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Drones, Sonic Blasts and Zero Casualties plus Whistleblowers Say Walz Covered Up Criminal Fraud · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: There has been a lot of speculation about the weapons
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Speaker 1: that were used in taking out the leader in Venezuela
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Speaker 1: capturing Maduro. Well, we now have confirmation that the US
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Speaker 1: use a sonic weapon on the Venezuelan troops. This coming
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Speaker 1: from a report shared by Caroline Levitt, the White House
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Speaker 1: Press Secretary, on social media. The viral story from a
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Speaker 1: man claiming to have witnessed the US operation to capture
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Speaker 1: the Venezuelan presence states of the US use sonic weapons
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Speaker 1: during the mission to incapacitate the opposing forces. The Press
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Speaker 1: secretary is sharing the Eyewinness interview on act, encouraging our
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Speaker 1: followers to read the statement. The witness the interview claims
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Speaker 1: to be a guard who is serving at the Caracas
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Speaker 1: military base where the US captured Maduro. We were on guard,
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Speaker 1: but suddenly all our radar systems shut down without any explanation,
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Speaker 1: the witness said. The next thing we saw were drones,
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Speaker 1: a lot of drones flying over our positions. We didn't
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Speaker 1: know how to react. The witness then described watching roughly
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Speaker 1: twenty US soldiers deploy out of roughly eight helicopters over
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Speaker 1: the base. They were technology, well, their technology was very advanced.
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Speaker 1: The guard said they didn't look like anything we had
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Speaker 1: fought against before.
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Speaker 2: We were hundreds, but we had no chance. He said.
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Speaker 1: They were shooting with such precision and speed it felt
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Speaker 1: like each soldier.
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Speaker 2: Was firing three hundred rounds per minute.
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Speaker 1: The witness then described the US deploying some sort of
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Speaker 1: sonic weapon against Venezuelan forces. At one point, they launched something.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how to describe it.
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Speaker 2: He said.
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Speaker 1: It was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I
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Speaker 1: felt like my head was exploding from the inside. We
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Speaker 1: all started bleeding for the nose, he added, some were
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Speaker 1: vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move.
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Speaker 1: We couldn't even stand up. After that sonic weapon or
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Speaker 1: whatever it was, those twenty men, without a single casualty,
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Speaker 1: killed hundreds of us. The witness claimed, we had no
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Speaker 1: way to compete with their technology, with their weapons. I
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Speaker 1: swear I've never seen anything like it now. The White
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Speaker 1: House did not immediately respond for questions on this that
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Speaker 1: were asked, and when asked whether Caroline Levitt sharing the
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Speaker 1: post constitution confirmation of it. The Pentagon also did not
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Speaker 1: immediately respond when asked if the US deployed sonic or
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Speaker 1: energy weapons in Venezuela. But it's very clear the White
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Speaker 1: House Press Secretary wants the world to know exactly what
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Speaker 1: we are capable of, or at least put it out
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Speaker 1: there so people understand that America is not messing around.
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Speaker 1: The other reason why this story was probably shared by
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Speaker 1: the White House Press Secretary is she's also sending a
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Speaker 1: message to other countries right now that are thinking about
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Speaker 1: trying to stand up for drug cartel members Mexico. There's
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Speaker 1: been a lot about what's happening in Mexico in the
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Speaker 1: President of United States of America also making it very
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Speaker 1: That's Compassion dot com. Just go back to Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: when he was in Norfolk, Virginia speaking to military members,
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Speaker 1: and Donald Trump made it clear, even as we were
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Speaker 1: going after the boats filled with drugs, that that's just
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Speaker 1: the beginning, not the end of what he plans for
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Speaker 1: those that are helping kill Americans.
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Speaker 3: Than a month or shortly thereafter, and speaking to them
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Speaker 3: would have been much more difficult. In recent weeks, the
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Speaker 3: Navy has supported our mission to blow the cartel terrorists
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Speaker 3: the hell out of the water. You see that, and
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Speaker 3: you know there are no boats.
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Speaker 2: In the water anymore.
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Speaker 3: We can't find any We'll have a hard time finding them.
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Speaker 2: But you know, it's a pretty tough thing we've been doing.
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Speaker 3: But you have to think of it this way. Every
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Speaker 3: one of those boats is responsible for the death of
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Speaker 3: twenty five thousand American people and the destruction of families.
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Speaker 2: So when you think of it that way.
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Speaker 3: What we're doing is actually an act of kindness. But
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Speaker 3: we did another one last night. Now we just can't
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Speaker 3: find any you know, it's the old story. We're so
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Speaker 3: good at it that there are no boats. In fact,
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Speaker 3: even fishing boats. Nobody wants to go into the water anymore.
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Speaker 3: Sorry to tell you that, but we stop. We're stopping
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Speaker 3: drugs coming into America.
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Speaker 2: That's okay.
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Speaker 3: We're stopping drugs at a level that nobody's ever seen before.
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Speaker 3: Last year we lost I believe, three hundred thousand people.
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Speaker 3: And that's not talking about the destruction to families. Every
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Speaker 3: one of us knows families that have been destroyed because
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Speaker 3: the Sun's daughter, even mothers and fathers are destroyed by
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Speaker 3: the fentadel pouring in and drugs pouring in. Well, they're
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Speaker 3: not coming in by sea anymore. So now we'll have
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Speaker 3: to start looking about the land because they'll be forced
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Speaker 3: to go by land. And let me tell you right now,
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Speaker 3: that's not going to work out well for them either.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 1: President Trump was also asked on Sunday board Air Force
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Speaker 1: One about Mexico specifically and could they be next for
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Speaker 1: these land targets. Here's part of what the President had
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Speaker 1: to say.
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Speaker 2: Now, by the way, you have to do something with Mexico.
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Speaker 5: Mexico.
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Speaker 3: I has to get there pack together because they're pouring
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Speaker 3: through Mexico and we're going to have to do something.
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Speaker 2: We love Mexico to do it.
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Speaker 3: They're capable of doing it, but unfortunately, the cartels are
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Speaker 3: very strong in Mexa. I remember one time you actually
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Speaker 3: speaking of Mexico.
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Speaker 4: I asked you about Claudie Shinbaum and you told me
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Speaker 4: at one point you would.
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Speaker 2: Offered to send US troops at Oxco to that drug trafficking.
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Speaker 2: There is that something you want now. I think she's
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Speaker 2: a terrific person.
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Speaker 3: I would say every single time I talked to her,
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Speaker 3: I offered to send toms.
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Speaker 6: And she's not willing, she's.
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Speaker 3: Concerned, she's a little afraid. The cartels are running Mexico.
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Speaker 3: Whether you like it or not it's not nice to say,
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Speaker 3: but the cartels. The cartels are running Mexico.
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Speaker 1: This will end bad for Mexico. They're being run by
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Speaker 1: the cartels, not actually by the leadership. And that's the
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Speaker 1: point that the present's making. You better get your country
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Speaker 1: in order. You better go after these cartels and stop
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Speaker 1: the drugs coming to this country. And if you don't,
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Speaker 1: we will do it for you. That's the obvious message
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Speaker 1: that the president is trying to send. We also now
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Speaker 1: know that the president's moving forward after the fall of
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Speaker 1: the leader in Venezuela. Even Cuba's communists are now trying
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Speaker 1: to threaten America, saying if they come here, they will
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Speaker 1: come to die. As the rhetoric continues to ratchet up there,
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Speaker 1: the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Cuba publishing
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Speaker 1: a compilation of reported social media comments in which supporters
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Speaker 1: of the sixty seven year old regime are now threatening
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Speaker 1: America and Donald Trump and say the death toll should
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Speaker 1: be something you wouldn't want to take a part of,
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Speaker 1: wouldn't want to be a part of, and wouldn't want
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Speaker 1: to take place in our country. The comments were a
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Speaker 1: response to Donald Trump approving an operation to arrest the
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Speaker 1: now deported Venezuelan and so socialist dictator Maduro, a close
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Speaker 1: ally of the Castor regime, on January third, that executed
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Speaker 1: the warrant on a variety of criminal charges, most of
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Speaker 1: them related to narco terrorism activity, and Caster's regime is
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Speaker 1: now saying, don't even think about trying to do that
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Speaker 1: in our country. Cuba lived for many years on large
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Speaker 1: amounts of oil and money from Venezuela. In return, Cuba
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Speaker 1: provides security services for the last two Venezuelan dictators, but
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Speaker 1: not anymore. Trump said in a message on his website
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Speaker 1: True Social on Sunday.
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Speaker 2: Most of the those Cubans.
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Speaker 1: Are dead from last week's US attack, and Venezuela doesn't
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Speaker 1: need protection anymore from the thugs and exhortists who held
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Speaker 1: them hostage for many, many years. Trump continued, saying, Venezuela
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Speaker 1: now has the United States of America, the most powerful
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Speaker 1: military in the world by far, to protect them, and
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Speaker 1: protect them we will. There will be no more oil
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Speaker 1: or money going to Cuba zero. I strongly suggest they
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Speaker 1: make a deal before it's too late. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: your attention to this matter. The message concluded, it's obvious
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Speaker 1: now that the President of United States of America is
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Speaker 1: moving on from Venezuela, looking at Cuba, looking at Mexico,
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Speaker 1: and making sure that whatever he does next continues to
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Speaker 1: help us stop the flow of fetnyl coming into this
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Speaker 1: country that has killed countless American citizens. Now, there are
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Speaker 1: many that are criticized in the presidents saying you can't
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Speaker 1: do all this. At the same time, that also isn't true.
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Speaker 1: The President is saying, no, we will do whatever we
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Speaker 1: have to do to keep American safe. He believes this
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Speaker 1: is a national security issue of the highest importance. And
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Speaker 1: one thing is for sure, this is exactly what many
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Speaker 1: Americans voted for, a secure border and getting rid of
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Speaker 1: the drugs that are flowing into this country. There's an
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Speaker 1: important story that I want to get to, an incredible
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Speaker 1: report coming out from the Daily Signal. I want to
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Speaker 1: read part of it to you because it's really important
10:28
Speaker 1: to understand just how long the corruption had been taking
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Speaker 1: place in Minnesota and how long the governor had been
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Speaker 1: a part of the cover up. Whistle Blowers have now
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Speaker 1: come forward and accused Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz's administration of
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Speaker 1: actually squashing the criminal fraud investigations as far back as
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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, according to a Republican state representative who oversees
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Speaker 1: fraud prevention in state Programssentative Wist Robbins, a Republican and
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Speaker 1: chair of the Menso's House Fraud Committee, told exclusively The
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Speaker 1: Daily Signal that four whistleblowers inside the Department of Human
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Speaker 1: Services Office of Inspector General revealed they were ordered by
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Speaker 1: the governor to stop investigations after revelations of systemic fraud
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Speaker 1: in the state's childcare assistance program. The Office of the
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Speaker 1: Legislative Auditor published the revelation in an April twenty nineteen report,
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Speaker 1: citing an August twenty eighteen email by j Swanson, the
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Speaker 1: manager of the Recipient and Childcare Provider Investigations unit, that
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Speaker 1: claimed large scale fraud schemes and childcare assistance was happening.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 1: It was after that that his unit was told they
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Speaker 1: can no longer do criminal investigations. Robin, who testified to
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Speaker 1: Congress about the fraud and Wednesday as said publicly for
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Speaker 1: the first time in the summer of twenty nineteen, they
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Speaker 1: were told, you can't do search warrants, you can't do
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Speaker 1: criminal investigations anymore. The order to stop investigations and switching
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Speaker 1: only to investigating over billing and not fraud shows that
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Speaker 1: they were willfully turning a blond eye to the actual
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Speaker 1: criminal fraud that was taking place. I want you to
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Speaker 1: hear what was said is James Comer asked questions step up.
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Speaker 3: I now recognize Representative Robbins for her opening statement.
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Speaker 7: Good morning, mister Chairman and members, thank you for inviting
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Speaker 7: us to testify. As chair of the Prevention Fraud Prevention
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Speaker 7: Committee in Minnesota, I've been working to uncover the massive
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Speaker 7: fraud under tim walls for posed solutions and hold state
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Speaker 7: agencies accountable. Today I will highlight the scale of the problem,
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Speaker 7: outlining the Worker Committee is doing to fight the fraud
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Speaker 7: and provide a roadmap for other states on how to
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Speaker 7: detect and fraud. Minnesota is one of the highest tax
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Speaker 7: states in the nation, and hard working Minnesotans have been
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Speaker 7: told that they don't pay their fair share for years.
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Speaker 7: In truth, Minnesotans pay much more in taxes than in
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Speaker 7: other states, and when they pay their taxes, they expect
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Speaker 7: that their money is going to things that help our communities, roads, schools,
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Speaker 7: health care.
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Speaker 6: And law enforcement.
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Speaker 7: They do not want their tax dollars absconded by criminals
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Speaker 7: to buy resorts and apartment buildings in Kenya, property in Turkey,
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Speaker 7: and luxury homes and cars in the US. Tim Walls
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Speaker 7: and his administration have wilfully turned a blind eye to
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Speaker 7: crime in the face of countless whistleblower and auditor reports,
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Speaker 7: as well as stories by local investigative journalists and the
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Speaker 7: Center of the American Experiment. These are actual crimes that
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Speaker 7: must be parnished. There are crimes against our moral values
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Speaker 7: and erode trust in government. The time for accountability and
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Speaker 7: justice is here. First, we are unearthing staggering amounts of
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Speaker 7: fraud of Minnesota.
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Speaker 6: As far back as.
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Speaker 7: Twenty fourteen, there were doable whistleblower allegations of millions in
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Speaker 7: daycare fraud. Instead of shutting it down, the state minimized
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Speaker 7: whistleblower reports and allowed fraud to grow. Unfortunately, childcare fraud
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Speaker 7: was just the tip of the iceberg. In since twenty nineteen,
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Speaker 7: Tim Walls and Minnesota Democrats have allowed fraud to absolutely
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Speaker 7: explode in Minnesota. There's been more than three hundred million
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Speaker 7: dollars in the Feeding our Future child nutrition programs scandal
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Speaker 7: and the Feeding our Future prosecutions revealed that as many
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Speaker 7: as half of those indicted also ran other Medicaid funded programs.
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Speaker 7: Yet despite this being known back in twenty twenty three,
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Speaker 7: Tim Walls and his agencies have done nothing to stop
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Speaker 7: those defendants from getting additional state money. We have now
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Speaker 7: found fraud in multiple Medicaid programs, including autism centers, sober homes,
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Speaker 7: non emergency medical transportation, integrated community supports, and housing stabilization.
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Speaker 7: Just last month, our committee held the hearing on credible
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Speaker 7: allegations of fraud in two new areas, adult day services
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Speaker 7: and assisted living.
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Speaker 6: First to US.
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Speaker 7: Attorney Joe Thompson, the leading prosecutor in these cases from
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Speaker 7: the Biden administration and the Trump administration, says the fraud
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Speaker 7: could be an astronomical nine billion dollars.
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Speaker 6: In the face of mounting reports.
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Speaker 7: And literal criminal indictments and convictions, the Walls administration has
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Speaker 7: repeatedly and publicly denied or downplayed the fraud. Just last January,
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Speaker 7: the Commissioner of DHS, Jody Harpstead, who'd been on the
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Speaker 7: job for five and a half years, said there's a
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Speaker 7: lot more rumors of fraud than.
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Speaker 6: There is actual fraud. You cannot make this up.
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Speaker 7: The Walls administration has been gaslighting Minnesotas on the scale
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Speaker 7: of the fraud problem for years. In response, when Republicans
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Speaker 7: took control or ended Democrat control of the Minnesota House
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Speaker 7: last year, we created the Fraud Prevention and State Agency
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Speaker 7: Oversight Committee. Since last February, we have held fifteen hearings
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Speaker 7: where we have grilled officials, exposed new areas of fraud,
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Speaker 7: and repeatedly flagged failure and internal controls. I authored a
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Speaker 7: new law to expand whistleblower protection, and we created a
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Speaker 7: portal mnfraud dot Com, resulting in a surge of new
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Speaker 7: whistleblower reports that our amazing staff is still working through.
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Speaker 6: Under the leadership of our Vice.
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Speaker 7: Chair, Patty Anderson, we passed a bipartisan bill in the
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Speaker 7: Senate to create an independent office of Inspector General.
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Speaker 6: When it got to the.
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Speaker 7: House, Democrats killed it because the DHS commissioner testified against it.
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Speaker 7: The Tim Walls administration has utterly failed to protect Minnesota
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Speaker 7: taxpayers and vulnerable citizens, ignoring years of credible reports and
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Speaker 7: retaliating against those who spoke up, often by claiming they
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Speaker 7: were racist or islamophobic. Tim Walls and the Democrats have
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Speaker 7: repeatedly protected their political base at the expense of all Minnesotans.
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Speaker 7: Other states should learn from the failures of the Walls administration.
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Speaker 7: So I'll give you a quick roadmap on how to
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Speaker 7: find and stop fraud.
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Speaker 6: First, culture matters.
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Speaker 7: Fraud flourishes when leaders ignore it and criminals see they
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Speaker 7: can get away with it. Second, fraud flourishes when basic
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Speaker 7: internal controls are not followed.
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Speaker 6: This is not complicated.
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Speaker 7: Third, you have to look at the interconnections of relationships
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Speaker 7: in businesses, in multiple programm areas, and medicaid. It's a
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Speaker 7: huge red flag that has been ignored in our state. Finally,
17:18
Speaker 7: it is important to say what is true and to
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Speaker 7: stand up against fake allegations of racism or Islamophobia. Crime
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Speaker 7: is crime, no matter who is committing it. It is
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Speaker 7: true that the majority of the fraud in Minnesota has
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Speaker 7: taken place in the Somali community, and it is also
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Speaker 7: true that some of our best whistleblowers are from the
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Speaker 7: Somali community. Democrats refuse to acknowledge this truth, and that
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Speaker 7: has enabled criminals to steal billions and hurt our vulnerable citizens.
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Speaker 7: Mister Chairman, thank you for the opportunity to share the
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Speaker 7: lessons for Minnesota and for your help in investigating these crimes.
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Speaker 7: The time for justice and accountability is now.
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Speaker 1: You listen to the state Lallmaker said official testifying on
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Speaker 1: the misuse of federal fiugh in DC. It was a
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Speaker 1: powerful opening statement. The Walts administration has been gas lading
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Speaker 1: Minnesota ins on the scale of the problem four years now.
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Speaker 1: So far, nearly one hundred people have been charged welfare
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Speaker 1: fraud in multiple state scandals. One federal prosecutor has estimated
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Speaker 1: the amount of welfare fraud alone in the state has
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Speaker 1: now toppled nine billion dollars, and according to Swanson, the
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Speaker 1: state's Human Services Department created the Childcare Provider Investigation Unit
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Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen, staffing it with just four investigators and
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Speaker 1: one manager, as well as two special agents from the
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Speaker 1: Minister of Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which refers cases then
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Speaker 1: to law enforcement. Swanson's email ledges the fraud, notes that
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Speaker 1: his unit found providers using a similar scheme to successfully
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Speaker 1: steal large sums of taxpayer money from the program. He
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Speaker 1: acknowledges them the most responsibility for the fraud rests with
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Speaker 1: the sophisticated criminals. Nonetheless, warns that an equal amount of
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Speaker 1: response ability now rests with the lack of internal controls
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Speaker 1: involving the statutes, and this was done by design. What's
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Speaker 1: clear is Governor Waltz was obviously involved in some major
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Speaker 1: capacity when it comes to this amount of fraud. He
19:16
Speaker 1: was also profiting from the fraud, as the Smiley community
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Speaker 1: was paying in essence payoffs or donations the political campaigns
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Speaker 1: of all their allies who were again in on the scheme.
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Speaker 1: So here we are with more people coming forward and
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Speaker 1: saying what we all know is true, that this fraud
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Speaker 1: is out of control and getting bigger and bigger by
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Speaker 1: the day. In Minnesota, US President Donald Trump we are
19:45
Speaker 1: now being told as considering airstrikes on Iran to stop
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Speaker 1: a crackdown on the protesters. The White House has confirmed
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Speaker 1: on Monday, adding that people were being killed in the streets.
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Speaker 1: A channel for diplomacy, we also made clear is still
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Speaker 1: open with Iran, taking quote a far different tone in
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Speaker 1: private discussions with President Trump's Special Envoy Steve Witzkoff and
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Speaker 1: the pres Secretary Caroline Levitt, confirming that saying quote, one
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Speaker 1: thing President Trump is very good at is always keeping
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Speaker 1: all of his options on the table and airstrikes would
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Speaker 1: be one of the many, many options that are on
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Speaker 1: the table for the commander in chief. Levitt added that
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Speaker 1: diplomacy is always the first option for this president, saying, quote,
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Speaker 1: what you're hearing publicly from the ringing regime is quite
20:34
Speaker 1: different from what the message the administration is receiving privately,
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Speaker 1: and I think the President has an interest in exploring
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Speaker 1: those messages. Iran's foreign ministry said earlier on Monday that
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Speaker 1: a channel.
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Speaker 2: Of communication was open between its.
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Speaker 1: Top diplomat and Trump's special envoy, despite a lack of
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Speaker 1: diplomatic relations. Trump said on Sunday that the US military
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Speaker 1: was in fact considering a very strong option against Iran,
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Speaker 1: saying it looks like tehranic crossed his previously stated red
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Speaker 1: line of protesters being killed. Here's more of what the
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Speaker 1: president had to say in his last interview. Take a listen.
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Speaker 8: Are you following the protesting that is taking place all
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Speaker 8: over the country of Iran?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 8: And you have you read that the Ayatola Ali Kamani
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Speaker 8: is now as a plan B to go to.
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Speaker 9: Russia in some place.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, he's looking to go.
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Speaker 8: So you believe that's getting ran? You think the country
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Speaker 8: is on the verge of collapsing.
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Speaker 10: Well, it could be. I mean, what they've done is
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Speaker 10: they start in the past, they've started shooting the hell
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Speaker 10: out of people, and all of a sudden, people without
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Speaker 10: any weapons whatsoever, is standing there in your machine guns,
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Speaker 10: gunning them down, or they grab take them to prisons
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Speaker 10: and then hang them and kill them. So they played
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Speaker 10: rough and I said, if they do that, we're going
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Speaker 10: to hit them very hard. Well, we're gonna hit them up.
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Speaker 10: We're ready to do it. If they do that, we're
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Speaker 10: gonna hit them mart And so far, for the most part,
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Speaker 10: there's been some of it, but for the most part
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Speaker 10: they have and there have been people killed, some of them.
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Speaker 10: The crowds are so big that some of them have
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Speaker 10: had really like we're stomped on. Literally, it was terrible.
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Speaker 10: The crowds are just they're massive. The enthusiasm to overturn
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Speaker 10: that regime is incredible. But there's been people killed, but
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Speaker 10: it's more from death by it's literally stomping. It's people
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Speaker 10: running in a certain direction. So we'll see what happens.
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Speaker 10: We'll see what happens over there. They know though, that
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Speaker 10: it's a stampede, is I guess the best word. They
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Speaker 10: have like a stampede. You talk about stampede for cattle,
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Speaker 10: but the people are stampeding and you're losing a lot
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Speaker 10: of people with the stampede. There's so many there's so
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Speaker 10: many people protesting. Nobody's ever seen anything like what's happening
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Speaker 10: right now. But I have put a rando noticed that
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Speaker 10: if they start shooting at them. These people are totally
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Speaker 10: unarmed people, and they love their country. They want something
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Speaker 10: to happen. Look at their country. They've gone, they've gone
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Speaker 10: back one hundred and fifty years. But I've told them
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Speaker 10: that if they do anything bad to these people, we're
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Speaker 10: going to hit them very hard.
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Speaker 1: We're going to hit them very hard. The president clearly
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Speaker 1: sticking with that line. As Trump said, the US military
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Speaker 1: is considering those very strong options, and the Iran leaders
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Speaker 1: have reached out for a meeting, but we may have
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Speaker 1: to act before a meeting. The president also went on
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Speaker 1: to say rights groups have also reported a growing death toll,
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Speaker 1: with information continuing to trickle out of Iran despite a
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Speaker 1: day's long internet and phone shut down. Caroline Levitt White
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Speaker 1: House Presicretera appear to confirm there have been a significant
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Speaker 1: increase in death, saying quote. He certainly doesn't want to
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Speaker 1: see people being killed in the streets of Tehran, and
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Speaker 1: unfortunately that's something we're seeing right now. One thing is
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Speaker 1: for sure, the President United States of America is going
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Speaker 1: to hold a rant accountable for what's happening right now
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Speaker 1: on the ground, keeping all options on the table. Which
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Speaker 1: brings us to another important story. President Donald Trump has
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Speaker 1: come out and pledged to uncover the leftist groups that
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Speaker 1: are countering ICE all over the country. President Trump said
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Speaker 1: that he believes the woman that was fatally shot by
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Speaker 1: a US Immigration and Customs enforcement officer in Minneapolis last
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Speaker 1: week may have been a professional agitator and indicated that
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Speaker 1: the government will uncover the funding sources behind such anti
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Speaker 1: law enforcement agitation nationwide.
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Speaker 2: Here's the President in his own words.
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Speaker 3: The woman and her friend, we're highly disrespectful of law enforcement.
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Speaker 3: You saw that they were harassing, that were following for
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Speaker 3: days and for hours. I think, frankly, they're professional agitators.
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Speaker 3: I'd like to find out, and we are going to
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Speaker 3: find out who's paying for it. Where their brand new
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Speaker 3: signs and all the different things. But these are professional agitators,
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Speaker 3: and law enforcement should not be in a position where
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Speaker 3: they have to put up with this stuff. What that
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Speaker 3: woman and what her friend and what their other friends
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Speaker 3: we're doing to law enforcement, not just ICE, law enforcement
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Speaker 3: is outrageous.
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Speaker 1: The President added that he would like to find out,
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Speaker 1: and we're going to find out who's paying for it
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Speaker 1: with their brand new signs.
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Speaker 2: And all the different things.
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Speaker 1: But these are professional agitators, and law enforcement should not
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Speaker 1: be in a position where they have to put up
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Speaker 1: with this stuff. What that woman and what her friend
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Speaker 1: and what their other friends are doing to law enforcement,
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Speaker 1: not just ICE, law enforcement is outrageous. The US Department
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Speaker 1: of Homeland Security retweeting a post in which rep Republican
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Speaker 1: Representative Lance Gooden of Texas asserted that the anti ICE
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Speaker 1: protesters are actually all just being paid for, saying, quote
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Speaker 1: the anti ice mobs or anything but organic dark money
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Speaker 1: is bankrowing these far left groups like ice Watch.
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Speaker 2: And Lighting the Fuse.
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Speaker 1: Americans deserve to know who's cutting the checks, the lawmaker
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Speaker 1: said in his post. A person weaponizing their vehicle against
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Speaker 1: law enforcement is unacceptable, and we're witnessing it happen all
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Speaker 1: over the country. Fox News having even more on this,
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Speaker 1: and here's what they said right now.
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Speaker 8: DHS is deploying hundreds of more federal agents to Minnesota
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Speaker 8: as violent anti ice protests continue to rise in the state.
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Speaker 11: Matt Finn joins us Live in Minneapolis with the details, Hey.
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Speaker 8: Matt.
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Speaker 9: Hi Ainsley. DHS sources tell us up to one thousand
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Speaker 9: additional federal officers could surge at Minneapolis here. That's on
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Speaker 9: top of the already two thousand agents on the ground.
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Speaker 9: And this comes as DHS Secretary Christy Noeum is defending
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Speaker 9: her assessment of the Renee Good shooting.
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Speaker 11: If you look at what the definition of domestic terrorism is,
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Speaker 11: it completely fits the situation on the ground. This individual,
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Speaker 11: as you saw in the video that we released just
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Speaker 11: forty eight hours after this incident, showed that this officer
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Speaker 11: was hit by her vehicle, she weaponized it, and he
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Speaker 11: defended his life and those colleagues around him and the public.
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Speaker 9: But the Democratic Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frye, disagrees and
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Speaker 9: is slamming Secretary Noam.
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Speaker 5: It sounds like she doesn't believe a single word that
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Speaker 5: she is saying. Right now, here's the thing she's calling
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Speaker 5: Minneapolis like this dystopian hellhole. You know how many shootings
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Speaker 5: we've had so far this year two and one of
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Speaker 5: them was ICE. Two shootings in a large city so
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Speaker 5: far this entire year, and one of them is ICE.
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Speaker 5: This is a safe city, Ice and Christy Noman. Everything
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Speaker 5: they're doing is making it far less safe.
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Speaker 9: And there's new video leading up to the moments of
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Speaker 9: Renee goods shooting death by an ICE agent on Wednesday.
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Speaker 9: The video appears to show goods suv partially blocking the street,
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Speaker 9: honking her horn and apparently dancing in the driver's seat.
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Speaker 9: Border Patrol tells us it's dangerous for agents to be
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Speaker 9: blocked in by a car because there are so many
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Speaker 9: anti ICE agitators who quickly surround them. A new video
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Speaker 9: from last night apparently shows federal agents using crowd control
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Speaker 9: tactics firing teargas and pepper balls at protesters outside the
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Speaker 9: federal building where ICE detainees are being held. An independent
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Speaker 9: photographer who was there says protesters tried to stop traffic
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Speaker 9: in and out of the federal facility and they were
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Speaker 9: met with forces. Now this is happening in a city
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Speaker 9: where the mayor has told ICE to get the f out,
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Speaker 9: and highly organized anti ICE activists are patrolling the neighborhoods.
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Speaker 9: We ask Border Patrol during a ride along if any
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Speaker 9: of this is going to deter.
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Speaker 4: Them, Absolutely not. We're out here to do a job
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Speaker 4: and we're not going to stop until it's done. If
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Speaker 4: a mayor wants to say something that he's not not
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Speaker 4: for us, if anybody wants to say that they're not
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Speaker 4: for us, that is not going to stop what we're
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Speaker 4: doing in Minneapolis or anywhere across the country.
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Speaker 9: And that was during a ride along with Border Patrol.
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Speaker 9: Have to say, driving around the city, as soon as
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Speaker 9: they get out of their cars, they're met with people
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Speaker 9: who have those ear piercing whistles, of people, you know,
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Speaker 9: resisting trying to surround the cars. There is really a
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Speaker 9: highly organized anti ICE, anti border patrol network here on
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Speaker 9: the ground in the Twin Cities.
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Speaker 1: It's clear the President United States of America wants to
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Speaker 1: find out exactly who is weaponizing these individuals to go
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Speaker 1: after ICE agents. And you can see it there as
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Speaker 1: ICE put out saying that these individuals are impeding law
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Speaker 1: enforcement and they're weaponizing their vehicles against ICE. The officer
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Speaker 1: in this shooting was dutifully acted in self defense. That
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Speaker 1: is what the DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia
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Speaker 1: McLaughlin said on X one thing's for sure. The President
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Speaker 1: now has made it clear we're going to find out
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Speaker 1: exactly who's paying these individuals and what group is behind them.
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