Speaker 7: have never believed in having permanent enemies. I am different
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  Speaker 7: than a lot of people think. I don't like permanent enemies,
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  Speaker 7: but sometimes you need enemies to do the job, and
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  Speaker 7: you have to do it right. Enemies get you motivated.
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  Speaker 7: In fact, some of the closest friends of the United
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  Speaker 7: States of America nations we fought wars against in generations past,
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  Speaker 7: and now they're our friends and our allies.
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  Speaker 1: The present, giving a pathway for a future there that
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  Speaker 1: even some of the media are now saying sounds pretty nice.
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  Speaker 1: Fox Business Channel talking about this, saying the President's Middle
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  Speaker 1: East plan is one that we should all embrace.
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  Speaker 8: The President will never get credit for this, but that
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  Speaker 8: was an amazing speech. He threw down the gauntlet where
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  Speaker 8: he had to, particularly with Iran, and at the same
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  Speaker 8: time he painted a picture of possibility for the Middle East.
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  Speaker 8: I've never heard any other president paint. I mean, that
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  Speaker 8: was truly extraordinary. He made Look he's such a good salesman.
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  Speaker 8: He said to the Middle East, you want to lead
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  Speaker 8: in business and technology and culture and commerce.
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  Speaker 5: Those are the exact words he used. We will do
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  Speaker 5: it with you. We are in a golden age. You
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  Speaker 5: can have a golden age. There's only one person on
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  Speaker 5: the globe. There's only one person who could give that
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  Speaker 5: speech and do it with that kind of force, and
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  Speaker 5: it was him. That was totally extraordinary. You know, everyone's
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  Speaker 5: talking about the follow through.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait to see.
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  Speaker 8: What kind of fallow through comes from this.
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  Speaker 2: Now, don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: The rest of the press there going to be angry
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  Speaker 1: over the President and what he had to say today.
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  Speaker 1: They're angry about the fact the president's trying to have
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  Speaker 1: peace in the Middle East and get this job done.
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  Speaker 2: The President also saying this about God.
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  Speaker 1: Listen carefully how this will play as well in the
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  Speaker 1: Middle East.
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  Speaker 7: I believe it is God's job to sit in judgment,
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  Speaker 7: my job to defend America and to promote the fundamental
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  Speaker 7: interest of stability, prosperity, and peace.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I really want to do.
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  Speaker 7: I will never hesitate to wield American power if it's
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  Speaker 7: necessary to defend the United States or to help defend
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  Speaker 7: our allies.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty clear, the President saying, the terrorists in the
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  Speaker 1: Middle East, if you think that you can get away
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  Speaker 1: with doing what you were doing during the last four
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  Speaker 1: years that Biden administration, you're flat out wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I don't need permanent enemies. I don't like permanent enemies.
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  Speaker 1: But if you are going to screw with America or
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  Speaker 1: American interests, our allies, there will be hell to pay.
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  Speaker 1: The President also talking more about peace, saying he's ready
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  Speaker 1: to stand and help Lebanon create a future as well
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  Speaker 1: with an economic development.
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  Speaker 7: My administration stands ready to help Lebanon create a future
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  Speaker 7: of economic development and peace with its neighbors.
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  Speaker 2: With its neighbors.
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  Speaker 1: So you listen to this president and everything that he
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  Speaker 1: just said there, why on earth would anyone in the
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  Speaker 1: media criticize this right Like, why would anybody say this
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  Speaker 1: is a bad thing? Well, MSNBC had no problem attacking
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  Speaker 1: this trip and Israel when they said this moments after
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  Speaker 1: the President was in the Middle East talking about all
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  Speaker 1: these issues.
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  Speaker 3: Edi UN spokesperson on Monday did not mis mince words.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm going to quote here this is not a
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  Speaker 3: natural disaster, but a human made catastrophe that the world
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  Speaker 3: should not allow. We have seen picture images of children
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  Speaker 3: even today, carrying all their belongings through the rubble, A
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  Speaker 3: tiny baby in a rainbow jumper that was killed by
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  Speaker 3: an air strike. And then there is a child this
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  Speaker 3: is today with one leg, waiting on crutches just to
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  Speaker 3: try to get a bit of food. These images are
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  Speaker 3: so heartbreaking, so chilling. They raise the question Hamas, Yes,
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  Speaker 3: Hamas is responsible. Israel has made a decision for the blockade,
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  Speaker 3: But what is the responsibility of other governments? What is
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  Speaker 3: the responsibility of us all when children and innocence are
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  Speaker 3: starving to death?
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's a difficult question on a certain level
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  Speaker 4: and an easy answer on another. First, I think countries
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  Speaker 4: across the world needs to simply live up to international law.
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  Speaker 4: What Israel is doing in relation to Gaza, the blockade
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  Speaker 4: that is cutting off food and water is illegal. It's
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  Speaker 4: not sanctioned by international law. I think if countries understand
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  Speaker 4: that and live up to the letter of that law
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  Speaker 4: and to the intent of that law, they would hold
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  Speaker 4: Israel accountable. I want to just acknowledge what the rabbi
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  Speaker 4: is doing, what he's written, and what he's doing. It
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  Speaker 4: is important that when you're within a particular tradition, Chris,
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  Speaker 4: that you can bring the resources of that tradition to
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  Speaker 4: bear on the actions of those who are committed to
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  Speaker 4: the same principles and ideals and faith that you are.
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  Speaker 4: So it's within that tradition that he's bringing the basic
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  Speaker 4: tenets of Judaism to bear on what Israel is doing.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that's really important, and I think it's powerful,
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  Speaker 4: and I understand the risk that he's taken that he's taken.
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  Speaker 4: I think also for me, I just want to say,
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  Speaker 4: I want to ask a basic question. How many dead
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  Speaker 4: Palestinians are needed for the state of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: How many dead Palestinians are needed for the state of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: That is the anti Semitic propaganda that MSNBC put out
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  Speaker 1: on their airwaves, not talking about all the dead is
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  Speaker 1: Israelis who were killed in the horrific attack, the worse
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  Speaker 1: since the Holocaust on Israel.
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  Speaker 2: This is what Donald Trump is up against.
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  Speaker 1: And joining me is a senator from Tennessee, Marsha Blackburn Center.
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  Speaker 1: Nice to have you on and Let's start with what
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  Speaker 1: we're seeing with trade, because this is obviously the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: and the media's worst nightmare. They wanted you to believe,
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  Speaker 1: if you're a citizen in this country, that this was
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  Speaker 1: going to destroy your life, that deals weren't going to
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  Speaker 1: get done until next year, as they were saying on
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  Speaker 1: TV just last week on CNN, Oh, this will be
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  Speaker 1: over a year until this stuff gets done. And then
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  Speaker 1: sure enough, we see this major announcement with UK followed
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  Speaker 1: up by another major announcement with China.
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump's getting it done.
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  Speaker 9: Yes he is. He is delivering results, and when you
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  Speaker 9: have those kind of results, it elevates respect for the
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  Speaker 9: United States of America around the globe. We understand that
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  Speaker 9: our Trade rep is working on twenty more of these
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  Speaker 9: tariff and trade deals, and you know, Ben, that also
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  Speaker 9: covers the non tariff trade barriers in those discussions. And
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  Speaker 9: these are being done in a bilateral manner, a one
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  Speaker 9: on one, which is how the President likes to do it.
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  Speaker 9: But he is proving that he built a vision for
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  Speaker 9: what this country could return to begging and our leadership
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  Speaker 9: position in the world, and he is showing how to
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  Speaker 9: make that happen.
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  Speaker 2: You look at this president. It's not just on trade deals.
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  Speaker 1: But look at the last week you had UK trade deal,
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  Speaker 1: China trade deal, then the release of American hostage, the
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  Speaker 1: ceasefire with Indian Pakistan, ceasefire with the Hooties. Oh, and
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  Speaker 1: by the way, we're going to make prescription drug costs
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  Speaker 1: through an executive order much less expensive for Americans and
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  Speaker 1: giving US Favored nation status on these prices.
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  Speaker 2: That's just in a week.
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  Speaker 9: Yes it is. And of course the MSN issue with
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  Speaker 9: the pharmaceuticals is his way of getting these pharmaceutical companies
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  Speaker 9: to the table. We have five percent of the world's population,
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  Speaker 9: but we represent seventy five percent. A pharmaceutical company profits
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  Speaker 9: because they're subsidizing these negotiated prices in other countries. Now
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  Speaker 9: also getting rid of these pharmacy benefit managers, who are
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  Speaker 9: the middlemen between your insurance company and you at the
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  Speaker 9: pharmacy counter, getting rid of them because they go in there,
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  Speaker 9: they take the rebates, they negotiate what you're going to
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  Speaker 9: be allowed to have. That is why people may be
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  Speaker 9: on a certain pharmaceutical and then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 9: three months into that, six months into it, well there's
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  Speaker 9: a change and they can't have it anymore. They have
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  Speaker 9: to get something that is different, and their physician has said, no,
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  Speaker 9: this is the prescription that you need, and people are
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  Speaker 9: tired of that. So we just left a hearing today
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  Speaker 9: with these pharmacy benefit managers. It is my legislation that
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  Speaker 9: rains them in and will end this practice of them
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  Speaker 9: taking the rebates and driving up the price on consumers.
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  Speaker 1: It is incredible and now having this change is going
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  Speaker 1: to help all Americans. It should be a non political issue,
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  Speaker 1: but it does seem like the Democratic Party is completely
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  Speaker 1: controlled by big pharma and their investment in each one
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  Speaker 1: of their candidates.
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  Speaker 9: Well, it does appear to be that way, and when
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  Speaker 9: you look at it, I think that it's easy to
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  Speaker 9: see why people feel that. But reigning in the PBMs,
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  Speaker 9: I'm telling you that I've gotten a lot of bipartisan
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  Speaker 9: support on my legislation. It is moving through Finance Committee.
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  Speaker 2: It brings me down a little bit when you say PBMs.
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  Speaker 1: I want people to understand it because it seems complicated,
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  Speaker 1: especially if you don't know. So can you explain exactly
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  Speaker 1: how this legislation would work. I think it's important.
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  Speaker 9: Absolutely. When Bill Clinton was in office and they were
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  Speaker 9: looking at trying to nationalize healthcare, and of course we
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  Speaker 9: had the version of Hillary Care in Tennessee, which was Tencare.
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  Speaker 9: They came up with this idea that they would have
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  Speaker 9: a pharmacy benefit manager who would work between the pharmaceutical
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  Speaker 9: company and the insurance company and the patient. And what
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  Speaker 9: they would do for the insurance company is go to
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  Speaker 9: the pharmaceutical companies and negotiate prices. Well, as the rebates
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  Speaker 9: got bigger, these PBMs got bigger, and they started saying
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  Speaker 9: to the insurance companies, hey will take the rebate and
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  Speaker 9: we will split it with you. Well, the poor patient,
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  Speaker 9: those of us that are going to the pharmacy counter.
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  Speaker 9: We're still playing the full note on this, and it's
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  Speaker 9: why you've seen cops go up. It's also why you've
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  Speaker 9: seen some prescriptions be disallowed by your insurance plan. Why
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  Speaker 9: were they doing that because the PBM says, Okay, let's
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  Speaker 9: go over here to another company with a similar pharmaceutical
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  Speaker 9: and let's do business there because we get a bigger rebate.
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  Speaker 9: So it becomes a profit motive motive, and it puts
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  Speaker 9: profit at the center and not the patient at the center.
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  Speaker 9: So my legislation would require them to move these PBMs
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  Speaker 9: to a service fee and it would be a flat rate.
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  Speaker 9: And also it requires them to use any willing pharmacy. Now,
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  Speaker 9: in Tennessee, we've had one hundred and twenty pharmacies the
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  Speaker 9: clothes over the last decade. These are independent pharmacies. Many
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  Speaker 9: times it is the only healthcare access point in some
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  Speaker 9: of our rural or underserved communities, and the PBMs have
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  Speaker 9: driven them out of business because they will not put
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  Speaker 9: them in the formulary. We've had research from the Tennessee
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  Speaker 9: Department of Commerce and Insurance that shows even one of
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  Speaker 9: the PBMs in our state elevated the price on five
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  Speaker 9: hundred and fifty different drugs, did what they call spread
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  Speaker 9: pricing to the tune of thirty million dollars, and then
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  Speaker 9: also refused to pay these pharmacies within the seven day
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  Speaker 9: pay period. So it makes it hard for these independent
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  Speaker 9: and small pharmacies to do business. So what my legislation
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  Speaker 9: would do would be to end that and say any
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  Speaker 9: pharmacy that is willing to participate with a plan, you
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  Speaker 9: have got to let them into that plan and let
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  Speaker 9: them provide for those patients. And it would cap the fee.
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  Speaker 9: That would mean they can't get that rebate. It would
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  Speaker 9: cap them at a service fee and disallow the rebate.
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  Speaker 2: So what does this look like moving forward?
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  Speaker 1: And what are people that are listening to advocate for
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  Speaker 1: who do they need to be calling?
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  Speaker 9: Well, what they need to do is be contacting some
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  Speaker 9: of the House members and encourage them to support it.
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  Speaker 9: They need to be contacting their senators to support Pharmacy
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  Speaker 9: Benefit Manager reconstruction and reform. And you know, as I said,
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  Speaker 9: we're raining them in. I would like to remove them
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  Speaker 9: as a part of the marketplace. We don't need the
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  Speaker 9: middleman and on this, and we don't need somebody the
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  Speaker 9: unelected bureaucrats who are out here changing what people can
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  Speaker 9: have access to when their physician has already told them
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  Speaker 9: what they need to be taking.
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  Speaker 1: It's incredible final question for you, and I know you
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  Speaker 1: got to go, but I want to get it deals
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  Speaker 1: with this issue. Are you surprised at just the amount
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  Speaker 1: of hypocrisy from the media in the left? They looked
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  Speaker 1: the other way as masses of men crossed illegally all
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  Speaker 1: over the globe in the US everywhere for the last
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  Speaker 1: four years under the Biden administration, literally millions coming in.
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  Speaker 1: And now the media is furious that Donald Trump has
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  Speaker 1: allowed a fuse and this non exaggeration a few dozen
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  Speaker 1: South Africans to come to the US legally as refugees.
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  Speaker 1: But they said nothing about Arizona, for example, or Texas
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  Speaker 1: or New Mexico when it was being overrun by thousands
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  Speaker 1: of Afghan aliens crossing illegally every day in December of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 9: The hypocrisy is, it is astounding. And when you look
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  Speaker 9: at the fact that ICE has been working in Tennessee
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  Speaker 9: and around Middle Tennessee, and my understanding is they have
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  Speaker 9: had about one hundred and forty apprehensions and detentions. These
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  Speaker 9: are individuals that are gang members, Trende are Agua MS thirteen,
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  Speaker 9: which we have declared as a country, that these are
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  Speaker 9: foreign terrorist organizations. You've got murderers, rapists, child rapists, pedophiles,
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  Speaker 9: child predators that are included in these numbers. And the
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  Speaker 9: Democrats are out here saying don't lock them up, don't
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  Speaker 9: deport them, and trying to say these people who have
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  Speaker 9: illegally entered the country, trying to act as if they
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  Speaker 9: have constitutional rights that citizens have. They have illegally entered
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  Speaker 9: the country with just a crime and then they have
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  Speaker 9: committed crime against our fellow Tennesseeans and have robbed people
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  Speaker 9: of their property, or who have dangered them or injured them,
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  Speaker 9: or in the child rapist, you know, trying to defend
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  Speaker 9: these people. I haven't talked to many folks that want
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  Speaker 9: these people living in their neighborhoods. They are criminals and
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  Speaker 9: they want them off the street. They want to see
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  Speaker 9: them locked up, and they don't want them back in
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  Speaker 9: their neighborhoods.
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  Speaker 2: Amen to that center. Always a pleasure.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming on and we will certainly keep
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  Speaker 1: people update on this legislation you're working on.
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  Speaker 2: Well done.
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